what is going on guys today I bring you another mass package opening video and today is the last day we get to open our I am banner packages with our stacked tokens now have grinded for the past couple hours now to try and get some iron banner tokens and I have just over 200 but yeah we're gonna have 10 packages here I ain't playing no more I am banner I can't take no more of it so yeah we've got 10 packages and that is about it but I also have an exotic engram I have a crucible engram and I also have a gunsmith engram which we will open in today's video also before we go any further guys do you want to win some epic loot of your own I've got emblem codes, spiral codes, gift cards and much much more to win some simply drop a like and a video and leave a comment down below also join my discord server linked within the video description but let's first go to the iron banner now there is a few things I got full hunter gear there's still a few things I need I'm my titan now let me just double check what I have and I got the chess piece and I think that is it is that it yep that's it so I've got the chess piece I've got every weapon so I don't need any weapon I just need armor do you think I'm gonna get any armor at 10 packages well we'll find out right now okay so no nothing there the rebuke got the legs here we go we've got one we got the gauntlets oh we are going oh no no even on forward path is a great weapon oh no even though that's a wicked weapon too I can't please don't do this to me again not the legs again oh this game hates me got two packages left and I can't get on both I can't get them both no ain't playing no more I am but no no no no no no no you know what if for dismantling I am banner like duplicate armors and weapons and that you should well that's 300 keep you you should be able to get Iron Man of tokens from because it just don't make sense I mean oh look at that I'm looking great looking great class right and don't rock and I didn't get another class item which is pretty well you know he's what it is but even so to be honest ain't too forced I really use my Titan I seriously do I've got the forward path which is a great auto rifle the time-worn spider which is incredible fire pulse we also got the wizard rebuke and we also got the day's few which I've had a million times over that's fine let's quickly go double check what's in my pulse master I don't think there's gonna be anything great or useful in there for me but a legendary marks at the end of the day okay so we see me buke with his review oh my let's see what I'm saying one two I got four of these four of these from ten packages I mean that's just shocking shocking game now there's one exotic you guys know I still need and that is a sweet business please missy coup d'arc ah hate this game but I've still got a gunsmith package you can get exhausted from these although it's rare can happen okay so we got one crucible package to go come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on no and that is the end of that I got some guy chasing me around however no okay so yes guys that is the end of that I mean like I'm pretty disappointed to be honest but I suppose there's always next I am but at least next time but I will have something to play for so I need to help me still and the class item on my Titan and that is it that every weapon and we are done people and that is the end of the video if you enjoyed it leaving a like really does help me out if you're new around here and enjoy daily destiny videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload hit that bell button next to that subscribe button to receive email notifications of when I do upload the thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one


Novak Djokovic vs Pablo Karina Buster is the bronze medal match for the Olympics for 2021. Both players have had different roads to get to this bronze medal match. Karina Buster entered the tournament as the number 6 seed and will take on tennis Sangren in the first round and after a tight first set would eventually prevail in straight sets 7-5-6-2. In the second round Buster would take on Marin Cilic the 2014 US Open champion and after dropping the first set rebounded to win in 3-5-7-6-4-6-4. In the third round Buster would take on the German Coppa and after a very close first set he would eventually prevail in straight sets 7-6-6-3. In the quarterfinal stage he would take on the number 2 seed Danil Mevedev who had struggled with the heat during the tournament and this seemed to help Buster as he prevailed in straight sets 6-2-7-6. In his semi-final matchup he would take on the number 12 seed Karin Hashinov and although Buster did put up a fight Hashinov was too big and too strong with Buster eventually going down in straight sets 3-6-3-6 and relegated to the bronze medal match. The world number one Novak Djokovic came into the tournament and faced Dillion in the first round. This match was no problem for Djokovic getting through in straight sets 6-2-6-2. His second round opponent was the big German Struff a man who he'd never lost to before and the trend continued with Djokovic getting through in straight sets 6-4-6-3. His third round opponent would be the number 16 seed Davidovic Fakina a man that Djokovic had beaten in Rome only a few months ago and he would repeat the score line winning in straight sets 6-3-6-1. His quarter-final opponent would be the unseeded hometown hero Kane Shikori and although these two had played many times before this match was super easy for Djokovic who would get through in straight sets again 6-2-6 love. His semi-final opponent was a massive step up compared to anybody else he played he would take on the number four seed Alexander Zverev and although Djokovic was very impressive in the first set winning a lot of crucial points he eventually went down in three sets in a big upset 6-1-3-6-1-6 to be forced to play another bronze medal match at the Olympics. These two have played five times before with Djokovic leading the head-to-head 4-1 with the only win for Karina Busta being the US Open of last year and we all know what happened there it was a default for Djokovic so technically not a win over Nole in his career If Karina Busta is going to win this match he needs to be aggressive watching him against Hashinov he was way too passive and he was just letting Hashinov control the points he needs to be a little bit more aggressive against Djokovic and go for winners we know Djokovic is capable of hitting winners and is also a brick wall Karina Busta needs to be more aggressive because he's not going to be able to out rally Djokovic. Djokovic is going to win this match he needs to keep his foot on the gas against Zverev he was cruising he was up a break in the second set after winning the first set but he just didn't keep it going he took the foot off the accelerator and we saw what happened after that so he needs to keep the foot on the gas if he wants to get a bronze medal out of this Olympics both players are coming off very disappointing results in the semi-final after having really really good tournaments beating some really good players in Karina Busta's case and Djokovic cruising up until the semi-final stage but I'm going to go with Novak Djokovic to win this one I reckon he's going to avenge his loss against Zverev and he's going to make Karina Busta pay for the loss that he had yesterday against Zverev but this is going to be an interesting match to see what actually happens let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going home with the bronze medal


Alright, thanks everyone for coming to the Envoy Gateway project update. My friend Arco from Tetrate was supposed to be up here talking with me, but unfortunately he couldn't make it due to some last-minute travel issues. So before I get started, quick show of hands. How many of you have heard about Envoy Gateway before? Awesome. Has anyone checked out the docs or even tried out the project yet? Cool. Well, hopefully I can convince the rest of you guys to at least check it out. So quick introduction. What is Envoy Gateway and why should I care about it? So Envoy Gateway provides a batteries-included Envoy proxy experience. It's built on Gateway API as our primary configuration language, and it supports multiple user personas because of that. So you've got multiple different resources, you can have your SREs, your admins handle certain resources, and then leave only the routing resources to your application developers so they don't have to worry about the rest of the config. Envoy Gateway is extensible, and it's built with community horsepower. So as you know, there's a ton of different ingress and Gateway projects. We've got two of them that are actually CNCF projects, emissary and contour. Envoy Gateway is kind of built to be the official opinionated wrapper around Envoy Proxy. So we brought a lot of different people in who've worked on these different projects. Like I've got emissary, we've got contour folks that have helped contribute to the project, and the main goal is just to start with all of these learnings that people have had from working on these different projects and bring them into Envoy Gateway as this new project from the ground up that's built as this collaborative open source core that everyone kind of contributes to. So real quick, when you bought it running, you basically got an instance of Envoy Gateway and it watches static config and dynamic config, and then it will create and manage a fleet of Envoy Proxies. And the Envoy Proxy is of course what actually handles the different requests that are coming in and getting them to your applications. A little info on what our resources look like and what they translate to. First off, we've got the Envoy Gateway resource. So Envoy Gateway, Envoy Gateway resource. That will give different types of config about what you want Envoy Gateway to do, such as setting the controller name and a bunch of other fun stuff. This is something that is only read at bootstrap. So if you change this, you do need to restart the controller for that to take effect. Since Envoy Gateway is actually separate deployment from Envoy Proxy, you can totally restart the control plane without interrupting the data plane. Next up, you've got your Gateway class resource, and that is going to help you configure things like the protocols or sorry, getting ahead of myself. That's the Gateway. Gateway class controls which Gateways that we're going to be watching and we're going to be configuring through Envoy Gateway. Since you might have other projects in your cluster that are being configured by the Gateway API. We also have an Envoy Proxy resource that will attach to your Gateway class, and that lets you configure different things about the Envoy Proxies that we're creating. So since you don't install those deployments of Envoy Proxy on your own, you need different ways to configure aspects of them. We give you options to override things like the image of the Envoy Proxies that you're running, set annotations on the services that we create, so you can do things like set up your cloud provision load balancers, and then set up pot annotations on the Envoy Proxies themselves so that you get support for service matches like Istio and Linguity. Next, you've got your Gateway classes, so that's what I said you've got support for the different protocols and how we're going to be listening for requests. Those roughly translate to XDS listener resources. Then you've got your HDP route, your PC route, et cetera, your general routing resources, and those control where