Hey friends today, I'm hanging out at Universal Studios Orlando It's the first time that I'm visiting in the new year 2021 I am so excited to ride some rides eat some food and just enjoy both parks. So Let's go do this I'm actually here with my friend Jackie Super enthused. I like that Universal Studios hat It is very fancy And it's gonna be a fun day and I'm excited because there were so many new things that I actually haven't seen yet So now we're gonna explore them all. I think we're gonna start on Universal Studios side first and then hop on over to Ireland's adventure a little bit later on One thing I haven't been able to do is try Everglades doughnuts in Disney Springs But if you have which one's better is voodoo doughnut better or Everglades? Let me know in the comments what your pitch is This is a weekend actually it's Sunday and the park closes at 7 o'clock during the weekday It closes at 5 so it's hard to justify coming out and just hanging out for a little bit But at least on Saturday and Sunday we get a little bit longer That's why I decided to come out normally I don't come out on the weekends, but today's a great day I'm happy I'm here Before we journey into the park a little bit farther I want to stop into the today cafe grab a little snack and maybe a beer or coffee Depending on what they got going on in here. I've never actually gotten anything from here before It's always super busy, and you can't sit down on the inside, but take a look at it now Like there's plenty of room you can just sit down and enjoy Wow look at all of that This looks amazing. I Don't know what to get look at that Napoleon. Oh Wow so many amazing things. Oh Maybe a little tiramisu, but I'm gonna get some tiramisu, but I do like the cakes. That's like a macaroon cake. I Decided on getting the tiramisu Along with the nitro cold brew because it just looked so delicious And I'm gonna give it a try and sit down and enjoy a little bit in here Look at that. Isn't that beautiful? Wow? I don't know I was just I really loved tiramisu and the way that they had the like ladyfingers actually standing up I thought it was gonna be very good and then the nitro cold brew This is looking real good It's always great to start your day off with some coffee I feel like I'm doing like double coffee because I got a coffee dessert or a coffee snack and then a nice little cold brew I'm gonna dive into the tiramisu. I'm excited to see how this like falls apart. Oh boy. Oh This is gonna be so good.  It's just kind of hanging out on a grassy knoll This is an amazing tiramisu. I am like wow I like that I can like literally get the little ladyfingers out and actually eat them one by one and then add like the cream and Coffee moves to it. Very cool. I definitely would get this again This is the first time I've been here at the today cafe and just by the tiramisu I want to try more so next time I'm coming back Now that we're all coffeeed up. It's time to get moving I'm excited for the day especially now that I've had some nitro cold brew and some tiramisu Look at the wait times everything seems so slow man in black 10 minutes the Simpson rides 65 minutes What is happening there?  I don't know if I can believe it or no way see they're saying Hollywood rip riding 15 minutes the Simpsons 65 and Then Gringotts only a 25 now can't be The Beetlejuice music that just gets you in the mood, right? Like we're walking and we're just like do-do-do-do-do I think we're gonna head on over to the mummy that recently reopened after being closed for a while I'm so excited. Like I said, I love this ride. It's one of my favorite roller coasters of all times Look at this fancy fella in the Macy's window over here. I Really like his hat Because there's no filming allowed on the mummy we're gonna have to put the camera away in the locker and then we'll just catch up as soon as we get done And now we are back Let me tell you something that is a great way to kick off the day Some of the rides you can film on here some you can't that is definitely one of them and it's just so exhilarating I absolutely love that ride. I definitely like I said one of my favorite roller coasters We're gonna move along, but I want to stop in the Rosie's Irish shop because you know St. Patrick's days just around the corner and maybe they got some cool fancy things for this coming year. I Love the Finnegan shirts. I wish that they actually have like a long sleeve one That would be really cool and they even have some nice Finnegan's hats Black is definitely better. These are really nifty and then of course some more Guinness and Just different Ireland apparel. This is a really cool shop Even some shenanigans evil shenanigans Another thing I'm excited for is not only St. Patrick's Day But for Mardi Gras to come to Universal Studios and you know what they're starting to put up the tents for them And it's actually in places. I didn't think they would actually celebrate the Mardi Gras area Now I'm not sure if Jackie knows I'm recording her Because she's taking a selfie, but these are tents for Mardi Gras right here and they're all the way over here by Fast & the Furious Almost in Kings Cross It just seems so strange that they're here The other day I was dining at Tepanido when I was hanging out in the Japan Pavilion And I noticed that they closed their Pickle Pearl section, but here Universal Studios It's actually still open. I wonder if they'll let me ring the bell, you know Sometimes they like ring the bell and they celebrate when you find a pearl. I'm not gonna get a pearl, but I want to just ring the bell I'm gonna ask. I always get excited. I asked so funny. I'm like, can I ring the bell? I have no idea why ringing a bell just brings me so much happiness I really like doing it, but have you ever seen the backside of Jaws before?  It's gonna be much quicker We want to get over there before the sun starts to set. It's beautiful out and it's probably gonna be an amazing sunset The birds are attacking. What are you getting at? What are you having in his mouth? A quick stop to Finnegan's before we make the jump over to Ireland's because we got to visit our favorite pub Here's to you Perfect Perfect booth right here. I love it. We're like literally on the bar When was the last time you were gonna say you can actually drink at the bar at Finnegan's? This is the only way you can drink at the bar at Finnegan's. I think I'm gonna get myself a good ol' heart But I would love to get an Irish coffee now that I see that they make the espresso here I love Irish coffees, but sometimes when you order them you actually get just like a pre-made coffee drink I love it when it's fresh It's so funny because I was asking if that wheel actually spins and she went up and spun it for me Trip to the bar restroom Now I feel like I'm ready for my journey over to Ireland's adventure. I love Finnegan's It's seriously just such an amazing atmosphere.  It's really good It's only about a 10-minute walk from Universal Studios to Ireland's adventure That's why we much rather take the walk than wait the 50 minutes for the Hogwarts Express And it's actually very nice out so you get to look at some really fancy stuff And I'll show you some of those on the way over The Hogwarts Express is a fun ride that gets you back and forth to the park But when you walk over there, it's so beautiful because you get to see the hard rock and you get to see the chocolate emporium And also we're brownie actually running and also piece of the Berlin wall Right behind the hard rock is where the piece of the Berlin wall is and I just you know Sometimes like to come up touch it and be like hey, I touched the Berlin wall and then just go about my business There it is I love rock and roll. I just touched the Berlin wall Crazy isn't it? Right here Universal Studios Orlando It's just a cool little thing. I know a lot of people mention it But I absolutely love it because I'm such a history person and that's such an iconic history piece and Right here is one of the very unique restaurants at Universal Studios the Tutsum chocolate emporium Now we're not grabbing anything to eat but to give you a run around and see all the cool things that they have in the grabbing go area They've got some really good deals going on actually a flash sale 50% off candy. That's really awesome.  I love it in here I mean, I could probably eat one of everything look at a little teddy bear That's a gingerbread s'mores cocoa bomb Four different flavors Here is one of the other flavors as she said this is the peppermint cocoa bomb. Look how beautiful that looks Coconut like cocoa bombs have really got popular recently. I love them. I haven't tried one yet though They have amazing things in there not only just like sweets. They have good food, too I've done there plenty of times and I enjoy the burgers or steaks. Everything's really actually good Now we're in Islands of Adventure. I would say that was way less than 10 minutes I know I threw that number out there earlier, but I could say probably a four-minute walk Beautiful Islands of Adventure and it's actually looking really good for wait times that we walked in Dr. Doom is 10 minutes Spider-Man 30 Kong is 30 Hogwarts Express went down to 45, but Hagrid's is still at a 60 minute wait. Holy moly And now I need to get some sanitizer Thank you Watch out for the high gamma radiation area a Fun little nod for any of the Marvel fanatics out there Actually the artist that did all of these paintings or pictures of different characters His name is Adam and he wrote Adam in every single person and it's kind of like a hidden thing And I'm trying to find them all but it's actually very challenging like I can't find Adam anywhere I do man.  