Well, here we are navigating the journey on a given Wednesday with Marsha Joyner. I'm Jay Fidel to 12 o'clock block. And we're going to talk about the story of Dory, Dory Miller, a grateful nation, question mark. Yeah. He was a fantastic hero. Not enough has been made of that. You've studied it for years and written about it. You have done all you could do, but there's more that you could do to bring it to the public eye. So who is Dory Miller? Dory Miller is, let's see if we can show this picture. This is Dory Miller, and he was originally Doris, but of course. D-O-R-I-S. Yes. He was a great big strapping guy, Doris. Doris. Yeah. That was when he was born to midwife, gave him that name. And he was born on a farm because his family were farmers in Waco, Texas. So of course you had midwives and whatnot. He would have been born in the 20s. In the Depression, yeah. And so this story about Dory, and I say, let me, I have a story to tell you. Yeah, there he is. One pulled out of an old trunk, from the corners of my memory, from the hidden annals of Americana, from the dirt swept under the rug, from the back roads of history. And this is one of those stories. So he's a hero. He's a hero.  He's in the United States Navy at the time of Pearl Harbor, and that distinguishes and defines him what happened on December 7th. So he chose to join the Navy even though he knew it was segregated. But he says, and I quote, it beats sitting on a curb in Waco, Texas. So he joins the Navy. He's stationed on the West Virginia. And in March. That's Pearl Harbor. And March. Was it the battleship? The battleship. One of the battleships. He was moved, the battleship was moved from California to Hawaii. And this is getting ready for war. Now we'll jump around, but the Americans spent one billion with a bee in the 1930s getting Honolulu ready for war with Japan. That's a lot of bread in the 1930s. It was. Honolulu did not experience the depression like everybody else did because Uncle Sam was busy building, they put in the tunnels, they put in the Red Hill, all that stuff that we're complaining about today, getting ready for war with Japan. So you know, we've been raised with the notion that Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack. But now you're talking about getting ready for war. So maybe it wasn't so much a sneak attack. And I saw that you brought some headlines with you. I did. There were days before Pearl Harbor where the local newspapers here in Hawaii had headlines reporting that war was imminent and attack was imminent. That's not a sneak attack. This was the week before. This was the week before. And that is. Read the headline. This one, Kurisu bluntly warned nation ready for battle. And this is the Honolulu advertiser. The week before, it was the week before November 30, 1941. Okay. Hold it up so we can take a look at it. Can you get that one? Yeah. Not a very good print. But that's, no, it's not. But you can see that's what it is. It's an advertiser headline. Okay. You got another one now. Yes. And this is the Hilo Tribune Herald. Japan may strike over weekend. And this again is November 30, 1941. So the notion that it was a surprise attack really fades in view of these local headlines. They had no great inside information. And somehow they had enough information where two newspapers, a few days before, a week before, could, you know, prognosticate, could tell us that it was going to be an attack. Well, now think about this. To move all of those ships from Japan across that ocean because they bombed Pearl Harbor, Guam, and another place all at the same time on the same day, even though because of the time zones it looks different, but they all happened at the same time. Can you imagine moving all those ships and all of those planes and all of those people and to buy enough provisions for all of those ships and nobody knows? And you're crossing that huge Pacific Ocean and nobody knows. Come on. Nobody knew. I mean, you know, if they did that right here, wouldn't you say, why are they filling up those ships? Why are they buying all of that? You know, somebody, you know, and there were spies in those days. I think there were political forces at play. They were spies. Strange diplomacy and espionage going on. Oh, yes. Yeah. But let me tell you, at the time, the Navy was segregated. In fact, it had been segregated since the Revolutionary War up until 1948 when Truman integrated the military. But if you think of all those wars and so the blacks at one time they were all Asian as messmen, which as a messman is a rate given only to those men who take care of the senior officers. They served the table in the officer's mess. They served. That's a mess. Maybe they cooked too, I don't know. They did everything. They made sure his uniform was perfect. Oh. They made sure everything that when they weren't at sea, if his wife needed a Christmas present, they, you know, everything, they took care of the officers. That was the whole idea. So a bit of a royalty thing. Yes. And it was a class thing. Yeah. It was a race thing. Well, yeah. I mean, but for the officers to be treated this way and not the rest of the crew. Our stochracy. Yes. Not the rest of the crew. So. Something out of the south. Yes. As a matter of fact, when the Navy did choose blacks to come in, they did choose, they said it clearly that they wanted the blacks from the south because they weren't uppity like northern blacks. Northern blacks talk back. The southern blacks were not uppity. So yes, it was exactly as you're saying. Hmm. Yeah. So Dory Miller was a messman. Yes. And he was on the West Virginia in the West battleship. He was there at Pearl Harbor. What happened? So the morning of the bombing in the early morning, December 7 was on a Sunday about seven o'clock or eight and there had been a huge officers party the night before. So everything was late. The bugler was late, breakfast was late, everything was late, which is why they were all kind of huddled up and nobody was ready.  And all of a sudden here this planes come and they come across the Coley-Coley Pass and they'd already been up at Dillingham Field and all of these places. But now they come into view.  And all sitting ducks. A hundred and fifty ships. A hundred and fifty ships.  Well, during Miller, they call him up because his captain of the ship had been mortally wounded and they call him up because he's the biggest man on the ship to move him. And the captain says, no, no, no, no, no, I don't want to be moved. I'm going down with the ship. The ship was. Oh, yeah. There was no question that this was attack coming from everywhere. And I think we do have a picture of the West Virginia as it is blowing up. And there it is, as you can see. When you realize how many people were killed that day, it just takes on a whole secondary meaning. And you see where the boat is in the water there? They're trying to pick people out.  Ships going down the Arizona. Violence everywhere. Everywhere. Murderous, lethal violence. So during Miller, when they said no, don't move him, he sees a gun torrent that's empty and he steps up to it and begins to shoot and he shoots and he shoots and he shoots. Now he had no training. No training. They didn't shoot. They didn't train these messmen to do this. That was not their job. They weren't to do this. They weren't even to touch the guns. But he did. And years later when they go through all of this about what happened, his brother said, oh, this guy could shoot the eyes out of a squirrel. There was no training. You know, he was a kid and he learned how to shoot. Here's, we're in trouble. He steps up and begins to shoot and he says, and I quote, that they tell me, he didn't say he shot down five, he says they tell me I shot down five planes. So the heart of the story, of course, is that he was not recognized. The papers said an unidentified colored messman shot down the planes, an unidentified colored messman.  Well, there's a certain amount of risk to just being behind the machine gun. Because I don't know if people realize that during World War II, with the equipment the weapons they had, the planes, the guns they had, things were much closer. It was not an automated war. You could see the eyes of the person you were shooting at. And as those planes were coming down, toward him, they would see him shooting. And they would try to shoot him. They would try to blow him up. So this was very risky business, which makes it all the more heroic. And that's why, I mean, I'm dwelling on this because I think we have to take a break and think about this. We're going to take a short break. OK. We're going to come back. And you're going to try to explain to me why it took years for him to be recognized. You're going to have a hard time with that. OK. We'll be right back. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Aloha. I want to invite all of you to talk story with John Wahee every other Monday here at Think Tech Hawaii. And we have special guests like Professor Colin Moore from the University of Hawaii who joins us from time to time to talk about the political happenings in this state. Please join us every other Monday, Aloha. OK.  That was his rate. And all of a sudden, in the heat of this battle, he takes an active role with an important piece of weaponry. And he successfully shoots down these five planes and takes his own life and his hands by doing that. I mean, he could have jumped off earlier. He could have got off that ship, was the ship was under attack. Instead, he stuck around. And the papers caught it. And they talked about an unidentified colored sailor. Shot down these planes. Who did this? And that was December 7, 1941. So it's quite remarkable. The whole story is quite remarkable. Why did it take so long? It says not until March 1942. That's a year later. A year later that they identified eyewitnesses, even though the captain of his ship, all the people said he did it. But it wasn't until the Congress said in 1942 that they identified the unknown black messman was Dory Miller. And they really worked and worked and worked to get him recognized. What does that mean, a medal? What does that mean? Anything. He was alive, you know? Yes, he's alive. He was alive. So this is. So unlike the white men that were hurt that day, and there were hundreds of them, they got leave to go home to get well. He was not. He was sent on another ship to go back to work. And so the newspapers, the black newspapers, really. So beginning in the wake of the Dallas Express 11 April 1942, they tell the story of how an all Southern Negro youth conference met. And they wanted to meet him and how they invited him to see. He was a hero for them. He was a hero for him. And they presented him with a $100 war bond. Can you imagine 1942? That was a lot of money. That was a lot of money. Yeah. And how the children that were at that conference adored meeting a real hero. And he was such a warm, gentle soul. He was the only story like this, right?  