Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Social media has been abuzz with the term Brahmanical Patriarchy and it took a Twitter controversy to shift attention to it. To discuss what it really means today we have with us Uma Chakravati to shed light more on the aspects of what it really means and thank you so much ma'am for joining us and discussing this issue with us. Interestingly it took a Twitter controversy to talk about this term and everybody since then has been wondering what it really means. So what is your take on it? Well you know actually the Brahmanical Patriarchy has been in circulation and interestingly it's been in circulation amongst women's studies scholars and amongst Dalit students in particular. So it's circulated in certain categories but nobody paid too much attention to that because that's a constituency which doesn't make its mark necessarily in the media in a certain kind of way and to that extent there is a prehistory to the to the Twitter controversy. If you look at it it's a bunch of Dalit women in and we have to see that the controversy comes back to us from America not from here and it's a bunch of Dalit women who stand with that poster and handed to the Twitter the the CEO of Twitter saying smash Brahmanical Patriarchy and that has to come to us in these parts and it's raging here but nobody paid any attention to the fact that it was circulating among certain sections particularly so I think it's interesting that we even our controversies come to us from mediated by America. And only then have we actually paid attention to it. So Brahmanical Patriarchy is something that people are trying to get their head around of course that it's all around us but it took us this particular instance for us to discuss what it really means. So if you could break it down for our viewers as to what is really Brahmanical Patriarchy and where can we see its manifestations around us. Yeah well I'd go back to the you know why is it that the the this was a paper that was published in 1993. It was something that I'd been thinking about I'd been thinking about caste and gender together but I'd been particularly thinking about it since the 1990 the Mandala agitation. Those of you who have been around here would know that the Mandala agitation is the one that raised the caste question for the first in it was meant to be around the question of reservations in the civil services but OBC reservations but actually it the relationship in caste and gender in a sense was known or at least may not have been theorized and its source is a is a post many posters that young women from the elite Delhi colleges were carrying in front of them which said we don't want unemployed husbands to the to the ordinance. Now when I indicate that why is this that there's this bunch of young women who are carrying this poster and it's seen as something that is a you know a radical act on their part anti-state act on their part what is it saying and everybody and that they are protesting and they're protesting on behalf of their potential husbands and people laugh and say you know they think it's how crazy that is that the problem with it is only that they are protesting not for themselves but for their potential husbands but the most serious part over there is what I flagged not in the paper on Romanical Patriarchy but later in a piece of work that I did is that it who is it why is it the more ordinance only said who's going to who was going to get the jobs okay the OBC were going to open up where is the ordinance now these young women could have married these OBC characters just as much as anybody else who why would they actually protesting is because they saw it being taken away from their potential husbands and I would say that Vipi Singh has passed passed only the ordinance on the jobs who has indicated that there was an ordinance which said women should marry some some people should marry only some others that's an internalized ordinance that women carry around them so the link between caste and gender was very apparent in that slogan in that whatever and that to me was a fundamental issue in the way in which we needed to think about the conjointness of caste and gender in Indian society so that you reproduced caste and you produce gender gender inequality simultaneously through the same system and it is for that reason that finally I wrote my piece on Romanical Patriarchy because I am a scholar essentially of ancient Indian history the first formulation that I made was based on the textual traditions it has a textual tradition and in the structures for early India and because it takes us back it actually shows you the enduring power of a set of ideas which made endogamy the pivot of the reproduction of caste but also the reproduction of inequality among men and women and among women and women because that's the structure that came into being you know talking more in terms of how it manifests itself around us and how sometimes we ignore those kind of intersections so multiple systems around us are intersectional there's a nature of intersectional oppression that you've pointed out very correctly so if you could discuss more about those that we see around ourselves that we see in cases around us in terms of honor killings and yeah yeah well actually that's a good opening for issue if you look at it and then I went on after this 1993 article in 2003 or 4 I published a book which was called gendering caste through a feminist lens where the full discussion of this issue was explored and one of the things that is striking is however modern you are never mind whether you're in the United States of America or anywhere else when you marry you seek to marry from within your own endogamous group and the most visible sign of that is the advertising as advertisements if you look at the matrimonial ads they will actually privilege who you are so it will say Punjabi Khatri something something they may not say only you need to apply but the fact is that you marked your own identity so you're only expecting responses from the same community and sometimes you will get an ad which will say caste no bar it's rare it will it'll often come from the from the castes that are regarded as low in the hierarchy so in a sense the reproduction of caste is being sustained through the matrimonial system and it has no relationship to modernity you can be absolutely modern and you can still follow it so modernity or the ad world works very comfortably with the caste system in India and so it's as ubiquitous as that and I think that's so in a sense the endogamy they're acknowledging that endogamy is at the heart of the caste system and marriage is a highly controlled let's say element in our family system and our and our society is evident from this account that I've given you so at the end of the day we are reproducing the caste system it is not at all being diluted now often it will be said that the government is creating caste through the reservation but you're not acknowledging that caste is being also reproduced through the marriage system violations of this are very strongly punished and we know as women and especially if you blur the boundaries so if it's a uppercast boy and a lower caste girl that's also not good but it'll be tolerated but if it's an uppercast woman and a lower caste man then it's completely it's regarded as extremely what would you call it a violative of the social codes and it's punished with violence you enforce through violence and you know how terrible it can be sometimes you can kill the daughter itself and you know it's like or that is the structure that we're working in so I would not like to call it on a killing it's a wrong term we should call it custodial killing girls are in the custody of their families and the families execute the death penalty upon them informally and that's the structure that's so violations of the what you call the pratilomic relationship which actually go back to Manu I mean he's the one who bars Anuloma and Pratuloma is there are two categories Anuloma is containable Pratuloma is what has to be completely banned so that's that structure of reproducing caste is and caste inequality and gender inequality all simultaneously is being maintained even through modern times and through modern family systems so that brings me to another question in terms of how we trace this system back to Manu because a lot of activists who've come forth because of this movement have said that it is not against a community it is not against perhaps Brahmins it is talking about a system which has its roots in Manu I'm glad that some of the activists are writing back like that and let's also take it back let's let's take it back to Ambedkar I mean the person who really focused on endogamy as the basis of the caste system is Ambedkar and Ambedkar says very clearly he would stand against the Shastras for sure but he doesn't it's not the individual Brahmin or the individual Shatriya or the individual Banya that he would position himself against it's the relationship of these people within the caste structure and so Brahminism is simply the ideological let's say basis for caste and caste inequality so as he puts it very movingly in my opinion because as someone who's a constitutionalist he said because it stands against liberty equality and fraternity that's what you're positioning yourself with so the controversy is completely nonsensical I mean you can belong to any community but if you stand against that system of inequality which reproduces both caste and gender inequality so text strictly speaking everyone should be against should be against that system that mode of everyone should be against Brahminical patriarchy if you're a constitutionalist and if you stand against inequality you must actually be against Brahminical patriarchy because that's the source of that inequality and interestingly of course about a good thing has been the discussions that have come out of this whole controversy but again there has been a very strong reaction coming from political fronts coming from the BJP and the congress alike about how it is an attack on certain communities so how would you react to that that it's an attack it's completely nonsensical it's not an attack on community it's against it's an attack on a way of thinking and in a way of reproducing social relations it's against the manifestation of this it's against that structure it is not against individuals you can belong to any community you are any set of people and it is not to say that caste is not being let's say endogamy