This is a topic I've wanted to talk about for a while. June 5th, 2020. I was dropped by Not Nintendo by Golan But let's let's say Nintendo for now and we'll talk about that. It's been two years almost two years since that happened and and It it created a weird divide in my viewer base. It's really really weird and a lot of people seem to think that I hate Nintendo now I get that comment a lot actually what I get more than anything is just You're salty with Nintendo. It like I can't have an opinion on anything Nintendo Like a slightly negative or even midtake on anything Nintendo now without Comments flooding in about me being salty about Nintendo dropping me as a brand ambassador And that's why I have this big grudge against Nintendo so I can't enjoy anything that they do anymore I'm like hypercritical on them and I don't know I you know I always wanted to do this video but back then when that happened I made three videos the initial one talking about what happened then the follow-up video to the reaction to it And then there was even a third video and I wanted to do a fourth video talking about a lot of the comments I was seeing in regards to this, but I'm like no that would be milking it I'll just let it die out and it's never died out This is something that has followed me for the last two years, and I really really want to clarify Whether or not I hate Nintendo or whether or not there is a grudge there because I can't keep doing this man I can't keep Having opinions on Nintendo stuff and and and being slaughtered in the comments and if for those thinking like are you over exaggerating it? I literally you can search comments on YouTube And I went into my my creator tab and typed in search for salty Nintendo That's just the two keywords I put in because I get it so much and look Eight days ago literally yeah, what's just salty at anything Nintendo this with the Nintendo direct video has convinced me of that This by the way on the video about Nintendo fake commercials, which had nothing to do with Nintendo as a company or Nintendo as a gaming platform or anything like that. It was just about the Nintendo commercials And people had such a weird Concentration going into that that oh was just making this video and that's that's that that's why this bothers me so much Is it's validating my point? It's invalidating my feelings or my opinions When I have an opinion on something or I want to talk about something and people are just like Oh, he's just salty because of Nintendo And it just completely validates whatever i'm talking about like it's just like no I know I have an opinion on this that maybe you don't like or agree with And you're passing it off is i'm salty about something And it keeps going. I mean Ever since this dude got dropped by Nintendo. He's been salty it feels like While he had a sponsorship. He never said the slightest bad thing about Nintendo. Let it go my man. This was 10 days ago This been two years this comment was 10 days ago And by the way another reason I want to make this video so misinformed Nintendo never sponsored me. They never paid me a single dollar at any point Never in fact at one point They reached out to incorporate me. This was early on in their little monetization sharing program Where they were like you can keep making Nintendo videos if you let us take a cut Like at one point Nintendo were actually trying to take money from me And I said no to that and just kept making videos about Nintendo anyway and eventually when it got to like switch era They dropped that whole program which was a whole program that creators actually signed up for for some reason Yes, Nintendo take my money so I can talk about your games. It made no sense But no they never paid me And I love like he never when he was when he was sponsored I wasn't but let's let's pretend I was when I was working with them and sponsored He never said the slightest bad thing That's the biggest oh my god that does my head in Never said a bad thing literally like One of the biggest points of contention with me online with nintendo fans is how much I drug Xenoblade 2 through the mud and I did And I apologized for that countless times. I've made it a meme and a joke So like was in a blade 3 being revealed. I made a whole like meme where I was like disappointed I'm not disappointed. I couldn't care less. It's just not a not a kind of game for me But it's become this whole thing with me that I hate Xenoblade 2 right because I had this big negative review of a of a first party Exclusive nintendo game. Let's look when that game came out 2017 Almost three years before I was even dropped and again playing into this would never had the slightest bad thing to say Nintendo greedy decline. Let's just google those words and my video will come up with almost a million views This was before I was dropped september 30th in 2019 I made a 26 minute video about nintendo's greed with micro transactions in the online market And I'm sure I could sit here and find more videos about me talking about the bad parts of nintendo as much as the good And I think that is why I was so successful on the platform talking about nintendo It's because I've always had a very unbiased take about nintendo when I feel like nintendo is doing something I disagree with or that we should disagree with I talk about that I mean even before I was dropped pokemon sword and shield. I'm pretty sure that was before right 2019 Pokemon sword and shield really dropped the pokeball. I made a 16 minute video About how bad pokemon was like nintendo's number one selling franchise and game on their console I ragged on the game for 16 minutes Like never had a slight bad thing to say like where did this misconception come from that when I was working with nintendo I was a goody little two-shoes nintendo guy that never had a bad thing to say And then as soon as I was dropped it was I hate everything nintendo. I hate it all I literally on the flip side of that I literally just made a 30 minute video About pokemon arceus And how addicted I am to the game or I made a song in the middle of it talking about how much I love that game And adore that game because it was the pokemon game of my dreams And this was just a couple weeks ago that I made that video And I thank you if you looked through my videos From the start of me making nintendo content to now 90 percent of my videos are in nintendo's favor of how much I love nintendo How much I love playing games on my switch how the switch is my favorite console of all time But you can find that 10 percent from before and after nintendo dropped me of me talking about bad things and nothing has changed And I I said that in the video. I was like nothing has changed But let me tell you this let me get this straight right now Just to clear the air here. I tried to clarify this in the initial videos But let me clarify it one more time if you go back and watch those videos I say it countless times But let me say it again if you don't know how that situation and how the brand ambassador worked with nintendo It was not through nintendo nintendo hired a company called gollin Gollin g-o-l-i-n That ran their ambassador program. It was all done through the third party. That is Gollin, uh, which to be clear, um Gollin is hired by nintendo to run the nintendo Ambassador program nintendo doesn't care They had nothing to do with it nintendo was busy making zelda and mario And the new switch and doing nintendo things. Miyamoto isn't at his desk worrying about what i'm creating for youtube Couldn't care less, but they created this program through gollin And and they just said you do it you handle all the public relations And get the product into people's hands and you control all of that and it was gollin that decided to drop me It was gollin that decided to get rid of me off the program because gollin felt like I wasn't a good fit for nintendo anymore But that doesn't change how I feel about nintendo or their games It just changes how I feel about gollin and how they handled the situation Nintendo had literally nothing to do with it and I grew up with nintendo. I grew up with an nes in my house I've told the story a million times nintendo has always been my favorite console for video games I've had every single nintendo console since the nes I have not had every single xbox or every single playstation I have them now and I love them and cherish them now and since about the 360 era I've had every console I can get my hand on but back in the day what I grew up with it was nintendo That's my memories. That's what I cherish. That's what I love. That's what I'll always love I love Miyamoto. I love reggie and I love what he did in his time with the company I love the history of nintendo and I just love nintendo. I love zelda. I love pokemon Like that's where my heart is as an adult as a kid as an old man. That's what it's always going to be I'm not going to stop talking about nintendo out of spite Um, I love them with all of my heart. I I love the switch nintendo and me is synonymous And it has been ever since my channel has existed on the platform But to push it even further if you still don't Believe that I have no salt against nintendo the company Let me talk about something else that I've come to terms with over the last two years I think allan did the right thing. I think they handled the situation poorly I think the way that they ghosted me after was bad I think the way that they tried