When you struggle to get over the narcissist, when you struggle to repair the damage they've caused, when you struggle to move on, when you've dealt with a narcissist, it can be very difficult to rectify everything they've caused, because it's difficult for a normal person to understand that they were dealing with someone who is torn with their lives. Someone who saw their life as a game, as a recreational activity. It's difficult for a normal person to comprehend. It's difficult to get your head around it. It's difficult to accept that someone would do these things to you with no regard and no matter how many videos you watch, it will never make complete sense to you because a normal person could never put on an act. They could never pretend as though they cared for you, as though they're on your side, as though they have your best interest in mind. When really it's just an act, you would never think that a person would go out of their way to do that to you. You would think that they would have more significant things to attend to in their lives because otherwise that would mean they're completely insane. That would mean they're motivated purely by self-interest. It would mean they're motivated by their own desire, greed and gratification, which would be like something out of a horror movie. It's very creepy and cringy to even assume that someone could be like that. But then you meet the narcissist and it completely throws you off guard. It makes you question everything in life because you can't believe that it actually happened to you. You can't believe that it was real. It makes you question yourself. You assume that you must have misperceived something. You must have got it wrong because there's no way someone would do that to you until you eventually come to the conclusion that they abandoned you at a moment of difficulty. They punished and criticised you. They made you suffer and they didn't provide you with any assistance. When you desperately needed it, that's when you begin to wake up because they had no regard for you. They didn't care about what you were going through. That's when you begin to realise that they meant everything they said to you because when they would argue with you, they would say things that were below the belt. They would say things that were intended to hurt you. Things that were unacceptable. But then they may have come back and tried to make things right because they still had a use for you. But when you look back at those arguments now, you may think that maybe they did mean all of those things they said because of how they dealt with you at the end. They had no consideration for you.  They couldn't stand you. After you gave everything you had, once you have dealt with a narcissist, you may feel like you don't care about anything. You may begin to act more like the narcissist. But deep down, you do care. You've just become numb. You've become deprived of feeling a responsiveness. You've become desensitised to where you're less likely to feel shock or distress at scenes of cruelty or suffering because you've been exposed to such treatment for a long period of time. You've experienced a lot of abuse, so now you're not easily upset by it. It may even seem normal to you because of everything you have learned from being around the narcissist because now you've been adapted to be suitable for a new purpose. They changed the form, character and function of who you are to where you've now become something that you're not. You've become something that you never were as a result of the abuse.  You didn't start out that way with that mindset and that way of thinking before you were involved with the narcissist but you gradually became more experienced in the abuse until you were no longer easily upset by it until you became utterly fixed in these habits and ways of life until it affected the inherent qualities of your mind character because at that time you didn't have the abilities or the confidence to take on that type of situation so it completely overwhelmed you. It got you so much that it damaged you it impaired your normal function and this is why it lasts for so long. This is why you struggle to get over the narcissist and heal from the abuse because the abuse permanently altered your established set of attitudes which then had an effect on your behaviour but there are no instructions for how to live your life or how to respond to certain situations. These things are learned through experience but if all you've ever known is abuse it limits your response because as long as you have unhealed traumas that's the only thing that you can respond to and these traumas are the result of dealing with people who are unworthy people who are not deserving of your respect or attention but you don't have to change yourself you just need to change who you give yourself to the problem we often experience is that narcissists are masters at making themselves seem more valuable than they actually are so we have to learn how to assess people because if you don't properly assess them and instead you place value on things that are insignificant it's going to result in a loss which is why you should only be polite, respectful and considerate of people who are worthy you should only be friendly and welcoming to people who have qualities that deserve your effort but if they fail your assessment you need to hold back the problem is that many of us give everything we have to people without even conducting the proper assessment of their character you judge them by their appearance so you didn't know that they were going to be as disgracefully bad and unpleasant as they were you didn't know that they were going to be so destructive you didn't know about the lies and manipulation you didn't know about the games you just accepted it without thinking about it very much even though it may have been untrue which is why you confided in them which is why you trusted them because you assumed that they had your best interest in mind as you had theirs but from the very beginning it was an unbalanced relationship you were giving all of your efforts while they were planning to portray you because there's nothing else that they can do when everything goes wrong it's either that or they take the four themselves which is something that no narcissist is ever going to do because they're not fully invested in you they have everything to gain but they have nothing to lose while you're going in with great enthusiasm and commitment because you have a lot to give and a lot to lose which is how they were destined to portray you and the reason why the act of betrayal is so damaging to you is because your value and significance of the relationship is based off of the virtues and principles that you possess but the narcissist is just pretending to hold the same virtues and principles as you do they're just putting on an act while they're consuming everything that you have to offer they're taking everything you have to give while they're going along with how you expect things to be but they're not really about it and you're putting in all of the work until you end up looking like a fool it affects your ability to trust because you couldn't see what was happening to you which then causes you to change it causes you to try to adapt to the situation because if you couldn't see it coming you assume that there must have been something wrong with you and even when you try to tell people about what happened to you no one believes you because the narcissist keeps a code of silence they don't let other people see that side of them only the people who they are closely connected to will see it so when you tell other people about what happened to you it doesn't make any sense to them they can't comprehend that someone would do that it makes you feel like you're losing your mind because no one understands you but then you find my videos and it wakes you up to the truth you begin to realise that there really are people like this out there who are going out of their way to do these things to people who are completely unaware of what is about to happen to them and it may even make you look back and realise that this has been happening to you your entire life it's been happening to you your entire life with your family and friends people like your workplace the more you understand this the more it causes you to recollect other occurrences it causes other traumatic incidents to resurface into your conscious mind and it makes you question whether or not this is actually happening you just can't believe that it's real because before you came into this knowledge you never knew that this existed it causes you to experience reality shock which may cause you to become paranoid or you may choose to live a solitary life and avoid other people because these experiences have changed you so you're not going to be the same because now these experiences have awakened you to the truth but your entire life you never knew so it just makes you question what is actually real because what primes you to be involved with a narcissist place is something that occurred in your childhood it's something that happened within the family environment where you were already exposed to a narcissist where you already experienced narcissistic abuse you just didn't know but you must have experienced it already to then be susceptible to it and at the time it may have seemed normal it may have been played down by other members of your family they may have said that everyone experiences that and at the time you may not question it you may assume that what they're saying is correct until you experience more and more situations that are of a similar nature it becomes normalized that there were these behaviors from your childhood which is why we get involved in these situations without uncertainty or without being indecisive because we never knew because to us it was normal we didn't know that this was dysfunctional we didn't know that it was extreme behavior if we had known if we had learned about this in our childhood we would have ran in the opposite direction or we would have left at the earliest opportunity as soon as we became aware of it but when you finally reached this awakening and everything starts to make sense you begin to realize that everything you were taught was wrong and then you have to relearn everything all over again you have to see everything in a different way which can be a very difficult thing to achieve it's something that very few people have been able to accomplish because although you may have developed the experience and knowledge along with that comes feelings of deep distress caused by loss disappointment and misfortune but that doesn't mean that you have to run from this knowledge