20 style tips, how to always look put together and polished. I really like my outfits to feel chic, stylish, and elegant. And these days, it does feel pretty natural for me to put outfits together this way. But a quick look at some of my old pictures reminds me that it wasn't always so easy. I made a lot of style mistakes. But after years of working in fashion, experimenting and listing on set to every hat going, I quickly learned the style tips that really do work. So this video is 20 of my favorite. Keep it simple. I've always been a fan of the style mantra, less is more. But when it comes to looking put together and polished, keeping things really simple is an absolute must for me.  By that, I mean lots of different elements all at the same time, a very busy outfit as such. When you keep things simple and refined, chances are you're going to look it. Only bring one statement piece into the mix. Try not to over-accessorize, swerve any fussy details, and be careful when it comes to embellishments too.  Though I've always loved timeless style, my outfits in my 20s were far more fussy than they are now. I've learned the hard way via a few awful outfits that really didn't work, that it's very hard to pull off. Master the art of keeping it simple and your outfits, we'll thank you for it later. Edit, edit, and re-edit your wardrobe regularly. I declutter and reorganize my wardrobe a lot. Part of that is because of my job obviously, and I do have an unusual amount of clothes which I absolutely don't think you need to have. But I can't tell you how handy the process is for your wardrobe. Through the twists and turns of life, our style evolves. So it's time to take a really hard look at your wardrobe and donate those pieces that you just don't wear anymore. Instead, collate a collection of pieces that really do say who you are now. I like to create little selections of go-to outfits when I'm doing this, and I photograph them on my phone so I've got an easy reference as well. Be realistic. As per the style tip before, don't forget to be realistic about your own lifestyle. Fashion shoots look amazing, of course, but they're heavily styled to look absolutely perfect in that very moment, which doesn't mean that they will when you're on the tube at 7 a.m. in the morning on your way into work. Genuinely think about your lifestyle, where you'll be wearing these clothes that you spent your hard-earned pennies on, and then tick those boxes accordingly. Develop your own uniform. One of the easiest ways to always look put together is to have your own uniform. And if you go through that process of decluttering and really organizing your wardrobe, it'll start to become obvious what that uniform should be. For example, you might notice that you reach for blazers every other day.  That's often my default look. So I know that I can feel safe buying pieces like that in the highest quality I can afford. I know they're gonna get worn a lot. Be an outfit repeater. And with that uniform, don't be afraid to wear them on repeat. You might know that you wore a similar pair of tailored trousers in a jumper yesterday, but I bet you no one else would even notice. Perfect what your ideal uniform is. The look that really suits your lifestyle, makes you feel stylish and chic when you wear it. And then style it in every combination you could think of. A hazard, I guess. You'll save some pennies and you'll look even more polished as a result. Out to wear. Whatever uniform you decide is right for you. Investing in high quality outerwear is never a bad idea. When it comes to looking chic, a great coat can actually do the heavy lifting for you. It can quite literally transform a whole look, instantly pulling even the most casual of outfits together. While I'll admit, I do find the purchase of a beautiful coat quite painful on my bank balance. I don't think I've ever actually regretted it in the end. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if I could only buy one thing to make me look more chic and put together, I would always choose a beautiful coat. For evening, think about laying your coat or blazer over your shoulders for instant fashionista points. No, it's not exactly practical, but you will look more polished. Elevated basics. I don't think you would ever regret investing in elevated basics. I know that I certainly haven't. But I try and look at the basics of my wardrobe as say the core pillar. If I get that part right, I get my core really sturdy. Everything else that I put on top of it will just hang right. So the core for me would be a blazer, a long coat, a classic white shirt, maybe a beautiful pair of flats for instance. Focusing on ensuring those core basics are all beautiful quality and timeless in design makes the rest of my outfit all fall into place so much easier. Don't forget to let me know your favorite style tips in the comment section below as we go along. Or maybe you've got a style secret that never fails. Don't forget to let me know your thoughts. Look for timeless pieces. There are times of course when I'm not shopping for basics. So I try and remember to keep those purchases timeless even if say they're particularly on trend. Unless you have money to burn of course, you want to get longevity out of your wardrobe. So even if you do follow the trends and you integrate them into your outfit ideas, I try and introduce the ones that also have a timeless quality about them too. Now not only does that help me look more put together, but it's a better use of my pennies all round. Tailored. I always try to mix up my outfits no matter how casual they might be so that I have some element of tailoring into the look. So for example, I might want to wear my joggers and trainers and then I will add in a tailored coat just to give it that extra polish. Or maybe I'm cold and I want to feel snuggled when I'm heading out for dinner. Then I'll pair a big chunky knit with tailored trousers like this. The contrast of that high to the low always works wonders. And the tailoring piece will always be the one that stands out the most. And it's not just tailoring that this works with. Think about that contrast when it comes to fabrics too. One of my favorite skirt looks would be this beautiful silk midi that I got from a brand called Bye Committee, paired with my super laid back jumper. The relaxed jumper lets the silk skirt steal the show as you would want it to. And then the overall look feels more luxurious as a result. Balance your silhouette. Balancing out your proportions can be one of the easiest ways to looking more put together. Know your shape and make the best of what you have instead of worrying what you don't. I wasted years wishing I had been born super skinny. I was modeling too so that really didn't help matters but I always tried hard to fight against what my natural womanly shape is.  Now I buy the size that fits the best and I don't worry what number it says. I go for pieces that flatter my shape, skimming over my hips elegantly and tapering in to balance out that width. Or I might add in a puff shoulder to balance out my hips, accentuating my waist and then giving me more of an hourglass shape which is never a bad idea. Whatever shape you're born with, embrace it and work it to your favor. Start with your best bit and balance out your silhouette from there. This is definitely one tip I wish I could tell my 18 year old self. Take care of your clothes. It might seem simple but I can't tell you the amount of times I've seen people over on Instagram who I might add are in the business of sharing designer's collections and they haven't even bothered to eye in the piece. It's definitely a surefire way of making your outfit look truly awful, I know that much. Treat your clothes however much they cost with the care and attention they deserve and they will repay you in polish. Eye, eye and everything obsessively. I hang everything too which is handy when putting outfits together that they're all there to look at but if you're short on space, take a picture of a pile of clothes that you're about to put in your drawers. It's handy to remind yourself what you've actually got in there. I hand wash most of my knits rather than wasting too much money on dry cleaning but don't forget to dry them flat or you'll end up with weird shapes on your shoulders talking from experience there. Ultimately I take care of my clothes because I want them to last. I've often saved my pennies for the nicest quality I can afford so I think it would really hurt if I saw them crumpled on the floor. Wear what you like, not just what's in fashion. How to always look put together in chic.  In fact, I would highly advise only investing in a trend if it really suits you. From past experience I know that not all trends will suit everyone. For example, I love the midriff cut out dresses that will be doing the rounds for another season but on me they look pretty horrendous. It's a trend I know that if I want to partake I need to do it in a more subtle fashion that suits my body shape. For while I love to take a deep dive into the fashion trends each season and incorporate them into my outfit ideas I only do so when I know that they truly suit me. Power pose. I love the power pose and I really do think it works. It's something to reach for when you're feeling a little bit self-conscious or perhaps nervous before a meeting and in social situations too you don't need to go all out superman mode with your hands on your hips. Just the very action of focusing on your stance rolling your shoulders back holding your head up high and taking some slow deep breaths can really work wonders to your overall look but also obviously how you feel. Good posture always stands out for the right reasons. Stand tall, hold your head up high and you'll give the illusion of someone who looks put together even if you're not quite feeling it just yet. Write a list of everything you need. Now I tend to do this during my decluttering and organizing of my wardrobe. I mentally register the trends that I do want to join in with and I see what I already have that will tick those boxes. Whatever's missing gets put on a list for if and when I find the perfect piece. It really helps me stay within budget and avoid shiny things that I don't really need along the way. Take care of your hair and skin. A bit like taking care of your clothes, taking care of your skin, hair and nails seems really obvious but it's often forgotten from myself included. It takes me a long while to get round to getting my nails done. As you can see today, they look particularly awful but every time I do, I think all that feels so much better. I feel really polished, literally. You all know that feeling of skipping out the hair salon with freshly cut hair. It quite literally gives you a spring in your step and makes you stand a bit taller, feel a little bit refreshed both inside and out. So taking care of all of those elements can really make a difference to how you look but most importantly, how you feel as well. Another note to this point would be how you actually do your hair and makeup. Like your actual clothes, keep it simple and refined. I personally think it's nice to see someone's skin peeping through their foundation rather than just one big, heavy matte base. Hair that's flowing and shiny rather than glued to with an inch of its life with a can of hairspray. They're all little details of course but when you add them all up it can make a huge difference to your overall look. Do the hair tuck. Thinking of hair simply leaving your hair tucked into your jumpers can give you instant fashionista points. It's a silly one, I know. But try it, it actually does look quite chic. Monochrome. I've mentioned this a few times before in my videos but going monochrome with your outfit in one column of color or non-color for that matter will instantly make you look more elevated. It happens to be one of the big fashion trends for 2022 as well and it makes you look taller too which is definitely nothing to be sniffed at. Make sure your clothes fit. I hesitated adding this one in as I do have a bit of a soft spot for the oversized trend. However, when I'm not wanting something to look a little bit slouchy I always make sure I find the size that fits me really, really well. Like I mentioned before, if that means I have to buy a size up then so be it. I really don't care. I just want the perfect fit on my waist and my hips and I know that my outfit will thank me for it later. Getting refitted for a bra. It's really worth getting measured by specialists at least once a year. Our shapes change with time and even without too much time at all. You could easily go up or down a cup size in a year and this can make a huge difference to the overall look of your outfits. Focus from the inside out. Get that base layer sitting perfectly and you'll find everything else drapes over the top so much better than before. Sunnies. If all of these style tips before don't work there's always that foolproof measure of adding your sunnies. If it's okay for Anna Winter it's definitely okay for me. And the older I get, the more I like this style tip for the added bonus of hiding my eyes when they look tired. Two for the price of one. Nice sparkle. I really hope you've enjoyed this video and hearing about my top 20 style tips that I try and remember when I'm wanting to look put together and chic. Don't forget to let me know your thoughts in the comments section below. It's always really lovely hearing from you all. And if you're not already subscribed that would be really appreciated too. Have a great week everyone and I shall see you next Sunday.


