the clock strikes midnight. It is midnight. Can you hear it? My husband has clocks. He likes the the old vintage clocks and they all chime. So it's midnight here. Thanks for watching guys. Thanks for being here. Big Money Bolos. So I'm gonna share with you 14 of my Big Money Bolos items that I bought low and sold high. Everything is $40 or more. I do also have a bread and butter series where I share items that are like $30 or less. So those items are a little bit easier to find and a lot of people really like those. So if you have not checked out my bread and butter series, my bread and butter Bolo video series, I have a playlist. Go check that out. But these are my Big Money ones and I only have 14 tonight. So let's get started. All right. The first one is from my jewelry bulk by purchase. Yeah. So if you guys haven't seen it, it's my Monday night series. Go check that out. I bought a ton of jewelry but this was one of the items in it and it was actually 344 pounds of jewelry. So this is one item. And I sold this for $45. Best offer and the buyer paid shipping. So this is, I think it's pronounced lawn jeans or lawn jines. I don't know. I always say it wrong. But it's a 10 carat rolled gold plate mechanical wind up women's watch. And the lady messaged me and she was just so excited about this watch. So I was happy to sell it to her. So very exciting. And if you guys want to hear or see what I paid for the 344 pounds of jewelry, I have a video on that where I weigh it all and I tell you what I paid for it. And how like I bought it off of eBay. Like how do you buy 344 pounds of jewelry on eBay? Well, there's a story behind it and I tell that story in that video. So go check it out. All right. The next item is this vintage Broadway carousel jacket. The sleeves are leather. I picked this up at an estate sale and it even says Charlie on the front, you guys. But that could probably it's stitched in there. It could be like a stitch remover. I don't know what that's called. But you could probably use one of those and take it off. But I sold this for 100 bucks and I picked it up at an estate sale for like $5. So pretty, pretty good Bolo. It did take some time to sell. But I am glad that I waited on the right buyer and again, it sold for $100. So pretty cool. All right. This is the second time I've sold this antique 14K gold filled ornately carved cigar band ring. And I have a gal in my Facebook group that has helped me like with identifying certain things. And she called this a cigar band. So she gave me that keyword to use in the title. I think that it really, really helped and I really appreciate that, you know, she's been so kind and helpful to me. So I sold this for $45. Again, the first time it got returned because they said it more it was more plateware than they had expected. And you can see, I mean, I show close ups. These were the same pictures. You can see it's bent. It's not in great shape. It's very, very old. But it got returned, which is fine. They returned it very quickly and the same condition that I shipped it. So I was completely fine with that. And I sold it again for $45 and the buyer paid shipping.  You can see them. But somebody messaged me and they're like, will you take $75? And I'm like, yes. So I changed the price and then my sale kicked in and somebody snagged it for $67.50. So I was hoping to get 75 out of them, but $67.50 is just fine. You can see they've got some damage on their legs. They're not in mint condition, but they do their eyelashes look pretty good and their face makeup looks pretty good. And $67.50 plus shipping is great. I cannot remember what I paid exactly. It was a bulk buy purchase. So I probably have five bucks or less in these. I picked these up at an estate sale for $5. I almost did not buy them because they are a size five and size five is so hard to sell. But they sold and they sold pretty quick. I paid five bucks at an estate sale and I took a best offer of $68 plus shipping. They are brand new in the original box, which is very, very cool. So they're like a weighted exercise sandal. Pretty cool, huh? Dr. Scholl's. Alright, we're like five bucks and it's shaped like a fish. It's a figural scabbard carving set. Sheath, forged, steel knife, fork, India, wooden fish. And if you can't tell, these were not my words. I looked this up on eBay and I used words from other people's titles because I don't know what half those things mean. But anyhow, yeah, pretty cool, huh? It's like a carving set. Kind of weird, but I sold this for $40 plus shipping. It did take a while to sell, but I paid five bucks and I was happy to see it go. Here's another perfume from that bulk buy that I picked up at the thrift store. It's called Lolita Lempica and it's a 50 ML made in France and it's partially used and I don't know. It's hard to see really now that I'm looking at it. Okay, you can kind of tell there. I mean, it's still got a lot left, but I took a best offer of $40 for this. I had about, I think it was 36 cents in the perfumes by the time I divided it out by the number that I paid for it and what they sold and how many items there were. So about 36 cents. So very good return on my money for those. I sold another Birkham Bunny. I did take an offer of 98 on this one. It is erudized. It is more rare. I probably could have held out and waited for about 125. But you guys, I had, I forget, what did it equal out to like 30 some cents each for these also? It was a bulk buy. Maybe it was 27 cents each. Maybe. I don't know. It was something ridiculous. I did really well with these, but I did not think that they were going to be worth money. I just thought they were kind of cute and different and, you know, bunnies and I had no idea. I mean, I was thinking maybe I could get 20, 30 bucks for them and then I looked them up and the story behind them is fantastic. These are in my Thrift Battle on Primetime Treasure Hunters channel. If you want to hear more about them, go check that out. But I took a $98 offer on this and the buyer paid shipping. Pick this up at my thrift store. It was $10. It was half off day. So I got this for five bucks. I do believe. I do believe that's what it was. It was either five or seven. It was, it might have been five. No, I think it was 10 and half off. I have a video on that haul. So if you guys want to know for sure what I paid for it, it's in that haul video. But this came from a thrift store. I am guessing five to seven dollars and I sold it for $40 and the buyer paid shipping. OK, so these live dolls. They have wigs and you can change them out. And these are little wig stands. I love this one with the hat like it's connected to the hair and the headband. And then the hair comes off. These are wigs. Let me see if I have a picture. Did I not do a picture? Oh, there they are. No hair. And then you change their wigs out. So it's kind of cool. So I got this lot and this lot and they're all different. And sorry, they're naked. I didn't have any clothes. But I sold both lots to the same person and I ended up selling both lots for seventy five dollars and twenty four cents and the buyer paid shipping. I don't remember what I paid for these. I'm guessing I have less than five dollars in all of them. This vintage car cartopesta angel tree topper. It's like a paper mache. Pick this up at a thrift store for a dollar. I sold it for forty four dollars plus shipping. I have done it really well with these angels. This one has a repair, so it's got a screw in the back. I'm guessing maybe the wings fell off. I don't know, but it still sold really well and really fast. This vintage sorry board game. I picked this up at a garage sale. I think it was fifty cents and I sold it for fifty dollars plus shipping. It is still sealed. So definitely a winner. The next item. Oh, and if you guys have not seen my vintage board games to be on the lookout for, definitely go check that out. All right. I have a sad, sad story about this. It did not make it. And, you know, I just it's frustrating because I had this thing packaged really, really well. And the person messaged me and they're like, I love this. I'm going to put it outside. They sent me a picture of where they were going to sit it and I was really excited for them because, you know, it's exciting to get something you really love. And I felt like they really wanted this item. I got a message today that the item broke. So I'm assuming that it's like the leg like down here, like one of these legs. No, it is broke. Like down, like right here in between. Let me see if I get right in here. Let me see. Like right in here, it's like cracked. Like it just must have got like thrown or like somebody sat on it or something. I don't know what happened. But I was so disappointed and I'm like USPS. The last time I filed a claim for a mug, I'm going to come talk to you guys and tell you this story real quick. The last time I filed a claim for a mug, they sent me a letter saying that I had to bring the mug, the packaging materials and the box that I shipped it in because they needed proof that I shipped it well before they were going to refund my money. And I'm like, how on earth am I supposed to bring it to you when I've already shipped it to the person? So long story short, I didn't get my money back and I had it. It was insured, you know. So very, very frustrating. And I don't know why this happened. Has this happened to anyone else? Am I going to have to deal with this every single time I file a claim? So do I have the person? Do I pay for them to ship it back to me so I can take it to my post office and show them the packaging? Like that's a whole nother... That makes no sense. That makes no sense. Number two, the buyer doesn't want to file the claim. I mean, then that's another step for them when they already received an item that was broken. And I will tell you that the mug I shipped was wrapped in so much bubble wrap. It was in a loose, like not a loose box, but it had like some give. So it wasn't like it maybe got hit on the side. I have no idea how it got broken. I just know that it must have really been thrown around. These are the two packages that have broken this year. The mug that I'm telling you about, which was about, I don't know, probably four or five months ago now. But I never did get my money. So that's really frustrating. I am going to talk to my postmaster about it and just kind of see what to do. Maybe I shouldn't be filing the claims online. And I do have one more really good Bolo for you guys after this story. Maybe I should just go into my post office and actually physically like fill out a claim and show them the pictures that they send me on eBay. I don't know if that would be better. How are you guys doing it? Help me out. I don't have this happen a lot. So I'm not really sure what to do. But yeah, they sent me a letter saying I needed to bring it in. And of course, I couldn't bring it in. So back to this thing. The gal messages me back later after she opened a return and I told her it already had these cracks. Those were disclosed. But it was literally split in half, like I said. So she's like opens the case and I said, you know, I'm sorry I told you that I have to go and talk to my postmaster. There's nothing I can do until I talk to the postmaster because I don't know what to do because of the mug thing. So she opens a claim says she wants to return it while I get a notification later today that says I would like to just keep the item and try to have it repaired. Would you mind refunding me $35? And I was like, absolutely, I'll return $35. Then I don't have to deal with the post office. I don't have to deal with the claim. Hopefully she can repair this and use it because I mean, it's pretty, it's got a lot of detail. So you may not see it once it's glued back together. I don't know. I hope she can salvage it. So she asked for a $35 refund. So I sent her the $35 refund. I paid $5 for this. I took a best offer of 50. I gave her a 35 back. So I still made a little bit of money like five bucks or something. And you know what? I feel awful. I feel awful that she was so excited about it and that it came broken. And it's just sad just stinks. Which leads me to this beauty. All right. So I was hoping I was going to get a bidding more on this one. But I'm very happy with the sold price. I sold this for $199.99. The buyer paid immediately. She's like, I don't want to say life size, but she's pretty big. She's a big, because her legs are folded. See, it's so cute. I mean, she is like one of the prettiest dolls I've ever seen. I was at a thrift, I was at the Goodwill actually.  