what's up everybody i'm early i know my bad but what's up i have been as if you guys have been watching me for a while essentially enough we had a long i've been obsessed with um making flour i don't know i don't know but i've been doing a few sorry we're doing corrections was only right now because he has gotten into probably a chasing cat lately so this is what this one looks like it's not my favorite my favorite different here this is the mamma jamma sit down he'll play so it looks like this so that's the flour i did to just get my brain wrapped around using this particular set of materials the material i'm using our plate i may use some mottage for glue because i don't really have a lot of glue and um just some dry pigments or maybe wet pigments either way it's going to be primary elements colors it's the only dry pigments i have i've seen people doing videos using crushed up pastels but just pastels i'm going to go there because i'm pretty sure i gotta write these pastels there would be a problem so the clay i'm using is DOS yeah it's a modeling clay it's a family made in italy and according to them it's the best to model your ideas but it's an air dried clay you don't have to fire it so it's kind of a really wet clay hello everybody so or air cure clay air dry clay you don't have to fire it a lot of these these kinds of plays you put them in a like the oven to dry them or to fire them but so this is what we're doing i'll try to do a mic but last time we did a mic it didn't work one second okay but you need another one of these mic check mic check one two one two okay hear me now how is it now okay good sweet so clay this is it feels a lot like what porcelain would feel like in terms of how smooth it is porcelain feels like cream cheese is it good or is there reverb because if there's reverb we're going back to nada i know it was perfect one time so it don't have a rolling pin so i'm using this it's butane hi jessica and london geody what's up tg tim i'm glad you got your package hi vamp i hope you feel better susan shelly funo did i say that right hi christine perfecter you hear her more clear with the mic like it's like right in your earhole yeah is is it more perfect now can you hear me right in your earhole about this i think vamp more perfect okay you might uh i don't know why it wouldn't sound regular on on mine i don't know but um it's the most is perfect now okay good vamp i hope you're okay get some rest it's better than without cool awesome awesome awesome so i'm glad that you guys can hear me and that you're here to see what i'm up to today because i'm super excited about this because if you've been on my channel for a minute you know that i've been fiddling with flowers for a while example all of these things down here which can't see most of them but there's a lot of flowers i was distant now i'm with you sweet i wonder if it would mess anything up if jeff put on the other mic because if you say something now they're not going to be able to hear you okay let's start making flowers i'm not making pizza this is probably the closest i will ever come to making pizza because i am not a cook jeff's whispering in the background that it's true i didn't want to have a mic on this never i still love the rose behind you that you start on mix media girl well thank you christine i need to finish it but i'm letting it just live right there till i'm fully inspired on what to do okay first things first we're gonna get a little ball of clay you can actually use like foam instead it'll make things lighter and it won't allow for a stick if you're using a stick like this to just push all the way through i'm using a stick like this because it's all i have so yellow i'm boring some mod podge because the only thing i have that resembles glue into this cup because this is an air dry clay what i have found is it dries really fast so i need to be able to move really fast so first things first i'm going to take my this just be an expert at door dash um i'm pretty sure all the people at door dash grub hub postmates favor which i think is texas only knows us by name okay so i put a little bit of glue right too far uh it's crazy like you it looked like you would be able to see if you held it up here and it's like gone oh so i put a little bit of glue and or um mod podge on the end of my this i'm just gonna stick it down in there right up in there this part is only important in that it's going to help us create the shape of the flower you won't even really be able to see this is thursday date night because i'm scared okay one year ago six years ago you'd be in the life i'm just playing babe good i'm just i'm just listening okay so i got these on the amazon can't remember how much it was it wasn't that much um and these are cookie cutters but for clay or whatever that are petal size and shape and i think it came with this or i ordered this separate but this is a veiner nope yep i don't know i don't know what it's called um but i think bakers use this for um i'm just mad thirsty i think bakers use this to make um like sugar flowers or probably people do clay probably fondant anyways i'm gonna show you how to work this as well maybe we're good a fondant tool exactly hi bubba go lay down so we're gonna start with some some smaller petals first i'm gonna take the inside petal of this little set and cut out a couple of these guys i have watched i don't know how many tutorials so jeff and i share the same um everything and so whatever i watch on youtube and then it subsequently starts to recommend other videos that are the same or similar so jeff gets to um deal with all of those like how to get away with not life thing or if that's the thing get away with not life thing what does that mean you can't say like the m word or the s word on tiktok well this is youtube um on a live in people okay so this is a i guess it's called a ball tool because ball and somebody took off work today you have the same thing for your dog woods well i hope that you have all the things that you would need to do this already since you're already working on something similar what's up carry in the future took off work today finally able to make a live well lisa we are glad to have you hi cindy jeff's just gonna believe that you took off work only to be in the live so what i'm doing right now is just running the ball over the edge to thin out the edge and leave the center thicker and i don't know why this is but i have reasoned it to myself that their reason why is okay there's going to be so many that's what she said i'm just gonna y'all just gonna let me have it i'm sure so you want the pedals to stay stiff in the middle but sometimes curl on the edges so you want them thin to be able to curl but stiff to stand up okay so now they're past that um we just thinned out the edge hi christie and i take this fondant duma flotchy and create veins duma flotchy it's technical term you don't even have to really press it hard huh because it's not like it it's actually oh well you don't have to spray anything on there it just peels out yeah it just peels out because it's silicone so we have all that beautiful texture so this is my jam awesome ronda ronda we're glad to have you here especially with your jam especially especially because if i do something wrong i know you'll be able to tell me maybe don't do that give her some tips or some pointers or some ideas jeff wakes up in the morning and comes out of the bedroom and i'm in here slaving away over pedals and he's like still you're still we're still doing that because i want to get it perfect maybe i'll maybe i'll give a stab at hotel artwork again i'm doing great so far whoo if you don't have uh one of the ball rollers you can just use your finger and just press on the edges just to thin out just the edges christina gum paste that's the other word i was looking for i didn't know you did wedding cakes but i bet it was a gorgeous way to be productive sweet pea okay so we just a regular hand thinned this one what if you what if you put some of that dust dust the pigment on the mold and then press the mold in and you just put it on there and you put it on there petal so jeff recommended putting some of the powder pigment on the mold and pressed it in um the only reason why i'm not doing that is because i feel like it the color would then be there forever and if i decided to change colors um i don't cleaning silicone is not my favorite thing ronda said bad thing is my phone is at five percent and i don't have a charger dang it well okay well come over here and use my charger i did do that you're okay right what if the doorbell rang right now that'd be great okay so i have my this the next thing is i'm going to take the roller tool and just kind of work it into this center area to curl the petal around a little bit to make it look like a petal and then i'm going to take the other half of this stick and i'm going to curl just one side i'm going to curl just one side of my petal let me to drop this a little so maybe well i don't know what it looks like so maybe well sometimes you're now this is going to run out um or push out or flatten all of your vein detail on the petal and that's okay because it's going to be an inside petal anyways that's better hi kathy hi pamela better late than never hi melissa yeah it looks like we've got 39 people in here and 19 thumbs up we're going to need to straighten that up ladies and gents i know it's hot outside but that ain't affecting your thumb i know it's hot outside but it's not affecting your thumb okay so now i'm going to add my glue or if you're me and don't have glue you're going to add um mod podge because it's the only sticky thing i have that's super handy and paint it onto the bulb that we have is our center now i'm going to take my first petal and leave the curled edge that we did open because we're going to slide our next petal right in there and then we're going to do that a third time right in there okay so now we have the center of our this and i'm just working the clay just a little bit more to stretch everything around the center basically you could work this however you want you just don't want to flatten out any of the texture that's on the tip of these petals the only texture that matters in keeping right now there now we have the center to our flower oos and aas now what because of where your hands are and where the camera should be your just a lot of chest action a lot of chest action so i'm going to go up a new t-shirt thing what's the new t-shirt saying thanks for seeing i'll check that pic as soon as this feeds over so now the question is how do i want to color this you can pre-color your clay you can buy pre-colored clay you could paint it with acrylic paint or whatever