to drop me from the program But still send me games and want me to talk about stuff, you know and and still tell people I'm getting the games for free, but they just don't want me officially on the program I think all of that was a little weird Like just drop me if you're gonna drop me and then when I ask why just be honest with me But the one reply I did get from them that rang through my head For weeks and months and years years a year Because I've come to terms with it over the last year But the term the thing that really just bounced around my head and I lost sleep over was when they said We need someone that's passionate about nintendo that that at the time that caught me like a knife And that's where most of the salt came from honestly Like that's where a lot of the salt came from and I've mentioned that in videos Snarky here or there where I'm like guess I'm not passionate about nintendo like I brought that up a few times because it really did bother me at the time But think about what I said when I sat down and make this a video I broke down my videos about nintendo's greed and how Xenoblade 2 a game that 600 almost 700 000 views almost half the sales that game got My review is just crapping on it You know like how many how many people did I turn away from trying that game and and taking sales out of nintendo's hand And monolith studio's hand with that one review You know And like the I would say worse than anything I go to that greed video you might be able to find ones that are even worse than that honestly But like I'm literally like calling out an intent I'm supposed to be a brand ambassador at the time and I'm sat there calling out The brand I'm supposed to be ambassading an ambassador of for their greed What was I thinking? And like That's the thing I I mean I wasn't really because I've just always said what's in my heart I've always talked about what I wanted to talk about and for the most part I was that I was an ambassador for for a few years there Several maybe and I always did stuff like that. So it never really, you know, I gave negative reviews positive reviews You know, I didn't shy. I mean in my mind. I'm not getting told to say anything I'm not being paid to say anything. So I'm gonna say what I want to say And looking back on it. I think them saying that I I wasn't passionate I think that was them being honest. I think that was Golan's way of saying what they probably couldn't say But were hoping that I would read enough into it to realize what they meant I honestly think that when they replied saying it's we need we need they didn't say I wasn't passionate They said we we look for or we need creators that are passionate about Nintendo and I think that was Whoever was writing that was probably thinking would please read between the lines here We still want to work with you We still want to send you games and stuff But we can't have you as an ambassador when you're making videos like this Oh, and the mod one was another thing that I did, you know, I did the breath of the wild mod video And they were like would you can't we can't we want to work with you But you can't be an ambassador if you're gonna do stuff like this. We need people that are Passionate in other words people that are Just spokesperson for Nintendo. I mean goody two shoes that are gonna You know say the best things possible and never say a bad thing and that's you know If you're an ambassador for that company, that's what you should be doing And I wasn't And I've taken the time and I've looked at that and I realized I was not a good ambassador And you know what I didn't need to be an ambassador I'm just a guy who loves Nintendo and I always have done And being not an ambassador has freed me up even more so to not worry about anything. I mean The Nintendo said, you know, don't stream Nintendo sports if I was an ambassador That would be pushing the line.  Do you want a risk getting banned on twitch? I was like, heck, yeah What have I got to lose and we got to have a great time and I peaked in viewers on my twitch stream We had like 1600 people my 1700 people on twitch Just watching me play Nintendo switch sports for 45 minutes, you know, I could do what I want I always did do what I want, but now I can do what I want I think it's better this way And and retrospectively looking back golden made the right choice. I wish it was communicated with me better I wish that situation was handled better But they were right to drop me because I was not a good ambassador. I really wasn't I Maybe at one point I was when my channel was smaller, but I grew too big. I I flew too close to the sun I got too many subscribers I had too many people watching me to the point where I could review a game that Nintendo puts out And if I had a bad review, it could have a negative input. It could have a negative implication on that game sales You know, if I reviewed it, well, it could have a very positive Implication on those games on that game sales. That's just that that's how it was and because I didn't shy away from those bad reviews I wasn't a good ambassador But I was a good youtuber. I was good at being non-biased and that's what I've always been It's just non-biased So when I talk about Nintendo, it just comes from my heart And it frustrates me when people say that I'm just salty at Nintendo and that's why I have that take It's not why at all And I think it's it's a double standard to hold creators to this like pinnacle or this like pedestal of You want your creators, right? You're what you're watching this you want me to be honest, right? You want to know that I'm being honest all the time whether I'm being paid for something or not You want to know that I'm being honest fair and you want that from all your creators, correct? Then you can't come after those creators when they're honest And when they have an opinion that differs from yours when it's just an opinion, I'm not talking about a bad take Or they've said something stupid or out of pocket You want me to get on board when you dislike something you want me to share those opinions of of of uh, nintendo Oh There's a double standard, you know, you can hold me accountable for things if I misstep or have a bad take But don't put it on this one thing that happened two years ago I hope all of these ramblings made sense And uh, and I'm sure people That feel this way won't end up watching this video or will say what they want to say still But at least I know I took the time to clarify it and to give some thoughts on the situation I um, I hope you guys understand too and moving forward from here I'm gonna keep doing me I'm gonna be me honest Unapologetic if I love something I love it if I don't I don't and I hope you join me for the ride And I hope you appreciate that I hope that makes sense You know Because you know what I love even more than nintendo All of you That a nice sappy way to end the video All right


Can you see the Ravens possibly re-signing Gus Edwards to a long-term deal? Has the Ravens rivalry with the Chiefs actually gotten bigger than their rivalry with the Pittsburgh Steelers? What are some of the ways that Lamar Jackson has really grabbed firm control on this offense? These and more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. 2. Team Keep It Clean 2. Team Keep It Clean What's going on is saying Raven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team. And we answered in the video just like this. Now if you want to be part of NFL Questions from subscribers just send me an email at teamkeepitclean.com and I will answer your question in a video just like this. Man, the description is loaded with just goodies for y'all and all different kind of things you can check out. All different ways to support the channel, the podcast, the merch, just everything is down there. I love y'all Team Keep It Clean. I appreciate y'all like a whole lot. Yeah, I don't think y'all understand man. I really do. Seriously. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Let's get into these questions because we got some good ones. Next question came from my guy. Well, first question of this episode, NFL Questions from subscribers came from my guy Nigel. He said, I ain't gravy big fan of the content been watching since 2015. Remember, no fans, just fam. But now I appreciate you watching the videos man. Thank you for that. He said, what are your thoughts on the Raven sign and Ha Ha Clinton dicks? I realized that we don't have as much depth as we used to now that we released Earl Thomas. I think Ha Ha could be a cheap rotational piece in our secondary and could really help out Chuck and DeSean. Even though it's been two weeks, I think DeSean Elliott has really stepped up in his starting role in hashtag Team Keep It Clean. I appreciate it Nigel. I mean, he's out there. He's still out there. But I mean, Raven is so far so good at safety. Like they have, again, you mentioned DeSean Elliott, Chuck Clark, they got Anthony Levine, Jimmy Smith's been back there, safety some too. They still have Geno Stone too. Although he is a rookie, they still got him. So with Ha Ha Clinton dicks, I know I heard that he was struggling in Cowboys training camp. Not that he couldn't bounce back from that on another team or anything like that. But I just, nah, that's how I'd be about it. I think for that they can roll with what they got. Now depth is always a beautiful thing, but something that I mentioned when we first were asked this