I think the SEC will eventually lose Solana, Aptos, Algorand, I think those things survive. There's no reason why Bitcoin couldn't be any 10x asset from here. Earlier this month, a US court ruled that the crypto token in XRP is not a security. The ruling was largely interpreted as a landmark victory for crypto over the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which has been cracking down on digital assets by labeling them as unregistered securities. But what is the broader significance of the XRP ruling? Which other crypto assets could benefit from it? And doesn't mean that the crypto industry can successfully fight back against the SEC crackdown. To answer these questions, I talked with Anthony Scaramucci, the founder and managing partner at Skybridge Capital. I'm Giovanni, on this show we challenge the ideas that shape the world of crypto. In each episode we assess a crypto narrative, a macroeconomic outlook or a potentially disruptive technology. Only the most solid ideas will make it to the other side. Let's talk about the latest XRP ruling. So that was definitely a big victory for Ripple. But what do you think is going to be the broader impact on the cryptocurrency industry? Well, I think the first thing we have to look at, Giovanni, is whether or not the SEC is going to appeal the decision and then what would happen at the appellate court. There's a lot of people that are saying that they're going to appeal it, but I predict that they will not appeal it. Because if you look at the appellate court, the appellate court has more conservative judges, frankly, and the likelihood of it getting overturned, I think is quite small. So I don't think the SEC wants to go through the further embarrassment of appealing it. And so just stepping back, they resoundingly lost that case. And I know there's a lot of speculation. Well, they didn't technically lose it because there were some things said inside the case that defined certain things as a security versus others. But plightively in the decision was the Howie test. And basically what our current SEC commissioner, Gary Gensler, said back in the 2018-2019 timeframe when he was an MIT professor, he said that many of these cryptocurrencies did not meet the Howie test for purposes of assigning the definition security to those assets. And so the great irony here is Mr. Gensler, because he's politically expedient, he's now decided that what he said based on the facts and based on the law in 2018-19, he no longer believes. And so he's zealously prosecuting these cases. But he's going to be further embarrassed because the good news about the United States due to judicial impartiality, they're reading the law exactly the way it was written and they're interpreting it exactly the way it was written. And so he's going to continue to lose those cases. So that's why the markets are up. I see it as a very positive sign for cryptocurrencies in the future. This ruling is likely to have a positive impact on further cases. The SEC is moving against other cryptocurrencies. So what are the specific crypto assets that according to you are going to benefit the most out of this ruling? Well, I think the two major crypto assets, Bitcoin and Ethereum, are going to be likely the ones that benefit the most in terms of their durability and their long-term scalability. I think you did notice that Solana had a very big move. Solana is a very fast token. It's a very fast protocol. And I think it's a survivor. I will fully disclose everybody listening. I own a lot of Solana and I'm a big believer in it. And so the fact that XRP is not a security, I think that means that Solana, even though the SEC says it's a security, is not a security. But if you said to me, okay, who's going to survive? It's obviously Bitcoin and Ethereum. There'll be securities like Solana, Aptos, Algorand. I think those things survive. And I think they go on to build great communities. And I think they get demarcated because of this ruling as non-securities. And I think that has positive ramifications for the industry. For sure. And another issue here that I want to talk about is institutional adoption. So when we talked last time, it was back in August 2021. So almost two years ago, back then, you were making the point that institutional adoption was an overhyped narrative. You said that large pension funds and endowments had very little appetite for crypto and Bitcoin. So now BlackRock has applied for a spot Bitcoin ETF. So first of all, do you think it has good chance to go through? And do you think that if so, that is the moment when pension funds and endowments are going into Bitcoin? Yeah, so really good question. And so I think, you know, not to pat myself on the back, but when you asked me that question two years ago, if you look at the unfolding two years, I think I was at right. There wasn't a lot of demand. There was hype and talk about demand, but it really did not materialize. But I think now, if you're asking me that question again in 2023, I do think there is demand. I think there is a door opening, sort of like you can see the light shaft coming through the door where there's a lot of institutions, if they get greater regulatory clarity, they will adopt this asset. So I mean, I think all of that's coming. It's not quite there yet. But somebody like Larry Fake as an example, applied for a Bitcoin ETF, what would be an example of that? He could get rejected. I'm not saying that it'll go through on the first time because this commission is very negative. But man, the courts, it'll be very interesting to see what happens because they have approved a Bitcoin futures. Giovanni, they have approved a Bitcoin leverage futures, where you can now go two to one on your Bitcoin exposure in a Bitcoin ETF. And so, you know, Grayscale wrote a letter to the judge saying, this is obviously arbitrary and proficious. Just explain that to your viewers and listeners. There is a clause in U.S. administrative law that a regulator can be arbitrary with the way they rule. So if here's the law, and the regulator says, well, it's okay to have a Bitcoin futures ETF, but it's not okay to have a Bitcoin cash ETF. Well, the regulator going to have a really good reason pursuant to that law as to why? Because if they don't, there's something called arbitrary and proficious. And that standard is such where a judge can say, geez, you're really not being there. So to me, I think the SEC will eventually lose. It'll be interesting to see what happens here with the Grayscale case. But if they lose that case, obviously, BlackRock is going to get the regif approved immediately. This may not all unfold until the first half of 2024. But if we're sitting here a year from now, and hopefully you'll invite me back on your podcast, if we're sitting here a year from now, will there be a cash Bitcoin ETF in the United States? I believe that there will. When we talked last time, you said that Bitcoin was going to reach 1 billion users by the end of 2025. So that was back in August 2021. So in between then and now we had a long bear market, the FTX collapsed, and many other unfortunate events that impacted heavily crypto. So despite that, are you still convinced of your prediction? Dan Tapiero, a very good friend of mine, his research team says that Bitcoin right now has between 300 and 340 million users. And so to put that into context, that's the internet back in 1998. So if we were sitting here talking 25 years ago, how much saturation did the internet have globally in 1998? About 2% of the people on planet Earth had access to the internet. Now obviously that's changed a lot over the last 25 years. And so we're sitting here now in 2023. When I made that prediction, it was just under 100 million users. There's now 340 or so million users. That's our best guess. And so you're telling me in the next two years, do I think we can exponentially go from 340 to 1 billion? I do believe that. And by the way, I will point out that if you get regulatory clarity in the United States, you will accelerate that adoption. So we'll have to see what happens, but I'm going to stick to that prediction. I think that's going to be accurate. And if that's the case, there's no reason why Bitcoin couldn't be a 10x asset from here. There's no reason why. So in five years today, not 2025, but we're sitting out in 2028, I don't see why Bitcoin couldn't be $400,000 to $500,000. $300,000 by the end of 25, but $400,000 to $500,000 by the end of 2028. Of course. And just to close the conversation, I just have a very quick question about something that is going on in the US. So Ron DeSantis just came out with a statement. He said that if he's going to win in the US presidential elections, he will ban central banish occurrences in the sense that basically he's very much against the CBDCs and they won't become a reality in case he gets elected. What do you think about this? And yeah, do you think that the CBDCs are going to eventually become a reality in the US? Okay. So since we're in the prediction business, Ron DeSantis will not be president of the United States. So we don't have to worry about that. The chair that I'm sitting on is more exciting and more magnetic and more charismatic than Ron DeSantis. Now he's talking about banning central bank digital currency. So I'm a libertarian. I'm not for central bank digital currencies because of what Governor DeSantis is saying. We don't want this type of social control. We don't want people that could eventually get involved in the government that could enforce their values on us and maybe shut down our accounts or they don't like some of our behavior. They could take money from us very easily with the central bank digital currency. But I got bad news for everybody. You're not going to stop technology in the world. So if people are worried about AI, well, I've got bad news for you. We're going to have it. It's just going to happen. So if you study human history, if you have the technology, the technology will be used and deployed. And so there will be a central bank digital currency in China, other places. There will be, well, there will eventually be one in the United States. I predict that there will be. But I think what is unique about the United States is that we haven't built a check and balance system over the last 250 years that could prevent the things that Governor DeSantis or libertarians like me are worried about. So I think it's very politically naive. And it's naive in terms of a lack of understanding of human history to just blanketly say, you know, I'm going to be the president of the United States and ban central bank digital currencies. Yeah. And it's also very interesting what you said about technology being unstoppable if we assume that the CBDCs eventually will happen. We also we also sure we are also sure that Bitcoin cannot be stopped by any government cannot be banned. So you know, that's a technology you and I like. It's people don't like it. They're trying to stop it. It can't be stopped. Now there's a technology that we don't like you and I don't like, but other people like guess what? That's not going to be stopped either. You know, it's just just the way it works. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Okay. Anthony, it was a cool conversation. Thanks a lot for coming on the show. Thank you again for having


