Thank you. What a beautiful day here in the city of Columbia. It is such a joy to be the mistress of ceremonies today for this grand opening. I am so proud of the team that put in the work. I'd like to especially thank Krista Williams. She does the work. They started leasing this building in February. They've been doing their soft opening since April 25th of this week. And there's lots of support when you go out into the community and you actually ask the community members what they need and then you work to provide it. So thank you for allowing me to be here today to witness this momentous occasion. We would like to thank DJ Gitlow, a veteran and member of our community. We would like to thank Darius Johnson from Noel Catering for providing refreshments and the Curiosity coffee shop for providing our coffee refreshments this morning. This is what small businesses are about. This is what supporting your community is about and without further ado, I'll bring up the woman behind the dream and behind the vision, Krista Williams. I'm gonna be very quick because we said two minutes on on the comments. I didn't prepare a speech because I've been so busy this week. Thanks to all the support from the community members that stopped by. I'll start a little bit about the history with Uncle Willie's. 37 years ago, I was a small baby that was born in a hospital to a mother that was too young to bring me home and who showed up to pick me up, none other than Uncle Willie and his wife right here, my great aunt and uncle. So I owe them a lot of everything in all of my successes and goals, achievements. I owe them because I could have been anywhere. Uncle Willie was a farmer in Santin, South Carolina. He was also a volunteer firefighter. That's why we have the logos on the window to represent and remember him regarding his service to that. But he provided fresh produce, vegetables, meat, fruits to the community in rural Santin, South Carolina. Many community members would stop by the house. We actually live next right next door to a grocery store, which was so ironic. But being in a small town, people want fresh produce, fresh fruit, and he provided that for many people. So when I ran for city council on last year and I heard so many concerns in the community about needing a grocery store, I started putting in the work and started doing the research and here we are today. But when it came time to name the business, I thought about Uncle Willie and all of the sacrifices that he made from the day that he didn't know what was going to happen, but picking up that little baby from the hospital to providing a service to the community by being a volunteer firefighter by providing fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. I thought about him as that person that provided service and decided to name the establishment after him. Once again, I would like to thank everybody that's been a big support. I see Carolina Parmarama is out here, Ms. Neda, all of the food service, Noel Catering, original bakery, always original bakery, and my employees, where are my two, I have two employees that are here. That's one of them, Mem. He sticks by my side when I'm here late doing inventory. CC is my other employee right here. They're both awesome and great, very trustworthy. And Mr. Searight has been a volunteer at the store. He's a veteran as well. So I just appreciate all the support from everybody, the city of Columbia. I hadn't been able to cash that check yet, but thank you all so much for your support, Mayor Rickamon. We really appreciate you, Ms. Melissa Lender. She grilled me actually, and I'm going to stop here, but when we had the, I had to present my business plan on Zoom, and she was tough. But after I got finished talking, she was like, I think you got it. And I think we did too, because we're here today enjoying this story playing out. Thank you all so much. We will have a word of prayer from Ms. Tanya Caesar, and we have Lily Akin. Good morning. Let us bow our head please. Oh gracious and heavily father, we come to you today, God. Lord, we say thank you, God, for everything that you have done, what you're going to do, and God, what you're doing right now. We thank you, God, for a day that we've never seen before. God, we thank you, Lord, for this grand opening. We thank you, God, for each and every participant, for everyone that has come together to make this vision possible. God, we ask that you continue to cover us today, that you will shield us and protect us, oh God. Lord, in the name of Jesus, we ask you, God, that you will bless the sales, bless the people as they come in and out. God, we forever give your name, the glory, and all the praise. It is in Jesus' name that we pray. Amen. Hallelujah this morning. Thank you so much. I forgot to introduce myself when I came up here. My name is Native Rutherford, and I'm the Richland County Coroner. And the reason that this story is such an amazing thing is because we see so much hypertensive in our therosclerotic heart disease as a cause of death in our community. And having access to fresh fruits and vegetables is very important in that prevention step of healthcare. So without any further ado, let's please have our newly elected mayor, Mayor Rickamon, come on up. We appreciate you for being here. It's tough act to follow these beautiful women that are here today, but what a great opportunity. Open Columbia. Every day that I get to go to a business that's opening up is a great day in the city of Columbia. And I have to tell you, it makes me so excited for this because this is one of the things during the campaign and in the talks in the neighborhood we've talked about is filling a void. I think the difference here is that this was built with love, which means it will succeed number one. Tenacity, somebody who doesn't give up at all. Ms. Williams had a dream and an opportunity that she wanted to pursue, and she followed through with it. What's really great for me is when I look out here and see all the people that are here. Got Representative Rutherford here, Tina Herbert, council member for district one representing this area here to support all the community folks. Because when I opened my first business in 1994, the communities while we were successful, Columbia supports its local businesses. Young Rutherford over here was a law student that I used to feed when he was struggling over there studying back in the day.  And I'm so happy to see everybody here today excited about Uncle Willie, especially since I know the story behind Uncle Willie even more is exciting and all the small businesses you're bringing together. And I saw you had Troy's Troyer smoke sausage in there, which I have a weakness for. So thank you. But we're really excited to have you here. And we hope all the success for you will pray for your success. And just know if there's anything we can do to continue to help you, we're here for you. Thank you very much for your investment. Thank you so much to the mayor for giving us a few words this morning. Miss Lily Aiken, please come on up. You're welcome. You're welcome. We thank you for coming to the grand opening of Willie grocery store. And I want to just say this right here. This day today is the same tomorrow that we prayed and hoped and wished for on yesterday and God has brought it to pass. And we thank God for the story. We thank the time that I've been in here for a few days. Everyone is excited. They are happy. And I thank God for blessing with the store. And by the way, I am Mrs. Willie Aiken. And we were married for 51 years. We met on Valentine night. And we got married on Halloween night. So there was always a trick or treat. And yeah, he was a he was a great gardener. And people would come by like the early sugar peas in the early part of the year. What they would do, they would put in their orders for the next year. And he would write it down who wants such and such a thing. But the oracles was the main thing. I still go to pose our feet and ask to me, you want to plant the oracles? I said, no, not this year. He's not a year now. But I just thank God for him and how God blessed us with three daughters. And I just thank God to be able to be a witness here. And just keep the let's just keep each other in prayer because prayer fix everything. I will firm believe that I know prayer works. So we go, I just ask y'all to keep the business in