Hey everybody, it's Brett and this 2022 Ram 1500 Crew Cab 5'7'' Short Box Bighorn Level B Night Edition is stock number 22T64. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used Ram and Light Duty Truck Headquarters. This 2022 Ram 1500 has the 3.6L V6 Pentastar engine with the e-torque assist, puts out 305 horsepower, it's going to get you 24 miles per gallon on the highway, 21 average and 19 city. We're going to go all the way around on this vehicle, take a look inside, take a look under the hood, check out all the options on it, get you a really good idea of the overall, I don't know, looks and styling of the vehicle. This one does have the night edition, like I said, you can see all the gloss black and blacked out head damp bezels. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel, click the subscribe button on the lower right hand part of the screen. We do videos like this each and every day of our new and used inventory. You also get the 20 inch painted black alloy rims with the night edition and it comes with Bridgestone Duler tires. These are, I want to say 275, 255R20s and they have an all terrain tread pattern to them. You get the blacked out 1500 logo with the e-torque and the blacked out Ram logo on the doors there. Actually take a look at the original window sticker here, feel free to pause this at any point. You can see it is a 2022 Ram 1500 big horn, 3.6 liter eight speed automatic transmission. Everything on the left there is your standard equipment. The optional equipment starts with the billet silver metallic clear coat, which is 200 bucks.  Big horn level B group gives you as a $2,705 option and it gives you the black premium power mirrors, the two way power lumbar adjustable driver seat, second row in floor storage bins, the receiver hitch, the 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot, 115 volt auxiliary power outlet and rear power outlet, 8.4 inch touchscreen, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, heated seats, heated steering wheel, and that's the big one with the level B is you get the heated seats and steering wheel, park sense, front and rear parking assist, eight way power driver seat, power adjustable pedals, power slide and rear window, remote start and Ram Connect with connected services. The all weather floor mats are $135, rear wheelhouse liners are $195 and the UConnect 5 system with nav, 8.4 inch touchscreen display is $795, you get connected travel and traffic services and Sirius XM360L with a six month subscription. Trailer brake controller is $295 and the total MSRP is $55,475 on this vehicle if you want to get your summit price in the upper right hand part of the screen there's a link to our website with all the rebates and incentives on this particular truck, three year 36,000 bumper to bumper and five year 60 powertrain. There is your miles per gallon, 24 highway 19 city for an average of 21 and then you get your five star crash test ratings, five and four stars up and down the board very very safe truck to haul your family around in. Gold silver, good looking color, you do get four wheel disc brakes on the rams, you also get the rear coil spring suspension which you can see those coils right there. The rear wheelhouse liners, you get the painted bumpers as well with the night edition and their parking sensors are actually kind of conveniently hidden in the black plastic there. Full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin in seven pin wearing note that you get the blacked out big horn ram and four by four logo on the back has the shock down assist so the tailgate is never going to slam down on you. It would be nice if all those beds could stay brand new like that but you know trucks get used and they get scratched up, this one has the capitalist fuel fill which is a really nice feature. And down the rest is side of the truck you also get the heated mirrors built in directional signals blind spot mirrors on there inside that big horn level B group gives you the power driver seat with the lumbar, the black and dark charcoal cloth interior, it's got a good design on it, these seats are heated of course, all weather floor mats auto headlamps power pedals and tilt telescopic steering wheel power windows power locks power mirrors you get the nice cloth bolster on the door as well as the wood grain trim on there hop inside check out the options inside you get the seven inch LCD display digital speedometer compass display, battery voltage oil temp and you can change those corners to read whatever you want. It's all configurable so it's pretty cool, you can configure it with these buttons right there, Bluetooth controls on the left as well nice leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, gear selector on the right, the eight speed automatic transmission with the push button four wheel drive and then your start stop feature is right there. Here's the Uconnect 5 8.4 inch touchscreen display, you can see it does have the factory navigation system on it you can change these screens so you can make this like the main screen right there the nice part about the Uconnect 5 radio is that it's supposedly five times faster than the old Uconnect 4C radio so that's a nice feature to have you can go back to your home screen you can change your home screen you can do your climate controls on here as well if we turn the ignition on then you can actually adjust the climate controls you have your heated seats heated steering wheel of all your different apps in here you can go to you can make favorites, recents, categories, Android Auto, Bluetooth and with the Uconnect 5 you can actually do Android Auto and Apple CarPlay wirelessly which is really cool then you have your HD backup camera which you can see is very crystal clear I like that they made them HD now and of course you can do all your settings in here and everything you could we could talk about this radio for an hour and a half but anyways this is more about this particular truck here so dual climate controls heated seats heated steering wheel buttons if you like the more tactile climate controls the volume and tune controls as well factory brake controller stability control tow haul front and rear parking sensors two USBs two USB C's and an aux jack you get keyless entry with remote start on here then you do get 115 volt 400 watt plug-in you get the dual glove boxes and the passenger side seat is trimmed out just like the front seat you get map lights up here assist and SOS buttons and a power sliding rear window button this one has the auto dimming mirror and home link buttons for your garage doors security systems and lighting systems we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll do a final walk around here on the truck lot of room in the back of these rams a lot of leg room a lot of space especially you can put these seats up and then you have a nice flat floor back here which is nice if you have pets or if you just got a haul a bunch of stuff and don't want to wreck your seats now you get the wood grain trim back here as well two more USBs and USB C's and then another 115 volt 400 watt plug-in back here you get the latch child safety system and in the crew cabs you get three spots to put those latch child seats power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost these headrests do fold down for better visibility when nobody's riding back here which is nice and the back doors are trimmed out just like the front doors and you get the child safety locks back here we'll do one more final walk around here on the truck note that you do get the LED license plate lights normal halogen tail lamps just a really good looking truck I wanted to get a video on this for a couple days now it's just been really busy so anyways glad we got it done and hope you enjoyed the video I personally like thank you for checking out the video and hopefully from this video you will have gotten a really good idea of the overall options looks and styling of this truck and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SCVs minivans Wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons you name what we got to go to that website right there summit auto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there click the bell notifications you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at summit automotive in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel in the upper left a link to more ram 1500 truck videos like this one the upper right link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right click those check us out and we are super excited to be offering the 2022 ram 1500 crew cab short box big horn level b night edition in billet silver thanks again for checking out the video and remember to like subscribe and share on the YouTube channel


In this learning dialogue, we are discussing the house of instructional design which is a systematic process that guides us in the design of e-learning focusing on the learner and learning goals. While there are many instructional design models that guides us in this process, we will go through an overview at a very high level of what is called the ADDI model. ADDI stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implement, Evaluate. So ADDI is really more of a process that helps us in designing effective e-learning. If you look at the ADDI process diagram, you will see that it is cyclical, it is iterative and while there seems to be a guiding sequence, it is possible and in fact it is recommended to go back and forth occasionally between the various phases and there is one phase which is sitting in the center of the entire diagram, this is the evaluate phase. So when we go through each of the phases of the ADDI process now, we will discuss the key questions that each of us has to keep in mind as we design learner centric e-content. In the analyze phase, we have to do a number of different types of analysis. So we begin with what is called the needs analysis where we ask, why do we need to teach this content or in our case, why do we need to design e-learning on this topic? So here we have to actually think of addressing some particular need that comes from the, from our learners or from the situation. Maybe it is if you are a teacher for example, you may want to create some e-learning animations to supplement your face to face class, so that is one need. On the other hand, if you are working with an organization that is trying to teach computer literacy in a rural area, it is a different need. So that is what we mean by needs. The next type of analysis that we need to consider is what is called learner analysis and there the focus is on the who. For whom are we designing this e-learning? For whom are we designing the content? Let us pause at a reflection spot briefly. Having thought of the needs analysis, now we shift our attention to the learner. So as a designer of e-learning, what aspects of the learner or your audience would you want to keep in mind when you design your e-learning materials? As usual pause this learning dialogue, think of a few characteristics or aspects of the learner that you really have to keep in mind and when you are done, please resume. The focus of learner analysis is the question, who is the learner of are e-learning? Perhaps you have considered characteristics