It is a very strong effort and I think occupies an important space in the dating landscape. Try not to be shady. Hello there, lovers. Yo, I'm so excited for today's video. I want to discuss something that I've been talking about a lot privately and I want to share this conversation with you all. And that conversation is about this conversation. This book right here by Britney Raider, known as Bundle of Britney or Bundles of Britney.   Brilliant. I mean, I wouldn't use that word, but I think it was a very, very good book and I want to talk about it today and all the controversy that surrounds it. This is going to kind of go back and forth between like a number of different perspectives on this, but I just want to give them like an off the top rating. I would say this book is a great buy and probably maybe like a 3.75 out of five stars. And that's a decent rating for a first time author who most impressively at all published this book herself. And I don't know if she used a professional editor or enlisted the help of like an experienced writer or just made this a stream of consciousness, which is how it reads, which I think is great because she is somebody who is famous for being herself. So it's appropriate that her book really does feel exactly like her. Actually, one of my criticism would be that I wish it was a little bit more of her personality and less of her trying to be a writer, which I don't know her, so that might be incorrect. But I did feel like she's got a great sense of humor. I think her natural wit is really her strength. And this book only has that like a few times here and there.  That could be a big part of it. But I want to give my impression of the book and first start off by saying that I am proud of this woman. I am proud of the space that she occupies. When people ask me about Amber Rose as a relationship with sex educator or about Brittany Rainer, I think it's fantastic. Sex, love, relationships are natural drives. They are basic human instincts. And so we need a plethora of people and of guides to get us through this very important part of our life. It's kind of like cooking. Like we have to eat to survive. And so there are tons of chefs out there and it depends what your given cuisine of choice is. Like that's what kind of chef you should go to. It should be the same with intimacy educators. There should not be five of us out there with only specific qualifications. There should be a gamut of people for us to all choose from. And I think that she is an interesting choice and she takes up a very necessary space. So when somebody wrote me because I ordered the book like as soon as it came out, I was actually real hyped from the promo of it. And I will say my half disappointment with the book and I get it is like the whole celebrity feather around it took away from I think what the intent of the copy was. It's like you needed one for the other. You need the whole celebrity thing to sell the book, but then it also sold the book short in the process.  Like before I even had the book in hand, I read the like here's who the seven people actually are. And then when you read the book, you're like, no, that ain't true. Like not even like, it's like, you just didn't read it properly.   And then when you research it, he actually did data and he was a lawyer, whatever is clever. But in the list of names, people like it's tiger tiger hasn't gone to law and or school. So I just feel like that was incorrect. And it just set the whole tone of the book off. And I, I don't know if that was intentional for her, but I think it did take away from the fact that this was essentially about the crimes that young women experience when just simply trying to connect love and be loved. So somebody asked me what my review of the book was and I said it is literally the kind of book that I would have written at 25 years old, which is how old she was when she wrote this book, because so many people have done heinous crimes to you that you cannot go to the police for. People have hurt you in unimaginable ways that you never thought that you would experience. And yet there's nothing you can do about it. There, there's nowhere to go. There's nowhere for any kind of like reparations. And so writing about it almost feels like your justice. And this felt like her police report in and I actually thought that the length was perfect. Some people complained that it was too short. Maybe because I listened to people talk about their relationships for a living. It's not that interesting to me after a while. I'm like, okay, I know what you're talking about move on. And so I thought that the 117 pages when you break that up, roughly like 15 pages per or 20 pages per lover that she's had. And then she gives some background information about herself. So I thought that it was actually appropriately put together in terms of length.  This is the book that you wrote at 24. I wrote late. This is not a promo, but you know what I mean, but I wrote late when I was 24 years old and it's young people's experiences with sex and an easy access culture. Now, the difference that I took is that I wanted to share what I've gone through. I wanted to share the lessons that I learned the hard way, but I cased it in education. Now, mind you, I probably didn't sell a tenth the amount that Brittany did. So kudos to her because she found a way to give you guys intimacy education that you would actually purchase. But nonetheless, I went the educational route with a packaging of mine. And so it wasn't a scandal. It was a resource for people. And I also included stories of other people. In addition, though, not only like, am I authoring some of the short stories in the book, but I have, I ghost wrote. I mean, I'm meaning that I wrote things that were about me that I put under a different name so that I wouldn't be outing people or that I wouldn't be sharing details that I wasn't comfortable with everyone knowing about me, but still gave that information out there because it is relatable. So on one hand, I applaud her for her bravery of putting herself completely out there in ways that I didn't do. I probably wouldn't do to this day, but nonetheless, it's kind of the same thing.  And this is a book about a woman in pain. I love the fact that it doesn't have a happy ending either. It doesn't end with her finding her dream mate or, you know, finding a dream woman. It just kind of ends. And that is the story of a woman in her 20s.  I feel like we can all relate to a lot of the stories that she shared in this book. And that's giving yourself over to somebody who doesn't really give you the time of day or doesn't give you their full energy.  And it occurred to me that whenever we have coming of age stories for men, relationships are like usually the tertiary element. So initially it's about like football or in this case it's about skateboarding. And then the second plot line is like the families and like their need to find themselves. And then like the third plot line or maybe fourth or fifth is their romantic relationships. Now compare that with women's coming of age stories. Romance is usually like the main plot. It is the purpose of the film. We have that like letters to boys I love, which was the cult class that came up. And relationships be that romantic or friendship. So like what is the driving force? Like we are told as women that is the most important thing to us. That is our defining characteristic. And so when we grow up with that mentality, we at a very young age are trying to make very serious connections at a time where the other half of the population looks at it like, this is a third class problem for me. Like I have to figure out these other things before I even like give the time of day to that. And that's what this book, you know, really did speak to that imbalance that you just experienced naturally in your 20s. Now, spoiler alert, it evens out and not for the better, but just to be fair, men in their 40s and 50s are the loneliest people in the world. And as they get older, they get increasingly lonely because of the lack of emphasis on interpersonal relationships. And close relationships are what make life worth living. And so if you don't know how to develop them or maintain them, you're going to find yourself in a sore spot, no matter how much money or skateboarding tricks that you've acquired. So ultimately the answer to this is that we all have to reprioritize intimacy, education, start talking about it. And a book like this forces that conversation. And so I can only applaud it for doing so things about this book that definitely stood out to me, you know, just the in general emotional abuse that women go through leading with your hopes versus leading with reality, allowing for someone's singular comment to override all of their multitude of actions. And so like in several cases of the book, you can see the person maybe said one thing or maybe they had one conversation that leaned on their hopes and dreams, but nothing that they did before or after that confirm that they actually were that person. And because we're so obsessed with confirming this storyline, like we put our blinders on and just focus on that. And so this book was a good reminder for us to like really look at people for who they are, what they offer and what they say they're willing to give to you. And of course, the responsibility that we have to place on young men, specifically young men who grow up in urban culture, you have to be an extremely intelligent person who is raised with discernment to separate between reality and myth. If you are constantly consuming hip hop and that is your primary source of entertainment.  And their actions show that they don't have discernment, that they don't understand what the actual valuable woman is or the value of good communication is, and that they do look at women as prizes to have not as people to help them grow.  And so to me, I'm just like, this not crazy unrelatable. I mean, it does mirror what you hear in hip hop. So like the stories of three sums like the kind of sex that she's having, maybe the frequency of sex or the speed that it happens with new partners. It might be alarming to the average person who doesn't have access in the same way. But if you listen to hip hop, it's nothing that you haven't heard before. And so I'm just not a big fan of like, keep it private. It's a secret. Don't tell anybody because it's just like, we kind of have to start talking about it at some point. And we have to hear what other people are doing so that we can discern if we should or shouldn't do that. So I don't think that there's a big deal with her sharing those stories. I don't think any of the information that she shared about any of her sexual partners was particularly incriminating.    