Sometimes you need to be armored up. Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and today we are going to talk about body armor. As part of your Minuteman kit, you should have some kind of body armor. Now, earlier in the series, we discussed having a gear system and making sure all of your pieces are compatible. So for this, I have two plate carriers kind of currently set up. One of them's not really set up at all, as you'll see, but you could realistically get away with one. I just happen to have two, so I keep two set up, but you could definitely just do this with one, like this one, as I will demonstrate. So the first rig that I'm just gonna go through is this one, and this one, like I said, is not set up at all, and what I mean is, I keep it slick. I keep it completely slick. This is an AR-500 Testido plate carrier that I spray painted a while ago. I stole the cumberbund off a Spartan Armor Systems, so it has all these pockets in here with bungees, so you can fit stuff like mags in these little pockets on the side, like so. So you can run your mags and through the cumberbund like that if you desire. Like I said, I keep this one completely slick on both the front and the back because my thought here is this way, I have a completely slick plate carrier that I can throw on over my webbing if I want. It doesn't have anything else on it. I'm just having my webbing and my sustainment gear, and then I just happen to need armor so I can throw this on. That way it keeps it extremely light, which I like. I will say that on this carrier, I did put the AR-500 kangaroo pouch in here, so there is a bungee slot for three different magazines up front, so I can get three across if I wanted to put three more mags on here, just for extra carry capacity. But like I said, my goal here is to keep it slick, and then plus it up as needed. My second plate carrier system has a dual purpose. So this plate carrier system I have designed to function both as a standalone, meaning paired with the normal battle belt for the cool guy go fast thing. And then I've also been able to slick it down as needed to pair with my webbing system. So if I want, of course, I can just dump this placard, and now I'm able to throw this on and save weight. I'll still keep the IFAC, this is mullied in, and I'll still keep the blade, this is mullied in. I do have an IFAC and a blade on my webbing, so that ends up being a double, which again is why I keep the second plate carrier if I just want to go totally slick. This placard is a Mayflower placard, four mags across the front, three pouches. Right now I keep a set of handcuffs in the front pouch, middle pouch is empty, and then over here I have a ranger band. Middle pouch actually has the key for the handcuffs because you're gonna need that. So that can come on and off the rig as is appropriate. I do have a blade on here, this is the SRK blade, I still got the gel on it from the original manufacturer, you can sell, I haven't wiped that off or really used this for anything, but that is on here. For that blade, if you've seen my tactical trick video, this is actually mullied to a malice light clip, and then I use the malice light clip in order to weave through the webbing, so that tends to be a better attachment system I've found. Also up here I have an IFAC, this is a Dark Angel Medical Kit. Highly recommend the Dark Angel Medical Kit, it's a huge fan, I have one on my webbing and then I have one on here as well. Moving around towards the back, so this is a ACU IFAC pouch that I dyed with apple green, turned out a little bit brighter than I wanted, but better than just the traditional UCP. That stays empty, again this is just an empty general purpose pouch, I will eventually put another one of those on the side back here as well. I have come to realize the value of having empty pouches on your rig because it allows you that flexibility to be able to plus things up or not. So one of the things I've definitely learned during this American Minuteman Trek that we've been on is the value of empty pouches. So I keep this pouch intentionally empty so that I can fill it with at needed items, be it a smoke grenade or a flashbang or food or water or an extra IFAC or whatever, this just sits here to serve as a general purpose pouch. I can't access it super well because it is in that awkward place kind of right behind your arm, so I would need a buddy in order to access that if I wanted to keep the carrier on. Moving around towards the back of the plate carrier here, this is a, off Amazon I think it's Elite Spanker, is the product company, some off brand Chinese label thing that actually is pretty good. Just one big pouch here that opens like the kind of top quarter, then it's a big empty sack, nothing in there. This right here opens for a water bladder, so I can stuff a water bladder in there. And then this bottom pouch here, this again opens that top quarter. In here they have a little mesh divider, but other than that it's pretty empty. Again, I keep this pouch empty and I keep this whole thing empty so that I can throw in here what I need when I need it. If that's more water because I'm just gonna use this with my battle belt or if it's some extra sustainment gear like my nods or something like that, whatever that I would need, if I'm going out, I'm gonna pack this quick and then put it on and go. This intentionally stays empty so that if I were to be doing vehicle stuff, it's not gonna be riding against my back or whatever, or I could throw an assault pack over it if I wanted. Again, there is value in having extra pouches that stay empty and that's kind of been my guiding principle with this rig, this iteration. I will like I said, eventually get that other pouch here and there's nothing else on my left side. If I didn't mention already, this chest rig or this plate carrier here is the AR-500 Armor Testido plate carrier, excuse me. Big fan of it, I've had it for a while, I really like it. So that's it, that's how I've set up this armor. Again, it's thinking in terms of systems and making sure your gear is compatible with your other gear and that's what's really driven this plate carrier setup this year. Hope that's helpful, do brave deeds and endure.


Thank you very much. I have the wonderful honor and distinction of introducing our most distinguished guest tonight. But Mr. President, with your indulgence, I would like to express some thanks to a few people before I turn the microphone over to you. First of all, to Al Simpson, cash for the guy like that as your friend who needs enemies.  I'm just thrilled and excited, not only if to have been from Cranbrook School with him, but to be able to aspire to be a colleague of his, and Bill Cohen's, and Phil Graham, who are the co-host of this evening night. And I thank them very much. And all their colleagues, who I hope you all have had a chance to meet with and will meet with tonight, and whose presence here means so very much to me, and to the Heisman family. And that's really what it is. The family of people who have shared so much of our lives together for them to be here and to be a part of this evening has made it very special to me. I suppose there are a couple of days in your life that make a difference. Day you're married, the day your children are born. And I have the feeling that today is a day very much like that for Judy and me. And we appreciate all of you and what you're doing to help us make our dream become a reality. And I would say to you, Mr. President, first of all, that I want you to know that we are four square behind what you're doing in the Persian Gulf right now. Today, it's apparent that all of America is behind you.  And I don't know when future generations paw through the events of the Reagan years what they'll focus on. But I'm confident of one thing, that they'll know that Ronald Reagan was the president who restored America's faith in America. And that Ronald Reagan is the president who brought pride back and who reestablished us as a sound and reliable lie, and who led us from the malaise we'd been in, and built for us the opportunity to move ahead. And I can tell you, Mr. President, that I'm going to work very, very, very hard to earn the right to come to join Al Simpson, and Bill Cohn, and Phil Graham, and the rest of you in this Congress so that when you go back to California, you can be confident we're going to continue to build on what you've done for America. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you, and thank you all, and senators, distinguished guests. You know, more than half a century ago, there was a halfback at the University of Chicago who was so powerful, so skilled, and so dashing, that he became a hero to millions of football-loving Americans, including a certain young fellow named Dutch Reagan. In 1935, this great halfback, Jay Burrwanger, received a new award, and the tradition of the Heisman Trophy was born. Jay Burrwanger is with us here tonight, and I couldn't begin without telling him and all the Heisman Trophy winners were gathered here what a very great honor it is to be in their presence. College football has certainly come a long way since the day when President White of Cornell refused to permit his football team to play against the University of Michigan. President White said, this was back in the 1870s, and I quote, I will not permit men to travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind. You know, I told President White, I thought he was overreacting. Pete, Judy, and everyone, we're here this evening less to celebrate Pete Dawkins' past as an athlete than to show our support for his future as, yes, the next United States senator from the great state of New Jersey. Athlete, athlete, scholar, soldier, businessman, Pete Dawkins is one of the finest candidates to compete in the elections of 1988. But I'll go even further. Pete Dawkins is one of the finest candidates I've ever known. The reason goes beyond Pete's extraordinary competence and skill. It has to do with his deepest values, with his fierce belief in freedom in the family, in economic opportunity for all. On the issues, Pete has already staked out forthright positions. He stands with me and wanted to keep your taxes low in order to keep our economy growing. He's staunch in his support of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which Pete has rightly called a step to reduce the threat of nuclear arms. And he understands the need to keep the pressure on Soviet-backed regimes by supporting those struggling for freedom around the world, especially in Afghanistan and, yes, in Nicaragua. This election will determine whether we'll continue on the path we began in 1981, a growing, expanding economy at home, and a strong and secure America abroad, or whether we'll return to the failed policies of the past, high taxes, increasing inflation and unemployment, a stifling bureaucracy, and weakness abroad. Our opponents are saying that America wants to return to the good old days of the 1970s. Well, I don't know about you, but I don't think that's what the public wants. We're prepared to move forward into the next decade and tackle the new challenges that it offers. Pete Dawkins is running for the Senate because he believes in the new America, not the old. Because he believes America should be strong, not weak. Because he believes we should discipline the federal budget, not the family budget. And because he knows that tax hikes in Washington are seldom used to cut the deficit, just to go on spending. If I could just add one personal note. As president, I've seen the Senate in Republican hands. It was during my first six years. And I've seen it run by the Democrats as it is today. Believe