with them, you know, keeping the world company. And we're going to talk today about the human flow, if you will. We're going to talk about people crossing from the southern to the northern parts of our hemispheres. Why? And whether there's a strange coincidence between the issues on the American southern border and the various borders in Europe. Why do they want to come north? What do they find there? What happens when they meet governments and people that are becoming increasingly isolationist and nationalistic? Maybe that's linked with autocracy. And in general, you know, what is the connection? And how much do we care about this? And one other thing is Ai Weiwei, an artist, Chinese artist and activist, made a movie in 2017 called Human Flow. And he talked about people who didn't make the trip very well and wound up in camps. And he revealed that there were 65 million people in 2017 in these camps with very little prospect of getting out of these camps. But where is this all going? Yeah, welcome to the show. Tim Hapchal, a co-host, Jeff Portnoy, esteemed, distinguished guest.  Okay, so what do you think we have this issue with the southern border? And we have this remarkable, if not, you know, precedent in Europe from Africa and Middle East and Central Asia all coming north. And people resisting increasingly so. What's going on in the world? Tim, you first. Well, you know, if we look at the southern border and we look at those who are trying to apply for legal asylum and the failure rate of whether someone qualifies or not qualifies for legal asylum is 90% or greater. So what does that tell you? It tells me that 90% of all those who are trying to get into the United States are looking for a better life, be it poverty, be it if they're farmers and they can't grow their crops anymore due to climate change issues. I don't know exactly what's going on. But it tells me that people are wanting to get out of their countries and seek a better life. And that's what the United States has always been about. But not so much anymore. Yeah, so what? So they want a better life. That's nice. Why don't they vote for a better leader in their own country? Why don't they try to fix things in their own country? Why don't they call upon other countries to help them fix their country instead of running away from it? Well, there's no question that the United States immigration policy is a mess. And there's lots of people you can blame. There doesn't appear to be any cogent policy as to how to deal with the crisis at the border. Either the president or Congress just don't seem to be able to get on the same page. Turning immigrants back and forcing them back to their home countries doesn't appear to be the answer. But the flow of thousands of immigrants into the country, many illegally, without any plan as to what to do, both for legal and illegal aliens just seems to me to be a tremendous political problem. Why people come depends who you talk to, right? If you're pro immigration, they come because, as Tim says, they want a better life and they read back home or watch on television, assuming they have one. You know, this is the land of opportunity. They have corrupt governments. They, as Tim said, may be a living in poverty. So they have this belief that there's a better life here and there probably is for some. But there's no question, I believe, from what I read and what I hear that hundreds and hundreds, not thousands, are coming for more nefarious reasons. You know, they're either involved in drug trade because they've been bought out by the drug cartels. So it's difficult. And then, you know, some of its racists, one way or the other, as you brought up European immigration to the United States has usually been non problematic, except during World War II, where we became isolationists. So, and then, you know, you look at countries like French and France, France and Poland and countries like that that have been inundated with immigrants now from the Ukraine, but before from Africa and the Middle East. Is their society better for that? That's up for debate. You know, I was on a Fort Street Mall a few years ago when this first started happening, the migrants in Europe. I mean, it was something that Tim and I in the old days in the Trump week show covered a lot. It was about the migrants and how the migrants were affecting Europe. In any event, I caught this woman who was a Swedish. She was a student at HPU on the Fort Street Mall. And I said, what do you think about the migrants? And she says, I am disappointed with what my government in Sweden has done. And I appreciate more than ever before the Germans, because the Germans have been very sympathetic to the migrants. This is before Ukraine, of course, very sympathetic to the migrants. And they have allowed the migrants a path, you know, to a better life in Germany, much more than Sweden. So, you know, what you have is at least in some countries in Europe, a very sympathetic response an arms open response. Angela Merkel was a perfect example of that. More than the United States by far. She allowed millions of, you know, seven global south people to come into Germany during that period. So, Stephanie, what is it with us? Are we not sympathetic? Do we not have the moral fiber to do what Germany has been doing and other countries in Europe? Let me also add this. Give me your tired toggle masses yearning to breathe free. For so many years, the United States was the beacon. The beacon is at the top of the Statue of Liberty, isn't it?  It was part of our national policy. We allowed millions of people to come in during those years. And now it's 180 different. What happened to us? Good question, Jay. I believe that we've been often on about that Statue of Liberty message. So that has, you know, if you look at the graph of who gets in and how many they're allotted to allow in, there are preferences stated and therefore, you know, they're pushing other people away. But I would like to also mention that Angela Merkel went down because of that immigration policy. So that was problematic once the people came into the country. And that is exactly where we are. We have brought in enormous tides of people and we're still working to meet, to have the government recognize and meet their needs in ways that are humane and that give everybody that chance for reaching their dream. However, I'd like to draw on Jay's earlier point about stay and take it, take on the problems that are in your country. Since a lot of these people are coming from countries that are making it more difficult because the countries won't allow, even under Title 42, they wouldn't allow them to come back in. So other than Mexico, these other countries in Israel and some of the other in Colombia, they wouldn't allow us to deport them back to there. They wouldn't accept them back. So when they do, when they do leave, I think we need more look at why are they leaving? Okay, we get the warfare and we get corruption and we get, we want to know what are those conditions. And then we want to know what are the responses of these various people for them. In other words, we've got Ukraine. That's an incredible model. An example, they stayed and took on the Putin and the Russian state. So they stayed and took it on. So I want to know more about, I think we all need to know there's more work that needs to be done to find out what are the forces at work in this mess that the U.S. has. It's not just us beefing up our policy and looking at that poem again on the Statue of Liberty and getting nice about it. We need to figure out what are, who are these people? What do they want? What do they need? What can we give them given our state of the economy and needs? And then how can we help? So again, you know, I reach out to something like the United Nations or a bigger picture thing. How do we go in and work with these countries, those of us that can, those nations that are able to engage with these other countries to solve some of their economic and governmental problems? So, Tim, I want to ask you a hard question. You know, is this, is this a kind of coincidence that when we looked at the migrant situation in Europe and then we turn around and we find out that the U.S. has the same kind of isolationist thing? Maybe not at first, but after a while, people, the people on the street react to having migrants among them, taking arguably taking their jobs, taking, you know, economic benefit. And, you know, arguably, as Jeff said, you know, undoing the security of our society, they begin to, even though they're sympathetic at first, they begin to react to that. And that becomes a political force, isolationism, jingoism, nationalism. Okay, we have it in both places, seems like, and started in Europe because of the southern borders, and it started in the U.S., or at least it got worse in the U.S. because of the southern border. Is that a coincidence, or is that a worldwide, you know, process, a phenomenon that occurs everywhere? Oh, I think it's definitely a worldwide crisis. And, you know, to address why people aren't going to stay in their own countries and fix things, I think many of those countries are ruled by fascist dictators. And we all know that in a fascist dictator society, people are thrown in jail or just simply disappear if they try to upset the apple cart, which is to say, try to put in a different political flavor. How many candidates are locked up in jail all around the world because they dare try to run to be a different leader than the fascist dictator they were trying to replace? So I think that's a common element, and I think people get frustrated, and they just say, I've lost all hope, and I want to leave. But to get back to your first point is, yeah, most nations are very open-armed at first, until what I believe is a false narrative, and that is those who are immigrating are now getting free government benefits. And in fact, certainly that's a big one here in the United States, oh, they're living off a welfare, and they're getting all these benefits. They don't want to do anything, and they just want to live the life of luxury at our expense, the taxpayers' expense. But I think that's a false narrative. I don't think that happens very much at all. I think there's a lot of private organizations that are set up to help people, immigrants in this country, and I think that's what's being handed out is on a private nonprofit basis. But these false narratives get into our bloodstream, and it becomes a social wedge issue. And then those who are bent against abuse of taxpayer dollars or good old-fashioned racism, they start to spark up. And they like candidates that pontificate about nationalism and shutting off the borders. Donald Trump comes to mind. Well, I may be in a different view than you guys on this one. I just don't think you can have open borders. I don't think that's sustainable. And I think what's happening in the Southwest is a tragedy everywhere you look at it. I have friends in El Paso. It's easy for us in Hawaii to say, oh, everyone who wants to come across should be able to come across because this is the land of opportunity. Go down to these Texas border towns and see what's happening.  Take them.  And frankly, I think there's two types of immigration. There's white immigration, and then there's non-white immigration. You know? I mean, let's be serious about it. Well, Donald Trump doesn't take anyone from the Nordic countries. Right. I mean, if Canada's border is open and people were coming in from Canada, I don't think the people in Maine would be having a very difficult time. So, you know, it's, you know, the irony is it's a political issue that no one has the will in politics to try to fix. They like to criticize one way or the other. But, you know, what's going on down there is just awful.  