It's our high point on Friday. Possibly our high point of the week. It's Trump week, okay? With Tim Appatella and me on a Friday at 11 o'clock. So much. And today our show is about chaos. All over the board, but nothing good. Or no good can come of it here on Trump week. So the first thing I want to mention, get your reaction is, what is this sentence for Manafort? That's kind of strange. He was bad all the way, was bad with dealing with authorities, bad with dealing with the court. And he gets a 47 month sentence. That's peanuts. And the world is looking at it as peanuts. A lot of complaints all around the country. A lot of people are, you know, again losing confidence in the institutions of our American democracy. What do you think? First off, salutations. Good morning, Jay. Good morning to you. Good morning. What I think about, you know, all the newscasts say, this is a big surprise, big surprise. Why is a big surprise? It shouldn't be. Judge Ellis from the very get-go was challenging the prosecutors about everything they brought to the table. Again, you know, about Manafort. And he was, you know, disputing things right from the get-go. It was down on the mother people. I remember that. Of course, of course. So, a 47 month sentence, to me, wasn't that surprising. But, yeah, I mean, I think it was on the extreme low end. But you know, the bottom line is we're going to see what the Washington D.C. judge, Judge Amy Jackson, she's going to basically sentence for his pleas of guilt regarding witness tampering and breaking the agreement with the investigation team. So we'll see what number she comes up with. My prediction, 36 more months. Okay. So that's three years plus four years is seven years. He's 69. But he served nine months, so you get to subtract that out. So take a year off. And so that's six years on top of the, six years from now, he'll be out at 75. And I didn't see anything about a fine. Was there a fine they were talking about? Yes, he has to make millions. It's a $50,000 fine, but there was, I want to say it was 20 million that he has to pay back. But the fine itself was $50,000. Okay. So a lot of millions of money has to be paid back. Good, but not to the court. Good, but not great. You know, this was not the kind of thing that makes your heart throb. It's not the kind of thing where you feel that the checks and balances are working. Well, when was the last campaign fine manager thrown in jail? John Mitchell. Yeah, that goes with the Nixon administration. So this, it's a, it's a, it's a forerunner of other things to come. And consistent with, you know, our thing about nothing, nothing good will come of any of this. Okay, huge trade deficit, huge $891 billion trade deficit, worse than expected, worse than before, even in the light of all this, you know, stomping over, over the tariffs. What happened, Tim? Well, if you look at the irony, irony of it, when he came into office, what was he complaining about vehemently? The trade deficit. Yeah. So it was an ironic that now he's been in office for two years, and the trade deficit through his tariffs and great negotiation with China and the rest of the world, Mexico and Canada. Gee, the trade deficit is extremely, extremely high and far, far greater than when it was when he entered office. Yeah. I find that ironic. Ironic? Well, I hope, I hope his base understands the damage he's done, because not only has he increased the deficit he was supposed to reduce, but he's wrecked our diplomatic relations with so many countries. Just what I read this morning, that Europe is now requiring visas from American travelers, because the immigration service is requiring visas from European travelers. I mean, we're a step further away from our earlier relationship with all of Europe. What a guy, he's doing a great job, isn't he? If you're Europe, why would you not? Tit for tat. You want to treat us this way, we get to treat you that way. So, I mean, it's just, this gamemanship is spiraling down. Great negotiator. So, yeah, we got, and we had this really interesting nothing burger negotiation. You and I spoke about it last week with Kim Jong-un in Vietnam just last week, where nothing happened. And he came away trying to make it sound like he did the right thing. In fact, he was unrealistic. He wants him to give up all the nuclear weapons when the nuclear weapons are their cause celeb. That identifies them, that gives them leverage and voice in the world. They're not going to give that up. So, it was an unrealistic expectation. It was a personality diplomacy, single person diplomacy, which never works. And it was a failure. And since that time, the most incredible thing is Kim Jong-un is back building nuclear facilities. And it was not two days after that meeting when the, I guess the NSA or one of the intelligence agencies advised us that they had photos now showing that there was a renewed construction of nuclear facilities in North Korea. Wow, what a deal. I wonder what his base thinks about that. Well, let's not forget also the tag onto that. And that was giving Kim Jong-un a pass on any involvement with the death of that young American who died in the hands, basically died at the hands of the North Koreans while being incarcerated. And the social impact and the damage to Donald Trump was tremendous on that. So you have no advancement of nuclear disarmament or the stopping of their program, but you also had this horrible thing and he gave them, like everyone else, he gives them a pass. Yeah, all the dictators get a pass from him. That's because he admires them, wants to be a dictator himself. So is there a need for another meeting at this point? No. Since they didn't do their homework at all and they didn't realize of how entrenched North Korea was in their desire to retain this technology. He pulled the rug out from his own negotiators. He's decimated the State Department. Our Secretary of State doesn't know which end is up. Our Secretary of State recently took a position against the award, an award to a journalist in Finland, I think it was, somewhere in Scandinavia, because she had written anti-Trump things and they pulled that support. Social media accounts and it wasn't complimentary. They were retracting, but the official response is it was an error of announcement. She was wrong name in the wrong slot and that's how they're trying to sell this one. I don't believe that. Of course not. Anyway, so now he's got a meeting ostensibly coming up in a few weeks with Xi Jinping. And I think Xi Jinping knows everything that you and I say. Maybe Xi Jinping watches the show, who knows? He's not going to get anywhere with Xi Jinping either. Xi Jinping has learned to live with the tariffs. Xi Jinping is running the One Belt Road Initiative all over the world, developing other markets, other opportunities, other investments, right under Trump's feet. And Trump has isolated us and we're not participating in that. So I'm not sure that it means a whole lot to Xi Jinping to try to satisfy Trump about anything. If I were to lay out a theory and that is Donald Trump makes the assumption that because he's won over a fairly good percentage of population through his cult of personality, that he can do that with other foreign countries. Right. Right. And it's not working. It's not working, thank you. It's not working. And it's not going to work with Xi Jinping as he's a smart guy and whatever you want to say about his repressionist moves, he's in control of the country and most Chinese like what he's doing. Even the social scores, they like that. They feel that it helps to discipline people in China and seek excellence. That's their view of it, I think, a lot of them. Okay. The likelihood of reversing the emergency. So we've had the House say let's reverse the emergency. There were some Republicans in the House that voted against that. 11. 11. They were amazed that the Republicans are holding the ranks. They've had some defectors but mostly they're holding the ranks. On the stupidest, most unconstitutional move that Trump has made so far. The most damaging move to the United States that he's made so far. Now it goes to the Senate. And the Senate hopefully give it, take one vote or so. The Senate will also reverse the emergency. Then it goes on Trump's desk. I think it's going to happen. Well, he's already proclaimed he was going to veto it. It'll come back to see if there's an override. If there's enough votes for the override. There's a lot of senators, Republican senators that have expressed their disdain for this. But they haven't officially come out for it. So we'll see how many votes will actually get close to an override of that veto. And it's, do I think it's going to happen? Unfortunately not. I wish it would. But I just don't think they'll have 67 votes in there. Yeah. We can all be mad at the Republicans about that. But the more potent result of it is that our democracy has been damaged and calculable damaged by letting this guy do a national emergency when there is no national emergency. It leads to dictatorship. And we'll all be very sorry about it in the years to come. But right now the Republicans don't see any of that. Let me ask you a question. Okay. So if it doesn't, you know, there's not an override the veto, it will go to the courts, the Ninth Circuit, the Fifth Circuit. Does that allow, while it's in court, does that allow Donald Trump the funds that he wants to pull from either the Army Corps of Engineers or wherever? Does that allow him the funds to begin this wall? Somebody is going to have to issue an injunction. Nobody has yet. It's pending how many states are up on it. 16. Yeah. Somebody is going to, some judge is going to have to issue an injunction against the application of those funds. And it hasn't happened. I'm getting less confident about this all the time because it's all under the shadow of a Supreme Court that has been politicized. Nobody is confident that Supreme Court will do the right thing here. And so we, you know, we don't think it'll be an override in the Congress. And we are really not certain of the Supreme Court.  