So that's quite remarkable. And you'd think that the Navy would have made more of it. No, even though they had eyewitnesses, they didn't. OK, what happened? So they had newspaper after newspaper, 1942, 43. All of these black newspapers are clamoring to have him recognize finally, finally, that we have a hero finally. And the newspapers, the clamoring, all of this finally gets to the Navy. And he is awarded the Navy Cross. Now, that was a hard one battle until you to get the Navy Cross because the, I mean, finally, what year was that? 1942, September 15, 1943. Admiral Chester Nimitz personally presented Dory the Navy Cross May 22, May 27, 1942, aboard the USS Enterprise. So he was transferred to the Enterprise? No, that's where the ceremony was. But the whole, his duty station was here in Honolulu the whole time. They transferred him to another ship. But here? No, 1943, early morning dawn in the vast Pacific Ocean, a periscope rocked the surface, locking in on the target. The enemy torpedoed, sunk the ship. And in 22 minutes, the Lipscomb Bay is where he was stationed with 54 officers and men, including Dory, went down. Ironically, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, his parents, were not notified until December 7, 1943. They didn't even bother to tell his parents. We think that was special for him, or that was wartime. It was a submarine. It was operating under some curtain of secrecy. In terms of communications, it was a long time. And so the newspapers did everything in the world. So on the front page of the Pittsburgh Courier, January 1942, United States, 41 Lintons, 1940, anyway, in the issue, Mann Gunn at Pearl Harbor, NAACP, asked the president of the United States to give the unnamed messman a Distinguished Service Award. And I'm just telling you how many newspapers, how many people clamored for this. Well, you've done a lot of research on this, Marsha. We have worked on this. Let me tell you, since somebody, I don't know how many years now, said to me, we had this portrait at Pearl Harbor. Who is this guy? Tell us about him. So my curiosity, so I went out, and here's this beautiful portrait of Dorian Miller. We have a picture of him, this one, yeah. That's the one at Pearl Harbor. So that's when I started doing the research. And why doesn't he have the Medal of Honor? We started writing to the Navy, following all of them. I interviewed everyone of the West Virginia people that were still alive. And we wrote. When was this, when were you writing? 1970, what is it? 70s. In the 70s, OK. Yeah. In the 80s, we started this whole thing. We did. Now, the newspapers had been doing it all along. Across the country, books, written articles, everything written about him. I even asked Senator Inouye. He joined with me. And he wrote a letter to the Department of the Navy to give him a Medal of Honor. No, they turned it down. Said, well, we need eyewitnesses. And everybody's dead. Can't have a Medal of Honor without eyewitness. They made excuses to the senator, right? We kept writing and kept writing all across the country. People stayed with it until now.  And the last letter I got from them, they said, if you could give us new information. What's new? There's nothing new. What's new? We're giving you. I've been really saying they wanted more information than it wasn't enough yet. But anyway, so did you ultimately prevail on this? No, we still haven't. You still haven't. No. Even with Dan Inouye's help. Even with Dan Inouye's help, even up to Obama, they would not, the Department of the Navy would not give. Did they say why? No, they just said no. What's the standard for a Medal of Honor? Oh, well, right now they say you have to have eyewitnesses. Well. What sort of conduct, though, entitles somebody to a Medal of Honor? When you do something, you sacrifice yourself for the other troops. The latest one, he took, it was an incredible process that he went through to save his troops, you know. And died in the process. No, he lived.  No. Even Mueller did not get an award. He got a bronze star. He saved, when he was a lieutenant in Vietnam, he saved all of his troops. His troops are writing about it. But no, he didn't get anything either. So. Well, it's very rare. It is. It is. But then we have given up. That was my next question. In Waco, there's a beautiful sculpture. And here in Honolulu, there's a Navy housing named for Dory Miller. All across the country, there are all kinds of tributes. And people just love the story. If you watch the movie Pearl Harbor, Cuba Gooding, Jr. plays the part of Dory Miller. Needless to say, when they were filming, I objected. I was at Pearl Harbor during the whole filming. I objected because Cuba Gooding, Jr., while he's a great star, he's not big. The whole story of Dory Miller, the reason he was called up on deck. He was the one to save his captain. He was the one, because he was the biggest man on the ship. So visually, it tells your story. Yeah. But they didn't listen to me, obviously. Is this unique, this story? I mean, did other situations like this happen in World War II where Black servicemen performed acts of great bravery worthy of medals and they didn't get medals? I mean, where can I read up on this? Where can I find them? What organizations follow this? What organizations are advocating for their families and their memories? There are so many. Even in Guam, they didn't. He says, in Guam, about the Chamorros and the Filipinos, he says he felt like in America that he was a criminal, but something he didn't do just because of the racism, the way they were treated. There is another one. And da, da, da, da, da, da. Let me find his name. No need, no need, Marsha. But he was. I want to just know that there were others. There were others. And his name, William Jeremiah Powell, was on the Curtis. And he, again, a messman, and he sits on the back of the Curtis and shoots down the plane and the plane crashes. But he's, and again, it was the white men on the ship that told the story of what he did. And I went digging for him, of course. But there are so many of these stories that go untold, so many. So what's the point? What's the point of your research? What's the point? What is your feeling now? What would you like to leave with the audience about all of this? We still haven't given up, of course.  Since 1774 until today, America has only been at war, has been at war every year, except 14 years. Not 14, but at a year here, a year here, it adds up to 14 years. When you think of all of the lives, all of the people that have sacrificed for this country, and how many of them go unrecognized, how many of them, how many, if you ask now to ask your audience, because Hawaii had, you know, Hawaiians and Filipinos and Chamaros, how many of them went unrecognized? I would bet you that we would get a huge number of them because they were all drafted, and they went all in this war, World War II, because of the draft. And even Vietnam, I mean Korea, because of the draft. How many of them go unrecognized? Well, I think it goes wider than that in the sense that in this country, people don't necessarily appreciate what the fighting men, people in the military, do for us. And I think that's especially so. Well, clearly it was especially so in Vietnam. Oh, yes. And I think it's so now, especially with the volunteer army. And so what you have is a lack of interest, really, on recognizing in the civilian community. And we need to work on that. We need to appreciate them more. I think because now my great-great-grandfather was Civil War General John Bill Hood. If you can imagine that. And he was on the other side. He was Confederate general. Confederate general, the one the base is named after? Well, that's. You have a statue of him in the house? No. But my maiden name is Hood. No, we don't talk about him.  It's part of who you are. Now that we don't have a draft, people don't participate. They don't care about the war. Once we were through with the draft, it was only when it's your family that you care. Yeah, well, we've got to get over that. I never thought that terminating the draft was a good idea, anyway. Because I think that people should do national service. That's the best way. It's a clear way. And we have to have a connection between the citizen and the government. And it's really too bad that these days we don't have much of a connection between the citizen and the government. You pay taxes. You avoid doing federal crimes. And that's about it. We should all feel part of the government. They are us. We are them. And that's what I think this goes, including Dory Miller. We are him. He is us. He's part of the greatest generation that won that war. Now, there's one little thing. And I put it, the Jews and the Catholics didn't do much better than the blacks. In the biography of Admiral Hyman Rickover, he says, Jewish midshipmen were sent to Coventry. This is at the Naval Academy. Were sent to Coventry. For all the four years at the Naval Academy, no midshipman could speak to Rickover. No one acknowledged his existence. The idea of Coventry seems to have begun around the time of the Civil War between Charles I and Parliament. Royalist prisoners were sent to Coventry for their support of the Parliament. Another theory holds that townspeople of Coventry so disliked having troops quartered that they were ostracized. That's too bad. Coventry is a bad place to go. It's an ostracization. And if it's based on race or religion, it's really. On the Jews. If it's based on race or religion, it's very offensive. Yes. We're out of time, Marsha. Really appreciate this discussion with you. I think you want to carry it on. You know so much. You've read so much. You've written so much. This is not something that you should let slide under the waves. No, we don't. But because it was December 7, we had to share it. Perfectly appropriate. Thank you. Thank you, Marsha. Always. Marsha, join her. And we'll see you next time.


Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming to share with you my lunch I was just a snack and This this small journal I have created. I started to create this journal Few weeks ago, but then I stopped so this time I have finished it and I do believe here that future is bright and And if it's not I'm gonna light it up So this is my small Creation I do love to make something You know something surprising on my on my journals always because journals for me are like treasure where you will keep your memories and For me the best way how to keep your memories It's to have a fun with it to enjoy it. So that's why always those kind of childish thingy Some secret openings or something like that.  So that's why that's why all these thingies So this to know it's created with beautiful papers from dreams, etc. Shop. I will try to find the link for Jen's shop shop the name of this collection it's Coletto widgets and it's my All-time favorite because it's such a gorgeous collection. It's full of beautiful stuff Full of butterflies the birds and butterflies They are here and it's just gorgeous collection very powerful collection. That's why I do love it and I add there a few of My handmade Pockets I did embossed all these butterflies on these pockets. I try to emboss them here as well It was quite tricky because here is that acetate piece So I had to use that piece of chipboard to cover it first and then very carefully to Embobs these I used clear embossing powder, but all these butterflies on these pockets are Embossed I created few those Polaroid frames while I go by the way when I started to do this journal So I created few these Polaroid frames because I wanted just to add them there. Can you see that? That collection.  That's why I do love it. I will have a look if I will find the link I will share it down there. So this is my not huge but I do believe that it's gorgeous journal just because of these papers and here is another butterfly and it's again like a pocket It's like a double pocket. Here is one and here I decorated that that Polaroid frame and here we've got another pocket there is quite lots of writing space in this journal and Some pockets some openings. I do have here those small notepads You do have here also these beautiful envelopes I used Tim Holtz papers because they are kind of matching this collection and This is I think from wild What wild flower collection? I think so. I'm hope. I'm not saying it wrong here another embossed butterfly and another Decorated Polaroid frame. This can be a lift up and there is another pocket and as you can see these Papers are really beautiful really gorgeous and here I do have another pocket Polaroid frame for some picture. This is small booklet and Again embossing and stenciling and stamping. I did all kind of crazy things with this journal some solving around and Here you've got last page and it's kind of like secret page. You have to lift it up and open because it has exactly Closure behind this binding wire binding and also I need to show you here. We've got This was just slide up. It was hanging somewhere here, I guess And I need to show you how I created that light So here I do have this tuck and this big paper clip which is Put together with chain with this circle and that paper clip is actually holding The battery power that box for those lights. So when you want to change the light, you just need to Open that pack. Here is another pocket and here I used a magazine. I Mean image from magazine to cover that volume paper So here it's that Battery operated thingy. So when you want to change the batteries you need to unscrew those Screws probably or maybe not. I think it this one can be just open Yeah, this can be just open Like this and change the batteries and click it back And at first I thought I'm gonna do some box but when you're operating with or doing something with this This is kind of soft Wire here and I didn't want to make it too hard and I think this will be mostly All the time closed. So I choose this easy way to put there put there that Thingy and here I've got One small booklet It has writing space here and it has also pocket with stumping and some Off-cuts or leftovers from my creating And it's holding with this another Polaroid frame and just cardstock And just place it through to that hole and that's it so I can close the Operator and This paper clip is big enough to hold it very comfortably. It doesn't you know doesn't squeeze the wrong way So that's why I place it there and it looks like this and because I do love all kind of Those are hungry thingies, especially when it's chain for me, it's very Calming to have few chains together and let them Fell around your fingers for me. It's very calming touch. So that's why I added here and it's also make beautiful sound so So here it's my cover if you are on my Instagram You probably saw the first row of that First trying of that cover. I Tried a few images from this collection to make them that well on paper With the para fine and then put them on the wire and place it here But it those slides just didn't go well with that.  So this is my sharing for today This journal will be on sale for for sale on my Etsy. I Hope you did enjoy it. I hope you took some inspiration. I will try to find the link for dreams, etc for that collection Because it's really gorgeous collection. I've got it for many years and I'm happy to use it again because it's stunning So thank you so so much for stopping by have a beautiful day. Take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye


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بكم ورحمة الله وبركاته اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وأصحابه أجمعين we praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى we thank Allah upon all conditions we seek protection solely from the condition of those who shall be cast into hellfire we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم his household his companions we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to bless them all and to bless every one of us and to grant us the most beneficial rain that we are greatly in need of in this beautiful city of Cape Town and in the western Cape in fact In South Africa at large may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless us and may Allah bless all those Who are struggling across the globe in whatever way they may be struggling in their difficulties may Allah create ease for them and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى Grant them all from his mercy I mean my brothers and sisters we thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى for granting us the opportunity to gather in his house and Like I said and I repeat the fact that we have gathered in the house of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Shows the closeness to Allah سبحانه وتعالى It shows the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى For him to have you in his house is really not something minor It is a very very big deal الحمد لله. So thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى and make the visit more frequent for indeed It will be within the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Yesterday I had spoken about the qualities of the worshipers of the most merciful And I said why they were called the worshippers of the most merciful and they were not referred to as the worshippers of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Mentioning very quickly recapping before I continue They are the worshippers of the most merciful because if they were To fulfill the qualities that were Mentioned or that are mentioned in the verses then indeed They would be earning the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. So Allah calls them the worshippers of the most merciful Also to show us that that quality of mercy is indeed a great quality of Allah سبحانه وتعالى That he will definitely definitely Be known by and he will be Definitely Encompassing us with that beautiful mercy of his in the dunya and the akhirah. So we made mention of many qualities I'm not going to go and mention each one of them But I will start off at the point where Allah says The true believers when they have committed sin whether it be murder whether it be adultery Whether it be association of partnership with Allah سبحانه وتعالى They repent they turn back to Allah سبحانه وتعالى Obviously the issue of murder is a whole separate topic and I like I said yesterday It is unacceptable and it is the duty of a Muslim to ensure that he protects other lives Rather than causing injury harm and loss of life But when it comes to the issue of adultery when it comes to the issue of Immorality when it comes to the issue of association of partnership with Allah سبحانه وتعالى Remember the procedure of seeking the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is not very difficult It requires one to admit the sin to regret it to seek the forgiveness and to promise not to do it again For simple conditions and if these four conditions are met The sin is forgiven Whoever seeks Allah's forgiveness Allah forgives him Never ever did Allah say whoever seeks my forgiveness I will think about it or I will not forgive them No way Not once did he say that whoever seeks forgiveness I won't forgive them Every time he says whoever asks Allah's forgiveness Allah is most forgiving most merciful Whoever seeks forgiveness he will be forgiven and so on So when you seek forgiveness you are forgiven But there is another level that is higher than just seeking forgiveness and being forgiven And that is To be able to get the bad deeds that were committed Converted into good deeds such that when we arrive on the day of judgment We find them as good deeds that we have not even done سبحان الله So when a man arrives on the day of judgment or a woman And he sees lots of Salah he sees lots of Zakah He sees so many other deeds and he asks I don't think I did all these deeds where did this come from He will be told when you did bad then you repented Then you believed and did good deeds only thereafter We loved the fact that you did not go back to your evil ways so much That we converted all that evil into good And we are presenting it to you as acts of worship today That's the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى You know it is impossible to think of a person who is owed Say for example a million rands You owe someone a million rands Say $100,000 for example Not only by you saying please forgive me You know what it's wrong what I did I know I owe you the money I'm not going to be able to pay you back Imagine if that person were to say Don't worry forget about it In fact here's another $100,000 Take it it's yours Wow سبحان الله I wish we could have people like that سبحان الله سبحانه وتعالى Grant us ease We find it difficult to forgive our own brothers and sisters Sometimes our family members our parents our children We find it difficult to forgive them May Allah سبحانه وتعالى help us The relationship we have even with our spouse Is unique It is so unique that sometimes We find it difficult to forgive each other When we need each other the most Remember when a mistake happens We want the forgiveness of Allah When we perpetrate or commit a sin or a crime Against Allah سبحانه وتعالى We want his forgiveness If we would like the forgiveness of Allah سبحانه وتعالى We must learn to forgive others Especially those whom you are closest to So for example if your spouse has made a mistake Imagine they were dedicated for 10 years After 10 years they faulted for one year In that one year the marriage was broken and it's over But you forgot about the 10 years whereby you lived in bliss Had you been patient for that year Then definitely you may have seen The mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى To the point that beyond that turbulence Which may have lasted a year or two You became happier than you were ever before And you became closer than you were ever before It's possible I'm not condoning oppression to the degree That a person's mind begins to Meaning a person loses their mind They become unwell No Don't go back home and say Do you know what I troubled you now for one year Go back and listen I've been good with you for 10 years It's okay That's not good enough No We should not use these words In order to justify the evil we are in These words are just an encouragement for us When we are on the other side To say look consider forgiving That's what these words are So we should never use these words To justify the position of wrong That we may be in But rather when we are oppressed We should see We should look within ourselves If we can actually forgive Our spouses and others as well And the reason I make mention of this Is when you want the forgiveness of Allah There is definitely a greater chance Of earning it If you are a person who forgives others Did you see If you are a person who forgives others There is a