or you can dust it i actually put some yellow in this to see if it would work look at boy cat boy cat is very interested in my flower down there i agree that's going to make what thing that i wonder if it's because it's a flower he's interested or because he's trying to pull off the gold leaf leave it to boy cat he's licking his paw he's like that kid that's trying to eat the chip and then dipping it in that picture of yeah barbecue that's on the it's hot outside but not oh would you say about thumbs oh it's hot outside but not hot enough to affect your thumbs so leave us some thumbs new t-shirt thing okay so let's move on um the yellow yellow yellow dusting it's on there i don't i think it was more in the air than it was on here so so i'm not gonna do that i'm going to just put the flower together and then i'm gonna dust the tips of my flower or try to talk jeff into air brushing the tips we'll see boy cat's ready for his on youtube channel right we used to have cat cam not sponsored all right now that we have our center done we're gonna cut out i think it'll take seven petals to do the next row could just be six who's to say we're just gonna cut them and since this is air drying clay i have been cutting them and getting them in random states of ready i'm putting them in closed ziplock bag so that i'm not losing working time for each petal as i go the clay i'm using is dots modeling clay it's in a red and white bag and funny enough the image on the bag is a rose so i know you can flower with it on some level so all of this is useless at this point so i have another bag of scrap a's scrap a's scrap a's it's like french but not it's fancy whatever it is so now we have all these guys and just like before we're going to thin out the edges stamp them and then we'll be applying them if you have kids a friend a buddy a husband a girlfriend a somebody that can production line petals for you that's going to be where it's at if they wanted to and i'm like welcome joseph also every time i hear the name joseph i think about joe coy because his first name is joseph and his mom's from not here philippines and so she calls him joseph roll on a sponge i don't have a sponge closest thing i have is a very stiff foam yeah joe coy is a riot him and chelsea handler dating or married or that's weird and she is a handful apparently chelsea handler is a full handful i don't i don't really see them together i'm glad they're you know i'm all for anybody being happy with whatever person they have i just wouldn't have pictured them together but i'm happy for happy people i feel like they were friends and then there was a little spark and they were like let's check it out okay this is fun i just wouldn't i wouldn't figure comics would i just wouldn't date a comic because i would just give them too much material and then i'd be like where's my cut because all of that was about me what's her name got divorced um the baby cobra she is ruthless no one can hear you probably can you guys hear jeff amy wong i think it's wong but it's not i don't think it's amy nope nope are you just reading all the names in the chat i don't think you said alley long yeah we can hear him but barely we held the way up he's about to have a stroke he's over there bleeding hard to get up on a table if you were just a little bit taller we should have with the baller we should have a girl who was good i would call her we should have a rabbit hat with a bat six form power oh i don't even know all the words to that song be so your time oh if you don't have one of these handy dandy vaders i don't know what you call them if not vaders um you can just take one of these kabob sticks and just roll it between your fingers this is apparently a dirty kabob stick is she gonna want the backsplash done it looks like everything like i love this type of something like because it's so we don't do backsplashes though right i mean we can backsplashes aren't my favorite especially not if it's essentially a wall so you can do that it does not look as good but it's an option Kathy says that's hilarious too much material i really would if Jeff did stand up the entire everything would be about let me tell you what my wife did today and then that would be it a whole it would be a two-hour special that he could put out every thursday oh he's a great trainer i am fully trained by my pup you like the Vayner okay we're gonna go with Vayner then my wife don't wear no shoes i don't have shoes on today Jeff could do stand up i agree he's pretty funny fella all right we got all of our these so next step that's just like the others is to paint on some sticky whatever sticky you're in the mood for oh he's on his way over here then and i can't answer him if you want to send him a text it's it's telling him i'm live already my toots oh i did that before doing the other stuff that i have to do take gum it i gotta make the pedals curl a bit it's funny because i just so happen to have those things and i think i got them for tracing something i think so that i wouldn't write on the image like doing transfer paper um carbon paper that one just came with it like the big it came in all different sizes so on this row of pedals we're gonna curl both sides be i didn't mean to thank you joella y'all gonna make me a divorced woman calling me out like that it's true where where were she where were the valves shoes in the studio need some shoes only one resident clause that's funny question can't you use slip so if this was a clay that would turn into slip which it may be able to have no idea um i haven't watered down this particular clay you could i'm not gonna fire this clay i'm so it doesn't matter if i use other kinds of adhesives also note that i'm curling both sides of the pedal this time it's going mild m i l d why does that seem like it wouldn't be so it should be like it should be like four or five more letters in there thank you shelly for saving my marriage with the clause oh and judy said jeff i saw you recently without shoes on in a video i'm about to place an order on stone coat website you have a code i could use absolutely jeffster 3t i think i i hope i said that right hey y'all mind your business are you supposed to be paying attention watching flower petals um ladies the code is y a l l all caps no punctuation for stone coats website okay so i'm hoping our mod podge is still sticky and so we're going to apply those so they go all the way to the base and cover up the seam and like where the petals meet and press them down there and we're going to leave one side open because we're going to be tucking the petals in after we get them all the way around i'm gonna add a little bit more sticky because some of my sticky dried i'm gonna tuck it in there in between this petal and this petal save me 50 bucks awesome glad to help is it like the the the guy agador sparticus agador sparticus no they make me fall down i don't wear shoes because they make me full down so every time you add petals you want them to i'll tell you actually about that after i get petals on because i don't want them to fall again i'm gonna have to add one extra like it's so funny when when we're live and if we have 30 people we have 50 people if we have 100 people like i get kind of like oh god there's a hundred people in here that's so awesome and then it goes to 50 and i think just imagine like you can't be mad at that just imagine if there were 50 people in the room standing behind you watching you what you're doing imagine if there were 20 people in a room standing watching you like that's basically what's happening but they're on here this thing is pretty i think it's pretty awesome yeah so there we go that's the new layer so each layer you want it to be just a little bit higher than the layer before it so if i stretched them all up like this point is higher than this point just slightly all right is it hard holding them all together so they don't fall it is but if i had a faster drying glue it would make things easier hello from canada tell everyone oh everyone i'm loving the clay petals thank you tracy hi sue thank you thank you thank you it would be a crowded studio right it is awesome you share yourselves well that's what we're here for every day most every day judy did her thumbs okay i'm going to tuck these away because i'm moving up in petal size these are going into my i can use those later bag this is what she made earlier what the the thumb i can't see the thumb count it says zero i'm gonna show it on there that's christina is showing 33 it says 33 on the phone do they dry in the bag they do not dry in the bag but i can just set that like in frame just take that little thing out yeah this one is falling i think i just have to add more glue oh we'll just leave it like that okay so this um that we rolled out a second ago was already dry on the edges you can see it's turning a little bit of a lighter white color and i don't want that to mess up my anything else so i'm cutting that off any of the dry bits meow we got to make one size bigger petal which is easy to do if you have the little cookie cutter things because they just nesting doll into each other and you can see which one's next well thank you joe so let's cut out this from what i read you want your nope what i listened to you want your clay to be i think they said two millimeters thick i don't speak millimeters so i just rolled it out to it could be like three sixteenths i don't know if that's a better or worse i would ask ronda but i think her phone died now we have all of our petals for the next layer thanks for watching with me you guys um i know this gets really repetitive and boring but the end result is gonna be a marathon did here airbrush the color on those no um this one i dusted with um micas and this one i painted with mica that i mixed into vivid enamel tinted pigment base have an awesome show tonight donna congrats and good luck the conversation is fun we usually have good conversation here sometimes it's not even about art it's just a great community to come in and talk about whatever it is that you're working on will you fire them these are actually no fire um flowers the clay is not something you have to fire i guess you could pop them in the oven at a pretty low temperature but i haven't done it so i can't recommend it or give tips about it it's fun to watch i need to put my legs up for an hour before my life cova did bad things to my body well you could um watch and have your feet up and good luck for your live i know it's going to be amazing need to tune in for one shoot me a message when you go live i don't know your schedule christina but love to pop in when i first started using this ball tool i wasn't trying to use it so i was rolling everything outward