question, was like a week or two before the season started was if they were to sign Ha Ha Clinton dicks, would he be willing to accept a role as a third safety or a third free safety or as a special team? Because he's done nothing but start since he came in the league. He's been a starter from jump. So for him, who has never been a backup before in the league, he will be coming from what the packers as a starter, bears a starter, Washington football team as a starter. And then he will come over here and be a special team. Not everybody's willing to accept that role. If he was, I'd be whatever about it, but yeah, I just, I don't think I'm, yeah, I'm whatever about it. Next question came from my guy Jaws Fowler. He said, I love our running back rotation and seeing Gus the bus being explosive with speed and power against the Texans. It indicates that he needs more touches as well as JK. We should keep him when Mark England retires or when we decide to part ways with him, which I hope we don't. After Mark leaves, we will have JK and Gus as our new running backs. And I see us letting Justice Hill go. What are your thoughts? Statement game on Monday night with Gus Edwards. I, it'd be cool if they kept him. I just don't see it happening because Gus Edwards, he is do he's eligible for a bigger contract. I think he might actually actually be this year, but certainly next year, he would definitely be eligible. And then the following year, he will be an unrestricted free agent. So he obviously be eligible then. But I don't see the Ravens signing Gus to a big contract. Well, I know I don't see Gus Edwards signing a bigger contract with the Ravens because I think he's going to want to test the market because the Ravens are not going to pay him any top running back dollar, especially because they have JK sitting there waiting. I just don't think that the Ravens are going to give Gus that crazy big money extension that he will want the opportunity to possibly get. Not that it will be a guarantee that if he hit free agency, he would get it, but he would have a bigger chance of getting a better deal from somebody out in free agency than the Ravens. I would love for him to stay with the Ravens forever, but I just, I don't see it happening because I think he's going to want more of an opportunity not just to get paid, but also to start as well. Next question came from my guy Greg and B-Moy said, A-ing Raven, hope all is well for you. Appreciate it, Greg. Thank you, man. He said, with the Chiefs vs Ravens coming up, it got me thinking. And a year ago, I would call myself crazy for thinking this, but has the Chiefs already become the Ravens' biggest rival over the Steelers now? As long as Mahomes and Lamar are electrifying every season, I think Chiefs vs Ravens might be one of the biggest rivalries over the next decade. Love the Ravens for over two decades and this is the most anticipated Monday Night Ravens game I can remember. So excited for Monday. I predict 36-37, Ravens victory with a Justin Tucker game winner. Love what you've done, building the team, keeping clean community, and I hope you the most success. Much love from Greg and B-Moy. Hey, appreciate that a lot, man. Thank you. Thank you for that. Have they become the Ravens' biggest rivals over the Steelers? I can't say that, but I think one of the reasons why you may be thinking that, in my opinion, is because of last year. Last year when the Ravens played the Steelers, they played a Rothlesburg or less Steelers, so he wasn't out there. And I've said it myself, too, I think the Ravens and Steelers rivalry, while it is still amazing, it's still fun. The trash talking is always great. I think it's taken a notch down, a couple notches down from what it used to be. Now, we haven't got to see the Lamar vs. Venter Rothesburg thing yet, but I'm sure it'll be a good one, especially with that defense that they got over there. But I almost feel like the Browns and the Browns Ravens is almost overtaking the Steelers and Ravens' rivalry. Now, with the Chiefs and Ravens, is that more a bigger rivalry than the Steelers and Ravens? I can't say that yet, but I think in my opinion, I know some people feel differently, but in my opinion, I think for a rivalry, for it to really be a rivalry, it got to go both ways. It hasn't gone to Ravens' way yet. Hopefully on Monday night, they make it go their way for the first time, but it hasn't gone to Ravens' way yet. It's gone to Chiefs' way both times, so they two will know. So Ravens need to fix that. It's the first time that they play in the Chiefs at their crib, and it will be quiet there since they ain't no fans, but they still got to take care of business as they have been these past couple of weeks. So with the Ravens and the Chiefs, I can't say that it passed the Steelers and Ravens, or even Browns Ravens. It could be one of those out-of-division rivalries, like how Ravens had it with the Patriots. That was one of those out-of-division rivalries where those games just got you amped up and you just love when they were on primetime. It was just tough, man, because it was the NFL's juggernaut team. The NFL's team that you know is just going to be contenders for a while, and they are the big dogs, so to speak. So if you could take them out, oh, that could be great. Ravens and Patriots, they went back and forth. Patriots got the best of Ravens sometime, Ravens got the best of Patriots sometime. So with that being said, I think the Chiefs and Ravens rivalry could be something more like that. And the last question on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers came from my guy, Enonic. He said, I got two quick questions for you. He said, hope everything is well with Team Keep It Clean. Appreciate it. Everything is great. He said, number one, I might be wrong, but did it seem like Lamar was doing a lot of offensive personnel adjustments at the line in Houston? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I didn't notice that the biggest thing that I noticed with Lamar Jackson was when he was moving JK Dobbins around. JK Dobbins would be on his left and Lamar would be like, no, no, go over on the right side. Or JK Dobbins would be on the right and he'd be like, no, no, go on the left side. And then sometimes he would move, he would call somebody in motion, like really see one of the receivers or something like that. But I thought that's something that he normally does a lot when he is like before the play. So, I mean, I think it's something that he's already been doing, but maybe now is that he has even more control over the offense just as a whole. Because this is his second year starting in week one or from week one. So maybe that's what it is that he's just more comfortable in his role as that starting quarterback. And his second question was, were some of our players on the wrong page or did he move players? Oh, okay. He said, were some of our players on the wrong page or did he move players around because he saw something? Now, with the JK Dobbins, I don't know. Because on one of the plays where he moved JK Dobbins to the opposite side, JK Dobbins didn't get the ball. But on the other play where he moved JK Dobbins to the right side, he sent JK Dobbins out on a wheel route and the ball went to JK Dobbins.  No, I didn't go to him both times. Well, there was another play where he was actually in the right position, I think, in the ball. Yeah, JK Dobbins was on the left side and he caught the pass. And that's when he did the Ray Rice thing, I think. But either way, so I just, I don't know. I don't know if it was that Lamar saw something. I don't know if the players were in the wrong position simply because we don't know what the play sheet looked like. And since we don't know what the play sheet looked like, who knows. I mean, either way, it would be good though, good on Lamar's part for either getting them lined up the right way or getting them lined up in a position where Lamar felt like, okay, we got a mismatch here. Okay, we could take advantage of something right here. Okay, let's exploit this right here. Either way, it's a good look for Lamar. And there was, of course, one thing that always gets me, man. I'm like, I just, I don't know how to do it. Because I always be thinking like, oh, no, it's really sneaky. He's gonna, or Nick Boyle, usually just really sneaky coming across the, coming across the line of scrimmage all the way. But I always, I'm always thinking, oh, man, he's about to run into the ball. They gonna snap the ball and then it's gonna hit Willie Snead in the legs.  I've been looking at that like every game and just wondering like, man, these dudes, like, we gotta give it to them, man. They go through these cadences. They go through these, the play calls. They go through just everything. And they got it down to a science, man. And I know they're professionals and whatnot, but still you gotta give them that credit, man. Because I've been thinking like, man. Like these, just the timing, we always talk about how timing is everything. And even with those plays where they send Willie Snead across the, y'all know what I'm talking about. I know some of y'all probably be thinking the same thing, too. Like, oh, man, I hope that Skrull don't snap it and then they hit Willie Snead in the legs. Because if he looking like they getting ready to, but it never happened. So kudos to them, man, for just having that thing like a smooth process, man.


Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here bringing you another video here today from Jerusalem at the end of a Shabbat. So Shavua tov to anyone who watches this before tomorrow morning, in which case another week will already be in train. I did a video a few days ago talking about five ways to live in Israel without going broke or selling organs or joining organized crime mobs because when you were planning about making aliyah, those were probably not things you envisioned being part of your future. So let's try to stay away from those areas. I mentioned that there's a few different ways to live in Israel or spend money more prudently or live more affordably. And today I want to talk a little bit about the other side of the picture because there definitely comes a point where you just can't really spend less money, right? That's kind of got a limit. What I want to talk about today is three ways to research salaries in Israel so that when you are looking for a job in Israel, you don't undersell yourself by asking for too little money. And just like in other countries, there's a very good chance if your salary demands are way below the position, the company will just say, great, let's save some budget. So you want to come into salary conversations knowing what the parameters are. Now the typical question that gets asked in Israeli interview processes and in many countries in the world, but this was sort of new to me when I started out working here is what are your salary expectations in Hebrew? So this is typically a question that will get asked by at the very first stage of an interview process, typically by someone screening you a quick phone interview before an in person interview. And the company is figuring out basically they have a usually a salary range for the position and if you're within that range. Now again, I'm not a career coach. I'm not a financial advisor, but having talked to a bunch of Olim, I've yet, I've yet to meet someone who came in too low and the company said, well, actually, our budget for this is twice what you're asking for. So again, it's really important for that reason to know where you what your worth is in the job market. The first way that I'm going to recommend for trying to figure that out is by asking around. Now this kind of works if you're doing a pretty common job in Israel that a lot of other people are doing who you might have access to in your social network. I think it's always better to try to find people who you actually know in real life than to ask on Facebook groups that if you don't know anyone who's looking for a job as a solar engineer in Israel, you can ask on a Facebook group like living financially smarter in English, if you're an English speaker, and there's also Hebrew speaking groups. Another useful Facebook community while I'm on the topic is a page called Vidue Sakhal. It's been a little bit less active in recent months than it was before, but this is a Facebook group where people write, send their salary stubs into whoever runs this page. It's anonymous, we don't know. And that person will publish them in post so you can see, okay, there is a content manager with four years of experience working in Tel Aviv and they're earning 23,000 shackles, let's say. And if your experience is roughly the same and you're also looking at a company in Tel Aviv doing something similar, that's a very valuable data point. Your salary expectation may also need to be around 23,000 shackles. Now there is definitely such a thing as asking for too little and companies are going to not take you seriously. So that's another reason why it's important to have a credible ballpark when you're coming into these situations. So you can ask around whether on a Facebook group or in your social circle, now just a few words on what factors tend to influence salaries in Israel. Now there's a couple of factors that actually aren't Israel specific. These are factors that change salaries wherever you are in the world. And those are the years of experience you have, what the normal rates are for your profession, and also what type of company it is because how profitable is the company, usually a company that's more profitable is going to have a bigger budget for salaries. Usually, of course, there is tons of exceptions to everything as big as a job market. So that's the case in Israel. Now just to give some more general thoughts about this, companies in Tel Aviv tend to pay a little bit more than companies in other parts of the country historically. The reason for that is that as I mentioned in my last video about Israel being so expensive, the whole country is expensive, but Tel Aviv is especially expensive. So just as companies in New York or London tend to pay or Dublin tend to pay a little bit more than companies in cities that have a lower cost of living, the same holds true in Israel, generally companies in Tel Aviv and the Merkaz. If you haven't come across that word Merkaz before, it means the center of Israel. So not just Tel Aviv, but also the Gushdan area in the cities that are adjoining Tel Aviv. The second factor I would say in Israel is whether the company is high tech or just a regular company. I mentioned in my last video that there's actually the central bureau of statistics, the CBS, which is Israel's national statistic body, publishes two different salary averages when it publishes them, one for companies in high tech and another for the economy in general. And the reason it does that is because high tech salaries are so significantly better than salaries in the economy in general. Now people will point out that an average isn't the most useful data point when you're looking at salaries, looking at the median, the median would be better because the average is going to be affected by, you know, outlying very high earners, but I still think it's a valuable piece of data, one piece of the puzzle you could say. So those are the factors that I think generally affect salaries in Israel beyond the classical factors. Again, whether the company's based in Tel Aviv in the Marcaz or somewhere else. And secondly, what the salary averages are for the job you're doing. That's actually what I'm going to come on to because you can get sort of the same tools that the HR person has access to if you just Google them. Two keywords I recommend Googling are Tavlaot Sakhar and Seker Sakhar. Now my Hebrew is not perfect as you can probably hear from my somewhat ridiculous accent when trying to speak in Hebrew, but these are really the words that are very useful. Tavlaot Sakhar means in English salary tables. And it's basically the big jobs companies, websites that operate jobs listing platforms, collate this information from surveying the job market. Seker Sakhar means salary survey. So you can Google that. You're probably going to find a lot of the same results. There's Yad Shtaim. There's Etheosia. There's about six or eight different salary surveys you can find pretty easily just by Googling these keywords. Now the key thing you want to be looking at is how recent is that data. So you ideally want to be looking at salary surveys that have your position and that are from if not the last year than the year before last. The bigger companies who do this research generally publish their findings annually. So again, it's always better to have more recent data points because right now we're seeing a bit of a downturn in the tech market and you're going to be looking at old data that's going to push your salary expectation beyond a credible range for today, let's say. So that's Tavlaot Sakhar. And finally Glassdoor. Now a couple of words about Glassdoor. If you haven't heard of Glassdoor before, it's like this huge website where employees leave anonymous reviews about companies, employees leave anonymous salaries and you can use it as a job seeker to see what companies are paying for relative positions. Now the caveats for Glassdoor are as follows. Firstly, it tends to be larger companies because to actually go out of your way to review on Glassdoor, it's not something everyone's going to do. So the larger companies in Israel, let's take Wix for example, they're going to have enough people leaving reviews and they're going to be well known enough that they probably have a HR manager who might have actually started the company's profile on Glassdoor. Now that's also the downfall I mentioned HR managers, not that I've anything against people working in HR, but in Israel as in other countries, there is a definite trend of human resources putting pressure on people to write favorable things about the company to give an artificially skewed review. HR on Glassdoor, I from what I understand can complain about bad listings, but obviously any good listings, it's in the company's interest to leave them up. So typically with Glassdoor, I'm a little bit for, we're talking about salaries here, not for reviews of companies. I think for salaries, it's useful data points, but it's not the full picture. Now the final tool, and this is really sort of part of Glassdoor, I mean, part of social or desk or web research would be finding past employees on LinkedIn. So you can run a search on LinkedIn. And if you're looking at joining an organization called X Inc, or let's just use Wix because it's a very well known company in Israel, you can look up past employees at Wix and you might find someone who you met at a dinner once or someone who has a lot of common connections and they look approachable. And you can reach out to them and ask if they're willing to share what their salary was. Now this is not something that I would really, really recommend. I would generally start by asking people, you know, for general salary averages rather than asking someone point blank, what did you earn in your last job? But if you want to be a little bit more forward, that's something you can also consider doing. Hope that little rundown was useful if you are looking at, you know, switching job in Israel or starting a new job in Israel. Again, I emphasize I'm not a career or a financial specialist. I'm just uploading this video because I want to pass on some of what I figured out from my tenure to date living in Israel. Hope that video was useful. If you do want to get more videos about this for me and other subjects, do consider subscribing to this YouTube channel. Thank you for watching.