is not being practiced across the board so it's not only the Brahmins are practicing it or the dominant sections are endogamy is being practiced across the board and but it helps us it helps to reproduce caste inequality that is what we have to acknowledge and that is what we have to stand against and you can belong to anywhere if you're a democratic person you would stand against if you're a democratic person and you're a feminist and anyone can be a feminist you would stand against gender inequality and caste inequality so you would be against Brahmanical patriarchy it's as simple as that now coming to the question of smashing Brahmanical patriarchy how do we do that in our everyday lives if you were to give you know messages to young people because we're all very charged up currently thinking about how we can end this structure of oppression together so what is the key takeaway from this I think the key takeaway is to see not to ignore that this structure also reproduces the inequality of resources yeah so when we talk about and I want to take back take this back to critical moments in our history in which we should have ended the perpetuation of the caste system in terms of caste class and gender inequality you know so we have not actually made live resources communal or distributed distributed resources instead the palliative of I mean I'll stand for reservations as longer as they have nothing else but the fact is that the reservation is only a partial it is only a way of saying you have a right to live and I'll give you a job but the fact is that you should everyone should have access to resources so I think that the way to end it is that you have to work you have to struggle and I say this to all activists you have to struggle against caste class and gender inequality simultaneously and you should not postpone this struggle and say first we'll do gender then we'll do class and then we'll do class do you have to actually strike it all three simultaneously because it's the same structure it is the three joined together which have created this unequal structure and everyone should smash it everyone should smash it because it's an unequal structure and it's to my mind it's a visiation of the constitutional provisions and the constitutional spirit so I would say that's what you have to do so on that note that there are multiple oppressive systems and we can't fight them singularly and we have to fight oppressive systems together so we leave you with that message thank you for watching news click thank you so much ma'am for this discussion with us thank you thank you thank you


By far, one of the most frequent questions I get on social media and rightfully so, is is there a role for marijuana or THC in cancer? And there's a good reason for that because if there's any options that's not chemotherapy or can be kind of adjunctive to require less chemotherapy, that's a good thing, right? Well, the answer there is kind of. So as far as against cancer itself, there's extremely little data to support that it actually has anti-cancer properties. However, there are some mice models that show that it may have some anti-cancer properties in glioma cells. Now if you extrapolate that, everyone's maybe heard of GBM or glioblastoma, multi-form, there's some hope in a smaller community that that might actually have some anti-cancer effects to that kind of tumor. But outside of that, there's very little data to show that actually shrinks tumors. However, there is, I think, arguably, if not inarguably, a role for cancer patients and cancer treatments. Because there is data to suggest that, number one, if you are having nausea and vomiting, especially from chemotherapy, that is refractory to those kind of drugs that you're prescribed by your physician, that there's evidence that it shows that it can actually help or improve that nausea and decrease those vomiting episodes. The other part of it is, at least with immunodeficient patients, like with AIDS, Durabinol is a synthetic THC product that's been used and prescribed with efficacy to help appetite and basically put on those calories you need. And it's very common, actually, for oncologists, or not uncommon, a doctor's favorite term, for oncologists to prescribe that as well, when cancers are basically suppressing the appetite too much. The third thing that it can help with is, in addition to nausea, is arguably, now this one's more debated, but with pain, cancer-related pain specifically, that is kind of refractory to those opiates or the opiates causing too many problems for patients to have a good functional quality of life. And there are several smaller studies and, you know, anecdotal evidence where patients do say their pain related to cancer is better from THC. So is it something that's absolute bogus? No. If anyone tells you there's no place for it, there is data to show that there is a role for THC-related products, at least in symptom management, if not anti-cancer, one day. But at the same time, it is not something that's directly shown to help reduce the size of the cancer or help survival at this time.


All right, ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages welcome to the first ever Lankerty Day. We're happy to have you here I'm Flynn from buoyant. I'm gonna be telling you who's speaking or something like that Over here. We have our first speaker kicking everything off with the introductory marks William Morgan the CEO of buoyant the one who got all this stuff started or something like that.  Have at it Thank you Flynn. Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome It's the first ever Lankerty Day very early in the morning Or extremely late at night for many of us depending on what time zones we came from so I really appreciate you being here today and working through your Your own biological limitations to stay awake Okay, I'm gonna do some housekeeping stuff first So if you are speaking here today, please arrive 15 minutes early Catherine is German and she wants to make sure everything is Gonna proceed in an orderly fashion So, you know what happens if you're not here exactly 15 minutes before All right couple sponsor. Thank you Let's see first. I want to say thank you to our gold sponsor arm. Philippe are you Here somewhere. Okay. If anyone is interested in talking about arm on Lankerty Turns out that Lankerty rocks on arms, so please go find Philippe Over here. There's a blog post here. We've got QR code for your convenience blog post. We've got arm Neoverse for Edge and then there's a very cool Kubecon talk coming up later this very conference about The magic of arm and Lankerty So, please check those out and then come say hi to Philippe loss also like to say special. Thank you to buoyant I have a lot to say about buoyant because I am as Flynn mentioned the CEO of buoyant, but I'm gonna Try to keep my enthusiasm in check and not Talk too much about that, but I will say buoyant has a booth back there So please do swing by and check out some of the very cool stuff. We're doing around Lankerty And ask for a demo of buoyant cloud. So thank you to buoyant sponsor of Lankerty day All right, we've got only a couple hours in this event And we have an incredible selection of talks Flynn and many of the other folks in our audience were on the program committee We had some amazing submissions and it was very hard to fit in we didn't manage to fit in everything that we wanted But we're gonna start off with zero cost Lankerty at Adidas We're gonna move on after a little coffee break. We're gonna move on to cost-efficient multi-cluster monitoring We're gonna learn how Lankerty secures one-third of Norway's annual state budget. I sure hope Lankerty works Only one person was laughing Don't worry. It's fine. I'm pretty sure it works We're gonna hear a very cool talk zero to prod in two months with a team of one Okay, we'll take a little break and then a personal favorite of mine the negatives to a per-host service mesh So we'll hear about sidecar versus per-host models And then we have three lightning talks and I encourage you to check out these lightning talks because each of these were pretty much full talks and Due to limitations of time we asked our speakers to squeeze 35 minutes of content down into five minutes So it's gonna be a lot like listening to a podcast at like 3x speed There will be a huge amount of content in there and thank you to our speakers who went through that non ideal process And then closing remarks. Thankfully not by me. I'll get out of here and Casper will take us home after that We're gonna do some lounge lunch round table Discussions, this is a mandatory event.  That's not mandatory I'm just kidding But some of our speakers and other Lincority community members will be hosting some end user discussions So if you want to go to lunch and especially if you don't have any friends, which Looks like many of you don't now you can go to these lunch round table discussions and talk about Lincority With your group of new newfound friends. This is gonna happen at 1230. So we'll break into small groups and You know, you can suggest topics of your own or whatever you want to do So for those of you coming in late, come on in welcome at 1230. We're gonna do some mandatory lunch discussions not mandatory So please be here at 1230 or just stick around till the end of the talk and have lunch with some of your newfound friends Okay, finally, I'm not gonna talk too much about Lincority 2.13 because it was announced Just a few weeks ago got some great new features I think we have a maintainer session in coupon. So if you want to learn more about 2.13 and our plans for 2.14 We'll have a maintainer session So please check that out and then we have these monthly Many of the maintainers and Flynn Teach these monthly hands-on workshops. So the next one which is happening in May Which is believe it or not next month. We'll cover the two new features in in Lincority 2.13 circuit breakers and Fancy request routing Okay, finally almost finally And after this I'm gonna Talk a little bit more so I guess it's not finally These two QR codes go to google forms So take a little picture now because these are not coming. Well, no, you'll see some of these again This is how you can give us feedback because the first time we've ever done Lincority day I want to make sure that we're doing this in a in a good way So the one on the left will give us feedback about the session as a whole And then the one on the right I'm sorry the other way around the one on the left will be for individual talks The one on the right