zoo and I promise I'll buy you ice cream and you get them ice cream but Connor had asked me for to help him with a YouTube channel so Connor's Clips is now on YouTube and I support that on Twitter and Instagram and that gives me every interaction that I do within that you know I'm happy and I'm doing it with him in mind I post some of his jokes he was a funny kid he initially Connor's Clips was going to be comedy sketches I still have the notebook in the house of he had written down some ideas and I had written down some ideas but we hadn't quite got round to film and so Connor's Clips is there and it brings me great love to see that there Karla wanted a snowman November 2019 we scraped enough snow together by the size of a pint glass and I promised there a bigger one when it would snow more and more snow didn't come but on the 13th of November on Saturday the 13th the Irish Independent will be launching the snowman for Karla colouring competition so anybody who buys a paper that day or they can download it from the site snowman for Karla or from the independent there'll be a snowman colouring competition that day so I'm delighted to see that one coming to life as well I suppose the main one at the moment is the as Dara did charity and Dara was very much involved in the local sports club involved in the local community and you want to make sure that that name is kept forward by ensuring that the support of the family and your own support keeps going into the sports club and again that the memory is preserved but the vision that Dara had as someone involved in sports and involved in the community that keeps going he was involved in absolutely everything sporting and non-sporting he was in the Lego clubs and the drama clubs he had just joined Conor in the drama club and I just feel that if everybody got involved as Dara did our clubs and societies would be well supported and have no end of volunteers and help and assistance and that's what they need so that's what the charity is aiming to do we are looking for people to apply for funds and they can do that through the website asdaradid.ie but we're focused on helping people who have little projects in mind to encourage people to get involved to give some examples the Mullingard town band we're sponsoring some musical instruments to get because they don't have enough so they can have more to get people involved the Mnuth Handball Club we're giving out a handball, we're funding a handball for every child in the club to get involved in handball in Donegal town we did the Donegal town basketball club the Under 8s and the Under 10s some equipment so that they would have that there's just been quite a few projects but we're keen to help more because we're fundraising at the moment which is going very well delighted to be able to tell you all that and you heard about me on Highland Radio is that Daniel O'Donnell is going to do a concert for me for Azdar Adid and it's going to be a raffle so you can buy the raffle tickets through azdaradid.ie and there'll be 30 winners each winner will get 4 tickets to the concert which will be held in the Newcastle Community Centre here in Dublin where I live the community really rallied around me and helped me and supported me accommodation will be provided by the Louis B. Fitzgerald Hotel which is just around the corner food will be provided by Derry Clark who people may know from RT's Lords and Ladels he lives locally and Sadexo who I work with who do workplace services and then on top of that we're going to bring everybody from the hotel from the Louis B. Fitzgerald Hotel to the gig and back again by Jewel Way Coaches who are based locally with an international artist and if Daniel is listening today I am so grateful and so thankful to him for doing this for us well I mean I know from my own personal experience I mean you know there is no one better than Daniel for supporting people like that and indeed he does do that and when Daniel does the concert I can absolutely tell you as you already know he puts his heart and soul into that concert and you know an absolutely fantastic person it's great to see that happening Andrew from the point of view of the work you're doing obviously the tickets for the raffle are on sale until December 12th and you're going to do the draw for the tickets on the 15th and that is a very special day yeah 15th of December is Karlie's birthday so they're all kind of tied in together but three of them were great friends and great buddies even though they had separate interests which sums that up for me is Karlie in her little fairy dress went into the two lads who were in the front room and she wanted to change them into frogs and instead of like telling her you know we're busy or we're playing they cooperated with her and the two of them were jumping around and you can see that video on Connor's clips on YouTube it is just like that was how the three of them were they never fell out they were just three great friends but as the three projects that I'm doing they're totally different they had all separate interests so I'm delighted to be able to do those separate projects in their memories and great for you from that point of view that you do have videos like that and you have the videos that actually you know sometimes the pictures we have are the formal pictures taken in formal settings the formal address top what you actually have is a real representation of the memory of the way the children really were in real life and that's what I'm sure is going to sustain you through some of the hard times that you can actually sit down and watch that and know that that is what you're focused on now is commemorating that and honouring that into the future yeah it was quite funny because a lot of people ask me why do we have so many photographs we were just I think if people look at the photographs they're not staged we haven't told them stand there till we take a picture of all the bits and pieces and we would just say smile and they were so used to it they would just turn and give a smile but they would just be playing or I posted some this morning of Dara he was in the playground trying to push a big metal merry-go-round on his own and it was just that I would just picked up the phone took a picture and then I would have told him to hop on and give him a push so it's those spur of the moment ones which I think are just so funny now because they're not posed and they're not formal or anything like that and yeah it gives me a lot of love looking back at those the concert Daniel Donald concert takes place in the Newcastle Community Centre on the 2nd of June next year the ticket's available for the raffle now Andrew it's asdara.ie it is indeed, the d-a-r-r-a-g-h that's the spell on Dara but it's June next year he hasn't played in Ireland I believe since 2019 so anybody keen to see Daniel in Ireland buy a raffle ticket yeah and the ticket's on sale until December 12th and then the draw taking place on as we said Carlos what would have been Carlos 5th birthday December 15th yeah they are indeed and a lot of what I do is based around those special days and meaningful days for them speaking to us this morning we wish you the best with the initiative indeed with all three initiatives and with the raffle as well I have no doubt that that concert will be a sell out I have no doubt that you will raise quite a lot of money via the raffle and it's good to know that the children's memory is being sustained in this way and the love that as you say is in your heart that 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This petrol model in white can be all yours for as little as 10 euro to enter simply log on to HighlandRadio.com and click on the win a car icon it'll allow you to purchase a ticket for the draw and answer one simple question tickets are 10 euro each you can purchase 6 for 50 euro or 10 for 80 euro the draw will take place on the 9 till noon show on Thursday December 23rd good luck to all taking part now a very important report was published commissioned by the Irish Theatre Institute as part of its speak up initiative it's a call for change the report is toward creating a safe and respectful working environment for the arts and I'm delighted to say I'm joined on the line by Maureen Cannelly who is the director of the arts council Maureen good morning very well indeed thank you Maureen there's been a suppose of focus on those working in the arts and the impact Covid had on them but what's also coming out as there's more discussion about working in the arts is that there are other elements of working in the arts where people have had experiences which have been less than positive there have been indeed and as you say a report that was published last Thursday which was commissioned by the department of culture from the Irish Theatre Institute showed some pretty stark findings over 1300 people responded to the survey and 70% of those surveyed described having experienced harmful behaviors