Five reasons the narcissist doesn't want you. Many of us are used to being targeted by narcissists. Sometimes it feels like they will never leave us alone. But the truth is the narcissist doesn't really want you. They see you as something temporary. They see you as a means to an end. The relationship is just for recreational use. It's for their own amusement and enjoyment. As they tie with you like a game of a cat and mouse. As they string you along without any hope or intention of a possible future. Because they don't really want you. They just want the benefits of conveniences that come along with being with you. But many of you take it personally. You may think that it's something to do with you as a person where they don't even know who you are. They never even took the time to get to know you because they had no interest in doing that. They had no interest in getting to know you or building someone with you. Because that's not what narcissists do. They take whatever they can get and then they leave. They're drifters. They move aimlessly from place to place without any deeper purpose or objective. Their only concern is their own survival. Because they know that they can't make it on their own. But they also know that they don't have the skills or the willpower to sustain a relationship. So the only thing they can do is keep moving. They don't even have the motivation to try to build anything with anyone. Because they know that a lost cause. They know they're not built for that type of relationship. They don't have anything to give to you because they're always the ones who are in need. They're always the ones who need your help and support. So they know that any relationship they get into is doomed from the start. It's not going to go anywhere because they're not even fit to be in a relationship. They don't have the skills or the tools to sustain it. So they know that eventually it's going to fall apart. Which is why they will leave before it collapses on top of them.  To milk you for all your worth. But sometimes even though you may have what they want. They won't consider you as a possible endeavor. And the reason for that is because you don't meet the requirements. So here are five reasons why the narcissist doesn't want you. One. You know your worth. The last person a narcissist wants to feel ground is someone who knows their worth. Someone who loves and respects themselves. Which is why the first thing they have to do when they get near you is target your self-esteem. They will try to make you think you're not as good as you are. They will target your confidence in your own worth and abilities. They will target your self-respect. Because that is going to be the greatest opposition to them controlling you. Your self-worth and self-respect acts as a barrier to the narcissist. It protects you from them. So as long as you have that they can't get in. They can't get to you. They have to break that down. So that you will be more accepting of them. Because if you don't realize just how great you actually are. Then you will be willing to accept less. And that's really what they want. That's really what they're looking for. They're looking for someone who is willing to accept less than they deserve. Two. They want someone who they can control. They want someone to be at their back and call. Someone who when they say jump you say how high. Someone who will go above and beyond to please them. Because that is a perfect source of supply for the narcissist. Someone who will do anything they want. So they need to have someone who they can control. Someone who has nothing more significant going on in their lives. Someone with no life of their own. Because then their life can revolve around the narcissist. It can revolve around catering to the narcissist needs instead of them attending to themselves. Three. They want an enabler. They want someone who will enable their negative and self destructive behavior. Someone who makes it possible for it to happen. Someone who will fund the addictions that attention sick behavior. Because that attention hordes. They behave in a provocative outrageous and reprehensible manner in order to attract attention. Because that is a form of supply to the narcissist. When everyone's eyes are on them. And they can't live without it. They need it to feel alive. They need it to feel like they exist. Which is why they need an enabler. They need someone who will make it possible for this behavior to continue. They need someone who is not going to fight against it. They need someone who is okay with it. Someone who doesn't mind. Someone who can tolerate it. Someone who won't put up a fight. Someone who is going to let them do what they're going to do. Without any questions. Without needing an explanation. They need someone who is weak and foolish. They need someone to be their doormat. They need someone who they can walk all over. And if you're not going to do that. Then they will get rid of you. Because they know there's another fool just around the corner. Four. They know you don't really want them. One reason why the narcissist doesn't want you. It's often because they know you don't really want them. You may think that you want them. But you just want the false self. You want who they pretend to be. But they know they're not really about that. They're just putting on an act for you. And they know that eventually you're going to see the man behind the curtain. They know that in time you're going to see who they regard. Which is why they will see you as something temporary. They will see you as a means to an end. And once you pull the rug out from under them. They know it's all over after that. Because you're no longer susceptible to them in ablation. You're no longer validated in their false self. When they want someone who will believe in their lies and illusions. They want someone who will see them as perfect and flawless. They don't want to be around anyone who sees them as they actually are. Even if you still love and accept them. It doesn't make a difference.  Everything that they actually are. But they need to be that way to survive.  Because they lack the qualities and abilities to make it on their own. But they want you to see them as being self-sufficient. Even while you're doing everything for them. And if you can't do that then it's on to the next. Five. They know their place. The narcissist doesn't want you. Because they know their place. They know where they belong. Their opportunists. So they will take advantage of opportunities as and when they arrive. But they won't think about the effects that it has on you. Because they know they don't belong with you. They know where they belong. Narcissists are low value people. They lurk around high value people. But it's only so they can get something out of them.  Because they know that they don't belong with you. They only come around you to use you. Because they know they're not going to be able to sustain a future with you. They know that anything they get involved in is eventually going to fall apart. So they see it as a means to an end. It's just a process they use to accomplish their own goals. Although the activity of being with you is not enjoyable or considered important. But they consider it to be necessary so that they can accomplish their real goals. Which is just to sustain themselves for a short period of time or to get them to the next destination.  You're just something they use to refuel themselves. You're not anything significant to the narcissist. No one is. People are just pawns on a chessboard to a narcissist. You're just something that gets them to where they need to be. Like a form of transportation. Because they already know they don't deserve you. They already know they're not going to be good enough for you. They already know they're not meant to be loved. Which is why they don't even try to make it last. They don't invest anything into you. Because they know it's not going to amount to anything if they're a part of it. They know it's not going to go anywhere.  They run you into the ground. And then they find someone else and do the same thing all over again. Because that's the only way they know how to survive. That's the only way that they can survive. Because they have nothing to give. They have nothing to bring to a relationship. They've spent their entire lives depending on other people to save them. So they can't take care of you. They don't even know how to take care of themselves. So by default the relationship would always be about them. And if you're not willing to make it about them. Then you're of no use to them. They won't want you. They won't want anything to do with you. Because you're just a tool. An appliance. And you either work the way they want you to work or you don't work at all. And if you don't work how they like it, how they see fit. Then they will discard you like a faulty appliance. They will toss you aside. And they won't consider the effects that they might have on you. They won't consider your feelings because none of that matters to a narcissist. The only thing that matters to them is what they're going to get. And if they're not going to get what they want to get. Then it's good riddance. They're glad you're gone. Thank you for watching. If you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up. Share your thoughts in the comment section. Hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications. If you would like to support the channel you can donate at paypal.me-naxivver. You can book a one-on-one with me on my website. It's not a private that could be UK. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Good evening everyone. I'm Roger Venables with the Aviation Department and tonight I have the privilege of presenting to you the 2022 Bond Program, the election scheduled for May 7th of this year. Tonight we're going to talk a little bit about the program goals. These are our set-out objectives, if you will. Our strategy and highlights from the Bond Program, the selection process itself will review that. And then of course the City Council's approved projects, the five propositions that will be on the ballot and of course the Bond Program scheduled moving forward. So taking a look at our program goals, this is what we always look back to as a test. It's our litmus test, if you will. Once we've developed the program, we go back and review it against these stated goals. So we want to maintain and improve existing infrastructure and address equity. We'll provide mobility and city services in those growth areas. The 2020 census revealed that we had about 24% growth rate since 2010 over that 10-year span. Particularly in the northwest sector of the city, we had a 76% growth rate. So we're still actively growing, enhanced our active transportation recreational corridors, allow for some flexibility and partnership opportunities, and of course achieve balance and fiscal stewardship, trying to balance our operating and our capital budget. So we want to make sure if we build something new, we've got operating and maintenance costs that are going to go along with the life of that facility. So we either got to staff it, keep the lights on, et cetera. A little bit about our strategy. On the capital livery side, we dedicated about $29.8 million, specifically to transportation in Park. Park being a small portion of that related to the design elements for the Forest Park pool replacement. But the balance of this would go towards our arterial projects where we can go out and do some early design work, secure some right-of-way, at least know where that right-of-way is at so we can better accelerate the delivery of this capital because we still have Encore and other franchised utilities that need to relocate and move out of the way before we even get started. Our debt capacity, we still got some debt capacity beyond the $560 million that's programmed for this 2022 bond program. But we need to preserve some. We're going to have emergency situations, we'll have partnership opportunities that'll come up outside of the bond cycle. We also might have grant match opportunities that we need to capitalize on. Some of the highlights, well, we've got $365 million program for Streets and Mobility. In addition to that, we have $71.6 million that came from Tarrant County bond funds. Tarrant County had a successful election in November of last year and committed to four arterial projects that we were going to do, so together we're going to do them, and one grade-separated railroad crossing. We've got another $59.8 million that comes from other funding sources the city had. Together, almost a half a billion dollars worth of Streets and Mobility improvement projects. On the park side, we've got $121 million in the bond program. Combine that with $13.2 million that we've got from partnership funds from third parties. Another $3.9 million from other funding sources. Together, $138 million worth of park improvements, and no tax rate increase associated with this program. So how do we get here? How does a project get developed? Well, it comes from many different areas. Data collection analysis. We're collecting data on a daily basis. We're looking at payment condition indexes. We're looking at facility condition index. Where are these infrastructure in terms of their life cycle? Master plan and strategic goals. Guidance documents tells us how our capital planning needs to take place over the next five, 10, 20 years. Development activity that's occurring. City Council, waitlisted projects from previous bonds that didn't quite make it ranked high. But we're putting forward on future bond programs, service demands, public meetings, neighborhood meetings, boards and commissions. All that goes into play when developing a project. The selection process. We started with $1.3 billion worth of projects. So somehow we had to get that down to a $500 million program. That's what we initially started at. So we asked the departments, submit us your projects. It goes to a prioritization committee. That committee is made up of individuals from different departments around the city that are the first filter, if you will, of prioritizing those projects. We asked the departments, tell us how much it's going to cost. When do you need it delivered by? Are there O&M expenses associated with your project? So is it a new facility or expanding facility? We'll have additional operating and maintenance costs. Committee will take a look at that across the spectrum with about 10 applied criteria. One criteria that we used for this bond program that was absent from 2018 was equity. So we looked no further than the Fort Worth race, task force on race and culture, for inspiration on how we could answer that or best address equity. So we asked the basic questions. Really simple. Does the project eliminate or reduce racial and cultural disparities? Does it lie within or adjacent to a majority minority area or super majority minority area? Majority minority area is really just a census block with a minority population of 50 percent or greater. A super majority minority area is one at 75 percent or greater. And of course, we applied all the other criteria. Does it collaborate with other projects? Are there sharing resources? Are there leverage opportunities? This one we had a significant amount of leverage opportunity from the county. Does it address service delivery? Do we have deficiencies that need to be addressed? Is it a capital replacement? Something that's gone beyond its useful life? Does it address health and safety concerns? Are there state or federal or contractual mandates that require us to add additional funding for the bond program? And of course, we take all that to management with our first shot at prioritization. For their look at it, asking more questions, filtering process even more, and then ultimately on to city council. City council review and provide some input on what's presented to them, and ultimately say, let's take it out to the community and let's get some feedback. And so we did, spent the latter part of last summer, early fall, doing just that. And of course, the final project list is developed. And in February 8th of this year, city council approved an ordinance calling for the election. So subsequent to the public input, we realized heavy emphasis on arterials, especially added capacity projects, more importantly, all our streets and mobility, heavy on everybody's mind. So we added $45.5 million to what was scheduled to be a $500 million bond program. Park and recreation improvements, $8.1 million, principally to the Forest Park pool replacement, stop six aquatic facilities, essentially enlarging those facilities, increased funding for the botanic gardens. And of course, we added another project, Grove Park. And then on the facility side, we added $3.6 million, principally land acquisition. We've seen costs over the last couple of years continue to rise. We wanted to account for that related to two fire station replacements. So today we're at $560 million bond program, two thirds of which goes to streets and mobility infrastructure improvements. Another quarter of it to park and recreation improvements and the rest dispersed to police and fire, public library, and then our natural area and open space. So what you'll see on the ballot is it'll be titled Fort Worth Proposition A. It'll be streets and mobility infrastructure improvements at $369 million. The map just kind of identifies the location of where those key arterial projects, great separated crossing the established corridors in our neighborhood streets. So what our emphasis is is added network capacity for arterials and intersections, sidewalks, bicycle lanes, safety improvements, key focus, neighborhood school safety, our high injury network or vision zero program, ridges, street lights, and then again maintaining and improving our existing network of established corridors, upgrades to traffic signals in our neighborhood street rehabilitation program. This gives you the list by project category and along with the associated funding highlighted in green on the $369 million. Tarrant County, as I mentioned earlier, 71.6 and then of course those other funds from sources of funding the city already had and transportation impact fees, future improvement agreements, previous bonds at 59.8 and again to $497 million. So highlighted in green on this chart are the added capacity. We started out with nine arterial projects. We've moved to 14. So we've added five out of the public meetings. And you can see the 2022 bond fund amount at about $145 million, add in the Tarrant County, add in the other funding sources. We added Bailey Boswell from 157 to Horseman Road now. Some of these are going to be designed in right-of-way only. We want to be able to design the project, select and secure the right-of-way. So if we know that in advance we're able to accelerate delivery of this project sooner rather than later. You can go to the city's website and there'll be additional detail about each one of these projects. This map just shows you the arterial projects that are planned. It's only showing the north half of the city. Again that's where we're seeing the highest amount of growth and the highest need for our arterial projects. Intersections, again centralized down to the southwest, our established corridors to support transit. We've got $10 million assigned to Lancaster Avenue between Jones Street and Hanley Drive. And these are really just corridor improvements that we want to focus on pedestrian and bicycle, really the interface between the vehicular traffic and all other modes of transportation. Same with Eastbury and McCart Avenue, two and a half million dollars for each, really for design only, but we may have an opportunity also collect some right-of-way along the way. On Safety and Mobility, our Vision Zero program, really what we're trying to do here is take those fatalities to zero. So we want to reduce those severe injuries or fatalities, take them to zero, hence the name Vision Zero Program. Five million dollars dedicated to that effort. It would be to address all modes of transportation from pedestrian, bicycle to vehicular in those top 10 corridors. We know where they're at, we have the statistics for those. The question is, what type of improvements can we make in each one of those corridors? So we have a consultant that's helping out our transportation and public works with determining the type of improvements that could be made within those corridors, again to reduce those fatalities to zero. Everman Parkway connector, south into town, this is connecting 35 to Everman. There's a stretch of roadway in there that the county has agreed to participate in at about 13 and a half million dollars. So it's a design of a four-lane divided thoroughfare. Most importantly, though, it's a grade-separated crossing at the Union Pacific Railroad. A little bit too at Sycamore Creek, which also runs through there. Fort Worth Proposition B is Park and Recreation Improvements. And again, the map just kind of shows you the general disbursement of those projects around the city. Again, Fort Worth Proposition B, these are the project types totaling up to $123,955,000. Now, it also includes the public art component. So for transportation projects, it'd be 1% for all other propositions with the exception of natural space and, natural area and open space, which has no public art participation. Again, you can see the partnership funds at about $13.2 million. The other funds, the $2 million would be some gas well revenue of the $486,000 with park dedication fees. Which interesting is when we added Oak Grove, we took $3 million from the planned $5 million project for Sycamore Park. We added it to Oak Grove. In doing so, we came back in with $2 million worth of funding from gas well revenue, again, to bring the total project cost up to about $4 million. We added another $486,000 to the $3 million that we added to Oak Grove to bring it to $3.4 million. So, Potanik Garden Infrastructure Improvements. A couple of years ago, we entered into an agreement with Potanik Research Institute of Texas, a contractual obligation when they're from now on going to maintain and operate Potanik Gardens. When we turned it over to them, we turned it over to them with infrastructure