we're going to send the traffic. So you've got support in there for how we're going to match the traffic, any kind of mutations to that traffic you want Envoy to do, and then where we're sending that traffic. Those translate to XDS routes, and then in those HDP route and your PC route when you reference backend service, those create XDS clusters. A little bit about the architecture at a high level, so we've got this at the bottom idea of a provider, and this is what is responsible for watching the different types of configuration, static, and dynamic, and then translating it into the XDS IR and the NPR IR. So the reason that we have this set up is that we can have different providers for the different places you might be pulling in config from. We have a Kubernetes provider, that's how you watch Kubernetes resources, we can have a file provider, and in the future we can have new different providers if we need to, so that we can watch configuration from different places. Then we split it up into the two IRs as an internal API, and that helps us control exactly what we're doing with all that information internally. So we can separate the internal API from the public-facing API, and that way we kind of decouple it from how you're configuring it to what we do internally. Once we've kind of converted all of that resources into XDS IR, we will then have the XDS translator subscribe to that, and as new updates are pushed from watching configuration, the XDS translator will process all of that IR into new XDS resources. After that we have the XDS server, which subscribes to updates from the XDS translator. The XDS server will then push those updates out to those fleets of Envoy Proxy. On the infraside, since I mentioned, we have support for automatically creating the Envoy Proxy instances. When you create like a gateway class, that will trigger us to a gateway resource, that will trigger us to go and create a new instance of Envoy Proxy. So you can have multiple different gateways that are being managed by a single instance of Envoy Gateway. What that does is it lets you have multiple different deployments of Envoy Proxy that can have totally different configurations. You can keep them separate like that. So quick recap about our 030 release back in February. We added support for the experimental APIs in the Gateway API, such as GRPC routes. Those give you first class support for your GRPC services. And then we added support for TCP routes and UDP routes. So that lets you handle raw TCP and raw UDP traffic. You can do stuff like TLS pass through with these things. If you know that you just want to operate on TCP and UDP traffic at a high level. We also added support for request mirror filters and response header modifier filters. So the primary one lets you configure where else you'd like to mirror requests to other than the place where we send it. If you get a response from the place you mirrored it to, we don't do anything with that. But that lets you do stuff like shadow traffic and whatnot. The other main theme of 030 was the support for advanced APIs. So on Gateway API add support for the idea of this external ref filter where it's a filter that you can put on things like a GRPC route or an HTTP route and it lets individual implementers of the Gateway API decide what they want to do with this. So you can add support for your own custom resources. Envoy Gateway has introduced a couple. So far we have rate limit filters and authentication filters.  Right now the rate limit filter only has support for global rate limiting and you can have matching based on the headers sent from the request. And then you can also do matching based on an individual IP or a CIDR range. Like I said, it is global only right now, but we have designed the API in a way that will let us do per route different rate limiting in the future. Authentication right now we only have support for JWT filters and similarly we have built out the API so that we can add new different types of authentication filters in the future such as OIDC.  So quick updates about our 040 release that's coming. We've already cut the RC last week and I will be cutting the final release when I get home from QCon on Friday. So main things that we wanted to prioritize for 040 is the user experience. So we added home support since it is broadly adopted by the cloud native community and that should help people manage their installations a lot easier. The second thing is we added this new EGCTL CLI tool and this lets you do a couple fun things. Right now there are two primary features. One is that you can actually pull config from your managed Envoy proxies and check like hey what are all my XDS clusters that I've got in here you can just dump the entire config or you can do a translation command and this has two main purposes. One is you can provide gateway API config and this lets you see what XDS resources Envoy gateway would create from that config and then it also lets you validate that gateway API config. So if you want to create like an HTTP route and you want to know if it's going to be valid or not before you even try to control apply it you can use EGCTL to validate a bunch of that config and just see if it's going to air it out or not before you apply it. Next theme of the 040 release is extending gateway functionality. So we added support for custom bootstrap config for Envoy gateway and Envoy proxy sorry with the Envoy proxy API that I mentioned earlier so if you want to add different config the Envoy gateway doesn't normally support you can completely override the bootstrap that we're giving to Envoy and with your own one. There's also support for custom Kubernetes settings in there such as what you want the resource allotment for the different Envoy pods that we're creating to be. And the last one is one that I'm really excited about which is the control plane extensions. So one of the main goals for Envoy gateway is we want it to be this open core that a bunch of different people can build off of to build their own value added solutions on top of it. So what the control plane extensions framework is going to let you do is hook into the translation that Envoy gateway is running via these DRPC hooks and that will let you have control over the resources that Envoy gateway is generating. So as an example let's say you wanted to modify the routes Envoy gateway is creating you could create an extension and then every time Envoy gateway creates a route you have the ability to have that extension modify that route before we finalize it. So you can do cool things with this like introduce your own resources Envoy gateway will watch those resources hand them back to your extension and then your extension can do fun stuff with them and modify the XDS. Real quick red map for what's coming up zero five zero release is up next and it's going to be focused on observability and performance and scalability. So we already know that we want to add access log control metrics and tracing and we really want to fine tune the performance of Envoy gateway so that you can feel comfortable about running in production. We also have a future wishlist item of this XDS patch API and that would provide a public API for end users to basically create resources in the cluster or on the file system so that you can patch XDS resources with your custom config. Lastly I want to give a huge thanks to all the contributors I couldn't fit everyone on this screen but I grabbed as many people as I could. We couldn't have gotten this far without all the hard work from the community so big thanks to everyone who has helped contribute to the project and everyone who's gotten involved in the time sense. And last of course if you want to get further involved with it we've got our docs up here and then the project is github.com Envoy proxy gateway. Thanks for your time. Does anyone have any questions? Thank you for the talk. I have one question about the so imagine if you have a TLS connection and an HTTP connection inside that or HTTP protocol you want to offload the TLS stuff but you want to pass the the HTTP stream from one and to the other end without looking into it so essentially TLS offloading you know the like the legacy classic version of that is that something that we can do with a TCP listener in the Envoy gateway configuration? I don't actually know that at the moment but if you want to hop into our Slack there should be a link on the docs we'd love to chat further about that. Thank you. Hi all right great presentation. I have a question about rate limiting like the the DPI that you proposed two things one is it like when when you say a global rate limiting are you also talking about like the dude is it a centralized rate limiting like do do Envoy for like instances do they coordinate between each other so that like they have a fixed amount or is it decentralized so like each Envoy instance has a its own yeah so the way you would normally do it is the way the gateway API set up resources usually point back to the gateway and then the gateway points back to the gateway class so Envoy gateway will have one gateway class you could have one or more gateways below that each gateway will correspond to a different Envoy proxy and then global in the sense for rate limiting that you would attach it to a gateway and then it is global for that instance of Envoy proxy as opposed to different rate limits per route so global in the sense that like if you create a rate limit for header x-foo it will be that rate limit on that header for all routes for that instance of Envoy proxy but if you have another gateway for a different instance of Envoy proxy it wouldn't necessarily apply to that one unless you attached the same rate limit to that other gateway I see cool and the other the other question I think it's more general though is like could I could I rate limits like based on a specific filter that I created so like if I if I and that's I think that's more general questions like how can I attach my own filters my own like Wasm filters are like well Envoy filters I would compile it with my Envoy like instance but like with an Wasm and dynamic filter right like how can I also like rate limits based on a header that that it added to a request or something like that gotcha um that's a great question I know actually since you mentioned Wasm filters that is something that we have been kicking around as an idea for a future future release but for the topic of rate limiting based on a filter I don't think there is any way to currently do that right now especially since the existing filters are mostly only the ones that are prescribed by the gateway API but I do believe that if you have one of those filters and it adds a header so you have like a request header filter that you add onto it and it's only adding a specific header to one route and you know that filter that header is not going to be on like any other requests then I think it should work thank you hi um I I notice quite a lot of overlap it seems at least with uh the concept of gateway in Istio is that something that is going to get consolidated at some point or are these projects going to do their own version of this um like I said there's a bunch of different projects to implement um ingresses and gateways and even then there's probably a bunch that are going to start using the gateway API uh we don't currently have any plans of consolidating between Istio or something but we do want to make sure for people who want to use service meshes that they can use all the service mesh functionality if they want to use Envoi gateway