Like if you do have an active working G spot that you receive pleasure from. And if you are a orgasm or from vaginal penetration, it's probably like the opening where the Bartholome land is and then around the area where like your schemes and your G spot is like that all happens like within this realm. And so it isn't a matter of like the length of the penis, but more so about the angle that you use it one and two, how long you're able to sustain an erection for. So that she kind of manages that really nicely. And that's the only jab she throws at her partners. The rest of it, it actually airs in their favor. Going with the whole like hip hop culture where it's not cool to care. And it's cool to fraternize that multiple partners. All she confirms that all of her partners were actually like that. So if anything, it helps them. So I don't really get what the anger is of her sharing this book. I don't think anybody was hurt by it. And I think it must have been incredibly healing for her. I think it must have been a great experience to put that out there. And I think for people currently going through this, it can be really reaffirming to read that you're not alone.  But like when Beyonce had the whole lemonade scandal and everyone's like, like if Beyonce can get cheated on, then I don't have to feel as bad.  And it probably isn't you. I'd say statistically, it's not you.  I'm not saying you're perfect. Don't put on your crown. But if you're dealing with issues that are happening in this book more than likely, it's not a person thing. It's a people thing. And so yeah, I think this book helps, helps everybody. It was yeah, it's pretty good criticism of the book. I would say the conclusion was a little cray. It's a little cray for me because I'm actually writing a book right now. That is a plug by the way. So I'm doing a book and I'm working with a major publishing company. And so I sent in the first draft and I was so proud of it. And they were like, it reads like a stream of consciousness. And I was like, what are you talking about? Like this is gold. I gave you so many gems.  And they were like, yeah, but we have to like keep it specific to what the book is about or keep it streamlined or like the human brain can only hold like four facts at a time. So you have to be very sparing with your like mass amounts of information. And so the conclusion of the book was a stream of consciousness. It was like, here is everything I've ever thought in five pages. And so it like had metaphors on top of metaphors. And then in the end, you weren't only quite sure what was being said. I mean, you got the general gist that like, love conquers all, keep fighting, do do do do do do, but it just it was jumbled up with a lot of a lot of words and thoughts, which don't get me wrong. I'm sure if I read it four or five times, I would like appreciate the breadth of it. But as a first time read, it was, it was a little lot for me. Also, the mistakes that I saw, I thought were actually good mistakes because they're telling of the times. There's hella amounts of contradictions in there.  And the next page, she's like, I'll never see her again. That breaks my heart because she was the second mother to me like backs like the same like folds.   I still got that completion when we had three sums. But then like when they broke up, she's like, I could hardly sleep at night because he wasn't there to cuddle me.  So, but that's probably again, like when we're going through that age and we're just feeling, we're not necessarily processing and assessing and analyzing. We're literally just feeling it. It probably does contradict a lot. So yeah, oh, no, that's it. I want to have a conversation with you guys, see how you felt about the book. I do recommend you buy it. If you have been remotely curious about it, and especially if you're like, I'm not going to buy it because it's a celebrity expose. It's really not. I don't think Drake is mentioned in the book. I don't think Tyga is in the book. I think that there are four celebrities. There's three celebrities and then one nonfeit, two nonfamous people, and then one like, you know, someone you wouldn't know by name, but like they have a job of importance. So ultimately, I don't think it is. I like celebrity expose that you thought it was going to be. If that was deterring you, the book is not that. If that's what you wanted, probably don't buy it because it's really not that.  And she has had a very tough time getting a grasp on it, like most of us probably did at her age. And yeah, I liked it. I just want to say as a final note, just in case you is Brittany Rainer watching this video, or you are a Brittany Rainer type watching this video, I want to specifically say to you, girl, keep going, keep writing, keep sharing, keep assessing, keep learning about love and relationships and sharing what you learn with others. Keep the conversation going. You occupy an important space in this really important, massively underrepresented part of our lives. And I'm appreciative for the work that you do. And I hope that despite the criticism that you aren't discouraged to keep sharing and to keep letting people see what the process looks like, because it's not pretty. If you were trying to be a doctor and there was no med school for you and there was no mentors and you had to figure it out as you went along, you'd probably have some train wreck surgeries along the way. And just think of it like that. None of us are really taught how to love. We're not taught the basics of intimate connections. And we're just told, go in there and operate. Just go. Just see what happens. And for a lot of people, this is what happens. This, this is what happens. And it's not perfect, but there's beauty in that. And there's beauty in the connection that sharing these stories can have. So thank you for your contribution to the community. I don't know if that means anything coming from me, but just wanted to share a little piece of my heart to your heart.  Keep it up.


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The Gibbard-Sutherwood theorem is important and quite significant, but it still gives you the sort of negative result that you cannot really have any non-dictatorial social choice function with those two very desirable properties, on-to-ness and strategy-proofness. Now is that a end of the story for social choice functions? Turns out that it is not and that is because of the observation that we have made in the previous module that the Gibbard-Sutherwood result holds only for the case when all preferences are admissible. So, this, the domain of the social choice function was nothing but the whole of script p. Now, this may not be always true for certain applications. So, we might find some of the cases where we can actually restrict. So, the all preference orderings over this, over this alternatives might not be even feasible and that is where our story of positive results begin. So and in this module and also in the subsequent modules, we will discuss some of these domains which are strict subsets of the script p which we call the domain restriction and that is exactly the area of research where a lot of social choice functions start becoming, giving interesting results which are non-dictatorial and also satisfies these two, at least these two properties of on-to-ness and strategy-proofness. So, an alternative way how we can write strategy-proofness is the following. So, we have defined so far strategy-proofness in terms of non-manipulability. So, if you can find a social choice function which is not manipulable where we have defined manipulability formally, then we call that strategy-proof. You can give a direct definition in the following way that if the preference of a player i is given by p i and when it is reporting its preference truthfully to this direct mechanism versus when it is reporting, misreporting it to p i prime, in the former case it will get a better preference. So it should prefer the outcome that it gets when it does not misreport versus when it misreports. This preference ordering holds for all p i and p i prime and also for all p minus i for all the other players. So, in particular if we want to just make sure that this can be any arbitrary p i prime we can actually use the tilde to denote that other players might misreport their preferences. It does not really matter. So, in that sense it is quite equivalent to the dominant strategy incentive compatibility and we also made that remark earlier. So no matter what the other players are doing, reporting your true preference ordering is strictly beneficial for this agent i and that holds for all agent's i's. The other alternative which can happen is even after changing your preferences, misreporting your preferences you might not be able to change the outcome. So if that happens then you did not change anything so therefore there is no question of preferring one over the other. So either of these two things can happen and then we are going to say that this social choice function f is strategy proof. Now in this domain as we have already discussed so instead of taking a mapping from script p to the end to a we are reducing that p to a subset of that p, a subset s which we are going to call a domain restriction. So while it is a domain restriction it is reducing the domain of the social choice function. So there are some important domain restrictions that is already well known in the literature and we will be discussing three of them in this course. So the first domain restriction is single pick preferences which we are going to start next and later on we will see there are domain restrictions like divisible goods allocation and quasi-linear preferences. We will discuss this third domain restriction in quite detail because that is very applicable to various real world applications. So what is single pick preferences? Let me start with an example to motivate this problem. So suppose there is a room whose air conditioners temperature has to be set and there is a bunch of people in that room who has different preferences for their temperature. So someone likes and this is what we are going to assume. So if you like a specific temperature you have the most comfortable temperature setting let us say 25 degrees and anything hotter than that or anything colder than that is not comfortable for you. So if it starts becoming if your most preferred temperature is 25 degrees then if it is going to 24 then you dislike it less but you dislike it even lesser if it goes to 23 degrees or 22 and as it goes down your preferences for those temperatures are also going down. So in some sense and similarly you can think about when it is going hotter so from 25 to 26 you prefer it less but you prefer it even less if it goes to 27 and even more. So in some sense you can imagine that this Ti star is the most preferred temperature for this agent I and if it is going