That's really awesome, huh?  What is it? Pursuedo Sioux Since we're heading into Harry Potter. I think I should finish up my Pursuedo Sioux Pursuedo This will always be one of my favorite parts of Universal Studios. I love Hogsmeade I love Diagon Alley too, but I don't know just something about staring at Hogwarts Castle It just gets me so I don't know I can't really say whether I like Hogsmeade better than Diagon Alley I just know I'd like seeing the castle. I mean honestly who doesn't isn't that beautiful? Looking at that sunset happening behind the Hogwarts castle makes me want to actually go ride Flight of the hypocrite because you get pretty amazing views from up there, and it'd be a little fun ride I absolutely love this.  We got pumpkin Hagrid right there I'll look at Hagrid's hut right here, too. Look at that Look at that view. Oh boy. We're going. Oh wow. Oh wow That was such a fun ride Honestly, I know it's made for kids, but I love it and I think it's really cool They actually hit the corners and turns really quickly. So I mean even though it's for kids I still think it would be really thrilling for them The park is actually gonna be closing very shortly So I think we're gonna make our way out of the park maybe grab something to eat on the way out But man, I'm having such a great day and that sky is beautiful Wow Skull Island, rain of Kong. Anybody else super excited for Converse Godzilla? I've seen that little tiny bit of a trailer on HBO Max and I am so pumped for that One thing I can say about Universal is they got seeming so right with this ride. It is magnificent Look at that in there from the fire to all the different faces It is amazing The pickings were pretty slim inside the park, so we're gonna make our way out to City Walk Hopefully grab something to eat at one of the restaurants out here. There's a lot to choose from a Couple of good selections that we have our NBC grill and then also we have vivo and cowfish and Margaritaville So we're gonna see which one has the lowest wait time because whenever the park is closing all of the restaurants at City Walk usually get much busier because that's where everyone's heading is on the way out And I think we're heading to cowfish the sushi burger bar. This is my first time inside here. I'm excited Wow, it seems so festive here Very nice They have such a big menu here and a good combination of sushi and burgers and Even a couple of things that are sushi and burger together One of the burgers is a not Elvis Presley where it's a pound burger with peanut butter and fried bananas on it That sounds interesting, but I need something to actually put in my belly today So I'm gonna get the dynamic duo which is like a pork belly or short rib and a burger short rib and a burger Sounds pretty interesting along with my dynamic duo I decided to get the Brussels sprouts and they look amazing I mean they had a whole bunch of stuff to it as well So fun fact about these Brussels sprouts is they actually have tuna flakes on it that actually looked like they're moving But it's the heat that moves and do you see it moving? They're moving on their own It's so like trippy to see that actually Now the burger is here. I absolutely love those Brussels sprouts But something is on top of my burger that I was not expecting and I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna give it a go This is the dynamic duo and you can see I got the short rib on there with the burger But then it also comes in a little sushi on top I'm gonna try the sushi and then Jackie got the bento box Cowfish bento box and it's got a mini burger with sushi and sweet potato fries. That's very fancy. Yeah, it is, right? Yeah, don't put this in your beer I am not a big fan of sushi in fact, I've only ever had it once before But I'm gonna give this a go And I'm gonna eat it just like I pulled it out of the burger Oh boy It was just a veggie roll nothing to go crazy about but it was on top of my burger But now I gotta get to the good stuff. I gotta get to the burger Absolutely amazing, but take a look at this up here. I thought those were fishes, but they're flying cows I love it in here. The food is great. The atmosphere the music very cool But now I think we need to be moving along. This was such a great experience I absolutely loved it here, and I'm definitely gonna come back and try that peanut butter banana burger. I have to And I think we're gonna take the fancy elevator down. Oh It's so bright Look it And with that, I think I am done here. It's so much fun hanging out Universal Studios I know I can't film much on the rides, but I really rely on you know Basically my experience and I try to like portray it and how I have fun at Universal You know what I'm saying? Oh, I have so much I always have a great time. I just talk and talk and talk So I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. I'll see you next time. Bye


Welcome to the Anxious Morning, where each weekday morning we take a look at ideas, concepts, and lessons designed to help you understand and overcome your anxiety. For more information, visit us at theanxiousmorning.com. Yesterday on The Anxious Morning, I talked about why my occasional rants aside, self-care, is important. Today, I want to talk a bit about why I sometimes rant about self-care and how that concept can become problematic. Now, before I go on, I just want to be perfectly clear about something. I do not get to judge when you need to rest or take care of yourself. Nobody gets to judge that. Only you do. Only you can feel what you feel and know what you know about yourself. This is important. I cannot give you exact instructions on how or when to engage in self-care. I can tell you why you should and what the pitfalls are, but in the end, you are in charge of all of that. When we are driven by avoidance, which itself is driven by baseless but real fear, we often develop a curious and unexpected superpower. Anxious people often become galaxy-class masters of rationalization and self-deception. We quickly cultivate amazingly effective strategies for convincing ourselves that we're not avoiding anxiety or running from it. When we do an exposure on Tuesday, then take all of Wednesday off, we'll call it a well-deserved rest, the mental health day, or a me day. We will sometimes latch on to the most clickable of all mental health devices, self-care. I'm not avoiding. I know I've only left the house once in the last four days, but self-care. I get this. I really do. If you've given a gorophobic a choice between doing another exposure and taking a self-care day to lay on the sofa, disordered anxiety and irrational fear will choose self-care eight times out of ten. Even when that day off is the 26th day off in the last 32 days, an anxious person driven by the desire to feel safe will argue passionately that they need to listen to their body and engage in compassionate self-care. Now, sometimes we do need to do that and see yesterday's edition of the Anxious Morning for more on this. But remember the part a few paragraphs back when I said that you are always in charge of this stuff? Well, that comes at a price. That price is the willingness to be brutally honest with yourself about your motivation and what's driving your choices. You get to declare a self-care day whenever you need one, but you also have to accept responsibility for rationalized avoidance when it rears its head from time to time. When the idea of self-care and even self-compassion to some degree gets used as a shield to protect and justify avoidant behavior, then it has gone off the rails. You may not even be aware that it happened. You may never have intended for it to happen. But we all know how powerful anxiety and irrational fear can be. They'll take over and make everything about retreat and avoidance, then convince you that retreat and avoidance are the right things to do. Left unchecked, anxiety and fear will turn self-care into food, gorging themselves and sucking the air out of your recovery process. This is why I often rant the way I do about self-care and the misuse and misappropriation of the term. I'm not picking on anyone for wanting to rest or even for wanting to feel safe and comfortable. But when anxiety and fear are partying at your expense and running through your liquor cabinet while you're just trying to find your cat, somebody has to be willing to turn on the lights, unplug the music, and end the party before the whole house gets trashed. I guess sometimes I'm that person.  What a buzz kill, right? If you're enjoying The Anxious Morning and you'd like to get a copy of the podcast delivered into your email inbox every morning, visit theanxiousmorning.email and subscribe to the newsletter. If you're listening on Apple or iTunes, take a second and leave a five-star rating. Maybe write a small review. It really helps me out. And finally, if you find my work useful and you'd like to help keep it free of advertising and sponsorships, you can see all the ways to support the work at theanxiestruth.com. Thanks so much.