such as age, gender, location, maybe their background and profession, maybe their educational background. All of these are part of learner analysis. What is important in learner analysis is to identify learners prior educational level and their educational background. So if you are, so for some of you, you may have the same answer for all of your learners. For example, if you are a teacher trying to create e-learning for seventh grade students, you know that all your learners have finished sixth grade and come. On the other hand, if you are a trainer in the L and D division in some e-learning in some industry, then your learners may come with varying educational levels. You have to consider questions like what is the prior knowledge, which may or may not be the same thing as the educational level. What is the motivation to learn? And this is something we have discussed when we talked about the need for a learner centric approach. Why are your learners enrolled for your online course or why is some learner going through the e-learning materials that you developed? What is their motivation? We need to also consider learners interest and attitude towards the topic and towards e-learning. These are slightly separate things and these do affect the final outcomes as well as the learning experience. For example, some topics are notorious for, it is a perception that some topics are difficult. Unfortunately, topics like mathematics gets this wrap in our educational system. It may be some other subtopic in your main subject or you may have some learners who come with the attitude that nothing can be learnt well unless there is a face to face teacher or e-learning is at best a second rate substitute. So if you have learners of that kind or if you have learners who have never experienced e-learning, they may be daunted or they may be unfamiliar with the medium. So knowing this is important before we go ahead and design because the strategies and the supplementary materials and the format everything will depend on who are learners. Going back to the analyze process, we have a couple of more types of analysis that we need to do. One of them is called content analysis. What to teach if it is a large topic? How do we break it up into subtopic? How do we chunk it? How do we sequence it and so on and we have to do this over and over again and the context analysis, what are the other existing conditions? Is it a one to one model where every learner has a device? Are they working on laptops or are they working in tablets or is it the teacher who is showing this in a classroom? What is the kind of internet bandwidth that learners might have access to and so on. So in the analyze phase, we have to ask all these questions then related to the needs analysis, learner analysis, content and context analysis and we have to define the needs and constraints and we have to check, see there is the evaluate box going back and forth that have the learning needs and the learners and conditions been accurately analyzed. The next phase of ADD is the design phase where we actually dive into designing the materials and this is what most of the rest of the course is going to be about. So here we ask questions like what are the learning objectives? We will talk a little bit about that in the next learning dialogue. What pedagogical strategies will we use? What resources will we use? There is a lot of focus on this question in this course. We ask questions like how will you structure the content? How will you assess learners understanding assessment also needs to be thought of right from this point. So we will ask these questions and then what we do is specify the learning objectives, specify the activities and the assessment. So we have to start thinking of all three and we also have to start aligning all three and then we have to choose methods, instructional strategies, media, all this happens in the design phase and between the design and evaluate arrows, we ask questions like what are the learning objectives appropriate with the needs that we analyzed in the previous phase? Are the learning objectives being met by the chosen activities? So there is a lot of alignment that we have to check at this stage. In the developed phase of ADD we actually begin production of the materials, the storyboards, the coding, we prepare and collect all the text, we have decided the multimedia, the media and then we start collecting the materials. For example, if you want to insert images, you have to start collecting the images at this point. There is a lot of documentation involved and you ask questions like are the materials addressing the learning objectives? Is the subject content accurate? And again we do a formative evaluation. So this course we would not focus too much on the develop phase maybe a little bit and almost not at all on the implement and evaluate, actually a little bit on the evaluate but not so much on the implement but we just for completion sake of completeness we will go through these phases. In the implement phase of ADD we will train the instructors or the users of these materials. We may even create short videos and insert it into the e-learning on how to use the materials. We will make sure learners have access to the materials, equip infrastructures and so on. Now we come back to the evaluate phase of ADD. So we go in and out of evaluate phase after each of the previous phases but after the entire outer circle is over we come back to the central evaluate phase and here what we do what is called summative evaluation where we actually plan how to figure out whether our e-learning is effective. So if you want to collect data this is where you want to plan think about how to do it you want to start thinking about writing reports of the summative and formative phase and so on. Not each one of you may be focusing equal amount of effort in each of these phases but as designers of e-learning focused on a learner centric approach we need to know and we need to be very familiar with what is required in each of these phases because the decisions made in each of these phase ultimately will affect whether our approach was indeed learner centric and whether to take it further learners indeed benefited from it. To summarize instructional design is a systematic framework that guides us in the whole process of designing e-learning where the focus is on the learner and learning goals as well as a thought on the outcomes. So if we follow an ID process systematically it will actually help us measure whether what we desire to achieve through our course has indeed happened or not. ID is as we saw is iterative and it has a lot of research based strategies. So if you want to know more details about instructional design itself please go through the learning extension trajectories the LXTs on this topic. From now on in the rest of this course we will look at learner centric strategies that will help address various learning needs. So we will focus somewhat on the analysed process of ADE, a lot on the design and maybe a little on the develop. Thank you.


Think Tech Hawaii, civil engagement lives here. Hello Han, welcome to Out and About on Think Tech Live streaming network series, broadcast from our downtown studio at Pioneer Plaza, the core downtown Honolulu from Winston-Welt and delighted you're joining us today. Where every other week we explore a variety of topics, organizations, events and the people who fuel them in our city, state, country and world. As a disclaimer, any views or opinions expressed by me are strictly my own and not connected with any organization. That said, joining me in the studio today, I am so delighted to have Liz Makara, director of emergency operations and community wellness at Waikiki Health. And Liz now oversees the agency's entire emergency operation plan, annual testings and training on a community based level. Additionally, she's managing the friendly neighbors program, which is a free in-home assistance to seniors in Waikiki, along with managing the smoking sensation program. So today we're gonna continue our discussion about how Waikiki Health has been of service over 50 years to the community with a lot of vital services and programs that it offers in medical care, preventative care and social services. So with that introduction, I would like to welcome you to the show today, Liz. Oh, thanks so much for having me. It's great to be here, representing Waikiki Health Winston. Well, thank you so much. And you know, we are continuing this conversation from before when we had Phyllis Dendall here, who is a chair, I'm sorry, she's a board of directors member. Yeah, I believe chair of marketing. She's chair of marketing. And what a terrific lady she was. And just like you, a real passionate, dedicated, lovely human being who really wants to give back to the community in just who she is. And you're very lucky in this regard that you are able to do that in your work. So tell me about how did you get involved with Waikiki Health and why did you get involved with Waikiki Health? Well, Winston, I've been with Waikiki Health actually next week. Actually, this week, it's been five years. Oh, happy anniversary. Yeah, thank you. So I actually was working in a completely different field and I was volunteering on a board with the Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii. And I really enjoyed the contribution I could make there and felt a real sense of fulfillment that I started asking myself, maybe I could move into nonprofit full-time. So I started reaching out to some CEOs and some EDs that I knew in the community and asked if they'd give me some informational interviews. And I ended up connecting with the chief of marketing and development at the time back in 2013 of Waikiki Health. And we had just connected and six months later she reached out to me with a position that was available in marketing and development. And so I made the leap in 2013 and it's just been an extraordinary experience to work for this agency. Oh, I bet it has. And I know you've got quite a visionary leader there and other staff members that you work with. So your position has grown and expanded over the years as well or additional responsibilities coming in. Yeah, absolutely. Sheila Beckham, our CEO, she is a visionary and so innovative and such a strong leader. And she, I feel, offers all of us at the organization many opportunities for professional development. So I was with the marketing and development department for four years and that was overseen by Mary Beth Lowman and had a wonderful time growing through that department. Waikiki Health actually offered a program that was funded through the Hawaii Community Foundation a couple of years ago called Growing Leaders and it was a six month program for up and coming leadership. And so it's just evolved from there and now I'm doing emergency operations and community wellness. So you've shifted out of the marketing and development part into this newer position? Yep. Okay, and was this a position created for you or is it a new position? It is a new position. Yes, it is. The programs that I'm working with are not new programs. Friendly Neighbors has been around since 89. Tobacco cessation, we've been doing that for many years as well. Emergency preparedness and emergency operations