What he represents is patriarchy. We're here to do work as men, as patriarchs. There's nothing more natural than being a father. Welcome back to the 21 convention, 2019 patriarch edition of Orlando, Florida. Our next speaker is a very good friend of mine. He's a twice returning alumni speaker to this convention. He first spoke in 2017 at our 10-year anniversary. He was recommended to me by the godfather himself, role of Tomasi. That's kind of skeptical. I don't know what to make of this guy. I was like, who's this guy? I don't know Drew. He fell in the aft. I don't know this guy. We got to talk to him on phone. Got to know him at the event. 2018 as well.  As I told you guys at the beginning of this conference here in Orlando, this patriarch edition, he's actually the genesis for this specific event even existing. Without him approaching me to do a conference Sunday for him or his company, I would never have the idea. It doesn't make...  I'm so happy he came up with the idea. No one's ever given me an idea for a conference of that scale before. I'm very grateful for that. Without further ado, please help me welcome your chief patriarch, the man, the myth, the legend, Hunter Drew. Thanks, Hunter. Thanks, man. Fuckin' A. That was quick. We're at one. All right.  Hearing in shows like that is wild. You try to rise up to it. We're all just men. That's what we're doing. You can put a lot of words to it. You can add a lot of titles to it. We're men. That's where it starts. We're men. We're lovers. We're fathers. That comes from a foundation of being a man. Don't ever forget that. We're all men. We're all in the same playing field. We're all working through the same things in life. Now, before I get into this speech, I didn't get here alone. I had a conversation. Hey, you got the green light. I was pumped. We're going to do something for families. That's what I've been writing about this whole time. Families, like, let's go. So I was pumped. It was cool. But how did I get here? You know, there's zero special things about me. Nothing. I write. I talk. I do what you guys do. I lead. I'm a father. I get involved. That's it. So when I get the title of the chief patriarch, uh-oh, patriarchy, it's cool. But what do you do with that? What does that mean? And I really was like, what does that mean to me? It just means right now it's my turn to have the mic. It's your turn to have the mic later. You'll be the chief patriarch when you go home. When we're sitting at a meal and you're teaching me something, you're the chief patriarch. So understand in the beginning of all this, all the titles, all the cool stuff that they're building up, all the fucks, all that, you know, it's just because I got the mic right now. You're the same thing.  So there is, again, we're back to the roundtable. I didn't get here alone. Nobody gets anywhere alone. So there are a few people I want to recognize early on and then we're going to roll with this thing.  That's how serious I am about this speech I'm about to give. First is Anthony Johnson. He's the one who green-lighted all this. He's the reason I'm on this stage. He's the reason we're having this event. He's the reason that this thing's going on. I'm going to say it again. The only reason I'm standing on this stage is because of that man. The only reason your asses are on those seats is because of that man. Recognize that. That's hard work. That's dedication on his end to bring us together. This doesn't just happen. All right? We're not women. This is hard work. This is discipline. This is dedication. You got it. So, thank you, Anthony. Second, I want to thank Roland Tomasi. He was the one that put my name up onto that roster. Without him, I wasn't even considered. He's the one that said, hey, this guy's talking about something. Give him a look. Without Rolo, I don't make the roster. I don't have the opportunity to share my voice. I think I've done well. I think when I took the stage, I did exactly what he expected me to do. To spread the message. To stay true to my values and to what is important to me. The third is Ivan Throne. I went to a dark spot. I thought it was time to shut this thing down. I've been writing for a little bit. But what does a father have to do with the red pill for the atmosphere and masculinity? I'm just a dad. That's it. Why should I continue? So, I went to his room and I told him, I'm done, man. I'm pulling the plug after 2017. And he sat me down and he said, no, you're not. Because if you do, you'll have blood in your hands. All those emails you received, the men saying I would have killed myself had not found this. My wife hates me. My children don't respect me. I don't know what to do. Because some men are looking for the ropes you are throwing specifically. He threw me a rope. He's the only reason anything I've done up to this point exists. I co-founded the Fraternity of Excellence. That doesn't happen. I received many more of those emails. Which while it's good to hear that somebody is still breathing because of the words that you put out into the world, it's sad that you have to read those. It's sad that men are going to that point. The resources we're creating are that important. Without Ivan Throne, I'm not up here. So when I'm talking to you guys about having those conversations, about getting over the ego and saying I need help with this, you're not less of a man for asking for help. Being able to have that conversation shows me that you're willing to do the work because you're willing to feel the pain of embarrassment. Some men are embarrassed saying I need help with this. I don't know how to raise my son. My father didn't teach me. I don't know how to pass it on. I truly do. I want things to be better for my family, but I don't know how. Do you know how hard it is for someone to say that? Just thinking of that man right now, I'm not nervous anymore. I'm good. But thinking about that man in that situation, that's rough. Some men are in dark spots and they want better. So be there. Be that man who listens to them. Be that man when you leave here, there's nothing wrong with asking for help. There's nothing wrong with giving help. Once you climb out of that hole, you have a choice. You've got the rope in your hand. You can help the next guy. Or you can go forward and do your thing. There's no wrong path. Live your life, do very well. Had I not been writing for the family alpha, I'd be doing what I'm doing now without this. Taking days, leading my kids, having an awesome time with my wife. That's what I'd be doing. If you choose to throw ropes, understand, those men, they're going to grab it. They're going to climb. When they get up there, you have the opportunity to be like, hey, now you've got it. Now your torch is lit. Now you can go forward. Throw a rope to somebody else. So those three men, I wanted to recognize first and foremost, because nobody gets anywhere alone. And I don't want the crazy titles. I know we're joking. We're amplifying it. But I don't want that to get lost. I didn't get here on my own. I got the mic right now. There's a fourth man. And he's an individual who has significantly helped me personally, professionally. And that's Tanner Guzzi. We've had a lot of conversations that people haven't seen. He's given a lot of advice. Hey, man, his wife. Great family. They've given me advice that I was like, wow. Maybe I could take this thing and actually do something with it. And he was that support. He was there when I'm looking down. Like, I don't know how to do this. How did you do this? Hey, man, here you go. Here's a rope. Here's how I did this climb. I'll take it. I'll run with it. Because of him, as soon as I get back from this convention, I'm dropping notice to my job that I'll be going full-time doing TFA and FOE. Which I'm really looking forward to because that's more creation. That's more time with the family. That's able to build my mission and my dream. So thank you, Tanner.  But I understand Tanner's a patriarch. All the men speaking, patriarchs, all these men are living the message that they're putting out to the world. You guys can tell what fake is.   That guy stands what he believes in. When you talk with Tanner, you see that. He's leading the family. He's leading the business. And guess what? While he's doing so, he's helping his fellow men. Because when you succeed, we all succeed. When he succeeds, I succeed. When I succeed, you succeed. It's like a rising tide. Our success lifts all of our boats. There's no competition here. I walked through the airport. How many people said, oh, Hunter Drew, what's up, man? Can you sign my tits? Well, the grand total of zero. Nobody knows who I am. Nobody knows who half of us are. We're nowhere near the apex of what we can do with this. What we can do with spreading our message and building our businesses and growing our families. We like to get lost in this world where we're bigger than we are. But we're not. And that's a beautiful, humbling thing. Especially when you're walking through the airport, you see families that are doing well. You see the father walking, holding his wife's hand. You see the put-together children. There is good in this world, and we can't lose that. But we need more. Because, unfortunately, when you see those families, there's a lot more who are overweight. There are a lot more who are bickering at each other because they don't understand how to go through stressful situations and rely on one another for strength. There's a lot more of that going on. And we need to rebuild our patriarch types. So we can fix that. So we can turn the tide. This is a mess.  This is where you'll have to take me offline, and even then, I'll try to rebuild it. That's how important this is to me. Building families and helping men know it's okay to be a family man and a man. Because your family has built off that foundation of being a man.  All those titles, you were a man. You were born a man. You've got responsibilities, duties, and skill sets that come with being a man. Take pride in that. Because everything is built upon it. If you're a good man, you can be a good father, but you can't be a good father without being a good man. That's where it starts. Working on you. And we'll get into that more coming. But for right now, keep that in mind.  Every single speaker that you see, that is the foundation. Before you see that's a father, that's a man who leads a family well. Several difference, but it matters. When I said Tanner inspired this and kind of led it, obviously we've got the archetype up here. He's got his archetypes. He talks about the rugged. So you think about the Jack Donovan's. The guys who are strong with their hands. They're out in the woods building things. You're the wild guy. They're like studs. They're like things squared away, symmetry, rules. And you've got rakish. Guys like Goldman. Guys that are the free spirits. They're out doing their thing. The way you express that type with society is how you interact with society. You're saying this is me and here's what I'm presenting. This is what I want to show the world. And in turn, society interacts with you. This is what you look like and how you act. This is how you treat you. If you command respect in all three of those, you get respect in all three of those types. Understand that being one does not mean that you are confined to that one. You can be all. Now let's look at family men.  That is how your family is interacting with you. Men who are domineering and using fear to lead. That's a part of the archetype. Men who are dominant and using inspiration to lead. That's a part of it. You want to make sure you're falling on the right side. There are many different types of patriarchs. What's yours? How do you lead? Again, you're not one. You're all. There's a limit of each in you. And you play all those roles, especially as a man.   The foundation from which you base all of your decisions is a belief in self. It is an investment in self. It is an irrational confidence to where you know you will win when it's 400 to 1. The lover. Whether you're married, you're spinning plates, your relationship status means nothing to me. I judge the merit of your character. But when you're dealing with those women, how do you deal with those women? Do they become your mission? Is that your life? Think of yourself, oh man, I gotta make her my world. Now you're not being a good man.  And then you look at how you perform as a father. They've got a roof over their head. They've got food on their plate. That's good enough, right? That's how it used to be. That doesn't show up. Go later than that.  