Thank you so much Chief Bill Williams for welcoming us in a good way on behalf of all the participants here I'd like to present you with an offering and token of our appreciation and deep respect. Thank you so much Chief Bill Williams for helping us start this celebration in a good way. And being on this land is a great privilege but it also comes with a great deal of responsibility. For those of us who are uninvited guests, settlers it's important that we take the time to reflect and learn about the history of the indigenous territories on which we live, play and work. And we're so honored to have Chief Bill Williams really welcome us and root us in the tradition of the indigenous peoples here in British Columbia. We know we are on a path of reconciliation for the centuries of the history of colonization and the devastation wrought onto the indigenous peoples hand in hand with the systems of oppression, colonization, racism and white supremacy. And so friends we are gathered here today for a great celebration but also to mark the challenge ahead. We remember that as we go through our daily lives the responsibility we have to walk on the land with respect, curiosity and good intentions. And to everyone here in person and virtually watching from communities near and far we're live streamed so folks across British Columbia, across Canada, around the world are watching our awards here tonight. And we've got friends from across our great province, seen some friends from Prince George, seen some friends from Vancouver Island and right across the province welcome everybody it's great to be here. Gathered here is a very special group of individuals, leaders. We've got to all the award winners nominees and nominators past and present just a real group of champions, people who stood up in their communities who've shown leadership to take on the tough struggle for dignity, justice against racism for equality. You're all here today. I want to thank you for joining us in this important celebration and we honor you. You are all anti-racism heroes going above and beyond to make our province a better place for everyone. Joining us this evening is our very own awesome Attorney General, Nikki Sharma, we've got her here, MC who will be looking after our award ceremony as well, Hira Rashad of the Multicultural Advisory Committee, Hira you're here representing as well our Multiculturalism Advisory Committee. Do we have any members here from the committee? Let's see, I want you up, get up on your feet. Let's see, representing, alright, thank you. We've got more special performances as well. We've got the Sudkina Dance Academy will be performing an Indian classical dance. We're going to have the Korean Jumbers back, the Korean Traditional Arts Society, it's going to come back for another performance, looking forward to that. And as many of you know, today is a special day, today is the international day for the elimination of racial discrimination. We know that on this day in 1960, there was a massacre in Sharples, South Africa, where peaceful protesters protesting against the racist policies of the apartheid state of South Africa were brutally killed, 69 people, 50 women and children protesting peacefully for their place in this world to be treated with dignity and respect. And we mark that and we remember that and we join together across the world in our strong stand to mark that occasion and also our dedication to end racism in British Columbia and Canada around the world. Today, we're here to celebrate the people who are advocating for a province with greater intercultural understanding rooted in anti-racism. We know that we can't ignore the reasons why this work is so needed. We know that Canada has the very sad history of centuries of colonization, of racism, institutionalized oppression. We know that. But what do we also know, and you are all a testament to that, BC is also fortunate to have a diverse group of people, ethnic groups, cultures. But despite the ways in which diversity improves and enhances our province, you all know that. Systemic racism, discrimination, misogyny, and hate continue to affect British Columbians every day. And that's why the work is being done, is so important, being done by our nominees this evening, and so critical. It's also why we're also working across government. I'm the parliamentary secretary for anti-racism, the premier told me, Mabel, your job is to dismantle systemic racism across BC, get to work, we've got a great team, and together that's the path we are on. We know that we need changes at all levels. We've brought in the Anti-Racism Data Act. And I've heard there are members from our Anti-Racism Data Committee here. Are you here? Stand up. I want to hear some applause and appreciate them. Our Anti-Racism Data Committee members, first of its kind, leading the world in terms of we need to identify and quantify what are the experiences of indigenous and racialized people accessing government programs and services. How do we improve that? How do we take steps to make that better right across government? Their leadership is really key. We're also going to be bringing in an Anti-Racism Act built on that information. And Canada is leading the world. We know that also the process is important. We're partnering with indigenous peoples, racialized people to co-develop the legislation groundbreaking. Because we know that indigenous people and racialized people are often the one harmed by our government institutions, by our governments and programs. And so it's important to pass legislation, but it's also important to rebuild trust together and empower communities who are most harmed. So that is in the forefront of our commitment. We're also looking, we've brought out, we have to, right across, right across every aspect of our society, we need to take a stand against anti-racism. Our government ruled out kindergarten to grade 12. We've got some educators here, some teachers. I've seen, let's, right, do we have some teachers? Champions on the front line in our education system rolling out our kindergarten to grade 12, Anti-Racism Action Plan. We're also supporting community groups and recognizing that's where, that's where the heroes stand up in our communities. And we have here with us as well members of the Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network doing that work on the forefront. Are you here? Let's hear it for those members. Stand up. I know you're here. I've talked to you. All right. Yeah. There we go. Okay. Woo! So we know that it's crucial to address racism at every level, including the government level. And it's people on the ground who do the important work. And these are who we're celebrating tonight this evening here. The people in this room demonstrate the impact of sustained action, the power of community led initiatives, commitment to social justice, courage in the face of adversity, and really answering the call, the hard call to step up against injustice. And that's why we offer our multiculturalism, anti-racism grants each year to provide resources to organizations in the community. Last year 60 organizations received up to $5,000 to support a wide range of multiculturalism and anti-racism projects. And I've met, I'm looking forward to more, met friends from the Mexican community, we've got cultural festivals, culturally rooted food insecurity initiatives, and skill building workshops and podcasts. We know that I referenced the Resilience BC Network 35 spokes across British Columbia really providing that support. I want to thank all of you for your hard work. We know that people with lived experience like many of you in this room are vital to ensuring our government addresses racism and hate in a thoughtful and effective way. And these awards tonight is for you. And it's also in recognition often it's those who are hurt by racism, indigenous, racialized people who carry that pain inside and that's also a very difficult process on the journey to healing to support each other, to have that space to share experiences amongst ourselves and also for friends and allies to listen. So this is part of the path that we are on. All right, we're getting into it. We've got virtually joining us, teed up a message from our Premier, Premier David E.B., so that's the cue. We're going to roll it. He's going to give us some remarks. And good evening. I'm joining you from the territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Slavitooth nations. I'm sorry I can't be there tonight to celebrate with you in person. I know you're in good hands with my colleagues Mabel Elmore, Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives and Attorney General Nicky Sharma. I can't think of a better way to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination than by honoring some of BC's anti-racism heroes. Tonight's awards recognize advocates who are breaking down barriers and developing intercultural trust and connections. I know you're all moving this important work forward in communities across our province. With your actions, we're building a more equitable British Columbia for everyone. On behalf of all British Columbians, I want to thank you for your dedication to this life-changing work. Your stories are powerful inspirations for us all, and illustrate what can happen when we stand up to racism and hate. You're making British Columbia a better, more welcoming place for everyone. Thank you, and congratulations in advance to tonight's recipients. Have a wonderful evening. A smattering of applause for the Premier. Well, tell him there was a lot of thanks for the message. We appreciate it. Premier Ebe, and we've got some other colleagues here. And if I don't introduce them, I'm going to be in big trouble. So my colleagues, George Chauv and you got to stand up because I know you're George Chauv right here, George Chauv. We got Janet Rutledge, Emma LaBernaby North, Janet, Parliamentary Secretary of Labor, got my good friend, a great champion, Ann King, MLA, Burnaby Dear Lake, Minister of Advanced Education. All right, and we're just about to get into it. What you've been waiting