The years of commemorating the sporting heroes of Trinidad and Tobago, from Roger Gibbon in 1962 to Jareem Richards, watch the first citizen's 2023 Sports Awards and Hall of Fame induction 2024 live on Saturday at 7.30pm in the eastern Caribbean, 6.30pm Jamaica on Sportsmax and CNTV. Your sports destination, get the Sportsmax app now. All right, well thank you so much for staying with us on this Friday edition of the Sportsmax Zone. This segment is sponsored by First Citizens Bank. Well, it's heightened anticipation for the sporting fraternity in Trinidad and Tobago as the Twin Island Republic prepares itself for the First Citizens Sports Foundation's 2023 Sports Awards gala on March 16 at the lovely Hyde Regency in Port of Spain. The prestigious event will honour the outstanding achievements of over 100 athletes who have demonstrated unparalleled skill, dedication and sportsmanship across various disciplines. Also scheduled to take place at this year's event will be the induction of awardees into the Sports Hall of Fame for 2024. Well joining the show now on behalf of the First Citizens Sports Foundation is Mark Mungal. Good afternoon. Good afternoon and thanks for having me on the show this afternoon. Not a problem. So I'm really excited about this Sports Awards and my first question to you will just tell us a bit about the background of this awards and why First Citizens Bank feel that it's so important to of course recognize and award the achievements of the top Trinidad and Tobago sportsmen and women. Yeah, well this foundation as you probably know has been around for since since our independence started as a gift back in 1962 and since then we've been honouring sportsmen and sportswomen and youths, youths, sportsmen and women as well over the years and for us it's important that that we focus not just on a popularity type event but one that recognizes excellence so makes it quite challenging for us because excellence is not something that's easily assessed particularly when we are assessing among different sporting disciplines and sub-disciplines as well but our commitment has been and continues to be ensuring that we use the opportunity to show appreciation for those amazing athletes who've continued to pound the concrete to really work hard in their different disciplines to continue to be to persevere and to represent the right red, white and black and so this is an opportunity for us to show the appreciation to those athletes and not only those who would have made it to podium but those who would have been successful at an international level you know some of those who maybe let's say just just in the top eight or even in the top four and you think about that you don't meddle it when you get fourth place but to be at the top four in your discipline globally is quite significant and sometimes our athletes don't feel that they're appreciated well this is an opportunity to let them know that we do appreciate them and so this these awards brings together those outstanding athletes from across all of those over 30 disciplines to show them that we do appreciate them we do value them do we do recognize their commitment to to fly in the red white and black in the sport sector yeah and you just said in your opening remark that you know it's not a popularity contest of course it's just to show appreciation to these hardworking athletes but i'm looking at the nominations and for me it must be quite a difficult job having to select so what does it really come down to yeah it is challenging and and we've maintained a kind of commitment to process we've stayed with this for for many years and and and that that involves first of all actually recognizing and valuing the national sporting organizations so we allow the national sporting organizations to submit their nominations so we don't select the nominee the nominees the national sporting organizations the ones who govern the sport and who work with the athletes and support them on the journeys they're the ones who actually know submit the nomination but then we the awards committee we go through a really extensive process and that starts with reviewing all of the nominations that come in we use a rubric as a guide i always emphasize with my colleagues on the foundation that that rubric is a guide and the rubric essentially looks at the performances across different levels so if you if you are a medal at an international event and at olympic event for example or world championship would obviously be be a higher value than something at a regional level and at a national level but even across all of that there are so many nuances within the context of those events so we it demands that we then do a proper review of each of those events to make sure that something that's presented as an international event for example you'd have a let's say world karate tournament somewhere in the world when we do check that sometimes it's predominantly let's say a us or whichever is the host country but just a few other international participants does not have the same value as again referencing an olympic games so that's important for us to check and obviously all of the the participants have to be national so that's important as well and and then that demonstration of their outstanding performance across all of those levels we're looking for exceptional performances as well so even though we recognize all of the nominees the ones who move up to the top 10 and then eventually the winners have to really have exceptional performances at those levels and of course the results also have to be verifiable so if an athlete says look i i i had a did a hundred meter dash in nine seven eight down at mani ramshan stadium but nobody was there well then that doesn't count obviously right so all of the results also have to be verifiable and remember we take into consideration some of our athletes are foreign based playing professional sport in other countries and and if they are nominated we also have to verify the information that's coming to us that's part of our responsibility to do the due diligence to make sure that when we say we recognize an excellence the excellence is in fact verifiable and just just to note of course even though we're in march of 2024 these are we are actually reviewing the performances for all of 2023 so we always do our awards after the year is completed and we have enough time to do the review of all of the performances so the the achievements that we're looking at are only from between january and december of the year on the review which is 2023 right and when will the top 10 be named and another question because i find this happens so often sometimes the people judging competitions like this are not very versed in sports so they don't have like a wide range of sports acknowledge is there somebody like that on your team as well yeah so actually this this foundation is made up of a wide range of sports personalities maybe that's not good with sport administrators maybe yeah that has always included a good representation a broad representation of the sport sector in the country so and we do have representation from past athletes we've actually lucky to have all of the years that we've existed have had representation from past outstanding athletes olympians and so on but also administrators who are some of them still serving in the international on the national olympic committee for example but who have had experience within the sector but it's more than that to me because one of the challenges obviously with selecting the best in a group of all of the sports is an appreciation that you're not biased and that you do you have a level of integrity and respect and that's one of the things that we've the institution the sports foundation has benefited from over the years that it's been respected as an organization that's not biased not involved in the back canal of sport and and the persons who serve are well respected and and recognized for doing something that is genuinely intended to show that we appreciate and