3 Great Alternatives to Punishment Isn't this a great question? No matter who you are or what your background is, everyone who reads this question automatically has an opinion on it or might have answered it in their head before they've even truly thought about it. The psychology and intricacy behind this question are what drew me to it, so here is what I have found. I have been a teacher for many years, in many different capacities and have had to try and come up with various alternatives to punishing misbehaving and uncooperative students. What I've found is that the approaches can generally be categorized according to age. Also, that punishment comes in many forms and does not always have to have a negative connotation to it. 1. Working with Young Children Young children often respond to negotiations and rewards for playing nice. Understanding the child's personality will help a great deal in determining what the most effective method would be for punishment. Putting them in timeout might work for a child that is very social, whereas some children respond better to stern behavior, being dominated by hierarchy. I have had two such examples in my daycare class. One child likes to be in the spotlight and is very social. When you remove him from an environment where he feels most alive, and have him close enough to see the rest of the program continue without him, it really makes him feel uncomfortable with that punishment. The second child is one who likes to push buttons, figuratively. He comes from a household where parenting is not a top priority so he runs his own show at five years old. Hence, when he acts out in class and the rules are then laid out for him sternly, he responds to the structure as if this was all he was seeking in the first place. This kind of child likes to know that you are in charge, and they also like structure and routine. Children, in general, do well with verbal encouragement and praise, so I use this wherever possible. 2. Working with Teenagers When it comes to adolescence, the person enforcing the punishment has to be aware of what is most effective for this age group. They rely a lot on public opinion and popularity so when you take them on in front of a group of their peers they often feel humiliated. If this is done with a calm demeanor without showing too much attention to their behavior it removes some of their confidence as they did not get the reaction they desired. Part of the punishment might be to show them an influx of love and care because it is embarrassing to appear soft and emotional in front of people they are trying to impress. Majority of the time this is the kind of attention they seek, even if they do so subconsciously. This I have experienced with my youth class ranging between 11 and 18. The battle with them are often more verbal than physical, so I treat it as a game and try to have fun with them while being respectful. Never underestimate the power of words. 3. Working with Adults Adults are emotionally a lot more complex than children. It is, therefore, harder to know how to treat them effectively. More often than not, a one-on-one conversation with a group offers a lot of insight and can help both the individual and teacher gain ground on what they feel. For the most part, if the unruly behavior is not affecting the class too much, then it should not be singled out until after the class in a private conversation. We have a lot going on in our adult lives that add pressure and insecurity to our behavior. From my experience there is never only one way of addressing or administering punishment, rather it is more a matter of discovering the individual and teaching them to respect others. This responsibility sometimes falls on the shoulders of friends, teachers, extended family, or siblings instead, as not all households have a traditional structure or dynamics to address this. Do you want to learn new teaching methods? Take a TEFL course today. So you see, if we want a positive outcome or result from punishment, we have to consider what kind of energy is exuded and whether it comes from a place of love or not. In conclusion, no matter what age, people can sense intention behind the punishment, so always think twice before letting emotions get the better of you. Communication is always necessary for a strong foundation. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us tollfree at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


There is no better place in Canada to talk about our future, to talk about the future of this country than here on the shores of Prince Rupert, our western most port city. The importance of our roads and port and rail to jobs and our economic stability cannot be overstated. And so that's why I'm so pleased to announce as part of our BC jobs plan a significant commitment to connecting BC and Canada to growing markets in Asia-Pacific. We're committing $15 million toward the Road Rail Utility Corridor Project on Ridley Island. $90 million worth of investments on Ridley Island. It's going to take that port from what's considered a very small West Coast port to one of medium-sized capacity. Take the tonnage from perhaps 16 to 18 million tons per year up to potentially a hundred million tons worth of material moving through that port. It's a great opportunity for a forest industry, our mining industry, our pellet industry, agri-foods, liquefied natural gas. You name it, it's going to be great news for the West Coast of North America. Canada starts here. Just imagine over the next 10 to 20 years is going to be about 35 cities like New York being built in China. And all that means that they are looking for the resources, the raw materials, the agricultural products that are in abundance here in British Columbia. The port, the province, CN Rail and I know the federal government is working closely with us at this point as well to make this happen. The Port of Prince Rupert the future is just astounding. We have to get our products to market. The closest port obviously we're standing in it here in the Port of Prince Rupert and it is an exciting day. We're aware that the coal terminal, the grain terminal, CN Rail have all hired people as well as along Shore Hall. That means opportunity for the next generation of residents of Prince Rupert going forward. It's not just an opportunity for British Columbia. It's an opportunity for Canada and it begins here at this port in Prince Rupert. Our plan is called Canada starts here.


Our next caller is Sandy from Florida. Hey, Sandy, how can we help you? Hey, Sal, how are you? Good. Good. Hey, so I have kind of a two-parter question. I'm currently running the MAPS aesthetic program. And my question is on the focus days. If I'm going to build my legs more, should I do it on more than one focus day? Yeah, you could definitely do that. You could definitely do all the focus days specific to one or two body parts to add more volume to your workouts. But here's the other thing, too. A lot of times, and we hear sometimes we get this from women, well, they'll follow MAPS aesthetic or MAPS anabolic, and they'll say more upper body work than lower body work. And here's why we've seen that way with certain programs. If you're doing X amount of volume per muscle group, then when you look at the upper body, you have biceps, triceps, shoulders, chest, and back. With the lower body, you have quad ham and glutes. So that's three body parts. So the reality is the volume is equivalent. It's just that there's fewer muscle groups in the lower body. I mean, even if you add calves, you still have less. So consider that as well. Because what I have seen from people is that they feel like, oh, I got to do more volume. They add more volume without following the program, believing that it's going to get them there faster. It's all about the effective dose. And the effective dose is, it's perfect, right? More than that, you get there slower. Less than that, you get there slower. But again, MAPS aesthetic includes focus session days that allows you to add volume to whatever body parts that you want to train. I mean, if legs are your focus, I also like making one day a quad day, one day a ham day, or do one that's true. So you don't have to necessarily do a full leg routine on both focus days. One focus day could be dedicated to more towards the posterior chain than one all the front, right? So you could do, you could split it like that. I love to do that if that's your main focus. But definitely, if that's your main focus, I think you said, I think I saw that you would back or buys you're doing on the other one. So I would go all, if legs are the main thing you're trying to bring up, make that the centerpiece of those focus days. And then how you split them, split it up is up to you. You can either do all glute, hamstring, and quads on both days, or you can go hamstring work all, hamstring and glutes all in one day, and then all quad work on the other day, which would be phenomenal too. And my other question is, I used to do lots of cardio. I was high intensity. I messed up my metabolism. I've slowed it down a lot. So I've cut down my cardio to three times a week. So I'm doing cardio only on the three focus days a week. I do it first thing in the morning, fasted, and then at lunchtime, I'll do my focus. So if Billy in developing the legs is a main focus, I definitely wouldn't be doing any sort of high intensity cardio in the morning. So hopefully the cardio you're talking about is steady state or walking. So that would be more. Yeah. If you walking on the foundation days and then on the focus days, I'll just do the elliptical or on Saturdays, I'll just do like a two minute run, one minute walk up to like 30 minutes. Okay. Well, that works. And consider, look, you said you overdid cardio before. I mean, you're doing an okay amount of cardio now. Again, there's nothing wrong with it if you love it. But if your intention with the cardio is to, I got to do more of it to get leaner. All right. Well, then you're, yeah, that approach isn't really that effective. If it's all about that, then really it's about your food intake and your resistance training. I mean, in MAPS aesthetic, because of the focus days, you're going to be lifting weights five or six days a week. So you're working out quite a bit. You would also be also, it'd be far more beneficial to be focused on building the legs and limiting almost all cardio to walking or none hardly at all. And then switch, yeah. And then switch in a month or two and build in cardio to lean out. Trying to do all that cardio and also try and build your legs at the same time. I mean, you're sitting a bit of a conflicting signal to your body. It's like, do you want me to build or do you want me to break down? And, you know, doing all that cardio and moving that much, you're going to tell the body to burn, burn, burn. And it's going to want to lean out. Trying to do it simultaneously is really difficult. You'd be far better off focusing on building and developing the legs, reducing the amount of cardio that you're doing.  Now I want to lean out a little bit. Now let's start to introduce the cardio. That would be a better strategy than trying to do it all together at the same time. Okay. Even if the cardio is like, you know, five to six hours apart, it's still, you still would recommend the same thing. Absolutely. Yeah. It's not, I mean, again, there's nothing necessarily wrong with, it's, I mean, if you enjoy it, it's great. It's activity, but based on what you're coming from and what you're doing and what your goals are, I mean, you just focus on being active. You don't need to necessarily do structured cardiovascular workouts and then focus on your nutrition. If you notice your body's not getting leaner, I would focus on, but you did mention your metabolism was also slow because of what you had done before. You might want to focus, you know, some dedicated time on boosting that. Just build muscle for a while before even thinking about cutting.   This is not sustainable.  Yeah. Yeah. Definitely doing that. Okay. Awesome. All right. Great. Thank you guys. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah. Dude, that's so, so common with clients where, you know, they have like, I want to be lean, but I also want to build my legs, you know, it's like, well, you'd be far better off focusing on one or the other and in putting all your energy towards building the metabolism, building the legs up, developing those, like the original part of the beginning of this question, and then eliminating all that cardio. And if you're somebody who like, Sal was alluding to, you were a cardio junkie before, I'm going to, so if she was my client, I wouldn't have let her do any cardio. Yeah. Cause you're trying to break down. Walk, I let her walk, right? So I wouldn't be like, oh, don't move now. But I would say, hey, we already know that this is something that you struggle with. We don't need it. You're trying, we're trying to build. We're trying to build your legs, build your metabolism. So it has no real place in our program right now. So let's eliminate any sort of hit interval training like she's doing right now for cardio. You can walk if you enjoy that and you, and that's, it's part of like strengthening that signal more that the need is, is that we need to build muscle in that general direction. And it doesn't mean that, you know, those, those focus sessions are really intense because it's, you know, it's, it's, it's pretty moderate the intensity. Really it's restorative. And it's also sending and repeating that signal, you know, that, that this part of your body really needs to come up and develop. Yeah. I think, you know, I've run into clients like this where it's, you know, it's not necessarily that they love all the workouts, but rather they fear what will potentially happen. That's right. If they're not doing all this activity, I mean, I've, I've worked, it took, there was people I've worked with that took me years to slowly work it off because they were so afraid. What's going to happen when I don't do my, you know, 20 miles a week of running or what's going to happen when I don't work out every single day, but little by little, I wore, you know, I wear them out and they eventually cut it. And then all of a sudden they're like, I'm getting lean and it's easy and my body wants to stay lean. Like this is super weird. What's going on? It's like, well, because we're now working with the body rather than against it.