prayer. And I'll be in and out helping her as much as I can. God bless you. We all hope to have a trick and a treat in our life. Ms. Tina Herbert, city councilwoman for district one. Come on up. Thank you so much. I'm really excited to be here today because Ms. Williams, you've helped us with the vision for this corridor. And in so many different ways, people are always wondering, well, what is the city doing? What is the city doing? Well, there's a lot of room and there are a lot of places and pieces of the puzzle that everyone can play. And Ms. Williams has decided to be a solution to the problem, but she needed funding. And so that is what the city did. So people are always like, well, what did the city do? What did we contribute? And that's why I'm glad to see Brett and his team, our office of business opportunities is here to fund small minority women owned businesses. And so this is what I have to say every time I come to an opening and it's a small minority women owned business is number one, we have to support this business. She will not last if we don't come in support. She cannot do it by herself. Number two, keep the faith, Krista, keep because this, you know, business, starting a business is hard for anybody, not just Krista for anybody, but keep the faith acts for help. There's so many people here. There's so many people at the city who will give you the help that you need. And then the third thing is make sure you see join in CBA. I think there may be some other members out here, but it's a really good group of businesses along this corridor that can help you. So that's my shout out to the NCBA. But thank you so much for helping us address I didn't forget. But no, but thank you for addressing several issues. And the last thing I'll say is Mayor Rickaman and I, we were in a retreat this week and we talked about filling the vacant storefronts. And we agreed on that one. And it was a good moment. And so you're helping us achieve that goal. So thank you so much. Congratulations to you today. Thank you, Nathan. Now we will have Eva Moore with the South Carolina Department of Agriculture. Welcome Eva. All right, I am so honored to be here today on behalf of Commissioner Hugh Weathers and the South Carolina Department of Agriculture.  So thank you for shopping here and keeping more of your food dollars in South Carolina. Yeah, we also know that locally grown food is traveling fewer miles to get to the person who's eating it, which means it's fresher, it's often healthier, it has less of an environmental impact. So thank you for that as well. Farmers in South Carolina, small farmers, and I'll say that farmers of color are likely or to be small farmers, they need partners like Uncle Willie's and like what you're doing here. So thank you for that. And I'll just say on behalf of the department, we are very excited to be your partners in this. We look forward to being a resource in the future. And thank you for having us. Bye. Jim Johnson with the Small Business Association. Thank you very much. Of course, I'm Jim Johnson with the Small Business Development Center, which is a resource partner with the Small Business Administration. And coincidentally, next week is National Small Business Week, right? So this is kind of appropriate because this is wonderful. Like even mentioned, bringing together all these different businesses, food related businesses right back here and supporting those businesses. And I have a special place in my heart for food businesses, farmers. And looked around at some of the great local items, like your blueberries from Cusaw Farms. You had rice, Charleston gold from a farmer in Georgetown. So you're bringing South Carolina right here to Columbia. This is amazing. And you're connecting rural back with urban, which is an interesting concept. I think there needs to be more of that. But I think what you're doing here is wonderful. I know there are many food access issues in areas of the state. And this is a problem. And what do entrepreneurs do? They solve problems. And so you're able to come in here with the support of many great people, including the city of Columbia, and solve the problem of a food desert in this area, giving access to folks in these neighborhoods here who so desperately need it. And so I'm just so proud to be able to be here and speak on the behalf of the SBA. And like was mentioned before, there's so many support systems out there to put around yourself, to build your team, and to help you be successful into the future. So we offer you all the support and blessings, and congratulations. Now the moment we've all been waiting for, Christa Williams, I just want to say congratulations to you again. You are truly an example of we can do hard things together. So thank you everyone for being here. Now let's cut this ribbon.


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If you're wondering what the hell is this, it's Phil Jepen or Dutch Canal Jumping.  So here you go, EP, here we go. Now it started because the Netherlands is so close to sea level or underwater. There's so much water all around that farmers would just carry around long sticks just to get across the canals. Two old men just walking around jumping canals. Then they were like, hey, the whole country is pretty good at this, why don't we see who's the best? So they turned it into a sport, striped shirt right there. He does pretty good. Number 83 though, this is back in the 50s when they turned it into a sport. He's crushing it, gets to the top of the pole, goes all the way out, he celebrates, his friends celebrate with him. It used to be wooden poles, then they switched to plastic, now they're fiberglass which allows more hang time, that sucked. That was really bad and the spy in the crowd can barely contain his smile. And then I guess there was no age limit because this dude's old. I mean, he barely jumps, he kind of just runs into the stick and now he's swaying.  Now he's embarrassed, old, just misses. So anyway, this is what it looks like today. It's a whole big event. That dude threw sand into the crowd, swagger walks to the crowd, very excited with himself, gives his mom slash girlfriend a high five and a hug.  That was a big leap onto the pole, climbing to the top. The poles are much larger, bam! Whew, this guy, he's got a good thing going. Look, they wear something on their right foot to help climb up the pole and then kabam! That one looked, that one looked like it was deep sand. He threw the sand the other direction which was polite of him.  Does he have the weight that he needs? I think you need a lot of weight to get the pole to switch over. He's going all the way to the top and he goes over the top, interesting strategy. I think it worked well, throw sand all over the crowd. And then this kid, he's gonna get all the way to the top of the pole as well.  I wonder if that's a better strategy than going over the top. I wonder if they have names for these. That dude stutter stepped and the stutter stepped killed him and then he lost his grip. Just embarrassing, soaking wet, has to walk around soaking wet, just, you know, he's probably ashamed. His parents are face down, eyes and palms. Oh my God, the spy's grandson with the glasses on while playing gets to the top, loses the grip. He's not happy with himself. He wanted to grab the top of the pole so he could spring himself. He loses the grip there, can't find it and just comes down and here he is on his second attempt and not enough weight. And he's like, what the hell's up with this pole? I'm going the wrong way. So he has to go into the drink, loses his sunglasses maybe, not happy with his round at all. Oh, didn't lose his sunglasses, still not happy though and that is Dutch canal jumping. This one was brought to you by John Boy and Jake Radio. It's not a radio show, it's a podcast but it does air live on YouTube every Wednesday at noon. It's like two hours of dumb. If you're into dumb, come check it out. If I don't have like a handful of four of those soon, I'm about to freak out. Okay, which one, give me four. Don't care. Come on. I didn't hear any of the flavors dude.  I need four of them right now. Do you want teeth? Yes, yes, yes.  Is that what you're about to tell me? And I am yet to receive the four gummies previously requested, took the only teeth. Oh, are these the teeth?  Oh God. You went all four at once? Yeah, that's so good.