down it is going down in a monotone fashion and similarly on the other direction and that is essentially bringing us to this kind of a preference and its name called the single peak. So you have exactly one peak which you prefer the most and in both directions from that peak your preferences going down. So somebody else might have a different most comfortable temperature. So the other person might be liking 27 degrees the most and then it has the same kind of a preference profile it goes down in this way but the point remains that it has a different peak but it has the same structure of its preference which is single peak. Now what is common in this two different preferences the common thing is both referring to the same temperature scale. So it is the ordering of this temperature 25, 26, 27 which is a set of integers is same for both this players. So there is one common ordering which we are going to refer to so here the temperature scale is essentially the common ordering but your preferences might have might be different so based on where your peak lives and how so if you if I ask you to compare between let us say 24 degrees so if your peak is 25 then between 24 degrees and 28 degrees how you compare between these two things that might change. One might prefer more hotter temperature dislike hotter temperature less than colder temperatures that that is completely feasible under this preference profile but the point is if you are on the one side of this peak you have a monotone decrease in your preferences and on the other side you also have another monotone decrease. So you have a common order over these alternatives agent preference is a single peak with their expect to that common order. So there are several other examples of temperature example is one of them but you can have a facility location so if you have a hospital school or post office that is located on a real line so if it is far from your current location supposing you also have a house and you want your the school or the hospital to be as close to your house as possible.  Similarly, you can think about political ideology if you have a specific political ideology anything left to it or right to it is not really beneficial for you or if you are at the extreme then your preference profile can only go down on one direction that is also a single peak preference. So there are various other kind of examples that you can construct and they all fall under this category of single peak preferences. So we will denote this natural ordering the common ordering that we discussed with this notation less than or greater than as we do in case of real numbers. So we can say that A is less than B and this will essentially denote that this is the the ordering the common ordering of this alternatives on a real line and for this discussion we are only talking about one-dimensional single pickness that is you have a single real line and on that you are defining your preferences. In particular it does not need to be a real number it can be any kind of transitive and anti-symmetric relation. So for simplicity of exposition we are actually using this real line example as the as the common ordering but it does not need to be so. So transitive we know so if A is less so A is less than B and let us say C is less than A then we know that C is also going to be less than B so this is this is due to transitivity and anti-symmetric says that if you have A less than B you can have either A less than B or B less than A but not both. This means that this preference this sort of common ordering has this sort of a strictness you cannot have both of them together and that is quite natural I mean we just want to distinguish different points on this real line and therefore they should maintain a complete ordering. Okay so how is it a domain restriction? So let us now discuss a specific example to understand why it is a domain restriction. So for without loss of generality let us assume that A is the leftmost position, B is the second left and C is the last one on the rightmost position. Now what is what can happen if you have this ABC as three arbitrary alternatives and in the give or sell point setting where we were allowing for all possible preferences over these alternatives then you would have had three factorial possibilities which are listed all here. Now because ABC actually follows this ordering this common ordering then single pick preferences actually rules out certain possibilities. So for instance you cannot have a situation where A is the most preferred and then followed by C and then followed by B or maybe C is the top one and then A and then B. So you can already begin to see that it has multiple picks that is not allowed according to the according to this domain restriction of single pickness. So we are actually ruling out these two alternatives if we assume that this common ordering is so the other four alternatives are feasible. You can either have this kind of a preference ordering this kind of a preference ordering or any kind of pick which is at B but you cannot have this kind of a multiple pick as your preference. So that is certainly reducing. So if you had all of this together then it is going back to the script P but because we are now in the subset so this part is essentially the script of S which is a single pick preference. So this is the pictorial description let us make it a little formal. So a preference ordering PI which we are going to assume to be a complete ordering or linear ordering over A no differences of agent I is single picked with respect to this common ordering less than of these alternatives. If the two conditions hold if B and C are in A with this condition that they both of them are actually living on the left hand side of the pick. So this is the case where so PI1 is the top most alternative of player I. So B and C are both living on this left hand side of this pick and in particular B is living on the more left position than C and both of them are actually on the left hand side. Then what we know by the definition of single pickness is C is going to be more preferred than B that is the assumption over this single pickness. Similarly if you have this thing on the right hand side so let us say this is the other direction where B is actually larger than or equal to PI1 and that is even that is smaller than C then what we know is B will be more preferred than C under this preference profile PI. So that PI is going to be a single pick preference so this is a more formal way of defining that. And as before we are going to denote by script of S the set of all single pick preferences. So therefore now our social choice function is a domain restricted social choice function which is mapping from S to the N to A. Now let us look at how it circumvent the GS theorem. So when we are saying that it is actually so GS theorem is not true in this single pick preference then we must be able to give a mechanism which is not dictatorial yet on to end and strategy proof. The on toness and prior to efficiency I leave for you to verify I am just going to argue that there exists a strategy proof as well as non dictatorial mechanism. And how is that? So remember let me explain this with the example that we have already discussed. So we had this preferences where the temperatures were single pick and you had different falls different alternatives were having different slopes. So this is a preference profile of one player and that could be a different preference profile for another player. And similarly maybe for the third player this is looking like this. Now let us look at one specific mechanism which is just collecting together all the peaks. So it is asking all the agents to say what their peaks are and it is picking the leftmost peak. So let us say in the air conditioner example the mechanism is saying that give me your most favorite temperatures and I will set the temperature of the AC to be the coldest one coldest one among all the most favorite temperatures. Now even though the other player might not like it so for instance if you are picking this as your outcome this is certainly worse than this agent's true preference and also even less for the for the magenta player's preference. But can you actually change the outcome by manipulating your preferences and will that be beneficial for you? The answer is no because the only way this temperature can be changed. So for instance we are looking at this green player here and it is trying to change the outcome because the mechanism is designed as such that when the outcome will always be the coldest temperature that is the lowest peak in this single peak preference. The only way you can change it is by putting your peak on the other side because if it reports its peak somewhere above the lowest position does not change so the temperature won't change the outcome won't change. The only way it can mis-report is possibly going here and mis-reporting. So this is the green's mis-reported preference here. In that case it can change the outcome and the outcome becomes this but remember that it is just mis-reporting its true preference over this temperatures remains as before and earlier it was getting an outcome which was still more preferred because of this single peakness property then the outcome that it is getting now so it's the same green player who has actually mis-reported its peak to here and got a temperature which it prefers less than the current outcome. Similarly, you can think about the imagined player even though it is getting something here if it mis-reports something here then it gets something worse which it prefers less than its current outcome. So none of the players can actually mis-report and gain and clearly this is a non-dictatorial mechanism it is actually collectively taking the decision of all these players and it is also strategy proof that is intuitively we have explained this and this is this mechanism is not unique here you can actually think about any kth lowest lowest temperature so you can pick any kth lowest peak from the left in particular you can pick the right most peak that is also feasible so if you instead say that I am going to set the temperature to be the report your peaks I am going to set the temperature to be the highest temperature then also you can argue in a very similar way to show that it is not manipulable by any of the players and in particular what is more popular or common is to pick that peak which is at the middle so which is the median of all these peaks so sometimes this mechanism is also called the median peak mechanism and that will also be strategy proof so it is not very difficult to argue why this is strategy proof so that is one example how you can circumvent GS theorem we can actually find mechanisms that are onto and strategy proof and not necessarily dictatorial.