various islands of the Caribbean. Tablecloth clean up holstery for a couple come on laugh and smile. We just got wedded, we'll stay a while. So Mr. Shannon, make nice party to get through our matrimony. How big time painting plays red, big thing not need is newly wedded. Thank you, Mr. Slate. You can bring in that cake now. Right away, be back with it in a minute. Oh, a cake, too? My husband and I are speechless, Mr. Shannon. Mr. Vaughn, we don't know how to thank you. Don't bother to try. Just tell your friends, Mrs. Chaney. Well, a friend told us about Shannon, please. Just last night in Miami before we were married.  If you don't visit anywhere else. You two know each other long. Oh, a couple of months. Bill and I, impetuous. Would you like to tell me something, Mr. Chaney? Anything at all. How does a man get up near enough to propose? I mean, well, I thought I was attracted to a girl. Their interests are the same. They get along together. Then what happens? Well, frankly, Ruth twisted my arm a little bit and the words just came out. Last time I clamped a hammer lock on Slate. It hurts. Now he tells me. All he told me then is that I had a lot to learn about leverage. Make way for the wedding cake. Oh, it's beautiful. What's the matter, Mrs. Chaney? Because it's store bought. I didn't know you were coming, so I didn't bake it. Nothing. It's nothing. What does he do? Well, I guess I'm foolish. Everyone's being so nice. Everyone's enjoying themselves. That man over there in the corner. I've been watching him. He came in alone a little while ago. He seems so... Well, look at him. Yeah, he does look a little played out. Bill, bring him over here. Sure, I think that's a fine idea.  I'll get him. The people over there were wondering. Hey, what's wrong with you? Come on, come on. You can't. What's the matter with him? I didn't have time to invite him to the party, Sailor. He just dropped dead. Got that old tired feeling. Now, me too, baby. For the gay party, wasn't it? The best you've ever given me. I'll cherish it always. And for a wedding present. You like that too? The dead senior Juan Contrario. I like that best of all. You've given me a new life. I feel like a brand new bride with a brand new husband. We murdered a man for you to get that feeling. You and me, baby. Which one are you talking about, Bill? The one back home? Or this new one, Contrario. The one we poisoned. Contrario doesn't count. They were a greedy punk. I was thinking about the guy back home. Thanks. I just wanted to keep him straight in my mind. I owe him a lot, don't I, Bill? That derelict who came to the door for a handout, you beat him to death, planted your identity on him, and then burned it all to the ground. So my old Bill could be dead. I could collect his insurance money and carry my new Bill again. I owe him a lot. When we get back home, I'll put flowers in his grave. It's my grave, isn't it, baby? Put my name on it. Oh, and I'm a happy, happy widow with a brand new bridal veil. Nothing can stand in the way of that. I came in at honey. Nothing? Nobody? No one. I'm tired, baby. Let's get some sleep. I'm trying to make people happy. Build up goodwill for Shannon's place and what happens. What are you talking to yourself for? You know what happens. The time we get back to the hotel, Inspector LaSalle will probably be waiting there. Getting to the cafe is a daily stopover for LaSalle's flunky coroners. Guy picks up some poison someplace in Havana, comes into my place and keels over. Maybe that man back there knows why. Huh? He's still following us? Huh? Now he's trying to look like a palm tree. Let's find out about a sneaky fella like that. Spoilers fun? Look, suddenly he's wearing a beard. Come on. Hi there. Nice day. It will rain. Your beard's dragging. That is how I know it will rain. How do you tell when you're not wearing the beard? Huh? What are you saying? He's saying, why the disguise? Why are you following us? Who are you? What are you doing here? Stuff like that there. Permit me my card. Here. Read and you will know. Eduardo Sincow. 54, Passel Tortuga. And it says here you're at Oho Particular. She? The greatest Oho Particular of them all. Of them all? You're the greatest what? Oho Particular. It's private eye. And of the matter of why I am following you, it is of the matter of why you have murdered my partner, Juan Contuario. What? You have learned of the blackmail, senor. Is it not so? So you want in? Is it not so? And it is for this that I follow. Put up your hands. Now let's stay alive, shall we? So you refuse. Very well. You will take that and also... You didn't have to hit him that hard, Flay. Blackmail? What is he talking about? I don't know. Whether to why. Let's go back to the hotel. I've got some figuring to do. Inspector LaSalle wasn't in the lobby, Flay. No, it looks good that way, doesn't it? Never saw it look better. How about at that body? I peaked. Not one. We must be slipping, huh, kid? Well, well... You know what I always say, Flay? Uh-huh. But say it anyway. I always say if a cop's going to wait for a fellow, why doesn't a cop just wait in a fellow's office where it's cozy? You come, Flay LaSalle.  This swivel chair of yours has a remarkable velocity. I came to warn you, Senor, because in so many small ways I admire you. Now don't tell me, let me guess. Wanna put your hands over my eyes while I guess?  Flay does that when he gets angry. And the reason for your anger? I had reasons. You left out the best part. He said you killed his partner, Contrarius. Oh, yeah, that too.  He gets his kicks that way. Nothing else? Yeah, something else. He thought I wanted to cut in on a blackmail racket. Then more my ears, Senor Shannon. It is thrilling what you tell me. Now with the man who was murdered in your hotel... Listen to me, LaSalle. Your cops were here, ran their noses all over the place, whispered in each other's ears, ate up the wedding cake. Then I wanted to save a piece to put under my pillow. Perhaps they were hungry, Señorita. With the same hunger I have to discover why Senor Shannon should kill. Commit the violence. I came only to tell you I will appease this hunger. Hasta luego. Till again, Senor, Señorita. The man wasn't kidding, Slade. He made it cold in here. Yeah. Tell me a warm kiss, Sailor. I'm going out. Where? To find out what gives LaSalle such a big appetite. This is the place where you are. Huh? Hey, look at me. I am looking. The way the lights through the shot strikes your face. It interests me. Much. Much. Try this profile. What does that do? Oh, it makes me want to write home to my mother.  No Torah is violent. Hey, boy, to bring home. Yeah. Now, for a P.S., you can tell Mom I wanted Eduardo Cinco, the Ojo particular. On second thought, maybe you better tell me. You wish him to follow something? To devour you from something? Yeah. From a murder rap. The one he's trying to pin on me. Murder? Oh, well, I must speak for Eduardo the appropriate false beard. He has a pretty one for murder. No bother. I already pushed that one down his teeth. Oh, he was so partial to it. What's his favorite beard? He said something to me about blackmail. That's why I killed his partner. But you wouldn't know about that, huh? About what? Off the dime, Magda. Oh, because sleep Shannon spoke my name. I will tell you. I wouldn't know about it. Which brings us back to Eduardo. My name is Magda Marquise. 