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Hello and welcome to the Jason Taney show. I'm Joe Wamba joined with Jason Taney head coach of the baseball team. And coach, you guys get it open up a week later than seasons passed and paid off for you in a couple of respects. The starting rotation had a stellar performance. Yeah, starting rotation was phenomenal this weekend. We talked last week about the preview of the team. And so Dan Williams, James Rosinski, and Zach K. By the way, great name for a pitcher. His last name's K. All through the ball really well. They threw 16 innings this weekend in zero and runs. Can't ask anything more out of them, except hopefully going a little bit longer in games as we get into the season. We had each of them on a pitch count, which is what we traditionally do to build their innings up. But very excited about the start. Two sophomores and a freshman in our rotation. Very exciting for longevity too. Absolutely. It was a little bit about some hitting. Maybe some hitting struggles, but that's kind of sort of expected a little bit at this point in the season. Usually early in the season, pitching is ahead of hitting. And we saw that this week in our first game. We had a lot of nerves. And I think every, we have a lot of new starters this year. So a lot of guys were a little nervous in that first game. We hit enough that we, I think we had nine hits in the first game. We had enough to score enough runs. Yeah, we struggled with a couple defensive miscues. Second game hit the ball pretty well. Tough game in terms of the other team through 214 pitches and 107 balls and 107 strikes. Hard to get in the hitting group when there's that many balls being thrown. But, and then on Sunday facing Frostberg and facing their All-American pitcher. Very strong, very difficult. We actually squared the ball up off of them pretty well. But still tough, a tough go at it there. I will say as soon as he came out of the game, the first pitch there, Reliever, through Billy Small hit a ball about 450 feet to center field over the fence. So there's the evidence for you right there. You guys were swinging hard and dingin' them just right at guys. Yeah, it was a struggle in terms of finding some holes. We did sting the ball a little bit here and there. You know, we're not as much of a powering team as we were in the past, but we still have some power. I think we stole quite a few bases this weekend too. I think we had, I think it was seven or eight still on bases in three games. So our speeds coming through, which is what we were hoping would occur as well. When you talked about those three starters not giving up an earned run, the unearned runs came on throwing errors. Just maybe rushing it a little bit. Yeah, you know, again, we have some guys in new positions this year. And a couple of 10s plays early in the season, rushing a little bit, we threw a couple of balls away. Really did not do a bad job at physically fielding ground balls.  It's okay. I'll take our home field. Thank you very much. Our home field's a little bit better. So we got a couple tricky hops or some lips there, but in all in all, I think we did okay there. More concerned about the positioning. We've had some issues with guys being in the right positions, and that's something we're gonna address this week in practice. It's all things that you can work on, which is the positive of it. Well, I tell you, one of the best things, we were talking about this on the way home in our coaches meeting after the weekend. Everything we struggled with, we can improve on. Everything we didn't do well, we can get better at. It's not a talent issue. It's now a matter of having the proper practices and taking steps forward. And we're lucky this week, we practiced Tuesday through Friday, all be outside, beautiful week coming up. So our guys are planning to get a lot of work done. I think they were a little disappointed we weren't at least two and one, if not three and no this weekend. And you guys, as we move forward into this weekend, after practicing outside, you never get to do that in February.   Yeah, somehow that happened that each game we're playing this weekend, we'll probably be facing their third starter. And obviously we'll have our one, two, and three. And quite frankly, we think we have three aces. We think our top three pitchers are all number ones. So yeah, things look good. Yeah, but it's the game of baseball. It was great on paper. We'll see how it works out. It's a 40 game season as it is. And I mean, all of them count, especially in out of conference, getting you guys prepared for the conference schedule.  What other things are you guys expecting heading into these games? Well, I would expect that our defense plays a little bit better. Obviously as we're on the field more, I think that's going to get better. And I really expect our hitting to step up. You know, like I said, we showed glimpses this weekend of being really good. And so we're going to get there. I think with the extra reps this week, with the extra actually being on the field, you know, and I think that'll help motivate some guys. I think when you see backup players that had some opportunities this weekend that played really well, that's going to motivate some starters. Our catching core did a phenomenal job this weekend. And I really think it's because we have three catchers that can start at any time, anytime. Makes your decision harder, but you know, when somebody struggles, it makes your decision a little bit easier. It does. It does. You know, and we've got a junior, a diamond who's returning for his third year. And he's our primary catcher at this point, but we have a sophomore and a freshman right behind him. You know, and if you get to see us and see our infield outfield, you'll, everybody's jaws drop when they see our freshman Alex Kidwaller throw the ball around the diamond. He's got probably maybe the best arm we've ever had as a catcher here. That's saying something. Which is definitely saying something with a couple of guys we've had. Yeah. Well, coach, we wish you the best of luck heading into this week. And we look forward to that at home opener coming down the line. We can see that infield-outfield routine. Yeah, that sounds like a plan to me. And hopefully next Monday, we have this meeting, we'll be four and two. Three no this weekend. I'm hoping for it. So we're looking for it. Good luck, coach. Thank you. He's Jason Taney. I'm Joe Wamba. This has been the Jason Taney Show.


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Hey guys welcome back to Airman Vision and if you're new consider subscribing. Today we talk to Andre Acosta who's a tech sergeant in the Air National Guard as a recruiter. We asked him a bunch of questions about tuition and education while in the Air National Guard. Today we have tech sergeant Acosta he's in the Air National Guard and we're going to be answering some questions about college tuition going to college while you're in the Air National Guard. But first I want to just have you introduce yourself what you do for the Air National Guard and how people can contact you and then a brief overview of your time in the Air Force. Yeah thanks so I'm Andre Acosta I'm a recruiter for the California Air Guard and I've been in the Air Force 18 years now started 13 years in active duty side and then five years in the Air National Guard also known as the Air Guard. I've been able to have a wealth of experience you know started off at Beale Air Force Base in California then moved transferred or PCS permanent change the station to Osan Air Force Base Korea then Virginia at Langley Air Force Base on to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii where I went and joined the Hawaii Air National Guard and then the Wyoming Air National Guard and now finally the California Air National Guard which is home for me you know I'm born and raised in California and it's great to be able to serve my local state you know I'm literally stationed 40 minutes from where I grew up and and this will be my last assignment so it's really just about giving back helping the next generation of enlistees as as they make a decision of what branch to join and how to make the best moves for for their future and their career if anybody has any questions you know or would like more information about the California Air Guard just feel free to send me a text or call me directly on my work cell it's<PHONE_NUMBER> again that's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Alright so like we said we're going to be answering some questions or I'm going to be asking and you're going to be answering about college tuition all that stuff right because education benefits are a huge reason that a lot of people join the military so it was no surprise when we asked for questions about the Air National Guard that we got several that had to do with college and tuition and just the education aspect of things so the biggest question was can you go to college when you're in the Air National Guard? Absolutely so when you think about the different Air Force options like active duty Air Force reserve or Guard I would say in my opinion and I know I'm a little bit biased but like the the Air Guard is the best Air Force option to go to college with and I'll tell you why you know simply it's because we're part-time so that means you have time to be a full-time college student right because you need time to go to college right you know college takes time it takes energy so being a part-time member of the Air Guard having the Air Guard pay for college is a huge benefit so you're not having to worry about cost of college and then you have the time to focus on your studies. So the next question on top of that you know people want to know can I join or can I join the Air National Guard and go to college but if I can go to college who's going to pay for it am I going to pay for it are they going to pay for it are they going to pay for half am I going to have to take out student loans how is that process going to work so how much or do they pay at all for you to go to college? Yeah so it's actually fairly generous and in each state because you know the Air National Guards are state specific each state is going to have different educational benefits so I can only talk about California but there's going to be similarities and applicabilities between the states now to get the college benefit you do have to be a fully trained Air Guardsman so that does mean you have to graduate basic training and tech school and then when you get back from tech school you'll have access to that funding. Now I'll list some of the funding examples that we get as Air Guardsmen so you do get access to the Montgomery GI Bill right so that is currently 350 I want to excuse me 350 a month as a full-time student that's going and taking at least four classes a semester right and then you do get access like our base in particular gets access to Air Force tuition assistance which is the same the active duty in the reserve gets that's 3700 a year and then also as a California Air Guardsman or California National Guardsman you have