Hi, I'm Professor Stephen Nesheba and I want to tell you a little bit about this idea. Electrons go through nodes. So I laid out here the path of an electron moving from left to right here. We just imagine it's moving along that x-coordinate. And because electrons have wave-like properties, then we can imagine that it has, that wave has positive and negative amplitudes, just like a water wave has positive and negative amplitudes. And that's what I kind of depicted as shown here. It's not at all to indicate that this electron is moving up and down. That's not what this graph is meant to indicate. It's meant to indicate just that as it moves along that path, it's got positive phase for a little while, negative phase, positive phase due to the wave-like nature of the electron. Here's just another way to think about it. I've just drawn along that path, the parts of that path where the electron had positive phase, and here's where it had negative phase, positive phase again. Okay, so as it turns out, quantum mechanics teaches us that the wavelength of that wave, which I've just drawn here, it's the distance from that peak to that peak. It's called the de Broglie wavelength. It depends on how fast the electron is moving. So I've drawn here the situation for a slow-moving electron, and if I wanted to speed up that electron, as it's going from left to right, what you would find is that this oscillation from peaks to troughs to peaks to troughs gets kind of compressed like this, and therefore what happens is that the wavelength, the de Broglie wavelength, got smaller. And that's generally true. It would continue as we made that go even faster. One more bit of terminology here goes something like this. I'm just going to call these zero crossings here. That is, when the wave went from positive to negative and negative to positive, we're going to call that a node. Okay, so you can see that the nodes are packed in a little bit more densely. So the idea is electrons go through nodes. Well, it has to be because the electron is moving from left to right, and there's the nodes. And in fact, the faster the electron is moving, the more nodes are associated with any given interval in its path. So this idea was actually made quantitative and introduced really by de Broglie, Lewis de Broglie in 1924, and he had an equation that described to that, and it goes like this. It's pretty simple. That lambda de Broglie, that wavelength, is equal to, you can calculate it, it's this constant, that's called Planck's constant, that quantity of the denominator is the mass of the electron. But the thing I want to focus on is it also has the speed that V is the speed of the electron in the denominator, so you can see how this must have all played out because as we make the speed bigger, that must mean that the wavelength, the de Broglie wavelength, is smaller, and that's exactly what we saw here in going from this slow electron to this fast electron. Okay.


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So I just finished a call with a potential, you could call it a potential client and we had a kind of finding moment at the end. Like I told you, I have a 100% success ratio, meaning that when I talk to people, I help them. They get the problem solved big time in the first talk, usually within 30 minutes, like completely life-changing, like just take your problems and completely solve them. So we kind of had this funny discussion going about what it is that I actually do. And then I told them, just out of inspiration, I was like, look dude, I mean I look at the content I see online and it's all shit, like it's either like top five ways to do something or you get this, or maybe how to do something but it's like this half-ass quick solution that just solves the problem temporarily. So I told him, yes dude, what I do is I unfuck people rationally out of their problems. Or more like I rationally unfuck people out of their problems. So I wanted to know if you guys think that's an apt description and if it is, I might have it as some sort of a tagline, a controversial tagline. So yeah, let me know what you think and if you want me to rationally unfuck you out of your problems, I want to have a quick free coaching call with you.  Or girl. Or girl, you know, woman, I don't know, people. Thanks for watching and subscribe if you haven't.


I think the report typically gets their projections more or less right and I would say that the figures are fine. We still have another 45 days to go and Jan 5 March is turning out to be quite a good quarter for all media. So let's hope that the figures turn out to be slightly better. Yes, it's been challenging for all of the traditional, the larger media. Radio, we are quite happy to see the double digit growth and I think next year should be better for all of us. I thought it was a very illuminating panel discussion. It was good to have the perspectives of, you know, different media owners and victim as usual is a fantastic moderator. I think clearly we are coming out of a bad year and however the last five months have been green shoot, have been green shoot, have been showing green shoots and therefore in the coming year we definitely expect a growth. This panel sort of helps us figure out what are the areas that one can work on.


Hi, this is George Kao, and I'm so happy to be here today with Jen Loudon. Hi, Jen. Hi, George. Thanks for doing this. So Jen is actually one of my clients, and she's actually the only client that I'm doing Facebook ads for at this time. I teach Facebook ads, and I help clients learn how to do them, but she is the one person I'm actually doing them for. She has an exciting business, and she has some great offerings, which we'll talk about later. What I wanted Jen to do in this video is to share with you all a sort of her tips on how to be consistent and joyful in our content projects, whether it's writing a book or just staying consistent with your blog posts or videos or creating an online course, something like that, because Jen has so much experience with that kind of stuff. So before we go into it, Jen, let me actually read your bio out for everyone. Yeah, because we could really go back to how long I've been doing this and not make me feel old, but make me feel experienced. Why? Why? Yeah, why? Okay, so here's the official bio, I'll just read it out loud here. As a personal growth pioneer, Jennifer Loudon helped launch the concept of self-care, which a lot of you totally value. So now you know how whom it was popularized by. With her first best-selling book, The Woman's Comfort Book, and she has gone on to pen six more personal growth books with almost a million copies in print in nine languages. She leads writing retreats internationally, both in the U.S. and U.S. Mexico primarily, is a woman's book coach and has been quoted in Bernice Brown's work and even sat on Oprah's couch. That's amazing. So, Jen, I mean, I'll just let you take over from here, I mean, with your experience in doing this and, of course, helping thousands of people get consistent, passionate, joyful with their content. Where do we start? How do we do it? Well, we've got to start with our own personal why. And for some people, this is easy, right? They're like, I know why I'm, for example, writing the new book that I'm writing. I know it's because I deeply, I'm so passionate and have been for 28, 30 years of all of these books and courses and retreats and everything, of really liberating women from whatever limits them. But I also know my deep why is I want to be, I want to be out there again on stages. I used to do a lot of keynotes, a lot of media, a lot of, I had my own radio show. And in the last 10 years, that hasn't been where I want to be. So one of my, to my other deep why is really personal. I mean, they're both really personal. So the first thing we have to start with is what is your deep why? And some people are really afraid of this, right? They're afraid to own why they want to do something, especially if it's I want to make a lot of money.  But it without a deep why and regularly connecting to that why everybody, you can't just put it in a drawer. It is not one of those silly mission statements, right, that nobody ever reads. It's up on the wall somewhere of a corporation. It's really what drives you. So that's the first thing. And you can do it for every blog post you do, every course you do, a podcast, you need it for everything.  So what's, what's something we how, how do we connect with our deep why?  But like, you know, that's one method of doing it, maybe. But how do you connect with your deep why or how have you seen some of your clients do that? Well, I asked them to, at first, I think, and we'll do this in my upcoming mastermind right off the bat. So the first thing I asked them to do is just think about it. Like, so many people haven't actually just taken the time to go, why am I doing this? There's so much noise out there about why you should do, say an online course or why you should write a book. When I'm coaching someone one on one as a book coach, that's the first, why are you doing this? Why do you want to write a book? Another way to phrase it is, what's in it for you? Or what do you want this project to do for you? Sometimes I'll give people a list of possible why's, leave a legacy, tell my story to my family, pass on a body of work, make a lot of money, learn a craft. Some people want to, for example, come and write a book with me, not because they want to be on the best seller list or even get a traditional publishing deal because they want to really crack the code. And how do they write a great memoir? How do they write a great book that passes on a body of knowledge? So having some things to choose from, doing some journaling. I'm a big believer in giving people what I call trickster prompts. I do that with the writer's oasis of relief to kind of unlock what might be hidden from you. But it's got to come from within and it's not attached to a particular outcome and that's where the law of attraction and I will be part in every single way. But thinking about the things you want to have or the outcomes you want, actually, I think, especially for women, take them away from their deep soulful why, we can get so attached to getting that outcome that we can lose the thing that's going to keep us consistently creating, which is that why? That's awesome. So then after we do that, and remember, we're going to be touching this why every time. So my blog does a lot of different things. I write a piece almost every week, occasionally I skip a week because I feel burned out or I'm inspired. We've been sending a lot of other emails to the list. But every time I sit down, I'm like, why am I writing this? Why am I filling people's email box with my words? What do I want it to do for my business? What's the deep why in my heart? So you can certainly apply this with just a few moments thought to small bits of content as well. But then you've got to flip it around. And very kindly, you have to ask the question, why should my people care? Now, what we often do is ask this question, really mean, right? Well, I said, anybody can. It's all been done before. It doesn't matter. I have nothing original to say. And then we're on the couch watching Netflix, right? And eating salty, crunchy snacks. But instead, what we have to do is take this deep why and then connect it to the people that we want to reach, the people we want to influence, which isn't everybody. Now, I have a very particular, I have four women who I have worked with, either in retreats or my mastermind or at the Writers Oasis. And they are in my mind regularly. They are the women that I'm reaching for and to and wanting to serve with this book. And this is so important, especially when you're writing something more personal. I have a failed memoir that I spent four years, 500 pages on that pieces of will be in this new book, but it completely failed. And one of the reasons George has failed was because I didn't ask, why should my people care? I was so into my own why, right? It's like I crawled up inside my why and spent way too much time there. So we need both. And they'll create a tension that stretches us, right? The deep why keeps us true, you know?  