Hi everybody, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com here with another Jaspy exclusive, another collaboration with Hip Parade. This time it's a multi-sport six-box break and it's a random player break. This is random player break number one. So what do we got going on here, everyone gets a player from this, here's the full list of players right there. We got NBA, NFL, some soccer, some baseball. There's some chaser cases throughout this 10 case run here. All right, Justin Herbert autographed card, Christian Rinal, Chronicles Elite, Eminence, Wayne Rooney, Panini 1, Aaron Rodgers, a lot of graded stuff here too. Anthony Davis, one-of-one, limited Joe Burrow, Flux, Anthony Edwards, PSA 10, Joellen Bede, Patch Auto from 2015, 2017, Bowman's Best, Mike Trout, Refractor, Autograph, BGS 9-5, I'm assuming 10 as well on the auto. And there's the next case that's already loaded up if you want to get in on that. So a lot of awesome stuff. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Congrats to the people who won spots in that filler. Thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up. There are the players right here. And let's do it, let's roll it and randomize it two and a four, six times for names and players, one, two, three, four, five, and sixth and final time. After six, we've got Matthew down to Jeremy. All right, so we did that in players, six times, two and a four, one, two, three, four, five, and sixth and final time. Good luck, everybody. Jay Fields, Justin Fields up there and the judge down there. So let's see who you just got matched up with. All right, Matthew with Justin Fields, Judson, Juan Soto, Cole, Jordon Alvarez, Daniel, Kyler Murray, Brad, Jalen Waddle, Michael, Fernandez-Tatis Jr., Chad with Mike Trout, Matthew with Wayne Rooney, Brenton with Alan Iverson, Dayton Hyun-Min Sun, Daniel, Justin Herbert, Jason with Joel. Joel, Joel and B, Joel and B, Matthew with Jalen Green, Judson with Nolan Ryan, Matt with Christian Ronaldo, Brenton, Jordan Poole, Ed, Ronald Raccoon Jr., Jason with Matt Jones, Daniel with Albert Pujols, Chad with Jamar Chase, Tim with Anthony Edwards, David with Scotty Barnes, Jason with Joe Burrow, Danny with Christian Pulisic, Jason with Jonathan Taylor, Brenton with Shaq, Shaquille O'Neal, Nestor with Kevin De Bruña, Jason with Jalen Hurts, Ed with Kevin Durant, Ryan with Aaron Rodgers, Jason with Anthony Davis and Jeremy Port, Aaron, Judge, all rise. All right, let's alphabetize by player. And we're going to pause the video when we come back. We're going to see if there's any trades. Then we will have the break, so stick around. We'll see you on the other side. All right, welcome back, everybody. There was a trade, Dayton and Daniel, two bold souls making some deals in a random player break. So Daniel is out of the Kyler Murray spot and into the Hyun-Min Sun spot, the Tottenham player, South Korean international. Dayton is out of the Sun spot and into the Murray spot, the Kyler Murray spot. But T is next to there for trade. It's just a six-box break, but let's see who draws first blood, if any, in this deal, random player break number one. The next random player break is loaded up, jaspyscasewrakes.com. Check it out. There it is, the Jaspys exclusive multi-sport edition. Thanks, Hip Parade, for putting this together for us. Curated by Jaspys, powered by Hip Parade. All right, so here's the final printout. It's official. Hot off the presses. There you go. And good luck, everybody. Let's see what we got here. All right, an empty box. One, two, three, four, five, and six. There we are. Good luck, everybody. Let's see if these are, these covered up? No, they're just naked there. Oh, no, they are not. There it is, I usually put that there. All right, all right. Mike saying, come on to T's, I think, hopefully his value recovers. From this stupidity, you're holding a lot of T's. And you're going to have one more. Elite extra edition, Fernando T's Junior. That's from 2015. That's still a White Sox edition. Wow, nice prospects. Red ink autograph, and that is indeed for Michael. There you go, Mike, another to T's Junior to hold. Yeah, you spoke it into existence. Bye, Marin. They drew first blood. Is that numbered, good question. I don't think so. No, I didn't see a number. Not on the back, not on the front. They drew first blood. Yeah, I mean, to T's Junior might be a good buy low right now. You know what I mean? All right, a little orange, a little Joey B. Wow, 36 out of 149. Joe Burrow, RPA, two color patch and autograph. Maybe three, there's a little bit of white peaking on the left side there. We give it three color patch, RPA, Joey B. That's going to go to Jason. Jason Kersh with Joe Burrow. Next one, it's more NFL. It is, it's freshman fabric, Jalen Hertz, RPA. Nice, three color patch, autograph, 52 out of 99. Jay Hertz, Jason Kersh, nice. And that one is with a spot he won in a filler. The burrow is with the spot he bought straight up. Yeah, this one is loaded. I mean, you can tell by the price point. It's just one case, only six boxes at that price point. And usually these hip parades commensurate with that price point. All right, what do we got here? We have some hoops, we got some shack. Shaquille O'Neal, historic rookie ticket autograph. Shaquille O'Neal on card as well. From 2018-19, contenders basketball. Shaq, who's got the Shaq spot? Brent Young with a spot he got straight up. Big diesel. We got another case in the store again. We can run as many back as you want. We got some hoops. We got some Scotty Barnes. Contenders optic, or not, just Daunress optic basketball, optographs. 55 out of 99. David with the Scotty Barnes spot. There you go, Dave. And the last one here. Now just a pro tip, just so you're a shark collector, obviously as we get, when we reach the final, the 10th and final case of this, there may be players that are not on the list anymore. So just keep that in mind, which might come more into play in trade wins.  All right, and the final one, uh-oh. It's Tottenham's Hyunmin Son, 102 out of 134. From Panini Contenders English Premier League. Actually from Chronicles. But this is the contenders design. Dayton, sorry man, he called his shot though. He's like, wow, the other guy's probably gonna hit. But Daniel, congrats to you. You're gonna get the Hyunmin Son. Been drawing first blood in the trade. Dayton, if you get into another one, hopefully I can make it up for you. Gang, that was a great break. 2022, hip parade, multi-sport, a JASPY exclusive, just a six box break, really nice stuff. And it's a random player break too. We don't always do random player breaks. So check that out. Go to jaspyscasebreaks.com and make it happen. I'm Joe, I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Hi, I'm Dr. Gene Preuss. In this lecture, we're going to look at the influence mining had on the American West and we're going to look primarily at the period the 1850s through the 1860s. We want in this lecture to identify the importance of mining in Americanizing the West and what do we mean by that is making the West into bringing it into the American sphere. We want to identify the results of this Americanization on the West and evaluate the mythology of mining. A lot of the mythology is that this idea of rugged individualism, that you had somebody out there panning for gold, filing a claim and striking it rich. And that, you know, is this idea that somebody was panning for gold, this placer mining, it's got placker mining as it's sometimes called. And then it was also very violent out in the old West because you had people getting rich quick, you had people trying to gain that wealth from everybody else. And a lot of this is really Hollywood and it's romanticized fiction. And the role of minorities in the West and women are often ignored. In 1848, just outside of Sacramento, California at a place called Sutter's Mill, this was a mill, a logging mill run by a man named Sutter. One of his employees found gold in the American River. And this set off the California gold rush. Some 300,000 people migrated to California as a result of this and they're coming along different trails. Some along the Oregon Trail, others cutting across going down by the Great Salt Lake on the California Trail, others coming on a more southern route through El Paso. By 1850, more wealth was found in Virginia City, Nevada, and what became known as the Comstock Load. Now this was silver, but there was also gold there. The problem with all of this mining is that it's this idea that you had somebody out there with a pan sifting through debris in the river. But that only lasted a very short while before that played out. And then you needed different types of mining. You needed hard rock mining. You needed people digging into the ground and trying to find veins of ore. That doesn't work. They brought in hydraulics. They brought in dynamite to blast away at the side of mountains and in the holes that they dug. And then they started needing greater and greater technology. And so you have these new types of ways of getting gold and silver out of the ground.  And the amount of investment was big. And so the idea that you had these people panning for gold was true for a while, but it quickly gave way to more investment, more industry, and the rise of industrial mining. It also contributed to the need for railroads in the West. Because of the California Gold Rush, many investors saw the need to bring railroads out there to get the ore to market. The idea that you needed a railroad to help get across the nation was also very important. And by 1862, Congress, after many tries, finally passes a transcontinental bill. This is the Pacific Railroad Act to help build railroads across the United States. A northern route had long been identified, and this is eventually what's going to happen with the transcontinental railroad. But there was also a desire for a southern route into California. So in 1854, because there were problems in the Mesilla Valley, this is over by El Paso and Southern Arizona in that region, the United States had wanted a route there because they needed a pass through the Rocky Mountains. And what they had bought with the Mexican Session after the war between the United States and Mexico, it was still very mountainous. And so this route, the Gadsden Purchase, provided a much more southerly route, and it was also going to be a little bit easier for the railroads to get through there. And so we paid another $15 million for the land. Fishing and whaling was another form of extractive resource acquisition in the West. We talk about mining, but in the years before the Civil War, whale oil was a large amount of the American gross national product. About half of what we shipped overseas, about half of what we produced, people always point out was cotton. About the other half was oil from whales. And so we had been doing whaling in the Atlantic for many years, but in 1848 they discovered these whales over in the Bering Straits by Alaska, and shipping began moving over to the Pacific side as well. Whaling off the Southern California, Fournier Coast as well, following those whale routes down. But by 1870s due to some major disasters on the seas, and because of overhunting, whaling in the Pacific pretty much played out. The California Gold Rush was also reproduced in areas like Colorado. And in Colorado around Pikes Peak area, around Denver, in the Little Dry Creek, about 10 years after they found gold on the American River in California, they found gold in Colorado. And this led to the development of several boom towns. Denver City, Boulder City today, Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Gold in Colorado also comes out of this area where people were finding gold. And, you know, 150,000 ounces doesn't sound like a lot, but it was a considerable amount of gold. And that just kept increasing. And of course that plays out that mining that an individual prospector could find in rivers didn't last long. And so it soon gave way to more industrialized mining as well. The effect of mining on minorities is often unexplored. People don't think about this. But the finding of gold and other minerals like silver really attracted a lot of minorities to the West. And so you have about 80,000 people coming into California in 1849 after the gold strike to begin with, and then another 90,000 the next year. And these were also foreign immigrants. You see some 60,000 Chinese and 8,000 Mexicans coming in to California to take advantage of the gold rush, but very quickly by 1851 the California legislature has passed foreign mining laws. And these were taxes placed upon predominantly Chinese and Mexican miners, which effectively prevented them from coming out into the field. It was only $20 a year, but $20 was pretty hard to come by. And a lot of times prospectors, the idea was to prospect. And so sometimes they didn't find gold. So $20 was a lot of money in those days. And if you're not finding any money, if you're not starting to get rich, it's very cost prohibitive. So this was a way they excluded people who were not American from mining in the West and take advantage of these opportunities. For Native Americans, you already had a policy of removal. And this started in about the 1830s, and this was just a continuation of policies that had been going on moving Native Americans further and further west. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, this moved them into the Indian territory, what they called around Oklahoma into the Dakota areas as well, exchanging land in the East for land in the West. But in California it took on a rather disastrous turn that is going to lead to a very diminished population of Native Americans. A lot of this was due to disease, poverty, and starvation. As more and more Americans came into the West, many Native Americans were susceptible to diseases they brought with them. I mean, this is a continuation of the Columbian exchange. But also because of the competition for resources. Native Americans were hunting and fishing for natural resources, but as more and more people began coming in there taking advantage of those resources, and especially with fishing with better technology, the resources began to dwindle, and a lot of Native Americans are kicked off their lands where they naturally hunted at. They normally hunted at. Also their fish are reduced, and so they don't have a way of feeding themselves. And this is going to exacerbate the problem with disease. More horrendously, even more terribly even, was that the state and local governments were oftentimes paying bounties for Native American scalps. Now a lot of the mythology of the West talks about Indians scalping whites, and in fact that did happen, but also the reverse was true as well. And sometimes it was Americans or Europeans who paid the bounties for scalps first. And Native Americans were just imitating that. So there was a intentional and government-sponsored elimination of Native Americans that occurred in places like California and other sites in the West. We'll mention some of these as we go along. One example is the Gratton Affair, 1854. This was when a brulee, Lakota chief, Conqueror Bear, was trying to negotiate some peace. Mormons were upset. Some Mormon settlers were upset because a cow was missing. It turned out Native Americans had found this cow. It had wandered off from the herd, and they ate it. And so the Mormons were very upset about this. Conqueror Bear was trying to negotiate and saying, look, we'll pay for it, we'll exchange horses for it, we'll do something for it. But they demanded the perpetrators be brought for it, and when Conqueror Bear refused, he was murdered. So this is an example of kind of the overreaction a lot of settlers had toward Native Americans and how little they deemed Native American lives. For Mexicans in California, Native Californians, these Californios, the competition was intense. I mentioned the foreign miners' law already, and so I'm going to skip over that, but in 1849, rather, the state constitutional convention, Mexicans, Americans living in California were trying to protect their property, and they wanted legislation printed in Spanish. They wanted schools in Spanish, and there was some effort to do this. And in 1851, California did create a board of land commissioners to try to negotiate claims and to make sure that Native Californios' claims were respected. This didn't always work out. A lot of Anglo-squatters moved in and took lands that were not theirs, and the effort wasn't very effective in protecting Native Californios' rights. You also had other resistance as a result of the wealth and the rapid immigration of people.  One example of this is the story of Joaquin Murrieta. He was a bandit, apparently, and took matters into his own hands to try to protect people. He became kind of mythologized as a legendary bandit, and in fact is the basis for Zorro. So that story continued, and it was a bounty put out for his head, and many heads came in, of course, not all of them belonging to Joaquin. And there's some debate as to whether or not he actually existed or not. But this did lead to a lot of violence against Mexican Americans in California because Joaquin Murrieta and this hunt for him. Of course, this was the days before people had IDs or photographs. And so any Californio was suspect as maybe being or in leagues with Murrieta, and so their lives were in danger. There were people who created Spanish language newspapers, and there were some profits to be made from the gold rush from ranchers who were selling cattle to hungry prospectors. So there was some give and take in this as well. This wasn't all negative interactions. In Texas, likewise, after the Revolution, many Mexican Americans living in Texas, Tejanos, lost political power. One prime example is the mayor of San Antonio Juan Seguin. Juan Seguin had been active in helping with the Texas Revolution. He had been at the Alamo and then later on left to convey messages, and later on you find him with Sam Houston, who always called him son, very fond of Juan Seguin and his family. Juan Seguin was at San Jacinto and then ends up as mayor of San Antonio. In 1842, however, he was basically run out of San Antonio after some invasions from Mexico because many white settlers viewed Mexicans with suspicion, including mayor Seguin. He did return in the 1850s, but his family was still suspect, and he did win some political seats and held office, but his name had already been tartished by many people. The population of Mexicans in Texas, Tejanos in Texas, decreased tremendously as a result of people leaving and also because of the Anglo settlement, so they were outnumbered. And in 1845 at the Constitutional Convention, when Texas joined the Union, there was only José Antonio Navarro, who was present and representing Tejano interests. Like the California Land Claims Commission, Texas had one as well, the Borland Miller Commission, and unlike the California example, the Texas Commission did validate and uphold most Spanish land grants. And that just may have been because Tejanos in South Texas held a little bit more political clout. Another group that we often see romanticized in westerns are outlaws, orphans, and soiled doves. And soiled doves kind of means prostitution. And so there was prostitution and there were boom towns, but a lot of this mythology of western violence is oversold. There were studies conducted and they looked at violence that happened in the west and violence in the east in some cities and found out that there was a lot of similarity, that there really was no more, the west was no more violent than the east was as a matter of fact. Now you do have some examples. In 1857, the Mountain Meadow Massacre where Mormons attacked and killed under the disguise and blamed it on the Native Americans, a group of immigrants coming through Mormon territory. Eventually the leader of that was executed and there was prostitution in the west. Many women had no other choice than to serve in the sex trade business in order to eke out a living of some sort. There were a lot of abandoned women. There were women whose husbands had died and they had very little opportunities and so prostitution was something that many women turned to even if only for a short period of time. Another often overlooked aspect was the orphan trains. From 1854, a group of concerned child welfare advocates in New York and in other major cities began trying to do something about orphans. A lot of children were abandoned or in trouble or their parents had died and they were orphaned and so some ministers including one Charles Lawing Brace of New York decided that one of the things to do would be to send these children west. Sometimes to work for families, supposedly for wages but that didn't always work out. Sometimes to be adopted by families and sometimes that didn't always work out of course. But the Children's Aid Society sent children on trains to sites in the west to families in the west for up until almost the 1930s. So this went on for a long time and there were thousands of young children sent west. Also one of the overlooked aspects oftentimes is the role of women and there were few immigrant women. A lot of the immigrants, people coming from overseas were mostly male. However, there were a few immigrant women and there was an effort to allow women to vote more frequently in the west than in the east because there were fewer women there, there were fewer men out there and because of the political power that many politicians in the west wanted because of so few people living out there. And so they took advantage of that and they were able to vote in some states many years before the federal government authorized women to vote in national elections. And also one interesting aspect is that sometimes women who were in Mormon, the Mormon Church, were often kind of seen as being victims of polygamy and men having multiple wives. But in some cases women were able to leverage that. For example, there were women feminists and suffragettes who were active and who were Mormon and who defended polygamy. In fact, one is mentioned in the film, Emily Wells. So it did happen and there were women who were able to exert some cause for women's rights out in the west. And so when we look at the west, we see that the importance of mining was that it did increase immigration and migration to the west and that it was a real boost to the American economy, the gold and silver that was found out there. What was the result of the Americanization of the west? Well, it increased ethnic conflict surely and competition and seriously compromised Native Americans and Mexican American population as well as immigrant Asians who came to the west looking to strike it rich. They were often faced with discrimination as well. And if we look at kind of wiping out some of the mythology of mining and the west, this idea of rugged individualism and increased violence is exaggerated. It ignores the presence of the federal government, the role the federal government had in protecting against Indians and establishing trails for settlers and protecting those trails. It ignores the role of big business of coming in and taking over mining and other opportunities in the west like land. Many land claims were filed by corporations. And also it ignores the ethnic diversity and the role of women in the west. So those are avenues that need to be explored further and hopefully you'll do some reading and studies on your own. Thank you very much. We'll see you next time.


