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The other part of Manregha was that we should use our people to build infrastructure. And the idea was to build India with dignity. So it was designed to protect our people. And in no way was it a dole or charity. I was shocked in the Lok Sabha when I heard the Prime Minister speak against Manregha. I was shocked in the Lok Sabha when I heard the Prime Minister speak against Manregha. And he called it a living monument of the failures of the UPA. of the UPA. Atheham paranya prathanapada kairyam ee rajyathu failure aya parajyapata uris dhammaanu Mahatma Gandhi Gramyana Toiluropa Padadhi yannatha idunno indian prathanamandri Narendra Modi prathanapada vajagam And he called it a drain on the extractor and a dole to poor people. India rajyathin de sambathikam aitulla gajanavin urla eettin prathanapada murajinu solitngun solitngun rasinai indian prathanamandri prathanapada vajagam And it made me realize that the prime minister actually had not understood the depth of namaz In the Mahatma Gandhi Gramyana Toiluropa Padadhi yithartha lettya nd athin de vyaptin athin de prasripom He had not understood that Manregha had forever transformed the Indian labour market. And he had not understood that Manregha was for millions and millions of Indian people The last resort and a huge protection And I was watching during Covid when thousands and thousands of people were left without work And Manregha saved them I was thinking about a solution In the most difficult situation of Covid In the days of the revolution For thousands and millions of people The biggest protection in their lives Was the great Mahatma Gandhi's work So I felt, of course The Prime Minister did not comment about Manregha then And he doesn't comment about Manregha anymore Because it became obvious That what he had called a monument of the failures of the UPA Was actually what protected India during Covid Another very important aspect of Manregha Is that it is a partnership It should be a partnership between the government Between the people and the panchayats And as I said Manregha has to evolve with the times Today with demonetization With the flawed GST Our economy is crippled So Manregha becomes even more important In providing protection to our people And a huge part of Manregha is listening to the people Who are involved in Manregha When one of the people In the direction of Manregha And moves forward There is nothing to do with Manregha The government should listen to the demand Of increasing the number of days of Manregha Thinking of 200 days of employment For the government It is the most important thing for the people Who are involved in Manregha It is the most important thing for the people Who are involved in Manregha And you are suggesting 400 rupees a day For the next 200 days 400 rupees per day You are suggesting more Expansion of Manregha program To include Paddy cultivation To increase the number of days To increase the number of days To increase the number of days To increase the number of days So as I said The idea of Manregha Has to evolve And it has to be linked to current prices It has to be linked to the current economic situation And I think We also have to think And particularly in the congress party We have to think about How to apply the principles of Manregha To the urban economy And the idea must be How do we ensure Dignity of labour to our people If it requires 400 rupees a day For our labour To work in a dignified manner Then that is what we should think about doing But it is important to realise That Manregha is Only one part of the solution It is like a shock absorber in a car It can protect You from shock But if the engine of the car doesn't work Then the shock absorber is useless And the engine is the broader economy The engine is the creation of jobs The engine requires harmony in society And these are some of the challenges that India is facing today And none of these challenges will be solved Through hatred and anger So we have to work unitedly To solve these problems We have to work together I would like to thank you once again For inviting me here And giving me the honour to speak to you And this is actually the work of building the nation You don't get credit for it You don't come on the front pages of newspapers You don't come on television But you are actually the builder of this nation Unfortunately, our friends in the media Would rather show other things on the media Than the actual work of building the nation And the most important thing is That our media representatives Are going to work together They prefer to talk about Cricket, about bollywood So thank you very much And all the best and please remember That we are here to support you in any way possible And to thank you for your support And the support that you have done For this struggle Thank you Dear friends, after 60 years We have to work together To give the name Rahulji And we have to reach here Neela Baby Mohamma is 15 years old Sarakutty is 19 years old Sarakutty is 22 years old


Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted. If he had asked, they would have said faster horses. So what we need, I think, many times is we need to have some foresight, some imagination. We cannot ask people and say, what do you want from television in the future? We can ask people, we get answers. But there's a few things that are not entirely obvious to everyone. And if we just make faster horses, we'll just have horses, but we really want a car. I think if we're looking in this direction, the future of television and of film is to send and to receive, not just to send. And there's this kind of trivial, obviously. Of course we want to receive, but how? How do we do this? I think the end is the important part. What do you make out of this? 2008, American television watches 11.5 hours per week. Internet 8.9, and today, 11.5 hours of television. 14.2 of internet. So has the internet taken away from the television audience? Not according to this, right? Because they're doing both at the same time, right? That's the answers, right? Obvious. Television matters just as much, but the internet is taken over as a secondary channel or sometimes a primary channel. They work hand in hand. It's not one or the other. So if we're following in this direction, we're basically seeing this. We're seeing complete convergence of television and the web and of push media and pull media. Convergence means that both belong together, but of course in a fragmented market that means we have to see where we put what. And clearly in five years we won't be talking about internet and television as separate entities. They'll be completely merged. Let's look at the real aspects of this. What does it mean? It means that we are becoming connectors, not just directors. It's a different role, different ways of looking at it. So in this context, let me introduce you to the teleweb, a television web. What does that mean? I mean, this green box we're all very familiar with, but of course now the teleweb means with the iPad, every magazine is a television station. I don't know if you played with the iPad, but that's basically what it does.  My grandmother can do it. Then we have the connected television. You will not be able to buy a television that's not connected to the internet in two or three years. Every single television will automatically connect to the internet. Change in television watching because of internet, quite interesting as I said before, same amount, 64%, some more, some less, but by and large not much of a change. So the real hope for television and of course for films also in the future is the convergence of the two. And that's what we're looking at. The TV generation and the net generation is completely different kind of user. One wants to switch off, right?  