And she was $12.99, you know, plus tax. And I listed her and I had a bid very, very fast for $199.99 plus shipping. She is going to, I believe, Canada. So she will go to global shipping first, which she did send me a message and she's like, please, please, please package her. I'm like, look, I spent 30 or 40 minutes like packaging this doll. I like bubble wrapped each arm. When I was out with the clothes, you guys saw my closet with all the clothes. If you didn't go watch that video, it's crazy, but I had emptied all the bags out. So I took those bags and I wrapped those around the bubble wrap. So it's another like inch or two of like plastic. I bubble wrapped her head. I mean this girl is bubble wrapped. So my concern is it's going to the global shipping center in Kentucky. Do they take it out of the package before they ship it or do they just ship it? Because I really hope they don't take it out of the package and mess with it because I spent, like I said, 30 to 40 minutes just getting it packaged because I don't, she's beautiful. I don't want her to get broken.  So I really, really, I hope she makes it. I'm going to ensure it. But I don't know if that'll do any good after my story with that coffee mug. But I think she's going to be okay. And I think global shipping, like if it makes it to them fine, I think if it gets broken and transit from global shipping to Canada, I'm pretty sure that they cover it. I think that's how it works. I don't know. I haven't had it that problem. I did have a global shipping thing the other day that got stuck at the global shipping center and it never shipped and eBay covered it. So our global shipping, whoever, because it never left their center and went to the actual buyer, they just closed out the case. And I'm sure if they end up finding it, it will ship to the original person that bought it. I don't think it'll come back to me. So some little extra details, shipping details in this video. Sorry about that. I hope it didn't drive you too crazy. But I didn't have a whole lot of Bolo's anyway this time, only 14. So thanks for watching. I hope you learned something. Comment below with your favorite Bolo in this video. I'm trying to think. Mine's that doll. That doll is beautiful. All right, you guys. Have a great night. Thanks for watching and I'll see you real soon. Oh, be sure to like, hit that thumb, comment, subscribe and share.


Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and it's time for another patreon poll. We haven't done one of these for a long time. There have been a lot of things going on, a lot of things that have gotten in the way, theme months, jocon, big events like Cobra Convergence 3, so we haven't done one of these for a while and it is about time to give you guys an opportunity to help decide what will be reviewed on this channel. I have three choices as always and these are all from the 90s. We spent a lot of time reviewing 80s GI Joe toys, probably too much time, so we've got to get back to the 90s. If we stay in the 80s we will run out of 80s toys to review and this will be nothing but the 90s GI Joe channel for week after week and month after month, so we really need to get some of these 90s toys out of the way. We've got to get to them, so it will be all 90s this time.  Option 1 is 1991 Ozone from Eco Warriors. I said least rant worthy, I didn't say it was not rant worthy at all. However, I think Ozone here is probably the least rant worthy of the Eco Warriors figures. Despite the quite outrageous colors and the accessories, there's actually a few good things going on with this figure and so I'd like to point those out. I may have some comments about the Eco Warriors themselves, but the figure itself, there are some decent things to talk about. So there might be moderate rant levels, but not an all out rant for Ozone. I do have some good thoughts about Ozone, along with some criticism. So if you would like 1991 Ozone to be reviewed, then you would choose option 1. Option 2 is 1993 Mace and this figure is actually pretty good. Actually don't have really anything bad to say about the figure itself. The figure itself is absolutely fine. So what could be rant worthy about this figure? Well not the figure itself, but the accessories. And if you know anything about Mace, you already know what I'm talking about. So I would have some sharp comments about the accessories on this figure, although I would praise the figure itself. Actually really nice figure that I like a lot. So if you would like to see Mace reviewed, then choose option 2. For the highest rant level, I have option number 3, which is Leatherneck version 3 from 1993. Oh my god, what did they do to Leatherneck? I'll have quite a lot to say about this figure, so if you want top level rant in your review, then choose option number 3 from 1993 Leatherneck version 3. Those are your 3 options. You do need to be a Patreon supporter to vote, so please check out my Patreon page to find out how, but support at any level will give you the right to vote. Even one single dollar a month will give you the right to vote in this poll. The polling will start on August 6th, 2018 and will end on August 10th, and the winner will get a review on August 19th. As you view this video, the poll should be up, so go to Patreon, voting starts now.


Welcome to the Marine Creek Drainage Basin, Sewer Inceptor, Phase 2, Part 2 Improvement, that's quite the mouthful. This is a WebEx design meeting. If you can see the screen and you have a question, go ahead and go down to the chat in the bottom right hand corner and type in your questions and we will go to those as soon as the presentation is over. Your project manager is Walter Norwood with the 4th wire department. We also have council member Flores here who wants to say a few words before we start council member. All right, thank you very much, Sally. This is Carlos Flores, council member for district 2 and welcome everyone who is online with us to hear about Part 2, the Marine Creek drainage basin improvements. This project is going to concentrate on the replacement of sanitary sewer lines through Marine Creek Lake Park and run parallel to Marine Creek reservoir. The new sewer I've been told begins at 10 mile bridge by the Marine Creek boat ramp and parking lot and then it follow the path of the walking trail. So, looking forward to learning more about this with you all and I'll turn it back over to staff. Okay, Walter, it's yours. Okay, my name is Walter Norwood. I'm a senior civil engineer with the Fort Worth water department and I'll be the project manager. And I'm going to do this presentation for you. Where we've done the introductions and we'll do an overview overview. And show you the area we're working in and go over a few frequently asked questions and show you the timeline of the project. As I said, I'm the project manager Walter Norwood.<PHONE_NUMBER> or walter.norwood at Fort Worth, Texas. We also have our engineering design consultant on from happen. This is this project is in council district 2 and it'll impact the Marine Creek community. Northwest Fort Worth neighborhood alliance Marine Creek meadows, Omen estates and possibly even. Neighbors of Jenkins Heights, Crestridge area. Before I before I keep going, I just want to say that this is a design public meeting. We have not. Scheduled the construction yet or gone out for bids. The purpose of this meeting is to get input. From the citizens and stakeholders so we can incorporate that into the design. First thing I'm going to explain is what an interceptor sewer is or why we call it an interceptor. And that's basically an interceptor is a major sewer that gets flow from smaller trunk lines and even smaller.  And as, as we go down the basin, all this flow is combined and directed towards the wastewater treatment facility. So we can read this if you need to, or you can get the presentation. But essentially an interceptor takes flows from laterals.  And the local lines and trunk sewers. And like I said, it connects it collects it into the interceptor and into even larger interceptors to take it to the treatment plan. So an interceptor can also. It's also known. Anyway, sewer lines are also known as interceptors. This map on the right shows you the. The limits of the project with the blue line towards the bottom here. That begins or ends at 10 mile bridge road goes through the park. And crosses just the shallowest part of the lake. The 1st phase, this is, this is phase 2. The 1st phase went from 10 mile bridge road to the Northwest. Behind lamb Creek drive. And that 1, that sewer replaced a 36 inch with a 42 inch sewer. This project is called phase 2 part 2. And again, the project is shown with the dark black line. On the picture on the left. You can see the, the walking trail approximately 100 feet. To the Southeast of the sewer, except where they cross. 2 locations near the end of the project. We're going through the parking lot for the boat ramp and the trail head there. So you can see the swimming pool and. Kings know Parkway to the Northwest of our project. 2 to 300 feet away. And the houses back up to the park. There are also some houses on new Castleton lane. We'll back up to the. To the boat dock area where they'll be construction. The part 2 of the Marine Creek sewer project. It will replace an existing 30 inch sewer with a new 42 inch diameter sewer. Where we cross the reservoir. I mentioned that we're crossing the shallowest part of the lake. There is a siphon. So it has 2 pipes and it will be a 42 inch and an 18 inch. The purpose of this. Project is to. Replace the main. Which has a history of meeting. Repairs, but also to add capacity. There's been a lot of development in the area and we need additional capacity in the sewer main. The picture on the right shows the basin that is collected by this interceptor. It goes all the way to the. Parent Denton County line. And you can see the Marine Creek lake right here, just. North of 820. That's the part we're working in the basin. From Marine Creek goes farther. To the southeast towards. Forwards the stockyards area. This picture shows what happens if we don't repair our mains and keep them. In good shape with adequate capacity. And this exhibit. Shows a typical sewer service. From your house to the main, as I said, the main. That this service line is connected to goes from your house and connects to the main in the street. And those are what we call laterals. Those are collected into larger sewers. So the sewer we're replacing doesn't actually have a service line that connects to your house. This project is going to require bypass pumping. And that means we're going to plug the old main before we start replacing it and pump the flow around the area we're working in. So that has to happen continuously during the project. The pumps are going to be set up on the north side of 10 mile bridge road and discharge. Pass the end of our project. In the park. If. Well, we usually close. You backfill the pipe as we go, but there'll be a small section of it that's open. That the trenches left open and we will be fencing off that small area at the end of each day. But they are they backfill as they go. So. Won't be much that's open. There are 2 areas where we cross the trail, but the trail won't be closed. Even in the areas where we cross it will build a temporary section. So that the trail can stay open. And when we're done, we'll replace the trail with. The same concrete that is there now. The only road that should be impacted by this work is the 10 mile bridge. At near the boat dock. And we'll be able to work around that as we. While we're working, we'll be able to have traffic work around that and and not close the boat. Since we're going through the park area. We need a fairly wide path to. For the equipment and there are going to be some trees removed. Those trees are shown on the construction drawings. Mostly within the existing easements. But there are going to be some trees removed. Now, as I said, this is a design meeting. I'll have another meeting later when we get ready for construction and where you can meet the contractor. So. This meeting is to get comments and address them. After that we'll advertise for bids. From contractors. And then we'll. Award it generally to the low bidder, typically to the low bidder. And then we'll schedule another pre construction meeting with you to. Show you the. The final construction plans and. And get the contractor schedule and so you can meet the contractor and the inspector that's assigned to the project. There'll be additional updates. And construction will start when, when the contractor gets ready to work.  