Hi everybody, my name is Annabelle De Fries and I work with Tom Tanner on the MSc SEDEP programs. So Tom is director of the Climate Change Programme and I'm director of the Sustainable Development Programme. So welcome to our open day. Now I'm actually trying to, okay. So for this webinar we're just going to talk very briefly about the programs that we offer and we're going to give us some time for Q&A. So within that we'll talk about the programs and give you an idea of the structure and setup and assessments and the type of learning environment that you'll be, it'll be a part of at SEDEP. On my notice you're back. Do you want to take it? Absolutely. So SEDEP is a research centre and teaching centre which is set within the Department of Development Studies in Soares. So we have a mix of research staff and teaching staff and a set of associates including tutors and researchers, associates as well. A quite happy bunch. And we have good links with obviously with other departments because we recognise that climate change, sustainable development, there's a lot of other people working within Soares on those issues, particularly strong within development studies in our environment, political economy, natural resources cluster there and within the centre for sustainable finance which is hosted in the Department of Economics but has associates from all over Soares as well. So we have strong links with those guys. Next slide please. So it's very hard to say when people say I work in So and So, is that okay, is that normal for a student? It's a real diversity. We do have I think a profile that's changing somewhat. It was more people working within the development, kind of aid and development agency type sectors. It's really moving as climate change is mainstreaming itself into everybody's business and we're seeing in particular a lot more finance sectors and mainstream companies who recognise that ESG, that environmental sustainability, governance, social criteria is really going to becoming central to what they do and they want to be able to take climate change rather seriously because they realise it affects both their bottom line and potential future market opportunities. So we have a real mix including some people working within the the international development sector and within ministries both home and overseas as diplomatic core as well as well as in our development banks and classic development NGO types. So you get to meet and interact with a wide variety of other students from all around the world. It's one of the advantages of it being an online distance learning course is that people are situated everywhere. It makes it difficult in some ways but it makes it really vibrant and brings a lot of energy in others. So the research we do is set around those challenges of sustainability and development and here's just three examples of areas that we're currently working on. Some work around knowledge and food systems which Annabel leads on particularly trying to develop a cadre who understand the knowledge systems, curricula and the research networks around food systems that link them up more effectively. We do quite a lot of work in energy transitions and access to energy from a social justice perspective. So our colleague Giuseppe Netticiliano in particular has looked at large-scale hydropower another colleague John Phillips who looked at more local scale at the justice issues around energy in South Africa and one of my areas of work is around urban sustainability and urban resilience and looking particularly around where approaches are heading and where they've been working well, where they need to draw on new and emerging technology and approaches in particular and an awareness to the politics of those processes and the justice criteria and concerns as well. So presumably those who are watching are interested in climate change, sustainability and development issues and that so as we firstly recognize there are global structural injustices that are presented by climate change a lot of those map on to what we already know about environmental injustice and its relationship with development and we also recognize that there is a problem at the minute that there is a very incremental approach to moving ourselves out of the climate crisis and we need more radical agendas and to do so we can bring in diverse knowledges that can inform policies so we're looking for different ways of thinking, different ways of understanding problems and to try and help inform socially just but also rapid and effective transitions from towards the low carbon economy and ways that can help people adapt to climate change and deal with disaster risk in a fairer way in a more effective way. We also really came around that we understand the growing job market for climate and sustainability with regards to development and as you saw we've got a variety of students and that alumni network really helps. I think firstly from with our work online using discussion for to actually exchange between students and moderating discussions we you know it's you know it's it's all really up to date because it's people's lived experience of their work and their experiences both in the countries they're working in the countries they've worked in previously or wherever they're from that brings a real vibrancy and dynamism to our courses. We at SEDUP have actually been working for over two decades I say almost three decades on distance learning back in the day at a different part of the University of London but we have the core staff who you can see online but we have also a network of external associate tutors who work with us and specialists that we bring in for dissertation supervision where we don't have that knowledge in-house so we have some research expertise where we don't necessarily have it and we can we can call on our colleagues and also our external contacts. We have a commitment in SOAS across SOAS to decolonize in the curriculum so we're looking for ways not just of bringing in academic perspectives from the global south but also recognizing that the way we interpret those perspectives is actually constrained and influenced by how we've been conditioned in our learning as well so we're looking to really test ourselves and our students in the ways of understanding knowledge as well as bringing in a diverse set of different knowledges to bear on the problem and the solutions. SEDUP as a unit is a cost-efficient way of doing a master's degree enables people to study whilst working or whilst doing household duties or just in a more relaxed manner because it is part-time. Our network of students as it says 250 there we're actually our active students are more like 400 now and we have a really wide network of alumni as well our LinkedIn page is pretty heavy and that professional networking is something that we really encourage and people get a lot from meeting up with people in the same countries from exchanging people who are working on similar issues and that again is one of our USBs that we bring. The SOAS library is second to none in its resources with regard to international development, Global South and the online library is really extensive and for those who can get to the library it's quite an experience to visit because it's a beautiful piece of brutalist architecture so that's something we're seeing. We also provide careers service so we have careers advice split between University of London's provision and the SOAS provision and there's a wide variety of events that are organized both in our department which are more focused on development studies, environment, sustainability and then those that are more generic across the SOAS University and the University of London. Annabel do you want to take over? Okay so yeah I'll take over from here thanks a lot Tom and so the learning approach that you'll get that's set up is really based around the online learning environment which you'll see a little kind of screenshot here at the bottom so basically you would go on to this environment online wherever you want to and you can use it on your mobile or on your PC or laptop and you will access then the module that you're doing if you're first starting you'll start with your core module and so both programs have core modules and then from there you will carry on with your electives so each module you will get core teaching materials which basically summarize concepts, debates, methods, policies and generally the the kind of introduction to that particular topic each week has a different topic and each week has different reading so there will be a core key reading list and additional reading lists for further interest and a lot of students find that they may not actually get to all the further readings each week but when they start doing their dissertation they will find that those further readings are an incredible resource for them and so when you start to refine exactly what you want to really focus on for your dissertation then you've got a lot of material and resources available to you. Our modules also have exercises, self-assessment exercises and learning exercises to help you sort of work out how you've digested the information and let you give given you a little bit of time to reflect on your learning and kind of keep you going each week so that you're not just completely just reading reading reading all the time and help gives you an opportunity to kind of you know put down thoughts and this is also another way and another kind of avenue for this is the discussion forums which we have online and so each week your tutor would pose a question or a sort of concept to think about which is based on the readings and that you've done that week and sort of put it out to everybody and you'll be able to discuss with your fellow students that that area of interest and that happens every week it's part of the assessments as well so you're encouraged to do that because it gives you percentages towards your final your final grade and our other forms of assessments are both formative and summative so you're formative in that this allows you to write a response to a question that you're set and your tutor will then give you feedback and that feedback can then feed into the large piece of work which will come at the end of your module at the end of the session so that formative feedback is really important and that actually also occurs within the online discussion forums as well because your tutor monitors and feeds back and you know your ideas and sort of pulls out areas that are really pertinent and that all helps you kind of develop and grow within your learning so it's a really useful way of kind of assessment as well so within that assessment we also have a critical reflection and peer review so you know reflecting and reflecting critically on your reading and also working with your students with your colleagues on reviewing their work and having that interaction and we also try and bring in a few different ways of writing as well because that's really important and we try to make sure that throughout the kind of life cycle of your MSc you will have the opportunity to write in a number of different ways whether it's traditional academic essays or policy briefs and also blogs so I think that gives you an opportunity particularly with blogs to be able to show that you can digest perhaps some scientific or very very detailed academic work and be able to kind of translate that into a piece of writing that the general public would be able to understand and we value that kind of encouragement of those skills as well because they're really great when you're in the workplace as well and just moving on so to the program structure and on our website you'll see that there's a structure tab and if you click on