Welcome to Perspectives on Global Justice Think Tech Hawaii program. This is your host, Beatrice Cantelmo. The secret relationship between children, mothers and families is universal. No matter where on earth we find ourselves at, special attention is paid to them. Some places are doing better than others with regards to infant mortality rates, public health policy and legislative work, as well as direct services that empower and support families, children and mothers to thrive. All the places have ways to go. Take the birth of a child, for example, and paid family leave. Why is it so important that parents have a chance to spend time with their babies at home without having to worry about losing their job and coming benefits? Some countries offer 52 or more weeks of paid family leave when a child is born. Or there's between 26 and 51 weeks, and some countries even 14 weeks. How many months of paid family leave do we have allocated in the United States? Zero. That means no paid family leave is available for families. Quite shocking, isn't it? Today we have a very special guest with us, Lisa Kimura, Executive Director of Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii. Let's find out about what type of services this marvelous coalition offered to our community and how they're working with other community partners to ensure that maternal, child and family health continue to be improved in the state of Hawaii. And of course, let's find out how public education, advocacy and public policy development, along with your support, are the perfect ingredients to make that happen. On that note, welcome to our program, Lisa. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. What an honor. What a special topic to talk about it. It's the heart of our states and the world, the family and children. Before we start, I'd like to give our viewers a little help to understand a little bit about our guests. And so do you mind telling us where you come from and what your professional and educational background is? Sure, sure. So I've been with Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies for almost five years and in that capacity, working on legislative advocacy programs, services, and just basically helping to make sure all moms and babies are supported before, during and after pregnancy. Prior to this, I was with Aloha United Way and working on, again, social services, primarily a lot on early childhood development, but as well as improving the whole social safety net that we have. I have three children of my own, so having those children are really what profoundly changed my life and gave me the direction and the passion that I have for making sure that moms have babies that are welcomed and thriving and happy and have all the resources and support that they need. Was that part of becoming a mother, the help to make that leap professionally and say, I want to work to improve maternal child health instead of Hawaii? A hundred percent. Yeah, having had my first couple of children, you know, I was in the nonprofit sector and for a while I was in the private sector and it was such a surprise to me about sometimes what the lack of availability of services are and the lack of supports that are available for new moms and knowing that those resources don't exist or aren't available to all moms or the fact that moms can just kind of fall through the cracks in terms of even making sure that the quality of care that they have is sufficient, all of those things really impacted me and helped me refine my focus and once I kind of got set on that path it was just, I just consumed as much information as I possibly could to work towards improving things for all parents. That's wonderful, so it really comes from the heart and that passion to make it better from personal experiences as well. Definitely. So do you mind telling us a little bit about the vision and mission of Healthy Mothers and Healthy Baby Coalition about why and also when the coalition was formed? This year is actually our 25th anniversary, so it's exciting for us. We got started and we've kind of changed throughout the years. Actually the National HMHB was founded in 1981, so 36 years ago. And it was started because of the Surgeon General's warning on the need to reduce infant mortality in the United States. And then locally, such as our local coalition, we're founded to work on the problems and the issues that are unique to our state and our islands. And so our coalition is based in Honolulu, but we serve all women, all families throughout all islands. We have programs on all islands that are designed, you know, primarily we want to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates. But we also just want to make sure that all families are getting access to healthcare, that the amount of services are sufficient for what they need. And we want to make sure that all pregnancies are intended because about half of all pregnancies are not. Of course, there's a lot of negative outcomes that come from pregnancies that are not intended, such as, you know, again, mortality rates are higher, but also just worse outcomes. Preterm births, low birth weight babies, babies that aren't getting sufficient nutrition during pregnancy. So in order to impact that, we want to make sure moms are getting access to reproductive healthcare. And that includes contraception, making it as readily available as possible. And the health screening as well. So healthy mothers, healthy babies do help parents when they are pregnant. How does the screening process and linking a mother with the services happen? So sometimes it's as simple as just making sure that all of the dots are connected between Department of Health, Department of Human Services, birthing hospitals, other nonprofits, and making sure that, you know, especially high-risk low-income moms, if they're finding that they're not getting the services that they need, that we're connecting them. And then when we find that those times, things that we can impact, such as screening women for substance abuse during pregnancy, it's a very simple but very critical element that can take place. And we've worked collaboratively with a lot of partners to help make sure that doctors have screening tools that are appropriate and that they're asking questions in the right way so moms don't feel threatened or victimized or worried or, you know, have the tendency to not want to be honest about what's really going on because there's help available, but we just have to make it available to them in the right way. So that being a very simple way that we've approached the issues, it also goes so far as we're working on a statewide strategic breastfeeding plan right now and we're working collaboratively between a lot of partners on all islands to make sure we get education to providers so that they know how to give good advice to moms that are struggling resources because they just don't have them and so on and so forth. So let's talk about one of the universal gifts of motherhood and breastfeeding. So I know that that's one program that is big for our state and that you promote. So what are the benefits of breastfeeding a child of us providing formula?  However, when moms do have the ability to breastfeed, it is by far and away the most important thing they can do for the lifelong health of their child as well as their own health.  For babies, though, it is the building block for their immune system. So everything from reduced risk of respiratory infection in colds, allergies, asthma, diabetes, even childhood leukemia rates are reduced by breastfeeding. SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome is another one that children that are exclusively breastfed have about a 50% reduced risk of dying from SIDS. So the impact is huge. It's broad. And then that's not even talking about all the other little things like bonding with your baby and having a really special relationship with each other that's just, you know, that certainly babies can be healthy and thrive even without a breastfeeding relationship, but it's just an amazing gift that you can give. Yeah, absolutely. So you do have a program that supports that with mothers, young mothers, first-time mothers or... We do. So we work with a teen population because that tends to be statistically one of the populations that's least likely to breastfeed. We also know there's other, some ethnic groups and education levels and such play a big part into why moms choose to breastfeed. You know, sometimes it's an education level, just not knowing how to get started or knowing how to get help. Sometimes it's family support and, you know, having parents or grandparents that didn't grow up or didn't raise their children breastfeeding and so it seems foreign and seems unfamiliar to them. Yeah, look at that. We just got a picture with the breast milk has more of a... good things for babies in need. So look at all of these amazing gifts. Yes, and all of these things are completely irreplaceable and absolutely unable to be reproduced in a lab. So of course you can give babies the building blocks to grow, but it's a sterile substance. It's not a living substance like breast milk is.  It gives them immune protection that you just can't get from, you know, from formula and again it is important that babies have access to that if mom is not able to but it is an absolutely unique substance just between mom and baby and it continues to change from the time baby is brand new newborn to the time you lean which a lot of people ask when is a good time. The World Health Organization recommends up to age two or longer preferred.  It's really simply what's best for mom and baby. Right. And I think also in our country there's such a stigma attached to breastfeeding but it's changing to more workplaces making it available that a woman can express the milk or breastfeeding public. It doesn't have such a, you know, controversial ramifications and not being arrested. Right. Well, you know, it's in our culture we've sexualized breast so much that it's very difficult for people to sometimes separate that especially if they're new mom for the first time and it seems like a crazy thing than they've done before. But, you know, 49 out of 50 states including ours protect a woman's right to breastfeed anytime, anywhere. And particularly in our state you do not need to be covered up. A lot of moms ask that question. It is not in decent exposure and moms don't need to be worried about that.  