The television, the net people want to switch on, right? Because they're looking to connect with others. That's a whole different frame of mind. Today we have a multi-culture. We're saying, have you seen Robbie Williams' latest track with the tie overdub? Standard procedure for kids. Multi-culture, fragmented, sending and receiving. So there you could argue because of the power of social networks, Facebook could very well be the next BBC. There's one big difference here of course, right? Facebook does not have a license to broadcast anything. But Facebook is broadcasting us to each other. Facebook is already a broadcaster. So it's a micro-broadcaster. Imagine what would happen if Facebook gets a TV license. With one swoop that'd be as big as the ZTF and BBC and Australian television all thrown together.   All right, so there's a huge opportunity here. Social networks are the next broadcasters. And if you're currently on the broadcasting business or in the film production business, you won't get around these guys. That's your audience. That's the engagement that comes from there. Look at these numbers from the latest Morgan Stanley report. It's not just Facebook. It's QQ, Baidu, Cyworld, Mixi, Orkut, High Five and all the other stuff that people waste time with for good reason. Think about what it would do if you could think of Facebook TV. What is your role in this ecosystem? You're going to leave this job to Google or to Vodafone or to Facebook. There's a huge potential of collaboration with these companies to create television, film, on-demand content channels. You need to prepare now for total convergence. Again, look at your 13-year-old and you know what convergence looks like. You know what they do at the same time SMS, the mobile phone, the television, the computer, listening to music and whatever, smoking at the same time. Listen to and watch your kids. TV is push, web is pulled, so you have to mix them up together. Blend them. Use the best of both worlds. And of course, this is vastly different in different cultures and different countries. So one thing I cannot give you today is a recipe. I can give you a view. You have to cook your own recipe because all cultures, all countries are different. But please, reduce the time spent on making faster horses. Sometimes you have to do that. But let's look at cars. Let's look what's after the horse. And here's a short warning. These developments aren't linear. If you were unfortunate enough to go to business school, which I didn't, I went to music school. Then you learn that businesses grow like this, right? They go linearly. They have R.I. and all that stuff that you learned about that I only fairly touch on. So it's not linear. These kind of things are explosive or they're dead. One of the two. It's like this. It's a hockey stick. It's not gradual. So if you were hoping that you have time to catch up before the hockey stick takes off, you have to create the hockey stick. You don't have time to sit and say, let's watch this development. Because when it takes off, you're in the middle of it. So just to summarize, the social networks, it's about when you're out and about. It's not about when you're sitting in your office or when you're at your computer. It's when you're out and about. That is the crucial part of social networking. It's within your tribe. A tribe meaning, as Seth Gordon has defined it, about 150 people. In some cases, 500 or 1,000 by the limited number. Things happen in that tribe. You want to get into the tribe of every person who is interested in your movie or film production, your TV show, whatever it is, and you have to activate them. That's the goal. These things don't happen in the wild just because they've seen a link. It's all about the tribe. Which brings me to the next point. It's about people like me. I can't tell you how many people I've found on Twitter. And on Facebook and other places, and of course in real life, who I realized there were a lot like me by what they were saying. And I can see that by just scrolling down the last 50 tweets. Not being like me in the sense of a total sense, but just in terms of the mind. Thankfully, not the body. So people like me finding those, I mean that is the mission of what we're doing on the web. That's after all our culture. The right time, the right place, with transparency and the users in control always. Last point is people will give you money because they trust you. They will not give you money if you force them. They will give you money when, and that's never really been different, except that the web makes an extreme case.


between Hawaii think tech Hawaii on a beautiful Monday morning. It is breezy outside maybe 82 degrees. The tourists are coming back and they are being treated to paradise. Speaking of paradise my esteemed guest today is Brandon bills, marketing director for palette. Shelter my goodness. They have they are catering to the homeless and the very very poor people providing shelter for them. And my goodness, are they doing a great job. This is a for profit institution that is able to scale that is to multiply themselves. There's no site after another after another after another. And those of us who have been really regretting the number of homeless here in Hawaii. We're saying how in the world, and you do that. Well here is Brandon bills marketing director for palette shelter to tell us all about it. Thank you for joining us from 3000 miles away the wonders of electronic. Yeah, thank you for having me with a pleasure. Seattle has just about the same weather that we do right now so rare fix right there. Yeah, so Brandon. Most of us in Hawaii are really really concerned about the homeless problem. On the one hand we feel for the homeless on the other hand it is just not a pleasant experience to be around a lot of these people. And we have a lot of organizations out there who are providing shelter and otherwise trying to help the homeless. Well there we were just kind of shooing them from one site to another to another to another to another, and we found out that's not a very good solution. Finally, a lot of organizations have pitched in and begun to give their to these people who are just at their wits and and not very happy. Brandon, can you begin by telling us, well number one, why that title that I had trouble with. Sure. Then let's get into the meat of it. Great sounds great thank you Howard for for having me and it's a pleasure to meet everyone that's tuning in. Yeah, the first thing I want to acknowledge is you mentioned that the challenges that Hawaii is having with just the incredible unfortunate number of people who are living unhoused and the first thing I'll say is Hawaii is not alone. Right now, estimates are that there are more than half a million people across the entire US that lack housing and are living and housed. And that's really why palette shelter exists and that's why our company exists is because we have reached a humanitarian crisis, like that is in this country, where you can walk down the streets of most any major city and even you know in a lot of cases small cities as well and see people who are just living in conditions that are not fit for human habitation and that's why we created palette was to provide a rapid and dignified shelter solution for this population that desperately needs help And as you mentioned earlier we want to do it at scale because we don't have time people are living on the streets tonight, tomorrow night and every night until they have access to some form of shelter so you'd asked, you'd asked how the name palette came about. So as a dual meaning the first thing I'll dispel a myth that our shelters are made of wood pallets that is not true. The name palette actually comes from our first design was shipped flat on a wood shipping pallet so those wood pallets that everybody knows are our shelters and they fit on a wood shipping pallet. We've since evolved the design a little bit but they are still shipped on wooden shipping pallets. The other reason for the name palette is the word palette in addition to that wooden shipping container definition There's another definition that's lesser known, and that is a bed on which to raise someone. And at our company what that means is we provide the shelters to raise someone out of their current living conditions and on to something, something better not always literally but to raise them out of their current sense their current living situation and as I'll get