that then you'll get to see all the different modules that are available so for your MSc you would need to do one core module three elective modules in the dissertation and the postgraduate diploma is one core module and three electives so no dissertation and the postgraduate certificate is one core module and one elective module so you'll see here it's varying times that these awards these programs can be taken and we do have a minimum uh sorry maximum registration of five years and most we like to think that most students can get through their MSc in two years and many many do however we do recognize that a lot of our students also are doing this whilst caring for children or dependents and working at the same time so you know there is definite flexibility and that actually allows people to take on this extra commitment and and sort of you know partake in professional development whilst they're at work so hopefully it provides a really flexible and useful way of studying for for a master's and you take one module at each time so that's another really sort of useful way of learning so that you can really focus on that particular topic and each session is around six months and each session also includes a dissertation study window so if you are doing the MSc you will do one module plus a dissertation in in each session and the reason for that is that as you're learning and you're developing your skills and you can start right from the beginning thinking about what your dissertation would would be on and start sort of bringing in your studies and learning into into that deeper element of the study and the dissertation will take place at the end of each session and throughout your your dissertation sorry throughout your your master's so here's just a little graphic which helps you kind of see how the year taken in as an example of a two-year program you'll you'll start with your subject module and your dissertation followed by your second and so on and so on so there are short breaks in between around a week sometimes two depending on where you are in the year and then you will start again with your elected elective module once you've finished your call so as as I explained if you go on to the website you'll see something like this and this will help you sort of see what kind of modules that we have on offer in each of the programs and really the difference between the climate change and development and master's and the sustainable development master's is there are definitely some areas of crossover however the climate change really does focus on science climate change and how climate change relates to different areas of study for example urban environments as as tom mentioned and but also looking at specifics like adaptation resilience mitigation financing and that kind of thing the sustainable development module starts with understanding sustainable development and it takes takes you through kind of historical look at sustainable development where did where did it come from how did we get to where we are today with the sustainable development goals and then has a kind of critical look at how sustainable development is measured how we understand things like well-being and equality how we understand different aspects of sustainable development relating to biodiversity and climate change but also looking at perhaps alternative forms of sustainable development so once you've done your core modules you'll then be able to take some electives and and some of these electives are offered by our development studies department such as the politics of gender and feminism in development and understanding violence conflict and development so you might find those to be interesting to you and so and we also have development studies students electing to take some of our some of our electives as well so as you can see the program is structured with different electives available in different sessions so it's important that you and think about how you're going to plan the studies and and make sure that you are you know you're not sort of taking make sure that you're sort of thinking ahead basically for the next sort of couple of years and then you can see how how your studies will will progress but recognizing I should say that you I just spoke to one student who said he completely changed his view on what his pathway might be so you don't have to choose in the the fore in advance you choose them just before the session starts when you register so it may be that you thought you were going to choose one pathway and take these modules but actually as you're learning your interest has been piqued by something you're like well I really want to know more about food security and or your job changes or whatever it might be so there's that flexibility to change that pathway so it's good to have in mind what you might most interest you but you can you can change your mind yeah that's a good point thank you Tom I think that's actually it and we'd like to take some questions and anybody has so do feel free to drop any more questions into the chat box and and then also if you would like to raise your questions via the audio do feel free to click the raise a hand and we'll happily invite you in to ask any questions that you might have so I can see a few questions that have already been answered by Tom so got any others maybe I could pose a question to the two of you just in terms of the online program how do you find that current students interact with each other outside of the classroom environments that you find that a lot of the students set up different kind of channels to speak to each other outside of kind of the formal classes or how do you find that work well I could speak from today's experience then there's a group for example in London that that meets up the students that are based in or near London and very equally in other places around the world we know we've had sets of students who want to just feel part of something something bigger and whether it's visiting so as on or somewhere overseas and there's also several channels of WhatsApp groups for everyone who loves their WhatsApp groups and they form organically within any within individual modules and when students want to work on something together and there's one larger one also for the main for the bigger group and it's useful for getting pointers but also within our modules themselves we split the students into groups of 15 for online discussions so you have like a smaller core group that is because you know it gets too big or people get scared to they don't want to feel you know they get shy of posting or don't feel their contributions worthy and by having smaller groups and building these building up confidence to postings and recognizing that everyone's experience and interpretations are interesting and different so yeah we use the kind of variety and the LinkedIn group is quite active but for the larger kind of finding who else works in your field and linking it with them so it's a good question about choosing others we've put the ones from the development studies department that we know we can rely on running as well because it's without with our department and we have offered in the past and will offer in the future electives from the centre for international studies and diplomacy which run in particular the finance climate change and sustainability module which provides something that that we currently don't in more and more depth but we haven't we don't advertise that so we don't disappoint people because it's not within our control whether whether and when that runs so it's not run in a calendar way like our approaches it's more on demand I think what the other thing to know is that there's lots of open events at SOAS that are held both in person and online so the other thing to note is that whilst you're going through your program we do kind of recommend to students that they do keep a lookout for kind of the one off events that we do host as I say both online and in person if you're able to come in person then you're more than welcome as an online and distance learning student to come to our campus albeit obviously there might be some issues around kind of visas depending on where you're coming from but yeah there's a lot of online one off events as well that because we operate quite an interdisciplinary approach at SOAS you'll find that there's lots of crossover so that's well worth bearing in mind as well absolutely so we're running we're currently running a seminar series with development studies and environment and development seminar series with our colleagues wider colleagues in development studies but that is being populated by so the speakers come from all across SOAS so they're from anthropology they're from economics they're from politics they're from arts development studies law you know we've got a lot of people working on climate change and we're trying to bring those in so yeah there's a lot of it's been quite nice actually the audiences for those have been students from across all different departments as well and that's been another way of kind of performing that interaction maybe we could talk a bit about access to academic staff when you're on an online and distance learning program so how can students contact staff whilst they're in the program at different times and obviously being located in different locations around the world okay I'll take that one so each module has its own shooter and its own convener and students generally are in contact with the module tutor on a weekly basis so they are involved in those weekly discussions and of course we do have because we're conveners we would generally the conveners would generally run webinars to help with assessments but also get involved in other things like seminars and things like that so in terms of actual interaction you've got the weekly interaction from your tutor and then you've got more intermittent interaction with your convener who is likely to be more sort of support you with your assessments and things that are coming up that you need to sort of a little bit more help with but yes I mean we're all available via email and through the and through the discussion page we've also got a program area and the program area is basically everybody in all the program in all both programs doing all the modules so that is where the kind of it's kind of like the base and we have discussion forum on that and announcements as well so all the conveners program directors sort of converge with students in that in that area and that's where they will get lots of information and I think at the beginning just going through the learning how to do the VLE and Tom and I run webinars right at the beginning when students start with us and take students through the VLE we help explain how the structure is and also sort of navigating the VLE and where you can find information so we're always on hand we understand the international nature of distance learning don't we? So each of the modules has a convener as well so you have like a program convener it's Annabelle Rye which would be your first point of call for any you know major admin issues in particular or academic admin issues academic issues and broad academic issues things like advice on which modules you might want to take just to talk something through but each module has a convener academic convener as well so it's one of the members of staff who said it who's your kind of port of call that's the person who would have written the curriculum and you'll get to know because they'll be on the webinars and they'll be a point of call for that as well and of course there's your dissertation supervisors so that as I said that's a mix of people for internal experts and external expertise but again there's