access to the California National Guard Education Assistance Award program which is a really long title and acronym but essentially depending on the type of school you go to they'll pick up the tab for tuition it's much like the Cal Grant which is a California grant so you apply for it every year but if you were to give some math and some examples right if you go to Cal State University Northridge right which is about 5000 a year they'll pick up the full tab for your tuition so it's a full ride there if you go to UCLA which is a fairly popular if you're a Bruin fan right that's they'll pay up to 12 000 a year for that for private schools they'll only pay 9 000 so if you're a Trojan like a USC fan unfortunately that's not going to be enough i'm going to ask about USC because that's a big that's a big yeah that that's a big one man but uh so you can of course there 9 000 a year with that now you can you do get there's a couple different things USC does offer a yellow ribbon program so you can tap into that and it's just different different pools of money some of those schools those uh really popular schools do get a little bit pricey but it's nice to have that funding if you go to a local or Cal California school you know they'll pick up the tab entirely all right so on top of going to college right you already said that we can do that but what about Air Force ROTC that was a question that stood out to me when I read it in the comments because I was like you know I never thought of that like like not just going Air Force ROTC but doing that while you're in the guard is that something you're able to do I'm assuming they would like they're almost like that because the point of uh like Air Force ROTC is the commission and so like that would help the guard if if somebody gets that finishes that program and then commissions yeah so yeah you can absolutely do both it is kind of a lot for for somebody to do both right because you're wearing almost like two military hats simultaneously so to speak but the nice thing with the guard is you're getting actual experience while you're in the guard right and we're going to pick up the tab for college once you graduate from tech school so it's immediate like we're talking about freshman year the thing with the ROTC scholarships right a lot of times they're not getting those scholarships they'll sophomore or even junior year so they're still going to be responsible for you know your your freshman year for payment of that freshman year so yes you can absolutely do both and there's added advantages to doing both the big one is you know getting college paid for in its entirety and then once you do graduate from college the ROTC will line you up straight for that commission and the air guard will let you go they're not going to hold you back uh you just set up uh basically a release form to our commander in the in the air guard side and they're going to love that they're going to encourage you and want you to commission so prior prior service officers are very sought after commodities for the military because they actually have an understanding of the military exactly so rather than you know I've been in college and you're like yeah but that doesn't translate perfectly to like being in charge of a bunch of military members if you've never been in the military yeah that's exactly it having that experience it's going to be very helpful and relatable right because a majority of your team is going to be enlisted so it makes uh that much better a leader a big fear that a lot of people have with going to college in the guard would be what happens if I deploy right if I'm if I'm in the middle of my classes and they're like hey we have a deployment coming up and you're like but my classes like how does that work with somebody so the air guard rarely deploys on an instant you know you'll have notice it's not like you know the plane is taken off you need to hop on you know in an hour you'll usually have more than enough time and notice to finish up that semester like I mentioned in one of our other videos there's usually a wait list for for deployments you'll know when this deployment is coming and you know and if you're not able to deploy because you're in college you know usually you can go to the back of the list right so to speak or just say let me get the next one so that's not really a common issue we have most people are able to finish that semester if it should happen or you know just say I'll get the next deployment if at all because and I do want to touch on this point most of deployments are going to be more volunteer based for the air guard so that's a nice luxury we have specific to the air guard I can't extend that to to the all the other branches but with the air guard in my experience that's how it's been so what you're saying is essentially if somebody was like well I'm going to finish college in a year and a half I really don't want to put off that semester you know because it's going to push it out even further so they're like hey like let me let me skip this deployment once they finish their college then it's like hey I'm all four going on deployments at that point they can kind of you know you know control their own future in a way exactly and that's the the big thing with the guards having that control and that flexibility to balance you know whatever your full-time ambition is whether that's full-time college student full-time profession you know you can do both so that's pretty cool so something that we talked about earlier was that yes the international guard can cover some of your or all of your college tuition something that people are interested in and the active duty used to do this and then they started phasing it out I'm pretty sure and I don't even know I don't think it's a thing anymore but the student loan repayment program is that something that the international guard offers it used to be much bigger like a decade ago for active duty but even when I joined it was like almost unheard of my recruiter knew nothing about it like even when she tried to look it up like there was there's not much information about it because they were trying to get away from it I'm pretty sure because they wanted people to join when they were younger rather than go and get their student loans then join and have us repay it back right they want to actually incentivize people to join and then we'll cover your costs so does international guard do that if you have somebody that's already got a degree and they're coming in or or they did two years and they they have an associate degree not enough to commission but they want to go enlisted do they cover so at this time unfortunately we do not have a loan repayment program and kind of like what you talk about active duty it's like hit or miss it depends on the timing right now the the the military in the air force is kind of over manned overall right so that's not one of the incentives that we offer in the air guard now now to be unbiased and fair I have heard that the army national guard does have a loan repayment program so if that's a priority to somebody they can of course go army guard and take advantage of that benefit on the other side of the coin you know if paying back that that loan is is something that's on everybody's head because I'm sure it is right you want to get free of that debt you know we do offer bonuses job bonuses so right now you know it can be anywhere from 15 000 uh you know at the top end for that initial job bonus so let's just say you want security forces right now right 2021 you could get that 15 000 it is broken into uh installments you're getting half at your three-year mark and the other half at your five-year mark of your six-year enlistment and you do have to pay taxes right so that's like a big like man taxes kind of like a big chunk but but again that that'll come out to like almost 10k that you'll have to repay loans and then something else to think about is while you're in basic training and tech school you know you have very few expenses right you know you're you're not paying for food maybe you're paying for a cell phone usually your car insurance you're not having to pay for because it's sitting somewhere right so I always tell my enlistees man basic training in tech school is a great way to save another 10k very easily you can save 10k so that can you can just save all that money and then put that towards that debt so there's some there's some uh some solutions there if you just get creative another thing to think about too like if you're trying to get into an ivy or a pretty pretty popular school you know joining the air guard you're on veteran status and so that gives you some preferences out the gate out the gate so you can get into some better or popular schools a lot of times that would be harder to get into without that veteran status because as an air guard member immediately you're you're considered a veteran and then you have the time to go to school so I'm talking about you don't have to do that whole four-year contract on active duty I'm talking about like within a semester of joining you're already able to apply to you know some bigger named schools or transfer from your last school into there's just so much flexibility there so that that's really similar to applying for even jobs is we I went to school for criminal justice so I wanted to become a cop and then I ended up dropping out after a year and a half and then joined the air force but that was something I had applied it to police departments when I was still going through school because I was like might as well you know at least if I'm not going to get the job at least get the experience with interviews once I get my degree I've already been through the process so it's not a scary right I was trying to set myself up to be as successful as possible to not be like I've never gone through these interviews before but I have a degree you know it's like oh I've been through the interviews I got my degree like I'm good like as soon as I graduated I was like I'm getting the job so but our instructors would always or our professors would always joke about how a lot of people don't realize that if you're prior military like especially in law enforcement they're like you automatically go to the top of the stack they're like oh you're you're a veteran or prior military they're like oh yep you already are more qualified than everyone else and that's it like that's the only thing it doesn't matter about college degrees didn't matter about this it was like you're already like considered the top 10% candidate if you have prior military just because you've proven that you can follow orders that you can listen that you can pay attention to details right like in order to be in the military like you have to you have to fit all those things and so that was like a big thing is not only does that help with college like you said you become you know a veteran uh are you a veteran status when you're applying for some schools that are prestigious but even careers later on is that's a good point yeah that's true you know waking up early on a consistent basis it sounds