12, Alvanita, Parada. We're never alone in a Spock's district at your side. Could be. Let's see, where was I? Oh, yeah. I was asking you where I could find your boss, name of Cinco, the man with a beard. He is attending a rendezvous on Little Beach at this moment. Because you said... Could be. What are you doing here? Miss Al called. She wanted you. So I thought I'd better... What do you want me for? Maybe you'd better ask him. There he is. Over there in the clouds. What's going on? I just looked and didn't believe it. It's better to see for yourself. Inspector LaSalle. Oh, welcome, senor Shannon. You have returned to admire your handiwork. No, what's happening here? Move, move. You see, senor Shannon, the man lying here on the sand has been stabbed to death. That's a little private eye at what I think of. Nor did he forget you. Mirror at his fingertips. He has written a name in the sand. Do you see it? He has written a name, Slade Shannon. Look at those people over there. Even after they take the body away, they hang around. Fire and death, Mr. Weill, holds its own particular mirror up to each of us. We look at it, we see what we wish to see. And each of us shivers because it has touched us. Is that why I'm shivering? I thought it was because it's getting chilly out here on the beach. And I thought perhaps it was because you had just killed a man. Nope, it's because it's getting chilly. Come on, sailor, I'll take you home. You can stick your feet in a hot bucket of water. See what simple pleasures I have, Inspector LaSalle. I am sorry for you. You will have to dip your feet stab. Then your Shannon comes with me. What? Why? The normal procedure for people under arrest. Hey, you're not serious. Is that you? You know, they got killed, that little guy. In one word, see. That which a pre-translation is yes. Come along. Now, wait a minute. I repeat, come along. I don't like jail, LaSalle, especially when I haven't done anything. Murder is something. Then you'll, I will be forced to point a gun at you. Save yourself the trouble. Slade, you're crazy. You'll have a whole of van of police force on your back. I was just there. Go home, Sala. I'll get in touch with you. I'm going to see a girl about a murder. I don't think Slade should have run away. They would have tried to hang him for murder, Lady Sala, and they might have succeeded because they wanted so much. Don't, King. Oh, forgive me. I only meant... I know. Don't stop playing. It helps. Where do you think he is now? I do not know, but it would be in some place where he can find a way to spare his life to us. And to himself. Why would a dying man write Slade's name in the sand? The dead have many whims. Mr. Vogue, my husband and I want to... Oh, it's a matter, dear. You look so forlorn. And I've got a keen reason. They want Slade for murder. Are you kidding us, Mr. Vogue?  They found another man on the beach. They say Slade killed him, too. You have any unsolved murders, Mrs. Cheney? I've got just the guy for you. They got your Mr. Shannon in jail? No, he got away. So he could find the real murderer. That's one for our side, maybe. I'm sorry, I pride, dear. I'm sure at a time like this you'd rather be alone. You're sweet, Mrs. Cheney. Thanks. If we can help in any way, Mr. Vogue, please feel free to... Come on, Bill. Leave her alone. He got away from him. You said writing his name that way, but... Bill, a man like Shannon could spoil it. Don't worry about it. Shannon won't spoil anything. Not Shannon, not Magda. Nobody. No one. Like I always say to you, baby. Do it quickly. Go! Wait a minute. I'm the guy who impressed you, remember? When the light through the shutter strikes my face, you used to jump up and down without getting off the floor. You must go, I tell you. I'm coming in. You do not know what you're doing. All right, you are. Get out of here. In a little while, after you explain some things to me. No, no. Who poisoned Contoiria's Magda? Oh, please. Please, you must go. You must... And who had the rendezvous with Cinco on Lido Beach? You must not ask this, please, sir. Go quickly while... While what? I will be dead if you do not go.  What's happened to you? Who frightened you like this? Here, give me your hand, Magda. Oh, please. Oh, please, you must go. Isn't this a lot better than being frightened to death? Yes. Your mascara is running. Yes. I don't care either. Tell me what's happening. No. No, you will not treat me to stay. Get out. I will show you. So long, Magda. It's a short romance and a lousy one. Yalma, how easy it is with my sleigh, eh? So long it has been you have not come to Maria's Palace of Jollies to dance before they die. Now, I've got some trouble, Maria. Well, if you cannot afford Tensan Tower to dance to Maria's place, Maria will put it on her fat coat. It's not that. I've got to have some place to stay. This kind of worry shows the police want me. I had to hit a cop to get away from him. I've got to have some place to stay. In the back is a room. It is yours. And one more thing. Get worried to sail to Tello where I am. Tello, I want to see her. See, see, all this I will do. Unfaith me to worried you, my assistant. From worried me to wonderful you, my thank you. Oh, do not thank me, sleigh Tensan. If harm would come to you, Maria would waste away. You find a guest swiping a towel? It's much better than that, Lady Saylor. This scrap of paper, it slid under my door. From sleigh? From the Lady of the Dance Palace of Jollies. Mr. Slade is hiding there. He wants you to go to him. I'd give my arm if I could go to him. The South Beagles are just waiting for me to do something like that. Those who have been snipping around our hotel? Those. I will go to him, Lady Saylor. They follow you, too. If they want sleigh, they'll have to sweat for him. I think he is in much need of you, Lady Saylor. I think you... Wait here, King. Thanks. Please sit down. Mr. Chaney, you said if I needed help, I could call on you. Well, that depends, Mr. Ball. What kind of help? I just had words from sleigh. Oh, you must be very happy, dear. And you want to share it with us. You couldn't have come to two people more suited. He wants me to go to him. If I did that... The police would follow you. Arrest him. Maybe hang him. Well, you two go. Tell him I got his message. But I can't come to him because the police will follow me. Where is you, Mr. Shannon, dear? At the Palace of Jollies in the Barrio. Tell a woman named Maria that I sent you. She'll take you to sleigh. It's like Baby said, Mr. Ball. You couldn't have come to two people more suited. Say they come from Miss Duval. Well, then they ought to come in. You do that to me, Hermosa. Anything at all. Mr. Shannon. Come on in and talk to me. That's right, Mr. Shannon. That's why she asked us to come. That party I gave you is a good investment. She told us all about it. How you wanted for two murders about the girl. Huh? About what girl? Magda. How terrified she was when you came to her for help.  You made a mistake, baby. Didn't you, Shannon? I didn't tell sale her anything about Magda's being terrified. How would you know about Magda? Because it's us, the terrifier. Well, the blackmail, huh? Get back to that.  Is that what Magda told you? Oh, Magda and I got along fine. My advice to you, Mr. Shannon, is to go to the police for it. Why don't you do that? This gun, get in the way? The gun doesn't bother me. If I had a few things to fill me in, I'd go to the police. What few things? Bill and I'd be glad to oblige. For that nice store-bought wedding cake. Like what the blackmail twist is? Oblige them, Ruth. Sure, honey. Mr. Shannon, we killed a man back in the States. I'm too an Havana. You're making an international production out of it. That's right. But let's take it slowly. We killed a man back in the States and burned his body. And the insurance company said that was Bill here. They paid me $50,000. I met Bill in Miami with the money. And here we are.  Conquarius. He saw me on the street and came up to me. Conquarius even arranged passage for Bill to Havana. Baby. Suggested your place, Mr. Shannon. Didn't he, Bill? Baby? Didn't he, Bill? Baby, I'm trying to tell you something. What? Oh, baby, haven't you figured why we came here to this place? Yeah, think about it, Ruth. Why didn't Bill just call the cops if you wanted to get rid of me? Bill. You've got to go, too, baby. Bill, you're joking. I doubt it. You collected that money for Bill's death. That makes it all his.  You understand how things are, right and wrong.  You don't know what you're saying. I know. He really does. Bill, Bill, listen to me. This is Ruth. We killed three men together. You want it from up close, Ruth? Keep coming. You don't know what you're saying. You don't. I'll never let you go. I'll hold you back. I love you so much, Bill. Slate, Shannon. Slate, Shannon. Oh, don't come in here, Maria. But what has happened? Call the police. But why? What should I tell them? Tell them Slate Shannon's here. I'll tell them the rest. I baked it myself. With candles? What for? I'm celebrating. I didn't go to jail again. There's a candle for every time you didn't, huh? Let me see. One, two, three, four. Don't count them. Just make a wish then blow them out. Why should I? To your cake? I give it to you. All right. I'll make a wish. That's very good. What did you wish? If I tell, it won't come true. No, it does. Never? Come here, Shailor. He? I didn't tell. Came true, huh? Go bake another cake. I could keep this up forever. Our two stars, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, have brought to a close our latest bold venture story. Special music was composed and conducted by David Rose. May we invite you to listen again next week at this time for another exciting adventure starring...