which i guess would still work thank you for now i started watching a jade kitchen next i'm starting a jade kitchen next week client saw the jade you guys did in the video with stone coat and loved it well jeffster i hope um is that the design you guys are going to give a shot is the one we did out at stone coat and we're going to take our medium petals give it a medium squish if you squeeze that rod will it like spread the pedal out or will it just make it really thin probably just make it really thin if i squish it really vigorously could you put just a ball in there or will you have to make it like that i don't think putting just a ball in this will work only because it's such a squishy and malleable mold i think it would just like bulb around well my love you should try it give me two seconds and i will hand you this and you can put any bit of that in here and give it a shot oh sure do you like the sample well that's almost the hardest part you have these linked in your amazon it will have these linked in the amazon by the end of this video the mold i'm using is i think it's made for bakers i think it's made for like gum paste flowers or like a fondant type but i found it on amazon and i'll also link it i can't remember if it came with these cookie cutters or not but i'll find out and let you guys know so we need to hollow out our petal so that it conforms to our flower i'm going to roll both sides everyone so do you think it's better if you maybe do that and then let them sit there for a little bit so they kind of stiffen up a little we could but then you have to just if you let them stiffen up before you apply them to the flower you're just gonna have to hope that it is the exact shape that you're looking for because there's no going back and a lot of times you have to pinch things around a little bit so i left that clay out while i was adding that last layer and my clay is starting to crack when i curl it around this little shish kebab skewer so even that amount of time is too much for this air dry clay to be out also could have to do with bowie's fan being right on me as well don't throw them in your purse they will break i bet they will so hiya mom there we go now we have our this we're gonna paint it with our sticky for me today it's mod podge they don't have any glue but if you have glue by all means i bet i could just mix in some acrylic paint into this clay and it would work but i haven't tried it so i don't know but i feel like it should work all right so i'm gonna apply it right where the last two petals met that little seam and tuck each petal into the previous one so i'm gonna leave this little flap open so that i can tuck another petal into it as i work my way around so that's another reason why it may not be the best to just let each petal dry unless you have pre measured i guess now that i have the whole row on i can add some pressure so that it stays on there and actually this one's gonna need a little bit more sticky that was the last one starting to look like a rose i saw that lost the chat should still be there i'm gonna go ahead and add these two because they're already made and they're so dry at this point that if i tried to save them i think they're too too far gone okay so now since we're just putting in a couple of rogue petals i'm just kind of estimating where it would look the best where it's a little bit low in petals apply some pressure awesome awesome sauce eval and i just might i'm actually watching a video right now that's doing basically roses that are the size of my thumb which is bananas wow joe i hope that surgery goes well i've never gone through a surgery like that but i hope it isn't too invasive sounds like it would be them also isn't that a surgery you have to go through with your eyes open i don't know if i can do that also this is the brand of clay i'm using i don't carry this brand of clay i'm not sponsored by them they didn't send me that for free but if they're watching what's up this is the first petal i did and i was like bam i'm gonna make some flowers so now we're gonna do our probably last petals and then i'm gonna try to talk jeff into airbrushing my flowers but i haven't told him that yet so y'all don't tell him thank you joe so i am not a chef or a pastry person or anything that cooks or uses science i learned the hard way that you have to like pick up and rotate your clay or i guess even dough so it doesn't stick or start to curl the things you learn you know now i feel like i could make a whole pizza and it would turn out okay but if we're on us i probably wouldn't eat it so am i i bet you do amazing flowers to throw for your awesome parties p.s can you throw my next birthday party she does bananas parties over there i plan to use them on ocean tropical inspired multimedia pieces carry that sounds amazing okay so i'm using the next biggest a little cookie cutter also this clay isn't that expensive i don't remember off hand what it was but it was definitely in the affordable range because i remember looking at the price like okay granted it's not the biggest bag but yeah tg i hope you had fun pup sitting and helping your cousin get back to um 100 okay so let's get this last ring of petals started then out the edges and then smush it is a lot better to work with fresh clay than clay that has been sitting out a bit so if you do roll some out and there's some left over at least try to put it into a ziplock bag or something cover it and i don't know what you cover things in um maybe not wax paper i don't know if that takes moisture out of stuff but maybe aluminum foil and yeah a lot of people use like a little foam thing to roll their petals out on but Kathy probably could use a damp paper towel i'm actually out of paper towels right now adulting fail i know but oh my goodness you guys all said the same recommendation great minds make sure you don't make your petals too thin because then they'll rip coming out of your um vane or mold i don't know what to call that petal mold probably petal mode mold green glass rods so i bought some what's it called i think they use them for actual flowers sometimes i don't know but they're green there's just stems but they look like they're made of like a wire so i don't know how it works unless you just bend the ends of them so that it doesn't poke through the end of your flower the tip of your flower but i didn't know they made them in glass and that is something that i would be very interested in i'll have to look those up just thinning them out on the edge and then squish i feel like i'm doing a smush coaster when i do this you make a hook and stick it in the bud part while wet that's how i figured he did all right i hope these petals aren't too big and on this last one we're gonna curl three times instead of just two we're gonna curl the middle as well the petals will look like this now since these are bigger i'm gonna actually apply them as i go i think i haven't done it this way yet but we're gonna do it this way meow okay just like before i love making flowers sorry just had a moment i do need a rose holder thingy one day i will find one sticky stuff to apply next petal that ends a little thick thank you kathy ooh that would be good tg ooh i'll have to search that up for another thank you for the a device that it would shelly i just don't have don't have any two pounds is ten dollars 38 what's that vamp i thought you were taking a nap what's up tutor we get more likes i know i don't know maybe one day i'll get more thumbs i'm always here vamp is always in the shadows well if you need to take a nap i get it goodness this thing's getting heavy i wonder if any kind of glue would be like what kind of glue would be best for this three more petals and then we can make it be a color autocorrect gets me every time e6000 it could work sometimes e6000 takes a bit to dry if i didn't have to pick up and put down this flower which fun fact i'm holding between my knees um it'd be a lot easier so i think my next purchase will be a foam holdy thing some sort wondering if the clay nope wondering if the moisture in the mod podge will cause the clay to get wetter and then not dry i don't think so i haven't had an issue yet these other two are pretty together at least so far i don't know they're they seem to be sticking well and even if it does make it just a little bit wetter um that might just help the clay have just like a slurry spot kind of i don't know if that makes sense but someone brought up using a slip instead and if it makes it wetter then it should aid it a little bit in sticking because it would be a slip right so there's our flower sorry we've been watching bobsburgers and now i have that kind of accent sometimes apparently i don't know so now for color i'm just kind of pushing i can't show you maybe i can i don't know i'm just kind of making sure that everything's pushed into the previous layer i don't have any wilting issues uh cardboard cone that could be kind of cup upside down and poke a hole so i have actually some foam next to me but it's like a a stiff foam so yeah do i need to be what are your thoughts on if i use airbrush on this one also can i borrow you can you put this pedal into here i can't get it open with one hand i don't i don't know maybe the airbrush will like you think the airbrush would i mean if it does then i'll just put it back i'm using my this to add just a yellow hue i think this thing is called a bug i think it's actually made to kill bugs like disperse powdered bug killer i don't know airspark here but now it's a little bit yellow so what color large funnel i wouldn't i wouldn't have a large funnel duster yeah don't do that okay so in that case we're going to do what i did with some of my other ones we're going to use for this we um we tutor came all the way in and you didn't even say hi to him i'm not being very good good good so i'm using resin arts hotlips this is actually a flat or transparent color from them um i don't use it a lot in resin because just doesn't do the best things for me in resin because you have to do a whole bunch of stuff to it first it's not my favorite so i'm just going to use it now to do this is dusting it on the tip just the tip just dry mica this will work better if your petals are still a little bit wet i'm going to go for it anyway because i have adhd i jump around i'm doing stuff like this so i don't go from like the center out or finish a whole petal before moving on so anyone wants to know why i'm all over the place that's why tutors said there's only two hotlips left in stock so if it's on your wish list get it now fluffy eyeshadow brushes do work well could you spray varnish to set the powder yeah absolutely it's a sweet yeah give it a shot i think i'm gonna add