Welcome to the Everton News Daily. Everton players have returned to Finchfarn today ahead of pre-season training. The players are back for their testing ahead of full pre-season. The squad looking a lot thinner than it finished the season with Everton still yet to bring any new additions into the club. But the players are back now ahead of what Sean Dytys said will be their hardest ever pre-season. So I hope they're ready for it and it'd be nice if we could add a few new players to that as well and beef that squad out but they are back. Andy Lonergan has signed a one-year extension at Godderson Park so the club have done some deals. He is the third choice goalkeeper or was the third choice goalkeeper but right now he's probably the second choice goalkeeper. His contract expired on the 30th of June. He has agreed to stay at Godderson for the next season and work alongside Joven Pickford as he has done for the last couple of seasons. But one player who is on the way out of Everton is youngster Issy Samuel Smith. Highly rated 17-year-old is on the verge of joining Chelsea for a report of fee of around £4 million. According to reports the 17-year-old has had a medical with Chelsea. But just awaiting the official confirmation from them is yet to make a faith team appearance for Everton. But like I said is very, very highly rated. He's been at the football club since the age of nine. He played 3,800 minutes last season for Everton in across various games under 18, under 21 and the FA Youth Cup. He's also made 18 appearances so far for the England under 17 side. There is a blow to lose someone who's obviously very talented. But just right now the financial position Everton had in means the £4 million for a player who wouldn't have been part of Sean Dijk's first team squad next season is, it seems, an offer too good for Everton to refuse. And also according to reports the player wanted to move anyway. Wanted they didn't see a pathway into Everton's first team. Not that I think surely he sees wanted to Chelsea's first team but you never know. And obviously he will have had a bigger offer on a contract as well. Chelsea normally pay their young players big, big wages. So Issy Samuel Smith on his way to Stamford Bridge. One player who is staying at Everton now is Jack Tierney. The young centre back has signed a two-year professional contract. It is his first professional contract. He is a boy of Evertonian season ticker older and a centre back. He's delighted he said this is something he's dreamed of. So young boy to sign his first professional contract with Everton Football Club. So good luck to you Jack. And today Everton have unveiled Dock on One, which is the next phase of the All Match Day experience. Dock on One is an exciting new concept that has been designed on the preferences and insights of the modern football. Fy enw I myself and Ped got to see some of the concepts behind it yesterday. It does look tremendous. The facilities at Everton New Stadium are going to be fantastic. They have included some restaurants and bars and stuff. It does look tremendous. It really does. And this is an opportunity for Evertonians to take up a different way of watching Evan once they move into the new stadium. You can read more about it on Evan's website as well. And make some inquiries there. That is it for the new stadium. Give the video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't. If you want to become a Toffy TV Premier member, the link is in the description. I'll see you later.


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All right guys, we're gonna go ahead and get started on this second half. So if you find your way to your seats Okay, so I'm gonna be specifically talking about Mons during the first kind of assessment that we did there We also did the screening which you all heard about already well, and Avni did more of an assessment of Bugondo Medical Center and so This is a map of Tanzania right here So Bugondo Medical Center is one of only five tertiary hospitals in Tanzania and this Map only shows four of them, but where we were located is right here, which is basically on the shores of Lake Victoria And so as you can see basically this entire region, which is called the Lake region Serves as the only tertiary hospital there and its catchment area is about 16 million people And an interesting dynamic about this hospital is it's privately run and the the staff is Government salaried and I'll talk more about the implications of that in a different slide But there's a whole history regarding this hospital Just fact that it was you know initially privately funded and then the government's kind of subsidized the workers there And so the personnel that work there, so dr. Christopher Mwan and so Which some of you may have met Back when he came in December of 2017 He is currently the only working ophthalmologist at Bugondo Medical Center so one ophthalmologist for a catchment area of 16 million people and I think I have a picture of his Smiling face somewhere it'll come up hopefully and then dr. Everista so she was unfortunately not there when we visited back in November, but she is Currently completing her pediatric ophthalmology fellowship in India right now And so she'll be joining back at Bugondo Medical Center in September and then dr. Christopher actually has two Ophthalmologists who are just completing their residency that will be joining them Also in September-October time so basically it'll grow from one Ophthalmologist to four four times the amount Coming this September in October They have two optometrists, which really At this point when we saw them in November This is all kind of talking about our trip in November and not the Moran outreach trip in February But really acted more as refractionists and not really doing any Diagnosing using the slit lamp that sort of thing And then they have two clinic nurses and the important thing about these clinical nurses is they're not specifically ophthalmic Trained and so they're general nurses and so in the operating room they aren't trained with the The ophthalmic equipment that is used for cataract surgery that dr. Christopher does And then there's two ward nurses There's a registrar and basically what a registrar is is it's Basically a person who has completed medical school and is acting as an intern So an intern to dr. Chris And then there's medical school students which is actually pretty vital because in the operating room They are the ones that are handing the instruments to dr. Christopher when he's operating So a lot more stress on these medical school students than what we have here at Moran And then there's also two AMO's now these AMO's assistant medical officers They are not apogando medical center. They are actually in the community of Monza They did not complete medical school. They completed a two-year surgical training And they perform cataract surgery out in the community So what is a week in clinic look like apogando medical center so And just to kind of belabor the point this is back in 2018 Dr. Shaw will talk more about kind of the current status because some of this has changed But when we did our visit in November, this is what it looked like so three days of clinic and two days of surgery and During those three days of clinic they saw anywhere between 150 and 200 patients and So surgery there costs a total of a hundred and forty dollars and this is any surgery This is a flat rate. So whether someone's getting a minor ocular plastics procedure Or they're getting cataract surgery to regime removal chelazion Everything is a hundred and forty dollars which you know for a middle-class Tanzanian citizen Who makes about three dollars per day is pretty pricey And then once a week they do an outreach activity and so what this entails is dr. Christopher will go out into the community and he will Have donated IOL lenses that He will be able to use on the patients and the patients can then have the surgery performed apogando For a discounted price and these IOLs are just standard IOLs. These are not fit to this particular person So what do they have now so there's two refraction rooms for optometrists and so that's kind of what this picture is of There's one exam room for both doctors when dr. Everista returns right now. It's just dr. Christopher with three slit lamps And that's this room right here And then they have a laser room with a pascal Two top cons and one indirect and this pascal and top cons they were actually donated by an organization a diabetic research Department has donated this pascal and two top cons to bugondo to kind of help with diabetic screening and treatment Although I'm pretty sure when they first received the pascal There was really no instruction given on how to use it um And then they do have equipment to grind lenses, but unfortunately they as of 2018 they were not doing this So the optometrists would refract the patients and then the patients would be sent out to the community private clinics to buy glasses Um, and that is that machine right here in the corner Um, and then in terms of surgery, so there's no operating table and so they basically use gurneys During the operation the only operating room that they had at that time was shared between obi-gon and ortho So very busy operating room Uh, there was no faco. No a scan. No iol power calculation So as I mentioned before everyone That gets cataract surgery or that did get cataract surgery use standard iol measurements They had an autoclave This is a picture of the operating room They had an autoclave, but I don't know if you could really appreciate this There's a piece of tape Or several pieces of tape that are used to kind of keep that autoclave closed so that obviously can become a problem Um, and then as I mentioned most cataract surgeries are s i c s using standard iol's Um, and the surgeries that they performed, um, like I said, it's mostly just the cataract and the tourigiums and some minor oculoplastic surgeries And so in terms of