will be for the session as a whole So if there's a speaker you think did a particularly good job Please give them some feedback if there's a speaker you think could use some help Give them some helpful feedback Everyone appreciates that Okay, so that's the uh, that's kind of the um The housekeeping stuff and we'll see some of that later I did want to talk a little bit about uh, you know, because this is the first time We've ever done a Lincority day. I was thinking back about some of the history of of Lincority And you know, it's been I pulled up the original blog post from the CNCF. It's been six years Since Lincority joined the CNCF It's actually the I think the fifth project that ever joined And it was a big deal at the time because the CNCF was quite small and not the Giant machinery that you see around you today And if those, you know, for those of you who are in those early cubecons, you know They were like held in little hotel, you know ballrooms, you know You could fit the tiny tiny room you could pretty much fit everyone who cared about kubernetes in there And so Lincority has been around for a while. We actually graduated, you know, a few years ago which is a top tier of you know, of CNCF maturity and and um, we've never really had a Lincority day until now and part of the reason is because It seems like a lot of work, frankly But also because you know the adoption behind Lincority has just over the past year It's been crazy because Lincority is a pretty mature project But the the adoption has really ramped up over the past year and it felt like we had to do this now We have companies like adidas and db shanker and salt security Adopting Lincority. We're going to hear about some of those talks today. We have, you know A lot of other organizations around the world who we're not going to see here today who are adopting it Who are talking about it? Lincority is powering systems that handle critical financial transactions That handle personal health data including potentially some of your Personal health data they handle 911 calls These are incredibly sensitive systems. They have to be secure and they have to be reliable And they are all relying in turn on Lincority Last year the number of stable clusters around the world that are running Lincority actually doubled I think that's a pretty remarkable feat for a graduated Project right and I think it's especially remarkable because in the early days Everyone told me that Lincority was going to fail I can't tell you how many times I heard Google is going to crush you Kubernetes crushed mazos. It's going to happen to Lincority. Why are you doing this? And I can't tell you how many times I heard Focusing on simplicity is not going to help Kubernetes just crushed docker swarm swarm was simple Kubernetes is complex simplicity is not going to win And I can't tell you how many times I heard. Oh, you've got better technology, but that doesn't matter What about beta max and vhs? We all know beta max was a better system. Well, if you're old like me, you know, beta max was a better system, you know, I heard that over and over again, but We knew we had to try we knew we couldn't just thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate that You know, we couldn't just shrug our shoulders and say hey I guess things just have to be shitty and complex in kubernetes land right that didn't feel right to us And the fact that we're here today. I think is evidence that they Were wrong right and the fact that you are here today is evidence that Simplicity does matter and that better technology does Make a difference and that focusing on operability And on reducing the human cost of running a service mesh is critical And what is interesting to me is that in many ways, I think linker d is an inconvenient truth In this industry Much of the cloud native ecosystem. I think would prefer the linker d wasn't here Right. We make things harder For them cloud vendors have their own solutions. They want the ones and it locks you into their platform They don't like the ones, you know, the fact that linker d is so portable Right and the consultants that we talk to they often they don't want to recommend linker d because They want to recommend the complex projects that require a lot of effort and investment so that keeps them, you know, stuck in the You know, making money from their clients And the hobbyists that we talk to You know, linker d is boring. It's a very boring project. We talk about how boring it is They don't want that they want the magic kernels sprinkles, you know, that that solves everything And they don't have to care or worry about debugging the kernel at three in the morning Right. Now that's kind of a generalization All right, we've met consultants, some of whom are here today who are doing the right thing for their customers And they want to do the right thing and we've met and we've partnered with cloud providers Understand the value of diversity in the ecosystem. They want to make linker d part of their platform We've met hobbyists who are aware. I mean, I was a hobbyist myself for a long time Who was aware of the production costs or making intelligent decisions? But if you are here today and if you are choosing linker d I think it's because you're brave I think Choosing linker d takes courage. It's not an easy choice You know, you're going to have to talk to your colleagues and they're going to say, why aren't you using Istio, why aren't you using cillium? Why don't you Well, what about this blog post over here, right?  It's a significant one It takes courage and it takes guts And it takes gumption And I'd like to thank you for doing that because I know it's not easy And on our side And I'm going to stop talking now so you can all relax on our side I just promise you that we're going to do our best not to let you down. So if you are giving us the If you are placing our trust your trust in us And bringing linker d into your organization, we're going to do our best to live up to that. So Thank you all for being here today. I'm really excited about the talks that we have and I'll be out at the point booth. Please swing by and say hi. Once again, I'm william morgan Thank you folks and welcome to linker d day


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This is the Danny K. Show with Harry James and his music makers presented by Pat's Blue Ribbon. 33 fine brews blended into one great beer. Yes, neighbors, for your entertainment, Pat's Blue Ribbon presents Eve Arden, Bob Jealouson, Benny Rubin, Shirley Mitchell, the outstanding music of America's top band, Harry James and his music makers, yours truly, Ken Niles. And those 33 fine talents blended into one great comedian, Danny K. A great honor has been conferred on our boy Danny K. He has been appointed chairman of the Seventh War Lone Bond Drive in his neighborhood. For the past week, he has been busy recruiting bond sales and as we look it on him now, he is recording his activities in his daring diary. Dear diary, Monday, Eve Arden came over today to type the speech I'm scheduled to make at our neighborhood bond rally. And as she sat down at the machine, she said, go ahead, Danny, start dictating. I'll take down your speech on the typewriter. Okay, let's see how I start now. Oh, yes, friends. I got a lot of friends out there. Go ahead, Danny, continue. Yes, it is indeed a privilege for me to address you good people of our community on this most important occasion. That's all I get for that. Goodness. You know, Eve, you could type much better if you took the cover off the machine. Well, Danny, I haven't typed in quite a few years. You know, I once worked as a secretary for a firm that printed theater tickets. Oh, really? A father and his son ran it, but I quit. Oh, why? Well, the son stuck to business printing tickets, but the old man was always making passes. Continue. Yes, never mind reviewing your jaded past, Eve. We've got work to do. Right now, we've got to get out and sell some bonds in the neighborhood.  Well, here's the first house, Eve. I hope we can sell a bond here. Good afternoon. I'd like to talk to you about... Well, oh, well, it's my prize of football at Denjike. Well, hello, Professor Tartone. It's good to see you again. Oh, sure. It's good to see you, too. It's like I always say there's no friend like an older friend when the good weather gets it together. Right? Right. Yeah. Say, this is a very well-built house you have here, Professor. Oh, sure. This is a house that she's built out of a stuncle. I don't know what. Stuncle. Stuncle? Sure, no, that's a plaster with a goose pimples. Excuse me, Miss Arden, what's the matter? You look so puzzly. Don't you think I talk plain?  Well, Professor, we came over to see if we could sell you a war bond. Oh, sure. I'll buy a bond. Well, that's fine, Professor, because buying bonds is very important. You see, it not only help shortens the war, it'll also help to prevent inflation. Inflation? What's this inflation? Well, inflation? Inflation is a... Well, it's a... That is, I think inflation. Henry, Henry Morganfall. Coming, mother. But really, Professor, let me give you a simple example of inflation. You see, five years ago, you went in to a store to buy a suit of clothes. Six years. All right, six years. The suit cost you $25. $14.95. All right, $14.95. Now, that's a wooded two pair of pants. All right, with two pair of pants. Now, that was a fair price. Now, then comes a boomer. More money is in circulation. The dollar buys less and, as a result, the same suit cost you $40 and without two pair of pants. Now, do you understand what inflation is? Oh, sure. Inflation is a suit with one pair of pants. Xavier, I think we might cover more territory if we separate. You take the east side, and I'll take the west side, and I'll get to Le Brea before you. Okay, Danny, good luck. All right. Hello, is the man at the house in? I'm the man in the house.  Fool the ice man, too. It's okay. Don't you recognize me? Oh, yes, yes, your B vitamin pill box, Vice President of the radio station. How come you're not down at the studio? Well, you see, today is my wife's day out, and I have to take care of the house. Oh, no, I can't. But I keep in touch with things. When I'm doing the housework, I keep the radio on. I make the beds with Vic and Said, then I luxe my undies with my Perkins, and at 10.15, I mop the floor with John Judd and wife. And then... Uh-oh. Time for this changing world. Let's, Mr. Pill Box, I came here to see you about buying some bonds for the seventh war loan. Oh, I'll be glad to buy one. I'll take a $25 bond. You better make that $50 bond. All right, making a $100 bond. That baby can talk me into anything. He's a pretty bright little fella. What do you mean? What do you mean? I think I know what's wrong with him, but you'll have to help me. It's a two-man job. You know how it's done. I think so. Let me see.  