a convener for that dissertation process our colleague Ros Taplan from within ZEP who can help steer you through that and provide advice and support and we've also got our student support team and they help students with enrollments registration and also those questions you know I'm not able to hand in on time I mean you can go to your convener or student support or your tutor and that student support will help you with deferrals will help you with any problems that you're having and with you know handing in assessments and anything really I mean they're there all the time for you and and of course you know we have the University of London and things like graduation and ceremonies and certificates and all those kind of things so you also get a kind of pass into the University of London portal and on that as well there is also lots and lots of support in terms of writing in terms of writing assignments in terms of learning about academic issues such as plagiarism and how to how to you know reference correctly and and lots of study skills actually that are available through the University of London so you'll get you'll get access to two kind of worlds you'll have the SOAS world and you'll have the University of London world as well yeah and I think that access to kind of support both within SOAS and also within the wider University of London group is kind of really crucial because if we look at kind of the the makeup of our online and distance learning students compared to in some respects our in-person students though arguably SOAS has a very diverse student body for in-person as well because it is often people who are maybe out working in various different sectors for many many years or possibly just having spent a lot time out of education I think that those kind of skill sets are really really great for you to get that kind of support with and also just thinking very internationally how might look at academic writing in one country might vary very differently to how you look at academic writing in another country so I think that that kind of support is really really key for students yeah definitely and for all your assignments I mean as I mentioned earlier we have got formative assessments and that means that students who yes quite rightly have maybe done you know degrees in other countries with completely different sort of academic cultural you know rules regulations and but also people who haven't written for a long time and it really gives those people an opportunity to try stuff out and get you know dedicated feedback on their work so that they can understand how they can improve because that's that's what everybody wants to do they just want to you know see what they can do and try to try to do it well and improve and and so tutors that are on our programs they they you know very very good specific feedback for each and every assignment and and also do lots of start signposting to study skills if they think that students or students require more or ask for more support so do feel free to drop in any other questions that you might have and it could just be about particular it could be about particular modules it could be about the program as a whole and we'd be happy to answer that maybe I can just please one more question out there is about kind of alumni and how our alumni are involved in our programs kind of once they finished and their studies with us so do we do events where we kind of invite alumni to come back and and participate in in current programs or participate in kind of webinars that we might be running more open webinars I can answer that in terms of what we're starting with development the department development studies now is to start working on seminar a seminar series for careers that are based on our alumni network so that is a really nice way of bringing people back in to talk about what's happened since their degree and to provide advice on you know so we caught one on Thursday which is someone working in the financial sector someone working for an activist oriented NGO someone who's based in a UN agency and one more and they've all they've all done environment related development and environment development related degrees in the department development studies and so it's nice to hear from them how what the real world looks like and how it's different having studied at SARS and that's something that the students have asked for in their feedback I should what we should have said the other way that you asked for how we have contact how students have contact with the academics but also they have contact with student representatives for each of the programs so they get to talk they get to speak regularly with us informally but also formally through our academic committee and so things like those requests for what would better what would people more interested in are sorry wait I think yeah that was something that people were already keen to see on the career support wasn't was to actually hear from people who've studied at SARS and you know what that means but then the question was are is it live no importantly this is our programs are asynchronous they are done so you can do them in your own time so our pedagogy involves a mix of key readings extended readings and video short video introductions that really introduce the topics rather than being kind of comprehensive lectures they are designed to be an introduction to the sorts of issues you need to understand in that week and pointers pointers to what you might find and look for especially in particular readings and that's combined with a set of sets of exercises which are more usually based on multimedia so it may be read these read this report that's a policy focused report rather than academic or watch this video or read isn't this podcast or then do this online exercise and then that the results and experiences of that are then part of the discussion the online discussion in your mind forum and they can be done they can be posted and done at your own in your own time so it recognizes that people are in different places around the world they're in different jobs different opportunities yeah I mean the time differences we try these webinars like this you know when we do live webinars and we've tried doing them three times across a day for different time zones but inevitably people are like yeah that's in my time zone but I'm at work or you know it's really impossible so you know it's nice to have a small audience but we recognize that a lot of people do watch things back on on video and that's how it's designed. Yeah I think we found even from just the last two years and even with students who are technically taking in-person classes that but have moved online that the on-demand aspect of it and being able to watch things back and watch things in their own time really really works with students and I think moving forward I mean obviously that's always the case with the online and distance learning but I think moving forward I think the kind of way that we look at education and the way that we look at delivery of programs will change I think with nearly every university including much more kind of on-demand kind of content and ability to watch things and I even think today's session we've had quite a few people register who will probably watch this session back once we set the recordings out there so definitely I think that really helps and a lot of our students feedback that having that time to really kind of sit and kind of actively listen to something as opposed to thinking okay I've got this small window of time here or you know it's not on my time so at the moment I'm in Australia so for me this is very early in the morning and I can imagine that if you are having to concentrate on like a class that would be particularly hard to do if you were trying to come in from different places so yeah I think that it's the best way to kind of run the program. I should say actually for all those people who are watching after the event if they do have any questions that they can contact feel free to contact either Tom or myself and we'll be very happy to answer you. You'd find our email addresses online. I think Kim you've muted yourself. Sorry so I think that brings us to the end of our session today so thank you so much for attending I hope we answered some of the questions that you might have but as we say all of our details are on the website if you would like to contact with any further questions about the program and we do welcome lots of questions even about particular modules or about kind of the overall program or even about so us in general we understand that there are different things that bring students to us different things that they've seen online but really to kind of get that overarching understanding of a program before you undertake it is really really important and so do feel free to reach out to us do feel free just to go onto the website and look at the open events that we run as well like we've mentioned here there are lots of different seminar series that we're running particularly increasingly online at the moment and they might be really focal to the program that you're thinking of doing or they might be on the periphery of that but just going to give you a little bit more exposure to different areas and much like Tom Thomas said you know you can start off with one idea and kind of one focus and then you can hear something attend a lecture have a meeting with an academic or even with another student who kind of talks about a different aspect that they've seen through the program it kind of ignites your interest and I think that's something that so us really offers our students is that we are very interdisciplinary and though you can come out of your program being you know a real specialist in a particular area if you want to there's also that opportunity to kind of widen your your kind of knowledge and expertise so you can kind of get out from the program what you want we have lots of students who join us who maybe have very specific knowledge in one area and are looking to kind of widen that and then we have others who might have a be from a completely different background but looking to get into a new career path or possibly in their own institution or organization that they work in they're looking to expand and so they're able to kind of get that knowledge so thank you again everybody for joining us and so thank you again yet everybody for joining us and I hope you found this especially really helpful thanks a lot Kim thank you everyone


