Hey guys, Thunder E here, and today we're taking a look at gaming on the Galaxy S22 Plus, and why I think this might be a better gaming option than the Galaxy S22 Ultra. Now if you're going, that is blasphemy, well, hear me out. But before you do that, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and notification icon to get notified of our latest videos, and thank you for joining us here on the channel. Now I also want to give a big shout out to our sponsor for this video, Morning Brew. One of the best places you can get your daily news without actually you doing any work whatsoever, and it's completely free. Okay, so we have the Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus here, and we've seen gaming on the Galaxy S22 Ultra. But what is different between the Ultra and the Plus, and why do I think this might be a better gaming device? So we start off here, we've got a design that's very similar to what we had last year with the S21 line, except of course you can see this doesn't flow all the way through. It kind of stops here, so it's a little different design language. In terms of size, you're looking at something that has a 6.6 inch display. It is an awesome looking display, and of course again we have Ichigo right here, so all you wallpaper lovers, I will leave that for you down below. Now this is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, that is the version I have here. Of course if you're in the UK you will get the Exynos version, and before anyone asks, I am waiting to get my Exynos device to see how it performs, and compare that of course to the Snapdragon version, but this is a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 device. Now it also comes with a 4500 mAh battery, and in terms of speakers you guys have seen our speaker test. If you haven't already, there's a link for you here to check out the speakers on this device, of course the dual speakers to see how it stacks up, and what kind of performance we actually get with it. That being said though, one of the things I do like about this device is the display. It's got a flat display surface, and granted I do love curved displays, but I felt, this felt really comfortable to hold, and as you can see it feels very nice, and when you're getting into gameplay sessions just being able to see the screen quite well, and also you don't have that rolling edge in any case if you're using either side of the screen, I think that is a big plus. Now the other thing with this device is the fact that it has a Full HD Plus display compared to a 2K display, and that comes in to bear pretty well with this device in terms of gaming, but another thing you'll find is that when you go into the settings you can change from 60Hz to 120Hz with the adaptive refresh rate, but you cannot change your screen resolution. It is just set at its Full HD Plus, there is no option to swap that out which I just found quite interesting, but something to note. So you guys like to see benchmarks, for me benchmarks are not that important, but I wanted to start off with showing you some benchmarks here, and we're going to go ahead and look at Geekbench first, and we'll start off with our CPU benchmark. So that's the CPU reading here, and I'm going to go into the S22 Ultra to give you guys a reference point, so you can have a good idea of what the benchmarks actually look like. Now if we go here into our CPU benchmarks, you can see the difference between the two. A little bit more in terms of the single core score and a little bit more in terms of the multi core score. Now let's go ahead and check out our compute benchmarks and see what we also get with that as well, and see if there's a major difference. You can see the compute benchmarks are much closer. Again, this is a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, so you should see numbers that are similar. So another benchmark I wanted to showcase is from 3DMark. This is the Wildlife Extreme Stress Test. So this is a stress test that runs for about 20 minutes on the devices. And here is a very stark difference. You can see the stability levels for the 22 plus is 76%, while for the 22 Ultra is 66% there. So it's more stable when it comes to running your games. It looks like overall long period of time. You can see the graph here and the loops. And then our FPS range is slightly higher here on the S22 Plus. We're from 8 FPS to 19, and on the Ultra it is 6 to 18. So again, you can see that there. Battery usage or battery consumption, you can see 50 to 34%, 84 to 74%, as you would expect, of course, with these devices. And we'll tell you why that is in the second. But before you start searching and wondering where to get that kind of information, how about you get your information, of course, from Morning Brew, which is a lovely newsletter you can actually sign up for free. And I mentioned for free right now. 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Let's take a look at some of the games. So first off, we started off with Call of Duty Mobile. A game that, again, should run pretty well and it also felt pretty smooth on here. Now, in terms of the benchmark scores, we got 60 frames per second, which is nice. And of course, that ran pretty well. Call of Duty Mobile is a staple. It's just something that you should be able to do quite well and you shouldn't deviate from those numbers. That's just what I'm looking for here. We call it Gini Mobile. So we, of course, are going to head over to PUBG Mobile. Now, PUBG Mobile, we played at two settings. And as you know, PUBG Mobile is a game that a lot of people like to play. Some people ask me about 90 frames per second gaming. It just doesn't, it's not available right now. And again, I would have to unlock it with GFX tools, which I'm just not doing. That being said though, playing on smooth extreme was able to get solid 60 frames per second on PUBG Mobile ran really well and the performance was pretty solid overall. Now, going over to Ultra HD Ultra, which is the next highest level setting to your own PUBG Mobile, I was able to get 40 frames per second. Again, this is standard. Those numbers are standard and the same numbers I got on the S22 Ultra. So that is again, something that I think is nice and solid and it works out well. Before we move on, a lot of you asked me to showcase gaming at 120 frames per second and they know a lot of games to support that but I did remember that Real Racing 3 does support 120 frames per second and it runs really well on this device. It's smooth, granted my driving is terrible because I've actually just given like maybe four years or so but it runs really well. You can get this 120 frames per second with games like that. So that is actually a nice big plus. Now, moving over to Black Desert Mobile, this is a game of course that we saw on the Galaxy S22 Ultra. We got framers about 42 frames per second and it's quite similar here with of course the S22 Plus where we're getting about 43 frames or so. So in terms of gaming performance there, there is still a solid match. Now, when we move over to Genshin Impact, this is where we get some things that are really interesting and exciting. Now, we're able to play Genshin on here for a while. We played for about maybe 25 minutes, kind of matching what we got when we played on the S22 Ultra here but I wanna just point this out. Just remember, this display is a Full HD Plus display so it's basically 1080p display and that actually plays a lot to the numbers you're about to see. So with Genshin Impact, I got actually 51 frames per second playing for that amount of time at the highest settings. Now, you know Genshin, you can max the game out to be capped at 60 frames per second and if you remember the Galaxy S22 Ultra, we got 42 frames per second while the iPhone 13 Pro Max which I actually compared recently, go check out that video against the S22 Ultra. We got 39 frames per second. So you can see here that the benefit I think of having a display at Full HD Plus goes a long way because you're not running at max 2K resolution or you're not trying to at least render that a 2K resolution compared to this. So we got steady 51 frames per second which is pretty nice when it was a game for quite a bit of time and that was actually pretty cool. Now, when it comes to temperatures, I was also surprised that my temps only went up to about 103 degrees. I didn't get anything hotter than that even though probably what you saw on screen there was probably in the 90s or so but 103 degrees was the highest temperatures I got especially playing Genshin in back. So that display again, I think is my own key factor here in terms of temperatures. Now, battery life gauge, I can't really give you a gauge because I was being kind of power testing on there. I will say though that because you have a 4,500 mAh battery, be very wary of that compared to a 5,000 mAh battery in terms of battery performance. But what does that tell me? It tells me that when you're going to game on the S22+, you're gonna get a really solid, steady performance across the board because number one, you've got a display that is not a 2K display. You also have the same performance in terms of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and you've got a device that a lot of people might definitely like because of more of the flat panel.  This is the GameSar X2 Type-C Awesome Controller works pretty well for this device and that played well as you would expect. So game streaming services work out very well. Now, I will have to say that I'm impressed with what the S22+, does in terms of gaming. And I think a lot of people will be impressed too.  And I think this kind of proves it that the S22+, might be the better gaming device for you here than the S22 Ultra. I think that just makes a lot more sense for a lot of people's gaming needs and the fact that you're not gonna be draining as much in terms of performance using this device over the S22 Ultra. So if you guys have any questions or any comments, let me know if you wanna pick up any of these devices. I have links down below and definitely go ahead and sign up for morning brew. So you can get, of course, your latest news and information quick and fast. This is Thundi at UC, thank you and always enjoy your entertainment.


here doing stables and then next minute we've been going out on a search to look for a missing person in the bush somewhere. We do lots of our different patrols in the city and in the valley. You can stand there nice and quietly and second the game, Mr. We get the horses from all different places. Some of them are bred at studs that produce the horses like this Pershawn that I'm holding here. So they breed those horses and then we'll look at the stock that they have and purchase the quietest ones or the best ones for our purposes. We also have horses like Donated X Race Horses. Again we select a quieter horse because at the end of the day we still have to be able to do our job. Because all the horses are different when they come to us they all have different abilities. We do a lot of the sensory training for them so we do things with tarps, we do things with fireworks, different barriers, different surfaces like we'll put rugs down on the ground or we'll walk them through puddles, walk them over wooden structures to simulate all these sort of visual stimuli and audio stimuli that they'll come across doing their job. We march with the band and get the horses used to the drums and the bagpipes because that's always really beneficial for ceremonial occasions and parades. I've only been with Lance for a bit over 12 months. We're still getting to know each other. He's very quirky and he has a very different personality to the last one I had too. We just police from horseback so the horses are our vehicle so we need to know that we can rely on them when we're out on the road. In saying that we do all sorts of training with them but they're still flight animals, they still get a fright so we still need to be mindful of what sort of environments and situations that we put them in but generally the more training they get here and the more times that they do it the better they become at it. I've been here for about 13 years now so it's flown past really. It's a good job. My horse is pushing me out of the way.