themselves in the arts sector now those harmful behaviors range in the spectrum from bullying and humiliation to assault and sexual assault as well as those 70% who experienced themselves 53% of those who responded to the survey say that they have witnessed others experiencing harmful behavior so it makes for a very sobering and concerning reading and the intention with the Irish Theatre Institute was to establish what is the actual state of play so it's building on work that they had done back in 2017 which specifically looked at the theatre sector this was a wider arts wide so the arts funds that the arts council funds ranges everything from architecture to visual arts with everything like circus and traditional arts in between so it's quite a comprehensive survey and the report brings forward recommendations in terms of how do we actually deal with this worrying situation the presumption would be that the majority of cases reported would be reported by women is that the case there was quite a high percentage of men as well who had reported suffering harmful behavior in the sector so it was not all women by any stretch so I suppose what they finding showed us that across the sector there is a preponderance of behavior which would regard as harmful and behavior that certainly needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency in terms of we understand that sexual assault was reported by 7% of women and 3% of men in terms of the majority of the reports it would be in terms of presumably comments that are being made negative comments that have been made and presumably in certain cases given that dancers were most likely to have experienced negative workplace behavior a lot one would presume would have been perhaps comments about body size comments about weight and things like that which would not obviously be welcomed yeah absolutely that's the sort of behavior that has been pointed out and I guess because the art sector is typified by a very high degree of freelance working that is the report particularly points to that as a characteristic which will lead to more harmful behavior happening so where you have people working very much in a gig economy where you know they have one gig in dance, theater, whatever which they know will come to an end in sort of 68 weeks and they're unclear about where their future work will come from you can imagine that that leads them into a situation where they're highly reluctant to make complaints to come forward and that's something that you know we're very concerned to address to bring forward structures to regulate the sector better so that people can have that comfort and know that they can come forward in confidence and with the assurance that their future reputations and that their future work opportunities will not be jeopardized by them speaking out that's a very very important part of how this report points to. I'm sure there's going to be fear among people as you said it is you know very much the gig economy and you're going from job to job literally from gig to gig and from that point of view people would be very conscious that if you get a reputation for all I don't want to go near him don't want to go near her they're a troublemaker and if you were to get that sort of your reputation people might be you know not as inclined to give you that gig and you could find yourself losing out very starkly and very quickly. Yeah that's a very real worry for people I think it's a small sector in Ireland you know so people get to know each other very quickly and what we have to do is make sure that organizations and individuals leading organizations know that this behavior will not be tolerated and that you know it's a culture change now that doesn't happen overnight as we know but bringing forward aspects like very good clear robust codes of behavior will introduce that change that I think we all want sector-wide and this is just part of a process and I think that working together we can root this out significantly. In terms of the starkness of the report and you have said these findings are stark but they do shine a spotlight on the actions necessary to market to improve the dignity at work for all artists and art workers they say that the darkest hour is just before the dawn could it be that this is the darkest hour and there is a dawn on the horizon that what this report has actually brought out into the open will serve to bring in that better sort of situation and better working environment that you'd seek. I think you're right I would be optimistic about the future I think something like the report serves a great service in its very self in terms of its awareness you know it's all of us knowing that behavior in the art sector is not ideal by any stretch and knowing that working together we can resolve to make it better and that you know the arts council has a new historic level of funding from the government that's going to help greatly with this in terms of us making sure that the organizations and artists who we fund are entirely clear on their responsibilities to their employees whether they're freelance or whether they're on the books you know and that's it's about good governance and good HR practices and with this increased funding we certainly be able to help the sector to improve itself radically in the coming years. Just changing the subject slightly if you don't mind Maureen just with your arts council hat on obviously we're seeing more theaters reopening we're seeing more music events taking place we're seeing more galleries reopen we're seeing the arts slowly but surely at this point become a part of our outdoor lives again and people are going out a little bit more and though there is a lot more happening now than was happening six months ago obviously as the director of the arts council you would be hoping that will continue and looking forward to better days ahead. Yes it's been really invigorating in the last month or two to see venues open and back now to full capacity what's been particularly striking Donal is to observe how the front of house staff and the marketing and the production people and the box office people have all dealt with the public they are highly highly professional there's a very strong adherence to protocols to checking temperature checking covid certs and so on so very quickly they brought their own front of house and health and safety standards up to a very very high level so I would like to encourage the public to take that step out and to make sure and enjoy everything that's on your doorstep there because we really need to support the art sector as they come back and as they present these fantastic events for us they've been to most horrendous time you know like artists it's widely known now it's almost a cliché they were first to stop and last come back but it's certainly true and because they have suffered so disproportionately it's time for us to support artists like never before and one of the things I think the pandemic did do was it did shine a light on those who work in the sector not in the public eye not necessarily as performers but those who are working backstage and working front of house and so on and I remember indeed I think it was Henry Rodin's once posted something up on his website a few years back when he saw someone abuse a member of backstage during a rock gig and he put down a thing that says you must remember that those people who work backstage are there long before you arrive and they're there long after you leave they should get your wages and you should get theirs which I thought was an absolutely wonderful thing to say That's powerful and you're right this has the pandemic has allowed us to look at what actually goes into making an artistic event a show and there are so many people that are very critical to us and I think there's a far better understanding now of the skills and the dedication that goes into it and I feel that people will never be taken for granted again I hope and actually the report last Thursday is very much part of that mix this is a fantastic profession people work incredible long hours they're phenomenally dedicated and they're dedicated to presenting as they can and they're also dedicated to making sure that the public can enjoy the arts in a safe and enjoyable atmosphere so I'm really staggered more so now than ever as I go about the country and attend events and just to see the dedication and sense of responsibility it's absolutely terrific and we owe it to everybody who behaves so well in the art sector to make sure that the group that they have behavior out so that the profession can flourish like never before in the years to come Maureen Kinnelly, director of the Arts Council thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning thank you Donald thank you that's Maureen there and a positive area to finish on but that report certainly does make stark reading as she said out of 1,343 survey respondents 70% said they had experienced