Hello, hello. Good morning and welcome to vlogmas day one. I didn't know if I was gonna do this or not, but here we are. By the time this video is going up, I would have just posted a hair tutorial yesterday. So in case you missed it after you finish this vlog, make sure you go back and watch that. But I decided throughout December leading up to Christmas, I am gonna post a video every single day. Or at least try to and I'm gonna alternate. So every other day is gonna be a vlog and then every day in between is going to be some type of hair tutorial or hair related video. So I'm excited. It's gonna be a fun challenge, but I think it'll be doable. Normally, by the way, if you're new, hi, my name's Sam. I'm a hairstylist. So normally, this time of year is the busiest time in the salon, hands down, and it can get very stressful. But this year's just been different and that's how it is for everyone at the salon where I work. And it seems like a lot of other hairdressers in other parts of the country that I follow on Instagram are kind of experiencing a lull as well. I think it's just like the way the economy is. So I figure since I'm not super busy at the salon, I think I should be able to do this. But it's currently Tuesday morning, yes. It's like Monday in the hair world because most salons are closed Sundays and Mondays. So Tuesday's like our first workday of the week. I'm going into the salon today. I just have one client. Saturdays are usually like my consistent busy days and then during the week, I just kind of like open up my schedule whenever there's an available spot because the salon that I'm at is very full at the moment. So there's not really enough stations to go around. So if I see that somebody's not going to be there, I will snag that spot and book a client for myself. So today, I only had enough time to do one person. So it's a new client. She's coming in for a highlight haircut. So I'm excited. I love meeting new clients because you just never know what you're going to get. And it's an opportunity to build a relationship and hopefully turn them into a returning client. So we will see how that goes. I will share the before and afters with you. So this client wanted her blonde refreshed, but she wanted to keep it very blended and low maintenance because she said that she really only likes to get her hair done maybe twice a year. So I just did really fine, tizzy lights throughout her hair and I really made sure not to over highlight. I actually just left a lot of her hair out because we wanted to keep that depth and dimension. Then for her all over toner, I did equal parts, 10 GI and 10N from Redken JZQ. No root shadow or anything required. We also did a haircut and added some curtain bangs and that was her finish. My client was amazing. Like dream come true. Her hair was super easy and she was just so sweet and like just one of those clients that like conversation flowed really easily and she was great. The only thing that kind of sucks is she's from here and her family still lives here, but she recently moved to Texas. So she was just here visiting and I mean she said she doesn't really get her hair done more than like once or twice a year anyway, but I'm hoping I'll be her go-to girl from now on because I feel like we hit it off and she loved her hair so much, but I'm so excited. Oh my God, I did not expect this to arrive so soon. So I'm sure you guys have all heard of the aura ring before. It's like super popular now.  Ooh, perfect fit. It just like looks more sleek. Like it just looks like a piece of jewelry rather than wearing like a big sporty bulky kind of thing around your wrist. But it is supposed to do basically the same kind of thing. Like it'll track your sleep, track your steps. A bunch of like wellness things and my friend has one and she loves it. And then the brand Ultra Human reached out to me and they make a ring that is very similar to the aura ring. They asked if they could send me one and I was like, um, yes, please. Okay, so I have to download the app and like get it all set up and put it to charge and whatnot. So I'm going to do that and then I'll update you guys later, but I'm so excited. I've been really curious to get one of these. I will check in later. It's several hours later. It is eight o'clock now. My ring is all charged up, but it needs a few days to like calibrate and get a baseline before it starts to tell me everything, I guess. So I'll update you guys like throughout Vlogmas over, you know, the next month or so and let you know how I'm liking it. But I mean, it's really comfortable. I've had it on for the last couple of hours now, but I just finished recording the podcast and we made holiday cocktails. It's me and my best friend Julia. I will have a link in the description if you want to check it out and you don't already listen. It's called Girls Who Get It podcast, but this was our like final episode for the year and we're taking a little bit of a break for December. So we did like a little holiday New Year's Eve themed episode. We made some holiday drinks. So this was a peppermint espresso martini and I did a crushed candy cane rim. It was really good, but I feel like now my face is like very flushed. I need to get food in my system. And actually by the time this vlog is up, that episode will already be out. So you can watch it on YouTube or listen to it on Apple podcasts or Spotify. But anyway, I'm just gonna clean all of this up and heat up some dinner. Luckily, I cooked last night so I can just microwave. I made rice with ground turkey and broccoli. I got a lot of editing done earlier, two entire videos completely done, which is exciting. So yeah, I will see you in the morning. Good afternoon. It's the next day. I have to tell you guys, if you saw, I think it was like maybe two vlogs ago. Sometime recently I got the IGK charcoal detox dry shampoo and it was my first time trying it. And I have a couple of like dry shampoo favorites that I always tend to repurchase and kind of cycle through. So I was like trying to branch out. I wasn't expecting it to like blow me away or be like that different, but I have to tell you. I am so impressed with this and it is a little bit more pricey than what I usually get, but I think it's worth it. So today's Wednesday. I last washed my hair Saturday morning and then I put dry shampoo in it Monday and I haven't reapplied it or done anything to my hair since. And I feel like it looks good. Like normally by this point, I would be having to apply more dry shampoo, put it up in a bun or wash it, but I feel like it still looks and feels clean. Like it doesn't feel oily at all. It just feels soft and good. So that's my update on that. Highly recommend if you're looking for a good dry shampoo, but I was getting ready to head to the salon and I got my scent bird order. So I want to wear one of my new fragrances and scent bird is sponsoring this portion of the vlog. Thank you so much to them. If you're unfamiliar with scent bird, it's a fragrance subscription that allows you to try new designer fragrances every month for $17.  Some of their fragrances for like the full size bottle cost over $150, some even in like the two and $300 range. So it's a cool way to try some more luxury expensive fragrances without having to pay an arm and a leg. So this is what the bottles look like with each bottle. You get a 30 day supply of fragrance. So that's what it looks like. And then they have these cases, which are magnetic. It's very easy to lock and then unlock when you're ready to spray. So if you want to like throw this in your purse or something, you don't have to worry about any of the perfume spilling out. And you guys know me. I've mentioned this before. I like to always have fragrance on the go. Like I'll keep small little perfumes or body sprays in my car and I like to keep backups in my purse that way. No matter where I am, if I'm on the go, I can always make sure that I'm going to smell good. So these little scent bird bottles are great for that. They're also great for travel. So I got four different fragrances and I love that they give you a card with each fragrance that shows you what the full size bottle looks like. And then on the back, you can see all of the notes and ingredients.  