We're back on the Sportsmax zone and we're going to talk some football now. We continue to track the Caribbean America's soccer classic currently being held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. That's a sunshine state where the best schoolboy football talents from Jamaica and Tobago are representing the region. Gerard Morrisili has the latest. Day two of the Casa U soccer classic gave us a chance to see both the defending champions InterMiami on the 19th and the Jamaica select team in action. The first game of the double header saw InterMiami clash with Plantation FC who needed a win to at least give themselves a chance to play in the third place game on Sunday after losing to Tobago on day one. From the kickoff, InterMiami took the lead through reggae boys and the 20 player Kobe Thomas. From this point on it was a Christian Ortiz show. He scored two goals in the first half and then another after the break to register the first hat trick of the tournament, InterMiami coming out as four nil winners. Yeah, obviously it was a really good start. It's always great to score in the first minute of any game that kind of set the momentum but I thought we had a really productive first half obviously made a lot of changes in the second half and pleased pleased to start off the tournament in this fashion. The fans were eagerly anticipating game two of this double header which featured Rush Select Academy and the Jamaica all schools team. The game started fast with the rush pressing from the off. However their tactics worked against them, the Jamaicans taking the lead through some pressing of their own and the skills of marksman Kahin Dixon, one nil. Even with the lead the Jamaicans were not allowed to settle at any point and that paid off for their opponents after 16 minutes, one one. While the Jamaicans were struggling to figure out the speed of the artificial turf, Rush continued to press and were duly awarded with a second goal to one after 33 minutes. That's not good, that's going to be a goal. That became 3-1 just four minutes later and the partisan Jamaican crowd shocked. Half time, Jamaica all schools won, Rush Select 3. During the break the Jamaican team's coaching staff made two changes that paid off as early as the 41st minute with Kahin Dixon scoring again. The Jamaicans made more changes and took charge of the second half. Late in the game they thought they had fought back to earn a point but the flag was up for our side, 3-2 the final score. The surface have a lot to do with it, you know, first with some of us playing on it and the pace of the game also, you know, we forget used to this type of surface and the quickness and the speed of which the players play on it, the opponent play on it. They pressed us a lot, we didn't come for table playing from out at the back of the pitch and I think we should have adjusted in going long and going into the challenge. We did that in the second half and it would be a fruit, we got some counter-attack on them and I think we should have even got a point out of this game tonight. Yes so the Jamaican team losing on Wednesday night and the Inter-Miami team, one of the host teams coming up with a victory. Phil Riley, our producer of the schoolboy football and producing the coverage there now joins us live to talk about what happened last night. Phil, welcome back to the sports mat zone, great to have you on again and a disappointing result for the reggae boys. We heard Lenny Hyde, the coach suggesting that the astroturf to some extent may not have or may have contributed to the team not doing as well as they could have, the Jamaica select team. Yes, Les Lans, they couldn't pass a ball in the first half. They were struggling, the team was just pressing them the entire time. They gave up two late goals in the first half. They just didn't look good at all, at all in the first half.  They were just behind, behind, behind and they gave up two goals there, three one half time. They made a few changes at the half but it didn't materialize. I thought they got the equalizer late on but the referees here, let's just say the referees here are a little different from in the Caribbean, that's all I would say. It was ruled out as an offside goal was it? Yes, it was ruled out. Dixon told me that they didn't call him offside but the player who took the initial shot that Devon Davis from Magrad, he took the initial shot but he dribbled into the box. I was wondering oh, he was offside. We don't have to ask referees about that one but they almost got back in the game. They have a tough task now uphill because Lord Hill will play, Rush will beat Jamaica last night. If there's a result for any of those teams, Jamaica might not make it to the final game but there's still the third place game but they're open for the result to be favorable in the opening game. They will play a ingenious team which is large Jamaican so I don't know if that's an advantage to them or not but we'll see what happens. We should have two interesting exciting games tonight. Yeah and the Tobago team have been off for the last couple of days but they will go into their next fixture with their morale boosted by what happened in their opener. Yes, I spoke to the keeper today, the goalkeeper. He had a good tournament last year. He came back. He had a good first game. They're in really good spirits. I did some pool work, some recovery work. They are open and ready for Inter. So we'll see how that goes and that match will be played at the Inter Stadium training facility, sparkling facility. We are looking forward to going there tomorrow and I'm sure the Tobago players are as well. Yeah and you did suggest Phil and the coach Kyle Joseph did agree as well that this Tobago unit is stronger this year than the one that turned up last year. Yes they are. Yes they are. They look better. They are better players. They are stronger players, older players. They caught the squad. So last year they carried about 32 players. This year they carried about 20-22 players. Very experienced players, players who look like they have skill. You know, last year it was more of a let's take a trip. Let's go to the mall kind of thing. Let's enjoy our time. Now they want to win and they want to last year Inter. Knock them for five. So we'll see what happens this year. Yeah quickly about Inter because they had a good win last night. Of course Inter Miami is the club that Lionel Messi plays for and Luis Suarez is about to join them in a couple of days. How does that unit look? They look good. They look good. Kobe Thomas is Jamaican is on that team and he looked good last night. And we are looking forward to seeing them.  And there are points. I'm getting a feedback in my ear. Yeah, continue. We're listening though. So yeah, we're looking forward to that. We're looking forward to that. We might have a surprise for you tomorrow. I don't know if it's messy. I don't know what it will be. But when we go live tomorrow you will see what happens. Well we'll be looking forward to that and our viewers are now on the edge of their seats because Friday's Sportsmax zone show by the promise of Phil Riley is expected to be something special. But quickly Phil, again about the opportunity for these players. No it might be something special. The opportunity for the players from Tobago and Jamaica as young players. They are teenagers. A lot of them probably have professional aspirations for the game. And I know that there are not many astroturf surfaces that these players would have played on. You know, so this is a different kind of experience for them. But isn't that part of what they'll be judged by their adaptability to different conditions? Yes, they will be. But great as still it's the pace of the game lands. These players, these clubs here, the players don't give it a second on the ball. As they lose the ball they want to win it back. I heard last year the coach Victor Pastore of Inter, he said three seconds, three seconds to get it back, three seconds to get it back. So he kept pressuring the players to win back the ball each time. We're not used to that in Jamaica. We are used to watching if a stone touches the ball or if the ball bounces up or anything like that. But the ground is true and the players are fast. Yeah, can you talk to us about the size of the field? Because the angle that we are looking at at the highlights is the field, the full international size field? No, it's not a full international size field. But it's pretty big. It's big enough. I think it's wide. It's not as long as maybe Jason can give you a shot. You can see. Yeah, well, as I said, just looking at the highlights. But I know that the coverage, the camera angle and the elevation of the camera does give you the feeling of it looking a little bit congested. But hard to judge from here. But yeah, it does look reasonable size. But during the highlights, it looked a little squeezed for me. So that's why I asked the question about the size of the field. But Phil, this is really, as we have said before, a great opportunity for young players from the region to get their feet wet in this kind of experience with, as you said, players who play very, very quickly, give them very, very little time on the ball. So their decision making has to be fast and immediate. But I suppose that every player that would have played in this Castle series would feel as if they would have gained something from this experience, whether they win or lose. Yes, yes, they would have.  They look forward to playing the Jamaicans. They come to see the Jamaicans. They want to play them because they watch them on SportsMax. They want to see them play and they want to beat them. All right, Phil. Well, we certainly will look forward to having the link up on Friday. As you said, you have something in store for us. And I guess you have piqued the interest of our viewers, and I guess our presenters as well, because Mariah and Ricardo are, I think, as anxious as I am to see what the link up will be like tomorrow. But thanks, Phil. And tell Jason hi for us, and we link again tomorrow. Yes, I'll tell him. And I think we'll be taking some of the players to KSC tomorrow. Because the Jamaicans will have a day off tomorrow. So we'll take a trip to KSC. Oh, okay, Phil. Okay, obviously, of course, one of the sponsors of Schoolboy Football in Jamaica. We'll be back with more on this one after this.


