Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the inaugural 2022 Mara guest lecture. It is our pleasure to host Ray Holliday from the St. Louis Zoo and from the Institute of Certified Records Managers today. It is a real pleasure to have you here with us and I am now going to hand the floor over to you, Ray. So yes, so thank you for inviting me to give this guest lecture. I can hopefully do this every year, which is exciting because not all I'm wearing a lot of hats here. So I'll start out with just a brief introduction of myself and then we'll go to the next slide and I'll kind of give you the topics that I'm going to talk about today. So the focus of this presentation is leveraging your rim education and certification in the zoological registrar profession. So I'm going to give you a lot of zoological registrar specific information, but I'm also going to balance that with the global certification along with your education with the Mara program is really going to put you in the best case situation to be able to secure some of the best records or archival jobs out there today. I started my career really young at 17. I was in high school and you know my family history was I lived on 12 acres with my parents. My dad was a blacksmith so he not only chewed horses, shod horses, he broke horses. He was a rodeo performer for quite a few years. He bred quarter horses so we always had quarter horses on the property because we lived in the country. I was always taking in stray animals. I mean I had all kinds of pets. I had many dogs, many cats. I had a pet raccoon which I wouldn't advise now that I'm in the zoo profession but back then it was like nobody knew that wasn't the best idea and I loved my raccoon. He was pretty awesome and so to make a long story short my parents loved animals and they passed that love on to me and they I was surrounded by animals my entire you know till I was in my 20s and then of course from that point on I always had a dog or cat of my own and my high school counselor so I only had to work I have a I only had to go to school half a day in my senior year and I was trying to find a job that I could do with animals. I knew I didn't want to be a veterinarian it just wasn't my thing but I did want to work with animals and my high school counselor suggested I apply to the San Antonio Zoo which is where I'm originally from. She knew the zoo director there well I was able to get a job I worked in all the concession stands I worked in the gift shop not with animals but all day long all the animal people were all out and about and I was able to meet them and eventually when I started my first stint with college in northern Wisconsin towards a biology degree I was able to be a part-time keeper during the summers for the zoo so I did that for two years came back after my second year did not want to go back to northern Wisconsin okay I'm a Texas girl I don't know how I didn't freeze to death the two years I was there or even get around I I didn't have snow tires on my car I was it was just awful and so it took me a little bit to get back to finish my formal education but what I was really trying to do right then was to get a full-time keeper job because I wanted to work my way up and eventually become a curator and manage an animal collection well no full-time keeper jobs were open this is this is what happens in our is we're working our career through we have to deal with all kinds of unexpected barriers limitations not being able to get the job we want we have to be willing to get our foot in the door and then work a plan to get that dream job right and so this records job came up it was like animal records Clark I'm like I can do this I can get this and you know I'll do it for a while and as soon as a full-time keeper job comes open that I'm going to be you know on to that well I got in that position and I all my records manager genes that were hidden inside of me were coming out right that's like the organization working with the records sorry for my dogs are barking they'll be quiet the second they're barking at the trash guy outside and uh you know I just realized I really love this I still work with all the animal people but I'm getting to do the business side which I really like too so after five years of doing that they promoted me to what is registrar now that title is a little misleading I think it's a little antiquated and obsolete for what this position does today but nonetheless my title hasn't changed yet I I manage all the animal records I did at San Antonio zoo all the animal shipments all of the permit compliance so very heavily weighted on records management but also compliance and then other stuff in between like shipping animals but in order to ship animals you have to generate the correct records you have to be able to there's a huge impact to the records because it's so highly regulated and you have to make sure that when you're shipping animals that they get there safely that animal welfare is a huge consideration and there's just a lot of coordination and stuff so so they sent me to my first association of zoos and aquariums conference and when I went to that conference it was amazing I met so many people and I met the director at the st. Louis zoo and they were looking to hire their first registrar I got the job and I've been there ever since so I just sell them a January 14th was my 31 years at the st. Louis zoo and in the mid 90s so I started there in 91 I realized how many records the zoo had it had been open since 1904 so just a ton of records and I just I didn't know a lot yet about the the holistic part of records management but I could tell that we needed to be doing more than they were doing at that time I was able to get a local records grant from the state of Missouri they had a new grant program and I I over the time over that over the 90s I got several of those grants and we microphoneed all the historical records at that time microphone was the best thing going right and that evolution took place now so I've gone through all the various I got my certification with the institute of certified records managers I finished my formal education I got my MBA which has served me really well in this position and really it became my lifelong career goal to elevate this position in zoos and aquariums they need the skills and competencies provided through the ice here and certification definitely if many of these people can go back and get their education or they're just considering education all the partnerships that we have in place now to help them get both you know at the same time is wonderful so that's my story you know I network and I mentor and coach many records managers across so many different audiences not only in the zoo profession but with armor with the schools with the icrm members and candidates so it's it's something that I'm very committed to and I just I love helping people because as you can read from the story I just told you there was nothing I had you I had to want all of the stuff that I've been able to work on and get to and achieve for myself and for others took a lot of hard work so but hopefully and I think that it has had some really positive impact for those that'll come after me so let me go on to the we talk about the education so the path there's several paths here we'll talk about the moral program at San Jose State so you are really in the most amazing program Dr. Frank's worked really hard to align that program when it first started to the icrm outline and under you know having a deep understanding of records management and what the program needed to be current day and so that is wonderful and I know that Dara is working on you know taking that to the next level rim certification the Institute of Certified Records Managers so they started in 1975 and at that time and at Leahy which I'm sure you've heard of by now you know they did all the work in the federal government the early work of federal records management implementing what now we know is a records management program records centers and all those different things but there was you know from that outcome there were records management professionals working in the federal government that realized there wasn't anything there were very limited program education programs in place for the wider scope of records management always been library science always been archives but the records management and the differences with all the things specific to records management weren't there and so the certification a process by which you could be benchmarked against your peers a global process so not us specific but you know it's really needed to help advance the room profession and that's how the Institute of Certified Records Managers began but even today with so many education programs there's still many that don't have access to those programs or they've been in the field too long to justify going and expending that kind of money to get a formal REM specific degree so it's still extremely relevant it's also relevant because once you're done with your education you're done learning unless you have a certification that forces you to keep your skills up you're going to conferences you're doing projects that apply the skills you learned in your education program but also what you've been tested on through the Institute so really really important now talking a little more industry specific the Association of Zoos and Aquariums that's a regional zoo association AZA is the North American Regional Zoo Association but there's others all around the world and they are an advisory organization to zoos and aquariums in North America that are members of AZA they provide standards and accreditation standards the zoo I work for is a member of AZA and I had the opportunity in 2019 to lead a task force they asked me to lead a task force on updating the record standards and a result of that work was we had a committee of I think a total of about 10 people across all different positions I led this part specific to record standards and that resulted in five new record standards for AZA zoos and aquariums which I never thought it would happen in my lifetime so I was really really you know because some of the stuff you