He will put a door hanger. On your door seven days before. That that work starts. Nobody's going to have their sewer cut off. During this time and you will always have your service. Working. If you need additional information. You can. You can go to the website below or project updates. And also go to www.fortworth, Texas dot gov. It's F. O. R. T. W. R. T. X. A. S. Dot G. O. V. And you can enter the project number 1 0 0 2 7 4 dash 2. In the search bar and that will take you to that page. The link to this meeting, the project map and the. Frequently asked questions will be linked to that page. And as I said, I'm the project manager, Walter Norwood 8 1 7 3 9 2 5 0 2 6. Or by email at walter dot Norwood N O R W O O D at Fort Worth, Texas dot gov. If there are any emergencies that come up. After hours or any other time. You can all 24 hours a day. You can call. This number 8 1 7 3 9 2 4 7 7 select option 1. And report the emergency. You can also call our non-emergency center. If you would prefer, you can download an app for your phone. My F. W. And report overflows or eats that way. So I guess we're ready for questions. That's the end of my presentation. Okay. We don't have any questions in the chat. Does someone have a question for Walter? Ed, do you have any questions? No, thank you, Sally. It looks to me from looking at the map and all that I'm further. Let me thank you. That's no. I'm further East on Kings. No, then what looks to be impacted at all. So. That's good news. I'm guessing. So yes, that would be my question. Actually, I wanted to see where, how far it was going down, but clearly it's not coming. Down by the back of the house here. So. No other questions. Thank you. You're welcome. If anybody else have a question. Clarification need to see another a slide again. I did put the link, the direct link into chat. If you want to click on that, but it is a lot easier just to do. The project number that Walter showed. And we'll probably have all of this information uploaded on the website. This is Monday. We should have it uploaded no later than Tuesday night, Wednesday morning. And I'll contact the neighborhood association. So they have that information as well. And you, Carlos. Of course. Yeah. And the project number is the same as the password with a dash 2, right? 100. Yeah, perfect. That's the easiest way to search for it on there. Okay. Okay. No one else has questions. We will call it a night. You can call Walter for any questions you have. Again, Walter said we'll come back after the project is awarded to a contractor and we'll meet with the community again. Counselor floors. Did you have anything else? Nothing at all. Just appreciate staff's information and everyone's time tonight. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Good night, everybody. Good night. Thank you all for taking the time. Thank you.


From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar this is the hotel operator ready with your call mr. Dollar. Oh good Police department sergeant Peters. I want to talk to somebody in the personnel division. Sorry. I haven't got one What can I do for you? I want to get some information about a gun find out who it was licensed to and so on I come down to licensing division. I think we can help you there. Where's that? 220 City Hall. Do you have the weapon? Yes, be sure and bring it along with you Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to special investigator Johnny dollar for personal reasons location Vicksburg, Virginia purpose Well, it all started as an investigation of a burglary at the Plantagen Hotel Once that was out of the way I happened to run across a girl having an argument with a man in the hotel parking lot She asked me to help her I did girl suddenly gets sick and dies poison. I Stay around to help find out who she is. I don't know that But I do know that she had a 38 in her purse three bullets recently fired Expense account item eight two dollars cab fare from the Plantagen Hotel the two miles into Vicksburg City Hall and room 220 as per instructions of sergeant Peters. I Felt more than a little guilty bypassing lieutenant Jim Acons who had questioned me earlier about the case Yes, sergeant Peters. That's right. Can I help you sir? I hope so Like to know if this gun's been registered with you people. Let's have a look You just buy it. Yeah, got your bill of sale with you. What do you have to have one? You should Who'd you buy it from? Oh It's all I'm at in a bar. Have you a permit to carry this weapon? Well, no, I haven't are you going to carry it? Oh, no Then why do you buy it? Oh? Just wanted it. That's all it is there a law against that. No, no But there's a law against practically every other thing about a gun Come on read those numbers off to me. Sure JJJ dash 4769 992 and Then there's an X Make coat caliber 38 Automatic seven shot. Yeah Yeah, you'll have to fill this out pencils over there It took 15 minutes in the meantime I filled out the form which notified the Vicksburg police that I was in possession of the above described weapon That I did not wish to apply for a permit to carry it and so forth and so forth After that I stood around and smoked a cigarette and wondered if I should step downstairs and tell lieutenant Jim Acons that I had found Jane Doe's purse and the gun But before I had time to make up my mind Here we go. The gun was purchased in 1950 by the Piedmont Banking Service That's a local armored truck outfit over Maple Street. The gun was permitted for carrying to Raymond W. O'Connell 232 Polk Street the city Thanks Raymond O'Connell. Yeah, and if an ounce that's all thanks That was when I could have but didn't walk downstairs to Lieutenant Acons office Instead I walked outside with a gun in my pocket on the slip of paper containing the name and address of the man who had carried it Raymond O'Connell Expense account item 9 $25 deposit on a rented car to get me to 232 Polk Street I'm hardly ready Hello, I Was expecting someone else. I'm so sorry You're not Paul. Are you? No, I'm afraid not. My name is Johnny dollar. Oh Mr. Dollar, that's right. Well, what can I do for you, Mr. Dollar? I'm looking for Raymond O'Connell Ray yes, come inside, Mr. Dollar. Thank you. I I Really didn't mean to throw myself at you at the door. I thought you were someone else. I'm expecting I'm Terry Terry Teresa Terry O'Connell, Mr. Dollar. Oh His wife I'm Ray's widow What Ray is dead, Mr. Dollar Passed away over a year ago. It was pneumonia. Oh I'm sorry, Mrs. O'Connell. Please call me Terry You had no way of knowing about him. I'm sure and please don't be uncomfortable a Great many of Ray's friends from the service come by who have no idea that he's dead Were you in his company too? Oh just a minute Mrs. O'Connell. I had so many friends and met so many people while It was in the service and really there was no way for you to know understand Mrs. O'Connell I don't drink and we'll talk Where did you serve with Ray? You know he finally became a pilot What do you like to drink? She was young and dark and very pretty And as the widow of a man who died rather suddenly she was doing her best to put me at my ease. I Would have told her I was there checking out the registration on a 38 that had been used by her dead husband I would have told her I found a gun in the purse of an unidentified dead girl I'd met the night before But she was trying to be polite mistaking me for a friend of a dead husband And then I saw the picture in the frame on the mantle a broad spawning face that belonged to a man I'd met in the parking lot of a plantation hotel an Unidentified man who had been arguing with the dead girl the words on the picture said to Terry all my love Paul Paul. Yes, Paul Dameron. I think I met him once. I really didn't know his name Was he a friend of your husband of Ray's? Oh, no No, he never knew Ray He's a darling. Mr. Dollar Paul is a real darling After Ray died I Tried something very foolish. I tried to end my life And then Paul came into it He's been very lovely to me We're well, I don't know why I shouldn't tell you We're gonna be married. I Think that's fine Terry. Do you really sure? I'm glad you say that I'm not the most courageous person in the world I suppose Ray mentioned our lives together. It was perfect with Ray. Mr. Dollar perfect But now Ray's gone and I've been able to face that I Think I'm gonna find a new life with Paul. You must meet him. He'll be here soon We're dining out tonight Okay, I'm sure join us. Well, thank you, Mrs. O'Connell, but I can't make it tonight How long will you be in Vicksburg? I don't know exactly where you're staying the plantation hotel Perhaps I could give you a ring and we could make it another night. I know you want to talk about Ray Of course Paul understands I'm sure he does He's truly a wonderful person He hadn't looked very wonderful the night before standing in the parking lot arguing with a girl who had died But then that was my side of the picture and it wasn't complete and Somebody still had to explain the 38 with the three bullets missing I left Terry O'Connell went outside and bought an evening paper and then sat in my rented car reading it The photographer at the morgue had done a good job The unidentified girls picture was on page one. I Was reading the story over a second time when a dark business coupé pulled up behind me and Paul Dameron got out Heading for Terry O'Connell's doorway Just a minute just a minute Paul what You yeah me now look Dameron. What are you doing here? How'd you know my name or are you some professional Gunsel coming around to sock me again? I still don't stop it with your dameron.  I didn't like it then I'd simmer down with you. Who was she come on? What's her name? What's it to you? Okay? Okay? It's Amy Amy Durant Amy Durant. Yeah, we work at the same office Now look Buster. I'm not afraid of you, but I I don't want any trouble see So if you'll just go somewhere else in a minute with you How does Amy Durant tie in with Teresa O'Connell? Look, I don't know who you are what you're after, but you've certainly got your nerve about answer me Paul. Okay, okay? Terry is Amy's sister Satisfied I don't know who are you anyhow a policeman or something my name is Johnny dollar I'm here because if you aren't I want to know what right you have to ask me all these questions cool off. Will you? I've been trying to find out who she is Because last night after you went off.  She's lying in the morgue right now unidentified. There was some kind of poison that killed her No, I don't believe there It's in the paper tonight The police are trying to identify her right now dollar. I didn't think Amy was that desperate There was a way out She could have solved it without this way out of what it There was no need for her to do this. I Told her I'd help her I Had no idea she Poisoned Just Terry no not yet. I've got to tell her before she sees it like this in the newspaper It'll be awful for a dollar awful But I apologize for the way. I've acted the way I was last night. I I was upset I Can see now you're trying to help now Let me go in and break this to Terry Call me later here my card call me I Had to admit that Paul Dameron's concerns seemed as genuine as a surprise He rushed up to be admitted to the O'Connell house after he was inside the door I went back to my car and took out the 38 automatic that had led me to the sister of Amy O'Connell three bullets still missing I Drove downtown to the Vicksburg police station to turn the gun into Lieutenant Acons and tell them the whole story as I know it How I'd found the gun and the dead girls purse how I'd managed to find out her name the three missing bullets and other Unanswered questions were up to the police Yeah, well, I oh hi dollar thought you left out Joe all right Joe soon as they clear that place up. You notify the land lieutenant. I'm trying to get to you I think I have something that better be looked into Yeah Yeah, what well in about 15 minutes, right? I'm sorry dollar. What was it you were saying while the hussars something big a homicide happened yesterday sometime Yeah, who got it guy named Belden somebody shot him three times with a 38 Here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow Information about the gun that blows the whole case sky high Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar or is truly Johnny dollars starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking


Good evening everybody Welcome My name is Elizabeth Sackler, and I had a great time this morning when I walked out the door and was able to walk out the door and saw the sun Shine it's it's been a while. It's been sort of like I understand living in Seattle Which is a whole other thing? Welcome this evening To our part three of states of denial the illegal incarceration of children women and people of color Parts one and two of our series if you were here was sentenced to change with Piper Kerman and also mass Incarcerations impact on black and Latino women and children with Sophia Elijah and They can be found if you weren't able to join us They can be found online if you put in Brooklyn museum org slash EAS CFA Elizabeth a Sackler Center for Feminist art slash video You will be able to see those two earlier parts and there are hundreds of other Great programings that we've done at the Sackler Center available there, too so I'm happy to welcome you tonight to the Cantor Auditorium and this evening screening of the documentary film Crime After Crime which will be followed with a conversation with a conversation by a conversation With the starring attorney who has joined us from the West Coast Joshua Safran and his co-counsel Nadia Costa was unable to be here due to a family emergency and I'd like to extend my thanks to her for all that she has done with Joshua And tell her that she is missed here this evening and then we will have a book signing Joshua's new book and there'll be an opportunity then on stage for one-on-one conversation and questions with Joshua Last summer. I met Ann Tucker I had really the good fortune to meet and Tucker who is the founder of the avoda Dance ensemble and she came into my life in a kind of an extraordinary way she had a 30-year career with avoda what she founded and She added a jewel. I'd like to say into their crown She started dance Residencies and workshops for York Institute correctional institution up in Niantic, Connecticut And it's the only state Women's prison in Connecticut. It is a maximum and minimum security prison there My first visit to York was with her was with Joanne and it was last fall and I have since then continued to do art workshops with the ten inmates and I'd like tonight to thank Joe Lee who is not here he's a librarian specialist and he's dedicated and He's remarkable and it wouldn't have been possible without him and the reason that this is so important is because of the content my first workshop there included a PowerPoint of the dinner party by Judy Chicago, which is up at the Sackler Center permanently and I focused attention on five plates and followed that with an art studio session for the ten women who had enrolled for the workshop and Using paper plates and acrylic paints and collage materials and colored pencils they created their own dinner party inspired plates and Their focus which was very intense and wonderful morphed into delight and then to an inmates suggestion to produce an entire table Complete with the runners and the goblets and the silverware in the heritage floor that you see On the dinner party and it is their dinner party and they have titled their work shared dining shared dining is what a mess hall or cafeteria is called in prison The plates that they made Represent women whether mythic or real historic or contemporary who have inspired each of them each of these ten women and These are their plate names feminine energy Eve the Virgin Mary Juliet Shakespeare's Juliet Lena who is a great aunt? Phyllis Porter who is a victim of one of the artists Princess Diana Rainey who was one of their moms Danica Patrick race car driver Malala as in I am Malala The following didactic Was written by the artists the inmates and it reads as follows Inspired by the dinner party and the women in it We were moved to honor the women who have touched our lives Our plates represent their strength struggles courage and achievements These women are models of who we aspire to be Though our materials are meager we have not been limited by the lack of resources our imagination resourcefulness and creativity Allowed us to turn commonplace objects into art and it is signed the women of York. I Am returning this Monday To put the finishing touches on the piece with them because on May 22nd The Connecticut's prison arts program annual exhibition opens at the University of Hartford and It will open with shared dining Installed and on view to the public it will be one of 18 Connecticut prisons represented in the show and I have watched art as a healer and I have watched the transformation of one idea Turn into an enormous and beautiful Project For great of great pride for the women who worked on it and indeed it will be also up at the penitentiary So that everybody there all of the inmates all thousand. I think there are 1200 total Will be able to see it and since 1978 the prison art classes have taught artistic skills They assist inmates to develop non-destructive modes of Communication and provide guidance in understanding the learning process the creative process the process of critical thinking and The process of self-awareness the current director is Jeffrey Green. He lives here in Brooklyn I don't know if he's here with us this evening He's wonderful, and he is the master planner of this initiative in July of 1913 in the New Yorker Rachel Louise Snyder in her article a raised hand Provided horrifying statistics women comprise roughly 85% of the victims of domestic violence One in every four women is a victim of domestic violence at some point in her life of the 6,000 women Incarcerated in this country over 80% are survivors of domestic violence rape and other forms of abuse the laws have rendered battered women Criminals and have protected their batterers and Thanks to attorneys such as Joshua Saffron and Nadia Custa the California laws today allow for Incarcerated survivors of abuse to petition for their freedom I would like to describe to you a little bit about crime after crime, and then we will watch the documentary crime after crime was completed in 2011 and it's a documentary film directed and produced by Yohav Potash Premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2011 has since earned 25 major awards Including the Robert F. Kennedy journalism award the National Board of Reviews freedom of expression award and the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism the film was a New York Times critic critics pick and Earned the Henry Hampton award for excellence in film and digital media presented by the Council on Foundation And the pursuit of justice award presented by the California women's Law Center in May 2011 the film won the Golden Gate Award for documentary feature at the 54th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, and it was later picked up by Oprah Winfrey's network for broadcast there so we will watch the film and Resume upon its completion. Thank you very much It gives me a great deal of pleasure to introduce to you Josh Saffron Josh You're gonna sit in chat for a minute if you'd like to sit down I just want to read to you that Josh Saffron is an author and attorney and he says an occasional rabbi Right very occasional. He is the author of the critically acclaimed new book free spirit growing up On the road and off the grid Joshua's a nationally recognized champion for women's rights and his LSF get for survivors of domestic violence and the wrongfully imprisoned First work. He's received numerous awards and his website is at www.jsaffron.com And I thank you for joining us watching watching a movie that movie again. How many times have you seen it? I have seen that would be too many times which is hard to believe because I think it's an amazing movie But I my six-year-old says it best, which is you seem to cry a lot Well, how did you get involved with the making of the movie how did Joe and yeah so the the filmmaker is One of my closest friends were sort of best men at each other's wedding. It was one of those deals and when I was in Law school he and I kind of Collaborated together on a short film called minute matrimony about a drive through wedding chapel sort of a commentary on today's fast food culture and what if love was the same dished up in the same way and He had me play these sort of There were some strange parallels. I was the Jewish groom in a black Jewish wedding that involved a gospel choir That sang Havana gila and dancing rabbis and that kind of thing. It was a comment And it was a short film and then when we finished that project He said well, what let's do another movie. Let's do something else together And I said well, I'm I've graduated from law school now. I'm a real person. I have a mortgage and you know I can't you know, I can't do that but I'm doing this pro bono case maybe we can do a documentary about that and We talked about it. He said, you know domestic violence is not an issue that people will go to a movie theater And sit through 90 minutes of it's just too heavy. So thank you all for proving wrong and quite frankly the your client isn't Innocent in the way that someone who's exonerated by DNA is innocent and really audiences want to know that the person they're rooting for is You know completely innocent sort of speak and I said, okay, you know, okay, fair enough But he followed you for seven years and you came out So we so I kind of kept as a friend, of course I was updating him about where we were in the case and finally he was like, you know This woman sounds really amazing if you can get me into the prison, right? Let me kind of screen test her and see how how she shows up and one of the secrets about California prisons Is they're almost as hard to get into as they already get out of So it took me about five months to figure out this trick like well if I hire him as my legal videographer Then he's not the media He's not a filmmaker and if he happens to be swinging the camera around wildly while he's in the room You know, what do they know and So that's sort of what we did and he met and he sat down with Debbie and I was sort of very poker-faced because I'm You know Just playing my role as an attorney and there's this guard that's kind of passing back and forth, you know on the side of the window there and He asked Debbie questions for about five hours on that first day And then when we and the main interview with her is from that actually from that first day The one where she looks sort of the youngest, you know It's really interesting Joshua because it's it's such a moving film And there are a lot of tears and a lot of reason for a lot of tears in it But they're the outrage of it in many ways Sometimes and occasionally during the course of the film get sort of subsumed By the emotion of it by by and certainly ultimately in the end of how how thrilled we are like You know a great movie that this woman is free But here we are faced still With an outrage of justice What happened to Cooley and how often is this continuing to happen now? Yeah, so as you may gather I had a hard time sleeping When this case sort of was over because it didn't feel over to me Cooley was still out there And he of course was running for Attorney General at that time on his law and order record and You know, I really wanted Debbie's family to Continue the litigation and continue sort of a formal exoneration so we can sue him and bring them to task And it was very hard for me to hear from them.  