What's up everybody, Jason here for Jatsby's GazeBase.com. We just sold out a little pack filler that helps sell four spots in the hip-packs break guys with this 2020 Prism 5-pack retail break number 35. Now again guys, we're going to first do the break, randomize the customer names team to shoot the hits out of the five retail packs here, the gravity packs, and at the end we'll randomize the customer names, again in a separate dice roller randomizer in the top four, get into the hip-packs, which is about $300 a hip-pack where you're guaranteed a nice hit. So here's a dice roller, let's do the break first, five and a one six times, good luck, six times, one, two, three, four, five, six. So six times, six, Todd down to Aeron, and six times here, one, two, three, four, five, six, Raiders down to the Buffalo Bills. Alright, so again a little pack filler here, so, or a couple packs here, but we're not going to do any trades guys, but this is a 2020 draft class of course, Hertz, Tua, Burrow, Herbert, Justin Jefferson, Jordan Love now, you throw them in there now in the conversation because this is going to be a starter. There's a lot of great draft class here guys, great draft class. And then sorry, Demi said I haven't gone to sports events about 20 years ago, I've been there in Kabul many times, I've never seen baseball over on at all. Yeah, soccer I think is probably more, more popular than baseball, but I think it depends on the, on the, the state that you travel to, where my dad's from in Sarcategas, a couple of my uncles played baseball, like in their little league in the little town, you know? So depends on the town and city you visit, but soccer I think is probably the most popular, but it's good to see them doing good in baseball though. Helps grow the sport. All right, so we got five of them right here. So the majority of these guys most of the time are going to be kind of just based, but you could get some nice colors in here in silvers. There's a silver there, but that's jacked oil. I think I hit a Jalen Hertz Silver out of one of these packed fillers a couple of weeks back for I think Nestor I think it was. And I think we looked it up and the Jalen Hertz Silver was like 200 bucks, $150, $200. The Monte Barker Brilliance Green, that's for the Dolphins A&R on. Marlon Davidson, I have to be here, sorry, so nothing crazy here. All right, let's switch scenes now. And here's the Dice Roller. Here's the customer names Tristan down to Tristan. Of course, top four get into the hip-hacks break. Stopped to do a couple of these guys, but now that we sold one, we can definitely post up the next one and start selling that one out as well. So there you go, roll. It is a two and a five, seven times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Seven times, there you go. Top four in. Oh, Tristan, sorry, buddy. Not in there at number five, but you did get a handful of spots, so you still definitely could be up there. Good luck, buddy. Nico, Matt Buckler, Jason K, and Tristan Lastspot-Mojo. Damn. There you go. What do they say? They've done studies, you know. Lastspot-Mojo hits 60% of the time every time. All righty, guys. Well, thank you, guys. I'll post up another filler if it hasn't been posted already. JasperysCaseRakes.com.


It was not my plan to sit here again, but I'm happy that I have the chance for today. The issue with the fear is a big issue for me. In the last four weeks I have dealt with a lot of sickness, anger and fear. I've been sick for so long, I really want to get rid of it. With the fear I discover, even if I have a sword, I get fear. To ask a question, I'm a little bit helpless what to do. I want to send the fear away, but it is just like sticky stuff. What to do to get out the fear of my body? I want to get rid of it.  The thing is that the illness comes because of the fear and anger in the system. It's not the other way around that you're ill and that's why you're afraid and angry. It's because there's fear and anger, it keeps on taking over. You allowing it to happen to you, then at one point the illness will come. There's no way around it. It has to happen that when it happens that way each time. The thing is, why is that fear and that anger there? Now in your case, you have suddenly come across a teaching which tells you, no, don't go into the cosmic experience. It's great and fine, but you're going to have to come back into the body anyways. You're going to have to deal with this reality around anyways. So that's not the place to go, be here, be present. Remember, your actions are governed by the ego and when they are governed by the ego, by the ahankar, you're in trouble. So try to move into a state where your actions are governed by the truth of your being. Then you started to implement this teaching. You started to practice it, to try to practice it. The sadhana, the practice you started and then the shaking starts. The fear and the anger start because your system has been operating largely from the ego all your life, except for your early years. Yes. And you grew up in a culture which ensures that the socialization process is so well organized that the human being becomes the perfect instrument to serve the main institutions of that society. Of course, every society needs human beings to serve their institutions. That's not what I'm questioning or what I'm bringing up here. You have to serve the institutions of the place in which you're born. But the culture in which you are raised is a master at instrumentalizing the human being for the success of a few. It is not for the success of the human being. So obviously fear is the means of control. It's the enemy. It's the means of control. We know that you can't allow that to happen to you. You have to be able to live in that culture and not be a victim of those machinations of those systems. So how do you do that? The way is to learn how to bend and then that's where the anger comes because the ego has determined your life all these years. The ego has told you how to make decisions. Your decisions have not come from a truth impulse. They've come from what you call instinct. I feel it's the right thing. I shouldn't lie. Who says you shouldn't lie? Who says that? Which actual spiritual system would say that? Everybody lies. Everybody lies. Everybody lies. But what the system does is it institutes guilt in you so that even if you tell a small lie which is armless to everybody, you feel guilty rather than that you learn that if I tell a lie it's not going to serve this system. Let me go with my truth. So the anger comes up because you don't want to bend to the truth. You don't like the idea that something else is now. And what is this you? It's not you, it's the ego that doesn't like it. The ego is getting angry. You don't take it on yourself. The ego is getting angry.  So yes, you can say it in German because maybe the ego understands German better. In your case. The attack is against all my values. Of course it's against your value system. Where are your value systems from? Who taught you those things? Not all the value systems. The truth has no value system. The truth doesn't believe in society. It doesn't believe in family. It doesn't believe in country. It doesn't believe in religion. It doesn't believe in basically in anything. The truth is independent of systems. That sounds beautiful. It's a freedom. It's a freedom. But it's not a freedom to just do nonsense. It's a freedom to go with that truth fearlessly. What do you have to lose? Tell me. You have to lose some family and some friends in Germany. I mean, go there, you'll find others. The moment one person leaves, two people who are better than that one come in. If you go with the truth, otherwise when you're leaving to God's garden, you'll be surrounded by people that have made you unhappy. I'm still on the way to find the line or the way really is this the truth? So sometimes I have to ask several times the same question. Before you go to that, talking about your value systems, what are your value systems? To be kind, to be honest. You think the truth is going to tell you not to be kind? To have a standpoint. Do you think the truth of your system is going to tell you to be unkind to somebody? Yes or no? I'm not 100% sure. That's a good position to be in. Why? Because the truth can tell you to be unkind to somebody as much as it can say no. If you ask the question, should I be unkind to him? You might get a yes from the truth. Because the truth is here to serve society, not just the individual, but society is here to serve society and not the individual. You see, that's the problem. Our lives are governed by value systems that are not here in place to serve the individual's development, growth and strength, but to serve society's development, growth and strength. We have to switch that around, that's all. But the truth will always, it is that that is underlying this entire thing that is unfolding along the time trajectory. Everything is connected to perfection and that truth knows it. If you don't go with the truth, you stumble. But if you just go fearlessly, there is no chance of that stumbling happening and it also serves society at the same time.  Okay. That's how it works.  What does it mean to be kind? If you ask children in Germany or Switzerland, what does it mean to be kind to somebody? Then it will be more like, yeah, give them your pencil if they ask you for it. It's an outward movement. It's nothing told that go inward and feel if something is the right thing to do and then do it. Why? Because it's a society that is formed by religious pressure top down. A spiritual seeker will always try to escape that religious pressure because they know something is not okay. And the thing is that you found out that something is not okay but you're not okay with the thing that is okay. That step is coming now.  