value or best performance regardless of our affiliations in the past or otherwise and so that that helps as well so having a wide range of personalities and on the on the foundation who serve including I think first and for me in particular one of the most valuable persons on the on that foundation when it comes to the awards because the awards are not the only things that we do but when it comes to the awards our journalists we in in the early days of this foundation it was there were a lot of journalists who involved in and we still continue to maintain that tradition so we have Kwame Kwame Lawrence who's on board with us and he's the one who this is his job so he's involved and understands and tracks and can give details of all of that but again we have members who are also themselves olympians and sport administrators in their own right so we're not disconnected in any way from the the sport sector at all yeah mark I want to ask you a quick question before you go because I know the Trinidad Tobago Olympic committee has a major annual awards function that they put on as well in December of every year and Nicholas Paul and Michelle Leah you were the winners for the 2023 TTOC athletes of the year they're both nominated for your award as well can you just quickly say if there is a difference if the criteria is different in any way from the TTOC awards from the first citizens I know that the TTOC is basically rewarding olympic sports and I know that like cricket hasn't been an olympic sport for some time and I see we're like Darren Bravo and Karishma Ramarak are among your nominees for your awards so maybe your first citizens award embraces more sporting platforms than the TTOC does I'm I'm not sure could you say yeah a bit of that and and and as you say the the olympic movement was primarily started their awards primarily to focus on the olympic sport for me to be honest with you and there was a year or two that even the Ministry of Sport was doing their awards that was similar in terms of recognizing athletes but the foundation as the the institution that started this way back in 62 as far as well established as the as the go-to for for these awards and there's no computation here I think it's it's good that we have athletes being valued and respected and appreciated and if in fact plenty of many of our national sporting organizations are also hosting their awards so that we think that's a healthy thing we do know that our process is different as I mentioned so the the process that the the national olympic committee uses is different and everybody knows that this event is a little bit more upscale it's a bit more of a gala and and and I think because of the years that we've existed and the persons who've been recognized but also because of the other dimensions that we've added I think it is kind of the premier sports awards in the country for some years now and there's no there's no element of competition as I mentioned we do even have members of the olympic executive serving on the foundation as well as and we've always had so yeah there's those parallel things happen for me if I had to to make a choice I would say less limited resources and collaborate but as it stands now you know it's it's fair enough that other organizations want to also do their own recognition which is okay and and we support that as well all right mark well I want to thank you so much keep up the great work you and your team the entire first citizen sports foundation and I'm very eager to see who gets this award because I have a personal favorite also have a good evening thank you yeah okay and thanks a lot for supporting the event as well all right take care all right we're going to take a quick break and come back we have a lot more sports to talk here on the sports max soon


So they say that we spot the flaws in others that we actually have within ourselves. So in this video, we're gonna be looking at Gabby Hanna versus Jesse Smiles and ask a very important question, which is, does therapy even work? What's up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel's all about mental health. And sometimes what I do is take all of this nonsense going on in the YouTube community and try to see what we can learn to improve our mental and emotional well-being. And we do this by learning from people's mistakes as well as their successes when those successes are available. All right, but if you're into that stuff, if you believe in hope and change, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because that is what we're about here at the Rewired Soul. And while you're at it, follow me over on Instagram and Twitter at the Rewired Soul. All right, so let's get this started before I jump into the story of Jesse Smiles and Gabby Hanna and kind of recap everything. Let's chat real quick. All right, so let me be 100 with all you real quick. So for those of you loyal Rewired soldiers out there, hell, if I'm being honest, for anybody out there who is familiar with my big goofy face, all right? If you're familiar with the show that I've dealt with and largely put myself into earlier this year and like, and if you haven't learned from it, my question is what are you doing with your life? All right, so many of us, so many of us lack self-awareness. All right, and I can definitely be one of them. Like one of the reasons I even started kind of doing this format with my channel is because it's so easy. It's so easy to sit back and just judge others. So I was watching this Jesse Smiles video earlier and I'm sitting there. I'm like, girl, Gabby Hanna, what is wrong with you, right? And then I sat back and I reflected on it as I'm judging, right? As I love to do, some of you can relate to that. And I'm like, wait a second, Chris. Like, what's your life like? You know what I mean? What's going on in your life? Because this is something that we're constantly doing, watching reality TV or watching all of this nonsense drama going on on YouTube and Twitter and everything like that. And a lot of us use this as an escape from our regular lives. But the reality is a lot of us can relate to friendships that are no longer there and the beef we have between people and things being brought back up and everything like that, all right? So let's start asking ourselves these questions. See what we're doing if we can relate and try to develop some self-awareness and try not to judge everybody else so harshly, all right? So anyways, yeah. I saw Jesse Smiles made a video earlier today, had absolutely no clue who Jesse Smiles was, but I got kind of caught up to date. And with her video, her almost 30 minute long video, like you kind of get enough context that you need. So Jesse Smiles and Gabby Hanna used to be friends now they're not. What happened, all right? So again, this isn't about them. If you just want some tea, if you want some mindless tea, y'all can go somewhere else, all right? But like I want you to look at this from your own perspective and ask yourself, can you relate to this situation, all right? They used to be friends, now they're not, okay? So basically Jesse Smiles, she made this video after Trisha Paytas made her video talking about Gabby Hanna, you know, all this other stuff, okay? So this is something that I've noticed a lot too. And by the way, this is just how we operate as a society, as human beings, as part of our nature, okay? I don't have time to dive into the evolutionary psychology behind it. But once somebody is, quote unquote, exposed, everybody comes out of the woodwork, all right? Just real quick example. Remember when James Charles was exposed by Tati Westbrook, right? Then everybody started popping up, all right? All of a sudden, Sam from Seattle and you know, this guy Gage, right? And then Jeffrey Starr and everybody's like, I have my story to tell, all right? So anyways, this is what I believe, you know, while she admits it, Jesse Smiles then shared her story about Gabby Hanna. And as I'm, you know, watching it and everything like that, you know, the first thing we have to