into later in the slides. That is true in the field where we build these shelter villages but it's also true in our factory headquarters where we employ people who have experienced homelessness addiction and or the criminal justice system so pallet exists to lift people up. Whether you're living in one of our shelter villages or you're building them in our factory headquarters. So I'll, I brought some some slides and if that's okay with you Howard will queue those up and give you a you and your viewers a synopsis of what we're doing. Absolutely and that that figure of half a million people on house. I have heard that figure before and that is just horrendous you know we're supposed we're supposed to be the greatest nation on the face of the earth and this is really really not not acceptable. Yeah, we agree. Yeah, yeah. So please launch the slides here now. Yeah, so the first thing I'll say is for people at home that want to follow along. A lot of this information is on our website at pallet shelter.com and you can see a virtual tour or shelters if you wanted to get into it. But I'm going to take you through. First, the summary of what pallet is doing, what's making our work so successful the outcomes we're seeing for people that are living our shelter villages. And then I've actually brought some photos of some of these villages so that people can see what they look like. Another misperception we face is a lot of people think that our villages are you know strewn with garbage or whatever they're actually very well managed and kept clean so I'm going to show you some of those photos unless you kind of experienced them for yourself. So first thing I mentioned earlier, pallet is a company that employs people who have lived experience in homelessness or people who have lived on house. They've experienced the criminal justice system they've experienced addiction. The vast majority of our employees fit this group and we are very glad to have them from the moment we started pallet that was a core piece of our mission was to actually employ this population because we believe that the solution that we want to offer should come from the population that it's intended to serve and our shelters are sleeping cabins are actually designed by people who have experienced homelessness. And when I talk about the features in a little bit you'll see some of those things that that population has advised us to include. Let me move on though I also want to acknowledge that pallet exists in this ecosystem with two other sister companies so pallet is a social enterprise, all of our profits have to be reinvested into our mission. It's kind of like Washington states version of a b Corp, but then we also have these two sister organizations the first one is called weld Seattle weld is a nonprofit that helps people exiting the criminal justice system gain access to employment, employment is housing. It kind of eases that transition back into society. So we've got that experience at that sister company and then our other sister organization is called square peg construction, similar to pallet employees people coming out of the system people have experienced homelessness. But that's a for profit company here in Seattle, that's building affordable housing market rate housing for for Seattle. And it's important that you understand how these three groups work together and that's been key to pallets success is that we aren't just the manufacturer of shelters. We have this experience on the nonprofit services side and we have this experience with the construction side that has made us really successful at scaling what we're doing so that we can apply this thinking to every single community that invites us to to build a shelter village there. So with that, let's move on to the next slide, and we'll get into the shelters themselves. So here you see the shelter in its collapsed form. I'll show you what it looks like when it's fully built, but this is how they're shipped. So the whole goal behind these shelters is designed something that is scalable, dignified, and versatile so that you can build these villages, let them run for a year to three and then as the needs of the city changes, you can actually take these shelters back down and relocate them or you can store them flat in a warehouse or in a shipping container until they're needed again. That makes them very versatile very flexible and also makes them really cost effective to ship. So we're shipping our shelters all over the US, including Hawaii, and it makes the shipping costs much more affordable, compared to traditional construction. So I'm going to flip over to the next slide and we'll get into what's inside when the shelters are built so you can see here on this slide, an interior photo. So we have features like a folding bed so during the day the resident can fold up their bed against the wall they've got a little bit more floor room. We have shelving throughout so they've got some storage space because we all have things we bring with us. Every shelter is fully insulated, and then we have air conditioning heating, we have openable windows with screens we have obviously a front door that locks.  It has their own personal place to sleep, but it exists within a community setting so that you get the dual benefit of privacy. You have the network of your neighbors, and you have the onsite social services with onsite case management you have onsite bathrooms you have onsite meals. So we wanted to take and kind of combine the best of both congregate shelters, which give you that sense of community, but sometimes they don't have the dignity that residents want because it's a you know caught in a larger bed, or sorry in a larger space. And we wanted to combine that with traditional housing where everybody has their own space, but just in a smaller format. The last thing I'll say before we move on is that these are not meant to be a replacement for that permanent housing, these are meant to complement all of the strategies that your community is already employed to help people who are unhoused transition to stability. Again, there are so many people out there experiencing homelessness, our goal is to create one more menu option for people to choose if they are looking for a safe and dignified private space with onsite services. Any questions, Howard, before I move on to the next section.  Well, yes, I will because the shelters that we've created here in Hawaii, aside from yours, do not have air conditioning. They don't need any heating. You don't have smoke detectors co2 detectors fire extinguishers you you've got the whole shooting match there. That is really something and obviously it's very, very, very affordable. Yeah, yeah, remarkable. Yeah, thank you and that's a good point our shelters. They are priced to be very affordable so they come in at about, they started about $5,000 each, you know shipping and assembly add a little bit to that and that always varies based on where we're sending them to but our goal is to create a scalable solution because again as I mentioned earlier, the crisis has reached, you know, humanitarian crisis level proportions so I like to think about homelessness and our response to homeless this on this sliding scale or the spectrum where we could either send it to everybody, but how many penthouses could be afford to build, or we let everybody continue to live in tents and cardboard boxes and neither of those are a realistic solution so what is that median place in that spectrum, where you could help as many people as you can, the most affordably that you can, and still provide exactly what is needed from a safety and dignity perspective and that is what palette is palette provides scalable dignified sleeping that are transitional in nature. And maybe you'll get to this but I believe you charge $200 or $300 a month for the space, because a lot of these people, even though they're on the street, they have some funding. So we actually do not charge. And yeah, ultimately, the long answer to that question is palette does not manage its shelter villages so we build the shelter villages but then we always partner with a