as a position that has really evolved and it is a growing needed field in our country and definitely our state, specifically in healthcare. So there were new mandates to comply with as of last year for healthcare facilities and emergency preparedness. So that garnered the new role. And that's because you're a federally qualified healthcare facility or is that exactly the right nomenclature? Yeah, yeah, FQHC, so federally qualified health center. And yes, that's one of the reasons why we have to comply with these new rules for emergency preparedness. It's actually all healthcare facilities in the nation that offer CMS, so that's Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services. So Medicare and Medicaid has mandated that we comply with new emergency preparedness rules. Which is almost every hospital or clinic in the nation. That's right, yeah. I mean, except a few, I can't think of, I mean, maybe plastic surgery clinics or something, don't do that, but either way, some private ones. So actually, tell us about that. What kind of emergency preparedness which are we talking about, like tsunamis or? Well, yeah, of course in our state, tsunamis, hurricanes, ballistic missile. Yes, it's unfortunate, yes. Low risk, high vulnerability. But essentially for the emergency preparedness, there's four core areas, and that is risk assessment, having policies and procedures in place, having communications plans in place and having annuals, trainings and testings. So all healthcare facilities are required to do an annual risk assessment for its top risks. So it varies from location from state to state, but for here in Hawaii, absolutely, tsunamis, hurricanes. Earthquakes. Earthquakes, absolutely. So it would be, how does the ages? Supply shortages. Power shortages. Supply shortages. Supply shortages, right. So it might be something that there's an earthquake. How able is our healthcare center to respond or what would we do in that circumstance or both of those? Both of those things, yeah. So for each of our risks, we have policies and procedures that we train our staff on. So how we would actually respond in the moment. So for example, there's an earthquake, the protocol is to drop, cover, hold on.  And so we prepare our staff to be able to respond to protect our own safety and then we have extended policies so we can respond to the community to help out. Well, I'm really glad that the federal government is mandating this and probably some states have stricter trainings. I imagine like California is probably, or maybe California set the standard, I don't know. Right, right. Well, nationwide we're definitely seeing this year more than ever with the wildfires in California, the hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico. We're seeing the need for this standard.  Yeah, prepared and ready to respond. And so you can work with other agencies or other hospitals as well on this? Absolutely, we have many community partners. We work with an organization called the HHEMC, that's the Hawaii Health Care Emergency Management Coalition. So we're a coalition member. Most healthcare facilities and hospital in the state we're all members, so we meet monthly and we do all sorts of trainings and testings together. And like I mentioned, we're community partners. So we have a real tight network coalition to work together. Interesting, did you imagine that you'd be doing this when you were in college? No. What did you major in? Communication. Communication, but you know what? That is so critical, that is exactly what it is. It's like having the plan of being able to write. So I always say, liberal arts majors, if I tell people get a liberal arts degree, learn how to communicate, learn how to write succinctly, learn how to speak, learn how to be sympathetic and learn other ways of communication, non-verbal and other languages and all kinds of things. So your background maybe has prepared you for this in some way, but you can never imagine this, like people telling us you'd be doing this, that or the other and you think no way. But anyway, that sounds like really a fun and challenging work every day that you get to go to. It really is, it really is. I feel super grateful that I have a job that I absolutely love and I work with incredible people as well. And there are new fun challenges every day that keep me motivated and stimulated and challenged and always learning and growing. And are you down at the Waikiki facility? Well, our main clinic is on Ohua Avenue, right in Waikiki. I actually work in our administration offices and that is at the corner of Makali and King, Mo'ili'ili. Oh, okay, so, well, if it's okay with you, I'd like to go over just an overview of everything that Waikiki help does because I don't think people realize how comprehensive your services are and then if we could touch on some specific programs that you're specifically managing with tobacco cessation and the friendly neighbors and we won't have time to get through everything. So just a spoiler alert.  These wonderful slides that we have up. So with that, let's just go over the, some of our slides that we've got. So Waikiki Health, really great graphics here, medical and dental preventative care and social services. So you are a federally qualified health center that provides access for medical and social services for everyone regardless of ability to pay. Yes. So is that part of the federally qualified health center designation? Yes, absolutely. We are, we're the folks that offer the folks without healthcare or insurance, the medical care and the social services that they need. And so if I don't have insurance, can I just come to your clinic? Absolutely. Yeah, and we actually have navigators to help you find the type of insurance that would be the right fit for you. And also if need be to be on a sliding scale of any kind as well. So if I don't have insurance or maybe I don't even know if I qualify or whatever, I can just say, look, I've been out of work for three months and I need my tooth pulled or my eyes been bugging me or whatever. And I can't go to, I can't afford to go to the doctor. I can come to you all. Yeah, and we have, like I said, a specialist, her name's Cheryl and she's wonderful and she'll sit down with you and help you find all the resources you need. So you will get the care that you need. So that's really nice to hear. You have a guide to help you navigate the system. Which can be so, so hard to navigate the system. I think even with people that have every resource available to them of time and brains and patients to navigate a insurance and everything. Absolutely, it can be very daunting. You know, we have one of the most comprehensive HIV programs in the state and Cheryl is just an amazing resource for these folks to get the services and the medications and the insurance that they need. So people might just show up at the Ahua clinic and say, can you help me? Yep. And that's it. And we're here to help, yep. Okay, so I see you've got some, what we offer here, you've got clinics in Waikiki, Makoli, Ili Ili and the Diamond Head Clinic. What's the Diamond Head Clinic? Oh, no, Diamond Head neighborhoods. Okay, that's probably the Salvation Army. Yeah, you're probably thinking of the PATH clinic, which is the perinatal addiction treatment home of Hawaii located in Kaimuki right close to Diamond Head. Okay, so some of the other things that you do offer there of what we offer is the primary preventative care. So basic care, integrated behavioral health. So this is mental health care. Absolutely, yep. Okay, and we've got dental care, which is amazing. Yep. Ease, eyes and teeth and drugs, right? You've got the pharmacy and it's a full service pharmacy? Two pharmacies actually. In our Moe Ili Ili clinic, the Makihiki Medical and Dental Clinic, which opened in 2014. We have a full pharmacy there and at our Ahua clinic. And can anybody go to this pharmacy and say I got a prescription from my doctor and fill it there? I believe so. Basically, yeah, I think anyone could come into our pharmacies. They're right in our clinics, so. It's designed for the people that are right in the clinic. Yeah, yeah, but I mean, you can pop in there and get everything from like a, if you need some Advil or like an antihistamine, absolutely, or a prescriptive medicine. So they sell Tylenol on the shelf? Or the Ibuprofen or. I see, okay, okay. So while you have that there, like you said, very comprehensive HIV aid services, women's health, tobacco cessation, medical nutrition therapy, chronic disease management, which is also really important. Diabetes. I'm guessing mostly diabetes. Native Hawaiian healing, that's very interesting and we'll talk about that when we get back in care coordination. These are probably two really big things that we don't realize how hard it is. It's part of that navigating the system and how do you even work through it when maybe you're not well and you don't have the other support that can help you navigate through that. And that includes then the Medicaid and marketplace insurance enrollment. So all of these things are offered. It's a social medical solution for people. Right, we offer so many wraparound services and like you mentioned, the care coordination. We do a lot of kind of what's called a warm handoff. So if one of our providers or our doctors is seeing a patient where behavioral health is recommended, they'll literally walk across the hall or bring in one of the psychologists and introduce them right then and there instead of like a referral that happens weeks later. That's great. Yeah, and that's just one example of the many wraparound services that we offer. Well, we got a few more that we'll look at as far as what you offer and then we'll go into some specific programs. But for just a moment, we're gonna take a break so they can do what we used to call in the olden days, station identification. But probably we'll just call it a short break and I'm Winston Welch. This is out and about on Think Tech Live Streaming Network Series and we are talking with Liz Makara of Waikiki Health back in a minute. So stay tuned for more of the story. So we do it. Aloha, my name is Mark Schwab. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea comes on every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join us. I like to bring in guests that talk about all types of things that come across the sea to Hawaii. Not just law, love, people, ideas, history. Please join us for Law Across the Sea. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Richard Concepcion, the host of Hispanic Hawaii. You can watch my show every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. We will bring you entertainment, educational, and also we'll tell you what is happening right here within our community. Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Aloha, we're back and we're live. I am Winston Welch and this is out and about on Think Tech Live Streaming Network Series. We're talking with Liz Makara, Director of Emergency Operations and Community Wellness at Waikiki Health about the programs and services it offers and some of the things that she's offering in conjunction with this, which is really neat. So we were just going over some of the many things that you offer and you were talking about the wraparound service and a warm handoff so that people could, they might see someone and be right introduced across the hall and said this is the lady who's gonna help you next or the gentleman who's gonna help you next.  