Tommy Lee is best known for being a member of the 80s rock band Motley Crue as well as his highly publicized love life back in the day. As you might have guessed, his homes over the years were fit for a rock star like himself. While he's trying to offload his 10,000 square foot former mansion in Calabasas, his current home in Brentwood is less than half the size but it's even more stylish some would say. In this video, we'll take a look so you can be the judge. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Once upon a time, the whirlwind love story of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson was an absolute obsession with the media during the late 90s. In fact, that steamy tape they released all those years ago has got so much traction over the years that even now, more than 20 years after its release, we're getting a biographical miniseries from Hulu that's going to go over the whole saga of Pam and Tommy. Of course, these days the two aren't together anymore. They stuck it out for three years and had two kids before calling it quits. In the subsequent years, Pam would marry a further five times while Tommy would only marry once more to a woman 24 years his junior. Internet personality Brittany Furlan. These two first got handsy with one another during a night out for sushi in June of 2017. Six months later, they'd announced their engagement on Valentine's Day in 2018. A year after that and the two would officially tie the knot on Valentine's Day in 2019. Shortly after remarrying, Tommy would quickly list his spectacular Calabasas home, a residence that he's owned since 2007. Then he and Brittany began looking for the perfect house to turn into a home together. It took them a couple of years to find it, but they finally have, shelling out $4.15 million for a lavish, Japanese-inspired Zen paradise in Brentwood, California that you guys just have got to get your eyes on. Trust me, this house is mesmerizing. Hey guys, it's Curio the Vampire Slayer bringing you another exclusive house to our here on Famous Entertainment, this one on the homes of Tommy Lee and Brittany Furlan. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit me up on Instagram to chat. Now let's get into this video. Before I show you what the couple's new place looks like, first I want to give you a taste of Tommy's former home, a six-bedroom Calabasas mansion that he's been continually trying to move off the market for close to five years now. The creation of this house dates back to 1987, the same year that Tommy Lee and Motley Crew released one of their biggest selling albums, Girls, Girls, Girls. Twenty years later and Tommy would move into the place himself when he was still relatively fresh from his divorce from Pamela Anderson. He must have been looking for a place that would keep him distracted because at nearly 10,000 square feet of space, this hillside spread on a cul-de-sac in the guard-eated community known as Vista Point features everything that he could need. This includes a fully equipped recording studio, a screening room, concession bar, and even a wine tasting room. Now in terms of the living spaces, the unique floor plan flows around a central tri-level atrium and features towering plants wrapped in fairy lights not to mention a retractable open-air roof. One glance at these lavish interiors and it's clear a day that Tommy marches to the beat of his own drum if you'll excuse the pun. Whether it's the Buddhist inspired iconography, the colorful wallpaper, the mirrored ceilings, a koi pond, walnut flooring, or glitzy chandeliers, there's always something new to look at in every corner of this place. Over on the main floor there are two gigantic reception rooms, one of which features an elaborate grand piano beside a decorative marble fireplace. A little bit further down that same floor is the master suite which boasts a walk-in closet, a spa-style bathroom, and direct access to the backyard swimming pool and spa combo that overlook the tremendous views of the city. Not to mention an extremely dark color tone that's very much Tommy. Of course the kitchen is also as gourmet as it comes with a center island that can double as a breakfast bar, marble countertops, and an array of integrated top-of-the-line appliances. There's even a second smaller kitchen in the basement that fuses a gothic-like medieval decor with modern-day appliances. Meanwhile, the entertaining space out back offers the perfect setup for guests, including a built-in barbecue, that colossal swimming pool, and a lavish outdoor seating area. And for any car enthusiasts out there while Tommy's home comes with a sizable garage, big enough to fit as many as 13 whips. As I mentioned off the top, around the same time that Tommy began to get serious about Brittany was when he decided to move on from this place and find something new. My best guess is that this house reminds him of his bachelorhood and well now that he's a married man, he wants to start making new memories in a family home. After originally putting this mansion on the market for just under 6 million dollars, Tommy has slashed the price over the years and it's currently listed for about 4.5 million. So if any of you are looking to live like a verified rock star well, you know where you can do it. Alright, now let's move on to Tommy and Brittany's new place. After house hunting for a couple of years and even going so far as to contemplate becoming neighbors with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Tommy and Brittany finally found the home of their dreams in Brentwood, California. And honestly, it's probably not just their dreams, it might be all of our dreams. I mean, just take a look at this place. In April of 2021, the couple closed on this home, reportedly paying 4 million dollars, which, well, it might sound like a lot. It might have actually been something of a steal considering how ritzy this home is. To begin with, let's make it clear. Tommy is swapping space for style. His former Calabasas home was a massive 10,000 square feet of space, but this home is less than half of that. Coming in at 4,300 square feet. That being said, this four bedroom, three and a half bath home features some inspired zen living spaces that are worth the price of admission alone. I mean, even the exterior of this home is a work of art with its wraparound glass and some inspired artisan woodwork. So before we check out the interior, let's quickly take a look at the outside because honestly, the outdoor spaces rival every bit of the interior ones. For instance, stone pathways, wine-throated dense garden of ferns, herbs and bamboo, all of which leads to a waterfall-fed pool and a one-of-a-kind Japanese tea house. There's also a nearby koi pond with a small wooden dock. Other features include a barbecue island and a dining deck to make entertaining as extravagant as possible. Now moving on to the inside of this half acre home, the expansive kitchen and dining area sports Japanese tansu cabinetry and some Brazilian mahogany countertop.  