Welcome to the Power Talk Show with me, Dominic George. It's another Wednesday. Today, we're speaking about how your emotional health matters. And with me, I've got Arthur Muriuke, who is a consulting psychologist with the Brain Initiative. And he'll be speaking to us about this important conversation. So, you know, being emotional and psychological health is very, very important. I think some of us tend to ignore how important this is. But I know that we have been reading on our social media pages, people committing suicide. And sometimes there are people who are unable to deliver because of psychological and emotional issues at work. These things do affect us in our relationships, in our work, in our schools. And it's important to deal with them early. So you need to ask yourself, what makes you have more negative emotions than positive ones? And what can you do to make that difference? So be part of this conversation. Why your emotional health is important. And this conversation is being led by another than Arthur Muriuke, who is a consulting psychologist and works with the Brain Initiative. So go to our social media pages, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at Y254. And talk to us. Or you can even go to my own Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at I am Kamau Mwangi. And talk to me. So now I'm going to give it to at Afrika Band. At Afrika Band are here with us. And they are going to be entertaining us during this show. So at Afrika, let's go. So for those who are watching us at home, welcome. We are talking of this great person who can make your emotional health just go up. Are we together? So listen to this. Welcome to the Power Talk Show. When I see the past away Well, when you want me to fool me You are who to me, I try But when I see the past away You are who to me, I try But when I see the past away Well, when I see the past away Intentional for my good Intentional means I work in for my good When my emotions are down He's intentional At Afrika Band It's good to have you back by the way Masanga How are you doing? How is the new month treating you? Ah, the new month is treating us with a mood of love With a mood of love It is the love You know it's the month of love Yes Oh awesome awesome So ladies and gentlemen Welcome back to the show As I told you today we are talking about Why your emotional health matters And the one who is leading us through this conversation Is Atamu Riyuki Atamu Riyuki is a counseling psychologist A consulting psychologist Who works for the Brain Initiative And he will be helping us with this conversation As I mentioned to you Go to our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages Y254 Or check out my own page Instagram, Twitter and Facebook Atayam Kamamwangi And be part of this conversation There is a post on there And you can comment and ask your question Or give a suggestion Or an opinion So Mr Atamu Riyuki Welcome to the show Thank you very much So you are here, you were here some time ago Yes And it's good to have your back So emotional well-being Or emotional health Possibly we can start with what is that Okay So talk about emotional health It's a new, very fascinating area of research That we are now seeing a lot of emphasis going into Because you, I think all of us are familiar with Atamu The IQ IQ, yes The intelligence question And initially we used to think that as long as you have a very high IQ Then you can adapt to any environment But we've come to see that even people who are highly intelligent So the question was asked What is it that they could be lucky Or struggling with So as I think around 2002 is when now There are two researchers who came up with the term emotional quotient Now IQ or referred to as IQ Now emotional intelligence is the ability As defined is the ability to feel, read and respond to Or feel, read and respond to So the ability to read someone's emotions What it is that they are feeling And to understand it And also to know what is expected The expected normal response to that kind of an emotion So this is both inward to yourself And also outward to the environment So it seems to me it's the way you are able to deal with What life throws at you Without allowing whatever life throws at you to consume you Yes So for example, all over the tribes of the world Or the human race There are five common emotions that are present in all human beings And that is anger All over the world people are able to feel the emotion of anger They're also able to feel the emotion of fear They're also able to feel the emotion of sadness They're also able to feel the emotion of heart And lastly they're also able to feel the emotion of joy Okay So your ability to one, read that emotion on another person Or to even become aware that this is how I'm feeling And also to read it on another person You've done well on the scale of emotional intelligence You're doing very well in that Yes, so if you can interpret For example, when I'm looking at you if I can tell Are you disgusted by what I'm saying So much, so much So now I know you're lying to me So I disgusted by what I'm saying Are you interested in what I'm saying Do am I boring you Is what I'm saying making sense So my ability to read that We'll also now inform how I respond Do I shut up Do I continue speaking Do I give examples Are you squinting your eyes and trying to figure out What is this guy talking about So do I need to be more elaborative So that helps us have a good kind of interaction And as we talk further on this We'll also look at how does emotional intelligence Or lack of it Affect how people interact Either in romantic relationships Or with family or at work or in school Or within their environment Yeah, but actually I'm going to go to I'm going to use an example of Let's say a romantic relationship So let's say someone has been So there has been a breakup of our relationship And I'm trying to point out the fact that Sometimes there are events that can happen in your life That leave you with highly toxic negative emotions Right So what is the balance That I feel bad that this happened But at the same time I don't want to let this Break up or this death of a person Consume me So what is the proper response to this Okay, so what I'd like to point out in the beginning That the ability to feel is very critical It just makes us human That for example if I lose a loved one Then I'm able to feel that loss And how I feel it could be either maybe I'm in denial Or I am very angry about it That this person has died and has left me in a lot of debt Or that I was so connected to this person And now all that investment is lost Or I really loved this person And then they are gone I'll never see them again Who is going to feel that void I'm so lonely So the ability to understand That this is how I'm feeling I'm feeling, yeah And then to know that for example If this is how I'm feeling Am I aware of how I'm interacting with my environment For example when I come here to speak to you And I've lost a loved one Am I aware of how I'm interacting with you Am I moody? Am I irritable? Am I on edge? Am I very aggressive? Am I rude? Am I... Because if I'm struggling with that emotion I don't want to let it out safely Then I'm going to lay it out on you In a negative way So a healthy balance is If you're able to identify at every single moment What it is that you're feeling Are you also able to see how it's informing Your thought processes And consequently your behavior So are you reacting emotionally to what's going on Or are you... Responding Yes, are you responding appropriately To what is required in that environment So that would be a healthy balance To be able to identify And then consciously choose How do I want to respond here Yeah, now so How do I process first of all Right That I am feeling lonely So what do I do with that emotion Do I simply let it like Do I simply go through it Or how do I deal with it Because there are people who commit suicide Let's say when someone, one of their loved ones dies Or when they are left Maybe they're in a relationship They had invested everything in it So some go into the negative response They like I'm not going to date again Or they break apart Yeah, yeah So what I'd like to even begin by pointing out is that When you lose a loved one, it is normal It is normal to feel sad It is normal to feel To go into grief It is normal to mourn It is normal to feel heaviness A lot of sadness That's very normal So what we encourage people to do Is that do not avoid feeling the sadness Do not avoid feeling Sometimes even guilt That this person died Maybe I should have been the one who died Maybe it was a road accident They died, I survived It should have been me To acknowledge those emotions Because the reason why sometimes we feel so deeply When we lose a loved one Is because of the nature of the relationship we had Maybe they were so close to us Or maybe we had a very constrained relationship And I didn't have enough time to resolve it Before the person passed away So we encourage you do not avoid that emotion Now the risk with avoiding it Is that you will try block it or numb it Using other ways Other what we call maladaptive tendencies For example you will say As long as I drink a lot Or I smoke too much Or I go on a shopping spree Or I distract myself long enough I won't have to feel this way We see the human body is not created To forget painful events It records if you do not want to let them out And then it brings them up When you least want them to come up So one of the things we encourage Keep your friends close Get very good support around you And people who are encouraging with you And sitting with you and supporting you So now if Let me interrupt there You know you have said that When you lose someone Have a good supportive system Yes But there are people who have emotions of Am I being a burden to them So they don't allow themselves to be helped Because somehow they feel like Let me just deal with my own issues Then like cutting Even though other people want to help them You know They are like now Yes it's a common phenomenon that we observe And sadly this is more common among us men Than it is on women Because for example If it's a husband who's lost a wife And the other children who've