Welcome to the show. This is where we talk about the plan based diet and anything vegan today. I'm actually having my first guest from my beloved Japan from a city north of Japan called Sendai. My guest today is my dear friend, Laina Takahashi. Hi Laina. Welcome to the show. Hi Laina. Thank you for having me. My pleasure. It's a very exciting for me to have someone from gorgeous Sendai, a place where I lived for 30 years and you have been there for how long Laina? 17 years. Wow. Isn't that strange that I only met you like literally a week before I was leaving Sendai to come and move to Hawaii. Having been in the same city and just not ever crossing paths. So very interesting. I know I was thinking about the same, but I'm glad that I could catch it before you left. Yes, me too. Laina, so happy to have you on the show. I'm very excited to tell people about what you do. You are living in Sendai and you are actually a lakey master and co-founder of Healing Land Lakey. Reiki, yes. Reiki. So you were co-founding this with your husband? Yes, yes. Awesome. So a lot of people, including myself, don't know much about Reiki. So I would love for you first of all to introduce yourself and then we'll talk a little bit about basically what Reiki is. So tell us about yourself, Laina. Yeah, I originally born in Ukraine and I live in Japan pretty much half of my life. So I'm not native speaker, so pardon in case I make some small mistakes. So I speak Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, English and four years ago I came into Reiki and that's what I do for now. Really happy to share Reiki with the world. Awesome. So people are probably wondering why you are on my show when I just mentioned about the plant-based diet and veganism. But basically I think when you start taking charge of your health and in particular when you go on a plant-based diet, which is what I promote and which is what I think is one of the healthiest diets out there, you start kind of wanting or searching for other things that can help with your well-being, your overall health and well-being. So this is why I've asked you to come on the show to share with us the secrets to Reiki, which seems to be really helping people with their overall health and well-being. So by the way, you only speak four languages? So far, yes. That's amazing and for anyone who wants to know, Laina is very fluent in Japanese. So you also conduct your Reiki classes in Japanese and English. Yes. I guess we'll get into that more later on. Laina, tell us about Reiki, what it is and how it works for people. Okay, Reiki is a Japanese method for stress reduction that promotes healing on all levels. So basically it's a good for heart, body and mind. And it's a great life management tool that can be applied for any life situation. That's how short I can put it. No, that's fantastic. That's very, yeah. In a nutshell, you just pretty much explained it very clearly. I found when I was looking into Reiki to prep for this show with you, I did come across a few things I would like to mention, if you don't mind. First of all, where the word Reiki comes from, the Japanese or Chinese characters, Rei, which means God's wisdom or the higher power, and Ki, which a lot of people are familiar with, Ki is the life force energy. So it makes a lot of sense. According to Wikipedia, I'm going to quote Wikipedia. They say that Reiki is a form of alternative medicine called energy healing. Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which a universal energy is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing. Yes, exactly. Very interesting. Let me put some disclaimer to it that whatever we will be talking now on, we're not trying to substitute medical treatments. Everything is going in support for whatever treatments or therapy person having. So it's a great tool to combine with anything you do to enhance your benefits with the main treatments or medical treatments. So yeah, that's what I wanted to add. Thank you, Laina, for adding that. That's very important to know. How did you come across Reiki and how long have you been practicing Reiki and when did you become a Reiki master? Yes, we are now going through the major shift, like energetic shift in the world. And I think it hit me like five or six years ago and I started to think that maybe there's something I need to change within myself. And due to some things that I needed to change myself, first was diet. I started to actually go into vegan diet and learning about what is, you know, how to eat vegan and all kinds of things. And maybe like a couple of years afterwards, that's when I went to India and after my trip, I came back really like not feeling myself. And when I would go to the hospital, they would say, well, there's nothing wrong with you. But I really feel like I'm like covered with something and I'm not present here. I don't know where I was. So, and my friend recommended me to have like Reiki session and I made an appointment and Lady came and had one hour session with me.  It's kind of brought me back. It's, I started to feel a lot of like ideas and a lot of guidance of what I would want to do in the future.  And then I started to have every month or once or twice Reiki just treatments for myself. And what I started to learn about Reiki is that there's, you don't need to have a special ability to do Reiki for others. So that's how I, I was like, oh, really? So I just need to join the class and have my training and I can do the same. So, and that's how I got into Reiki. Awesome. Once you find your passion in life, you have nowhere to go, but forward with it and to share. And so what you're doing is amazing. And I wish you all the luck there on your new journey. Thank you. You actually worked for a Japanese company, which I'm not going to get into, but so you made a huge change in your life recently. And as we just spoke of you, you are now a Reiki master there in Sendai, Japan. Yes. We're going to take a look at some of the photos that you have for us and go through a little bit of your journey here. So it all started off with the first photo. Oh my God. You look gorgeous in the kimono. How many years ago was this taken? Yeah. You can see it's 2004. It's something like 16 years ago. Okay. I was going to Japanese wedding. So just as an attendant, yeah. Awesome. Yes. Because you did mention that you are originally from the Ukraine. Yes. You've gone very far away from your roots and have found a beautiful life in Japan. I know how wonderful it is to live in Japan. And the 30 years I was there really just unforgettable and very grateful to have spent that time there. Let's look at the next one, Lena. Okay. Now this, I'm guessing, well, it's obvious that this is one of the, this is the technique that you use, the healing or hands on healing. Yes. Yes. This is just to show people briefly like how it can be done. Usually you would be just laying on the table and just relaxing and reiki practitioner would place their hands or hover, you know, however you're comfortable. And it's promotes whatever you need for that moment. So you can also be sitting like this and just have a quick reiki, like to recharge you. We usually do it often to, you know, when you're just busy during the day or you just suddenly, you're just stressing out and just like, okay, for five minutes, let me just pause and you can do it for yourself.  That's why I put this picture. Yeah. That's interesting. That actually was one of my questions, whether you can actually do leiki alone. Yes. Yes. Yeah.  You can just like place your hands, whatever you feel tension or pain. And then Reiki start to flow and will make you relax or whatever you need at that moment. So that's a great to have, not just for others is like really like mainly is for you first. Absolutely. Awesome. Let's take a look at the next photo. Okay. These are the important people in the leiki world. Yes. Yes. So to answer your question, how long I've been Reiki master is like I first trained with my yoga teacher who is like half Japanese half Hawaiian. He was in Tokyo. So I started my training with him. And then as I was going through my training, I made this two wonderful people. This is William Rand and Colleen Binelli. And they were going to Kyoto, Mount Krama, Mount Krama is the first place of Reiki. And they were just going to make some like videos or just to visit place. And that was the time when I met them. And they got idea that, hey, why don't we have, you know, Reiki class on Mount Krama. So I were asked to help to organize the class. And yeah, the picture underneath is the, the real colleagues, some Japanese style in that we have our training and it's on the mountains. So yeah, I got my like level up training with William Rand and Colleen Binelli. So I had so far like few teachers and continuously like expanding my knowledge about Reiki. That's excellent. And I'm looking at this next photo here with a little four legged friend. This is your gorgeous cat. How adorable. She's helping promote your leiki classes in Japan. Yes. Leina, we actually have just a minute before our break. Okay. Then when we get back after the break, I do want to talk about how people can get in contact with you. How we can come to your classes and get into more details about reaching out to you and finding a way to do some Reiki with you. Okay. Thank you. Do stay tuned. We're going for a quick break and we'll be back right after with more of Billions Vegan World. Aloha. I'm Keisha King, host of Crossroads in Learning on Think Tech Hawaii. On Crossroads in Learning, our guests and I discuss all aspects of education here in Hawaii and throughout the country. You can join us for stimulating conversations to enrich and liven and educate. We are streamed live on Think Tech bi-weekly at 4 p.m. on Mondays. Thanks so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. Aloha. Hi. I am Yukari Kunisue, host of Konnichiwa Hawaii, Think Tech Hawaii's Japanese program. Broadcasting every Monday from 2 p.m. I usually invite a guest in Japanese language community who does interesting things and I'd like to share stories with you guys. Please tune in and listen to Konnichiwa Hawaii. Aloha and welcome back to Lilions Vegan World where we talk about the plant-based diet and anything vegan. I'm so excited to have my guest, Lena Takahashi from Sendai, Japan. She's the co-founder of Healing Land Reiki. Welcome back again, Lena. So lovely to have you on and learn about this awesome Reiki that is obviously fantastic for you and more people should definitely delve into it. Thank you. Happy to have you. Thank you. Lena, tonight actually here in my pleasure, tonight here in Honolulu, I am going to be part of a vegan festival tonight at the Good Vibe Center from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. There's going to be four or five vegan vendors selling lots of awesome plant-based food, food games, raffles, massage, haircuts, lots of fun and games to be had. So anyone who is in the area, in the downtown sort of area, do stop by. I think it's going to be a really great night and I would love to meet some of you and have you taste some awesome plant-based food. So that's what I'm doing. Back to you, Lena and Reiki. How does someone get in touch with you if they want to learn more about it and attend one of your classes? Okay. You need to go to healinglandreiki.com. That's our website. So you can get class schedules or you can have contact information below. So you can either give me a call or you can send me an email in case the dates that's on the classes we have on the website is not convenient for you. You can also organize with me private training. Private training can be in northern Japan, Miyagi Prefecture, Sendai City, or if you would like to have, let's say, one-on-one training on Mount Krama, which is Kyoto, we can also arrange classes in different locations in Japan. I was going to ask, can you work with someone who is not living in Japan? Yes. So for the classes, you have to come to Japan or attend any classes in the world that we may have. We don't do classes online, but what you can have is Reiki also, you can also have Reiki Session being in your home. So it's called Distance Reiki Session. So right now we have a subscription plan that you can have to Reiki Session for very affordable price. You can also check that on our website on the Session section.  