that was degrading or at the end of its useful life. We committed, in that contract, to put forward future bond programs funding to help replace some of those aging infrastructure. This is $7 million to help with that effort. Heritage and Paddock Park renovation and site improvements. Heritage Park sits on the north end of the downtown with the convergence of Main Street. If you go out there today, it's got a chain link fence around it. You can't even access the park. We need to go back in and do substantive design and reconstruction of those improvements along with Paddock Park and some streetscape improvements so we can make it more pedestrian friendly environment and integrate that with the park. Fort Worth Water Gardens, built in 1971. It's undergone some limited renovations over the years. But what's happened is a lot of that vegetative growth out there in those root systems have found their way into the plumbing, the filtration system, the electrical systems and degraded those. Things that you can't see, they're below ground, but are in desperate need of renovation or replacement. And that's $6.5 million to that effort. Our drainage and erosion control and pond dredging projects, about $7.1 million. You can see the disbursement of the projects around the city. This is significant dam replacements or pond dredging. Some of this we use for stormwater detention as that thing sills up. It reduces our stormwater carrying capacity. This, again, comes back in and drains, removes some of the sediment. Metterbrook Golf Course renovation, much like we did with Rockwood Golf Course from the 2014 bond. We want to go back in and improve playability of the golf course by adjusting teas, fairways, looking at some drainage improvements out there as well, golf cart paths, etc. We've got the Sycamore Park improvements that I mentioned earlier, $2 million, but again, there's additional funding from Gaswell Revenue of another $2 million that'll be added to this. And that's the design and construction of those master plan park amenities. Sycamore Park was formerly Sycamore Golf Course. It was decommissioned about three, almost four years ago now. Went through a master planning effort in 2020. And so we've got a master plan park. Now we want to come back in and construct some of those traditional community park improvements from trails, picnic facilities, security lighting, etc. Oak Grove Park. Oak Grove Park was purchased by the city in 2015. It's undeveloped. So this would go to, it's about 67 acres. So this would go to master planning, design, and construction of that park amenities. Stop Six Aquatic Facility, $8.2 million dollars. This would be a public pool. It'd be located adjacent to the Stop Six Hub Community Center. And I'll talk about that in just a moment. But this is design and construction of an outdoor aquatic facility. We are from four to eight lanes. It's out rows of the public meetings. They wanted to see a larger public pool. Same with Forest Park Pool Replacement. We've just started into the design phase of that Forest Park Pool Replacement. It was clear that the public wanted a larger pool, something more kin to what is out there today. So we enlarged it lengthening the length of the pools and adding, I believe, four more lanes to get to eight. Echo Lake Park Improvements. We acquired this from the county in 2017. They gave us the property. And what they gave us was a bunch of deteriorating infrastructure, a lot of playgrounds that weren't ADA compliant. This is to come back in and take that 41 acres and master plan and design and construction of our typical park amenities. It sits adjacent to our Worth Heights Community Center today. Gateway Park Development. This is the continuation of the Gateway Park Development. This will be an update to the master plan. We'll come back in with athletic fields, trails, skate park, some security lighting, redoing some parking lots, et cetera. Neighborhood Park Improvements. We have eight. So these are park reserves. These are undeveloped tracks of land that we've acquired over the years that need to be developed at some point in time with a park, with a neighborhood park. So this would be master planning, design, and construction of park amenities. One of which West Haven Park, and I'll point it out, is one that was formerly Vanzant YMCA. We ended up acquiring that from the YMCA, removing the pool. Another infrastructure out there. This is to come back in and master planning develop it as a neighborhood park. Martin Luther King Park. Right now MLK Community Center sits on this property. It's about 2.8. I think it's about 2.86 acres. We are going to remove Martin Luther King Community Center. We're going to redevelop where it's at today with a park. It is going to be replaced with the Stop Six Hub Community Center. Stop Six Hub Community Center, $17.5 million. It's a $28,000 square foot community center. It's going to be your traditional community center with all the recreational components to it, but we're going to add something. We're going to add a library to it. We're going to add space for social services for some of those providers. One stop shop, if you will, for the community. Fire Station Community Center was one of those in the 2018 that was between Diamond Hill and Forest Park, Forest Fire Station Community Center replacement. They were kind of neck and neck. We decided to go ahead. All the things that were wrong with it before are still wrong with it today. Went ahead and put it on the 2022 bond program. We've got a 1928 vintage fire station that's been added on to over the years, and it looks like it. It's added on to it as needed, programming, etc. We've got a second floor can access. It's not ADA compliant. We can't use it for programming needs. It just doesn't fit the model today of our community centers. When we take down portions of the Fire Station Community Center, we're going to pay respect to the 1928 vintage fire station, at least components of that, and integrate that into the new design. So our Fort Worth Zoo, I mentioned contractual obligations. Well, Fort Worth Zoological Society, we have a contract with. They put all those exhibits. They maintain the zoo. They operate the zoo. Our commitment under that contract is that we will provide funding for the construction of utility infrastructure to support their new exhibits. Trail gap connections. This would be city-wide, about five and a half million dollars. Now there's three areas that we're focusing on right now is Bomber Spur, Mistletoe Bridge to Forest Park, and Sycamore Creek Trail. Again, we're going to take this five and a half million dollars. We're going to try to leverage it as much as we can with other third-party agencies in order to maximize the amount of trail we can actually build. Fort Worth Proposition C is a new public library in the far northwest Fort Worth. What we're looking at is around Avondale-Hasslet at Sundara Ranch. In a three-mile radius of where we're targeting for this library, we had 3,260 people call Fort Worth home within that three-mile radius in a year of a pandemic. So that's what we gained in 2020. Right now within that three-mile radius, we're bumping up on 20,000 people. So this would go to Land Acquisition Design and Construction Week. We already have our land identified for this project, so hopefully we can secure and close on that land quickly and get started with this project. Fort Worth Proposition D is our police and fire public safety proposition. We've got one new police facility and two fire station replacements at $39.2 million. Fire Station 37, we moved on to its current site. I think it's at 4971 Ray Wright Road as a modular building. And then right adjacent to it, we built a metal building to hold the fire apparatus. Again, temporary building moved on site in 1998. It's time to find it a permanent home. So that's $9.5 million. Fire Station 16 replacement, a little over $10 million. Okay, this is about a 57-year-old station that's at the end of its useful life. We've got the captain's quarters that actually is located in one of the fire apparatus bays. We've got the bay doors that we actually have to lower the suspension of the fire apparatus just to get it in the door. There's so many things wrong with it. We can't accommodate female firefighters with it. We can do no level of expansion or renovation to this building to make it right. You really just have to start all over again. So we're looking at putting it at a different location that meets the needs of the fire department. So we've got some land dollars allocated for this project as well. Police Northwest Patrol Division, $18.6 million. We already own the property. It's about 66 acres. West of Mecham at 3911 Avenue. This is to build a 32,000-square-foot facility to centralize, if you will, the Northwest Patrol Division. Right now, portions of them are housed at Hemphill, portions in the downtown, portions in the stock yard, and then, of course, across or on the east side of the airfield. They pay about $151,000 a year in rent. They can take that. They're taking that out of their operating costs right now. They can take that $151,000 and put it to other resources. So it kind of liberates them, if you will, from that lease obligation. Propositione is our natural area and open space. So for 2021, the end of 2021, over the prior three years, we're losing 47 acres a week to development. That's Greenfield to development. In 2022, which is only six months old in our fiscal year, we've lost 1,440 acres to development. This $15 million goes to secure some of that property, this most environmentally sensitive property that we have around the city, to create an open space plan. We've already done that with a 50-acre purchase of Broadcast Hill. So many benefits associated with this. We can use it as passive recreational opportunities, improves air and water quality, et cetera. So here are the summary of propositions. I know I went through them really quickly. I would invite you to go online and get more detailed about 110 neighborhood street rehabilitation projects to see if your street actually appears on that. If it does not, reach out to Transportation and Public Works. It may already be on another list for a street rehabilitation and not necessarily a part of this bomb program. So Proposition A, Fort Worth Proposition A, Streets and Mobility Infrastructure, 369 million, Park and Recreation improvements, Fort Worth Proposition B at 123, Public Library improvements, Fort Worth Proposition C at 12 and a half, Police and Fire Public Safety improvements, Fort Worth Proposition D, 39.3, and then, of course, Natural Area and Open Space Proposition E. So moving forward, right, from this day all the way up, really all the way up to the election, we're going to be holding a series of public information meetings. Again, go to the website to determine where those might be in close proximity to you and I encourage you to attend. April 25th is early voting. Again, there'll be more information on the website about where those locations are for early voting. May 7th is Election Day. So again, if you have any questions, I invite you again to visit the city's website to get more detail on each one of these projects.