for, the awards. And first of all, before we get into that, and I'm going to introduce our performers, we've got a few nominees here, I believe. And we've got nominees from this last year. And because we've been virtual in the pandemic, I hear there are nominees from previous years. And this is the first time you've been able to come here in person, right? So I want to see all those nominees up, up on your feet. Let's see you. Everybody stand up. Come on. Here we go. Up. Let's see. All right. Here's our nominees. All right. Past and present. All right. Woo! Let's hear it. Yeah. Awesome. All right. OK. So next, I want to ask you to welcome. We've got a performance by the Bharata Natyam. And it is a classical Indian, a classical dance, which integrates stylized hand gestures, facial expressions, footwork, yoga, and universal emotions. So please join me in welcoming Sudhika Dance Academy to the stage. Come on up. All right. Let's hear it for the Sudhika Dance Academy. It's a terrific performance. Thank you so much. So this year, we received almost 200 submissions, nominating over 100 people, each one deserving recognition in their own right. Because you all deserve it, all the nominees are going to be receiving a certificate of appreciation in the mail. And I hope you know that your stories are nothing short of inspiring. And it's your stories of courage and resilience, taking on those hard fights and battles for dignity and justice in your communities that really inspires all of us. And so we're here celebrating tonight. I hope you also make friends, introduce yourselves to everybody at the tables, meet each other, network, and build relationships, and know that as you're after today, when you're in your classroom or you're in your communities, you're working. Maybe you're alone. But remember back that there are many supporting you, many friends, many networks, many champions. And I hope that that also sustains you in your each of your commitment for working for social justice. So it's your passion that's driving change throughout our province. And I want to thank also the nominators. Thank you. Without your help, we wouldn't be able to recognize the strong advocates in BC who are each deeply connected to this transformative work. And so to announce our award recipients and honorable mentions, I'd like to invite one of our Multicultural Advisory Committee members, Hira Rashad to the stage. Come on up, Hira. All right. And like our nominees this evening, Hira Rashad has quite an impressive bio. She's a social worker. Come up here, so let me say, yeah. Well, I'll introduce you on this side. Go here. Right in the middle. She's a social worker and educator from a Pakistani Muslim family. Among her many accomplishments, Mrs. Rashad has been working at the Ministry of Child and Family Development within the Circle 5 Indigenous team for the past five years. She also runs an online support service called Hemat Taqwat Sabra for South Asian families dealing with crises. At this time, as well, to join us for the awarding I'd also like to invite our Attorney General, Niki Sharma, to please come and join me on stage for handing out the trophies and congratulating the recipients. And now it's over to our Master of Ceremonies for the awarding ceremony, Hira Rashad. All right. Thank you, Parliamentary Secretary El-Mor. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. As-salamu alaikum. My name is Hira Rashid. And it is an absolute honor to be here this evening. I'd like to start off by saying Ramadan Mubarak to anybody observing Ramadan coming up, as well as Noru's Mubarak to all of our Persian friends here, and give a shout out to the Women's Life Freedom Movement happening in Iran right now. Because as we know, freedom for one means freedom for all, and they're doing a tremendous job fighting for their freedom. All right. So I will begin by sharing each category and a little bit about the category the award is in. Then I will announce the winners and give a little bit of information about the winners, and welcome them up to the stage to receive their award, and then say a few words. Then at the end, I will ask all of the Honorable Mentions, the nominees, and the winners to come up to take a photo with P.S. El-Mor and A.G. Sharma. So the first category is the Intercultural Trust Award. This award is given to outstanding organizations or individuals for their work in building intercultural trust and understanding or reducing racism and hate between communities. And for this category, we have two recipients. The first recipient is Karelia Madalia, who works for the Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society of Prince George, also known as IMSS. They have created an anti-racism support network for the Northern communities, which offers free legal human rights training with an emphasis on connecting the Northern communities to share resources with one another. So please give a round of applause to Karelia. And another round of applause. I just have no words. I just want to say thank you for everyone that supported my work all of these years. It is very important that we work towards a society that is free of discrimination, where there is equality for everyone. I'm just super happy to be here today. And thank you to my friends and family, my community, and my organization. It means a lot to me. Thank you. And our second winner in this category is the Greater Vancouver Japanese-Canadian Citizens Association. Since 1989, the association has worked within and outside of the Japanese-Canadian community to offer allyship with other racialized and marginalized communities, to provide advocacy and education and anti-racism, human rights, and social justice. Karey Sakayama is the president of the Greater Vancouver Japanese-Canadian Citizens Association, and she'll be providing remarks on behalf of the organization. So please welcome Karey to the stage. Oh, wow, thank you. What an honor. My name is Karey Sakayama. I'm the president of the Greater Vancouver Japanese-Canadian Citizens Association. And this is probably, in my opinion, the most prestigious award in BC. I stand here as a testament to those who came before me and paved this way, dedicated their time and energy for us all in this room to be here. Given this gift, the GBJCCA has committed to a mandate of advocacy, human rights, and social justice for all. We facilitated a community education workshop on the experience of Japanese and other Asian-Canadian LGBTQ2S+, trans-community members. We've offered Zoom education sessions on anti-racism 101, Indigenous experience in BC, anti-racism in Vancouver, downtown East Side, and the model minority myth. In 2021 and 2022, we hosted four in-person gatherings throughout BC to consult our community about race-based data collection. This was an important first step for the Ministry of Attorney General and their goal of creating anti-racism legislation. We are a steering committee member of the Act to End Racism, and most recently, we have called upon municipal, provincial, and federal governments to deliver timely, effective follow-up to the 231 calls for justice contained within the 2019 final report on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. In closing, I just wanna say we will continue to shine the light in the darkest of areas. We will continue to oppose hate in all its forms, and I would like to say how fortunate I am to be surrounded by some really, really wonderful troublemakers. Thank you. Shout out to all the troublemakers. Wow. Thank you both so much and congratulations once again. For this category, we also have two honorable mentions. So when I call your name, please stand. The first honorable mention is Sabrina Bojani. Are you in the crowd? There you are. Sabrina is the principal and head of School of Richmond Jewish Day School. She has over 12 years of experience as a school-based administrator leading transformation and innovation and cultural competence in both public, private, and K-12 educational settings. So let's give her a big round of applause. And our second honorable mention is the South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services. So if anyone from the organization is here, if you could please stand. There you are. Please come on up. This is a nonprofit organization providing a range of free settlement services to newcomers in 16 languages. That's amazing. It's posing for pictures. Congratulations to everyone in this category. Thank you so much. Okay, on to the next category, which is the Breaking Barriers Award. The Breaking Barriers Award is giving two outstanding organizations or individuals for their work in tackling systemic or institutional racism and reducing barriers for marginalized communities. We also have two recipients for this award. Our first recipient is the Indigenous Women Outdoors. Indigenous Women Outdoors was created to specifically address systemic and institutional barriers preventing Indigenous women and gender-expansive community members from accessing and enjoying the land for healing and recreation. Through guidance and membership, participants are offered training and certifications to feel safe out on the land as well as become leaders in the outdoor industry. They've addressed a critical gap in this industry, the presence of Indigenous folks, specifically women and gender-expansive community members in the backcountry and in outdoor recreation. This is particularly important for host nations whose land has been occupied by uninvited settlers engaging in economic extraction, development and recreation on unceded territories in the Sea to Sky corridor. Several of their programs and certifications are offered at a reduced or entirely covered cost of entry to alleviate any barriers to their participation. So I would like to invite Michelle Lobo from the organization to say a few words and a huge round of applause for them now. Masi Cho. Michelle Lobo Hushier. Yellow Nives, DNA First Nation. Hotsasie. Thank you very much. My name is Michelle Lobo. I'm from the Yellow Nives, DNA First Nation and I'm the co-lead for the Mountain Biking Program for Indigenous