And yet another wing of the home, there's also a secret spiral staircase that connects a bedroom slash office space to a nearby yoga studio. Speaking of the bedrooms, the master bedroom is a certified retreat and offers up double height ceilings, heated floors, a window wall with built-in cabinets, a dual bath and custom design closets. Two additional bedrooms can also be found in a separate wing on the other side of the residence. So what do you guys think was this move and upgrade for Tommy or Brittany? Or downgrade, leave your thoughts down below over the next minute or two, but before we get out of here, I've got one more story to tell. You see, while Tommy and Brittany were apparently waiting to move into their zen inspired paradise, they had to spend a few weeks living in a rental. No big deal, right? Most of us have had to live in a temporary home at one point or another, but how many of us have had to contend with ghosts while doing so? As it turns out, Tommy and Brittany are convinced that the house they moved into was haunted after a trash can in their kitchen would continually open on its own. Brittany wouldn't cover that the guy who had previously lived in this place was named Tom. I mean, what are the odds? And he died of a heart attack prior to Brittany and Tommy moving in. So while the garbage can lid wouldn't always move when it was asked to, as soon as Brittany shouted out the ghost's name, the lid immediately moved, freaking both her and Tommy out. While I'm sure they're both far happier now living in their assuredly more serene and ghost-free Japanese garden of a home. Are you guys buying this real life haunting or have Tommy and Brittany played us? Anyways, that about wraps up our Tommy Lee and Brittany Furlong House Tour. After checking out this rock stars homes, what did you guys think? Which was your favorite? Let us know your thoughts down below. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I will catch you all in the next video. Bye.


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I saw Big Hero 6 a week ago Saturday. I saw it at a free showing at the local library here. I did not enjoy it. I don't see what the big deal is. It was very much oversold to me. Very much. So much adulation for it online. And then the week before it had just won the Academy Award for Best Picture. And the Saturday before that, the week before, they had shown The Incredibles, which is the best superhero movie ever made, if you ask me. It's a near-perfect movie. So my expectations were high. Everything was telling me to have high expectations for this. And I was, uh, I was disappointed. There's not really that much more to say about it, as far as my opinion goes, but I did want to take the opportunity to talk about Disney and Marvel and why I don't support their films. I did not see this film in the theater. I haven't seen any of the Marvel movies and theaters in years. I haven't seen any Disney movies and theaters in years. And it's because Disney and Marvel have very bad reputations for hurting artists. They steal materials from artists, and they don't pay artists, and they don't allow artists to participate in the monetary gain from these billion-dollar films that they make. As an artist myself, I find that intolerable. And as a fan of artists who have been creators, especially of these Marvel movies, people who created the characters and the stories decades ago that are being used as Marvel slash Disney movies today are not participating in the success of these films. And I can't, I don't find that acceptable. It was supposedly inspired by a Marvel comic book from the late 90s called, again, Big Hero Six. But aside from the name of the film and the names of the characters, it has nothing in common with the original comic book. I mean literally nothing. Here's the original comic. It was called Sunfire and Big Hero Six. It was created by a young writer and artist at Marvel. Here are their names. It's not good. The writing is terrible. The art is really bad. These characters are teenagers with superpowers who have been recruited by the Japanese government to be the official Japanese super team because America has all the superheroes and Canada has Alpha Flight and Russia has the Winter Guard. And the story just doesn't make any sense at all. The dialogue is bad. This is Baymax. He is a bodyguard in an antique suit and a bowler hat whose face is always in shadow. And he shapeshifts into some kind of lizard creature. And this is supposedly a robot that this little kid designed and built. The series was recreated in the 2000s, I think 2008. And it was written by Chris Claremont of all people. But he just phoned it in. The artwork is an improvement over the original. It's downright classy compared to the original. It has a convincing manga look about it. The story is the same. It's a group of super kids who are supposed to be the Japanese super team. The Honey Lemon and Gogo Tamago characters are very mean spirited and unlikable for some strange reason. Issue number three is entirely devoted to this super team helping some New York high school football team win the big game. I don't understand it. Honey Lemon is just cheesecake. She's nothing but cheesecake. We see her in her underwear all the time.  Well, we've never seen that before, have we? Mr. Claremont. Anyway, if you've seen the big hero six movie, you know from what I've just said, it has nothing at all to do with those original stories. And it was formulaic. It was so formulaic. I knew going in that the protagonist would have to be tragic in some way.  And they did both of those things. He started out as an orphan and his brother gets killed. I knew that the villain was going to turn out to be the professor and not the evil corporate bigwig. When they found that old footage of this girl being lost in the fourth dimension somewhere, I knew that the movie was going to end with them finding out that she was still alive in there and going to get her. I knew that this girl was going to turn out to be the villain's wife or daughter or something. And sure enough, just one after another after another down the line, the characters, like I said before, were very two-dimensional. There was nothing to be interested in or care about. The shtick about the scruffy homeless kid who wasn't a student or even a scientist who was always just hanging around, that he turns out to be rich and living in a mansion and having a butler, it was... And then Stan Lee gets a cameo.  Yeah, that left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I didn't like the movie. I didn't find anything about it to be interesting or entertaining. These two guys who created these characters and the title, they have become important and influential guys in television animation. They have a studio called Action Man, and Action Man was credited in the closing credits. So characters created by Action Man. But the two guys' names were not in the credits anywhere. And I was looking for information about that online and I saw that people were wondering why they weren't included in the Academy Awards. So that's what I was talking about before. Disney and Marvel do not include creators in their success and that's why I don't patronize Disney and Marvel films. And this was my opportunity to talk about it on video. Okay, that's it. I've got more reviews coming up later this month. See you then. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.