me, this country needs Pete to come down here and help return the Senate to GOP control. But to turn for a moment from the nation as a whole to the state of New Jersey, the states so many of you serve and cherish, under the outstanding leadership of Governor Cain, New Jersey has changed in recent years, changed dramatically. There was a time not too long ago when New Jersey was becoming thought of as one huge unmanageable sprawl as a state that was being taken over by the most unpleasant aspects of the big cities in neighboring states. Today, New Jersey is rightly seen as a state that has made a comeback, a state of economic growth, but of compassion for its less fortunate citizens, a state of reform and good government, a state where, for millions of Americans, life is good, very good. Today, there's a new New Jersey. Isn't it time for New Jersey to have a new senator? I hope Governor Cain won't mind when he hears about this, but every time I think of Pete, there's a phrase that goes through my mind. Pete Dawkins and New Jersey, perfect together. Now with all of these football grates here, if you'll permit me, I'd like to close with a football story. Back when I was in Hollywood, one day I picked up the Daily Variety and read where Warner Brothers was announcing that they were making the life story of Canute Rockney. Well, that's all I'd thought about from the time I hadn't been in Hollywood too long, and that was on my mind having been a sports announcer. And all I ever want to know, if they made the story, was to play the gipper. And I approached Pat O'Brien, who intervened with the producer who was going to do the Rockney story. Well, he was, to put it mildly, unimpressed with my credentials. He started by telling me I didn't look big enough for the part. Well, I wasn't very polite because I told him, you're producing the picture, and you don't know that George Gip weighed five pounds less than I weigh right now. He walked with a kind of a slouch, almost a limp. He looked like a football player only when he was on the field. And then I went home because some cameraman, in those early days, had told me that the fellows in the front office only knew what they saw on film. I dug down in the trunk and came up with my own pictures of myself playing football in college and brought them back and showed them to the producer. Well, believe it or not, he let me do the test. And Pat O'Brien, knowing of my nervousness and desire, graciously agreed to be a part of it. Normally, stars of that standing do not help someone out in a screen test. They leave that to someone of lesser importance. Of course, I had an advantage. I'd known George Gip's story for years. And the lines were straight from Canute Rockney's diary. The test scene was one that I'll never forget, one that said something about what Rockney liked to see in his players. It was George Gip's first practice. Rockney told him to carry the ball for the scrubs. And Gip just looked at Rockney and cocked an eyebrow and said, how far? Well, he answered that question himself by carrying the ball 60 yards through the varsity the first time he got his hands on it. Incidentally, as he came back with the ball, having scored the touchdown, came back with the ball. He tossed it to Rockney and said, I guess the boys are just tired. Well, as I say, Canute liked that spirit in his ballplayers. Grantlin Rice tells us that once when he was working with the four backfield stars who became known as the four horsemen, the fellow named Jimmy Crowley just couldn't get it right on one play. Now, you know, I never tell ethnic jokes anymore unless they're about the Irish.  And without missing a beat, Crowley said, a smart Swede. But to be serious, Pete Dawkins reminds me of George Gip more than little. Pete's a fine man, a likeable man, a man who loves his country. And Pete is a man of determination. You don't go from being a polio victim at age 11 to winning the Heisman Trophy without lots and lots of determination. On the football field, in combat, in scholarship, in business, and yes, in the United States Senate, you can tell Pete Dawkins to carry the ball and Pete will say, how far? I'm very proud and pleased to be here. Never thought I'd be associated with that many Heisman Trophy winners. But also, I know where your hearts are with regard to this coming election. Do everything you can and buttonhole those neighbors. The one big trouble today with a lot of people who think like us is that they just have forgotten to vote and think they can just go their way and everything will turn out all right. Well, I think to remind those that don't go to the polls anymore, what Will Rogers once said. He said, the people you send to public office are no better and no worse than the people who send them there. But they're all better than those who don't vote at all.  Thank you very much, Mr. President, for those very, very, very kind and inspiring words. And believe me, they will gird me on to another quarter and another and another. But I don't think it's appropriate that we close this evening with the galaxy of Heisman winners here and with the spirit of Newt Rockney standing on the stage without us making a small presentation. And I have here a football signed by the Heisman trophy winners for the president. And I would just like, on behalf of all of them, sir, to present it to you and to the gipper. Thanks very much. Thank you.


Hey coach welcome back to our channel and before we dig into today's video Make sure and hit that subscribe button if you haven't subscribed yet This way you can stay updated with all the brand-new videos We have coming out on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays now in today's video We're gonna be breaking down how to make money off of free camps And I know the headline the title of that it sounds fake But I'm gonna show you exactly how I do this and this is a very step-by-step process And if you've watched any of our other YouTube videos, you know, I talk a lot about email marketing having systems in place Making sure you get paid online. All right, let's dig in here We're gonna go piece by piece here or break this into three different steps So step one is make sure the free camp that you put on we need to have numbers at your camps That means that you need I would say between 15 to 25 kids they show up at your free camp. Well, how are you going to get them to sign up? This is 100% about making sure you are organized and it's detailed and this is what I do very easy you can go to Google Docs and Create a Google form and on that Google form you make sure you collect the parents name Phone number and email and then the name of the child and maybe how old the child is that's it and In order for the parents to sign up. They have to sign up online You don't want to run a free camp and not know who the kid is not know who the parents are When they get there you need to know everything about the kid and about the parents and you'll do that by collecting that form from them and This way when they do show up, you know exactly who they are that to me is very powerful Again step one is creating a page a registration page very simple Making sure that when parents sign up you have their information Okay, step two is right when they sign up. This is what I like to do I will immediately text the parent and I'll say hey mr. Jones. Thanks so much for signing up Do you have five minutes of time? I'd love to ask you a couple of questions before we have our free camp and When I do that parents will always respond and say yes So what I'm gonna do is very simple. I'm gonna pick up the phone I'm going to text them.  Jones when I call mr. Jones I want to make sure that call schedule. I call him at the scheduled time then from there I'm going to just simply say I'm gonna say hey mr. Jones. Thanks so much for signing up for our camp I really appreciate you registering. I can't wait to see and then just I'll just say Johnny I can't wait to see Johnny there. I have a couple of questions Is it okay if I ask you a few questions right now and he'll say yes And what I'll do is I'll say well, what is the number one thing that Johnny needs help with and What I want to do now is I want to shut up and let mr. Jones talk I want him to explain to me what Johnny needs help with and this way I can address whatever that thing is that Johnny's help with when I actually do the camp and I'm gonna do this with every single parent I'm gonna spend five to ten minutes. I'm gonna call them I'm gonna ask them that simple question and then once we get off the phone I'll say all right great I can't wait to see there and if they want to talk more and ask me questions about my program great If they don't no worries all I'm doing those I am setting up my camp now I know exactly what every single kid needs help with and at that point I can create my camp based on all of the problems that all of these kids struggle with This way when the camp is finished Those kids have addressed the problem that they need help with that the parents told me about and I want you Think about that if the parents are there watching the camp and you are working on the exact thing that their kid is struggling with Don't you think that parent is automatically going to be like oh wow? This is awesome like we've never worked on this before but now we're doing it here at this free camp Okay, and at the end of the session what I like to do is I've already Addressed the thing that address the problem or the obstacle that these players are having and what I'll do is I'll have all of the kids around me at that point what I'll do is I'll ask all the players all the kids I'll say hey go grab your parents real quick Bring bring them back over to me and what we're going to do is we're going to teach your parents what you learned today And you're going to tell them the top three things that you learned each and What will happen is they'll go grab their parents.  I'm just going to say you know, thank you guys so much for coming I really appreciate everyone's commitment level today And what we're going to do before we go is each player is going to teach the group what they learn and then one by one I'll call each kid's name they'll come stand by me And they will teach the parents the top three things that they learn and I know One of those things will always be the problem that I know that the parent Addressed with me over the phone and here's why I do this though It's because I don't want the parents to come around me with their kids and me have to sell anything I don't want to do that I want the kids to sell it for me and show the parents the immediate value of this free camp that they just came to and What what's going to happen is all the kids will do that one by one and then the parents You know the parents are going to be very proud of their kid for talking in public most kids hate doing that And so that might be uncomfortable and I might have to help some kids out with that But that's okay, and the parents at that point. They're like wow, this is a really good camp I wonder what it's going to be like if we're actually in Ben's program or actually in your program and From there. I will simply close the camp and say hey if you want to Stay after and chat with me about my program great if you don't no worries. I really appreciate you for coming this camp I had a blast today We're going to be doing things like this coming up And if you're on our newsletter, you'll be able to see that and what I'll do is I will just go stand off to The side and parents will always come and talk to me about my program Those are the ones who are serious that are committed and if we just if we just look at the numbers here Let's