Women Outdoors. Our mission is to reclaim space for Indigenous women and gender-expansive community members to become the next generation of Indigenous leaders in the outdoor industry. We strive to eliminate all barriers in accessing activities like skiing and snowboarding, backcountry touring, hiking, trail running and mountain biking. We do these for Indigenous women living on the unceded Squamish, Lillawat, Slewa Tooth and Musqueam Territories. The outdoor recreation industry is beginning to recognize that intersectionality is necessary and that when folks don't see themselves represented, they don't feel welcome. However, representation is only one part of the issue. Indigenous peoples and minority groups face economic, social and accessibility barriers that prevent them from pursuing outdoor activities. We break down these barriers by providing mentorship, coaching, access to equipment and a safe place to learn. Through our programs, we have helped Indigenous women gain valuable training at certifications in avalanche skills training, mountain bike coaching, wilderness first aid, all of these things that are giving them the tools and knowledge that will make them successful leaders in any outdoor industry. Not surprisingly, we see our members return to their communities and use these new skills to give back to the Indigenous youth or return and actually lead our introductory level programming. We are continuously inspired by our community and we hope that this propagates within the greater outdoor community. Thank you to the BC government for the recognition of our hard work. Thank you to our partners and allies. You have made our programming possible and accessible. We are extremely grateful to our board members and our program leads for taking so much responsibility and donating your time and efforts. And most importantly, we wanna thank our participants who have trusted us to lead their experiences on the land. Whether it's tackling and taking that first step into a new outdoor activity or you're just starting to reconnect with your culture, IWO wants to know, wants Indigenous folks to know that neba hoa, you are welcome here. Masi. Thank you so much. And for the second award recipient, we have the battered women's support services which provides education, advocacy and support services to assist victims and survivors as part of its work towards the elimination of gender-based violence and to work from a feminist perspective that promotes gender equity. I would like to invite Angela Marie McDougal who works at the battered women's support services to come up and receive the award as well as say a few words. This is so wonderful. It really is. It's so wonderful to be here with you all. And it's wonderful to be here and to be able to be here with this incredible team, the team effort, this work that we do to end gender-based violence and to do that from a perspective that grounds us in an understanding of systemic inequities that include anti-racism. We certainly wanna thank our nominators who are amazing and all the other nominees who I know are doing incredible work and each and every one of you that is standing on this front line of anti-racism in order to redress harms and to create a path, a safer, healthier path for us as people and to address hate wherever we see it. At battered women's support services, we center anti-racist practice in our anti-violence work. The founding women at battered women's support services recognize that gender-based violence does not only take place between two individuals in isolation but rather in a social context and in a worldview that systemically reinforces the power of some people to oppress others through race, ability, citizenship, sexuality and gender. This is why we work from an intersectional anti-racism and decolonial feminist perspective and that on the front line every day we hear from survivors from racialized communities, indigenous survivors, black survivors, immigrant, refugee, migrant survivors, racialized survivors who are not only dealing with intimate partner violence, domestic violence and sexualized violence but are also dealing with abhorrent racism that is in within the systems, within organizations and within law enforcement and every aspect of the state. And so we stand each and every day in solidarity with communities of color all across this land and across the world and we know how important it is not only tonight but every day to link arms and to stamp out anti-racism and stamp out racism and hate as well as gender inequity wherever we see it. I'm so honored to be here with this incredible team and we have amazing team members that are watching and we are here with you in solidarity and look forward to making a world that is safer for each and every one of us, thank you. Thank you so much to both organizations. I think we can all agree that women are the cornerstone of community growth and community healing. So just one more big round of applause for these amazing organizations for the work that they do. In this category, we also have two honorable mentions. The first individual, Shanae Prasad. Shanae. Shanae is a leader focused on supporting communities through an anti-oppression lens with a specific focus on anti-racist strategies and tools. And our second honorable mention is Asiya Robinson. Asiya is a program manager for the leading change for resilient communities program based out of the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Center Society. This pilot program prioritizes bringing anti-racism education to rural communities and workplaces across BC. She is also a co-leading group of Muslim women in the multi-phase project to address instances of Islamophobia with the support of the cities of Vancouver and Saanich. So thank you so much, both of you, for your hard work. How are we feeling? Wow, I can't hear you. How are we feeling? Woo! Awesome. So on to our final category, which is the Emerging Leader Award. So this award recognizes youth and young adults aged 15 to 30 for outstanding work in the building intercultural trust, tackling racism, and reducing barriers for marginalized communities. And there is one recipient of this year's Emerging Leader Award. So please join me in welcoming Aria Law. After witnessing verbal racist attacks towards seniors, 15-year-old Aria Law was inspired to connect seniors and youth by selling cultural food with anti-racism themes through a website and social media. She's also facilitated community conversations on racism and produced a video about standing up about racism. So Aria. Thank you so much. Good afternoon, Premier E.B. Attorney General Sharma, honored judges and guests, parliamentary secretaries, Janet Rutledge and Mabel Elmore, and British Columbians. At this time, I want to recognize that I live on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the Halkumelum and Omesh-speaking peoples. I am inspired by their resilience and healing. My name is Aria Law. My traditional Chinese name, Liu Ante, was given to me by my late uncle, my grandfather. Ante is from a famous Chinese poem by Du Fu, who prayed for equality for the masses. I was named for hope, hope for shelter, hope for all, not for ourselves alone. These ideals are my aspirations that I want to share. Thank you, PS Janet Rutledge, for the nomination. I am honored. On behalf of all our youth leaders at the Canada Caring Community Alliance, I receive this 2023 multiculturalism and anti-racism emerging leader award. My community has witnessed increased racism and violence towards seniors and families, affecting all of us. We want to give voice to the racialized seniors in care and at home. Racism hurts and we call out these crimes. We will heal, we are resilient, we will continue to build a caring community. I continue to work to heal from my nightmares and turn them into strength, courage and hope. The Canada Caring Community Alliance is a growing, diverse community of seniors, families and youth of all races, genders and backgrounds. It was created to give a voice to marginalized seniors in care, to triumph over racism with kindness, patience, empathy, integrity and love. We will move past barriers to inspiration and keep on moving forward. So connect with us on xiaotzu.com and on Instagram at xiaotzu underscore official to heal, cry, hug.  I would like to thank Rykelter, Joe Levine, Nicole Bernice, Alicia Bella-Claire, Maya Tyler, Erica Ethan, David Dillon, Brenda, Jeanne from BC Dumplings Fest, parents and especially my Paul Hall grandma. We could not have served without all of you. Again, join us, help us, connect with us on xiaotzu.com and on Instagram at xiaotzu official. Together, we can make a difference. So remember to baubo, you're la-la, hug your grandma. Thank you. We have another upcoming leader in our community, amazing. Another round of applause for Aria. It's really great to see the new generation step up and work so hard to make change for the future. We now have two honorable mentions for this category. The first one is William Canaro. Can you please stand up and come up on stage? There you are. William currently sits on the boards of the Cathara Philpino Indigenous Arts Collective Society, the Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Society, the Mabuhay House Society and works as an organizer for the Joy Street Action Network. And our second honorable mention is Jelena Mitchell. Does she hear what that's today? There you are. Jelena is a remarkable 12 year old who has been doing anti-racism work for the past five years from the age of eight in her school by teaching black history and anti-racism. Jelena was motivated because she saw herself being treated differently by both classmates and teachers. She felt if others were informed about her heritage they would be more welcoming, less judgmental and less discriminating. She started out by doing PowerPoint presentations every week for Black History Month. This year she spearheaded a research venture in her high school to highlight the influential Black people and pioneers in Canada. With her spare time, Jelena volunteers at the African Heritage Association of Vancouver Island Youth Council. So thank you both to Jelena and William. Thank you to you both for your amazing contributions to bettering our world. So one big round of applause to all of the winners and honorable mentions. I would now like to invite all of the winners and honorable mentions to come up onto the stage for a photo with A.G. Sharma and P.S. Elmore. Congratulations once again. Congratulations to all the award winners, the honorable mentions and all our nominees. Awesome and incredible. Now were those some inspiring speeches or what? Okay, wow. Awesome. These are our advocates and leaders who are each taking on racism, fostering diversity from their own unique and valuable perspective. Thanks to all the nominees and award winners, past and present, and your work is making a difference every day. I also want to thank all the other individuals, organizations and volunteers throughout BC who are working hard to advance equity in their communities. We're all in it together. And I know our next speaker is a strong advocate for equity. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to my colleague, the attorney general, Niki Sharma. Hi, everybody. It is such an honor and a privilege to get to work with P.S. Elmore. And I know her passion for anti-racism has been longstanding and strong. So thank you for all your work that you're doing in the new role. Let's give her a round of applause. Hi, everybody. What a beautiful audience. I can see you through the light and I see reflected in this audience, British Columbia and all the stories and strengths and work that you are all doing is quite amazing. It's really nice also to be here in person with all of you and share this space. I can feel the energy and I can feel the positivity and it's just nice to celebrate you. I want to congratulate all of the award recipients, all of those that were nominated, all of those people listening from across the province that are there to stand up for people in their communities and to use their voice against racism wherever you are. And we just are so much stronger as a province because of you, so congratulations. So as attorney general, my focus is making life more fair and equitable and just for everyone. And I know that's something that we all have in common. And I've been in this role for three months now. It's been quite an amazing three months. The first time somebody like me is in this role and when I walk towards my office in Victoria, I see on the wall pictures of the past attorney generals coming back from the very first time there was attorney general in BC was a province. And I think about how different they are from me. And I also think about all of the laws that they enacted, all of the policies they stood for, all of the barriers they put up for people of color and indigenous people across this province and how much work we have to do. And what it means to have me in this role and the work and the responsibility I take on from being in this position.  My parents, like many people in the British Columbia, came to hear from India. They settled in a very, very small town. And I got to see what it was like to start a fresh life, face the barriers of racism, oppression, thinking about building a new family in a new country that was strange. And I take a lot of inspiration from that, the what I saw from my parents, but I also know that that's the story of many of us here in BC. I see in the room reflected people from across this province that have their own stories. I want you to know that your work on the front lines of advocating against racism, of using your voice to build your communities up is inspiring to all of us in government. And I know that it requires effort on a daily basis. I know it requires building up community. It requires pointing out racism and doing that courageous work of calling it out. But I know that because of all of you and those listening online, you are standing up against it. You are saying not here, not again, not now. And without that work, without that combination of all of your voices across the province, we would be a very different place. And I know that there's many obstacles in each of your stories. There's many challenges. There's a lot of inspiration in the stories that I heard tonight. And I know it's so important for us to come together and to honor that work, to celebrate it, to make it known that in this province we are gonna stand up to hate every chance we can. We're gonna fight against racism.  We're gonna do the hard work to build an inclusive province for everyone. And I want you to know that your efforts matter and you're all making a difference. I hope that tonight fills you up with that energy, the solidarity that you feel in this room, and helps you take on that next challenge in your community and to work with us in the important work that we have to do.  So thank you very much. We also understand, and I wanna spend a couple minutes talking about this, the work that government has to do. I'm very privileged to be working with PSL more in this portfolio when it comes to anti-racism, but under the Attorney General's office, anti-racism is part of my work. And I was so glad that when Premier David E. B. appointed me as Attorney General, he put in the mandate item, in my mandate letter, to work on reconciliation with Indigenous people. Such important work that we're doing in the province, and I take this commitment very seriously. One of the greatest challenges that we have and opportunities that we have is to figure out how to remove the oppression of colonial laws on Indigenous people across this province and uphold their own laws and ways of being. And I know that part of that work means, a lot of times, getting out of the way of Indigenous leadership that wants to do things for their communities and supporting them when they're doing that. And I know, for example, that the justice system has been a source of oppression for many Indigenous people, systemic trauma, racism, and colonization through that system. We're working in partnership with First Nations across the province for their First Nations justice strategy, and we're making progress, but I know we have lots of work to do. We're setting up Indigenous justice centers across the province, and we'll continue to make sure that we're doing the work necessary to make that work a success. Unfortunately, and you may have heard this from the Human Rights Commissioner's recent report, there's been a rise in hate crimes, particularly through the pandemic. And we know that our BC Human Rights Tribunal has been facing more actions, more people than ever are speaking up and bringing claims towards discrimination and hate in this province. And I'm pleased that we gave them more funding, 4.5 million to help support with that work and making it easier for people to stand up through our justice system to address the hate and discrimination they feel or may have experienced in their communities. Those are some of the things we're working on along with the work that PSL More talked about about changing our laws to address systemic racism. I want to thank you. And in closing, I want to say that I know this work can only be done if we work together. And what I see in this room and what I've heard tonight is the inspiring stories of true leaders in their community that are willing to roll up their sleeves and work with us to get rid of racism in this province, to tear down those barriers where they exist, to shine a light through the data legislation to where racism is showing up in our systems. And I'm just so grateful to celebrate this day of International Day for the elimination of racial discrimination with all of you. And I'm really looking forward to the work we're gonna do together. Thank you very much. Awesome. Thank you, Minister Sharmer, for sharing those inspiring words for us and your leadership taking our province forward. To close us out tonight, friends, I'd like to invite the Korean Traditional Art Society back to the stage. All right.  And, all right. Coming up, let's welcome the Korean Traditional Art Society. Awesome. Thank you to the Korean Traditional Art Society for giving us not one, but two fantastic performances today. All right. All right. Before we close, friends, I'd like to thank everyone who's been involved in putting on these awards. I want to give a special mention. You've seen them all. I'd like to introduce our ASL interpreters. We've got Imran. We've got Farah and Sarah right here. Thank you. Thanks for your great job. And we've enjoyed the great hospitality and food that's so important to bring us together. Let's thank the hotel staff for all their hard work. I appreciate them. And I want to thank your public servants, all the members of the Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Branch. These are public servants working for you, working for us, working for British Columbians on the front lines supporting you, doing this anti-racism work. Let's recognize them. Stand up. I know they're all in the back. They're shy, but they've worked hard. And they're here committed to you working together for this work. So, our Attorney General mentioned this is a night to celebrate for all of you to connect, to come together, to recharge each other, and in the words of just the great work done at the Battle of Women's Support Services, solidarity, standing in solidarity, friends. And so, we're gonna wrap out this night because you deserve it and you've done the work. And so, I echo the call in solidarity to what, to rise up against injustice, to take a stand against inequality, to come together and all of us working in our lives and in our communities, in our capacities to bring an end to injustice, to dismantle systemic racism, to say no to violence, and to stand together for what? For respect, for honor, for justice, for dignity, for a British Columbia that we deserve and that we wanna be leaders around the world. So, thank you, friends. Thanks for all the work you do. And let's go forward and continue with our journey, all right. All right, enjoy the rest of the night. Thank you.