need that overreaching highest authority to say you need to do this so those record standards are now tied to accreditation you have you have to do them in order to meet your accreditation requirements that includes having a retention schedule for animal and veterinary records so these are standards under the animal welfare and care it includes using a electronic records management system there's only a few in use for the kind of information we capture but we're using the largest one business continuity plans preference for electronic records so the preference is supporting the transition away from paper so that is helping it's helping with all the efforts that the Zoological Registrar Association ZRA has been working on since 1984 when it was formed we do have an ICRM mentorship program which I'll talk about a little more but really that is the premier association to help you if you're looking to be a zoological registrar we have a training certificate program we have an annual conference we have a listserv which is fantastic it's really a great and the annual dues for a professional member for only $35 a year so it's very affordable you can also be an associate which means you have an interest in records but you're not in a professional registrar position yet and then lastly I'm going to touch on the St. Louis's virtual internship that we established was San Jose State University in 2020 so I did want to just spend a couple of minutes here there's a couple links here which are really important to you but in 2017 we formalized the partnership with San Jose State meaning the Institute of Certified Records Managers formalized the partnership with San Jose State University to provide a credit for parts one through five to those graduates of the MARA program that had completed the courses outlined in the MOU because you also have to have the internship project the consulting project I forget the exact name for it with your school but that's part of the requirement as well and we allow that to be used as your one-year professional experience if you don't have one year of work experience yet that's a hardcore requirement of the Institute even if you were going through the ICRM process directly to take the examinations in order to qualify to sit for the exams you must have one-year professional experience so the reason why we're able to approve that that internship is that is because you know you have when we instituted this Dr. Franks was at CRM Melissa Dobby's at CRM so all of the students are working under the direction of someone who holds one of our credentials but the because of the strong crosswalk to the exam outline you're getting the best case scenario to be able to come out the courses real quick this is the page if you haven't been there Sarah um oh did I get your name wrong Megan is it Megan Ward yeah yes sorry Sarah was our first virtual internship with San Jose so I kind of had her on my brain um so this here explains this link here that's on the slide you've probably already been hearing where this but it explains the difference between the certified records analyst or CRA and the certified records manager so the CRA we launched in 2016 and we recommend that all candidates and applicants uh get their CRA first so if you're in the MARA program and you meet the requirements for the partnership I would strongly recommend that you apply to the Institute when you apply you will select the application that is the San Jose state CRM testing application and go ahead and indicate that you want to accept your CRM your CRA first then you have an unlimited amount of time to pay take part six for this to get the CRM um that just takes the pressure off of you if something comes up life gets in the way and you're not able then by getting your CRA first you don't have that you must get all the parts passed within five years or then you have to start actually taking the exam so you don't want to end up in that situation so you can graduate apply to the Institute and accept your CRA immediately after graduation you will um request from uh Dr. Hot you'll from Dara you will request from her the verification letter and in that letter once the transcripts are reviewed and everything she will confirm that you have satisfactorily completed the following five required courses MARA 204 210 211 249 and MARA 284 and then also you've hopefully completed the internship now remind me Dara the internship is required isn't it it is no not a required course but it's a highly recommended course okay so if you have completed that when you apply to the ICRM you're going to upload that letter that she gives you twice one so that they know that you you're in this partnership requirement you've selected that particular application this verifies that you kept past all the courses needed that you met the partnership requirements and then you uploaded the second time if you need to use it for your one year professional experience so that's how you take advantage of the partnership you know I would encourage just just make sure that you stay up on this and you understand what you have to do you have once she does the letter for you you have 180 days to apply for the credit so there it is time sensitive and I just can't emphasize enough this is just such a really great great program okay so let me get back to the slide here we'll go to the next slide I kind of went over a little bit about aza already but it's a network of more than 600 zoo and aquarium professionals organizations and suppliers all share a commitment with to wildlife conservation education science and animal care it also welcomes public members who support the conservation work of zoos and aquariums and this is just a link to aza's diversity and and inclusivity policy so that is very important to the zoo and aquarium profession that we have the most diverse workforces in place across all of its various members and we offer equal opportunity so you can read that at your leisure um here's just a recap of a part of it um I'm not going to read it to you can read it like I said at your opportunity but they are committed to this and this is something that is looked at in the accreditation process that that all zoos that are members have a process for this we have a committee an entire committee dedicated and this is a list of those other regional zoo associations that I told you about so depending on where you actually live you know everyone's participating in the mar program online so you could be anywhere so um this might be if you have an interest in pursuing a records management job zoological registrar job in zoos and aquariums some of these others might have relevancy too we also have world specific associations so the american association of zookeepers the association of zoo veterinarian technicians and then again the zoological registrar association and we do zra does partner with these other associations because there's there's quite a number of registrars that do other jobs so they might be an animal keeper at the smaller zoos in particular they might be responsible for registrar duties keeper duties or registrar duties and um they might also be a vet tech so you'll see a lot of that um in the smaller zoos so zra was formed in 1984 with a small group of 12 people across quite a few zoos in duties and and that's how the that was a very beginning of the zoological rec registrar position development there were a handful of they were more historians at that time than they were actual registrars but um they all had seemed to have either a museum studies or an MLIS degree and they kind of rose to the top because they had that additional awareness and those additional credentials that helped them deal with the historic the historical aspect of records the archives but it was all paper based back then then in the mid 1980s aza created a record standards had to have a position responsible and trained and trained in the management of animal records during the 10 years that followed the deployment of that standard zra's membership doubled so as i was saying before about how standards really help this is case in point here um and so the reason why this happened in the 80s was in the 70s that's when the majority of all the wildlife laws and regulations began to deal with the exploitation of wildlife companies people were importing wildlife like it was candy and doing whatever they wanted to with it and they were starting to see scientists working with you know all kinds of projects in the wild were seeing a decline and so the convention on international trade and endangered and threatened species or cites was an international uh law that was put into effect to protect wildlife to monitor trade and then the endangered species act was us specific but had the same teeth the same level of protection that cites did and of course then we had the migratory bird treaty act which monitored all the activities and restricted activities with migratory birds whether in the us or internationally so all these laws and that's just a few there's many more injurious wildlife i just all kinds of laws and acts and so the profession became overnight heavily regulated right so zoos were spinning around going oh my gosh you know now what do we have to do to be able to acquire animals and disposition animals and and then and also science was advancing there was more and more research being done on captive animal collection so those two things led to it can no longer be curators each doing their own permits dealing with the records it was too decentralized and unorganized it had to be managed by a single professional and and aquariums followed a little slower but most of the big zoos and medium zoos and now you know you see what the smaller zoos they just add those duties to the responsibility of someone else but nonetheless they meet the standard by doing that um so the zoological registrar position is recognized and supported by aza many registrars participate in aza committees and training courses the zoological registrar association is the professional association representing and advancing the registrar position within the zoological community so it garners a high level of respect at this point it's been around