We're just done So it wasn't really until the film premiered at Sundance and I saw sort of the reaction In the audience which was you know like yours I think and although there was a fair amount of booing and hissing because the audiences there tend to be very kind of Interactive the evil right They booed the right people they booed Cooley and then the next day the American Bar Association kind of online Journal Ran an article and the headline was LAD a featured in Sundance documentary audiences boo hiss And at that point I was like, okay, you know Debbie all along I've been wanting her exoneration in the court of law her exoneration and Cooley's condemnation are gonna come in the court of public opinion And that's the way it's gonna be and her legacy will be assured and so will his And what about the laws? In the state of California and also in the rest of the world. I mean in terms of You know women who are who are domestic, right, you know, so the battered women's syndrome. I mean Yeah There's good news and bad news. The good news is almost every state has What is what was then called a bad woman's defense now from an intimate partner battering and its effects defense And that's good. So that means that women today at least should have the benefit of Provide telling their story The bad news is there's a generation of women like Debbie or generations of women like Debbie who are Incarcerated before these laws are passed who don't get to reopen their cases They don't in 49 of 50 states California remains the only state that actually has a Formal avenue for these women to reopen their case. Is there something that we can do about that? There is and I am embarrassed that I don't have it in front of me. It's a long complicated name There is a bill that's been introduced in the New York State Legislature that's Take note everybody. It doesn't lend itself to an acronym, but but you remember the whole thing. I can't it's the It's like something like domestic violence survivors Incarcerated domestic violence survivors justice act or something to that effect. Does anybody here know about that? All right, so everybody can look it up and yes Yeah, is that right? Right. Oh, might as thing culture. Okay. So and that's that's something that we didn't have any Our team didn't really have any role and other than a little bit of cheerleading from the side. We did, you know Juma All right. So the question was who's sponsoring the legislation? So we have a whole other discussion which is why we're going to be continuing the series So these are the kinds of things that we will put on our list that we need to provide for it for the public But let's that's for the permanent to get back here. So you're the only state still we're the only state because of Debbie's case I'm the California law has been amended twice. Yes, which is great one to sort of clean up the shenanigans from people like Cooley to give explicit instructions to prosecutors not to mess this up, which is great and the second is the definition The opportunities for post-conviction remedies has been lowered So it isn't it's no longer just women who are convicted of murder, but now women who are basically convicted of any felony So a lot of times the classic is the women are these getaway drivers Which means they're in the car the husband or boyfriend or significant other goes into a liquor store And comes running out and says drive and she drives and of course, he's robbed the place You know, so it's opened up wherever wherever you can show that had The admission of this kind of evidence of battering and test expert testimony really would would have undermined the confidence in the original Conviction these women can now present their case and they're by and large, you know Grandmothers or you know mothers who've been in for 20 30 years Without really any hope of release and I do want to give one great thing that we have been a bit of part of I think New Jersey may actually beat New York in this legislation and there's a Bill that's at least tentatively called Debbie's law, which we're working with Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg in New Jersey Who's an awesome lady who describes herself as a Jewish grandmother? but she's of course the majority whip of the majority leader of the Democratic Party in the legislature and A 15 year old girl saw crime after crime at the Long Island Film Festival And was so moved by it because she was 15 and Debbie was 15 at the time that she was Taken by Oliver Wilson. She organized a screening at like the JCC back in T-neck and her parents Along with this girl, Mikaela is her name. They sort of pressured the local senator to come to the screening Who happened to be the Senate Majority Leader and there was sort of like mob? Psychology at this screening. I don't know if there are any legislators here today But when the movie ended someone got up and said how come New Jersey doesn't have a law and everyone looked to the state senator Who on the spot pledged to pass legislation. Oh, I have to call the mayor. We'll have to get the governor do it It's a great ambush opportunity We've done I've flown out twice to meet with Loretta Weinberg and to meet with Advocates in New Jersey and I'm excited to be available here. I'm your cheerleader. Yeah, let me know what I can do You know, it's it's very interesting the film is now three years out Yeah, and it doesn't feel the least bit dated which is the good news and the bad news It's mostly in many ways the bad news But it has such an arc to it the story has so much information about the Injustices that this country is looking at in relationship to mass incarceration That I think it's a great primer in a sense if you if you will I mean it really it really gives you an overview and specifics of of the horrors that can happen and the escalation of women in prison is astounding and we have had earlier panels that have discussed actually that Problem that situation I'm looking at this movie and that this is the second or third time. I've seen it and I'm thinking about Debbie working Doing the work on the little computer things. I'm thinking this is free labor So how much is tied into? prisoners who are working within the prisons and providing work for companies not to mention Who was it who said to me, you know, if you have How many Millions of people's just two million people incarcerated how many cans of Tomatoes you need to prepare meals What kind of business is incorporated in addition to the privatization of prisons? but With Debbie's working That was just part of her life there that was a few hours during the day, right every day that she would work and get paid She she actually seven dollars a week She was as well. No, she was actually beginning to approach I know, you know, I can't remember the numbers but at the time I remember it was she was the highest paid inmate or the highest Paid class of inmate right in the prison and she I mean she was below minimum wage But she was approaching it which was actually astounding because many of the women got paid, you know A quarter an hour or whatever it was right So it is there was a joint the sort of joint venture program they call them in California Of course the problem many of Debbie's sisters as she called them her Women she was serving taught life with Are convinced that it was that electronics manufacturing that exposed her to the toxic Materials that caused her lung cancer. So the other staggering fact is that Debbie She passed away, you know at 50 and 49 is the average life expectancy of a woman inmate in California So that kind of lets you understand the circumstances that we're dealing with and there's the entire prison medical system in California Is under a consent decree and in 2005 district court judge found that every six to seven Every day What is the statistic? Six to seven every day six to seven California inmates die needlessly was like one of these needlessly needlessly just because of basic a Lack of access to preventative health care and basic health care. They just don't have any infrastructure for that Debbie was Wasn't that way, you know, she would have her lung cancer would have been discovered years before when it was So what happened to Steve Cooley? Where is he now? So Steve Cooley we felt we were sort of the feather on the scales that helped him lose that attorney general race He was pretty He looked like a fool After he lost that race and and we did everything we could to sort of help him lose that race We had a special trailer that was just focused on Steve Cooley that we showed a lot during the election He then he then was up for re-election as district attorney shortly thereafter And in large part because of crime after crime He was brought under a lot of pressure to not run again and he did not run again so there's now District attorney Lacey is an African-American woman a Democrat is now the DA in LA and Cooley has sort of Slythered off into obscurity and retirement and are you still in touch with Debbie's family? I am yes. In fact, I've been touring with Debbie's daughter Natasha the younger daughter and Natasha and I have been doing a lot of the New Jersey trips and Her other daughter to Keisha is retiring from the Air Force this year having she's also a CPA and Like 45 she's retiring because she's done her time And Natasha is doing well and they're they're really sort of keeping up their mother's legacy and and we see you know bits of her bits of her in them, which is rewarding one of the things that I felt was also ultimately successful in the in the films talking about the diversity of women who are victims of Violence and spousal abuse and you mentioned your story. Yeah in there. Do you want to say anything about that here? Sure. Yeah, I mean, I think one of the What's sort of not shown here is that when I first took Debbie's case? I didn't know exactly why I took the case I kind of left at the opportunity I had some shameful and humiliating secrets in my past that I had never talked about with anyone not even my mother and Once I took this case. I kind of naively went into this maximum security prison for women me being who I am and said Great Debbie tell me your story and I'll write it down and make it a public document We'll get you out of here, you know thinking that you know prison's bad You're gonna do whatever it takes to get out. So not a problem, you know, and she wouldn't talk to me She wouldn't say all of these things and she basically was Uncomfortable with me and at a certain point I had kind of a sit down with her and I was like look you have to be honest You have to be more forthcoming etc.  