Hi, my name is Andrea and welcome to our weekly What's For Dinner video.  On our channel, you'll find simple and tasty dinner ideas using everyday ingredients. Hey guys, it is about 5.30 in the morning here and I am getting my roast ready for the crock pot. In my freezer, I had this beef arm roast that my parents gave us a while back ago. They bought part of a cow and gave us some meat from that cow. And I've never used a beef arm roast before to my knowledge, so I had to look it up. Comparable to chuck steak, chuck roast, which is what I typically use to make my roast. But it said that this beef shoulder roast is more tender than a chuck roast. So we'll see. But what I've done is I have sprinkled this Uncle Chris' steak seasoning on it. It is really good. And I am going to sprinkle a package of beefy onion soup. Normally I use Lipton onion soup when I make roasts like this, but I want to try something different. And then I'm just going to use one can of cream of mushroom soup. Now normally when I make roast, I like the Mississippi pot roast, but I'm going back to the traditional roast that I used to make. And normally I would put some onions underneath that roast, but I don't have any, so not going to have any onion today. But I'm going to sprinkle my seasonings on top of my soup. I just wanted you all to see what the roast looked like as is. And this roast was about 3 pounds. Okay, so now I'm going to cover and cook this on low for about 12 hours. I don't add any water, any broth, anything like that to my roast because that fat is going to cook off and it's just going to release its own juice. Okay, so here is the roast. I cooked this roast for about 10 hours and it is super, super tender.  And I used salt. And here is the rest of the roast in the crock pot. It's a bone right there, but you can see, I mean, it just falls apart and you see all that juice, all that gravy, all that fat. You definitely don't need to add any water to a roast. It will make its own juice. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight we are having something that I've had in my pantry for a while, this Etou Femix and it is very good. You add your own seafood or meat. I decided to add shrimp and all you do is add your protein and then you add a little bit of tomato sauce and then the contents of the package and it is delish serving it with some fresh broccoli that I just stir fried and some buttered bread. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight we are having pinto beans and smoked ham hocks over rice. I did record a video on how I make beans and I will make sure to link that in the description box. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight we are having breakfast for dinner. So I scrambled eggs in this ghee which I love. It's a clarified butter and then I also added some green onions and cheddar cheese using these biscuits from my fridge southern recipe and then we are having breakfast meatballs. I picked these up from all the, it's been I don't know, six weeks or so ago. They had the bacon egg and cheese and bacon egg and cheddar cheese which is what I picked up of course and they also had a maple version. I did bake mine in the oven. There are microwave instructions and oven instructions. Probably could have used the air fryer too but I just baked them in the oven because I was already baking the biscuits. Howard and I just tried the meatballs and we both said that the flavor of maple is pretty strong and I like maple syrup like on my pancakes and waffles but I don't necessarily want them in my meat. So probably would not buy them again. I mean they're not bad. We'll probably have to dip them in some barbecue sauce or something to kind of kill that maple flavor but anyway this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys so for dinner tonight I made Trader Joe's Kung Pao Chicken but as you can see I doctored it up a little bit. I did record a really quick video on how I did it and I will make sure to link it in the description box but this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards ripping 22, 23. Peninian Revolution, basketball hobby, box case break number 39. Pick your team style. Read off, Elizabeth. Our names and our teams got Aaron H with Clippers. Thank you, Aaron. Alberto P. Lakers, Allen G. Mabs, Chris J. Kings, Daniel B. Nets, Hornets, David U, Heat, David H. Wizards, Dawn B. Celtics, Justin M with the Rockets. That's gonna be Josh H. Nuggets, Carol K. Nicks, Kenneth L. Grizzlies, Mark M. Pacers, Jazz, May Z with the Thunder, Michael B. Sixers, Raptors, and Hawks, Richard G. Bucks. Robert S. Bulls, Warriors, Worry B. Magic, Russell P. Blazers, Scott T. Cabs, Steven G. Pelicans, Steven H. Piston, Spurs, Steven S. with the Suns, an order number 205, 600 with the Timberwolves. Good luck, everybody. Here we go.  That is the next break with a good amount of spots still available, nine to go on that. And then we'll be into football. Before we know it, we have Renaissance soccer breaking as well, looking for potentially four autos, maybe galactic notes, some stuff in here for sure. Channel two also is a bot lobby. Okay, so everybody. Yeah, loaded. If you want to get easy wins over there, buy a break in channel two, easy wins. So two bots we got over there, good lord. Jay Nive, that is Peyton Watson, Groove Rookie. Nuggets, base, base, and base. Again, always gonna be base on the back with revolution. A.J. Griffin, that Groove LeBron, base, base, base. So we'll just go through those base cards. Shockwave is J-Dubb. There's a K.D. on the Cosmic, the 99, the Nets. Base, base, and base. Just like Confrontation, Palo. Patrick Baldwin, Jr. Two at 75, Sunburst. Rookie for the Warriors, base, base, and base. Vortex, K.D. That is gonna be a Jamerant. Auto Chet Holmgren, Fractal to 100. There we go, Thunder. So I'm there for May. May-Z, go. Gorgeous Chet coming your way. Chet number seven, Astral Rookie. Base, base, base, base, base, base. Rookie Revolution, Jake Laravia. Luca Donchich. Oh boy, hot take. Here we go. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Chet's gonna win Rookie of the Year. He might, I forgot. He's still like potential to win Rookie of the Year if he didn't play. Kind of off thin, there's a Franz Wagner to 60 in the future frame. It's a good point, actually, Vaughn. It's a very good point. All right, box two, here we go. There's a Chet Rookie Revolution, A.J. Griffin Baruch. Steel of the Draft, A.J. Griffin. Of course, gave me some A.J. Griffin colors yesterday. Christian Brown. He goes to seize the Steel of the Draft. He's like, you know it. Shockwave, D-Book. Fred Manbley, Fred Manbley. New Rockets, $40 million a year guy. Josh Minnaut, Astral. I would, too. Looks like Drake. Hello, Liftoff. There's Scottie Pippin Jr. Frackle Rookie. Space, Johnny Diz, D'Angelo Russell. Space, Sam Wins Top Trash Award. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, HR, HR. There's John and Kominga to 99 on the Cosmic. That's gotta be an HR, Pile HR right there. Oh man. Oh man. Oh, 14. All right, guys, again, Crown Royale, nine to go. Here's a link for that. I'm not throwing that on social. Johnny Davis and a Blake Wesley Groove Rookie. Space and base. Again, always gonna be three base on the back. Rookie, parallel, potential auto or galactic, and then base on the back. Peyton Watson, shockwave, Frackle is Jason Tatum. Space, got shockwave, Cade, Miles Turner, on your astral for the Pacers. Leravia, astral, Rookie for the Grizz. Lease, Grizz Lease. Lipped off, Tatum. Frackle, Jayne Ivey Rookie, Spencer Dinwitty. Base, base, base. Julius Randall. Base, base, and base. What's up everybody on TikTok? How you doing? Kebari Smith. Usa Diabate, there's a Gordon Hayward Cubic to 50 for the Horns. Ex-Benedic, Cumbermatch, Matheran. Jalen Green. Rookie, Vortex. He's nasty though. He is good. He's really good. Zion Shockwave, but I'm sure I've ruined him for you. Yeah, I kicked him. You take him out of prox. Yep. Johnny Davis, Jalen Suggs. He's gonna leave. Kebari Walker. Oseman Zhang, Alcatranum. Josh Minot, Groove Rookie. And guys, Channel Two, All-Star Promo. Favorite Emma, I like the Yankees. I got my, I got my Didi Gregoria shirt on today. You red socks. Miles Turner, nice. I can't say much about the Yankees. There's Fort and Stink. Base, Stink. Both of those teams, Stink. Jammarant, nice one there on the lift off to 99. KPJ, base, base, base. Christian Coloco, Dyson Daniels to 149. For the Pelicans, 1K likes. Thank you all.  Appreciate you, buddy. Jeremy K, picking up two spots on our All-Star Promo. Let's go, Jeremy. Good luck. There's Dallen Terry, Astral Rookie, base, base, base. Bari Walker Fractal, let's say Rookie. With the Trailblazers. Oh, just sold a random Michael Jordan insert on eBay. I did, I did see Fridge today, Rich's Evil Twin. Jordan Poole, 100 million more than the Red Sox, fair. He is evil. He is, he is, there's something about that guy. Someone's got to stop that guy. Wendell Moore Jr., there's a Davion, Qubit to 50. Definitely wasn't, definitely wasn't. No, no, God not. Kind of resembled him, but you could tell something was off. Something was off for sure. Something was very off. Ochaik Bajie, there's John Wong, Astral. We got, wow, Luca Dodgecitch, Encard Auto, 49 of 100. Good Lord. Wow, who's got Talis? Alan G. It's an Encard, Lulu. Good gosh, let's go. Out of 100, we'll get that into a mag. Crats on that Talis. Yeah, the Evil Twin's got a bad left eye twitch, you can tell. It's Johnny David, Ziya. Not Rich, Lulu. There should be a lemon parallels, every time we call it a Luka, we could say Lulu Lemon. There's Nicola Jokic. That's great dude. Stretch the imagination for that one. That's what I'm saying. Thank you. I'm just here babysitting tonight guys. True, usually what happens on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Down's Harry, there's Darren Fox, for the Kings II at 60 on the Future Frame. Deontay Murray, just signed an extension with the Hawks. What's up, Edward? How you doing, buddy? Nice and Daniels. Carl and Anthony Towns. There's a Dallan Terry, Rookie Otto, on the Fractal to 100. Nice one there. Edward with a crown spot, thank you, Edward. Chad with two spots and CNY. Down to eight to go on crown now, everybody. Eight to you. Gotta get you a Kaboom, Edward. Shade on. There's X-Bended Cumbermatch Matherin on the Fractal. Not gonna ever forgive Luka for being so corny that I proposed on seven, oh, God. Steph Curry, Caleb Houston. That is corny. You can do that, though. That's true.  E.J. Griffin, still a draft, E.J. Griffin. Asheville for the Hawks. Osemane Zhang, there's John Collins, the new Utah Jazz member, but still Hawking this on the Tatum Vortex.  All right, again, guys, eight to go on crown Royale now. Eight to go. Let's get that filled on up. Royale.  