A secure lump of steel and concrete sat on an island surrounded by unforgiving currents.
Home to as many as 300 convicted felons, Alcatraz was coined the highest security prison in
America.
Day to day, Alcatraz was also the most expensive prison, state or federal, to operate in the
nation.
The dark hostile image of Alcatraz grew as Hollywood dramatized the brutal conditions
and glamorized the inmates who withstood them.
Were the conditions at Alcatraz really any tougher than any of the other state prisons
of the era?
And did those inmates who attempted to escape the rock succeed?
And is it possible to swim from the island of Alcatraz to the San Francisco bay?
Today, we'll go inside one of the world's most infamous correctional facilities, in
this episode of The Infographics Show – What was it like to be jailed at Alcatraz?
The first Alcatraz warden, James Johnston, had a tough reputation and ran the prison
with an iron fist.
Prisoners weren't allowed to speak to one another at all, except for brief exchanges
at break times.
Speaking aloud generally resulted in a trip to the dungeon or an isolation cell.
Eventually the inmates realized, however, that there were not enough isolation cells
to hold them all simultaneously, so they began to relax and speak en mass.
This eventually resulted in a relaxation of the talking ban.
Magazines and newspapers were banned, as the inmates weren't allowed to read about sex
or crime.
Contrary to popular belief, the inmates weren't all hardened criminals.
Anyone who had committed a federal offence might have been sent to Alcatraz.
Prisoners included shoplifters who had stolen from a store with a post office branch inside,
and folks who had carried alcohol across state lines.
A total of 336 cells were in B and C block and a further 36 segregation cells, and 6
solitary in D block.
A block was used mostly for storage.
The cells in B and C block were 5 feet deep by 9 feet wide, with a small cold water sink.
You could extend your arms and touch both sides of the cell, which is something you
might get around to trying if you were imprisoned in one for a year or more.
Having your own cell means that there is less chance of being sexually assaulted compared
with other prisons, and many prisoners found the privacy beneficial.
You would be allowed an approved visit once a month at Alcatraz, but you wouldn't allowed
to touch that visitor nor discuss any current events; conversations were via intercom, and
usually monitored.
Inmate Willie Radkay, who shared a cell next to Machine Gun Kelly, is on record saying
that the food at Alcatraz was better than any other prison he'd been at.
Alcatraz may not of been the brutal hellhole illustrated by many a Hollywood movie, but
it was no picnic either.
Inmates were marched from place to place, worked under tough conditions, and had a strict
daily routine.
Each morning at 6.20am, a whistle blew, prisoners rose, made their beds, and generally tidied
up their cells, washed and dressed.
At a quarter to 7, inmates moved to the mess hall, where guards supervised seating and
serving, giving the signal to start and stop eating.
Work detail was split into laundry, tailoring, cobbling, modeling, gardening, and other labor
details.
At 9.30, there was a rest period in which inmates were allowed to smoke in permitted
areas, but not allowed to crowd together.
At 9.40, it was back to work until 11.30, when a count was taken and it was back to
the mess hall for food, and then back to the cells.
12.30 back to work until 4.15pm, final eating, and 4.50pm final lock-up and a head count.
At 9.30pm, the lights were put out.
There were three more counts at midnight, 3am and 5am.
The prisoners nicknamed the central walkway Broadway, and other walkways were named Park
Avenue and Michigan Avenue.
The area between cell blocks and the mess hall was named Times Square.
At either end was the gun gallery walkway enclosed by bars patrolled by armed guards
who from that vantage point had a clear shot at the cell blocks.
A prisoner named Bernard Coy decided to break that routine and attempted one of the most
brutal attempts to escape the prison when he hatched up a plan that ended in The Battle
of Alcatraz in May 1946.
Two guards and three inmates were killed and several were injured in the attempted outbreak.
Kentuckian bank robber Coy along with five other inmates dreamed up the escape plan.
Coy smeared himself in axel grease and climbed the West End Gun Gallery.
He used some tools crudely fashioned in the prison workshop to manipulate the bars open
to a width of ten inches, which due to Coy's partial starvation of himself, was wide enough
to squeeze through.
Coy then took on the first guard, and with brute strength knocked him to the ground before
strangling him unconscious with his necktie.
He then lowered firearms and riot clubs to his accomplices below, who swiftly took 9
unarmed guards hostage.
However, they were unable to locate the key to the recreational yard, as one of the guards
had concealed it in the toilet of the cell he was being held hostage in.
Three other inmates were released from their cells, but by this time, the breakout was
discovered and the distress sirens wailed.
San Francisco Coast guard and Marines were alerted, and together they blocked all of
the industry working inmates, while inside the prison a battle was raging.
Two inmates were shot dead in the battle before the guards took back control of the prison.
Other escapes were attempted.
Joseph Bowers was shot and killed climbing a fence in 1936.
Two prisoners escaped the prison in 1937, but it is generally understood that they died
crossing the water, although their bodies were never discovered.
In 1962, brothers Clarence and John Anglin, and Frank Morris (probably the most famous
escapees) chipped away with spoons at the concrete around ventilation grates in their
cells.
They moved through a maintenance area and made a raft with life jackets and raincoats.
They avoided being detected in the nightly headcount by leaving paper mache heads in
their bunks.
They hopped a fence to the bay.
Again the trio was considered drowned yet made famous in the Hollywood, Escape from
Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood.
Television show Mythbusters tested a raft across the same stretch of water and found
that the escape was technically possible.
And for those who think swimming the distance to the mainland undoable, there's an annual
Alcatraz swimming trip open to all open water swimmers willing to tackle the 3.6 miles around
the island, or the easier 1.25 miles from the island to the mainland.
So what do you think?
Would you be able handle conditions in a state prison?
Or would you make a break for it and swim from the island to the mainland?
Perhaps you've been to the island before?
Please enter your comments in the comments section below and join in the discussion.
Also, be sure to watch our other video called How Rich was Cleopatra and other Pharaohs?
Thanks for watching, and as always, don't forget to like, share and subscribe, see you
next time
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Brazil is León second home; there are a lot of León's works in Brazil, there is an enormous production: a lot of museums have his works, which he donated or sold in the 80's mainly…
It is a very important moment to reconsider his work here, to really feel Brazil's relationship with León and León in Brazil.
Because we then begin to make connections with Brazil and things begin to appear: people, stories, works...
León came to the Aster to see if he could learn to print lithographs with photographic shades. I accepted, enchanted and very curious, that extraordinary student artist,
who from that moment on became a friend.
I had the joy of sharing part of my professional life with León Ferrari, or rather, I had the enormous privilege of being a witness of his genius,
of his youth and of accompanying him on several occasions until the end of his life.
It was very good to be with León. We were very close friends also because of the many poetic and political affinities we had... especially politics in relation to art,
the art scene and how to operate within the art scene.
I simply wanted to share with you that one of the discussions with León was exactly what his political work was, obviously... there were very explicit works,
but how political and apolitical was a work in view of its opacity or its visual evidence, how much it says, how much it needs to say, how much it is protected by minimal strategies of humour or mystery.
The theme of Love, the theme of Eros, and the importance of the characteristic of sensuality, of physicality, of playfulness that appears in the documents, in the instruments:
all this is a dimension of extreme importance for us to understand that it is not a conceptual artist only, but that it is an artist who claims a vital energy.
"The hell of the living is not something that will be; it exists and is already here. It is the hell we live in every day and that we form together. There are two ways not to suffer.
The first is easy for most people: to accept hell and become part of it to the point of not realizing it. The second is risky and requires continuous attention and learning:
to seek out and recognize who and what, in the midst of hell, is not hell, and preserve it, and open space". I think it's something Lisette does with León's work in Nara's gallery.
Working about León is something that fills us not only with happiness, but also courage. I think there are moments when we are working and it seems to lack us ground and courage.
And León is this person, this theme, this subject, that gives us this energy to face what comes forward.
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Checking on the watches and warnings everything is mostly flooding or wind
advisories or bad air quality something like that that everybody needs to be
aware of but today we have a new one that has popped up right here in
Northeast Minnesota and northern Wisconsin this is actually something
I've never actually seen here before this is a civil emergency message from
the Duluth Minnesota National Weather Service evacuation notice in the
refinery area I'm sure a lot of you have heard about the big fire smoke plume
from fire is tracking south southeast as of 150 this afternoon evacuation notice
for three-mile all directions and ten miles south of refinery shelter is
available at four corners elementary 44 65 East Country Road be uw-superior and
you are asked to stay tuned to local media for updates also you are asked to
please stay away from the fire area to allow emergency crews to work the smoke
plume at this time was reaching sahlan Springs so with that all said and done I
didn't know if you guys were aware of this if you live in that area or if you
have family and friends in that area everyone needs to evacuate as of now
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have yourself a good evening
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What Was It Like to be Jailed at Alcatraz? - Duration: 6:34.
A secure lump of steel and concrete sat on an island surrounded by unforgiving currents.
Home to as many as 300 convicted felons, Alcatraz was coined the highest security prison in
America.
Day to day, Alcatraz was also the most expensive prison, state or federal, to operate in the
nation.