What do you have to lose? Ute, tell me, what do you have to lose? Give me one example, your friends. I have friends, I have family. You think you'll lose your friends if you go with the truth? Some of them. But then they're not your friends. They're not. If a friend is a true friend, they'll be around whether they agree with you or not. But the thing about friends is friends are only friends when they agree with you. Then for a while they're not talking to you because they don't agree with you. Then suddenly they turn up again because now time has passed. Then again you try the friendship. And if you both agree nicely dancing up the garden paths together, then it's all fine. So friends are actually an idea in the head. So why can't a friend be somebody you just met right now? So many people. You just walk along. There's the guy who sells tea over there. There's a very sweet guy. He can be your friend. Why does it have to be? One has to free oneself of all these ideas of family and friends. One has to be loving and kind to everybody. Why can't that tea seller also be a friend? It should be possible. I like this picture. Yes, you'll never be alone like that. You'll always have people. Everyone will be your friend. And sometimes they'll fight with you. Then they're not your friend. And again they're your friend. Then you go to a bus stand and you talk to some lady there who's waiting for the bus. And she's your friend. You can create every human being to be your friend. This idea of holding on to three and a half people who anyway don't have time for you. So you don't have fear of losing your friends. What about your family? The problem is one can't get rid of family even if one wants to. It hurts very much to get a distance from them. But you are not getting a distance. They are getting a distance from you because you're starting to say things they don't agree with. Are you getting a distance from them? I don't agree politically with them. That's a political disagreement. There's still blood family. I'm telling you can't get rid of family. One just can't. They are always around. They'll find you even if you run away from them. So don't worry about family. You won't get rid of them.  In my life I thought I need a standpoint to go through life. And now not to have one standpoint is like, oh my God, who am I? You are just Ute daughter of, what's your mother's name? Ursula. Ute daughter of Ursula from? Girlitz. Girlitz. That is who you are and nothing more. That's enough. It's all three things already. Why do you have to be anything else? Tell me. Why? It is the connection but the feeling to be strong. And if I don't have a standpoint, I feel weak. But you have a standpoint. Your standpoint is the truth of your being. Yes. That's the standpoint you ask the question. Yeah. Ask the truth the question. If you get an answer, you get an answer. If you don't get an answer, you don't get an answer. It's still better to ask that question than not to ask it at all and to just operate in this life and say, I'm operating from my instincts. That's what a lot of people say to me. I don't have to go to the truth. I'm okay. What is this thing called instinct? Where does it come from? Where is that information coming into your thinking from? No idea. Just it's a feeling.  No, my instinct would never tell me that. But there are people whose instinct tells them that. So my point is that to become more aware of not who you are, what does it matter or who am I? What does that matter? It doesn't matter. Neither does it matter anything to you and certainly it doesn't matter to anyone else. Okay. So it's not about who am I? It's about what is this thing doing in this moment, in the next moment, in the moment after that, in the moment after. What is this body doing? What is the action it's undertaking? That's all. And if you don't know what to do, because you don't feel the truth, at least you've asked the question which you were not doing before. Yeah. You have said, bending down means not to, if up, it means to put up the weapon. Against the ego, it's bend down, pick up the weapons against the ego. Against the ego? Yes. I was thinking, what are my weapons? I don't have any weapons. Ute, you want things. The more you want, the less you'll get. You have to just be. I told you not just be. Just be. Please again. Just be. He may have to muster this, so vinegar creaks too. Thank you. To la jitka paeje, jitka kami to la merel. That's in Marathi, by the way. Thank you. Maybe he can say it in French. We can say it in all languages of everyone that's here. Bend down to the truth, go with the truth. Wow. That's all. The more you want, the less you'll get. Just go with the truth. Just bend. Just be. I'm happy to be alive. You have a job. You have a job. You go to the job. Oh, I'm happy that I have a job. That's enough. You don't have to think so much about anything. It's finished.  It's not going to make you happy. I want to go back to a joyful life.  No, go forward to a joyful life. Because had you been really joyful, you wouldn't have been a seeker sitting in a satsang. That's true.  The unhappy ones come to the satsang. The unconscious ones don't. That's how it is. I don't mean this satsang. I mean, generally a person becomes a spiritual seeker because they realize that they have become a victim of society and they realize that now they have to find to themselves. So they start reading books, searching, and that is a way, steps by which they can go back to the home, to the truth, which is the base of their being. There's nothing to worry so much about, you know? Yeah.  You've just... You've become like a... I don't know, like 20 years younger. Just right now, it's shocking to see that. I would like to check that up on the camera. No, seriously, because I... Did you notice it? It's just suddenly like it's... There's nothing. It's just living. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Nothing to worry about. Nothing to be afraid of. If you're afraid of something, that's the ego out. Out. No fear, out. Throw it out. You wanted to throw the fear out of the system. You throw it out by throwing it out. Yes. You throw it out by recognizing the tremor and saying no. Out. Out. Yes. And after a while, once you train yourself to do that, you know, what will happen, it's very fascinating. You will be able to sense the vibration of fear trying to enter your system before it comes in and you'll be able to deflect it. There are people, I've trained to do this, they can do it. They actually can do it. From this moment, if you are afraid, have that fear tremor, it is your fault. Because now you know how to do it. If you allow yourself to be fearful, for example, to raise your hand and ask a question, nobody else in this room will take the blame from now on. We'll all point a finger at you. You. Because you know how to do it. Soforth, rouse, nine. Nine. It's over, those fears. It's just nonsense. Not one minute more in this life. Sometimes fear is there. There are situations. But not this daily thing for small, small things. It's out.


And now, another tale well calculated to keep you in. When a man stops by at your place of business for a little collection, it's usually because somebody is collecting from him. Well, let's find out who that collector is as we bring you Lieutenant Langer's Last Collection by George Bamber in just one minute.  It's not polite to smack your lips, but you can't help it with fritos, corn chips.  Next time you want something to munch on, try Fritos. They're so crisp, so tasty, so good. You'll see right away why we say Fritos are the corn chips made to munch. Fill a big bowl with fritos next time you settle down to watch your favorite TV program. Boy, there's contentment in every munch.  Fritos are golden chips of corn as nutritious as they are delicious, so full of good crisp flavor. Such good for you nourishment that the ideal snack for grownups and children alike.   Lieutenant Langer. Long time. I thought you had been transferred. I was, Bruno. I was. Then what are you doing in town? Let's just say I came to look up an old friend. About what? A personal matter. Maybe we better go in the back. Very well. Looks like you're doing all right for yourself now. Oh, I repair a few watches, make a few dollars on small loans. Now, what is it you wanted to see me about?  It's easy to get in a jam out there. Come to the point.  What? You heard me. I won't pay. Oh, yes you will. Bruno, you've already got two previous convictions at receiver of stolen goods. One more all to send you away for a long, long time.  Well, I have done nothing. I've been strike since the time you let me go. I paid you $1,000 then and you said you would forget about it. You would give me another chance. That was then. This is now. But I'm clean. You've got no evidence. Bruno, how hard do you think it would be to plant some gems on a convicted fence? Then I will fight. I will tell the judge everything I know about the bribe I paid. Then it would be your word against mine, a cop against a convicted diamond cutter. But from what I heard, your word isn't so good anymore. That's why you were transferred from special duty downtown. All they had were suspicions. They couldn't prove anything on me. Maybe I'm just the man they're looking for. Listen, you... Please, Langer, for myself I am not asking. I'm an old man. Money does not mean much to me anymore. It's my daughter. She writes me from California. She wants me to come and live with them. I thought if I took a little nest egg, maybe I could give it to them, maybe help to set them up in a little business. Come on. Please, I've worked so hard to go straight. It hasn't been easy. Give me this chance. Listen, you think you've got troubles. The kind of trouble I'm in if I don't have $2,000 but tomorrow morning I might just as well forget about breathing. Now get me the money. All right, all right. Only once a man is paid, you should leave him alone. Here you are. One, two, three, four, five, one thousand, seven, eight, nine, $2,000. And $200 traveling expenses. I won't pay. $300 for being reluctant. Properly.  Help me.  Please.  Yes, yes, yes. Just, just put me down. Huh? What's the matter with you? Nothing. Get the money. All right, all right. Here, here you are. Two, three. Now leave me alone. Something, something is the matter with you. What is it? It's nothing. I'll be all right. Maybe you better sit down a minute. Sit, sit, sit till you, till you feel better. What? And have you robbed me of my pass out? I'd rather take my chances on the street. Out. Out of my store, leech. I tried to help you and you called me names. Is there nothing left inside you? No, no, no decency, nothing? This is a tough world, Bruno.  Out of my store, dog. Worse than a dog. You with your $100 coat and brown-shrie shoes. Out of my store. My only wish is that you should drop dead right before my eyes. Out.  I can tell it's bad this time. I'll be all right. Just take it easy. Slow and easy. It's happened before and I was all right. Just keep walking.  