What I'd like to do today is discuss three things. Present discounted value, fractional reserve banking, and the Austrian business cycle theory. But before I do, I have to brag a little bit. I'm probably the only person in this room, if I'm not, please raise your hand. Who shook the hand of Ludwig von Mises? Ah, we've got a few. But unlike these guys, I never wash this hand. So it's a little dirty. But if you shake my hand, you channel Mises. Whereas these guys, they wash their hands. The other way I want to brag is I once played chess with Hayek. And I beat him. Of course, the way I play chess is I tell my opponent, go look over there, and I grab the queen. Then I beat him. OK, so what is fractional reserve banking? What is present discounted value? And what is the Austrian business cycle theory? I have here in my hot hands a dollar bill. What am I bid for this? I'll give it to you in a year from now. I'm not giving it to you now. But I'll give it to you in a year from now. But I promise I will. And let's forget about inflation. Whenever I do this sort of a thing, when I think of Cartman of the TV series, South Park, you can trust me. Nobody trusts Cartman for anything. Well, the profit-maximizing bid on your part would be minus infinity. Namely, I have to pay you an infinite amount of money for you to accept this dollar in a year from now. But if we forget about negative numbers, the profit-maximizing bid on your part would be zero. You're going to offer me zero, and I'll give you this dollar in a year from now. But what is the bid such that no profits will be made, no profits, no losses? And for that, you can't answer the question. It's a trick question. You have to know the interest rate. Without the interest rate, you don't know how much you should bid in order to not make a profit nor make a loss. And by the way, that's what the present discounted value of a dollar is, the bid such that you don't make a profit, you don't make a loss. Well, if the interest rate is 3%, forgetting about rounding errors, $0.97 is the right amount. Because if you take $0.97 at 3%, you'll get a dollar. So if you bid $0.97, you'll neither make a profit nor make a loss. If you bid $0.95 or $0.96, you'll make a little profit. If you bid $0.98 or $0.99, you'll make a little bit of a loss. If you bid more than a dollar, you're crazy, because you could have the money right now and put the money in the bank. So that's what the present discounted value is of future income streams. OK. The next issue is, suppose the government lowers the interest rate from 4% to 3%, or it's done artificially. Now, if it could be done, well, let me start again. What sets up the interest rate in the first place? Well, according to the Austrians, it's time preference. Some people are very impatient, then you get a very high interest rate. And other people look for the long run and you get a lower interest rate. And the interest rate that prevails in society is the one that takes in everyone's participation. So we now have an interest rate of 4%, which means that the present discounted value of $1.96. And what the government is going to do is lower the interest rate from 4% to 3%. How are they going to do it? Two different ways. One way is our favorite institution around here, Ron Paul's favorite institution, the Fed. The Fed just buys up some stuff, puts more money out there, and the interest rate falls. Another way is fractional reserve banking, another institution which is not really the favorite of people around here and certainly not of me. So what's going on with fractional reserve banking? With the Fed, it's easier to understand. They just print more money or buy some stuff with the money that they printed up and we're off to the races. And if you think of a supply and demand curve with interest rates on the vertical axis and amount of money on the horizontal axis, more money means the supply curve shifts to the right and you get a lower interest rate. So one way to go from four to three is the government increases the money supply. Another way is they don't have to do that. We just have to have fractional reserve banking. So what's fractional reserve banking? Fractional reserve banking is, Mr. A goes to the bank with 100 bucks and he deposits the 100 bucks. And the bank gives him a checking account for 100 bucks and he can spend that 100 bucks on demand. At any time he wants, he can buy $100 worth of stuff with his check. Or with his credit card either way. And then what the bank does is it lends, the bank is B, A is the first guy, B is the bank and it lends out $90 to Mr. C. The fraction now is 10%. Namely it owes Mr. A 100. It keeps 10 and it lends 90 to Mr. C. And it gives Mr. C a checking account and now there's $190 worth of money where there used to be just 100. Thanks not to the magic of the market, but to the magic of fraud in effect. This is fraudulent because the bank is committed on demand to give people 190 bucks and it's only got 10 bucks, right? And then Mr. C goes to bank D, is in David and deposits his $90. And that bank takes $9 out of the 90 because it too has a 10% fractional reserve and we go on to the races 81, 72, 63, down to the last thing. And the equation for that is the amount of money is $100 divided by the fraction. And the fraction is 10%, so 100 divided by 10% or by one tenth is 1,000. So when the process works its way out, we have $1,000 worth of money, extra money. And with that is the second way that the interest rate can go from four to 3%. Now, in order to make fraction reserve banking work, it's illegal to question the veracity of a bank, start a bank run, say, hey, I'd better go to bank B or bank D and get my money because they've only got so much money and they owe so much, you do that, you can go to jail because not only is that libelous and we libertarians also have a view on libel, but this is especially evil thing from the point of the central bank and from the point of the state. So that's fraction reserve banking. Okay, so now the rate of interest goes down from 4% to 3%, which means that investments that used to be worth, what an investment is is an attempt to get a dollar in a year from now, right? A one year investment is an attempt to get a dollar in a year from now by paying 96 or 97 cents or whatever it is.  Well, it used to be at a 4% interest rate, you had to put in 96 cents. Now, at a 3%, you have to put in 97. Namely, you have to put in less. Namely, this encourages one year investments, right? Everyone with me? At a lower rate of interest, you're more likely to invest for a year duration because you have to put in less money now. You only have to put in 97 cents. Sorry, you only have to put in 96 cents whereas before you had to put in 97 cents. Everyone with me on that? Okay, well, that's not good. It's not good that we have more investments than we had before because the savings rate hasn't changed and the investments come out of savings. And it's as if we have a business where we need 10 bricks, we've only got nine bricks. There's gonna be a problem that we're gonna have too much investment because people are now investing more for one year projects than they were before. So this isn't hunky-dory, this is a problem. However, that's a minor problem, a one year duration. It's only a 1% increase. Namedy, the difference between 96 and 97 cents is roughly 1% differential. But if you look at a 20 year investment, the differential is 25%. You know, I wanna revert to the Bible. Yay, though I walked through the Valley of Death, I have my interest rate tables here, so I fear no man. So if you dare question my numbers, I've got the interest rate tables here. 30 years, it's a 33% differential. A 60 year investment, it's double. And a 100 year investment, investment's almost triple. So what this does is it biases the structure of production, namely the length of investments. It biases it toward long roundabout methods of production, which the savings rate of the people just doesn't justify because that hasn't changed. The only thing that's changed is illicit fraction reserve banking and the government creating money. Now, now we're getting to the Austrian business cycle theory. I hope I've convinced you of what present discounted value is and what fraction reserve banking is. And now I'm ready to launch into the Austrian business cycle theory, which is a little different than the Keynesian. See, for the Keynesians, it's sort of like there's a car on a very narrow road and on this side rests unemployment and on this side rests inflation. And the car is sort of wonky and it's gonna veer into one or the other side. And if it veers into the unemployment side, we gotta pump up something. And here you get right wing Keynesians and left wing Keynesians. The right wing Keynesians, the Friedmanites, the Chicagoites, they're the ones who say, well, it's monetary policy. If the car, the economic car, is veering toward unemployment, let's get the money supply increased. That was Milton Friedman's and Anna Schwartz's view of the Depression of 1933 or whatever it was. Namely, the Fed didn't create enough money. So those are the monetary Keynesians. Then you've got the fiscal Keynesians. Those are the left wing. Don't ask me why one is left and one is right. That's a whole other issue. But then you've got the fiscal Keynesians and say, no, no, no, if you're in unemployment, you gotta have deficits and spending and stuff like that. Arthur Burns was once asked at a conference, well, suppose you have unemployment and inflation, namely stagflation. And he said, oh, well, then we'll have to resign. Now, this guy was in charge of this stuff. He was also my teacher at Columbia when I was getting my PhD. The problem with him is that all he would talk about was politics, Dick Nixon and he were buddies and he had lunch with Dick Nixon and yack, yack, yack about Dick Nixon. So I wasn't learning macro money. This is before I became an Austrian. So I went to Albert Marble Malthardt, another teacher who was talking about money macro, but I couldn't understand a word. So I was schizophrenic. I'd go from this class to that class and thank God I became an Austrian and learned a little macro money but it was rough during that time. But that's a very powerful critique of left wing or right wing Keynesianism, namely stagflation. What happens if you have both? What do you do? Do you pump it up or not or what? That's one difference. But getting back to the Austrian business cycle theory, the Keynesians look upon the boom as good. Everything is full employment and everyone's prosperous. We look upon the boom as getting drunk last night.   