I killed the sabertooth tiger. Cool, go later than that. There's no longer the woolly mammoth that's coming after us. It's society. It's messages. It's social media. It's a barrage of electronics going into your child's mind. Trying to instill software that's going to tell them how to perform. Your children will default to the weakest habit that you've instilled in them. If that's giving up, they're going to quit. If that's believing others not having confidence, they're going to quit. They're going to do that. As a father, you have different expectations now and your children are facing different beasts now than at any other time in our society.  I don't know if it was Dr. Smith or George but one of them brought that up. That's exactly what they're doing.  I told you you had skin in this game. Your flesh and blood will be absolutely massacred by the masses if you allow it. And when I say you, I mean literally you. Not your wife. Not your job. Not anything else that thinks of find you. Every single one of you, it will be your fault because you chose to sit back and let it happen instead of taking action. Now for some of you, your children are older. It still applies. It's never too late.  You don't like it. Understand that the burden of performance is on your shoulders. Understand the expectations are higher. Understand that the challenges we deal with, we collectively as patriarchs deal with is different than that will be faced by single men. And that's fine. Is it better? I think so. Am I biased? 100%. This is my life path. Many of you have chosen the same.  I'm not going to run with it. I'm going to be the best that we can possibly be while doing it. Now, I wrote a really good quote and I can't memorize it. Invest time at the expense of yourself but never try to self-sacrifice your way to happiness. As fathers, you've got to dedicate time to others that you will not get back. You've got to give time away that is not productive to you but instead of developing yourself you've got to give that away. When you're coaching your children does that build a bond with your child? Yes it does. Does that advance you personally? Outside of that relationship it really doesn't. When I coach my son I coach my daughter I could be writing I could be recording I could be building I could be growing the TFA empire but that's one part of the trifecta while the other one would be gone because as I'm building me the man the father is weakening you've got to balance all three so when you give that time away you don't do so thinking that that's what makes you a good man no, that makes you a good father a good father gives that time and instills it in his children you charge them with your energy the vibrations you give off you put it in them and it charges them up to go further when you're reading with them when you're coaching them in their sports in a phase of life you're helping them reach levels that you'll never attain you're building a stronger foundation in them than you've ever had yourself because you are more educated than your father was because of the world that we live in they didn't have a 21 convention they didn't understand intersexual dynamics at the level that we do we are armed with more knowledge and what are we doing with it are we instilling it in our children? I certainly hope so because tucking your children in bed does not make you a good father putting everybody before you does not make you a good father coaching the homework, driving to recitals that is not what makes you a good father it's all of it it is your presence as a man it's your ability to be the one who says no when you want to say yes last night I had a discussion with a few men about how there are times I don't want to tell my wife no, we're not going to go do that but that's my responsibility it is my duty to draw those boundaries to ensure that I'm leading my claim to those heights it's not accidental I want the life everybody else wants the nice smooth sailing life, it's very comfortable I would love that that's not a reality that's not how it works for men and that's Dan Willen how it works for patriarchs we understand look at this look at that little picture you got the baby going after it that's intentional, that's awesome look what they're doing coming together that baby is getting after it kids are going to be jacked, it's going to be awesome how many dads are sitting with their wives working out with their kids nowadays how many wives are sitting down and reading and husbands and wives sitting down and reading together as a family I asked you earlier how many can say honestly in the past week you've sat on a table and discussing how their day was I get things come up don't think I'm some trad con we all got to have bicandalite that's not what I'm saying I'm saying you need to have routines you need to have traditions you need to have these things where you're instilling you're knowing who your children are because as they're growing you need to lead them to even greater heights you need to start changing and leveling up the message that you're sending to them my son is nine years old how many men here have even considered creating a right of passage for their sons and their daughters my daughter is six she begins at seven what does that mean to you it means if you have young children it is time you start creating a pathway for them to become functional adults I don't want my kids to leave the house it's a fact of life though every time I believe it was George when they started cutting their own food they were crying dude that's a real thing you got to blink that away I love my kids so much but they're not my mission in life is to keep them as kids I've got to raise them properly I've got to instill my values I've got to ensure that I'm helping set them up to be good functional adults I don't have all the answers I'm like all of you we're at a round table we're swapping notes I don't have more time with them I maximize my time with them I don't feel bad saying oh I wish I would have read more with them I read with them I do all the things I came with them I also put myself first at times in that little caveat it gets a lot of guys because they're like oh I do that too I read I do all these things with them I try to build them up that's great have you invested in yourself no you're self sacrificing a happiness you think you're going to have a good life at the end you do have to create that rate of passage while you're leading yourself because if you can't lead you how can you lead them your foundation as a man is flawed, is fractured, is cracked and the castle you're trying to build is going to come crumbling down at one point or another and it's your fault because you're not asking the right questions because you're not looking inside and saying hey where am I failing what am I doing wrong am I having these questions you're here because you want to ask those difficult questions of yourself you want to find out what sucks in your life and how can you fix it because once your life starts getting better your children's lives will start getting better because they see what it looks like when a man thrives when a man genuinely smiles when a husband and wife actually laugh together and have a good time they see that and it inspires them you don't accidentally have great children you don't accidentally have disciplined children a man that didn't just happen it took work it took work on your part so when you fix yourself and you dial yourself in as the patriarch type the man, the lover the father when you dial all that in you can now start leading those beneath you you can start creating that rate of passage for me it was seven years old when they turned seven more responsibilities more freedom more but I hold them to a higher standard you'll be reading and you'll be writing about what you read guess what you also get to stay up a little bit later my son at seven years old he's your first pocket knife these mementos these moments that are like oh wow my dad gave me this that's cool I got a knife now I'm becoming a man and that's what it's about helping that son become a man and take pride in being a man and the burdens that come with being a man helping how to be a man in a world that hates men your daughter she comes up he's your first pocket knife guess what you're a girl the Spartans they train their women too this isn't the he-man-woman-hater club we have daughters and we're going to raise them well as well they taught them gymnastics how to take care of the home how to be strong how to cook and these were their women it wasn't a gogi it wasn't a vision of it but they had a pathway to womanhood have we even considered that or do we have men in this room who are saying well I'm the dad I don't have to worry about the daughter because hear me now you play an equally important role in raising your daughter as you do your son that's uncomfortable for men because they don't get women your wife, your woman any woman in the world they're all the same they have their own histories they have their own personalities 100% but they are all the same the way you interact with them the way you engage with one another the way you ignore certain things that are coming their way guess what they come back to you a minute later to give you a hug after they were just pissed they're crazy there's a lot going on with that that hamster never stops but that's okay you don't get mad about your daughter being a girl you don't tell your son to figure it out on his own you lead them here's how it works for the divorced men who are sharing time with your children well it's hard because she's compromising all of the things that I'm doing I'm trying to get the house to stay up late go to my house you do the best you can that's all you can do is the best that you can do and that's okay the cards are a little bit stacked against you I get it, it's harder for you I get it, it's difficult to not see them I get it you're a man you're a patriarch here's the answer, deal with it it sucks, that's what men do you do the best you can do consistently day after day you show up when I come home from work dead tired and my kids come out dad, it's the greatest thing in the world, big hug you wanna go play catch? sure, playing catch daughter, hey you wanna push me in the swing? cool, now I'm pushing with the baseball glove on catching the ball, pushing my daughter in the swing catching the ball, you make it work you do what you have to do, guess what I want it to do go inside and sit down that's the father the man I come home, my family comes running out hey, dad, it's awesome to see you it's good to see you, how was your day? what have you done today to ensure that you did the right thing? hey wife how are things, good to see you stuff's great taking care of the home, ensuring nothing happened while you were not around to take care of it what's the status of our family? the lover walk in, grab the wife give her a kiss, grab your girlfriend hey, it's good to see you how are you doing, lay some game keep it fresh, have fun, move forward you do all three of those things because you are the patriarch type you don't just play with your children you don't just check the security of your home you don't just check the status of your family you also go forward and make sure that your lover is doing well as well that's the other part of you the romantic you balance all three of these in your life every single day because you're a patriarch that's what makes us who we are if you find yourself in a situation where you don't know what it is, where to start where to begin, it starts with you check your daily habits check what it is you do when you go home you might be an absolute stud at work million dollar sales working 60 hour weeks, absolutely killing it but then when you go home you relax and guess what your wife and your children see their family sees they see the relaxed dad they have no idea that you kicked ass that entire day and they don't care because that doesn't help them at all you want to be more than a walking paycheck be more than a walking paycheck come home and don't gym shorts and t-shirts back to Tanner, don't slip into the comfort you know the self hug don't slip into maximizing your comfort understand you've got a job to do you've got to perform you can only see a man come home from work crack open a beer and sit in the couch to watch Netflix for the next six hours so many times before they're like hey that's not a leader we talked earlier about interacting with your family and your