In this video, we are going to prove that if from an external point P of a circle tangent segment Pt is drawn and The secant Pab is drawn secant is something that intersects the circle in two points It's basically a line. So if Pt and Pab are drawn then there is a relationship like this P a times Pb is equal to Pt square and we need to prove this How do we approach this? We approach this by proving some triangles that we see in this figure as similar first and We have constructed some chords as well So we had Pt and Pab so we joined t and a and t and b to get two chords And we will make use of alternate segment theorem to prove triangle similar But which triangles are we talking about? We are talking about triangle Pt a and Triangle Tbp. So which is triangle Tbp? It's this bigger triangle. It's this bigger triangle Let me just quickly draw the figure. So this one and the triangle Pt a is this smaller one I can draw it like this and We are going to prove that these two triangles are similar That means their sides are in equal ratios and their corresponding angles are equal first of all I have this angle Tpb or Tpa common between both of the triangles I'll just mark it here. So can I write angle Tp a to be congruent with angle Btp? Yes, remember the order of points that I took to write Tp a so I chose the middle one first Then we went to P and then to a so similar thing can be can be done here angle Btp So angle Tp a is congruent with angle Bp t and the reason for this is that this is a common angle What's the second element that I can find which will prove that the triangles are similar Another angle that I can talk about using alternate angle theorem is that if we look at the chord ta and Pt is the tangent. So the angle made here shown in orange angle atp so angle atp is going to be congruent with The angle made by the chord in the alternate arc And this is the alternate arc and the angle made by that chord in the alternate arc is this angle Pbp and reason is Alternate segment theorem now if two corresponding Angles of two triangles are congruent then the triangles are similar So can I write triangle Pt a is similar to triangle Pbt And now since these two triangles are similar their corresponding sides are in equal ratios And so therefore we can write P a divided by Pt should be equal to Pt divided by Pb And so from this relationship if we just take this ratio and cross multiply We find that P a times Pb is equal to Pt square and this is how we have shown this result to be true


Hello, this is Ross, also known as Teacher Toolkit. This is a short presentation about three important pieces of research that I am currently involved in. Now, some of you may care, hopefully you do. I would imagine the vast majority don't, but there you go. These are the three pieces of research. On the left, verbal feedback action research, where I'm hoping to share some work across seven English schools, where when teachers talk to people, they have same or better outcomes, particularly with disadvantaged students. I'll go into that in more detail shortly. The image in the middle, I'm picking my doctoral journey, looking at social media, particularly Twitter and how it influences education policy. On the right, of all the schools that I've visited over 100 plus in the last 12 months or so, I've identified 10 very different schools across the UK, and I'm sharing some of the insights. This short presentation looks at all three. The first one, tweet me your thoughts, use our Teacher Toolkit and hashtag verbal feedback project. The first original proposal, I shared this on Twitter in 2016, and very quickly I gathered 110 schools in six countries without really understanding the difficulty that that would cause for myself to collect the data. But the original proposal was to challenge that written feedback is the most valuable type of feedback in a classroom, and particularly how in terms of high accountability for teachers working in state schools, that it always was then required to be evidenced to show progress and that people's were acting on what teachers had said. Of course that needs to happen, but you can get lots of silly ideas as a byproduct of that desire. So I gathered all these schools very quickly after three or four months of trying, and I got way out of my depth. So then I, by chance on a visit to UCL down in London, presented the proposal and they backed me and funded me. So we're currently conducting the verbal feedback research and development project. So this alongside the UCL, the widening participation project with a couple of academics there supporting me. So we've got seven schools, but let me just go back as to why this started. So my passion with Teacher Workload first started about 2013 when Nikki Morgan, the English Education Secretary of State at the time, produced this workload challenge report. And you can see the particular top two, recording input in data, and excessive depth of mark in detail and frequency. And on my travels, I've polled about 15,000 teachers on that workload question. And marking comes up time and time again in any type of setting, primary, secondary, independent or international school. So it's confirmed my belief that we need to drastically reduce teacher workload in terms of marketing feedback. And although some schools that I've visited have the best policies in the world, I think what examination bodies require teachers to do will trump all of our best intentions. So I think we probably need to look at reform at a higher level beyond just the school organization. Other reasons, so this research from colleagues at Cambridge, comparing state schools and independent schools, both teachers in different settings will work typically 55 hours per week to keep up with their workload. But the key difference between state schools and independent teachers, sorry, state teachers and independent teachers is that state school teachers are often asked to complete meaningless tasks. And you can see there the monitoring of marking exercise books was the top result. I'm always surprised how few people understand or even are aware of the Department for Education workforce census in England. So some quick statistics, there are 451,000 teachers in state schools today. There are about 350,000 qualified teachers including myself who are not working in schools and that data goes back 10 years. But this data here on the screen goes back 25 years. If you look on this right column here, you'll see typically 20-ish thousand teachers enter the profession every year. Now last year was the first time ever in this data collection that more teachers left teaching than entered. It was only by a few hundred, but it's the first time it's happened. And my worry is that looking at perceptions on social media that I suspect we may have more teachers leaving the profession this academic year. So this will be July 2019 than those entering. And then you can see the data that goes over the each year. So me, I'm off the scale there 25 years. I was about a 38% chance of staying in teaching. I've signed posted Malcolm Gladwell's book there Outliers. You may have heard the comment 10,000 hour rule bastardized and misinterpreted. But if we just take that as a ballpark figure for a full-time classroom teacher who works 750 hours per academic year, you're looking at about 13 years of teaching to reach what Gladwell would call mastery or really master being secure in the classroom. But we know we often hear that teachers leave within the first five years. Well, that sounds bad when we hear that on on the news and social media. But actually, when you dig into the details, the greatest attrition is in the first two or three years. Obviously, we don't want to promote that to the world. So these are the reasons why teacher workloads are serious issue. So my objective. So with the UCL support, what I would like to do is challenge perceptions, particularly of verbal feedback or written feedback to do that to reduce teacher workload, to develop a group of teachers and schools to gain expertise, not just in critical research and to be more engaged with research, but in verbal feedback approaches. And the teachers involved come from a vast range of subjects. And the particular criterion here with UCL is looking at disadvantaged schools and pupils that are underrepresented in higher education. So how are we going to achieve this? Well, we first of all started by constructing a reflect, ask, investigate, innovate model for research and development. We wanted to start with what do we know about effective professional development? During this process, the asking investigation stage, we looked at an impact framework such as this one, we fixed the baseline, we collected data, we decided on a research question, which I'll show you shortly. And then we wanted to consider what would we want to know about at the end, as we start through the research. So with things like types of evidence, the pitfalls, the risks, the ethical risks, those types of issues. And then we when we meet back in May, so I'll show the time frame shortly, May 2019, we'd start to make a tentative claim about the resources that I've shared with the schools and then consider how we would transfer this knowledge to a wider audience. So these are our seven schools, we did start with 10, but we've lost three along the way. So I'm confident these seven will significantly, when this research comes out, make a