Getting worse feels like a hot bar inside my chest. Red hot. I have to stop and rest. Lean up against something. That's better. My left arm feels numb. Now, down my leg. I can't move them. They're dead. I can't move at all. I can't walk. Somebody help. Please. Well, of course I knew full well what she was referring to, but do you think she'd admit it? Help me. I'm a very sick man. Paul, don't go near him. Can't you see he's drunk? Please. Look at him. He can hardly talk. He's so drunk. Sick. Heart. Don't let him touch you. He's falling. Falling down drunk. He's just got it. You'd think the police would do something about this neighborhood. It's getting so I hate to walk through it anymore. Nothing but drunks and juvenile delinquents. Come on, Paul. Just let him lie there till he's sober. In just a moment, we will return for the second act of... Some recording star Mel Tormey. 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At the same time, Fitch can brighten hair up to 35%. Get Fitch Dandruff Remover Shampoo today. All right, mister? No. My heart. I'm sick. Well, what's the matter with him, Chino? I don't know. I think he's got a heart attack or something. Help me. Please help me. Well, what are you going to do, Chino? I don't know. Please. Hey, look. He passed out. Yeah. Well, come on. Give me a hand. What are you going to do, Chino? What do you think we're going to do? We're going to help him. Oh, come on. Lift. All right. We'll take him downstairs to the clubhouse where he can lay down. Oh, man. He's heavy. He must weigh a ton.  All right. Watch these stairs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Easy now. Don't let him slip. I got him. All right. All right.  What are you going to do now, Chino? Call a cop? Yeah, I guess so. Uh, get his wallet so he can see who he is. Yeah, OK. Hey, look at all this money. Give it here. How much do you think there is? I don't know. Must be two grand, at least. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. $2,300. Well, what are you going to do now, Chino? I don't know. Just think of what we could do with two grand. Yeah.  What are we going to do with him? I don't know. Let me think. What's it say inside his wallet? Nuts. Oh, what's it say? He's a cop. How do you like that for all the lost people? What are you going to do now? I don't know. Well, for crying out loud, will you let me think?  Yeah, we could maybe buy a car. I got it. What? We're going to get rid of him. Now, look, Chino, I ain't going to get mixed up in nothing, especially with no cop. Just say, murder, listen. Now, we strip his clothes and dress him in any old junk we find in the trash.  Then let somebody else pick him up. Yeah, but this is a cop. I ain't going to have nothing to do with no cop. They'll recognize him. Ah, they won't. You seen his wallet? Yeah, look. It says he's attached to downtown someplace. Now, that's the beauty of the thing. When the cops in this precinct pick him up, they think he's just a whino. Maybe he foes to death during the night. Yeah, but Chino, that's murder. No, it ain't. We picked him off the street, now, didn't we? We got a right to put him back there. We ain't doing nothing for him or against him. Besides, look at him. He's half dead.  I don't want to die that way. Don't let me die that way. The snow coming down so beautiful. If I could only get to the street, somebody would see me. Nobody will see me here. Maybe, maybe if I try to crawl. If I do any more and kill me for sure, I can feel it in my chest. The whole area hot and numb. If I try any more, I'll tear it wide open. What was that? A bomb going through the trash. Help. Please help. Help. What's the matter, Mac? Help. Too much, huh?  Please help me. I'm sick. Why, you sick? Now, you talk about sick. I remember one time. Help. Help. Why, that's all right. Help. Help. You're heavy, honey. At least your face is out of the gutter. You got a better slant on the world now. I know, I know. It don't look like much, does it? The world. But that's all we have. We've got to make the best of it. Make the best of it. You wouldn't have to have a little drop of one-ail, would you? Just a taste of it. Oh, please. Well, you are the most ungrateful jack I ever could see.   Oh, I'm sick. Please help. Thank you. All right. All right. God helps those who help themselves as they tell us down at the mission. Please. Please, I'm very sick. Oh, that's good. That's what I needed. Something to fight the cold. How about you? Are you careful? No. Doctor. Please, please get a doctor. You don't need no doctor. What you need is a drink. We assure you don't have any more on you. Oh, please, please, doctor. Now, wait a minute.  You'd better have a look. You know, to pull out on your friends before. Nothing. Not a dime.  Well, if we had something we could pawn, we could get some more with that, eh?  Nothing. None of these. Well, those are huge. Those are mighty fine looking shoes you got there, buddy. I know a place where I can get 50 cents for these shoes. Maybe even a buck. What are you doing? Where are you going? Well, don't you worry. I'll be right back. I got a bottle for these. I'll be right back. We shall. Please come back. Oh, come on, Brun. I brought you a fine pair of shoes. What will you give me for them, eh? A quarter. Take it or leave it. I'll get out. They're closed. A quarter? Look at these. These are fine shoes. I paid $30 for them. No. You never bought a pair of shoes in your... Where did you get these brown, suede shoes? What do you mean? Where did I get them? They're mine. They're mine. Come on, now. I won't turn you in. You just tell me where you got them. Oh, well, what's it worth to you? $0.50 for the shoes. Uh, $0.50 for the shoes? And a dollar for the information. A dollar for both? I promise you won't turn me in. I promise. Well, I... Off a guy in the alley. He'll back. Quick, here's your money. Now show me there. We meet again, Lieutenant Langer. Only this time you're...  My only regret is that you don't still have the money you borrowed from me. Help. Please help me. I should help you after what you've done to me. That's very funny, Lieutenant Langer. Very funny. Bruno, please... Please help me. I've seen you start out, Langer, from an honest rookie to a cop on the take, and then you move downtown and God knows how many people's lives you made miserable while you were assigned down there. Not that I have lived such a pure life myself, but at least I have been trying to go straight. Trying to change. Please, Bruno, please one more chance. One more chance for what? To come back and hold me up any time you want to? What do you think I am, stupid? Whether I should see you die by inches then help you by raising my little finger for all the good you have done me or anybody else. What have you got there, Bruno? Huh?  I saw you from the light of your back door. I thought maybe you were having some trouble. No, no trouble, but I'm afraid this man is, though. And why not? His trouble can't be cured. Just leave him there to sleep it off. Are you all right by morning? I... I think you had better call an ambulance. He looks like a very sick man. He looks like a pretty drunk man, Bruno. Go on home, he'll be all right. Why, no, there's more trouble than there were. I don't think he's drunk. I think he is sick. He's drunk, I tell you. You can see by just looking at him. Please, Lerton, this man is sick. He has had a heart attack. He's been done quickly.  How do you know that? He's a friend of mine. I hear you're leaving us soon, Bruno. Yes, tomorrow I take the plane for California. I'm getting out of the business for good. Well, I want to wish you luck and I want you to know how I'll miss having you in the neighborhood. Been a big help to me around the neighborhood. Well, if it's only doing something, if nobody did nothing, what would the world be? I don't want to thank you, just the same. That's all right. You've been a good rookie, Lerton. I know you'll make a fine policeman. And I want to tell you how sorry I was about that friend of yours. I'm sorry we couldn't get him to the hospital in time. That's all right, Officer Lerton. Maybe things worked out for the best. After all. Spence. You've been listening to Lieutenant Langer's last collection, written for suspense by George Bamber. In a moment, the names of our players and a word about next week's story of suspense. Out of tune, if you're irregular due to lack of bulk, help yourself get back in tune with Kellogg's All-Brand. You'll feel right on pitch when Kellogg's All-Brand gentles away irregularity the natural way. So fight constipation as millions do, with good tasting Kellogg's All-Brand. A-W-L-B-R-A-N. Kellogg's All-Brand. And for all you All-Brand users who are also flower fanciers, here's good news. 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Chance to extend it to six. Here's Burgoyne. The only goal score for the Mustangs tonight that didn't score two. Here is a behind-the-back shot by Dabney, and he scores. What a turnaround for the Mustangs. Instead of seven to three, thanks to the save by Skeen, it's now eight to two Stevenson with eight oh nine to go, a six goal lead for the Mustangs. On the goal by Colin Dabney, his 30th of the season. And by going behind his back, he gave himself a little more angle. He hit that top right corner. Nothing Stangle could do about that.


Hi, welcome to this very special tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to identify the requisite steps to write in a thesis statement, recognize examples of effective and ineffective thesis statements, identify the components of a well-structured thesis statement, and recognize that the thesis writing process is flexible, non-linear, and susceptible to change. What's that? You already learned this a long time ago. Well, let's face it, we can all use a refresher on this topic. And let me tell you why. Knowing how to write a thesis is a skill that follows you all the way from your middle school years to your high school, college, and I daresay, master's and PhD schooling. So let's start with a very basic question. What is a thesis? Put simply, a thesis is a statement that usually appears in the intro paragraph or section and offers a main point or claim of the essay. In other words, it's an argument. If you needed in any perspective or topic you're talking about, it's the very foundation by which you will build your whole essay. Let's go over what a thesis is not. A thesis is not a summary of the text. It cannot be answered with a simple yes or no. It is not a question. It should not state mere facts or a topic. By the end of your intro and thesis, your essay reader should think, this essay will try to prove or convince me of something.