I'm Dan Ellsberg. I was 10 when my country went to war, having been attacked by aggressors. And we went to war against aggressors, the German imperialist expansionists in Asia and in Europe. And I grew up believing that my country was fundamentally against aggression, that we were ready to make great sacrifices for resources and even our own lives in order to defend people against expansionist aggressors. In 2003, my country committed aggression as clear-cut aggression as was committed against us in 1941 and against many other people starting really in 39, 40, 41 by the Germans. As a matter of fact, the people who got us in, who lied us into the Iraq war, we now know, had the intention that that would just be the first of a number of wars in that same region, including Syria, eventually even Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, a number of countries we were going to take over the Middle East. I don't know of another country that set out to change the entire political complex and put it under our control or their control by armed force since the Japanese and the Germans. There have been other cases of aggression, but usually just regional one neighboring country. In this case, having set out not only to commit regime change, which we have been doing for over 100 years, certainly since the Spanish-American war, but actually simply to be open clear-cut invaders and occupiers of another country as we did in Iraq. That's a shameful change. It's not as dramatic a change as it might appear on the surface since for over a century. We've been what I call a covert empire. The word covert really means not only secret, but plausibly denied, denied with evidence, misleading and false evidence that hides who is doing what to whom, who is really doing the attacking in what interests and who is actually directing it. In our case, the president. And so in Central America for well over a century. And in Indonesia, in the Philippines, in South Vietnam, in Brazil, in Chile, all over the place, we engaged in covert regime change, which is another word for empire. But again, it's empire that you deny you are doing imperial work. The cloak came off on Iraq. And actually the number of people killed by us in that case came off rose sharply with that. Our air power didn't have to be denied or was in the form of some proxy air as it was in South Vietnam from 61 to 64 at a time when US airplanes were being flown with a US pilot and a South Vietnamese in the back seat so that if the plane came down from mechanical trouble, there would be, in the words of the cables, another colored body, another color body in the plane to deny that it was actually US attack. And then of course, when the attacks became overt in 65, when I was in the Pentagon and then when I went to Vietnam, the scale became enormously higher. When we send US troops as we did in 65 or we did in Iraq, then they have to be protected, quote, by air power from the people who were shooting at them, the occupants of that country. And that air power is enormously more damaging. We don't really know yet. We've never had the curiosity or we've known better than to try to find out just how many people were killed by the war that we started in 2003 in Iraq and which is still going on. Is it 40,000? Is George W. Bush indicated 10 times 9-11? Or is it 10 times more than that or 20 times more than that? As other studies have said, there might be a million and a half and more people killed. The American people have never found it necessary to investigate that error, to really check what the body count is. They act as if we didn't care. And for practical purposes, the rest of the world can conclude we didn't care. Is that what we should consider about ourselves? The same has been true, of course, of Afghanistan where we have the color of replying to a provocation of 9-11, however thin that cover was. And that war is still going on at enormous human damage. It's time for us not only to drop the covert wars of regime change, which as I said, is a euphemism for empire, for deciding by force, by fraud, by paramilitary, whose assassinations bribery, who shall govern, who shall rule, and who shall die in someone else's country. But above all, at the same time, stop the wars of over-degression with the greater use of U.S. airpower of enormous damage. It's time for us to ask whether the rest of the world is wrong about us, when they look at us and see that the lives of other people don't matter at all, or are they right? That's up to us. Who are we?


Okay, Drew, C3, we're here in Florida. Did you do the C3 in Georgia because you're from Georgia, right? I didn't, but I am from Georgia.  How much does that help with the ranking and people knowing you are, you know, as far as recruiting? I mean, coming to places like this where there's a lot of college coaches who look at the rankings, they kind of know who I already am. They watch out for me a little bit more than the kids who are like, just coming in their first and second year of wrestling, trying to get seen.  But, you know, what types of things do you think have helped you be a top 20 guy? And what do you think college coaches are looking for? What are you looking for, Drew? I think what I'm looking for is like a college that's willing to not only help me athletically, but also academically. Like, they pay attention to school, too.  I'm trying to get into sports medicine, trying to do something big with that soon. So, athletic training, sports medicine? Yeah, type of stuff like that. Ultimately, you know, what do you want to get out of this? And what do you want to see out of the college coaches when you talk to them? You know, they're looking for work ethic out of you. They're looking for good grades. They're looking for, how do they respond to adversity? What are you looking for out of coaches? I'm thinking when we're out of coaches that they're willing to come up to me and talk to me and like, say, like, we want you, we want to talk to you about this. We want to talk numbers. We want to talk, like, even academic stuff like that. But not just, they come up to me because, hey, you hit a good move in that match. Like, I want them to come up because I know my name. Well, you keep going to, you know, C3s in the future here. And it's coming college time for you. You know, you got to make the decision by the next year, year and a half, right? You keep going to these though? Yeah, I'm going to. All right, yeah. A skills test coming up. You got anything else for me? Keep grinding. Good luck with the college decision.


Good afternoon, everyone. This is Melissa with thestockswish.com. I'm just doing a video here now why I am still in this cream. I did a video a couple of hours ago, actually, and here I am in this. Time of the day is good. It's getting into 3 o'clock, and I've stuck with this all day. It's almost unbelievable how long I've been in this train, and I just really had a lot of conviction in it to go. And I'm still waiting for some monster five-minute red bars. I think it's going to happen here now in the next hour here out of the clothes. This has had a nice, solid selling action all day, with quite a few rallies, actually big rallies, the one in the morning here and then this other one as well. But I really thought I'd get some monster red bars in this. I think it's going to come in here out of the clothes. It's the reason I'm still staying with this train. I'm waiting for it to break 51. This is going to break 51. This collapse is when it breaks 51. I mean, I'm waiting all day. It's really hard. This is like the longest I've been in a trade since I can't even remember. I mean, Creve is really completely on its own today here without the market. But the market did come in the way I thought and break the load. Then after 10 o'clock, I just didn't think it would hold. It came in too hard this morning. Spy held up pretty good though. Look how strong that spy is. Here's Creve. This is a great trade. Really had a lot of conviction. Stuck with it, did everything right. Stayed with the trade still in it. It is so late to be in a trade here for me now, but I am sticking with this thing to get paid on it. I really, really, really wanted to have a nice fat day today. And it's actually been quite relaxing here in the afternoon because the backup it had after lunch was not that big of a deal. And I really felt that it was going to break down. And then again, you know, I knew I didn't have the market against me and I love the gap here. I know this is going to break 51. I really had a feeling today this was going to close the day with a four in it. It's in sight still. First target is 51. The question is, am I going to get all out of it at 51 if it bounces here? I think it's going to break it. This is always the touchy part. 51-11. It's had quite a few big rallies today. Kept going, kept going, kept going, kept going, but you really had to have conviction to stay with it to get it down here. I mean, you really had to have conviction to stay with it to get down here. And the reason is because I know that at 51 it should collapse. So that's the reason here. Here. Come on. Come on for you. You can do it. You can do it. I should get out of this at 51 if it bounces or not now. I just think this close is looking similar to this. Let me just see here now. $2.40. Here's what I wanted to say. This is it. This is it. This is the move. This is what I wanted to see. This is what I've been waiting for all day. I want to see some big red bars here in the five minute. I want to see this kind of extension, this kind of vertical drop. This is it. This is the move. It's going to do it. Six more pennies. I don't think it bounces at 51. I'm going to try to stay with it. 51 was the target and I had a feeling if it broke 51 it ended with a four in front of it. That means it has to drop another dollar plus from here to be 49 or something to that effect, but there's an hour left of the day. I don't see this even closing with a tail. I'd be shocked if this closes with a tail at all today. I think this closes at the low. That's what I think is going to happen with this. I think this is taking all day to go. It's taking so long to go. I think this gets selling into the close. I think it sells off into the close. Here it is. Here it is. Come on, Cree. Four more pennies. Break 51. You can do it. Yes. Oh my gosh. I can't believe how long I've been in this trade. This is like a record here. This might be a record. For the amount of money I was up that I stayed with it, I think that's where the record was. I mean, I've been with other trades waiting for them to go, waiting, waiting to get paid. So funny to have to be patient when you're up. But that's how you get big trades. I think I'm going to have to start doing this like once a month. I might just pick one gap a month or something. Come on, don't bounce. Don't you dare. Don't you dare. I'm taking it. I think it's going to be too close. It's too close to break, not to break. Anyways, maybe I'm going to do this once a month. I might think here, come on, under all three, under all two, under two more points. It's going to do it. It's going to do it.  