What's up everybody Jason here for jazby's cage breaks calm This is our last filler guys the only filler we needed to sell out the last six spots in the 18 box baseball mixer With this 2022 fanatics under wraps baseball one box break number 18 So again guys 30 total spots are because we're on a team that might be first Remember the Mammy Marlins will also get any and all multi-sign autograph baseball spots And of course the baseballs go to the current team if active team played for the longest if retired or not active Unless there's I've identified mark inscription that indicates a specific season team year, etc So at the end of the break, we will take all 30 customer names randomize them and the top six Get a spot in the mixer. It's supposed to be six. I know it says top five. I think that was a little bit of a typo So six I have that right here ready to roll. All right. So here we go guys. Let's do the break first Roll five and four nine times one two three four five six seven eight nine nine times nine nine Carl the top then across the bottom nine times here on the teams down one two three four five six seven eight nine Blue jays out of the Cubs All right, so there is the team's eyes. I'll give you a quick second to check them out So here we go guys. So again, just because we have a couple breaks sold out a little bit of a break schedule So quickly just showcase this ball and nice. It's a futures game. I think that's Adley Ruchman Yeah, it is actually Ruchman futures 2021 game logo ball That's awesome. There you go. So Adley Ruchman Baltimore world is gonna Carl. All right Carl. So there you go man Now let's switch scenes and let's give away some spots in the Jasper's 18 box mixer.  All right folks. So there you go coming up next is the 18 box mixer guys. Thank you


The House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation has the short-priced Bola-Tinibu of speedy passage of the 2024 Appropriation Bill when brought before it. It also vowed to exercise its oversized jurisdiction on all government agencies during its monitoring of the budget implementation. Chairman of the Committee, Awabaka Beaches, today leads an inaugural meeting of the Committee on Tuesday while promising to sustain the long-established precedence of an Ensuring Compliance with the Financial Year Act through budget passage on all before 31 December of each financial year. The Committee will ensure the maintenance of the long-established and cherished precedent of Ensuring Compliance with the Financial Year Act through budget passage on 4th before 31 December of each financial year. This development would undoubtedly make the budget implementation from January to December operational and achievable. In a similar vein, the Committee will ensure its coordinated leadership roles to facilitate pre-budget meetings with relevant MDSs while at the same time providing a sustainable collaboration, especially with the sister committee in the Senate and other relevant stakeholders to enhance the integrity of the budget process through community analysis and the public participation in the enactment process. We should not take it for granted and think that they can fly into this committee from all parts of this National Assembly. So we are constantly going to guard our committee to deny our membership to make sure that every member of this National Assembly does not become a member of the Appropriation Committee. Mr. Chairman, I must thank you very much. Let me assure you on behalf of our members that you have nothing but our support. You have nothing but the solidarity of members of this community. And I must thank you for the depth of your consultation. Thank you very much.


Stop Steven! Be gentle. I can't catch myself. Speed bump coming up. Speed bump! I thought this gym closed at 11 to close at 10 and it is now 9.15 ish. Let's go. And so I'm getting up easy off them. I'm jumping I'm getting like easy dribble dunks with like not a full approach slow approach feeling good getting a decent height With like low upper jumps, which is really good. We're seven focusing on past four months, but all my techniques off I can't get that high and I feel a little bit overworked I'm gonna rest up take care of my body. I have been moving these past couple days So I know it's extra exhausting But um just rest up so I feel fully energized and then try to have a crazy dunk session just to get some adrenaline back of my My mojo one more dribble dunk for the days. I couldn't do it. Well For those struggling I remember the days I could only jump my hardest and not even get close to dunking Off the dribble even though I could jump super high without the ball and that's even more frustrating than not jumping high at all Because you know, you can get a lot higher and there's just something wrong and you could fix it And you just feel broken pretty much, but point is Keep working and you can make it possible Now I still can't believe I don't get that easy It doesn't feel that easy But it's definitely easier than it was to think back because even though this is where I should be and be To do that that easily there was a time I couldn't so to look at the progress and Remember that I couldn't do it at some point because now it feels like how I should be feels natural I don't know. It's weird, but I'm looking forward to the progress. I don't know


My name is Dr. June Francis and I am the chair of the BC Anti-Racism Data Legislation Committee. Our committee works to address racism in government services and I'm here to ask one request of you this summer to fill out the BC Demographic Survey and you can find this on anti-racism.gov.bc.ca. Many of you have heard the ways in which the BC government has answered the call of so many advocates to address racism in government services and I'm sure you can all get behind that idea. You see this survey is different. It's different from the census and it's different from many surveys you have received because it's specifically designed to help us to understand how racism impacts the way in which various racialized communities and others experience government services and the impacts. So I'm calling on all of you please to go to anti-racism.gov.bc.ca so that we can all work together to address racism in government services.


As you reminded us, the Banking Union, while not complete, certainly has plenty of room to develop. And in this light, we have a keynote speech from the ideal person to set the scene for our discussions today. And she's kindly agreed to take a couple of questions afterwards, so please submit them now. Please welcome Maread McGuinness, Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Market Union. So, very good afternoon everyone. I'm not sure if you saw a photograph been taken over there of four people with a sign over them. The test of time. I'm a little worried about where that photograph will end up with that heading on it. But can I say the actual theme of this conference is really important because we are marking 10 years, but we're not resting on our laurels because we have a lot of work to do. And to some extent if you hear things twice, Andrea, you have said much of what I want to endorse. But I think that's no harm because we need to be very clear and very straight about the path ahead and about the need to go on this journey, even if there are little difficulties and twists and turns. So very happy to be here because this is a topic that's hugely important for the European Union. And as you know, it's often in times of crisis that the European Union does its best. It deals with crisis because we absolutely have to. And we can take very difficult decisions that would not happen, let's say, in normal times. And we can be very ambitious and look what happened during the COVID crisis. And I suppose the banking union, like many of these big European projects, is one of an ongoing story of maybe small steps, some big leaps. It's a collection of initiatives launched in the aftermath of the global crisis and to ensure greater financial stability and to strengthen our single currency through deeper integration of the euro area banking system. If we look back to a decade ago, the global financial crisis and then the euro area debt crisis raised fundamental questions on the very future of our banking system. To contribute to financial stability in the euro zone, it became very clear that we needed a strong and safe banking system working easily across national borders with less ties to individual countries. So over that past decade, we embarked together on the journey towards our ultimate destination of banking union. We considerably changed our banking sector and shaped a whole new regulatory and supervisory architecture for our banking system. But we're still on that journey and we're not there yet. We have not reached our final destination. But it's important to mark the fact that we have made significant progress already. So the first and second pillars of the banking union are up and running. The SSM brings clear benefits in terms of the level playing field. It gives confidence that banks are supervised in a consistent manner across the banking union. And there have been continuous progress on crisis preparedness, improving the resolvability of banks and building up capital buffers. Our capacity to handle the failure of European banks without affecting financial stability has improved markedly. And a common backstop to the single resolution fund will soon enter into force, boosting confidence in the bank resolution framework. We've also put in place a single rule book for banks across the single market. And at its very core are stronger capital and liquidity requirements for banks, improved deposit or protection rules, and rules to manage the recovery or resolution of a failing bank. And indeed the recent case of the Court of Justice in the Banco Popular case confirms the robustness of our harmonized resolution framework and the strengthening of the powers of the SRB. And we see results. We see good results. Our banks proved resilient during the pandemic. Andrea, you referred to that. They continue to provide liquidity and services despite lockdowns and this helped to deliver many government measures to support the economy. Of course, the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine at this point in our financial system, we are vigilant, but they are under control because our collective efforts thus far has helped to make our banking sector stronger and safer. And now to the core of today's conference, the test of time, Banking Union ten years on, will our framework pass the test? And I think we all know that there are new risks and challenges emerging, not least geopolitical tensions, macroeconomic risks, the climate crisis and the digital transition. Now these developments, some bring opportunities. The banking sector will have an important role to play in mobilizing the investment needed for this twin climate and digital transitions and the shift towards more diversified energy sources. And this is an absolutely urgent topic. But the uncertain economic and geopolitical environment also carries risks that could test the resilience of our banking system. We know inflation is now a reality. Interest rates are expected to increase. And while the COVID crisis is no longer headline news, it has not gone away. Our banking system would be further strengthened to deal with these challenges if it could operate on an integrated EU