Jennifer Russo and my husband's a first sergeant at Marine Breaks, Washington. My daughter, her name's Juliana, she's five years old. She's the sweetest, sweetest, most beautiful child ever. I mean she just, she will light up a room. She was diagnosed with autism when she was 22 months old. She really doesn't speak. She, she can, she can speak but she doesn't use her language in a functional way to communicate. The day after Juliana was diagnosed with autism, we really did not know where to begin. The EFMP office had a ton of resources available to me. They gave us some hope and gave us some direction. So Juliana does take part in a variety of different therapies. What color is it? Blue, black or red? Black. I think a lot of people look at us and misunderstand or just judge. People don't know, I mean unless you're going through it you don't understand.  So just because she has a disability doesn't make her any less. And I want people to see that.


All right, hello, everyone. This is React course assignment number two. I just want to make a clarification here because the template used for the assignment is no longer the same as before. So if you watched a video, if you follow along, you'll see that the demo or the theme that they use had a directory called vendor, and that's no longer the case because they updated their template. So again, if you go here, you know what this here will get a lot of free templates, and you are more than welcome to use any templates of your choice. The one I'm using for this course and for the videos throughout the course is from this link here. So if you click that, it's going to take you here. And all I'm going to use is basically the layout, the navigation, and the footer down here. And so when you download the free download link here, you're going to get a zip file. And what you're going to do is you unzip the file to your computer. So I unzip it to the desktop, as you can see here. OK. If you open it up, you notice that there's no vendor photo as you might see in the other video. So in the other template, there's a template video. And there's a vendor photo that has some assets in there. But now they changed it a little bit. So there's no vendor anymore, which is fine because they just could basically change a few things in the HTML. So here is what we're going to do. So we're going to go here. And so the React is running already. So we're going to go to the source code here. And so right in here in the public directory, you just could basically drop those files in here. So I'm going to go back and show you the file. You can see I just going to basically drag and drop this in here. But you want to be careful because you don't want to overwrite this HTML in here. So this index is the one that we are using in open here. It's just the React template. So you can move all these comments out and a little bit messy, but you don't really need all these comments. It just makes your code hard to read. So this is the index for the React. And I want to do is move all these in there. But I don't want to replace the HTML index. So you can replace it or rename it to something like index 2 or whatever, something else. Then all you have to do is drag all of these. And then I'm highlighting all of them and drag it into the public folder. So make sure that public folder is highlighted, as you can see in blue, and then let go. So you can see that the assets, CSS, and JS are included. Now these are part of the template that is needed for the index 2, which is this file here. So this one here, just make sure if you run it, like if you run from here, and let's see if this works. You're going to see the output. Yeah, as you can see, it looks just like the other one. It's coming from my local server. But you see that this is the one that we want. You want to grab just the navigation and the footer. And so just make sure you also include the CSS, and JavaScript, and the other stuff. So we're going to apply that to this React application. Back in here, the things that you need. And so basically, this is the one that we are using. I'm going to move over some stuff. So I need to move the CSS from this index 2. So basically copy these two links here, copy that, and go over here, and paste it right below the title. You know, just exactly where they have over here. So there's a title for this site, and the links are right below that. OK, so I need that. And this is navigation right here. From here to here is navigation. So again, just highlight all of these here, copy that, move it over over here to the React file. And you can put it right, for now to get you started, you can put it right above here, that's fine, put right here. OK, so it's above the div root here, and then the footer goes down here. So you go back here, we're going to skip all of these content. We don't need all these here. So go all the way to the bottom, and the footer area. So basically copy everything, the footer part, copy and paste it right in here, and then that's it. OK, everything is already in here. And the reason why you don't see the vendor anymore, because they use a CDN, where we have the bootstrap, everything is coming from the CDN as opposed to coming from the vendor folder. So that's the only difference. I think the rest are just scripts. And so these scripts are coming from the JS folder. This is from the CDN now as opposed to the vendor. So that's why they've been with the vendor. And then up here, again, CSS is coming from the CSS folder and so forth. That says it's just a logo. And right click, and then go and clean up the document. So a little bit nicer. OK, whatever. Come on. OK, there you go. Clean up and save that file. All right. And it can collapse this. You can see a little bit better. So here's the navigation on the top, the footer on the bottom, and the script I need to run on the bottom as well. And save that. Go open the file. And you will see that now it's integrated, OK? And now, of course, this is not part of the React component, but that's for you to complete in the assignment. So that's what you need to do for this part. All right, if you have any questions, please let me know.


As a way to bring a little extra holiday cheer to some lucky kids, the Kentucky State Police will be holding their annual Shop with a Trooper event on December 15th. We caught up with Public Affairs Officer Michael Coleman to find out more information on this very special event. Shop with a Trooper is a longstanding tradition for not only post 9 but post all throughout the Commonwealth. Every year we take a certain amount of kid shopping for Christmas gifts just so that we make sure that all the kids that we can take shopping get Christmas gifts on Christmas morning. Trooper Coleman also explained just some of what goes into making the event such a success each year and why the children are so excited to take part. We work real close with the family resource centers at the schools to figure out which kids are best deserving and can most need the gifts this Christmas. Here at post 9 on average we take about 73 kids shopping each year. They come from the elementary schools in the five counties that we cover which is Pike, Floyd, Martin, McGoffin and Johnson counties. This family resource center helps us choose the children because they know who needs it most. So once those kids arrive at Walmart we'll actually assign them to a trooper and they'll go shopping for the day. They usually get somewhere between $100 to $150 just depending on how much money was raised throughout the year. After that we take all the kids over to McDonald's where they're grateful enough to feed them for us. So we sit down and get to have a lunch with them. It gives us time to kind of interact with them, get to know their back story, just make friends with them and build a bond that hopefully lasts a lifetime. Before they leave though we always purchase a ham and then save the law. Always don't let us a food basket so that each kid goes home with the fixings for a Christmas dinner. Trooper Coleman explained what makes the event so important to the state police and why they're happy to do it each year. This event is a memorable moment for not only us but the children. A lot of these kids as you go into the store you start shopping with them. The first thing they want to do is buy for either their mom, their sibling, or someone else in their family before they ever think about buying anything for their self. So you really know that these kids are the ones that most deserve to be in this program. If you're interested in donating to the Shop with the Trooper event, donations are accepted all year long. Yeah so we're always accepting donations throughout the year. Even if you come in in January those donations are going to go for Shop with the Trooper next year. Any time you give a donation that's for Shop with the Trooper it always stays there. If you'd like to donate you can contact us at<PHONE_NUMBER> or just stop by here at the post. If you have a donation you talk to drop-off, you can leave it at the radio room. They'll get it to us. For now on Top News, I'm Josh Willis-Lon.


It's refreshing to see all the people that are like-minded that are doing great things in different areas and having their own impact. So I think that's kind of reassuring that we are not sometimes being entrepreneur, like it feels kind of can feel lonely, but it's good to see that other people are doing the same in different areas. We're all trying to do our best and change things. And there's a lot of us here all doing the best they can in all different areas of society.