instead you should realize that you have now gained insight you have now become aware but when you lacked knowledge and awareness you continue to go through things that weren't good for you things that were harmful to you things that affected you emotionally but when you develop this knowledge you are no longer in that state of being a fool applied knowledge as power but with that knowledge and power also comes a lot of pain but you should prefer to be awake than to be asleep than to be unaware and repeat the same situations again and again but the narcissist does not want to accept knowledge they don't want to learn from their experiences because then they can no longer exist in that fantasy they can't accept reality because it's too painful for them to deal with which is why they keep repeating the same situations again and again because they're stuck at a lower level of consciousness and without the knowledge they cannot make the correct adjustments narcissistic personality disorder is a fixed state of being there are no adjustments their fate has already been sealed they have an inability to adjust but you can change you can adjust to what you've learned you can adjust your behaviors you can change the way in which you interact you can find alternative ways to do things so that you won't be easily exploited by a narcissist because they are looking for people who are kind and apathic they are looking for people who are easy to exploit they're not going to willingly put themselves in a dangerous situation they're cowards and they know that people who are kind and apathic are going to be more tolerable they're going to put up with it narcissists have a predatory sixth sense they can sense when you're that type of person which is why you need to be selective of the people you choose to help you can't help everyone some people are not deserving of your support because they will only take advantage of it they will only exploit you exploitative people can pick up on your behavioral patterns it's essential to their survival to do that so they need to be good at it which is why you need to reassess yourself because that is what makes you prone to being a victim thank you for watching I hope this video resonates with you please like, comment, share and subscribe if you would like to donate my PayPal link is in the video description coaching inquiries you can email me at coaching.narcsurviver.uk thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


aw, something, yeah. Yeah.  And, you know, the same thing happened at the barber shop where I used to get my hair cut. All these dudes would be in there talking about different stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, these are havens for guys, man. These are havens for guys. Remember this. Internet goes down, hang out at the barber shop, hang out at the donut shop. Why? Because you're going to get somewhat similar situations in that type of scenario. It's a man cave. It's a man cave. Yeah, it's an out, yeah, extended man cave. Yeah. Do you remember Floyd's barbershop on He-Haw, the show He-Haw? Yeah, yeah. And everybody would be talking about different stuff at Floyd's barbershop. Yeah. You know, it was, that's what happened. This is going back pre-internet. Okay.  And you know what? I miss that. I loved it. And I get times change. People change. But you know what? I'm glad we evolved. But you know what?  And yet here we are. This was way before not only cell phones. Yeah. Not only smartphones, not only cell phones. It was way before beepers came out. Yeah. And there was no internet. People didn't have tablets and laptops. And they didn't have desktops at home. And this is what people did. They went to their local place where they might have donuts and coffee, or they might be a luncheonette, or there might be a hamburger joint, or a hot dog joint, or a barbershop, and guys would, you know, people would go. And they would go every day if they liked the place. And they would see, they would see same people that like to go here also. And you get to know this one and that one and that one. And pretty soon everybody's sitting near each other. And you just have these great conversations. Yeah. Actually, in my hometown, at the Burger King, I went there for breakfast one morning because I had to go somewhere. I went for breakfast.  And they were all talking about politics and entertainment industry. And then, you know, what's going on. The weather, the sports, movies, sports. Yeah. Headline, breaking news, everybody's having great conversation.  Oh, yeah. You're going to get like two or three of them guys that are like really funny. Well, they'll come up with these lines or what I like to call, well, I shouldn't say zippers, but like zingers. That's what it is. Zingers.  And they'll have the whole crowd just died because, you know, it's not always that funny, but it's true. Well, the thing is, the funnier it becomes. Well, they're telling funny stories about their relatives too. Yeah, that too. I mean, it could be anything. It doesn't have to be politics. It could be their family, their relatives. You know, gossip, men gossip too. Yeah. And I guess women do it when they used to go to the beauty parlor. Yeah.  Yeah, they used to go to the salon. Yeah, they used to go to the salon. Yeah. I don't know why they called it a beauty parlor because there were those hair hairstyles were ridiculous. Yeah. You know, it got me thinking that one scene from was a good fellas where they actually show where Ray Leota's wife goes to like a beauty parlor. And it's the same thing where they're just they're just talking about their man. So on and so forth. But it was like, yeah, so big deal. What's the big deal? Where you get Ray Leota's characters doing the same thing where you meet them in the, what is that, the tiki lounge or whatever with Robert De Dere or Joe Pesci is like, funny how? What do you mean funny? What do you mean funny? Am I here to amuse you?  Is it ha ha funny? Or what kind of fun? Am I here to amuse you? I was like, no, man. It's just the way it all started. I don't understand. You said it. You said it. How am I supposed to know? You're the one that said it. He thought he was being mocked, you know, that he was being mocked. Yeah, he got offended. But anyway, everybody God bless you. This was a great show. We got to do it again soon. And BC, I'll see you. I'll see you on Facebook Messenger. And I'll see Jason Cleveland, the poor soul. I'll see him on. Jason, we're playing for you, man. Hey, we're pulling for you. We're praying for you, man. Yeah, if you have what's app, which is owned by Facebook, he's over there. Yeah, I'm over there too, man. You should have my email address. So if he wants to get a hold of me, get a hold of me there. So you've got my email address. You get me get all of me through that too. So I wonder if you can do like a group chat. Yeah, I just found out today that when I did start Sunday, they've got a thing on there that's kind of like the beer talk on Facebook Messenger, but it's on Hangouts. So we could probably do a group on WhatsApp as well. Yeah, what are you? What is your? Send me your WhatsApp name on Messenger privately. Yeah, I'll send you my email address and my phone number. And then I'll connect with you and then we can try to do a three-way talk. Yeah, so that'll be good. But there's no glitches on WhatsApp like there is on Messenger. Yeah. Yeah, that's all right. All right, what's happened, Hangouts? I used to have Telegram, but Telegram is too shady for me, man. Hangouts, Google, I am very surprised at a big company. Google Hangouts is really not impressive to me to talk to somebody. Yeah. High tech enough. You know, it's like Skype. Nobody talks about Skype anymore.  Not so much anymore. I remember all the private chat groups on Yahoo Messenger. Remember Yahoo Messenger? Yeah, I remember I was at AOL too, man. Nobody uses that either. AOL, there were so many webcam whores on Yahoo Messenger and scams and all. It's terrible. Oh, they're still out there. They just move from one to the other, man. That's what they do. Tinder was bad. Tinder's bad. Oh, let me tell you, Instagram, I have a lot of scammers that used to approach me on Instagram.  I mean, granted, I post my beer stuff on Instagram to try to promote my beer show, but I cannot tell you how many whores I've had to block and delete. Oh, I need money for this. They have money for that. Hell, I had one chick wanting $100 for her menstrual pains. I was like, bitch, I do not have 100 bucks to give you right now.  Exactly.  I do not need to see this. I've seen this before.  Send me a picture of her crying. Well, guess what?  Tinder was the worst when it came to fake profile scammers. Tinder was horrible. I got kicked off of Instagram by Zuckerberg because he didn't like... Well, they didn't like what I said politically. I made a political statement. Same thing with Twitter. I got terminated from Twitter because I made a political statement during the campaigning of the debates.  On the internet. You know, I got blocked from... Sometimes it's better off to choose your battle sometimes, man. Like, you can't use on Zuckerberg's websites. You can't use... You can't talk about hydroxychloroquine and anything that is different from vaccines. You can't say anything about the drug companies and the vaccine. You can't say that hydroxychloroquine and zinc really does work. And that's how I got banned from my own group from holistic health talk. I had a video, it wasn't my video. There was a video on YouTube how to make homemade hydroxychloroquine at home. Oh, okay. Yeah. And I posted it. And, you know, maybe the drug company pays off Zuckerberg. I think Zuckerberg has both of his hands out for anybody that wants to fill it with... With cash? With loot. With cash, yeah. I think he...  Yeah. That's what I thought. What's his face from Jerry McGuire? Show me the money. Show me the money. Show me the money. Yeah, I got... Yeah, you were talking about... That woman used to sing years and years ago. You've got the money, honey. I got the time. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny. Lawrence Fishburne, but I know it's not him. It was the other one. He was in... God, what was that movie? He was in Boys in the Hood. He was in The Land Eater, The Boxing Movie, not the Russell Crowe movie. It's the same name, but two different movies. But God, who was that? He was a pretty big popular actor. I can't think of his name right now. I know he'll come to me later. Wow. Anyways, he was pretty big and we all know who that guy is in Jerry McGuire saying show me the money. So... Anyway, I'll talk to you. Take care. Take care, everybody. I'll see you on the next one. Until next time. Yeah, I'll see you on Friday.