for a long time and participated in a lot of great projects that have been able to raise its level of respect in the community and it started out with 12 members it's now i think over 300 members now so it's grown a lot um so this is the link i'm not going to pop over there right now but this is the website there's a there's a job description posted under general resources that gives you this is sort of the best case if you could have the perfectly structured registrar job that of course across all of our 300 members the consensus that this is the best job description we have put one together for the registrar and the assistant registrar jobs and we promulgate those to aza so that if they have members looking to create this position they have this from the industry you know from the position specific association to to be able to follow so records management and compliance so scientific based information is very important and valued in zoos um we we have a global web-based record keeping system that we use and many other about 1200 other zoos and aquariums use it's called the zoological information management system and it tracks husbandry information as well as medical information but husbandry information is on a day-to-day basis the animal keepers working directly with the animals are training animals they're providing enrichment which is could be anything from a ball or a a bone presented a certain way or for like great apes it might be something that's filled with something and they have to use a tool or work to get it out that's enriching their lives by giving them something to do that they would be doing it if they were still in the wild right and then animal welfare is just their their quality of life um you know their needs are being met um specific needs by species that we're meeting their needs when we ship them that we're shipping them in a way that doesn't cause them stress and that you know make sure that they arrive in good and healthy condition and then of course the medical records so zoological activities with wildlife again are highly regulated so legal compliance for animal transactions imparts thereof which means biological samples so many times I'm importing animals but I'm also because we have 10 conservation centers around the world our researchers are often importing biological samples for research and those have all the same requirements from a permitting standpoint that a live animal shouldn't have won so I have to I have to keep up on all those laws and regulations and make sure that we retain the records that that are needed to meet minimum legal requirements okay let's see so this is just an excerpt from the job description but this when we were working on this my contributions included statements like this that was pulled directly from the ICRM descriptions um for managing both active and inactive animal records because we do that um and ensuring data quality appropriate retention preservation and accessibility that had to be in there just like that has to be in the standards that has to be so that registrars understand this is relevant you're not just working in the global animal record keeping database you're dealing with shipping documentation and all of these things and how is that retention mandated for your zoo or your profession is is there a local city state mandate for retention that you have to follow so this is just making sure that they understand how to find that information and how to apply it to animal records and veterinary records so you can see a lot of this and then and then we have the industry specific aspects so if we weren't managing records in a zoo if we were managing records for say energy or pharmaceutical you'd still have that line in there it would just be all those specific federal and state local requirements for that industry for pharmaceutical or energy in this case it's for wildlife stuff but it's it's the same process it's the same core competency it's compliance right all right and this is just additional kind of you know how animal records are managed in the database and how training is accomplished we have most registrars have to do the annual animal census so you have to you know it's a standard and a AZA accreditation standard that you have an animal inventory done every year because that basically documents your assets related to the animal collection and then participating in ZRA regional zoo associations and other appropriate professional associations in an effort to develop and set standards for animal records and information management okay so just always elevating the level of professionalism for the registrar position we have a professional development committee in fact um Sarah Wang who was our first virtual you know she was already she had interned and was already interning at San Diego Zoo and so this was her second opportunity to do something for a zoo and I think pretty sure she's been bitten by the zoo bug so she joined ZRA and she joined our professional development committee and most likely we'll be participating in our first update to our training certificate program it's an online training program that covers all the core competencies and job duties for a registrar job and it also has a REM module which is what I was saying Lisa Dahlmey helped us on so this is a great you know if you're looking into the zoo registrar position as an opportunity of possible career you'd absolutely want to join ZRA as far as possible just to start monitoring the lists are and plugging in to some of these resources taking the training certificate program again we offer the ICRM mentorship program we partner ZRA partners with the ICRM every year to host a ZRA specific it's been virtual the last couple years but we we've hosted in-person exam prep workshops since 2008 so this year we're virtual again and we're actually partnering with the ARMA Kelowna conference so it'll be a three-way partnership but the training certificate program is very economical it's all online if you're a member of ZRA we have a scholarship that we administer through the professional development committee so you can get you can attend one workshop of your choice either for CRA, CRM or the part six so for someone graduating from the MARA program the part six workshop might be something that you would consider taking because that actually gives you a opportunity to write us a sample business case and then we review the suggested answer for you so just reinforcing what is required for part six because if you're going to be a CRM even with the credit for parts one through five no one gets a credit for part six to get your CRM you'll have to take part six so the TCP provides entry-level training resources and professional development it also serves at the benchmark for evolving best practices that can be helpful to long-term members I always say if you have been a registrar for 20 30 years and you haven't taken any kind of either webinars or courses or got your certification or anything like that on current global best practices for records management at least take this training program because you're probably lacking some skills I mean it just changes so quickly now you can't you can't do this job on autopilot like back when it was paper you can't do it that way anymore so really really important there's six modules that are part of the training certificate program and I'm again module two is specific to REM we talk a lot about the resources through ARMA we talk a lot about the ICRM we give the basic steps towards the life cycle management competencies so there's more awareness and then we refer them to certification for the deep dives this is a link to AZA jobs so most all the registered positions that come become available they do get to send to ZRA and we put them on the listserv but AZA has a pretty robust job board so I would suggest of you know like I said if you're interested I would start monitoring that regularly because we still do have a lot of registrars retiring and positions are coming up open a lot more frequently these days associate membership and ZRA again does not require you to be a zoological registrar but it gives you access to the listserv and more job postings are shared now let's uh let's end with talking a little bit about the virtual internship opportunity with the st. Louis so we're just so proud I do so many virtual internships now not only with San Jose state but with others once we have the process solidified and streamlined and you know we know what we're doing now with how to manage this with virtual check-ins and doing the training in a virtual way and we we just can't thank San Jose state university enough to give us our opportunity to do this and I really hope that we can get some more virtual internships from San Jose state so this is the I'll actually pop over here this is where our internship is listed so this is the database and then if you just go down here and put in the institution name scroll to st. Louis zoo st. Louis and then I think you all you have to just hit search and it'll bring it up and so I brought it up and then you can read this Megan if this is something that you think you might want to try um we have a lot of projects that we do that cover all these different uh core competencies so we do a lot of conversion you know we're still I still have departments coming to me all the time going I found all these paper records down in the basement so we have to we have to go through them review them check them against the retention schedule determine if it's still records is it are are they vital records are they you know what what's their price value today and then if they need to be retained and we then we put them into our document management system we use a system called docuware and so that turns into a lot of projects that we can extend to the interns and externs that we work with with all the university programs so I've done since since we started virtual San Jose we had interns from LSU from Denver from st. John's University we have a local southwestern Illinois college so we're adding more and more st. Louis University we've been working with them forever in person but we've done some virtual ones now I get interns from their