I don't even really know you. I'm just not comfortable talking with you about these things So I said okay, and we kind of tried to break the ice. Well, I'll come visit you We'll talk about other things etc. So on one occasion I said Can you tell me anything that was sort of funny? I know that it was an awful situation that you were in was there something that Sticks out as being funny and she had this memory and she said yeah, you know after he was done whipping me He would whip me and after he was done whipping me He would put steak on my welts to bring down the swelling and it was funny because he was both whipping me but also healing me and I had a very visceral Memory to my own childhood at that moment something that I had just not thought about and really never expressed And I said oh, I forgot about the raw meat and in my mind I was thinking oh, yeah, you know, how does one know that that if you put raw meat on a wound it brings down the swelling It's not the kind of thing you would intuitively know and yet everyone in these Family violence situation seems to know the trick and she looked at me and she said what do you mean?  Because in her mind she was very suspicious why are you what what who are you why are you here and she was like Oh, and then she proceeded to sort of interview me in a way that made me jealous I wish that I had those interviewing skills And she got this whole story out of me and something that I had never talked about and I had this strange realization of wow I'm in this maximum security prison for women There's the sniper tower the barbed wire the the bars and this is my first therapy is with this convicted murderer interviewing me and We really bonded with that in part because you know, I was disclosing something that I never disclosed before and we had all these commonalities and After that I think Debbie said later that she felt like we're a couple of war veterans like rolling up our sleeves and comparing scars and Trading stories and through that process. She began telling me her story And she really gave me the courage to come out and and tell my story which is part of what this book free spirit is about and At that point I kind of realized oh, yeah, that's why I took this case. It wasn't you know into it you know, I didn't know consciously but of course and Debbie really felt in many ways and you heard an audience in the movie that you know a lot of people say well You know domestic violence happens to poor black women in South Central LA and that's that's okay Because it's over there or something and Debbie really felt that that my mother's story and my story were important because And Debbie couldn't believe it. She was like your mother was the least likely victim of domestic violence, which is true I mean my mother brought me up learning about her story not history because history was sexist Literally when my mother was asked what's your favorite sports team or who are you rooting for in the big game? My mother would say well, whichever team has the largest population of urban poor fans Because domestic violence rates will go down if the home team wins You know, that was her level of consciousness about it and here was a woman and part of what my book is about is how does that woman who who was what she called sort of gay by choice because politically She didn't want to associate with men and she dated women and then ultimately and unfortunately began to date a series of awful and more and more awful men but So Debbie really encouraged me to sort of talk about that and it was the strange moment for me where I had to shift from My lie now is I guess my most shameful and humiliating experiences are now my defining characteristics, you know Was that healing for you? It was incredibly in writing your book and telling your story. It has been it was incredibly scary The San Francisco Chronicle wanted to do a profile on Nadia and I The legal team sort of what motivated us and I think they had some sense of what may have motivated us And we both said absolutely not we're not doing this this profile and Debbie scolded us and was like You know, you told me that I need to tell my story and it would be healing and help to end the cycle of violence And it's not my fault and I had nothing to be ashamed of and you know, how come you can't tell your story so When that article came out I had this long night and we worked in the law firm that you saw what these beautiful white carpets and you know My secretary who's always offering to do my dry cleaning even though I wasn't exactly sure what dry cleaning was because I grew up without anything like that. But I had this long night of like Oh, no, I'm gonna walk in tomorrow as this damaged goods crazy person who like lived through this crazy hell And they've had all these homicidal Responsive wanting to kill my stepfather and you know, I talked about all of that to the newspaper And I was sort of shocked when I came there was one partner who I worked with who basically wouldn't give me any work after that and was like He was just it was too much for him. He's like I'm too much just too much, you know But I was really pleased that both my fellow attorneys and then also clients Immediately contact. Oh, you're so brave. Thank you for telling the story And then that amazing when you begin to see that statistic that it's one in four women Suddenly everyone's like, oh, yeah, you know, this happened to my sister Oh, this happened to me or I had something similar all these people are coming out of the woodwork I'll have to come out of the woodwork, but it shouldn't be. Oh, yeah. Well, it happened, too I mean that that's part of what our challenge is here And I think and part of why I wanted for the Sackler Center to do the series is to raise awareness for people who Really are not aware or are somehow have it off their radar. It's not part of their life or Do not work in these areas But most of this country does not realize that we are in a mass incarceration human crisis here which has been planned and executed and I think we're Possibly beginning to see it a change a turn It's the front a lot of front page stories right now about here in New York about Rikers Island one thing and the other So I think that it probably would be helpful for women to support women I guess by telling their stories were Sons and daughters also to tell stories of their experiences I think it's also important from a cultural point of view that we don't start Stereotyping or making assumptions or continuing assumptions or creating assumptions I think it's hard enough for people coming out of a prison system to somehow manage to Be reincorporated and incorporate themselves back in and that's a whole other evening To discuss but which we won't do now, but there is a lot I thank you all for coming Joshua. Thank you for he flew in from the West Coast to be with us this evening This is really an opportunity for us And Before you leave there are two things One is that I want to let you know that Anita Hill is going to be the 2014 Sacro Center first awardee this year and that will be on June 5th So I hope you all will join us and also that Joshua has brought books with him This is an opportunity for all of you to come up on stage to pose your personal questions Or not so personal questions to Josh any questions you have and perhaps buy a book and Have him sign it for you and I thank you. Oh, yes. There's somebody here Senator Ruth Hassel Thompson is sponsoring the bill for New York State Great. Thank you for that information and thank you all for coming this evening. Do join us on stage, please


I'll mention, by the way, that I did not name this presentation. The university took care of that for me, so I thank that. Well, you didn't give me a title, so I might have not. That's true. So I was at their mercy, and I appreciate the expletive. So my name's Andrea. I'm an editor for Morgan Kauffman, and if you guys have any questions, you guys feel free to approach me any time that you see me walking around here. So I don't want to spend much time talking about MK at all, but I do want to quick show a hands for those of you in the room who have written a book, regardless of what the topic has been on, or who you've published with. Just raise your hand if you've written a book, OK? So there's a good number. That's kind of nuts. All right, hands down. So now raise your hand if you've ever pondered the idea of writing a book. Again, topic doesn't matter. Yeah, all right, cool. So there are a lot of you, so I'm glad that this is a somewhat relevant, you know, quick five minutes of my time. All right, so here are some just general tips for writing a publishing proposal. If you're ever thinking about writing a book, these are just the top three things I think as somebody who evaluates book proposals, you should keep your eye out for. Number one, most important thing is know your audience. So who will actually buy and read your book? And these are important notes here, because every proposal I receive has some sort of breakdown of audience, a primary audience and secondary audience. I can't tell you the number of technical book proposals that I read that include senior management in that audience. And the fact is that for a lot of technical books, senior management is not reading that book. We all want them to, right, but they're not. So this is the important point here, buy and read. That's your audience, and that's who you write for. And anybody above and beyond that is secondary and really shouldn't be who you're talking to as you craft the proposal and write the book. Second, know your competition. This is really, really important. If a publishing company is reviewing your proposal and you don't know your competition and they're finding that when they're reviewing your proposal, they're uncovering more and more competitors that you hadn't already identified, then they're going to think, is this person really offering anything new that isn't already covered by the literature that's out there? So not only do you have to know what's out there, but you should read what's out there first. And it's so easy to do this now. Quick search on Amazon and a quick search on Google Books to search for all the keywords your topic goes by. So not just the book title, but the major chapter headers. These are important things to keep your eyes out for. And other words that it goes by, even if you disagree with those phrases and terminology used. And then know your content expertise. And craft a really detailed table of contents that really reflects your expertise. So now some tips for writing a great book. Again, this kind of comes right off the last point, but know yourself. So not just your expertise, but your work habits, the amount of time that takes you to do certain amount of work. Remembering that working with a publisher requires that you stick to a schedule. And having a very realistic schedule with yourself before you even embark on this process really helps along the way. So be realistic about what you can finish and buy when. Be receptive to feedback. If you really want to write a book, you are going to receive a lot of feedback from the publisher, from peer reviewers of the proposal, from peer reviewers of the manuscript, and from the actual end consumer of the book. And you've got to have a thick skin to be able to internalize all of that and realize when it's right, when it maybe meets you halfway, and when it should be dismissed, because it's just not relevant. And then remember that reviewer's feedback, whether it's an Amazon review or a publisher's comment, is that reviewer's feedback. And maybe that's not in line with the book that you want to write, and that's fine. Because at the end of the day, if you're the author and your name is going on the book, it's your book. And then try to understand the process from the very beginning. This is a key point that can really, I think, mitigate a lot of the pain points that happen for authors as they're writing, especially their first book, learn the details of manuscript delivery and production process. Our proposal form is online at mkp.com. slash write for MK. Well done. Thank you.