The dark hostile image of Alcatraz grew as Hollywood dramatized the brutal conditions
and glamorized the inmates who withstood them.
Were the conditions at Alcatraz really any tougher than any of the other state prisons
of the era?
And did those inmates who attempted to escape the rock succeed?
And is it possible to swim from the island of Alcatraz to the San Francisco bay?
Today, we'll go inside one of the world's most infamous correctional facilities, in
this episode of The Infographics Show – What was it like to be jailed at Alcatraz?
The first Alcatraz warden, James Johnston, had a tough reputation and ran the prison
with an iron fist.
Prisoners weren't allowed to speak to one another at all, except for brief exchanges
at break times.
Speaking aloud generally resulted in a trip to the dungeon or an isolation cell.
Eventually the inmates realized, however, that there were not enough isolation cells
to hold them all simultaneously, so they began to relax and speak en mass.
This eventually resulted in a relaxation of the talking ban.
Magazines and newspapers were banned, as the inmates weren't allowed to read about sex
or crime.
Contrary to popular belief, the inmates weren't all hardened criminals.
Anyone who had committed a federal offence might have been sent to Alcatraz.
Prisoners included shoplifters who had stolen from a store with a post office branch inside,
and folks who had carried alcohol across state lines.
A total of 336 cells were in B and C block and a further 36 segregation cells, and 6
solitary in D block.
A block was used mostly for storage.
The cells in B and C block were 5 feet deep by 9 feet wide, with a small cold water sink.
You could extend your arms and touch both sides of the cell, which is something you
might get around to trying if you were imprisoned in one for a year or more.
Having your own cell means that there is less chance of being sexually assaulted compared
with other prisons, and many prisoners found the privacy beneficial.
You would be allowed an approved visit once a month at Alcatraz, but you wouldn't allowed
to touch that visitor nor discuss any current events; conversations were via intercom, and
usually monitored.
Inmate Willie Radkay, who shared a cell next to Machine Gun Kelly, is on record saying
that the food at Alcatraz was better than any other prison he'd been at.
Alcatraz may not of been the brutal hellhole illustrated by many a Hollywood movie, but
it was no picnic either.
Inmates were marched from place to place, worked under tough conditions, and had a strict
daily routine.
Each morning at 6.20am, a whistle blew, prisoners rose, made their beds, and generally tidied
up their cells, washed and dressed.
At a quarter to 7, inmates moved to the mess hall, where guards supervised seating and
serving, giving the signal to start and stop eating.
Work detail was split into laundry, tailoring, cobbling, modeling, gardening, and other labor
details.
At 9.30, there was a rest period in which inmates were allowed to smoke in permitted
areas, but not allowed to crowd together.
At 9.40, it was back to work until 11.30, when a count was taken and it was back to
the mess hall for food, and then back to the cells.
12.30 back to work until 4.15pm, final eating, and 4.50pm final lock-up and a head count.
At 9.30pm, the lights were put out.
There were three more counts at midnight, 3am and 5am.
The prisoners nicknamed the central walkway Broadway, and other walkways were named Park
Avenue and Michigan Avenue.
The area between cell blocks and the mess hall was named Times Square.
At either end was the gun gallery walkway enclosed by bars patrolled by armed guards
who from that vantage point had a clear shot at the cell blocks.
A prisoner named Bernard Coy decided to break that routine and attempted one of the most
brutal attempts to escape the prison when he hatched up a plan that ended in The Battle
of Alcatraz in May 1946.
Two guards and three inmates were killed and several were injured in the attempted outbreak.
Kentuckian bank robber Coy along with five other inmates dreamed up the escape plan.
Coy smeared himself in axel grease and climbed the West End Gun Gallery.
He used some tools crudely fashioned in the prison workshop to manipulate the bars open
to a width of ten inches, which due to Coy's partial starvation of himself, was wide enough
to squeeze through.
Coy then took on the first guard, and with brute strength knocked him to the ground before
strangling him unconscious with his necktie.
He then lowered firearms and riot clubs to his accomplices below, who swiftly took 9
unarmed guards hostage.
However, they were unable to locate the key to the recreational yard, as one of the guards
had concealed it in the toilet of the cell he was being held hostage in.
Three other inmates were released from their cells, but by this time, the breakout was
discovered and the distress sirens wailed.
San Francisco Coast guard and Marines were alerted, and together they blocked all of
the industry working inmates, while inside the prison a battle was raging.
Two inmates were shot dead in the battle before the guards took back control of the prison.
Other escapes were attempted.
Joseph Bowers was shot and killed climbing a fence in 1936.
Two prisoners escaped the prison in 1937, but it is generally understood that they died
crossing the water, although their bodies were never discovered.
In 1962, brothers Clarence and John Anglin, and Frank Morris (probably the most famous
escapees) chipped away with spoons at the concrete around ventilation grates in their
cells.
They moved through a maintenance area and made a raft with life jackets and raincoats.
They avoided being detected in the nightly headcount by leaving paper mache heads in
their bunks.
They hopped a fence to the bay.
Again the trio was considered drowned yet made famous in the Hollywood, Escape from
Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood.
Television show Mythbusters tested a raft across the same stretch of water and found
that the escape was technically possible.
And for those who think swimming the distance to the mainland undoable, there's an annual
Alcatraz swimming trip open to all open water swimmers willing to tackle the 3.6 miles around
the island, or the easier 1.25 miles from the island to the mainland.
So what do you think?
Would you be able handle conditions in a state prison?
Or would you make a break for it and swim from the island to the mainland?
Perhaps you've been to the island before?
Please enter your comments in the comments section below and join in the discussion.
Also, be sure to watch our other video called How Rich was Cleopatra and other Pharaohs?
Thanks for watching, and as always, don't forget to like, share and subscribe, see you
next time
-------------------------------------------
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Top 10 Strange Sewer Discoveries - Duration: 7:30.
Sewers are always below you - whether you live in a small town or a city, youre never
too far from one.
Its great that they exist - carrying away all our waste - but we don't often like to
think about them.
Maybe this will make you think about them more though as we take a look at some really
weird sewer finds from all over the world.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Strange Sewer Discoveries.
Starting off at number 10 we have the Fatberg.
I hope youre not eating for this one.
In September 2017, a mass of congealed fat was found in a London sewer so big that it
was refered to simply as a Fatberg.
It weighed the same as 11 double decker buses and stretched the length of 2 football pitches.
It was found during a blockage investigation of Londons old sewer network.
It was made up of fat, baby wipes and nappies.
Officials say that if they had found it any later, it would have risked raw sewage flooding
into the streets of East London.
It took a team of workmen 3 weeks to break it apart.
The head of the waste network described it as -A total monster- … its hard a life being
a fatberg.
Next up at number 9 we have Big Teeth.
In 2016, Florida resident Louis Comacho went outside his home to collect his post.
At that point, he felt a strong vibration under the ground.
He realised it was coming from the sewer drain in the road - he grabbed his camera - and
this is what he saw.
FULL CLIP.
Did you hear that hiss?
I would be pretty scared.
Animal control was called to remove the alligator as it was in an area with children and pets.
Mr Comacho said he wasnt that scared - he was more scared of the 300 pound bear that
appeared behind his house the week before.
This story is definitely from Florida.
At number 8 now we have Half A Mini.
If you don't know what a mini is - its this - an iconic little British car.
You can expect to see them on roads all over the world but one place you might not is a
sewer - especially just half of one.
Thats exactly what happened though in 2014.
The Thames Water company pulled half a mini from a London Sewer while investigating sewer
blockages.
Simply finding a car in a sewer raises a lot of questions - finding half a car raises even
more …
Moving on to number 7 now we have Placenta.
This is a strange story coming from Chicago in 2009 where sewer workers found a placenta
- the organ that provides unborn babies with oxygen and nutrients during a pregnancy.
The police called in Julie Pryde, head of the Public Health District who said it was
one of the weirdest calls shed ever received.
Officials suspect it was dumped into the sewer by a midwife or veterinarian trying to avoid
paying for a proper medical waste disposal service.
An investigation did find human DNA but it needed further testing because the sewage
system is so full of human DNA anyway.
Next up at number 6 we have Dinosaur Fossils.
In August 2010, workers digging in a sewer tunnel found some strange looking bones in
the dirt.
The foreman called police in to rule out the possibility they had unearthed human remains.
What they really were turned out to be extraordinary.
The remains were parts of a large limb bone from a dinosaur known as Edmontosaurus and
a tooth from an Albertosaurus.
I had to google they were actually real dinosaurs because these Edmontosaurus and Albertosaurus
were found in Edmonton in the province of Albertosaurus - but yeah, they are totally
real - sorry for doubting it.
Moving on to number 5 now we have the Grenade.
Rob Smith is an Engineer from the UK who is in charge of a sewer maintenance.
In an interview with the BBC about some of his strangest sewer finds, he once said he
found a hand grenade at 2 in the morning.
He took it to the surface and put it on the ground with a marker next to it.
He then called the police and got back on with his work in the sewer.
A few hours later, the police contacted him - Rob asked if the grenade was live - they
said -you don't want to know- … I think that answered his question.
