The time for action is now. Evil chromatic dragons have risen, and the world has been unified under the one threat. Tiamat, the Queen of Dragons. May you be ever so brave to face the challenges of the Cult of the Dragon. This time, the fate of the world depends on you. Rise of Tiamat is a high-level campaign that is the direct sequel to Horde the Dragon Queen. They are meant to be run as a session with one another, but it isn't necessary. This story walkthrough will assume that you haven't played Horde the Dragon Queen, but some of the material would be better understood if you did. If you're not familiar with the events in Horde the Dragon Queen, I will link my story explained of it in the description down below, and with that, let's dive on into it, because this one's a long one. Whether if you had to stop the skycast on Horde the Dragon Queen, or a new adventure, you find a letter requesting your presence at the Lord's Palace in Waterdeep. After making it into the city, you notice a stillness in the air. A faint rumbling could be heard in the distance, and the residents of Waterdeep seem to be at unease. Something is wrong. Once arriving at the Lord's Palace, you are escorted to the entrance of a secret chamber by a monk named Lyosin Arlantar. The monk was not invited to the council's discussion, but has been well informed of the grave matter at hand. Lyosin warns you that within the secret chambers are a number of faction leaders. He believes you are the hero that is needed to unify the factions for the oncoming threat. You will need to earn the favor of each one to aid you in your future journeys. With that, you step into the chamber. Here, you find a lively group of people conversing among each other. Everyone looks at you as you enter, but resume their conversations once they acknowledge you. You join into the group of chatter for it is time to make some friends. In this chamber room, you meet several factions and their respective representatives as follows. The Harpers are represented by an elf named Romalia Haventry. The Harpers wish for equality and balance in their realms and prefers to gather information. While willing to commit immoral acts to reach their goals, it is never at the cost of endangering others. Gathering information seems to be the priority of the Harpers. The Order of the Gauntlet is represented by a friendly, if not boisterous, Paladin named Anthar Frum. The Order of the Gauntlet exists solely to thwart evil. Nothing pleases them more than bringing villains to justice. Good moral deeds and acts of heroism pleases the Order of the Gauntlet greatly. The Emerald Enclave is represented by a suave half-elf ranger named DeLon Winterhound. Similar to the Harpers, the Emerald Enclave focuses on keeping balance, but their scale lies with the natural forces. Wishing never to harm unnecessarily, they value bringing order to the balances of nature. Lastly, and arguably most importantly, the Lord's Alliance. This faction is just as it sounds, a collection of lords around the realm. Here, you meet six representatives from their respective land. The Lord's Alliance is seemingly the most difficult to please, for all the lords in the faction seem to value different things. This, however, can be unified under one value, the survival of civilization. After talking to each of the representatives and understanding their ideals, Lord Daggolt Neverember of Waterdeep calls for everyone's attention. Understanding that this is a group of varying goals, one thing is for certain. There is a grave danger to the realm. Under the leadership of a man named Severin, the Cult of the Dragon has been trying to summon Tiamat the Queen of Dragons. They have been collecting treasures and transporting it to the Well of Dragons where they will summon Tiamat. Along with that are some dragon masks that, when assembled, can summon Tiamat from the depths of the Nine Hells. Luckily, the Sky Castle transporting the treasure has been thwarted. Still, there is more work to be done, and it will take the combined efforts of everyone to stop the Cult. A noble woman named Dala steps up. She describes the unsettling grumbling you heard earlier as the Draghorn. An ancient device that was news to call dragons to a location. The last known location of it is in the Sea of Moving Ice. Wondering who she is or how she got this information, you are wary of her. Even so, if this is true, you need to find out what happened at this location. Additionally, Romalia of the Harper steps up. She tells you that their spies have found the location of the White Wormspeaker, one of the leaders of the Cult of the Dragon. Romalia informs you that once you are ready, speak to the monk who escorted you, Leosin, and he will provide more information. The council then grants you emergency investigative powers to solve the issue at hand, but requires you to report to them. With that, the people in the room return to bantering among one another, leaving you to figure out your next step. Exiting the chamber, you are confronted by Leosin. He tells you that the White Wormspeaker, Varum, has lost his White Dragon Mask. The last known location of it is somewhere near Berezkyr Bridge. You hurry your way there, taking a few days' journey to the location. Once arriving there, you investigate the town and find that the residents hail him as a hero. Apparently, Varum was looking for escorts into the Serpent Hill when he was approached by a Yuan-Ti spy. Varum had immediately killed the spy, gaining the favor of the villagers. You head to the nearby hill where you find a camp with a few chambers carved into a cliff. In one of those chambers is the Tomb of Diderus.  You fend off the Yuan-Ti and take Varum into your custody. Varum quickly admits his capture and informs you that the White Dragon Mask has been reclaimed by the cult already.  Meeting with the noble woman Dala, she informs you that not much is known about the Draghorn. It was last seen in the Sea of Moving Ice, but not many know of the exact location. There is a person by the name of Makath the Crimson who may be of help. She is known to be the most knowledgeable in regards to the Draghorn, but no one knows of her whereabouts. Makath was last reported to be at the Sea of Moving Ice by her organization, the Arcane Brotherhood, but lost contact there. Additionally, Dala warns you of an evil White Dragon that haunts the area, Arathator. Be sure to tread carefully. Grabbing some winter clothing, you make your way to the harbor and obtain a boat and some crew. Setting sail north, your trip only takes a few days with the favorable winds. Once arriving, you find the icy village of Oya-Vigaten. The shaman of the town greets you and explains that they are under the watchful eye of Arathator, and death is all but guaranteed for them if the White Dragon finds out that they are harboring you. The shaman leads you to an entrance of an icy dungeon and wishes you luck on finding Makath. To sending into the caves, you meet Makath the Crimson. Makath has been imprisoned here by the White Dragon and has been tasked with deciphering stolen writings from the Arcane Brotherhood. She refuses to leave without taking as much of the stolen writing as possible, dedicated to translating these texts. When questioned about the Draghorn, she informs you that it is a magical item that warns chromatic dragons of great danger. It has been last seen being hauled off by the Cult of the Dragon, whether by killing the White Dragon, chasing it off, or abducting Makath under its nose. You make your way back to the coast from which you came. Here you drop off Makath with her Arcane Brotherhood and gain the allegiance of the organization. Back at the council, they all commend you for bringing the aid of the Arcane Brotherhood with the exception of the Order of the Gauntlet, who don't seem to like them too much.  They aren't much of a threat and you easily fend them off, however a few of them managed to escape. They have clearly underestimated you, but you have a feeling that those who got away will certainly make things difficult. You make your way to rest, awaiting for the following day. After saving Makath and capturing Varum, you receive a letter of summons to the council. Once arriving into the large room, you see two new faces here. Lady Lero Silverhand has been placed as the new Lord of Waterdeep. Alongside her is the begrudging Lord Neverember and a silver dragon in her human form, named Elia. The representatives and lords complain of increasing cult activities in their various domains, indicating that the situation is clearly escalating. Deline Winterhound of the Emerald Enclave steps up and announced that there has been recent dragon attacks in the Misty Forest. King Melondrack of the Lord's Alliance immediately shuts him down, stating that he's king of that region, and there hasn't been a dragon attack since he increased the patrols. Elia steps up and tells you that the council has been invited to meet with a good alliance of metallic dragons. The council has selected for you to go in their stead, and Elia tells you that the meeting will be had in the nether mountains. With nothing else to discuss, you leave the chambers and continue your investigation. When leaving the chamber rooms, the doors open up from behind you, and Deline Winterhound follows through.  Deline tells you that the village of Altand is one of the surviving villages, and it would be the best location for information. Making your journey south, deep into the Misty Forest, you find yourself at the village of Wood Elves called Altand. Investigating the village, you hear of a green dragon that had swooped down and attacked along with some cultists. On top of the dragon was a humanoid figure, riding it with grace. The raid didn't last very long, and the cultists didn't take any treasure which was very unusual. Additionally, you also learned that the dragon rider took flight southeast of their location. He seemed to be quite damp, as if recently passing through water. With a direction in mind, you rush into the forest and search for the cult's hideout.  Deciding to help the druid, she bestows upon you a garland of flowers that protects you from the watchful eyes of the forest. Once reaching a waterfall, you walk past it to find a large cavernous hideout. Venturing deep into the cave, you find a green dragon named Chuth, along with the dragon rider and his cultist. After engaging the two, you learn that the dragon rider is a worm speaker named Neronvane.  You make your way to the Nether Mountains to attend the Council of Chromatic Dragons. Once arriving there, you are met with five ancient metallic dragons. Protanthar, a gold dragon who seems to be the leader of the group. He's not particularly fond of the humans and elves.  With elves, he harbors an even stronger disdain, for they have shaped the magic of the Draco-Rage Mythow, causing the dragons of this realm to go mad. Protanthar wishes to go into battle immediately, without the aid of humanoid races, but that opinion could be swayed if King Melondrak would apologize for the Draco-Rage Mythow on the elves' behalf. Illuthra, a male brass dragon. He is truly neutral in this Council.  