So it seems like December is a time for reflection and I decided to leave YouTube for a while and work out what was next for an average golfer in 2022. So I look forward to sharing with you why I disappeared for a couple of weeks and what happened during that time and why I took the break out and what we've come to in terms of the conclusions. I'm sat in a little van that plays a major part in that story line as well which is something that I want to talk about but I think we'll go out on the golf course. We're here at the Cheshire course at Cardin Park. The sun is shining. It seems the perfect place to tell you my little story and ultimately get your feedback. So for the previous three months before we had the two weeks sabbatical was we were putting out four videos a week which is a big change for me and the logic behind that was quite simple. It seemed that in terms of the YouTube algorithm we needed to produce more videos, we get more views, we get more subscribers, the channel gets bigger because ultimately that's what you're trying to achieve but then it's finding a balance and that's the dilemma I've always had. And going back to last December I was made an offer to leave YouTube and take up a role that well I turned down, I stuck with YouTube but I was always determined to make sure that we didn't go down the quantity route and then with the compromise of the quality and I was starting to feel we'd done that a little and we were chasing that YouTube algorithm and it stopped doing what I really had always intended to do and the bit that I liked doing and that's creating creative content. You see the big problem I have is that I know that in terms of viewers the content that you like more than anything is my product reviews because product reviews are by far the best viewed videos so it's easy to work that one out but when I get to a hole like this at Garden Park the first thing I do is reach for the camera and I want to be photographing video in the golf course because I love being able to show you where I've played and where you can possibly play some golf as well and show how good golf holds all landscapes are my thing so again going back to the challenge I always have is we're out here reviewing golf clubs today I find myself wanting to look at this whole landscape and video that and the question is can we somehow combine the two and how will that van you've seen us in earlier become the bit that links this all together get up ball this could be good this could be good I'll take that any day of the week and that's the point I love golf I love reviewing golf clubs which is what I've got in my hand right now but I also get a little bit frustrated that we can't show you these golf courses anyway I've waffled on enough about that the question is this is what I wanted to ask is in the comment section below how many of you like private reviews how many of you watch this channel to watch the course reviews that I do so like to the Scotland series and how many of you would like to see a mix of the two that's the question go go go oh I don't mind landing in a bunker anyway hello I took two weeks out I did manage to get away and get a little bit of a suntan for the four days I went to Greece and this really is the epitome of why this channel has been so good for me in my own sort of career and taking me to places that I never expected to be and also play some golf with people who I never expected to play golf with have a look you see the flag over there yes a bunker is pretty much you see the bunker and that little mound looking short turn hey it's turning that's a good looking shot come on nah not quite enough not quite enough good shot anyway thank you good shot very nice good shot thank you well done enjoy the rest of the round boys thank you see you later thank you alright yeah another surreal experience and there's been loads of them this year and like I said this video is to really say a couple of things really tell you about what I was intending to do in terms of the future bro so what we've done in the last well in the last few years but again it's massively down to the support of you people that watch this channel and as I said before you've shown me the clip is for me to be playing golf with a two time masters champion it's something you're going to never have dreamt of in your entire life I mean as an average golfer be doing that it is surreal at times so I'm extremely grateful for you people for watching the channel and like I said allow me to get those types of chances so I'm hopeful that that carries on next year but I think we're pretty much done out here I'm going to go back into the van and explain like I said earlier the van is going to play a part in the channel next year and also ask you a bit of a question as to how much you want to see of that van I think I'm going to explain let me start by saying different day we didn't quite get finished at Cardin Park so it's saying another day we're still in the van and I will finish this story no matter what and you will see that a bit of a change since the other day we've had another weekend and the backdrop of our conversion has moved that one step closer and that is that conversion is all part of this story I want to start by thanking Seed Golf who've been a supporter of the channel this year they got involved knowing what we were going to do with the van and knowing we were looking to convert it and knowing what we were going to intend to do in terms of this travel element that I will discuss very very shortly so they've been patient and we're nearly there towards the end of the conversion but why did we do it but before we get to that I suppose back in March when we started it I posted a video when I asked the question would you like to see us take this shell of a van that it was then and convert it so Seed literally a van conversion on the channel which is obviously non golf so my surprise a lot of you said you would like to see it on the channel would like to see it posted in a weekly video and we did record it all I have got all the kind of footage from the start to where we are now so we could do that but before I do before I post a sort of van conversion video on a golf channel I'd rather have your sort of feedback as to whether or not that is something you would definitely like to see so please post it in the comments as to whether or not you want to see that anyway back to what is the van for what we are trying to do well that two weeks sabbatical meant that we could have a little bit of a think and sort of assess what we have done so far and I realised that yes I love testing product and yes I love travelling and why we sort of converted the van in the first place was to see if we could combine perhaps the two so the idea is that next year we will do a lot more travelling in terms of the UK and Ireland and I will take the van to golf courses we will showcase the golf courses and we will review the product at the same time which seems a very simplistic idea but it allows us to combine those two elements but what I'm looking for really is I'm looking for golf clubs that have an interesting story to tell or maybe they've got an interesting story about a member or some quirkiness about the course they're the kind of courses that I want to film at so one of the things I would like to ask is that if you've got any involvement, connection or member of a club that perhaps has one of those stories to tell and would like to feature on the