Here we go. Hi everyone, I'm Sharon Clarkson, the person who drives GovCMS, C-System Secretary for Online Services at Finance. If you don't know me already, yes, I have an accent. If you can't understand New Zealand, let me know. So often when I talk at Drupal South or when I come to talk at Drupal ACT, which I actually haven't been here since before the pandemic, it's usually a flag a direction that GovCMS is going and I do that to make sure that developers, designers, private people in private practice, companies, other public servants clearly know what direction we're heading and what we want from the market and what we want from Drupal and this is another one of those occasions. So today I'm going to be talking about using a design system with GovCMS and just running through what our thoughts are on that and what we would like to see happen. As with everything we do in GovCMS, we lead by example and we lead through influence. We don't work with mandates and we don't make people do things. We try and influence good practice. So last year at Drupal South I flagged a number of places that we're going out of the blocks like a big explosion really. We were pretty constrained during COVID. We couldn't do too much new stuff but now we're off like a rocket. We'll be putting in digital experience platform tools, a range of different types. That procurement is still underway so I can't talk about that any further. We wanted to see more consistency in design and we want to address the structural gaps in government and some of those will really become exposed when agencies start to use DSP and so we're hatching a bit of a plan to do something about some of those gaps. Our principles have not changed. Create content once and publish everywhere. Create functionality once and share it with everybody. These were our foundation principles and we're adding a third one now. Create design artefacts once and share back to a community. All you know what I think is good common sense. The Australian Government design system was started by the DTA. We were always right from the start very enthusiastic supporters and that was quite a tiny team in DTA and it didn't take long before we saw an opportunity to start sprinting with the DTA and we pulled in health and services Australia and from nearly six months we all worked together building out the Australian Government design system to make it more comprehensive and we were committed to using it ourselves on our sites and we encouraged adoption within the agencies using GovCMS. So it was with some sadness that we viewed the aid UDS being retired or becoming an end of life and those of you who'd been keeping up with that would have known that it was put out on GitHub as an open source piece of work for anybody else to pick up. Come forward two years. We have a little clause in our contract with our service provider who provides hosting and that's the open source give back clause. So we require people who partner with us to commit to 30 hours of give back into open source a year as a minimum and Alfred knew that I was quite a little bit disappointed about the design system. I thought it was something Government really needed to have. It made sense for our users. It was a good thing to do. Lo and behold he suddenly unveiled that he's spent 6,000 hours of development in two years building it out from way beyond where it was when it was in Government and fully mapping every single element back to Workag 2.1 including I think in some of the pages I've seen instructions on how to implement it properly so you don't break accessibility. It's not enough to just put something in. You've got to know how to put it in. It's a very large piece of work. Three things that are really important to us that it's fully open source and I think it's good that it's now going to be in a much wider bigger open source community and I'm already talking to my colleagues and people I am, my network who are in other Governments all around the world and in Australia and seeing if we can grow this to be an even bigger thing with a lot more Government participation. Is technology agnostic? Why is that really important? Well Government often wants to deliver things to kiosk. It wants to have apps. It wants to have websites. It has transaction systems. We don't need to have two design systems or three or four or five. We can have one design system and that can be managed and deployed out to all of those different kinds of things. The fact that this is technology agnostic is a really big win and of course it's WCAG 2.1 compliant. Really important for Government. We've got to lift our game and get better at delivering more accessible access to people for Government information and services. So at the moment there's a Drupal 9 theme I guess he's going to correct me if I get this wrong. There's a patent library, Figma. That's correct, isn't it? And then there's Storybook. Yep. And I've grabbed the wrong one. So at the moment there's a Drupal theme for G9 that's been built off. There's also a GovCMS theme. Yep, that's available. And we're also looking to do View and React front-ends for it as well. So they're truly taking it out into headless systems. This is exciting. But Akil can answer. He's going to help me answer questions on the detail afterwards. So what are we doing in GovCMS? Well I'm encouraging people who use GovCMS customers, agencies, to use it as the base for any new builds and rebuilds as much as I can influence. I'm encouraging everybody to contribute back with enthusiasm. And so in GovCMS we will be very enthusiastic so that we get other people to be enthusiastic. We want to see people spending their dollars on user research, journey management, new design artefacts, and sharing these things back to expand the design system. We don't want to see everybody spending their money building the same types of things over and over again. Very much like the concept when we started GovCMS, 350 different content management systems in government just in this town. No opportunity to collaborate. I only ever got to MVP one or two and never got any further because we've all got limited amounts of money. Same thing again. If we can pull our resources and we can get so much further and I think with the with the XP coming we're going to find that agencies are going to realise that they have a lot of work to do around audience segmentation, about journey mapping and planning and they may not have that work done and that's really where their investment needs to go. So this is what I say when people ask me to explain a design system. I know this isn't scientific and it won't end up in a book but a quality design system allows a wide diversity of online experiences to be created and tailored for specific audiences does not meet all websites of the same. So I think a good quality design system can spin up a really engaging site for a youth market and it can deliver the defence white paper which is usually because of the type of site it is very plainly packaged and branded. It does mean as a user and I think this is what's really when I was at the DTO and we did the user research, the initial user research is often quoted and what we found was there wasn't so much a problem with people going from website to website across government because they often had to crisscross more often state anyway and local. It was more that understanding where things were in the real estate of a page, understanding what things were called and I think just one look I had I found 35 different examples of what the words we use on buttons that mean submit will go or next. We're just using an enormous array of language, there's no consistency. People don't often know how government sites are going to behave because of the ontology issues, the real estate issues, the lack of patterns. That matters much more than having