He requests that after the cult is stopped, the dragons would take the dragon mass for humanoid are too unpredictable to be in possession of these items. Elia introduces herself next as the Silver Dragon. She believes that humanoids are not evil, just misguided. With the aid of the Chromatic Dragons, they can amount to great goods in the world. This courtesy, however, ends with the dwarves, for it is they who killed her niece in the dragon haunts they call dragon moots. She is willing to have the aid of the humanoid races, but would like an apology from Braun Anvil of the Lord's Alliance on the behalf of the dwarves for their barbaric dragon moot. Nimur, the male bronze dragon, is perhaps the most friendly of all the dragons. He believes dragons are created with the vision of good and evil at their core, but humanoid creatures must actively choose against villainy. This earns him great respect of you and does not need any persuading unless you've recently committed crimes of evil. Lastly is Tosmikella, the female copper dragon. While fond of the humans, she has reservations on aiding the factions. Tosmikella fears that the factions might turn on them in dedication to Tiamat. She agrees with Protanthar that they could strike right now, but believes it would not end too well without the humanoid help. After conversing with all the dragons and reaching an arrangement, the Council of Metallic Dragons agreed to help you on your endeavors.  Once arriving in Waterdeep, you are ambushed once again by cultists and monsters. This time they are much better prepared, potentially even bringing a black dragon to the fight. As you fend them off, one of the boisterous cultists let important information slip. The mask or join, the call has sounded. Soon the gates of the Nine Hells shall swing wide and she shall return. Barely managing to push back and escaping the cultists, you can't help but wonder what they meant by that. Invited to the Third Council of Waterdeep, you enter the chambers to find another new face. Known as the Black Network, the Xenterum faction is being represented by a typhoon named Rion Nightshade. Their help is easily bought, although at a steep price they don't respect you. As you discuss your findings of Neronbane, the Wormspeaker of Green, King Melondrack is furious. He no longer opposes any plans that you may have for the news of his son's betrayal infuriates him. You inform the council about the fruitful meeting with the metallic dragons and some factions are happier than others depending on the deals that you cut with them. Nevertheless, they appreciate your diplomatic skills and grant you the honor of stationing said dragons where you see fit. Along with that honor, they request that you gather the aid of the Red Wizards of Tay. This organization of evil wizards claimed that they have defectors working for the cult of the dragon. They request a meeting and who else better to represent the council than you? Additionally, reports of a Wormspeaker at Xanthos Tower wishes to surrender, giving up his blue dragon mask in exchange. This may very well be a trap but the council deems it worthy of at least investigating. With that, the Third Council of Waterdeep has concluded and you set off on your way. When exiting the chambers of the council, you receive a mysterious message. It reads that it's Gandar, a member of the cult of the dragon, is in dire need of aid. He has decided to leave the cult in fear of death that would await everyone if they were allowed to continue. He is currently trapped at Xanthos Tower and if you rescue him, he will lead you to the blue dragon mask. Once reaching the location of the tower, you find a large maze surrounding it. In front of the entrance of the maze is a small village in which you investigate. The abandoned structure known as Xanthos Tower now inhabits someone but the villagers aren't sure who. When approaching the hedge maze, you hear a male voice call out to you from the balcony of the tower. He informs you that your presence has alerted the cultist and he has hastily taken the mask. The man will meet you at the basement of the tower where you will teleport to a dungeon with him. Making your way inside the maze, you find it to be as magical as it is confusing. You navigate the strange layout and make your way towards the end of the maze and at the foot of the tower. You enter the tower only to find that it has no stairs. Just teleportation devices that jump you from one floor to the next. Making your way to the dungeon below, a body of a man is found leading against the wall. Bloodied and burned, the man has passed away and you can only assume that this is his Scandar. In his hands is what you've come and searched for, a blue dragon mask. As you make your way back to the entrance of the maze, you see a blue dragon laying waste to the village. From the stories that you've heard, this is the same dragon that attacked the town of Greenus not too long ago.  At the city of Waterdeep, you are approached by Leosin of the Harpers. He tells you that the representative of the Red Wizards of Tei, named Ni Ilmik, has come to escort you to their land. Leosin warns you that these wizards are not to be taken lightly, for they are notoriously evil. Caution and respect is highly advised when speaking with them, for they may become an enemy in a moment's notice. Understanding the gravity of his words, you reassure the monk as he leads you to Ni Ilmik.  Inside the magnificent fortress, you are escorted to the Audience Hall, where you meet the governor of the Red Wizards, known as a Darkion. Standing before you in the Audience Hall is a vampire with 10 Red Wizards flanking her sides. The vampire presents herself as Darkion Esaldra Yeth. She states bluntly that her organization wishes vengeance on those who defected from the Red Wizards. After briefly questioning you, Esaldra takes her leave and informs you that a decision of their cooperation will be made tomorrow morning.  In your sleep, you are interrogated and tortured by the Red Wizards in your dreams. Once enough information has been gathered, they leave you be and you awake unable to recall your nightmares. In the morning, Ni Ilmik greets you and gives you news of the status of their cooperation. The Red Wizards agree to aid the faction in the Sword Coast for your interests align all too well. In truth, they have gathered enough information from you in your sleep to make an informed decision on entering the Alliance. Satisfied with the outcome of events, you make your way back to the city of Waterdeep, accompanied by Ni Ilmik as the ambassador of the Red Wizards of Tay. On your path through some settlements, you are once again attacked by the Cult of the Dragon. This time, it is different. A full force of young Red Dragons, Dragonborn and defected Red Wizards join the Cultists as they strike you. You barely manage to survive and watch as the surrounding settlements are laid to waste. The Cult wants you dead and they are doing everything in their power to ensure it. If anything, this was a display of their terrifying power. You limp your wounded body back to Waterdeep and hit the local inn for some much-needed rest. You are called upon for the fourth and final time at the Council of Waterdeep. The Council has noted hundreds of Chromatic Dragons gathering near the Well of Dragons. Now is the time to strike. You discuss your conquest over Zontal's Tower and retrieval of the Blue Dragon Mask. The Council informs you that the Blue Dragon Mask you had retrieved was a fake, albeit a very convincing one. Rian of the Xanterum pulls you aside and offers to purchase Zontal's Tower off of you. She tells you that you now own the Tower by right of conquest and the Xanterum are more than willing to take it off your hands. When returning back to the discussion with the Council, it seems like everyone wishes to own the Tower but it is up to you to decide who gets to own the location. Talks of the Red Wizards joining the Alliance gains mixed opinions among the Council. While certainly a questionable ally, ultimately, their help is much needed in the forthcoming fight. Lastly, any location you did not allocate a metallic dragon to is horrendously raided. Nothing remains in the path of destruction created by the Cult. It is time to take forth to the Well of Dragons and defeat Severant in his evil Cultist. Taking a trek of several days, you approach the Well of Dragons within a masked army from multiple alliances. The constant drone of the Draghorn has forced the local animals to flee or driven them mad. You reach the outside of the border of the Well of Dragons and are greeted by the sight of Ash and Ruins. Caldera of a long dead volcano rises from an Ash and Plain ahead. Along the cinder cones, steeply sloped sides, thousands of creatures mill about or lining up into ordered infantry ranks. In the air above, dozens of chromatic dragons wheel and shriek like a flock of immense crows awaiting the bloodshed of the battle to come. You rush down the slopes of the land, weapons in hand, and make your way to the center of the Well where you can clearly see the army of the enemy ready to strike. Suddenly, the ground grumbles as the earth littered with corpses crumbles around you. A mind-numbing structure has pushed up from beneath the tangled bones to tower over the blasted volcano. Partly volcanic ash, fused with dragon bones, and partly stone imbued with the dark magic of the Nine Hells, the Temple of Tiamat is all chaotic angles and jutting buttresses. You infiltrate the temple and battle through hordes of cultists and monsters alike. Finding the draghorn, you put an end to the device and make your way to Tiamat's temple. Inside the temple are red wizards performing a ritual to guide Tiamat to the surface. Along with them is Severin wearing the Mask of the Dragon Queen which is the combination of all five dragon masks.  The magical maelstrom filling the central apps of the temple suddenly splits open with a crack of thunder. The gargantuan heads of five dragons begin to tear and nash their way out of the ruined line pit of fire that forms there. Tiamat, the dragon queen, is about to burst bodily from her confinement in the Nine Hells and enter the world. As each of the heads pierce through the pit, you and your many allies strike at them. Once all five heads emerge from the flames, the death of the realm is nearly imminent. With the help of the many factions, you weaken Tiamat by destroying the mask or preventing them from continued use in the ritual. Once the queen of dragons is weakened, you land the finishing blow in the portal that allowed her to rise collapses. Tiamat roars and screams as she disintegrates being dragged back into the Nine Hells. You have vanquished the Drogonic Threat and emerge victorious. Only thing left now is picking up after the mess the Cult of the Dragon has caused. Nevertheless, the world is safe from the terrors of Tiamat for the time being. Hello everybody. If you guys enjoyed the story of Rise of Tiamat, please give me a like and subscribe. Would really help me out. Thanks.