Next up at number 4 we have Seweed.
This is a bizzare story coming from Washington USA.
Sewer authorities stumbled across a small forest of Marijuana plants in a sewer.
They concluded they must have come from seeds that were flushed down a toilet and had managed
to take root - absorbing the nutrients that passed by them.
They harvest the plants and took them to be destroyed.
Before doing so though, the police weighed them - their street value came in at over
1,400 dollars.
Next up at number 3 we have The Baby.
This is a sad story coming from Sydney in 14.
Some cyclists passing a roadside drain heart cries and when they went to investigate - they
found a week old baby.
The baby boy was rushed to hospital where he remained in a serious but stable condition.
It appears the baby survived for a few days purely on fat reserves.
He was wrapped in a hospital blanket which police used to track down the mother.
She was deemed to have mental conditions and given one year and 9 months in prison for
attempted murder.
Moving on to number 2 we have the Wedding Ring.
In 1988, Larry Matti was a patient at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota.
Somehow, his wedding ring slipped off - he and his wife Linda tried looking for it everywhere
but failed to find it.
A few months later, plumber Dale Grobe found it while he was unplugging the hospitals sewer
main.
He put it in the hospitals lost and found section but it remained there unclaimed for
6 months.
After that, Dale decided to take it home and give it to his wife.
She wore it for 25 years and then, in 2015, she was at a party when they met a man whose
parents had the same names as those inscribed on the ring.
They quickly realised he was Larry and Lindas son and returned the ring to them.
This could have been the plot to Lord of The Rings if it was a PG 90s sitcom.
And finally at number 1 we have Luxury Watches.
In February 2012, a street cleaner found a gold Rolex watch in an English drain worth
21,000 pounds - thats just under 30,000 US dollars.
The honest guy handed it in at the nearest police station but it had not been registered
lost or stolen.
If it had not been claimed, he would have been allowed to keep it - however, the owner
did eventually come forward to claim it.
He said it had been stolen during a burglary and was originally a gift from his wife who
had since passed away.
The owner, who did not want to be named, thanked the street cleaner and gave him a reward for
his integrity and honesty.
What do you guys think most people would have done it that situation?
I like to think we all would have done the same - am I being naive?
Let me know.
And of course let me know all of your thoughts on these stories - have you ever found anything
strange in a drain or sewer?
Please don't go searching for things in sewers now guys, they generally arent the best places
to be - Im sure you already know that though.
Thanks for watching as always, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next
video.
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Why Melania Trump Is An Underrated First Lady - Duration: 1:26.
- Well, I think Melania's actually the best aspect,
if you like, of the Trump presidency.
As a matter of fact, she's the only really the member
of his entire retinue that seems to be able
to comport herself with a certain amount of dignity.
She doesn't leak, she doesn't gossip,
she doesn't embarrass herself.
She simply keeps herself completely private
and hasn't yet made the kinds of mistakes
that pretty much everybody else has made around Trump,
and, of course, massively so himself.
So actually, Melania, really is turning out to be,
I think, a big asset to Trump in the White House.
And probably will be the only one afterwards
whose got a reputation left in my judgment.
I think she's quite an interesting figure, actually.
Well, I would actually assign
a major reported piece on Melania.
I mean, no one really has done the deep, deep dive
into who Melania is and how she has negotiated
that spot as Donald Trump's wife.
How does she endure it?
What is the deal she's made with herself?
And what are her plans after the presidency?
I mean, that is a piece I would really love to read.
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How To Get Free V Bucks - Fortnite Hack - Fortnite Free V Bucks - Duration: 4:40.
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Nintendo GameCube Games that NEED to be Remastered Nintendo Switch Games - Duration: 12:31.
Say it with me now.
LET THE CONTROLLER DIE!
Regardless of what skeptics on the internet like to say, literally EVERYBODY has their
ideal remaster for their preferred platform.
I don't care HOW MUCH you SAY you only want new games, there's a remaster announcement
that could excite you if it were to come to pass.
Some people are just more honest about it!
In the interest of that honesty, I wanna talk about some GameCube games that I think should
get a second life of sorts on Nintendo Switch.
GameCube was a really under appreciated console in Nintendo's history.
It was the last time they cared about competing with Sony & Microsoft on a 1:1 basis, it was
the beginnings of Nintendo lending their I.P to other studios to make cool *censored*,
& it was the birthing place of what dumb people call the best Nintendo controller.
Now before I really jump into this list, 3 things: FIRST, this isn't meant to be THE
DEFINITIVE collection of GameCube games that have ever existed and should therefore be
the only remasters to exist on Switch.
It's MY list!
Turns out, you're legally allowed to have your own opinion.
Leave'm in the comments!
I'd love to check'm out.
We'll even talk about some of them on our podcast!
Directly to You!
That goes live every Saturday at 4PM Eastern!
NEXT, remasters don't mean new games can't exist.
It does not take up any resources.
Outside studios work on these games.
Not big studios that would work on the next big thing, so, no point of complaining about
that.
We all want new games.
They will come regardless.
LASTLY, Virtual Console is dead.
Let's all except it.
MOVING ON!
First of all, HOW IN THE WORLD is Luigi's Mansion coming out later this year and NOT
coming to Nintendo Switch??
I know there's still people that are unfortunate enough to be stuck with the rotting remains
of Nintendo 3DS and everything.
I appreciate the fact that they want fresh content, but, why make Nintendo Switch owners
suffer??
We should get Luigi's Mansion too!
HD Rumble could enhance the experience a lot, ESPECIALLY when you consider the audio capabilities
that come with it.
I wanna hear ghosts, Luigi's terrified musings, and Poltergust sounds.
Also, the obvious benefit of playing a higher fidelity version of the game both on a screen
that has a better resolution than a postage stamp AND on the TV.
Cause, y'know, the original game IS a console game.
I get that Nintendo developed the game with the intention of making it stereoscopic 3D
and everything, but, who is REALLY using that?
Let's be honest, most people will use the 3D once MAYBE twice at best.This game is WAAAAYYY
to spooky to play all the way through in 3D.
No mere mortal could handle the sheer horror that is Luigi's Mansion.
So much so in fact, I'm gonna stop torturing you guys and talk about a much more light
hearted game Eternal Darkness.
This game was knocking on the door of maximizing the potential of the medium.
To me, a game that's worth crazy accolades is a game that seeks to use the medium for
everything it is.
They shouldn't just want to be a movie that lets you press X sometimes, they shouldn't
just be a game with a pointless story to facilitate phenomenal gameplay.
It should be a marriage of all of that.
Eternal Darkness specifically is notable in this regard because of how it uses the medium
to freak the player out with the usage "Sanity Effects."
All of which could be improved with the increased capabilities of Nintendo Switch.
Maybe some effects could be updated to be more believable like the TV volume bar using
information from the system settings to display a volume bar that's indicative of your actual
TV model, or maybe they could include a more Switch handheld specific sanity effect that
makes it look like your screens cracked, I'm sure HD Rumble could be used in interesting
ways to mess with us too.
Point is, I wanna see what Sanity effects could happen in a remaster of Eternal Darkness.
& I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
Nintendo has been renewing the trademark on that I.P for forever, there was the crowdfunding
attempts for a spiritual successor.
Why not gauge interest with a remaster?
Because I'm sure NO ONE wants to see a colorful, feel good, fun game like Super Mario Sunshine….
Because literally everyone has been leaving that comment on our channel and many other
Nintendo focused channels I'm sure since the dawn of time.
& I can't blame them!
Nintendo had the AUDACITY to NOT put a Mario Sunshine Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey EVEN
THOUGH Isle Delfino is CLEARLY on the map.
I for one vote we all demand Nintendo to green light a remaster of the original game for
Nintendo Switch.
THEN I vote we all boycott it to show Nintendo we ain't *censored* around.
All jokes aside, Super Mario Sunshine was one step closer to the perfected 3D Mario
formula.
The camera could use some more work and we can go without the pachinko nonsense, but,
other than that: just give me some sweet sweet HD water goodness, remove Bowser's voice
acting and we're golden.
The Dolphin emulator version of this game is a good indicator that Mario Sunshine could
be GORGEOUS on Switch.
Also, I just want to be able to play literally every 3D Mario game on Switch.
Give me very stupid business move on Nintendo's end that is The HD Super Mario 3D All Stars
pack.
Nobody would spend upwards of $40 per game or anything like that.
They'd TOTALLY put all 5 or so 3D Mario game on one $60 cart.
Wishful thinking aside, I'm all for polishing up GameCube gems in the way they polished
Wind Waker and to a lesser degree, Twilight Princess.
Mario Kart Double Dash is a lot of people's favorite Mario Kart.
I'm not one of those people.
It's way too loose.
If I'm being honest, I'd even put Mario Kart Wii & 7 over it.
What I DO like about double Dash is the double driver mechanic.
Mostly for the novelty of it all.
Also, this was back in the days that Nintendo didn't absolutely DESPISE Diddy Kong.
I'd like to see that make its way to Switch.
It's a great candidate for best game to play with a friend with split Joy-Con.