everybody had the same blue banner and crest although I know the crest is important. So for me it's about consistency, where things are, what they're called and how they behave, that's what gives us usability and I think if you know I'm going to use Microsoft here but it doesn't matter which Microsoft product I pick up, I know where I'm going to be able to save my work. I know that it's going to be in the same menu, in the same place, there's going to be a drop down, it's going to save save and it's going to have save as. So I've been trained to know how Microsoft products work and that is a design system because it's across all of their products and this is what we mean around consistency. So yes for developers, I know there's a lot of you here tonight, there are already 60 Drupal theme ready components. It's flexible enough to extend and customise for the more sophisticated work that you do should reduce some of the testing load if you're focusing only on delta features and maybe that will give you more time to get further down a customer's backlog and delight them. Unexpectedly delight them as opportunities and for designers, I don't think your work's going to drop off. I think the design we need in Government right now is slightly different and it's going to change quite remarkably when DXP comes to the fore. So I want to see more time improving UX and service design, understanding the audience, mapping journeys, faster design of customer components and better accessibility compliance and I hope that a design system will help you do all of that better. I certainly don't see Government agencies no longer needing design services because we've got a design system. And for agencies, faster builds lower build costs, four sites that are able to use starter themes and pre-existing components. How many of our sites would just go that far? I don't know the percentage but it's pretty low. Okay so it doesn't mean everybody's just going to pick up our starter site and they're never going to contact the rest of you again. That's a particular subset of GovCMS sites. Usually there's much more of a desire to engage and to change something in the community and those sites and they want to do things that will engage the user. Design consistency for their brand artefacts across all the things that they own, transaction systems. Eventually I hope this kind of thinking will go a whole of Government so we're not just thinking about it in our own agency space but we're thinking about it in a cross-government capacity and of course DXP coming into GovCMS will kick-start a lot of those conversations and overhead maintenance reduced a little. So if you want to find out more about the civic theme that's the homepage and they have a roadmap that's published so you can see where the plan is to go. The more of us that engage with this design system, you know noting that's open source product, the better off we all are. Yeah I mean a lot of people would lock this up as some sort of commercial product really there's an enormous investment in hours here and we commit also in GovCMS to driving adoption within our community and encouraging give back into that community as well. We need to have a central you know something to work to and we have to pick something as GovCMS so we'll pick open source over other things as usual. Yep so that's my talk. Any questions for Sharon? So the civic theme is built on the components module right for the Drupal implementation. Maybe my better question is what technology inside of Drupal is the civic theme built upon and I'm guessing it's not built on the single directory components. Can you like are you going to use that in the future or are we sticking with whatever way you've got right now? I'm just going to phone a friend because I've got Alex. Alex is online. Alex is online. Alex Kripniku is the solution architect for civic themes online so I'm just trying to see if he's still listening and going to answer me that question so in the meantime hopefully is an yeah okay I didn't think it cool. Any time like do we have a time like is is there part of the roadmap like I just had a check and there's not on the roadmap at all but like are you looking for people to help you migrate things or in terms of moving away from like Drupal or no so in 10.1 Drupal introduced single directory components as a core module. It looks like the way that Drupal wants to start handling components in general so I'm asking are we going to move if we use civic theme do I have to know something else or should I be just using core Drupal? And if so do you want help like migrating those things to SDC? Well I mean for help we'd be happy to help and get contribution and put towards the product that'd be great. Do you have an answer? Oh it's going to grab the mic. No it's good. Good questions. When we use it for gov same as it's an experimental branch but yes. So Alex's answer is that we put on the roadmap document soon. SDC's were not available two years ago. We will be providing migration paths. Okay that's cool. And you say of course they'd love some help. Yeah of course anyone wants help right? Yeah yeah yeah it'll be interesting actually. Anyone any more questions? Um nothing that's... Do we know the adoption rate of civic theme because when I talk to agencies it's still not quite widely known and I think if it's going to get support across government it needs sort of broader adoption so I'm just wondering do we know the sort of metrics around how this has been picked up? Yeah there's definitely some sites already being built on it. Now that when we have people coming for new builds coming to the platform we tell them all about it. We point out where it is. We suggest that when they go out to market they ask for someone to implement the site using the theme as at least a starting point. It doesn't mean... I mean the things I mean you know two years post coming out into agds retirement there's so much more that could be built for a right. So I'm hoping that if new sites coming to GovCMS go to it as a matter of course then more and more components are going to get you know given back to the design system. So yes in GovCMS we're talking about it. Remember we don't have a marketing budget. We have very few opportunities to go out and talk apart from our megamates and occasionally here but we do a lot more talking that you don't see behind the scenes. We're talking to people all the time. So new sites sites that we know are going through a reasonable size rebuild or refresh. That's a time that we'd inject ourselves as hey what about this? Talked about it at Drupal South. We've started to talk about it. That's some of our internal GovCMS events and we'll be talking about it again at the megamy but I think really we're at the start of really pushing it hard and starting to have those kind of conversations. Also I've been doing a lot of work across government at SES level to say look at this. Look at this. Don't go building one. Yeah I think it's going to be awesome if it gets adopted. Design systems have been talked really about a lot these days so it would be good to have a consistent one that we can all use. Let's just say from my point of view obviously we're trying to tell everyone about it and get the word of mouth out there as much as we can obviously with groups like GovCMS especially are able to get that word out there more for us. They have much wider reach than we do obviously so yeah the more we can get it out there the more adoption obviously then there's benefits for that so yes as much as we're doing be great if others. Now the other thing is tricky that we've just we're talking about earlier tonight is that we can't tell who's actually using it so it's open source people are using it they're modifying it do what they need to but we can't actually necessarily tell and it's been