local, typically nonprofit management organization. They're thinking behind that is this group knows its neighbors and its residents who are unhoused much better than we do. We have some expertise through that nonprofit that we have. But at the end of the day we want to build the shelter villages and then let a local group come in and manage services. We don't charge, you know, anything for the ongoing operation of these shelters. We have one community that I know of that charges a nominal rate of, I want to say it's like 15 to $30 a month but then when the residents move out, they get that money back as a deposit on their first department So, yeah, it varies a little bit by site because of the differences in service managers but pallet does not does not charge for rent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, let's go back into the slides and we can move on to the next section. So, moving into the village format and I mentioned earlier we don't build these in isolation we always build them in a village format so that you have an onsite community room you have onsite case management. You have bathrooms, laundry. So you have everything that you need to get yourself, you know, whatever that is that you need to get to the next step. And there are three groups of people that we think this model is really successful for. First is obviously the individual that lives in that shelter. They have their own dignified space to sleep at night. And if you put yourselves in the shoes of somebody who is living unhoused. They're probably worried at night about their safety and their security because they're living in a tent that somebody could just slice open and steal their things. So you're not getting a really quality sleep at night and as you and I and your viewers know it's really hard to function if you don't have a good night to sleep. So with our shelters, every one of them has a locking door which is one of the most important pieces of our model so people have the security and dignity of their own space. It also helps them to be able to lock that door when they leave to access a job or access services so they know their things are safe and they know they have a place to come back to each night. So with our providers that manage our sites. This is a really successful model for them, because you can imagine if you are a case manager and you're trying to track down Joe, who tonight sleeps on a park bench on the east side of what the city is going to do, but then tomorrow night he goes to downtown Honolulu. How do you keep track of all of these people with our model service providers know exactly where Joe sleeps every night for continuity of services and ultimately more successful outcomes. And then the last group is of course the neighbors around where our shelter villages are built, because they are so cost effective. They have less money on the shelters and that leaves them more money for services which ultimately is the secret sauce. People need people they need case management. So that our model allows for more funding to go towards services and other aspects of the neighborhood. I've, I've shared here a map of where we've got some of these shelters built. So you can see in Hawaii, we are very grateful to have two sites, one on Maui, one on Oahu. Those have been operating for a little more than a year now, we have shelter villages in about one in five states. The majority of our work has been done up and down the west coast and Washington, Oregon, California. We're pushing further east, we're in discussions with a lot more cities right now and in the future. But to date we've created thousands of new shelter beds. Most of these have gone up in the past few years palates been around for about five years total. And we've really seen a lot of interest in our shelter villages, especially in the past past few years. And then for the last part of this presentation, I'll just share with you a couple glimpses of the shelter villages that we have. Again, these are all on our website at palletshelter.com if you want to take a deeper look. This was a village we built in. This one was early 2019 in Sonoma County. We engaged with Sonoma County in December 2018 they've reached out to us and say we've got this trail where people are living unhoused they've got tents they've got you know they're makeshift structures. In a matter of weeks, our team went in built these shelters. Each of our shelters can be assembled in about 30 minutes each so we're able to respond with speed and get people housed and sheltered right away. This site is about 60 individual sleeping cabins with a community room it's got a dog run medical tent bathrooms. That one's been around for for a while now and I believe. They've had some great successes already. I don't want to get this number wrong, but last time I checked I want to say they've had about 80 people moved through that shelter village, and probably about 50 of them have moved on to permanent living accommodation so we're really proud of that one. The next one I'm going to show you is a little bit of a newer site this one opened up in the past nine months this one's in San Jose, it's called Casitas de Esperanza. This one is built about 100 square foot shelters so they're a little bit bigger than the ones that have shown you so far. This site is built exclusively for families. So families can come here and move off the streets, just like our other villages you've got access to a community room on site case management that's going to help you move on to permanent housing after your stay there. Across all of our sites, the average stays about 60 to 90 days but we recognize that everybody's on their own timeline. Some people come in and they're ready for permanent housing. Other people need a little bit more time, ultimately the onsite service provider makes that call and you know when people move on and the individual is responsible for that that timeline. And the last site I'll show you this is one of our more interesting sites this one is actually painted. This is in Los Angeles this is called Alexandria Park. This is about 100 individual sleeping cabins. You can see that shot that photo in the middle bottom is an overhead drone photo showing you how they're all arranged. I really like the way they did this one because they've arranged the sleeping cabins such that nobody's door faces another door so when you open up your front door you don't look at this somebody else's private space again the goal here is dignity, safety, and they've arranged it in a way that kept it, feeling very private but you still exist in this neighborhood. And then I think that's all I brought from a shelter village photo standpoint. My last slide here. I'm going to share with you how or this has some videos that go deeper into each of these villages it talks a little bit about how pallets got started again this is all on our website at palletshelter.com. I know we have you know less than 10 minutes left and I want to save some time for questions that you might have. So I'll wrap it up here and again thank you for taking some time to hear me out and learn more about what pallets doing. Wow, that is really, really impressive. Brandon yeah. And first question is, people are there for some people could be there for as little as a week or two, and then be ready to move on. How do they transition I mean they've been on the street, presumably they have very, very little money, if any, how do they get into permanent housing what are some examples there. Yeah, good question. That's ultimately the goal is that everybody moves on to permanent housing our shelters are not meant to be a place that somebody lives for years at a time ideally it's temporary in nature. The way that that transition happens it's always led by the onsite service provider, so they're providing individual personalized attention to every resident because everybody's different just like you and I have different housing needs, people who are unhoused have different housing needs as well. And so many cities have great programs like housing vouchers or other resources. And the challenge sometimes is for these people