So we can't ask a mom to leave, you can't ask her to cover up, you can't ask her to go to her car, all of those things. And moms it's important to know when they go back to work that's one of the huge stumbling blocks for why they might stop breastfeeding. Using a pump might be inconvenient, they might be worried about getting break time but all employers are required to give moms a time to pump as well as a place that's private, shielded from the view of their coworkers and is not a bathroom. And it doesn't need to be an expensive bill bow, all it needs to be it could be as simple as having a curtain that protects them from view of others and certainly an electric outlet as well for them but it's simpler than people think it might be. Exactly, well that's wonderful to hear that something so simple can yield such a big impact and result for both mother and babies. So that's one critical service that you provide through Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies. So there's another one, it's a big one with CID. So we can talk a little bit about that and then kind of jump in and wrap it up with that topic at a flower break. So what would you like to tell us about the problem that you've been solving statewide? Right, so one of the most common cause of accidental infant death is sleep-related deaths and that could be suffocation, it could be SIDS which is a very unexplained sort of mysterious disease where babies die for no apparent reason while they're sleeping and it could be asphyxiation, it could be a variety of things it could be rolling over on them in bed where all of these factors combined, it is the most common cause of accidental death and all those deaths are, 90% of them occur within the first six months of life and they're largely preventable. So our program is based on a national program called CRIBS for Kids and what we do is we work with partners on multiple sites on all islands to get referrals They have to meet an income threshold as well as be defined as high risk due to prenatal factors such as substance use or history of domestic violence or other things that make them more likely to be susceptible to mortality. We take them to a one-hour class where they learn all of the protective factors and they're surprising things. Again breastfeeding is a surprising protective factor because it doesn't seem to correlate to sleep but it has a huge direct correlation and things also like smoking in the household babies that are exposed to tobacco smoke in utero and as you know out in the environment have a also hugely more increased risk of death and so teaching parents these things that they can do to protect their child making sure that they have their own secure place to sleep whether they're not going to rub up against a pillow or smother against a bumper pads or have somebody who's heavily under the influence or sleeping very heavily well on top of them people don't want to think these things happen but they do happen they happen every single week and throughout our state and so teaching people these things and at the end of the class we give them a free pack and play crib so they can take it home and that way they have a safe space they can move it right next to their bed so they don't have to be away from their child it's recommended they be sleep in the same room as parents for the first year of life and so that gives them the option to do it safely. That's wonderful. Quick break and I'll be right back. Thank you. Welcome to Sister Power. I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough where we motivate, educate, empower and inspire all women. We are live here every other Thursday at 4 p.m. and we welcome you to join us here at Sister Power. Aloha and thank you. This guy looks familiar. He's a self-the-ultra fan but that doesn't explain all this. Why? Why? He planned this party, planned the snacks, even planned to coordinate colored shirts but he didn't plan to have a good time. Now you wouldn't do this in your own house so don't do it in your team's house. Know your limits and plan ahead so that everyone can have a good time. Welcome back to Perspectives on Global Justice. Think Takawai program. This is Beatrice Kintama. We're back with Lisa Kimura. We're talking about two very important services that seem so simple and yet that impacts the life of children and mothers in such big ways. To give our viewers a perspective in terms of mortality rate or health issues related to low infant weights and also death and also related to seeds. Where are we at with our state and how are we at compared to all the states and where should we be? You know nationwide we as an industrialized country are I think 24th out of the world in terms of infant mortality. So you would think that we'd be higher. We do spend the most per capita on healthcare so we have a lot of room to grow. A lot of that has to do with access to healthcare and making sure that moms are getting prenatal services as early as the first week of pregnancy and making sure that there are doctors that are taking Medicaid patients and making sure that we have our Medicaid program still intact. Those are critically important and with things the way they are it's very, very important that we protect the services that we have because when moms and babies are born babies are born healthy and moms are healthy that's the absolute cornerstone of a healthy society and we have to do what we can to protect that. Absolutely. So I know that with that in mind I mean I think advocacy and the work with legislature not only at state level but at federal level to ensure that these services not only are maintained intact but also encouraged to be improved. It's very crucial. So what could you tell our viewers that would help them become more active players in this process right now with the healthcare reform that we are about to go under and also with Planned Parenthood which a lot of people don't realize it's really the only place that women and men may access for reproductive care and help and also many ways in which a mother may find out that she's pregnant and decide that okay I need further services for prenatal care that may be very well under jeopardy Absolutely. Planned Parenthood is a huge hand in hand partner with us because a lot of our mission is aligned. We all care about making sure that all the whole family has access especially for screenings and for contraception access going in for even just regular well woman visits all of those things are services that they provide that people don't tend to think about and they're one of the things really critical partners that we often refer to because they have a sliding fee scale so for those that don't have insurance there's still an option for them that can take care of them. People need to be vocal about protecting them and they need to be vocal about protecting the insurance and the Affordable Care Act and the services that we currently have available within our state and within the country. There are huge disparities between the infant mortality rates for example the state of Texas has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world so it is more dangerous for a woman to be born there because of a lot of factors more dangerous for a woman to give birth there and it's just not fair for one thing but it's not right and we have incredible advocates working in that state but we need to be vocal even in our state and not to get complacent about the incredible amount of access and the incredible amount of progressive thoughts that we have here we have to hang on to that and we have to talk about why it's important. Right, so on that note I know that this year Family Pay Leave Act laws were introduced in our state legislature and what happened? Yeah, so we've had Paid Family Leave has been introduced for several years and we always kind of move the needle forward the issue sometimes is we as a state we don't have paid sick leave options for families either so people who are working sometimes low wage jobs or other service industry oriented jobs they don't even have access to paid sick leave so that's huge minimum wage is an issue too because we need families to be financially self sustainable when they're not everybody suffers and those issues again don't necessarily seem related but they absolutely are and Paid Family Leave is an issue that's important to us because when not only when a mom gives birth but also if you have a spouse that gets ill a parent that's ill your own self and you need someone to take care of you if you're taking time out of the workforce to be able to care for a family member or care for a brand new baby and you have to choose between your family obligations and your job that's not a choice anybody should have to make and so by giving people the ability to care give which is a critical necessity and also not making them financially unsustainable during that time it's a way to bridge and make sure again we have a healthy society and we have a continuum of care for all people so this year with the Paid Family Leave efforts we've had we are one of the founding members of the Hawaii Paid Family Leave Coalition and our organization has been working on doing focus groups with small and large businesses unions, parents and other caregivers to ask them what a model Paid Family Leave insurance program would look like how many weeks we should take off what percentage of our wages should be replaced who should pay for it, how much it should cost and we've been doing some financial actuarial studies also to look at what our existing insurance structures look like and what our existing FMLA and Hawaii Paid Family Leave or I'm sorry Hawaii Family Leave laws look like and so we can marry it all together and have a program that's financially tenable financially sustainable and serves 100% of Hawaii employees that's wonderful so with that and the pipeline right now so what is the plan for the fall and what is your hope for 2018 legislative session what are you hoping you know as far as Paid Family Leave if we could accomplish it in 2018 that would actually be our gold standard and with the very temporary preliminary numbers that we have it's about $2 per paycheck that it would cost if we had 100% of employees paying into a system like this and it would work the same way that a lot of insurance programs do you pay in and when you need it you collect and that would give people right now if you work for a company that's covered by FMLA you get 12 weeks of unpaid leave entitled to you you would still get those same 12 weeks but rather than having no income during that time you would have some sort of wage replacement so wait a minute I heard the magic number $2 per paycheck yes could actually fund Paid Family Leave for the entire 12 weeks yes and that would be for the entire state of Hawaii right at a percentage of your wages $2 so we're talking $8 a month depending on your pay pay by weekly come on people it's doable literally every other country in the world is already doing it and so there's really no reason why we shouldn't and it's not just about women it's not just about moms and babies it's about everybody and taking care of everyone in the family because everyone will need something at some point in their life it's about being allowed to be a human being and to have equity and health because I imagine it costs more to a society if you're looking from just a pragmatic number perspective to have somebody leaving the workforce to be able to take care of themselves or their children versus having that support they'll probably come back sooner prevention also is a big thing because if you're starting to realize that you're sick and you take care of yourself right away most likely you're going to get healthier sooner too as opposed to getting it so chronic that it might take you twice as long right the same as anything when you put off because you go when it's an absolute emergency rather than taking care of yourself the whole way it becomes a more expensive problem a more complicated problem but the state of California has had paid family leave for over a decade now and they have done done the studies on the impact the thing that they find is workers are more likely to return to work so we have lower turnover retention is higher, loyalty is higher people come back rested, relaxed and ready to work rather than we have about one quarter of moms returning to work within two weeks of giving birth to me that's absolutely unacceptable I mean mentally physically and the mom herself it's just not right but to leave a very vulnerable infant you know in the care of somebody else at an extremely vulnerable time that's not the kind of society we should be plus it's not good for the baby it's not good for our communities it doesn't make any sense physically, morally, ethically and it doesn't go hand in hand with the state of aloha spirit is all about that's not ohana so how can our viewers really tag along with healthy mothers, healthy babies in this upcoming year or years to support the effort of finally breaking ground so that we can be a state that can have paid family leave absolutely I would say the first thing is they're very active in recruiting people to share their stories share their own testimonial about what they went through and if they had paid leave how it helped them and if they didn't how it would have helped them all of the stories really add up I mean we hear things like a mom who had a preterm delivery her baby was in the NICU for over a month and by the time her baby was released from the hospital she had to go back to work