So one more full-time. We'll try to get higher up on the wall There we go that's much higher on the wall Hello, and welcome back here to the channel. I'm your rabbit We are staring at the back of Masayama's S15 from FD the new link ECU v2s have been dropped So we have three new cars to look at for today. Let's make sure you follow me on social media all the found Let's get to it Masayama's S15 is definitely a very cool kitted S15 with those cutouts in the front very wide almost like race car Style body kit on this by now Japan S15. So this is one of the three cars We'll be taking a look at we're gonna be driving them all giving you my impressions on them Definitely love how the car looks, you know the link ECU car pack Definitely a very cool car pack because they look almost Identical to the actual cars. So let's go for a full rip and Masayama's find out Japan S15 We are at Gauntlet or New Jersey here for some testing We'll probably switch up tracks after we run these cars here Run some high bank wall runs We can take a look at these cars a little bit more in some mountain road driving and stuff like that But we're here just gonna run the wall here in New Jersey and see what we can do With these new cars so definitely you don't have any practice with these cars. So We'll send not sure we're gearing or anything we're gonna have to do This gear looks like oh nope fourth gear All right, so it's gonna be a fourth gear Already wrecking this car. So it's gonna be a fourth gear hit Some turbo lag noticing in this car as you can see a lot of clutch kicks are involving with this car So we're gonna go for a one more run in this car And then we're gonna take a look at two other cars that are in the link ECU pack that we did get we did get math fields Vet as well as Travis Rear's old red. So let's go see what we can do for one, too Four skiers where we have to stay Nowhere near what I want to be on the wall, but For first shakedowns of these cars Definitely love how this car looks almost lost it with the angle trying to serve more angles than I needed The wall definitely a very hard track to master for sure So we're gonna go switch up to another car, which is V8 car See if we can conquer the wall with a V8 car to adjust the audio limit for math fields car So math fields teal and blue Falcon tires Corvette that heat wave visual drift cave Corvette vortex supercharger Lucas oil definitely a very cool looking car and Got that try and shoot yellow headlights full interior under glow and everything like that as all the links cars have and It's definitely a very sweet looking Model and it even has his his seats in there. That's awesome drift cave seats Everything like that. So we're gonna go full cent on math fields car Had to turn the audio down a little bit for fields this car. Oh Man, this is loud. I do love the heat wave on the tail light Just like his actual car heat wave visual rockin the blue heat wave visual glasses here on My PC, so we're gonna heat up these tires in the burnout box Then we're gonna try and scuff up the front a little bit. Probably should done a burn a box grass So let's see what we can do in his car We'll take supercharged Corvette Yeah, I know we're near up on the wall, but you know what? I'm trying out to wreck these cars first run out Picked it up on the creep this like I said this track is not an easy track To run but it's definitely a fun track and this is the figure not the crossover style This is 2019 style so this car is just Spitting the tires loose. Definitely. I guess that these these cars are very great models Definitely a lot of time and effort put into these cars So one more full several try to get higher up on the wall There we go. That's much higher on the wall. That's kind of where we wanted to be on that Slow down there. Can I get in the crease? Oh? Boy we lost it We lost it going through at the end of that zone. I keep thinking this is a full outer dome It's actually a pull-in zone So definitely was able to run the wall much better in fields is Vet so we got one more car to take a look here and that is Travis Reader's old red No, we're probably gonna switch up tracks and take one of these cars out elsewhere So Travis Reader's old red his s13 is Definitely very very different than most of the s13's in FD or 14s and 15s This car is tried and true chassis old red. It's definitely a fun car to watch He's a great driver to watch always fun the big RC antenna on top so V8 powered and We're gonna go full send in the GT radios old red here Got under glowing everything kind of popping off red line Oh There do a little bit of heat up We're able to get on the wall math field car. So let's see if we can actually get up on the wall in old red Don't hit that box So it's head in to the wall stadium Just five miles an hour. I was doing 35. It's alright. It's Travis Reader's old red here wall This year full looks like kind of mid-high line Got a very floaty now these cars are not tuned at all I haven't mess with anything else is tuning. These are out of download straight Man, I don't know if we have enough tire to go anywhere else. I mean, we're gonna go full send probably on a non FD track almost spitting it out at the end But we got this We'll more run in Travis Reader's old red and then we're gonna probably take this I'm thinking see how far we can go in the dragon with it and go the dragon and see what we can do with it There we'll find a run here at wall. Oh Nice and high on the wall Coming off a little bit early though kind of set us up for here though Not as deep in the park as I want to be Quick click though Not a bad run. We are almost dead on tires So we're gonna take this car to the dragon I feel we're gonna see what we can do with this car at the dragon So the tour to the dragon seal far we can go before we blow our tires So we're gonna pull our tire gauge over here so you guys can see our tire wear situation We're here at the dragon and Travis Reader's old red Well, I already tell this is gonna be crazy Here it is to run that sequential box. Oh Save it. We got it Pro car on private roads do not attempt this at home all the left foot brakes Oh, yeah, we are gonna be out of tires before we're even like halfway through this course Same fourth gear though. I was floating that handbrake over. I was put my hand over the handbrake See if we actually needed it. We didn't really need it Kind of using brake and clutch case to transition the car Oh Riding the white line. Oh man. We're gonna yank a little he break there.  Sorry Travis Reader We're good. We just heated up our front tires. That's what we needed to do, right? Stand corrected. We may have Enough tires to run a decent amount on this track. We need to go till it breaks though. We blow tires Or run completely out of grip Saucin here about halfway through our tires. I think Almost a backwards entry. We got this Oh my one tire drop managing to hold this pro car out here Super excited about how this is handling right now. Oh No, as I said that we oscillate the car a little bit Clutch kicking forth a little handbrake yanked there Thought the turn was a lot sharper than it was. I've been on the drag in a minute. So I totally forgot the turns The fact that this car can hold that kind of crab walking through that section. Oh one tire drop Yeah, you can tell our tires are Much redder on the way. Oh, we're starting to see sparks. We are starting to see sparks We have no more gears. Oh, we're done It's good to hear for this episode You're on the side of course the link you see your car back Definitely add a little follow with it kind of blew tires and put Reader's car into the trees Sorry, Travis So if you guys like and enjoy and hope you guys follow me and sub would appreciate all support Tap the bell notification. As always, I think you guys should come back to watch. I'm your rabbit. See you guys on the track


The combat capability of the Russian army has deteriorated due to mental health problems among Russian soldiers. The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense states.UK analysts noted that Russian soldiers are facing a mental health crisis. In December 2022, Russian psychologists identified approximately 100,000 military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. This number is almost certainly now higher as the Russian military fails to provide sufficient rotation and recuperation from the battlefield. The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense stressed many commanders pointed out this problem, including Major General Ivan Popov, former commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army, who was sacked in July 2023.UK analysts say there is additional evidence that Russian medical staff are sending servicemen who are unfit to fight to the front. The number of appeals filed against Russian military medical commissions increased in 2023 compared to 2022, with many cases being dismissed or left unheard. With a lack of care for its soldiers, mental health and fitness to fight, Russia's combat fighting effectiveness continues to operate at suboptimal levels, the review reads.


A red road map is done since the beginning of this year and along with that they also come up with a safeguard for red in the country and only in red we start talking about UNDRIP and Indigenous Peoples Rights as well as FPIC for Indigenous community. So in that also they mention about shifting cultivation and how to address as part of the strategy for driver of deforestation. I think there is little awareness among the community on red programs so when they although they are sometimes invited for consultation and discussion if they don't have the background understanding fully then they cannot give proper comment on things like that however there is ongoing consultation open up and for us civil society also we try to do awareness raising at the same time trying to engage in the country red process so that the community have their voice on the process going on at the same time improve the rights because red come along with the safeguard and Indigenous Peoples Rights and discussion on land tenure and collective rights so all of the thing we haven't discussed in the past time is coming up along with red so whatever whether red come in 2020 or not we hope that community will improve their voice along with engaging at the red program at the same time we hope to help support to climate change by improving sustainable forest management in our country. Cultivation is mainly practiced by the indigenous community in Myanmar and also for them there is no legal protection for asset to land and they have also pressure on land grabbing and illegal logging coming into the area that's why finally they end up like reducing fair low period which is also again seen as the driver of deforestation with their practices however they also face the climate change impact and they're trying to respond to with their way and knowledge and with their lifestyle. In Myanmar, Kachin, Kaya, Kiyin, Chin and Shan states are mainly the indigenous people there are mainly walking shifting cultivation as they are likely who and two actually in the past is around two-ten of the population now reduced to one-tenth due to limited access of land and a lot of migration and other social factor however is 22.8 percent of the land area of the country is still practicing shifting cultivation for their main livelihood. Since they have no legal protection in the law anytime when there is illegal logging coming in when the company get the land construction they have to move relocate and further into the forest and also there is a pressure for them to find alternative livelihood although they have not know they don't have proper education and this also lead to some social issue like the people have to walk as a housemaid and all other thing is like a loop now impact on their life so they really in need of support legally as well as technically and for their future sustainability of shifting cultivation practices.