greater chance That you will be forgiven By Allah SWT It's not a condition I don't have to forgive those Who have wronged me But if I do There is a greater chance That Allah will forgive me And this we got from Surat Noor I spoke about it When we read the verse a few days ago But my brothers and sisters Allah SWT is amazing He says He will convert the bad into good Imagine That's only Allah SWT And that is for the one Who quits the bad ways and habits And does good after that This is why in the Quran Allah doesn't say Those who believe will be granted jannah Those who believe will be granted jannah Will be granted paradise He doesn't say that He joins it He connects it to something else He says Those who believe And do good deeds They will be the ones Who enter jannah Who enter paradise So it's always أعملوا الصالحات It's connected right Allah says Those who believe and do good deeds They will enter جنة الفردوس May Allah SWT Grant us jannah Through His mercy Amen Now After making mention of forgiveness And repentance Allah SWT Goes on To make mention of The qualities that we need to save ourselves from If we want to be known as the worshippers of the most merciful One of the qualities is In fact these are two qualities Those who protect themselves from bearing false witness You take an oath And you have lied Sometimes in the courts We lie We make a false claim against someone We lay a false accusation against someone And it's by oath I remember the once There was a brother from the masjid Who actually lied He lied about something And he went to the courts And he presented a swan Affi David That this had happened And it did not happen So when I asked him How could you have done this in the courts He told me You know what I put my hand on the Bible Not on the Quran Say it is okay You are not supposed to be telling a lie No matter what Whether you put your hand anywhere You're not supposed to be telling a lie You don't have to justify By uttering such nonsense أستغفر الله No matter what That was an oath By the will of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Your word is supposed to be truthful Even if you just had your hands down May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala forgive us Look at how Shaytan comes to mankind To try and make him justify The wrong he's doing By hook or crook Subhanallah And in Cape Town A Snooke My brothers and sisters We should never be telling a lie Bearing false witness is dangerous It is something that will come back To haunt us At some stage And you know sometimes We do something We feel that Okay this was okay I got away with it You have not yet got away with it You need to repent Seek Allah's forgiveness And seek forgiveness From those whom you have wronged Because if you don't I promise you The circle will close It's going to come back to you And it will haunt you You know they say كما تدينوا تدانوا How you shall do to others so It shall be done unto you The type of debt You have Is the type of debt You shall actually get the credit You give is what you shall get May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala help us In the English language The term is What you sow you reap What you have sown Same applies Remember it's going to come back to you So how does it come back to us It comes back to us through health problems Family problems Financial problems Stress So many other things We're suffering Lack of contentment No sleep We don't know What to do We don't know What's the problem Have you ever Born false witness Against someone If the answer is yes Perhaps that's come to haunt you May Allah forgive us I'm not saying every time you're sick You need to think Hey this is what happened But a true mu'min is such that Whenever something goes wrong in his life Within himself or herself He quickly ticks off the checklist You know what that means Have I paid my zakat Yes I have Have I wronged someone No I haven't Have I fulfilled my obligation Unto Allah Yes I have Did I do this yes Have I done this No okay Maybe that's where I went wrong So it's a checklist You've got to do that It does not necessarily mean That Allah is punishing You know But it could mean that You see It could mean So just like when you have a sickness I have a sore throat for example I was wondering if I was going to be able to stand up And speak in front of you today But Alhamdulillah It happened By the grace of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala I have to ask myself Have I been Having some cold drinks After Taraweeh Have I been having ice cream Have I been eating chocolates Whatever else Subhanallah By the way I haven't been But I'm just saying So if I find something wrong I need to deal with it I cannot keep on having medication And keep on doing that Which is going to cause A bigger problem And not resolve it Same applies in our lives Spiritually We want to get close to Allah We keep on doing some sin That we have not quit How do we want goodness in our lives When we haven't stopped that You are having an antibiotic Known as Tawba You perhaps are having medication Known as your Salah And the Quran And so on And the good deeds But You keep on committing That particular sin That is keeping you Bogged down And sick spiritually May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Guide us I hope we've understood that So therefore We need to quit These type of things Because they come back To haunt us So much so That Allah says Not only bearing false witness You know bearing false witness Is so serious When the Prophet ﷺ Counted the major sins He was lying on his bed And he was counting Then he got up He was laying down He sat up He says He says Behold To utter that which is false And to bear false witness Is a major sin It's not a minor sin It's major You see There are minor sins That people may commit Sometimes you haven't controlled your gaze Sometimes you know There may be a slip of the tongue here And there are minor sins That people may commit Sometimes you haven't controlled your gaze Sometimes you know There may be a slip of the tongue here And there are minor sins But major sins Those which Allah ﷻ Has mentioned a severe punishment Regarding the major sins Bearing false witness Is one of them My brothers and sisters May Allah ﷻ forgive us Especially if the right Of a fellow Muslim Is connected to that witness That is false Then there is trouble The Prophet ﷺ says It is a piece of the fire Either you take it Or you leave it May Allah ﷻ grant us The ability to be truthful To be steadfast Did you know That when we are buying And selling commodities One of the major sins Actually is to lie About your cost price Did you ever know that To swear with an oath Using the name of Allah That you got it at a price And you did not get it at the price The Hadith says Three types of people Allah ﷻ will not even Look at them on the day of judgment And Allah ﷻ will not even Purify them And سبحان الله They have a severe punishment That's what the Hadith says لا يكلموهم الله ولا ينظروا إليهم يوم القيامة ولا يزكيهم ولا هم عذابٌ أليم Three types of people Who are they? One of them is The one who sells a commodity المنفق سلعته بالحلي في الكادب The one who sells his commodity With the false oath سبحان الله The false oath He lied So if you want to buy something And someone says How much is this You say look it's a hundred dollars No please give me a discount Say look I can't give it to you Because I bought it at ninety I can't give it to you For less than a hundred Why lie that you bought it at ninety Tell him look that's the best price I can manage That's it Tell him look you know what It's going to be difficult for me To go beyond that Or below that Be honest But to lie to say No I got it at this amount That is so good That is so good At this amount That is something serious Now you might wonder Why is it so serious Because Allah decided it serious That's why I can't say anything else For us sometimes Things become light So what the guy You know I just said to tell him Had to get him off my back Well I don't know how you get The sin of your back thereafter May Allah SWT guide us So it is important for us To know this You might want to know Who the other two are right So that was one I can see some of the eyes Like you're asking a question منان منان meaning منان منان in this hadith Means a person who brags About what he's done He gave you something And he keeps on mentioning You know I gave you this You know I gave you this You know he gave me 10 dollars When I was a kid You know when you were a kid I gave you 10 bucks Do you remember Rather I'll give you 100 Come come come here I'll give you 100 back And stop talking about it That's what we feel like Doing sometimes When you do someone a favor Don't brag Don't embarrass him thereafter Don't keep on reminding Otherwise Allah says we're not interested In looking at you On the day of judgment Subhanallah May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide us So a person who wants to earn The pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Should do things For the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala That is something Very very interesting Let's move on My beloved brothers Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about This false witness Not only bearing false witness My brothers and sisters But telling a lie Any sort of a lie Is something that will earn The wrath of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala We definitely need to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's forgiveness And we need to become more conscious Of the statements that we are uttering Because we will never be able To save ourselves If we are not conscious Of what we say So the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam Has spoken about this On so many occasions In this verse Allah says When they are passing by Those who are wasting their time That which is futile When they are passing by That which is futile You know people are wasting their time Sitting and doing something unnecessary Just a waste of time The true believers They use their time so wisely That they just pass by When they see these guys are wasting time They don't waste time with them They pass by So you value your time Valueing your time is a sign of closeness To Allah Because Allah created time And guess what It is ticking So don't waste a moment And this is why The hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam He says نعمتان مغبون فيهما كثير من الناس الصحة والفراخ Two gifts Many people are deceived regarding Number one is good health People take it for granted They are deceived regarding good health They waste it Number two Free time Your time You just waste it You let it go by You had the whole holidays You didn't do anything in the holidays Nothing constructive You didn't even mow the lawn May Allah SWT help us May Allah guide us So do something constructive With your time No matter what it is I've given you a simple worldly example But that example can become spiritual And it can become religious Read the Quran Take some lessons Do something You need to know Every moment you've been given here Is a chance for you to reap The fruit in the hereafter So use the time to sow wisely So this is why The Quran says in these verses That a true believer Of the most merciful When he passes by that which is futile He actually passes by without stopping there Without wasting his time وَإِذَا مَرْرُ بِلَّغْوِ مَرْرُ كِرَامًا Then there is a quality that is very very important And that quality is Those who love Allah Those who are close to Allah Those who want to save themselves from harm Whenever they are reminded about the verses of Allah سبحانه وتعالى They take heed They do not turn a deaf ear Or a blind eye In the English language we say turning a blind eye In the Arabic language they add to it the deaf ear Because two of these faculties One is the eye And the second is the ear So those who turn a blind eye Or who give a deaf ear Or who do not want to listen in other words Those whom when they are reminded of the verses of Allah They do not turn away from it Neither with their ears nor with their eyes May Allah سبحانه وتعالى guide us So why is this verse being made mention of here How will you know that you are doing wrong When no one is there to tell you that you are doing wrong You know when we lead Salat التراويح One of the biggest gifts That the Imam can have And my colleagues can correct me One of the biggest gifts That the Imam leading the Salat التراويح Can have Is a solid half is behind him to correct him Because the embarrassment of not knowing where you are going now And you are stuck And you don't know what to say, where to go That is so bad The feeling is really something I cannot describe The best thing would be for someone behind you To just tell you where you are going سبحان الله And so you can correct yourself Now if you feel bad about it And you turn back and say Hey