That way I can give it like a little bit of a test first before I actually spray it all over me. So this first one is Paper Plus by Commodity. Oh, that smells really good. It has cedarwood, bediver, sandalwood. So it's just like a really nice warm scent. Then I also have Boho Boko Red Wine Brown Sugar. This one has dried fruits, red wine, cedarwood, leather and brown sugar. This one gives me like a unisex kind of vibe. It's warm but like really sexy and I definitely can smell the wine. Then we have The Perfume Story by Ozzy Amber Molecule which is amber, sandalwood and musks. Can you tell that I just really like warm scents? Oh, that one smells good. It's like very sexy but clean. And then lastly I have Versace Crystal Noir which is ginger, gardenia, amber, sandalwood and musk. Oh, that smells so good. It's more unique. It's like warm but a little bit brighter. And it has that little bit of floral. I think this one and the paper plus are my favorites. Today I got to go with the Versace though because I like can't stop smelling it. It smells so good. So if you guys want to try out Sanford for yourself you can scan this QR code or click the link in my description and be sure to use my code SVA for 55% off your first month. That's only about $8 for your first month. So definitely check them out. It could also make a really good gift too. Like this is the perfect little stocking stuffer. Thank you so much Sanford for working with me again. I really am obsessed with that Versace. Anyway, I'm just gonna put on a little bit of this like under eye color corrector from Pixie. She's so bright in these under eyes up a little bit because they're looking really dark. But I'm working the front desk tonight and before my shift I am getting another massage. I got a massage this past Friday. I went to my co-worker Heather and she did a deep tissue just on my back and shoulders because I've just been having shoulder and neck pain and a lot of stiffness. I think I need to switch my pillow honestly because I usually feel okay throughout the day but at night lately I've just been waking up and tossing and turning and my neck will be killing me and then in the morning it feels super stiff. So I think my pillow is the problem. But yeah, she gave me a massage a few days ago and I felt significantly better afterwards but now just like one spot is still bothering me. So I asked if she could just do like a 30 minute quick massage and literally just focus on this one area.  By the way, this is the Thrive Cosmetics Mascara. I've been using this one for months. It's like the liquid lash extensions. So just like a light coat of that and a little bit of clear brow gel. The Got To Be Brow Gel by Swartz Coff. I got my brows laminated and tinted a couple weeks ago and I am loving them. And it's just been so easy to do my brows and that's it. I'm gonna put a little bit of like lip balm on but that's it. So yeah, getting my massage and then working the front desk until closing tonight. It looks like it's gonna be kind of a late night. So I'm gonna see how long I end up being there for. I don't mind working closing shifts because then it allows me to have all of the morning and early afternoon to get other work done or run errands, you know, whatever I need to do. And I also don't have to wake up super early, which is nice.   After tonight, I'm only gonna have three more front desk shifts and then that'll be it. I'm gonna gradually start taking clients more and more, which is exciting. I don't know, this past year I really fell back in love with it and I just feel excited about doing hair and excited about growing my clientele and just all of the other possibilities career-wise for me. I'll of course share more. I'm always gonna keep you guys updated on my life and especially when it comes to career stuff. Oh, I also wanted to share an update on the ultrahuman ring because I left it on all night and I was checking the app this morning and it says that it can take I think seven to 14 days for it to establish a baseline before it can really tell you a lot of detailed information. But it did tell me how long I slept for and what my sleep index was. My heart rate, my skin temperature, my resting heart rate when I was sleeping and all that kind of stuff. Oh, and I just noticed this now. We detected a short nap 10.04 a.m. for 20 minutes. No, I was on my computer editing a video. But yeah, you can track your menstrual cycle. So it says I'm in my follicular phase. As estrogen levels rise in the follicular phase, you might find it easier to push harder and longer in your workouts. And my sleep index was a 92. I slept for nine hours and 12 minutes. My average heart rate while I was sleeping was 59. And it says I got optimal sleep volume. I'm curious to see how much movement I do while I'm at work and what my average movement index will be like over the span of an entire week. There's a lot of information that it gives you and a lot that you can do with this, which is so cool. So I'm going to keep messing with it. And once it establishes the baseline and all that, I'm sure I'll be able to get even more information and play with even more features. That's all of the updates. I need to leave in the next few minutes. I'll try to get some clips while I'm at work. I don't know how chaotic it's going to be, so we'll see. But I'll see you when I get home. Several hours later, I just got home. I'm exhausted and it's so cold outside. So it feels good to be home. I just took Benny out one last time. So now I can change into comfy clothes and just chill. My massage went well. The issue seems to stem from sleeping. So I'm gonna swap out my pillow because my pillows are like very flat and they're already like two years old at this point. And I have these like nice pillows from Lull that are like my extra ones that I give like guess when they say over. So I think I'm gonna swap to this and sleep with this pillow tonight and I'm gonna see if it helps my neck any. I think it should because this is the pillow that I was using and it's like it's very flat. But I need your help. I want your feedback. So we have our salon Christmas party coming up in a couple days and I haven't decided what I want to wear to it yet. So I have a couple things in mind. I want to try them on and see how I feel and you guys can tell me in the comments which one you think I should wear. I have three different options and they're all like a different vibe. Okay so this is the first option. It has the puff sleeves and it's just like a cutesy kind of dress. I know the lighting isn't great in here but this is what it looks like knee length and I was thinking that I could wear boots with this maybe. So yeah that's option number one. This is option number two. I love this dress. I would wear shapewear underneath it obviously and like you know be a little more cinched. But this just screams holiday and like special occasion. I feel like it kind of gives more New Year's vibes than Christmas party but I don't think I'm going to any New Year's parties. So I feel like this would be kind of my opportunity to wear it. So I don't know that's option number two. And then this is option number three which I really like this dress a lot too. This is how this one looks. Again I would wear shapewear underneath it. I think this could be cute with my hair like pin straight and then just tucked behind my ears. I don't know. I'm going to dig through my closet and see what other things I have that might work. I don't have specifically like Christmasy outfits. Like I don't have anything red or green but we're going downtown to an Italian restaurant and then after that we're just hitting all the downtown bars and stuff. So I want to be cute and comfortable but like still dressy. But comment down below and let me know out of those three dresses I might end up going with something completely different but out of those three that I showed you which do you like best? Which would you pick? Okay I'm back in my comfy clothes through Gilmore Girls On. I'm still just binging that. It's just my cover show and it's just been the perfect thing to throw on in the background while I'm doing other things. Oh this lighting is so good. So yeah I'm going to watch that.  But I'm going to wrap up this vlog here. Don't forget to check my description for the link and discount code to sent bird. Don't forget to comment and let me know which dress you think I should wear to the Christmas party. And also what I've always done in the past for Vlogmas is at the end of each vlog I'll answer a question or two from the comments of the previous video so if you have a question that you want me to answer in the next vlog in two days from now leave that down below.  So leave me any questions you have and I will see, well you'll see me tomorrow and then I'll be back with another vlog in two days. So bye.