who are unhoused to find an access them and navigate all these programs. Sometimes the sheer number of programs can be intimidating for people, especially if you don't have access to a cell phone or an internet connection. So these onsite service providers can connect residents with these resources because these service providers know these resources in their own community like the back of their hand. And that's ultimately again why we like to work with a local service provider, because they know those resources they know their residents and they can connect the two to get them on to permanent housing. Another big piece of that transition is, you know, people who are living unhoused have been living unhoused for a personal reason sometimes. So if there is somebody that is, you know, challenged with a substance use disorder, or if they're fleeing domestic abuse. And the service provider can help navigate the individual challenges that that person is having while they're staying in the shelter villages so that when you move on to permanent housing, they're ultimately more successful and that stay in permanent housing is more sustainable. So you know that brings something close to home I think for all of us during this year of COVID. None of us have been having a good time or maybe occasional good times but we've all had our struggles, and we are good solid middle class people living in good solid homes with lots of friends lots of safety net. And still, we have had a hard time. I think I don't speak just for myself I think I speak for everybody. We could use a service provider or sympathetic voice or a voice of guidance. So you think about us all nice safe and secure. And then you contrast that with people out on the street, especially my heart goes to moms with little kids and out on the street. Lord, do they need a service provider made some guidance. And offshoot of that might be that when they get stabilized, then they can start applying for jobs with with the aid of the service provider. Once you've got a job you've got income and your whole perspective changes. Totally. And that's what's really difficult about living without a home is from the stories I've heard from the shelter villages I visited and our own team who has experienced homelessness. It's easy sometimes for people to ask why don't, why doesn't this population just get a job, or why doesn't this population just blank and the number of challenges that people who are on house base are massive and I even after my few years of working with the Palat, I still am often surprised the challenges that this population faces and the, the, the challenges they've got overcome to move on to that next step in their life. So yeah, absolutely. And we think they providing sleeping cabins, paired with on site case management is a winning combination to help them in that transition on to that next step. And you also said that you provide medical services. I read about one homeless person here in downtown Honolulu, and you're probably familiar with Queens hospital or major hospital downtown. He had cost that hospital over $100,000 in one year, simply because he came coming back and back and back with this element that element this wound, whatever. And if you can provide people medical services elementary right on the spot, you are improving their health, and you're putting far less of a burden on emergency room providers. Definitely. Yeah. And the hospital store you gave is a great example. And just like, you know, whether it's hospitals or whether it's policing or if it's housing in general, everything that we're doing is thinking about working with this population upstream in a preventative manner, so that we don't get to that further crisis point where they're at the emergency room, or they've run into an issue on the streets with somebody. Everything we're doing is try to work upstream, be preventative, get them the stability that they need so that they can make the good choices that they want to make, give them the ability to do that, and then watch them flourish and make their life their own the life that they truly want it to be. Something else just a taxpayer standpoint just a hard-nosed taxpayer is there are certain areas in downtown Honolulu as you know where these people congregate, and you go there. And especially on a weekend, here's a car with a blue light on it, i.e. a police car, sometimes two such cars sometimes three. They've gotten themselves into trouble in the middle of the day, and they're tying up police services. Whereas if they're in shelters, now they're getting their act together they don't have to act out like this on the street. Again, tax saving taxpayers dollars and keeping everybody safer. Yeah, definitely there's there's so many benefits to the village model and we're big proponents of it. We also are big proponents of all solutions, whether it's congregate shelters or if it's building additional permanent housing which is also desperately needed in so many communities we think we need to be doing all of the above. And more we can be doing the better because like I mentioned earlier we are at a crisis point in America where there are just too many people who lack access to shelter in any form. And I think there are a lot of groups out there doing great work to create more solutions and I think we need to do all of the above. And finally, we've got about 30 seconds but something I really like is you've got a pet house also. There's a lot of benefit from our pets, and you see a lot of the unhoused people with the dogs and such, and you know what comfort those dogs provide so you, you, that's one of your services here. Absolutely yeah and we, we try to make it as easy for people to access shelter as possible. Sometimes people won't accept congregate shelter if pets aren't allowed or partners aren't allowed.  Wow. Brandon, we are out of time. Thank you so much, Brandon build show project shelter very, very, very impressive. And this program will be archived so that people can come back to it and get your, your resources here. Great. Thank you so much Howard pleasure to be here through inspiration and with that on that very cherry note from zinc take Hawaii Howard wake code green farewell. See you next time.


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Hey fellow reading warriors and welcome back to the channel today. I'm coming at you with a video Basically, I have a problem This is a video I've been meaning to film for quite a while because I keep bringing it up in other videos And I was like, you know what today? I'm finally just gonna sit down and do it And so my problem is series that I've started and haven't finished But I want to because like there's a difference between series that I've started and I'm just not gonna finish Obviously, but there are quite a few series where I started them and I want to keep reading them But then I end up moving on and reading something else and not even because like oh the next book isn't out yet Like I understand like if I pick up a series and only one or two books are out, but more are coming out I'm always like should I start reading the series now or should I wait until all the books are out So that I can just sit down and read them all at once, but no matter what I Will never sit down and read an entire series in one go I think I've only ever done that with two series the first one being Harry Potter And that's because my parents read it to me second one being this mortal instrument series I don't know why I just have like one summer where I legit spent two weeks Going back and forth from the library because like I've got the first one and I read it And then I got the second and third one and I read them and then a day later the library was like Oh, we have the other ones and I just sat down and I read them all since then I have not been able to sit down and read a series that is completely out or a series where all the books Have come out and have been out for a while, but I still haven't read them For example, the first one on the series is the Ark of the Scythe trilogy. I own all three I have read the first two and for some