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Good evening and welcome to episode 369 of the Private Property Podcast. I'm your host, Oza Manjouma. It's the Monday edition of the Private Property Podcast. If you join us for the first time, welcome to the family. You are tuned in to the early daily property show in South Africa catering to your property needs. And all our regular views of Facebook and Instagram or on YouTube, welcome to it. Every single weekday, you and I have an appointment at 7 p.m. where I'm always in conversation with a property expert and packing a property matter. And of course, you know that you can always connect with us across our social media platforms. Always love making sure that the conversation continues. It can be Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn. Do make sure that you are always engaging us there. You can follow myself at Oza Manjouma, underscore K on Twitter, as well as on Instagram. And talk about social media. As you know, we're running that incredible competition on our Facebook page where we want you to certainly let us know some of the great insights and advice that you've picked up while watching the show that we'd also like to share with the rest of the family on our Facebook page and use that chance of walking away with 500 rands in cash.  Because if we call your name, you need to drop us a text to claim that prize and that's how you can walk away with the money. And if the winner that we call out does not text us before the show ends then of course the money rolls over in the money bag and we see who's going to get the lucky winner the following day. Well, those are the great competitors. That is the great competition. Of course, that you can look forward to this evening and certainly this month as we continue running that competition. And something else that you can look forward to is of course the real estate industry summit that's taking place later this week for days to go. And that's a great virtual event that is taking place and you can get all the details on realestateindustriesummit.co.za You'll be able to get great insight from property experts who really are going to deepen your property knowledge. And of course, do make sure that you always tune into the shows that we have every single weekday at 8 p.m. As you can see, coming up later on at 8 p.m. tonight is going to be challenged. Who's going to be bringing you the Home Shoppers show. And here's also on your screens every single Friday at the same time. And every Tuesdays and Thursdays you can catch them by bringing you the farming or podcasts tackling all things agriculture. And of course on Wednesdays, ISTI classin' brings you the first time home buyers show. Those are some of the great shows you can look forward to across private parties, social media pages, every single weekday at 8 p.m. And as we kickstart the Monday edition of the show we know it's going to be a nice great week ahead of us. I want to find out from you how is the weekend, what did you get up to this weekend? We're continuing to have electricity issues unfortunately in the country. We also know that we're continuing to have a number of challenges when it comes to also deciding on people to matters. Because I've seen some posts with different people say I'm still on the fence about what to do, where to, for instance, even buy a property or rent a property and wanting to get a sense from the other members of the family on how they can best think that through. So do you let us know down below how the weekend was, what you got up to. And this evening we're actually going to be talking about a topic and I was saying to my guest, and this is a guest we've never had on the show or talking to her. She was actually a bit nervous. She hasn't done this before with us. And I told her that look, this is the family. We are very accommodating. We absolutely love talking property. And she's willing to feel right at home. So I definitely want to ask you at home to make sure that our guest feels at home and comfortable because this is the one show you shouldn't be nervous to come on to. We're going to be talking urban development in South Africa. It's one of my absolute absolute favorite topics. We're talking about urban planning and city planning. But what is it? What goes into it? What is it not? How do we go about planning for the cities that we're living in, especially given the way that the cities we currently have came about? Look at Johannesburg. We know that it was a city that came about because of gold and even the way they went about building the city in some instances was not particularly delivered. So this evening we're going to be looking at urban development in South Africa. Our guest is Uku Kusitori, the founder and director at Zipelelip Consultancy. Uku, good evening and thank you so much for joining us this evening. Good evening and thank you for having me and thank you for that great introduction. Much of it. I think a really good starting point when we talk about urban development in South Africa is to first unpack what is urban development? And what do we mean when we talk about urban development? All right. Wow. I think what is important to highlight when you talk about urban development is that it is multilayered and when you talk about urban development, we're not talking about physical development alone. I actually like an example that you made with a city of Joburg that it was planned around gold. People going there just to mine and to de-goal. And it was not people-centered. So now when we talk about urban development, we're talking about the development that is people-centered. Our cities, are they addressing social issues? Are they addressing economic issues? There's a number of things that one has to look at. I used to get a question that what are you still, what towns are you still planning as a town planner? And actually our sort of like a formal name in our qualification we are called town and regional planners. But it does not really talk to physical development as I explained. There's quite a number of things that we have to deal with the city planners. It's not about mega infrastructure projects. So also as a city planner, you have a critical role to actually bring together other role players within the built environment to ensure that our cities, not only our cities, but also our rural spaces, they actually function in a way that it addresses all other social issues that we are faced with in South Africa. So it requires a collaborative effort from different role players within a built environment. And you know, good weathering is actually such a great starting point. And I've, this is one of those topics that I've observed that when we look at cities, excuse me, not just in South Africa, not just in the global south but also of course when you look at cities in the global north and knowing that for the most part we've built the big cities, right? The London is there. New York is there. Johannesburg is there. Yorktown is there. So these cities are there. And when you look at the work of city and regional, regional and city planners and asking what is their job then, right? If we say the cities are already there, it's already been planned. So what exactly is it that they go about doing and how do they make our cities better? I think it's also about how, if you can just help us understand them almost in a step-by-step process because you already started talking about it, that it's about being people-centered and isn't about necessarily mega-projects. And when you talk about being people-centered or making sure that a city is people-centered, what do we mean by that? Because I think there's some people who probably may not have an understanding of what is meant by building cities or building on so that cities can be people-centered. All right. Basically, to simplify it, there's a term in urban planning that we use. It's a concept of place-making. So we're making places that actually work for people. It addresses everyday needs of the general public. I mean, not everybody has got cars to actually move from point one to point two. So if those small things that a city planner has to look at to say, is the environment that I'm creating, is it safe for instance for women and children to actually walk in our streets? It's those kind of things. And actually with city planning or urban planning, it's not something that you just do one day and it's over. So you have to ensure that working with other role-players in the built environment, ensure that if you're putting a project or a development for instance a housing project somewhere, do you have sufficient water in that area are your three slides working in that area? So it's a continuous thing where you have to constantly check that things are functioning in your city. That's what urban planning is all about, ensuring that our cities are functional. I think that's the term that we normally use now in city planning, ensure that cities are liveable and they are functional. So things are working, your street lights are working, there's proper transportation, there's proper communication services. So now when you look at those small things, you're not talking about make a project that people often look at or expect from city planners. It's making sure that the city works. It functions, it caters for the daily needs of the people. That is what I'm talking about when I'm referring to a city-centered, I mean a people-centered city planning or urban planning. It's all about place-making, making sure that the space that we are creating, it works, it works for people. So that's essentially what we are talking about. And that requires not just an urban planner, that's what I actually indicated in the beginning of our conversation, that urban planning is multilayered. You have to make sure that everybody involved is on board and you are all working towards a common goal. And I think that is why most of the municipalities, not even just most of the municipalities, the municipalities have developed something called an integrated development plan. It actually translates what different sexual divisions have to work towards to ensure that our cities work, our rural areas work. You find that as a planner you have to bring in an engineer, you have to bring in someone from waste management, you have to bring in someone from policing department because we need to make sure that the city is safe as well. Those are the critical issues that we have to look at if we're talking about urban development, we're not looking at just the physical structures, the liars urban design that we now see, but other aspects that makes a city, that makes urban development, are they working together towards a common goal, ensuring that we are servicing the people because that is what we are actually tasked with as urban planners to make sure that we address social and economic issues of the general public. I am this evening joined by I was the founder and director at the Zipelelo Consultancy looking at urban planning in South Africa. I see you're already getting some of the love and social media on our Facebook page, Megan from Scout Bakers watching. Thank you so much. You look beautiful Zama, thank you very much. Of course, it means it's a lot of responses to the question I asked earlier about the weekend, what you got up to, saying this weekend was lit, and it was a lot of good music and good vibes. I know that it's the era of the big days. I do hope that as you go about enjoying being on level one, that you're being responsible as much as possible, that you're fully vaccinated to make sure that you don't spread any kind of risk to your loved ones. I want us to go for a