There. It's going to do it.  Don't you dare. Oh, too. I think it's going to fall in the clothes. I'm staying with it. But anyways, what was I saying? I think I'm going to start doing this once a month. I think once a month, I might pick something that I really, really, really, really, really, really love. If it hot, you know, if it's, it's different if they go in and have to go to the dream target in the morning. But everyone wants to want to get something you just know is great. And you know is going to go here. Hold on. Time of the day is three o'clock. I just got to see if it breaks $51. So anyways, it's very difficult to get out at the low of the day.  This is such a great trade now, though, I'm willing to give a little bit back to see if it breaks 51. Because if it breaks 51, it's going to fall another dollar plus. So it's kind of like one of those things. They're going to let us do one little tiny bar over itself here. This is some people getting out. There's an hour left in the day. This is not going to close on the tail. This has to keep going because there's too much time left here on the day. Here it goes. Here this is it. Oh my gosh. Alright, I think I might have to put a stop now finally on this. Let me just look. 51 11. I'm going to put a stop here. Oh my gosh. It doesn't even matter. It's going to do it. Here it is. New loan Cree. New loan Cree. I've stayed with this all day and I get the prize trophy for this today. Alright, actually, I'm going to put a stop in here now. Wait, hold on. Do you want to one? I'm going to put it at 15. Alright, okay. Stops now 5115. I just put the stop to 5115. That's it. It's too late here now. But actually, this just went down. It didn't break 51 yet. If it doesn't break 51 and get bounces over 5115, I'm out of it. I'll give them back 15 cents, but this is worth trying to see here. This is a great trade. Alright, so we'll see what it does. 51-1 is a low. I just moved my stop now to 5115. That's it. It's do or die here now for the Cree to make it continue to break or all out of it. Here, hold on. 51-08. If this is a low of the day, it's pretty exact because 51 was the target. It got within a penny. I just, if it breaks 51, it has such, such a big target. So, I'm going to give back 15 cents in this that I could have just, I could have just taken it. I could have just had an order out at 51-05 or something. But I'm going to give back 15 cents in this or thereabouts to see if I can get it another dollar. So, that's worth it. So, it doesn't make sense to give back 10 cents to make 20. It doesn't make sense to give back, you know, 20 cents to make 30. It, you know, it makes sense to give back 15 cents to try to make a dollar or more. That makes sense. So, I can live with it. I did a great job with this today. I stayed with the whole thing. I did what I had to do. I'm been really good all day with myself with this and kept in control and really did all the right thing here. It's, come on, 301. It's going to break. Oh my Atlanta. Yeah. So, I think I'm going to start doing this probably maybe once a month. It's a good test for me. I believed in the gap. I just knew the gap was going to work and I just knew there was a bigger target in sight and normally the bigger targets go in the morning. I have no idea why this didn't fall off a planet in the morning. It just, it just didn't, you know, but this is going to fall off a planet under 51. It has three more cents to go and one more hour. Stock could drop another dollar plus in the next hour. Just do it here. Nothing here. Mark is not going to rally him with a clothes either. I don't think this is a low. This didn't really, this isn't really some kind of, here, here. Oh my gosh, it's going to break. All right. This is it. It's going to do it. Oh my Atlanta. But you could have gotten out here at 51-01. That would have been just an unbelievable trade to get out at 51-01. All day I've been waiting for it to break 51 to get it, to get a massive move down here. Here, here we have it.  This is it. It's going to fall into the clothes now. Cree falls into the clothes. It just broke 51. Wow. Wow. Great job. Cree and great job. Stock swash. All right. So, anybody that's in this, ride this down into the clothes. It should fall for the next 60 minutes. It should get all the way down and break $50. I think this gets to 50 now. I think it has another buck in it from here. I'm not going to be piggy. I lower the stock to 51-15. It's starting to get too far away now, but that's where it has to be. This should keep going now. Let me just see if we can lower it some more. It could come in and retest a little one more time before the clothes too. Beautiful trade in Cree. So, I'm going to watch this like every penny now. Every penny now I'm watching this, because when this reverses, I think it's going to be big. The thing is, though, that I actually think now is broke 51. It falls into the clothes. I think it's got another hour left in it. I also think that this is going to close at the low, which is rare. Stocks don't do that that often. Again, they usually make the big huge monster moves in the morning. And I think that this is so disastrous here this gap that it's actually going to close near the low. This actually could have followed through tomorrow as well, depending on the number that it hits here, depending on how ugly, how disastrous the number of the clothes of this stock is today. This broke 51. It got to the target. It went past the target. The dream target's in sight. Dream target is actually 47-75, which is really far away right now, but another buck to 50, an hour to go. Once it breaks 50, again, just huge, huge trade down to even still the low. So, there was a million places you could have done ads in this today if you really wanted to be aggressive. If you wanted to get nuts, taken ads, or taken trades, you could have done so many different things with this today. It was a beautiful gap. It had the good setups. Even at rallies, back to reshort it. If you'd gotten completely out of the morning trade and reshorted it. Beautiful gap on Cree. I'm still in the whole thing, and I really did a great job with this today. And what helped me do that is conviction. And I think everybody in the room did a good job with this today. Some people had the biggest day they've ever had yet. So, kudos to them and really, really, really nice trade in Cree. Safe in this now protected, but I'm watching it very steadily. I want to see some major fat red bars still in the five minute chart. And I got an hour left to go. But this broke fifty-one. It should be good now till here. Don't don't you dare. Alright, I gotta pay attention to this. Good luck everyone. Stay with the Cree. I think it gets to fifty. Try to hold it as long as you can. Three oh five. We got an hour left of the day. Beautiful trading Cree. I did a great job today. Good call. Good solid day here. Have a great day everyone. And I'll see you tomorrow. If you would like to sign up for the gap class this weekend. I have a few spots left. Email me at melissa at thestopswish.com. The class is April 26th and 27th. Have a great day everybody. Here it goes. I'm going to break a new log in. Yeah! Go! Woo! Forty-nine dollars Cree. Good land time. Woo! Oh, I love trading. I love gaps. I love gaps and I love shorting. I knew it was gonna break fifty-one. I knew it was gonna break fifty-one! Viction! Alright, have a good day everybody. I gotta pay attention. Bye.


Pardon me while I finish setting this up real quick. Hi, Bowie How are you guys doing today? All right, let me get your chair We have had a busy one That's okay The is awesome. Okay, Bowie.  So you guys I hope not an awesome Halloween you got to eat a lot of candy If you're still trying to treat yourself I have a sale going on for 13% off, but today's the last day You just have to go to my website artists till that calm and use the code boo B. Oh You know that 13% off and that includes our brand new these I went ahead and spray painted this one black but it comes Like this just Wood color, I saw your message Sue about your winning congratulations and I just have to go back through and look and see who got what place and then I'll send out the prizes How is everyone doing today? Hello TG Shane Sue Susan Gale Tiffany Megan Diana another Susan Hope y'all's day has been super awesome. Tastic. We had just been working Who's at the camera my bad? so these cradleboards are Live on the channel right now. I only have 14 and stock though. So You know while getting good If you're new here, I'm Erica. Jeff is here. Bowie is in the co-pilot seat and We're artists till death we go live every day usually at 6 p.m. Central except for on Tuesdays. It's at 2 p.m. Central we Usually do resin. However, there's days where we do alcohol in or acrylics or airbrush or Crystal or glitter So I'm never know but it's always art and we would love to have you as a subscriber So if you're not subscribed, please do so don't forget to hit the bell so that you know when we go live or post a video And if you're already subscribed just double-check and make sure you still are because You too likes to be jerks sometimes and unsub us nope and sub people from our channel Anyways Without Clara here. I have no idea how long I've been stirring resin. I'm so used to her telling me It's been three minutes But that is okay I'm gonna stir a little bit more and it's true. You can never have too much glitter or sure So on this piece. I'm gonna use black red and white And I'll tell you what each of the colors are shortly If you're new to resin, it's very important to mix your resin very very well or you may end up with weak spots Or your piece may not cure at all Happen to me my first one I saved for a little over two months before Jeff made me throw it away. He was like, dude Time to let it go Hey Clara Tim. I I really struggled finding a Dragon that Wasn't too dragon but was dragon but wasn't dragon but was dragon and I think this is a good Answer to that because it's not you know what it is and you look at it, but it's not typical dragon So I'm very excited about it. What's up Rumpel? Thank you for hitting the like button a little Melissa Susan I would be Filling my glitter stash as well if I worked at Michael's no shame No shame. So majority's gonna be black and then also some red and some White And I have some left over just in case we decided to add another color Because you never know, but I'm pretty sure but you never know Okay, so first color. I'm gonna mix up is the black and that's gonna be color passion black passion if you don't know about color passion taste you can get these all these colors from my website artistledeath.com but the Passion paste our base cell paste Which means if you put another colored resin over it you'll get Cells and whatever color you put on top of it for example on this one. I'm using black passion base cell activator and Also red and white.  