Pushing out this guy's got from what's that boy drip to the old man? What's that old man name buddy buddy all the way to himself back over to where you Which you deal with him at that point a lot of people love that drip. I love drip Do you do what's your top three uh actresses or actors of all time Actors are actresses. Yeah actors and then I'm gonna go comedy next We gotta see this of course. Yeah, he talked to uh, we'll after that slapped. Oh, yeah, they said it Oh, man, good one. Good choice I would have said Robert Nero, but I'm gonna let you make it.   Yeah, when you go from there all the way to now the avengers and all that he's come a long ways, man I love Samuel. I love him. I just always why he's in my top five because he's the same character in every movie He doesn't change it up much When he did the training day, that's when y'all feel for it. I love Denzel in every single movie I see Denzel do it too That walk You can't say that why I'm trying to So Do you realize how much that that country Wayne is uh blessing you man And when you really think about it because I think about the fact of when you even when y'all decide to go here or there Anything that happens because you don't know life hands you different things at different times You're building up your brand so much right now You know what I mean to where you're gonna be able to set your own number in different offices in different spaces However, you want to if if things keep going this year consistently like they're going I see a whole new horizon for you come 2023 2024. I'm being real because because you guys are working hard every day Whether you want to say it is or not or whether it seems easy or whether whatever it seems There's a lot of different content because there's always content over create for me anyway So there's a lot of content you guys are pushing out. This guy's got uh from uh, what's that boy drip to the Old man. What's that old man named buddy buddy all the way to himself Back over to where you what you deal with him at that point a lot of people love that drip. I love drip I'm going to houston, but I definitely I want to I gotta get country Wayne on here I ain't gonna be happy until it's done said and done Yeah, yeah, but he he's just a dope dude man when it comes down to He loved Dallas too. He loved Dallas. Wow. Why he loved that because I came one time he was like Oh, that's my stuff a girl right there He loved Dallas. I don't know. I don't know what it is, but he said that a lot of people love Dallas He loved Dallas man He was he was he was kind of upset that we because you know, he didn't pick the cities. Yeah It was a few seasons. I think one was like I think it was like Detroit I know Dallas it was Dallas and two other places That's the one boys.  Who's your thing? I used to love Pittsburgh This cowboys She loved them boys, man Man, the boys ain't got a win or nothing. They steal number one america's team Everybody hate when you say it, but that's who it is. How are they the american? How can they not be no, they were to start at cowboys. That's what that's what americans are about No, no Who are you do you like do you even watch football? I don't even watch sports no more, man I don't even really like I used to it changed the covid changed things for you with kind of everything It may just stop football. I started watching football when um What's his name? I forgot a boy name Number seven capernick. Okay with capernick I boy kind of in this when I tried to come back. I just didn't have the same same. Yeah, it didn't did it Yeah, we on boss talk one on one


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby's casewrakes.com coming at you with 2021 Panini National Treasures Collegiate Football Brand new release just dropped yesterday. This is two box half case picker team four Which is the second half of the case we popped open late last night. I think Sean Jaspy did I don't know what came out in the first half, but Let's see what we got in the second half Big thanks everybody who bought their team straight up a lot of people did. Thank you Tanner ended up with the last spot mojo Before we pulled two teams out for a number block and here's the results for that And this is loaded up in a separate video, which I did not upload but I'll upload after this break But that's those are the results Posted notes next to me. Oh, I should have had a checklist open right here Because we're gonna go by the NT collegiate checklist if you're watching live. I'm gonna drop that into the chat we're going by the checklist grouped by NFL team and and courtesy of There's courtesy of group rate checklist calm and the oh in the final and I've been watching the Dodger game the final Oliver is saying that the cover is good Browns winner 1714 were the final I had I had the Browns minus one and a half My Thursday night football record has been pretty decent. Oh man. That is harsh Oliver. Look at you All right, here's the first box. No, not a good day for Mark's place today This is a kind of a shallow box which may indicate a redemption Yeah, there's a redemption on the bottom and another redemption in the two redemptions in this interesting Good luck 69 out of 99 Joe Burrow And that's obviously for Cincinnati Next up is three out of five Micah Parsons in his Penn State gear I'm almost positive that Micah Parsons is a cowboy. We just double-check the checklist Correct Dallas Cowboys and out of fives and under it get the train whistle. So Dallas SKS with the boys All aboard the Big Head Express Healthy Doc Prescott Dallas Cowboys looking pretty good. We got a randomizer here. There's Baker Mayfield Kyler Murray and Jalen Hurts 95 out of 99 All former Oklahoma guys So that's gonna be a randomizer between Cleveland to me for Cleveland or Arizona or Philadelphia Tray Turner save some of those hits for the next game So randomized that the redemption is College materials Sanctuary's booklet read Demetric Felton for the Browns. He's been getting some playing time because Browns have a couple running backs out That'll be for Steve Herrick with the Browns Cleveland. This is for you Next up is nine out of 15 Rakeeb Rocket Ishmael in his Notre Dame gear He bounced around. I think he played for the Raiders for a little bit, but let's see where the checklist has him Rocket Ishmael Raiders So Raiders are a number block team. That's Raiders nine nine out of 15 And that goes to Michael P with the number nine Next up is Raven Jordan 57 out of 99 Three-color Jersey and autograph Raven Jordan is Is a Texan Houston Eric Leal with the Houston Texans and then back here We got Sam Ellinger 65 out of 99 Jersey and autograph a little bit of white fabric peaking from that corner there, too See a colt He is an Indianapolis colt. I don't know if he's still a colt. Is he still a colt? That'll go to Indianapolis. That's for flood I think he still might be I think Jacob Eason was traded right making him the main backup out there I want to say I've been really keeping up with my backup QVs in the NFL Alright, and your redemption College materials signature booklet platinum. What is what is platinum number two? Is that a one-of-one? Let's go to cardboard connection.com which Organizes it by set pretty nicely college materials signatures booklet set checklist Platinum blue is No, it's a shoot platinum is 25. Well, it says 25 or less It says 25 or less Championship logos tan blah blah Conference logos are one-of-ones team logos are one-of-ones team logo tags are one-of-one At least for the booklets So platinum according to cardboard connection comm 25 or less Alright It's J you s T I N F I E LDS Justin Fields and the bears bears are just sitting there. Nobody wanted the bears Bears are a number block team Zero gets any and all redemptions. That's for Rex. There you go Rex Nobody wanted the bears. They could have bought him straight up They could have bought him straight up and gotten this nice platinum book But no it ended up in a number block Rex bought a couple spots and now he's rewarded. There you go Rex Alright, but wait, there's more. Ah Did I not well if it's if you don't see it on the video list I probably didn't upload it remind me after this box and I'll upload it Well zero actually wasn't his last spot mojo spot Well, like his last one mojo spot was two but there's still another box to go and Rex called it to yeah All right. Hey, you're welcome Rex. Thanks for getting in Can't win if you don't play Rex played got rewarded All right, Dan Marino to 75 and that is for Derek and Miami Two-color jersey Pat Friarman 16 out of 25 Nice big relic for the Steelers David batterino save some runs for the weekend. That's your cheese This makes me nervous All right. Next one is a quad relic All Alabama players Devonta Smith Mac Jones Jalen waddle Najee Harris nine out of 75 One happy person three sad people So Devonta Smith Jalen waddle what a crazy team this is Mac Jones Najee Harris Whatever dickless Alabama team, right? We got Len Dawson 10 out of 10 Purdue quarterback old Purdue quarterback Len Dawson He's got to be chiefs, right? I don't think he played for any other team. Yeah, Len Dawson's for Kansas City Can't see a chief Nathan Rossi Next up. Oh a one-of-one Dwayne Eskridge rookie silhouette signatures. I Think that's part of the number of maybe a commemorative collegiate anniversary patch or something like that That's for the Seattle Seahawks Nathan Rossi That's pretty sharp. And of course out of fives and under Nathan All aboard the Big Head Express And we got another Dwayne Eskridge 36 out of 99 That's your your Dwayne Eskridge PC and a couple more we've got Chuba Hubbard 72 out of 99 three-color jersey and Autograph on-card auto for Carolina Troy with the Panthers. There you go Troy Good to see you in the action and on the board and the oh a dual autograph 24 out of 25 Davis Mills these both Stanford guys and see me Feoko Davis Mills, I know is Houston and Is the other guy a cowboy? Yeah, it's a cowboy. So that's a randomizer So both these Stanford guys went to Texas the state of Texas So that could either go to Houston Eric Leal or Dallas Seem to serve. All right. Well, let's make some people happy And let's make some people sad. So let's get these randomizers set up here. Let's go back to the The go let's go back to random. Let's go to random.org. So the first thing was the three quarterbacks Cleveland, Arizona, Philadelphia Then the next one was the quad relic for all the those Alabama quartet Devonta Smith Devonta Smith, Philadelphia Jalen Waddle Mack Jones, New England and Najee Harris Pittsburgh and then the final one was the dual autograph Davis Mills Houston and Simon Fioco Dallas one dice roll for all three randomizers. Good luck team on top after five two and a three triple relic first One two three four five Arizona so David Collander Thanks to Kyler Murray gets the triple relic 95 out of 99 little consolation prize there The quad relic. Let's flip back again two and a three five times one two three four And good luck fifth and final time team on top stays with New England after five So thanks to Mack Jones PJ you'll get this quad relic nine out of 75 and finally the dual autograph Once again two and a three five times. Good luck team on top gets after five one two three four and Fifth and final time after five goes to Houston After five to the dual auto for Eric Leal So you'll get the 24 out of 25 dual autograph and there you have it ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe for Jaspies case breaks calm. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us And I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


What's up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem But focus on the solution if you are new here I'm always doing videos so you can improve your mental and emotional health and in this video I'm gonna do another breakdown of Gary Vaynerchuk psychology, and this is important I've had so many Messages and comments and all that lately with people talking about how they're afraid of their family members Judging them, but this goes out even broader than that it goes out to friends and Colleagues and people from high school You're worried about what they think you're up to and where you're at in life And you're constantly comparing yourself to others But anyways, I'm gonna show you a clip from Gary Vaynerchuk's speech at a Dutch brothers coffee conference And just for the sake of time, and I know you got a short attention span I've cut it up a little but you're about to get the gist of it And if you're touchy and don't like the f-word, I apologize in advance, but that's just how Gary Vaynerchuk rolls. Let's watch There's this inherited fear of failing in your career your major your degree your business Moving up in Dutch Rose management, whatever it may be for yourself What's your one liner for just taking the leap and going for it?  Right like when you right which I can see is pretty much gonna happen, right? Like when that happened right when that happens Like what are you scared of like what your dad's gonna be like?  I'm obsessed with losing.   I want to make very clear. I actually Hate motivational speakers. It's a weird thing. I'll do a video on that later But Gary Vaynerchuk he talks about how he's not meant to be a motivational speaker All he's trying to do is inspire people to do the things that I already know that they can do and try to Break away some of these barriers. What's funny is I finally got sold on Gary Vaynerchuk when he was on the 10% happier podcast I I've just really been intrigued by Gary's Natural ability to be very self-aware and kind of peel away the layers that a lot of people don't see So just like he was talking about like I Mentioned this in my last video that I'm going to link up in the description We have to start peeling back these layers and getting curious and ask ourselves like why where is this coming from? where is this fear of my family judging me coming from and Here's something that I do on a daily basis. I Filter the information coming in and who it is coming from For example when it comes to your family and they're looking down on you for the job choice You made or what you're going to school for or who you're dating I look at them and I analyze them and I ask myself one question Are they happy in life and even if they are I asked myself another question Do I want to be who they are because there's somebody who might be very happy? But somebody who's always talking down to people and judging other people I look at myself I'm like do I want to be like that because if you answered no to any of those questions Then why are you trying to go down a path that they think is right for you? That's the question that we have to ask ourselves when it comes to a judgmental mom dad brother sister friend Whoever it is we have to ask ourselves like why is this opinion so important to me? Why am I affected by what they think Gary talks a lot about how he lives for his funeral and basically what he's saying is He knows he's gonna die someday Me I was very fortunate and unfortunate depending on how you look at it Five years ago.  I was in the hospital congestive heart failure. My heart was a side of size of my lungs I lost everything I couldn't see my son lost my job lost my truck lost my apartment All my friends hated me my family hated me everybody hated me, right? The beautiful thing about rock bottom is that there's only one direction to go and that weighs up All right, so people doubted me people thought that I wasn't gonna stay clean They thought I wasn't gonna stay sober they thought that I was a never-going-to-amount to anything and I have that mentality.   I had people Who thought it was a bad idea for me to start this YouTube channel? Chris people don't want to talk about that stuff Chris There's not really a following for it and no I'm not some huge youtuber I know Jake Paul or Logan Paul or anything like that, and I probably never will be but in The last five months or so I've grown this channel pretty well a lot more than I thought and it's because I wanted to prove those people wrong I wanted to get this message out there for anybody who out there struggling with mental health or mental illness problems or Addiction or emotional issues or trauma like I wanted people to know about the solutions that we can discuss So you know what I do?  I love proving people wrong and that's what I love about Gary Vaynerchuk Like I said, he's not even meant to be a motivational speaker, but I I can't stop reading his books Well, if you know me I do audio books and I just finished up another one of his books But like I will put links in the end card for this video to go to his channel I will also have some links in the description for some of his books that he's written they're Amazing and this isn't meant to make you like go out and like try to become a billionaire or anything like that It's trying to find what makes you happy because that's what matters at the end of the day I am going to do another video about how Happiness is not based on your success Success is actually based on your happiness. So find that happiness and in turn you will find that you are Successful and no matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's work if it's school if it's relationships. All right So just keep that in mind. I will also link to the video that this came from Gary Vaynerchuk's talk I listen to these talks all the time and it's it's just amazing So here's the question of the day Just like what Gary Vaynerchuk asked, what are you afraid of? What is your worst case scenario? What are you so afraid of? Let's start thinking about that and then let's move forward and Pursue the dreams that we have and be the people that we want to be because that's really all that matters All right, so if you like this video, please give this a thumbs up and if you are new here Like I said, I'm always doing mental health and addiction recovery videos So click the little round subscribe button and also if you're new here click or tap on one of the thumbnails right there To check out some of the other videos on this channel. Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time


We have a rather good panel put together, and thank you all very much for attending today. We are very pleased to be joined by the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, a very busy job at the best of times. But I gather today there may be something happening in another part of town as well that may distract him, or maybe not. We also have Michel Servaud from the European Commission. We have Rowena Dwyer from the IFA and Paul Guinelle from the European Anti-Poverty Network. And I guess what we're going to be talking about today, and we're a few minutes later starting, which is good because that means I can get away with speaking for a few minutes less by way of introduction. I guess what we're going to be talking about is the idea of inclusive growth within these country-specific recommendations. We've become used to the recommendations telling us to get on with sorting out our fiscal affairs, get on with trying to grow the economy, we haven't placed enough emphasis on inclusive growth and dealing with issues on the social side that contribute both to welfare amongst individuals, but also to longer-term economic growth, and we'll be thinking there are things like the cost of childcare within the country and the provision of childcare, and also the work intensity in households where we do have problems, we know about those problems, and now we have the European Commission pointing the finger at us and saying, you do have problems and we are watching you and how you deal with those problems. So those are things that perhaps we should be paying more attention to and including it more in the kind of discussions we have about the management of the economy in general. So that's enough from me. More importantly, we should hear from our guests, and I'd like to call first on the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan-T.D., to take the floor and address us. Thank you very much, Chairman, and fellow speakers on all the guests here today. I'd like to thank the institute for inviting me here today. The first significant speech I made when I was made Minister for Finance back in 2011 was to this institute at the invitation of Brendan Halligan, and that day we set out our difficulties and our approach to the Troika who were well embedded in the town and in our affairs at that stage. And I think it's a fortunate coincidence that this would be my last significant speech as Minister for Finance, so we're rounding off where we started. Things have changed. Thank God. So you'll indulge me if I wander a bit and ramble a bit and reminisce a bit and don't always hit the theme of the conference, but I'll do my best. As I said, when I spoke last, the Troika were in town. And since then, you know what happened. You remember the main points of it. And we left the Troika and we have them goodbye after three years without any precautionary programs. I think it's generally known as well. We had a lot of nervous people in the Cabinet and a lot of nervous people in the wider civil service and in the various state agencies who felt that we shouldn't leave the Troika without a built-in braces strategy behind. But we got back into the markets clearly without any precautionary program. And yesterday, Irish tenure bonds were quoted at 0.8% of 1% and 4.5% of 1%. So I think it's proof that we got safely back into the markets and stayed there. The names that were part of the daily dialogue in Ireland at that stage were people like Commissioner Olly Wren, Christine Lagarde who was the French Finance Minister, now in the IMF and a great friend of Ireland's, Wolfgang Frobel who never refused a reasonable request that I put to him, Mario Draghi in the bank who was always very helpful, Charles Regling who was in charge of the European Fund that funded the European money that we got and was very helpful to me when we went to repay the IMF loans that were outstanding and Jerome Dieselblom who was president of the Eurogroup. These were all very important in our lives in Ireland and they may be forgotten names now but I'd like to note them here today because they were very helpful to us. People that the Irish public don't realise are so helpful people like Mark Carney who's head of the Bank of England now but at that time was head of the Central Bank of Canada and he was also chairman of an organisation of Central Bankers to bring stability into the monetary markets. It was Mark Carney who designed the alternative arrangement for the promissory note for me and I'd like to put my thanks on the record as well because a lot of other smart people they failed to crack it but Mark gave me the design of it and we thought that agreed across Europe then and he's ministered in HM Flaherty who's a great friend of Ireland as well, the Canadian Finance Minister. It's not generally known that in the IMF and in the World Bank we operate in constituencies, groups of countries and the Irish constituency is led by Canada and Jim Flaherty was very good to Ireland in the IMF and in the World Bank in those terms and of course we must also recall the great AJ Chopra affectionately known as the Chopper by the Irish taxpayers for his insistence on financial cutbacks but he played his part as well and was a friend of Ireland. So you'll forgive me for reminiscing because these are the people that we negotiated with and these are the people who are most helpful to us during the three years that the tribe were here and that was the three years, as I say, since I spoke last to this institute. Now things have changed utterly, you know. I don't think a terrible beauty has been born yet but things have changed utterly. The Irish economy now is unrecognizable from how it was in 2011. We're on the third year of the fastest growth in Europe. The next budget should be balancing the budget and showing a slight surplus probably. We're on the cusp of full employment having come down from over 15% on employment rates for almost six now. We have a debt GDP ratio which is below the European average even though debt is still a risk to us and the growth is also inclusive if I can come back to the theme of the conference. My experience on the ground in politics is the great social division in any country and particularly in Ireland is between those who have jobs and those who don't have jobs and unemployed people have a very hard time even though we sustained the headline levels of social welfare during the crisis to be unemployed as to be on low income, to be unemployed as to be in a poor household, to be unemployed as to have your morale going down and staying down. And after a while there's a kind of a hopelessness enters in the doors of unemployed households. So if you want an inclusive society get people back to work and work is the solution to many of the problems of inclusion and well-paid work is of great benefit and we have done that. Now, it's arguable that the initial stages of the recovery were confined to Dublin and the East Coast but that has changed particularly in the last 12 months. The Central Statistics Office divides the Irish economy into 14 sectors. Every one of those sectors 12 of them private, 2 of them public have put on jobs in the last 2 years and every region in the country has also put on jobs. So the recovery now is across all sectors and is in all regions and there's an acknowledgement of that and that is I think the biggest contribution to an inclusive society that we can make and that should continue. Of course there are other issues and as I said we maintain the rate the headline rates of social welfare but that's safety net politics getting people out of poverty jobs is what you create and well-paid jobs is what you create and you organize your economy so that your employment is moving up the skill set so that there's even better paid jobs as you invest in education and as you move towards a modern economy and we're doing that and of course there's more to be done I acknowledge that always and I don't think any senior politician would ever say job finished but significant progress has been made as I say in all sectors, in all regions and the great social division of being unemployed, being jobless, being hopeless that's being now removed from Irish society it applies to the young as well and many of the young people who didn't go into unemployment because they immigrated are now coming back and the figures are quite interesting there was a net inflow in March of 216 the last figures I've seen there was a net inflow of 3000 but it's a long way back to March of 216 a lot has happened since so I understand anecdotally there's a very strong inflow in now so we have to continue to keep doing the good things we're doing and then we have to look at the micro issues that are affecting inclusiveness in our society and address those as micro issues within the macro policies that we have been following there are risks there are always risks but debt is a big risk in Ireland all the time and we kind of our fears are a lead on debt because the way it's measured internationally it's always measured in debt GDP ratios and on the debt GDP ratios we're about 74% and the European average is somewhere in the low 90s so it looks very good but there are other measurements of debt where we don't look good at all I mean it's 200 billion per capita debt it's 42,000 for every man, woman and child in the country and we're second only to Japan if you measure it on the basis of per capita debt so that debt the risk is out there with that huge bulk of money if you look at it historically as well you know at the top of the Celtic Tiger and let it be true or false economy the debt was 25 billion it's now 200 billion so you can see by historic measurement that it has changed dramatically and it is a risk and the debt has to be brought down not just in proportion of terms but in actual terms and that's why I confer on again that it's a good idea to use the proceeds of the sale of the banks to bring down the debt because the money to recapitalize them was borrowed anywhere in the past instance and we proceed to do that it's about the only internal risk that we have the other risks are external Brexit is a risk and I don't need to recite the Brexit risks for all of you we don't know what the crystallization of the risk will be until the agreement between the UK and the European Union is finalized if it is finalized but we know it's a risk and it can be a very big risk or it can be a more moderate risk if Mrs May is still Prime Minister and she succeeds in negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union which is reciprocate that modifies the risk for us but if we have to pay tariffs it's a huge risk if we have to pay World Trade Organization tariffs it's a massive risk the risk on prime stake for example sorry the tariff on prime stake for example is about 60% the tariffs across a range of dairy products are between 30 and 50% you can imagine what that does to the competitive business, the Irish food industry in the UK market the margins aren't as wide on manufactured goods but again they can tip the balance so Brexit is a risk to our prosperity and like all the risks it faces we have to be very smart both at political level and civil service level and diplomatic level to negotiate the solutions that are in our best interests our best interest at the moment is that the UK would land with an arrangement that's not too far from what they have at the minute a single market under another name that's what best suits us the second risk is Mr Trump's America because he has been making very strong protection of soundings now we're free trade people we're a small island less than 5 million people in the 26 counties we live by trade we live by trade unless we can trade openly without tariffs or without protectionism that's a risk and there's a trick to that coming from the United States Administration now the second risk from the United States has been ameliorated in the last month or so and that's the desire to put in a kind of a customs tax I mean if you stick 20% on to all goods imported into the United States and we're exporting about 17% of everything we produce to the United States you can see what the impact that may have but the White House has gone cold on that particular issue there are no longer sponsoring this and the people in the house who are promoting that health customs import tax I don't believe they have a majority anymore because there has been such domestic opposition too so that risk is ameliorated significantly there will be changes in the corporate tax code in the United States I don't think it'll affect us very much the rates are very high they're totally out of line with other trading economies they're somewhere between 35 and 38 they could take 10-15% off them and they wouldn't affect us there's a secondary proposal though that there would have some kind of amnesty with a levy attached for repatriating profits there are 2.7 trillion US multinational profits elsewhere in the world and they are liable to tax but the tax only crystallizes if the profits are repatriated to the United States and there's a proposal put forward by Mr. Trump's people that they would repatriate not at the corporate tax rate but at 10% and it's even more complex than that they would be free to use the money as they wished if the profits were deemed to be repatriated now that's a fancy way of saying you have an amnesty if you pay 10% and you can do what you like with your capital overseas now that shouldn't affect us very much as a matter of fact it may loosen up capital that could be used right around the world but also in Ireland so I think the tricks from the United States have ameliorated somewhat I don't think there's a very large threat on the corporate tax side but there is a threat on the protectionism side and we're not sure how that's going to how that's going to carry out we have country specific recommendations from the Commission which were brought forward last week as part of the EU semester process and I think that's a very important process where you get an external evaluation of your economic policies and you get advice usually the advice is pretty simple so the advice this time is to continue to stabilize the public finances the advice is also to use any windfall gains to reduce the debt now apart from the sale of bank shares we're going to get significant windfall gains from the Nama profits they announced their annual report yesterday they're predicting now they'll have in excess three billion to return to the extekers when they finish their operation there are significant windfall gains as well coming from the liquidation of IBRC Anglo and when that liquidation completes it's not only sufficient for unsecured creditors but there is money which will also be transferred to the extekers there's also a recommendation which will be in line with your team today to activate activation policies for unemployed persons especially with those skills who find that their skillset don't fit the labour market anymore retraining and so on and of course that's a very good recommendation and there's also a recommendation on non-performing loans AIB which is in the news now had non-performing loans in excess of 30 billion they have it down to about 8 billion now and all the banks in Europe in the context of banking union have been instructed in the last couple of weeks by the European Union Banking Regulator in Frankfurt to get their non-performing loans down and again it's a recommendation we can agree with so these recommendations I can agree with and I'll bequeath them to my successor to implement them as time goes by on Europe I suppose Europe is growing again and all economies were growing six months ago Greece has had a bit of a setback in the last quarter but it should start to grow again in the next two weeks the money for the third programme was released as I expected to be released to them in the second week in June so Europe is growing it's not growing very strongly but it's growing stronger than it was last year or the year before and a quantitative easing policy followed by Mario Draghi is working and it's monetary policy is working in Europe now and I hope it continues to work Europe has changed as well the big risks in Europe weren't so much the economy but the political instability coming from right and left-wing populism and all that agenda which we know so well about that you're following the news Spain on the replay succeeded in stabilizing around the centre putting that kind of government in place again Austria succeeded in putting a centre president in place when there was a threat of fascism again in Austria Holland succeeded in keeping the anti-immigrant party to about 10% and are in the process of forming a government now around the centre and I think that will be completed in the first half of June France and Macron is centrist and that has happened as well and if you cross across all of them apart from there being centrist in terms of economics and ideology they're all pro-European so there's a series of pro-European governments now being formed across Europe and if you were looking at it this time last year you'd be saying Europe is in crisis but it's no longer in crisis now because there's a stabilisation around the centre Mrs Merkel is favourite to win in Germany she has won very significant regional elections as well as the most significant North-lying Westphalia population of 18 million people and she changed the arithmetic by 8% very significant and always treated that regional election is always treated as a weather rain for the national elections because it's the last big one before the national elections so if one was to predict the future you would see a reaffirmation of the French-German access you see Berlin and Paris coming closer and that would be good for those of us who believe in the European project we'd like to see that there are problems of course that continue in Europe one of them is can you have a currency union without a monetary union quite clearly no so there is a monetary union in Europe and it's run by the European Central Bank but the more interesting question is can you have a currency union without a fiscal union and there are fiscal rules that are common which we apply in common I referred already to the European semester and the recommendations and the commission which are part of that well there are other issues as well that are emerging now from Macron's government is it possible to have a budget for the eurozone to be deployed across the eurozone is it possible to have mutualisation of debt in the eurozone and would that ultimately lead to a European eurozone and a finance minister who would deploy the budget and make budgetary decisions and now Emmanuel Macron is very much in favour of these consulates so they're going to become part of the European agenda in the next couple of months and there will be a significant debate on them and you can see the difficulties if you look at other currency unions like the United States the month and start of this are back around 1795 and they mutualised debt in the United States and they underpinned the dollar and the question you know hasn't really arisen sense but they rented the debate I mean that was mutualisation of debt and practice but it means that some central authority issues euro bonds and the risk on debt is shared across the members and there will be interesting debate about to emerge and we'll see where it lands one of the things that concerns me is that I was involved in the campaign I'm old enough to have been involved in the campaign on Ireland's entry to the European Union way back in the early 70s and at the time part of the argument was that the commission was the bulwark for the interests of smaller countries and that we wouldn't be overwhelmed by the larger economies the French and the Germans and the Spanish and the Italians because the commission had amended to stand by smaller countries that's no longer true the commission doesn't stand by smaller countries any longer as far as I see now in its modern manifestation the commission promotes the interests of the larger countries you'll see that in the CCCTP especially not in the consolidation phase but in the payment phase following the OECD mandate of tax liability arising where the economic activity which creates the problem occurs the commission is trying to apply a formula where different pieces of the economic chain will carry an element of the tax in other words that if you sell an awful lot of stuff manufactured and doubled and if you sell it in France as well as getting vatterned the French exchequer will take a tranche of the profits on it so you're applying a formula to different pieces on the chain and you can see that, that obviously disfavours smaller economies who produce and it favours larger economies who have a big market and the commission through the commission is pushing this quite strongly so I'd be reluctant to rush into new arrangements on fiscal union with European finance minister unless we had assurances that the commission would revert to its previous practice if not mandate of standing by smaller countries and protecting their interests rather than the larger countries but what's happening in Europe now is extremely interesting what's happening in France is very interesting what's happening in the French-German relationships is very interesting as I had yesterday I heard this some of Mr Macron's advisors have developed a policy to encourage extra investment in Europe and to modify the fiscal rules to allow for investment and this is something we can support as well because it's necessary investments right across the eurozone now even though it has increased with the Yonker plan it's 2% less than the average between 2000 and 2005 so we're still a drift of what it was just at the turn of the century and extra investment is required if you want to grow economies especially when they're recovering from recession you have to invest and if the fiscal rules are one size fits all and their restricted capacity to invest in both social and economic infrastructure that's the detriment of growth in the economy and you can invest without doing any violence to the general scheme of maximum economic management are indeed without any undue risk to the fiscal position of countries so that's really all I wanted to say and I wanted to put it in that context I mean I agree with the theme of the conference there's not much point in having kind of statistically growth in the economy there's no point in having growth in the economy that doesn't permeate the lives of people there's no point in having growth in the economy that simply continues to enrich an elite growth in the economy always has to be for the generality of people and as well as growth like without it is it's like prayer without good works that way that way you would say about the altar so thank you very much


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Good morning everybody, Adam Palmer, Chief of the Vancouver Police Department. Thank you all for joining us this morning. There's a few things that we do want to talk to you about this morning. Joined with me on stage here is Mayor Ken Sim, of course, of the City of Vancouver. I'm joined by Carol Lee and Jordan Eng, community leaders in Vancouver, and all four of us will be speaking in the order that I mentioned the names. First thing I want to do is just frame up sort of this weekend because there's a lot of stuff going on, a lot of activities all throughout the city. This weekend, which was actually a fairly normal weekend in Vancouver, our officers responded to over 1,500 calls for service this weekend, including 167 priority one calls, which is the most serious type of calls that police officers respond to, and including 28 weapons calls over the weekend. But that's just a normal weekend in Vancouver. But some of the things that really stood out this weekend, including we had the shooting up at 28th and Victoria, which we did put a media release out on, I'm not planning on talking about that in detail, but I do want to acknowledge it that is an active investigation that will be gang related. And we have a lot of resources tied up in that investigation currently. Also this morning, I was woken up at about 4.50 in the morning, we had a car accident at Broad and Broadway, where two police officers were taken to Vancouver General Hospital. Both of those officers, one has been released, the other one may still be in hospital but probably be released shortly. And those officers will be okay, but it was a very serious car accident. The party in the other car was not taken to hospital. As far as the incident that I want to talk to you about primarily today is the tragedy that we had yesterday at the Light Up Chinatown Festival in Vancouver. So yesterday evening, as hundreds of people were gathered to celebrate, community, culture and everything that makes Vancouver's Chinatown such a wonderful place, the actions of a single person has shocked people with this apparent random act of violence. At Light Up Chinatown, a festival created to help revitalize and preserve one of our city's oldest and most cherished neighborhoods, a place that has already shown incredible and has always shown incredible resiliency to overcome significant challenges. Three people were stabbed and injured by a complete stranger. It was a senseless crime at this point in the investigation. It defies any logical explanation, although I'll talk a little bit more about how the investigation is proceeding. The man who committed this crime immediately left the area after the attack, but Vancouver police officers who were in the area responded immediately and arrested the suspect a few blocks away in the downtown east side. That suspect is now in custody as we work together evidence that will bring this person to justice and help explain why this senseless act of violence occurred. I'm joined here today as I mentioned by our Mayor Ken Sim to my left who will follow me with a prepared statement before we take questions. We're also joined by a number of Vancouver City Councilors and I want to thank the Councilors for your support and your ongoing community concern and thank you so much for being here today. Really appreciate your presence here with us. We're also joined by community leaders as I mentioned. So I just want to mention a few Carol Lee who's representing the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation as well well-known community leader in our city. Jordan Ng who's representing the Chinatown Business Improvement Association. Okay, Jordan, thank you for being here. Fred Kwok who's representing the Chinese Cultural Center is here with us as well. Thank you for being here, Fred. Lorraine Lo who represents another community icon in Vancouver, which is the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden and also Tracy Toh from the Vancouver Chinatown Merchants Association. On behalf of the Vancouver Police Department, I just want to thank all of our community leaders for everything you do because it really is a collaboration between police and community to keep the city safe. And you know in our city when we do have issues, social issues, crime issues and the intersection between those two, it is police and community working together on solutions to make Vancouver a safe place. It's not something that the police can do on their own and we don't. We're very fortunate to have strong community partnerships. So we're doing everything we can right now to try and explain this senseless act and what motivated yesterday's horrendous attack. And of course the motivation will be an important part of our ongoing efforts here. But in community, knowing our history and the value that build our communities are essential to guiding us into the future. You know what I would say that there's few places in Canada that have such a rich history as our own Vancouver Chinatown. It was built by just a handful of people in the 1800s. And recently I was down there and now I understand that even we're tracing the history back to the 1700s of people first coming to Vancouver. But certainly in the early 1800s, the first 1700s, early 1800s, the first Chinese settlers in our city. And that community has grown over the past century plus two centuries really to become one of the largest and most prosperous Chinese Canadian communities in our country and as well known throughout North America. Through the World Wars, the Great Depression, racist and intolerant government policies and pressures from expanding neighborhoods all around it. This community survived and thrived thanks to leaders like Carol, Jordan, Fred, Lorraine and Tracy. But recent years have not made that easy. We had the COVID-19 pandemic which shuttered storefronts and led to a significant rise in anti-Asian hate crime that everybody is familiar with and has been reported on widely by the media and has left many in community feeling unsafe. There's been an increase in disorder and street crime that began to create urban decay that the community has had to fight hard to push back on. Also pressures from growth and surrounding neighborhoods have increasingly threatened the culture and heritage that makes this place so treasured. All of those factors have led to a sense of things feeling less safe and not like they used to be. But through the strong and resilient members of the community, working with the police department, working with the city, leaders like we have up here today, our mayor, city council, our police board, the men and women of the Vancouver Police Department, we have worked relentlessly to change that and change the tide. And together we've helped the community launch a promising turnaround to restore a sense of safety. And I just want to talk about some of the things that have been done because I know that will come up in questions and a lot has been done. This is by no means an exhaustive list of all the hard work that we have collectively put into Chinatown and the surrounding neighborhoods. We have a community policing center, of course, at 44 East Pender Street. We have dedicated community police officers who understand the community, are from the community, they know its values and they know the neighborhood well. The new city of Vancouver Satellite Office that opened this summer in Chinatown at 112 Kiefer Street. The Juan Alexander Kamyau Civic Center is a great addition to the neighborhood and is working closely with our neighborhood policing efforts. We have more police presidents, more beat officers working in Chinatown than we've had previously and helping to quickly solve crimes preventatively before they happen and then when they do happen solve them quickly. And we've had many successes of anti-Asian racist attacks, stranger attacks, where we have arrested the perpetrators and brought them to justice. Multiple meetings with community leaders, including the people that I've mentioned, we have met with continuously over the past several years and with residents and merchants to address community safety concerns. We've implemented task forces to address anti-Asian hate crime in our city and we've talked about this nationally and internationally and also reduced barriers to reporting and also a combined effort whole of department with community from our operations division, our diversity section and our investigators have worked to bring people to justice for these types of crimes as well as increasing community awareness. We've worked with community on beautification projects, graffiti removal. We had the San Francisco delegation of VPD officers and community leaders that went to learn from San Francisco somewhat similar experiences in that community and they have an amazing Chinatown of course in San Francisco and of course lots of work that we've done on stranger attacks including project reclaim where we have brought many many people to justice for committing those types of crimes in our community. And the one thing we've really noticed over the past year is really a combined and coordinated effort from the federal, provincial and local governments coming together to support and revitalize Chinatown. So there's a lot of good things happening and a lot of good things to come and a lot of optimism has returned to Chinatown and that's why we were so excited and proud to see the community come together this past weekend for Light Up Chinatown. Over those two days thousands of people visited the neighborhood and celebrated everything that we love about Vancouver and everything we love about Chinatown. The festival was a resounding success and the senseless actions of one man should not change a thing about that. Our investigation into last night's tragic incident this triple stabbing is still in its early stages. There are some things that I can't talk about but some things that I simply don't know yet that will come to light but some things I can tell you about so we'll shed a little bit more light onto it. So just before 6 p.m. last night three people were amongst a crowd of other people near the festival's main stage near Columbia and Kiefer Street so that would be the 500 block of Columbia Street. With no warning and for no apparent reason a stranger approached these three people and attacked them stabbing each of them. The victims are a man and a woman in their early 60s and another woman in her early 20s. The three victims were all taken to local hospital for treatment. The injuries are serious but not life-threatening. VPD officers were working a special assignment call out at the festival when these attacks occurred and immediately jumped into action providing quick response and provided aid immediately to the three victims. They spoke to people nearby and obtained eyewitness descriptions of the suspect who had left the area immediately following the attack and they relayed this information to many other officers working in the area and I just have to say how incredibly incredibly proud I am of these police officers. They're poise, they're quick thinking, they're presence of mind because they will tell you when something like that happens there's an initial moment of chaos where you will see you know rumblings in the crowd you're not exactly sure what you're dealing with but to go into that chaotic situation and to restore calm to that tragedy is exactly what our officers did. This prevented further victims and led to the quick arrest of a suspect. The suspect in these attacks is a 64-year-old man. He's a non-Vancouver resident who was located within minutes of the crime in the downtown east side and taken to jail. He has had contact with police in the past but not here in Vancouver. We have no VPD records of this person. He was on a day pass from a lower mainland forensic psychiatric center outside of Vancouver. Investigators from our Operations Division, Forensic Identification Unit, our major crime section, and our Victim Services Unit have been working relentlessly on this case gathering evidence, gathering forensics, dealing with the suspect, and also attending to these victims to make sure that we provide wraparound services to help get them through this very traumatic incident that they have all experienced. And we're also working with Crown Council to obtain charge approval which we are hoping for in fairly short order. At that time of course this person's name will be released and you will be able to find out more information but at this time I'm not able to tell you this person's name so that that won't be part of our press conference today. Though a suspect has been arrested charges have not been laid and as I mentioned for that reason I can't give you a lot of specific detail and I also can't speak about the motor for the attack because I don't know what it is at this point. I know that there will be lots of questions you know given of course we have had stranger attacks we've had anti-Asian attacks in our city and other type of hate motivated crimes in our city. But this is obviously forming an important part of the investigation and is a key part as our investigators drill down to try and figure the motive but I can't tell you that today what the actual motive was and what was in the mind of this person when they acted the way they did but it will be an important part of the investigation and also of course future court proceedings. The victims have been treated for their injuries and in time their physical scars should heal but their emotional scars and the scars inflicted on the community as a result of this crime will of course take much longer. Last night's attack might cause some to doubt the tremendous progress that has collectively been made in Chinatown and that is understandable and I totally get why people would feel this but there's two things that we know for sure. The first is that on anything difficult in life that progress is rarely linear we often take several steps forward only to encounter obstacles setbacks and challenges that impede our path forward but as we've done collectively before we will find a way to overcome and move forward from this and continue to make Chinatown an incredible place to live work and visit as we help restore it. The other thing we know for certain is that the people who live and work in Chinatown are very resilient and very committed to community. Please know that we're in this together and that we have your backs and that crimes like this one that happened last night do not define the Chinatown community and I promise you that myself and members of the Vancouver Police Department will continue to work closely with Mayor Sim, with our council and all of our community leaders that we have here today and others in community to do everything in our collective power to support you and build on the tremendous progress that we have made together in Chinatown. I will now turn it over to Mayor Ken Sim before taking any questions. Thank you. Great, thank you. Thank you Chief and I hope you bear with me. I actually had some prepared statements and then it just didn't sit right and so I'm actually going to speak from the heart and I do want to acknowledge my council colleagues here. I do speak on behalf of them as well we do have a united voice here. So we were at the Light Up Chinatown event this weekend and it was an incredible celebration and there was there's a lot of energy and excitement. The community had come together and rallied and it was just it was so great to see you know the the community get together and the community has been just absolutely hey it's gone through a rough time over the last few years. You know it's been going through a rough time for a while but definitely during COVID it's been a very challenging time and the community has rallied and things were like like Chief said we're making a lot of progress and then you have the incident that happens at six o'clock last night where three innocent bystanders are assaulted violently assaulted and just it's heartbreaking and you know our hearts and our thoughts go out to the the individuals and their family and their friends and as the Chief mentioned you know knock knock home wood you know the physical wounds will heal and hopefully quickly but the trauma I can only imagine how significant it will be for a long time and not just with them but their family and friends and to the Chief's point the community you know it's a gut shot to the community as well and so all I can say is I'm not going to repeat all the details that the Chief mentioned but I can tell you being at that event this weekend and seeing how the community is rallying and how all levels of government are stepping up and it doesn't matter what side like what your political affiliation is there is a an energy of people really wanting to make this place a better place and I can tell you like the Chief mentioned this is a setback but make no mistake about it we're all here for the community it's our community as well and whatever we can do to make this place a better place we will we're not we're not giving up we're not giving up on this community whatsoever and I do want to give one shout out I you know I get the call at six o'clock last night and I can tell you I'm so proud of you know there's a lot of people we're proud of but I'm really proud of the VPD you know they're presented with a very challenging situation and they're on it right away you know like Chief mentioned and he's going to lead to like we're a big city now and they're going to be more incidents in general that's that's just the norm with every big city but the incredible response and how quickly it happened and they were on it and they called it in and they apprehended the suspect in short order you know situations happened and how you react to them is those are the things that we can control and I'm really proud that you know we have the VPD there yesterday and every single day so with that I'll pass it over to Carol. Well I want to start by echoing Mayor Ken Ken Sim's comments on behalf of the organizing committee of Light Up Chinatown we want to extend our deepest sympathy to the victims and their loved ones at this very difficult time and we pray for their full recovery. The incident that transpired was utterly devastating and heartbreaking. Firstly I would like to thank Chief Palmer, Deputy Chow and the entire VPD because of their quick action this was an isolated incident and within minutes of the attack the victims were being tended to, the suspect apprehended and the paramedics were on the scene. I would also like to thank Mayor Ken Sim and City Council who have supported the revitalization of Chinatown both with your actions to continue to improve public safety and street cleaning and being president the festival. Thank you very much. After putting on a very successful Light Up Chinatown Festival this is not how we thought it would end. We appreciate the tens of thousands of people who came out to show support for Chinatown. The festival brought a real sense of hope and optimism to the neighborhood and to the many businesses that call it home. We've had incredible support from all three levels of government but incidents like this that happened this weekend are the reason why we need to keep pushing for increased funding and safety measures because no one should feel scared in their neighborhood. Safety has always been a top priority and the only way we can revitalize this important and historic neighborhood is if we ensure that all residents and people who work or visit the neighborhood are safe. Chinatown is a committee that is defined by its resilience. While we'll need take to time to process this senseless act I have no doubt that the community will come together stronger and more determined to make the neighborhood a safe place for all. Thank you and now I'd like to call up Jordan Aang. Thank you Chief Palmer. Thank you Mayor Sim. Thank you Carol and thank you to the council members here. They're here to support us today. On behalf of the community partners the Dr. Sanyat San Garden the Chinese Cultural Center the Vancouver Chinatown Merchants Association and I think I speak for the broader community in Chinatown as well our thoughts are with the victims of the senseless act the senseless attack. I want to quickly thank well not quickly thank but I want to thank the VPD for their quick action the officers that were in the area were supporting the victim within seconds they were apprehending the the suspect within minutes so the quick action was really what got us to capturing the suspect and and we're pleased that that has been done. There isn't a single emotion that easily reflects how I feel right now. I mean we've heard the word devastating tragic and you know there's anger too I think there's anger in the community. I'm hearing messages this morning and I'm getting emails. This was a community event this was to bring the community together and it was to bring communities together to Chinatown to showcase Chinatown. It was a headliner event to end the summer after the love and support from all three levels of government. At the opening of the festival I told the audience we have memories of Chinatown we have great memories of Chinatown but we want to create new memories and this is not what we really this is not what we expected. It really is completely heart-wrenching to see what happened but this is the reason Chinatown was ringing the alarm bells during the pandemic and why the community felt that it was under siege. With the support of the new mayor and council we felt that we were turning the corner and we have been. We've made a lot of progress but it's incidents like that we've moved 10 steps ahead but incidents like this yesterday take us back and it reminds us that we are not there yet. We cannot take our foot off the pedal we need to move forward but we can but we cannot let incidents like this also put us back in the shadows and frighten the neighborhood. We are as the others have said a resilient community and we will come back stronger and I thank everyone for their support and being here for us thank you. Thanks very much we're going to do a question and answer here it's a big room there's lots of people in here so I'm going to ask that you keep your questions focused to the topic that we're here to discuss today if there's anything unrelated I will address those separately afterwards. If you have a question please direct advise who your question is for and we'll direct it towards them. Go ahead. Chief Palmer. Were the victims a family? To my knowledge two of the people are related the couple in their 60s are husband and wife. And maybe you could just shed some more light on what did the arrest look like I know there's lots of praise for the officers and how they went about it but this guy just standing on the side of the road on he's tasting street or what was the process like? They located him a few blocks away on he's tasting street to come into custody from my understanding without incident he was apprehended like didn't put up a fight or anything like that and he was taken to our station down near main end court over for processing. Last quick one here what was what site court was he from can you tell us that? I'm not going to get into those specifics until charges are laid and then there will actually be public record information that you will be able to find quite readily. Hand up in the back? Yep all three victims are Asian two of them are the couple is from Burnaby and the young woman is from Vancouver. Kristen? So that's obviously something that we want to know as well I don't have an answer for you right now that is something that is a very important part of our investigation either to confirm that and be able to prove that or to rule that out so that is a work in progress right now and a lot of that will be determined by statements made by this person that we have in custody either statements they made at the scene or statements they will make to our investigators and that part is still actively being investigated but we're definitely going to uncover that one way or the other. How concerning is it to you that the suspect was out on a day pass from a local psychiatric facility and able to essentially crash a community event and stab three strangers? Well it's very concerning it's terrible but I have to frame it that we have to remember that there are many people in community suffering from mental health issues and the vast majority of people in community with mental health issues don't have any interaction with the police whatsoever and they function well on medication or through counseling or different family supports but there are some people in our community that don't function well and are a danger to the general public and this person is one of those people apparently so I do have a lot of concerns when somebody of that nature is out roaming around just anywhere in our community. What I'll just say is elsewhere in British Columbia and serious interactions yes. You know I think the community cannot be afraid of events like this I mean this could have happened elsewhere in the city as well I think you know we have had a lot of support from the VPD with boots on the ground and working with it through the BIA and the community policing center so one incident cannot frame the community and we can't let it happen so thanks. Right so there are many things that have been ongoing over the past several years working very closely with many different communities throughout Vancouver to try and improve not only our crime numbers so the actual raw numbers of crimes happening in the city but also that sense of safety when people are walking around downtown and you know shopping or going to a movie or out with their family that kind of thing so we do have very good relationships with community we meet with many different community groups do a lot of listening hear their concerns and we come up with plans so for example when we're talking about anti-Asian hate crime I listed like a lot of the work and the projects that we had underway to address that I will say that just so people know anti-Asian hate crime those numbers have come down from the period during COVID when the numbers were very high but they are still higher than traditional numbers that we have seen in the city so the number is still elevated but it is lower than it was during the period around COVID-19 so those numbers have come down also other issues like stranger assaults we have launched large projects such as project reclaim which was a joint project with our organized or sorry our major crime section our patrol officers our diversity section and other elements of the department to bring people to justice that commit strange results and we've had very good success we've reported many of those to you Steve Addison could provide you many examples afterwards of arrests that we have made where people have committed these types of offenses there's always a concern and just going to go back to your comment when you have that intersection of mental health issues and criminality and most cases of mental health issues don't intersect with police but some do and when they do intersect with police sometimes they can be quite serious so we do have very advanced programs in place with coastal health and the provincial government to address those issues not only reactively but proactively so there's a whole host of different things that are all happening but I think it's important to remember that you know Vancouver is not a small city anymore you know the city is just over 700,000 but the region is 2.8 million or something like that and we are the epicenter for the entire province so any large city in Canada or the United States you are going to see unfortunately sometimes acts of violence you're going to see things in our community that can be shocking at times but I think it's important that you know we work together to have plans before crisis happens proactively to prevent things from happening but you know I'm also a realist and I know that there will be crisis and there will be things that will happen in community and it's also important that when that crisis happens that we respond collectively to bring people to justice and also work with community