I think we'll start this out with the demo. We've got the Hilbert chain as you're going to have eight hands. Under my fist, loud!  Yeah, I see it. We might be wrong. We're funny, but not always a joke. We're nervous. The oft overlooked things in our field is, where does behavior come from? Right? A stork. Right. Right. A storks don't make that sound. Whatever. Thanks. Great. He's generating variability in my behavior. I wonder, folks. So where does behavior come from? Is it inside the organism? Is it outside the organism? Where is it? And what happens? So we need to address this. So one of the issues that I run into, or that I run into that we all run into, is that we're talking about how, we talk about applied behavior analysis as if it's almost perfect. The problem is it's not. So I'm guilty of this. I almost get dogmatic about our field sometime. I'm a bit guilty here. But I think the point that we need to remember is that we're good for a reason. It's because we consider everything we need to consider. And then we do things like all these other videos on experimental design to make sure we know what the heck we're talking about. Then we apply it in the real world. We call it applied behavior analysis. And we continue to test our stuff in the field and make sure that we refine it in that setting.  But a key component for all of our stuff, we've talked about before. Baselines, they're not perfectly stable. They have variability. So where does that variability come from? Well, there's typically speaking five sources. Now you can break those five sources, probably down to 20, which I'm not going to do today. So we're just going to break it down and give a little bit of topics that we need to realize or that we need to address. Because when you're out there in the real world working with real behavior, it's not pretty. It's ugly. It does not look like the books. Experiments that demonstrate this stuff that have been published. One of the reasons they got published is they are so crystal clean that they show the effect perfectly. That's so beautiful. But you're not running those types of experiments in the real world. So you've got to be ready for these different types of things. So before you give up on a particular intervention, think about where the variability and where some of the issues are coming from, which is kind of what this video is about. So let's back up a little bit. Some people incorrectly think of our field as supporting the concept of tabula rasa, black slate. We are not a blank slate field. No one that understands our field would argue that an organism is a blank slate. You come to the table with something in here. You're born with stuff inside of here. And as a result, you engage in behavior. So when you engage in behavior, that's what you as an organism are trained to do. That's what you're born to do. You have a certain amount of preparedness when you come to the world to engage in behavior, whatever it is. You, as an organism, bring that to the table. It's not a blank slate. You engage in behavior and the environment acts upon it. Okay? Subsequently, that's how we get to all the stuff in the rest of the field, right? So reinforcement, behavior goes up, punishment behavior goes down, extinction goes away, stimulus control, all these other things. But you have to engage in the behavior first, right? So that engage, that emitting of behavior is literally the operant conditioning field. So when we talk about the sources of variability for behavior, why is my baseline not perfectly stable? Well, the organism, you are not perfectly stable. Things change, right? You could be in different states. You could be hungry. You could be sad. You could be tired. You could be awake. You could be excited. You could be in front of a camera. You could be all sorts of different things. Well, that's not right because that was an environmental variable. But basically any state that you as an organism exist in can change your behavior in some way, shape, or form, and that's fine, right? So that's one source of variability. More sources of variability, experimental settings. The setting under which you're conducting the study can prompt different behaviors to happen, period. So in this particular setting, right, in this environment, I engage in behaviors in certain ways. I do different things that I might not do outside of this environment. The same thing happens when we're doing experiments. If we set things up in this really rigid, very cold and so on and so forth laboratory, then guess what? That's going to happen in a laboratory and it might be different if you set it up in a nice warm fuzzy laboratory, right? I don't know, right? Another funny one, not funny one, another one that we always forget about that I think is really important is measurement. If your measurement tools aren't perfect, then you're going to get variability in your behavior in your measurements just because your measurement tool sucks, right? If you're not observing everything really well, it's like, you know, maybe I'm counting the number of times it does something back there behind the camera, but I'm doing this. See, I kind of look at him once in a while. And other times I look away. Oh, there he's doing it again. I look away. And maybe the next series of measurements I'm really consistent. I make sure I watch him really well. I keep a good eye on him the whole time. I never look away in all these sorts of things. He's doing funny stuff to me right now. So anyway, I keep an eye on him, right? So you see that my measurement tool changed, right? Or the quality of my measurement tool changed. My measurement tools are a source of variability. Experimental design itself creates variability. That's pretty obvious. That's kind of the whole point of experimental designs. Interestingly enough, another one is data analysis. How you analyze the data can totally see how much variability you have in it. Are you looking for response rates? Are you looking for total responses? Are you looking for cumulative records? Are you aggregating things and talking about average numbers of responses over a given period? Your unit of analysis is what's important here. So all of these different things affect the variability of behavior that never really had anything to do with your independent variable, right? So keep that in mind that one of the reasons that nothing's perfect on the graphs that you're going to get is because all sorts of stuff is affecting the variability of the organism, which means we need to look for general patterns of change. And we need to do our best to control variability on the things that we can, right? Because some of those sources of variability become issues for bias. They become issues for intervention issues. They become issues for confounding issues and all sorts of different things that come about as a result of allowing too much variability, right? But we have to know where that variability comes from in order to do something about it. So probably not in a typical book that you would find about behavior analysis unless you really get into the research methods stuff, but something that I really, really, really wanted to talk to you about because we see it all the time in the real world and people often don't understand that you're not quite ready for it. So there you go. Lots of sources of variability. I implore you to like and subscribe to our channel. It is extremely important that you do so, especially since you want this content. If you've watched this far, that means you like what we're doing. So please like, subscribe, and share.


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So we've seen Schrodinger's equation in one dimension, or as it's written in here in three dimensions, which is an equation that the wave function needs to satisfy. What we'll point out now is that the Schrodinger equation is full of operators, something called operators. An operator is something you may not sound familiar to you, but you're familiar with operators and how operators work, so I'll convince you that they're nothing terribly new. An operator is just a mathematical action that acts upon something else, operates upon something else. So for example, I can define an operator. I'll say let's let the D operator, and we'll often use a hat to describe an operator. So if I put the D with a hat on it, it means I'm talking about an operator called D. This operator D that I'm going to define is the take the first derivative of operator. So derivative is an action that doesn't mean anything by itself. I can't tell you what the derivative is until you tell me what you want to take the derivative of. So it acts upon some function. So another way to define this function would be to say the derivative operator when it's acting on some function gives me the derivative of that function. So we can do a few examples. Derivative operator acting on the function sine x will give me cosine x. On the other hand, the derivative operator acting on a different function log of x gives me derivative of log x is 1 over x. So the operator is the same in both cases, but the result I get depends on what it is that I'm acting on. So that's a moderately interesting operator. Operators don't have to be complicated or interesting. They can be very simple. In fact, let's define an operator, the multiply by five operator. So notice I've put a hat on the five here, meaning the five operator. I'm defining to be tell me what you get when you multiply the thing by five. And again, you can't tell me what this operator does until I tell you what it's acting on. But if I act with the multiply by five operator on some function like 3x, then what I'll get is five times that function or 15x. So multiplying by five is not a terribly complicated operation. You've probably never thought of that as being an operator before, but we can think of multiplication, differentiation. We can think of most mathematical operations as operators. One more important thing to understand about operators is they connect sequentially. So let's see, we've got this differentiation operator. I'll define another operator, the squaring operator. So if I take the squaring operator s, s hat, act on a function, what I get back is the function squared. So, so far so good. If I act with the squaring operator on some function, let's say 3x squared, then what I'll get is the square of 3x squared. I'll get nine times x to the fourth. But notice that I can do more than one operator back to back. So if I say take the squaring operator and the differentiation operator acting on some f, in fact, let's not act on f, let's act on this 3x squared. So the way I've written this down, what this means is first I need to take the d operator acting on the function, and then when I'm done with that, I take the squaring operator acting on what's left. So notice that the operators proceed right to left. First act with the one closest to the function, and then act on the result with the one further away. So in order to understand what this means, d derivative of 3x squared is 6x. So what I'm asking here is what is the squaring operator acting on 6x. So that's going to give me 36x squared. So far so good. That tells us what happens when I sequentially first take the derivative operator and then take the squaring operator acting on the result. I could also have asked what's the result when I do those in the opposite order on the same substrate, on the same function, first square it and then take the derivative. So if I square the function 3x squared like we saw just above, squaring 3x squared gives me 9x to the fourth. If I take the derivative of 9x to the fourth, 9 times 4 is 36. So that part looks the same, but x fourth gets knocked down to x cubed. And I see that what I got by doing the square and then the derivative is not the same as I get by taking the derivative and then squaring it. So those two results are not the same as each other. So in general, it will not be true that one operator followed by another is the same as the two operators in the opposite order. In other words, what we've discovered is that these two operators, s and d, don't commute. So commutativity, the commutative property is something you learned about in elementary school when we taught you that addition is a commutative property, multiplication is a commutative property, a times b is the same as b times a. In third grade it probably didn't make much sense why we would bother teaching you this terminology because of course multiplication is commutative. But we taught it to you in third grade so that you could one day do quantum mechanics because sometimes we run across properties like these operators that don't commute with each other. Operations are not necessarily commutative. Sometimes they will be, but they're not guaranteed to be like these are not. So what does any of this have to do with Schrodinger's equation?  Fairly, clearly, just like the differentiation operator is an operator, the Laplacian is also an operator.  So this is an operator. I could easily stick a hat on top of del squared and that is an operator that's acting on psi. I don't know what I get until I tell you what this function is psi that I'm taking derivatives of. And also just like five, the five hat operator is five times something. We can think of either e times or potential energy times as being operators. They're fairly simple operators. They're just multiply by operators. But what that tells us is the e times is the energy operator. We know potential energy is potential energy. We talked briefly before about how this whole term, this collection of constants, times the Laplacian all acting on a wave function that gives us the kinetic energy. So that's the kinetic energy operator. So we can just like we name the differentiation operator, call it d with a hat on it.  We could call that, for example, t with a hat on it is a common name. You might also see some people call it e sub k for kinetic energy with a hat on it. The potential energy operator is often called v, capital V with a hat on it. And then I won't actually write this one as an operator. But what that means is I could rewrite the Schrodinger equation if I want to say this whole kinetic energy operator acting on the wave function if I add that to the potential energy operator acting on the wave function gives me back the total energy or if I wanted the total energy operator acting on the wave function or multiplying the wave function. And in fact, this whole process, take these constants times the Laplacian acting on a wave function, add that to the potential energy multiplying the wave function. I can combine all those things into one big operator. So if I rewrite potential energy acting on psi and kinetic energy acting on psi and I combine those both into a single operator, that operator we call the Hamiltonian. So that Hamiltonian operator t plus v acting on psi tells us to do exactly this. The definition of the Hamiltonian operator is minus h squared over 8 pi squared m times the Laplacian of the wave function added to potential energy times the wave function. That's the definition of the Hamiltonian. But yet another way of writing down Schrodinger's equation is the Hamiltonian operator acting on a wave function gives us back the energy times the wave function. So what we've seen is we've got operators hiding inside Schrodinger's equation and those give us a couple of new ways, simpler ways to write down Schrodinger's equation. The next thing we have to do is to understand how it is we're going to solve equations like this one, equations that involve operators, how to solve operator equations for the functions that they act on. And so that's coming up next.