Our first studio guest, first time in the studio, and it's Dara Doherty and Ronan Quick. How are you doing lads? That's a bad poll, yeah. Keeping well, keeping well. Right, who's going to speak first? I'll suppose I'll battle, hey, hey. Dara, how long have you been together as a duo? We've been playing for years now. We met in music class in the Holy Cross College in fourth year, so that would have been 2018. So we've just been messing about and playing together since then, so about five years or so. We're only starting to take it seriously now. Very good. And you just practiced together rather than gigged? Aye, that's hot. And are you just gigging much now? We just finished exams at college, so we're practicing all day now. Right, so you're out there looking for more? Out there looking for gigs, aye. If anybody has a slot for you, let us know here and we'll certainly pass it on to the boys. And yourself, Ronan? How's it going? You're studying? I'm studying, yeah, in Belfast. What are you studying? I'm in St Mary's studying religion and I'm looking to go on and do primary teaching. Religion, is that right? I've most come from your father's side. Aye, that's hot. But anyway, how long have you done there since your first year? That's my first year just done there. And how you find it? Aye, it was grand. It was grand. Good year. Is that a three year course? Aye, three years aye.  I hope so. I hope so. And yourself, Dara? I'm studying Criminology, McGee. Criminology? Criminology. Aye, it's interesting though. I've no doubt. Does that mean you have to watch all them murder programmes, the TV and all the American ones? That's more the spare time. It's a bit more boring than you'd think from what you hear about. Aye. Aye. And where do you hope to work sort of stay here or is that job taking you away? That's what I'm figuring out at the minute, Paul. I don't know what I'm going to do after it but I find that you could do teaching after a Criminology degree so I might go down that path as well with me. We're all in here. And tell me this, how long is this your first year as well? First year I just finished. Okay, three years first.  That's tough. And you're doing it on McGee? McGee aye. And enough. Closer to home way. Most from the doorstep. The college every day. And you're up and down? I'm up and down. Well I come down at the weekends but I'd stay up during the week in the student accommodation but glad to be back now for the summer. Aye. And tell me, the music scene in Belfast is great isn't it? Oh it is. There's some great bands and Jordan Devine from Sturban up there. Jelvis. Aye. Jordan. I know Jordan very well. Aye. And good lad. Is he still busking up there? Still flat out. Aye. Aye. There's some people booking them for the weekends. Aye. He's a good lad Jordan. So the music scene, I had a daughter loved up there and I used to go up and used to go to different bars, some crack and venues. That's great. And I used to love the Empire. I don't know if you've heard of her now. I've never been. I've never been. Unbelievable. Funny I was talking about Aslan. The last two times we were up there was two Aslan gigs. And just a great boss about printing music. You can pick your places you want to go you know. But I realised we're going to do a bit of music first. And then we'll chat more of this first offering you're going to do first. Aye. It's a sort of an original song. One of us. And when you say an original, written between the two of you. I was ready to do this. Aye. I was only rooting last week. Aye. Aye. Stop. Jeez we're on the riddle but I get a song. No more. Well that's nice. Whatever you're ready. Your own time. Would you like to become one of us? Would you fall again into the dust? It's been a long time coming but I'll find a way. Asking me to stay on ends up on. The cold never catches you that's what she said. The killer called fire's a key but it's awake. You kept your distance and said that's your mistake. The cold I tried to prove. Yeah. Bring it out. First official riddle play. Well done. It was a nice air gun three. I didn't like that. Thanks very much. What artist sort of would inspire you? There's just loads between us isn't there? Some contrasts to be fair but mainly the frames Glenn answered. We just after seeing them. A friend of mine was up to see them to you. What do you think? That was good though. That was good though. My friend just said she thought he was good. She didn't say he was brilliant. Exactly what he said. It was good. What do we have? You probably had a couple of albums there. I thought they were brittle. Not as upbeat as the first one. The first couple maybe. Big crowd of it. Big crowd sold out. Paul and Latini. You yourself run along the same lanes. Is that the type of style of music? Yeah. Some of the types of music we have contrast as well. Some music I would put on that he wouldn't be a fan of and vice versa. Keeps it a bit strong. Something they speak about. What about the older artists? All these big bands. Stereophonics, Radiohead, David Gray. There's a kind of Oasis going through that song. Oasis are brilliant. So have you gigged at all? Not really. Not together. Not together now. We just want to get out there and have the people know. Fortune and money we made. Have you recorded any material at all? I have. I recorded one song. Across the Times. I was recorded. We were going to play it in eight actually. I recorded with Include Youth. It was through an arts project. And I wrote the song. I got to record it in the studio. That was a good experience. Where was that done? That was done with up and down recording studios. That was all part of it. Wasn't a competition? No, it was just a project type with Include Youth. That was a good experience to get in the studio. See what's what. Is that going this year? That same program? No, it was just a one off. And just looking in off I was with the program. Stray with Include Youth. They were told to tell me about it. So I got the chance to write the song for it. As you say, bring that with you. But experience. Exactly. Excellent, excellent. So instruments, Dari, yourself. What do you play? Just the guitar? Just the guitar. I used to bash it with my drums. But as I got older, I moved on to the guitars. And that's what he called us. That's a segment action. That's my dad's guitar. Because you know what you have, right? He does. I made sure to ask him before I went out. With some help from him, Broke. And Ron, on yourself, how long have you been playing guitar? I've been playing guitar since I was about 10, so about 10 years nearly. Was it always something you wanted to do? It was something I always wanted to do. I got my first guitar when I was very young, but I never looked about playing it. And then as I grew older then, it was just something I really was interested in. Did you take lessons? I started off getting lessons in school, in primary school. And then after that, I was kind of teaching myself for a year or two. And then I went to the Arts Academy in Straban for a few years. And they kind of helped me progress. Excellent, Dari. And would you recommend that to people? 100%, 100%. They were great. 100%. And have you done much musical performance, not so much gigs, but have you done taking part in shows and that sort of thing? Well, I've played in the putt for shows. Like for the Arts Academy, they have the drama side of it. They have the shows in the IFAD or in Straban. So I would have played in the putt for a few of that. Right. And you've moved from the putt. I've moved from the putt. But you know, it's great that I love seeing young people involved in music and I love listening to their stories and whatever else. What's the plans? Obviously, the careers would be more important.  I'd see how it goes. I've always wanted to be like involved in music all my life. Like, and I hope it stays that way. It would be a bonus. It would be a very good bonus if we made it 3.5 of the music. Well, it would be. But then again, it's like everything else a tough business. That's surely, yeah.  I will have a couple of other songs in the works that aren't quite finished yet. But hopefully if they get them all sorted, we can send them away and see what we get back. What kind of, what way does a song start with? You know, if you're sharing between the two of these. What's the process for you? Usually the cards first. The cards come first. The lyrics have come way, way after. Once we've figured out what rhymes just... What rhymes, what rhymes. I suppose that's a good way of looking, all right. Only everybody does it differently. Don't need people to put the lyrics down and try and get the notes. Do you have a, do you have a pile of songs written between you? Not a pile of, not a pile of written, four-way written, because as I say, like the lyrics take a long time to come. If you started, if you started just... Well, you do, Grant. Just take your time. And because the songwriting is a great process too, there's great workshops out there for songwriting. If you ever see them or you get a chance, you know, there's some amazing ones, you know. Right, we're going to take a nap break. We're coming back with another track. What's the next one you're going to do first? Listen, girls, cover some of my Christopher song. Oh, my Christopher? Oh, cut. Would you be a fan of my Christopher? Oh, very big fan of his. Brilliant musician, the most.