guys, stop embarrassing me Then you will never learn You will never learn سبحان الله In order to progress You must be happy when someone corrects you Yes We also call on those who are correcting others For anything in life To use the best method of correction The prophetic method of correction You have a child making a mistake You have adults who make mistakes You have a community that needs guidance sometimes You choose a blessed way You choose the prophetic way of speaking to them You don't just come up And speak to them in such a harsh way Because الله سبحانه وتعالى Tells محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم That if you were harsh and hard hearted Nobody would listen to you وَالَوْكُنْ تَفَظَّنْ غَلِظَ الْقَلْبِ لَنْ فَضْضُّ مِنْ حَوْلِكِ If you were hard hearted And if you were harsh They would have dispersed from around you They wouldn't have listened to you But it's the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى That made you lenient So leniency is from Allah سبحانه وتعالى Let's be lenient on those we correct Because that is definitely a prophetic quality And so As much as we are saying when we correct people We should do it in the proper way I cannot control all those who are going to correct me Some of them might be younger than me Some of them might be hard Some of them might be harsh I need to listen to what they are saying If they are right I should take it no matter who they are سبحان الله So this is the quality of a true believer in the most merciful The one who's a worshipper of Allah سبحانه وتعالى He loves it when he's corrected When you're corrected you don't get angry and upset You are happy I hope the children are listening to this But more importantly even the adults Because sometimes we get so upset When we are corrected When we've known something for years on end And a little daughter or a son comes up and says Dad, you know what? That's totally wrong And you roll up your sleeves May Allah never, never let that be us أميب So my beloved brothers and sisters That is Allah سبحانه وتعالى Saying that we should never feel bad When we are corrected The last quality that is made mention of Here in these verses That are the end of Surat الفرقان Allah سبحانه وتعالى says Those who are concerned about their offspring To the degree that they make a dua to Allah Regularly Those who constantly say Call out to Allah سبحانه وتعالى They say قررت أعيون Oh our Lord Grant us From our spouses Our family members Those who will be the coolness of our eyes In other words Oh Allah Make our families the coolness of our eyes Make us such that When we see our family members Our eyes are cooled We feel calm We feel content You look at your children You are so happy and excited You look at your spouse You are so so filled with joy That is a dua that you have to make Remember this thing comes about With an effort and a dua Sincerity Is required Some people think Okay, I'm going to try hard And you try very hard But you remove from the equation Dua or supplication You cannot do it on your own My brothers and sisters You cannot manage on your own You need Allah's help So therefore Ask Allah to help you Oh Allah Grant me A family That when I look at them And when they look at me There is the mutual coolness of our eyes I mean Subhan Allah What a beautiful dua Now Why is this the end of all these qualities Many reasons I give you one Simple one We heard about how we should be walking How we should be talking The Ibadah How we should be abstaining from sin How we should not bear false witness And so many other things How we should spend and so on Now we are making dua That we can pass on the baton And the candle can now be passed on to the next generation So oh Allah Myself being a worshiper of the most merciful Bestow me with all these qualities And ensure that my offspring Those to come after me are blessed Subhan Allah Blessed in what way In the same way We also want them to worship Allah We also want them to have good character Good conduct And from this we learn That those who lead by example Are the most successful You need to remember this When you are a father And you are a role model in the home Then your children will follow that example By the will of Allah You are trying You made a dua to Allah You may have sometimes a little bit of turbulence Because of the outside environment But trust me If the relationship is powerful and good Then the chances of success are far greater By the help of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Don't forget to read your salah on time Remember لا تجعلوا بيوتكم قبوراً That's the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ Do not make your houses into graves Now one might think Well I didn't bury anyone in my house So why does he say Do not make your house into a grave Well He explains that those who do not fulfill salah in the home That home is a grave It's a grave Those who do not engage in ibadah in the home It's a grave Many of us there's no Quran in the house There's no salah in the house There's no adhan in the house There's nothing Islamic in the home And that home is a grave So when the children come and go It's more like a restaurant bed and breakfast They come in They eat They sleep They get up They go out They come back And that's it And they watch TV by the way And they sit on their phones Because there's free wifi May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless us May Allah grant us ease If that's the home We've lost the plot Where is the ibadah? Where is the salah? Do you read salah together? Do you fulfill your prayer together? If that is the case You have livened the home So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says This is the dua that you make You need to ensure that your house is livened And at the end Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala caps the verses By saying We have prepared a special place in Jannah For these worshippers of the most merciful Those are the ones Whom Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says They will be granted as a reward A special place in Jannah Known as Al-Ghurfa A special chamber in Paradise Special rank in Jannah Tul Firdaus Because of all these beautiful qualities When they sinned They repented And they did not go back to their bad ways Allah says We acknowledge all of that We are going to give them a special about in Jannah We are going to give them a special about in Jannah Because of their sabr Because of their patience And from this we learn That it is with patience and endurance That we will earn the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala What is stopping a person from sinning And doing whatever they wish It's only the consciousness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Because we believe in Allah We believe there is a day to come When we will answer for all our questions And all our actions And that is the reason why We have stopped doing that which is bad There was nothing else stopping us Allah says If that is the case Then you definitely deserve That place in Jannah Tul Firdaus Because of your endurance May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant that to us أقول قولي هذا وصلى الله عليه وسلم و باركة على نبينا محمد سبحان الله وبحمد


Thank you for sitting down with us. You were just on stage the first conference of the second day of the world policy conference My question would be what are the major implications according to you, but you're from Mongolia and Of the Ukrainian conflict. Yeah, I like this conference first world world policy conference I think I call it kind of the Political Davos, you know, also it's it usually takes in a different region in the Middle East in the Middle East the cities and Most of the conferences are taking places in Europe in America, but it's very important place in Middle East also people come from all over the world and universities and all with the very different backgrounds and Also, it's great place to make network and also to bring good messages to the world politics I think it's really great venue. I like to participate in this conference And also you feel free, you know, you you you are just be very open Enjoying and what was your main message? Yeah, of course more dialogue more conference like this More talk more engagement is good for the For the world community if I come back to my yeah Yeah, about Ukraine Ukraine you have another perspective. You know, yeah with Ukraine. I have two three connections My personal connections. Yeah, you actually studied in Ukraine in Western Ukraine for five years I lived in Ukraine for five years, you know during Soviet time. I was a student there I met my wife there and my son was born there because of that. I have that family Attachment also, you know, Ukraine is free independent country in Europe Mongolia is free independent country in Asia between us. There is only one country Russia and That actually connects us. I think This war happening in Ukraine one of the many reason that Russians Italian government Putin felt that Ukraine may became a bad example for Russia if free Ukraine if Prosperous Ukraine if successful Ukraine, you know, that might be a big challenge for Russia and because of that I think President Putin is had some idea to punish it and Also, Ukrainians are fighting not only for Ukraine Ukrainians are fighting for our common faith to live in peace to live freely and Also, Ukrainians have a full right to exist and because of that we have to support Ukraine This is our common cause and since the start of the war I supported Ukraine also It has global implications for example in Asia Yeah, Mongolia Mongolia is only vibrant democracy between Russia and China If there was no Ukrainian war, I think maybe in Asia that security arrangements would do be different Maybe China already Started the forceful unification of Taiwan maybe because of Ukraine. I think a leader of China China thinking weighing Weighing about that attempt, you know, if if it like a 2014 Kremlin scenario He may do it, but if it became 2022 Ukrainian scenario, you know, whole world unite against aggression against forceful unification That might be very bad for anyone Also that front line actually not only in Ukraine that front line runs between free world and authoritarian World all the way in Asia in Europe in Africa in in America everywhere and I think if Ukraine successful Those free world people who want to live freely and independently they will be Encouraged if Ukraine lose, I think those authoritarian governments will be Encouraged and because of that we have no right to lose and we we only need to support and unite behind Ukraine For until to the end means that end of this war after that they're gonna be big movement Rebuilding Ukraine we have to join to that effort. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you very much


Joe Chicho, I've been thinking about the U.S. involvement in both the Ukraine and the World War. I think a major reason why the U.S. hasn't been directly involved is because we know that Russia is a nuclear power. But because Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran don't have nukes that we know of, do you think the U.S. is more likely to put boots on the ground? First of all, we know Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran don't have nukes. Iran doesn't have nukes. Everybody in the Middle East knows that. It's only just Western propaganda, or Iran nukes, Iran nukes, Iran nukes. Ayatollah's, I think, Homeini came out in the 1980s and said nuclear weapons are, what's the word, halal, or something else. It's forbidden. End of story.  Because Iran doesn't need nuclear weapons. Because if the war with Iran, like the neocons want, does happen, the world explodes. This whole region will just light on fire, complete collapse of economies around the globe. Attacking Iran, Iran's influence is the nuclear weapon they have. It's their deterrent. And Iran has only been getting stronger and stronger over the last 40 years. That's it. Just think about it that way. Iran doesn't have to hit the United States or Europe. And remember, by the way, remember when in Europe, in the mid-2000s, European nations, NATO came out and said, Iran is a threat. They're building nuclear weapons. The U.S. is our red line. They're two days away from it, two weeks away. We need to deploy, right, anti-ballistic missiles in this region, right, because they're afraid. Iran was going to send nukes. Okay, Al-Ghazan, Rambo, they're going to send nukes to Europe. Oh, for fuck's sakes. Like, I would talk to people and they'd be like, Chico, did you hear? But I'm like, get away from me.  I dealt with you low IQ people in 2001, 2003.  Really?  So Iran doesn't have nukes, right? Iran doesn't need nukes. Iran doesn't need nukes. Haram, haram, yeah. Halal is good. Haram, I think. Haram is the word actually. Haram, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My apologies.


