All right. So Tara here has a podcast called Hungry and she's mostly been talking about intuitive eating. And now she would like to bring other relevant topics really they're relevant right Tara like they're, they're not out of the blue, but they're still within the realm of, you know, like you're wanting to bring in topics about body image and things that people who listened to your existing podcast would probably be interested in. Let's put it that way. Yes. Okay. Yes. So that is a simple case where and the question is whether or not she should rebrand her podcast. Or start a new one or or start a new one. Right. But the thing about starting a new podcast is you will have to, you know, the question is where are you going to keep the archives available to people who've to people for people to find it over the years. Because if you keep the archives available, it probably means you have to keep paying the podcast hosting service for the old podcast right because, you know, so otherwise if you stop paying the podcast hosting service then the the the archives are no longer searchable or or downloadable et cetera. Okay, so if possible stay with the same podcast you already have an audience rather than like relaunching and building another audience. So you could you could simply keep going because it's relevant topics. And the way I like to brand or rebrand is when it becomes painfully obvious to me. But when it becomes really obvious to me that I've now shipped it to a new brand, then I rebrand at that point. But I until then, if it's related, I just keep going with the same brand. So, yeah, yeah, and and when you rebrand, you could relaunch, you know, the same podcast the same archives, just relaunch relaunches a new name and yes the old podcast episodes still say the old name that's okay. You know, so so so that's that's a simplest way of doing it. But yes, you could technically launch a new podcast but just keep trying to get the old one, because people do find over the years. And just overall like back to back to what I always say about brand is when it's if it's possible to use your own name. That's always my favorite brand because you know you get into these situations where it's like.  And I can't because the podcast is called hungry doesn't make any sense. Well yeah, cats are hungry and you can train in that way. No. So, so, yeah, so this is why I really like that so I could take my existing podcast to call it the Tara Whitney show. And then talk about. Yes, whatever there aren't any Tara Whitney's out there that are doing podcasts. There probably are or will be because your name is not that I mean these words Tara and Whitney are not super unique. So I bet there already is or will be. But you can, well we should Google it probably whenever you're starting you know you want me to brand something you should definitely Google it including your own name. I mean I'm sure you've Googled your own name and what's been the result. Yeah, yeah, I am on the first page which is nice. That's awesome and if you Google Tara Whitney podcast. I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah, you know why this is really relevant to the Georgia's because I'm getting ready to. I'm, I'm really going hard at publishing my book this year my second book which will have a completely different name so that's the other thing that's in the back of my mind is like, yeah. I don't think I sure everything is a brand, you know, but I don't think books are really brands until unless a book really goes bonkers in terms of the sales and it really like becomes a thing you're known for that yes by default that becomes your brand, but books can be, you know, yeah, doesn't have to be anything close to your brand name. Okay. Yeah, that's really helpful. Thank you. Thanks.


Members' opening statements will be made a part of the record. The Chair notes that some members may have additional questions for these two panels, which they wish to submit in writing. Without objection, the hearing record will remain open for 30 days for members to submit written questions to these witnesses and to place their responses in the record. I also ask unanimous consent that those non-subcommittee members who are present be recognized if they wish to give opening statements or ask questions. I now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. First, I want to thank our two colleagues for being here today, and they will be recognized shortly. But as many members know that the subject of the Federal Reserve and monetary policy has been something that I've been interested in for a long time, believing that it has a great deal of significance, you know, with regards to a healthy economy. Today, we'll be discussing the various proposals to address the subject of some of the shortcomings of the monetary system. And I think what has happened here in these last five years, it has been recognized by many that monetary policy and the Federal Reserve has a lot to do with the creation of some of our problems and their shortcomings when it comes to solving these problems. The Federal Reserve has been around for almost 100 years, 100 years next year. And of course, it has gone, Congress would generally act. And the Federal Reserve have the various members today, as well as on the second panel, to discuss what I consider a very, very important issue. And now I would like to yield five minutes to Mr. Clay. Thank you, Chairman Parton. Information has, I think, helped to spell the notion that there were nefarious things going on. We've gotten a lot of information out under the legislation we have. There will be no transactions the Federal Reserve engages in with private companies that won't at some point be made public. And I think that has reflected well on what they've done. And again, suggestions that there was something on toward going on haven't been proven true. Now, I filed legislation to remove the regional presidents from the voting, the interventions by the Fed to deal with the problems that we had from the financial crisis have not led to inflation. Inflation is not at the point where it has become a serious problem for people. The loans that they've made, the interventions they've made, have actually made money for the federal government. They have not added to the deficit. And as I said, the opening of the shows, they haven't caused any problems. