This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Aloha and Happy New Year. It's 2019, a year filled with adventure and lots of interesting topics here on Out and About, which is held every other week on the Think Tech livestreaming that series. I am your host, Winston Welch. And joining us today, we are going to do like every other week, we explore a variety of people, topics, events and organizations in the city, the state and our nation, and it's all alive in the studio. So sometimes we make mistakes and other times it's really natural.  Like my guest today, I'm very pleased to have back Sean Hamamoto, who is actually Executive Secretary from the Honolulu Neighborhood Commission office. And we're going to talk about the upcoming Neighborhood Board elections and the Neighborhood Board system in general. So welcome to the show today, or welcome back Sean. Thank you Winston, I'm so happy to be here again. Yeah, well I appreciate your office reaching out again to remind everybody that these very important Neighborhood Board elections are coming up, the deadline is coming up. I want to get it out there right away. Everyone should apply by February 15th if they're interested in running on the bill. Yes, February 15th is the deadline for candidate registration as well as voter registration. As well as voter registration. So you can see it there on the blue screen that it ends on Friday at just a minute before midnight on February 15th. So that's for people to vote in the Neighborhood Board elections. Correct, I just want to clarify that for people that voted in the most recent general election we had are automatically registered to vote in the Neighborhood Board elections. Okay. Now for people who perhaps didn't vote in the previous general election and they want to register for the Neighborhood Board elections that's when they need to register by that February 15th date. But if you voted already, you're good to go. Or maybe people that didn't vote in the national elections for whatever reasons or just have moved here or something. Yes, exactly. So this is a way for them to get on. That's an important deadline then. February 15th and for voter registration. And voter registration. And I think it's important to note that these elections are held online for the most part. Yes, it's a primarily an online election. The Neighborhood Commission back in 2009 made a decision to go with a primary online system. And this was mostly done as a cost savings measure. As you can imagine, the Commission was spending tens of thousands of dollars each election just on postage and envelopes. We're saving a lot of money there. But we are aware that not everybody may have access to a computer or be computer savvy at this point. So we do have a mail-in option. So for those, although we would prefer people to go paperless and do it online, if people really want to, they can request a traditional mail-in ballot from our office. And would they be able to do that at the same time that they've registered with your office to vote? No, because the actual passcodes for the ballots will go out in April. But for now, we're just registering one candidate and voters. Okay, so if it's Mrs. Smith or Mr. Sopto, they say, I don't want to vote on the computer. I want a piece of paper. Oh, yeah. They still have to call your office by February 15th? No, actually for them to actually request a ballot, that doesn't happen until March or April where they can do that. Okay, a little bit later. So if you want a paper ballot, you're good for a little bit longer. Yes, yes. I'm curious, what percent of people actually request a paper ballot in this day and age? Oh, gosh. In our last election, it was very low. I want to say under 10%. I don't have the exact figures, but it was low. I do want to point out, though, that in our last 2017 elections, I was very happy to see that we had the largest turnout, voter turnout, since the elections went online in 2009. We had about 20,000 people vote. Okay.  So just brief history, prior to the 2009 elections, before they went online, we had about 40,000 voters participate. When the elections went online in 2009, there was a major drop. And I think that had a lot to do with people getting used to the technology and so forth. So the voter participation went down to 10,000 in 2009. And over the years, as people are getting more familiar with it, it's been building. So like I said in our last one, 2017, we were up to 20,000. Well, how do people even know that these elections exist besides watching our wonderful ThinkTek show? How do people know that they could be on the board or that these are the candidates or how to vote?  Well, we do have candidate profiles on our website. So once you register, and the application is very simple. It's basically your name, your address, some contact information. You have the option to attach a photo so people can put a face to the name. And you also have an option of just writing a brief synopsis of your background or why you'd like to run. And we post all of that online for people to see. And how do you get the news out? Is it an advertiser? You bring up a very, very good point. This system has been around since 1973 for over 40 years. And so many people don't know that it exists. I wish I had the budget where I could do primetime commercials during the evening news. I don't. So with what resources we do have, we try to do the best to get the word out. So that's using our social media. We also just old-fashioned boots to the ground. We go on into the community. We do community outreach. We do presentations. Actually, I have a team right now as we speak. They're out at Leeward Community College so informing students, trying to get people signed up. So yeah, just getting out into the community. We do our best. And maybe it's for people who watch O-Lelo, people who care about a lot of stuff, they do. And a lot of people watch O-Lelo. People tell me, oh, I saw you on O-Lelo. And I said, was I being interviewed? Was I interviewing someone? Or narrow it down a little bit? Because I'm on TV, a fair amount. But the top five shows, for example, in Think Tech, move over to O-Lelo. The neighborhood boards, the huge majority of them are actually on O-Lelo. Correct. And so people can see, I don't know if they can go back in time, but they probably can to some degree, and find out what happened at their neighborhood boards, or to find out what are topics at other neighborhood boards that maybe would be germane for their neighborhood. And I enjoy watching those as well to see how their boards are. For example, I went in person to Waikiki's last week and they applauded after every speaker came up, after every firefighter and city councilor. I thought it was a nice touch. My board does not do that. And as a full disclaimer, I am on Neighborhood Board 5, which is Kapahulu, Diamondhead, Waikiki. And we've got 15 members there. And I think like every community, these are pretty passionately dedicated people to their neighborhoods and concerned with the small kind stuff, really, because that's what happens in these neighborhood boards. Now, have you served on a board yourself and you became the executive secretary of the Neighborhood Board office? Yes. I was briefly a member of the downtown Chinatown Neighborhood Board number 13 from 2011 to 2013. I really loved that experience. But beyond that, I think the first neighborhood board I ever attended was back in 1999. I was working for the state senate at the time, so just to go as representative. But I can say from that very first meeting I went to in 99, I fell in love with the system. I thought it was wonderful. Just in one place, on that one evening, you had so many representatives, your officials, you could talk to face-to-face. Tell people who may not be familiar with this. Sure. Who comes to these neighborhood board meetings? Okay, so regularly you will have representatives from the police department, fire department, board of water supply, usually a governor's representative, a mayor's representative, and also your city council member, state representative, state senators. And if there are any big issues that are going on in your community where government agencies are involved, like say the Department of Transportation Services, they'll usually be in attendance to give updates as well. So it's a great place where the community, in one place you can have everybody in one room. These meetings are recorded, if not by video, via minute, so it's transparent and on the record. It's really a great system. Yeah, it is a great system.  It's just there just to have people griping and it doesn't really go anywhere. What would you say to that? I would invite people with those opinions to actually watch the neighborhood boards and you'll find that they actually are very relevant and they actually do do a lot. Now, it's very important to note that, you know, per the city charter, these boards are primarily an advisory board, you know, with no quote-unquote official approving authority. However, it is a fact that many of our city agencies rely on the advice of the neighborhood boards in implementing policy or, you know, projects. One good example are park closures. You know, all of our communities have parks. Certain communities unfortunately have had issues with vandalism and illicit activities. So what certain communities are choosing to do is to close their parks at night for certain hours so that HPD can legally enforce. Now, in order for these park closures to happen, it's part of the parks process to have this vetted by the neighborhood board. So I would say the neighborhood board is entirely relevant in these types of situations. And I think it's important to note that we can have neighborhood boards joining together on different topics. So there might be a permitted interaction group or there might be a, like, the al-awai golf course, you know, the top golf issue, that we have three areas that are impacted, which is my, mine, Waikiki, and Mo'ilili. So we can come together and talk about these things, or maybe if they're going to do this al-awai watershed, it would also impact all of those, and Manolo as well. Manolo, Pololo. Polo and others. So we can come together on these, and I would love to see more of that as time goes by, actually. And that's one thing I've been very happy to see during my time here. I think another good success story that you are aware about is the Moped Noise Bill, which started with the McCulley neighborhood board. And, you know, and this was going on for years about the unregulated Moped Noise, and it was a new sense to the community. So they ended up networking with boards all over the island coming together. And as a result, we have a bill that was not only passed but signed by Governor Ige that has become law. And again, this all started at the neighborhood board grassroots level. And it is a grassroots level. It's where people... There is no perfect system, right? This is where people come, and sometimes one of the representatives might be absent. Usually in mind they're always there, or their representative is there to listen to concerns, to write them down, and to get back to people for the huge majority. Or if we have a concern, they will get back to us, which I really appreciate.  And I think if we look at our city council today and a lot of our legislators, including our mayor, started on the neighborhood board as representatives. Am I... I don't know, 4% or...? Yeah, I'm not sure about the percentage, but you are absolutely correct. And I think that just goes to show that what the neighborhood boards represent. I mean, it's really the eyes and ears of the community. It's the pulse of the community. And in these meetings, not only do you get to know about who your elected officials are, but you also become educated as to the actual structure and process of government, which for anyone who wants to effectuate change, it's necessary to know the structure and process. And it's not just a bottom up, but it's a top down too because our representatives will come and they'll tell us, I'm working on this bill in the legislature, or if you want to submit a bill, here's the deadline for this. So the communication is flowing both ways in this. And when the police come and they say how many people they cited for noise violations, which is not enough, I'm in my humble opinion, but you mentioned noise in two weeks' time, just as a preview, I hope to have the quieter Oahu people on you who will discuss that. But the fire department comes and says how many structures burned and they have tips on, don't do this or do that, don't overload your circuit breaker type things. So we get a lot of information there as well. And some meetings are really well attended and others not as well attended, depending on the topic of the day. So you've got a wonderful website, I have to say, and people can go to it and how do they get to your website before we take a break so in case they want to take a break while we're out. Sure. Please visit us, www.hanolulu.gov. Or they could just go to www.hanolulu.gov and then navigate down through, it's actually the office of the mayor and then it's under that tab, office of the mayor and then they've got to toggle over and down. Or you can just google neighborhood commission office, Honolulu, and that'll take you right there. Yeah, there are many paths to that. So we've been around for 40 years you said or almost 40 or maybe more. A little bit over, started in 73. 73, so it's approaching quite a while that we've got here and I think that, so we've got about 450 people I think elected to these boards. 437. 437, some are more competitive than others. Some have some open seats available, others you've got a whole bunch of people wanting to be on the board. And it's interesting just to see the different levels of passion and decorum that happens. But I think by and large people are respectful of each other and we have some really great materials that I will come out with in a minute here. So some best practices that people can follow. So when they go to the neighborhood board they'll know kind of what's going on there because not everyone is familiar with parliamentary procedure or how things are even organized. So it's always a very short time that we have on the show but we will be taking a very short break here and Winston Welch is out and about live streaming network series. And we are talking today with Sean Hamamoto from the neighborhood commission office and we'll be back in a minute to talk more about the upcoming elections for neighborhood boards. And it is all neighborhood boards. So if you're on the board or you want to be on the board it doesn't matter. You've got to reapply right now. You have about three weeks to do it and get it in. So we'll be back in a minute. Thank you. Aloha. I'm Wendy Lo and I'm coming to you every other Tuesday at two o'clock live from Think Tech Hawaii and on our show we talk about taking your health back and what does that mean? 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Actually it's quite unique you know in doing some research well obviously this neighborhood board system we are the only county in the state of Hawaii that has such a system and actually even in looking at the mainland I found less than a handful of similar types systems so I think we're actually very lucky to have such a system I can tell you some other countries have even contacted us inquiring about our system just last year we had municipality in Canada contact us to see about how we do things in terms of neighborhood boards we actually had an intern from the Ukraine last year who specifically requested to visit our neighborhood board system because as you know the Ukraine they're going through some political transformation and she thought that it was so great that we had a system where the public can have a voice so she wanted to take that idea back to the Ukraine and it is great because you know if we don't have this the next stop is having to go down to the city council hearing on whatever committee it is and you have to find that small thing and they're dealing with a big bill rather than considering a lot of different opinions before that bill even gets written so by that time it's kind of a little bit late so our system is very good in having this I didn't realize that it was so rare but I know talking with my friends on the neighbor islands they don't have this and so you think about a county like Hawaii and I don't know how many neighborhood how many county commissioners there are but let's say they have 10 you know that's just 10 voices for you know half a million people or whatever it is so we are lucky to have a lot of people who maybe will champion a cause for us on the neighborhood board they might come and they might be concerned with noise or light pollution or traffic safety or getting even a bus stop talking with the DTS people about saying it doesn't make sense there it makes more sense here and those little things that only a local would know and that's why I do love the neighborhood board system and it really just goes towards improving our data quality of life and it does and things are slow sometimes and it's not with the neighborhood commission you have a hard working staff of how many people all together we got about 13 we cover the whole island and you guys have to go out to these 33 neighborhood boards once a month mostly you got a lot of young people I know but you have some cocooners in there too so they're able to offer their wisdom and experience and I know that young people are just probably their heads pop off by the end of the night thinking oh my goodness so let's go to our next slide which is the neighborhood board elections some facts on this so who can vote you got to be 18 by February 15th you got to and you can be a legal resident alien so you don't have to be a citizen correct very inclusive system very inclusive system so you can just go to Honolulu Got Dove slash NCO and see which district and sub district you're a member of so mine I think mine has three others have five or more depending on what it is so the elections will begin the 26th of April and end the 17th of May you'll be giving out voting pass codes or you can request paper as Sean has already said oh so people could actually go down to your headquarters at Kapalama Hall or Kapole Hall and vote there if they didn't have a computer in addition we are working with the state libraries just so that as we did in the last election so you could go to any state library and use their computer and that's a voting station too so we do really want to accommodate as many people and we are sensitive to the fact that not everybody may have a computer or access so we're very happy and thankful for the state libraries just for supporting us I wonder if we couldn't get the yes the library is a great resource as we often forget about I wonder if we could get it put in the phone book you know in front of the tsunami guys and that sort of thing just like put in this but they already have that for voter registration but a lot of people might ask why don't we have it at the same time at the same time as the state and county elections that happened you know you bring up a good point so that's something that we've discussed quite thoroughly at the commission level there's two schools of thoughts we actually did approach the state I know previously they've done that and I just think from a logistic standpoint the state was hesitant because if you think about the ballot we have four hundred and how and the neighborhood board districts don't match up perfectly with the state district boundaries it could be a nightmare it would be a nightmare so there's that but the one thing I look at as a positive I mean to me there's positives and negative but by the neighborhood boards having their elections on odd number years that's the only show in town they get all the attention it's just a matter of people and especially our office trying to bring it to people's attention have you thought about sending out postcards is stare off one side and go back on the other and say okay for candidate profiles you have to go online but send back this postcard with your checked mark and your signature actually let me dovetail this until my next point so we have been thinking of ways to make registration easier and so forth so actually using technology what I'm very happy about and excited about is for the first time people can now register to be a candidate via their smartphone we set up a texting platform where people can register smartphone or tablet people all they have to do is to text GoLNCO that's G-O-N-C-O into 9-5-5-7-7 and of course standard text rates will apply but basically if you opt into this text platform you'll get a link immediately that takes you right to our website and you can actually register as a candidate right from your phone it'll take a few minutes so very attractive especially for millennials that are used to dealing with everything on the phone yes GoLNCO to 9-5-5-7-7 9-5-5-7-7 ok so we got a lot of resources on the page and we're just going to have time to go through these very quickly but for our next slide it's not a slide but this is a snapshot of your website here so over on the left you have information about the neighborhood commission office on the upper left then this is about neighborhood boards and the resources they have so there's a member guidebook you guys have a big informational system you collect everyone together in the memorial hall and tell them this is what you have to do you have to sign up for sunshine training videos and sign the form and take the Pledge of Allegiance and swear to uphold the constitution of the United States and the state of Hawaii there's a lot of really great member graphics in there which I don't know that I had seen before and I just wanted to touch on a couple of those but the next slide has about neighborhood boards on there and where you can go to get maybe the next one after that we've got some maybe it didn't make it up there but yes that one thank you so you can go on there and find out agendas minutes board schedules and you can sign up to get them there so if you're on a borderline you could get two or three if you want you could get everybody's agendas and minutes there's all kinds of resources on that page you can see when it's broadcast on Olelo your boundary districts and all of that also very important board contact information how to get in touch with your board members okay we have board chairs so they're required to leave one type of contact information okay so either via email or phone you can contact your board representatives and talk to them directly about your concerns okay and we've also so it's just the board chair members not the individuals actually no the whole board the whole board is there okay so you can email me on there if you don't want to email me at Think Tech Hawaii we've got some really great infographics there which I think should be just for basic people for any board members be respectful of every law be respectful of who comes before the board participate wait to be recognized keep informed refrain from side conversations you know write resolutions for yourself call for the question when you believe enough discussion has gone through these meetings happen very fast they're like two hours they're supposed to keep it under two and a half hours but people are fatiguing by a certain period of time being a chair of course anybody can be the chair who is on the board and the board the first order is to elect the chair yes elected by his or her peers his or her peers okay and yes and it's not an easy job because you have to be impartial you have to prepare your agenda know the rules you've got to be firm but gentle you've got to you've got to rule with some aloha there but if someone's just you know going on and on or acting without aloha you have the ability and the right and the obligation to kind of say yeah well they can expel them from the meeting you're going to be expelled from the meeting haven't had it happen and then this is of course the time for people to come in and talk their grievances their complaints their concerns their comments and their their thanks to different people as well and to and speak directly to their representatives so after every representative talks there's a chance for the board to talk and then for the members of the community to talk directly and to come up on the phone as well we have other best practices on there and then some best practices for if you're on the board and then finally we've got the last one on there because I think we're a little short on time which is the duties of the neighborhood assistants so the neighborhood assistants are these men and women that go out and they basically take all the minutes of the board they make sure that everything's set up they make sure they work with the chair and the members are filed on time in accordance with the state sunshine law they also advise the chair in running the meeting properly to follow Robert's rules parliamentary procedure so they do a lot and I'm very lucky that I have a great staff very committed to the mission I know they enjoy working with the boards well you know it's hard work but it's probably gratifying work because they're really just touching the pulse and he's great and just right on top of everything and just like you would want something to be really