more yellow as well after i get all of this on there i just want a dark edge you know use suitor twinkle today i bet it was amazing so blush brush would also work but i'm i'm trying to only be on the edges and any bigger or looser bristle brush will give me less control over where the color goes why gotta be horrible at me i see you you were anyone else i would tell you to throw a wrench at you she refuses to use the word even in proper circumstances not never will i ever use that word stop it type it up not never won't do it why you gotta drop the m word all over the place and yes it does there's things you could deal with because you're grown up because the clay is drying and so the mica is not sticking as well but this is way quicker i think if it doesn't look good by the end of it you should still airbrush it just so we can see what it will look like and if it blows all the other mica out then whatever somebody asked if you can put alcohol on it or i don't know how alcohol would affect whatever is in this clay but i have a petal that i can see she's gotten sassy in her married life who's sassy immersed i can deal with that i'm sassy you can see where the mod podge was just a little bit still fluid in these little areas where it's getting hot pink you could use a fine mist and actually since all of this is on here i wonder if it would look awesome if we did mist it it to make the dark purple color turn that bright pink that's in there a dry clay i have suggest spritzing with water spray if it dries too fast okay i have a water mister here right there let's just see what happens let's close this so we don't ruin that okay found water nope i'm trying to control the spritz nope mommy mommy mommy mommy i mean it might i'm gonna put more of this gold on there because it is also water based and it may look even more awesome or i bet if i painted all these petals with mod podge first actually i could do that after this water dries if it doesn't look awesome then she don't think airbrush will work right will you turn that a little bit this week because i don't want to hit those two i think it's gonna look great or just move if you move i'll just zoom in atomizer where this is too big dropy all right sorry bowie 64 people up in here what's up all 64 y'all please subscribe because i mean you're already here all right are you gonna i'm gonna use this little guy let me move it's like very hold on so it's very fine miss so then i they can see me doing it you need the white one what white one okay don't get too much in there okay oh y'all don't just bring me in the face hope your mic dies yeah but you just sprayed your mic that's on my lapel probably waterproof isn't well that looks awesome because look it add it added all these little speckles never i'm dewy so all these little awesome speckles just all upset because i just did the same thing to him he's not upset there you guys i'm just going gold happy because it makes it shimmery may need one more spritz of gold i mean of water though be just to blend all that i just didn't how ethereal did it okay do what you gotta do i'm watching y'all while testing out some colors for countertops sweet we have to do a a countertop test soon huh maybe maybe two so what do you guys think of my flower are you gonna give it a shot the war hoping to achieve amazon green granite what colors did you use on yesterday's life dark turquoise by color obsession purple by color passion titanium by just resin just resin black and bright gold by just resin i think eveline said okay so how are you gonna ship that to me because it's fine um this may have to be hand delivered but um that can also happen and i think if i were to try to ship something like this i would just have to dunk it in resin like i would have to resin it right like get one of those glass stems that was recommended either resin it in there or glue it and then just dip it in resin leave a couple of those out yeah if i drop this it's gonna shatter really we're gonna shatter it it'll break yeah it's just clay that wasn't a hard job it's not gonna shatter oh light aquamarine oh thank you christie love it so the colors used were hotlips from resin art and primary elements pixie dust i do not have pixie dust but i think i have isadora which would probably look really good because isadora is a more abrasive yellow a brighter yellow it'd be more opaque probably this is kind of just an interference with a little bit of yellow in it but um i only use those two colors and then the dust air dry clay do i say hotlips because i meant to all right y'all i'm gonna attempt to make some tea tiny flowers soon if you guys want me to do that on a live i'll do it but if you prefer a time lapse i can do that as well bubble wrap box and ship i'm trying what you should do is take the little water drops on there and then hit it with the light don't we have some there's you do right there you guys the live is not over nobody move price these up if you want well just resin just doesn't that please you guys y'all jeff had a brilliant idea i can't even steal it for my own i'm gonna put a drop of uv resin because it's dewy outside don't you drop that stupid m word at me so this uv resin is by just resin i'm just gonna put two little drippy drops right there just see how it looks it may disperse the um pigment which would make it look even more awesome maybe that's a good idea evaline this could be a look all on its own we're gonna take a do the next step it's not focusing on my do can't really see it anyway drops or uv so just resins uv you want to add a couple more of them though so we do have a september class it is in sigine texas marcy mix media girl will be there i go give me that yeah you just fully took it but that's fine look how crazy that looks look do you see it on there when you know i know it looks good the little raindrops the little drops look good happy to oblige kary have an awesome day at work but yeah we do have a class in sigine in september and also this weekend here i just had one person cancel if anyone's interested i have spot open should i like do this so it doesn't like it looks like it's just kind of dripping off oh my god it's kind of difficult to see though you know add glitter that would add glitter glass it's very difficult because it picks up the the pink yeah because i think it's just activating the pink not mean i mean you guys see that pink glow that's what hot lips looks like when it's activated as opposed to the darker purple version you can kind of see it like it looks like there's a light inside so that's how one of the drops turned out right there i don't know if it's gonna focus but hope so and then jeff added this running dew drop right there jeff my pleasure kathy i could put a crystal on it it's already cured that's fun i'm gonna put one up here so since i can't see my dew drops really i might add a crystal i love that idea of adding a crystal though so i do have two hotlips left that is the color of the pink i use i can't get this bled on we help help thank you couldn't find them this so y'all who all's gonna try to do a rose kathy thank you so much for that i don't know where button is i never know where it is thank you for that donation all donations that come through the channel go right back go right back into the channel that's crazy how bright of a glow that hotlips is and they can't even really see it so now i want to do a black rose with chameleon what do you guys think real quick second i was like i could just uv resin all the petals on but no because no light can get to so anyways ordering the rose form tonight so as soon as we're done with the live i will get on our amazon and add all the stuff that i use today trying to flatten the bottom out so this um i hope you guys enjoyed it i hope you give it a shot if you haven't subscribed yet please do so it um really helps our channel we are we're on the road to a hundred subs no a hundred thousand sorry you need to open up that dom we do need to open the dom too dom long so thank you guys so so much for watching like i said before please subscribe if you haven't already hit the bell so that you get notifications sometimes when youtube feels like sending them out and yeah be kind of one another because you never know what someone's going through i was i zoomed it in on my these i need to do more with this little one the black rose online class i can make it an online class would you guys be interested in a rose class now that you're a professional basically i've done three roses so so now i can sell classes that's how it works right anyways y'all an awesome day we'll see you guys um what's it tomorrow i have to go get tammy from g utes and um hoping to have tammy in for a class tomorrow maybe she'll show me how to do a bloom if she feels so inclined i thought you wanted to get down but yeah we will see you guys tomorrow we kind of want another because you never know what someone's going through and always remember we do the test so you don't have to


game the Yankees six four winners this afternoon to the stadium over the Detroit Tigers taking the first two games of this three game set time to get things back out to the stadium here from today's broadcast team of Michael K and David Cone. All right thanks Ryan it's nice to see a guy like Jameson Tyone who has put in so much work to Tommy John surgeries and obviously the more serious issue of testicular cancer didn't pitch last year Yankees took a flyer on him making the trade with the pirates and he nails down his first win David in two calendar years exactly two years ago it has to mean a lot for him. Yeah that's remarkable that you brought that up on the air I didn't realize it was to the day and you know all that hard work and for a guy like that too I mean this isn't just you know talking about a good story or somebody that's easy to pull for this guy really has had an incredible human interest story that means so much more than the game and he's also a great teammate he's the kind of guy that's so easy to pull for not because he's a good pitcher not because he's going to help the Yankees because he deserves it he's that kind of a guy and and those are character guys that can really help a clubhouse and that's hard to quantify sometimes but Jameson Tyone is one of those type of characters. Now the difference today than previous starts better second time through the order and for the first time as a Yankee he went third time through the order as well so what did you see or is this just a continuing refinement of his skills after being having such a long layoff. Well I saw him use his curveball again and he had talked to Meredith Morakovitz about getting a feel for that pitch again and when you talk about the shape of his curveball not only the velocity but the spin he gets on it it's elite it's in the top 10 percent of all of baseball so he really got a feel for that today and he threw it for strikes six times he threw it for strikes it really saved him and you have to prove and I've said this before and it bears repeating Michael as a starting pitcher you have to throw something other than your fastball consistently for strikes and today for Jameson Tyone it was that curveball. All right let's skip ahead to the ninth inning because I think sometimes it just gets lost in the fact that the Yankees win a game he's five for five and save opportunities but in his ninth outing another two strikeout performance by Chapman that's 22 strikeouts this year and really at times on the mound David I don't know if you agree he almost looks unhittable. At this point yes and word is out everybody knows now hey have you seen Chapman splitter it is filthy and it is and it's in his back pocket and he's got the slider and his velocity is up we've talked about all of these factors but how about the control how many times have we seen Chapman over the last couple of years come in and it takes a hitter for him to find the strike zone and then all of a sudden you know maybe he does maybe he doesn't but not this year not only is all the stuff there not only is the splitter an incredible weapon for him but he's painting that fastball and he is attacking hitters and his confidence maybe is at an all-time high