health and information management degree program every year so um we have a migration project that was just completed with our ZEMS medical so all the medical records we also completed one with an intern from SLU this year that had to be not this year but last year again conversion from paper records into docuware for our institute of conservation medicine program we have a big project this year that's focusing on the duplication aspect required by Missouri animal health for our medical records so they're in the global database but they have to be duplicated in another location for five years and so we're using docuware for that as well but we have 10 file cabinets of stuff that has to be you know the part the administrator on site will go through and determine what gets scanned in the docuware and then the scanning and the indexing will be an intern project we also have another couple of departments that are left to roll out our ZEMS enrichment module so that's an onboarding project we've placed Sarah Sarah did two of those for us and it's a matter of adding the approved enrichment items to ZEMS and then assigning those items to all the animals that are in that department and they're relevant doing that in tests to learn how to do it and then going into the live database and doing all of that onboarding so that the keepers who have extremely limited time they would never get to do this if they had to spend all that time entering those records so by us being able to outsource that to the interns and externs gives makes it possible for us to roll those things out in a timely way and it also gives interns and externs an excellent project to work on that's due specific okay so let's go back and I think that might be let's see so this is specific to the animal enrichment so you will the learning outcomes with that as you will learn the enrichment manager role because that's the role that adds all the items and does all the assignments and then we also have we are developing our online ZEMS training program so all of the training that we do for anyone that's going to be using that program at our zoo we are taking all of that and making an online program to be rolled out hopefully by April 1 so if someone would happen to come on board as an intern or extern right now they would probably beta test those new courses for us and they might actually get to help build some of those courses in think effect and that's the program that we'll be using and I've got 15 minutes so Megan do you have any questions so it sounds like this is more towards a morrow certificate at the moment I'm in the MLIS part it's not heavy yeah I'm sorry I didn't mean to exclude you in any way it's I don't think it's limiting though we have students that do stuff for us from other programs that are strictly MLIS or MLS okay great yeah I did try to apply for the virtual internship earlier before the spring semester started I think it took me to like a more general application so maybe I need to revisit that were you were you were you the one that's that had indicated interest originally and then you weren't able to do it uh no I was never contacted okay okay because I did have a student the last time I gave this talk and they were really excited and then something happened with their time commitment they weren't able to do it um yeah I probably messed up on the application yeah is who who should she talk to Dara maybe if she wants to try this on making sure she does the application correctly well I'm always happy to help in any way I can but our internship supervisor is actually Dr Linda Main okay yeah and and and feel free like once you go there and you update and you and you decide if you want to apply just reach out and start communicating with me directly because we have to have you apply through our volunteer services department as well to meet the St. Louis requirements now I see okay great that's too difficult those projects look very interestingly in Richmond and the creation of the online training programs I I'm actually a career transitioner I was a teacher so yeah that would be great and then I wonder if we have a very small zoo over in Folsom it's it's different from the Sacramento Zoo in that they're more about rescuing animals that can't go back into the wild but the big part of their programming is enrichment and demonstrating to the public like what these animals are capable of so like for example last summer when people started going camping more they gave the bear a cooler it's a play with let's just show like okay this is bear walk bear lockers have you ever seen all the enrichment that they give like the orangutans and stuff because you know they built in the wild they build their nest every night so they'll put straw and paper and they're laying in and everywhere and building these you know these complicated structures of stuff and then they crawl into it and that's like their nest for the night if they didn't have that stuff it wouldn't be able to do what they do you know and building their nest right and I like how the community around the zoo really supports the zoo they I guess there was a pumpkin farmer had a lot of leftovers after Halloween so that almost every single animal had pumpkins to mess with and yet the squirrels there a squirrel just loved it they love pumpkin is very very popular very true well this sounds great and I will tell you so we do we are building the training courses for zems but we're also in my my employee Lily she's the assistant registrar she's she does a lot of the work with the interns on actually teaching them how to add all the stuff to zems but we also have about six modules for docuware which you know we're going to be busy with trying to get all the stuff converted over to online training for a while zems will probably need to be done by April 1 but then I'm going to need to help with the docuware stuff as well so there's there's plenty of work with that and then we have one other module that we have to do for SharePoint but if you have a preference for animal specific stuff if we can get you approved and get you through all that process I'm like I said there's no shortage of projects wow great sounds great okay well thank you so much for having me again Dara and um I should probably be calling you Dr. Hoffman I apologize I'm just so it's okay but no thank you so much for taking the time to prepare this enjoy this I always learn so much when you join us and I'm really grateful for your time and expertise and I think as for the student especially it's a really valuable perspective to to see what records management looks like you know out in the real world because we've had uh you're the third presentation this year we've had a gentleman who works with UNESCO and or sorry with UN and has done like rich records management it's from South Sudan and those kinds of projects and then we had someone from the harvard libraries talking about general preservation and so I think it's great that they can see how diverse the profession really is when you go out and you know roll up your sleeves and get into this world that's great well I do have a question um once this recording is shared am I able to share that with absolutely it will be up on our youtube channel um but I will um ask as well about how you could you know share it beyond just you know sharing to a link to our youtube okay that sounds great great again I look forward to hearing from you and thank you so much again for the time today thank you


I mean it is one of those true moments of terror that you have In a in a street fight where you don't know what's what's happening. What is the difference because mma sparring You might feel like you're gonna lose but you know, you can tap or consider like there's not that same life or death feeling If you could explain that difference, I think people would get it Well, it's um, you know a lot of my last talk if you guys haven't seen it I talk a bit about this is turning on the killer instinct and turning it off and that basically it's going from zero to 100 back down to zero and a lot of that You you will it will help you control your emotions a little bit There's always going to be some sort of fear and there's always, you know Especially in the midst of chaos when things just get worse and worse or you get punched and you didn't see which side the punch came from You can still train and still maintain your reactions to your emotions You won't be able to control your emotions all the time but the uh, the difference really is um We're trying to how to explain this is is your training should kick kick in and so the moment Let's say i'm in a fight one on one and out of my periphery. I see somebody Rush in from the side. I have to switch my mindset and and engage with both people I have to be able to you know Even I may I may want to kill this guy right in front of me But the moment I see something out of the side of my eye I have to disengage and drop everything and that can only come through training If I you know if i'm really nervous before the fight in the moment the fight happens I have to have sufficient training to where my reactions Come in so it's really it's not even something you think about something you actually have to train And we do that through putting ourselves through different scenarios different scenarios to where you're just flowing from one thing to another Where you're grappling with somebody's all of a sudden somebody throws in a knife One person grabs a knife that changes the dynamics and depending on where You are you're on the bottom on the top and and your opponent grabs a knife or you grab the knife You have to switch into the appropriate attack or defense mode You know two on one defense is much different than a one-on-one defense versus three on one defense versus a knife defense and it's really just having the mindset to to recognize what's happening and Equate that to reality as much as you can in other words, you know You're not going to try to do some fancy disarm the moment you see a blade comes out Hopefully you're gonna you're gonna run because it's you know, I don't care what you know How fast you are it only takes one one stab at the knife one slice of the knife.