You don't try to be Cheryl Strait. You don't try to be, I'm looking up at my books, right? Ray Bradbury, Wendell Berry, Mark Nippo. I love that. You keep honing back in what's mine to say and my way to say it. And voice is such an important part of being a successful content creator. Yeah, and I love what you're saying. It's like this tension. I like this image of, and you know, kind of tension creates power, right? Like, you know, and between our deep why and why should the audience care? And I like that you're saying, you know, a lot of times we ask that question, why should anybody care? Why bother? Right, why bother? The title of the book. And so how do we, I love that you have these several kind of women ideal readers, ideal customers, clients in mind. Okay, so a lot of folks watching this night, some of them know who their ideal client is, but for somebody who is starting out, they can imagine themselves being a great writer one day or aspiring to be here. How do we start with figuring out, I know this could be a whole eight hour conversation, but what's like one thing we could do to like, well, is it somebody we already know? Like, how do you advise people? Well, I think the first thing is, what I see with a lot of the women I work with is that you really have to let yourself realize that your work is important enough to connect to other people. I have, I've worked with one writer over years, we would have years where we didn't work together for 17 years, 17 years it took me to get her to take her work seriously. And she is shopping a book to publishers that I really believe is gonna get published. She did my mastermind last year, I think it was that intensive working together for a whole year that really changed things for her. She's a doctor, she's very accomplished, deep spiritual life, you know, amazing woman, but owning the fact that there was somebody else on the other end that was gonna read her words with such a struggle. So that's the first thing, will you let yourself be seen? Will you let yourself be intimate with these readers? And will you let their needs and concerns come into your space? There's something very selfish about being a creator and there's something very generous. And again, we have to balance the two. So that's the first thing that they really find we have to work on a lot. And then it really depends what your style is.  Where is it? What before your reader comes to this book, right? They find it on Amazon, they find it, you know, on the bookshelf in an independent bookstore, they find it, you know, on your blog, what's going on in their life? What's their problem? What's their ink? What's their longing that has made them search for this? Write a couple of pages about it, put yourself in their shoes. So that's a great imaginary exercise for some people.  Get into some Facebook groups and just read what's going on in their lives, what resonates with you. Don't do that thing where, well, I should help that person, right? That's the kiss of death.  You have to be willing to go, well, that's really a problem, but I'm not interested in solving that. Or that's really a need out there, but I got nothing to say about it. That's the way it is. Where are the people hanging out? What are they saying? What are the language of their music? The other thing you can do if you have an existing business is interview people, get intimate with them. We send out a survey every couple of years, which takes me a couple of years to go through because we get so many responses. And I'm always like, oh my God, there's so much here. But you can have three conversations and record them, record them with people and just be curious. What do they say that jibes with what you're interested in and your diploma? Yeah, that's fantastic. So yeah, these are great. I really hope people will maybe rewind and take one of these exercises to really go into it and do it. And we'll talk later about how you have various ways to support people to stay on the path and do a game clarity. So let's talk a bit about, well, got these ideas, got the why. And on that, so how do we organize? How do we organize? I mean, all these ideas, I mean, you're writing a book, you've got pages from here, pages from there, any tips on that? Yeah, a couple of really important things. First of all, organizing your work is part of content creation. I get this message so often from my people that if they're not generating content, if they're not generating new words, it's a day that they didn't do any work. No, no, I might spend an entire writing period going back and doing what I call a reverse outline for everything I've written, which is doing bullet points in Scrivener, a program that I use, of what's actually in that chapter. So I can look at it at a glance so I don't overwrite stuff a second time or repeat myself. That's part of writing. Taking the time to set up a system that works for you is writing, it is content creation. Here's the thing, there's no perfect system. And I see people time and time again, start using one system and then abandon it because somebody mentioned something on Facebook and off they go to download that software. And instead you have to find a system that's good enough for the way your mind works. So I have some pretty big learning disabilities. So it's really taken me a long time to figure out what are the systems that work so that I don't get that terrible feeling that I have an idea, but I don't know where to put it because that when that happens to your brain, what your brain does, is it basically, it's like that automatic vacuum cleaner, what are those called? Roombas? It gets caught in the corner and tries to keep, it can't go anywhere. Your mind needs to have a place to put stuff and your mind needs to know you can go back and find it. And where you, so yeah, how do you capture? I can't believe it. Yeah, and this just works for me, it's not perfect, but I use three different things and they each have a purpose. So I use Scribner for my book. It has a big learning curve. A lot of people hate it. A simpler version that I haven't used but some of my clients love is called Ulysses. Ulysses and both of these are pretty inexpensive. I think Scribner's 45 bucks. Ulysses has a less of a learning curve, I'm told. So everything about my book goes there. So for example, last night, I'm on my desktop right now. I have a laptop downstairs. I was on my laptop and I read an article and like that article, I need to remember that. I need to have it for my book. It's like stirring something in me. So I send myself a link and then I'll go in the next day when I'm done with my writing period for the day and I'll make sure that I put anything I've sent myself an email into Scribner, right? So it's all in one place. I don't leave it in my email, I don't put it in place else. I use Evernote for all my teaching. I teach writing retreats and my mastermind, all my marketing information, everything to do with that I know is in Evernote with including lots and lots of links to articles and videos and stuff. And then the third thing I use is Google Drive and that's for everything I have to share with you, George, with my team. So blog posts, marketing copy, right? So I'll have the marketing research and raw thoughts in Evernote but when I go to write the copy I make sure I go to Google Drive. And that's what, so my little mind goes, writing a blog post, go to Google Drive, right? Oh, working on the Oasis material for the week, go to Evernote. Clipping something about marketing can go in Evernote. I'm not gonna look for it in Google Drive. It's more, it's gonna feed my ideas that then become the copy of the email. That's fantastic. So it's like, you know where to look for things. Exactly. That's therefore it's the same place where you put things. Exactly. And let me tell you the learning curve of sticking with that, it was like, I don't know. It was like cooking for me. I don't like to cook. It was really hard because my little mind just wants to go, oh, just put it anywhere for right now. Right, for right now. I'll remember. Don't! That's your discipline. And once you get over that habit and you really establish where, then you'll stop doing it. But here's the other thing you can't do. And I see this a lot with my clients who are writing memoirs. They're like, but I have to go find everything and put it in Scrivener or put it in Evernote. No, no, no, no. You may have 50 years of journals. Find what you need to get the first draft done. Leave double question marks or brackets for what you don't know where it is. You will save yourself months, if not years of time. Absolutely, yeah. So let's kind of wrap up on these tips with, how do we make realistic consistent progress on all these different things? It's my favorite thing to talk about. Although clearly I shouldn't have coffee before I do these interviews. No, you please. So the biggest reason your mind procrastinates, your brain procrastinates from making regular content is it doesn't know what it's going to work on when you sit down and it doesn't know when you're going to work. If you can be disciplined in a gentle loving way with yourself about always knowing where you're gonna start, even if you don't stick with that idea and when you're specifically going to work, you will have so much more consistent, not magic, but much more consistent content creation. So when I finish, for example, working on my book for the day, my goal is about 600 words a day, I make sure I know what I'm gonna write next. I make a note to myself. I sit and think about it for a moment. If I'm not entirely sure and I've run out of writing time for that morning, I put it on my to-do list. Think about what you're gonna write next. I think about it when I go out for my run. I read some books that I have this huge pile of books over here that I'm working on, a huge pile of books over here. For my book, I take a few of them to bed. Give yourself time and a clear place to begin. Even if it's just, I'm gonna begin talking, I'm gonna begin this podcast, writing this podcast episode up by listing 10 reasons why I wanna have George on my podcast. That's fine. But your mind then has something to start with.  And that's why it decides to clean the toilet instead. The other thing is, when are you gonna work? The worst thing you can do is go through the day going, I'm gonna work on my content sometime today.  Instead, I'm gonna write first day, I'm gonna write at 8 a.m. or I'm gonna write before I do anything else in the morning while I entertain my coffee or I'm gonna write when I get back from my run or I'm gonna write after the kids are doing their homework. It doesn't have to be a time in other words. But be really clear, repeat it to yourself.  