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This is the story of a boy who's the pride of the Marines, Hal Schmidt, United States Marine Corps. The story of Hal Schmidt begins on an island where the scourge of the Japanese advance was first checked, Waddle Canal. They're coming against Schmidt. Keep down, they'll be coming any minute now. They won't come from where they're shooting. I think they're gonna cross the river. Okay, Diamond, how about cutting this gun in? Wait, wait, wait. Now, now, fire! Watch those hand grenades, let them have it. They got Johnny! They got Johnny!  The best guy in the world. Watch it, coming in again. Where you hit? Where you hit? Get me out of your way. I'll stick with it, stick. Don't let him screw. Please, don't kick off. We gotta help soon. I don't want to be alone, Lee, dirty skippies. Try and sneak one up on me, huh? Ain't coming so fast anymore. Don't like what you're getting, do you? Come on, suckers. There's nobody in your way. Just a couple of Marines. Hello, guys! I can't see. I can't see, Lee. I can't see. Al, don't do it. We'll get help soon. Put down that 45.  Shoot myself. Just tell me where they are, Lee. Tell me where they're coming from, Lee. Tell me where they are. A Marine sweetheart gets a letter from a sailor aboard a hospital ship. A girl back in Philadelphia hears about Al Schmidt. Al asked me to write this letter on a con of he can't do any writing now. I am a sailor and am taking care of his legs. An infection. But that's clearing up. I will tell you honestly and truly, though, that he is a hero. And I do mean hero. Al says he will be coming home one of these days and hopes to see you real soon. Lots of love. Al Schmidt. You see, folks, he says Al's all right. Then why couldn't Al write himself? And, uh, as for the Red Cross workers here in San Diego Base Hospital, why, uh, why, uh, they're okay. Even the blonde one who brings me a letter. But it's for me. Well, I'll take a girl named Ruth every time. Oh, come on, pal. This is the first letter you've written yourself. Give her a little big. Think how she wants to come to you. Well, what'll I say? Oh, you want to tell her about your gang? Oh, sure. Sure. Yeah. Uh, we got a great gang of gyreans here, Ruthie. A lot of them from the canal. Lee Diamond, who was with me, Cababian. Hey, uh, where's that ashtray, Blondie? On the desk, right by your hand. Your right hand, Al. Oh, thanks. Well, how about the rest of the letter? Oh, that's enough. Isn't there anything else you want to tell her, Al? Like what? About your eyes. No. Well, she'll have to know sometime. Look, after I have my operation, after I can see again, well, then I'll tell her, then it'll be a big laugh for the both of us. Understand? You know, there's an operation scheduled for you tomorrow morning. Well, sure. They told me. Bet you thought I'd be scared or something. Well, this is what I've been waiting for. This is going to fix me up. Al, the doctor doesn't promise you'll be able to see after this operation. Maybe you'll... It doesn't have to promise. I know them doctors. Like the one on the ship who was always saying I might lose a leg from blood poisoning. Didn't, did I? Here, add something to that letter. Will you, Ruthie? Uh, here to Ruthie. Ruthie, I've been holding out the best news to the end. You keep asking me why I don't write to you myself. Well, the reason is my hands.  But, uh, any day now you'll be getting a letter every day written by yours truly himself. Al, this isn't any good. You're just storing up trouble for yourself, for both of you.  Here I am on top of the world. And take this for me, will you? And it, uh, it won't be long before I come walking up the steps of your house, Ruthie. And don't you worry about my hands, baby. When I get them on you, I'll... Well, you'll know they're all right. Gosh, sweetheart, I can, I can hardly wait to see you. I... I'll say it, Al. Just make believe I'm a typewriter. Don't be embarrassed. I, I can hardly wait to kiss you for the first time, honey. I never told you what I feel like when you're in my arms. Looking up at me with your eyes like, with that kind of funny, wonderful light in your eyes, like you did on that grill road platform when I went away. Say it, Al.  She used to call me that once. It's a kind of joke between us, see? Yeah. Blondie, look at this picture. Ain't that a nice face, though? Ain't it here? Can I take a look? Ah, no, Smitty. I just lugged at it a little bit ago. Oh, don't rib me. I only showed it to you once. Yeah, it's a very nice face, Al. A guy could lean on a girl like that. A marine don't lean on anybody. If there's any leaning to be done, the female sex of the weaker, ain't it? Well, most people lean a little on somebody. Nobody stands alone. Well, you just let me have that operation, Blondie. I'll stand alone. You just watch me. Thanks, nurse. Well, I guess we're ready for you now, Smitty. Not too soon for me, Doc. I'm busting at the seams. It's been the longest three weeks of my life. Now, look, Smitty, don't expect to see the minute the bandage is off, huh? I've docked in the room, so it's not... Okay. You told me that, Doc. Just get it off, will you? Just get it off, will you? Now, I'm not making any promises either. The healing process is... Okay, okay, but let's try it, please. Bandage is off now. No. No. No! Not a darn thing, but I didn't expect to see with the blinds down. You said it was dark in here. How about the flashlight? You promised... I will, I will. But now take it easy. Turn it on, Doc. Even if it's only a two-bit flashlight, I'm gonna see stars and angels and roofs. Come on, Doc. Let me see the light. Bring it closer. See anything? Yeah, yeah. Like a locomotive headlight, way off in the fog. Bring it closer. Closer, Doc! I'm sorry, Al. The light was full on your face. Close. Doc, I can't be blind. Not for my whole life. Look, Al, I... Doc, please.  You've got ways of fixing guys up. I did my best, I fought. I'm not asking for so much. Al, this examination isn't final. I told you yesterday it wouldn't be. Oh, when can we try again? Tomorrow, next week? Well, you're still suffering from the effects of eye concussion. There are still pieces of shrapnel that have to work themselves out. And you'll probably have to have another operation after a while. When? When? Well, we'll have to wait six months, a year. Even then, there's no assurance you'll see. Six months? Well, what are my chances? Give it to me straight. I, uh... I have a book here I want you to take with you. And we have people right here. We'll teach you to... No! It's one of them books for the blind. I don't want any of that stuff. I want to stand on my own. I don't want any of that stuff. Al! Al, right now I'm thinking of someone, a doctor, a friend of mine. We went to school together. He was blind. From the time he was 10 years old. That didn't stop him. He's married, got two kids. He's a fine psychiatrist and a happy man. Are you listening to me, Al? I'm not saying it'll be easy for you. One of these first months aren't the toughest. But people get the wrong idea about blindness. A blind man is not helpless. He just has to do things in a little different way from the rest of us. Are you listening to me, Al? Why don't God strike me dead? In just a moment, you will hear the second part of Academy Award. Back in the days of the Civil War, the House of Squibb was founded to do what had never been done before. To produce with scientific care, drugs of tested purity and efficacy. Since then, through four other wars and all the years of peace, the list of Squibb products has grown to include not only life-saving drugs, but everyday items for your medicine cabinet produced to similar standards of perfection. 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Now for part two of Academy Awards, starring John Garfield as Al Schmidt in Pride of the Marines with Rosemary de Camp as Virginia. Nurse, come here. I want to get this over with quick. Listen, Al. Got your pencil? Yes. Dear Ruth. What harm will it do to think it over for another week? What good will it do?  Your mind's made up. Well, how about giving Ruth a chance to decide for herself? To decide what? How to ruin her life? Look, she's worked hard all her life. Me, the big shot. I was going to give her all the things she never had. She wasn't going to have to work anymore. What can I give her now? But, Al, you— I won't have her being a seeing-eye dog for me. Oh, how do you know she'll feel that way about it? At least tell her the truth, Al. Find out what she wants. She's not going to stop loving you, riding to you. Then send her letters back. I suppose I do give her a few bad days. She's pretty. She'll meet another guy. She'll fall in love. You're going to write the letter for me? Or do I have to ask Lee Diamond? All right. Go ahead. Dear Ruth, I guess this letter's going to be a kind of surprise, but I might as well give it to you straight. I'm not coming back to Philly. Not now, not ever. And as for getting married, I've decided it will just ain't up my alley. I hope you'll be happy. I hope you get yourself another boyfriend real soon. Yours, Al Schmidt. There you are. There's a long-distance call for you, Al. Here, I'll take you. Oh, from where? It's from Ruth, from Philadelphia. I ain't here. She must have received your letter.  I can't talk to her. Tell her to leave me alone. All right, Al. Hello. May I accept the call, please? This is Virginia Pfeiffer of the Red Cross. Just a minute, please. Hello? A friend of Private Schmidt's asks if she can accept the call. Miss Virginia Pfeiffer of the Red Cross. Oh, yes. She's been writing. Go ahead, San Diego. Is this Ruth? Yes, Miss Pfeiffer. I got Al's last letter. He's not breaking off with you because he doesn't love you, Ruth. Believe me, he does. Well, then why? Get set for a very bad shock, Ruth. What is it? Al has completely lost the sight of one eye and may never regain sight in the other. That's why he broke with you. He's afraid of becoming a burden. Do you understand now? Hello? Ruth? There's one thing I'd better find out, Ruth, and you can think it over if you want to. It'll make a difference in helping, Al. Do you still love him? Do you want him? I mean, as a husband. Oh, yes. Yes, I do. Remember, he may be totally blind for the rest of his life. Well, what does that matter? You don't want to think it over? Think well with his eyes, not the color of his hair because something has happened to his eyes. Captain Burrow says to go in, Smitty. Oh, good morning, Schmidt. Morning, Miss Pfeiffer. Morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Hi, Al. Oh, sounds like Lee. That's it. Sit down, everybody. Schmidt, I've got great news for you. You're getting the Navy Cross. Congratulations. Al, it's wonderful. Say, that is something. Corporal Diamond's getting one too, although the ceremonies won't be held at the same place. That's great, Lee. Give me a wallop. The Navy has decided that you'll get your award at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Corporal Diamond's going to go on furlough, too, and he'll be on the train with you. And you'll leave tomorrow and be home in time for Christmas. I, uh... I gotta go back there. Sorry, Schmidt. You're under orders. You're going back. Tomorrow? Tomorrow. Goodbye. And good luck. Thank you, sir. Where are we, Lee? Ah, still crossing Ohio, I guess, Al. Lee, I, uh... I've been thinking it over. I don't want to see Ruth. We're finished. There's no point in having her wake over the corpse. I don't want to see her at all, see? You send the telegram for me. Tell Ruth not to come to the station. Oh, Schmidt, that's not fair. If you probably plan a Christmas celebration, you're gonna see her. Lee, you send that wire. Okay. I'll send it. First, I got something on my chest. Al, back there in the canal, I, I thought something about you. I never told you. It was after you got that grenade in your face. Toward the morning it was when we got them jabs who were coming in on us. You remember what you did, Al?  