say there's 15 parents who sign up for a free camp with you and out of those 15 There's two that want to step into your full program And if you do things the way that I've instructed over the past couple years here on YouTube You have a program set up to where they invest month after month And they're committed to six months or 12 months of your program Let's just say on average your program is $300 a month And you have two new clients who join your program by offering a free camp And you got if you get two clients who join that's an extra $600 a month for the next six months By offering something for free and then on the back end you would now have just earned $3,600 over the next six months Now let's just say you did that once a month Let's say you have a free camp or clinic once a month and you constantly add two or three new members If you did that for a year, okay, I'm gonna just keep it very simple That means you'd have 24 clients who are paying $300 a month that to me is very doable if you go through this video step by step and think about Getting them registered calling them having the free camp closing them And then following up. Okay, that to me is Something a lot of coaches have taken over the last couple of years and they've they've ran with it There's a few coaches. I've helped over the last couple months who've been doing that They've added so many new clients because they're gonna do one of those free camps Like once every two or three weeks as a way of getting new prospects into the business And that's it for today's video guys. I hope this helped out again Try to run some of these free camps coming up Try to go through everything that we talked about piece by piece and I know it's gonna work for you You just got to organize the camp and have everything set up the way we talked about and I know you're gonna get great results That's it for the video comment below if you have any questions. I'll see you soon


Thank you all for having me, my name is Michelle Ibarra and Internet Solutions for Kids also is a non-profit organization, we focus on research, adolescent health research, understanding how the internet and newer technologies are affecting the health and well-being of young people and then from the other side thinking about how we can use it as a prevention and intervention tool. So I'm going to give you a roadmap for what it is that I want to discuss today. We'll be talking about unwanted sexual solicitation and internet harassment. First we'll cover some definitions, what exactly is it that we're talking about, we'll talk about prevalence rates over time, how often does this happen, how many young people is it actually affecting, what is the influence the social networking sites seem to be having on harassment and sexual solicitation. Then we'll get into how rates compare online versus offline and then we'll also touch on whether or not there are other factors beyond the technology itself that we need to be aware of. The data that I'll be talking about today come from three data sets and I have to say it's such a treat to be on this panel where we all have nationally representative data, it's very rare and it's great, it's definitely the gold standard. So three data sets that I'll be using are nationally representative, one is the growing up with media survey, it's a longitudinal survey that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at Baseline which was 2006, we recruited 1,588 households, young people had to be between the ages of 10 and 15 years of age, had to use the internet at least once every month for the last six months so that would give us kind of a wide range of internet use and then English speaking. This sample is actually recruited from the Harris panel online which is over four million members and then what we do is we weight it back to the general population and we also do something called propensity scoring so that we take into account the fact that this panel is online and in so doing it becomes nationally representative. The other two surveys that we'll be using today are the youth internet safety surveys one and two. These surveys were headed up by Dr. David Finkelhor and his colleagues at the University of New Hampshire. The first survey was conducted in 2000 and then they did a replication survey so it's not longitudinal in that we're talking to the same kids but they took the same survey and refilled it in 2005 to kind of understand how things had changed and how they had stayed the same. For both surveys 1,500 households were recruited, they used a telephone random digit dial methodology, young people were between the ages of 10 and 17 so slightly larger range of young people but he or two they had to have used the internet for about once at least once a month for the last six months so you have kind of a variety of internet usage. English speaking and adults needed to be equally or most knowledgeable about youth's internet use. All right so as Amanda said we are finding that social networking site usage is growing. What we asked there's lots of different ways as Amanda said there's lots of different ways to ask questions to slice the data the way that we asked it was so among all of the activities all the things that you do online what are the top two things that you spend the most of your time doing so in 2006 16 percent of our kids said social networking sites were in their top two and that doubled in 2007 so it's a huge increase over one year. We're finding the increase is true for boys and for girls so at 2006 12 percent of boys and 22 percent of girls this again is the sex difference that Amanda was talking about girls significantly more likely to be on social networking sites but for both boys and girls you're seeing a huge jump to make it that now about one in three young people by sex rate social networking sites is one of the top two activities that they're spending time online doing. Same is true across ages and as Amanda suggested you see a huge spike so for 10 and 11 12 year olds not a whole lot going on then you start looking at 14 15 16 year olds and there's quite a bit of activity going on and the way to read this slide obviously our kids aged by one year so what you can do is you can not only see how it's trending over time but you can compare 11 year olds in 2006 with 11 year olds in 2007 not a whole lot going on you look at 14 year olds from 2006 and 14 year olds in 2007 you're seeing a huge jump. So let's talk about internet harassment and cyberbullying these quotes are from the second youth internet safety survey that so the data were collected in 2005 a fortune year old boy said I have my own website and I have my own page on it and somebody posted something bad about me on it a 15 year old boy said I was playing a first person shooter game and unintentionally offended this person became very serious and began to threaten me by saying if this were real life he would physically harm me it happened because he was unable to accept that this was just a game. So when we talk about definitions it depends on the survey the youth internet safety surveys defined it one way growing up with media we defined it another way and Pew defined it a third way. This is pretty common when we're kind of coming in social science when we're identifying kind of a new experience and we're trying to figure out the best way to measure it but what it does mean is that you'll end up seeing differential rates differing rates based upon what specific activities we're asking about. So in the youth internet safety surveys young people are asked whether or not they'd ever received rudermeen comments on the internet felt worried or threatened because somebody was bothering or harassing them online or whether somebody had used the internet to threaten or embarrass them by posting or sending information. So one is getting at kind of direct contact that's harassing and bothering and then the other is getting at somebody posting or sending information for others to see. In the growing up with media survey we asked about rudermeen comments threatening or aggressive comments and whether or not anybody spread rumors about the young person whether or not they were true. So you see some similarities across the three surveys and also some differences. So there's some good news. Youth internet safety survey the first one was conducted in 2000 and the second was conducted in 2005 so this is not quite the good news. Using the same questions in both surveys they saw a 50% increase from 6% in the first survey to 9% in the second survey said yes this has happened to me at least once in the last year. In the growing up with media survey we're actually seeing a stabling of rates. At baseline in 2006 34% said yes one of these things has happened to me at least once in the last year and when we asked them again in 2007 the same percentage 34% said yes one of these things has happened to me in the last year. In the growing up with media survey we also asked how often does this happen has it happened once or twice does it happen monthly does it happen every day you know give us a sense of kind of how frequent this is happening. When we look at young people who are frequently harassed because the idea is that those who are frequently harassed is a much more serious experience than those for whom it happens only once or twice. Again we're seeing stabling of stabilizing of rates so 8% at baseline said that they were harassed monthly or more often same percentage in 2007. So we don't seem to be seeing a significant increase. When you look at continuity of harassment over time one in five young people report being harassed both at baseline and at follow-up and those are the kids that I'm really concerned about. You're seeing 13% who were harassed at baseline only and 14% who were harassed at follow-up only. Sorry so wave one wave two I should probably be a lot more consistent with but at follow-up at one year follow-up in 2007. Exactly yeah 8% of the whole. So who is doing the harassing? Well based upon data from the Youth Internet Safety Survey 2 which was done in 2005 again young people who said yes I've been harassed in the last year they were asked who is the harasser. Well 8% said it was somebody between the ages of 10 and 12. 51% said it was somebody between the ages of 13 and 17. 21% said somebody between 18 and 25. 2% said it was somebody who was 26 years of age or older. And then 18% said I don't know. So what that means is that 59% of the harassment comes from other minors. And then an additional 21% is coming from 25 year olds and younger. So only 2% is what we're seeing of harassers who are 26 years of age and older. So how does social networking sites fit into all of this? Well again so the 16 and 34% of the same percentages that you saw earlier right? 16% in 2006 said social networking sites are one of the two things that I spend the majority of my time doing. In 2007 that jumped up to 34. Okay so then within that context that we're seeing a doubling of usage in social networking sites what does that mean for harassment? Well in 2006 9% of young people said that they had been harassed in a social networking site and that increased to 16% in 2007. So we're seeing an increase in harassment in social networking sites as we're seeing an increase in the number of young people who report using social networking sites frequently. It's about what we would expect. I do want to point out however that a twofold increase would be 18%. So we're slightly under that. Now what's the likelihood of social networking site users will be harassed? So to give the context among those who said social networking sites are one of the two top activities that I do online, 61% of social networking site users in 2006 said that they had been harassed anywhere on the internet. And that decreased down to 50% in 2007. So social networking site users, the percentage of young people who said they'd been harassed decreased. The percentage of social networking site users who said they'd been harassed in social networking sites stabilized. 