bullying, harassment, sexual harassment humiliation, victimization, assault sexual assault while 53% had witnessed it and they are the findings of that report just a few of her comments my oldest boy came home from national school yesterday he had a forum with them for secondary school for next year they used to be allowed a day tour around the school they're going to help them easily into the transition that's not going to happen this year instead they're going to have a virtual tour he has anxiety about this how can hundreds be allowed into nightclubs and concerts but a child can't get a school tour of his new school mental health is being lost I call her says what makes an interesting point I ensure my car via AA car insurance when I asked when I could collect my rebate I was told their insurer Aviva is not giving rebates the AA website indicates the rebate checks will be sent 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west winds hitting gale force in coastal areas rain and drizzle clearing from the east it'll be rather cloudy into the afternoon patches of rain and drizzle mist and low cloud affecting some coastal areas and hills in highest temperatures of 14 to 16 degrees celsius we'll get a little lull in the rain in the afternoon but persistent rain will arrive along the west coast later in the afternoon into this evening staying wet and windy overnight with persistent and locally heavy rain extending to all areas a clearance to scattered chars will develop towards dawn with temperatures not falling below 11 to 13 south west winds moderating inland tomorrow scattered chars and some drier and brighter intervals highest temperatures on Wednesday 14 to 16 moderate to fresh south and south west winds easing later now when you hear all this wind and rain and the temperatures are a bit mild but we're still talking about wind and we're talking about rain and your mind is almost automatically going to move to travel and to sunnier times and to wonder what the situation is with regards to branching out and traveling as let us say we're joined on the line on zoom indeed by Emma McHugh who's director of Atlantic travel in letter Kenny Emma good morning to you good morning Donna Emma I want to talk to you a little about travel at the moment and before I do though just the situation with the US is changing from the 8th of next month and that's less than a fourth night away at this stage non-immigrant adults traveling to the US will need to be fully vaccinated with limited exceptions and I'm sure you and your clients are looking toward the US and wondering when that market's going to start reopening how significant an announcement is this yesterday we got a clarification from the Biden administration that the 8th of November is going to mark the day where leisure travel will be able to reopen for the US what they have clarified is that everybody will need to be fully vaccinated those under 18 so between the ages of 2 and 17 will also need to be tested alongside those that are fully vaccinated what we do need to wait for clarification further clarification on is the minors is the amount of time that they will be required to test prior to travel we do know that for fully vaccinated adults it would be 72 hours however there is speculation that it may only be 24 hours for those aged between 2 and 17 so we are waiting to hear that we also got confirmation that the AstraZeneca vaccine will be recognised by the US for inbound tourism which is a major major issue I suppose for Irish residents where we have 16% of our population got the AstraZeneca now the CDC and the US haven't recognised that it's not on their list of vaccines but they have made an exception for international travel which is good and in terms of summer of next year anecdotally I'm hearing that for travel agents across the board booking for summer 2022 is very strong indeed it is indeed I suppose what we need to remember is that we have a lot of rollover bookings as well so the full capacity was never going to be there for summer 2022 I would say in the last 4 to 6 weeks we've seen a big increase in people thinking about confirming something for 2022 up until that it was quite a lot of last minute holidays but definitely in the last 4 to 6 weeks we are looking at like there is a huge demand there for 2022 we do hope that capacity will increase certainly for Europe the US then will be I suppose slightly different there will be a lot of reinstatement of routes that were there that have been taken off so pricing for the US will be slightly different than for Europe I do think that where we see the routes that we would have seen years ago where it was the traditional New York, Boston, Chicago they've always continued those routes so we're not necessarily going to see seed sales on those but where airlines like Erlingis might want to introduce Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando and those other routes that is where we will see seed sales come into play and that's where the value will be I think for the US for 2022 one of the things I've been looking at is something I personally have been interested in is cruising and it's good to see most ships now back on the water again I looked on social media with some envy I must admit when you go on to a ship they're not that long ago I haven't been able to manage it myself as of yet but it's good to see when you see things like the cruise ships back on the water when you see the resorts starting to reopen in places like Lanzarote and the wider Canaries and Spain and Portugal and so on things are changing and changing for the better they are we're actually back on the seas tomorrow so we're looking forward to going back on board again tomorrow but what we have seen is that travel can be made safe it does have to be safe for everybody to have the confidence to go but it has been proven now that these measures that are in place can offer people a very very safe and secure holiday the resorts are fully open we have seen for both land and cruise holidays in the last four to six weeks there's a lot of people that have that have actually made that leap and gone and travelled and the feedback that we have gotten from our clients has been extremely positive apart from two pieces of paperwork and a mask on board an aircraft there's not really that much of a difference if you are fully vaccinated so you always need your boarding pass you always need your passport now you need a passenger locator form and your COVID cert so it's something that's going to be part of travel it's not going to disappear but it's going to be something that in six, 12 months time we're not even going to think twice about those extra measures they're there for our benefit and it means that we can go back and explore the world again it's a very very small price to pay and I would say to people that they really should be looking up online what are the entry requirements to the country they're travelling to and I presume there is to a certain extent those who use travel agents obviously will get the best advice possible from the travel agents but certainly at the moment given the way things can change week on week and sometimes we see things change day by day important that people keep an eye themselves on the restrictions pertaining to the country they're travelling to just to make sure that they're as up to date as they can be in a unique position where the Highland listeners maybe either travelling from Belfast or from Dublin so you are looking at two different jurisdictions and because Northern Ireland is no longer in the EU there is different there are different restrictions in relating to travel so you can't assume that what we would hear in our I suppose our media and our mainstream news about restrictions that applies to Belfast it does not so that is one thing that I would tell people to definitely keep an eye on because the UK flights actually have been pulled from Morocco at the moment that's not to say that other countries will follow suit but every country is individual and every country is subject to what they would call the emergency break being pulled but yeah keeping up to date with the DFA website reopening EU is also a very very good app for people to download on their phone the US are going to come out with something very similar as well and these things you know once you are booked on a flexible fare or that you have proper Covid travel insurance you know should things change, there shouldn't be an issue one question that's come into us and I just want to briefly put this to you before we let you go I'm quite asking I have Ireland opened up for international travel I have a family of four in Australia they want to come to Ireland for Christmas two would be flying with Irish passports one with an Australian passport one with a South African passport how are they fixed in terms of coming into Ireland and I suppose almost more importantly how are they fixed getting back into Australia the easiest