huge impact on the profession. So we've got schools all over the place, wide demographics, number of pupils on role, but here's a map for you so you can see where they're located. So we've got a couple in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Milton Keynes, Warwickshire and one up in Batley and Leeds. So when I wasn't there with Mark Quinn, the academic who's been working with our teachers, they developed this research question. Now I've circled here engagement, which is potentially a poor proxy, but we would have since defined this, since I circled this image on the right, but this is the research question, to what extent does available feedback implemented for two terms improve student engagement amongst disadvantaged pupils? So we're looking at years seven, eight and 10, so it's 11, 12 and 14, 15 year old students. Of course engagement we can define as outcomes, attendance, behaviour, participation in class and examination outcomes, but we can get into that detail as we go through the project. Here's just some images of when we first met, talking about workload and ideas and then in these two or three images here, I was working on particular techniques and forming the research question and ethics to then take back to our schools. These are the dates where we're at, so we've already been together three times, so the next time we meet we'll be in May and then we hope to report findings, look at data in July and then disseminate it with the rest of the profession in the start of the next academic year, so I'm very excited about that. So that's the first piece of research. Number two, so if you want to tag to your thoughts, so use at teacher toolkit and reply with a hashtag ed, so eddoc edchat. So this is my current focus, I've written about this on my blog. I'm very fascinated not just how Twitter has enhanced my professional development, but I think I've surpassed that level where I've started to observe not just myself, but others start to influence education policy. Now my original intention was to look at 35 OECD education jurisdictions and obviously that's a lifetime's work for many people, never mind just myself, so I've tried to narrow, narrow, the focus and look at just England. My supervisor, so Professor Stephen Watson and Mark Carrigan, Dr. Mark Carrigan, we are, my current focus is looking at these four things and this stems from Professor Stephen Watson first writing about me and his observations of my influence on my social media journey in a book called Flip the System UK and I first wrote about my own journey in a book called Education Forward and Stephen tackles this dialogue in these four approaches that we have social media providers with freedom of speech, so democracy, it also provides us with a platform to learn from one another, so a source of scholarship, but then you can see as people grow with influence or particular themes, how it can steer activism and bring people together in terms of solidarity, so you could argue that this is potentially shaping teacher dialogue, the purpose of having a teaching union and so on and so forth, so this is where I'm currently at, this is the research and practitioner development framework first designed by the Open University and at the top here I'm pretty much kind of about here still and I need to start to narrow my focus, that's where I currently am, so I'm looking to tackle my methodology over the coming three or four months, so why do I want to do this? Well I want to demonstrate that teacher voice, teacher professionalism is shaping the narrative, I'd still have a ballpark figure about 10% of teachers using social media, so I gauge this from my own social media research as well as on the ground in skills, you'll always get a mixture of lots of teachers using Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and Facebook and Twitter, but Twitter's generally in the minority still, many more teachers are on Instagram and Facebook and obviously they have different social tools or purposes which then generate different types of usage, but I'm looking at Twitter because it's a conversational thread and I've got my own evidence as well as observing others and you can see almost on a daily basis on Twitter in all aspects of life, never mind just in education, how grassroots or individual people as journalists or reporters are influencing policy or policymakers and there's a term called microcelebrity, so it was first coined in 2001, if I take you back to when Big Brother first started on the telly or we look at various teachers that might be viewed as edgy Twitter celebrities, this is the actual academic definition of microcelebrity, so someone being well known in their field even no matter how niche it is, so I'll talk about that in a bit more detail, for me in my own journey this is my 10 years of my background in design, so this is me branding myself, so you can kind of see my banner from my website, how my ID logo has evolved from my photograph or using keep cam carry on and then evolving this into the red branding and then how my websites on the top right have evolved throughout the last seven or eight years to what it is currently today, teachertalkit.co.uk, my audience, so I always wrote for myself but you can see I started with one follower, one reader, my purpose was just to write for myself as therapy but as you can see over the time it's grown up to 208,000 readers in last month, so typically six to seven thousand daily readers, so you can kind of see that this is a habit now seven or eight years later where it's gone to there's just another way of looking at the data, so over nine million views, 12,001 days, so it's nothing huge compared to big organizations but for a mere humble blogger and individual it's pretty good data, this is my analytics, so this is just the snapshot of last month, so nine million people saw my tweets which is frightening, it's a huge responsibility as well as a real privilege to be able to be followed or listened to by many people but it's now not just me, I've grown a team of bloggers and freelancers who help make the website work for a good eight years of my blogging life, I was a full-time school leader, deputy head teacher and trying to do all this on top of being a deputy was unsustainable, I used to go part-time, went through all the ups and downs of workload and trolls and all sorts of things but you can see here how this has evolved into people that kind of make the site grow and through conflicts of interest companies wanting me to share their work led to conflicts of interest but also I guess accidental income and obviously if I return out from work five or six o'clock at night and then have to blog about a company or tweet them out that was extra work and I was sitting sometimes at my desk till midnight and obviously it was a choice but when I started to realize having lost my job before I started all this it was a great way to make an additional income and pay the bills and so here's just a kind of indication of income it's about a year old this slide shot but it has significantly grown since then so when I made a decision to step out of my full-time job and do this I knew that I didn't have to I guess quite privileged to rely on an additional income from the website so it allows me to have a wider impact and start to have an influence at other levels so I'm kind of unpicking this for my doctorate throughout the whole process I've been involved with lots of copyright issues for myself of others I've been sued a couple of times so it's very interesting countless troll attacks or critique so here's one from a colleague who's criticising me for having premature ejaculation not knowing that I had a premature child and lost another baby and so you can kind of see sometimes people's feedback hurts so I've learned to deal with troll attacks and what I've found is when you're well connected people often expose anonymous ID so that it has a purpose and yes we should be challenging of one another but when it starts to get personal when well particularly in education when we have to kind of call those things out and other things I've learned throughout the way so G. Harley John is an student of my school so when you have an international story reach your school gates how you deal with the social media impact of that is quite a challenge so that was a very very interesting period in my teaching career as a school leader and that's influenced a lot of my work so what I'm hoping to do is look at how over the last 10 years what are the key moments been in my Twitter journey so I've been blogging since 1999 when one web page took 30 seconds to load but when Twitter first evolved I created a personal account then at this point I created a professional account I separated the both so we've got at Ross McGill at Teacher Toolkit and then what I hope to do and articulate it partly a monologue to begin with with my doctorate is look at how I've perceived influence or how I think I've influenced or how others have influenced education policy and by the time I finish my doctorate you know if it's six years long so that's where there'll be the ending point hopefully sooner than that and but I've also looked at Rutgers University me and former so something called the Kardashian effect a Kim Kardashian millions and millions of followers she is clearly an influencer but now because of her influence she's now not viewed as an expert on climate change