dedicated public servant and that's heartening to see that especially you know in an age when people they don't have to be like that but in our case I think we had Russell before that who was also very conscientious about that and then they have a lot of information when they go back and have to transcribe everything and make sure that everything is made in the election process as well so maybe in the future we can get some postcards where we can mail them back in and vote I don't know how we increase participation but if we're up to 20,000 now it wasn't 40 as we get the word out maybe we can figure out some way that your staff can do some electronic marketing or maybe I can come back again during the voting period to help remind people to go out and vote too I'd be happy to come back absolutely before our elections we will have you back here in all the boards I'll be happy because those do come up a lot and it's it's really great that you I think you probably enjoy your work a lot I love it yeah I love it and you got a great staff you are housed in Kapala Mahale Kapala Mahale so right by Costco makes it easy when you finish working and pop over there good stuff we are unfortunately out of time Sean but it's a delight to have you on the system of democracy in our city that is a template that we have learned today really for the rest of the country in the world at a time when people really need to say I don't like whatever or they should do something about you know who they is it's you so if you're watching you are they so when you say they should do something about they look in the mirror and point that finger and that is you and the way that you do that is you get out there you're nonprofit or you stand out with a sign and whatever it is you want to do but it is up to you to be a participant in this society as best as you can do and this is one way that you can do it unfortunately we are out of time here for this one so we have to wrap it up I am Winston Welch this is out and about on the think tech live streaming network series and we are delighted to have been talking with Sean Hamamoto who is the executive secretary of the Honolulu neighborhood commission office for more information or just google Honolulu neighborhood commission office so thanks for tuning in we welcome your feedback thanks especially to our broadcast engineer Robert McLean our floor manager Eric Kalander and to J. Piedell our executive producer who puts it all together I will see you every other Monday at 3 p.m. for more of out and about on think tech Hawaii aloha everyone


Next question is from She Beast, Sarah. Are there any discussions or topics you guys have had that you each completely disagree on or can't come to a collective conclusion on? You know, we used to disagree more at the beginning when we first started Mind Pump, but eventually I convinced everybody. We've all come around to become South. Now we all agree. A lot of times the disagreement, even back then I think, I remember I was probably the one who I tried to challenge South. There was a lot of times in this podcast early on where, and I still kind of do this, probably not as much, that I will challenge, argue, or debate. And it's less that I just disagree with what you're saying. I'm always trying to think about what everybody else is thinking. You're trying to voice other people's opinions out there. It's also a great way to learn and to really meet. Right. Yeah, exactly. I want to hear you elaborate.  And I know that I've trained hundreds of clients that I've had to go deeper on that subject or that have challenged that with me. And so I'll come out sometimes and challenge something that he's saying, not so much because I disagree, but because I know that there's a lot of people that are thinking in their head that they don't agree. And so I want him to explain deeper and us have more dialogue. The only thing, we probably challenge each other the most on things that actually don't make the podcast or more centered around the business. Yeah, totally. We don't really disagree over fitness and nutrition stuff.  It's what we find with any of our peers, too. So when we link up with a Joe DeFranco or a Ben Pacolski or a Ben Greenfield, people that have been doing this for decades, there's not a lot of stuff that we really disagree big time on. I mean, it's science, application, and then experience. And when you got all of that for that long, you all kind of come to the same conclusion. Now, maybe we have different strategies. We definitely have, when we talk a lot on the show, the way we coach somebody, maybe there's things that I focus more on, Justin focuses on something else Sal does that are a little bit different, but I don't think it's areas that we necessarily disagree with. Because this is something that we all practice. I think this is a very important practice as well. It's very valuable, because inevitably when you work with partners, you're going to disagree at some point on something. It's just the way it is. People are different, you're going to. But at the end of the day, when you decide to move forward, you all have to adopt it as if it was your own idea. This is very important. There are many business decisions that not all of us agreed on that didn't work out or that did work out or whatever. At the end of the day, if we're sitting here arguing or debating what's a better option and how we should invest this and what should we do here, and we all decide, okay, that's where we should go, we all accept it as our own idea. This is very important because it's not necessarily as important if the idea succeeds. It's not hard to adopt an idea that succeeds. That's really easy. I didn't come up with that idea, but I'm part of it. Now that it crushed, yay, I'm glad we did it, right? It's when an idea fails, which is going to happen too.  So it's very important that when we move forward or when anybody moves forward, if you move forward with a partner, that if they have an idea that they are totally for, you're not really sure about, but then they eventually convince you, now that you're moving forward, accept it, because if it fails, that's when the partnerships get stressed. What you don't want to be is in a situation where an idea fails and then your partner or whatever- There were piles on you. Yeah, oh, I knew it. I told you. That was supposed- because what is that going to do for the future? Well, that's going to prevent us from moving forward with strength and confidence and unity. It might either make you feel like you can't voice your ideas or it might make you feel like now you can't agree with the other person's ideas because they didn't agree with mine. So that's super, super important. So although we- and we do, we get in debates and stuff all the time. You're right, Adam. It's never on the podcast now because it doesn't have anything to do with what we would podcast about. But at the end of it, I mean, if we do something that I don't agree with but we're doing it, now it's my idea too. All right, let's do this. Usually the only ones it's like we're speculating because like you said, most of the things that we know really align well with everybody's backgrounds. Everybody has different experiences training people and finding different nutrition ways to coach and behaviors that they focus on. But as we all present them, it's funny how it all connects. All those dots align and then you get a deeper understanding of what that truth looks like. So we're always trying to find that. So even if somebody brings up an idea, it's like, well, what are the other things to consider with that idea? What are other angles there that I could kind of pick apart? But it's not really like a definitive, like, well, no, this is what it is because I don't know that most of the time that we do have a different opinion, it's that it's not fully formed yet. No, I think you have to... I'll speak for myself. I value us succeeding and I value our partnership more than I value being right. Oh, all of us on that page. And that's a great... That's a winning team. It's a mindset that will lead to success. If you value being right more than those things, you're screwed. There's no way you're going to possibly succeed. Well, it's really hard for the three of us to really disagree on something that we've each been doing for two decades. And again, it's science related, right? It's hard to have like a staunch difference of oh, I totally disagree with what Sal thinks about this. And there are that with the business because the business is so new, right? The business is ever evolving. And there's so many different avenues, right? So a lot of times off air, what you don't get to hear is, you know, us maybe arguing over like, no, I think we should put more of our focus here. No, I think we should put more. And the reason why we argue in debate is because there's uncertainty because none of us can say, I built this media fitness company before. And so it's speculation. We think that this will happen. And what's great about that is Sal hit it on the head, is that, you know, we all buy into whatever we agree on, no matter if it was something I was pushing against and saying, no, I disagree. Once we agree, I own it. And if it fails, I still own it. And it's not see Sal, you were wrong. It's like, you know, none of us knew we were all speculating. The best way to find out is to agree upon something, take action, move forward on it, find out if it's going to fail or if it was the right decision. If it was the wrong decision, we move and we pivot the other direction. And the faster that we can come to agreeance on that and accept that, the quicker that we can get to the right answer. And plus, you know, you want to embrace disagreements so long as you, again, you have a healthy partnership because, look, let's say you are very risky minded. You are aggressive. You want to take lots of chances. And you want to throw caution to the wind. Imagine if your partner was exactly the same way, right? We can think of the risks being amplified. What if you worked with a partner who was more cautious and conservative? Now, you might have a little bit more balance. Now, you might have a more balanced approach. So, I mean, if we were all exactly the same, if there were, you know, if my three partners were all exactly like me or if they were all like Justin or Adam or Doug, you probably would not find as much success. You would have less disagreement. You'd have no disagreement, but you'd find less success. So, you got to kind of embrace all of that. It's all part of the game. And I also think it's hard, and this is why partnerships, whether you're talking about marriage or business, usually fail. It requires everybody to understand that. It's very, very difficult.


My name is Lieutenant Colonel Kevin M. Ward. I am the commander of 2nd Battalion 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Rock Clashman 2 is an exercise that we're conducting with here in Slovenia at Poček. It began with a joint forceful entry where we conducted an airborne assault onto an airfield and seized our initial objectives. We then moved out here to the training area here in Poček, and since then we've been conducting platoon live fires and individual platoon sticks training. The overall objective of Rock Clashman is focused on platoon components, platoon maneuver and mastery of all of the training objectives at the platoon level. That is the primary focus, so ultimately we're seeking to maximize the ability of a platoon to maneuver, close with and destroy the enemy. So we're focused on all these platoon tasks, but ultimately the most important thing that we're learning here is how to work together as a team. There's been a lot of leader toner over in the summer. There's a lot of new paratroopers, and so we're coming here and there's no better environment than here right now during a live fire to learn how to work with each other as a team. And with every single exercise that we conduct, every single iteration that we conduct on this live fire, we're getting better at working as a team, as platoon teams. Well this is a great training area. It allows us a lot in terms of our ability to employ a diverse amount of weapon systems, a large area to maneuver around in. But most importantly, it allows us an opportunity to work with our Slovenian partners. So the 74th Infantry Regiment is out here right now and we're working side by side with them. They're assisting us in running this live fire range, providing safeties and oversight. And we're finding opportunities to train with them every day in terms of learning their tactics, learning how we can work with them as a partner. So that is the most important part of training out here in Poczek.