Maybe Switch Online can facilitate 24 player online races considering the fact that half
of the players have half of the functionality half of the time, maybe they could add some
more courses from newer games?
Give me Mii's.
Maybe add the option for 200 Cc.
Subtracting the loose physic (that I don't think they should change to keep it distinct
from the superior Mario Kart 8 Deluxe) & we have a perfect game.
SPEAKING OF PERFECT GAMES,
Remember when Paper Mario wasn't soulless?
Yeah…
Me too…..
Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door is the best Paper Mario game.
If you don't agree, you better think the original Paper Mario is the best Paper Mario
game because any other opinion is stupid and anyone that has that opinion has failed their
parents.
After this game the Paper Mario series began the gradual erosion of everything that made
it a great game that's distinct and separate from other Mario games.
This is the peak of the series that inspired the gameplay of South Park Stick of Truth.
This was one of the games that further explored a Mario world with characters that have endearing
qualities.
Now Paper Mario games are more platformers with a vastly inferior battling system.
Maybe this game being remastered on Switch can remind Nintendo of why we love Paper Mario
in the 1st place?
F-Zero is another series that Nintendo has very clearly ignored a fanbase that loves
one of their classic I.P.
GX, in my opinion is the best of this series.
Which is interesting because it's one of those notable games that I alluded to when
I mentioned GameCube being the place where Nintendo allowed more developers outside of
Nintendo & to make things EVEN CRAZIER in the time this game came, it wasn't just
ANY outside developer.
It was SEGA!
That was wild to think about back then.
But I digress.
I talked a lot about this series and game in a video a while ago.
Check that out by clicking the card in the top right corner.
After this of course.
This game, like many others in this video, can serve as a trojan horse of sorts to justify
a new game being considered for Nintendo Switch, even if that means tapping a third party to
make it happen.
F-Zero deserves a seat at the table.
Nintendo needs to realize it's a different experience than Mario Kart and they both can
co exist.
Kirby Air Ride is BAR NONE my favorite Kirby Game since SuperStar.
& that is 1000% because I'm sick of playing iterations of SuperStar.
Kirby Air Ride was an awesome change of pace with the best Kirby multiplayer mode to date
in City Trials.
There's a lot of building blocks in this game that could amount to something much bigger
in a future game, but, in the meantime I'd love to experience the original game with
new visual flourishes, online play, & of course the ability to play it on the go.
Animal Crossing is a game I and many others want to see come to Nintendo Switch, but,
I gotta be honest on this one.
I literally ONLY want this game to be brought to Switch for the classic Nintendo games.
EVEN IF it was just through a low effort up rezzed port.
IT WON'T happen.
Nintendo discovered they can make us pay for these games again on the go, but, that won't
stop me from dreaming.
I can dream.
Super Smash Bros Melee isn't my favorite Smash Bros game.
I'm definitely not in that camp, but, with that being said, I'm all for giving the
people that love that game the opportunity to play it on current hardware.
A lot of them strike me as the type to avoid even that and stick to playing the original
version on GameCube because of some small discrepancy that only they can see!
I'm joking.
Mostly.
I understand and respect the fact that a lot of people love this game and we got a Smash
Bros 64 release on Wii and by extension Wii U.
Why not do THAT again and have the ability to play every Smash Bros game on Switch?
I'd be down for that.
& while they're at it, give me some Joy-Con with analog triggers…
Probably should've mentioned that for Mario Sunshine.
Metroid Prime Trilogy is a NO BRAINER and also kind of a cheat code considering the
fact that Prime 3 is a Wii game.
But, we're gonna let that slide today.
With Metroid Prime 4 coming at some time in the future, Nintendo would be smart to allow
the opportunity to play through these games again on a platform that core gamers own and
play.
Sure, a lot off people had Wii and could've picked these games up, but, let's be real
people that are interested in play Prime 4 now almost certainly didn't play Wii outside
of socializing with family and friends that did.
SO, putting the games on a platform they're excited for I think makes a lot of sense.
I played all of these games at one point or another and even I could use a refresher before
Prime 4 comes out.
Also, maybe that could be legwork that's useful for Prime's development in the same
way the Zelda remasters on Wii U were the foundation for Breath of the Wild, the Prime
remaster could serve a similar purpose… unless of course a lot more work is done on
Metroid Prime 4 than we're lead to believe.
But, that's another video for another day.
My biggest reason for wanting the Prime Trilogy on Switch though is playing through games
with the atmosphere of the Prime series on a handheld I think would be incredible.
Also, we're lacking shooters on Switch.
So far we just have Doom, Splatoon, and soon to be released Wolfenstien II.
The Metroid series is a welcome addition if you ask me.
BUT, those are MY thoughts what do YOU think?
What GameCube games do you want to see get remastered on Switch?
What changes if any would you wanna see?
Let me know in the comments!
Like my ideas?
Like the video!
Share it with a friend that has hope for GameCube games on Switch. and/or would be excited to
see and of these franchises I mentioned on Switch in the future.
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Ok.
That's it for me.
See you next week.
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This HAIR came from THERE | Family Feud - Duration: 1:18.
STEVE: CYNTHIA, TWO STRIKES.
SATTERWHITE FAMILY CAN STEAL.
SOMETHING A WOMAN HOPES
ISN'T IN HER MAN'S MUSTACHE.
CYNTHIA: OH, OTHER HAIR.
JULIE: GOOD ANSWER!
JANA: GOOD ANSWER. GOOD ANSWER!
GOOD ANSWER.
STEVE: WHAT OTHER KIND OF HAIR
COULD YOU BE TALKING ABOUT?
CYNTHIA: JUST THIS HAIR.
STEVE: "THIS HAIR."
CYNTHIA: MAYBE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
HA HA!
[LAUGHTER]
[CHEERING]
OH. WASN'T SUPPOSED TO GO
THIS WAY.
STEVE: I KNOW. ALL THIS GONNA
PLAY GOOD BACK IN UTAH.
[LAUGHTER]
CYNTHIA: THAT'S WHAT I
CAME UP WITH.
STEVE: THAT'S WHAT YOU CAME UP
WITH. NO, THAT'S WHAT HE CAME
UP WITH.
[LOUD LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]
CYNTHIA: GET THE MIND OUT OF
THE GUTTER.
STEVE: SOME HAIR.
AUDIENCE: AW!
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The History of the MCU: Phase by Phase | NowThis Nerd - Duration: 10:27.
Infinity War is the culmination of ten years and 18 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and odds are, if you're buying a ticket, you already know what's up.
The MCU is serialized, TV-style storytelling on a billion-dollar scale,
and it works because Marvel trusts us to have seen and understood everything that came before.
So we're not gonna waste your time recapping 'The Dark World,'
or throwing out theories based on blurry trailer screenshots.
Instead, we're taking a behind-the-scenes look at the three phases of the MCU,
to see how it became the groundbreaking goliath that's changed the way movies are made.
I'm Dev,
and I'm Andrew,
and we're running down
The MCU: Phase by Phase
So far, the MCU has raked in nearly $15 billion,
which is a far cry from the '90s,
when Marvel actually went bankrupt after the comics industry crashed.
In order to survive, they sold off their characters' movie rights to whatever studio would write them a check.
The quick cash saved Marvel in the short term, and gave us some awesome franchises like Sony's 'Spider-Man' and Fox's 'X-Men'
Problem was, they made money for everyone except Marvel.
'Blade' grossed $70 million at the box office,
but Marvel only pocketed $25,000.
That's a freakin' disgrace.
How do you think we fund this organization, huh?
Even worse, they didn't make a dime from any of the X-Men movies,
all they got was a flat fee up front.
You should have killed me when you had the chance!!!
Marvel's A-list characters were printing money for everyone but the company that created them,
and all they had left were heroes who were beloved by comic fans, but were far from being household names.
It's hard to believe, but back then,
most people though Iron Man was a robot.
Still, the company was confident in their potential,
so they formed Marvel Studios to make movies on their terms,
with all the profits going into their pockets.
In order to fund their first films,
Marvel took out a loan for $525 million,
They went to college.
They put up all of their remaining movie rights as collateral.
If their experiment failed,
Marvel would be toast,
and the bank would own all their characters.
But lucky for them, and us,
the Marvel Cinematic Universe started with a big bang.
Let's look at
Phase 1: Getting the Band Together
Even with so much at stake, Marvel made some big gambles with 2008's 'Iron Man.'
Director Jon Favreau was mostly known for family flicks like 'Elf' and 'Zathura,'
and star Robert Downey Jr. was in a career slump after spending most of the '90s in and out of jail due to his drug addictions.
But Favreau's improv style and RDJ's charisma was a breath of fresh air for the stale superhero genre.
It's completely harmless.
I didn't expect that.
'Iron Man' grossed over $500 million at the box office,
and a secret stinger with Nick Fury introduced the world to the concept of a shared cinematic universe.
I'm here to talk about the Avenger Initiative.
Very exciting.
And now, fast-forward to the Dark Universe and look at what that is.
What the hell...
If the MCU was a band, Phase 1 would be the early years,
recording demos in a garage,
and working out the kinks in their lineup.