The balance of power isn't working. The separation of government is not working. And this goes through the question of the census. You've heard about the census. Correct. There are two courts, East Coast, West Coast, that have ruled that the Secretary Wilbur Ross. Yeah, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. Right. In making citizenship a question on the census questionnaire, violated the Constitution. And in my view, he did violate the Constitution. So two courts have said, that's not acceptable. This is unconstitutional. And now with the government, the federal government, Trump's federal government will take it, you know, his Attorney General will take it to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court will decide whether that question is unconstitutional. But it remains that the Republicans, over the past few years, have done everything they can to suppress voting. Right. And reapportioning. Because they can't win any other way. Right. So, you know, the question is, how are guys like Kavanaugh and Roberts going to vote on that? You know, the court is turning conservative. And they're turning Trump. That'll be another, you know, another earmark of where we are. Well, Kavanaugh is a question mark. Roberts, I think he has voted against administration. He is certainly on the Affordable Care Act. He is, you know, it's not like he's in lockstep with the administration. He has looked at the law and has opined and actually ruled that was contrary to the Republican Party. Well, the Louisiana abortion case. Yeah. He ruled, you know, in my view, the right way. He ruled to overturn the losing. I don't want to make the assumption that just because they are appointed by Donald Trump or George Bush that they are in lockstep. They're Supreme Court justices. And I'm going to put out hope and faith that they will follow their mission and their oath and look at the law and respond to it that way versus a blind allegiance to a conservative ideology. Well, we'll see. We'll see how politicized they are. We'll see. Two cases coming along. The docket keeps building. Yes, it does. One is the emergency case. Right. And the other is the census case. Okay. Let's take a short break. I think my head hurts now. Okay. We'll come back and we'll see if we can get Cynthia Sinclair in here to join us. All right. We'll be right back. Hey, loha. My name is Andrew Lanning. 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I'm live at five every Wednesday where we have entertaining and educational conversations that are real and relevant, both here in Hawaii and across the globe. I'll see you at the Crossroads. Aloha. Okay, we're back. We're live. You will notice there's a change in our composition. Cynthia's here. Welcome, Cynthia. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. So during the break, we were talking about CPAP and Tim reminded me that CPAP is not the right word. That's when you, that's to prevent you from gagging in the middle of your sleep. That's not happening yet. Okay. But you know what? CPAP could also, you know, help you gag in the middle of your sleep. So, okay, so let's talk about it. So next week I'll be wearing a CPAP and see who will I? Maybe so. I bring my team. Depends on what happens. Okay, CPAP. What happened and why should we care? We should care because, again, if this show is trying to connect the dots, if you really watched a two hour speech, we're going to connect some dots on this one. So what's the first thing he did?  Well, they played that for the last, you know, 10, 15 years.  And of course he came in and people say that he hugged the American flag. I thought he groped the American flag. It was not a pretty visual and I wanted to take a shower after I saw that visual. So, but what, what the importance was that he, he actually knows how to get his loyal 35% and even more. And it's, it's partially due to a couple of things. One is he has tapped into this national feeling that rural Republicans, rural Americans have been ignored and dismissed by the elite West Coast East Coast cities. And he's tapped into that. And he has them. He has them, no matter what he says, what he does, they will follow him because he understands that they've been ignored and dismissed and disrespected. And when we talk about, where's the connection? When we talk about how can these people follow him with all these horrible things he says and does because he remembers them and he has given them assurances that he won't forget them, even though he has, was trade deficit, you know, trade tariffs and things like that. So there's actually a book out there called Dignity Seeking Respect in the Back Rural of America by Chris Ornod. And he, he writes to this point that the Democrats need to understand this, get on board with it and start paying attention to this very serious, serious polarization between urban and rural America. And they don't seem to really get into that. They don't. Well, they don't want to because they, there's a point to be made about it. And they don't want to admit it. They have to admit it. They're going to, if they want to win, they're going to have to admit this polarization. And then the connect the dot, one thing was, you know, back in the 2016 election, we had a candidate by the name of Mitt Romney. If you watch CPAC and you watch all the things that he said, Mitt Romney came through, his words came through three years later and I'm going to just quote him very quickly. Mitt Romney said, here's what I know. Donald Trump is a phony. A fraud. He promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public as suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat. And a big trade deficit. Big trade deficit. And a destruction of the Constitution. Right. For the national emergency. What a bargain, hey. Yeah, we're being, we're being damaged every day. What's going on? So, you know, those words from Romney sound like the words from Michael Cohen. Yeah, they do. What happened with Michael Cohen this week? Seems like his testimony last Wednesday was not the end of it. No, he's been in front of the closed sessions twice, right? Mm-hmm. And apparently he showed up with lots of paperwork and documentation and they asked for it and he brought it. Apparently they, I guess that they had sent it back to him and returned it to him and then he went through it and found things that back up his story. Okay. Which I think is really remarkable. That's coming back to me, really. Right. Exactly, I think that's a lot. This is the talk about how maybe Michael Cohen was trying to get a pardon. Where did that go? Well, I don't think it was unreasonable in the very, very early stages before his office was rated to dangle that out there and have his attorneys contact their attorneys. Well, and that's all it was, is the attorneys. But it was certainly well before his office was rated. Yeah. Well, now he's saying I would never ask for a pardon. I don't want a pardon. I wouldn't ask and I wouldn't get. Well, and his lawyers said that they did talk to him. Back in the day. Yeah. Right, back in the day. Which I think is normal. I don't think that changed their testimony. I don't think it does either. But now Trump is saying he asked me personally. He tweeted this morning that he, that Cohen asked him personally for a pardon. But who do you believe? I certainly don't believe Trump. And I, it's hard to know but I think that's the biggest thing, right? You know, we have seen altogether too much of this. I don't, I don't, in my lifetime I've never seen a president who would pardon an obviously guilty criminal person. Okay, for political reasons. Not carrying one whip, whether the guy was guilty, whether the guy received a fair sentence and all that. The idea that he would hang out with that sheriff in New Mexico. Arpaio. Arpaio. The idea that he would, you know, flaunt the pardon in so many ways, so many circumstances, not for legitimate pardon purposes, but only for political purposes. And now again, this conversation about whether Cohen might have been pardoned. Cohen's a criminal. Yeah. He pleaded guilty. You're going to pardon him? What? You're going to pardon Manafort? Let's see what happens. You watch. You watch. I think that'll happen. I don't mean to disagree but I remember a president by the name of Gerald Ford. And he had someone that admired that he did pardon and that was Richard Nixon. And Richard Nixon was a bigger crutch. True shay. True shay. But this is sort of different. We had a guilty plea. That's the difference. Yeah, a guilty plea and it's not just one large person. I think he did it out of, maybe there was an underhanded deal there but he did it out of some kind of humane purpose. In this case, it's just to let his friends off the hook. Yeah. And it's not honest. It's not fair. It's in your face. And I don't think the base or most people in the country understand just how wrong it is to pardon our apio. Apio, yeah. To pardon Manifold if he does, to pardon, to even think about pardoning Cohn. What is going on here? He's manipulating the justice system. And how can people feel confident of the government if the president can manipulate the justice system? Like a crooked sheriff in the wild west. Well, I think when he pardoned our apio, it was a big statement that, look, you can be racially bigoted down there at the border. You can go after as many Hispanics as you want. You can hurt them. I don't care. Go do it. I really think that's kind of what he was saying in that process. Okay, let's move on. Let's see. To women's day? Oh, sorry. The poll. Yes. Because this ties into what we were just talking about. Yeah. And that's the national poll that was taken out. And I thought it was very interesting that 64% of all voters believe that Donald Trump committed crimes prior to becoming president of the United States. Wow. 24% did not and 13% not sure. Now, if you ask that same question to just the Republicans only, interesting results, 33% think, yes, he did commit crimes before becoming president of the United States. 48% no and 12% not sure. The point is, that's a high percentage for the Republicans. It is. But it's what's the takeaway from that? If 33% Republicans thought he committed crimes before the office, are those 33% still going to support him? Yeah. You know what troubles me? It's the same thing as pardoning people. This guy, he did crimes. We all know. Whether he admitted or not. He did crimes. I remember the bus thing. Remember the bus thing that was something Hollywood on the bus?  His video. Yeah. Planet Hollywood. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's that he did really bad things. People, religious people could never condone what he did and yet religious people support him. The base supports him. And that's a new one, isn't it? A new one that we keep on supporting a guy who we know has committed wrongdoing, all kinds of wrongdoing. And what does that say about the government and the way that people feel about the government? It's a personality issue that we talked about 10 minutes ago. That is, he is tapped into this polarization of the rural America, the Republican conservatives, and the quote, unquote, the elite West Coast, East Coast city politics. And he's tapped into it. And so they're willing to look past the rule of law.  They're willing to look past all of that. Why? Incredible. Well, because of the cult of personality issue. Yeah. Well, we can't. Okay. Anyway, so part of that is the, what's it going to say, security clearance for Jared and what's their name? Ivanka. Okay. So he gave, there's no question in my mind, he gave security clearances to both of them at the top of the run. Okay. Complaints now. People from the intelligence agencies coming forward and saying they advised him not to do that. And that there's risk and danger in that.  