been left The man has been taught as a young boy Do not show emotions Do not show negative emotions That's a feminine quality So sack it up Be like a man Be a man So when now he's faced with all this grief There are no society approved ways Of how they accept a man to express emotion So what this man tends to do Is because I don't want to show This sign of weakness That I'm crying I miss my wife I'm mourning her Why did she die And I don't want people to see me In that quote-unquote weak state So what I'm going to do Is I'm going to drink it out Okay Or I'm going to work myself off I'm going to overwork myself And then enjoy the title of alcoholic Because then I'm achieving a lot So what we encourage Especially the ones who feel that burden That if I'm one Who's going to take care of The rest of the activities that need to be And also the statement that you mentioned That I feel like I'm a burden to people Now that blocks your expression of that emotion So you turn it inwardly Now sadly When you turn an emotion Inwardly, especially if it's a negative emotion The body does not know how to safely retain it So it comes out with headaches And lower back pains And joint pains And stomach ulcers And indigestion And very serious medical conditions Then you go to hospital And the doctor says We can't find anything Yes, so until you find a medical practitioner Who's asking you what's going on in your life You'll keep on going to hospital And not be able to connect those two So that's what we encourage people If you find yourself grieving Or experiencing frequently A heavy load of emotions And you've tried so many things And you're not able to get better or feel better Then seek professional help It is not unmanly to seek help It's actually a sign of strength Encourage to go find someone and say And talk to that person All right, so now Last two questions that I have here for you So what are the key building blocks for emotional health? What are like five things you might You could say a person needs to consider the next Like the following five pointers For them to observe or to have a healthy emotional health Okay So even with reasoning it out One of the things we encourage people to do Is something called self-awareness How well are you aware of what's going on internally? For example, if I asked you right now as you're listening to me What emotion are you experiencing? Are you able to identify it? Can you tell me? I would say calm Calm So calm is it close to joy, happiness, low-level joy Contentment Contentment So how often are you aware of that emotion? Okay, so that for example If maybe on my way out of this studio I step on your toes Then will you still be able to remain calm? Okay, so self-awareness What's going on internally within me And is it been affected by the environment? If there is a chaotic environment over there Maybe you have your supervisor or your boss or your colleague Who is constantly on your case Why are you not doing this? Why are you doing this? How do you respond to this person? So self-awareness Am I allowing the external environment To affect my internal environment? So self-awareness Now number two is how conscious are you of how Your emotions inform your thought processes So for example The same example I used If I step on your toes working out of the studio How are you going to interpret that action? Is it that I am very disrespectful? Or I don't think you're...  I'll go with useless So based on the meaning that you give That behavior It may or may not affect how you respond to me So for example if you think I was very disrespectful and rude How might you respond to me? So you may punch me or push me or shove me or Depending on the size of your ear But if you think Or maybe it was an accident He didn't see my foot Then that will inform how you react to me So because you will not stop me and ask me Why did you step on my toes? Didn't you see my foot? Let me pose you that But on the other side I can turn it towards myself Right? Possibly I'm so useless That's why he's stepping on me Right? So I deserve it Yes So now if you do that It will also inform your behavior So what you'll tend to do the next time we meet You may either wear very metallic shoes That have a metallic front Yes to protect your toes Or you may avoid me altogether You may not invite me here again Or you may try to look for something negative about me So that you can feel in with the negativity Or you may choose something else Now how you interpret that behavior emotionally Will affect even the quality of our relationship How will you treat me the next time I come to see you Or you bump into each other somewhere else So the ability to relate emotion and thought process Is also very important Yes Now the third one is After I have read your emotions After I've checked with myself How am I responding? The last one is What do I expect in my response? So that for example If you have judged that situation as it was an accident So you remain calm But then when I get there I insult you I turn around and I insult you So that calmness might be put up Because I assumed good will And now you have confirmed that there was no good will So now I have to change my whole point of reference Yes So at that point again you have a choice Do I still want Do you still want to remain calm Or do you want to be affected by my statement So if you want to remain calm Some of the thought processes might be helpful Is if you start to consider Maybe you've had a bad day Maybe there are some things of no process I'm depressed Or I'm depressed or something And if you say that to yourself Because remember you may not have time to ask me Well why did I do that? That will now inform how you react Now it is very important for people to be able To in the moment hold back this reaction And consider am I reacting Why am I reacting the way I'm reacting And if we find time we'll also link these with Now mental illness How does Unfortunately Yes We are running out of time Okay So it's more pervasive than that So that if you're not able to always hold back Then it could begin to point to an underlying mental illness So it's always advisable to prevent To when you still can To control Try and stop yourself And stop the impulse to react So as long as you can do that Then you're on a good scale to being emotionally intelligent I know you're remaining with two points But right now we're going to take a break right now And so I can give it back to Atafrika So we're going to take a break And then when we come back We shall conclude with the last two And then we call off So Atamiruki is continuing with us With the conversation on emotional health And emotional well-being And how important it is So please don't go away I'm going to give it back to Atafrika For a break before we resume Atafrika, let's go Sing what they want me to be Living through the rain Wasting away for the world's plans for me Believe, gotta believe, gotta believe Like I've, I've believed Deep Atafrika band Great piece Absolutely amazing piece Welcome back So we are still talking about emotional health And as we concluded I'd like to Just mention we have been talking about Jordan Peterson's laws, rules to life And today just before we I go back to Mr. Atamiruki to conclude for us The fourth law says compare yourself to you One of the biggest and I'm sure cause of unhappiness And maybe could be the fourth one that you've been speaking about What are the emotional building blocks What are the building blocks that can help you live a healthy life Is comparison with yourself So there is a very good point here that Where you are You are, you cannot compare yourself with any other person Because you don't know why they are where they are And the moment you start comparing yourself with others You deny yourself the chance of becoming the best you that you can be And there are so many people who lead very depressed and very unhappy lives Because every time they go to a certain distance They realize that someone else is ahead of them And let me tell you something as Jordan Peterson says However good you are at a certain field You'll always find someone who is better than you Who might make you feel utterly useless At how good you are and you forget how good you are So when it comes to talent or even relationships or family That sometimes you might find yourself That there is someone always better than you So Jordan Peterson says it's better to compare yourself and say Between yesterday and today, am I better than I was Not that am I better than anyone else Am I richer than anyone else Am I more handsome or am I getting compared to the others How am I comparing that can suck your energy And I believe that could be there for the building block To making us even more happier and becoming even more fulfilled persons But I want to take it back to Atamariuki Who is from the Brain Initiative To continue with this conversation on emotional health So welcome back So the other thought that I'd like people to consider Is something we call self-control Self-control Now this is so important especially when you're having human-human interaction So that for example if I'm your boss And I do something that or you do something to me That I find very disrespectful And I decide on the spot you're fired Okay And then without any consideration to the labor laws and all of that And then you decide okay I'm going to go home Then you get a lawyer and come sue me So and you win the case So my company is going to hemorrhage a lot of money And when you trace back the footsteps Is because I interpreted a statement or a behavior that I observed in you And determined you're either insubordinating Or you're very ruled or etc etc And now we cannot pay bills Because now we have to settle bills with you And the labor court say I cannot fire you You have to come back to my office So I have to see you and look at the face The judgment of face And then said keep thinking my thoughts So you think you won So you think I can't fire you again Or you thought you could let me go like that I can decide I'm not going to work Because I have money anyway I've gotten money off the company So the inability to have self-control Has fire reaching consequences Now we've been seeing on media An increasing