Welcome, everyone, to tonight's district attorney candidate forum. My name is Reverend Dr. Bart Rausch. I'm from Madison Square Presbyterian Church, and I'll be your moderator for this evening.  We're being hosted tonight at the Living Church at Woodlawn Point, a non-dominational progressive Christian church. Thank you to the Reverend Joseph Garrett and all the staff at Living Church for their kind assistance over the last few weeks. Thanks also to all of the community organizations who have come together to cultivate, elevate, and amplify tonight's important discussion on criminal justice in Bayer County. Throughout the program, you will hear from them as they ask questions of our Democratic candidates in the March 6th primary election. There will be representatives from Big Homie Street Mentoring, Texas 23 Indivisible, Last Chance Ministries, Mi Familia Vota, Move San Antonio, Pro Immigration Coalition, and Texas Freedom Network. Thanks to the Fair Punishment Project for their non-partisan policy and legal research and preparation for tonight's discussion. Thanks to now cast San Antonio for joining us this evening and live streaming the special event for our entire city to see. This program was made possible by generous community contributions, ACLU, Texas, and Move San Antonio. And finally, thank you to Democratic primary candidate's district attorney Nico Le Hood and candidate Joe Gonzalez for being part of this important community conversation. February is National bailout month, a time dedicated to supporting incarcerated individuals and families of incarcerated men and women who cannot be released from jail due to their inability to financially pay for bail. Community groups throughout San Antonio are working together to pay bail fees throughout February. If you are here this evening and have a loved one in the Bayer County Jail and want to inquire about this program, please go upstairs after the program and visit with one of the volunteers. Let me go after over a little few of our format rules for this evening. We flipped a coin to see who will deliver the first opening statement and answer the initial question, which is Mr. Gonzalez. We'll alternate who answers each question after the initial question. Each candidate will have two minutes to make an opening statement. Representatives from one of our community groups will ask one question, and then each candidate will have two minutes to answer the question. There will be no rebuttal time. I will ask potentially one or two follow-up questions. And again, there will be no rebuttal time. Stationed in the front row will be our time keepers to keep time visually for us. You will get a 30-second warning, which will be one hand up. And then two hands up will mean stop. After the questions, we will have 10 minutes allocated for a rapid response. Yes or no questions. And then some audience questions. And we'll end with closing statements if we have time. And now would you please welcome Joe Gonzalez and Nico LaHood, please. Mr. Gonzalez, you won the coin toss. And so you are free to give your opening statement. Bienvenidos y buenas noches. Es un placer y un honor estar aquí con todos ustedes. Primeramente les quisiera agradecer a los grupos que organizaron este evento. Good evening, and thank you for coming out to hear us out. The first thing I would like to do is to thank those groups that organized this event. This is very important for you all in the community to hear us out and to be able to tell the differences between the two candidates. I want to start by telling you that I know, because I grew up in San Antonio, I have lived here 55 out of my 58 years in this city. So I know this is a working class community. I too come from a working class family. As a matter of fact, I come from a single parent family. My mother raised five of us, my sister is here tonight. She raised us and taught us hard work and values were important. When we were growing up, she struggled to make ends meet for us. I know what it's like to be part of a lunch school program. I know what it's like to not be able to make ends meet. So I understand what it's like to struggle, but through it all, I learned perseverance. One of the things that I value about my mother is that she raised us to become honest citizens. And one of the things I remember her saying is, do the right thing even when no one is looking. I wanted to make her proud. And so I put myself through college. I put myself through law school. I started my career not in a fancy law firm, but as a public servant. I spent eight years as a former prosecutor. I've been blessed to have a successful practice. The reason I'm running folks is I want to give back to the community. I want to come back to the DA's office because I want to continue to be a public servant. I want to make this community safer for you and for me. And with your help, we can do that. Thank you very much for your time. It's fine for questions as well. Sorry, I should have said that beforehand. Mr. Lohood, you have two minutes for your opening statement. You'll have to excuse me if I seem a little distracted. My uncle, my pops brother, my uncle George is in critical condition in the hospital. And so I still wanted to show up because I gave my word that I would show up. And so I'm here. But unfortunately, I will not stay for the whole debate. You know, obviously Joe and I have debated twice and I think we have one more, I believe. But I wanted to talk to you a little bit about this. I wanted us to at least show up and then stay as long as I can. I'm born and raised here. My pop grew up on the west side of Morales Street. My mom went to Harlandale. I spent a lot of time with my grandma on the south side of Clutter and South Florida Street. I'm homegrown and I have some very unique experiences. Experiences that I was criticized on when I ran first time. When I ran against our predecessor that it was here for 16 years and nobody wanted to face her. We all agreed there needed to be a different culture in the office. I stepped up. When nobody else wanted to step up. No disrespect to Joe, he didn't step up. My Republican opponent didn't step up, but I stepped up. And it didn't work out the first time. But then I stepped up again because we really needed something different. And so we did that. And so with your help, believe it or not, with everyone in this room's help at one point in a campaign, we made a difference. And I'm proud of the work that we have done in the office. I say we, I mean, I'm really moved and touched that there's so many prosecutors on those back rows with four rows that have really accepted the culture of true justice. Our oath is to ensure justice is done. What does that mean? Did we get it right? We work for a lady that wears a blindfold. She doesn't look at political persuasion. She doesn't look at gender, race, anything else. She looks at the law and the facts and does the right thing no matter what. My own experiences give me very unique perspective on the justice system.  I was labeled everything you can think of. But I turned my life around, I changed my life around, I understand redemption, I know what it takes. Two years later, my brother was murdered on August 15th, 1996 in my parents' driveway.  So I bring those experiences to the office and I also bring a toughness. Is it my time or 30 seconds? No, that was my time. That was my time? I missed the 30 seconds. I'm looking forward to answering as many questions as I can. Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you, gentlemen. I'll go ahead and get started with the questions. Money, we'll talk about equal access to justice. Money continues to be a barrier to justice throughout Bear County. The use of money bail keeps poor people in jail simply because they cannot afford to buy their release while mandatory fines and fees mean that poor people cannot access diversion and deferred adjudication. Our next district attorney must make justice equally available to rich and poor alike. Good evening, my name is Steph Martinez and I am a student organizer with the Texas Freedom Network and Texas Rising. We are a statewide nonprofit that organizes students on their campuses around LGBTQ equality, reproductive justice, voting rights and criminal justice. My question tonight is, will you support the complete abolition of money bail? Why or why not? If not, will you commit to immediately opposing money bonds in all misdemeanor cases in all nonviolent felony cases? Well, first of all, Steph, thank you for coming out here and thank you for being a part of the process. Given that you're so young, you're already on the right track and I applaud you for that. And I do have an answer for that, but I will tell you that before I go there, that what I believe is you don't get to keep your job just because you take somebody out. Donald Trump is gonna learn that the hard way and so the reason I'm running is because I think that we need a change and one of the things that is one of my platform issues is reforming the bail bond system and because I believe that a person should not languish in jail, should not sit in jail waiting for a court date because he cannot afford to bond out and I am committed to doing something about it because I believe that the District Attorney's Office can do that. There's a lot that prosecutors can do to agree to what are called PR bonds, personal reconnaissance bonds for nonviolent offenders, first time offenders. So I absolutely will commit to doing that as far as total abolition of money bail or cash bail as it's called. I believe that that's a good idea in theory and obviously that's something that we have to see work in progress, but I do support it. I do think that you ought not to make a difference between the rich and the poor. You've got two different people, one is charged with murder and or rather they're both charged with murder but one of them can get out on a bond because he's got the money to get out and the other individual is poor, he languishes in jail, that's not right. It shouldn't be about whether or not you can get out of jail because you've got the funds to do it. I would definitely agree to let's agree to get these people out as long as they're not a danger to the community, right? That's the most important thing. We have to ensure the safety of the community and if that's taken care of, then certainly we can agree to that. Thank you. Mr. LaHood. When you say you're for a reform bailing then that's a tagline and that's fine but what are you gonna do? What's broken about the system? I was a magistrate for two years and I will tell you this. I look at the statistics, there's 4,200 people in jail, the Violent Crimes Task Force which is a joint task force from the DA's office, SAPD, Bear County Sheriff's Office DPS, some federal agents working together made 5,500 arrests last year for violent offenders. We had a decrease in homicides by 16%. We had a decrease in assault, aggravated assaults, robbery. Part one offenses under the Uniform Crime Report went down from 16 to 17, 2016 to 17. That's something that's, that's because people are working together. There is nobody languishing in jail for a low level nonviolent offense. They're just not. I mean the statistics just do not say that. So you can't say that people are languishing in jail. You have to bring specifics. That's just not accurate. And I don't know if he just doesn't know or he's intentionally saying that, but it's not there. Everybody that's in jail either has a blue warrant, has a felony bond, has conditions of bond, a violation of a bond, a motion to revoke, something significant. I assure you, no one is just sitting in jail for a low level misdemeanor nonviolent offense. When I was a magistrate, we were encouraged and really expected by the district court judges that appointed us to give PR bonds. We gave PR bonds for any low level nonviolent misdemeanor case, whether you qualified on the PR schedule or not and there's a certain requirement that goes an evaluation. And even for low level felony cases, nonviolent felony cases, automatic PR bond. But one of the things you have to consider, is that 30 seconds? One of the, thank you ma'am. One of the things that you have to consider is availability. The bond is for two reasons. It's not punitive. A purpose of a bond is to protect you and to ensure that the citizen accused showed up, shows up to court. That's it. It's punitive in nature. So we do not do that. A magistrate judge at the mags office deals with the bond. It's reviewed by a district judge or a court judge. Do we have an opinion? Sure. Can we file a motion to increase bond? If there's a violation of a bond and a victim is being victimized still, then yes we can but it's a magistrate issue mainly. Thank you for your time. Bear County's diversion program currently comes with a mandatory application fee and mandatory participation fee. These are currently payable to the district attorney's office and cannot be waived even if a defendant is indigent. Will you commit to making a diversion free for all defendants who are eligible to participate? Why or why not? Mr. Hood. Well, first of all, the diversion programs that we started in these last three years had never been seen before in Bear County. My predecessor had a diversion program for 17 to 21 year olds and for certain offenses. We expanded the misdemeanor diversion program to everybody, to anyone in here and there's different ages. Some people more seasoned and some people less seasoned. I'll say it that way. But for everybody, it shouldn't just be for 17 to 21 year olds. And so we expanded that. We expanded pre-child diversion to felony that never been done in Bear County before. So, and that was a good thing. Now, is it perfect? Can it be made better? Absolutely. I mean, if anybody tells you they're gonna be perfect in office or out of office, you really need to consider what they're saying. So I can tell you that our intent in the office is perfect. Will you sit down with me and talk to me and show me? Ms. Niko, can we consider this disc? Absolutely. And for an indigency, because I did court appointed cases. My first 24 trials, my first two years were all court appointed cases. Absolutely we'll consider that and adjust the program as needed to make sure that everybody is treated fairly. It doesn't matter what you have or where you come from. Everybody needs to be treated fairly. Mr. Gonzalez. Well, the problem is that under Niko's administration, he's talked a bit. Your microphone is on. Sorry. What I said was, he's talked about diversionary programs, but it's taken him three years to get to this point. He's not done anything different than anything significantly different than his predecessor. And this is a program under his administration that is a pay to play. In order for someone to qualify to be accepted into the pre-trial diversion program, you have to pay an application fee. If people don't even have enough money to make ends meet, if they don't have enough money to go to HEB and buy groceries, how are they gonna have enough money to pay for his diversionary program application fee? The other thing is there's a fine attached to that. If you're looking to grant someone diversion and give them an opportunity to divert away from the system, you don't charge them a fee. You don't make them come up with the money in order to be part of the system. So there's a lot that can be done. That's just like his program with Sight and Release. That law was passed and legislation was approved back in 2007. He's been office since 2014. He's just now talking about Sight and Release when he discovered he had an opponent. It's time to do something about it now. It's time to not just talk about it but actually get moving on it. And that's something I will do when elected to this office. I wanna move on to a question about the criminal justice system and immigration. In the last year, undocumented communities have come under attack because of increasingly vicious federal immigration laws. Our next district attorney must take affirmative steps to protect members of our vulnerable communities. Good evening, my name is Rosie Obobara. I'm the chair of Texas 23 Indivisibles. We are a grassroots movement that works to fight against the Trump agenda specifically in congressional district 23.  The district attorney is more than the head prosecutor. He's a role model and more, he's a role model who represents the diverse population of Bear County, which includes people of all races, religion and citizenship status. What our DA says in public on the radio and in the press has real life consequences for the residents of Bear County. What will you do to remain fair and justice towards every resident in Bear County, free of religious or cultural bias and prejudice? Thank you. Yes, Mr. Gregg. Thank you, Mrs. Obobara for that question. And I'll tell you that I agree with everything that you said because I believe that as the elected DA, that person is a top prosecutor in the county and people do look to him for his leadership. And I believe that it's incumbent upon the elected district attorney to be tolerant of other religions, to be tolerant of other faiths and to be tolerant of immigrants. My opponent has gone on record as being anti-Muslim and anti-immigration and even though he doesn't admit to it, he's on record. He has gone on talk radio saying that he's anti-sanctuary cities and it's hard for him to take that back. You can't have it both ways. And so I absolutely agree with you that you have to be open, you have to be tolerant and not be divisive about that issue because this is a melting pot. This country is made up, look around the room, it's made up of people that come from different countries and different nationalities and it's gonna continue to do that. And the quicker we accept it and the quicker we embrace our brothers, the better off we're going to be. That's okay. Well, first of all, really quick, I mean, the site release is not something we're thinking of doing, we're doing it. It's already been done, okay? So, I mean, you can just make a statement and say and hope it's true. I mean, we're already doing the site release and the pre-trial diversion program, Joe, you know this. We talked about this when we were office-ing together. It has never been done to this level before and now it's in the felony program. It was never there under Susan and you know that as well. Number one, I have Muslim friends, I have Hindu friends, I have Buddhist friends, I have agnostic friends, I have Shintoist friends and there's people and they work for us that have different face and world views and there's not one example, excuse me? Oh, there's not one example of me treating anybody any differently. The question was asked for me when we were talking about the Constitution because if Joe were to be the DA, every DA takes an oath to protect and defend the Constitution was a question on a scenario about Shadiah Law versus the Constitution. Every DA, every judge, Republican or Democrat or independent has to say that they're going to support and defend the Constitution. That's an oath. If you can't take that oath, then you can't be the DA, you can't be a judge, you can't be law enforcement, that's just a fact. That was the context of that. Now, I've had discussions, like I said, there's people in this audience right here that work with us and I promise you, you won't find they're here. You won't find me treating anybody any differently and there's not an example of that. You can't just call me names, Joe, and then not have an example. That's like me saying, you're guilty of theft, but then have no evidence of it. You have to bring a manner and means and if that's the kind of DA he's going to be, I think that's kind of scary. My brother-in-law is in Mexico. He's been waiting 10 years to get here. My wife's from Mexico. I'm not anti-immigration. I want my brother here. So how can I be anti in 30 seconds? I can't be anti-immigration. When people ask about sanctuary cities, you have to take it further. What does that mean? Does that mean that you don't want to enforce federal laws? I mean, we have federal laws that have to be enforced. We have to have order. I mean, so I don't understand what sanctuary cities, we have to talk about a definition. I'm for supporting DACA students. I think that's a separate issue than sanctuary cities. I don't think a child should be punished for the behavior of somebody else that's unfair. That's not justice. And so that's a whole separate issue. So again, I like discussions instead of labeling and this campaign has turned into name calling and it's unfortunate. Before we go to our next, please, please refrain from applause. Before we go to our next immigration question, I want to follow up on site and release. Site and release will only work if law enforcement agrees to ticket instead of arrest defendants eligible for the program. Will you commit to declining charges on any defendant who is arrested instead of ticketed for a class C misdemeanor to send a strong message to law enforcement that site and release is to be implemented? Reverend, with all due respect, may I correct that just a little bit? A class C misdemeanor, you don't get arrested anyway. So you're talking about for a class B misdemeanor up. There are things that a DA has authority over and things that DA has influence over. I cannot make the law enforcement community use site and release. The 2007 law doesn't make law enforcement use site and release. It's a discretion. It's an option for them. What we did, we wanted to take it further. We did a best practices study of Travis County, Dallas County, Harris County, and counties outside of Texas because under the current law, you give a summons. That person still gets arrested later because the officer stays on the street and then the person still ends up in county court. Our program is very unique. The officer gives the summons. The person given the summons shows up at the sheriff's office within 30 days, gets identified, not arrested. You don't get a SID number. You get tracked. We have to track people to make sure they show up to court. They show up to court three weeks later. They're given a 90 day program. If they follow the program and do everything appropriately, their case never gets filed. They never have to pay for bond. They never have to pay for an attorney because we're gonna have the public defender there. They never have to pay for an expunction. I mean, this is true justice for everybody. They don't have to pay a high powered lawyer or get a court opponent. They don't need either one of them. They're gonna be treated fairly in everybody. Now, if we see trends of law enforcement that are treating people differently, I'm gonna be calling the chief. I'm gonna be calling the sheriff. I'm gonna be working with the 46 other agencies around Bear County that we deal with when they eventually get it, 30 seconds, and then we're gonna have a discussion because everyone needs to be treated fairly. And if you ask any one of these fine people that work for you in the office, there's not one of them will tell you when no cameras are there, when it's just us, when nobody's around, Joe, when it's just me, God, and the people in front of me, they know that I'm consistent in my behavior. We're not always gonna agree, folks.  