family interacting with you that being your archetype you're interacting with your family by being domineering by being lazy by saying I command respect because I'm the man you've got to earn that you don't just say hey respect me it's earned, you take it from people they don't expect you or not you've told them they have to because of the way you perform or you can interact with your family like the man who cracks open the beer and sits down and that's how your family will interact with you they'll give you the results of a man who's lazy your wife will get lazy your kids will be lazy you can't tell your children to do something you can't do yourself you cannot expect your family to have a higher standard than you're willing to hold yourself wife why don't you work out children why don't you work out well dad why don't you work out bye paycheck okay see you later we laugh that's the life situation a lot of men are living in right now we laugh because a lot of men in here I've recognized they've seen that and they're improving themselves and you're working to get to a higher standard so you laugh how many millions aren't though how many millions of men right now don't understand why their wife won't sleep with them they're frustrated just wondering what are they doing wrong they're a good guy they're working they come home relaxed because they have a hard job they're paying the bills what are they doing wrong they're following the wrong set of rules they don't see the reality they're still worshiping us and they're not noticing that it's just a man you don't see the strings you know they don't understand that they're doubling down on the wrong thing some of you have doubled down on the wrong thing I need to be more dominant and confident I'm alpha I'm going to the bar with the men because that's what men do dinner on the table when I get back let me know how that works out with you talk about red pill Rambo you hear some of the guys going crazy with it it's a real thing they swing the pendulum so far to the other side that they don't recognize they need to find a happy middle they need to find balance among the trifecta of what the patriarch type is balance balancing the man the lover and the father it's not all man it's not all father like I said I coach my kids baseball team that doesn't mean I love my kid more it just means I dedicate that time to each other that doesn't mean I'm going to get more sex you coach baseball let's smash that's not how that works third base go so you're looking at it you know from these guys who are swinging all the way right to all the way left and some guys in here there will be a few of you who go home and change everything and for two days you do and then guess what it's hard because you're sore get a sore throat where's Drew can't work out can't give you speech it is what it is things come up so you quit and you go back to your comfort zone and you forget that you're not balancing anything you're back to being a man who works nine to five pays for things and that's it that's who you are it's not a patriarch a part of our job as we're developing ourselves and we get to the point where we are believing what we're doing is teaching our children to leave the home I touched on this earlier I'm not looking forward to that at all a story I had considered not even sharing because it makes me look like a woman Tex and I were in the cab from the airport to come here and he was talking about how I was talking about coaching and he was talking about he coached his son's football team and he coached them through seventh grade or he went into the locker room and gave them a speech and I looked out the window because again I was like shit my boy is growing up he's becoming a man and when you do that when you see that happening inside them you realize your time is limited and that's okay that's the beauty of what it is we're doing as fathers is our time is limited and that's what makes it beautiful you've got a window you've got a window to do the right thing to instill the right thing in them a small window and then they're their own man in that window what did you give them selflessly what did you instill in them when you when I'm raising my son I'm raising my son's son what will my son teach his boy that when he comes home he should open a beer and sit down and relax on the couch is that what I'm teaching him when I'm raising my daughter and I'm showing up what am I teaching her a man should do what is a man when she's looking for potential sexual relationships she's sick so I don't even like talking about this but when boyfriends start coming around what is she looking for I'm not going to be that dad saying oh I'm cleaning this shotgun on the porch I'll have an open relationship with my daughters because she's going to hide things if I'm saying I'll be that fake alpha saying I'm going to shoot a kid because he wants to date my daughter you're not going to shoot a kid you're like that's not real stop doing that you look stupid have a relationship of open communication with your daughter and she wants you to vet that young man dad this is fucker hey fucker she's like he does this you know we met whatever she'll bring him to you like I would like you to meet my father because my father is the gatekeeper to this clan our sons our daughters they're going to leave our homes you have a limited window to teach them everything you can I understand that and for the men here who have older children who might have flown the coop and I said there's no time that's too late you can always turn it around that's true but the earlier you get them the better so you start setting that example you start instilling the values that'll carry them through life that'll set them up for success and push them to a higher trajectory than you could ever imagine my son and daughter will reach heights I don't know exist I'm a foundation much stronger than the one I had as a man you can only spend so much time saying dad why didn't you do this dad why didn't you teach me that what the hell dad I wanted you to you could have been better why didn't you teach me you know how much further I could be and then my kids it doesn't matter that time's gone it's on you now now you're the patriarch now you're the man wearing the crown and now you decide what it is you do and what it is you instill in your children they take their kids and push them up to the next one because there are things I'm not doing right I understand that and my son will take what works and he'll disregard the rest and his son or his daughter will go even further and I'll be there watching it cheering them on because being a patriarch is being selfless you have to give that time to them you have to know you're doing so so they can go further than you and that should be the proudest moment of your life is when you see them surpass you when you see them doing better I'm just talking about making money they have joy they have pride they're in a world that hates men and tries to exploit women and yet it's like they have a force field because you taught them how to be bulletproof your boy is like I'm strong I'm confident, competent I'm properly aggressive I know how to speak and I'm not going to allow you to change that I'm not going to change so you like me I am me, you change by the uber allies the sisterhood if you will it's for the women as patriarchs you have an opportunity to stop that you have an opportunity every single one of you has the opportunity to change the course of their lives to the better forever through action through choosing to do the hard things and have the hard conversations this isn't easy sometimes that isn't even fun but you do what you do you guys see my Twitter you'll see what I'm talking about hey kicking ass doing things it's also very difficult and I try to share that as well because I want you to know the reality of the situation sometimes the nights are dark sometimes you feel alone build your tribes you have somewhere to go during those moments your wife doesn't get you your kids don't get you it's just you that burden is on you and you've got to keep walking the rock rolls down the hill grab it, push it back up don't care, push it back up I'm sore, push it back up I don't care what your excuses are I understand that it can be difficult so that's why you build your brotherhood I gave you four names when I started this of men who I've gone to when things were dark when things were hard men who could understand fellow patriarchs I've got my brothers and the fraternity of excellence over there when shit hits the fan I go to them I sit with those men we talk it out I hash it out with my council my inner tribe if you will build that in your lives because you're going to find a point where you're weak where the world is against you and you're out of gas and that's when your brother picks you up and he starts dragging you for a little bit and then you get to walking and now you're running with the pack again and he does so because at some point he's going to fall at some point one of those men are going to fall and I'll be the one to be like hey, I got you get up, walk, run that's what men do that's part of this convention building bonds creating relationships forging a network that you can go to so you don't go back to the man you were before you came here again, do not disrespect my time or the 21 convention name by doing nothing when you leave here that's ridiculous to even fad I can't even imagine somebody spending the time and the money you guys have spent to do nothing from here get some water I also want to talk about the need to say what it is you're thinking don't assume your brothers know how you feel don't assume your children know that when they did the thing that you told them to do you were proud when's the last time your father said to you I'm proud of you just saying that my fucking heart's like of course you want dad to be proud your wife when's the last time you told her you were proud you're talking about changing yourself and leading yourself you're talking about making all these improvements and then when they do it nothing silence from you you look over oh my son worked out today my daughter did this awesome thing my wife cooked alright cool we're doing this for you as our leader we're doing this to you wanted us to fill these roles and we're doing it they don't know that you feel proud about that your children when you are teaching them not only to take pride in themselves you've also got to teach them how to properly handle those emotions and when to give that energy that gift of verbal praise to them I'm really proud of you for doing that hey wife this is a great meal thank you for taking the time to cook it this way because we're trying to go low carb because AJ Cortez told me to you know you have all these things going on you've got all these improvements going on you can't just look inside be like oh man I'm killing it twitter I did this awesome thing 400 likes neat what about your family they're doing awesome things why don't you pick your head up stop looking inside but outside spread that energy to them tell them you are doing the right thing encourage them to continue on they don't know what you don't tell them nobody's reading your mind nobody knows what it is that you're proud of you're taking confidence in and pride in because you're silent because as men we don't know how to speak men don't communicate we're beyond that it's 2019 get the fuck out of your own way start speaking intelligently with your family start leading them properly start letting them know when they fucked up when they did well and everything in between be that voice you are the beacons the starboard the port keep them in the middle you're doing great you're not doing so great and constructively help them fix it because men don't talk about problems that's not what we do we work towards solutions talking about a problem that's not for us that's not our thing or patriarchs cool here is a problem how do we fix it not here is a problem and it's in our way and that's what's stopping us and that's okay because that's an excuse be a man when a man tells you to man up a man's telling you to get the fuck out of your own way I receive a lot of messages from guys this isn't working for me I'm doing this thing wrong I can't stop doing that and my response is always you know what the answer is you don't need me to give you permission to do the right thing none of you here need permission from me to go out and live a better life than you've been living up to this point or to