attributed so we're wanting to kind of see how we can register or track that that'd be fantastic to kind of see the adoption rate specifically. We have that issue with the GovCMS just true it's widely used around the world it's used by a lot of other governments I can't remember how many governments but we've we keep tripping over don't we central Africa and Bahamas I think yeah city of London some things in London it pops up everywhere it pops up in provincial governments and local governments around the world and again we don't know who's using it we'll suddenly find out why accidents and think oh that's pretty cool but I think you know we've got to remember this has not been built for GovCMS and the Australian Commonwealth and state governments you know and the local governments that sit on GovCMS this is a design system and more and more businesses need to have fully compliant accessible you know sites because that makes good business sense right and more and more they're being held to the same standards particularly larger businesses so this is the design system for a range of different universities big business small business government you know nonprofits everyone can use this that there's a theme that's been built for GovCMS there's just one more way of extending that design system so if we're all contributing to the core design system we can build something strong and vibrant and something that helps us all do our jobs and just to just to add to the end of that yes we've probably got about half a dozen sites at the most on the platform on the GovCMS platform using Civic Team I know of about a dozen close to 20 who are looking at adopting it and I get even more questions than that about you know can we use it who's starting so it feels like the noise is starting but a lot of that is happening on our service desk where of course it's not visible like a conversation like this I think that's that's certainly helped yeah for those of you not familiar with Australian Government architecture they are talking about it in there so they're also talking about us in their GovCMS so there's some more visibility there but yeah it's certainly doable on our platform and people are very interested yeah so Alice is referring to the new DTA website the AGA the Young Government Architecture site and Civic Teams on there with GovCMS yeah I think it's understanding like in the government context you know what kind of role you play in educating whoever comes forward and seeks build services or design service for websites because you probably those of you working in the private sector probably think that largely there's the digital team that's in charge of the government websites in that agency and yes there is but that's not how a lot of sites are created and a lot of sites will happen in a big project and it's the project manager for the big project of which the website is one component or an app is a component that will kick off with project staff who may or may not be public servants who may be largely a contractor staff who will not have been part of the conversations that we have with the digital teams in their agency who may not be talking to the digital team in their agency and who have no idea about GovCMS in many cases or have no idea about design system the second way these things start is in a business group that's not part of the digital part of the agency and sometimes sometimes we have had experiences where we're dealing with I'll give you one case study we were dealing with a particular agency I shall not name and we had seven different websites different projects on GovCMS or quite different and then we realised they were all being run from seven different teams and the seven different teams had never met each other so we organised the meeting we invited all seven teams and we introduced them to each other we do that a lot okay so you do have a role to educate you do have a role to say hey did you know your colleagues across Government are doing this and if you're not sure ask GovCMS they'll tell you what they think of it you know we really do rely on developers and designers to let people know what good practice is we can't guarantee they're going to come through the the teams that we are engaging with regularly I think we're out of time for one more question if anyone's got one Yes so I think I think you got you answer the most of the question I I'm trying to ask I think we do actually have we spent one month for a resource to actually try to you know use CIVICASIM so we actually have some feedback but probably not a good idea put here so when you see actually you know the open design system it was remember the time when the open design system published within the DTA that was big wave that's big push everyone tried to adopt the design system they do actually have public website have the documentation everyone can jump into have a local war how we're going to implement the different component based on that so I didn't actually see anything happen for CIVICASIM so wondering are you going to integrate or cope with some other agencies such as DTA to promote this design system I think that's my question I don't know if I can answer that I couldn't quite hear I've got deaf during COVID can agencies or can we encourage agencies like DTA to talk about and and encourage use of a civic theme we can't obviously do that on behalf of them have we done that so if you go to the Australian Government architecture site run by the DTA you'll see that govcmes is now their preferred provider of content management services for government but it was a not mandated okay we heard that off but also they list there they actually have a list for civic theme and they are they've seen it they've had a good look at it and they're recommending it too now so it's not just me and just while that's happening to answer your question about feedback we do actually have a slack channel Alex has mentioned here which is a civic theme dash design system on the Drupal slack channel so if you need questions conversation it's all there yeah so look if there's any critical feedback naturally we'd love to hear but there's one thing else and I just hope I've understood your question right but one other important thing to to call out is um so obviously this the former strength government design system has been decommissioned we all know that that's public knowledge now um we have um a special document it's if you go to civictheme.io front slash AUDS for Australian AU for Australian design system there is a I don't know if it's a 50 or 100 or 200 page document that shows the lineage to all the original DTA design system components and all the rationale for those that we adopted versus those that we uh uh tweaked and the rationale with supporting evidence for why the adjustments that were made so it shows the the lineage at a component you know based on atomic design principles etc so it's probably worth also understanding it's just a good piece of document that shows the the lineage and the rationale for any adoptions adoptions and new components that we've introduced yeah really encourage you all if you haven't seen it go and have a look and have a patrol around the site and see what's being being offered and it's free I'm just going to mention I think uh Alex has also mentioned if you have any issues please raise it on Drupal.org