Part of the conceit of this is sports centers, you know, you get to campus, you come to campus with quite a lot of good scripts, but you never know what's going to happen and you never know the vibe and you never know how the athletes are going to respond. We definitely wanted to shoot stopage time, which is very much in a conference room, much more of a stage setting, but we always kind of had orange slices in our back pocket in that if things went well and things were moving along, let's definitely shoot that. And that's literally like they just sat in the middle of a hallway and started eating orange slices. So the pile of orange rind just kept growing and growing and growing as we shot, take after take after take. So it just made for a better spot at the end. Laura Gentilly, executive vice president, social media and marketing at ESPN. NJ Placentra, creative director. Andrew Collin, creative director. I'm Pat Bloomer, I'm edit lead at XYZ here at Arts and Letters Creative Company and the editor for the sports center. So what does it mean to you and to ESPN to bring this campaign back because it was with Widen Kennedy for so long, then you took it in-house for a little bit, then it went dormant. It's back. What does that mean? I mean, it means a lot. I think it's just really exciting that that part of our brand personality is alive and well. It's always been the fun side of sports. It's always been the humorous side of the ESPN brand. Historically, like very few advertising campaigns stand the test of time for 30 plus years. This is a sports center occupies such a unique space in the cultural and advertising landscape because it exists purely as a brand item for ESPN to just be itself. The goal from the agency and from ESPN is for it to just be funny. And so for us, it was really just getting back to the original sensibility. Like we weren't trying to soup it up or modernize it. We just kind of wanted to get back to great spots one after another that felt really authentic, obviously with current athletes and current situations. But really, it was all about kind of recapturing that original voice. I would love to hear kind of about how ESPN partnered with Arts and Letters to bring this sports center back. It really was sort of organic and symbiotic and they're certainly the right partner for this. Once we started vetting scripts together, we sort of knew we were on the right path. I think the relationship has kind of steadily grown over the years and this is a sports center is an incredible campaign that myself and several people at Arts and Letters have worked on and past lives in our career at a widening in New York have the opportunity to kind of work on it again now at Arts and Letters. We were super excited. It was exciting. It was intimidating being that it is a cultural staple and something that we've all enjoyed and followed for a very long time. So ultimately just a thrill just to be able to jump in and really start putting it together. We're super excited to kind of show what we can do and to kind of carry the torch for this iconic campaign. Once you guys started conceptualizing this a sports center again, how long did it take from conception to production? You know, once we have the scripts that we really believe in, we can move pretty fast because really then it just comes down to which athletes can we get? Which athletes can we get on this day? Which athletes are willing to come to Bristol? We work around the athletes availability. There's more catering to them than there would be in like your typical sponsorship because historically in this campaign, athletes aren't paid to be in it. They do it because they know the commercials and they would like to be in one. And we usually go into a shoot with eight to ten scripts and then we just see who can make it really logistically. We had some that had different mascots in them and then that kind of led to the Orange Slices one was like, hey, while we have Otto the orange on campus, like what else can we maybe pick up? That was kind of a bonus spot until it wasn't. Yeah. And then it kind of ended up turning out to be the probably the best one in the bunch. Wait, so Orange Slices started out as kind of like Wim bonus spot and then you led the campaign with it? Yeah, yeah, the spot I think that we originally brought to the women's national team was the stoppage time one that kind of like would feature everyone.  And then the Orange Slices was kind of a like time permitting in the day of everything's going well. We'll try and get this other one too. Everyone was really excited about it and wanted to get it. But, you know, we shot four spots in one shoot day, which is like pretty unheard of, I think, for any other commercial production. When they said they were shooting for him one day, I just was, OK, well, good luck. Beauty of the Campaign is that it's so simple and so well known and the right script can be done so quickly like that. We shot everything in one day up in Bristol, Connecticut. There are the headquarters. And that was in late November. We delivered half before the holiday and the rest of them early January. So two, three months round trip, you know, all the way around. What's the response been? Can you share any details about any reactions or anything? I think it's still landing.  It was cool because there'd be like crew members coming up and they'd been working on it for years and years.  I think for me personally, it's good to see a lot of people saying, like, so glad these are back or just like general excitement for the campaign overall. The connection you make with sports fans is deep. And sometimes you don't realize how deep it runs, but it's such a warm embrace and people are so glad and like, I think people need it too. There's so much going on to have another moment of levity within a telecast is really important. We're just glad we can bring it to fans. And now we're kind of back in action and we'll be rolling these out pretty consistently now.


Hi everybody, I'm Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com and this is the random number block randomizer for this group of teams right here. This unlocks picketing four, which will be in a separate video. If you're not familiar with the number block format, there it is. Instructions are there. Big thanks to this group right here. Now we took out a spot. So we promised that we would only sell nine spots outright and then give away that final spot right there. So let's do that randomizer. And then the second dice roll will be for names and numbers, but let's do this one first. You win that extra spot. You can get two for the price of one after 11 times, five and a six. Top name after 11, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and 11 the final time. After 11, Paul Norden, congrats to you. After 11, you get an extra spot. All right, now let's randomize you a number. Let's roll and randomize names and numbers. Six and a one. Seven times, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. After seven, we've got Gretchen down to Paul. Six and a one. Seven times for the numbers, one, two, three, four, five, six, and a one, seventh and final time. And we've got three down to four. Actually clear this list out now. All right, so here's how it shakes out for everybody. Gretchen you have three, Sean with zero, Gretchen with six, Gavin with five, Gretchen with seven and one. Paul with the extra spot, two, Gretchen with eight and nine, and Paul with four. Now remember, zero gets any and all redemptions, including one-of-one redemptions, but live one-of-ones will still go to Gretchen. I'm Joe for jaspyscasewrakes.com, I'll see you in the next video for the next break. Bye-bye.