I told you, I don't wanna join your super-secret boy band.
In other words, if the MCU is the Beatles...
Ugh.
In other words, if the MCU is the Beatles,
Ed Norton is Pete Best
and Phase 1 is the period they spent honing their craft in Germany.
Some of it's a little sloppy,
but it's innovative, exciting, and not afraid to take risks.
Like making a Captain America film set entirely in the '40s.
Or hiring Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh to make a movie about a beer-pounding Thunder God.
My hero.
This drink, I like it. Another!
Now, not every movie was a homerun.
'The Incredible Hulk' came out the same year as 'Iron Man,' like a month later, actually,
but the Green Goliath couldn't hold a candle to Shellhead's success.
And while 'Iron Man 2' introduced us to Black Widow and SHIELD,
it lacked the charm and surprise of the first movie.
Still, the payoff made the bumpy road worth it,
and in 2012, Marvel and geek town master Joss Whedon assembled all the complex moving parts into a satisfying superhero symphony.
Let's do a head count, here.
Your brother, the demigod. A super soldier, living legend who kinda lives up to the legend,
a man with breathtaking anger management issues, a couple of master assassins,
and you, big fella.
'The Avengers' made $1.5 billion,
still the highest-grossing superhero film ever,
at least, until they count the receipts for 'Infinity War.'
More importantly, it proved the concept of the MCU viable,
and gave Marvel a blueprint for the next decade of dominance.
Let's move on to
Phase 2: Awkward Adolescence
Now, one thing we haven't mentioned yet is Disney's 4.2 billion dollar purchase of Marvel in 2009.
The House of Mouse spent decades trying to create their own IP that went beyond their traditional kid demographic,
and eventually they said 'screw it' and bought someone else instead.
See also: 'Star Wars.'
See also: Almost Fox, maybe.
With the Disney machine behind them,
the MCU barreled into Phase 2 like a freight train,
with mixed results.
Better get my pants.
Keeping with the band analogy,
Phase 2 is the part in 'Behind the Music' where they made too much money too fast, and gave in to some of the excesses of success.
You ready for a bombshell? You saved my life that night.
But... I was driving...
I was on a road to destruction, man.
I seriously haven't met a single person who actually likes 'Thor: The Dark World,'
Sorry.
Jane what...
and it's firmly at the bottom of Rotten Tomatoes' MCU standings.
And even if you loved the Mandarin twist in the extremely underrated 'Iron Man 3,' Shane Black's buddy comedy wasn't what a lot of fans were looking for.
But with the lowest valleys come the highest peaks, thanks to Marvel's continuing practice of taking risks with lesser-known characters and fresh talent.
From the astonishingly good 'Ant-Man,'
ANTS
ANTS
ANT-MAN!
to handing Troma veteran James Gunn $200 million to make 'Guardians of the freakin' Galaxy.'
Also, by the way, he wrote the original 'Scooby-Doo' live-action movie,
which is important to note, because it's basically the same movie as 'Guardians of the Galaxy.'
Like, zoinks, we got aliens coming after our asses!
Not to mention the Russos, the two 'Arrested Development' directors who made
the incredible, impeccable, my favorite MCU movie 'Winter Soldier,
and did such a stellar job that Marvel gave them the reins for 'Infinity War.'
Still, for all their success, Marvel couldn't stick the landing.
'Age of Ultron,' crammed full of sequel setup and endless quipping from a genocidal robot,
Oooh, I'm sure that's gonna be okay, I'm sorry, It's just that I don't understand! Don't compare me with Stark!
was a big disappointment in comparison to its beloved predecessor,
and frustrations with Marvel's oversight led Joss Whedon to jump ship for the Distinguished Competition.
How'd that one work out for ya, buddy?
Ugh, something is definitely bleeding.
Even with the lukewarm reception, Ultron still made a shitload of money,
so the gravy train kept rolling into
Phase 3: Gone Commercial
To finish out our music analogy, that we established at the very beginning of this video, very expertly,
Phase 3 is the MCU's greatest hits tour.
Okay, there's Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, woah, who's that new guy?
Underoos!
That's me, I gotta go!
The band is older, established, and beloved,
it's got a couple of Guitar Hero soundtracks under their belt,
and all they have to do is play the hits and rake in the cash.
Most accusations of the MCU feeling samey and formulaic come from Phase 3.
Movies like 'Dr. Strange' and 'Guardians Vol. 2' were fine,
They were fine.
but none of them stood out from the pack the way 'Winter Soldier' did,
although 'Civil War' comes close.
Absolutely.
They served their purpose of introducing characters and setting up future conflicts,
but as standalone films, they're nothing to write home about.
Speaking of home, Phase 3 was able to deliver plenty of awesome surprises,
like introducing Spider-Man into the MCU after Marvel pawned off the rights decades earlier.
'Homecoming' blew everyone out of the water, in part because people didn't expect it,
a low-key, street-level story with a Spidey that didn't make you wanna punch his smarmy face.
Hey, could you hold this for a second? Thanks.
Hey, is this anybody's bike? Hey, buddy, is this your bike?
No change.
a 'realistic' version of Queens and a perfect compliment to the cosmic Kirby insanity of 'Thor: Ragnarok.'
The last stop on the road to 'Infinity War' was the unbeatable 'Black Panther,' which not only set a new high bar for superhero movies,
but is helping to usher in a brand new era of representation in big-budget blockbusters.
That brings us to 'Infinity War,' and even though it feels like the end of, well…
everything,
there are still three movies left in Phase 3,
including some long-awaited female-led films like 'Captain Marvel' and 'Ant-Man and the Wasp,'
not to mention the still-untitled 'Avengers 4.'
We'll have to wait and see how it shakes out, and who survives, but either way,
Marvel has promised that Phase 4 will be radically different than everything that came before.
It pretty much has to be,
the MCU made most of its actors into massive stars, and now that their multi-year contracts are up,
they're antsy to explore roles that don't involve powers and punching.
Not to mention the fact that, if this Disney/Fox merger goes through,
the MCU is going to be a radically different place with the X-Men and Fantastic Four back in the mix.
The shared universe is here to stay,and even though Hollywood keeps trying to replicate the magic,
It'll be a very dark universe indeed if anyone ever tops the MCU.
We might not recognize it by the time Phase 42 rolls around,
but that's okay, we'll probably both be 90 and most of us will be dead.
Superheroes, though, are constantly evolving,
dying off, coming back with different costumes and continuity.
Because heroes never die.
That was a nice 'Overwatch' reference.
Things progress, time marches on,
and just like your favorite band, the rosters might change,
but the song remains the same.
Hey guys
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Boxycharm April 2018 - Duration: 9:39.