35% in 2006, 37% in 2007. So even though we saw the doubling of young people using social networking sites among social networking site users, we're not seeing an increase in harassment. So how do rates compare online or offline? We define bullying based upon Oveas who's kind of the guru of adolescent bullying research. The definition is different from what we typically will talk about in internet harassment. Internet harassment can be obnoxious, annoying sorts of things. They can happen once, they can happen 100 times. It's still diffuse at this point, but bullying based upon Oveas is pretty clear. There has to be a differential power dynamic and it has to be repetitive. We're not talking about something that happens once. So in Wave 2 in 2007, we wanted to better understand how does everything compare online and offline? What's really going on with these kids? And we said, look, this is how we define bullying. We say a young person is being bullied or harassed when somebody else or a group of people repeatedly kicks, threatens, or says nastier and pleasant things to them. Another example is when no one ever talks to them. Okay, so we're getting at both physical bullying and relational bullying. Relational bullying has to do with social exclusion, rumors spread, that type of thing. We say these things can happen at school online or other places. Young people hang out. It is not bullying when two young people of about the same strength fight or tease each other. This is not something we created ourselves. It's actually a measure of bullying that has been used for years. And what we found, we gave them five different places. We said school, internet, cell phones, community, and anywhere else. How often has bullying happened to you based upon this definition? Well, the good news is that overwhelmingly across all environments, the vast majority say this has never happened to me in the last year. But when you compare school versus internet, school versus any other environment, 31% say it's happened to me at least once. Wow, bullying within our definition of repetition. It's happened to me at school compared to 13% on the internet. We also asked about cell phones. We have 6% of young people saying, yes, that's happened to me on cell phones. 11% say it's happened to me in the community. And then an interesting 13% are saying it's happening somewhere else online. That's kind of an interesting group to figure out where that's happening. No, sorry, I did. That's what I said, but that's not what I meant. Yes, thank you.  And then it seems to hold true, not just kind of in general, but when you look at the young people who say this has happened to me, frequently it's happening to me monthly or more often. 5% of young people at school, that's 1 in 20 young people at school, say that this bullying, as you've defined it, is happening to me at least once a month or more often. And then 2% is the next highest on the internet and in the community. So does it matter? What's the impact that internet harassment seems to be having on these young people? Well, in the Youth Internet Safety Surveys and in the Growing Up with Media Survey, young people who said they'd been harassed were asked, how did you feel about this experience? Or how upset were you by this experience? They had 5 options, one being not upset at all, to extremely upset. And so when we kind of identify those young people who have been very or extremely upset or afraid because of the incident, we see a range of 25 to 38% depending on the survey. So between 1 in 4, 1 in 3 young people say, you know, it made me very or extremely upset. So there's an important minority who are affected. Yeah, harassment. Yes, thank you for the clarification. So we're talking about 1 in 4 young people who have been harassed, okay? So not among all young people, but among those who are harassed, what is their reaction? So the opposite of that is true as well, right? So 3 in 4 young people say, I wasn't really all that affected, right? We, I haven't looked at it in the Growing Up with Media Survey. When we look at the Youth Internet Safety Survey 2 stuff, we did see that young people who reported multiple harassments were significantly more likely to be distressed. What else is going on with these kids? Well, a lot. So in all 3 surveys, we also asked about other things that were going on in these young people's lives. None of this, none of these data that I'm showing you are longitudinal. They're all cross-sectional, so I don't mean to imply that harassment is causing these problems or that these problems are causing harassment, but rather just to say, these kids who are being harassed are significantly more likely to have a lot of other stuff going on, okay? So across all 3 surveys, we're seeing interpersonal victimization and offline bullying. So kids who are being targeted for harassment and bullying online are significantly more likely to be targeted by the same sort of peer victimization offline. We also see some indication that they're significantly more likely to have social problems, problems interacting socially with other people. For boys specifically, we saw indications of increased likelihood of depression, alcohol and substance use, and then responding to stimuli with anger. We don't get into it today because it's not central, but across all surveys, what we're seeing is young people who have been harassed are significantly more likely to harass others. So there's kind of this interaction effect that not all these young people are kind of naive, vulnerable people that are not reacting, or instead it's very similar to the bullying experience that we're seeing offline. We have some people who are just bullies, some people who are just victims, but you also see bully victims, and we're seeing the same thing on the internet. And I think that's what's going on with the last measure. Okay, so we've talked a lot, we've just looked at a lot of data, so let's do a quick synopsis. The prevalence rate of internet harassment appears to be stable. Social networking site users are not significantly more likely to be harassed now than they were in 2006, even though the number of social networking site, frequent social networking site people, users have increased. School is by far the most commonplace young people report being bullied. The majority of internet harassment appears to be coming from peers, those under the age of 18, and youth who report being harassed online report a myriad of concurrent psychosocial problems offline too. So the question is about kind of mobile phones and kind of how the ability to now connect to the internet on mobile phones, what does that mean for all of these statistics because it now kind of blurs the lines. And we do have just like harassment, we had very specific questions about has this happened to you, has this happened to you. We have the same questions in terms of text messaging, so we make it very specific about text messaging. And I don't have those dated today. For the comparison across environments for bullying, we just said cell phones. So whatever that meant to the young person is how they responded. Just social networking sites. So the question is, did we ask specifically about specific sites, or was it a much more general sort of social networking sites? It was much more general. I mean, the question said, right, so here's a list of activities that young people engage in online. Of the things that you do online, what are the top two? And one option was social networking sites, and then in brackets we had, for example, MySpace Facebook. But we didn't say specifically which ones are. No, so the question is, what about things like somebody stealing your password? Again, kind of this idea of somebody hacking into your profile or creating your profile, kind of really focusing on social networking sites. We didn't, and the reason we didn't do that is because we wanted to have a very, in order to be able to compare rates across, you need to have a parallel measure. And that's not to say that there are things online that don't translate to offline, and similarly there are things offline that don't translate to online. But what we wanted to do was kind of say, this is generally what it would look like and how, where has it happened to you? So, sure, that's right. Okay, so if there are no other points for clarification, okay. We'll move on to unwanted sexual solicitation. So here are some quotes again from the Second Youth Internet Safety Survey from young people who reported unwanted sexual solicitation. A 14-year-old girl said, I was chatting on the internet and this guy just popped up in an instant message and started talking really dirty to me and saying things that I'd never heard before. He told me he was 30 years old and then he said, LOL, otherwise known to laugh out loud. A 12-year-old girl said, I went into a chat room and they asked me if I wanted to have cyber sex. I was asking them what kind of music they liked and stuff. And then an 11-year-old boy said, who was, 11-year-old boy, he was playing an online game with a man who was 20, said he asked me something personal, something about a man's private. So there's a lot going on in these quotes, but a couple of things that I want to point out. One of the things that we're asked about a lot is this issue of deception, right? The concern that you have adults who are pretending to be of the same age, who are pretending to wanting to be friends as opposed to having a sexual interest. And I think the first quote really very clearly does a good job of dispelling a little bit of that, right? She knew that he was 30. He didn't pretend that he was 14. He was very clear that he was 30. And he didn't pretend that he wanted to be her friend. He was pretty clear that there was sexual intention. So this concern about deception may not really be grounded in the data. And I also, you know, the first thing happened and it's the messaging, the second happened in chat rooms, the third happened in games. That's just to make the point that, as you all know, just to reinforce what you already know, which is that unwanted sexual solicitation and any sort of contact with positive and negative can happen anywhere where young people are communicating online. It's my view that it's not reflected in the data. However, as a researcher, I tend to say suggestive of... Yes, no, yes. Pin me down. I will go on record saying, based upon the data we have to date, it is not supported by the data. Deception is not supported by the data. All right. So how do we define unwanted sexual solicitation? We use the same questions across all three surveys, which is fantastic because then the numbers are directly comparable. We ask young people whether or not somebody tried to get them to talk about sex when they did not want to. Whether or not somebody had asked them for sexual information when they did not want to tell the person. We're talking about really personal information, like what your body looks like, what your bra size is. Whether or not somebody asked you to do something sexual when you didn't want to. Of course, that could be, you know, with a webcam being asked to take off your shirt or that kind of thing. A couple of points here. These can... These tap into a wide range of experiences, some that can be relatively benign, some that can be relatively serious. Okay. Not all of these reflect a young person being solicited for sex. So when we talk about unwanted sexual solicitation, we're talking more about solicitation for information rather than sexual activity. So from Youth Internet Safety Survey 1 to Youth Internet Safety Survey 2, so 2000 to 2005, the prevalence rate of unwanted sexual solicitation decreased from 19% to 13%. These are the data that you know, right? The one in five, that's now one in seven who have been solicited. Again, make the point. We're not talking about solicited for sex. All right. So significant decrease. Good news. In the Growing Up with the Media Survey, in 2006, 15% said that they had been solicited. We followed up with them again. In 2007, the rates looked relatively stable. 