The flows of funds which advertisers and those who pay for marketing services have, have been constrained and as has been pointed out this has disrupted the revenue models of traditional media organizations. The numbers don't really indicate the real picture. When you have a hundred thousand publications registered with the print, with the registrar of newspapers of India, but you have one newspaper at the Times of India which is the world's most widely circulated English daily newspaper. One out of two English newspapers sold in the countries in addition to the Times of India. You may have hundreds of radio stations but we are arguably the only democracy in the world or we call ourselves a democracy where news and current affairs on radio is still a monopoly of the government. I mean to think that in 1991 we had one broadcast and today we have something like 900 broadcasts that have been given permission to uplink or downlink including 300 which claim they are news and current affairs channels. Amitabh Bachchan, Siddhartha, live breaking news, Nag-Naginka Shadi just picked up. Arnab Goswami is resigning from Times of India. He might tie up with Rajat Sharma. News on the trot as we go, we are getting bombarded. It's a huge amount of information. We don't have anything called regulation. We have anarchy. We have half a dozen statutory regulatory bodies and I don't need to elaborate on their state. Central Board of Film Certification, we have the Prime Minister's propaganda is heading it. We have the Press Council of India to describe it as a toothless tiger would be very charitable because even a toothless tiger can scare somebody. You know they are scared of that tiger but the PCI can't scare anybody anymore. I used to be a member for three years of that council. You have the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. You have also the TRAI, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and suddenly the rule book is shown to them and said you know you can't have so many advertising in every art. Everybody goes to court saying you want to kill us. You know we are in a mess. You want to kill us now. So we have all these statutory bodies. We have something called the CERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team. We also have self-regulatory bodies, the BCCC, we have the News Broadcasting Standards Authority but we actually have effectively regulatory, anarchy and chaos currently prevailing. There have been number of reports that have talked about the need for having restrictions on cross-media ownership but these have not been implemented including the recommendations of a parliamentary committee and official report with the government had put together. Some of our television anchors have become akin to lynch mobs.  They are being for the blood of people in their own fellow journalists. They want to put them behind bars, you know. How different are there from vigilante groups who want to lynch somebody because you don't like their religious beliefs or you don't like the meat that they are eating? We are in this mug scheme called TRP, it's a television rating point which are farcical. So Kumar pointed out about NDTV. There was criminality. There was a former agent of the FBI who NDTV accessed a report which says that you are actually briming people. You know, fudge the ratings. That's because you have a very small number, a sample, trying to focus on urban areas, upper middle class areas in trying to ascertain viewing patterns across a very diverse country. You don't have those people meters to figure out who's watching what in the hundreds of thousands of villages. But even this system is not only inadequate, it's corrupt completely and criminalized. So there are people who are actually briming people to fudge those ratings. And this has been happening for a long time. You have one monopolist called TAM, once that ended, now you have another monopolist called BAK. So these are the new ways that we are seeing the way things have been evolving in the media in this country. We have to look at how we can make such journalism sustainable. Is it only philanthropies and trusts? Is it crowdfunding? Is it public support? These are the questions I think that we need to debate.


the 1920s and she first, she grew up in Algeas, Louisiana and went to Memphis and played on the streets and she had three different musical partners, all of whom relationships with, whether she was really married to all three of them, a little bit of a discrepancy. But this first song is called Too Late and it was a song that she wrote with her second musical partner. His name was Kansas City Joe McCoy. His people had great names. If you're my bed, you love me, it's hangin' on the lawn. Still you try and give me, I made it go too late. This next song was by another blues woman. Well, she recorded this song, this is really a traditional song, but this woman was from Europe. Her name was Joanne Kelly and she was an incredible guitar player and singer. When I first heard her, I was totally blown away. I always tried to hope to sound like her someday, but that never really happened. I'm still Mary Lou and she recorded and toured with Mississippi Fred McDowell.  This is called Easy Street. I'm cousin Emmy and she was from Kentucky. She was the first woman to win the Kentucky Fiddlers Convention in 1936. From there she went on to be on live radio in the 40s in St. Louis. She was quite the hot sketch. There's a wonderful video of her that you can check out if you're interested from Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest show. So this is one of her songs. It's called Graveyard. Believe it or not, I think it's kind of a fun, happy song. I guess that's me. So this next woman in music that I'd like to present is her name was, she was an incredible songwriter, a banjo player. She was born in North Carolina and she wrote some absolutely beautiful songs that have been covered by a number of bluegrass bands other folks. This song is called I've Endored. A set together too after she does her musician, singer, songwriter. Her name was Jean Richie and she was from Viper, Kentucky. Her folks emigrated here. There was Scotch Iris and they were ballad singers in the oral tradition in Kentucky. So she grew up like that. She was a dulcimer player and a singer and a songwriter and so she sort of bridged this gap between the oral traditional music and modern folk music. So this is, this is not a song she wrote. She was a songwriter but she recorded this song and it's an old traditional called Shady Grove and you're welcome to sing along if you'd like. Thank you so much. Next up will be Robin O'Haren. Thank you. So we've been wanting to do this for a long time and you know both Mary Lou and I do blues in the schools and historical performances and we just feel it's really important to talk about the people that created the songs and the music and especially in blues anyway women didn't get the recognition that they deserved but so I'm starting with going back in time and moving my way forward here and this is a dulcimer tune. So dulcimers are from Appalachia. This is a mountain dulcimer in case you guys didn't know and she was playing one also. We're going to do a couple together and they were invented in America. They're one of the instruments that is indigenous to our country and initially they were played with a feather and a stick and they do the courting with the stick and strum with the feather and my cats ate all the feathers so it might dog ate the stick. But the first song sounded kind of like this. Grab my horn and I'll say thank you. Sometimes it seems like I'm standing still until I and each step near. Sometimes my friend misunderstand me because I hear the sound Just as sure as a dulcimer and I have. I'd like to do one more dulcimer tune. These were handed down in an oral tradition a lot of times from mother to daughter and this one's called Come to the Mountain and it has a part that you could help me sing. Do you guys like to sing? Okay. I know my sister does. So the little refrain goes. And our spirits shall be as one at China's bright as the sun and our spirits shall be as one and China's bright as the sun. Want to try it? I see a head nod. And our spirits shall be as one at China's bright as the sun. One more time. Ready? And our spirits shall be as one at China's the sun. Come to the mountain. We can sing together. Time flying by as light as a feather and our spirits shall be as one as the sun. Mountain time flying by oh my can't you count oh and our spirits shall as a sun as a sun sounds lovely. Come to the mountain. We can sing together. Time flying by as light as a feather and when the moon is high above the mountain birds flying by oh my can't you count oh and our spirits as a sun. One more time. And our spirits as a sun. This is one of my favorite Bessie Smith songs and she was one of the biggest African American stars of the 1920s. She was popular with both white and black people and she sold a lot of records and she wrote a lot of great songs. She recorded with a lot of famous people like Louis Armstrong and she's just amazing musician. So this is Weeping Willow Blues. Me and my chauffeur blues was recorded by the Jefferson Airplane on their first debut album and she was really popular. A lot of bands in the 60s recorded her stuff. Let's see. This next tune is by Sippy Wallace and she was born 11-1 in Houston in 1898 and she died exactly 88 years later on the same day. That's just a crazy fact. But she was a blues singer and then she turned to gospel and rejected the devil's music and came out of her sanctified retirement in the 60s and toured with Bonnie Raitt in the 70s and appeared in festivals all across America.  She might be a highbrow changes clothes three times a day don't advertise you unplug this guitar play guitar much and a fan built me this guitar with the smallest guitar neck in the world and it's it's the third guitar he built it's called a round robin is a national steel radio tone bend away 2005 guitar that five guys at national steel built and I've sent it back three times for them to make adjustments and it's a great company they started in the 20s and invented resonator guitars and yeah so if you want to know more about resonators ask me later I wanted to do this is so moving into the 60s Malvina Reynolds has any wrote a lot of great songs and very political activist kind of person and she wrote this one called the minor's lament and I wanted to sing you I mean I think it had like 15 verses but I'm not going to do that I'm going to give you the cliff notes version to tell his occupation I have two more songs for you guys and then Mary Lou's going to come up and we're going to have some fun together so of course women in American music I had to include myself this is a tune that I wrote called redemption road inspired partly by blind willie johnson who's one of my guitar heroes claim to write these songs so it's negotiable but um there's a great video on youtube of sister rosetta tharp who was the godmother of rock and roll and played incredible blues and played circles around every guy she ever played with um she did this concert in england in this railroad station outside and it was amazing she's on one side of the tracks and she's got a guitar player and a bass player and on the other side of the tracks are all these white people in furs and coats sitting very properly while she's belting out this song trouble in mind sun's gonna shine on my back door someday give him a piece of someday thank you so much thank you is mary lou we're just going to do a few tunes together that we felt were important to american music and women in american music and uh want to thank you guys for coming out hope you are enjoying it we won't be a whole lot longer we should be done by 9 30 oh i'm gonna unplug the resonator and plug it back into the other guitar so this song is um called wildwood flower and um the carter family consisted of uh navel carter sarah and ap carter and they um they sort of were the the first folk music of um they came from virginia and um so this is one of the songs that we're going to do are theirs every guitar player learns this song at some point of course we're not playing it on guitar next tune it started life as a spiritual i think it's a traditional tune and sister rosetta tharp did a killer version which is not the version that we're doing but i like our version this train don't carry no gamblers this train this train don't cause this train no sharp shooters no midnight rain don't carry no gamblers this train this train she's bound for glory well this train then you got to be holy in this train she's bound for glory this train she carried my this train she carried my sister and my brother this train she carried my there's no crap shooters no midnight ramblers this train don't carry no just a few more songs for you guys are you good with that i heard was this low mumble i'm not sure what that meant speak now or forever hold your peace yeah yeah so this is in a traditional blues song but um a woman named sarah martin uh first recorded this with her jug band and she was a classic blues singer from the 20s um saying uh with lots of famous people including fat swaller and her own jug band and so forth but um i first heard this song um maria mildauer recorded this song one of her old blues cds uh it's called sweet love and old soul and singing the songs in our last tune much you've been a wonderful it's always such a pleasure to be at st john's coffee house you guys are awesome thank you so much thank you charlie thank you john for great sound thank you for being a one to have an email list and cds out back if anyone's interested and thank you to our sound man okay i'm sorry i didn't hear you i always sound the best one that's a big one let's squeeze it up yeah you want to squeeze it come on out do you need a chair what how about oh okay that's a cool technique okay nothing like putting them on a spot this is a song that you have never heard before it'll be fine this life is oh thank you so much robin o'harron so this is also a song that uh every guitar player learns it's uh elizabeth cotton tune she invented her own style of picking which was the precursor to travis strums and all the other finger style guitar playing that came after her so please feel free to sing along


I would definitely cut down on plastics and they're polluting everywhere from the sea to the land to the air. It's all getting destroyed. First of all I would certainly go for changing over all the cars to electric.  Trying to reduce as much as possible the use of fossil fuels, which are the biggest contributor really to greenhouse gases. Well I look at all these cars and look at that they're exhaust. I'm sure if they use public transport more. I mean the public transport around here is absolutely wonderful.