You kept yelling, tell me when they come in, Lee. I can't see, but you tell me where they are and I'll shoot them. Al, I, I was scared at that then laying on the ground waiting for a japper in it. I couldn't help thinking something. I thought that kid, Smitty, is more guts than any man alive. I was wrong, Al. I think you're only hopped up by excitement like you're taking a shot or something. I don't think you got guts, Al. I think you're kind of yellow. You haven't got that guts to see Ruth.    Okay, okay. Just ask yourself a question.  Would you join up? Would you ask for combat instead of short duty? Would you do it over again? Al, listen to me. Sure, you're in a tough spot, but it's not peaches and cream for everybody else. What problems have you got? You're in one piece, ain't you? Your wife don't have to turn over on her insides when she sees you.  That's what you think. Sure, there'll be some guys who own high, even when they know you can handle a job, but...  Because I celebrate Passover instead of Easter. Al, don't you see what I'm talking about? You and me, we need the same kind of a world. We need a country to live in where nobody gets booted around for any reason. Um, I'm all mixed up. Mixed up and scared. Dragging at the hills in yellow. No, Al, no. I wasn't telling the truth before. You're not yellow. You're a swell guy, a wonderful guy. You're a pure sort of guy, if ever I saw one. But Al, don't leave all your guts behind on Guadalcanal. Okay, Lee, but now we send that wire. Al, didn't what I say mean anything to you. Yeah, but I'll still send that wire. I know you from Al Snapshot. I'm Lee Diamond. Didn't, didn't you get his telegram? Yes, I did, but I decided to come down to the station anyway. Oh, Lee helped me. I've got to get him back where he lived amongst his friends. He's got to know. He's pretty set on not going. Where are you taking him now? The Navy hospital. He's got to come home first, even for just an hour.  I have Al's car here. Couldn't you tell him it's a Navy car, maybe? I'll take him to the house and then, then tonight I'll drive him to the hospital. Oh, I don't know, Ruth, I... I want one chance, Lee. Won't you give it to me, please? It's this whole life I'm fighting for. Yeah, and yours, I know.  Hang on. Boy, sounds like Philly all right. Good old Philly. Say, Lieutenant, where are we? I, uh, I can't see so good yet. Uh, can't you hear me, Lieutenant? I've orders against talking while driving. Okay, okay. You don't mind if I talk to you though, do you? I'm kind of hopped up about coming home. I've got to talk to somebody. Okay. I, uh, I guess that must be your perfume I'm smelling now. It's, uh, nice. If you don't mind my saying so, it's the first time a Lieutenant smelled nice to me. Kind of, kind of reminds me of a perfume I once gave to... Say, you know, I'm bugs. Everything reminds me of something today. Will you take this car? I know there was something bothering me about it.  I had a jalopy once that did exactly the same thing. I got a little eye trouble, though. That's why I come here to get it fixed up. Say, uh, are we here at the hospital? Yes. Uh, would you take this out for me, Lieutenant? It's not heavy. Yes, yes, this way. Thanks. I'll take the bag now. You just leave the way. Some steps now. Wooden steps. Say, this hospital must be an old dump. That's all. Something holding us up, Lieutenant? Ow! Ruth! I... I thought there was something familiar. Elle, I had to do this. What's the use? It's no good. Elle, it's Christmas Eve. Come on, Elle, you've got to come in. You're home. Stop following me around. I'm blind, Ruth. I'm helpless.  Why don't you let me decide that? Because I'm nobody's laptop. That's why I got too much pride. Pride, you don't have any pride. You want to feel sorry for yourself. You want to feel lonely. You haven't got the pride to accept being blind like a man. I'm going right now. You get in that car and drive. I won't do it. You're going to stay right here and you're going to listen to me. I won't drive you. That's fine. That ties it all up. I could beat your ears off for saying that. But there's one card you missed. I may be blind, but I know where the phone is in this house. I'm calling a cab. You wait a minute, dear.   What is it, a pity about a brave man? I suppose I never was a war, darling. What if we were married and one day I got hit by an automobile and was left to cripple? Would you walk out on me? You know you wouldn't. Oh, darling, my heart has been falling over things all year because you've been gone. I need you, Elle. Sure, you'll need me too, but what's wrong with that? Why shouldn't two people need each other? I don't know what I'll do if you leave me. I need you too, my darling. Lucy, Lucy, don't. I don't want to make you cry. I need you. I don't want to make you cry. It's just that, well, I was only an ordinary guy before and I wasn't worth your then. And now I'm less than an ordinary guy. I can't see. Less than ordinary? You? Oh, sweetheart, don't you realize that every single man who's fought is no longer ordinary? Don't you realize that millions and millions of people were looking to Guadalcanal every day while you were fighting there? They were millions of them. Every civilized person in the world, I guess. And it wasn't any ordinary guy who kept the Japs back that night. It was one of the most extraordinary guys in the world. You, Elle Schmidt. Now, where are you going? I am. I guess I'd better unpack that kit, Luffy. Well, looks like I'm home for keeps, baby. 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So with Indian Wells only a couple of days away, we're going to talk about the ranking points going into Indian Wells because of course it is a WTA and an ATP 1000 event. Lot of points up for grabs at this event. There's a lot of players that have points to hold and to try and defend from last year. So let's go have a look at that first, starting with the WTA. So on the WTA side, the players that have the most to lose at this event from last year, Egas Friyantek. She's got 390 points from a semi-final last year that she has to defend, as does Maria Sakri, who also made the semi-finals here last year and her ranking has been fluctuating over the last couple of months. So Sakri is really going to have a good showing. Sabalenka made the final here last year, has 650 points to defend for her total. And of course the defending champion, Rabakena, 1000 points on the line. She can't actually make up any points. So it's all about defending her points and trying to keep her ranking where it is. Jumping over the players that have the most to gain at Indian Wells, starting with Jung. Actually in play last year has no points to defend at Indian Wells. So really excited to see how she can do and maybe add to that total that she added to it this round open. Naomi Osaka didn't play last year, of course. And if she does get a good draw, could make another run like she did in Doha a couple of weeks ago and gain some extra points. Honestia Burr, she lost in the third round here last year. So it doesn't have that many points to defend if she is healthy and her knee holds up. And Paulini, she lost in the first round here last year. And she made of course that crazy run in Dubai winning that trophy. So she really has a massive upside going into the third Masters 1000 of a year, especially with the confidence she gained in Dubai. Over on the men's side, the most to lose, Yannick Sinner made the semi-finals last year. As does Tiafo, he made the semi-finals as well last year, has a lot of points there that he has to defend and a lot of wins that he has to get. Denim Evidev, of course, the finalist of last year. Of course, Elkaraz, the defending champion, has the most to defend with a thousand points from winning the whole thing last year. So three of the top four guys there in the current rankings have so much to do at Indian Wells to maintain their ranking. Played out of the most to gain on the men's side of things, we've got Sizi Pass. Lost early last year in the second round. So really could push himself back into that top 10 by a good run at Indian Wells. And with a slower hardcore, you think it might actually suit Steph's game. Kasparud, he also didn't do great here last year and has been in form the last couple of weeks in Acapulco. So in Mexico, especially making the final of Acapulco, so he could really add to his ranking points as well. Alex Diminor, another player who's been playing really well this season only made it to the second round last year losing and not having that many points to defend. So really could add to his title and the big one. Novak Djokovic, of course, banned from the last two years of coming to America and playing Indian Wells, he is now available to play, has no points to defend and with Alcares having to defend a thousand points, could really extend the gap between number one and number two in the world and him being number one. So massive opportunity there for Djokovic to gain some points and really push Alcares away from that number one ranking. There it is. Some big names there that have a lot to defend. Some big names there that have a big opportunity to get some points, especially that top 10 race on the men's side because you've got the top four guys there. You know, with Djokovic being the exception, all have to defend points but the guys that are kind of playing for like 8, 9, 10, 11 in the world since he passed Rude and Diminor really have an opportunity here to cement their spot in the top 10 if they make a quarter-final, semi-final run and the other two guys don't do well, really could help their ranking but let me know down in the comments below. Who are you most excited for, scared for going into Indian Wells? Of course, probably Alcares fans are scared for him that he might not be able to defend those points. It's a lot of points to defend. Also, Rebecca and Sabalenka are a lot of points there as well for them. Maybe Djokovic fans, you guys are going to be excited, right? Because he is playing this tournament for the first time in five years because the last two years he wasn't allowed to play so massive, massive deal him coming back. But let me know down in the comments below. Who are you most excited to see going into Indian Wells according to the rankings?