Right. They still have their security clearances. They are still employed by the federal government. They are still doing his thing. They're still in the White House. He knows a turnstile for all those people in and out, like Bill Shine now, left as communications director. One of many, it was something I think in the Washington Post recently about all these changes. It's really astronomical about all these people coming and going, but not for Jared and Ivanka with their phony security clearances. I just don't understand how the government can get along with this revolving door kind of mentality. Well, we know that Jared is closely connected, as in good friends with Netanyahu. We know that Jared is very much the one that was behind moving the embassy to Jerusalem and moving the capital there and all of that stuff. So I think with his security clearance, he has done a lot of things that have caused a lot of issues in the Middle East. And I don't think it's right. Intelligence agencies losing confidence. I mean, they've lost it already. They've lost any relationship with him, zero relationship. And the military and the State Department rank and file, not the Secretary of State, but the state rank and file. And the people have no confidence in the system around security clearances. And this takes me to the last point of our discussion because we don't have any more time, but foreign policy. We have one person doing foreign policy. And, you know, he's doing something with Venezuela, which I don't think is constructive at all. You can't do foreign policy with Twitter. That's not the way you do it. Thoughts about what's happening in Venezuela now. It seems to be decompensating completely. It's going to be in a state of nature, certainly. And, you know, Trump has done nothing to help that. But let's not re... Go ahead. The Venezuela has been lights out now for a couple of days, and Maduro is blaming U.S. interventions in it. So he's down there just really causing trouble and blaming it all on Trump. Yeah. And I say let's not have a repeat of history where Venezuela becomes the new Cuba, where Russia and China now have already, you know, sided with Venezuela, this current administration in Venezuela. And let's not have that conversation in that conflict because we don't need another conflict. And we don't need it in Venezuela. Yeah. And, you know, we don't need Russia to start, you know, putting their nuclear weaponry in Venezuela. It's already there. Yeah. But we don't need any more. We don't need any more. That's right. You know, this is a very timely show every week. You know, if you wonder about whether it's going to be timely in any given week, no problem, it's always timely. And it's going to be timely next week. But can you look into the future for me, you guys? I ask you this every week and tell me what you think is going to come up next week. Are we going to have any good news or bad news next week? I think more things are going to happen with Manafort because, remember, he's got to go in front of the judge in Washington now. And she's not as accommodating, I should say, as the other judge in Virginia. So I think we're going to see quite a bit more explosions from that. I think we get more discussion about the override of the veto regarding the national emergency. That'll fill them. That'll fill the airways, for sure. And I think you'll see Republicans jockeying for position on this, particularly those senators from purple states, blue states, that they need to think about the 2020 election. And you'll see them out for sure, given their opinions and why they voted for or against. So I guess next week we have to think of another title for next week's episode.  And the first 20 articles in all the major news papers are all about that. And we will cover it. Yes, we will. Cynthia Sinclair, Tim Appichella, thank you so much. Thank you, Jay. Appreciate it. See you next week. Trump's week. Lo Ha.


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So, today's going to be really casual. I'm going to have lots of opportunities for you guys to ask questions, but hopefully you will all learn a lot. I'm trying to gauge the audience here, how many people currently use a social media platform of any kind. Is it Facebook? Is it YouTube? Lots of YouTube. Okay, good. So, today we're going to have some fun. If you're on Facebook, if you're on Instagram, a lot of the things are going to apply from platform to platform. So, if I'm talking about a platform that you're not on, a lot of the concepts are very, very similar from platform to platform. So, yeah, so, well, good. Like they said, I'm Lindsay. I host a YouTube channel called Inside the Hymn, usually about garment sewing, but I did the dabble in twirling, bag making. So, there's a little bit for everyone there. I am going to talk today about finding and using social media to find sewing inspiration, find some common fit issues that you might find in your patterns, learning new techniques, and ultimately making connections because at the end of the day, social media is that it's social. It's a social networking is what I like to call it.  It's the same thing. You just do it behind the screen. And you don't have to put makeup on. It's your performance. It's great. So, how did I get here? I know that a social media expert and a passionate sewist usually are two things that you find inside one person. And my journey to get here is a little interesting, kind of a lot of happy accidents, which is great. So, in college, I studied broadcast journalism. I thought I was going to be Katie Couric, but unfortunately, I didn't want to move to middle America and report on cow tipping or report on, you know, one bad weatherment after another. So, after college, I decided to get into sales. That was like the next best thing. And through that, my bosses at that job said, you know, there's this thing called social media, and everyone says that you kind of have some social media accounts. Why don't you do our social media? So, I had a mind space at that point, a Facebook and a Twitter. So, that was all that existed. So, I know. I was like, I'm good for fun for me. I don't know how to do this for a business, but thankfully, they paid me to figure it out, to figure it out for them. And after that, I had a lot of small businesses come to me and say, I don't want to do this. I don't want to learn it. I'm too busy. I'm wearing too many hats. Can I pay you to do it? And I said, sure. So, I started my own social media management company, and I managed hair salons, gyms, consignment stores, you name it. I was just the behind the scenes person posting for all of them on social media. And they loved it because they didn't have to worry about it at all. They'd hear something and they'd say, figure this out. And I was like, so that was really great. Meanwhile, I had just moved to a new city. I didn't feel any body. And so, I went online and found a group of crafters, and their very next time they were all getting together was at a sewing shop. And they were going to learn to make tote bags. And I thought, oh, I've always kind of wondered if I'd be any good at that sewing thing. So, I showed up, made a terrible tote bag, no interfacing, nothing. And the very next day, I went on a sewing machine. I brought the whole box to that sewing store. And I said, help me. And I took classes every week for two years. Eventually, I outgrew what they could teach me. And so, I started to go online to try and figure out how can I learn more. And what I discovered there is there was kind of a vast whole in the social media sewing world. There were a lot of bloggers taking pictures, talking about things they made. But nobody was doing a lot of educating. Nobody was doing any video, hardly at all. And I had been a fan of YouTube. I had been watching the beauty videos and fashion hauls and, you know, all of that stuff. So, I said, I can do what they're doing and apply it to sewing. So, five years ago, I launched a YouTube channel with zero followers, zero anything. And I have wrote it into what it is today. And it's my full-time job, which is wild. I am a professional YouTuber. In the flesh, we do exist. We are not myths, we're legends or people that only live in California or whatever it is. Here I am. So, I have my social media background and I apply that to what I do with my sewing on YouTube.  I kind of just made it up, I guess. And it's been great. So, today, we are, like I said, we're going to talk a lot about social media. And so, I pulled some stats for you guys just to kind of give you an idea of how massive social media is. My favorite stat up here is the Instagram one. 10.9 million posts are tagged specifically with hashtag sewing. That means 10.9 posts about sewing have been posted to that network in its lifetime. So, there's a lot of people talking about sewing. It's all kinds of different sewing. If you go to the hashtag, you'll see garment sewing, quilting, kids' clothes, everything under the sun. So, we'll talk about how we can use these numbers, use these accounts, and these posts that people are doing to help us better ourselves at our sewing. And we're going to start with Pinterest. Who is familiar with Pinterest? Great. That's a lot more than Thursday. Perfect. Excellent. And, you know, Pinterest has gotten kind of a reputation. Asian Network really has its own little reputation. But for Pinterest, it's where people go to plan imaginary weddings, dress children that don't exist, and decorate homes that we can't afford. And I think all of us would add, you know, would have fabric stashes that are immaculate and, you know, closets that are huge, you know, all of those kinds of things. But, within all of that, there's also a really great sewing community. So, Pinterest is made up of pins and boards, if you're not familiar with it. A pin is an individual post, and those individual posts are organized into boards. Boards are categorized, however you want to categorize them. So, my Pinterest, for example, has my makes. And any time I post a pin, that is something that I've made, it goes into the my makes board. And then people can follow the board. And every time I add something, they get notified that Lindsay's got a new pin in the my makes board. So, that's how that works. Also, a very easily searchable platform. Not all of them are. And so, the three ways to use Pinterest are to find inspiration. So, like, ready to wear, you know, what food, meat, nails, it's posting for what some designer that you love is, is posting. And you can say, oh, I could make that. So, then you recreate it. Photo tutorials. And I'm going to show you examples of all three of these. So, it's a whole tutorial in one picture. You don't have to go to a blog post. You can, if you want extra information. But it's all right there at a glance, if you can make sense of what they're trying to tell you. And there's info practice. Info practice are, like, a ton of information visually appealing all in one photo. So, here is what some inspiration photos might look like based on your personal style. But you can see all three of the garments, or well, they're wearing lots of garments. But all three of these ladies have clothes that we could easily make. And with fabrics that we could easily find. So, I would pin these to an inspiration board. And then when I'm going on fabric shopping, or whenever the new pattern collection comes out, I can reference back to this and say, oh, that looks just like that part again that that girl wore in that inspiration photo that I found. And it really just helps keeping your creativity going and giving you a little bit of confidence that what you're going to make is wearable and it looks good. And here's how you can style it and look as put together as they do. So, here are some photo tutorials. So, you can see the entire tutorial, for the most part, is all in one photo. How to make a shirt bigger. You can see, she basically cut out a little pizza shape, sewed it in, and now she's got a bigger shirt. How to sew darts.  