I am committed to this. Share it with someone else, your partner, your best friend, your coach. Yeah, that's awesome. I love it, I love it. I totally agree with you on these things. So we have a couple minutes. I wanna make sure people know how they can work with you. You've got these different levels that people can kind of access your work. So where do you wanna start on that? Well, the easiest, least expensive, and most incredible, I think thing you can do is join the Writers Oasis. I do a weekly Friday fresh audio every week and it's about 30 so minutes. And it takes you into yourself, helps you get current with yourself, decide your goals. What are you gonna write or what are you gonna create? It's for creators of all time. And we have a special guest every month and a live call. And I also create extra resources for writers on elements and pieces of craft. So that's a super, super inexpensive way to work. Yeah, and I wanna mention, well, since I know about your launches, I'm involved in them, Writers Oasis is typically, it's typically not open for registration. Right. But, and actually just recently it had a launch. So it's technically closed now, but when you do interviews like this, you do open up a special kind of a page where people can register. So those who are watching this, you can register for Writers Oasis right now. And I'm sure I'll put a link somewhere in the notes of the video. So be sure to look for that and check it out. Cause you're George's friend. Yes. Yeah. The second way to work with me, there's a couple of spots open in my July Retrieved in Taos. It's usually sold out, but we have to get a bunch of people move around into other retreats, it was very unusual. So I think we have two or four spots open in July and that is a truly transformational self-care, get a lot of work done, meet incredible women, be in a magical historical house that we take over, eat incredible food, dance in the morning, do yoga in the afternoon. And then the last thing is my very small group, private mastermind group for a small group of people. And that's opening up her registration just this week and has three different levels. And it's for people who are working on any kind of non-fiction project from self-help book, thought leader book, memoir. And I'm gonna take you through a lot of the processes that I touched on here and help you do something that you could never do. If you go to one of those, just write a book, channel a book in a weekend, you'll write a lot of words but you will never end up with something that's gonna connect to that person who needs your work. Yeah, yeah. And of course, being part of a mastermind means that as you see others becoming more empowered to do things, of course that energy spills over to you as well and there's that kind of group energy. And it's so true when we read each other's work with very careful guidelines, no criticism but feedback reflecting. And in the last year I did this mastermind, so many of the women said, so many great things and so many great things happened but that was one of them. Like I didn't give up because I had to read and take care of these other women and then I saw them doing it so I kept doing it. Yeah, awesome, awesome. Well, thank you, Jen, for the work that you do, the energy and the love that you give to your audience and to those who are watching this. And yeah, so folks, be sure to check out the links in, you know, attach this video and thank Jen for showing up here and sharing with us. Thank you, George, thank you for all your support.  Thank you, Jen, appreciate it. All right, see you soon.


The first item of business is general questions. Short and succinct questions and answers would be useful. Question number one, Ash Denham. Thank you, Presiding Officer. In light of the on-going review of the Children's Scotland Act 1995, what consideration is it giving to putting a professional system, such as the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service in England, in place for family courts in Scotland? Annabelle Ewing The Scottish Government plans to launch a consultation shortly on the review of part 1 of the Children's Scotland Act 1995. The consultation will cover a wide range of issues in relation to parental responsibilities and rights, child contact and residence, alongside a wider family justice modernisation strategy. Ash Denham. The proposal that private practice solicitors who currently act as child welfare reporters will receive two days' training will not be, I feel, putting children's welfare at the centre. Elsewhere, it is deemed that people who are qualified and skilled caring professionals are best placed to assess our children and family's needs. Could the minister provide assurances that that will be considered within the review? Annabelle Ewing I can, Presiding Officer. The consultation that I referred to a moment ago will indeed seek views on whether to regulate child welfare reporters. Of course, being a child welfare reporter is an important and difficult and challenging job, but I believe that, in particularly taking that into account, regulation is indeed required to ensure that reporters are fully trained in the tasks that they are asked to carry out and to ensure that the quality of reports is consistently high across the board. Supplementary Gordon Lindhurst If I might ask the cabinet secretary has a decision been taken on the form of training that may be provided to child welfare reporters within the review. Specifically, training relating to parental alienation is part of that, as is happening south of the border. Annabelle Ewing I can say to the member that the consultation that is to be launched shortly will seek views about whether to regulate child welfare reporters, including therefore on-going training requirements, and will encourage those who submit to the consultation. I encourage all those with an interest to do so to elicit their views on what kind of training they felt would be most appropriate. Jamie Halcro Johnston To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the effectiveness of the flexible workforce development fund. Jamie Hepburn While the flexible workforce development fund pilot is still in its first year of operation, the Scottish Government has commissioned an independent evaluation of the pilot thus far. The evaluation committee in February 2018 is due to conclude shortly. Jamie Halcro Johnston I thank the minister for that answer. In this first year, provision for the fund has centered on colleges. Would the minister be prepared to indicate whether he would consider opening up the fund or any successor programme to other suitable providers of training and skills in future years? Jamie Hepburn That is an issue that has been raised with me by a number of organisations. What I have said to them is what I will say to Mr Halcro Johnston. We have the pilot in place. We are essentially still at the pilot stage, so this coming year it will be my intention that it continues to be delivered through the college sector, but we have the evaluation and will continue to learn and no assumptions about what might happen going forward have yet been made. Bob Doris To ask the Scottish Government how centres that provide a supervised contact facility for absent parents to spend time with their children are inspected and regulated. Annabelle Ewing The contact centres managed by Relationship Scotland all follow national standards and practice procedures. Relationship Scotland has policies that cover issues such as domestic abuse, child protection, equality and diversity, confidentiality and vulnerable adults. There are also a number of independent contact centres. Some of them have their own guidance and practice and procedure. As I said in response to question 1, the Scottish Government plans to launch a consultation shortly on the review of part 1 of the Children's Scotland Act 1995. That will, among other topics, seek views on whether to regulate contact centres. Bob Doris For that answer, Minister Ewing, constituents of mine had issues with a particular contact centre that is not affiliated to Relationship Scotland. They discovered that there appeared to be no regulatory body, no agreed quality standards or inspection process in place for contact centres. That is despite the significant bearing that they can have on family relationships long-term and that they need reports to courts and child custody cases. Will the minister look at regulation in this area and will she meet me to discuss the matter further? Annabelle Ewing I can say to the member that, in the forthcoming consultation, views will be sought on regulation of contact centres, including the setting of minimum standards on the accommodation that is used, laying down training requirements, laying down complaints procedure and inspection processes. I hope that that provides some assurance to the member in terms of the direction of travel. Once the consultation is launched, which is to be very soon indeed, I would be very happy to meet the member to discuss matters further. Ivan McKee In light of the fundamentally new approach proposed in the recent legal aid review, will the minister consider putting child contact centres on a statutory funding footing through legal aid rather than relying on voluntary effort to provide this important service? Annabelle Ewing As I have already stated, the consultation will look at the regulation of child contact centres. I would imagine that we would receive a number of views on issues about them, including on funding. I point out to the member that, as far as legal aid is concerned, I can advise that, in 2016-17, the Scottish legal aid board sanctioned £459,583 of legal aid funding with regard to contact centre cases, albeit that it should be pointed out that the actual sum that is ultimately claimed or paid may differ from the amount that is sanctioned. At the same time, of course, it should be pointed out that not all users of child contact centres are eligible for legal aid. However, the consultation, which belongs very shortly indeed, will seek views on all of those issues, and I would encourage the member to make his views known. Donald Cameron To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve ferry services in the highlands and islands. Hamza Yousaf The Scottish Government has invested more than £1 billion over the past decade in new vessels, new routes and improved harbour infrastructure in cheaper fares. That clearly demonstrates our commitment to the long-term prosperity of our island communities to further strengthen our fleet. As the member will know, we have invested in two new 100-metre dual ferries worth £97 million currently in construction at Ferguson's. We have also recently provided the money to CMAL to allow them to purchase the three passenger vessels that serve the Northern Isles guaranteeing lifeline connections to and from Orkney and Shetland. We are also committed to rolling out RET to the Northern Isles, which has already been a major success in the west coast. Donald Cameron I thank the minister for his answer, and he referenced the two new ferries. Can he confirm when those two new ferries on order with Ferguson Marine will be ready for service? Hamza Yousaf The timetables that we have previously publicly committed to are the timetables that we have from Ferguson's. Obviously, we are keeping a close eye on that. We work very closely with Ferguson's, and I would say to the member that it is worth saying that those are the first ever LNG dual-fue vessels built in the UK. Therefore, there are naturally complexities with the new workforce. If there are developments on the timetable of the Glen Sannocks and 802, I will make sure that Parliament is updated