President of the United States. I have a few remarks here before taking your questions. With the holiday season upon us, I'm delighted to see Americans giving each other the best Christmas present possible, a strong economy that will ensure more jobs and opportunities in the months ahead. Confidence is in the air and with good reason. Today's encouraging news on the strength of housing starts and personal income recent reports on prices, retail, sales, employment, and factory use all confirm a welcome fact. 1983 has been a banner year for the American economy with the United States economy enjoying a strong recovery and its lowest rate of inflation since the 1960s. Wholesale prices last month actually fell. Consumers are flocking into stores during the holiday season. Our factories are operating at nearly 80 percent of capacity, up more than 10 percentage points from a year ago. Unemployment is still too high, but there are more people working in this country today than ever before and every month we're creating over 300,000 new jobs. In the last few weeks, I've been involved in a number of meetings about next year's budget, and it's clear that here in Washington, all of us, both in the Congress and the executive branch, still have our work cut out for us. If the Congress will help me to restrain government spending, we can justify the people's confidence and keep America moving forward. We can make 1984 a year of strong and steady progress for America, continuing economic growth, unemployment coming down, and inflation staying under control. Now before we begin the questions, I'd like to wish the members of the White House press corps a very happy holiday season. Mr. President, last week you said that if there's a complete collapse, you'll pull the troops out of Lebanon. Did you mean that if Jamal fails to put together a broad, viable government that you'd pull out, or can you clarify? And I'd like to follow up. Yes, I can clarify, Helen. Actually I was asked a hypothetical question about whether there were any other circumstances other than achieving our goal by which the Marines might leave or the whole multinational force, and I tried, I guess I tried to give a hypothetical answer to that, and maybe a bad choice of words. I simply meant that the only thing I, and I don't foresee this, but the only thing I could think of other than achieving our goal would be if perhaps that government and the forces that he's dealing with and trying to broaden the government, if there should be a complete change, of course, to the place that we were no longer asked to be there, that they were going in a different direction than the one that brought us in in the first place at their request, then I suppose that would be a reason for bringing them out. But I wasn't trying to send anyone a message or anything. I was just trying to say, well, yes, you can't say there isn't any other way by which they wouldn't come out. Mr. President, do you think that you've put the U.S. peacekeeper role in jeopardy by making a military pact at this time with a country that's invaded and ex- and occupied Ereblon? Helen, I, we didn't make any pact or anything that was different than what has been our relationship all along. There was a reaffirmation of this in talking to Prime Minister Shamir. We also emphasized to him that we were going to go forward with our relations with the moderate Arab states as part of our hope for being a catalyst or trying to be and bringing them all together and ending once and for all these hostilities that have so disturbed that area and caused such tragedy for so long. It really, there was no signed agreement or anything else. We were really reaffirming the relationship that we've had since 1948, but at the same time, as I say, telling them that if we're to have any chance of bringing them together or continuing a process that started at Camp David where Egypt and Israel wound up with a peace treaty, if we're to have a chance of bringing that kind of a peace, we've got to befriend all those countries and they've got to be able to trust us that we can be fair to all of them. Mr. President, the death squad activity is continuing in El Salvador. I was wondering, are you satisfied now with the progress the government there is making in halting it? And if not, how long can you continue supporting a nation where this takes place? Well, I feel that we have to continue supporting them just as long as we would supporting them against the leftist guerrillas that are trying to take over the government. We have a situation here of a 400-year history of mainly military dictatorships. And now, for the first time, virtually in all that country's history, we have a government that has made it plain that they are trying to establish democratic principles and policies. They're being assailed from the left by the Cuban and Soviet-backed guerrilla forces. But at the same time, they're being sniped at from the rear by what we call the death squads and the so-called rightists who, by the same token, don't want democracy. They want to go back to what they've had in this 400-year history. And the El Salvador government has made great progress in establishing democracy. They're hindered in their fight against the guerrillas by this action behind their backs. But you have to look at punishing that government for trying to be democratic when it is being assailed from radicals from both sides. I think our obligation is to try and help democracy triumph there. And this is why we've offered some help. And I must say, when the vice president went down there recently and told them about how essential it is to get a handle on this force from the rear as well as the one on their front that they're fighting, he was very well received. And there was no disagreement with what he said. And there has been a stepped-up effort. And they want technical help from us in that regard that we are willing and can provide. Was the vice president carrying a direct message from you on the death squad? Yes, yes. And he had his own words also about it and a complete agreement with those, too. Chris? Mr. President, the House Subcommittee investigating the bombing in Beirut has found, and I quote, very serious errors in judgment, were made both by officers on the ground and up the military command. Do you feel that disciplinary action should be taken against officers found responsible by Congress or the Pentagon? Well, Chris, there are two reports. There's a very voluminous report and a complete one that has been brought in by the military team that's been investigating this, as well as the congressional group. Both of those have just arrived at the Defense Department, and Secretary Weinberger is having complete study made of them, and then will submit a report to me on his findings, probably within the next several days. But as I say, they are voluminous, and it's going to take a little while. So I can't comment now until I see what those findings have been in both reports. The Secretary also has said that other than things that must remain classified for security reasons, he also intends to make public the findings in those reports. If I may follow up, sir. Two days after the bombing, the Marine Commandant, P. X. Kelly, was in Beirut and said that he was completely satisfied with the security there. Was he being straight with the American people, and do you still have confidence in him? Yes, I do very much, and I think he was. On the basis of what he saw, what was there, I think the main issue then that he was addressing himself to was could anyone prepare themselves for this unusual attack that took such a tragic toll? And the moving of the men in such numbers into that building was done because that was the safest building from the standpoint of the weapons that had been used against them up until that point. Mortar fire, small arms fire, and it was a steel reinforced concrete building. So I know, I don't think he was attempting to cover up for anyone. Leslie? Mr. President, there have been in the past few weeks dump trucks surrounding the White House. When you traveled to Indianapolis, there were buses blocking intersections to protect you. There are reports that there are ground-to-air missiles now near the White House. Could you tell the American people what the nature of the threat is and how this all makes you feel as president to have this going on around you? I just feel such popularity must be deserved. No, let me just say on that, frankly, I had not noticed the blocked intersections. I hadn't paid any attention to it. I was waving at the people along the street in that appearance. The only thing I regret is the inconvenience when necessary moves have to be made, the inconvenience that I can cause to many other people in this. There are no specific or definite threats that any of us know of here. We only know that worldwide there has been a call and a number of these terrorist groups for stepped-up violence. The term United States has been used as a potential target. Actually, there has been a decline. Last year, there were 52 terrorist incidents in the United States. This year, so far, and the year is practically over, there have only been 31. And there has been no call for special measures or legislation or tactics of any kind. But I think it is simply a case of having seen what has happened. And the stepped-up violence in the Middle East, mainly, it would be it's far easier to explain taking precautions than it is to have something happen and then have to explain why you didn't do something about it. Well, are you concerned that by building these barriers that you may give the impression that you might be giving in to threats and terrorists? Well, I don't think it's giving in to a set of a barricade to keep somebody from doing this. You know, there have been attempts to ram the gates at the White House during these three years that we've been here. There have been some people that have gone over the fence. So I think that these are just normal security precautions in a climate that has shown us that this sort of thing can happen. And as far as I'm concerned, I haven't let it interfere with my sleep or my work in the office, John. Mr. President, question and follow-up, sir. It seems evident from the polls that the American people do not support the U.S. Marine presence in Lebanon right now. Respectfully, sir, whether the policy is right or wrong, do you believe the public will put up with continuing American deaths there? Well, I can understand the public opinion because they're hearing great attacks from a number of sources on our presence there, some of them I think politically motivated. But I have to say this about the mission, the purpose in being there. And let me just take a moment if I can on this. They do have a purpose and a mission there. And there has been a result from this and progress made. If you will recall, it's been several years, of course, since Lebanon kind of came unglued and the government was helpless to stop some of the troubles in its own land. But we had the factor of more than a million refugees, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. They've been there for decades. And over this period of time, they created their own militia, the PLO, a military and terrorist group. Well, this group was not only causing trouble within Lebanon, it was crossing the northern border of Israel. It was preying on civilians, citizens there. And finally, Israel crossed the border into Lebanon. The first goal was to simply push them back some 25 miles. So they'd be beyond rocket or artillery range. But the others just repeated and then kept on attacking them. So they went all the way to the edge of Beirut. And then we had a war taking place right within the city of Beirut, in which thousands of civilians have been killed and wounded by this kind of combat. In the meantime, during all of this, the Lebanese asked the Syrians, asked them to come in and help preserve order. Because in Lebanon, we had and have groups, various sometimes religious groups, but other groups that kind of like warlords with their own militias. And they're fighting each other and at times fighting against the forces of the Lebanese government. We were then asked to come in with a multinational force. And we went in once the government had been formed there. And once the PLO, when they were ejected, as they were, granted they came back later by way of Syria. But the goal and the idea was for the two foreign forces that were then left in there, after the PLO left for them to get out. But the Lebanese government needed time to build its strength to where it could then go in with these international groups that were fighting there, go in and establish order over its own territory. Israel, having completed its mission, has announced its willingness and intention to get out. Syria did too.  