But for those of us that sort of know what's going on, we know what they're trying to do this way. And if you didn't, if you needed more information, you would click through to the inevitably blog post usually from what is that saying, treasury.com or something.  This is a great way to do it. And in this bag, it's really keeping fun and pretty straightforward. So, next up are infographics. So, again, a lot of information in one snapshot. The needle selection one, I think is a lot of fun. It's like being behind, picking a needle, and you're going to start here. What are you making? A or B? Follow the little pipes all the way down. Then there's all about sewing seams. And then there's all about pattern rulers. So, you can see a lot of information compacted in one space. You're not reading through an entire article about these topics. You can just quickly at a glance understand. And you could say all of these to your various boards and refer back to them any time you want. So, it's like your own encyclopedia of topics that are interesting to you. Okay. Questions of interest?  And when you re-pen something, you can add a caption. The caption is public, but it can be your own notes if you would like. Or it can just be something for the general public. But yes, there is a space to add a caption just other people can read it. But that's private. Have a good one. Unless the board is private. Correct. Unless the board is private. That's exactly right. All of these you need to identify for, yes. The only thing that's a little bit, you know, Facebook owns Instagram now and Google owns YouTube. So, if you have a Google, you have a YouTube. If you have a Facebook, it's easy to get an Instagram. There were some more questions. Hey, what is that? What? For some odd reason, I did not figure out the platform of Pinterest and I can be publicist. So, I think I'm over analyzing it. Yes. What would be a resource like a YouTube? Is there a YouTube tutorial that says, I didn't have to grab a whole kind of re-pen anything. So, I think I'm sure it's me. I met me. I'm sure it's me. Well, I have not met you, and I have a lot of confidence in figuring out. So, Pinterest actually has their own help center where you can type in how to re-pen, how to whatever. And they have a lot of really great articles. I want to say, in my opinion, Pinterest is the most user-friendly in that regard in having this library of articles to help you figure out their platform. So, I would go there first and then if not just having you re-pen and Pinterest on Google, there's tons and tons of articles on it. Yes, I made all of the clothes that I'm wearing in the bookters. No, I don't know what pattern it is. Thank you, but I do have a video on it, and you can find it on YouTube. Yes. So, when you're searching for like a tutorial on all about seams, is it better to use the search function within Pinterest? Yes, I think so. I think so, because otherwise you're going to get, you know, blog articles, you're going to get inundated with whatever Google thinks is the most important thing. If you just want to utilize Pinterest's platform because you know you want to save it to a board and you want to be able to find it later, that's the best part about Instagram is being able to save it. It's organized, you know where it is, you go back and find it later. So, yes, I would always search within Pinterest if you're looking for a pin. Okay, we'll have time for more questions at the end so if you feel like something pops up later, it's fine. All right, let's talk about Instagram. Who has Instagram? Yay, you guys! Who will follow me? Here's my Instagram handle. I just made your milestone on Instagram. I just reached 10,000 followers, which is the biggest deal on Instagram because it unlocks all of these little weird funny things that Instagram deems is only important for people who have 10,000 followers, which is so annoying, but I'm there so it doesn't matter. So, I'll never be on Instagram again. My favorite resource for sewing, this is my funny quote about Instagram. Not many things scare me more than making a pattern I haven't seen a hashtag for. If you've ever used Instagram to search for a pattern, you know what I'm talking about. And this was posted by someone that I follow as is first so if you want to follow her. Okay, so Instagram is made up of more than just this but it's mostly posts and stories.  That's a post it lives on your Instagram feed forever and ever, never goes away. A story is a video, it's usually a lot taller and longer and the videos go there 15 seconds long so you can add up multiples of them and they go away after 24 hours. Who would want to do that? All that work would just tickle away after 24 hours. It's really meant to have more of a casual type of conversation type of thing. So if a post is here's what I made, look at this picture, here's the pattern, here's the fabric I use. A Instagram story is here are my favorite parts about this pattern or here are some close of the fabric or this is what I didn't like about it. And so when that goes away it's kind of fine but you can also save them as highlights and we'll get into that a little bit too. Okay, so here's how I use Instagram to improve my sewing. You can search pattern hashtags and we'll go over what that means to see versions that others have made and then you use those photos to assess fit, to analyze fabric choice, and you can also within the Instagram stories find a lot of really great video tutorials and I'll give you three of my favorite accounts that are constantly providing really great information in that category. Okay, assessing fit, this is supposed to be a video but it's not, we didn't play on Thursday either, I don't know, but these are all at the top, hashtag so over invented shirt threats. It's exactly what I'm wearing today so when I went to make this dress I said I want to know how this fits on a variety of body types, maybe even a body type that is like mine which is a parachute. So I typed in hashtag so over invented shirt dress and at this video we're gonna play you would see there are 1000 and 12 posts tagged with so over invented shirt dress. So you have 1000 and 12 examples, models, people wearing this showing you how it fits them, changes that they had to make, things they like, things they don't like. It's an incredible resource but you can even see from the few pictures that we have here all the different women and how the dress is kind of fitting them differently based on their body types. But what you can tell by the girl's motor skirt like this is that if you are more full-figured in the bottom half you're gonna have plenty of room plus you can tell I think this girl here on the bottom right for you guys the sleepless version you could really tell how big your flattering it looks and how the waistline sits and all of that and then even the girls with the sleeves you can tell is the sleeve drafted well is it a link that I like. You can start to assess all of those things to help you get a better footing heading into making a new pattern that you have never made before. All right now we're going to analyze fabric choice so this is the same sew over adventure dress using the same hashtag that I saw just showed you guys and we have a woman wearing a quilting cotton we have a rayon and we have a silk so you can see how different the dresses look in the different fabrications. The quilting cotton is a little bit more stiff and structured the rayon is a little bit more drapey and that kind of falls closer to her body and the silk looks like a fancy like super nice like cocktail dress so you can really say okay what kind of like what am I gonna be wearing where am I wearing this what am I doing this for and you can find examples of that in instagram using the hashtag and say okay well I think that the cotton one's a little too casual for me and the silk one's a little too dressy some typical deluxe and we'll go with the rayon and so then you're on your way to making you know the perfect version of the dress that you have in your head you know those pattern companies do a great job of suggesting fabrics but sometimes they're like five eight ten suggestions and you're like well how am I supposed to really know the difference between I'm sure they all work all look lovely but what is it really gonna look like whenever I get done so this is a great way to find that out okay again another video that's supposed to play is not funny but this is an instagram story this is a tutorial that I have done on my instagram stories and we were able to watch it you would see is how to finish off the raw edges of pockets so it's it's less than two minutes long it's really quick and it walks you through the steps really really quickly um and there are a lot of really great people posting really great information within instagram stories so the first one I have suggested here is pronounced weezer dreams the band weezer does anyone remember them so that gives you an idea of what kind of person she is she's a really cool shooting but she is a legitimate but she works in the garment district for a brand she is a pattern oh gosh a pattern I can't remember her exact job title but she is in charge of analyzing fit so they get these fit samples back she's in charge of analyzing them altering them so that they will look good on everybody and specifically their their slim fit model and their curvy fit model so when she goes on instagram and she's making her own clothes she's doing this for herself and she's telling us all about how she's doing it she's looking at flat pattern pieces and she's saying this shoulder scene looks really wide for this particular design I'm going to double check this without the other thing and she's explaining why and how and like she gets paid to do this every day by her job and then comes home and gives a lot of information to us for free you