I can now add a new chapter of my next defending the undefendable book, the person throwing up or something. I don't know, I'm not sure how that works. I'll have to work on that one. But we look upon the depression as the good thing because now you're getting rid of all those investments that never should have been made. The long roundabout ones that were not justified by the savings rates of the people. Whereas they see, oh, the depression is very bad. We've got to stop the depression by, you'll never guess what, adding on more money, creating more of a business cycle. So we are a little bit outside of them. But the key element for understanding the Austrian business cycle theory is not a matter of too much investment or too little investment. It's rather a matter of the wrong kinds of investment. Too much roundabout stuff. So we're very different than the Keynesians who think it's too much or too little. We're saying it's neither too much nor too little. It's rather the proportion of short-term, middle-term, and long-term investment. That's very, very important for the Austrians. Whereas the Keynesians, they just have the letter K, A-B-C-D-E-F-A-J-K, and it stands for capital. And what they mean by capital is how much capital. Whereas for us, it's not a matter of how much capital, it's a matter of what kind of capital, short-run, middle-run, long-run. So yes, if you lower the interest rate from four to 3%, it doesn't do too badly for a one-year investment, but it does horribly for a 30-year investment. Those have to be deprecated or written off the books, which is painful, which is like the morning after getting drunk. Okay, what are the other differences between them guys and us guys? Another difference is they have this hatred for gold. Gold is evil. Gold is a barbarous relic. That's what Friedman calls it. You know, Friedman had a TV series, Free to Choose, and yet whenever people were free to choose, guess what they chose? Gold, sometimes silver, but I mean, many things have been money. I don't know, cigarettes in prisoner of war camps, and calorie shells, and all sorts of stuff, which leads me to the question of why do we have money in the first place? More basic question, why do we have money because of the double coincidence of wants? I have a chicken, and I want a pickle. The odds of me finding a guy who's got a pickle and wants a chicken are slim to none. I mean, I can find plenty of guys who've got a pickle for sale, but they might not want a chicken. And I've got a chicken and I want a pickle. So it's a double coincidence of wants. So what I do is I take the chicken and I buy salt. Why salt? Because everyone, this is before refrigeration, right? Everybody wants salt. So I trade in my chicken for salt, and now I take some salt and I go to the pickle guy who doesn't want salt. He wants a bicycle, right? But he'll take the salt because he knows that the bicycle guy will take salt because everyone takes salt. Because you needed salt to preserve food. So salt becomes a money. All the money is, is it trade intermediary? A way of smoothing trade? And we absolutely have to have trade. If we didn't have trade, we'd have no specialization in division of labor. I mean, if you had to make everything for yourself, most of us would die, right? So we have to specialize. But if you specialize, then Don Prince, all he has is medical services. He can't eat medical services, right? So he's gotta trade those medical services for a chicken or a pickle or a bicycle or whatever he wants, right?  I'm kidding on that. So we have to have money. And now salt is a pretty good money, but there are problems with salt. It's very cheap. There are certain things that are really good monies and other things aren't. Bananas aren't the good money. They get rotten too quickly. Diamonds are a very lousy money, even though they're very valuable, not like cement, which wouldn't be a good money because you need so much of it to conduct business, right? The problem with diamonds is that if you break a diamond in half, I think the two halves are equal to one eighth of the total size of the diamond. I might be a bit off on that. Diamond experts will correct me on that, but you lose a lot when you break a diamond. And it's tough to break a diamond because they're very strong. Whenever there was a competition, gold and sometimes silver won out. Gold is a soft metal, and you and I might not be able to tell the difference between gold and something close to gold, but experts easily can tell the difference so there's difficulty to have fraud with gold. So why does the government hate gold? Why does socialists like Milton Friedman hate gold? And I use the word advisedly. I mean, look, on many issues, Friedman was a great guy. Minimum wage, free trade, rent control, excellent. He sort of exemplifies Murray Rothbard's rule that the bad guys specialize in what they're horrible in. I mean, Friedman was great on dozens of issues and he specializes in two, where he's horrible. One is vouchers and the other is money. So the reason that the government doesn't like gold is because they can't print it. So how does government get money? Well, there are three ways, taxes, but everyone knows who's doing the taxing. Even Biden can't say that the private enterprise is taxing.  They realize that it's government that's doing the taxing. The second way is borrowing, right? And everyone knows who's doing the borrowing. And the third way is printing money. Thanks, I'm just about out of time. So let me just summarize. We went over present discounted value. We went over fractional reserve banking. We went over Austrian business cycle theory and I hope we had some fun. Thanks for your attention.


I bring you the very warm greetings and felicitations of President Mohammed Buhari who had agreed to be here in person and would have been present but for the fact that today also happens to be a day in which the Federal Executive Council is considering the budget and he had to preside over that meeting and he's still presiding over that meeting as we speak. So he sends his warm greetings and his congratulations to you all. October 5th is a very special date. It is the date that we celebrate the very best of us and perhaps the most important persons in our nation, teachers, those men and women who daily go into our classrooms to banish ignorance, to imbue knowledge, to inspire and nurture the minds of millions of young people one school day at a time. It is the day in the year when we say what we should say every day to our teachers. Thank you. Thank you for your patience, thank you for your commitments, thank you for your sacrifice, for your hard work amidst many many challenges. No society can grow beyond its educational attainments. One of the major differences between healthy, well, well-functioning and prosperous societies and poorer societies is education. We are so much of our well-being as a nation to our educators at every level. Indeed, our future as a nation is so heavily dependent on education and our educators. This explains why the federal government is determined to return teachers' teaching and the teaching profession to their rightful places. To this end, we are fully implementing the professional teaching and teacher qualification framework, the standards that have been set that will invariably impact on education outcomes and teacher performance at the preschool, basic, secondary and tertiary levels. We are also developing a verifiable database of teachers in Nigeria. Already the teachers registration council of Nigeria, the TRCN, has registered 2,108,342 teachers and has licensed also 1,250,000 teachers. Our new teachers policy is already being implemented at the federal level and in some states, and I'd like to urge states that have not done so to do so immediately, the gains are already showing. The theme of this year's teacher's day is the transformation of education begins with teachers. The transformation of education begins with teachers. It emphasizes the importance of teachers to educational transformation, but it also introduces the important responsibility that teachers themselves have, that is to be at the cutting edge of advancements in education and especially the use of technology and modern teaching methods. Education must respond to the dynamism, the speed of development and the massive changes that are taking place in society. Educators must understand the skills required to take full advantage of a world that is almost completely dependent on technology. In addition to listening, education today includes writing, it includes ideation, it includes imagining and critical thinking skills. It is no longer merely learning by wrote. So the role of teachers in mediating this transition to the digital age has never been more important as it is today. We live in one of the most rapidly advancing moments in human history. Technology is redefining every aspect of our lives at a dizzying speed. And those of us who do not keep pace will be left behind. This is true for nations. It is true for our children and the young people under our watch today, as is this true for teachers. But in spite of how intimidating and disrupting the new waves of technology appear to be, they are sharing opportunities for greater efficiency, increased productivity and growth. We only need to rise to its demands. But what does this mean for us as teachers in a changing world? And when I say us, I also mean myself because I also started teaching in 1981, which is about 41 years ago today. So consider me one of you. We are charged with a generation with a strong sense of curiosity and independent thinking. Digital natives born into a fast and free flow of information with infinite potentials for learning just about anything. It will become increasingly difficult to provide the learning, the instruction and the guidance that our calling as teachers require of us without integrating technology into our pedagogy and doing so at scale. Teaching has always required a scientific approach. We have always had generic and customized ways of developing learning objectives, of choosing methods of instruction, of designing systems for feedback and assessment. What we have to do today is to see how these existing frameworks can guide our adoption of new technology and enhance the learning experiences of our students. What instructional technologies can we incorporate into our learning plans? Can we, can audio visual, for