market backed by an institutional setup that provides adequate safety nets. So despite the impressive progress over the last ten years, there is a lot of work which we need to do and we need to do it together because we're still missing an important piece of the framework. A decade on, the third pillar of Banking Union, a European deposit insurance scheme, is still missing. EDIS would increase the resilience in the overall system by pooling some funds at Banking Union level. A political agreement to establish EDIS would require progress on other outstanding elements of the Banking Union. A comprehensive work plan for the finalization of Banking Union didn't emerge from the Eurogroup. We were hoping it would. I think everyone in this room was hoping that it would. The determined efforts of the Eurogroup president, Pascal Donahue, ensure that the Eurogroup took a pragmatic step forward, focusing on improving the existing crisis management and deposit insurance framework. I always see the glasses half full. And we will use here in the Commission that pragmatic step forward to address improvements in crisis management because we know the framework would benefit from that. We will work on a legislative proposal to reform crisis management and deposit insurance. And this reform would aim to improve our capacity to manage bank failures while maintaining financial stability, protecting depositors, and safeguarding taxpayers' money. Our goal should be to ensure that any bank can exit the market smoothly. However, we do not underestimate the challenges we will face to reach agreement on the reform. I've said repeatedly there is a lot of heavy lifting to be done, and we will only succeed with a clear commitment from our co-legislators to engage constructively in those negotiations and show the necessary willingness to compromise. As I'm learning, the Commission is well used to taking up difficult challenges from the response to the pandemic to the immediate response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And we will continue to play our part in driving banking union forward. Our collective destination remains a complete banking union, and if that's the one message I want to get across, that is the message coming strongly from us in the Commission. It may not be fully in view today, but I believe we will get there because we have a signpost in the right direction. So I hope this conference allows us to have these deep discussions about what is necessary. I gather I'm going to be quizzed now, but I want to thank you for your attention and the need for the opportunity to be with you. Do I stay or do I go? You stay. That's a line in a song if I recall. We can have a duet. Thank you very much, Commissioner, for your speech. We have a few questions coming on online, and then we'll turn to the room. So the first question is, and this is not coming from Elka, I believe. Are you pleased with the work of the SRB to date? Yes. And do you see any role for the SRB beyond resolution in the future? Well, let's see what comes of our discussions. I mean, I think things evolve. So I don't think you should set everything in stone and say, this is fixed. I would join in the kind remarks to Elka. You know, Elka has been so determined that we would make progress and you've made huge progress. So in these days where there is so much change in our financial system collectively, then I think even in our regulation, we should not say this is done and it will not need to be looked at. So I would rather say that we need to be open to what might be necessary. Great. And that, I think, brings us on neatly to the next question. If there are any clear milestones for the completion of the banking union or what's next for the banking union, as Mr. Enria mentioned, there's plenty of room for development in the existing framework. Look, I think we all know the steps and we're going to take the one step that we've been tasked, if you like, by the Council. And that's on crisis management. And when I said this was, you know, a pragmatic step forward, that's important because it gave us a signal that while it was difficult to go much further, those in the room realize we have to go much further and it's a question of time. So I won't say dates or times, but we know the elements of a complete banking union and what it will need, I think is a collective understanding that everybody will have to give a little and that we will gain a lot from that. So that's my conviction. It's better not to give dates unless you're absolutely certain. Indeed, thank you. Is there anybody in the room here in Brussels who would like to ask a question of the Commissioner? If not, I have more online. I thought I was free. One last question, Commissioner. I know you don't have much time. Despite your commitment, unfortunately, the banking union remains incomplete, but could you explain why it is blocked in your opinion? Do you think it's because the bail-in rules, for example, aren't fully respected in the Eurozone member states? I think it's much more in a way basic than that, to some extent. We did what we had to do in a crisis and we just didn't finish it. And I think now, in a sense, if you look at our banking sector is more nationalized than it was, indeed, even in the past. So I think it's about political willingness to understand why a colleague across the room has an issue and that if you give, they can. And I think there was a sense in the room, actually, last week, that we could do that. But I have to respect the fact that those who are present just couldn't take that huge leap forward. But I think the president of the Eurogroup, and indeed, maybe from Council this week, the European Council, will keep this very much in the radar because there's great opportunities from completing Banking Union and why would we delay? Thank you.


Five products that I am loving right now for the Over 50 Woman and there might be a few bonuses in here. Let's get into that video. Hello friends. I'm excited to be bringing you five products that I'm kind of obsessed with right now. I really am enjoying them. They're products that I may or may not have shown on my channel before. Some of them I probably have, but I want to kind of put a focus on them because they are that good. The other thing is that this video is a collaboration with Kathy from Kathy Over 50. Kathy is a really sweet gal that approached me and asked me to do this collab with her. I had worked on another group collab with her and so she asked me if I'd team up and I said absolutely. I'd love to do that. So Kathy's channel is geared specifically to the Over 50 Woman. She has a lot of recommendations for high-end makeup. She does tutorials. She does get ready with me. She does a lot of reviews. I really appreciated her reviews during the Nordstrom anniversary sale because I get a little bit lost when I start looking through Nordstrom's things and I don't know what's good. So I did appreciate that about her. She has a great variety on her channel. So I do hope that you go over and check out her content and give her some love. Tell her that I sent you and hopefully subscribe to her. I would really appreciate that. Now if you are over from Kathy's channel to my channel I want to say a special welcome to you. My name is Melissa and I'm 53 years old and all of my content is geared towards the Over 40 Woman because I feel like once we hit 35-40 depending on what our circumstances are we have different skin. Our skin is changing especially as we get into the menopause stage and especially after that. So there are so many things that we have specific challenges of. I do a lot of drugstore videos. I do a ton of drugstore reviews and affordable makeup. I do have quite a bit of high-end thrown in there and I do a lot of dupes. I love my dupes for high-end makeup. And if you're interested I did put this video up on this makeup look right before this one. So I will make sure that I link that for you as well. I hope that you do enjoy seeing my five favorites and that if you are new you will subscribe if you enjoy the content. If you're not new you know how much I love you and we're going to get into this right now. This product was recommended to me by a subscriber and I'm so glad that she did. This is the Milani No Pore Zone Mattifying Primer. This is your primer base before your foundation. It is a silicone base so if you don't like that silicone or that little slip you might not like this. But man I have been noticing how beautiful this is under just about any foundation that I have. I have it on today. If you just press it into your pores it almost makes your pores just disappear. It is just so great. It is not super thick but it is a little bit thicker of a primer. It's not like the original Smashbox. It's just got a little bit thinner of a slip to it. And if you like a glowy or dewy look underneath your foundation this one is definitely mattifying. You could mix in something luminous with it if you wanted to. I have found that it mixes really well with like my L'Oreal or my I have a NYX one that has a glow in it, a liquid product that has a glow in it. And I mix them together and they work really good. But I love this for its blurring properties and I love how well it helps my makeup stay on because it creates that barrier between my moisturizer and my foundation. And you can see hopefully you can see how blurred out that hand is compared to this one that I didn't use it on. This is one of my very favorite things. All right I'm putting on my glasses to figure out what these are called. These are from Dew Care. I got these off of Amazon. This is a duo brush set and I am so enjoying these. I am loving these. I use both of these. This one right here the fluffy one and then the little bit more dense one. I use both of these to put on foundation. Just depends on whether I want you know more heavy coverage or if I want lighter coverage I'll use these. They're so good. You could do this one with powder if you wanted to. This one gets up underneath my eyes really well really nice. This side on the bigger one has an angle. It's a you know for blush. So you could go in with your contour or you know go ahead and do your blush with that one. Really like it. This one right here is a pointy little bit stiffer. But I like that and I'll tell you why. Because there are lots of times when I wear my hair up and you can see my hairline like you can today. And I will take my contour that is a darker color and I will really really buff it in there and it really does a great job of you know going in there and getting kind of a little bit into the hair and disguising the line between your makeup and your scalp which I love about it. Now would be great to you know go ahead and you know do your contour as well. These brushes are great. They're not very much. They're super soft. They have been very durable. I've washed them several times not lost any fibers out of them or anything any hairs out of them. They're really really good. Now along those lines is the next product. That is the Sephora Solid Brush Cleaner. If you've never had these they're like a soap. They sit down in there and this one is like almost used up. But here is what I love about them. So I'll take a brush like what I just showed you and I'll wet the brush and then I'll go in and I'll scrub it across this right. But look right here in the lid. They give you a little scrubby pat in there. So then I'll just go under the water and I'm scrubbing that and it comes so clean so fast and then what I do is I just lay the two out. You know empty the water out of them. Lay the two out. Let them dry and the next day put the lid on. This is slick. I was one that was scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing those brushes but this is really fast and quick and it's one that I'm really enjoying a whole whole bunch. So if you've been struggling with finding the perfect thing for your brushes to clean them with I finally have found something that is super easy because you know I have a lot of brushes being you know doing what I do for a living. I do have a lot of brushes so when it comes time to clean them this is fast and I really love it. Next product is the one I kind of cheated on. I've got three from this brand. This is Kiko Milano and they recently maybe last year maybe six months ago came to Ulta and then they came out with this little collection very recently. Let me grab my glasses so I know exactly what I'm telling you. The collection is called Charming Escape. First of all I don't know if you can see or not this embossing that is on the top of these but this packaging is so much fun.  