It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? Larry Lusser from the CBS television news staff, and August Heckscher, chief territorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune. Our distinguished guest for this evening is Sir Alexander Grantham, Governor-General of Hong Kong. Most of us have become familiar with the name Hong Kong, if not with that British crown colony itself, because of the Korean War, and those charges that the island of Hong Kong was furnishing communist China with the sinews of war while British and American troops were fighting the Chinese communists on the other side in Korea. But our guest tonight, who is the governor of that strategic little island, knows the story. So Alexander, how much illegal trade was going on with the Chinese communists while British and American troops were actually fighting the communists in Korea? Well, the best way of answering that would be to quote a former American consul general in Hong Kong who said a mere trickle. To give substantiation to that, I'd make these points. Hong Kong has loyally carried out the terms of the United Nations embargo on trade in strategic or semi-strategic goods with China. Moreover, Hong Kong itself produces nothing, nothing whatever, that communist China wants. Therefore, all the communist China wants from Hong Kong has to come from other countries first. And other countries will not export to Hong Kong unless they are satisfied that those goods of strategic value are not going to be passed on to communist China. If those countries want to export to communist China, the goods will bypass Hong Kong, deliberately avoid Hong Kong because they are afraid of the controls and the penalties that Hong Kong imposes on such form of illegal trade. Sir Alexander, is there a large mass of legal trade going on now between Hong Kong and China, or has that been greatly reduced as a result of these circumstances? The answer to that is yes in both cases. That might seem a little bit illogical, but Hong Kong has as its natural trading partner China. But as a result of the United Nations embargo and also of the terms and conditions that the Chinese communists impose on trade with their country, the trade has dropped very considerably. Our trade now, since the imposition of the embargo, has dropped by one third, which naturally has had a very serious effect on the economy of the colony and the livelihood of its people there. What would happen, sir Alexander, if Hong Kong cut off all its trade with China because China is not a peace-loving country and is even now threatening for most of it? Now, if I might kick the ball back at you, sir, might I ask you the effect on Hong Kong or on communist China? The effect on Hong Kong. The effect on Hong Kong would be very serious indeed because Hong Kong is not self-supporting in foodstuffs, for instance. In foodstuffs, roughly taking the overall picture, we get about half our food from communist China, notably pigs and notably fresh vegetables. And then Hong Kong would have to be supplied from overseas and since the distances are very great, either from Britain or from Australia or America, it would be quite a problem. Well, sir Alexander, in other words, if at any time the Chinese communists wish to get Hong Kong, they could merely starve you out there. Oh, no. If it came to that, then that is really war. And when it's war, then we would be a fortress. And since the free world controls the seas, it would be possible, and I'm quite sure would be done, to continue to supply Hong Kong with all the foodstuffs that it needed to carry on the fight for freedom. Now, Hong Kong was overcome by the Japanese early in the Second World War. Isn't that quite true? That is quite correct. Hong Kong was attacked on Pearl Harbor Day, and it surrendered to the overwhelming forces of the Japanese on Christmas Day. But we have to remember that at that time the Japanese had control not only of the sea, but also of the air, whereas today we have controlled both of the sea and of the air, which makes it simple. And you think it is a thoroughly defensible island? I certainly do. I do not pose myself as a military expert, but I am quoting the opinion of the highest military authorities in Britain, and without mentioning any names, also the United States. Well, sir Alexander, how valuable is Hong Kong to the free world as a naval base? Does that outweigh its economic importance? As a naval base, I should say it's not very great at the moment, because from the British point of view, there is the far bigger and more up-to-date naval base at Singapore, which is only 1,500 miles away. That is not the real importance of Hong Kong today. Well, sir Alexander, is Hong Kong ever threatened by the Chinese communists? Do they ever make dangerous gestures in your direction? Well, I've got to use polite language, but they make sometimes impolite noises at us, but it hasn't got further than that. They don't make it a major part of their propaganda to agitate continually the Hong Kong question. No, no, that is eased off considerably. They did in the early days. They were accusing Hong Kong of all sorts of crimes and iniquities, amongst those being a stooge of American imperialism. Well, sir Alexander, what are your relations with the Chinese on the main, and are they hostile or do you conduct business on a polite, correct basis, or is there actually a friendly feeling? The official relationship is nil. We have no official relationships whatsoever. I would describe the attitude of the Chinese communists towards Hong Kong as one of cold hostility, but mainly of a passive rather than of an active nature. Well, then did you approve of the visit of the former Labour Prime Minister of Britain to Baping, Clement Attlee? Well, now you've handed me a real red hot potato. But I'm very fond of potatoes, so I'll even take this hot one. I thought that visit was unfortunate. Shall we leave it at that? Well, sir Alexander, if I could change the subject, what is life like now inside the island of Hong Kong? There are, I think, a great number of refugees who have come in from China. Are the economic conditions depressed? Is living there tolerable? I'll take that question by stages backwards. Living is certainly tolerable and there is a remarkable degree of confidence. We are very overcrowded. And I'm sure you'll appreciate that when I tell you that on the liberation of the colony by the British Pacific Fleet in August 1945, the population was half a million. Today, it is two and a half millions and our trade has dropped by one third. And the way the people of Hong Kong carry on under such difficult conditions, I think, is really most remarkable. Well, sir Alexander, I take it that most of the people in Hong Kong are Chinese. I'd like to ask you, are they friendly to the communist regime or to the nationalist regime in Formosa? Originally, when I say originally, that means 1949 when the communists overran the whole of China. Then they were inclined to be friendly to the new regime, which was the communist regime. They didn't then see it in its true colors. But they are now disillusioned. And that was well demonstrated last October when on the respective national days of the communists, the 1st of October, and of the nationalists on the 10th of October, the display of flags on the 10th of October was tremendous, greater than I've ever seen it before. Has Chiang Kai-shek ever come to Hong Kong? No, he has not come to Hong Kong at any time, whatever. Well, sir Alexander, I take it that nevertheless in this flood of refugees that you had originally, there must have been some Chinese communist agents, some sort of a fifth column. Now is there any danger that Hong Kong might be entirely subverted by the Chinese communists and you might wake up one morning and find yourself a prisoner there? I should say that the danger of that is about nil. Admittedly, some agents do slip in, but we know who the main communist leaders are in the colony. And at the requisite moment we would if we wanted to pick them up. But we prefer to keep them above ground rather than have them underground. And the net result and the net of Hong Kong is an asset to the free world as well as to Great Britain itself? Very definitely, very definitely. Well, incidentally, sir, are the communists in Red China talking about increasing trade now, now that there is a settlement in Geneva? Oh, they certainly are, yes. Oh, that's one of their great propaganda lines. Intelligent businessmen won't fall for it. Although they would like to see legitimate trade in non-embarrassed goods with China increasing. What is the value, then, of Hong Kong? Is it a place to get information from behind the so-called bamboo curtain? Oh, yes, we go. I think it's the best of all places for that. Well, sir, Alexander, may I ask you this? Could you say in Hong Kong that you can read the temperature of the world in regard to war and peace in Asia? Can you get some idea of how the Chinese feel about this? 