Hey everyone, this is Dan. The Federal Open Market Committee, FOMC, finished their two-day meeting today and announced at 2 p.m. today 0.25% increase in the Fed funds rate. The FOMC statement was also posted at 2 p.m. today. The 0.25% rate hike was widely expected in the last few days. It was therefore not a bearish surprise to the market. Since the FOMC statement was moderately dovish compared to the previous FOMC statement, the market started to go up after 2 p.m. Then at 2.30 p.m. Fed Chair Jerome Powell started his press conference. The market was holding steady when Chair Powell was reading his prepared remarks at the beginning of the press conference. Once he started to answer questions, the market started to drop. And after the press conference, the market dropped even more. Had market closed today, S&P 500 had dropped 1.7% for the day. So what happened? Did today's FOMC decision or Chair Powell's remarks start a new bearish trend? Will the market recover in the next few days? I believe Chair Powell's answers to the reporter's questions today did not give the investors enough confidence about the health of our banking system. After the failures of the Silicon Valley Bank and signature banks in the last two weeks, many investors started to draw parallels between today and 2008, as you might know already, dozens of banks failed in 2008. 2008 was followed by 2009 and 2010 when more than 100 banks failed, causing what is known as a global financial crisis. In today's press conference, 17 reporters asked questions and 10 of them asked questions related to the banks. These bank-related questions are mostly about, one, whether the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and signature bank was spread to other banks. Does the Fed know what went wrong with Silicon Valley Bank? Does the Fed know how to prevent other banks from failing in the same way like Silicon Valley Bank or signature bank? How will the emergency fund recently set up to help the banks be distributed among the banks? What is Chair Powell's thought on the merger between Credit Suisse and UBS? Whether the instability risk of commercial real estate will affect the small regional banks? The reporters in the room and most of the investors watching the press conference were probably hoping Chair Powell to say, we have the bank situation under control. We have effectively stopped the financial contagion and will make sure that 2023 will not be a repeat of 2008. If Chair Powell said that today, the stock market would have gone up during and after the press conference. Instead, Chair Powell was his usual careful self. It seemed that he anticipated the bank-related questions and was speaking from his prepared script, and nothing more than what was on the script. He said the following, and I'm quoting directly from the video transcript of the press conference. Our view is that the banking system is sound and it's resilient. It's got strong capital liquidity. We took powerful actions with Treasury and the FDIC, which demonstrate that all depositors' savings are safe and that the banking system is safe. Deposit flows in the banking system have stabilized over the last week. Silicon Valley Bank management failed badly. They grew the bank very quickly. They exposed the bank to significant liquidity risk and interest rate risk and did not hatch that. We have undertaken a thorough internal review that will identify where we can strengthen supervision and regulation. It would be inappropriate for me at this stage to offer my views on what the answers might be. You know I simply can't do that. Vice Chair Barr is leading this and I think he's testifying next week, so that will be up to him. We will continue to closely monitor conditions in the banking system and are prepared to use all of our tools as needed to keep it safe and sound. In addition, we are committed to learning the lessons from this episode and to work to prevent episodes like this from happening again. Chair Powell did not elaborate on exactly how the Fed can prevent the bank failures from spreading to more banks. He mentioned ongoing Fed internal review 10 times in the press conference. Basically, he was telling everyone that he was not ready to give more details or jump to any conclusion today. That to many people, including myself, is not very reassuring. And that's why S&P 500 dropped 1.7% today. As for myself, I bought and sold the leveraged S&P ETF SPXL in the last few days. I anticipated the market to recover somewhat after the dip related to the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Cincture Bank. Right after the FOMC press conference today, I sold my SPXL shares and took my 0.4% gain, but I still hold out of long positions. I have not given up on the market yet. I am still optimistic about what the Fed can do and will do to stabilize the banking system. In fact, after comparing the data between 2008 and the data from 2023, I see that the Fed in 2023 is much more proactive with providing liquidity to the economy and to the banking system after the two bank failures as compared to what the Fed did back in 2008. I believe 2023 will be much better than 2008. And I will share my analysis in another video which I will publish in the next couple of days. If you want to see my analysis on this topic, stay tuned and please subscribe to my YouTube channel so that you can be notified when I publish my next video on this topic. I'd like to also suggest for you to subscribe to my Twitter account, which is DanMocketL, so that you can see some of my stock trades as well as receive my latest market updates. As usual, I very much welcome your comments, questions and suggestions. I'd like to remind you that I'm not a financial advisor. I share my stock trading strategies and analysis for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you want to buy or sell stocks, you should make your own decisions and you should definitely consult with your financial advisors before you do so. This wraps up my video for now. I will chat with you again in the next few days. In the meanwhile, I'd like to wish you the very best of luck with your financial investments.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here? So we're gonna be talking about Jeepers Creepers reborn today Jeepers Creepers 4 as you see on your screen here that website 23rd day calm the website that we didn't used to have a countdown for now has a countdown Of course the countdown time has changed since I took this screen cap. But yes, we are nearly less than seven days before we get that official Announcement reveal or whatever the heck it may be don't know what it is. It's supposed to happen next Saturday I'm assuming it's supposed to happen at Who well who knows? Next Saturday is when it's supposed to happen But the countdown will tell us better than I can shout out to Tyler who also reached out to Timo over on Twitter to let him Know about this and see what he had to say about it. He's just saying he doesn't know anything like always He said that that's likely the plan Although I don't know myself exactly what it is that's going to be revealed on the 23rd date After being asked that he's heard that either on the 23rd and 28th That's something about Jeepers creepers are born will be revealed and he asked him if it's true And that's what Timo had to say that's likely the plan. I don't believe Timo is that in the dark about what's going on I think he's just not allowed to come out and directly say it, but he's allowed to beat around the bush he's allowed to either ignore or beat around the bush and his choice of Fun is beating around the bush As far as I what's coming I again am hoping and praying that it's an official cast announcement Hopefully a better official look at the creeper some official stills getting us in the better mindset of what we can expect from this movie getting to understand What the characters are and who did and what they're going to bring to the table Maybe that's Sydney Craven interview that I told you guys has already been shot On set who knows if they actually released But we know we have new cast interviews on the way because an email came out Saying that we have all of this stuff to look forward to coming soon Regarding the film and all the exclusives that will get since we subscribe if you go to the 23rd day website and put in your email You have subscribed at the bottom of the page you can subscribe to receive Official exclusive things about the film to that to your email directly Now whether or not the movie itself is actually Going to be released this year. I Believe that that's not going to happen However, I will say that there is a potential chance that at the end of the day What I had originally told you could in fact still be the case and because it got revealed too soon They started backtracking started pulling from the tickets that were on sale Since they were on sale for what reason maybe they didn't want anyone to know about it But again, like I said before When you have a fathom of it You have to plan this stuff well in advance November 2nd wasn't a lie It's just that that's probably something that's changed November 2nd wasn't a lie all these outlets and these chains didn't have theaters or all these theaters and theaters and AMC chains and other chains some regal cinemas They didn't have tickets on sale just for the sake of hey, you know, it's a it's a good data You know put Jeepers Creepers 4 or Jeepers Creepers were born in our system And you know put up a bunch of random showtimes on November 2nd 3rd 4 5th and let's charge the the public $13 admission just for the fun of it That's not that's not what happened clearly. There was some communication between screen media and AMC regal all these other chains that had it listed and that was the plan That was the targeted date November 2nd whether or not they'll still be able to make that date Maybe we'll find that out next Saturday When this official big announcement