So definitely some good potential in there. Pretty much a guaranteed Kaboom. Couple of silhouettes generally, usually at least one or two really good autos per case, ton of rookie stuff. Really cool vet checklist as always. The Cubic Christian Brown for the Nuggets, the 50, nice one there for the last spot taken, or second to last spot taken. Otto is gonna be J. Crossover, Jamal Crawford. That is the last spot taken for the Clippers, 19 bucks. Get yourself a J. Crossover, Otto. Not bad, love Jamal Crawford in his day. Former Hawke, former Hawke legend, Jamal Crawford. That is to you. Johnny Davis, Fractal Hortz, actually rookie. Don't talk to me. I'm gonna act like I didn't hear that. You heard it. Jamal, kind of random. Clay, Fractal and Watson. Kind of Lofton, Jr. Astral. I found out that I was fine. Johnny Davis, I have a really good one for Saturday night too. I don't know. I'll have to ask him if he saw it. He's in chat. Rich, are you still in chatter now? Christian Coloco. Boyan Bugdanovich. Watch the base there. Jayden Ivy, lift off. There's Jeremy Grant and base. All right, onto our last box of Rev here. Guys, good luck. Pink Galactic in here. No, probably not. We've got four autos. Probably not. Dustin with a couple All-Star Promo spots. Let's go, Dustin. Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh. I wanna check one thing here. Sorry, everybody. Good going on this last one. We still got a good amount of time on this anyway. Well, I have a Trey Young Rookie Revolution auto. I should have bought the Luka. The Luka's like 15-odd tricks. Keegan Murray Rookie. Trevor Kiehl's nice one there for the next two. It's 60, future friend. Chuck Wave, Keegan Murray Rookie. Is that Ryan Rollins. We got another auto. We did, it's a Caruscio. Alex Caruso for the Bulls. Bulls doubling down on autos now. Nice one there. It's the rare five-auto case. Rats on that Chicago. Neymar, Jean-Marinth, lift off Fractal. What are we on for dinner? Oh. J-Dubb. Pizza. Yeah, it's basically a pizza. Oh. Sohan. Marjan Bochamp. Chinese. Oh, that's, yeah, Chinese. Rookie Revolution, Jean. Marjan Bochamp, Fractally. You want to ask him after this break? Yeah. Some, you're getting hungry. Start getting mad at everything. Oh, Chai Khaji. Snap it to a Slum Jam. What'd you say? Snap it to a Slum Jam. Shockwave, KD. Karris Leverk. And they still a quick recap here, guys. Really, really good break overall. We had a Alex Caruso auto. A Jamal Crawford auto and a Dallin Terri auto to 100. We got a Chet Holmgren auto to 100 for the Thunder. I just actually noticed there is a little chip on the back there. I'm gonna send an empty box and wrap it with a Thunder just to be safe. And then a Lulu, Luka Donchich, 49 of 100. Encard Revolution auto. Nasty, absolutely nasty. I'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the build. Coming up next is gonna be number four.


What's up everybody, JZ here for Jaxby's casebricks.com 2022 Panini Chronicles football draft picks just sold out This is a four box break picker teams number one and again guys we're giving away a free box I either just buy two or more teams you buy two teams you get one entry four teams get two two entries six teams You three entries Etc etc But just again guys just please know obviously there is no checklist out whether it's officially from Panini Any more group or checklist any no one has a checklist out yet sometimes like this they just really do take a long time So as Nick is just saying though I think every team could be represented but as you saying just please note it might not be represented But I think it's just more like there might not be autographs for certain teams potentially just because we don't know So we're just warning you now of course And of course the reason why these teams are still being sold is for the promo So, you know a lot of these teams are only like $10, you know what I mean? So, you know basically getting a chance to potentially get yourself how much of these boxes? You know 150 right buying two ten dollar teams to potentially get some hits if there is any of course Autograph wise etc etc or you know using those twenty dollars teams or those ten dollar teams to invest twenty dollars into potentially winning a hundred and fifty dollar box So, you know still good a little risk right there and a nice reward potentially of course all courtship and again going to the current team have active since there is no checklist out team they play for the longest of retired and This was the one I was using here 2022 NFL draft picks so I'll drop the link in here If they're not drafted, then I'll look them up on wiki or online and if there are signed by a team That's what they'll go to what I'll probably end up doing whether there's autographs relics or not numbered cards anything That is potentially going to be not Affiliated with any team. We're just gonna randomize it in one lot and that'll go to like number two on the list Or that'll go so sorry. It's number one on the list number two if we were doing a second type of giveaway But basically we'll just randomize all the non drafted non signed players in one lot Whether it's autographs relics everything and then one person will get that All right, here we go guys, and then at the end we'll alphabetize the customer names We'll see who gets Entries into the promo and then we'll do the giveaway for the non numbered non Here we go Steve with the lines Last one Moja And we're eight and Hudson sends a big rookie there and obviously they're a speedy receiver. They just draft it as well now this is a case as well and This is our four box break. So we'll have at least three breaks worth of this or four breaks worth. I should say sorry so we're gonna pretend that these are in Four boxes here correct So let's pretend how that works there So this is a break. That's a break. That's a break and then this one over here is a break over here on this side So let's try to see if we can roll a number if I roll a five or six would you roll it into a one two or three or four? hold over here This can see on the top camera Three so we'll go with one two three.  I'm gonna kind of just like Throw lines on these Just so you guys know that they're from the same case and then Put these back here for Yeah, no 1.5 to 5 yeah, it's ridiculous And it's probably not even as nice as the house is probably you have and you probably paid like one fourth one fifth of that You know, it's crazy It is nuts. I personally I would like if I had the money and really I was just well Well, like I was just great financially, you know Except it's rich. I probably would live here. My wife wouldn't that's what I wanted her But I would you know But if I had just you know enough money to afford like a really really really good house I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't I Wouldn't live here. I would live in other cities around for a lot cheaper, you know This is the last night. This is the last one Islanders We're gonna do that break tomorrow if it sells out first thing Because it is gonna be like a 45 minute break and Got here like a two o'clock today. So I've been here for like about nine hours. So we'll do that tomorrow first thing If it were to sell out Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You paid for that like how long though, right? I guarantee your house is probably not worth that No more. It's probably double triple probably Easily it's probably like a four or five hundred dollars. I hope a four or five hundred thousand dollar house now probably James Skalski, so we'll look some of these guys up Paul and we got a baby zappie the 25 Go look it up on Zillow. I guarantee it's probably double-tripled by now You did great, man. So I know that guy's for sure new England Aiden Hutchinson. Wow, look at that last spot mojo Steve Eric with that one To 25 That's 25. Yes, it's 25 Sick right there. The college ticket of Khalil Shakur and redemption there Brian Erlach at a 49 absolute tool to the trade triple super prime autograph Devon Lloyd very nice and I believe you got drafted to Jacksonville. I always keep up forgetting I get some of these linebackers confused but Uh, David Lloyd. Yes Jacksonville Jaguars. Nice.  And that's what I'm saying, right you upgrade That's the that's the beautiful thing, right? It's like, you know, I mean, I'm not saying that you didn't think that that home Would have been your forever home, but I don't feel like I think sometimes for most people You don't really have to buy your your first home. It doesn't have to be your forever home, right? It could just be your like, you know, transition one, right? It's a nice house You start a family, right? If you have a family if you don't just eventually you kind of want to upgrade regardless So like, you know for you pulling the trigger on that, you know, nine years ago That helped you on now and now it's like doubled, right? You already paid off 10 years worth pretty much, right? You will But then You definitely use it for a new new houseman This guy, I think he was undrafted, but I think Brody told me where he played. I just totally forgot from the last break Colts, that's right.  Nice. All right, awesome. Awesome. There you go Tied a couple of these here Our next box I know that's the one thing we didn't know who's going to be on who, right? Especially this guy that went potentially like right undrafted like you wouldn't have known, right? You know, so Have a good night, man. Enjoy the bbq. Enjoy the hot tub to pull the family the good times I'm talking in. All right, cave on tipado My ducks they're going to the Giants to 99 Hamilton Tools of the trade triple relic to 199 I think how much it was gathered by balts Jaylen Tolbert Ray Lewis to 10 What's the Ravens? Malik Davis Which I believe we looked them up. He was actually a cowboys undrafted free agent running back And Justin Jefferson relic Of course, it's gonna go by kings Robinson Contenders college ticket autograph gold Wow Gold And why is this off? Wow, Nacobi Dean. That's awesome Whoo Very very nice Uh, who has that? Joseph does I believe yeah, he has my egos pick 83 We have as next box David El Javo or El Javo, which is Ravens David Bell relic No, Terry, we've seen a lot of undrafted to be honest First rounder, second round, third rounder, we pulled fifth rounders, sixth rounder, seventh rounders It's all over the place Steve Young to 75 Like David, uh, Javo was a second round pick Alec Pierce, which I think I looked at this dude too as well early or in the last break I forgot which team he's on Colts Isaiah Spiller Lamar Jackson to 140 miles In flight signatures blue And that's Jack Cohen And so Cohen was not drafted And quarterback for the Annapolis Colts Colts and Ravens man They freaking have so many players in this Look at this guy's a David Bell David Bell's a third round pick Uh for the Cleveland Browns Mack Jones to 49 Aiden Hutchinson nice Triple relic and autograph to 25 another great one for Detroit And that was last spot mojo Steve of that one