So I've previously talked about why the pro act is so important on this channel before but for those of you unfamiliar with this legislation and Specifically what it would do to promote unionization I want to read to you real quick this paragraph from a Jacobin article written by Mindy Iser who explains why this is so important She explains the pro act is the most sweeping pro labor legislation in decades It would effectively and anti-union right to work laws currently on the books in 28 States Institute financial penalties on employers that retaliate against workers who organize prohibit employers captive audience meetings Require employers to bargain a first contract in good faith repeal the prohibition on secondary boycotts an instrument of worker solidarity banned since the late 1940s and Bar employers from permanently replacing strikers. So needless to say this is incredibly important It is crucial this could be a game changer for worker rights in the United States of America and It passed the House of Representatives in early March the president Joe Biden supports this legislation. So the question is What's going on? What's the holdup? Well, of course the Senate is still needing to pass this and it hasn't yet passed Because there are a number of holdouts within the Democratic Party who are against it Can you take a guess as to who those holdouts are of course? It's the usual suspects Kyrsten Sinema, of course being one of them and after she gleefully voted down a $15 an hour minimum wage She joined her pals Rami manual and Joe Manchin to headline an event for the National Restaurant Association Which for those of you who don't know this is a lobbying group who's against unions Who's against the $15 an hour minimum wage?  So if it wasn't already bad enough that these ghouls refused to support policies that would help struggling Americans Kyrsten Sinema goes out of her way to Make matters worse and throw it in your face that she doesn't care that you're struggling, right?  It's just it's insufferable. It's ridiculous. So when she's that brazen when she Refuses to support anything in spite of public backlash the question is is there any Usefulness and even trying to put pressure on her and the answer to that is yes Because guess what even though she's resistant to change even though she's wearing her cute little rings and colorful hats and She's trying to tell you to go fuck yourself If you're mad at her for voting down a $15 an hour minimum wage public pressure does work because Angus King who was against the pro act Received a lot of public pressure lots and lots of calls to his office and guess what he had a change of heart And even Kirsten Sinema's buddy Joe Manchin all of a sudden announced on Monday that he too is having a change of heart But don't take my word for it take his word for it I'm pleased to announce that I am co-sponsoring the pro act 50% of unions fell in their first year of organizing this legislation will level the playing field I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to move this bill through a legislative process Now does that sort of look like a hostage video? Yes Regardless though of the presentation Pressure works one by one We are chipping away at the holdouts and now it's the case that there's only a couple of holdouts left and as Ken Klippenstein explains those three individuals include Kirsten Sinema Mark Warner and Mark Kelly So here's what we're gonna do We're going to join the cause and put pressure on these folks because this is unacceptable If Kirsten Sinema isn't supporting a $15 an hour minimum wage That's terrible. She needs to change her mind on that But to not support the pro act means that you don't want them to have a high Wage and you don't even want them to have the opportunity to negotiate their wages because currently with this employer employee dichotomy that we're seeing It doesn't give workers any leverage at all but having unions actually levels the playing field at least a little bit So we're gonna demand that these folks actually change their mind So you can give Kirsten Sinema a call at two zero two two two four four five two one Mark Warner's phone number is two zero two two two four two zero two three Mark Kelly's phone number is two zero two two four two two three five and whenever I share phone numbers I get some messages from folks saying look I appreciate the fact that public pressure actually does make a difference But I'm a little bit awkward. I'm a little bit nervous to speak to anyone. Here's what I'll say Most of the time I'd say nine times out of ten when you call these numbers you get direct to the voicemail So you can leave a voice message. It's a lot less pressure But really you're just gonna speak to a staffer You're never gonna actually talk to the senator themselves and they're just gonna take down your message, right? It's it's not bad. I'm gonna call Kirsten Sinema because she's the one who's gotten on my nerves the most On camera just to kind of give you a little template as to what you can say really, I mean I don't even know what I'm gonna say as I call but it's not There's not really much pressure to just calling and leaving a message or telling the staffer that you demand That they support a policy like the pro act that's important for workers Doesn't even go to a person As soon as we can thank you and have a great day Hi, I know that Kirsten Sinema Doesn't like poor people. In fact, she hates poor people and she takes every opportunity She has to rub it in our faces that she doesn't care about us And I know that she probably gets off on the fact that Poor people are starving and dying across this country because she refuses to support policies that help people But if she could just do one thing It would make a huge difference in the lives of her constituents and Americans all across the country If she co-sponsored the pro act that would be a game changer for worker rights in America And if she can't even support basic legislation that does the bare minimum to embolden workers a little bit in this country Then why is she even there? What is the point of her being an elected official? Why is she a Democrat? Just join the Republicans I mean she was against the $15 an hour minimum wage and gleefully voted it down But if you can't even support the pro act I mean unions are supposed to be the Democratic Party's bread and butter This is a former Green Party member if she can't support the pro act then Not only are we going to do everything in our power to defeat her in the next election But we will continue to apply pressure on her until she buckles because it is Inexcusable that any Democrat would be against the pro act would be against the right to organize in the United States of America And I know that she's gonna have to check with her donors first because they really don't like the fact That she'd do anything to support workers But she needs to at least do this one thing if she wants the pressure to be a little bit less on her So tell her that we demand she supports this otherwise we will make sure that her career comes to an end in the Senate Thank you very much. I would recommend that you be more concise than me I always end up just ranting whenever I call politicians, but you know the message is Support the pro act you could just call and say I demand that senator Sinema supports the pro act and that's it you can hang up It's that simple so public pressure works and we've got to make sure to even do small things like this To try to get their attention and move them in the right direction


So, agriculture, the food supply was a disaster. Let me read you something else from another article. Okay, so this is from an article, this is quoting kind of an expert on agriculture in Venezuela. So, Venezuela's disaster is man-made, economic, the result of farm nationalizations, currency distortions, and a government takeover of food distribution.  So, this is about Maduro, made it even worse. And this guy writes, it's not only the nationalization of land. The government has made the decision to be the producer, processor, and distributor of food. So, they own the entire supply chain of food production. And it makes the food bureaucracy in Venezuela completely out of control. Farmers are forced to import feed, fertilizer, and spare parts. But they can't do it without hard currency, without dollars. And the government has been hoarding the dollars from oil exports and using them to redistribute and using them to do all kinds of other things other than let farmers actually buy the stuff that they need. Land policies under late Chavez and Maduro made Venezuela more dependent on imported food than ever. And that was fine as long as they were producing huge amounts of dollars from the oil. And they could go buy the food. But once oil prices went down and the oil fields became inefficient, there was no new drilling, the production became super expensive, not enough oil flowed in. So, here's this country, which had always been quite self-sufficient when it came to food. Fertile ground, expert farmers, corporations that knew how to distribute food, some of the largest in Latin America, and they were incredibly successful at producing food. A rich country. And what the Chavez reforms did, what the co-ops did, what socialism did, what socialism did, what socialism did worth repeating, is destroy the entire farm infrastructure of Venezuela. Now, this is no surprise.


This video is about Chapter 2 Claimsmakers and Audiences from the book, Thinking about Social Problems, by Donalene Lowsky. And we will be summarizing the chapter for concepts that will be on your exam. So there are two topics in this chapter. One is taking a look at what are the best audiences to hear a social problems claim. And the other is who are the best spokespersons. And so we're going to take audiences first. So it is important to understand that choosing an audience for your social problems claim is important because not everybody who hears your message can or will be willing to do something about what you're asking them to do. So Lowsky goes into what she calls the hierarchy of audiences. And the principle behind this is that you want to pick an audience that will listen to you and that has the power to do something about your claim. So that means that one of the worst audiences that you could shoot for would be the general public because the general public has got a lot of different kinds of priorities and conflicting information. And they probably have the least amount of power to do anything. It takes an awful lot in social problems claims work to get a general audience to do what it needs to do in order to change society. You need a real groundswell from a general audience to, you know, a huge movement, if you will, in order for it to matter. Most of the time you want to pick an audience that has some authority over the problem that you are addressing. So in the hierarchy of audiences, she points out that you need to be able to have an audience that can be persuaded. Persuasion is an important part of the work that audiences are being asked to do. So you are trying to tell them a solution to a problem, and in telling them that solution to a problem, you are trying to get them to agree to the actions that you believe they should be taking. So if you are addressing a group of people who have already made up their minds and who are not open to persuasion, they are not as important of an audience as one that is open to persuasion. You also need an audience that has power. So you can, you know, preach to the choir all day long, but if they don't have the power to do anything about what you're talking to them about, then they are not going to be able, even if they are convinced by your arguments, to affect any kind of change. I mean, think about this. It's always going to be a question of power, because if a problem exists, and it could have been taken care of already, if people in power already cared about it, then that problem would have been addressed already and would go away. So always you are trying to convince somebody with power to do something different. There would not be a problem if people in power already cared about the problem that you are talking to them about. It would already be solved. So she points out that what you're asking audiences to do when you make a social problems claim is you are asking them to do work. You are asking them to consider and then take action. So if they are doing work, they have to draw upon particular resources in order to interpret, to be persuaded to use their power to change things. So what resources are available to an audience in order to do the work of an audience in the process of social problems claims? Well, for one thing you can appeal to and encourage them to draw upon their own practical experiences. In other words, when you are talking person to person to somebody in this audience, they have their personal lived experiences, and they can draw upon those lived experiences in order to understand the message that you're trying to get and to understand the action that you're asking them to take. There are also, as we've discussed before, social categories that can be drawn upon. So if you are talking to a particular audience and they have a particular status within society, you can, they can draw upon that status upon that social category that they belong to in order to be able to affect the actions that you're asking them to take. Social categories include things like your social status, the groups that you belong to, the kinds of understandings of who is being affected by this problem and who can do the most to change this problem. She points out that popular wisdom is part of what they're going to use to interpret what we are doing. This popular wisdom can include different sayings, norms, understanding of things and so forth. It is that sort of general knowledge that we all kind of think of as common sense that help us interpret things and think about things. So if I am, for instance, a good example of the best use of audience came from mothers against drunk driving. So mothers against drunk driving was an organization that actually started in the 1970s that wanted both judges and police officers to start enforcing the laws that were against people driving while under the influence of alcohol. Most people who know about mothers against drunk driving know it from their commercials in the late 80s and the efforts that they made to educate the public, but their first audience in the 1970s were police officers and judges. Now why were they police officers and judges? Because those are the people that were enforcing the laws. The laws were already on the books. But very often when somebody came before court, that judge probably had driven drunk at one point and understood that that kind of happens after a party and they would essentially let somebody off or give them an easy sentence because it was just understandable that you didn't mean it. That you were drunk and that you made a bad judgment call. And that was kind of popular wisdom at the time. In fact, if you look at old TV shows from the 60s and 70s, you often see the drunk as comic relief. It wasn't considered a serious problem. And if you would, the sensibilities that we have after all of these changes, we would look at those old shows and just cringe because here was somebody who had put lives in danger and instead of facing the consequences of putting people in danger.  So one of the work of the audiences for the mothers against drug driving was to change that popular wisdom to change that idea of what it meant to drive drunk. Cultural themes are also a part of this. If you cultural themes are essentially the kind of words are sayings that we have that evoke certain emotions and feelings that everybody kind of gets. For instance, if you say freedom, a lot of people in the United States have an idea of what freedom means. And if you appeal to freedom or think about freedom, or talk about freedom, there is a certain theme that comes up about what freedom means and how important it is and so forth. So, these cultural themes help shape the thinking of audiences. And when spokesperson evoke those themes, it can send them off in a particular direction and being persuaded or using the power. So for instance, cultural themes with our example of mothers against drug driving were things like personal responsibility. So personal responsibility is a theme that comes up quite a bit in discourse. And they drew upon that theme as a way to convince authorities that they should hold people responsible for their actions. So cultural feelings kind of go along with these cultural themes.  And one of the things that a mother's against drug driving got right is they very often evoke the cultural feelings of grieving. See, these were the members of this organization who went and spoke with these police officers and these judges were people who have lost someone to a drunk driver, either because they have been injured or killed at the hands of a drunk driver. And of course, telling your story and talking about the loss, especially a parent of losing a child will evoke a lot of cultural feelings like these people deserve more. These were innocent people who were hurt by these actions. So by evoking those cultural feelings, again, the audience begins to interpret what is being asked of them through the lenses of this sympathy and through the lenses of what they think is fair and just and not just dismissed, or as we said earlier, comic relief. So it's important when thinking about who the audience could be to understand what Lowsky calls social problems industries. What this means is that there are a lot of people who are employed in organizations and government agencies and so forth, whose job it is to address and correct and fix social problems. Industries are very much a potential place for people who are making social problems claims to make their claim. So, of course, one of the big social problems industries is government itself government at all levels of government makes social policy that policy is meant to address social problems. So if government agency that is in charge of a particular issue or a particular policy makes for a very good potential place to go and give your message because they have the power. And they are persuaded because they are supposed to be at least serving the citizens who are coming and petitioning them. There are organizational sponsors. There are all kinds of nonprofit organizations or businesses that have particular parts of their business that are dedicated to doing things about social problems. Some are more explicit, some are less explicit, but they are definitely in that social problems industry because they are involved in making changes that are supposed to improve society and improve particular issues. Educators, of course, are part of the social problems industry, not just sociology professors, but almost any kind of educator, including K through 12 preschooler and so forth, are going to address and give information out about particular problems. They may be more specific depending upon what their classroom situation is or what kind of discipline that they are a part of or whatever, but educators very often are involved in creating policy and assessing policy and in enacting policy and that makes them a good target for being an audience for social problems claim. Mass media, of course, when you can get the media involved and get them all excited about a particular issue or a particular social problems claim, that goes a long way to putting pressure on the people who are in power to do something about it. We've seen, again, using our example of mothers against drunk driving, once they develop chapters all over the country that had gone in and talked to police departments and had talked to judges and began to convince them to in fact create and enforce the laws that were already on the books to a certain extent. Regarding drunk driving, once they began doing this and started having some measure of success, then they turned to creating public service announcements and essentially created a meme that we all know which is don't drive drunk. And we often times or don't drink and drive is another saying, these are part of the power of mass media to create these small messages, these succinct messages that begin to change the way people think about a particular issue.  This includes counselors, social workers, sometimes teachers and so forth, but it also includes like prisons and the court system and anything where if somebody is in trouble, you know, suit kitchens, community closets, food banks, all of these kinds of things are all part of the troubled person industries. Now a troubled person industry has a particular aspect to it. It is very individually oriented. In other words, it sees it, it sort of default is to see the problem as happening inside the person. It's about the so a person commits a crime or a person is homeless, or a person is hungry, or a person is ignorant or in need of an education. A person is illiterate. All of these kinds of things are always focused on the individuals that they are trying to help, but they are definitely interveners in social issues. And so they make for a good audience if you have particular kinds of social problems claims. So what motives to, you know, in order to understand how to persuade a particular audience, you have to understand what motivates that audience. And Loski talks about different kinds of motives that are frequently a part of the thinking and the work that an audience does. So one of the things that motivates a lot of people is subjective values. We talked a little bit about cultural themes and so forth, but these relate to values that audience members hold, and this will affect how they receive your message and what they think about the message that you're giving. There are also objective interests of profit motives, for instance, or wanting to get across like say your, your message lines up very much with things that they want to acquire or problems that they want to solve.  Certainly mothers against drug driving did this to a certain extent because they appeal to subjective values, especially the value of life and that people were getting injured or killed. And they brought that to the forefront, but they also appeal to objective interest because judges and police officers want to be seen as enforcing the law as being true to the laws that is written. So by going to them and educating them on why it is important to enforce the law at a particular time, they appeal to and help to motivate them on the basis of this objective interest of meeting their function that is stated in their mission statements. Community emotions are basically appealing to a feeling on the part of the audience of being about something important, a sense of belonging, if you will. So if you can convince, like one of the things that mothers against drug driving did is they had local chapters all over the country, and they encouraged victims and families of victims of drunk driving to form these chapters. And as this movement became more widespread and had more and more people involved in it, there was this sense that if you don't change your mind, if you don't start acting in a particular way, you're going to be on the outside looking in. That this is something that the community needs, and therefore something that you want to be a part of that you have a sense of belonging. So this need to belong to something important, this sense of community can be very motivating and changing your mind and becoming more of a part of a particular movement, a particular effort to change and address the problem. So in addition to, we're going to switch a little bit here and talk about who's actually making these arguments. So you have the audience, which she addresses in the first part of the chapter and this audience is very important, because it is the, you know, these are the people that you're trying to make the decisions that need to become motivated to make the changes that you're trying to make. But who's going to talk to them. Who is going to be your spokesperson and that can be just as important, if not more so than the message, or the people that you're giving the message to. So she talks about credibility as being an important aspect of a spokesperson. They need to be seen as a valid credible source in the eyes of these audiences. So at the top of this