How did this guy make one million dollars before his 18th birthday party? The answer is coming up All right, here I am with Matt Posseous Million dollars. How did you make a million bucks before 18? I mean back when I was 18 so that was not before 18, but I mean I did a lot of stuff I tried a lot of stuff and it wasn't like I made that overnight Sorry, my first business at 13 and it took me one year to make one thousand dollars in a month It took some time and I remember it took me five months to make my first commission It was four dollars fifty-three cents Wow, then actually I made another sale and then a day after that the person who bought the second Product refunded that purchase.  I think you're 13 hours? I was I was doing SEO and I was I would go to click bang calm Which is the biggest marketplace for information products. That's where I sells 67 stuff as well That's where I sell my 30 day no alcohol challenge And we're actually at the home of Tai Lopez here in Beverly Hills, and he sells his 67 steps on quick bank. Can you Yeah, yeah, so that was one of my first ventures before that. I also did forex You don't know what process or trading. Yeah. Yeah for an exchange currencies So I did a lot of that. I wasn't good at it But I did not like it because the forex if you make money and you get excited about it I mean it's bad because then you like oh, I just made a fast bus and you think you're good, right? Yeah, and then Lots of sorrow inevitable When you trade forex, so you are going to lose and then you're like, oh my god lost money Because you get excited right? Yeah, so you have to completely get it attached from winning or losing Then you're trading forex, so I did not like that. Oh, well, it's good at it. So like I'll drop it then I did a lot of after I did Amazon I did I collected database of a million people. So that was a part of it Then I did consulting about how I did how it did How I went past the database and how to collect it one. So I did a lot of that So all those things combined you got up to a million dollars when you were 18. Yeah Yeah, so it wasn't like I made all of that like 18 I made some of it before but like most of it was when I was 18 Gotcha, and most of that was from Amazon. So I made four hundred sixty thousand dollars in two weeks $460,000 in two weeks. Yeah, that was during the holiday season before Christmas and that was selling someone else's products Oh, that was yeah. Yeah, I sold times a thousand products I sold everything you can see here chairs desks DVDs books forks knives refrigerators kitchen appliances anything you can think of I probably sold it Wow and What's the lesson that you learned that you could pass on to the viewer here like what the viewer is struggling just getting by You know job, whatever. What's the lesson? lesson that I learned for myself Especially when I was doing Amazon, I would say keep the main thing the main thing for example I was making ten thousand dollars a month from from just one adventure And it's good. It was going good at one point when I was 17 It was me ten thousand dollars a month and I'm like wow, you know people talk about the four-hour work week I was living the four-hour work month. Yeah So it was completely automated and that made me lazy and I'm like I really I can retire And I kind of retired 17 which sounds crazy So I didn't like nothing for three months. The first month was awesome second month like Fair month like I need to get to start do something before month. I got depressed really yeah So I like I got to do something and I started doing everything But what happened then you know, I was making ten thousand dollars a month from that business And I just made four hundred sixty thousand dollars from Amazon In two weeks and that business it's been down from ten thousand dollars a month to Four thousand and I was like I think we can get it back up because it was making money about me doing anything And it's going to be making money for maybe ten ten years, but I Should how focus more on Amazon I mean more money from that because I spent a few weeks just just building that business back up and I did that But when I'm like, how did I do that? I got this business back up to ten thousand dollars a month But I could have made a few hundred thousand dollars from Amazon, right? So keep a main thing the main thing And this example it'd be sound silly and it is but when it's when you're actually doing it like even right now You know, perhaps you are I don't know, you know, let's say you are in the sales or you're trying to get a product out Focus on like the main thing. What's the one thing that's making a difference? And just just an extra like focus on just about one thing and forget about everything else. All right. There you go Matt post. Yes, how do we we follow you Matt online? It would be best to go to Facebook and just search for my name Matt post use about mad and then my last name You spell it P O C I U S or just go to Facebook and search for my first million month or Academy and you will find my fan page So you can add me as a friend on Facebook and I'll try to get back to you There you go. And if you're watching this on YouTube, go ahead and like this video Leave a comment down below as well. How are you gonna make a million dollars? 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Good morning everybody, but the fishing here today. I will be reviewing the Cascade Brutus All right, so I already set up the Cascade Brutus 3000 with a 12-pound mono line And I have it rigged up with a structure bug from Strike King so Let's give this a test around here around this water to see. Um, how he goes See if there's any fish around any large mouth bass. I'm just gonna pitch it and Drag it through the bottom. I'm gonna flip it pitch it so far so good I'm not gonna lie The quality of this reel it feels good like his expensive reel, you know, so you know So far so good Though they just getting started So So far so good. Let's see if we get any bass or If we need to change lures Whatever we need. I'm using a striking Structure bug Black and blue flake, you know, cause this water is dirty and greenish so Using a dark color like blue and black is perfect for this type of water condition Let's just hope there's any bass around To go for it. I really do like how the when you cast It's really smooth This reel So that's a plus right there and he cast far and the quality feels amazing It feels like a $100 real. I guess there's any bass around here, man Guess we got to go to a new spot what I got. I thought I got here right there But I'm just on reviewing the reel Not the Lord now how many bass we catch but looks like there's no bass around here, man Guess we got to try a new spot But good quality though This reel good quality Not in man on this spot. I'll be back.  I'm testing out all spinning reel So far so good Let me pull it up. I don't get loose man That's what I'm talking about, baby. Let's go first bass all the day and He's a decent one. Let's go up there So we can see it better. Oh man So far so good down here the whole thing the whole structure bug So far so good man He handled these bass really well the casking So, you know We're still testing the real but So far so good You feel smooth. I Pair it up with a 12 mono line Blueish color, you know Man decent bass right now man on the on the casking We're large mall fast, baby Let me take a picture And I'll be back for the release Cascade baby so far so good. I'll be back. All right, man. I got the hook out Let's go for the release man Almost a pounder man on the casking of course So far man so good man good quality That inexpensive reel So let's go for the release. Let's go for more man Oh Man, there he goes. He's fine man. He's perfectly fine Cascading baby. Let's go for more But the fishing here Today I'm reviewing the casking Bluetooth 3000 in expensive rail But as we can see Yeah, is good quality Or something's taking my structure bug. Oh my god This one feels good This one feels good man. Oh my god. This one feels heavy so far the casking Is handling all the asses that I'm catching.  Wait up. Come this way. Yeah, come this way Get over here. Get over here. Oh, you're gonna break me off on the rock.  Oh my god Five pounder, bro. I'm not playing so far. Oh, I can't even talk man. I'm excited. This is a big one. Oh My god, bro, but and I lose this one It'll be a good. I'll get over here Get over here boy.  Oh my god, what a good bass and the casking handle it Like it was nothing The drag It was smooth when I was really in Man, I can't even speak right now, man. I'm excited this four pounder man. Heavy bass man Over here testing the casking Bluetooth inexpensive rail But good quality man As you can see we're getting good quality bass man. No joke You saw here first Using the structural buck to my god, man, I'm not playing bro Look at these five pounder four pounder man Three and a half man or four Let me remove the hook man I'm not playing bro Good bass Man, I can't even talk man. I'm excited. Yeah And these real feels like an expensive one man Feels good man and smooth You can't do any type of bass man large mouth small mouth Any type of fish species Man, but I can't remove this hook and put it down With three minutes in three minutes and a half. All right. Got it up. Oh my god, bro I'm not playing man.  I could barely hold it On the casking, of course This is the second bass we got on the casking. Oh my god, bro. I'm not playing man Let me post the video over here and take a pictures. I'll be back. I'll be back guys Freaking four pounder baby on the casking. Let's go baby. Haha all day Bet the fishing here Damn, man, I'm excited man on the casking Real let's go for the release man Freaking four pounder man Go pass man. Go pass. Oh Man there he goes Well, he's right here. There he goes. There he goes. He's right there. Oh, I could even grab it. I Grab him straight out the water. He's gone. There he goes over there Man what a four pounder man Four pound bass on the casking. Let's go, baby. Let's go for more. I'm getting hit again On the casking Bluetooth 3000 Let's go, baby. Oh My god, this one feels good too third bass of the day On the casking. Oh my god, this one feels better than the other one Not the other one was bigger.  Don't tell me this is another four pounder, man. Oh, this one is pulling drag, man I better go in the water. Oh my god. Get over here. I better now lose this one Come on casking you could do this.  This don't feel like a four pounder or three pound and a half man. I Get over here get over here. Oh my god. I know the decent one man.     I'm not playing Yeah, ah All right, man Jesus Christ, bro Another third bass Freaking freaking Thank you Oh my god, man.  I'm not playing man Look at this This is the third bass and he's already another four pounder Like a three three and a half Heavy man heavy bass good quality bass man today We're getting there man Gotta give it up to striking man. This reel man is putting in work It's no joke, man Putting in work Let's go for the release man another good bass man third one of the day. I know the three and a half pound, man We're not playing here, man Oh, I better not fall in the water Damn man same bass as before A little smaller, but oh man Three and a half, bro Look at this large mouth man good bass man good quality Let's go for the quick release man again Oh man, there he goes man Another four pounder, bro on the casking We're not playing today man third bass good quality better fishing here Let's go for more on the casking bluetooth I'm hooked up to a good one Another three and a half pound, but he's stuck on their branch. Oh my god.   Oh, he's over here. He's over here. I think he keep going under the branch Ah, he's over here. He's over here Oh my god, man. Another good bass This one is like a two pound and a half Get over here, man on the casking of course Get over here. Get over here. I don't want to lose this bass.  Come on. I know the freaking good bass, man On the casking, bro I'm not playing man I know the great bass This is the fourth bass, man. I just started recording Right when I hooked them under that branch right there Look at this good bass, man Freaking two pound and a half, bro. No joke Your casking is putting work right now, man. This this is inexpensive real Oh my god It's doing work It's not even giving me trouble To pull the bass out of the water and I got to pair up with uh Of course, you know Striking structure bug You know, you know how we do man better fishing here.