as their ingress solution as opposed to the uh you know Istio gateway so it would be uh kind of choose your own situation whether you want to use Istio's solution for gateway or if you want to use Envoi gateway and then also use Istio as a service mesh hi next question here on the side sorry no worries um you mentioned in the in the beginning that this meant to managed individual gate proxies as well as the ones in Kubernetes the docs state mostly the installation of the Envoi gateway to be in Kubernetes can we also run it outside of Kubernetes so we've designed the API in a way that in the future you will be able to but at the moment it is Kubernetes only all right um then a follow-up question is the the intent to just manage ingress gateway kind of capabilities through this gateway uh Envoi gateway or also all the other capabilities of the Envoi sorry like what specific capability so most um things they pertain to the gateway API as we have in Kubernetes so all kinds of ingress functionality like rate limiting what about rate limiting between services so not just services i think that would definitely be more of a service mesh use case i don't think that's something we currently plan on exploring right so if we want to build our own service mesh on top of this gotcha oh you mean via the extension framework i mentioned for example yeah um i think in theory it should be possible but i don't know exactly what that would look like off the top of my head all right go with the extensions framework is just give extension people who want to develop an extension like total control over the xds so right now for zero for zero it's just like the initial framework and we're going to be building on it more over time so um like i mentioned right now you can kind of hook into the xds resources and modify them as they're generated but an upcoming goal is we want to also add support for extensions into the infra pipeline so that you can have total control over when envoy gateway is generating infrastructure as well all right thank you well thanks everyone for coming


Hi friends welcome back to my channel and a special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on WW personal points. Happy Sunday friends I hope you have a wonderful wonderful Sunday. I hope you had a great weekend I am coming at you again with another WW friendly calorie friendly recipe. This is an instant pot recipe It is a copycat Panera bread broccoli cheddar soup recipe one of my favorite favorite things that Panera bread and this one is equally as good way less points in calories so if you're excited don't forget to give this video a thumbs up make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on so you never miss a single upload check out that description box for nutrition coaching I offer personalized macros and calories and one-on-one coaching you'll also find links and discounts to my favorite things and of course my facebook group we'd love to have you join that community as well so let's go ahead and jump in to our instant pot copycat Panera bread broccoli cheddar soup I am so excited about tonight's recipe like I mentioned this is one of my favorite things from Panera and we're making it point friendly and calorie friendly but equally as yummy so let me show you what is in our recipe you're going to need salt and pepper 1% milk or 2% milk light butter celery chicken broth cream cheese again I wasn't able to find light cream cheese so when I do the points for you I will do them with light cream cheese because I recommend that to save on points and calories but I'm just going to use regular because that's what I have on hand you'll need some light shredded cheese lots of fresh broccoli and some shredded carrots you're also going to need an onion the first thing I need to do is chop chop chop so I'm going to chop up some celery my onion and my broccoli I'm going to go ahead and turn my instant pot on to saute mode and allow it to warm up we're going to add one and a half tablespoons of light butter allow that to melt completely once your butter is nice and melted and hot we're going to add in our diced up onion and celery and we're going to let this cook for about two to three minutes we want them to get a little bit softened once they are softened we're going to go ahead and hit the cancel button turn off sock a mode then we're going to add in three cups of carrots and all of our chopped up broccoli you're then going to add your six ounces of cream cheese right on top and there's no need to stir it in go ahead and put your lid on your instant pot set your valve to seal and we're going to set the timer for three minutes the instant pot is going off the three minutes is done we're going to allow it to naturally release for five minutes then I'll go ahead and turn the release valve here to let the remainder of the pressure out it smells really good I'm just quickly going to stir in the cream cheese now we're going to add in three cups of milk eight full ounces of light shredded cheese which is one bag and salt and pepper to taste and then give that a stir mixing that cheese in really well the milk oh my gosh this looks so incredibly good so here is our broccoli cheddar copycat soup from Panera this looks and smells absolutely incredible it's definitely giving Panera vibes I'm going to go ahead and serve it up and I'll be back to share points and calories so here is my dinner doesn't this look absolutely incredible creamy full of vegetables cheesy the perfect weeknight weeknight dinner this would also make a fantastic meal prep that you could take for lunches during the week you can also make this recipe on your stovetop if you do not have an instant pot and you could probably throw this in your crock pot as well so that is my copycat Panera bread broccoli cheddar soup thank you for joining me on another WW friendly calorie friendly recipe video I hope you enjoyed seeing our Panera broccoli cheddar soup it was so good I mean so so good equally as good as Panera I will make sure the recipe is on my website my website will be down in the description box along with nutrition coaching links and discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group don't forget to head on over and join us there thank you guys again so much for watching happy sunday and I'll see you in tomorrow's meal prep bye


Hey Virgo, welcome back welcome back. Okay, we are going to do your full moon in Aries reading Okay So if you're new to my channel welcome, please do click like share and subscribe Personal reading links and everything else you need is in the description box below this video Okay We're gonna skip the singles tonight because we do have a full moon through the ninth and the tenth Okay, and I think maybe a little bit of the 11th, you know as the full moon phases out into the rest of this week So we're gonna take a look and see what the messages are for you What's behind you? What's in front of you? What's are like presently like right in front of you? What's ahead in the distance? What obstacles and what you need to do? Okay? So you're starting here obviously is full moon in Aries October 9th, and I believe that this full moon Begins at 155 Pacific time p.m. And 455 Eastern, okay, so fiery Climax approaches I'm using the moonology deck full mininaries a fiery climax approaches This week for you starting the full moon surrender to the divine Okay, so basically What that says here is it's time to see if you've been a little bit too much me me me There's a tug of war going on between what you want and what someone else wants But you'll have to wait a little while to see what's going to happen next as you wait Virgo ask yourself if you've been handling the situation as Sensitively as you could have done If you know deep down that you've been a little rash or harsh Gone too fast or overstepped the mark then accept that on some level you've created the situation yourself Which means you can create your way out of it too when this card shows up during the full moon in Aries a Peek is coming and it could be fiery Okay, so Attuned to the moon. So basically try to be nice be kind Smile and be polite as you navigate to where you wish to be going forward Okay Being assertive Virgo is good, but don't ride rough shot rough shot over anyone If you're in a tense situation Meditate your way to peace first Don't be a baby Sorry, but this could be the issue You need to have more fun Because the full moon in Aries is super fiery time when emotions can run very very high Virgo on the upside There's excitement about what meant what might lie ahead But tempers are likely to flare with rash comments or decisions So no matter what when you when this card shows up It signals that the situation has just or is about to come to a peak Perhaps in a rather heated way There could be a price to pay if you have been too competitive or too blunt Okay, Virgo. So take that into consideration with this full moon energy in Aries Okay, so let's get into your reading I want to take a look and see at this time. What is behind you? Where the place that you are coming from? What is behind Virgo? Where is Virgo coming from?  Okay, you're I Feel like you're trying to balance your emotions and you've been doing a very good job at that But understand that that's something that has to be put into practice every day during this full moon, I do feel there is a chance that you might be feeling like very aggressive, okay, and Just remember all the work that you've put in to maintaining peace and harmony Try to keep that thread Going especially when things get heated think back to your meditation Practices think back to your prayers think back to stopping and taking a deep breath first Before you say or do anything that or have a temper or you get angry or get upset Okay, so keep that in mind You've come a long way and you've been doing a really great job at that so keep that going Okay No matter what I just heard the song under pressure by Queen and David Bowie No matter what comes forward or what happens in your life maintain a steady stable neutral position Okay, so let's take a look what is currently in front of you What is currently like in front of you? Okay, you have the six of pentacles so there is There is some reciprocity, but you might have some stress because you might be in a position where you have to ask for help You know, I feel like you don't want to I feel like Virgo you are the type of person who's like no no no No, I can handle it. I can do it all by myself but you might feel a bit angry or Just kind of like you want to do everything by yourself I feel like you need to ask for a little bit of help and I feel like that's okay, okay It creates bonds when you ask for people to help it ask for people ask people to help you It gives a sense of vulnerability. It doesn't make you weak.  Okay, so what's in front of you right now is it's okay to ask for help Okay, it's okay to go to someone who's in a position to help you and Be vulnerable. It's not an energy of shame. It's like You can always pay it forward later You're really good at helping other people if if you I Always look at it when you let someone help you it's an opportunity to pay it forward or to help someone in return Okay So try to look at it like that during this full moon. Okay, let's take a look and see what's ahead of you What is ahead of you? So you've got the three of sorts, okay? So there is possibly some heartbreak Or Possibly an argument or break up or a situation that feels very uncomfortable okay, um so Virgo, I feel like in relation to this full moon in Aries It's really it's going to be really important for you during this week to take care of self Okay, I Also feel like as you're Setting the tone for your week By coming from a place of peace and harmony You may have a situation that shows up this week where somebody gives you a hard time right, or you're just You know, you're feeling something in the heart or you know, not necessarily physically but you're feeling Defeated in a way or there's some gossipers or a third party Situation comes in and just kind of like oh, you know It's so important this week for you to maintain equilibrium. I Feel that very strongly.  