This is super silky but it does not deposit a ton on your skin. It's not super hyperglowy. For me this is beautiful because it on mature skin sometimes highlighters can really show up a ton of texture not this. It's really pretty. Let me grab that brush. I was just talking about the blush one.  I already have kind of a lot of beam on here but I'm just going to kind of really lightly go across my cheeks and you can see how pretty that highlighter is. It's so beautiful. It's a fairly big compact too. It's got a nice mirror in it very sturdy packaging. I am in love with this line and now that I've tried it. The next one is the bronzer and this one is super silky and creamy as well. This one is in Unique Sienna. I really struggled with this because I don't normally like bronzers because they are way too orange. This one has a lot of red in it and I think it's so nice. Again as I stick my finger in here very silky product. It goes on super lightly so you can really buff it out. You're not going to have something that's going to be super stark so you can really buff that out and I'm sorry I've got a dark spot right there on my hand where my veins come together so it's looking weird but it is a beautiful product and on my face as a bronzer it doesn't turn super orange. It turns that reddish color that if you are somebody that has a cooler undertone sometimes you need that reddish color so this one was really pretty as well and then the last one I have is the blush and I do apologize because I think this is sold out at Ulta but it is on their website and this one is Rose Garden from that collection. Look at how cute that little embossing is on there. All of their stuff is embossed. It looks so high end and yet the price tag isn't super super high. This is a satin blush. It's got a tiny bit of sheen to it. Look at how saturated that is. It's so pretty. I think that this line is one that I'm going to be exploring a lot. I think that because of how impressed I've been with this particular few things that I've gotten that I'm going to be trying a lot more and this is the blush. Just a tiny bit on here. I already have enough on. I don't need to be putting too much more on but it's just very pretty and very soft and I really love how all of these products blend out and how buttery they are.  Last product again I'm cheating and there's a reason. The first one that I'm going to show you is from Revisions Skincare. This is the Youthful Lip Replenisher. This is basically a lip mask. It is so hydrating. You can wear this any time of day but what I'm using this as is a treatment in the morning and at night and this is lovely. It does have a tiny tiny bit of a cooling effect but not a lot. It has a little applicator on here that is very easy to use and then you just squeeze out however much product you need and it is shiny. That's nice to have too if you're using it over a lipstick which you can do. You can use it all day long if you want to. This is super duper hydrating and I use it as I'm done with my skincare in the morning and getting ready to put my makeup on because it plumps up all of those vertical lines that I have and it's been a beautiful treatment for me. It's chock full of antioxidants as well which helps protect your lips during the day against free radicals which is what causes us to age is all the junky stuff that hits our skin from pollution. I want to tell you that even though I have been loving this and I probably will pick this up again I still, my City Beauty, I have to go back to that because this, I know how good this works. This just works so well. The City Beauty City lips and the gloss one it is amazing, amazing treatment for your lips. I wanted to show you the revisions because I do feel like it's a beautiful mask. I do feel like it's doing some great things but in the end the City Beauty is still the winner and they have a bunch of colors but I would suggest if you're going to use it as a mask at night just get the clear one which goes on sale all the time. If you aren't following me over on Instagram I always post that sale or any sale that City Beauty has because I love their skincare line as well. But when I put this on I instantly feel my lips get plumper. I believe this one is, I can't see without my glasses. Hold on! This one is Tinseltown and it's just got a little tiny bit of shimmer in it. It's the most lovely feeling lip product I think I've ever used. I feel like my lips have been so much improved the longer that I use this but revisions if you can't get City Lip somewhere and you can get revisions or vice versa they're both so good and they've been doing my lips just fantastic things. I have really bad lines.  Those are things that I'm absolutely loving at the moment and I'm not putting down. I seem to just be reaching for them constantly and I hope that you did enjoy the video. If you are new here please consider subscribing and if you are one of my subscribers that have been here for a while go over and check out Kathy please and show her some love and tell her that I sent you. Thanks everybody for being with me. I appreciate your support more than you will ever know. I hope that you're having a wonderful day. Please stay healthy and happy and I will catch you all hopefully in my next video and I love you much. Bye friends.


What's the history of flash? Well, the early days of solid state as an enterprise storage device really started in the 1980s with, believe it or not, mainframes. Certain vendors such as STC, National Advanced Systems, and EMC competed with IBM Direct Access Storage Devices by packaging RAM, RAM memory actually into large storage devices. The advantage of these systems is they were much faster than spinning disk because they were, of course, RAM based, but the major disadvantages were they were volatile, i.e., if power got cut, data was lost, and they were really, really expensive. They had to be backed up with batteries and never really went mainstream. As such, they were niche oriented and confined to fringe applications where IO speed was really critical. It wasn't until the mid 2000s when Apple replaced the iPods spinning disk drive with an all-flash music player. Remember that? This created the volume necessary to jump start. What we look at at Wikibon is the modern flash era. The big difference is that flash, unlike earlier solid state disk drives, which were based on RAM, is a persistent media, meaning like magnetic disk, it retains data without a power source. Apple's commitment to large scale production drove prices down and fueled adoption in consumer products. Now, in 2008, EMC and Estec partnered to deliver what Wikibon called at the time a haymaker to the enterprise storage market by packaging enterprise SSDs into large scale storage arrays. This kickstarted the modern era of enterprise flash storage and many dozens of companies began securing VC funding to attack this new market. Over the next four years, we saw innovations in flash, ranging from PCIe connected flash devices to flash as an array cache to all flash arrays to hybrid flash and spinning disk systems and eventually flash that extended main memory as a directly addressable resource. Now in 2012, we're seeing the extension of the storage hierarchy where flash is being managed from the server all the way through the spinning disk array. Now, the key innovation here is software that intelligently places data at the most appropriate location in this new emerging storage hierarchy. What's the vision of where flash is headed and how is it changing enterprise storage? At Wikibon, we see flash becoming the predominant medium for IO intensive applications. Because it's more expensive than SATA disk, flash will initially remain focused only on data with high IO activity. However, because data continues to grow at 50% per annum or more in spinning disk performance is mechanically constrained and as a result, not improving, the effective cost per IO of flash is becoming much more attractive than that of spinning disk. What this means is that while historically, cost per gigabyte was the primary metric used by practitioners to evaluate business cases for storage, increasingly cost per IO is the more meaningful comparative statistic. Specifically, the flash cost per IO is declining dramatically while the cost per IO of spinning disk is essentially static. Spinning disk will remain the cheapest medium for long-term storage. This means the role of spinning disk over time will become increasingly focused on storing data with less frequency of access, for example, archiving, while the majority of active data will eventually land in the flash hierarchy. Now, there are two important points to remember here that are relevant. One, this transition is going to take some time, perhaps as much as five years. And two, software to optimally place data in the hierarchy will become more and more important. Now, as well, mechanisms to provide data consistency, cash coherency and data sharing will over time become crucial. Now, the final point is flash eventually is going to enable a whole new breed of applications that were once too expensive to justify based on the IO economics of spinning disk. For example, the ability to collect operational transactions, metadata, social media data, and multiple other sources of external data simultaneously in concert with operational databases will enable a whole new breed of analytics that allow companies to target buyers in near real time, just as buying decisions are being made. What does all this mean to customers? The key issue for most practitioners that we talk to in the Wikibon community is how can I take advantage of the trends in flash without ripping and replacing my existing infrastructure? There are three factors that customers should consider when planning for this future. Number one, remember over time, spinning disk will no longer be the most cost effective medium for active data that will migrate to flash. Number two, you will not be able to manually ensure the right data is on the right device. The industry must automate this data placement. Number three, start looking for business opportunities where applications can exploit the declining cost of IO and begin to monetize those applications in ways that were never possible with spinning disk.