gosh-daying reason. I have not read the toll this big Hunky boy that I really want to read because I love this trilogy. I have been thoroughly enjoying it for quite a while Why I haven't read the third one. I don't know I own it. There's nothing keeping me from reading it Except the fact that I just haven't sat down and ready yet And I don't understand why and I'm so afraid that I'm gonna forget some of the important details in the second book And then I'm gonna have to start over the series again when there's no good reason for me to do that because the third book is right here It's not going anywhere. I just haven't read it yet. I don't understand why so you see what I'm saying Like I love that trilogy. I don't know. I haven't read them except for the fact that I haven't read them The next series I'm gonna talk about is the Shatter Me series by Tahara Mafi So I read the first one over audiobook. I loved it. I wanted to continue. I actually got these I think this is the second one. I'm pretty sure this is the second one from a friend of mine The end I Don't own the first book. I don't own the rest of the series I only own this book right here, which I'm pretty sure is the second book and I haven't read the second book But that's the only book I have access to At the current moment in time my hesitation was I read the first one over audiobook and I loved The audiobook and so I'm hesitant to read this physically I would prefer to keep listening to the audiobook because if I'm listening to a series over audiobook I want to read the entire thing over audiobook or physically read the entire thing But I don't think that's gonna happen at this point because my library does not have this as an audiobook On any of the apps that I use So I need to just sit down and read the second one, but then how am I gonna read the rest of the series? Like they're not at my library. They're not audiobook Which means I'd have to buy the rest of the series and I think it would definitely be worth it Especially if I read this one and enjoy it as much as I did the first one It would definitely be worth reading the entire series buying it and reading it. So like what's stopping me? seriously Nothing is stopping me from doing this Let's move on. That's why I'm gonna break down in tears halfway through this video. Just being like I'm a horrible leader Yeah, so a lot of these books are gonna have similar stories and this one is no exception And that is The School for Good and Evil by Somen chain Nani. I'm so sorry if I said that wrong I own the first book. That's it. I've read the first book and the first couple of chapters of the second book And that's it. I want to continue reading it. I really enjoyed it I know there are at least three possibly four books in the series So this is one that I will most likely be buying myself in the near future Because I really enjoy these and I just haven't read them. Oopsie Now this next one is a hard one because I read the first book. I got the second book from the library And I started it. However, it was a very slow start So I ended up having to return it to the library before I finished it I'm still wanting to continue with the series, but I don't think now is the right time for me to continue with the series I am talking about Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep the second one crushed the prince and then there's another one about the king and It I don't know. I mean, I liked the first book. Okay, I Started the second book and I wanted to keep going I just I wasn't motivated enough to read the second one in the amount of time I had it So I would like to continue with the series, but it's also not a high priority like some of the other series in this video So if you've read this series, let me know down below if they get better if they get worse Or if they're all the same because if they get better, I'll read them If they get worse, I might not if they stay the same I might read them So I own the first one and I would love to just buy the rest of the books in the series But I'll only do that if I actually like them and Then if I end up not liking them, then I will probably unhaul this one. So This one's kind of on the edge now this next series You've heard me talk about quite a bit in the past couple of videos because there's been a slight bit of Not drama, but like issues and that is Stocking Tech the Ripper by Carrie Menis Galco So the issue is I love this series. I've only read the first one. I only own the first one I bought the next one in the series, but my apartment building has just been like for reasons We don't know you're not getting your package. It's not your fault. It's not the sender's fault Well work on it and that that's all I've heard. So like I actually bought the next book in this series But because I might not ever get that package I actually returned it and got my refund, but I have no idea where that package is I am more inclined to buy the rest of these books when I'm in a different place whether it be back at my parents house or Wherever we end up living next year if packages get sent there just fine I want I will buy the rest of these and I will read them initially I had bought the second one in this series to read on Halloween, but because it didn't come I was very disappointed and very sad Insert Halloween vlog here where I was supposed to read it and then didn't So that's kind of why like I have tried Getting the next book in this series so that I can read them Shipping just hates me apparently. So I will continue on with these. Don't worry one way or another I will make sure I get these so the next one is a series But it's not one that I'm reading in order and it's not necessarily one that I need to read in order Also for warning, I took the dust jacket off of this book because I didn't like it and now I I know I have it somewhere. I just can't find it so um Ta-da Basically, this is actually Anna of Cleave the princess in the portrait So this is part of a series of all the lives of Henry VIII I want to say Not I'm not good at history I could probably open up the book and figure it out, but I'm too lazy to do stuff but yeah, this is like his third or fourth wife and basically this author Alison Ware Wrote a book for every wife of Henry VIII and made them into stories This is the one that I found in the bookstore that sounded interesting to me. So I bought it I haven't actually finished it yet But I really want to and I know I'm going to enjoy it and I know that I want to buy all the other ones for it But I'm not super concerned about this series or feel very like pressured to get them read because I'm not reading them in order. I don't need to read them in order and it's very much Just like fun historical fiction, you know, I like I almost don't want to count it as a series as like independent books But it does like, you know, it's historical fiction It does mention like previous wives or you know It kind of alludes to there being other books without having following a specific plot line of You need to read each book in this specific order in order to understand what's going on and also because like it's based off of history So like I'm not good at history, but I know some things So it's not like they're gonna be a ton of spoilers But I am thoroughly enjoying this one and so I do want to get the rest of them So moving on the next series I'm going to talk to you about is by Scott Sigler and the first one is called Alive. This has either three or four books in it I read it this past summer. So it hasn't been like forever Since I've read it. So I'm still be good with like I still remember everything that happens But I feel like I should get the next book sooner rather than later So I don't forget what happens Because this was just kind of a book that I received from someone either as a gift or from a thrift store or something And was just like, yeah, sure that looks interesting I'll pick it up and then I finally read it this past summer and I was like, you know, that's that's interesting Not the twist that I was expecting but it was a big twist and I appreciate that So I want to continue reading with the series But