quick break to see who the potential lucky winner of our competition this evening is. And of course, I hope they're watching and we'll be able rather to claim that prize as we continue our conversation after the break with Upubut's tutorial. Let's see who the lucky winner is going to be this evening. And that lucky winner this evening is Christine DiCiaba. Christine DiCiaba is the lucky winner. I think we've got a thousand rounds in the money bag if I remember correctly. I think we didn't have a winner claim or wait and see what my colleague brings up on our screen. But congratulations to Christine DiCiaba. I hope that you are watching us live and of course are going to claim that prize. And continuing with our conversation with Upubut's tutorial, talking urban development in South Africa. Now, Google, now that we understand what urban development is and just how layered, multi-layered it is especially in today's era, I'm keen to hear then from you about some of the urban development challenges that we almost uniquely face in South Africa. And perhaps some of them are not unique to South Africa, we certainly face in South Africa especially when we look at trying to make our cities as people-centered as possible. And perhaps just to share with us some of the challenges that we would typically find when it comes to urban development and making the right strides within the South African context. Okay, I think one of the biggest challenges that we have in South Africa a lot of people are moving to city centers what we call urbanization and we strongly as cities to actually accommodate that influx. So as much as we can also identify opportunities in our city centers where there is buildings where we can still accommodate people to address the issues of housing it goes back to what I was saying where different sector departments need to come together and make sure that we are resolving this issue of housing I think one of the greatest problems that we're having is the issue of housing we seeing a lot of people living under the bridges and all of that but also at the same time we do know that there are certain buildings in our city centers that are not being used but also it's not easy it's not possible for people to access those properties. So I think also a political will within our municipal structures is also sort of like delaying the development agenda or what we need to address as South Africa is we are faced with this issue of urbanization so it's quite difficult you also see it even in the budgeting in municipal budgeting you'll see that these things are actually not budgeted for appropriately because they don't think that it's important but on the other hand they do talk about the issues of the lack of housing and the lack of access to economic opportunities so while we talk about economic opportunities I think one of them the problematic thing that we also have or we find ourselves in the city centers largely is the regulatory policies that we have so it's not easy for someone from township to come and say well I want to rent a space in the city center or I want to buy in the city center because of the regulatory things issues like rezoning I find a lot of people that they do not understand this concept of rezoning it's actually affecting people greatly so with rezoning it's basically a process of ensuring that the property that you are using it has appropriate rights for whatever use that you want to use the property for if it's for commercial purposes is that property appropriately zoned and people don't understand the processes involved in the rezoning so they'll go to the municipality and the municipality will refer them to a private consultant like myself but when they come to us they find that oh my gosh it's going to take 6 months or 12 months to actually get this thing approved and there's a lot of processes involved and then it just changes the situation all together so I think maybe information sharing will actually help people understand all those processes but also the regulatory frameworks that are in place that are placed by our government they also need to look at those kind of issues that there are certain groups that will love to participate in the economic space but they are hindered because they can't do all of these processes it's quite costly to do all of those things and then you have to get your business to actually function so there are a number of things that people are faced with in South Africa in trying to ensure that they participate in the economy they also have access to safe and secure human settlement the issues of housing it's a problem in South Africa I think those are the main things that you are faced with in South Africa and we need to try to find solutions around that Taking your questions and comments this evening as we continue that conversation about urban development in South Africa with founder and director at the Zipilele Consultancy Omen Zibutilesi on Facebook asking does urban planning involve integrating the rural areas to the connected world through technology connectivity and or electricity? Yes definitely what the government is trying to do now is to develop something that is called prison planning or local area planning and that is also it covers rural areas as well so if you look at a particular village and you see what is currently lacking in that village and you put in strategies to ensure that ICTs are accommodated agriculture whatever economic structure that will actually help and improve that rural area so the government is actually working on something to ensure that the rural areas are also accommodated through those prison planning and local area planning policies that they have in place now and I see that Christine Chaba the lucky winner this evening has commented down here below so she walks away with that 500 rands in cash and that's exactly how we like to start off on Monday winners watching tuned in and able to claim their money and of course that means tomorrow 500 rands is up for grabs in our competition remember to comment, comment, comment the more times you comment and engage the better your odds of being one of the lucky winners now you know we were speaking about the challenges and you've been highlighting the challenges when it comes to urban development in South Africa I'm interested to know then the complete opposite so do a 180 what are some of the opportunities that are there as much as our big cities are already there and some were built by not even some, they were all built by consequence of some other historical thing whether it's a natural resource like your gold or of course with Cape Town it became a port and a way that different travelers from Europe could pass by make sure that they get food and water and increasingly became a very big city, a very focal point even from a transportation perspective back then what are some of the opportunities in 2021 and beyond when you talk urban development in South Africa well I think it goes back to what I've just spoken about I think the government with these pissing planning projects and local air planning projects they're trying to create opportunities even for communities in townships communities in rural areas like I said I think some of the problematic system that we had it's the regulatory policies where you can't even use your property for instance if you are living in Umlaazi and your property is zoned residential so with the old system you can only use the property for residential properties and you can't use it for any business opportunity but now with the new policies that they're bringing in you are able to use your property to actually engage in economic activities so we're creating something that we call flexibility or flexible zones where people are able to do other things within the areas where they already reside you don't need to go to the city center so I think by redirecting certain things to our township to our rural areas you create opportunities without pushing people to the city centers you say whatever you are already will provide infrastructure we will provide an environment that is receptive to whatever business that you want to engage in I think it's basically the policies that the government is trying to put forward now that's actually creating opportunities for anyone to anyone anywhere to engage in economic opportunities and to partake in the global environment yeah and as we begin to wrap up our conversation this evening one of the things that you highlighted and that's very evident is that your urban development is very complex there are many different parts and different kinds of stakeholders when you talk about urban development in South Africa and even when we look at some of the challenges and opportunities I'm interested to find out from you we know that when we talk urban development it falls a lot within government's tables so one of those things that private sick tech can champion and be ahead alone of it could be a private public partnership but for the most part it's government because there are also policies in place and policies that must be passed and that drive what is going to happen I'm here to hear from you what you think perhaps the one thing that can be done currently within in the South African context that could sort of drastically change things for urban dwellers across the country okay that's an interesting one first thing first piece I need to urge people not to move to the city centres they must stop doing that things can still happen wherever you are so I think this thing of wanting to be in the urban areas it's really outdated now but on the other hand I really have to say that it all depends on the government policies largely as much as the private sector can come in and say yes we are here we can assist but it's the responsibility of our government to create an enabling environment for our people in South Africa to be able to engage in different types of development opportunities that are out there so I actually throw a challenge to the government to actually make sure that the opportunities are there for our people because at the end of the day when it comes to urban planning what I'm in charge of planning is the regulations or the policies that we put in place that actually on the other hand actually stop people from engaging because there are a lot of red tapes so it's basically a government issue that I don't want to lie so it's dependent on them and that's a great note to leave it at Google that we know that people are moving to the city centre not even as a function of you know but it's because this is unfortunately where a lot of economic opportunities are concentrated and sometimes from a perception perspective that more importantly that's where you're going to find economic opportunities because in semi-urban or rural areas there simply aren't those opportunities that you'd be able to take advantage of and I think if anything when you look at the migration data especially COJ I was recently looking at the COJ migration data it's scary it's one of those things that needs to keep government awake because we cannot have that many people holding a view and legitimately so but holding the view that they need to be coming to Johannesburg because that's where economic opportunities are for the most part the city is also not built from an infrastructure perspective to accommodate the population numbers that we currently have yes we can certainly build more in certain instances but the reality is we want to make sure that people don't need to come to the city to access those opportunities so the challenge goes back as you're saying to government that semi-urban areas, rural areas those areas need to they need to ensure that there are adequate economic opportunities that people can take advantage of that they can see themselves living in those spaces and can see sort of economic lifeline for themselves without needing to have to come the side and try to you know somehow get economic opportunities and I think that is a great note that we are going to leave it at when we look at the challenges and of course the opportunities and if they think people who watch the show you know entrepreneurial in nature and of course the big focus is property but being able to identify some of those opportunities in the rural area if you're from a rural area in semi-urban areas and also creating some of those opportunities for yourself because you understand that there needs to be some kind of local economy even within those respective sort of smaller cities and areas as much as possible Gogo we're going to leave it there this evening thank you so much for joining us on the show Thank you so much, thank you for having me It was a pleasure you see it was great right there was no reason to be nervous I told you that this is a family and you guys at home we're really going to welcome you with open arms and that is Gogo Soutoile who's the founder and director at Zipilele Consultancy wrapping up the Monday edition of the Private Property Council of myself, Usamantoumwa Kumaalo I'm off and I'm going to be back tomorrow evening at 7pm but it's a Monday and you can chat on the Home Shoppers show until then hoping you're staying home and staying safe