No, no, no, no. You take the other corner and fold it over there. That's right. Then you take this last corner and pin it up there. Well, I guess if I can do it on my head, I can do it on the baby. I hope Danny's making out as well as I am. I think I can sell another bond at this house. Well, hello, Evie. Come on in. Why, Ken Niles, I didn't know you lived in this neighborhood. Yeah, I just moved in. Oh, you've got a nice place here, Ken. Very charming. Very well constructed too. Why, the walls go clear up to the ceiling. Yes, I like it very much. In fact, I call this house my blue ribbon. Oh, how cute. Yeah, and take a look at my swimming pool out there, Evie. Paps gave it to me. Well, what do you know? That's the first swimming pool I ever saw with a head on this. Ken, I really dropped over to talk to you about Paps. Well, gladly, Evie, I'm only too happy to enlighten you. In the first place, Paps is the blended beer, full flavor blended from never less than 33 fine brews. You see, the Paps blue ribbon process of blending is the only way to ensure that grand, even goodness, that rich, full flavor you find in this great beer. It has the most delicious, tingling, appetizing flavor that ever flowed from a bottle. And just one sip of it will make you say, this really is one of the world's great beers. So order it with confidence and serve it with pride. For no matter where you go, there is no finer beer, no finer blend than Paps blue ribbon. You're right, Ken. And no matter where you go, there is no finer by no bigger bargain than United States war bond. Dear diary, Wednesday, our door to door bond selling campaign is moving right along and it really put our neighborhood court over the top. We held a huge rally on our block. When I stepped up on the speaker's platform to open the rally, the crowd rose to its feet and cheered. All right. Thank you, crowd. Maybe I'd better forget the speech and get the rally started with a rousing number from Harry James and his music makers. Harry, let's have blue blue. Very much. You really got our rally off to a great start. Say, Danny, if you want to see what I'm doing for the bond drive, come and take a look at the sign I've set up over my booth. Oh, well, well, well, what do you know?  That's a great idea. Who's the blonde? I am. Don't worry, we'll think of something else. Oh, if that's so. Well, I'll then sell plenty of bonds. Now, just stand back and hold this fresh lipstick. All right, gentlemen, step right up, gather around.  Send your father over.  All right, don't crowd now. Who will be the first man to buy a thousand dollar bond and get a big kiss from me? All right, who will be the first to buy a $500 bond and get a kiss from me? Who will be the first to buy a $100 bond? $50 bond? $25 bond? Does anyone have a buddy, buddy, 10 cent worth? Kiss me, son. Thanks, Rover. I'd better run down to the drugstore and get myself a bottle of perfume. Maybe that'll help. What kind of you're going to get? Take it easy, dear.  Wow, Oda Cologne. See you later, Dan. Okay, I'll take care of the booth while you're going. I'll see if I can sell some bonds. All right, folks, step right up and get your war bonds. Heavy, heavy, heavy, best buyin' a rare United States war Oh, hello. Oh, hello.  You probably can. I have no resistance. You haven't? No. Both my Scott master are only here to advise me. No, seriously, would you like to buy a war bond? Oh, I'd like to, but everything I have is tied up. For investment in the stock market. Oh, you're so convincing. Well, can I put you down for a bond? Can I put you down for another bond? Sure. Well, now you can put me down. How about it? How about what? The kiss. Oh, the kiss, yes. Oh, that's for the girl. Oh, well, I'm a girl. Oh, are you? I mean, do you? Oh, yes, come to think of the job.  For instance, a $25 bond buys bullets and a $50 bond buys a submachine gun and so forth. Now, what size bond do you want to buy? Well, I'll just kiss you and you can name it. Well, I'll just kiss you and you can name it. Okay. You've just bought a Jeep. You've just bought an airplane. Danny tabulates his bond sales to date. Kitty Callan joins Harry James and his music makers and keeps the bond rally going by singing the very lovely ballad, I Didn't Know About You. By the way, how are the bond sales going at your booth? Oh, fine. I sold a hundred bonds and gave away a hundred and one kisses. A hundred bonds and a hundred and one kisses? Yes, one of my customers had two heads. Well, I'm glad my drummer's patriotic. How about you, Harry, want to buy a bond? Well, I'd be glad to, Ely, but right now, I think you've got another customer.  Hello, Blondie. How's the kissing business? Fine, fine. Who are you anyway? What's your name? I'm Daniel Q. P. Kane. I'm three and a half years old going on, too. How can you be three and a half going on, too? I'm backward. Hey, mister, are you a fellow? Hey, mister, are you a fellow? Hey, are you? Well, no, I'm Harry James. Oh, Harry. Who's he? You say you've never heard of Harry James, the famous trumpet player? Oh, is that who he is? Hey, Mr. James, let me play a trumpet. Would you let me go? Do I blow you in trumpet? Okay, okay. All right, little boy. All right. Now blow right into the mouthpiece. Okay. I think you'd better give it up, though.  Oh, no. Got you, Betty Gravel. Now look, little boy, you're blocking the booth and I'm trying to sell war bombs. Come on now, go away. No.   Besides, you shouldn't kick my dog. Kick your dog? What dog? I don't see any dog. Oh, you can't see him. He's invisible. He's invisible? Well, what kind of a dog is he? I don't know. I can't see him. I told you he's invisible.  I'm glad I ain't married to you. Me too. Now go home. Step right up, gentlemen. Step right up, gentlemen. Get your war bombs here. Get your war bombs here. Look, will you please go home? I can't go home. Why not? Because the finance man is waiting and I owe three payments on my automobile. Automobile?  I wear glasses. Oh, that's logical. Hello, Eve. How are the pawn sales going? Oh, fine, Ken. Would you like to add to my sales? Well, I certainly, Evee. Here you are. Well, $100. Thank you, Ken. Now, how about my kiss?  He's going to kiss her now. I got to see this.  Go away. Oh, no. Go on now. No, I won't.  If you don't go away, I'll have to... What? What's the matter? You stepped on my cat. What cat? Don't bother asking him, Ken. His cat is in whizzicable. She talks funny, don't she? He's got a dog that's in whizzicable, too. Not anymore. Why? What happened to him? My horse ate him. My horse is a race horse, and we couldn't race him for a couple of months, but now we can. Why? You know why? No. Because they just lifted his curfew. Hey, look, Evee, maybe I'd better come back later and collect my kiss. So long. So long, Ken. Say, Blondie, why do you kiss every guy that comes up to this booth? Hmm. Why do I kiss everybody? Don't you see that sign over the booth? Yes. You can read, can't you? Yes. Well, what does it say? I don't know. It says that with every bond that's purchased, I give away a free kiss. Ah. Well, how long has this been going on? Give me three billion drillian schillion dollars, will you? Three billion schillion dollars, will you? Yes. Mm-hmm. I'm rich. I'm a regular John D. Rocketsmeller. Now, just a minute. Where would a little boy like you get all that money? Oh, I want to shootin' marbles with Keith Fulton. Shootin' marbles? Yeah. I used a loaded Aggie. You know those Aggies that you see with the old colors? How much do you actually have in cash? Well, let me see. A cash of four billion three hundred and eighty-six million. And ten million. How much have you actually got? I'm gettin' to stop naggin' me. I'm not a come-tom-a-nam-a-name. Well? Come-tom-a-nam-a-name. Well? Come-tom-a-nam-a-name. Well? Come-tom-a-nam-a-name. Well? Come-tom-a-nam-a-name. Come-tom-a-nam-a-name. Come-tom-a-nam-a-name. Well? I got exactly twelve pennies, three bottle caps, and an autographed picture of Gabriel Heter. So just give me ten cents, and I'll give you a war stamp. I bought a war stamp at school yesterday, and when I looked at the pasted in my book, it tasted so good I swallowed it. Oh, my goodness. That's terrible. No, it isn't terrible. It's wonderful. In ten years, my stomach will be worth two seventy pounds. Well, anyway, here's your stamp. All right now. Give me my tits. Just a second.  I want to see the manager. Come-come now.  I want to see the manager. Now, please. I want to see the... Welcha. Come on now. Give me a kiss.  Yeah, I know. But when I kiss a girl, it makes me feel older. Well, if it makes you feel older, okay, here. Well? I want to see the manager. Oh, he came back to get his kiss. Oh, you're still here, are you? Yes. And while you're away, the lady gave me a war stamp and a kiss for ten cents, and three bottle caps. Oh, you... Bottle caps, huh? See, that interests me. Are they PAPS Blue Ribbon bottle caps? What? Are they PAPS Blue Ribbon bottle caps? I don't know. I got them from my father. Well, let me see. Yes, they are PAPS Blue Ribbon bottle caps. I surprised them, didn't I? Yes, your father shows rare judgment for these bottle caps sealed in the flavor and goodness of one of the world's great beers. And the reason for its greatness is blending. That's why PAPS is more than just another beer. It's the blended beer, full flavor blended from nevertheless than 33 fine brews. Yes, blending is the only way in the world to obtain that distinctive tang and sparkle, that day-in-day-out goodness, that true and perfect beer flavor you enjoy in every sip of PAPS Blue Ribbon. So order it with confidence and serve it with pride. For no matter where you go, there is no finer beer. No finer blend than PAPS Blue Ribbon. Dear Diary, today I'm very proud because our neighborhood band rally was a huge success. And around out the rally, Harry James and I got together on a song which we call Concerto for War Bonds, Op. 7, with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and special lyrics by Milady Sylvia the Fine. It went like this. When you're buying a band, there is something beyond them. A fact that you simply are buying it. When your country has made you a lucky indeed to be able to keep on supplying it. As a venture financial, it's very substantial. You're not merely handing your money in. Though for your country it is at the same time it is an investment to gather the honey in. Now I could do some preaching, rhetorical, reaching persuasion with verbiage tactical, but here is a viewpoint that might make a new point at least that's exceedingly practical. When you buy in the drive between 75 and 25 actual dollars, put the very same sum out a new lonely comma with several items as follows. A hat with a bead which you don't really need because a couple of wearings were dated. Or a hairdo that's new with a lot of fruit blue.  