simple but it's it's a it's a very good skill to have and that's one of the things I don't have to buy that skill anymore I am I'm not a morning person at all I'm like the biggest night owl so I'm like my current job right now I have to get up early but I have one week left and then I'm going to be able to work from home so I'm like yes I gotta create my own schedule now but yeah it definitely is uh being in the military you know it's like I can't really complain all that bad about my job right now because I definitely had to be at work way earlier a lot more often in when I was in the military and then especially like basic and tech school like that first like when you first join it's like five in the morning you wake up every day and it's not like a subtle wake up at five in the morning it's like a very loud chaotic wake up like your blood is rushing right away so yeah kind of like trips you into this mode where you're like trying to be punctual and on time and yeah so it definitely helps with uh getting a job later on um and I didn't know that about colleges either I didn't know some colleges but it makes sense because some college may offer like incentives to get veterans to go there because they want you to spend your GI bill to go there they want that tuition assistance that the military provides because that's to them if they can convince a veteran to go there then they get that money guaranteed yeah and you know one of the things too that now that we're segueing kind of into that what what I encourage people to to do if when they join the air guard is like in your circumstance if you know what your major is you can use the air guard to get job experience so if for example if it's your criminal justice major you know security forces is a popular job which is a law enforcement within the air force so you can have that job experience to compliment your major so that I recommend too that's that's a pretty cool way to do it so like if somebody's interested in eventually becoming a nurse or going to med school they could become a med tech with us or something within the medical field also it is a popular one of your gonna major in computer science right you can get one of the like we have eight or nine different it jobs with software hardware networking cyber security like you know air force is big on tech so like there's just so many avenues for you to explore and take advantage of you know as a college student so I know you had touched on this a little bit earlier but what about the GI bill active duty provides the GI bill for service members those international guard have access to the GI bills so you have the post 9-11 and the Montgomery GI bill do you have access to both of those in the international guard and I know one thing in active duty for the Montgomery GI bill you have to opt into that in the very beginning or you can opt out of it in the beginning and just not pay into it because it costs $1,200 a hundred dollars a month for 12 months so that was what was with active duty I ended up opting into that so I still I haven't opted out of it yet to the post 9-11 because Montgomery is more if you want to go like part time to college versus post 9-11 requires you know more like full time commitment and so having the Montgomery as an option is always a good thing that's why I haven't opted out because I haven't gone back to school yet but I'm still you know we're still figuring out life and getting there but I want to hang on to that Montgomery just in case you know I do get a career going and then I'm like well I still want to take a class or two on the side and be able to have it paid for so does the guard allow you to pay into that like active duty does and then do you get the post 9-11 as well yeah so we we give all of our members the Montgomery GI bill and you don't have to opt into it or pay for it anymore so that's kind of nice when I joined 18 years ago you had to pay 1200 bucks to get the education benefit things have definitely evolved and improved so they don't require the payment at all like period even at all at all what I know right where's my 1200 bucks ripped off I think you I think if you opt out of it though you get your 1200 back if you don't use it at all if you opt out I I've heard you I haven't heard that I have heard that if you finish if you exhaust the benefit then you'll get your 1200 back but the changes all the time you know you just got to stay attuned to it so that's why videos like this me putting the information out there and and and envision putting out information is so helpful and it can change over time too so always make sure you're trying to look up this is kind of just like a guide or a reference so then make sure you're double checking with what the current standards are absolutely so so every air guardsman gets the Montgomery GI bill now that's only good while they're in so I do encourage the member like if you're planning to go to school as a air guardsman go to school while you're in because that's that's different than active duty because you get it while you're in but you also get it while you're out so so the active duty gets nowadays they're getting the post 9 11 GI bill which is far more robust you do have to serve at least three years of active time to get the post 9 11 GI bill on active duty you can get the post 9 11 GI bill on in the air guard right you just have to serve at least 90 days of excuse me not 90 days three years of full time right and it and it does have to be federal orders so that's kind of like deployment order so it can be hard to get on the air guard side to get the post 9 11 GI bill you know because you essentially have to do you know three years of deployments or you know average Air Force deployment is like six months so that's like you know six deployments that you're doing right which is kind of a lot for an air guardsman yeah but you can get partial like it's not unheard of for air guardsmen to do one or two deployments and do like you know 30% of a post 9 11 GI bill things like that and still use some of that benefit what I encourage is really just figuring out what school you want to go to because the education benefits that the air guard gives are a lot of times more than enough you know because you're already getting a full ride you're already getting you know I was talking about doing some simple math like an 18 year old who joins the air guard and goes to a cal state that's like a local college a local four-year college right where you could easily pick up the tab for college and then they would have about you know maybe 900 dollars in their their bank account in addition that's because of the Montgomery GI bill which is 350 ish right and then the Montgomery GI bill kicker which almost doubles it and then their their drill pay which is 200 dollars the cumulative of all all those three would be about 900 dollars imagine that you like you're an 18 year old going to college air guard member local college you're getting 900 bucks in your pocket in your bank account each month from the air guard and they're picking up the tab for tuition so that can be more than enough yeah obviously to to survive and thrive as a college student so I do just encourage to break down the math and see if it all makes sense in most cases it will it's more than enough we've talked about this in other interviews with you if you guys haven't seen those on the channel be sure to check those out I'll have those linked in the description but and I know a lot of this stuff can sound confusing kind of like what you're talking about being a resident one state being an air guard member in another state going to school in one of those states so we the nice thing is majority of the members of the air guard in that in your your wing or part-time and they're probably going to school so there's a lot of help around you know you can talk to we have a retention manager at each wing who can help you kind of plan this out we usually have different college pocs and now every college has a like a military liaison at the college so there's so much help around to to help you weed through the math and figure out what what's best but I will tell you it's never been a better time to be a veteran student you know you know there's never been as many benefits that are now you know the big advantage of the air guard is just giving you that time that's the difference maker that time of the college so with the GI bill one of the big benefits that a lot of people have when they commit to hey I'm going to do 20 years right so if I join and I'm going to do 20 years and I know I'm getting that GI bill but if I'm doing 20 years I'm going to retire I'm not interested in going to college getting a degree all that stuff possibly so I want to pass that on to my kids or my spouse so that's one of the benefits of the GI bill interactive duty do you get that same opportunity in the guard I know you had just hit on you know you have to serve a certain amount of time to get the post 9 11 can you pass that on to your kids or spouse while you're in the guard so the Montgomery GI bill you cannot the post 9 11 GI bill you can so if you if somebody has the post 9 11 GI bill whether they've earned that through activated time in the air guard like like deployments like we were talking about or their palace chase palace front coming from active duty right they just need to transfer it over to their their spouse or family member you do incur a four-year service commitment thereafter so so a lot of times what what active duty members run into is like well I want to transfer it to my spouse or my kid but I didn't have that kid when I was or spouse when I was in right so by joining the guard you can still have that you can join the guard transfer it over incur that for your service commitment complete it and be able to do that so that's another thing about that so like technically I could shave my beard and cut my hair join the guard and if we have a kid I could transfer it if I commit for four more years there you go so there's always a backup plan oh yeah because the same way with active duty you have to in order to transfer it to your spouse you have to do that re-enlistment commitment and say I'm going to serve this much longer because you guys are going to extend this benefit to my my child or my wife so that's good to know that the international guard offers that same opportunity as well so being a recruiter I'm sure you get tons of questions about college education tuition is there anything else that you can think about or that you want to shed some light on or share that might help people out because I know this is probably one of the biggest subjects that you get asked about because this is a big reason why so many people join the military in the first place yeah the main thing I want to highlight is experience I think that's what we offer a college student that college and of itself won't get you right you have to think there's there's so many people getting college degrees now so one when you do apply for that first job in that field that you've studied for the last four years in college how do you differentiate