Great. Well, another excuse to go and visit Japan if you're watching the show. You're not there. This is a great opportunity and maybe get a Reiki Session in with you at the same time. Yes, definitely. A lot of information about Reiki online, Lena has come to these eight things that I'm seeing on most website about what Reiki is believed to be able to do. If you don't mind, I'd like to read something. I think it makes it very clear that Reiki is absolutely something you should consider bringing into your lifestyle. So Reiki is believed to be able to promote deep relaxation, relieve stress and anxiety, promote pain relief, ease muscle tension, give peace of mind and body, increase rate of recovery from injury, energize and balance the whole body and strengthen the immune system. Yes, yes, yes. I'm pretty full on and yeah, if it can help with all of those things then definitely something to think about. Practicing. Yes. First, what people can do is go with their beginning level. We teach Reiki level one and two. You need two full days to attend the class or you can also split to have only Reiki level one or after that when you feel guided to go to the level two but if you have time and you feel guided go and just have two days of class and it will give you great foundation to use Reiki in your life as a life management tool and after you feel guided to go further maybe after six months when you get used to the energy when you practice on yourself or your family then if you want to go further then you can go for three days class to be a Reiki master. Wow, interesting. Yes. When you practice on Reiki, do you and your husband do it or do you go and see your master or your mentor or someone that you work with? How do you do it out of curiosity? Yeah, I work on myself always pretty much just use Reiki everywhere and when I really want this human touch I would say I ask my husband to give me full Reiki session but sometimes when it's our family sometimes we're like, no, I think for this one I want to go to my Reiki master so I would have a Reiki session with my teacher and the mistake that I had when I had my own training I was like, okay, now I don't need to see a Reiki practitioner I can do it on my own but once you move further on your healing journey or whatever you are in your life you sometimes need to have someone who would look at your energy field who would kind of give you a opinion from the outside so I pretty much continuously doing the sessions with someone done for me. That's awesome, Lena. I wish that people do contact you especially the people that are nearby because when I first met you I felt a really strong energy from you I must say and I'm very aware of the energy around me I always have been and I can tell when I'm either going to be comfortable with the person I'm just meeting or it's just not going to work for me but I remember the first time that I met you we were having lunch with some girls and you asked me if I had a pain on the right side of my back and I had been suffering for months with this pinched nerve that was running up the right hand side of my back just right up the spine to my neck so I thought that was very interesting yes, very observant of you so I do hope that people contact you and definitely try it out something new Lena, when you are talking about energy and energy that just makes you feel good do you, for example after a Reiki session do you think about what you eat? Yes, of course it's important what you eat and like where you go for example if possible I advise people just to go to the quiet place like try not to go to the party or in Japan we have izakaya some type of Japanese style bar and have drinks with their friends and eating everything of course you still need some because Reiki not just working during the sessions once you leave it's continuing working on you so of course you need to have some light food if possible drink more warm water and not to feel too heavy because each person reacts to the session differently so they may have or they may sometimes just keep the meal and just go to sleep and rest but ever they feel their body need for them Good advice, excellent advice here's something that might interest people here so I love tea I'm actually not a coffee drinker I drink a lot of tea and obviously I'm vegan but after I meditate or I do meditate and I do power yoga and I am that what you said resonates with me because I also like to be quiet and put something nice into my body a nice hot cup of tea or something like that I'm actually the only chef here not only in Honolulu or Oahu in the whole of Hawaii that does seven course full seven course vegan menus so this is my latest one that I'm doing once a month I'm going to show you a picture here of my high tea this is a seven course high tea this is only the first three courses oh my god this is so beautiful yeah that's the three courses and then there's four more courses after that here are some there's a full tea selection the tea's excellent there's about 30 different teas that I provide and everybody chooses their own tea throughout the three hour dining experience everything is homemade the pastries, the bread the cheese, everything and here's another closer look I'll show you another photo or maybe that was the last one so the other photo I think was yeah okay back to that one thank you Melissa so that's my seven courses I do once a month and all of my information is on my website liliandvegan.com my social media, youtube liliandvegan and facebook all liliandvegan you can find out more information see what I'm getting up to on the island so Lena we are getting close to closing time as we before we say goodbye to the viewers I would love for you to give a final message before we close the show okay thank you for having me here and if you're interested in learning Reiki we have upcoming group class on Mount Krama which will be in the end of April and also when you stay on Mount Krama they'll come the Japanese in there will be able to provide food for according to your needs it can be vegan and whatever gluten free whatever you need can be provided and liliand you know it's difficult in Japan to be providing that kind of services but I'm also working on having that to be arranged for our students awesome that's great well thank you Lena for joining us and pleasure talking to you good luck with everything and I hope that people do contact you thank you everyone for watching another episode of liliand's vegan world see you in 2 weeks time for more vegan fun Aloha


Good morning, I'm Michael Miller. I'm here today at the Green Market Summit hosted by the Green Market Report and I am the Cannabis Editor and Associate Publisher of the LA Weekly and privileged here today to interview a multitude of professional athletes, former professional athletes who are focused on a healthier lifestyle, a lifestyle moving away from prescribed narcotics and prophylactically enhancing their health and teaching that message. I want to thank athletes for care for providing the athletes today and our first athlete today is a lovely woman from Portland, Oregon who flew in today, former soccer star Rachel Rapinoe. How are you Rachel? I'm doing good. Thank you so much for having me. It's good. I thought you were doing great. I'm doing great. I mean I'm in LA. It's sunny, got away from the rain, the cold up in Portland. Is that okay for you? Yes, but I had my coat just in case. I saw that. It's about 95 degrees outside. I know I'm sweating. You've got to come prepared. Well, thanks. So we're here today to talk about a number of things. Yourself as an athlete, your transition to the so-called civilian world and then your education that you bring to the post professional athlete world into what you're doing today. So let's talk a little bit about yourself as a professional athlete. What did you participate in and tell us a little bit about how your injuries were dealt with while you were professional? So I grew up in Northern California, played. I was a multi-sport athlete. Soccer and basketball were myself as well as my twin. I can't tell my story without talking about my twin sister Megan Rapinoe because we did everything together. So it was never a me, it was a we. So we grew up playing everything under the sun, but we really honed in on soccer and basketball. And then unfortunately, height got the best of us. So we went the soccer route because that's where the most opportunity was. So we played elite soccer growing up, ranked one and two in the nation in high school. And then we got both got full ride scholarships. It was one and two. You were two. Sorry, our club team. Our club team. I thought it might be a little William sister rivalry there. No, no, no. Our club team was ranked in like top five all through high school, went to nationals, you know, we kind of had the pick of the litter where we wanted to go when we decided that, you know, Portland was the place for us at the time it was the top three school. So my sister and I played all four seasons at the University of Portland. We won a national championship in 2005. She definitely shined. She was definitely quite the star. She's inducted into the NCAA Hall of Fame, University of Portland Hall of Fame, so on and so forth. Many people will know her from this last World Cup over in France. And she's, you know, one of the most iconic figures right now in sports, which I'm very proud of her. So I got to give her a little plug in. So but my injuries actually started in college. It was when I had to go from being a multi sport athlete down into a single sport athlete, and then the rigors of training. And so I, you know, blew out my left knee twice. I've had four knee surgeries on my left knee and then took, you know, a year and a half after I graduated, no eight to recover from that. You know, obviously, I was, I was introduced to opiates at age 21, you know, had way more than I should have ever had. So even though I wasn't necessarily addicted to them mentally, my body became addicted obviously right away. So I've been through the withdrawals, the detoxing of all that. And then I went, I recovered from my knee surgeries. I played pro broad for a year. I came back at the time that the league here in the States had folded. So I played in the amateur league, which is the, you know, what's the most competitive league that you could play in at the time, played on a team here in LA. And then I was about to sign, go play in Sweden. And then unfortunately, during a practice or a pickup game, fractured my ankle into my career. So my career ended at age 26, mostly just due to injuries. I just couldn't stay healthy. Not an uncommon story. Yep. So tell us a little bit about your in your advocacy with respect to the cannabis plant. At what point did that into your life? For reasons associated with health and wellness? Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. I definitely was introduced to it much later in life because of the my own perceptions of it and fear around it. You know, I grew up thinking that it was just the gateway drug to everything, right? Because that's what we were told war on drugs. So I unfortunately was only introduced to it, probably only like four years ago. And it was by my sister, Megan, she started taking it and then other athletes and kind of our pro network soccer network, basketball network that we know. And it was a really, it was a game changer for me because it was the first time that I saw athlete using it, not for like stoner culture, but for a health and wellness effect. They knew that it helped them perform better, because they were able to recover better on it. They didn't really know all the whys about it. They actually didn't really even know what they were taking, the dosage, all that. Are we talking about CBD cannabis with THC? Yeah, I mean, it was both combination thereof. Yeah, it was both really. They just knew that it was it was helping them recover better, particularly around sleep and anxiousness. And they were able to play better than on some of the higher dosages of, you know, insides and obviously opiates. Terrific. So let's go transitioning into launching a brand in the space. What was the catalyst for you? Is it something that you had aspired to? Was it organic? Was it something karmic stars in alignment situation tells the story of the beginning of your idea to launch your brand and where you are with it today? Yeah, I would say it was twofold. I after I got done playing, I was set off into a career and to health and wellness. I was pre-med and undergrad. I knew that I wanted to do something with science and with the body. And then I realized medicine wasn't for me because I didn't want to see people that were already sick. I