During the occupation, by both Syria and the Israelis, they managed to keep some hold on those fighting groups in there, some order. The mission of the multinational force is what it was then. We have helped train the Lebanese army, and it is a capable force. We have armed it. And when the other forces, the foreign forces, get out, and the Lebanese military advances to try and establish order in their land, the multinational force is supposed to behind them try to achieve some stability and maintain order because Lebanon doesn't have the forces to do both. Well, this is the mission. And as I say, progress has been made. The warring forces meeting in Geneva have acknowledged that the Jami'il government is the legitimate government of Lebanon. There is an agreement that has been reached and signed between Lebanon and Israel, and which Israel has agreed in writing that they will withdraw. And indeed, I think they're anxious to. Now the stumbling block still seems to be Syria. But at the same time, the Jami'il government is trying to bring these other forces in Lebanon. And if they will remember that they're Lebanese also and they want a Lebanon for the Lebanese people, they will come in at his request and join the government. And he's trying to broaden the base of the government to give them representation and end that kind of fighting there. Now, I think, as I say, that progress has been made toward the goal. When you think back to where we were when airplanes and artillery were destroying the civilian sections of Beirut. But, sir, respectfully, each week the U.S. seems to be using greater and greater firepower there. We had returning hostile fire, then artillery, then airstrikes, and now the 16-inch guns of the New Jersey. You've said last week that you don't want escalation or a war. Can you avoid it without Syrian cooperation? You can avoid war, but I will say this, and I'll reiterate it. I will not okay a mission or ask or order our armed forces to go someplace where there is danger and tell them that they have not the right to defend themselves. So when the sniping began and there was no retaliation, I made it plain by way of the channels in the Pentagon. As far as I was concerned, when an American military man is shot at, he can shoot back. And I think that there's been some indication that rather than stepped up activity, that there has been some pause for thought on those that were deciding that the multinational forces were fair game. I don't say that they won't try these terrorist activities again. I'm sure they will. But are we, and where would we be in the world, are we to let the terrorists win? Are we to say that, well, if terrorists are going to be active, we'll give in to them, we'll back away? Sam? Mr. President, on the press, Secretary Schultz said the other day that in World War II, reporters went along because on the whole they were on our side. And then he observed that these days it always seems that the reporters are always against us and they're trying to report things to screw things up. Is that your view of the press also? Now you're not going to get me into the middle of that, are you? I'm simply going to say that I do believe, Sam, that sometimes beginning with the Korean conflict and certainly in the Vietnam conflict, there was more criticizing of our own forces and what we were trying to do to the point that it didn't seem that there was much criticism being leveled on the enemy. And sometimes I just wish that we could get together on what is of importance to our national security in a situation of that kind, what is endangering our forces and what is helping them in their mission. Well, sir, is one of the problems a definition of the word us? When Secretary Schultz uses it, or if you say our forces, do you think he was using it in terms of an administration, the Reagan administration? No. Or let's say the Carter administration. In other words, is us the administration in power or is there a higher duty that the press has? I thought that the us he was talking about was our side militarily, in other words, all of America. Yes, no, no, no. Alfredo. It appears, Mr. President, that you are going to run for re-election. Yes. Well, you said you're going to announce something on the 29th. You're completely alienated blacks by your assault on the gains for justice and the causes made by them in the past. You're ignoring the needs and wishes of Hispanic. Your cut programs have benefited the poor and your gains equal rights for women. So do you think you'll have enough white males to win and aren't your actions really hurting Republican, national, and state candidates? Alfredo, I know that this has been widely heralded that all these things are true. They aren't true. We haven't in our social reforms picked on anyone. And indeed, what we have done when we came here was my belief, and we operated on this basis, that it wasn't that we were feeding too many of the needy. We were taking care of too many of the non-needy. And where we have trimmed roles, we've trimmed them up at the upper level. Today, any family with an income at a level of 130% of poverty, the poverty level, or lower, is eligible for these government programs. And indeed, we are taking care of more people than we've ever taken care of before. And there has been nothing in our programs or anything else that can be taken as prejudice against any sector of our society. Indeed, with regard to the civil rights movement and racial prejudice in this country, I'm old enough to have been on the right side of that long before the term civil rights was ever used. And with regard to women, I think the record shows the laws we've changed, the regulations we're changing all the time, the number of appointments. There's no prejudice there. But I do know that a perception has been created. And right today, with these employment figures that I gave, with the drop in unemployment, blacks and women are getting a higher proportion of those new jobs. Then is anyone else? 17% and 5% percent of blacks are still on employment. And discrimination plays a part in it. And you seem to be against those methods that have been put into place for eradicating discrimination. No, not at all. And to me, in a telephone conversation, one of the causes was a senior artist system. And I asked you what you would do about it. You said, we have speed of the process, but you didn't explain that process. I wish you would explain to me that process. What process is this? That's what I'm asking you. Well, no, I mean, what I, I just, I lost something there. Okay.  And you said, well, that was because of the senior artist system. You wouldn't. And I asked you what you would do about that, because blacks will still be the last hide and the first fight. You said, we'll have the speed of the process. I asked you, what did you mean by the process? And I didn't get an answer. I wish you would explain that. Well, I think you're, I think that you've, you've given an example there that is a very difficult one because of fairness to all people involved, where you pick a situation in which seniority and service is the basis for employment. And you also picked at a level of government in which the federal government has no business interfering. There isn't anything that we can do unless there's an outright violation of some individual's civil rights. But I just think that, that there can be common sense programs worked out to where you won't have to wait until someone has accumulated a great many years of seniority before he becomes eligible, that there might be some fair way in which you can recognize the rights of seniority, but also recognize the fact that others don't have seniority because for a long time they were discriminated against. Mr. President, you said earlier tonight that you would not send American soldiers or Marines into a situation where they could not fight back. Haven't we sent them into a role in Beirut, a political or diplomatic role as peacekeepers, where they do not have adequate safeguards against terrorism? No, I don't know what you call adequate safeguards against terrorism, what we would call it. You know anytime that you, and particularly in a place like that where even innocent civilians in the street are mowed down simply because snipers want to shoot someone, it's been that kind of a scene. It's that kind of a thing that we're trying to resolve on behalf of the innocent people there who want to live in peace like the rest of us. Sometime I'm going to impose on you and read some of the letters that I get from people in Lebanon who tell us what life would be like if the multinational force wasn't there and what it has meant in their lives as individuals living in the midst of that kind of brutality and bloodshed. And I was under no illusion and I have to tell you that I've discovered from myself that the hardest thing you'll ever have to do in this job is give an order that puts some of those wonderful young men and women in our military uniforms in places like that. But in the interest of our own national security in the interest of overall peace some of these things have to be done. The Middle East is a tinderbox. It is the one place that could start a war that no one wanted because of its importance, particularly to the free world and to our allies. And we can't just turn away and say if we don't look it'll go away. And this all started because of our determination to try and bring about peace between those factions that have been for so long warring with each other. The modern Arab