number of homicides So a man comes home or a wife comes home Or children come home and they decide What they find in the home is not pleasing enough to them And they react on the spot And that leads to serious bodily harm and death So when you trace back and you interview these people You ask them what happened And they are so remorseful They seriously cannot understand How did that lead to that, to that, to that And now they have to do timing in prison So self-control is a skill It is not a privilege or an aspect That is for a certain group of people and not for others So the ability to feel emotions so intensely And to acknowledge that this is how you're feeling And to be able to tell yourself Calm down, let it pass And then to respond with more logic Saves you a lot more heart in the long run So self-control Is a very key component Yes, so the last one And there are many So we mentioned briefly on the last one It's something we call perseverance So if for example And I'll keep using this example at work We may have colleagues who maybe we don't think too highly of them And maybe these colleagues are our superiors Or there are juniors who maybe report to us And they can sabotage us if they feel like Because we are going to look bad So how well are you able to live in this environment Where you are not able to change the dynamics in your favor Will you always be moody Will you always be the most gloomy person in the office Will you always be the person who is the worst team player Because there's someone in the team who you don't see eye to eye So the ability to acknowledge That this is how I feel in the presence of this person And how do I interpret this person's behavior And because I'm going to be in the same team with this person How then can I modify my reaction towards this person So that it does not affect my career So the ability especially when you cannot move around the dynamics in your favor To have or put differently tolerance To be able to tolerate an emotion that is not very endearing to you So basically if you cannot control a situation or a person And the way they behave towards you The best thing is to look at your own environment I mean an emotional preparedness or reaction So when you meet this person You're like okay I'm going to meet a difficult person So how can I pre-empt an ugly situation Or a depressive situation on my side Yes and then calm yourself down well enough to be able to respond calmly And to be able to think clearly Because we normally say that if your emotional intelligence is not well developed Then you will almost always find it difficult to adapt to any new environment So emotional intelligence is key to adapting to any milestone Like getting married, like getting a new job Like getting a promotion Getting a promotion So it helps even for managers when they are promoting people to supervisory positions To have this person assessed How well emotionally developed are they So they may be have very good managerial skills Technical skills But then how do they interact with other people And will they cause a lot of people to leave the company Will cause a lot of people to join the company And work to give their best Thank you so much I appreciate so much Mr. Doctor I'm going to call you Doctor Is it Doctor, okay It's Mr. Yes For now For now Okay, Mr. Atamurioki from the Brain Initiative Thank you so much for making time to come to the Power Talk Show And sharing with us about emotional health I much really appreciate you coming And I would love to continue with this conversation But because of time Let's close it up at this And thank you once again So that has been Atamurioki So Atamurioki is from the Brain Initiative Like I've mentioned to you And I want to thank you for being part of this show For watching our show And thank you so much May God bless you Continue this conversation on Y254 Instagram Twitter and Facebook And I'm going to give it back to At Africa Band to close the show for us God bless you And have a good night Go Mad Make a difference Good night Cabo Rimi Alishina Taki Forizo Tabutena Shida Zani Zunguka Maisha Yabala Watu Washa Toka Kua Ko This valley Won't again Won't again


It was incredibly exciting to see the data. It was almost surreal. This is a phenomena that had never been seen before. What's been discovered is the merger of two dense neutron stars. What they produced was a ripple in spacetime that was detected as gravitational waves, as well as the light from the radioactive debris ejected from it that glows brightly for some period of weeks. And in that radioactive debris, we see signals of formation of many of the heavy elements around us, all of the gold and platinum and other precious metals. From that we conclude that basically there's enough material produced in these events to basically see the entire galaxy and the Earth with all these heavy metals that we find around us. What we see from the observations is a point of light, but there's a lot of information in that light. It's the exact spectrum of colors across the rainbow, its brightness, and how it evolves over time. You can distinguish whether you're seeing the heaviest elements or lighter elements based upon their color. The lighter stuff looks blue, the heavier stuff looks red. By comparing those to the theoretical predictions, we're actually able to infer what the material was made of, how much it produced and how fast it was actually ejected from the neutron star merger. These events produced large amounts of gold, maybe hundreds of earth masses worth of gold and even more platinum, maybe 500 earth masses worth of platinum. I think without the theoretical modeling that we had done, we'd all be pretty mystified as to what exactly we had seen. But since we had made predictions about exactly what the color and brightness and duration of these events would be, we were able to not only understand what we were seeing, but actually decode the material that was there. It's exciting to think that something that's so far out and distant in space is so closely connected to something as is home in terms of the ring on your finger or the gold chain around your neck. I'm sure they'll find many more in the coming years and in 30 years it'll be another chapter in the textbook of astrophysics. So it's exciting to see the first few sentences of that chapter being written right now.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2021-22 Panini Donner's soccer two box random country break number 28 Big thanks to this group for making it happen There's all the countries right here Let's roll it. Let's randomize it two and a three five times for names and countries one two three four Five after five we got robert down to canard two and a three five times one two three four And one more time fifth and final time After five times we got argentina Down to the netherlands All right robert with argentina sam with mexico rick with columbia matthew with poland robert with brazil matthew With korea brine with spain Uh, steven with germany kevin with england sam with belgium steven with the united states josh with italy robert with sweden norway korecia rick with portugal matthew with uruguay robert with france and canard with the netherlands Let's sort by column b Right there All right, and there you go. We're gonna pause the video when we come back We're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have this two box break Stick around we'll be right back. All right. Welcome back everybody. No deals were done in this two box break So there is random country 28 Thank you for to everyone for getting in It's what people perceived him I guess michael, I guess i'm just too nice Yeah, I guess I guess that is a waste of time now, isn't it michael and matt. Thank you For uh for bringing me to my senses. I had a feeling but It's like maybe not sometimes. I sometimes I pull the trigger too quickly There's carlos vacca for columbia I I say the former matt. I would also I may also argue that that Was not an adult All right, there's a 84 out of 99. Yes for carlsson and a silver imbappe someone was saying was it bam earlier I was saying that he's all but A free transfer to real madrid this summer Is your rich just get richer This is for france le blu this for robber uncle robber the rich just get richer All car chip in this as well. Just fyi There's a matthas vina 59 out of 99 for uruguay matthew And urlan holland it's for the combo spot norway Sweden croatia robber uncle Thank you tim. I appreciate the uh the professionalism in the chat Your ability to keep it together There's a uriel antona 227 out of 349 press proof for l3 san mexico We've got a red out of 149 giovanni liselso. That's a good question rex uh You must be 18 or older to join into group breaks Let's just let's just leave it at that We've got a marco verratti 47 out of 349 Tim it's a it's a good plan She actually by that I know i'm going through this paper really quickly but All cards do ship We're trying to look for something a little bit Better than those paper right we want to find the chrome equivalents maybe low numbers right here maybe some nice inserts There's signature series john joe shelve For england former liverpool man john joe shelve some of you may remember Um kevin with the three lions Hey christ what's going on The plan will work eventually tim and we got we got webhorst To 99 for the netherlands second box Another relic another auto and hopefully some low numbered cards still kaboom hunting This is only the second break of the fresh case And uh, I know some of you remember last time there was near disaster where uh Where some of the retail store boxes got mixed up with the case that we opened and some were sold and put to it We thought that we may uh We thought that we may lose The kaboom but we didn't we found it so all's well that ends well But this time i've got it set in a different cabinet so that won't happen so we're working on this the next x amount of breaks will be from uh What is it two four six eight ten twelve so the next six breaks 27 28 29 30 31 32 Should be Will be all from the same case. So I know a lot of people are kaboom hunting in the case so Just letting you know, I know a lot of the same people are buying to these breaks anyway, so Just letting you know