part of that would be coming into Ireland Australia has not reopened yet for international tourism they are looking at really relaxing there are restrictions that has not happened we have not been given a date for it aside from if they were willing to quarantine, hotel quarantine on their return that may be an option but one of the biggest factors for them would be the cost of flights because the capacity out of Australia is extremely limited they have capped the amount of inbound passengers allowed to land in Australian territories so therefore you're going to have supply and demand, you're going to have very very high airfares so I would if it's a thing that they could hang on another three or four months it would possibly be a much easier journey for them then but if there is an issue it's likely to be on the Australian end rather than on the Irish NGM absolutely Emma, thanks for speaking to us this morning Emma McEw there of Atlantic travel I will not pretend that I'm not absolutely jealous to be told you're going back on the seas again tomorrow I have to ask what ship NCL Everett interesting one I've not done NCL yet actually, I must do it some point Emma, thank you very much indeed Grace, thank you Dono Emma there, Emma McEw from Atlantic travel and we're pretty much there bringing the 9 to 9 church for close just a few minutes left a few year commons before we go Caller asking who is legally responsible if you have side effects from the vaccine it's a question I can't answer but it's something that can happen and there is always going to be a warning that there may be side effects and some people may have them whether there is a legal responsibility attached to it I am not sure what's the point of fireworks being illegal when they're everywhere Garthi have no resources to cope never mind the illegal drugs epidemic another caller says Ray Rhodes safety stand on any corner watch the car and lorry drivers with phones to their ears I could book into a hotel and not be asked for a vaccine certificate yet if I want to go to music in the same venue venue I am asked for a cert how is that fair so asks the caller and the caller says I was in a cafe this morning in an area of Donegal they didn't take a name or number there was no mention of a vaccine cert I called the server to the table asked them were they not tracking and tracing the person went and got a pen and paper and took my name and number and if they're not going to track and trace how is anyone meant to know if there are cases after they have visited a certain place that's the question from the caller and that's it from the 9 till noon show I'm back with you tomorrow once again from as the name suggests 9 till noon you can of course watch the playback of the program on Facebook and you we will also be podcasting of course on the Highland Radio webpage and we will be putting up the community garthi slot as well on our own pages and on the Donegal garthi Sheikkhana page as well John Breslin is up next around the north west thank you to Karlyn Orr for producing thank you to all our contributors and most importantly thank to you for listening for taking part and for your comments back again tomorrow for myself Donal Kavana have a very good day Dairy Halloween is transforming Watch your step in this city of booms Join the celebration if you dare Visit Dairy Halloween


How do the average non-elite ancient Romans live? How do they spend their leisure time? Too often we have forgotten these less than famous individuals from the Roman world. To correct this oversight, this is the start of a new series of daily life episodes in ancient Rome. And in this episode, we will look at a number of average Romans who were just trying to get by or those who showed off how they had made it in Roman society. To gain real insights into the lives of average Romans, we need to look at Roman art, in particular from Rome and the Vesuvian cities, so that we can get an authentic feel of the lives of these Romans of no particular fame. In this episode, we'll take a look at a number of specific events, jobs and portraits. Let's look at daily life of the Romans through art. Let's begin with writing and records and some famous images of portraits of modestly wealthy Romans. From this woman to this couple from the house of Tarentius Neu. Each image reveals the tabella, wax tablets held within a wooden frame and paired with a pen for inscribing on the wax. Writing this in your portrait was a sign of education and status in Roman society. But beyond these paintings, we actually have the case of Lucius Chakilishukundus, who was active in Pompeii from 15 to 62 AD. And it's in his house, they were found in 1875, a treasure trove of 153 wax tablets that were banking records of the life and activity of Lucius Chakilishukundus in Pompeii. In one such receipt, on display in the Museo Archeological Dinapoli, it includes his work in the Filonica business. Now what happened in a Filonica? The Filonica was a place to finish woven cloth and to clean it once it was dirty and we're so fortunate that we have a pillar preserved from a Filonica in Pompeii, the Filonica of Lucius Varanius Hapsaeus that details all of this specific activities in a Filonica. The first thing that you would do is to wash the cloth in water and some other material – urine, potash, natron and other materials that were related to get the cloth clean and to degrease it. And who's treading the water? It's slaves, including children. The second step was to rub into the cloth fuller's earth which served to widen it. Then you would rewash it and you actually squeeze out the water with a press which is depicted and then dry it out, hanging it on long beams of wood and also comb it out. Finally, you'd fumigate it with sulfur, placing the cloth on a wicker frame called the Viminea Cavia which is depicted here. Life at a Roman port is beautifully depicted in the famous Turlonia relief recently on display in the Capitoline Museums. This relief comes from Portus, the great imperial port of Ostiantica and it shows a scene of life in Portus which is highlighted by the representation of the faros of the lighthouse with a flame burning on top. The site is busy and industrial and it gives us a sense of the ships arriving at the harbor, the incredibly complex rigging and the sails of the ships. Here's an offering from the master of the ship and thanks for safe travel and a small tugboat that's attached to the larger ship and even an attendant offloading an amphora. Let's take a look at this related image of a boat, not a seafaring vessel but a river transport boat, a Navus Caudicaria, called the Isis Giminiana and it was found in Columbarium 1865 on the Ostiensei Necropolis along the Via Laurentina and what you have here is the scene of the deposit of dry goods into a modius, a dry measuring container and there are also slave attendants or freedmen that are carrying on their shoulders sacks of grain ultimately destined to go upriver, up the Tiber to that great consumer city, Rome. Where did you eat in the busy cities in the Roman Empire? Oftentimes you are in a Capona or a Thermopolium, the fast food counters and we have extraordinary images preserved from Pompeii, Isla Sacra and Ostiantica. In the first scene we have from the Capona of Salavius in Pompeii, four individual scenes giving us an idea of the dynamic life inside the bar. In the first scene you have people kissing with a caption, I don't want to something with Myrtalis. In the second scene there are men drinking, they have their drinking cups and they're calling out to a barmaid probably for more alcohol. In the third scene men are seated playing dice and in the fourth scene it seems the same two men have now begun fighting, yelling obscenities at each other as the bar keeper or innkeeper intervenes telling him to take the fight outside. How little has changed. Here's another image of a bar scene, this one from the Isla Sacra Necropolis in which you have a representation of the faros, the lighthouse from Portis and then you have a scene of a bar counter with wares on display for sale. Here's another scene of a bar in this case from Ostiantica itself and this is one of the most unique dynamic bar scenes we have from the ancient world. We have apparently the owner of the bar behind the counter is a woman and she has in front of her two plates with fruit. Above here are a number of a fowl that are on display for sale and beneath her counter there are caged birds as well as caged rabbits. Finally maybe strangest of all on the counter next to her are actually a pair of monkeys. Are these pet monkeys? Are these monkeys for sale? We're not really sure but overall it's giving us a sense of the dynamic, the hustle and bustle and the scene of a port city like Ostiantica and the dynamic of people buying and selling. This was where you went to eat on a daily basis if you were just staying in an inn or if you were renting a space above the shop you didn't have that full