but she still has to comment on that or even if she doesn't she'll put out a personal comment and then obviously it would cause people who are the experts somewhat disdain if misinformation is being shared but millions of her followers would believe that that is the correct information so Rutgers University tackles me and former where people are self-focused retweet me please more followers selfie selfies versus an informer which I would probably first attribute my first journey as creating resources sharing ideas building that content talking about other people's work as well as my own retweeting others I think that probably largely attributes to why I've got quarter of a million followers I've done lots of reading academic reading as well as just general books this is probably one of my favorites that I would sign post to people Twitter power by Joel Conn and Dave Taylor and they talk about these four principles and I always put the analogy if your post man or woman knocked your door you obviously get to know them and like them over time you start to trust them so if they suddenly put out a book of stamps in front of you and ask for a dollar or a pound to buy them you probably would because you've got those hallmarks in place so when it comes to online relationships we need to ask ourselves well I like that tweet I know teacher toolkit I it's a source of information that I trust and maybe the every five or ten tweets when Ross shares his book I might buy that book so I work on those principles and over time that's evolved into a social media plan so to speak we're trying to follow a certain methodology without overbearing my social channels with too much of one thing I've started to play around with uh netolithic and many others again I'm probably going to stop this because I haven't quite narrowed my research of where I want to go but this is just a social map of the term knowledge rich which is currently a popular term used for curriculum dialogue in English schools state schools so this kind of looks at key organizations and all these little arrows and dots are connected to other people um let me just delete these two images here so you can kind of see a group of people and how they're connected and then I can start to track how often they tweet about it and who is controlling that dialogue so it's very early days but whether I look at my own journey or key pieces of information such as grading lessons grading schools off-steads framework knowledge rich curriculum remains to be seen okay my last piece of research um so again tag me at teacher toolkit and use the hashtag just great teaching this is about my new book now I wanted to put to good use my experience of visiting many many schools over the last 18 months what are the top 10 key issues that all schools face across Great Britain now if we take funding away because every school has to deal with funding then what are those issues so I'll share those shortly but this is what I want to do to shake perceptions of British education yes it's important to look at Finland and Shanghai and other places but there's so much that we already do within that's great nothing particularly politicians need to celebrate that more so I want to highlight the challenges to showcase how schools deal with those challenges to provoke politicians and bias but also shape my own narrative if you're familiar with my own journey my last experience was quite brutal um has put me off quite somewhat about returning to school leadership and I want to not deny that narrative because it's common for many teachers I'm conscious that my influence on might be shaping everyone else to view that British education's in a bad place in some cases it is in other cases it isn't so I also want to kind of start to move my own narrative away from what I would probably call a toxic situation over the last two or three years so how am I going to do that well obviously this will be my fourth book so I've learned to develop a framework of topics headings word counts so that I can try I can't scroll this live screen here but um this document here um but I've written 60 000 words I now need to edit it throughout March 2019 ready for publication in September these are the books the books the schools um so 10 schools a prune independent school in Scotland an independent school in England boys school girls schools the oldest school in the country prime schools a school in the middle of nowhere in trogarian in west wales um some great schools here selective and non-selective areas sorry non-selective school in Kent in a selective area and so on and so forth so these schools all here um thank you to all the head teachers and school leaders involved a real mix of independent boys and girls number of pupils on role and these are the schools and where they've identified what they think they do really well and these then inform the topics for the books so the framework for the book is here's an issue that all schools face why it's an issue here's five ideas from me and here's the school talking about why they do this one thing really well and this is what the head teacher says and in each chapter will be summarized by various people so I've pulled out some data so I've got 10 head teacher responses and I've got 300 teachers with a bit of data so this is the challenges and strengths so the current strengths that the head teachers highlight is dealing with pupil mental health curriculum teaching and learning special education needs and disabilities and lesson planning you'll see here in terms of purple pupil mental health current debate social media exclusions knife crime is what head teachers would consider to be the greatest strength where they have the most confidence there's no strong orange line here apart from teaching and learning cpd so I've looked at the red line pupil mental health and special education needs where they lack confidence with the blue bars so planning s en and research led practice which seems to be a pattern in other places so the challenges so it's dealing with pupil mental health then research led practice I'm looking at the orange here in fact doing this I think I might have got that typed up wrong so I will edit that so I'm not going to reshoot the video so I'll reshoot that and post the live slides on the blog teacher strengths so the dark purple pupil mental health is the strongest then we've got a mixtures s en and behavior and then teaching and learning as you'd expect the group large tallest green bar where teachers identify the weaknesses the dark blue you're looking at research led practice and teacher well being managing their own well being and so I find that quite interesting two more teacher confidence where our teachers most confident well it's teaching and learning and lesson planning as you would expect the dark blue where they lack confidence is research led practice teacher well being pupil mental health and special education needs and what are their challenges so what they find the most challenging is would be their own well being and as well as pupil mental health but where they can cope or don't find it challenging is is what you would expect lesson planning and teaching which matches the previous question I'm currently looking through the book covers and coming up with design so it's a nice part of the design process which I really enjoy and so it's 10 chapters 50 ideas 10 school voices and it's out in September and I hope to share it all around the country in lots of conferences so I'm going to finish there I'm Ross thank you for listening that's my verbal feedback project my doctorate social media journey and my insights from visiting schools all across Great Britain you can get in touch with me at support at teachertoolkit.co.uk and read more on teacher toolkit.co.uk thank you for listening and yes send me your feedback thank you


It's been a hot and humid opening day here in Jakarta, the B&I Indonesian Masters, the 11th edition of the tournament and some exceptional scoring. Not unfortunately by the defending champion, Sarat Sawanarut, who did set up a birdie here at the 12th, but it was one of only two he made all day. A 74 is 3 over par. The best placed Indonesian is Jonathan Wijono. Didn't quite manage his birdie at the last, but he hold out for par. And he's on 68, 3 under par. Gun Charankul is one better, this along birdie putt at the 8th. The tie around in 67, 4 under par. Patrick Reed is making his first ever visit to Indonesia and clearly the former Masters champion enjoyed himself. He didn't drop a shot, five birdies. One of them set up by this splendid tee shot at the 7th. It's been good to see Jazz Jane Watt at an on finding some form again after a horrible run of 13 missed cuts in a row. This is second into the 13th. How unlucky was this? A 66 for 5 under for Jazz. The same score as Richard T. Lee, who played out of the bunker, turned his back, walked away and didn't even see the ball finish at the bottom of the hole. He was happy enough, though. 66, 5 under par. The same score as Wade Ormsby, who was in the very first group out this morning at 6 a.m. exactly. The early call was worth it. He's on 5 under. And Pachara Kongwatmae, so close in Hong Kong last week, played one of the shots of the day. The second into the par 4, 5th. Straight in for an eagle. But the man who leads after the opening round is India's Gaganjeep Bhulla, an 8 birdie, 63. Great golf, and he leads by 2.