Yes chris after I finished this break We do have another fresh case to post another two box break of uh Immaculate football so I'll get to that once I Once I finish up all this stuff the last box. Good luck gang. Thank you. Once again for getting in There's luca avanesek It's 009 out of 349 That's for uh the combo spot robert ronkel There's dally blend kit kings For the netherns they got a little bit of the name right there kind of coming off there that's unfortunate But kit kings piece of the jersey for the orange canard with that I guess that silver and bop is a little bit nicer than that base in bop a Two of those I guess one could get graded if he has a good world cup at the end of the year world cups in November now Could be good value there Legit question what is that what case does everyone use to hold your slabs and higher end stuff? I've been looking but just can't decide on one looking for one for shows Slash travel Maybe holding 75 to 150 slabs Anyone have any I feel like I saw a great case company at the national When we were there that we're selling custom cases for however many Things you have I feel like a lot of people also use I forget what I forget what nick uses. He uses a couple different brands This is roheem sterling to 349 For Kevin I think pelican is a brand that that usually I associate with with building flight cases for like camera equipment But I think they can I think there's some cases there that can that you can use and And get uh and get custom foam cutouts In your case To fit whatever you need But it's kind of crazy like Seven years ago Nice, we got legendary, uh, mexico keeper Guillermo ochoa That's for samuels. There you go sam and sam and mexico l3 Yeah, he's got a hundred caps up until 2018. Are these Not sure if he's first choice keeper anymore, but he was for a long time But it was crazy tim like five six years ago. It was just Backpacks duffel bags that people were throwing their uh throwing their slabs and cards into Some people just used like smaller like suitcases You know Very rarely did anyone have any any sort of fancier kind of camera case or flight case or Pelican case or something like that But now In in in the night in like a couple recent years um The more and more shows we go to more and more people are getting fancier and fancier like cases to holders that which makes sense. I mean Stuff's a lot more expensive these days. You can't just throw it in like a sack pack Or a backpack and be like, you know, that's it I'm rattle around there But yeah, I think pelican is one of the more popular brands. Does anyone else know of some of the other Other brands for carrying slabbed cards And you're traveling going to shows and stuff. There's bernardo silver for portugal. That'll be for rick thomas I'm sure uh I'm sure like The hobby facebook group or some other forum Might have a might have a list All right, you're more more worried about travel You might have to do some research But I think pelican tends to be one of the one of the more popular brands Which also probably means it's more expensive, but I think they've got pretty secure latch lock type type things There's blue raheem sterling for the three lines to 99 Right. Yeah, you want them small enough Yeah, you want small something small if you can carry on we carry on our when we're traveling We always carry on as much as possible as well Is that a brand kevin gpa? There you go. So maybe there's another brand. Yeah, someone just give us some brands Of cases that you know of or heard of that that are good 65 out of 99. There's rune yarsting There's a marvel's earling holland It's brian reynolds silver paul pokeba France could still be a dangerous team in the world cup this year They can get it get it together. They've got the individual talent No, that was a typo My here am I saying that right? You can see it in the in the chat right there, but that's that's another brand you could take a look at tim Everyone else M M E I J I A There is donnaruma 17 out of 149 the italian keeper forza zuri that goes to josh melton It's jack grilish Kenzie etc etc and that my friends is that another two boxes of donner's soccer in the books Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us and uh be sure to soccer with us all season long until we get to the world cup And then beyond jaskiescasebreaks.com. Bye. Bye


Hello everyone, welcome to the Narc Survivor YouTube channel. Before I begin, please give this video a thumbs up down below. It helps the YouTube algorithm and gets this message out there. This is why gang stalkers are after you. Gang stalkers are people who may be following, watching and harassing you. It may include a vast network of people in your community. The more people that are involved, the more important you are likely to be. Gang stalkers are just groups of narcissists and they're flying monkeys. They're people who have been manipulated into harassing you for the narcissist's benefit. They tend to have an inflated sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy as well as a need for excessive attention and admiration. They're very insecure so they always feel the need to be in control which is why they will manipulate as many people as they can to maintain the control that they are seeking. The goal of the gang stalkers is to make you feel vulnerable, helpless and scared. They may threaten you and try to isolate you. They may even track and monitor you in an attempt to intimidate you. They can be very manipulative and dangerous as they are seeking power and control over you. There could be many reasons why you are being gang stalked but it always comes back to one thing. There's really only one reason and the reason is that you have caused a narcissistic injury potentially on a grand scale which means that you have wounded the narcissist and the gang stalkers egos. You have injured their pride and self-worth or they believe that their false image has been criticized slighted or insulted or that you have challenged that inflated sense of superiority, specialness or entitlement which is what has given rise to their intense reactions and narcissistic rage and you may feel like they are trying to reject you but what many targets of gang stalking don't realize is that it is the target who has already rejected the narcissist or their gang stalkers. You have unknowingly turned them down and maybe you didn't mean it in that way but that's how they took it and once they get the idea in their heads they run with it and there's really no going back after that because they don't know how to let it go. You've bruised their egos, you've made them feel unimportant so now all they're concerned about is get revenge. They're seeking to punish you because they believe that you have hurt them. If you have a disagreement with a narcissist or a gang stalker that typically means that their entire system or group will turn against you and that is when you will experience gang stalking which is a group of people who are generally suffering from a cluster B personality disorder or mental illness who no longer like or support you because they believe that you are different which should reveal to you that they believe they're all the same whether or not that is actually the case and even if it is just a delusional belief in their minds it has to be what they're thinking because otherwise they would not single you out from the group they would not belittle you or attack your reputation and you may not have even realized that you rejected them you may not have said or did anything out of the ordinary but your face says it all around you around people your facial expressions reveal what you're thinking even when you don't say anything it shows them exactly how you feel so they already knew that you disapproved of them they knew that you felt you didn't belong to their group and maybe you didn't approve of how they treat people so they immediately viewed you as their opposition as their enemy or adversary even though you may never have intended it in that way and it could have been something petty it could have been something so insignificant but we only have to look at football hooliganism to see that where people display aggressive behavior during football events which may seem mindless and pointless to other people yet to them it makes perfect sense but there is a psychology behind these football fans when their team is doing well they feel a sense of achievement they experience hormonal surges and other physiological changes which is similar to what the athletes experience on the field and they may even experience an increase in status and a feeling of pride well if they have identified a loss they will experience negative emotions such as anger humiliation and resentment and they may even experience it as a threat to their social identity to where they may then engage in abusive and aggressive behavior and considering that this is something that gangstalkers rarely take a break from the only possible explanation is that they are constantly experiencing a sense of loss a sense that something they want is being taken away from them and of course that something is you which is why they're coming after you because they have an inflexible system of ideas and ideals which they were expecting you to conform to they have this mentality that you're either with them or against them and once they believe you're against them you're out of their group because they make decisions as a group which typically results in unchallenged poor quality decision making when all they really desire is for harmony and conformity in their group but either they already know that's never going to be you or maybe you've tried to conform but once you've caused that narcissistic injury it's already too late after that they're only going to become stalkers which is why they will start spear campaigns and harass you on social media because from that point on they're already veering you as something temporary they're not even thinking of a future with you in it if they were then they would probably think twice before doing it so from that point on it should already reveal to you their mindsets they already know how things are going to go they're already planning to exclude you to limit your ability and