forge networks go do that thing stop thinking about how awesome it is to do that thing and how great of a life you could have if you did it go do it take the actions stop using the words as patriarchs we're the last line understand that mainstream media is coming down hard we say we want the future to be bright we want the future to be strong we want America to be great or for the international your country to be great you want that as well make it so the fathers are the last line of defense that we have as the ones with skin in the game as the ones who have the responsibility of raising the next life a living human being the burden of performance on your shoulders cannot be overstated there is a human life that is going to live to the standard that you've set if you take your foot off the gas if this group can't make a difference what's going to happen who's left think about that who cares as much as we care we need a better future we have to build a better future we've got to protect our children nobody's protecting your child but you if you're not teaching your child in the home and you think that is the government's responsibility you're fucking up that should be supplemental to what's taking place in the home and I'm not saying you have to home in school I'm saying you've got to instill values you've got to ask them questions every day over dinner what did you learn at school today how was your day what are your goals, where are you going what are you reading you don't interrogate them like I am right now but you obviously go through and have the conversation it should flow, it should be natural you should have an open relationship with your children daily where you're checking in on what is being put into your brain their young minds are brilliant our children are capable of so much more than we give them credit push them, challenge them get them to the edge go beyond it because sometimes you've got to fall on your face to find out where the line is good, fall on your face and get up you're my son you're my daughter, we get up teach them that show them in your life when you fall you will get up show them when you come home from this convention it mattered and you don't flip things over on their head but you start making small incremental changes that are permanent you're consistent with your action your family is not your mission understand that your purpose in life is not to be a dad your purpose in life is not to be a husband or a lover you start as a man that is where your mission comes from it begins at that foundation my mission began as a man when I was born, I knew I just wanted to have a family so I built it but my wife was not the goal they were just a part of what I wanted to live I wanted to balance my patriarch type and I wanted to go forward and do things then I created the family alpha I joined 21Con with this whole thing that we've created I became a part of that and I kept going forward I want to close this with this story it's very personal to me because it's happening right now tomorrow is opening day for my town's baseball league I'm the head coach of my son's team tomorrow there's going to be a big parade walking through the town I ordered a flag for our team so my son is carrying a flag with the team name and all these other tools on these other teams they just walk with their hats, whatever and my kids are beasts I've already primed them that they're going to be absolute savages walking through this thing my kid holding the flag my kid walking down, guess what it's also team photo day picture of all the boys our biggest game, my son starting pitching tomorrow I'll be sitting in this room with you gentlemen I won't be in the photos I'm not going to see the parade I'm not going to go through those moments with him why? because I need this and you need this and this is my mission a missed game he's not going to hang on to it I told him I wouldn't be there I said last time you weren't there, last 21 gun I struck out 13 kids in a game I'm good, I got it he's like what the fuck I'll miss you it's not always easy the weekend that I flew down with Anthony and Elliott and Socrates we recorded with these gentlemen over here some monster shooting videos blasting guns, shooting rifles was awesome my wife had a giant event hey, can you stay home? I can't I've got to do this thing when you have purpose people want to support you there are times when you make a difficult choice it's not easy I didn't make that up I didn't just show up and be spoon fed this life I've gone through my challenges the armor that I'm wearing is dinged, cracked, broken I just keep going forward it's not always comfortable it's not always easy it's not always going to be the thing that you want to do but sometimes you've got to place your mission first because if you don't, what do you become? if I give up 21con, if I give up TFA because that allows me to be at home more all of a sudden now I'm focusing everything on fatherhood everything on lover and now my foundation will start to deteriorate and then the rest will start to deteriorate you've got to balance all three I leave you with that and I hope you guys will instill all that confidence in your foundation and bring this forward again, it doesn't matter what I say up here it matters what you do when you leave thank you


When I give tours on board constitutions people want to hear a story people want to hear the history People want to hear Why she's still around and where she came from to begin with I? Feel like it's the foundation of the Navy. This is where the Navy started When I first joined the Navy I told the recruiter I wanted to be a history teacher and he said history Okay, Bolson's made is the right job for you during the War of 1812 Bolson's made's job would have been Sanding the deck to get the deck perfectly smooth so the guns don't chase against the deck and create fire We would be climbing the rigging. We would be mending the sails. We would be putting tar on the ropes There's a lot of things that we would be doing then now It's very similar the type of things that we do now on board ships is we need a gun decks We paint bulkheads we sand bulkheads we Stand watches so it's a little bit different, but it's similar at the same time So this is why I want to come to if I want to be a good Bolson's made come to where the first Bolson's made's worked When I'm on my next ship thing I'm gonna miss most about Constitution is Having a small crew that's so close together Sailing evolutions actually getting underway and seeing the smiling faces of people who have never been on an old-fashioned vessel much less a Warship that's 216 years old. It makes me feel like I'm a part of history


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards, and I am ripping three boxes of 2021 Panini contenders optic football For James C. So good luck James. See what we got in here for you man. Hopefully something big. Get some QB QB ink out of here. Maybe a nice chase Nice bridge empty box Yeah, the answer is especially when you get like a nice numbered insert to Just like this. How about a red light in blue of Travis Kelsey if I could pick that up that is going to be numbered to 13 right there. That is nine of 13 On the kill of Trav nice kill of Trav Solid one there Got a silver back that is not numbered on the MVP contenders Cowboys got base of Russ Not numbered rookie for this pack is going to be of tutu atwell Yeah, not numbered on the rookies. You just do get one per pack Got first autograph is Trevon morrig on the base autograph for the raiders Trevon morrig nice safety out of tcu Starter there, which is pretty cool. He's a good player. I like him out of the ravens taken last year And then last second auto of the break is going to be silver josh palmer nice big palm on the on-card rookie ticket autograph Rats on that one there james Nice hit Box to empty box Yeah, josh palmer Felix josh palmer throughout his entire like signing of What's it called of all of his autographs. They're always all over the place All right, we've got red to 175 that is Antonio Gibson We've got I believe this is orange. I want to say nice little color match two off jersey number joe burrow nice joey b Like I said again a color match solid card there Got josh allen on the contenders base Uh, tylin wallace is going to be your um rookie in this one Got 400 panini points that'll replace one of your autos and then tylin wallace on the base rookie ticket auto Again, that is on card as well Big palm really does do what he wants Yeah, unfortunately After the break there is a little bit of smudge on it. I will see if I can get it off of the microfiber But we'll see Who knows if uh, what was going on there, you know Oh, nice Got green pulsar, uh, rookie. That is javante williams Of the broncos number 27 of 30 It's a clean looking javante. Oh, yeah, that is a big smudge see if I can get that off Um, we've got round numbers rookie of noa gray and simi fahoko That is 49 of 75 Nice one there Rookie round numbers Bro got mild sanders on the season ticket I'm gonna take this out 600 points in this one So thanks a lot there We've got uh, michael carter on the rookie And last card is gonna be dwayne escridge nice scridge on the on-card autograph There you go. That's gonna do it for your break there. James. Congrats on all the hits get those right out to you Thanks again, man


In these lectures on human and organizational factors, we are talking about models of risk communication and we will speak more precisely of one particular example of a communication model applied to a given risk. We will give an example of a model of risk communication about the risk related to mobile phones and especially from radiations from base station transmitters for mobile phones. A communication campaign using the Lasswell model, the emitter receiver model, was initiated about mobile phones related risk. Mobile technology, generally speaking, uses non-ionizing radiation from base station transmitters for mobile phones that can trigger some risks for human health. For example, it intends to use gnosis, insomnia, headaches or cancer and leukemia. Mobilization against these risks have spread since the year 2000, possibly earlier, not only in Italy but also in many other countries all over Europe, although this particular example will relate to Italy. In this country, a risk communication campaign has been triggered by the Ministry of Telecommunication to inform the population on the risks and possibly reduce social conflict which was related to this particular risk. The risk communication campaign we are talking about has some particular features. Number one, the Italian Ministry of Telecommunication performed a one-way unilateral communication campaign on risk based on the emitter receiver model that we have seen previously. Feature number two, this campaign was performed not by experts in communication but by technicians and scientists. Number three, the risk communication campaign used a one-way model of communication and didn't include the citizens on a participatory process about the given risk. The risk communication campaign was performed through the blue bus, which is a bus that traveled in the country, in Italy, in 18 of the 20 regions of Italy, providing information about electromagnetic fields, which means that scientists and technicians on the Ministry of Telecommunication provided general population information about the risk related to base station transmitters for mobile phones. In the picture here, you can see the bus that has been used to perform this campaign that traveled around Italy for almost two years. This communication campaign covered 25,000 km in Italy, visiting 18 regions with 137 stops all along the path and in a time of approximately two years. The problem is that with this particular risk communication model, which was a citizens come and ask campaign one-way process, there was no public debate that has been triggered, which means that citizens have not been involved on a more active basis. And probably more importantly, this did not lead to reduce the social conflict, which was one of the main purposes of the risk communication campaign. In other words, the application of last year's model, emitter receiver model of communication to this particular kind of risk avoiding a more inclusive participatory process did not lessen the social conflict. We have seen one example of the model of communication applied to a particular risk. In the next slides, in the next presentation, we will see some of the possible goals of risk communication.