by commending the coalition for dialogue on Africa, for providing a forum for this much needed conversation and for their track record over the years in living up to the refrain that Africans are entirely capable of finding the best solutions to their problems. I must also commend the chair of the coalition for my president, for devoting most of his time resources and prodigious energy especially since leaving office to Africa's most important causes. I'm aware that the coalition is also promoting vaccine manufacturing in Africa and issues of domestic resource mobilization among other big causes and we really commend you for all of that hard work. The theme of this event rising to the challenge of consolidating democratic governance is wholly appropriate and timely. In any event the spate of extra constitutional disruptions up to democratic governance should urgently focus our minds on this very crucial matter. Twenty-three years ago we in Nigeria discarded the yoke of dictatorship and took up the reins of democracy. Since then a generation of Nigerians has come of age but that only knows civil rule and assumes as of right the power to choose their own leaders. This is also the longest stretch of democratic governance in our history. We've witnessed a series of peaceful transitions of power, a huge credit to the democratic sensibilities of our people. Along the way we are learning valuable lessons that can only make us better practitioners of the liberal democracy that we adopted. We may be in the 23rd on broken year as a democracy but in the grand scheme of things our country as is the case with several other African countries is still a young democracy. Many of our institutions are still in their infancy and we must carefully guide and nurture them into maturity. The price of liberty as it said is eternal vigilance. As one of the oldest democracies in the region that has long been played by autocratic and extra constitutional regimes democracy itself has now become part of the portfolio of our national exceptionalism. Our armed forces are subordinated to civilian command and are fully committed to defending our constitutional order against internal and external threats. When the brave men and women of our armed forces are mobilized for internal missions they do so under rules of engagement consistent with the principles of military assistance to civil authority and military assistance to civil power. We have a relatively strong civil society that continues to push for greater accountability transparency and the deepening of democratic practice. In keeping with our foreign policy tradition Nigeria has been a clear and strident voice for the promotion of democracy on the continent and we have been resolute in condemning extra constitutional seizures of power. Historically we've also worked hard to restore and preserve democracy in several countries of the world in places such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Gambia in recent history. At the same time the events now happening beyond our borders impose a burden on us to exemplify the highest manifestations of democracy at home so that we can more credibly promote it abroad. In 2015 we made history when an opposition party defeated the ruling party in a national election and a peaceful transition of power followed. In so doing we vaulted over a hurdle that we have fallen at in previous attempts at democratic governance. Since then we've seen more and more elections at the subnational level feature transitions between parties certainly we witnessed electoral contests in which main membership of the ruling party is not a guarantee of victory. These are undeniable signs of our growth as a democracy but there remains of course mutual for improvement and we'll come to those issues. However free and democratic elections by themselves are not enough to secure a democratic culture and we must situate governmental legitimacy within a broader matrix of democratic practice. We must secure active citizen participation in the political process and in civic life somehow the people must believe in and own the credo of democracy. Second we must ensure the protection of human rights of all citizens and groups and in this context the intentional institution and implementation of protections for minority groups is crucial. This is a safeguard and an assurance that electoral democracy does not lead practically to ethnic majority terror and the marginalization of minorities and ultimately fuel instability and strife. The promise of the creation of states is also a promise to democratize development at the subnational level. So stronger and more autonomous states will bring us closer to that objective and this is important because one of the reasons why we have a federal system and one of the reasons why we insisted on the creation of states is because we believe that there must be the democratization or development at the subnational level and that can only be brought to fusion to fruition if we're able to ensure that those states have greater autonomy and are stronger and are given more powers. We'll come into the questions of devolution or power. Let me turn briefly anyway to the question of African democracy and the world order. The factors and forces that have historically shaped the trajectory of democracy in Africa are not only local as we know they are also external and global. From colonialism and the Cold War to the advent of globalization and the war on terror Africa has been a space of significance within the geopolitical order. In all these contexts relations with the great powers have had a significant impact on the temper of relations between the state and civil society and more broadly on the democratization of our continent. During the Cold War authoritarian regimes dominated the political landscape with the rival superpower blocs providing support for their respective crime stakes regardless of their democratic credentials or lack thereof. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s the tide turned decisively in favor of democratization. In many African countries the ballot box became the primary determinant of power location but it could be argued that the principal factor that triggered this shift was that the geostrategic calculations which had necessitated support for those dictatorial regimes by the superpowers had changed. So clearly what even determined you know the legitimacy or at least what preserved those regimes at the time was where the geostrategic calculations of the superpowers lay. To be sure one overall lesson that we can draw from recent history is that the great powers have been fit fully selective in their support for democracy and for the most part predicated their support for democracy or democratization on the continent on their own calculations of their strategic interests. Democracy is a journey obviously and not a destination and a transformative journey is necessarily fraught with a significant degree of uncertainty and chaos. The advanced democracies of the world all have had similar evolutionary issues and problems and we too are currently on our own arc of democratic growth. The great powers have tended to favor stability in quotes even if that means supporting authoritarian regimes or despotic military hunters as long as that fulfills their vital interests whether it is fretted access to resources or the guarantee of preferential terms of trade and these are the issues. The great powers may be justifiably accused of double standards for providing support for some dictatorships while reserving strict essential for others. These days of course a criticism of one of the great powers and I will not mention names is that it is insufficiently vested in human rights and other democratic felicitates in dealing with African nations. It is criticized for its uncritical embrace of despotic governments as client states. However this very criticism can be leveled against all great powers that have engaged with Africa in the past. It is clear that the interests of the great powers are rarely consistent with the democratic yearnings of the of African publics generally. We've seen in recent times that in the countries in which democratically elected governments have been toppled such as Mali and Burkina Faso a world of nationalistic sentiment has been rippling through