development and to make it difficult for you to be involved with other people because they will try to get everyone to hit you just as much as they do if you're finding this video helpful you can give it a thumbs up down below to show your support they may openly insults and degrade you they may spread misleading information to promote their bias point of view they may try to sabotage your progress they may bully people who are close to you and they may obstruct any associations that you're trying to make which can be a very difficult thing to go through because it's bad enough when you're just dealing with one narcissist that alone is enough to ruin a person's life but you're dealing with a group of people who all believe that they are right and that they are superior to you which they're using as an excuse to be negative to criticize and belittle you and to shame and punish you because they think you're different they think you're not the same as them and that may be true maybe you don't think the way they do so you're not conforming to ideas or practices in your behavior or views you're not agreeing with them you're not cooperating with their sequence of instructions which they believe to be the correct and established way of doing things or maybe they're just showing an excessive interest in themselves and they don't approve of you not going along with it but either way they have given up on their sense of individuality they have surrendered their qualities and character that would otherwise distinguish them from other people in their group they have denied their separate existence which is why it may seem as though there's nothing original or unique about them because they all act the same in an effort to serve the group while expecting you to do the same thing because they're very insecure they have very little confidence so they are uncertain about their own abilities or if other people really like them well as their target you are showing confidence in yourself and your abilities and qualities you're showing certainty which is a very attractive trait because they're not confident it irritates them it makes them angry which they try to mask within the air of arrogance entitlement and superiority and by treating you in a condescending way because they feel threatened they feel that your presence might cause them to be less respected or less admired as a result of your distinguishing characteristics which then results in paranoia both in yourself and the gangstalkers where they become suspicious and distrustful of you but they disguise their insecurity by acting as though they're all seeing and all knowing they try to play guards as though they have unlimited power and they can do anything they want as though they're in total control of you which is actually what just perpetuates the difficult and stressful experience for them because then they can never have complete control over you unless they tied you to a tree but that's not something they're going to do because then it wouldn't be a satisfying experience for them they need you to have the ability to move around so that they're able to control your choices and decisions which may cause anxiety and distress for you because as a normal person you're not going to feel comfortable in that type of environment only dysfunctional people thrive in dysfunctional environments so for you you may experience unhappiness and disappointment because it won't feel normal to you it won't seem usual typical or expected and that's what they play on because they're anything but normal and that is how they gain power over you because they keep you in a state of fear where you're always on edge where you're highly alert to potential dangers or threats which is exactly what they want because they need a lot of attention which is why they will try to isolate you so that they can have all of your attention for themselves but the more attention you give them the more miserable they will feel there is a reason why they target you in groups rather than it being one-on-one and it's quite simply because they don't believe that they're enough on their own they don't believe that they have enough power or strength to attack you in that type of setting so they act as a group because they believe that by themselves they are insufficient and inadequate they're lacking power capacity and competence which is why they don't tend to promote individuality or self-identity and instead they find strength in numbers because they believe that it gives them more influence and power than one person when in actuality that may not always be the case because they may act against their core desires and attempt to gain power which is why despite all of their efforts you may be able to overcome them because I know only to them what they're putting out is what's keeping them in a weaker position yet in their mind they think that it empowers them they think that it gives them importance and authority which is what they want because they're seeking to dominate you to gain influence and control but whenever someone does that that is actually their Achilles heel it's their weakness and vulnerable point because it affects their ability to preserve themselves to where they become predators and they lack empathy unless they think there's something they can get out of it but even then their kindness is fake but you do need to be very cautious about criticising their group because there's clearly a lot of insecurity there so if you say something negative about their group even though it may be honest and truthful it may have an opposite and unintended effects and it may provoke an intense negative reaction from them because they feel the need to hold on to their group for their lives they feel weak powerless and inadequate on their own but in actuality the opposite is true because they're all connected so if you trigger one member you trigger the entire group which means that you are the one with all of the power because you could just give one negative remark to a single person and yet it would affect however many people there are because they're highly reactive to you they're under your influence which in a way it's almost like you're their god you're this parental figure that they hate and resent which is why even when they come after you there's no point speak about your different ideas or how incorrect and difficult they are because gang stalkers are very predictable they lack logic and reason so you have to accept that you can only be a part of their group because you don't agree with what they're doing you don't accept how they treat people their behavior just doesn't resonate with you so you can't allow yourself to be a part of it gang stalkers do not act alone they have a leader or several leaders and they have sold their souls they have disowned their individuality in exchange for some earthly favor and they have chosen to take their cues from contemptuous individuals who have a need for superiority so you should try to focus on better and more promising situations that are more favorable and beneficial with you the gang stalkers may try to encourage and establish certain beliefs within you but you can find satisfaction from knowing that your character is right they may come after you they may tell you that they don't agree with you they don't like you and they don't want you to be a part of their group and you should approve of their decision by realizing that it is beneficial for you because what kind of person would want to be a part of their group it's not going to be anyone that you were decided to associate yourself with as they're weak and inadequate so they find strength in numbers they engage in criminal behaviors they thrive in dysfunctional environments they do things that disgust you so even if you are seeking good company or positive reinforcement you should know that you're not going to find anything like that in their group so count yourself lucky realize that you have dodged a bullet something that otherwise would have posed as a hindrance in your life so reconnect with yourself and practice self-care and when you're ready you can find other people who are more kind loving and patient thank you for watching if you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up share your thoughts in the comment section hit the subscribe button to receive the 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So I get asked all the time by real estate agents, how do I stand out in this crowded market? There's thousands of real estate agents in my market, how do I stand out? Everybody's going after the same clients, the same goals, seeing the same things, seeing the same postcards, doing the same Facebook ads. How do I stand out? Here's how you stand out.  You actually show them that you care by never pressuring them to buy or sell a property. You let them do it on their time. You show them you care by asking why they want to buy or sell. Did somebody die? Did their kids go to college? Did they lose their job? Did they get a new job? Why are they wanting to buy or sell? What's going on in their life that's making them make this decision to buy or sell a property?  How do you do that? How do you prove to people that you're the hardest working real estate agent in the area by actually being the hardest working agent in your area? Show up to the office earlier than everybody else. Leave later than everybody else. Work the entire day. Stay busy. Make calls. Send emails. Create postcards. Do ads. Create business. Talk to people. Conversation is the key to all closings. Whoever has the most conversations with the most prospects wins. You stand out by being more consistent than anyone else, longer than anyone else. They want the real estate agent who sent them postcards the longest, right? It's not what's in the postcard, it's the fact that they got a postcard from you every single month for the last 10 years. That's why they're gonna choose you. That's how you're gonna stand out.    You're not going to want everything today. You're going to stand out because you don't seem desperate, because you're working with so many different clients that you don't need to sell. You're more interested in how you can actually help them accomplish their goals.