channel then I'd love you for you to get in touch with me after this video either in the comments box below or you can email me at averagegolfaatgmail.com drop me a line and see if you want to be involved in some way but we are essentially going to make allow me to do those two things I refer to yes we can film all the landscapes but without making it too boring product reviews as well combine those two together and hopefully we've got some interesting content lined up for next year and in that you will see a lot more of this fan and are travelling from A to B and perhaps even the odd overnight stay in this thing as well but I'm really looking forward to 2022 and I think like before we go any further what I mentioned earlier on the video the plane was a laugh about last week was an amazing year and the only reason those kind of things happen and hopefully may happen again into next year is if you continue supporting the channel and watching as you do so that's the biggest thank you is to yourselves for watching and like I said to people like C for supporting the channel and all the brands as well that support us by way of sending product to test and all the rest of it the channel is doing really really well right now it's growing, it's had a huge growth in terms of views last year in terms of subscribers so it couldn't be any better and I can't wait for some better weather to kick in in 2022 and we take the tour bus out on the road meet a few more average golfers tell a few more stories and keep on reviewing product at the same time right that is the plan I've done enough so far comments down below two fold don't forget do you want to see the van series build and have you got any golf courses that might want to feature on the channel that's me done I'm going to ball a kettle again about to kick off here in the early morning starting a gorgeous day but a cold one at four golf some more product testing but time for a quick brew before we start in our tour bus which you've got to say I absolutely love right now thanks for watching see you soon


to write tests that cover all possible Circumstances that cover all the different things that can go wrong It's all about designing for what you can imagine and what you can think about which is no different in the experimental world from having a good set of controls About knowing that your instrument is behaving the way it should be of running the kinds of calibrations processors Putting the subject in the right place in the MRI machine That ensure that things are going to work for you So in a sense, it's kind of interesting from my perspective that as a experimental scientist I always looked at computational science and thought you know you guys have got it easy. I mean You build this software and you know, it's going to be work every time You know that the data is reliable. You know that these things are all in the right place And you know everything's going to continue to work in exactly the same way every time you run it, right? Yeah, that's what computers do and then I met these computational scientists who kept kept saying to me You know you experimental scientists really do this properly You know your standards of publication are all about reproducibility all about making sure that someone else can come along and repeat your experiment And of course many of you will have seen the paper in nature a couple of months ago Where a group of people from Amgen Took primary research results that were of interest to them as a drug development company and Their first step in taking these potential drug targets down the road of development Was of course to check they could reproduce these experiments Published in you know those kind of middling fairly reliable journals like nature and science They could replicate the experiment in about 12% cases. This is slightly problematic and Of course many of you will know some of the horror stories from computational science of Things that cannot be replicated code that cannot be recovered code that cannot be run So it's very interesting. We've got the situation where the grass appears to be greener on both sides of the fence What I want to suggest is essentially that actually both camps can draw inspiration from the best practice On the other side of that fence So when we talk about the best practice in experimental science We talk very much about reproducibility of providing the detail of exactly What reagents were used how the experiment was run recording the conditions telling someone about the calibration We talk a lot about the documentation How detailed that needs to be and it's always more detailed than you think To make it possible for someone to have a fair to even chance of actually taking your experimental results and repeating them And those are things that at least anecdotally Are not done terribly well in the majority of the computational sciences people don't Tell you a lot about the dependencies. They very often don't provide the code Certainly very often don't provide the source code that will enable you to reproduce things and probably the less set about documentation the better on the other hand we have these truly amazing tools in computational science So we have things like continuous integration the notion that Every time you check in a piece of code every time you add a piece of code to a system to a whole body Perhaps to the work of a whole group You don't just run the tests on that code and make sure that they pass You recompile the entire set of code with all of its dependencies You identify all the places where it breaks you find all of the things that could go wrong But this person who's added another two lines or maybe taken away ten lines has potentially broken Imagine if we could do that with the research literature Imagine as an editor or a referee you have this paper come in You're looking at it, and you're not entirely convinced. You're a bit worried because this is Perhaps gonna upset upset the Apple cart may or maybe it confirms things and you don't want it confirmed I can't imagine that happening But but one can imagine that that could be possible But if you could just run the paper compile the paper against the rest of the world's literature against the data from the rest of the world's literature And be able to see if this were true What would that mean about this the rest of this literature? What would it mean? We have to reassess. What would it mean? We have to look at and Imagine you had that capability from the perspective of a researcher coming in to a new space trying to understand Which papers you need to trust and Which ones you need to keep clear of Whether it's in terms of the methodology in terms of the data Or in terms of the conclusion So I think there's these there are lots of these parallels and I could draw this out by talking about lots and lots of different examples Source code it's subversion Continuous integration is a great example On the experimental side as safe running controls properly good documentation But also things about how we effectively Share results how in the end it often becomes important to bring someone into a lab To teach them how to actually run a process in a way That's very similar to the reasons why pair programming is an effective mechanism for identifying issues in code And what I want to suggest is that actually these are not analogies. They're not similarities There are actually expressions of a deeper underlying similarity that these are both