progress So just to give you guys some numbers in 2016. So this is when Moran and Cornell were first visiting bugondo this site. There were just about 27 cataract surgeries performed and then as of 2019 this year, there's already been over 400 cataract surgeries And we're just halfway through the year And a lot of this has to do with a couple of things. So back in 2016 There was an older ophthalmologist that was working really didn't operate too much and now we have two very motivated energetic and kind of like Just amazing ophthalmologists. Dr. Christopher here and Dr. Everista That are now working at Bugondo. Everista will be coming back And then also new equipment Which Avni will talk about more And this is a picture of Dr. Ben Thomas. He actually visited I'm not sure. I think it was last year a couple years ago And actually was there to teach them how to use the Pascal. So I think what they're holding up Maybe is a picture of retina that they've lasered, but I'm not exactly sure there what they're holding up Um, and so I'm gonna quickly go over this because I have the labor at this point sound like a broken record So basically when we went there, we did five days of screening screened over a thousand patients So preliminary findings in terms of we were looking specifically at vitro retinal disease my study, but Obviously we're going to find other things and so as you can imagine the major causes of visual impairment in this region are cataracts refractive air glaucoma AMD and during that screening over 50 of the patients that we actually Uh screened and examined Were referred back to begondo medical center clinic for ongoing clinical care and surgery um, and so Say the least we completely overwhelmed dr. Chris with the amount of patients that we refer to him I'm pretty sure he's probably still seen some of the patients that we refer to him Um Okay, and so ovni is going to talk about What kind of happened back in 2019 when they came? with moran okay, so, uh Basically since that trip in november, there's been a construction of new operating rooms at bugondo That was just about starting. They were breaking ground for that when we were there in november And it finished literally the day we landed. Um in february So that was great. There's one or that's dedicated strictly to ophthalmology. So they now have their own room to operate in Um, and it's pretty good Uh, they've hired another optometrist and another registrar since then and the new optometrist is actually quite good. He's Um, he's still Isn't using the equipment in bugondo to make glasses. They're working on getting some new equipment He's making glasses outside, but he's bringing them back to the hospital and selling them in the hospital So the hospital is making the money from those glasses, which is important um and uh, the other registrar also helps take some work off of Dr. Mon and sows hands um It a lot goes into actually being able to hire more staff So like brad alluded to this is a privately owned privately managed hospital But it is government salaried and what that also means is that the hr is also done centrally So if the ophthalmology department decides that they need another optometrist They have to submit a proposal to the federal government The federal government then decides if they think that's a good idea They then do their own search find their own optometrists Say you're going to go work at bugondo and send them there. So it's quite a process Um, we went back in february um with cornell And like I said like a representative came with us as well We brought with us and a working autoclave They also at the same time got an a scan and an auto refractor so they can do iol calculations So we did iol calculations for the first time and put in You know non-standard iol's We did provide him with an operating table and more importantly a lot of training so Um dr. Christopher and some of his amos received surgical training A lot of his uh clinic nurses that were functioning as scrubs received some really good scrub training And then some cRNAs learned how to do blocks for him He was doing all his own blocks and then dr. Dix petty came with us as well and did some training with the optometrists there So it was really a training heavy trip Uh, these are the recommendations from lyco and the ones in italics are the ones that christopher has already implemented So he um suggested a very different flow in the clinic to be more efficient. That is already ongoing Um, he also wanted christopher to be operating every day Um, and that's a common theme among lyco assessments is try to do a few cases every morning The rationale behind that is that patients that come in and are suggested to have cataract surgery If you tell them come back next tuesday for surgery Oftentimes you're going to miss them the family member that's bringing them in for their appointment Can't you know miss work again in a week Um to bring them there they might have traveled from very far and have to go back and come back So you actually lose a lot of patients that way whereas if you stay stay overnight and have surgery tomorrow You can get a lot of a retention that way and then just in terms of skills acquisition Operating every day and being able to really improve and perfect your skills by operating frequently was also part of that recommendation So he's now operating four days a week instead of two days a week Um, and then an in-house optical unit. So we sort of talked about that they're They're working on getting new optical equipment to start grinding their own glasses But for now they're at least selling glasses that they make in bugondo Um faco training more space just because there's going to be four ophthalmologists now And it's already kind of cramped and then a formal data entry system. They were using just sort of very Disorganized paper charts not really a chart just scribbling some stuff freehand on paper Um, and so now they're going to be using an emr, uh, which is not something we started It was something that was coming anyway Um, so what is the future going to be in wanza? So, you know, they are going to expand to four ophthalmologists in september. We'll see how that transition goes Um, hopefully do get optical an optical unit in house that will really help bring in a lot of money for the department um One that new optometrist is going to learn an orthoptic assessment to support avarista when she comes back to do Pediatrics and there's a team from kcmc. That's going to be coming to work with them on that um eventually faco training for um christopher or avarista or the other ophthalmologists Uh, a residency program would be natural there. There's a medical school already associated It'll be four ophthalmologists at that time And retina training for christopher, which um brad's going to talk about a little bit more Um, so I think I mentioned this may be in the presentation I talked about at resident alumni day But we basically now partnered with an organization called retina global And so their main goal is to provide sustainable solutions By increasing the amount of people that can treat retinal disease and the way that they do this essentially is that they find volunteer retina specialists from around the world really so The america's eu middle east whoever's really willing to go down and volunteer and so the idea is that um They they these retina specialists will go down and they'll work on very practical skills With dr. Christopher and dr. Everrester whoever's available to teach It's not you know this it's it's very focused. It's like okay today. We're going to talk about prp today We're going to be talking about injections and so Basically retina global and this picture right here. It's not just a random. This is dr. Auger wall He is the president and ceo of retina global So he's kind of been ovni nice contact and dr. Christopher's contact Trying to arrange this But the goal of this is basically that after Five years they have a five-year plan where they they will be sending retina specialists down every two to three months to work on these Specific skills at the end of those five years then dr. Christopher will be able To go to like a truncated fellowship After the fifth year so he'll he'll already have acquired enough skills to be a fairly competent vitreo retinal Surgeon and be able to diagnose those so maybe he only needs six months or a year And retina global will actually sponsor him to go to one of those fellowships Whether it be in the european union the middle east or wherever It might be I think a couple of retina specialists have been all over So they they have dedicated moanza as their next site And so in september october 1st, we're looking at the first retina specialist going We're still kind of in the planning phases to figure out who it is exactly that's going to go But what's really exciting in terms of moran is uh, dr. Calvo cj I don't know if he's in here are graduating retina fellow He has shown some pretty strong interest in going in march And so he'll hopefully be going and then dr. Shakura as well Will be going in in this summer of 2020 and retina global will actually Sponsor them to go to teach those very specific skills. So I think uh, there's a really Awesome great potential for a relationship between moran and moanza And it's all thanks to I mean dr. Christopher is just so motivated to learn and just So excited about these opportunities These are our references and I think uh, dr. Shaw has some pictures that she Just have some pictures So this is my outreach family during the year lindsay lorry and talis looking beautiful Lindsay's tape says I can't help you And some friends so That's arwa on the left. Um arwa and I are both joining the same practice next year. Well in october and um The people that work at our practice Actually thought that we were in a relationship And so I'm really tempted to send them that picture Um, this is a retina fellow dr. Hanson after he was roasted for his hair. Um At graduation.