You could buy a new dress that would satisfy less than the dress you are already wearing.  Or a fancy new show which you don't need at all for the weather is getting too hot for it. You could go to a nightclub or put on the bike club or hangovers all that you've got for it. Though your Aunt Mary loves very fancy new gloves. If today you are buying a gift for her, she would be just as fond of a shiny new bonnet and doubly more of a lift for her. If you want to be thrifty with three seven fifty, your bond brings you half of a sea note. While you're saving your dough at the same time you know you are sounding for freedom. The keynote for the bounce that you blow while in Europe we fall with a real world with all for each D-day. If it weren't for that who knows where we'd be at. We might never have had a V-E day. But the war isn't won. It's only half done. We've got plenty to go and we've got to have dough to keep sending out guys all the guns and supplies all the planes all the tanks all the best for the ants all the things that we can to demolish Japan got a back to the attack with a mindset of attack not alone, not election not only perhaps if you want to sound bye bye bye bye That was great Danny. Great. Are there any more entries in your diary? Yes, Ken. I've got a little memorandum here which says don't forget NRW. But I don't know what it means. NRW. Any phone number? I don't think so. Oh wait a minute, Ken, I have it. Now I remember what NRW stands for. National Restaurant Week. You see in wartime what we eat is particularly important. That's why the week of May 7th has been set aside as National Restaurant Week. The slogan is eat well and the purpose of the week is to give a big hand to the restaurants that plan our meals so carefully that we get all the vitamins in the alphabet and good old fashioned flavor too. So this week and every week remember that good food and a balanced diet help to keep the nation healthy and that in wartime you have to eat well to work well. That's good sound advice Danny. Oh thank you Ken and remember the next time you eat out go to your favorite restaurant and say Oh there's good food tonight. Good night sale. This program was directed by Dick Mack and was brought to you by the Pat Brilliant Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Peoria, Illinois. His CBS The Columbia Broadcasting System.


There is no substitute for a skilled attorney who has done her research and is prepared to make a strong argument on behalf of her client. If funds were unlimited, legal aid offices would have many more attorneys on staff ready to help clients avoid eviction, receive the child support they've been promised, or protect themselves from an abusive partner. However, as we all know, each budget cycle brings tough choices. The numbers of people needing legal help continues to grow, but the number of attorneys legal aid offices can hire is not keeping pace. Some technologies offer an opportunity to serve more clients or offer better services while spending less money. Technologies such as document assembly and online intake systems allow attorneys to practice at the top of their licenses to leave clerical work to others so that organizations and clients get the full value of each attorney's expertise. The ultimate benefit is the opportunity to provide service and information to more people who need it and to positively influence the outcomes of legal actions faced by the poor and underrepresented. Technology is not a panacea for the struggles legal aid organizations face and it will never replace legal aid attorneys. But in many cases, service delivery technologies can help you reach more clients than you ever thought possible and set a new standard for what clients can expect from your organization. Over the next few minutes, we'll discuss what questions you should ask yourself before implementing new service delivery technologies and point out a few potential speed bumps to smooth out before getting started. We'll look at the cultural factors in your office and across your state that may signal a resistance to certain kinds of technologies. We'll discuss whether it makes sense to widen the scope of your project to include other offices or advocacy organizations and the issues you'll have to consider as you coordinate multiple stakeholders and we'll review how clients are using technology and the expectations they bring to the table. We'll also look at return on investment and discuss how to prioritize your technology investments and finally we'll give an overview of the technologies many legal aid organizations are adopting to better serve their clients. Let's get started. Cost is only one barrier to implementing new technologies. New technology can change your office's culture, both how you work with colleagues and with clients. In many cases, these cultural changes are positive because they create opportunities to fix communication gaps or simplify workflows. But regardless of the benefits, change can be hard.  Do senior attorneys on staff prefer FaceTime? Do they struggle with basic technologies such as email and file sharing? If your organization struggled to implement a case management system, have those issues been resolved? What are the communication gaps within your organization and how can this technology help remedy them? What are the benefits to an individual attorney? Do you have the staff time available to both manage a major technology project and to keep your technology current as laws and procedures change? Do you have a plan in place to sell in your new technology, both at the selection and implementation phases? Even if you can't answer all of these questions now, they can give you a sense of what you need to keep in mind as you move forward with new technology and help you weigh whether now is the right time for your organization to pursue a large-scale technology project to improve service delivery. The biggest of these barriers is likely to be the cultural one. Attorneys, especially those who have been practicing for many years, may feel that any substitute for one-on-one interaction with a client weakens the quality of service. Often, they argue that an experienced attorney can pick up on nuances that are easy to overlook. While this is undeniably true, it's also true that many legal problems are straightforward and come up frequently. An attorney spending time on routine matters that don't actually require much legal expertise is inefficient and limits the guidance the attorney can provide to people with more complex cases. Pro-say litigants may have the most to gain from self-service technologies such as document assembly and expert systems because the alternative for them is to be completely on their own. Another important factor to consider is your clients. What do they need from your organization and how can technology better meet those needs? According to Pew, 87% of Americans are online and 64% own a smartphone. Many of those smartphone users are young adults, minorities, and lower income. In fact, for many individuals who qualify for legal aid, their phone is likely to be their only access to the Internet. Since the beginning of legal aid, one of the major obstacles has been the struggle for clients to travel or take time off from work to address their legal issues. A strong case can be made that a growing percentage of legal aid clients not only prefer online tools and resources, they need them in order to be successful. Legal aid organizations that do not provide online options may be leaving a significant gap in service. Consider the demographics of your community and clients before you make a technology decision. You may find that providing different ways to access services opens the door to new clients who need your help. It's clear that many people can benefit from new service delivery technologies. But is the investment worth it? There is an economic reality both legal aid and private attorneys need to face. Legal needs are growing, the ability to pay for legal help is shrinking, and the access to justice for people of all backgrounds is at risk. There is a limit to what one attorney can do, and technology offers opportunities to extend that limit further. Attorneys will continue to be in demand, and will continue to be an essential part of the justice system. But attorney time is too valuable and too costly to continue applying to simple tasks. However, many service delivery technologies will cost tens of thousands of dollars to plan, build, and implement. As a result, some legal aid organizations feel that they are faced with a tough tradeoff. Do they hire an attorney or invest in technology? Most experts see this as a false choice. There are times when hiring is necessary, and other times when technology ought to be prioritized. In each case, the most important determining factor is how many additional clients can be served with that investment. One way to calculate the benefit of a new technology is to determine the time savings and consider how many additional clients can be served. For example, if a process that takes an hour of an attorney's time can be reduced to 30 minutes, and your office typically completes 1,000 of those forms each year, then your office just saved 30,000 minutes or 500 hours. If your organization's average client requires 5 hours of attorney time, then you just made room for 100 more clients. That's a big win for your organization and underrepresented people in your community. Also, consider whether technology can help you provide better quality help. For instance, video conferencing tools could allow attorneys to talk to clients more frequently or support attorneys in unbundling cases. But don't assume that technology is an easy win. Setting up the plausible time saved or more clients served can be a big help in thinking through what makes sense. But if just to break even, you would need to serve more people than are eligible for services in your state, that's clearly not a smart investment. If you're pretty