fundamentally today information businesses They are systems in which we take data and process and Draw conclusions from them and that in both cases Systems of provenance systems of labelling and tagging and integration are critical and that in both areas of science We don't tear do a terribly good job of that in either case That raises some interesting questions if these are Systems information systems and what's the platform are we building on? Are those platforms stable? Are they reliable? What are the dependencies For the peer review process? What are the dependencies for code that runs only in Fortran 77 what are the dependencies of the code that's written in python? Although it's actually written in Fortran How many of us you've seen came across a wonderful example There's I couldn't understand this code at all. I figured actually it was someone writing for training python Which is what happens when you take a Fortran programmer and tell them they have to use python There's been writing in Fortran for 30 years. They think about the problem in a different way It creates all sorts of interesting dependencies So there's lots of lots of different things to mine there But what I want to pick on and what I think will be picked up by the other speakers is To go back to some of the things that John Udell Focuses on when he talks about web thinking because John Udell's web thinking and Computational thinking and all of these things are effectively an expression again of the same thing But we are all in the business of managing data and information and the processing of that data and in this context John says a couple of things that I think are really important and Probably the most important and the thing which we're really failing to translate Into the world of science is to copy by reference Not by value that sounds like an obstruce kind of thing What does it matter? Whether I go through some torturous process of linking This cell in that spreadsheet Back to that other cell in that other spreadsheet Building a workflow Versus the easy thing which is just copying and pasting and the answer is that we lose the provenance and In losing the provenance we lose the opportunities for integration So when we talk about things that sound dull like data citation like URLs for objects whether they be people or papers or physical reagents or data and When we talk about the process of linking them up and really dull things like W3C standards and ontologies and all of these things. I know I'm preaching to the choir here in practice But the bottom line is that all of these things are links and addresses and In linking and addressing things and copying by reference we start the slow process of working towards a world Where continuous integration for the scientific literature will be an assumed part of what we do It will be the basis for how we think about Connecting and communicating our research before we think about submitting it to a journal or sharing it with anyone else And it will be the basis for how we assure ourselves That what we've done is up to standard because at the end of the day the person you mostly collaborate with yourself is Mostly collaborate with is yourself in six months time When you've forgotten what you did and so the value we can create for ourselves In doing these things properly is enormous and it's always hard You know, it's always the thing that you will do tomorrow I'll do the documentation tomorrow. I'll sort the tests out tomorrow I'll put the data in the database tomorrow because there's always a more important thing to do But usually it's replying to the referees on the paper that you've already lost the data for So if we can focus on this notion of ourselves as managing information of The provenance and linking and citation as the core of that process Then yes, we're gonna have to put in some more work But in six months time you're gonna appreciate that work and in five years time We're gonna have a much better system for managing the information which is already overwhelming us and I'll stop there


Everybody forced here ripping five boxes of 2022 bumming trap baseball Super Jumbo for Josh we Back at it. Let's do a Joshua. We'll recap your autos at the end and anything else. That's huge Let's hope there's a lot of huge stuff in here card dust Card dust better get some vitamins to be traveling to be cold Yeah We'll go pretty quick to the chrome base since we did this all night last night Joshua Simon Juan Manuel Rodriguez Cutter coffee and your pins are Sure, I'm missing any color paper Look at Jake staying up late tonight. Jake. What are you doing, man? 199 Jonathan Cannon for the White Sox. I've never seen Jake wake this late boy Jake in the chat late Locking it down with us though. Let's go Jake Let's see a super. Let's do it. Why not aqua lava Marco Luciano for the Giants there numbered to 199 Kunya choreo Parada a costa and refractor auto south steward to 199 or 499 excuse me to 499 So make this as it's cold outside or something Dude, I can only imagine it is like it's in mid 30s here, which is which is cold for Florida That's Florida cold right there y'all from Central Florida. No joke. I Can only imagine what it's like everywhere else.  What am I doing? Right on above that one's back. That's what through me on the jaker. Yeah. Yeah, Jake Austin Hendrick Nate Savino Hunter Barco What it's Invictus and us That's Invictus actually got a fire Sounds nice. Really?  Yeah All right refractors Mason Barnett Jason choreo Jacob Melton Cassavich and first woman auto Walter Ford Walter CW's at zero degrees Yeah Yeah, yeah, 19 is not bad at all compared to whatever it also got going on 19's like Sounds about right for doing it right now.  What are we? What are we doing? 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That's the only one I can think of Victor Cole young Logan Tanner Coloss Justin Boyd Gotcha, you're not it's not quite as cold. Yeah, it's colder here than there What the heck about they get it they're about to get it then too A gold paper Michael Hernandez the 50 Samuel Munoz sparkle not numbered Mikey Romero Dylan Beavers Dominguez and Lawler and purple auto Trevor Martin to 250 But I came in here and Sam was like your grilled cheese from five guys.  Yeah, it's weird. It's why I've only had it like twice, but it's like The it's like a burger bun inverted.  It looks like Colosson Victor Uh Cooper Herp Sean McLean They don't think of Brunswick Georgia Is there is it Brunswick Georgia or New Brunswick Georgia? I have no idea man It's one of those That's near the border. What is going on? What is going on with this? What am I even doing right now? 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That's right. It's north of Jacksonville Tristan Veerling Christopher Pastiola Thank god Kyle's here to help. Kyle used to work here He had a big card tonight too Paper mills good times.  She's a beau Clark It's And then they all started the jeweler republic they all started joining. Yeah Good stuff I was here for the geography needs appreciate it man. The blessing, baby. You know a jig the blessing I'm watching that tomorrow. I'm making my wife watch it with me too Lamar King Brooks Lee Brenna Bell and veen Santa Claus just farther New York City You serious car Yeti cappy aqua paper to 199 Now we got a chrome insert in the middle of the paper. Oh boy This box has just lost all of its sanity Nice colors coming up. Let's see some nice names now There's a prieto green speckle to 99 Caesar Prieto Tamar Johnson Joe lamp The andrade so far blue wave dillon lesko first woman out of the 150 Dillon lesko Which one? Dude, I love the neighbors.  