want to help them on the preventative side. So then I went back to school, I got my master's in exercise science, and then I started a company, my sister and I actually did a training company in Portland that trained soccer specific athletes, some other athletes were mostly soccer high school, college professional athletes, and then we have a national training business where we go coast to coast and do events. So I kind of set out on this mission to empower athletes, more so on the strength and conditioning side, but it was always in me to do that type of research and be in that field. So I would say it's that and then the other part of it was the last four years again, I've been seeing these athletes at least in my network, using cannabis products and then, but what I noticed was they weren't using the same brand, they were kind of jumping around. And again, they didn't really know what they were using. They didn't know the dosage, they just knew that it worked. So I recognized three years ago that there's a real big opportunity to be a trusted sports brand in this space, it takes obviously some due diligence, winning the trust of those athletes. But I knew that there was a really big opportunity in this space to talk a little bit about your products. The packaging is beautiful. I have the package here. And there's a number of goodies in here. Why don't you tell us what we have in here and walk me through what I see so many times and so many product shows. And there are a lot of people that acknowledge or not. But in my experience, with the thousands of products out there, most of it is me to product, I say same stuff, different bottle. Let's talk about what is the difference with your product, the added value, and what makes your products unique? Yeah, so obviously we did a pretty intensive competitive audit. And there are definitely a lot of brands in this space. And what we found was there were not a lot of brands that had a very clear brand voice and vision, as well as aesthetic, and then using high profile athletes. So we wanted to cut through the noise. We wanted to be very sleek. Let's keep simple colors.  Mindy is the name of my company. We started about a year ago, we've been concepting it for two and a half years. Again, two syllables very simple. We're playing on men, so athletes on the mend, but making it our own by putting the Y on top and our taglines we cover better. So we actually just went to market this August with three products. So we have all natural gummies. We have, and we have vegan gel caps. So the gummies and the gel caps are both vegan. Again, very sleek branding, not a lot of hoopla. We don't want any of the flower or anything like that because we want to win the trust of front offices and league makers, policy makers who how many milligrams it's in each. And then we have a proprietary self stick here. So the thing that we also found in our competitive audit is that a lot of companies are using kind of a lower dosage. So if we want to win the trust of athletes, efficacy needs to be really high. So we're coming out with a line where our baseline for edibles is 25 milligrams and then our baseline for a topical is going to be 500 and we'll just go up from there. And again, using athletes in the fold from the very beginning. Terrific. What are some of the values that you've been ingrained with been part of your DNA since you were a child that you bring to sports, professional sports, the work ethic, the play ethic, the team ethics that you now are transposing into the launch of your brand. Yeah, I mean, I think I always was like one of the captains on the team, you know, not necessarily because I wanted to be but I guess coaches saw in me this ability to lead. So I definitely bring a very strong team aspect, you know, you're only stronger than we could sleep. So, you know, my team nominated me and see me as the CEO, which I'm very flattered and I'm definitely up for the challenge. But making sure that everyone on my team and as we continue to grow are all aligned and all are very clear in their role and responsibility. And then I would say honestly above anything else is the grind, right? Like everybody knows the start of grind, but especially in this space, you have to do everything you can to differentiate yourself. So putting that extra bit of thought that extra bit of detail and, you know, that methodicalness of the launch, the brand, the strategy, you know, your team, everything just kind of has to be different. Because you need to really be a step ahead, you need to separate yourself from from all the noise in this space. Sure. Let's talk a little bit about education, education for folks that are a little bit in the know, education for athletes that are not professional, but also education for those that are still so adversely influenced by the stigma. Athletes for care is the preeminent organization with respect to advocating and educating with respect to the reduction of that stigma, not only for athletes, but for everybody. Because in fact, as we talked about before, if you have a body, you're an athlete. So let's talk a little bit about that education. What are you seeing? What do you recommend? What do you wish with respect to that stigma reduction? Yeah, I mean, education is key, right? There are some brands that are doing a great job educating their consumers and there are some that are not. So we obviously want to be at the bloody edge of the sword in terms of education and actually partnering with athletes for care even before we had anything but a concept and maybe some business documents we had filed the business. But after filing the business, the first thing that we did was reach out to athletes for care and partner with them. You know, we are not an advocacy company. We are a consumer packaged good company. We're building a brand. So we want to make sure that we partner with organizations like athletes for care and support them and lift them up in what they're doing in their respective industry. But I couldn't agree more. I think education is really important. It was one of the biggest reasons why I jumped in and, you know, into Mindy's because these athletes were using products and they didn't know where it came from. They didn't know exactly what they were doing with it. So in kind of following suit with that, we made this booklet. It's not FDA approved yet. So can't quite sell it to the public. But we this is our attempt to educate not just our pro athlete networks, but anyone who's interested in learning more about CBD, particularly, you know, our products Mindy, our product offering down the pipeline. It's sort of this like high level primer guide. There's so much left unknown still with cannabis in general, but particularly CBD. So I'm very excited for more studies to come out. I'm very excited for some of the current leagues right now who are conducting their own studies to come out with their research and with their findings. I think that, you know, it's going to be pretty clear what they need to lean towards in terms of lifting the CBD ban. Because, you know, for our athletes to be able to play on Vicodin or very high anti-inflammatories and not to be able to play on CBD is just a risk to their own body risk. It's a tragic, absolutely tragic that we have federal approval of things that do damage to us and federal restrictions for things that could benefit us. Yeah. And I mean, it's an investment too, right? Like if you're an owner and you want to protect your investment, then you should do everything that you can to take the best care of their body. So they could also look at it as a business decision and we hope to help them do that. What do you think the timeline on is for professional soccer in that regard or football? If you live abroad, as most of the world calls it, do you think the world football leagues will be ahead of the curve behind the curve or somewhat in the middle with respect to the NHL NBA and professional baseball? Yeah. Well, they are actually ahead of the curve. WADA lifted their ban last year. So the World Anti-Doping Agency lifted their ban on CBD as long as the product has 0.3% or less of THC. So Olympic athletes, any federation that's following suit under WADA, legally their players can use CBD. And so the NWSL, which is our women's pro-league here in the United States, they're following suit with those policies. So which is why for us, it was a no-brainer to gain traction and to go to market with women's soccer players and Olympic athletes because with the World Cup that just happened this summer and with the Olympics happening next summer, it just made perfect sense for us and they can have a public relationship with our brand. They can also just talk about CBD in general and the wellness benefits of it. But outside of those leagues, the WNBA's collective bargaining agreement is up for negotiation. The NBA, the NFL, NHL, they're all conducting their own studies. So I think that it's going to be sooner rather than later. You know, maybe I'm just hopeful. I've been told that I'm an optimist, so. It's not bad being an optimist as long as you balance it with a little bit of realism, as my father used to say. Okay, that's true. Final question for you.  Talk to me about why you made those choices. Yeah, I mean, I think, again, we wanted to kind of cut through the noise, right? And we did, we've been doing focus groups with pro athletes and pro teams since February now. So, you know, some of it was just feedback. We had some other packaging that we were showing during our pitches and we were getting feedback like, I don't like that green, I don't like this. And a lot of it's too, it was perception and still is perception to some athletes that aren't comfortable with cannabis and maybe haven't used a lot of it in the past. They don't really want anything with green on it because it reminds them too much of THC and then that triggers something about, you know, the fear in getting and testing positive. So, we are definitely, again, using our pro athletes in the fold from the beginning for product development in early R&D feedback. So, like I said, I mean, we were going to go with maybe some different coloring and then based on their feedback, we decided just to keep it very clean for obvious reasons. We didn't want to have like flowers and stuff on it just because we want it being associated with more of a sports brand. Even though it is a wellness product, we want it to look kind of sporty and, you know, athlete, built athlete approved. So, that's why we went with this. Final question for you. Let's talk about dosage and dosing. Yeah, I have a large guy like myself but I'm a lightweight and I need very little and I know smaller people that could take much more. What kind of guidelines do you provide? I know that the regulations are very strict. The FDA pretty much says you can't say anything. How do you take that into your private mix along with your guidelines from your legal team? How do you give advice to somebody about your product? An elderly man like myself or a young injured athlete in their late 20s, how do they know how much or how little to take? Yeah, that's a great question and there's definitely still a lot of research that we don't know about dosing. What we tell everyone is to start low and slow. That's like the basic rule of thumb. You know, we start edibles 25 milligrams, topicals 500 milligrams, obviously with a salve or a lotion. It's not transdermal, so it's not going to get in the bloodstream, so you can put as much on as you want. And we know with CBD, right, it's non-toxic, so you can't overdose on it. But we always recommend starting low and slow. And it's in our booklet. We've had a couple athletes that didn't read the booklet and, you know, took three at a time and felt very tired the next day. But that's what we tell them. And 25 milligrams is a great dosage for most people. And so that was definitely research. It was very strategic on our end to have 25 milligrams because, of course, we want it to be effective to build brand loyalty. But yeah, low and slow always. Fantastic. Well, it's been a pleasure to see you today. I want to wish you all the best and great success. Please give your sister a giant hug from all of us at LA Weekly and the Green Market team for her extraordinary success and career. And we wish you the greatest success for Mindy. And thank you, athletes for care and everything you do for them in moving the needle forward. Thank you so much for having me and more to come on Mindy. Absolutely. We're excited to hear it.