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Hey everyone, welcome back to NintendoPribe. This is, if you enjoy Nintendo news, you enjoy rumors, you enjoy speculation and discussion around video games and specifically Nintendo, be sure to subscribe to the channel, hit that bell icon so you don't miss every video we do, drop a like and leave a comment. And today we're actually talking about a brand new rumor as it pertains to Breath of the Wild 2. Very interesting stuff, coming in hot, coming in fresh from one of our good buddies that was actually the source on a rumor we covered a little bit ago, potentially dealing with Demise being the main enemy in the game. This information comes from the same source, we're talking about Nintendo Academy, and he sent me this message and gave me permission to talk about it here. So this message was sent via Discord, he actually got this from his own sources, so if it ends up not being right, I guess the fingers are pointed at you buddy. Here's what it says, so I'm sharing this info with you, you can choose to share it or not LOL, laugh out loud haha, I'm just not going to share it since it has so much potential of being true from the email. Hey Mike, I just wanted to share a little inside info with you, it's Breath of the Wild sequel related and you can share it if you want, just you know, keep me out of it LOL. Demise breaks out of the sword, Breath of the Wild one is all his plan. He used Ganon and also used Link and Zelda, the towers and powers from the ancient tech to free Demise. So basically Demise kind of fooled Link and Zelda into recovering the ancient tech power so that Ganon can then use the power to free Demise. Link and Zelda fall into the trap and bring the master sword to where Demise can be freed. The master sword is still alive and Phi Phi Foe helps Link by making his arm a type of Sheikah slate. So Link now needs the goddess sword to defeat Demise and trap him back into the master sword. That's all I have, I'll share more with you as soon as I can, looking at March 3rd as a release date with a direct the first week of February dedicated to the game. So obviously in there, release date, March 3rd, widely speculated, widely hoped by many Zelda fans to the land of the 6th anniversary and that would obviously fit within their Spring 2023 release date timing. Also obviously there's a lot to break down in this mix, things about Demise and exact story details. I find this to all be really fascinating of course, I don't know if any of this is true. So whenever we talk about this stuff, to clarify, these are rumors for a reason. I can't verify any of this information, I don't have direct contact with his sources to verify credentials. This is just me going off the trust I have in Mike Perez from Nintendo Academy that this is worth at least having a discussion on. And I'm very curious what this means for the future of this game and he talked in the past about the prior rumor to this from the same source, talked about how Demise uses Ganon Slash Ganondorf as a puppet character. Which is quite interesting because Ganon Slash Ganondorf has used other people as puppets in the past. I mean you can just point to a certain Zant character from Twilight Princess as a semi-recent example of that. So there's been puppet characters before, but Ganon Slash Ganondorf has never been a puppet himself, he's always been the puppet master, but if you know anything about Skyward Sword and this is a little bit of spoilers from the Skyward Sword game if you haven't played it yet I apologize, but what are you doing watching any video on this kind of rumor content and at this point if you aren't okay with spoilers, Demise actually creates the curse that enables Ganondorf to even have the powers he has and to exist in the first place, so if he could be a puppet to anyone it would be Demise. So I do find this all interesting, obviously the fact that we somehow need the goddess sword of all things, I always find that interesting because I think the goddess sword became the master sword didn't it, so does that mean we have to go back in time? Is there time travel where we have to get it before it becomes that? Maybe I'm misremembering which is entirely possible, it's been a hot minute since I played Skyward Sword, I thought the goddess sword became the master sword, but I could be wrong on that. This obviously confirms the return of a fee, this is Ghirahim going to be involved in this scheme somewhere, that would be very interesting to find out if he can even come back if he still exists, because it's not really clear at the end of Skyward Sword if he does still exist, if he's trapped along with Demise or what's happening there, so it's going to be quite interesting if this is the direction, I'm really excited for this potential story, but again this is just a rumor, I am Nintendo Prime, this is really fun to talk about, you guys let me know what you think down in the comments below, also there's a fun note here at the end, you guys liking me being back at the sit down set?  You know I've been doing a lot of videos obviously at the streaming set, the lighting here is a lot better, obviously we got the TV behind us going pretty well, I know there's a little bit of glare right here, nothing I can really do about that, I might be able to frame it a bit better, but I'm trying to get the full video back in here, we have a different background that's going to be going on behind me that's going to make that, so I can frame it a little different, but right now when I'm ever playing video clips on repeat like this, that's what it's going to look like, so thoughts on this? Do you remember my old set and if you remember my old set, do you like this sit down set even better? That's what I would like to know because I would like to do a lot more news reporting right here from this set in full 4K 60fps with no lighting problems whatsoever, so thank you guys for tuning in, I am with Android Dance from Nintendo Prime and I'm going to catch each and every one of you in the next video.


So the next step we have is to have a machine that uses a UI design in front of the desktop. It's based in the end of the year. So now it's also going to be about using WordPress as a background program. So that's what we're going to do at this point. Hey guys, thanks for coming in. And thanks for coming in. I'm working out. It's all about React Projects. It's a great way to end up in React. We're doing a lot of custom work on Strip On. And now a days I do a lot more than LPS6, which is really solid. Use them lightweight of each piece of work as well. And I'm allowing Quest to use React to make my site into a single page. It's going to be just a swap static website. And it's based in Jekyll, which is the static site down here. And I kind of hit a hurdle there. I have a few blog posts on there and I have a few case links. But I do work early. And I realize that when Quest is really built from the ground up for blogging, I'm really going to have it done better. So I'm going to kind of strip back into using WordPress for blogging. I wanted all of the benefits of having a single page work up. Yes or no? Yes. Since I'm currently using Jekyll, it requires blogging and art analysis to be really fun. But it also requires that you build your site again. So I was really looking for the purpose of this party. So that's what we're going to talk about. So in this talk, I'm going to show you exactly how to do that. And just a briefcase, you don't have to use React for what you're going to be learning in this talk. You can use a review or you can build your arguments, learn how to decouple the data that WordPress sets up. We have environments that we're going to be integrating about WordPress and its rest. And a little bit more about React. And I'm going to show you guys how to create your first React. Pull in the data. So the point of having a headless CMS. A headless CMS is where you're using a CMS and all the data you've been separating it from a headless from how you design it. In this game, you can have completely custom run and develop. You don't need to kind of follow the rules and guidelines of what WordPress is. But you're really freeing yourself on the constraints of that. You don't have like that did-suit kind of thing you have to do with a lot of if-then logic. You're really designers UI that do an designer. And another huge, it moves all the display logic to the client side like it should be. And it's streamlined to back-end. So you can, your back-end is solely focused on logic and spitting out that data. And your client can focus on presenting that data. You have enhanced interactivity on your website. Your back-end becomes this kind of state machine. So whatever changes you make, or users make on your back-end, you can store them in your back-end kind of additive database. So who's like red articles on medium? Who's used Twitter? So you know how the recent Twitter updates, you'll see a lot to the Twitter live count. That's kind of, that's exactly what React reflects. That's exactly what React lets you do. It lets you make these live changes and reflect these live changes. Browser reload. So you can have a more secure server or you can separate your data and your logic from how. And that's really where the biggest benefit happens as well. This is a traditional CMS, you have a server or database. You have a server or database. And in our case, we have a WordPress in-depth that uses PHP and handles all the logic. And that spits out data. And then we can use that data. They're using the same data set that they're using across on their sites as well. Let's talk about setting up our dev environments. So, who has a local development? Sorry, I can't hear that. You know how we're putting it all out. Which is making changes on the fly in my QV app. It lets you have the different get-off and off the races right away. Spotbox is also awesome. It's a vagrant setup. And it gives you much more control. And it's precisely control on the environment so you can match exactly what your host is as well. This is screenshot local. It's a nice UI. And it lets you do some control as well. Let's use PHP versions. Let's use MySQL, set the MySQL version. Even access to the database as well. Very basic. It's a simple WordPress install. And it's in the app folder. It's pretty simple as well. The folks that created RAP, the folks over at Facebook, also created create RAP app. And that's a kind of a building box for RAP. It lets you up and running. It lets you connect that up and running with React. It's a source holder with component where you're selecting the right theme or anything. The REST API. But there's also a plugin that lets you use graph QL on the REST API. And we just need to make sure that types and advanced protocols show up in this API. Showpanser uses ACF for their products. REST API, that's an asset.  And you don't really need to. You're going to need 4.7 and up higher. And I believe we're at 4.0. So you'll definitely have it if you get the latest install of the WordPress. They have really amazing documentation that's available to that link.  You mentioned ACF integration earlier. Now that's not native. So there's a plugin that lets you handle that very easily. It's ACF through REST API. And you turn that on and you'll have the custom fields show up to wherever you have to set. You also have their own endpoints if you need to. Now this is how you access instance. You have your domain. And then you do dash wp slash wp dash json slash wp. And then on version 2 of the access, you just put that at the end of that. So if you want an access post, just throw a post at the end and pages will do the same. Now let's check out the post. I have a local, and this is what happened. It's pretty messy. And the cool thing is that's just raw off data. But have only 3.0.  So reading data can be messy, but if you kind of do it well, it's pretty easy. Use curl on your terminal. Or you can use postman, which is a GUI app that you can download. And it lets you handle data very well. It lets you not only read the data, but you can also check the headers and make sure there are no errors. And if you have any authentication that needs to happen, you can set that up. So that is a lot easier to read. And the WordPress post has an ID. You can see that in the first author there's an ID of 34. And then the title. WordPress's API is a little weird. We have the rendered title. So you can't just say giving the title. You have to say giving the title that is rendered, and then you give the title. Then underneath that we have the content, which is HTML. Now I actually created a blank theme that I use for endless projects. And this just helps me kind of develop a little bit easier. It's just pure index.php file. There are some links on there. So those links go to whatever your site's APIs are. And yeah, let's talk about a couple of differences between how to get it to run or even develop locally. Do you ever kind of open a page?