kitchen of the domus. This is where you went to get your daily meal. All kinds of processions were commonly observed in Roman cities. Now the highlight in ancient Rome was the Roman triumph. You had soldiers carrying a ferriculum which had different kinds of trophies even defeated foes. You had a procession of animals that were pretty sacrificed and ultimately there's the general and his chariot. He's god for a day. He's the great champion of Rome but there are many more modest processions that took place all the time in the streets of Roman cities. Here's one of the carpenters, the fabri tignari and it was depicted in their office in Pompeii and you see carpenters in a procession carrying their own ferriculum or beer and what they're carrying is a small wooden shrine with different acts of work. There's a partially preserved image of Minerva, their patron goddess. There's a statue of a figure that has been identified as Ditalis, another sponsor of the carpenters. He himself was a famous carpenter in mythology. So maybe this scene which also depicts people sawing wood, maybe this is a scene from the festival of the quinquatria which was a festival to honor the goddess Minerva. And we can take a look at this related image from Rome from the collegium, the association of the fabri tignari on the Capitoline hill. This was found in 1938. It's in Montmartini Museum today. Historically these carpenters took care of the roofing system of the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus and here you see again Minerva is their patron goddess overseeing their work, their depictions of saws and a square. There are many other images that depict jobs of people in the Roman world from metalworkers. This is from the Borgia collection now in the Archaeological Museum of Naples showing metalsmiths if not in particular working with copper. And we have these mosaic workers actually cutting and making the individual tesserae. What a job! But the results were absolutely stunning as we see from this incredible collection of a variety of mosaics from Montmartini Museum. We've just begun this new series on daily life in the Roman world. So stay tuned for more episodes. You can also tune in to our free live lectures throughout each month. Just go to ancientromelive.org and subscribe to the newsletter. And of course we appreciate your support. Go to ancientromelive.org slash support. So we can make more great original content.


r that we've had a lot of lively chatter on live stream we're addressing any questions or comments at the end so we don't want the folks out there and YouTube land to feel like we're ignoring them but this is for committee deliberation so with that James or Ryan let me do a quick hi I'm Ryan and on behalf of the record subcommittee I want to briefly talk about our efforts today we've had several meetings since our September meeting if you recall during our September full committee meeting we introduced seven recommendations invited your feedback and comments and we've gotten some of those those recommendations have not significantly changed since that meeting so we don't plan to go over them today we will introduce those back to the full committee for consideration discussion at the next session today we'd like to introduce two additional recommendations that we put together and discussed since our last meeting and I want to recognize Mr. Jacobs to talk about this in a minute. I'm going to go back to our university so we did have originally it was one recommendation that we've split into two the first proposed recommendation that I'd like to hear your feedback and comments has to do with we recommend the archivist of the United States request that NARA OGIS and DOJ OIP work together to encourage agencies to work toward a goal of collecting increased records in one or more central repositories in standardized ways in addition to providing access on agency websites and this was something that I believe Bobby gave us some feedback on that and so we did fold your input into the new recommendation I'd love to hear your comments on it comments questions folks on the phone we're not ignoring you I have a question so if it's not on the agency website where would it be are you thinking FOIA.gov or there's FOIA online.gov FOIA.gov maybe an agency has its own repository those kind of places we don't want to prescribe where the agency is required to post it but we want to recommend that that they work to maybe centralize those those documents this is Ryan so just to give an example the State Department has a fantastic centralized portal now where their FOIA records are posted they're searchable they're accessible and I think that that's a good example other agencies that use FOIA online requesters are able to go to FOIA online and do searches of records in those locations other agencies have centralized locations on their websites where you can search across FOIA so again not prescribing a specific solution or standard portal but giving flexibility and I need to give a hat tip out to document cloud and muck rock because document cloud has all of the organizations that use document cloud they have a database a central database where you can search for the FOIA information that those organizations news agencies etc etc have posted to a central repository and it makes discovery of FOIA information much more easy for the requester community this is Sean Malton with Pogo I was just wondering if you guys while drafting this thought about I like the idea I just wonder if there's something more specific rather than just encourage agencies I mean maybe this is something for the chief FOIA officers council to do a best practices under the guidance of OGIS and OIP so that there will be something substantive at the end that other agencies could use as a touchstone as they start to try and accomplish this thanks that's a good idea we're taking notes we are too alright anyone else on number 8 anyone on the phone on number 8 going once going twice alright so the 9th recommendation we have reads the following we recommend the archivist in the United States request NARA OGIS and DOJ OIP to together encourage agencies to release FOIA documents to the public on their FOIA websites and FOIA portals in both human readable and machine actionable formats to the extent feasible and that sort of comes out of the idea of open data and machine actionable machine readable documents has been around since well at least 2013 with Obama's executive order 13642 it's also been in proposed legislation from congressman quickly and others that has not passed but has been submitted to congress every congress for the last 10 years or so at least Bradley White here so for this one I'll kind of raise the same objection I raised before this kind of thing is going to cost a ton of money for agencies to do it's going to be so but finding a way to put everything out there I mean the release to one release to all as we said in the last portion raises a ton of additional issues that there's just a lot to go into with format where it's going to be stored who's going to get it if this were linking to reading rooms with the information that the agencies decided was publicly released I'd have no objection to it but it just raises a lot of red flags of me well that could certainly be a first step I think that's a really good idea to add something about information that is already released under FOIA on agency websites that's a good idea this is James Stoker it's kind of a follow up and actually maybe a question to Bradley about the costs I mean I understand that it's expensive but to store documents online but that seems to be something where you get real basically you end up saving money with scale the requirement to cooperate between agencies for instance to have a common portal or to use FOIA online would that go some way towards addressing the cost concerns I don't necessarily think it would I think it would I don't necessarily think it would because if you look at the way say the cost for FOIA online as it currently exists are spread around the agency there's an agency that barely uses it that pays a large share of the cost for that it depends on the usage and what can go out so if it's based on say that agency share of all government FOIAs if the majority of those records are requests for individuals records then that proportion wouldn't be fair to the agency paying the bulk of the cost and just data storage in and of itself it's got to go somewhere and it has to pay for it and unless there's something where Congress is setting aside this is the fund for storing FOIA records on this portal which is unlikely it's going to be apportioned among the agencies in some form and it just again it raises a lot of reflects Tom did you have a comment Tom's assessment it sort of brought to mind when Ryan was describing the State Department is that prohibitively expensive do we know? because these are the sort of things that say wow what a great sort of