و أقولوا في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكريم المنزل و أقولوا قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأوله لقد كنت أردت عن إسلام لقد كنت أردت عن إسلام هل يمكنك أن أساعدني نشى هذا؟ ورسوله نبينا محمل وعلى آله وصحبه يجمعين. There is no doubt that seher in general, the general understanding of seher is that seher is disbelief. الله عز وجل told us in the Quran إنما نحن فيتنة فلا تكفر. We are only a trial, either two angels, so do not disbelief. And Allah عز وجل said ولقد علموا لما نشتراه ما له في الآخرة من خلاق. And they certainly know that the one who purchased this magic will not have any share in the Quran. However, there are a hadith in which seher is mentioned or there are circumstances in which the word seher could be used. And we have an evidence that this is not disbelief. For example, the hadith of Abdullah ibn Umar, the hadith narrated by Abu Khadi رحمه الله تعالى. The hadith of Abdullah ibn Umar, رضي الله عنهما. That the Prophet ﷺ said إنما من البياني لسحراء. Indeed, in some types of eloquence or some types of speech, there is magic. And likewise, if you were to give an example in English where a person would say it was a magical moment that happened like magic and so on. So there are some situations or some things that people might term magic linguistically, but they don't come under the seher, which is شرعاً, considered to be كفر, considered to be disbelief. So that could contain things like potions that are effectively drugs that could be called magic. Likewise, certain eloquence and speech and the ability to kind of captivate the people could also be called magic like the Prophet ﷺ called it. And there could be other things. And these are the types of seher which do not take a person outside of the religion of Islam. And the ruling of each one is dependent upon the evidences that Islam provides. So, for example, إنما من البياني لسحراء, the scholars say that the speech which people use to captivate people, if it is speech for good, then it's good. And if it is speech for bad, then it is bad.  And that can be called seher because of linguistically the effect that it has on people and the way that it captures people like the way that seher captures people إنما من البياني لسحراء. So that is the kind which doesn't take a person outside of Islam. It's not seher in the real sense of the word because it doesn't involve worshipping the shaitan. It doesn't involve disbelieving in الرحمن. It doesn't involve means of seeking nearness to other than Allah. However, it could still be termed magic in the language or it could still be considered to be something akin to magic or resembling magic. And that is the one which is not which is not كفر. As for the ruling of it, it takes each one has to be looked at individually and each one has to be looked at with its own evidences and given a ruling based on that. And the example is the statement of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم إنما من البياني لسحراء indeed in some forms of speech. There is magic and Allah knows best. If you have any questions you'd like to see answered as part of this series and you can email us at questions at amau.org.


Time now to talk soccer here on Highland and our League of Ireland chat this week We're talking to former fun harps goalkeeper and current cock called Southgate manager Gavin Cullen Gavin. Good to see you again Hi, I've seen how things and not too bad Gavin listen, we're gonna talk fun harps cup defeat at the hands of done doc during the week went to extra time Do you think it was a missed opportunity by the harps given everything that was going on around undocked this week and injuries and COVID and Not going well in the league. Maybe was it a missed opportunity for them Ah, yeah, certainly was like as I said done doc aren't the force that were a couple years ago harps are above them in the league They've got a few good results this season against them as well So after coming from behind with 10 man and getting a great result and on Friday night You'd expect and harps are going down there with their tails up and Sense the real opportunity to possibly get the semi-final and then maybe get the final this year and the FA cup so I'd say the way the game panned out and watch the game myself They've left disappointed losing an extra time, you know Yeah, how do you think the legs will be on Friday night? Cuz all I alluded to it after the game on on Tuesday that when you play five games, basically And a fortnight I can be telling on the legs and then you throw an extra time as well So how big a factor is that gonna be come Friday night against bowls Gavin? Oh, it will be surely Like I know bows played in Monday night as well But at bows are a lot of full-time players although harps have some full-time players that they're not all full-time There's a lot of working as well. So that is a big test You know going to the plate don't talk Tuesday night in the travel home and going to work on Wednesday morning Again and probably get the probably get one recovery session done in between not much training So he is right as a big test and harps squad at the minute since since they've lost a few during the summer Is light so it is so that he hasn't a real lot of options to make a lot of changes So it will be a big test and bows will be a slight refresher because of the full-time But at the same time and saying that they know that they can go on the road and take a one against some of the big sides Gavin so they're doing They certainly can although I can go 80 bows area on the season is probably the heaviest to feed this season Bows I think was 4-0 for a member Bows bows are capable of scoring goals of exciting attack on players And it will be a dangerous game for harps, but at the same time you never really harps out of getting a result anywhere at the minute More goals from Sean Boyd would be good. He's sort of on form at the minute, isn't he? He is he's fairly silenced his critics I know a lot of harps fans are fairly critical of them even coming back and signing for the club But he's only young lad He obviously can play a bit judging by what he's done the last week a couple of his goals were absolutely brilliant And and he's excited the crowd so hopefully they'll make it a wee run now and maybe show them what he can do Yeah, and of course on the other side of things and the bows then you've got Mr. Georgie Kelly who continues to go and score and spray so it doesn't and matches They grabbed a couple the last night against Erie so I did I got the goal that leveled things up for bows the last night against Erie Yeah, it was like the equalizing goal he scored was absolutely brilliant They take that ball in his chest and set the box under pressure and swivel and turn and strike the ball the way he did It shows a man on form. He's been brilliant this season I think he's for following all his potential. We all sort of knew he had it over the years Come on from Deri. He was a great number nine good striker back the goal striker Again got his move to UCD then Dundock where he never really came to the fore Whereas now at Bows with the run and the way they play at Sutsum and they start to score a lot of goals He's been the best striker in the league this year No doubt And I'm sure the rumors are going about it the minute about them going to Deri next season Looks good and it would be nice to see that happening to be honest Yeah, it's certainly in fine form, but of course all sorts of rumors about him coming back to there I see Michael Doffish link with Deri as well. Yeah, the two of them are heavily linked and I even heard yesterday That that's their shorted So, um, I don't know if Patrick Michael any going back to it's a very exciting times at Deri at the minute, you know Yeah, what about Deri this weekend long for town? Would be a game that you would expect Deri to one given they've got that home advantage against the bottom side Yeah, you would Deri have been Nothing sort of brilliant since Roy Higgins took it over same squad of players. Um, just there's an energy about them There's a confidence about them and That to take it up to the top four in the league from where they were and we discussed it ourselves Like I never seen them Finishing above harps at that stage of the season when before Roy took over So it's it's a credit to him and his staff the way they've turned things around and at the minute They're a match for anybody and I would fully expect them to take a three points there Yeah, uh deri currently sitting look just looking at the table. They're what? I have 39 points on the top two have 56 and 50. So there's an 11 point gap to the top two there for deri um They may close that before the end of the season But do you think if they were to add the likes of georgie killie and michael duffy at 11 12 point gap to The top can be closed next year. Yeah, look, there's I suppose a lot A lot of been said with fellow bird already and the sale of his business and the investment to deri at the minute. So There's talk that they want to want a league within the next three years I fully expect them to the players have been linked with and the and the possible finance at their disposal That they'll probably be looking to go and give the league a go next season The players you're talking about there will would improve any side Um adding the fact that they are local as well No, it does it does help a little bit. So look it is exciting times and and if deri get back to where they They should be as a as a football city and a club look, it'll be only great for the area and general up here, you know Yeah, well the current side that's leading the way in the league other defending champion shamrock rovers They're taking on some patricks athletic this weekend. So it's the top two doing battle here Gavin is the gap going to stay at six points Is rovers going to go nine ahead or are simpats going to be able to pull it back to three? Where's this one going to go? Good question. I think I think a one or a draw for rovers and and you're probably looking at them going on Furnishing them on in the league I think if some simpats have to go all out for the three points if they do And they have title aspirations then it could could be an instance running But as I said all season and I don't see it any different I can't see past rovers one on this league this year And I think they will do whatever takes to get to get the league title and Waterford against droughty and aides this is the game that I'm sure the harps management and supporters Will be keeping a very close eye on because harps are stuck in between the two in the seventh position Harps four behind