appropriately. supplementary Liam McArthur Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. Just following on from the undertakings given around the time of the budget earlier this year, I wonder if the transport minister could update Parliament on the discussions with Orkney Islands Council about improvements to the internal services in Orkney. Hamza Yousaf The Scottish Government was delighted, of course, on the budget discussions to give a payment, a one-off payment in the budget, to Orkney and Shetland, which I know is supported by both Liam McArthur and Tavish Scott, begrudgingly perhaps, but nonetheless supported the budget. What we did say is the second part of that commitment, which was important, was that we would, through the working group, ensure that we have a long-term solution. In my recent visit to Orkney and Shetland, both leaders of the council raised this with me, as did previously Liam McArthur and Tavish Scott. I have agreed this summer to travel back to Orkney and Shetland and convene that working group. I will keep members and Parliament updated on how those discussions go. supplementary John Finnie The minister recently agreed to consider my proposal to involve the trade unions and CalMac with Seamall in the procurement process. I wonder if he can advise the chamber whether he has agreed to that request and what discussions he has had with the trade unions. Hamza Yousaf On my visit just a couple of weeks ago to Orkney and Shetland in Orkney, I met the RMT and indeed United Union as well, so I met the trade unions. We referenced the question that I answered from John Finnie. Discussions are on-going. I am open-minded to the idea. I think that it makes perfect sense for future procurements. Of course, the next contract that we are looking towards is the Northern Isles contract, or the large contract would be the Northern Isles contract. Discussions with trade unions will be very much part of that discussion. 5. Daniel Johnson To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on delivering the policing 2026 strategy. Michael Matheson Last week, the Scottish Police Authority board approved an updated policing 2026 implementation plan covering the period to 2020. The plan sets out a number of early achievements, including improvements in custody provision, roll-out of the services wellbeing programme and the testing of new local policing models. The Scottish Police Authority chair has also outlined her intention to establish a designated committee to oversee transformation. The Scottish Government continues to support policing 2026, delivering real-terms protection of the police resource budget and a further £31 million of reform funding this year. Daniel Johnson I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Indeed, last week's SPA board meeting discussed the budget for the next three years, including Police Scotland's plans for much-needed and welcome reforms, including reductions in backfilling and investment in information technology. Can I ask first of all, is the Government fully committed to meeting the costs of those reforms, including the indicated £206 million of capital spend on information technology over the next five years? Second, given that the BTP integration is due to come out of the police reform budget and is explicitly not accounted for in the SPA plans, is the minister at all worried that the unknown costs of BTP integration could harm those wider and much-needed plans for reform in the police? Michael Matheson No, I am not. The work that has been taken forward by Police Scotland in relation to its ICT development is part of the work that was recommended by Audit Scotland in making sure that it had a robust ICT strategy in place. I welcome the work that it is taking forward in developing that plan. The funding that will be required for this is a matter that the SPA will have to give consideration to in any business plan for taking forward the request for funding. The member will also be aware that, at the present moment, Police Scotland has confirmed to the SPA that it intends to invest almost £5 million in core operational policing systems this year in order to ensure that it delivers benefits to officers who are carrying out front-line duties in communities. There is a lot of private chats going on. It is making it difficult for questioners and ministers to be heard. Gordon MacDonald Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Does the Cabinet Secretary believe that progress is being made in the management and leadership of Police Scotland? Michael Matheson I believe that there is. DCC Livingston is an experienced and well respected police officer who is offering excellent leadership to the organisation going forward, supported alongside two Deputy Chief Constable and nine Assistant Chief Constables. The Scottish Police Authority has also set out its plans for the recruitment of further DCCs and ACCs. That programme has already been taken forward and it intends to have a recruitment process that will see the new Chief Constable being imposed by the end of this year. Question 6. Liam McArthur To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on there being a distinct rural dimension to fuel poverty and whether it plans to take forward all the recommendations of the Scottish Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force. Kevin Stewart Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. This Government has always prioritised tackling fuel poverty and is committed to ensuring that everyone in Scotland lives in a warm home that is affordable to heat, no matter where they live. We recognise that fuel poverty— Excuse me, Minister. You were turned off at source but you are back on again. I do not know why that was. I am not responsible. I am not responsible. It is the first time that I have been turned off at source. We recognise that fuel poverty in our remote rural and island communities requires particular attention and that is why we established the Scottish Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force who reported their findings in October 2016, and we published our response to that in March 2017. Liam McArthur I hope that you caught all that, Mr McArthur. Liam McArthur Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. This exchange has taken an uncomfortable turn. Can I perhaps just ask the minister to reflect on the unwillingness so far for the Scottish Government to accept the advice of the Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force, its own fuel poverty definition group, all the local authorities and housing associations in the Highlands and Islands, CAS, Shelter and a range of other organisations that need to have a minimum income standard for remote and rural areas if they are to be able to tackle fuel poverty at source in the communities like Orkney that are most heavily affected by fuel poverty? Kevin Stewart I thank Mr McArthur for his question. He well knows that he takes a great interest in all that. Our delivery plans are focused on remote and rural and island areas. The per head spend on heaps abs in remote, rural and island areas is £9,000, compared with £7,500 elsewhere. Although the majority of the recommendations that were made by the task force were for the Scottish Government, there is also a significant number for other bodies to look at, including the UK Government, off-gem and energy suppliers. We will continue to listen to remote and rural and island communities. Both the bill and the strategy that will publish before the end of this term will be designed to ensure that they are focused on those who are most in need to help to heat their homes no matter where they live in Scotland. Peter Chapman Rural properties are very rarely connected to the gas net network and often rely on kerosene central heating. What plans does the Scottish Government have to ensure that rural areas can play the airport in decarbonisation? Do they have plans to introduce schemes to help rural residents to upgrade and modernise heating systems in boilers? I thank Mr Chapman for his question, and we will continue to review all those things. I am very aware of the fact that those households that are off mains gas have difficulties of their own. It would be extremely helpful if the UK Government lived up to what it said it was going to do in terms of fuel prices and put a cap on them. Maybe Mr Chapman can talk to his colleagues at Westminster to see whether they will do that, because that would be of great relief to those who are living in remote rural and island communities. Christine Grahame 7. To ask the Scottish Government the light of recent issues regarding TSB's online banking service and further branch closures, including by Santander, whether it will carry out an assessment of its impact on businesses and people who find it difficult to access or use online or telephone banking. Paul Wheelhouse 7. The recent IT problems at TSB have highlighted the continued importance of physical access to banking services. However, regulation of banks and financial services remains reserved. The Scottish Government has made its position clear. Consumers across Scotland need to be able to access essential banking services in the way that best meets their needs. While online banking offers advantages for many customers, it is not suitable for all customers. The Financial Conduct Authority, with responsibility for regulation of the financial services sector, will investigate TSB's systems failure and monitor the banks' resolution of the problems that its customers face. Highlands and Islands Enterprise has commissioned work to investigate the impact of branch closures on communities and businesses in the Highlands and Islands area. The Scottish Government will review the findings of that work and the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee's on-going inquiry into banking services and consider appropriate action to support communities. Christine Grahame I thank the minister for his answer. I encourage that the Government might consider an assessment. The minister will be aware that the Royal Bank of Scotland in Melrose has a temporary reprieve only till December. I am only too aware, as he is, that it is part of his constituency of the many constituents and small businesses for which Melrose is renowned, that they need a non-street, not online bank. Considering that we own 72.9 per cent of Royal Bank of Scotland, do you not consider that this is a rotten deal for the public? Paul Wheelhouse? I very much agree with Christine Grahame that it is a bad outcome for customers of the banks. We are working with the banks, and I am encouraged that the banks are increasingly in discussions with us, recognising the importance of having some retention of face-to-face services where that is possible to do so. I want to reassure the member that we are very much focusing on the needs not just of the south of Scotland and Melrose in Ms Grahame's constituency but also the whole of Scotland. Quick supplementary, James Kelly? I reinforced the point that banks are the centrepiece of local communities, and I have seen the detrimental effect that that has had in closures in Canberra, Llanganwr, Rallagyn, Oderd, the minister to do everything in his power to avert those closures. Even quicker response, please, Paul Wheelhouse? I will do everything that I can to mitigate the impact of those closures, and if we can do that, we can prevent them. That was even quicker than I expected. That concludes general questions. The next item of business is First Minister's questions.