In Carbo Verde, many coastal communities depend on small-scale artisanal fisheries for their livelihoods. But they face many challenges, including lack of technology, skills and organization. The problem is that the animals are more difficult to prepare, and in the past, they have been able to prepare normal meat. If there are animals, they can fish in the sea or in the beach. Those who live in the sea can be happy. The problem is that they have to have money. They can make a boat, or they can go fishing in the sea, When he goes to the beach, he's going to buy fish for me. He's going to buy fish for me, and he's going to buy fish for me. The biggest difficulty is when you have a lot of fish, and we don't know the mother, Piquinote. We have a lot of fish hunters, and we don't know how to grow them. So sometimes we don't know how to sell that fish in one day. And in order not to get cold, we don't always have a place to keep it. For example, I don't have a boat. I don't have a boat, I can sell that fish all day, even if I have a note of love, because I have a lot to keep that fish. They attended a demonstration of fish sorting and drying techniques at the Mendeo Municipal Fish Market. They also visited local fishers' associations in Sao Pedro and Solimonsa, where they learned how to create strong partnerships for better livelihoods. Certainly, today, we need to reinforce this exchange with more visits, more exchanges, especially between women, to share good practices, to share difficulties, to share constructions, and especially today, here at Inovações, where the own associations meet to solve this problem. The Coastal Fisheries Initiative Working to empower women and men in fisheries value chains for more sustainable businesses, communities and ecosystems.


The Bemidji wrestling team has had to deal with some challenges early in their season. Tuesday they were missing nine varsity starters due to illness or injury and had to give up three forfeits in their loss to Detroit Lakes. Taking on Sartel tonight down 18 to nothing because of forfeits then they came crawling back or should I say falling back. Seth Newby wins by fall at 1 minute and 44 seconds. Now down 28 to 6 at 152 pounds Alan Rory able to finish the job with a pin at 111. Knee flexes on them haters. They would go up 30 to 28 heading into the 195. One more pin would give them the win and Peter Mowen delivers the sixth win by fall for the Lumberjacks. They get one more by forfeit and they take it to 42 to 34. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


In this video, we'll be introducing basic ideas and concepts used in rigging. We will also, however, be going into detail about each step in separate videos. Rigging is a fundamental step for going from static models to animated characters. Without rigging, you would only be able to move and animate objects as a whole. But what is rigging exactly? Well, the broad definition of rigging in CG can be described as the act of assigning relationships between objects so that moving one thing will move another. This can be seen in the very basic example of parenting one cube to another. For example, by assigning a parent-child relationship between these two cubes, you can move the parent cube and the child cube will follow. But you can also create more complex relationships with the help of constraints and armature objects. Constraints are powerful and flexible relationships that can be assigned between two objects. Beyond the basic parent-child relationship. With constraints, for example, you can add a copy location constraint to our cube to copy the location of our light object, while also adding another copy location constraint to copy the location of our camera object. This creates a stack of constraints just like modifiers, so stack order matters. So then you ask, what are armatures? In CG, the word armature is just another word for skeleton. Skeletons, in real life, are made up of bones, which serve as the foundation of how our bodies move and bend. Skeletons in CG are also made up of bones and do the same thing. Allow me to demonstrate real quick. You can download this character from the description down below. So let's say we have a character that looks like this, and you want to start animating it. If you want to move, rotate, or scale the character, only the whole character will move, kind of like a statue. In order to move the character like a character, you would need to, at the very least, be able to bend its joints individually. So let's demonstrate that with the arm real quick. If we simply add an armature and go into edit mode, we will be able to extrude and place our bones within our mesh according to where we might expect bones in real life. This includes the upper arm, the forearm, and the hand, for example. Once we're happy with that, we can go back into object mode and parent our mesh to the armature object with automatic weights. Weights are how you assign certain vertices to certain bones. And as we can see, selecting and transforming the armature will allow us to deform each arm bone individually, except that it doesn't. That's where we introduce pose mode. Pose mode is the mode where you'll be able to select and transform each individual bone to deform your mesh. These bones can be animated individually and each have their own rotation and location values. Now, in case you feel like the vertices assigned to each bone aren't fully accurate, you might want to adjust the weights. To do this, simply select the mesh and go into weight paint mode. This will allow you to paint your weights, letting you better control how you want the mesh to be deformed. For extra control, you'll be able to add bone constraints to your bones, allowing you to form relationships between bones and objects to make animation easier. For example, having one bone point to another bone to form a simple controller. But what's a controller? Well, a controller is just a bone that doesn't deform the mesh directly, but rather is used to drive other bones in some way. Most of the time, they exist solely to make it easier and more intuitive for the animator to use the rig. We'll go over each of these concepts in separate videos. So I hope this introduces you to the basic concept of rigging, what it is and how it works.