99% sites online are affiliated working for the trade card companies and giving you dishonest and misleading sugar-coated information trying to sell you trade cards and making money off you. Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. If you are looking for unbiased, non-affiliated and honest trade card reviews and information then you are at the right place. Today I'll talk about Bream World Elite MasterCard, why I decided to cancel this card and why it didn't make sense for me anymore to keep this card paying $199 annually. Bream sent me an email about a year ago notifying that the annual fee will go up from $120 to $199 and they mentioned the reasons in this email why they are increasing the annual fee. This is the first time I heard any trade card which increased their annual fee from $120 to $199 even before issuing their trade cards because when I got this email that time the Bream trade cards didn't come out yet. So the first time I heard a trade card company increasing annual fee even before the trade cards reaching the customer's hands. So if you look at the email that they are mentioning here that the features and benefits they are giving are equal to $399 to $799 annual fee trade cards but when you look at the benefits they are actually not even equal to $120 per year annual fee trade card. For example, if you look at the benefits they are just doubling up their insurances. They are not actually adding any benefits. For example, here they are mentioning that they have 0% current transaction fees, free global Wi-Fi, security features and two points for every $1 spent. But these features were there even before the free increase and these didn't change. So what is changing? They are just changing the annual fee. So if you just go through the email then they are just doubling up or sometimes like 2.5 times increase of insurances. For example, trip interruption and trip cancellation, lost baggage, delay insurance and lost and stolen baggage insurance, emergency medical travel insurance, mobile device insurance. So they are just playing a trick here because most people who have this card they are not going to be using these insurances every year. So when you travel, possibly you are going to need a travel insurance to actually apply or actually you are going to have bad luck and you would require insurances once in a while. I have been traveling for 25 years and I never had to claim any insurance ever for these years. So they know that increasing these insurances really doesn't mean anything because most people will not be like you know claiming this anyway, once in a while probably like you know a very few handful of people who claim this. So it doesn't cost them anything because no one is claiming these insurances and then they just want to make more money by increasing the annual fee to $199. So there is no reason for anyone to pay $199 to a credit card which doesn't give you concierge service, doesn't give you a lounge access, free lounge passes, recurring annual gift or bonus, for example a free hotel night or free points each year. So basically this card doesn't have any benefits except the insurances and foreign transaction fee and even there is, the foreign transaction fee is very questionable because Bream does not use master curves on foreign transaction fee. They make up their own foreign currency exchange fee and there is a room for them to just like in a charge whatever they want because they are using their own fee. So I don't see any point here why would I pay $199 for a credit card which has no benefits just insurance benefits features and one point or two points per dollar spent benefits which is not a big deal. Let me just make clear that by cancelling Bream World Elite MasterCard I am not actually coming out of Bream altogether so I'm just cancelling my Bream World Elite MasterCard and I'm transferring to the no annual fee version of Bream regular credit card. So in that way I don't lose some of the rewards I have already accumulated under Bream World Elite MasterCard so those rewards will be transferred to the Bream regular version and I'm not losing the credit limit which I was issued under Bream World Elite Card. So the main differences between these two cards is the rewards structure and it doesn't have any insurance offer. So for example with the Bream regular credit card you earn one point per dollar or one percent return and with Bream World Elite you earn two points or two percent return and but this card has some of the good features which Bream World Elite has for example you can still have a zero percent foreign transaction fee which is Bream's own rate not MasterCard's own rate then also you can have free boingo global Wi-Fi so that actually it's a very good feature to have stating the fact that you're not paying any annual fee and you're still getting the free global Wi-Fi so that's my another reason. And then if you look at the other things then it just doesn't have the insurances or any launch key but you know for launch key Bream doesn't actually give you any free launch passes it just give you the free launch subscription so each time you enter a lounge you still have to pay so that's no point you know keeping the World Elite for that as well and then insurances it doesn't have that much insurances some of them you just have a little bit for example purchase security or extended warranty but if you look at travel your insurances it has almost nothing you can see that all these are known. Looks like that's all the differences between the Bream regular and Bream World Elite MasterCard. I'll continue keeping the Bream regular version rate card paying a zero annual fee and I'll use the boingo global Wi-Fi free and that's why I canceled the Bream World Elite and I switched my my credit limit to Bream regular version rate card. 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When you are starting a new business or a new offer, a new area of your business, it can be overwhelming to think about content and launch because you think, ah, I gotta get my ducks in a row, create the perfect framework before I post my first content or I need to figure out how to tell my entire story so that I can then post my content in the correct order, right? And then launch things in a very organized way. And I understand that's the typical idea of a business launch is like business plan and sort of like your brand message, everything is perfectly all in order. As you can imagine, I have a non-traditional way of thinking about business launch because I've seen so many businesses launch in a traditional way and not work or failed or not be able to launch at all because they get stuck with in the branding process. When I see stuck, I mean, they just take so long or they run out of money during the branding process and website or they get stuck with the content structure and all that stuff and they just take way too long and they run out of savings and now they have to go back, you know, if they were using savings to launch a business. So my non-traditional way, much more nimble and I think effective way for those of us who are solopreneurs particularly. Now, if you have a whole team then yeah, you need a more structured plan but if it's just you launching something you can be way more nimble and agile in testing the market. That's been my successful way of doing it myself and coaching clients to do it is think of it this way. Think of it as lots of gentle launches, mini launches instead of one giant launch that has high risk probability and high failure probability too as most large launches do. So if you do a lot of gentle or mini launches then it's like instead of launching once a year or something like that or once every five years you launch once a month, you know and therefore you have 10 to 12 opportunities in a single year to test the market to see which way they want to see you launch. Let me say that again. Which way, which frame of your offer that they appreciate and they even recognize or understand the most because why is this important? Because the success of a business well it depends a lot on revenue, right? It depends a lot on income, right? And where does income come from? Okay, your income comes from your clients spending, your customers spending. Okay, let's, okay.  By seeing a perfect website, completely polished person or by seeing an offer and a person that they resonate with on their energy signature level perhaps or that they, oh my gosh I've been thinking about that issue I had that problem in my life and you seem like a trustworthy person. You seem like a real person that I can, that I would enjoy hanging out with, right? Let's say you were a coach or a service provider can I use your service because I had that issue? Okay, that's much more likely to happen in two ways. That's more likely to happen just in the world I see that happen a lot but also that's more likely to happen because you're not stuck in a big launch mentality you know, Magnus Opus, you know big launch, it's gotta work, you know no, you're just doing like this month so here's why a gentle launch works this month I wanna talk about my coaching offer in this way just try it out, see if anyone bites I'm gonna just try to talk about in this way next month I'm gonna talk about it in a totally different way it's the same skill that I'm offering but I'm just gonna talk about in a different way or there's different ways of testing launches the one way is like, let's say, you know this person is offering coaching for ADHD women okay, fine, let's talk about one month you're gonna say, all right, hey those of you women who have been diagnosed with ADHD or suspect you do and it's affecting your job it's affecting your job and you know that you're having a hard time getting a promotion or whatever it is or it's affecting your relationship with your boss okay, let's work through that that's what I love providing my coaching for you see what I mean, this is one way I'm offering the coaching it's still the same skill, it's