I'm gonna buy a book by book Because if it gets better then I'm definitely gonna be happy about it But if it's not as good as the first one, then it might be one I would drop Not quite as judgy as when I was for Kill the Queen But yeah, this is gonna be one where I'll buy a book by book and then I'll read the book by book And then if I continue to like it, I'll keep going with it So but for now after reading the first one, I do want to continue the next one is in pretty much the same story and that's Tiger's Curse by Colleen Hoek I Read this one this past summer again. I really enjoyed it I enjoyed this book so much all the way up until the end I did not like the ending not because it was like a cliffhanger and oh, I didn't like that No, I love books with cliffhanger endings That's how I know it's a series and I know I want to keep reading it if a book if a book in a series Ends and there's another book after but I don't feel like there was a cliffhanger or enough of a suspense Element to it that I'm like, oh my word. I there needs to be more I'm most likely not gonna realize it's a series and then I'm not gonna want to continue with it Like I need books that have pretty decent cliffhangers in order for me to continue with the series and this book has a cliffhanger But I just didn't like the ending I didn't like I felt like the characters kind of went downhill a little bit and it wasn't quite as exciting as it was But I'd still be interested in picking up the next book to see if it gets better If not, who knows but like I'm still definitely very interested in continuing the series for now because I had a good enough Cliffhanger that was like there must be more books in the series and I looked it up and yes Yes, there are more books in the series Feel like with so many of these books I'll pick up like the first book in a series and just not see either the rest of series or the rest of series Hasn't come out yet So I'll just not know that it's a series and I'll pick it up because it sounds interesting and then I'm like Is this a series or is this not a series if it is do I want to keep reading because Clearly, I didn't know it was a series the next one is Two books so far out that I don't own Serpent and Dove and Blood and Honey I don't know either of them, but I've read Serpent and Dove and I just need to read Blood and Honey I want to so badly and I don't know why I can't just sit down and read it Again, I read Serpent and Dove as an audiobook So maybe it's cuz I want Blood and Honey as an audiobook, but even then I feel like that's not a series I would be super picky about because I loved it so much anyway, so like There's another one Now this next one is a duology and I own the first in the duology and I've read the first in the duology But I don't own the second one and I haven't read the second one And that is Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim and the second one is Unravel the Dusk I very recently finished it and I adored it And so I need to buy the second one because I know I'm going to either like that one or if I don't I like this one enough to own them both So yeah, I feel like this is one I could end up buying very soon because I did finish reading it very soon And I did really enjoy it I don't there wasn't too much of a cliffhanger or at least not that I remember but I'm also really bad at remembering things But it's like there's definitely more I can see how there'd be more to the story And so I'm very interested in continuing it. Yes, continuing with it. Yeah so It's only a duology and so it's not like there's a ton of effort of tracking down the other books or reading a bunch of books But yeah, so this is one that I could get pretty soon Honestly, and the next one on this list is the teedragon society There are two more books that I know of the teedragon festival and the teedragon tapestry all by Katie O'Neill These are very short books I loved it so much that I immediately made my mother my father my husband and my two best friends all Read them within a span of I got this book. I read it. I love it here You read it. Here you go. Um, so yeah, I am very interested I think the I think the only struggle with me with this one is that it's such a small book that I have a Hard time paying like 20 bucks for it. It's gorgeous art. I love the story Everything is amazing the creativity is beautiful But it's so small that I'm like do I really want to spend it 20 bucks per book so spend almost $50 to get two tiny little books and the answer would be yes if I literally had the money so I think this one is more about like Financial outside circumstances rather than like oh, I like the series. I want to continue but like no, I love this I'm probably gonna end up making everyone else read the books once I buy them Okay, we're getting there We got four more books left or four more series left none of which I own the books for and so that might be a reason Why I haven't finished them so much because I started them reading them from the library And then I either had to wait and now the library has them or they the library doesn't even have it at all Next one. I'm gonna talk to you about is every heart a doorway by Shannon McGuire. I read the first one for book club I loved it end of story I keep wanting to read the next one But I'm also sitting here like I really want to buy the first one and then the next one So I'm kind of holding myself on reading the next one because I want to own them specifically But because I haven't been able to like sit down and buy them all because there are quite a few of them in the series and again with finances like It's just not I'm not quite in a spot. That's completely doable for me for that. So I Want to keep reading them, but I want to own them and I have to get over the okay But you can read them before you own them like that's okay You do that with other series and you don't have a problem So why is this series so hard for me to follow that with? The next one is actually the Bone Witch. I don't think I finished that series. I'm pretty sure I only read the first two I'm pretty sure there are more than two I'm having a hard time remembering because this was so long ago But ironically that my review of the Bone Witch is still one of my like top five most viewed videos And it was the very second video I ever did on this channel Like a year and almost a year and a half ago actually so like It's kind of funny that I haven't continued with that series when I liked the series and the series has been going well for me I think I just I didn't like the second one as much and so I kind of had a hard time I didn't like it as much and I was no longer able to follow it I also wonder if I actually did finish this you know, I'm pretty sure I didn't I'm pretty sure I didn't Like my book memory is so horrible. I don't know if I actually finished the series or not I'm very I'm like 98% sure I did finish it and or I didn't finish it. I Just I had a hard time remembering what happened at the end of the book because I had a hard time Understanding what happened at the end of the book because I didn't like it as much So I do want to try and pick it up again Maybe reread the second book and then one because I just loved the world building and the magic system from the first one So I want to try it again. Maybe start from the beginning this time. Now the next one Don't kill me, please. I Read Shadow and Bone by Lee Bardugo. I started the Grishaverse I was actually borrowing these books from a friend. I read the first one I read about the first chapter of the second one. I stopped Again, I'm so sorry and I know I heard things about other series in the Grishaverse Being better and other Lee Bardugo books being better and I do not doubt that I Just want to finish the first series. So then then I can move on to the next one's next series within the Grishaverse I Just haven't been able to find them. Honestly. It was only my friend who had access to them for me Like my library didn't have them They're not available audiobook and I didn't I wasn't sure if I wanted to buy them quite yet I just wasn't sure if I liked them enough to buy them So