certain that you'll need technology to solve a particular challenge, then the next question is how do you go about it? How big a project should you take on? And how much time and money should you invest? There are many factors to consider. First, you need to sort out what offices and agencies will be using your system. For example, will you limit your online intake system to just your regional legal aid office? Or will you coordinate with offices across the state? Often, clients don't realize that geography determines who helps them with their legal problem. They may contact one office only to get forwarded to another, which can be very frustrating. A statewide system has the advantage of acting as a centralized hub that can seamlessly direct people to the right resources right away. Users don't have to know what offices work on what kind of cases before getting help. That's one less barrier to overcome. The downsides of a statewide system are likely to come as no surprise. Coordinating with multiple people at multiple offices can be difficult, especially when you're deciding the details of your technology project. For example, often not everyone agrees on which questions should come first or how questions should be worded. During issues further, different courts will often use different language or have different procedures, so a document assembly system that attempts to standardize forms across the state will often encounter pushback from judges who prefer their own way of doing things. For any statewide technology to work, you're going to need to get buy in from all the various stakeholders and manage their input. This will require you to build in a significant amount of review time and runs the risk of being delayed significantly by unsatisfied partners. You also may want to consider what areas of service makes sense for your organization. Some legal aid organizations worry that the demand for their new technology will be too great to manage. Washington State, for example, limits its intake to denial of public benefits and eviction, urgent needs that can have a domino effect on people's lives if left unaddressed. Less urgent matters are handled through walk-in and hotline systems. While being overwhelmed by new needs is a common concern, so far very few of the organizations that have adopted new service technologies have experienced levels of demand that they could not manage. Nonetheless, understanding the limits of your organization's resources and designing your technology to work within those limits is an important part of the exploration process. Finally, when considering the scope of your technology project, it's important to ask yourself whether you will want to implement additional technologies in the future and how you can build in scalability to prepare yourself for these future upgrades. For example, online intake may work best if triage is also integrated, but you can't do both right away. How do you adapt your current triage system to your new intake system, while also leaving room for a seamless adoption of a new triage system within the next five years? Looking through what technologies you need, how they work together, and a realistic timeline for when they will be up and running is important to do early in the process, because the complexity of these technology projects means they require significant planning to keep them from being delayed and going over budget. If you're interested in how technology can help you serve more clients, then there are a few different kinds of technologies you should consider. First, before looking into service delivery technologies, you need to make sure you have a solid foundation.  No innovative technology can work without a secure, accessible file server. You also need an effective office software package that includes email tools and shared calendars. Next, you need to make sure that you have a solid case management system that is flexible enough to evolve as your organization evolves. Document assembly is also an important time saver. It automates the creation of legal documents that are used repeatedly, including such documents as wills, leases, contracts, and letters. You can think of document assembly as templates that can be used over and over. This shortens the time for document preparation and increases the efficiency of your practice. Using an online portal, applicant clients, navigators, or volunteers can input information into an online system to determine suitability for legal aid representation, collect information about the individual and his or her situation, and prioritize legal help. Most online intake systems can be integrated with a case management system, allowing you to import the data you collect automatically. Text messaging is a simple, cost-effective way to provide instant information for people without a desktop computer. Mobile apps can help you provide information and link users to various tools. In the near future, your organization may be offering online intake and video conferencing through a mobile device. Video conferencing enables attorneys and clients who are in different cities to meet when travel is not possible. It can also be used in the courtroom to allow individuals or attorneys to appear in court without traveling long distances. Attorneys, pros and cons, or others can navigate an expert system to get the information and resources they need. Expert systems often include document assembly as well as live chat help. This video series was made possible by a grant from the Legal Services Corporation. If you're interested in pursuing new service delivery technology for your organization and have a sense of which technologies are right for you, click on the module that covers your chosen technology and learn a little more about what it takes to implement that technology in your state or at your organization.


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It's a new year and it's a new me or it's going to be a new me If you're curious stay tuned Thank you so much for joining me. This is a collab video with my beautiful beautiful friend Marlene Fab and glam and I know many of you know Marlene. She's been on YouTube for a while. She she's just such an Awesome person and she has she actually made my List in my top nine of the new year's tag that I did She she was actually the content creator that has inspired me the most this past 2021 so for 2022 I am going to let Marlene continue to inspire me and we're doing this It's a new year. It's a new me or is it a new you? It's an anyways that's the tag that we're going to be doing and Marlene has had such a phenomenal 2021 inspires her health and Obviously her skincare is working for her She's found a niche in a job that she really seems to enjoy a lot gets a lot of gratification from and helps so many people so she's just totally inspired me and so My thoughts my feelings and going forward and I'll be really curious to see what Marlene says in her video We have no idea but It's a new year and it's an opportunity for a new me and I kept looking at myself and I kept thinking you know One of the goals, this is gonna sound weird, but one of the goals that I really have for this year It's to stop trying So hard to be The best I can be for everyone else I Don't know if that makes sense You know the best daughter the best mom the best employee The best boss the best wife The best anything you know to stop trying So hard to be so good for everybody else I don't know if that really makes sense and to really focus and I want to focus in on being the best for me Right. I mean just being the best for me the best I can do for myself right now and I Really want to work super hard to reshape my body that that's a goal number one diet Exercise I want to work super hard at adjusting my attitude about Always having to try to be the best. I'm just accepting sometimes that I'm not obviously and it's not It's not that I'm failing It's just that I'm human I'm human. I'm a person that Isn't perfect right life isn't perfect but I want to make the best I can of the life I have and So I've always set these high expectations to try to be the best of everything I do and I want to let go of that I want to I want to take more of that a sit back and kind of breathe there a type of thing and just kind of absorb everything around me and just Super enjoy everything around me so working on that attitude of Accepting who I am internally me more so accepting who I am rather than trying to always change and achieve and all of that stuff So maybe it's that I'm going to be 68 next month and I just want to Enjoy it because I see things happening around me people my age that are no longer here People they get sick suddenly and you don't even know or pass away without any warning is giving me a new appreciation on what I What's really important in life? So working on that attitude is huge and to that front what is really important is is health right health is is a number one Primary thing. I'm an overweight woman and I've always all my life struggled all my life with diet I've never been thin. I have a beautiful thin sister. I Have and I envy my thin sister who does not have a weight issue but I've never been able to achieve that. I've never been able to really just not have to be worried about my weight So new year knew me. Yes weight is number one and to that front You all know that I got a bike, right? And I'm like so super excited about my bike and Jane I've been doing more biking outside So my goal is to continue to bike to that front We brought down an old spin bike that was up in our hay loft up in the attic. It's got to be 20 years old I don't know the thing as heavy as all heck put it in our living room so I can get on and pedal My bike in the winter time to try to exercise and get some hand weights So I'm trying to get into a morning routine or an evening routine, but more importantly some sort of routine To stay physically fit and stay active. I We went to a motor home show yesterday went to Boston Concrete floors we walked all around. I Was not out of breath. I was able to go up and down the motor home Stairs, I was able to go up and all around on the hot sometimes that hot floor. I felt that My movements my being able to physically move around like that was really super awesome And I credit that with the activity that I've been doing the bike riding and and you know all of that inside so I got my my bike and put a picture of my little bike my Glenda Glenda the Goodwitch and Before the snow came Jay, and I rode as much as possible. I'd go around the neighborhood I'd get in six miles just going in and out of the cul-de-sacs it behind my house here Boring ride, but still exercise and yes, it's an electric bike But what a lot of people don't understand is that an electric bike can give you an assist when you need it And if you don't need it, you don't have to have assist you can just pedal the thing with an electric bike Is there so much heavier than a non-electric bike that? Even if you are getting a pedal assist, you're still getting a workout Especially when you come to a stop and yours to have to stabilize your bike and all that So we've been doing really well with our bikes getting exercise done to the point where I mentioned in one of my videos I bought a second bike. I did I don't have her yet. I call her the sassy witch Got a witch thing on my mind. I call her the sassy witch.  