What's the perfect combination of Western medicine, fitness, and nutrition? Watch this. Our first caller is Grayson from Oklahoma. Grayson, what's happening? I am a currently a junior in college. I'm a biology pre-med student. I've pretty much just grown up with wanting to be a doctor and everything like that. But as I've gotten older, especially, I've really just like my passion is in health and fitness. That's what I'm really interested in. And so I want to do something that's health and wellness related. And I haven't seen a ton of doctors that have really created a practice that kind of interconnects the fitness and the medicine industry. And so I really just wanted to come to talk to you guys since I know you guys have such an extensive knowledge of the fitness industry as a whole and see if you guys know or have been around physicians or anyone in the medical field that's kind of intertwined the medical and the fitness industry. Yeah, no, that's a great question. And thank you, by the way, for your interest. I think this is a great combination when you have the expertise of Western medicine combined with fitness, training, nutrition type coaching. Now, here's the challenge with what you're asking. I know you're asking, do I know anybody like that? Off the top of my head, not necessarily, but here's the challenge and I'm sure you know this better than anybody. When you're trying to become a specialist in Western medicine, like you don't have time to also simultaneously become a specialist and gain the experience that's required to be really good at training and coaching people. It's really hard to do all by yourself. So what I would do in your shoes is this, and I've thought about this a lot in the past. In fact, this was actually something I even thought about doing at one point, which is when you figure out what your specialty is, do that and then you can get your own office. And then within that office, I would have a space for correctional exercise with trainers and with people who can coach nutrition. And when people come in, they'll see you as the specialist, but then they can work through coaching with nutrition and they can work with exercise specialists within your facility. I think that would be so valuable. And I actually think that that's the future of a lot of medicine. I think it's going to be a combination of those things. Oh yeah, I worked at a while. I didn't work. I did like an internship when I was in college at this place in Condell Medical Center. Right across the street from there was this amazing gym that had physicians on hand. It had personal trainers, physical therapists, you name it. Everything was sort of in-house and it was great because they all communicated with each other and were able to blend the programming and everything to fit and tailor that specific client amazingly. So I think that there's, I would love to see more of that kind of synergy amongst everybody's professions working together like that. Well, I think that's the answer is you're more likely to partner up with somebody who's like the, if you're going to, you go the doctor route and then you partner up with the fitness expert or you go the fitness route and then you find a doctor that aligns with your values and you partner with the doctor. And I think, not to say that you can't do both, I just think that if you go through all the work and effort to become a doctor, the money side of the fitness side is not going to be very appealing, you know what I'm saying? It's like, I can see patients and practice Western medicine and I get paid this much.  So I think that would be the challenge that you would probably run into if you were trying to kind of live in both worlds. You know, the only person who comes to mind, Stephen Cabral, kind of like this.  Yeah, he's got both. He's got Western and Eastern medicine. That's what makes him kind of unique, but still primarily a doctor, not really personal training or recommending. I mean, he does a lot of stuff in nutrition, but not really recommending that. I mean, that would be my recommendation is to work on being a specialist specifically in one of those areas and then trying to align yourself with another specialist in the opposite. And because you have a passion for both, you'll have probably a good idea of what a good trainer looks like, right? You would align your values well with that versus your traditional doctor that maybe doesn't care as much. Well, yeah. And if you stay the medical side, you could get sports medicine experts and you can get physical therapists who also have some specialization in other forms of exercise, because physical therapists are the best for correctional exercise, but then you want to also understand progressive overload and that kind of stuff. And there's a lot of PTs that also know that as well. So it's a medical facility even covered by insurance that kind of incorporates all of these things. I really do see this being the future of medicine in a lot of different ways. So you're headed in the right direction completely, Grayson. Well, thank you guys. I really appreciate that. And yeah, the other thing that I was kind of interested in and I've kind of been looking at is the physical therapy route. Just because I know you guys mentioned the other day that part of the disconnect between an MD and the patients and everything when they're trying to give health and wellness advice and stuff like that is they're not with them every day. So I thought maybe if I went to physical therapy route, I could get that maybe three day a week connection with a patient where you could have maybe more of an impact. And so that's kind of just what I'm trying to decide at this point because I do, you know, I love that part of, you know, like I just love the fitness industry so much. And I'm like, man, if I want to do what I love, maybe that's more of a route. So just kind of figuring it out. At 20 years old, it's a great, great age to be at, to be asking these types of questions. And probably some of the best advice could be too is just to go dabble in a little bit of all of it and see what you find yourself most passionate about. What is it that you stay up at night reading and learning about when you're not getting paid and you don't have to study for a test, but just because you're interested in it and let that drive your decision on what direction maybe you should go as far as a career, you know, and play with everything. I mean, I feel like at this age, it's a good time to try all these ideas that you have out and just see which one you naturally kind of fall into based off of what you're spending time doing when you're not being told to or getting paid. There's a lot of directions you can go. I mean, you can even go the direction of orthopedic surgeon and then in your facility work with physical therapists and trainers and people who work nutrition. I mean, there's so many ways to compliment all these different fields. And if you're the medical expert, it's your, it's your facility. I mean, I, I, I tried doing this with, uh, with Dr. Collins of mine, not necessarily creating a business together, but I created a network of people I'd refer to. So if I had somebody who had, you know, uh, gastro issues or I had a gastro specialist, I would send people to I had a couple of general surgeons that I could refer to if there were some issues. And I had some therapists that I would refer to. So I could, I could see there's so much potential here. Um, but I think Adam's hitting the nail on the head, like do the, for you specifically, do the one that you feel most passionate about, because you'll be the best at that. Um, and then you can supplement and compliment with that, with other people helping you in that. Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for sure. All right. Perfect. Thanks for calling. Hi. Well, thank you guys for having me on. You guys are awesome. Thank you. Great. No problem. Yeah. My best success hands down period with clients was when people worked with me and they worked with, you know, one or two other specialists that were experts at things that I was not. Um, I had people work with me and then massage therapists and physical therapists or with me and, you know, people who were experts in nutrition or with hormones. And it was wonderful because what I would do is I would create these, these, uh, these email threads where we would all work together. Yeah. And sometimes it would say to me, Hey, Sal, I don't think you should be doing squats with this person, because I'm noticing an issue here with the knee or whatever. And then I'll say, well, what about this particular issue with mobility? You know, that's a good idea. And we would go back and forth and construct like the best, uh, combination of, of therapies and the success rate was tremendous. It just seems that that's the most likely scenario, right? Is to, to, to get together with other specialists and then create some sort of versus what I got. He was asking at the beginning, which is more like what he could do all of it. I just don't see, I don't see you being, I don't know any, some hybrid of that. Yeah.  I mean, mine is just the money, right? It's the money and the time. Yeah. You put all that time and effort into getting your PhD and the, at least you're making a pretty good income.   You got to crush there. Then you got to do an internship. You got to crush there. The whole time it's bell to bell, very stressful, very challenging. Then you get to start to practice medicine and you, you've, you now need to build experience as a doctor. You're going to go and become experienced as a trainer for another five to 10 years. Like I guess that by the time you're 50, you might be ready, you know, but that's a, that's a lot. You know, I think, and I also don't think you'll be as good as you being the expert on one thing and then working with having other people work with you. The neat part though is if he has a passion for both, he'll have a good eye for who to do it. 100%. Just, you know what I'm saying? So he'll have a good eye for what to look for in the trainer or the PTs or the other, the other practices, right? To align himself with.