But I promise you I'll always meet, like with the 15 town hall meetings, never in the history of the United States as a D8 on 15 town hall meetings, not taking cards, open mic, and have discussion live feeding. It's never happened before, and I'm doing that. Well, that would be nice if you were able to conduct those town hall meetings without yelling at people and without intimidating them like you have been, and that's on video. And anybody, all you need to do is look at those videos to show that you're challenging the citizens. That's part of the platform of this race is your temperament, Niko. And if you'll respond to the site and release question. And so with regard to site and release, it's the same issue that I've been running on. What has taken Niko so long? This is 2018. You've been office since January 2015. It doesn't take three years to implement site and release. You've been sitting on your laurels. You've been sitting on your hands. And now, because you realize you have an opponent, now because you realize you might lose your job, you decided to do something about site and release. That's something that could have and should have been done a long time ago. And I'm sorry that you don't like it and I'm sorry that your supporters don't like it, but that's the cold reality of it, Niko. Sir Reverend, that's just a lie. So if I may respond to that with your permission. I'm gonna go ahead and stick to the no rebuttal. You'll have another opportunity to debate. That's just not true, so, uh-oh. I wanna go ahead. Go ahead. Hello. We have another question. My name is Rebecca Flores and I'm with a pro-immigrant coalition. This is a coalition that was formed four days after Senate Bill 4 was signed by Governor Abbott. 350 members with 12 organizations. So there was a big overwhelming support against Senate Bill 4 in the city of San Antonio. My question is this. The old convictions that a person has can have serious immigration consequences, even for low level offenses. Will you commit to following Harris County's lead and cooperating with efforts to challenge or vacate old convictions by immigrants seeking to avoid deportation? Mr. Gonzalez. Hi, absolutely. Microphone please. If the question is, will I support efforts against SB4? The answer is absolutely, because I think that that's that law enforcement. And by the way, he mentioned earlier that elected DA has to follow immigration law. It's not the function. It's not the purpose of a state prosecutor to enforce federal law. That's what ICE does. That's what the federal courts do. And that's not something that he should be worried about. And that's what happened. And I'll tell you, I called our Chief McMannets. I'm here to say Chief McMannets did the right thing by releasing those people, because that's not his job. We have to look at whether or not these people that are here and are undocumented have the ability to have the confidence to be able to come out of the shadows and be productive citizens. He says he doesn't know what sanctuary cities is. He doesn't know what the definition of that is. Ask anybody who's fearful of going to court because they think they're gonna get deported. Ask any parent who thinks that they're gonna lose their right to be in this country, or their privilege to be in this country if they step forward. They could tell you what a sanctuary city is. They could tell you that they fear law enforcement officials and government officials and prosecutors who don't support their ability to have a pathway to citizenship. And that's wrong, and I oppose it. Well, first of all, he didn't answer the question. And ma'am, I think your question was, will the DA support reversing convictions, correct? Yes, once we lose jurisdiction and it's out of our power, plenary power is to a judge, out of our power, we can't control that. That would have to be legislative. So I wanna answer your question and not distract everybody by calling me names. I wanna answer your question. And so we can't. So that's outside of what a DA can do. So anybody that says they can do that either doesn't know what they're talking about and they shouldn't be the DA or they're not telling the truth and that's not a good characteristic being DA. So he doesn't know my conversations with Chief McManus. So he just called me a bunch of names, made a lot of allegations with zero evidence. This is the characteristic of the type of DA he's gonna be. That is shameful, Joe. That's terrible. I mean, you have no idea. So you didn't answer a question and started calling me names about sanctuary cities or I'm anti-immigration or the Chief did the right thing. Why did the Chief do the right thing? And he has no idea what conversations we had, what I had with Chief McManus. We're working together. Let me tell you, I'm the one that was at the courthouse with Nelson Wolfe and Chief McManus saying SB4 is not good. I was there. You can look at any news. I'm in Jasper City. You can look it up in the Express News or on TV, KSAT had it. They all covered it. I said no. I'm the one that called ICE and our office behind the scenes not trying to get attention from anybody and said don't come to our courthouse and look for illegal immigrants because our victims are leaving. It happened three times and you're gonna hear from me. We already have special status for people that are witnesses or victims. So there's, and we try to educate them and let them know, yes ma'am, and try to let them know that we're not here to deport you. That's not our job. Our job is to protect you. And so that is, we're working with defense attorneys, Jorge Arostatiles and many other people adjusting the pre-child diversion program. I just had a meeting about it a while back to say look, let's make sure that immigrants aren't punished. The DACA students aren't punished for what their parents did and we're gonna make some adjustments on our pre-child diversion program for them because it's the right thing to do. Not the political thing. And by the way, on site release, it takes years and he has no idea what it took to get that program going. We had to recreate a whole new computer system. And so he's lodging attacks again with no information about what it takes to start a site release program. It is a long process and I started it way before I knew I had any opponents and it's irrelevant about you or the other opponents. So we're gonna, knowing that you have a family situation you've asked to go, what we're gonna do and what the organizers have asked me to do is we're gonna let you have a two minute closing statement. You can exit at that point and then we'll continue with the questions that were prepared by our organizations for Mr. Gonzalez. So Mr. LaHood, the floor is yours. I'll sit down, I guess we'll just sit down. Folks, there's a saying amongst trial lawyers and Joe's a trial lawyer. And I said it the other night, Joe, when you have the law on your side, you argue the law. When you have the facts on your side, you argue the facts. When you have neither, you attack opposing counsel. His whole campaign has been attacks, calling me names, trying to label me something that I'm not. That is a scary proposition using false information like a 62% dismissal rate for domestic violence cases. That is not true. And anyone that wants to show up to any one of our town hall meetings or the coffee that I'm gonna have this weekend or next week, wherever you wanna do, show up with me with no time limits, no disrespect Reverend or anything else. And we can have a full discussion.  And it's shameful. This campaign is based off of name calling. It dishonors the office of the DA that belongs to you and it's based off revenge. That's the bottom line because there's no substance in the basis of why he's running. If you look at all his commercials, all his mailers, they're all just dishonest and disingenuous sound bites with no substance. And the last two debates, Joe, we've seen that. I've been in this community all my life. I grew up on the South side with my grandma. My pop grew up on the West side. I've had the experiences that I shared with you early on. I was a passionate defense attorney, Joe, for 13 years. All the years that I office with Joe, not once did he say, man, Nico, if you don't make it, I want to run for DA. It's never been that way. This was a last minute home, guys. It was a last minute deal. And it's because of revenge. And you know that, Joe, and you know why. And we won't talk about the murder case, but you know why this is where it is. And I'm happy to talk about this. I'm sorry that I have to leave, folks. I'm sorry. But I gave my word to show up. And you ask anybody that works with me, my word means something. I don't know, Joe, to interviews, because this is an interview to see who you want to fire. He's asking you to fire me and hire him and then try to beat the Republican in the general election. But he's not giving you any substance to do that behind besides name calling. I'm here. I've served you honorably in my humble opinion for more than three years. I thank you for your support the first time. I look forward to serving you some more. God willing, and with your help.  And I'll continue this conversation, but please excuse me that I have to leave. My uncle is in very serious condition, but I still wanted to show up. Thank you very much for the opportunity. We'll move on with our prepared questions. People will talk about charging and sentencing.  