instance, and digital media provide more clarity for students and stimulate their imagination a bit more? Can online curriculums foster collaborations between teachers and students beyond the classroom? The truth is that we have a huge opportunity in our hands to leapfrog development in education through technology. But to do this we must continue to invest in expanding our capacity as teachers. We cannot integrate technology successfully as urgently as we need to without training and equipping teachers. I promise you that the government will always continue to champion this and that it is the role of government to plant the seeds and to provide the resources for a lot of the changes that we speak of, including the private sector. Under the Empire scheme we provided a technology platform that enabled quick and efficient training for large numbers of teachers in every local government. Collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Oracle Academy, Microsoft Academy, and the IBM, it was a successful test case for the readiness of Nigerian teachers to run smart classrooms. And this was done and we showed that it was possible to expand the integration of technology in our educational systems. We have also launched the Nigerian learning passport, a digital learning platform with online mobile and offline capability that enables continuous access to quality education. Technology has infinitely expanded the opportunities for teachers to develop themselves professionally and to broaden their career trajectories. There are tons of materials and courses available online for aiding teacher professional development. The International Development Research Centre, for example, has a collaborative teacher's guide for remote learning that's available to teachers globally. A comprehensive resource material that positions teachers to leverage technology for continued engagement with their students beyond the classroom, providing a resilient option during school closures and beyond. Across Africa, there are over 200 egg tech startups providing impactful homegrown innovations to break the gap in education. In Nigeria, one serial entrepreneur, for instance, Sim Shagaya, has what is called the U-Lesson, and the U-Lesson provides a wide range of educational content for primary and secondary school students in line with the curriculum of five countries, Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, United States, and the United Kingdom. The lessons are delivered in transferable data that can be plugged into and used on a range of devices, including computers, tablets, and mobile phones. We also have Eduquia. I'm sure many of us might be familiar with some of these software. Eduquia, which in 2021 raised the sum of about $3.5 million in pre-seed funding, and they have been working to build a pan-African classroom that empowers parents, students and teachers by democratizing access to high-quality education. All these platforms provide a collaborative environment for teachers, for tech entrepreneurs, and policymakers to improve access for teachers and students alike. We must engage with these homegrown solutions. We provide the feedback and adapt them so that they can fit into the peculiar circumstances of our schools and our own development in technology. Whereas our previous pedagogy inadvertently produced students who were merely good stores of crammed information. The demands of the future require that we position our young people to think for themselves, to absorb and process the wealth of information that's available to them, and to tease out useful knowledge. But we cannot give what we don't have. So we must stay on the cutting edge of research, learning and development. And we can only guide our students in the direction where we ourselves have been. This is what our calling as teachers requires us to do. Let us plug into the universal global knowledge pool. They are countless programs available. We can take advantage of them and they allow for cross-pollination of ideas between teachers all over the world. Let us reach for every resource available to us to better equip ourselves for the challenging and rewarding task of preparing ourselves and our young people to meet the demands of a changing world. I congratulate you as you continue to strive and push the boundaries of this most honorable profession. You have our continued support and our endless admiration. Thank you very much for your service. Happy World Teacher's Day and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


First, the confession. It is indeed a frightening thing to go down on one's knee in front of Gareth Evans, the Chancellor. There he sits, resplendent in the robes of Ramses III, great pharaoh of Egypt. It's nothing in my rich and varied life that could ever have prepared me for that particular experience. And now for the apology. For breaking all convention and removing my ceremonial hat for the purposes of this address, for which I should explain my grounds. The first is a son of a Queensland farmer, and having in the back of my mind the sounds of his strong philosophical advice as a young lad growing up, where he said, Kev, the bigger the hat, the smaller the property, and Gareth, this is a spectacularly big hat. And second, as the Chancellor would know in particular, our friends in the media delight in nothing more than having film and photographs of those of us in political life wearing silly hats.  Finally my appeal, and that is for those of you who have come to listen to and see genuine brains and beauty and insight, then you've come to the wrong session, because that was my wife, Therese, in session this morning. She delivered a spectacular address. With me, you get the consolation prize. I'm the political handbag of this operation. And Therese, your speech this morning, I found genuinely moving. It's an honour to address this great Australian national university and knew the graduating class of 2016. I remember sitting in this hall, this very same hall, 35 years ago, when I too graduated. You should be proud of what you've achieved. As you've just heard, it doesn't come easily. I know I was proud of what I achieved way back then in the Mesolithic period. Your family should be proud too. Are you proud families? Take it in, guys and girls. You deserve that. I know that when my mother attended my graduation 35 years ago, having been the first in our family's history to darken the doors of a university, since our family first arrived here as reluctant guests of His Majesty in 1790, that she too was enormously proud. You should also be proud of this great university, as one of the leading universities of the world. This is the nation's university, one specifically created under Commonwealth statute back in 1946 to serve the nation's interests following the existential threat faced by Australia in the Second World War, for which we were then so poorly prepared. Seventy years later, barely the span of one person's life, profound challenges remain for our nation's future amidst this profoundly troubling world. And it is on these great national and international challenges and the role which each and every one of you can play as leaders of the future in your future fields of endeavor that I wish to speak today. We live, friends, in deeply unsettling times in a deeply unsettled world, where once again the great questions of war and peace rumble across the international headlines, casually almost as a matter of routine as if we have somehow become inoculated to their meaning. We live too in a troubled country with growing uncertainties on how we carve out our economic future.  In Indigenous Australia, where reconciliation seemed possible not long ago, we now seem to be sliding back into older, more familiar patterns of division and despair. And then there's the planet itself, which we all share and which despite the best efforts of many, we pass to your generation in sad disrepair. Of course, our national cup remains more than half full. There is much to celebrate, much to be grateful for from those who have gone before us, and even more to encourage among our fellow Australians for the future. Our land and our people have indeed been deeply blessed. And I fear that part of our cup that remains empty may become the larger part. But somehow we seem powerless to act as if we've lost a little of our national bearings, lost a little in a national culture of learned helplessness, lost in what the Jesuits have called the globalization of superficiality, losing faith too in our national institutions, satisfied instead sometimes by a shrieking culture of partisan recrimination that now passes through our national politics, where the room for discourse on the deep questions of our future becomes increasingly marginal, where any discussion of national vision, let alone global vision disappears amidst the howls of derision from a political class and large parts of the commentariat whose first instinct is to tear down not to build up. As if we have produced such a at times vicious public culture, well beyond the realms necessary for robust disagreement and debate, where civility is lost and where to admit error is to admit weakness and therefore to yield to defeat, a culture which places facts first, I'm sorry, which places facts last and opinions first, with which we once, and what we once called truth, now seen as little more than subjective illusion. As a former prime minister of this country, I am not innocent of any of these charges. And some may say that I now, as I now live in America, although returning here several times each year, that I am now least qualified to comment. Perhaps they are right. Perhaps, however, it simply gives me a different perspective, a perspective which sees these forces that I've referred to just now at work, not only in Australia, but across the collective West, where the very notion of the West itself and the combined traditions of faith and the enlightenment it represents begin to slide into civilizational irrelevance as collateral damage in a post-modern world. I retain a passionate commitment to this country, its future and what we Australians can and must do in this troubled world of ours. And that, my friends, is where you the next generation of Australian leaders come in because it is your generation that will decide the path that we take. When it's all boiled down, there are essentially two visions for Australia's future. One broad and the other narrow. One which is confident of Australia's core values of individual freedom, of fairness, of compassion, of creativity, of enterprise, all anchored in the great institutions of our great Australian democracy. One which sees our future lying in an expansive, inclusive, tolerant society based on abiding principles of mutual respect and the guarantees of equal rights and protections for all.  