yourself from every other applicant that has the same exact degree as you right so experience in the airguard is a great way to differentiate yourself and get that job much like you mentioned the veteran preference there's a there's a you know an unconscious veteran preference because of the work ethic the discipline and that experience that you've proven by by being a member of the airguard right and then one more you know to add to that if you're already getting legit experience in the medical field it field law enforcement field before you apply for that job but while you're in college in the airguard come on that's a that's a winning combination so that's that's why I encourage you know those clever college students to really think about it it's worth your your your one week in a month to do this so you're the person who gets that job when you apply the first time that's awesome it's uh it's almost like you're the like when you go to look up a restaurant to eat at and you look at the reviews right and if there's no reviews you're like what kind of sketchy restaurant is this you have no reviews right but like that's kind of what it is like a company is more likely to want to hire you possibly if they're like well you already have experience right like you know it's it's like well yeah you have a building and you say you're a restaurant like that's your degree but like you have the experience like have people been able to vouch for you and having that job experience is kind of a good way to yeah get that you're not just getting the education aspect but having that experience to that proof that you can fulfill that job so college and tuition that's a huge aspect of why people join the military I think we hit a lot of key subjects if you guys have any other questions about college or tuition or anything like that be sure to leave them down below we'll be trying to give some more videos in the future if tech sergeant costa is willing to work with us again or if any other recruiters out there are willing to make videos on education aspects if we have anything that went unanswered in this video but go ahead and reintroduce yourself who you are how people can contact you or if they're interested in joining the international guard in another state outside of California where they can go for that yeah thank you airman vision for this opportunity I love that we can put out this information everybody's they make the best choice for them if you've got any more questions about the California air guard feel free to send me a text or give me a call my phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> again that's<PHONE_NUMBER> and if you're not looking at California you know feel free to just google your state air guard so Florida Air National Guard or Georgia Air National Guard is just some examples or look at our national website which is goang.com goang.com thank you


Karl Polanyi has returned from virtue of security precisely because what we are seeing, running across the whole western world, of a so-called right-wing populism, I don't like particularly these terms, but what they are, they are nationalist reactions. As far as I'm concerned, the political base of those personalities and leaders that have come today for are the losers. They are the losers of the globalized, increasingly globalized and financialized economy. We have, I think, new class divisions, which are as much cultural as they are classed. They are both economic and social and cultural divisions in our societies between those who benefit from or can manage to deal with an increasingly global and digital economy and for those who, for various reasons, are the losers, have been left behind. That includes, of course, the industrialized workers whose jobs have been outsourced or have disappeared by information technology, software, etc., and who look back to better the days of the past, who obviously can respond to the kind of story that, you know, we have lost and things were better in the past. Polanyi tells us what he called the reality of society. It's in the last chapter, the Great Transformation. And by this phrase, he means more than the fact that we live in society and we don't have any choice. We are social creatures and we have no option but to live in a society. It means more than that. It means that societies have agency. Now, of course, not as a whole, but within societies. There are formations and groupings and peoples and classes, whatever you wish to call that have agency. But because we are ultimately social creatures, we are not the individualized creatures of the Homo economicus textbook model at all. We are social creatures. And Polanyi introduces the idea of a double movement that is defensive, that is protective, that is protection of society against being torn apart, let us say, by intensity of competition or of mechanization happening too fast, et cetera, et cetera. These are reactions and conservative reactions. I think that we have to be concerned with the conservation.  And that implies, and there are more than that, I think of the variety of cultures, the languages, the cultures, the knowledge which is embodied in the culture, so-called traditional culture. And that, I think, has become an essential to saving humanity, life on earth, if you wish. So this word conservative, I think it's quite important, because when I say we need to conserve, first of all, it implies variety because the varieties of the species, of the cultures, of the languages of them. So secondly, it implies conservatism, and to my mind, that is important to understand.


What is self-love? According to Psychology Today, self-love is an umbrella term for different acts of love we perform towards ourselves, physically, and non-physically. This means being trusting, respectful, and forgiving to yourself. Lacking in this area can not only affect your mental state but also influence your relationships. So how can your lack of self-love affect your relationships? Let's take a look. You have difficulties saying what you really think. Having good self-esteem allows you to express your needs to others without taking it personally if they don't fully agree. Lacking in this area can make it difficult to communicate what those needs are and lead to a less fulfilling relationship. You may find yourself jumping through hoops to appease your partner instead of being open with what is bothering you. Licensed clinical professor, counselor Katrina Fager, states that in many cases, having a low sense of self-love comes from childhood. Perhaps you didn't feel that the adults in your life believed in you, or you weren't given a healthy model of how to be self-assured. Whatever the case may be, you may find that problems arise in your relationship but you're unable to properly address them. You do not enforce boundaries. It's difficult to say no to someone. You worry about how they'll react or if they'll leave you. This can make it so bad that you overlook your partner's bad habits out of fear that they'll react poorly if you address it. Dr. Elizabeth Scott, a psychologist and author, states that this is called rejection sensitivity. Rejection sensitivity causes you to act in ways to avoid any kind of rejection, real or perceived, and it can happen at your own expense. Dr. Scott further states that neglecting your boundaries can lead to further issues like resentment, stress, and even problems with your physical health. Setting boundaries is a healthy part of any relationship and allows you to be clear with others on what you are and are not comfortable with. Having a lack of self-love can lead you to neglect your needs and put others above you. Though this may seemingly keep the relationship from failing, it makes it difficult for you to feel fulfilled and also creates room to be taken advantage of, trying to be someone you are not. In a relationship, a lack of self-love might make it tough to be your true self. You might put a lot of effort into how you look and how someone else perceives you.  Therapist Stuart Fensterheim states that in many cases this is a coping mechanism for someone sensitive to how others perceive them. To appease the people around them, they create a persona that other people will like to avoid rejection. While it's impossible to win everybody over, you may find that being authentic to yourself is much more fulfilling and pulls in closer relationships, even if they are fewer. Fensterheim further warns that many who continue to live in an inauthentic way can lead to feelings of self-doubt and future uncertainty. The phrase be yourself is the biggest takeaway. You are constantly worried about your position in the relationship. In a relationship, low self-esteem and a lack of self-love can lead to jealousy and insecurity. You may doubt your worth in the relationship and assume it's a coincidence that they like you. People who lack self-love often worry that their partner will be attracted to someone else or that they'll leave the relationship at any moment. An article from Psych Alive terms this as relationship anxiety. This is where you worry about different aspects of your relationship and put immense stress on yourself. These thoughts can brood and overpower you, making your relationship unpleasant. It's important to have confidence in yourself and your partner to trust in each other. In the end, feeling insecure in the relationship can further hurt it rather than addressing the weaknesses, settling for whatever comes your way. People with a lack of self-love are usually ready to commit to the first person who shows any interest in them and they lose a lot of their thoughts and opinions when it comes to who they choose to be in a relationship with. This can lead to settling for behaviors that you are not okay with. Many people do this out of fear of losing a relationship and being alone. However, Dr. Jill Weber from Psychology Today states that maintaining higher standards will benefit you as you have more control over getting what you want out of life. She states, this will help with your self-esteem and will make it easier to step away from bad situations. It's important to know your values and uphold them, even though it may be difficult and you may face rejection. You will find that it will be more fulfilling to be in the company of someone who cares versus settling for less. Self-love is important for your well-being and in turn important for the relationships in your life. Improving this skill can be difficult, but it's possible by starting with small steps. You may find that speaking to a qualified mental health professional is one of these steps. In other cases, taking the time to have an honest and open conversation with your partner about things to improve on can help get the ball rolling. Getting in contact with the right person is a great way to get your life back on track and deal with life stressors. We hope you enjoyed this video. Please like and share it with anyone you feel would benefit from it. Let us know your thoughts on this topic and any advice you have on it. Remember to subscribe to Psych2Go to keep up with our upload schedule. Take care.