model best practices and then you turn around and say this approach is prohibitively well it wasn't prohibitively expensive for the State Department but I guess I'd like to know more about where the line is between model best practice and prohibitively expensive Emily I just have one quick comment I wonder if this lends itself to a pilot or and then my other question was the human readable and machine actionable piece of it is that something that we hold out I actually you're channeling my thoughts Jason so I did we had discussions about this and noting Bradley's concern but it may well be that this is something that is properly considered a pilot or part of the vision part of whatever the final report is alright anyone else have any thoughts about number nine anyone on the phone for number nine okay hopefully we still have folks on the phone alright any other comments overall or should we move into the public feedback that we are needing anyone have anything else they want to okay so we are now at the juncture where we would entertain comments from those of you who are in attendance either via live stream or here in person please approach the microphones that are on each side of the room for the record please state your name and your affiliation if that's appropriate and fire away okay thank you my name is Alex Howard it's good to see you all here talking about these issues because I think it is fair to say that public trust and government has never been lower and that secrecy is at an all time high you mentioned the volume of FOIA requests well one other metric that would be useful to talk about is the volume of FOIA lawsuits and the number one reason to hear from the public is that the agencies did not respond so your recommendations here are important and I celebrate the service of the FOIA officers here and your colleagues under that caseload but I have some concerns that you're not addressing some of the direct problems with FOIA in these recommendations or acknowledging some of the laws here now we just heard about the open government data act which Trump President Trump signed into law in January that actually mandates already that you all post information as open government data in a machine readable format already so instead of recommending that there be another system on another portal why are you not recommending that agencies disclose responsive records on their open data websites and federate them and make them searchable through FOIA.gov or data.gov which was just codified by the law why is the committee coming up with duplicative redundant recommendations to build a brand new system is this an idea for congress there is a specific question that I've raised many times before that has come up with respect to the release to one release to all pilot which I commented on the sunlight foundation which we supported which I since petitioned government formally with the cause of action institute so you're responding today as acting director that specifically it's still something that's under consideration it's been under consideration for these years is that an official response to the petition that it is still under consideration yes I mean this is something that you brought up at the last meeting bringing it up since 2017 and I don't have anything more that I can share about that is the committee aware that there was a cross agency priority goal for the FOIA established at the beginning of 2017 anyone this is Sean Moulton I was unaware of the CAP goal and saw it in the previous minutes that it was raised at a previous meeting I was unaware until reading those minutes that the CAP goal had been removed has there ever been any official acknowledgement for why OMB removed the CAP goal from its website and refuses to acknowledge that it ever has existed not to my knowledge and it's certainly something I'm happy to look into outside of government but it is disappointing from a requester perspective that we had a CAP goal and at some point was unceremoniously removed as you all are considering recommendations to the United States Government to improve FOIA compliance may I suggest that you recommend to OMB that it takes a leadership position restores a CAP goal and reminds agencies that FOIA is not something to punish senior ambassadors have been recalled from their posts abroad to make them do but actually something that is an honorable function of public service that provides the public with our records under the law and to encourage them to recognize your work and to coordinate your work and to support the United States Government's FOIA portal which congress mandated that OMB work with DOJ to create that it exists because I would suggest that one of the reasons we're seeing a raise in costs and that we're seeing public frustration with this is that the very top of our United States Government is not reminding the public that these records exist either proactively disclosed form or that there are better tools for getting them or that there are existing obligations that are under there now we all know that your recommendations are not being taken up across government and I'm not convinced following up on our last conversation that congress is adopting them into statute but if you do make recommendations in this area I would encourage you to highlight the role that OMB has in getting people to follow the law and on that particular count these are wonderful technical recommendations has anyone in the committee talked about culture or politics are you going to because political interference in FOIA request is something that was a problem in the last administration and is certainly one now are you going to recommend that FOIA officers are able to be responsive without having appointees step in I'm used to knowing responding but I want to always give you an opportunity I do want to say Alex not directly under the jurisdiction of any of the three subcommittees I will say that we did brainstorm at the beginning of this term as to how we were going to divide up subcommittees I don't recall that topic necessarily falling neatly into one of the three so we appreciate the feedback I think we're all listening and we will discuss further this is Emily I just had one comment I think I wasn't entirely certain that I would recommend by culture I hear you on political interference we have with the time volume subcommittee really looked closely at and through the survey I mentioned before what is happening inside of these agencies that FOIA requests are not being responded to and I think we truly I know the word training is sort of bad around and what does that mean and how will that be implemented but I do think that that goes to that culture question to a certain extent the inside of an agency work better and more efficiently together to respond to FOIA requests I'll just make one comment going back to the portal and OMB and the CAP goals a significant part of the CAP goal was the establishment of the national FOIA portal OMB has been incredibly supportive in our effort there not only in launching it but designating a line of business funding for it and making sure that it will continue to build in the future and we look forward to working with everyone here and you to find new ways to expand on that and I also open invitation Alex anytime you want to talk to OIP come on over I'd love to hear your recommendations and I'm an open invitation for everyone Thank you I just start off with the bad say do a search for how many U.S. government accounts that have shared FOIA.gov since 2017 you can search a URL Twitter you can search across websites see how many times the U.S. government has engaged the public about the thing that you built beautifully I would say with 18F full disclosure I was involved in that I gave feedback I was a beta tester I was the person, the only person who came to your launch at DOJ so I showed up but the government is not engaging the public about the resource it has built that would understandably lead us to wonder about its commitment to making sure that people know that these things exist so that we can save money on the front end and save your time on the back and it gets the more complex request that we know do require the lawyers and other people to be get involved I'd say this last issue one of the previous meetings we talked about technology and technology comes up a lot here and that's important I've spent my career in Washington covering government technology and open government the American people is getting a really poor investment for the money that we are paying I hear about the cost it would spend do you know how much expensive it is to put a spreadsheet or a PDF and Amazon web services now it's pennies fractions of pennies cost is no longer a driving factor there you know how much we pay for a small number of companies to provide software for handling FOIA requests I would say that number and those companies and getting agency feedback on the quality of the