kind of noise Definitely worth the 50 bucks or 40 dollars they were D.K. MacGabb color Phoenix to 149 Nice one redemption per box David Bell just got him right there as well earlier too Jojo Domen And again, this guy wasn't drafted. I'm trying to remember who he went to but I'll look at it for now Colts, how could I forget? And all these guys got drafted by the Colts or picked up Colts is going to call Isaiah Spiller It's the relic Nice Malik Willis Titans Got Kyron Williams Redemption time Let's see who this is Origins rookie autographs Charles Cross Let's look up see if Cross is in here Yes First round pick for the Seattle Seahawks Going to Joshua And uh Spiller Is a fourth round pick for the Chargers There we go guys So I'm going to tag everything that's autograph wise so should be going out to the correct team there The numbered stuff and I will leave that for the shipping team Just so the video is not even that much longer than it already is And then of course like I said here your other hits here numbered cards Now we're going to do two randomizers guys. We're going to switch scenes right now really quick We're going to do two randomizers First one will be for the giveaway for the box second will be for the Anything not affiliated With teams Right, so whether it's a base card or or anything if there is anything of course We don't know there is at least there's not going to be any autos we look those up But if there's anything numbered potentially Or like I said, you know anything base that is not affiliated with any NFL team that'll go to that one And then remember if you had to buy two or more teams to get entries into the box giveaway See who got in Aaron just got the Texan so I'm not there I don't cover me got four so that's two entries Why if we're just one don't want to joseph with two so that's one entries each for both of you guys Josh proofs with two and joshua and with eight so that's four entries And josh proofs are just the one perfect Kyle with two and ester with four so one entry in two entries That else with just one robert s with two Steve you had a great break the only one entry so not part of this terry same thing with you and victor It's a pretty good Oz right there. Roll the dice for both Three and a five eight times. Good luck one two three four five six seven eight Nester congratulations. You're at number one after eight times. You just won a free box Now eight times here on the non-affiliated stuff if there is any one two three four five six seven Minnesota vikings so Minnesota vikings if there is any which is uh, nester So appreciate it guys We'll do the next a couple picker teams tomorrow guys And we're back live again at two o'clock and we'll get those done jasmiescasebreak.com


Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Anderson and welcome to the Fort Report. It's getting hot outside so it's a perfect time for you and your dog to enjoy some ice cream. Bring your kids and pets to Happy Trails Ice Cream in the park at the Trinity Park Pavilion. It is a big party here at the Pavilion at Trinity Park and it is a day of fun for people to bring their dogs. We're going to have doggy ice cream. We'll have ice cream for humans as well but we'll have ice cream for the dogs. We'll have a dog costume contest, a dog trick contest, a lot of activities and games for dogs and their owners and for kids too. Very family friendly event. Just two hours from two to four so it's not going to be too overwhelming. Just about the time the dogs get tired of being here we'll be wrapping it up and we love for everybody to come out and bring their dogs. There is a small fee to get in but that includes your ice cream. It's four dollars for humans and two dollars for adults but that is ice cream included. Happy Trails Ice Cream in the park is a fundraiser for the Don't Forget to Feed Me Pet Food Bank. Don't Forget to Feed Me Pet Food Bank is the only social service in the Metroplex that addresses the need of people to be able to feed their pets. We collect and distribute pet food to deserving pet owners in the Metroplex. Our goal is to make sure that people do not have to surrender or worse abandon a family pet because they've fallen on hard times and cannot feed the pet. Since 2008 Don't Forget to Feed Me has collected and distributed over 200 tons of pet food to deserving pet owners in the Metroplex. The best way for people to get involved is to donate pet food to us. We have about 60 plus donation collection spots all around town. If they check our website they can find a list of our donation collection sites. They can drop off pet food at any of those locations around town. But don't forget to feed me's website to learn how to donate, volunteer, and to purchase tickets to Happy Trails Ice Cream in the park. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events you always can check the website.


Hello everyone, I got a brand new movie review for you guys today and today we're discussing the Cole Kimmons new film Destroyer where it takes place in modern day LA and this film is directed by Karen Kusama and written by Phil Hay and Matt Marifride. Now I wanted to say these names for one big reason because they did make a film a couple years back and that film is called The Invitation. If you've never seen The Invitation, might I say I think it's still on Netflix. Go search it out. It's one of the films that has a very sluggish pace to it but by the end my jaw was on the floor with some of the revelations that this film portrays and with that said I was looking forward to Destroyer because of the people behind the screen and because of the people in front of the camera where you got Nicole Kidman, you have Sebastian Stan, you have Toby Kebel, I mean this is a great cast and again it takes place in modern day LA, it's about a cop, crime thriller investigation to it and we haven't really gotten a crime cop film this year which is kind of nice and Destroyer kind of feels that void for me. Now again, I'll be flat out honest, I'm a little bit disappointed in this film, doesn't mean I didn't like this film, I still thought it was good but I was expecting for this film to be great or even excellent but I found the film to be good and to be fine in that fact but one of the big portrayals and one of the big pros for this film is Nicole Kidman. I've been saying this for quite a while especially within this year is that Nicole Kidman is kind of finding these nice little strides in the back half of her career lately where she takes on these roles that are very different to her but it gives her the most stuff to chew on and most stuff to kind of do within this role and I will go as far as say I think Destroyer is one of the best performances of this year and might as well be Nicole Kidman's best performance of her career and I really do mean that. One of the reasons being is that she transforms into this character that she becomes. There wasn't one point in time where I was like that's Nicole Kidman and it wasn't just because of the makeup and the prosthetics but really it was looking at her and just how she embodies this character. If I didn't know she was in the film I would have never known she was in it and I think she did such a good job in this role portraying this cop who just has a lot of horrible things with her in her past that you do start to go throughout but man it was it's unique her performance and I don't think a performance has been this chameleonized since Jake Gyllenhaal within Nightcrawler which is nice how that took place also in LA but I think it's nice and I love seeing these kind of LA crime thrillers I think kind of works for the feeling and I like the tone of the whole film I like what Catherine Kusama did with the direction with this movie it always kept me intrigued with what was going to go on but that's one of also my minor gripes about the film even though I was intrigued about what was going on I never felt invested I never got gripped on put your seatbelt on you're in for this ride and throughout the whole entire film I was sitting there I was like alright if this something big happens at the end this film's gonna grab me and pull me and just kind of like the invitation and the whole film was waiting and I was waiting and I was waiting and I was still intrigued and certain things happened I was like that's cool that's cool this is awesome let's keep going hell let's chug along okay it's a little slow here it's a little slow here alright let's go on let's get past this subplot let's get past this subplot and it just never hit that thing where I was like that's the moment don't get me wrong there's some great moments in here but this is very much more about a character study than more the story that's going on and don't get me wrong by the ending I was like oh that's cool because the story structure is actually very unorthodox it's it's different flashes back here and there and sometimes it gets a little bit confusing but by the end I was like oh that's that's actually really cool that they did that again it never grabbed me even though the direction was strong and the script was good it just felt the movie was slow and I feel like there was more needed to it there's a couple subplots in here that I feel like could have been a little bit written out I think they do contain some good things about it but I just never again was invested I was intrigued but never invested and in the end I found myself being a little bit disappointed the story has one of the best performances of the year within Nicole Kim and probably giving the best performance of her career but going again the direction strong the script is strong at times but a little bit sluggish at the pacing and some of the subplots I feel like could have been completely written out and weren't needed for the overall arc of the story maybe for the overall arc of her character it's definitely an intriguing film it's a beautiful looking film at that some of the shots in here are outstandingly beautiful and again it does have a really haunting score and a great sound mixing and sound editing came out destroy a bit disappointed especially coming off the invitation the guys haven't seen the invitation please go search it out but again if you're intrigued to see the story I do still recommend checking it out in theaters especially if you want to see one of the best performances of this year that is Nicole Kidman's performance and sure I don't think she'll be nominated I feel like this film is going to go kind of under the radar with all the other big films coming out but still it's worth checking out guys so with all that said I'm gonna give the story a C-plus know what your guys thoughts are on to destroy have you guys seen it have you not have you checked out the other film invitation I was talking about earlier let's talk about it down below in the comments and guys also if you guys are new here and you guys want to check out some movies early go hit up sandwich on films also down below because that's how you guys can get into those you know also check out some movies and even some movie reviews but guys of course until next time stay class