to get through tragedies like this because these can have long lasting impacts on people you know when they're violently assaulted such as this and then the overall community impact so it's a host of things all working together to keep Vancouver safe but you know I don't want to give you any illusions that there will never be you know any more crime happening in Vancouver because that's part of human nature unfortunately and we're going to do our best to curtail it and prevent it and investigate it when it happens sure right so that's a great question because I know like that's another point too is that there's been lots of discussions about bail reform and catch and release and revolving door of justice all these catchphrases that we always hear out in community this case I'm very confident that this person will not be released and the reason for that is serious criminal allegations of course so on that aspect we are working with crown council our forensics people our major crime investigators victim services patrol officers many people that were involved in this case are all working together with the victims putting a very solid case together for crown council as you know in British Columbia there's three provinces in Canada be senior Brunswick and Quebec where the police can't lay charges the charges have to be laid by crown council and being that type of a province we have to wait for crown to sign off and give the approval so we're working through that our detectives are working hand in glove with crown to get all the evidence together because as you can imagine in a large community event there'll be lots of video you know everybody's got a smartphone out nowadays there's video on cctv on surrounding buildings so there's just a lot of evidence to collect and process so that's happening right now our recommendation of course will be to keep this person in custody but the reason that I'm confident in this particular case that this person will be held in custody is because aside from the criminal side there's also the fact that he was on a day pass from a forensic psychiatric institute so that will make it much easier to hold this person back in custody until this works its way through the system oh sure yeah so we had lots of police officers on call out lots of police officers working in community anybody that was down there knows that it's right around the corner from our community policing center we had officers like right there basically at the time it happened that we're working as part of the call out we had other officers that were there throughout the weekend that were just down there as part of the festivities there was security as well and and anytime that we're holding any kind of a public event with community organizers we put together an operational plan with community to make sure that we have the right number of officers and security you know the roads are blocked off there's a traffic plan there there's a number of different aspects to it and it worked you can't prevent everything from happening but once something happened our officers were on it right away provided aid to the victims and took the suspect into custody actually the police handled it very quickly so you didn't really see too much going on I think it was very isolated I think there were some people that were close to where the incident happened that might have been affected but I was you know maybe 20 feet away and didn't see it although I saw some police officers going in and and then it was there really wasn't much to see if you weren't right there so I'm very grateful for that because I think if you were close by it's a traumatic thing to see somebody at a at a community event you know just an innocent bystander getting stabbed so but we're very grateful I just want to reiterate what other people have said the vpt were amazing in this incident it happened in seconds they were on it the victims were being treated they apprehended the suspect they arrested him and there were paramedics and there was a plan in place immediately they sort of evacuated the area and by and large like it was close to the very end of the festival so most people had left so we're very grateful for that too thanks one more for Chief Palmer that's okay one second Kristen I had a question first then we'll go with you just just say I know you all have stories to file we've got some guests that need to be getting on their way so we'll do another round of questions if there's questions that have not already been asked go for it this is going to be last call so we'll Kristen and then you're up next and Bob overshadow your efforts and others efforts to revitalize no I wish you wouldn't ask me that question we're very personal yeah we'd work very hard to put this festival on to bring community together to celebrate all the progress that we've made we've had so much support from government from community people around Vancouver so but we'll be undeterred I mean I think that you know you can't let something like this beat the mark that stops you and it's a neighborhood that's known for its resilience so we feel very lucky we've been working with the city the province the federal government and particularly the vpd I mean I think that you know it's just a reminder you know maybe it's like you know we thought things were going well but it's a good reminder that there's lots of things that are in play in Chinatown because of where it's situated and it's a very coordinated effort it's not going to be an easy fix so we're going to have setbacks like this along the way but I think that we're on the right path and you know it'll take us time to sort of regroup but we'll come back stronger thank you Kristen what type of object in the suspect use I can't get into details on that but I will just tell you that an object has been recovered and is in our custody last question was Bob I'm not a hundred percent certain don't believe so but not a hundred percent certain I'm looking to acting deputy chief Lisa Byrne is overseeing our investigation so she doesn't think so okay thanks very much everybody if you've got any questions that weren't addressed here you can email me and I'll do my best to answer them just shoot me an email and I'll take care of the session


And I feel like, you know, recently you kind of said that you felt like the shade didn't have your back in that video when he was talking about like your past situation. Do you feel like even like conversations like that should be like discussed first or like is it just like a maybe like setting boundaries beforehand? Yeah. And I feel like, um, I feel like, of course, conversations like that are supposed to be discussed first or just not said at all. Just out of the like, you know, the, the. Just protecting. Yeah. Protecting a brand. Protecting a family. Yeah.


Hello, this is Dan. You've probably heard many times how important a topic sentence is, but do you know what it actually does? Listen to a couple of my students, Tom and Mary, discuss a homework task I've set them about topic sentences to find out more. Hi Tom. Oh, hey Mary. Have you finished the class work? Daniel asked us to work on. Oh, you mean the one asking us to select the right topic sentence for a paragraph? Yes. Have you got any ideas? Yes. The topic of the passage is China's age and population. Take a look at the paragraph. Don't you think A is the best choice? It has the key words such as China and elderly people. But I remember Daniel told us that a topic sentence expresses the main idea of the paragraph. It seems that sentence A cannot fully explain what the paragraph is discussing. I see your point. But suppose A is wrong. What about B? It is focusing on the population policies and the paragraph criticizes the policies. Yes, it is. But don't you think this topic sentence is a bit too general for the paragraph? Oh, I remember Daniel told us that a good topic sentence shows how the key idea of the paragraph is connected to the thesis. Then what is the thesis of the topic? Let me check. The thesis statement can be easily found in the introduction. Okay, I found it. The thesis of the topic is this problem is particularly serious in China because of the government's inconsistent population policies and the changing attitudes of young couples towards having children. Great. It seems that C should be the right one. The idea echoes the first point mentioned in the thesis. What is that? Do you see the key phrases here? Major calls, governments inconsistency and population policies. I'm still not very sure about this one. Shall we go to Daniel and check with him? Good idea. Let's go. Oh, there he is. Hello, Daniel. Can we talk to you for a while? Hello, Tom. Hello, Mary. Sure. How can I help you? We've studied the three choices of topic sentence given here. We'd like to check with you the correct answer. Hmm, which one have you chosen? We are quite certain that option A is not the topic sentence of the paragraph. Hmm, no. A is not the right one. And Tom said option C is the correct one. Tom is right. Remember, the correct answer is C because it supports the essay's thesis statement, advises the readers of the subject to be discussed and how the paragraph will discuss it. Remember, a well-organized paragraph supports or develops a single controlling idea which is expressed in a sentence called the topic sentence. Okay. That's all from me. And don't forget, you can get more help with your essay writing and topic sentences from the SIL website, as well as the teacher at the SIL Help Desk.


This morning, in Paintsville, seven students graduated from the Big Sandy Community and Technical College Adult Education program by earning their GEDs. Passing the GED is difficult. In fact, in the last few years it's become one of the most difficult exams to take period. So you've accomplished a lot just to pass that exam. You can do anything you want to do. One students enroll in the adult education program at Big Sandy, Dr. Jennifer Ledy and her staff take a personal interest in each person. They remind them it's never too late for a new beginning in life, which Dr. Ledy says helps them believe in themselves. It increases their confidence. It shows them what they can do. Some had bad experiences in high school. And once they're with us, they know we're going to keep calling them several times if that's what it takes. We'll email them, but we'll also give personal calls because they're friends to us once they come in here. Every student receiving his or her GED today has a story to tell, which Big Sandy officials hope will inspire others to follow in their footsteps. I put it off and put it off because I always thought I couldn't afford it. And I came up here with the help of Ms. Ledy and several others and I came in and got it in three weeks. I'm enrolled for summer classes. I'm going to go for a doctorate. I'll be happy with anything I get in between, but that's the main goal and I'm going for botany. For more information on the adult education program at the Big Sandy Community and Technical Colleges, Prestonsburg or Paintsville campuses, you can visit the website on your screen. Reporting in Paintsville for EKB News, I'm Shannon Deskins.


If love is true, it will happen without an object. If it's really genuine true love, what it means is, you have made your emotions very pleasant. Whether a man is here or a woman is here or a tree is here, ant is here, elephant is here is not the point. You've just made your emotions pleasant. Everything that you behold, you have a certain pleasantness towards it, that is love.