Bruno Lafond, welcome to WPCTV. You are the co-chairman of Lafarge-Holstein.  Well, the obvious question, what do you think of Brexit? What will be the repercussions for business in Europe and for Europe itself? So I'm very disappointed about Brexit because I think today, in the world of today, it's better to be united than divided, and I think there are enough things to share between the UK and the rest of Europe, and particularly France, that was not needed. At the same time, for me it is an opportunity because it's the first time, for quite a long time, that we are talking again about Europe. And I think to talk about Europe without the UK is one of the major challenges for us European countries. Are you hopeful or pessimistic about the future of Europe, whether without the UK? Yes, I think we need to do something to reinforce Europe, to restart a better Europe and to improve Europe. We are the first economic power, but the way we manage it today does not please the people and does not lead to the results which were expected, you know, from the dream at the beginning. So there are many things. I would just give you one example. I'm personally disappointed that after 60 years of reconciliation, so few French can speak one word of German and reciprocally. I think that is a signal, and that is true in many other countries. And yet most can speak English. Sorry? But most can speak English. Yes, most are starting to speak English, but my problem is not that they talk speak English. If you speak English with a German, you will never understand the German and be able to live in Germany as a French, or in the Czech Republic, or in Spain, or in... And I think we have to invent a Europe where people are happy to live together and are able to live together and are able to work together. And that's probably the Europe we should start to build because we thought a lot about different things. Many things were very good, but it's not finished by far. And it is not the time to be disappointed to do nothing. Let's hope that we can do something. Thank you very much. Thank you.


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Welcome to George H. Smith's Excursions into Libertarian Thought, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute. Narrated by Daniel Hyland. A Gossipy Interlude, George Elliot Herbert Spencer and John Chapman, Part 2. Smith criticizes an influential book by Mark Francis, Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life. In Return to Yesterday, 1932, the English writer, critic and editor Ford Maddox Ford recounted his first meeting with Henry James. The young Ford, who felt something like awe in the presence of the great writer, had lunch with James, after which James let himself go in a singularly vivid display for the persons rather than the works of my family's circle. James especially disliked William Rossetti, Ford's uncle, whom he called an incredible bore. To illustrate his point, James told a story that Rossetti had told him about Herbert Spencer and George Elliot, a story that Rossetti claimed to have heard years earlier from an English bureaucrat. Rossetti had once heard the Secretary to the Inland Revenue recount how he had seen George Elliot proposed to by Herbert Spencer on the leads of the Terrace at Somerset House. The Inland Revenue headquarters is housed in that building, and the philosopher and the novelist were permitted by the authorities there to walk as a special privilege. In fact, John Chapman, a friend of both Spencer and Elliot, had a key to the Somerset House, and that's how the couple gained access to the Terrace where, in 1852, they frequently took long walks. But let's continue with the story. You would think, Mr. James exclaimed with indignation, his dark eyes really flashing, that a man would make something out of a story like that. But the way he told it was like this, and heightening and thinning his tones into a sort of quarrelous official organ, Mr. James quoted Rossetti. I have, as a matter of fact, frequently meditated on the motives which induced the lady's refusal of one so distinguished, and after mature consideration I have arrived at the conclusion that although Mr. Spencer with correctness went down upon one knee and grasped the lady's hand, he completely omitted the ceremony of removing his high hat, a proceeding which her sense of the occasion might have demanded. Is that, Mr. James concluded, the way to tell that story? Here we have a bit of gossip about Herbert Spencer and Marion Evans, only later did she call herself George Elliot, that was being told long after both had died. A story that had passed from a supposed eyewitness to William Rossetti, to Henry James, to Ford Medox Ford, and from Ford to his readers. Henry James, who appreciated the significance of this juicy tidbit, could not abide the ponderous and pretentious manner in which Rossetti told the story. But the story itself illustrates the curiosity of many people about the exact nature of the relationship between Herbert and Marion. The notion that Marion would have refused a marriage proposal from Herbert because he failed to remove his hat is of course preposterous. A more credible explanation would be Marion's well-known opposition to marriage, a position that was fairly common among her circle of Victorian free thinkers. But the account of the marriage proposal is itself almost certainly bogus. If anything, it reverses the roles of Herbert and Marion. Judging from Marion's letters, it is reasonable to speculate that she loved Herbert and wanted more than a friendship, but Herbert did not reciprocate her feelings. This, at least, is the standard account found in most biographies of Herbert Spencer and George Eliot, as well as in biographies of G. H. Lewis, a member of the Chapman Circle, and Spencer's close friend who, though married to Agnes Jervis, lived with Marion from 1852 until his death in 1878. However, that relationship, a scandal of major proportions, is beyond the scope of our present gossipy account. I may get to it later. Mark Francis, in his major work Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life, Cornell University Press 2007, page 57, disagrees with the standard story. The most important way in which an autobiography was doctored by Spencer was in his concealment of his love affair with and courtship of Eliot. This supposed concealment provides Francis with abundant fodder for explaining Spencer's psychology.  From his perspective she was without flaw, yet when faced with perfection in a woman who truly loved him, he could feel no passion, but only emptiness and pain. During their affair he suffered for many months, feeling uncomfortable with his own unresponsiveness. Then he took his true love and fobbed her off on his friend, the notoriously sensual and libidness G.H. Lewis.  His failure to love was the only adult tragedy of his life, and it was one that he was determined to hide. He had no choice in this as he lacked the literary genius that he believed was necessary to transfigure artistically either the passions or the coldness that he knew was their substitute inside him. If he had been a poet he might have made his failure to love into an aesthetically satisfying tragedy. However, in the absence of such talent, concealment was the only option. Obvious psycho babble aside, Francis speaks repeatedly of the love affair between Spencer and Elliot, and he refers to Elliot as Spencer's lover. He claims that the affair lasted through the summer of 1852 and then through the autumn and into the beginning of 1853. Given the assurance with which Francis makes his revisionist assertions, curious readers may wonder why, in the introduction to his book, page 7, Francis says the following, Spencer's life was unusual. He had no children, nor did he ever possess a wife or mistress. It is probable that he also died a virgin. Perhaps Francis meant that Spencer was unable to perform sexually with Marion, however much he tried, so this probably left him a virgin. Shortly before his comment about Spencer qua probable virgin, and after his assertion that Spencer believed that his unhappiness was caused by his Christian upbringing, a remarkable allegation that is new to me, Francis asserts that Spencer plunged into an alienation that he could not fulfill by his success as a writer, and that Spencer's adult experiences reinforced his sense of inadequacy. His sole romantic adventure, an attempt to love George Elliot, produced the bitter lesson that happiness was an instinctive satisfaction, a condition from which he was excluded because of his inability to follow his feelings, emphasis mine. I suppose we could interpret the word attempt as an indication of sexual impotence, as we could interpret other comments by Francis about Spencer's failure to love Elliot, but that doesn't seem to be his meaning. Besides, Francis was addressing an adult audience in 2007, so if impotence was what he had in mind, he could easily have said so explicitly, but he doesn't. Alternatively, by love affair and lover, Francis might not have intended to imply a sexual involvement of any kind, even though such expressions were bound to mislead readers. So what did Francis mean to say? I