do have to be a little patient not every single story that her name is Grace not every single story that Grace posts is the most educational and informational there's some cats in there there's a cooking with her husband but if you stick around long enough you will get a lot of really really great information same thing with when Michelle so when Michelle just went through a pattern drafting course and now she is taking that information and sharing it with all of us ways to take a princess scene pattern and convert it into one that is more basic taking you know making muslins and showing us things that are wrong and different how to fix that on your flat pattern piece and then we have Emily Holland who does not work in the sewing industry or the fashion industry but she's been sewing forever and ever and makes impeccable clothes and gives you all these really cool tips and tricks she showed once a way to install the bodice lining to the arm side and I'll never do it any other way ever again ever so I've got that all that information for free she's made my life so much easier and now all my linings look so much better just because I watched an instagram story that she gave us so and there's lots of other really really great examples of that too these are just three that do it more often very well fake me in good lighting in my life and instagram stories no both ways those searchable oh no it's not searchable instagram is only searchable by a hashtag whereas Pinterest you can search and it'll pull up keywords within the caption instagram is really only searchable by hashtag and by accounting so if you follow those account names we'll see all their old posts real stories you'll see their posts and you'll only see the stories that are either less than 24 hours old or ones that they have chosen to put in the highlights and I'll again I'll show you highlights later when we talk about the branding section of this all of this but yes sometimes they're really good about putting the highlights sometimes they're not it isn't that's what you have to do on instagram a lot it's being up with it all but you'll find your favorites you kind of get a feel for it you know like they have 95 jobs they're not usually posting during the day all that kind of stuff so but yeah if they hashtag something even after even the hashtag for the story is gone within 24 hours they won't show up there anymore but if you had if you search the hashtag so over a vintage shirt dress and someone's posted a story about that in the last 24 hours you will be able to find it and you'll be able to find all the posts which is what I showed you earlier does that make sense yeah okay posts that you already know correct no matter if they're tagged or not other questions about instagram okay yes this is it I will have one though I'm recording this now and I will post this and so we would see the rest of this conversation but it's I don't have like a library of social media videos have fun in your class yes sometimes it'll say see more in bio yes am I yeah how would you get that bio if you're tapping see more nothing's happening okay that's a problem with it yeah you can try and turn off your phone and turn it back on again it sounds silly but sometimes that fixes things close the app reopen it uninstall the app and reinstall it that's annoying but that helps fix some bugs sometimes also I mean if you have your updates automatically updating within your phone that helps a little bit too but yeah if you're tapping see more nothing's coming up that's not you that's them and social media for my guilt and I post events on instagram when I post events on facebook I do like 10 photo frames and I can make comments about you yeah right can I also do that on instagram because I haven't been able to figure it out so instagram within one post you can add up to five photos but they all have the same caption you cannot do it individually yes yes so what a lot of people like to do is have a general statement and then one what number one picture is about two what the second picture is about like that you do captions can be very long in instagram so don't let that live any other questions about instagram everyone following me now okay now we're gonna talk about youtube my literal bread and butter youtube um so everyone knows you watch videos on youtube a lot of cat videos but this is my favorite youtube quote youtube is addicting I click on a music video next thing you know I'm watching how to make ice cream the youtube vortex is what it's called you start watching a video you see a suggested one you're like oh that's interesting and then that takes you to another suggested video oh that's interesting and then before you know it it's three days later and you don't know what happens but you're very educated so that's good okay so youtube is made up of a few different parts we have the channel which is the home where all of my videos live so I have a channel called inside the hem and all of my videos are posted to that channel and then I can organize my videos by playlist and that makes it really easy for you guys because if you're only interested in seeing things that I've made or you're only seeing are only interested in seeing my long form tutorials then you go to that specific playlist and it'll just keep playing in one after the other for you and you can binge all my content really really easily okay how do you do to okay so we've got pad reviews we've got so long and we've got video tutorials and youtube unlike instagram stories instagram stories is a video format youtube is the long form version of that so whereas on instagram stories you're really keeping it one minute two minutes at most on youtube I post videos that are more than two hours long sometimes these are my swatch videos that I do for style maker fabrics I also call it fabric board where it's just a whole video me touching fabric talking about fabric and it's the best time ever and people will sit there and watch this feature length film all about it's like a documentary all about fabric so they're going to be longer they're going to be more involved they're going to have more detail than anything that you find in any other video on instagram or on facebook you can put post longer videos but people like to keep things moving on facebook on youtube they go they're prepared to stay all right so here are some examples of my pattern review videos you can see it's all closed but all the things that I have made and the really cool part about it is that you get to see me like I am here today moving walking around you can again kind of start to analyze some of those fit things that we talked about you know how is that fabric really moving it's much different than in a photo photos are still shot they can nip and tuck and hold things for a millisecond while the video all the pictures they've taken in a video I can't really hide much of anything all the mistakes are very apparent and I love that I love being able to share that I am not an expert sewist but neither are a lot of other people that are watching my videos so it's a very relatable way to see what people are really making and how these clothes really look and they really wear and all of that but you can also see I want to point out the um links of the videos anywhere from four minutes all the way up to almost eight so a lot of talking about one pattern but one make about one garment a lot of detail in there things I liked things I didn't like what how the fabric works you know things I would do differently all of that all you do it won't be a pattern review though but yes it'll be on my youtube channel and then anytime I post a youtube video I also argued it on instagram and facebook so I'll post a still shot of this letting people know that this video is available to them on the channel so they know it's there but you should still be subscribed and you should still put the notification bell so that you get notified when I post videos never miss one that way either okay so long so long is a really unique feature for youtubers so this is a way that I can take you through every single step of sewing a pattern if you love indie sewing patterns because they walk you through every single step you're going to love so long so this is a series of videos all four of these videos were to make one garment and in week one I talked about how to pick your pattern size and how to choose fabric in week two we went through the first half of the steps which I think the bodice steps and then week three we did the skirt steps and then in week four I reveal my dress and I talk to you about the success it becomes a pattern review basically in the last week I've had so long the last eight weeks I've had them that are short like this they only last a month long but you can either for take in me sew along with me like every single week do the steps I'm doing or you can wait for it to be over and do them all in one weekend um because the videos on youtube are evergreen they stay up forever they're always on my channel I have a special playlist just for each sew along you can always find it again on like instagram where all those videos would just disappear into nowhere all right video tutorials again look at the length of these video tutorials one of them is 23 almost 24 minutes 17 minutes they're longer tutorials they're really breaking it down they're giving you a lot of information showing you with video how everything is done okay all right questions about youtube so google owns youtube I told you that before google has their adwords platform the videos that play in the beginning of every single video are how I get paid I get paid a fraction of a penny for every time you watch a video of mine would you have to subscribe no just by watching just by watching subscribing is better because it helps youtube realize that people care about me so please subscribe also please watch the entire video the ad don't play skip now you can click skip now for the cat videos those cat videos people they don't need any more money try to subscribe we'll talk I'll show you I will personally help you figure that one out any other questions about youtube yes why did you change your intro recently because I like this one better do you like the other one better I just thought it was the other one fell to me amateur ori choppy we talked each other yeah and so I wanted something that looked a little bit more professional that wasn't me talking because I talk a lot in my videos already so I didn't want more talking about my video because that's how it's edited together youtube doesn't do any of my editing for me all my edit all my videos are edited together I just want to take a big plug for your genes alteration on the waistband video that will make you know that's one of those things where I was even going to post that and then it's been one of my most popular videos where people have done that tutorial than any of my others I wore pants