I want it every time I am on stage I want people to go back home knowing that everything is going to be okay and so there is a lot going on in your life but imagine just having your assurance that everything is going to be okay so the song is called Katajipa in a kumbiya and everything is going to be good so for the video ono na msiana kwa nga attacked basically nisimbolik basically ukiwa na move in life when you're trying to do what you love when you're trying to believe in yourself there is normally a lot that is trying to hinder you from believing in yourself so awa sewa na kwa attack awa maguns ina manisha ni zile hinderansu zaku to success finally but finally if you believe in yourself at the end of the video na nisha na nikan nimanijku free from those guys ina manisha when you believe in yourself and so these could be allots na ninesa kwa inaku bei down let's say lack of self confidence wa say any just a lot a lot a lot but imagine when you finally overcome everything and then you become you become a wee and kwa mshindi ani so that is the basic ni ni of the video oh i get it and just so you know he is also a spoken word artist no wonder the symbolism that has been used in our people spoken out artist poetic actually hip-hop and like hip-hop is hip-hop and poetry are just like oh they are brothers and sisters so that's so it's easy for you to be a rapper at the same time is spoken exactly ah okay so kata jipa someday uli tua last year audio and then this year is when you release the video exactly last year is when i released the audio around around apu august and then actually it's ania now and then i released the video this janua this feb awesome what was the problem ni shideil kwa you were looking for the money because video ina take a lot yeah yeah exactly and then we were trying to like i didn't want i didn't want to rush it ni kwa atakani pe time and then i would do the video fanya kitu quality exactly as you've done to shoutouts to my friend and like to mutumu mutumu creatives he's on we did the video yeah my good friend mutumu creatives shout out to you supporting our talents exactly amazing job so um kata jipa someday kunengine latest that has also been played yeah last year last year exactly so last year is like for example when we ask you what are you most proud of for the form if we correct now as a person wow okay i am usually the one who asks questions lakinin kia kwa sport ni taji wu what am i mostly proud of hey okay uh a lot i think but the fact that i am growing exactly yeah the person yeah so that is basic definitely that's the song yani like just imagine when you are like if you can just sit down and imagine the far we have come the far you've come as a person to the una zoneza kwa gada is just a lot in your life that you actually forget mazene we come this far naata sii angali siu nangi that is basically mazene last year sii kutani ninge fika hiya just imagine there was a time we are like covid covid took away jobs you know people forget actually covid took away jobs from people and then finally people got back their jobs you know and now they are here last year sii kutani ninge fika hiya yeah you know that song i i wrote it because of of of losing a parent you know so i lost my dad and i was like mazene sii oni nikiende leya and then like years later nuna kwa like mazene ninge fika hiya eh so like i am like ah last years kudani ninge fika hiya and then every time i perform it on stage kwa like last years sii kudani ninge fika hiya sii people are loving it of because people relate to exactly yeah so that is that is the music i do i i feel like i am more a voice of hope yani you know artist kila artist ana kwa gana what ana do uneza kwa wei nemise una una bring about entertainment nini nini but mean my journey i am getting to learn that i am a voice of hope you know i want 10 years to come 50 years to come people when they listen to my music they be like wow this guy wow this is what he used to do man and his music is still speaking to us exactly ah amazing people who are poetic they have wisdom just there okay nice interesting ah so now this this is the latest song that you have done this year most of them the others needs are the last year exactly but last year i also did an EP i did an EP called sing for you sing for you yeah sing for you is ah an an EP a four song song four song mini album yani i did it for my dad yeah it has songs like i miss you companion believe and sing for you four songs wow amazing do you want to sing us a chorus on one of those songs yeah i can you throw back choose one so i'll sing this one it's called companion it goes you know basically when someone loses someone like let's say for example if you lose parents a friend una backing you kifikiriya who's going to be there for me and then when i wrote this song i was just telling god so god manzei do right now which comes ayuangu see you now you just take his place kwa my dad just be there for me protect me wherever i am so this is a kikuyu it's a kikuyu verse that says murata murata in kikuyu means friend so it goes tweka murata so it says become kwa bishite aungu oh wow exactly because now just be my friend okay amazing i can tell that your songs really speak from what's you know what is from within and then you bring it out exactly i think that's how it's gives an effect to the people listening to it yeah yeah all right have you ever been inspired by us to write a song based on okay to write a song based on someone else's story yeah yeah yeah actually last year is more of people's stories there was a time before i actually even wrote the song i just wrote on my status nikauliza i was saying like what are you proud of before mefika as a person what are you most proud of and then people gave me their stories and now just combine it into one so last year is not only my story it's people's stories yeah so it's the story of many people so i wrote the song for many people and also i combined stories combined stories and then i formed one thing yeah so and actually most of the times as an artist you cannot always have your own story every now and then you know nezaku inspired by someone you can you can you are normally you can be inspired by someone's story and then you write the song about it yeah okay works amazing now tutarodikwa song let's jump into this spoken word how did you start which ones which one did you start with they all started same time same time so many brothers okay so when did you start with that in high school oh high school in form form form 2 from 2 from 2 december yeah kumuka nama and kumuka ngali dates okay so this is how this is what inspires this is what inspires you know okay when you in high school let's say when you don't have when you when you high school people want to be around you when you have something like let's say the chupi is in high school most people wanted to be around them because it's so good yani when you ask them a question the answer but for you who is an average student ama who is just close to the top most people don't won't ask you questions what you feel to so at times you send a feeling gi like what's what can I do so I used to have that question over and over again nuliza God as in what was I born for in all what was I born for and then in the midst of all that craft came like crafts just it was like the bath of my craft I came now to to realize eh now I think this is what I'm good at in those toughness I do feety in this stuff when I finally feel at home so this is what I want to keep on doing I started writing some lines mistari perform them kopa red and we were just loving it and it made me feel confident yani you know like you're confident in your stuff and it was so good so you got support in high school exactly and it's uh to campus any campus has been so good because you know there's something you can align yourself to and people are loving it you know people be like huna potatu nama set out juwi kwa like eh ni haji e mi na penangastafuna fanyang and it's so good man amazing una una furahi edzu kwa like manze kumuna exactly exactly exactly eh so that is how I feel like my craft to me was like ilikam when I was feeling homeless ikani fanyani feel meaning says asa like I'm someone exactly so that is what it made me feel whole okay nice nice story what is the most uh okay um how do I put it or rather what is your favorite poetry that a poem that you've written um it's called it's called heroes in the streets heroes in the streets it's actually on youtube it's called I wrote it time ya covid what's the story behind it it's inspired by my mom so there was a certain time nili kwa you know covid miso ilkotuna kwa home just watching and it was a time nili watch nika watch until the following morning and my mom ali kwa na tooka five so my mom na tooka five and I was like eh my mom na tooka piece ali kwa na job and then the guy who was picking up her ali kwa piyame kwa mapeima and I was like maze you know we forget kuna wale wa say wana kwa nga wana grind kwa streets and I was like damn maze they are heroes in the streets they are heroes in the streets I don't know what to say wana kwa kwaanga our parents any there are so many people out there who deserve the credit because wana fanyang a lot for us that we don't even consider we don't exactly so kwa ido one of the verses na se maanga you know to kwa so blind we don't see to kwa so blind to kwa stack na websa spider man tuna sa hau kudzuwa who are the heroes in the streets siya ni you know the spider man in all tuna forgetting the true heroes in the streets mi wale wa say wana kwa nga wana kwa ibiya hi I turn it to go to perform your heroes in the streets for the heroes in the streets so wana watch so how so blind it's be kwa long ah wasa okay give us another e yaw na kumbuka it's called this is e ni tangwa hat ni hat ah at ni hat at at ni hat e r t ni h e r e r t ni hat ni hat at ni hat transparency li kwendo reason il yaw na at ki reflect culture kwamira medicine li kwendo si at na hila pills li kwendo stated si at na pain killer footsteps prosperity si culture was unable to walk alone homos and reachable with one leg but two legs right left at culture combined homos reachable ni kon na kanon cannot capture a bigger picture like at does at and film does 42 tribes unstoppable with richly built culture with high degrees in art at at the moment is in a bust so kawa ni masai sa it's your time kawa ni kalingin art is in your gene tunai fanya kama tunapenda sisi sote miji kendo good word and i love spoken word give us another just for the lovers of spoken word lines in apotea exactly why why to turni kwa music apotea revizits art is in kwa music jari minual trafuta last month to funghena spoken word okay so again word okay back to your music ulisamoglitua ap any other so ni last day and will officially release your songs yeah yeah okay so the this year ni me release vidaya kata jipa someday and last year and last year those are the first two videos that you have before the ep yeah the one dedicated to late dad kuna any other that you had released before yeah i've done before the ep i released a song called i miss you don't wanna be an ex aha no i miss you ni kuna ni bia babangu oh yeah oh okay okay i'll get you exactly i kuna vidapia iko youtube ah all right exactly okay with the how do you say yourself having grown how do you say from your first song to last year i feel like kuh i feel i've really grown you know when my my fans and my friends listen to my craft from the first time ili kwananza kuh release one one ni ambia manza you've really grown your craft is growing day by day you know redefining from poetry to hip hop it's so beautiful like and i'm just loving it so much because people are now loving from any last year i've had so many people tell me manze you the quality of your music is growing is the quality of your craft is growing and that is the beauty of it so that's does that keep you going and yeah yeah so much manze when i keep going vibhazana okay who are your best artists when you were at the time kwa labona now locally, internationally i would say i would say i would love to work with with someone like nyashinsky oh me kwa na ngojo semia calligraph jones nyashinsky why nyashinsky hey because once you were an inspire bokeh before yo an inspire sana and juliani and juliani yeah exactly because of the songs or because of how they embrace their art juliani more because of how he embraces his craft from the first time he was doing his music back then till now yeah and juliani also did or does poetry exactly now that makes a lot of sense every single rapper is a poet by kidogo kidogo oh yeah because they intermarry rime kidogo yeah it makes a lot of sense now and i think okay yeah i get you and internationally what do you see do you see yourself going international exactly you know there is something miku Jackson in the 1978 he was he wrote something kwa kitabu ya kakasema in five years to come i see myself as one of the biggest stars this world has ever seen i will redefine the entertainment industry going to become one of the biggest stars and that was so like ilini touch like kimadzin i just might me naji taking the five years as i say umiani from i'm seeing myself as a big pa as a big person who has used this craft touch hearts out there defining the life performance scene everything my craft in my grow exactly mazi in me take my craft out there ya ni exactly wow amazing big dream for you are you more would you say you prefer jukunanya nasamanga artists who can we say ya i prefer being a recording artist more than a performing artist for you ni gani i would love to be both i'm a both performing and recording and it's it's beautiful because let's say for example someone like michael jackson michael jackson still has his songs out there people are listening to his songs up to now pa do na indabak nasikiza smooth criminal nesongia kitambosana en pa do na una bambika naio so that is the beauty of being a performing a recording artist and then a performing artist now you take your song you take it to a band and then they they change your the chemistry of your of your song and now your your fans can actually enjoy the song ya ni that is the beauty of being both both a recording and a performing juu at a time ya kovid was say performing artists wali kwa affected juu all shows were closed up wali wali kwa majanga they are online fan base you know wali kwa wali kwa kind of lucky exactly all right so to kifunga na pula za suwali wali ni uliza what are you most proud of but now in your musical journey I'm proud that Sijai give up and I'm still moving because I'm still moving because I I have an album coming through soon exactly but don't end eleni kigro but do sisare you know I'm still believing in myself every now and then every time when I wake up I'm looking for more inspiration to keep on building my craft I'm still believing in myself and kujami niya sikitu ndogo like you know believing in yourself is not it's not a payable it's something big big because una una you see yourself five years to come uta kwa api like ninge sare kitambo because crafts crafts ni difficult ni hard but badu ni endelia ku believe in myself every now and then without giving up and I'm still strong badu na mi niya one day everything is going to work out wow amazing love that so you need to see yourself there before you get there exactly exactly so kifunga uta to maliziya na freestyle rap ama spoken words rap know what to do anisa? you can prepare for that okay no problem where can people get you new socials kwanta so you can find me on all social media platforms as Fede Juki F E W D Y Juki on Instagram Facebook, Twitter, fedinjuki YouTube, fedinjuki And my music is also available on all streaming platforms Spotify, Boomplay, Aotea Ok, everywhere Everywhere, everywhere Fedinjuki, Tapata Shoutouts? Shoutouts, I want to shoutouts Kwa kuna rewa? Bhi hei, Direct My family, kwa kuna rewa Exactly, ma ma ma ma pale mta, indola I want to shoutout to my friends Wa sa ni whate Aotea wa believing in themselves I want to shout out to my friend Gladys out there, shout out to everyone maze, everyone who believes in themselves Kamo na wachisho, o eni mnoma, eni everyone out there, I love you so much And to all my fans keep on believing maze, thank you so much Amazing, that's your freestyle Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea Lastia agami traumatized Si kudani ninge fika hea fasto on fatasized Lastia agami messed up, nime fika hea fasto a kif, thanks Squeezing anza kuna life like a big thing, kuna wale wange taka kwi shi When you trust God, wazipata vi tu fishi, he's the big fish Homozona bifishin, kila si kuni na pigatizi A go hard every day, kisho nezaku wa nime zidi There were days I was doing everything on my own Cheki bless nime, fika with God on my zone Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea When my dad passed away Si kudani anything would ever come away I was sad because I thought everything I had was gone Cheki bile God who come through Nowadays kila dawni na tachi na open Gori zotezikun dani ima close it Cheki mamana make bo smooth Time smoothly dani bitu zinge wa kua smooth We see why confused Who keep dani bad days zinge why And lastia I was depressed Had a couple of issues Then let me on the edge Thanks God me liweka hope Nowadays nime lanku cope Lastia Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea Lastia si kudani ninge fika hea Wow Kataji pa some day so I keep my hands up Kataji pa some day so I keep my hands up Kataji pa some day so I keep my hands up Kataji pa some day See Siri Shrago nivu trying to be What you wanna be Najuliza kamakuna days I was thinkin' like a bee Nofsi na dream yama noti Nama ploti lakini si kumazaki Voiswa inotisa godi Nipangubu chumimi si choki Hodi hodi on the stores Agu kipun nukin lakini skia Someday is nina fear Someday is niki try cooking beer Najipata niko down Najipata nime frown Lakini nini nani Nekimani koza swear Kataji pa some day Kataji pa some day Kataji pa some day Kataji pa some day Ah Yeah, thank you very much, Fendi. Thank you so much. Fedi Juki, that has been Fedi Juki Talking to us about his musical, Jania Santisana, that's amazing and we do wish you the very best. Thank you so much. Mutafute, get his music everywhere. Fedi Juki. We take a short break and then Kalami Val will be back with the next interviews. Stay with us. Thank you so much.


Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way Oh what fun it is to say you slept in with the hey hey you slept in with the hey hey hey hey hey everyone merry Christmas yeah we just want you to have a great Christmas and a happy new year and happy Hanukkah and a happy Kwanzaa and yeah and whatever you're doing on Christmas Day however you're celebrating it we want you to be joyful and happy and merry and merry hey we hope you're having a great great holiday we want to thank you for visiting our channel I can't believe my wife Monica she had a thousand subs beginning of the year and now she's got about 4600 thank you thank you thank you you've made her year and I'm very proud of her oh thank you darling thank you and the same thing for all the folks that follow you because you're going to put this on your channel to some degree right yeah so all the folks that follow Jay on his channel he's really grown his channel a lot he talks a lot about ripping cards and packs and bricks and stones and stuff like that and I think you know I watch some of his videos and I go my gosh how can people actually watch someone opening up a card and talking about it for 20 minutes and then he thinks the same thing how could someone watch someone putting on their makeup or putting curlers in their hair or whatever right yeah you put that mask on your face and oh man crazy yeah it is kind of it is kind of really funny but you know we've actually been on YouTube quite a while Jay started his channel in 2006 and I branched off in 2009 yeah but it was more your idea to get us on using my channel mainly get it for real estate and then we finally just over the last year and a half or so branched out into our hobbies and that makes it really nice so speaking about a hobby what in the world do you have on your hand that you're showing everyone you know what that is yeah it's probably something you wash your face with it's my exfoliating glove I can't believe you put it on your hand like that are you exfoliating your skin no it kind of reminds me of Dr. Seuss and the cat in the hat for some reason I don't know if you're a Santa hat on and you know and all of that so we we're kind of like low key on Christmas we really don't even decorate much we don't put a tree up at all we haven't done that since the kids moved out years ago so we usually spend Christmas day going up to my sister's house and all the kids are there and my mom and dad we actually take my mom and dad and we spend Christmas day up there and just enjoying our full day family and on Christmas Eve usually we go up to Nubba Light in New York Maine and I don't know if we're going to get there this year what is not supposed to be that great so we'll see play it by year and hopefully we'll get up there and see the lights and hey maybe we'll insert last year's in here well last year I think we fogged in if I remember correctly but yeah we'll insert a couple of clips of Nubba Light because that is sort of a tradition of ours to do a new year at Christmas Eve right up the coast and then into Maine and doing that it's just really I know it's extra special it was the last year of the year before we were up there in flip flops one year we were up in flip I was wearing flip flops I don't know yeah it could have been two years ago but you know everyone has their own little little traditions and on Jay's side of the family you know we don't have really anyone to celebrate with anymore you know my brother is got his family and they usually celebrate with his wife's side of the family so I don't see them that much they're down in Rhode Island but my mom and stepfather and father ball passed on all my step and half brothers passed on so and I got some half brothers and sisters over in Germany so my family's kind of all over the place my son's in Atlanta and this year he's going to be in Wichita with his girlfriend so that'll be fun for him and we're just going to have a blast around here we always do we always do we really do so we just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and thank you for all your support to both of our channels yeah we really appreciate your support and hopefully 2018 is going to be awesome and hopefully we'll have some great videos to show you it will be bye guys take care Merry Christmas


Did the Ravens use Devin Duvenay like the Bears used to use Devin Hester? What are your expectations for when Rashal Bateman makes his return? Can Lamar Jackson become the best quarterback in the league? Thieves and more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. You too, Team Keep It Clean. What's going on? It's Engraven here with another video with another episode of NFL Questions from subs. Seriously, you can ask me any question you want to and we answered in a video just like this. If you want to be part of it, you can send me an email to teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com or for the patrons. You can just send it directly on Patreon and shout out to all the Team Keep It Clean patrons. If you want to become a Team Keep It Clean patron, you can go to patreon.com slash engravenviz and if not, that's cool because you already know it's still love anyway. Team Keep It Clean as we always do, we got some fire questions. Let's do it. First question came from Mackay. It said, oh, it said not really a question but it's really refreshing hearing you talk about other teams. After hearing you talk about Gilmore, hope you do it more. Keep up the great work. Appreciate that, Mackay. Thank you. It is fun to dive into other teams besides the Ravens because of course, you know, we primarily Ravens channel or whatnot, but that's part of what Team Keep It Clean is because when we do talk about other teams, talk about other teams respectfully, talk about other players respectfully, it ain't like, oh, I hate this team, I ain't none of that because everybody's welcome here. This channel is just about having fun talking football, making sure we have a welcoming environment for fans of every single team that there are. But I appreciate you acknowledging that. Thank you, man. Next question came from Ray. He said, hey, I just thought of this idea that the Ravens could use Devon Duvenay like how Chicago Bears use Devon Hester. Five ways the Ravens could use Devon like Bears use Devon. I'll see the little word, play cousin in there. Anyway, one, as a point and kick returner, man, this has a check mark already. Boom. All right. Number two, out of the backfield. Now that would be something because he is built like a running back. That would be something and maybe, well, you know, this running game ain't been what the running game once was. Hopefully they pick it up and get it back there, but it hasn't been what it once was. So maybe you could try it out, couldn't hurt three as a flanker, four as a slot receiver. I believe they've done that a little tiny bit already and then five as a red zone threat. Hmm. That would be something. So yeah, we'll see how Greg Roman continues to use Devon Duvenay in different ways and get him involved in the football game. Next question came from a guy, Connor G. He said, good morning. Hope all is well for you with Bateman and Boykin and Boyle. When they all come back, what will the passing game look like? And could you see us signing David DeCastro? Hope all is well. Have a great day. Now I don't see the Raven signing David DeCastro, but with Bateman and Boyle and Boykin all coming back, our own three B's and we still got Livia on bail now. We got Marquise Brown. So we got plenty of B's on it anyway. But speaking of these guys specifically, first off, Rashad Bateman, what can we expect when Rashad Bateman makes his debut? Well, I would say to temper expectations because and I love how Tori Smith said it best. He said Ravens fans just they got to make sure they're patient with Rashad Bateman because you got to remember that he's not coming back after having missed a year with this Ravens offense. This is not like his second or third year with this team. He's a rookie. So it's important that we remember that he's a rookie. This is his first year. These will be his very first NFL games. So I'm sure he's excited. He's hyped and all that. He's ready. But he could have the jitters. It could happen, especially if it happens on money night football. But it just we got a temper expectations and and don't. I mean, it's okay. Whatever you expect, it is what it is. But me personally, I'm not going to come in and expect him. All right. His first game of the year. I had to go for five catches of 104 yards and two touchdowns. Now that would be nice. That would be cool. That would be great. But I don't expect it. I don't expect him to I don't expect Greg Roman to be like, all right, here, take this big dose of Rashad Bateman and start pouring it all into the offense. No, I expect Greg Roman to sprinkle him, sprinkle him in the offense here and there, here and there, because you don't want not that you would mess it up because it could enhance it, especially once he gets comfortable. It could enhance it, but you don't want to fix what's not broken. The offense specifically, the passing offense has been doing a very, very good job, a very good job. Now Rashad Bateman, once he gets his feet on them, once he gets comfortable in everything, he could make it even better, even better. And think about this, like this, this Ravens passing offense is already really good, especially for what we're used to. It could be even better when you add Rashad Bateman. Now Miles Boykin, with him, my expectation with him when he returns is that I feel like, and again, we got to see it to believe it, but I feel like we could see a different Miles Boykin reason being because coaching makes all the difference in the world. It makes such a big difference. You could have this player, player A and this player A could have come out of college in the business for now, no player, but they get with this coaching staff and it's like, oh man, what happened to that guy? He used to be so good in college, oh man, he was one of the top players in high school. This dude was phenomenal, but what happened? But that player A moves on from that first set of coaching that he got in the NFL, which didn't really bring out the best of him, then he moves on to a new coaching staff.  Where he come from? I didn't know he was that good, oh no, you did, but you forgot because the coaching staff that he was with, they didn't bring out the best of him. So hopefully with TT and Kiki, with Miles B, they really bring out the best in him, seriously. Because they have already shown that the impact on his offense has been crazy in a good way. You see it. You see it every week. You see it every week. So I'm very excited to see Miles Boykin and see what he can bring to the table as a receiver. Not just a blocker, because we know that he's going to knock somebody on it, but we know he's going to block his behind-off. But I want to see what he brings to the table now as a wide receiver. I want to see Keith Williams and T-Mars impact on that with him. Nick Boyle. I think Nick Boyle, his biggest impact will be in the running game because he gives you that tight end, a physical tight end, very, very strong tight end, that presence. And it's like having an extra offensive lineman. He gives you somebody that's reliable, his hands are reliable. He ain't catching like no 90, 100 passes, like no Mark Andrews, but his hands are very reliable. When he does have the ball thrown his way, he'll make the play. He is not afraid of contact. He ain't afraid to dish it. He ain't afraid to take it. Nick Boyle is a very physical tight end. But he will help elevate this running game that much more. So I'm really just excited when these guys come back.  Their roster is just amazing, but injuries just mess so much stuff up. That's still, their roster still with all the injuries is still pretty good. And the way that they've been performing, it shows like even with a depleted roster that they can mess with anybody. Next question came from a guy Devonte. He said, hey, what's up, ain't Raven? I got something on my mind and I need you to tell me if I'm tripping. Lamar has been getting tremendously better just with playing the QB position. He'll never be the best pure thrower of the football, but I don't really care about that honestly because his spirals have gotten tighter and he can make every throw in the route tree. So that's really good enough. But I've been noticing his eye manipulation and his reads are taking a step forward, which is great to see. You know what? I didn't even notice that because when we watching the games, we'll be watching and whatnot. But then we'd be on the live stream and messing with the chat and all that and going back and forth trying to get ourselves together. But I haven't even noticed that. So if he's been doing that, that okay now. But the thing too, he has actually been doing that since his rookie year. Because I remember specifically there was a play in the Raiders game where he used his eyes to move either a linebacker or a safety. I forgot what happened on the play. I think it ended up being an incompletion. But it was just, oh no, I think it might have actually been an interception.  Anyway, he's been doing it since his rookie year. Anyway, he said, with that being said, does Lamar have the chance to really be the best quarterback in the league?  Once he puts it all together, I don't see how anyone can be better. It's like when he plays a theme song that comes to my head. How do you want it? How do you feel? LOL, the man can really give it to you anyway. True, dual, dread. Now, thanks for reading this and I hope you and the fans stay blessed. Hey, you never know. With Lamar Jackson, the sky is really the limit. He's shown, like, he could throw with the big boys, man. He's shown you that. He could obviously run with the big boys. He's shown you that, but he could throw with the big boys, too. And it's something that a lot of us have been talking about already. But that we knew Lamar could throw. We knew. But the media could sort of mess with your head and make you think that he can't throw. The media will mess with your head and make you think that he doesn't have a good arm. Even Madden, man. Man, I was upset the other day. I was playing Madden and Hollywood. He beaten these corners for me and Madden. So I tap on X, lob it up to him, throw a deep ball and Lamar's throwing it short. I'm like, what is this? Why Lamar keep throwing it short? So I looked at his throw power and it's like a 93. I'm like, what? A 93? Now, I ain't expecting those 97 and none like that. But at least a 94, 95, 93. What's that, man? So when I was throwing the deep passes, I got to get like a running start to throw him. I'm like, man, come on. I ain't supposed to have to do that. I'm supposed to be able to send a pocket and just throw it. But anyway, at least in real life, he could throw those deep passes. But Madden, they got to fix that. Anyway, so yeah, he could be, though. He could be. But like I said, the media, they'll have you thinking one thing about Lamar Jackson, that is completely false. That's why it's very important like my guy Devonte has shown that he does watch the games for yourself. The last question on this episode, a question from subs came from Keisha. She said, hey, I've been watching content for a while now and just want to thank you and all the patrons for quality Ravens discussions. Keep up the good work. Hey, I appreciate that Keisha and we appreciate it too. See, even Keisha, she gave a shout out to the team keeping clean patrons as well. I appreciate it. Thank you for that. And thank you for being a part of Team Keeping Clean. Thank you for watching the videos and thank you for everybody for just really making this what it is. These questions from subscribers, they don't come from me. They come from Team Keeping Clean. They come from y'all. They come from the patrons. They come from everybody else. They come from y'all. And the fact that you guys, like I always say with questions from subscribers, that has been a series that has really been big because it has brought out so many points that I would have never thought of, that I would have never seen. It's helped me to learn so much. Just as a fan of football itself, it's helped just my thought process with a lot of different things. It's changed my viewpoints on a lot of different things. It's opened up my mind to a lot of different things. And that's because of y'all. So I appreciate you all. Shout out to Ravens.


Hello and how are you all today? The question says evaluate i is equal to integral 0 to pi by 2 sin square x upon sin x plus cos x dx. So let's proceed with the solution. We have been given the integral, the definite integral as integral 0 to pi by 2 sin square x upon sin x plus cos x dx. 0 to pi by 2. Now here we can write x pi by 2 minus x for each and every case. Further it will become i is equal to 0 to pi by 2 sin square pi by 2 minus x is cos square x upon sin pi by 2 minus x is cos x. Now this will become sin x. Let this be the second equation, this be the first equation. Now on adding the first and the second equation we get 2i equal to integral 0 to pi by 2. Now here the denominator is same for the case. So we have sin square x plus cos square x upon sin x plus cos x dx, right? So we have 2i equal to integral 0 to pi by 2 sin square x plus cos square x is equal to 1, right? So we have 1. Now let us divide and multiply our denominator by root 2. So here we can write sin x upon root 2 plus cos x upon root 2 dx. For 2i is equal to integral 0 to pi by 2 1 upon, let us take 1 by root 2, comment out. Now here if a will be x and b will be 1 by, let me rewrite it. Sin x the value of 1 by root 2 can be written as cos pi by 4, isn't it? We can write 1 by root 2 which is over here as cos pi by 4 and similarly x into 1 by root 2 can be written as sin pi by 4. So in doing so we have i equal to 1 by root 2 integral 0 to pi by 2. Now here sin a cos b plus cos a sin b is the expansion of sin a plus b, isn't it? Where a is x and b is pi by 4. So we have this. Now proceeding it we have 2i equal to 1 by root integral 0 to pi by 2. 1 upon sin a plus b can be written as pi by 4 was over here. So x plus pi by 4 dx, right? So we know that the formula for integral cos a theta is log mod cos a theta which is x plus pi by 4 over here minus cot theta that is x plus pi by 4 0 to pi by 0 to pi by. So we have 2i equal to 1 by root 2 log mod cos a pi by 2 plus pi by 4 by 4 plus tan pi by 4 mod close minus log mod cos a pi by 4 minus cot pi by 4 mod close bracket close. So on writing down its values we have 1 by root 2 log mod root 2 plus 1 minus log mod root 2 minus 1 which is equal to 2i is equal to 1 by root 2 log mod root 2 plus 1 upon root 2 minus 1 plus c. Sorry, here this was a definite integral question. 2i equal to 1 by root 2 on rationalizing we have the denominator that is root 2 plus 1 into root 2 minus 1 upon root 2 minus 1 sorry plus root 2 whole square minus 1 the whole square. 1 by root 2 log 2 plus 1 the whole square upon 2 minus 1 that is 1 which is or i is equal to 1 by root 2 log mod root 2 plus 1. So this is the required answer to the given question hope you understood it well.


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back. Do you have anxiety? Or do you know what it might feel like to have it? If you answered no, then it's still important for us to educate ourselves and raise awareness about anxiety and other mental illnesses. So it's a good thing you're here. And if you have someone in your life who you think might be struggling with feelings of anxiety, then it would do you a lot of good to learn more about what it's like to live with anxiety so you can help eliminate the stigma against it and be there for them in a way that they need. So with that said, here are eight things people with anxiety want you to know. Number one, anxiety is real, even if you can't see it. One of the worst things you can do to someone with anxiety or any kind of mental health concern really is to invalidate their feelings by saying their anxiety is a choice or that it's all in their head. Just because you can't see it doesn't make their struggle with mental illness any less real. Number two, anxiety affects a lot of people all over the world. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, roughly 31% of those aged 18 years old and above have or will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. That means over 40 million adults in the United States alone suffer from anxiety every year. That makes anxiety one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses in the world affecting people of all ages, races, genders and backgrounds. Number three, people with anxiety wish they could stop, but it's complicated.  Could you just tell your body to get over the cold or stop being allergic to something? To heal your bones or cure your infection with sheer power of will? No, right? If you could then life would be much easier for you. Well, mental illness is the exact same way. Living with anxiety is far from a walk in the park and it's not something that someone can just get over in a snap. Number four, anxiety affects the mind and body. Sometimes our anxious thoughts lead to experiencing physical symptoms like sweaty palms, trembling, muscle tension, shortness of breath and a pounding heart. Anxiety is never just in your head and trying to rationalize it as kind as your intentions might be when you tell someone there's no need to be nervous tends to make them feel worse, not better. Number five, anxiety has nothing to do with you or the relationship.  That they can be well for you or change for the better because of how much they love you and how much you love them. But it just doesn't work that way because their anxiety has nothing to do with you or their relationship with you. And just because they feel anxious around you sometimes doesn't mean they love you any less. Number six, seemingly random things can be triggering. Anxiety can be scary, especially when we don't understand the exact nature of why and when it happens. A lot of people suffering from anxiety are often triggered by many different things. Oftentimes it can be uncomfortable or unfamiliar situations, such as public speaking or having fights with friends, but it can also be brought out by seemingly random unrelated things. Number seven, it's not your job to fix those with anxiety. When a friend or a family member confides in you about their struggles with anxiety they're doing it because they trust you and feel safe being vulnerable around you. They're not asking you to fix them or make their problems go away. So just be there for them like a good friend would. And any support or understanding you can show will surely go a long way in helping them manage their anxieties. And finally, number eight, we are more than our anxiety. Finally, but maybe most importantly, people with anxiety want you to know that they are more than their struggles with mental illness. They don't let their anxiety define them or their life so you shouldn't either. And just because someone struggles with anxiety doesn't mean they can't enjoy themselves anymore, reach their full potential or have meaningful relationships with others. Anxiety disorders are also one of the most highly treatable mental illnesses in the world. So there's always hope that things will get better. So if you have anxiety, did you agree with these points? Did you learn something new? Remember, if you or anyone you know is struggling with anxiety or any other serious mental health concern, please do not hesitate to reach out to a mental health care professional today and seek help. Did you find this video insightful? Tell us in the comments below. Please like and share it with friends that might find value in this video too. Make sure to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell for more content. All the references used are added in the description box below. And thanks so much for watching. We'll see you next time.


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How much are they going for so I know how much to bring I mean Got a little bit of everything to be honest the top cards are Thousands we have cards that are thousands in the showcase Um, but there's a little bit of everything I mean, there's stuff there's we have everywhere from dollar to like four or five thousand dollars Trying to get the areas dark auto up there That one's pretty cool Silver brine robinson jr. Two at 199 kurt warner Still going. Oh geez man Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't that that I I understand because those are not easy to hit There's one of those per case and it can be anybody in the entire 300 some odd checklist Yeah, he does sign for tops Yeah, they don't have exactly don't have the rights exactly what schype said silver desmond ritter Blue waves to 199. I'm on ross st. Brown Kendrae miller and sam laporta Hey jay brown height purple ice puke nakula to 225. There you go rams. Hano be congrats, buddy Okay, that is elasia dotson tabings. No, no, no, you're good. 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The House of Representatives investigating NNPC's limited joint venture from 1990 to 2022 has discovered Sarah's infractions by Shell, who has been claiming capital allowance from the government without CAFA certification from inception. Though Shell pleaded for leniency from the committee, it still went ahead to demand details of Shell's fixed assets at the next meeting. Details in this report. The House of Representatives Committee investigating the NNPC's limited joint venture from 1990 to 2022 has discovered Sarah's infractions in the operations of Shell from its inception. The Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited has been claiming capital allowances from the federal government without having the certificate of acceptance on fixed assets, CAFA. The committee requested to know if Shell had benefited from capital allowance for which its management answered in the affirmative and consequently drew out condemnation from members of the committee. We are not a company that takes anything statutory and tax for granted. We are a company that complies fully with the laws of the land. The specific issue of the certificate issue is one thing, but whether we have done gotten the allowances on the basis of the laws of this country, I can say, Mr Chairman, that is what we would have done. I know for sure that you don't have CAFA's certificate. Yes, you don't have because we asked the agency concerned in advance to give us the names of all companies, all the companies in Nigeria that have ever obtained CAFA's certificate for their properties. There is a statutory requirement for you to enjoy capital allowances in Nigeria, which you do not appear to be aware of having. And that is what is surprising because it will be on record that SBDC and SNEPCO do not have the requisite certificate for enjoying capital allowances in Nigeria. The MDCEO of Shell Petroleum Company, Osage Okumbo, then pleaded for leniency. As a committee requested for the company to avail eight of details of all its fixed assets at the next sitting. So if you would allow us, Mr Chairman, members of the committee, allow us to present what we have in this respect, appealing that you withhold judgment pending what we present. When you give us the details of the property that over time you've been claiming capital allowance over, you must have a property on the basis of which capital allowance is claimed. The chairman of the committee, Abubakir Fulata, also gave a rolling on new cross exploration and production company after grilling the empty Sojay Victor over a joint venture business with the NNPC and why it has not been paying petroleum income tax to the federal government since inception. The committee insisted that the MD may himself available to the panel or risk being declared wanted and produced before the committee by the police in handcuffs before adjoining the proceedings.


in Waikiki. Today, I would like you to meet a friend. Her name is Leilani Akinu. She prefers to go by Lani from Hawaiian, I guess. Lani resides in San Pedro, California. I met Lani via Zoom. So we met so many people during the last few years with Zoom. But I recently had a chance to finally meet her in person. And I was able to meet her fun loving family and Ohana and help them to take their health back. So let's meet Lani. Aloha Lani. Hi, Wendy and to Wendy. Thank you for having me here. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. I knew it would be kind of interesting because, you know, my talk is taking your health back. And I know your passion is massage therapy. But before we get into that, I would like you to just tell us a little bit about your Ohana and your background. Oh my goodness. Well, I was born and raised in Hawaii. This photo here is taken a few years ago with my immediate family there. Born and raised by my parents immigrated to Hawaii from the Philippines.  So they started the family in Hawaii. So I'm the oldest of three. And, you know, I have very, very just happy memories growing up in Hawaii. And where did you grow up? Well, what part of Hawaii? Well, I was born in Honolulu, first part of my childhood. And then we moved to Waipahu, where my family still resides. So yeah, so it's just fun, just fun, being Filipino community, as you know, Wendy. Yeah, I mean, that's where I was. I was born in Miley. And then we relocated to Waipahu. And yeah, it's a large Filipino community there. In fact, they say that's like the first Manila. Yeah, maybe in Hawaii would be like second. But yeah, I met your family there and wow, what a neat, neat neighborhood and family that you have there. So tell me, was somebody involved with military? Yeah, you know, I always had a spirit of adventure, curiosity. So I was still a senior in high school, of all high school. And I ended up enlisting in the military. I was still a senior U.S. Air Force. Definitely was surprised to the parents, but one of those, you know, I was just adventurous and wanted to experience and explore outside from Hawaii. So that's that's what I did. I went to the military, jet engine mechanic, train and working on fighter engines. So it was a great, great experience for sure. Congratulations and Mahalo for making the decision at a young age. I'm following you with it. Kudos to you. I mean, my daughter came home and she wanted to join the Air Force. And I was so excited. But of course, her dad said, No, you're not going. I said, Yes, you are. I even wrote to Senator Akaka and Senator Inouye, a Congressman Inouye. And I wanted to see how hard it would be to get a congressional appointment for my daughter. And I was so behind it, was so excited. But her daddy said, Absolutely not. So anyways, I'm congratulating you for taking that step. You had a desire and a passion to learn something of discipline, love of country, whatever it was to drive you. I just want to say Mahalo for following through with it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How long did you serve there? You know, I was active duty for almost five years and did it. And then I did a few years of Air National Guard in Utah. And I finished up my career doing eight years in active reserve. So yeah. So you have a good number of years behind you? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Great. Like I said, it was a great experience because you meet so many different people, right? You get exposed to different cultures. You know, just just talk about culture shock, right? So right. But it was good because you get different, you know, types of people come from all over the country. There was a great exposure to that too. So yeah. And you know, you're not even from a military family. So that's even a little more challenging because it's not like you grew up in that, you know, military family environment, traveling about, you were the first one to go. And wow, I'm just amazed. I just, I wish somebody would have encouraged me as well, because I really admire you and the people that make that decision to go. But thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. And so in this next photo, I think it's the Christmas photo. So I know you want to share a little bit more about your extended family and your family there. Yeah.  My boyfriend Nemo, he goes by Nemo's first time in Hawaii. So he wanted to, you know, he was really, really happy. You can tell by that photo. You know, just being around family, you know. But yeah, Christmas time is always special to the whole family because, you know, my dad passed in 2019, January. And so Christmas Eve was his birthday. So it's like, it's special, you know. It's special meaning. It's hard and it's always a good feeling, always good memories come through. So it's always special, always go home for Christmas. So you're retired out now out of the military? Yeah. Yes, I'm done. You're done. Yeah. I did my obligation. Yes, you did. You spent and you trained and you got discipline and only good things come of it. So again, and take all of that experience and knowledge that you got from our government and of course the love of our country. So thank you for defending. Thank you.  So tell us a little bit about that. Oh my gosh. So I didn't actually, I got into massage therapy just not really like, it wasn't like, oh, I'm going to be a massage therapist. It wasn't anything like that, you know, because I was with the airlines, I was working for the airlines at the time years after I got out of the military.  Like, there's supposed to be more you're supposed to be doing, you know?   I was like, you know what, let me click on one of these. So it was like reading about it.  So I went, I heard the whole, you know, the reference, the rep, walked me through the school, told me all the awesome things that you can do with it, noticed and all that. And I was like, Oh, I'll sign up. I signed up for school on the same visit. Like, who does that? Well, it was a calling. Somebody was talking to you and you took the message and to Pete and yeah, you took action. So that's great. I did. I did. And it was like the best decision I made.  So it was a great experience, you know, learning about the art of massage therapy. And what he can do is such a huge healing tool, you know, so. But yeah, massage therapy. That's why I got into it. So you know, when you were looking into this, well, how was your help? Where were you at with your help?  I was always active as a child. As I got older, I tried to keep that lifestyle. But, you know, kind of went sideways, you know, I think for a lot of us busy, not able to manage stress a whole lot, not or not great. And what happened with me, my personal story with this stress was there was a time where, you know, I lost my hair, like, I lost my hair, had hair loss, and it was like difficult because I was working for the airline.  Right. That was like, traumatic to go through. And so, you know, that's, it made me, you know, started to like research what can I do besides, you know, taking prescription drugs. And it did a lot of tests. So what they found out was just stress, stress management, those like, okay, then I got to try to figure out a way right to do to get a handle on it, because I don't want it to, you know, take over and can stress and really, you know, do a lot of damage to your body, you know. So yeah, that's, that's what I had to deal with in the past. And I'm doing so much better with that. You know, thank God with that. But yeah, like massage therapy can definitely help with stress management. So that was, yeah, it's a shock, right? Because Wow, yeah, a lot of women go through that, you know, they're either going to be diagnosed with something or, you know, the main corporate corporate is the stress is stress. And then maybe the diet, they're lacking something in their diet, but a lot of it is due to stress or combination of the both, which many not just women and men as well experience, right? So it's good that you continue to research and that you actually found something that made you happy and guided you to want to take your health back, right? Because you knew you didn't want to be medicated for the rest of your life because it would only probably cause more hair loss with certain medications in your body because you didn't deal with the problem. You were just masking it with the medication that they would give you, right? So you became a massage therapist in 2008? 2008, 2008. And then even still, like, okay, I have this. So what do I do with it? You know, which gives so much information. And I sat on it for a good year, probably. And then I'm like, you know what, I got to do something with this because it keeps pulling me keeps pulling me because I don't want to go out of your comfort zone, right? A lot of people don't pursue a lot of their goals and dreams because they get uncomfortable. So so I put myself in very uncomfortable situation, left a stable job to pursue this, you know, this this type of work. So what I did was I got to work at a spa. And at the same time, I got work at chiropractor office because I wanted to learn like the different environments, you know, spa, medical massage.  So I would pack up my table, and I'll go to people's houses. So I did that. So it was like on like good for two years. I did that two years until I came to a point, say, Okay, I can work. I can like leave the jobs and like, you know, just do my own thing. I just work for myself. So that's pretty much, you know, how I got into working for myself since 2011. 2011. Yeah. Yeah. So you really hustle then. I mean, you learned that the your craft, your specialty, you got good at it, you continue to train in different offices. So you understood what is needed to run a successful business as well, as well as what are the needs of your clients and your potential clients. So that's that's really amazing that you did all that research and and you built the business that way. So I also know that you're really big on self care. What is self care?  And then, you know, and that in that definition, like the main word is take action, better take action, right? We all can think it or we can say, Oh, yeah, I want to do this. So I want to do that. But if you don't actually do it, how can you improve your your your self care? So self care, no, it's so important, especially the last couple years, we all went through a lot with the COVID. And I think the the social distancing that really made a huge impact on a lot of us. And I think especially the kids too, yeah, the socializing because we like to be social, right? So but yeah, self care, my thing is, we need to take care of ourselves so we can give more of ourselves, we have to prepare ourselves to to give our 100% like all the time, you know, my own personal health slash life pillar is build a strong spiritual foundation, take care of your health that that means you nutrition, you got to add movement slash exercise, you got to move your body, we're made to move, right? You have to definitely have positive nurturing relationships. Who do you surround yourself with? Who are you around?  And that's ongoing work for all of us, I think, because it can change. You have your purpose can change, right? As you live life. So I think, yeah, self development is is big. So you try to get all those going at the same time. Okay, so I guess I'm I got an A plus on my self care. Because yeah, I mean, right, I look at what I eat nutritionally. Yeah, I watch I made a change in my lifestyle about 20 years ago. Eating more plant strong. I'm very active or as I could be more active. But I serve as much as I can. My walk as much as I can. And I sure have a busy lifestyle. So I got big pillars. I got big pillars of health in my life. And you know, I and that's why I wanted you to come but on so you could inspire others as well. Because we have to take our health back right and like you learned you're on it, you're understanding what you need to do. And the best thing about the key point, what you said is, you need to take action. You can't just learn about it and just hope that it'll just happen. But you've got to take action. And so you can't stress that more Lonnie.  Because taking action is that's the half the battle right there, right? Right, right. You're right to take action. You know, and then, you know, always have good influences around you. Make sure you get the right information too. There's just so much to to read, right? Social media online. But yeah, make sure you get the right information.  Because we get limited time. And exactly that, because like you and I, we just met on a zoom call. And we kind of like resonated with the same direction and same goals. So we continue to build a relationship and make friends and understand that our goals are pretty much the same. And so that's why I thought you better come on to this show and talk about the benefits of self care and taking your health back. So how does massage therapy play a part in self care? You know, massage therapy has been practiced for thousands of years documented, right? East West cultures. And it's like the first tool that they use for pain relief. You know, it's documented. So it's, you know, what massage therapy is, is your manipulating soft tissue, which is like your muscles, your tendons, and which encourage like circulation, oxygen, blood flow to the muscles, right? It helps lower your blood pressure, right? That's the physical benefits. It also improves like your joint mobility, which is great for anyone suffering from arthritis. That's like key movement, because everyone's like, you find if it's painful, nobody wants to move, right? Right. You move because the nutrients are in your blood. So you got to keep moving. You know, and it's a great way to like recover if you're, you know, playing sports, sitting down too long, standing too long.  