Have you heard about the Cruz-Warnock Amendment? No, the Cruz-Warnock. Cruz-Warnock Amendment. Okay. When we were pushing forward the bipartisan infrastructure bill, he got up and made the argument for the Cruz-Warnock Amendment. And then I got up and I heard myself say something I thought I'd never hear myself say. I'd like to associate myself with the remarks of Ted Cruz. We got the amendment. When the rest of the chamber heard that, they said, well, we got to pass that. And it passed, and it's one step closer to getting this interstate built out. I think there's an important lesson there. Yeah, I think there's an important lesson there, that there's a road that runs through Texas that also runs through Georgia, runs through poor communities, rich communities. It runs in front of hospitals and places where people work. There's a road that runs through our humanity, and it traverses political and partisan lines. And my job as a U.S. senator is to do everything I can to point to that road that connects our collective humanity and to push forward legislation that's good for everybody. I know you're working on numerous pieces of legislation with GOP senators. How has that process been for you? Look, I believe in bipartisanship. I think that Georgians and more broadly the American people expect us as elected representatives to put aside our partisan disputes and come together to do what's in the best interests of the country.


Hello friends and welcome back to my channel. So I am gonna do a fun tag video today for you My friends Marie and Darren over at the cafe to classroom and Darren a cocky Hara Created a tag for all of us to do in this time And I think that it's really exciting because it gives me like a purpose something to do Not that I don't have anything to do. I have plenty to do. I just Want to do something more fun. So anyway, Darren and Marie created this new teacher tag called the Distance Learning Teacher Tag, so I decided to do that today and I'm gonna tag all of you to go ahead and film this teacher tag Basically, it's like the coolest tag ever You also may notice right now that it is extra quiet Around here and that is because my son cash is at preschool his school is actually open And so normally I would keep him but I had an abundance of things I need to get done today and I would not have been able to do them if he was home So I decided to take him to school. He's having fun there. It's extremely clean There aren't a ton of kids going right now. So it's Very low-key, but I decided that I really needed him to go today so that I could get some things done But anyway, I'm gonna go through the questions. There are 11 questions and That was a wet cough, I'm fine There are 11 questions and I'm just gonna go ahead and dive right into them All right question number one. What is your current teaching status? Distance learning off etc So I teach in the state of Arizona and our governor actually just called For school closures to extend through the end of the school year So that is kind of newer information that we just got and so our district has been Working the last couple of weeks to create some sort of plan for our students and our families As I mentioned in the last video our district has very diverse needs For our families Quite a few of them do not have access to internet or do not have a device to use the internet with So a lot of different variables here, but I am Beginning digital learning starting April 6th, which is next Monday And we do have a set of expectations that we are supposed to follow There isn't a specific question here that addresses that plan So I think I might address that in another video. Just explain to you guys what I'm doing What my expectations are just see if they're different than yours, but basically I am completely off I am still being paid, which is a huge blessing And I am expected to work or be available for work between the hours of eight o'clock and Four o'clock in the afternoon. So that is what my distance learning kind of looks like and I said like I said I'll explain a little bit more in another video, but that's what my current teaching status is how long is your school out I kind of already answered that It has been changing day-to-day, but we did get the official Arizona schools are closed until the end of the school year So with that being said I probably will not get to see my students for a while once we are Clear to move about the country I will reach out to each one of them and see if I can't put together some sort of like meet-ups so that I can see them again and Give them proper goodbyes, but it is kind of nice that I'm on YouTube and a lot of my students watch So I do get to interact with them online, which is great What is your best distance learning teacher advice? I would just say to keep it simple and keep it reasonable a lot of our students are Not able to engage in learning all day long a lot of them At least mine have to wait until their parents come home from work because they are essential employees And so a lot of my students cannot do anything until the evening time So I want to be able to provide them with things that will Extend the learning of what they've already learned in class and just more of like a practice So I would just say simple and Minimal I mean I don't want to assign them with you know an assignment per day rather than you know a Couple things here and there in the week that just extend their learning more for like practice So keep it simple and basically short and sweet What is your favorite social distancing snack? Lately I have been eating a lot of cottage cheese with my mother-in-law's homemade salsa mixed in and like dipping Chips in it. Um That's just kind of in my go-to like at least once a day. I'm going to that snack But that's pretty much it other than that. I'm eating a lot of avocado toast and I've been really craving like Thai food, but it's really hard to get my hands on so I've been kind of you know getting what I can here in there, but Chips and salsa with cottage cheese in it. It's like a little room for your salsa, you know, you get a little protein in there It's kind of good Um, have you picked up any new skills? um, one new skill that I picked up has been patience and Patience for toddler Things as you guys know I have a two-year-old at home And so I have had to learn a lot more patience with a younger child I'm used to like teaching third and fourth graders. So it's usually the ages, you know, eight to ten and I'm Home a lot more with my toddler in the last couple of weeks. And so I've really had to learn more about Dealing with a toddler and speaking his language, which is definitely a new skill. I think so does that count? Yes, I think so What are your Netflix recommendations you guys? I'm totally into the tiger king It starts out really weird, but I promise you if you keep watching it, it gets really interesting Um, I haven't been watching a ton of Netflix only because I've been playing the Sims a lot in my free time when my son is napping and at night when he goes to bed, I totally play the Sims and It's very ironic because I'm playing the stranger mill pack Which is where you basically like find a vaccine for this like terrible sickness that was released in the world And you have to save the world by finding a vaccine. I find it very ironic But it is really entertaining. So I don't have a ton of Netflix recommendations other than the tiger king I think it's great, but if I could recommend like Something else I would say if you have either a computer that can handle it or like a piece like a PlayStation or an Xbox Get the Sims. It's kind of fun. You get to create life that isn't in lockdown. And so that's been really entertaining Question seven what habits have you picked up? I've actually picked up some really bad habits before this closure I was doing a really good job of getting into the gym four days a week and Um, I haven't really been working out and I have a home gym I have no excuse other than I'm just not motivated to work out on a scale of one to ten What is your anxiety level? I feel like this changes from day to day like it all depends on new information as I get new information I feel really anxious and as the information kind of stops coming in my anxiety goes away Um, I wouldn't really say anxiety more over like stress When things don't work the way I want them to or what I can't figure out something technology wise It really stresses me out But I would say anxiety level kind of just fluctuates throughout the days. Can you guys hear my dogs whining? They're like Okay back to the questions What is your distance learning? OOTD well, I got a little bit more dressed today than I normally would because I am filming some videos today for my co-workers and for my students and so I got a little bit more put together than normal But usually it's like no makeup a sweatshirt a pair of shorts and my slippers But I'm wearing a teacher t-shirt a so that's positive And yeah, that's kind of just what it is a sweatshirt a meshie bun No makeup If your students are watching this, what would you say to them? I know that most of them are watching this and What I want to say to you guys is just how much I love you and miss you and I wish we were together I wish I could like invite each of you to my house and just teach you for the day and then send you back and My mom even said like they should just sit at the end of your driveway and you could sit at the garage door and teach from there I'm like, oh my gosh, I wish What I want to say to you guys is just continue to be strong Make good choices make choices that are Going to benefit you in your day Whether you choose to participate in online learning or not Just know that it doesn't matter That you're gonna be okay.   What do you miss most about your class?    I miss dancing with you. I miss being able to teach you new things and see your faces when you've learned it and I Just I just miss everything about that. I miss our our friendship and our relationships and It's a free hugs you guys like I get way less hugs now I used to get at least, you know, 50 hugs a day and now I don't get that many and Alice and Jack aren't very good huggers and cash. I mean he'll hug but it's not as good as yours So I miss your hugs a lot And your faces I really do miss you Okay guys, so those are the 11 questions in the distance learning teacher tag Hopefully you enjoyed this video and it wasn't too long I'm going to put all of the questions down in the links below So if you're interested in doing the tag, please tag me in it I want to see how you guys are doing at home and your distance teaching and If you aren't here on YouTube then share something with me on Instagram If you're not following my Instagram and you would like to go ahead and follow me at apples and tiara's I like to do more updating there and I will see you guys in the next video Probably wearing the same outfit that I'm wearing now All right, you guys see ya