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Paul says that we should not exceed what is written. In other words, if the Bible doesn't say it, you wanna avoid the temptation to come up with something that's not actually written in the Scriptures, especially making some sort of hard teaching off of it. One thing that we see that's an example of this is when people say that Satan is or was the minister of music in heaven, as though there was a church service and there needed to be worship music, there is worship in heaven, but that he was the minister, he was the leader, he was, and that's just the choir director. Is that the case? One such passage where this comes from, where the Genesis of this comes from, is in Ezekiel 2013. That's what it says, you were in Eden, the Garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, the topaz, and the diving, the barrel, the onyx, and the jasper, the lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald. And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets was in you. Now from that passage, we don't get a lot from that. Well, the reason for that is because that was looking at the NESB. Now, if we go to the King James Version, we look at it, we'll see what it says that, and the workmanship of Thy tabernits or some verse may say Thy timbrels and of Thy pipes was created in the day that Thou was created. So the question is, what does that really mean? Does that actually show that, let's say he was minister of music? Well, no, and by the way, the Hebrew word doesn't give any little benefit. Can it be referring to his voice that he could sing? Well, maybe, fine. Had no problem with that being the case. I would imagine as an angel, he probably could sing well. I imagine that music would not be an issue for him. Just like I would not imagine it to be a problem for any other angel. Remember, they are created to serve God and so they will also worship God as well. They are ministering spirits. And so in this case, can we glean from it that he's stating that the devil, Satan was leading the other angelic hosts in worshiping in music? No, now, by the way, God doesn't need anything else. Bible says in Acts 17 that he is lacking nothing. He doesn't need anything else. He is God after all. But we also see that there is music still in heaven even after the devil has been put out. Notice what it says in Revelation 5.8 he says, and when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense which were the prayers of the saints. Notice what it says in verse nine. And they sang a new song saying worthy are you to take the book? So I won't go into it any even further, but they are singing, they're worshiping. There's music and they're singing. They seem to be doing just fine without Satan. Now the point is this, one, he was not the minister of music, the Bible didn't say so. And so if he didn't say so, we probably ought not say so ourselves, but also this is an example of what happens when you read into something, when you eyes do something, or when you make it say more than what it says, exceeding from the scriptures. And so if someone were to have told you previously that Satan was the minister of music and when you go to read Ezekiel 28, you might've come away with that because it's been implanted in your mind, but the scriptures in no way say so. And so yeah, he's not the minister of music. As a matter of fact, he's the minister of nothing as far as God, nor was he the minister of music, the choir director because the Bible didn't say so. If he was, the Bible didn't let us know. And so let's just avoid the temptation to make the passages or the scripture or any other document teaching, say something that's not found in the scripture. Amen.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today. We're looking at another first look review on a rock island armory revolver called the Al 9.0 and the 9 stands for 9 millimeter. It's a 9 millimeter Revolver that carries six rounds in the cylinder now my comfort level with revolvers is 38 special 357 Magnum and that's what this is. I reviewed this a couple weeks ago. It's a rock island armory Al 3.1 and many people liked it You know you can see that it does have some nice qualities these two guns have some similarities and differences But I like that 38 special so it makes you ask yourself Why would somebody want a revolver chambered in 9 millimeter? Well, many people like their firearms to share a common caliber. That's quite common where they say, you know I've got a semi-auto. I've got a carbine all in 9 millimeter I want that revolver in 9 millimeter for that reason It's also less expensive and extremely light recoil especially with a big hunk of steel like this So that's why I think a lot of people would like it plus it's a lot of fun I took it to the range already. It's shot extremely well now It does carry six rounds and it does have moon clips available so that it can be easily ejected when you Eject the cases but when I brought this to the range, I forgot the moon clips And so I was pretty pleased though because even though the ejector did not grab a hold of the case All I had to do is shake this Cylinder and then the cases went flying out But let's take a look at that cylinder because it's a little odd look in there. All right made for And those moon clips to be inserted which can also be used as a speed loader by the way You put this in your pocket like this and it's you know those rounds are they should not pop out of the moon clip But anyways here it is it shares some common common features with the 357 model first off you can see the grip right does have those bumps on there that are they're pretty nice They're not aggressive the rubber grip slight finger grooves. It does have a nice feel and that's one thing I really liked about that was that grip it tamed some of that 357 recoil not worried too much about that with this but it is comfortable three inch barrel Really raised up front sight with an orange insert and adjustable rear sights Which is nice? Especially compared to that tunnel sight, you know and these are They're similar, but this is a snub nose. All right. This is you know a good carry gun I don't know how many people that would carry this they take to the range maybe stash it in the truck You know put it on the nightstand Those would all be decent ways to use this revolver. You see that it does have a full under lug there shrouded ejector rod Already showed six rounds in the cylinder and the double action trigger pull is a pretty standard Double action revolver trigger pull. It's right around 11 to 12 pounds But the single action the website says four to six and a half pounds. I am measuring Just a hair over four pounds quite consistently Short little pull there just over four pounds. You can see it does have the transfer bar safety right there And there's your hammer it's bird hammer Definitely does the trick well If we look at the internals, we'll see that you know, you got your firing pin here the timing hand And the bolt stop Right there And there's the yoke We've got the ejector simple setup chambered in nine millimeter And I know how to people they are on the nine millimeter train And some people would say that I am too, you know, it's like, oh, you know, you feature a lot of nine millimeters Well, I've been featuring a lot of 357s lately and I certainly enjoy it Here is the unloaded weight two pounds one and seven eighths ounces. We move that to just ounces 33 and seven eighths ounces. But here we have some self-defense loads And a speed loader or a moon clip and the loaded weight with six rounds 36 and one quarter ounce. So that's what you're looking at With this al 9.0 it's a nice revolver. It's certainly quality made. It's made in the Czech Republic All right, both these are and another one by the way, keep your eyes open for another one rock island is Is getting these in they're getting them in from the Czech Republic a lot of people feel confident with that And this was a nice shooter. This was a nice shooter and keep your eyes open for another one coming in But this is the one feature today. It's a first look review Called the ria Al 9.0 that's a mouthful But it certainly feels comfortable and a well shooting handgun at the range If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


What's up everybody, I'm EvilRabbit and we are here on Torque Drift. Today is a big day for Torque Drift, an update has dropped and it's a big one so there's a lot of cool new things in the game as well as some things we've been waiting for. So before we get into some of the updates, we're gonna accept our sponsor and we'll accept that sponsor and talking of sponsors, there's been a big update if you haven't noticed. I have 11 of 12 on my own sponsor, my sponsor has been fixed, it has been unlocked, so we're gonna go get that today. Siki is also available, that one is very simple, you got to just get all the clipping zones in one of the yard tracks. So my sponsor, 11 of 12, we all want more to do, no collisions on jump. So they changed it if you haven't noticed, it's not no penalties anymore, it is no collisions which means you cannot wall tap, you can't tap the other car or anything on those lines, so they have changed it to make it easier to get, well I wouldn't say easier to get, they made it active, so we got another lock sponsor up there that we got to get. So we're gonna go take care of my sponsor because we're doing an early morning recording today because of, well, we got the jump section. So we're gonna hit the jump section up and see if we can't finalize our sponsor. If you also notice right there, we'll get look into that a little bit sooner here, but we're gonna rock the 46 with the HGK body kit, so no collisions on the yard. That is the goal and that is what we have to do for today. So we got to remember, we can't hit the wall, we can't hit the other car when we're chasing. So we've got to be very, I guess, conscientious and cautious in a sense to make sure we don't hit any walls. We're also gonna try and get some more towards that sticky sponsorship if we can, but you've got to be very brave coming out here by these walls. You're trying to do no collisions to get all these outer clips, so you can't even wall tap. No wall taps whatsoever. Alright, so we missed that clip, so we're not gonna get the sticky one, but we did not hit any walls. We have no collision so far, so we should be good so far, but now we got to chase and we can't hit him or walls while we're chasing either. That's the biggest thing I've been doing this for a couple of tries and found out that, yeah, you can't hit anything. You can hit the cones. Don't go off track either, but you can't hit the walls, you can't go off track, you can't even hit the lead car. So be very cautious when you're chasing that you don't try and get too close or dive in too hard because if you tap the lead car it will negate the sponsor requirements. So I've been just to get my sponsor just been kind of chilling back a little bit. I've been losing a couple battles and stuff like that, but I've been really just trying to stay back, stay smooth and not hit anybody because being unsure of what the lead car is gonna do all the time, he could break and you could just tap him and it would negate the sponsorship. So we should have gotten it. We had no penalties. We didn't make any collisions, so that Evil Rabbit one should be unlocked. There it is. Evil Rabbit sponsor unlocked. It's such a big day for me right now that my sponsorship is finally locked in the game. They finally fixed it. They messaged me about it saying that hey, it's finally fixed. There's a bunch of things that we're keeping it from it getting registered. So we did take the win on the battle. So now we're gonna go get our sponsor. See what we get with our sponsors. I'm not even really sure. And then go see about getting a decal put on the car. Super excited about this. It's finally, it's been, it's been a long road to get the sponsorship working. So we're gonna go in. There it is. Sign sponsor. We get the decal. We get 9,000 grand. And what does it do? We get, oh, so you get some experience and cash with mine. So we're gonna go check the garage. We're gonna go see if I do have a logo to be able to put on the cars because if I do, I'm hoping to see a lot of people repping the Evil Rabbit logo to show their support for myself and the channel. So let's, let's go in. Let's add a layer and see and hope and pray that there is a logo in the game. There it is, my white one and my black one. The logo is there. So I really would love to see you guys representing and throwing out the Evil Rabbit logo on your cars. I know a lot of people have been asking me, you know, when's it gonna, you know, is it fixed yet? How do I get it? Well, here you go. Right there. Torque Drift, a big thank you to them for allowing me to be part of this game and making this possible to, you know, be a part of the Torque Drift game. So we've got a little logo now. So I'm super excited. They have a black version, a white version. Pretty sure you can change it color wise as well. So biggest part of this update, most exciting for me, sponsors are re sponsors have been fixed. They did a lot of fixing and a lot of the sponsors to make them able to be gotten now. So Siki one is available.  