still coaching it's still ADHD expertise but now I'm just applying it to the job context next month, those of you who are ADHD women and it's affecting your relationship with your partner and you know that the relationship is tumultuous because of the, let's work on that so next month I'm gonna offer that's my launch, that's my gentle launch I'm gonna post two posts that month specifically about that and then the third month I might just be more general and say hey, those of you who are, what's the spec of ADHD and you've noticed that it's been difficult for you to complete projects in your life you're making a general now and you do these three launches over three months and you notice oh my gosh people really took me up on the second one or people were asking me a lot of questions about the third one that's gonna help me refine the launch you don't need to have everything in your direction in a row you don't need to have all your content structuring your launch you see how this is much more flexible and much more successful because your income comes from the market and the only way to engage with the market is to test them, keep testing them hey, humbly offering this offer for you this month anyone take any takers? No takers, no worries I got something else for you in two weeks two weeks, any takers for this version? Oh, got one question here great, thank you let me refine this the next two weeks later any takers not ever find it more? Oh, hey, I got signed up here you see, so that's really how you know, especially solar peneurs succeed over time is to sharpen your intuition about your market and the only way to sharpen your intuition is not to not only to pray and to work with intuitive guides and work with your spirit animal or what? No, the only way to sharpen your intuition with the market the most practical way is to test them hey, what do you think? Humble offer, humble offer with no expectation oh, no one took me up on that that's curious, let me try it totally different offer two weeks from now humble offer, humble offer and so that is how, yeah that's the way of doing it I hope this is helpful


When did you first feel it and when did you feel like it was possibly affecting you on the mound? During the workouts here in the off days, I didn't think too much of it. Obviously I pitched through it, I competed. So I don't think it was enough to set me aside or to eye on me. The incredible success you've had this season, just how personally frustrating is it for you to not be able to finish this one out? Yeah, I feel like the first two innings were really good. I think if I would have continued to do that, I would have been fine. You know, the team would have been fine. It sucks, I gave them that three run homer in the third inning. It's kind of embarrassing that, you know, that happened. Obviously with the circumstances we were in and obviously we knew we had to win this game. If you guys had won tonight, would you have been able to stay on the roster? I don't know, I'm going to get an MRI tomorrow. We would have had to see to check what it looked like, but yeah, that's all I got. What was the conversation like when Aaron came out without you? He asked me how I felt and I told him, you know, I feel well enough to compete. I feel great, you know, so he knows I'm a competitor. He knows that it's going to be hard to take me off the mound. And I think I showed all year that, you know, I've gained that respect from him to lead me out there and grind through it. And then once I gave up that homer, he knew that wasn't like me. My Velo dropped, my command wasn't there, and he made the decision. You're ultimately not the end result you guys would have liked, but how do you sum up your year as a whole? Yeah, my year was great. Obviously, we didn't get to where we wanted to go, but on a personal level, I thought it was a pretty good year. Hopefully I can do that again next year.  Nester, how close would we be following the judge situation and how important do you think it is that they resign him?  He's a big part of his organization. The organization that drafted him, he's been here for a long time. He carries a lot of weight around here. He's a superstar, so, you know, hopefully that's the decision he has to make and the ball club has to make. But hopefully he's back next year and then he's in New York Yankee. Is there a worry at all that he could leave and what happens? I mean, there's always that question, no doubt. But, you know, I think all the stuff he's done here, the great things he's done here should be taken into consideration.


A shooting just before midnight on July 3 in a parking lot in Fort Worth, Texas, left at least three people dead and eight wounded, according to media reports citing the police. One was pronounced dead at the scene and two others died in hospital, while the other eight were also hospitalized and their conditions weren't known, CBS reported. The reason for the shooting wasn't immediately clear. Ten victims were adults and the other is a juvenile, the report said, adding that there was a large crowd gathering in the parking lot at the time of the shooting. So a little before midnight, just before July 4, we had a shooting, appears that we had multiple victims that were shot, probably three of them were transported to Harris Southwest, five more victims were transported to John Peter Smith. Right now we know that two persons have succumbed to their injuries and have passed away from being shot at this point.


I'm Paul Dervis and I'm going to do this kind of stream of consciousness which critics for when I first was in Boston would have understood just what I meant. And I'd like to start off by saying that Bill Marks is a little humble when he says he started in the 80s because he had me on his radio show in the 70s on a day in the death of Joe Weg. And he taught me something about theater criticism in that first interview, the first time I met him. I had just done Joe Wharton's Ruppery on the Stair and I had just opened up a day in the death of Joe Weg and Bill asked me on and he said, it's going to be a lot of fun. It's like the first time I've been on radio we're both still having pimples on our faces and stuff. And he said, so just relax, have a good time. And I said, great. And we went on the air and Bill turned to me and said, so Paul Dervis, what is your obsession with the death of the American family? And it was an eye-opening experience, but it taught me a lot. It taught me a lot about how to open an idea which critics do. In the early 80s, I'm going to talk a little bit about myself in this simply because I both run theater companies for 40 years and been off and on a theater and film critics in 75. So I've been on both sides of the fence. In the early 80s, for example, when I opened up my theater in the Alley Theater in 1979, we had $400 in our pocket, we had another rent, and an opening night we had Elliot Norton and Arthur Friedman coming to a show for a bunch of 23-year-olds who had never done this before. That would never happen today. That would never happen today. In 1979, you had a series of theaters that were opened up by kids that had just come out of college who, if they succeeded, great. If they failed, so what?  No big deal. You had the real paper, the Phoenix, the Globe, the Herald, the Boston Ledger, the Cambridge Chronicle all coming to your show. And you know what? That's what allowed a theater to succeed or fail. That's gone. When Bill talks about theaters or the papers doing features, he's being very kind when he says features, because it was always considered puff pieces, right? You know, a puff piece would be written before a show opened so that the world knew that we were here, but the show was reviewed and succeeded based on the critics. And I swear that's a truth, because all these small theaters, I'm sure, still to some extent, have really no money for advertisements. So if you don't have the critics, you don't have publicity. And that, in the world of New England theater, specifically greater Boston theater in the late 70s, early 80s, I think, and I agree with Bill on this, it was a bit of a golden age, at least for like small experimental spaces. You know, when people were doing shows that you had never heard of before, working with playwrights who had never really been exposed, and they were succeeding or failing, in a lot of ways, based on the fact that like Arthur Friedman may come in and say, and I loved Arthur, I just loved Arthur, because I think that he was incredibly a servant, but a remarkably funny man. And not only did he get audiences in, if he hated your show, it was just as good as if he loved your show, because people wanted to see what that was about. And when you finish the first paragraph, and this is a real one, Bill's too, for that matter. I've known Bill for what, 40-some-one years. And I love the man, and he has panned me many a time. But I love that because he's always brought me an audience.  