You can be angry that that's a normal human emotion But do not Express it in a negative way towards another person if you need to get that anger out and whatever way works for you Redirect your anger elsewhere. Okay So you might be sitting in a situation this week where you will want to be aggressive and you will want to I Don't feel like hurt someone but it may come out wrong You really have to take control self-discipline this week. Okay, um, I Do feel there is and I have to say it like it is There may be a situation where there's an argument or a fight that comes forward to this week And you know what though the good thing is that it sits on this surrender to the divine This is a situation where you've got to like give it up to spirit give it up to God You got to say look you take care of this thing for me because I I can't let this ruin my day my week my month my year Right, you take care of this for me. I am going to use my Aries Full moon energy and direct it in channel it into something productive. I'm not going to Seek revenge or try to try to avenge myself. I'm going to Take this anger. I feel and all this pent up energy for some situation that I see coming before you and Channeling it channeling all that energy into Progressing something or finishing a task. Okay, or something that you're working on that needs your attention Right because that anger people don't stay angry long They hold on to bitterness and resentment, which really is just something that will eat away at your soul It hurts no one but you but the feeling of anger that adrenaline rush that emotion It's not sustainable. So make sure because that anger is like a flash and when that goes away And then if you've done something you might regret that later. So Understand your anger own it when you feel it Okay, and it kind of stress don't react to anything just do whatever you can do to Allow that to dissipate and then you can respond if you need to respond. Okay So let me see what your obstacles are for you at this time Okay The Queen of Cups in the reverse so an obstacle for you is another person With that Queen of Cups energy in reverse. This is Cancer Scorpio Pisces energy It's energy. It doesn't have to be this person. The obstacles this person extremely codependent and manipulative emotionally manipulative this is somebody who purposely plays the victim or tries to make Other people feel sorry for them in order to control them Okay, this is not someone who's aggressive Forceful dominating. It's it's the absolute opposite. Okay. This is someone who is overly kind maybe overly emotional, but their tactics are to keep you near them to Kind of Make you try to make you feel guilty and you know, nobody can make you feel any way unless you give them permission But this person this is an obstacle for you. This could be a lover. This could be a friend This could be a family member Or a work colleague. This is someone they might have something to do with all of this situation That's going on here. Okay, like I said, there could be some kind of upsetting situation coming towards you You've got to be the bigger person. Okay, if you've got to call somebody out wait until you're not angry But you have to be the bigger person in this situation now I am going to ask what you need to do, but this is the energy that I'm picking up. So let me say oh Okay Well, that's exactly what I was saying six of swords energy is move away from the situation first Okay, what you need to do to handle this situation, right? Always set your intentions for the best outcome for this full moon, but with that six of swords This is move away Get away from this situation the necessary thing. This is a necessary transition for you the necessary necessary thing for you to do is Maybe go take a vacation go into the other room It feels very aggressive Like your energy will may feel very aggressive if you allow it some of you might not have an aggressive boat in your body I get it, but that moon is powerful So something here coming up this week to do with another person, okay you need to if you need to Energetically move yourself away from Something you see or hear or come to understand or something that said to you Or something that comes to light that does not make you happy The sword energy is all about the thoughts Change your thinking about the situation for some of you. This might be a situation where you have to say to yourself You know what? This person cannot help themselves. I don't know why they do what they do. I Can't change them. I can only change myself and I just hope I have the wisdom To remember that okay, and for others this could be physically moving yourself out of the situation to save yourself from Rehaving any regrets or anything that you might regret saying or doing okay So I think that's going to be it for your singles reading. I know it's a little bit Oh, why did I say singles it for your full moon reading? I know it's a little bit short But I wanted to get exactly and right to the point and give you a little guidance during this full moon because I feel like for everyone full moon and Aries energy You've got to surrender You have to surrender to the divine and make sure that your energy Excuse me all the hard work and the effort that you've put in that you hmm, they're just saying tell Virgo Never let them see you sweat Virgo Never let because you let people see you sweat Then they know they've got some kind of power over you and it's not a mind game.  I don't know why you say the things you do or I'm not going to continue Arguing over this situation. We'll come back and talk about it in another time where we're both of sound mind and In a good place to resolve a situation here Okay, so that is your full moon message Virgo. I hope that was helpful for you I will see you back here tomorrow for your regular love messages. Have a great awesome week. All right


Howdy guys, IndiePixel here, and in this next video in the intro to Python series for Houdini I wanted to dive a little deeper and show you guys how we can go about automating the exports of all these particular barrels. So what I did is I went ahead and just created a really basic procedural barrel here. All right, and I promoted a bunch of parameters here So we can go and change some of these values. It looks like I forgot to hook one of those guys up Let me actually see here, and it looks like I'm just doing the wrong one. There we go All right, so now we've got you know our procedural barrel I can change you know quite a few of the the properties here, but this particular video is not necessarily about creating HDAs it's about using Python to automate it.  All right, and so each one of these basically represents a barrel, and I've gone and changed you know the parameters just so I have different variations of each of these. All right, and now instead of having to go and you know export each one of these I went ahead and I created a tab on the HDAs up here that allows me to go and export the FBX file to Unity. All right, so this is the path to my Unity project Okay, so if we come over here to Unity you can see I have all my barrels in here, and I really don't want to Have to go through let's say I have like a hundred of these barrels all different variations I don't want to have to go and select each one of these and hit export basically We can use Python to go and automate all of that. All right So what I'm going to do is I'm going to come in here, and I'm just going to blow these guys away Just so we start fresh and blow these guys way out of the the hierarchy view there All right, and we're going to go back into Houdini and Let's start with a new scene. So I'm going to go and save this guy. All right, cool now Let's go and create another version of that barrel, so I'm going to import that digital asset and I placed it Inside of my Desktop here. Let's go to there we go And we have assets and there is my HDA. So I'm going to import and create this So install and create awesome. So now I have a barrel. All right So let's just go and create some variations and the noise on this guy is a little bit high for me All right, and let's go and add maybe another set of rings there I will call that good for that guy. All right So what I'm going to do is just go and alt click and drag to make a copy of this So now we have another barrel. Let's turn that guy off and let's go and make this one like a blue barrel Like so we'll put this back down to a height of one All right, maybe we say it just has the four rings. All right, so let's make another copy All right, so the whole idea here is that I'm just making a bunch of variations. I'm going to go and make this guy red and Maybe we'll adjust the fall off a little bit on this guy And maybe intensify the noise a little bit Yeah, well, it's pretty good when we add lots of rings to this one Awesome. All right, we'll do one more variation So now we have barrel four Cool. Let's make this one kind of tiny. So we'll do a point eight. Let's turn this guy off so we can see it and Let's go and make this one. I don't know Like a maybe a really Orangish color like that Yeah, I think that'll work for now. Let's make actually turn down some of those guys awesome And I have kind of a stumpy one So now we have a bunch of barrels here that we want to export to our game engine now It's totally possible because I don't really only have four here It's totally possible to come in here and just go and export and stuff like that but we can actually automate that with the script so let's go and Let's come in here and launch the Python source editor Alright, so just like we did in the last video We went and created a Function inside of the who.session module. Alright, so we're basically going to do the same thing We're just going to keep it simple. All right, we're not going to dive into creating user interfaces You know, like a floating window or anything like that. Let's just keep it basic for now So we can understand what's happening with the code. So I'm going to write out def We're going to say export all barrels something like that. All right So now we've got our functional setup and what I need to do first is I need to get access to the obj Object. All right, so we at least need to get access to this space right here where all these nodes exist And that's obj. So again to do that, we're going to type out the variable name obj. All right We're going to store obj the obj node inside of this variable. We're going to say who dot node And we're going to type out obj Like so sort of say obj And there we go All right, so now inside of that what I want to do is I want to find out What nodes are basically inside of obj? Okay and to do that. It's actually quite simple. We can say We and we're also going to have to store all this stuff too. So we can say children. All right, that's the variable name And we're going to say obj dot children Like that And with that we basically have everything all set up so I could go in here and I could say print children Just to