or wherever the heck it is comes out to let us know what's going on with the movie But again, if you go to the website, it looks like they're going to reveal a an official poster for one thing The other thing that we all are hoping and praying for is the cast line up But at this point I've kind of already detailed everything and again I will say that if they have any major surprises like a ray wise or a Gina Phillips in it Announced them don't save them for don't save them for the film announced them use them to market the film Gina Phillips and ray wise if you reach the right audience in terms of those that have been waiting since 2003 to revisit the world of Jeepers Creepers appropriately in the 23 year time jump if ray wise and Gina Phillips are in your movie Promote them as being in it. Don't save it for the movie. Sure. That'll be a nice surprise But at this point, I think this movie is pretty in a position to be very desperate for attention If it wants to actually launch a new trilogy because at the end of the day Even if we don't get that's that launch of a new trilogy from this at least Hopefully a lot of us can sit down and say, you know what? I waited since 2003 to finally have a decent trilogy on my hand and I do hopefully by the end of Jeepers Creepers 4 again I'm not expecting anything to be a masterpiece here. I don't think you guys should expect that either expected to be very subpar in terms of how it develops its characters and maybe it's more Effective than just being a straightforward dumb fun horror movie kind of like how I guess I would describe Jeepers Creepers 2 Because Jeepers Creepers 2 yes is a step down from the original. I do say I have more fun with Jeepers Creepers 2 It's definitely more action packed I think I rewatched that movie a lot more than the original But if you're talking about which one was the better made film out of the out of the two that we Would of course consider good films forget that third one I'm gonna put Jeepers Creepers 1 over the second one But hopefully by the end of Jeepers Creepers 4 we have yet another decent entry We can finally sit down to say you know what? I'm content with what I've got I don't care what they do with this IP anymore if they end up making a Jeepers Creepers 5 I'll watch it if they don't I'm fine because I haven't I I have my Completed trilogy that I've been waiting so desperately to have and also I don't want to see the creeper die necessarily if the creeper ends up living at the end of Jeepers Creepers 4 and it ends on another cliffhanger Then it just ends on a cliffhanger I mean in many ways you could argue that the original film ended on a cliffhanger because the creeper was still out there He was still poised to keep on terrorizing, but we got a sequel which Resolved said cliffhanger depending on how you look at it Jeepers Creepers the original one could be to some people perceived as ending on a cliffhanger since the monster is still out There and it hasn't been stopped But you know next Saturday, we're supposed to get that big big big big big announcement Pretty sure it'll be the poster Hopefully it'll be the cast lineup. Hopefully we'll have an updated synopsis some better official stills of the creeper Maybe even a sit-down with the person who plays the creeper to kind of learn the mindset that they had going into the role Are they fans of the original movies? Did they watch anything from Jonathan Brecht to try to kind of not? Necessarily overly imitate but kind of draw inspiration from how they brought the character life and what they want to do with their own little spin on it so much that we can I guess look forward to hopefully potentially getting next Saturday because again, the only thing it looks like we are 100% gonna get is an official poster, but of course anything could happen We could end up getting an announcement saying hey go out and watch Jeepers Creepers We've worn November 2nd and here are the tickets because again at this time of this recording from what I've seen There are still tickets on sale Fathom has said that those are leftovers from the already cancelled event But who knows let me know what you think about this down in the comment section below if you haven't already of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notifications so that you never miss a video in the description I have links to my social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course there's any movies who deserve you usually I'm gonna cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


The Q&A ah Nathan. Hello Then how's the chair is Ben's chair here? That guy. Oh, it's just Ben Cowan. Where's Ben's chair. I'm just kidding Ben. Hello Ben. Hello, Beatty. I Know what would what would turn turn Ben into the video is when I talk about my portfolio in the DCA and him going Yeah, I told you should have not have dollar cost average, which is pretty true But I think of a title be okay Let's see Mr. Bren maybe when you were tweeted a copies the rights of the original tweet I don't know brand but though the whole point is to not is to eliminate the bots Right, so even if I did it again, it'll be the same thing I think and of course if those bots have that blue check mark that means the bots are getting verified And the bots are getting verified to paying for something if they're paying for something then Twitter is taking that money I'm not saying they shouldn't do that. I'm just saying it's kind of a very interesting situation We're trying to eliminate bots and you're taking money from the bots the same thing like when you guys are clicking on my YouTube videos Do you not see scam videos coming out? Yeah, you know what that means Somebody's paying for that and it's getting through this the slipstream of YouTube and their and their ability to to shut things out And then of course you get Exposed to that and people who are new and but you know who who makes it Follow the money that would be Google The one and only good show Yeah, I had a makeup for yesterday. Everybody's pretty ticked off because I talked about sweat going so much Hey, what are you gonna do? Is next month a good time to invest in crypto for first-time buyers? I think the this is not financial advice Do you want I think the worst time is the worst time is never and And There's too many too many things I think I think if you don't diversify a little bit It's a little bit more dangerous, and I think that's you know Probably a thing if you're just getting into it probably the most stable asset in the most unstable market would be Bitcoin Yeah, Rob will we do will we rally into a session pull up a Ben chart? Yeah, we usually do That's usually what happens We rally into a recession then we drop off the yield uninverts Goes above and then and then we have a recession so And we can take a look at the yield curves, but we already did it yesterday. It's looked like it's gonna happen Ten year and three month treasuries One time I made a comment and said poker on Twitter and we received an answer from poker, but yeah very funny To Shay Multiple celebrities in the chat multiple knows a break from the cycle are here. Well, welcome everybody. Thanks for stuff Love bugger, it's what coins a scam sure. Oh It's all a scam. Look, you know bitcoins a scam, right? I Can't believe Rob just said that and that'll probably be the next that the snippet I'll see on Twitter later Now it's like this everybody thinks everything's a scam, right? I mean if you can if you talk to anybody's traditional finance Not everybody some people they'll say it's a scam you talk to your family members like guaranteed I'll tell you and it's just all what you believe is to be true I personally don't think that but everything that I talk about like even if I talk about Ethereum some people will say That's a scam Remember when Ethereum came out. What are the Bitcoin maximalist said? They said the only reason for Ethereum is to take your funding out of Bitcoin into a S coin That's what Ethereum was and of course don't even give me start about dogecoin everything else. Everything is just a huge scam and then of course I mean You can go into into just traditional equities. They'll say well, this is a scam and that's a scam everything's a scam Real estate to scam. I don't know. It's done pretty well for me. I can't I can't complain about it Yeah, if Rob says Bitcoin is down there. I don't believe bitcoins a scam. I Think it's gonna be pretty what gonna do pretty well. I think it's a great way to opt out of the system I do believe it's a great hedge against inflation and Just look at ten years ago. What what could Bitcoin buy you ten years ago? Well The all-time high in 2013 was roughly a thousand dollars so that could buy a pretty nice a reasonably nice Apple Mac computer right in 2013 that could get you like a high-end one not today today It's like twenty two thousand dollars and that's one Bitcoin. What can one Bitcoin get you today? Whatever twenty six thousand dollars can buy you Half of a Ferrari, I don't know how much they are half of a dodge caravan Nice Nice big chunk of change. So that's what I see about Polygon network support Airbnb. I mean I personally am not Airbnb support But we have multiple listings on Airbnb. I don't know What the question is but yes Airbnb and of course depending on where you're at of course people think that's also a scam and it's Driving home prices up, which could very well be true, but that's not this channel. That's not the point of this one Very says I bought Bitcoin 85k That's okay. I bought Kodano at twelve thousand dollars Right now somebody's head is just exploded. It's just a joke Yeah Herb says you stayed the day you aren't familiar with Mina Nina Nina as a layer one It's based on ZK sync roundup roll up ZK sync will be in the next bull run Sure, and you can take a look like again if we go back to This all-time high chart and I and I took a look at Let's go this piece If the all-time highs from the last cycle 2017 if they hit their all-time high of Of the 2021 cycle, you know, it was only it was 20% Yeah, I love not a 53. So if you take a look at it in 2021 The things that did the the best were totally new cryptos actually and there was this Chart, let's see. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So out of these 2021s That actually made it into the top 50. It was like over half So again, I think a lot of these newer ones It's why I like near it's why I like arbitra which people say out when you was was around that time Yeah, yeah, sure There's not as many bag holders as there as there was for some of these ones that have been around although I will say Cardano did pretty great Dogecoin been around since 2014 still did great. Some will do great.  That's just how it is Green Elections I only buy 800 25 cents. It's not bad. It's pretty good strategy. Honestly Wooder says are you gonna buy a Ferrari with Bitcoin? No, I'm gonna buy a Dodge with Doge. That'll be great. Let's see Bitcoin today. Yeah, Bitcoin today goes a car especially a used car not like a new car Rob thoughts on Cardano stablecoin in Wyoming. I don't know if that's specific to Wyoming It was that because Senator Lummis passed now. She wouldn't have passed the bill. She's only Bitcoin own I don't know for sure. Let's see how you're talking about D-Jet or how do you say that? Look this one. I have really no opinion over it. Oh Cody Currency of the Internet COTI another good one Yeah, I think you know You always have to pay attention to people that are actually doing really great things in the bull market I just mean the bear market because the ones that are actually building Those are the ones that probably crush it and do really well in the bull and Cardano just keeps its head down does it does the right things now some people say, ah, it's just of course Of course, someone's gonna say it's a scam scam because it's a scam and nothing really happens. Like I had to tell you a lot of those For the like like mimswap and Sunday swap and stuff like that they work just fine. So I know people like to wall I don't know about it. I don't know about that decks have actually works great And of course the best experience you could ever have this is my personal opinion You're welcome to disagree with me As far as like staking Cardano far and away the best far and away the best they knocked out of the park And even Vitalik Buterin put out a post and pretty much talked about how he didn't say Cardano specifically But he did reference a lot of different things of what Cardano does right as far as staking and looks like they might implement that into Ethereum I'm just saying Ethereum staking sucks. Sorry just does. I'm not gonna do that. Some people love it. I just don't Joby says robbing thoughts and Casper. No, but a lot of people seem to love to talk about it That's for sure from research. It doesn't have superior qualities to Bitcoin. However, it still suffers from the same drawbacks in the end I don't know. I got to do a Quite a video. I know Guy did a video on that one pretty Extensive go check that one out. I don't have any opinion on it again I only talk about things that I invest into And actually own and sometimes I'll talk about the random ITC Or no, ICP Internet computer protocol Let's see Funny and one says rob. I think altar gambling and bitcoin is actually investing Pretty much true. I mean, I can't I can't deny that Uh, it is a lot of gambling I mean once you get out of out of bitcoin and of course some people will say whatever your project is I know you're shouting at the screen going but my project does x my project does this Look, uh Until everything's battle tested for years and years and years It's it's very tough to say what's actually going to make it. Trust me. I'm with the same narrative Bitcoin's been around since the genesis block was 2009 And uh, it keeps chunking away at those blocks every 10 minutes never been hacked things seem to work And uh investors like that as far as time frame goes. That's why people invest in so much into precious metals And of course if you talk to Different people said the intrinsic value of course of what you can use for for gold, but sure I think most of that's uh, just holding on for a hedge Ah, I do know what matter of fact, Rob, you know what theta is doing these days. No streams running anymore I don't stream over there and actually I had a meeting with them three or four days ago I do know what they're doing And it's pretty very interesting and I'll cover it at some point when they allow me to do that. But yes uh Traveller 11 says old all coins are more risky as the speculative price has already set since the last dollar I'm true Newer coins are easier if you're in research and make sure they're strong against bitcoin 203 And then also you have to think of look at the market cap itself I mean if you're talking about billions and billions very tough to go up, right? like, uh, let's see Let's pick some Solana is number eight I think Solana is number eight And if you're looking at the market cap right over here 9,058,516,000 it's tough to get to You know to go from 9 billion to 18 billion to 36 billion and keep going up and up and up as far as Solana. That's why like down here It's a lot more risky It's a lot more risky But of course the market cap is much lower and of course you have more leeway Or opportunity to go up. However, when you go down here like there, there's been a protocol. Look at that sweet for these things actually I actually met with a sweet team in, uh Korea nice group of people We'll see how it works out gala, you know All these things can go up exponentially But then you got stuff like this tarolona classic. Why is that even in in the running? Some people will say well it works pretty well just because Doquan their their algorithm stablecoin didn't work out And down the Rhine like oh man, remember Zillica 283 million What the heck pet bank coin is still on the top. Wow So yeah, I mean you're right. It's it's a little bit of a gamble But again, look at look towards the new ones. I like sweet I like arbitram like optimism optimism as well They have the base the base coin bases L2 zk rollup. So look towards those of course base. You can't buy it's They don't have a token yet, but it probably will Casper is a good one new finish system sure The one and only says icp will dominate of course, of course it will and you got to remember like a lot of these projects Like it's not that their fundamentals are bad or They just they're awful. It's just I don't invest in some Just haven't really come up BK, Rob, you DC into bitcoin right now or start DC else. I'm presently doing both I know people will say well, that's kind of crazy because we know we're going to go lower. Yes, we are We definitely are And I'm trying to get those see I have a problem with dumping with having a just a big lump sum and taking a day Or even taking a staggered approach Because I think to myself I mean you never know what's what's going to happen. What's going to drop it right like Let's say nothing comes out of this for this This geopolitical issue that we have in the Middle East Wars averted. We're not going to world war three Things will be okay. Hopefully let's say that Moving forward the Fed they decide to they do go higher for longer But at some point, you know next year, they should have decided to pivot And then it's uh, we avoid a recession some miracle way. Who knows At that point, maybe all the the all-time lows, which was on november 9th 2022 for bitcoin Maybe that was it But again, uh, I'm not for sure I think I know where things are going. I think there's a recession coming I think that we the Fed has to pivot before we actually have to break something first And then things will turn around but uh, it's just what I think I'm not for sure That's why I dollar cost average and as time goes on I mean some of these that I dollar cost average probably won't come back Be honest with you will algorand come back. Geez. I sure hope so Will chain like yeah, I think so What else do I have Will doge who knows Will cardano come back. Will ethereum come back. Will solana Will near make it. Will arbitrem just be a memory and cosmos I don't know. I don't know, but I don't need them all to make it. I've seen a couple and I'll be okay with that and again, remember my portfolio And even though we dollar cost averages, there's different amounts. This is just a september one 75 is bitcoin 10 is ethereum and the rest of the alts that we just talked about so I know some people like will hate that because like why don't you get into more and all it's because there's more of an upside There is there's a hell of a lot more risk.  It's like who's this guy? And that's just how it goes XRP is a centralized cbdc potentially Investor brent says I also think it's easier to sell a dream when a project is in the main You can look at the metrics less room for imagination. Is there a real metrics?  