Nine internet tools to acquire more e-commerce customers in 2021. This is part two of two. If you haven't watched part one, you'll want to go back and do that. You don't have to watch these in order. Calm down. You can stay here right now, but you do want to watch the other video. In this video, I'm going to go through six through nine. And I think you're going to get some real value here because by the time you're done, you're going to find ways that you can instantly get more business to your e-commerce site. So let's get going. But before we do, don't forget to subscribe, hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget, ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live. Let's jump right into this. The first one I want to tell you about is called Dialogue. Now, this is really super cool. I want you to think of Dialogue as an AI version of a person helping your customer in a store. Pretty neat, huh? Let's jump in here and let's take a look at it. Let me show you some of the stuff it does. Okay, so it kind of says, how can I help you? Dialogue uses an AI-powered algorithm to match customers with the ideal message they need to see. It starts by analyzing user behavior, and from there it uses the data to inform content suggestions it can use to help them along multiple stages of the customer journey. Now, here's an example of it I've got on the screen right here right now. Pretty cool stuff, right? Because it's actually talking to this customer. It creates a conversation with customers. Once you implement Dialogue, that's pretty much it. You sit back and let the tool do its work. The result is a stickier website that automatically matches customers with what they need to see. Does it work? Well, according to some statistics, specific recommendations have a major impact on the way shoppers interact with e-commerce. For example, 37% of shoppers that simply click a recommendation during their first visit would return. That's compared to 19% who didn't click a recommendation at all. Giving somebody a recommendation that suits their needs makes the interaction feel more real and more memorable. If the recommendation is on point, a customer feels like you get it. It's especially good for retail. Dialogue's product recommendation feature is intuitive for browsers. The same way it might work in a brick-and-mortar store. Stores that need to increase sales via cross-selling will also benefit from AI learning. If you can't quite figure out what your customers want, consider letting Dialogue do it for you. The next one I want to talk to you about is called Hashtag Paid. Their slogan is Goodbye Influencers Hello Customers. What this actually does is it pairs creators with companies a different way of doing it to collaborate on their campaigns. Let's jump in there and take a look at it real quick. Creators there include a wide range of content experts from writers and freelancers to social media influencers. It features its own centralized communication platform complete with goals and metrics so you can target a specific creator's audience with ease. Why is it so important? Well, in the future, Google is going to crack down on customer tracking for advertising purposes. This is only going to make it harder for companies to advertise to highly specific niches. But if you work with a creator with a well-defined audience, your advertisements can be as relevant as you want. If 2022 is going to change digital advertising permanently, it only makes sense to invest in the future now. Nearly 40% of marketers already rate content marketing like this as a very important part of their strategy. Sponsored influencers already comprise almost $8 billion in the market. I think you need to get involved in this type of thing. The next thing I want to talk to you about is referral candy. I love referral candy. It goes about it the best way. Essentially what it does is it helps you set up a referral program. You probably have thought about doing this before and you thought, oh my gosh, this is going to be so complicated to do a referral program. I don't know how to do it. Referral candy will do it for you. So jump in there and let's see what it'll do. It helps you set up your referral program for your store. Basically their mission is getting your customers to refer your store to their friends in about 10 minutes. The candy in this case includes the incentives you use to make your store worthy of a social share. Referral candy does this by connecting your store through a platform like Shopify or BigCommerce. From there you can set up shop rewards for referrals and motivate word of mouth marketing with rewards like cash or discounts. Word of mouth marketing is the primary factor behind 20-50% of all buying decisions. Its influence is greatest when consumers are buying a product for the first time or when products are relatively expensive. Factors that tend to make people conduct more research, seek more opinions and deliberate longer than they otherwise would. Word of mouth marketing is the oldest form of social proof marketing in existence and it hasn't gone anywhere yet. It's just as relevant these days when 59% of shoppers trust offline recommendations, another 49% said that online word of mouth is highly credible too. Now here's your statistics right here. Check this out. Word of mouth marketing influences 54% of buying decisions. 59% of users trust online recommendations even if not from friends. Consumers trust friend recommendations 7 times more than digital advertising and 84% of users trust family friend recommendations when making a purchase. This is just something you've got to get involved in. It's super, super important. Now that was number 8 if you're keeping track. We're only going to go down to number 9 in just a second. But I want you to think about this. Choosing rewards is not as hard as you think. It can be anything from, you know, handing out cash, discounts, free shipping, a percentage discount on things. You have ways that you can discount your product. Some people say, well, if I discount it anymore, I won't make any money. Well, here's the thing. As long as you can be in the black, as long as you can get that sale, you've got to look more long term. I think people don't do that.  But if you made $20, you made a sale.  So you need to do these things, guys. You need to offer these things to your customer. And this referral program can send you into the profit zone. Promise you. Now, you can connect this particular thing once it's set up to be automated with an email automation software. Now, I'll tell you over the past decade, I have tried a lot of email automation software, a lot of them. I've tried MailChimp and I've tried Constant Contact and I've tried Infusionsoft, which is now Keep. And I've got to tell you, I found the best one. And I'm saving the best thing for last. And that's number nine. Number nine is Cartra. Guys, please, please, please listen to me on this one. You got to get Cartra. Now, I will put a link below where you can actually get Cartra and try it out for $1. You've got to try. If I'm this bought into it, you would want to try it out, right? For $1. Cartra will do these email automations for you so that when you integrate these automation things to get more sales, it will send out the emails and drive more traffic automatically. Once you've set this stuff up, you don't have to do anything at all. It automatically takes your customer through this journey. It offers them discounts. It gets them to do referrals, all these things that you want to do on your site. And that's why I save this for last. You've got to have a good automation email. And Cartra is by far the best one out there. Now, not only is it an automation email, but you can set up funnels in there. You can automate your emails to go out to people based on where they click, what they bought. All these things are automated in Cartra. Not to mention, you can build sales pages in there. You can have courses in there. You can have videos in there. The possibilities are endless. You've got to get Cartra. Have I impressed that upon you enough yet? Okay, so let's just look at Cartra for one second here. There's a lot of things to like about Cartra, specifically the absolute all-in-one platform they have. It goes far beyond just designing a website landing page or sending an email. They cover all the basics from websites, landing pages, email marketing, automation, and sequences and tagging funnels. Simple e-commerce digital downloads, membership sites, help desk scheduling, forums, affiliates, and now an agency solution. If you would like to consolidate the many platforms you use, Cartra can handle 95% of everything you throw at it. I got to tell you, we went from eight different pieces of software, eight different pieces of software down to one when we got Cartra. Wouldn't you like to do that? Let's check this out a little bit more. Their support group on Facebook is second to none. They truly care about their people. I met and knew the owners of this particular company and they really do care.  They're amazing. You could basically do everything you need in e-commerce or even if you're selling digital products. Maybe you're selling digital products, you're not doing physical products. And I know this is all about physical products. We're talking about e-commerce, but you may have some digital products too. That's the other cool thing about Cartra. You can actually put your digital products in Cartra and have people actually buy the product on a Cartra page. And as soon as they buy it, your system in Cartra will actually email them out all of their login information for their digital products. In addition to that, and I know this isn't all about digital products, but it will monitor as they go through your digital products. So let's say you have six modules with four videos in each module. It will show you inside Cartra exactly how far they've gone into the program.  Well, Cartra can monitor if they go through the course. And it's helped us out a lot on refunds because we've had people say, well, I went through the course and it didn't do what I wanted. And I would go back and check and I would say, well, here's a screenshot of your login and you haven't been through the course. You haven't even started the course yet. And when they're faced with that, a lot of times they'll say, oh, OK, I guess I clicked in the wrong area or whatever. But that has helped us tremendously with refunds, guys, because some people will actually buy something with the intent of refunding. So this will help you with that also. I can't recommend Cartra enough. If nothing else, do me a favor, look in the description below. You're going to see a link for Cartra, but you don't have to give your email. You don't have to give your credit card anything. Click on the link and just watch the video. Just watch the video. Come back to this video and put a comment below. What did you think of that video? What did you think of that software? I haven't had a single person watch that video where they didn't say, yeah, I need that. I got to get that. That's pretty cool. So just watch the video in my description below and I think you'll be really satisfied. So like I said, this is part two of two. But I also have a bonus for you since you've gone this far is there's a link below for a $97 course. Click on it and get it absolutely free. Now, since this is part two, you do want to go back and watch part one. If you haven't done so in part one, I go through one through five. This video, I went through six through nine. Make sure you get them all get all these things. Okay. All these things are going to help you out. You don't have to do them all at once. I said that in the first video. You can do one of these. You can pick two of these, but pick something do something to automate your site to make more money this year. I can promise you if you do these things, you will make more money. And you'll make more sales. If you enjoyed this video, do me a favor. Give me a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe below. Hit the subscribe button. Don't forget also ring the bell. You got to ring the bell. Once you subscribe, a bell will pop up. You want to click on it and select get all notifications. That way every time I post a new video, every time I go live, I can notify you and you won't have to come looking for it. So it's going to save you a ton of time. Thank you so much for watching this video. I appreciate it and I'll see you in the next one. Thanks for watching my video. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and click that little bell right there so you can be notified every time I do a new video. Also click on one of those videos there. Keep watching on my channel.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is the last of my Valentine series, I'm just doing five this year, so today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really cute box, well it's an exploding box, so I haven't finished all the decoration yet, I think I'm going to do it throughout this video because once I start putting the other one together and I can see what I'm using with that one then I can play around with it. So basically some of you may be familiar with this, this has also been requested, yeah I'd say quite a few people actually have requested this, but whenever I get requests sometimes I get sent other people's tutorials, I get sent pictures and I try not to do direct copies of someone else's work, if I'm going to do something then I like to change it up a little bit. So I know Shrushti Patil, she has done something like this some years ago, Helen Griffin has dyes to make it, so you know there are and there's hundreds of tutorials with it on there so I don't really know who was the first person to come up with this, however I was looking at some of them and I thought I can see other ways to develop it so this is what I've done, so it's a rectangle shape, take the lid off and then you have this little drop down here which is a little envelope with a gift card in which I'll show you in a minute, but then these drop down and this one drops down and yes there they are, two tonics teacakes, but I filled these with Lindor chocolates, now I think I would like to put Lindor ones in here as well, but I only ate one I promise so I'm going to probably buy another one of these ones here, these are delicious, they're the strawberries and cream, yes this is what I've got so you just take off this like little, you can just pull them off the top, I mean if you want to put a little tab there to maybe pull the acetate up you can do and then you can just take the treats out and then that just slides back in, so and then like I said here, now at the minute this is attached with a little glue dot, but I want to change that, I'm going to cover that with something as well because I did put a Velcro dot on but it was too bulky on the sides and then I've just got a gift card in there, okay so I just need to kind of tidy that up a bit but otherwise it is nice in fact that glue dots already, yeah so we need to look at that and you've got room here to write something but I'm unsure whether I'm going to or not, I did cut a piece of card stock, I think I've got it, I don't know maybe I cut a heart out of it, anyway to go there and then you could maybe write something, you could also have a card in there so it could open up and there would be a nice little card for someone to read, there's lots of ways to play around with it but basically the other ones that you'll find, I've got four of these so another box drops out at this end but I quite like the thought of having a little gift card in there so it's kind of a little bit like the selection box, I had the gift card in that with all the chocolates and the tears and all the bits that you know you could slide out and that was really nice, so yeah this is what I've done here and then it all folds up together and then you just slide your lid back on and then I've just started to just do you know a little bit decoration on the front there with a couple of hearts, you could put a belly band around this as well if you wanted to but it's a really lovely gift, you can fill this with all sorts, you don't have to put chocolates in there, you could have some you know gifts, jewelry, all that kind of stuff but yeah let me show you how to make this because it's pretty straightforward. Okay so I've gone ahead and done two of the boxes so I'm going to show you how to do one on camera and show you how to do the lid and then the base and then everything else is just your mats and lids to decorate it, so you're going to need three pieces for the boxes okay and these are six and a half by eight so on all of the sides you just want to score at two inches so two four six and eight okay then fold and burnish all of your score lines okay and then I'm just going to pop that to one side while I've got the scoreboard then you want a piece of cardstock that is so this one here you want it to just be under so you're better off obviously you'll you know cut it with your trimmer first you just grab mine so you can see what I've done here because this is the lid so we need it to be that little bit bigger to sit over everything so you want this here to just be under six and a quarter so you'll see there you've got those other little small little kind of markers there you're one sixteenths of an inch you want to be on one of those so you'll have your six and one eighth and then you'll have your six and a quarter you want to be the little marker under that one okay and that extra little piece that we give the lid will allow it to close okay so it's a little bit yeah make sure you want it to be under six and a quarter and just above six and one eighth it needs to be in between that one there and that is by eight and a quarter okay so that's how you get that measurement there and then you just want to score on all four sides at one inch so one one one and one and again fold and burnish all those score lines okay so that's that one again only one piece and then one piece for the base so this is nine and three eighths of an inch by eleven and a half and you want to score at two and five eighths of an inch and eight and seven eighths of an inch and then rotate and again do two and five eighths of an inch and six and three quarters and again fold and burnish i'll do the acetate in a moment because i've put it all away so i've just remembered i thought i've not pulled out the acetate but we can do that in a minute and we'll fold and burnish okay so i'm just going to get rid of my scoreboard okay while i've got the base here really easy you just want to remove the four squares in all of your corners i'm just going to get my longer scissors so you just want to cut up and you want to remove all the score line okay so you don't want that to be on show because this will become the outside of your box so i'm just cutting each of those squares away in each corner okay okay and then just go around just make sure that you can't see any of the score lines so i'm just removing like i said any lumpy bits okay so that's our bottom of our box all right then i'm going to go to the lid and for this one along the long side i like to just cut straight down each of the score lines to the first score line so just like so and then rotate it around and again just cut straight to that first score line and then i'm just going to go around each one and just take a little bit off each of the sides so you just don't get anything overhanging on your lid okay so you've got something like that and then i'm going to grab my glue and you just want to stick actually no i'm going to do it last because there's a little tip that might come in handy for some of you so we'll do that at the very end because it all makes sense so okay this is one of your boxes so again it doesn't really matter but i'm going to cut down the longer side i'm just going to cut really neatly straight down to the first score line like so and again rotate and just cut straight down and then again just take some little wedges off of each side so just exactly the same way as you've done the lid but you want to do this three times okay so you've got something like that so now i'm going to grab my glue and on each of the tabs you just want to bring it under and around and then bring up your side so you create a nice right angle like so make sure it's all stuck down and go across to the opposite side and again bring that under and around and then you've created one side of your box and then go to the opposite side and this time you can do both at the same time so just some glue on those tabs and then just bring that up and if you're using liquid glue i mean you can use double sided tape if you want but you've got room there to be able to just move it around a little bit and you should have everything should join up nicely at the tops and the tabs should line up you know with each other inside there because of the measurements that we've got there so now i've got my three little boxes there ready to stick onto the base so again we're going to leave the lid for the minute till last so now you want to decide what end you want to have your gift card what you want to do is you're going to be gluing all of the bases down okay so i'm going to glue one base down to there because then that will stick and then when we bring it up it will come in like so okay so you want to do one of your ends your shorter ends first so i'm going to add my glue again if you want to add any mats and layers also at this point i would do that first i didn't i've just stuck the boxes down because i just thought it's wasted paper really you're not going to see it but you might want a little border or something so i'm just going to add the glue now what you want to do is you want to this the width of the base this is slightly wider than the width of this so you want to make sure that you get this hugging the score line okay don't go over it because it's going to interfere with the the fold otherwise but you'll see there you should have just a little kind of one eighth of a inch little lip here that's what you want and if you bring it up while you're still kind of you know moving it around and that glues not set properly it will just mean that you know that you're going to get it you know you've got a nice kind of hinge there so you want to make sure that that box is completely flush with the bottom when you bring it up but you've got a little lip there and i just it's better to have that little bit of room than it come over and then your lid be a bit funny okay so i mean if you don't like that and afterwards stick it all down there's you know there's no harm in trimming that off you know you can quite easily cut that off if you want to it's entirely up to you but that one's now stuck okay then with these ones here these are both going to stick down the the far end of the long ones you've got to leave