What is good happy Friday Friday feeling feeling friggin good today Whoo, I'm sure you've seen by now Hopefully if not actually not hopefully because not that many pieces at 4,000 views boy. I dunked really well yesterday So check that out that vlog. It was just yesterday.  You know, it's the latest one. Okay best dunk so far of 2019 might be my highest day ever I matched my highest day which was which was my head at the backboard on a 10-foot rim which I did again yesterday first try and I say I matched my highest day ever because I've only I've done that before I didn't really measure today But that feels amazing because it's I didn't even expect to jump that well But I wanted to jump even higher soon. I want to anyway check that out. Welcome to dunk life daily We on day three. I want to keep this as consistent as possible dunk training life Training to what it's about. It's about both. I learned about life through dunking and life I learned about through living it, bro And the more I live it the more I love it and the more I want to share So other people can live it to the max I'm all about maxing it out obsessed with progress and I want to start every single day with that Energy as you probably know by now, but that's what this is about. So I hope this the minimum you get from this boost, you know little boost up So yeah, that's what it's about another thing I wanted to mention leave all your comments below This will be the community that you can see all the comments because I get a lot of DMs of the same question So leave them below. I'm pumping out content, bro I got vlogs and podcasts all platforms friggin whatever So just if you have any questions from wherever you hear drop it on this YouTube video So it's all in one place because then other people can read the question. That's what today's is about It's a very popular question. I get which is about knee pain jumpers knee pain How to fix it? How do how do I know if it's jumpers knee? My knowledge is a lot of experience and a lot of talking from trainers and dealing with it in many different ways myself So And the other thing I want to talk about is patience because it goes hand-in-hand with fixing your jumpers knee and also just life And training as well. It's very it's one of the hardest things for me is having that patience because I want to do the most But sometimes patience is the most productive. So with knee pain jumpers knee I think every dunker is probably going to experience knee pain It's a simple formula to get knee pain and that is your loading your knee tendon too much Jumping is the biggest force you can put on it unless you're like trying to jump with like 500 pounds on your back The point might what I'm trying to say is like lifting weight if you're lifting like 400 500 pounds on a squat You're usually going down slow and up and that's a lot of tension on your knee But jumping could be produced like the way I jump like super powerful super fast as hard as I possibly can Most of the time you're jumping you're jumping as hard as you can. That's what you should be side side tip Jump as hard as you can When you're doing that you're applying so many pounds of force through the ground That's what jumping is it's applying force and producing force And that's why you need to get stronger another side tip get stronger and faster. You'll apply more force So applying that much force is going to cause a ton of tension a ton of load on that tendon So when you do that and you jump over and over again You're probably going to load that tendon too much Because if you went from not jumping to jumping a lot Which a lot of us do when they start dunk training is you're going to develop some pain there So now how do you fix it? You have jumpers knee main thing is mainly stop jumping. That's a big one patience, it's really tough to stop jumping So my tips for how to fix jumpers knee and how to get back to strength My knees are the best they've ever been by the way So I could share my experience in a second but the best tips I have right now are Stop jumping and then get to know your body yesterday's was about awareness You got to get to know your body that pain skill of your knee you want it under a three So like where it's bearable pain, but it doesn't like kill So just do nothing just try not to even like go upstairs try not to even like bend it full range of motion Just try to really lay off it and ice and things like that just to really get the pain low Then that's like that's when it's like the worst Then you want to do isometrics and everything I talk about in this in this rehab formula is Gradual super super gradual so take that jumpers knee do some isometrics If you don't know what those are just you too But it's just where you hold a weight and like keep it basically flexed in your knees So you stimulate some Whatever the fuck goes on in your tendons recovery to do that, but you want to do isometrics once a day Hold it for 40 do like three sets of 45 seconds You could do it once a day right do that for like a couple days, but see how it feels in two days You have to give it a two-day break and every time you do this by the way This is shout out to John Evans who helps me with this specific Timeline like this every every two days every say you like put like ten pounds of weight It's like super light ten pounds of weight two days later. It feels the same It doesn't get worse you can check that off that you can handle that So that's how you want your mindset to be and that's what I want to teach on this podcast Is the mindset behind these things because teach a man to fish and whatever the quote is is like you give a man a fish He's for a day teach a man to fish you can do it for for life dunk life So yeah, so you do that then you add more weight then you add more frequency So at some point you'll be doing isometrics three times a day, but that's all you're doing isometrics three times a day Getting it strongly be 50 pounds of weight three sets of 50 Three three sorry three sets of 45 seconds and give it a couple days. So what I did is isometrics for a couple weeks It sucked. It's just like all I did in the gym is just like isometrics Let that pain get really down and I couldn't even body squat without pain like the second I bent I felt pain so just keep testing that a little bit But you don't want to like you don't want to do like 20 body squats as it hurts me like I wonder if it's gonna hurt No, do the isometrics try like one body squats see if it hurts then do body squats and Super gradual into that and be patient again Do like two body squats if you have no pain you win wait two days if no pain You're good if it hurts then go back a little bit You know you got to go back in you might have to rest again So if say you do two body squats and it kills in two days for whatever reason you got to go back to what you did before that and Rep out that range so like no body squats a little bit heavier isometrics you get the point So you do body squats and then slowly work up to weighted squats again slowly slowly slowly And then the best thing for your knee tendon is jumping because it's like it makes that tendon the stiffest Which is makes it the strongest which is like the healthiest it can be so you work your way up to body squats And once you can do body squats, and then you're adding weight So you're adding like a hundred thirty five pounds then you could stop the weight and start doing baby jumps You could watch this all on my vlog I did this for the past few months from like November to January or month February. I did all of this It's all on my vlog. I went from ISOs only to babe to body squats to to To lightweight with the just a bar squatting and this was all like every two days I was doing this and then slowly I would push a little bit You got to push it and test a little bit But you you have to the best thing to do is to know what you're doing Patience wait for it give it time because then you're gonna strengthen it So then you go up to baby jumps and then you start pushing it a little bit and then do different things try one-legged jumps Plyometrics are really great for when you can handle it now that I'm so healthy and I dunk and I have zero pain That's what whatsoever. I'm still pushing it So I'll go on a high high box and just step off it and do landings and I'm constantly pushing my tendons So that way they keep getting stronger, but that took a long time I went through months of not even lifting not even lifting the bar just straight ISOs and body squats, so Patience and now a little bit to end it on patience is I have a lot of times where I want to do more But you can't always just keep pumping keep pumping keep coming. You got to be productive with it So for example, sometimes I want to produce a video like that night I know like for example yesterday I edited like crazy But if I had too much to do I would have wanted to get it out that day because I like to pump it The same day and Thursdays I guess is a good day for YouTube sometimes But I got to remember sometimes my sleep is more important and then the next day I'll come up with better ideas make better videos and make better content and that patience is something I've had to learn that with this training is that you can't there is no shortcut. There is no secret You're never gonna ask that you're never going to have some one of these dunkers.  I've been waiting to jump that high for since last year since like two months after last year's Dunkamp, which was like July August like August September. I haven't jumped that high. I got hurt I had to rehab my knee. I did all this stuff I'm talking about then I got back from Dunkamp just now And I was like ready to fly my highest ever because I was feeling really bouncy But I couldn't go full approach because of my hamstring because that I like really overworked it And so I had to be patient for these past two weeks and plus I'm publicly posting all my progress So all and my YouTube does the best when I dunk vlog So the patience is the hardest for me because all I want to do is show the progress But I can't so like my YouTube's writing on it my own personal mood is writing on it's a lot But stay patient. That's what this is about. I know we start with energy But that energy is to make sure you're staying focused and make sure you're staying on your grind And it's worth it because now I have no knee pain. I'm feeling the healthiest ever And I actually pushed my hamstring a little bit this week Which I think I'll talk about on tomorrow's podcast Which is like how to know how to deal with pain how to deal with that pain scale and what you're doing, but stay Patient that's the toughest thing to do and don't and when I say stay patient Also, don't just like go for goals because they're goals like I had that windmill Wednesday post if you saw it It's like don't just push yourself to get a windmill on Wednesday if you want to land one That's what makes it worth it is that when you're healthy like right now I can jump as much as I possibly want and my knees feel the strongest I've ever been not even a wince of pain even when I finish a dunk session They feel amazing and that's because I took the time to build that foundation. All right, this is kind of a long one Last thing I wanted to say is do you want to see a live stream this podcast because on the weekends I could probably do a live stream, but I need I need some feedback So if you want to see a live stream or you rather just see this in the morning That's cool too because the live stream or the the the recorded one like this high quality, baby Audio video everything the pot the live stream will be probably just my computer camera Which is fine, but the good audio and it but you can ask your question So if you want to see a live stream, it'll be tomorrow morning around 9 p.m. 10 p.m. East I mean whoa 9 a.m. 10 a.m. Eastern So let me know if you want to let's see a live stream dunk life daily we out Let's get it stay on your grind work it keep working. Let's get it to the loop