droughty And they are four ahead of waterford So I would say an outcome of this year the spoils and that one would keep Everybody involved with fun harps happy. So they would probably would yeah It probably would or even a draw out of actually to keep waterford down But drought I've been a bit of a free fall recently So like they could be caught up on in this at the minute and waterford have along with harps have put Two great runs together Which you would have wrote waterford off a few months ago. They've been very good and look look a good side now As of harps, you know, and that's brought done dark right in the equation Which it's hard to believe at the start of the season nobody would have guessed that But they're they're in real danger of the playoff position at the minute as well. Do we think so? Yeah, it was listening to asian langan on his podcast this league of island podcast He was talking to fun harps player shone body and he asked the question He's looking up. He's looking down and shone shone would answer it in such a way that they take Each match as it goes as it's hands out if there is an opportunity to look up that they will We're which way do you think they're looking? Gavin? With with all in charge, I think they're always looking down That's been drummed in them. But look, I think Generally if harps stay up, it's an achievement most seasons every on the season I thought they had an opportunity to push on Which they obviously went in the run of poor results in midseason and sort of derailed them a bit But look, you would like to say yes, let's let's finish in the top six or whatever But I think I've pushed him to show On harps stay up by a point at the end of the season. I think I think it's job done again Yeah, two other teams playing the McNidorial Park Dundalk against Slaggo Rovers this coming weekend as well Gavin Dundalk's focus, I'm sure, is going to be from a European perspective Won the cup again. That's what they need to do if they are going to achieve that But I also need a couple of ones in the league too, so they do They do surely. They obviously have to stay in the league Like it doesn't fathomable for them and the budgets and the money's involved That they could even be near relegation But they are They obviously have a chance in the cup they're now in the semi-final And they probably are a match for anybody on the day, but Like if the worst case scenario and they do end up on a playoff I'd say they would be still too strong for them in the first division But it would be it would be on an a-phase and it would be a poorer season for Dundalk if it ended up like that Yeah, I know we were talking about rumors earlier in the piece about players going to Dary's city There's also rumors that the peak six group that won Dundalk may be selling up this year Is that is that a good thing or a bad thing or are they looking at their investment now and Going to themselves. Why did we bother getting involved in this? I would say you're possibly right for that statement. Yeah, there's there's rumors this week that there's a stat sports Aaron talks with with taking over Dundalk So look, I suppose it's always good when there's when there's money or anything invested in the league of Ireland and clubs But there's always that danger to you when when these investors are people that sort of They get fed up or they they don't see no returns Which they're probably never is in the league of Ireland And then they leave what what ship did they leave the club on no and Dundalk haven't really improved facilities or Steady or stuff like that. So there's a danger of that as well I know there's a few a few clubs over the years that have had investment and the investment poll out in the clubs Struggled and went bust at times. So there is a danger of that But like hopefully they do get new investors or new owners and they do push the club on with the With the right to focus within the club, you know Finally then just back to the harps obviously on the road Is the game on friday night a fixture that fun harps are capable of one in Gavin? Um, yeah Oh, yeah, I think the harps are capable of turning over anybody in the league this season now At the element Bose and the form the underscore three against Darryl all night to forward on fire They're well organized good side and they're obviously pushing for Europe as well So it's a tough ask and as I say if you asked harps now they would take a point because of the games they've had and all But you never seen ever like refereeing decisions No, but a lot whatever and they could beat them But I would say I would safely say both are going on their favorites and if harps get anything anything out of the game We'll be happy. Yeah, okay. Listen Gavin good to talk to you as always and we'll hope we get a good result for harps That's coming friday night. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks very much. Good man


Morning everybody. We're in Davidson, Saskatchewan, Western Canada. We're headed home today. We're about eight hours from our yard a couple hours after that. It'll be home Which means I'll be home this evening Probably home for a couple days after that. So I want to be home a little earlier, but It is what it is. What you gonna do? Let's go take a look at the load and make sure it's still there Wintery morning out here. My tarps are still there.  Nice Anybody want any Doritos? I Think this guy might have a few bags with him. See if the trailer is still connected. I have checked it Just double-check it yank on the trailer brake just a little bit. Oh, yeah I am connected. Definitely connected trailer is not gonna fall off trailer brakes have engaged Trailer brakes have disengaged. I'm gonna go this way a little bit so I can see my my tires are turning since it's cold I'll make sure your brakes haven't seized or frozen up. Sorry That's a little bit make sure all my trailer tires are turning and they are In wintertime after a long day of driving your brakes can be a little warm and have condensation on them when you park And if you pull your trailer brakes too soon that condensation all freezes and it actually Freezes your brakes to the drum happens if you don't notice it one of your axles or one of your wheels could be frozen and Dragging on the pavement which creates a big flat spot on the tires And then not only or is it being hard on the trailer, but you'll probably have to replace those tires too, and that's you can get expensive We're just turning on to highway 11 here. We're gonna turn right and we're gonna go down south towards Regina and then west pardon me east It's too early East towards home sweet home Manitoba southern Manitoba The best part of Manitoba We're probably with 10 minutes away from the flying J Balgoni. I don't think we're gonna stop there today though So I had my coffee this morning, right? I don't quite need one just yet. I'm feeling great today though It's been a good day. This is the refinery Familiar Regina refinery Okay, oh so you want to turn okay, that's what your signals at least he's using this turn signal So I know what he's doing right? I know what you're doing Excuse me turn signals are amazing invention so many people have not discovered them yet We need to have like a a Turn signal awareness day be like a holiday where we celebrate the use of turn signals Great like Christmas. Maybe then people will use them properly like that last guy did About six hours and we'll be Be at the yard then so that will bring us to about six o'clock 6 p.m. I Wanted to be home before Brit got back from work. She works till 4 30 today, so that didn't happen At least I get the evening at home today two full days and most of Saturday So there are some home time videos coming I guess Heads up whenever I I don't give you guys a heads up There's always like one or two people in the comment section you've been at home forever get back to trucking I'm not allowed to have home time apparently according to some people I'm actually very lucky because Where I live is right dead center in the middle of most of my routes So I get to stop by home quite often So I'm always going right past home back and forth and back and forth That's sort of why Winnipeg and southern Manitoba is the trucking hub For the most part especially for Western Canada a lot of the freight moves through there And all we got to do is get the The people in charge of the road systems in Manitoba to understand this that they take those traffic lights down They've gotten quite a bit of snow out here in the past day or two. I missed that whole thing Wow, there wasn't this this film wasn't here on our way out west was it? We're in southeast to scratch one right now She went around Wolsey. I think We've got a little ways to go yet Or about an hour east of Regina It's that time of year again, though I have a feeling this year. There's gonna be a lot of snow with all the rain we've had this fall I think it's just gonna turn into snow and we're just gonna be buried under a thick blanket of snow all winter Which I'm fine with as long as we can keep it off the roads, you know Maybe it won't be as cold then you know if we get lots of snow Maybe we at least won't get the deep freeze, you know, what do they call it the polar vortex? They got to make a sound like the end of the world every winter when it comes comes down from the Hudson's Bay, right? They all act like oh my the world is ending look at how cold it's getting Yeah, they got just as cold last winter even colder the winter before I know it drives Brent crazy Drives are crazy how people freak out over winter every year or in summertime how everyone freaks over how hot it gets It happens every year Or in summertime how everyone freaks over how hot it gets and that's where we're at Got a little Editor helper here He's been very helpful very helpful poking my leg all the time whenever I make a mistake, which has been every two seconds Yep, thank you very much wiener Thank you very much. So the whole family's here except for Brett Brett's at work. That's why I'm getting my editing done We got the the golden boy The chevster Right We got the diesel the weasel the diesel weasel. Oh look at me. Hey guys.  