Welcome everyone once again, let's talk about urban planning and today we explore the world of the Iranian feminist movement known as woman, life, freedom. I would not dare to say in the original language. This movement has been met with brutal crackdowns from the Iranian government, but it has also captured the attention of the world through social media. And to let us know more about the movement I invited Asma Mehan from Texas Tech University in the United States. So Asma will let us know how this movement is using digital art, graffiti, protests to create a physical and a virtual space for women's voices to be heard. So we will discuss with Asma the challenges, the opportunities that lie ahead for this movement and how it can inspire other feminist movements around the globe. Asma, welcome to our episode. Thank you so much for your kind imitation. It's a pleasure to be here. Perfect. Let us know then, Asma, why you felt the need, the relevance to study this movement in particular. And also, let us know a bit about the movement for context. Sure. So, as you mentioned before, the main inspiration for starting this research is inspired by the recent woman, life, freedom movement or what we call in Persian in Farsi, Zan Zendagi Azadi movement. So, inspiring from this recent movement, I asked a different line of question. For example, how it's the specific movement focused on the intersection of digital activism, and how it has been known as the feminist movement in Iran, as a counter feminist movement in Iran. And I think also it's important to add a little bit about the Iranian context. I think it's important to talk more about the Iranian context specifically because it's a place where traditional forms of process are often, as you mentioned also before, severely restricted. So, I think the specific topic, the topic of digital activism and feminist movement between Iran, but also within these cases study of the recent woman, life, freedom movement gains importance as it highlights how the specific digital platforms, the emerging digital platforms have become crucial spaces for marginalized groups. For example, the case of women in repressive societies to voice their concerns, organize movements, and also foster the community solidarity. So, the main aim for this research was for me to explore the digital feminist place making in the context of the specific movement, and this specific research and study offers a lens, a unique lens to understand the evolving dynamics of social movements in the digital age. So, I think it's important to underscore and highlight and emphasize the transformative potential of these digital spaces in empowering women, for example, for this specific case. And also it draws attention to the broader implication of digital activism for reshaping public discourse, but also contributing to the societal change. And I think the specific research is the main idea was how these digital tools are utilized in resource limited setting to create the impactful social movements. And also, at the end, I had this transition toward the global shift towards the new forms of resistance and community building in the digital era, which is I think it's an important emerging topics in our scholarship. Let's let's follow up on that and explore a bit before you share the most important conclusions of your study. So what was specifically missing out there in the research that prompted you to write about woman life freedom. So, I think the published paper that we are discussing about animal research, how to reach this significant gap in understanding the role of digital spaces as alternative public spheres, especially in environments where traditional activism is limited or not allowed. I was particularly interested in exploring how this digital art digital graffiti social media online resources and online stories help to forge digital feminist spaces in in a in a society where women's voices are often limited. So this specific study dealt into the complexities of digital feminist placemaking and looking at how these virtual environments support communities solidarity and resistance among women by women. And by focusing on a specific case of Iran, a context which I think also not widely been studied. My research aim to provide unique insights into how women in restrictive societies, creatively use digital tools in in our era for articulating their demands, sharing experiences, and also driving social change.  So I think he findings of this study include the innovative use of digital art. As I as I mentioned through the different cases studies in this research and social media for feminist activism and how it facilitates to the women inside the country but also through the diaspora and international organization outside the country. Facilitate facilitating the spread of feminist narratives and also digital placemaking the keyword that I use as a key concept in this research. I think it's important to mention and highlight about the specific concept, which is with women creating virtual spaces that embody their hopes their challenges and their struggles acting as alternative public spheres for feminist expression. And also this study emphasize the digital platforms rule in building international solidarity for this specific case of form and life freedom movement in Iran, which, which helped to connect Iranian women's issues to global feminist movement. I think this is the only no effect that happened is really really important and interesting to study, because it demonstrated women's adaptability and resilience in using digital tools to challenge patriarchal structures, but also highlighting digital activism and these forms of the new forms of solidarity through these platforms. Yes. So you highlight the innovative use of digital art and feminism activism either internal or in the diaspora digital placemaking and digital platforms in building international solidarity and you're writing your article I would like to follow up on this that there are lessons to be learned by these three points that you highlighted lessons to be learned either by policymakers and by citizens in general so let us know more about those. So I think the findings of this study have significant implication for both public policies and governments but also for individuals. So in terms of and focusing on public policies, I think it's this research underscores the needs for governments and policymakers to recognize and support digital platforms as legitimate spaces for civic engagement and activism. And also I think these calls were this specific study was a call for action for the incorporation of digital feminist perspectives in policy making, ensuring that the voices and experiences of women are reflected in decision that affect their lives. And also, I would like to highlight again the emphasize for the critical need to safeguard digital rights and digital freedoms, which is I think also essential for this emerging forms of activism in our era and focusing on individual perspective. I think this specific research encourages women to recognize and leverage digital platform as powerful tools for advocacy and community building. And also it has the potential to influence individual choices by raising awareness about the challenges faced by women in restrictive societies, which which fosters the global sense of empathy and solidarity, solidarity about about this. So, I think in general, the research serve as a catalyst for individuals to not only understand what actively participate in digital movements contributing to a more equitable and inclusive digitalist fear. Let's switch to academia now you're writing your article potential venues for future research focusing on more comparative studies, long term studies over time. So what's ahead of us now academically speaking. I think that's a really interesting question and I would like also to explore the future research and future the different several avenues for future inquiry. So one of the key areas of for future research is the exploration of digital feminist place making in different socio political context. So investigating how women in other regions and other parts of the world utilize digital platforms for activism could provide comparative insights and comparative perspective to understand the digital feminist global impact. So the specific focus was in the context of Iran and Middle East. So I would like to see how it can be translated in Europe in different parts of Asia in Australia in Africa. I think that's that's an important area for the future research. Another area for future study is the long term effects of digital feminist activism on societal norms and gender dynamics. So it's important to understand that the sustainability of this movement and evolution of this movement through the time and how it can be studied through the time. So so focusing on limitation also it's important to note that the specific study primarily focus on the Iranian context and on the recent woman life freedom movement as the case study which may not fully represent the diverse experiences and the strategies of digital feminist activism globally. And also I would like to add that the research relied on social media and and online and different different forms of online narratives but also the digital art digital graffiti which may not fully represent the offline impacts and grassroots movements associated with digital feminism. So I think definitely further research could address these limitations by incorporating a more diverse range of geographic geographical context and also exploring the interplay between online activism and also offline social changes. Many many venues still ahead to to explore this topic. Asma, if you had to sum up this episode, your topic have been discussed in one or two sentences. What would it be? So I think the most important takeaway from this talk is the transformative power of digital platforms to amplify marginalized voices and foster social change. And also the key message here is that digital activism is not just a tool, but a critical space for insurgency and community building, and especially in the context where traditional forms of protests are limited and banned. And also it's this research is a call to action for all to recognize, acknowledge and support digital feminist movement as a legitimate and powerful forces for societal transformation. And also I hope that the study serves as an inspiration showing that change is possible and is often begins with a single voice amplified through the power of digital connectivity. Yes. Great episode, Asma. Thank you very much. Thanks. Thank you. So for those who are watching this episode on YouTube, all the resources and materials that Asma as shared with us are available on the Let's Talk About Urban Planning website. And you can also listen to this episode, whatever you get your podcast, there is a newsletter you can subscribe to to be informed of new episodes. And you can follow us on Twitter at Kojitatiu LTA.