That's how high I can kick what's shaking my name is Cam welcome back to another video You probably don't know this but aside from being great at being great at karate I'm a romance expert and now you're probably thinking well Cam if that's true if you're a romance expert Why have you been single for so long? Well, guess what the jokes on you? The reason I've been single for so long is because I'm terrible at talking to women. I Don't read a lot of romance books. They generally aren't written for hetero Felleros like me, which is fine. It's not a big deal at all in any capacity It's just that I rarely find that I can relate to the characters in those romance books with that said I am a big fan of rom-coms big time. I eat that stuff up like Like a wine mom with a cheese platter Today I'm gonna be talking about some of my favorite and least favorite tropes in the romance genre And I think of all the different genres This is the one where these tropes either fall almost completely into either. I love it or hate it basket I love the second chance romance trope. I Love it. I genuinely think it's one of the most interesting ways to approach a new relationship in a story Rather than just going with the old, you know, love at first sight angle So the second chance trope is basically when this story starts with our protagonist having either just left a relationship or in the process of leaving a relationship and The rest of the story is them getting a second chance at love a second shot with a new person in most cases our Protagonist let's just call him Harry for this video has been hit pretty hard by the breakup They either got dumped unexpectedly or maybe they caught their partner cheating Well, basically just doing something else Otherwise horrible now I think the best part of using this trope is that the writer is actually forced to kind of Implement that breakup from the start of the story Into the foundation of what is going to be the next relationship the new romance Rather than just having two happy people meeting each other and falling in love You're gonna have at least one character that is pretty damaged and that's going to play a huge part in how that new Relationship develops and it's for that reason that generally there's going to be a pretty good character arc I'm just I'm gonna generalize for a minute. So don't get defensive But I think most romance stories don't have a lot of detailed character arcs They'll have a relationship arc where the relationship will change and develop over the course of the story But usually the characters themselves are still the same people at the end that they were at the beginning But when you use the second chance arc You have to have at least one character that is going to go on an emotional journey and change Usually what you'll have is a really cynical character who believes that love is a sham Because they were in love with the last person and they gave it their all and they still got burned who can relate but then They meet someone special Entirely by chance and this new special person breaks down those walls and convinces them shows them that Love is still possible. Love is still possible if they just take a chance if they take a risk If they just take that leap of faith through the course of the story We watch Harry go from a bitter heartbroken cynic to a cautiously hopeful person to someone who believes in love again I just find as far as romance tropes go. This is one of the ones where it approaches romance in a realistic and Honest way even if it's not always pretty the second chance trope really dunks on the idea that love has to be cute or glamorous And it's a pretty simple message. It's never too late. And that's pretty dope. I Know that to all the boys I've loved before is kind of sacred on book 2, but I'm sorry.  Maybe I'm just being a bit too critical. I'm just a guy with a massive forehead What do I know? But I just don't feel like this trope The fake relationship trope. I don't feel like it leaves a lot of space for originality. Hey, maybe I'm wrong That's just my personal experience guy What I found is that this trope will create a Story structure a number of steps that it follows and kind of has to follow which ends up being the same rigid boring Formula so we don't know each other very well One of us is probably the hot popular kid or the wealthy successful one and the other one is just plain Jane We will start to pretend that we're dating usually to make someone else jealous or to avoid some kind of public Humiliation it'll be rocky at first of course because we don't really know anything about each other The only thing we know about each other is that one of us is hot and one of us is Plain we'll bicker a lot about really asinine and inconsequential things But don't worry. It'll be super cute and then in a moment of vulnerability We will kiss the build-up to the climax of the story will be that for whatever reason We both have to pretend that we don't have feelings for each other And then we will split and then one of us usually the protagonist will have a Revelation or an epiphany and then end up running as fast as we can so that we can kiss the other one in a really public setting The end. I don't know. I'm just not a I'm just not a huge fan I guess I think with the fake romance trope You can really guess pretty much everything that's going to happen or even how it's going to happen Within the first like 10 minutes of reading or watching again I'm just generalizing off of my personal experience But rarely there's any nuance and the character development is usually just well the hot bully is still a bully but Not to me. So that's okay I'm only human of course. I like this trope. I know these stories almost always follow the same like can be predictable Structure that I just ripped into but come on There's something nice about letting ourselves believe that there is one person that we are destined to be with okay I think the main reason I really like the friends to lovers trope is because it relies very heavily on the writer's ability To make good chemistry for the two main characters if there's not good chemistry there The story just won't work anyway Usually two characters that have been friends since childhood will be inexplicably reunited after a really long time apart That's really heartwarming in any kind of story when two old friends get back together And you know they you read or watch about them reconnecting and regressing to being Childhood buddies all over again. That's really nice I enjoy that but it's even better when those two characters are Regressing and starting to realize that those old feelings that they had might have been more serious than they thought And those feelings are still around. There may be other barriers Which almost always takes the form of one or both of those characters already having a boyfriend or girlfriend But that friend is still the one I Personally think this one is a cliche not a trope But the reason I'm mentioning it here is because it it ties in really well with the friends to lovers trope That I just talked about any time in a romance where one of the two main characters Already has a partner that partner is always shown to be a de-hole in the most obnoxious way It's like the writer really wants to rub your face in it.  I don't know man that it just feels like it's really cheap writing or even worse This is like actually way worse I really hate it when they do this the boyfriend or girlfriend is really nice for pretty much the entire story They're supportive and that kind but as soon as it gets to the point of the story where the character has to make a choice between Their boyfriend or girlfriend and the love interest the boyfriend or girlfriend's personality will immediately flip and they will start being a D-hole or it will be revealed that they were cheating all along even though there was no Suggestion or hint to this in the first place I think the reason they do this is just entirely to make you feel better about The character leaving their boyfriend or girlfriend for the love interest But I don't think it would be the worst thing in the world if the character was faced with the genuine dilemma of Choosing between a nice kind Supportive and loving boyfriend or girlfriend or the person that they are actually in love with that's more interesting than me Where is the conflict or the stakes in someone choosing between someone that they're in love with and someone that? Abuses them constantly. We know what they're gonna do. The choice is obvious I don't like it personally But I get it.  I like this one and I'm not talking about like Finding out that those cousins that go to your school were Busted kissing each other at Kevin's party the forbidden love romance trope could take many forms Romeo and Juliet's the really obvious one And the reason I like this trope is because it's usually not just a love story It's also an exploration of the very thing that divides them It might be a class divide or a cultural divide the list goes on a good writer will use this trope Not only to tell a love story a story about perseverance and hope for those two characters but usually they'll make some kind of statement as well about the thing that's stopping them from being together and the end of The story is always super cathartic because you watch these two characters go through so much and fight against so many Outside forces that are trying to stop them from being together and then in the end they get a win the prize being each other Unless one of unless one of them dies, which does it happens a lot Maybe a weird example, but take West side story the musical. It's not just a love story about Tony and Maria It's also a story about racial tension in 1950s America Obviously this trope doesn't always have to go into topics that intense and sometimes You know, it doesn't have to do any kind of deep exploration at all I just think there's still plenty of room to be very creative with stories like this and take it in many different directions Okay, look, I'm gonna keep this brief just because of how easy it could be to take something I say here the wrong way I'm not a fan of the trope where a love interest is revealed to be sick and dying or Gets into a serious accident at some random point near the end of the story Just to give the other romantic interest a reason to stick by their side. I don't like it.  Sue me. Go ahead. Do it. So do it. Sue me.  I want to be clear Sometimes the terminal illness is a central focus in the story itself. It's important to the plot and that's okay That's completely fine. But I feel like there are a lot of stories more than there should be where Terminal illness or a serious accident is used as nothing more than a plot device Just to make the reader sad, you know If the writer feels like their story's coming to a grinding halt and they need something to give it an emotional punch Well easy-peasy just add a cancer diagnosis or a car crash even though it's had nothing to do with the story so far It's a super easy way of making your story really emotional without actually doing any work I not only think that's lazy, but something about it just feels Wrong, you know, like kind of icky. I just feel like Serious things like terminal cancer and serious accidents Shouldn't be used as a last-minute quick draw for writers to try and bring these characters together I don't know. That's how I feel anyway.  I want to do more videos like this on other genres So keep an eye out. Let me know what you think about these tropes or others in the comments below and Let's see how right or wrong I am. Thanks for watching. Catch you