states again and the progress that we've made there was a refusal on their part to even acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as a nation. So therefore there could be no negotiation. Anwar Sadat, God rest his soul, broke out of that mold and we have peace between two countries and the territory of the Sinai has been returned to Egypt by Israel and they're at peace with each other. Our goal was to see if we couldn't find more leaders and more governments that would become Egypt's in a sense in settling their disputes and having peace. And today the very fact that there's an indication that they are willing and prepared to negotiate differences indicates that they no longer are holding that position of refusing to exist to let Israel exist. Can I get that to follow up? Does it give you some pause when conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley Jr. and Richard Vigory suggest that you should be taking the Marines home? Well, I take my friend Bill more seriously. I read that column too and I'll have to have a talk with him shortly. Mr. Reagan, the subcommittee report that was mentioned earlier tonight also concluded that continued deployment of the Marines will almost certainly lead to further casualties. I know you don't want to discuss what the security arrangements were before the attack but what about now? Are you confident that as of tonight the Marines and Beirut are as protected as they can be given where they are? I won't be able to answer that again until I do see the reports, particularly the reports that is coming in that's very voluminous and must go into great detail. It's about that thick and it has been made by military experts. So I just can't comment until I know. If I could just ask you, sir, then are you saying that you aren't sure at this point whether tonight the Marines are as adequately protected as they can be? I think they are to the extent that those on the field and the officers that are involved there are doing everything they can to ensure that. And I just have to assume that and I think that I'm justified, assuming it. Mr. President, within days of your inauguration in 1981, you vow that Americans will not be held hostage again. Now the Syrians are holding Airman Lieutenant Robert Goodman and say they won't release him until the Marines leave Lebanon. Do you consider Lieutenant Goodman a hostage and what efforts are underway to secure his release? Well, we have believed for a long time that the settlement there must be, in this whole area, must be political. I should have said this earlier in my answer before about the history of this Lebanon's Lebanese situation. But we've had ambassadors there from Phil Habib and Basile McFarlane and now Don Rumsfeld because we're determined that there is a possibility and it is the only way. You cannot, this can't be settled by force and it is going to be settled that way. And Basile Rumsfeld has been in Damascus. He has met with the Syrians. Certainly that is very high on the agenda. The Syrians claim that he's a prisoner of war. Well, I don't know how you have a prisoner of war when there is no declared war between nations. I don't think that makes you eligible for the Geneva Accords. But yes, we want that young man back. And as I say, we're not missing anything, any possibility in trying to bring to terms these various factions so that we can achieve the goal of restoring order, a broader-based government in Lebanon acceptable to more of the people, those that are presently hostile to this government and the foreign forces back to their own borders. But sir, is the Lieutenant Goodman, in your opinion, a hostage and do you think the Syrians will use him as a bargaining chip? I doubt that very much. I really do. The sense of holding it up for trading something or other. No, I don't believe so. But I'm sorry that he is there. And I'm glad he is alive. But we're going to make every effort to get him back as quickly as possible. Thank you, President. Merry Christmas. All of you had two questions today, didn't I? What are you buying your wife for Christmas? I won't tell. What? What do you want for Christmas? What? What do you want for Christmas? What do I want for Christmas? You know what I'm going to say. What? Peace. Well, what do you want in a box? If you can get it in a box, I'll take it in a box. How do you package it? Is that the problem? No, I'll tell you. I'm very happy. And I would just like to feel that all of you have a very happy holiday and a Merry Christmas and for all of the people in America. I hope that they all have hope now and can see the progress being made. Has it been a good year for you, sir? Yes, except for a lot of phone calls that I had to make and some letters. How could it be better next year? Not making those phone calls, writing those letters and the continuation of the recovery. And I'm sure it will continue, I think. Do you agree with Larry's speaks on his statement on the press, Mr. President? I don't know which statements you're talking about. All patriots and all great Americans and never try to screw anything up. Do you agree with that, Mr. President? He agrees with everything. That's a good one to point out. I agreed with him when he said I was all through. How do you mean that? We need to look at home as quickly as possible to bring them home in accomplishing our mission. I'm glad you asked that. I'm glad I did state just like that because I want to say one thing. Could you, sir, could you say it where we could? There have been some suggestions made with regard to bringing them home that some of my considerations might be based on the fact that it is an election year and politics are coming up. I will tell you this, no decision regarding the lives of the safety of our servicemen will ever be made by me for a political reason. But you did say in your interview that they should not be here. They should be here next year. One more, one more. Does that mean you're running? Does that mean you're running? I told you to find out before my birthday and I'm keeping my word. I got a bet on it.


I'm glad to be, everyone. I've played around with this. I've managed to get here in time for Donald's presentation this morning. I thought I'd respond to some of the stuff around teaching and learning that came up there. As a teacher, although in FE we call people lecturers, I'm a teacher. Almost all my people are teachers. I was trained as a teacher. I want to tell you the story of the success of the college. It is about culture.  It's about developing a culture of teaching and learning. Unlike Donald, you say you don't tell him what you're going to say.  I'm going to tell you it's about how you develop teachers and how you develop learners and how the technology then supports that process of teaching and learning. Something about further education, first of all, unfortunately, and I'll try and do something about it, Seb, very, very few further education people here. In fact, so few that I know every one of them having seen them around the place. We've often said that further education is the Cinderella service, the neglected middle child, all that kind of stuff, which is kind of true, but there are more young people studying in further education than there are in school six forms. One eighth of all students following degree programmes are in FE colleges and so on. It's a big sector and actually it's increasingly recognised. But back in 93, when we were incorporated, when we were cut away from local authority control, no really important moment for us, it probably was a much denigrated sector and it needed to be, and that was a quote from the Audit Commission, an Audit Commission report called Unfinished Business, and the Unfinished Business being Education Further Education Colleges, levels of non-completion in the FE sector are a substantial waste of national resource. We got severely beaten off the back of that and ended up with the most unbelievably complex funding mechanism to make sure that we didn't continue to waste resource. And although that was a really hard journey, I think it was one that ultimately really benefited our learners. And I'll just demonstrate this. So success rates, again I think they're a beast of the further education sector, they're kind of coming into schools over the last while. So just to tell you how much the pitch has turned round and it's turned round for my college and it's turned round for almost all colleges, success rates are pass rates multiplied out by retention rates. So if you've got a pass rate of 90% and a retention rate of 90%, you've got a success rate of 81%. Now that is a phenomenal achievement. I think retention rates in the FE sector in 1993 were about 40%. And you know that some retention rates in the higher education sector are worryingly low. So we're doing something right here, not only about students staying in the course, but about students achieving their qualifications at the end of the day. And the other bit, and this isn't just for me showing off on behalf of the college, although I'm delighted to do that, we are inspected under OFSTED and we were considered to be outstanding across all of these measures. Now for me who's been actually, I've been in City and Islington College since before 1993, I've actually been there since 1981 in some form or other. I think it's a huge achievement for large further education colleges to get those kinds of grades. And just to give you a sense of the size of the college, we're around 5,700 full-time students of whom this year more than 4,000 will be full-time 16- to 18-year-old students. A part-time adult students frankly is a movable feast. It depends how much money government gives us on a year-on-year basis. That was 20,000 part-time students at one time, it's 10,000 students at the other. Male, female, 70% black and ethnic minority students, which again is typical for inner London colleges, and many of our students are very poor. So 65% of our students receive Educational Maintenance Awards, and believe me, you really have to be a poor person to receive the Educational Maintenance Award. I'm delighted to say that actually both the Tories and the Lib Dans had the cutting of the Educational Maintenance Award mooted in their manifestos, and they both at the moment dropped it. It would be a disaster for us if Educational Maintenance Awards went away, because these poor young people can no longer afford to come to college. One of the downsides of FE, I don't know if that figure is quite accurate anymore, but it gives you a sense. At one point we had the best part of 2,000 courses and more than 400 qualifications. It is no great surprise that not many people understand it when you've got so many qualifications that we run. Well, it reflects on Donald's thing. Donald had that picture of which all of us have seen many times from the 14th century of the lecturer and the guy asleep in the back. That's pretty much a picture of the school I went to, a Catholic primary school in the late 50s, early 60s, and if I'd have slept in the back, that woman in the robes would have smashed me around the back of the head with a ruler. So I think that you could argue on one level things have gone