If you don't get your hands in God's chest, it's bad shape. Guys, try to finish you.     Getting to the pocket, that one second faster could help, you know, just to back in and help myself as well. Are there any like legends, former stars in the past that you maybe tried to model your game after or kind of take bits and pieces and kind of incorporate into your game so you can, you know, kind of take that next step? I wouldn't say I was trying to compare my game to no one.  You know, as we know, there's a lot of greats that play my position. But you know, one thing I could say, like, with my game, you know, I'm constantly wanting to learn, like, how can I get better each and every day? You know, to perfect my craft, you know. Even, like I said, from my first year, I went to now, this is my third season. You know, I'm always asking, you know, Coach T, like, how can I do this better? You know, how can I speed up my time? And with this Pacific pass rush or, you know, in the run, getting stuff in that nature, so. Are your standard now after that performance the other night? Not just that performance. You know, I hold myself to a high standard, you know, just not in the game of football, but in life, you know. I think that's kind of how I just instilled in myself because, you know, like I said, I want to keep climbing that ladder to be the best player I could be. I want to be one of the greats that play this game.  Try to not be perfect, but, you know, they ain't there, you know, keep having a disruptive game.  How helps you this year? My goal right now is to just keep winning the game. Everything else, take care of itself. You know, hopefully we're playing for a Super Bowl, so that Pro Bowl won't matter as much as the Super Bowl. So, my goal is to win the Super Bowl. It's exciting, but, you know, I have an uncle who's very close to me.  And that's kind of stood out to me.  Or do you want to be addicted to getting sacks and keep getting more and more? And so that's kind of stood out to me.  You know, how can I keep stacking these plays? How can I be addicted to making more big plays and keep having, you know, breakout games, you know, and just help my team win games? Oh, no, I told him I want to be addicted to it. I don't want to have a hangover, so... Have you tried to embrace, you know, being more, stepping up as a leader this season in kind of year three, being a captain, youngest captain for the team, is that kind of something you take pride in and how have you tried to set that example in the long run? You have to take pride in being a leader.    So I take a lot of pride in, you know, the way I can lead this team. I take a lot of pride in, you know, just me holding myself to a high standard so I could be able to lead.  So, you know, especially even when we win, when we lose, you know, my first thing is how did I play? Did I play good enough or something in that nature? So, you know, just gaining that trust from my teammate is just an honor to be able to lead my team. Shane gave you guys his pass, right? There's a lot of credit for understanding situations, knowing what offensive we're trying to do. But how good of a job does he and Coach Dewey do to put you guys in positions to be able to make those identifications? I mean, we talk a lot, especially when it's time to rush the pass, you know, like this week here, we have to earn the right to rush. They're going to, they put a great game playing in for third down. But if we're not stopping to run this week, you know, it's not going, we're not going to be able to rush the pass. So, I say they always giving us a great game plan. They putting up, they putting each and everyone in position to be able to rush together. And so, I think that just the main thing with our coaching staff, you know, they doing a job by putting us in position, giving them the game plan.  So, Jeff, a lot of times talk about being in the zone. Were you in the zone Sunday night? Did you feel like you were in the zone? I always try to be in the zone. You know, it just so happened that we was rushing together. And like I said, just sex, you know, so I was the one just so happened to get three sacks.   We were rushing together in the back end.  And if we're not getting home, you know, God could eventually going to get open. So I say that just all 11 on the field doing a job. Is it just a guy like Samaritan? I don't think it's going to be difficult to prep for him. We just got to go out and stop the run. We have to, like Coach say, you got to limit his space, you know, a lot of space. You know, he dangers an open field. We have to be able to tackle him. As you see guys, when they play against him, they miss a lot of tackles. You know, we need all 11 to the ball. So I think that's just the mindset. I don't think it's just real difficult preparing for him. I mean, we know what he could do. So we just got to hit him. I think it's great because with Niko being, you know, over the guy on our D-line, it's just so good to be able to see and hear some of his knowledge.   Then when it's time to throw it down, he get inside and beat these guards. You know, it's always great to have a dominant player beside you and on the edge, you got Harold and Bud and all them guys on the outside.


triggers, emotions, and reactions are actually a really beautiful thing that our minds and our bodies do because they lead us exactly to where we are lacking and have room for expansion and growth. If you are reacting to what I'm saying, it's most likely because there is something within you that is being triggered by it and therefore something that can be changed, which is a good thing.


Lakeland Currents, your public affairs program for North Central Minnesota, produced by Lakeland Public Television with host Ray Gildow. Production funding for Lakeland Currents is made possible by Bemidji Regional Airports, serving the region with daily flights to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport for information available at BemidjiAirport.org. Closed captioning for Lakeland Currents is sponsored by Niswatak Service, tax preparation for businesses and individuals online at Niswataks.com. Hello again everyone and welcome to Lakeland Currents where tonight we're going to talk about the Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation, something that's pretty unique and Brainerd in the sense that it's a standalone operation. And my guest this evening are Carl Samp, who is the executive director. And Tom Olson, who is a board, or Tom Anderson, rather, sorry Tom, who is a board member of this and many other boards. Well, keep busy. And they're both gentlemen that I have known for quite a while. Welcome to Lakeland Currents. It's good to have you both here. Thanks for having us Ray. How do you want to start, Carl? Well, you know what to say. Sure. You can just tell people what the Brainerd Community Area Foundation is. I'll start with a little history of the foundation. So I was back in 1998, a gentleman named John Sullivan, who's since passed away, but John O'Navillus, land company. Much of the land that's in Baxter, that's the big box stores now. John was the owner of that area. And so as that developed, John, of course, came upon more and more wealth. And he really wanted to do some good with that. And so he stopped into the St. Cloud Office of Central Minnesota Community Foundation and talked to our president, Steve Jewel, and said, you know, I'd really like to set up some funds and do some good work with some of my wealth. And so they started that conversation. And then he was joined in by his realtors, Rod Converse and Kevin Close, from Close Converse Realty. And we're roughly what period of time would this be? This was 1998. 1998, you said? Yep. Okay. And then Bernie Roberts from Edward Jones Investments were involved. So those were the four founders of our foundation. So they joined in conversation with Central Minnesota Community Foundation, which is the community foundation around the Greater St. Cloud Area, and started having conversations about what that might look like in Brainerd. And rather than form its own independent community foundation, which there are over 750 in America right now, they decided to partner with Central Minnesota Community Foundation. We did form their own board of directors up here in the Brainerd Lakes area, and started the program. And John's funds were the first funds in the program, and they started doing good work back then. So that was the formation, and those folks were the founders, and deserve a ton of credit for their foresight. So let's just maybe share with our viewers what a little bit of your background is, and we can do the same with Tom, because you both have pretty diverse backgrounds. Well, I grew up in a small town rural Southern Minnesota, and went to college at Mankato State. Was an environmental educator, a naturalist by education, and did some work. I worked for the State Park System for a summer, and I spent two seasons up here at the Gull Lake Campground for the Corps of Engineers. Became a park ranger for the National Forest Service out in Idaho. Couldn't convince my now-wife, beautiful wife, Gail, to move out there with me into the middle of nowhere. So I came back to the Twin Cities, and I kind of switched fields from outdoor recreation to therapeutic recreation. Worked with adults with disabilities for a total of 16 years. For three years, I was working on kind of traditional DAC activities, and then we converted to community-based employment services for adults with disabilities, which was really the beginning of my experience with what's called asset-based community development, of really looking at the gifts of people, and how do we mobilize those into our community work. And that played into my future too. So I took one year off from that work and led foreigners on cross-continental camping tours for a company called Trek America, and then came back to that company, and we converted to totally community-based employment services for adults with disabilities. And within six years, we totally integrated those workers. We went from 65 workers to 110 workers. Total cumulative wages of $3,500 to $350,000. And the lesson there I learned was the power of asset-based thinking, what are people's gifts, rather than what are their needs and deficiencies, and the power of community to do that. So then my wife's from Brainerd here, and her dad passed away on New Year's Day of 1990 unexpectedly, and we made the decision to move up to Brainerd, and she had to twist my arm to come back up here to the Brainerd Lakes area, where I love to hunt and fish and golf, and all the great outdoor activities that we have up here. And so I got a job with Central Lakes, while I was in Brainerd Technical College, working with the OSP, your Occupational Skills Program. So as students with developmental, borderline developmental disabilities, and we helped make the transition from school to work, and independent or home living to independent living. And then of course I brought that whole idea that I'd worked with in the Twin Cities and started putting those students out in non-profits in our community to gain work skills, but also to serve the community. I always felt that volunteering shouldn't be just for able-bodied people, it should be for everybody. We all get a great feeling from doing that, so why shouldn't it be something available to everyone? Well then I found out that was called service learning, of combining volunteerism with learning. And so I started writing service learning grants at the college, and got 13 grants in a row that we wrote, and we kept expanding from into different programs at the college, and eventually when the two colleges, the Technical and Community College, and Merge with Staples all came together, we wrote a Bremer grant to do this service learning project, and basically we started doing neighborhood organizing, and we created a class called Community Awareness and Activism in the Sociology Department, and started doing neighborhood organizing in Southeast Brainerd, and using that asset-based model. So got citizens engaged, in fact there was some efforts to kind of keep a group home out of the neighborhood. And when we used this model and showed how we're going to look at the gifts of people and utilize them, within six months the people who are trying to keep the group home out of the neighborhood, and the people who actually were in the group who did move into the neighborhood, were working side by side together in the efforts to make Southeast a better neighborhood to build. So I was in a program of the Initiative Foundation at that time, called Healthy Community Partnership Program. We were in the first round of that, and they heard our story of what we did in Southeast, and they said you know that's a pretty cool model. We think that might work well in small rural communities in our 14-county region, and so they hired me to work alongside Carol Spearman in the Healthy Community Partnership Program. Well within a week Carol left for the Blandman Foundation, and I moved into her vice presidency position, and spent nine years using that asset-based community model in developing small rural communities, neighborhoods in St. Cloud, all kinds of different groups, and then we expanded that whole model, working with nonprofits, lake and river associations, methamphetamine coalitions, early childhood coalitions. So it was really the whole idea of bringing together diverse groups of people, creating shared vision and a plan of action, and then giving them a few resources to implement that, but at the same time map their own local assets to put them into, but to put them to work to make things happen in a positive manner. So you have a pretty broad background. I do, yeah, which is awesome for foundation work, because you encounter a lot of different things when you're in a foundation. So I've worked in outdoor environmental education, I've worked in people with disabilities, I've worked in community development, economic development, workforce issues, neighborhood organizing, yeah it's a broad background. I was an ADHD kid, so I just got to keep moving from one thing to another. Tom, you're a board member, and give us a little bit about your background, because you too have a pretty interesting background. Well, it's a little bit diverse too. I'm actually a brainer native, and went to high school here, and went on to Bemidji State University of Minnesota, and became a CPA once I was out of college, and worked for Arthur Anderson and Jostin's, and a few organizations like that down in Minneapolis in the St. Cloud area. Then I kind of migrated back up here, got connected with Ironing Johnson up here, and found my way back to the Brainerd area, and worked with the universal pensions in the early years, and until it was sold, and stayed on for a while, and then went on to work up at Hunt Technologies, and then also got involved with the organization down in Minneapolis, Minnesota Thermal Science for a while, and we built that organization up, and then came back here, and working at Integrated Retirement again. So again, different companies. I've been fortunate that very successful companies, most of them, I think seven out of the ten, or whatever it was that have been leaders in their respective industries over the years, so in different businesses, in different product lines, and that too. So it's been interesting, and I've been involved in a number of board, nonprofit boards in the area, and still involved in those, and really enjoy the type of work, and giving back to the community whenever I can, and I think I probably picked up some of that from my father. He was on this Brainerd City Council for 12 years, and I think he gave me some insight as a public service or something. That's good for you, and it's good for the community. Good for you. So there are a number of organizations and communities, the foundations. Your foundation is different. We have the Central Minnesota Initiative Fund in Central Minnesota, and there are other initiative funds in the state. You're different from that, though. Why don't you explain a little bit the difference between the two? Sure. We're both legally community foundations, but, and as I said, I spent nine years at the Initiative Foundation. It's a tremendous organization, does great work in the 14 counties in Central Minnesota, but the real focus is programmatic. So they work on community and economic development, mostly economic development issues, and we are much more of a donor services-oriented community foundation. So our primary focus is really to provide a venue or a vehicle for people who want to do philanthropic giving. So we help them set up their own little mini foundations, if you will, donor-advised funds, and from that, they can make recommendations for grants on an annual basis or... So the people who actually make the donation have some input into where that money's going to go? Right, they make a recommendation. When they make that gift, it's a completed gift in the IRSIs. So we are legally holders of those funds, but they make recommendations to us. And if they're eligible organizations they're recommending to, meaning 501c3 charitable organizations, school districts, or local units of government, it's eligible. We will fulfill their wishes. We wouldn't exist if we didn't do that. So that's how we go about doing that work. So we just try and make philanthropy easy. So really, they're not gifting to us. They're gifting to the community. That's right. So when you operate, your operation is totally coming from donations. You don't get state money. You don't get money from a parent organization. I guess that's true. I mean, in some ways, we're a bit different than, again, the initiative foundation where they get a lot of their funds coming from the Bush Foundation and that. McKnight Foundation. And again, we get more from the donors themselves. And again, the focus is a little bit different too, Ray, as you can see that we're Brainerd Lakes Area Foundation. So again, we're focused on that. As Carl mentioned, initiative foundation is a broader purview of maybe 14 counties where we tend to be more focused more locally, I would say. So talk a little bit about some of the projects that you are involved with. What are you doing? Well, so we have the funds that we hold. And the combinations of how they do that are... I've been in foundation work for 20 years, but this is my first go-around at the donor services side. So I'm pretty amazed at the flexibility and the combinations that can be done, whether it's an endowed fund or a flexible fund or they do annual payouts or pass-through money. So there's a lot of different things that donors can do. We can fulfill almost any wish of a donor. But we also do work in... We do grant-making. So we have a certain amount of unrestricted... What's called unrestricted funds of which we make grants to our community for. And we've chosen... There's really a foundation can kind of do two approaches to grant-making. They can do the peanut butter approach or the laser approach.  We have chosen the laser approach. Back in 2014, Blandin Foundation pulled the cohorts of Blandin Community Leadership Program together. There's six different groups that have went through in Blandin. About 60 of them got together at the Arrowwood Lodge. And we identified really the workforce shortage as our biggest challenge to economic vitality here in our community back in 2014. And so I was working pretty closely on that with Don Hickman from the Initiative Foundation and we've kind of kept that ball rolling and kept that in the forefront here because you can talk to any employer and it is still... And you guys did a great special on workforce shortages through the news three-part show in the news channel here. But it's a huge challenge for any regional center in for sure rural Minnesota and many other states in the union right now. So it's just a combination of demographics, there's just less people in the working age right now. We have an out migration of young adults in Minnesota and most of those come out of greater Minnesota. Basically any regional center like Brainerd that doesn't have a four-year institution, we lose pretty much 50% of each graduating class. Wow. Heads off to a four-year college or the military or see the world or whatever it is. Some of them trickle back, that's great, but many of them don't. And so we're presented with a real challenge here. So we are really concentrating on three things. How do we develop, attract and retain a quality workforce? So all our grant making the last couple years... So that is probably your biggest priority from the organization. Definitely. Yeah, I mean that's our focus for our grant making. Okay. So you know and we're really looking at those kids, that group that sticks around here after graduation that doesn't go off to a four-year college. And so how are they becoming the best that they can be to become productive members of our community, be our future workforce, et cetera. So our funding projects like Kinship Partners, the shop that works with that rescue, after-school programs in Crosby and Pine River. Junior Achievement is setting up a new program to teach kids how to set up their own business. And so those are all grants we've made. We've supported the key recruiter program at BLADEIT that is recruiting kind of key, high level, especially IT professional positions into our community. We also fund projects that help retain people in our community once they get here. So we helped start the Brainard Newcomers Club back up recently with a grant to community action. So that you know the research shows there's three things that make people love where they live and stay there. And that's gathering places and open welcoming