hierarchy of credibility. She suggests scientists are like number one. So if you can get, if you're talking especially about medical issues or about particular kinds of technology issues, that kind of thing, then scientists are an important part of that message making. They are important spokesperson for that. And they often, because they are considered experts are considered highly credible. Of course, questioning the credibility of these scientists is part of what we see a lot going on right now in popular discourse. And so this can be argued out on the basis of their expertise, but also on the basis of whether or not they are credentialed, whether you know what their past history is what their expertise is so forth. So even though we're saying that this is a highly credible spokesperson, there are lots of ways in which that credibility can be questioned or diminished as they present the message. A good example of how this is not always workable has been climate change. So you have an incredible amount of scientists of the people who study climate change something like 97% of them say it's real and say it's man made and needs to be addressed by human beings in order to change it. But that credibility is doubted by a few people who have motives beyond just the credibility of the scientists. So oftentimes what gets debated is sort of my expert versus your expert, instead of talking about the message that is actually being given. And oftentimes also scientists have a lot of data that they present that can be kind of boring and unemotional, and that can create problems in trying to stir up and motivate people who are not scientists who are do not understand the numbers, or essentially get bored when they hear it. So scientists are a good, strong, credible spokesperson, but they are not always the best spokesperson, depending upon what you're trying to accomplish, who you're trying to persuade and who the audience is. Professionals are also part of it, you want somebody, you know, again, with an expertise and an understanding. Also, when you rely upon professionals, they very often are trained in the art of persuasion, and it is sort of their job to persuade. So being able to use people who are experts in a particular field in order to be a spokesperson can add credibility and can also add accessibility to the messaging that you have. And then of course victims are an excellent credible source. It is kind of hard to look at a victim and say you don't hurt or that doesn't mean anything or that's not good. Victims often are spokespersons. Going back to our example of mothers against drunk driving, you have the original spokespersons from mothers against drunk driving are just what the name implies. These are mothers who lost their children to drunk driving incidences. And they of course were telling their own stories, telling the pain that they went through telling the heartbreak that they went through because of this and that's a very powerful spokesperson when you're trying to convince people that there is a problem and that the problem needs to be solved in a particular way. But it is very important to understand that if you are using a victim as a spokesperson, that victim needs to be sympathetic. Children are regarded as never blamed for what goes what happens to them. They are essentially regarded as sort of a perfect victim because they are very sympathetic. And most of the time if they are victims, it is considered not their fault. They are innocent. You don't want to have as your spokesperson unsympathetic victims. So I'll give you an example of a case where this was important. There's an organization that I was aware of about 30 years ago that worked with men who have been arrested and convicted of child molestation. Most of these guys had molested a relative, either their own children or their nieces and nephews, etc. Not sympathetic victims at all. Even though the truth is that a lot of them did what they did because they had been victims themselves. That is not regarded by most people as an excuse for their behavior. But the work that was being done with them was very important because most child molesters have more than one victim. And if there is an organization that can intervene and heal them from that behavior, you essentially stop the cycle and stop victimization of future victims. So it's important work and they had very, they had a 0% recidivism. As in when these guys went through this program, they never hurt anybody again. And this program had been going on for about 20 years. Now it was very, very specific. They only took people who had been in jail, who had been jailed for what they did because they believed that that was. The best way to convince them that they had a problem. And they had very specific things that they did with these guys. Well, this professional who had to raise money to work with these men and molested children.  And I guarantee you that when he went out and talked to people to give them to get them to support his program either going to. Well, he got a lot of funding through the court system, so he had to apply for grants and that kind of thing. But he also had contributors so occasionally had to go and give speeches and appeal to a crowd to write a check to support his work. Well, I can tell you that he never ever went in and said, these poor guys need your help. Because they were not sympathetic victims. They were unsympathetic people who were regarded by most people as villains. So what he did do when he wrote his grants or gave his appeal is talked about the children who were being saved by this program. Because there was zero recidivism. This meant that men who probably would have had more victims did not have any more victims. And as such, then one could argue that this program was essentially for those children protecting those potential victims from being victimized by these men. So that was a much more credible, you know, him as a mental health professional and talking to these people about children as victims was much more credible than if he had gone and said, look, I've made it possible for these men to live normal lives and they are much better people because of what I did. Nobody cares. Nobody cares what it did for these men that they do care that these men weren't hurting other people. So that's how that hierarchy of credibility works. So, when we consider these experts, these scientists, the victims and so forth, we need to think in terms of which categories of people actually get involved in making claims and losky points out that there are three major groups of people who become claims makers. Activists are obvious most of the time social problems are being addressed and social problems claims are being made by people who are interested in actively changing problems within society so they have an activist bent. Scientists, of course, especially when you're looking at technology and climate change, medical issues and so forth. They often find themselves propelled into the position of being claims makers. And of course, mass media has all kinds of spokespersons who are claims makers and this brings up the question of celebrities, because there are a lot of celebrities who get on to mass media and talk about particular causes and particular social problems. Sometimes they present themselves the celebrities present themselves as victims, as people who have experienced these problems. And sometimes they are spokespersons who are particularly interested in a cause. Why are celebrities good claims makers? Well, because they get the attention of mass media.  So when she's the spokesperson for UNICEF, for instance, people are interested in what she's saying, not because she's a particular expert on it, but because she's a celebrity and people want to know what's going on. So these claims makers, according to Lowsky, are important because they have some credibility, because they get some attention, because they are persuasive to the audiences. And of course, picking the claims maker is important, depending upon the social problem that you're trying to address. So if you're addressing a social problem that doesn't have a lot to do with technology or medicine, having a scientist stand up and talk about it may not be all that convincing. Whereas if you're addressing a problem that requires lots of support from the public, then, you know, a celebrity might be important. But if you're, you know, if you sent a celebrity to the police departments to talk about drunk driving, it wouldn't have been as powerful as sending the activists who have, who were victims themselves, who had experienced this. So the successful social problems claim matches the claims maker with the audience, so that the audience will be convinced by the person and their credibility who is giving them the message. So that is where a lot of social problems claims fall down. You think that because you have a celebrity who is on your side that somehow you're going to get the right audience, but in fact what you get is either just mass media or the general public. And the general public is very fickle. The general public, you know, I'll give you an example in 2009, everybody was all freaking out about the Iranian election and it was all over social media and lots of people are talking about it and it was trending on Twitter. And then Michael Jackson died. And now all of a sudden we don't care about foreign politics anymore. All we care about is, you know, the king of pop has passed away. So there is lots of things that compete for the attention of the general public. And if you are trying to make changes, the general public is not necessarily your best audience. So again, what was he is pointing out is that picking the right audience and matching that with the right claims maker goes a lot. Those is part of what makes social problems claims work successful, meaning people listen and people consider and start working, giving their time, their money, their effort for your cause. And if you don't do that well, then what you end up with is it falling flat or not really being successful and getting people's attention or getting the attention of the right people that you need. So the last part of this, so that word enumeracy is a word that is like illiteracy. It means the inability to understand the implications of numbers to understand what numbers mean. When people are making social problems claims, they very often use official statistics. There are lots of agencies in the government. There are lots of universities and institutions that collect data and publish that data and publish reports on that data that help understand a problem, the depth and breadth of a problem and so forth. But the thing to remember about official statistics is that statistics like anything else are products of the social world. That is, there is a decision somewhere that has been made that we want to collect information on a and we're ignoring B. Now, what this means is that even official statistics which seem very objective can be subjective because they are biased towards the status quo. In other words, what we collect information on got determined by the world that we live in, not necessarily the world that we want to live in. And so we have a problem from the very beginning of data collection because the powers that be are usually the ones who determine which data is kept and which data is ignored or it may be that they just don't even think about things other than what they want to collect information on. So that's one problem with using numbers to make your claim before audiences. The other is that people have very different responses to numbers and these responses are not always logical or well informed when the numbers are presented to them. Sometimes, especially if you look at how numbers are presented, audiences can be offstrucked by these numbers. I'll give you an example. There's been a lot of discussion in the last couple of decades about the problem with children developing type 2 diabetes before the age of 18. And you can go and find people who are presenting these statistics and they collect the incidences of the number of people who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before the age of 18. And there are ways to present these numbers. So the data, if I recall correctly, was that in the first decade of the century, we went from an incident of .0125% of children under the age of 18. Now that's less, that's one one hundredth of a percent understanding how rare that is. They were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes under the age of 18 and then by the end of the first decade around 2010, that number had gone up to .025. Still very rare, but it got reported as there is twice as much diabetes than there was before. As if this was a trend, and by saying twice as much, it sounds drastic and horrible. Whereas, you know, if you looked at the data, that increase probably came from the fact that they started testing kids under the age of 18 for type 2 diabetes. That probably was explained more because people were making the diagnoses now, not because there were more children who were actually experiencing it, but because they used a percentage instead of using the actual number. It creates a more awestruck and freak out kind of aspect to it. We're going to talk about formula stories and upcoming chapters, but that kind of awestruck number attempt to make the numbers sound as drastic and incredible as possible is part of this enumeracy. A part of people don't ask questions beyond they just hear that it doubled or, you know, it's 200% more than it used to be and they're just become awestruck by it. Lots of people are naive. They think that numbers don't lie and they don't understand how numbers are presented and because they're not educated in it, they very often respond to numbers like, okay, that sounds good and they don't really question them or evaluate them. There are people who are cynical. They believe that our numbers lie and they very often doubt anything when somebody starts giving them statistics about things. Of course, there are people who are capable of being critical when they understand these numbers. And those people very often are far and few between that when an audience engages in that kind of critical response to the numbers that you're giving, the spokesperson has to be very versed in what they are talking about and have to be able to respond to these responses by explaining the numbers and making the audience, helping the audience to understand the implications of these numbers. So basically this chapter is going over this process between the people who receive the message and the people who tell the message. And this is an important beginning in looking at Loski's framework because this is where very often the messaging of groups that want to make a difference break down. They either pick the wrong audience or they pick the wrong spokesperson or they fail to persuade the audience and motivate the audience when they present this information. And that's the end of the notes for chapter two.


In the meantime, six persons have been confirmed dead with an unspecified number injured and that's following a bomb explosion that rocked a drink bar in Messiah Market, Iwari Community in Taraba State. The blast occurred on Tuesday, a visit to the scene of the incident revealed blood stains on the floor and a shattered local drinking joint. The anti-bomb squad of the Niger police force was also on the ground, combing the area for a possible bomb detonation and while Jihadists affiliated to the Islamic State have claimed responsibility for this attack.


My name is Marek van Wijk. I'm from Wageningen University and work with Plant Production Systems. I'm here to present modelling work we have been doing in the past. And we hope that the modelling work can contribute towards the goals of SOP and especially towards the quantification of the trade-offs between the uses of crop residues. So either you can incorporate them into the soil and maintain soil fertility or you can feed them to the cattle and then boost cattle productivity. The models I presented can really quantify the consequences of certain decisions. So they won't be able to identify new strategies or new technologies that can be implemented but really to quantify what will happen if a certain strategy is implemented. So the models we are using are really for researchers and then the outcomes can be summarized or sort of translated into indicators we can present to policy makers. What we try to use are summary models because data availability in the systems we are dealing with here in the SOP project is really an issue. So we try to keep them as simple as possible without losing of course all the main characteristics and the main problems that are playing in the different sites.


If you are a lover of the Isak, then you definitely know that last week that song Waitress by Jadi was our hit of mistrack And they are here in the flesh. They'll be talking to us telling us what they have in store for us and What they're doing and we get to know them. Sindio, welcome Thank you so much for having us. You're welcome. How are you? We are happy to be here. You are happy to be here. And we are happy to have you Let people know who Jadi is Alright Ladies and gentlemen sit down to a Jadi for everybody Representing Masena we came to party and not bother nobody. I'll see you So, okay that together you are Jadi individually who is who is who? Me, Najua, but who is who? You tell the people For sure, two queers I go by Dawn, it's my brother over here, Vince The two of us make up Jadi simply So, Kitamuki Dogo, Jadi was made of three people and now it's two people So what happened? What did he do? In very few words. See, me, Najua, he did it sometimes What did he do? Anyway, our bro decided to go solo and pursue his solo career And he felt that time he was doing well in Africa And I took him to Pingamizi, so he gave him a blessing He took me to Pingamizi You took him to Pingamizi? Who says Pingamizi? Who says Pingamizi? Wasohili, I know, me too So, Nyim Kabaki, the two of you and you're doing amazing things And just a quick one before we even get to the music What do you think is happening to boy bands in Kenya? Because I mean to make one a wengie that they were there Doing great, very very talented Oops, very talented We had Le Band, we had Kaskazini, Moja Katoka Then they were left, the two of them And so many we had Red Aka Pella and then we have Jadi What is happening to boy bands? What do you think is the best solo career? Who is taking that one? I think it's a funnier sign Done Firstly, what I'd just like to say, it's part of life That's a beautiful thing about life You don't know what will happen next You don't know if you'll be with someone the next day You don't know if you'll still be together But as long as you're putting in the work, which we are I feel like everything just falls into place So, we took Kuan Delia Nakazi Like you can say that 10 years from now We'll still be here That's the goal, that's the goal But you have to work towards it If you just let it be That's the funnier thing But the hope is The goal is going all the way That's the goal So, every other musician has signed under a label And you are signed under Kaka Empire How is it different from Because when you came together as Jadi You were Kaka King, right? So how has that been for you When you are doing independent things Independently as a solo artist Doing everything for yourself Vince Alright, thank you teacher I would say A team either makes or breaks an artist It depends on their chemistry So, if your team understands you And understands your brand And how to push you, the better We are lucky to find that team That understands how to market and push our brand So, many people tentatively are not lucky Or the team they choose Piawako, Kidogo, Inept here and there But it all depends on them And their relationships And also how able and connected they are Because that's also an necessity What do the day, Inept? I'm not sure I'm not sure I'm not sure I'm not sure That's nice Let's talk about Waitress We did that song last year We have a segment called Hit or Miss We did that your song last week Our Hit or Miss It was a hit It was a hit It was a hit No, no, no, no It was a hit It was a hit And our fans thought it was a hit So, how has the reception been out there? And shout out to a friend of the show Your Vixen, Truth 2.5.4 She is a friend of the show Truth 2.5.4, what's up? Yeah How is the reception out there? The reception is great This is actually The first song You know, every time we release a song People's opinions are different This is the only song Just came saying They are just content with it So, that means we did a good job So, we are happy You're happy You have something to say? I have something to say I have something to say I have something to ask I have something to ask I have something to ask The music you're doing Is not music that To me, it's where Gengaton, especially now in that Kawewia Gengaton and everything Your kind of music is mellow And Kenyans, they are not very receptive To that kind of music How are you dealing with that? And how are you making them accept And enjoy the music that you do? We will force it down their throats We have bangers We have club songs But this phone now is a brand And this is what we're going to push Wait, these bangers Where are they? They are on the way Is there something I have not heard They are coming So, you will force it down their throats What kind they are spending I think you need to Test out the power of consistency True To whether hard work really pays Or not Test the theory So, you haven't worked with anyone Really on a collaboration other than Kaka Empire Artist Are you planning to do Collaborations Ziko He's not a collaboration I will I will do it I will do it soon We have Over An album in studio To strategize Just how to release The music And also this year I worked with as many people as possible Definitely Lots of collaborations With artists that are not Kaka Empire Artists From other countries Insha Allah So, you worked in studio I worked in studio too Hard work Hard work To find a job If you don't want to work If you don't want to work If you don't want to work If you don't want to work If you don't want to work If you don't want to work People need to work hard So, after waitress You've talked about the album Anything else before You dropped the album We've not confirmed or denied Anything about the album So, we will see We will see We will see We will see We will see We will see We will see We will see We will see We will see We will come real soon Plus, lots of singles and collaborations As we said right now We are working with lots of people Expect lots of collaborations Between Jadie and Some of your favourite artists We are waiting Before we get to waitress Again, the performance We have a question today So, I will ask And I'm sure you have female friends You've been in a relationship before I You have female friends True I know Wow You have female friends You've been in a relationship before How much money do you have? I don't How much money do you have? You have a girlfriend How much money do you have? How much money do you have? How much money do you have? How much money do you have? How much money do you have? How much money do you have? How much money do you have? If you have a girlfriend How much money do you have? It's something that we need to stop Being shy about Thank you If they can come through for you If they are your personal friends Why not? I don't know I don't know exactly But I turn out to be a girl Exactly But I am polite I am polite I think I am most of the same opinion Why not? The only person who is of a contrary opinion today is him What is your argument? What is your argument? I am always young I want you to know that we shall be here until tomorrow We shall be here until tomorrow I want you to sympathize if we start talking Tonga Kando Tonga Kando Why can people find your music? Yes, your music So on YouTube, it is Jadi Music Instagram or IG Handle there is real Jadi Jadi Kenya Twitter Tiktok Pia Tiktok Pia What are your points? Tiktok Pia 2 different answers 2 different answers 2 different answers I think the music is also on all streaming platforms Spotify, iTunes Individual Handles All over Tiktok Pia Don't Dot Tumbo Is my Handle Any shout outs as we wind up? Shout out everybody who loves Jadi Music We love you too Mama Shout out to you Thank you so much for coming through We wish you all the best in your music We hope to see you more and to do more of your tracks on our Hades of Miss segment and yeah We shall test the theory Up next is Waitress by Jadi


This calculus video will be about the following problem. Can we plot all solutions of x to the y equals y to the x? So we start by thinking about trivial solutions. Well, there are some obvious solutions. We can just take x equals y. There's another solution, two to the power of four is equal to four to the power of two. So that gives us an extra two points underline. And in order to find all other solutions, I'm going to give two different methods. So the first method, let's just raise both sides to the power of one over xy. Then we find x to the one over x equals y to the one over y. So we've got to find values of x and y that have the same value of this function. Well, we can take the logarithms of both sides. So the logarithm of this is just the logarithm of x over x. And that has to be the logarithm of y over y. So whenever we've got powers, it's best to write them in terms of logarithms and exponentials. So obviously what we should do is we should draw the graph of log of x over x to see what it looks like. And the graph looks a bit like this. So it's equal to zero at x equals one at x less than one. It tends to minus infinity. And as x tends to infinity, it tends to zero because x is much bigger than log of x. So it looks something like this. Here's the point one. And obviously we should find out what the maxima of this function are. So we differentiate log of x over x and using the usual rule for derivative of a quotient. We find this is equal to one over x times x minus log of x times one or divided by x squared, which is equal to one minus log of x over x squared. So this vanishes when log of x is equal to one. In other words, when x is equal to e. So this is the point where x is equal to e. And you see this derivative is negative for x bigger than e. So it decreases all the way here and it's positive for x less than e. So the slope is always positive there. So that gives us a good idea of what this function looks like. Now we want to find points x and y that have the same value of this function. Well, obviously if x and y are the same, then they have the same value. So what about when x and y are not the same? Well, we could take x to be here and y to be up there. For example, and then if we make x a bit bigger, we find y is there and if x is a bit bigger, y is there and so on. So we can see that as x increases from one to infinity, the value of y decreases from infinity to one and they cross over at this point here where x and y are both e. So with this information, we can now plot the points where x to the y equals y to the x and the answer we get looks like this. We just take x and y axis and let's plot where x is equal to one and y is equal to one. And then first of all, we have the points where x equals y and then we have the points where x starts at one and increases to infinity and y starts at infinity and decreases down to one. So that ends up looking a bit like this. And as we saw, they meet at the point ee. So the points where x to the y equals y to the x consists of two components and they cross at this point here. So that gives one solution and I guess we can mark in the special values four, two and two, four. There's an alternative algebraic solution we can give. What we do is we make the substitution y equals t times x which is a very common and useful substitution. And then the equation x to the y equals y to the x becomes x to the tx equals tx to the x. Now we can take the x root of both sides and we find x to the t equals tx. Now we divide by x, x to the t minus one is equal to t. And now if t equals one, we just get the solution x equals y. If t is not equal to one, we can take the t minus one through to both sides. So we get x is equal to t to the one over t minus one. This is for t not equal to one. And y is equal to t times this which is equal to t to the t over t minus one. So as t varies from naught to infinity, this gives a parametric formula for this curve here. For example, if t is very large, then x is about one and y is about infinity. So here we have t tends to infinity and here we have t tends to zero. As t tends to one, the limit of t to the one over t minus one is e. So the limit is t tends to one of t to the one over t minus one is equal to e. So at t equals one, we get this point here. This point here is where t equals two, t equals a half, and we can do other things. For instance, if we take t equals three, we find x is equal to the square root of three, y is equal to three times the square root of three. So we get another point here, t equals three, point root three, three root three, and so on.


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As-salamu alayka yabnah fātima tazzaḥrā As-salamu alayka yā atshān As-salamu alayka yā mazlume karbalā As-salamu alayka yā shahīd As-salamu alayka yā khaddika tareeb As-salamu alayka wa ala l-arwāḥ al-lati Ḥallat b-finaik As-salamu alayka minni as-salamu allāhi abadan Ma baqītu wa baqiyya l-laylu wa l-nahār Wa la ja'alahu allāhu ākhir al-āḥd minni bi-ziyāratik As-salamu ala l-Husayn As-salamu ala l-Husayn Wa ala aliyyibn al-Husayn Wa ala awlād al-Husayn Wa ala as-hāb al-Husayn Now, as you're watching the Holy Shrine of Aba al-Fabl al-Abbas, alayhi s-salām I would like to say salām to the best loyal brother who sacrificed whatever he had for his brother, Husayn, for his imām Aba Abdullah al-Husayn, alayhi s-salām I would like to say salām to Aba al-Fabl al-Abbas, alayhi s-salām And before I say salām to Aba al-Fabl I would like to ask him, I would like to beg him to help all the brothers and sisters all the viewers, all the mu'minīn and mu'mināt from all around the world to help them to be able to come to Karbala especially for 40 days, insha'Allah Aba al-Fabl al-Abbas, you are Bab al-Hawa'id you are the gate of the willings you are the gate through which the willings will be answered please, ya Aba al-Fabl al-Abbas alayhi s-salām, don't reject us As-salāmu alayka ya Aba al-Fabl al-Abbas As-salāmu alayka ya Qamar al-Asheera As-salāmu alayka ya Qatee al-Kafayn As-salāmu alayka ya Hamila Liwā'i al-Husayn, ya Aba al-Fabl al-Abbas As-salāmu alayka wa alā Ummika Umm al-Mani'n Wa alā Ikhwatika al-Mustahideen abayna yaday Abā Abdullāh al-Husayn alayhi s-salām wa rahmatullāhi wabarakātuh My dear brothers and sisters, tonight not only tonight, every night in Karbala is a special night, and I'm so proud I'm so proud of serving you and being here to serve all of you, dear brothers and sisters and insha'Allah you also don't forget to pray for us because I know that your heart is ready to say salām to Imam Hussain alayhi s-salām So, we will receive your beautiful salām and praise over Facebook and of course over WhatsApp, which is the phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>71837 Until you get ready to send your messages I would like to get a break for maybe one minute then we'll be back again My dear brothers and sisters, today as I tell you is a special day exactly for me and of course for you For me, today is a different day This morning, I woke up by a phone call As you know, we are used to have WhatsApp calls during the live show that we've got Welcome to Karbala But today, this morning at 8 o'clock in the morning I got a phone call from a dear respected visitor Dear respected visitor of Imam Hussain alayhi s-salām She was crying She was crying and she just wanted to say salām to Imam Hussain alayhi s-salām At that time, I really had no idea I said, I told her that it's not live show right now But she insisted and she said that I want to say salām to Imam Hussain right now And as I was at home and thanks God that my home is near Imam Hussain holy shrine Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah So I went to the roof as soon as possible and put the phone on the speaker and took it and raised it and took it off like this and then she said salām to Imam Hussain alayhi s-salām just in front of the holy shrine of Imam Hussain alayhi s-salām Thanks God, thanks God I'm so happy to be able to serve all of you dear brothers and sisters Yesterday night as I just promised you I went to holy shrine of Imam Hussain alayhi s-salām That was outstanding That was great, that was perfect That was such a pure feeling that I just filled in the holy shrine of Imam Hussain alayhi s-salām Nothing is comparable with the feeling that one gets inside the holy shrine of Imam Hussain alayhi s-salām or even Aba al-Fallil Abbas alayhi s-salām I pray, I beg God I beg Imam Hussain and I beg Aba al-Fallil Abbas alayhi s-salām to grant you this opportunity to be here in Karbala inshallah as soon as possible especially in the days of Arda'een I would like to remind you don't stop trying to be here in Karbala try to be in Karbala inshallah in the day of Arda'een do whatever you can do so you be here inshallah and do Ziyarah of Arda'een even if you cannot come just help others to come or call the embassy of Iraq or send them letters ask them to make it easy for you to come to Karbala and do the Ziyarah of Arda'een inshallah here I can see I've got lots of messages on Facebook I would like to start reading them so I would like to start with the first message Abbas Mehdi says assalamu alayka ya Aba Abdullah al-Hussain alayhi s-salām my brother Abbas thank you so much for your salam thank you so much for your salam thank you so much for your salam Rasul Hussain says assalamu alaykum please remember us in your prayers to all Imam al-Hussain to Imam al-Hussain Ya Sayyidi my deepest condolences on the loss of Zaynul Abideen alayhi s-salam thank you Rasul Hussain thank you for this message inshallah God bless you and God have mercy on you and your family and I pray for you and your family to be in a good condition and good health and be able to come to Karbala as soon as possible inshallah Maryam Strauss I think if I'm just reading her last name correctly she says I can't call live I don't have WhatsApp but can you message me and I can give you my number I want to take shahada besides send my prayers inshallah because tonight we also have got a problem an internet issue unfortunately with the WhatsApp I think that it will be a little bit hard inshallah I will send you a message my sister Maryam so tomorrow night maybe we can just make a call together so you can say you can take the shahada inshallah and you can say salam to Imam Fassail alayhi s-salam if you don't mind because as I told you unfortunately because of some issues that we just face internet issues and the other things I think that it is a little bit hard to do that right now but I will promise you that I will send you a message inshallah to have your phone number and then we call and you just take the shahada inshallah on air and all the mu'mineen and mu'minat here you live inshallah Nargis Nasir says salam brothers please pray for my husband's paperwork to go through smoothly inshallah so we can both visit Karbala together inshallah I am so happy Nargis Nasir Nasir that you have stepped into this way and you are trying to come to Karbala I pray inshallah everything goes okay and great with you and with the visa that you are just going to get so you can come easily to Karbala inshallah and do ziyarah next to the holy shahada Fassail alayhi s-salam please don't forget to pray for us to as we don't forget to pray for all of you alia abbas says salam ya hussain oh hussain please call us again with my family thank you brother alia abbas thank you for your call thank you for your message inshallah imam hussain will not project you im sure imam hussain is so kind yassameen asham says ya hussain ya hussain ya hussain thank you yassameen labbaika ya hussain labbaika ya hussain labbaika ya hussain hasan asadi says ya hussain alayhi s-salam thank you brother hasan thank you for your message and ya hussain is the word which just makes once the mu'mineen and mu'mina and mu'mina is hard to beat you know by love you know kind of I don't know how to describe it but hussain name makes once hard to vibrate in another condition that it is used to do it beats in another in a different way I don't know if you just feel it or not ya hussain ya hussain alayhi s-salam says cannot hear you no voice I don't know maybe we've got do we've got any voice issue says salam ya abbas alayhi s-salam I don't know my brothers and they control them do we've got voice issue I don't think so maybe it has there was an issue but it is a it is ya I think that it is faced now inshallah alayhi s-salam says oh abbas please call us at your home your beautiful shrine inshallah brother Ali I also pray for you to be here inshallah and do a ziyarah live ziyarah it seems that unfortunately we got an issue with the voice technical issue so I do apologize for that so I'm going to read the messages again alayhi s-salam ya hussain oh hussain please call us again with my family inshallah I also pray for you and your family to be in a good condition and be able to come to Karbala and visit the holy shrine afram hussain alayhi s-salam afram al-abbas alayhi s-salam asham says ya hussain ashan asadi says ya hussain and I was just saying that the word hussain has a kind of special impact effect on mu'mineen's heart when you say hussain suddenly your heart starts to beat in another beat rate you know in another vibration type so alhamdulillah that we are lovers of hussain we are followers of Ahlulbayt alayhum s-salam alayhi s-salam ya abbas alayhi s-salam oh abbas please call us at your home your beautiful shrine inshallah inshallah my brother Ali I also pray for you and your family to be able to come to Karbala inshallah as soon as possible of course and especially in arba'een period andalib afgal says as-salam ya mu'la alayhi s-salam andalib and family thank you so much andalib alayhi s-salam as-salam ya mu'la alayhi s-salam as-salam ya mu'la alayhi s-salam I've got also some messages on whatsapp so I would like to read them first of all Sayyidah Shabnam Batool she has sent a message and says please on air call my mother's name and my name on rosa Imam Hussain or on holy farah for Hussain alayhi s-salam as here I'm sitting at the nearest place regarding the holy shana and all these places assume to be rosa al-Hussain so I would like to pray for Sayyidah Shabnam Batool and Sayyidah Hira Naqawi inshallah God bless you and your mother Sayyidah Shabnam Batool and inshallah God have mercy on you and your family and I pray and ask God to help you and your family to be able to come to Karbala as soon as possible I know how your heart is in love with Hussain how you feel towards Karbala I can feel it I can feel it because those writings, those messages those salams which are just coming to us they are full of love towards Imam Hussain alayhi s-salam any single salam has a word of meaning by itself so inshallah I hope all of you to be able to come here and visit holy shana at