There is a legal pathway, and people should be given that opportunity. I mean, you know, we have feel that there should be immigration reform, Jeff. Of course, but there won't be. There never has been. You know, not in recent memory. One of our brethren in the bar from Hawaii, a Harvard graduate went through Washington and got a job as counsel for the House Committee on Immigration. And he was there for decades and decades with only one mission to write a bill to reform immigration. It never got the first base. What a frustrating career. They never wanted to do anything. But I am going to appoint you as the chair of that committee now. And I want to know what kind of reform you would do. It's a great question. And I can't even volunteer and answer the comp. It's such a complex issue. And there are a lot of people smarter than me that can try. Oh, there's one right there. I will defer to Stephanie. Thank you, Jeff. Since I was a high school kid in South Texas, and we snuck down to Laredo and all of these other places because we could get booze there and other stuff. And I mean, ever since that youthful experience, it has just been a complete frustration that you take one step over the bridge.  Okay. So getting back to my other point. Yes, the Marxists and fascists and dictators and all these people are out there. They've been out there for generations and centuries. So the US is an economic power. And we've got the power and the capacity to come up with another model. Okay. So like, why can't we go economically at this stuff? Like, get American companies to have branches down there. Get these people employed. Deal with these governments on an economic basis to make investments in the country that are going to employ people and give them a chance to build their country up into a decent economy. I mean, that's the mess everywhere. And yes, yes, there's those governmental issues at the top. But if we get the people more empowered and educated through, how much money are we paying to handle this immigration situation? Probably can't. It's trillions. So why don't we take those trillions, build the wall, block the borders and start working with the other countries on their economic situation or whatever wedge we've got to go in there with. I mean, and if we can do it in a powerful way, obviously in the Catholic church and get all of these in on NGOs and all these nonprofits and all these people have been working there. But there's one other one other phenomenon that's happened only in the last few days. You know, in I think it's in Sudan or other places in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the Chinese have built, you know, manufacturing facilities and another, you know, industrial facilities. And they have been the target of, you know, of terrorism, the target of violence and all that. And there was an article recently about how the Chinese have changed their policy. They don't like to see their citizens killed in these unstable places. So they're changing their policy to defend themselves. So part of your, you know, model here, Stephanie, is that American companies should go down, for example, to countries in Latin America and try to bring some stability to them. Well, that necessarily involves dealing with violence. And maybe that's what we have to do. What do you say, Tim? Well, yeah, thank you, Jay. Number one is we have a whole political force that both presidents use, be it the GOP or Democrats to say, we're creating jobs for Americans. We're encouraging and asking companies not to relocate offshore for them to create jobs in other countries. That's a huge political shit, if you will, that both sides of the parties are pontificating about. And guess what? Most Americans agree that American companies should be operating in the United States, creating jobs for Americans. Right. But have you seen what China's done in the South Pacific? They're into every island there that has any resources. They've got major... Well, they're drill, baby drill.  And once the material is gone, the minerals are gone, guess what? They're out. Well, it's not necessarily, Tim. They're there for influence. They're there for the future. They're building their brand all over the South Pacific. And even if they use up the resources, they're not going to leave so quickly. Why is it that this country has to take in all of the problems of the rest of the world? Do you like to marry off a boat lift?  Don't agree that the health of the world affects us. And if we don't attend to this, we're going to have more trouble. One of the reasons we have the problem at the southern border is we have not been attending to Latin America since the Monroe Doctrine. And, Stephanie, you remember the Monroe Doctrine. Of course I do, Jay. I think she voted for it, as I recall. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but anyway. Trouble now. Look. Jimmy, remember Jimmy? The immigration problem.  It was the Irish and the way they were discriminated against. It was the Italians. It was the Jews. But in general, it was a man of public policy. We'd love to see them coming. But they were white and they looked like us. We'd love to see them coming. So it was hard to tell who they were. These people are not white.  And that's really driving a lot of this. But on the other hand, you just can't have the chaos that there is.  There's a lot of people. Go ahead. You know, they love to show on the news the mother and her five kids trying to come to America. Yes, I understand. How about others who we don't want? They're not going to contribute. They're coming because of social welfare and whatever. All I'm saying is it is an enormously complicated problem. That no one wants to deal with. No, no one in government. We must deal with it. We must. We don't. OK, well, let's let's look at Europe for a minute. Why did England vote Brexit? Well, a primary reason was, and again, I go to Jeff's point about white versus nonwhite immigrants is they refused to take on the EU's quota of immigration. They just said, no, we're not doing it. And why? Again, I think Jeff's spot on, if they are white, they probably said, well, fine. But they weren't. They were immigrants from Syria and sub, you know, in Africa. And they said, no, we don't want the quotas and we're not going to do it. Let's vote Brexit. That's like shooting yourself in the foot. That's not the foot. But many times we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to racism and nationalism and isolationism. Yes. Should we continue to do that? No, we should stop that. Just totally stop. I like legal immigration, not ill legal immigration. I'm spot on with his comment about that. Oh, you fell right in the past, Tim. So how would you reform immigration? Oh, guess what? We had one on Trump administration. We had the gang of six. We had Lindsey Graham. We had John McCain. They had a deal. They had a deal on how to deal with, you know, a flood of immigration. And guess what? What's his face? Miller, I forget his first name, whispered in the ear of Donald Trump and Donald Trump backed out, even though he said he was going to support it and approve it. When it hit his desk, he turned tail and he vetoed it. And that was the end of real immigration reform that we had on the table. It was ready to go and kaboom. It was blown into a million pieces. Thanks to, come on, help me out, guys. What's Miller's first name? Stephen. Thank you. Thank you. Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller came from a family that escaped Europe in the war from the Holocaust. It's extraordinary and hypocritical to the nth degree that he would be the one trying to stop immigrants. Oh, no, Stephen Miller is being hypocritical. That's the least of his problems. There's the headline. There's the headline for today's show. Let's take Facebook. All right. Facebook made so much money. Don't know what to do with it. You can have something going on that's a Facebook thing in Mexico. Why isn't there a subsidiary or a chapter or a whatever down there of Facebook bringing people in to do some kind of work that they could do at the level of entry?  Hundreds and hundreds of people. What they do in the U.S. That's only once a week. Wait, no, wait, no, wait. Wait, wait. That's only once a week. That is all the time. It's a question of the ground up last year. They have put up warning signs about traveling to the U.S. It is too dangerous according to them. Well, you know what? I mean, I think the irony here is, you know, unlike a few years ago, and again, I only know what I read in here, these aren't Mexicans crossing the border. That's the irony. Yeah, three, four years ago was Mexico, Mexico, Mexico. Mexico is doing a great job keeping their people in Mexico. It's from the other Latin American countries who don't care. Oh, it's from everywhere. It's from everywhere. It's from Asia. It's from the Middle East. It's from Africa. When's the last time you saw a bunch of Asians lined up at the border? It's happening. It's happening. People trying to come in from the Mexican border come from everywhere. They come to Mexico, and then they make their way across. I'm not saying they're a majority, but a lot of people are not from Latin America anymore. Because the border is an open SIV. That's the easiest place. You're not going to get into Blaine, Washington at the Canadian Washington border. It's the southern border. It's an open SIV. So an interesting comparison is in Europe, you know, they don't have a wall or anybody wants to have a wall to complicate it. But they do have people coming up and then people in various northern countries reacting and going to the right, you know, creating ultra-right organizations. I mean, there are neo-Nazis in various countries, and it's all built around this might, as you mentioned, for Brexit, built around this migration thing. And I just wonder if, no, it's not a coincidence. No. Well, how did the Italian Prime Minister, how did she get elected? What was her platform? Guess what? Immigration reform or the lack thereof. We're enforcing our sovereign rights to not just let people come into our country without visas or authorization. It's a global phenomenon. It's a copycat phenomenon, sort of like the guns and the violence we discussed last time. No place in the world other than when Ukraine was sending its citizens were leaving to go to Poland. When's the last time you saw an immigration crisis at any other border other than the southern border of the United States? Let's start with that. Vietnam won in 1963? 5? 7? I'm talking about in the last 20 years, other than Ukraine. Well, that went on into the 70s, and the Africans are coming in all kinds of ways. They're not lining up outside between France and England. You don't see the crisis. I understand they're coming to these countries, but somehow it is more organized in the way that these people are processed, allowed in, not allowed. You're talking about two different things. You're talking about a policy in which you let immigrants in or not, and then you're talking about what's clearly a crisis, a humanitarian crisis at the southern border. It's different. Yes. And if Mexico is doing so well, then now that's a real good place to start working together to build their economy. We can make them want it. What can we do? That sounds like Trump. China is putting in millions and millions of dollars into those islands. What complicates this in the United States? The land of AI and Silicon Valley, the land of the biggest tech companies ever imagined around humanity, we do not have the technology to answer a simple question. Who's here and who's not? We don't know. The immigration service has never been able to get a handle on who's here and tell you what's going on. And that goes way back to the time. You remember this in the 80s, when there was an enforced rule where the immigration service could raid your company and pull out your employees and send them away? Notice that hasn't been happening anymore. That's because we don't have data control on who's here and we don't have the resources to deal with it. So I go back to the same question I asked at least a couple of you. And by the way, Stephanie, you've had some great ideas you really have. But let me ask this question. What are we going to do? Okay, yes, it's a mess. I think that's unanimous. But what are we going to do? Let me ask you the same question again, Jeff. You've had some time to think it over. Maybe now you'll come up with a more cogent... Unlikely. Time is not an advantage for me, no. I have no idea. All I can say is, and this isn't very profound, what's going on can't continue. And that's all I know. And how to solve it, what to do. I don't have a clue. Okay, well, definitely. With that frame of mind, you should definitely run for president. Yeah, I could probably do well in that regard. I mean, we're kind of laughing about a really serious problem, but nobody seems to have the will to try to figure it out. And I get back to how I started. It's politics. It's politics. It's nothing more than politics. They're saying that when we fix Congress, when we fix the Supreme Court, then we'll be able to solve this problem. Well, we certainly have an advantage over where we are now where we have an inability to agree on anything, let alone a problem as complex as immigration.  