I know it's confusing But it's a base cell so it's gonna create cells from being under other colors Just know that that's how it works Thank You Clara the red I'm using is just resin red It's a very awesome bright Fire red. It's a true red. So it doesn't Really go pink When you use it with white unless you use a lot of heat with it and thin it out then it has possibility of going pink Just because when you thin out resin The likelihood of it mixing with the other colors you're using is greater because it's thinner and that's just science It's probably not science But anyways, so the white I'm using is Angel white from Lores, it's a pure white. I'm pretty sure it's titanium based But I like to have a color to lighten this up a little bit. I Usually don't work with under three colors and I try not to work with over five colors when I art because Then things get kind of convoluted and busy if I use too many colors. So I try to keep it limited So that's our color palette may work in some gold, but we'll see Wheel see Also, I have a running nose new splash So this cradleboard is already live on the website. So If you want to take advantage of the sale that we have Where today is the last day and you want to get one of these cradleboards be one of the first people to have them then Now's your chance Claire you want ten boards it's figured and I wasn't even sure if this was a good size, but it's 15 inches You may do some bigger ones So I'm gonna kind of haphazardly apply this resin But just hear me out. Okay, cuz I call this kind of a messy pour Because it looks really messy and sloppy right now, but it won't When we're done with it the next one We're gonna add is the red and I'm gonna go ahead and blend these colors out just a little bit Before I add the white because I don't really want to have a lot of gray present and That's likely to happen with a bunch of black and white and I don't want to risk having Pink pop up either which is also a risk when you use Red and white together, so I'm gonna go ahead and Get this bit out of the way before we move on I'm trying to only get the black right now, and then I'll go in with I'll go in with another finger and Move it right around. I know I know I haven't been called on her. That's what she said in a little bit, so Maybe it's my time. I in my work. I really like large patches of color But if you prefer Smaller lines of color maybe a little bit what I call busier That's more your style And do that, but for me it's Smaller patches of color make things busy Also, if you guys have any questions, and I miss them the moderators are very knowledgeable Let's do the red. How did I get black? Oh because the black was under some parts of the red Fill in these little bear bits I Will move on with the design How you apply this part really is as important When you're just adding color to a shaped cradle board For me It's about doing a design that kind of extents you waste the flow of the piece in general It's not about the colors themselves But everybody arts differently. No, we have everything covered Hello, hello, hello Alright, so I'm just gonna add a bit of white just to brighten it up and No real order Kind of like on those Halloween hangers How about those Cowboys last night? I know They did super awesome very proud. Okay, so I'm gonna use a heat gun With a concentrator nozzle on the end of it So that I can really focus the heat into one area Hello, Pamela So I'm just heating up the whole thing to make sure I don't have any crazy little hat hairs floating and no Faces where I forgot to put resin Then I'm just gonna push the colors around you can even Use one of these After you heat it up that is which it shouldn't take too much heat because The resin isn't that old I just mixed it when I was going live so They're not the old just gonna fan the color out with this handy-dandy blower Which you can find on my Amazon down in the description box If you find that everything's moving a little too If it's not moving very well, then you just need to heat it up a little bit more Because this is blowing Not warm air so it's cooling your resin down and when your resin cooler, it's thicker and it just won't flow as you go Think I'm gonna put some more white Somewhere around here Just feel like it needs it And a little bit right here Just gonna heat it up a little bit more make sure we didn't introduce too many Folds of resin when we're moving it around like that sweet Beauty Let's go check it out So you notice there's no black cells even though what's making the cells is the black paste It's everything that's on top of it Making the cells so where the black's coming over right here. There's not really any cells whereas over here where The other colors go over it You're getting the cells to pop up. Okay, Billy hold on something about using that Duster Makes the artwork flow makes resin kind of look like acrylics a little bit To me anyways, I could be wrong See what you think about my this?  I'm sorry that was such a short live, but I hope that you guys enjoyed it that little review of the new cradle boards that we have in stock I guess I'm gonna Just do a few coasters because I have some resin left over What do you guys think of that cradle board? What's the next one? What next shape do you think we should do that? We don't carry already or do you guys not like that? Dragon you prefer a different looking dragon Who doesn't love a dragon? Evelyn they're live They're live on the website right now that better tg. Okay, we've got Those colors Makes a little bit more black Somewhere, okay They're not okay. Two seconds. It's quite likely that I listed them and just didn't make them live One second. I just didn't make it live All right fixed it. It's there now Do a cat How about a little gold I could add gold? Well, I just put black in the rest of my resin so I'll have to add The floating gold Beauty I'm assuming you're talking about on a coaster and not on the dragon since he's already gone Claire will be back in a few. Oh Yeah, because she wanted to get the dragons Queen mother of the dragon says left the building I guess So I'm gonna try like a negative space Blow through this Why don't use one of the crosses you to do what? for a video So we've got the red and the white over the black, but I really like how it looks with this thing Looks like my red got a little diluted When I made more and I didn't add more red face But I don't mind it being just a hint in the background. Oh, you know, I can still hear you. Well, yeah And then say anything that wasn't true You are the dragon mother Our queen mother of the dragon and then put the white down first That's possibly too much, but we'll see now we can hit it with some heat and watch the cells pop out Those will start to expand the longer that it sits there as the resin self-levels Okay, she didn't know Claire if you send me Like a vector oops, all right. Well You send me a Like a silhouette of the dragon or doggy belt You can talk to builder about it. I don't know why most of my negative space pieces just flow the same way, but They do Megan I'm pretty sure I did do one I Sure Do what? What about it? I love this shirt Really love that little scallopy clamshell look This one's so they're getting big off and this one will do the same I'm running out of room. So we have enough for like two more. They're a red base one Yes, the sale does in tonight. I think when I do coasters, it's for me at the time to kind of experiment and Kind of see what else? All right Megan have a good night. It's just a good time to experiment and see What designs you could scale up kind of crazy, but that's okay Let it live for a moment see what it does It's maybe My last this may be my last one possibly So it sounds like I'm getting a lot of messages In my work computer, so if you guys are trying to get in touch with me I'm momentarily busy What if we did it some much? You know that will work This first one that we did Is kind of disappearing so we're gonna use this as the other smush I'll let all the not all of it some come out at each side Quarter turn create some action Now look super cool. You guys Get this one I'm slowly convincing myself that the easiest most Effective way to do fire with resin is to do a smush Because if I used firecolors like that would look flaming We're like a big peacock feather These two may be my favorites and they took the least amount of work I'm gonna take these over to the dfz and I'll be right back I'm tempted to squish these two. What do you guys think? That's a spicy paint job concur You guys think or no or yeah or no You guys are no FAM says remember hit the thumbs Hit the bell hit it all All free and it helps it does help Okay I'll let a little bit come out all the side so we make sure that everything's in contact We're gonna quarter turn Very interesting All right, let me See what we got here Okay, this looks like hair or fur rubber It'll do more as it settles, but this one is very dead decadent. Yeah, I almost couldn't Say whole words. I want to do it like a large smush but I think we tried that with two 12 inch rounds and then um, I had have help to Take them apart. It would definitely have to be on a cradle board and not something flat so you can get Your hands in there So you can pull them apart because They would be stuck together for a long time. That's not dirty. We'll save that one right you guys Squish with 20 inch boards All right, you're like you'd have to be here to help with that It's more manpower than I have I wouldn't Like me and Jeff together may still even need help pulling 20 inch rounds apart That would be crazy, but probably super awesome. Anyways I hope you had an awesome time and Oh Evelyn which gold powder is similar to SCC gold Which gold Evelyn they have a couple golds? Um, if it's a floating gold then it would be 007 Are there any codes right now Robin? Yes today's the last day for code boo bo Today's the last day to use that one According to trying to take a forklift that is so true Thank you guys for watching and seeing what we're up to today We cannot tell you how much we appreciate You guys being here and watching Being our friends and our fam It really means a lot to us. Good luck. Evelyn doing uba tuba granite. That's a that's a fun Finish also. Bowie is upset because I haven't taken you guys to see him So let's take a little walk Hi, bubba You can get down You get down come on We know all these people just came to see you right Did you know that did you know that they just came to see what you were doing? Did you know that did you know that? Did you know that? I know it So you guys are awesome. Thank you for watching if you have any questions. Don't feel don't feel anything about hitting me up to Get answers to your questions.  We'll see you tomorrow at 2 p.m. Central. Bye Bowie, did you say bye? Do you say bye?