Yeah, totally. What else are you guys working on? I wanted to at least talk about the grant program that you have going on right now. It's $100,000. Just tell people how that works and where they can apply and all that. Of course.  All right. So last week, we just launched I Fund Women Entrepreneur of the Year, which is our largest funding program to date. So this is I Fund Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2021. Applications are open through September 20th, 2021. So that's a three month period for you to go ahead and apply. And we encourage all women entrepreneurs to apply. And what makes this program particularly unique is that the grand prize winner, our I Fund Women Entrepreneur of the Year, will receive a 100k equity investment in their business. So this is a first in terms of just the grant amount itself, but also the type of investment and the type of grant. This is a 100k equity investment.  And that is just, again, very aligned with our mission at I Fund Women and what we do here every day. We want there to be representation for women across every aspect of the business. So this is our way of putting a stake in the ground in a new elevated way. And we're so, so excited about it. And it doesn't really stop there in terms of the pricing and opportunity. There are eight different categories that you can apply for. And in addition to the 100k equity investment, there will also be 10k grants awarded to the category honorees as well. And this will all be announced. And it'll all be announced through a event on Women's Entrepreneurship Day 2021. So that's in November, November 19th. And these companies can be of any category, no matter what the tech or the SNPG or whatever it might be. It's across the board. They can be anything. Absolutely. I really encourage everyone to go check it out. iPhonewoman.com slash entrepreneur of the year 2021, I believe. Just go to iPhonewoman.com and you'll find it right there in our main nav. Learn more, take advantage of some of the resources through this program. In honor of the program, we are actually unlocking access to some of our most valuable and highly viewed workshops on iPhone women. And the topics that we've selected are correlated to some of the elements of the application itself to help you really strengthen your pitch and the storytelling you're doing around your business, the data that you're sharing to make sure that you're really providing the strongest version of your application that you possibly can. We want to see them and win through this program.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysKageBrakes.com. This is our only filler left to sell at the last nine spots in the NBA Hip Parade Break with this 21-22 Prism NBA Sellout Pack Break number 15. And again, guys, do the break first, then we'll randomize the customer names and top nine get into the Hip Parade Break. Dice roll it. It's a one and a four, five times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five. One shun. Done a one shun. One, two, three, four. Magic down to the Houston Rockets. All right, again, guys. Quick little packs on no trading, but I'll let you guys see your teams really quick. All right, well CJ just grabbed the last two straight up spots in that optic case. We're just the filler away, guys. Just the filler away. So again, if you guys sell at that filler, that's at 26. We can break open that optic tonight. Call it out. Sells out optic. Montre's here. Monty Morris will be topping. And Sharif Cooper. All right, now let's switch scenes and let's do the giveaway. So nine spots in the Hip Parade, guys. Roll it. Two and a six, eight times. Eight times, guys. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And eighth and final time. Boom, eight times, top nine. Get into the break. Chad B, you're in. Brian Heyman, Eugene, Jeremy Port, Kev, Edward, Wen Shun, Eugene, and Wen Shun. There you go. So top nine are in. So I'll paste your guys' names here. And again, coming up next in a separate video is going to be the break itself. Thank you, guys.


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Yankee first baseman Luke Boyd. Luke, welcome in. I love it. Thank you guys.  They don't know Luke Boyd and you just start to rake and you never stopped. So tell us why it's going to continue. You know, last year was one of those opportunities.  I just couldn't get that consistent at bats with St. Louis and it was frustrating and, you know, it's hard and you ask any guy that's a utility guy, you know, that has that role.  But, you know, I just ran with it, man.   And it also looked, currently, if I'm wrong, that you were having a blast. Oh yeah. And that's the big thing too. And that was what's great about what New York, you know, brought to me and in the clubhouse with, you know, all the guys that they brought me in.  And I was like, man, I gotta, these guys have no idea who I am.  But, you know, honestly, after two weeks, I felt like I'd been there for eight years. Like, it was crazy how awesome that clubhouse is and it shows the success, you know, the Yankees organization's had.   So, it seems like it's an ongoing audition that just constantly proved everybody.  So, does it continue in 2019? In my opinion, no. I mean, last year I was, you know, fighting for a spot to make the team and not saying I'm not doing that this year, but I actually think I have a chance to, you know, prove to the world that I can play first base and, you know, play first base for the New York Yankees.  And, you know, I expect him to. And that's what makes this game great is that we're going to go in there competing and, you know, I guess the best man wins. It seems like, though, from what, you know, Boona said and Cashman, Voight's going in as the first base. It's going to be a battle. So, it seems like it's your job to lose. Do you feel that you have to put up some numbers in spring training? And that's where it's difficult for a young player. Better can just work on things. But you might have to put up some numbers. Yeah. I mean, and I was listening to MLB Network One Day in Calrubkin, and not Junior. His brother was talking about how he never, you know, had a starting job.  And now it's like 99. But yeah, I'm going to show up ready to go.  And, you know, that's how I kind of take every offseason. I want to show up in shape. You know, I lost some weight. I want to be a better athlete. I want to, you know, be really good defensively. And, you know, prove the world wrong. And I can, you know, sustain the position. And now you have some responsibility, Luke. You're not just playing for Luke and, you know, to get a nice car. You got married this offseason. I did. And yeah, thank you. Congrats. Yeah. And actually, my wife, she was a fifth grade teacher, and she's actually resigning next week. So that's even more pressure. More pressure. Oh, yeah. Um, I never even told you guys this. You made me feel terrible about myself because that's our job. No, yeah, you guys used to. So during the I've lost some weight and I get on the life cycle. I'm doing 35 minutes and then 35 on the elliptical. I feel really good about myself. I go to Twitter and I see you're like lifting small trucks. I mean, how do you do that? I mean, do you do those workouts every day like that? Yeah, five days a week. I'm trying to hit more home runs, man. I'm trying to. What are you trying to do, Michael? I don't know what I want to live. That's right. So just trying to announce them without passing out. There you go. So what is your regimen? How serious is it? Oh, it's unbelievable. You talking to me? Yeah. I know his regiments. Watch TV. You go like this. I see no, that does. What do you do, though? I got a split. I do upper lower cardio, upper lower. And that's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And I mean, it's 2 and 1 half, three hours in the weight room. And that goes, you know, the first two months from October, November, into December, I'll really hit. And then after that, I'll start doing more, you know, baseball activities and stuff.  