A very good morning to you. You're welcome to the breakfast in Fosti, the Africa. My name is Vrimae Paulusin. And my name is Nyamgul Agadje. Welcome to today's edition of Thursday, the 22nd day of February, 2024. February, this is a leap year, so I would have said maybe we have a very few days to go. Yeah, it's a lot of time, 24 hours, a lot of time. Just imagine you fasting 24 hours. You know what your body will be telling you. So 24 hours. Now, if I want to see how time flies and how we waste time, I tell people, I recommend the traffic lights. Just wait at the traffic light for less than one minute that that light takes to change. It's as if you've been there for eternity. So imagine traffic light even lasting for two minutes, how you would feel. But those are the one minute, the two minutes that we've been wasting sometimes. Yeah, we take for granted. Yeah, that's the word to use. By the way, I was going to ask, do you know the story about the leap year? No, I don't know. Why do we have a leap year? The particular one that you're talking about. Okay, so apparently, you know, there's a leap year every four years. So there's an extra day. So the reason why there's an extra day, because each year is actually, yes, 365 days and six hours. So when you collate to the number of hours every four years, it now becomes a leap year. I thought there was one other weird story about it. When you were asking me about the story, yes, I do know that it's four years put together. And how I used to remember when I was growing up was that every Olympic year is a leap year. I thought Olympic was. But no, everything is. I thought Olympic was. But it so happens that it coincides. Olympic is every four years. And this year we have Olympic in June or July in France, I think. Yeah, so it's also a leap year. So people who were born on February 29th, you have a chance to celebrate birthday. Because they celebrate every four years. Every four years, yeah. Would it have been awesome or not? If I was born? Do you think it's better for them or it's good for them or bad? I can't really say. I mean, I'm not in that position. But I love the fact that I get to celebrate my birthday every year. Because I would be confused. I don't know. Do I celebrate it on the 28th of February? Do I celebrate it on the 1st of March? So what day? Almost like you were not born. And that means every four years I must throw big parties because I don't get this all the time. I have to celebrate that day. Like I have this day today. It's not going to come till another four years. So let me just do a big, big bash. But like I said, I'm going to be confused if I was in that position. But I'm sure you just figure out a day. Maybe February 28th is still in February. Like, okay, it's supposed to be tomorrow. But that tomorrow is not coming. And so yeah. Okay. Anyways, we're going to have a good show today. For today, I'm grateful for the rain, actually. I think the weather is becoming very cool because it's been very hot in Lagos. And not just Lagos. People in Abuja, Cano, Imo, Port Harcourt have been complaining about the weather. It's been so hot in Nigeria. Lagos has been lucky a little bit because it has rained more than once in at least some parts. So if it rains on the island, for instance, the breeze will go to some other places, you know. But okay, Cross River had its first rain yesterday or last night. That was the first rain for this year. But it has rained in Lagos at least more than one time. I'm like, well, this rainy season might just be coming real soon. Just never know. Anyways, it's probably supposed to be a great show today. We're going to be looking at what the national dailies are saying. We're also going to be talking about some, well, exchange rate battles that Nigeria is having right now and the fact that they're looking at banning cryptocurrency as well. But also, we will be looking at some top trending stories. But first, let's look at our quote of the day to set the tone. Only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. And that is from Vidal Sassoon. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Well, obviously, you know, the dictionary has the whole ATZ. So it's arranged in alphabetical order. And so the only place where success starts with an S and work starts with a W. Let me just talk like a bitter person. But, you know, when things like this happen, I ask myself the first question in what language? Because if I were writing a dictionary in my language, work will come after success. Because the words are spelled differently, alphabets are different and all that. So sometimes it just makes me feel that some of the people who say these things think the world revolves around English. And so everything has to be how English has set it to be. But that's not the issue we're talking about today. Like I said, I was just talking like a bitter person. But that's not it. You have to put in the work before you can enjoy whatever you want to enjoy. If you say, let me just sit down, enjoy first before I work. What will you be working for? What are you enjoying? What are you enjoying? What are you working for? You don't have zero money in your bank account. What are you enjoying? I just don't know how that is. So yes, for you to be a successful person, you have to put in the work. You have to just try your best to ensure that everything that is necessary, everything that is necessary for you to get to that point, you are doing it now. For instance, do you need training? Do you see yourself as maybe a TV personality, for instance? Do you need adequate training for that?  And you're not trying to work for it. You have to put your skills to test. You have to just try as much as possible that everything that is required, because it just would not fall on your lap. If you don't put that work, you would not get the success. And that's just how it's, I think it's a principle thing. Life works with principles. It's just like sewing and reaping. So I feel like success and work is just like the farmer. The farmer has to sew seeds into the ground and then there's a time for harvest. So you don't just think that you will wake up one morning and just, what are you harvesting? Another man's crops?  So you need to sew that seed so that you can reap the fruits of your labor. And that's just what work is. You put in the work and then success comes in. And this putting of the work, it doesn't mean... It doesn't mean hardship. It doesn't mean... No, no, no, not even that. It doesn't mean it's meeting your uncles and meeting your aunties and saying they are the ones that are supposed to sponsor you, sponsor your business and all that. The first place you work is on yourself.  It is easier to help you at that moment because you're putting the work yourself. So if you just go and say, okay, I know I didn't go to secondary school, but I want you to buy jam form for me. I want to go to the university. It doesn't work that way. So you start the work with yourself and invite others to help at some point. Because like they say, the quote we had the other day, it was that if you want to really succeed in business, you have to involve others, something like that. There's need for partnership, but you have to put in the work yourself before you can get that partnership that will make your success even better than what it is at the moment. Yeah, I agree 100%. All right, let's look at some top trending stories this morning. And this first one says, Labor Party Chairman Aburi arrested in Ados State. The national chairman of the Labor Party, Mr. Julius Aburi, has been arrested by security operatives in Ados State. Aburi was arrested on Wednesday a few days before the party's primary election in Ados State. The arrest was carried out by operatives of the Zone 5 police headquarters in Benin, Ados State, a crowd that gathered at the entrance with only police officers and a few VIPs allowed inside. It was gathered that his arrest was the result of a petition forwarded to the zone from the office of the Inspector General of Police in Abuja. Aburi was captured in viral videos and pictures being possibly handled by the police officers while his supporters from the Labor Party tried to intervene to stop his arrest. Confirming the incident, the police public's relation officer of the Zone, Tijani Momo, said, there are, or rather, there is a stand in order for now that nobody should come in. Yes, the Labor Party National Chairman is here, and it has to do with a petition that was referred to this office from the Inspector General of Police. It was referred to Zone 5 from the IG's office he is with us, but I cannot give the contents of the petition right now in court. When activity was being detained or just to take a statement Momo said, I don't know for now. Aburi has been having running battles with some members of the party in the state over allegations of substituting candidates in the 2023 general election without the consent of the affected aspirants and allegation he has denied. It was also gathered that the arrest may be connected to the factional crisis working in the party as a factional national youth leader was recently vitalized by some suspected members of the party. Aburi has also come on the fire for allegedly with handling party funds. So, let me talk about social media for a few seconds. Now, do you notice that thing that they tell you sometimes there are fake news on social media you should not believe everything you see on social media so there was a news making rounds on social media and he said Aburi was trying to commit suicide and they tried to stop him and now the fact is you know there was a petition so that's why I just wanted to say do everything you see on social media you know just take it with a pinch or so do not believe it and try to dig deeper to the fact of the story not just what somebody has just you know cooked up and served you on social media but yeah let's move it over to the actual story now the fact that he was so Labour Party has a lot of prices working you know their party at the moment you have the the factional leader the what's his name again the other man I can't even remember his name I know he has like a great beard and all of that and I'm going to remember his name and then you have Aburi as well but if the Inspector General of Police Union is making this then I think he should be you should they should