the state and civil society. Indeed an element of the rhetorical justification for some of the recent coups has been the portrayal of ousted governments as proxies of colonial power. While we recognize that for reasons of strategic expediency and sovereign agency countries are entitled to pivot to whichever nations align with their interests care in this instance must be taken to ensure that we do not end up tragically paradoxically positioning us type of colonialism with another. We must not allow our continent to become as it was in the Cold War era a fertile or proxy wars and great power conflict. We know from experience that this would result in a deepening of the recession of democratic values in Africa. The militarization of civil society whether by local military regimes or rival foreign military industrial complexes can only set us back by several decades. Our commitment to democratization must be predicated on the aspirations of our people and not on the wings of foreign powers. Let me also briefly return to the question of the apparent turning back of the democratic clock in parts of our continent. The recent spate of military coups across our continent and attempts at military coups not only pretends the risk of damaging democratic of a damaging democratic recession but it also takes us back to the cycles of extra constitutional disruptions that plagued us decades ago and which we assumed already to be a part of the close chapter of our journey. Since 2017 there have been 12 military coups in Africa and half of them occurred since 2020. Two months ago the democratically elected government of Burkina Faso was overthrown while only in February there was an attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau which was thankfully repelled. This much is clear. We know that we cannot secure the Africa that we want by turning back the hands of the democratic clock. We've walked these bony roads before. We have many decades worth of bitter experience and unimpeachable lessons of our history declare lessons of our history in that despotism cannot guarantee the security and prosperity of our people. The investment of faith and hope in dictatorial regimes during the 70s and 80s clearly did not lead to El Dorado. Our countries were trapped in cycles of constant of evil of oscillating between coups and counter coups, insurrections and civil wars. No matter how dire our circumstances may be we now have concrete proof that resort to extra constitutional regimes is not the way forward. However for those of us that bear the mantle of democratic leadership today these attacks on constitutional governance should be the subject of deeper reflection. People vote because their votes are the instruments with which they can alter their material circumstances for the better. It is this sense of hope and possibility that will sustain our democracies and it must be kept alive and can only be kept alive by delivering on our own end of the social contract. In so doing we must address the pervasive sense of frustration and concern in the continent that democratically elected governments have yet to deliver on the huge promise of democratization. Beyond this in many instances in our region and on the continent at large what is at stake is not merely the viability of democracy as a model or system of governance it is the legitimacy of the state itself. The preamble to the African Charter of Human Rights and People's Rights affirms that it is henceforth essential to pay particular attention to the right to development and that civil and political rights cannot be dissociated from economic social and cultural rights in their conception as well as their universality and that the satisfaction of economic and social and cultural rights is a guarantee for the enjoyment of civil and political rights. It's my conviction that the practical fulfillment of the rights that are enshrined in this Charter is the only objective meaning that democracy can have for our people and the Charter itself offers us a tool for imagining the Africa that we want. The progress of our democracies on this continent must therefore be pursued in terms of the struggle to address the basic problems of ill health, malnutrition, illiteracy and farming would daily affect our people. Where social and economic rights are unsecured people are unable to fully maximize their civil and political rights and that really is the truth. We really cannot talk of civil and political rights where social economic deprivation prevails. For instance, access to qualitative education enhances and enriches freedom of expression and of course freedom of thought and conscience. Conversely, pervasive illiteracy can nullify the freedom of expression itself. In any event, the very right to life must depend on the fulfillment of socioeconomic rights. In the progressive vision, political rights and socioeconomic rights are mutually reinforcing and in any event the fulfillment of the social contract is perhaps the only enduring value proposition of democracy. Let me conclude by noting that it is a testament to our democratic commitment in Africa that we have been united in condemning the toppling of electric governments in the region. The immediate imposition of sanctions on extra constitutional regimes by the economic community of West African state records and the concurrence of the African Union not only demonstrates a unity of purpose on this issue, it is also an unequivocal affirmation of a pan-African consensus on democratic norms. Yet we must also acknowledge a criticism that has been leveled against our responses so far and this is one highlighting a mismatch between our immediate and uncompromising condemnation of military regimes and then our relatively lukewarm reproaches to electric governments that fail to act in West consistent with democratic values. In other words we have developed a fairly robust language of censure and a sophisticated punitive framework for responding to extra constitutional political interventions but we have not yet been able to formulate a similarly sophisticated framework for addressing the infractions of elected governments that fall short of democratic best practices or break faith with their citizens. If this concern is left unaddressed it will deepen the perception of regional groupings such as ECOWAS has been no more than elite transitional clubs or powerful leaders only interested in maintaining their own privilege. It will ultimately lead to an erosion of the legitimacy of the African of the pan-African institutions that our nations have labored hard to build for so many decades to fill this vacuum and in order to prevent it from being hijacked by extra constitutional interlopers and adventurers I believe that we must revitalize institutions such as the african peer review mechanism to promote transnational collaborative learning and leadership on democratization and good governance on the continent. The ECOWAS protocol also on democracy and good governance which is currently being reviewed with this issue in mind is another tool which we can deploy to enhance democratic governance in the region. This is a moment of peril for democracy in our region because we are navigating a perfect storm of adverse circumstances a world economy that is reeling from the recessionary shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Price and supply disruptions from the war in Ukraine the emergence of armed non-state actors and all challenges associated with catering for the youngest populations in the world. There is also and this is also a moment of opportunity one in which we can reflect on a democratic progress strengthen institutions and deliver on socioeconomic development and deepen our commitment to building successful democratic states. I wish you all today very fruitful deliberations. Thank you very much.