community and the aesthetic factor or cool factor. So things like the Riverwalk. We funded a major grant to the Brainard Riverfront development. We helped support Lakes Area Music Festival. But the Newcomers Club, once again, when people get here we want them to feel welcome. We want them connected to a group of friends. If you lock them in here, if you will. Because we want them to say it's hard getting people, enough people to come. Once they come, we want them to stay in here too. So those are the kind of projects we're looking to fund here in the community. I think Ray, that's where you can kind of see the community foundation aspect of us that right now one of the bigger needs in the community is this workforce development. And so that's where our focus is now. Again, that can change over a period of time and we can see some other needs. And that's where we're looked at the community-based needs and trying to connect resources to help the community solve some issues or again make it look at the well-being of the community. You get certain other organizations like Carl, like you mentioned, that might be kinship, might be teen challenge. And they're kind of singly focused on an objective there. Whereas you look at the community foundation, we try to take a broader approach. Right now, as Carl mentioned last year, to workforce development is a major issue. So we're focusing attention on that. Boy, that really is a huge issue. I don't think we can overstate that enough. And I think with the immigration changes that we've been seeing, I know the resorted industry here this spring was really hit. They used to get a lot of Europeans that worked in some of the bigger resorts in the area. And that was slowed down or maybe not even available. But I have gone to Florida the last couple of years driving down and those want ads are everywhere. I mean, it's in the machine trades. It's in the restaurant. Although the restaurant business is slowing down a little bit. But a lot of these other areas and it's skilled labor. It's not just taking people off the street. So it's encouraging to hear that you're kind of identified three areas here of developing their skills and then finding ways to keep them here because it costs a lot to get people here. That's right. So it's worth spending some money to get them to stay, isn't it? Absolutely. It sure is. And we partnered with the Chamber and Bladek on this topic and Central Lakes College and the school district. Kind of the unique position we're in. The Chamber and Bladek, they're pretty concerned with right now and with their membership. We have the unique opportunity to look into the future, 10, 15 years. Who's going to be the future workforce then? So that's these younger kids that are in our community that are going to stick around. And we can look beyond the needs of our membership to the broader community. So I think part of that is educating people. I'm not sure all businesses stop and think about that future workforce and where they're going to come from. And the value that places like Kinship Partner and the shop play in our community. Early childhood education. What is the shop, I'm not sure. The shop is a youth center that works with at-risk kids, age 14 to 20 years old. And here in Brainerd. Right. And it's right on the corner at 8th in Washington Street. Yeah. And so they do a tremendous job. They actually have a computer refurbishing center there. So we just made a pretty significant grant for us to them for general operations this year. They teach kids computer repair skills and recycling. They have a bicycle recycle program, which teaches kids to, they take in bicycles, they refurbish them, fix them up, and either sell them or get them back out into the community for kids. So that's a program that helps build skills with those kids in our community. So do you have other employees in your organization that actually serve as lia's on to some of these projects you're funding? No, no, it's me. You're kind of a one-person operation. Yeah, we have a half-time admin assistant that we're actually just taking a little change in direction. I've been doing interviews the last two days now for a little higher level position called Donor Services Coordinator that's going to be part-time to start with that will really help. But you're kind of in a growth mode. You're seeing yourself growing because, Tom, you were saying that you're seeing some real changes. Yeah, I think really look at our history, Ray, and we've been around for 19 years now and for until the past about a year and a half or so, we just had a part-time director. Whether it be Mike Burton, Bill Brecken, we had a number of individuals that served that role very well. But a couple, about a year and a half or two years ago, the board decided that for us to really be successful and to do the right thing for the community, we needed to bring on a full-time executive director. And we made the commitment to do that and brought in Carl. And he's done just a tremendous job. And we've seen things elevate already. And like he said, we're looking at taking the next step now. Can we provide additional support for Carl to continue to have him be more effective and to make more of an impact on the community? I'd say that we've seen the organization grow. We now have about $10 million in assets that we have about 90 or so funds, different donor funds or agency funds as we call them. And we've granted over $6 million back into the community. And we are part, I would say that to give a full understanding here, we are part of community giving, which is located in St. Cloud. And they're kind of an umbrella organization over the different community colleges in, I mean the community foundations in central Minnesota. There, we've got community foundations in St. Cloud. Alexandria, Wilmer, Brainerd are the four main ones. And then we have some community funds like Recory and Painesville and some others like that. And St. Cloud provides kind of the umbrella over that, making sure that we are pooling assets so that we get a better return and more professionally managed on the asset side of it, that we share common practices and policies that we're accredited with the National Community Foundation, that we get audited financial statements, that we have, if Carl needs additional assistance, whether it be staffing for a short term, or whether it be some expertise that we don't particularly have ourselves or the issue that he's not familiar with, we've got a resource also to go to. And so they do provide that umbrella, which is helpful and makes us more efficient and allows us to operate with a relatively small staff here. So you also said you had a program for women. Right. Could you talk just a little bit about that? Sure. We have Brainerd Lakes Area Women's Fund. And so that's called a Field of Interest Fund for us. So we also have the Brainerd Public School Foundation under as a Field of Interest Fund flow. But the Women's Fund has, it's an endowed fund. And so the earnings off of that can be granted out to the community to support projects that assist women in our community. And it's not just women. They made a grant to the We Are New, the new clinic in town here for reproductive education and support. And they've supported the Sexual Assault Services Program and the Women's Center. And they run a great program at the college called Presenting Yourself that helps women, maybe low income women generally, to learn how to put a resume together, how to interview, how to dress, how to eat when you're out in a business situation. Just all aspects of that and really help them get ready for the workforce to enter that workforce. It's really a cool program. And our Women's Fund has a new campaign now called the 365 Campaign. So really we're asking people who want to just donate a dollar a day ideally in one check for $365 to support the work of the Women's Fund. And what happens is half that money goes into their endowment that continues to build over time and grants are made from that. But a half of that will also go into this year's grant making funds for the Women's Fund. And those people who join that club, that Giving Circle, 365 Giving Circle, also get to be part of the grant making decision then with the Women's Fund Committee that year. So it's really a great way to engage the broader community in this effort to support our women and our community. So we're really excited. In fact, I'm going right from this interview to meet with our committee chair, Jill Carlson of that committee, to talk about this campaign and how we can promote it. And if it's okay, one of the things we're looking at with the Women's Fund is having a special event just for women, female professional advisors in our community. So as state attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, bankers, et cetera. And we want to invite them all in to learn about this initiative, encourage them all to join, but encourage their clients as well to consider joining this effort with us alongside of us. So really the biggest part of my job too is working with the professional advisors of our community. Doing that networking. Yeah, yeah, because you know, 80 to 85 percent of gifts nationally from community foundations come as referrals from professional advisors. So it's just imperative that I spend time with them, educating them about the opportunity in our community. You know, the work that we're doing to strengthen our community, how we can capture wealth, keep doing good here. But at the same time, meet a special need that people have of wanting to give back to their community. So research shows that people, that when professional advisors talk to their clients about charitable giving, it strengthens that relationship between them. And so we want to help with that. We're down to the last minute. But maybe we could, you could tell people how to get a hold of you if they want to become involved as a donor, or if they want to become an applicant for a grant. How do they get in touch with you? Well, we have a website. It's communitygiving.org, communitygiving.org. And just click on the Brainerd, Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation link there. And my phone number is two on eight, eight, two, one, five, six, one, nine. Anybody can get a hold of me. My email address is ksamp at communitygiving.org. And I'd be happy to assist anybody with making philanthropy easy for them and helping them feel better about what they're doing for the community. Carl Samp, Executive Director and Tom Anderson, a board member. Thank you very much for taking the time to come on and tell us about this program. It sounds like a really good program. Thanks for having us. And thanks for the work that Lakeland PBS does. You bet. Thank you. You've been watching Lakeland Currents, where we're talking about what you're talking about. I'm Ray Gildoff. So long. Until next time.