have copied him you should have known and except maybe he knew and he still went ahead and then I don't think you should not have to do what I don't think you should now make a mess of him like I saw videos of him sitting on the floor and all of that it was just a lot first of all this is political according to the the story even it is political the people who wrote the petition are members of the party he's been having problems and it's a few days to the election or the primaries and all that so it is connected to politics and they are acting on a petition not on intelligence that they have they have not investigated this we don't know the contents of the letter anyway but it didn't show it didn't tell us that they investigated after a petition was written they just arrested him and disgraced him that's what I don't like about this if Aburi some report said he was it was because of attempted murder some say a lot of other very very terrible things whatever it is the police should do that due diligence get their intelligence arrest him prosecute him do whatever they need to do jail him if they have to jail him but you don't act on a petition and disgrace somebody the way they disgrace him you said he was on the floor I saw the videos as well it's it's not funny it's not nice for someone of that standing yes a national chairman of a political party that is one of the greatest opposition parties in this country so if you tie things like this to politics who knows if the people who are doing this are sponsored by other political parties that feel threatened so a lot of things I think that was just against his constitutional right his human rights because you can't do that to someone who is supposed to be in at least a good position fine they are not the ruling party the nlc chairman was also brutalized the other time and then they said they were protecting him and we know that it was not a protection for him and all that so things like this people should not just be acting and especially the law enforcement agencies respect them respect law enforcement agencies are breaking the law breaking whatever it is that that we see as law and human rights are being violated and all that it's not right I'm not saying whatever was in the petition he did not do but how much did they the police know or by themselves that made them do what they did it's I don't see it as a good thing at all so the other man is Lamidia Papa yes I just remembered now Lamidia Papa yeah I usually associate his name with the pot so I don't know how I forgot that okay well let's move on to the next one Mephile Suza Acquabio for defamation demands one billion Naira in battle former governor of the central bank of Nigeria CBN got with Mephile as demanded one billion Naira damages from senate president gospel Acquabio for defamation a Mephile's lawyer Matthew Burka saying that he has defamed he has defamed him because you remember that when Acquabio went for a Thanksgiving where they were honoring one of the south south senators he said that Mephile has committed so many crimes that they do not even know what to charge him with and we know that Acquabio was in the government when Mephile was doing whatever he was doing he was part of the economic team the economic council where all the governors go to with the president and all that and now he's saying that they don't even know he was doing so many bad things and Acquabio I don't know if he even has the moral moral grounds to criticize anybody we still did a lot of us do not know how he got into the senate he and the former senate president we don't know how they got into the senate we don't understand their brakada bra that went on and he's saying this as if he didn't know anything that happened and he doesn't know what the federal government will charge Acquabio Mephile with yeah even charges that have been dropped they gone possession and all that he still mentioned I don't know how are these people reason so funny enough um the the what he means the mandate is actually 25 billion yeah but you know not one billion less less be just nice less be nice I know he will get 25 billion but the thing is the good thing is no matter what Mephile is right now no matter what he is it doesn't give anybody the right to talk anyhow I will call that talking anyhow if you have facts bring them up I mean I was talking about it on the show the other day I'm like if you want to charge demand for anything investigate and charge demand why are we still talking about this he was arrested in the first place and they said he was possessing guns and after that they dropped it nobody answered for anything you you detained a man for a long time and then came and dropped just like that because they did not have evidence to show that this one was illegal this one was that and then you're now still using that no no no that's actually different our our our public office holders should learn how to talk that was not a speech that just came off his head that was a speech he delivered that was written so he knew exactly yes so if you don't have professionals to help you write your scripts please do get engaged we've been talking about this all the time they are PR experts there are people who write speeches for the president for a choice the best of them people who can also look in your face and say if you say this sir it is not going to go down well analyze everything because for every word you speak there are at least 10 10 interpretations to that so choose the very careful and I mean what we keep talking about freedom of speech in Nigeria and the fact that you know especially with the media they try to tell you oh you can't say this you can't say that but then you're seeing these politicians go off and say whatever they like so are you trying to tell me that you know the law works for some people and it doesn't work for others as a media person you should know but you as a you as a politician you should know they keep blackmailing you with that you should know even if what you're saying things with fat they want you to either divulge where your sources are and sometimes it's not possible I can't just give my sources because of that but is it a lie deny it tell us what there we're not expecting you as a media person to say that the blackmail you can't say blackmail anyways we'll go on a short break we'll look at the weather and when we return we'll be looking at what the national daily is all saying this morning please stay with us


Check it out, we're totally going to go move on to some teaching techniques and one of the backbones and pillars of applied behavior analysis is discrete child training or DTT and I don't mean like the wrestler like I thought when I was first at tech, I always thought this piece of it was like yeah we're gonna do a DTT on a kid. I said what? Just totally no that's not what we're doing. So one thing I do want to point out is that part of this is people have a misrepresentation of DTT because it's done in mass trials. Unfortunately there's a horrible history where that's all people are doing. That is not behavior analysis whatsoever. So if all you are ever doing is sitting at a table running DTT I would ask some serious questions about what's going on in treatment plan. But we'll move on and digress and to dive into what a discrete trial is. So this can be used on all of the skills. Literally. I'm talking like let's build some language. Let's start with maybe letter identification. You're gonna be like I have my visuals, my letter. The kid's gonna be over here.  You're gonna point to it.  That's another discrete trial and you'll go through the whole alphabet once again all for discrimination. It's fantastic but you can also do it for identification. So you'll be like hey kiddo what's your name? They don't know yet right? You're building skills and you'll be like what's your name? Steve and he'll go Steve and you'll go that's fantastic. Your name's Steve. Another discrete trial. Next thing you know he knows his name Steve. We're amazing. Fantastic. There's also just the ability to work on attending skills even right so you'll get things like kids have a hard time focusing on stuff so you'll grab an item and be like we'll go back to Steve just because he's still learning stuff right so Steve's sitting here and he's wandering his eyes are going out here. Steve his eyes are wandering and going everywhere and we'll be like hey Steve check it out and say we have a preferred item right?  So we'll go into what else you can do all the toileting steps in the task list all the hand washing steps in the task list math gross motor movement fine motor movement basically it's just little building blocks and contingencies of learning it's a fantastic tool. So one thing I really like to stress with technicians as we all practice working on tracking ABCs for discovering and solving problem behavior right this is using the ABCs so you are developing and driving the contingency for the person to learn right so you're going to be like your instruction A the targeted response say the kid wants to say his name Steve and C the reinforcement that you deliver for the response um yeah so generally what things we like to do is to make sure we have clear SDs so our A's right our discriminative stimuli make sure our A's are clear and consistent we also have a great idea of what the target behavior is because with like language and volume being into weird discrepancies between what one tech thinks over the other that's completely fine that's why we talk and have meetings and write session notes and then um reinforcers and schedules of reinforcement which your BCBA will um completely tell you what to do in that department uh so for instance you have a fixed ratio one that the BCBA comes up with because it's a new skill so you'll have your um present the prompt to say the kid's name kid says his name and then deliver reinforcement that's a great example of a program DTT Tert these are fantastic they're done in mass I like to think of it as a way to really bring up the frequency of a response that doesn't happen too often and that's where the deficit is it's a great building block and it can be really used for focusing specific skills and small skills to build into larger repertoires so discrete child training is pretty awesome you'll be doing a lot of it you'll get exceedingly fluent and um yeah it's a good thing