It's gonna be on the handlebars and yeah I can put like my phone in there and all that stuff, but she's really pretty she's a blue color So anyways, I digress but between my spin bike for exercise at home and riding the bike The next goal that we have is to increase my walking now I have a Apple watch and my Apple watch reminds me of my movements. It really tracks my health My Apple watch is awesome because it also has that fall detection So if I were to fall even on my bike or something like that It would detect that something happened and it would ask me Siri would ask me do you need help? Do you need us to call 911 or whatever and I can give a voice command of yes I do or no, I don't I don't want to say it because I don't want her to pop in and say do you need help So, you know my Apple watch Not only does it monitor my heart rate and does it monitor my weight and Physical activity is going to remind me to get up and stand around so I'm going to rely more on that I'm going to go back to a routine I always had when I was in my London Dairy office every hour, so I would walk around the building And then and when the weather was nice, I'm right on the rail trail at work I can go out and walk the rail trail and when the weather really breaks I can throw my little Sassy witch in the trunk of my car. The problem is I have to wear a helmet I'm not ever going to ride without a helmet and then of course you have hat hair helmet here, but Do you knew me? I'm really going to focus in on the health aspect and that I think will help my mental well-being so increasing my exercise by riding my spin bike in the winter time and Once the weather breaks lacing the sneakers up walking at work again and Then walking on the rail trail and then riding my bike outside Into that said I know that no matter how much activity you do what goes in has to come out, right? You have to monitor your caloric intake Maline has been super successful. She's lost what I think almost 60 pounds and she is just unbelievable phenomenal results on her weight loss program and she does weight watchers So whether or not I'm going to do anything like that. I don't really know but I do know that I have to Monitor my caloric intake. So that's that's my goal. That's the way to shape my new me for this year in this new year I'm going to monitor my calories more so my carbohydrates, but I'm not going to I'm not back into that mode of keto When I was doing keto is very successful, but I also I also lost a lot of hair my hair really thinned when I was on keto I'm not going to say it's keto 100% who knows but it did So it for me keto Hurt me more than it helped me in that sense. I lost weight, but I also lost a lot of hair so I'm going to Monitor more of a low carb lifestyle, but more importantly for me is increasing that activity level so I'm so looking forward to doing that I can't wait for the weather to break because Yeah, I just need to get out there I'm an outdoorsy person and I need to get out there and do that stuff that I really want to do So working on toning and just that physical fitness and I think all around that's going to help so yeah continuing with the skincare continuing with all of the You know the things that I've been doing for anti-aging and I know it's paying off because even though I'm filming here and I have you know lights and all that stuff I See my skin on a regular basis So I know everything I've been doing for my skincare is paying off and and even though I'm going to be 68 I get a ton of wrinkles here and gray hair. I Still feel that for 68. I'm doing okay, even though I'm fat for 68 I'm doing okay I look younger in many ways according to what people say and what I'm seeing from people that I know that are my age Or even younger so that that's kind of really good. So I'm gonna that's my goal continue on My anti-aging I know people hate that but continuing on my skincare routine for anti-aging Making sure that I have a super good canvas to start with that's going to be super important and Just work on the health part that that's we got it I've just got to do the weight the health the health and the weight That's going to be it for me. So New year knew me you guys can follow my progress. I'll be doing Updates as I go along, you know, how do I do? Did I lose anything? How do I feel? But yes, I'm quite serious about this routine. Maline has inspired me She's gonna stay on my case and Make sure that I do what I'm supposed to do so that I can really blossom into the new me for this new year I am so optimistic for this year so optimistic. So anyways That's it. Thanks so much for watching guys and if you are new to me from Maline's channel channel Thank you so much and for those of you that have not seen Marlene's video go see her She's doing the exact same thing and talking about her goals and what she's doing and how she's reshaped herself Oh my gosh as she ever reshaped herself. So go check it out. Thanks so much guys. Bye. Bye


What's up everybody welcome back to the channel I'm EvilRabbit here on the streets of Long Beach here on Forza Motorsport 7. We are in my ESDA spec Camaro ZL1 Forza edition because ESDA round 1 is at Long Beach and it is about a month away. Qualifying is on the 14th of April which gives me about a month to get practiced and try and get that qualifying line as well as tandem practice. I have determined that I will be sticking with this Camaro for ESDA because I'm very comfortable with it it's stable and I've become to love this car a lot.  Now I don't know the full start and stop points so we're just gonna kind of go with it because I know it's a 50 roll first and then acceleration so here we go first try initiate in a little bit early running that wall not as far out as I want to be to there and uh yep that run was uh pretty bad from the get my initiation kind of threw my line off so we're just gonna go back to the start and give it another go I was doing a lot of good qualifying runs yesterday when I was getting some practice on but uh of course you know when I wasn't you know recording to show you guys it you know I was doing a lot better than I was now so we're going to uh flip it around try this again I could wreck our car though so I am looking forward to competing in ESDA this year uh believe my teammate MK6 is gonna hop on ESDA with me and we're gonna try and see if we can't do some justice so here we go tip number two initiate a little bit later there we go still not as wise I want to be on that and really straight there so I think I may have messed up with some of my settings and uh or I'm just you know trying to do something because yesterday I was out I was getting good with it I don't know if it's a tire wear difference that's making me a little bit sketchy or if it's just um uh not quite you know comfortable after a long day of work so we're gonna try this again hopefully I can actually get a good run but uh because I would uh be very upset if I was not able to get a good run all right here we go there's a really long initiation but not bad there we go it's a little better okay so that's a little bit better of a run not as wide on that touch and goes I want to be but uh at least a solid judgeable run for a qualifying aspect here at Long Beach so not the best run so we're gonna flip it around and give it another go so if you guys are competing in ESDA which I know a couple people are let me know what you guys are running if you want to um because that it will be definitely sticking with this Camaro I was gonna possibly do the Mustang but I don't have it yet because I uh haven't been able to get you know up in the championship to get it so try not to completely burn off our tires so at least we got one qualifying run down but we were to screwed up our first two runs so we wouldn't have actually qualified we would have uh definitely been out right away don't want to do that when it comes time on the 14th for actual qualifying and once I find the actual line I will know for sure if I'm running this right initiate in there we go I know I don't know I don't know if rumble strips are okay or not so that's not too bad is an amazing run I don't definitely not there like I said I got a month practice so definitely uh gonna be doing as much practice as I can so if you guys want to hop online and do some tandem practices here at Long Beach I will be probably doing some open lobbies maybe some live broadcasting of some practice here at Long Beach especially if you guys are going to be you know attempting to compete in ESDA as well uh why not try and get some practice see my tires are already yellow so I kind of want to see how far this is gonna go and see you know how much this changes we are only at 200 degrees in the rear light up a little bit let's give another go that was a really bad entry but kind of makes something out of it really shallow there I always run really wide there so I got a little bit of practice to do here at Long Beach um I think we're going to restart it and reset our tires here and then we will give it another shot I know I could just run this without tire wear but I'm trying to run it with tire wear and feel just like it would be in the ESDA uh like I said I will be doing some uh more practice sessions trying to get some people on here so I can get you know practice tandeming with uh other drivers so you guys want to be a part of that let me know down the comment section down below so I'm gonna run this like I would if it was our actual qualifying time at ESDA because uh I get two runs so it's all that matters we only get two runs that's all we can get so we're gonna wear my tires up going this way so now we got two runs so we're gonna run this just like it there goes your 50 roll I'm supposed to say that's the