To recognize the worth and potential for growth in all people, our district attorney's office must strive to implement charging and sentencing policies that take into account the needs, character, and background of each person. Hello, I'm Jeanette Reyes. Good evening. So I'm with Big Homie and all of us are none. And we work with at-risk youth to provide violence intervention. And this is created by the agenda of all of us are none, which is a national movement formed by formerly incarcerated individuals. We push for policy changes on criminal justice at the local and national level. So my question to you is drug abuse and addiction is a serious health crisis in our community. Research has consistently shown that incarceration does not address addiction and only exacerbates cycles of poverty. So will you agree to A, offer free diversion to all marijuana possession less than four ounces so that people arrested with marijuana are never prosecuted in the first place? And B, never ask for incarceration for possession of less than one gram of all other controlled substances? Reyes, thank you for that question. I think that is a very important question because I think the root of a lot of the rest that are drug related are because people are hooked on drugs. And I think that there's a lot that the DA's office can do to focus on that problem and to really alleviate, rather, drug addiction. And so I would absolutely commit, number one, to the first question or A, as you mentioned, and absolutely agree to diversionary programs for misdemeanor low level marijuana possessions. There are some states that have already legalized marijuana and some would argue that's a trend in this country. Texas is not there. It may take years for Texas to be there but we have to recognize that sometimes marijuana possessions have more to do with drug addictions than they have to do with criminality. So absolutely, I would agree and accept diversionary and offer diversionary programs. And I would do more than that, Nico, and what I'm gonna try not to do, I'm gonna try not to attack him because he's not there and it's not fair that he doesn't have a right to defend himself. I'm sorry that he's having that situation so I'm gonna try real hard not to do that but I will tell you that when he was in trouble he got deferred adjudication for possession with intent to deliver 200 ecstasy pills. He got diversion, he was able to wipe that off his record. Today if someone were arrested for that he could not get the benefit that he got and that's wrong. You can't kick the ladder out from under you and not offer what you got when you were in that situation. That's one of the things that I would do is I would ensure that we would expand the diversionary programs to include the less than a gram state jail felony drug cases. Prosecutors across the country regularly overcharge defendants bringing multiple charges for a single act or charges that are more serious than the conduct warrants just to pressure defendants to give up their constitutional rights and plead guilty. Will you adopt a policy to charge the least serious acceptable charge so that the charge more accurately reflects the alleged conduct and does not create artificial incentives for a defendant to plead guilty? Absolutely, that's part of the problem with the DA's office is the lack of training. There are prosecutors in that office that have not been adequately trained to review a case and to be able to indict it properly. There's a case where the fourth court of appeals reversed because the entire case ended up being a monumental waste of time. All the prosecutor had to do was to follow the template and you know that in that case he was not even able to fully name the name of the defendant because of that, that person languished in jail for several months. That case was taken up to the fourth court of appeals and that case was reversed based on the incompetence of Nico's administration because somebody is falling asleep at the wheel. One of the things that I would do in that office is to absolutely ensure that we properly train the prosecutors that we look for the least restrict or I should say the offense that fits the facts and not the most serious offense if it doesn't fit. I've got a case right now in another county where an individual who was 16 years old was charged with manslaughter and was certified to stand trial as an adult that should not have happened that would not have happened here in Baird County under my watch. I'm gonna move on to juvenile justice. Children's brains continue developing until around the age of 25 and research supports their enhanced capacity for rehabilitation. As a result, children should not be prosecuted in adult court nor should they be given punishments that preclude the opportunity for redemption. Our district attorney should treat children consistent with neurological development at every stage in the criminal justice system. Good evening, my name is Anna Sophia Gonzalez and I'm a field intern with Move San Antonio. Move San Antonio is a grassroots nonpartisan nonprofit building power in underrepresented youth communities through civic education, leadership development and issue advocacy. Our question is this, will you commit to never seeking transfer to adult court for juveniles 16 and younger? For juveniles who are 16, will you commit to never seeking transfer to adult court unless the charge defense is a capital felony and the juvenile already has a conviction for a prior first degree or capital felony? I don't think it's unreasonable to ask a prosecutor not to transfer someone for an offense that's less than capital, it's almost as if I anticipated that question. That's exactly the situation that we have in that other county. Part of the reason I'm running folks is I'm coming to this office with job experience. I spent eight years as a prosecutor. I handled over a hundred jury trials as a prosecutor, not four like he did before he was elected, but over a hundred. And I spent time in the juvenile section. I was a chief prosecutor in the juvenile section in Harris County and I was involved with reviewing whether or not to certify individuals or children as they're called for certification. And so absolutely that's what we would do is we would focus on only the most serious offenses, only those cases where the only alternative, the only remedy is to certify a juvenile. There is a lot that the juvenile system can do and there's a lot that the DA's office can do to participate in that because in the juvenile system it's about rehabilitating the youthful offender and certainly that's something that the DA's office should be focusing on. So would you decline to ask for sentences that are de facto life without parole for any person under the age of 21 at the time of the offense? I think it would be difficult to commit to that knowing, knowing or not knowing the facts of that individual case. It's unfair to expect a prosecutor to commit to saying I would never ask for a basically what you're talking about is a non-death capital case involving someone who's 18 or 19 years old. It's difficult to say because there are exceptions to every rule. I will tell you that under my administration it would certainly be an extreme situation where we would be seeking even a non-death capital on an 18 years or 19 years old unless the facts merited that sort of punishment. Children are less able to make an informed decision when deciding to talk to the police. Will you vocally support a policy that prohibits the interview or interrogation of a child either as a witness, suspect, complainant, or respondent by law enforcement without the presence of a parent or guardian? Well, again, that's one of the differences between my opponent and I. Before he was elected DA, he spent his time representing DWI defendants. He was a DWI lawyer. That's what he did for a living and because of that he didn't have a lot of experience handling complicated cases where I have and that's the difference between he and I. And I absolutely would take every step to ensure that those individuals weren't exposed to those kinds of punishments. I'm gonna ask the audience to refrain from making comments. Please. He's gonna get to answer the way he gets to answer. You can make decisions based on that. It's unfortunate, Mr. Lowhood can't answer. There will be another debate. But I'm gonna ask you to refrain from comment. I'm gonna move back to site and release. Arrest and detention even if short term disrupts families and communities and can lead to job loss and housing insecurity. Site and release practices can replace disruptive arrests with ticketing for low level offenses which allowed district attorneys to hold the individual responsible for conduct without risk of the devastating consequence of jail time. Good evening, everyone. My name is Selena Gomez and I'm here with Mi Familia Vota. We're a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization that looks to leverage and increase Latino participation and also advocates for issues such as voting rights and immigration. And this question is due to the possible deportation after this process is done. So the Baird County's recent site and release program includes the misdemeanor of driving with an invalid driver's license but it does not include driving without a license or no license. Which would ultimately protect our immigrant communities and foster trust and local and law enforcement. Will you commit to adding driving without a driver's license to the site and release program? Absolutely, those types of offenses are what we call victimless offenses. There's no true victim, no one has been hurt. There's no reason that we can't agree to cite those individuals and just give them their day in court. So I would absolutely agree to include that sort of an offense with the other programs. Again, it's the issue of what's taken so long. If we were going to do the site and release, we could have done this a long time ago. We're way behind the times, we need to catch up, we need to have a leader who's going to actually implement it and just not talk about it. Our final area of programming questions is transparency and accountability. Our district attorney's success depends on building and maintaining with the community he serves. Our next district attorney must increase transparency and accountability by providing the community with information about arrest rates, charging decisions, and sentencing policies. He must also commit to rigorously and independently investigating and prosecuting police and other official misconduct. Good evening, my name's H. Drew Galloway, I'm the executive director of Moo San Antonio. I'm asking this question on behalf of Last Chance Ministries. For all cases involving police misconduct, including police involved shootings, violence, corruption, or fraud, will you commit to a full investigation to include presentation before a grand jury? Again, it is difficult to commit to a conclusion or a plan of action without having all the facts in front of you, but I will tell you that I think that the common sense approach is to fully investigate a case that is brought to the district attorney's office, even one, or I should say especially one, that involves a police officer because the community is going to be outraged, the community is going to be concerned that the DA's office is going to whitewash that