Sure do. You have Housing Placement Assistance. Yeah. And then Homeless Youth Services. Tell us a little bit about that. What is that? We have a program called Youth Outreach and Waikiki Health actually partners with another nonprofit, Heli Keepa. And so we have a great location in Waikiki in the heart of Waikiki where we run fondly known as YO Youth Outreach. And our staff there, they work with homeless and runaway, quote unquote, at risk youth where they actually do outreach to the homeless youth in Waikiki. And the house there, it's like a little cottage and it really is a place of refuge for these kids where they can go and they can trust they'll have like the positive guidance and resources that they need. They can come there for a hot meal, hot showers. They can do their laundry there. They can get their, the equivalent of the GED. They can get assistance with job placement, sorry. And learn interviewing skills, help with their education. Our tobacco cessation services are there. Wonderful programs to counteract against unwanted pregnancies and whatnot, so really great program. Yeah, really important to have that, especially for kids that are beyond the margin where they just absolutely need someone else stepping in because a lot of these, because I was just in the paper the other day about kids on the street and a fifth of them are LGBTQ and they've either been forced out of their house or had to leave for some reason and that's a lot. I mean, just for that population alone, but there's every story that they hear there. Lots of difficulties and it's so nice that this service exists and those are probably some really special people that staff that you, is that what you call it? Yo, yo, yo. Yeah, so that's, I would love to talk about that at another time because you also have a mail service for your homeless, white, key health patients. So you unfortunately have a massive, homeless, homeless population. Yeah, and that's a service that we've offered for many years. You know, a barrier to more livelihood and services is definitely having a mailing address. So we provide them a mailing address so they can come and pick up their mail at our clinic. That's really great to hear that and you have some job training skills too as well for all kinds of folks, the outreach medical services of the caravan. So that is something that goes out into the community at regular stops in regular places. Yeah, so it's called the MMU, that's what we call it, MMU. It's a mobile medical unit. It's parked actually at our next step shelter, but it goes all over the island and now it's being used in the Pu'au Honua program visiting the prisons as well. So that's a wonderful service that we offered. Like it's one stop shop, whole medical exam room on wheels. So the Pu'au Honua program, that's a new one. So tell us about that. Really, Auntie Fran, our director of native Hawaiian healing, she is the expert and she is the leader of this program. So she can speak about it in a much more robust way, but they're going out to the local prisons and they're working with the folks there who are about to come out, making sure that they have the resources they need for medical care, services, shelter, so they don't end up going back. Yes, so it's absolutely critical that we bring people back into society in a manner that allows them to thrive. Absolutely. And obviously they've had troubles, which is why they got in the system in the first place. And if we don't provide needed support and we just say here, you're back, we're just setting them up for failure. Absolutely, so that's why this program is so extraordinary and it's wonderful that we're offering it and it's awesome that Auntie Fran is able to spearhead it. I would love to hear more about that too. Another day, this is new since the last time, or perhaps why I just say get to it with Phyllis because there's so many different things to talk about. So tell me about the senior assistance program which is your friendly neighbors program because this is something that must be very, this is your own Kuliana, I guess. So how did it start, what's its history and how many people does it serve and tell me all about this program? Sure, so friendly neighbors started back in the 80s in 1989 and so we actually received funding through the EAD or the program goes through the elderly affairs division. Funding comes through the state and then through the city of County. And so we offer two kinds of services. We offer attendant care services and homemaker services. So we work with volunteers in the community to work with seniors in their home. So we match up seniors with volunteers and attendant care is basically providing companionship, friendship, helping them out around the house, going for a walk, maybe do a little grocery shopping for them, playing cards, homemaker services, that we have a full-time staff who's incredible with the seniors who offers light housekeeping, cleaning, dusting, mopping and we also match volunteers with the seniors to offer them that housekeeping service. And this is at no charge to the seniors and it's incredibly important because many of these seniors are low income and they don't have family of their own or support and we're helping them age in place. So we are allowing them to stay in their home and bring the services to them. Would this be something where maybe we have a neighbor or a friend who's, they're doing okay, just kind of okay but they could use a little bit more support. Maybe it's someone to drive them to the market or meet them at the market and help them go shopping or take them to Longs or your pharmacy and get their medical checkup and their medications. Absolutely, that's definitely part of it. Some of our volunteers do do that. We'll run errands for them or with them and provide them the friendship and companionship that they need as well, yep. How, so obviously you have a system where you're intaking volunteers as well. How does that work? Do we go online and make an application or? Yeah, so we do all sorts of things to recruit volunteers in the community. We have partnerships with like KCC, U8, Shamanad. So we do like local school fairs and whatnot where we represent friendly neighbors, Wiki Health friendly neighbors and we encourage students to sign up. Many students have to do volunteer hours for their practicum, so it's a good fit and of course we want to encourage them even after any practicum must be done to hopefully continue their relationship and friendship with the senior and many of them do as well. And then we also work with online programs like Volunteer Match, even Craigslist, organization called RSVP to recruit volunteers. And are you in need of more volunteers at this time? We're always in need of volunteers, yes, yeah, because we receive referrals from the EAD, the elderly affairs division, for the seniors who need our services and so we check in with them on a daily basis and then recruit the volunteers, meet the volunteers, they fill out a volunteer application, they go through a background check and then our elder services coordinator will get to know them a little bit and get to know each of the seniors individually and match them because we want to have like a sustainable friendship and partnership there. So it might be someone says I have five hours a week to give and I need five hours a week or you might have someone that needs 10 hours a week but two people doing five hours a week each on a shift. Yeah, yeah. And then one other program which, that's a wonderful program by the way and just so important because it's connection, it's community, it's bringing people together in a very powerful and important way so I can just, that must be very gratifying, you know. Absolutely, you know, we have so much and I have so much respect for our kupuna and I feel like this program helps them them maintain a sense of dignity too as they age. Like I mentioned, it's them aging in place, we're bringing services to them. We have many other community partners that we work with through the EAD, like for example Meals on Wheels or Project Donna or several other services, St. Francis provides them the services they need. So it's very special, yeah. And that's something where if they called in and they say I'm a senior, I could really use some help, you might be calling in Meals on Wheels or coordinating some care with some other agencies as well. Well, it's actually the EAD, Elderly Affairs Division that would do the assessment to the seniors and organize those extensive other programs but our volunteers, they let us know because sometimes you know a volunteer and it is in the home a few hours a week, exactly. So it's a really important service. Well, it sounds like just a wonderful program so if we wanted more information about this we can go to wankykeyhealth.org. Yep, sure can. Or you can call our friendly neighbors program at 926-8032 as well. Okay, and I see that you have the senior care, the senior assistants handbook. This is made by Elderly Affairs Division of the city and county of Honolulu. Yep, so we empower all of our volunteers with this resource as well and our seniors. We give this to all of them too. It's a wonderful resource, you know, if the seniors, excuse me, having some issues with taxes or need to discern what their next step is, all of that information is here from taxes to legal. That should be sent out to every single household in this state as far as I'm concerned. Really, yeah. You know, we did not have time to even get to your smoking cessation program which I know is also near and dear to your heart because you have to come back another time when you promise and talk about this. I would love to. Because it's very important for us too to stop smoking and we get benefits immediately out of that. The whole community does. The whole community, but unfortunately, I cannot believe it, that's why I told you this is just a race by, so you will come back again and we can talk about that and other programs. Yeah. That would be wonderful and I really appreciate you being here today. Thank you so much, Winston, for having me. It's my pleasure and again, we're out of time and we have to wrap it up. Unfortunately, I'm Winston Welton out and about Think Tech Live Streaming Network series and we have had a delightful time talking with Liz MacCara, the Director of Emergency Operations and Community Wellness, which we have a lot more to talk about at Waikiki Health and we certainly appreciate learning a lot more about this wonderful organization. For more on today's topic, more info, go to Waikikihelth.org. So many wonderful programs there. Thank you for tuning in. We welcome your feedback and we wanna thank our broadcast engineer, Ian Davidson, our technical producer, Ray Sangalang, our floor manager, Robert McLean and to Jay Fidel, our executive producer, who puts it all together and we learn a lot here on Think Tech for all these great programs. So I will see you here every other Monday at 3 p.m. I will see Liz here in the future for more on out and about on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha everyone. Aloha.