Yeah, well, yeah. When we fix Congress in the Supreme Court, how about fixing the leaders of our country that are trying to polarize us in every avenue of social life and political life? How about fixing Donald Trump? Because he's the one that instigated the polarization of America. Well, not instigate, but he certainly put a lot of fuel to the fire on it. And we can't get anything done now because they're GOP, they're MAGA GOP, and we're Democrats and nothing gets done. Okay, Stephanie, you had your hand up, too. Thank you. This morning on Bloomberg, Kristen Sinema was making a big pitch. Okay, so she's got some ideas, Jeff. She's, and that's politics. She's never had an idea. Well, what she was suggesting stuff this morning. Kristen Sinema has an idea. My brother lives in Arizona. Call him. She was pretty compelling this morning. So I'm sure they're going to be running that tape all along. So what's her idea? Well, her idea is to do the kind of things I'm talking about, but is to do things, be partisan about this number one. She's the big bipartisan. I guess that's her theme, but that's the bipartisan thing. Nothing's been done since 19, oh, whatever, that's bipartisan about the border. And so she's calling on that. And of course, she's criticizing the administration, especially the vice president for not getting down there and visiting, including the president. Wait, do we have a vice president? Wait, wait, do we have a vice president? Yeah, she's the one in charge of immigration. Is in her picture up in every post office? That's being missing. Can I take your remarks as your final statement? One more remark is remember if you like peaches or if you like grapes, okay? We are totally dependent on the migrant workers, okay? So right there, we have got this commonality that needs a big bump, needs a big push bump, and that's a way to start working on something because we can't let all of that.  We address that as a country, as a nation, as a government. You need to make it better. You need to make it better. I think Stephanie has come up. It always takes Stephanie to come up with the answer. Yes, it does. And I like peaches and grapes. I've changed my view in the last half hour. Wait a minute. Okay, does anybody want to make a final comment? Raise your hand. I'll never get to. All right, okay, two out of three. We'll give you a chance to. Okay, Tim, what? Well, like independent cinema, my platform is not unicorns and sprinkle of fairy dust. You need some real, concrete ways of doing this rather than this throwing it out there in the airwaves. Bottom line is it only works when the parties get together and hammer out a deal which we had under the Trump administration. We could do it again, but you got to get out the antagonists. It's almost like the NRA. The second you talk about gun reform, no one's listening. No one even goes to the table and tries to work on it. Immigration is getting to that point, if not already there. Stephanie, your point. And I really would appreciate if you would not suggest repealing them on road doctrine. Okay, well, Jimmy would be so disappointed in us, Jay. Come on. But the thing is that we need to know how much we're spending on migrants. We need a number. And I would like to see that number because I believe it's in trillions. It's probably one of the biggest factors on the chart of our economic spending that is a disaster and useless. So anyway, that's my point. We need to know that. That's a place to start. Let's talk money on this thing and then go from there. Let me ask my twin. Hold on. Let me ask my twin. I want to hear this. What do you think? He says we put them all on ships and send them to China. Okay. And on that note, Cuba already did that to the United States in 1980s. That's right. That's right. I've concluded that this is really, for the moment, it's installable. It will take a bunch of really motivated people in a room to figure out even step one. And the problem is it's connected. It's connected to Europe and for that matter Asia. And if we don't do anything about it, there'll be more violence in the world.  I mean, the bottom line, the bottom line is it's a humanitarian crisis. Yes. And it needs to be addressed. Yes. People cannot be kept in camps. People cannot be living on the street for weeks while they're being processed. And the money in the facilities can't deal with what's happening. And so somehow there has to be some kind of organization. I don't mean a nonprofit, but some kind of effort to stop this massive people from trying to come across the border. And that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be allowed in some way somehow. But the way it's happening now, it just can't go on. Anybody want to top that? Hearing none, we're going to close the show. Oh, no. Oh, yes. You know, you do have a dynamic to your Jeff from your opening comments to your closing comments. It sounds like you've had a bit of a change of heart. And I'm gratified about that. Which way did I change? Because I'm happy to change back. Believe me. Jeff, Courtney, Tim Apachella, Stephanie Stoldo, thank you so much for this really, really interesting discussion. Mahalo.


So this saga is finally over. It is finally over. This has been a This has been a very long process. It's been a long time coming We we knew that he wasn't gonna be a red skin this year Trent Williams wasn't gonna be but we just Just in the way he was gonna go and we're just waiting and every day that pass especially every day wants to draft Started his value just kept dropping and what the Redskins were gonna give him just kept dropping It's just gonna keep it kept dropping and Feel like what y'all can go away. They'd be the same situation but with Trent Williams There were thoughts of him possibly going to the Browns and possibly going to the Vikings Browns they shut that down when they drafted a tackle And Vikings there had still been some talks about it, but obviously nothing came to fruition Because he is now a 49er and real quick my apologies that this video was coming so late We were out, but we obviously back at the crib now But the compensation to Redskins finally finally finally finally get rid of Trent Williams and he finally gets out of the Redskins he finally gets out and With him last season once everything came out about the the whole medical Misdiagnosis and just all that mess Because that's that's just that's I think that's the best word to describe it all that mess This situation just went from bad to worse and it just Progressively got worse over time and it was just like man. Can can y'all just please in this Please can y'all just in this so the compensation So the 49ers are giving the Redskins a fifth round pick this year And a third round pick next year for Trent Williams now one thing that they have to do is hope that um He's he's up to form They have to hope that they are getting via the Pro bowler Trent Williams Now he has been out for a little bit, but He can get back to as good as he was or even some of what some of how good he was he'll be fine He'll be fine. Give Jimmy Garoppolo some protection for Who's he gonna be throwing to them? Of course George kiddo? Devo Devo's nice man. He's nice, but Mark. He's good when he's gonna be out of this in San Francisco They've been active this offseason. They've been active Mayo Santa. They said we love you, but thanks, but no thanks You're gone Now mark is good when he's getting ready to be on up out of there, too Um, so I'm like, oh, okay I And then apparently they trying to get rid of Quan Alexander apparently they trying to get rid of D4 They just want they want some more money and they I guess they feel like those guys aren't Worth it. Oh, I don't even know man straight up But 49ers they They built quite a team last year They built quite a team last year and they they got to where they wanted to get but they just Obviously didn't finish finish the job, but They'll be competitive again this year And we'll see how the rest of the draft turns out for them in the rest of the offseason But they do get they do upgrade the offensive line And one of the reasons that that it was said that this was done was because of Joe Staley Because he's getting ready to retire So they said that Joe Staley him him getting ready to retire because of like injury concerns and whatnot That sparked this whole deal. So that's fed up the process And he didn't want to put the 49ers in a bad position to where it's like, oh, okay well, I'm retiring by see ya and And it'd be past the draft and it'd be like, oh man, this dude's retiring now after the draft We could have ended up drafting his replacement But I guess he let them know so they went ahead and made the move for one Trent Williams So that was um that that's a stand-up guy. It's like um, it's like being at a job and you're giving your two-week notice Now some people I mean we all got different experiences And I mean me jobs that I've left before Mmm, I oh man, I sometimes I could be a bad employee. Yesh Some jobs when I would just leave I would just leave Whether some bill I just I'll just stop showing up. I Just stop showing up Geez But yeah, that would be that he could have he could have just he I mean if he stopped showing up And he'd be he'd get fined or whatever But he could have just quit he just retired out of the blue and left the 49ers high and dry And they would have been like, oh man, they would have been scrambling around looking for a tackle whatnot But he did give them a heads up. So that's a beautiful move on his part. So shout out to Joe Staley Anyway, I'm team keep it clean. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Oh This draft started a lot earlier than I thought it would I did not realize it was gonna start at 12 Eastern time today But they do have four rounds to get through so I will see you all throughout the day. I love you appreciate you and I'm out