Imam Hussain alayhi s-salam especially in 40 days and I've got another message on whatsapp my brother says actually he has not sent his name so I don't know who is the sender but anyway this is a message that I received on whatsapp another message says for my parents, entire family and all of us at the holy shrine please pray for all heal and disease mu'mineen and mu'minat labbaika ya Hussain labbaika ya Abbas ya Ali Madad Salawat I think that this message is ya this message is from late Aqa Shabeer Hussain and family the one who sends us these messages by this name inshallah God bless you and your family and God have mercy on you for being a loyal viewer of this live ziyara and a loyal viewer of this live ziyara this Welcome to Karbala Live TV show is exactly a loyal visitor of Imam Hussain alayhi s-salam you are loyal to Imam Hussain that you just come with us you are every night you are with us and you say salam to Imam Hussain alayhi s-salam so you love Hussain there is a kind of special appeal love into your heart that lets you to say salam to Imam Hussain and be every night with us inshallah I've got just one another message right here please announce my mother's name and my name please please pray for me that Mola passes me in my examination inshallah I think that these messages are also from Saydeh Shab Nambatul and thank you for your beautiful messages everyone Rafat Farhansa, Salam Mola Ali Rafat Farhan, Salam Mola Abbas and these are all the messages that we have on Facebook and WhatsApp thank you all my dear brothers and sisters thank you for being with us and I'm so proud and happy to serve you inshallah God accepts this try and this life Ziyara from all of us inshallah tomorrow night we'll be together again by another life Ziyara have a great night and goodbye


Thank you. Okay, welcome everybody. Sorry for the slow uptake. Let's see what happens when you get home. So we have with us today, the wonderful inimitable, you should be a late night talk show host, Rebecca Ratliff, who after years and years and years of trying to teach the insurance industry how to humanize claims handling has now moved into humanizing conflict resolution, where we know she's gonna be a lot more effective. Bill Harrison, our reading criminal defense attorney, one of our leading civil rights attorney and a brother of a different mother. So it's just the three of us today. This is just your trio, you know, piano, bass and drums. So Rebecca, you're the keyboards. What would you folks like to talk about today? There's so much. There is. Well, let me start you with something. I was just reading that the Republican Senate is now unifying to demand that President Biden remove Deb Haaland as the interior secretary nominee. Hopefully, knowing Joe Biden and the rest of his team, that one will fly just about as far as a wing Donald Trump. But to me, it's extremely offensive. Not just because my grandmother was Latino, Native American, but because if that time has not long since passed, to me, that's pure racism. The reason they're trying to get her out is because she will put a stop. And it's a privilege to things like the Dakota pipeline and things like that, that are just as egregious treaty violation as the things that Andrew Jackson and people like that did. But when we're talking about white supremacy, racism in America, we ain't talking about just black and white, indigenous peoples have been mistreated as badly or worse as any by white leadership, intentionally for a long, long time. Well, we have to start from the historical perspective here. Number one, this is America was Native Americans. That is America. And as most imperialists do, they take over lands that they come into contact with. There's a belief in ownership that ownership can be in an individual or a family or a nation. And clearly, if you talk about indigenous peoples, they see that very differently. The land that they are on, they're caretakers of that land. No one owns that land, but the man upstairs. And so they have a total different perspective on that. And clearly, when you have a very conservative white America trying to oust someone like that, it's back to where we started. It's back to where we came. It's imperialism, white privilege at its worst. Basically, if a president has a right, traditionally to pick his or her, cabinet members, body affiliated members, people that they believe have the same agenda as they have. And so that traditionally has been our political structure to do that. And so this not only smacks it against that, right? It's from how forefathers had written in the laws to this whole idea of imperialism at its worst. And instruct, yeah, and obstructionism. These are obstructionists who have no clear reason why they don't want this choice except to just give the new president a hard time. It is really a sad time in America that we've come to the petty fights. And we used to say, we'll talk about the devil, but we really didn't know QAnon is in Congress. And it is just really an interesting and sad time for Americans like me who believe that the race that we are all called to care about is the human race. And it is just, this is really something to watch. I didn't know that in my lifetime I would see this type of behavior, but it just feels like we're living, we've moved back into the 1800s almost. Or worse, yeah. Or worse. Hey, no, and it's pure white racism. And there just isn't another name for it. And it's overt and it's intentional and they know it is. And 45, and they think they need to do that to hold on to the Trump's chair of voters. The sector of the rural, less educated evangelical population that really thought he was standing up for them against everybody that didn't look like them and talk like them. Exactly. And I want to make a point here. I think that the president, the former president basically used religion in the wrong way because obviously there are evangelicals who obviously are not of the same ilk as the Trump supporters. And like you say, they really catered to the uneducated group of folks there to use them as sort of their shield as they ran towards America. And so it's really unfortunate that people fell into that sort of mentality and allowed Trump to do that and use them. Christianity is the foundation of our country. It's the backbone of our country. And the mere fact that people are Christians in and of themselves doesn't necessarily mean that they're conservatives in some respect or that they have a political bent such as a Republican bent and so on. I'm Christian and I'm Democrat, right?  And it's unfortunate they've used that, the Bible and that Christian belief to really use that and ostracize people and also to force their agenda on people which is really unfortunate. Well, the Bible was used to keep slavery going. It's, the Bible has always been used in the manipulation of people and that's coupled with fear and just other tactics that have been used to oppress people, keep people down, make people concerned about their fellow man, just the mistrust and then add to that misinformation and disinformation. I actually had to look in the dictionary to make a distinction between, I had never, I don't think I had ever heard the word disinformation. Of course, we know misinformation is wrong information but disinformation is wrong information on purpose. And I don't think I had ever heard that word. So I had to look up the distinction between the two words but it's just, this is manipulation at a very high level. It's very highly motivated clearly because we have what we know to be intelligent enough people just continuing lies and just the falsehoods for political gain, but I have to believe that there's more to it and maybe somebody's put it in a time capsule and we'll hear about what really happened. Maybe my son will actually hear what actually happened back when somebody writes the book. But I don't think we have any idea what's really going on here and where the motivations truly come from. And there are people who are well-rounded historically like Heather Cox Richardson who are really starting to bring out elements of truth. Hey, Isabelle Wilkerson with her book, Cats. Things that we really need to understand that have been suppressed, that have been intentionally twisted withheld, very thick because what we've been seeing in this country are not just the last four years or the last 40 or the last several hundred is intentional inequality. It is a platform, it is a principle that the Republican party has adopted. Can you imagine in our history a political party comes into the presidential nomination and comes out of it with no platform. Just whatever he tweets, that's our platform. Now, that's not embarrassing, that's shameful because what he tweets is racist, it's misogynist, it's extremely destructive and it's anti-humanity. And I think for those of us whose values be you Christian, like Bill and Becca or Zen Buddhist, like the underneath, respecting the equal value of the human spirit in each person. What they do with it may be different, how they express it and treat people may be different but that innate human spirit in and of itself has a value that should unify it. And you don't have to be religious to see that, you just have to be fair-minded. When my son was five years old, we kept reading to the kids up to five or six or even seven because it's such a nice way to end the day.  So I was reading to him about racial tensions in the inner city back in the 1950. And he looks at me but I didn't really do that. He said, oh yeah, much worse than that, much more cruel than that.  I have come finally, almost 70 years later, to understand where that came from in him, what it meant to him.   