Good morning Kimberly. Sorry Sherry I had to grab my headphones.  Yeah, can you hear me? It sounds like you can hear me. Just fine. I can thank you. Are you able to see me? Not that we can't do that right now. I'm sure it'll work. Yeah, let's see. How about now? Yeah, there you are. Yeah. Good morning. Good morning. I just realized the opening slide had a time from the special CAs, so I'm fixing it. Oh, good job. Are we recording already? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. The recording and the stream are going. Excellent. Good morning Kimberly. It is 1030. Are we ready? I think so. Thank you. Excellent. Good morning everyone. I'm Sherry Mead, Zoning Administrator, and I'd like to call to order the July 21st, 2022 Zoning Administrator Public Meeting. At 1030am. Pursuant to Government Code Section 54953E and the recommendation of the Sonoma County Health Officer, the Zoning Administrator will be participating in this meeting via Zoom webinar. Members of the public can participate virtually at www.zoomus.com or by dialing toll-free<PHONE_NUMBER> and using meeting ID 881-8032-5979. Members of the public accessing the meeting through Zoom can provide comments during the public comment periods. Additional information related to meeting participation is available at www.srcity.org forward slash zoning admin. The meeting is also being live streamed at YouTube and you can follow along there at www.youtube.com forward slash city of Santa Rosa. I'm now going to open the public comment period for any items that are not included on today's agenda. This is the time when any person can address matters that are not included on this agenda, but which are within the purview of the Zoning Administrator. Each speaker would be allowed three minutes to speak. And Recording Secretary Kimberly, would you be able to provide information on how people would be called on, please? Yeah, all of our attendees are able to make a public comment by raising their hand within the Zoom meeting or if people are calling in on the phone, you can press star nine and you can be recognized and be able to speak. So we'll wait just a couple of minutes and see if anybody chooses to raise their hand so that they're able to make a public comment. Kimberly, I'm not seeing any raised hands, are you? I do not. Okay, so we're going to close public comment then and I'm going to move on to item two, which is Zoning Administrator Purpose. And this includes the Zoning Administrator Statement of Purpose, which I'm going to read. The Zoning Administrator is appointed by the Planning and Economic Development Director and has the responsibility and authority to conduct public meetings and hearings and to take action on applications for all administrative permits and minor discretionary projects. A determination or decision by the Zoning Administrator may be appealed to the Design Review Board, Cultural Heritage Board, Planning Commission or City Council as applicable to the decision. The next item on the agenda is Consent Items, item three. We don't have any Consent Items, so I'm going to move on to item four, which is Scheduled Items. Today, unfortunately, I'm going to have to continue items 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 due to agenda and material posting issues. These items will be heard at the next regularly scheduled DA meeting, which is August 4th, and that will be on or after 10.30 a.m. And Kimberly, our recording secretary is going to put up a slide that will include meeting information for the August 4th meeting. And Kimberly, if you want to go ahead and put that up, that would be great. I'm at this point going to adjourn the meeting of July 21st and I will see everyone back here in two weeks. Thank you so much. The meeting is adjourned.


Last week I was gifted a very special pair of shoes for a special day in my life. I didn't know how to make the video, but I said, you know what? Either way, I'm excited to show you guys these shoes. So we're gonna go ahead and hop into the studio. I'm gonna break down the sneakers, show you everything about it, tell the story, and I'll show you guys some of the other details on why these mean so much to me. So let's go ahead and get into the review. All right, so I know these look like some regular Air Force One box, but trust me, these things are special. Starting with the tag right here, it says Air Force One White White, size 13, just for me. And then opening up the lid right here, you see it says Sparkle and Bling It, one of one by Liz. So, as you can see right here, special wrapping inside of the box. Now, opening up this little envelope, this is a note that she wrote to my parents saying that she was thankful for the opportunity to create these shoes. And again, Liz, you are amazing. We'll talk about her in a second. We gotta show you guys the shoes first. But this was her note that she wrote to my family, and then this is the repair kit, so it has the little, oh, should I tell you guys yet? Maybe I'll show you guys in a second. Either way, that's the repair kit with all the information about the shoes. And now right here, this is her branding. It says Sparkle and Bling It. This is the name of her business, which I'll have everything linked down below in the description. And then we got the shoe. Oh, we got the shoe. So as you can see right here, this is no ordinary pair of Air Force Ones. Now, you guys know I love samples and PEs, and I'm not too into the customs, but when it comes to certain customs, especially ones that were heartfelt and thought of by my family and friends, where they create moments and tell me those different stories through the sneakers, and it's amazing work like this. Yeah, I love shoes like this. So some of you may or may not have seen, I talked about the car accident that I was in on May 28th of 2013, and it's actually been 10 years since that accident. And it still has affected me to this day because it was a day that literally changed my life. I made a video about it, talking about the whole situation and scenario. I'll make sure the thumbnails right here so you know what the video looks like, and I'll tag that down below in the description if you guys want to watch that after this one. But basically, I was in a car accident, car rolled about seven times down the freeway, I was hurt really bad, and there was a lot of things in my life that just, I never thought would be the same. So to be able to come back and play football and do all these things, and live my life and enjoy what I do, and be able to create these videos and share these moments like this, I'm so thankful for it, and I appreciate these gifts and I appreciate all this stuff. So that kind of gives you guys just a small glimpse of why I love this shoe so much already. But all the details and everything that goes along with this shoe, I'm excited to show you guys as well because these things are crazy, bruh. And I'm also gonna be using other custom gifts that I've received over the past 10 years as well incorporated into this video because they actually kind of all tie in together. So like typical fashion, we're gonna start with the bottom of the sneaker and work our way up. Both shoes are different, so we got a lot to go over. Starting with the outsole classic All-White Air Force One, nothing different right there. Midsole, same thing, All-White Air Force One. And then the upper. Oh, the upper. Liz, you are amazing. That is all I can say. Link down below in the description if you wanna check her business out if you ever want anything done like this because I low key might need to put a order in too. So as you can see right here, the crystals are all throughout the shoe, but one thing that I really love about this is there's multiple sizes. Everything is perfectly placed throughout this shoe. It's crazy how much time and effort I could already tell that it takes someone to do something like this. So again, I appreciate the work on this project. Now, on the back end around the heel, you have number 19, which is my jersey number. That's the number that I wore in college. I was number nine back in high school and then 19 when I got to college. And all my friends and family knew me for rocking and loving that number. Now on the swoosh right here, you have an all red swoosh with red jewels throughout that. And then you have an angel with a halo on the top of the swoosh and the angel wings right there. And I got my angels tatted on my back when I turned 19 to represent my brother and sister that didn't make it when they were born. And now they still got my back to this day and I'm thankful for them. Now going to the front end of the shoe right here, it says, foot heel family, and it has a heart on the toe. When I was playing football in school, like you see, hold on, let me show you real quick. This is one of the helmets that I received as a gift with a painting of all of us on there, which again, if you guys wanna see more detailed videos about all my other gifts as well, I would love to make those and tell some of those stories. But as you can see, my foothill college logo is right here. And then this is some of my stats. 2014 foothill college MVP on offense, 2014 California all conference wide receiver. And those are just some of the details on this helmet. But again, like I said, the foothill, everything is kind of tied into the same thing because I was going to foothill college at the time when the car accident happened. And that brings me to say, shout out to my foothill family, my coach, the training staff, those teachers, my teammates, everybody at foothill. I appreciate all you guys during those times being there for me during my recovery and everything like that. It helped me and motivated me so much to know that I wasn't alone and I had you guys by my side and you guys were there to help me. And you guys actually cared about me and cared about my family and was there for me. So again, thank you to you guys as well. Shout out to the foothill family. So it's dope to see that on the toe of the shoe. And we'll talk about the toe of the shoe other side. Obviously football was a wide receiver so that makes sense. Now looking at some of the other cool details on the shoe, you have the Air Force One lace lock at the front of the shoe and it's all jeweled out, iced out right there. Super dope detail.  Now go into the back end of the shoe.  And then you have white stitch with a Nike air. And then you have a red bar in the center of the foot. And then go into the inside of the foot on the swoosh right here.  So again, all the details, there's little jewels inside of the black area, the red area, even on the swoosh, everything throughout, it's just so, so nice. And the representation of the different things with my jersey number and my angels having my back and my football team and the coaching staff and everybody like that. They may not know, but either way, when I got in the car accident, I only had one shoe on after I came out of the car. And my left foot was the foot that got all mangled up and it was all tore up and my toes were messed up. And it looked like my foot went through a blender. I know it kind of sounded a little gory, but that is what happened. And basically, it's just funny seeing the heart right there on my left foot because this foot definitely needed the most love out of the two feet from the accident. So let's take it to the right side and talk about some of the details on this shoe. Now, looking on the outside of the foot right here, you can see it has the red swoosh, same thing like you have on the left foot, but on the inside of here, instead of having the angels, it has the dates, 528, 2013. Those are gonna be some numbers and some dates that will always be meaningful for me. And I'm surprised I don't have it tatted yet, but eventually I will. But either way, May 28th, 2013 was always a big thing. And it's so crazy to see this iced out version on a 10 year kind of life anniversary type thing. And it's just, I don't know, this I've gotten some amazing gifts in life, but this one right here is definitely one of the top gifts that I've received from my parents and my parents in particular, every single year, they always get me something that's meaningful and heartfelt and custom made for me. Whether, like I said, it's a football helmet or we got shoes and cleats, speaking of that, let me show you one of my cleats real quick. This is another one. This was me playing, it's got my grandma on the inside and it's got me and it's got the May 28th right there.  