investigation. So I would absolutely encourage my prosecutors to conduct full investigations, and there's a reason we have a grand jury process, folks, because we want the citizens, members of that grand jury, to make the ultimate decisions about whether or not there's sufficient evidence to indict a case. I've said for years, again, remember, I spent eight years doing this before I ever became a defense lawyer. I used to say all the time, I could walk into a grand jury proceeding with a stack of files, tell the grand jury anything I wanted to, and that would direct whether or not a case was going to be true billed or no billed. I think that there are times when we absolutely need to use that grand jury process the way it was meant to do, and I will commit to doing just that. Will you commit to maintaining and publishing data quarterly, including the number of misdemeanor and felony cases filed each month, disposition statistics, pretrial incarceration rates, and length of stay by offense category, and average bond for each class of offense so that the community can determine the effectiveness of policies aimed at reform? That's not an unreasonable request. Of course, I think, of course, I can commit to doing that. I don't think it would take very much manpower to do that. As a matter of fact, I will tell you that I remember at least one of my former employees required that of us, where after each day, we would log in what we did and we would turn those reports and then that was published at the end of the month. So that's certainly something that can be done and it should be done. And will you make public all internal policies and directives regarding discretionary decision, such as plea bargaining, diversion program, eligibility and acceptance, deferred adjudication and sentencing requests? Again, I don't think that's anything unreasonable. As long as it didn't do anything to violate the rights of victims, as long as there wasn't any information in those documents that would compromise victims' addresses and phone numbers and jobs, certainly I don't think that's anything that's unreasonable and I certainly would look to try and do that because it transparency is important. That's one of the reasons that Nikol drew some criticism this year when he banned the express news during that press conference and the elected DA has to be transparent, not just because they're competent to you but even and especially when they're criticizing you. So absolutely, there's gotta be transparency in that office. I'm gonna move to some rapid fire questions. We have placards under your chair for no or yes, but since it's just you, if you'd prefer just to say yes or no to these questions, that's fine. Will you commit, yes or no? Will you commit to a policy seeking the least severe acceptable punishment in all cases? Yes. Yes or no? Attorneys appointed to represent indigent defendants make $140 per misdemeanor case no matter how much work they put in. This payment structure creates disincentives to effective representation. Will you commit to supporting an optional hourly payment schedule for appointed attorneys like the one that's an effect in Dallas County? Yes. Yes or no? Each death prosecution costs taxpayers on average $2.3 million. Minorities are more likely to be selected for death prosecutions and more likely to be sentenced to death.  Death penalty. Yes or no? Yes. Yes or no? Under our current asset forfeiture scheme, the district attorney's office can seize property from people even if they've never been convicted of a crime, which goes directly to the offices of the DA and law enforcement. Will you commit to not prosecuting asset forfeiture cases unless the asset is the direct proceeds of a crime for which the defendant has been convicted? Yes. Access to information promotes fairness, congeniality and the early resolution either through pleas or dismissals of criminal cases. Yes or no? Will you create an open file discovery system to provide information to defense counsel as you receive it even before indictment? Yes. Recognizing that defendants would not be convicted today for marijuana possession, San Francisco just expunged and sealed old convictions for marijuana possession. Yes or no? Would you support a similar initiative in Bear County? Yes. Wrongful convictions have plagued Texas statewide. Advances, and this is in two parts, advances in forensic science and false confession, studies have led to thousands of exonerations where DNA or other evidence that may lead to exoneration is in your possession, will you commit to always making that evidence available for independent testing should the defense ask to test? Yes. I'm sorry, that was just a one-parter. The prosecution of quality of life offenses imposes a poverty penalty while doing nothing to increase community safety. Knowing this, will you commit to not prosecuting prostitution? Yes. The opioid epidemic is a public health crisis and shows no signs of abating. Will you commit to adopting an office-wide good Samaritan policy stating that individuals who call the police in response to a drug overdose will not be prosecuted? Yes. Yes or no? Fines and fees disproportionately impact people in poverty and current sanctions exacerbate the underlying causes of poverty. Will you commit to never ask for driver's license suspensions for non-payment of fines or fees? Yes. Yes or no? Will you support the de-escalation of drug penalties for low-level possession from a state jail felony for less than a gram of a narcotic to a class A misdemeanor? Yes. I believe I have some audience questions that have been turned in. That should be brought to me, no? Okay. So I wanna move then to Mr. Gonzalez, you have two minutes for closing remarks. Folks, once again, I wanna thank you for taking the time out to come and listen to us, listen to the responses to the questions that have been asked so that hopefully you can glean the difference between my opponent and I. Part of the reason that I'm running is like some of you I supported Nico when he ran, but I've been extremely disappointed in his failure to lead that office. I am running because it's time for change. I am running because I believe that I can make a true difference and it's now time to clean up our streets and it's time to make our communities safer for you and for me. Another reason that I'm running is you have seen in the paper and in social media that temperament is an issue and we have to have someone in that office that has the appropriate amount of temperament that treats the parties in the courts with respect. We're not seeing that today. The DA's office is treating defense lawyers, victims and witnesses with disrespect. That will not happen under my administration. I also have a vision for bringing true reform to the office. I want to reform the bail system so that people don't languish and I'm sorry I disagree with Nico but all he has to do is go to the jail court every week and he'll see the people that are sitting in jail waiting to just go to court to take a plea bargain because they don't want to sit in jail. They want to go home with their families. I also want to focus on violent crime so there is a lot that can be done. There is a lot that I will do with your help and with your vote. Let's bring safety back to this community. I ask for your vote, March 6th. Thank you. I want to give a special thanks again to Big Homie Street Mentoring, Texas 23 Indivisible Last Chance Ministries, Mi Familia Vota, Move San Antonio, Pro Immigration Coalition, Texas Freedom Network Nowcast San Antonio, ACLU Texas Fair Punishment Project, the District Attorney Nico LaHood and candidate Joe Gonzalez. I want to remind you that early voting for the March primary begins Tuesday, February 20th through Friday, March 2nd. Election Day is on Tuesday, March 6th. If you have any questions about voting in Bear County, please see Move San Antonio this evening. Or for those watching at home, visit Bear County, I'm sorry, bear.org and click on elections. This concludes our 2018 District Attorney Forum. Thank you everyone for joining us this evening. Have a good night.


Hi, I'm Don Kinsler, NDSU Extension Agent for Horticulture in Cass County, and starting our own plants from seed is fun and it's really not that difficult to do. We can grow greenhouse quality plants right in our own home, so let's get started. First of all, a tray that works really well for starting seeds is the type of tray that we would find at a grocery store, bakery or deli, and I've added holes in the bottom for drained edge, and the top will form almost like a little greenhouse for starting our seeds. It's very important to start our seeds in actual seed-starting mix. Now, I've moistened this beforehand so it's nice and mellow and ready to go.  Now, today we're seeding tomato seeds. I like to sprinkle them into my hand, which makes them a little easier than to distribute onto the mix. Try to spread them out so that we've got them evenly spaced. There we are. The next step is to add a little more mix onto the top, kind of feathering that out over the area, and then firm down with your hand, and then next we'll water that seed tray. Water that seed tray thoroughly, then we can put the cover back on, and it makes a nice little greenhouse. Now at this point, these seeds need heat in order to germinate. A good way to provide that heat is with an electric heating pad that is made for seedlings. It's an electric pad that we plug in and heat, then the seed tray is placed on the mat, and that the heat will cause the seeds to germinate much quicker than if you do not have that. As soon as the seeds begin to sprout, it's very important to move the seed tray into a bright sunny window or under lights. We can grow them under LED lights or under fluorescent lights also. And in about two weeks, then these seeds are up and growing like these tomato seeds. Alright, these tomato seedlings are ready to transplant, and for transplanting them so that each has room to grow, I've saved recycled greenhouse four packs, and for the mix that they'll grow in, I'm using a potting type mix. I've wet it down beforehand so it's nice and mellow. For transplanting, I've sharpened a wooden dowel. A person could also use a pencil, and we'll use that for transplanting. So for transplanting these tomato seedlings into the individual packs, I'll just lift up with the dowel, and then separate each seedling out so that there is only one seedling in each of these cells. I'll make a hole with the dibble, and then just very gently press in and firm the soil around each seedling. The seedlings come apart quite easily. When I've got each cell of the pack filled, then we're ready to water thoroughly, water it very thoroughly. And then to grow on, we need to put this in a sunny window or grow them under fluorescent or LED lights. And before long, we'll have our very own tomato plants, or we can do the very same with annual flowers such as these marigolds. So we can easily grow our very own bedding plants, vegetable transplants from seed.