this section here clear so that when they all come down this one's got room to come up it's got to all all three boxes have to all be within this width here or the length so again you're going to stick them down the same way but this time you're just making sure that you kind of hug it into that bottom corner so again always on the base of the box so i'm going to come right down here and hug this score line again so you've got that little bit of overhang at the top here and then just bring it over you can go in and push it make sure it's right up against the edge there and you'll see that all comes in nicely there because once the acetate's on there as well that will pop out just a little bit but it just means you've got the room for all those kind of things and anything extra that you might want to add to it i mean you might decide that you want to put an actual lid on the top of the box and you know have a closure that way rather than the acetate so you can do that and then again stick this one down bring it down that way and just stick that all into place okay so it very quickly comes together all right so that's it you know and it does all kind of square off once the acetate's in and everything else is in place so now get your lid and you just want to i would say use liquid glue you'll see why in a minute but if you just because we've done this a little bit bigger anyway because we've done it the width was just that little bit over you know that one sixteenth of an inch we've got you to cut it just slightly under eight and a quarter if you bring up two of your sides so do this one try and do this one at the same time i mean the lid will fit so you know don't worry you don't have to don't watch this now think oh i can't do all that how she's doing it just see what i'm going to do and then you know it makes sense but now if you bring this up and put the lid on you can see there that it's definitely going to you know um it's going to fit so sometimes it's good to actually because i can move that around so if that was a little bit tight i've got room to kind of maybe widen it a little bit by just pulling out the tabs slightly but that one i you know i know it's going to fit okay but sometimes if you're a bit unsure if your lid's going to fit and you're worried it might be too tight just use some liquid glue do a couple of the tabs at the same time and actually glue the lid together whilst it's on the box so now i can just bring that under bring that under and then close it and that way you know it's definitely going to fit so you know there's nothing worse and they've had people message me before saying you know they've finished all the project and then they've gone to the lid and they've cut it too small or you know not quite got the score line right so you can just go around there and just make sure they're all stuck down but that way yeah you just get a really nice closure now we've got mats and layers to add to it that's going to add a bit of bulk and obviously the when you add the gift card that does create a little bit more bulk so the lid will move quite freely now but it will become a little bit more um you know tighter once we start to add all those mats and layers so i'm going to take my lid off now i'm just make sure it's really all stuck down but that's it it's all now down to the separation so it's very easy done so if you want to make quite a few of these you can see you know if you go and get all your lids cut and do all of them and then get all the boxes cut and do those and then do all the bases you can probably put these together quite quickly and i think they'd make nice gifts for you know um just little favours like on the table or something maybe you're doing a little dinner party and you want to give everybody little gifts i love doing that kind of thing so um yes that's where we need to be so i'm now going to go and look at my papers and um get the envelope punch board to make the little envelope for the gift card and uh yeah just decide exactly how i want to decorate this really nice little box okay so i've stuck loads of bits down and what i'm going to do is just talk you through the mats and layers that you're going to need and then i'm going to show you how to do the acetate and the envelope and then that's it so i've done all of the sides if i bring this up you can see how it's going to look and i've added the mirrored card stock to this one oh i just realized i haven't done the outside so that's fine i can cut them in a minute so for these three boxes you're going to need six pieces of three and three quarters by one and three quarter so they go on each of the sides here so that's six and then six pieces of the pattern paper which is one and a half by three and a half okay so that covers them for the insides here these pieces are just slightly smaller than the the width of the box so that's two and a half so i've done two and a quarter by three and three quarters that's three pieces of those and then for the short sides here again you want six pieces that are two and a quarter by one and three quarters and six pieces that are two by one and a half then you will want three pieces that are three and seven eighths of an inch by two and three eighths that's for this side this side and this side and then you want two pieces that are six by two and three eighths of an inch okay and then this inside piece here you've got three and seven eighths of an inch by six and then the pattern piece is three and five eighths and that will be by five and three quarters okay so that's all of the mats and layers now to make the envelope you want a piece of five by five pattern paper and i'm using the envelope punch board and it's the very first one here says gift card so that's the one you want to follow and that will be the perfect size for all your standard gift cards it's credit card size so it's a piece of five by five and the first score line is at two so i'm just going to punch and score i always like to do mine this way slightly different to others but i do prefer it and then do the others there is a tutorial to use this so i'll link that for anybody i don't expect you to just follow that straight away most people know and there's lots of videos online anyway but now you have this piece and then you've got your corner punch on there but i'm just going to use my one here and then i'm just going to burnish all of the score lines and then just grab some of my double sided tape oh my god i've got such a mess to the right of me there's so many um scrap pieces from where i've cut all of my mats and layers so i'm just going to pop a strip there and one there and then just take off the backing like so keep that up the right way because that's directional underneath there we go and then i'm going to put a little glue dot there and then i've gone and fussy cut the same you know the underside here i've just cut one of those out and that's going to stick on the front so actually stick that one down now and then i'm going to nearer the time when i actually go and put the gift card in because i need to buy the one for this one um i will put a little glue dot and seal it okay so now i can just add some glue onto the back of this one and then stick this one onto the mirrored cardstock so it will have a tiny little border but i do think it looks nice it take a little bit longer to dry it does dry against the mirrored cardstock um otherwise you can use double sided tape like the red tape or anything like that but now that's all in place okay so it's looking really nice i love that look and then that will all close up so you do get a little bit of bulk at that end but like i said the lid will still fit but you can see how nice that's all coming together for your pattern paper on here because i'm going to go cut this off camera and stick it on you're seeing the photos but you're one a piece you want two pieces of five and three quarters by two and a quarter two and one eighth sorry and then you'll want two pieces that are three and five eighths by two and one eighth okay so that's that then you want three pieces of acetate that are eight by six and a half and on all four sides you're going to score at two inches so two two two and two now you can fold and burnish next if you want but i actually find it's easier to cut the acetate when it's still flat but you're going to remove the four squares so you see there's a square in every corner just removing that and you want to remove all the score line okay so take all of the score line out in case you want three pieces and then i just always find it easier just to fold acetate with your fingers don't you know burnish it with one of your bone folders it's just easier to do it just like this that's enough because then you can manipulate them back a bit but now that will sit perfectly inside and it will wedge itself in push it right down but it will go in really nicely and they stay in okay so there is the inside and then there are my sides so i've tried to make sure i get the hearts on all of the sides there i think it looks really really nice and i love this i mean you don't have to put a gift card in there you can also put one of those little kind of encouragement cards that you can buy from like the card shops and things like that they're really nice i've got them for friends before but i just love these i think it's just yes lovely and like i said you can put a card in the middle there if you want to but i'm super pleased with this one and then once i've added a few more little bits of decoration onto the top there i might even put a bow or have a gift tag hanging i might even do something around here maybe put some ribbon around there possibly i don't know but you'll see in the photo so that's that one and that's the other one there so again the white on this one looks okay i think because it's a white lid whereas with that one i think i might need to put something on that so definitely need some ribbon or something but again you can just see it's quite simply decorated i will add a little bit more to that i might put some nuvo drops and some sequins and things like that which i like to do but again just open that one up and then everything drops out really nicely i think it's great work for many occasions great for birthdays christmas easter you know but easter eggs in here all kinds of things but um yeah i'm really pleased with how they come together the lids fit on nice and snug i think they make really nice gifts and you can post them as well i mean obviously that's a little bit more weighted because of what's in it but if you're putting light things in that will post quite nicely so yes there you have it so thank you for watching i hope you've enjoyed this valentine's series thank you for all your comments messages everything it's always you know i just i love it you know i do so thank you please give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed today's tutorial and i'll be back again very soon with another video thank you for watching bye