Alrighty, let's go here. No sound for now. Took it hard already. That's cool. All right, oh, took it hard as well. I would love for that horse to stay like that all the time. Like this is super polished, super polished. You got effects on lighting and sound effects, everything. And then the horse comes in. Wait, where is it? Comes in like this. That'd be so awesome. It's super cool. Yeah, okay. So let me quickly check because I got some thoughts on some of the animation. Let me just see where you're at and what your plan was for the creatures and humans. So there will definitely be sound design and cloth. Let me go beat by beat. Let's start with this guy. I think for frame one, what do you wanna do? I don't see anything in the email regarding the background. It helps to have this here, but I would already have either some, I don't know what you wanna do, like some mountains in the background or if you just wanna do temp, you know, spheres, poly stuff in the back just so we can see what the camera's doing. It's not for long because we're getting straight into this, but I would think in terms of what do we see are the clouds here, the sun, maybe something in terms of the composition. And then think of frame one where this is a bit of a tricky silhouette. We don't see much in terms of what here the neck is doing. And I think like this being frame one would already be better. So I would probably, since he is, or the dragon is kind of gliding down, this feels almost like on action, like something happened before, as usually something is happening before. But I would probably just bring the wings out and then maybe keep that tail here and have that head down. That's already looking. It's tracking this guy already, while we are from the very beginning in a nicer pose. I know this is cool in terms of contrast, of getting into this pose. So I understand that there might be an issue of where we're always in this and it could feel static, but it could be something where maybe it's already higher up in a bent pose where it's doing an upwards flap, you know what I mean? And you can still have something like this. And then we go up into that. I would just make sure that the beginning silhouette is cleaner than this. That might be tricky because this comes out of the head, like something like that, but it could still be lower. You can still have the classic fold on upper wing flap here, or you know, recovery flap there. That, whoopie that. In terms of the animation, I feel like right around here, what is this frame? Get that over here, frame 22 for me. It feels like we're hitting an invisible wall. And this could just be because the camera is stopping as well. And this is why we want objects here to understand the camera move, but this is already coming in here. So if I look at this, it might be just a bit harsh, how we're tilting down. If you look at the horizon line, it's not linear, which is good. I think you can overshoot down and come up a bit. So tilt down and up to reframe. Because what's happening for a moment here, you're getting into this beginning and right around here, if I put my ocean skinning, my onion skinning here, see how that head is locked? So we're getting into this spot and then boom, head is locked, head is locked. And even here, you could draw a line right there, right? Head goes up and then see how that head is locked on that line. So watch out for that. So it's tricky sometimes to animate a character especially flying to a moving camera. So it's gonna be a bit of a back and forth. So what I would do is I would make sure that from a different view, sides, front, static, nothing with pen and tilt and blah, blah, blah. Make sure the path is all correct. So there's no sudden flattening or like the head goes down, comes back up, the chest will follow that path. There's all the correct dragon overlap for the creature. And then you put in the camera, how you wanna lens it and how you want the handheld feel. And then you can decide, okay, well, technically, the dragon is correct. Do I want to then cheat the dragon animation to camera to make it look correct? Or do I cheat the camera to make the path look correct? Sometimes it's a bit of both, sometimes you can do whatever you wanna choose. But right now the animation and the camera fighting, creating that locked feel in some points there. And we also, I think you are, that's my horribly drawn middle here. See how we're always in there. We're leaving a lot of room left here. I think you can also imagine, it might be to a destructive change in terms of like how much you wanna move this. But what if this guy comes in like this, comes down to the left. You know what I mean? It comes this way to then almost exit right. So we're not stuck in basically, see that we're a lot in this area. It's almost like it's staged for social media where you might have something that's widescreen, landscape mode, but then at the same time, you wanna post this somewhere, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and it's framed like that. Which there's nothing wrong with that. Nowadays, sometimes, depending on where you wanna post things, you can almost plan for both. But within that line, if you would put in your own safe title, you know, the, just kinda, what's it called? My English is escaping me. The camera, whatever. Imagine you got your mask. That's what I was gonna say, your mask. Your mask is left, right. You still have room within that. So within that mask, well, fancy with two colors. You can still move.  Then on the exit, I think we're panning over too fast. If you look at a stone here, or whatever you wanna have as a track, and you look at this line here, see that how we're suddenly moving in. It's not like a super broad linear key, but we're panning pretty quickly to the right. And I think for this character, we can easily be here. Like that far to the right. Usually the camera person is late. So whatever is on camera is driving the camera action, if that makes sense. And right now it feels a bit like that camera person knows. To some degree, it's not like that dragon's gonna make a crazy change. Like it's weight and path and flight dynamics. You know it's gonna go to the right. But I think we're just a bit too early and dissipating that camera move. And I think given that we're resting here, that's the main action is this. I think you can pan later. Later, later, later. And then we get to right around here. When this action happens, they might be here. And I think that's fine. Was then we settle on this. I think that should be fine. The tricky thing too, this is for you, you might have to explore either templating, so we understand what your plan is, or different colors, or starting to add hardware fog. Because the tricky thing is, the hue and value, the colors, everything, all of this here, except this guy and this, really starts to blend in. Like that, we don't quite understand what is going on. Like all I'm seeing, if I just watch the dragon, I'm seeing this. And then this, that's what I'm noticing. So could this be, could there be fire? Haze it out with lots of smoke, put some hardware fog, haze it out, put some red lights in there. Maybe have some like right, right red geometry that you just copy paste, copy paste with on, off, on, off or flickering. So imagine this here. All of this behind them is on fire. Again, I'm not saying that's what you should do, but think in terms of maybe lighting, there's something going on back there. And because of that bright color, it silhouettes the foreground characters and gives them rim lights, where we really understand all the edges and the silhouette just a bit better. Just think potentially. And if you don't wanna go that far, maybe just like within the play blast, the key lights, this could also be the sun could be setting. So you have a nice rim light through there. And then as all of this happens, there's just a very strong red rim light like this. It will highlight and separate those characters and we'd still put in obviously the skies. It's not all gray and hardware fog to haze it out a bit, just for foreground, mid-ground, background layers. And then for this, it strikes me with this guy. He's very, I know you want it to be real, real-ish, but I think it's okay for stuff like that to go a bit further. Like this is what I'm looking at. This is some creature-y orc something, some creature, it's not human. So that gives you a license to go, you know what, I'm attacking this guy, but I'm gonna be like, maybe even one arm, and then over time, two arms and just push that a bit more. While this guy is the stiffer because he has metal plate here, he is an armor and he's human, that could be an interesting contrast. What I would avoid though is stuff like this, where the head and the chest are fairly aligned in the orientation. I see that the head is doing more, but he looks more like Batman, Michael Keaton Batman, where he can't turn his neck. So the body and the head are just kind of moving as one. Watch out for that. And again, because you have this guy move in front of it, we're losing all of this in terms of silhouette. So you have to work a bit more into a stronger silhouette where we don't have like this overlaps, this overlaps, this gets in this guy's face. We just gotta work on something like this. That's a clean moment. But we're losing this prop in this set. So with lighting and everything, this will hopefully stand out more, but you might have to consider, and this might be lower. And then he drags it up with more of a drag like this, up like that. So we don't have overlapping shapes like this. I know it's fast, but on something, again, because of the colors and the proximity and everything, I think you wanna keep every frame as clean as you can for silhouette. Even here, when he goes into, we wanna enjoy this moment. He's already up there covering this guy. And now we got overlap, over overlap with the same value here. Again, hard to understand what's going on. This is cool. This almost works as like a 3D piece, 3D glasses. Like past camera. I think one of the thing you can do is give those weapons a bit more weight. This is pretty small. I get that this goes up and immediately into this. This guy feels like paper. So it would have to be, and hold this a bit long into this. And if that means you gotta slow down a little bit of a moment through there with these guys, that's okay because you just hit this guy. So this guy could go, maybe bring up a hand here to maybe pull out the axe. And this guy is already looking back, but because maybe this might be staged over here. So this guy would be here and then the human would be here. So there's separation because we're kind of missing the fact that this guy's looking back and is ready. Like one frame, then we don't see him. So just watch out. You might have to globally stage this guy over there or tweak the camera bit if this is all fairly fixed. This here, we have no idea what he's doing. He goes down and he still has his axe, something in there. And then it's like, I don't see. Is this a sword? Okay, it's a sword. So don't quite see it. This would have to be here, but then this character is more here. And you can stay there and it's more like, you know, it's maybe not that close, but it's just camera-wise we're not human or creature whatever camera. Camera would have to be here. So there's a bit more cleaner silhouettes because you're overlapping all three characters. I mean, we're missing everything because this guy's still struggling. Obviously still has the thing in him. That's awesome. I like this. So once we're here, that's cool. It's all clean. I think given that this guy is struggling, you could also do something and go like, and he's already slowly bent on his knees. He's kind of like back here, one arm trying to get this out. The other arm is trying to hold on to the sword, but the sword is heavy. It's gonna drag this arm down. And this guy is trying and trying, like, he's trying to get this out. And it's kind of the mercy. Get out of here. This watch out, this feels more like, he's about to hit someone else. It's like, he knows, but we don't know. That someone's there, watch out. Looks like he's looking into my soul. Gotta get him to three-quarter bit sooner.  