Going on everyone Sam here with late sports garter been 23 tops inception baseball hobby 16 bucks full case break number 15 random team style So look again at your random results as always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat It's good. Look everybody. Let's do it number 15 Let's go. Thank you Eric with two spots in number seven Thank You Eric Eric W with two spots in the first tiered One-in-one break that is down to one to go now one spot in one-in-one tiered everyone One to go Let's go.   I hit one last night I was really really thinking on you weren't coming back Like yes He's out of here That would have been ideal. Yeah, that stinks Adley Green Nolan Gorman Green and Shintaro Fujinami Vinny Pasquantino and Nick Prado RPA to 99 congrats on that one. They're Royals buddy junior Matt Mervis No, Salvi Perez and Christopher Morel to 149 nice one there on the RPA city connect patch for the good old Cubs Grats Chicago Nolan Gorman What red Matt Mervis to 75 and Oscar Colas Gunner Anderson Oswald Paraza and Mark Appel rookie out at 50 nice one Phillies Mark Appel on the next one Peter Lanza Orange Nolan Gorman at 50 Buddy Kennedy rookie out at a 125 nice one D-back scratch Arizona At a zone and Mark Appel what should you say to them? Maybe got two autos in here Adley Rushman and Hunter Brown Alec Manoa O'Neill Cruz Mark Appel rookie auto again Nice one there to at 299 this time for the Phills and then Matthew Libertor 29 of 99 RPA for at the Cardinals there you go CK Grats on that one buddy 29 of 99 and Kyle is ripping personal is over on channel two as well Jace Paul Wayne God, what do they how do they need to be humbled? God Patrick Bailey Green Oswaldo Cabrera and Kodai Senga Yeah, I think Brice Harper Eloy nice one there for the White Sox congrats on that Yeah, yeah, we're right there literally right down the street from From Windsor Park George Yeah, we're um how far from winter I think forest lives in a park It was it lives in garlic like 15 15 minutes, Justin Steele Stephen Strasburg to 150 still in Florida George and Zack Neto, you know Cabrera and rookie auto Jonah Bride two of ten nice one there For the eights congrats Oakland Oakland Land oh you're in Texas now, Texas is dope though What part? Oh time was mulling over here. I was saying that's gross Yeah, he blocked his main account. He blocked Anthony's main account. I didn't Brian Bale show hate to 99 Did you like ban him accidentally? No You know ban him So jokes.  I promise Holly and Davis Martin to at 99 silver signatures for the White Sox Geez, Anthony I know the only thing I could think of is you accidentally Banned him instead of timing him out Like you didn't I know you didn't do I'm probably never banned obviously The only thing I can think of is when you're going to time out you hit ban instead It's right. It's right above it. Oh If I did my bad dude, yeah, we could fix that. Yeah, we'll think I didn't that was not the Yuri Perez Probably not I would think Bobby. I think he retired. No, Nick Prado and Patrick Bailey Although now I think about it. We probably should just keep it Anthony's coming back. No, we need them gone. So I've been talking to myself for two days straight. Yes Shizzle and Zach Thompson for the Cardinals Rookie out of to at 299 Yeah, no Brian selling us out on the first tiered break. Thank you, Brian. Let's go sold out on One-in-one tiered random team number seven Let's get random card styles filled up everybody get the random card Everybody will walk away with something in that Zack Neto Green Red Brian Bayo to 75 order from us and just having shipped out there Yeah, absolutely. We should I mean it's I think Guam's technically a US Territory. Yeah, yeah, Masatake Yoshida Mookie Betts, Nolan Aronato and Gerard Incarnacion 1150 for the Marlins on the patch auto Congrats Miami. I guess maybe the only thing you maybe you hit hide user on channel and instead That's the only thing I could think of really Not on purpose Abrams to 99. Yeah, no, if it's anybody like that, we just time out as a joke. Yeah, that's accidental. Yeah, that was Accidental Well, they bow nailer and Bryson Stott to 125. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I'm very in on that one. I have to say Bobby I love Yoshida in the city connect Chris picking up a couple of personals over on a channel to That studio Clayton Kershaw Jay Ram and James Outman rookie What's the smell like in there? like Cormacare rookie like a dirty sock It's Fine Mount Castle and Trish and Casas RPA. I swung there for the red socks three color The rookie at patch autograph very nice very nice Smells like wet dog burnt fur Really is Rendon blue Goldie to 25 And a story Ruiz rookie Bobby wit T swag to 75 Travis Swagger the timeless moment Saw the time this moment. It's nasty. What's it number two? Wow?   We're gonna get Matt some help We really do All right That down for a second We've got base rookie an emerging star autograph of Jordan Walker. There we go Cardinals very nice That's a CK St. Louis CK. Let's go, baby. CK CK And I'm pretty sure base jump Pretty sure base jump with the the Guardians in this one, right? Yep base jump. Let's go, baby. That's a bow nailer 62 a 75 Pink RPA for the Guardians. He's a stud man starting catcher there now in that Cleveland. Very nice It's 7-Eleven Conor Cappell green a Sheen Bieber to 150 for the Guardians and Bryce to rang Hell yeah, you know a thermo thermo and McCutcheon and Simeon Woods Richardson to 99 for the Good old twins. I had to do a quick recap here everybody Got bow nailer RPI Matt Swarmer T swag Trishon Simeon Woods Richardson. Is that gonna be a new thing now? Bryson Stott, Gerard Incarnacion, Patshawta, Zach Thompson Davis Martin, Jonah Bride Eloy Jimenez, Matthew Libetor RPI, Mark Appel, Buddy Kennedy That is Christopher Morel, Nick Prado and Jordan Walker on the redemption What a deal for the break everybody. Thanks again for the film. Up next is number 16 Divisions


What's up guys this is the inkey bend box it's a Wi-Fi powered wireless video transmitter working on the 5.8g frequency band it can transmit 1080p video up to 60 frames per second up to a maximum of 100 meters with a latency of less than 150 milliseconds using the HDMI port on your camera and also using the inkey mobile app which is available for both iOS and Android so let's go ahead and check this out in the box as you can see this is probably one of the smallest and most compact wireless video transmitters I've seen on the market I'm gonna set this up with my Sony a7 III there's a few other accessories that I like to see in the box before I do that so you get yourself the user manual and instructions on how to connect this and get up and running and lastly you have a whole bunch of cables now there's various different cables here to connect the bend box to the type of camera you have so I have a Sony camera and as you can see this is the Sony cable they also have a mini USB to connect that to the mini USB ports on your camera you also have the USB type C you also have a micro USB and then you also have a Panasonic connector as well so plenty of options to connect it so let's go ahead set this up on my camera and let's showcase its capabilities right so the bend box is now mounted on top using the hot shoe I've got the HDMI to micro HDMI connected to my Sony a7 III and I'm using the Sony USB adapter to connect that into my camera as well so I'll be able to control that with my phone to take videos and photos to turn it on you simply press the on off button once and then you hold it down for a couple of seconds until all the lights turn blue and then the Wi-Fi light will be a solid steady blue light like so then you can turn your camera on and you'll see it will detect the USB for controlling and then you simply select okay to allow it to be controlled remotely the next step is to now connect this using your mobile phone to do that you simply go into the Wi-Fi settings you will find a bend box Wi-Fi once you find that you select this the default password is 12345678 once that's connected then you can now load up the in-key mobile app so there you see it's now showing the menu if I just press the shutter on the camera it will now go into view so now you have the live view on both the camera and the mobile phone you are ready to start shooting so the one thing I really wanted to showcase to you guys is the response time but just to let you know before I do that that most camera models you can wirelessly control the manual settings for things like the aperture the ISO and the shutter speed in addition to the buttons for shooting the videos and taking pictures like I have here now I'm using a Sony a7 III using the Sony USB connector it's not currently possible to control the manual settings like the aperture and the ISO but it works for most of the other camera models as you can see here it works for Canon Panasonic Fujifilm all of the other ones and I'll have a link down below of where you can see the compatibility list that you can see now so the main things that you can do using the mobile app is as you can see along the bottom you can change the resolution to 1080 which I'm doing there you also have the zebra slider so you can have a look at the picture settings and adjust that accordingly check the grid and you also have some options for some luts so you can see here if I select one I can actually slide this to see the difference as a comparison which I think is a very nice touch and it's so smooth it just works great so I will deselect these picture settings you have the menu at the top this basically tells you the basic information about the Wi-Fi the firmware versions you can download from here you can add some luts and some information about the Benbox app so let's go ahead and check the response times I'll basically just go and stand in front of the camera and showcase to you guys what the latency is on this which I'm actually very impressed with as you can see it's pretty much instantaneous it's super fast so now what I like to do is test this outdoors and check how responsive it is by pushing it to the maximum 100 meter range of transmission so let's go ahead and do that now all right guys so I'm outdoors now this car park is 100 meters in length I've pre-measured it so the trees and the bushes right at the back there you'll be able to see if the latency goes really bad or it maintains it quite well that will be 100 meters I'm going to walk backwards and I will get there to the 50 meter mark and I'll wave to you so that's halfway just to see the difference in the latency so I've currently got it connected I'm screen recording as well so you guys will be able to see that side by side when playing back this video so let me go ahead and walk back one other thing to note is that on top of the bend box is an internal antenna so devices like the Holyland Mars you have external antennas that you need to position towards the person that has the phone but this one is all internal I would still recommend you are in its line of sight when you are filming so let me go ahead walk backwards and hopefully you guys can see how the latency is so I'm going to wave at the 50 meter mark so let me go ahead and do that okay guys I'm at the 100 meter mark I'm waving now I'm right by the trees hopefully you guys can still hear me just going to walk let me know what you guys think of the latency so now I'm going to head back so this looks absolutely clear from my phone it's just the perfect thing to have when you're shooting and you're going to be far away from a camera maybe by yourself so then you can just start recording from here you can take pictures from here whatever it may be it's the perfect solution if you are going to do everything by yourself but even if you have a camera person you can use this to see yourself make sure you're in frame you like the lighting you like the focus everything like that so I think it's great well guys so I've played it back it does a very good job ideally the 50 60 70 meter marks is perfectly fine if you do push it right to the 100 meter marks I did notice a bit more latency than normal but that's absolutely expected if you are going to do very long distance range because the transmission and the antenna would struggle a little bit to pick it up but for the most part I'm so happy with this it's so easy to set up that's the convenience of it and also if you do a lot of remote shooting it has a 2500 milliamp hour battery inside which gives you about three and a half hours of shooting time but the best thing about this is that you can actually power and charge the bend box device itself whilst it's still in use so if you have a power bank plug it into the USB C port and you can continually have the power getting outputted into the camera using an external power source so this comes in about 109 pounds on Amazon make sure you check the link down below it's really convenient if you are a filmmaker a photographer this is the perfect complimentary thing to have in your camera or tech backpack like I'm going to do so check the link down below if you found this review useful make sure you give this video a huge thumbs up I do a lot of camera accessory videos which I know you're going to like and I have a lot more coming up this year as well so make sure you hit that subscribe button so you won't miss those ones and I will catch you guys next time take care