I'm speaking to Paul Najarian, liaison reporter from ITU's radio communications sector, Study Group 5 to the collaboration on ITS communication standards. Paul Najarian, welcome to ITU TV. Thank you for having me. First of all, let me ask you, what do we mean by intelligent transport systems or ITS? Intelligent transport systems may be defined as the convergence of information and communications technologies in everyday transportation use. Whether such use is in a roadway vehicle, public transportation, freight movement, electronic toll collection, parking management, car navigation systems, telematics information and so on. So as the information communications technologies are improving, they are becoming more and more integrated into the transportation network. As you may know, ITU has launched a campaign along with the International Automobile Federation on enhancing road safety. How can we make our roads safer? How can we concretely do this? Well, there are technologies available currently in whether embedded in a vehicle or in the roadway that could improve the safety of the roadway infrastructure and reduce the fatalities. And the numbers we're talking about are astronomical. The UN collaboration on road safety has shown that there are about 1.3 million deaths per year along the roadways worldwide. In addition, there's about 50 million injuries. And this is amounting to economic losses in excess of $500 billion worldwide. So the goal is to have at least a reduction in those numbers which can be achieved by the integration of ICTs in vehicles such as radar systems. But how can ICTs actually enhance road safety? For example, there are many information and communications technologies that could be embedded in the roadway infrastructure such as whether monitoring systems that monitor icing along the road or they could monitor whether a car is about to depart from the roadway system and so on. And which in turn they would alert either the driver or they would alert a traffic management center about these roadway conditions such as icing on the road or falling rocks, etc. So there are ICT information that could be embedded either in the roadway or in a vehicle. So do you think these technologies can also improve efficiencies in road transport and traffic management? Well, integrated traffic management systems such as Japan's Vehicle Information and Communication Systems have already been doing so since 1996. And there are these traffic management systems that control the signaling along the roadway in order to be able to put more capacity on the existing roadway infrastructure. So the goal is to maximize the capacity that the road could handle in an efficient manner. And do you foresee any smart devices coming up in the near future, things like radar collision, anti-collision devices or other systems? Yes. As part of this effort with the UN Road Collaboration, the ITU Council passed a resolution in 2010. The Council resolution was about ICTs and improving road safety. As a result of this ITU Council resolution, a World Radio Communication conference was added during WRC 2012 on harmonizing spectrum for collision avoidance radar in the 79 GHz, which is known as Agenda Item 1.18 on the World Radio Communication Conference for 2015. So if we were able to harmonize at least spectrum globally for all car manufacturers and vehicle manufacturers and roadway infrastructure in this band, we would be able to vacate some of the other technologies that are available in other spectrum and harmonize them at 79 GHz in order to have economies of scale for the car manufacturers and the automobile industry. So do you foresee then that these technologies will become more ubiquitous, will be used more widely? Yes. With this harmonization and these economies of scale, we actually foresee this technology becoming more available in not just at the high end level of classes, but also at the lower end level of vehicles, as well as motorcycles as well. Because we are talking about not just collision avoidance of the driver and the passengers of the vehicle, but we're also talking about collision avoidance with pedestrians. So this is a technology for intersection collision avoidance, especially with pedestrians. So what do you think would be the next steps then, looking into the future, looking at road safety as a holistic area of management and in ITS and intelligent transport systems? Well, what we see, first of all, is an integration of an ITS telecommunications architecture as part of the deployment of intelligent transportation systems worldwide. So once that telecommunications policy is agreed upon, then we could start harmonize different types of application in specific services. For example, we could harmonize the collision avoidance radar in the radio location service. We could harmonize applications such as dedicated short-range communications in the land mobile service in the 5.8 or 5.9 GHz. So that is what is foreseen in the future, is that rather than having a mosaic type of an approach in terms of the ITS deployment worldwide, in order to have the smaller pockets where the ITS spectrum requirements could be defined. So you think you'll have a safer world on the roads in the near future? Absolutely. I mean, even with some of the technologies that are available now, the workshop in today's workshop with the UN ECE has already demonstrated some improvements over the last, in this past decade. And we hope to have much, much better numbers by 2020. Well, Hungarian, thank you very much. Thank you.


Hello and welcome back to the Croftbox. My name's Brenton today Yes, I know it's Thursday, but today we're doing a companion showcase this time on Old Scratch because If you saw my last video you'll know that I kind of got a bit stuck on Things and stuff.  He increases the spell power. He's lit He has three three promotions. I think it is He's a skeleton you get him as a storyline companion during The hood who house which is if you haven't checked out my full game walk through which is towards the start of it Yeah, I'm really putting in the work here geez man So yeah old scratch great companion he learns What does he have he has three mojo flows He has a summon spell and a job whose breath which is cool He hits in a interesting pattern. He has a Dick Frost ways pattern, which is cool Like a kind of like a diagonally cool one, but yeah, that's cool He's really cool actually he basically just uses magic to hit you and it's great He used to be bad as I said before Look at this.  He didn't do anything that was like of worth and I think it was When ranked PVP got released at he like everyone's like oh my god. He's amazing. What so now everybody uses And with Valencia part 2 everyone's like wow, why don't we use why don't we use him before? With the increased difficulty curve, which I hate and love at the same time So yeah, let's see if we can show you his casting animation Let's just get this snoob out. You can do that. We'll do that. Sure. We'll do that Okay So yeah, that's pretty much old scratch. He is great and great. Look at this So basically he's just a witch doctor just an ordinary witch doctor, you know, look at this Momo superhit is great Yay That's what Momo you're doing well. I Actually really like Momo. Momo used to I never used to use Momo, but like When I do He's actually good Like I used to not use him, but I love him so much. I love more. I was one of my own. I Don't really like old scratch as much as Momo Old scratch. I don't know. He seems like way too typical to be like a witch doctor companion Like it's just so like typical Yeah, so yeah, that's just a short way video for today I have actually been sick, which is why there has been no videos recently I haven't had the time to record and stuff which is unfortunate Hopefully fingers crossed there will be some more videos coming soon. I've got a lot of things that I want to do but Yeah, I'll just leave it at that. I don't know if they're gonna happen. Let's be honest I was promising to never never succeed my promises. So yeah, hopefully more prior The private one way pirate 101 coming soon So stay tuned if you haven't subscribed already, please do that It helps a lot and also it means you get to see videos when they come out And if you have already subscribed press a little bell so you know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


Hi my dear friends and welcome back to grow. Today we grow romaine lettuce. Today I'm very excited because I'm going to share with you a very easy technique to grow lettuce even from the lettuce that you buy from the supermarket. It's very easy, very healthy and it grows really quickly so let's get to it. So in order to grow your lettuce from the lettuce that you bought in the supermarket you will need your romaine lettuce of course, a knife, a cutting board, one jar or a tupperware. I'm actually reusing a marmalade jar, two specks and water. You can see this lettuce was cut from the root here. It has no roots here but that's not a problem. All you have to do is keep this part from your lettuce so we're gonna cut it now and I'll show you how it goes. Okay so welcome to the kitchen. Okay we're gonna cut the lettuce at about 5 centimeters from the end of the lettuce and then you can save the rest in the fridge. After you cut the end of your lettuce you will have something like this. So as you can see you have the end here no roots there and the lettuce. What we're gonna do now is use the two specks to put in the lettuce so I'm gonna put one here maybe another one right here another one here and another one here. So we have four two specks just like this and I'm gonna set it aside. Now we're gonna use our jar. So fill up the jar with water all the way up and now we're gonna put the lettuce inside the jar and make sure that it's actually touching the water. I'm gonna fill it up a little bit more all the way to the top so I make sure that the water is actually touching the lettuce. Now your lettuce will need some sunlight to grow so make sure that you put the lettuce in a place with a sunny window so it gets lots of sunlight so you can grow quicker. You can see this lettuce grows really quickly remember to always change the water every one or two days so you keep it clear and clean. Now this lettuce has been in water for about three weeks and as you can see the leaves are big and green. I think when your lettuce gets to this size this is the best time to harvest and eat the leaves. This is because keeping in mind that this lettuce is not getting as much ingredients as she would get in the soil the leaves are gonna start becoming more bitter so the best time to eat this lettuce is at this point. I have read that we can actually transplant this lettuce to soil so she can get the nutrients that she needs. So I'm gonna try it today I'm gonna try to transplant this lettuce to soil and see if she actually survives. I hope that she does and I'm gonna show you now how I'm gonna transplant it to soil and then I'm just gonna show you the progress on my Instagram account so let's hope it works. Okay so let's get to transplanting. So first in this container I'm gonna put organic all-purpose soil. Now we're going to make a hole for the lettuce and this hole will be about five centimeters. We take the two sticks out like so and we're gonna put the lettuce inside. Try to compress the soil. I'm so pretty and now I'm just gonna water a little bit so I make sure that the soil is moist. Okay so our first transplanted lettuce is finally ready. I will make sure to share the progress video on Instagram. Wish this beautiful lettuce lock and hopefully survives. Of course if you're growing lettuce with me please make sure to share with me on Instagram. I would love to see it and we will share with the community. If you're watching this video live let's keep the chat going over here and if you're watching it afterwards thank you for being here and please leave a comment. I will make sure to reply.