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Hello and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad in which we would look at the report or audit opinion on the internal control over financial reporting. Well this is going to take us back to the audit report that we looked at when we looked at the PCAOB public entity audit opinion and if you remember and if not that's fine under the auditor's opinion we stated that we audited the financial statements and we also stated that we audited the internal control and we said we're going to talk we're going to assure report for the internal control. Notice here we have audited in accordance with the standard of the PCAOB the internal control over financial reporting and we used COSO as the criteria. What we're going to do in this session we are going to go over this report the report on internal the report on internal control over financial reporting. So this is the complete report you cannot see it properly just like what I did with the other two reports the PCAOB as well as the AICPA standard unqualified and modified report I'm going to go over each section of this report separately. So let's go ahead and get started the first thing is the report title. Notice the report says independent registered public accounting firm we have to emphasize the fact that we are independent and that's a given why because when we conducted the financial statement audit we also stated that we are independent and remember when we audit the financial statement we're also auditing the internal report so if we are independent for the financial statements we must be independent for the internal report it's basically giving but nevertheless I'm going to have to emphasize it. Also who do we address the report to same thing with the financial statement we address it to the board of directors and the stockholders of Adams company not to management why because we don't work for management we work for the shareholders we are independent from management because management prepared the financial statement management in control of the internal control design and implemented the internal control we don't deal with them we don't report to them because we are independent. Now let's go to the auditor's opinion what is auditor's opinion this is the opinion over the financial reporting we're going to state clearly that we have audited notice the internal control over financial reporting of Adams company giving the date based on the criteria established by COSO the committee of sponsoring organization in our opinion the company maintained an all-material respect effective internal control over financial reporting as of this date this is our opinion they maintain an effective internal control in our opinion based on the criteria that we use remember we need the criteria and that criteria is the COSO criteria so don't worry later on we're gonna have one whole chapter about internal control we will discuss everything about internal control also we're gonna have a cross-reference paragraph what is this cross-reference paragraph if you remember here we cross-reference the internal control report in this report we're gonna cross-reference the financial statement report we're gonna also state that we have audited and according with the with the PCAOB the consolidated financial statement so basically what we're saying here is we also audited the financial statement and we have an unqualified opinion now we need to talk a little bit more about how did we come up with this basis of opinion how did we come up with our opinion that the internal control is effective now before we look we look any further i would like to make a public announcement about my company forehead accounting lectures is a supplemental educational tool that's going to help you with your CPA exam preparation as well as your accounting courses my CPA material is aligned with your CPA review course such as becker roger wiley gleam miles my accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses broken down by chapter and topics my resources consist of lectures multiple choice questions true false questions as well as exercises go ahead start your free trial today no obligation no credit card required basis for opinion well here we go we we start by saying and this is important and we did this one with the financial statement we want to remind the users that management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control not us what do we do well our responsibility is to express an opinion so management is responsible for the internal control our responsibility is express an opinion on the company's internal control over financial reporting again we state again for the third time in the report that we are we are a public accounting firm registered with the pca ob united states and are required to be again independent with respect of the companies in according with the us federal securities law applicable rules and regulation and of course the sec and the pca ob so we are independent and all with all these organizations in terms of the rules that they bought all we conducted our audits and according with the when according with the standards of the pca ob those standards require that we plan and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance not guaranteed not absolute whether those effective internal control was maintained in all material respect our audit including included what did it include what did we do we include an understanding of internal control how do internal control work again when we talk about internal control we're going to learn how the auditor learn about the internal control of the company we assess the risk that a material in the statement exists we tested and evaluated the design and the operating effectiveness remember what we did is we tested and evaluated we did not set up those design the management set up the design because if we set up the design we cannot test our own work and we perform and performing such other procedures as we consider necessary under the circumstances we believe that our audit provide a reasonable basis for our opinion so basically we are stating how did we conducted the audit to come up with our opinion then in the report we we are going to have a paragraph basically defining internal control basically a boiler plate simply put financial accounting one-on-one you would learn about what is internal control and this is the definition of internal control and we're going to have a paragraph about the limitation of internal control a company's internal control over financial reporting is a process to design to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of the financial reporting and the preparation of the financial statement for external purposes in accordance with gap a company's internal control over financial reporting include these policies and procedures again here to just tell us what is internal control pertaining to the maintenance of record so we have to make sure we have a good record good record keeping system provide reasonable assurance that transaction are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statement provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition use or disposition of the company's asset basically a boiler plate definition of what an internal control is again if you don't that we don't have to know it now but go to the internal control chapter and you would learn specifically about every single statement of those how do we do so also we have to mention inherent limitation what are limitation things that defeat the internal control things that don't let us achieve our financial objective our financial reporting objective because of its inherent limitation internal control may not prevent or detect misstatement it has a limitation also projection of any evaluation of the effectiveness of future period are subject to the risk that control may become inadequate because of changes in conditions and here's what we're saying specifically let's be clear we cannot tell you anything about the future because in the future many things could change many things could change the company's financial position the economic situation the people that work for the company as a result we cannot make a statement about the effectiveness of the future internal control or that the degree of compliance with policies and procedures we can say it may deteriorate we don't know so all we're telling you is what we're telling you now we cannot say anything about the future simply put our report is as of a particular specific date what should you do now what should you do you should go to far hat lectures and work mcqs true false that's going to help you understand this concept better good luck study hard stay safe and invest in yourself


Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well today. We'll go ahead and get started. My name is Linda Kellum. I help do the technical support and run the NCLA government resources sections. Help. I'm an accidental government information library and webinar series or help for short. And thanks for coming for today. You can see information about the GRS section on our website. The links are in our chat box. Government resources section of North Carolina Library Association is a great group. If you're in North Carolina and like to get involved. But you can also support us through our YouTube channel if you want to subscribe to that and learn more about all different kinds of topics related to government information. Including one that might be interesting to people who are coming attending this one today is our last webinar called your city your issues civic engagement workshops. This is a really popular one and might be helpful for people who are interested in doing some engagement workshops and it's very timely and relatable topic topic. So, so today, today's webinar is facts and helpful tips about the FAFSA and dream app act applications. And it's available as a writer library science student and staff member at San Diego City College. She's the chair of we bruce up nonprofit library services and resource advocacy organization, serving the San Diego Imperial Valley and border region and we're very excited to have her today to talk about this topic. Thank you very much Linda and thank you to the North Carolina Library Association for this really great webinar series. Like, as Linda mentioned, there, I have a little nervous about technical difficulties this morning so I'm keeping the slides at, you know, to a minimum and working directly on the whiteboard, and I will be sharing some links. Today, to start off with I wanted to share the agenda today's agenda. And so today's agenda. You know, we're going to talk a little bit about the workshop and the workshop in this workshop and the introduction to fast and dream act challenges students face and the role of the financial aid office dreamer resource center. And I'd like to set aside 15 minutes for Q amp a, it can be really easy to get into all the information and there's there is a lot to discuss so I'm going to keep an eye on the clock. But again, I wanted to welcome everyone today and thank you so much for joining us, either this morning or this afternoon, depending on where you are. I have taught, I have, I have conducted financial aid workshops for several years from multiple perspectives and formats, and I find. I've learned through experience that the PowerPoint presentation format isn't exactly. It hasn't worked the best for me if only because there are students parents staff. There are a lot of questions there's a lot of information to process so I developed a habit of starting the first 1520 minutes of any presentation by taking down questions and then I answer them one by one. And it, in the end, everyone learns together but this is my first time presenting to the library community specifically, you know, on this subject so I appreciate the challenge and the opportunity. So I'm going to, I'm going to do a little bit of reading first and then we'll get into some of the links and the application itself. Thank you. So, as I mentioned, I have been conducting financial aid workshops for several years from multiple positions different positions over. I've spent a period of time at different community college campuses, including EOPS financial aid and outreach. So I have conducted these workshops for students for staff and for parents specifically on and off campus and many of these students have have taken place in a library setting because of the access to computers printers and, you