A much bigger protest was happening out inside the space. New York Times, after Seattle, said there's a new super power in the world. It's called the public. And so really, we're just developing the system whereby people can express. Electricity don't tell them what to say. We just provide the mechanism whereby they can say something. Palm Ops, known on the net as DJNZ. ElectroHippies, United Kingdom. Beliefs computers can liberate the masses. In late 1999, ElectroHippies claimed more than 400,000 people joined in virtual sit-ins during the Seattle protests. The action targets the World Trade Organization's website in an attempt to damage its public relations capacity. They say if you can remember the classic sit-ins of the 60s and 70s, then you probably weren't there. But now hacktivist groups like ElectroHippies have taken the spirit of those times onto the internet. With what's called a virtual sit-in, masses of people using their home computers can collectively ping the website of a target corporation or institution and stop it from doing business online. For quite a few hours during the WTO conference when we had our protest, you couldn't get to the WTO website. Your computer would endlessly wait and wait and wait for a response and it never turned up. This isn't an action that's launched by one person cracking a computer. This takes 10,000 or 50,000 people. To make it effective, 10,000 or 50,000 across time zones to make it work. And so we say it's democratic. The ElectroHippies started up in the middle of 1999, really as a result of people inquiring what is possible in terms of campaigning on the internet. And that's what we're really interested in doing is extending this to a bigger audience as possible, particularly people who don't normally get on the internet. Where we have to go with computer activism is developing it as a real-world thing that ordinary people feel they can take part in. So we really do have a mission to explain what computer-based activism is all about and show that it's relevant to people's everyday lives and that they can take part in it and it does therefore have a worthwhile place in society. That's brilliant. Right, got an old grey. Old grey, yeah, I got some old grey. The teapot is rarely off the boil in an ElectroHippies kitchen. Paul's come from London to visit Tim, who's also a member of a local greens group. The day is to be spent brainstorming ideas about the ElectroHippies next to big online action. Who do you want to lobby? The target is the Summit of the Americas in Quebec. Because we've got the letter writer. Yes, yeah. And I've got the distributed bandwidth thing which is going to make the Quebec action work. Brilliant. Great. So we can do that. Yeah. And then we just talk a bit about what's happening in Quebec and sort of outline what the Quebec conference is all about and what's really the Quebec state is doing to make sure people don't get anywhere near the conference.  And a bit about what ElectroHippies is going to set up with some other groups in America and Canada. And really it's just about having a bit of feedback locally about what people want to do locally. Right. To sort of mark the event. Because we've got this idea of real world anchors. The chickens are coming in there. Oh, they're shipping. Hey, whoosh, whoosh, go on, whoosh. I understand whoosh. Good. Yeah.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysCaseBrace.com. We just sold out nine hip parade spots filler, which is the only filler we needed to do to sell that out, with this 2017 Prestige Football Value Pack number two. Now again guys, everybody that's around on the team in the NFL, know that common ship out of this pack, but we'll do the pack filler first. Then at the end we'll randomize the customer names and then the top nine get into the hip parade break, which is coming up next. So let's do the break first. Roll it four to one, five times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five. Nick, down a line. One, two, three, four, five. Raiders out of the ego, sorry. All right, so there's all your teams right there. I'll leave you a quick second to take a look at that. So there's your teams. Let's quickly do the pack filler now. And again, this is 2017, so technically I have a chance for some Patrick Mahomes rookies. I think it will be college gear though. At least I believe so. Yeah, I don't be like this Leonard Fournette, but I never know, definitely could be in here. Angleman, Taco Charlton. There's a little Mitchell Trebisky. Carson Palmer. Looks like Fournette might have been the bigger one. All right, well, I gave it a shot. Now we're gonna switch scenes. And we are going to do the giveaway, which is nine spots, guys, so top nine, get in. Roll it, one out of six, lucky number seven, seven times, guys, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So boom, seven times, seven, seven, top nine. Ryan H. you're in, Joseph, Chad, Nicole, Adam, John, Martin, Joseph again, and Peterang. There you go. So top nine are in. Thank you guys so much. So I'm gonna paste your guys' names in here. And coming up next, guys, is the hip parade break. Thank you.


empowering in a way and disconcerting in a way too, because you have to let go of some of that self-identity of which you've attached yourself to for so much of all of your life, right? Who am I? I am Garth Sam. This is the person that I know myself to be and everybody else knows myself to be as well. And now here I am dissolving that into what? Then what am I? I'm not. I am not. I am not Garth Sam. So what is not Garth Sam? Right, it's very interesting sort of curious loop that goes on when you engage in this practice deeply. What do you say you had hallucinogenic experiences while meditating?  I wouldn't call them hallucinogenic. I've had experiences that I would call are more hallucinogenic when I've done float tanks, you know, sensory deprivation chambers, which is, you know, inevitably what happens when you restrict the amount of information coming into your reticular activating system back in your mind. So I wouldn't describe them as such. They're more transcendental, you know, to use the better word. I think transcendental is more the word that I would describe of these things. What a transcending conventional consciousness. How long did it take to get used to it?  Meditation general, because that's one of the biggest jokes about that because I mean here's this kind of funny. So these are the stories of Westerner who has this experience and one of the things I used to think about myself is that, wow, you know, it's all Buddhist premises kind of is about, you know, ameliorating suffering and escaping from suffering. Why am I suffering so much as a monk? Why is it so tough?   And I knew a kid. Yes, no, just the same dude. I was like, yes, sir. I don't know how to put my robes on properly.  And, you know, I am not super flexible. And if you're not used to sitting in a meditative position for a long time, you're sitting there. And it's like, oh, man, I went to one just for four hours.  Oh, man, you're in pain. Like I'm in pain. I'm in pain. I'm like, this is not about this is suffering. This is OK. So you learn through your suffering to let go of your suffering. That's the key, right? It's like, OK, you you talk to yourself. And it's the same thing with the eating and the not eating, right?  Right. So what you learn about that, which is some of the beauty, I think of Buddhist paradigm is about being able to understand that that experience, that sensation that you're having is a sensation that your body is having. It's not a sensation that you, the essence of you, that is non physical is having. Yeah, it's my it's not you. It's my physical body having your body is having this thing. Yes, the machine is complaining. Yeah. The machine is upset because something is happening that is unfamiliar to it and feels unpleasant to it. But I, the I thing, whatever that is, the consciousness out of consciousness, feel pain. I have no but it's it's not a it's not a physical entity. So part of the training that I felt you gain from this type of experience is learning how to separate those two kind of partition. I mean, it's the classic example of self-immolation by monks during protests and whatnot. Right. I mean, how does that happen?  But, you know, monks have lit themselves on fire or protesting. Yeah. And they're not screaming while they're burning to death. They're sitting there in their meditative pose and they're burning to death, which is considered to be the worst death a person could experience in terms of physical pain and whatnot. So what is happening there? Right. I mean, they have trained themselves to the degree that they're able to make that separation of selfness and body such that the body is burning, but the mind is over here watching the body burn without actually feel that pain. By no means do I have any experience with anything so extreme, but just in my own humble experiences of having to face hunger, discomfort, physical discomfort, you know, as simple as sleeping, as not being familiar with sleeping on hard surfaces. Right. I sleep in a bed. I've slept in a bed my entire life. My body is softened because I'm used to sleeping in a bed. And now I come to the monastery and a you're not supposed to sleep on elevated surfaces so you don't have beds. And B, you have a little sort of read math that you sleep on the floor with. And I mean, it's funny to see how you have to learn even to adapt to something as simple as that because your body's not used to it.  I'm like, how do I sleep on hard, which I've not done before, right? And learning how to sort of go and transcend that and become comfortable in those spaces and whatnot. It's very valuable as a learning of self. I always say people should incorporate some forms of weekly or even monthly stoic practices. There's much to be gained.  I mean, that's the thing. When we challenge ourselves, we learn about ourselves. When we push ourselves to some bases and uncomfortable places, right? I mean, the classic adages that you learn best when your your growth curve is is highest when you're in a space is uncomfortable and when you're pushed to do something that is not familiar to you. And it's true. And it's true because you're able to experience something that is outside of the realm of knowledge or understanding or comfort. And when you do, you've opened up a new door of contemplation of what is possible, you know, what is possible for you or what is possible for others, right? So I agree.