As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. MashaAllah, I see some familiar faces and I see some new faces. It's so nice to see you guys. Alhamdulillah, welcome. So inshaAllah, we're gonna start today's program with story time. We have two books and we have two activities. So I'll tell you all about the activities after we start reading, okay, inshaAllah? So to begin our story time, inshaAllah, I'm gonna start with this book called Secret Recipe Box. It's written by Hilal Mosleh. So for those who weren't here last time, the way that I read a story, I will open up the page and I will read it, but before I turn the page, I will give everyone a chance to see it. So if you can't see it really good while I'm reading it, don't worry, I'll give you guys each a turn to see the page, okay? All right, Bismillah. Let's start. Bismillah, rahmanir raheem, secret recipe box.  Today is special because I'll be seeing my grandma after a very long time. We are picking Teta up from the airport. Does anybody know what Teta means? Exactly, Teta is another way to say grandma. We are picking Teta up from the airport and helping her move into her new home. Here's the secret. Our new home is actually our house because we'll all be living together. I'm gonna ask Teta to teach me how to cook Palestinian food. My dream is to have my own cooking show someday. I try to practice in the kitchen at home, but my baby brother Sammy is always ruining my recipes. Does anybody else call their grandma something different than Teta? You call her nani, that's one. Nani. You also call her nani? We have a sito. Same thing. Same thing, sito, oshallah. Nanu, oshallah. Say it again. Mama. Mama, see there's so many names that we can call. Do you have another one? Mama. Mama. See, masha'Allah. Does he want it? Do you want to say what you call your sito? Nanu. Nanu. See, masha'Allah, there's so many amazing names to call our grandma. At the airport, Sammy wants to hold one side of the welcome sign I made, but I pull it away because I know he'll crumble the edges. We wait and wait, watching so many faces and suitcases zoom past. Finally, there she is. Her long dress swishes as she walks and her eyes light up when she sees us. Mama, Sammy, Teta says, you've grown so much. She holds us tight and kisses our forehead. On the way home, Teta peers out the car window. I point out the library and park on our street. The small grocery store where we buy our spices and halal meat, and the woman's gym where my mom exercises. What's that place, Teta asks, when we stop at a red light? It's this place that serves warm food for free, for those in need, Mama answers. I look at the long lineup of people waiting to get inside. Some of them aren't even dressed warmly. I shiver just looking at them and zip my jacket all the way up to my chin. At home, Teta pulls Sammy and me into her lap for another tight hug. I feel the small hard beads on her colorful dishdasha rub against my cheek. Dishdasha is another word for a Palestinian dress. After drinking a cup of mint tea, Teta pulls a faded wooden box out of her suitcase and runs her hands over the lid. All my secret recipes are in this box, she whispers to us, and some special memories too. I've been saving them for my grandchildren. How does what? How does the grandma hug so tight? How does the grandma hug so tight? Because she's so happy to see you and she has so much love for you, she just wants to squish you. Wow, my cooking dreams are starting to come true. I can already picture my popular Palestinian cooking show airing on the food channel. I quickly grab the box and hold on to it tightly. I don't want Sammy to think we're sharing this. At night, I fall asleep with the recipe box perched on the nightstand right next to my bed. I can't wait for tomorrow. I think it's glowing because it's extra special to her. So it's lit up, let's find out. The sun has barely risen when I wake up to the sound of shuffling in the kitchen downstairs. I grab the recipe box and I raise downstairs in my PJs. Sammy is following Tita around in the kitchen. Good morning, Mahat, Tita says. Shall we make some of my fame with this bread today? Yes, I say instantly rolling up my sleeves. Sammy jumps up too. My hair. I heard that Tita has white hair, yes. The white hair will glow on the day of judgment, inshallah. First we start by filling a bowl with flour, says Tita. This is just the way my mom taught me. I dump the flour into the bowl and a white powdery cloud floats up and tickles my nose. Next, Tita says we add some yeast and salt. Then we slowly pour in some warm water and a bit of olive oil. I dip my hands into the bowl and feel all the goopy ingredients ooze between my fingers. I mix and squish everything together until it forms a big ball of dough. Tita tells me to knead the dough with my knuckles to make it soft. So kneading is when we massage the dough till it's a good consistency. Now Tita says with a smirk, move aside and let me work my magic. I look on an amazement as Tita rolls out the dough and then expertly spins it in the air until it looks like a flying saucer. We pop it straight into the oven and Sammy peeks through the little oven window to watch the dough balloon up. Has anyone ever seen that when dough is in the oven and it poofs up? It's kind of a cool thing to watch, isn't it? Sammy looks like he really enjoys it. This smell reminds me of the big clay oven my mom used in our village of Atil in Palestine, Tita says.  But if they smelled the bread, did that mean you had to share, I ask? Of course, she replies. We were happy to. Our village was like one big family. No matter where we lived or what troubles we faced, we always found ways to share what we had.  It has beautiful red thread sewn across it. My sisters and I used to sew these wonderful patterns on our clothes. The pattern represents each of us coming together as one to create something beautiful, something special. I look over at Sammy and I wonder if we could ever work together like that. Back in the kitchen, we make more of Tita's recipe using the fluffy dough. We spread an olive oil and sautéed mixture on some pieces of dough. We sprinkle halum cheese on others. Then we cover some of the dough with ground beef, pine nuts and tomatoes. Sammy is dropping ingredients all over the counter, but he has a huge smile on his face so I tell him he's doing a great job. While we wait for the oven timer to beat, Tita shows us some old photos of her village.  They look just like Sammy and me. We pull the different golden puffy breads out of the oven and impatiently wait for them to cool. Then we break off bits and pieces of each kind. Tita dips hers in hummus, but I like to eat mine plain. As we rub our full tummies, we look over at the piles of bread lining the kitchen counters. I think I made too much, Tita says. I'm used to sharing with a lot of people. Do you guys ever do that? Do you make too much food at home? Yeah. Never? Yes. Do you? Oops. Later as I help Mama scrub the dishes, I think about how Tita shares so much. Her secret recipes, her bright memories, and her tight hugs. The cold tap water runs over my hands and sends a shiver through my body. I remember the people I saw lining up outside the soup kitchen. I dry my hands and race to where Tita is sitting. Tita, I say. Your mom's bread filled your village with an amazing smell and she would share with everyone, right? Can we share our bread too? Tita grins. Without saying a word, she gets up, puts her jacket on, she knows exactly what I'm thinking. Who knows what she's thinking? Raise your hand if you know what she's thinking. If you don't, it's okay, we're gonna find out. Baba drives us to the soup kitchen. There's still a bit of flour on our clothes, but we don't mind. We ask the manager if we can share some of our bread and he says yes. Sammy and I hand out Tita's delicious baked goods. It looks like everyone loves them. The manager shakes our hands. Please come by anytime with more of your grandma's delicious breads, he says. In the car, I rest my head on Tita's shoulder and look at Sammy. I'm glad we're all together and I can't wait for our next cooking adventure. Look at her TV show now. What does it say? Tita, maha, and Sammy's Palestinian feast. It's no longer just mahas feast. Alhamdulillah. Did you guys like that book? Yeah. What is something that you think we learned from that book? We learned to share. Yes, we should share. We should share with everyone around us. What are some things that you guys do to share? Good, you share your toys? That's a good thing. So my dad gave me these black bags. Okay. And I had to offend some of my favorite boys that they didn't understand what we were doing to store. Masha'Allah.  Yeah, I'm actually absent to the poor. That's really nice, masha'Allah. I'm gonna go back there.  Most of them come with a remote.  These are great, great things that you guys are doing, especially during the month of Ramadan. Masha'Allah. That's excellent, masha'Allah. He donated $10 to Feeding America so they could help feed the poor. I can repeat it. My food, share everything. You're gonna share your food? That's a good one because that's one of our activities today. We'll talk about it in a minute. Yes, we could share our money with the poor people. So I'm gonna do one more today for this question. Go ahead. You donate your toys, masha'Allah. That's excellent. You wanna share one more thing? I have a question. You have a question? Okay, I'll explain, masha'Allah. Okay, one more. Go ahead. I like him with markers. What? He shares his markers. Masha'Allah. He shares his markers or his art supplies and that's what I wanna hear because we're gonna be sharing some of our supplies outside today. So I'm gonna talk to you guys what our first activity is today, okay? But we're gonna do our second story before we do our activity but I wanna talk to you guys about it since it's about the book. What we're gonna do are, this is one of my family's favorite recipes. They're called date balls. They're very yummy. I love date balls. Me too. Who likes rice crispy treats? Almost everybody likes rice crispy treats, right? You haven't tried it yet. Well, this is kinda like rice crispy treats but instead of marshmallows, it's got dates in it. Yes, we have to be very cautious or we have to make our own but we don't have to worry because I made them. So we're good, masha'Allah.  