The House of Representatives at the Health Committee investigating capital project is acuted and funds repeated in the Appropriation Act from 2015 till date has discovered financial impropriety in the budgeting of the management of Shedder, a science and tech complex. The committee slammed the DG, Shedder, Science and Tech Complex and the National Coordinator, National Bloor Transfusion, set this for repetition of project and on warranted increase of the budget from 2015 to 2021. Financial leakages in the economy over the years have been identified as the main sources of economic losses in the country and MDAs have been fingered as the major culprits. From the record before me here, this is where Nigeria is leaking. People are beating out, around, but see where the leakages are. Now, if in 2015 you demand 20 million, in 2016 you demand 200 and something, and you should remember and you should remember that there is MTSS, right? The finance man, I'm talking to you. So how can you justify this request? Even because you see that it is a bonanza, anytime they give you an envelope, you look it in the same ERGP and clear it. You even have the power to request a 2.0 billion in 2021. The National Bloor Transfusion Agency and the Shedder Science and Tech Complex gave an increased budget of 2 million in 2015 to 2.5 billion in the year 2021, same as a coordinator of the Transfusion Agency who also gave his submission. In most cases, in most cases you may discover that you will say that this particular thing you need 20 million for it. You put 20 million there. At the time the appropriation comes out, what you may see there is 10 million. And if you see 10 million and that is what is appropriated, there is no way you will be able to actually execute what you had in mind. So what do you do? The following year you repeat to be able to get enough money to complete what you want to do. The documents you have asked for they are there. We will bring them back to you. At least I've directed them. They have brought them. I didn't know that they didn't put the details of the forget lines, the capital, the current and what they are spending there. And I'll make sure that they are represented to you. Again we also found out if there is any money that will be released, which we are calling, we roll over. Of course I want to thank you for doing that. The committee questioned agencies for budgeting repeated items year in year out on the same subhead which they say is inimical to the development of the country as some agencies are starved of funds because of vase. One, two, six, immunocular crescent adjacent to global com who say two still are good job. Same amount, 2.4 million, same amount. So I see a reputation of face mask, face mask, face mask. I don't know how many people do you have in the organization that have been using these face masks.


There's no shortage of battles in the war between Texas and North Carolina barbecue. Today, we're gonna settle as many of those as we can. My name's Trey Crowder.  The objective of this show is to settle these debates once and for all. Welcome to Grubbin. We have chefs representing two of the most cue-crazy states in our union. Representing Texas barbecue, we've got Burt Backman. Chef and owner of LA's slab barbecue. I went to Texas for a real estate-related conference. Ended up not going into the conference just eating some barbecue and just going on a path. I think Texas is the best because still evolving where it seems to me that North Carolina stays where it is. And in the North Carolina corner, we've got Dennis Boyce, the man behind LA's Boyce barbecue. I can remember very vividly the first time I ate pulled pork.  First bite blew my little boy brain. To me, NC barbecue is the OG barbecue. We've been doing barbecue longer than Texas have been the state. So let's talk a little history. Barbecue can be traced back to the Spanish or Haitian word barbacoa, which means a framework for grilling meat and fish. Texas, which is a big state, has a few different barbecue traditions. Probably what most people think of when they think about Texas barbecue is the central Texas style. This came from German and Czech immigrants who owned butcher shops and they would cook their leftover cuts of beef slow and low in a smoker to preserve them. It's a 16, 18, 24 hour commitment. Let's talk North Carolina. For starters, while Texas barbecue is gonna be largely associated with beef, North Carolina is all about pork. Folks in the East say North Carolina barbecue has gotta be whole hog and it's gotta be a simple vinegar based sauce. Folks in the West, they focus on the shoulder and use a slightly sweeter sauce that might include tomato in it. I'm a fundamentalist. I'm an Eastern sauce guy and that is strictly just vinegar, pepper and some spice. All right, we've covered the basics. I wanted to debate the finer details now, lightning round style. Sauce versus rub. You know, when you're cooking a whole hog, that vinegar is gonna mix in with the meat and the juices within the pig and once it drips down onto the coals, it creates just this really flavorful smoke that imparts all that flavor.  So you have rubs all over the place. Salt and pepper and smoke is all you need. Pork versus beef. I would say that the best part about whole hog barbecue is that you're getting the entire pig on a plate instead of just like different parts like brisket or ribs.  Some parts of the pig, a little more ham flavored. Some are more of that dark meat where it's kind of more flavorful. The profiles in such a fatty rich beef cut is great. It has different flavors as you would within a pig. Brisket, again, is very deep. If you have the clean smoke and you have the right rub and you wrapped it, let it rest for the right amount of time, you can find a lot of amazing things. Sides. Coals slaw and hush puppy. What about you, Bert? Mac, greens, slaw. Impatience. You have to get your brisket to 203 degrees. When somebody becomes impatient and will pull it out at 200s. And that can make a big difference. People try to fuss too much with the barbecue. They either try to too expensive, to try to make it too fancy or they take themselves too seriously with it. You know, barbecue is communal. It's celebratory. Rule of thumb is you don't take yourself for your barbecue too seriously. All right, after a spirited debate, we've tallied up all the points and wouldn't you know it once again, we've got ourselves a tie. It looks like we got to give our guests one more chance to state their case.  Try to make your case to that guy. It's hard to argue with them, though. I got to tell you, because the guys that I know, it's hard for me to understand them. They grow so much hog they even sound like them where they're just speaking in grunts. There's more to life than a sandwich of pork and some crackling. Close your eyes, pretend that you are in Texas. Listen to some George Strait. Try some brisket, some beef ribs, some sausage, some of that mac and cheese, and life will be all right. Love it. All right, dinner's same thing, but obviously in reverse. That's hard. Yeah, yeah. He knows that. He knows not to f*** with Texas. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You got to get into a pit. Got to breathe in the smoke.  You got to combine it all together. Chop it up on your plate. Pop, pop, pop, pop. Don't be afraid to maybe chop up some of that crispy skin, too. In fact, we encourage that. Take a bite of the vinegar barbecue pork.  Thank you to our guests for sharing your expertise with us. Hopefully we inspired folks to try some new grub and taught them a thing or two in the process. Y'all keep the conversation going in the comments and keep it spicy, but, you know, respectful. If you like what you sawed, subscribe to the Attention YouTube channel. Continue your culinary education and check out Dish History.