Disconnect and decency. But you also hit on systemic racism, structural racism, it's baked in bias, it's worse than that. It is the willingness, regardless of the evidence, to the contrary, to participate in systems that keep people down. Black and brown people, maybe people who are, I don't think we use the word handicap anymore, people who have a disability, whether it be physical or mental, we ostracize people as a society. But then those, the structural racism piece further, just it keeps people out of neighborhoods and it keeps people out of jobs and it restricts participation and inclusion. And it's a cancer in our society. Yeah, no, and I agree with that, absolutely. And one of the things that I keep going back to religion, one of the things that was part of serving this past weekend was this whole idea of selfishness and pride and how those two things really can destroy, obviously unity, most importantly, unity, because a selfish person is not selfless. A selfish person does not think about anyone else. A selfish person lets pride get in the way of proper decision making. And so I think that that really on top of stupidity is a real problem for a lot of people. And that we have to refocus and we think about our selfishness and what we want. It's always we, what we want, what I want, okay? Instead of what the community deserves as a whole and what we best for the community. As we as a civilization never made it anywhere without a community. We didn't make it, the single people, single individuals throughout history never made it. It was the community that always supported the person and that community existed, thrived, survived. And we have to get back to that mentality of selfishness versus selfishness. That's a good point, Bill. So is it unwillingness or is it inability or is it incapacity? What is it? It's a wrong mindset that we are as from childhood and a lot of communities that mindset is instilled in us that we come first, that we are the best, that you don't get anywhere in this world unless you're the best and you have to scratch and climb over people to get where you're supposed to be. We had that in our former leader, okay? That was his mentality and his upbringing. And we have to get away from that. So obviously it's a disconnect from the old and a reconnect to a different mindset. It really is a mindset. And as Chuck is saying, it starts with families and children and properly raising your child and instilling in that child those types of moral beliefs, understandings, educating them in the proper framework, laying down with them before they go to sleep, reading them to them, very critical reading to them and children understand that. People say, well, you can't read that stuff to children. Yes, you can. Because they definitely have the capacity to understand. So we need to rethink how we address our views, our societal views in the sense of being selfless versus selfish. And I think, Bill, that you folks have hit right on the heart of the matter. Just going through this with my MBA class. We had that one time. Wonderful students, best students I ever had. They live in a collective society. So they have a kind of advantage which honors ancestors and generations and connections and relationships between. Anyway, we were exploring, what is it that cultivates and motivates, that greed, that selfishness, that really disruptive manifestation of self? And when the choice and the ability to connect with people of choosing the opposite is so much happier, so much more rewarding, brings so much more people. Hey, and one of the students, very insightful young man, as you know, maybe we're all insecure. Maybe sometimes the insecurity, we feel we're not going to be able to succeed in that competition. We're not going to be able to get those rewards where it's a zero-sum life game. And that makes us more competitive. It makes us less trustful. It makes us engage in more of the conflict behavior, less of the collaborative behavior. And we thought about that. We talked about that for a little while. And then we started to see, looking at the most destructive leaders in world history, Hitler, Trump, others, Mussolini, right? These are all people who manifest that extreme insecurity. These are classic textbook, Narcissus K. But it's not the insecurity that makes them the most destructive. They go public with it because they are overconfident in their ability to get away with it. That they can manifest that insecurity in destructive negative emotions, hacking people, tearing down people. And that will somehow build them up by tearing down the other. And they pick on the people that they feel are least like them. And they do it very superficially the way they look. I was in a book club conversation, I think we talked about this a little bit, where a wonderful participant, nice older white lady asked the question, how do I not be seen as just another Karen? Hey, and it went around for a little while. And so her friends in the book club said, oh, don't worry about that. We all know you. We know you're very open-minded. You treat people all fairly. And another person said, yeah, plus we're in Ann Arbor. It's a bastion of liberalism. We don't have to worry about that. Hey, and I thought to myself, well, number one, if you really want to not be another Karen, and I would be the male equivalent, whatever that is, you have to not be another Karen. You have to be a person who is not just seen but known as one whose closest friends, whose family, whose chosen companions in life are diverse people, older, younger, people of color, people of different backgrounds. And my kids have become those people. I've tried to live to become that person.  It's so much better choice. Jump into the salad bowl. Join the daikon and the lemon grass and the lettuce and the tomatoes and the cucumbers where everybody has their own texture and flavor and value and color and everybody has a place and the salad would be less if we weren't all in there. That's right, join the, yeah, the sweet, the salty, the crunchy. Yeah, the experience is much more rich and so is the flavor when you have that inclusivity piece. People get diversity and inclusion all mixed up. It's first diversity and inclusion was the tag phrase. And then it became inclusion and diversity because inclusion was the piece that everybody was missing. So look, there are two black people in the room but they're not saying anything. They're not making any contribution and they have a special set of skills that you're not using or enabling. And then so it went from diversity and inclusion to inclusion and diversity. And then it went to DE and I, diversity, equity and inclusion because we had to drive the point home a little more by adding equity. And now it's diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging because guess what, still institutionalized didn't really understand the inclusion piece. And now we have to add the belonging component to try to focus on retention because you may get some bright stars but it's hard to keep them because they don't feel like they belong, they're not supported. So it's, we have these struggles in our country and if we all stick together and have open conversations, Chuck and I are famous for our good trouble conversations and projects, I believe, I have to believe we'll be okay because a lot of people have worked very hard for us to be okay. And there's one more. Diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging are absolutely wonderful but until you have crossed the bridge with those two empowerment, you're not there. So I think what we're talking about is not just a seat at the table but a decision-making influencing her seat at the table. That's H-E-A-R-D, not H-E-R-D, right? That's equity partners in law firm. That's the suite in corporate. That's department and agency heads and deputies in government. Those are what we need to see. That needs to happen. We need to look at a society in which our leadership reflects not just the best of diversity but the best of diverse choices because we know statistically the more diverse your decision-making group, the more comprehensive the perspectives, the understanding and the more sustainable the decision and the action taken will be and the more beneficial for the greater range of people. And we'll see you here today because we love that mix, right? Go over there. Well, you just gave me another title. I'm listening to you talk about herd H-E-A-R-D versus herd and then I wrote down from C-suite to C-suite and I meant S-E-E suite. We don't just want to see people, we actually want them to be in leadership positions, in power positions, in decision-making positions. That's exactly right. There are all these optics sometimes that we see in corporate America where it looks like it looks good but the boxes are just being checked off and the people who really are making decisions they don't look black and brown. They don't look like other diverse, people in other diverse categories. We have to get there. Exactly. You need to open the door, you need to open your mind and take a little praise from Rebecca. You got to rewind at that point. And it really is as you're indicating Chuck, it really is an idea that once we do this it's better for everyone. Obviously not only for the person getting through the door but that person is going to lend so much to the dialogue, to the conversation, to the growth of where you want to go because you don't know that perspective and that perspective completes the pie for everyone. And so it's about getting as well as allowing someone to get. It's just the other half of the pie. And as we move into our last couple of minutes where we are, maybe one of the things we can think about is we're not just opening door. We are making conscious intentional choices of diversity or diversity, equity, inclusion and empowerment state because it brings more value. Exactly. And I look at, somebody asked me, what's the biggest difference for you in the pandemic? And I said, frankly, more choice. If we really, and I think that's the result of this election we finally have back more real choice. Let's use that choice to elevate the people who have been marginalized, the people who have been underserved, the people who deserve to have their value recognized, honored and to have places where they can have a voice in how they're treated. Thanks for being part of that. Last thoughts, Bill, Rebecca. Inclusion, not exclusion, unity. Race that matters is the human race. You got it. Thank you all. This has been wonderful. Uplifting, hopefully. And we'll see you all in two more weeks. Thank you. Thank you for raising your hand back. Thank you. Stay safe. Don't stay silent.