know, friendly staff, and we have this large space so over the years are, you know, in my studies as a library science I have become increasingly interested in this, this crossover or these these overlapping worlds between, you know, how a student matriculates how a student gets to college stays in college completes college and the, you know, various streams of support that are available either through academics or through student services, which primarily the classified staff. So, this webinar is an opportunity to to to bring some of these worlds together. And so, and also I've noticed that over time I've been receiving requests for information from public librarians. On a on a one to one basis or through small teams. But again this webinar appears to be a really great opportunity to reach a larger community. And then one more one more item before I get into the workshop. Another inspiration for this webinar is the book to action grant that liberals and the San Ysidro Public Library was awarded in 2020. There are 56 other book to action programs that will take place at 55 library locations across California. So, book to action is a framework that takes the basic book club concept and expands it to create a dynamic series of events for adults and intergenerational groups librarians work closely with a community partner to develop a series of programs. Community members read and discuss an engaging book on a current topic, attend author or speaker events and put their new found knowledge into action by participating in a community service or civic engagement activity related to the book. California Center for the book is a program of the California Library Association supported by supported in whole or in part by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the state librarian. So based on personal family and lived history, professional interests and an eye toward the populations we serve us at the college where I work. In the library where I intern, I chose the theme trans border communities and the book of poetry by a map in the title album offenses, which was published in 2018 by cardboard House House press. Our activities have included conducting FAFSA and Dream Act workshops for students book drives for children and crisis project author readings art workshops with youth and the community cleanup. Prior to the pandemic we were scheduled to partner with the city of San Diego and a large scale community cleanup of the Otai Tijuana River Valley and art workshop series. The program was canceled due to the pandemic. So continuing on with our program series through the dreamer resource center at San Diego City College to bring authors and organizations to campus. And this webinar will be shared as, as, as part of, you know, one of the features of this program series. So thank you for staying with me. I was pretty long intro. So for the workshop today as I mentioned. The workshop is typically conducted on a Q&A type basis. But today we're just going to go straight into the applications themselves. So briefly, to introduce the FAFSA, the free application for federal student aid, or the FAFSA as the acronym is the first step in the financial aid process students use the FAFSA form to apply for federal student aid, such as grants work study and loans. In addition, most states and colleges use information from the FAFSA form to award non federal aid. The California Dream Act is the financial aid application for students who meet the non resident exemption requirements under AB 540. So those are, we have two different applications on the agenda today and we're going to take a look at both of them right now. Let me see. Sorry, here's my desktop. And so here's a link to the California Center for the book. So leave it as website. Where I'm, where I'm the chair. We belong, we are the local chapter of a national chapter called reformer. And we are reformer.org. Okay, so the here is the application, the online application for the FAFSA. Now, students can find this application at FAFSA dot GOV. Today, we're going to use the PDF. So this is, you can find easily find the the FAFSA application by googling FAFSA 2020 2021 PDF. We encourage the students to use the online application because it's faster. And it's automated, many of the programs are automated to be processed as soon as that application gets to the campus. So, but this is what the PDF looks like. And sometimes, you know, you're going to have students that have limited access to computer services. So if it comes down to printing out a FAFSA application on paper and filling it out by hand, that is still a possibility. So I just wanted to share this is what the application looks like for the fall 2020 semester. Now, these applications are released typically about a year in advance. So they're, they're always released October 1 of the prior year. So this application was released on October 1 of 2019. So the campuses will start are starting to process them now in preparation for the fall 2020. So a few of the features of this application are, you know, you're going to have you're going to start off with some you have some information here about how to fill it out. There are some state guidelines and deadlines that need to be observed depending on where you're joining us from, and that information is here. So I recommend looking at the PDF anyway just I have one always at my desk just to for quick reference and here's some more information about how to fill out the financial aid form. The most important features for today. Because again there's there's a lot of information we can get to are, you know, this is a concern that we share, you know, with librarians library service and, you know, the mission of, you know, our college is that students are completing these applications with accurate consistent information that and with the with that that these items will be processed efficiently and expediently. So it's really important that from the start the students can develop the confidence to know how to fill out this to fill out these applications so starting really with with the name the issue with the name. It's not just the length the name but sometimes students have more than one last name and these these applications are not customized for that. So, it's really important that we remind our students that if the name must match what's on the Social Security card. If there's any deviation from the Social Security card the student will run into some issues. So that includes if they, you know, maybe they have nicknames like junior or there there's a family name that they they were they were they're referred to that's, you know, not on the Social Security card and they will put that on the FAFSA. So it will cause delays, because there will be these applications are fed, you know, to the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration Office, and other government agencies so at any point in this process if there's a discrepancy in the information that's going to it's going to cause a delay. So, first and foremost, it's really important that students fill out the name accurately. It's an area for the Social Security number date of birth all of this vital information. It's very important the student completes it accurately sometimes you know with you know completing these applications online. We run into issues of keystroke error. And that happens, but more often than not, it sometimes comes down to a sort of personalized view of, you know what, you know how how how one refers to him or herself. So here you have vital questions related to citizenship, you know to complete to complete a FAFSA you must be either US citizen or permanent resident or fulfill one of the visa criteria there there's only certain visas that are eligible to complete a FAFSA and that includes asylees, asylees and refugees. But for the most part it's for US citizens and permanent residents. This is the area where they would enter their alien registration number. And these these, the next set of questions are designed to continue to determine, you know eligibility for students including state of legal residents, that is a big one. Students may ask you, you know what, what that might mean perhaps they were living in another state last, you know, the prior year and now they're currently living in California these are very technical questions and do determine eligibility for the students so might, you might get reference questions related to puzzling through how one determines residency. In that case, it's typically best, unless the answer is immediate it's it's best to refer to the admissions office where the student is planning to apply to because they have, they'll have a registrar they'll have someone there to help guide the students specifically about residency policies and guidelines. The selective service questions. They'll come to bear. It's it's become. It's it's received a lot more attention in these last few years, given the question of gender. So males are males between the ages of 18 to 25 are required to sign up or to register for selective service. You know in the past, typically these these were these registrations happened during you know it's like a civics course or the forms would be available through the US post office. Many students don't know that they need to register for this. If the student leaves this area blank. The application they will they will default them to mail and request a registration for selective service. If the student. It's not making. There are no selections for transgender students but we have. We have encountered that and that's typically what the financial aid office will. That's when we'll step in to help out help the student out. So, this next question the the drug question, as it's called, often it's like, have you been convicted for the possession of or sale of legal drugs for an offense that occurred while you were receiving federal student aid. The operative term here is where you convicted while you were receiving federal aid more often than not this. The answer to this question is no. So, but just to give you some insight on that one. The next set of questions are designed to determine eligibility. They already has a four year degree bachelor's degree. They are typically not eligible for federal aid in the form of grants so these questions are designed to figure out the educational level the student is at their goals and whether or not they meet that criteria. These next steps, depending on how the student answers. Those questions will determine whether or not they're going to need information from parents. So here the student is going to answer some income information. And that's for the 2020 2021 year they're going to ask for 2018 income. And these section three, this is where you get into the dependency section. And if they answer student answers no to all these questions, then they must include parent information and that's what this section is designed for. Once a student is able to say yes, then they are considered an independent student and only need to include their information. So, but in the case that a student needs to provide parent information. This is the section designed for that. And so this is where the parent fills out their own educational level if they're receiving aid from certain assistance programs income information, and then the next steps are for, you know, they're designed to determine where the parent wants to send their information to like the colleges. And that's where they include the federal school codes, and or the school name and address. And then here's where either the student or the student and the parent will sign the application and send it off. So if they're going to send it by mail. It's going to see the address. The address would be address here somewhere. Sorry, it's been moved around typically when a student fills this out online, they will have needed to set up an FSA