because she is working in the university also as one of my students and we work together so we thought that we should make this venture but unfortunately exam time is now so he couldn't come so you know he has made an explanation about his anthropology we are basically anthropologists and he also has given some example of the cultural resources both tangible and intangible he has also given this been a sort of introduction that I have said about the cultural resource management that was introduced by archaeologists and it was parallel to material resource management and primary objective was to preserve tangible cultural heritage including historic properties older properties museum collection sites etc and cultural resource management has chosen up as an endeavor by the Asiatic Society and its founder Sir William Jones 1784 and then the name of Alexander Cunningham also a British administrator is very important because he has done a lot of work for reviving the heritages in India and Robert Brucefoot is also to be mentioned because he also was a geologist but he was the person who for the first time discovered prehistoric tool from India so now the archaeological remains are there and legality is there but what happens there are many threats and these are firstly natural events of course activities of plants are quick flag but there are also human actions and these are incidental some are incidental some are intentional and incidental are housing cultivation of course we have law for if there is any kind of archaeological remain found in a foundation of a building or construction or mining or whatever they have to tell that inform that to the government of the archaeological survey of India but no that always it happens and so that's gives me destroys the thing and there are of course intentional ones are also there archaeological survey of India is a big survey which has gone back as far as 1810 and it has grown up and there are a much more institutional areas for preservation and these are different law starting from 1817 and to last that revision was done at 2010 and then after independence there are many more changes that have been done and ratification of the law have been done so this is one of the sites that we have discovered where which is very important because this has shown for the first time that in eastern part of India it was not bronze but it was brass so because zinc is more easily available in this part rather than tin and so brass also the brass industry is much more developed and it has got its link with the south east Asia where as you know much work had been done on the brass and brass is a very ancient oil that has been found in this area and actually though these kinds of ornaments had grown up and found but the basic two types were still stone so we have another important aspect in the cultural um where we call it chocolate meaning both copper and lithic that had went on because you know metagogy was a kind of knowledge which was very quite expensive and also people who knew it they kept it secret so common people had to use more of the cheap materials in the form of stones so these are some of the factors that are rounding out though we have all the legislations these are the aerosols which are carrying out away the tools as you see that actually pretty sturdy tools are washed down and so it is where it becomes very difficult to find their actual association and there are also people who walk around and bring in devastation building up dams and other things these are also bringing in a lot of changes like in that so there are another site that he has taken up where also we get all these kinds of variations that are found and these are the types of these destructions that are being done because of quarrying activities for stones quarrying activities that are going on in different parts and denudation also is bringing out the bringing about the soil erosion and thus there are also cultivations where the trees are cut down the plant land is prepared for plant and many of the archaeological findings are thrown away this is similar kind of activity that had brought in ravages to the site this is another site in Bengal and in where I come from and that is a flat land very much similar to Amsterdam I would say because the city Calcutta is also below the sea level so now we have this kind of land where these embankments are there but even then so these are the natural destructions that are being done about so this is another part we are also you see this is a historical site where one of the Buddhist monasteries were there this has been dug up by the excavated excavated by the archaeological survey of India but there is no proper preservation here so people are going down walking down through that they have made a you can see a road through this monument and thus the preservation is lost then similarly vehicles are going around cows are grazing lots of garbage is thrown people are and picnic and things like that there are some local preservation so some of the local people who are very interested in the cultural heritages they just have from their form their private major to see it's a home someone's home and he has they have made a kind of private museum maybe in this way they have preserved some of the things that have come up from the archaeological site but not much knowledge with the date and the stratum and such other thing so the problems that are identified are the government has mainly given archaeological remains of historical period are more emphasized upon there are limitations of found most of the prehistoric sites are not easily accessible conservation work is time consuming and lack of awareness among the local people so there should be an alternative thinking by way of public archaeology where people should be local people should be considered taking given awareness of their own heritage so that they should preserve them for their own culture the majority has given some measures which are to be taken into consideration that is public involvement then awareness through schooling system awareness camping surrounding areas of the site media forecasting then multi disciplinary involvement thank you very much


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Memories can be vile, concocted of a morass of feeling and sensation and prone to complete degradation at the hands of passionless time. Yet memories are what inform our very existence. They are, as an ancient dramaturge once penned, what our reason is based upon. For them, we deny reason itself. Recollections of times past inform our present actions and future decisions. We learn from them, or at least we should ever strive to. But memories can poison and infect, place enough time between oneself and the original act, and one can find oneself doubting the veracity of events, or worse, casting it in a completely different light. This is simply the way of things, the product of the meat energy of our crude, if emperor blessed, biological functions. What of the memories of the galaxy itself, or of time itself? Our species, manifest in our destiny though we may be, is but young compared to some of the vile alien forms that squat amongst other stars. The aildari, the orcs, the hurud, these things have traversed the heavens since before even the emperor himself walked upon the then green surface of holy terra. Bay, according to one studies, are remnants of beings yet older still, who in epochs ancient beyond imagination bent every sun in every sky to their will. The mythic tracts of every race speak of a conflict, one that has surfaced in readings time and time again, a war that broke reality in twain and cast the galaxy to ash. Who then could have challenged the void's hideous progenitors? Are they but memories too? No, dearest acolyte. Once they were simply recollections to bring a shudder to the spine, grim portents rendered culturally mythic by virtue of the guilts of time. Recent events, however, have rendered this laughable. The sub-pulcral death that now rises from the ashen sands of a thousand, thousand worlds puts paid to that. The threat of the shambling death that now stalks our galaxy is very real, and thus a study of their origins, if any can possibly be discerned, is vital. I have set about this task not with resolve, but with barely contained terror, for in the dark of my librarian I now fear that there will come a time when Stygian night never ends, where dead stars will spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and when the beings that hid like shadows will emerge to feed on us forever. No then, that this is a record of the most terribly ancient foe the Imperium will likely ever face, a horror from beyond time that rises to reclaim that which they believe to still be theirs. The dead hosts of the Necrons. The species that would eventually become the Necrons were not always as they are now, far from it. They began their existence millions and millions of years before old earth had even formed. The Necronteer, as they were then known, were one of the first sentient species to cast their eyes to the stars of the galaxy, if what histories that still exist can be believed. And that very gaze was one filled with spiteful hate, for their sun was a terrible thing indeed. Accounting for general and localized stellar drift, the system of their birth is believed to have been in the region approximating the current Halo stars, and had at its core a violent and fractious star that continuously spat forth ionizing solar winds and bombardments of radiation storms, which assailed the Necronteer homeworld with deadly ferocity. Quite how it is even possible intelligent life could arise under such conditions can only be theorized, but if there is one thing the foulness of the galaxy's xeniforms has taught mankind, it is that their detestable adaptability knows few boundaries. Little to nothing is known about that impossibly ancient society. What can be scryed tells us that their lives were brief and painful, but their biology only barely able to maintain itself under the punishing radiation of the star. Necronteer society became necrocentric, dominated by the inevitability of their own deaths. Their cities were built to venerate this, vast necropolis revering the departed ancestors with the living, eking out meager existences as temporary earthly residence in vast, tomb complexes, preparing for their own passage to the beyond. The society that emerged was fiercely caste dominated, with the rigidity of their world reflected in the absolute immobility of the social order. The species, resigned as it was to the grim certainty of their fates, nevertheless was driven to escape it, survival instinct giving birth to their first extraplanetary spacecraft. Slow burning antimatter torch engines and stasis crypts allowed the first generation ships to escape the bounds of the hateful star and plunge blindly into the darkness. Slowly, painfully, slowly, the necronteer founded off-world colonies, daring to hope to have escaped their radiation-soaked prison. This optimism soon turned to dust, however, as they found that the millions of years of painstaking evolution under their hated sun had seemingly poisoned their very biology, leaching their alien vitality away, and following them light years from the limits of its own light. It is believed that in tandem with this horrible revelation of their own brittle