QuickBooks desktop 2023 options for entering items customers and vendors as well as beginning balances let's do it within two its QuickBooks desktop 2023 support accounting instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a u2 page we also include added resources such as excel practice problems pdf files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable so once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it here we are in QuickBooks desktop get great guitars practice file we set up in a prior presentation going through the setup process we do every time maximizing the home page and noting in the view drop down we got the hide icon bar and open windows list checked off open windows open on the left hand side so we just set up the new company file we then have our chart of accounts set up we then went through the preferences and set up the preferences that align with our company file now we want to think more about those fundamental underlying things that need to be set up in order for the accounting process to move as smoothly as possible in other words in order for us to be able to do the data input using the forms like the bill form the pay bill form to create invoice and so on so that that can be entered as easy as possible to create the end result that being the balance sheet and the income statement or the profit and loss now note that some of those underlying things we're talking customers vendors and items items typically that being the most confusing thing representing inventory and services that we sell so it kind of depends on the industry we are in in terms of how sophisticated do we have to be with the items that we set up so if you're on a very kind of simple system because of the industry you're in possibly you're doing gig work you're just getting paid by youtube or something like that then you can basically set up bank feeds possibly and record income with the deposit form and you don't need a sophistication with the items to be set up as much however if you're in a cash register situation then you typically can have a sales receipt kind of thing you got to set up the items so that you can enter that into the system as the sales happen even when you're on a cash based system and if you have to invoice people for work that you did and that'll depend on the industry this is often the case for bookkeepers law firms and whatnot then you're going to need the items so that when you invoice the items are going to be the things that drive the account that will be impacted and then of course inventory also adds confusion to the items because when you purchase inventory with say a bill form then you're going to have to enter the item for the inventory to track the inventory on a perpetual inventory system so we got to make sure that everything underlying the accounting system is set up so that we can do the data input as easy as possible the first thing that needed to be set up to do that was to select the chart of accounts that we set up when we set up the company file by picking the company and then QuickBooks gave us a nice chart of account in the lists drop down the chart of accounts so here's the the underlying accounts we then added a checking account up top because we didn't have one at the time by going to the account new we added the checking account which was a bank account and then we're going to try to use the chart of accounts that are here because those are kind of the advisable accounts by QuickBooks for the industry that we are selected and then if they don't have what we need we'll add an account or modify an account that is already here then we went through the company preferences i'm going to go back to the home page and then go to the edit drop down company preferences the main preference we turned on here or one of the main preferences is the inventory item and items and inventory my company because we determined that we don't not only have inventory but want QuickBooks to track the inventory on a perpetual inventory system therefore we turned on the inventory which is indicated within QuickBooks by the icon up top in the vendor section that's the inventory items that you see those that would indicate that inventory is on they're using a perpetual inventory system so given that then we're going to have to enter basically our beginning balances into the system if we had a prior accounting system in other words we're imagining that when we start the company file that if if we if we had no accounting business before we start of the company file then of course we can just start from zeros nothing's in any of the accounts and move forward if we had the company files in a prior accounting system accounting software for example then when we pull that software into QuickBooks these might be like the ending balances of the prior periods when we pull it into QuickBooks we might then pull in all that data into QuickBooks and so that we have all the stuff in QuickBooks but possibly we don't want to do that maybe we want to use the prior accounting system for anything before the cutoff date and then use the new accounting system QuickBooks here for everything after the cutoff date and that's what we're going to basically imagine we're doing here so that means for us we're going to say okay i'm i'm going to run myself a trial balance which is basically a balance sheet as of the end of the last year and then i'm going to put that into the system as my beginning balances for when i'm going to start my new accounting system which is going to be january 1st of 2022 for us normally of course you would want to do this at the beginning of a year because you don't want to have to run reports in one accounting system and another accounting system to run year-end reports for taxes and things like that so if you are starting in the middle of the year then you probably want to enter the data dual in both systems for the part of the year that overlaps so that you can hit enter a whole years of data into the into the one accounting system that you'll have at year-end and be able to run reports so this would be the the amounts in the accounts at the end of the year so we have to enter these basically into our accounting system at the beginning of the year which is generally a pretty easy process to do however we also have to think about the underlying foundational things that need to be supporting some of these accounts so in other words if i go through each of these accounts there are kind of like issues with some of them so i can't just put them on there with a journal entry without putting the underlying foundational stuff in place so for example the checking account i'm going to have to do a bank reconciliation so we'll have to deal with how am i going to deal with the outstanding checks and whatnot if there are any the accounts receivable has to do with the customers because this represents invoices so that represents if i go here invoices that we have created that we have not collected on so that leads me into saying well the other thing i need to set up are my customers into the system and then any customers that owe me money i've got to put that into my system as well now there's a couple ways that we could do that we could go into the customer center here and if we don't have any customers in the system because we created the new company from scratch we can export it from the prior system uh into an excel worksheet or something like that wherever we have our customers and probably import or possibly import the the customers and we'll talk about how to do that in a future presentation and then those customers the ones that owe us money we'll have to indicate that as we add the customers so we can't in other words just go into the chart of accounts and say if i was to add this chart of accounts and i was to edit it edit the account sometimes they have an open an an opening balance item here we don't see it in the accounts receivable because quickbooks is going to force us to assign the opening balance to a customer so so that's that's one kind of wrinkle that we have to do with accounts receivable inventory same kind of thing inventory represents goods that we have inventory on hand that we expect to sell in the future i could put that on the books with just a journal entry but i need to back up and support that journal entry with the inventory that we actually have if we're going to track the inventory in the quickbooks system so when i put that into the system i've got the items so what i'm going to do is actually add the inventory items items new item and i've got to add these inventory parts inventory items so that i can tell the system how many of these pieces of inventory i have on hand so that quickbooks can not only give me the data or show me the amount on the balance sheet but also run the sub ledgers so that's where the items come into play also i'm going to need to set up those items because if i go into the homepage and i and i have to if i'm in the kind of industry where i have to create an invoice and or a sales receipt the items are the things that are going to drive the creation of the invoice and the sales receipt so once again if i had a prior system that i was using where i had a list of inventory items and service items possibly i can export that list and then import it into the quickbook system or i could just set up the inventory items and that's going to be a really crucial part component making the building process a lot easier so if you're in a if you're selling inventory obviously you have to you know track the items that would be kind of like when you check something out of the grocery store and you scan it everything set up in the system to make that scanning that sales process as easy as possible you don't even need a person there anymore they can scan the item but the system is actually doing some fairly complex stuff so you got to make sure to have the system set up to scan the item so that's what we're going to have to do with the inventory items and if there's inventory track and we got to do that too if it's a service even if it's like bookkeeping or something like that you might think well i'll just set up an hourly rate and you could do that that would still be items that you need to set up but if you come up with items that are easier to kind of group and bill for you know sometimes that can make your whole billing process a whole lot easier and possibly more transparent so those are some issues with the item so we'll we'll go through and we'll we'll check those out those are usually some of the most complex things to set up and then the depreciation and furniture and equipment there's kind of sub ledges for that as well but that's usually tied in with your tax software and your accountant so we'll get into that at a future point accounts payable represents money that we owe to somebody else so if you have accounts for payable that needs to be set up then within quickbooks that happen that's like a bill that has been created that that has not yet been paid so that leads us to saying well i can't just go to the chart of accounts and put a beginning balance in the accounts payable because it's similar to the accounts receivable in that in that it needs to be supported by who i owe the money to and that leads us to the vendors that means i got to set up my vendor which i can find in my vendor center and so i've got to set up my vendors over here and once again i might have my vendors from my prior system so i might like download them from my prior system if i have all the people that i pay money to and put them into my current system however it might be easier just to set up the vendors as we go because a lot of the vendors are not are not as critical as possibly our customer list right because we might be able to set up our vendors as we pay the vendors and that would be like the utility bill and the phone bill and that kind of stuff the vendors that we really want to have more information on would be the big vendors possibly those that we buy inventory from the ones that we're really trying to cultivate a relationship with as a and not just like like a bill for the utility bill which all i need to know is really the vendor's name so i know who to send the check to right so the ones that we buy inventory from that we have more data on and we have shipping terms and that kind of stuff those are the vendors that we probably want to be importing in and make sure and we have all the detail on some of the other vendors we might just kind of create the vendors as we start paying the bills might be one way to set up the vendors but in any case to get to this balance here we've got to show not only the balance in accounts payable but who we owe the balance to the visa card is fairly straightforward to set up that but you have similar kind of issues as with the checking account because the visa card could be connected to bank feeds for example the loan of course we got to determine who we owe the money to but fairly straightforward and then we've got the equity account down here that kind of everything falls out into so as we go forward what we're going to end up doing then is is we're going to try to combine these two things together that we have to do one thing is that we have to put the put together the foundational items in order to process our accounting system that's that's going to be the items inventory service items customers and the vendors we've got to put those in place so that we can do the accounting system we also are going to have to put those things in place so that if we have beginning balances those items are properly assigned to the beginning balances the customers are properly assigned to the accounts receivable the the vendors are properly assigned to who owes the accounts payable and the inventory items are properly assigned to be tracking the amount and tie out to the amount of the inventory now as we do this that gets quite complex because you might say well man how am i gonna how am i going to get all these beginning balances correct and notice what we'll do in quickbooks instead of doing one journal entry which you might think to do if you have an accounting background you might just say well if i'm going to start this company file i'm just going to do a journal entry and debit this debit this debit this credit this debit this credit this and so on and it will tie out but again we can't really do that because we need to enter these in such a way that the sub ledgers will tie out here here and here so what we'll do instead what quickbooks is basically designed to do is that we'll enter each of these balances is in one at a time taking into consideration whatever special needs are there for that account and the other side will then go to equity in some way shape or form it might it might go into the income statement income and expenses but it will it will enter it as of the prior year so even if it's an income statement account it will roll into equity and therefore if we get all these beginning balances correct the equity account will then be the difference it'll fall out because of the double entry accounting system so it's a little bit complex to think about at first but that's the overarching idea so we're going to enter the foundational stuff customers vendors and items and as we do so we're going to be tying that stuff into these beginning balances which represent the ending balances from the prior accounting system that we were using that we now want to be our beginning balances as we start the new company file in 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