It stands as a beacon of light for blind and low-vision persons in St. Lucia and has been in existence for 27 years. It has aided in the rehousing for a number of visually impaired persons and is highly involved in the prevention of blindness program in schools. This beacon of light, the St. Lucia Blind Welfare Association, is today's success story. Well, the SMBWA is in fact the child on offspring of what used to be called the St. Lucia Committee for the Welfare of the Blind. That committee was set up in the 60s and in 1972 the St. Lucia Blind Welfare Association was born and it is governed under the St. Lucia Blind Welfare Association Act of No. 9 of 1972. And of course its main purpose is to do almost everything under the sun for blind and visually impaired people from education, rehabilitation, training to look after their general and other welfare needs. Children who are in the integrated setting are children who most of them can cook well with the sighting pays within the regular classroom setting. For these children we provide an itinerant service which means that we have specialist teachers at the St. Lucia Blind Welfare Association who goes to the schools to situate that these children are coping well. As an itinerant teacher I visit the schools where our children are integrated and I deal mostly with the blind students. So I transcribe their braille material into print so that the regular classroom teacher can get access to reading what the child has produced. Braille is a system that the blind people use to communicate, to read and write. We say that braille is the key to independence for blind and low vision people. Braille consists of a system of six dots which are positioned differently to represent each letter of the alphabet. First we have to scan the text, then edit to make sure that whatever is in the text is what is that the scanner picked up and then run it through the embosser which is a braille machine to print out the braille. Through the process and the number of books that we have to produce and the equipment that we have to use we are never able to produce the books all of the children's text on time. So sometimes a year the school year has ended and we're still struggling for a few books so I think that will help. I think the service that I provide here, that we provide here as a unit is very crucial. If this unit was not providing any education for blind and visually impaired children it means that these kids would have to stay home. Part of the whole purpose of being here is to lobby for them to ensure that they have the basic human right for education like every other child. The children benefit because we are teaching one to one. It's a one to one individual attention. I'm teaching them that they can do it. Little things, little shapes, colors, the whole writing, arithmetic, language arts series we're teaching them that they can do it. They have the potential to do it, to perform, to achieve just like the normal children in the classroom. I think it is very important because if we don't provide these services our visually impaired children will be left out. They will be in a world all by themselves. But since we provide these services, they interact with others and they feel more accepted and wanted in society. People who never saw her, never knew she was blind and spoke to her on the phone could not detect any disability in the sense that Stacey would answer the phone and be very professional about what she does, would route her calls properly and the limited amount of things that she could do, she was able to do it very, very well and I was very satisfied with her performance. At first it was challenging but as time went by I got accustomed to it and I started enjoying it.  When I leave school I would like to go to college and I guess after I leave college I would like to get into journalism being a reporter, reading, announcing on the radio and so on and I also want to be a musician and all around the musician in singing and playing instruments. That's one of my dreams. We believe that people who are blind or visually impaired if given the opportunities which they deserve they should be able to live a life as normal as anybody else and they should be able to be contributing members of their society. I've been blind for 25 years and I was born out of it. I don't think that blind people should be pitied. I think that they should be given a chance because all a blind person doesn't have his sight but if you look at the blind person is capable of anybody else so if given the opportunity I think blind people out there can prove themselves. If I was blind I would feel I would be lonely I would not have friends to see. I couldn't watch television. The glasses make me see how to, how to see that. They make me see TV. They make me see radio and some things at my home. You have an eye screening done then you can indicate some children who may indeed need to have an eye test because they aren't seeing very well. Also when you're looking at a person you can look to see the health of their eyes. Are they shining? Are they clean? Are they red? Is there a squint?  There are so many signs and symptoms that you can look at even how a person walks indicates sometimes exactly how their peripheral vision is. I'd like to tell them that they don't have to look down on visually impaired people because they can do very well like they can and maybe sometimes they cannot do as well as they can but in order they have their own special way of doing things so they can do something that they themselves cannot do. Probably you know you need to get them to feel confident about yourself so in doing so getting more blind children in here you make them feel self-work sorry and make them feel that they could do anything that any normal person could set out to do. People have to try to change their attitude towards people with disabilities. They have to try to understand them and show her support. The Ministry serves as an umbrella that supports most of these NGO groups like the Blind Welfare Association in that they tend to provide for it assistance, technical, financial as the case may be. Annually we provide a subvention which assists the Blind Welfare Association in terms of its programming and perhaps payment of its staff if the case should arise. We facilitate in terms of the help in the sensitization program whenever they will have their fundraising activity and so forth. The Ministry also where it is possible and through international agencies would seek to provide a technical person or personnel as the case would arise for Blind Welfare Association. Yes, Inclusion Blind Welfare Association has been indeed one of the most dynamic organizations not only for the blind in the Caribbean but it can stand and be compared with many, many, many others in Inclusion in the Caribbean.


Let's read the bill. So when you go to section 107 of Bernie Sanders Medicare for all bill It states very clearly that duplicative care is prohibited. It states quote It shall be unlawful for a private health insurer to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this act or an employer to provide benefits for an employee Former employee or dependence of an employee or former employee that duplicates the benefits provided under this act So very clearly it outlaws duplicative care now. We'll talk about the specific implications, but there's also a follow-up here section 107 b states quote Nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting the sale of health insurance coverage for any additional benefits Not covered in this act. So I get why there's a lot of confusion It seems contradictory for Bernie Sanders to say well if you support Medicare for all You need to commit to getting rid of private because it says right here This is not to be construed as prohibiting the sale of health insurance However, we need to talk about the way that this bill is designed and what it intends to accomplish because ultimately the goal of This bill is to get rid of private health insurance companies So if it outlaws duplicative care, that is anything covered under Medicare for all cannot be offered Supplementally through a private health insurance company then what's gonna be left? Well, let's look at the actual bill and see what it provides We'll look at section 201 and as you can see here the benefits are comprehensive like this is true universal health care It covers virtually everything almost everything is covered here So there's not really going to be need for supplemental insurance of any kind and even the Washington Post Who's no fan of Bernie Sanders writes quote? It's worth noting that Sanders plan would be more sweeping in its coverage than just about any existing universal health care system For instance, Canadians must buy private insurance for prescription drugs Dentists and optometry while Britain has a parallel private system that about 10% of the population Participates in so think about that what Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal's bill does is it offers health care coverage? That is so comprehensive if we get that bill passed as it is We will have a stronger universal health care system than Canada and the UK Now let's get back to this prohibition on duplicative care and let's put two into together So if duplicative care is outlawed by Medicare for all but simultaneously if Medicare for all covers basically everything What's the implication of that? We're effectively getting rid of private health insurance companies. See you don't have to explicitly outlaw them to accomplish the same goal What we're essentially doing the way that these bills both Bernie's and Jayapals are designed is to basically Regulate these private health insurance companies out of existence So we make a bill so comprehensive and then outlaw duplicative care that There's nothing left for them to do They don't have any way to offer some type of supplemental care because Everything is covered under Bernie Sanders Medicare for all bill. So going back to section 107. Yes I understand it very clearly says that it doesn't prohibit the sale of health insurance coverage for any additional benefits Not covered. But you see the thing that's important is that it covers everything It's better than Canada's it's better than Britain's so that's a good thing We don't want to water down Our own Medicare for all bill to find some way to accommodate these For-profit health insurance companies that just want to rip you off. No We are constructing a universal health care system that covers everything So if there's not going to be much left for them to do Then we're effectively getting rid of them because they're not going to stick around if they can't profit off of health care But that's a good thing. But Mike, I know the I already know what you're going to say You're going to comment saying Mike. What if I want a facelift? Bernie Sanders Medicare for all plan doesn't cover cosmetic procedures like a facelift And yes, that is correct. So you've got me there However, this still doesn't necessarily mean that we will be keeping private insurance companies because let's ask ourselves this Let's say hypothetically speaking. I wanted to get a facelift. How would I pay for that? Am I going to be able to find a private insurance company that will cover the cost or even a fraction of a percent of the cost of that facelift? um No, that's that's not gonna That's not going to happen because they can't profit off of a facelift So what you'd have to do is you would have to finance these types of procedures Where you get a type of credit card like care credit and then they will pay for that procedure And then you pay them back in monthly installments and then you pay interest on top of that That's what we do now if you want a facelift and that's what we would continue to do Under a Medicare for all system. So do you understand if we don't use insurance companies for facelifts now? Why would we be arguing that they're going to exist to provide us with like facelifts and breast augmentation surgeries when they don't do that Anyway, because again, let's remember what these companies are about these insurance companies They're not going to cover something unless they believe they can make money. So here's the thing. What do you think is going to happen? Let's say we get Medicare for all past, right? It's passed as it is and we don't water it down and we outlawed duplicate duplicative care explicitly Do you think it's more likely that these health insurance companies are going to take a magnifying glass And go over this Medicare