see what we get. All right, so I'm going to hit apply on that and Then I'm going to say who dot session down here in the Python shell. Okay Who dot session dot export all barrels And look at that we get a list of all the barrels that are contained within the obj Space all right, so we have access to all that now What we want to do here is we want to loop through each one of those nodes now and basically Press the export button Automatically all right Instead of having to go through manually and press that I just want to roll through all these nodes since I have access to them Now inside of this children variable. I just want to go through and press that button using Python Okay, so first let's set up a for loop. So we're going to say for node and children All right, that's your Standard for loop inside of Python right there and we're basically saying for all the children inside of This variable. All right, we're going to store it into node So each for each one of the nodes that are in here. So we're going to loop through each one We're going to sort in node which means then that we can get access to The nodes parameters down here. Okay, so first let's um Let's make a variable called node name and I'm going to call this node dot name Or I'm going to get the name from the current node that we're on and let's just print that so we can see what the result is So we're going to say print node name like so hit apply And then down here in the Python shell just hit up once to get to your last Function call and look at that. I have the name of each of the barrels All right, so we can now work on each barrel Individually and do a lot of things. I mean you can interface with all these parameters through Python In this case what we're going to do is we're going to set our output path and then we're going to hit the button Okay, so to do that before we actually go and export it We need a location. Okay, and I'm just going to hard code that into my Python code just for this example Obviously, you'd want to be able to change that dynamically. So that's when you're going to need some sort of UI For this. All right, so let's just go into Unity over here and I'm going to go Select my barrels folder here, and I'm just going to say show and explore that way I can get the the path here to all that. All right, so I'm going to select that path Or just do a ctrl-c to copy it and I'm going to go back to Houdini over here and we are going to say we're going to create another variable We're going to call this path And that's going to be equal to that path that we just copied. All right And we're gonna have to make sure all these guys are all changed so we get the proper padding for this again You know, I'm just keeping this really basic You're gonna you would want to you know in an actual production. You'd want to set this to be a dynamic All right, and I want to make sure that I send it to the barrels folder. So I'm just gonna do that awesome cool, so now let's come down down to our for loop down here and Let's start to put together the final path for all these guys, okay? So I'm going to say final path is equal to our path plus our node name All right plus Dot fbx. All right. I need to put that there so we it knows that we're going to export this to an fbx file All right, so let's print that now. We're gonna say final path for the print function hit apply Come down to our python shell hit up on the keyboard once And look at that. We now have all the paths. All right, so we're gonna send our Fbx files once each node is done exporting it. We're gonna send it over to unity Okay, awesome. So with that final path information in place, what we need to do is we need to access this parameter Okay, and to do that we need to know what the name of this parameter is So in this case the parameter is sop output All right, so if you just hover over any of these guys you can find what the parameter name is and that that's that internal name that we need Okay, so to set that particular path on the node We're gonna say over here in our Python source editor. We're gonna say node All right that parm for parameter. All right, and we are gonna go and say Dot set and we actually need to put in the name here first before we set it So remember that parameter was sop output like so we're gonna say dot set and we're gonna set it to our final path How cool is that? All right, and I'm actually gonna just comment that out for now So I'm gonna hit apply and we're gonna go and test this out So if everything goes well, we should get a proper path for each one of our nodes now without having to set it manually All right, so let's try this out So I'm gonna come back down to the Python shell hit up once hit enter and look at that all the nodes now have their proper export paths Super cool So all we need to do now is just go and basically hit this button Okay, so how do we do that? We're gonna say node dot parm All right, so we need to get the name of that parameter this button parameter that parameter is execute Okay, so we just type that in here. So you say execute and we say for a button parameter We have to utilize the press button function. Okay, so we say press button like that Cool, we're gonna hit apply and with that all done. We should have our automated exporting all Finished up so I'm gonna hit up once in the Python shell and hit enter And you can see it took a little bit longer, right? It kind of hung there for a little bit So if I go to unity now You can see we just exported all of our barrels Pretty cool. So all these guys now need all their materials hooked up We could actually go and Over to the model here and I'm gonna have to set this to a hundred now. Obviously you can do that Inside of your HDAs as well. All right for the materials I'm gonna go and just set this because I created a material using amplify to Basically just shade each with these objects with their vertex colors, you know just something simple for now So I'm just gonna go to the third one here and assign the material under the fourth and sign the material there Awesome. So with that we can go now. Just drag and drop those into the scene and Just space it out a little bit All right, pretty cool stuff and that my friends is how you go about Automating your export now. Obviously. This is a very very simple example but hopefully gives you a little bit of insight and how to start to work with parameters using Python how to you know Set up your automated pipelines for your games You can have a lot of functions inside of Houdini here inside of the session module So you could say maybe this particular hip file is your prop scene Okay, and you can go for and look for all HDAs that are of type barrel, right? Because remember all of your HDAs have an internal name as well. So you could look for that type You know, we could come over here actually and do that. So I don't need to export again. So I'm just gonna Comment those two out so we could do is we could say something like node type Just print that hit apply And you could see that the node type is IP barrel 01. All right, that's that name So you could look for that specific name.  This is just a very basic example So thanks so much guys. I really appreciate all the support. See you soon


Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia. Everyone, my name is Michael Avati and welcome to the third episode of All Eyes on Georgia, as we are counting down the end of the year and counting down to January 5th, when Georgia really gets to decide the fate of the Senate and the ability of our government to function. And I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Allison Mills Newman here today. She has got an incredible background. She's an original cast member for the groundbreaking TV show, Julia, which in terms of representation was really the first black professional represented on television. And she's also an accomplished author. She wrote a book called Francisco, it was published by Ishmael Reed's publishing company. Toni Morrison sung her praises. Maggie Three is a more recent book she's written and she's also directed, produced and written a number of films, including Virgin Again and The Tree Widow. And if that's not enough, she's also the CEO of Keep the Faith Ministries. And in that mission, she serves as chaplain at the Fulton County Jail, which encompasses Atlanta. Allison, thank you so much for making the time. I'm really curious about how you found that calling of working with prisoners in the Fulton County Jail. So I think the thing about callings is that callings really find you. It's not something that you're looking for.   I saw Mia Farrell on TV on Pain Place Long Before Your Time and it was just such a beautiful story. Television many, many years ago told lovely stories and much more palatable for young ears such as myself, 12 or 13 at that time. And I realized that what I had been doing when I was in the bathroom, like pretending to be another person or just looking in the mirror and making different faces and pretending to be an older lady or being in love or not being loved. Just all those scenarios that I would pretend when I was a little girl, I was able to put the two together and realize, oh, that's what I'm doing. That's what I'm doing. What these people are doing on television. And so my original desire wasn't based on being famous or being rich. I wasn't worldly savvy to know that that could come along with it. It was just a desire, a passion that I had, something that I thought I could do and that I wanted to do at a very young age. And so I told my parents and my father was very adamantly against it because his concept of actresses were to use his word that they were horrors, they slept to get their fame and fortune with different men. But my mother, when she was in college, had been an actress and won awards. And so she was very supportive. She told my dad that she would watch over me. She would take care of me. She convinced my father. I would hear them arguing at night over if I can or if I can. But my dad decided that he would give me a chance. And he actually came along and began to support me too. And that was really wonderful. So my mother found a workshop. This is really important for history. The name of the workshop was The Theatre of Being and it was run by Frank Savera. And I was 13 or 12 years old when it went. But my angel and Cadovic Cado, and there were just a lot of people that got breakthroughs, African Americans that got breakthroughs and became really successful. Nichelle Nichols from Star Trek, we were all in that class together. And they were adults and I was a kid. So that was really amazing, Michael, for me to grow up around such brilliance and such beauty and such a level of art and such value for Black people. And also at the time, it was a really pivotal time because it was during the time, for lack of a better word, the Black Revolution and Martin Luther King, Huey Newton, Black Panthers. It was all this pretty much what almost is going on today. But I think it was a little pure. It was a lot purer. It wasn't co-opted in the beginning, at least by outside political forces. I didn't really know there was racism. I mean, I knew it, but I didn't know how it worked. So because I didn't know how it worked, I didn't have any ideas of limitations. You know, I knew it existed. I would hear my parents talking about it, but I didn't know really how it applied to me. But to make a long story short, I began to learn and there weren't a lot of roles. The African-Americans that you see on television today, wow, it's amazing. Because all we had then really was Amos and Andy. But with the watch riots and the Black is Beautiful and Hollywood opened up. And thankfully, I was at the place where we had training and I was prepared miraculously because what was I preparing for? There really weren't those many roles, but we all believed and we had this crazy idea that would happen and you guess what it did. And there was a series of different, you know, every audition by the grace of God, I got. And I have to say thanks be to God that I was talented, you know, his talent. And I was trained really well and was exposed to amazing people. So long story short, I became very successful and I was a regular on Julia, which is a pioneering television, American television show, as well as an African-American television, it's pioneering. It's one of its kind breakthrough. I'm humbled to be a part of it. And I also became a regular on another television series with Leslie Uggums. And I guess starred on so many television shows and Hollywood has a system where they pick and choose who they're going to make it to a star. And I was a TV star, but Michael, I'd always wanted to be a movie star. I grew up watching those beautiful classic old movies, you know, with Betty Davis and Mel Oberon like Withering Heights was one of my favorite movies, you know, so I'm on I'm famous. I'm on the cover of magazines and I get a meeting at Universal Studios. I'm 19 years old. My agent tells me that they've written a movie for me just for me. And in fact, all the TV shows that I did were written just for me. It was an amazing, amazing time in my life.  