honestly don't have a clue. Moreover, according to Francis, and contrary to the standard story, Spencer had in fact agreed to marry Marion despite his lack of enthusiasm about the match. In denying both his love affair with Marion and his intention to marry her, Spencer committed two of the greatest falsehoods he ever uttered. Francis, page 60, explains the source of his information as follows. The true story of Spencer's relationship with George Elliot is contained in a series of unpublished and partly published letters that were concealed by his official biographer, Duncan, and subsequently in 1935 deposited in the British Museum by the Spencer trustees with instructions that they were not to be made public for fifty years. Together with these manuscripts is a lengthy letter written in 1881 to his American friend and publisher, E. L. Humans. In this, Spencer gave an almost complete and accurate account of his relationship with the novelist while asking Humans to deny it. Although I have not seen the unpublished letters mentioned and cited by Francis, in most cases I would accept the word of a scholar about their content, especially when they are represented as containing straightforward admissions by Spencer about his true relationship with Marion Evans. But if the shoe were on the other foot, and I were the one offering a revisionist account of the Spencer Elliot relationship, I would quote substantial chunks of those unpublished letters to substantiate my claims. But with the exception of some brief remarks that don't prove anything one way or the other, we are left in the dark about the literal content of those unpublished letters. So we must take the word of Mark Francis for what they say. My suspicions about the reliability of Mark Francis, though they might be completely wrong in this case, are not unfounded. In my 1981 article, Herbert Spencer's Theory of Causation, I included a lengthy and acerbic comment on an earlier article by Francis, Herbert Spencer, and the Myth of La Saffaire, page 144, note 7. Without repeating my specific charges, suffice it to say that Francis tended to play fast and loose with sources, and after checking a handful of citations in Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life, my skepticism remains as strong as ever. Here are two flagrant examples. In the last passage I quoted from Francis, he mentions a letter that Spencer wrote to his American friend, E. L. Humans. This concerned the biography that J. W. Cross, who married Marion after the death of G. H. Lewis, was writing about George Eliot. After Spencer became aware of rumors that he had been in love with Eliot, he urged Cross to insert a note in his biography, stating that these rumors were untrue. Now, according to Francis, who cites the published, if incomplete, letter to Humans, Spencer was concerned that Cross would spread truthful rumors about him, he therefore bullied Cross into inserting a disingenuous note denying them. Francis also tells us that Spencer asked humans to deny rumors that Spencer himself admitted were true. People who read the letter in question for themselves will easily see the unreliability of Francis's account. Spencer did not admit the truth of the rumors and then asked humans to lie for him. On the contrary, Spencer insisted that the rumors were utterly unfounded, and that he simply wanted Cross to correct such absurd misstatements as those which you, Humans, told me were current in America. The accurate explanation given by Spencer's official biographer, David Duncan, directly contradicts the bizarre account given by Mark Francis. The death of George Eliot in December 1880 revived the rumors already heard occasionally in this country and frequently in the United States that Spencer had been in love with her. These stories had for years caused him great annoyance, feeling that he could not himself do anything to contradict these absolutely untrue statements. He laid the matter in strict confidence before his friends, professors Huxley and Tyndall. Mr. Potter and Dr. Humans, in order that they, knowing the facts, should if the rumor were repeated in their hearing privately contradicted, leaving such private contradiction to have what effect it might in checking its further circulation. Those readers who think I am being unfair to Mark Francis, after all, even the best scholars make mistakes from time to time, should consider another one of his claims and the source he cites to support it. As usual, Francis wishes to make a psychological point about Spencer, in this case to show how Spencer's failure to reproduce himself spilled into his other thoughts. Spencer occasionally compared his books and ideas to children, and so, Francis informs us, did George Eliot. Never mind that this metaphor, which appears in Plato's Symposium, in John Milton's Heriopagitica, and in Countless Other Works, is one of the most hackneyed metaphors in the history of literature. No, never mind any of this, for Mark Francis, page 57, uses his remarkable psychoanalytic powers to explain its deep significance for Spencer and Eliot. Spencer shared with his lover, the novelist George Eliot, the image that literary works were author's children. Both writers were childless, and the use of this metaphor perloined the maternal roles of their old friends, while at the same time fending off loneliness. Their claim to have given birth is especially parasitic and selfish when it is considered that both used it when writing to old acquaintances who lived in obscurity, while they themselves basked in the warmth of public praise. To illustrate his point, Francis refers to a letter that Spencer pathetically wrote to one of his woman friends, Mrs. Octavius Smith. Francis then quotes part, but only part, of this letter. As with parents, it ultimately becomes the chief object of life to rear their children and put them forward prosperously in the world. So, as an author's life advances, the almost exclusive object of anxiety becomes the fulfillment of his literary aims, the rearing of the progeny of the brain.  Francis explains, the unpleasant part of Spencer's letter to Mrs. Smith can only be savored fully if it is recognized as an attempt to elicit sympathy from an elderly widow whose life had been bound up with her family and who was grieving the death of her husband. Spencer's abiding sense of failure drove him to write such self-pitying letters. Now let's take a look at the complete text of Spencer's letter to Mrs. Smith, that pathetic and self-pitying letter in which Spencer displayed insensitivity to a grieving widow, according to Mark Francis. But first, some context. In 1877, Mrs. Octavius Smith invited Spencer to stay at her estate, Ard Tornish, in the Scottish Highlands. After vacationing there for a month, Spencer wrote Mrs. Smith a note of thanks. To Mrs. Smith, London, 17 September 1877. I may say that I think I am stronger than I have been since this time last year. Thanks in great measure, and I think chiefly, to Ard Tornish and all its pleasures, indoor and outdoor. Again, I have to thank you for many happy days in addition to those enjoyed in years gone by. Should anyone hereafter use the materials of a biographical kind which will be left behind me, he will probably find clear enough evidence that the most of the happiest days of my life have been spent at Ard Tornish. And not only in respect of pleasure and health, but as a consequence in respect of working power, I feel my indebtedness. As with parents, it ultimately becomes the chief object of life to rear their children and put them forward prosperously in the world. So, as an author's life advances, the almost exclusive object of anxiety becomes the fulfillment of his literary aims, the rearing of progeny of the brain. The first thing to note about this letter is the date, 17 September 1877. The second thing to note is that Mrs. Smith's husband Octavius died in February 1871, over six years before Spencer wrote his letter. So where Francis got his information about a grieving widow is anyone's guess. The third thing to note is that this letter is a simple thanks to Mrs. Smith for inviting Spencer to relax for a while at Ard Tornish. Spencer was able to recharge his intellectual batteries during his one-month vacation there, so he expressed his indebtedness to Mrs. Smith. So how did Mark Francis arrive at his twisted interpretation of Spencer's innocent, cordial letter to Mrs. Smith? Again, this is anyone's guess, and I have the same reaction to many of Francis's interpretations. I do not profess to understand the mind of Mark Francis or his canons of scholarship, nor do I recognize the Herbert Spencer he created with the artistic freedom of a novelist. Perhaps the explanation lies in Francis's highly peculiar claim, page 20, that Spencer's autobiography is actually an exercise in ironic self-mockery in which historic detail was manipulated the better to illustrate artistic and political metaphor. Perhaps this perspective encouraged Francis to emulate Spencer and write his own book in which historic detail was manipulated. In any case, Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life should be read with extreme caution, even in matters of gossip.