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network Super wild card weekend is just a couple of days away now Which means it is time to dive in deep into this slate and break down our favorite bets over at Fandall sportsbook Ryan Williams will join us for today to break down where he is seeing value across this week six games at Fandall sportsbook This is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Sonness. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm Joined here as mentioned by Ryan Williams check him out on Twitter at Ryan Alexander underscore W and Ryan I feel like your son Trevor is good luck because last week you're on this show on the Thursday show You went five and oh, so you consulted Trevor for your wild card weekend bets as well Yeah, I mean the boy Trevor is coming through early on In his life, so we appreciate that. I think I think we'll keep them Jim No, I mean, yeah, we what are you doing here? You're gonna jinx me before we get into the wild card slave. Yeah, that's fair I think that's if it doesn't go well this week. It's my fault and I accept that I'm willing to bear that responsibility. I also will mention that this year I officially made the transition from calling Trevor simian touchdown Trevor to Trevor Lawrence call calling him touchdown Trevor I will make that transition to your Trevor if at some point that is needed I think that he is earned that based on what he did in week 18 So I will stay with Trevor Lawrence for now tentatively, but down the line I want to let you know that the touchdown Trevor nickname is Available for Trevor when when he wants it. What a beautiful thing I'm gonna let him know that each and every day that Uncle Jim said that That's not Trevor moniker is yours to have should you so wanted Golf so exactly I mean that can count to you know pretty Trevor will work on it Eagle Trevor We'll we'll find a way to make this work either way We're gonna talk to Ryan about his thoughts on weekend on the wild card weekend Hopefully a Trevor's thoughts as well across the six games for this week We're not gonna break down bucks Cowboys in depth here. I talked about that a bit on Monday But also we're back with you on Monday to break down that game more in depth So we'll talk about the other games here to get you set for wild card weekend in just a bit But first a reminder to make sure you are subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast as mentioned our wild card weekend First look went up on Monday breaking down what my number said about this week's late We also talked some golf and some NBA. We do more of that throughout the year as we get into the NFL playoffs So if you want more NBA PGA discussion along with the typical NFL stuff Make sure you are subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast and while you're there if you like what you hear Leave us a rating interview as well You can also find the show over on the Fandall YouTube page for the DFS NFL Saturday Million is now live on Fandall put your NFL knowledge to the test and create your best nine-player roster While staying under the salary cap then using Fandall's live scoring feature You can follow along as you compete for your share of one million dollars in cash prizes with first place taking home $200,000 all for just a $5 entry fee Saturday is coming quickly So head over to Fandall comm and get your lineups in today Eligibility restrictions apply go to Fandall comm or download the Fandall app for more details now We'll talk about the specific games here in a second but Ryan first This is the playoffs which means a we have fewer games to bet on but also There's more attention on these games Which could mean there's more public money in the market Which could open up some more value maybe lead to more inefficient lines. There are a couple factors at play here How do you alter your approach to betting in terms of you know, how many bets you place stuff like that with all these factors being in play? Yeah, I mean, I think you try not to get too ahead of yourself I mean that you know the the shorter the smaller the slate that we have, you know The more chances there are to be wrong. It's nice that you know, especially when you're talking about coming off of a week 18 Or the last week of the season when you have all teams playing And then you have to go into it where you know, we had 16 games and now we're down to six games Within a particular weekend. So I think just being smart about it It's huge and just letting letting the trends kind of dictate themselves. It is always fun You know for if you're talking to the casual betters to have some action on the game But it's you know, you don't want to go crazy because there's there's only a couple things there I will say it's a fun week for me or fun weekend for me to always do teasers because If you're looking at it and you feel like there are line of inefficiencies and we can talk about some of the lines and how drastically they've moved But you know, if you're getting in late in the game, like, you know, we're recording at the end of the week Some of the lines kind of opened up and those were fun. So if you're not getting on the action early I think if you're looking at it and still feel like you can get some value in just a couple teasers Where they're not, you know, they don't they're not always as enticing As if you take, you know, the line as it is But they do make it a fun way to still have some action on it And you can get some, you know, five five to eight to nine to one odds Based on how how many points you're teasing. So I think that that's fun. But yeah, I probably will myself only have a handful of bets that I pick and more so on the You know a couple bets as it relates to the the lines and the spreads But this is also a fun weekend to get in the player props, which I know that you talk about As well during the week and that's that's where I think the fun action is to be had Yeah, the teaser thing is interesting because the way that those work is it's actually less prohibitive to bet later on the week Cuz typically you want to bet early in the week to get the best number stuff like that with a teaser Like with this Bengals Ravens game if you tease at six points, that's done at two and a half And the further we get along in the week the more likely that eight and a half number is correct Which means the more likely it is a lot it winds up on three or seven So the benefit of teasing there increases the market gets smarter, which is actually like kind of weird to think about I still prefer to bet stuff earlier on the week personally But the value those key numbers increases as the market gets more efficient in the market Almost always it's more efficient as we goes along especially with injury stuff with Lamar Jackson to a tongue by Lowe and all that stuff So actually later in the week it actually is If I'm going to place a bet later on the week It's more like my action is more spread into stuff like that than it typically would be because I do tend to I don't tend to do parlays and stuff like that all that much But later on the week I am more likely to do it as a result of the odds those key numbers wind up being important Increased with the market be more efficient other thing I would say for me at least is Don't let the board bother you Because when I ran my numbers on Monday, I saw a couple of bets that stood out and it's like, okay So I could force it with bets that are not going to be my value threshold for betting them because I want more action. I Really don't want to do that because It's really easy to get to board and to put more in but I also don't want to lose money So it's important to kind of keep that in mind like sure you could add more action And if you're paying for entertainment, then that's one thing, you know, you know going with that with that being a knowledge But for me, I'm just I'm trying to make a profit. So I'm gonna try to make sure I stay disciplined Don't let the boredom get me in terms of not having a lot of numbers where I'm showing value I think that that's kind of important Just kind of remind yourself that there are more weeks to come. There are more sports to come after NFL There are more NFL seasons to come even if you don't get a lockdown this week. There is still more stuff to go So I would keep that in mind as well Absolutely, and if you're gonna go all in on a slate like Save save it for a championship weekend or Super Bowl like that's when it really, you know We we all know that it's everybody's gonna be looking at the same things and that's all we have to choose from so That that's if you're gonna load up on on anything. That's when you want to load up Especially with the quarterbacks and play this week. Maybe you want to hold off until next week Let's start things off with a game that does not have any quarterback issues though That is each Chargers at the Jaguar is a Chargers here a two-and-a-half point favorites Total is 47 and a half and the Chargers Ryan. I would say are a frustrating team I don't know if you agree with that. I don't want to put words in mouth But I think