One Australia whose national politics is capable of seeing the paramount importance of investing in our infrastructure, the industries, the skills formation and the immigration levels needed for tomorrow in order to boost our national population, our workforce participation and our economic productivity for the future. And an Australia that sees itself as an integral part of the regional and global community, where our values and our interests are enhanced by comprehensive international engagement, where we are active contributors to the global solution to challenges like sustainable growth, climate change and asylum seekers, rather than just being part of the global problem. That is one vision for Australia, that is one course for the future. And there is, of course, an alternative Australia, a society which is insular, judgmental, intolerant of diversity, retreating to the illusions of a racial and cultural lager. The legacy of what we thought was what was now a long-distant past, or an economy governed by some of the self-congratulatory arrogance we see from some of our corporate elites, who, after a hundred years, have failed to produce a single memorable made-in-Australia global brand, content instead with the comfortable confines of a domestic market of 24 million people, and content too with the markets seen by the rest of the world as little more than a middle-sized treasure island, or a politics content with the continued appeasement of the mining majors as if these corporate beer moths should mystically be equated with the national interest, nourished by the illusion that the mining boom would somehow magically last forever, which it has not, and that building a more resilient economic foundation based on national broadband, higher education and the industries of the future, reinforced by strong immigration, was somehow redundant. In other words, a narrow, inward-looking Australia that sees the region and the world as a threat rather than an opportunity, and one ripe therefore for playing the ever-diminishing politics of race, xenophobia and fear. My friends and you the graduates of this year, I believe that these are the alternative futures we face. In other words, we can dream and build a big Australia, not just in the size of our population, the scale of our economy, as necessary guarantees for our long-term national survival. But more importantly, Australia that is big in heart and Australia that is big in imagination and Australia that is big in innovation, big in its entrepreneurial spirit, with the politics capable of sustaining big ideas, not cringing from them, as well as in Australia playing a bigger role in the region and the world, a role of which we can be justifiably proud, or the alternative, a small Australia, a small minded Australia increasingly disappearing into itself. Friends, graduates of this great university, I stand under apologetically for a big Australia, which is why I'm here among you today. I'm here to gently encourage you, if I can do that. In whatever path of life you choose to take, pursuing your areas of passion, of fascination and vocation, pursuing them to the full but always deploying the talents that you have for the many, not the few. Each and every one of you will be leaders in your own right. You may not know that now, I had absolutely no clue when I was sitting in your position 35 years ago. Leadership is not about the title that you might have, now or into the future.  And whether together, this great national family of ours can paint a bigger, broader canvas of this our country, Australia, for its future. As what Gareth once described, as a good international citizen in this our troubled world. That's the challenge I'd like to leave with you this afternoon. And I'm confident, having watched you walk across this stage, each and every one of you are capable of rising to the challenge in your own fields of endeavor. So let us go together to prosper this commonwealth of ours, Australia. And in the words of our visionary federation fathers, work together for the common Australian good and the good of all humankind. I thank you.


Um, that happened right after the George Floyd death, but there was a protest that's at the White House, and, um, he decided to, like, clear out that area, and then go and have a show and see what kind of a church it was about there.


Sheboygan house fire claims a life, Sheboygan County COVID numbers, most state parks to reopen Friday. These and other local stories are coming up on this edition of Community News Review. This is Community News Review, a service WSDS-TV news content, divided by WHBL. I'm Maddie Fister and this is Community News Review for Thursday, April 30th, 2020. Sheboygan County's efforts to control the coronavirus pandemic continue to be effective, if not impressive. All statistics remained the same over the last 24 hours and save for the numbers of tests in which all 34 persons that were tested were negative. That shows a 5.1 percent positive return on all 937 tests so far. All positive cases have numbered 48 for four days running, with only three cases added within the last week. And the five active cases since yesterday are the lowest number this month so far. Statewide, another 208 persons tested positive for COVID-19. And as a percentage of total tests, the 8.9 percent positive return rate resumed the downward trend needed to continue for 14 consecutive days as a key requirement to start phase one of the Badger Bounce Back Program to restart the state's normal operations. The State Department of Health Services announced that families will now get temporary food benefits in place of free or reduced price school meals. These benefits are called Pandemic EBT or PEBT. The benefit amount for March and April combined is $176.70 for each child who gets free or reduced price school meals. And for May to June, the amount is $148.20 per child. These benefits will be put on a Quest card or a PEBT card, which is a debit card to buy food. The department said that those eligible will be notified automatically and so persons do not need to take any action at this time. A powerful spring storm was relentless on Wednesday and never let up overnight. 30 to 35 mile per hour winds were sustained much of the day and gusted to 40 miles per hour by 3 o'clock PM, driving already high Lake Michigan waters onto Broughton Drive by 5 o'clock PM. The Department of Public Works had to close the road from Michigan Avenue to North Point Avenue, drive until further notice and conditions along the Lakeshore from here south southward are not likely to improve until Thursday afternoon. The National Weather Service issued a Lakeshore Flood Advisory early this morning until 1 o'clock as strong winds drive waves of 7 to 12 feet offshore. Winds also caused power outages around Sheboygan Wednesday afternoon, causing police to issue a cautionary message as traffic signals went dark. Officers placed stop signs at the affected intersections and asked drivers to use caution. The good news is that our weather takes a big turn for the better on Friday. One person lost their life in a house fire on Sheboygan's south side on Tuesday afternoon. Fire Chief Eric Montalano says in a press release that they got a 911 call about the fire on the 23rd 100th block of South 9th Street shortly after 2 o'clock PM. When crews arrived they found light smoke coming from the second floor of the home. Firefighters went inside and found a victim on the second floor. The victim was treated at the scene and then taken to the hospital where they were pronounced dead.  The cause is still under investigation. One person was injured in a two car crash on the intersection of Weeding Creek Road and South Taylor Drive on the city's far south side. Sheboygan police say that around 2 o'clock PM Tuesday an elderly driver was southbound on Taylor Drive and failed to stop for the stop sign at Weeding Creek Road and pulled into a path of another car causing the crash. The driver of the car was not injured but the driver of the southbound car was taken to a local hospital and then transported to the St. Luke's for more serious injuries. While the dairy industry has struggled even without a pandemic to interrupt business, the coronavirus outbreak has put many farms on the brink of survival. According to a recent Dairy Stream podcast, there was a $66 million loss in the state revenue during February and March alone. To provide some relief, consumer credit counseling service of Sheboygan has announced that the creation of Sheboygan County Dairy Farmer Fund financial grants of up to $5,000 made possible by a local foundation will be awarded to Sheboygan County Dairy Farmers who have been struggling to make ends meet according to Wayne Gresbach, executive director and consumer credit counseling service of Sheboygan. The foundation was not named and remains anonymous. Funds can be used by farmers for paying expenses ranging from medical bills to farm and home mortgages. And the deadline to apply is May 13th. Applications for the Sheboygan County Dairy Farmer Fund can be found on the consumer credit counseling service website at www.cccsonline.org or by calling<PHONE_NUMBER>. And finally, after a three-week closure, most state parks will reopen with some caveats on Friday, May 1st. The governor made that order on Tuesday that parks had been opened under the Safer at Home Order until incidents of vandalism and large crowds prompted the closing earlier this month. Not all parks will be unrestricted and if you will remain closed, some, like Harrington Beach State Park in Belgium, will impose limits of visitor numbers. And once that limit is reached, anyone wishing to enter will have to wait for another to leave. Boulder-Andre State Park in Sheboygan does not have that restriction, but limits might be imposed if too many people visit or if social distancing rules are violated. The DNR said that not all staff and wardens will be in personal protection equipment at all times, but will utilize the protection when needed. And they will observe the same safety measures as the required of the public. And that is our report for today. Bring me again on Tuesday for more local news and information on Community News Review.