I go to Universal.  You're like an idol.  Madness is is very empty because they're owing and eyeing as I'm going to the hallway to get to the producing office, but inside I'm so dead and so empty and so lost. So anyway, get into the office with the gentleman. And I'm 19 years old and he's about 60 at the time. And he reminds me of my grandfather or something. And he says, oh, we're going to make him to a star. They they have their their image of what system they're going to fit you into. And they were going to fit me to this text symbol because they compared me to Dorothy Dandridge in Marilyn Monroe, but I had grown up wanting to be an actress, wanting to do beautiful movies, wanting to make the world a different place for all people and my people. I wanted to do beautiful films that uplifted mankind. Right. I had this idealistic, crazy idea that didn't fit in Hollywood. He goes in the bathroom. Michael, he comes out. He has taken off all his clothes. That world exists, son. It's real. Yeah, it's real. It took off all his clothes. This old, old man.  So I'm 69 now, but like 19. I never that was like the power. Everything I was I was devastated. And then I flashed back to my father who had told me. Originally, that he was leery of his daughter becoming look at it, right? Because actresses were whores were his words. I'm sorry to say, but that's what he said. And so in my youthful, I didn't mean it to be arrogance, but the way the perspective of Hollywood was that I was arrogant because I said to him, I'm an actress. I'm not a prostitute. And I don't know how I had the wisdom or the grace to say that at 19. But that's what I said.  You know, do this and that or whatever. And he said, you know, you'll never get anywhere. And I just left, you know, I just stormed out. They had sent a limousine. I caught a caught a taxi home and I was devastated. That was a real heartbreaking time in my life because I wanted to make movies. I wanted to be a movie star. At that point, I wanted to be famous. I wanted to go on and make amazing movies. You know, I wanted to win the Academy Award to be the first black actress to win the Academy. Amen. But you but you encounter this life-shattering experience. Went to my elders, my elders, whose names I don't want to mention, but they're very they were very famous and they were they had TV shows and they were black. And so I went to them for advice and their advice was, oh, Allison, just do it. Sex is recreational. Just do it. It's just a game. Just do system work. Wow. So it was interesting because it's not that I was so moral. I mean, in terms as it relates to the Bible, I operated in fornication, sex before marriage. But that concept of just sleeping with someone for a role was very I didn't understand. I couldn't wrap my mind around that. That was that was prostitution.  And that's what it was for in my own sense of righteousness that it had to do with love and caring about someone and not trading your body and your soul for success or for a role.  So that didn't help me any much at 18 and 19. And it was the type of situation where I didn't feel comfortable to talk to my parents. I had moved out of my parents' home anyway. And Hollywood Hills called Nichols Canyon and my house was surrounded by bushes. And I was a member of the automobile club of America. So I called them to send someone to fix my car, even though it's famous site. I drove this like really humble little Volvo. I just wasn't into material things at the time, you know, like love. It was like a hippie kind of time.  So this old black man, and I say this because it's very distinctive. He was very, very black.  And he looked so happy and he looks so beautiful and he looks so contented. And he drove an old raggedy truck. And he looked happy even though I knew he wasn't famous, he didn't have wealth. Nobody knew his name. He was on the cover of magazines.  Like, how can he be so happy? He is none of the things that my mother's society, you know, all my agents and everyone says is going to make me happy. He has none of it. He has none of that. I can look at him and tell he's void of worldly gain and worldly prestige. And a lot of us actresses and actors, even though we can get on stage or behind cameras and be very bold, in real life, we can be actually literally very shy. And so I was shy and I, but I watched him with just awe.   And I was young, 19. I ran down there. Poof, he was gone. And I heard a voice. And now that I'm so many years past, I know that it was God. I know it was Yahweh. I had been encountered with the Lord like Paul did on the road to Damascus. I heard the voice of God speak to me and call my name and say, Allison, there goes a real star. And I didn't understand intellectually, but I understood kind of emotionally and and spiritually, even though I didn't know I was understanding spiritually, I got it. And I started to weep, you know, like, I'm not a star. This old man and nobody knows his name is a star to this voice in the universe. He's the true. He's the true star. And so I ran in the house, Michael, and the house, the whole wall was a window like you could look out on the sky and the mountains. It was just beautiful, you know, in the Hollywood Hills. And I looked on the the window and I saw a vision of Mark of Marilyn Monroe and death and Dorothy Dantrich dying. And those were the actresses that was the box they put me in. Yeah. And so I understood, you know, I identified. I started screaming. I had a roommate at the time. She was a famous name is Cindy Williams. She went on to became a star of Laverne and Shirley. And I told I asked her, do you see she didn't see it? She didn't see it. And I didn't take drugs. I didn't smoke marijuana. I didn't do cocaine, even though I was surrounded by it. I remember going to a Hollywood party and the whole table was filled with cocaine. And I didn't even know what it was. And people were telling me to take some and it was I don't know. I didn't thank God I would have been on the cover of the front page and some newspaper somewhere old deed and died because I could have taken so much thinking that it was candy or just food. The ignorance and the irresponsibility that I was surrounded with in the midst of Hollywood when I look back was amazing. But the angels of the Lord were merciful to me. And, you know, I didn't do any of the cocaine, even though I didn't know what it was. But so I wasn't on drugs. It was a real vision from the Lord that I can say now. But I didn't know at the time that it was from the Lord. I didn't believe in God at the time. And so long story short, to try to. Reach up to where I am today. That began a journey of me leaving Hollywood. And seeking for a safe place, seeking for my purpose and my destiny and wandering there and I fell in love with his mercy and his grace, his kindness towards all human beings, all of his creation. And how we have so miserably disobeyed and turned against him and done our own thing and ruined so much of the earth, so much as corrupt the food, the water, the trees, the schools, churches, I mean, it's just endless how we in our flesh have continued to rebel against the Lord. But I came to a place of humility and gratitude for life and had lived enough, Michael, to realize that the riches of the earth and the fame of the earth that all the young people seek for it in Instagram to be noticed and the attention is not satisfying. And the true satisfaction is having the attention when knowing that you have the attention of the Creator and that being enough. The scripture did say, the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the good and the evil. So God sees us. You know, we're living out his movie every day. And that's what we should be concerned about. You know, living a life, writing a movie, playing the role, if I may say that, that pleases him, that glorifies him, loving him, his spirit, and loving one another, which we are very miserable at not doing. So out of that, I got a call. I did, I heard a call from me to preach the gospel, which was very interesting because women preachers are not accepted in churches, especially back then. I'm 69. So that was like when I was 27 and 30. And that was a rough road. But I did find avenues and opportunities and open doors that would allow me to minister to the gospel. And I did marry a man that became a pastor and a preacher. So I got to serve side by side with him. And I had five years for children, all of whom are grown, and my husband's gone on to be with the Lord. I was introduced to the South because one of my sons went to Morehouse. So I obeyed the Lord, and I came to Atlanta. And eventually I got involved in some of the churches. And through that, I was able to become a chaplain in the Fulton County jails in the prison system, which is really interesting because someone said to me, how are you going to go and preach? You've never been in jail. You've never been in prison. And on a certain level, I've lived in a secular way, I've lived a very privileged life. In a spiritual way, I've lived a very privileged life. And I say that because anybody that God opens your eyes to see that he's real, that's a privilege because a lot of people don't see it. They don't see that he's real. And it's privileged to have that awakening and to have an understanding. But I did let that intimidate me, Michael, and I went in. And I was loved. I loved them, and they loved me. And we're all in pain, and we're all hurting, and we're all broken in different ways. So universally, humanity can identify. And so I'm humbled to say that they receive me. I can identify with the brokenness because when I was in Hollywood, I lived the brokenness. People in the jails and in the prisons are suffered the same universal dilemma that I've been. Whether you're rich or poor, black or white, we all have to come to terms with what is life really all about and the choices that we make and what do we value? Do we value the deception? Or are we going to try to get to the maze to find the truth? And some of the people in the prisons are able to find the truth in prison. It's a true story about they call it jailhouse conversions. And they mock it as if it's not real and as if it's fake and phony. But I'm a witness that in the case where that's allowed for some people, some people that really, really happen and they genuinely are changed by being shut down by God for a minute to think about their behavior and their choices and consider the possibility of making better choices. At the same time, there are many people in their black of course and also of all nationalities. But the system is so wicked and unjust that there are many people in the prisons that are, they get lost. The judges, the lawyers, the attorney general, as everybody forgets about them, they have no money. It's like, if you can't pay, you stay. A lot of them are unjustly accused of crimes that they actually didn't commit. And then many of them may have committed a crime that was actually very minor and don't deserve to be in there for the time that they have been in there. And we see, in the news, so many people being released these days that have been in prison for 30 years for stealing a peanut butter.  