recognize is everybody lives in their own reality, okay? Like, especially when friendships break apart, right? Or even breakups. Like, I'm telling you guys right now, I'm telling you, there's only one way, only one way that I landed that beautiful woman sitting right behind me, my beautiful girlfriend Tristan. And it's because of this, all right? All of the breakups that I went through and all of the toxic relationships that I went through, all of those things, right? For years, it was so easy to look at everything the other person did wrong in those relationships. But the only way I was able to get into this healthy relationship is because I was able to reflect on those old relationships and say, oh, you know what, I wasn't perfect, all right? There were definitely things that I did. But I just want you guys to develop this self-awareness. Like, everybody is the hero of their own story, all right? Gabby is in her reality, she has had all of her own experiences, all of that information. And she believes that she is absolutely 1,000% right in this situation, right? Like, maybe she was a little bit wrong, but she thinks Jesse Smiles was even more wrong than you look at Jesse Smiles. In her reality, Gabby's wrong. Like, maybe Jesse Smiles did something a little bit wrong, but not nearly as bad as Gabby, right? Now think about your own life. Has this ever happened with a loved one, a family member, maybe an ex, maybe an ex-friend, right? Well, you admit a little bit of fault, but they're way worse, right? This is just how we are, but check it out. We are never, ever, ever going to improve if we keep blaming everyone. Every single relationship is 50-50, all right? We are each 50% responsible for that relationship. All right, so anyways, going into it, how did this all come up? Oh my God, so I'm sitting there and like, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this, but when it appears, so I'm like, who's Deanna? So I think Deanna is some random fan of Gabby and Jesse Smiles and somehow was talking to Gabby and DMs and Gabby just unloaded all of this information about Jesse Smiles and then Deanna gave it to Jesse Smiles. Like, just explaining that story makes me feel like I'm 15 years old again. Just throwing that out there. So anyways, like, as I'm looking at this though, like, again, it is so easy.  Why would you say all of this stuff in a DM? Like, what is wrong with you? Why aren't you thinking, right? And that's where I paused and I got this self-awareness, which we all need to do when we're sitting back and judging everyone else.  So, Chris, like, who are you to judge you are guilty of it too. But as I'm seeing this, and you know, I have my opinions and everything like that, but I wanted to make this video because this thought popped into my head. When I started this channel and started, you know, combining what's going on in the YouTube community with mental health conversations, I have so many people say, Gabby Hannah, Gabby Hannah, check out Gabby Hannah stuff. She talks about mental health. She talks about therapy. One of the first videos I saw with Gabby Hannah was her and Dr. Mike doing a collab talking about physical health and mental health and everything, I absolutely loved it. And then it was actually probably about a year ago because then Gabby Hannah started doing Vlogmas and she was talking about a lot about mental health, she was talking a lot about therapy. But anyway, so I'm sitting there and I was actually gonna make this video just using Gabby Hannah as an example and saying like, how do you know if therapy's actually working, right? Because Gabby Hannah, she has been very vocal about therapy, she's been in and out of therapy, everything like that. I made a video a long time ago about that, about kind of being self-aware of where you're at in your life and your mental health journey and sometimes you need therapy and other times your life starts getting better and you can back off, but then it's time to dive back into therapy. It's just about knowing our own fluctuations with our mental health. Anyways, like I said, I'm sitting there, I'm judging Gabby Hannah and then I'm looking at my year, the year of Chris, right? Some of you saw the video I did last week or earlier this week about having an emotional relapse, right? Like, and I'm sitting there and I'm like, well, Chris, who are you to ask if therapy's working for someone else? Is it working for you? Like, I made so many decisions this year based off emotions that I am embarrassed, right? And things like that. And I'm sitting there, but here's the thing and this is all I want you guys to take away from everything you consume on YouTube, on Twitter, on Instagram and everything like that is learn from it, learn from it, okay? So my process is, and this is how I'm trying to continue to learn and continue to grow because I don't know if you got the memo, but this guy is not perfect. And one of the best things we can do is realize that none of us are perfect. But when I see this, the first thing I noticed was my judgments of Gabby Hannah. The next thing I noticed was that I have done the same things, right? And these are things that I need to reflect on. Then the next thing is what's the solution? What is the solution? And the solution is self-awareness, right? Like looking at these things because I have seen so many people and I've been one of these people where you just coast through life and you don't change, you never change, you never evolve. But here's the thing, I wanna end with this. So listen to the words coming out of my mouth, okay?  We're gonna slip up, all right? And here's my hope for all of you, okay? Recognize it sooner rather than later. I was in a state of unmanageability and chaos for about six months, okay? Like I could have gone worse, like I didn't pick up a drink or a drug, I maintained my sobriety and I continued to go to therapy and read books and try to learn about myself and everything like that. But it took six months until I just let go of some stuff that was not benefiting me before I got this clarity to start progressing in my journey, right? The way I kind of envision it is just being on this path and then just gonna, pfft, knocked off, right? And I was knocked off my path for about six months and gradually found my way back on it. And for the last, I don't know, a few weeks to a month I feel like I've been back on that path. You know what I mean? So hopefully in Gabby Hannah's situation, she recognizes this because those DMs were absolutely ridiculous, but you, because this video isn't for one person, it's not just for Gabby Hannah, all right? Which she probably won't even see this. This video is for you, okay? So please, please, please remember, whenever you're having a dispute with somebody, you both have your own version of reality and what happened. The sooner you can do that, the sooner you can chill. And then you have three options. This is something taught in therapy all of the time. Accept it, change it, or eliminate it. Sometimes you gotta cut that friendship out, right? Sometimes you gotta accept the person for who it is. Sometimes you make a change. And what that means, if it's somebody that you're trying to keep in your life, like maybe a loved one, a family member, a significant other, you work through that issue. But the next thing is, whenever we're judging somebody else, make sure to check in with yourself and say, okay, where am I at in my life? Do I do these things, right? If I'm spotting it in someone else, is this something that I actively need to work on?  But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and follow me over on Instagram and Twitter at the Rewired Soul, all right? But before I let you go, I want to send out a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon, as well as everybody who supports the channel by buying my mental health books over at the RewiredSoul.com, as well as everybody who gets Rewired Soul merch. You are all amazing, all right? Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time.