Wait, but there's no one here. What happened? And then, so it's almost like you wanna do this and then keep that sword low. Like, it's almost like he can have that sword down here. And it's not distracting. So we can focus just on the face and you can have like open mouth going, ah! Shoo! Into this.  But, hold on, hold on. What is he doing? This guy gets hit in the stomach and then falls back. Since this is so far away, personally what I would do, it's tricky, I would actually not do this as far as it's destructive. I'm just speaking out loud and you can obviously do whatever you wanna do. I would have this guy almost roar. Like he's mad that his friend died, right? We pan over and this guy is more like this. I'm mad, you killed my friend so that there's nothing up here. Why? Because, boom! This then turns into, oh! And then here's the axe. Is he throwing the axe? Yeah, all right. So then the axe is here. And hits him in the head and that's a clean silhouette to see the axe.  And then fall on his back while maybe this guy, I don't know, don't do that because it's way too much work. But as he falls down, this guy jumps over him or steps on him. Like he doesn't care. Like, dude, you're dead. I'm gonna kill this guy.  I swore. But anyway, you know, push him over. But that would be a cool dynamic of, these are not soldiers where they care for each other.  Get out of my way. I wanna fight now. So you can push that with a little bit of personality of this guy. It just goes, boom! This feels suddenly a bit slow.  And then it slows all down a bit. This loses a little bit of energy. He's back into being super stiff here. I know some stuff is early animation, but just watch out that we have more twist if you can.  Like, I think he has room to move around. So definitely push that a bit. And what is he doing? He swipes this off to then grab this. It's a cool move, though. I think if possible, you would have to find a way for this guy to not swing this around so much. And if possible, show like big arm back, anticipation for a stab. And then again, this would be, the body would be really forward. Like he tried, he was running, and he had so much for momentum that he's really leaning forward. And maybe because of that, you know, the body might be here, head is here, and he just has to kind of slice down this way. Perhaps the thing, same with this here, this feels a bit too, watch out, broken wrist here. It feels a bit too simple. In terms of that upright pose, you can definitely have a stronger twist. Even this here, that's definitely super broken. So you would have to adjust, obviously the wrist rotation, finger posing in here. But twist this guy a bit more. If I look at his root, there's not much going on here. I know he has a bit of twist in there, but this could be, he is in full force. I'm gonna go, and he's, you know, imagine his whole back is towards us, extended arm, and in that way, he can pull it out much stronger. And what he could do, maybe he sees the horse, maybe not, but as he pulls this guy back, instead of waiting for so long, you can go, stop, pull right now. And by pulling him back, it pulls this guy forward, into the path of the horse, and then the horse hits him down here, legs up into this. Oh, but a horse takes it hard. That's some interesting horse action of, I regret nothing. Do you have, I don't see it in the email, is there a rider on this? Shouldn't there be a rider on this? Because why would the horse go straight for this guy?  So there could be a rider on this. Boom, gets hit. This guy's back, and that's fine because we are moving the camera and you can end up on the left. We are switching right, left, left, right, but that's all you find, I think at this point. And then I would have him like step in the frame too, to get ready. Whoops, that's me moving my frame here. Step in the frame as I move my frame. I wouldn't cover this. This guy might not be the smartest, so go be, and on this, that arm just comes down. So when he's like this, that arm will be down here. You know, the weapon could be off-screen, it could be slightly on-screen, but lower, there's weight. You know, you wanna make this look heavy and, and he's just, and maybe it could be something where he stomps the ground or he kinda puts those fingers and pulls them back. You know, maybe can make him more animalistic to veer away from the reference, because if you look at that reference, it's a soldier just kind of the, but what if this is more animal driven of, where is he here? You mean like goes almost on his, like puts one hand down.  And it's just, it's not just the biped with the weapon. This is some weird animal creature. Anyway, and that's that. Lots of thoughts, lots of destructive thoughts. Feel free to disregard whatever you want, but these are my thoughts. My main thing is, you were concerned about adding more overlap follow through. I would, even if it's just, maybe it's not overlap follow through as much as you think that would destroy the shot, just adding a bit more, but I would push the poses to get away from the rigid aspect of it. And then think of just visibility and silhouettes and how we can separate foreground, make around background for some cool stuff. All right. Yeah, that's kind of that. It's gonna be super cool. It's a really cool sequence. Thank you. All right. There's an email. You can sign up. You can start whenever you want. You can submit whatever you want. You get 16 submissions. Either way, a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you.


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Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Donald. I work from the government. I work as a veterinarian in the country government of courage. And also an affiliate of the Kenya field epidemiology and about training units training units. Intermediate class of 2018. My presentation today is about football this is outbreak in creature county background globally football disease are important cause of illness and death among. Among human populations, and they also impair on socio economic development of the entire population. In this week now, there's no sufficient data or information to actually put a quantity figure on the global burden due to football this is outbreaks bacteria is said to be responsible for almost two thirds of human football disease outbreaks worldwide. The CDC has estimated that football disease diseases are responsible for 76 million human illnesses to 25,000 hospitalization and 5,000 deaths in the USA. In Kenya. He said that under reporting inadequate investigation of disease outbreaks, and in the liquid diagnostic facilities suggest that football diseases are more than what's recorded by the Minister of Health. In addition, I will try to relay the findings about a football disease outbreak investigation. And also how interdisciplinary partnership played along to bring out this investigation into perspective perspective on Monday of the 23rd, August 2021. The county disease surveillance or response team notified by the hospital clinician that you are that five patients who had been reported to the hospital in symptoms of diarrhea for meeting and headache. Five patients, a total of that five patients were admitted with these symptoms, and later on the course of the day that the 38 year old made passed away. Five patients were immediately admitted. At 29 were treated at the casualty and released to go home. On the same evening, the story was carried on the national media. And now it was a big news. The following day that is on 24th. This is the, the Department of Health, constitution and interdisciplinary team. That was having a task of establishing the existence of a possible outbreak of a zoonotic football disease. And the team was, was given a minute to go to the ground and establish existence of football disease outbreak. And also come with the ways of managing it, bring it under control. The team went to the ground. We found from the key informants that a sick goat had been slaughtered in that village on Friday. And the meat was sold out locally. And people ate it on further questions before that the goat was sick. Previously, maybe on Tuesday, the owner sold it to a butcher. And the butcher stayed with it on Wednesday. And brought it back to the owner because he realized that the goat was sick and never signs was bloated. And that the funny behavior so he brought back to the goat, then on Friday, that's when the owner slaughtered it to recover his costs. So the team that went to the ground to do to establish disease. If there was a disease outbreak and find out reasons as to why had the following composition. The human clinical laboratory staff, public health team, but not a public health and place of disease surveillance and also people from the regional veterinary research laboratory in the country. Also in the team we had the community health workers, as well as the media kumi and the provision on the national administration. The main objective of this team was just to describe the football disease outbreak. In a, in, in, in person, place and time, and also characterize the risk factors that resulted to people getting into contact with the unsafe food. So this study was done in Saliatu Ward. This is the first one since a great sub county of Kichu County. It lasted from the 23rd, when the outbreak was detected at the 31st, when symptoms are resolved. Then we did that is respective courts, premium custody. So we had a case definition, because we are doing a line list of people who are exposed. So we were listing anybody, or any person of any age who ate the goat that was slaughtered on Friday, on the 23rd of August 2021 at the same village, at the same word Saliatu Ward. Then we commenced to do an active case search the following day. We did a structured question there. That was a multi disciplinary supported. So we had a knowledge attitude and practice questions in it, so that you could get prongs into all areas where we could generate data. So, socio demographic variables clinical exposure factors were considered. After that, there were samples that were considered for laboratory analysis, the human samples that are collected in the hospital. So the RVL creature went ahead and took the environmental samples and screened a few animals within the homesteads. The samples were the human samples were analyzed, missing certain culture and molecular typing for pathogenic enterics. This was done at the water in the human laboratory diagnostics in creature that was collected by training numerators. We got a training. So this was my disciplinary. It was one setting, and that was entered and clean in the Microsoft Office Excel. Continuous data was analyzed by measures of center tendency, and his passion, we reported they must mean and medium. This data was analyzed by frequency of counts and proportions and presented in terms of graphs, where we analyze hypothesis we calculate the relative risks. In areas where the risk factors are the epidemiological significance results in the descriptive findings. Three cases online is listed actively on the ground during the case search. The median age was 27 years. 