and she has a very medically fragile infant who needs to be taking care of around the clock who's going to do that and for a single parent that is not a choice you should have to make so these kinds of stories that just tug at your heart and make you realize this is a human issue those are stories we want to hear from people and we want people to get up and talk about it and share with us so I would say first of all just visiting our website and following us on social media we're always posting things about ways that people can get involved and they can find out what the activities are that we're doing when to share up when to share their voice talk to others about it and things like our focus groups and stuff we just want to hear from people about what we can do to build the best possible program and we have a lot of other existing structures to work from so we're not starting from scratch but we want to make sure it works for the people of Hawaii that's absolutely so crucial and I'm so grateful that we have healthy mothers and healthy babies in the religion of Hawaii and so many other partners they're working together to make sure that that happens and that we have opportunities where people can be involved as well because it really is an interdependent and interconnected process it can't happen just with the organizations it has to have the support of the businesses it has to have the support of our legislators representatives just like you and I to make that happen I can't believe how quickly our program came to an end I hope that this is the faster of many businesses that you make to us and that we check in and see how we're doing and also I would like to extend an invitation to you and to all the community partners to also being able to look at what's happening with child maternal health in Hawaii but in other nations too because I think we can learn a lot and we can also get a lot of encouragement of how far we've come it's not only about the things they're not working it's also looking at how far we've gotten and looking at other models that we want to mirror ourselves absolutely it's about seeing what works and how to replicate that on that note this concludes our respectable global justice program today and just remember the way we measure the success of a society is by the way we treat our children our families, our elderly our disabled our people in general so basic needs need to be covered and the sanctity of us as people as humans also is something that we need to pay close attention to and the state of Hawaii is a perfect state to emulate that not only right here at home but to help all the states to look at what we're doing right and tag along as well so until next Friday we hope


As St. Lucia continues efforts towards curbing the spread of COVID-19, the Government of St. Lucia has sought to strengthen the country's response to the pandemic. In that first, the Parliament of St. Lucia recently approved amendments to the COVID-19 Prevention and Control Act. The amendments include a name change from the Command Centre to the National COVID-19 Management Centre and protocol breaches to be ticketable offences. Harmony Mark tells us more. The COVID-19 Prevention and Control Amendment No. 2 Act received the approval of the House of Assembly on Tuesday, 31 August 2021. The amendments, which allow the enactment of key changes to the COVID-19 management operations in St. Lucia, include the removal of a minister as the head of the COVID-19 Management body, protocol breaches to be changed to ticketable offences, and a name change of the Command Centre to the National COVID-19 Management Centre. In the Act, the Command Centre advises cabinet on matters relating to COVID-19 and has oversight activities required to reduce or prevent the spread of COVID-19. A Command Centre is generally seen as a place used to provide centralized knowledge for a particular purpose. The name, Mr Speaker, does not suggest any connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the bill amends the Act to change the name of the Command Centre to the National COVID-19 Management Centre. This new nomenclature makes it clear that this body of persons is in St. Lucia responsible for administering and supervising the COVID-19 pandemic. The amendments to the Act also facilitate the addition of representatives from the Trade Union Federation, the private sector, St. Lucia Medical Dental Association, youth organizations, and other individuals approved to buy the cabinet to the COVID-19 decision making body. Minister for Health, Wellness, and Elderly Affairs Hon. Moses Jabatis pointed out that while the pandemic has ravaged the economy and social systems in St. Lucia, the amendments allow the government to be timely in its COVID-19 response. He highlighted measures enacted by the government to bolster the country's coronavirus prevention campaign. These include the establishment of a new communication system at the Victoria Respiratory Hospital and the supplementation of 12 cell phones and accompanying packages to doctors and nurses. As we speak, there are now eight new medical support staff at Victoria Hospital today. They went in today, Mr Speaker. Before Friday of this week, we are going to have 15, no, 12 patient welfare assistants at the Victoria Hospital. They will be trained and before Friday of this week. This problem with relatives bringing things to the patients and it takes days. It's not the fault of the staff. The doctors are so burdened to tell you their stories. So we need people to bridge that gap and to make the experience better for our people. The minister added that patient welfare assistance will also be employed at other major medical facilities around the island.


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six year vet center for the Mavs joining us now Daniel Gafford and see everybody jinxed you Daniel. I wanted to tell you we spent so much time talking about the 33 consecutive field goals yesterday and you're going for Wilts record of 35. I thought it was so cool. And then you missed it. Oh OK. Talk to me. Did you how much was it playing in your mind by the way when you took the floor. Anybody say anything to you. When I first got out like it's funny how you say you jinxed me because I think she jinxed me a little bit too. He's like a former AU team made a mind we joke around most of the time when we play against each other. So he came up to me before the game like during tip off. He was like man you're going to try to break the record against us. And I think it's just kind of played out from there. You know it was a real exciting day for me though. You know at the end of the day I just got in a position just with it at the end with it at the beginning there and it was tough. It was tough. I mean it's got it be hard not to think about it when the whole world's just watching it waiting. Yeah. No that's true. That is true. I got it was kids and stuff just like you know OK seeing everything that was just like oh yeah it's going to be Wilt's record and stuff that was asking for autographs and everything. I was like I'm going to try. I'm going to do my best. All right. You know what you can just do it again. No big deal. Wilt's got other records 100 points in a game. We do that. That that's the biggest for my position.  All right. I like the positive energy. Yep. Yep. Gaff is there a small party that's happy that this is behind you.  I mean I just see you I just see you take any threes but you were doing your thing. Oh shot selection not necessarily today. You know I dunk everything pretty much you know. So it wasn't really anything too serious when it came to shot selection. I wasn't a bit nervous like the last two games when I was getting closer to it. So it's like every time that I was going to sleep or anything like that I'm just having to force myself to kind of think about something else at the end of the day because you know I was just like wired I was just I was ready to go. I was anxious. I was nervous. I was excited. It was like a bunch of emotions all in the one man. Mostly your shots are assisted by Luca or Kyrie. You got to tell me what's it like to share the court with those type of guys to be able to play with them. Yesterday I mentioned on the show I say yo he's eating off the land and by eating off the land you got two of the most dynamic guards that you could play pick and roll basketball with dump offs. Hey you've been able to break record score the ball at a high clip.  What's it like playing with them and watching them cook? I mean in all honesty it's a real great experience with me. I'm grateful to be in the position that I'm in today to be playing with just two great players and like just when I came in you know just guys on the team were just telling me to just you know do do the things that I'm usually always doing send screens and going for lives and always make sure that especially like when I come to teams like this make sure I at least pick the brain of the two man guys that I'm going to be sharing the floor with. You know they told me the things that they don't like they told me they do like cause it's like I have to be in the right spot at the right time and the experience that's seeing the things that they do on a night to night basis. It's just it's unbelievable you know and I'm just blessed to be able to sit on the sideline and experience most of the time when I'm not on the floor when I'm out there on the floor I just make sure I don't I don't mess up too much you know get them down here and get them to their spots you know because it's tough for you when you got you know the two best guys on the floor getting on you about you know the things that you usually would do on a night to night basis so I just got to make sure that I'm locked in a hundred percent and just go finish around the room. Those are the main thing. Yeah if your former teammate Kyle Kuzma he said you have the easiest job in sports. Do you agree. A hundred percent you know I just I just go light a guy up this guard the two of our best players and I run to the rim at the end of the day and if they get doubled you know I make sure I stay around even outlet that I rebound a ball block sides come out with energy and be the anchor for the on the defensive end at the end of the day and offensively just set screens and roll to the basket. So paint the picture for those of us who will never share a floor with Luca. What is it like. I mean they say head on a swivel and we take that for granted but it would seem with him you really have to do that. Oh yeah for sure because it doesn't really matter where you are on the floor he's always going to find you whether you're in the corner top of the key he's driving down to the back.  So it's just like yeah you have to keep your head on a swivel. I've always have your hands ready to be shot ready because you know sometimes sometimes you miss the shot if he has tried this issue he's going to try to get on you know at the end of the day. But it's just dope because he puts so much trust in his teammates and he tries to make everyone better on the floor from just like the position that I'm seeing at the end of the day. So I mean like I said the experience is when we're seeing the stuff that he does on the night tonight basically is unbelievable. And I can say consistent with him for so long and just something else that I'm trying to get to a point to be able to do to consistency is a big thing for me and just seeing how he holds himself and how he's consistent with everything he does on the floor. As for sure like something that is contagious throughout the team. Is there a pass that sticks out to you that he's done that you sort of remember more than others. I thought the one the other night the nutmeg with Clay Thompson was cool. But then I was educated by both Lou and Chandler that that's not that big a deal. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. That is that's a bit of a regular pass coming from him and all on. Yeah. There's no I would say there's no passes that's really surprised me more than just like a full court passes he's throwing me if our contestants shot him a 3 3 point line he gets the rebound he just launches it. You know to have trust in the big land to be able to make the pass like that. That's that says a lot. You know at the end of the day I just got to make sure that I catch it when I play wide receiver a ninth grade and I couldn't catch a cold. So catching those passes like that is something that you know it's like OK I got to get better at it because I'm going to get these more often. Oh man you're having flashbacks. It's a weird one. All right. Can we talk Luke and Kyrie for a second because I mean Kyrie sort of has an air of mystery to him and we see Lucas personality shine through a little sarcasm. What are those dudes like off the court. They really down earth people. You know it's just it's just you really expect like when I first got around Kyrie I was expecting him to kind of be a little bit more. I would say like you said on the mysterious side.   So it's dope to just kind of like pick the brains of guys like him. Luke he's pretty chill. You know me and with the same age. So it's just like it's just like man you know I feel old just because it's like how my mentality is I have a real old soul. So it's just like sitting around Luke he's real quiet. He reminds me of a young me like a young young me at the end of the day because every time that I've seen him he's either on the phone playing cards or he's he's sitting down just looking at stuff on his Instagram feed. So it's just dope. They both rear down earth guy and they don't really do too much off the floor. Gaff you started your career with the Bulls. How do you kind of look back at that start for you. And then you ended up in DC. Now you're in Dallas and how do you view the three cultures that you've been a part of. And you know the obviously I'm sure it's night and day playing for the Wizards this year versus the Mavericks. But how do you kind of reconcile with the culture that you've been a part of so far in your career. I mean he's in every one of them just like the fan bases the organization and everything was well and then with open arms. You know Chicago course it took his toll. It's a lot of things that I felt like I took for granted in that situation whenever I was there with that team. Like I traded to Washington and I take another step in just like my career and how I wanted to blossom in the league and you know was there for three years made a lot of great friendships great relationship with a lot of people on the team the organization in DC and to be put in the position that I'm in now. I mean it was just kind of like when I got to Washington just come in and just be me at the end of the day. They gave me the freedom to pretty much just do anything that I needed to do to be able to help the team win at the end of the day. So me coming here. I'm back close to home in Dallas. I'm like four to five hours away from my hometown South El Dorado if anybody's watching it from down there. I know they're going to be mad if I don't. But it's just you know each one of the cultures is not been too different. But at the end of the day they always made sure that they you know walk with the new guys and with open arms and I really appreciate that. Just being a guy that's you know been on three different teams now just being on this team. I just feel like you know the love this was like continuously from from the Chicago team to the Wizards team to not doubt this love is you know through the roof and I appreciate it 100% most dealt. I know you're not invested in it no more. But you know you played in DC for seasons. That was a tough stretch. What do you think it takes for the Wizards to be a winning organization? Do you think they have what it takes to be a winning organization? Oh 100% thinks that they have what it takes at the end of the day is just falls down to just like a level of consistency and something that we were just getting to before I got traded was just like the level of accountability with everybody on the team. At the end of the day we came out night in night out. We were trying to figure it out. But one thing that we never did when I was there was just like, you know, always come in. It's like, man, we don't know what to do. So we just don't kind of give in night in night out.  We always had plans on how to at least try to come out and make some type of fight on a night to night basis. And that's something that I see them trying to get to, you know, these next coming years when it comes to the organization trying to rebuild and trying to find just like their niche in the league, you know, because I mean, a couple of years before we were, I had made the playoffs when Russ was there when I first got there. And then I think the year after we were close to at least trying to make a play in birth. So at the end of the day, like, you know, when I was there, we told them ourselves, you know, we like put ourselves in position to succeed. It's just, you know, like tonight basis, we just kind of like that couldn't figure out how to just like finish out a lot of stuff at the end of the day. You know, so like I said, it's just, you know, the accountability part, once they take the steps in the right direction from when I left, I'd seen that it's just, you know, when DK, he became the head coach and stuff. He really just kind of like changed, I would say, the scenery and the atmosphere, which is how he wanted everybody. He wanted everybody on the team, how he wanted people to act, so on and so forth. So any show that covers NBA these days has to have a fashion segment. It is become a part of the game, one that I cherish. And on the Kyle Kuzma side of things, did you ever look up and say, what in the hell are you wearing, sir? What's going on with Kyle Kuzma? I stopped worrying about, I stopped worrying about cool stuff once he did the pink sweater. I was like, yeah, I don't even want to ask questions at this point. Oh, the giant pink sweater with the sleeves. Yeah, yeah, that one, that one, that one got me. I was like, yeah, because I had seen a couple before he had came to the Wizards and it was just like, OK, you know, he has one of those fast kind of like Russ at the end of the day. It wasn't it wasn't where Russ was at at the time when I first had seen it. But like now once I see the pink sweater thing, I was like, yes, it can't get no worse than this. It did. I seen the big. Yeah, I seen the big bubble jacket that he wore the day we had went to play Brooklyn. If I'm not mistaken. And the color of the jacket was like at the top of his head. I was like, bro, what are you doing? God, I love it. I love it so much. He gives us stuff. And where does he keep it? He has a different sense of it. It does. Is he getting those made?  Like, how does that work? I don't know. He's real big and passionate. And he tells his stories all the time with just like all the stuff that he wears and whatnot. You know, I was like, yeah, man, that's that's cool, you know, but some of the stuff, some of the stuff is getting outrageous, you know. It takes up a lot of space in your locker. I mean, thank you can't fit in there. That's a great point. The jacket alone needs its own locker. Speaking of outfits, maybe you could help us and explain the following. I will show you right now as we roll up some images. What's going on here? Mm hmm. So my stylist got to be home with this together, of course. Really? What's up with the mask? That pirate to the Caribbean. The mask. And honestly, I was expecting the mask to have something when it came to just like up top of my hair. When I first like decided to put it on, I did not know it was going to be an octopus mask at the end of the day. And I just, you know, I sent it to my stylist before I head out of the door before every game. And he's like, yeah, man, swag it out. Swag it out. Look cool. And I was trying my best to put like the most serious face I could possibly put on with this mask on. Because I just knew I just knew it was going to get a lot of it was going to get a lot of like sideways looks because, you know, everybody, everybody didn't even know it was me at the time. No, it was just like my first time dressing up. I'm digging the hoodie, though. I'm looking for that hoodie. What kind of hoodie is it? I can't even I can't even remember what who had sent it to me if I'm not mistaken. I can't my stylist had did it. But it's not too far from here if I'm not mistaken. I for sure find it, you know, and get it to you. I got you. But not you, Lou. You can't wear the hoodie without the mask. The mask is vital. No, I'm going to leave the mask at home. I'm going to leave at the D. I'm going to leave at the DG. I'm going to leave the mask at home. But I love that hoodie, though. That's pretty hard. I told her I was like, I appreciate the mask. But we for sure like I've worn hats with like long ears on it before. I was like, yeah, let's keep it. Let's keep it with the ears. You know, you did it. The octopus, you know, octopus, octopus a bit different. I felt like a wrestler coming out getting ready for Royal Rumble, man. Nice. Not awful either. No, not at all. So, yeah, in high school, you played the drums in the marching band. What was that like? Yeah.  I was. Do you still play the drums? Are you going to start an all NBA rock band? Oh, y'all done brought back the OG video. That's what started it all, man. But no, like when I when I when I get to a point to where it's like I'm fully settled with just everything here in Dallas, I'm for sure going to try to get back to it. My wife, she's been on my butt about it for the longest. She's like, yeah, you need to get back with music something and such and such. Because I play music all the time around the house. And she just gets mad because, you know, I put so much energy into energy into it when it comes to me listening to it. So it's like, yeah, she like if you don't lock in, you know, some some bad going to happen to you. I was like, oh, yeah, let me go and get right. But just yeah, was most definitely like one of the tallest guys that was like out of the blue, you know, playing the bass drum marching down my cousin was in the band. He played the snare drum. He was always right beside me. So when I first started doing it, it was just something that, you know, I wanted to try out, see if I was going to get better at it. I started off with just like the clarinet played three different variations of the clarinet. So it was regular one, bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet. So I was getting better over time when it came to the concert season, where we had to sit in the chair and hold the instrument. I was getting better over time to when it came to the marching band stuff. I wanted to play the snare drum, not going to lie to you. I wanted to be on just like the smallest drum as possible. There's like, no, we're going to put the biggest drum on your shoulders and we don't see what you do with it. Yeah, they're going to waste that.  Like how good were you at clarinet? Um, I was terrible at the first one. Then I got to a point to where I was I sucked at trying to get high notes. So I went to the base clarinet, which was it kind of got like the tone and stuff kind of got lower as I like upgraded with the clarinet. So I got to contra bass clarinet. That was the third variation of it that I played. And every time we went to regionals and stuff, I can't even talk. Um, I was always just like the only one that was playing that certain clarinet. So I always had made it. So it's like, I don't even know if I was like the best of the best or anybody else just didn't want to play this big clarinet at the end of the day. It counts, man. It counts. By the way, fellow band nerds, I appreciate the stories. I love it. I'll saxophone, much cooler instrument, but we don't have to argue about that here. Uh, Daniel Gafford. Dallas Mavericks.  Best of luck all the way. And thank you. Thank you all so much. All right, running back. We'll be back.