This one, I'm actually so excited. I am so excited. It is the start of a new series on my channel called Taste the TBR. We're basically we're gonna have a food or sweet thing of some kind and we're gonna have a lot of them. In this case, we've got Christmas cookies. Can we just appreciate how gorgeous these Christmas cookies are? I did not make them. I cannot take credit. And they're gonna be lots of different flavours. And obviously I'm not able to tell what the flavours are and I'm gonna eat three of the cookies and they are gonna pick what I read. I'm so excited. I can't describe to you how excited I am for this series to start. So basically there's six flavours here and each of them corresponds to a different genre. So whatever flavour I eat, I then have to read a book and that genre.  I cannot tell you how excited I am. I feel like it's gonna be a great series to start on my channel. I love videos where I have no control. I love videos where I just give up control to some other thoughts and it picks what I read. Anyway, so I'm in control but I'm out of control and I'm also um controlled. So in a way I'm everything. Now I just have to pick which one to eat first. Now it feels like a lot of pressure. What one should you have first? That one? A centre? I think I've already tried him. You've already tried him? Get a little nibble. I think I'm gonna try him. Okay I'm gonna have a bite. Ready? That's caramel. Okay, caramel. So that is a mystery. Mystery, that's good result. So one mystery book. We've got to read a mystery. I'm gonna put that cookie down. I haven't finished it. I think I want to... I can't see. They can't see because it's so bright anyway. I think I want to try one of each. I really like this. I know it's really nice isn't it? Sorry this is incredible. We're gonna have so much fun eating the rest of these. I think I want to have one of each shape. So I think I'm gonna go for this next. I've got winter spice. I've got winter spice ones. I love the refills. That's a romance or a contemporary. Then we want a snowman. What snowman do I pick? There's lots of snowmen. Oh my god I don't know which one. Okay which of these snowmen do you like? That one middle. Okay. It's slightly crispier. Okay. Then yes there will be some casualties. Yes there will. Oh that's mint. Oh my god that's so good try that. That's really minty. That's super minty. That's mega minty. That's mega minty. Oh my god. What's mint? Mint is a thriller. Okay it's a thriller romance and mystery. A mystery. Thriller romance and mystery. So now I've got to go pick. It's a pretty well romance I don't read a lot of. Okay so now I'm gonna go choose a mystery or romance and a thriller and see what I need to read. Oh my god I'm so excited.  Okay so I went and had a look at my books and I decided what I'm gonna read. So the mystery. I'm gonna read The Christie Affair by Nina de Gremont. This comes out in January. This is an arc. I got sent of it. I'm really excited to read this. This is one that I have been like trying to fit into videos. Essentially it's about when Agatha Christie went missing for 11 days and it's kind of like a fictionalization of that from the perspective of her husband's mistress. The drama. Oh tea central over here. So yeah this is like one of my most anticipated mysteries that is coming out and I'm just very excited. So we're gonna read this for mystery. Then for romance I knew immediately why I had to read. We're gonna read The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox which just came through in December's Book of the Month picks. I just have to read like a Christmasy romance. Like come on it's like I just have to read a Christmasy romance in this video for romance. All I know about this is that we've got two twins who like swap lives and I think they're both bakers and they fall in love with like a guy in the other's life essentially. Yeah I'm really excited for this. I've been like I spoke about this in the video when I when I mentioned Book of the Month. I have been obsessed with The Great British Bake Off right now. I've only got the finale left to watch and I'm like not watching it even though I know what happens but then it's like done. Then I finished watching the series and I'll be so sad but like I'm definitely in the baking mood so I'm very excited for this. And then for thriller I decided to go with a thriller. I've been so excited to read but like it's the kind of thriller that's easy for me to forget is All My Shells because it's a bit older The Couple Next Door by Sheryl Lapina. This is like Sheryl Lapina's like I would say most successful most popular thriller. I really liked The Unwanted Guest and Unwanted Guest by Sheryl Lapina. I read that last year. I think this is the one about where a husband and wife go around a neighbor's house for like dinner and they leave their baby at their house next door and then the baby goes missing. It's just like I feel like one of the most classic it's a very hyped thriller. So I'm super excited to read that as well. So yeah I feel like we've got a good mix in this vlog of what we're gonna be reading. I'm super excited. I think I'm gonna read it in the order that it picked it so I'm gonna start with the mystery and I'll chat to you once I'm a little bit of the way through this. I'm really enjoying it. I'm having a lot of fun reading this. The writing this is incredible. The writer has a certain like cadence and style to it that is really unique and really different and I'm really enjoying reading it. I'm really enjoying reading from Nan's perspective who is Agatha's husband mistress. Now okay a few things to be said. Firstly it is a bit strange reading this about Agatha Christie. Like for example writing style would Agatha, would Miss Agatha want us to read about her having sex? I don't know. I don't know.  Do you know what I mean? Like this is a person that lived and like sometimes just away. Like sometimes I find the bits with Agatha Christie in them a little bit weird. She's not actually not in it that much in the first half but I'm like it's a bit strange. It reminds me of when I watched, I didn't like this movie. I like this book but I watched the movie about Ruth Bader Ginsburg like the one with actors. Oh my god is Armie Hammer in that one? Anyway.  Like this is supposed to be, it's supposed to be a film about her and her achievements and like for the first half hour all you kind of know about her is like her having sex with her husband. It's what it felt like and I'm kind of like oh like would this, would if I died would I want people to write about me having sex? Like is it suddenly free game? I don't know. Another thing to be noted is that well this is about a real thing that happened. Agatha going missing when she learned of her husband's infidelity. The mistress in this is not the real mistress. This is a fictional character which I think is a really interesting choice because I think it gives the author a lot more freedom to decide for themselves what happened and to make up this kind of fictional reality. So once I learnt that once I did a little bit of research because I wanted like the true tea on what happened I think it made me look at the story in a different light because it really made this feel like fiction. You know it's taking that event of Agatha Christie going missing and using it as inspiration but like this character is not Agatha Christie, this character is not that person. Like they are figments of imagination you know? And I'm just really enjoying it. I feel like it's being paced really well. It's very much about Nan, his mistress and about her lover that she had in Ireland when she was younger. It's about the war. It's about kind of the effect that's had on a lot of the characters and I feel like it's just being plotted and paced really well. It's very interesting to me. We have got two timelines. Apprehensive, nervous. But it's kind of like a main timeline and flashback so I'm okay with it. We are not entering into my like timeline difficulty here. And I don't know I'm just excited to see where it's going to go now that it's very obvious to me that the book is going down a very different direction to what actually happened. It's really like gone off on something very different that probably is what happened but it's kind of a very imaginative story. Here's the thing, it's not like a mystery like Agatha Christie's ones. We speak a lot about Agatha's writing and her style of books and what she liked to write and I really love that. Like sometimes it'll quote something from one of her books in passage and I really love like the callbacks to her writing but it's not like a who done it mystery. It's verging on mystery but it's not quite there. But I'm still really really enjoying it. I'm hoping I'm going to finish this tonight pretty much. In the morning we're going to go down to our local like garden centre to get our Christmas tree and to pick up a few more like decorations. I'll take you along with me but I'm hoping to pretty much get close to finishing this tonight. Pretty much all I want to do is read and it's quite an easy fast-paced read. So yeah I'm really, this is really successful and I feel like a lot of you are going to like this too when it does come out. Where have you been bitch?  So over the past couple days I have had the cold from hell. I haven't left the house for two years. If you catch a cold your body's like cold. Who is she? Who is she? So I'm, I can't breathe. So it's been about two days since I last spoke to, no we're on day three. So I haven't really felt up to talking at all but I have thought up to reading. So we're going to chat about that.  I get so, I get very delirious when I'm sleeping because I get very anxious and so I get very like nervous. So apparently I've been like, according to Tom I've been like talking all night every night but I don't remember much of it.  So that gives you an idea of what I've been like to deal with the past couple days. Anyway, so I finished the Christie affair and I really enjoyed it. I'm going to give this four stars. I really, really loved the direction that this story took. I thought that the direction that it went in terms of the topics that were discussed was really, really interesting and not something that I've read a lot about before. This like made me cry a couple times. I only didn't cry because like I didn't want to get my face full puffy but like literally tears like a little, a little peeked over by like sucked them in. You know what I mean? It made me cry a couple times with the topics that kind of started getting discussed. Yeah, it was, it was very emotional which wasn't something that I was expecting from this. I know, I don't look upset. Don't get upset. Don't worry. Also, like I said, I thought the discussion around Agatha's writing, you can tell that this is written by someone who loves Agatha Christie or just in their research but like I feel like it was somebody who loves Agatha Christie. I love when books write about writing and like talking about say Agatha's knowledge of poisons or like lines that she used that were poignant to what was happening in the story was really, really interesting. I actually did like the split timelines in this. Finally.  I was in her corner which isn't something that's easy to do because she is the other woman.  I loved her so it's not. Don't be nervous going into this because it's told from the mistress's perspective that it's an unlikable narrator. I don't really, I don't think it is. I think society, you know, the impulse is gonna be I'm not gonna like this woman but her and her relationship with Agatha not only during the time period that this is set but she kind of intimates of what it's like throughout the years of follow this story. I found that very interesting. I just thought this was so, so well written. I would recommend it to fans of Agatha Christie. I was a bit nervous early on about whether it was truly like a respectful story to write about Agatha Christie but as I read it, I really felt like it was. I just didn't give it a five because it just didn't feel like a five, you know what I mean? But I still really, really enjoyed it. Then, while I was ill, I went ahead and I read the whole of the holiday swap.  All of you being upset that I read a whole book without checking in with you about it. So do you think I deserve better than that? Yes. Firstly, the thing I didn't know about this, this is written by two women. This is a, this is a, this is a pen name. What I want to know is did they each write one of the twins' perspectives or was it like just a complete collaborative effort? That's what I want to know because to me it didn't feel like different writers, right?  