they're frustrating they are two-and-a-half point favorites on the road Do you agree with the market being this high on the Chargers in this game? Yeah, I mean No, I don't You know, I think this this is this is one of the this is probably the most intriguing game to me on this late These are two things that you and I both have talked about at nauseam all season long It is always tough. You I've said it before I'll say it again It is hard to trust the Chargers as favorites in any matchup that they're in They're the team that likes to play from behind We know how Brandon Staley's gonna coach like he gambles on things a lot the defenses is is Great on paper We love what this defense means when they're fully healthy But they do take gambles and they do have defense of lapses and this offense for the Jaguars has been You know reeling as of late and Doug Peterson like this is this is not your typical Jaguar's team Like they fought very hard to get this home playoff game. They're getting two-and-a-half points here Which has you know moved all across the board. I feel like through the week It's been a one-and-a-half as pick them It's been to now it's two-and-a-half and this just leans me to take the jar the Jaguar side of things because they could end up being like It could end up being a last-minute field goal for the Chargers Sure, but like there could be weird things that happen where like the Chargers end up kicking a field goal in this game And so they went by one And you know that the past defense for the Jaguars has been struggling as of late And that's where you know you kind of look at the other side with Herbert and you think about the weapons that he has I think Mike Williams is still questionable As far as shooting up, I don't know what his status is right now But we know that they've been doing more of a you know Ten yard and closer to the line of scrimmage type of offense the deep passing and things of that nature is supposed to That we saw in Herbert's rookie year has has not been there So maybe the Jaguars are able to play a little bit more press and a little bit closer To the line of scrimmage which would probably help them out knowing that their secondary has struggled on deep passes and To that to that point as well, you know, the run defense has Short up as well towards them this season and look what they did at Derek Henry Now I know people will say that the Jaguars, you know, they play in the weak division of the AFC South They have not played anybody and this is gonna be a true test But this is also, you know, we got two quarterbacks who are gonna be playing in the playoffs for the first time And when we look at that You know not to say that the lights are gonna be too big But like this is the first time that Herbert and Lawrence will be on that type of a stage So I think that this ends up being a sloppy game, you know, it's at 47 and a half is what I'm looking at. I do like kind of like the under there Even though we have kind of two explosive teams when we look at on paper from an offensive standpoint But the defenses I think are good enough to kind of help keep this number down and you know Just have weird things happening, especially in that first half where we're seeing a lot more punting than scoring Which I think people will be Leaning on I was just looking at where the bets are coming in. We got around 60% of the bets that are coming in on the Chargers 55% of the money coming in on the Chargers Let's just ride the story with the Jaguars Peterson's been in this role before with the Eagles magic that he had You know back in 2018 and and I just I just like things that have shaped up for them as opposed to on the Chargers side I agree with you on every account everything you said I want to like just rubber-stamp that because I've got the Jags favored in this game Don't know how I feel about that but I do Not by a small amount. It's 3.8 points What could go wrong by being heavy heavy on the Jags here? And I talked about this on Monday where I had at that point ruled Mike Williams out See there were anecdotes, but he couldn't walk to the bus. I was like, okay He's not gonna play sounds like he will he didn't practice either Tuesday or Wednesday Which means I guess to me that says he's at least banged up But I wanted to see you know what this what what my numbers would say if I put Mike Williams in there And it still has this game is being a feel-good favor for the Jaguars So even when I make that change I saw the Jags favor I also saw the under as being the better option here the wind speed has gone up throughout the week It was around four miles per hour initially. It's now nine miles per hour for that game so I've got the total under there as well and I think it's because the Jags will Probably be able to move the ball in the ground here Whereas they couldn't against Tennessee, but Tennessee is a much better rush defense than the Chargers are So I think we'll see etn be more effective here. I think we'll see the Jags field move the football overall offensively and a Lot of faith in this offensive coaching staff for the the Chargers yet Even if they have Mike Williams to be hyper efficient and efficient enough to you know Beat a decent Jags team on the road. So we're fully aligned here I think that both the Jags of the right side and the under his right side here the under I didn't take initially on Monday because it was a 47 now. It's such a 47 and a half I think there is enough value there take that as well So we are fully aligned on Jags Chargers and what has ever gone wrong with having agreement on a Chargers game in the year 2022 I guess Getting out there, you know, maybe that helps us a little bit. Yep. Nothing at all No, this but this is obviously one of the more exciting matchups on the slate just because of the Yeah, you know, we got a future The future quarterback the future or whatever you want to say with Herbert or Lawrence and we'll see who's able to Who get the better of the other? Yeah I kind of hope that I can just remove the financial aspect of this game Like I have the bets out there But I kind of hope I can just enjoy it regardless and not not sweat too much ruining it Justin Herbert typically is not super fun, but I've had to do it a lot this year So I'm used to it by this point Let's move now to the Sunday games talk about the Giants at the Vikings He had the Vikings as three-point favorites of fan dual sports book total is 48 and a half And we did just see this matchup a couple weeks ago Anything in that game that stands out to you Ryan as you try to analyze the rematch here Yeah, so this is one where you I mean, I'll probably hate myself for it But like I'm all in on the Vikings I love what Brian Dable has done with this team. I you know, he deserves all the credit in the world He deserves to have the odds where they are as coach of the year Because I you know, I took the Giants under team total to start the season I was hammering that and you know was made to look like a fool The Vikings though when we're talking about this three-point spread, which you know I don't even know how it's at three because Vegas is like begging for a push in this matchup Like I expected to be three and a half So it just makes no sense to me But I'm willing to say that the Vikings and all the one-score games that they've been in this year in a home Playoff game matchup knowing, you know What happened when they were in a home playoff game matchup with Stefan Diggs and the miracles magics that can happen at their stadium To get the three or lay three points. They're totally fine with it The percent of the money that is coming in on the Giants is at is just egregious to me 93% of the money there With only 52% of the bets coming on the Giants Which basically says to me that like all the all the sharp money is coming in on the Giants and you know I guess I'm willing to be in that 7% that's going to fade them They have they have explosive weapons. They prove before like let's go back I mean, I'm not willing to put hard on dollars on Daniel Jones in the playoffs Especially with the way the Vikings defense can play and they've been in games where they've kind of proven to us that they You know do belong. Yeah, it does you know It does leave a bad taste in our mouth the last game that they played You know on the road when stuff was meaningful in Lambo and absolutely laid an egg there But this Giants team as well like they they've laid some doughnuts in the past too and when we're talking about yes Kurt Cousins. Yeah, he can turn the ball over. We do love that It's at a 330 slate and not primetime Kurt Cousins that we're getting Um, but you know, we're we're gonna see what Saquon can do We're gonna see what this offensive receiving court can do because I'm not buying into them whatsoever I'm the secondary for the Vikings, you know like petrick peterson and the rest of these guys They they've they've been stout as as of late So getting three points at home with the Vikings when the public wants to take the Giants on the road Daniel Jones invest your money in him like I'll just Leave that as it is and I'll I'll ride