They're called date ball dowa kits, okay? Because we are gonna give them to our neighbor to teach them about Ramadan and about Eid. So we have this nice little printout and it talks about Ramadan. It says happy holidays and it teaches them about what we celebrate because we have a village, right? And Islam teaches us that the best of us are good to our neighbors as well, right? That the good amongst us are good to our neighbors. Sorry. Yeah? I think we're gonna use this to make it. We are. You can close it for now because we're in the masjid and we don't wanna make a mess inside. But we're gonna save it and we're gonna do it outside.  You see? Two of these sets. You'll have everything you need in your box. Your mom or dad, whoever registered you got one. Exactly. They'll give it to you when we head outside, inshallah. So it has your cards, it has your bags, it has the cupcake liners, it has gloves. So if you guys don't wanna get messy, we have gloves in here and then we have the date ball mixture and the shredded coconut. The way that we're gonna do it is you get a piece kind of like Play-Doh and you roll it into a ball. Who likes to roll things into balls? Oh, it looks like all of you, perfect. Alhamdulillah. So after you've rolled into a nice ball, you're gonna roll it into the coconut and cover it. So it looks like this. Then you're gonna put them in the cupcake liners and put them in the bag, inshallah. Don't worry, me and the volunteers will be outside and we'll help you if you guys need help, inshallah. But I just wanted to show you before we read our next book. And then you can hand these to your neighbors, inshallah. So what if that book is a little too long? It's not. I read the longer book first for you. Do you have a question? Go ahead. Well, you know what? That's okay because I gave you guys probably enough for you to make some for yourselves as well. So you can make two for each of your neighbors, one for each side and then anything extra, you get to keep for yourself, inshallah, okay? We tried to make sure that you guys had enough leftover for yourself as well. If you don't have one, what? If your parents should have, don't worry, inshallah. Okay, we'll talk about it after, okay? Come talk to me, inshallah. So now, what's next week, you guys? What is this? Are you doing this next week? It's on May 2nd, inshallah. Inshallah, if we see the moon, inshallah. It's May 2nd. So are you guys excited for it? Yeah. Yeah? So we have two things that we're doing today to kind of get ready for Eid. One is the kits we're gonna give to our neighbors so that we can share, and the next thing we're gonna do is do a little Eid decoration. Next week on Saturday. Next week on Saturday, I'm gonna be seven.  That's a very good age. It's the age that you start praying. You should have a celebration. All right, inshallah. We're gonna start with our next book to get ready for Eid next week, inshallah. It's called Tis the Night Before Eid, and it is written by Yasmin Rashidi. Do you guys know that she's my friend? The author of this book. Yes. I know her from when we were young. Tis the Night Before Eid. She did a very good job, masha'Allah. Do you still know her? I do. I still know her. Do you still see her? I still do. See her. Okay, we're gonna get started. What do I do when I begin? Masha'Allah. Thank you. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Tis the Night Before Eid. Ramadan has gone past. It's days filled with blessings that fly by too fast. Fast. They fly by so fast. They go too quickly by. The last iftod has been eaten, dishes packed away, and tomorrow will feast to celebrate Eid Day. Teraweeh has now finished. At home we will stay. No more trips to the masjid at night time to pray. That one makes me sad. I love Teraweeh. I don't want to come to you again. It's so nice to come to the masjid. Yes. Well, for Teraweeh we'll come next Ramadan. But we'll come back to the masjid, insha'Allah. For other reasons. The house has been cleaned. The clothes have been pressed. Mama says Eid's the day to look our very best. We all size is a week. Do we? Yeah, but this week we're gonna give a little money or a week. So your family has different traditions. Desserts have been baked. Ma'amul is so sweet. We can't wait to dig in to such a tasty treat. Ma'amul, Ma'amul has dates in it, kind of like our date balls we're making today. Eid clothes are laid out on the dresser with care for an early morning to make it time, to make it on time for prayer. We kids are all sleeping, snug and warm in our beds with visions of presence dancing around in our heads. The pictures look pretty. Yes, they're so vibrant bright, colorful. We fasted so wonderfully for 30 days straight, not eating till sundown, then breaking fast with a date. Who knows what they're saying? We talked about it earlier. The prayer. Allahu Akbar. They're doing, well they're doing the adhan. We did it with the spear. Mama in her hijab recites her last line of the Quran sent down to mankind as a sign. It does. The whole book rhymes. Yes. I like rhyming books. Baba in his thawb stands once more to pray, begging Allah to bless and guide his family's way. Ramadan has ended, but its spirit lives on, in hearts cleansed by mercy and the words of the Quran. It got stuck on me. The night will go quickly and then we'll come dawn when sleepy eyes open and tired mouths yawn. But right now we all sleep, tucked in our beds tight.  Yes. Very observant, masha'Allah. Yes, they realize when they see the moon. They look happy. That's them on a day. They look very happy, alhamdulillah. Who's excited for Eid? Me. Oh, masha'Allah. It's very good to be excited for Eid, alhamdulillah. And it's also very good to appreciate and love every day of Ramadan. That's a very good question. So I knew about it because she posted and so because she's somebody I know. And I mean, in general, I will buy any book that is supporting Islamic authors, alhamdulillah. So I bought it. Okay, insha'Allah. So because Eid is coming up, we like sometimes to put up some decorations, right? Yeah. So we're going to make these Eid banners. And you can't see it now because it's very bright in here, but they're actually going to light up. You can see it. Good. You guys want to make one? You can hang it on your door, on the wall. Yeah? They light up. Okay. That's so nice. Alhamdulillah. You can decorate our rooms. You can decorate downstairs. You can talk about it with your parents and see where you guys want to hang it, insha'Allah. But we'll make these nice Eid banners. So this, to make this one, we're going to get into paint. Okay? You guys want to paint? Yeah. Right? For moms and dads, there's actually a video tutorial to give you guys a heads up on how to do it. It's a couple minutes long. You can find it on the MCC link. You just click on the activity and it'll go straight to the YouTube video just to help you while you're helping the kids, insha'Allah. But for you guys, I'm going to explain, insha'Allah. You're going to get these bags. And in this bag, you're going to have all of the things that you need, insha'Allah, except for sand, okay? The sands are going to be on the tables outside. We're going to be very careful because it's paint and it's sand and we want to make sure our clothes stay nice, right? Especially for mama and baba, right? We want to keep our clothes clean. So what you're going to do is, we're going to use the spoon and you're going to only put half of a teaspoon of sand into the paint. You're going to close it. You're going to shake it up, okay? You're going to shake it, shake it, shake it. And what that does, is it makes the paint look like metal when it dries. Do you see it? Do you guys see it? It does? Thank you. Yeah, so you guys are going to try, yeah? So when you add the sand, it makes it look, and it feels cool too because it's thick, it's bumpy. So once you've mixed it all up, the sand and the paint, you have this special paint brush. Do you see the paint brush right there? Yes, but it's not a normal paint brush. You're not going to go, yes, you are going to dab at it. So you're going to go up and down, up and down on top of it, okay? So you go up and down like this, and then, I'm going to explain then I can have a question, okay?  If you do that, you let it dry for a few minutes, inshallah, it'll have this metal look, metal effect, okay? So that's step one. We're going to paint and let it dry. While it's drying, we're going to get out our twinkle lights and our vines, and we're going to stretch it out. If we stretch it out, the twinkle lights are going to be way too long. So you're going to carefully fold them back and twist it. This is why I sent the video appearance because it might be a lot of steps, but I will be out there, so if you need help, don't be shy to ask, inshallah, and I've prepped the volunteers as well, inshallah. But you're going to get your long, look, see here? The twinkle lights, and you're going to make it go back and forth till it's the length that you want it, and you're going to twist it. Twist it together like this. Who can twist? Show me your twists. Show me. Good.  Then you're going to add the vines to it. You have two different vines because we want two different kinds of leaves in some color, right? And you're going to add it and twist it onto your twinkle lights. Once that's done, you have the string. It's kind of hard to see. Why is the string kind of hard to see? Because it's thin. Because it's thin? Why else? And clear. And clear. Good. Light makes it look like a see-through. Exactly. It's like it's floating. Perfect. It's thin. It's clear. And the light makes it look see-through. So it almost looks like it's floating. Very good. Mashallah. With that string, it's in your bag. Be careful. Because if it falls, we might not be able to find it, right? When you get this string, we have scissors on the table. You can cut it. And you can tie on your little shapes, OK? Just double knot it. Just like you double knot your shoes, OK? You don't have knot shoes? You don't know how to tie shoes? Have you guys ever tried to tie a knot? You know how to tie a knot? OK. You know how to tie a knot? Very good. Good, OK. And if you don't, we're all here. So we can all help each other, right? Alhamdulillah, we help each other. And then once that's done, you're all done. My shapes are going all over the place. But you're all done. That's true. You can try that in shalom. OK, is there any questions? You forgot your question. What's your question? You're going to make it now outside. You're going to have all this stuff with your mom, OK? Good question. So when we go outside, you just stand up and you go straight through those double doors. Do you see where I'm pointing? The doors are open right there. When you walk out, you'll see all the tables set up. So we don't have to go very far. Once we leave the Masala area, we just go straight out those doors, and it's right there. Is there any part of the sand on the way?  Want to see where they come? Come closer. Yeah, there's some sample ones. There are two if you want to see. All right. All right, can't wait. Bismillah.