Hi y'all. I'm going back to bed. All right, cool So Brits at work right now, I'm getting the rest of my editing done I just got to finish this clip and I'm all caught up all I've got to do I've edited Five vlogs today. So the last five vlogs over the last five days that you watched I edited right here just now So my videos are usually about a week behind That's just to give me time to get everything done because when I'm on the road I don't always have time to edit videos every night Sometimes you just got to get her done and get the freight delivered, right? Everybody wants their freight yesterday So we get that done and then I come home and then while Brett's at work I do this and I catch up It feels good right now. All I got to do is add this clip in there Which you're watching right now and go to add that and then I'm done. That's it And then I don't know what we're gonna do yesterday when I was walking the dogs at night out here I heard something moving around in the bush over there. It sounded big and Last time I was at home. I was doing laps around our yard just going for a little bit of a nature hike trying to get my Belly to go down a little bit, but I walked about six kilometers or five four four and a half miles just going around the property and I saw some droppings Over there that were not dog droppings that were not deer droppings that were not beaver droppings But they didn't look like bear droppings either or coyote or wolf dropping. I don't know what it was I Researched it a little bit, but I only want to spend so much time researching poop so Maybe if it's still there.   I don't that's enough talking about that.  I heard something big moving around out there I was standing right in front of the house right here Right here and the dogs were all perked up and looking at the bush over there, right diesel was Diesel was over here Chevy was over here They both had their ears just perked straight up and just hair standing up and looking at the bush over there And then I heard like something moving in there something bigger than a deer Seen a couple of deer walks through our yard this morning already And they don't make a lot of noise when they slowly saunter through the bush But this was like a something with it sounded like bear paws or something Hopefully not it could have just been my imagination, but the dogs heard heard it too So I'm gonna go out there and check see if I can see some footprints or anything See where it goes to and if it was a bear well We're gonna have to take care of that have to go track it down to find it before it tracks me down and finds me Or worse one of these guys Right Anyways, thanks for watching my vlogs guys. I appreciate it. I make new vlogs pretty much every day when I'm at home I don't always film But that's because I'm spending time with family and somebody's wanting to get hold of me right now I'm talking to you find people you guys are important too But yeah, I make a new video most times when I'm on the road other times we go exploring out in our woods when I'm at home But I appreciate it hit that thumbs up button if you thought the video was good You thought it was bad give it a thumbs down if you thought it was good share it with your friends So they can enjoy it too if you thought it was bad share it with your friends that they can see how bad it is too And we all win. All right, it's a win-win I'll see you guys tomorrow


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Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rose here bringing you another video from my lovely home office here in Jerusalem. For today's video I want to talk about another one of the useful Israeli websites that you should bookmark if you have just made aliyah or you're new to Israel or you're just figuring stuff out here as we all are at various stages of our aliyah process. This website is called Kamaze, as in Kamazeole, how much does this cost? So Kamaze is a useful website for looking at different plans, whether it's we're talking about cell phone plans or even newspaper subscriptions, as well as a bunch of other things I'll jump over to the site. I'm going to put the URL of course in the description, I'll also flash it up here on the screen so you guys can see it. So go on to it bookmark it and if you're thinking about changing your cell phone provider from time to time to get a better deal it's worth checking this site out. Book FYI before I just jump across to the website and that is that sometimes I say please subscribe to the YouTube channel and then I feel bad because the videos just range really all the way in topic from camcorder tech to general tech. So someone recommended to me subscribing was the personalized subscriptions option, it's actually the default so if you do subscribe you should be getting some sort of YouTube algorithm magic recommending you only the most relevant videos. Nevertheless if this is the type of content you're interested in videos about living in Israel every time I record one of these I add them to a living in Israel playlist. You can find that by searching in YouTube for it I'll also put a link in this description so every time you do a video like this intended to help people to figure out life in Israel I'm adding it to that playlist. So with that intro to the way let me jump over to view number two here my OBS. So this is the website Kamaze and you can see it's organized by tabs. We have cellular, internet, television, triple, telephone, some people still use a fixed line internet phone, some people still read newspapers that's newspapers and music. So let me actually put myself out of the view here we can jump down a little bit more so basically what you want to do is click into a category. So for instance if you're interested in cellular so you can click on the button here if it will refresh the page there we go. You can look at the subcategories for example Khabilot Cellular, Cellular Plans right cell phone plans. So you have here really the full list of providers Rami Levy do a phone service, We4G is actually a really really reasonably priced domestic phone service, Cellcom 012 hot etc etc. Now here's where you get to the good stuff so you can then it has a little functionality in which you can filter on price right so if you're just looking for I'm going to just make this a bit bigger so it's easier to see. You have here sort according to popularity, price sorry company and according to price. So if I do the price option I can either go low to high or high low so if you want the very cheapest phone plan in Israel according to Kamaze it's currently available with Rami Levy communications it's there specifically their 200 gig package and includes 200 gigs of data. This is a Glisha Mitayim Giga, Meshah Khabila is 24 months, Sikhot Lekhul betosaf et 500 minutes of this is called to outside of Israel international calls betosaf et for extra payment 500 minutes 500 calls to 43 international destinations probably countries for 15 shackles basically addition search charge per month right and so on and so forth I'm not going to go through every single package so let's just do one more because this is basically what the website does and then what you can do is jump over click on the button and you can actually directly it'll directly connect you to a customer service price and so they're probably I reckon I don't know this they're probably making some kind of a commission you can also just use it as a price comparison engine for instance I want to figure out Internet deals and Khabilot Sapaq with Tashteet Internet Bt Hashvaat Mechirim so prices for now recently they did mandates or they mandated that the traditional separation of Tashteet and Sapaq didn't have to be enforced anymore so you can now buy Tashteet and Sapaq from the same company and this is again a price comparison you can see who's offering a triple-c Ramon hot 012 019 etc etc etc then you can jump down and you can do as before you can search according to some parameters here according to the speed you need and and other things like that but if we just want to again search for Mechirim and find the very cheapest internet package probably sorted the wrong way yep you can find this hot package hot student package specifically which is 200 megabytes and the Sapaq here is hotnet etc etc so again I'm not going to go through every every single category because I think this probably makes the point clear it's basically a comparison website if you're looking for utilities such as internet home internet fixed line phone service etc and it's a useful website all these websites help and as I continue to come across new ones I will of course make more videos about them thank you guys for watching this video hope it was good and subscribe if you want to get more content from me here on YouTube thanks for watching


Today, we have a pretty big announcement here in Sino's office, the latest NAV admin supersedes NAV admin 218 slash 16. It means rating names are back, Boatson's mate, Gunner's mate, the mates and the rates. But before you run to outlook to change your signature line from PO2 back to YN2 or what have you, let's talk a little bit about what happened and what's still happening. The goal of enlisted rating modernization was, and still is, to give sailors more career flexibility, greater training opportunities and more choice in detailing. Removing rates was an effort to jumpstart this initiative, forcing sailors to think bigger than their rates, to view themselves as sailors and to consider all opportunities available to them. Now, while the change and how we address each other didn't actually change our work in any way, it was a distraction. On our mission and on the effort to modernize the personnel system, C&O believes the Navy is a learning organization that adapts fast. And he is no exception. Leadership learned from sailor feedback that the decision to remove rates was unnecessary and was becoming a distraction to the fleet. Restoring ratings was a course correction based on that feedback. Just as we learned and adapt to overcome challenges operationally, so do we administratively. So rates are back, end of story, right? Not exactly. All the other parts of the enlisted rating modernization are still happening. We will still be looking for ways to expand opportunity, improve training and advancement and with ratings back, expect some rating names to be changed to be more inclusive and more translatable to civilians. Now, as this process moves forward, the Navy will continue to evaluate feedback from all levels and will continue to implement course corrections such as this as necessary. The C&O's strategic guidance is called design specifically for that reason, recognizing that problems we face in our Navy are complex. So we must always be assessing ourselves and we must never be too rigid to implement rapid course corrections in response to these evaluations. So rates are back all as well, now you can get off Facebook and get back to work. Now as the enlisted rating modernization continues with ratings this time, please continue to provide your feedback and input. It makes a difference.