backwards from that point. Therefore, when I came into the sector in that year, 1979, the first year of the Thatcher government, I'd been to, I'd let's call it 15, worked, done lots of different stuff, eventually went to university and then did a very, very poor FE teacher training qualification, really poor. So when I came to teach and I saw one of these things, I thought I'd say something about technology as it's an ART conference here, when I saw a band of machine for the first time, I thought it was a kind of a revolutionary piece of kit. I'd never seen one at university, I'd never seen one at school, and for me it kind of changed my life. But much more importantly was this, and I think this has a resonance. I've taught in university as well. That classroom that I was in was a no-go area. That was my space. Nobody went into that space other than the students and myself. All the viewing panels were sealed, senior lecturers, principal lecturers, heads of departments, none of them came into my space. And I think that was the case for FE for a very long time, and I think is still the case in large parts of higher education. And my contention to you is very few people are just naturally good teachers. I thought I was a naturally good teacher and it was only eventually when I had somebody have a look at it realised I was a pretty averagey kind of teacher who needed a lot of help. And one of the issues is teachers aren't born. The best teachers are made. They're coached. And teaching is a profession that needs constant upskilling. And when you've got the no entry and nobody coming into the classroom, it's impossible to build practice. And I was very active in the trade union and I defended our right absolutely for nobody ever to cross the threshold of my classroom. The results came out at the end of the year and in the worst colleges in truth nobody particularly looked at them. So it wasn't even the judgement was there at the year end whether you were doing well or badly. You just carried on with it the next year. Now I want to leap forward to 1993. Actually I was just thinking 1993 seems a long time ago. Actually 1993 seems no time ago to me. So Clinton and major at Maastricht so just a place 1993. 1993 was when we were cut away from local authorities. Another slide off news is that we began a journey without a compass or a map which was also true. We were teachers suddenly responsible for everything. Not just spending the money but the income, for the HR, for the IET, for the MIS, everything. The technology had moved on. The photocopier was at the heart certainly of the FE colleges I taught in. And the other bits of kit then were whiteboard which seems pretty revolutionary to me. But the thing that I just want to touch on now in terms of the technology was actually John Gray who's a retired college principal, one of the leading lights in our sector over time. John spoke at a conference back in about 1934 and John put up this slide about the MIT slide about transformation and the impact of technology. I went there as a middle manager to that conference and I thought we were absolutely nowhere in my own organisation. I had a PC back on my desk. Frankly, I didn't know what to do with it.  And in terms of where we were, the use of technology in my college at that time was absolutely localised. It was an individual with their PC. I know it was much more developed in higher education at that time. I think it's very interesting then to look how things have moved on and how quickly then they've moved on. And I think there's been a dramatic change. So if you take the lecture from 1350 through to the 1970s, little had changed over that hundreds of years. I think things have changed enormously in the last 20 years. So if you look at where we are on this, where you'd plot your own organisation on this scale now, I would say we're definitely all in education in and around the transformative embedded. So I would say business processes have been redesigned, business networks have been redesigned. I don't think the scope of our business has been redefined. So I don't think yet the much-heralded paradigm shift has happened. I think it's happening, but it's not there at the moment. Am I doing the time? Fine. So in terms of the transformation of the business systems, these are just some of the things, and actually I was just reading some of the abstracts in the paperwork for here. I think the stuff that electronically tracks a student from their first point of contact with an organisation through to the point at which they depart it, one, three, four, five years on, I think is there in almost all of our organisations now. So online application and enrolment, e-time-tabling, e-registers. E-registers have been incredibly important for us because we're paid pretty much in real time in further education. I remember one wag of an MIS manager saying to me years ago, do you really want to know about real-time attendance of students? Well, actually, I think the answer is yes, really. If we're here for the students, we do need to know that, and I'll come back to the implications of that. We've got self-service HR systems, all the e-management reporting, finance and electronic communication. So I would say on that business side and back to John's presentation in 1993, it is absolutely transformed, unrecognisable from the business systems that we ran back in the early 1990s. I don't think teaching and learning is transformed in the same way at all. However, and this is the critical bit, and which is why I had some issue with the conversation about lecturers being described as teachers today. I don't think an untrained lecturer is a teacher. I think they're a lecturer because teachers check learning. So this is something that came in a McKinsey report that I picked up a little while ago, and I think it's absolutely right. The qualification of an education system, schools mainly, cannot exceed the quality of its teachers. It kind of rings as a truism, but I think it is true on the school side. You may not argue the same in the HE sector, and if it's not the same in the HE sector, I'd say it's possibly because in some parts of the HE sector, the primary purpose is not teaching and learning its research, and in my organisation, the primary purpose of the organisation is teaching and learning. So what this slide, so in terms of what we've done in my college in the last 17 years, and I've been a member of the senior management team very much all that time, and the principal for nine or 10 years of those, is that we've developed an explicit culture where we talk to all of our staff about the core practice of teaching and learning, something that frankly never happened in the first 10 or 15 years of my career, and it's something we talk about how we develop our teachers and take them on a journey, and I won't go through that, but critically for me, it's got to be about values, it's got to be about what you believe in as an organisation. It's got to be here, this stuff on the right-hand side about intellectual engagement. We've got a graduate workforce in education, primary, secondary, clearly in higher education, they've got to be intellectually engaged with the project. But most importantly for me then, you've got to have processes which drive out performance. So pressing on on that, this is quite, I should have just read it in the server a couple of weeks ago, would it be much stronger this slide a few years ago, cos Arsenal aren't doing absolutely brilliantly well at the moment, but this player, Cess Fabragas, for people who don't know, was a young boy who was brought over from Spain, a very good player, and what Wenger is saying here is very much what I believe about developing teachers, that if you first thing you do to develop a player is to put them beside other good players, and what we do with new teachers is we put them beside other good and experienced teachers to learn from them, cos you don't magically develop it on your own in the classroom, and I could regale you with anecdotes about, which are shocking when I look back, about how little I check learning, and it wasn't only at the year end I realised it was a pretty disaster some of the stuff I'd done. So, what we've done is, and again there was some trade union resistance around that, because I think we've had an issue in our trade unions in further and higher education, where often they switch between, I was very active for many years, between being professional people and being blue collar workers, and I want to develop a union which has a professional dialogue around, so here are the things you've seen, lesson observation took us a long time to establish in the college, and we established initially by making it peer lesson observation. But we now have, we observe everyone every year, we record all that stuff, we monitor it if people are underperforming, we put support in to help them. Self-assessment, which I think is critical to any professional person, all of our staff write self-assessment reports, which then come up in a granular fashion to a whole college self-assessment report. We don't talk about quality much in teaching in the Soviet citizens in college, because I found that people found the term quality to be quite alienating. They didn't quite know what it meant. When you said to them, do you know what good teaching and learning is? I think people could kind of engage in that. We share best practice, and this is my point. If you focus on the practice of teaching and learning, the e-stuff, the learning technology will necessarily get folded in, because the best teachers use the best available resources that are there, and they tell other people about it. And when we took the wrong pathway for a number of years, or we had ambassadors for e-learning and IOT, who frankly were, you've got to be careful here, kind of geeky, nerdy people who were kind of interested in bells and whistles who weren't at all interested in teaching and learning. Once you turn that on its head, and you've got people talking about teaching and learning, then the e-stuff comes. One-to-one coaching, back to the football analogy. You'll know that big football clubs have got coaches for every position. Even if they recruit the best players in the world, they have coaches for every position. Training on learning styles, training on innovation, and Donald mentioned the revolutionary idea of learner feedback. Learner feedback is at the heart of what we do in further education. Last couple of slides. So this is our... ...our student portal, which we call MyCandy. Candy Assistant isn't in college. And some of this stuff, frankly, is just feeding back the business information we've captured earlier on. But the key for me here is, the shift is, I think we're doing great work with developing teachers, and I think we've got some fantastically skilled teachers. Who work inside my colleges and share that practice with other people. The bit that was missing for me was the shift for the learner. And I think now, by having really advanced and developed student portals with active data there that they can use, the power shift is beginning to move. And we're beginning to see learners now. Some