with the Vikings yet again Who to me are just the better team and had been also Yeah, for me. I think that this game is is very interesting because I don't really know How to read it. I thought that you know I talked on Monday about how like you can't use vibes to to judge where you want to bet But you can use vibes to try to predict where the market will go And I thought the the vibes or on the Vikings were so bad that we'd see Movement in the Giants favor We have not seen that yet. It has been hanging at three the entire time now the juice on three has changed a lot. It was It was like minus 120 on plus three at one point. I believe and that is down to minus 108 so we have seen Some movement on three but not off of three and honestly if it stuck there that long I wouldn't be shocked if it does stay there I kind of thought we'd see this gets two and a half and it hasn't yet So I find that somewhat surprising personally Maybe it means people are like you skeptical of Daniel Jones and or you know a fan Just they will just think they had the right number hanging that one at three I Think this is a stay away for me. So I'm gonna I'm just gonna you know Let this let the chaos unfold for this game. I did have no desire to bend the vikings anymore I've ridden that roller coaster far too many times And just don't deal with it anymore. So I think that I will root for your ticket at the vikings minus three I think the the total in this game is also interesting. It's 48 and a half seems a little high to me I I feel like I can see the path to an over and because we saw this game a couple weeks ago I can see the path to an over but 48 and a half for two offenses that are not super explosive I know neither defense is very good either, but They're not super explosive on offense. So it feels high to me. Any read for you on the total here Yeah, I I love total. Um Because uh, I love the over on the total. Um, just the way that the vikings play at home. Um And you know, the the giants could could fall into some weird stuff there I do think that, you know, if you're taking the over there, you do have to consider talking yourself into how the giants get to 17 Um, I think that's that's a number there at, uh, what is it? 47 and a half because I do think that the the vikings can easily put up four scores at home Um, I think this is an absolute stellar matchup for justin jefferson people are sleeping on him Like his number is 95 and a half on the fandom sports book He's plus 110 the score touchdown like he hasn't done anything in a couple weeks and people are freaking about that Grant albeit he didn't play the full week 18 game against the bears. Um And this was the tj hawkinson game a couple weeks ago But this this just has justin jefferson just absolutely going bananas Um in this wildcard matchup to me written all over it I don't know who on the secondary thinks that they're going to be able to stop him I think that he's been in kurt cousin's ear for the past couple weeks and they know that they got to get him involved Um, and that's just going to make this often so so explosive. So I see them getting the four scores Um, so yeah, I think the giants, you know has to convince me that they can get to 17 But I do I do like it just from that standpoint of we know that they're Explosive plays that can happen on both sides. You mentioned the tj hawkinson game 15 targets for him in that game Justin jefferson also got 14. So they funneled targets their studs, which you love to see from a dfs perspective um, it's also interesting to note for your bet that The laying the three points and taking the over those are correlated bets Because if they cover the three that that implies there've been more points in the game You can same game partly those at fandal.  So it's plus 211 to get vikings minus three and the over 48 and a half. So You're not getting a discount. You're not catching them sleeping It with regards to that so keep that in mind Uh, you are paying a price to get the correlated bets, but it is nice. No both those are tied together Let's talk about the other sunday another sunday game here. Uh, the ravens and the bangles I spelled bangles wrong on the card. Good job, jim, but the bangles are eight and a half point favorites here total is uh 40 and a half in this game and the reason that spread is now eight and a half is Lamar jackson did not practice on wednesday, which means he is very likely to sit once again, so We have tyler huntley here. I assume it's huntley, but he was also throwing left-handed during practice on wednesday, which seems weird Not what you want to see entering a playoff game. So Can left-handed tyler huntley or anthony brown keep this game close enough to cover an eight and a half point spread He's ambidextrous jim. What do you want? Yeah, like you can make it work There was a pitcher in baseball who um, was like signing with his left hand ones. He said, yeah, I'm in I'm amphibious and whenever Whenever the word ambidextrous comes up. I think of that and I'm I'm always like frightened. I'm gonna say amphibious instead It's like my biggest fear as a speaker. Oh my goodness. That is amazing. Um, shout out to those baseball players making all the money but not as smart No, I uh eight and a half is too big of a number I mean, you know, if anthony brown's the starter then so be it. I guess it's fair But like this this team just rested eight starters ish last week, you know, and I think that's what people are Lending their hat on and also it's a week 18 matchup So, you know, the fact that these two teams are meeting a week later is really not the same thing Especially if we get tyler huntley, um, when we look at john harbaugh's record, you know in the post season I mean granted that, you know, you got lamar jackson and we had flacco on a superbowl run and things that nature But you know, he's gonna coach this team up. Um and on the defensive side of things You absolutely love what the ravens have been doing. Um, you know marlin humphrey and Marcus peters and those guys like they've gotten action on joe burrow before So I think that this game shapes up. Um, you know, I'm I'm willing to take the eight and a half here I'm willing to take the under as well in this game Like I do think this is gonna be a defensive matchup. Um, and I am concerned about the bengal's offensive line You know, colin's had been heard a couple weeks back. I know, uh, there's there was another offensive line injury that just happened Ouch captain. Yeah. Yeah. And so like and then when you're thinking about it like just from an overall mindset Like the fact that these two teams just played and everything was made, you know I love the bengals. I love joe burrow. I love everything that they're about But they made such a fuss about not getting a home playoff game and everything going into that and you know Woe is us and the league is out to get us and now they have this home playoff game And are you able to back it up from an eight and a half number? You know, we'll see I'm willing to just take those points with the ravens and say that they kind of come out here And our look at our little stagnant, you know, we have seen this happen with this offense at times Through through the course of the season. So if huntley is playing and that's the caveat that I will say I'm willing to get this eight and a half number now because it will change if anthony brown is named the starter And maybe they're already trying to kind of baking that in but to me it just feels like too too many points there Percent of bets on ravens is 26 right now, but 52 percent of the money is coming in on the ravens So there are some sharp people who are willing to take that number as well And we'll see if the bangles can can keep the magic going from a season prior Do you want to lock that in now or are you holding off until you get a better read in the quarterback situation? No, I'm willing I'm willing to lock it in now.  