What's going on guys? It's your boy Noah Pescatelli and welcome to another video. This is a video I've been really needing to make for a while I do have some things to say that I think is very important and I would love for you guys to watch this all the way through if you have the Time I'm definitely spending you know the next I want to make this 10 minutes and under I don't want to make this too long for you guys because I really want to say something and I would really like you Guys to watch this through like I said if you don't have time I totally get it go out there keep grinding do your thing But if you guys do have the time if you have 10 minutes if I could just take it up and I'm say something over you know the past Five years I've been running this business kicking their vast TV and it's been great the journey throughout and growing and building and Meeting new people and inspiring others and just building the brand and learning throughout the way You know the process has just been great and there's been a lot of ups and downs right now You know it's kind of moderate I've been trying so hard to put it in the time of the effort with what I have in the time that I do have To put forth you know make sure I get all those three videos a week and get all that content on social media If you guys haven't followed me on Instagram be sure to go follow me. I kick in their vast TV I'll leave the link below as well Just been putting all that effort in to creating content for you guys But not only to create content for you guys to enjoy to entertain you but to inspire you I want you guys to Get something out of every single video that I post and just get I want you to walk away with something with every video I post I just I don't think yes is cool to entertain. I think that's awesome. Everyone is entertaining. I think that's great I think that's a really good thing throughout most of my videos. I really truly like 99% of my videos I want you guys to walk out with some type of value some type of information whether it's you know learning about fishing whether it's me inspiring you whether it's me telling you my journey and You guys, you know sucking some things in and you guys learning along the way from my mistakes Whatever it is whatever I'm talking about whatever if it motivates you whatever it is I want you guys to leave with some value and I want to supply you with a lot of value throughout these videos So let's go ahead and I want to do something real quick as you guys know Instagram I get a ton of DMs a day being in over a hundred a day now I've been trying to reply to all of them I've been trying so so so hard because I just got out of class guys because you know I just finished school everything went amazing, but that's for another video. I'll talk about that just went great So now I'm free now.  It is going to be unreal It's gonna be insane and I just really appreciate if you guys like left some comments and stuff that you guys want to see That gives me ideas not only does that give me ideas, but that makes my brain just expand and think of some badass content So go ahead and do that if you guys could that'd be great So let's go ahead. I want to share some stuff with you guys So like I said, I've been looking through some Instagram DMs I apologize for not replying to a lot of DMs previously like I said, I get so many It's just really really really tough for me to do that. I don't even text guys I'm being honest with you. I don't text. I have 4,000 as you can tell 4,000 unread text right there. I physically don't text I feel bad for that It's just I just feel like it takes so much of my day the fan comments and everything man Like I was reading some of the past couple of days, and they're just awesome So I want to show you guys some love and share some with you guys So let's go ahead and get that started. By the way, if you guys send me an Instagram comment Most of them I'm gonna try to post as many as I can like I said, I get hundreds of DMs a day I want to put as many like inspirational DMs all my story which I have in the past of the past two days I've put like 15 15 of my DMs and they're really inspirational I just like to share some with you guys and show you guys some love as well So you get started first off I want to start off with a buddy a buddy of mine on this is not an Instagram DM This is actually a text shout out to my buddy chance. He said I know I'm late But I saw your preview of your latest video is absolute best video on your YouTube bro Like I'm serious glad to have a friend that motivates me to put a hundred and fifty percent effort in everything that I do That is great, and I just think that's awesome You know that and I think this is a really good lesson for you guys to bring into your life and take value from as in who you hang around with and Positive people around you. I think it's just amazing because it makes you strive for greatness And I just wanted to share that with you. I thought that was awesome on big shout out to chance Let's go ahead hop into the DMs for you guys simple quick one from Emma and it says Hey, you know, I just wanted to say your last video is very inspirational to me simple as that Thank you so much for that DM. I actually showed that First off, I just want to say you're one of the coolest people I follow And you inspire me to do more bass fishing big shot to that Next one, you know, you have truly inspired me I've been watching your videos for about seven months now and through this seven months You have inspired me to fish more and get a good education and I have now joined my high school fishing team So I give all the things to you that is awesome. That that was a really good DM I really like deep down hit me cuz I was like man I see this person, you know watching me and you know He's driving for greatness and applying himself towards everything in life And I think that that was awesome that DM great I actually cropped these so I don't have your names on there where I would be calling all you guys by your names But that that DM was awesome whoever I'm right that here's one. Hey, no You're one of the most inspirational people in the world. Be the best you can will be my new motto And I don't want it to change keep up the great work and content Awesome as well that that's just amazing. I'd like that inspires me that you Like that's some people that inspire like you guys literally inspire me as well That's why I think it's just so amazing this one right here. I posted today I thought this was just the like all-in-all best DM. I've got in the past past couple of days You know, I just wanted to take the time to message you you have inspired me to do my best at everything that I do You know well around a person. I think that's awesome. I have watched your channel for a long time since you had your Jeep I used to hang around some bad kids and you inspire me to make my image better I get straight A's now. Thanks for all you do keep up the awesome videos come that DM right there was probably the best DM I've got and like that's these seriously guys mean a lot to me and all the comments You put on everything they just seriously like mean a lot to me and that one right there is just awesome You know to know I can inspire people like this, you know Help help people in this world and that's that's why I'm here and it's not nothing's about like this this YouTube thing And this business I've created it's not all about just the money and about that This and that that's not what it's about. It's about supplying you guys You know making relationships with you guys and I think this is awesome because you know me sharing these messages with you guys And to other fans, I think that's a great thing. You guys just support me so much So I just want to do this for you You know, I just wanted to say that you have inspired me to create a fishing club in my school Hopefully this thing will get big enough so we can fish tournaments. That is great. That is awesome That's actually videos I've done previously in the high school tournaments I thought that was really cool that he started his own high school club. This is from catching toad stevia actually have his name on there Thank you so much.  You can do it. You are my favorite youtuber because of this That was a great inspiration. You're one of the youtubers that taught me and helped me understand fishing things Simple as can be. You know, you make so awesome videos and devote yourself to fishing Yourself to fishing and are very inspirational. Thank you so much Think that is not it. You know, your last video has inspired me so much I don't know what I would do without that video You know to know that you live in my hometown is absolutely great and this makes me think I can be great at fishing also I love fishing. I want to explore more opportunities for fishing. You're a great example to me Thank you very much for helping me think that my dreams can be achieved That is that is just and by the way guys if you see like the question marks I don't know why but my phone lately has been doing this where I get to say a and then a question mark But it actually like stands for I I don't know why does that that's why I'm having such a hard time reading most of these You know, you're one of the best fishermen. I know and your last video is one of the best Man every time I go fishing. I'll watch you before I go. That is awesome as well. You're the best You can not get any better. I would love to go fishing with you keep grinding. That'd be awesome guys I really want to do something here hopefully in the near future where I just take out a lot of fans and You know, you guys can go fishing and I can show you want a video and if you guys having you know Social media I could help promote you. I think that would be just an awesome thing You know watching your videos are so inspirational.  That is an awesome comment That's from my Cody Jensen actually helps to save on me. Here's the Emirator Can I believe you liked my video big thanks my god, love your channel and your big role model to me hope To be as big as you someday keep fishing man That is for the Instagram comments if you guys could you know DM me if I don't get to it That doesn't mean I'm ignoring you guys It's literally I have a lot and you know It's hard to reply to this especially when I'm just doing so much throughout the day and all those comments right there Just truly inspirational and I just wanted to share the love with you guys Because you guys support me so much and I want to share some love towards you guys as well And these are just so inspirational like I'm touching you guys, but you guys are actually touching me as well That's why I think it's so awesome if you guys haven't checked out be the best one of my latest videos Go check it out now like after this video you need to go check it out That is like all on all my favorite video ever a video that really means a lot to me And it would mean a lot if you guys checked it out and all the comments on there are just insane and phenomenal and Really hit me one day. I was sitting here reading them in it. It's just it's just amazing guys And I want to share some love with these comments as well in this video and read some out to you that I thought Really inspirational and awesome. I just can't thank you guys enough like everything you guys do is just just pure It's just awesome. This one is from Tim. Um, Tim's actually been following me for years now I've actually got to meet him. I've asked per shops and like every time he comments or I see his name like I just You know, I remember him because you know, I met him a few times and He's always comedy on my stuff He's been a long turn a long time supporter for kicking the best TV that he's always supported me throughout You know the past four or five years and here's the comment that he wrote while keep it on No, my bro, give me you give me off my ass and spread positivity to all my co-workers You know, I'm having a hard day push yourself to be on top Go for some near hardcore to find some more spots to fish and try something different All I can say is thank you for all you have done for me I get shy when I see you in public But I still have the urge to come up and say hello keep on grinding spread positivity to the world But one day maybe we could get out on linear if you had time 110% all the way That was an amazing comment like Tim. Thank you so much for the support I know you're watching this video. Dude, you watch everything Literally from every post to every video and I really appreciate that comment man And hopefully dude, we could get on a near one day. I think that would be awesome This next one's a little depressing um From Christina Phillips and she said it made me cry and that just gave me like a warm feeling in my heart and I Thought I thought that comment just meant a lot to me. I wanted to share that with you guys This one's from Justin great video, brother been subbed for a long time. You have motivated me and inspired many people I know you have done it for me. Keep it up man. Very much appreciated this These commas are just awesome guys while only one word I can think of it inspired no other comment besides I want to do what you're doing. That is awesome. Isaiah. This these commas are just Just insane on this one's from Robert I love your videos You always have so much energy and so much information in your videos that make me want to go out and be better in tournaments Thank you for all your videos that have helped out a great deal. This one's from Lane Kennedy Transpiration I needed this video and it really helped push me to be a better person all around keep it up. That is awesome Guys, that's what I'm striving for right there. This video was awesome Quick question. Did you play any sports growing up play sport though? What sport did you play the longest and what position is that in that sport? I thought this was a cool question Just adding cuz I know a lot of you guys have asked me, you know, I played pretty much all sports when growing up I played pretty much everything to be honest with you If I could layer it down to one sport that I did play a lot and that I really enjoyed at the time when I thought You know, that was my passion toward and before I went to fishing. I'm his baseball You know, I think play baseball. Gosh, I've ever since T-ball, you know, ever since I was young four years old three years old and I played baseball all the way up until I Want to say not great. I can't I can't remember it's been so long. It's been it's been a while Positions I played was third base and also second base overall favorite position is definitely third But you know, I play baseball so much. I got kind of burnt out on it shot towards fishing found out It was my passion just 100% you know ran a fishing and built something that I love That is all the comments that I'm going to read out in this video But I wanted to make this video just because I want to show the love to you guys Like I want to do one of these every once in a while and just go comment on some of my stuff Go like some of my stuff. That really means a lot. You know all those messages I will save on my phone and just you know, if I'm ever having a bad day Not trying to say this in a crazy way, but I'm pretty mentally strong But if I'm ever having a bad day, you know, I can always whip these out And remember that I have you guys to support me along with whatever's going on in my life And that you guys are the best fans ever But overall guys, thank you guys so much for the support. I know this is just a straight, you know quiet Calm video, but this is kind of what I wanted it to be Just kind of like a sit-down Tied to deal with you guys and just show how much I really appreciate everyone who supports me And you know, it's just been awesome past five years with you guys And I just can't can't wait for the next couple of years and just to see where we have grown And see where we go and as a team and I just want you guys to be the best that you can be Everything in life. And I think it is so important I think it's so important that you guys just strive to be the best And we'll be the best team out there guys team ktbtb for life guys We're changing the world. We're really changing the world like all these comments really open my eyes and just see what These videos are really doing just means so much to you guys. Thank you so much for the support You down in my heart. I love each and every one of you guys. I'll try to have a fan meet up This break. I really think that's something I need to do. It's been a lot of time with you guys I think that'd be great if you guys want to see that smash that like button But thank you guys so much for the support. I love you guys so much. I'll catch you guys in the next video


Yeah, not surprised by this move at all. I honestly was surprised that he ended last year and kept his job after last year, but now it's tough. You haven't been able to hit at the quarterback position. You haven't been able to figure that out. I thought Baker Mayfield was going to be a good move for them. But I mean, I think he's bottom of the league right now in quarterback rating. He's not playing great. Ben McAdoo isn't helping him out much, calling the plays. So that's the job of the head coach. And I'm sure he'll find a good spot in college, but I don't necessarily think Matt Ruhl was cut out to be a great NFL coach. And he didn't get a lot of the pieces that he needed as well. I think this is the right move down there in Carolina. And the first thing you said was quarterback, because that's what Ruhl was supposed to be. I remember interviewing Matt Ruhl before he even became a quarterback's coach. He was at the draft in Nashville, and he was there supporting his players that were entering the draft. But that's why David Tepper brought him in.