Internal displacement, unlike inter-country migration, is mostly silent and invisible. Bangladesh is a country of 170 million people on 148,000 square kilometer of land. One meter rise is one fifth of the country underwater. Governments need to identify climate vulnerable migrant communities as valuable members of their own society. Being by their sides, preparing them through our community initiated disaster risk programs, giving access to knowledge and funds so they can always carry their knowledge, training, and crafts, and then strengthening them with linkages to the government services and legal help to continue in enabling, to give services, earn, and restart their lives within their moving communities.


Good morning everyone. I am Dr. Harika, third year postgraduate in the department of radio diagnosis in NRA Institute of Medical Sciences, Vishakhapatnam. Today I'm going to present a comparative study between conventional MR sequences including time of flight MR-venography and contrast enhanced MR-venography in diagnosing cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. CBT is not an uncommon condition and is potentially treatable cause with low mortality. Its clinical presentation is varied and often dramatic and it often affects young to middle-aged patients and more commonly women. The aim of this study is to compare the accuracy between conventional MR sequences in contrast enhanced MR-venography in diagnosing CBT thereby trying to avoid exposure of the patient to contrast and also save time in diagnosing CBT. This is to start early treatment as soon as possible at an appropriate time. This study was done in a department of radio diagnosis NRA MS Vishakhapatnam over a duration of 18 months between December 2019 and June 2021. The source of the data included all the patients with signs and symptoms of headache, convulsions, altered sensorium, focal neurological deficit and cranial loop palsy referred to our department for MR scan of the head. It included approximately 60 cases sent for MR scan of the brain with signs and symptoms. The inclusion criteria were all the patients suspected to have CBT. The exclusion criteria were the patients who are not willing for the study and all the patients with absolute contraindications for MRI. The pre-contrast images were taken followed by post contrast images after administration of 0.1 millimoles per kg body weight of gadolinium intravenously. The standard imaging protocol was followed. CBT is an important cause of stroke in young. More than a hundred causes of CBT have been decoded but even in 20 to 25 cases after extensive investigation still no cause can be identified. 50% of the strokes in Indian women are related to pregnancy and perperium. Neuroimaging is the cornerstone in the diagnosis of CBT. The imaging modality of choice is MRI with MR venogram but MRI with MR contrast venography is almost 100% diagnostic. Coming to the anatomy of the venous system the three groups of veins that drawn blood supply from the brain are superficial cerebral, deep cerebral and veins of posterior posa. The superficial cerebral veins depending on the venous sinuses into which they empty are divided into dorsomedial system. The drains into the superior sinus, postro inferior system, the drains into the lateral sinus and anterior system, the drains into the cavernous at the pterigoid venous plexuses via the sylvan vein. The deep cerebral vein there are three pairs of veins that is coroid vein, septal and thalamus striate vein that unite behind the interventicular foramen of one row to form the internal cerebral veins. The point of the union is called as the venous angle. The etiology of CBT can be varied. It can be due to antithrombin deficiency, protein C, protein S, pregnancy, perperium etc. Pathogenesis can be infective, embolism, local endothelial damage or hypercoagulability. The unenhanced MR imaging is usually more sensitive than unenhanced CT for reduction of venous thrombi. The primary finding of sinus thrombosis on MR images is the absence of flow void and the presence of altered single intensity in the sinus on routine T1, T2 sequences. Geri imaging may be an important diagnostic aid in acute stage thrombosis, especially when the single intensities on T1, T2 images are more subtle. The stage of formation of the thrombus is the easiest stage to detect a thrombus and the finding of increased single intensity on both T1 and T2 images is consistent with subacute stage of thrombosis. Chronic thrombosis with incomplete recanelization of the sinus may pose a diagnostic challenge at MR imaging. As many as 15% of patients in whom sinus thrombosis is diagnosed at MR imaging have a chronic 15 day old thrombus. Compared with the MR signal in the normal brain parenchyma, the signal in a chronic thrombus is typically ISO to hyperintense on T2 weighted images and ISO intense on T1 weighted images. So, these are some images showing partially recanelized thrombosis in the left transverse and sigmoid sinuses compared to the right transverse and sigmoid sinuses. The enhancement is also less compared to the right side. These are the axial flare images showing bilateral thalamic hyperintensities and the corresponding MR venogram image shows non-visualization of the deep venous system that is consistent with thrombosis. This is the image of a female patient 57 year old presenting with headache. The sastral and coronal MR vmip images shows no flow in the anterior one-third of the superior sastral sinus. Now, also the distal portion of the right transverse sinus. In our study, majority of the patients were in the age group of 20 to 30 years, almost 60 percent, followed by more than 30 years, that is 27 percent. Majority of females constituting approximately 58 percent. The most common symptom of presentation was headache constituting approximately 83 percent, that is followed by vomiting, convulsions and hemiparesis. In our study group of 60 patients, 50 cases were in the acute subacute stage, accounting for 83 percent, followed by 10 cases, which were in the chronic stage, accounting to 17 percent of the cases. In the acute or subacute cases, most of them were hyperintense on sastral T1 weighted sequences and in the chronic cases, most of them were isointense on the sastral T1 weighted sequences. These are the pie diagrams, depending the same, that is in the acute cases, most of them were hyper on T1 weighted images, whereas in case of chronic cases, most of them were iso. Distribution of sinuses, the most commonly involved sinus was superior sastral sinus, followed by transverse sinus, followed by sigmoid sinus. Of the 50 acute cases, 48 were true positive and 2 cases were false positive on plain MRI with top MRV as compared to contrast MRV. Of the 10 chronic cases, 6 had complete recanolization and 4 cases were positive for CBT on contrast MRV. Of the 4 positive chronic cases, 2 were positive on plain MRV as well as 2 cases were false negative. So, the conclusion, the most common age group was 20 to 29 years of age, accounting for 60 percent of the study population and amongst the female patients, high incidence was same in women with pregnancy and peripheral phase, accounting 57 percent as compared to non-pregnant women, who accounted for 43 percent of the female population for the study. So, superior sastral sinus was the most common sinus to be involved, accounting for almost 62 percent of cases followed by transverse sinus. Complete recanolization was seen in 60 percent of chronic CBT cases. The sensitivity and the positive predictive value of plain MRI, including non-contrast MRVnography in diagnosing CBT was 100 percent and 96 percent respectively. Specificity could not be calculated in the acute cases as there were no false negative cases on plain MRI. The sensitivity of the non-contrast MRVnography for chronic cases was 50 percent, specificity was 100 percent and the positive predictive value was 100 percent. Overall sensitivity and specificity of the plain MRI with MRV in diagnosing CBT as compared to contrast MRV in our study was 96 percent and 75 percent. By using limited sequence imaging, we were able to reduce the routine MR scan time of 20 to 25 minutes, just 10 minutes in suspected case of CBT. This in turn leads to avoiding contrast exposure, reduced cost of imaging and also hazing the treatment of the patient. These are my references. Thank you.