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This is State Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Good afternoon. My name is Ray Tsuchiyama, and I am the host for another show on the series, Business in Hawaii. And we have a unique guest today named Ken Hirata, and he is the founder of a company called Hawaiian Chouchu Company. In fact, he represents a growing trend of entrepreneurs coming to Hawaii and starting new businesses, new ventures. And we're going to talk today about a product in a world that some people in Hawaii may not be aware of called Chouchu, and it's an alcoholic drink not to be confused with Japanese sake, which we will talk about differences in a few minutes, and it's a unique drink that it has experienced a boom in Japan over the past few years, especially among young people. And it used to be a much more of a conservative old people's drink called Chouchu, but now it's really taken a big boom kind of trend in Japan. Welcome to the show, Mr. Hirata. Thank you so much for having me today, thank you. And I want to start off, and with your background, where were you born and raised? I was born in Osaka, Japan, and I grew up there until I graduated from high school in Osaka. And from there, did you go to college? Yes, I was lucky enough to attend a college on the mainland. Yes, which one was it? I went to Lui San Clark College in Portland, Oregon. No, in college, did you study anything dealing with like wine or beer or anything about making beverages at all? No, my major was business, but I surely practiced drinking. Okay, so afterwards, after college, what kind of career did you have? I first started off with financial, I started working for a financial institution in Hong Kong. Right. I went back to Japan and worked for other companies, and yeah, then my last career before I started doing this was product development. Oh, good. Now, when did you have the idea of becoming a person who will make a show true? When did that happen? It was about 15, 20 years ago when I was visiting Hawaii from Japan as a tourist. I was, that time I was eating poi in Hawaii, and then I thought, if they have something like this, poi is a fermented food from taro, so I thought maybe I can make a show true in Hawaii. Okay. But that time I was just joking with my friends. Right, but that was where the idea suddenly appeared one day. Yeah. Now, so we'll get to the question right now. What is show true? Show true is a distilled spirit native to Japan. And how old do you think people have been making show true and drinking in Japan? That's a good question. I heard that they started making show true in the 15th century. Wow. That's the 15th century, so 1400s. Wow. Yeah. And now, there's many ingredients that is the base for show true. Can you name some of them? Yes, show true, as you said, show true can be made from a variety of ingredients. Ours is made from sweet potatoes. I think it's the most popular show true consumed in Japan today. That show true can be made from barley, mugi show true, rice, kome show true, buckwheat, soba show true, sugar cane show true, chestnut show true. You can find a variety of show true. And I've heard of carrots also. Some unique ones too. And shiso. Sometimes they make show true from milk. From milk? Yeah. And this is a sample of the sweet potato. And this is grown in Hawaii. What part of Hawaii does it come from? You know, in Hawaii, there are over 30 varieties of sweet potatoes grown in Hawaii. So this is the Okinawa sweet potatoes. If you break it, it's purple. Oh, wow. You're strong. You're young. Yeah. So this purple sweet potato can be grown in many areas, including here in Oafuru or Big Island, Kawaii Maui. Yeah. And of course, though, sweet potatoes are not the only ingredient in show true, right? What other ingredients form show true or are there other ingredients? To remix authentic show true, in order to be called authentic show true, koji has to be applied in a fermentation process. What is koji? Well, koji is a microorganism. It is actually a mold, a fungus. Is it not a yeast, but it's more like a... It's a mold. Oh, mold. It's a good mold, fungus. You might not be familiar with koji, but many people have been eating koji. We use koji for miso making, we show you making, mirin, katsuobushi, sake, no namu. Not all. No, not all. Okay. All kinds of Japanese fermented food. Why don't we put up the first slide here?  Okay, this is the first slide. Yes. That's our product. And what's the name of this, of your product? Our brand name is Nami Hana. Right? And Nami is what, in Japanese? Nami means wave. And Hana? Flower. Flower. That's a very beautiful name. Now, did you come up with a name yourself, or with other people? My wife and I thought of it, and then we decided to name it. All right. And what is that besides the bottle? Oh, that's ceramic pots, or what you can call it, vat. It's a big ceramic pot that we use for fermentation process. My master in Kagoshima gave us. So they all came from Kagoshima, Japan, and they're about 150 years old. 150 years old. Now, why don't we go to the next slide? Oh, this looks like the color of the sweet potato here. What is that? That's the mash. We are actually fermenting the ingredients in vat. The mixture is the koji rice and the sweet potatoes. That ingredient is being fermented inside the vat. So it's kind of bubbling away and making alcohol? Yeah, that's what it's doing right now. Now, when you compare this to Japanese sake, or made of rice, is it similar kinds of operation or is it different? In some ways it's very similar. But so up to the fermentation process, sake and shochu are similar. Both sake and shochu, we must use koji as a key ingredient. After fermentation process, for sake, you just drink the extract from the mash, shochu, we distill the mash. Okay, so distill is the major word here, distillation. And are spirits like vodka and whiskey also distilled? That's correct. They're more similar to shochu than sake, the Japanese sake. Yes, shochu is similar to those distilled spirits. Next slide, please. I forgot to ask, your kura or distill is in haliva, am I correct? Yes. Okay. And there it is. No, this is what is this? This is my master's distillery in Kagoshima. I was an apprentice under my master, Manzen, and then this is where I learned traditional hand-graft shochu-making techniques. Now shochu is big in Kyushu, that's where Kagoshima is prefecture of Kyushu. And I've heard that each region within this island of Kyushu has a different ingredient to base for shochu. Can you explain that? Yeah, that's very true. Kagoshima is known for sweet potato shochu. Next to Kagoshima, it's a Kumamoto. Kumamoto is known for rice shochu. About Kumamoto, if you go up Nagasaki, Oita, they make barley type of shochu, so even within a small island of Kyushu, if you visit a different part of Kyushu, people drink different type of shochu. Well, that's interesting because Kumamoto and Kagoshima are right next door to each other. They're not very big places, but what you're saying is one region of Kumamoto or prefecture is much more focused on sweet potatoes, the other on rice, you say, because my ancestors come from Kumamoto. And that's how we drink shochu with raw horse meat, Basashi, which is a big lunchtime treat there. So this kura, this shochu distillery where you apprenticed, is it old? Yeah, I think so. It's a small distillery, family owned, and all the traditions and techniques has been passed on to generation to generation. And how long were you there as an apprentice? Only three years. How long? Three years. Three years. That's a long time. Three years. Wow. I don't know. It's like getting a full education. Next slide, please. Oh, and what is this? That's my wife. Okay.  Yeah, myself. And what do you call those right in front of there? We call them kametsubo, vats, clay pots. We use those, you saw a previous photo, we use those to ferment the ingredients.  We do two batches per year in spring and fall. And we just finished fall production work around Thanksgiving. So what I'm hearing is that you do everything? Yeah. It's really tezukuri in Japanese or like a really handcrafted shochu. I mean, it's like having a whiskey made by a little family in Scotland. And so when you also put the shochu in the bottle, why isn't it purple? Like it wasn't a mash. It's because shochu is distilled. All the distilled spirits, including whiskey, vodka, gin, rum, right after they are distilled, they all come out clear. Because distillation process, it's a separation of alcohol from the ingredients by using the heat. And the alcohol gets evaporated from the mash so that the steam doesn't transfer the color. It's hard to explain here. Yeah, but it's a very chemical engineering kind of discussion that we're having already. But you're correct that a lot of people expect a scotch whiskey to be brown. Actually, they add coloring later, as you know, sometimes. Sometimes the coloring comes from the barrels, the sherry or wine barrels or bourbon barrels and so forth. But sometimes, and I'm sad to hear, but they add caramel coloring. Because they expect that. And they expect that to be part of the scotch, you know, ambience there. But this is so it's very clear. And so, who is your best market for namihana or what are you trying to do with shochu in Hawaii? Are you trying to build a community of shochu drinkers or people who would expand to drink shochu in Hawaii? That's a good question. When I started, I wasn't really thinking about it. It's made from local ingredients, sweet potatoes. So the first thing is we would like people in Hawaii to know that this is come from the land of Hawaii. Okay, well, let's hold that thought because we're going to take a break and return with more of your insights about shochu. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Hello, everyone. I'm DeSoto Brown, the co-host of Human Humane Architecture, which is seen on Think Tech Hawaii every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. And with the show's host, Martin Despeng, we discuss architecture here in the Hawaiian Islands and how it not only affects the way we live, but other aspects of our life, not only here in Hawaii, but internationally as well. So join us for Human Humane Architecture every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii. We're back in a discussion about this vegetable, a sweet potato, that becomes this. And we're here with Ken Hirata discussing the history and really the world of shochu. And this drink has become really a part of Japanese izakaya or drinking culture. So now this is expanded to Hawaii and we're just in the middle of Mr. Hirata's kind of view of how, why shochu in Hawaii, and is it a Hawaiian product, is it a Japanese product in Hawaii, is it going to be part of Hawaiian culture, or you can make a very traditional Japanese drink out of a potato grown in the land of Hawaii. Go ahead. So what is this shochu all about? It's difficult to explain, but shochu is a value-added product made from agricultural processed food. So since I came to Hawaii and become a part of a community, I was hoping that we can help each other with the community members. In order for us to develop value-added products as agricultural resources, I thought it would be a good promotion for Hawaiian agriculture and of course shochu itself and value-added products from Hawaii, I think, would sell and has a big appeal to the world. That's very exciting. And what you're saying, I believe, is very, very instructive or gives insights to really creating new products based on very Hawaiian things, which is on the ground, and could lead to exports and could really create new jobs and create feelings of, I guess, uplifting economy and community in the end. But it's very much something, like you said, not exist by itself, but you have to develop it so it has a nice bottle, a marketing, a name, and all of that. I think that's the value-add also, not only the distillation itself. So going back to Nami Hana, what were the reactions of people who first tasted it or are the reactions different among people, local people and or visitors of Japan? What happened to responses? Oh, good question. Many people in Hawaii think we, the Japanese people, drink sake. So still many people don't know much about shochu, but when they come and do a tour at Uplies and do the tasting, they find out shochu is suitable for what they eat in Hawaii because Hawaii has a warm climate and they tend to eat rich-flavored food. Shochu is dry compared to sake, so shochu can be paired with rich-flavored food better compared to sake. I drink sake, so I love sake too, but sometimes what you pair with, it's very important when you drink. Going back to the shochu in Japan, and you talked about different regions even within an island about shochu, what has been the history of shochu in Japan itself? As you know, it's made a comeback last few years, actually shochu has been experienced a boom, especially among young people. Why is that? That's a good question too. Just like a few years ago in America, Hawaii, vodka was a cheap drink for blue-colored workers and stuff. Now you find a premium type of vodka with tequila. I think the same type of a train came to the shochu world. Sake was a drink of, you know, it's more expensive, used to be, and shochu was kind of cheap, drink everyday drink, but shochu producers have made a big effort to make shochu more attractive and suitable for younger generations. Now for local people, if they wanted to come to your Haliva Kura, and you have a very beautiful building and a very lush area near the ocean, how can they get in touch with you so they can arrange for a tour or just to talk to you and get more of a real flavor of how these sweet potatoes are made into? I know you have very limited times during your production period, but when are the best periods to call you up and say, how can they do that and visit you? People in Hawaii have been really supportive and amazing. We feel really grateful. I don't know how they found out about us, but we have an email address, so they sent us email requesting a tour or place orders, and then, so sending us an email. And what's the email? Our email address is K-A-L-A-S-S, oh no, my mistake, that's my personal one, K-A-L-O-I-M-O at gmail.com. K-A-L-A-M-O at gmail.com, all right, that's great, that's great, and when they come, what kind of questions do they ask about making shochu? What are they curious about? Just like I just mentioned, they don't know much about shochu, so they ask me what shochu is and how shochu is different from sake, or different from other types of shochu. So they have fundamental questions. Next slide please, Rich. Oh, what's this? I think this is mixed, I'm so sorry. Okay, let's go on to the next one. Oh, this is good. What's this? This is in the small building on the left side is our shochu distillery. Okay. This is a sweet potato farm in our backyard. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's like a farm to kura. Our good friends, local farmer, grower, they come into a place and they grow sweet potatoes for us. So this is a picture of a sweet potato. Oh, there it is, of course. Yeah, just like as I mentioned, you can find a variety of shochu, I mean the sweet potatoes in Hawaii. Over 30 varieties I heard that they already can find. So yellow one, purple one, white one, brown skin, red skin, all kinds of sweet potatoes you can find. That's amazing. Oh.  But those big vats, that's the one that we use for fermentation process. Now how many of those vats did you bring? We have 15 of those. 15. Now that must be a tremendous issue to bring each of those vats all the way from Kagoshima. This is a picture when they arrived in Hawaii from Japan. So I'm really thankful that none of them broke. Is this the only way to make shochu in these vats? No, no, this is a traditional way of making shochu. In Japan, not so many people use these anymore because they have been replaced by the big vats, containers, stainless steel vats. Just like drinking beer or whatever. So not so many people use these anymore. Oh, interesting. So it's unique that you're in Hawaii in Haleiva making shochu, but you're making it in those vats that are very, very traditional. Right. That's two things. That makes it very unique. We wanted to bring the Japanese beautiful traditions and history along with the shochu making. Oh, that's very fascinating. Now what's the future like for you in Hawaii? Are you going to increase production? Or are you going to stay the same? Or are you going to make new types of shochu? What's your dream? My dream is to people to recognize that Hawaiian shochu is this island's spirits, spirits of aloha. And then that would be the first thing that I would like people in Hawaii to know what Hawaii can offer by using the Hawaii local ingredients. And production-wise, we are up to the max right now, just two of us. And how many bottles a year? We make about 6,000 to 7,000 bottles. And that's, from a Kagoshima viewpoint, it's very small. Oh, that's tiny, tiny. Like several weeks in Kagoshima? Yeah. And a big company can make our annual production in like a few hours. Wow. Okay, so it's really handicraft, Tezukuri shochu in many ways. But is there any other ingredient that you thought of in the future? Actually, I have already made a shochu with pineapple. Okay. Is it sweet? No, it's dry. It's dry. Okay. Shochu is always dry, right? As long as you ferment and distill it becomes dry. And how was it? Was it good? It was unique. Different. We made one too. And last year we tried with Ulu, the bread foods. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we played with them. How was that? Ulu. That was another unique thing too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Because they've always tried to make valiant products with Ulu for a long time, bread foods, because of course it disintegrates very quickly. Yeah. It can't be kept. It really falls apart. And they talked about making flowers. Any other ingredients? Besides, we've been playing with all kinds of ingredients. And besides the ingredient, we used the wood, kiabe wood, or strawberry guava wood to age our shochu too. Oh. So, you know, all the ingredients, but we wanted to use Hawaii local stuff as much as we could. No, no, when you say aged it, you mean making barrels? Or you put the wood inside that? Okay. We dip the wood into shochu and mature the shochu with the wood. Okay. So people usually put the spirits in the wood. Yeah, yeah, right. In the spirit. Okay. And that adds a more mature taste to it. It becomes like whiskey. Oh, okay, okay. A deeper flavor. It gives the wood, gives smokiness. Smokiness, yeah. All the characteristics from the wood to the shochu. Because in Scotland, they used the peat and so forth, and adds the smoke and so forth flavoring to scotch whiskey. This is a very dynamic product that you have. Thank you. And I hope that more people will visit you or turn to shochu. Is it sold only from you right now or is it sold in any stores in Hawaii? I'm so sorry, but people have been really supportive, so they come all the way to the North Shore to pick up their orders. This is very exclusive. You have to come to you to get this tremendous local shochu. Am I correct? Yes. Okay. But they get an opportunity to talk to you and see the maker of the shochu that you can't do at a store. Yeah, I'll be there to sell our shochu. Yeah, right. So this is really a community endeavor in which you are the face of your product and you're actually the maker of your product at the same time. So we're coming to the end of the show. Is there anything else you want to tell the people of Hawaii about your product? So far, Hawaii people have been really supportive and we are so grateful for what we are doing here in Hawaii, so I really appreciate it. Well, we're excited to have you on the show as an entrepreneur from far off Japan and with an apprenticeship in a very traditional kura in Kagoshima by using really Hawaii ingredients, like you said, and making a Hawaiian product. I mean, that's the name of the game and to make more products that we can really promote in our business world. I think that's a tremendous achievement, Mr. Hirata. Thank you. So this is the end of the show and we're really exploring new products every week on business in Hawaii. This is Ray Tachiyama. Thank you very much.