Budget laptops often aren't as interesting, but the Lenovo IdeaPad 1 has something to say about it. Its simplicity and high variety of hardware combinations are nothing to scoff at, while the affordable price tag makes it one of the few budget laptops that can get powerful. The device is entirely made from plastic but feels good to the touch. Lenovo has done some strengthening to the chassis as it shows some resistance before eventually twisting when we apply more force. The surface is soft to the touch but shows a lot of fingerprints. The laptop is quite portable despite the 15.6 inch screen weighing 1.55 kilograms and having a profile of 17.9 millimeters. The lid can't be opened with one hand as the hinges take the base along for the ride. From here we can see the base with the power button, touchpad and keyboard. The keys are comfortable for typing with decent key travel and clicky feedback. One thing we have to mention is the deck flex in the middle which can be felt when you type more harshly. The touchpad is great. It covers a decent area, has a smooth mylar surface and shows next to no latency. The input output is placed on the sides. On the left we get a barrel style power plug, one full sized 5 gigabit USB port, HDMI 1.4B, 1.5 gigabit USB type C and a 3.5mm audio jack. On the right there's a USB 2.0 port and an SD card reader. The display selection includes both TN and IPS displays, however, we can't recommend the former as the poor viewing angles and low brightness don't equate to a good experience. We would go for an IPS option which should honestly be in the base configuration but we know that Lenovo has to cut corners here and there. The panel covers only 54% of the sRGB color gamut, which isn't enough, but our design and gaming profile improves the accuracy by a lot, lowering the delta E value from 7.2 to 2.3. You can check out the design and gaming profile, along with our other ones in the description below. Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers. If you decide to just start following us, we'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you, you're awesome! The IdeaPad 1 uses a 42Wh battery, which is fine when paired with the Pentium Silver and 6000. It lasts for 9 hours and 23 minutes of web browsing, or 8 hours and 51 minutes of video playback. The Pentium CPU is doing great for basic laptop work, text editing, and browsing the web with its quad-core setup. However, anything more demanding in you will run into issues. If you need more power, there's the Alder Lake U-Series as well as the Ryzen 5000 U-Series, which bring the kick but will drain more battery. The laptop uses a passive cooling solution with one heat pipe that goes from the CPU to a large metal plate. The CPU is covered by a heat spreader. It's an appropriate solution for the Pentium CPU, as the chip doesn't really like to clock high and increase its wattage beyond 15W. As for comfort, the laptop is dead silent, as there are no moving parts. The base doesn't get warm either, maxing out at 37.6 degrees Celsius. The IdeaPad 1 comes with one Sodium slot for DDR4 memory. Some units also come with additional 4GB of soldered RAM of the same type. For storage, there's a single M.2 PCI-EX4 slot for generation 3 SSDs. To take apart the laptop, we'll refer you to our teardown video, which shows a step-by-step process. You can check it out in the description. The Lenovo IdeaPad 1 is a notebook for people who just need a device to get by and don't do demanding work. With the low-powered chips, you'll also enjoy good battery life, silence, and comfort, thanks to the passive cooling solution. For more info about the device, we have a longer and more detailed review on our website.


So, this is going to be a demonstration of the tendo-calcaneus. The tendo-calcaneus is the combined tendon of the gastropameus, the soleus and of course the plantaris but we will focus on the gastropameus and the soleus. The tendo-calcaneus is one of the most powerful and the most useful tendon in the human body. It is the only tendon, large tendon which does not have its cyber-wheel sheath. Instead, it is covered by a structure called the paratino, which is going to play a useful role in surgical practice. The tendo-calcaneus starts as an aponeurotic expansion of the lower end of the gastropameus which we can see here and it merges with the fibres of the soleus and as the fibres descend down they rapidly converge to form this wrong tendon here on the back of the ankle joint and simultaneously the fibres twist by 90 degrees laterally such that the fibres which are coming from the gastropameus they point laterally and the fibres which are coming from the soleus they point immediately. This twisting of the fibres allows springiness of the gait and the plantar reflection. So this is the functional importance of the tendo-calcaneus. The tendo-calcaneus gets inserted onto the posterior aspect of the calcaneus and at the point of insertion there can be a sub-tendinous bursa to prevent friction between the tendo-calcaneus and the calcaneal bone. There can also be a bursa between the skin and the calcaneus that is known as the subcutaneous bursa. The subcutaneous bursa or the sub-tendinous bursa can get in frame to produce calcaneal bursitis especially when wearing tight shoes or new shoes. Sometimes there can be an accessory soleus. In this particular patient there is no accessory soleus but if such is present then that can also merge with the tendon of the tendo-calcaneus and rarely it can either also produce a painful calf condition. This tendo-calcaneus is so important that if there is an injury or rupture of the tendo-calcaneus it is considered as bad as cutting off the foot. Patient will not be able to plant or flex. So therefore repair of the tendo-calcaneus becomes of paramount importance and the repair of the tendo-calcaneus is done in a very unique way and we have only cut it to show how the repair procedure is done. When the tendo-calcaneus cut tendon is presented in front of us we are supposed to convert the cut into a form of a Z like this. That means we make a small cut horizontally then we make a cut vertically and then above that again a horizontal cut. So this is a Z and then we are supposed to repair it using non-absorbable soleus preferably stainless T and then we are supposed to carefully close the paratinone on top of that. And then we are supposed to put a cast extending from above the knee to below the foot because we have to immobilize both the knee joint and the ankle joint and this has to be kept for at least 3 months. So this is the procedure for repairing the ruptured tendo-calcaneus. This procedure of repairing ruptured tendo-calcaneus is known as Z plus T. The purpose of making this Z incision is if we were to repair it in a horizontal line then there will be too much tension exerted again and the suture line may give way again because the tendo-calcaneus is constantly in motion and therefore to break up this tension we divide it in the form of a Z and it is called Z plus T. So this is all I wanted to mention about the tendo-calcaneus and its clinical significance and its functional importance. Thank you very much for watching. If you have any questions or comments please put them in the comment section below. Talk to Sanjay Sanyal. Sanyal. Have a nice day.


Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Chromebook Tips and Tricks video, and I'll talk about how to use Chromebook without a password. So if this is the first time, I'll repeat visit. Thank you for your support. On this channel, I'm always trying new and different ideas. If that is something you're interested in, please visit for more. If you're only interested in Chromebook videos, there will be links in the description box below. So today I'll talk about how you can use your Chromebook without a password. This is different than connecting your Chromebook to your phone and unlocking your Chromebook without using any password. I have a separate video about that, and what you can do if you'd like to unlock your Chromebook using your phone without a password, then these are the settings. You have to go to Settings, Connected Devices, Phone, and Smart Law. I'm going to show you this option very quickly, but today we'll talk about mainly how to use a pin or gesture pin without a password. For example, if you're typing in your password, then let's say my password is my password, 1, 2. And you can see that it takes a while to type it in, and I'm going to show you how you can use a gesture password, which is kind of using a sign, or you can just use a pin, so let's say 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6, 2, 1, 8, anything like that. But before that, let me just quickly show you how you can open your Chromebook with your phone. So in order to do that, you have to go to Settings, Connected Devices, Phone, and Smart Lock. So you're going to click on the lower right corner where you see the clock. So if you click on it, and then here's the round wheel button or settings, then here you're going to go to Connected Devices, which is going to be right here. And then from here, you're going to go to your phone and Smart Lock. So I already have my phone connected to this Chromebook, and once you go through the process to connecting your phone, then you have to just turn on or slide it to the right Smart Lock feature, and then it will open your Chromebook using your phone. But I do have a separate video on that, and I'll put a link in the description box below. So today I'm going to show you how you can use pin or gesture pin in order to open your Chromebook instead of typing your actual password, which can be a little long. So in order to do that, here I have the settings for you. So you have to go to Settings, Security and Privacy, Lock Screen, and Sign In. So this is where you're going to go to change your option for your Chromebook to enter a pin or gesture password instead of your actual Gmail or Google account password. So you're going to go to Settings by clicking on the lower right corner where the clock is. So it's right here. And then you're going to click on the wheel button or settings button, which is right here. And then from here, you're going to go to Security and Privacy, which is going to be right here. So if you click on it, and then here you're going to see Lock Screen and Sign In option. So basically you're looking at right here, Lock Screen and Sign In, Sign In automatically. So if you click on it. Now you're going to have to enter your Gmail or Google password. So now here you can see that there are a few options. And here one is Show Lock Screen when you're working from sleep. Right now I don't have it checked on. So what it means that if I close your Chromebook, so for example like this, and if I put it back, it's not going to lock Chromebook. That's what it does. But if you have this turned on, sliding to the right, then once you open your tray, then the Chromebook is going to be locked. But the reason I didn't turn it on because I'm staying at home. So when I go out, then I just turn off the Chromebook. So for that reason I have this feature off. But if you want for security always to enter a P in your password, then you can slide it to the right. And then you can see here that we have the option that password only. This is the reason I had to enter the big password or the Google or Gmail password on the main screen of the Chromebook. But if I change these to PIN or password, then I'm not going to have to enter the big password anymore. Now you can see that it's telling you to set up a PIN. So let's click here. And here it's like, you know, PIN must be at least six digits. So let's say if I set up a PIN, five, five, five, five. But it says it has to be six digits. So let's do another five. And it's giving you the warning message that PIN may be easy to guess, which is okay. This is just for showing purposes. So if I just click on continue, then we do it again. One, two, three, four, five, six and confirm. And now I'm using my PIN. So let's say, you know, if I turn off the Chromebook shutdown. Okay. So now I'm going to turn the Chromebook back on. And it's going to ask me to enter the PIN number. So now you can see the difference. It's not asking me to enter any password, but instead enter me to asking me to enter the PIN. So it's going to be one, one, two, three, four, five, six. And it should open it automatically. And you can see that, you know, the Chromebook has been opened. So that's how you can change your, you know, password to PIN. I'd just like to mention one thing that I don't see any gesture opening on this Chromebook yet, which, you know, you have, you should have available on your Android phone. So it looks like, you know, the Chromebook doesn't have that feature yet. So I'm sure or I'm hoping that, you know, in the future they will probably have that feature. What it means that, you know, you're going to just use gesture send, for example, this or this or this. Anything just like you have this feature on your Android phone, but it looks like the Chromebook doesn't have that yet. But when you're watching this video, they might have it. For that reason, I mentioned you because, you know, you might be watching this video from three years from now on. But as of now, the option is only to enter numbered password, not any gesture password. So that's how you can change your Chromebook login from password to PIN. And again, if you do not want to use anything at all, then the option you have that you have to connect your Chromebook to your phone using the smart lock feature. And then if you're connected to Bluetooth, which has to be both your Chromebook and your phone at the same time, then once you turn on your Chromebook, it's going to open your Chromebook. You don't have to actually log in or do anything. It's just going to open by connecting to your phone. But you do have to, you know, open your phone to open your Chromebook. And I have a full video on that, which is going to be linked in the description box below. And the other option I told discuss today is that, you know, you can easily change from a big password, which is the original Gmail or Google password to a PIN, which could be like, you know, one, two, three, four, five, six, or any numbered PIN. But don't use to, like, you know, easy numbers. For example, I just use five, five, five, five, five, five. But don't do that. Try to make it more like, you know, a little difficult. And you can use that so you don't have to enter, like, you know, your full password all the time. So that's all for today. Thank you for watching this video. There will be more Chromebook videos coming up. So I'll see you shortly. Thank you.


Hi, I'm Jan, the CEO of Skygrids, and I'd like to give you a sneak peek into the future. I'd like to present our vision of 2030, where drones will be fully integrated into the urban environment. Intercity travel will be taken over by air taxis. The last mile package delivery is fully fixed, and drone highways are connecting hospitals to have a constant medical supply. But this goes further. Drones will also be used for autonomous operation, for the maintenance inspection. Think for example of wind farms or railways that needs to be inspected. And the drones will conduct all this autonomously. They will have taken over and offloaded the repetitive human tasks that they do. For example, the window cleaning of skycrapers, and they advance the whole search and rescue operations. To put it more concrete, drones will be everywhere. And they enable a whole new era of automatization, connectivity, and IoT, that is literally adding a next dimension to the urban lifestyle. But there is one problem, and that is flight time. Just with the limited capacity the batteries have, it's forming the major obstacle for this breakthrough of drones in the transformative applications. And this is exactly what Skygrids is building. We are building a grid in the sky. We are wirelessly powering the drones, and in this way, they can conduct their operations with our technology on long-range energy transmission. This should be... Okay, there we go. We have conducted a quest to find this technology. We have worked on months. We have compared different technologies, different working principles. We have sought for this for a major time in comparing systems, in order to design a system that is fully capable of powering the drones. And after all this hard work, I'm incredibly proud to, right here, right now, present you for the first time autonomous system. We are going to do wireless charging. And this prototype is demonstrating in a very... This prototype is demonstrating in a very compact and mobile way how we can revolutionize the drone industry. We are providing energy on a long-range basis, and this system is super easy to work with. The fully automated system will locate the drone and wirelessly provide energy precisely where it's needed with our precise tracking algorithm. We use an infrared laser beam that we shine onto a photovoltaic receptor, and in that way beam energy all the way to the drone, enabling a continuous flight. And this is completely revolutionary for the drone industry. From now on, industrial inspections of, for example, windmills can be completely revolutionized. The inspector is only going to focus on the actual inspection, and it does not have to take into account all the overhead of changing or charging the batteries. By this, we are cutting the inspection time by half. And this is not only saving on the maintenance of the operator itself, but it's massively saving on the infrastructure downtime. Here you can see the drone in action, where it's wirelessly charged while doing the operations. And this is going to completely transform the inspection of drones. The pilot can fully focus on the inspection without having to wonder about energy systems, how it's going to work. And he can fully focus on maximizing the added value that his eye from the sky brings. That is what we're building in the Thunderbolt product. It is designed for long-range energy transmission with a 10-kilometer energy proficiency, where we can provide up to 800 watts to any aerial system that is conducting inspections. And for this, it's going to increase the flight time by just 20 minutes to well over two hours by more than a factor of 10. And it's globally going to reduce the overhead by 80%. And as we do two times faster inspection, we save on the operator costs and also the infrastructure downtime. And we've done the case study for wind farms in Europe, where they would save up to 90,000 euros every year just by adding our system to the already using drones for the inspection. Of course, we have a bigger view than just that. I introduced with drones will be everywhere, drones will be buzzing around our head. We're not just going to power one drone. We're going to build the grid in the sky. That's why we're sky grids. And this is what we're integrating in the ThunderLink system. The same vision we have for powering one drone, we will use an interlink to multiple drones where you could think, for example, as this drones flying in a city where the first drone is is just hovering above a warehouse where it can generate or reduce. It can relay the power to all the other drones flying on the city where these drones can do the actual operations. They can do the package delivery. They can provide solutions for the last mile package delivery, just as an example case. And they don't have to worry about their energy systems. They can just conduct without landing, without charging, without changing batteries. That is what we are building in sky grids. We're building the grid in the sky. And we enable limitless drones and boundless flight. Thank you.