Yup, that's right You gotta walk through the seasons You don't even necessarily have to fight anything You can just run through it We got treasures Cool Or for a weapon I don't use Thank you, but no thank you Not even gonna waste the money upgrading those Don't even care Please not yet Does anybody here say anything?   Yeah, we're freakin' covered in rabbites Anyway There is a lot of trivia Very interesting trivia about The development of Secret of Mono I was reading about a while back Because of the news that somebody actually has A supposedly genuine Super Nintendo with a CD add-on I guess it's a super fam account with a CD add-on Let's go back to winter Drive back to spring Just to be sure So we wanna go spring, summer, fall, winter And then back to spring And that'll unlock something already Anyway Yeah, Secret of Mono was originally Gonna be the first Or not the first, but pretty much a launch title For that CD add-on And as most people know The add-on was gonna be developed by Sony But since Nintendo was still stuck In their old business practices In the 80's where they wanted All control And all the freakin' profits And revenue And just, you know Their demands are pretty ridiculous It's interesting to read about Back in the day It's called Game Over I have it Opening this, I'll look It's called Game Over Press Start to Continue It's written by David Sheff It goes into a lot of the Unorthodox business practices That Nintendo did Back in the 80's For the original Nintendo That's normal for Japanese companies To operate that way But not for American companies Where they said Pretty much would say To Capcom And to whoever You can only develop games for us If you go anywhere else Fuck you, you're never making games for us again And that worked And it worked well because No other system sold even 25% as well in the United States anyway As Nintendo did That's where the money was So they could get away with doing stuff like that But they pushed their hand They pushed their luck Overplayed their hand, I should say With Sony Sony pretty much said No, fuck you We don't like the terms of agreement here So the whole thing fell through And of course that's what led to The development of PlayStation Ah, fuck That's not fun And then, yeah So they decided With Secret Amount Well, we're gonna have to completely Retool this game You know, we still want to do it But we have to Yeah, we have to retool it Yeah, here's Fall Everything's kind of dead looking Wish they would have spruced up the colors a bit here You know, if you're gonna have spring bright pink You gotta have some red in the trees here I mean, you see a couple of leaves there Red, orange, yellow Come on, game Anyway Yeah, and that also The strange Translation here Or I should say not translation But the lack of text in this game I saw a thing with Ted Woolsey Where he talked about how Translating this game was a bitch It was probably the hardest he ever had to do Because everything had to be Scaled back so much Forget how he described it It was like shuffling a novel Or something like that Like it was Because there was so much text And so much more to the story But they're just The way that I guess it had something to do with the font Or I guess space limitations With the font is what I remember I'm trying to think And so yeah, that's why The text in this game is so bare bones It's like really, really Unlimited And that's a shame Because they really could have told A really cool story here I guess the idea was We're gonna We'll have all the room in the world I have all this extra room on the CD But Converting it back to a cartridge game With limited space And limited text space Especially with Well, we can't You know, we're gonna have to Cut this up pretty good Another thing Was that Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger are Also pretty closely entwined Where I guess When they heard that the CD ROM thing Was gonna be happening They wanted to The developers of this game That worked for Square at the time Had an agreement with Akira Toriyama Who of course is the Dragon Ball Z guy Artist And of course ended up Well, he Went when the CD thing fell through They said We'll work again on something else And that eventually The something else eventually became Chrono Trigger Which is kinda neat What Just happened Is this gonna wear off?


Personal Finance PowerPoint Presentation Clear Title Get ready to get financially fit by practicing personal finance. Most of this information can be found at Investopedia Clear Title, which you can find online. Look at the references, resources. Continue your research from there. This is by James Chan, updated March 27, 2022. What is a clear title? A clear title is a title without any type of lean or levy from creditors or other parties that would pose a question as to the legal ownership. So clearly if we're talking about a sales type of transaction, if you're trying to make a purchase of property, then you want to be able to know that you're going to have the claim to that piece of property, and those claims can get quite complex given the fact that the land here has been here for like a long time. People have made multiple claims, possibly on the same piece of land that you might be taking a look at. You would like to make sure that your claim is the right claim is a clear claim. For example, an owner of a home with a clear title is the sole undisputed owner, and no other party can make any kind of legal claim to its ownership. A clear title is also called a quote clean title in quote or a quote just title in quote and a quote free and clear title in quote. So you could see these different terms giving you kind of an indication of what we're talking about here. Is there someone else that basically can have any kind of legitimate claim to this piece of property? That's going to be important to the value of the property. We want the clean title. We want the just title. We want a free and clear title in other words. A clear title is necessary for any real estate transaction because it firmly establishes who is the property owner. That's going to be important. Otherwise, there's going to be a lot of arguments over stuff. So we need to get that kind of thing straight. So title companies must do a title search to check for claims or liens of any kind against the title before it can be deemed clear, meaning any other claims against basically the property. Aronius surveys and unresolved building code violations are two examples of blemishes that can make a title quote dirty in quotes. If you've got the dirty title, then you've got some questions about it. That's going to of course cause problems in a sales transaction. How a clear title works. A clear title helps to show whether there are many outstanding financial responsibilities attached to the property and is necessary to demonstrate that an owner has the right to sell the property. So obviously, like kind of like that bridge when someone tries to sell you like the Golden Gate Bridge or something, well, they can't because they don't have the title to it. Obviously, they need to have the title to it. So we've got to understand who owns the bridge or in this case the house or the piece of property, the land and whatnot. So the sale of the property can be disputed if legal ownership is not represented through a clear title. The presence of liens can create a cloud on the title when a claim or an unreleased lien invalidates or impairs the owner's title to the property. Clearly, if there's problems there, then that's an issue. For example, the current owner may still owe payments on an outstanding mortgage or owe contracts for refurbishments work they performed on the property. The title would not be clear and the new owner would then be held responsible for resolving those liens. So obviously, again, that can be an issue and these kind of items if you were to have a mortgage on the home something like that from the one item and they clearly if there was no payment on it then it's possible that the home was the recourse on that particular loan and then if that person tried to sell the home without paying the loan and so on then you can see that the creditor would want to have claim to the recourse which was the home and you can see messy, dirty, dirty everything gets dirty in that case dirty title as opposed to the clean one. So once the title is cleared the deed can be registered in the home owner's name the deed is the legal document showing who owns a property so you got the deed showing that you own it and so there it is. If someone is buying a home the title must be clear before the new owner's name can be put on the deed it's important to note that a property could potentially be sold while liens are active the law doesn't require liens to be removed before the sale of a property however the buyer wouldn't be able to get a mortgage or home equity loan because the bank would research and discover the past liens which would have to be cleared for the financing to go through so clearly most of the time you want a clear title and if you're looking for financing if you're not paying with straight cash for example then you'd almost have to have the clear title because the lender is not going to want a dirty title because they're going to be using the house as collateral in the event that you don't pay back the loan and they want to make sure the collateral is clear so that they lower the risk on their end so number four reasons why a title isn't clear so there are many reasons why a title search might come back listing the title as unclear just because someone currently lives in a home doesn't mean that the home has been titled or vested to that person so the fact that someone's living there the finders keepers kind of thing doesn't totally hold up that's kind of part of the legal system I guess but just being the finders keeper doesn't always work it's not like exactly a legal term so when it comes time to sell the home the buyer can run into problems with the title meaning who owns the property is unclear errors, complications can arise when older properties where the errors of a prior owner may still have some claim to the real estate so now you've got, it gets complicated when people die and stuff and property and what not and who has ownership to the property and multiple people could possibly claims and it gets all messy dirty, the title gets dirty for instance a prior owner may have granted a portion of the property to an heir who never took an active role as an owner the said heirs rights as a partial owner may have passed on to their descendants who might not be aware of the circumstances so you can see how this can get messy quickly title problems can also arise if the heir to the property never filed the deed with the county's clerk office to transfer ownership when the heir goes to sell the property title problems will occur as the deed would still show the family member who willed the property to the heir so fraud could be an instance that would be an intentional deceit, deceit intentionally made for profit or some benefit so possession of a clear title is also important to prevent instances of fraud it's possible that a false deed may have been entered into the public record so someone could try to cheat the public record with a false deed in there a fraudster might attempt to use a false deed to engage in the illegal sale of a property so they're gonna try to sell you that golden gate bridge with a false deed I know you don't own that bridge that bridge isn't yours so separation or divorce title problems can occur in situations where a couple are separated but never went through the divorce proceedings so clearly if you got a separation type of situation again you've got the marriage and then you've got the joint kind of property to be dependent on the states whether it be a community property state and so on and then with divorce what happened with the divorce was everything handled properly with regards to the splitting now back into the two so if the couple owned the home jointly and one person moved out following the separation they would still own the house without a divorce as a result title problems would arise when the person living in the house goes to sell the house because two people would be listed on the deed a trust you got the ownership might have been transferred to a trust or another body with a legal claim to the property so a trust is like an entity you can think of it kind of like a corporation you're given like human beings properties to the trust the trust now owns the property this instrument owns the property so this is a way this is why title searches are performed to identify such issues before a potential buyer has committed funds to acquire a property what does clear title mean a clear title means that a property does not have any liens on it nor does it have any issues surrounding ownership so can I buy a home without a clear title no you cannot purchase a home if it does not have a clear title so generally you got to you're going to need the clear title going through the process especially because of course you're going to probably need a loan in that event the bank is going to want the clear title for financial institution the lender in other words it is possible to identify any issues and try to correct them if you still want to purchase the home so you're going to say I still want it even though it's dirty title there's dirt on the title can I clean it off well you can try to clean it off and if you can clean it off then that would be good what are some reasons for an unclear title there are many reasons why an unclear title might not show up in a title search it could be the property is old and the heirs to the property never properly filed the deed upon their inheritance during a marital separation a jointly owned home can cause a problem if two people are listed on the deed in cases of fraud a title may show up as unclear as well


y complicated, but there are a lot of victims that work with ex-commands and if you'd like, I can point you in the right direction. No, I just want to say that there's a lot going on. There's hundreds that I've seen and I know that there's thousands. I mean, that I've seen, that I've shaken their hands, hundreds. I would echo that. That's been my experience as well. And I would just say, in Colombia, because the conflict is still going on, you have this odd inversion of the normal sequencing. In other conflict zones where you have a peace accord, you have the peace accord and then you have efforts for reconciliation. In Colombia, people say we need reconciliation in order to get peace. So there's kind of a different way of looking at it, Lily, this goes to your question, I guess, of conceptions of reconciliation. It's varied. There's no specific definition. There's not kind of a shared understanding of what reconciliation means, but I would say that by and large, truth-telling is seen as a really key part and a necessary peace before a reconciliation can happen. You have victims who are all over the map in terms of forgiveness, pardon, reconciliation, whether they're willing to or not willing to. But I would echo, I think what Kim said, you look at what the victims' delegations that went to Cuba on those five different cycles, they were all to a person supporting a peace process. And at different, I think ready to live together, maybe harmoniously or not, but willing to live together in the name of having people set aside their arms and move into a new phase of Colombian life. So with that, I think I will thank all of our speakers. You've been fabulous. You've given us lots to think about and lots of new directions that future discussions will take. And I thank the audience for being patient and for your good questions and look forward to seeing you back next time. Thank you.