They're so great. 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I always see carl up in here Jake's up late randy Troy melton trace gonzalez traylipscomb light blue paper. Oh and murphy to to 199 aqua lava coby mayo I'm not sleeping tonight. That's to 199. Yeah, Sean's not sleeping No sleep till brooklyn's you go to the airport after this I pretty much did that when I went to philly So yeah, I finished personals or no, I finished sunday night, but it was like a late night Of course, it was like, okay, cool. I'll be out by like midnight ish. No, dude the mixer I gotta have like one three There we go Elijah green now first moment base auto This box had the holiday the parada, right? Oh my god Elijah green I like first fight in the morning because it's easiest to get through the airport at that time If you get like that 9 a.m. Flight, it's always terrible Plus like that's the most one so most likely to be late or delay or whatever at least the morning one like you get the first one There's like no delays. Yeah. Well, I hope so. Do you fly at night?  That's awesome. Yep from here to boston non-stop is not easy to do Ain't cheap to do. Yeah. Yeah, my flight's out tomorrow at 7 a.m. Kyle For today, whatever the heck it is Bryson Mott's Cutter coffee. All right, let's see if there's a superfactor here. I'm going into uh, uh, boston To uh, 499 shale and polanco paper light blue paper 11 hours in the airport, bro. That's a sneaker Carson Williams sparkle Jimmy crooks mason Barnett Not a super but an aqua lava First woman auto Gabriel Brincone is the 199 $30 flight They're like paying you to fly But yeah, if you can find flights out of samford to a place you got to go that's a way to do it Yeah, Kyle because Like loresa's family is from like allentown we flew in allentown once like the four of us It probably costs like 200 bucks or something like that. Yeah a little over 200 for the four of us apply to allentown bag Gold paper to mar johnson to 50 very nice. Yeah, logan's not super fun It's not fun to fly out of Getting there is fine The best part about logan though is you're visiting the city. There's public transit right there That's like that's like the benefit caro cold phillips barrera Miller Cutter coffee refractor out of the 499 Yeah, super cheap car and it's a small airport. So it's easy to get in and out of dude you like Park the rental car and you walk in and securities right there. It's the best So the airport in flagstaff is just a regional airport Why my mom is you have to get a connecting flight there because obviously it's only regional It's like it's from like dallas or phoenix or maybe denver or something But the flagstaff airport has two gates It's great. It's the most amazing experience ever michael nor kate hordon Legitimately two gates. You will walk in and in your flights ready. 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Hi everybody, Jeff Hemmelt from SFM Sports.net here with head coach Grant Miller after a tough 1-0 defeat in the Commonwealth Conference semi-final to Arcadia. Coach, it was a fairly even first half. Both teams had chances hit off the crossbar and some other opportunities went wide. Just give me your impression of the first half and what your team talk was at halftime. Yeah, the first half I thought we actually started really well. It was a little bit nervous there. Referee made some kind of weird calls that led to some, you know, early free kicks for them that put us into some pressure. But once we kind of weathered that storm, I thought we were really all over them and, you know, Lexi's shot.  But I thought first half I thought we controlled the tempo after the first 10 minutes. And I was pretty pleased with how they played. I was really happy and I think it was 8 shots to 4 in the first half. And so we just talked at halftime about keeping it going, keeping the momentum going. Because the way we finished, especially the last 5 minutes of the first half, they couldn't get out of their half. And so we had them and I thought we had them on the ropes. Second half, you had another opponent to deal with in the weather. The fog started rolling in. I know that's really not an excuse for the overall tempo of the game, but certainly could affect things at times. And again, more opportunities went by. A couple free kicks from each side flew over the bar. An inch here and an inch there could have been a 1-0-1-1 game. And then you head into overtime and a late break there, right just as the overtime was ending, across from the far side and a free header. And that sealed the game ultimately. Yeah, I thought second half, it was pretty even. Each team actually was like, they would have a free kick, we would have a free kick. They got a yellow card, we got a yellow card. Everything was very similar and it was going to be tough to see which team was going to come out the winner. Either team I thought played great, I thought Arcadia really did well, especially they came back in the second half. But I thought we still controlled the game and then they just upped it in overtime. We didn't get our own half in overtime and that was tough. And they got us on a quick break at the end. So really proud of the girls, really proud of the seniors for what they've done on and off the field. This is our first final that we haven't made in four years. So we're pretty proud of this program and the girls are going to come back stronger. They'll be ready to go again next year. Yeah, I was going to mention that, as you mentioned. Another chance to face Messiah didn't happen this year. But just going back to the beginning of the year, I know you told me earlier in the season you had those tough non-conference opponents. So it was a little slow. If you just looked at the record, you could argue it was a little slow out of the gate. But once the conference schedule kicks in, you start 4-0 and you finish up 6-2, 6-3 now after this one. Once you guys seem to hit the conference schedule, you seem to get it going. And again, another post-season performance and again just unlucky at the end here. Yeah, like I said, proud of the girls for how they came back. We had one of the toughest schedules in the region, non-conference. We didn't take advantage, 8-1 goal losses. So when it came to the conference, we were ready for it, ready for the same teams we play every year. And the girls did really well. So I'm proud of the effort this year. We didn't get the results the way we have in the past. They are 15 seconds to go and it's going to the second overtime. So we'll move on. We'll be stronger. We're a successful program and we'll be ready for next year. Graham, again, a pleasure talking to you this year. Thanks for your post-game comments and always coming up here with some great insight for us here again. Always a pleasure. I know it wasn't the result you wanted in the end. But thanks again for joining us. It's been a pleasure as always. And we'll see you next year. Well, thank you to you, Jeff and SFM Sports and all the video guys for all their hard work this year, especially tonight and this lovely weather. So I hope you guys were able to track the ball. So thanks again. It's been a pleasure working with you guys. Thanks, Graham. Appreciate it. Coach Graham Miller joining me after the one-nothing loss to Arcadia here in the Commonwealth Semifinal.