This video is sponsored by Aura. Sasha Samsudin was a beautiful young woman who was taken from this world far too soon when she was brutally attacked in her apartment in October of 2015. Worse yet, she was murdered by someone who swore to protect her. Sasha Samsudin returned to her apartment complex after a long night out. She was drunk and confused. In her altered state, she was unable to fend off her attacker, leaving her vulnerable to someone that she'd previously trusted with her life. The attack began and ended in under an hour, but the pain and heartache that was caused by this monster will last for years. Sasha Samsudin was a loving young woman who was born in New York. From a young age, she always aspired to help others. Her parents described her as one of the most caring people they'd ever known, and as she grew up, this kindness and loving curiosity didn't fade. Though she may have been born in New York, Sasha often claimed Florida as her home state as she didn't live in New York for too terribly long before her family moved to Orlando when she was quite young. Sasha loved all the things that Orlando had to offer and set up her home base here after graduating from the University of Florida. I couldn't seem to pin down what she majored in while attending college, but after she graduated, she quickly got to work on what she expected to be a career path that she would follow for the rest of her life. Dedicated to helping others, Sasha made the decision to begin working in the realty industry, helping people to find apartments in the Orlando area. She didn't end up becoming a full-fledged realtor though. Instead, she felt that her skills made her better suited to work behind the scenes, often helping out with her partner's social media pages online and directing potential clients to the people that would be able to help them the most. In fact, much of the work that Sasha conducted wasn't even paid, she did a lot of it for free. Moving out through Orlando-based charity, Apartment Association of Greater Orlando. Sasha considered herself to be the cupid of apartment ante, helping people find the perfect location for their lives to take place or referring them to someone who could make their dreams a reality. She also contributed to 407apartments.com as well as an education firm known as Pearson. Sasha truly was an all-around great person who wanted nothing more than to make the people around her as happy as possible. Unfortunately, Sasha spent her days and nights helping those around her, but there was no one there to help her when she needed it the most. By 2015, Sasha had moved to her permanent home, located in the Uptown Place condominiums. These condos were truly exceptional. I'll admit, I haven't seen many condos or apartments in my life, I'm not interested in living quite so close to other people, but Sasha's condos were absolutely incredible. The building appears to have been a five-story complex with a six-floor balcony that would overlook the common area that was decorated with giant palm trees and a stunning swimming pool that was free to use for all of the residents there. The place was built like something out of a fairytale storybook, and to top this off, the building was outfitted with state-of-the-art security systems on every floor, every window and every doorway. This place was locked down like Fort Knox, being covered in 247 surveillance cameras. The building even had its own security team who monitored the complex all hours of the day, with each door having a unique key code or key card that could only be accessed by authorized personnel. But even the most advanced security systems have their flaws. 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Worst case scenario, you learn a thing or two along the way about being more secure with your info. Thanks to Aura for sponsoring today's video. It was October 17th, 2015. Sasha had been spending the evening out with her group of friends, as she often did on the weekends. On this particular weekend, the group had been drinking at an Orlando bar known as the Attic Night Club. At some point during the evening, Sasha had made plans with one of her friends, Anthony Roper, to meet up the following morning for breakfast. The two had known each other for quite a while, so Anthony thought it was very unusual when Sasha didn't make it to their breakfast spot the following morning. Sasha was known for being super active on social media. After all, it was her job to be active online, as she would need to be in constant contact with her clients. But since the evening of the 17th, her online accounts have been whisper silent, and no one was able to get in touch with her. In fact, several of her friends mentioned unseen texts, calls, and instant messages with Sasha that day. It was later that day that Anthony and a couple of friends decided that they needed to go to Sasha's apartment and make sure that she was okay.  When they arrived at her condo, things got even worse. As they passed by Sasha's car, they noticed that a gift had been left in the passenger seat. Sasha had mentioned to this gift the day before and talked about how she needed to drop it off at a baby shower that day. By the time the friends had arrived, the baby shower had already come and gone. But for some strange reason, Sasha never attended the shower. The friends made their way into the condo and proceeded to head towards Sasha's apartment. They knocked on her door, but she never answered. After trying a few more times and still getting no response, Anthony decided it was time to call the police. Police officers arrived a short while later and made their way into Sasha's apartment. As soon as they stepped through the door, the officers were choked by an incredibly strong bleach odor. Luckily, her friends were not permitted to enter the apartment because moments later, the officers encountered a chilling crime scene. When officers found Sasha, she was lying on her bed wrapped in a blanket and partially clothed. Her shirt had been ripped open and her pants were missing. At this point, it was clear to officers what had happened here. The crimes that had occurred in the condo were very straightforward, but there was one thing that didn't make sense. Sasha's apartment had been locked when the officers arrived and there was no sign of forced entry. Even the windows had been locked and there was no evidence that anyone had been inside the apartment aside from Sasha. That is, until the investigators made their way to the restroom. When they entered the restroom, they noticed that the toilet seat had been lifted, something that was very strange considering Sasha lived there alone. They also noticed large shoe prints on the floor, prints that were much too large to have been any shoes that Sasha would have worn. By this point, officers realized what had taken place. Somehow, a male had gotten into Sasha's condo that day, taken advantage of her, murdered her, then attempted to clean the crime scene with bleach, as was evidenced by the nauseating odor that remained in the condo. Fortunately for police, the suspect did a terrible job cleaning things up and left behind mountains of evidence for them to collect. For starters, the criminal had left the bathroom toilet seat up and left fingerprints under the lid. The shoe prints were also documented and taken as evidence. Sasha's body was soon taken to the coroner's office for a forensic analysis, with the coroner being able to find trace amounts of male DNA all over her body. The investigation also proved that Sasha had been severely beaten and was ultimately strangled before the criminal left the apartment. When police began investigating the crime, the first place they turned was to the security team who monitored the building. From here, they immediately ran into problems. The security footage from that night wasn't readily available, so they weren't able to review who had last been seen with Sasha. They were able to find out which security guard had been on duty that night, but he