of this stuff is just straightforward, the links to Moodle. Attendance and punctuality are really important for this dialogue with the learner. Message boards, none of that. I just want to go to this last. All the course information, all that stuff. I think there's nothing revolutionary about that. Although interestingly, my daughter went... Anybody from Leeds University here? Okay. My daughter went to Leeds University 30 years after I finished at Leeds University and did the same course, and frankly, nothing much had changed. And I mean it, nothing much had changed. No use of the technology. She did philosophy. Nothing, no use of the technology. And yet there were lots of opportunities to do that. So I think we've tried to do as much as we can of having a kind of a static interface for students. But the bit that's shifting it is this last side, which is an individual's personal learning plan. So this is a plan that they negotiate with their tutors. It's all online which they monitor together and it's the focus of the tutorial discussion. So what is tutorial is about? Teachers for years say tutorial is pretty much a waste of time. This is the basis on which you have a focus tutorial based around evidence and data and information. So on that personal learning plan, you've got information about their attendance, their personal goals, targets which you monitor, assignment deadlines, progress, self-assessment and all that. So you suddenly got a shift. Suddenly the student is chasing the tutor back. One minute. I won't go through the rest of that. The slides will be available afterwards. As it worked, I think it's worked brilliantly well both in terms of the student satisfaction feedback, but I was delighted to see in our staff survey 80% of our staff agree that continuous improvement is part of the college culture. And finally, my reflections. It's about a culture, a culture of teaching and learning. I've set a really high expectation vision for the college. So although my staff sometimes think I'm a bit tedious and go on about it at length, largely they're joined up. The right tools in place for take-off. You've got to give the power away. Invest in teacher development. That should say not teaching development. And watch out for the bells and whistles. We spent loads of money on bells and whistles over time as a college and as a sector that have had very little return. Okay, that's me. Very much indeed for that overview. I'm sorry to have cut you short, but I wanted to leave time for questions. There are two roving mics, and so if you have a question to ask, could you raise your hand please? Whilst you're collecting your thoughts, I've just got one to start off. You've outlined very clearly the journey your college has taken and some of the challenges it's facing. I'd be very interested to know what you think is going to happen in the next couple of years. Ooh. So would I. I think there's two bits really. I work with 16 to 18-year-old students and obviously we're all looking now at the comprehensive spending review and how that will impact on us. And where people are in terms of their journey, it will impact QG on them. We know we're going to get very serious cutbacks in the unit of our funding. We as a college have got a fantastic estate which we've already invested in. My take is we're going to, as some colleges will go down over the next period of time. There's no doubt about that. Some colleges, as in last week's Times Education Supplement, have taken out very significant borrowing to pay redundancy. That is a slippery slope the following year you've hit in your revenue curve. I think the stronger colleges will survive, although in a very different shape and they will be smaller. And I think smaller colleges and the skills funding agency will say they'll let that happen. It will be difficult, a few years. On the optimistic side, this government, I have to say, has recognized further education in a way that we've never had before. They've spoken about it being a priority for them. And I think the space that the polytechnics left around advanced vocation qualifications is one that colleges like mine will very much want to fill. We've got about 800 full-time foundation degree students. We've got a whole programme of HNC work that we've grown from this work. I see the growth of HNC, HNDs very much over the next period. Thank you. Questions on the floor, please. Could we start down at the front? There's one right in the middle. Where are we going, Mike? He's got it. Frank, my name is Bob Harrison. I'm Vice-Chair of Governors of a College in Yorkshire and Education Advisor for Toshiba. I'm really disappointed with the low numbers of turnouts. I've just gone through the delegate list. I think it's less than six people with an FE battery. What would you put that down to? Donald mentioned earlier about people in the poor mouth on things. Things are difficult and they can't get by. I don't know if I'm really honest that the sector has not engaged as a whole sector with learning technology over time. It was spoken about being part of the inspection process. It didn't come. At the moment where colleges are feeling beleaguered, my real concern is that colleges are deciding not to invest time or energy in this kind of work. I think the sector, parts of the sector, could go backwards extremely quickly if that's the case. The FE sector has been a really good news story and I think that parts has been world-class, but there's lots of countries now building up their FE. I think it's not proper engaged but it's something I want to take away. I'm chair of a national group of colleges and I think it's something we need to be. We no longer have, correct me if I'm wrong John, a sector-wide conference around learning technologies at all. The thing that was NILTA. The organisation that you were talking about, NILTA, was incorporated in the association of colleges and there is a so-called technology panel which is overseeing developments. But I think I concur with your last assertion really that the sector has been so stressed in so many ways recently that it's lost sight of the potential gains from really going for these kinds of developments. Question from over here. It was just really a follow-on from that that obviously John and Frank will be aware that the back to conferences that have traditionally happened there will be something in February focusing on technology for the FE and skills arena across the FE and wider skills but I think publicity hasn't yet gone out. But certainly there is something and we're certainly looking at from our perspective at just TechList we're looking at how to look at things like safeguarding. Safeguarding a massive agenda where the E part of it is quite frightening for a lot of colleges how we'll put some of those things in place. So there will be a sector-wide initiative that we need to pick up on and I know Seb will be very well tuned into that from an alt's perspective because it's absolutely key that we start to which is why I hope Donald will pick up on the point this morning. We must start and look at what goes on in schools, what's going on in FE and what's going on in universities and actually bring the best of that together to make some voices there. One moment. Very quickly please. Just to say this is an invaluable opportunity. There's a world of difference between a vector or any other agency stimulated activity and activity that comes from the sector. I agree with that. Let me take the opportunity to say alt I think could do a great deal in a way that vector and other agencies of that kind can't to really try and support it. Could we take a question down the front please then we'll have one remotely. Nigel Ecclesfield another one of the disappearing vector staff and like Frank started in Further Education in 1978 so I've been through the same changes. I think in terms of your characterisation that's relatively lacking in optimism about technology in the sector through our national surveys over the last few years there are a number of things that are coming out that show that there's some very healthy things going on in the sector for instance there's a very strong correlation between the responses we get from managers in colleges and staff to separate surveys people answering the questions independently there seems to be a great sharing of views about the role and the value of technology for learning in the future and FE is a sector that in 1996 where 5% of colleges had Moodle as their learning platform in the last survey which was completed this year in April over 98% of colleges have moved from reliance on external providers of learning platforms mostly Blackboard and WebCT to developing implementing and utilising Moodle as their learning platform and I'd say that that was a very great success one of the problems we've had if you like is that there are three national there were three national agencies for technology in further education there was NILTA when it was by itself then it joined with AOC there's JISC who have substantial responsibilities through the regional support centres for the work and there was BECTA that moved from being an institution and practitioner based role in 2006 to being involved in strategy there is a need to pull all of this together but the picture isn't entirely gloomy and one of the things that may help colleges through the difficult years over the next three or four years will be the skills and ability to work with technology that exists in the sector it's just not pulled together I'm an optimist by nature and I'm optimistic about this stuff where I concur with John is one of the upsides about the removal and I'm very sad to see it back to go is that we need more peer to peer work what I think was impressive about this conference is it's largely a peer network and I think there is a role for Elf but I think that into the future there's great practice in our sector we're not sharing it with each other enough sometimes it's intermediated and I think the time for intermediation is gone for us now for financial reasons so I think there's a space, a big space for Elf and we'll go back seven and have a look at that over the time I think Excellent and we've got a number of people who are listening in remotely and I'd like to just take one question from a remote listener who's got time So this question is from something called Bix and it is how do you stop the bells and whistles being brought into the institution wasting money and time Well I think that's going to be sorted out for us by somebody else actually there isn't going to be much money around but I think the key bit is by focusing on what for me it's always about when we stop talking about the add-ons and really focused on what good teaching and learning was that sorted it out for us, that was the sift so that would be my advice on that Okay on that note about good teaching and learning I'd like to thank you very much for that excellent session