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All right, just updating my training log here. And I don't know, I will plug this information into a spreadsheet, but I really, and I'm just a little old school, I really like having a big overall picture of the month of January to analyze and just see, like, okay, this is working, this is not working. Let's add strides. For example, in the fourth week of January, so basically starting January 21st, I'm gonna start adding strides to my running. And then the next week, I'm gonna start adding plyometrics. So anyway, just having that kind of big picture view helps my mind comprehend and analyze like what's going on versus plugging it straight into, let's say, a spreadsheet. It's a little harder for me to look at. So anyway, I'm liking what I'm seeing here. Gonna plug a few more things in before going out. In the Fast Twitch 8s, they are on my feet. Wow. Okay, and today I'm not going far. I'm gonna go slow, but then I will pick it up at the end in the Fast Twitch 8s because yes, these are racing shoes, but before too much time goes along, I wanna get you my first impressions on how they feel. And so anyway, looking good, feeling good, and yes, we'll talk about my board here in a minute as well. All right, here we go. See my first reaction, my facial expression as I take my first steps in the Soccany Fast Twitch 8. All right, here we go. Ready for this? Slow it down, Seth. Slow it down. Ooh, that's nice. That's nice. Ooh, nice. Okay, all right. Here we go. I just have to mention that I like easy days to be easy, hard days to be hard. I think I'm bopping along at like nine, 10 pace right now. And I like my easy days easy so I can fully, well, as close as possible, recover for hard days. And guess what? Tomorrow, I'm going 10 miles up in the mountains. So I'll come back for that. I think we'll get some beauty up there. But I think a lot of people are a little confused about how I train sometimes, especially on Strava. And I love all you guys for connecting with me on Strava. Thank you for that. But like, anyway, just want to mention a big fan of different ways of stimulating your aerobic system and your legs, meaning you're letting your legs fully recover on easy days as much as possible. There you have it. And there you have it, the first run in the Soccany Fast Twitch 8, a road racing shoe. I went three miles, so 5K average, just nine minutes a mile, five and a half minutes per kilometer. And basically, I just have to mention that if you're trying a new shoe, you definitely need to be patient. The first mile in these guys, they did not feel very great on the feet. And then as the run went on, they started feeling better and better and better. And so that muscle memory that you're building up in a 10 millimeter drop or a six millimeter drop or a zero drop as far as the heel to toe box stack heights, you know, that slope in the shoe, you're just, your legs get used to that. And so if you're switching up to a new brand, a new model of shoe, you just got to be patient. Or if it's a different midsole and outsole as far as the rubber or the foam inside. And here it is, the Fast Twitch 8. Again, a quick side note, Soccany. I think you did a decent job on the colorway. So the blue, I like the look of the shoe. I like the look of the shoe. That's not the most important part of a shoe, but it helps. I think it looks good. All right, I'll share with you my favorite part of the shoe later tonight. Once I got to go do some errands, go to work, come back, all that good stuff. All right, here we go. All right, just zipped into Guitar Center to look for some foam to hang up in the studio shed to basically help improve the audio for the live streaming and just the general recording. But $109, a little too steep for my liking as far as price. So I think we will go with a little bit of a more affordable option, probably from Tarjay or Walmart. We will see or Amazon or wherever else I end up looking. So anyway, I basically, I'm just striving for good quality audio for all of you. And I watched the replay of the live stream from last night. And you know, I can just hear a little bit of an echo in the shed and I don't want that for you guys. Oh my goodness, nine o'clock, nine o'clock. That's a wrap for filming tonight. And we will see you all at the shed. Oh boy, I see a box on our front doorstep here. Oh boy, what is this? I did not order this, what is this? All right, a little tea, a little tea. I will always strive to be authentic and real with all of you here on YouTube. I am not trying to run a gear review or a running shoe YouTube channel, okay? That is not the goal of this YouTube channel, to do shoe reviews, shoe reviews. The goal is to share my story with you, to share some of my passions with you, to share some of my family life with you and to hopefully communicate a little bit of inspiration and hope with you, which oftentimes comes in the form of running, okay? Now that will not be the only way in the future that it is communicated to you through this camera, but a lot of times it will come through in the form of running. And I think that's a beautiful thing because guess what? We can all lace up our shoes and go run, no matter what kind of shoes we have, whether it's the Fast Twitch 8s or the Vamero 14s or the Solomon Speed Cross 4s or whatever it might be. I just wanna let you know that I'm not trying to do a running shoe review YouTube channel. That's not who I am, but I'm ridiculously grateful for this gift, the Soccany Fast Twitch 8, which was sent to me from a vlog fan. I did not buy the shoe, okay? And 18 months ago, I was buying running shoes off of Craigslist because I was on such a, we, my true love and I, we were on such a tight budget, trying to get out of debt that I could not buy shoes brand new 18 months ago, all right? I feel ya, okay? So if you're struggling to buy new running shoes, like I get it, I get it, I get it. All right, let's move on to the Soccany Fast Twitch 8. I know that's why you're here. And this is my first impression, this is the first time running in them today. This is not my full review, that'll happen down the road, $65. $65 right now, that's pretty good, that's pretty good. Running Warehouse, Amazon, Soccany.com, I saw that price all over the place. All right, let's go to the, let's go to the whiteboard, four millimeter drop, four millimeter drop. So pretty, pretty low actually. It's definitely a road racing shoe, 6.4 ounces. So 183 grams, and it's got an EVA, SSL EVA midsole is what they're calling it. All right, let's just cut to the chase. When will I use the Soccany Fast Twitch 8 moving forward in 2019? One mile and 5K road races. Now, will I race many 5Ks this year? Probably not too many, but this guy is gonna be perfect for a fast 5K on the roads. 10K, you could do a 10K, half marathon, I would say you're starting to push the distance a little too far. Marathon, I would say definitely not. And I was actually open to this shoe. You know, I was just testing the waters to see if this could work out for a marathon. It doesn't, it's not gonna have enough cushion.  