wasn't much help with the investigation. They questioned Stephen Duxbury, who'd been tasked with monitoring everyone entering and exiting the building that evening. Stephen reported that he hadn't seen anything unusual that night, nor did he allow anyone in or out that evening without an ID, except for Sasha. Police were able to backtrack Sasha's steps that evening and realized that she'd been picked up by two young women late that night or early that morning. The two women had been riding in an Uber when they passed by Sasha as she was walking down the street, clearly drunk and in need of some help. They asked Sasha if she wanted a ride and they more or less wouldn't take no for an answer. Sasha had got into the car with them and they rode with her to her condo, letting her out at the entrance when they noticed that a security guard was stationed by the door. They assumed the guard would take care of her and left immediately afterward. The only problem was that this guard had strict orders from his boss. No one enters or exits the building without an ID or a key card. Sasha had lost both of these that night and was left helpless outside of her apartment. While it seems that the guard likely recognized Sasha, he had to follow orders, meaning Sasha was locked out of the building. Luckily for her, she managed to get a quick break later that night when a man entered the building with his key card and Sasha snuck in behind him. When police began digging deeper into her murder, they initially suspected that the man who she had snuck in with that evening may have had something to do with her death. They were able to quickly roll the man out after he provided his DNA to investigators. He revealed that Sasha was incredibly drunk that night, but he didn't think that she'd have any trouble getting home so he didn't pay her much mind. But from here, police began to uncover some chilling details about the night of the murder. One of Sasha's upstairs neighbors reported seeing Sasha that evening. The neighbor said that they noticed Sasha was being followed by the on-duty security guard. The neighbor felt like the guard was being a bit suspicious, but it was the guard's job to make sure that all the residents were safe, so he assumed most likely that he was just making sure that she made it into her apartment safely. When the guard, Stephen Duxbury, spoke with police later on, he admitted that he had seen Sasha inside the building that night, but that he last had contact with her when he noticed her fumbling with her door code outside of her condo's entrance. But investigators soon learned there was far more to this story than they could have imagined. After a few days passed, police managed to gain access to the security footage from the evening of the crime. The footage clearly showed that the story Stephen had shared with police was false. The footage from 1.46 a.m. shows Sasha spending her last few moments wandering around the exterior floors of the condo complex. For more than 40 minutes, Stephen followed Sasha around the building and at times walked directly beside her. Now, just to be clear, if Stephen had been worried about Sasha, then this wouldn't have been unusual behavior. If he was truly a good security guard, he would have followed her around to make sure that she made it home safely or that she didn't get into trouble while roaming around the building, which she was free to do. However, Stephen used his position as a security guard to take advantage of Sasha, following her around until he found the perfect moment to strike like a hidden snake in a garden. The only problem with the security footage that officers had reviewed is that the main common area hallways are not covered by CCTV. This was done to help protect the privacy of residents and Stephen knew this. He knew that whatever he did, it needed to be done in the hallways of the building. By 6.36 a.m. the next morning, Stephen is seen leaving the building while carrying trash bags out to his car. A pretty odd thing to do. The building manager later told investigators that it's not a security guard's job to handle trash, and this was something Stephen had never done before or since. This was also contradictory to what Stephen had told police, claiming that he had left the condo by 6 a.m. that morning. When police reviewed the footage again and took a closer look at the trash bags, they were able to confirm that they were the same style, color, and brand as the bags that Sasha had in her apartment. Now, I'll admit this evidence was pretty circumstantial if you ask me, but police somehow managed to use this evidence to convince a judge to provide them with a search warrant for Stephen's apartment as well as his computer and his cell phone. The digital and physical evidence that detectives were able to track down was highly suspicious to put it lightly. Police were able to find out that at 5 a.m. on October 17th, the same morning as the murder, Stephen used his phone to search for methods of overriding a quick-set digital deadbolt, the same model that was installed on Sasha's front door. Worse yet, this search came during the 90-minute gap in time that Stephen was absent from the building's security cameras. Soon after this discovery, there was undeniable proof that was uncovered. The fingerprint search had come back from the toilet seat in Sasha's apartment. The prints were a match to Stephen Duxbury. The DNA analysis also came back soon after, with the DNA found on Sasha's body being definitively linked to Stephen. His shoe print was also matched to the one found in Sasha's restroom, but things got even worse for Stephen. He agreed to take a polygraph test and all of his responses regarding his whereabouts and Sasha that night were estimated to be lies, especially the portions of the test when Stephen was asked if he had ever entered Sasha's apartment at any point in his life. On October 30th, about two weeks after Sasha's murder, Stephen was arrested and charged for the crime. After being on trial for just six days, Stephen was found guilty of all charges and given two life sentences in prison with an additional 15 years for breaking and entering. Needless to say, Stephen will never see the light of day again. As it would turn out, the man who Sasha trusted most to protect her turned out to be nothing more than a heartless predator. The only mystery that remains in this case is that officers still have no idea how Stephen managed to get into Sasha's apartment without leaving behind any signs of forced entry. It's assumed that he must have found something online that allowed him to hack into Sasha's digital door lock, but we don't know for sure and the lock didn't appear to have been tampered with in any way. If this is truly what happened, then this information needs to be made public so that lock manufacturers can correct this defect and people can change their locks because if you ask me, every tenant in the uptown plays condominiums is still at serious risk. Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of True Crime Stories. If you liked the video, be sure to hit the like button. If you're loving the channel and want to support it, the best way you can do that is by leaving a comment below. It lets YouTube know that you like these videos and that people with a similar interest might like them as well. If you'd like to pitch in financially, you can hit that blue join button below the video or support my work on Patreon. 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And so, my fellow Americans, what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. And I will bear the orders. Of the President of the United States. And the orders of the officers appointed over me. According to the regulations. The Uniform Code of Military Justice. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the Blood Street. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well thought lessons of how they and their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, that it once was like an American.