And if you could do that in the first paragraph, you're halfway home. It doesn't really matter. Joe Loutman called Transfiguration of Ben O'Bumpy the worst place you'd ever seen. And when Albert O'Reilly was to write this, that's his choice. But when Paul Durbs decides to direct it, it's time to call for censorship. And we went from like 10 people a night to a Pat House. I used to pick up Arthur and drive him to the show to make sure he would make it. But that's lost today. And I look at it as an example. The last show that I did, which is in Maine, the critic from the Bangor paper got paid less to do review my show than the Boston Ledger paid me to do Diary of a Madman in 1977. It's appalling, appalling. And don't kid yourself. Papers write reviews for theaters. It even films that take out ads. That's what they're doing. And if you don't take an ad out, you're not going to get a review. People like, in my mind, and I work with Bill, I work for Bill, there's nothing I appreciate more than what ArtsFuse is doing, because it's like a salmon swimming upstream. Bill tells me, don't go see this film. It's getting reviewed by everybody. Go see this film. Nobody's seen it. And something that's hugely important. He's absolutely right. Sometimes it frustrates me, but he's absolutely right. It's what needs to be covered. We've lost that. Now you look at a show going up, a play going up. And what you see is bloggers writing about it. And what they're really writing is what Bill was talking about. They're really writing features. They talk about themselves in the theater. They talk about their friends in the show. And it's like, I read a blog. It doesn't make me want to see a show one way or the other. I have no idea what that show's about. I read Bill's review. I read Arthur's review. Even Elliot North, I read his review. And I said, oh, I want to see the show because they've told me right off the top, this is happening. This is something that's happening here. I don't feel that in the blog. Bloggers, I don't know how many of you blog. So I don't want to, I don't. I'm bad with that. What? I'm sorry. All I'm saying is it's basically hanging a shingle and writing a review. And I look at it and I think it's important to the theaters to have bloggers because if they don't, they don't have any publicity. On the other hand, if you're getting your audiences from Facebook, which so many theaters right now are doing, social media has become the way to grow your audience. The problem with that is when you do theater, I believe what you want is people who are walking in and not knowing you. It's not a vanity production. They may come. They may not to the next show. It's not the same 300 people that are coming because then basically you're doing your living room. And if you're doing that, you know, I don't see that you're an artist because you want to have a voice. You want people to hear your voice. And newspapers used to create that. And that's a lot. They're not reading newspapers anymore. I know. Well, newspapers are dying. That's correct. You're right. Nobody's reading newspapers. How can I place a judgment on how people come in? I'm in the lobby. I know why people are coming to shows. I don't understand what you mean. I'm not judging who's coming in. I'm saying I'm a playwright as well as a director. And I know this for a fact. I'd like people who don't know me to hear my work, to hear my voice. Now, I don't know if other writers feel that way. Well, I do because I work with almost nothing but original works. I work with playwrights out of New York and Toronto, Montreal. But I do know that the key to most writers' hearts is that they have something to say, and they want the world to hear it. And I do believe that 30 years ago, that was a possibility. I believe it's really hard to do that now. That's my feelings about that. I want bloggers to come to my shows. I do. I want to get depressed. But I so miss the critic coming in and having a critical eye on the piece. I learn something from a critic who knows who has a breath of knowledge of the field that they're talking about. I listen to a bill or an author or an alien Norton. And I feel like I learned something as a director. I learned something as a writer. I don't necessarily feel that if I'm reading something on Facebook. And I think that one of the comments that Bill made that I agree with is seven out of 10 pieces that you read about a show are positive. I don't believe that was the case in 1985. I believe that you are just as likely to see something that a critic said, this does not work, and this is why it doesn't work. And I'll tell you this, as in any other field, I think you learn so much more from hearing that. You don't learn a whole lot from Man Sadie, saying you're wonderful. That's my feelings. And I'm expressing my feelings. Anyway, I would just like to finish off by saying that in my mind, art's views is creating something that if it's not going to be the way of the future, then there will be, in my mind, the death of real criticism. So I really applaud what Bill's doing. And I love being part of it. Thanks.


Ozzy, as you know, we've been looking at Al-Qaeda in 2011 and now with this current report looking out to 2025, can you tell us a little bit about the threat or the manifestation that Al-Qaeda and associated movements may present? Absolutely, Tom. Now, obviously, you know, when you're predicting the future, we know that it's impossible to determine what it's going to look like and any attempt to do so would be futile. We also know that past performance, as many of the stock market commercials say, is no indicator of future performance as well. So we, when doing this threat, though, this project, we still had to determine a model for going forward. So what we decided to do is put forward five potential futures where we could highlight some key themes that no matter how Al-Qaeda might manifest itself in the future, those are things that the U.S. government and its international partners could focus on. And those five models that we use going forward, the first is what we call a resurgent Al-Qaeda core, whereas you described that Al-Qaeda core is, many argue in its waning days, and it's just diminished capability. But there is a scenario that we put forward that says it could come back and be even stronger than it currently is today. The second scenario is the one that you also addressed is the rise of the affiliates. We obviously, as you stated, seen the rise of the affiliates, but we're talking about a much more stronger grouping of affiliates that are not tied to the core as closely as they arguably are now. The third one is what we call the rise of the individual jihadists. Again, it's where you talked about this uncomfortable increase in the number of domestic extremists or self-inspired individuals who are adherents of Al-Qaeda's ideology, and that scenario is a rise of those individuals. And then the last two are kind of a little bit more interesting, a little bit different take. Number four is a scenario where Al-Qaeda actually takes over a nation state where their ideology, they have a presence inside a country where their ideology is actually dictating what style that nation state operates. And the last is a little counterintuitive. The last scenario that we discussed in the report is Al-Qaeda going away. If what everyone's saying about Al-Qaeda that it is in its last days, how do we get there? What does it look like? And how do we make sure we don't get in our own way in seeing the end of Al-Qaeda? Certainly. And I think we can expect a lot of people asking us which one we think is going to be the most likely to happen, but of course it could be a combination of all these in the future. And so it's not so cut and dry or discreet. Yeah. As Juan Zirotti has pointed out, you know, he calls it a hydra, and what we'll probably see is Al-Qaeda over the years manifests itself in some mixture of those entities. Hopefully the last scenario will take place where Al-Qaeda wants it for all, and... Yep. I hope so. Now, Tom, I talked a little bit about, you know, our paradigms we have in there, and the paradigms or these individual scenarios are really only one part of the study. It's actually a much more comprehensive report that talks about a bunch of different factors we need to consider in discussing the future of Al-Qaeda. Sure. Could you touch on a few of those? Absolutely. As you know, as co-director with me, we've been working on this for a well over year with a tremendous team of people with us. You mentioned Juan Zirotti and honor of D'Borghraff as well. But what we've done is we've broken this up into component parts where we conducted first the Al-Qaeda baseline threat assessment, looking at where Al-Qaeda and its associated movements are in the year 2011. We then conducted a series of case studies looking at Al-Qaeda core, the homegrown threat, and then a number of the affiliates from AQAP in Yemen to Al-Shabaab in Somalia, to AQIM, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, located in Mali and in Algeria, Lashkar Taiba, in Pakistan, Jama'az-Lamea in Indonesia. So what we did was we looked at these and pulled out the most relevant factors that contributed to their rise, to their fall, to Stasis. And then we used those to help project into the future. It was very difficult to do that task, and we have to look historically in order to look forward. So we did that, generated those key factors from charismatic leadership to U.S. or Western forces on the ground to outside sponsorship to safe havens, and we looked through those and helped essentially characterize the future so that we could do that. Then as you well know, we engaged in a serious amount of field work to get on the ground in current and future potential terrorism hotspots. You and I went to Europe with Zack Feldman, then you and I covered Southeast Asia. Dave Gorn and I went to Africa for a month, and we took this field work, all the interviews that you and I did with government officials, counterterrorism practitioners, clerics, the leaders, academics, a really wide range of people to give us a sense of what they thought was going on the ground with al-Qaeda and associated movements and where they think problems might be in the future. So we did that. We also looked into strategic surprises, things that could completely disrupt our notion of the future in those five paradigms that you just laid out. And then we also generated you and you and one in particular led to creation of these recommendations and the conclusion to help government determine where they can go in countering this threat. And all those brought together, I think, generated a pretty solid report. Ozzie, I think the title of our report is very indicative of what we're facing. It is an uncertain threat. We've seen this multi-headed hydra emerge. I think we have a lot of challenges in the future. I think our report addresses a lot of them, and hopefully it'll be helpful to the policymakers that we address in those recommendations. Thanks, Tom. You're welcome. Thank you, Ozzie.