software they have to process these requests should be right at the top of your list of things to figure out get the GAO to do a study, get congress to look into it go back and audit and see how many of these very same companies were lobbying congress to prevent agency from building something better themselves or from opening up the process we are getting a terrible return on our nation's investment in technology and this is one area that is actively hindering public knowledge now I am sensitive to the fact that you are hobbled by procurement regulations that were created to buy stuff and not software but you have resources to help you with this at 18F go find some of the brilliant people at USDS look at your presidential innovation fellows find someone to help you do this better and I hope that as you look at this you talk to the federal web council look at project open data because I am seeing recommendations here that look like they were from five years ago to me and I can say that because I was covering recommendations to congress in 2014 when FOIA went up and got undermined by the Department of Justice lobbying against it including released to all kinds of ideas with the presumption of openness I watched a youtube stream full of people who are upset with government there is not a lot of them they left after the recess and I spend my day seeing people angry at government I would encourage all of you to be as frank and open and tough on government's performance here as possible and to continue to ask people outside of government what their experience is with your systems with your staff with your websites with access to data because it cannot stay here in this room archives is being amazing by broadcasting this online posting this information online it is a model of open government in the United States in a number of very important ways here by this more open to the public but if the public doesn't see you grappling with the reality of FOIA because it is experienced by requesters and making recommendations that are both recognize the laws that have been recently enacted and I think gets to the core point of why people are so upset and why the requesters keep suing I'm not sure your time is being well used I appreciate the opportunity to come back to you I believe we have some live stream comments that Jesse is going to bring up there's just one question it's from a representative from reclaim the records and the question is what powers or ability does NARA have to compel USCIS to comply with record schedules to alleviate the public use of FOIA to obtain records or can NARA suggest that USCIS compel record schedules to speed up the surrender of records great question not necessarily within my jurisdiction it's something we would need to talk about with our colleagues in the corporate records office so we'll put a pin in that and continue the dialogue anything else on the chat okay anyone else in the audience okay so I think we're just about out of time so thank you everyone for being so patient I think we got a lot of work done today we still have a lot of work to do we invite everyone to visit our website and social media for more information about how you can participate and give us further comments a reminder that our next meeting is Thursday, March 5th 2020 10 a.m. right here on the McGowan Theater does anyone have any other comments or thoughts or questions looking around at the committee members Jason we talked about process and what you might say to the committee in terms of the next work product that's expected in the form of it sure so I think it would actually be extremely helpful I know some of these ideas are still very nascent and we're still working on them and I really respect that and kudos to Joan for being brave enough to bring all of them to the table and we definitely will revisit some of them next time but one thing I think I would like the subcommittee co-chairs to focus on and the interim is giving some more full body experience if you will to the recommendations and perhaps developing a written explanation of why these recommendations came about and what the rationale is behind them and what the goal is that you're trying to accomplish with each one I think that would really be helpful thank you again for your time and participation I know Kirsten is going to ask you again please leave your folders behind they are highly coveted value for NARA and have become quite expensive for us to procure so we would like to reuse them if there are no other questions or concerns we stand adjourned thank you


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I'm hanging out with Miss Bee, my colleague, but today I'm the one interviewing her because let's get into that. What's up Miss Bee? What's up? How are you? I'm good, how are you? Nikosao akabisa? No, na kafreshi. Ehe, nguot, pelike, ulipata lini, lisho noa. Ili tengenezoa specifically for this day. So, yeah, I hope I look the part.  Roughly how much? Twambia, twambia.  They might come for me. Let's not talk money. They might come for me. Hey, I can say ma they might come for her in a manisha nibi mingi. So, Miss Bee, you are one of the nominees, you are nominated for talent manager of the year. And most people didn't actually know that you manage talent. Oh, yeah, they didn't know because I started managing talents before I came to SPM bars. So, that's what I was doing since 2018. But I still do on the side, you know, behind the scenes. Unajwai na irobi lazima. You have to get a few paychecks for you to become wealthy because the agenda is to become wealthy. Yeah, so I do that as well. And I've managed to work with, you know, very big artists in Kenya that I really admire their work, that I appreciate that they actually believed in me, the likes of Mamito Comedian, Mula Moa, Mine Kei, Claudia Nisaba, who I still work with until today, the likes of Masaoti, Mova's. And I mean, others that I've been able to consult for, so I'm quite honored, yes. So, let's talk about Claudia, she's the host for the night. So, does that mean that you in the process, Palle, could choose outfits, you know, managing her day? Claudia has a stylist, so what I do is I manage the business aspect of her brand, but she has a stylist, so when you see her looking good, you know, someone else has done the job, yes. So, what can you say is the state of talent management in Kenya? Is this serious? Is this something we need to put more efforts? We have a long way to go, because I feel like most artists are actually looking for people who want to manage them. I have had so many offers of big talents in this country. When they see me managing someone else, they're like, please, you need to manage. But I'm like, it's quite a task to even manage two people at a go, you know. So, we have a long way to go when it comes to talent management because also we need to understand the show business.  But it doesn't work like that. We need to work on your brand first. We need to identify what direction are we taking. We need to work behind the scenes before we even come out to the public to tell them that you do this. So, that's how most artists go wrong, but we have a long way to go. Ya, but we are getting there. We are getting there. The fact that there is a category of talent management on people's choice awards that it means, we are getting somewhere. So, lastly, Kimalizia, what can you say at three attributes of a talent that makes them successful? Discipline, whether it is time discipline, whether it is how you manage your things, discipline is number one. Without discipline, whether you're talented or not, whether you have all these huge followers on social media or whatever you have. Without discipline, you are bound to fail. Number two is basically believing in yourself because if you don't believe in yourself, who will? So, ya. A third one, give us a third. Oh, the third one. Keep going because sometimes competition comes here and there, people are doing the same things you're doing. Nowadays, you don't really have to wait for mainstream media to put your work out there. You have a platform on what you take to come here. Instagram, you put your work there and if it's dope, people are going to love it. So, you need to believe in yourself and keep going. Don't stop. Alright, thank you so much for talking to us. Miss B, we hope you're going to scoop the award. Tuta pata pale kama atachukua, we wish you all the best. Oh, and one more thing. Thank you so much to everyone that took their time to vote for me. Honestly, I do not take it for granted. Atakama uli tumamiyambili uli tumamiyamoja. Or you even took your time to share my post a man. Hey, I have never felt so much love. Like, I felt during this, you know, telling people to vote. It's been so overwhelming, guys. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. May God bless you and may your pockets never dry. Alright, guys, we're speaking to Miss Katinji. My name is Liz Jackson. See you on the next one.