mortality, necronteer society was being ever more stratified, with the castes of old evolving into unyielding aristocratic dynasties. These dynasties were likewise ruled over by the reigning triarch, comprised of three pharons, sovereigns, to the individual dynastic lines. At the fore of this council was the chosen silent king, known so for the practice of only speaking through the remaining two pharons, allowing the dynasties of the necronteer to speak as a whole, but with a singular voice. As their newfound stellar empire expanded outwards, ever, ever outwards, the triarch formed the singular leadership that the necronteer desperately needed, the core of unity that provided the species with a guiding light in a world permanently hosting the spectres of their deaths. It is impossible to discern quite how long it took, but with technological leaps made possible by their slowly expanding spatial volume, the necronteer came to dominate the much, much younger galaxy. Other sentient races there were, though many were ill-evolved, little better than beasts. But one, one stood above all others, even the now expansive necronteer, over the course of my frankly upsetting discourses upon the origins of these repulsive xenophones that contaminate the purity of our imperium. I have come across numerous references to an impossibly ancient, antecedent race. While it is a sad reality that humanity was not the first, or only, sentient species to rule the stars, tales of one older than even the necronteer or Eldari can be discerned from a dizzying spectrum of sources. The mythic cycles of the craft world Azurani tell of an age of celestial teachers uplifting the primitive Eldari to greatness. Adeptus mecanicus biologis discourses upon green-skinned biology draw conclusions at point to nothing else than that race's deliberate creation as a biological weapon. It would appear that buried within whatever can be uncovered about the origins of the necronteer is as close to the truth of the matter as one can possibly get. This race did, in fact, exist. The first intelligent life, this galaxy of humanities ever harbored. At best Eldari translation they were known as the old ones, or first ones depending on the tense. They did not appear to have a species name beyond this rather vague descriptor, but perhaps none suffices, as the legends regarding them, either Eldari or necronteer, speak of them as being technologically advanced beyond any other race, and to have been so for longer than all other intelligent life had even existed. Today, the necronteer discovered, had long, long ago brought the galaxy under their dominion, for they had forged the paths outside of reality known to imperial scholarship as the web-way. Through means completely unknown and doubtless fowl, these old ones had effectively portioned off a sub-dimension of the imiterium from the rest, creating space somehow between reality and unreality. To have gained mastery over the imperian itself, their psychic might must have been completely unparalleled, and they themselves blasphemously powerful for creatures of flesh and blood. Creeping capillaries of their web-way acted as tunnels, connecting the focal points of their empire together and allowing for safe and secure travel across galactic volumes in barely any time at all, all safe in the treacherous tides of the warp itself. First contact was made at some point, with the necronteer petitioning the vast consciousness of the progenitors as equals, and receiving no such treatment in kind. Communication was trite, with the galaxy-spanning empire of the necronteer impressing the old ones little, observing as they did this upstart species' paltry attempts at space travel and terraforming. But perhaps most insulting for the necronteer was the discovery that, in their masteries of energies both mundane and psychic, the old ones had discovered the secret to perfect immortality, and it was one they simply would not countenance on sharing. The insult, perhaps not even seen as such by these amphibian progenitors, would come to define the necronteer. All that race saw, and could possibly see, was a species that spitefully guarded something that was to their short-lived society beyond value, the key to unlimbering them from the yoke of their tyrannical biology, and allowing them to ascend in foul apotheosis, to that which they no doubt saw as their true potential. Not by any means to extend them sympathy, for such an emotion holds no place when discussing the xenos, but one supposes it must have been the greatest injustice imaginable, that for all their efforts, for all their desperate rush to the worlds beyond their hated star, they had come within sight of the ultimate cure for their ills, only to have it denied, that the only other intelligent species abroad in the heavens was blessed with life eternal, while theirs were cut so brutally short. If the myths are to be believed, it was a poison at the heart of necronteer society from that point onwards. The fractures were small at first, but began to widen. A concept unheard of soon became reality. Civil War In what their histories name the Wars of Secession, the various dynasties of the necronteer, previously so immovably united, began to spitefully war with each other. Knowing they were forever doomed to their petty existences, the necronteer aristocracy became petulately short-sighted, seeking to amass as much material wealth and territory as they could in their uncertain lifespan. Independence was sought, rebellions fermented, and society began to simply dissolve. The triarch, desperate for a solution to what they saw as the doom of their empire, settled upon what may have seemed to be their only hope, an external enemy, and there was simply only one that could possibly suffice. The justification for such a conflict would have been simplicity itself. The Wars of Secession were a direct result of the old ones hoarding of their secret to immortality, and by extending an amnesty to all secessionist dynasties, the triarch, and the latest in the line of silent kings, were able to reunite their race effectively immediately. Thus began the War in Heaven, a conflict that resonates to this very day in the genetic memory of a hundred species. It is likely an impossibility that an accurate account of this war could ever be possibly correlated. For the line between allegorical hyperbole and actual technological capabilities is blurred to the point that the borders between the two can never be established. One will endeavour to try, but suffice it to say it was the first time in history that the galaxy burned. Planets, stars, systems and sectors all were consumed by the terrible might unleashed by the Necronteer, but the efforts of that species were for naught. Despite the technology, centuries had allowed them to develop. The old ones outfought, outdeveloped, and outmaneuvered them at every possible turn. The Necronteer possessed no psychic potential, while the old ones had an entire dimension of impossible energies at their beck and call. Not to mention being afforded perfectly reliable, faster than light capabilities, with their mastery of the webway. The hegemony of the Necronteer, or at least the one they thought they had, was simply shattered, but the old ones annihilating colony after colony with stunning rapidity. They were forced back further and further, reduced to a measly stellar volume in the local cluster of stars surrounding their original, poisonous homeworld. The old ones were not genocidal, though, and they let the Suishis persist, albeit as a crippled former shadow of itself. In the face of such abject humiliation, what unity existed amongst the Necronteer began to fracture once again, as the dynasties began to rage against not their enemies, but also the triarch that had cost them so very much. By bringing them into such a ruinous conflict, generation upon generation had been fed to the thirsting moor that was the war in heaven, all for naught. Unable to maintain their grip over the Phaerons, the triarch despaired to see the wars of secession they had sought to stymie begin anew, greater and more terrible now that the Necronteer had such meager space and even more meager resources to fight over. Faced with the complete and total collapse of their species' society, the triarch cast around frantically for a solution, but the one they would be presented with would incur a cost beyond imagining. The accounts of the fateful moment in galactic history are fragmentary and contradictory. Some related in complex Necronteer glyphoform, others in Eildari legend tracts, yet more in scraps from primordial devil tales from a score of other lesser and thankfully extinct races. What is broadly common amongst all speaks of the desperation of the triarchs, spurring a race amongst Necronteer science casts to seek out a means of defeating the old ones, whether through weapons development, chronometric or dimensional manipulation, exotic energy harnessing or some combination of all three. Such frantic questing led to research being conducted upon cancerous late-sequence stars. Some say that it was a chance encounter on a random star, while some state categorically that it was the star of the Necronteer themselves, one that had cursed them with such pathetically short lives. That latter one is considered to hold more narrative weight in the venerated tellings, but whatever the location, the result was the same. The Necronteer probed the stellar mass in question. Their instruments detected subtle but consistent electrodynamic anomalies diffused throughout a massive area of the star's corona. Going further, the Necronteer realized that this was not just a previously unknown form of energy. No, but it was in fact alive, sentient, a living energy field with a mind dispersed throughout the exotic spectrum spread over a volume greater than a dozen planets. How initial contact with this being was even established is completely unknown. Must have been an almost impossible task given the sheer vastness of the consciousness in question. But established contact was, and through means unknown, the Necronteer communed with the creature that could barely even conceive of their existence. Realizing the sheer incomprehensible power this creature represented, but knowing that their paltry communication would be insufficient to grant the thing full understanding of the physical plane, the Necronteer devised a plan to incarnate the creature. Using the energies of the sun itself, they, through means completely heretical, captured the essence of the star thing and compressed it through an incorporeal bridge of starlight into a shell that can best be described as living metal. Eldritch energies compacted and folded and crushed their way into this hideous vessel, and the being was finally made manifest. The Necronteer dubbed the creature a catan, a word that roughly transliterated means star god or star vampire in their debased tongue. The thing, finally, able to perceive and experience materiality, was to their surprise rapidly able to comprehend this new plane of existence, and spoke of being one of a race of many, many more. Their fleets rushed to coordinates provided by the catan, and their unique energy signatures were scryed for throughout the galaxy. More and more were incarnated, for the Necronteer believed they had found their saviours. That these beings by seeming unbidden choice assumed forms redolent