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time sensitive now if you want to stick around we'll do a little Q&A and go from there and I'll answer all your questions the best of my abilities so red panda pie says it right that's a good news for Celsius it's a good news for everybody and not only that FTX also came out and said that they're going to make everybody whole now they're going to try to make everybody whole on the November 2022 prices what are you going to do but it's a lot better than zero so we'll take it shark punchers here shallons here hey rob maybe this is the crypto engine but staking plus product developers plus no burner slash equals fiat on the wrong you're not incorrect but you know it is what it is I don't know I just know that most of the cryptos out there are pretty much a gamble so as long as everybody understands that then I think we're okay oh my god mullets here you know that the bull runs not too far away we're not as enlightened as you are and there's bullet being mullet uh any word any more of our current voyager nothing from voyager it's amazing FTX didn't do anything and all of a sudden like we're going to make everybody whole the red 2022 prices all right Celsius comes out we're going to make as many people who possibly can hold voyager not too long ago I think it was I want to say five months ago six months ago they give us 35% in the ability also the assumption that they were going to go over three go after three arrows capital and that stupid trust me brillant collateralized loan and give us more of the funds back haven't heard anything else I'll let you know when I hear but yeah 35% thanks for the pittance Kevin says any thoughts on star atlas atlas is a game that's uh being developed on Solana I don't have any opinion on that I don't owning of it so of course on this channel I'm super biased I don't own I don't really talk about it the graphics look fantastic I don't even know if they're in a beta can people play it right now I haven't really followed that much so not too much there can't say any much Steve Steve thanks for coming a member but you know I appreciate it Moon is old school to Jupiter and beyond very funny no Nuno says Rob there's a rumor that Richard Hart is creating a potential future stablecoin on the pulse chain which is starting with a value very close to zero let Richard Hart do what Richard Hart does always an interesting find Rob press an issue rule which is a very narrow-minded view of the world if you'd ever live in a thorough consciousness party you might have a different opinion as far as what as far as electrical electricity use I think that's what we just talked about and why I thought it was so important that's Bitcoin mining uses that electricity that would otherwise be wasted so I don't know what the problem is why is data moving so so slow moving seems like they have good projects yeah it's amazing to me right you have great projects like alluvium for example right alluvium was over a thousand dollars a token now they actually have a real game they came out and you can actually use a token in the game hasn't it's all time I so again I think in our sector here in krypton angel assets it's really just speculation it seems like when there's actual real world utility take helium for example helium helium beforehand before it moved on to on the slanted blockchain probably did I think it did better than what it is now and actually has a working product and you can sign up for their service and $20 unlimited talking text and data plan I know it's in Florida so it's crazy that's just how it is um good question hey rob dubious but if you had to guess how many products do you think will be released on 10 set this year in the gem section uh I've talked to jonash over there at 10 sets and so far for conneted great Ivan pay still waiting for a listing and the next one I can't really I can talk a little bit about but I shouldn't uh looking pretty good I think there's for this year at least two to three more at least but will they all be winners no they won't all be winners because that's impossible to do let's see ah let's see rob asks did he talk about celsius or is it coming no one cares about his energy bs uh I talked about yeah we talked about celsius and it's a good it's a good thing uh brian says man I appreciate your channel as a resource to give them the news but how can you talk so can we talk about project rug pulls making it sound like just another day set of ben's precedent well I don't know if jupiter was a rug pull I think that's the only thing the new project that we talked about and as a matter of fact the I mean it's still going and uh price is actually appreciating and I actually just used jupiter yesterday so I don't know I don't know about that and let's see and zaren says what's the point to trade eth and bitcoin for a fee I mean if you really believe in crypto it's a good point it's something that I struggle with because if you really look at it and we talked about this before let me show you so if you go to ben's site I highly recommend you guys you can sign up this I mean lump sum dca equal amounts all this stuff it's all free to to do a simulation and just see how things would do like if I let me tell this yesterday like bitcoin a thousand bucks on what's due today four years past before we having look at this you would have lost your the not the purchasing power well your purchasing power didn't go down actually I mean you essentially lost 60 percent of your value in a couple of months that's awful right and if you're like living day-to-day on bitcoin this is not the greatest thing however if you have a longer time horizon it works out pretty well I think that's the big thing is because a lot of people a lot of people not you guys if you're here right now you have a pretty long time horizon you're here before the having I appreciate you guys because you're not the tourists I had to deal with those people coming in relatively soon look at this you'd be up almost 7x at the at the peak of course you would have you know lost a little bit but you'd still be up 3x as it took a big dive and then over here 7x and even as it went down if you just fell asleep you're still up about 2x try doing that in s and p 500 or precious metals or bonds you know and then of course the low point it still be up almost 2x and then today you'd be what four and a half x somewhere on there so it's a good point about you know what's the point to trade even bitcoin for fiat if we really believe in crypto you can but remember that some people's investment goals are just to make a little payoff because hey if you got credit card debts at like 9.9 percent to 38 percent or whatever craziness that's out there maybe it would be hoovy a little bit to uh to pay off those debts first and go from there if you can't wait for those long cycles so that's it french toaster says i'm a tourist my plane has just been delayed for a long time if you're here right now you're not i'm telling you right now the people that are gonna come in towards the end of 2024 those are the ones i just cannot not that i can't stand them it's just that i'm getting older and there's only so much i can take because i know what's gonna happen i can see it it's just gonna be especially when i sell it's gonna be ah this boomer just sold and he's paper hands and that's gonna be flooding the comment section i'm just like oh all right see in the bear market geniuses rob please do like sure let's do link link i gotta tell you had a quite a quite a run today i want to say it's up and look at that 10 percent in 24 hours 30 percent in the week i totally missed that if you're looking for the rwa play the real world asset play chain links your chain links your is your project i'm just telling you right now i've been buying that since 2017 i sold a big chunk in 2021 but i've been reaccumulating 2022 doing okay anyhow chain link so let's do link all right so we put a thousand bucks in a chain link in 2020 and over here don't pretty good almost 7x again holy sweet mary and joseph look at that 18x and this is the power of altcoins right it just depends on your risk tolerance this is why i love doing the show with me ben and guy because we're all have different risk tolerances i'm the more de jenny of the bunch it's just true guys kind of like in the middle and ben's the conservative and thank god he's there because i love to hear his opinion to keep me out of craziness that i probably do and i got to tell you if i would have listened to ben about buying bitcoin in 2022 and all these crazy alts that i did i'd be up massively trust me on this one some of these alts that i got into still not back it's just how it is but anyhow chain link was one of them i did pretty good that one uh but yeah 18x and then come in here now today it would still be up 6x from all the way back then so this is what i think it's important to take some profits and re-accumulate and sell off and back and forth yeah no let's see hey rob do you want any uh skl iotx a chlcx no i don't i own a lot of stuff i don't own that is that mean that it's bad stuff no it just means that i have no idea what it is and maybe it would be great stuff i own a lot of different cryptos let's see all right whatever rob please do dot pith is on good well so yeah let's do dot and then let's jump over to the dan de jen channel and do some giveaways huh so let's see here i don't think polka dot is is is good oh i was totally incorrect totally incorrect timing well not the first time i've been wrong that's for sure so a thousand bucks in august but i want to tell you i think yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't think polka dot came out until 2020 this is why so like we're talking about what was the price the asset price was four dollars back then on august 23rd okay so here thousand dollars you would have been sideways for a bit maybe a little bit actually went pretty good for you 1300 now if you go oh look at that hey oh you'd be up 12x that's pretty good not as good as chain link i don't think but hey not too bad then of course you get a which is what most people do they write it all the way up and write it all the way down and write it back up 13x and then today you're not doing so hot so for four years of holding polka dot you could have done a heck of a lot better i mean you're still up but i mean come on it's crypto all right everybody so that's it for today so look uh like and subscribe all the good stuff now there's a link in the description for the dandigen video which will do the giveaway which we do live and uh we'll go from there so thanks so much stop by appreciate everybody see you guys on the other channel bye


Good morning everyone, Basil Chapman here. This is the 10 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Market Update, down 190 at $30,857. A very important session will go through that as we go through the different indices. You'll see that the SPX, that's the S&P, is down at $41.44, down 0.85%. Dow is only down 0.55%. I think the Dow is going to actually now hold better than the other indices which were leading. We'll see what happens with QQQ. It's down 1.1% down 0.366 at 0.308.20%. There is a patent here that I'll talk about in my show coming up, the Tiger Technicians Hour. This is a G, alternative count G-C. We're always expecting at least a D. We'll talk about that. Looking at the IWM, the Russell 2000, a down 0.59%. Minus $115 at $197.15. That's a fabulous move. It's actually holding a lot better than the others. Gold is down $42 at 1888. The patent I was just talking about, the G-C that makes a cup formation and then pops to a slightly higher high, goes to that D and then tumbles. We were talking about it yesterday. I had a whole thing about it on my show. That's exactly what's happening here. Gold is finally declining as the dollar is moving higher. It's not that much higher than it was a week ago, but certainly higher of the low of yesterday of $100.82. It's at 102.53 up 0.78. This is not necessarily the start of a big move to the upside, but definitely there is a counter-chain rally that we're looking at. Looking at crude oil, crude oil is up to there, $1.44 at $77.29 in the lower range, but what's really important here is what's happening to bonds, and you can see that bonds are down sharply. That means rates are going up. Bonds at $1.29, $26.30, so down about two points. Yeah, I think bonds, I think the rates are just stuck in a range for now, probably moving a little bit higher. As we go to the break, we're coming up with the target technicians. I hope we can stay. There's a lot to discuss. There are patents, there are stocks, all sorts of things that are already threatened to the market. Right as we stand at this particular moment, and as we go to the break, I'll go to this one-minute chart that shows you we've made a peak D, and now we're pulling back into one-minute chart, peak D, and the 10-minute chart gave that huge slump at $30. I'll be back in a moment.