okay this is a bit of a follow on this little for what I understood it was crystal-driven or it was tube-driven but on the last video I sort of like came across a bit of an error but didn't really go too far into it because I don't think about it too much but now I've been thinking about it and I've been playing around I've been trying to work out what's right and what's wrong with this but what I seem to have come across is that it doesn't seem to matter whether the tubes in or not when it's in power made it bumps up everything more stations it's got more output power it bumps up everything that's without the tube in it you put the tube in it it's just exactly the same you put it on to the crystal mode you know you hardly get anything so I'm just going to put it on to crystal and I'm going to turn the amp on full blast I can hear a little bit of a buzz because this fluorescent light and if it gets too bad I'll turn that off and put the other light on oh maybe I could turn it off and put the other light on anyway it gives a nice on the answer here all yellow but you know that's with that little lamp on full blast okay I'm not going to change anything and this is on the setting this is brand one which it says it's best for like nighttime I've got this wire connected to the radiator just outside this room just because it was easy for me to get to because the walls and the doors and it's just on the opposite side of the outside of the door where I'd have to take the wire across all this electrics to put it over to that radiator I decided just to use far away from electrics as possible and onto that radiator and I've also got a just this this coil connected now I tried it with the other coils this one does actually give me the best signal for what I want just sat on this table the big one on here and really there's a bit of it but not enough to this big ass thing on the table so if I go through this hardy anything hardy anything I'm not gonna be you know to pin it because the little you know crystal bits I've been putting to myself it's not that great it is better than this for what you get that the minute let me just make sure that's turned fully up this is that's turned down that's turned fully upon the little part on here and really and this is set on to night oh sorry that was on day but on nighttime so okay you know a little bit of electrical on there there is a station very faint very faint please this amp is 200 times it's amplified at 200 times so that little fan station you can't hear with the crystal you can't hear with the crystal earpiece now some might say oh you're going a bit too quick for crystal radius I'm mind my ears are quite sensitive you know I've been playing with this thing for days and my ears are quite sensitive and I can hear it just as I go past the station I can hear a little bit of a change and it's all good I'm worried about it see that I can hear that just there you go that's probably about the loudest okay it's there that's not very loud at all not very loud at all okay so and the other one you can hear is the air bands thing you know there's going to be people on there with knife cutters and stuff I want to know it's gonna land on my house so I can get out of it quick you know I don't nothing vaporize it and not burn it for now so I mean that will freak the crap out me for the rest of my life so okay so we can safely say that you're not really getting a lot in the crystal in the nighttime thing without the tube in without the tubing things just materialize and not vaporizing right now I'm gonna switch it into the power mate okay so I'm gonna switch it I'm not gonna switch it today I'm just gonna I'm gonna turn the power on there because it doesn't say that you can't do this I'm gonna take out the crystal I'm gonna put on to power I'm gonna turn that down okay so this is on the most sort sensitive area if it was at night without the tube and as you can see the tube is still not in it now this is a standard now the only thing I've done is I didn't want the blue light in there I didn't think the blue light look very good and this this is on it gives it a nice little way so so the amplifier work so you can tell that yeah it's right on the edge there this is a hundred thirty one peak of iron I think this I don't know if this needs a little bit of extra and it's the sports stations that seem to get the most play nobody cares me I should that's not that's just my personal opinion I can't really be bothered before okay so that's that let's just go back to that so now okay I'm gonna switch it on to daytime so that was a night time this is daytime I'm gonna put the tubing I'll turn the power off first I'll put the tubing I don't think you really matters if I do that or not I'm gonna put the tubing I'm not gonna show it in all the way it's just it's in there I'm gonna turn it back on it's me that doesn't mean to know there's any difference no difference between the tube then being in or not being in now I could just have this all wrong you know I'm not that bright so maybe I've just got this all wrong I'm just gonna turn it off now I'm gonna take the tube out and that station is still there doesn't really seem apart from just arms on commercial but there's any real difference between where the tubes in all the tubes out let's just put that back in this is probably just the way I'm operating you know so put the tube back in it's there I'm gonna put it on to daytime mode okay that's a night time on power with the tubing or the tube up makes no difference on the daytime I mean that's just distorting that's maybe I'll turn it down there on the pot of it and maybe that might help but no it doesn't because I just have to find that but there's no extra stations to be had there let's go to the next band give it a volume just in case you're missing anything there's a little session I couldn't really get a great deal on this I'm just gonna turn it down a bit as well changes over the noise back up a bit I mean that's pretty good in Beijing this isn't daytime mode so this is when this tube is actually in because I think he's designed that you use the crystal at night and the tube in the dead so just one last time we're gonna take this out because I'm hoping now that if I take the tube out it's gonna make a difference I'm pretty much counting that it will do and there we go the tube is making a difference because now we don't have anything if I go into nighttime we are receiving this is on power mode if I take that off and put it on to the crystal I'll turn the power off there just turn the volume up full and we get nothing this is what I did when I first started the video course went through all that and we get nothing so there is definitely in daytime mode with the tube in that does help but then it doesn't seem to make any difference in nighttime mode with the tubes in or not because if the power was on it really helps out even with the tube out so I'm not quite sure how that works you know it's probably just down to me maybe the way I'm thinking of it or something but I'm not quite sure how it works I'm gonna turn that down and put it back to power mode the tube's still not in the time of volume I've heard and if I put it into day no into into night sorry so is it then is it then at night during the day you put this in on day mode and on day mode without this in you don't really get anything and then at night as long as it's in power mode is this then amplifying the signal and then it's being amplified again through this that's why we get to hear it but then if I put it directly just a crystal without using any of this and this doesn't come into it when it's in power mode on nighttime mode and that's why we don't really get a great deal when it's just using the crystal because well my antenna isn't good enough I mean we are pulling the stations but I don't know how many times it's how many times it's been amplified you know I'm one of the more good ones I just like to like to know how it works and I'm not getting much success with the person I bought it from they're sort of like just get out the instructions see it's hard to tell it sounded like that was actually loud and what it was when I first did it but look it's going to go in and out a bit isn't it two different stations there it would just be so nice that if it pulled it in the crystal well it doesn't really it is probably down to my aerial it should turn the funny look full glass