The World Bank has approved $723 million in loans and grants for Ukraine as a country fired against a Russian invasion. The bank said it is continuing to work on another $3 billion package of support in the coming months for the country. It also promised extra help for neighboring countries that are taking in more than 1.7 million refugees, which are mostly women, children, and the elderly. In the statements, the bank's president, David Mopas, said the financial package for Ukraine includes a $100 million pledge from the UK. The bank said the fund would help Ukraine's government provide critical services, including wages for hospital workers, pensions for the elderly, and social programs for the vulnerable.


Hello, I want to start this. Thank you for coming. Thank you, Art and Joan, the library, for the invitation to show some of my work. That's one of my newest pieces. But what should I say? Basically, my work stems from my early years in connection to the Chicano Movement, but through, by route of the San Francisco State and the San Francisco State Strike, I think that's where I kind of became conscious in terms of what was going on in the world. And it was really through the SS State Strike and I think the war in Vietnam and the opposition to the war in Vietnam during the time this is 1969 when I came to San Francisco to go to school. And then connected to that was the Chicano Movement and the struggles that ensued around the Chicano Movement and its relationship to the other struggles in the Bay Area, but also the struggles of other people of color in this country. And in particular, for me, it was the Cesar Chavez Movement, the Black Panther Party, and the American Indian Movement. And so my work is, there was no way I can escape not making political art after that and with my orientation to it through other political artists that were doing work, Rupert Garcia, and also the artists that were coming out of the mission in the 1970s and were doing work around culture and art. So it's all been connected. And I'm not sure what order these are in, but which one do I hit? The one over here on the right? OK, let's see where that's me. Oh, OK. So this piece is called Los Inocentes. I did it in 2011, and it was in response to the drug cartels and all the killings that were happening in Mexico. It was organized by Luis Pinedo. He was a Mexican artist, and he invited artists from Mexico and the US to respond to what was going on. There's a woodcut. So this is what I did. It was exhibited at the University of Guadalajara, and then it expanded from there, and it went to different parts of Mexico. I wasn't able to go, but the work was shown there. And then that piece was just shown last year as part of a couple of other pieces that I sent to an exhibition in Spain that basically the work was just sent digitally, and they printed them there, and they had an exhibition and all that. And also there's an exhibition that happened this year in Argentina, and the works went there, and they were part of a collection of graphic designers. So I guess I fit that realm, because I've done posters, and because these images or works have text in them, they fall into that category, so I've been able to use them that way. And because of the way works are used now electronically, I can basically send the images around the world, and they get seen in other places. And I guess this is in connection to memory. It's people's lives, and certainly these young men. I have an aunt that was murdered about four or five years ago in Chihuahua, Mexico. And I think it's connected to the drug cartel stuff. She was murdered in her home. And these works are basically all related to my experience or experience as a Chicano and as a Mexican. This piece was done, it's called Se Vende, or it's sells or sold. It was done for a portfolio on Posada, Jose Guadalupe Posada, and it was done through Rene Arceo, Arceo Press out of Chicago. And it's part of a portfolio of artists from the US and Mexico celebrating the 100-year legacy of Jose Guadalupe Posada. And so this was a little different for me, because this one kind of tells more of a story. There's a lot of different characters going on. And originally, when I was drawing it out, I realized that the police, the ICE man, was arresting more than just an individual because they just arrest these people and they deport them or they lock them up. But basically, they're arresting a culture, and that's why I added the headdress on it, because it's connected to the culture. And I know within my own family, my parents were born in Texas, but my dad's family, they're from Chihuahua. And I had to go back after my uncles. My uncles used to go back and forth. They lived in Salinas, but they would go back and forth. And once my uncle Joe died, there was no connection between the people that were living here and the ones in Mexico. So I actually went back and I reconnected with my family in Chihuahua. And we used to cross the border back and forth. When I was a kid, we used to go to Ohinaga, which is close to El Paso, and just walk across the border and go see the family and then walk back. But that's because of the wall and the borders. It's all that's all been stopped. And I haven't been able to go back and see anyone in Chihuahua for almost eight years now because of the, well, my family won't let me go because it's just too dangerous. And crossing the border is always a real task. I have to fly to El Paso. I have to cross into Juarez, take the Chihuahuanse, which is the bus to go to Chihuahua. But between Chihuahua and Chihuahua, it's like a three-hour bus ride. And you're going through the desert. And that's where the killing fields are for the young women that were murdered. So many young women were murdered from the maquiladores. And I've been stopped on that bus. Well, I haven't been stopped, but the bus has been stopped. And I sit there and I'm just like, don't look at these people, they get on the bus.  They take you out on the bus and then the bus drives away.  That's just let me get to the border, right? So it's a very scary proposition, but I haven't been able to go because it's just not safe, you know, for me to go like that. But that's what the border has created. I was in Charlotte, North Carolina in September of during this time of year, last year, doing a residency at the McCall Center and I did some things on identity and this was one of the pieces that I did related to the undocumented because there's such an attack going on in this country right now for people that are working in the fields and working in the canneries and in the hotels and in every industry, construction, whatever, there's just like a total attack, especially now on deportation and all this. So this is a linoleum cut and silk screen combination. The figure right in the middle is my cousin, Micaela from Chihuahua that I met when I went there for the first time and I met her. This was, the picture was taken a while back, but I used it because she actually is living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now she works in one of the, she's a really hardworking person. She works like two jobs in the casinos there in Albuquerque. So that was the piece that I did there. And then when I got to North Carolina, I had never been in the South, but I ended up doing, this was the first piece that I did. It's a woodcut on how I was feeling about race relations in this country and the things that are going on. So this is called the doggy dog world. And I added, after I did the Boner Ladder, then I added the sheriff's star because really even if, of all the things that you see today and recently the things that are going on in North Carolina, you always see the police and they're always protecting property. That's their first, that's the first thing that they care about. Not human life, but property. They're out there to protect property. And so anyway, that's what I did. And I kind of was thinking about MC Escher when I did this thing, even though it's not kind of, I can't do what MC Escher did, but I was thinking of the black and white and the way things move from one to another, like a metamorphosis. And so that's what I did with this piece. I think that's it, right? Yeah, thank you.


Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosel here bringing you this video today From the usual location in the home office here in Jerusalem And as I say that I realized I really need to find a better intro For these youtube videos, but for the moment, this will do today's video is actually not about the usual stuff I talk about on these youtube videos, which is kaden live and a bunch of linux and Random stuff about israel and whatnot. I've actually been doing a bit of thinking Over the last couple of days with what I'm actually doing here putting videos up on youtube in the first place And I absolutely firstly the channel is not shutting down for those worried that this is a end of uh This is a closing down announcement not the case But I have been realizing over the past few days that I need to kind of think a little bit more about the direction I'm taking so when I started putting up videos on youtube Two years ago they're about I was just doing it because um, I've been Sort of interested in content creation for really almost as long as I can remember whether it's been blogging or podcasting I always thought video was too hard And I kind of wanted to challenge myself To just try it try putting together some videos and see how they turn out I never expected anyone would actually watch or subscribe these videos even though I've created A decent amount of videos. Um, it's still taken me kind of by surprise So as that's kind of happened the more I've got also the more I've gotten into um Running this youtube channel the more I become immersed in this world of video and actually found that I really really enjoy it Um, it's a nice blend of two passions of mine, which are firstly creativity Secondly storytelling slash journalism and thirdly Uh technology so more so than writing I find video actually Is a nice dovetail because you've got elements of creativity storytelling and you've definitely got a strong technical element So I've been completely freestyling this youtube channel as probably Anyone who's dropped in here to watch a video uh can see because the topics like one day it's israel There's been no strategy because I've never really seen this as Anything other than a hobby. I never imagined I would even get to like 800 subscribers Let alone get to like 1000 to monetize. It just really wasn't on my Radar at all. So now that that process is happening people are actually subscribing for whatever reason I'm still not entirely clear Why people are subscribing but I'm very flattered that I've reached reached even this point of uh of success on youtube And as that's happened, I'm like, okay, well if people are going to watch these videos I probably do need to Have a theme for the channel because I actually feel bad on the one hand I created youtube was the idea of just like open sourcing What I think about all my interest if you want to watch watch if you don't want to watch don't watch But then I thought well that was great But the fact that now after the fact people are watching I kind of owe them at least some kind of a consistent viewing experience um So I had to think about it and I decided that I am going to Even though it's going to be a lot of hassle and I don't really feel like doing it I'm going to set up different channels for my different interests So I want to um frisley. What are the channels going to be? That's what I need to figure out and then going to sit down with a pen and paper Sometimes soon and figure out what my needs are If anyone's been watching this youtube channel really actually following it you probably know I have Very specific interest one of those being mdisk amazing optical storage media Kaden live a video editing software. I really really actually have come to love um So those are logical ones for me where I'm going to like start a channel for kaden live daniel's kaden live tips And there's also israel. So for those who don't know I do live in israel A lot of the videos I post up here are really really basic how-to videos on anything I think might be useful to other people whether it's Here's how you find a doctor using your health service in israel or Ali express is now in israel. Here's how you buy stuff From ali express. Um, so What I've realized over the past couple of weeks is that well I don't know why anyone would actually subscribe to this channel because you might subscribe because you're like Oh cool This guy uses linux or this guy uses kaden live then you're like But I don't really care about ali express in israel So I realize that as much as I'm having great fun creating videos for youtube and uploading stuff Um, I think it's reached the point where I need to like actually separate it So the only thing I'm going to say here is right now It's nebulous as to how it's going to go if people are really interested whatever reason because I don't think I'm that interesting Maybe the stuff I talk about is interesting if whatever reason you do want to follow like the stuff I specifically put out Let me know in a comment and I'll send you links to like where the channel has gone It doesn't mean I'm not going to be uploading on the channel to the country This channel is going to be stuff that it's just kind of like random stuff that I put out Maybe it's going to be like my personal blogs and opinions about stuff but gradually my plan is for um Types of content to stop Being mushed into this channel. So it's less of a big Moshi mess. So for instance, I mentioned the M disc I'm going to set up an M disc youtube channel. So people really care about M disc They can watch me talk Until the cows come home about M disc and what it is I'm going to start one for my uh the canon xa 40 camcorder because I've gotten to Really know the camcorder pretty well And um, I think if people are really interested in the xa 40 for sure I'll start I'll have all my videos on a separate youtube channel I'm going to do one for kate in life because that again is like very specific people who use that software Can find my videos and that's kind of how you want to go and then as I sort of cut out Nishes that are best suited to separate channels. Oh, I forgot one that I've actually already set up It's called I'm looking here at my channel Switcher list. It's called living well with depression and anxiety and that's where I posted kind of my uh mental health videos where I talk about Depression and anxiety and living with those and taking medications and stuff that really is not of interest To people who aren't either engaged with mental health or have it or whatever So that's the logic that I've chosen to follow And it's going to be a slow process an ongoing process But this channel will hopefully as a result be less random or include less random things Uh, so that's where I'm going with this youtube channel and my plan other than that other than uh separating This big mushy bundle of miscellaneous content into different parts Is going to be to keep having a lot of fun with it. I'm now being paid for Some video work not by which I mean, I'm not taking on like freelance work, but I've started doing video as part of my job Uh, I've started selling stock video footage. So I guess I'm kind of a semi professional videographer now Which is kind of awesome. Never thought I'd get even here Um, so if you don't want to keep uh subscribed to whatever else is coming out here Click the subscribe button and if you want to know where else My youtube voyage has taken me, uh, leave me a comment or I'll find some well, maybe I'll put up a link tree link whatever I'll uh, let folks know. Thank you guys as ever for watching Any thoughts on how I should split this channel up? Uh, leave a comment because your Comments are great. I got I think like 10 comments today And I'm and I'm at such a small Level on youtube that I can respond to even one and they make my day, by the way Like I was getting them as I was eating dinner and I was like, oh this I can't believe someone else cares about mdisc I can't believe someone else cares about kate in life. This is awesome Uh, so right now I'm enjoying all of them. So thank you guys for watching very much and uh, thanks for engaging with the channel so far and have a good Day or night wherever you are in the world


Hello, hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to this week's vlog It is the witchy vlog I'm in a very witchy mood today this Monday on October 3rd because I have I have my Halloween socks and I just watched hocus pocus 2 and then I started watching the reunion thing they did for the 25th reunion I'll probably watch more of that later, and then I also saw this drags drive again set thing. That's like super Halloweeny So I might watch that but that's not what I'm supposed to be talking about in this intro It's witchy week so many books here that I can read I'm gonna start with the group book, which is spells trouble. I believe this is your good old-fashioned Salem witch story So I'm gonna start off with this one Deep obviously get the group book done and but me over to 300 points to get me to that Goblin Queen status Yes, I am still sick That's why my voice is like two octaves lower than it normally is and I've become minelto instead of a soprano Which is always the funniest thing That's the one thing I actually like about being sick It's all of a sudden I could hit all these low nuts that I could never before anyway I'm just gonna quick through go through all the other Books I have in this ginormous stack here of potential books I can read now this next book Was not when I was planning on reading for the witch week I wasn't planning on reading it for spooky season But it looks like it's gonna be our November book pick for my book club and it's a witch story So I thought well if I'm gonna read it, I should read it now. It's why on this a witch by Rachel Griffin Oh, it's such a beautiful book. I wasn't really gonna plan on reading it because it's not like spooky witch It's like environmental seasonal save the world kind of which but you know it all works It's something I wanted to read soon anyway, so That's another one. I will need to read Soon and then like all these books are from the library because I love the library I have the X hex by Aaron Sterling. I have payback so which by Lana Harper I have go hex yourself by Jessica Clare These witches don't that burn by Isabelle Sterling, which we read the coldest touch by Isabelle Sterling for Vampire Week It's the group book. I have the witch haven by Sasha Payton Smith and the second book to this coming out soon And finally I have the monarchs by Cass Morgan and Danielle Paige It's the sequel to the Ravens which I read last year and I own and I love so That's probably the order I would prioritize them in just cuz it goes from smallest to largest just so I can try and read as Many as possible But you know you never really know so Yeah, that is two three four five six seven eight books that I could potentially read this week if I Don't finish all eight, which I definitely won't finish all eight I am gonna keep the books until they are due back at the library just in case like Another week I finish all the books that I wanted to then I have these to fall back on Because I do want to read them all I do but yeah, so that is this week. Like I said, I'm sick So I'm just not doing much I would like I thought I went to a library. I have filmed Three videos. I have one more yet to film. I just don't have the motivation, but I know once I get it done I'm gonna be so happy. It's my bullet journal Which my bullet journal videos is probably the video that's most at risk of being cut next year just I'm not a creative person. So coming up with different Spreads and themes for every month is a little difficult for me So let me know if you want me to continue doing bullet journal videos because if you want me to I will gladly I'm not saying I'm gonna stop keeping a bullet journal I'm just saying I'm gonna stop making it look nice and therefore stop making videos But anyway, not the point. We're gonna read I'm gonna start by reading this I feel would you let the magic begin. It's Wednesday, it's almost two o'clock.  