Welcome to Community Matters. I'm your host, Catherine Norr. Filling in for Jay Fidel today. Our topic is long-term broadband access in Hawaii. How well are we doing? My host is Bert Lum, the Broadband Strategy Officer for the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office. Welcome, Bert. Thanks, Catherine. Good to be here. All right, so I think that there's a fundamental question that we kind of think we know, but we may not really know. What is broadband? Well, that's a good question to start off with. I think everybody is used to the idea of having some form of internet access. And broadly speaking, broadband is your internet access. Now, the quality of that internet connection could vary between what kind of service you might have gotten. Now, I remember in the olden days, we would have a dial-up and we would have a subscription that might have included some kind of, I don't know, 24-bot connection. But the speeds have obviously increased since then. But there's a pretty great disparity on what kind of speeds people have. And even if they have an internet connection. So, from a functional standpoint, the Federal Communications Commission has set a bar for 25 megabits download and three megabits upload. And that bar has been grossly sort of overpassed or passed by the kinds of applications that we all are very much used to. So if you think about whether you're at home during a Zoom call or doing some kind of work at home or education at home or even doing some kind of a telehealth consultation. And imagine if you had multiple people doing that from your home. 25-3 service would probably be far underperforming. So, lately the discussion has been around upping that low benchmark to 100 megabits down and 20 megabits up. And I've also seen some of the FCC projects at the level of, or having to meet the level of 100 down and 100 up. That's 100 megabits symmetric. So, to ask your question, the broadband has definitely improved in its definition of what is broadband. The question now becomes, who is perhaps being left behind in getting an internet connection? And what I think we realized during the pandemic, and this is a result of perhaps having to be sort of sheltered at home. Many people didn't have internet access at home. And so, if you kind of look at some of the census numbers on how many people were not even connected, we're looking at something like 55,000 households in Hawaii that aren't connected. So, it's not just a matter of what is the speed of broadband. And I think there's probably a lot of people that are kind of at a sub par level of what kind of subscription they might have. It's also a matter of how many people even can afford to get a broadband connection. So, there's a whole slew of issues that need to be addressed from access to affordability to the actual ability to use the technology once you get it. Sure. So, I remember having a modem way back when I was in law school and I had an apple to see. And now, years and years later, all of a sudden our lives revolve around broadband. They were, you know, we've suddenly with COVID, we've entered into this world where much of our lives are on Zoom or on another meeting platform. So, one issue that comes to mind when we talk about this is most of the world has mobile phones. However, not all of the world has PCs and laptops. And does broadband impact the use of our mobile phones as well? That's a good question. So, when we start to talk about the different devices that might be connected to that internet subscription, you have your typical landline connection, which would be provided by the Hawaiian telecom or like a charter spectrum. And that would be bringing a physical line to your home and that you could then connect your, whether it's a desktop computer or a laptop computer. And then of course, with the advancements in the wireless industry, we saw, I remember these huge Motorola brick phones that people were using and, you know, at the time, you know, it was kind of the state of the art, but that evolved to the sort of the flip phone. And I thought, oh, wow, these flip phones, they look pretty cool because they remind me of the Star Trek communicator. But the ability for that phone to really do a lot of functional things was limited by the service. And we're talking back when, you know, it was like a 2G kind of a service or even like a 3G service. What really transformed the whole mobile experience was 4G and 4G enabled more bandwidth. And the protocol enabled, you know, a much richer experience by the user being able to access websites. And of course, we all remember what happened with the iPhone and the fact that the iPhone was a really a game changer in terms of how you interact online for all the online resources, you know, that are available. So that's the kind of evolution of the wireless. And then you have now the introduction of 5G, which is the next level of protocol that is being unfolding in front of us as a result of carriers like Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. So that is going to be a continued, I think, enabler of more applications being able to be delivered on the mobile device. Now, I think your question really sort of begs the issue of, you know, what devices are we talking about when talking about broadband? And so we're talking about both the landline connected, could be a laptop, could be a desktop. And we're also talking about tablets. And that could be a mobile connection or it could be at home on your Wi-Fi or it could be a smartphone that you now have that is with you all the time. It's your mobile device. And that's why the federal government, for many of these projects that are kind of rolling out to get funded, they are looking at something called the sort of technology neutral and it could be fiber-based, it could be wireless. But again, it depends on the program and how, I guess, from a cost standpoint, how economical it is to deliver the service to a wide swath of geography. And sometimes, you know, running fiber to every home might not be the most cost effective. And that's why wireless solutions are also part of the technological mix that could be proposed. Now, so, you know, what's interesting to me is that this idea of the importance of broadband, is it, you know, before I used to think of the internet as sort of a luxury that if you have extra money that you would have good internet access, you would have a laptop, a PC, a mobile phone. But as our society has progressed, it seems to me that broadband and the access to the internet is actually more important in our daily functioning. What are your thoughts on our actual needs versus wants in relation to broadband? Well, of course, you're talking to the Broadband Strategy Officer, so I'm gonna be a little biased, but there have been others that have been really promoting the idea of broadband and internet as a human right, because we have gotten to the point where the ability for us to do a lot of what we currently do in our daily lives are already dependent on the internet. And if you look at Hawaii, and I'll kind of look at it from a, first from a kind of a statewide standpoint, you know, we're in the middle of the Pacific and a lot of what our comrades and sort of business activity revolves around is our ability to connect not only in the state, but across, you know, the Pacific Ocean. So, you know, there's, you can always, you can always think of, well, maybe I'll just fly there, or maybe I'll just send a snail mail letter to whoever I wanna send something to, or maybe I'll catch a boat to the West Coast to get to the West Coast. If commerce were limited by that sort of physical need to jump on a plane or jump on a boat, you would be at a great disadvantage in Hawaii. And I think that's true across the entire globe. And when you start to look at, you know, if you're in a location and you're, let's say just an example, you're at home and you're, because of the pandemic, you're sheltered at home, but you still need to conduct the variety of things that you need to do, whether it's education, whether it's doing remote work or working from home, whether it's doing a health consultation.  One of the, you know, one of the ways that you could do that is through your internet connection. And so how do you get access to some of these government services? Now, you know, in the case of the EBB, you know, the Emergency Broadband Benefit, I mean, they did recognize that people may not be connected and this might be a way to get them connected. So you could actually, you know, get material sent to you and then you could fill it out on a physical form and then mail it in and then go through that qualification process. But you can start to see how disadvantaged you might be if you're not connected and you're limited to some of the physical means of communications. And then you start to look at also the, you know, what is the economy and what are the sort of the tech drivers and what is this digital economy that we oftentimes talk about? If Hawaii wants to diversify its economy, you know, it's not a hard argument to make, to understand that broadband and things like digital equity are foundational upon which whether it's our students or even kupuna and everybody in between would need to have as a foundational skill and tool in order to, you know, not only participate but perhaps create new applications, perhaps create new companies, come up with new ideas that would really spark perhaps a new business or a new industry. And any industry that you might think of that is already kind of a existing traditional legacy business from agriculture to tourism all depend on some form of connectivity. So if you were to say, oh, you know, I'm a farmer, I don't need the internet, but how do you start now looking at the supply chain that you are high to to get your produce out to the marketplace, right? And then if Hawaii wants to go beyond just selling to the local market, it has to look at being able to create product that could perhaps get sold through mainland markets or Asian markets and what better way to do that than have a distribution system that includes a website and some e-commerce and some ability to do some transactions and fulfill orders. That's all gonna be as a result of your ability to leverage the internet and the technology that comes along with that. You know, it's really interesting. My show on Wednesdays is the wide world of e-sports. And before the pandemic, one of the big issues was latency in relation to competitive video gaming. And surprisingly enough, the Overwatch League came to Hawaii last summer and the reason why they did is in order to make it, you know, get the people from US mainland closer to Japan and they ran a line in order to have better broadband and less paying. And so what are your thoughts about that? Well, if it wasn't for the pandemic, they would have perhaps chosen another place to do the Overwatch League tournament. What really happened, and it really gave Hawaii an opportunity to show what it is that we're capable of doing. Sometimes you would think, wow, from the middle of the Pacific, in the case of Overwatch, they were looking at latencies and their primary communication was between the US and Asia. And I think the actual Overwatch servers were someplace in, I think Japan or could have been in China. There were players that were from China. There were players from Korea and there were players from the US. And when Overwatch was looking for a place to actually do this, they were thinking, well, you know, it is physically challenging for us to actually all go to China, where I think some of the tournament took place. Oh, there was one aspect of the physical location. And then there was the aspect of, you know, what location in the US had the best latency to get to a place like China. And what happened is that in the case of the Overwatch League, they were able to connect with the folks over at the University of Hawaii, which actually has a direct connection into Japan from the trans-specific fiber system called the Japan-US fiber. And if you think about it, you know, between Japan and US or Japan and Hawaii, if your fiber connection is pretty straight run, you know, between the two countries, your latency is somewhat due to the, not only the speed of light, but maybe the number of hops that you have to go from router to router to get to your final destination. And Hawaii had the benefit of having this direct route right to Japan. So our latencies were really already well, well within the expectations of the Overwatch, you know, organizers. So they said, wow, you know, we don't have to go to China. We don't have to go to Asia.  