Attention Congress Park residents. This is a community notification of a new sexually violent predator in your area. Please stay tuned to the following short program for more information. Hi I'm technician Ron Hackett with the Denver Police Department. The sex offender registration and compliance unit at DPD is responsible for the registration monitoring and tracking of all registered sex offenders and sexually violent predators who live in the city and county of Denver. Here's a brief history of sex offender legislation in Colorado. Our state laws trickle down from federal government mandates. In 1994 we had the Jacob Wetterling Act which mandated that states would establish a sex offender list. Megan's law of 1996 said that the public would have access to those sex offender registration lists. The Pam Litchner Act of 1996 stated that some offenders might have to have lifetime registrations and the Adam Walsh Act of 2006 unified sex offender laws across a country. In Colorado the legislature has determined that sexually violent predators by definition pose a higher risk to the community at large and therefore mandated that upon their release from the Department of Corrections the community must be notified. Sex offender notification in Colorado happens in two ways. The first is passive and ongoing through the sex offender registration process which is a list maintained by local police departments. The second way is active via community notification for those offenders determined to be sexually violent predators by the courts or by the parole board. Most sex offenders in Colorado are supervised by the criminal justice system in our communities. Most sex offenders engage in crossover behavior which means they may have been arrested for one type of crime but be apt to commit another.  There is no typical sex offender but all tend to be deceptive, manipulative and secretive. 80 to 93% of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the victim. Sexual deviancy begins in mid to late adolescence. Sex offenses are not impulsive.  The community has a vested interest in helping offenders to be successfully managed in the community. Sex offenders have the same need for housing and employment as any other citizen.  There are approximately 16,500 registered sex offenders in the state of Colorado. About 65% of convicted sex offenders are placed in the community on probation. The remainder are in the Department of Corrections or Community Corrections. Offenders may be caught for one type of offense but be at a high risk to commit another type. Crime of conviction is only one indicator of risk.  The offender's residents must be verified quarterly by the Denver Police Department. The full sex offender registration list is available by calling the Denver Police Department Identification Bureau at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Convicted felons and those with multiple convictions are posted online at denvergov.org slash police.   Now, here's a look at the newest sexually violent predator living in Denver. Here's an overview of the registered sex offenders currently living in Denver. There are 2,415 total living within city limits. In Denver Police District 2, there are 412. Precinct 213 has 46 registered sex offenders. Of those, 30 have felony convictions and 16 have misdemeanor convictions. Rodney Thomas McRenalds is a sexually violent predator currently living in Denver. He's 42 years old and was born on October 7th, 1974. He's a white male, five feet eight inches tall, 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. He's currently a transient living in the 2,300 block of East Colfax Avenue in the Congress Park neighborhood of Denver. Schools located within one mile of this offender include Good Shepherd Catholic School at 620 North Elizabeth Street, St. Elizabeth School at 2350 North Gaylord Street, Teller Elementary at 1150 Garfield Street, Reach Charter Elementary at 940 North Fillmore Street, Morea Middle School at 840 East 14th Avenue, Denver Center for 21st Century Learning at 1690 North William Street, East High School at 1600 City Park Esplanade. Parks located within one mile of this offender include Congress Park, Cheeseman Park, City Park. Recreation centers located within one mile of this offender include Carla Madison Rec Center at 1530 North Josephine Street. Bus routes located within one mile of this offender include Route 24 North Josephine Street and North York Street, Route 15 and 15L East Colfax Avenue, Route 10 East Twelfth Avenue, Route 6 East 6th and 8th Avenues, Route 20 East 17th and 18th Avenues, Route 32 East 22nd Avenue. A brief history of charges against this offender attempted sexual assault. He's not currently on parole or probation and registered with the Denver Police Department on July 11, 2017 as a transient in the 2,300 block of East Colfax Avenue in the Congress Park neighborhood of Denver.  Rodney Thomas McReynolds has been determined a sexually violent predator after meeting the following criteria. Criteria one, age 18 or older on the date of the offense or under 18 and tried as an adult. The offender was age 35 at the time of the offense. Criteria two, the crime must have been committed honor after July 1, 1997 and convicted honor after July 1, 1999.  The offender was convicted on December 14, 2009 for attempted sexual assault. Criteria three, the relationship to the victim was one of the following. Victim was a stranger to the offender or the offender established or promoted a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. The victim was a 28 year old female. The offender was known to the victim. Criteria four, positive results are the passing of a risk assessment instrument administered by probation parole staff and a qualified treatment evaluator. Positive results include an assessment for the presence of a mental abnormality, a level of denial regarding the offense, treatment appropriateness and motivation, presence of sexual deviant interests. The offender was evaluated by the Jefferson County courts with positive results determining him to be a sexually violent predator.


What is up guys karma medic here and welcome back to another dose if you're new to the channel then hi My name is Nasser and I am now officially a final year medical student studying at King's College London I literally just got the email telling me about my grades for my end of year exams in fourth year Everything went well one more year of medical school to go since I'm now a final year I thought it would be a great idea to reflect on what it was like for me to be a first and second-year medical student and tell Myself what I wish I would have known way back then The first thing I want to talk about is that medical school is not as hard as everybody makes it out to be I know when we're in high school and before you start med school is just sort of this like huge mountain enigma Obstacle where everyone thinks you're just gonna be studying 24 seven in the library You're not gonna have any time to do anything else in your life. I promise you it's not like that Hopefully my channel and others here on YouTube like Faye Bates channel have shown you that you can be in medical school And still have all of your hobbies go out and socialize and still live life and have a good time Don't get me wrong, of course There's gonna be periods where you just need to sit down and study work your ass off and really put in a ton of work and effort in order to achieve what you want to in terms of grades or you know Your own knowledge and ability as a future doctor, but for the most part medical school is like any other degree You're still gonna have your free time your ability to do pretty much all the things that you still want One thing that I wish I would have recognized earlier on when I was in medical school Is the fact that not everybody studies in the exact same way I would often look at other students who are using things like Anki or doing tons of past paper questions or Only looking at lecture slides or using a textbook or this this and that and I would question myself about my own studying techniques And how it was that I was learning the material But honestly it turns out that everyone studies really really differently and over the years I've sort of been able to refine what it is that works best for me What I personally find to be the most important and what I can do with my studying for longer periods of time And that's not necessarily gonna be the same as everybody else So my advice for any first or second year students is to try lots of different studying techniques You might find that you like something else something new that your friend is doing or you might say You know what? I like what I'm currently doing if you're highlighting and reading notes Which is what I did for most of my first and second year If that's what you're comfortable with and if that's what's working for you then just stick to it I never realized just how much time you would have to spend Organizing your own timetable and your own studying schedule as an independent learner in medical school as much as medical school Timetables for us things like lectures tutorials time in the anatomy lab, etc There's actually a bunch of studying that needs to be done outside of that Independently on your own and sometimes especially in earlier years It's hard to sort of find the motivation and the drive to do that extra bit of reading that extra bit of studying or practice questions by Yourself, but it turns out that it can be quite important, especially as the years go by The next thing that I think it's important to understand is that failing an exam