I'm so sorry. I am uploading the last of my videos that I had Filmed my voice was sounding better just a little bit ago. So hopefully it's not too bad on this video, but Then I've got lots of videos done and I am very happy about that. Oh My word. I really want to go back to work tomorrow But we'll just have to see because this is ridiculous. Anyway reading. Let's talk about reading because you know sick days Reading I initially was gonna start spells trouble But I just wasn't super in the mood for it Like I don't want to force myself to read it just because it is the group book I don't want to read it first So I'm gonna put this on pause for a minute and I'm actually picking up wild is the witch So it's another witchy book. That's totally fine. Just feeling the more natural witch vibe So I've started reading this one. I'm just on chapter three I'm hoping I can actually finish it today I feel like awake and alive enough that I can actually like read which is kind of nice I also have the audio book for this which also really helps So I'm gonna read wild is the witch by Rachel Griffin and we're gonna see how that turns out today And then I will put spells trouble next So but I have so many like contemporary witchy books. I'm excited to get to as well I feel like I just want to sit down and read them all so I I've got a lot of plans and ambitions this week, and it's already a Wednesday Yeah, so I'm sorry for how ugly I sound Well, let's read so I am a little over halfway through wild is the witch by Rachel Griffin There are a lot of things I love about this book. I love the atmosphere. I love the plot I love the location of course I never knew that I would like the Pacific Northwest until I started reading Rachel Griffin books But one thing I will say is that while the banter in this book is good, you know It's not the best banter I've read, but it's definitely not the worst. I'm enjoying it I am really getting sick of the whole enemies to lovers where the love interest the guy is like an ass before She starts to sit like our main character starts being like oh Maybe he's an ass because there are other parts of his life that I don't know about I feel like you don't have to do enemies to lovers and because like it's a very tame enemies to lovers because they work together on the reservation that her mom owns like he's an intern and she works there and so They're co-workers, but they they don't like each other and so I don't know It's not like my favorite that I've read but I do really like a lot of things that are happening so the premise of this book is that our main character is a witch and She gets really frustrated at the guy and she's had a lot of trauma in her past regarding Like her friend and spells that they're not supposed to do and so she gets really frustrated at him And she decides to curse him to be a mage, which is illegal, which is why she didn't actually cast the curse But then the owl took it There's an owl and so now they're hunting the owl together And he doesn't know what's going on because he doesn't know she's a witch and he doesn't like witches so Very quickly that's the plot and I'm really enjoying it so far Just the vibes are all there. It's it takes place in spring but it's like in the woods in a rainy kind of You know Pacific Northwest so like it's it's a spring book But it's not too out of place Right now. I mean the sun is shining but like fall can be kind of dreary as well So this would be a good rainy day read Okay, I finished Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin and I gotta say My standards for five stars is pretty high but my standards for like four and four point five stars is not near as high but I Gave Wild is the witch four point five out of five stars, and I think it deserves it I it was so good so focused on like the atmosphere my only issues were with What I mentioned earlier about just not being quite as invested in the love interest as I wish I had been as well as I think There were some parts of it that were a little repetitive like she would literally explain the same thing a second time a little bit later And I didn't quite think it was necessary But other than that it was an amazing book and I loved it just like I love the first one I do think it is better than the first one Nature which is her first book. I do think it's better than that one. So There's that so I finished it and I am now in the mood for spells drop. I think that Wild is the witch was more witchy than I was expecting it to be and I do really want to read this I also downloaded the audiobook for this. I thought so I have two libraries on my Audiobook app the one and from my hometown and the one where I currently live and I knew I had it on hold For one of them, but I realized I didn't look at the other one and it was available So I have the audiobook so I am starting this and I am going to get going on it I'm only like two chapters inside I have like no thoughts other than these characters feel like dumb high school 16-year-old teenagers and Like good, but also I Will be starting this one. I probably won't be able to finish it today Although I do want to but we'll see how far I get I'll update you tomorrow in terms of my health I feel like I keep getting better and then getting worse and then getting better I've had so much tea today. I really want to go to work because I hate not Like doing things, but we'll see anyway I probably will update you again tonight unless I have like substantial feelings on this book. So There you go. All right It is Friday. I am feeling better I'm gonna go to work today It's gonna kick my butt. I'm gonna feel absolutely terrible, but I'm gonna do it But yesterday My partner stayed home with me all day and really helped me like feel better and I finished spells trouble And I didn't really like it. I'm giving it two out of five stars The writing I did not like the writing at all. I felt like the Characters like they tried so hard to make the characters seem like teenagers and it was just cringy I don't like how more of the book came from the drama of their lives rather than like the actual story plot like I felt like they prioritized boyfriend over like Closing the gate that resulted in their mother's death Which was insane it just didn't feel right and I just didn't like how it went I felt like there was a very slow moving like the plot took forever And then it ended up being super basic and like there's an epilogue that gives it the cliffhanger for a second book But I'm not gonna read the second book. I just I was not a fan of this at all. So I Finished the group book. So I've already finished two books this week Hopefully I can finish one or two more the next one. I'm gonna pick up is the X-Hex So I'm excited. I've heard good things about this one. I just got home from work. So it's low past 7 30 I was gonna start the X-Hex this morning I started the prologue and then I just decided to take a nap because I wanted to be well rested before work So I I want to read this because I've heard lots of good things about it And it's kind of next on my list of which you booked. I want to read But also in final season of Dairy Girls drop today on Netflix binge that as well and Then also wave two of the prompts for spoofathon just came out. So Maybe that'll motivate me to read. Oh, no Like I really want to read but also Dairy Girls like I do need to watch that one Yeah, so that's just where I'm at right now The other thing is I do really want to read as much of this tonight as I can because tomorrow I'm super busy. I have two sets of plans after work and then Sunday We're gonna go apple picking and go to a football game a soccer game So Sunday's pretty booked and then that's the end of the witchy week and I still have you know like I still have like six books That I can read and obviously I'm not expecting it to get to the mall, but I want to finish at least two more But I need to sleep because I'm still in recovery from being sick. I am feeling better though, but I'm still very much in recovery So hopefully I'll read this. We'll see. I watched all of Dairy Girls. I Want to cry I'm gonna cry Hello It what days it's Saturday. I have not done any reading, but I am heading out to a couple of parties My first college party woo-hoo So the theme of the first party is emo God.  I mean, I did lessen You didn't do this. No anyway, so do that and then we have a geography department Bar crawl which is which is the nerdiest way you can get drunk possibly So we're gonna be with a bunch of cartographers drinking a lot and going from place to place Yes, we will have different outfit changes Gotta dress like maps It's gonna be a blast. It's Sunday and Brandon is horrendously hungover. I am starting the x-hex And I will probably do some reading of it tonight. We're also gonna play a board game Yeah, I'm 50 pages into this. I'm not very far in but I gotta say there's a lot of hype around this book Like a lot of people really liked it But I'm kind of confused a little bit just because the hex that they seem to put on him I don't see how it's affecting him yet. And it's kind of a ridiculous hex like I can appreciate it But just for the amount of hype. I was expecting it to be something a little bigger We'll see so just like you know, I'm starting this The witchy week is officially over but as you saw last night I did start reading the x-hex and actually I did finish it. So that's another 25 points Which means I got a total of 125 points this week I read spells trouble, which was the group book the x-hex and wildest the witch which now puts me at 325 375 points, so I'm well into the Ruler of goblins or the goblin queen and I am working my way towards the final tier and Prist of the underworld Anyway, so the x-hex I feel like This so I had eight Witchy books that I could read this week and I prioritized this one over all of the other Kind of contemporary witchy books, you know this one versus paybacks a witch go hex yourself You know those the other books that are just pun names Because this was the most Hyped of all of those types of books. This is the one that I've always seen people talk about and really really like I Gave this two out of five stars. I did not enjoy it near as much as other people did I thought well first off. I thought it was overhyped second off. I didn't like how the curse Happened like I thought it was hilarious and it was very fun But in the end I was not satisfied with how the fact that they cursed and was specific things Was not at all how the curse was played out and I thought that was like very misleading It did not like the chemistry between the characters I feel like it was purely physical