تبطه آدك الأيام فتا but there are three things that indicate insha'Allah that could be used to say that Ibn Utamiya authored this book number one is this book has become famous اشتهراء لشيخ الإسلامي ابن اتيميا this book became famous and known that it's Ibn Utamiya's book and it hasn't been ascribed to anybody other than Ibn Utamiya a lot of the times scholars they ascribe one book to a person and others they ascribe it to another person but this book it's only been ascribed to Shaykh الإسلامي ابن اتيميا and it's become well known for that the second thing that indicates that or points this book towards Ibn Utamiya is that محتوى ياتو هذا المنظومة what this book consists of and the points that this book deals with are really things that Ibn Utamiya رحمه الله تعالى anyone who is looked into his works and his books could say that these are what he talks about and insha'Allah تعالى some of them were going to see insha'Allah تعالى as the book comes as we go into the book بإذن الله الكريم the third thing that indicates that this book is written by Shaykh الإسلامي ابن اتيميا is some of the scholars have actually said that it's Ibn Utamiya's book جزم بعض أهل العلم كالإمام الألوس رحمه الله some of the scholars they said that this book is written by Ibn Utamiya and they ascribe the book to him such as الإمام الألوس رحمه الله in his book جلاء العينين بمحاكمة الأحمدين نقبك الإمام الألوس رحمه الله العالم of بغداد عراق الإمام الألوس رحمه الله this book of his he talks about Shaykh الإسلامي ابن اتيميا and ابن حجر الهي تمي but ابن حجر الهي تمي صحب فتاة الحديثية ابن اتيميا رحمه الله أنه سلب ابن اتيميا he talks about it in that book جلاء العينين بمحاكمة الأحمدين and he ascribe this book to he ascribe this book to Shaykh الإسلام ابن اتيميا this book a lot of scholars have explained it from the scholars who have explained it is and you could say that it's the best explanation is the explanation of Ahmed ابن عبد الله المردوي sorry Ahmed ابن عبد الله المردوي الحمبلي Ahmed ابن عبد الله المردوي الحمبلي in his book البهية شرح الامية Shaykh الإسلامي ابن اتيميا which is مطبع متدول it is authored and it is published and people have it but Ahmed ابن عبد الله المردوي الحمبلي he kind of doesn't clearly ascribe the book to ابن اتيميا he rather says that this book منصوبة إلى Shaykh الإسلام ابن اتيميا which is ascribed to Shaykh الإسلام ابن اتيميا so Adam will not to say that this book or to say with conviction that this book is the book of ابن اتيميا not many scholars have done that and some scholars they kind of they give it but they say this book is ascribed to ابن اتيميا the scholars who said that this book is not written by ابن اتيميا and questioned the book the arguments that they brought forward was that ابن اتيميا used one of the lines of this book in his مجموعة الفتاة he used one of the lines in his book in his مجموعة الفتاة and the line that we are going to come to إن شاء الله قبحا لمن نبذ القرآن وراءه وإذا استدل يقولوا قال الأخطل that line of poetry ابن اتيميا used it in his مجموعة الفتاة and he said when he brought that line of poetry he said وقد أنشد المنشد منهم and the poet who gave who done this line of poetry said وقد أنشد المنشد like the one who read this poetry said as though it wasn't him but the scholars replied back to by saying that it could happen and it's possible sometimes an author may say that about his own poetry and anyone who reads books would realize that scholars do do that their own work they say the author said when it's his own book when he's explaining his own book or he will say may Allah make dua for the person who said this when it's his own words so this is not something that goes against it but there is one thing that could point towards this book if not being ابن اتيميا that is if this is if this goes through which is one of the lines of poetry and it says وقوله في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكريم المنزل if we say آياته فهو القديم المنزل and the قديم is the correct version if we say that and it comes out that the word قديم is the correct manuscript and it turns out to be that's the correct version then this book cannot be ascribed to him ابن اتيميا because شاقل السلام اتيميا is known to be against the word القديم the usage of the word القديم for the Qur'an of Allah سبحانه و تعالى his stance is very clear but it seems like that the manuscripts or the copies that have come that it says آياته فهو الكريم المنزل that the word كريم is what is used so insha'Allah و تعالى without any further ado insha'Allah و تعالى we will go into the book الليل كريم by شاقل السلام اتيميا the author has started his book by saying يا سائل عم ذهبي و عقيدتي رزق الهدام للهداية يسأل the author has started his book by saying يا سائل oh you who is asking me عن ماذهبي my ماذهب و عقيدتي and asking me about my عقيدة so the first shatr the first part of the first sentence the شاقل رحمه الله و تعالى it seems like normally as his other works are that this book is a reply to a questioner who asked him and the شاقل رحمه الله is replied to the question so this individual when he asked him about the sheikh's madhab and his عقيدة that he hear the madhab is not meant by the school of thought but rather it is what his عقيدة and when we spoke about the matter of العدف العام على الخاص and an end العدف الخاص على العام it falls under that chapter which is that sometimes you can ascribe or you can use the wow between two things which are the same or one falls under the other okay so يا سائل the one who is asking me and madhab in my madhab meaning the madhab which I am upon the methodology which I have traded on and what's the methodology that we're upon our madhab is what اتباع الكتاب والسنة على فهم سلف الأمة هذا هذا our madhab our madhab is what the madhab that we're upon is what الكتاب the book of Allah and the sunnah of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام and understanding the kitab and the sunnah based on who's understanding our own no based on the understanding of the صحابي the pious predecessors how did they understand this verse what did they extract from this verse so we don't introduce anything new we don't come with our own our own interpretation of the religion no وعقيدة عقيدة comes from the linguistic word عقد وهو عربة الشيء عقيدة comes from the word عقد عقد is to tie something عربة الشيء is to tie something and that is what عقيدة is is that you tighten this thought in your mind you believe it with with what unwavering conviction you believe it with what with unwavering conviction it is fully rooted in your heart okay so the one who's asking me روزق الهدى من للهداية يسألوا so the sheikh رحمه الله he's making dua for the one who asked the one who asked he's this question he's making dua for him and he's making dua for him that Allah gives him guidance because anyone who asks a question like this which is a matter patain to عقيدة a matter patain to the madhhab in your matters of عقائد sheikh this dua is definitely something you ask for them no so the person who's asking this question is one of two people who asked the sheikh this question number one it is either a person he's either a person who is testing the sheikh he's actually testing the sheikh رحمه الله or he is a person who's what he's a person who is actually asking who wants to know the answer to this who really is looking for guidance you see that is what the person who's asking maybe and the way that the sheikh sees this person it seems like he sees them in a what he sees them in a form of respect and that he respects the individual so it seems like a person who's asking out of what out of a way of wanting to know and that he's looking for guidance through it now what we need to also understand is that the scholars they used to author their book based on one of two situations that's one of two situations is why a scholar would author a book number one the reason why he would author a book is because an individual comes up to him and says to him يا شيخ this مسألة حيرتني it has confused me I need somebody to explain this matter for me explain it to me and so the sheikh what he does is he expands he elaborates and he speaks about the matter in details and that is many of the books of ابن تيمي رحمة الله it was a question asked the sheikh the second is the situation that is prevalent at that time or what is taking place the author looks at it and he realizes that he should speak about it on author a book in this regard and that is also some of the things that sheikh so he said the one who is asking me about my and my رزق الهودة من الله give you guidance the one who is asking about guidance so the man was asking to be guided here the sheikh mentions two types of guidance he is and guidance is of those two types the person he is looking through guidance he is asking who the sheikh and brothers and listeners who are listening sisters you really have to understand that our relationship with the علامة is what our relationship with the علامة is because we don't have no prophet with us today and no prophet will be set down they delicate the previous nations كلما مات نبي every time a prophet died خلفه نبي another prophet will come a prophet died another prophet will come a prophet died another prophet will come this umma after muhammad is there any prophet after it we don't have it so who is taking the position of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم خم العلمة it is the scholars as the prophet said العلمة وراثة الامبياء وإن الامبياء لم يورثوا درها من ولا دينارا وإنما ورثوا العلم فمن أخذه أخذه بحذن وافر the scholars they've inherited something from the prophets and what they've inherited from them is what this knowledge so because we won't see no prophet right now and for us to understand what the prophet said what he meant by what he said it is the علامة who explain that to us so we go to them when matters are unclear to us and we ask them and we don't disconnect ourselves from who the علامة and the people of knowledge because criticize it and critique in the scholars it's a methodology taken by who the أهل البداع والضلال the people of misguidance the people of what? misguidance ولي ذلك go to كتاب الإعتصام بأهل إمام الشاطب برحمة الله when he talks about the chapter of علامات أهل البداع pay attention الإعتصام بأمام الشاطب الشاطب برحمة الله in his book الإعتصام he mentions in the chapter علامات the signs of the people of innovation what does he talk about? he brings a statement from إسماعيل ابن عليا إسماعيل ابن عليا he said حدثني يسع يسع told me who say this إسماعيل ابن عليا he said حدثني يسع told me that واصل ابن عطا who is واصل ابن عطا واصل ابن عطا is the student of حصل البصري who became an innovator later and he was the leader of the deviated sect المعتزلة they subscribe back to who واصل ابن عطا so an Imam أبس حق الشاطب he said إسماعيل ابن عليا يسع حدثني يسع that واصل ابن عطا he said حدث عمر ابن عبيت عمر ابن عبيت is who عمر ابن عبيت is a is with عواصل عطا pay attention to this خبث and this filter is going to come out of the mouth of this deviated individual عمر ابن عبيت what did he say he said نا علم what is the knowledge of who حصل البصري وابن وصيرين what is the knowledge of حصل البصري that's his own sheikh and ابن وصيرين محمد وصيرين what's their knowledge except what what's their knowledge of حصل البصري and محمد وصيرين in which you hear when they talk they say and the kind of words that come out of their mouth what is it like he said إلا خرق تحيض الملقات it is like the cloth of a woman in which she a pad a woman wears when she's on her menstruation and when she finishes with it and the time she wants to wear another one she throws it the knowledge of حصل البصري and محمد وصيرين is like that so what does this teach us اطعنوا في العلماء criticizing slandering the scholars is طريقة بدعية it's a path which is misguidance it's a path which is what which is misguidance and ولي ذلك أبوحات مرازي ودريسي علامة أهل البدع الوقيعة في أهل الأثر you have to memorize that statement علامة أهل البدع the sign in which you know a person of innovation is what الوقيعة they fall in criticizing slandering more like the people of the text they will سلندعي عالم so they won't refer back to the scholars you hear them saying these scholars are scholars of dollars don't refer back to the scholars if you want to take knowledge from them take from them take from them أحكاموا الصلاة take from them أحكاموا الزكات take from them أحكاموا البيوع take from them أحكاموا الراهن all of these things لكن أحكاموا الجهاد أحكام الإمارة and don't take from them because they are they have they have pressure from the government إنه لله وإنه إليه راجعون تشابهت قلوبهم their statement and the statement of them the previous innovators have become the same so stay away from that and don't open your tongue with the people of knowledge refer back to them ask them questions if there is a matter which you don't know follow the statement of Allah فسألوا أهلا فيكري إن كنتم لا تعلمون if you don't know a matter take it back to who the علامة now what I want you to all understand insha'Allah is when Allah said in this ayah فسألوا أهلا فيكري إن كنتم إن كنتم لا تعلمون ask the people of knowledge if you don't know ask the people of knowledge if there is a matter which you don't know this ayah is ayah محكمة it's an ayah which is clear cut which until the day of judgment has to be implemented will Allah تعالى تعالى say to us if you don't know a matter take it back to the scholars when there is no scholars will Allah say that to us will Allah send us back to the scholars and go back to them when they don't exist no they have to exist in order for us to implement the ayah so there are لا ماء and scholars and people of knowledge when the messenger said لا تزالوا طائفة من أمة ظاهرين على الحق لا يضرهم من خذلهم ولا من خالفهم حتى يأتي أمر الله وهم على ذلك there is always a group who stand on the haq they are always consistent they are always going to be upon it so there is always going to be a people of guided people the ummah are not all upon misguidance ever done very good so going back to the scholars using the scholars as your reference point asking them matters which have اشكال and you don't understand respecting the علماء after you take a knowledge from them and knowing اللحوم وال علماء مسموما that the flesh of the scholars is what? poisonous so the flesh of the scholars الله تبارك و تعالى made it poisonous why not they are the guardians of this earth the way that the angels are the guardians of the sky in the heavens they got this earth from any shubuhat and any shukuk and shahawat that is put forward about Allah's religion they are hurras hurras with dunya it's them as Sofiana Thori said that the hurras of this dunya are the علماء كما أن الملائكة تحراصوا السماء the same way that the angels are the guardians the guardians the guardians who look after the heavens and make sure that nobody can just come into places the earth the علماء are like that for it so it's really important that we give respect to those who الله تبارك و تعالى has given them appraisal and Allah تبارك و تعالى has put their status up شهيد الله أنه لا إله إلا هو والملائكة وقولوا العلم قائما بالقصط الله تبارك و تعالى he mentions his name and the name of the angels next to the علماء and that is تزكية الله تبارك و تعالى و تعالى أمة الإسلام أو مسلم لا تبارك تفضلوا هؤلاء و لا تفضلوا تفضلوا لهم تقوموا لهم و تبارك أين هو ولكن always always have to remember that there is always an offroad and an offroad there is extreme both angst there are people who take the علماء as what that they are infallible they make the علماء تقديسوا العلماء they take the علماء above the text the كتابن السنة and there are another group of people who don't care about the علماء who are they how am I why do I have to take from them I just want Allah and his messenger and he isn't even what he isn't even a person who can write his name in the Arabic language and he wants to open his tongue he wants to critique the علماء he wants to say I disagree and I agree who are you من أنت لتخالف العلماء who are you to disagree with the علماء الإمام العلماء المعلمي اليماني ذهبي العصر عبد رحمان ابن يحيا المعلم صاحب كتاب التنكيل بما في تأني بالكوثري من الأباطيل which is a book again the student of knowledge looking to read the books of معلمي is عجوبة it's an عجوبة it's a fascinating على كل حال محمد زاهد الكوثري who insulted 300 individuals from the صحابة أنا سبنو مالك he insulted him you see he insulted إمام الشافعي إمام مالك سفيان الثوري سفيان من العيينة الأوزاعي مع مرمن راشد أئمة كبار why all of that because of his his غلوب his extreme towards who towards who أبو حنيفة محمد زاهد الكوثري and he also insults خطي بالبغداني يعقوب من أبي شيبة أبو بكر من أبي شيبة all of them so عبد رحمان المعلمي in his book تنكيل بما في تأني بالكوثري من الأباطيل he said something he said to him in reply he said if you want to know a value of destruction if you want to see a value of destruction which is in reality the first problem that this أمة suffered from which was what is to go extreme in the righteous people نبي الله نوح the five individuals وقالوا لا تذرن وقالوا لا تذرن آلها تكم ولا تذرن ودن ولا سواعن ولا يغوث ويعوق ونصر وقالوا لا تذرن آلها تكم ولا تذرن ودن ولا سواعن ولا يغوث ويعوق ونصر they were what they were five righteous men عز عبد الله من عباس نصح البخاري they were what رجال صالحون five righteous men but what did they then people do after they died they made pictures of them and they worshiped them so this is what الغلوف صالحين to go extreme in the righteous people even our messenger محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم a woman she was praising the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and look what she said while she was with the messenger she said إن فينا نبي يون amongst us is a prophet يعلم ما في الغد he knows what can happen tomorrow and then the messenger what did he say to her صلى الله عليه وسلم لا تقول لا تقول لا تقول ما فلكن قولي مكنت تقولين لا تقول ما but say what you were saying before what are the praises of the things that you were saying say that but do not say this one and then the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said لا يستحق لا تجد الشيطان لا تجد شيطان you in the praises that you praise imagine if the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم was to see the statement of البورس فين وإن من جودك الدنيا وضرتها ومن علومك علم اللوح والقلمة إذا كنت أرى بأمان النبي س. عليه الصلاة والسلام المساعدين يرون في ذلك ماذا؟ يرون في سلبريف المساعدين من سلبة المساعدين من بوصيري فقال النبي س. عليه الصلاة و أمان العزيز وقال النبي س. لا تطروني كما أطرت النصار ابن مريم لا تأخذوا أن أرشان امان مريم المسلمين عندما يقومون بعمل معه عيساب المريم. لا يقومون بعمل معه كذلك. لذلك يقومون بعمل معه عيساب المريم. لذا يرى بعض الناس يقولون لك. يقومون بعمل معه عيساب المريم. يمكنك never go to extreme on it because you will never be able to what. يقومون بعمل enough عيساب المريم. إنه ليس he the one who is stopping it over here. ليس he not the one telling this woman not to do it. ليس he not the one that's telling you not to go overboard with me. is it not the christian that the ones who said that Allah is one of three وما من إله إلا إله واحد وإلا مينته عما يقولون لا يمثلن الذين كفروا منهم عذاب العليم. so why did the christians go misguided? why did they become misguided and deviated from the right path? they went extreme on it. and then brothers and sisters what I'm trying to say is the righteous people they should be given their status that Allah gave them and we shouldn't do we shouldn't go extreme and we shouldn't go less and place them that we place everyone in their right place and that we don't go extreme towards the people so the رحمة الله تعالى so what does guidance mean? or how many types of guidance are there? the guidance are two types the first type of guidance is the guidance which Allah negated from us as these creation no one is able to do this type of guidance it's a guidance which is specific for Allah and it's the one Allah negated in the Quran from the prophet what did he say to him إنك لا تهدي من أحببتها ولكن الله يهدي ما يشاء محمد you cannot guide whoever you want but Allah guides whoever he wills so that ayah what did it teaches what does it tell us? that there's a guidance which the prophet can't come with and there's a guidance with which no one after the prophet can come with if he can't come with it then no one else can that guidance is it's called what does that mean? it means to place the hack in the people's hearts we can't do that it's only when Allah is able to do هدايةه هدايةه التوفيق هدايةه التوفيق there's another type of guidance which is called and that is the which is the guidance of showing the people the straight path saying this is the path of Allah وأن هذا سراط مستقيما فاتبيعوه ولا تتبيعوا السبول فتفرق بكم عن سبيل ذلكم وصاكم به لعلكم تتقول to show the straight path to say this is what Allah legislated to say this is what Allah prohibited to say this is what pleases Allah to say this is what Allah loves etc you see that type of showing the path guiding the people on showing them the path that is what the prophet can do and anyone after the prophet can do that from the علاماء from the people of knowledge from the students of knowledge they can do that they can guide to the path that guidance that we affirm for them is what is to show the path and Allah affirmed that for the messenger he said وإنك يا محمد لا تهدي إلى سراط مستقيم so Allah affirmed the straight path for him here you guide on Muhammad to the straight path so what path has he been affirmed for him or what path is he or what guidance can he give the guidance here is to show the people the straight path so the علاماء they guide you by telling you where the path of Allah but which علاماء the علاماء whose عقيد is sound and their مذهب is what as I said before الكتاب و السنة بفهم سلاف الأمة they take from the كتاب they take from the سنة and they are upon the what فهم سلاف الأمة the understanding of the pious predecessors and what they unanimously agreed upon نعم then the sheikh says after that after that line اسمع لسن كلام محقق في دينه لسن brothers listening is a means to understand and when a people do not listen to the علاماء and they don't listen to the people of knowledge what happens to them they regret it in the day of judgment as Allah said in the Quran anyone who doesn't listen to the haq when it's been told to him and the evidences are being explained to him and he chooses not to listen he's going to regret it in the day of judgment Allah says وقالوا وقالوا لو كنا نسمعوا أو نعقل ما كنا في أصحاب الصعير فاعترفوا بدن بهم فسوح قال لأصحاب الصعير they will say the day of judgment وقالوا لو كنا نسمع if only we listened and we opened our ears and we took the haq that we were told we will not have been from what from the people of there hellfire