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Hey, hello, buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay, so in this video, I am gonna show you how to cross-post your items from Mercari to eBay and Poshmark using list perfectly Love it. Awesome. There's the Simple plan I couldn't remember what it's called where it does not offer bulk cross posting So I'm gonna show you if you get the simple plan How you would do it and then I'm gonna show you if you get the business plan How to bulk cross post and that in my opinion is the way to go But yeah, we can talk about all that as we go through the video But I wanted to I usually show you guys how to cross post from eBay to the other platforms But there's some people that don't sell on eBay So I thought I would make a video helping people Like that like to start on Mercari or like to start on Poshmark So I just did a Poshmark video and now I'm gonna do Mercari So let's get started and before we start coupon code Bolo buddies one word. 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It's awesome our world Let's see our world Okay Everything else transferred and this is eBay. I put it for 20. I changed this to first-class And Again, I like starting on eBay but for this video I listed these things to Mercari so that I could show you guys how to list from Mercari to the other platforms This is not typically how I do it Just a personal preference you guys can do it however you want and Once eBay loads that eBay is slow slow slow tonight. I wonder why Okay, so this watch is a tigger I think it's a unisex. That's what I'm putting it as I'm I'm just gonna put it under Women's accessories We'll just put it as women's because I think a woman would probably more than likely wear a tigger watch But I could be wrong Maybe a man would what did I list that at it? The band is not perfect So I'll show you what I mean Right here It's got some issues, so we don't need a new band eventually I guess if somebody has it on that setting or they can put a new band on it So I'm just gonna put 20 on it and somebody can make me an offer And Now we are gonna go over to eBay and this is the last one and then we're gonna go over the different plans And I've got this in the blue tote bag Watches timepieces Hmm I'm gonna make sure that I've got that Let's put it under jewelry And then Hmm, I think I'm gonna change it to this one. I Don't have to but I'm going to the other one would have worked. Okay Create owned And I'm gonna go here and I'm gonna see if the filter will work. I'm not sure. Yeah Don't work on that. That looks man. That looks a lot better awesome Okay I'm gonna do unisex adult there Everything else is there. I'm gonna put 20 on it and First class Priority mail give them the option and then seven five three nine ounces and List All right, we are gonna pop over to list perfectly. I'm gonna show you guys the different plans and Okay, so with the simple plan you do not get the ball cross posting. It's a no Business plan you do pro plan you do simple plan is 29 a month business plan is 49 a month 69 It for the pro plan and you guys may be looking at this and being like man That is expensive That was kind of my first thought and then I started using it and I'm like, oh my gosh This like totally pays for itself because you guys are gonna you're gonna see like today. I mean I sold I didn't sell anything on Etsy today, but Mercari Poshmark eBay I had multiple sells on each platform. It was awesome and it's like some days eBay slow And then I sell something on the other platforms, you know, it just it's nice It's nice selling on multiple platforms So with the pro plan the only thing that's gonna come over are the images the title in the description Which is still fantastic With the business plan you're gonna get those items plus the price which the price wasn't working tonight So I can send in a ticket or it's not a huge deal But I'm sure it'll be fixed with the next update. They are updating all the time because The platforms change things and they have to tweak things and they are awesome about getting things Fixed quickly. Okay, so image title description price MSRP UPC color size material and keywords for the business plan That's what you get and then all of those things plus the Condition shipping weight and dimensions with the pro plan. So very very cool Right now you can sell on or cross post to eBay Poshmark D-pop trade C grailed Etsy Facebook marketplace Mercari and Kittison and I think they have Shopify right now in the Beta program I think is how you say it beta beta beta And I have I don't use Shopify. So I'm not using that You can also list items directly to list perfectly to their catalog and Then once it's in the list perfectly clap catalog, you can cross post it to all of the platforms. I Am not using that feature. It sounds wonderful, but I have For 4,000 5,000 listings. It's just crazy. So I just like starting on eBay. That is just a personal preference a friend of mine who I talked into signing up a long time ago He is using the catalog and he absolutely loves it but and I think they're talking about or they're working on it, I guess So that when it sells on one platform, it's gonna remove from the others And I think you will have to be using the catalog for that feature So maybe reach out to list perfectly and get details on that when you start and see If that's the way you want to go So I do know that if your items are listed on eBay that you can like I just cross posted to Mercari and Well, I'm sorry. I started with Mercari and I cross posted to eBay and Poshmark you can Start with Mercari and transfer them into list perfectly So you can cross post them into the catalog. I guess is my point so Again, I'm really just showing you how I do it I'm The catalog may be something that I go to in the future, but I'm not using it yet so Let me know if you have questions down in the comments. I'm happy to answer what I can and If I don't know the answer I can definitely guide you in the right direction Be sure to use that coupon code BOLO buddies when you sign up That's gonna get you 30% off your first month, which is amazing. It's so nice of them to do that I Did mention in the other video This is a suggestion that I always make if you're worried about the price. Oops. I don't think I put it on share Let me screen share again So you if you let's say you have 300 items on Mercari and you're like I just want to get my items that are on Mercari on to Poshmark and on to eBay and I want to do it quickly So sign up for the business plan for your first month. It's $49 a month Work super hard that first month and get all of your listings cross posted And then if you feel like the simple plan is better for you at that point then move down drop down to the simple plan and then just Like when you list the item cross posted immediately So that's more for people who are maybe part-time sellers where they're like, oh my gosh, $49 a month I I don't want to pay $49 a month But if you have all those listings that you want to cross post and you want to do it quick The business plan do it for the first month at least get everything cross posted And then if you want to drop down to the simple plan That's what I would do if I was in your situation me I am cross posting a lot So I I have been with the business plan from the start that is the plan I recommend but I do understand that $49 a month for maybe somebody who's only got a hundred listings That's a lot, you know, so the simple plan me may be better for you Now if you're like big time a pro like tons and tons of listings Maybe the pro plan is for you the $69 a month. I don't know you guys They've got all of these three plans. You have to pick what's best for you I will tell you that I love the business plan. That's what I have been with since I started That's what I plan on keeping The pro plan would be nice because it transfers the dimensions, but I do free shipping on Mercari anyway so Yeah, not a big deal and then you don't need dimensions and wait for Poshmark So it works for me to do the business plan. That's just what I do All right, you guys if you're new to the channel, this is not what I typically talk about my item is about bolo items Items you can buy low and sell high items to be on the lookout for Um And you should see like some of my videos like I have a bathrooms category video So if you go to that estate sale check the bathroom, you would not believe how many bolos are hiding in the bathroom So check out that video. I've got Christmas bolo videos Lots of category videos office supplies I mean amazing amazing amazing things you wouldn't even think that sell for big money They go for big money. I've got board games puzzles Halloween Easter I'm trying to think of some of my favorites the bathrooms are one of my favorites undergarments Yeah, there's some undergarments that sell for big money um Yeah, just go check it out. My what sold videos. They're fantastic. I have a series called bread and butter That's going to teach you items that you know, you can pick up cheap at garage sales and flip pretty quick For a decent profit usually thirty dollars or less And then I have a big money video bolo video, which are my what solds that sold for I think usually 35 and up and Yeah, it's a great teaching tool. It's learning. I'm teaching your learning. It's just a lot of fun And be sure to stop by on wednesday nights at 10 p.m. Eastern standard time for the live bolo show where people in the chat participate and get Uh an audience for like their store or their youtube channel because I pull up banners And you guys share your bolos, which is totally awesome. All right, you guys Thanks for watching. Have a great night. Put your questions down in the comments Coupon code to get 30 off of list perfectly your first month is bolo buddies all one word And I'll see you guys real soon. Thanks for watching


Before I had him, they said, well, the chances of him surviving is 10%. I was shocked. It was amazing. It was scary. It was surreal. Like, is this really happening? Like, this is my son right now. It's like a roller coaster with no safety harness and it's never been ridden before. And you just have to hold on because you don't know what's going to happen. The seven months that we've been here, we've seen so many things, so many close calls, miracles that he survived. Sage had a tough start here in the NICU, born so micro-premie. So we encouraged Crystal and Scotty to take on that responsibility of just bonding with him and reading to him every day and I think that made their bond and interaction so much stronger. Any time you talk to him, he's smiling and happy and it just makes you feel good because all the stuff that he's been through, he can smile and he's happy. Just the other day, we were able to walk away from the bed without any cords and hold him like a normal baby. That was awesome. At the end of the day, we had a staff here that we know showed love, that we're taking care of our baby and that for those moments when we couldn't be here, that he was in good hands and if you look at him and he's smiling and he's kicking his legs and he's like the happiest baby and there's no serious issues. I feel very, very, very, very, very, very, very blessed to come over here and we would drive five times farther than what we drove even though, you know, traffic sometimes took two hours. We would drive five times more than that for the staff.