This cell is a eukaryote because it does have a nucleus. I'm going to trace my nucleus. Excuse me, I'm going to trace this cell's nucleus. Look at this thing. That's the nucleus of the cell. Now, the nucleus, why? Who cares? Why is there a dot in the middle of our cell? Why is there a ball in the middle of our cell and another ball inside it? It's because the nucleus is the structure, the organelle that holds the DNA. And DNA is a nucleic acid. We're going to spend, oh, three lectures, I think, talking about DNA, structure, and function. Not all, there are different kinds of nucleic acids. The nucleic acids were one of our four main categories of biomolecule, and DNA contains the information necessary to build proteins and make you.  So everybody pat your DNA. You patted some, there's some DNA in there somewhere. Only is there DNA inside of your nucleus.  We also have this little, to me, this thing looks like a rubber band ball, doesn't it? But it's inside the nucleus. Notice my nucleus is surrounded in black and I made this little blue circle around this structure which is called the nucleolus. Ole-us. The nucleolus has an important job. It builds ribosomes, ribosomes. And this matters because we're going to spend a day talking about ribosome function. Like, what does a ribosome do? And why do we, like, you've got a whole structure inside every single cell just to build ribosomes. It's actually kind of an important thing. The nucleolus is an important structure. The nucleus in a eukaryote is separated from the rest of the cell, just like the cell is separated from the extracellular fluid, the nucleus is separated from the rest of the cytoplasm by a nuclear envelope. And that is how, what makes you happy. I'm coloring my nuclear envelope. I circled the whole nucleus and so if I circled the whole nucleus, I'm going to be touching the nuclear envelope. The nuclear envelope is essentially like a cell membrane around the nucleus. It's like the Ziploc baggie inside the bag of soup that we had. It's actually made out of the exact same stuff that a cell membrane is made out of. And again, we're going to talk about cell membranes in the next entire lecture. The nuclear envelope, notice, if you will, notice the holes. Those are pores, I mean, they're literally holes. They're like those little grommet things in a hoodie, the little metal things that hold two pieces of fabric together, but make like a tunnel in between. That's what those things are like. They're holes that allow some stuff in and out of the nucleus, the plot thickens. Don't you kind of want to know what those are and why they're there? They're like secret passageways. Don't you want to go inside the nucleus and have a tea party with the nucleolus? I do. And I could go through one of those nuclear pores to get there. Shall we talk about other organelles that are defined in the eukaryotic cell, organelles that are in the cytoplasm, not in the nucleus itself. Let's do that.


Alrighty, so I'm here to talk about Halloween Haunt 2023 with you guys, and I have some exciting news and news to break for you. I'm gonna update you guys on the information that I know so far about Halloween Haunt for 2023, and please take all this with a grain of salt until Wonderland makes an announcement themselves as things can change or get cancelled. But I'm gonna go over a few things and give you my speculation and predictions for what's gonna happen with Haunt this year. But to start it off, I definitely think that pandemonium is gonna be discontinued, and I'm hearing rumblings that a Vikings themed maze is going to make its way into that haunted house, if you want to call it that. For those of you that do know, I think pandemonium was one of the worst haunted houses I've seen designed at Canada's Wonderland in ages, like it was so bad, like so bad. So I'm really excited to see that they're gonna upgrade it and give it a Vikings kind of theme around a Vikings theme, so kind of fitting in, I guess with that adventure, like travel, not travel, but that adventures like kind of theme Indiana Jones theme down in the mountain. Spirit Manor and Cornstalkers will be operating this Halloween Haunt, again construction shouldn't start until December on our 2025 project. So we don't have any reason for these mazes to not operate this season, so we'll keep you guys posted if we learn anything about these two mazes after this season. Farmstead will be changing to mass acres and become slightly more enclosed with still the two directional flow that Farmstead had as well, but it'll be changing to mass acres. Trick or Treat will also be changing slash getting a re-theme slash revamp into a slightly different, I think this was done just to take away from the theme of Trick or Treat. So we'll see what that transitions into. Vampire Disco is moving over to Coasters, essentially I think where that show took place last year, the Skeleton Crew, I think that's what it was. So yeah, Vampire Disco will be moving closer to the Coasters restaurant, Day of the Dead is staying in Medfare as well, and Red Alert is retiring and it will become the Dark Ride Haunted House. So Dark Ride, the Haunted House will be front gate in that tin building where Red Alert was. The Crypt is I believe receiving an enhancement or it is transitioning into a new maze. So we'll keep you posted there. That is all the information on Halloween Haunt that I have so far. But as you can tell, there is a lot of money being in fact, I just burped, I just burped in the middle of my update, but as you can see, Halloween Haunt is receiving a lot of money and getting some lovely upgrades. So really love that for the entertainment department. So I'm really excited about this. I'm truthfully really excited for Halloween Haunt this year and excited to see all these refreshed ideas and yeah. So hopefully you guys enjoyed this really quick video updating you on the future of Halloween Haunt for 2023 and this is just the beginning. So this is all the information I have right now, but we'll keep you guys posted. Have a good one. Bye.


From Soldiers Radio and Television, this is the Army Now. Every year, people from all faiths converge to celebrate the lives and honor the memory of the nearly 6 million Jewish people murdered during World War II. A candlelight ceremony brought soldiers and civilians together. Tribute was given to those killed and the individuals and families who went against all odds and possible persecution for sheltering Jewish people to prevent more debts. In German school, we actually have to visit concentration camps because they actually put us in the gas chamber and then they locked the door seeing everything as far as the concentration camps. Following the candlelighting, the attendees were asked to remain silent as they exited the chapel in honor and memory of the millions killed during the Holocaust. Army Sergeant Jesse Dyer, Vicenza, Italy. That's the Army Now.


We're continuing to check in on our Titans family, and we are now joined by the cupcake guys themselves, Brian Rackpo, Michael Griffin. Guys, it is so good to see you. I know you guys have been really busy. Griff, how are things down at Gigi's BKs? It's going well. We just reopened up two weeks ago after this whole COVID-19 and things, and for the last two weeks, we've probably been up there at least 12 days out of the last 14, just making sure everything is going well. But I think it's going great. We just had Mother's Day, Happy Mother's Day, and all the mothers out there. And we had a great day, great Saturday, and it was great. I don't know if people realize how hands-on you guys are when it comes to every aspect of this business. I know that Griff is the cupcake guy, and Rack, you're the decorator. Is that how this works out? Griff comes in, he bakes, and does an exceptional job. And then as soon as he's get done baking, I grab the tray and I decorate. It's a unique experience because, we can't just sit around in our mid-30s doing nothing. We think this is just a time to kind of have fun. It's great for the community, our kids love it, our wives love it. We kind of make it more of a social mile as well while we're in there, while we're up at the shop. So we have a great time with it. I'll tell you what. So it sounds to me like we can definitively say that Brian O'Rackpo and Michael Griffin will not be back on the football field anytime soon. Not that necessarily. On the sideline, I still work for Lawn Mower Networks. I do a lot of broadcasting work for the Lawn Mower Seas. So hopefully they do have a season, so I'll be back out broadcasting. And when you get away from the game of football, you start creating new passions, a new chapter in your life. Just being able to explore those passions that you have for other adventures and things and that and do it. So you guys know I'm a gamer. I've been in the locker room. We'll have little small breaks and meetings and I'm one of the first ones with all the technology and the gaming stuff. So basically, I think you guys have covered Kenny Vicarro's Esports coverage as well. And it's kind of the same thing. I'm more on the casual side. It's a building, it's a retail building where casual gamers can come in and play all the top games. We have tournament play, we have birthday party events. Speaking of the birthday aspect of it, we're gonna have, obviously have GG's to kind of help build those cakes and those cupcakes for our customers coming in and having those special birthdays on the weekend. Thank you guys so much. It was good to see you. All right, see y'all later. Tighten up. Stay safe. Absolutely, tighten up.