And since I won't be doing too many 5K road races in 2019, I bet I end up doing maybe two or three. I will use this shoe to sharpen for my marathon. So when I wanna really go fast in a road workout, and I think it is important to do road workouts before a marathon to get used to running fast on asphalt or pavement, this'll be perfect for 800 repeats, 1200 meter repeats. I would probably go with the Peg 35 Turbo for mile repeats, just for a little more cushion, or for shorter interval workouts on the roads. Oh, this is gonna be the money shot for me in 2019. One first impression that really stuck out today was the grip. I really felt like the shoe was gripping the road really well. And it's called this Powertrack rubber. Powertrack rubber, they're advertising it as being three times as grippy, if I can use that word, compared to other rubber outsoles on other shoes. And I noticed it today, it felt really, really nice. And so I could imagine this shoe being really great for wet road races. So if you know it's gonna be rainy the next day when you're racing, this could be really important for gripping the road nice on those kind of wetter condition days. So that was one thing on the outsole. Now the outsole was a little stiff, a little hard, but as the further I ran, the more my feet and legs got used to the kind of the stiff outsole on the bottom, nothing too crazy to complain about. But I did notice like it was kind of a stiff landing, but by the end of my run today, I was like, ooh, this is nice. I'm gonna go fast in this shoe again for the mile, 5K distance, maybe 10K distance. Okay, onto my favorite feature of the shoe so far. And again, just my first impression, the tongue. That's right, I know that's silly to say. The tongue of this Fast Twitch 8 is really engineered nicely. If I can use the word engineering loosely here, it just has this really nice form to it, but also a little bit of padding right here in the front where the laces are gonna really lock down over the top of your foot. So the laces aren't gonna cut into your foot because of this nice padding right at the top of, I guess where the top of your foot meets kind of your ankle as it starts heading up your leg. So anyway, kudos to Soccany for a really nice tongue. And I know that's a really small detail to a shoe, but I appreciate a good tongue on a running shoe. I'm just putting it out there, I'm putting it out there. And my last first impression for the Fast Twitch 8 is that the sizing was normal. You don't need to size up or size down. In my opinion, it just, it felt great and it was not narrow. You know, a lot of racing flats can be a little narrow through the midfoot. I didn't feel that at all. The midfoot felt fine, you know, just normal sizing overall. And the keyword of the day, keyword of the day has nothing to do with this shoe, nothing to do with this shoe. That's right, the keyword is first. That's right, first. And I'm throwing you a complete curve ball. Again, this is not a running shoe review channel as grateful as I am for these two shoes in my possession. Rather, I'm here to share my story and to hopefully learn a little bit about your story. And therefore, the question of the day. This is, it's emotional. Do you remember your first run ever? Can you even comprehend that question of the day? Think back, think back, where you actually had a pair of running shoes.  I'm going for a run. I remember mine. It was in middle school with my dad. I remember mine very, very distinctly. I won't tell you the story about it now, but that is the question of the day. Thank you for answering what do you remember and what was your first run ever, ever. And I'm not talking about soccer practice. I'm not talking about basketball or I'm not talking about chasing down a kite. I'm talking about where you went for a run. And there you go, that's it. Thanks for sharing a little bit of your story down in the comments and thanks for listening to a little bit of mine here on YouTube. Woo! Sleep beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.


Well, this evening we're looking at something that I know a lot of you have been asking us to look at and it's certainly a trend that we've also seen and I think more than anything want to understand whether you are looking to live in this kind of place, whether you're looking to, you know, rent or buy or certainly invest and this is something that affects a lot of us. We've seen it in the big metros and you probably want to have a really good sense and have your finger on the pulse when it comes to it. We're looking at how developers are meeting demand in residential estates. So a big focus is on residential estates and of course the role that developers have played some of the things that we're expecting but also some of the trends that we've seen when it comes to, you know, the residential estate scene. I want to find out from yourselves at home what has been your experience when it comes to the estates. So if you're living in an estate, whether you've bought in one before, rented in one, what has your experience been? Do share with us down here below. Also share which city? You don't need to share which estate because of obviously safety and we don't want to, you know, point too many fingers but share what your experience has been like living and certainly even doing business and by business I mean doing property investment in some estates and this evening to help us get a good sense of how developers are meeting the demand in residential estates. I'm joined by Louis Martin and Jamie Lee Garnam, who are both owners at Estate Living. Edis, good evening and thank you so much for joining us on the show. Thank you so much for having us.  And first perhaps let's start with the trends that we've seen and that we've certainly seen in the past few years when it comes to residential estates and, you know, the evolution of the residential estate as we've seen it in South Africa. Yes, a great question. So, you know, as we discussed prior to the show, we, we seeing a, it's consumer sentiment that's really driving the evolution within residential community living spaces at the, you know, initially when estates were first formed, a lot of it was based on the need for security. So communities were developed surrounding sort of suburbs, joined some communities in some parts of Johannesburg and everything was very much about security, access, big fences, you know, sort of looking after our families and really protecting our assets. And what we found is that individuals that moved into these communities, you know, paying premium prices started to look outside of just the security aspect. They wanted to know what can an estate offer them from a lifestyle because it's not just about being safe. It's about having a good lifestyle, enjoying open spaces, spending time with your family and using the estate beyond just a place to stay, but rather a place to live. And what we saw over the years is that not only did the offering within estates evolve, so lifestyle offerings started to come into play. You know, we all know the traditional golfing estate. A lot of people don't play golf. Golfing estates come with a number of, you know, additional costs if not everybody wants to take on. So in-came lifestyle, so running tracks, walking tracks available, sort of assets like that where people could enjoy a little bit of a park area.  And so the offering continued to grow. And suddenly we have a industry that is not only about security, but it's about services and hospitality and access and impression and brand. And as you can imagine, the more people that want to move into residential communities, the more this has grown within estates. So when you talk about trains, you really have to look at who is the buyer because each side of the home and a resident invests a part of residential community living has evolved. If you are a retiree, you're looking for a specific need. And so within that particular market, you've moved from a traditional sort of old age pensioner home into a lifestyle estate that's attracting a younger buyer and offering a different kind of service and aging in place or aging at home. If you're a younger person looking to invest in a community, you've got a sort of long term investment, your starting point is slightly lower, but you want to have all the additional facilities that come with residential community living. You're looking at a sectional title and there you've got the pool and the gym, et cetera. There your micro apartments are smaller living spaces with larger community areas. That is a growing trend for families.  