So we have to stay awake. We have to stay alive. We have to stay compassionate and concerned and speak to the elite powers that be that have forgotten what it is to be human and have forgotten what it means to serve and be in power, to be in power, to make the world a better place and not for personal gain and not for greed, which is the days and the time we're living in. Living in a time of greed and boasting and self-promoting where so many of our leaders, spiritual Christian as well as political, have teamed up together to really create a deceptive environment where the lie is trying to appear as the truth. And so many people are believing the lies that, unfortunately, the media also feeds and society is believing. I'm really grateful to be safe because the Word of God is true. And I can somehow, through that, make a maze through all of that and see the false prophets. Like Jesus talked about the false prophets that would be so many in these last days. And he talked about knowing a true believer in God and his love by their fruits. You know someone who's truly a Christian or walking with the Lord by their fruit. And we live in a day and a time when they're they call the religious right, the religious right. But they're really the religious wrong. And they operate in illegalism exploiting the Bible, exploiting Jesus, exploiting their false sense of self, this sense of self-righteousness, this sense of really racial superiority wrapped up into their white wing, longness, religionist, false prophet, love of money and love of power, which is so contrary to their humility and the love and the compassion of King Jesus. So you really laid out a lot there. You've painted a picture of a corrupt system and a broken culture. And on top of this year of 2020, being a year of incredible suffering with the virus and the amount of isolation it's caused and disconnection it's caused. And there's this central tension of, as a believer, how much do you engage in this corrupt world? You're reminding me that there was a time when many Christians would not engage in politics. And that really shifted probably 70s or 80s. Yes. I just wonder how you kind of struggle with dipping your toe in that corrupt world to change it versus pulling back and remaining in a pure place. That seems to be just a central struggle. And then you've got Reverend Warnock deciding to put himself into the political world. I do think having been in Hollywood, I do think that it's so easy to start out with a humble heart and to maintain that as you succeed and you're shouted with acclamations and wealth and you're living in mansions and you're separated from the people. That was the amazing example of Christ. Though he was God, he humbled himself and born in a manger. He was not born in a mansion. And there is specific reasons, I believe, detailed reasons why these choices were made to teach us to show us that all the glitters isn't gold and that this lust for the pride of life to be known and to be famous and to have power can steal the original motivation and the original heartfelt desire to be a voice for those that are in need on the earth. And so my prayer is that politicians that start out with that type of desire in their heart that they're able to maintain it. And I think it's really difficult because they're already bought. It takes to be a senator, it's like you get paid $175,000 or something like that, $200,000 maybe, right? It costs millions. Yeah. It costs millions to run for office. So where are you going to get this money? Like, where are you? Like, you start out poor, but they say, OK, they picked you. Like, they picked me, right? To be a movie star. So how are you going to, like, how are you going to wave through all of that and not become a slave, even though you have all these good intentions originally, but how are you going to maintain your integrity and your original purpose and goal to make a change and support all people and not buy into the global elite and the powers that be that don't care? That's really difficult because you owe them. You owe them. I wish them well, and I hope that they're able to stay. I hope that they're able to stay within the world of living that simple life and caring about simple everyday people, all people as well, but a simple life. The people that are in prison, the racism. I do want to say that as an African-American, it really is traumatic. It's traumatic. I remember, Michael, when I was famous and I drove home, my parents moved into a, at the time, they call it an all-white neighborhood. They were the first white people. It used to be a big deal back in the 60s, right? And I remember I was in my little Volvo and I drove to my parents' house to visit them. I think I was 19. A lot of very pitiful things happened to me when I was 19. And I remember getting out of the car and all of a sudden, there were two policemen behind me. And I imagine, I'm a 19-year-old female. Two policemen, one has a gun, points it to the back of my head and pulls a trigger. Imagine. And he says, what are you doing in this neighborhood? And my parents had taught like all African-American parents taught us to be humble. I was, stay cool. And so I said, as homely and meekly and quietly as I could, the gun is cocked at the back of my head. My parents live here. And they didn't believe me at first. They thought it was crazy. But then one of the policemen recognized me from television and recognized that I was a famous actress. And so it made sense that possibly I wasn't lying in. It's possible that my parents might be able to afford to live in this neighborhood because I was a TV star. And they pulled, they retrieved their gun. Do you know, Michael, that I got myself together and went in the house? Do you know I never told my parents? Do you know I never told anyone? Do you know I never spoke about it for like maybe 30 years? Nobody would believe you. The amazing and the beautiful thing, everything pretty much is the same and almost worse. But the amazing thing today is that we have cell phones. Back then, you could see, are we not paranoid? This is real life. I remember my husband. He was a tall, very tall black guy, like a gentle giant. But that tallness could be intimidating. And I remember he ran a red light, Michael. And he was such a nice soul, grew up in Berkeley. So he had that kind of like love to everybody, mentality and spirit in this experience as a young boy.  So he loved people as people. And police, so he read a red light. OK, so we understand that. And we pulled over to the side.  They pulled a gun on him. They threatened to kill him right there, me sitting beside him. I mean, by the grace of God. By the grace of God. Alison. And I remember after he passed away, I was driving. I had a church in the inner city in Los Angeles. And my husband, before he passed away, he bought me an old BMW, black, I don't know, magnificent woman or something like that. So I had this BMW, I'm driving through what society would call the black ghetto or whatever. And please stop me, Michael. I pull over. I haven't done anything. I pull over the guy that the police looks, you know, I rolled on the window. He looks at the window and he says, I smell marijuana. It's a classic line.  So I popped the trunk and suddenly he changed. He pulled it, put the truck down. He came back pleasantly and gave me my ID back and, you know, let me go. So the Lord heard my prayer.  But when they become teenagers, a transformation takes place. And you just know that you have to pray and raise your sons to be very strategic when they become teenagers and start driving cars so they can survive, you know? But when my teenage sons did start driving cars in California, in Los Angeles, before they walked out the door, my husband and I would pray and ask God to protect them literally from the police. Dear father, in the name of Jesus, please protect my son from the police. Bring him home, say. Imagine. And so I wanna share that to say that a lot of people of color, specifically black men, are in prison simply because of the fear of black men. Right, right. The fear of black people. I've, you're really leading me to ask you. You've indicated there's a strain of Christianity you call it the Christian wrong, the Christian right, that's wrapped up with white supremacy. And I'm wondering when you encounter someone of that ilk, how you engage them, how is, from Christian to Christian, how does that conversation work? You know what I mean? That's a mystery in a mind field to me when I think about it. I don't know how those two versions of Christianity come together or could possibly. That's a great deep wide open question because there's many layers in my humble estimation. There's an acknowledgement. You have to acknowledge that you are racist. You have to acknowledge that you've lived your life deceived and that takes a lot, a lot of people don't have that ability. And then I do think it's a generational curse. I do think this spirit of racism follows. It follows and you grow up in it innocently, you're taught it in the Christian environment and it's just part of the seed that's planted in you. And so it takes a real awakening, a real breakthrough, a real humility to see it and to accept it because in some of my conversations with some of my wife friends is sensitive like you're attacking them. And we're not, I'm not trying to attack anyone by telling you the reality of what we live as a people. I am for changing some of these laws that put people in jail and put people in prison for minor so-called crimes. I don't think people that sell drugs should be in jail. I don't think women that have been in domestic abuse situations should be in jail. One of the instances that I experienced in prison was a woman who was a teacher and one of her students' parents came up to the school and got an argument with her and I guess it got volatile and loud. And the principal called the police and the principal took the two women to jail for arguing and they were black. Now two white people can argue they're not going to jail but the policeman put the teacher in jail, she lost her job, she lost her home. She was still in jail for a couple of years for this incident. This is oppression, this is oppression. So you try to share this with some white people. They feel defensive and they take it personal but I would try to encourage white people don't take it personal. Look at it as a spiritual