of their half forgotten death deities seemed only further proof that the delivery of the Necronteer was at hand. One amongst them, its necrodermis shining bright gold, its face beatific and open, presented itself as an emissary to the new silent king Zarek. It named itself Mephetran, and it spoke of a war between the catan and the old ones, one that had paralleled the Necronteer's own struggles, for the catan had lost everything at the hands of this hated enemy. Fearing the righteous vengeance of the old ones, their race had fled the material plane for spectrums exotic, hoping that one day they would find willing allies with whom they could make concordance, and return them to the galaxy. In return, professing the gratitude of its entire species, Mephetran announced that the catan would bestow unto the Necronteer that which they had forever sought, but had forever been denied to them. It was a boon they gave gladly to their new allies, in gratitude for the act of kindness the Necronteer had shown them, and as a weapon to bring the war anew to the hated old ones. The account of Mephetran was a lie, but the Necronteer knew it not. The proposal was not immediately accepted, and for many long months the triarch debated with itself, and the pharons of the court, a widespread ceasefire having been called in the aftermath of the catan's incarnation. Many a voice was raised in earnest favour of Mephetran's offer, with the only soul and consistent dissenter being an astromancer of the court, Orican, who prophesied that accepting the boon would forever dam the Necronteer. His lone voice was overruled, for greed and desperation are powerful forces in the hearts of those frantic to cling to life. A year after the offer had been made, Sarek summoned the catan delegation, and formally sealed the alliance on behalf of his species. The catan delighted in the compact, and set to teaching the science and weapon casts all they knew. Weapons technology immediately leapt forward generations, and in scant months the Necronteer were resurgent, sweeping out from their local systems in great hosts to reclaim the galaxy that had once been theirs. At the head of each legion were the catan, unleashing their stellar energies that proved just as horrifically devastating as those first Necronteer scientists had theorized. Worlds burned, stars died, the galaxy wept as the war in heaven came anew. The catans' power drew the eyes of their Necronteer commoners, who began, slowly at first, but then in greater and greater numbers, to worship them as the gods they were named for, believing the old deities had come anew in this alien race. The catan appeared to eagerly accept and revel in this veneration, drawing to their ships and temple cities great crowds of Necronteer faithful, many of which were never seen again. If the dynasties were even aware of these disappearing thousands, they either paid it no heed, or saw it as the price of their stellar reclamation. Whatever the reality, it was a grim portend of what was to come, for the catan's truest gift was about to be realized. Mephetran had not gested when he promised the Necronteer immortality. Through the artifice of combined Necronteer and Catan technology and science, colossal structures were erected on every Necronteer world, soaring over all others and redolent with foul and eldritch energies. These bio-furnaces were the Necronteer's salvation, the Catan said, and bade their allies enter them in their millions to free themselves of the hated weakness of the flesh and become as unto their gods. And so ever these structures functioned is simply begun to the ken of man, but by all that is holy they could not have been anything but the most dire affront to the purity of technology. By means beyond arcane, in the depths of these sepulchral mountains, the biological bodies of the Necronteer were stripped from them, atom by atom, and with it the life energies of their very souls. What shards of mind and soul remained were cast anew in bodies of the same Necrodermis that had allowed the Catan to enter the material plain. The Necronteer that entered were consumed utterly. What exited the temples imploding hordes were the new, undying Necrons. It was not until the silent King Zarek himself had undergone what his Catan allies referred to as biotransference that the truth of the bargain was revealed to him, gazing at his new metallic body. The fully sentient king marveled at the loss of the pain that had once riven it for so, so many years, but despaired in a horror beyond imagining that the gnawing void in the core of his own being, an indescribable yearning from the depths of that hollow nothing for a spark forever lost. Worse yet, he gazed upon the workings of the great temples, and he beheld the Catan dancing within the baleful soul energies of each, glutting themselves on the very life essence of an entire species and swelling to vast, corpulent shapes. Mephetron had deceived them. The Catan, in their moment of manifestation so many years before, had found themselves in possessions of senses far beyond that of mortals. Able to perceive the whispering strands of aetheric energies given off by the bodies of the mortal Necronteer, these senses awoke within them a hunger unlike anything they had ever known, where previously they had drawn nourishment from the forces of stellar fusion. The sheer deliciousness of soul energy could not be ignored, and the Catan drew their plans in secret against the Necronteer to grant unto themselves a feast beyond measure. They had fulfilled their promise to the Necronteer in granting them immortality through biotransference that had in the process glutted themselves on the souls of an entire species. The effect of this feast had rendered the vast majority of the Necronteer population as little more than automata, possessing only rudimentary self-awareness that could easily be overwritten by command protocols embedded into their new mechanical minds. Those who had previously served in higher caste positions, scientists, diviners, military hierarchs, and the pharaohs of the dynasties, these had retained their personalities and minds, largely preserved, although the degree to which they were their old selves varied wildly. The Catan had in effect not only maintained, but completely locked in the old Necronteer castes for all eternity, and had also granted themselves complete control, should they so desire, over their new Necron subjects, the worship of whom they still delighted in. Thus it was, that the Necrons we of the Imperium know were first created, hateful and bitter things, that thawed themselves to star devils out of spite and vindictiveness. It is not, however, the end of their origins, for events even greater and far more terrible were about to occur. Alas, the discourse upon a subject as foul as this wearies me, the Chronicle of the War of Heaven in full must wait for another day, dearest Acolyte. As you depart, however, hold true to the faith of he upon the throne, our surest protector against the unspeakable feldness of these degenerate revenants, Ave Imperator, Gloria in Excelsis Terra. This video and this channel are made possible through the incredibly kind contributions of my Patreon subscribers. If you'd like to help support the channel, head on over to patreon.com forward slash oculus imperia. 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Hey everyone today, we're going over the one arm push-up. This is a sick variation I don't know why I'm even showing it to you, but it's pretty cool It's pretty cool to try and I think more of you would be able to do it than you would think You have to kind of contort your body a really particular way and it can be kind of difficult But we're gonna give it a shot So I like to set up like a normal push-up tuck my hips arms are straight and then I'm just gonna pick one hand up I like to keep it right here right by the mic that I'm slapping But you can also put it back this way from there. I have to kind of Bend away from my arm as I come down Okay, and if I keep holding here, I'm gonna cast out. So let's just do it Just like that Well tired without fail one of my joints will crack usually it's my back. That's it was my shoulder. That's pretty cool Just like that, right? So I need to kind of bend away as I push up because otherwise all the The balance right since I don't have the same width of a base now I've picked one hand up my base is now narrower So I need to stay within that base if I'm going to not fall over and so by bending this way I bring most of my mass over that arm and I keep it within my narrower base If you feel like you might be able to get it or if you feel like As long as you don't feel like you're years away from doing it Give it a shot. Maybe just you know set up come down just a little bit. See how it feels It's a killer ab variation Regardless of whether or not you can do the the upper body part. So it's kind of fun to try So give it a shot and let me know if you're successful


Lagos State Governor Babajideh Sawalui has called on POS operators and field attendants to desist from extortionate service charges and forms withdrawal and sale of petrol. The governor, whom they called during a statewide broadcast on Saturday at Government House Marina Lagos, said he is saddened by the ongoing situation in the country regarding the change of currency notes and the attendant hardships being faced by ordinary legosians. By thanking legosians for their patience and unwavering perseverance even in their challenging times, he had joined them to avoid all forms of violence, arson and rioting and go about the lawful activities without fear. We have noticed with dismay the rampart incidents surrounding some of the players in the financial services value chain, especially POS agents and operators as well as petrol station attendants in some places who have taken the current challenges to mean an opportunity to extort hardworking and law abiding legosians with extortionate services charges on funds withdrawal and sale at the various petrol stations. Let me appeal to those involved in such behaviour to desist from such sharp practices. It is especially in difficult times like this that we all need to be our brothers and our sisters keeper and do everything that we can to contribute to lessening the hardship faced by our fellow legosians. On the cash state situation, Governor Sao Olu said that measures are being put in place to provide palliatives to legosians to cushion the effect on the people. And to my good people of legos, please resist the opportunists who seek to take advantage of the anger and frustration that we are all feeling to hike the situation and to foment trouble amongst us. We know that there are unscrupulous persons who want to sow seeds of violence and discord by their very utterance and actions, all with the way view of robbing you of the chance to cast your votes just a week from today, February 25th, at both the presidential and the National Assembly election, do not allow them to use you to achieve whatever evil intentions they have. There is no justification whatsoever for attacking public or private property. The law enforcement agents have received clear instructions to take full control and to ensure zero tolerance for any and all acts of assault, violence or destruction. And we are enjoying all our Biden legosians to carry out their lawful activities without fear.