Hey, everybody. Welcome to the RonLine Report. There is some breaking news on the Sean Rodin story. I spoke with someone who was very close to the case. I cannot say who, but trust me, this is someone on the inside. This information is 100% accurate and reliable. It's not a friend of a friend or I heard this or I heard that. This is completely reliable information and it is this. Sean Rodin did take not one but two lie detector tests shortly after this alleged incident that occurred last October and he passed both of them. He took a standard polygraph which you're all familiar with and he also took a new type of lie detector test used in various law enforcement circles called eye detect. I never heard of it until today. So what is eye detect? It uses subtle movements of the eye to measure stress often associated with deception, while the polygraph uses other bodily responses to the same purpose. While neither test is admissible in court, both tests are used by a variety of law enforcement and intelligence gathering agencies. So Sean took those both. He passed them both. So when you pass both of them, the accuracy, even though this is not admissible in court, but it's a sign definitely in his favor and right now because in a case like this, often a person is tried in the court of public opinion long before they have their actual day in court with the defense attorney with evidence being presented in testimony and things like that and especially a rape case. It carries such a negative stigma. Just being accused of rape can do a lot of damage to a person's reputation to their career. Even if they're found innocent, not guilty, it still has a very, very lingering effect on their lives, a negative effect. In the case like Sean, this is his life. This is his career. His reputation is on the line and as we keep saying innocent until proven guilty, this is something that's going to come up. There's going to be a lot more evidence and it's going to be coming out very soon. But here's one thing I want you guys to know because if Sean is not guilty, if he is in fact innocent, I would definitely support him from here on in. If he's guilty, I wouldn't, but everyone has the right to a fair trial and in a case like this, where people are already making up their minds based on whatever, because he's a big guy, because he's a bodybuilder. People make assumptions based just on that, on appearance and what the person does for a living. So to reiterate, I have it on very, very good authority from someone who is on the inside, very close to this case that he did. In fact, Sean Rodin passed two different types of lie detector tests that were based on questions as to whether the acting question was consensual. He maintained that it was consensual in his answers and he passed. So more is going to be developing. This is a story that we're going to keep hearing about as it progresses. But I wanted to get that out there for now. It's important that we start getting any positive, anything that's in his favor out there as well, just to keep the balance because he is Mr. Olympia. He is the reigning Mr. Olympia. And if he is indeed innocent, then our support needs to stand up for him. That's all. Very quick one today. And as I said, more, more news to come in the days and weeks to follow. Thanks for watching.


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We got you a warrant today. Okay, sir. Put all of us together. Thank you, sir. Yeah. We'll see the Secretary tonight. Will Bowles. Will Bowles enjoyed that job. I never saw him again. I'm scheduled already, but I'd like to open the meeting by thanking you two gentlemen for that. I'm most grateful for that. I hope it will continue. But this, I'm going to turn to the subject of illegal drugs. You know, last week at the Coast Guard Academy, the first time in the heart of the Belief Commission, five parts of the commission that we have represented is from both houses and from the Executive Office and I asked Howard Jim Baker and Colin Powell to serve as our representatives on that. This would be a commission not to come back with an idea about the drug problem. I think it should be a commission to take a good look and come back with specific recommendations than one of you with respect to such a task force and your recommendations for the next steps together at the same time. Thank you all for your cooperation. This is a soft oil. We don't have a way to raise it now. Do you know that we have a secretary Gorbachev so I thought we ought to have a full party in here. I have a four-part agenda I want to discuss with him focusing on human rights and the need for exchanges and I think we're prepared for a full and productive summit meeting on important issues. One problem remains however I'm forced to leave Washington without the consent of the Senate to ratify the INF Treaty and I'm going to go to my heart to congratulate you on your joint efforts to secure the expeditious advice that you have. We've been working closely with George and Colin and Howard and others and I want you to know that I have asked Howard to remain in Washington until the Senate completes its work and hopefully he'll be able to join me in Moscow with a treaty verification about the weekend. I'd welcome your thoughts on your comments. My predictions are Mr. President that we in all likelihood will be able to finish this a chance that it wouldn't be done to me at all and I believe it will be done. The calendar next night has never met any of these amazing parts of this treaty. But the loose ends through the forces that committed here to tie it down