Welcome everyone once again. I would love to get started by telling you a little bit about the agenda for today. Nicole, can you help me out? So we're going to start with some very quick introductions, and we're going to have a fantastic conversation with Ari and Christian, who are our guests today. Then we're going to have a little bit of a Q&A with the audience, and then we're going to have breakout sessions. The difference between the Q&A with the audience and the breakout sessions is that from past experience, we understand that these conversations can happen in two levels. We want to have a public-facing conversation about what it means for policy, for industry, for the way we invest. And also, there's this other level of conversation, which is more private, and it requires some more in-word looking and maybe a more private conversation. So that's why we're having these two moments, like Q&A with an audience and then also a breakout session. And then we're going to have some closing remarks, and we're hopefully going to end up connected. And we will have learned lots from each other and started hopefully prompting new actions, new activities, and new collaborations. So without further ado, we're going to start with introductions. So let me introduce myself. Today, I am your host. I have the privilege of being your host for this conversation. I am the executive director of strategy and content at SoCAP Global. I joined this year. I'm very excited. I had been a SoCAP participant for a long time and then being able to be a part of the team and thinking through both content and strategy is something that was super exciting and is a dream on true. I absolutely love working with this team. Before that, well, I led Impacto, which was an ecosystem building B Corp, working from Ecuador for the Andean region. And I also am a fund manager for a small impact investment fund in the Andean region. So with that perspective in mind, I am also very excited to introduce to you Arya Florence. She is the co-founder and managing director of Liberation Ventures. Arya is constantly navigating different worlds, black and white, grassroots and corporate, ethnic studies and finance. And she's always building bridges in between. She's the co-founder and managing director of Liberation Ventures, which is a field catalyst and a philanthropic organization fueling the US black lead movement for racial repair. Prior to Liberation Ventures, Arya served public and social sector clients in McKinsey and company and helped found the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility. She was also an organizer in East Palo Alto, California, focusing on youth development and civic engagement. In 2017, she helped launch the first ever round of programs at the Obama Foundation, so we're just extremely, extremely excited to hear from Arya and her incredible and very broad experience as well. Also with us today, we have Christine Borking. He is the vice president and director at True Ventures. He leads TrueVentures.org, an initiative designed to find, fund and support entrepreneurs devoting their careers to generating social returns. Previously, he worked in the venture research group at Cambridge Associates and in network development at Bright Roll, an early through portfolio company. So with that, I would love to get us started and maybe have the conversation going. I want to just do a quick sound check if everyone that has their camera on can give their thumbs up and understand that we are going to be also recording the session and turning it into a podcast. So maybe to get us started, Arya, hi, how are you? Hi, I'm well, thanks for having me and thank you, everyone who joined. Yeah, thank you so much. We're very excited. I mean, after having a workshop with you last year at SoCAP and unfortunately, I didn't attend the workshop, but I heard amazing things about the workshop, mostly because it also, as you said, navigated different worlds, right? So sometimes you show up at a conference and you think, okay, SoCAP, you've got to turn out the suit and the business cards and you think that all conversations are going to be somewhat formal. And then you come up with this incredible workshop that not only helped us understand a broader movement, but also just look inward. So before we get into this, I would love to hear a little bit more about you, where you come from, tell us about your career journey and also what led you to lead McKinsey and then co-found Liberation Ventures? Yeah, thank you for the question. So I am, well, I'm originally from Colorado. That's where I grew up and it definitely plays a role in my story and the journey that I've taken to get to here. My family is interracial, my mom is white, my dad is black and we lived in a pretty small, well, small-ish town called Fort Collins, about an hour north of Denver that was mostly white, only about 2.5% black. And so my experience growing up there definitely shaped kind of what I did after I left because the messages that I always got from my parents were very much sort of like, you got to be twice as good, you can't give anyone a reason to doubt you because you're the only black girl in most of your classes and extracurriculars and fourth teams. And so I grew up kind of thinking, like understanding that, but not really having a lot of the context for why that was the case. Until I went to college and studied ethnic studies, as I said in my bio, which was really sort of like a healing journey for me to actually dig deep into the history of this country and how structural racism has evolved over time. And so much of that was really helpful in giving me the language and talk about my experience in Colorado. So that's a big part of like sort of personally what brings me to the work. And I started out my career journey in East Palo Alto, California. It's just about 20 minutes down the road from Stanford where I went to undergrad. If a lot of folks, if y'all are in the Bay, then you know East Palo Alto is a small majority minority city. It's about 2.5 square miles that has a extremely rich history of self-determination and Afrocentrism that was also the place where black folks in the Bay were sort of redlined into back in the 50s, 60s, 70s. And it's still a place that has a number of just incredible community organizations really organizing for development in East Palo Alto. So I moved there, started working there, focused most of my work on things related to youth development and civic engagement. And I really still consider East Palo Alto home in a lot of ways. I just learned so much about what it means to show up in communities and to be really like actionably working for racial justice. However, at the same time, I worked for some tiny nonprofits and I wanted to get a better sense for what it would mean and like what skills I needed to develop in order to run an unprofit. And so I went to the East Coast for graduate school, thought I would get all those skills in graduate school but I didn't, which is how I ended up at McKinsey because not only did I want to get some of the skills that you can get in managing consulting but I also then had loans that I needed to pay off. So I got pretty lucky. I worked in the DC office and served mostly public and social sector clients and did a lot of work internally prior to 2020 because once I started at McKinsey, I basically saw that there was a real opportunity for the firm to do research on the racial wealth gap and to ensure that all of the recommendations that it was providing to its clients were not making racial equity worth, which meant that the firm would need to build capabilities in order to understand that. And so I started driving a lot of that work internally and since 2020 that has developed into the Institute for Black Economic Mobility at McKinsey. But to get to your question, why did I leave? I started thinking with a co-founder about four and a half years ago really trying to answer this question of how do we develop a deep, deep, deep root cause level intervention on racial injustice because a lot of the work that Key and I were seeing across the sector was great work but often really treating symptoms that were further downstream. And so we started asking ourselves like what does it really look like to get upstream? And through a ton of thinking and learning and talking to people, we really landed on kind of two really strong forces that we believe are deep root causes for why our systems are still so unjust and those are the racial wealth gap and anti-black narratives. And when we thought about what could be the solution we came to reparations in particular because looking back at history, reconstruction was only 12 years after the period of slavery was 250. And so we really started to see this work as sort of the unfinished work of reconstruction. And the way we think about it is that if reparations could really shock the system on those two anchors then you would actually see positive ripple effects across different systems, including education and health, et cetera, across the country. So that's how it started and the rest is history. Wow, that's amazing. And I think that, I mean, as you were describing this, your more personal story and just thinking, wow, how lucky is this broader community that these little accidents of history can continue to happen to bring together these very different points of view inside one mind as well. I know that a lot of the biggest trailblazers that I know that I personally had a chance to have conversations with, tend to come from the fringes of each of these different worlds and end up kind of like drawing this bridge across. So thanks so much for sharing that. So now you mentioned reparations. So after thinking about the size of the challenge about after having seen the numbers, setting up this institute, looking at different policies to prevent that further inequality, it takes place, you land on reparations. So tell us a little bit more about how do you define reparations? I think that that's something that we all come at with honest curiosity. And what are the most common misconceptions about reparations? Because I know that sometimes words come a little bit charged and that could be either a great opportunity to start a conversation or to end. So help us navigate our own reactions to the word reparations. Yeah, thanks for that question. And I recognize that the word can be charged and I'll talk about sort of how I think about that. So I think that the UN has sort of a definition of reparations as it's applied to legal frameworks. And that's the UN basic principles and right to a remedy and reparation. And that I think is the most sort of like universally understood definition of all of the different sort of components and pieces of what reparations can look like in particular in the context of sort of transitional justice scenario. It's been really used around the globe. And but when we started our work a few years ago, we started with sort of a slightly different question which is basically like what is repair? What are the core components of repair? I guess something that I learned in consulting was you can have these sort of abstract concepts but they're really hard to implement if you can't kind of break them down into smaller pieces. And so we did a ton of learning about reparative processes all around the globe and came to the framework that we use. And I will say that our framework is really built upon those UN principles and sort of the broader transitional justice toolkit as well as a real legacy of restorative justice that we believe is also relevant in this case. And our framework basically includes four components. It's reckoning, acknowledgement, accountability and redress. So I'll say that again, it's reckoning, yeah. Yeah, and for those of you who are just listening, you're gonna have to go to our website and look at the actual framework but we're going to share it here at the webinar. We have a little slide that might aid in helping us through the four components. Thanks. Awesome, yes. So reckoning really deeply learning and understanding harm that has been caused. Acknowledgement is actually taking what we've learned and then naming or voicing that understanding and a particular acknowledgement is often important to make harmed parties feel really seen and give harmed parties the opportunity to clarify or to deepen our understanding. Acknowledgement also is really what sort of sets a new standard around cultural norms, around what's possible because something has been voiced about what's not okay. Accountability is really shifting us into the present and really taking ownership over what is going to, what we're gonna stop doing in order to stop causing harm. And then redress is really about taking action that both sort of restore the harmed party to ideally a position that they were in before the harm in some cases that's not possible. And so it's really taking action that relates to or that really catalyzes community level healing, but then also action that really creates an equitable world in the future. And