Hello! welcome back to my channel I hope you're having an amazing day if you like
unboxing videos please hit that subscribe button even boxing's on this
channel today we're going to be unboxing April's boxycharm box so if you're
interested in seeing what I got in this month's box please keep watching
first thing in this box is this Tarte Tartist pro glow highlighter this product
retails for $29
so there's a swatch of that it is really golden shimmery which I really like and
I am super excited that a Tarte product is in my boxycharm I really really like
Tarte products I will definitely be giving this a try a little nervous about
the color don't know if it's gonna look amazing on my skin but I'm definitely
definitely happy to have it in my collection the next product is called
the brow gal by Tanya Crooks I am NOT excited about this product I'm probably
not going to use it I don't like microfibers in my brow gel
I just want the gel I am absolutely not interested in microfibers which are
prevalent in this formula and I will not be using this I am going to pass it
along to somebody who likes that sort of brow formula it's just not something I'm
into thanks boxycharm for trying but I am NOT interested in a brow gel formula
that has microfibers in it the next product in my box is this dr. brandt
pores no more vacuum cleaner I really really like this product I already own
it I'm almost done the one that I have now I bought it on the recommendation of
a friend and it really does clear up your pores I feel like it does actually
make them smaller I don't think that's physically possible because it
that would entail changing your DNA but it maybe it just it works to minimize
the appearance of pores and I really do think that it achieves that objective I
would highly recommend this product however there are other masks I'm
thinking anything we're one of the top ingredients is kaolin that also pull oil
and dirt out of your pores and make your pores look smaller so if you have a
favorite clay mask I would say stick to that this is really great and fun and I
really like it but if you have a mask that you already like that you find does
a great job of cleaning up your skin I would say you can probably pass on this
but if you're getting it in boxycharm and it's a forty seven dollar value then
I think that's great so I'm definitely gonna be using this I am super super
happy to have a replacement this next product I'm also not really excited
about I saw somebody else's boxycharm video and they pulled this out and they
did a swatch of it and it showed up pretty streaky mine didn't turn out that
bad but I'm still not really in love with the color of this lipstick it's
kind of a brownish shade and I don't think that Browns really look that great
on me unfortunately even though I do really like some colors of brown
lipstick and then I put it on me and I'm like but it does smell kind of pretty
which is nice I don't know I'm not I'm just not gonna use this product I am
going to be passing this one along as well it's the element of surprise
palette by color pop and I am so excited to have it in my box I have a bunch of
color pops super shock shadows they're the ones that kind have that almost wet
feel to them I have none I own zero of their pressed
so I am so excited to finally get a chance to try out their pressed powder
formula and I'm very grateful to boxycharm for providing us with this
gorgeous beauty this palette looks like it's gonna be really easy for me to work
with there's a ton of browns and golds and then there's a few pops of color I
am definitely gonna have a super easy time working with this I am so excited I
really hope that the blendability is there at everything like that but other
than that I am just so looking forward to using this palette I love that they
have the names of the colors on the back that's awesome it's like super
affordable too if you wanted 16 bucks so for this month's box I totally am super
happy with it I feel like I really got my money's worth even just with the
three products that I liked out of the five I kind of feel that I didn't like
the brow gel just really really do not like fibers in my brow gel and then
the lipstick is like I liked it but it's like that is not gonna look good on me I
the palette the highlighter and the pores no more stuff this looks great
I am so happy with my like basically like the $90 of retail value stuff that
I've got I'm pretty happy with if you have been here for one of my boxycharm
videos before you don't know that I like to unbox this month's boxycharm and then
I go ahead and review the products and let you know my final thoughts on them
for last month's boxycharm so now we're gonna do that we're gonna look at last
month's boxy charm so let's start with these brushes these brushes are as okay
as I thought they were gonna be they're fine
no news these gels I really like them I use them all I had three packs of I gels
I like them I just my only complaint is that the serum time I got everywhere
like the serum wasn't like absorbed into the gel itself I
think they worked and I don't know they didn't really do much for me in my
opinion and I used them like every two days for the first week so I would not
purchase these at like $10 for a pack of three I thought these were really
affordable but it's just really unfortunate that I didn't find them
effective the next item is this pretty vulgar blush it's amazing it really
looks so good on me and I absolutely love this blush I hate that the
packaging is plastic it feels so cheap but the physical product that's inside
is amazing I absolutely love this lush I love it love it love it it's amazing if
you're super pale like me and you can get your hands on this color of blush
what is this it's literally called hush blush and if you can get hands on this
is such a pretty color this is the butter London double-decker lashes
mascara I have been really enjoying this I've been using it quite a bit lately
and I really really like it I'm kind of shocked I'm pretty picky about mascara
is I don't love them all this one I do really like so I would recommend this
mascara for thickening your lashes for sure it was great or it's been great I'm
still using it the last product that I got in last month's boxycharm is this
palette this was the collaboration palate between boxycharm and pur
cosmetics I really really like this palette I completely tore into it I used
it so many times I I did especially dig into the neutral shades a lot which I
think makes me kind of boring or means that I work at a job that I probably
would not wear this style of makeup to but I did really like this palette I
really do want to reach more into those have more adventurous colors per
se but I made dents in the neutrals of this palette and I really like them and
would recommend would recommend so those were all the products that I got in this
month's boxycharm and all the products that I got in last month's boxycharm and
what I thought about all of them if you like this video please hit that like
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Gatehouse Insight | Interview with Jennifer Batrouney and Angela Lee - Duration: 30:30.
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- Hey it's Louise Hvala,
and you're watching Gatehouse Insights
On today's episode I'm joined by Jennifer Batrouney QC
and Angela who is a barrister at Greensley's.
Jennifer, Angela thank you for joining me today.
- Thanks, great to be here.
- Thank you for having me.
- So I wanted to begin with mentoring.
Jennifer you've mentored approximately 20 junior to senior
lawyers can you share your experience with mentoring?
- Well they never get away from me
and I think it's probably more than 20
but when I take on mentor, a mentee,
it's a lifetime sentence, you know.
And I find it really rewarding,
it's a two way thing, it's really interesting.
I sort of keep tabs on them,
I think my oldest mentee is, I don't know,
I think I've been mentoring over 10 20 years.
They started off as graduate lawyers
and now they're partners of law firms.
It's wonderful to be able to watch their career
as they go through and also to be able to be there for them
so even though some of them are partners of law firms,
they know that they can come to me
and I have their best interests,
and only their best interests at heart.
So you know I do see it as sort of a lifetime thing
and very rewarding for me and I think they find,
they learn from my mistakes and believe me
there's lots of mistakes I've made to learn from,
so I'm a wealth of information in that sense.
- Jennifer how do they, I suppose,
find you and approach you to be their mentor?
- Well I remember Angela came up to me,
we were at a tax seminar and,
had you started at The Bar when we first met?
- I had started, I did come close to you Jennifer,
this is how I recall it, see I wanna talk about this
because hopefully there are viewers who are very
well qualified to be mentors and I just want
to set the scene for them in terms
of when a mentee wants to approach someone.
So I studied Jennifer's wins in the High Court,
I worked with her cases and here I am at The Bar,
my first couple of months I think
and here's the real person, I think it was at a dinner,
at a function.
And I was just getting closer and I just wanted
to go up and say hi, I was so nervous.
I knew everything I had read about her.
And I was just summoning up the courage
and then Jennifer very kindly turned around
and said "Hi my name's Jennifer Batrouney."
So that itself just opened many doors for me,
it was okay, it set the tone for the dialogue.
It's an open two way thing, you know,
it's not what I had wrongly imagined someone who is
so senior so highly regarded up on a pedestal.
Jenny is like me, how am I different form a bar of soap.
Jennifer could well take that from you
and no one could say anything to criticise her for it
but she didn't she took the exact opposite
and wrenched out her hand to greet me
and say welcome to The Bar,
and I remember you saying I've got my law library
and chambers, you're welcome to come and use.
All those things just made such a huge difference
and it was so welcoming for someone brand new,
to this new institution, organisation,
I don't know how you call The Bar.
- How long have you been in that organisation?
- Six, Seven years, yeah it was in my first few months
that that exchange took place.
- And it's been so successful,
why do you think it's been so successful?
Well, from my point of view Angela is a fabulous junior,
I mean she's just, I did offer some help
at the beginning as she said
but it's turned into an advantage for me
because Angela is my favourite junior,
she writes well, she researches well.
She does everything brilliantly,
so it's worked out a win for me.
And I think Angela has learnt as I say,
from my mistakes and I try and introduce Angela
into the tax discussion group and things like
that just to have an introduction,
to be able to introduce Angela in rather than trying
to cold call people I think that's worked
for both of us I think, yeah?
- I pinch myself about the experiences that I've had.
Not so much from Jennifer's mistakes,
its more from Jennifer is at the level she is at
because she's that brilliance and she takes the time
to train me on it so you can imagine someone with Jennifer's
schedule might just say change this, change that,
go just do it but she doesn't.
She actually stops to say I've made these changes because,
and that allows me to learn.
I'm so grateful, extremely touched to hear
that I am somehow useful to you
but everything I am able to do
is because Jennifer has taught it to me.
It's learning as I go, it would be very silly
of me to try to say I knew all this before I came, I didn't.
I came to The Bar just hoping that I could do my best
and learn some things and have some great experiences
and all these things have certainly come true.
Certainly on the technical side,
that's only one aspect though
of what I learn and see from Jennifer.
There are a lot of practical day to day things
that as a brand new barrister coming to The Bar,
just have to learn how do you do, how do you operate.
So what I mean by that is how do you deal with a difficult
client or opponent or judge that says something
that really puts a spanner in the works?
How do you deal with that on the spot right now?
Really complex legal issues how do you approach it?
Yes we all went to law school,
yes we've all come with some experience before we've come
to The Bar but not at that level, you know,
by the time you want to brief someone
like Jennifer it's pretty tricky.
Otherwise we wouldn't go that level of tax suits.
And also the what I see is next
to impossible time challenges and I see Jennifer
just take it on and just march through it.
Now what that means for me is like I see
that and I'll go back.
Obviously my matters are smaller and less complex.
I'm learning the ropes but when I encounter a challenge,
I've seen how Jennifer deals with it so
at my miniature level I can apply the same
and I can learn to solider on or do I need
to time out and ask someone.
Do I need to approach someone like Jennifer
or maybe someone in a different field.
Whatever I'm working on and knocking on doors
and I've tried to knock this out but I need a bit of help.
So just seeing all those things.
May I continue this, its about timing things.
So to me the number of aspects of this,
so there's the role model side like watching
how she runs her practise and also
because of Jennifer's incredible achievements she is
like a shining light to not just myself but many others.
Like I come to the bar and I think well
if you work hard and you work smart, its possible.
You know people speak of glass ceilings or whatever
and Jennifer's smashed them by a mile
so it doesn't stop my thinking.
I know I see glimpses of how hard Jennifer works
and I know its not a smooth ride,
its not handed to you on a platter
but what I see is that it is possible.
And then on the tricky days maybe when I'm doing something
on my own or I encounter difficulties
and I know that Jennifer's only a phone call or email away.
So I know that when I feel like I have been kicked
in the teeth then I usually sometimes drop her a line
and just say look this is what's happened
and I feel you know terribly down
and Jennifer always comes back
with just encouragement and support
and it might just be a sentence,
just those words that I needed to hear
at that moment to keep going and not give up.
And the final thing and I will shut up sorry.