yesterday that I have done that too yes um how do you how do you learn how to um edit your video so luckily when I was in college studying broadcasting I learned a lot about editing there that's really the biggest thing that well that is storytelling or the biggest things that I learned in college that I've been able to apply to my life now which is a big relief because that was a very expensive way to go into sales let's be real um but I have a Mac as you can see they have a program on here called iMovie oh yeah I have Mac as well yep and I that's what I use it's basic but I don't I don't want my videos to have the swipe in the ding the this that I'd like for them to just be clear and concise because I'm again giving a lot of information I don't need the flashy stuff you can get video editing software that will do all of that for you uh after effects is a good example if anybody wants to do that but it's complicated it's you know no I subscribed thank you um so yeah iMovie and then there's lots of tutorials where you can learn how to do it I find it just at this point I'm just like it's really simple but you know start small don't start with a 30 minute video start with a 30 minute video and then walk your way up from there thank you so in the beginning of a youtube video and add home play if someone has their videos monetize an ad like we'll stay far yeah exactly and then it's like counting down you can skip this ad at five four three two one and you skip I get a fraction of a penny if you don't skip I get a little bigger fraction of a penny and then in addition to that I also have like many of the vendors you guys are seeing out here today will sponsor videos so they will pay me to talk about their products in my videos and before you go off and say oh well you know how do you really know she really loves it well that's where the trust comes in that's where we get to know each other you learn that I would not take a sponsorship from somebody that had a crappy product or had to mean that I didn't truly use and love all the time and you'll just see that over time you can tell when people are just taking anything that comes their way I turned down four opportunities that I take yeah yes so someone tells me if you see my box usually it's their website so my blog is inside the hem dot com I don't post all my stuff there it's just a supplemental little place but most people who are vloggers have a website that some days are closing in question to their viewers yes yes wait how is that important again it goes back to the uber the youtube algorithm youtube deeming oh a lot of people are engaging with this video a lot of people are commenting this video is important and people like this video so you will your video will appear higher in the suggested video ranking so yes comments are great likes are great all of that if you are watching somebody that you love participating with them because it really does it really does help us other questions about youtube do you find that just that blogs are filling are a little bit less prevalent yes and vloggers are becoming more prominent vloggers are becoming more prominent youtube it's really two sides at the same point you're either a blogger or a blogger you're either a writer or you're you know good talking to a camera um so there are people who really only like to read and there are people who only like to listen so I don't think anyone's doing better or doing worse going away and growing maybe in our community there are more vloggers because there weren't any really um but both jobs are very difficult so if someone's not really committed to it then yeah the number of blogs would would reduce just because it's video vlogger so that youtubers are video vloggers vlogger nothing says vlogger okay I've got a couple more minutes to talk about building a brand on instagram um some I know that there are some people who own businesses in here or who want to have a consistent appealing look on your social media so instagram is my favorite so this is the one I chose to talk about branding for but if you want to grow a following for work whether to monetize it and make money or whether just to make friends and make connections these are the suggestions that I have this is why instagram is my favorite visual easy to use popular friendly there is a ton of really sweet awesome amazing people on instagram that so and want to help you and encourage you I promise don't be afraid of it go there you will be embraced so five elements to your profile you've got your profile picture I recommend a photo of a face it does not have to be your face but please put a face no cats no kids you know I mean you want to be personable again social media if you go to a networking event with a bag over your head who's going to talk to you nobody you have to show yourself but you can see for mine it's not a picture it's an illustration so it's kind of fun and like heard it and that should be kept in mind whenever you're considering a brand as well the name so there is your at the very top is inside the him that is my profile which is different than my name so when you go to create an instagram they will have you create a profile name and that is how you will be discovered that was how you'll be found that it's how you'll be referred to but when people go to your profile there's a separate place for your name a lot of people put their first and last name but I find as many times as you can tell instagram instagram I'm a sewer instagram I'm interested in sewing instagram bring the selling people to me instagram will do that for you so I put my name and what I do lindsay sewing walker so whatever it is that you do you can put in there too if it's related to a specific topic put the topic in there if you have your bio and your bio short and concise should a limited number of characters there but again utilize the resources I have put I mentioned youtube in mind because I want instagram to know I'm affiliated with youtube and again I hashtag sewing because I want instagram to know so we bring the sewing people and then I did I broke it up to make it a little bit easier to read with some emojis some callouts capital letters and then a call to action is the next part um so watch my most recent video here's a link you can change that link every single minute of every single day you want they there's no limit to it so keep that fresh keep that updated use it as a call to action you've got a new product link to the new product you've got a new blog post link to your blog post you've got a new I don't know something else link to it and tell people where they can find your stuff your profile is what people are going to see for the you for the very first time usually so you really want to help them find out how to learn about you and learn about what you do which brings me to highlights so we talked about this a little bit I can pick and choose which of my instagram stories I want to live forever on my profile and this is where they live be about me many tubes which is short for tutorials uh the ith squad these are people that are posting about me either in their stories or their posts and I encourage that because you know I want to be um you know building that community more and more and then I've got my makes so anytime I post a story that falls into one of these categories before or after the 24 hours is up I can go in and then assign them to whatever highlight they belong to and then they live forever on my profile there's a limited amount that you can add to your highlights so don't go crazy but you would have a lot of information there as well and then here my posts and all I have to say about posts are lighting is every thing that's all you need to worry about with posts lighting and for those of you that live in the Pacific Northwest you have the best lighting or photos of anybody else believe it or not direct sunlight is the worst way to take photos something overcast gloomy day is the absolute best but if you must take a photo in a dark space there are resources to help you cheat so you can see how mine kind of all have a little bit of a consistent sort of similar look it's not because I took them all on the same day it's because I edited the photos to make it look consistent I use an app on iphone sorry operators um called lightroom should be installed on your phones already if not it's a free download and then I purchased something called presets so just google photo presets find one that you like they're like thirty dollars I think I got the eight different ones and come to the pop-up shop I've been 604 after this and I'll show you just how it's three clicks and you can edit a photo and it looks I do not know how to edit photos this is me tapping one button and this is what happens so let's see question's not branding three minutes 64 did you 604 yeah it's a little pop-up shop if you've seen you want mine seen that poster that's where it is and I'll be there from 230 to 330 so it's not there I have all that information here some of this is already well most of it's over so I'll see you 233 30 today or tonight at dinner is anybody coming to ASG dinner okay I'll see you there feel free to stop and talk to me then otherwise I'll see you on the internet thank you guys


Hi everyone, a big welcome back to my channel. It's time to talk about the best books that I read in 2023. I've got six books to talk about today. I just like to focus on whichever books stand out to me as being the best rather than picking an arbitrary number. We have literary fiction, poetry, translated fiction, and romance. So many releases, some are backlist. Please, let me know down below in the comments if you've read these books. Did you love them? Also, please, of course, let me know what your favorite read of the year was. As I always do with your comments, I will be going through and checking out the books that you recommend and adding them to my TBR if they sound of interest. So please do share. So in a vague order of least favorites of the favorites to most favorites, first up, we have Carla by Colin Walsh. This is an Irish literary thriller set in a coastal town following three estranged friends, Helen, Joe, and Mush, as they meet again in their 30s. Back in 2003, they were part of a tight-knit friendship group with the reckless charismatic Carla at the center before Carla went missing. Now, bodily remains have been found in the woods, and two more local girls have gone missing. And the characters must confront their past to avoid the town's violence repeating itself. This is the perfect combination of literary fiction combined with a raring page turning plot. It is gripping and addictive and ultimately so satisfying. The murky seaside setting is absolutely gorgeous. It fits the vibes and sets the scenes so perfectly. The prose crackles with energy throughout, and the structuring is perfectly chosen and brilliantly executed. The chapters shift between timelines and character