Well, hello and welcome to Roslav for our road to well There's no other man that would be speaking to other than magic you know ski so first of all magic after Russia a little bruised How are you feeling? When I when we come back from Russia Friday was very hard day for me, but I do some physio and do some practices and now feel much better Okay, good. Well the road to sort of covers your journey to but this is your hometown, right? I was told that your mobile phone is the same area code as here Yes, of course that that's why 71 is a is a my number because this is the number of Roslav town and yeah welcoming Roslav. That's a beautiful city Lot of things to do. I'm very excited to to bring Grand Prix to this town. Yeah, I can imagine because the fans here. Well, they're crazy They absolutely love you absolutely love speedway. So tonight and tomorrow night this stadium is just gonna be absolutely packed What's the atmosphere like here? It is amazing Especially on this side crowds it very close to the to the track. So We can feel that on the bike. So it will be amazing. I know long time club sell all the all the all the tickets. So Yeah, I can wait you can wait to see Full the stadium and Yeah, I'm pretty sure people will enjoy it because the track makes many racing lines and Yeah, I'm very excited. Yeah, I can imagine you are well It's been a up and down sort of start to the season. It's all about for you the battle for the top eight Do you think at the moment? I think everything can happen because we can we can still Jump few more places up. So We will see first I want to make very good meeting in Roslav for my fans And we will see what can happen because you know how it's in speedway Okay Well, we were looking at the stats the gate stats and they're almost all even so is there a gate that works best here? What's the track like? What's it all like to ride? Track changing it changed all the time. Like I said, I like I said before we have many lines Sometimes you can use outside inside you can make some cuts. So If you watch some League meeting you can you can see how many lines and how many passes we have on this track. So Yeah, I will be I'm pretty sure it will be good. Okay. Well, not all the riders know this track as well as you do But I know Max knows it quite well here. Is this home advantage going to work for you tonight? I hope so I know this track pretty well, but you have all the best speedway riders in the world So and this is track this track is actually easy to ride It's very quick easy to ride So I'm pretty sure all the boys will feel very good on this track, but I hope Crowd will help me. Okay. We're qualifying all about that fastest lap now the first time actually going to turn you round Because this is quite famous isn't this is where your away fans sit So that's the home fans and this is where they're away fans sit So does the atmosphere change as you get around this side of the track? actually home fans And away fans sit over there, so when I was a kid I was to sit right next to the It's crazy fans With my family so Yeah, a lot of story about this this place in my life and from really young age, so Yeah Will be amazing. Yeah for sure I know you've got lots of memories somebody was telling me that you've got some really good childhood memories So of being here and catching a rider's hat. Yeah, actually I get after I think last Grand Prix in Roslav before this long break I get hot from Tony Rickardson straight from the podium Wet with the champagne, so I was a lucky lucky kid and I still have this hat, so um, yeah Yeah, for sure. Okay, well, we were just talking about qualifying before I got distracted by the stand Now what's going to be the way to get the fastest lap around here? I start I think about this still so but I Will concentrate first on the practice to find my best bike and then We will come for the qualification, but like you see on last couple rounds Qualification is not actually the most important so I will try and get my bikes ready for tomorrow. Okay. Thank you magic Well with the music revving up it means the atmosphere is a building here, so that was the road to with magic, you know ski


Our next speaker is someone in all seriousness who has changed my life. There was a book called Body by Science, which I have right here, my personal copy. He's also the owner and operator of Ultimate Exercise, a personal training facility in Seneca, South Carolina. And he recently filmed a show with Tony Robbins called Breakthrough with Tony Robbins, or Anthony Robbins, same thing. More than that though, I've said something about him that I believe to be 100% absolutely true. I've said it on the internet and I've said it, I said it at our convention in Stockholm and I talked about this book. That Doug is one of the wisest men of our time and so under-appreciated and undervalued, it's almost indescribable. With that said, Doug, would you sign my copy of Body by Science? Be happy to. Appreciate it. My honor. Appreciate it. An honor to have you here. Thank you. Thanks. Guys, thank you. The first thing I wanted to tell all of y'all is how lucky you are. If I could imagine being 21 years old and being able to come to a convention like this and to have had the opportunity to listen to Mark Sisson, to get workout advice from Drew Bay and Bill de Simone, people that you're going to be hearing. If I would have done two things with that. Number one, have the opportunity to have heard it and number two, to have actually listened to it. It would be really amazing how much more quickly and better my life would have progressed. There is so much that I did with my intense interest in working out that even using the cutting edge technology of the day was just leading me down a very wrong pathway. I came out of the whole Arthur Jones Nautilus high intensity training camp, which was a definite move in the right direction. But it was a fairly high volume of work doing, you know, 15, 20 different movements to complete muscular failure and beyond three days a week. And I did this religiously all the way through college, med school, residency and adulthood into my late 30s, early 40s.  I was really tired and I did it all the way through med school and residency.  If I could have really been able to have been exposed to this and wrap my brain around the minimal amount necessary to trigger the adaptive response that I was looking for and then get out of the way, the experience of all of that, of college, of med school, of residency, of getting married, of having children, all of that would have been on such a higher plane because I would have been experiencing it in a much more recovered and a better feeling way. Now, you've already heard Mark Sisson speak and he has really been at the spearhead of the primal diet or the paleolithic diet. I really don't have anything to add in terms of what he's saying.  As a physician, I can tell you 80% of what Mark Sisson told you goes very severely against the grain of standard medical practice but he's right and I'm going to show you that he's right. You're also going to get the opportunity after me to hear Drew Bay talk. I'm going to let him give you the nuts and bolts of how to work out. What I want to give you guys is the why. If you can understand the why, you'll be able to embrace the how.