Thank you for coming tonight. My name is Cynthia Smith. I'm the curator of socially responsible Design and the curator of the exhibition by the people designing a better America. That's currently on display Both on the first floor and the third floor It's on display through February 26, so please tell your friends to come See the exhibition It includes 60 designs from around the United States that address the complex problems of social and spatial inequities in urban Suburban and rural communities design responses range in scale from the entire city of Detroit to a mobile health app for expectant mothers Thank you so much for coming tonight and welcome to Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum The only Museum in the United States Devoted exclusively to design the vent this evening is the first of several we have scheduled in conjunction with by the people the next Defiant jewelry with Detroit's rebel now takes place on January 26th with IDO org in the third There are three more in February One is how design can meet the needs of underserved communities co-organized with Pratt institution on February 2nd Redivining the civic role of public libraries in the 21st century on February 9th and a discussion on design cities and cognitive Computing on February 15th You can RSVP to any of all of these events at Cooper Hewitt org Tonight, I'm delighted that we have one of the designers whose important work is Included in by the people designing a better America Deanna von Buren one half of the design Social science team that brings design workshops to prisons around the country Designing justice designing spaces essential work exemplifies what is required to envision Design and build a more just and equitable America But first I'd like to take a moment to thank Autodesk Who provided major support for by the people and partnered with us on design night New York? We're honored to have the president and CEO of Autodesk Linnell Preston Cameron with us Linnell is also the director of sustainability at Autodesk Throughout her career. She's been a leader on sustainability Conservation and community development sits on boards focused on environmental health biomimicry see innovation net impact and Responsible business all incredibly important not only to us tonight and Cooper Hewitt But incredibly important for improving and supporting communities here in the US and around the country around the world Lynette or Linnell. Thank you Everyone loves to cross my L's and turn it into Lynette. Thank you Cynthia it is such an honor to be here and I'm so excited to welcome all of you to our very first design night in New York City and Exactly, it's about time, right? And we are so thrilled to be co-hosting this with the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. It's a very natural partner We have been a fan and a supporter of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum for many years over the years I'm also so thrilled to welcome all of you from the New York design community here tonight and get a chance to Connect and meet with many of you here. So thank you for coming I'm particularly excited to introduce tonight's speaker for two reasons First because as you'll see she is an incredible leader and spokesperson for restorative justice And doing really important impactful work But also because this marks a bit of a milestone for the Autodesk Foundation and the work that we're doing in the portfolio that we have The foundation we set it up three years ago to invest in people who are using design to create impact So we invest in a whole different set of solutions that address many different at Epic challenges, but all through the lens of design much like the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum So this gives us the privilege of working with designers in hundreds of different countries that are working on issues from Ranging from the design of a cholera center in Haiti to sanitation systems in the slums of Nairobi to Renewable energy systems in Myanmar and many many more many of our foundation customers are here tonight I hope you get to meet them. We also have many people from Autodesk and the foundation team would be happy to tell you more about the work But the reason I'm excited about tonight is because when we set up the foundation several years ago We hadn't actually thought about the application of design for the criminal justice system and for restorative justice We thought about design for dignity design for healing, but never this application of design About a year ago. I had an opportunity to go to a TEDx event But this was a TEDx at San Quentin prison in California San Quentin is in my home county of Marin I see it every day as I take the ferry into the city for work But of course I'd never stepped inside of it and for those of you who are familiar with TEDx's it was organized by the inmates the majority of speakers were inmates or Formerly incarcerated and the audience was half inmates and half visitors like myself that day and As you can imagine it was an incredibly memorable day to sit alongside Lifers to hear their stories their poetry to share peanut butter jelly peanut butter and jelly sandwiches their food with them during the day And of course being with Autodesk. I was struck all day long by the role of design and Not just the design of the prison architecture, which is incredibly intense But the design of the entire criminal justice system and the impact of that design on the very people It's intended to serve So needless to say I now recognize the importance of the work that you're going to hear about tonight And I am so pleased to introduce you all to Diana Van Buren and the organization that she co-founded designing justice designing spaces She is a national leader in design and advocacy of restorative justice centers Such an inspirational person throughout her career. She is an architect and sits on a number of different boards She has worked on projects throughout her career All around the world. It's truly impressive including the design of the Syracuse peacemaking Center in New York So it is my true pleasure to introduce you to today to one of the pioneers who truly embodies our Belief in the power of design to create a better world. So over to you, Diana That is such a beautiful introduction. I don't know what to say Except for good evening first I really have to thank Cynthia for the call two years ago to include our designing justice designing spaces toolkit in the by the People exhibit. It's an amazing exhibit. We are so honored to be a part of it It's a hugely helpful for our work and the advocacy of our work and Also thinking Autodesk for two of the tools that one and then a second one the restorative justice city tool That is hugely important for our projects And what I'd like to do today is highlight those tools within the context of our project so that you can understand the sort of interrelatedness between Engaging of the community digital tools and the built environment around this specific issue But I want to set the context a little bit for why we're doing this work and what the mission is for the work Kyle my business partner Kyle Rollins is a real estate developer and I'm an architect and we're working together to build new Places to address a very specific issue. That's where my slides start.  Okay. Well, that's different No worries. No worries like my big moment To address this system mass incarceration We know now I think all of us probably in this room know that mass incarceration is a major problem in the United States of America and that we are Incarcerating more of our citizens than any country in the world by quite a bit by quite a bit And we have seven million of our citizens citizens under carceral control meaning they're on probation parole or they are incarcerated We're spending about 70 billion dollars a year on this system that is broken and ineffectual and it does not work We also can't talk about criminal justice without looking at it through the lens of structural racism in class Right that is also a huge component that one in three black men can refine themselves incarcerated in their lifetime And what happens is it destroys their lives, but it also shows the lives of their partners their family their children It's multi-generational and in what's happened is actually destroyed entire communities. It is a catastrophic a disaster For low-income communities from color and low-income communities in general So as an architect and a designer, you know You're looking at the system and you're looking at like how are we participating because design is part of everything Right, there's always design involved and what we can see is that we are actually about 15 percent of that budget is being Spent on the design of courthouses jails prisons detention centers in the infrastructure that props that system up Very expensive buildings and your tax dollars pay for these so we started I started to look at this I was like well, I really don't know how to impact this system. I have no idea what to do about this This is massive and it was painful and I thought about it for a while until it was about 2006 and Dr. Angela Davis and dr. Fania Davis. I don't know if you know them. They're great civil rights activists Good good. I think some people know And they told me about restorative justice. Does everyone anyone know what was to who's what restorative justice is?  Ahead of time so you'd raise your hand, but let me just explain it So I like I'm listening to this thing this thing that's old restorative justice is old And what it posits it's a philosophy that says when that a crime or harm has been committed It is a breach of relationship first that the needs of the victim are the priority not the needs of the state This is not a crime against the state This is a this is a harm done to an individual in their community and that the person who did the harm is Obligated to make amends and repair the damage if possible And so what you're seeing are truth and reconciliation courts in South Africa Gachacha courts in Rwanda fumble talk in Sierra Leone a peacemaking native peacemaking processes Victim offender mediation family group conferencing. There's tons of these practices They're happening all over the world and it's ex growing Exponentially and so you bring a victim and offender into a room with the community a plan is Agreed to to address the offender's conduct and then the person carries out that plan and potentially returns to their community Unstigmatized that is a radical departure from the from the system. We have to totally different set of values So I'm like, why aren't we designing for that? That system makes sense to me and it resonated with me So that was where the question started and I did a ton of research I did do some due diligence, but I did what a lot of designers do I went in a little room like I'm gonna make a restorative justice center all by myself, right? I'm gonna draw it It's nothing like a courthouse. It's gonna be awesome.  