What is up mama squad and welcome back to our channel as you guys write by the title We are taking a break. We're taking a break guys Like that or dead serious Okay, yes, we are taking a break but it's with some serious things other than our relationship So we're taking a few weeks break from YouTube in particular only guys until April 1st Yes, keep watching throughout this entire video Actually, I want you guys to genuinely listen to what has been going on because it's important for you guys to hear what we have been going through Yeah, so we can make things better for our channel and that you guys are involved and know exactly what is going on You're gonna see a huge ramp up in content quality and Just our lives we will get into that but I also want to say just so you guys know me and Bill are fine Oh, yeah, it's good between us We're just kind of taking a step back for with because of our mental health as you can see our energies aren't up there Well energies are kind of like it's like it's like Mellow, you know what I mean? So bill are super creative people and we're super energetic that that is we don't want to keep We just want to show you guys who we want to show you the true side of us If you have been part of our channel for a while You can tell that some videos were more energetic than others and even the energetic videos We could be even more like, you know Promising but it's just after working all day long and then filming it brings your energy level down Not that we hate filming, but our energy is already spent in some other job So that's why when it comes to YouTube our main job with all of our supporters It's kind of hard to put our 100% and stay tuned to the end of the video to hear very exciting news We're gonna go right into everything that's going on. I cannot wait to tell you this news by the way It's you guys are gonna go crazy. So before we start this video once again If you are new at this time make sure to go hit that subscribe button and join our model squad join our family We have a lot of things coming up big big moves coming up Just kind of get right into the video. You guys do know that bill is working a part-time job at his dad's business He works until 2 p.m. Which means we don't start filming until four back in the day before he was doing part-time He was full-time and we had this is when we're starting tick tock, okay? So it was tick tock was starting to blow up and we had to manager YouTube and tick tock and just everything else It goes along with it plus our just spending time with each other Which will get more of that in a minute so before he used to get off work at five Which means he doesn't get home till six Which means don't start filming to really like six thirty seven and that was super by the time we end filming It's already 10 11 at night sometimes and then he has to edit and we have nowhere nothing to do We can't go to you know to a restaurant. We can't hang out watch Netflix and chill And it so then obviously started getting really hard because we kept growing and growing and there was so much that we Need to get done, but we didn't have time so he switched over tick tock came and started blowing up That's when we had to I had to switch to part-time and work till two instead of four Even if it's you know in a less two hours It still helps out a lot more But it's still very hard because then we were filming tick tocks every day multiple and then YouTube almost every day and editing every night And just so you guys know Ticktocks might sound very easy. They're 15 minutes 15 seconds to a minute long, but there's a lot of work Not that easy like sometimes you have to refilm the video 10 times that could take an hour to get it perfect If you want to be a social media influencer and you're looking to do YouTube tick tocks Whatever, let me just tell you it is way harder than it looks not not like you know Bringing your mood down saying that you can't do it But you have to put a lot of thought into content if you want to be creative if you want to copy trends and stuff That doesn't take as much thought but like content that you're trying to create and go viral on that's the stuff It takes hours of thinking so I don't know it's just been really hard because I've been talent seeing Bill He had as he's had mental breakdowns. I've had mental breakdowns. You could tell Bill is very energetic and a lot of you guys I don't know if you guys have seen that I'm sure you have But it doesn't really show in videos because like I said, we don't start filming till 4 and we're exhausted He's exhausted from working getting up at 7 a.m. Going to some days are harder than others Yeah, it's really hard. So anyways that being said, I don't want you guys to think that we're being ungrateful We're not talking down. We are super super appreciative for every single one of you and you guys coming along our journey We cannot thank you guys enough for supporting us and I'm just so thankful that we were able to Get this opportunity and I don't want you guys to think we're being ungrateful or that we're Out of or nothing. We're simply giving you a background of what has been going on. We're not we don't hate our jobs We don't hate anything We just want to focus more on social media and that's what's gonna come next month Me and Bill have just been super like Worked up because we try to scramble everything at 4 p.m. And then like trying to scramble our own lives and like It's just very hard like on emails. We have to get done We have to make sure we're gonna stay and talk with our friends and not even besides all that just having a good Relationship and going on dates and stuff like we barely do that as much as Normal couples would which is not a big deal because I cherish like filming with her is like going on a date with her You know, yeah, but I love but we don't get like, you know And that has also been a really hard thing for us is like it's always just calling work work work work And it's not that it's a bad thing. It's just why I love it deal with right now. I love it It's not even that we have to deal with I love working. It's just it's just we want some time to like Take us like just take a step back and relax because doing everything all in one Time frame in such a little time. It's super hard It puts a stress and kind of a strain between our relationship and the content quality goes down Yes, because you're straining to do a lot in a little time and you can't put in that extra brain cell to think of an even better way of doing the video or Filming, you know instead of just rushing out all the intros and stuff our content is gonna be so much better I'm almost 40 of no idea, but I also want to say content has been pretty good though It's decent, but you guys are liking it. I mean hashtag team building with some decent pranks. No, okay Yeah, let me just add let me just add this one part So this is what made us decide that we need a break until April 1st and you'll guys will know exactly what what we're doing in April 1st We'll explain that video, but this is what came about to Taking a few weeks a few weeks break and just taking a step back and focusing on our Relationship and our health and just everything else the other day I was trying to film an intro to a prank that I was gonna do on him I'm not gonna tell you guys a prank because I still want to end up doing it And I don't know what the prank was she just called me all stressed out, but I called him up And I was like I was like babe. I was like we need to talk when you get here So he came over and I was like, you know what? I was like I feel like my energy isn't where it's supposed to be And I don't want to keep putting out content for you guys that I mean guys love our content We really try our hardest even if it's the hardest like filming at night putting out rushed content It is rushed content And I feel like the the reason I got so worked up because I felt like it was so scripted and so rushed that I wasn't able To just talk to you guys and be comfortable with the camera I felt like I had to be like this was I gonna go back to the channel blah blah blah blah Yeah, it's not like we're putting in zero effort We're putting in the maximum amount of effort that we have left because all of our effort has to be broken up YouTube tic-tac work relationship, you know friends and all this stuff and we have just too much of Things that are not related to social media that we need to like step down from and focus more on All of our supporters all of you that are watching and we don't want to just put out content just to put out there We want to make sure not only do we enjoy the content, but that you guys enjoy the content That's the main Like thing that relates whether a good video is good or not That's why me and bill feel very stressed out recently because not is it that we just know we could do better That's the thing we know that we could do better. We are both very creative people. We are known for that tic-tac We were known for just being fun and energetic and I feel like that is slowly dwindled when you put too much work on your Play and it starts to build up after time and it is build up after time and it's just it's too much for us We have a lot to come and it'll all be worth it. All right Marvel Squad So you want to tell me what the exciting is so the exciting news is Next month we're taking the end of this month to we're still gonna be doing tic-tac on YouTube But next month is when I am officially going to be full-time me and Mariah with social media We're super freaking excited fully relying on social media on you and Everyone else that's watching this and watches us It has been a long couple months doing what we've been doing and to know like we've Finally and we were ready like a while ago though. Oh, yeah We were we could totally done in a while ago, but it was just him, you know talking with his dad and get everything I want to make sure everything was like secure enough and I wasn't just leaving him You know, you know with with nothing now, you know, everything's pretty good and we're gonna be doing this full time I'm so excited because I've never done this full full time and it's gonna be nice waking up And also another thing is we're not gonna be filming at night a lot of the time Daylight look amazing you guys are gonna the vibes are gonna just be so good You guys are literally going to see a whole new Mariah and Bill like Our energy levels are gonna be higher our creativity our ways of our videos. It's just everything's gonna get better We do good now, but imagine when we're doing this full time We're gonna be doing even better and I'm so glad that every single one of you are here and experience What we were doing and what we're going to be getting into and becoming building our name, you know We have a beginning, but we're making a whole new beginning of 2020 April 1st like that just that date That's April Fool's Day No, but that's April 1st is just like such a good date it makes me just super excited It gets it just motivates us to know that we're almost done with this like Tension and stress, you know, it's just gonna feel good to just be like we're gonna be able to wake up Turn on the camera film have a good time film tiktoks and by the end of the day We're gonna be able to hang out with each other do what we want to do or I like I barely even post on Instagram stories and stuff And I try to so much It's just I never have time to because the time that I should be doing it is I'm at work or I'm filming instead He's editing because as you guys know he has to edit at night, which means he's up till sometimes 3 a.m Editing he has to be up at 7 p.m. Future entrepreneurs out there social media influencers Editing takes a couple hours of video. It's just it takes a long time, you know, so Marvel Squad We hope you guys are super excited even though it was a sad beginning It was a happy ending in the long run and taking you know taking this break Taking this break is gonna really help me and bill just get our minds back in focus and just back in track So when we do come back in April will come back hard It's gonna come back hard We're still gonna post for you guys on YouTube, but the content everything that we're gonna do in the next few weeks It's gonna get better and better. We don't want to like rush ourselves I mean like I'm just excited Just get ready guys and also moving to freaking Florida next year, which is another next step in our life And we're about to hit 200,000 subscribers on YouTube which is a huge step in our life as well We just hit 5 million on tiktok I really appreciate every single one of you that shows your support every day on Instagram if you follow us on YouTube obviously if you're not subscribed go hit the subscribe button and tiktok everywhere I appreciate every single one of you guys that just puts in the effort to show us that you know What we do is affects you in a good way. We're just so appreciative that we're able to do this for our Freaking living like I was going to college and I told my mom I'm like I want to do social media She looked at me like I was dumb until obviously I proved it wrong But it's just crazy because I never in a million years thought I could be something that I've always dreamed of doing Like it's just inspire people like I love inspiring people No, I don't have the coronavirus He has a bunny upstairs She's a coronavirus but they have a bunny upstairs and I'm allergic to the body if you're watching this video in 2020 right now We're it's a pandemic the coronavirus everyone's going wild schools are shutting down and The iron and we're going on a flight next week. So Patrick's days and shutting down everything's just in panic mode doomsday So I'm a squad get ready for new beginnings April 1st when it's actually going to be So get ready for the next couple videos. I don't think we're going into dormant mode the next two weeks We're gonna still be posting almost every day on tiktok We're gonna be posting every week a couple times a week on Instagram and once a week on YouTube our Instagram stories We still got a lot of content. We'll be back We'll be back to three videos possibly four videos a week once we start full time Because we'll have a lot more time on our hands I'd be able to do four like adding a mini vlog or just a short little you know prank or something extra. Yeah All right mama squad. Thank you guys so much. I hope you guys Thank you. I know there was a lot of information. I hope every single one of you did make it to the end of this video Thank you for watching I really appreciate it if you are once again not subscribed to our channel part of our Marvel Squad hit that subscribe button And turn on those post notifications so you get notified every single time we do make a post on YouTube Stay tuned for upcoming videos that are gonna be ten times more lit than ever. I'm so excited. I literally I saw I've never I know people say that but I've never heard you saw us. You don't sprinkle sauce new content All right, Marvel Squad, we will see you guys in the next video I think we're gonna post they were gonna pose every Sunday starting now. Oh every Sunday. That'd be nice Every Sunday Sunday Sunday Monday, so stay tuned until April 1st we're posting every Sunday And we will see you guys in the next video, but until then Peace


We're knocking out the immediate life-threatening integrations. We take Marines from 150 throughout the camp.  Calhau workers, you take administrators, you take everyone behind the scenes, the supply workers, and then you gear them up and you do what Marines do. This exercise here this morning was just this mass casualty event. This was an integration of all of our resources. So we had fire, medical, PMO, and then H&F support for the casualties. At different gates, we had different opportunities for them. At gate two, we had them doing a vehicle inspection. And then for the rest of our gates, we had them involved with our JLTVs doing mounted patrols and unmounted patrols around the base. Fire department job was to make sure we transport casualties, patients to area hospitals. As soon as possible, when an incident occurs, we must respond quickly and we have to be able to work together with the military side to remedy the situations we have. People are here six months, one year. The continuity is not there. So our civilian counterparts, the Japanese civilians here, they are the ones that help us out because they know how to do things. And being able to have that integration and constantly retraining that with the exercises, that just makes us stronger in working together.