Hawaii is a COVID safe place, you know. And this is pre-Delta, I think. And what happened was they had the tournament held over at the University iLab. They had this great connection, you know, through the JUS cable. And I think it really put Hawaii on the map to have, you know, this eSports competition take place right here on US ground and be as competitive with these players in Asia. Do you think that opens the door for more opportunities for Hawaii in light of that direct connection to Japan? Yeah, you know, absolutely. I think the fact that Overwatch took place in Hawaii not only brought attention to Hawaii from an organizing committee that was based on the continent, but it also brought an awareness of, you know, the program that Sky has over at UH, as well as the fact that, you know, there's a great eSports arena over at the Hawaii Pacific University. And so there's already a, you know, a presence here to have eSports tournaments as well as the eSports curriculum, getting students more aware of what it's like to be kind of an, you know, in the eSports field. And so the combination of all that, I think, you know, was good for Hawaii. Now it's a question of whether or not that can be continued to sustain itself. And Catherine, you know, because of your program as well as, you know, Sky's program and the folks over at HPU, you know, there's ongoing activity in all of this area, which I think continues to kind of maintain that momentum. And I think that's really important. Sure. And, you know, there's also UH West, Oahu, that has a new creative media center that's going to be in the mix very soon. So let's move back to your mention of the 55,000 people who don't have broadband. What about outer islands? Is there a disparity between their access to broadband versus Oahu's access and the quality? So what has happened over the course of time and what has become so evident during the pandemic is the fact that if you leave it strictly to the private sector, what the private sector will want to do is they will want to put money into a place where they can get a quick return on the investment. So obviously, you know, if you're on Oahu and you're part of an urban, you know, urban center, the private sector and the private sector are typically the cable company, which is Charter and the telephone company, which is Hawaiian Telcom, they will evaluate, you know, their investment, their money and look at where can they get their best return. So as they go through their kind of business modeling and budgeting and implementation schedule, the rural communities on the neighbor islands tend to be not as quick a return on the investment. So, you know, there's a lot of areas that are very much lacking in getting any kind of physical infrastructure like fiber. So if you're talking about areas like Ouna or Ka'u or, you know, Ocean View or, you know, we had a call with some of the community over in Milolei and looking at how do we enable, you know, their connectivity and even on Maui, you know, the folks over in Hana have been regular participants in our broadband hui. So the question becomes, what is gonna change in the, you know, sort of new programs that are being rolled out by the federal government? Oh, the federal government has recognized that, you know, the private sector can do so much because they're basically driven by some of this ROI and stakeholder or shareholder commitments to make a profit. So the federal government has several programs that will fund this kind of broadband deployment. And I'll speak to three fairly large-sized programs that are gonna be kind of rolled out. The first one is coming out of the Consulate, well, it's coming out of the American Rescue Plan. It's called the Capital Projects Fund. And the Capital Projects Fund is something to the tune of about $115 million. And so that is the first large, what I call a tranche of money that we, Hawaii, will need to apply for. We will get the 115, but we have to go through an application process. And that process includes something called the Grant Plan. And then within the Grant Plan, there are specific projects that constitute what that Grant Plan is and that those projects need to be identified to the detail that they, in essence, roll up to the $115 million. So that's one tranche of money. The next one that is gonna be kind of rolling out is, actually, it should be any day soon now is about $90 million that will go to the Department of Hawaiian Homelands. And the Department of Hawaiian Homelands, with this $90 million, could use it for a wide range of offerings from everything from telehealth to digital literacy, to affordability programs, to even doing cable landings on Hawaiian homelands. So there's a wide range of opportunity. I think Hawaiian homelands will also be using some of that money to leverage the 2.5 gigahertz spectrum that we were able to get the FCC to, you know, allocate and make available to Department of Hawaiian Homelands. This 2.5 gigahertz, let me look, quick little background. They made it available to Native Americans, Native Alaskans, and in Hawaii, since there's no federal recognition of Native Hawaiian people, we petitioned the FCC to consider Department of Hawaiian Homelands as the representative because the FCC, or the federal government, recognizes Department of Hawaiian Homelands and the homelands that they administer. So there's a 2.5 gigahertz spectrum that will be used for connectivity as well. So that's the second tranche of money. The third tranche of money is coming from the, what they call the IIJA, which is the Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act, which was recently signed. And there's a category within it called the BEED, B-E-A-D. And the BEED stands for Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, and that's another 100 million. And that 100 million needs to be used primarily for unserved and underserved areas. And so there's a pretty clear definition of what unserved and underserved is. So our ask, once the details of how they're gonna roll out the BEED program is to determine what areas are qualified for this BEED money that is consistent with the definition of what the, and this is a, this is a NTIA, which is NTIA is the National Telecommunication Information Administration, and they will administer the use of that money for those unserved underserved areas. Well, that's terrific Bert. We have run out of time, and thanks to our excellent Broadband today, we were able to bring this program to you. Thank you so much, Bert, appreciate it. Thank you, Catherine, and of course, thank Jay for keeping the lights on for the Think Tech. It's a great, great program. Absolutely, and thank you to our viewers for watching today, and please tune in for my show, The Wide World of eSports tomorrow at noon Hawaii time. See you then. The Wide World of eSports


So it was about two weeks ago at this point that we hit that 100,000 subscriber mark really big milestone for us And we're so thankful to all of you who are subscribed We put a lot of time and effort into the channel and for someone who's kind of been doing this sort of thing for over Seven years now. I have to say that number one I have been absolutely overwhelmed by the reception the channel's gotten not necessarily Subscribers and views but more so the engagement that we have all the comments and the sense of community that we feel as a Result of that. This is one of the most satisfying things for me because prior to really kind of focusing on the channel Instagram and photos were sort of where we were prioritizing and I have a Hate-love relationship with Instagram and mostly that's because it's such a passive platform, you know You see the photo you swipe and then it's gone people just don't engage the same way and even if they do it's generally fairly passive and Not really prone to making a deeper connection it gets tiring after a while And then you wonder does this even matter what am I contributing here? But the connection I feel with all of you here on YouTube is Extremely genuine and that means a great deal to me And it means a lot because on the other side of the coin from my perspective as a creator It had sort of become a little monotonous just taking photos And I don't know if Rob feels the same way about this because he had to go from professional photographer To professional videographer which is not an easy switch to make but the whole process of learning something new learning a new medium And then actually feeling the passion and appreciation from the audience for whom we're creating the content Really, there's no better feeling than that. It inspires us to continue to deliver It inspires us to keep improving to try new things to experiment here and there and we know that you'll tell us Whether you like it or not all that is to say that the whole experience leading up to this has Reinvigorated me personally and I know the team as well and speaking of the team It does take a team to produce the content that we make and I wanted to take this opportunity To thank them for all that they do and to give you an opportunity to hear directly from them. So Take it away guys Hey guys, I'm Ian the guy behind the computer editing all the videos on the channel Just want to say thanks for subscribing and watching all the videos We've really put a lot of work into them and it's great to see the channel reach this milestone of a hundred K I also want to say thank you to Brian and Rob for letting me be a part of the team And I'm super excited to continue making videos Looking forward to it Peace. Hey guys Rob here Wanted to take a moment to give just a quick shout out And a big thanks to all of you for supporting the channel And and for the community that that you have really Made come to life surrounding the HSS YouTube channel we really really appreciate the opportunity to create content for you guys that that you enjoy and that you find meaningful I am a Serial lurker in the comments and I really enjoy seeing the conversations that that spring up around the topics And around the videos that we make When Brian and I started this Gosh coming up on seven years ago We really had a focus about Keeping style approachable Keeping Keeping it really relatable and keeping it true to to the type of styling that Brian does for himself personally It wasn't about Glamour or magazine articles or anything like that. It was it was trying to keep things Real and we did that mostly through photos and as we have transitioned to to YouTube It's been a really really great transition And one that I feel allows us to do that in even more relatable ways, it's been Just a really enjoyable Stretch I think for for both of us I'm really really grateful for your support and I look forward to the opportunity To continue to work to create stuff that that I hope you really love. 