perspectives filled with cliffhangers, allowing you to slowly piece together the bigger picture. I found all of the character perspectives to be strong and engaging, which is quite impressive. I actually part listened to this one on audiobook and I would highly, highly recommend. The different voice actors really brought these characters to life, especially Mush's character in that deep Irish accent. So good. This is so current and fresh and just an exhilarating ride. So many people would love this. Next up we have The No Show by Beth O'Leary. This is actually my first read of 2023, I think. I loved it when I read it and it has stuck with me throughout the whole year. This is a contemporary romance novel following three different women who were all stood up on Valentine's Day by the same man. We have Siobhan, a life coach, Miranda, a tree surgeon, Jane, a voluntary charity shot worker, and the mysterious Joseph Carter. This is the first time ever that a straight-up romance novel has made it onto my best books of the year list. Beth O'Leary is one of my favourite romance writers. Her novels are delightful with playful, endearing plots and authentic charming characters. I just devour her writing and this is her at her best. This novel is so fun and sweet and heartwarming. I loved following all three of the women's perspectives and their intertwining plots, learning about their different lifestyles and personalities, as well as romance. The book explores themes of friendship and loss and self-acceptance. The ending is so smart and satisfying. The intrigue is built up really well throughout and I didn't see the resolution coming. I will read every single thing that Beth O'Leary brings out. If you like this kind of thing, this is perfection. Next up we have The Thing in the Gapstone Style by Alice Oswald. This is Alice Oswald's first poetry collection, first published in the 1990s and it is a passionate ode to nature and love. I first came across Alice Oswald's poetry in an anthology a year or so ago and I immediately sought out this collection and now she's one of my favourite ever poets. These poems just make complete sense to me and give me everything I need from poetry. On a surface level, this poetry collection is just beautiful to experience with vibrant, luscious imagery and lyrical, vivid language. I do have to admit that for some of the poems in here, a wonderful surface level experience was all I got, but that was more than enough. Some of the poems, however, really made me pause and reflect. I wanted to reread and delve deeper into what it could be saying about myself and the world. There is so much emotion in this collection, it is filled with a deep sense of feeling and energy that is so necessary for strong nature poetry. This collection really spoke to me, it is one that I will treasure and reread for years to come. Next up we have My Men by Victoria Kjelland, translated by Damien Sells. This is a Norwegian historical literary novel set towards the end of the 19th century. It is a fictionalised account of Bell Gunnitz, a Norwegian servant girl who fled to America after a failed love affair and ultimately became one of America's most notorious female serial killers with a body count of 14 men. This is a stunner captivating and gritty and delicious. I could not put this down. The novel is super introspective throughout. You follow Bell's inner and outer journey every step of the way. As she experiences trauma in her formative years, oppressive and rigid moral codes, the trappings of class and gender, and as she ultimately yearns for a love and recognition that she never receives.  There is a real terrifying sense of inevitability, a real feeling of uncontrolled tumbling in this book. You can't quite put your finger on where the violence begins, but by then it's too late. Reading this novel is an experience. It is masterfully put together and translated and I just ate it up. My penultimate favourite book is Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy. This is another poetry collection, this one from the early naughties and it is all about women. It explores the lives and stories of all sorts of women from real to mythical, from royals to the girl next door. Carol Ann Duffy is another favourite poet of mine. She just hits every single time. This collection explores many components of women's lives through quite a range of different styles of poetry. There's wide-reaching metaphorical poetry in here and more personal romantic poetry. The poems are historical and witty and somber and erotic. Carol Ann Duffy's trademark sass and scathing societal and historical and gender commentary pierces through. The collection is so wonderfully varied but ultimately so recognisably Carol Ann Duffy. As always, this is in equal parts, challenging and entertaining. I just love her. Every time I read her poetry I grin and then run off to read it out loud to Cameron. I am totally in awe of this collection. And finally, my favourite book of 2023, Demon Copperheads by Barbara Kingsolver. This is a modern-day retelling of David Copperfield set in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, USA, during the heart of the opioid crisis. From the day he was born to a teenaged mother in a trailer park, this tells the story of the birth, childhood and coming of age of Demon Copperhead. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. It will no doubt be on so many people's best of the year lists. Every now and again a book like this comes along and its brilliance just cannot be denied. This book is a masterpiece and all-consuming social commentary and an engaging sweeping tale of family and poverty and love and loss and addiction and hope. This book also includes one of the strongest characterizations I have ever read. I've said it before and I'll say it again. How Barbara Kingsolver so expertly and utterly convincingly encapsulates this young boy's voice? I will never know. The characters in here just jump off the page at you. They live and they breathe. I know this book is going to stay with me for a very long time. I already can't wait to reread it. You need to experience this novel for yourself. Trust me. Also, if any of you wanted to leave a comment down below telling my husband Cameron to get on with it and read this book, I would appreciate it. So there we have it. Those were my absolute favorite reads of 2023. I love these books so much and I love how varied they are. I would love to know if you guys have read any of these books and what you thought of them and of course don't forget to tell me what your favorite read of 2023 was. Thank you so much for watching everyone. I appreciate it more than you know. Looking forward to chatting it down below and I will hopefully see you very soon in another video. Bye guys.


Hey coach in this video We're going to talk about the mistakes that you need to avoid in your basketball training business My name is Nick Aldera I'm a success coach with make money coaching sports And if you're looking to connect after this video text me the word grow to 7 3 2 9 0 8 2 3 1 5 Okay, or you can schedule a call on the calendar. That's in the description below. Okay, so what state? What mistakes do you want to avoid in your basketball training business? So number one? Terms so what I mean by terms is your terms and conditions. You need to protect your time You need to protect your business.  What's your polish your refund policy?  So you might as well do it up front For example for for my basketball training business. I have a no refund no credit policy Regardless of the reason or circumstance. You don't have to have that you can have whatever you want But you need to have it in place so people can read it and see it before So number two is not charging enough of a premium Payment for your one-on-one training you cannot sustain one-on-one training I don't care how much you love to teach Basketball, I know you love to teach basketball.  It is not It's not think about school like does everybody get one-on-one attention. No, like you're put into a class Right. There's only so much time in the day You will burn out it and so if you do have one-on-ones you need to charge a premium Investment and we help coaches with that in our program about how to do how to go about that Number three mistake is not having your clients on reoccurring auto payment Right for your main program. So if you have a main program that's year-round And you have a set day and location you need that payment to automatically renew So you don't have to go back and charge them and re and resell it again. Okay, just like just like a gym membership Number four mistake is not running clinics on days off from school. So let's say you have a yearly program You're like, oh, yeah, I'm just good with that But you're losing out on thousands of thousands of dollars if you don't if you're not running camps On like winter break spring break Like in New Jersey, we have a teacher's convention thing where the kids have off for a week So like you need to take advantage of these days, right? Number five not having a Google my business. You need to have you need your business needs to be on Google Okay, it's very simple. Just type in Google my business. You'll follow the steps Super super simple and then get reviews for your business. Okay. Good ones. Hopefully. All right Number six is not being detailed oriented like you got to treat this This is this is serious, right? Like if this is if you want this to be your career You have to be detailed oriented. You have to ask your question. You have to ask yourself questions Okay, what if this happens? What if this happens? What's my go-to? Response if this happens like are you prepared? Are you detailed oriented in everything you do now? There's probably more than this. This is what I came up with right now But if you're looking to connect And talk over a zoom call. It's 100% free text me the word grow to<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can schedule a call The link will be in the description of this video. All right. I'll see you next video