Here's what's interesting. This is why I have to salute my friends from the UPU. They did a fantastic job. What Bashir did was convene a group of I think about 30 something countries on Sunday and Monday of this week, including my good friend here, Ambassador Shea, who was in every single meeting, every single minute. And the beauty of that process, the goal of that process was to get to what we got to today. But we didn't get to that. We almost got to that. But what the process was able to do through Bashir's leadership and the participation of folks like Ambassador Shea was to identify what we disagreed on and what the boundaries of that were. And that was the beauty of that process. And so once you knew what you agreed on, what you disagreed on, and what the range of disagreement was, then you could be within the box of consensus. And so through the efforts of the UPU leadership working with many of the countries that had to come into that majority coalition, they arrived at the result today. And if you noticed what happened today, this section was supposed to start at 9 a.m., right? But no, no, no, no. They wanted more time to work to this. There were technical issues with writing the actual documents, which they did beautifully. There were the politics of talking to the competing parties and bringing them on board. And I think that the realization is that in a large organization such as this or in a large organization such as my Congress, it's very difficult to do a trade agreement, which is effectively what this is, by many, many amendments. You're better off if you can. We have in our Congress what's called fast-track legislations, like you voted up or down. We want our Congress, by the way, to do that with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement tomorrow, but at least within 38th. But in this case, the brilliance of the leadership here was, okay, here we are. We're in the box. This is what we think the market can bear. From the technical and political standpoint, they worked it, so by the time three o'clock, we're over on the room, they had disseminated the appropriate information and gotten buy-in from people. And I stress, look, this was not three-hour day. This was hard work. These gentlemen and our people and many other people were up till three in the morning last night and they ended up at seven this morning and they did it. So I think it's useful to understand how that worked. I mean, this is a beautiful thing. This is how processes should work when they work well. And we were sufficiently close and the fact that the U.S. was going to leave the U.P.U. I think played this. President Trump was in the room.


Anyway, some of the land, although it's cheaper in the market, is still a little expensive for the people. So many of the projects, people would have to house themselves in a higher density housing arrangement and like probably a plot of say 30 square meters or even less, 28 square meters or 30 square meters and make it two-story or two-and-a-half-story, which is, which makes the density more or less similar to the medium-rise apartment, about five-story. If you make it a plot of say 30 square meters, two-story, row house, the density will be quite similar to the five-story flat. So not so bad. And so therefore, we have several housing projects in Bangkok where people could acquire land this way, not only in Bangkok, in other regional cities, they always find land, I would say. Because we give a lot of freedom to the people, once you give freedom to the people organization, I believe that they can always fight. And this is what I told our colleague in the Philippines, that leave it to the people because, no, it's not possible in Manila, in Quezon City, it's such high density, definitely. If the government is the one who acquire land or expropriate land, well, it's difficult. But if we leave it to the people, they would sneak into a lot of possible land because they make slum every day. They can find all these different pockets of land and they can house themselves that way. Now we organize it in a more proper manner. If the residents, former residents, can accommodate everybody, and no matter how you build this housing project, I think in general the landlord will not worry much before there was some thinking like, well, we should build into the apartments and so on. But I think after the implementation of the Ban Mankong for 10 years, now the landlord must understand that. And this pressure doesn't seem to be very big, and they accept it. You can see a project like Soon Proof, for instance, on one side is the medium-rise apartment. On the other side is just a kind of a low house, three-story or two-story, and it's OK, no problem. So more and more, it's an education process for the landlord at the same time.


A director of a coal electricity distribution company, George Atomi says subsidizing the energy and power sector is a mismatch, as liquidity is a fundamental challenge of the sector. George Atomi was a guest on Plus TV Africa's morning show, The Breakfast. Atomi also dismissed the popular notion that the electricity distribution distribution companies that this goes are the weak links in the value chain of the sector as the problems are multifaceted. The product at the beginning of the privatization was designed to be sold at market value, but then through political considerations and other considerations, the regulator made the purchasers of the power sell at below the cost. And anytime you sell a product below its cost, they're going to have a problem. It means in the first place the entire sector is cash strapped, which is the reason the government has been doing this subsidy gain. And if you ask me, it's been very inefficient. It's inefficient for power, inefficient for petroleum, but power is a very emotional subject. And because it directly impacts on the happiness of people, the policy and government tend to pander to it as opposed to going to the fundamentals, dealing with it, and then you begin to climb up slowly.


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Well, good afternoon. Thank you to all of you for still being here. I know last panel of the day, but we have something very exciting. It's rare in these that you have an actual new document to dig into. We have actual news to talk about, which is kind of a dream as a journalist. So as Crystal mentioned, I'm the managing editor of Payload, and I'm so excited to be here today with our panelists. Joining me for this conversation are Nikolai Kristloff, the lead for the Future of Space at the World Economic Forum, and Brynorth Lashley, the technical operations and service delivery manager at GHGSAT, which is one of the signatories to the new recommendation. So gentlemen, thank you so much both for being here. Nikolai, I'd like to start with you. As we mentioned, these recommendations did just come out today. So if some people in our audience might not have gotten the chance to read them, I'm hoping you can give sort of a high level overview of what's in the documentation or in the document and some background on sort of how they came to be just to set the foundation for our conversation. Yeah, well, thanks very much, and delighted to be here. Thank you very much to Secure World Foundation for giving really us the opportunity to share with, I think, the wider community, the experts that are in this room and online. We're certainly very excited about this. Maybe just as a step back, give a little bit of introduction to if you don't know what the World Economic Forum is and why we're sort of playing around and trying to do things in the space sector. So we are the international organization for public-private collaboration. We cover all sorts of global issues from food security to climate to circular economy to impact investing and all the other topics. And we work across also all the different industry sectors. Space is a relatively new area for us. We've been really sort of increasing the amount of activities we do to a point where now we're sort of really growing the team and doing much more than just actually the topic of space sustainability and covering that. The way actually we got into this is through something that was mentioned to my excitement several times already today, which was a space sustainability rating, which was a concept born within a small group of experts on space. Some of them actually I think are present here today. Five, six years ago. And then we said, look, let's actually develop this concept. Let's build it out. And we were able in a small consortium to build it. And now it's launched. It's live. It's a team. It's a new association, essentially run out of Lausanne, University of Lausanne. That was the birthplace for this. And it's really sort of a novel concept that we discussed. Now that sort of led us to think further about how do we support as an institution the topic of space safety, sustainability. And actually, our partner CEO said, look, there is more to be done. We see some progress, but it's not there's not enough concrete things happening. So we sort of came together very quickly, put out a small statement signed by about, I think, at the time, 18 industry partners. This was 20 months ago. And they said, look, let's dive deeper into this. And so over the last year, with support from the European Space Agency and a lot of community experts and our partners, we've sort of tried to see, where can we add value? Of course, there are some other efforts. There are other best practices. There was, of course, standards from ISO, IADC, Cropius. We try to sort of take a little bit of a different approach to this. On one hand, we wanted to push the envelope a little bit on some of these very concrete and specific targets. And you'll see in the document, so we try to address the post-mission disposal success rate. We try to address the number of years in orbit. We also looked at talking about active maneuverability. And where do you do that? At which altitude you should be thinking about that. But also, there are a lot of concepts there that touch on environmental capacity, on things that were just covered in the session before this by some of the panelists on things like servicing and active debris removal, and how we should be thinking more about this in a bit more forward-thinking manner. Communications and things like that. But I think it also gives sort of a long-term vision. I think for us, the recommendations document, and by the way, it's signed by 27 industry partners, represent really a cross-section of, I think, different actors in the space sector today. That's really exciting to see, first of all. I think for us, it's a way to say, look, there are some concrete aspects that we talk about here. But this also sets a long-term vision and a high-level vision. And let's be clear, these are not the most technical and detailed guidelines or recommendations. The document is about three pages. But what it is probably targeting, more so than even the actual space sector, is actually probably targeting stakeholders outside of the space sector. And I think this is what is exciting. You can take this document to policymakers, to investors, to other stakeholders, and say, look, this is where we are with a significant part of industry actors. And hopefully, more will join as well. This is not a definitive end game here. It doesn't stop here. And this is what we're thinking about. And this is some of the principles and elements we're actually not only concerned about, but want to move forward. So I think this is exciting. We hope that policymakers will actually take this on board and say, look, OK, some of these things are not so far-fetched, perhaps, as there were maybe a few years ago. Industry is already thinking and actually committing and signing on to these things. And so that helps also form their mindsets about if you are thinking about new regulations. On the other hand, I think it's interesting. It helps create a new playing field in a way. And through these recommendations, we push that level playing field into more and more ambitious territory in terms of sustainable operations. And I think this is what's so exciting about this. And again, happy to be able to announce these and release these here at this event. I think the industry support for this is really so important. And we obviously have some of the 27 signatories in the room today. Bryn, I'd like you to walk us through a little bit about kind of where, what was the driving force behind GHG SAT support of these guidelines? And you've had some, GHG SAT has had some firsthand experience with a threat of space debris, hoping you can talk a little bit about how that impacted your desire to sign on to these. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, Jacqueline, and thanks to the Secure World Foundation for having us here. And particularly for having GHG SAT here. We're a smaller operator. But when it comes to industry, I think we need to have kind of all partners that are working in this environment, working together to define solutions. So we're really excited to be a part of this discussion. And of course, thanks to all of you for being a part of this discussion as well. So for those of you that don't know GHG SAT, we're a satellite company that operates a constellation of nine satellites currently, but a growing one that monitors greenhouse gas emissions from space. And we're able to pinpoint specifically where these emissions are coming from so that we can help with mitigation efforts by carbon-intensive industries to help combat the global heating. So there's naturally, based on our mission and what we're trying to achieve in terms of sustainability on Earth, there's naturally a draw for us to participate in efforts like this. Because for us to be able to do our work, which is trying to build sustainability here on Earth, we need to have a sustainable environment and space for us to operate, because there's a risk to all operators that are operating within space, particularly within the environment that we're operating within, which is the low Earth orbit. So there's this natural inclination to come to the table because we need to find a solution for all partners that work. So that was obviously an initial driving force. But the other thing to think about is what are the actual applications that satellite technologies are used for? We have constellations like ours that are actively monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. We have other operators in the room that collect imagery that allow us to track environmental change and impacts on different ecosystems. We have new satellites that are coming up in the fold that are monitoring wildfires, which, as all of those of you in New York know the impacts of, it's critical things that all these satellites do that are working towards a sustainable future here on Earth. And I think we can never really separate the idea of having a sustainable environment from having a sustainable Earth. And that's one of the key reasons why we wanted to participate in this. And if I just may add, I'm excited to be here and presenting this with you, Brynne, and with G-Sat, I think there are lots of terrific companies, of course, of course, that signed on. We are excited with having you guys and speaking here with you. As you said, the sustainability aspect is critical. Everybody's focused on sustainability on Earth. We have to be, as we've said multiple times today, we have to be watching over the sustainability of the orbital regimes and thinking continuously about how to improve that. And so I think you are very representative of the companies that are thinking about both of these elements at the same time. And we think it's also quite exciting, right? And there's probably going to be a little bit of a change in the sector where companies have to start to show how they behave. And as the issue of debris and sustainability becomes more and more pronounced, and sort of general population and folks outside the space sector start to appreciate the seriousness of this. And we think these kind of efforts, and again, there are other efforts there. We strongly believe these all complementary help showcase that behavior, right? And help put a value on your emissions, right? And put sort of the social value, right? A little bit linking to that is a cheap discussion. You've touched on the fact that this is obviously not the only set of orbital debris mitigation guidelines. I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit deeper about what the World Economic Forum hopes to add to kind of this existing body of work and how you see these particular guidelines sort of where they're different and how they will complement the things that do already exist. How you see them all kind of playing nice together. Yeah, well, it's a great question, right? And I think, you know, natural item that comes up is, you know, let's not duplicate things, right? And of course, we talk about that often. You know, we see progress in when you talk about potential collisions growing risk of debris as moving forward, but probably moving forward slowly, right? Again, I think this is something most of us can agree on. The number of other efforts are there and typically they're much more technical, right? They're much more sort of in the weeds, but they're absolutely critical. You know, we need that to be able to actually try to align and create the standards and understand who moves out of the way.  You know, will folks from outside the space sector really read and go through all the bullets and understand them and appreciate them, right? And really understand that, maybe, right? But I think what we need to start communicating and getting as a sector passing on the message about, you know, we appreciate the challenge, right? And this is some of the things we're talking about, right? And a little bit more different tone, perhaps. And you're communicating to a different audience. This is, I think, what this is about.  Maybe you already have missions on the way that doesn't quite fit and you want to be very careful about what you commit to. And so you might sign on to one document, you might also sign on to the other, but actually jointly, if you look at different signatories to different efforts, you actually see that everybody's sort of thinking about the same things, right? And there may be minor discrepancy. But that's actually good, right? It means that an actor is not signing on just to random things. They actually are a responsible actor. They're signing on to things that they believe in and they commit to, right? But together jointly as a sector, if you look across the board, you know, everybody's sort of moving together and moving forward and sort of moving that bar, and I don't think it can, it can't be understated, like how much this is all cumulative, right? There's no one solution to all of this. And I think what we need to realize is like you said, pulling together these different documents where different partners have agreed to different things. They're all working towards the same goal. There might be different approaches and nuances to the numbers and the ways in which you accomplish it, but all of these form this complex solution to how we actually address this challenge. So I think that can't be understated. It's all cumulative together. I think it's very interesting that in some ways, you know, industry by signing on to this is actually putting more requirements onto itself than it would otherwise need to. So, Bryn, I'm curious how you see industry's role in, you know, driving this conversation. Is this a conversation that needs to really be led by industry with the help of organizations like the forum? So I think it's a parallel process. I think that there needs to be work done, like we've heard from many, many speakers today, through, you know, regulatory bodies, policy thinkers, governments trying to come up with long-term solutions. But the other kind of theme that we've heard throughout the day is we need to act now. And I think that the only way in which we can act now is by having the people that are actually operating into space actually agreeing to things that will have an impact. So from my perspective, I look at this, you know, these frameworks that we're coming to together as a starting point that we're committing to holding ourselves accountable to, and at least starting the effort that we need to. And my hope is that that will then form a sort of foundation that all these other great, all this other great work that is ongoing and parallel will then be able to learn from that. It was actually, Rebecca that was saying earlier today that, you know, by having these sort of voluntary practices coming into effect, we actually get to test, you know, the system a bit and see what works and what doesn't work, see if it's effective, see if it actually blocks, you know, new entrants to the market that are actually really going to be key for long-term solutions. So in my mind, yes, we're holding ourselves to some strict standards, but I think it's a really exciting starting point that we'll then be able to build off of. Well, if I may build on that. I mean, look, the organizations signing on to our recommendations to other ones, you know, they know this is, you know, the right direction to move to, right? Otherwise, we will not have the business models that we're able to function, right? If we have, you know, a growing problem with debris, just we won't have all these business opportunities they're going to be able to realize. And let's face it, you know, the market is still, potential market is huge, right? We are going to, as the forum, starting a new effort this year, looking at the future of the space economy and probably having a 10-year horizon, but actually looking also at the sub-sectors of that and what are the some things that are going to be coming on the market that are not there yet, really also having this sort of social lens of how does that benefit us on earth? More and more industries will come in and participate in the broader space market. But we're not going to be able to realize all these opportunities, right? For us on earth, if we can't solve the debris challenge. So I think these are important. The companies are realizing this. You know, they're also signing on to things which are ambitious but are realistic. They're not out of the ballpark in terms of something that's not realistic for them, of course, otherwise they wouldn't be there. They have their business models to function with. But it's also, again, you know, it's also something that they realize, you know, regulators and policy makers are thinking about. And so, you know, if we already can sort of get ahead of some of these challenges and commit to some things, if they probably position themselves and they'll find themselves probably in a better way if there are regulations and when they come in the future, right? But it also hopefully helps the regulators and policy makers in a way as well to show a little bit where the industry is heading. So I think it's sort of a win-win for different actors and but it shows sort of, you know, that the industry certainly is thinking about the right things and moving in the right direction. And also, I mean, we're, we know the bounds of what's feasible, right? And I think that helps a lot in the discussion because, you know, we never want to implement something that will actually prevent us from being able to operate and have all these great applications here on Earth. So there's that and what I also found really encouraging as part of the discussions that we were having when we were trying to come up with these guidelines was that we were also considering not just, you know, all the partners at the table, we were really thinking about, okay, well, what about people that are not at this table yet? What about the countries that are kind of in the early stages of developing, you know, a space industry? How can we create something that will not block them from being able to bring new solutions to the table? And so that was really like a positive discussion that I appreciated going to those guidelines. So we've gotten a question from the audience about sort of the elephant in the room or I guess the elephant not in the room. There are obviously, while there are a number of signatories to this who are planning big, big constellations and they've, you know, committed to these standards, there are also some companies, notably SpaceX, you know, planning a major constellation that has not signed onto these guidelines. So Nikolai, can you talk a little bit about, you know, efforts to bring additional companies into the fold and kind of the fact that some of these major players who are going to be putting up large number of satellites are not committing to this particular framework? So I think it's a good question and I think I'll probably, you know, turn around a little bit, right? What I will say is that actually it was a pretty comprehensive effort.  