Hi kakou, and welcome to another episode of Roots Hawai'i. My name is Walter Kauai'i'a, your host for today's episode entitled Discovery Day, a wonderful community event that's open to the public, and it's free. You'll learn to discover a connect with your ancestors. This event is sponsored and hosted by the Honolulu Hawai'i West Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is located at 1723 Beckley Street, right across from Farrington High School. Joining me today are my special guests and two dear friends, Melvin Nakama, and Louise Kealoha. Aloha. Thanks for having us, Walter. Oh, thank you for joining us, both of you. Just so our viewers get to know who these amazing individuals are and why they're here today. I'll start with a brief introduction of Mel Nakama. Mel and I have known each other for, I don't know, about 30-plus years through our involvement in various church positions. Mel was born and raised on the island of Maui. He graduated from Teachers College in Oregon, where he taught in middle school for three years, I think it was, and then returned to the islands. Mel retired last year from Kalawa Middle School as a counselor for 41 years in education. Mel has been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 34 years. He has served as a bishop for a little over five years. He currently serves as a counselor to the state president since last October. These ecclesiastical leaders have stewardship over nine wards or congregations. In addition to those areas of responsibility, Mel also oversees the temple and family history work for the entire stake. He is here today in that official capacity representing the stake presidency and the Discovery Day event sponsoring unit. So thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to join us. Thank you, Walter. And we are also very lucky to have joining us today, probably the foremost exponent on hosting and participating in planning and organizing many Discovery Day events. She too is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who hails from Laie, but currently lives in the nation of Waimanalo. Sister Louise Kailoha, as we like to affectionately refer to the women of the Church, is a devout, experienced, and very passionate genealogist and has been for decades. Her wealth of experience and acquired knowledge came through years of dedication in, not only through searching out her own ancestors, but volunteering to help anyone who wanted to discover and connect with their own ancestors. She and her husband have been serving a church service mission at the Remote Operations Center that helps to preserve and make available to the world through one of the oldest and most experienced genealogical research entities on the planet known as FamilySearch, where then Sister Kailoha's lifelong dedication and commitment to this work has proven invaluable and a blessing to many over these years. Thank you for joining us today, Louise. Thank you for having me. You know, I think so that our viewers, I'm sure there are many people watching that know both of you through the community and things that you've been involved with, but I'm sure there's a lot of people that don't know you. Just for those people, I'm going to give you our viewers just an introduction as to our guests. And I know, Mel, you've worked so many years in middle school and as an education counselor. That's correct. As you've worked in that field, how has there ever been any experiences in your field of work that anything to do with family history or genealogy? Can you think of any experiences that you had while in that profession? Well, the only thing I can think about is working with immigrant families and their ties to their ancestors back home brings to light of things that their children are involved with. Kind of a pleasant experience to work with families and their generations back in their homeland. Oh, that's interesting. I know I kind of heard through the grapevine that Mel, a couple of years ago, had a personal experience that just kind of popped up in him while he was in Japan. And we're going to have Mel share that with us in a second. But I want to ask Sister Kealoha if I might a question. Sister Kealoha, tell our viewers what they might, for those people that have never attended a Discovery Day, what might they expect when they come to one of these events? Well, they could expect a lot of things. And I especially feel that by attending these things, they will learn more about the resources that we have. And they will also learn more about each other because we have displays and we have a lot of things that we put on. And a lot of families that does attend these events find that they are connected to someone within the room. And you know, I've experienced that on many occasions where someone put up their chart and one of the participants who came walked around and in looking at these various charts found that they were connected with this person. Although they didn't know the person personally, they asked if we knew who owned the chart. I certainly pointed out the person that was connected to that chart. And they sat down and talked sorry. And they found that they were related. They had common ancestors that they knew about. And they shared their experiences. And I think that's great for me. It's a very emotional thing when you connect with your family. I think we all share that. Any time any of us can adhere to the counsel that's given in Holy Ritz, where the last prophet of the Old Testament, Malachi, tells us to turn the hearts to the fathers and the hearts of the fathers to the children. And so to our viewers out there that may not be familiar with that passage in Scripture, what that specifically is talking about is genealogical research. And there isn't one human being on this planet who doesn't have a sense of yearning to connect and discover either with family currently here or with family that have passed on. I mean, we all want to know where we come from and how we connect on the planet. So I'm going to jump back to, we'll come right back. I have a question for you, but I want to ask Mel a question. I'd like, so as the Ecclesiastical Leader representing this, the Honolulu-Hawaii West Stake that's sponsoring this Discovery Day event, maybe I can ask our engineer to throw, there it is, our flyer, our Discovery Day event that's happening on Saturday, July 20th from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. It's located at the Honolulu-Hawaii West Stake Center Cultural Hall. And that's located right across from Farrington High School, 1723 Beckley Street. So as the Ecclesiastical Leader representing this stake, what is the mission? Or what, you know, you as the as the leader along with other members of the stake presidency, what are you hoping to achieve and accomplish within, just within the stake itself, for the nine, you know, congregations or wards that we have in the stake? Well, Walter, we all have a divinely appointed responsibility to seek out our kindred dead and to ultimately enjoy the blessings of eternal families. We're hoping that our members from our wards will come to the event and to learn how to discover their family history, their ancestors, and then to learn how to connect them to themselves and also to learn about different features they can enjoy while doing their family history work. All right. Just to kill, I'll share with us, because I remember you, you talked about a personal story you were sharing with me yesterday about how you, I think it was your son. Your son was working at Zippy, so I'm putting Louise Kelloha on the spot, but she just shared this with me yesterday. I thought it was a great story, because that's the exciting part about when you sincerely are looking to make connection with ancestors. And when we say, you know, ancestors, obviously those that have gone before us, but there are family members that are still present here, and we don't know where they are. And some of us don't even know who they are. And so when we have experiences that we just connect like Louise was sharing, that many of these discovery events, people show up, and then, you know, they see a display and they see a name, and then they ask, and then before you know it, so share with us what you were sharing with me about your own personal experience. Well, for years my son has been working for Zippies, and he met an elderly couple there, and they became very close. And you know how our local children are? Everybody is Auntie and Uncle. And that's how my son got to know these people as Auntie and Uncle, and he would always come home and talk about them. So one day I asked him, I said, what are these people's names, and he said, Auntie and Uncle. And I said, well, that doesn't tell me much, but I happened to go to Zippies one day and they happened to be there. And so my son decided he was going to introduce me to them. And of course, me being the person I am, I asked them what their names were. And when the gentleman told me what his name was, I, a light bulb went off in my head, but I didn't say anything to them because I wanted to go back with my son and talk to him about it. And so when my son came home from work and I said, okay, George, I says, do you know that his last name is Lee, which is my maiden name. And my son was, you know, he was shocked. And I said, yes, you're Auntie and Uncle, their last name is Lee. So he goes back to work and they're there almost every day.  He says, my name is George Lee. That's my, my grandfather's name.  And so my son mentions the name Manly Lee. And that just about broke the whole thing because it turned out that his father, Vernon Lee is a brother of my great grandfather, Manly Lee.  That's your real Auntie and Uncle. So he goes back and he talks to them. And so we connect. And it was so emotional for me because up until that point, I knew very little about my dad's side of the family. And this opened the door for me. And from that moment on, the Lee family spread very wide. Well, that's really good. I love hearing stories like that. I'm sure the viewers out there, you know, we're all humans. And we all belong to the same family. And so when you hear stories of people, you know, other humans connecting like that, it does touch your heart. I mean, I don't know how you cannot be touched by that.  And you know, when you, when you start down that pathway, you know, we know how to explain it, but to put it in general terms, doors open up. And yes, situations like that occur. And as as unique as you might think that is, Louise would agree with me that happens more often than many of us think with individuals. It's not a public consumption, but it happens more often than not. I want to go back to Mel. What kind of, what are you hoping for, you know, attendance-wise?  But I'm sure there's a part of you as a ecclesiastical leader that would really like to see many of the community, you know, come out and participate in this event. So what kind of numbers are you hoping to get that day? Well, we're preparing for a conservative number of 200 attendees with hopes that there'll be more. We've directed our bishops to encourage their members to attend the event. And we're hoping that anyone in the community interested in doing genealogy research will come either as a beginner to come and learn how to get started in doing family research or come as active genealogists who have come to a roadblock and needs some answers to overcome these obstacles. You know, for those that are viewing this and have never done genealogy work, it's very easy to get started.  And then everyone has a grandma and grandpa on mom's side. Everyone has a grandma and grandpa on dad's side. And, you know, we all can call that by names. We don't need to go get that information. And shame on you if you have to, okay? But I want to ask, I want to ask, Mel, share with us, you know, let's reserve that for the second half after we come back from it, because I want to have a special thought in mind. So Sister Kailaha, tell us about your years of experience. What got you started? And I want to know how old you were and what was it, you know, because it's always interesting.  