2020 has certainly been quite the year for many reasons. Who remembers about nine months ago when we all thought the historic Indiana Beach amusement park would be closed forever? Miraculously, it lived on as Gene Staples, a businessman from Chicago, bought the park in April. It was announced and now we have quite the bombshell which has been dropped. I know all of you have heard about this by now and that is of course that Indiana Beach is going to be receiving a new roller coaster for 2021. Not just any roller coaster, a Swarch caught triple looping coaster. Of course these are pretty rare rides and this is going to be none other than Kimera from Laferia in Mexico City. I'm sure many of you know Kimera for the horrible accident that took place a little over a year ago which unfortunately did kill two people after the train derailed. This accident was very similar to the Mindbender accident that happened in the 80s at Galaxy Land. Kimera's accident was caused by negligence. This ride had not been maintained properly at all. They didn't use any of the trim brakes installed on the ride, it just did not run as it was operated. This ride was not well maintained there and Indiana Beach is going to have a lot of work to do to get the ride up to code in order to operate it for 2021. So they have a lot of work ahead of them. As far as I understand from what I've heard there is some damage to the structure and the trains. I wouldn't be surprised if they get like new trains by Gerstlauer or something like that. I know Gerstlauer made brand new trains for SuperDuperLuper at Hershey Park. They look great and I absolutely wouldn't be surprised to see something like that happening here. So this is huge for Indiana Beach. Like I said nine months ago we thought we were going to lose this park to history. It was just going to be gone, which it would have been a tragic loss. It miraculously came back and it seems like in a way the announcement of its closure is sort of maybe the best thing that could have happened for this park now that we see the care that's being put into it. I mean the park opened back up in June to great fanfare. Everything looked great by all accounts. And now we are getting this brand new coaster, a very highly acclaimed coaster by enthusiasts. Only one that I've wanted to get on for quite some time. I never thought I would see the day where this would be operating in the United States. I mean much like Indiana Beach we all thought Camero was done for. We thought this was going to be history. So this is just a perfect fit for Indiana Beach. It's just another story of rising up out of the ashes. It's just great. I mean this is the best thing for the park. This is going to be a huge ride for Indiana Beach. It's going to be their largest coaster. It's only 111 feet tall. But for Indiana Beach that's huge. And based on this ride's reputation this is one of the most intense coasters out there. Granted it's not going to be running quite as intense as it did at Laferia. If any of you are not familiar with Camero, like I said it's a triple looping Swarchkopf coaster. It was originally on the German fair circuit and then it operated at a few parks over the years. The Mango Land were operated as Magnum Force, Laferia as Camero of course. A park called Sunway Lagoon for a few years in the late 90s. And now it's going to Indiana Beach. When I first heard about this I was like this can't be realized. Like this has to be just some sort of you know a far out speculation or something like that. But I very quickly found out that wasn't the case. This was actually announced by the park shortly after it was confirmed that it was indeed going to be Camero specifically. And we just really couldn't ask for a better addition for the park. Especially for 2021. I mean I did not think that Indiana Beach would be getting anything nearly as big as this anytime soon. Especially given the state of the world right now. It was already a park I really wanted to get to but it has shot way up on my bucket list as I'm sure it has for all of you as well. Especially if you haven't ridden Camero. Camero is very similar to the aforementioned Mindbender at Galaxy Land which strangely enough Camero and Mindbender both had very very similar fatal accidents unfortunately. These two rides are actually quite similar. They're both triple loopers by Swarchcop. Both extremely intense rides. The layout is pretty much the same from what I can tell it's basically the same layout. Camero is a little bit smaller than Mindbender it's a little bit shorter not quite as fast. But basically the same layout essentially the same ride. There's not really much else I have to add to this other than I just can't believe this. I mean this is phenomenal. I really can't wait to get to Indiana Beach and experience this amazing looking ride. I know that they're going to put a lot of hard work into this and really make it into the safe ride that it's supposed to be. So I'm very much looking forward to this. Let me know your thoughts on this. I mean I'm pretty sure I can tell what a lot of the thoughts are going to be on this. Thank you guys so much for watching. This is CoasterDaddy. Bye.


Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved West with Young America, and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, the United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful, and a little lonely. Quiet night, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, except for that coyote. He's mad at the moon, I guess. Earn love, maybe. Oh? Well, I've noticed that any time you find a man or animal, you're going around in the dark, it's usually love. Yeah, but this one sounds kind of mournful, Chester. Love is mournful sometimes. So I've heard. Matt? What? Is that you? Good evening, Miss Morley. How have you been, Matt? Oh, fine, thanks. Chester? Ma'am? Uh, you down here on Front Street this time of night alone? I'm looking for Red Lawson. I've been waiting him sometime after midnight, and they're going out on a cattle-buying trip. I want to talk to him first. Are you satisfied? Well, there's no place for a woman alone.  There are other women down here? Well, they belong here, Miss Morley. They work here. Don't be so stuffy, Matt. Call me Ava. Everybody else does. Well, your husband might take exception to that, Miss Morley. You are blaming me for what happened before. I'm not blaming you for anything, Miss Morley. I didn't tell them to get into a gunfight over me. It wasn't my fault. I didn't say it was. Uh, Chester, you better see that Miss Morley gets home all right, huh? Uh, Miss here? I can get home by myself. Good night. Miss Morley? She's pretty as a picture. Makes you wonder. Maybe you were right, Chester. A woman like that, love might be kind of mournful.  You're awesome. Oh, hi, Martin. I wonder if I can see you for a minute. Yeah, sure. I'll be right back, boys. OK. What's on your mind? I just ran into Miss Morley on the street outside. You did? Uh-huh. I suggested she go home. She's got no business being down here this time of night. Might be a good idea if, uh, you would tell her that. Seems to me that's up to her husband. You know you're new here, Lawson. I guess you didn't know, Fred Curtis, and the Santa Fe kid. I heard about it. A couple of fools as far as I can see. I sure they were, after they met Miss Morley. Look, Marshall, what's your stake in this? I got no stake. What Miss Morley does is her own business, as long as it doesn't cause any trouble. I feel kind of sorry for her, that's all. Now treats her like a dog. Uh-huh. Yeah, Fred and the kid used to talk the same way. Like I said, a couple of fools. I'm not. I hope not. I'll see you around. Yeah, sure. Kitty, can I speak to you? Oh, what a good man. Has Al Morley been in tonight? No, haven't seen him, Matt. Oh, not necessarily. He and Lawson are riding on her on midnight on a cattle buying trip. I thought they might be meeting here. Well, not yet, anyway. Jesse Wells didn't know what the plans are, though. Jesse Wells? Yeah, the new bartender down at the end. Young one. You met him? Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. Uh, why would he know? Well, he's going along. Al asked him to help out. They're gonna follow the lazy B wound up and try to get in ahead of the bios in Chicago. Yeah. He, uh... He's a nice-looking kid, isn't he? Yeah. Is, uh, he, uh... Yeah, he's another friend of Ava's. Al Morley is dead, Marshall. Knifed in the back. Well, you know who did it? Yeah, it was Red Lawson. He knifed Al and stole the money we were gonna use to buy cattle. You better saddle up, Chester. We got a ride. What's the trouble? The usual. Nothing new but the names. Red Lawson's turned out to be a fool in spite of himself. Built a fire and made some coffee and then turned in to wake the daylight. The lazy B bunch had planned to work their stock up this way. I see. Here, Chester. Wrap the knife in something and hang on to it. Yes, sir. Go on, Chester. What happened to the metal? Well, um, like I said, Marshall, we were all asleep. I guess it was the sound of the horses' hooves that woke me up. It was Red Lawson. He was pulling out. Yeah. I ran over to Al and shook him to wake him up and tell him, but... Well, then I saw the knife. He was dead. Why were you sleeping, Jess? Well, uh, right about here, I guess. Red was across the fire there. And Al, where he's lying now. And what about the money? How did you know it was gone? Oh, I thought of it right off. I figured that's why Red had done it. You see, Al was carrying about $10,000 in a leather sack and he'd stuck it under his blanket before we'd gone to sleep. I looked for it and it was gone. Now, you figure Red killed him for the money, then? Well, sure. I doubt if he meant to, though. No, I think Red was trying to ease the sack out from under the blanket and Al woke up and caught him. Yeah, it's possible. He'd be late enough to start tracking him in a few minutes, Mr. Dillon. Yeah. Which way did Lawson head out, Jesse? East. He seemed to be following the wagon tracks. He's got quite a start, fellas. Yeah, too much of a start. Well, we'll ride back into Dodge and take the train from there to Abilene and then work back from the east. Yeah, that's a good idea. Lawson probably won't be expecting anybody ahead of him. Well, I can't understand it. I just can't understand how anybody could do a thing like this. Show him that creek water tank right around the bend up ahead. How long do we stop there? Oh, about five minutes. Just long enough to take on water. Might as well relax, Marshall. It's a long way to get to Abilene. We're even 24 miles from Dodge City. Feels more like a hundred. These feet are harder than an iron saddle. Hey, this here fella you boys are looking for. I guess he's a real mean one, there. Yeah, I mean it up. Yeah, just like I always say, this very country ain't never going to be a law-abiding place to live in. Every time I pull out of Kansas City on a run west, I'm expecting every minute to be shocked, punk, or scalp. Chester. Good morning, Mr. Jones. I got the weather here. You're on the bend there by the water tank, see? Yeah. Looks like we don't have to go to Abilene. Oh, yeah. Some power waiting to catch a train, I reckon. Yeah. Hey, is he the one? That's him. His horse is tied there by the tank. He must have decided on a quicker way of traveling. Looks that way. All right, Chester. He won't be expecting us.  Yes, sir. For Marshall. Whatever you do, don't let him own this train. Just keep the passengers away from the windows. In a way it's sad, Mr. Jones. Miss Morley would have really enjoyed that $10,000. You're guessing, Chester. Holly hasn't seen the shot. All right, let's go.   Right.  It's cutting an awful scene, Mr. Jones. You've been a man a couple of chances before you hauled down on him. We're still on our feet. He's not. Yeah, sure. He's pushing the odds, though. I guess. Pick up his gun there, will you? Yes, sir. Lawson. You're still alive. Yeah. Can you hear me, Lawson? Sure. Sure. I can hear you. You got the sack of money. Yeah, I see it. Lawson, there's no doctor on the train. Now we're going to try to stop the bleeding and do the best we can for you. There'll be a train back toward Dodge City in about a half hour. We'll wait for it. I guess. I guess. I don't want to have much choice, do I? No, I guess you don't.  Was she worth it? It's a bad one, Matt. Right in against his heart. I try to just wing it, in fact. But you can't always call him, you know? No, I guess not. I'm afraid that's about all I can do for him, Matt. That's not enough. Is that it? He won't live another hour. Well, the stimulant might take effect. Might not. Well, this kind of occasion never know. What is it you're after, Matt? Ms. Morley. Accessory before the fact? She killed him. Wait a minute. Lawson, can you talk? Can you hear me? Sure. Was Ms. Morley in on it? Nobody was in on it. Did she know you were going to do it? She had nothing to do with it. Was she going to meet you somewhere later? She had nothing to do with it. It was my idea. Nobody else. You're dying. Do you know that? Yeah. I know. I can feel it. She wasn't in on it. That's why you wanted it.  What do you mean?   What? He was asleep. I took the money and rode away. I didn't touch him. I didn't kill him. I only stole the money. I didn't kill him. I guess I was wrong, Matthew. The bullet was closer to his heart than I thought. I was wrong about something myself, Doc. I thought this was the end of it. Now it's wide open again. Wide open. You got me here just to ask me the same thing all over again, Marshall. I told you how it happened. Yeah, I know. He bought Red Lawson with the money on him. What more proof do you need? That only proves he took the money, Jesse. It doesn't prove he killed Al. Now what do you mean by that, Marshall?  You're out of your mind. You woke up and you saw Red steal the money and take off, and it gave you ideas. You slipped over in your knife, Al, and I sleep. You knew Lawson would get the blame for it. Sure, because he did it. He said he didn't. Of course he'd say that. Did you expect him to tell the truth? He was dying, Jesse. He knew he was dying. Tell the truth. I see. His word against mine, the word of a thief. I didn't say I could prove it, Jesse. You did it, though. We'd both know that. And sooner or later, I'll get you for it. Quiet night, Mr. Nunch. It was a quiet night last night. And two men who was alive last night is gone tonight. Make you stop and wonder. Well, at least one thing hasn't changed. Like Kyle's still there. I mean, I guess I'll always be Kyle's promise, don't... What you gonna do about Jesse Wells? I don't know, Chester. He's guilty. You could see it written all over him, but... If he know you was bringing him in, I have got one piece of evidence. Get evenin' this morning. This morning? Who you lookin' for tonight? Can't be Red Lawson. He's dead. So is my husband. Am I deepest sympathy? Don't bother. You know better. Sorry about Red, though. He was nice. You're the one who did it, aren't you? Yeah, I killed him for ya. I couldn't do anything else. I don't know why you say for me it wasn't my fault. Yeah, sure, I know. Oh, you know. You don't know anything, Matt.  No one in town coming near you like you were poison or something. Sure, I don't feel sorry for Al, but I would have once... He's the one who changed me. Made me feel different. I know it wasn't your fault. And you. You didn't even come to tell me that he was dead. Why not? It's part of your job, isn't it? I didn't come and tell you, Miss Morley, because I figured you'd... Chester. I sure. Would you mind walkin' on my head? I'll meet you in the long branch in a few minutes. Oh. All right, Mr. Don. You say so. Matt. Why did you send him away? It could be. From 10 o'clock. I'll be there. Chester and I were trying to think of some way to rescue you from Ava's clutches. Oh, one thing though, Miss Don, I... I wasn't sure you wanted to be rescued. Kitty, has Doc been in tonight? Oh, I haven't seen him yet. Chester, would you see if you can find him and have him meet me here? Yes, sir. I will. Don. Kitty, I wonder if you could find a rumor for me. What kind of rumor? A drop a hint to that new bartender of yours, Jesse Wells. But it might be smart to slip out of here and pay a visit to Miss Morley around. I'll say 9.45 tonight. Oh. All right, Matt. Is it anything you can talk about? I don't exactly know how to talk about it, Kitty. I got a murder on my hands. I know who the killer is and I can't touch him. So? So I'm gonna try to make him touch me. All right, man. I'll plant the rumor.  Yeah, sure. I'll be here until 10 o'clock. A few minutes ago. I think the Marshal just wants to ask me some questions or something. Yeah, I do, as a matter of fact. About Jesse Wells here, for instance. He didn't tell me he was gonna be here, Eva. Well, I... What do you mean she didn't tell you? What about this, Eva? So you were expecting him. You knew he was coming. Well, but... Of course she knew I was coming. You and Matt Dillon. Just... For how long? And what kind of a fool does that make me? You were born a fool, Jesse. That's why she picked you. It would be so wonderful, you said, if only Al didn't stand in our way. Well, I didn't tell you to kill him. I didn't mention it once. No, you didn't have to. You just kept dropping hints and leading me on and all the time. You and Matt Dillon. She's so smart for you, Jesse. You should have realized that. Sure. But instead I played right into your hands. Both of you. Oh, Jesse. By killing Al, getting him out of your way, giving the two of you a clear field. You're under arrest, Jesse, for murder. Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you? Both of you would. You could sit around and laugh about it, waiting for me to hand it. I said you're under arrest now. Hand over your gun. No, you don't, Dillon. You're not taking me in for something both of you wanted me to do. Hand over your gun, Jesse. If you want my gun, you'll have to take it away from me. Get away from that door. Sure, I'll get away from it. You were close, but he missed me. Well, you two didn't miss him. I don't know which one of you fired first, but either both would have done it. I already got what you wanted, all right, Mr. Dillon? Doc and I heard most ever word. We should have. Only one thing, though, Matt, he didn't implicate the woman in it. Yeah, I know. Well, you take charge, Doc. Matt. All right, Chester, let's go. Matt, could I see you a minute before you go? What's it add up to you, Mr. Dillon? Three men have been killed since the same time last night. Yeah. And you know, Mr. Dillon, I think maybe it's kind of all hurtful, and you can't pin a thing on it. Well, one lucky thing, Chester. There aren't many women like her. By Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal. The story was specially written for guns smoked by Les Bratsfield, with a tutorial supervision by John Meston.