So but yeah. And then also there's also mental benefits.  You know, increase the serotonin and the dopamine to feel good hormones. You know, it definitely helps. As I've mentioned before, it lowers your stress. You know, it can help reduce the cortisol, which is the stress hormone for about at least 30%. You know, a lot of clinical research is on massage therapy helping with stress reduction.  And that's just like a hug, a handshake, right? A pat on the back. That's like, I don't think people know how important it is to have that type of human connection, because it does plays a big role in everyone's development. You know, as we're born into this world, that's the first thing you crave for is skin to skin contact. So it does help with children, their development physically, emotionally, and mentally.  They just kind of kept in a place and compared them to children who would have daily contact with parents or, you know, other individuals, adults, and just their growth, learning abilities was such a big gap, and that they've done so many different research on that. So, but yeah, and it's just how we communicate as humans, if you think about it, you know, so yeah. Humans are such social animals, I mean, and in different stages of our lives, you can just see it so obvious. So I know that the last two years has done a lot of havoc in a lot of people's lives and mostly are cakey because they were not able to socialize, and they didn't understand, so they were confused, they weren't loved, they weren't, I mean, not loved, they weren't touched, they weren't hugged, they needed, we do too, we, but we have a little bit of understanding what was going on, so not that we accepted it, but it is not as confusing for us adults as it is or was for those kids. So there's going to be a need for a lot of damage control that just occurred in the last couple of years, and you know, a long time ago, we used to think massage, oh, I'm going to have a massage, so it was like only for the rich people or is a luxury item because, oh, yes, they need a facial, I need a massage, but actually, when you want to look at it, it's the health benefits that we should look at it and not just a gem of luxury, but everyone should be massaged, have massage, and enjoy it, and because your body is crying out and just feeling so good because of the touch, because of the opening of the circulation, the stimulation of all your glands and your muscles and your fascia, so it's just what our body needs besides good health and nutrition, right? Right, you hit it right on the head, and Wendy, you know, that's why it's so important to have a self-care program, if you don't have one, you can start one with massage, and if you already have one, why don't you upgrade it with massage, you know, and good nutrition, that's so important because it's what you put in your body is what's going to come out. Yeah, you are what you eat, right? So, yeah, the better you eat, the better quality of food you eat, I mean, that's what this is all about, so if you're going to take the time to have a massage and stimulate all your internal organs and circulation systems, et cetera, you better be putting the right food in your body, so it just goes hand in hand, right? So it seems like you found your purpose in life, and I'm so excited that you did find it at an early age that you could build on it, learn and continue to take action to guide people to take action because it's so key of what you're doing, and maybe when you think about it, you should really approach families like when you massage parents that maybe if they have kids that they should bring the kids in, you should have like a cakey special because those kids, if you want to think about it, those kids need it more ever now, and if the parents and parents love their kids, how we can get them caught up, bring them in for a massage, stimulate their bodies where it should be, and help them to get back on track, so maybe you should encourage this program into your system and your program. I'll take 10%. So I know that you're on a personal mission to help many communities to live a healthier lifestyle, so what are you doing while you're out there when you go out to the field? You know what I do, I do represent like having a self-care program, but you know what I do is I love to connect and expand my business and network with like-minded health and wellness professionals.   I'm still going. I love what I do. I'm very grateful I'm able to do it, and I'm going to keep going and see how far I can go, and I would love to expand what I do, and go back home to Hawaii, and you know, and expand, and then that teach is really educate people and teach and talk and just let them know because some people just don't, they don't know, sometimes people don't know, you know, and they just need to learn, that's all. You're good at it, you proved it to me, I mean we were only Zoom buddies, and I knew you were coming to Hawaii, and you invited me to your home, your family home in Waipahua, and there were like 14 or 16 of your family members, and you were so excited about getting the message out about health and nutrition, and so you invited them, you invited me, and we all finally met in person. Technology is so great, but I was able to share your heart and your message with your family, and you know what, you started them on their health journey. We together woke them up, we told them about all the fruits and vegetables and all the complete smoothies that they need to be drinking, growing their own plans, and they were very excited, and I know that they were very grateful for you to take that time to invest in them. So congratulations again to you for that, and sharing that opportunity of eating whole food nutrition in capsules and truables, and with the juice plus that you were sharing with them, so, and anytime you need a sister in the same message, just call me Lani, okay? Yeah, yeah, thank you so much, and to many for your time, for your time. You're welcome, you're welcome. It was a joy. We're on the same mission, girl, you know, getting our health back, but right now we've run out of time for today, so I wanted to say mahalo to Lani Aquino for educating all of us on self-care and how essential it is to taking your health back. We'll be back in two weeks on taking your health back with Wendy. Aloha, Lani, and say hi to your buddies in San Pedro, California. Aloha. Please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktecawaii.com. Mahalo.


Welcome to combat of Wing Chun. Today, we'll show you three most dangerous Wing Chun techniques. Three most dangerous Wing Chun techniques. We're going to show it to you one by one right now. Technique number one is called Biu Ji. Transcendent in Chinese is thrusting fingers. This is such an important technique that in Wing Chun, the whole third form is named after this technique called Biu Ji. So we're going to show you exactly how to use it and why it's so effective in self defense. Here's some reasons why Biu Ji or spearhand is so effective. The first reason is targeting. We want to use the Biu Ji to attack the eyes, which are very sensitive. It doesn't matter how much you lift weights, you can't make your eyes stronger, right? So we can attack the eyes. It doesn't matter how strong he is, how big he is. Everybody's eyes are weak and especially if you have strong fingers, it will definitely devastate your opponent. Another target you can aim for is the throat. So those are very important targets that will devastate any opponent regardless of their size.  So that's a really good reason why the Biu Ji is so effective. Another reason is because it has distance. This is the longest distance from you to your attacker. Notice that he's stretching out his hand out completely. Even if he turns it, it's the same distance. It doesn't matter which way he turns it. Now look at my fingers. I can reach his eyes, but he can't reach my face. The reason is because when you open your fingers and you open your hands, you have an extra 3-4 inches distance and length in your spear. Most people will punch and will not use a spear. So when you're doing this, you have that extra advantage of using the maximum distance of your weapon, which is your spear hand. Another reason why it's so effective is because it has speed. We're not winding up for a big punch, and we're not getting ready for a big kick, which requires a lot of body movement. We're just lifting the hand and simply extending it, which is one of the fastest movements you can use on your attacker. So we're going to show you exactly how to use the technique most effectively. Now you see a lot of Wing Chun techniques, videos that talk about Biu Ji, but very few of them will show you exactly how to use your hand for the maximum power. So we're going to show you how to use your hand so that you don't damage your hand and also you get the most power into your beauty. Tip number one is to make sure that your fingers are curved like this in the dark. Slightly, not like this, but slightly curved.  So make sure that your fingers are slightly curved like this. Tip number two is make sure that your fingers are close together and then not spread apart. If you're going to do spread apart, make sure that you don't make full contact because if you spread apart your fingers, you're most likely going to hit the target with only one finger. And one finger is definitely not as strong as four fingers. So keep your fingers together. Tip number three is to make your thumb and fingers all point the same direction. Some people like to deal Biu Ji with the thumb tucked in like this, but I find that if you put your thumb and point it in the same direction, you actually add to the direction and the force of all the fingers combined. So those are some tips in order to add more power and more safety to your thrusting fingers. Here's some cautions and reminders for you if you're going to be training this with a partner. Make sure your partner has nice eye protection because this can seriously damage some of these eyes if you don't do it without eye protection. So make sure you get some goggles like this. They're not that expensive. It can be ski goggles. It could be eye protection goggles for work or it could be even a motorcycle helmet. Just make sure that if you do put full force into it that it does not damage your partner. Another word caution for application wise is while you're doing the Biu Ji, notice that I also lift this hand up here as a guard. The reason is because I don't know if he's going to punch at the same time. So that if he punches at the same time, at least you have something here to protect your face if he does hit you at the same time. Now this is very useful because it can block in any directions. If he's coming around this way, I can use it to block up on this way. If he's doing a back fist, I can use it to block it out that way. If he's coming out for an uppercut, I can block it down and I can also lift up with it and open this up. So this is a very important guard and in the future I'm going to show you how to use this guard, the rear guard in the Biu Ji the most effective.  