So one of the other biggest things in the game, if you noticed the SuperDoof body kit has come back for the S13 and it looks sick. So now we're gonna do an almost a full build on this S13. This car looks amazing with that SuperDoof kit. So this car is gonna get some love now. I do love the S13. If you guys haven't followed the channel for a while, you guys know the S13 is probably one of my favorite S chassis. So a few other things. There's a couple more things in the garage where we're gonna go back to those few other things they've added into the game. This trajectory guide. So the trajectory guide gives like a ghosted image of the trajectory of your car when you're in slide. So you can kind of like, if it'll show when you're in so much angle where you're gonna point. It's kind of a cool little thing. I wasn't using any other one. It's kind of a cool thing to see. Because I mean, if you're trying to learn tracks with angle and how much angle you can throw and if you still have so much angle where your car is gonna go, it's a good training tip. They've also said they fixed the chat feature at the end of a race that you can chat with people. We're gonna try that some other time maybe in a live stream and stuff like that. We'll give that a shot. So another big thing to come back to the game other than the sponsorships. The SuperDoof kit on the S13 is the BRZ is back. The BRZ is back in the game. So those who have the BRZ and were able not unable to use them, you should be able to use them again. So we're definitely gonna buy this. And there it is. And I believe we should have a really nasty looking, oh yeah, really nasty looking body kit. Some pointed front bumper. So the BRZ is back. So we're gonna be doing a full build on this BRZ. Once we start building up our S13, even though I like how the S13 sits, we'll probably leave that. My S15 is a good medium power car. And then of course we have the Miata, which we still haven't really worked too much with. I wasn't really a fan of the Miata to be quite honest with you. And of course we have my E46 on the SuperDoof and or the HGK body kit, my E30 and of course my S14. But we're gonna be doing some builds on the BRZ, as well as getting that S13 up to par. So a big day here in Torque Drift, super excited to have my sponsorship unlocked again and able to be gotten. So there's a, I believe this MST wheel one is fixed. I believe a lot of these have been fixed. So they said they fixed a lot of the sponsorships from not accepting them. And it should be good now. So once again, big thank you to Torque Drift for giving me the chance to be a part of this game and be on the sponsorship tree up here with some big sponsors. Super excited that I got a chance to work with them and now I have my own sponsor. And of course you probably think, why don't I have my own sponsor highlighted? Well, we're going to. And I feel like we're just going to put it right there. And just because it's sweet to see my own sponsor there. So we got, we're going to try and get some more of those sicky things while we're here, might as well. Siki, like I said, it's 100%. Oh, I almost dropped my phone. It's 100% clipping zones. So we're going to bring out the 46. It's so cool to see that evil rabbit. Look, I'll sit right there. So we're going to try and get these 100% clipping points on this. And we're going to try and unlock the Siki sponsorship. You guys know with me joining usual suspects, Siki is the sponsor of usual suspects as well as owned to Drift is. And luck Sims 24. So it'd be cool to get the Siki sponsorship and rep that here in Torchift. Sponsors just chilling there right on the trunk. Looks good to even when I resized it. So super excited, super excited for you guys to start representing the evil rabbit destiny dynasty, whatever you want to call it here in the game. It's been a long time coming. And I know a lot of follow you guys that are following know that you've been wanting it for a while. Well, it's here. Torchift has worked it out. And a big thank you to them for, oh, I missed that last clip. A big thank you to them for getting that back set. We just destroyed the back bumper very 46. Getting it back set up so that we can rock the evil rabbit logo. So very curious to see if you guys are rocking the logo on your liveries. Take some pictures, direct message me on Instagram or on Twitter. I'd be very, you know, very curious to see what kind of liberty you guys would do it if you're rocking the evil rabbit logo. So you guys don't follow me on Twitter and Instagram all the time in the description box below. We are going to throw it on a chase here. And then we're going to try probably one more time to try and unlock some more sticky stuff. The thing we're not going for zero penalties right now because no collisions because, well, I would have just already negated it. Like I said, you guys cannot hit the lead car. You can't even wall tap. No tapping of walls or anything like that. If you're trying to get the evil rabbit sponsorship, it is very difficult. It took me out like I just bought it. It took me a good amount of time to get all 12 because you have to make sure you're perfectly flawless and you don't make a mistake or hit anything because it will instantly negate it and you won't even know until the end. So we're going to get a rerun with this guy and see if we can maybe unlock another sticky point towards the sticky sponsorship. That one's also pretty, I wouldn't say pretty difficult, but you know, you just have to make sure you get every single clipping point, which I thought we were going to miss that one. So it's not super hard to get the sticky one. I'm just a little bit off the off this bank section. No, I'm not. Now we're all the way up there. Oh, now we're all the way up there. I think we got all, I think we got all the clipping points that time. So we should be able to get another hash towards the sticky sponsorship. And we'll see once we finish this station. That was a pretty good lead. Definitely excited on that one. So I think that's going to do it here for this episode here on Torch Triff. Just a big update for you guys. And well, you can tell the super excitement I have for the fact that my sponsorship is now available to be gotten. So everybody who's been asking me how you get it, here's your chance. It is available to get the glitches have been fixed and go out there, get your no collisions, try not to bang doors when you're trying to get the sponsorship and rock the logo on your cars. Like I said, direct message me on Instagram or Twitter. I'd be very, very excited to see what you guys are coming up with livery wise with rock and medieval rabbit logo. I'm going to be making some new livery's myself here very soon. Maybe doing some livery videos here on Torch Drift. So let me know what you guys think about that. There it is. Another sticky manufacturer, 100% clipping zone, three of 10. So we're going to be definitely doing that. It's on the yard so we can do it on any of the tracks. So as always, I thank you guys for watching and I like thank you guys for coming back. As always, you guys know I appreciate all the support and all the comments. So until next time, I'm EvilRabbit and I'll see you guys on the next one.


Here's the last one. It's backward conditioning and it's not the type of backward conditioning that you're probably thinking about. That's not what we're talking about and we're not talking about backward conditioning like this. Notice I did not try to do a moonwalk. So we are not talking about backward conditioning in that sense. We're talking about flipping everything around and doing it backward, which would be where you present the U.S. than the C.S. and not the C.S. than the U.S. So if you'd like some clarity, play the video backwards and you'll understand. No, don't. That's never a good idea with how quickly I speak. Who knows what's going to be said when portals are open. So anyway, backward conditioning, let's get back to the reality of it. We're going to turn the U.S. on and then we're going to turn it off and then we're going to turn the C.S. on and turn it off. I shouldn't be touching that. We're going to turn the U.S. on and then we're going to turn the N.O. off and then we're going to turn the C.S. on. So it's backward because we're putting that U.S. first, which means we're not going to get any predictability between the C.S. and the U.S. But there's an irony here. If you do it enough, you might get some conditioning. Why? Because if you keep doing trial after trial after trial after trial, eventually you're going to go, remember you got your U.S. on and then your C.S. is on. But take a look at this. U.S. C.S., U.S. C.S., U.S.C. Wait a minute. That C.S. there is actually predicting that U.S. there. So if you do them enough and you pack them close together, you might get conditioning, but you're not really getting backward conditioning.  So don't do that and don't think that, hey, I'm magical. I got backward conditioning. No, you just got trace conditioning. Sorry, folks. So anyway, here you go. Have a good day. I'm not supposed to say that anymore, but you reinforced me for it a moment ago. So anyway, I don't know, go out, go forth and classically condition reinforcers so you can be ethical. Perfect.


involve the senior self-involved in the final four next year. Here's Owens, knocks it down, nothing but net. Rebound to Andre Owens. Owens for three. Yes, sir. Ricky Davis. Keep in mind, first scene at 25, you go to the half. And here's your children. Rocks the rim. Man, how quick was that play? Owens with the quick decision, how about to slip back door? Just a point away from the half, and Jermaine Taylor lays it in, and we'll go to the half. And how about the Ball Halls? They walk into the half, with a 10 point lead, thanks a part to Jermaine Taylor. Here's Owens. Yes, for three. And right now, the benefit of the doubt is going towards the Ball Halls, the team that's playing harder. He's had the hot hand. And here's Taylor, back to the children's half, sir. And B, that was all set up because Josh, well, not Josh, becomes in and brings instant energy. This team just somehow beats off of him. How about that? What did you call that move? The Euro 180? Yeah, that's a horse move right there. Getting to the lane. Slip, and Carlos Boozer just laid back in the lane. He called out the play. How about that? Air ball, and Jermaine Taylor dunks it home. We're all hyped up for tonight. Like I said, those referees, what do you think they have in store for them tonight, fellas? Yeah, it's going to be a lot of conversations going on between the coaches and players. So they better be prepared for, oh, people are prepared for Jermaine Taylor. My goodness, Jermaine Taylor with the elevation. West across back, cross over, and step back. Here's Andre Owens for the win in the young history of the big three that a game has been won on a four-point shot. And why not? It makes perfect sense. They play the game the right way to ball hogs. Your man Andre Owens has been leading the way all season. They don't guard them. All right, I'm going to try this. Ball hogs to get their second win of the season. And the ghost ballers are now fall to 1 and 8. Here's Michael Rappaport.