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Franklin and Marshall falls 17-9 to Amherst here on day one of the Mustang Classic. Glenn Clark with coach Todd Cavallero. Coach you guys bounce back after falling behind 2-0 and ran off three straight goals. In that second quarter what went wrong that really allowed them to pull away? Well I think Amherst is a team and we talked about all week they got so much firepower between the lines they put a lot of pressure on you clearing the ball and all the little things that we talked about certainly not giving them transition not having failed clears opportunities not winning face-off so it was a combination of those three things with a high potent offense and seemed like every time we made a mistake and failed to clear the ball they jammed it right down our throat and certainly in the second quarter I just never felt offensively that we were able to get into any groove you know it seemed like they'd have the ball for three four five minutes at a time because our failed clears lost lost face-offs or just not great turnovers at our offensive end we never really gotten to a rhythm and and they capitalized on it and they're a great team and we talked about it over and over again the more mistakes you make especially in that second quarter we gave them plenty of opportunities and credit to them and in the coaching staff that they they took advantage of every one of those opportunities. As far as positives are concerned you made a change at the face-off X in the second half and it ended up changing the numbers and you guys actually won the face-off battle in half number two can you tell me a little bit about Luke Sleevers and maybe what might happen moving forward. Well we knew it was going to be by committee we think the world of their face-off guys and you know we have guys that compete every day and and depending on the day the other one's better every day it's not the same consistent face-off guy so we're okay going by committee the first two guys had a shot early on and and weren't getting it done and Daniels Lever came in and did a fantastic job if there was one highlight I thought he came in and kind of changed a little bit of the momentum tried to allow us to fight back into the game a little bit but again they took it to us early and often and we're just trying to fight our way out at that point. The good news about this event if you can come away with a win tomorrow you're probably gonna feel pretty good about the weekend. Absolutely you know you could go 0-2 you can go 2-0 you go 1-1 in this event and this is our first year so I think we're still figuring it out a little bit you know we ran into a buzz saw on that second quarter and couldn't climb our way out of it you know you don't have time to dwell on it I'm dwelling on it for the next 24 hours our team will as well a little bit but the good thing is you get to move on and hopefully get a good taste in your mouth and learn from the first game and get better in the second game and that's what we're hoping to do against Denison tomorrow at 1-45. Coach we appreciate you coming up here after a tough one and appreciate having you guys here at the Mustang Classic. Thanks so much and I want to give a shout out to you guys I think it's a great event coach canabine does a fantastic job and all of you do a fantastic job as well so much appreciated. Coach Todd Cavallero I'm Glenn Clark this is the Mustang Classic


Ashwagandha is an ancient herb that may provide a dozen different benefits. But does it really work? Well, let's find out. Hey, what's up, Greg here from Your Inception. If you want to learn top secrets about naturopics, subscribe below to start a journey. Today we're going to talk about Ashwagandha. Now, this is an adaption herb that has been used for centuries in Ayurveda, the traditional Indian medicine. Now, the most potent part of this herb are its roots, and that's what most high quality extracts are made of. Now, people use this part in her mainly for relieving stress, but also for boosting energy. The question is, what else can Ashwagandha do? Can it provide any other benefits? Well, in this video, we're going to look at the benefits, we're going to look at the side effects, daily recommend dosage, and at the end of the video, I'm going to tell you if I recommend it or not. So, if you're ready, let's just begin. The first benefit of Ashwagandha is that it reduces cortisol levels. Now, studies show that it is very beneficial in reducing the levels of cortisol, especially it is the most effective for chronically stressed individuals. The second benefit is that it may reduce stress and anxiety. Now, among all benefits that Ashwagandha brings, it is most well known for these exact two benefits. And Ashwagandha is especially effective for people with anxiety disorders. However, double blind placebo studies show positive results also for people without anxiety disorders. The third benefit of Ashwagandha is that it may boost memory. Now, animal studies show that it can boost cognitive performance in animals with a brain injury or a disease. However, keep in mind that Ashwagandha has been used as a memory booster for over 3,000 years. So, something must be going on here, right? The fourth benefit of Ashwagandha is that it may help with depression. One particular study in which participants were given 600 milligrams of Ashwagandha showed a staggering 79% reduction of depression. So, if you suffer from depression, Ashwagandha may help you. Are there any other benefits of using Ashwagandha? Absolutely. It can reduce blood sugar levels. It works as an antioxidant, so it may decrease inflammation and even have anti-cancer properties. It may help with insomnia and sleep-related issues. And it may even increase power output. By the way, guys, if you like this video, please press the like button below. So, if you decide to take Ashwagandha, you need to know the recommended dosage. And this varies somewhere between 300 to 500 milligrams of a high-quality root extract per day. Now, experts recommend taking Ashwagandha with food. Since this is a very safe natropic, you can take it for weeks, months or even years. However, keep in mind we still don't know what's going to happen after years and years of taking. However, since Ashwagandha has been used for over 3,000 years, you're probably very much on the safe side. When it comes to the side effects, Ashwagandha is considered very safe, but of course, you need to follow the recommendations from experts and of course your doctor. Now, keep in mind that a high dosage can cause mild sedation, so you need to be careful with that. So, the final question is, should you supplement Ashwagandha or not? Well, based on the studies that we've seen and based on all the benefits that it can bring, we definitely recommend using and supplementing Ashwagandha.  By the way guys, if you're searching for any high-quality supplements that do contain Ashwagandha, check the links below. Cool, thank you for watching guys. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Don't forget to follow your inception on Facebook and Instagram. Don't forget subscribing to this channel and I hope to see you soon. Take care.


Hey guys, this is Melissa with Oxymor Auto Group and today we are out here at Oxymor Toyota with Chuck Schumann He's gonna be showing us some really cool features on this all-new 2019 Sienna limited platinum. Yes What do you have for us? Well, this thing is loaded. It's got all kinds of stuff So standard on every 2019 Sienna and I want to point out we've got 19s and 20s right now So when you come in there's a few 19s left. They have really good incentives on them for this month And so we really you know want to if you want the 19s, they're going quickly We don't have a ton and those incentives aren't going to be here for forever So we really want to highlight that but also on every Sienna whether you're limited platinum or the LE You've got Toyota safety sense piece. So pre-collision pedestrian detection automatic high beams lane departure alert Dynamic radar cruise control all of that standard in every 2019 and 2020 Sienna Now in this one also, there's a little camera here. There's cameras underneath the side view mirrors This gives you bird's-eye view. So it's a 360 degree view on the radio of what's around your car in real time This also has parking sensors this park assist here beeps If you get too close to these two front corners and then in the rear when you're backing up You've got the backup cameras You got the birds-eye view and if you're still getting too close to something it's going to beep at you to let you know So super safe all around it's like there's a force field around this vehicle But there's all kinds of creature comforts luxury things as well. So let me open up the side door for you here Leather seats captain's chairs the third row Blu-ray player up here with a split screen blu-ray player and then if you also see we've got two Moon roofs than this. So we've got one actually up here as well but you can I have that turned off there you go So from the back you can control That it's a party, you know, pop out with the champagne and Head to prom Right in the minivan. Yeah, don't tell mom And uh, so one of the other things I want to point out is the apple car plane. How simple this is, right? So everybody's like, oh, I pair my phone to this and doesn't if you've got an apple iPhone and you're in the sienna You plug this into the main usb here menu Car play and there's my phone So I've got navigation in here. I've got my music podcasts I got ways so if I want to be on the highway and you know get alerts about cars on the shoulder every You know quarter of a mile. I can go to waste and do that and it's going to tell me it's fantastic I just went to north carolina recently and did this and I knew where every car on the shoulder was going to be the entire way There it was awesome But it's super simple. You just plug it in my phone's not paired to this anybody with an iPhone can plug it in If you want to play dj you can take over the cord and you know go to town with that We've got three way air control all on air conditioning today because it's uh, you know, very warm out But you can turn this off should we Sorry kenny All right, you didn't object. So we'll give him air again. So, okay You can turn that off to the back if you're just you and uh passenger just you save on fuel efficiency Navigations actually built into this. So if you don't want to use ways you can do that There's bird's eye view. Let me show this real quick Let me turn on the parking assist then this And check this out. It's going to give me a scan See if there's any werewolves or anything spooky outside of the I watched a werewolf movie last night. So I'm on high alert Okay, so you got to watch out for those. Yeah, if I stick my hand out. Will it show?  It looks like a man's hand. It looks like a chuck hand. Oh, that was me So yeah, all kinds of cool technology features stuff here to entertain the kids such as yourself You can keep an eye on them back here with the Uh bus driver thing so you can yell at him and all that so This is just taking them to prom. It's when you're taking them to prom get down How'd you get champagne back there tony good? No, awesome. Well, thank you so much for showing us those features If you guys have any questions regarding this sienna, you can find us at oxmortoyota.com or you can give us a call at<PHONE_NUMBER> Thanks so much


When ISIS famously overran the city of Mosul in one day in June 2014, it was not the first time that this had happened. A little over a decade ago in November 2004, ISIS's previous incarnation, al-Qaeda in Iraq, under the command of Abu Musab al-Zarkawi, also seized control of Mosul in a single day, along with some of its Sunni and Syrian allies. And that opened what became a multi-year battle for control of Mosul and the rest of Nineveh province, a battle that eventually centered on the strategic city of Tlauffer, west of Mosul, which was the most significant waypoint for foreign fighters coming in to Iraq from Syria. At one point in mid-2005, about half of all the violence taking place in Iraq was taking place in Tlauffer, as Zarkawi's men fought very hard to hold on to it. One of yesterday's speakers, General H. R. McMaster, was the commander leading the American part in that battle. But today we'll hear from McMaster's Iraqi partner. From 2005 to 2008, General Najem Djiboury led the Iraqi campaign against al-Qaeda in Nineveh province, first as a police commander and then as a community leader, as the mayor of the city of Tlauffer. And more than probably anyone else in Washington, General Najem has seen the group that now calls itself the Islamic State up close. And I think that's why we're lucky today to be able to hear his thoughts on what it would take to push them out of Mosul and Nineveh province once again. So with that, General Najem. Good afternoon. And thank you for this opportunity to address this future of war conference. I would like to give you my perspective as an Iraqi commander and local leader who fought against al-Qaeda in Iraq in the territory that is now the heartland of ISIS. The cities of Mosul and Tlauffer in Northern Iraq. In 2004, Mosul and the rest of Nineveh province was under the control of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and they were able to prevent the people from voting in the election of January 2005. But from 2005 to 2006, al-Qaeda was defeated in Nineveh province. This was possible for five reasons. The joint operation of the American forces, the Iraqi security forces, and the Kurdish forces who worked closely together. A tribal reconciliation which led to the tribes of Nineveh during Agnes al-Qaeda and supporting the operations of the security forces. The relationship between the people and the security forces, especially the American forces, before 2005, the people of Nineveh had no trust in the Iraqi security forces and also no trust in the American. But in 2005 and 2006, we held many meetings to listen to the people and their complaints about the abuses of the militias and the Iraqi security forces. The Americans worked with the Iraqi forces to restrain the bad behavior of the Iraqi security forces, especially the police, which gained the people's trust. For once the people learned to trust the Americans and the Iraqi forces, they provided good intelligence that helped the security forces target al-Qaeda with the precision, with less damage to the abomination. Finally, the American forces and the Iraqi security forces had to gain control of Tullafur and other towns west of Mosul in order to stop the many foreign fighters who came to Iraq through Syria. By the middle of 2006, al-Qaeda was defeated in Nineveh. But the victory did not last because as time went by, many of the Iraqi leaders forgot these five necessary ways in which the victory had been won. The situation today is different, but the principles are the same. To defeat ISIS in the future, we should remember these things. First, it is still true that Mosul and Tullafur are the heart of ISIS, territory in Iraq. If they are defeated in Mosul and Tullafur, they cannot hold on to Iraq. Second, in summer 2014, ISIS captured a lot of territory and showed that they are a serious threat, but they also made many mistakes that turned the local people against them. They made the mistake of killing many respected Iraqi military officers living near Mosul and they made the mistake of being harsh to the people. Now the people of Nineveh want ISIS to go out, but they are afraid of the militias that might come north to Mosul. And they also don't trust the Bishmarga. This means the forces that come to liberate Mosul and Tullafur must include tribal fighters from the local area. In other words, there must be another tribe awakening in Nineveh. If the military, operations are going to work. Third, the operations against ISIS must be driven by good intelligence so that the operation can target ISIS without harming the people. And this good intelligence will only come once the people trust the security forces enough to provide information. Fourth, if we win the people, if we win the people, we win the battle. We have to listen to them, to their concerns and we cannot hold them guilty for the crimes of ISIS that they did not having anything to do with. I think it will be very difficult to defeat ISIS in Nineveh without American forces. The Iraqi forces will not be ready to win the in Mosul without help. The good thing is that the American forces will be more trusted by people in Mosul today than they were in 2005. The people are desperate for help and they will be glad for American support. In order for a military victory over ISIS in Nineveh to last for the long term, there are two major things that must be done. There must be a rebuilding of Mosul so that there can be an economic recovery and the people will have jobs. But most important, the Sunni people will not choose to fight against ISIS for the long term until there is an end to the debatification law that is used not to exclude the bath but to exclude Sunnis. As long as this law is used against the Sunni people, there will not be true reconciliation in Iraq. And Mosul, Salah al-Din, Ramadi, Diala and every other Sunni area will not be safe from ISIS. As I said before, if we win the people, we win the battle. Thank you so much.


Welcome back, it's still Business Insight and Lost TV Africa, and we look at real estate sector vis-a-vis the housing deficit. In Nigeria, however, access to affordable housing has lastly stayed a pipe dream for the vast majority, particularly the middle and lower classes, which takes about 80% of the populace. The march of housing deficit has gotten worse over time, with successive government grappling with it. According to a publication by the CBN, Nigeria's housing deficit was at $7 million in 1991 and rose to $12 million in 2007 for $10 million in 2010, $20 million in 2019, and according to the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, it is currently at $28 million as that's January this year. I have a real estate consultant and public affairs analyst joining me right now to look more at this issue. I have Mustafa Iwela, many thanks for joining me on Business Insights on Lost TV Africa. I'll just read out some statistics, it is really alarming how over the years we have jumped through about $28 million as that's January this year. Okay, first of all, let me just start this way, how did we really get there? Is it that the population is just fast or rapidly growing and we are not building houses? Because most of the times, most governments talk about housing as a stage and they keep on building and yet we still have this deficit. What's going on? Thank you very much for having me, Justin, and thank you for bringing this very critical topic to a front burner of our discussion today. Now housing deficit has been a controversial discussion in the minds of relevant stakeholders recently and over the years it keeps increasing. So January this year we had about, as of today, it's put to $28 million, that tells us that the numbers keep going up. So now one of the major causes for that is we lack favorable government policies and government policies has done so much to us that it affects housing supply. Now if you ask me, Nigeria is not the only country that has housing deficits but our numbers are very alarming. Ghana is a population of 330 million people. The housing deficit is about 6.8 million. The UK, the United Kingdom is a population of about 67 million people. The housing deficit is about 4.3 million. So let's come back to a close by African country like Ghana. Ghana has a population of 34 million. The housing deficit is 1.8 million. But Nigeria has about 220 million people. The housing deficit is 28 million. You see that our numbers are actually the highest part of those countries I've just mentioned. So now one of the major reasons for this is that the government is not doing so much as expected. According to our Land Use Act of 1978, the government has vested all the lands in the state in the hands of the governor. So how the governor now continues to administer the distribution of those land is totally dependent on the governor. Now if you want to buy a land in Lagos State and build a housing estate, as real estate developers, a lot of dues you have to cross. A lot of developers have even taken their money elsewhere to other countries because of the rigors and the complexities involved in building properties in Nigeria. But the honest truth is in the last four years since the governor of Lagos State assumed office, I can tell you that I think fairly after the late chief Latif Jackonday, I'll tell you that Mr. Babaji is also trying to live up to that expectation in terms of providing housing. He has delivered well over 5,000 housing units in the past four years. We have about 4,000 units in Uganda. We have some scattered around like here and everything. So I think because sometimes when these people do go, let's commend them. I think the governor of Lagos State is not doing so bad when it comes to reducing that deficit. No doubt there's a deficit, 28 million, of course, in the next few months, I bet it's going to go up. So what I think the government now needs to do. Before we talk about what the solutions are, let's try and really understand what the issues are because you mentioned a lot of things. You talked about how investors are actually moving to other places because of the rigors, you know, issues when it comes to developing properties in the country. Aside from Lagos that you have mentioned that these are doing