So there are a number of drivers that I think we will talk about a little bit later on when it comes to what's driving the community. But there are a number of drivers. You know, COVID did play a certain part in what is happening in the property industry and everyone will have a different opinion on that. But what that has really done, if you look at people living in the community for a lot of people, it gave them the opportunity for the first time to actually enjoy their community. The first time that they're there in the daylight. And so with that, it became homeowner expectation. Now, suddenly they want to be delivered. They want the items delivered that were promised to them. So we definitely see that also happening within the industry. The work from home concept. Yes, obviously, that is a very popular concept. And a lot of people are working from home. So they're moving into outlying areas. But of course, work from home only works when you have high speed internet and there are other facilitators that need to be in place for work from home concept to be successful. I hope that answers your question. No, it definitely does, Lewis. And I actually then want us to look at what becomes the driver, what determines, you know, the demand for houses in residential houses in these estates. And the reason I ask this is I know in a lot of the big metros, I'm in Joberg, we're seeing a lot of estates coming up, a lot of bullish building estates and complexes. Some of them, unfortunately, staying relatively, I'll call it vacant. So they aren't getting sold out quickly. So it's almost a gone other days when some of these estates would sell out at a very rapid speed and you'd see developers, for instance, running packages like the first year of levies is free.  Because if you're priced right and you're building in the right place, you wouldn't need to offer that as a service to people you want to buy in an estate. So then what actually determines the bond in these residential estates? I don't know, Jamie, if you want to take that all, I will answer that question. So I would disagree with you slightly that if a developer is offering a special, something might have gone wrong. I think that I think that what's happened is that it's become increasingly more competitive. So 10 years ago or 15 years ago, there might only be one or two offerings in a specific area that serve as a specific need. That's changed. People are spoiled for choice. So yes, perhaps an estate is not selling out as quickly, depending on where the location is and what the offering is. And of course, pricing, as you know, you know, what are people prepared to pay for? But I think that, you know, developers need to find and marketers of estates are looking for new angles in which to make their environment more favorable. So things like offering you free levies for a year. My statement to that is nothing is ever free. So, you know, I would be very mindful of a state, you know, of that type of promise, but the, you know, it is about competition and with anything, you know, people are looking for what could make their estate or development more desirable than the guy next door. And that's possibly where you're seeing those those types of promises. And if I could maybe answer that. Yes, I believe we're coming. Yes. So I was just going to say if I could add to that, I think if anything, what what the pandemic showed us was that and actually just reiterated is that people want people need to love where they live. So and and what the pandemic also showed us and lockdown showed us is showed us how important community was. And it was quite often it was our community around us that actually pulled us through, you know, those dark times. And and this is exactly what the state or the state life and community life now provides. And what we are seeing is that that the property developers are meeting this need by developing more communities. But they're also developing more communities at a price point, which makes community living available to many more. It's not just available to the elite anymore. So but what we're finding is that the market is also needing to still catch up. So whilst the the the market and the economy struggled through the the pandemic, property developers have met the demand by building more communities, making at price points that are more accessible. And now you'll see that the community or the market is starting to catch up in terms of, you know, moving into those communities. So I think it's just it's not that these communities are standing empty per se. I think it's just a question of developers are meeting the demand at a price at a good price point or accessible price price point. And now the market is moving forward into into that into that demand. And, you know, there are funding solutions now available because everybody deserves to live in a beautiful environment, safe environment, community living environment. So I think it's just a question of of the one the demand meeting the supply at the same time, which is happening just starting to happen. If you are just joining us at home this evening, I'm in conversation with Luis Barton and Jamie Ligana from Estate Living and we're exploring how developers are meeting demand in residential estates. I can see all the love that we're getting from our Facebook page. Many of you in and checking in the register, Queen Targo. I see you one of our regulars Matashengange tuned in, Daniel Kazadi also tuned in Colin Janssen sending us through some love, the Zelda English also watching and tuning in. In this chapter, it's great to see you on our Facebook page. I see you also watching Maya. You're not late. There was just a different format that we're trying out. So Maya had asked earlier when one of the ladies was speaking if, you know, she had missed the show because the screen only had our our speaker speaking. And of course, as I've been saying, we are trying out different formats of the show. And so almost every other evening, you're going to see a different way of us doing the show visually. And we want to get to that nice sweet spot. So send us your feedback as we're changing it. As we have seen this year, we've been trying different formats in different ways of course, making the show better for you at home. So do you send us some feedback? Let us know which parts you like as we try out these different options. We absolutely love hearing from you. Kuzara Makhale also tuned in. We're going to do now watching and tuned in security. Since I'm also watching and we're going and so many more of you at home. Do you keep the love coming? And of course, I want to find out from you at home. If you are living in a state, what has been your experience of staying in a state, whether it's a good or a bad experience, whether you are renting in it or you bought in one or sold a unit that you have. I know that more often than not, some people have issues with you know, doing property investments in some states. Sometimes they'll say, look, the admin can just keeps getting more and more intense. And I think as the years have kind of progressed, we we make sure that we have really great rules in place in the various states and complexes that we live in. So that can sometimes feel as though it's very admin heavy. For different people. But you show your experiences with us down here below. We absolutely want to hear from you. And I want to then look at, you know, before we look at the I think one of the things actually want us to explore is whether an area matches in terms of demand for, you know, for a residential estate.  