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What's up everybody? Jason here for JasperCaseRace.com. This was our last filler to give away the last nine spots in the hip parade goat's break with 2021 mosaic choice baseball one pack break or one box break round of teams number two So again guys first we do the break right about because of your names teams should be the hits out there on the end We'll re-roll the dice randomized because we're needs again top nine out of the 30 get into the break So here we go guys Roll it. We've got a three and a two five times. Good luck one two three four five Daniel Katz down to Ryan one two three four five dolphins out of the Vegas Raiders Now of course, no trades.  I Need a quick. Why am I copying the Football teams again?  Oh, it's cuz you know what? This isn't a football section. That's why Sorry guys, that's why I keep on doing that All right, hold on. Let me redo this one again for the baseball teams one two three four It's cuz the first filler we did for the first break number one It was it was a football filler, but now we change it to baseball. Does that make sense? All right, sorry about that guys. Let me actually redo this go backwards backwards And that's the way the list came out there as you can see from Daniel down to Ryan and then Daniel down to Ryan and now it'd be correct with the baseball teams there. There we go Good thing Google Docs can let you go backwards now Let's now alpha side of there. Those are the teams you would have matched up with there Let's do that. I'll give you a quick glance really quick while I go get this box and then we'll start it Brady singer show time with a Ryan Weathers Refusion and a Brady singer Refusion That's kind of the city in San Diego doesn't made for the LA Dodgers and how about a black gold Justice Sheffield to eight Three of eight that is for Seattle And two rookies are a lot of pitchers in this box actually look at that One pitcher there for a base pitcher there pitchers pitcher Pitcher We literally had pitchers in this whole box pitcher Showtime is both so he's a pitcher there, right? And our Brady singer silver is a pitcher literally a whole pitchers box Every single part so you love pitchers would have been the box for you So there you go guys, we'll top load these two autos there plus the black gold awesome Switch scenes now guys and let's do the giveaway top nine get spots in the break Roll it three and a five eight times one two three four five six seven and Eighth and final time three and a five Boom, so just miss that was Daniel Top nine Right, it's nine right. Yeah Jeff Ryan Jose Chad Daniel Daniel Anthony Daniel and Chad Coleman. There you go All right, so we're gonna paste your names in the break now and come in the next is The hip rate go thank you guys


Honourable Joachim Henry, Minister for Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment of St. Lucia, delivered a compelling statement at a major event held at the United Nations World Food Program WFP Headquarters in Rome, Italy, shedding light on the pressing challenges faced by small island developing states, SIDS. The event, dubbed WFP in SIDS, perspectives from the Caribbean and the Pacific, took place on February 27 and brought together stakeholders to address specific vulnerabilities of SIDS in the face of climate change and poverty. The panel discussion is one of the events leading up to the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States, scheduled for May 2024 in Antica and Bermuda. Minister Henry emphasized the daunting task of recovering from recurrent weather systems, describing it as battling the war of climate change and weathering systems year after year. He highlighted St Lucia's critical vulnerability due to its size, noting that a single-weather event could devastate the entire island, leaving its population without means of adaptation. In addition to his participation in the event, Minister Henry engaged in discussions with Cindy McCain, Executive Director of WFP, emphasizing the need for enhanced collaboration and support for SIDS. The dialogue highlighted the significance of addressing the unique needs of vulnerable populations in St Lucia, including single mothers caring for chronically disabled children. Minister Henry expressed appreciation for WFP's impactful work in St Lucia, emphasizing its tangible investment in the lives of vulnerable households. Minister Henry's continued advocacy represents St Lucia's unwavering commitment to uplifting its most vulnerable citizens and fostering a more resilient society.


How can that be true that we cannot afford to do all sorts of things that we need to do for our people when we are the richest nation and continue to be the richest nation in the world? You may not realize this, but we are actually now at the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. I'm joined today by an illustrious inequality media person who also was there, an Occupy activist who was there in New York occupying Wall Street. Kara Siegel, what do you make of this 10th anniversary? The Occupy movement was an incredible statement in the wake of 2008 that was people coming forward and saying that they were upset about the state of economic inequality and the lack of corporate accountability. And this narrative of we are the 99% versus the 1% was this incredibly unifying force in which every person could see themselves as part of an economically exploitative system. One thing that surprised me at the time was how quick the whole thing happened. Many of us have been talking about widening inequality for years, but this was like a kind of a firestorm taking over. And I maybe like you thought, well, this is the beginning of a fundamental change. When we think about why it happened, my assessment is the financial crisis, the Wall Street bailout really catapulted a lot of energy and a lot of outrage because the banks got bailed out. A lot of people, millions of people lost their jobs, their homes, their savings and not a single CEO of any big Wall Street bank went to jail. And people were outraged. They were also outraged on the right. And that outrage on the right took the form of the Tea Party movement. What amazed me at the time here was that the Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement used such similar language. They talked about crony capitalism, corporate welfare. They didn't want a big government and big corporations colluding against everyone else if it had merged in some possible manner with the Occupy movement. And if the Tea Party movement hadn't been co-opted by big money, by the Koch brothers, by others in the Republican right, maybe we could have seen the beginnings of almost a third party movement in America. When you look back on the history of social movements in the United States, do you think that Occupy resembles that time or do you think it resembles prior movements in American history more? Well, Occupy was really and will be remembered as a blip, but a blip that has some significance.  Demonstrations are great. Demonstrations are important to bring attention to certain critical issues.  You're indulging in a performance. You aren't really changing the course of history. I think the challenging thing from my perspective is Occupy created an important narrative. But what it failed to do was institutionalize because it wasn't able to embed itself within existing institutions and power structures that we used to make decisions. Yeah, it was kind of apolitical or anti-political. And I remember being in discussions with various Occupy people at various sites in which I would say, well, what's the next political move? Or how are you thinking about structuring this? Or what's the strategy? And there would be silence. There's no strategy. There was a lot of conversation at the time around a leaderless movement. But I know, at least in the activist scene in New York, what we talked about was building leader full movements. About the idea that we don't want to step away from power, but instead, as people with a vision for the future of America, we want to step into power. An important thing happened in that people used the networks and communities they had built during Occupy to actually go on and build other movements. And so things like sunrise movement or various mutual aid associations, all of these things are movements that have come out of the lessons learned from Occupy and the idea that in order to be a leaderful movement, you need to have political vision. Well, I'd like to be that optimistic about what happened and what will happen as a result of Occupy. And I think there is a direct connection between Occupy and Bernie Sanders and then AOC and a lot of the progressive and populist energy that is now in the Democratic Party and some would say even dominating the Democratic Party now. Would this have happened but for the Occupy movement? Maybe, but I think the Occupy movement was at minimum a symptom of a growing sense of outrage about how power was misallocated and is misallocated in America, economic and political power. I think this continues. The big debate in America is essentially who do you trust less, big corporations or big government? The who do you trust less meme is really meaningless because big corporations are and have been taking over our government and have been taking over our society. And the only real sustaining countervailing force historically has been government but a government of the people by the people, for the people, a government that is really shaped and managed in a way that responds to the needs of average people, working people, poor people and that can only happen if we all get actively and keep actively involved.