starting point initiate in probably early on the initiation just touching rumble strips we're about to the wall really shallow on there but not too too bad on this latter part so that is actually a good run I think that would be a very good judgeable run would it be a really hot qualifying run that I don't know because uh I was good on the first touch and go on initiation a little bit early I'm not sure if running the rumble strips is illegal or not I gotta double check and watch their videos for Long Beach but uh that first outside touch and go wing was over the wall so that's really good didn't change my drift angle at all uh second outer zone right here it was a little bit shallow and then I was a little bit shallow on the outer in the third outer zone but uh I think that's a testament to the initiation that was a little bit shaky so we're gonna run this again and see uh where we're at for a second run so we essentially have one run in the books now we're gonna we're gonna send this one on throttle here we go oh I initiated too early I'm gonna try and save this run I want to be able to get out to this touch and go but I was a little shallow on all zones but at least it's a qualifying run until the end oh get wrecked so I think we're gonna try and do that one more time run another two qualifying runs so at least we got one good qualifying run out of that so we're gonna restart it do two more I think that'll do for this episode just trying to get my bearings and search that perfect qualifying run so like I said ESDA is about a month away for round one um they did do the exhibition at Lime Rock and there's a lot of nice cars a lot of good drivers so definitely looking forward to uh getting into one of the rounds and qualifying into the battles um hopefully I can do that here at Long Beach and uh you know hopefully I can get into a actual tandem battle in Long Beach and uh we can have a little fun definitely we'll be bringing all that content to you guys here on the channel from my point of view because I'm sure ESDA has all theirs but uh from my view and you know my impressions and you know my reactions so you guys will see it on my channel for sure definitely we'll let you guys know if a qualifying such so we're gonna do this again we got two runs wrong I don't want to change views well we don't want to wreck our car but we'll be okay but hopefully we don't do that in ESDA because that would just look so bad all right here we go initiate between the three and the 200 nice on that outside wall a little bit shallow on that touch and go nice on that touch and go though so overall that was actually a very good run a little bit shallow on one or two of the zones but not too too bad to get a message from that man I don't know what what it is but uh we'll check that message out you know he's gonna get a little bit shout out here on the channel hopefully it's nothing bad like you suck you grab it you know I hate you or you know something on those slides so we're gonna get one more run in here get our tire feedback up heat up our tires definitely I'm in love with this Camaro this thing is very stable really sticky so and I like the wide body not a big fan of the wing but I may be changing some down force issues um or down forces throughout the rounds I think I can all right here we go initiate in better initiation there we go a little bit shallow there but oh wall tap definitely don't want to do that in qualifying or tandem runs there we go so this time we're able to get two decent runs here on the streets of Long Beach so definitely gonna be doing a lot more practice like I said I'll be running some online sessions if you guys want to join in some online sessions here at Long Beach I think we're just gonna send this car here for a lap you guys want to join in get some tandems get some practice you know definitely be uh looking to the channel for when I'm online doing some online live practice oh and sweet if I could have linked that but I didn't because I probably will be doing live stream practice for USDA here at the streets of Long Beach apparently this is a race but I have my drift head on I probably should turn that off just tap uh I didn't want to tap with the front end so like I said guys you know I do appreciate all the support from you guys especially will be appreciating all the support here coming with me trying to compete in the USDA I would definitely appreciate all the support from everybody on the channel it's a really long you break grab so I do appreciate everything all the comments you guys do so you guys know you can follow me on facebook twitch twitter and instagram all of which are found in the description box below we just missed that tire barrier so this is not the speed entry we'd be entering but we're gonna do it we're gonna try and flick this in surprised we even made that see but I'm not actually like super focused like that's perfect on those two outer zones so I think I just need to have fun with it when I'm qualifying and such because I mean that was like even better than my other runs so we're gonna check out that message that this man sent us real quick before we end out this session so uh we got a message from Liberty Drift say hey I like your youtube channel apparently this guy's been uh following the channel for a while big shout out to you Liberty Drift we're gonna send you a message here just because we are here like I said I do reply to a lot of messages that I get I don't think I have it oh did I just screw that up oh so I'm gonna send this guy a message back so you know you can follow me on facebook twitch twitter and instagram all of which are found in the description box below stay tuned to the channel for more content coming out with the esda fast approaching and as always guys thank you guys for watching I'm evil rabbit I'm out


Hello everybody and welcome to another very special episode of Esoteric Atlanta. Now as you know, normally on Wednesdays we play a recap of what we went over and reviewed on the Dark Outpost the day before on Tuesday. However, yesterday we only made it to sutra number 8 in the Yoga Sutras and the last recording I released on the Yoga Sutras from the Dark Outpost we read up to sutra number 15. Hence, that is why today I am releasing another episode with Catherine Edwards. Now before we get to the episode I do want to give you a little bit of a heads up for the schedule this week. I'm hoping that I'm going to have two videos for you this week. Tomorrow I'm hoping to release our part 2 on our deep dive into Halloween and then on Friday I'm hoping I'm going to be able to release a round table discussion over a very interesting topic that we've all been dealing with these last few years. Actually something we've been dealing with for a couple thousand years. We only just became aware of it these last two years. Now with this all being said, I was going to release part 2 of our deep dive into Voodoo this Friday. I'm still in the process of editing it and filming some parts of it so as of this moment it's not ready to be released. Now normally this would be no big deal because I would have enough time to get it to you guys by Friday but as some of you know my grandmother actually passed away this past Saturday and so I'm going to be traveling to her town to attend her funeral and so therefore the Voodoo episode will be pushed back to next week for part 2 on that episode. I know that you guys understand, I hope you guys understand that that is why that will not be ready by this Friday but nonetheless we'll give you something to look forward to for next Friday and then this upcoming Monday we'll be back to our regular old Monday mystery. Thank you so much for everybody who tuned in to the Sacred Blue Tent for Cindy's presentation on the Divine Feminine. Now last week I had the honor of going on Catherine Edwards channel and this week I brought Catherine here on my channel so you guys can get to know Catherine if you don't already know her. Now as most of you know the W-A-R that we're all involved in right now, the spiritual more than physical W-A-R is really, really, really ramping up and as I was trying to load my interview with Catherine up to this platform, this platform was being very, very difficult and so I took that as a sign from God to put that interview over on Rumble and so if you go down to the description box below you're going to see the links to Catherine's channel and the video that I did with Catherine last week but below that you're going to see the link to the full episode over on Rumble. Just click on that link and it'll take you directly to the video. Again I will also have Catherine's links up there. She might have the episode up on her channel if you can't get to Rumble, which is fine as well. She might not be having the difficulties that I am having because I do know that they watch different people at certain times so it is what it is. I am also looking at opening up a Bitshoot channel which people have contacted me about. I have tried to open one up in the past but I was having difficulty with Bitshoot and so I'm going to go back and look at that as well while I'm traveling and see if I can figure out what the issue is so I can also get some of these videos up on that platform as well. I do understand that for the hearing impaired Rumble doesn't have that option yet on their platform and possibly Bitshoot does so that is something that I am taking into consideration for you all and I thank you all so, so very much for being very, very patient as we all have to scatter our information sometimes across different platforms. I know it can be very annoying, it's annoying, trust me, trust me friends, it's annoying for us too. So I totally understand your frustration but I know that you guys understand that it's out of our control, the powers that B have gotten a little bit too hard to handle here sometimes and so I am very, very grateful for the other areas, arenas that we can post our information on where we don't have to worry about that so much. I know you understand, we just kind of like keep pushing forward guys because hopefully, hopefully, very, very soon this will all be worth it and we will be in a totally, totally new, new environment and a better place for us all. So with that being said, please go follow the link over to Rumble or to Catherine's channel to check out the whole, whole episode between Catherine and myself. Lots of love to all of you guys, keep smiling, keep loving people, keep showing the world how wonderful and how truly special you are. And I'll talk to you guys later.