we'll see. I do want to finish the shadow and bone series before I start the other ones that are within the Grishaverse So I'm being picky here. I'm being real picky. I acknowledge that so that would be one that I'm still interested in finishing Although it's been so long that I might need to reread because that was like junior year in high school which was like three and a half years ago for me so I'm with already with my really bad book memory I may just have to like start over give it a try or even just start another series Which I really don't want to do but I might Anyway, you can tell that I'm solely digressing and losing my mind as I'm going through all these different series But good news is good news is that we're on the last series The Illuminae files. Yep. I know I know I read the first two and Then the third one came out Came out I didn't get a chance to read them slash. I didn't read them because those things are huge I those are ones that I have a little bit of a harder time I had a hard time following them at first, but then I had I really do enjoy them and they're very cool They're mixed media, which is not something I'm used to reading, but I was really getting the hand of love Especially in the second book. I was like, oh, yeah, I know what's going on This is interesting and then I had to wait for the third book to come out and then I was like Okay, but it just came out. It's not again not in any libraries. I don't own the first two I don't want to buy all of them right now. I don't want to buy the third one because I really hate Having part of a series, especially if it's not the first half of the series and I know For like the first half of this video. I had the physical like here's the first book. Here's the first book Here's only the second book. I it really bugs me and so I need to either decide If I'm going to buy the third one to then read it Or if I'm going to slowly buy the first one then the second one then the third and fourth and finish reading them So, yeah, those are all the series that I have started reading Haven't finished for whatever lame reason But I still want to there were a total of 15 series on this list Yeah, I have started 15 series Enjoyed them and not finished them. How messed up is that right like come on come on Laura Like what are you doing? Yes? I'm talking to myself and looking off into the distance But here's the thing I didn't include any of the series that I have started and didn't want to finish That could be a whole separate video which I might not do because that's not near as interesting Or if I do it probably going to be a much longer video because those would be saying Why I'm not finishing them versus now it's like I didn't finish it because I don't own it because they're not at the library because I'm stupid so You know, it's gonna be a little More intense So I'm not gonna film that right now unless you guys want me to comment down below If you want to see that video of the series I have started But stopped reading for whatever reason that might have more reasoning than this video did but Yeah, subscribe. I Hit the subscribe button hit the bell I upload videos every Thursday and I have so much fun doing so um Hit the bell to be notified and give this video a thumbs up if you can relate to their Just being serious that you started reading, but you never finish them even though you want to like if there's nothing against This struggle, but thank you guys for sticking around for this I'm pretty sure it's going to be a very long and very repetitive video But I hope you found it somewhat entertaining. So until next time you guys I wish you a happy reading


What's up everybody, Jason here for JasperJasperCaseBricks.com. This break here just sold out the mixer, where you know three spots in the high-end mixer with this one-pack break of 1920 panini chronicles, NBA, this is a fat-pack break around on teams number eight. So again, just like in the last couple we've done, randomize customer names in teams first, distribute the hits out of the fat-pack, then at the end of the break we'll randomize the customer names, all 30 of them, and the separate Dice Roller randomizer. And customer's name in the top three, one, two, three, we'll get a spot in the high-end mixer. Remember, this is a super high-risk, but it's a super high reward, guys, if you guys do get in, just think about it, 63 bucks can get you into this break here, where you also have a chance to get a Jordan Lebron James, Maddie Johnson, triple autograph as a giveaway, but also save yourself some pretty good amount there at $600 a spot. So good luck guys, high-risk, high-reward, let's do it, let's roll it, and we got a five and a two for seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Bradley, down a rhyme, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Bradley with the Kings as well as the Rockets. Michael with the Hornets, Bradley with the 76ers and Thunder, Kevin with the Magic, Zach with the Pacers, Matthew with the Hawks, Kevin with the Nuggets and Raptors, Bradley with the Lakers as well as the Clippers, Matthew with the Bulls, Michael with the Knicks, Jonathan with the Mavericks, Bradley with the Celtics, Ryan with the Wars, Kevin with the Pistons, as well as the Bucks, Jack with the Blazers, Zach Paul with the Spurs, Kevin with the Cavs, Jonathan with the Jazz, Bradley with the Nets, Pelicans, Wizards, Jack with the Grizzlies, Zach with the Sons, and Ryan with the T-Wars. I could put one up, James, if you'd like, for the Prism choice, right? I could put one up. I'll put one up after this. I'll take out three spots and then we'll put one there for Prism. Alright guys, there were no trades in this, quick fat pack break. Stick with what you got. Alright, David just got a spot in the Topps Dynasty break. That's also a promo break. And Nick is helping out with the Baseball Mixer. Just got four spots in the Optic Blaster. Again, we have to sell out this one that's already on the website, plus one more. Which again, we sell this 13 spots out. We sell out one more and then we're in Brakesville. Alright guys, after this fat pack, we'll see who wins spots in the Mixer. Luca, Calvin Johnson, Little Zion, Tally Hero, Hawaii. Whoa, Giannis, Goga, and Brandon Clark. Alright guys, good luck. Roll it. And we got a five and a three for eight times. Number top three, get in. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, and three more. Six, seven, and eight. Eight times. Zach Paul, you are in. Bradley, you are in. And Kevin, you are in as well. Boom, eight times. Congratulations. Coming up next is the Mixer itself.


I identify what is valid criticism and identify what is hate. If you kind of bucket them all together, then you're really missing out on ways that you can improve your content and also misrepresenting some fans. There have been times where I've done a lot of hate from a video and because I was in this mindset that all of the commentary that I was getting that wasn't on my side of the aisle was hate, I kind of responded to them in a way that I wasn't proud of. And I feel like a lot of that comes from ego, at least for me.  That is literally me. Sometimes I have to take a step back and be like, you know what? As much as this hurts my ego, they have a point and it keeps me accountable a lot of the times. However, when it's just straight up hate, if you feel the need to write those types of things publicly on a post about somebody you have no idea about, that says more about how you feel about yourself than the person.


This is Patrick Manley here with another Tipmall Charter. It's something a bit different today.  And you can see we're approaching a bunch of inflection points. We've got the Euro dollar looking at $122.60 to $122.70. Watch price as we trade there. And in extension, watch $123.60 to $123.20. Not sterling. Dollar watch $136.54 to $136.80. The Aussie watch $76.29 to $76.39. S&P 500 watch $37.41 to $37.45. I think these could be inflection points today. Keep an eye on these levels and see how price responds. As always, traders, plan the trade. Trade the plan and, most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.