I broke like six tackles. Honestly, it might have been more than six tackles if you guys think I'm lying, trust me, I'm not into my nine and 19 different stuff. Again, another great, amazing gift. I'll talk about these in another video someday, but like I said, each year for the past nine years, now 10 years, I received a gift and it just, you know, it's kind of like another birthday for me from my family. So it's always dope and fun to see what's coming. And I kind of do feel like there's always something coming every year and I'm just thankful for it and it's always fun. So now to be able to tell these stories and share this with you guys on my channel, it's always fun. I don't care if I get 10 views or 100,000 views or a million views off of this video. This is me sharing my true love for sneakers and art and life and all these things and family and everything. So family, fast and furious. Nah, but yeah, I'm just really thankful for all this stuff and seeing these details on the shoe. And I've seen these before and it's so crazy because I'm still making this video and I'm like, I'm just loving every moment of all these shoes. So going throughout the rest of the shoe, like I said, you got that iced out jewels all throughout the rest of the sneaker. And then on this side of the shoe, throughout the whole side of the foot right here, it says, I'm here to make a difference. This is a tweet that I tweeted out the night before the car accident happened and I literally almost lost my life. For some reason that night, I remember, I just felt like, man, I'm working so hard. I'm trying to do good in football. I'm running my business. I'm doing all these things and I want to make an impact. I want to help people. I want to do, I want to just do good things. I don't want to leave this world and not feel like I didn't do anything positive. So I'll just tweet it out. You know, I'm here to make a difference. Just simple as that. I want to make a difference. And hopefully, you know, my videos help you guys and I hope that you guys get joy and knowledge and all those things and humor and all this stuff. When you guys watch my videos, I appreciate you guys again for all that stuff. And if you look right here on my helmet, it actually shows the same thing. This is a picture of the tweet that I posted the night before at 855 PM, May 27th. And my parents had saw it and they screen-shotted it after the car accident. And it became like a thing in my family as well. Like, you know, DJ's here to make a difference. He's trying to make a change.  I want to, everybody talks about a generational wealth, building portfolios, having multiple homes, not only just building financial greatness, but either way, it's just, I just want to make a difference and I want to be able to make a change and move the needle forward as much as I can, not only for my family, but for the people that look like me, the people that weren't supposed to make it that far and all those different things as well. So for me, I'm here to make a difference and maybe I need to put that on a shirt and start rocking it more often again because that's something that I truly feel every single day when I get up and make these videos and have fun and go travel and teach people and do whatever I can to help out, learn, earn, teach. If I go throughout the whole day and I don't do one of those three, I'm like, what did I do that? You can't do anything productive. You didn't learn nothing, you didn't earn nothing and you didn't teach nobody nothing. Like, what were you doing today? You know what I'm saying? Just chilling, playing the video games, I get it. Maybe you earned a reward on the video game, but either way, it's not bad with playing video games. Trust me, I love playing video games.  Either way, let's get back into the shoe. I'm just talking today. We going all through it. I'm just spilling my emotions today. So, on the backside right here, you have your red and jewels compared to the black, yet on the inside of the swoosh right here, you still have the black swoosh on this side and then wrapping to the toe. You have the football, jeweled out. You got the white jewels, the brown jewels, the paint job is crazy and then you got the same thing right here, jewels on the Air Force One logo. Detail on these things are amazing. Again, Liz, you did a dope job. If you guys are interested in getting anything like this for yourself or a gift for somebody else, Liz is a part of the DNA fam, the sneaker head academy. She's in the community and she also does dope things like this. And I probably would have never known or had the opportunity to get something like this if it weren't for the community. So again, if you guys want to be a part of the community or if you want to get anything done from her, both of those links will be down below in the description because it's so dope to see how all of this just like comes full circle from building a community of people and having like-minded individuals and us all sharing love and passion for each other and for the things that we have a passion for with sneakers and all the different stuff. And at this point in the video, now I told everybody in my community I was gonna select somebody to win a free pair of shoes because if you guys don't know, in my community, every single month we give away a free pair of shoes and then you guys have the opportunity to enter challenges. Sometimes you win the challenge based off of like who did the best and sometimes I just select a random person and in this scenario I wanted to select a random person but basically I asked people to say, hey, post a photo of some shoe that means the most to you and tell me about it and tell your story just like I tell my story and I love to hear about it and then I would select a random person and give them a free pair of shoes and every single month we do challenges like this. Some may be talking about investing, some may be talking about simply which color outfit do you like more or which shoe is better or show me your most recent pickup. There's a lot of different challenges every month but if you guys want to be in the community and enter into these challenges and win free pairs of shoes every month, trust me, it's a fun thing. I love it and that comes along with the course and all the other stuff that goes along with the program that I teach you guys stuff. So there's a lot of like-minded individuals in there. I appreciate everybody in the community. Now let's go ahead and select somebody for the winner. I'm announcing it in today's video. We just talked about it in the live stream the other day and again, we do live streams so if you guys want to be in the community and hop into live streams and catch up with us and get any other sneak peeks or any behind the scenes info from me, make sure you guys tap into that because that's where you guys get direct access to me to ask me any questions that you may have or if you need any help, I can help you or somebody else in the community can help you. So with all that being said, let's pick somebody as a winner and let's go ahead and announce it so I can contact them and send them some free shoes. And I just thought about it. Originally I was gonna highlight just one person and show the winner and all the stuff but let's go ahead and run through a few people that entered just so we can highlight a couple people as well. And shout out to Liz, she entered her thing in here and this is the shoes that she actually wore to her wedding. Again, go support her business and check it out, link down below. I think if you wanna do custom sneakers in particular you have to message her or something like that or hit her on IG and then you can actually get even more custom work done. Now let's go to the next one. Carl Pinnaker. Oh, we talked about this in a video in the past. He UNC off I won. I helped him get this shoe in a trade and it was like his most valuable trade and this was his ultimate grill. Another dope shoe and I'm glad I could be a part of that. We've got Space Jam 11 right here. What else we got? Ken right here. He was wearing a patent bra once to his wedding. Finesse, my guy, it's kind of a long story. Stay tuned, I'll explain it in a minute. Okay, he got a new YouTube channel as well. Make sure you guys check out Finesse's YouTube channel. I'll link that down below in the description as well. We got my mom in here. We gotta highlight this one too. This right here is the sneaker room collab.  And I wear pink cleats all the time and I helped make the movement with pink shoes on my football team and my mom was always there supporting that. And every time we get a chance to get some breast cancer sneakers or something like that, we always grab them. And this one, I know we're both happy to grab. I made sure that I put in a special order just for me and my mom to get this shoe. So I remember that this is a super dope sneaker right here. But yeah, that's just a few people that submitted their entries. Now, let's pick a winner that wasn't selected out of those people. Let's go with, who we got right here? Brady Nguyen. These shoes are the most meaningful to me because they are what really kind of made me a sneaker head. They're my first ever Jordan. Okay, dope. So lost and found Arizona ones. And as you can see right here, they put in some work. I am not mad at that right there. And they're new to the community, new to the knowledge. I'm love to help you out, Brady. Whenever you need anything again, always hit me up. But you are the winner. So I'll be messaging you right here in the community. Let you know that you won. I'll get your size and information and everything like that if you're watching the video. Either way, that's our winner of today's video. And on our community are monthly challenges. So if you guys ever want to be any challenges, again, hit the link down below. I give away shoes every single month. People don't, they be sleeping. I literally give away shoes all the time. I give away accessories and merch and all types of stuff. So if you guys want that or special discounts to my own website or anything like that when it comes to merch, hop into the community. I would love to see you on the inside. This was an amazing, amazing gift. One of my, I gotta find some crazy case for these things. These things go wild. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and let me know what you guys think about any other special shoes you may have in your collection and things that mean something to you as well. I'll always love to hear the stories that come behind sneakers. So drop comments down below. Don't worry, this is a safe zone for us to comment and share our stories together. And I appreciate all you guys as always. Again, thank you for the gift Liz. Thank you to my parents for all this stuff. And I'm just so happy to add these to my collection. So I'll see you guys in another one. I'm out. I would never let you down and sit my D. Hey man, the only choice I like to make what I'm a winner is one and all. I would never let you down and sit my DNA.  I was made for it.