I mean This is a schemed offense, right? Like you lose lamar jackson You get tyler huntley kind of plays the same way you lose lamar at least, you know, you lose tyler huntley It's anthony brown and he didn't look great last week But they do have another week and they're game planning against the same team So maybe there's things that happen through those four quarters where they're able to get him involved Also, you're talking about getting the lights of mark andrews and jk dobbins back who did not play last week So it might just be a whole different offensive scheme where they just try not to have him Pass the ball as much and we've seen this with the tennessee team when they were playing, you know, got like a malik willis, um, who Is not a great passer. So what do we need to do? Oh, we just need to get the ball to dare kindry 30 plus times and let that ride So this could just be a Rushing team granted that it's anthony brown and we still, you know have a defense that I think it is pretty solid to help keep the Teak the number down keep this close So so yeah, i'm willing to take it now knowing that if it is tyler huntley I think that this is just a discrepancy of a line across the board Yeah, and again the the two bets you mentioned the plus eight and a half and the under both are correlated together So again, those uh make sense if you want to pair them in a same game parley again You're not going to need a discount Keep that in mind. Uh, but they are correlated together with fewer points being implied there the thing that's interesting for me with the bangles is I think you could view the complaining about the lack of or the way the nfl Structured things to be one of two ways one thing it could be their focus was dispersed last week and that's why they I think Underperformed a bit at least offensively in that game you could pitch that way and also like there was talk Uh About sitting out that game like like sitting starters in that game Like they had asked jill burrow about it and he had said, you know, we talked about it decided not to and I was like, okay That's kind of odd because I had I had uh, the bangle spread last week No, that's a little a little scary that they were talking about this because it means that their focus is not in this game So it could mean they're in line for a bounce back this week, but also I don't know Um, I've got no firm read on that so it could work one of either way but Um, it's uh, it's an interesting game for sure. I'm still high on the bangles. I did I talked to Monday about their stupid future that is Still plus 750 despite the fact they are now more likely to win this game with no Lamar Jackson So you can get eight to one some places I would mention that But I did take that at eight to one. Uh, I was able to get it So I still think that's a a viable place to look right now What are the bets do you like across a wild card weekend, Ryan? Um Let's see if there are I should say because it's a small slate Yeah, it is. I mean, you know, we'll talk about the other two or What games do we have well other two games on saturday and sunday? So yeah, the 49ers. I mean even as it currently stands right now Let me make sure because i'm actually it's nine and a half right now nine and a half Okay, so like the fact that it opened Seven and a half six and a half some places like I mean that kind of you know is Worry some that it's already got up to nine and a half ten, but I mean this is The san francisco team is like they're just so good Like it's just not being talked about enough and I and I get it in You know second game of the year brock purdy starting for him the second game I was not on san francisco panwagon at all But like you can't you can't like sneeze at five and oh And what he's been doing with this team and the fact that they you know This is just such a systematic team that it's like yeah, you know We can draft trey lance even though we have jimmy g. Oh trey lance gets hurt. Okay jimmy g Just go back out there. All you did was just playing a super bowl for us and you know Had the lead and we should have won the game, but Patrick my homes And then you know we have jimmy g again and then oh, we'll just take you know Mr. Irrelevant brock purdy and we know we'll just ride with things, but we trade for christian mccaffery We have our defense the defense is probably as healthy as it's been, you know over these past two years So, you know and the seahawks they they just were playing an emotional Roller coaster against the rams to get into the playoffs as it stands and you know that for as much as Geno Smith has again made a name for himself in this league And what a great story he is and shout out to him for getting his a million dollar incentive for What he was able to do on a snaps basis for this season It is still geno smith and this offense is just not They're just they're just not doing the things that they were doing at the beginning of the season tyler lock It's been banged up. He's pretty much playing with one hand Decay mccaff like it's pretty much just a step away from being on a moat carton Like I don't even know what what's going on with him this season Uh, you know and and no other roll weapons outside of that on the from the passing game And you do have kin of walker, but we know how stout this 49ers run defenses. I love getting the points With with san francisco and this could really just they could take this game To two touchdowns and we wouldn't be surprised The bill's game too was also interesting. I mean, we're gonna have scholar thompson yet again here And as we talked about last weekend before With the kansas city chiefs for instance when you're talking about playing with their food quote unquote like the bills do not do that and you know, I think if there's so So Not to even put it in the slight but like just the fact that like demar hamlin is released from the hospital And this is a home game for them home playoff game against a divisional rival like I think there's a non-zero chance that they bring demar hamlin out onto the field in this game Get that club rocking knowing what happened last week With that team and like they could just come out here and just really just be like, you know what? Even though we're we got two touchdowns on this team even though we're controlling the game Like we understand what the matchup is we understand what our goal is to get to the super bowl And we're not letting up in any way shape or form because we know when we you know If we need to play against kc and it's going to be at a neutral setting We have to be willing to put up 35 40 points So let the offense go out there and do their thing somebody in me delphins team that really is just trying to You know save face there So the 13 points laying with that seems like a large number But I'm willing to take that based off of everything that I know the bills need to do In order to get on track to be a super bowl contender Yeah, the bills mindset is why do you like the over in that game too? It's 43 and a half right now that shot back down after the scholar thompson news It was done at 42 and a half. I believe that one point yesterday So that has gone back up a point, but I've got this at 46.3 So still some value in the over there and it is in large part fueled by the bill's mindset of you know, bleep you You know, we're up 21 points. Who cares? We're gonna keep chucking it because they can't run. So why not just keep chucking it. Yeah, the running is passing Yeah, exactly exactly So I think that that same mindset applies to the total in that game as well As I mentioned, we'll talk about the bucks and the cowboys coming up on and monday We'll have ryan back for that once again to break down that game in full talk about the spread talk about some props and We'll see how that one plays out on monday But that is all that we have here for today. We are back once again tomorrow Brandon gandula will swing by he's talking about his favorite player props across wild card weekend We'll have that up on the covering the spread podcast feed tomorrow and over on the fan duel youtube page If you are not yet subscribed, please do so if you like what you hear leave us a rating and review ryan Good luck to you across wild card weekend Tell trevor. Thank you for his insights once again And we'll talk to you on monday to break down bucks cowboys Can't wait to get after with you Jim. Good luck everybody Alrighty fine ryan on twitter at ryan alexander underscore w i am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s Want to thank you all for tuning in good luck to you tonight with any nba and hl bets We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to break down the props across wild card weekend This has been covering the spread right here on the fan duel podcast network


Hey Co-Friends, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. And today, we're gonna do a little curly hair style experiment and do a little curl talk about the cancel culture of the curly hair community. We be canceling a lot of things, a lot of brands, a lot of products. So I kind of want to talk about like why and if it's necessary and when should we give a brand another chance. Now while we talk about this topic, I wanted to try purple curls. I've wanted to go purple for a long time, and I have two different brands here. I have As I Am, their passion purple temporary color, and I have Avin, is it Avin or Avin? I'm not sure. This is like a very new small brand. There's not any information here. I have to go to the website. That's how like new of a brand it is. But look at the color difference. I really wanted like a poppin' purple, not like a silver purple. And Curlsmith doesn't have purple either. I kind of made one by mixing blue and red together, but I just really want a deep purple. So we're gonna try this one today. Okay, so back to the curly hair cancel culture. Let's just think about all the brands that have been canceled. You might not even know of all these, but from my knowledge, at one point, Eco-style gel was canceled. At one point, Can2 was canceled. At one point, Myel Organics is possibly still canceled. Who else? Who else? Shave Moisture has been canceled. And the biggest one that I asked you guys on Instagram, like who of you guys canceled, the most common answer was of course, diva curl, let's do a piece. Now, I was thinking about this, and I think there is a difference. There's definitely different reasons as to why all these brands are canceled, based off of your opinion and mine. Let's just go through a couple of them. Can2, Eco-style or gel, those were based off of ingredients. People had a problem with the ingredients. With Can2, people said it made their hair really dry. And that was because some of their products had sulfate, silicone, isopropyl alcohol, which is almost like basically rubbing alcohol, which a lot of brands still sneak in there that you might not have even known. But that was like an ingredient thing. So in my opinion, if we don't like a product because of ingredients, and we vocalize that concern to them, influencers like me express their concerns on why we don't like to use certain ingredients.  