Look breaking clutch kick. No you break there. There we go Bang it out in second gear. Definitely dried out now clutch kick Breaking you got it All right What's up everybody welcome back to the channel? I'm Eva Rabbit here in my street tuned 240 sx. It's running about 427 horsepower stock motor turbo Pretty much basically a street tuned car stock tires and everything as well And I'm here today to do something I've been meaning to do for a while and That is not drifting the rain, but this is for the horizon 3 so it happens all the time But to come into the settings and put steering on simulation We're gonna put cosmetic damage on as well So I'm curious and I want to try drifting in simulation see how this goes I don't know if this is gonna go too well, but uh Such a good brain, but we're gonna see now I've tried it once or so before but I didn't you know really get that much into it, but so far it doesn't seem too bad So like I said, I this is about 427 horsepower turboed stock motor Get the side of the seat we do in simulation And already the rain's getting me So the first feelings though the wheel feels a lot different. It feels more Free I guess you could say it's a little sticker, but I don't get that weird chatter Like when I throw it back and forth like I do in my normal and we get this Definitely get sideways that curb check not helping So we were getting a little sideways there for a little bit But you know like I said, I want to try this on sim steering if you guys have tried sim steering before And you use a wheel coming down below. You know what you guys think about it? The feel is definitely different, but I am starting to kind of like the feel of it Other than that but Because it my wheel doesn't shatter like it does on the other one I think that's because normal steering has the buffers and such this one doesn't there we go We got it now See you go straight to understeer though, so that's definitely different feel but as you can see I can throw the wheel and catch it And it actually rotates pretty nicely on sim steering actually You break There we go This top Crack the tail in on my brand new street 240 If that's all I cracked then we're good I'm gonna rip this around again. So I'm hoping it stops raining here soon so I can actually you know get some good Drifts going but it doesn't look it's gonna stop. So we're gonna run it through the street a little bit here so This is something we needed you for a while Definitely want to try getting more into sim steering and probably stay on simulation steering Probably be a lot harder in tandem and such but something I'm willing to Try to learn and we go oh I went in the wrong gear Still having some shifter issues. I gotta sort that out.  That's a lot of traffic Go. Oh, it looks like it's gonna stop raining. So we're gonna turn back into parking lot here You can't get some Dry drifting here on sim steering We go a little backfire pop Not as bad as I thought I was gonna be doing There's a lot more steering wheel movement like right there. There's some understeer There's a lot more steering on sim steering, but I feel like The wheel is not like pushing itself back like I don't get the chatter Kind of I'm kind of starting to like this actually It's finally drying up here. I'm gonna run up here and see we can't run The little section that we run maybe run the extended eight a little breaking clutch kick No, you break there. There we go Bang them out in second gear. Definitely dried out now clutch kick we go breaking We got it in the handle of this here on sim steering All right, let's see if we can run the extended eight section This might be a little bit more than I can chew right now still on the stock transmission though No, we break in a clutch kick Pull it out there get back Goal right on that curve Good, I'm gonna kick it back. Just left foot breaking. Nope. No, we break there. There we go Throttle if you break that one we're not really set up for that, but we kind of saved it somewhat So sim steering not as hard as I thought it was gonna be I feel like this car is pretty dialed though So the streets a little bit for the mini this Suspension on this to force pretty dialed though So it's been a lot of time trying to get this to handle well on You know stock tires and make a street to Reg it as I say that I completely lose it But I am having fun with this right now So if I'm gonna go up to a drift zone and see how we do on a drift zone though Because you know parking lot see me later It's a good test of it, but it's not like the only test Sign tap Because I feel like that would definitely be different. Oh As I wreck into the wall All right, I'm going to hop over to a my favorite drift zone here. See what I can do On sim steering. I don't know kind of nervous about this Twin hairpins right now. We didn't repair our car though. So that's good See how this works Kind of nervous, but there's no drive-tart since we aren't on lobby. He's this in here. Oh Kick it in go Okay, yep. See that's exactly where since during got me. I was thinking I was on normal and I Needed didn't need to correct as much as I did I'm gonna run it back up the hill of course. It's gonna start raining. Why wouldn't it rain?  Try this again. I'm gonna enter clutch kick See corrected more than I needed to Boy So twin hairpin sim steering Not my finest moments Yeah, I'm correcting way too much. So I'm gonna have to get Don't want to stay on sim But I think it's time we're gonna head back to the parking lot. I'm gonna try a different car and see How it feels on another car So like I said if you guys do some steering and you want to let me know what I could do Maybe to make it a little bit better. Let me know down in the comment section down below. I mean if it would stop raining It would be awesome Let's go with Let's go to 846 the 846 life all right E46 parking lot simulator 2017 oh Shit Go oh my god that wheel almost snapped out of my hands there Oh Too much throttle though Probably wrong gear so keep going there. There we go So more power is definitely Touching here, but we got it though. Oh, yeah If you're not on throttle when you're countered it will grip up now this car is on a Higher tire compound. So no, I don't want to go to the festival. Let's try a different car here I don't think I have any other cars on street tires. I think these are all on Sports, yeah, I think these are all on sport tires. So we're gonna go with and we'll try the Mustang out We'll try a GT 350 R. I think this is still on sport tires But we'll see I think stock tires are definitely a way to go when you're going with some steering for sure Wolf so twitchy though on simulation I gotta get used to that. I am a 900 degrees of rotation. So it's not it's not like I'm on a short rotation Grass is not my friend on Sam. Where's the rain? Okay, that's better You definitely got to keep the real thing going to use a wheel spin dies. It's like in a real car You're countered. You're going the opposite way of that counter You're going into a wall Very bad better kind of getting a feel for it Oh, see when to go clutch kick it and lost all wheels fit and just straightened up massive So I don't think the suspension on these are as dialed as my other one So I'm gonna go back to my 240 That I know has some pretty Tile suspension and because it's lower power. I'm pretty much always on throttle I think that's why it slides easy on sim So definitely have to make cars that slide a little bit easier. Maybe change my suspension setup style So if you guys want to keep seeing some steering here on the channel comment down below tap that like button Wrong gear so Do one or two more final laps on this section Here and then we're gonna end it on that note on the note of being able to slide this 240 on simulation steering and Slide it pretty darn well actually Here sim steering on a wheel definitely a challenge, especially in the rain here on horizon Don't only need you break as much as I do on normal It just likes to go around just pretty much the break I think I'm gonna have to build cars more for weight transition And not make him as fit if I want to run sim steering, which I kind of want to start running sin more But I got to get some, you know Try and get some tannins and see how this works But of course, I'm not nowhere near fluid as much as I want to be So I guess if you guys want to keep seeing for the rising three We tap like this channel as well as you can follow me on Facebook which Twitter and Instagram all the time in the description box below This rain is way Too much it needs to stop But it's for the rise in three. So I think I'm just gonna bear the rain It's a small practice. I may be tuned some more cars So until next time guys, like thank you for watching I almost hit a tree so I'm gonna put all my head. I'll be full rabbit and I'm out Sipping on handy I got the study of my vision and she