It's not 50 percent I know A year after the top and like the bottom sure sure and then plenimal of course The one that didn't like cardano salon is going to be awesome That's how it is, right? a linkman Uh, Andrew says rob. Do you see it? No, I told you already I hold xrp. I don't actively dollar cost average I have enough I have plenty of bags of those Dr. Payne says only four coins have survived multiple bear markets and remain within the top 10 bitcoin eith xrp and ada These are the real blue chips. I will say There is one everybody makes fun of me for this Get this out of here togecoin Everybody said it's a meme coin and so it was a meme coin in 2014 Oh, I'm sorry. It was created december 6 2013 It's been the top 31 actually top 33 for 10 years For 10 years When I came out in 2014 it was number 16 Then it was nine in 2015 2016 it was six now 2017 it fell 2018 real far 2019 24 2020 31 2021 still 26 top 30 2022 it's number 12 And now 2023. I don't think it's eighth anymore Where is it? I want to say it's in the top 15 Oh, it's number 10 So, you know that one's also survived multiple bear markets and don't sleep on that besides I still think uh Elon Musk is going to do something with it Imagine as a matter of fact if you look at Elon Musk's profile pic. He's got two icons One is x and the other one is the dogecoin. So Yeah, I think It wouldn't be crypto unless someone calls something a scam. I think xrp is a scam I think a theorem to scan I think Algorithms a scam I think sweat coins a scam and on and on and on This is a great question. What do you think about stellar? Do they got a chance? Everything has a chance Everything has a chance and again if you look at There's a link in the description for this did it all time high Are these ones from 2017 and 2021 we talked about this before even though they didn't hit the hit their all-time high 80% of them from 2017 and 2021 most of them still did good From their lows And you can see them even like let's see like what's a Stellar went from three cents to 66 cents That didn't hit its all-time high Cutem which I don't know what the heck that even is Went from a dollar to 26 dollars Didn't hit its original all-time high, but it still went up. So again, like when people say like, well, is this a good one? This is a good one. I don't know what I mean stellar Sure, kind of like with xrp, but you know really I'm too fan fanatical about it. I still think it'll do just fine That's the thing Um I don't know What's the story about charles is making a new chain midnight. I believe this is a private chain I don't know if it's for private transactions, but I got to look into it I just briefly saw it on one of his amas and that's it Thanks des I appreciate that any tesla Ah franc said it the best Do not marry coins You want to be financially independent? Forget this bs of decentralization or not by xrp You know what else I will say about that is that Uh, you know, everybody talks about it. They everybody talks a good game about you know, has to be decentralized And that's the ethos of crypto and these are assets that must be decentralized Isn't finance coin like one of the most centralized coins out there and yet it's in the top Five maybe three. So I know like when people, you know, we talk a good game and everything But when it comes down to brass tax, you got to look at the prices and go well Maybe this is something I'll do. Will finance coin be here in 10 years. I don't know I don't know but uh Again franc said it best don't marry an alt Don't marry anything don't marry any crypto or digital asset if it works It works if it suits your needs and you use it and move forward if it's if it appreciates people people have voted By increasing the price by buying more and more and more Go with that Okami says uh sweat coin doesn't work here in Kenya app won't allow you to complete registration On twitter tag uh at sweat economy. Hopefully they can get with you. I don't want to talk too much about it People were pretty ticked off yesterday Should have done that a little bit differently Uh build increase adoption Trick shot says salon of metrics are off the charts compared to any other yeah It's got a high tps and high throughput and all that good stuff I uh Yeah Looks to be good people still hate on it call it very centralized and always breaks down, but You know people are adopting it and they're using it. Who cares? 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Voting for members of Somalia's Lower House of Parliament has been rescheduled for late November, a move that will delay the indirect election of a president. Voting for lawmakers by elders had been due to be completed this week with the election of a speaker and swearing in of members of parliament happening next week in time for them to pick a president on the 10th of October. But an Election Implementation Commission has drawn up a new timetable for the drawn out process showing that lawmakers will be picked between October 1st and November 20th. The timetable did not give a date when the lawmakers will elect a president. The current government's term expired in February. A delay in holding the election and a roll between President Muhammad Abdullah Muhammad's attempt to extend his rule caused the political crisis and an armed standoff in the streets of the capital. That impasse was resolved in May when the country's Prime Minister, Muhammad Hussein Robul said he was committed to free and fair polls after he signed an agreement with leaders from the country's regions to hold indirect elections after a crisis was triggered.


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Coming to you from our GIS Studios, I am Anisia Antoine, and this is your midday news brief. Prime Minister of St Lucia and immediate past Chairman of the CARICOM, Honourable Alan Shastney, speaking at the conference, highlighted a number of challenges confronting member states, including climate change, blacklisting by the European Union, adversities facing small island states in the international community, the ongoing situation in Venezuela, and de-risking in the region. De-risking refers to the restriction of correspondent banking relationships or business services from major global banks to certain jurisdictions due to concerns over money laundering or potential involvement in the financing of terrorist activities. The Prime Minister noted another issue plaguing the region, that of blacklisting. He indicated that the CARICOM delegation interfaced with the European Union on the troubling issue which still exists today. The 31st Intersectional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM took place on 18 February 2020. The National Apprenticeship Programme through the Mono College International Hospitality Training Institute will be providing a second leg of hospitality training to over 50 young persons from the constituency of Ancelare Canaries. The three-month program forms part of an initiative by the Government of St. Lucia to help alleviate the high unemployment rate amongst our youth. Director of the National Apprenticeship Programme NAP, Dr. Wendy Montcherry, encouraged the apprentices to make the most of the opportunity. Recognizing that not everyone is as able, the Government of St. Lucia is absorbing 33% of the cost and the participants will contribute the balance. Additionally, each student will receive a stipend of $500 monthly. Upon completion of the program, the trainees will be placed on internships within the hospitality sector. The opening ceremony for the National Apprenticeship Programme took place at the Derrido Community Centre on Tuesday, February 18, 2020. Under the theme New Faces of Democracy, youth parliamentarians gathered in Parliament on Tuesday, February 18 for the Independence Youth Parliament debate. The youth debate sought to discuss a number of issues, including education reform. The motion before Parliament was the establishment of a national curriculum that is balanced and broad-based, which fosters the holistic development of the child. Member for Castries North and Youth Prime Minister Siobhan Bryan deemed that the establishment of the national curriculum was integral to education reform. He says it begins at the primary school level with the introduction of an aptitude test. The Independence Youth Parliament debate was organised by the National Youth Council as part of the activities for St. Lucia's 41st Independence celebrations. This has been your Midday News Brief. Thank you for watching.


Right guys the big man Shaq Shaq attack Shaq O'Neal Shaquille O'Neal Got drafted for the the magic Played a decent amount of time at the Lakers, which is basically Well, I mean it's where a lot of people will probably recognize him and it's where he is in this photo there Then he went to the heat Celtics Sons Did he go to the Cavaliers if he did jeez that's that deserves a pat on the back either way guys We are here number six on the list of the top 30 NBA players of all time Shaquille O'Neal We're watching him until we're impressed prior to that. We are going to read his blurb, which is Pretty damn short I must admit the most dominant ever Dominant seems like the only adjective to describe Shaq's career Shaq obviously a member of NBA 70 Can you imagine trying to stop this cunt? Can you actually imagine 320 pounds seven foot tall in his athletic prime?   You know, can you imagine? Oh, it's just it's just actually we see seven one three hundred and sixty five Pound I thought it was three twenty. That's just unbelievable either way Let's get into it the most dominant ever Dominant seems like the only adjective to describe that Shaq's career Shaq obviously a member of the NBA 75 team is one of the most skilled Biggs ever to touch a basketball. Well, we're not talking about free throws But we're talking about within the paint and we've seen all the videos of him cooking MJ and a one-on-one before the All-Star game I haven't seen that I haven't seen that at all That'll be amazing to see the beauty of Shaq's dominance is that you could know after two dribbles that he was about to hit you with a drop Step in the post now. What's a drop step? Not actually sure But you just weren't gonna eat going to stop it even if he knew it was coming. No, you weren't it was either a bucket or a foul Take the foul I assume we may never we know we we may never see a seven one 365 pound big that was as explosive athletic and quick as Shaq He was truly a one-of-a-kind and easily one of the most entertaining players on and off the court that the NBA has ever seen There will never be another Shaq and with that in mind guys. Let's get to YouTube.  Is that a gold end? Obviously not I need to see something else I Don't tell me that that's Jack Now you gotta watch out if you're on the crowd and Shaq's playing you've actually got to watch out For the blocks and that my friends brings us to the end of this video. Thanks and see you soon