Whereas this read the same. So either they're very similar writers or they kind of just collaborated on the whole thing which is interesting. So we're following these two twins. I've forgotten their names. Jesus Christ. Charlie and Cass, there we go. Due to an accident that Charlie has on her TV show that she hosts, she hosts like a cooking TV show. She can no longer smell or taste. So she calls up Cass and she's like, I need you to switch place with me. I need you to come do my job on TV and I'll come home and I'll look after our family bakery. And listen, hi Jinx and Sue. They basically each fall in love with one of the guys in each other's life. So whilst pretending to be each other, they fall in love with guys who think they are each other and it's awkward. I liked it. I liked it. It was an easy read. I really liked the audiobook for this. I'd recommend if you're interested in this book, pick up the audiobook for it. My biggest gripe. I have two gripes. Two gripes. There's no Christmas. There's no Christmas. My whole point of me wanting to read this book was wanting to read at least one Christmas romance this month. If I could not do a lot, I can at least read one Christmas romance this month. And Christmas had no relevancy. I don't care what anyone says. This could have been set at the height of summer. The only thing that is Christmasy is right at the end there's like Christmas day because we're leading up to Christmas day. Christmas day happens right at the end.  The only thing they agree, we will reunite on Christmasy. That is it. And like one of the places is snowy but snow is not exclusively Christmas. I wanted it to feel Christmas. Like it didn't. It didn't feel Christmasy. So then why am I sitting here reading it? If you're giving me a Christmas romance, I want the festive holiday season to be part of the plot and it wasn't. So that's gripe number one. Grip number two is I didn't feel attached to either of the romances. For me, the story was so interesting about the twins navigating being each other, particularly in each other's careers. You know, Kaz having to learn how to be like a TV personality and like turn it on in front of the cameras and like deal with that higher pressure environment. And Charlie having to learn how to run a business that is so dependent on its like local community to survive and reliability and all of that stuff. That was interesting. I really enjoyed that aspect of the book. Learning things about their life and their careers and about each other through this. So interesting.  Me anytime there was a conflict in one of the romances. Oh really?  Throughout I was like, I'm not attached to this. Like the vibes, the vibes aren't there. I gave it in the end a 3.5 but leaning more towards a 3. So I did round it down on Goodreads, which is why I don't like Goodreads because I don't have to round down because it's not a 3. It's a 3.5. You know what I mean? I went over this for days because I was like, I feel so bad like rounding it down. But like it's a 3.5. But it's not a 4. So yeah, I mean I think it's a cute Christmas romance if you're looking but like that's quite dramatic. I was going to say if you're looking for Christmas romance just read another one because it's not Christmasy but I don't know what other ones are like. All of them like this they promise Christmas and then I get no Christmas. Where's the Christmas in this? Where's the Christmas in this? So that's my thoughts on those two books. Listen, it doesn't it serve me right that I'm doing a video about flavors of things and now I can't taste. Anyway, time to read our final book for this video, which I am actually so excited for because I feel like Miss Shari Lapina writes such good, quick paced thrills. I'm so excited. Shari Lapina is one of the authors. I'm most excited to read her backlist. I do own not a happy family. What I know about this, I think the general easy premise is this couple have gone to a dinner party at their neighbor's house next door. They've left their baby next door and they're checking on her like every hour.  So that's basically what it is. Why is it called the couple next door? That that intrinsically makes me not trust the couple whose dinner party they're going to. But anyway, I did not realize how red this book is. I think I went and looked at my Goodreads and in terms of ratings on Goodreads, this is like my 12th most rated unread book. Kind of crazy. Kind of crazy. More people have rated this than Sherlock Holmes. But it's just interesting. I didn't realize quite what a big book this is. I think I'm going to try out the audiobook for this as well. And yeah, I'm really excited. I feel like Sheryl Lapina is just going to give me some twists and turns and that's what I need. I'm going to try and read the whole thing tonight because I'm in the mood, I'm in the know, get ready to get set and here we go. What is that from? I don't know. Anyway, time to go read. I'm going to go ahead and read the couple next door. I will check in with you when I'm halfway. Okay, as much later, I'm looking a certain kind of way, feeling a certain kind of way.  Anyway, all I have to say, she's kind of iconic. She's kind of iconic. She's kind of incredible. I'm kind of loving it. So the synopsis I told you is a synopsis. We get into that very quickly and then we meet the detective covering the case and it's all figuring out who's telling the truth, who's lying, who can we trust. And like, it's been so interesting. I kind of love when it's just scenes of people getting questioned I love that in books. That is a little bit, that is a little bit iconic to me. When it's just characters getting questioned, it reminds me of Murder on the Orange Express, where literally like half that book is just Porro sitting down an interview with each passenger. This isn't as like strictly like that book, each chapter is an interview with this person, an interview with this person. But it's a lot of just interviews with the detective and also just other characters talking and trying to figure out like reading between the lines. I've got my little detective hat on. I'm like Scooby and Shaggy, I'm solving a mystery. And I'm loving it. And we just had a little twist, literally at the halfway point where I am. And it kind of, it kind of how the turntables, it kind of switched everything on its head.  I need to read her whole backlist. I need to unwrap Not A Happy Family somehow. I know it's a hardback so we're halfway there because I really want to read it. I'm just like, oh, she's the perfect, simple, easy to read thriller because I'm not feeling very well.  I could not handle it. But this is the perfect thing that's so quick, fast paced, easy to read. I'm gobbling, goopling. That's not the right terminology. But whatever, I'm eating it up. I'm eating it up. It's amazing. It's so good. Oh my god, I'm really enjoying it. I don't know if it's going to be a four or five currently. I suppose that that is determined by where it goes from here because I think an unwanted guest was four stars. But the whole ambiance and the like setting and the claustrophobicness of that book sticks in my memory. So something about Charli Lapina is a little bit amazing. Let's be honest. I don't know if I like the title, The Couple Next Door, and the thing on the front that says people are capable of almost anything. And the thing on the back says what would you be capable of when pushed past your limit? I don't know if that's making us think certain things. I don't know if I like the whole marketing around this book. I feel like it should have been called something else. I feel like they're telling us they're hinting at stuff too much. You know when you're watching one of my videos and I say, oh, there's this twist at the end. You're like, Megan, I don't want to know that. And I just do it anyway. That's kind of what this feels like. It's making me think certain things and I'm like, the tea. Well, here's the tea. Anyway, I'm going to go finish it. The tea what? I'm going to finish it and I'll talk to you in the morning. So hello. I finished the couple next door and I've got cat hair on my lips. I'm going to give it four stars. I really enjoyed it in terms of the, sorry, I'm like making you shake. You're on the bed. I really enjoyed it in terms of the like thrilling aspect of it, right? I think it's a really fun read. I listened to the audiobook and read the physical book and it's just quick. It's fast paced.  Debut. Debut? This isn't a debut. I'm sorry. What? I thought this was like her third book or some shit, but no, it's her debut. So like, it's the kind of thriller you don't have to think too much about. I did not use any thoughts when reading this book, which is exactly what I needed right now. But like, if you want a thriller that like is going to have so much complex motivations and so much that you want to unpick, I don't think Sharon Lapina is the author for you. She is quick, like perfect for holiday reads, like fun, quick, fast paced thrillers, right?  Like, I swear all the characters in this share one brain cell and the plot going as it does through every stage of like every twist requires them all to share one brain cell. So like if you want clever characters, if you don't want like stereotypical action, like if you don't want that, maybe not think for you, but I loved reading it. Like I thought it was so good.  Like I will say though, like I don't know if many of the twists were like shocks.  I feel like a lot of what happens is like tropes from like every other thriller. It's not, in my opinion, really doing anything new. It's not like shocking us with like something really imaginative. But like, I don't think that's what it's trying to do.  And in my opinion, that's what it achieved. I enjoyed it. I had fun. We had a good time. And at the end of the day, that's all you can ask of a book. Did I have a good time reading this? Yes, I did.  Did I lend the characters my one brain cell to use during this book? Yes, I did.  But I liked it. I had a lot of fun reading it and I could not put it down. I read it so quick. I literally just read it last night and a little bit this morning while I was getting ready. So I feel like on the whole this vlog has been pretty successful. We had two four stars and a 3.5 star. It was leaning a bit more towards a three. So I really hope you enjoyed this vlog. I know it went a bit off the rails towards the end because I got ill, but I'm starting to feel better across all my different... I don't think I've spoken about all the different things that have been happening. I forget where I've spoken about things and not. I feel like I could I speak to my patrons about stuff on our live shows and I forget I haven't said stuff in a vlog. But I also had like a costocrine dry test flare up. I've had a bit of a period from house. Like it hasn't been fun. But I feel like we're over all of that now. We're starting to get through it. So hopefully this won't impact any other vlogs. I hope you enjoyed this series as well at the start of Taste the TBR. I'm really excited for all the other like additions that are going to happen in this series. I need to start planning what the next one's going to be. So let me know if there's any things you would like to see me taste like a blind taste, different flavors off down below. And yeah, I really hope you enjoyed the series because it's a series I've been really excited to do for a really long time. If you've gotten to the end of this video, comment a cupcake emoji or any cake emoji for the holiday swap because they're bakers. Comment that down below. I hope you all guys are having a good time. I hope you're all keeping well. And yeah, I will see you very soon in another video. Bye!


Welcome back. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has sent a goodwill message and felicitation to Muslims as the celebrated birthday of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. In a statement released on Wednesday, Obi asked the Muslims to use the period to reflect and seek Prophet Muhammad's intercession in the many challenges of the country. While he highlighted some of the challenges facing the country, such as extreme poverty, high rate of unemployment and high level of insecurity, Obi also enjoined Muslims to pray for lasting peace in the country and extend brotherly love to fellow countrymen and women. In the meantime, the Christian Association of Nigeria, Khan, has congratulated the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sahad Abubaka III and all Muslims across Nigeria on the occasion of Idil Malood. The president of Khan, Archbishop Daniel O'Koh, in a message to the Muslim faithful on behalf of Khan and the Christian community at large, called for promotion of mutual respect, understanding and peaceful coexistence among all religions. The Idil Malood celebration is for the commemoration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad.