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Hello friends welcome again to yet another session on gems of geometry in the previous sessions We have discussed so many beautiful concepts and theorems and properties of circles pedal triangles Coaxial circles radical axis and many more so continuing with the trend. We are now going to discuss one one more very popular concept Related to triangles and circum circles and that's called Simpson's line So it's very famous now Simpson's lines is you know has been Very popular, but as a matter of fact it was first just particular line Which is now called a Simpson line and which will be discussed anyways was first discovered by Person called William Wallace in 1797 right so that's another fact that you know We have to just find out why it is called Simpsons line Okay, Simpsons line and as I told you it was discovered in 1797 Wow 1797 like almost 225 years now so Simpsons line 1797 But actually discovered by a person called William Wallace Actually, Simpson is this person who has done a lot of work in number theory mathematical geometry in other fields as well and one of his famous contribution is In Fibonacci series so he found out how Nth term in a Fibonacci sequence can be you know obtained using a Relationship yeah, okay, so now we will be discussing Simpsons line and what exactly Simpsons line We had we have just discussed in the previous session where we demonstrated using geojabra tool as to what exactly Simpsons line means so Let's discuss. Let's you know first state the you know the term and then we'll try to prove it So it says the feet of the perpendicular from a point to the sides of a triangle are co-linear If and only if the point lines on the circum circle now this co-linear points E F H Form a line and that line is called Simpsons line. Okay, so So what is the thing? So we have learned That in a given triangle if there is a point which is also called a pedal point and you drop three perpendiculars On to the three sides and you join the feet of the perpendicular So you will get something called a pedal triangle now This is a special case when the pedal point that is the point from which you drop the perpendicular lies on the circum circle of the Triangle right so you can see in this diagram D is the point and Of let's say ABC is the triangle and you can see there is a circum circle D is the point on the circum circle and from D D E D F and D G are the three perpendiculars dropped on to the three Sides, okay, and now we have to prove that E F G are Co-linear which is also called this line E F G is also called Simpsons line Okay, so let's try to prove it So here goes the proof Okay, and we will be using concepts already learned so far and not very difficult concepts So to say to prove this thing. Okay, so First let's consider trying There's a you know a B D C so a B D C is a cyclic quadrilateral Cyclic quadrilateral, isn't it cyclic quadrilateral? So So what does it mean it means? angle BDC BDC is equal to 180 degrees Minus angle a Okay, so angle B D C you can see angle B DC which is back angle B DC This is angle B DC so B DC is what 180 degree minus Angle a Okay. Now, if you consider quadrilateral in Quadrilateral quadrilateral which one E a G D E a G D E a G D, right? If you see angle E Is equal to 90 degrees in that quadrilateral isn't it and Angle D also is 90 degrees. I'm sorry not angle D angle G Angle G is 90 degrees. That means I can say therefore Angle a plus angle B. Sorry E D G is 180 degrees Clearly, right 180 degrees why because two opposite angles have a sum of 90 plus 90 that is 180 So the other pair of opposite angles should also be supplementary. I didn't mention the reason behind it You know this reason why what is this reason? This is nothing but in a cyclic quadrilateral opposite angles are Opposite angles are supplementary supplementary in a in a cyclic Quadrilateral, this is a reason, right? So now it's clear so angle a plus edg is also 180 degrees and hence angle edg Edg is also 180 degrees minus angle a Clear so from here These two things we can say angle B. DC is equal to angle edg Both are 180 degree minus a now B. DC if you look carefully is nothing but angle B D G plus Angle G DC angle G DC, right? And edg if you see is equal to angle edb Plus angle B D G Correct. Now if you see I can cancel this too. So what do I get? I get angle G DC is equal to angle edb Let me highlight these two angles in the diagram this angle. We are talking about this one This one is equal to This one and let's say both are equal to X Fair enough Right so far so good. So let's now proceed here and let me just take away these things. Okay now if you see B F D. So if you see angle B F D is equal to 90 degrees right and and Angle B ed is also 90 degrees Correct. Therefore we can say B Edf is a cyclic quadrilateral is a cyclic quadrilateral right the pair of opposite Sum of opposite angles is 180 degrees. So hence that particular quadrilateral will be a cyclic quadrilateral if that is so then angle E D B is equal to angle E F B Right and both are equal to X Once again edb, which is X is equal to E F B. Why this is nothing but angles in the same segment angles subtended subtended by angles up in by arc in the same segment in the same segment are equal Fair enough That's clear. So hence This angle is X Quick guys now if you see again I can say Which two one yeah, so I can again take G F D C yes, so if you if you see yeah, so Angle D F C Is equal to angle D G C is equal to 90 degrees both Are the art, you know perpendicular drop from the point D if you see so DFC is equal to DGC both are 90 degrees so what I'm talking about is this that this angle is 90 and This angle is also 90 right. So what does this mean this means again? D F G C and G and C are Cork are Either they form a what do you say the cyclic quadrature or we can say D F G and C are consicclic points Consicclic points Okay, why because you know consicclic points with let's say DC is the diameter DC is the diameter of that circle Right and you know that a diameter subtends 90 degrees at two points in any any point of the circle So DC is the diameter of that circle. Okay, therefore again if they are consicclic I can say angle G D C which is X is equal to G F C is equal to X both are X right what do I mean? If this angle is X so this angle has to be X So if you now look closely in the diagram, what do I see I see that angle E F B is equal to angle G F C and both are equal to X degrees correct and and BC B F C B F and C B F and C B F and C are collinear Right, so the so one side is collinear that that were automatically automatically if there are X both are equal to X therefore, what do we know and E F H or E F E F G must be collinear must be co-linear why simple logic BC is the straight line and F is a point on it and There are two angles, which are equal with F B and F C as one of the arms and The angle is such that the other arm are on the opposite sides of the two parts of BC So definitely E F N H or E F G sorry are collinear. What do I mean? I'll explain once again. So let's say there is a straight line Okay, this is a straight line and here is a point. So this point is my B This point is C and this point was F now. We have two points on the on either sides of BC such that This angle is X and this angle is also X That means this is acting as vertically opposite angles Right only vertically opposite angles could be equal like that that means when is vertically opposite angles possible That means the other let's say this was E and this was G. So E F G are also Co-linear or E G E F G fall on a Same straight line, right? So hence we could prove that E F G are Co-linear now this line E G is called Simpsons line This is what is the This is what is the Proof correct. So if you also look at it in this way that if D was anywhere else, but on the circum circle Then there the pedal triangle formed by the three feet that is triangle E F G Would have been non-zero, but the moment D falls on the circumcised circle the area of that triangle becomes Zero right so we say that in this case pedal triangle is degenerate D Generate Okay, so if you degenerate pedal triangle is there. Okay, that's what is this proof all about. I hope you understood the The definition or the description of the Simpsons line and it's proof