with Cooper, your host. We're looking at what's happening with human rights around our world on ThinkTech Live, broadcasting from our downtown studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, in Moana, New York. Today's episode focuses on COP 27 process, continuing to converse in the people's movement to protect our planet. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of Parties 27, continues in a charmed shape with thousands of tenacious advocates and activists sharing their solutions to the climate crisis and standing up for climate justice. Second week of COP offers opportunities for ensuring our island Earth remains for future generations with a healthy planet. Today I'm joined by Jojo Mehta, the co-founder and executive director of Stop Ecocide International, who does a lot of amazing advocacy to make sure that we have a planet to live on. Jojo, thank you for joining us today. Oh, it's great to be here. Why do you think it's so important to attend the UNFCCC COP? It's really important to be at this forum because this is where the high-level decisions around how the whole world is supposed to be dealing with climate change and the decisions at the top level. And of course, that means that that attracts everyone who has an interest in the issues around that, whether it's climate justice, environmental justice, whether it's moving into sustainable ways of doing things, all of those kinds of voices want to be heard here. So that's of course also why we're here. I mean, our particular focus is about criminalizing mass harm to nature, but we're one among many, many voices in this context. And could you share a little bit more about how Stop Ecocide International was created and how far you've come in such a short time to be able to make sure you can have an impact in international human rights law and humanitarian law? Absolutely, and when the governing document of the International Criminal Court was being drafted back in the 90s, there was originally planned to be a clause in that that would deal with severe harms to nature, but it never made it to the final treaty. So the international crimes that we're all familiar with, war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity were the only ones that made it into that treaty. So when the court opened its doors 20 years ago, ecocide was not among those crimes. And actually it's probably worth just taking a moment to think about what world we might be in right now, had there been an international crime against massive harm to nature at the time.  She's no longer with us, but that campaign has now become the Stop Ecocide International, which is a global NGO. And where this conversation was completely new on the international diplomatic stage about three years ago, we now have a situation where there are at least 25 governments and parliaments talking about this and also the EU, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and many leaders around the world, including faith leaders like Pope Francis and even the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, there's so many voices in favor of doing this. And I think that the key thing, the key aspect for us being at COP this year is having a presence there to bring a particular kind of narrative, I guess, because I think the whole world is feeling frustrated with how slow the action has been on climate and ecological breakdown. I mean, it's like, you know, we know that time is running out. We know that we have almost the kind of, you know, it's as if we're kind of, you know, at a grand prix and we're kind of riding snails. You know, it's like that's the kind of feeling that we've got. And from our perspective, this is all about the fact that we don't have the right legal frameworks in place. So, you know, the action at the level of industrial decision-making, policy-making decisions is just doesn't have the right framing. You know, when we put the right boundaries in place and with Ecoside, that means saying this much damage to the planet is simply not acceptable, but really severe and either widespread or long-term damage is just not acceptable. Then what we do is we create a framework in which those decision-makers can be thinking in a new direction. Because, you know, ultimately this comes down, a lot of this comes down to finance, a lot of this comes down to money and the flow of money. And money is like water. It would just flow where it's allowed to. So, you know, when we put the right boundaries in place, we can start creating that flow going in new directions.  And, you know, having the right legal framework in place, having that foundational piece in place could just make it all so much easier. And so that's what we're really here to talk about. And it's, I have to say, it's just been incredible so far in the sense that, you know, we have, for the first time, we have a, what they call a pavilion. It's basically like an exhibition stand, right? So we have a stand at the, in the halls of COP 27.  So it's an amazing forum from that perspective. And when you, what's it like to be at COP for many people, they're not sure what happens. Can you share what is a day in the life of a COP delegate and observer and how are some of the steps for success that you've taken to have an impact here at this important COP 27? I think a day at COP probably depends very much, you know, who you are and what your particular role is here. So if you're an actual negotiator for a country, you're probably spending most of your time in meeting rooms or in the plenary sessions with, you know, other government reps. But for most people here, like ourselves, you know, NGO observers, for example, you know, people either, you know, they might have a pavilion or a stand like we do, or they might not, but you know, people tend to go in at the beginning of the day. And it's basically, it's an awful lot of conversations. And, you know, for us, we might be on our stand talking, but then we might also be doing events. I mean, I've been speaking at panel events in different people's pavilions, but also we have an official side event coming up with a couple of state representatives present, Vanuatu and Belgium. But, you know, so it's a kind of mixture of kind of panel events, conversations in, you know, in the corridors, conversations at stands, you know, conversations at the food courts, you know, a lot of it is about conversing. And then in the evenings, there are often events that you can go to outside of the, you know, the whole negotiating area that, you know, basically it's lots of different organizations putting forward what they're doing, conversing, making connections. And because of course, all of the, you know, the delegates, they're sometimes heads of state, the sort of state representatives and so on. And these kind of influencers are here. It means that there's this opportunity to make connections that you wouldn't be able to usually make in other contexts. And of course, you know, there's often quite justified criticism of what is actually happening at the high level in terms of, you know, how much progress is actually being made. And certainly from, you know, from our perspective, a lot of the advantage of being here is the making of the connections and the actual sort of pushing forward of that narrative almost kind of alongside what is happening at the highest level. And I think that's probably true for an awful lot of people here. A really good point, because when you look at what a typical day is like, you usually begin very early at one of the major groups, working groups, either indigenous peoples or women, farmers, research institutions, local and city authorities. And then from there, it's a non-stop jaunt or jog, however you see it, through different meetings throughout the day. And as you said, if you're fortunate to have a booth such as you, people at least come up and find you. And another aspect though is just the serendipity of meeting people on the lines for either no food or whatever is available. And being able to then get to know new people that are doing important initiatives as well, that overlap and really are able to relentlessly commit to human rights for everyone and make the connection about rights that most people don't see all those connections. But that I think is one of the strengths of Stop Ecoside is it really is a cost cutting, important campaign that has been able to capture the imagination of humanity for what is possible and to be able to provide a space to strategize to change the current conditions and provide a better future for all. I think that was a really good summary. I mean, I think what we're looking at of course is that often, law is not the first thing to come into the climate discussions necessarily and particularly not criminal law. I think that there's a sort of misconception in a sense that people don't understand the power of criminal law because it's a way that we use to draw moral lines if you like in our kind of dominant way of thinking. Now, I mean, there are plenty of environmental laws around the world but they're often very poorly enforced and they're often badly followed. And actually, even though we now know that even existing environmental crimes are up there with drug trafficking in terms of their criminal profitability and how much they're engaged in, the way that they're enforced is negligible in comparison. And so looking to take a concept like Ecoside, in other words, the worst harms to nature and actually designate them as really serious crimes, just has such a profound impact on the way we think about how we interact with the natural world. I mean, we've spent centuries developing this in the West, this incredibly alienated stance that we have in relation to the natural world. We think of ourselves as separate, we think of the Earth as a kind of bank of resources and we don't make the connection between, we don't kind of have that kind of balance in our minds about how important it is that we look after the Earth and we have healthy ecosystems because we can't breathe, we can't eat, we can't drink, we can't do anything without healthy ecosystems and our entire global economy depends upon them. So there's this weird disconnect that's going on and there's something about making really clear that when you damage the Earth, there are consequences. That is something that indigenous cultures just deeply understand in their DNA. I mean, so much so that one of the panels I was at a couple of days ago, the moderator was asking this wonderful indigenous spokeswoman, how does this tally with your view of the world, this law of ecocide, does it relate to how you think about the world? And it was almost so obvious that she almost didn't understand the question. And it had to be reiterated. And she said, oh, of course, the last thing you must do is damage Mother Earth because that's like rule number one. And it's just so obvious to them, but to us in the West, it has become a kind of strange thing.  