Are they still canceled if they literally listen to us and fulfilled our needs? Why? I don't think we should. I'm actually using the Not Your Mother's Curl Talk Cream right now, but speaking of which, the Not Your Mother's Curl Talk Moose, the original, had silicone in it. So when I reviewed their products, I said, hey, I can review everything else, but I don't use silicone, so I turned down this product. They got a lot of feedback from my followers. I told you I had to say something, but just the curl hair community in general, a lot of us don't like to use silicone. So they heard us and they took out the silicone. And now this is like literally my favorite moose because they listened and it works so well without. Like it literally wasn't necessary that I cancel Not Your Mother's because they put in one of their products. No, they listened and I respected that. When Pattern Beauty first came out, I wasn't a fan of their first launch because everything had silicone. They tried to be a little sneaky and say no, what'd they call it? No, what was the word? Cystic? Cyclic, I think was cyclic. No like cyclic silicones.  But that's still just not, it's just a certain type of silicone, but it was still in there. And I said what I said, but then the second launch of their stylers, they took out the silicone and I love their stylers. Did I cancel Pattern? No, I voiced my opinion on why I personally wouldn't want to use them and they changed it. And the same thing with Can-2. You guys saw me work with Can-2 recently. I hadn't really done, I haven't done a full Can-2 YouTube video yet on my channel. And that's because I wasn't like a super fan of their original line. I love the Collactivator Cream. But that was kind of it. And some of the reasons why I didn't use their products because of the ingredients. But guess what? They listened to their consumers. They brought on sister scientist. I went to an event where she talked about everything and they really wanted to make affordable products that will work for us. And they listened. They took out the sulfate. They took out the silicone. They took out the alcohol. So I gave it another chance. I tried it. And I liked it. So why are we still, we can't just cancel people or brands if they listen to us and they're trying to show effort to make us what we want. Like there's no point in making products if the consumer doesn't want to buy it. Like it's all about the audience, the customer. The customer is always right. There's a reason why I got to saying. So I'm not for cancelling brands if they actually are making an effort to do better. That's the ingredient part. Real quick, I did end up putting a styler first. I went to their Instagram and a lot of the videos they use a styler before the color. That's already like a thing because like with Curl Smith, it's a gel. So I don't have to use a style. I could use a leave-in, but it's a styling color gel versus just a color. I think this is more like a wax. So that's already one thing that's different. That this isn't really like a styler. It's just color. It also says it works best on your hair when it's a little bit dry, which I have seen from using color before. So I'm gonna let this air dry for a little bit and then come back and continue the conversation. Okay, I'm back. I tried to diffuse a little bit because I'm trying to film this during that time. So I have a very small window, but I'm gonna put on some gloves. That's what I've seen them do on their Instagram. I don't know if that means it's gonna stain anything when I do use the Curl Smith one. I can just use my hands when it comes up easily, but I don't feel like having purple hands today. So let's just do some gloves and get started. Now this, how do I even know how many ounces this is? I'll have to go to the website. Okay, maybe open it before you put the gloves on. Now, if I'm gonna compare this to Curl Smith, for example, it's gonna be pretty hard to beat Curl Smith ingredients just because they're vegan. It's pretty much made out of fruit and vegetables, but I did go on the website and this is silicone free and I don't see any harsh ingredients in here. This isn't a vegan product because it does have beeswax, but I don't see anything else that's like harmful anyway. Ooh, look at that color though.   Now back to more canceled brands. Another two other ones were Shea Moisture was canceled for like a week and Myel Organics. Those two companies were both based off of not their products, but more, whoa, this is a weird texture. Whoa, it's almost like bubbly. Those two brands were canceled from a business standpoint, like corporate was canceled. With Shea Moisture, they did sell their company and they made commercials and they included some Caucasian women and people were upset that they were trying to reach a different audience when their products have always been tailored to black hair. Now, if a white company buys a brand, they're probably going to cater to a white audience as well. That's just kind of what I would expect would happen. It was one commercial, was it necessary? No, do I think it was the biggest of deal?  I don't know, I personally didn't cancel them for that. With Myel Organics, things get a little tricky. A YouTuber, natural hair vlogger bought their products with her own money. She did a review on them, didn't really like them. So the brand found her contact information from her purchase, which should be private information, called her and basically was telling her that she was wrong and she used the products wrong and was trying to explain how her video just was incorrect when it's literally her opinion. So that's kind of weird. It's kind of weird to do that. Little bit of an invasion of privacy. As a fellow content creator, we have the right to give our opinions of products, especially if we pay for it with our own money. So that was kind of a weird, sticky situation. She did a whole video on it. That's the drama with Myel. Oh, this purple's pretty. That went on really nicely. I did get it on my face, but I love this color payoff. I might end up adding more when it like is more dry. That's usually what I do anyways, but we'll see. Okay, side one. Now I also asked you guys on Instagram my story. I said, what would it take for you to forgive a brand? And when it comes to like Myel, I don't know if they ever came out and like did a whole, oh, don't know if this is gonna stain my clothes. Very experimental day. We're just gonna go with the flow. I don't know if they ever like apologize. I didn't really look into like the follow-up. So you can let me know in the comments if you know the full story. I don't know if they apologized or not. So it's just tricky. It's like, I think it was the owner's husband that actually called and it has like nothing to do with the actual products. And I know some of you love and swear by Myel products and it's like the only products that work for you. So do you stop using products based off of the owners, even if the product works really well? I don't know. It gets tricky. I guess it's based off of your personal opinion and you're spending your money on the companies that you want to support. So I totally can get why you might not want to support a company that doesn't have, I don't know, the same moral values as you. I don't know, I've been on the fence. Like a lot of you have been asking me to review Myel, but I know that happened and I don't know what to do. I really don't know what to do. I really don't know what to do. So you guys let me know how you want me to handle Myel. So you know, I'm saying all this stuff, right? I'm saying that I do think that when it comes to like ingredients, for example, if a company changes the ingredients and they listen to us, we should forgive them, right? So I asked myself right after I said this in my head, I said, okay, well, if you believe that, what about DevaCurl? That was an ingredient situation. They reformulated.  