I just got confirmation that my real estate sale for $345,000 is complete, which means it became reality, and I made $164,000 post-tax, which is a $250,000 pre-tax gain. Hello, my name is Johannes Bodlin. I recently started documenting my financial freedom journey on YouTube. I love math and I love finances, at least my finances. I'm a huge fan of passive income or income sources when managed properly can generate income while you sleep.  This particular story about these two apartments that I recently sold is a little bit emotional because these two apartments were part reason why I was able to leave Austria and fulfill or chase my dream to live in the United States. I'll try to stick to the numbers and don't involve too many emotional information, but yeah, let's get started. Since all the numbers are in euro, I will make sure that we have the exchange rate as well, so you have the dollar value in here on the video as well. So 10 years ago, I found two apartments in an apartment complex about 10 minutes away from where I grew up. As my first investment property, I chose two apartments in a very small town, each worth 80,000 euros. With lawyer fees and agent fees, it was roughly about 90,000 euros each. So my total investment was about 180,000 euros. I always want to say dollars, it's euros.  It never happened. I paid in cash, yeah. I grew up in an environment where I thought debt was bad and credit card is for people who don't have money and cash is king. I know it's hard to believe, but it is what it is. Anyways, let's jump back to the two apartments that I now own. The feeling when I signed the contract, knowing that my 180,000 euro will now generate me a monthly income of roughly 800 euros was phenomenal. I knew my money was just sitting in the bank account generating absolutely no money. And now putting it into this property or these two properties, I was now able to get 800 euros, roughly 800 euros each month. That's a 5.5% return on my investment pre-tax. So with me running my business out of Austria, I was able to deduct a lot of things like my phone bills, my internet, my car in general, a small room out of my apartment because that's where I had my office. This obviously reduced my tax burden and increased my income. So for the past 10 years for those two apartments, I received a monthly income of roughly 800 euros. And believe it or not, these two apartments were only vacant for two months out of 10 years. That's insane. And in those two months, I renovated both of the apartments to make sure they are up to date. And I always have good tenants in my apartments. Turned out to be the best decision ever because yeah, it was a brilliant, beautiful investment. So needless to say, this investment was awesome. So fast forward to 2014 when I moved to the US and studied acting and English. At that time, by the way, my English wasn't perfect, it's still not, but it got better over time. At that time, while I was studying, I was on a student visa, which means I wasn't allowed to work at all. I was not allowed to make any kind of money in the United States. I was well prepared for that because I knew on a student visa, I'm not allowed to work. So I have to make sure that I have passive income before I make the move. Again, I was well prepared at that point. I had five properties generating income for me that basically helped me pay my bills while studying. That way I was able to fully focus on my studies instead of worrying about money. Fast forward even further when I got my old one visa in 2017. And oh, one is a talent visa where you need a sponsor to sponsor you to be in the United States. So you need a special talent or you need something that a company needs. So they were willing to say, yeah, we need this guy or this girl and we're willing to pay for that. So after receiving my old one visa, I was able to or allowed to start businesses in the United States. And of course I was allowed to pay taxes taxes. Yeah, that's another reason why I sold my two apartments in Austria. Now when I explain why I sold them in this environment where we are where there's a lot of fun and like hindflation, apparently a stock market crash around the corner. Because I live in the United States now, Austria does not let me deduct anything. No phone bill because I don't have a phone there. No car because I don't have a car that I literally cannot deduct anything. Instead, they penalize me with a 9,000 euro income increase just because I don't live there and I don't spend money there. What does that mean? I basically just put $9,000 on my yearly income on top of it and I have to pay taxes on those additional $9,000. This can bring me into another tax bracket, which is bad because now I have to pay more taxes on money that I didn't even make. To say it one more time, I have to pay taxes on money that I didn't make. To be very specific, I have to pay taxes on 9,000 euros every year just because I don't live there. This is very frustrating when you look at it and you see your money melt away for absolutely no reason. Another reason why I'm selling these apartments is because when I lived in California, I also had to pay an additional 10% taxes on my worldwide income, meaning all the money that I generated from passive income from my real estate investment portfolio in Austria, I had to pay taxes there and then on top of that an additional 10% in California. Yeah, California is like, I want a piece of that. So I got penalized twice just because I moved to California. Austria was like, mm-mm, you don't live here. You make money here. We penalize you. California said, you live here in this beautiful estate. Cool. We penalize you. Give us more money. Now saying it out loud, that's painful. Do I have to give you more reasons why I sold these two apartments? I'll give you one more. Since I'm not in Austria, I need somebody there to take care of my properties. This can be very costly if you're not there and you need to fix something, you know, very quickly. Luckily, I have a smart, beautiful mom that helps me right now with the property management out there, but at the current situation, I just don't want her to have that burden on her shoulders. And on top of that, she wants to move to the States. So right now it's just the perfect timing for me to get rid of those two apartments because they don't serve me anymore. Now it became more work for me and it's costing me more than it's actually making. Does that make sense? To make it easier, I could use the money somewhere else and make more with it. So why should I hold on to something that's clearly not efficient anymore? With us being in this crazy sellers market, I wanted to take advantage of the situation and just put those two apartments up for sale. I thought it was a really good time to just see what people are willing to pay for my apartments because everybody's scared. Everybody wants to buy, buy, buy, buy, even though the prices go up in value to a point where people are like, that's way overpriced. People are still buying it. And I know what I'm talking about because I've been trying to purchase houses in California and within 17, 18 and 22 hours, houses sold for 25 to 30 percent over asking price after listing at 17 hours after they listed the house gone. And then I asked my agent, I was like, how much did it go for it? And he said 30 percent over asking price. What the house is worth? Anyways. Okay. Back to the story. As you can see, it's a very emotional, stressful topic. So let's jump back to my beautiful apartments in Austria. I put them up for sale with a solid price and I wanted to get a really good deal on it. And I did. So I did the math on this investment over the past 10 years and I was able to generate 7.8 percent every year for 10 years. And that's post tax, post tax. Beautiful. So what am I going to do with that money? So first of all, I'm going to bring all the money over into my US bank accounts and just hold it in cash. I'm still looking for a good deal in the real estate market, but currently I think it's not the best time. So I'll just hold on and just keep looking until I find the perfect fit for me. Since I'm a permanent resident of the United States now, I'm able to really focus on, you know, starting a real estate business or investment portfolio for myself here. I'm not starting a business, but just invest into real estate and basically start from scratch, sell everything in Austria and start from scratch over here and build my real estate portfolio. I'm super excited about that. Nevertheless, I'm a bit emotional because these two apartments were part reason why I was able to move to the United States and chase my dream or actually fulfill my dream to become a permanent resident in the United States. I'm extremely thankful that 10 years ago I found those two apartments. I got a really good deal on them. I was scared because it was my first investment property. I wasn't sure if I'm doing everything right. It turned out to be a great lesson for me. I made obviously small mistakes, but over the long run, it turned out to be a phenomenal investment. 7.8% post-tax is incredible. Yeah, I'm ready to say goodbye to those two apartments and reinvest the money in the US market now. If you're interested to see my first US property, make sure to subscribe. I will definitely keep you guys in the loop as soon as I found something, signed it and have the key in my hand. If you're still watching this video, thank you so much. I appreciate your time. Have a great day.