Normally the leader speaks and the junior stays silent,
- I like it. - I'm taking this opportunity.
The glimpses of how the senior legal world operates is
what I get to see through hanging out
with Jennifer if I could call it that.
Its just by being around her.
You know we work together on matters.
We have lunches or coffees or whatever the case may be.
She does what she does and sometimes I'm just there.
And I just get these little snippets
and its certainly for me to look up to
and to have all this as my day to day life,
to me its bigger than my legal practise, its my life,
its part of what I get to see and part
of what I love about what I get to do.
So thank you.
- How often do you see Jennifer?
- [Angela] If a matter is on its almost everyday.
- [Jennifer] Almost every day.
- We also, on a number of I mean not so much
in the current period because
of Jennifer's presidency at the Victorian Bar.
Outside of that we're on a number
of committees together that Jennifer's recommended to me
and it certainly pays dividends.
Now its not necessarily because you're on that committee,
you came three times last year,
here's a brief but it just oils all the wheels.
You know like when I go to,
Jennifer and I both practise in tax predominantly,
when I go to a function or an event
or something like that or if my name does pop up
as a shortlisted junior for a case or something,
these people have somehow heard
of me, known me, seen me, etc.
So I don't know when that might pop up
and its never expressly explained back to me
but it does put me on the scene and it never hurts
to be put on the scene under Jennifer's reign.
You know going into meetings saying I'm here
as Jennifer's alternate normally you know its a good start.
Its a very healthy start.
- [Louise] Angela what do you find
you can take away from this?
- There's been so much but one that will sit
in my heart forever is how she reached out
to me and what she's done for me and continues to do for me.
And my gratitude for that and I have no means to repay her
so its about how I could pay it forward
so what is really stuck in my mind
and what I try to do as much as I can even
at a junior level everyday is how can I extend
that opportunity, that possibility to someone else.
So for example at my level it might be a law student
or it might be a recent graduate
but what can I do for them, how can I pay it forward?
(inaudible)
- Oh what have I learned from?
Angela is so organised.
You know the minute a solicitor will send us an email saying
you know we're thinking about doing this, this
and this within minutes Angela will come back
with a draught email for me to review
to respond to the solicitors.
Now how good is that?
Angela is very, very organised
and her work is excellent so I've learned
that much from Angela, to be very organised.
- And Jennifer how do you assist I suppose your mentees
in transitioning to life at the bar?
- Well that's an interesting question
because a lot of them haven't come to the bar.
So one of my mentees as I said is a partner of a law firm.
One's up in the, working for one
of the land's counsels up in Queensland.
One of them is in the environment defender's office.
A lot of them they've gone in all different fields
of endeavour and that enriches my experience
as a mentor because I can hear back from them
as to how their career's are going.
So as far as the Bar is concerned I say
to them that the Bar is the best career you can ever have.
It is fabulous at the Bar.
There are no time sheets, there are no budgets,
you're self-employed, effectively you can work when
and where you want to and you can schedule in your holidays.
I don't think Angela does enough of that
but you know it is a fabulous place to work and to be.
It is an enormous family, its like a college at the Bar.
And we look after our own at the Bar.
It was five years until I came to the Bar
after I'd been a solicitor at what is now Ashurst
and when I got here I thought,
"gee why didn't I come sooner?"
And I didn't come from a family from the law.
We didn't even know a lawyer in my family.
We're a family of school teachers.
So its not like daddy was a judge or anything like that.
I'm sure it would help if you had a lot of contacts.
You would have been the same and I think
that's why Angela and I resinate so much is
that we share that experience of not having,
you know, a blue blood legal family
that you could sort of build on their legacy.
You've got to start from scratch
but having done that I think we're both done it very well
but hard work and networking,
you know that's what gets you there.
- I wanted to move on to cultural diversity
because it is a big topic in the legal profession.
Angela I want to start with you
and I wanted to see if you could share your experiences
and challenges in law coming from an Asian background.
- Yeah sure I was born overseas,
I was born in Hong Kong and my family migrated
to Australia when I was still in primary school.
When I completed high school I did a commerce degree
and started working at an accounting firm
and no one was surprised about that,
that was completely within the norms.
There was a huge interest and curiosity inside me
about the law and I decided to study law
and then moved across to a law firm
so private practise being a solicitor.
That was still okay.
It was when I decided to come to the Bar,
I was starting a bit of an unusual step
and so some interesting comments started
to come through then.
I remember a friend who is a lawyer that said to me,
"you don't look like a barrister."
And this was very shortly after I had started the Bar role
and also when I meet new people so for example,
other lawyers at a CPD or something like
that I receive comments like,
"you're the only Asian female barrister I know."
So it strikes me as a need to change perception maybe,
to broaden out what people might think
when they imagine a barrister.
- What are you doing now to change people's perception?
- I actually try to speak and attend
as many events as I can, not so much for myself
and for those who already know me
but just to get the image out there.
There's a story that really stuck with me
and that was when I heard about a
high school student attending a career's night
with her parents and the career's advisor said
to them of the daughter's aspirations
to be a lawyer that well you can't
because you're Asian and female and that hit me pretty hard.
And I have since then decided
to use my physical being as a rebuttals.
If I can get out there and if people can see me
then hopefully they will know that
that is not an accurate statement to make.
That they're not the boundaries
for what make a lawyer or not.
- Do you feel there are a number of issues
that may prevent Asian legal practitioners
from succeeding at the Bar or within the legal profession?
- No, none.
There's absolutely no reason why a barrister of Asian origin
or Indian origin shouldn't succeed at the Bar.
You know I'm very disappointed to hear
that these comments have been made about Angela.
You know I find that Angela is the best junior barrister
that I have been able to find and to me the fact
that she's Asian is neither here nor there.
Now I understand that doesn't address the issues
that you've been facing but there's no reason
that they should not succeed and you know I'm disappointed
to hear that these things are being said.
The Victorian Bar does have an equality
and diversity committee.
We are trying to address these issues so on our website,
for example, there are photographs of Asian barristers
and indeed in our Bar offices.
I think there is a nice photo of you, Angela.
- I'd like to request that room to be named in my name.
- Yeah so you know its something
that can't be done overnight but having
that sort of imagery around to reinforce
that you know there should be no reason
why they shouldn't be treated exactly the same as us.
- And I just want to pick up on the point
about its not just Asian or female,
its diversity across the board to me
so I can sit here and quite comfortably talk
about my experiences coming in the form I do
which is Asian and female.
I hope that my comments can be considered
in the context of all sorts of cultural backgrounds,
gender, sexual preferences or any other form
of diversity that people come in.
And to me its an important issue because
if you consciously or
unconsciously block out certain characteristics I suppose,
you're cutting out the talent.
You're just simply reducing the pool
and I think that's something
that doesn't benefit the clients or whatever issue
or matter it is that your trying to solve.
- Do you think that I suppose especially
for graduates coming out from uni and going into law firms,
do you think that they have a belief
that they won't succeed because of their background?
Whether that be Asian, European or lets say Indian.
- You've probably had more experience in that area.
Angela's sat on Victorian Bar student engagement committee.
Are you still on that committee?
- No, I stepped down after.
- What are their thoughts?
- Look it may well be mixed and it may well depend
on who they've come across in their paths.
So if I could make a comparison to
when I as a practitioner and then coming
to the Bar and seeing women
like Jennifer achieve the heights that she has.
I come to the Bar and I don't think gender is an issue.
I'm not saying there's no issue there its just from my lens.
I practise predominantly in tax
and there's some very eminent tax judges
on the bench so tax silks, tax judges
a female, gender to me is not a hurdle.
Its sort of a hindrance.
It may well present challenges but its not a blocker.
Now imagine a student coming
from maybe different experiences
and different backgrounds and say
in the context of an Asian female.
If there's a student that's Asian female
and they look to the senior ranks
within the legal profession, there's not much to see.
And that's probably an area that will take time
but probably is worth addressing so
that they do see those role models out there
so that they know that its not a barrier.
- And you're a perfect example now.
- So I'm doing what I can.
- And the Bar also has a lot
of indigenous mentoring policies as well.
We have don't enough indigenous barristers
but certainly there is a fund there
to support barristers when they come to the Bar
and we work with the judges in the Supreme Court
and the Federal Court have sort of a cadet-ship type programme
for encouraging indigenous law students to come to the Bar.
So you know the Bar is working so
that we try and tell the world a barrister
is not necessarily a white, elderly male.
(laughter)
- Do you see any I suppose obstacles of people
with Asian heritage going to the Bar from your experience?
- Well I have no experience in that.
- Probably fortunately for me I didn't think about it.
I just came.
I just came and gave it a shot so had I overthought it,
maybe or I may have been stopped
at other challenges about coming to the Bar.
I don't think anyone says coming to the Bar is easy.
Its rewarding and its challenging but no one says its easy.
So I could've been stopped at sort
of cultural diversity challenges
or gender challenges or just the self-employment challenge
or how would I get work challenge
so it could have been any of those factors.
- Angela, have you faced any I suppose challenges
of being briefed by lets say law firms because
of lets say being from an Asian background or being female?
- Not to my knowledge.