Because you have that deep taboo around damaging people. But what we need is a similar taboo around serious harm to nature because that is what is ultimately gonna preserve life on this planet. That is what is gonna give humanity a future. No, it's a great point as we're here just hours away from Mount Sinai that you think about commandments being handed down who is important, right? Ecocide should definitely be an international crime and the aspect of creating individual criminal responsibility for those acts that threaten severe and widespread and long-term environmental harm to all of us should definitely be etched in stone, but also known in our hearts and minds that this is absolutely forbidden and that we can coordinate together to make sure it doesn't happen anymore as we see this process that's unfolding and we see how people are harmed because that's one of the aspects of pop is you really get to hear from people on the front lines sharing that climate change is an existential threat, not one day in decades, but already on a daily basis for people around the planet. Absolutely and this is why it is actually the most climate-vulnerable countries that are the leaders in this space. So I mean, we've been working for some years now with the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu who are really positioning themselves as leaders on the global stage in terms of legal initiatives and Ecocide Law is one of those initiatives. I mean, they're also promoting an advisory opinion at the ICJ, a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty international law of the sea, advisories and so on. So they're really kind of looking at these legal angles because for them it really is an existential issue and that is true of many of the Pacific Islands and it's also, we've also, for example, got the voice of Bangladesh has come behind this as well and there are others, but there are also starting to be voices also from the more wealthy West. I mean, in this conversation too. And so it's really heartening to see that there is a kind of, there is beginning to be a kind of cross-regional interest in looking at these legal frameworks and even, and this may seem quite surprising to begin with, but even from the area of, for example, corporate investors and there's a big network called the International Corporate Governance Network, which is an investor-led network of all the big financial firms, the banks and the accountancies and all of them. And between them, they manage 70 trillion and world assets and they submitted a statement this year to COP just as they did last year. There's now two years in a row. They've submitted a statement recommending governments to collaborate on criminalizing ecocide. And the first time that we heard this, we were like, well, this is amazing. Why has your committee put forward this statement that includes this? And it was really interesting what they said because I mean, the first reason maybe might be quite intuitive in the business context in the sense that it was about stabilizing risk. It was about knowing what are the rules that are coming into place? How is that going to help? And therefore, do we know where to put our money and so forth? And that's understandable. But what was really quite encouraging was to hear that the other reason that that ended up in there was that these guys were just looking out at the world saying, hey, this is really serious. What's going on out there? We're gonna need something serious to address it. And that's really, really encouraging actually because criminal law is so often thought of as a stick to beat people with. And yes, of course, the whole point in a sense is that you can take a prosecution if there's a crime in place. But of course, the real reason that those crimes are in place is to prevent them from happening. I mean, the reason murder is a crime is to stop people being killed. And so the same principle is true of ecocide is you put this law in place. The whole idea is it's supposed to deter and prevent. And that's the difference with say, I mean, there are many climate litigation cases going on around the world, which are also very important. It's about holding people to account. It's about funding compensation. It's about justice for victims. But if you want to actually change behavior, then criminal law is really important because then when somebody feels they can be held individually responsible and that their personal freedom could be at stake. And of course, in the corporate world, that also means their personal and corporate reputations as well. Then that is a very powerful deterrent. And we're already starting to see the recognition coming, for example, from the UN high level climate champions, the race to zero, they've brought out a recent report where they've realized that voluntary action on climate just isn't enough. There needs to be policy and regulation. And in that report that they brought out in New Yorker a few weeks ago called The Pivot Point, they actually dedicated a whole page to ecocide law as a driver and influencer of change. And that is really powerful. This is a law that's not even yet in place and people can see how important it is for starting to steer the conversation in the right direction. It's so true really with our side-spec changes are actually crucial as we go forward in these UNFCCC cop negotiations. And what's absolutely essential is that we look at these kind of changes and how the ecocide law can support changes to level the playing field, regenerative farming, renewable energy, circular economy. It really does see that we can have guidance in the system for global governance that embraces some of the coalition that you're describing that want to make sure that there's consequences for people who are harming our planet where you see indigenous peoples. We see Pacific Island nations. We see in this case, as you're pointing out even insurance companies and other actors recognizing that it's plunging our world into chaos and we have to come up with a structure that's rooted in social and climate justice to make sure that we have an island earth for future generations. Yeah, and I think the future generations aspect is a really important one and it's really important at this particular COP for the first time there is a youth pavilion, a children and youth pavilion as part of the structure of the conference and there's very strong voices from the youth movement from around the world. And it's also, I mean, it's interesting that it's also the place that everybody wants to be seen at. I mean, we've seen a number of heads of state have come to talk at the youth pavilion. They realize that the voice of the future generations is really important. Of course it is. This is all about the world that they are growing up into. And actually that youth voice collectively is becoming incredibly powerful. And there are still steps to go from the perspective of those decision makers. I think they've all kind of realized now that they need to have youth at the table. They need to listen to the voices of youth. I mean, I think there's still a way to go before they're actually responding to the demands that youth are presenting. And one of those demands is indeed to have a law against ecocide. They're asking for ecocide law and have been for the last few international meetings. And the conference of youth that preceded the COP produced a statement that also again included the demand for ecocide laws. So this whole kind of element of future generations is super important. And this particular COP has been really quite difficult in a lot of ways for people to attend including the youth activists. This has not been the easiest COP logistically or in terms of support from the host country. It's not been an easy ride at all. And as you alluded to a little bit earlier there've been problems with food, problems with various kinds of practical issues. And it's kind of an interesting and perhaps rather strange choice of location for a conference that essentially focuses on ultimately reducing fossil fuels and yet to hold it here in Egypt and then to hold the next one also in the Middle East is kind of an interesting choice of location. Let's put it that way. It's true and the children and youth are really participating in new mechanisms that have been created where four youth came together and created a new process for 55 youth to participate in 27 nations on their delegations training them to be young negotiators and engaging. So it is true. We have more children and youth involved in a more direct way. We have the pavilion. Another aspect of course that's also important is we have food being on the agenda. And I think another big topic is really loss and damages and trying to figure out how we can hold people count but more importantly the people are directly impacted would have access to funding to be able to rebuild their lives because the people that have contributed at least to the carbon crisis. I mean, they are most impacted and have already been facing these horrible situations where we know before almost every pop Philippines is hit by a typhoon. And if we look at Pakistan, a third is underwater. So when you're looking at this global conversation around ecocide, it's a powerful concept but it encapsulates what we're really looking at how it's morally wrong and dangerous for the future of humanity. Absolutely. And I think the loss and damage issue is a really important one. This cop is also a contentious one. And there have been some countries that have kind of stepped up to the plate a little bit. And I mean, I think it's interesting for example that Scotland has actually put some money on the table and said, we're gonna support this. And in a way kind of showing up the UK as being a little bit not taking the action that it should do. But I think that it's not been the most fruitful conversation and it should be because as you say, the people who are suffering the most and who need the most in terms of actual adaptation and compensation have not so far been receiving that from the wealthy Northern. I think there's this reluctance of the wealthy countries to, they feel like they're kind of admitting liability in some way if they offer loss and damage and compensation. And this is kind of outrageous actually. I mean, we think about how the wealthy North of the sort of Western culture, if you like and our sort of ways of doing things are kind of over consumption, our economic attitudes and have colonialized and plundered really a lot of the most effective people in areas. And it's long overdue that something that more effective mechanisms that are more just can be put in place. And how well this cop is managing that I'm really not convinced but the issues are nonetheless being brought front and center at least into the public domain by those who are suffering. And yeah, I mean, I have to say I hope that they can come away from this with something but I fear it won't be nearly as much or as just as they would like. And that's a travesty really. It's true, it has to be the decade of action and they said this cop which is gonna be an action cop but also they called it the implementation cop that they would actually implement the Paris rulebook begin to make sure that it makes a difference and when you're here in Egypt seeing everything I'll never forget at the climate action hub we had a activist from Uganda and she said, now you see what we face you have no food, you have to try to find water this is what we live, this is the Africa cop welcome to the world of what we face with the climate crisis where we don't have access due to droughts or floods you're getting a taste of what it is to live but of course we know it's nothing like what people have to face as the negotiations are still ongoing what do you hope we can accomplish before the gavel comes down in Sharma shape? Well, I mean, I obviously would love to see the loss and damage conversation bearing some kind of fruit and in terms of implementation of course, that's where we feel that this whole discussion around law needs to come in as I say, I think there's the beginnings of recognition that policy and regulation need to play a bigger part I mean, again, exactly how much that's going to be reflected in the whatever emerges in terms of a statement or a declaration from Sharma shape, I'm not sure but that's certainly what we will be encouraging and doing our hardest to make sure is seen and even better potentially included in some way. That's perfect and what would be your message to world leaders in these closing moments to share? I would say that if you really want implementation to work you need to look at the legal frameworks you need to put in place something that prevents the worst harms to nature because that is at the root cause of the climate and ecological crisis and if that is ignored, we are going to continue to deepen that crisis. Rojo, thank you so much for joining here in Sharma shape. We know it has been quite charming but we know we've done everything we can to have a yarn and make sure that the world knows what's going on. Thank you so much for all your work at Stop EcoSide International and we hope that the leaders listens to your message and we can make sure to bring up consequences as you talked about as we shape a new world rooted in human rights law and a better perspective for what our planet can be together. Mahalo. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. 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