well, trying to get up to the level of the later... To reduce the... Yes, the former one, Latif Jakondek, he talked about Sao Olo. But aside from the issue of this land use act, which puts all of them, the ownership as said to the government, you know, if we were able to actually tackle the issue of them or maybe address the issue of land use act, what other factors do we need to talk about? Because I know people have complained over time, even those who want to build their own houses, they talked about the issue of inflation, cost of house and materials and all of that. Those items, what we should also be looking at? OK, now, so some of the critical things we should also look at to solve the financial menace of this deficit is, which is a critical problem in the first place is Nigerians don't have that buying capacity in terms of the finance to be able to afford houses. So the population of Nigeria, the middle income earners and the low income earners takes about 80%. So that means we are left to 20% who are the rich. So the middle income earners and the low income earners do not have the capacity to buy properties as they should because they are earning, what they earn does not really commensurate with the value of houses. Now, if you look at housing estates in areas like Ecuador and maybe fairly part of the mainland and maybe some places on the island, so you see that the prices of houses in those parts of the mainland, for example, are quite cheap. So a lot of times people can afford to buy them and they can afford to have a reasonable payment plan. And one of the major problems with housing and all that, as it is in Nigeria, it is today is people do not have access to financing. A mortgage system is not really doing so well. If you want to buy property and you want to buy through a mortgage, the processes involved can be very cumbersome.  That's one very, very key problem. And another very big problem is the cost of building materials also is not also helping, it keeps going up every day. So this continues to add up to the value of the property and makes buying property difficult for those who don't make that much. Now, if you cannot talk about housing and not talk about infrastructure, so if you want to deliver a decent housing to people, you must also consider infrastructure. So we have a housing deficit, we have infrastructure deficits. We don't have roads. There are lands in every part of Lagos, but there are no good roads to take you to those places. I've been to some parts of Lagos that we have to park my car and take, you know, cross over with the boats.  You have to cross over with the boats just to get to your plot of land. And you know the risk involved in those, you know, crossing over by the water and all that. So the government needs to rise up to ensure that certain things are done. Our national housing policy needs to be fully implemented. All right. Fully implemented is not really put to use. And also credit financing has to be made very affordable for people who should be able to reassess mortgage seamless. I was going to even talk about that. Sorry, I just had to bought in. Credit financing is actually a thing that we should be looking at in terms of mortgages specifically, because over time, that's how people get land in the more saner climes. Because as it is right now, most people cannot just put out so much money at once to, you know, get this housing or this houses that they need, you know, but that's another talk we'll look at a mortgage on another time. Let me, let me, if my interest is to know that Nigeria is probably one of the few countries that I know that if you want to buy property, you have to pay cash down. In advance claims, you don't pay. They don't tell you to pay the full payment. You pay, you pay in installments. They can spread it for as high as 25 years. Some as 30 years, depending on the arrangement. But in Nigeria, a lot of properties are being bought with full payment.  But let me tell you, 12 months is not even enough to pay off for a house of, I mean, Most of them are looking at maybe 10 years, 15 years. So a lot of them will tell you pay initial deposit of 10 percent and spread the balance for 12 months, 24 months. But it's still short. So the default rates will be high. Because how do you want to meet up with, OK, now you're buying a house in Leckie for 100 million. You're paying the 10 percent, which is 20 million. And you have to, you have 80, 12 months to pay 80 million. So you don't even have that much. So would you say that's one of the reasons why we still have deficit in the housing? Because what would I have thought that since we have all of those developers coming out with some various estate across the country that it would have actually helped in reducing the gap that we have? So yeah, to be honest, property developers have also helped to reduce this deficit, no doubt. So I've said that legacy government delivered about 5,000 last year, over 5,000. There are lots of private developers too. So the line between private sector partnership needs to be strengthened. Now these developers have their challenges too. They tell you what they're going through to put up those estates.  Now I have a developer in Leckie putting up some properties somewhere in Shangotedo. Now he was supposed to deliver, I think about a few, failure about, I think two months ago. But because of this recent removal of FEP subsidy, now this guy is going through serious problem. People have paid when they have removed FEP subsidy. Now they've taken FEP subsidy of inflation has come in. This developer is battling with delivery. So it's difficult for him to come back and demand for more money from people who have subscribed. So these are problems. So government policies is really, really, you know, not helping developers. And I think that government should make this environment more enabling for private investors who wants to help them with these deficits. But in your opinion, would you say government actually has any business in building houses or providing houses in the first place? I don't know, in my head, I'm thinking it should actually be left maybe to the private sector or maybe some sort of private public sector partnership. Because if you ask me over time, we've talked about or we've heard about government building low-cost housing estate and relief from houses and everything. But if you look at the prices, it's still not even low-cost as it were. And sometimes it is actually given to governments, cronies and politicians and their friends. So let me say this. I'm going to shake some tables here. So one of my biggest problem with government-owned projects is that you find out that a lot of times the people who are able to benefit from that project are not even those that needs the project. There are most times you find out that a lot of people who live in that estate are civil servants and people who have strong connections to the government, which is totally bad. So if you have a plan to build units of houses for the populace, then make it available for the populace. So it's difficult to now build those houses and the process of acquisition for a common person is difficult. So that's one of the problems from the side of the government. So another very critical thing that we must also discuss here is our process of registering title on our properties online is very difficult. If you buy a property now, the first battle you will go through is to register your title with the government. The second battle you will go through is to get the building approval. Then the third battle you will go through is to ensure that you are even able to execute a project successfully without any fear of intimidation from any agency of the government. So there needs to be total overhauling of that sector. The government needs to make this system very easy for our developers. I bought a land. I want to get my CO4. Let it be very seamless. By now, we should be moving towards the era of getting your CO4, everything done digitally. We should be moving towards the era of getting your building approval digitally on your phone without having to go from one office to another and allow us to have to start to lobby and all that. So the world is evolving and we should also evolve. We cannot remain where we are. So now, so again, there's no doubts to say that there's no deficit, there's a huge deficit and to stop that, there has to be a lot of joint effort between the government and the people. Aside from joint efforts, as we round off right now because I'm just seeing several hands in the air. My producer and director actually asking me to fly out of the studio. But as it is right now, speaking of joint effort, Lagos State, maybe government and the private sector, what other aspects should be looked at in the interim or in the immediacy so that this wide gap can actually be bridged to the barest minimum very quickly as we round off? Okay, so technically, I just feel that the government needs to, what's it called, make the environment very enabling for investors who wants to help survey this situation. There's a problem and the government obviously is overwhelmed. Let's make it easy for private investors to help you reduce this deficit. People have this money, they have this funds. They want to develop, but they are afraid of challenges that will come from the government and all that. So how about the financial sector? What else can they do on their own part? Well, so now, so I do not think we can exhaust this, but I tell you our interest rate also is not even helping. Our interest rate from the civilian now is 18.75%. If you go to the banking sector now, if you, that has a benchmark interest rate from the bank is close to 30 to 40%. They have the other rates they have as well. So it's difficult. So if you borrow money from the bank to build, for the next five years, you are servicing that money from the bank and you cannot even make any profit. So something needs to be done in terms of that interest rate also for developers to help them have a soft landing. All right. Most of it is a real estate consultant and of course a public affairs analyst. So he's actually abreast with the economics and the politics of housing. And of course, what generally affect the average Nigerian, but we'll come back again after today. We need to talk about the finances and of course, what banks can do specifically as regards and mortgages because that's a language we should be driving towards. Many thanks for being a part of the show. All right, that's as much as we can take on the show for today. Time is never really your friend when you have informed. My name is Justin, Acadonie Business Insights will return to your screen on Monday. Bye for now.