what I will say is I think one of the, so I'll name a couple of the misconceptions about reparations that you just, or that you asked me to. One is that a lot of people think that reparations is really just cash or just about money in general. And as you can see from these four components, three of them are actually not about money. And that is a big, big message that the reparations movement and a lot of the movement partners that we work with really want to get across is that it is about the money, but it's also about so much more than the money because in essence, this isn't just an economic project but really a political and a cultural project. And then the second thing I'll say is that it's not just about the past, it's also about the future. So I think that is really important to hold because a lot of folks will say like, if I'm not black, what does this have to do with me? And what it has to do is the fact that we are all responsible for building a just and equitable future. And the reality is that our current society is built on a lot of the legacy of injustice that stems from the origins of this country. And therefore, we are all responsible for repairing it. That's how we do it. Thank you so much. Yeah, I'll say one other thing. Sorry, Michelle, I will also name that, we think about applying this framework to not only the public sector, but also the private sector and the social sector, our churches, our schools. Like we, at our highest level essence at Liberation Ventures, we are working toward building a culture of repair. And we believe that that culture of repair can be being cultivated in institutions across the country that are not just in the public sector. And so that was also why we really thought it was important to build upon those other legal frameworks and create one that also really applies to culture because we know that actually our policies actually only as durable as our culture change, like we could try to, we could close the racial wealth gap tomorrow, but it would just reopen if we weren't really changing the systems and the culture along the way that aren't gonna be needed in order to keep it close. Thank you so much. And this, a couple of thoughts came to my mind, I was thinking as we were putting together this webinar, there was actually a lot of interest from very global audiences as well, just that, like thinking with this curiosity about like how do you think through all the other historical processes that have taken place, that also require this culture of repair as well. And also I recognize a lot, I think I didn't mention it, but I did have a prior career as a human rights lawyer and I was thinking through how frameworks like these could actually make it a lot easier for like, I don't know, victims groups in like post conflict, Columbia right now, for example, they had a great meeting last week with a group and in Cambodia as well, just they were all thinking through how repair relates to them and how it's far more than what you said, cash or a check, it has so much more to do with society as a whole. So thank you. Now, okay, I'm going to see if we can, this is very inspiring concept, fantastic frameworks. Framework, how does this land into liberation ventures and what does liberation ventures do with this framework as well? Great question. Yeah, so this framework really anchors us in terms of sort of what we're building towards, what our vision really looked like in a more concrete sense. But we also use this framework internally, we believe that it's really important to build a culture of repair inside of liberation ventures. And so we've actually applied this to when we've had breakdown like among our team because the thing that we believe is that actually, the difference, we are ultimately trying to build a multiracial democracy and a multiracial democracy is going to hold so many different communities across lines of difference and difference often causes breakdown or conflict or harm. And in our view, that difference and really the alchemy of what it means to fully belong across with all of your multitudes, with all of your difference, that we only get there if we have a culture of repair because we are only as strong as our ability to repair that difference. And so I would say that's how we kind of think about it in essence, but I'll also name a little bit of just the tactics around what we do. We are a field catalyst in the reparations movement, which means that we sort of sit in between groups on the ground as well as larger sort of philanthropies. We sit in between them and we operate, we solely exist to support groups on the ground and help them become kind of more than the sum of their parts and really build momentum toward our North Star, which is federal comprehensive policy. So our three streams of work are grant making, capacity building and narrative change work. And I would say that this framework really sits within, within those pillars across in different ways, but I think within the narrative pillar, one of the things that our movement partners have shared is that it really is important to be talking about, be sort of reimagining, reframing reparations to be more than just the money and to be really about like building a multiracial democracy. And I think this framework really helps us do that. That's fantastic. And I guess, well, I'm gonna stop there for a second and we can stop sharing the screen for a second because I would love to then kind of honor to that. There's a couple of people in this webinar that are probably also having flashbacks to this amazing workshop that was held at SoCAP 22. And at least one of those people is also here. So I wanted to ask Kristin a little bit about when did you first hear about this framework that Ariya is mentioning and what initially struck you about not just Ariya's work but also about liberation of nature's? Yeah, thanks, Michelle. You're quite right. I was having flashbacks as Ariya talked about the work that she and her team were doing and your framing of the SoCAP session and how it all came together last fall. And I was remembering being there at Yerba Buena looking at the program agenda and thinking about all the exciting things were happening and how do I choose only one? I leaned into this and I sat through a session that was really powerful and at the end of it all I was struck by the emotion that came out of the conversation. I was struck by the depth of the conversation and it was awesome. It really got the wheels turning. When you think about this and the work that is happening here it fits actually really nicely into what's always inspired us for the better part of 20 years as a firm. We are an early stage venture capital firm based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and we've always gotten excited about what we call founders of movements and products that can capture the imagination. And honestly, as we think about this year what bolder movement could there be than attempting to address the greatest foundational and systemic flaw in American history, right? The fact that we are not the great representative democracy that we claim to be or that we hope to be. So there was definitely a lot in that first session that got me interested. And as I talked to more people as I did my best to educate myself about reparations and how we might be a thoughtful partner to Ari and her team that led to more conversations and it's been a wonderful relationship that began that day very much unexpected to me. Oh, well, thank you so much for sharing that question not just because you're very, you can hear from the tone of your voice that it actually struck chord very personally not just with that investor's hat on but just with that full human hat. But also because we love hearing about these types of stories actually taking place at SOCAP that's why SOCAP exists so that we can connect unlikely allies in this case. So what made you decide to invest in integration ventures? Just from this like investor's perspective you mentioned the idea of movement building and just being real catalysts can you tell us a little bit more about what that process of, I don't even know, I would call it due diligence would look like. Yeah, for sure. It was a fun process and we're thrilled with the way it ended up namely that we are in partnership with Liberation Ventures. What gets us excited initially is a powerful combination of a really incredible novel idea and then a founder or a group of founders that often have the lived experience or some deep visceral belief that they are the right people to solve that problem or to move the needle in that problem. This wonderful sense of founder market fit where we say not only is this a huge problem that the world needs to solve but also this is the right person or these are the right people to in fact do that. Ideas alone are certainly important but without the right protagonist they will never reach their full potential. And the more we leaned into what Aria and her team were doing the more we learned the more we got impressed that this seemingly massive, intractable, immense, unsolvable problem actually was being broken down into a whole series of very reasonable, manageable and practical steps. It kind of felt like, wow, something that seems impossible actually could be possible. So that process, the vision really resonated with us. Finally, I would say the model resonated as well. Now, when you look at that introductory screen there you see Aria, Liberation Ventures, Christian True Ventures. It's not a coincidence that the names of our organizations both have ventures in them. We have been for 20 years now building a portfolio of like-minded founders trying to put their heads together and create some of the parts that is so much more than all these different pieces coming together on their own. It's a powerful experience building within a community of supportive peers and it made so much sense to us as we think about narrative, as we think about community, as we think about collaboration. Yes, we've seen this work on our portfolio. It also should work. It's something that could be incredibly powerful and helpful for everyone within the Liberation Ventures world as well. All the movement partners, they should be talking, they should be all working off the same playbook. They should be making sure that what works for one can work for many. And by the way, what's not working for one that maybe shouldn't be repeated otherwise. So there was a lot about the model that really resonated to. And I would say, I hope there's a lot that Liberation Ventures can learn from what we as an organization have been doing and vice versa, we are already alerting a lot from the way they do their work and the way they bring together their community to create change as well. No, thank you so much, Christian. And I love what you mentioned, not just about the model, but just about the right protagonists as well. And so you mentioned the model a couple of times. I would love for Aria to maybe tell us about the model. I mean, this webinar and this podcast will be listened to by all kinds of Christian-like characters. So maybe you can share with us a little bit more about what is the model? What is this unique value proposition that you're putting forward with Liberation Ventures? Yeah, absolutely. And I'll also, I think name some resources that I think are relevant as they talk about this too. So I mentioned we're a field catalyst. And I know that's kind of like jargon, especially in sort of philanthropy world. But I think that that role in movements is becoming more and more and more sort of known and visibleized. Bridgspan actually just did a long piece about the role of field catalyst, which I highly recommend looking up and we were excited to be part of that research that they did. And I think that the thing about field catalysts that can be challenging is that when field catalysts do their work right, they are really leading from the background. You are sort of really amplifying folks in the movement and supporting them and doing a lot of the sort of like behind the scenes thinking about what connections need to be made and whose work relates to whose work and what can be learned from this place and transposed to that place. And the more you do that, the more you can really sort of congeal so much different activity into something that's really sort of then accelerating the progress that the movement can make. And so as I mentioned, we do grant making and capacity building and narrative change. Grant making is, as you would expect we're an intermediary grant maker. So we raise dollars from larger foundations and re-granted and one of the, we're actually working on a co-authored piece about intermediaries right now. One of the biggest benefits to having intermediaries in a space is that you can get to know a space that's pretty niche very, very well and do a lot of the deep sourcing and diligence work that a larger foundation just wouldn't have the capacity to do. So that is really kind of our value add to the grant making space. And we have 31 amazing movement partners that we granted to in our round and our second round of granting this year which was $2.2 million round. The capacity