at the beginning I'd like to say that you know this year you complete 14 years of studio aesthetic and obviously you've done a lot of work in these last 14 years but what are some of the things which really stand out which you would say sort of you know you really made a difference to certain people's lives which you would sort of remember so tell us about that at work. So our signature procedure everybody does everything but our signature procedure was laser liposuction. It is like a body sculpting not liposuction but body sculpting with a very fine tube and it's so safe that we can take almost 10 to 12 liters of fat out at one go and the patient goes home the same night so that has been the most miraculous thing that we have been able to give to so many people and you know compared to liposuction it's a lot safer, simpler, more patient friendly. It takes a long time for the doctor. It takes like 45 minutes but it's like a sculpture. It has finished so which is very special and I think that has been our strength. Baki techniques everybody. But this is the one thing which you like you mentioned that sort of sets you apart, sets your clinic apart.  So Priyanka was shooting Dostana in Florida. It was a two-month schedule and I was with her and my sister was a neurophysician and she sent me a flyer saying why are you wasting your time two months you're an anti-specialist why don't you join this particular course that are in botox killers and mesotherapy. I said this is not my field so I said no kind of education is going to let you down do it don't waste your two months because I was just faffing around sitting on a set wasting time but that's how I signed up and from American Institute of Aesthetics I did all the three courses in those two months and I was hooked and it was a hands-on training so I did lots of patients over there. My hands-on Karnika Masai or so I got hooked came back told my husband and there's no clinic in mobile this is I'm talking 2008 so we decided to set up one and Chopra was a surgeon so he went immediately he went to Italy he went to Israel he went to South America he went to different places and he trained in this visa he trained in 4D and what are sort of the I mean through this entire journey as far as entrepreneurship is concerned what are the kind of lessons which you've probably learned which you weren't aware of before but it's you know that sort of thing which you've sort of learned through the journey you know you have worked all day and you want to break dad we started a career in a new city in a new way post retirement so never say never never say never you know being a mother to Piyanka Chopra Jonas who literally went to the top of Hollywood and now she's conquering Hollywood what is that really like you know because there is so much of media attention there is so much of I mean there's a lot of fame there's a lot of pressure at the same time a lot of responsibility there are always eyes on you eyes on you on your daughter so what is that like I mean I'll tell you about the media they have all been excellent to me they have really become like friends to me so I've never seen the ugly side of media it doesn't matter one bit about these anonymous people so I have had a very good relationship with media and I'm very proud as any mother should be and I can only say hard work and determination very hard work and of course big support from family and friends yeah and the part regarding the family and friends I mean she's actually mentioned that in a lot of interviews especially about about her parents about her brother and others but yeah yeah I agree with you I hope I hope that people continue to be kind in and in a world which is increasingly beginning to lose its patience but thank you so much for talking to me take care and all the best for the future we'll have our next interview once in 20 years I guess yeah take care thank you you too have a great day thank you


Hi, hello. Now everybody expects something super technical and spectacular to happen, but I just have a couple of pictures I wanted to show. My name is Ivana. I'm a dramaturg from Zagreb, Croatia. The music will start in about five minutes So I'll try to keep it to one minute. So we have a four minute Q&A conversation going. I'm kidding. I'm a dramaturg. I always work in collaboration with other people and for the past 15 years I've been also a member of a theater collective called Bad Company, BAD, Easy to Remember, and to find us online. What's specific about our work is that we never stage a text. In fact, theater for us does not depart or arrive towards a single text. It takes flight from a dispersed field of multiple origins. Text too, but a lot of movement, films, music, objects, dreams, thoughts, things that we bring into rehearsal together, put on the table and then see what comes out. We are three dancers, choreographers, two dramaturgs, and one philosopher, but we have all at one point been on stage. The dramaturg has been the director, the choreographer has been also the technician. Dancers have written texts that we have used in the performances. And the work for us does not finish with the premier date. In fact, that's only the start of the works after life. Seven years ago we presented a project called Is There a Life on Stage? Exercises in Terraforming. As a thing you present in a black box, we ask ourselves within this performance, within the research process, what are the consequences of theater's fixionalization of a reality such as the global environmental crisis? In a series of exercises, in a series of episodes that we would reshuffle every time we performed the work, we explored artistic and media sources from documentary sources of space exploration, science fiction prose that envisions different futures, and eco-art. But these are not those photos. These photos are for something we did a year later. So in the year later we decided, okay, we have this material, but it really doesn't work for us. However, we reshuffle it within the environment of the black box. So we did a project, a 24-hour art camp on one site in Zagreb, and these are the pictures from that. We called it Nature Needs to be Constructed, and we were talking about the social construct of dealing with nature. Nature as organic as ours, we are part of it, but also as another and other. This is a beautiful site, wonderful nature. It was springtime, it was really nice. But this is actually the land between the city's thermal heating facility and the garbage dump. I really like how you call it dump in the U.S., because this is what Zagreb is doing. It is dumping almost 90% of its trash and recycling less than 20%. So on this site, 24 hours, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, 8 hours of sleep, of course. And it's a site where none of us ever stood before, none of us ever ventured. Although sometimes we come close because there's a flea market nearby, we decide to perform pieces from this work. So during 24 hours every hour on the hour, except for a few hours sleep, we're going to show one of these episodes, one of the exercises in choreographic and textual terraforming in that location. But we also invite others to join us and the general public to come to eat, to perform, to discuss, in particular to discuss. We choreograph site-specific situations, we speak poetry, we do a home composting workshop, we talk with recycling facility manager of the one little city in Croatia which is doing recycling right. We sleep, we have meals together and in particular we talk, we talk, we talk. There's concerts, there's contemporary dance, but they're sitting around and talking around the fireplace. And just to conclude, I presented this very simple gesture, an invitation of sorts that we did a few years ago and it reminds me of a colleague from the UK, Nicholas Ridout and his wonderful book, Passionate Amateurs. Nicholas says theatre is a real place where real people go to work and where their work takes the form of conversation. So the music started, there's no time for conversation, but perhaps in the breaks, thank you.