ID. So that is, that is basically a kind of electronic signature that they will use to sign in and out of the FAFSA and then ultimately sign and send it off. So, those are the bare bones of the FAFSA and a couple of comments about it is, it's, it's my role in the office is, is, is typically one of reference so I, answer questions I help the students puzzle through pretty complex government and institutional guidelines and procedures. You know, I assist them with establishing criteria for determining financial aid eligibility. You know the financial aid office uses applied methodology to determine eligibility. It's, there's a lot of, there are a lot of steps that students go through and there are many challenges for them while they're going through this process and typically it take, it can take a full year for a student. And in my opinion and in my experience, it can take a full year for a student to really get a grasp of the entire financial aid cycle. It's, it is a learned there is a major learning curve to it, it's something that they have to master on the early end, because it will determine, or it will help to determine, you know, the success of how, you know, entering school staying in school being supported through school. And so it's very important that they, they can grasp a lot of these concepts and control language and the information that they need to provide in order to fulfill the financial aid process. I'm going to go to briefly to the dream act application. And that's so same as the FAFSA there is a PDF available online. The, the web address for the application, you know, it's seesack.ca.gov. And here again is more information about who is eligible for to complete the dream act. The important point here is to remember that students will not complete both the FAFSA and a dream act. The dream act application, the FAFSA does those are two different applications and the dream act application. It has its, you know, its eligibility criteria listed here and it can be, it can be complex. I am not a certified registrar, I, I have to, I am not allowed to advise on residency, I can only provide point to the guidelines. And I typically, I, again, I just help refer the students to the guidelines and then and or to the admissions office because that's where they have technicians designated specifically for these really complex determinations. So that's what I would advise. If you were asked at the reference desk, what to do is to, to help the student locate the registrar or the designated staff for determining residency because it can be quite complex. So if you're working in California. This is, this is specifically an application for our dream act students. And so on. We mentioned earlier a little bit about AB 540. And that refers to an affidavit this this this this on October 12 2001 Governor Gray Davis signed into law assembly bill 540 adding a new section 68130.5 to the California tuition code section 68130.5 created a new exemption from the payment of non resident tuition for certain non resident students who have attended high school in California and received a high school diploma or its equivalent. Over the years eligibility requirements have been expanded. AB 540 is often referred to as the AB 540 affidavit or the California non resident tuition exemption. This affidavit looks like this, and it's accepted so this one specifically for the community college district, and it's accepted at all the California community colleges. And so a student, a high school student typically would need to turn one of these in to the admissions office. And it would ideally would need to be in place prior to the dream act application. Because all of the, you know, eventually the admissions application is going to need to match up with the FAFSA or the dream act application in this case. So it's really important that students are aware that they need to fill out this affidavit and typically the high schools receive and know about this information. So this would be applicable in particular for maybe school librarians if you know this would be a good reference point for them. But this is what the affidavit looks like. And then here's a link for more information about AB 540. And it's also offered in Spanish. So I encourage, you know, at some point you want to return to take a look at these. So let's take a look at this information so that you can assist your college students, you know, on their immigration status. Many, many colleges have what are called dreamer resource centers. This is ours. These, these, these centers assist students with, you know, any questions they might have they support them in various ways, including they can have one on one consultations. There's the opportunity for to engage in support, you know, undocumented students in various ways their referrals to immigration consultations and the dream act is the dream application is just one of the ways that the dreamer resource center, you know, helps, you know, helps out their students. So whereas, okay, so here's a dream act application. And again this is the PDF it's a shorter form. And typically this, this application is directly connected to state aid so the ability to help students wave their tuition fees and perhaps be eligible for Cal Grant and Cal Grant is typically it's it's a competitive grant from the state of California. There are three different kinds of Cal Grant Cal Grant a b and c, depending on where the student is going to attend school. We will the financial aid office is charged with determining which Cal Grant can be applied. So same as the FAFSA there's some introductory introductory information. And again it's very important that some vital information is captured, because this again these applications are fed through various government agencies, again including Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration. So information must match what's what is on record. So this is where the student will, you know, have their name determine if, if, depending on how the student answers these questions they even put a stop and direct the student to the FAFSA because, you know, the students will think that they need to complete both applications or perhaps they have their operating under some inaccurate information and they might complete one or the other. Again, anytime a student has to go back into the application or change something it can create a delay so we really we really focus on trying to get the students to complete the correct application the first time with the accurate application the first time. And so here's going to ask about marital status dependency status so these are questions that you know verbatim like that how the student answers these questions will determine whether or not he or she needs to include parent information. Here's some information about who is considered a parent. And this, this information tends to get updated. And so this is where the students experience every couple years because of the changing nature of, you know, relationships. And so, here is where they capture the income information. Same as the FAFSA for the 2020 2021 year they're going to ask for 2018 income. And these are more questions about assets. These are questions about services, the household might be receiving. And then your student information asking pretty much the same questions but from the students perspective. And then it's basically a sign and submit. So, the dream act application. Students will fall have some issues with signing their applications there we have students that let's say are eligible to complete a FAFSA. But it's possible that their parents either don't live in the country or they do not have social security numbers. So, the way that they sign their applications, it could be a manual process the FAFSA permits for a signature page to be printed out at the end if the students parents cannot sign with an FSA ID. The dream application affords them to do it online as well. So, these are, I know we just kind of we really blasted through those. But those are the two, those are the two applications that the financial aid office uses to help the student determine their own their financial aid eligibility and it's really important that students file these applications. Year to year because many different programs use the information called from the FAFSA to determine eligibility for other programs like scholarships, or perhaps institutional funding, private funding. And the college itself will use certain criteria from the FAFSA to see, you know, who they can award, you know, these these funds. So we, even if, for example, even if a student has a bachelor's degree, they're thinking of going on to graduate school but, you know, maybe in a year or two and in the meantime they need to take some classes to prepare for their graduate programs. In California, if they're eligible, they might be able to receive the fee waiver, which is now called the CCPG. And it's the most efficient way to process to get process for that is still to file a FAFSA in spite of the bachelor's degree, because that process has been completely automated through the financial aid office. So as soon as we receive the FAFSA, we're going to check for that tuition fee waiver and apply it to the student's account so that they can receive that assist assistance for the tuition. So depending on where you're joining us from like what state you're joining us from you might have tuition programs that will assist. That can assist your students so I am a big advocate for applying for students to apply for their FAFSAs and or or the Dream Act every year so long as they are, you know, intend to be in school. Because one it's one less step that they have to take care of. They might have to submit additional documentation they might have to be verified, and all of those processes that process takes time. So the earlier the students the students get this done, the better. And once they're awarded then they're awarded for that academic year and they don't need to go back to the FAFSA or Dream Act until it's time to renew it for the next year. So, just a little bit about what the financial aid office does you know we are not we don't work for the government but we are there as a service to assist the student in this process so as a librarian if you are. It's it's great information to to point the student to the financial aid office if you know someone in the office, even better students often thrive from you know being sent to directed staff and we also we share in this in this concern for accurate and accessible and free information. So yes, the FAFSA and the Dream Act applications are free applications. We, again we're not a government service but we are there to reconcile any discrepancies or contradictions or gaps in information in order to get the student package for financial aid eligibility because if the student is missing any information, we can't go forward in the process. So typically, you know the goal of these workshops is to you know enhance. One's understanding of the FAFSA and Dream Act applications, but the second step and this is for students is to actually get them to complete and submit the FAFSA form. So today we're not going to be submitting any FAFSA or Dream Act applications, but these workshops are typically designed for that like so we would automatically just log on to a computer. We would pull up the applications and I would spend the next hour or so visiting with each student to help them complete their applications and it has been proven in the past that you know libraries have been helpful in this department because they have you know lent us their spaces they have shared their spaces with us and you know that's typically where you have the majority of the computers on campus. And so I'm very grateful for that I've worked with many librarians to set up these kinds of workshops so depending on the institution