And I think, you know, Lucy made a great point that competition is quite high right now. And so of course, they're going to find different ways to pull people in. But what, you know, does an area matter? How does that play in when it comes to demand for the estates? Well, I think the tradition or the age old statement, location, location, location when it comes to property based true for residential community living as well. Although one one could say that because of the pandemic, that people have changed slightly the way that they were. They choose to live. We are seeing that statistic on sort of the garden route, but and those areas. But those areas were growing prior to the COVID pandemic as well. So a location, location, location. You know, there are drivers, so that access to transport, access to schools, access to amenities, you know, looking at views, things like that definitely drive where people want to live. And I but I think an important as a important thing about residential community living and with something we've seen over the years ourselves is that when you are selecting an estate or a sectional title development where you want to live, it's very, very important that you do your research. You know, you mentioned the rules. Rules do drive residential estates, but a rule in an estate should be something that you would naturally do anyway. You're not going to drive your car very fast through a residential space where children are playing. And that is that is a considerate, neighbourly thing to do. And a lot of rules should not be at such a level that it's uncomfortable to live in that community. Then the then the question is, is that a fair rule? But, you know, we look at the rules. We look at the environment and do your research. You have the right to ask for the estate's financials. You know, it's not just about having a tennis court and the gardens look beautiful. It's about how that estate is governed. You know, how is it managed to run? What is the what is the capital reserve budget looking like in the estate? Am I going to find that I move in and six months later, there's a massive levy hike because something hasn't been accounted for. You know, if I'm buying into a new development, what is the strategy for that developer to exit the project and meet and the HIA to take over? It's these pain points that cause issues and make decisions difficult. And often questions that folks are not asking when they're making their choice.  And you have the right to ask those questions. Yeah, so so that's that sort of drives that also drives where people choose to live is the reputation of the developer, the reputation of the HIA and the governance of the community. Well, ladies, we're going to leave it there this evening. Thank you both for joining us on the show. Thank you so much. Thank you for the opportunity. And that is Louis Martin and Jamie Lee Gardner from State Living, wrapping up the Thursday edition of the Private Property Podcast with myself, Osamantouma Koumalon. Well, as usual, at 8 p.m. You can look forward to Baleenuoka bringing you the farming podcast. I'll be back on your screens tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. Till then, hoping you're staying home and staying safe.


Answer this by the same person. Ethnic cleansing of Palestine started 50 years before Hamas was created. It was entirely premeditated in an only possible way to build a Jewish homeland on a land that was 90% non-Jewish. That's just not true. It's just not true. In the 1930s, there was no ethics of 50 years before Hamas was created in the 80s. The 1930s, there was no ethical cleansing going on. Indeed, if you look at migration patterns in the late 19th century all the way into the 1940s, vast numbers of Arabs migrated into what is now Israel. They were new immigrants, just like the Jews who were coming in were new immigrants. Nobody was being kicked out of Israel before the state of Israel was established. Because quite the opposite. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who today call themselves Palestinians, were actually completely new immigrants who came from Jordan and Syria and Lebanon and Egypt and other places around the area to what was called then Palestine and why did they come? Why did they come? Why suddenly was there massive immigration into this area? And the Arabs don't want to hear this, but the reality is that the Jews were created massive economic opportunities. They were building cities. They were forming on a scale that had never existed. They were using land that had been swamped and desert that nobody knew how to use. They were literally drying swamps. They were building industry. This even Israelis don't know this because the socialists don't want you to know it, but there was private industry. The electrification of Palestine happened because of Jewish enterprise. The Jews were building industry, farming, cities, creating jobs. And Arabs in Syria and Jordan were looking at themselves and going, Yeah, I mean I can earn a lot more by going over there. There's a lot more job opportunities over there than over here. And they did. And they were the manual labor that built much of Israel. In terms of the actual construction. They built the homes, the buildings, and they worked in the industries. So the exact opposite of ethnic cleansing happened before 1948. Post 1948, and during 1948 I've already answered, there was no ethnic cleansing. 1948 saw them run away. You run away, you lose, tough. I don't see any more responsibility of the people defending themselves to respect your so-called rights to come back, particularly when you continue to hold a world view that once they eliminate the very state that you demand a return to. So yeah, there was no premeditated, there was no plan. The Arabs left without Israel asking them to leave. Most of the asking to leave was done by the Arabs. Now again, were there cases? And should the Arabs be compensated where you could show proof of it? Okay, fine. But those are the exception, not the rule. The rule was that it was an ethnic cleansing. The rule was that it was people losing in a war and running away. Or running away in anticipation that they would win and be able to come back. Either way, Israel owes them nothing. And it was an ethnic cleansing, period.


We are here at the Belarus-Poland border, at the Logistics Center. There are several hundred migrants from Iraq, Iran, Syria and other countries that are currently accommodated here. IM teams have been delivering essential humanitarian aid and counseling on voluntary return opportunities. Since October, over 2,000 migrants at the border have received hygiene kits, food baskets including infant nutrition, personal protective equipment, warm blankets, shoes and clothes to survive the freezing cold. If you are in a safe and dignified way back home, we aim to provide voluntary return assistance to thousands wishing to return to their countries of origin. And we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to those stranded in the country. At the moment we are providing food and much needed relief items both at the border and at the airport.