But we were engaging actually with, I will leave it as, you know, a lot of significant actors, right? If some actors didn't sign on, I don't think it's a sign that, you know, they're against these standards or not standards but recommendations, right? And positions that we propose in the document, right? I think we should take it as a sign. We'll look, actually we had a lot of helpful input from number of actors who actually didn't sign on, right? I'll maybe I'll say that way without mentioning any specific companies, right? It doesn't mean that they don't believe in the specific numbers, right? And it's, you know, there were, of course there was a lot of discussion about specific, you know, angles and this and that and that's normal in this kind of efforts. Again, trying to generate consensus, right? Around certain wording as we've heard before is difficult. But it means that companies maybe think slightly differently, right? Or they say, well, look, you know, we actually have perhaps our own perspective on this and we're doing something a little bit different. So we want to be careful, right? It actually shows to a certain extent. I think, you know, that organizations are responsible. They want to, you know, stick to what they say or what they've said in the past or what they want to say maybe in the few months and because it fits their mission a little bit differently. And so I think I'm actually, I was very encouraged by the process, you know, in all honesty, we had very good discussions. And again, not everybody that was part of the discussion came on board, but they were all very engaged. They were all participated, right? And committed to the process and to actually moving some of these goalposts, right? Forward and advancing the whole discussion. So. So in terms of kind of the nuts and bolts of the policy has the five-year deorbit, the requirement to be able to maneuver an increased sharing of space traffic management data. Brynn, I'm curious for GHGSat, sort of how much you will need to change your current operations to meet these requirements? How different are they from how you guys operate today? Well, we come from a kind of a unique space in that when we kind of started kind of quickly growing the rest of our constellation, we were already in this realm while we realized it was gonna be a bit of a challenge. You know, I've been with GHGSat now for two years and over the course of that period of time, you know, we've seen the number of potential collision events increase with our constellation size and you kind of oftentimes see a step function happening when there's another significant launch that comes from one of the large satellite operators. So, you know, coming into the role at the time that I did, we needed to very quickly, already before engaging in this discussion, come up with new practices because it was in our own interest to do that because we needed to come up with solutions. So really, you know, from the guidelines that have been we've established, we were already working towards that already. So it wasn't actually that much of an uphill climb. I mean, the, you know, things like sharing data, that is something that we're able to do through platforms that already exist and we're now engaging with new platforms already to be able to make it easier having inter like operator communication. In terms of the active maneuvering, you know, we're a small set that doesn't have a propulsion system, although of course the recommendations do say that that is a positive attribute to have on a satellite because it makes it a lot easier to maneuver but there are other, you know, ways of maneuvering such as through differential drag which, you know, we put upfront investment in terms of finding solution to actually be able to maneuver in space without having a propulsion system because it was important for us to be able to do so. In terms of the five-year deorbitat at the end of mission life, we as a general principle already determined that when, you know, a satellite comes to the end of its commercial operations that we would continue maintaining active, monitoring and maneuverability of that object until it re-entered the atmosphere. So these are all things that we were working towards already because it was a necessity already and also we wanted to live up to the mission of being a sustainable company. I mean, just maybe to build on a quick point, we actually had one very concrete impact also of this, right? And I'm sure there were others, you know, I'm sure there are others as well, but I actually heard from one of the companies that are a little bit more in the early stage that one of the bullet points in the statement actually impacted directly how they were planning and how they were planning the operations and certain quantitative aspects linked to the mission, right, in the sort of positive sense and they were actually said, well, we can do that, you know, otherwise I wouldn't want to commit because I wasn't sure or this would actually be, you know, a little bit higher, a little bit lower. We're going to make an effort here, right? Again, was that something that was changing the mission completely? Probably not, but they made a specific effort to improve one of the characteristics. And hey, that's a good outcome. Yeah, absolutely. So I want to delve a little bit into the idea of voluntary guidelines. These are obviously guidelines as are most, if not all, of the recommendations that deal with this type of thing. You know, it's something that you both have touched on and something that obviously earlier panels were debating as well, but kind of in the light of these recommendations, Nikolai, wondering kind of to get your thoughts on how far voluntary guidelines can go and if, you know, if there was any thought at the forum to do something enforceable, sort of, or if kind of voluntary guidelines were the only way to go to get consensus. Tough question. Well, look, yeah, we've spoken a lot about this already today, right? I think in the absence of other mechanisms, which are firmer and stricter, right, these are already doing a certain part of the job. You know, this was a specific ask from our community to do something in this regard, to push the envelope a little bit, to support, you know, and to complement, again, other efforts, so I'll come back to that. They play an important role, whether or not regulation will come in and, you know, and take some of these, perhaps, build on some of these different recommendations and guidelines, I guess, you know, we will see that. Is there an opportunity for us? You know, we are not a regulatory body, we don't stand official sort of standards, if you want to make, differentiate a little bit, but, you know, we're certainly a platform that brings together industry, government, and civil society experts to try to find ways, you know, and try to unlock things, stalemates, perhaps, where there is need to, right, and where other platforms can't quite address this. So, you know, we're always open to, you know, to help address some of these challenges. Let's see in the future if there is a need, if there's a specific ask from our partners, from perhaps even certain governments for us to help, but that's something that the forum does, and again, this is a small step, obviously, in that direction. We hope it's a helpful step, but let's see what we can do in the future. Bram, I'd love to get you on this as well from the industry perspective. So, I think there's a kind of natural self-checking on this. Yes, it's voluntary, but we signed on to it because we commit to doing it, and I think that, you know, one of the things we were talking about earlier today was the idea of a lot of people coming to the workplace, especially younger people who are driven by mission, and they're driven by purpose, and they want to see their company living up to the values that they're committing to, and so I think there's this natural kind of self-checking that happens because we've committed to it, and now all of our, and we've publicly declared it, and so all of our employees are then gonna hold this accountable to this as they should, and so I think there will be a natural self-checking that comes from that because people do care about the mission. Great, we have just a minute left, but I'm gonna try to squeeze in one more. The report mentions new technologies and potentially even new industries that could be created by companies trying to adhere to the requirements of this report. Nikolai, do you have any quick thoughts on sort of new industries and new capabilities that might crop up to help companies stick to these guidelines? Well, again, this is something actually, we're starting to look now, and hopefully we'll have something out for January 2024. Our theory, I guess, a theory of change is that all industry will have a role to play or will have an activity linked to space, right? It's maybe a case to a certain degree right now, probably a lot of industry actors don't realize they're getting a lot of benefits from space as we all sort of know, but it's probably gonna be much more pronounced in a more sort of coherent way, right? We think companies from across all the different sectors will have either a strategy or a department or a policy in terms of interacting with the space sector or being part of the space sector, right? Again, this is something that's a question that we're sort of gonna try to test and verify over the next sort of six, seven months. We'll see what the results are and we'll be obviously interacting with all these different actors and playing out some of these scenarios. But we think certainly, I think what's undeniable probably is if we do this right, if we manage our orbital resources correctly and sustainably, the opportunities that are on the horizon for us as a civilization, if I may use that big word, are tremendous. We'll be able to do so many more things for us on Earth but also for us in space, but we have to do it right. Well, that's such a hopeful note to end on. I hope everyone in the audience goes and reads the report. I found it very interesting. Thank you so much to both of you gentlemen for being here today for this. And now I am going to hand back to Crystal to close for the day. Thank you very much.