Thank God And realize I can't do this by myself This is not this is not a mission for me alone.  She has not seen it Dr. Barb tapes who I think had to have been like the only other Person in the country talking about restorative justice and designed that at that point And she was a restorative justice practitioner of 20 years and she was thinking about design and through a series of events I found her and we have been working together ever since and she's on our board and we thought okay Your social worker restorative justice person. I'm an architect. What can we do together? And she had been working in prisons training and doing restorative justice work with men like the very The very TEDx event that you saw right that was organized by the men there There's restorative justice going on inside correctional facilities all over the country and together We developed something called the designing justice designing spaces toolkit to explore the intersection of restorative and justice and design With those who have to stand the most to gain from the transformation for those who have often been both victim and offender And so there was a deep understanding of the issue far beyond anything I could ever imagine And so really it's a series of tools and a curriculum And the tools are both social science tools and architecture tools And you can't get the stuff that designers use you can't get those glue guns into an incarcerated environment That is contraband all the way So the question is how do you do design work in the setting where you can't you can't there's no resources And so what we designed was a series of papers really just a series of folding and ripping and tearing of papers That could be used to build models perspective drawing create collages do diagramming And you'll see some of the models upstairs. They're beautiful Right without glue these men have I saw them chew up paper and with their saliva to make glue right There's like an incredible innovation and creativity and brilliance within the institution And the skills that are getting taught are not just design skills like hard design skills and sort of spatial reasoning of complex Concepts and organizations within the institution But also soft skills Most of these men and women have never worked together in a team before some of them are it's like Wow, we did that together as a team. That's an incredible soft skill to learn There's also the ability to articulate your thoughts and ideas to others And so these are life skills that they can carry out when they leave But it also is really helpful for us as designers and researchers to understand What kind of spaces will support accountability? What kind of spaces support empathy for victims? These are the kinds of things that they're both learning and translating into space And what you'll see is these are not designing better and more beautiful prisons and jails These are new building types. This is the healing sun center by some of our students Which is a space for peacemaking between victim and offender. It's a beautiful model actually the top slides off This is without the top on it This is the restorative justice tree center where it's almost a campus where victims and offenders can come together and live For a certain amount of time in the center come into dialogue You'll see this sort of campus style design in a lot of the designs that are coming out of our workshops Many of them can be seen upstairs in the exhibit Those were our students from San Quentin And what we also looked at okay, what what's the point of this outside of making this sort of new architecture And okay research was one piece of it Tools building creative expression and knowledge development But the thing that was the most surprising to me probably not to barb Was the fact that it had therapeutic outcomes, right? Everybody knows like art, you know art therapy But there's design does the same thing that through the imagining of Alternative spaces for healing through the process of the creation of alternative space We were watching people actually be able to address and bring up trauma I saw it happen. I was not prepared for that. I am an architect.  That was just totally unexpected To me but really a valuable tool is designers to know that design practice is a therapeutic tool Something that we should remember when we do our work And so Autodesk is uh, we are so grateful because what's happening now is tablets are coming into institutions And so we're working with an organization out of Chicago that does self-guided curriculum and therapeutic tools on these tablets And they are going to be digitizing the curriculum and Autodesk is given a seed funding to pursue that To the point that I think we'll be able to get the toolkit into the hands of like tens of thousands of people Instead of hundreds of people a year doing this self-guided approach on this particular tool So by the summer we should have this in the hands of many many people very excited about the progress We've made this year and that we can reach more people with it So I'd like to show a couple of projects where the toolkit actually has expanded well beyond the institution And is moving into all the things we learned in there We're able to really take out into the community which has been fantastic and this was one of the first projects The near west side peacemaking center in Syracuse is a project really led by the center for court innovation I don't know if you know this organization. They're an amazing non-profit think tank coming out of the new york court system And what they're doing is they're bringing native american peacemaking processes into a non-native community for the first time So imagine instead of going to court in adjudication you literally move into a dialogue with elders in your community We've been exporting the european model to native communities forever And they are reigniting their indigenous practices and now we're taking it back brilliant makes sense Their navajo partners said yep We'll support you on that and that's just what they've done and red hook has the first program Syracuse was the second and because I harassed them for like a year They learned that program in place is the right way to go and wouldn't it be more impactful if you had a place for that to happen So we got a burn justice innovation grant to do that And I got trained as a circle keeper myself Especially after some of the the processes we saw inside the institution so that I could manage The trauma coming up a little more and the peacemaking palette Is a process by which we ask people into a circle so that we're able to replicate the peacemaking process So we are literally getting design input as they tell their stories and training the community at the same time You killed two birds with one stone that way and we were also able to then take Folks and use our diagramming tool and do role playing because I don't have who's ever been in a peacemaking or restorative justice process anybody Yeah, see there's a few there's a few but it's very stressful And what does it feel like to come into a space with somebody who's harmed you? Are you willing to do that? I mean really if you think about it What kind of environment would you need to support that? And so this would allow us we got an incredible amount of data to the point We now have literally a set of design guidelines on how to make a peacemaking center and so We were able to take a house in syracuse A maryon wilson who's a great artist there had already started the adaptive reuse of this old crack house And we were able to take that and turn it into a peacemaking center It just opened so we still have to take our new photos But they have now because they have a place they've been able to double the amount of cases They had originally intended to do we've located in neutral territory within the community Where things lie in the city is critical and it is deeply embedded It's a hyper local restorative justice and infrastructure restorative justice is hyper micro local And it's really critical. So we learned a lot about that and what kind of spaces you need to have to make those All of that is now in the toolkit, right? So all of this peacemaking palette piece We've actually been able to take back into the institution. So there's an exchange across these these places So it was around that time that Ferguson happened And it was really a call to action for us That while this sort of push for restorative justice was great We really need to to find a way to broach that wall of the current criminal justice system including law enforcement Like how are we going to engage law enforcement? How are we going to engage that system in some way? Because you know, we always you know, most people of color already know that this is an issue But it was now coming to light in a way that you could really take more action So one of the projects that came out of that sunny shorts of the Is an incredible innovator in in correctional programs. I don't know if you ever heard of her She wrote dreams from the monster factory She's amazing and she has created several restorative justice programs inside institutions resolved to stop the violence But she also set up the first charter school inside of a sheriff's department First one in the country And knowing that advanced education is one of the greatest predictors of reduced recidivism sort of a no-brainer right more education It's better. So she sat down with me one day over a couple coffee.  But you know, the san francisco gave us these buses So maybe we could do a school on wheels Like maybe we could strip it back and we think we're not getting the students due to all these different reasons And then I said, well, what if we did a whole village, right? You can't I kind of Oh my goodness. Did I break that I get a little over excited about the topic So, um She said, okay, let's do a whole village So this is going to be happening in the bayview hunters point and it's going to go to several locations And the reason for this is that there are incredible amount of barriers to services, right? So you have very little public transport to this neighbor's community very low-income community of color that, you know Jobs have left high rates of incarceration high rates of poverty Urban blight people literally can't cost gang lines because they'll get shot So there's that was literally one of the reasons people weren't coming to class because it would like you would die There was no car public transport is costly Education is really very bad in the community. There's low employment access to social services And I should put on your access to justice resources, which is a huge problem So the pop-up resource village is intended to gather resources mobile resources from all over the city And activate public space in that community and cross all of those barriers And there are a lot of things in it right everything from barber shops to 12 step programs So it's really a marketplace and there are many components to the marketplace And so some of these are what we're going to create. I circled the bus We actually have hopefully an autodesk intern. I believe coming who's going to help us with this project this summer But I wanted to show you two of the anchors to the village. These are started. We've