What's everyone take down here back with a nether wwe prediction video this sunday is going to be fast lane and I really hate wwe lately because it seems that the Wwe raw and Smackdown before the pay-per-view That's when they reveal all of the cards that are gonna be happening for the pay-per-view Which sucks for me because that means I have to record these videos last minute Hence why I'm recording this one in my truck today. So as usual. I have all the matches right in front of me Let's get right into this. So up first. We have the kickoff match, which is Ray Mysterio versus Andre ad this match here I think it's gonna be fast pace a lot of high flying I think it's gonna be a little extreme and I'm really excited for this match. I've always been a fan of Ray Mysterio I love that he has returned But I really wish even though he has recently got the United States championship matches and he has had opportunities for them I really wish he'd win a title once again in the wwe I think that'd be awesome. Whether it's United States championship the wwe championship or After the superstar shake-up moving over to raw and winning a championship. I think he deserves a championship I'd even be happy with a tag team championship to be honest with you But against Andre ad Andre ad is still a rising star. He's moving up to the top But I think this one here rare Mysterio is going to win The next one is the raw tag team championships the champions Revival versus Alistair black and ricochet versus Chad gable and Bobby rude This is going to be an exciting triple threat tag team match Revival have since they came up from nxt my opinion been on the bottom of the tag team division The fact that they finally won the tag team championships I'm really excited for that and seeing what they can do and where they're gonna go is really exciting But I predicts before WrestleMania they or at least at WrestleMania They're gonna lose the titles and then get transferred over to smack down in the superstar shake-up So this match here, however Against Alistair black and ricochet coming up from nxt. That's really exciting to see and I think they're gonna stick to the main roster and Chad gable and Bobby rude former champions So this match in my opinion could go either way and I'd be happy with it if Chad gable and Bobby rude retained or won them back I'd be happy if revival retained I'd be happy or if Alistair black and ricochet won it it'd be odd But I'd still be happy but my final prediction for this one is revival just because I want to see them Get a lot of momentum going into WrestleMania and having a WrestleMania moment I think that'd be fantastic the Smackdown women's championship match Oscar versus Mandy Rose I think Oscar has been cleared to wrestle now this match here. I'm gonna give it to Oscar. That's my final prediction I really would like to see Mandy Rose win it But if Mandy Rose does that means she's almost guaranteed a WrestleMania match And I think right now she's not in the position to have that in the future for sure Just not right now. The next match is the WWE women's tag team championship match Sasha Banks and Bailey versus Nia Jax and Tamina. This match is going to be very extreme in my opinion Nia Jax and Tamina. I'm a huge fan of Tamina. I think she deserves her first WWE championship But I don't know if it's happening in this match Nia Jax I think I like this where she's in a tag team better because if she won the tag team championship I'd be okay with that rather than a singles title But against Sasha Banks and Bailey they're face right now. They are amazing tag team I think they're going to retain that is my final prediction Next up is the Smackdown tag team championship match the Usos versus the former champions the Miz and Shane McMahon Now I said before the Miz and Shane McMahon was an odd pairing to begin with but The fact that they won the Smackdown tag team championships is amazing in my opinion I'm so happy that that happened. It was really weird, but I'm happy that it happened But against the Usos, I think the Usos are going to be going to WrestleMania because they won the championship I don't think the Usos are going to lose it to the Miz and Shane McMahon right away after the last pay-per-view I see the Usos retaining and going into WrestleMania to face a new opponent That's my final prediction for this match. The next one is the highly anticipated the shield versus Baron Corbin Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley I'm a fan of the shield But the fact that they got back just because Roman Reigns just returned after having leukemia The fact that they as soon as he declared that he had leukemia and he left they Dean Ambrose attacked Seth Rollins and now all of a sudden they're getting back together I just think it's really odd and I don't agree with it. I like the shield But I just don't like the WWE did that that fast just due to the circumstances But I am a fan of Baron Corbin Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley. I'm a fan of all three of those guys, but this one here I'm gonna go with what the fans want and that is going to be the shield winning Because that is the actual truth behind my prediction is I think the shield is going to win I'd rather have Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley win I think those three might be moved over to Smackdown and the Superstar Shakeup But my final prediction for this match is going to be the shield Next is Charlotte Flair versus Becky Lynch. If Becky wins She's going to WrestleMania and it's gonna be a triple threat match with Ronda Rousey That is what I wanted to see. Honestly I wanted to see Ronda Rousey versus Becky Lynch one-on-one because we didn't get to see that as Survivor Series I would have preferred that. I'm not a fan of Charlotte I don't like that she got thrown into this especially since she was on Smackdown just to be moved over and Becky versus Charlotte for a championship. That's what we were seeing on Smackdown So it kind of degrades the Raw women's division By taking two Smackdown women Superstars putting them over to Raw and getting them championship matches right away I think Becky deserved it because she won the Royal Rumble match. She can choose where to go But Charlotte just didn't make sense to me My final prediction for this match is going to be Becky Lynch because I think she's going to be making a triple threat match at WrestleMania and I think Becky Lynch is going to win at WrestleMania That's my prediction right there and the last match is going to be WWE Championship match Daniel Bryan versus Kevin Owens It was supposed to be Kofi Kingston and Kofi Kingston has been going on a hype lately first the gauntlet match Then the showing in the elimination chamber He didn't win but he did amazing and he earned himself an opportunity to face Daniel Bryan for the mat for the championship However, this man had other plans and decided to return Kevin Owens at that time to go for Smackdown Kevin Owens Whenever they returned him It was almost like he was heel because he was disrespecting Kofi Kingston He just walked right past him and signed the contract but then the next week He came out and it was like he was trying to get over as face Against Daniel Bryan and Daniel Bryan was the heel in the situation. It was really odd But I like Kevin Owens either way just the fact that Kofi Kingston got replaced I think it should have been a triple threat match and regardless at what happens My final prediction for this match is going to be Kevin Owens is going to win and at WrestleMania We might see Kevin Owens versus Daniel Bryan versus Kofi Kingston for the WWE Championship a triple threat match That would be phenomenal to see in my opinion I would like to see that not necessarily that Kofi Kingston is going to win But that Kofi Kingston has a huge match at WrestleMania. I would love to see that that match does happen at WrestleMania I think Kevin Owens would win But my final prediction for this match is going to be Kevin Owens just because I'm a huge fan of him And I honestly hate Daniel Bryan right now not the fact that his heel just the fact that Jeff Hardy Remastered on some of the others that returned never got a WWE Championship match But Daniel Bryan as soon as he returned he did so I'm not a fan of that so much But we'll see what happens comment down below what you guys think are gonna happen at fast lane I'm really excited to see it once again. Sorry for me uploading this video late But it's because not all the matches were announced until the final raw and smackdown before the pay-per-view So I couldn't record this video until now. Hope you guys do understand But like comment subscribe if you guys want to see more WWE pay-per-view predictions And I'm gonna leave this video here, but I do want to hear what you guys think let me know down in the description Let me know down in the comments below. I'm getting tongue-twisted here, but I will see you guys next video Please take care. Peace


Arab media claims Ukrainian military fighting for Israel in Gaza. The Al-Arabi television network has released a story alleging the involvement of Ukrainians in the ranks of the Israeli Defence Forces in military operations in the Gaza Strip. However, Ukraine has not deployed its military personnel from the armed forces of Ukraine to the Middle East region according to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Ole Nikolenko. Ukraine did not send its soldiers to the Gaza Strip or any other region of the world. The army defends its territory against Russian aggression. He wrote on X. In response to the Arab media's coverage, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative suggested that the individuals shown in the footage could be of Slavic appearance or Israeli citizens of Ukrainian origin. Perhaps Al-Arabi TV is talking about Israeli citizens of Ukrainian or Slavic origins, but they have no connection to the Ukrainian state, stated Nikolenko. The spokesperson added that the Ukrainian side hopes for a speedy resolution to the conflict in the Middle East. Earlier, a segment aired on the Al-Arabi network, broadcasting programmes and news in Arabic, featuring individuals in military uniforms conversing in Russian. The actions, as claimed in the story, took place in the Gaza Strip. The approximately 30-second video circulating online was captioned. Ukrainians are participating in the ranks of the Israeli army during the war in the Gaza Strip.