But first, earlier this week, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said a new healthcare provider at the Duvall County Jail has been selected after reporting from the tributary showed an increase in inmates' deaths under the former provider Armor Correctional Health Services. Nicole Manna of the tributary is here now for a closer look. And before we dive in, I should disclose that I am a member of the tributary board. I don't have anything to do with their reporting, I just support the organization. Listen, if you want to join the conversation, you can call us at 549-2937, tweet us at FCC on air, email us at FirstCoastConnect.wjct.org, or message us on Facebook. All right, so Nicole, how are you? I'm good, how are you? I am excellent. So I read your report, and before we dive into that, I want to rewind and go back a little bit. So when did the jail healthcare system become privatized? So that became privatized in October of 2017. They moved from handling their healthcare in-house. In October of 2017, they signed the contract with Armor, and then they re-signed the contract for another five years in November of last year. How much are we talking about? Like, how big are these contracts? The last contract that was signed in November was $98 million. $98 million. So we're talking about a big chunk of money. Yes. And my understanding is that switching from the jail handling, the Duval County basically handling the healthcare of inmates to privatization saved the city like $700,000 or something like that? That's my understanding as well, that there was a significant amount of money saved by doing that. So this is about partially, I guess, about cost savings for the taxpayers, at least in the eyes of the people who made that change. Yes. So talk to me about Armor. Like, what happened under their tenure in the jail? So this is all based on records that we actually obtained from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office from 2012 to 2017. There were about four deaths per year in the jail. When Armor took over in 2017, from 2017 to now, there's been about 13 deaths in the jail per year. So that death rate tripled under Armor. Yeah, that's a significant increase. Yes. In the reporting, I was reading that one of the big, for lack of better terms, disconnect was that if someone gets arrested, a lot of times they would bring their medications with them or if they didn't have their medications, they would request their medications and Armor didn't provide it. Yeah, so what's supposed to happen is if you're arrested, you go in, you have a healthcare assessment and at that point you're able to say these are the prescriptions that I take. For example, with Dexter Berry, the man who died in November after he didn't get his anti-rejection medications for his heart, the jailed or Armor did call his pharmacy and they did confirm the prescriptions that he's taking. They got all of them other than the anti-rejection medications. Armor said that they had ordered those medications, but they didn't get them before he was released. I talked to another man, Carl Rainboldt. He was arrested within the last few months and that officer, he said, did bag up his medications and took them to the jail with him. He was in the jail for about eight days and didn't get any of his pill medications. Did start getting his insulin shots, but it wasn't until about four days after his arrest. And I could have a really detrimental effect on your health for him specifically, like not getting your insulin shots. Long problems can come out of not getting it right then. Of course. I've talked to Carl. I've talked to his daughter, Kristen. And Kristen said, this is not the dad that I had before he was arrested. He's now using a walker because he's not as strong when he walks. She said, before he was arrested, he was doing crosswords. He was 77 years old, but he didn't mentally seem 77 years old. It's how she put it. And since then, his health mentally, physically has just deteriorated because he wasn't getting the care in the jail that he was getting outside of it. So after your report came out, what were the moves that the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office took? Right. So we found out the day that the report came out, I found out Tuesday morning that the jail was going to end their contract with armor and they were going to sign with another privatized healthcare company called NAF Care. And they made that announcement Tuesday evening, confirmed that that contract was signed on Monday. We have that contract. So I've been spending time reading through it and have not gotten all the way through. But NAF Care is very similar to armor. It's another privatized company. It's another five-year contract. It's more expensive. It's $110 million. The sheriff didn't say this at the press conference, but a chief of his told me that this comes with more staff, which I'm assuming is a good thing. But NAF Care, like armor, has been sued hundreds of times. They have a similar history to armor. And a story came out that a man who was held in a jail in Atlanta actually died under NAF Care's care due to being eaten alive by bed bugs, according to reporting in Georgia. That just sounds like something out of a horror movie. And it's scary to think that this provider allowed that to happen to somebody and now that same provider is taking over the Duvall County Jail. Right. So Sheriff Waters was actually asked about that during the Tuesday press conference. Another reporter brought up that case and said, does this concern you? And his exact quote was, I wouldn't have done it if I had that kind of concern. I tell you this, you could look at any medical facility in North Florida or throughout the state of Florida and they all have issues. They've all had lawsuits. They've all had those things. But at some point you have to look through it very carefully and make sure that you're making the right decision. I think we did. That sounds to me like, like he is saying that there is no other solution and losing these lives are acceptable because there's no other solution. But yet we know that earlier, the Duvall County Health Department handled the medical care at the jail and we didn't have this type of problem. It was just more expensive. Right. And so the health care at some point, the health care department at one point handled the health care at the jail. At another point, JSO did it in house. And that is when we saw the lowest level of deaths. And we're going to go to the phone. We've got Sue and Mandarin. Sue, how you doing this morning? I'm good. Thank you. Good. My concern is in many years ago, as I said, I did some shift work at the jail and intake. I'm a nurse and people have to be screened and they have to meet with somebody who looks at them, talks to them, asks them about their medications to see what they need. And there is no excuse for not getting insulin or any kind of a critical med like those heart meds that the gentleman did not get his anti-rejection meds. Somebody, a professional person has to do that. If it's being, if it has been over the past downgraded to a paraprofessional or somebody else, it brings in a problem. They cannot be given their own medications that they bring with them. You can't allow meds to come in from the outside. That's understandable. They have to be ordered from a pharmacy and be the correct meds. So that's my concern. Thank you, Sue. I think, you know, when we're talking about privatizing healthcare in the jail specifically, privatizing healthcare is really about, you know, let's just be honest, it's about making money. Like it's a for-profit business. And so they're in business to make money. And if you're in business to make money, the first thing that you begin to look at are what are your expenses? And I would imagine that a lot of those expenses come down to personnel, because usually personnel in any business is your highest expense personnel, and then a lot of other cost-cutting measures. But I'm just wondering, in the reporting, did you find that like armor was understaffed? So, Sue brought up a great question about the 14-day screenings. You are supposed to be going through health screenings, and then you have to have one within 14 days. And we had found during one of the last inspections, accreditation inspections last year, that the jail was not doing those 14-day screenings within that timeframe. And I found that out months after that report was made and asked JSO about this and what they were doing to fix the problem. And one of the things they did say as we are talking to armor about their staffing levels, that's about as far as that conversation got. And we're going to go to the phones again. We've got Wells on the south side. Wells, how are you today? I'm fine. How are you guys? Good. I have a question and a comment. My question is, Ron Salem, who is now the current president of the city council, had a job, but I guess he still has a job as a consultant through the pharmacy part of the jail downtown. And what is his responsibility as a consultant to the pharmacy? And the other question I have or comment is that next to very, the gentleman who was a heart transplant recipient shouldn't have been arrested in first place. So what is the police accountability in this case and has, TK, what is the sheriff made any comments regarding this event that took place? Thank you. Thanks for your question, Charles. Yes. So great question. In regards to Councilmen's Salem, he is subcontracted through Diamond Pharmaceutical, who is subcontracted through Armor. Diamond Pharmaceutical is the company that runs the pharmacy. Salem is just somebody who goes in and makes sure that medication is not expired, that the fridge is working, basically just double checks that everything in the pharmacy is working correctly. He has nothing to do with ordering pharmaceuticals. He has nothing to do with and make care. He is just a consultant to make sure that the pharmacy is running properly. Yeah. So I mean, you can't tie Ron Salem to the issues that we're seeing with people not getting their medication. Those are two completely separate things. He did mention about the man who passed away after not getting his anti-rejection medication. Do we know, is there a lawsuit going on or has there been a lawsuit about that? There is a lawsuit that is being formed. It hasn't actually been filed yet, but his family does have a civil rights attorney here in Jacksonville who is doing that, and the sheriff's office has opened an internal review about what happened to Mr. Berry. I'm not sure if that also includes his arrest or just his time in the jail. I asked Sheriff Waters about that review last week, and he said that is still ongoing, so he wasn't able to comment on it at that time. And we're going to go to the phones. Charlie, in the beaches, how are you today, Charlie? I'm good, my friend. I would like to suggest that when someone goes into the jail, they should be allowed to have a private facilitator, not the jail, but a private facilitator, a person who could oversee their medications as they come into the jail and make sure that they're getting them, the private facilitator, because the person that goes in there may be suffering from depression or mental illness. And so we have to depend on the jail to make sure that person is taken care of when that person could have a private facilitator that could make sure that the person is being taken care of, and there should be a committee. Our mayor, she was a journalist, and if she had a committee and you had private individuals that were overseeing their loved ones that were going into the jail and they weren't being taken care of and they weren't being given the medications, and again, you need a private facilitator or a person to oversee that, not the jail. And then there would be a committee that that committee would go to, and you remember with Donna Deacon, she was a journalist, I can promise you that if she found out about that, it would be big trouble for the jail. Thank you. Charlie, thank you so much. I think what Charlie is advocating for there is basically like a social worker that would work with all the incoming inmates. That's a big task, though. That's a whole new division basically that you're creating. Not saying that it's impossible, just saying that you're talking about adding a lot of dollars to the column there. And we're going to go to Miriam. How are you this morning? Miriam's not there, so we'll just go to Mark on the west side. Mark, how are you doing? Real good. I was kind of echoing another caller. I'm a registered nurse. I've known lots of friends and associates over the years who have worked for the Sheriff's Office, and it doesn't seem so much like a big farmer or somebody is trying to prevent the inmates from getting their drugs. It's almost a matter of manpower, which we all know that correctional officers have had a hard time over the years. But if you're a nurse that works for the jail or works with the jail, you can't see a patient, an inmate, without a correctional officer present. And when they say days later they're sick or they're hurting or they need to see a doctor, again, it seems like they're almost, you know, it kind of gets lost in the system. So, yeah, I've had nurse friends of mine say that they've been waiting, they wait hours for a correctional officer to go in with them to see an inmate.  