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Why, rehorso the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the path come the thundery hoof beats the great horse Silver. The lone ranger rides again. From the cover of a huge boulder, Tonto and the lone ranger scan the trail to San Pablo, holding their horses motionless. Behind them the sun had just risen above the Marado Mountains. In the distance ahead, a bell tolled, calling the converts among the desert-dwelling Hopi Indians to worship at some isolated mission. As the solemn sounds rolled out across the wastelands, Tonto tensed in his saddle. Look, Kimosabi, all riders cross hill over there. Them come from direction the bell. Yes, I see them, Tonto. They're turning this way. Ah, first two riders lead others' horses. Yes, I see. The others are Indians and they're tied to their ponies. Maybe lawmen take prisoners. We'll soon see. Stay here and keep me covered. Them get plenty close now. Come on, Silver. Hold on, you fellows, go, Silver. Very boy. Easy. Now, Peter's a man, man.  What are you stopping us for, stranger? I want to know what you're doing with those Indians. We're taking them to jail. Don't lie. We're headed away from town. Those Indians are horse thieves. Me, lame wolf. No horse thief. Me and brother, plenty good Christians. Us on way to mission when Whiteman capture us. You're going to take his word against mine? I'm going to take all of you to the mission. No, you won't. Drill him, Luke. Drop that gun up. Help me, Pete. He's breaking my arm. Drop it. There goes my gun on the ground. Light up, mister. I'm getting out of here. I've still got you, Luke. Hello. You want me to take these fellas and... No, no. We can get him later if we want him. Ah, him heading to San Pablo. Now, Luke, you've got your name. Talk fast and straight. You heard what Pete said about the Indians?  He deserted you. Yeah, the yellow dog. And he got me into this. Where does Pete hang out? At the Casa de Oro Cantina in San Pablo. Now, look, man, let's make a deal. I'll spill everything I know. Ah, rustling Indians isn't like cattle rustling. Rustling Indians? Pato, release the two Hopi's and tie up this fellow. Ah, me do that, Pato. Now, where we take prisoner? We'll leave him at the mission. The United States Marshal can pick him up there after we've heard his story. And what we do then? Right on to San Pablo. That fellow Pete may be looking for a new partner. You can pass yourself off as a renegade Apache. You've got to know what's behind this. Meanwhile, in the town of San Pablo, a young woman, whose dress and manner marked her as a new arrival from the East, knocked timidly on the door of the United States Marshal's office. Come in, come in. I don't open no doors. Well, bless me, I'll need it. Are you John Worth, the Marshal? That's me, miss, and I'm mighty sore. I was so huffy. Please take this chair. Thank you, Marshal. My name is Nancy Drake. And I want you to help me find my father, Tom Drake, the mining engineer. I'm afraid I don't know him, miss. Oh, but you must. This town isn't big. And in his last letter, he said he'd found something good here. He meant a good job, I suppose. Miss Drake, there's an area of mine and operation in this part of the territory, so we can't be mining. I can't understand it. His last letter had a San Pablo postmark. When did he write it? Four months ago. I wrote and wrote, but he didn't answer. So finally I came out here. Maybe a dad went prospecting. There's free gold in the desert and maybe up in the marauders. This is the jumping-off place for lots of prospectors. Even so, he should have returned by this time. Now, look, miss, I'm sorry to say this, but all kinds of things can happen to a lone prospector. Things like what? Accidents. Murder, maybe. I know a dozen men who got swallowed up out yonder. Swallowed up? The Marado Mountains are treacherous. That's where most prospectors go looking for the Lost Spaniard. You're talking in riddles, Marshal. Well, the Lost Spaniard is a mine. One of them mines everybody's heard about, but nobody's seen. A legendary mine? That's it. Dad is too practical to go hunting such a thing. I'm not so sure, miss. I believe myself that there was such a mine. Your dad being a smart mining man may be figured out a way to find the old diggings. You may be right, but how can we search those mountains? Well, you got me stumped there. I can't go sashaying around looking for missing people. My job's to keep law and order, and it's a big job. Surely there must be something I can do myself. Well, now you might advertise for your dad in the San Pablo paper. I don't reckon it'll do any good, but once I found a stray horse that way. That night, Marshal worked while still in his office catching up on routine duties. As he thrummed through a new batch of reward circulars, the door swung open. A masked man whom he recognized from a meeting long before stood facing him. You! You're from Morn Rangers! I hope you remember me, Marshal Worth. I'm glad to see you again, but I know you didn't come here just to be sociable. If it's about rustling... It's a matter involving abduction and slavery. A gang is carrying Hopi Indians into a servitude somewhere. The Padre says that at least a hundred of his people have disappeared. You told me that too, but I didn't suspicion anything then. Engines are like kids, always wandering away. Could that many Hopis be pressed into working against their will without somebody reporting it to you? Well, there's just one place there can be. Somebody's found the lost Spaniard Mine. I can see no point in kidnapping Indians for work there, even if it has been rediscovered. I can figure that, mister. The railroad running into San Pablo has a land grant that takes in half of the Maradas. It's got the mineral rights too. Then somebody is mining on railroad land. That's why they've stolen the engines. They couldn't hire white labor and keep the doing secret. What is it, Marshal? I just remembered an Eastern girl that come in here today. Her dad's missing, and he's a mining engineer. During the week that followed, the Lone Ranger kept watch over the settlements of the Christian Indians. He met Tonto at a secret rendezvous and learned that the Indian had become acquainted with a breed called Pete. One night in the back room of the Casa de Oro Cantina. Howdy, Sharp. I thought you'd be alone, Pete. Well, this is Tonto, an Apache reservation jumper. He's a malo hombre. Tough as they make them. Looks like a man we could use.  That'll be sport for an Apache like Tonto. No, no, just Indians I want. Concerned with a girl called Nancy Drake. Maybe you saw her name in this week's paper. Sure. She's asking for information about her old man. She's from the East, but now she's started wearing a Western outfit. Every day she rides around asking questions about her father. She won't be hard to grab. Where do we deliver her? Bring her to the lost Spaniard might. The next day, Nancy urged her horse along the trail that links San Pablo with a hopy village's admission. Her route took her toward a forest of pear cacti from which a masked rider burst suddenly. A startled girl rained up.  Please don't be frightened, Miss Drake. You know me? What do you want? Only to help you and bring a gang of outlaws to justice. But you're an outlaw yourself. You're magic. I have good reason for wearing it, there's. Marshall Worth may sometime tell you. Oh. I, Miss Drake, certain men are planning to abduct you tomorrow. But no one could collect ransom from me. I have only my father and he's missing. The scheme in some way involves your father and the lost Spaniard mind. And Marshall was right. He is there. It's probable that he's a prisoner under pressure to do something against his will. Otherwise, your kidnapping would serve no purpose. I've got to go to him. I'll get the Marshall. Marshall can do nothing as matters stand. Men search for years without finding the lost Spaniard. There's hardly a chance that anyone except the crooks who have the mind can reach it now without a guide. But I must, I must try to help him. There is one way to do it. Allow yourself to be kidnapped. Oh. That won't be as dangerous as it seems. One of the kidnappers will be an Indian friend of mine. He'll protect you while I follow your trail. All right. Then I'll let them take him. Pete, the breed, stood at the bar of the cantina, admiring his reflection in a cracked mirror. Plans for the abduction of Nancy Drake were complete and Tonto had slipped away for a final conference with the Lone Ranger. As Pete grinned proudly at himself, another face appeared beside his own. He whirled. Look. Where have you been? You know where I was when you let down the trail. You can't blame me for running. It was a smart thing to do. The mask man let you go? Let me go. He left me at the mission, tied up like a bronc in a blacksmith shop. I was lucky to get loose. What did you come here for? Maybe they're after you. I got to have money and a gun. Then I'll leave town. I don't know you or anything. Listen, Pete, I can tell you something that's worth money. You don't say. You know who that engine is that I saw you with before I come in here? He's my new partner. Pete, that Redskin is the mask man's sidekick. What? He was hiding when the mask man stopped us and you dusted out.  What's his game? Him and the mask down there ought to get everybody who's had a hand in rustling Indians. I'll take care of that double crosser. He never had me fooled for a minute. Nobody can fool Pete. Get out of here, Luke. Come on. In accordance with instructions from the Lone Ranger, Nancy rode out of town the next morning. Every bush and rock held such menace for her that she was almost with relief that she saw two horsemen closing in on her. Hold that. Hold that. Get it down. Let me have those reins, woman. You're going with us. Get loose of my horse. You Indians should. Don't call me an Indian. Where are you taking me? Just on a little visit. But first get off that horse. Why, you tell her that, Pete. I don't want her getting away while I'm taking care of some other business. All right. Be there. There. I'm down. Oh, me still don't savvy, Pete. Then savvy is gone, you double crosser. Don't shoot him.  Why, you go loco, Pete. Sure, I'm crazy like a fox. Just keep your hands up while I take your knife and gun. I'll take them. You got dropped. Ah, you snooping red skin.  Why are you tie me? You and the mask man took two Hopies away from me. Now you're taking the place of one of them. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. To our story, Tonto was a prisoner doomed to slavery in the lost Spaniard mine. His capture left Nancy Drake at the mercy of Pete the breed. Using every trail covering trick known to man and animal, Pete drove the Indian and girl deeper and deeper into the Morado Mountains. Meanwhile, Cal Sharp entered one of a cluster of log cabins in the shore of a nameless lake near Mont Diablo. For a moment, the assayer stared at the gaunt bearded man who sat slumped on a packing case beside a barred window. Well, Drake, you change your mind? You can keep me locked up forever. I've done all I'm going to do to reopen the lost Spaniard.    A crook? We found the mine. It's ours by right of discovery, even if the railroad does own the land. We could have made a deal with the railroad. Oh, what kind of a deal? The company would have hogged everything. That still doesn't make it right to steal the gold. There isn't any right or wrong up here at Mont Diablo. There's nothing but gold.  Of course you do. You figured out that the lost Spaniard had been covered up by an earthquake? You said we'd look for evidence of a landslide. We found we're part of old Mont Diablo. It slipped down and damned up a creek, making a lake. Yes, and I look in at the old digging. It's under 100 feet of water. Listen, Drake, that drainage tunnel that you planned is almost finished. We're just about ready to let the water out of the lake and get the gold. That doesn't interest me. All I want from you is a little advice. And the answer is still no. Look out the window. I'm looking. I see your slave hunters have captured another Indian. See that girl? What's she doing here? That's your daughter. Nancy, I can't believe it. She came to San Pablo looking for you. What happens to her now is your responsibility. The Lone Ranger reached Sharp's camp soon after moonrise. He scouted the place on foot and soon learned the gang of hired gunmen had it under guard. As yet unaware of Tonto's plight, he signaled for the Indian to join him imitating the haul of a wolf. Tonto penned an aborbed wire stockade with the captive Hopi's heard the signal. He raised his voice in a loud chant. His tuneless song, carrying far in the thin mountain air, drew the attention of two guards. What's the record, Joe? Ah, nothing, Max. Just that new Indian tunnel whoop into himself. He's got a voice like a burl. Regan, he's singing an engine death song. Yeah, he won't live long and rate the others a dime. Yeah, he won't need him much longer. Tunnel's almost done. Joe, I don't like going into that hole anymore. The engines are digging too close to the lake. Ah, it's still safe. Safe, my eye. That leak ever breaks through, us guards will get drowned along with the engines. Maybe you're right. What are we going to do about it? Keep our eyes open, be ready to run. That's a death song all right.   Well, I feel better. Hear that, Max? He set the wolves a howling. Tunnel's chant, intoned in a tribal tongue with which the lone ranger was familiar, gave the masked man a full report of what had happened and told him where the guards were stationed. Forearmed with such knowledge, he cautiously worked his way toward the stockade. Meanwhile, inside the small cabin, Cal Sharp talked to Nancy and her father. Drake, I want that drainage tunnel opened up. How far have you got with it? It must be within 20 feet of the water. It'll be a touchy job to blow out what remains. Touchy or not, you've got to handle it. And listen, Sharp, you're working in a curious rock formation. The rock you've been excavating is soft. Right above the tunnel, the stratum is hard, but thin. I know it, and I know too that a heavy blast might make the whole works cave in. A collapse of the tunnel could start a landslide. How... how much of a landslide? The entire west shoulder of Mount Diablo might give away. I wouldn't have to use powder if the guards that keep those Indians working till the lake broke through. You've drowned them all? What of it? Drake, remember what I said about your daughter? You'll be ready to work tomorrow. A few minutes later, Pete, the breed, swaggered up to the gate of the stockade and hailed the guard. Hey, Joe, let me in. What do you want, Pete? Get another engine for us? No, I want that one back that I brought him today. That's Tonto, fella, huh? Sharp wouldn't pay for him. Said he didn't need any more redskins. You're out $100.  All right. As the guards searched for Tonto among the sleeping Indians, a dark form rose from the ground up. A dark form rose from the ground outside the fence, instantly attracting Pete's attention. What? He drew his gun with a startled yell. Hey, Joe, a prisoner is loose. I'll get him. Stop you. I'll let you have it. The chase took Pete away from the stockade and up a rocky slope. There, his instinct to kill overcame his natural cunning, and he hauled it to reload his gun. Two ladies heard the whistle of a laryt that sneaked out of the shadows, pinioning his arms and jerking him from his feet. Oh! I'll take that gun, Pete. I'll get up. Don't yell. It's you, the mask man. I thought... I know what you thought. I was outside the fence giving Tonto some instructions when we overheard you. I'll get going. The captive Indians were at work in the tunnel the next morning. Choking clouds of stone dust filled the stagnant air, reducing the light of a few scattered lanterns to a dim glow and shadowing the movements of the hungry Hopes. The gunmen who guarded them numbered almost a score. Those who had been on night watch lay rolled in blankets near the open end of the tunnel. The others stood well back from the prisoners, nervously toying with scatter guns and black snake whips as they discussed the project. Sharp thinks he can pick up gold by the bucket when he cries up the lake. He's local, if you ask me. I've been looking for gold in here.  What's going on back there? Get to work back there. I'll see. What's wrong? The lake's breaking through. The rock will wash out like sand. We'll drown like rats. Let's get out of here. Run fellas, run, the plug's out. The Indians are coming. Let them come, get out of my way. As the gunmen stampeded toward the tunnel's entrance, the lone ranger charged up to block their escape. Move, move, move.  With the mask man's bullets plowing up dust at their feet and the glare of the sun momentarily blinding them, the guards wavered and jammed against each other. A moment later they were pinned to the tunnel walls by howling Hopes who disarmed them. Follow her, I'll see here, King of Sabi. Have the Hopes bring the white men out. Yeah, how? No tough, me here. I'm worried. Spast them through, I saw it.  I had tunnel barrier in the broken rocks. They've been tricked. Your own fear deceived you. Hello, take everyone to the box canyon behind Mount Diablo. You'll find Pete there. Me, Sabi. And what you do now? I'm going to get Kal's sharp and release the drakes. Mosul! The lone ranger kept out of sight while he cut out around the camp. It was his aim to forestall any attempt by Sharp to escape in the direction of San Pablo as he reached a point which put the cabins between himself and the lake. He saw Sharp leaving the corral with Nancy and her father. The three were mounted. The masked man threw silver into a headlong rush to intercept him. Mosul!  Sharp seeing the masked man, raced ahead and disappeared into the mall of the tunnel. Too desperate to care any longer whether he had Drake's help. Drake turned his horse and galloped back with his daughter. Ho, ho, ho, ho! Thank you, mister. If you hadn't come in time... Why didn't Sharp trap himself by going into that tunnel? He's completely mad. And he has a lot of blasting potting. I'll go after him. Steady silver. He's done it! He's blown up the tunnel. Look up there! Look at the mountain. It's moving! Right for your life, man's man. There's a landslide coming. Give me the girl. My horse is stronger. There, Miss Drake. I'll keep a firm hold. I'm ready. Get up there. One, two, three! As the lone ranger led the race for safety, the face of Montevideo seemed to crack into a demonic grin, each second widening the jagged figure of which the landslide had begun. Below the break, a slowly moving mass of earth and rock gave forth an ominous rumble. We've got to get a mile away, a mile away and a hundred feet above lake levels. Head for that hill over there. Horses can climb it. Behind the riders, huge boulders began to bounce down the mountainside and bombard the lake, raising geysers where they fell and filling the air with spray. Then the lowest and heaviest edge of the slide gave way and tumbled into the water. The lake shrank back from it and a mighty wave swept the shores, lifting sharp cabins from the ground and scattering their logs like matches. Other waves drove even farther and soon the displaced lake began to pour into every dry wash around it. At points the masked man and his friends were forced to walk their horses too far and spelly deep. When the horses finally struggled out on dry ground, the gigantic natural forces let loose by a single can of powder were spent. A last boulder catapulted from month Diablo's dust-clouded heights. Then the riders turned to look back upon a strangely altered landscape. Oh, sir, oh, oh. We made it. Thanks to the masked man. Let me help you down, Miss Drake. Thank you. There you are. We must be the only survivors. No, the Indians and sharps gunmen are safe on the other side of the mountain. What will you do about them? Marshal Worth will be here soon. I left a message telling him that I was on Pete's trail, asking him to follow. I marked the route for him. Oh, look. There comes Tondo. Yes. The Marshal and his deputies are right behind him. Oh, Scott, open up. Open up. Hello, how did you get here? Let me come back after Scout Kimosabi. Find him in Corral. Then Mountain Fall Park.   Howdy, folks. I didn't figure to find any of you alive after that mountain shed its hide. Well, if it hadn't been for our friend, we'd have been buried down there in a hell-sharp. So he cheated the Lord, didn't he? Not as much as he cheated himself, Marshal. Finding the lost Spaniard did something to his mind. Well, I reckon the lost Spaniard is lost again. Forever, I hope. Oh, Dad, let's thank the Masked Man and Tondo before they leave. Yes. For they're gone already. That's the way the Masked Man works, Miss. Who is he, anyhow? Well, I guess it's all right to tell you now. The Lone Ranger. You have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.