The answer to that is no, but this is why. The difference is DevaCurl just kind of like everything exploded and it just like stopped and there was no real resolution. There was no accountability. There was no answers. I've been wanting to do a follow up about DevaCurl, but I really have had no update for you guys because it's just like not being talked about. I keep hearing people say like, oh, just wait. We have this type of evidence that's gonna like explain everything, but I just haven't heard anything about it. And DevaCurl never apologized. They just said that it was user error. They blamed it on people not shampooing enough. They said that they got their ingredients checked and they didn't see anything wrong with it. But then it's also like hundreds, if not thousands of people had the same exact problem when they used the same product. So there has to be some kind of correlation there. And I don't know if they maybe found it and tried to cover it up, but it just became a little suspect that there was nothing wrong with their products. But all of a sudden now they have new packages and a whole new formula. Why would you have a new formula if there was nothing wrong? You know, so I just feel like even for me, I even, I personally never had any problems with my DevaCurl products, maybe because I had so much, I had the older ingredients and I never had any issues personally. But I listened to you guys. I trust you guys, my audience, I'm not gonna review things that you guys don't like. And DevaCurl became like just such a traumatic situation that like some of you are still just like hurt. Like if you hear the name DevaCurl, it's like makes you shiver. And I don't wanna give you like a PTSD situation by just talking about products. Like they have new products out. They have a, they have a moose. I love moose. And I saw, I was like, ooh, I probably would have loved this product. But there's just no point in me reviewing a product that's just gonna upset you guys. Like a lot of you lost hair. Like your hair fell out. So it's just like a trust factor at this point. They never apologized. They never took accountability for what happened. They gave refunds. But I feel like that just wasn't a, that wasn't good enough for a lot of you. And if that trust is broken within a brand, there's just so many other options out there. Then it's like, why risk it? If you lived in a country and DevaCurl was the only curly hair product sold, maybe you might give them another chance because you have no other option. But if you're here in the US, like there's so many curly hair brands now that you don't even have to risk anything. So I think that's the difference between like a can-to eco style or not your mother's pattern versus a DevaCurl situation. It's just not worth it. Okay, let me look at this hair. I gotta get the back parts. I'm kind of using this whole thing. I'm using a lot, but I do want it to be like pop and potent purple. This is probably done better in sections. You guys know I'm the worst sectioner of all time. I just don't have the patience. It kind of doesn't really have a smell if you like really put your nose up in it. It smells like wax or Play-Doh. Doesn't have like a fragrance. Now going back to me asking you on Instagram, what would it take for you to actually forgive a brand or uncancel them? Some of you said like there's nothing you can do. Like we're just done once we're done, we're done. And if that might be the case for something maybe like a DevaCurl situation where the trust is just broken. But if it's an ingredient thing, I really think you should give a brand a chance. Especially if you try a brand and you just don't like one of their products, don't give up on the whole brand. Maybe that product just isn't right for you. For example, even going back to can-to, the can-to curl cream is a thick product. It's too thick for my fine hair. Does that mean that none of their products work and I'm gonna cancel can-to because I don't like one product? No. I would use like a Moose or their Curl Activator. It's a lighter lotion cream. So it could be you choosing the wrong product. Are you applying it incorrectly or maybe applying too much or too little depending on your hair's porosity, density and hair type. So just give things a chance unless there's an actual like chemical reason as to why you should not be using that product. Okay, I'm gonna get my ends a little more down here. Oh, speaking of cancellation, literally today, I just saw a headline that said Oleplex is under fire because they have an ingredient that is now banned in a Europe, I believe, that apparently can cause cancer and infertility. Great! This is why curly hair people have trust issues. I did some more research. In my research, I mean quick Google search and some TikToks and some scientists who were saying that there is such a small amount in the Oleplex number three bond perfecter that it's probably not going to affect you. There isn't any actual proven evidence of infertility in women. They tested this on rats and they saw that it happened with a large amount. So they kind of just said, let's not risk it and let's take it out. So they're making it mandatory for that ingredient to be removed. It's often sometimes found in perfumes and it's more toxic to be used in a perfume because you're spraying a lot all over you versus a small amount in your hair. I am currently pregnant, so will I be using Oleplex anytime soon? Especially pregnant? No. Cause why risk it? Like just why? It's not the only bond product out there. I actually prefer the Curlsmith Bond Curl Rehab Solve. Curlsmith is made out of like vegetables and fruits. Like it's just such an easy brand to just trust. And I hope that they never break our trust because we just can't go through any more heartbreak. So I'm really counting on you, Curlsmith, and never let us down. But at the same time, am I going to cancel Oleplex? No, because they already took out the ingredient. It's an ingredient that kind of just goes with like the fragrance. It wasn't even a big deal that actually changed the functionality of the product. So they took it out. As of January, 2022 has to be gone. I think they've been talking about it since 2019, but it has to be completely out of the products by March, 2022, which is now. But I already have products on my shelf, and I just checked, and that ingredient, which I'll put right here for you guys, this is the ingredient you want to avoid, it's in my current product. So I don't have the new version. So if you do buy Oleplex, make sure you buy the new version at the new ingredient that they replaced it with, this kind of benzeneate, that you could see that on the website. That's the new version that you wanna get, and you can still use Oleplex. And a lot of their products did have sulfate and silicone. So there wasn't much I can use. Like the number three bond perfecter was the only Oleplex product that I could use anyways. So until they changed more of their ingredients, I'm not really using it anyways. Okay, this looks really fun. I feel like a mermaid. I'm going to let this air dry, and then I'll diffuse, and then I'll go back in with some more if I need to once it's nice, big, and curly. I'm gonna see if this comes off my skin easily. Let you know how that goes. Yeah, I'll be back. Alrighty, this is drying really fast. Like it's been maybe 10 minutes, and I would say it's about 96% dry. I am going to diffuse. I'm gonna use my GSQ by Glam Squad diffuser. It's already purple. We're sticking with the theme. So let's do it. The color is popping. Wow, super vibrant. And I didn't even have to go back in for a second coat. So this might just be more potent in color than the Curlsmith ones. I would assume that a wax would hold color better than the fruits and veggies in Curlsmith. Curlsmith is literally made out of strawberry, watermelon, blueberry. It's so organic and so vegan, natural that it might take a little bit more work to get that real artificial color. So there's not really any surprise there. Feel-wise, it's a little dry. I probably should have used a leave-in conditioner versus just a styling cream just to add some extra moisture. But the curls are defined. I don't know if that's because of just my curl cream that I used or because of the actual product. I am a fan of the Curlsmith being a gel, so it's a colored styling product versus just adding color on top of your styler. But I mean, I really like it. I do wanna fluff it out. I would add oil, but I don't want, I don't think the oil and the wax are gonna be friends. So let me just try to raise the roots a little bit. Definitely not soft, fluffy curls. It's a little, there's a definite hold there. That's for sure. So fun. Temporary color, so fun with no risk of damage.  So I'm gonna add a little bit more to some inner areas that I missed. And this did come off of my skin super easy. I just used a wet wipe and it came right off. Wow. In conclusion, my hair looks bomb. It looks so cool. I think I'm gonna find like a mermaid costume and just walk around the house and do the dishes. So fun. And this is day one here. So I'm actually getting some pretty good volume for day one. I did do some scrunching. So it is on my hands. Just gonna grab my son's water wipes. This is literally just water, comes right off. So that's good.  