and there was no emotional attachment like I don't Believe that the characters grew to love each other again because it's a second chance romance. I Just felt like I just didn't feel an actual connection there I thought they just had a lot of sex and then on top of that like they have two weeks to Lift the curse before a lot of really bad things happening and bad things are happening during this time But like it all felt ignored like the characters Just sat there and had sex for two weeks rather than Solving little problems or trying to get the curse lifted and it made zero sense as to why Like there were a couple things that happened at the beginning of the book That was like, oh no these are the results of the curse and then it was dropped like nothing else in their lives went wrong It was like they almost weren't cursed except for the fact that they had to figure out how to lift the curse I just I Wasn't a fan and I also really didn't like the writing of the book I didn't honestly the sentence structure I felt like there are so many sentences that did not have a subject or a noun at the beginning and that's not how My brain likes to read it like just saying Wanted him to blah blah blah like I know it's talking about Vivian our main character I know it's she wanted But it trips me up not to have the she at the beginning to not have The subject at the beginning and that was all throughout the book Like I felt like this was a not well edited book and then on top of all that on top of not liking the writing Thinking the book just wasn't edited like it would constantly take me out of story I would have to stop and reread the sentence to figure it out Even though like the writing itself wasn't hard. It was very Basic and just like not super impressive and then it just wasn't edited well or put together well And it just it bothered me so much and then One of the characters names was misspelled later in the book Like I saw it and I went that doesn't look right that doesn't look familiar And I went back into earlier in the book and I was like, yeah, they didn't spell the name correctly At this time in the book and it just like You gotta pay attention to details like that. You gotta spell your characters names the same way throughout the entire book So it just I had a lot of issues with it. I Can see why other people like it? I still think the vibes of it was really good Like it's basically its own version of Halloween town, but with only witches and not everybody are witches But witches are like a secret thing like half the town is Like witches and the other half are normal people that don't know the witches exist But everybody who is normal is even into witchy things So like nobody thinks it's out of place and like the town gets super excited about Halloween They have multiple festivals and the atmosphere was great for fall and Halloween And I liked one of the side characters, but that was about it And I liked the idea behind it and I think it was a good idea I just think it needed more development And I didn't like the ending how things were just so easily resolved There are a couple of times where I was like this is kind of plot convenience like cuz that Makes no sense why I ended up how it did other than it just is something to be dropped and not focused on ever again Like the ghost just disappears once they got the information from it like No, you I thought you you needed to bind the ghost so it didn't come back But now that you've gotten your information from it. It just disappeared like I Just had a lot of issues with it and it took away from my overall enjoyment of the book so much You know, I know it could have been such a good book. So Yeah, it's a two out of five stars I was pretty disappointed in this one like I said I read three witchy books this week It is the end of the vlog because it's Monday now. So Thank you very much for watching if you liked this video Let me know by giving a thumbs up and feel free to subscribe. I post videos on Sundays and Wednesdays I'm currently in my spooky season spectacular where I'm posting vlogs every week with a themed reading Due to how the spectacular is being run by myself So next week is ghost week and I'm super excited for ghostly week I am very excited for the books I have and what not so if you're interested subscribe stay tuned I also have bookish social media in the description down below that you can keep up with what I'm reading What I'm thinking about it and feeling about it as well as Spectacular I will have the announcement video for the spectacular link down below so you can actually Know what it is if you are new here get the themes understand how the point system works Etc and so forth. It is never too late to join But yeah, I post so I'm always posting vlogs once a week But then I have other videos on Sundays as well and again Thank you very much for watching and until we see you all in the next video. I wish you happy spooky reading


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Rwy'n galw'n gael bod 8, 9, 10, 11 o'r trafnwych, trafnwych o'r trafnwych, ac oes yn ymdilyn o'r gwneud, ac maen nhw'n gydag fawr o'r rei. That's a that's a fair old statement wow. So we look back right over the course that we've played which is all to the left air the opening holes back to the clubhouse and obviously got the the iconic lighthouse Elsa Craig and if you pan round that side I'm assuming that's going to be either no nine or ten or whatever but they're the new holes we're going to play and then right over into the bay stunning look stunning tea position elevated position this is a par five we've got it a bit breezy and I can imagine on a clear and sunny day Aaron is barely visible at the moment it must be absolutely stunning and now for some real links conditions right so decent drive away over the avoiding the bunker on the right and we've got well stunning I haven't got a yard as yet but 140 just centre but all that is carry anything down in the dip is uh it's goodbye lovely little golf hole though so let's get a yard as you see how we get on right we're going to be uh it's wind as well to gauge here this I love this type of shot I prefer it when it's a good ball into the green light but that's right on the flag bridge the yard is right oh sit sit sit well you won't pick that up on that camera but that literally was right on the flag bridge again aired on the side of course just because uh you don't want to be short and I hit that right out the middle to be honest and we're just held on the back end or great design though well I can't tell you how good that golf hole is I'm still referring to nine I don't know what it plays on the stroking next I didn't check that but um I don't think it'd be the easiest and like I said we've got a bit of a breeze downwind which is helping in one sense to get you far enough down to take sure to righting in but then as you can see um and my ball has just held on at the back end incredible that's fantastic there's our ridge right before the flag there that you've got to get over and uh I'm I'm dry I'm above ground I've got me ball off in there all the positives still got get over that brow get over that brow get over the brow almost almost really good I think that's sort of uh I don't know maybe seven out of ten this is a hole that's uh you'll smile all the way down from tita green I tell you beautiful are we going to get a big smile yeah we are yep fantastic water golf hole and from nowhere the sun came out the weather is so strange here in Scotland in that it can change so quickly we were in torrential downpours you couldn't see a thing over there about an hour ago so make sure you pack for all conditions take no notice of any weather forecast because all of a sudden you're in glorious sunshine and to be fair if you come in golf in Scotland I think you want a bit of breeze you want a bit of rain as much as you want a bit of haggis and whisky to be fair otherwise you haven't had the popper scottish experience in terms of the course's defense it changes um so I think it's holes one to six and then back into uh I don't know about 13 or 14 it's all about gorse heavy gorse and then those holes in between uh there's sort of seven stretched that's out on the coast then you're exposed to obviously very much more exposed to the elements there's a little bit more uh whipped in terms of the fairways maybe but then uh or visually they appear that way uh but then obviously you've got the rough plenty of bunkering and like I said exposed to the elements maybe just that a little bit more as well but all the same it's uh it's so it's an ever-changing challenge and then obviously the main defense of any links course is uh is the weather quick mention about the greens which have been in fantastic condition and plenty quick enough in terms of their role um but the other thing is the sort of the complexity of each of these they're fairly sizable the greens but there's so many runoffs and this is a fairly small green short um fairly short hole rather um but again lots of runoffs and unless you land on the right plateau then you've got a real problem in terms of a two put big runoff at the front edge here and then down this back end it's another massive challenge because all of a sudden like I said you've come long and uh the swing off here it's almost uh for a man of my caliber impossible to read so it looks like it goes high off the top swings down again well it doesn't swing down again it's fairly fairly straight when it reaches the top of the brow but hopefully uh this is a great green so you can see like I said just how many well imagine how many different pin positions they have but how difficult it is uh to make a two put on some of these greens king robert the bruise might have to play second fiddle to the mighty elsa and in many ways so it should but don't dismiss this golf course it really was an enjoyable 18 holes and it really is a class act in its own right that's shot in at the yard is right sit yeah i got a little bit long it's definitely a worthy course in its own right uh it's a it's a good challenge and uh the views that you see it's interesting that you get the views of elsa craig and that's uh infamous lighthouse on so many different positions throughout that whole round just adds to it and you walk up and uh yeah put for birdie galleries go wild and we all go home with a smile on our face


Everybody force and lane here got the definitive tribute to the tier one museum of guild of collections seven box face on mission number three It's a lot of words there. I'm gonna show this. I'm gonna make this bigger though. And so we scroll through it All right, so these can be found anytime late sports cards calm the results Good luck everybody gonna scroll down now UCF has their full game in Tampa tonight. It's a home game. Yeah, all right. Here we go. We're strive one All right guys, let's start with the tier ones.  Yeah, it's 1717 right now Just so you know what's going on around here All right comes rookie auto up first here Christopher morale to 299 a red sox auto move on to 149 That smells on Gus bus Move on Red Sox and a jersey of Andrew Jones to 400 for the Braves Gotcha on I didn't know that I think I heard something about that, but like it didn't like didn't stick with me I'm not a big game, but I should start gambling a little bit. 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