And I'm doing, you know, I'm jumping everything. I'm trying to be the best athlete I can be and sustain it. And I think that helps a lot with me being injury free and keep my muscles in tech for 162 games. And a lot of guys in baseball don't like working out. I think a lot of the old-school guys don't like working out. But I think it's a huge part of me and keep me healthy and keep my pound numbers consistent throughout the season. No, what's the most weight that you lift? What kind of exercise are we talking about? All right, just bench pressing. Dumbbells or like? Can you lift Peter over your head? I can lift Peter over my head. We did not. Let's see. Who would like to see that? No, no, no, no. We didn't get some money going on. Like Vegas show. No, the reason I wouldn't let you do it, I'll tell you right now. Because one hand's going on my face, and I don't want to know where the other hand's going. Because that's why I'm not letting you do it. Just close your eyes, everybody. Now, the old days in baseball, Luke, I'm sure you've heard these stories. You don't want to get too muscular because you need to be fluid, but you seem like you're combating that with the speed exercises as well, right? Yeah, and I'm being more flexible, too. I mean, I'm sustaining. I'm not getting too tight to where I can't hit an inside fastball, or I can't, I mean, you guys have seen me do the splits, so I can do the splits at first base. But I try to maintain everything and keep my body nice and loose and fluid throughout the whole season. I mean, it's something I take my pride in, and I'll always be there every day at a certain time trying to make my body as tip-top shape as I can. Every guy wants a team to win. Every player we spoke to, Steve Pierce, or your teammates, that's the job one is to win. But do you have personal goals in your head? I want to hit X amount of home runs. I want to drive in this many runs. Number 28, that's what I want. 28, 28 championships. 28 championships. Doesn't matter how it comes. Doesn't matter how it comes. You know the room well, too. That's what they want. Now, I look at Yankee Stadium, and I look at you and your swing, and I say that's kind of made for each other. When you saw Yankee Stadium, did you say, yeah? You know what's inside this, too, is DJ LaMayhew. Yes, yeah. I think that's going to be you. Yeah, he's going to have more home runs than he's ever hit. I think so, too. I agree. So, I mean, does that ballpark make you happy when you walk in? All right. Well, when you're hitting in a group with Stanton, Gary and Judge, maybe not so much, but I try to do my best. But it's always, I've always been a middle guy, and I always try to say inside the baseball, to right center, right field. And that stadium plays into my approach, which is huge for me. And I think that kind of, you should have a lot less. How surprising is it for you as a player to still see Harper and Machado out there? That sucks, man. I'm frustrated for them, even though I know they're probably asking for a lot of money. But at the end of the day, they deserve it after their first six, seven years of playing, and not getting paid a lot. But I mean, I hope baseball doesn't go in that direction. It's going to go in the next two years, and hopefully nothing bad happens. But it's kind of depressing right now. And I mean, it's not even those guys. It's 100 other guys. That's insane. It's not fair. Marwan Gonzalez doesn't have a job. He's a really good player. Is he super utility guy? It's frustrating. And hopefully they sign. But I mean, even me trying to get an apartment in Tampa, I panic, I know I have a job, but I can't imagine them and trying to find a place in their families, not knowing where they're going to go and stuff, it's frustrating. And I mean, look at Neil Walker did. I'm sure he probably didn't want to sign to Miami, but that was probably the only offer he had. Right, rather than, because he joined late last year, and that set him back the first half of the year. Absolutely, so is there a solution to it? It seems like if you reach a certain age now and they don't want to give a certain length of contract. I just hope we, I mean, I don't know. There's not a strike. Yeah, right. And that's what I try is going to happen.  When you look at the success you had last year and you never really had the opportunity in St. Louis because somebody was blocking you, does some of the joy of success get taken away when you go, I could have done this before. They wasted three years of my career. Do you ever think like that? I could have been doing this. Yeah, I mean, that always goes to your mind. But then again, like they gave me the opportunity to make the big leagues. They drafted me. I was a senior sign. Did you grow up a fan of the Cardinals? 20, I mean, from St. Louis grew up 20 minutes from the stadium. So this sort of, it seems like a perfect dream. Yeah, and you know, so David Freese went to my high school. I got to see him do the whole thing, you know, win the World Series MVP. And, you know, Ryan Howard went to my high school too. And, you know, seeing those guys have a lot of success and then David do it with the Cardinals.  And I wanted to do that. And then I ended up getting drafted by him.  And then I got stuck in the big leagues. And it's just like, man, when am I going to get an opportunity? And then all of a sudden, I'm getting all my family and friends asking me for tickets all the time. And I'm like, I can't get 15 tickets. I haven't seen you since seventh grade, but yeah. You know, Paul O'Neill has always told me, Luke, that it was easier for him to play in New York than it was in his hometown of Cincinnati. Sometimes playing in your hometown is a bear. Did you find that? Yeah. And don't get me wrong, I mean, I loved it too. But it's hard, man. I mean, it was great because I got to go home every day. But at the end of the day, I mean, I thought New York was going to be a challenge. And it was the first couple of weeks. But then, you know, it was unbelievable. And you guys took me with open arms. And I really appreciate that. And Luke, chance are unbelievable. And I can't wait to hear him. Did you root against the Rams in the Super Bowl? Yeah. I did. You rooted against them. I can't stand Stan Kronigie. God, I guess. Yeah. You know, I don't blame you. I mean, they left it to me. I grew up with the greatest show on turf. I had Tori Holt, Isaac Bruce, Marshall Fock, Hurt Warner. Greatest. All those guys. It was unbelievable. And then you think you have it again? You get Todd Gurley? Yes. Aaron Donalds, Brockers, all these guys. And then, boom. See ya. LA. So have you picked a new football team? No. So I went to Missouri State. And so I have those people who are like Kansas City people. So I tried hopping on it. But I couldn't do these those myths. That was before my home started. But now my home makes it easy, then. I know. And then, of course, I decided not to do that. Now, did you have family that rooted for the St. Louis Cardinals, too, and had to go through this twice? Yeah, my grandfather, yeah. Yeah, he was a big, big, big red fan. So did you not, I mean, for the Super Bowl, were you rooting against them? Or you just didn't care? I had money on Tom Brady. How about that? Oh, why? Yeah. So you were active. You can't bet against Tom Brady. Absolutely. Do you marvel at what he does? I mean, for as long as he's done it? It's the TV 12 thing, whatever that is. I mean, I think we all need to go on that. We all need to deal with the devil. I'm on TV 12. We've heard that. I mean, it's a Boston guy, but six rings, man. I mean, he's got himself, he's got as much as any other franchise. I mean, it's amazing. It is simply amazing. And what him and Bill check do, even though it's kind of like a second cousin or something like that, because I was a Fram's fan in 2002 when they beat us and stuff. Right, that's where it all started.  So that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's kind of sucks, but it is. So you got Jets and Giants here. You're a New York guy now. Wants to be one of those 15. That's what I'm saying. You know? You were up for bid. I'm up for bid. Somebody can get you. Exactly. They didn't release. Four wins here, five wins there. No one really fought for you last year. That was not a good audition. I was more worried about my fantasy team. Well, congratulations on the marriage. Are you heading down to Tampa after the dinner tonight? I've actually been there last week, so. And you just flew up for that? I heard there's a lot of video floating around of you raking already in Tampa. I'm trying to keep raking. Keep going last year and next year. Good to see you. Congratulations on the marriage. I appreciate it, guys. All the best, guys. Congrats. That is a lot of joy. Thanks.