Jake Paul and Logan Paul, they were in my courses. Wow. And like, I did a party early 2016. 1200 people showed up in my backyard. Madison beer. These people were like just that big then, it's like Jake Paul, Logan Paul, all that. A lot of people from Vine, I'm guessing. Yeah, it was all that Vine kind of early YouTubers. It was insane. I said, let's take a picture. This will reach the most people of any picture in human history. And it was like a billion people.


We grow up in cultures with narratives that tell us who we are by ways of simplification. And this is happening everywhere.  If you go elsewhere, you will come across the same narrative across Europe from the far right.  All extremist ideologies, what they have in common is they simplify complexity. And they're based on identity politics, and all identity politics is based on exclusion. That's why I have a huge problem with all kinds of organized religions, because they're based on a distinction between us versus them, and the presumption that us is better than them, you know, sometimes expressed, sometimes not expressed. So I do agree that we intellectuals or the left, the liberals have not done a very good job in terms of connecting with people's anxieties, and we must be critical of that. But at the same time we have to see, we have to resist this tendency to simplify things, because as human beings we are so complex, we are composed of multiple selves. You know, we're made of water, our main element is water, it's based on flow. What do I mean is, yes, I'm an Istanbulite, I'm at the same time a Londoner, I have connections to the Balkans, I have connections to the Middle East. There is in me so many elements from the Middle East, you know, at the same time I'm a European by choice, at the same time I'm a world citizen, at the same time I'm a global soul. So if I can have multiple, multiple belongings, there's a bigger chance that my multiple belongings will converge with yours. But if I am based, defined on the basis of a single, exclusivist identity politics, there's no way we can find common ground. We need to abolish that narrative that tells us, you can only be one thing, you can only, you know, simplify the narrative, and for that we need intellectuals, we need public intellectuals too. We need people like you, we need people like you, I agree. We need people like you who make it inspiring, who give us new positive visions of what it is to live the way that you're living.  If we don't give them a new inspiring vision, visions of justice, visions of human unity, visions of human meaning, they'll stay where they are and that's what we're failing to do as intellectuals.  We need to go back to humanism, we need to go back to the basics, but revolutionize it, radicalize it, we can't have a more radical humanism. And I know I spoke, you know, I'm taking your time, but if I may add this, we need to also talk about certain subjects that we have abandoned for too long and faith is one of them. I think faith is a subject that's too important to abandon to the religious, you know, and faith is not necessarily a religious concept. When you start writing a book, it's an act of faith. When you fall in love, it's an act of faith. When you move to a new city, it's an act of faith. There are so many moments in our lives that are acts of faith that have nothing to do with religion and we also need doubt, because faith without doubt will turn into dogma. So we need the vaults, we need the dance, the dialectics of faith end up. These are also issues that we don't talk about and if we don't talk about these things, people go to the far right, people go to the religious because there is a need to talk about these issues. I do think that there is a common thread that needs to be emphasized between general faith, which takes courage to live more generally and religious traditions that emphasize faith. To my mind, it's very important not to think simply of religions as repositories of exclusivism. Very much with Agnes where varieties of perspectives breed their own types of exclusivism. We cannot get over exclusive, we can practice boundary maintenance in a creative and mutually enriching ways, which is what I've partly heard you say. But I also think that we shouldn't think of religions, great world religions, simply as associative and fanaticism. I think great world religions are repositories of our most enduring and most potent accounts of what makes life worth living. Some of them have endured for 4,000 years, some of them less than that. I think I would be wary of simply dismissing religious traditions, rather involving them in a mutually fruitful debate, meaning them up to rational discourse and learning what might be wisdom that might be learned from the great religious traditions, in particular about the meaning of life. We are bereft of meaning in our life. We live in a culture that is so incredibly flat in terms of experiences that we have. We have made our business, as I said, to turn stones into bread, and we have not nurtured cultivated souls that know how to enjoy the varieties of bread that we are producing. No wonder we are this satisfied. This is precisely the answer. David, go back to the stones. I just want to make two points. Both speak to you, one, you're absolutely right about religion, but I think you're optimistic right now about managing boundaries of religious cohabitation. Fanatical minorities have now the means to kill people. They don't represent Islam being the case in point, but it might easily be true of crazed Christian evangelicals in America, like Boykin, who thought the Iraq war was, wanted to rerun it as a crusade. So there's a problem, actually, again, of the core of religions being able, it's tougher than you think, in our age of social media. You know, sort of homegrown bombers and young recruits, volunteers for ISIS, represent a tiny minority who can exercise a disproportionate amount of havoc, and that havoc can then be, you know, that is the kind of dynamite of vulgar but effective campaigns that we've just seen. You don't make my point, I think that's right. Yeah, no, the second point is also, I'm just again endorsing it really, but I think when heroic social democracy, never mind Marxist socialism collapsed, what the West replaced it with, essentially, was shopping. Yeah. And that, it turns, and that, as you, I think it was you who said, in gender's new form of perceived inequalities, why can't I have that bigger car, that bigger house, and so on, and so the whole promise of America, which was a fantastic and bizarre, mysterious promise, the pursuit of happiness, then commensurately becomes the fury of unhappiness because of radically unequal shopping opportunities. You know, so you are absolutely right about, we need to do something about that. Actually, we're all witnesses of a time in history where everything is happening too fast, and I think this is quite dangerous. I mean, we've seen this in Turkey, every day something new happens, every week something new happens, and there's barely any time to stop and think and analyze and digest. You're being catapulted into the next event and the next event. That's why we need these intellectual exchanges. Very, maybe I'm simplifying, but broadly speaking, we are being pulled in two very opposite directions, and the second trend is gaining speed right now. Yes, on the one hand, we had high hopes about world citizens, global souls, internationalism, multiculturalism, which is not a favorable word anymore, and then the other one, the tribalism, isolationism, the illusion that sameness will bring safety. This is what we are being spoon-fed right now.  It's an illusion. We are far too globalized to have this. Whether we have walls, actual physical walls or not, sameness will not bring us safety. How do we break this vicious circle? So I want to focus on the similar patterns. Also with regards to religion, and I hear what you're saying, of course it's wrong to say that religion is completely negative, religions exclude a lot. Organized religions exclude a lot. And you're right, we need meaning, but perhaps there's another way of doing that. Maybe it needs a different name, a third approach, which has not been named yet, which understands spirituality, which understands faith, and at the same time resists being organized, resists being part of any tribe. And for me, approaches that cultivate individualism because I come from a very collectivistic society belong to tribes, political tribes. So anything that cultivates individualism is very precious. Because fascism and neo-fascism, these are collectivistic diseases. You need masses, multiplicities. And as human beings, we are affected by the energy of other people. So if your best friend is biased against Armenians, that energy affects you. When you're alone, it's a different story. So in that lonely space, I think there's room for spirituality, for faith. When it's an organized religion in the public space, it's a completely different story.