for all bill and see where the gaps are so they can offer coverage for you know, these This dozen or so procedures hypothetically Or will they just likely go out of business? You and I both know that if they can make enough profit The investors are going to bounce and they're going to go on to the next money-making adventure. Therefore They're probably just going to go out of business. So do you understand? We are regulating them out of existence So if you support Medicare for all this should be a goal for you And we shouldn't be arguing. Yeah, you know, we're gonna keep supplemental too because if we do that We're making an argument for the health insurance companies There's virtually nothing that we will need private insurance companies for If we get Medicare for all and understand if you accept the premise that Private health insurance companies can and should exist Under a Medicare for all system then you've already compromised before negotiations began because you're buying into the premise That maybe there should be a role for private health insurance companies And if you do that if you give them an inch They're going to take a mile because that's how capitalism works They're going to say oh, so you think that there should be a role for us Well, should it be this big or this big or this big or this big? Do you really want to open that door because I don't want to open that door? I want to shut out all these capitalistic forces that will pick at whatever weaknesses in our Medicare for all system And I want them gone completely We neutralize the threat and we get the profit entirely out of the health care system That's what we should be arguing in favor of not trying to find a way to make an argument on behalf Of the health insurance companies unwittingly because I think that that's what we're doing If we're trying to rationalize different ways that you know These private health insurance companies can still exist And I think that adam gaffney of the nation put it best Quote the only way to make room for a significant role for private insurance in the american context Is to make the public system Pultrier or skimpier to impose onerous co-pays and deductibles or to let the rich Preferentially displace working-class people from hospital beds and doctor's offices But it doesn't seem to make sense to punch holes in your own floor Just to create work for a carpenter that is particularly true If your floor is your health care and your carpenter is an extractive insurance giant We don't need private health insurance companies We need to get rid of them completely and argue that that's what we should be doing And force republicans to take a stand where they are the ones defending these for-profit health insurance companies that only exist To profit off of us and rip us off But you see I think a reason why there's so much confusion here is because as americans We can't grapple with the reality of a health care system where private insurance Doesn't actually exist So what we end up doing is trying to find ways To think of things that they can do well, maybe they can do this Maybe they can do that But what we need to do is grapple with the reality that if we truly care about the delivery of health care specifically and exclusively Then there's no role for private health insurance companies So if you support medicare for all then you should agree that bernie sanders and promila jai paul's bills Are stronger because they're designed to get rid of private health insurance companies Rather than going out of our way To argue that they can and should still exist under medicare for all in order to make people who don't really understand it Feel better that isn't very productive as leftists We need to be educating people about why getting rid of private is a good thing and here's the thing Let's say hypothetically speaking that there is a weakness in bernie sanders medicare for all plan Is it designed so technically? There can be Some role for private insurance. So let's say hypothetically speaking. It doesn't cover hip replacement surgery It does but just for argument's sake. Let's say that It doesn't cover that and we removed that from the bill can a private insurance company technically step in And fill that gap and offer insurance for that Technically, yes, they wouldn't again because they're not going to offer insurance for one procedure Like a facelift like anything Because again, they're only going to offer you coverage if they can profit off of you But a private insurance company can technically do that. So how do we make this argument as progressives? Do we say well, look, you know what if a private insurance company wants to take care of that? That's fine No, that shouldn't be our argument our argument should be let's strengthen medicare for all To stop these private insurance companies From stepping in and filling that role if there's any perceived weakness or actual weakness in these bills Then we shouldn't argue. Hey, let's let private insurance take care of that We should be arguing to improve medicare for all even more. It's already incredibly solid and strong But if there's any weaknesses, we shouldn't just instinctively pivot to saying hey, okay I found something for you to do private insurance companies. We should be arguing. All right. Let's improve the bill That's what our line of argument should be and we all need to get on the same page about this Our message collectively as members of the progressive left should be abolish private Keep your doctor or you can use a doctor stay private goes away something along those lines not. Oh, no No, I promise you we're not going to get rid of you know private insurance There's going to be some role that shouldn't be our message Because it's misleading and you're getting people to focus on the wrong thing We shouldn't be focusing on keeping supplemental insurance and emphasizing that small little portion of section 107 b Because again medicare for all is designed to effectively get rid of these private insurance companies Again, you don't need to ban them to accomplish that goal of regulating them out of existence So let's argue from the position of strength that we want to get rid of private insurance companies And if you want to defend private companies, you can do that pramila jaipal and bernie sanders They didn't just come up with these designs for these medicare for all bills You know on a whim last year these bills are the latest iterations of medicare for all proposals That have spent decades being fleshed out by medicare for all experts and activists So for those of us to step in and say we need to find some role for supplemental I promise you we won't totally eliminate them. I mean we're kind of undercutting the grassroots and what they've been fighting for We don't need a profit motive and these you know these for-profit companies in our system trying to corrupt it Trying to get medicare for all to offer less so they can come in and profit off of offering us more the goal Say it with me is to abolish private but keep your doctor Let's all get on the same page here because it's important details matter And if a candidate doesn't support getting rid of private then please educate them and don't just Accept that they have the correct vision for medicare for all


The United States government has accused Moscow of cracking down on media and made Russia's war on Ukraine. In a statement, the U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the Kremlin is engaged in a full assault on media freedom and the truth, and Moscow's efforts to mislead and suppress the truth of the brutal invasion are intensifying. Earlier in the week, the Russian prosecutor general Zafrizaks media regulated to restrict access to the website of Kremlin critical radio station Echo Moskiv or Echo of Moscow. Authorities had previously accused Echo and other critical media of spreading false information about Russia's attack of Ukraine.


Welcome to the EDUCAUSE community conversation with Jamie Marasotis. Jamie is the CEO and president of the Lumina Foundation and the author of Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines. So we're really lucky to have Jamie with us here today and let's start talking about the book. Welcome, Jamie. Thanks very much, John. Great to be with you. Is AI a force for good relative to workforce or this just tremendous challenge? Ultimately, I believe that what we know about technology is that technology has always created more opportunities than it's destroyed, but along the way it does destroy opportunities. And so we've been talking over the last few years about AI and work and about what I jokingly call the robot zombie apocalypse that's coming because everyone seems to think that we will see major, major disruptions in work. Maybe. I think there will be creative destruction and building happening at the same time. I'm not sure that this era is any different, but what I do think is different in terms of what we need to do in this era is better prepare ourselves for this work that only humans can do. And that means that we've got to focus on building those human work traits and capabilities. So if meaning and purpose and dignity is what we want, it means that we've got to build our human traits, our capacity for compassion, for empathy, our ability to be ethical, our focus on collaboration and creativity. These are the things that make us uniquely human. Crises bring out the best in people sometimes, and sometimes that's true of systems as well. Do you think the cluster of crises we're dealing with now, COVID, pandemic, financial, do you think it's done that? Or is it just revealing fault lines in education and maybe in workforce training systems? I think that the overlapping crises of COVID-19, racial injustice, the economic dislocation that we've seen have done more to reveal the fault lines that were there and not necessarily take us down new paths. They've also probably accelerated what we needed to be doing, which is to recognize those important connections between education and workforce training that we've been talking about. But I do think that we've got to do a better job of making racial justice and equity core to what we do in the system. I do think that we need to do a better job of preparing people for these uniquely human tasks of ultimately recognizing that learning, earning and serving are part of an integrated system, not something that you're going to do once in your lifetime. When you meet with college and university presidents, what do you go to those kinds of conversations wanting to stress? What do you think is the biggest obstacle to the kind of change you advocate for higher education? Part of the challenge for our industry, and it's an understandable challenge, is that we have become risk averse, in part because we have long been the engine of economic progress and social mobility for American society. So it's a classic case of aversion to risk and change because the model has worked very well for the country up until this moment. So I think that's one issue. The second is a belief in the durability of the model. So if the model has worked up until this point, let's not upend it. But I think we have an opportunity, and the opportunity for higher ed is that in this human work environment, what we say we've always done well is really about human work skills. So we say that our greatest contribution to society is that we prepare people for a long life of work and living where they can be those critical thinkers and those problem solvers and those communicators and the people who can really be analytical and reason in a way of the ethical and participate in our democratic system. To me, this is the opportunity for higher education. But in order to do that, we are going to have to change the model so that it is not simply one where you have to run through a time-based, time-limited model where you're always focused on a core set of majors and learning opportunities. You need to focus on a much wider set of human traits and capabilities. And we're going to have to do this over the course of people's lives. So this is not a one-and-done model from the higher ed perspective or from the perspective of the learner worker. Well, you've raised a lot of questions and I'm pretty sure a bunch of people listening have already logged on in order to copy of your book. I hope so, because I think it adds a really important voice to this crucial conversation as a country and really internationally. So thank you, Jamie Marisotis, for joining us today for our community conversation. John, great to be with you.