or failing an assignment is Okay, now I'm not saying this so that you can slack off and just have lots of fun not study for your exams, etc I'm just saying this because it's not as much of a life-ending scenario or a life-ending event as a lot of people make it out To be if you've studied as much as you can and done your best and then don't do so well on an exam Then it's okay The important thing to take away from that is to reflect on what happened What could have gone better and how can I change my strategies and my techniques moving forward so that this doesn't happen again? And a lot of people think that if you fail exams then you're gonna have to redo the whole year or you get kicked out of medical school And you know, this is totally not true if you fail an exam There's always opportunities to reset those exams so other chances to pass them and do well And even if you were to fail those reset exams at least here in KCL, you know, they really look at each student's position Individually, you don't just immediately fail or have to redo the year or anything like that There is a lot of help and support to make sure that students pass and make sure that students do stay in medical school The next one is that time management and learning how to manage your time is just so Important if you just get your time management down then pretty much everything else is going to fall into place You want to build a system that works for you Something that you can continue to do on a daily basis for a long period of time and helps organize your life and keep you on top of Everything time management is the key to sort of adulting or being an adult at university Learning when to say no to different events and social things and opportunities and whatever and learning when to sit down and study or do Certain things figure out how you're gonna slot them into your day That really is the key to sort of succeeding in medical school in my opinion This isn't something that you need to already have had figured out on day one I certainly did not have this figured out in my day one of medical school But as you sort of go through the years as you experience more and more Assignments stress things in your life that you need to balance and organize This is a skill that you're gonna build over time So speaking of good time management skills something that I really want to hit home for any first or second year Watching this is that it's just really easy to fall behind Please please please don't leave things till the last minute Don't let weeks worth of work carry on to the next weeks because they will very quickly pile up over time And once you fall behind it becomes exponentially harder to sort of recover yourself and get back to the point where you're kind of just Neutral and on top of things for that day or for that week The problem with medical school is that especially in the earlier years There are just so many lectures being thrown at you so many tutorials so much time for activities scheduled on campus like being in The Caterveric Dissection Lab and so as soon as you start to fall behind it becomes really hard to catch up again Now this isn't to say that you can't sit down on the weekend Let's say Saturday and Sunday for a whole bunch of hours and just catch up and get back to where you were before My main advice would be to try and stay on schedule for your work every week And if you're falling behind during the week then use the weekend as an opportunity to catch up So you have a clean slate starting again on Monday The next thing that I want to say is that if you're struggling and if you're having a hard time in medical school Then chances are there's a whole bunch of other people who are too You know despite what people are posting on their Instagram stories despite what they're saying to you in person of how much they've studied or what Grades they got on their exams or whatever everyone has very different commitments outside of medical school Everyone has very different learning techniques studying paces etc etc And so we all go through these periods of struggling more or struggling less in our life of being in better places and worst places Whether that's academically or at home and outside of medical school And so we don't all need to be on top of our game at all times during the year if you are struggling with the academic side of things You know talk to your personal tutors talk to your TAs or dorm representatives or whoever it is that you have It is literally these people's jobs to make sure that you are okay and to help you if you are in a difficult situation So take advantage of that. Please don't be shy to reach out for help It is completely normal and we all go through these ups and downs of feeling better and feeling worse and having more Or less motivation to do certain things It's completely normal to struggle and there are checks and balances in place to make sure that the students are okay So do take advantage of those Building a group of friends or students to study with and share information is probably one of the best things you can do for your time in Medical school not only does this have an incredible Impact on your social life and your ability to meet new people and do activities and things like that But regarding academics as well pushing each other to work hard and study hard and learn everything that you're supposed to And then also just sharing information on studying techniques on things that have worked for them in and out of the hospital Passpaper exams resources for studying etc. Etc. I mean there's just so many benefits to this If you can form a close-knit group of friends in university that you trust and that you help them and they help you It's like the best relationship you can possibly have and this doesn't need to be a big group of people like I don't know eight or ten people this can be one friend two friends three friends Whatever it is just a group that you feel comfortable with and that you guys all help each other out Have your best interests at heart. I've definitely try and form this relationship as early on as possible in medical school Something else that I think can really help is making friends with the people who are in the years above you These students are an invaluable source of information when it comes to your studying to your exams And how to make the most out of your hospital experiences and your university experience in general They've literally gone through the thing that you're going through right now just one year ago And so they're the best people to ask for advice and to seek help from if you're not directly friends with anyone in the Upper years then make friends with someone who is friends with the upper years They are usually more than happy to pass down their studying resources any information and tips and advice that they have trust me It's just invaluable to do Oh, this one is good as well Which is to not underestimate multiple choice questions or single best answer exams So a lot of students might be new to this form of testing and you might think to yourself You know the answer is there on the page somewhere All I have to do is choose it like how hard could that possibly be but it turns out They can make them very very hard and one of the reasons that they can be so hard is that most of our exams aren't well They are multiple choice questions, but they are what's called single best answer And so within this format you can have two answers that are both technically correct But one of them is the better or best answer on top of that It turns out no matter how much you study having five answer options really is a lot and there's a lot to be confused by There's a lot to mix up. I mean they can really make your life very very difficult Also multiple choice questions do have their own sort of exam technique or studying techniques So don't sleep on learning that make sure you put in enough time and effort to understand how to get the best out of MCQs by Eliminating questions or using other questions to help you answer previous questions, etc Just put in enough time to make sure you learn those techniques Please please please for the most part do not buy any textbooks First of all, you could probably find an online version of any textbook that you want And then second of all there are just so many good free online resources for medical students that textbooks are kind of just an outdated way of learning in today's day and age I do own a couple of textbooks and I have used them to study throughout medical school But really it's just made up such a small percentage of my time studying and in fact I don't think I've received as much value from my textbooks nearly as much as I have from other online resources If you're gonna buy one textbook, this is this is the one that I would recommend Actually one of these two if you really want to buy a textbook one of these two is is probably the best ones you can buy They're small. They're short easy to understand digestible And they have the vast majority of information that you will need as a medical student generally speaking I found that textbooks just have way too much information for what you actually need to know in order to be in the hospital And practice clinical medicine and truth be told you're probably never gonna read them You're gonna have so much information coming at you from your lectures and your tutorials and everything else that you just won't have time To supplement all of that with additional information from the textbook that probably won't come up on your exams anyway Because it's just in way too much detail You simply cannot cram for medical