I don't know if this would pass like the Wear White T-shirt test like the Curl Smith one does. It does have some fallout. Like I don't know if you can see on my shirt on the baby bump. It's like little dust particles. Same thing happens with the Curl Smith ones. I don't know which one's better. It's probably the same type of amount of like fallout. But now that it's dry, I don't think it should do that anymore. Now that my hands are dry, let me see what happens. Doesn't transfer unless there is, I got a little wet curl. Unless it's wet, it should not get all over the place. So going back to cancel culture in the curl community, I'd love to know your opinion. What brands have you canceled? Why did you cancel them? And what would it take for you to actually forgive them and give them a chance? When it comes to things like ingredients being changed, or maybe your owner and company made a mistake, it's like, we're all humans. We all make mistakes. You've made a mistake. I'm sure there's a point in your life where you asked for a second chance and you were given that second chance. And because of that second chance, you're able to do better things and move on and learn from your mistakes. If that's something like continues to happen and let's say the owner like harasses everyone that ever says anything bad about them. Okay, like that might become a problem, but maybe they were having a bad night. Even as an influencer myself, I have to hold back from responding to trolls. And sometimes people just like to push your buttons. And if it's on the wrong day, you might wanna clap back. As a business, you should be professional enough to not clap back, but I know we have those days. And if we can offer grace and forgive someone, I think we should. If there is a genuine response and a genuine accountability for their actions. That's my opinion. So if you wanna give the Avin hair paint wax a try, I will link them in the description box. If you enjoyed this video, this topic, and you like me kinda talking about things as I do my hair, let me know, join the conversation below and also follow me on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter at MsBeyondGrenet. I post new videos every Sunday and I'm really trying to get to 600,000 subscribers. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button. If you're here every week and you haven't pushed that button yet, I mean, what are we waiting for? Hit subscribe, give me a thumbs up, and I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching, Bianca Renee, today. ["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"]


UK to pressure US House Speaker on Ukraine aid UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron is planning to use his upcoming trip to the US to persuade House Speaker Mike Johnson to unblock a $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine, the Telegraph reported citing sources at the Foreign Office. The additional funding has been delayed for several months due to political infighting in Congress. Cameron will fly to Washington this week to meet with Johnson, as well as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the Telegraph said. If Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war. President Vladimir Zelensky warned, following multiple complaints about the shortage of ammunition on the battlefield. Cameron renewed his appeal to keep helping Kiev in a peace for the Telegraph, arguing that the West must stop Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine must win this war. If Ukraine loses, we all lose. The costs of failing to support Ukraine now will be far greater than the costs of repelling Putin. Cameron wrote in an op-ed co-authored with French Foreign Minister Stefan Sejourne. He previously argued on social media that the security of the US, UK and EU is on the line in Ukraine. Earlier this year, the British government stepped up its military assistance to Ukraine, pledging $3.2 billion in military aid, while the EU unveiled a plan to provide $54 billion in loans and grants. House Republicans, however, have so far refused to advance the aid bill sought by President Joe Biden, arguing that the White House should agree to tougher border security measures. Johnson said, before Congress went on a two-week Easter break, that he was working on important innovations to the proposed legislation, signalling that the bill could be put to a vote soon. Russia has repeatedly said that no amount of foreign aid will change the course of the conflict in Ukraine and will merely increase the risk of a further escalation. Terrified passengers have leapt into the sea to escape a fire ferry traveling to a popular tourist destination off the coast of Thailand. The vessel from Suratthani province was about to arrive at Kotao when a passenger suddenly heard a crackling sound and smelled smoke.  We could barely get the life bests in time, he told the Associated Press. It was chaotic. People were weeping – I also teared up. All 108 people on board, of which 97 were passengers, were safe, officials said. Footage showed huge plumes of black smoke billowing from the ferry, with vehicles and families including young children on board, and several boats going to their rescue, people could be seen hurrying out of the ferry's cabin while putting on life jackets, this thick black smoke swept across the vessel and it became engulfed in flames. Mithri, a Suratthani resident who often travels to Kotao for work, said several boats came to their rescue around 20 minutes after they called for help, but the boats could not get close to the ferry out of fear of explosions. He said people had to jump into the sea to be rescued. Everyone had to help themselves, he said. The ferry from Suratthani to Kotao carries both commuters and tourists. Kotao is about 100 kilometers from the coast.


Child development through the length of modern education Child development is a series of changes that occur from conception to the initiation of adulthood. It is a normal sequence of development where the child undergoes physical changes, emotional, social growth and advancements in the ability to communicate with others using signs and language. A child's development is both external as well as internal that is indicating both physical as well as mental growth. During the innate phase of development, the child is predominantly dependent on their parents or guardians to perform and to learn day-to-day activities. With growth in development, the child becomes increasingly self-reliant. Also, a child's development is strongly affected by genetic factors as well as environmental factors. Early years development Children between the ages of 5-13 years are considered young learners and those between 2-4 years are considered very young learners. At such a young age the child has not had much contact with his, her external environment and is still predominantly dependent on members of the family. However, as the child grows there is involvement with a greater number of people and the external environment. The child is constantly learning about people as well as things that come into contact. In addition, the child is learning new things and also has increased awareness of themselves. Also, there is the development of the child's cognitive skills, social interactions, increase in speech and language usage as well as a widened use of the body and awareness of the surroundings. It is important to note the child's developmental milestones as this acts as a guideline for ideal development. How does a child learn? A child will naturally acquire the native language from interactions with his or her parents, additional family and members of the community. However, children who are taught a second language during the early development years are in an improved position to utilize it with relatively fewer issues than children without this teaching. It is also equally important to evaluate a child's personality and the level of competence prior to selecting a course and form of education that would be suitable for the child. The importance of early childhood education As the child is still unaware of the various situations in life, it would be beneficial to start educating the child from an early age to provide a basis for understanding, discipline, increased knowledge and compassion. The child does not receive any formal learning experiences with daily interaction with family members and therefore, it is vital to provide them with instructions, permit interaction with peers of a similar age group as well as educational activities. Teaching children from an early age improves their social skills as well as improved attention spans. Children who receive formal education at an early age exhibit fewer behavioral issues and are also less likely to be involved in criminal activities. Learning new things and educational activities keep the child engaged and guides the child in the right direction to fulfill their full potential. Are you ready to teach English to ESL children? Therefore, great importance must be placed on the proper development of a child along with education from a young age as this would benefit the individual as well as society as a whole. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.