We're gonna do that tonight. Hey, welcome back to our Stoop Direct. She needs some Corbin. I'm Rick. Yeah, the charts are going awesome. Oh, wow. Hey, you know what? He told me, yeah, that he's legally changing his name. He's gonna add an additional names to the SRK. Know what?  Oh, for SRK? No. Wow. For Big B. It was a terrible joke, Rick. I just wanted to let you know.  Also, I'm wearing my Shahrukh Khan shirt. I'm wearing my Shahrukh Khan underwear. One of them. I have multiples. Anyways, obviously, you guys know why we're here because apparently Shahrukh Khan's coming back with a vengeance and just gonna do multiple films next year. He is the new Fahad Fasil. But this one is a title announcement for a film called Dookie, but I don't think that's it. That's what it's called now. It's Corbinized. SRK's new film, Dookie. Dunkey, sorry. Don't be sorry. Dunkey. Oh, yeah. Is that what he, Dunkey? I would say, yeah, Dunkirk.  I know some of you are gonna take what I said seriously. It was not meant to be taken seriously. You don't need to apologize to anybody. Dunkey. Dunkey. But anyways, obviously it is another new film on top of Pathan, that's Pathan, right? The big epic action film. And we're gonna need to get to his action films before Pathan comes out, I feel. Do we need to do Don? The Dons and then, but then he has other action ones too, because we've not seen him in that kind of action world really? We've only kind of seen romance Shahrukh Khan or Serious. We've seen a couple of fight scenes. I think those are from Don. Yeah, I remember with the last fight scene of his was was the dawn we liked it But apparently this is a topsy-pinoo film as well.  I was thinking of the other director You you I was thinking Piku. Oh, oh, no, no, no, no my bad. I think it's PK. Yeah, is the director Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you're right. I'm absolutely wrong a whole bunch of other Famous films. Yep. And so I mean that's cool And I'm really glad We don't have to wait too long for this one because I see it it showed December 23rd Yeah, totally I Mean shower cons the one that can kind of do that though, right? Like yeah Cuz if this was a Marvel film and you don't get bigger than shower con well, unless you're like, you know KGF and RRR, but in terms of just a singular star No, if it was anybody if it's a lesser person you do this now in a couple of weeks Everybody's kind of forgotten about it and by the time you hit the summer They've completely forgotten about it, but with him because everybody talks about him all the time They'll say hey in August. Yeah, he's got it The people who are in the know the real SRK fans will be able to tell everybody else Oh, yeah, no, he really we knew about that film since April all the real show Oh, yeah, the 1.3 billion of them. Exactly. Here we go Hey Did you do it three dates as well? See Amir is P.K. Oh, of course Come on Me really we could just hang So you can skip me bus Comedy Action One of the better announcement videos because obviously you don't have like a lot of footage yet available and maybe none available. Yeah, but who knows if they even shot I don't know yet, but obviously it's to do something fun like this with a obviously a well-known director who obviously has a pretty good history because PK 38 it's are the ones we know for sure are we know of Sanju and we know the MBBS there is one of the most iconic for yeah and I'm sure there's there's plenty of you who are disappointed we didn't immediately know from the name that that's the same director those those films but we say it all the time we're stupid yeah we are so sorry about that is a lot of you but yeah I think it wouldn't surprise me if they're just starting production yeah because you want to be the ones in control of the narrative in terms of publicity and if he's filming something words gonna get out real quick yeah so I wouldn't be surprised if they're now in production yeah just starting now as this is coming out yeah and what does we don't know obviously there's obviously a play on the name with it sounding like donkey but it must also what is it does it mean something with a plane obviously because in a desert is it a play on words like plane and the plane it's good that it's an event I don't I mean I know it's SRK so obviously it's Red Chili's but this is a Red Chili's production not just Red Chili's do it using their right no VFX no that's their house that's producing it in in collaboration with his production house okay I put in donkey and it's just coming up Dunkirk on I to be just to up at your probably better do an SRK yeah and my guess it's gonna say pre-production or production I'll be shocked if it says post-production because unless it's super super high level two years is a long time CGI no it's not even there it's not even oh no this one okay yeah it's not their development unknown read that this film will highlight the rampant use of an illegal backdoor route called donkey flight by Indians to immigrate to countries like Canada and USA interesting very interesting Boman Arani oh good topsy-panoo well I mean that we only far but that's a good cast sure is so far and a great director let's see what what hits because obviously I know all those films are pretty old what has he done like recently because I know some directors fall off I'm not saying he does I guess Sanju I guess 2018 but I know that I know that one was not as well-received right others like right some people loved that film and some people we haven't seen it obviously I'm not saying anything about the film I'm just telling you what I've heard right Weser I know that one is from he did know he's some of these it always confuses me with they say grateful acknowledgement and that's one of the reasons why his name is familiar but it's not an immediate memory grab for us because the last film of his we saw was PK does he has he always just three years ago has he always done a film one film every few years it look at this sure looks like it yeah three idiots 2009 that's a special thanks especially he wrote something there they didn't direct to something 2014 so it's what five years apart right show him how he didn't direct he didn't direct it to produce and then he did Sanju in 2018 yeah so that's three films in the span of what ten years and then who also was before that the MBBS is 2006 and so three years in between those so he only does so is it because he just I mean respect obviously he doesn't want to have just project after project probably but it is easy one of those directors that I'm gonna focus on my film get this film right because it seems like the films that he does have all at least been semi-two really big hits yeah and really really good like my favorite air con film is PK and three idiots is like the first film that's the first Indian movie we saw now the first film film we saw in theaters was gully boy but the first full-length feature we watched and reviewed was three idiots yeah yeah and it's one of the things that made us realize wow Indian movies are not what we thought they were yeah it's super interesting so next it also says he's is it our his editing credits are in there as well right because he also may spend a lot of time just doing editing he looks like he's an editor he edited well he does his own editing which is pretty nice he direct edits produced in rights yeah a lot of his stuff and he made you know what I want to be right I bet that makes sense I bet he spends a lot of his time perfecting his story in a script because it takes a lot if it actually makes a long time to write a good script so if he if he's the writer takes a long time to write if he fit obviously he's the director so it's a it's probably the shortest part of his process on yeah exactly the preparation but the the actual directing but then editing is a ridiculously long process yeah and so it looks like he's involved in like he's the person for every step of the process correct and so actually that that's not actually shocking that he only if he's that involved yeah as opposed to some directors are like I'm the director and then I leave it up to my editor right just fine if you're not a good editor and still up to your person and a lot of the times even if you have a great relationship what you're gonna do is you're gonna sit next to your editor and explain what you want and they'll give you what you're asking for yeah it's super interesting I I mean we haven't seen anything but this it looks like a good comeback for SRK currently I thought we obviously haven't seen anything of it but big action film SRK that's the the special effects look top-notch in the in the little announcement kind of ad teaser they did yeah and then a film with a director that has a great track record yeah and again this was a really great announcement to have him stand there in front of the photos and romance and that voice to the romance and he's like yeah no not your signature pose I'll cut my arms off for you yeah regardless that was really good obviously anytime SRK does anything the world goes see it the world will go see it and obviously we need to see a lot more of him before we actually say that's gonna be a lot of fun I mean we're looking at because the other one we got about a year we got about yeah we've got about a year but it I'm looking forward to the first time we get to go to a movie theater to see an SRK film because we've yet to do that we get to do a lot of people I know we're gonna have a mere con but I mean hopefully that's all the people for us to have not gone to the movie theater to see their movie open yet it's yeah SRK well a lot of them we haven't actually had gone to see their new film oh yeah because they haven't had him and also the pandemic covid shut down it sure did the yeah two or three it makes sense unless you were in that first year we didn't get to see you anyways it's really cool hopefully it's gonna be good we obviously don't know anything about it but everybody attached to it so far let us know what you thought about it and any other information we need to know down and what should be our next Shahrukh Khan film I know you all have input opinions about that don't let me know well we need to see I'm gonna talk box his first yep but then yeah and also people said the second one yeah is better wasn't was on our fight scene don't do on to yeah because some people and you I'm sorry for getting off track here they said the shower cons tried to stay pretty they did some stuff different in the first one but they tried to say pretty true to the original right and they really went off on their own and just in the second original creative thing yeah remember when we were talking about what movies did you see that the first one you didn't like with the second one said that one well I have a prediction totally unrelated but it made me think of it I I predict I'm gonna like Dune 2 because I didn't like Dune but Dune 2 is common and I bet I like it yeah it's weird that you didn't like Dune no born the visual effects are extraordinary I enjoyed that I thought it was ordinary but it really it really bored anyways let us know you thought about this down below