school. There's just there's too much info and You can't possibly condense it into a couple of weeks right before an exam the key to medical school and the key to learning in Medical school is being consistent over time and doing a little bit each and every single day There's probably some of you who'll tell me nah I've crammed for all of my exams and I can definitely do well in medical school by cramming and if that's the case then fair enough And good for you, but I think for the vast majority of people There's just way too much information on top of that each year of medical school is built upon the previous year of medical school It's not like you finish renal physiology and you move on to cardio and you suddenly need to forget everything you learn for renal You kind of have to carry on a lot of that information because all the systems of the human body are connected and your basic foundations Just keep getting built upon each and every single year And so if you're cramming that information right before an exam every single time then you're probably not learning it that well You're probably not understanding it that well and so next year when you start building on top of those foundations It's gonna be a lot more difficult to fully understand what's going on and learn the material for real I would highly highly highly recommend not leaving all of your studying for the last minute There's just way too much to cram in in order to actually learn what you need to learn and do well on an exam Just a little bit of work every single day is definitely the way to go You've really got to pace yourself in medical school burnout is a very real thing It's something that I have experienced most recently now sort of at the beginning of my fourth year after studying for the US Only step one exam over the summer period a lot of my friends have gone through burnout or are going to burnout right now It is very very real and because medical school can be so intense from the very beginning and require large amounts of studying a large Amount of time dedication to the course, you know by the time you get to your fourth year or to your fifth year or for me I've already done a degree before this this is my ninth year in education and in studying, you know, like I'm just done I feel like I cannot possibly study anymore. I just want to finish all these exams and get to work on the wards Now I'm not saying all of this to scare you The reason that I'm saying this is because I want you guys to pace yourselves throughout medical school If you start year one and year two just spending all day every day in the library studying as hard as you can Putting in all the hours reading textbooks doing all of your exercises, etc Then you know by the time you get to third fourth and fiftieth year You're probably gonna be super burned out from sitting down reading and studying make sure you enjoy yourself Especially in your earlier years make sure you keep up with your hobbies get involved in extracurriculars and societies There's definitely enough time to do both at the same time and it'll prevent you from burning out in the future when things get even more Tough and there's more on your plate, etc, etc Social life in medical school is booming. There's honestly so much to do with events, you know nights out Societies clubs, etc There's just so much going on that you can do for your social life And I hope channels like my own and others here on YouTube like Faye Bates have shown you that you know You can do all these things and have a ton of fun while still being a medical student Please don't feel like you need to give up your passions your hobbies and stuff outside of medical school In fact, this is such a great time to do them while you're in medical school It's gonna help you be a better communicator network or doctor everything in the future. So do keep up all of those activities Trying not to compare yourself to others in medical school can be really difficult at times The problem is that you are constantly quite literally graded against everyone else and standardized against everyone else And that's how they figure out how you've performed on an exam and with medical students being medical students a lot of people tend To be quite competitive quite academically oriented and you know people can get all up in your face about how you're performing Academically I genuinely believe one of the best things that you can do for yourself throughout University is to have this mindset that you know, you're here for yourself You're here to learn for yourself and gain all the knowledge that you want to gain to become as best of a doctor as you Can be in the future how everyone else around you performs and how much they study or how much they party and go out and all those things They do not directly or necessarily affect you at the end of the day How I end up performing on an exam is only a direct result of how much work I put in before that exam And so if I know that I studied as much as I could and I put in the work if I do well Then that's great And if I don't do well then I can reflect on what happened and how I can move forward in the future the things that I Focus on and what I want to know is how did I perform compared to how I performed on my last exam? Compared to how I performed last year and you know why did I perform better or why did I perform worse? And that's what I take with me moving forward Trying new things especially in the earlier years of medical school is one of the best ways you can get out there and just make Yourself a better and more well-rounded person sitting in the library and studying all day is not going to make you a Fantastic doctor it is going to give you a ton of theory and a lot of knowledge that you can apply to your clinical medicine But it's not gonna make you a better holistic doctor Whereas joining different societies going out with friends keeping up your hobbies and your passions and your extracurriculars and stuff That's gonna develop a bunch of skills that will make you a fantastic doctor things like communication Networking presentation empathy, you know all these things are gonna better equip you to talk to and manage and deal with people From all over the world from all kinds of different backgrounds, you know That's something that is actually really really important to understand So make sure you give yourself time to explore all these different avenues in your life to really branch out and try new Things and have new experiences that you might not necessarily have time for when you reach the later years of medical school like in your fourth and fifth year Something that I wish I'd realized earlier on is just how patient-focused and patient-centered medicine really is you need to be able to talk to And communicate with people who are just vastly different from you, you know different backgrounds different ethnicities different Temperaments different abilities to communicate some people might have physical disabilities hearing impairments visual disabilities or impairments And some people might just dislike you simply because you're a doctor or because you're a doctor of X or Y ethnicity and all kinds of things like that Before medical school, I sort of had this impression that every doctor-patient interaction would be hey, how are you? What's brought you in today? Oh, yeah, I've got some really bad neck pain over here. Oh, okay Let me fix that for you blah blah blah But it turns out, you know very few conversations are really as simple and straightforward as that and you need to be able To talk to and manage and care for all kinds of different scenarios Especially everything that doesn't stray from that very simple straight line from before and this is why in a lot of my earlier videos When I was talking about the MMI interviews and personal statements and things like that I think if you can emphasize that you're someone who is capable of talking to and interacting with all kinds of different people from various different backgrounds cultures ethnicities Etc then that is such a huge plus because that is what medicine is really about It's not about having the same type of or the same conversation over and over again It's that each person you meet is going to be probably completely different and the dynamics of the conversation are going to be completely different as well And the last thing that I want to mention is that back pain and neck pain are a very real thing You know in medical school You're gonna spend tons of time sitting down at your desk looking down at your papers or your iPad or your computer Just studying studying studying for endless hours at a time You're gonna spend loads of time standing up on the wards or in surgeries or in theaters So, you know back pain and neck pain is a very very real thing So I would encourage you from as early on as possible to pay attention to your posture both when you're sitting down at a desk And when you're standing for long periods of time and also to invest in things like a comfortable pair of shoes So that you know when you're standing up for long periods of time, you're not really hurting your back Just take care of your posture and keep an eye out for neck pain and back pain So that you can tackle them early on before they get gradually gradually worse over time All right, and that is it for me That's pretty much everything that I wish I had known in my first or second year of medical school I really hope you enjoyed watching this video And if you did don't forget to leave a like on it and also subscribe to my channel to more content from me in the future And I'll catch you in the next one. Peace