warfare as good versus evil and that racism is a spirit that you can denounce and deny and reject and denounce and you don't have to accept it. When that little voice comes and says oh you're better than him or he shouldn't have that job or he's not good enough or he's less than you when that little voice comes, that little spiritual evil voice comes you have the power to acknowledge it and to deny it and you have the power to stand up for righteousness and stand up for love which was very beautiful when George Floyd died for me to see so many beautiful white people young white people who were free of that defensive protective, that's not me, wall. That wall was gone, that was so gorgeous to see and they embraced our pain as human pain without defense. Do you have faith that an unequal and unjust like a massive structure like a justice system, do you have faith that can be reformed in this life on this earth or is this just the wicked world that we live in? I don't think it's really gonna be as you did the world according to the word of God is going to get wickeder and wickeder, more and more violent, the Bible talks about how in the days of Noah, so will it be sweet? We stand for goodness and that we make those changes and those imprints where we can. God is there to help them no matter how oppressive society is and no matter how difficult society tries to make it be that you can make it, that God can work it out and people that are in politics, teachers, I would hope that wherever a Christian is placed in whatever environment, whatever arena that within that arena that they would let their light shine and be light and make a change aside with love. I think the religious wrong, they really exploit things that are true Christianity that deceive people to buy and to voting for them because they have this pretense of presenting themselves as Christian, but it's really legalism and it's really self-righteousness which Jesus, Yeshua hated. He called them hypocrites, vipers. And so we want to hold religious right or wrong accountable and speak to their hearts, speak to them. If they really believe in Jesus, I would like to hope and believe that they can be transformed, they can be touched too, but it's kind of hard because they seem really stuck on their power and really stuck on their whiteness and really stuck on their divisiveness and dividing people. Right. It's like a mental. In the name of Jesus. Yes. In the name of Jesus. Somehow, somehow. But everyone do, everyone change one. And so I do believe that. I have to have faith. I have faith. I know God has used me to change lives. I know my life has been changed by people that poured into my life and spoke to me and helped me. So if we can all just one by one core into each other, love and encouragement and help one another and come out of being defensive, let the walls come down and open up our hearts and listen to one another. I think that's one of the beautiful things that where God teaches me is listening. And I'm always so grateful when white people listen. But I do want to say that growing up in Hollywood and that's the confusion. Growing up in Hollywood, I had a lot of white friends who really listened. That artistic, that creative energy and that insight that artists have opened us up. Yeah. Listen to other people. Understand other people's feelings and their cultures and where they're coming from. That love of creativity. Like you look at a person and you see their blue eyes and their blonde hair is beautiful. You look at a person and you see their slanted eyes and that's so beautiful. So artistic.  So I think white people that have grown up in that type of environment are free of the defensiveness and they can listen. But the Republican wrong are, they grow up in a mindset of their right and everyone else's wrong and no one else is worthy. It's like they look down. It's like, you know. It's heavy judgment. Yeah. Yeah.   And I'm wealthy because I'm old. My husband, my husband had a degree from Stanford University, Michael. Imagine. Highly educated. He went and applied for a job. He had to take a test and he had that kind of genius mind. He was really good at tests. I have a creative mind. I do not do well at tests. But he aced that test. He scored the highest test. The highest on that test. And the employers didn't know he was black, right? They had the audacity. This is the arrogance of white supremacy, that sickness, that disease, that demon. It's a demon. That people don't have to embrace. That you can acknowledge it and denounce it. Demon can be exercised. Yes, yes. It is not a permanence. It's not permanent. So they told him, I just want to finish this story. They said to him, to his face, a grown black man.  Just to say that out loud. How did you get into Stanford? That shows you the blindness of his racism. Yeah. And then they didn't believe that he took the test. They accused him of cheating on the test. Like, how could he score that high on the test when he's black? So that's inbred. That's generational. That's like a curse. That's a curse to think that way. Right. And I think people that have been raised or think that way, I hope that somehow they can see that it's a curse and not want to live out of life's current and repent and see that we're all beautiful, we're all brilliant in our different ways and we're all created by God and we all have different gifts and talents to bring to the table. And we don't have to be jealous and we don't have to hold other people back. There's enough for everybody. There's enough room for everybody. There's enough prosperity for everyone. Do you consider voting like an act of love? Voting is very challenging for me. My identity is in Christ, period. However, I have relatives that died. My uncle's house was bombed in Mississippi because he was helping people vote in the 60s. So I recognize the value and importance in them. Many people, white people and black people in the 60s died for me to be able to vote. So I'll just say it's very, very challenging. But I did vote. You asked me in the email if I voted and I did vote. This particular Senate vote situation is not as challenging as some other situations have been. There's a lot that I don't agree with O'Sauce and one art as it relates to the word of God, but I see their motivation in their heart and the motivation of their heart is love. I don't see the motivation of Purdue and the other lady, the lady is more about power and maintaining the Republican power or not. I don't see the heart to really help people and strengthen people and build people. So I based my vote based on what I hear, what I hope I'm hearing and I hope, like I said, that they stay true, they stay true to the mission, which is why in that environment. It's not necessarily a laundry list of policy positions, but you really try to take the measure of their heart and vote accordingly. That's what I did in this case, yeah, in this case. I take a case by case. I take the political arena in this presentation to me case by case, you know, and I listened to the heart. I tried to look at their past, although I understand people can change. I'm a big believer in people changing and they may have made choices and voted for things in the past that were abominable, but maybe they've learned and they were caught up. So it's challenging. It's challenging. Yes. It's challenging. But ultimately you come down on the need to engage. Yeah, and I think it's about the people. It's about helping people.  Those are the two big ones. That's a personal individual in my case because I believe in the word of God's sin that we take before the Lord ourselves.  I don't think that area is an area that politicians should use to exploit, to get a vote, a vote. Although I do think it's important, but they're not sincere. It is not genuine. Right. Because they're homosexuals too. And they're, you know, like you read in the paper, you read, you know, someone was caught with a, you know, a man was caught with a man and they voted against same-sex or they voted for it. I mean, it's just madness. It's chaotic madness, it's insanity. And so- There's some judgment and hypocrisy at root there.  So politics is challenging. I try to, I really try to keep my heart out of it because I think it really taints. If you get really into it in the way that some people are, that they'll kill you based on who you voted for. Yeah. Who you didn't vote for. Politics certainly does not nourish the soul. It is a slog in the drain and it's- And it's a world of compromise. And so as a preacher, as a person called your God, I'm called, I can't compromise the word of God. You know, I can't compromise. But politicians, you have to compromise or at least that's what they say. And so- You're really, really, you're really reminding me right now of the controversy of Warnock having from the pulpit saying you can't serve two masters and Leffler using that to attack him saying he's anti-police, saying he's anti-military. That idea of, you know, if you only serve one master then how can you even- Well, first of all, that's a lie because all the preachers in Georgia, we all work with the police, you know. I'm not talking about Warnock, but Warnock, what he says makes sense. He wants to reform the police. He wants the police to do right.  Right, right. And be a policeman. You want people that have sound minds and understand and operate with caution but also with love for everybody in art races and looking down on the poor people of all color or whatever the madness that goes on with the police where they protect each other. They lie with each other. You know, I work with police. I'm a chaplain. I go into the prisons, you know, I deal with police and there are a lot of good police. But obviously there are a lot of bad police. So I think there's balance. And I think Purdue and the other lady, they incite imbalance. They incite this extreme image of one that isn't true because there's no preacher in Georgia that is not working with the police side by side and trying to make Atlanta a safer place for everyone. And for a policeman should be held accountable just like a teacher should be held accountable or a preacher or someone that takes vibes, you know.   And I hope we've turned a corner and those tactics won't work anymore or at least not as well as they have. Also, they seem to work pretty much with it, with the base that supports the Republicans. And it's not new. They've been doing this since the beginning of America even before, but even when I was a kid, just the fear just the fear of black people or the fear of foreigners, the fear of poor people, you know, just this spirit of fear which Purdue and the lady should understand the scripture says, forgotten has not given us the spirit of fear but power, love and a sound mind and the fact that they put their Christianity on the side to breed and to plant seeds of fear versus planting seeds of love. You know them by their fruits, that's religious wrong. That's not really just right. Allison, that's a really nice place to leave us. You've really gone deep here and helped us move beyond the day-to-day horse race of politics. So thank you very much. Well, thank you so much for having me. I am so grateful, the opportunity to just talk about these days and times that we're living in and the chaos of it all. But I do want to tell everyone that may be listening, too, that don't be afraid and don't walk in fear. Walk in love, walk in grace. Keep love alive, keep faith alive. Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia.


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