Welcome back to sequence. I'm your host Trevor Ploof and today We're gonna try to save someone's career. Now that person we're talking about is the Kraken Gary Sanchez silver slugger two-time all-star fastest to ten homers, I think Definitely fastest AO player ever to a hundred homers. There's so much talent in this guy and After a bad 2020 season so many Yankee fans are Willing to write him off and I know let's listen. I get it There's some things he needs to work on defensively as well. I get that we're gonna be talking strictly offense here on sequence I went and looked through the numbers, you know, he comes up Comes out like gangbusters early on in his career and has really been doing it ever since 2020 has really been his first bad year where he didn't have injuries plaguing him. I think 2018 was another year We didn't have great numbers, but he injured his groin had a calf injury So you kind of got to say forget about it 2020 is when things really started to come to a head. He's striking out more than ever You know, he's having issues with the past balls again, and then eventually Yankees make the playoffs He's not catching Garrett Cole and loses playoff time playing time In the playoffs in 2020 he got eight at bats Struck out four of them only had one hit and really just didn't see the field that much So I think the Yankees are so much better with Gary in the lineup I wanted to take a look at a swing and see let's let's find some things to help Gary out and return to that silver Slugger level and as I was going through the video. I'm pretty sure I found some stuff. So I want to help him out Let's see if we Me and you the audience of sequence. 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We are it's August 30th, 2020 I don't even know how I stumbled upon this event I was just looking at his swing finding at bats finding some highlights and as I watched this You know something clicked, you know pretty easily for me as I saw kind of what he was doing I think you'll be able to see it too and then we can talk about how to fix it get this to Gary So he's on his way back to super stardom can help the Yankees try to win that elusive World Series Championship in 2021 I know you guys well Some of you guys would like that some of you guys might end up hating me after I fixed Gary here So let's get into the abat bases loaded one out.  You know, it's it's cheese, but you know what's coming you look here Which doesn't give himself any time at all. He's extremely late right there. Okay, no big deal.  That's not worry too much about it's one pitch It's another uncompetitive pitch right here Awesome awesome for Gary again To one now you can sit dead red again if he hangs you a slider You can still put the barrel on it, but you're sitting heater heater heater heater only here. Here it is again This is where I started to get concerned you can do it once coming off the bench But when you get another pitch like that, you just can't You just can't miss it. So I was like, okay, what's going on here? Let's go back. Let's go back to that pitch right Here, okay Gary's a leg lift guy. He's got a big gather kind of got a lot of moving parts to a swing But they work in unison and and I mean they work well together He develops a lot of power because he gets that big coil hands down back up getting what they call the rubber band effect Gary does that extremely well. That's where a lot of his power comes from. I'm sure he's a big big boy But mechanically he's very sound in that where he can develop power, you know doing that getting that coil getting that rubber band effect Problem with the big leg that this it's very hard to stay consistent with your timing You have to have some sort of recognition phase recognition phase is you know exactly what it sounds like when you see the ball Can you recognize where it is? What kind of pitch it is if you need to swing at it and it happens like that you have to be able to make all those decisions and You know split-second So for Gary right now. He's just not giving himself that recognition phase is not giving himself enough time So I was looking like where did you start? When did you start and and let me see let me see the top of your leg That's what I started to look at so right Right There that's the top of his leg kick. Okay, so Pictures already coming towards him. That's the top of his leg kick now. Where was he in years past? Was it the same?  So I found some from 2019 Top of his leg lift you guys ready Look at the difference in the picture look where his arm is compared to right here This guy's coming at you. This guy's still getting ready another one Still getting ready to throw not coming at you yet top of the leg lift another one Do you guys see it? I mean it's it's Apparent boom. That's the top. That's the top. That's the top And now here we are with gary in 2020 and the guy's coming at him And that's when you get blown up like that So honestly It's an easiest fix is just starting a little earlier getting to that recognition phase faster Now lucky for gary and for all you viewers. I think it's good too. This has a happy Ending right here. Gary's seen that heater twice now He doesn't really make the adjustment that I want him to make but that's okay Because you don't have to Sometimes you just got to be a ball player and make it work. And this is what gary does here on the third fastball.  Did he get to his leg lift early enough? I went back and looked and It's a little bit disappointing for me that he didn't but he's just that good of a hitter. Let's see That he didn't have to he made the adjustment on his own So there's the there's the top right there still coming at you. He's still late with it But like I said, you see the heater three times and really he's not going to miss it So he hits the homer You can watch it and watch him. We'll talk and finish this video hits the homer does it but as you guys saw I mean He's just got to get started a little bit earlier gary You see this man get the gather up a little earlier. You should be starting that When he's breaking his hands that way you have a consistent point to start for every single pitcher So when he's starting his hands, let's get the gather going and then in your video Make sure your peak of your leg lift Is getting there soon enough you don't want to have your peak of your leg lift when the guy's coming at you As we see as we saw in those videos in 2019 Everything the peak was when the pitchers arm was down and in 2020 pitchers arm was up And I know look dude, it's not that big of a time difference But in baseball and hitting that split second means everything So it could be as simple as that take that into the cage practice on a high velo machine Go standing on bullpens. Whatever you got to do But to me it's a simple fix and I think it gets you back You're not going to be striking out at some because you're going to have that recognition phase and I love watching your spin Gosh, I'm out of my peripheral here. I'm watching this and it's amazing Start a little earlier. Make sure at the peak of your leg lift Pitchers arm is still down. It's as simple as that man. Hope you take this. Hope you see this And make the adjustment man because we love when you're in the Yankees lineup doing it That's it for us today. Thanks for sticking with us. We'll be back next week with another great episode peace


Aloha, good morning, or good afternoon. Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakers, and Reformers. I'm your host, Carl Kimpanya. I'm going to do my little Trump dump segment here for a minute, and then I'm going to jump in with my guest today. I'm very happy to have my guest today, Mr. Tim Vandevere, chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. So my Trump dump is this. When is enough enough? How much do we have to see? And when will there be even? There has been outrage. But when will there be enough outrage so that the Republicans will actually do to Trump what they did to Hillary before she was president? What is the deal with all of that? Why is there such a disconnect? It's obviously political. It is obviously hypocritical. And it's a problem. And why isn't there more outrage forcing this whole situation into a greater conversation? There seems to be some movement mostly by the Democrats. There Chavitz says yes, he's now going to ask for the memo from Comey with all of this stuff that's been going on. So he fires Comey. He meets with the Russians potentially in the Oval Office without the US press there, excluded them, but got let the Russian press be there. Okay, why is that acceptable? And then he proceeded potentially, we don't know the truth, this potentially gives classified information to them or at least based on some information that he'd heard. What was that about? Why can't we learn more about it? Why is it being hushed down? And then we come back with, oh, now this memo where he asked Comey to kind of let the whole thing with sessions go or let whole thing with fling go. When is it enough? When is it enough? It needs to be enough. So okay, that's my Trump dump rant. So I'll let that go out. All right. Thank you for letting me get that. Okay, now, today, I'm very happy to have as our guest on this show, Mr. Tim Vandevere, as I mentioned, Chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. So welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me back on the show, Carl. What a difference an election makes. So I know kidding. No kidding. You know what? I have been over the years, and this is interesting, and I'm hoping it's not going to hurt me in any way. But it's interesting. Over the years, I have been more of a rational, not moderate, but rational person where I thoroughly consider things and think things through. And I don't just come out and rant and rave. I think things through. Ever since Trump got elected, my insights have just refused to not yell and scream about something. And I think that that is something that is the cause of a lot about rage and a lot of the movements that have been happening out there, the women's march, and you name it. Sure. So what I want us to talk about, and that's going to be a lot of different things that will come up here, but what I want us to talk about is, from the Democratic Party of Hawaii, we've got all of these issues going on. We have all of these races going on across the country, these special races going on with Ossoff and all of these up in Montana, and in Georgia, and in all these places. Let's start off by talking about here in Hawaii, what can the Democratic Party of Hawaii do? And what are we doing to help support other races across the country in our opposition and our sense of resistance to Trump and that what seems to be the Trump agenda? So let us know a little bit about from the party's perspective, what's being done? What can we do? Well, I appreciate the way that you frame that because as you know, our focus, my focus as the chair of the state party has to be on local politics, has to be on organizing our members, providing the infrastructure, providing a place where people can interact with the party, and working on our local and state races. But at the same time, obviously, with what's going on on the national level. And I think your reaction actually, what you mentioned in your reaction, the outrage yelling at the TV said, I think that's fairly normal. What I don't think is normal is allowing these things to sort of go unsaid, right? To actually normalize that behavior, I think is the more dangerous thing, right? So those of us who care deeply for our country, for our democracy, I think it's very important for us to have a sense of outrage and to sustain that sense of outrage. So what the local party can do, in regard to that is to be ready when it's time for us to lead, right? I've in the last few county conventions, be it on Maui or Oahu, or a couple of weeks ago on Hawaii Island. I've been reiterating this this sort of counterintuitive point, which is this is a good time to be a Democrat, right? That's a weird thing to say about the party that is in the minority nationally, the party that's in the opposition. But I do believe it's a good time to be a Democrat, because if we can take all the energy that you mentioned, Women's March, Indivisible J-20, and translate that into political power, we're going to have a real opportunity. We are going to have an opportunity, I think, like we haven't seen