Time for our League of Ireland chat on a Thursday on the score program and our guest this week We're not going too far. We're only heading to any show and joining us in the program once again is former funharp school keeper Gavin Collin Welcome back to the score Gavin. Hi, Arsene. How's things? We're good Gavin not so good around Derry City at the moment of buts Declan Devine in the club part of company this morning No big surprise in that move by Derry Suppose not We talked a few weeks ago about know them luck and weak and and gonna struggle and I think I think we were proved right They look very light. I'm not too sure if it's Declan's fault or the signings or the budgets or what? You always feel sorry when a manager loses her job, you know for them, but suppose Derry had to do something because The longer goes on without a one because more difficult and obviously they don't want to go down, you know Yeah If we look back at last year, of course, it wasn't the season that they wanted They spent a lot of money in the 2020 season and they decided to change things go with a more youthful a more local side Obviously saving on budget has that turned out just to be too risky now for the club. It was a decision that was too risky for them It was risky for Declan's post this point as a club we don't know how their finances are in terms of protecting the club and and in the background and We've seen it before with clubs in the League of Ireland overspending and and taking years and years to recover or going out of business So it depends in terms of blood in that money young players and local players at the same time is Difficult and it's League of Ireland's a tough tough division. The Premier League is tough So probably yeah in terms of on the pitch is going to be a struggle, you know and Listen, the right was on the wall and away you go six games in and you don't take a victory for Declan divine But there was signs of improvement will give him credit because the young players You've got the likes of Ronan voice who who was really really good this last couple of games for dairy Young Brendan bars and other fine example of youthful players brought up up through the ranks that met his debut in recent weeks as well So the performances were starting to get better Declan felt they weren't too far away from that one one Which probably would have kept them his job. Do you think we're really far from that victory? Probably not. I thought that what's the last two games and what's the other way? I thought they were quite they were decent, you know, without being great They were the record with soccer points of a goal probably in both games ended up with draws But they luck decent as you say some of the young lads coming through from the old sir league and on the 19s No, they were caught themselves quite well, but it is a big act for so many of them at the one time Where where the first ones coming from that's difficult the next three games are slaggo bows and fun herbs So like they're they're all tough games and I say longer goes on without that first victory the more Difficult that locks for them, you know, yeah, just before we look at their next games Is it a welcome move by the club then today and Declan parting ways? Well, will the dairy supporters be happy with that? I think they will think the dairy supporters from day one We're on Declan's back probably Out of order wrong, but that's football. It's a results business Declan Declan's very good coach very good manager has done well in football So again, but as a decision for dairy and the fans, I think it's right to do it area rather than let it go Who they're gonna replace them with I don't know I think they need to go for a bit of experience and Management at this point to sort of set it steady the ship and try and get results, but Yeah, I think it's the right decision. Yeah, so Hope already the chairman of the club is a big decision here to make now Does he stick with what Declan was doing and do they decide to stay with a local based manager? Obviously, you've got the likes of Paddy McCourt there that could step up possibly to the position Kevin dairy could Form maybe a part of a partnership at management level to or are they gonna try and check further a field? I Don't know I'd say at this point. They probably have a fair idea and have talked to whoever maybe that they're looking The know there's likes of Jared Luttle mentioned funny perf is available Paul Hagerty at harps know his dairy connections possibly could be the man to stay sort of steady the ship for them in there It's hard to know In terms of Paddy McCourt has rolled in the club. I'm not sure if moving on the senior management at this point is for him So I don't know Kevin the area I think was let go in summer. So you know the difficult Paddy McLaughlin's doing quite well at Cuffinville We'll be we'll be surely mentioned for the job as well And I think the scene this morning that Jim McGinnis has been tired about first rope That would be a left field one, but he never know, you know, yeah They've got slago now it's top against bottom so it is but in circumstances like this Gavin And we have seen it in the past it happens in the majority of occasions when there's a change of manager We've seen it at Spurs actually last night when there's a change They dig deep and they get a victory Yeah You got a one at the showgrounds on Saturday I'm not too sure physically or if they're up for it, but yeah, you always see it if there's new manager in place So players about the impress Jose Marino's one of top managers in the world gets a sack from Spurs Youngest manager ever in the Premiership comes in and gets a one in the first game. So it happens It definitely happens Well, I will or not against slago. I'm not too sure slago are going really well at the minute as well Yeah, and of course it's big games to come for Derry as well bohemians after that And then we've got the Northwest Darby harps against Derry at the Brandiwale the Maybank holiday Oh, this was sort of adding to the ball of this Northwest Darby fixture and the magnitude of it, Gavin great and That's Though the last few years is first time a long time the tarps are on a par or no gun and was equals to Derry or more So it'll be very instance It's really petty that there's some crowds and fans at this point with harps going so well and like big games I get when they are going in with confidence to get a result You know, it's really it brings it home that there is no supporters going to see it, you know Yeah, what about the harps then at the moment of they've had a defeat a draw on a victory since we last spoke I gave in their last two games has been that loss And and then the draw on Tuesday night away to Longford, but they're still setting three points off the top They're still on the top half off off the table Maybe they weren't lucky not to get anything out of flying care park the last night or Bishop's Gate rather against Ferds, but things still motoring well for the Balboff a Very well, maybe last a wee bit of momentum in the last two games But look, I think I think they've got experience in squad the management team Have experience of losing the morning and and and get bouncing back. I've no doubt Till points back this week. They've a huge game Friday against Pats like they go up level with them Or maybe even above them if they beat them. So it's been a brilliant start By all accounts in Longford, they played okay. They don't very well They should have won the game. They had the best chances So they come away disappointed and in a way fixture in the League of Ireland is Always positive when you come away with the draw and being disappointed The Slago game again was tight. I don't think they were great I think Slago just aids it but seated a per goal again If you don't give that away you come away with a point, which will be doing the light it was, you know Yeah Slago, of course, they lost and not Darby St Patrick's athletic and other sides in the leading tree with the moment Well, let's be a real good measure then But seven games in as we come towards the end of the series where our harps are actually up. I think so I think I think they're getting the respect that they deserve at the minute I think I think all them clubs are standing up and no one that they're gonna be up there I do I do you think they'll finish in the top five or six this season I think they have the squad they have to do that They've shown with players missing and who's coming in and doing very well The players really playing the top of our game. They look physically strong and discipline. They don't consider a lot So like they're not gonna lose many games. They're not gonna lose that easy, you know I'm sure some paths will be coming coming the ball fee and no nearly happy with a point if they get it, you know Yeah Harps haven't scored in the last two games the goals were flying in from the likes of In the opening three matches So they were Gavin a goal on Friday night would be nice just to keep that confidence going Oh, yeah, I can say that I suppose Adam Foley's got most of the goals this season So again, you know, if his goals try up, you're looking for somebody else Maybe my failures come up with a goal. No, some of our strikers, you know So if they go now a game or two and don't and don't score then they start to wonder then well words goals going to come from But I think I think they have a threat from set pieces and the defenders are threats as well So there are threats them all over the pitch, you know Okay, let's look at the other game Shamrock Rovers against Bose as the other match on Friday night So that was it's gonna be the ones on TV and this one could be a real interesting game Rovers with late goals the last two matches Keeping their push on it at the top of the table They seem to have the look of the champions at the minute. So they have given I will lucky make your own luck scoring late goals and Grinding the results when you're not playing as fluent as maybe they were last season as a sign of a good side a great side and I think they are still They've come on to the radar slightly and they're still top of the league. So They will still be the team to beat it coming out of the season I don't know gonna come good. They've got draw harder. There's a big derby match down there on on Saturday They drew with a right on Tuesday night. So they did they felt they should have won the game But with the change of management there as well and a change of structure on on the line as Can you see done dock now turning things around in the coming weeks? You would expect them to Put a term out the minute supposed with management who was the manager and what was going on behind the scenes there Which is is never good in the football club. No, somebody needs to be in charge The players they have obviously they should be well up the league the budgets what they spend on the professionalism But at the same time results and they haven't won a game yet They're still down along what they're any of the bottom of the league So they will they won't move up the table Challenge for the league this year. I don't think yeah One of the game at the weekends on Saturday as well six o'clock Waterford against that longford town This is that the type of game that you could see a share of the spoils on so does the work I would say so and probably this stage of season is probably early to call it a six-pointer but a one-for-ealer team would be would be huge here because I Think them two clubs plus, you know One or another will be in the bottom half of the table or fighting relegation. So so it's a huge game for both clubs at this point Okay, and Gavin just finally on the Ulster senior league any movement yet as to when you guys you're gonna get a return No, but look the government supposed are talking more positive. So we hope to get back training and may some time Well, they wait to start the new season in August like our leagues I don't know. I think it's too long for footballers to be out of football I think the needy are gonna some sort of local tournaments or something within the leagues just to get guys guys back in the pitch Maybe for June and July And then get out in the fresh air and stuff, you know, so again Looking forward to getting back, but it has to be safe to do so, you know, yeah Okay, we'll wait and see what happens. Hope to be back real soon Gavin as always. Thanks for joining us our League of Ireland chat Cheers. Thanks. Thank you


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