that you're visiting us from like your role in this. I'm not from you know one librarian to the next, but I can assure you that you know in our capacity to refer to students to accurate and accessible information. It goes a long way. So, I know I know that was a lot and I just in case I kind of, I wanted to stop there to see if we had any questions at this time. I can go on a little more but I don't want to, you know lose track of that so do we have. Okay, so I have some questions here already in the chat. Great. So if you could, I can read them or you can read them. Sure. So the just the Dream Act application on is it only applicable to the state of California and how does apply to other states. So the Dream Act application. We have it specifically here in California. Now, depending on you'll want to be in touch with your state legislators how they are handling tuition for non resident students. That's where that's where that's what it boils down to. It's like the ability for state legislation to accord policies to assist students that are of non resident status so we can. We might this would refer to deferred action students. Maybe 540. So at this time specifically at this period in our time. I would advise you to speak specifically to your campus registrars on the topic because the the information does change. It's a bit of it's it can be very political right now. So I can only advise from the point of view of California. Yeah, so it would be best to talk to the. Yes, specifically to the registrar. Yes. Okay, cool. And I think you answered this a little bit, but it's one of questions. Well, actually there's a question in the chat. There was someone asking about the students apply every year for the class. I think we talked about it briefly. Yes, but no, it's very good question. Because the short answer is yes, so long as a student is in school or is I say even thinking about going to school because the app the fastest is. It's released so early. I, I advise students apply for it every year. It's free. It can take 20 to 25 minutes to complete online. Depending on if it's the first faster or not the students just get better at it every year. And, and I encourage them to send it to the campuses that they are thinking of attending. I think one of the major points is that, you know, students cannot receive federal aid at more than one campus during a semester. For example, you can have a student that is attending a community college and a state college or let's say a private college at the same time. A student can be receiving can receive state tuition assistance at the community college via the FAFSA and also receive federal aid at the private college at the same time during the same semester. But the student cannot receive federal aid at both the community college and the private college at the same time. So it really, so the FAFSA is really one application to be reviewed for several different kinds of monies or you know programs funding streams. And so this is this is intended to streamline that process, but it's just really important that the student is mindful of where the funding is coming from and you know the schools that it's being applied to. But yes, short answer apply every year. And early. Thank you very much. Is there. So David was asking given the students have to apply are completed FAFSA every year is there a high percentage of students who forget to fill it out and miss out on financial aid opportunities. I would say that I think that they do forget, or they are not, or access is limited, or they get bogged down by the process. Honestly, like students, they might get, they might get derailed at some point. Sometimes there are students that have trouble, you know, accessing their parents information or, or that's typically the issue. But we have special populations of students that you know perhaps they are their foster youth or they're homeless or they have many challenges facing just completing an application so they, they do. They do stop at some point for various reasons. So that's why, you know, we often have on and off campus workshops to raise awareness to make the application accessible and to guide students through this process because they don't miss out on this on these financial aid opportunities now the what I can say is that you know the application is available, you know, October 1 of the prior year. But it and then it closes June 30 of the next year so for example, the current FAFSA that we are processing right now, which is for the 2019 2020 year. The application was available was made available October 1 of 2018, and you have until June 30 of 2020, like literally 1159pm June 30 2020 to submit a 2019 2020 FAFSA for this current academic year. It's a long, it's a large long window of, you know, the period to access this application. But once it closes it's, it's near to impossible to reopen an application or to award a student for a previous academic year. So yes, we do miss students so hence, you know, a lot of these outreach services that we try to provide. Thank you so much. And you talked about how libraries can be involved. Have you done joint presentations of libraries or is it primarily that they help facilitate the ability to get into the, or to get students to come. Sure. I have a couple years ago I interned with at Central Library and Library Administration, I did, they have a charger school that isn't that is like literally embedded in the library and I have assisted with some surveys and programs you know establishing or supporting connections between public libraries and, and higher education, I've, but I've not done a specific collaboration with the library community. And this is my first, this is my first one really. And I'm very interested in doing that because there's a lot of overlap in our capacity for, you know, we're available as reference librarians and there's a there are technical aspects to these applications. There's a lot of outreach services to be fulfilled. So I'm looking at what, you know, what a mixed, what might be referred to as like a mixed use. I don't know a librarian like that someone that is fully versed in student services but also functions, you know, with, like, literally inside the library is as an information specialist, an information literacy and information specialist so I'm thinking, I'm thinking very actively in those directions. Yeah, that's great and I think there would be a lot of interest but at the same time hesitancy on the part of librarians because of the technical, you know, aspects of it and taking someone down the wrong way. So I think it's definitely an opportunity for collaboration. Absolutely. And I, you know, I want to offer my information, my, you know, my, my, to, you know, connect with me and I plan to take this work on with, with the MLIS like I would like to do a kind of project at City College, you know, what would this position look like what would these services look like how would training manifest like I'm, I'm so I'm actively thinking about those things too. Great. Thank you so much. Here's my email address. We're still on the browser thing. Oh, that's it. Awesome. Thank you so much. Are there any other questions? I think it too might be an interesting place to partner with some of the student groups on our campuses. In addition, you know, talking about. So I know some of our, some of the students groups did presentations on what it means to be a Dream Act student and, and other kinds of institutions like that so it might be another way to, you know, have more of the impact and then here's how you. I agree. There are many connections to be made between the financial aid office, the library, there are student groups, you can contact like student government and create a network. And really and share, share information and knowledge that way and develop programs specific to your campus. And in these times, like, I think it would just, it's very impactful. Yes. I don't see, let me check the Q&A to just to make sure. Oh, I think there was a question from Rebecca. Did my email address was that shared for it with everyone I didn't. Oh, it was only shared to the panelists here. I can. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's. But the fault is just for the panelists, so. Oh, I see. I see. Awesome. Yeah, so feel free to get in touch with each. Yes, please. Please. Thank you so much. Of course, thank you. Thank you very much. And if, of course, even to the extent if you want to provide feedback on this presentation. I know I it's very DIY, but I am typically I really like to respond to questions because that tells me how, you know, the public is looking at these applications and you know what we can do to address those issues. Great. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. And thank you everybody for coming. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you.


This is the Instagram walk.  Oh, yo. What's going on, everybody? Welcome to a very special Fun Bros. makeover today. We are in New York City, and we have a special fast fashion brand showdown makeover challenge. And to make sure that this makeover challenge goes well, I got the Taylor Haiguru himself, Levitae-style, AKA Leo Chan. What's up, man? Thanks for having me. I'm super excited to be here. So yeah, we're going to be doing a Soho tour. We're going to hit up H&M, Zara, Uniclo, and we're going to do one outfit at each spot. And be sure to watch till the end of this video, because we are doing a giveaway, and we are going to have you guys vote on which outfit you thought was the best. All right, let's go meet this kid, Felix. Hey, come on in. Yo. What's up? Leo, how would you describe Felix's style currently? I mean, right now, he just looks really comfortable, I guess, just chill. Got a nice couple pounds of comfortable hair sitting on his head. A lot of hair. We're going to do something with that. Right now, I feel like it's more like a school style, basically, like I'm still walking to school, like you've gone every day. All right, I would say right now, you definitely got a gamer look going on. Do you game? I play League. League? Do you do your hair at all? No, not very regularly, no. Have you ever thought about getting a makeover? Yeah, sort of, but I was just kind of too lazy. A lot of people are interested in fashion, but they don't know where to start, where to begin. They think it's really complicated, or it's really expensive. So this makeover is going to be perfect. We're going to take you through some of my favorite brands. It's going to be easy, it's going to be effortless, and it's going to be right on budget. And for everybody watching at home, guys, Leo is going to make this super easy. He's going to break it down and make sure that this is something that you guys can do. All right, Felix, you ready? Yeah. All right, so the first step to any makeover is getting the haircut. So right now, we're at 12-Pel. It's a really cool barbershop out in Chinatown, New York. I mean, they cut a lot of Asian hair, so I think they know how to handle all this. Let's go. Let's go. Thank you, thank you. This is Felix. Felix, nice to meet you. He's the kid. What's his mom doing, man? I got a little late. All right, let's do it this way. All right, so we're here with Peter. You know, Peter, thank you for taking care of this man. And straight off the bat, I noticed, like, for sure, your hair is very soft, right? That's typically most Asian hair as well. It is also very tried. How would you describe this current haircut? Is this the Steve and Chow, the Jackie Chan, or we got the? This is your typical 15-year-old Asian kid going to high school, doesn't know a good barber just yet, probably going to, like, a $7 salon. You know what I'm talking about? This is definitely got to be taken down a bit. We're going to change it up today. Probably convert you from, like, your $7 salon to, like, a total health