And so I guess that's part of the problem. Yeah, Mark, thank you so much for your comment. I think what Mark is pointing to is not just not having enough staff on the nursing side of things, but also not having enough staff on, from his point of view, not having enough staff on the correctional officer side of things. Did you get any indication from TK that he was going to be more, that he was going to have his office be more involved in this contract and keeping an eye on the new provider? Well, he did ask him during the press conference on Tuesday, what safeguards are going to be in place to make sure that what happens under NAF care is nothing like what happened under armor. He just said that there are safeguards under the contract and I asked him for specific examples and he declined to answer that. So that's another reason why I am reading through the contract right now. Unfortunately, the last three days have been very busy, so I'm on about page 15 out of hundreds. In those 15 pages, did anything stick out to you? No, not yet. All right. We're going to go to the phones again. We got Richard on the north side. Richard, how you doing this morning? Hey, I'm doing well. Thanks for taking my call. Listen, I'm not certain if anybody has made this connection, but unfortunately, we can see what the crack epidemic did to the black community in the 80s and how it was treated as a criminal and three strikes and you're out. And then that same epidemic now is going through the suburbs and it's called the opioid and we've got even a drug to reverse overdose. We see how the abortion has been unraveled. Affirmative action has been unraveled, but no one seems to be making the connection that our current prison system is a system designed around slavery because of the 13th Amendment. The 13th Amendment makes the prison systems exist. It says neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist except as punishment for crime. Now that was entered in there because of the way of the mindset that they had about black people and being free. There's just had to be this little clause to be able to continue to keep us enslaved. So if we could address the real issue and that's changing the language, and I don't know if anybody's talking about doing that. And if all we're doing is talking about how to move prisoners around and treat them while they're in jail, that's just that's not addressing the real problem. The real problem is legislatively and the real problem can be addressed by simply removing the exception that says neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist period. And I think once we start having that conversation, then we'll start looking at prisons as more of a rehabilitation process than a punishment. Richard, thank you so much for your comment. And to enact something like that, like the 13th Amendment, that's an act of Congress and the President, which totally hear you on that. As far as dealing with the system that we currently have, where we are at, I think it behooves the community to keep their eye on what's happening with these contracts and the contractors and how they are navigating the work that's ahead of them. We have a tweet from Firepit Mike, and Firepit Mike says, why are these folks in jail in the first place? Folks with money can post bond, but folks without money are the ones in jail, correct? Could we eliminate cash bail so that there are fewer people in jail like some states have done? That doesn't really seem to be a movement that's really caught on here in Florida. The way it has in places like in California and certain counties in California, they're moving away from that. Has your reporting showed any of that? No, I have not been able to. I mean, that's a great question. And that's a question I would also like to ask, but have not been able to do that. We've been very much solely focused on health care in Duvall County and armor. And now soon, nafcare. Yeah, and I don't want to make light of the caller who talked about the 13th Amendment. Like what he read is exactly right. There's actually a documentary on Netflix called the 13th Amendment all about that. I'm just saying that like that is something of, that's a national conversation and where we're drilling down to is the local and what's and how it shows up in our everyday lives locally. We're going to go to Tom on the west side. Tom, how you doing this morning? Good morning. Yes. Along the lines of what you were just suggesting with cash bail, if we embrace civil citations, we would be able to reduce the number of people in jail and there would be less concern with taking care of the jail population because the problem would be much easier. Yeah, Tom, I hear you on that. I wonder if that is something that should be brought up to like the city council and to the mayor. Your thoughts? Indeed. Oh, definitely. Yeah, we need to keep the pressure up to do that because amongst other things, I mean, Ron Salem wants to move the jail is one of, I mean, to replace the jail is one of its highest priorities. And if we could just reduce the population that might become unnecessary, which would save the city a lot of money. Tom, thanks so much for calling. We're going to go to Brenda on the south side. Brenda, how you doing this morning? I'm wonderful. How about yourself? Good. Good. I'm listening to all the callers and I'm like on board with all of that. I love the is. But with regards to this medication issue, I just wonder if there's any accountability in the jailing system where when an inmate is brought in before they're even taken to a sale is their medical condition and medication put in a database in their computer system with weekly or I'm sorry, let me rephrase daily reports issued for the warden or whoever's monitoring their medical where they can stay on top of this because that seems to be like and I hate to use the word automation, but it seems to be the most logical first step in trying to manage this problem. Yeah, what you're what you're pointing to is basically like a management system that, you know, a computer program or whatever that manages their care that like you can just check it off and like know that it's happening, correct? Is that my summoning up correctly? Absolutely. Absolutely. Something so basic that so if they have it, are they using it? It just seems so logical. Yeah, it does. And I don't know exactly how the system works. We've gotten those records regarding Dexter Berry, which does show times that he was talking with nurses. It does show times that he was getting his other medication. So there is some sort of log. I think that brings up something that we actually just reported yesterday. The National Commission on Correctional Healthcare, which is a national accrediting agency for jails and prisons, actually in April, put the jail on probation. They didn't revoke their accreditation. It's just probation. And they're the jail still on probation until their next review, which is happening later in the year. And so right now we're trying to figure out exactly why it was why that happened, why they're put on probation and see if it is tied to anything regarding medications. So will the tributary be following this story? Of course. All right. We got Nicole Omana of the tributary on with us. Thank you so much, Nicole. I really appreciate you coming in and talking to me. Thanks for having me. All right.


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Hello everybody, welcome back to another Dolby Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial. This one, I'm going to show you how to do the Sin City coloring effect, or if you want to go back a little further, the Schindler's List girl in the red coat, very, very famous scene. I'm going to show you how to do this. What does it look like? Simple. It looks like this. You've got everything in black and white, except for one object. In this case, we've got a red hat. I'm also going to show you some bonus footage where we're going to change that color of the hat to, let's say, like a blue hat. So if you see it here, I'm going to go ahead and presto. We've gone ahead and changed that from, well, from full color to from, let's just go ahead and show you. There's nothing here. This is a regular shot to her walk around with a blue hat, totally different than what happens. Anyways, let's get right into this. I'm going to delete some of these effects here, and we're going to start from scratch. The first step here is, of course, drag and drop some footage into your timeline. We've got this girl here walking around in full color with a red hat. The next thing you want to do is you want to go to your effects panel. Right here, for me, it's at the top under effects, and if you don't see it, make sure you go to window. Make sure there's a check beside effects and effect controls. In effects, type in leave, and you're going to get an obsolete video effect called leave color. This is still the best way to do this, although they may be coming up with something new, but right now it's the best way. Drag and drop it onto the footage. All right, cool. Now when we go down to leave color, you're going to see a few things. One color to leave. I'm going to left click on that rectangle, and it's going to open up, and I'm going to left click on the eyedropper, and I'm going to select a red. I want to select a mid-tones, my preference. Somewhere between the darkest red and the brightest red. Something like that looks pretty good. There is no effect yet. It hasn't done anything. Don't panic. The next step, you want to decolor this to 100%. This is starting to look correct, but again, this is little streaky on the hat. It's not quite there. The next step, and this is the critical one, is you want to go to matte colors, and instead of using RGB, which is red, green, blue, I believe, we want to go to using hue. When you do that, we have the effect we are going for. That might be all you need to do. This is fantastic. This looks great. If you want to go a step further and change the color of the hat, because you're in one of those strange moods, go back to the effects panel, type in change, oops, if I could just do that. You're also going to find a two options, change color, change to color. Change to color is the correct one. Drag and drop that onto the timeline, and onto the footage, and we get a second effect down here. Now, here's the interesting part. What we want to do is we want to change this red to a different color.  Let's go with some sort of weird, no, let's go with like a dark purple or something. I don't know. Something like that. We want it to be purple. When we do that, it takes a few seconds, actually that was pretty quick, but when we scan through it now, this lady went from having a red hat in a colored video to having a purple hat and a black and white video. That's all there is to it guys. Thanks for watching. A ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.