13% said this has happened to me. So good news that it seems relatively stable. Good news that we're seeing similar percentages across surveys too. It gives us, as researchers, a little bit confidence that we're tapping into the same stuff across samples. So in the Growing Up with Media Survey, again, we're asking people how often has this happened? Did it happen once? Did it happen monthly? Did it happen every day? So young people, 3.4% in 2006 said this has happened to me at least monthly or more often. It's really not all that common, right? 3.5% of all young people say this is happening to me monthly. We asked them again in 2007, similar percentage. In fact, exactly similar percentage, 3.4%. So it's quite stable among our sample. Continuity of solicitation over time. 6% reported at least one solicitation at both time points, both at 2006 and again at 2007. 8% reported solicitation only in 2006 and then said, no, this didn't happen to me in the last year in 2007. And then 7% reported, no, it hasn't happened to me in 2006 and newly reported in 2007. And again, it's that 6% that as an adolescent health researcher I'm really concerned about. So when we look at solicitation across ages, and the cool thing now is that we've got four data sets basically that we can look at. And you're seeing a pretty clear picture, a pretty obvious trend. 10 and 11, 12-year-olds, not a whole lot going on. 15, 16, 17-year-olds, whole lot going on. This is an issue that is most common for older teens, 15 to 17 years of age, who, by the way, are normatively becoming developmentally curious about sex. Who's doing the soliciting? So in the Second Youth Internet Safety Survey, similar to the internet harassment data, young people who said, yes, this has happened to me, they were asked to follow up question, who was it? Well, 43% said it was somebody who was 17 years of age and younger. 30% said it was 18 to 25 years of age and younger. Excuse me, 30% said it was somebody between the ages of 18 and 25. 19% said it was somebody 26 years of age and older. And then 18% said I don't know who it is. Absolutely. So the question is kind of what would it look like if we actually changed the definition of the category to make it a more sort of typical college age, 18 to 22. What does that do to our 30%? The quick answer is I don't know. I haven't been close to these data for a while, but I would also say that 25 is still within, frankly, now kind of the typical age of a college attending person, I think, has increased such that you would easily find 25-year-olds in college still. Nature of large universities, people often take years to get the classes they need to finish, et cetera. I mean, six years is now a standard amount of time to spend getting a degree. So I think 18 to 24, 25 is actually quite a reasonable way of thinking about university age. Yeah. So it's a good point. And so the point is here that for us, we kind of see 18 to 25 as the college age group. Yeah. Okay. So the question is, I think kind of where are these data coming from? Is it being verified in any way? Is that what you're asking? Yeah. Right. Well, those could be two, one and the same thing, right? So somebody could say, I'm 30, and then you see on a webcam that this guy looks around 30. I mean, so it is based upon youth, self-reported knowledge of the person's age, however it was obtained. Yes. Well, the kid was, what the child was told. So if the young person is under the impression that the solicitor is 30, then in this graph, in this page, they would fall into the 30 category. And they didn't know face-to-face how sure they were of the age. And most of the kids said not at all, sure. That figure shows what kids thought the age was, but most kids also said they weren't at all, sure. All right. So let's talk about social networking sites and how that kind of impacts the picture of unwanted sexual solicitation. So again, the 16 and 34 percent, this is a percentage that you're well familiar with at this point, 16 percent said social networking sites, one of the top two things I do in 2006, that increases to 34 percent. Okay. So the question is, do we see a similar increase in the percentage of young people who report being solicited in social networking sites? And the answer is mostly. 4 percent in 2006 said that they were solicited in a social networking site and just under half, or just under double, rather. So a doubling of 4 percent would be 8 percent to mirror the doubling and usage. We see 7 percent. 7 percent of all young people in our survey in 2007 said that they were solicited in a social networking site. What's the likelihood that social networking site users will be solicited? So among those that say social networking sites and there are top two things that they do, 27 percent in 2006 and 22 percent in 2007 said that they were solicited just somewhere online. Right. So one point to make is that social networking site users can be solicited at other places, can be harassed at other places. Again, it kind of gets at there's a multitude of activities that young people are engaging in online. These things are happening a lot of different places online. So 27 percent and 22 percent of frequent social networking site users said that they were solicited somewhere online. When we look at social networking site, frequent social networking site users being solicited in social networking sites, it's pretty stable. 15 percent said yes. I was solicited in a social networking site in 2006 and the same percentage said yes in 2007. How do the rates compare online and offline? We used a parallel question to tap into school-based sexual solicitation. So we said the following question is about your experiences at school. In the past 12 months, have any of the three, these three things happened to you, right? So did anybody ask you to try and ask you to talk about sex when you didn't want to, to provide sexual information when you didn't want to and to do something sexual that you didn't want to? Yeah, not exactly what we would have expected, right? But we see good news. 83 percent and 87 percent in both environments say no, this never happened to me. But 16 percent of young people say, yeah, that's happened to me at least once in the past year at school, compared to 13 percent that said, yeah, that's happened to me once at least on the internet. So I think it's fair to say that at least from this slide, we can conclude that the internet doesn't seem to be representing or causing an explosion of sexual harassment and solicitation that is much, in fact, we're seeing similar percentages of other environments that young people spend a lot of time in, for example, school. So the question is kind of what overlap are we talking about? Are we talking about the same kids? Are we talking about different kids? I don't, I could get the answer for you, but I don't know off the top of my head. But yeah, I'll just all leave it there. Right, so the point is that we, unlike the bullying question, we only asked about school. We didn't ask about other places offline. And hopefully, ostensibly, at school, really the only thing that we are measuring is peer-to-peer solicitation, and it's possible that in other environments, non-school, face-to-face environments that young people could be solicited by adults. I think that's a good point. And I think if that's the case, then we're undercounting the amount of solicitation that's happening offline, which then just furthers the hypothesis that the internet is not the only place that we need to be concerned about what's going on in our kids' lives. The impact of unwanted sexual solicitation, similar to internet harassment, young people who were solicited were asked, how upset or afraid did this make you? Among young people who were solicited between one and four and one and three said, I was pretty upset, very or extremely upset by what happened. We did look at youth who reported being solicited in a social networking site versus being solicited somewhere else, and people are not significantly more likely to be upset by the solicitation that occurs in social networking sites compared to other places online. What else is going on in these kids' lives? A lot, a lot. We're looking at youth internet city survey one and the Wave 2 data from growing up with media, again cross-sectional, so I'm not implying causality at all, but kids who report unwanted sexual solicitation are also reporting victimization offline from their peers into the form of bullying and other sorts of physical type of interpersonal victimization, and that's consistent across data sets. We're also seeing substance use and alcohol use. What also is concerning in the growing up with media survey is weapon caring at school. Kids who are solicited online are 10 times more likely to report carrying a weapon to school in the last 30 days. I'm not saying it's causing it, but I'm saying it's definitely a marker for concern. All right, so quick synopsis. Rate of unwanted sexual solicitation overall seems to be stable. Social networking users are no more likely to be solicited in social networking site now than they were in 2006. We're seeing at least similar percentages of youth being reported, youth report being solicited online as being solicited at school.  And again, similar to the internet harassment youth, youth who report being targeted by unwanted sexual solicitation have a lot of other stuff going on in their lives. They're reporting a lot of other concurrent psychosocial problems. So quick implications, yes. So you're asking about the psychosocial profile of kids who are solicited online versus solicited offline? Yes, so kids who, that's right, that's exactly right. So kids who report being targeted by unwanted sexual solicitation on the internet versus kids who do not report being targeted online by unwanted sexual solicitation are significantly more likely to also report problems in their relationship with their caregiver, significantly more likely to report problems with their peers, significantly more likely to report a multitude of behavior problems. And so that's the point, that these young people who are being solicited online are also reporting a multitude of psychosocial problems offline. So in terms of inferences, again with the Youth Internet Safety Survey data that Janice and I worked on with Kim and David at the University of New Hampshire, we did look with the Youth Internet Safety Survey too kind of across nine different types of behaviors that are typically deemed as risky, right?  And what we found to be the strongest predictor or the most influential in helping us understand the odds of being harassed and sexually solicited is the total number of things that young people report doing online. So it's kind of these young people that are really kind of out there and engaging in lots of different things that seems to be the greatest predictor. So I think I'll leave it there. Thanks.