premium standard, right? We're going to switch it up today. We're going to go for something very Korean-inspired. I like that because he's kind of skinny, like a K-pop star. You good with that? Yeah, I'm good with that. Yo, you left him handed. It's side. It's side. It's all good. It's all good. It's kind of like a forward look with a lot of textures on top. It's going to land, like, properly right on the forehead. Probably going to bring the fade on sides very tight. OK. You know, on the sides, you're going to have that modern pop. And then on top, you're going to have a little bit more casual, but still be able to glue it up a bit. You have that, you know, like a special effect or something. I know a lot of people, like, obviously, if you get a really short fade and you want that faded look, it's not going to last very long. But what I try to do is give them a hairstyle that's super low maintenance during the time that it's going back. So this hairstyle, I actually created some of that. All right, Felix, yo, Peter, you did a crazy job, man. Peter, you have glasses. You need glasses to see yourself, so go ahead and put on your glasses and take a look at yourself in the mirror. Yeah, OK. Yo, shout out, Peter. All right, Peter, you cut a lot of Asian hair. Is there, like, two main points that people got to remember about cutting Asian hair? Two main points, shape and fade. The balance is very important. It's really not that great of a haircut if your fade is on point and then the dude looking wonky on top. And the second thing is, like, for Asian hair, we have very softened course hairs sometimes. What you would need to do on top is to find a good product, know how to style it, definitely invest in your hair, purchase something that will accommodate what you're looking for. All right, Felix, you got the fresh cut. You can already see your face shape a little bit more. So that's nice. I like that. You know, you're already looking sharper. I like it. It's fresh. You lost a lot of hair.  Do you feel like a breeze? I feel like Jesus with how high I am right now. That's how light I am. That is crazy! All right, right now we're walking from Chinatown to Soho and first spot we're going to hit up, H&M. Ooh, the sweetest brand. Is Brooklyn Tech, is that very hype-y? Yeah, it's very hype-y. OK, so what are you seeing? You see kids with EZs. You can always see kids, at least, like, with like $3,000 shoes. All right, Leo, how are we going to help Felix compete as far as outfit-wise without spending thousands of dollars? Listen, fashion is not all about the logos and all the brands and spending all that money. We're talking about style here, so that's what we're going to focus on, finding you great pieces and a budget and you're still going to look really sharp. So this is a great alternative for a lot of guys out there that just don't have that money to spend, but obviously, we all care about how we look.  No, you have a YouTube channel where you sing cover songs and you're from Singapore. That's what I'm seeing right now. Leo, we are outside of H&M. There's always a lot of sales happening. So right now, we're at like the end of winter clearing sale. Big style tip, you know, work on your budget, wait for sales. There's always a lot of sales happening. If you find good, stylish pieces, you should be able to wear it for seasons and years on end. Felix, when was the last time you were at a H&M, man? Mike went out really little. You haven't been at a H&M since you were little? Yeah. But you still are little. Leo, you had an outfit in mind, correct? One of my biggest inspiration is LeBron James.  So let's go. We got Felix in the outfit, man. You're looking fresh. So the hoodie we got, this is originally 25 bucks, but we got it on sale for $9. It's a nice maroon color, a little bit different from your usual. Maroon is classy. Look at that design, that detail. And then you got a leather jacket. I think every guy should have a leather jacket. This we got for $60, and we finished it off with some black fitted jeans. And this full look, we got for $100 at H&M. All right, man. How are you feeling personally though? I'm feeling good. Have you ever been in an outfit like this? No, I've never had like a black leather jacket like this. Oh, wow. This is essential. I mean, look at me. I'm wearing a leather jacket right now. This is New York City Street style. I feel like you just went from, like a three or four to like seven, eight, nine. You know what I mean? Like this is a really good look. All right, Leo. We got another spot to go to, man. What's the next store? Next up, we're gonna go to a Zara. Let's go. Okay, so we got outfit number one, but now we're outside of our second spot, Zara. Zara is from Spain and that's really a go-to spot for like high fashion, like designer look pieces. They copy a lot from a lot of designers. The thing about like singleron, Gucci, had a better budget here. So would you say Zara is, as far as price and design, maybe one notch up from H&M? Definitely. So we're gonna look for that bold piece, that unique piece that you won't find at the other stores. All right, have you ever been to Zara before? No, I haven't. Outfit number two. Let's go. Let's go. Finished with outfit number two. This is from Zara. This one reminds me a lot of all things, which is funny. It's right across the street from Zara. Really right behind us. Yep. And all saints, this jacket can easily go for $400, $500. Full price was $120, but we got it on sale for $50. Woo! How are you feeling right off the bat? I feel new. I feel fresh. How does it feel different than the outfit you had on before? I feel like a lot more laid back. I feel like there's like kind of hardcore with the leather, like hard leather jacket. Okay. So you're saying the leather jacket was a little intimidating? A little bit. A little bit. At Zara, you can find details like buttons on the jacket and also on the side. Jackets like this come with these extra pieces. Normally, you do not find anything at all on H&M. You can easily work this into an everyday outfit. And we just paired it with a t-shirt. Like, look how sharp it looks. I love the ribbing on the collar, actually. This is like a cool little detail. It's a little puffed up right here. And the entire outfit was only $62. Now, we didn't get pants at Zara because we're just keeping the pants from H&M because they fit really well. All right, guys. That wraps it up for outfit number two. And in the comments below, at the end of this video, after outfit number three, we're going to ask everybody to comment down below on which outfit they like the most. And the best comment is going to get a gift certificate to the winning outfit store. And for outfit number three, our final one, we're going to go to Uniqlo. Okay, so for our last spot on this fast fashion makeover challenge... A lot of people know Uniqlo. They're from Japan. Definitely like a go-to for essential items, the basics, but good quality. So that's why we're here. It's not like H&M and Zara because H&M and Zara is much more trendy. They're more European. I'm excited. Check out Uniqlo. Outfit number three. Who do you play for tonight? What's the difference between being in a Uniqlo versus a Zara and H&M? It's a lot more Japanese. It's less formal. It's a lot more casual. Which one do you prefer? Which atmosphere? To be honest, Uniqlo. I'm shocked that you picked the Asian one. It's just different kinds of staple pieces, really. And then they maximize on color, on that style. They have some nice shirts and stuff, but if you're looking for that interesting jacket, you're not going to find that here. Okay, so Leo right now is teaching Felix how to walk. And then you're just going to walk like this. Just like a one-step. How's it going to look in his face? Just look at it right. Just like one-step walk. Is there a one-direction? Yeah. This is the Instagram walk.  Oh, yo. Okay, this is our third and final outfit from Uniqlo. It feels really nice. It feels really casual. Like this is probably the most casual one so far. What graphic is that? Dragon Ball, obviously. Now we have Vegeta in his gradient form. Uniqlo always has a lot of collaboration with t-shirts. So a lot of cool graphic tees that you won't see anywhere else. You want to show what you love. You want to show your personality. So you can do that with a t-shirt. Would you wear a Fortnite shirt? I mean, no. This is a light blue chambray jacket. This is perfect going into the spring season. The Burberry, the Lacoste, they do a lot of jackets like this that do really well. And now you can get this similar look. The pants, you know, we wanted to go with this color, the navy blue, the blue khaki color. It works really well with this color. You know, it's 2020. We want to go with more high-tech, a little bit more athleisure. I want to see what it's like when you got a beanie on. All right, boom, beanie.  What is your girlfriend going to think now? I mean, she's got to like me for me, right? So it's got to be the beanie coat. Okay, all right, I like that answer. Well, follow up. All right, so for me personally, you know, I really liked outfit number two, but this seems very, very you. I don't want you to sway the comments, but what's your personal favorite? I actually really like number two. That outfit looks like it's fine on your bow. Let's be honest.  All right, guys, in the comments down below, this is very important. Let us know which outfit you enjoyed the most. Is it number one from H&M, number two from Zara, or number three from Uniqlo? When you leave a comment, be sure to explain why you like the outfit the most. Leave your Instagram handle so that we can choose the winner. Follow us on Instagram, Fungro's, Levitate Style, Felix. Hey, you want the followers? We'll plug it. Are you sure? Yes, sir. Why not? All right, don't DM him too much, ladies. Come on, you got a girl. All right, everybody, that wraps it up for our three-brand makeover battle in Soho, New York. Yo, shout out to Felix. Young Felix here from Brooklyn Tech. I'm sure you're going to get some comments at school when this video comes out. You know what? I'm going to talk to your friends and they're going to let us know if you keep it up. I feel really good. I feel like now that I've tried out all these three different styles, I feel like I can really expand my cause and more. I mean, listen, we're not saying everybody needs a makeover or anything like that. This is just a really good video to show you guys how to shop better, what to look for. All right, so when it comes to fast fashion and the waste that it produces and the potential for hurting the environment, I'll say this. It's fast fashion. It exists. So just buy in a smart way. Be conscious about what you're buying. Look for quality pieces. And wear it. That's the best thing you can do is wear your clothes. Because if you buy a shirt and then you just toss it, that's exactly what you shouldn't be doing. So whether you're buying fast fashion or you're buying a higher quality brand, just wear your clothes, man. And even if you have to throw it out, you can always give it to someone who needs it as well. Wow. That's all right. 16 years old speaking like... And thank you so much to Leo from Levitaste Out. Be sure to check out his Instagram down below. All right, everybody, remember to leave your comment below which outfit you thought was the best and you could win a gift card to the winning store. Until next time, we out. Peace. Man, I could not have done that video without you, man. Thank you so much. Where can the people find you? You can find me on Instagram, on YouTube, everywhere, at Levitaste Style. All right, man. You are on a mission to showing people that they can up their style game. For sure, yeah. In a mature way. Exactly. Tailored hype right here. Let's go. From fob to finance to fashion.


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