But, you know, how did you get all started on this pathway? What was it? My grandmother, she was bedridden. And for a while, I was a little caregiver for her. And I would travel to Waipahu every day. And it is during this time that Tutu would start to tell me her stories. But at the point when you're not interested in family history and you're with your Tutu, you're thinking she's just repeating these stories. Well, the more she repeated the stories and they started to listen, really listen. And once I did that, and once she realized that I was paying attention to her, then she brought out more things. And the more stuff she brought out, then it just grabbed on to me. Because once you learn about your ancestors, there's something that changes inside of you. It's a beginning of where you're going to feel something greater than yourself.  And what they're going to relate to you is that they love you. And so when you know that, and then you feel the love coming in, you want to give back the love. And with that, you start to really, you know, because genealogy is not just a cold gathering of facts. What genealogy really is, is breathing life into our ancestors, bringing them back and telling their stories. Because honestly, it is our chance to share our family history. It is our reason to celebrate our past. And it is our time to welcome our future as a family. Wow, I couldn't have said it any better. And that, folks, is one of the primary reasons why, if you've never been to one of these Discovery Day events happening on July 20th over at the Honolahoa West Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you should attend. It will be from 8 in the morning till 1pm. And when we come back from break, we'll talk more about specifics that are occurring then. Well, we certainly have a lot more to talk about with our two beautiful guests, Mel Nakama and Louise Kelloha. And learn more about the Discovery Day event coming up on Saturday, July 20th at the Honolahoa West Stake Center, located at 1723 Beckley Street, right across from Farrington High School. My name is Walter Kauai Aia, your host for Roots Hawaii. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. Aloha. This is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About, where every other week, Mondays at 3, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world, and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. 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We've been charging with our special guest Mel Nakama and Luis Kealoha. So I want to ask Mel something and he kind of shared this with me last week as we were chatting. So you had an interesting experience and you weren't really searching out anything. You just were in, I think it was Japan? Okinawa. Maybe you might want to show what happened. Sure. So our family took a trip to Japan with a side visit to Okinawa to visit our daughter-in-law's parents. And to my surprise, my daughter-in-law's father did some research and found out that there was a Nakama family living in the town of Kinosa where actually my grandfather is from. And so we took a ride, we found the property, we knocked on the door and out came a man who greeted us and as soon as I saw this man I knew he was a relative because he looked exactly like my dad's brother and come to find out that he was actually my dad's cousin and his father and my grandfather were brothers. Wow. And he was very cordial, he invited us in, he showed us some photos, he even took us to the family gravesite. Wow. Now my grandfather's home has since been rebuilt but Walter you know just having my feet touch the ground when my grandfather played it as a little boy that was so touching. Oh I can imagine. And to kind of wonder when he was 18 years old and he had to make the decision to leave his family to go to a foreign place where the locals didn't share the same language or ate the same food or shared the same culture and to try to earn enough money and to return to Okinawa and to help with the family. But sadly that never happened. He stayed there, he married, raised a family and you know I'm forever grateful for the sacrifices that not only him but all of my grandparents made on our behalf and for the behalf of the generations that follow. You know thank you for sharing that very personal story but while you're talking so I'm thinking you know like this regular person so this is your father's cousin. This is your dad's cousin. Right and I never knew anything about my relatives in Okinawa because my dad very rarely spoke about relatives in Okinawa. Right right and so this is your dad's cousin the man that you met at the house. Right. And the connection was that man at the house, your dad's cousin, his father and your dad's father were brothers. See this is the kind of this is what happens just comment every day occurrence you talk having a conversation with somebody and they share this kind of experience and we all can relate to that that's the beauty about genealogy and family history. Everybody wants to know and you know even though I have no Nakama blood but it excites me because I know another you know human being and of course we're friends is connecting this way and I know it touches your heart touches my heart too because I've had similar experiences and you know that that moment when you said you know standing on the same ground you know Hawaiians have this mana'u and you should try it once in a while you know in this westernized world that we live in we always have something over our feet for practical reasons shoes calipas you know slippers there are times when because I've done this whenever I go to visit any of my relatives at the grave I take off my slippers and I walk on the grass especially when I get to the grave site where my either my mother my grandparents my great grandmother uh my mother's father my grandfather I'm I'm on my feet so I I do that you might think I'm crazy but I do that so I can feel that I'm actually connecting with them you know what I mean all right I don't know if that makes sense you might think I'm crazy anyway sister Kayla getting back to you so let's talk more about the specifics of you know this Discovery Day event that's coming up on July 20th there we go thank you Rob Saturday July 20th from 8 to 1 p.m. that's a Saturday it's being held at the Honolulu Hawai'i West Stake it's in the cultural hall and that is at 1723 Beckley Street right across from Farrington High School so let's talk maybe specifics because I know you attended several of their planning meetings and some of the things now there's a husband and a wife uh brother and sister Nihipali uh Benjamin and Geraldine Nihipali I've never met them you've met them I I know of them we all went to the same high school oh yes off the subject one high school year's way okay never mind let's get right back here stay on the track here yeah yes we all went to the same high school and so I do know them yeah well you know I've heard that name is in in the here in Hawaii in the circles of genealogical research the name Nihipali is well established in terms of genealogical research so I'm probably referring to his grandfather uh that was very well known um so here so for those that are are listening to this and you know contemplating to attend one of these events because you've never done it before um just going over the the agenda of what's occurring that day so we're going to have uh Benjamin Nihipali is going to have a display and he's he's one of he and his wife are are one of the just uh presenters and I think Benjamin is going to talk about the Portuguese the Portuguese ethnic group and then his wife will do the Chinese and then they will do another part where they're going to teach some technology um but there's other people that will be presenters there and I'm sure that whenever you come over there and do the your own research that somebody is going to help you and you know of course this is going to be held in Kalihi but I want the people to know that there are family history centers throughout the island at the Mormon churches throughout the island or the LDS church sorry and um and so anybody is more than willing to help if you come to one of these discovery days or if you need help we do have these library centers to help you yeah she's Louise is talking about the family history centers and so most established state buildings have within the the confines there they have a temple and family history center it's open to the public people can come in and there's always you know people that are there to help and assist um and speaking of technologies and I'm glad that there's that on the agenda because you know over the years um or like I said in my opening monologue um family search originally started over 120 years ago as the genealogical society of Utah and it has always been at the forefront when it comes to the development of both hardware and software and the technological advancements when it comes to genealogical research and um you know so the availability and you know you can count on coming to these family history centers knowing full and well that family search as it is called today has kept up both in their hardware and software developments to make uh you know these records accessible and available in the easiest way possible so if you come to this event I know there's going to be one presenter that's going to be talking about several uh you know applications that you can acquire that right on your smart device you know I mean so we talk about all these kinds of things I'm going to be um well not me but my family has been asked I have a grandson who's 20 years old now but at the age of between age nine and 10 uh he was fortunate to write a book it made it made him till this day the the youngest book author published book author in the united states his book was installed in the library of congress the name of the book is entitled uh koala komo naioli's race to save a king but all of that never would have happened if yours truly did not sit down one day in 1970 at the archives and start to do my own personal family research so you know all of the the opportunities and as mel said blessings that can come to an individual when you sincerely seek out your ancestors are you know can't even put a put a price tag on that it's just invaluable and um we're running out of time perhaps we need to come back and do another show these two people I just say something like what you had just discovered about your 10 seconds but go ahead talk but um it's these kind of stories that can help you find your stories honestly I mean everybody comes across stories like this and listening to whatever brother Walter has said come to this discovery and you'll find out more about his story yes and we'll we can share and and have experiences yes exactly well folks here we are once again we've run out of time but we've had a really enlightening time today speaking with my two guests and dear friends Melna Kama and Louise Kealoha representing the event as the sponsor for the Honolulu Hawaii Steak along with sister Louise Kealoha a timeless exponent and qualified genealogist thank you very much for being here today and good luck with your discovery day event to be held this Saturday July 20th from 8 to 1 p.m parking is limited uh but parking will be across the street at Farringah High School we have uh arrangements with them and uh we'll we'll look forward to seeing all of you there thank you for joining us today here at Think Tech Hawaii I'm your host Walter Kawaii for Roots Hawaii join me next Tuesday for a special episode of Roots Hawaii and my guest will be Mr. Kamakah Peeley from KHON TV until then Allah Allah


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