Yes, this is a lightroom video, but before we jump into Lightroom, and I show you what we're doing over there I wanted to jump into Photoshop first to show you what I'm doing over here And the reason for that is because some of what I'm doing here will make better sense when we get over to Lightroom So let me show you exactly what it is. I'm talking about first of all You should know the difference between a global adjustment or a local adjustment and just for demonstration I'm going to show you exactly what I mean. So here I have a global adjustment of maybe some color and some exposure stuff and global simply means that This adjustment is being applied everywhere to the entire photograph Every pixel within this picture a local adjustment is something a little bit more specific In other words, it's being done only in a particular place in this example I've made an adjustment just to the sky and if I turn this on and off you can actually see how just the sky is Getting brighter. That's a local adjustment If we were here inside of Photoshop, you could see that there is an opacity slider right here in the layers panel and What that does is it allows you to control in my opinion opacity is a fancy word for strength So it allows you to control how strong an adjustment is So if I turn the global adjustment on and off again, I think that that was a little bit strong Even though it's being applied everywhere. I could go over to the opacity slider I can open this up and I can start to dial this opacity back and control house How little or how much of this adjustment is actually being applied or how strong the adjustment is being applied so Opacity is what we're going to show you in Lightroom Local and global adjustments is important so that you understand kind of what we're doing So let's jump over to Lightroom and show you this really awesome tip that I have for you today So here we are inside of Lightroom and I've got three different examples Of this trick that I'm going to show you because in Lightroom there are actually three different local adjustment tools that you can use To make changes to your photograph. So if we head over to the develop module The three local adjustment tools that we have at our disposal are the graduated filter The radio filter and the adjustment brush and all three of these work very similar to one another But they're also very uniquely different from one another Okay, but the trick is if I were to grab say the graduated filter and apply an adjustment and It doesn't really matter what I'm applying or what adjustments I'm applying because that's not what I'm trying to show you today So I'm going to just make a few adjustments. Don't worry about exactly what it is I'm doing because that's kind of irrelevant but let's say that I wanted to darken this sky down and I wanted to add a little bit more blue to it maybe a little bit more contrast and Pump up the whites and the clouds something Something crazy like this. All right So let's say that I made that adjustment if I click this toggle switch You can see before and after what what we did there, right? I know that it's screwing up the corners over here I could always go in after the fact with my eraser tool and I could say, you know what? I don't I didn't really mean for for any of this stuff to be affected So I'm going to just take it out. Okay, but remember the opacity slider that we had inside a photoshop Well, you have the ability to lower the opacity of this adjustment to it's actually really cool If we look closer, we have this pin right here This was the graduated filter that was applied and if I hover over the pin and hold my option key down You'll notice how it turns from a hand To a left and right arrow and what that means is if I keep holding down my option key on a Mac or Alt key On a PC what I can do is actually dial this back. So if I click with my mouse and drag to the left I'm basically dialing back the opacity on this adjustment and saying, you know what? This is how strong it was but maybe I want to just Bring it back uniformly Just a little bit because it was kind of strong if I keep going I take it all the way back to zero Which means there's no adjustment being applied at all or I could say, you know I want some of this but I don't want it as strong as I had originally applied it So this is dialing back the opacity and it doesn't only work not only for the graduated filter It also works for the radio filter as well. So if I were to jump over to another image Here I've got this oblong kind of oval looking Architecture structure if I grab a radio filter and do the exact same thing. I'm going to just try and match this shape to the shape that's here, so we'll just kind of rotate this and Extend it a little bit. It doesn't have to be perfect something like that So what I want to do now is I want to brighten up everything. That's that's here in shadow It's a little bit too dark. So I'm going to go and brighten that I'm going to maybe lift my exposure Maybe add some contrast maybe even a little bit of clarity to that and it's a little blue So I'm going to pull back my my temperature on it as well And you can see that looks that looks pretty cool, right? If we just look at a before and after of what we've done here That's pretty fun But if I felt like it was too strong, I could hover over this pen just like we did before I could hold my option key down and now I can drag to the left and I can dial back that that entire adjustment as a whole so instead of going over to each one of those These adjustments over here. I can just dial everything back at one time just just a little bit And and basically lower that opacity so that it's not so strong This is awesome. And if we do it one more time on that image that we were in Photoshop I could do this with the adjustment brush as well So I could come over to the adjustment brush and I could say, you know, I want to just Brush in these areas over here and make this a little bit brighter Okay, that's a little aggressive. So I'm going to back this exposure down Maybe lift my contrast up again, it doesn't matter the adjustments that I'm applying I just want you to get a sense as to how this works Maybe lift the temperature a little bit and that's looking pretty good already But again, if I wanted to dial it back a little bit I could just hold my alt or option key down and I can just drag my mouse down and soften that adjustment all the way so opacity in Lightroom it does exist and you should use it because it's awesome And if you like this video and think that it's awesome Go ahead and smash that like button Subscribe to this channel if you're new here and as always, thank you so much for your support We'll catch you in the next episode


Thanks for checking out this unboxing video of the BAMBOX and this is the December BAMBOX. Actually getting it in December, which is awesome, this stands in contrast to the horror block from NerdBlock that I just got four days prior from getting this. Before this, yes, four days right before I received this, I got my November horror block from NerdBlock. And right now I'm getting the December BAMBOX, so you do the math, I don't understand it. Anyway they did two days shipping on this, which was great because they wanted to make sure that they got all the boxes out to people before the holidays, which is awesome. So yeah, a little bit nervous about this box maybe, just because of what happened last month, the November box, the adult cartoon theme, did not go all that well with me and a lot of other people didn't really like it, but that's one bad box, I look forward to this one. This one's theme is legends and I know a few of the things they're supposed to be pulling from this box, so two of the things I'm not all that excited about because I don't know a ton about them. But there are two things I always look forward to with these boxes. One is the pin. The pin is always really cool and I'm really looking forward to it. The thing that sucked about last month for me, in addition to it just not being a very good box, was that my pin was missing, but I contacted the BAMBOX customer service, they were very good, they got me a pin very, very fast and I ended up getting the South Park pin chef, which is great, it looks great, it's cool, I love their pins. The other thing I really look forward to in these boxes are the art prints. The numbered art prints are super cool, not just because they're numbered but everyone I've seen has just been great artwork, it looks awesome, it looks amazing. Whenever I get this, I get super excited because I never know what it's going to be, the pin, the print, and anything else on top is kind of gravy if I like it. I haven't been into the comics all that much, but to each their own. So anyway, I want to get into this, but as we all know, there was beef between BAMBOX and NerdBlock and if you watched my last unboxing video where I did the horror block and that one was, there were a lot of problems with that, which was very weird because they had just called up BAMBOX and then they have a crappy horror block. So I did contact their customer service, so just so you know, I'll give you an update on how all that played out with my next actually be a normal NerdBlock which I will be getting from them because of the bad November BAMBOX because that's what they offered as part of a Shots Fired type thing.  Why wouldn't you? It's free. So I'll update you on the customer service thing, but that thing with my horror block issue is actually kind of, it's solved. So it ended up being a happy story for me, but I'll fill you in on that later. Anyway, this is all about the BAMBOX and like I said, always excited. So let's get into it. Let's see what's good. Hopefully it's really good. The other thing actually I need to say really fast is that I was a little bit weary of this box because with the adult cartoon one, they didn't hype it like barely at all. And from what I hear part of the reason was that they ended up having some licensing issues with a few items they were going to put in that box. So they really had to kind of throw it together last minute to get it out. And that's why they're saying it was not a very good box, but they didn't really hype that box. They didn't really hype this box all that much. So kind of a little nervous about that. But like I said, the pen and the art print usually are really good. So I know most likely those will at least be good. So we'll check this out. The other thing really, really, really fast is that on the box they have the thing, see where it says, right, they get all of it in there, read it. They encourage you to trade. If you get things that you don't like and you're looking for something else that's been in another BAM box or you want more of it, you can go on their site and trade. That's another really cool thing that they do that I think more of these types of boxes should do because it's something great for the community. All right, let's get in this thing on top. Legends and there's Darth Vader and I believe probably Red Sonja because I know Red Sonja was one of the things that was, you know, talked about get out paper. There's nothing in it. Now my cat can have it because she loves tissue paper. All right, let's get in here. Please, please, the pen. Thank you. Yes, the pen is in here. Thank you so much. Oh, OK, OK, OK. Interesting, interesting, got it. It took me a minute because it's a really dark. It's really dark in coloration, this pen. I'm going to have to take it out