already started And so there are two buses and the first is the school on wheels right in response to education In response to the underfunding of the fact that we have a lot of people in the community who are literate And so what we did was again, we took the toolkit and we were able to engage this community on the top left We have philanthropy in the room. We have formerly incarcerated people We have community leaders all at the same table talking about What should be at a pop-up resource village and at the same time Doing small models and full-scale mock-ups of what how do you create a vehicle in a 40 feet by 8 feet? That's going to provide an educational space for the community And so this is what the buses look like This is what this one's starting to look like right so we're stripping it out And what you're seeing is a lounge area that they asked for and they wanted for casual learning You're also seeing desks and chairs and didactic boards everything folds and rolls and stacks So you can have circles in there both 12-step circles restorative justice circles and one-on-one education And it will look something like this when it's complete. It should be done by the end of this month And then this is what the outside will look like so that it shows up in the community Something really bright and inviting for everybody because the range of students is everywhere from 18 to 80 That's the sort of span of students are coming to anyone who feels undereducated is welcome here And so the second bus is an interesting bus because it functions during the day and night During the day it is an anchor in the village particularly focused on the The female-led households the high number that are living below the poverty line in this community But also the fact that women get released from jail in the middle of the night And they're pimps and drug dealers waiting there for them that take them right back into where they were before It's very dangerous. It's happening and a lot of our urban center Not urban centers this sort of restorative the justice centers, right? We are where all the jail is and the courthouses and all the bail bondsmen You guys know those spaces and a lot of cities and there's nothing going on They're very unsafe for them and this is truly the most vulnerable population in our correctional system And they wrote to the sheriff and said you need to do something about this And so the response has been what we're calling the women's mobile resource center Uh, I was able to get a Rauschenberg artist as activist grant to begin these both of these projects actually And I went and worked with 65 women in the san francisco county jails over the course of a week Is about 30 hours of seat time with these women And we did the full toolkit that upstairs.   You know, they don't want beds They've been sleeping in there all day and sitting in plastic chairs. I saw that What they wanted was a place to like start life again Right to get ready for the next day to call their family, you know to figure out where they were going to sleep The next night to do their hair put on some makeup look good for their man, right? You know, there was like a whole process and they wanted mirrors and they all wanted recliners. That was really interesting I was like, all right, you got it. I'll do it. And so all of these resources needed to get put in there And so we did we were able to sort of look at how we could get a series of zones throughout the bus That would allow for them to get food use the bathroom meet with a case worker relax a little bit And in the back you see the recliners they're four recliners And they're able to go and they can relax and use tablets and do their thing And so we did also a new thing which is interesting. We worked with an artist called Anna Teresa Fernandez Great activist artist and a fine artist to do pattern making with the women I was like, well, what if we could do pattern making and look at textiles? That would be really cool and they had some great stuff and I was able to take those designs and Both silk screen and indian block print and print 200 yards of fabric That we could be used for the interior of the bus and all the finishes in the bus so that they could see their own designs within the interior This is where my slides are out of order, but that's okay because we're going to put it on the outside So this is a rendering of the exterior of the bus where the patterns might find their way in And then an interior piece and so what's happening is kind of a micro enterprise might be emerging Where you can see on the bottom right hand corner at the women's resource center when they get out during the day There's a program there called sewing our lives together And they teach the women how to sew as a means of getting work And so they are going to use the fabric that they helped design and actually design the interior and pay get paid To do the interior fit out of the bus and we're now looking at how Textile design with incarcerated women could actually be a business model and a new business that people could could participate in So we'll see what happens with that But that's how you know when you start to engage people in these ways. What can potentially come out of it? and so Just three weeks ago, kyle. I think so I look for kyle for extra information like stats We got a very significant grant from the James Irvine foundation to to implement the entire village And so it's very very exciting. We're kicking it off this month It is a huge undertaking with mobile vending units and evaluation and site components and you can see the anchors will be there But we're very excited about the city is supporting us. And so I look forward next time I talk to you. You'll see a village in action So I just want to end with the restorative justice city piece Which is a second project that autodesk is supporting us on The the restorative justice city project started a few years ago When we were talking with the institute for the future Which is a think tank and palo alto who are looking at the end of prisons And I started thinking well What if we were really to plan with cities to make the full-on shift from the punitive model restorative justice Sorry punitive model of justice to a restorative model of justice. What would that infrastructure look like? How do we really scale this thing up? So what we did was we were able to have a great convening at oakland where we brought the police in We brought in some of the countries leading restorative justice experts the city a lot of nonprofits And we looked at the city of the oakland and tried to figure out like what would we really need to do that And a lot of things came out of it like what is an restorative justice really mean and how does it interconnect into restorative economics Food justice economic justice all of these other aspects that really to create a restorative city We need to have we know in oakland in the flatlands That's where most of people of color who are low-income live They have 15 years less life expectancy than those living in the hills And the opportunity to create an entire corridor of resources both justice and otherwise was really catalytic to us And we also started to break those into what we call action domains And each of the action domains speak to some of those things, but they also talk about co-created social services And for us, of course the most exciting one in the bottom is designing for impact The design matters that folks who are low-income Non-profits don't deserve Substandard space they actually deserve better because if you're really working with highly traumatized population Your environment can really change how you feel in your act and how can your environment heal you And so with the designing for impact piece is really started to launch What came out of that was a new prototype Which was very exciting and that new prototype is called restore And so restore oakland is a project that we've started It's a center for restorative justice and restorative economics And so after remember my little doodles in the beginning I try to make I like and then we're here, right? So it's like kind of came it came it's coming to fruition. It's very exciting It is the first center for restorative justice and restorative economics in the country We hope to do one in new york We hope to do one in detroit and new orleans and washington dc and philadelphia But this will be the first and it's a right now an adaptive reuse of an existing building But what it is is on the ground floor a restaurant with restaurant opportunity centers united They're actually based in new york and color's restaurants is here as a standalone unit And they just opening their new space and lower east side next month.  So go eat there And so this will be their new restaurant in oakland. They train low wage Restaurant workers to get living wage jobs and they address the segregation racial segregation We see in the industry and really fight for proper wages for workers They also incubate small food businesses. So it's a great restorative economics model In this building also will be the elebaker center for human rights Which is van jones's organization that is focused on ending mass incarceration They will be on the second floor This building will also house many of the restorative justice programs for alameda county where oakland is So people will be coming here for peacemaking and conflict resolution And it will be a place for immigrants to come to get tenants rights and immigrants rights at a time when they are totally under attack So i hope donald trump hates this whole building. It would be really great Because we're going to make a lot of them And so this breaks ground this summer And you know the restorative justice city project is evolving because of this And because autodesse is sort of kind of fun is to do the seed work with Detroit Which Detroit has said they would like to be the first restorative justice city in the country And we are going to be helping and make that to create a mapping tool digital tool that helps cities plan for decarceration Help cities plan for the shift to restorative justice And we're working with eric kadora who from the justice mapping center to do that and other leaders in the in the country And we think that what we can do is start to map criminal justice poverty crime social services across Infrastructure and do that from the top down and the bottom up in a grassroots way To really create a tool that many cities can use to plan for this and scale our work up So here's the vision the vision Is that we will see a restorative justice center marking every skyline in the united states And these small ones in every single neighborhood and every one of you will have been to a peacemaking circle Every one of you will know where these are And it will be as iconic in your mind as a courthouse, but way better So i'll leave you with this image By cornell west. I love justice is what love looks like in public. So imagine that Thank you I told you she was amazing, huh? We are so honored to be working with you together. So thank you for that incredible presentation So please stick around enjoy the dj the music the food the activities if you haven't built a diorama in decades tonight's your night Thank you again to kupa hewitt for hosting this tonight. It's really been an honor and a privilege to work with you all as well And the exhibits are open till 9 30 tonight So please enjoy yourself move all the way up to the third floor to see the by the people exhibit and Enjoy and have fun. Thank you all for coming