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When I get us started, I think we're ready to go. Well, for those of us joining us on the phone, despite the fact that we are two years into the pandemic, there are still technical difficulties to be had. Good morning. The time is now 9.40 AM. Today is Thursday, September 29, 2022. This is a public hearing before the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. I am Commissioner Jordan Maynard of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. We are convening this hearing pursuant to Massachusetts General Law Chapter 30A, Section 2. The Commission will convene this hearing using remote collaboration technology. I will ask that attendees please mute themselves until they speak to help keep background noise to a minimum. Also, please note that the Commission is recording this hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to offer any interested person or group an opportunity to comment on the Commission's proposed regulations. Once we begin, anyone who wishes to comment on the proposal may state their name and be recognized. They may then proceed to offer their comment. The agenda today pertains to the following items. 205-CMR-138-02. Licensee system of internal controls. The proposed amendment will establish a timed requirement for licensee's implementation of a protocol or system of control when deemed necessary by the executive director. 205-CMR-138.05. Systems for ensuring employee licensing. The proposed amendment will restore language that was initially missing from the regulation. 205-CMR-138.07. Floor plans. The proposed amendment will establish that the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau is provided with up-to-date floor plans on a quarterly basis. Join the meeting. 205-CMR-138.62. Payment of table game progressive payout. Wagers. The proposed amendment will establish that the commission be notified of the protocols governing the equal division of progressive jackpots and reset amounts by licensee. After we hear comments, we will close this public hearing. The commission will then review the proposals, including consideration of any comments for final approval at a scheduled public meeting, which will follow this hearing on Thursday, October 13, 2022. We will now hear comments on the proposals. I ask that any speaker please identify themselves before commenting to help facilitate everyone's opportunity to comment on the use of technology to conduct this meeting. If you're accessing this meeting virtually, you may signify your interest in making comments by sending a note or raising your hand. That will not be the case today. Those features are available at the bottom of the screen. If you're dialing into this meeting, which we know we do have folks joining by phone. Join the meeting. I will invite comments and make sure that everyone wishing to comment has that opportunity. With that, we will now open this hearing for comments.  I do ask that you also identify which CMR you are commenting on. The floor is now open. Are there any comments? Hearing none. For anyone who's on the line, you can just enter star six or unmute on your phone if you're trying to unmute. I will give everyone just a second. Since we've had some technical difficulties, it's only fair that we give everyone a second. Judith, what's the proper way to conclude this hearing given that there are participants, but no comments? So this happens occasionally. Folks do wish to kind of attend the hearing. However, maybe they're not quite prepared to offer comments. So what we can do is I'm more than happy to show the four regulations and the red line changes if you like. And we can just kind of have a public discussion for our attendees to listen to. I'm also happy to, I mean, technically speaking, we should keep this line open until the close of the hearing. So roughly 10 a.m. or subsequently there after seeing as we got started a bit late. I'm happy to screen share those regs or even just the hearing notice up here. And then if more people join before we close at 10 or folks do ultimately wish to unmute at a certain point before the close of the meeting, that's fine too. But I think just kind of holding this time is fine. I think sharing the regs is fine. Great, okay. All right, just stand by. The proposed regulation. Yes, yes, certainly. We should be all set. I'm just gonna let me know how that, how the size quality is. I can always unzoom or resume. Here we are. I think that's perfect. Okay. So our first reg is obviously our cover sheet we're going through. We have our notice of public hearing in the short description of the regs that you already read into the record commissioner. Our first reg is 138.02 and deals with our licensee system of internal controls. The purpose of this regulations amendment was to provide a more consistent time basis for when a gaming licensee will submit their internal controls for approval or amendments to the executive director. So the legal division has gone down as a part of the reg review process and added in a time-based requirement into section seven that deals with after an amendment is approved pursuant to sections two and three of the same section of the regulation that a licensee submit the internal controls to the commission and actually implement them within their establishment no more than 30 days from the date of the approval. So an internal control can cover anything from security to accounting procedures to auditing compliance matters. And so that the commission felt strongly that anything that they ultimately received approval on should be implemented in a timely basis. And so we've gone ahead and just added that in there. As you can see, there's no strikeout. There's no deletions. It's just simply adding in language to signify that a period of no more than 30 days should lapse from the date of the approval to the date of implementation. Next, we have, and forget this is just a page break here. We have 138.05 that deals with pursuant to employee licensing within the commission. So as a bit of background, gaming licensee or gaming employees have to be licensed pursuant to commission standards. And so in looking over this reg as a part of the regular review process, we realized that some of the requirements listed under section two, one of them had been cut off. We're unsure exactly how this happened or why, but in reviewing the regulations during the regular review process, one of the members of the IEB caught this and kind of flagged it as a Scribner's error. So we've gone ahead and added it into section J so that it fully states the date on which the information submitted in the port was compiled. Again, it's likely that it just got cut off in a publication or a republication of a regulation, but gone back in and kind of added this language. So again, nothing deleted, but just read it in. Next we have 138.07 that deals with a licensee's submission of floor plans within 138 as licensee system of internal controls. So as you can see, the floor plans have to be very, very specific and deal with a great number of things that are documented in detail to scale on a licensee's gaming floor, including within their establishment. And so we've gone in and again, similar to 138.02, requested that the licensee give the commission updates to their amendments to the floor plan and their original floor plan on a much more frequent basis than had already been happening. So down here, and I've included the whole, the whole right just so folks can get a chance to read it. It's also available on our website and just pause and say that down here in section four, we've asked that an approved copy of the floor plans and any amendments there too will be filed with the bureau. That means the IUB in the gaming establishment every three months or upon the request of the bureau. So you can see similar to the other two amendments I've already walked you through. Again, we have no deletions, nothing is necessarily changing. The commission is just simply implementing a tighter timeline to these changes and asking that the licensee update the IUB on a more frequent basis. So at this case, every three months or approximately 90 days, they update the internal IUB that's located within the gaming establishment of their floor plan so that the IUB can communicate that information to its agents and the GEU. Last but not least, we have 138.62 which pertains to the payment of progressive wages at an establishment. So within the gaming industry, a progressive payout deals with payment of a large sum of money also known as a jackpot across multiple tables in a gaming establishment and in some cases across multiple gaming establishments. So here in the Commonwealth, they're just within one gaming establishment. So that could be the Encore Boston Harbor or the MGM Springfield. So in this case, the commission had asked licensees to prepare and submit as a matter of their internal controls, some kind of a protocol that would govern what would happen if two people sitting at the same or another table within the gaming establishment, won a progressive jackpot at the same time during the same hand. So the current protocol is that whoever ultimately hits first and it could be a nanosecond first would receive the larger share of a jackpot. The commission has since, and at the advisement of the legal division has since requested that the licensee instead implement a more equitable policy that would call for when two people won a jackpot at nearly the same time almost instantaneously to split a progressive jackpot. Now I've been told by members of the IAB this has never happened before that a person, two people or even three have won a jackpot or a progressive jackpot at the same time. So this procedure is actually more preventative than palliative at this point, but ultimately the commission feels that it's important to have some kind of procedure like this ready that will govern when two people or more ultimately win a progressive jackpot at the same time. So that's what that is. And that's our regs today. Again, you can see that there are no deletions or subsequent changes. We are instead adding more language into the regulation to call for clarification. So pretty standard as a part of the reg review procedure and process and yeah, we will bring these regs forward on October 13th for a final vote with the commission. Thank you, Judith. Oh, my pleasure. With that said, I want to again, invite anyone who's joining us on the line to comment. You can hit star six as Crystal said to get off mute and we are happy to take comments. Again, we'll keep the line open until 10 o'clock to ensure that we are meeting our obligations. Okay, we are going to get ready to wrap this up. Again, I invite anyone who has any comments to please hit star six and make those now. With that, this concludes the hearing pursuant to Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 30A section two. Again, these draft regulations will come forward for a final vote of approval on October 13th, 2022. Thank you. Thanks, Commissioner. All right, thank you, Dave. I think that about does it. All right, sounds good. I don't know if we needed to adjourn or anything or if we're just good to end. I think we're good to end. Okay, thanks so much. I'll get once this recording downloads, I'll send it to you guys and figure out a way to either post it on the website or direct a link where people can get it. Awesome. I think if you want to put it directly under like where the hearing notices, where it's currently living, I think that would be adequate. And then at a certain time, we could probably move it to the archive section of the website, but I leave that to you. Okay, sounds good. All right, well, thanks very much and have a great day. No problem. Thanks, Commissioner. Thank you.