of here, cut down on the player. It's really dark in coloration and so it's kind of hard to tell what it is. But basically it's a mashup between the Winter Soldier from Captain America and the Game of Thrones and it says winter is coming, which is a fun, that's pretty fun and funny. It's a good, I got to get right in there. Can you see it? Can you see it all right? I'm sorry, my hands kind of shake, so it's hard to. It's cool. A little more crude looking than a lot of their past pens, but it's still a good looking pen. It's a great concept. I like the mashup there. That's cool. Good job. I always look forward to the pens and that's a solid, solid pen. I don't need that anymore either. All right, there's another item here that might be like a pen or something. It's in a little pouch. I guess this can be used. That's actually tied. I figured it wouldn't be tied. It's tied. The should check that it's kind of heavy, whatever. Oh, like throwing knives fully. And they're like legit. These are like ninja throwing knives basically. And these things are like legitimately sharp looking. The sides, the sides actually don't feel very sharp, but there is like a little tip. There's a thing on the tip because I guess it's kind of sharp there, but I mean, look at that. This is like literally like those ninja like throwing knives. That's interesting. I'm going to definitely have to check out the book to see like what the significance of that is, but I mean, they're cool. They're metal. They're, you know, kind of heavy as you can hear their metal. I like that they come with this little pouch to keep safe so you don't stab yourself. That's always good. Don't stab yourself, people. All right, next thing is, oh, okay. So this is a Star Wars comic and it's a Marvel comic. It is number one. It's a variant edition and it's called Vader Down, which is great because it's all about Darth Vader. It's a certificate. There's a certificate of authenticity on the back for saying it's a limited edition series because of the cover, because it's an exclusive cover, 15,000 copies made. It's not like super limited or anything, but I'm sorry, the filler is kind of crappy. I'll try and put it at the best angle, but as you can see, it's Darth Vader doing, you know, being Darth Vader-y and looking and posing and whatnot. That's cool. That'll be worth checking out. It's very timely as Rogue One just came out, which I haven't seen yet, but I will be seeing soon. So that's not bad. That's far not bad. Next item. Okay. This is one of the items that I was like, I don't know, Red Sonia. So another comic book, two comic books. Interesting. This says this is number zero. So I don't know what that means by being number zero. Maybe you'll say in their whole thing, but it's a Bambox exclusive cover at least. It's signed by Amy Chu, who I believe probably did the cover art on it and has, yep, signed by Amy Chu. Yeah, Red Sonia number zero, Bambox exclusive edition, certificate of authenticity, of course, and you can see the signature up there and it's Red Sonia. I don't know a ton about Red Sonia, only thing I know is, you know, she's linked to Conan. I think she showed up in the Conan movie and played by like Brigitte Nielsen. So that's about all I know. This will be worth checking out for that reason because I don't know much about Red Sonia, so check it out. That's fine. My thing, but it's fun. Is this the art print? Oh, okay. So I'm trying to figure out if the, oh, okay, okay, I'm like, this has got to be some sort of like mash up here. Okay, so this is a signed art print, number 351 out of 500. So that's significantly more limited than that Vader Down comic. I had to look at it. So I believe this looks like old school, you know, like Ronan from Japan, Feudal Japan. I think it's supposed to be a crossover between that and Boba Fett from Star Wars because of the face. That's my guess. Either way, this looks really cool. It looks very like old school Japanese, which I'm definitely into. I love a lot of Asian culture stuff. I mean, it is signed down here, so that looks nice. It's very nice. It's keeping with it like the art prints. This is probably my least favorite of the art prints I've gotten thus far, but it's still good. It's still quite nice. So I think it's just saying how good the art prints have been, honestly. Not that this one's terrible or anything. So let's see. There might be one more item. I think one more item and then we're done. Okay, so this is signed and I don't even know who this is. This is the other thing I was kind of like, I'm probably not going to like this. So I'm sorry. Adam from Bambox, the CEO, had said that there was going to be the signed item by someone. He kind of alluded to the fact that they're not a celebrity yet, but they kind of could be a celebrity, but they've shown up on DC's Legends of Tomorrow show, which I have not watched that show. And who knows, this person could become a big name. It's just kind of weird to me that it's like, here's a signature from a person who's not very big, showed up on a show like once or twice or something. Maybe they get big. I mean, it'd be cool for people if it did get big, but it's a little weird. Still a lot better than having a signed item by a cosplayer. I will say that much. But I might as well show you. So I don't even know who this is because I just don't have a clue. Some people, as soon as you see it, you might know. And there's two people.  I gotta be honest. It looks really simplistic and dumb and chintzy, but whatever. So this is the signed item. I'm going to have to check out all those. Is that it? That is it. And of course, as we know, they have all these cool... It looks like the inside of the last box. So a lot of cartoon stuff, which is cool. All right. So time to get out the spoiler booklet. Now the BAM Parody pens. Okay. So you could have gotten a few of them. There's a limited edition one that was like Hydra. There was a Captain America one that says, hey girl. They don't look as great as all the pens before, but they're okay. The winter is coming. The one that I actually got is probably the best one. That's the one I would have wanted to get. But you can see all the different pens there. Pretty cool. Yeah. And then obviously this would be like if you got special, you got that one and that one if you got like the real special stuff, which I'm fine not getting that. Is the Say Who's is by, it's by some dude named Nick. Where is this? It doesn't say, he's back again. We had some fun ideas for this month's pen and knew Nick was the artist. Oh, Nick Cacosa, okay. He did the South Park pens last month, so still working with him. Then we have the Vader Down comic.  Limited to only 15,000 released. Look for the black and white cover limited to only 5,000 released. That's still not that limited. So you could have got the black and white version, which I don't see a difference there. Those two things look like the same to me. So I don't know. Whatever. I'm fine. That's fine.  It looks like one's probably like Red Sonion, one's like Conan or something. So it doesn't really say too much about it, honestly. Oh, they're letter openers. Okay. That's cool. That's a fun letter opener. I should have thought about that, but yeah, that's fun. I don't have any cool letter openers, honestly. Then there was the, they call it the Galactic Samurai, which was the art print.  I did.  I got a limited edition one. This one is limited to only 500. Oh, I should have known that when I said 351 out of 500. Yeah. So I got a limited edition one. Awesome. I got like an upgrade. Very cool. I like that. That's super nice. And then they had, so they had a few different versions of it. They had two different poses, but then they also had black and white in that version, which was the exclusive limited one, and then they had the color version. Yeah. Actually, I do like the black and white more than the color. So I'm glad I got that. That's really super cool. Nice. Nice. I finally got like a special thing. So they got a big thing for the fact that they're doing an anniversary box next month in January. So basically the concept with that is they're bringing back some versions of things they've already had in their first year of operation, which they're really hyping the crap out of it. So that should be cool. So they're going to have prints from artists Rocky Davies and Chris Uminga. Uminga. I don't know. Either or. But I'm excited for that. That'll be cool. Then we have Red Sonia number zero signed by the writer, okay, I'm sorry, not the cover artist, the writer, Amy Chu. That's cool. So that's different. I look for a special silver signed edition numbered out of 100, and a gold signed edition numbered out of 50. Okay. Yeah. I just got the normal black signature one. So I didn't get one of the special ones, which is fine because I already got this special art print. Makes sense. Okay. Then the signature is Stargirl and her name is Sarah Gray and she was on Legends of Tomorrow. Apparently that's on the CW channel. So okay. But it's rumored that she's going to be in a spinoff show. So she might get bigger. You can also catch her this March in the upcoming Power Rangers movie playing a character named Amanda. So it looks like she's going to start getting more traction, hopefully, and then that will up in value. So once again, Sarah Gray, and it shows her, it's like a picture of her signing and everything down over here. So that's cool. There's nothing exclusive with that. And then, oh, then there was a special giveaway for like a replica sword from Lord of the Rings. And I'll just show you. They're kind of promo on that. Oh, it's a sword. I'm okay to not get it because I don't know where I'd put a sword. But at any rate, not a bad box, definitely a big improvement from last month. I don't think this is like, oh my God, it's such an amazing box. But for the fact that it's following that bad box last month and they did not hype this a whole lot, pretty good, pretty happy. The pin was cool. I'm always good, you know, down for these pins. The art print, especially since I got like a special one, was really, really super nice. The signature, I don't really care about the signature at the moment. Maybe I'll see her and stuff more and more as she, you know, gets more work and then maybe I'll care at some point. But there's potential there. The Red Sonia, I don't know much about Red Sonia, but it is signed and it's worth checking out in my opinion. And then the fact that they were able to get a limited run Marvel Star Wars comic, I think is pretty cool, especially since Rogue One just came out. So that's nice. And then obviously the letter-openers, I think the letter-openers are fun. This is definitely one of those things that, you know, they talked about cutting out a lot of the extra items, but these are definitely extra items that are cool to get. I don't have any cool letter-openers, but now I do. So that works. And the pouch is really nice, it's pretty well made. As you can see, it's like a little red velvety or silky feeling on the inside. So it's nice. Anyway, pretty good box. I'm happy with it, especially following last month.  So hopefully there's no more beef going on as things go on. I think maybe there should be a comment by NerdBlock on how this box has a lot more value, so maybe they should apologize or something. But at any rate, thanks for checking out this unboxing. Very excited to see what the Bandbox keeps doing. So thank you so much for checking this out and keep it brutal.