A spear and your shield. Let's first show you the stance that you need in order to make this the most effective. We want to start with a fairly narrow stance. The reason is because once we make a very low-eyed stance, what does it do? It wants you to attack. So you want to start with a fairly narrow stance, maybe just half a step back. Half a step back. Second tip is that you want to be weighted forward so that you're ready to pounce.  The reason you want to keep your weight forward is because you want to be like a tiger. You want to be able to pounce in a rightful second. Now that we've talked about the right stance, now we're going to talk about the hands. The hands will start with the hands down position, like I mentioned, and you want to lift them up like this, just casually like this. The reason we do this is we don't want a chamber, we don't want to chamber the hands. We don't want to chamber the hands. This is chambering. This will telegraph or tell your attacker to be able to attack. But if you do this, it's very hard to see, especially in this point of view, that I'm not about to attack. It just looks like I'm about to raise my hands. It's very non-threatening. So that's the first movement. The second movement is once you get to here, is to rotate your body and then extend the spear out towards your target. So if you combine them together, it'll be one, two, but blend them together. We don't want to make it very mechanical, like one, two. One, two, that's two mechanical. So you want to blend them together. Raise it up casually, then extend. Raise it up casually, extend. That's a slow motion. Notice that both hands will go up at the same time and then we rotate. Both hands go up at the same time. And then we rotate. Now the third step is to do it at the same time as your pounce. So remember we did our pounce, which is pounce. It's just a small one. Pounce, pounce. Now you're going to do it at the same time. So as soon as you lift your hands, we're going to pounce. Pounce. Pounce. So you're going to do this, pouncing, pouncing, and then spear. So this is the training for target practice. So that's how you combine the three techniques into one. Let's show you how to use Buqi fighting speed. Training number two is the chain blast, also called the guan qi in Chinese. Translated chain punches. Why it's so effective is because it's so fast, doesn't give your time, doesn't give time for your attacker to block everything and to react. It's used as a suppressive fire technique just like a machine gun and it's very effective. I'm going to show you how to use it properly and even more reasons why it's so effective. Stay tuned. Some caution about the chain punch is that even though it's such an effective technique, it also has some disadvantages. This disadvantage is that it's a short distance and also it doesn't have as much power as a big punch. We're sacrificing power for speed and we're sacrificing the distance also for speed. So those are some warnings. You don't want to use it in a long distance because you cannot reach your partner. And you don't want to use it as a finishing move because it's not strong enough to knock out your opponent. So those are some warnings for you regarding the chain blast. The first target is the chin. The second target is as the chin starts opening up and lifting up, now he's exposed his throat. Now if he leans back like this, now it might be too far for you to reach his throat. But now this is close, you can hit his ribs here. So you can hit the ribs. While he's facing you more square, you can hit the solar plexus. And as he starts buckling again, you can lift it up and then do this. And when that goes back, you can hit here. When that comes back, you can lift it up and do this. So you can keep changing the target. Solar plexus, chin and throat. This is the center line of the opponent and this is where you can attack. Now notice that in the sequence I showed you in the demo, we use it right after this. The spear is because right when the spear comes up, it's very typical for him to block his face. Because he just got hit in the face. This is very good for using the chain blast because now you can cut in underneath his guard. Or if his hands are lower, you can cut in over his guard. So that as you're punching, you're actually defending yourself from being hit from his hands. So here, here, here, here. So either if his hands are up, you can go in between his guard. If his hands are down, then you can go over his guard. So there's an added defense and offense in this attack. And it works very well right after this. Because when that happens, his hands are going to cover his face. When you get hit in the eyes, you're just going to naturally cover your face. So which opens here, ribs, right?  See how I'm always changing the target because I don't want to always be chasing the head. There's other openings that come in. But it's very hard for the opponent to be able to counter your attack while blocking everything because they're coming in in a very fast speed, which will demonstrate the next section. Here's our fighting speed demonstration of how to use the chain blast. For technique number three, we're going to show you the side kick. Let's get started. We're going to show you the side kick. And the reason why the side kick is so effective is because it has a long distance. Next to the spear, the side kick is the weapon that also has the longest distance. That's one reason why it's so effective. Second of all, it's very easy to learn. Pretty much every martial arts has something similar to the side kick. Now Wing Chun, most of the side kicks are down low to the knee, which are very devastating. If you're going to be training that, make sure that your partner has proper knee protection. I recommend thick hockey pads for your knees. So right now we're going to be doing the side kick. The side kick can be targeted in about three different places, which are very effective. The first one is the knee. The second one is the ribs, but depending if it's open or not. Right now it's not open, not open, so it's hard for me to get in there. But let's say that he's open up like this, then I can hit his ribs. The third target, which I don't recommend is the head. But only use it when he's leaning forward, because then I can reach his head. Otherwise, if he's leaning back, I won't be able to reach it. So those are some tips of using the side kick. Now the side kick that we're going to be showing you is the lead foot side kick. There's two kinds of side kicks. There's the lead foot and the rear foot side kick. We're going to use the lead foot one because it's faster. Instead of using the rear foot, which I have to bring it up to the front and then kick. I use the lead foot, which I just have to straight up from where it is. So I'm going to show you the footwork that we use, and that is from Bruce Lee, of how to use the footwork to do the lead side kick. Now that you know the footwork, next is the actual kick.  It's about level, parallel to the ground, and extend.  Okay? If you do this, it's okay too, but you don't have as much power. But as soon as you turn your heel this way, it adds more power to your kick. So we're going to go through the shuffle step. If you foot up, as you kick, you can shuffle your heel to turn towards it. So that's the action.  Like that. So you combine together. Like that. This is just another pendulum. So this pendulum kicks back the other foot. Kicks back the other foot. So for training, this is the way you can practice. Pension them up, kick. Pension them back, guard position. Pension them up, kick. Pension them up, back, kick. You want to put your hands, you want to keep your hands as a threat to him. So you can either keep it up here, so he keeps it as a threat. On the other hand, you can just put it back here, just like in the sphere position. So you kick the knee, try to have targets. And in this case, I'm going to kick the head because you can just easily block it. So you can practice those three targets. It's too hard for you to start with a low one. Very effective already. People don't do it in martial arts, barring situations because it's so dangerous. You can dislocate somebody's knee. If you train this, make sure you have healthy pads. Right now, I'm just touching it with a leg. I'm not going to go full force or even half force to his knee because it's going to really damage somebody's knee. Here's how to use a side kick fighting speed. The three most dangerous Wing Chun techniques. Number one is the finger jab or the beauty. Number two is the chain blast or the chain punch. Number three is the side kick. Those are the three most dangerous Wing Chun techniques. Thanks for watching. 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Good morning and welcome to Five Points. Thank you all for coming today. My name is Stephen Cook. I'm honored to serve as the president of the Five Points Association Board. And on behalf of the Five Points Association, we are so excited that we were able to bring back St. Pat's and Five Points for its 40th annual festival on March 19th after a two-year hiatus. The festival was a huge success and thanks to the hard work of so many people, we were able to bring one of Columbia's iconic events back to Five Points. We were able to return all of our traditional events, the Get to the Green Run, St. Pat's Parade, Pot of Gold Playland, of course four stages of live music featuring local, regional, and national artists headlined by blues traveler and surfaces. And for the first time, our festival was hosted by regional hip-hop pioneer and Hopkins native, Fat Rat Dazaar. One of the most impactful and enduring aspects of St. Pat's is our commitment to local charities and nonprofits. This has been a mission of the festival since its inception. We are very pleased to announce that in honor of the 40th anniversary of St. Pat's and Five Points, we are donating $40,000 to 29 Midlands charities and continue our proud tradition of giving back to the community that helps support our village. I'd like to thank all of our nonprofit partners, many of which are represented here today. We sincerely thank you all for continually assisting us with St. Pat's and Five Points year after year, and we could not do this festival without your support. I would also like to thank the folks behind the scenes that make this festival happen, our St. Patrick's State Committee. I'd like to take this moment to express our gratitude to Katie Renfro, Trey Judy, and the rest of our great committee members for their many, many months of hard work, dedication, and commitment. Thank you all. Finally, I would also like to thank our partners at the City of Columbia. This festival can't happen without the support of our great mayor and city council, and more importantly, the hard work and dedication of our great police officers, public safety, and public works employees. Thank you all very much for that. Finally, I'm very happy that I can announce the date of the 41st St. Pat's and Five Points, which will be held on Saturday, March 18, 2023. We are grateful and proud to bring St. Pat's back to Five Points this year, and we look forward to another great St. Pat's in 2023. Thank you all very much. Alright, let's get the chat.