perhaps, since the new deal. But we have to be worthy of the title. And so in many ways, we have to reflect, I think as local Democrats, I think we have to organize as local Democrats, some of the things we have been doing, just to sort of keep people engaged and interested, and give them a sense of belonging and a sense of purpose is to allow them to come into the headquarters and make phone calls into places like the Georgia 6th Congressional District. And one of your co-hosts here, Governor Wahey, has come in to help us out, former Governor Abercrombie has come in to help us out to bring our members together and say, Hey, this is what makes us Democrats. And we're going to help those folks that are on the front lines right now, because we know we're going to be there very soon ourselves. And there has been a huge effort. There's also the guy Beto in Texas going up against Ted Cruz. Beto O'Rourke. Beto O'Rourke. So there's a lot of opportunities there. So one of the things that's been happening, and this is an interesting thing. So I'd like to get your perspective on this. One of the things that's happening is all of these resistance groups. So you mentioned several of them, there are many more people power, winward resistance, J 20 indivisible women's march, but then there are many more. And many more people who have been part of the establishment more groups that have been more considered establishment or ready to work with the establishment are starting to take a step back and say, You know what, enough enough with the ethics issues, enough with the lack of transparency, enough with the no accountability, where what what can we do? So I think that's that's that energy. And yes, I like to talk about that energy as well. This is the time we have the opportunity right now to capture that energy and do something positive with it. And hopefully we are. So what, how can we how can so okay, the phone banking that we're doing and helping other areas. And one of the things that's happening is all of these resistance groups, individuals are donating are helping directly to the candidates. And some people are saying I'm skipping the party, I'm going right to the candidate. Sure. Sure. And I can kind of see the point there, you know what, I don't want to give the money to the party because how do I know all of it's going to go to the candidate I want? And how do we know what's going to be used effectively? So I don't know, would you have a comment with regards to that? Well, I can understand it to some degree.  And obviously, on a national level, our party is undergoing a transition. We saw during the primaries a very heated discussion about the future of our party. I still believe that we're a big tent party some say a too big tent party, but I do believe that we're a big tent party. But what I would say is that we have seen in our big tent different ideologies sort of rise to meet the challenges of our times. And there are many that are very frustrated with the way that we have responded to privatization and corporatization of our democracy in the last 20 or 30 years. Yes, absolutely. And some of that began with Bill Clinton. Yes, and in that bringing in the corporate side to the Democratic Party. Yes. So okay, so maybe that's something that could be historically, but yeah, very quickly. So I mean, there's an argument to be made that, you know, that that was what was necessary to sort of meet the challenges of those times, right, arguing under this Reaganomics framework. Perhaps that was the only way a Democrat could have been elected president after eight years of Ronald Reagan, four years of George H. W. Bush. But what I would say, and what I think many in our party are saying have been frustrated with this center left approach is that we need to go back to the New Deal. We need to go back to bold action, a strong social safety net, responding to the privatization and corporatization with organization and mobilization, getting people out. So I understand that some extent sort of circumventing the party, but at some point we do need to come together if we're really going to address the problems. And that frankly has been one of the conversations. I feel fortunate that I've been able to be involved in a number of different conversations from some of these groups. And they all say, yes, we marched. Yes, we are standing in opposition and resisting. But you know what? We needed to be more. Yeah. And they're now trying to see in what ways they can come together. A lot of them talk about, yeah, I really should be more engaged with the party. I really should. But how do we make that happen with some of the dissatisfaction that some people have? Sure. So I think that's one of the challenges that here locally we have as a party is how we get the local people engaged in a Democrat dominated state. We still don't have all the people who consider themselves Democrats engaged in the party. They're engaged in other ways, but not as the party. So I think that's we need more conversations and we need to bring more people together. There's efforts for that. But how do we create a message that says we're with you, not against you? It starts with authenticity. It starts with making our party more accountable to the grassroots and more responsive to the grassroots. But that also means raising money from the grassroots. Exactly. So how do we do that though? How do we make ourselves more accountable to the grassroots? How do we make ourselves more accountable so that people will say, yes, the party is standing for something and I can get behind it. How do we do that? By improving communication first and foremost, communicating with our members. Here are our values. This is what we're trying to do. These are the things that we would like to see enacted into law. And it's going to be frustrating as we've seen in this last session. The other thing is by providing training and building capacity in our members. And we've started to do that. The DNC, by the way, is getting the message. I believe the DNC is getting the message. There are always a little sort of behind the curve, and they're slow. But I believe that through this transition period, we have seen the DNC take an approach going back to the 50 state strategy, going back to the grassroots. We were disappointed in Atlanta that a resolution to go back to the corporate and soft money prohibition, that resolution did not succeed, right? But we will introduce it again. We will continue to try to prohibit soft and packed money from coming into our party to go back to the grassroots. So the DNC is getting the message. The state party, however, can provide training. This past January, we embarked on what I'm calling the 51 district strategy, right? So 50 state strategy, it's really 57 with states, territories, et cetera, et cetera. Here locally, 51 house districts, we need to be in every single one to make sure our district chairs have the resources they need to make sure that our precincts are staffed and viable, that we've got members that are engaged at a whole new events that are people who are number one in the positions and number two, willing to do the work as a volunteer from those positions. Because I was region three chair a couple of years ago, and for a few years I was region three chair, and I would try to get all of the districts and all the precincts to get together and do stuff. I would get five people from the entire region, which consisted of four and a half or five house districts, five people. So getting them engaged, getting them to say, yes, I will show up, because that's one of the other complaints that we hear is, okay, where's the party when it comes to showing up? And I think that it gets mirrored or gets, I guess it gets blocked sometimes, or at least the vision of that gets blocked sometimes, because the union members, and there are a lot of different unions, and as we've talked about with a lot of different opinions and perspectives, they're the ones who show up for all of our electives, for all of these races, for the sign waving, for phone banking, but they're also Democrats. So I think that being able to see that and recognize that, yes, the Democratic Party shows up, they show up through the union, in various unions, not the union, but through the various unions to support the candidates and the issues that they want, and they're also Democrats. So I think that's the thing that needs to be a little bit better understood, but then, but then we have, and we have to take a break in a minute here, but, you know, then we have situations like, how do we consider working with, and I'm putting this in a very specific way, how do we consider working with our elected officials in a way that is consistent with what the perceived, based on our bylaws and based on our platform, the perceived values and principles of the party are here in Hawaii, how do we work with them more in those directions, because it doesn't, from this last session, it doesn't appear at all to be like they're interested in it. And I don't know, I don't believe that's true, and it certainly isn't true for all of them, but how do we better understand it, how do we better engage that? I don't know that you have an answer for that, but it was a lot packed into that question. And I'm very sorry, I went on and on and on, because there's so much that just needs to be discussed. So the, so training and reaching out to people getting more people engaged, that training piece was never there, and it's been talked about forever, and bits and pieces of training, but still getting the people to show up. Okay, so how do we get them to show up more? One question. I'd like to unpack that question just a little bit. So starting with our unions, and this is, this is I think applicable to the approach we're taking in the state, but also nationally as the Democratic Party, and that is talking to and working for working people, right? Yes. This party, the Democratic Party of Hawaii would not exist if not for organized labor. So we have to be willing to work with our union brothers and sisters, we have to be willing to talk about the issues that are affecting them, and we have to be willing to go back to the organizing model that made our party viable, right, that made it a force to be reckoned with. Yes. I mean there are some unions that are very aggressive in organizing and even organizing outside their self-interest, and there's some that are not, it's not a better or worse scenario, but it is. It's what each of their groups decides exactly what we want to do. Exactly right. It's a quick break and then we'll come back. So thank you for joining us again. This is Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakers, and Reformers. I'm your host, Carl Campania. Thank you again to Mr. Tim Vandevere, chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, for this lively discussion. So see you in a minute. Hi, I'm Carol Cox. I'm the new host of Eyes on Hawaii. Make sure you stay in the know on Hawaii. Join us on Tuesdays at 12 noon. We will see you then. Aloha. You're watching Think Tech on ThinkTechHawaii.com, which broadcasts five live talk shows from noon to 5 p.m. every weekday and then streams our earlier shows all night long. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. Welcome back to Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakers, and Reformers. I'm your host, Carl Campania. Once again, many thanks to my guest, Mr. Tim Vandevere. Thank you, Carl. Chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. Now you've got one more year left, right? I do. And you've got some stuff planned for the rest of this year, this next year. We've got a lot of plans. Tell us about some of the things. So currently we are hosting what's called T3 training. This is made possible through the Association of State Democratic Chairs, of which I am a member. This is T3, stands for train the trainer. So for the first time, I believe in the history of this training and perhaps in the history of the party, every single district either has a district chair who is enrolled in this training program or a representative from the district that is enrolled in this training program. It's a six-week training program which is broken into web modules, webcast modules twice a week. At the end of the training, they get certified. It's everything from the Democratic Party 101 to opposition research, to organizing models, to collaborate with some of the resistance groups, to technology, to the voter action network, etc, etc. So we've got a good response from the members. I've been taking them alongside. We've been hosting them at our headquarters. Others have done it via web around the state. But it's been a great, I think, sort of intro training module. Now what we'll be doing from the state side, in the middle of the summer, is actually offering our own module, our own training program that is. It'll be more abbreviated, but comparable, I think, to what they're offering on the national level for our districts and precincts. We're rewriting, updating our precinct tanbook. This is sort of what you had mentioned in your last question. Sort of how do we get people engaged? How do we inspire them to step up within the confines of the party? Not just, you know, when it comes to marching or sending emails, but actually doing something tangible for the party. And I think the first thing we've got to do is make it more accessible. Make it more accessible. Because that is one of the key things. People want to be engaged. They want to be involved. But they don't know how. And even people who are registered members of the Democratic Party, they don't necessarily know how to be engaged. Or people are afraid to start talking because of what their neighbors might think or because they don't know how, they feel they don't know how to speak. A number of these demonstrations and marches, people show up like, I don't know what to write on my sign. Well, a lot of times it's just, what do you feel? What do you think? I've seen some good ones, too. But there's some amazing ones, right? So it's getting into that and recognizing like, okay, if you want to march, this is how you do it. If you want to engage in the conversation, this is how you do it. You can't be afraid, right? So our training module or our training program will be broken into, I think, five different pieces. And one of those will be civics, basic civics education. Not just civics as it pertains to our legislature or to the city council or county councils, but also the party. How does the party work? So I'm a district secretary. What do I do? Yeah, I'm a district treasurer. What do I do? I'm a precinct captain, you know, etc. What can I do? Exactly. What resources are available to me? Another will be preparing them for get-out-the-vote in the coming year. So we know 2018, we have to increase the numbers of folks that are going to the polls. We have abysmal numbers. I believe we ranked dead last now and voter turnout, and that is unacceptable. Is there any research being done to figure out why? We have such low numbers. We have not put any kind of polls in the field. I have seen research that emanates from the mainland. I haven't seen any in Hawaii, for Hawaii in particular. What I do know though, and this is from years of union organizing myself, is that a lot of times people aren't going to come out unless you actually engage them. And there's no more effective tool, I believe, than actually standing on a doorstep and having a conversation. I know that you're a firm believer in this as well, but that means we're going to have to put some boots on the ground. And so this training will help prepare people to do that and build some capacity. The last thing I'll say is that we also have been offered to participate in a grant program through the DNC, this resistance summer that Deputy Chair Keith Ellison is heading up, which will go throughout the summer. We'll hopefully enable us to hire some field organizers to go out and actually contact, touch the folks in the precincts in the districts and teach them more and teach them how to bring them with them. Exactly right. That's a skill. That's a skill that going out and knocking on somebody's door and saying hi, asking them about anything, even if it's someone you know, it's a little disconcerting and it's awkward. And it takes time to figure out how to do that, how you engage them in a question, how you engage them in a positive way for an issue, issue about the community, issue about the neighborhood, issue about the district and the state, how you get them engaged and then asking them to sign a petition and do they understand it. So there's a unique approach here, right, not only historically from our proud labor history and how that organizing helped overthrow an oligarchy and completely transform the nature of power in our state, but there's also a very interesting and unique approach from Hawaii in particular. Aijin Pu, the organizer, the phenomenal community organizer and member of the DNC transition team, entitled one of her lectures, Organizing with Aloha. I spoke with a long time, stalwart member of our party, Jimmy Toyama, I hope you don't mind me mentioning your name, Jimmy, but he talks about approaching this from the fundamental, you know, this fundamental part of the conversation, right, we're boiling this down to what are our values and having conversations, why are you a Democrat? Why do you believe that collectively we can solve these problems? Why do you feel that government can actually help people, right, is it based on your family experience, is it based on your differences? It is, but I think that's, we really have to be having those conversations, right, what do we care about as individuals and I think we can share that with the rest of the mainland and the rest of the world. I think, I agree with that. I agree with that completely. What I would like to see is a series of town halls, types things, series of forums from district to district and precinct to precinct, engaging and inviting people, so ahead of time send out the precinct reps and send out the district reps to engage the people, invite them with handouts, knock on their doors, invite them to this event that we're doing in your community to talk about these things. Yeah. That, maybe some people will show up and some people will show up. I think another way is accessing the neighborhood boards and showing up the neighborhood boards and sometimes I'm on the neighborhood board, sometimes three people from the neighborhood show up, but what's more to that is it's not about the people who show up sometimes and this is one of the things that I realized. It's not about the people who show up at the neighborhood board, it's about the fact that that the minutes from those meetings get mailed out to the entire district, to the entire neighborhood and the people read it and the reason we know, the reason I know that the people read that is we put one month, we put earlier, we're going to have a conversation about this controversial issue, you know, but you know if anybody shows up that'd be great, but we're going to talk about this thing so we hope people show up. Forty people showed up because that issue was so, it touched so many people's lives and was such an important issue this has to do with a facility in my neighborhood actually that has been abandoned and is a potential danger and what people want to return to versus what other people are trying to turn it into. So all of a sudden, just because we put it in the minutes, 40 people showed up saying no no no no we want it to be this, we don't want it to be that. So people do read it, so the value so again, going to the neighborhood boards and making sure that there is a presence and a conversation and invitations to other forums to discuss these issues. That's I'm just offering that as a thought. I think that's a tremendous idea and I also like this notion of hosting town halls that don't really have an agenda, right? We've held a series of informational forums, this is also something that goes back to engaging the members of our party and sort of tapping into this this resistance, this energy, this this frustration, passion, what have you, but it's typically been on specific issues. Healthcare, we had a movie night, our women's caucus talked about the ERA and being the first state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Most recently, back in April 420, it's kind of cute, but great discussion, very serious discussion about cannabis, the future of cannabis in our state. What we've seen in those conversations, even though they are very specific, is people wanting to talk about our values, wanting to talk about our legislative session, issues that are that pertain to their lives, in some cases very specifically, but not necessarily on topic. So I got a couple, couple approaches to that. I think those are both great ideas. I would like to see something like that, perhaps even culminating this resistance summer, having something where we actually are driving toward a destination, it's a series of these discussions throughout the state. We do know that on the mainland, the DNC plans to have these big rallies and discussions to sort of cap, bookend the summer. Yeah, yeah. And that's a great idea. I think for our state, now you mentioned earlier before our break, how can we engage our legislators? And these informational forums are ways to do that. Well, we saw... We'll invite them to it. Invite them to it? They show up? They do show up? Yeah, they do. And something that has come to my attention that House leadership specifically mentioned is educating the members, giving them an opportunity to connect with our members, with our membership, but also helping to educate our legislators. These are our priorities. Here are some of the experts to talk about how this might be reflected into policy or law. Which also goes back to how we engage them with that policy and in the legislative sessions and so forth, and teaching that.  You need to start right now. You need to have your ideas there now. And then by November, you need to have whatever resolutions and legislation you want put in front of them so they can begin going through that and getting it prepared for the session. Not a lot of people understand that. And then once it's been introduced, what do you do and how do you proceed to continue each step in each phase of that? So those conversations are important to have so people know, oh, that's how you do that. So it's that easy. Well, yeah, I know. So anyway, unfortunately, the show's already over. Really? So it was not an hour. It was not an hour. It used to be 45 minutes. It's now I have 20, 28 and a half minutes now. So thank you for joining us. This is so many more conversations and so much more that can be done. And as always, let me know how I can help and in what ways. I'm just a member at the moment. I'm a basic member. And I can say I need more communication coming my way. I thank you for being available to me. Not everybody is. So that's something I think to work on. Any time, Carl. Thank you for everything you're doing. Yes, thank you. Appreciate it. And thank you for joining us. This is Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakers and Reformers. I'm your host, Carl Campania. Thank you again, Mr. Tim Vannevere, chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. There's a lot of work to be done and a lot of resistance to capture. So remember, your voice is our purpose and your action is our strength. See you next time.