building piece is basically the non-financial support piece for the movement partners that we are investing in. And so a lot of those organizations are small, are new. Even if they're not new, they may not have been being funded at the levels that they deserve and so maybe still sort of building out some of their infrastructure, especially on the operational side. So we do a lot of just like kind of one-to-one tailored projects with our movement partners related to fundraising, related to communications, related to strategic planning, related to hiring and talent. It's really whatever our movement partners need and want. And I will say we love that work because it's what keeps us kind of close to the ground. We learn so much about what the movement needs by doing that work with our partners. And I will say that is a tough thing we're figuring out is how to scale that because the current model that we use is not as scalable as a structured program would be. And so that's one of the questions we're answering as an organization right now. But I'll also say that within that capacity building bucket, we also think about that as like what can build the capacity of the entire field. So in particular, a lot of our research work falls under that category. We do public opinion polling and we have something cooking on the research side in partnership with a big think tank that you all know that I won't announce yet, but it is coming. So and that will be an opportunity or that will be a program that's really designed to support academics and researchers in the academy and think tanks connect with movement partners on the ground and really share what they're learning from their research as well as hear from movement partners about the questions they need answered so that those two communities can really better work together. So back to the bridge building that you mentioned, Michelle. And then the last thing I'll name is the narrative change work. And so we just know that there are so many myths and misconceptions out there about reparations, what reparations are, what they mean, who they're for. And so a big part of our work is to help make it easier for folks to go to one place and really understand the mental models and the frames and stories and the messages that we really want to kind of tell the full story of this movement. And in particular for social justice and racial justice organizations that don't already work on reparations, we want to start to make it easier for them to understand how to be talking about it and thinking about it and applying it to their own work. So there will also be a number of resources coming out on the narrative side in the late summer time period. So that's amazing. And I would just say as a last thing, we really see our work as evolving as the movement evolves. So if we do our work right, the needs of the movement will change as the movement grows. It may be that we can really work ourselves out of a job on the grant-making side because we've convinced all of the big progressive foundations to stand up reparations program areas and give to the movement directly. Big part of our role is donor organizing. That's not the case right now, but we think about our role as really sort of evolving as the movement does and as it grows. And so we'll see how that changes over time. So then thank you so much because I'm just thinking as you're describing all of these elements of unlawful prevention ventures does, it really is system change. And it's just kind of like playing acupuncture, right? Like what are the right pinches that you need to do to change an entire system? So thanks so much for your work. Just for the folks that are here that are trying to get their heads around like, how does this become tangible? Because that's one of the challenges of system change. It's the narrative behind it. Would you give us an example of a movement partner that you've worked with that is particularly inspiring or that could articulate a little bit more tangibly? Like what is it that you're trying to see when you offer a grant? Yeah, absolutely. Oh gosh, there's so many groups that I could highlight, but I will talk about Robin Rue Simmons who was an older woman in Evanston and was the person in Evanston that really was behind, it was the driving force behind passing reparations policy in Evanston. So I'll name that just as an example because I think it is really important to highlight that reparations is happening. It has been happening across the globe in so many different countries, reparations were paid to the descendants of Holocaust victims, Holocaust victims and their descendants. They were paid by the US, the Japanese-Americans, we've done reparations in Evanston in Chicago for police torture in Rosewood, Florida. So there are so many different cases and there really is a deep precedent for reparation across the globe and across time. But Evanston is one of the most recent in the US. Robin Rue Simmons really drove that work through as an older woman, but then she left and started a nonprofit called First Repair, which is a nonprofit geared towards helping other municipalities across the country do what she did. And so she has been, so we invested in First Repair and support First Repair on a number of different projects. Robin, like Robin is awesome and like she, it's only we could sort of multiply her so she could be everywhere because there are so many task forces that are actually being stood up across the country, both at the city level and at the sea level. And so there's a lot of really exciting work in the sort of place-based reparations domain right now. And I would say that's something to keep a lookout for both like in your area, but also I would say a lot of the national coverage right now is about where it's happening in California and other places. Well, thank you so much. And that's a fantastic example because it's not just about this one case, but it's just about this case, like you said, multiplying its impact. Thank you so much, Arya and Kristin. And I feel like I've had all the privilege to have all the questions to myself. So I'm going to ask people in the room to see if they have any questions to please raise your hand and mute yourselves. I think you're all able to unmute yourselves. You have the Zoom set up. So we can start a conversation going. And if you wanted to write your questions so on the chat as well, that's all right. And well, okay, well, we wait for questions to come up. I don't see any just yet. You're also thinking about it. Arya, where do you see liberation ventures in 10 years? 20 years. Great question. I'll go far out and then I'll walk myself backwards. When I imagine the other side of reparations, like what does this country look like with a culture of repair? I think that there are a number of things that I would say.  We live in a place where there is real sort of justice and care and equity built into those systems. And I would also say that there are different cultural norms related to how we think about repair.  Like it's just something that we decide as a nation that is an incredibly important muscle to build. And I think that if we were to do that, the third thing I'll say is that I would love that for us to live in a place where you don't have to actually sort of become woke, quote unquote. I know that word has been really like taken from us. But what I mean is to say just that the normal sort of process of coming of age in this country teaches us about its history and about how all of us can be like throughout our lifetimes agents of repairing that history. And I think I really look to Germany as an example there. Germany just has done a really phenomenal job of not just getting at the sort of economic pieces of reparation, but they have really embedded, used monuments and memorials and curriculum and cultural norms to create a country where folks, like there's no, people don't learn about the Holocaust when they are in college. Like it is a right of passage and it's a thing that's very like set as something that's important from the jump. So I really see us learning from that example. And it's funny when I'm in Europe and I share what I do, sometimes I wonder whether people will totally understand because concepts of race are different in Europe, but people always get it immediately because there's such a mental model there of what it means kind of at the country level to actually repair. So. Thank you. Thank you so much for painting a vision, but it's also totally attainable. I mean, at least from sounding, from the way it sounds coming from you, it's very attainable and it feels hopeful as well. So I'm going to, there's a couple of questions in the chat and then we're gonna go over to very small breakout sessions, but they're similar enough that I'm going to tag them together, that's all right. So are there any articles or resources that might be helpful for discussing reparations amongst a small team or organization? This person is thinking about how to share amongst the I committees in a corporate setting, for example, and tagging on to that question, is there any potential to collaborate with inclusive to get reparations on some of this framework within their framework as a topic? Yes, absolutely. So I don't know about inclusive specifically, happy to learn more, but what I would say is we published a report about their racial repair framework back in February, that is it really breaks down what each of the components mean in detail. And it goes into a lot of the evidence for why repair and each of those four components in particular are beneficial to us, both individually as well as collectively. And that's meant to be like a conversation starter. And it's meant to really sort of help help bring people out of the kind of current conceptions of what reparations means and create a more expansive frame for conversations to happen in particular in professional settings. I will only just say that it is long. We are working, it's like an 80 page report and I wrote it and I'm so sorry, but I am working on an executive summary version. And so if you join our mailing list, that will, we're like aiming for that to come out in the next few months, just because I know sometimes, especially when these kinds of things get added to like people's day jobs, it's just hard to read something that long. So- Aria, I will say though, it's 80 pages of gold. You don't talk about that, it's no worth reading. So I would encourage- I was gonna say, are you willing to share it? I'm kind of here, I'm here, I'll be open to 80 pages. Absolutely, I will put it. I will put it in the chat right now. It is, it's on our website, you can download it. Let's see, we'll put it in the chat. Aria, with your expansion and all your aspirations of everything that you're doing, is there a particular skillset that you, that would be helpful to add into your team or support that you're looking for? In this space? Good question, I love that question. I will answer that both for our team, as well as for sort of like movement overall. And we totally have dreams of like, like building the best, most awesome matching program for folks that wanna like use their skills and volunteer capacity with our movement partners. Yeah. That is not in existence yet. We are, LV is likely gonna hire soon. We are just starting to think about the process. So we'll probably hire four-ish roles in the beginning of 2024, sometime between like October and April, looking for a senior person on the operations side, a senior person on the strategy and movement partners side, and then a senior person sort of on the kind of like donor organizing side, not traditional development, but more so really thinking about how are we building communities and on ramps and learning platforms and basically getting more donors comfortable and investing more freely in this work. So it won't be sort of the traditional like just invest in liberation ventures. It'll be really thinking about a broader strategy that includes not only national level foundations but also place-based foundations, especially in places where task forces are being stood up. So I would say all of that. And then I'll say an analyst on our narrative team as well as who we're looking to hire. Then I will also say the movement, our movement partners have like, there are common challenges that they're facing where they could definitely use capacity. One is communications. Two is fundraising. And I would say three is some like, I wouldn't say full strategic planning processes but really kind of articulating their vision and strategy in ways that can be supportive to both like the team being able to problem solve and iterate on it but then also communicating it to other audiences. So I would say all those things on. I love that someone just put the big payback in the chat that I'm very proud. We invested in the big payback, both the producer, well Robin who's the protagonist in the big payback is one of our movement partners as I mentioned but then also Color Farm Media produced it and we invested in Color Farm Media and they have been, they're just amazing partners and are doing a lot of work with multiple movement partners. So please do watch the big payback.