I think my experience might be a very fortunate one
but I can't speak for everyone else.
I am very fortunate to work with people like Jennifer.
And I'm not sure that you would accept a comment
like no she can't be our junior
because of her cultural background.
I'm not sure.
- No, absolutely not.
- I can't imagine that conversation being had.
That's not to say it doesn't happen
and also you know unconscious bias
is a hot topic these days and its something
that I would never get a grip on.
So no one will call me and say there was this brief
but we thought about you or didn't think about you
because of the way you appear.
You know its very hard to tally.
- The former Chief Justice, Marilyn Warren is well known
for saying that when she was
at the bar she received a brief arrived
in her chambers from a big law firm
and then five minutes later the partner rang
and said sorry Marilyn wrong gender
and took the brief back again.
So that obviously was a long time ago
and I would like to think such overt
discrimination would not happen now
but you don't know what you don't know
so I don't know how many times there's been a list
of barristers put forward and my name has been overlooked
because I'm a female or because I had small children.
You don't know what you don't know
but we do know from the statistics
that women are not being briefed
in the same percentage as they make up at the Bar.
We are working on unconscious bias.
We think that is a big thing so
if you are not like me I will not brief you
and because its unconscious bias people are not aware
that that filter is being applied
to who they want to brief so its education.
You know we need to get people to understand.
Understand it and once you understand unconscious
bias you can take steps to go around it.
- Jennifer what else are you doing
with firms to help overcome that unconscious bias?
- Well the Victorian Bar has a different system
to the New South Wales Bar.
We have clerks so each clerk has 100
or so barristers and the clerks are well aware
of who are their brightest and best barristers
and so we're encouraging the law firms to use the clerk
as a filter and the clerks are aware of unconscious bias.
We have trained them on that.
And they will put forward the brightest and the best.
And guess what, guess who the brightest
and the best often are, not always, often its the women.
So you know I think if solicitors
instead of going back to the same old male silks they've
always briefed if they go to the clerks and ask,
"who is the talent at the Bar?"
Who are the up and coming, bright, young things?
The clerks will do the right thing.
I'm certain of that.
- Jennifer have you seen it change over the last ten years?
- I don't know about the last ten years
but certainly when I started at the bar
it was very much an all boys club.
That has changed a lot.
I mean I've been at the Bar
for 27 years now so that's a long time.
You know just to give you an example,
we have a member's club,
our club which is called the Essoign Club.
When I started that was a club that was the top
of the floor on Dixon East.
It was a dark, smoky place and there were blokes sort
of lining the bar and you had to walk past this sort
of kettle crush to get into the club.
You know that's totally changed now.
The new club is open, its airy,
its like a cafe and that's sort of indicative
of the way the whole Bar has changed.
You know when I started there hardly any women at the bar,
hardly any women judges.
Now you know again we're not at full percentage
but its ordinary, its normal to see women barristers,
its normal to see women judges.
So things are changing and I don't think its time
to be complacent.
I think that we need to keep working on this.
And we do with our diversity committee.
And as Angela said its not just women these days,
there are a range of diversity initiatives
that we're undertaking.
- Jennifer, do you train,
or suppose undertake training with men as well?
- We have male champions of change at the Bar.
That's been headed up by President Maxwell
from the Court of Appeal so look most
of the men at the Bar are you know sensitive, new-age guys.
You know a lot of them got daughters who are at the Bar.
So we do undertake training
and we will continue to undertake training.
And its not just sit down and listen
to this lecture type training.
Its training in the message, the culture, the environment.
Its leadership you know under my leadership
and I know under the leadership that's coming
through we will be promoting a very inclusive environment
so that people of all walks
of life will feel welcome and at home at the Bar.
So that whoever it was that said
that you can't come to the Bar
because you're an Asian to that student,
we're hoping that that will no longer happen.
That it will be normal to see Asian barristers.
It will be normal to see women barristers.
So we're working very hard on that.
- [Louise] How long do you both think
before that change happens?
- Ah well, you know I can't give you an exact time
but its not an overnight process.
You know it is a very intricate process
and it requires a sustained, long-term effort.
And looking at who will come through the Bar,
I know that that sort of leadership is ingrained
in the Bar counsel and that you know
we can look forward to that process continuing.
- And I think that its a process
that can pick up momentum because the more you can get
in terms of cultural diversity out there seen,
the more it normalises it and no longer
becomes a talking point and that's what I hope for.
- Angela can you share some words
of wisdom for I suppose females
with an Asian background coming through either
with that being a legal profession or coming to the Bar?
- I'd say go for it.
Be prepared to work very hard and very smart
and by that I'm referring to the networking activities
that Jennifer's spoken about.
Be seen, be out there.
And combine those two and also seek out
and work with the guidance and advice that you get.
You know in the event you do stumble
across someone who's not supportive
for whatever reason thank you very much,
move on, find someone who will guide you,
who will support you and thank them and hang on to them.
(laughter)
Sorry.
- [Louise] Stuck with you for life.
(laughter)
- The life sentence is more this way.
(laughter)
And I think don't let anyone tell you your odds.
- Jennifer any last points?
- Well as I say hard work that's number one,
hard work, network, yeah that's what it is.
- Jennifer, Angela thank you very much.
- Thank you Louise, glad to be here.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
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After Kanye Breaks The Internet With His MAGA Hat, Another Rapper Stuns Millions.
The liberal media were reeling after international superstar Kanye West tweeted a picture of
himself in a Trump hat.
As millions around the world reacted, another rapper tweeted out his opinion.
You won't believe what he said.
It started with a simple tweet.
Internationally best-selling artist Kanye West, after a long absence, tweeted out a
short sentence.
Candace Owens, if you don't already know, is a young African American woman.
She's also a powerful conservative thinker and Communications Director for Turning Point
USA.
She has gotten plenty of attention thanks to her strong support of President Donald
Trump.
It seems like her message of overcoming the "victim mentality" (something Democrats
force upon minorities) resonated with West.
The left freaked out, attacking both Kanye and Candace.
They called the conservative spokeswoman "far-right."
Some even called Kanye's mental health into question.
For liberals, I guess, a black person would have to be mentally ill in order to support
someone like Candace.
It's obvious their attacks were meant to shame both of them — and anyone else who
agreed — into silence.
They didn't count on one thing: Kanye being Kanye.
The rapper has a long reputation for speaking his mind, even when it's unpopular or controversial.
He seems to become even more vocal and aggressive when it looks like people are trying to silence
him.
After the liberal world pounced on his simple tweet, he doubled down.
He posted a photo that broke the Internet.
Kanye West.
In a Make America Great Again hat.
You can still hear the Democrats shrieking from their caves.
That red hat represents everything they hate about Trump, his administration, and the movement
he sparked among millions.
Now, one of the most influential black music artists is wearing that hat.
This watershed moment in our culture is continuing.
Another popular rapper is speaking out.
Talking to Twitter, Chance the Rapper expressed his opinion about African Americans and politics.
Once again, it's not what the left wanted to hear.
Chicago-based crooner Chance the Rapper seemed to show his support for fellow Chi-Town artist
Kanye West's beliefs about free thinking by pointing out that black people should not
feel obliged to support the Democratic Party.
"Black people don't have to be democrats," Chance the Rapper wrote on Twitter on Wednesday,
amid liberal uproar over Kanye West's vocal admiration for President Donald Trump.
[Source: Breitbart] Much like Kanye West, Chance the Rapper is
not a lockstep conservative.
In fact, he supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 — largely out of his concern over police
brutality against black citizens.
Yet his statement speaks volumes about what's going on in America.
For generations, black people have been told their only hope for success is to vote Democrat.
The liberal party has programmed millions of Americans to believe this.
It is so ingrained among them, that voting against the DNC is almost like betraying their
community.
Very few African Americans support the Republican Party.
Those who do are often attacked, slandered, and ostracized.
Yet what has this undying support gotten the community?
Black men make up the vast majority of incarcerated felons.
Unemployment has been historically higher among black people.
Most black children suffer from broken homes and poor educational opportunities.
Millions of black Americans are dependent on government handouts to survive.
Most patriots know the truth.
Sadly, Democrats have exploited black people for votes, keeping them poor, harassed, and
oppressed.
It's in the left's best interest for African Americans to be victims; that way, they're
easier to control.
Kanye West's support for President Donald Trump demolishes the left's narrative.
How can they claim Trump is a racist when someone like West not only supports him but
calls him his brother?
Kanye has been extremely vocal about the African American community.
He once called out President George W. Bush for neglecting it.
Liberals can't keep pushing the idea that President Trump hates minorities when Kanye
says he loves the man.
Chance the Rapper's tweet adds fuel to a growing fire.
More black people are going to realize the Democrats don't have their best interests
in mind.
It's not a crime to break from that party to support Republicans — if they so choose.
They might realize that Donald Trump — despite what the left says — is actually working
very hard to help them.
We are witnessing the beginning of a major change.
Not all African Americans will become Trump supporters.
But this week has struck a massive blow in the left's schemes to suppress them.
Things will change tremendously in the coming months and years.
Just you watch.
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