You know I was thinking about that. I was thinking it is it is resource-intensive, but it is Outcome rich, and I think that I mean there is no doubt about it. We have tons of tons of evidence that our teachers are motivated our teachers are are Taking initiative to do things beyond just the one lesson. They're taking initiative to do all kinds of things They're recruiting their peers into the program. They're recruiting principals into their classroom to come observe They're seeing students differently, and that's we really need to talk about that the impact on students is you know with a teacher Is bringing in something interesting and that works and then the students respond positively and demonstrate Skills and abilities that the teacher didn't know they had and so then it's this whole iterative process where You know the teachers are motivated by their kids So when their kids are doing better than the teachers want to do more and We've heard that from more than one teacher. They say wow my kids always want to do this now now. They're asking me Can we do something else like that? So there's all of that, but then there's the CST scores, which are our state scores, you know We have Assessments we've done with our evaluator that to show student achievement goes up and we can demonstrate that in several different ways student engagement goes up teacher The abilities the ability of teachers to apply the historical thinking skills Increases, and I think there's there's really two separate things going on. We have all of this evidence based on feedback from teachers and and Everybody wants to call that anecdotal But pretty soon there's a pattern and pretty soon There's a message that's coming very clearly from teachers that teachers are actually demanding calling their administrators and sending emails to their Administrators saying you know unless you do lesson study. I don't want to do professional development I mean, I really believe that the professional development is Is profound and the leaders in Placer County in the coming years Will be people who say you know that that lesson study thing that because it provided Networking opportunities it provided a clear content focus and a clear focus on Student the student experience student achievements student engagement Examining student evidence all these great things that you want educators to do


10? Ya, I've been doing music since 2010, especially in my church. And I'm happy because it has been a very, very fine moment for me. Tell us about it because you were able to do a whole album. Ya, 2010, I tried my best. I did my first album unfortunately. The team that I was with or the people surrounding me, they were not able maybe to support because I was somebody there with a different idea. You know being one person with different idea among people who have different ideas. So it was very challenging for me. I tried my level best but I could not make it. So I was forced to go down fast and wait for the right time. Because God's time is the best time. God's time is the best time. Do you feel like at the time it was rushed, the whole process? No. Or was it just the management's different ideas? The issue was that I had a dream that I could do it. Unfortunately the people I was working with, they could not see that dream before. So I can't say it was a rush idea or I was faster than my time. No, I can't say that. So the first album didn't do as well but then you didn't lose hope. You went back to the church, then you became a motivational speaker. Ya, I've been doing a lot from my church through the support of Pastor Bill Gdinge From which church if I may ask? Deliverance church, Solid Rock. Solid Rock. Okay, shout out. Na washikuruote mungo abariki hamjamboni. Okay, so how did that start? Did you always have a passion? Did you always feel like you're a shepherd? Because a motivational speaker is like a shepherd in church terms. Did you always have that calling? Actually, even if I refuse, I usually find myself doing it. Because sometimes you find a kajama there who needs your support.  It's something that is spiritual. Because you find somebody there who needs your support.  You can train this person of which class you are supposed to be in. Maybe because of ABCD, this happened, but you can change it.  So it has been well. We need a word actually. I think these days, if did you talk to Neza Semukweli, we are flooded by music that is not actually guiding people to the right direction. So what would you advise the youth of today? The people who are watching this circuit? People from Solid Rock who are watching you right now? What would you tell them right now? To me, I can say, these people are saying that many music may be at the peak level. I can say this. There is so many, many, many music outside there that are very good. Unfortunately, the challenge becomes to how we are marketing our music. You find that the music that we are doing, those who are doing quality music, it's not easy for you to get a chance like now Nixson is at Y254. It's not easier. But those who are maybe doing these other things, Inakwa nira isi kwao kuenda ju. So we need to pray more. Those who are doing gospel music, we need to pray more. Those who are doing secular music still, we need to pray more because we can also do this secular music with a good message. I like that. They would call it love music instead of just secular music because even there are gospel artists like Akina BBCC, they sing love music and I think even our parents can listen to it without cringing. Would you do that as a gospel musician in Kenya? It depends what you are doing. I don't say I can't do it and I don't say I can't do it. But it depends what you are doing. You know, sometimes it doesn't mean when I sing and mention God somewhere, it's a gospel music. So it depends on how you are saying. What am I speaking to? What am I trying to pass out? To pass to somebody. So that is what matters a lot. Tell us about your comeback in the music industry after 2010 because right now we have a new track that we are about to release on the E-Circuit but before that, let us know. I've been praying every time na uduriya keshas, every time na uduriya events, the church na filtriya kwamba like nili kosaia because unaketi pale and you have something that is unique. So through that prayer na kati beliwi ya kwamba, in 2018 I must do something. Tha's why last year nili amka na kasaim ah. I'm going back to the studio. I'm going back to the studio because So Rafika Misa, did you go to which studio did you choose? I want to thank Mr. Abedi Goso because he's a very good friend of mine and he has been a friend of mine for so long. Nili kwa kilasa tu ki kutana tu nongia na ni ambe kujiwa kwa studio wu faji mahambo tu kienda mahalia na ni ambe kwa niksoni you can do better than what you are doing now. So come back to the studio, we do something good. So I did it and I thank Abedi Goso, whatever you are. May God bless you. Gambo production. Yeah, Gambo production. Fun fact, before we go to the nitra kuchisa, same again, yeah? Yeah. Your first album, you paid for it through football and people don't know this about you. I bet even Soledrok Ajia about this. They don't know about that.  They knew about it because they were there, very supportive and they used to give me very serious support. Unfortunately, they were not to that level where they could say niksoni wu tatembe aivi wu fiki apa. Tu lukwa nengia tu kuwa studio tunafanya, tu kibaliza tunayenda but we thank God. We thank God because God had a good plan for me. Ya, and ya kasi ma tuliya wu tatamuka tena. Tatamuka tena. Nande o me amka, o me kuzena trakukalisana same again. What's the inspiration behind same again? This same again, I know it can minister to anyone, anytime. It doesn't matter about your age. This is a song where once you are in trouble, once you are in a very difficult situation, I believe it can minister to you. It doesn't matter your age or your category. Even the rich people, they sometimes find themselves in a very critical condition, in a very difficult moment. This song can minister to them. Ya. Nice, nice. Before we go, I want to read some comments on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. That's on Y24 Channel. I'm at the E-Circuit. But I have a question for you. Our topic of the day, it's about dreadlocks and the high school kids. Apparently they've been allowed to go back to school with dreadlocks. What do you think about that? As a motivational speaker and a gospel artist. To me, I can say this. It's good to follow the rules that are any place, follow the rules. But now that's the new rule. Go with dreadlocks. Once you come to my teacher in my class, I say, please, I require only students without tseme na takawote wa kwen alone, whether you are a lady or a man. Kindly follow that rule. If you feel like my rules are very unsuitable for you, just go to somewhere else where these rules will suit you. Where the rules are more acceptable to you. You found a way not to answer. I see where the motivational speaker comes in. And where can someone find you on social media? In social media, I am Nickson Amadi. N-I-X-O-N. That is my Nickson. Nickson Amadi. You can find me there on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and that's all. And YouTube, of course. They can subscribe. Nickson Amadi. The best support you can give me is by subscribing to my channel. Yes. So subscribe, subscribe wherever you are. So, we are about to play Nickson Amadi's new song, same again, but before that, let me sample some of your tweets and comments on Facebook. Someone by the name of Arian Simba goes by the handle Arian underscore Simba on Twitter. Simba, thanks for your channel for playing Tamu by Mboso. You can thank DJ Talk and you can still send your requests on Zingoja. How about it? Yeah, yeah. Kabisa. Sa, sa. On Facebook, Iman James, Simba, I'm loving the show, Kindly Play for Me, Kiboko by Masauti. I don't know that one, but DJ Talk is amazing. Safi Kabisa, David Pisa of Prince. David Prince, Simba. Play for me in Goma Modya, Nandi, Ima Nyash, Free Locked. Eh? Nyash. Ima Nyash. Ima Free. Nyash, Ima Free Nyash. Iman doa lukwana manisha kusama. Sa, sa, nasima Locked from Eldoritz. Thank you for watching.