I thought that because that was quite a busy band without the power on that you'd actually receive something on it and they say to use this band the two lowest of prison I mean in tune one and two is the lowest because there we do get as faint as it is you can't you know the headphone doesn't work without like that I do realize I haven't got the best antenna I have given it a ground connection loan without that you just you don't get anything I can just about hear something it's funny if I move my hand it sort of keeps a bit of volume on it and if I keep my fingers about three or four millimeters away from it we get some volume because I mean there's just not enough area for it anyway yeah so basically you know I was just trying to work out why it was that on the power mode with the tube with the tube in or out with the tube in or out it doesn't actually make any difference it's not all the same something else I've done before isn't it because why is it I'm impressed with this situation actually I'll see from being the best and if this is supposed to be what makes it work when it's on power but quite work for them that's not yeah that's not actually doing that they look lethargic and suddenly you know you can deal with one or two top players without a form you know that happens as you know as you go through so all that actually works costas hasn't been informed and nizan hasn't been informed evanovich uh you know because you turn the power off and ageing quite as you can see fender in the premier league fabrikas or he started our season it left the tube soon weekend he was or he was for me last season the first man on the team sheet you put in before anybody else he was that important and it doesn't matter whether that's in or not unless it's in daytime mode because on daytime mode you get nothing at all unless you put the tubing and then you put the tubing and you do get something but it's quite distorted that's not right you're a guy with a great professional pride doesn't matter if you have a problem remember anything you must be sure okay not sure when in the mother's face and work down the tunnel never play football again uh no see the tune it into peak power it's just distortion you tune it off of it it doesn't distort so it's all bloody football i mean god if we do we just get rid of that band all together so as you tune it into the peak it just distorts it's got a hundred and fifty milliamp available so nine volts nine volts it requires and he's only drawing point zero one four milliamps so if anyone's got any ideas i could help me out with this i really really uh just so i know what's going on really i'm not quite sure all i can all i can all i can sort of understand is that maybe i don't know because it doesn't say that that's supposed to be amplified in this as such i mean i presumed it was going to be something with you know the signal from from here um but yeah so i wonder how that really works anyway she's watching if you put up with this so far


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It's more than sign your name, you wrote more than your name. It's more than sign your name, you wrote more than your name. So much of it lay in ruins. All cities have been destroyed. Children played in the rubble and begged for food. And by this day 40 years ago, over 40 million lay dead. And the survivors, they composed a continent of victims. And to this day we wonder, how did this happen? How did civilization take such a terrible turn? After all the books and documentaries, after all the histories and studies, we still spoke of the banality of evil. We know there were totalitarians who used the state which they had elevated to the level of a god to inflict war on peaceful nations and genocide on innocent peoples. We know of the existence of evil in the human heart.  Given power and direction for the state, and those who did its bidding. We also know that early attempts to flaking the totalitarians did not save us from war, after days. Who could forget the hard days after we can't help but look back and think? Life was so difficult. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A partnership aimed at seeing the kind of tyrants that a tormented Europe would never, torment reading ground for new extremist philosophies. You resisted the totalitarian temptation. Your people embraced democracy. They re-celebrate the leaders who led the way. Churchill and Monet, Adnaug and Schumann, the Gasperry and Spock, Truman and Marshall. If any doubt their success, let them look at you. In this room are those who fought on opposite sides 40 years ago, and their sons and daughters. Now you work together to lead Europe democratically.  There is no greater testament to reconciliation and to the peaceful unity of Europe than the men and women in this chamber. And Adam Smith came from Europe. And the geniuses who ushered in the modern industrial technological age came from, well, I think you know. But two examples will suffice. Marconi, who invented the radio, thereby providing a living for a young man from Dixon, Illinois, who later went into politics. I guess I should explain. That's me, Blaine Marconi. In 1949, through the early 1970s, Soviet aggression was effectively deterred. The strength of Western economies, the vitality of our societies, the wisdom of our diplomacy. First in Angol in 1975, then when the West failed to respond in Ethiopia, in South Yemen, in Kampuchea, and ultimately in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union began courting more risks than it can not least the crisis of self-confidence within the American body politic wrought by the Vietnam experience. But just as Soviet decision-making in the earlier post-war era had taken place against a background of overwhelming American strategic power, so the decisions of the late 70s were taken in Moscow clear arsenals to compete with the Soviet Union in this field, not in the pursuit of superiority, but merely of balance. It is thus essential that the United States maintain a modern and survivable nuclear capability in each leg of the strategic triad. The Soviet Union, however, does not share our view of what constitutes a stable nuclear balance. It has chosen instead to build nuclear forces clearly designed to strike first and thus disarm their adversary. The Soviets open the closest possible fashion with our elements, and when the time for decisions on the possible production and deployment of such systems comes, we must and will discuss and negotiate these issues with the Soviet Union. Both for the short and the long term, unconfident the West can maintain effective military deterrence. But surely we can aspire as today is whether we have learned with the Soviet Union based upon effective deterrence and the reduction of tensions. I believe we can. I believe we've learned that fruitful cooperation with the Soviet Union must be accompanied by successful competition in areas, particularly third world areas, where the Soviets are not yet Achieve military superiority efforts to sustain a productive dialogue with the Soviet Union. We're reminded of the obstacles posed by our so fundamentally different concepts of humanity, of human rights, of the value of human life. The murder can evolve into a risk reduction mechanism for rapid communication and exchange of data in times of crisis. These proposals are not curable for our current problems. They will not compensate for the deaths which have occurred. But as terrible as past events have been, our ideals of freedom and democracy and our economic systems have proven their ability to meet the needs of our people. Our adversaries can offer their people only economic stagnation and the corrupt hand of a state and party bureaucracy, which ultimately satisfied the constancy of the American purpose. We were at your side through two great wars. We have been at your side through 40 years of a sometimes painful peace. We're at your side today because like you, we have not veered from the idea that we do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. We share the basic aspirations of all the peoples of Europe, freedom, prosperity and peace. But when families are divided and people are not allowed to maintain normal human and cultural context, this creates international tension. Only in a system in which all feel secure and sovereign can there be a lasting and secure peace.


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