29 of them were female that was 54 or 70%. Then we find that the median incubation period of the disease that was 15 hours. The total of 58% of the property cases sort medical care within 24 hours of onset of clinical science, a symptom solution period had a median of 5.5 days. So it means the convalescence period was around one week. The table below shows the proportion of football disease mobility, characterizing times of age and sex. And between age six and 15. Those are children that bought the branch of this football disease outbreak. And most of them were young children of female gender. Okay. When we describe, we describe symptoms among the outbreak cases so that we could know which ones are more predominant. 53 cases that will I listed 24 of them came down with the clinical disease and this was the predominant symptoms that they complained about. headache was number one at 87% for the body fever 79 abdomen opens diarrhea, nausea fatigue and vomiting. So these ones we saw them as quite characteristics of a football. A bacterial football disease outbreak that we are going to describe. Yeah, then we did a bivariate analysis. We conducted hypothesis testing, a lot of it. And now we found significant relationship on this independent variables. We found that in terms of gender and the residents of a particular village called keeps it on where the animal was loaded. The group had the higher relative risk of developing disease. So we thought is a group problem. And maybe the particular behavior of these groups could have predisposed them to a risky public health behavior that is gender in terms of the male or more at risk developing disease than female. And also the rest days of that particular village. I think they are consumption and the utilization of the meat in greater quantities could have come to that. And then we analyze those who eat at the roast meat, the method of cooking, category of yes or no, because they were eating roast roasted some ate it raw. Some ate it boiled. So those who ate it roasted were more likely to develop disease than the other methods of cooking. Then eating types that is the so-called matumbo. They were more at higher risk of coming down with the disease. So the battle is as from human samples. When does follow the we isolated the five pathogenic microorganisms of which two were several types of E. coli and one was salmonella. As shown in the table above. So enter a toxic unique E. coli. We had two isolates. She got toxic producing E. coli. We had two isolates enter aggregate to E. coli. We had two isolates salmonella to enter pathogenic E. coli. There was one isolate. So it seems like there was a mixed like kind of infection or pathogenic bacteria. In this population discussion. After analyzing the data presented before us, we could say that this disease was an outbreak of bacteria is no disease caused by pathogenic E. coli and salmonella organisms in primary transmission because people ate it directly. There was no vehicle involved. Then progression of clinical symptoms, as we described them, like incubation periods of 15 of a medium of 15 hours. For a period lasting for almost a week, 5.5 days in a medium and the presently consigns of headache, fever, diarrhea and stomach aches. These are not consistent with the isolates that were confirmed in the laboratory of the human samples. Then children are the greatest but the greatest burden of clinical disease. We perceived it may be due to the low immunity or lack of exposure to such kind of pathogenic organisms. The males and the residents of that particular village, we perceived that they were a high risk group, maybe due to a behavior that could put them to a public health risk. I don't know whether this is gender like it was discussed yesterday that males tend to behave in a particular manner that could endanger them or make them risky to succumb to disease. In this community, it is an agro-pastoral community and people believe that maybe eating raw parts of a goat is more traditional or healthier than eating the cooked ones. Because what this, the old guys tend to get some organs and eat them raw first is when the women can go and cook. So we thought that is a risky behavior that was being practiced by a particular group of these populations. Then people having eaten the roasted meat, the types that is the matumbo or high disease risk due to, if you look at the kind of cooking, maybe for the roast meat, there's insufficient heat penetration and also there's a lot of handling. So that if there was a contamination, it could easily be passed from a person to the food and to the consumer who is likely more to get ill. And also the tribes, we perceive them to be, to have a high dose of the pathogens because these pathogens, the E. coli and salamonera are most of them are enterics and they are found as number of Laura within the fecal material of animals. And then we found that health seeking duration was very short. That is within 12 to 24 hours of development of clinical science. So we could say that this was due to the severity of this foodborne disease outbreak, because the health seeking pattern of most people in the society, people tend to stay with the disease waiting resolution before they seek medical help. But all these ones everybody just all of a sudden sort medical intervention. Then the limitations to our study was that there was an availability of samples from the sort of animals. So that we could take it also for bacteriology. The sort of animals you could not get even the fecal material, even the hides the schemes, even the bones. Everything was not there. This one we attributed to maybe there was a kind of a destruction of evidence, because people are now apprehensive. A person died in this village. The person who started the animal is a pastor. And also has got a lot of influence. Then it was also under arrest by the police but the time we are going there was already arrested. So we thought that the villagers were now trying to conceal. So that we don't break through with any investigation that could put him at the center of this. So that was a limitation. We could not directly link the animal slaughtered the food to the pathogens found or isolated within the human population. So what are the public health actions and the importance of this my team response that we played from 23rd when the case, the first cases, the outbreak was detected. And the team was constituted. That was veterinary public health, medical laboratory, and all of us, we came together and we played a very pivotal role in the detection of disease outbreak verification of diagnosis and confirmation of disease in the laboratory. The case definition we worked on it as a team. The team that structured questionnaires. This also included the knowledge added to the practice about animal health, about public health and health seeking behavior of people in the population. So it was a very big study, some of the findings we've not reported here. So we also did the tabulation and orientation of that in time place a person so that you could describe actually what was going on. Then there was formulation and test of hypothesis this one we did it because the interdisciplinary approach was very important. Like in case of epidemiologic consultation. The medical side was the one that was leading this team, but now the veterinary side also came in to bring out epidemic information that could help develop hypothesis actually to determine risk factors that could have led to the development of the food bond disease outbreak. Then as a team when we conducted the implementation of control measures, and we communicated and submitted the findings about the food bond disease outbreak. In conclusion, I can say that the food bond disease outbreak was caused by proteolytic E. coli and salamonella bacteria. And this was rapidly managed. Check the importance of having a coordinated county to display one health team. And the next behaviors in gender and geographical defined groups in increased food handling inadequate cooking time. The middle role in the food bond disease outbreak. Then we can say that children bought the greatest health burden of the food bond disease outbreak in a recommendation. We are recommending continuous public health education on food hygiene practices and change of attitudes regarding public health risk behaviors. This may be attributed to particular groups, like men or particular groups in the village. Then we also recommend that there should be anchoring the county one health into business teams on disease control policy in each and every county, so that there by giving it a formal institutional platform for efficient communication, coordination and leadership, because without leadership. And the team cannot work harmoniously. Like the one we did because we did not have a formal platform to carry out this work. We also want to acknowledge the country government of creation department of health, led by our epidemiologist Dr Kagan taboo. He coordinated this work. Our director to fit in our services. We also want to thank Walter in the project. Medical research is to encourage you for having done the laboratory work. Isolation and character and the character decisions of the various isolates. The molecular work. We also want to thank the area because they try to look at the environmental samples to screen some elements of this same population to see the spread of the pathogenic organisms in the environment. And the least one last but not least, they can all have conference. For having a given this response to further disseminate this information. General populace. So those are some of my references. In the picture form this is a. We are doing key informant interview as a lead word, this is a grounds, and this is the RVL team. They're trying to pick some environmental samples for laboratory work. I say thank you. Thank you very much. Dr. There are several questions that have come through from the chat. I can see Dr. I tried to help you address some of them. But if you can just go through the chat and address those questions because you're pressed for time. I think the important thing is the fact that you have elucidated that incurring the country one health teams in the county is critical and important. I think it's a discussion that will be having with the panelists at the policy level when Dr. Barraza will be leading.


Free health and wellness screenings will be held at the Westgate Mall in Brainer next week by the Kayuna Regional Medical Center. Women of all ages are encouraged to attend. Screenings were also held earlier today at the clinic in Baxter. The tests also include a blood draw for cholesterol and glucose levels and blood pressure monitoring along with a personal consultation with a health coach. A 12-hour fast is required for best results. When patients come in for our community wellness screenings, we basically get their vital signs. So the things that are the largest markers of health, we do height, weight, BMI, blood pressure and we also do a lab draw, which gives you your lipid panel or your cholesterol readings. So women today will come and be screened and then they'll show up at the event on February 2nd to get their results and at the event they actually have an opportunity to sit down and talk with a few of our health care providers. Screening results will be available on Thursday, February 2nd at the Franklin Arts Center in Brainer. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.