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Let's do this Mike, I don't know if you've seen the The website right there, but there's a little filler break where we're giving away 10 spots in National treasures first off the line, but they do two of those fillers So once we sell the number one mini helmet break There's a link right there I just dropped then we have to do a second one and then we can sell out first off the line So basically we pre took out 20 spots. That's why it sold out so quick You know, I can always put back 10 spots if you guys really wanted to and sell 10 straight up and only to do one more filler But I feel like you know that might take a little longer.  I'm not I'm very positive that if it doesn't go tonight or go tomorrow. Oh for sure. Yeah, yeah I just got to check back in every once in a while. Like I said the break schedule is always there for you guys So if you see it on there, you know, most like this in a break tonight If you don't see it, then it's probably not or because I just haven't went through orders yet But I said, I'm pretty confident it doesn't go tonight. It'll definitely go tomorrow and I'll be back tomorrow. I believe two o'clock should be same time and you know It's already what 11 o'clock almost in the East Coast. So, you know, some people going to bed already And join the last enjoying their during the last couple Last two days of just maybe off working back to work on Monday. So I'm sure we're enjoying Did you see a kaboom? Oh, thank God if you did So just like all the other ones guys, I'll be playing. I'll be penny sleeping some of the biggest rookies, of course the other, you know a abes or, you know We'll just put to the side and we'll all penny sleep, you know top of those stuff later Just to continue on Tua Well, I mean we're due for one I feel like I mean there's no guarantee that there is one in this whole case But I mean I've done a case a couple cases of this stuff and there's always been at least like one or two In a whole case Anthony Gordon CD alarm introductions People's Jones Herbie and Jefferson Lynn Belden There's color here though and it's Kenneth Murray to 199 Steven Montes T Higgins Jalen Hertz Hi, I was either she's young this goes that moss Joe Burrow Chase Claypool Oh All right, so this dagger here guys little pennies leave those later. Let's put them to my right over here Our next one Antonio Gibson All the receivers like they come back to back to back to back You get like CD lamb KJ handler Denzel man's All that good stuff Herbie that is a exclusive green foil Exclusive only to retail That's a nice one right there for the AFC West Darnell Mooney Jaylen Rager Joey B Nate Stanley Sorry chase a young Willie Gay jr. CD alarm introductions Brown and Ayug Donovan People's Jones Jeff Ocuda foil CJ Henderson Joe Burrow little Herbie Ben Jefferson Kenneth Murray Thanks, Nevins DJ Dallas Justin Jefferson Johan Jennings JK Dobbins Camakers Buzz buzz what's going on man? Yeah, you know, I was out for a couple weeks with COVID and much better now and Able to come back to work So definitely happy to be back. I missed Miss work. I mean, I don't know how many people can say that but I definitely miss work and breaking free guys And you know miss the hobby All right third box guys Rex honestly man, I wasn't really Wasn't really kind of tended to with too much sports So you're telling me that the wreck the Cubs are talking about letting everyone go like like Darvish and Chris Bryan and all those guys are I haven't really kept up with sports the last couple weeks Go to the nationals Are the Nats just showing more interest in him? I mean man him on the national to be pretty crazy. Oh Didn't even know Rex. I didn't know Darvish was gone already. Whoa out of 35 Nate Stanley. It's a nice looking car Yeah, what's it? Yeah, you made me a more asymptomatic buzz buzz. Yeah, I mean, I thankfully got I Thankfully didn't have to go through too much Just more of the flu like symptoms, you know cough consistent cough just wouldn't go away and Really really fatigued just just felt super tired Um Dehydrated and stuff like that, but you know other than that I mean didn't hit me so hard, but the first something that I got was just like how to clear my throat like I didn't I Was just like, oh, you know, I'm just maybe it's a little something and then the next morning When I woke up with a sore throat, and I was like, all right, I mean I have to play it safe You know, I can't just assume that it's just a little cough or a little cold like Can't assume nowadays, you know, you got to make sure because I don't want to I didn't want to pass it on to anybody You know when me and my wife woke up that way That Wednesday a couple weeks ago, or just like, you know what we're gonna go get tested and You know Ended up testing positive. So, you know, we just had to quarantine and I said now I'm negative I'm pretty much everything's gone, but I still have that little cough every once in a while I can't just quit to shake off, but you know doctors say that's just gonna take some time But yeah, I would have loved to like get some type of antibody test before I mean This I've not that I've never felt this before so I know I'm this might have been my first time because like I said I've been pretty safe throughout this whole like last nine ten months, but Still managed to you know, so I managed to strike How's Joe Phil ball this I haven't talked to Joe in a little bit either, but man Padres, I got some pitching now Joey B I Jefferson green foil All right second half of the third box Gallimore Clyde Edwards e-lair Is a Simmons green foil to a I It's pinned right there rig if you want to check it out, but just another pack break after this and tier one Are the only other two breaks that are sold out? Jeff Ocuda No, where is rare?  I mean are we are we nervous about him or something? You know, and I know Brian Flores is like It's coaching has been pretty good though, right? I mean when he feels that too is not gonna do well Let's just put in Fitzpatrick and then Fitzpatrick just takes over But then to it comes in and starts the next week and then does well you know I mean remember he's still a quarterback of the future guys and especially with Fitzpatrick out You know, I think he has COVID this week. I mean, he's gonna have to take over like I said, he never know Nice, right? Yeah, well, if you buy them in the first one at least You know, I always advise to get them throughout the whole case if you could of course I know it's a little pricey, but he's a guarantees to me. It's but hey, you get them in that one break I hope I get you a tool in that first break You know, obviously besides to him and his other great other good rookies and then I'm sure there's some damn Rainos in there and you know, other great legends in that Miami Dolphins checklist. So Might not all just be about the two of For anybody that gets them All right guys last two boxes I'll rip them all together All right, it looks like Ray did get the dolphins so You can add a macular football pick is your number one Two boxer to the schedule after tier one So it might take me about another five ten minutes to get this done I'll be done by like eight ten You know, I'll blow the video up around the labels We'll do the pack rake that would shouldn't take me more than ten minutes What's the tier one should take me about fifteen twenty minutes and then You know after that we should be Should be breaking that before nine if anything Be on the safe side Anybody 45 Oh Yeah, well right now it's tight again, right? It's the game I have on actually I think texting them just tied it or potentially a PTA PTA PTA way I should say Yeah, I mean 10.5 looking pretty good They might even win the game All right Four boxes. I mean two boxes here guys Good luck Tony Gibson we got a little Justin Herbert Patrick Queen T Higgins Camakers Justin Jefferson Jake from Nachi Zach Moss Joe Burrow chase Claypool It's a valid way, I'm sure some people still feel that way too But when we first, you know decided to do personals, you know, I was the one that first started it Instagram was just beginning to boom and you know, we got on at the right time and we established a pretty good audience over there You know, maybe we can multi Do multi-platforms in the future, but you know does really want Instagram to be honest I mean, I I think I realized why it does, you know, because Quick on the go you hop on just like the app like YouTube, but quick Instagram you pay for your box your pack It's not a crazy line, you know You do it like that and then You go on with your life, you know And people like that. But yeah, I sometimes some sites multi-stream, but like I said, I We've established a good crowd on Instagram and you know, we like it. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, you want to watch breaks on the TV That's true YouTube is only on one Instagram will probably eventually get there. I mean They've grown. I mean, I think they've realized that the their Instagram lives is just growing because at one point We had to restart the stream every hour now. It's like every four hours four or six hours So, you know a little by little they're integrating But you know, maybe we can do both in the future But like I said, we we like we like the Instagram how it's grown with us and have a great established audience So I think if anything is just like how you said maybe just multi-streaming and just having them Someone on YouTube or having the YouTube stream exactly on With Instagram so that way doesn't take away the Instagram crowd, but maybe adds a little YouTube crowd We're just so busy over there. It has to kind of be separate. So yeah, we'd have to have like a separate YouTube channel All right, also guys, we did get that color card. I was Deandre Hopkins to 149 David McKinney To a talk of Iowa I Makers foil green our last box right here guys. I'm hoping there is a good boom in here as well So there's no no guarantees, but let's hope here This last little box right here And they see some color Vaughn Miller to 199 so four out of our five boxes did have some color which is an improvement Those just have to be pulled out and it's not that big of a sort Thank you JK Dobbins T Higgins David McKinney fire was either to a This Javon kind of a beast as well Jeremy Chen Camakers Green foil. I lost that right here guys. Good luck CD lamb Kj Hamler Justin Jefferson Buzz Watkins Jacob B. Sinjer duty CD lamb Kj Hamler dental memes And the last stack right here guys. Good luck J. Bluton Play pool It's a playful rookie Jaylin Hertz AJ Dylan Tom Taylor AJ Tyrell Gregor Albert all Jordan love the viscous Zach Moss and Joe Burrow All righty guys.  We did get four color cards including this nice out of 35 No, it's not the biggest 30th Stanley, but there's Deandre Hopkins Kenneth Murray Vaughn Miller And of course all of this big stacker here of rookies will be penny sleep right there later These are already penny sleep so they could be top loaded as well the bigger bigger rookies So there you go guys. That was absolutely fat pack break number seven random divisions on Jasper's case breaks.com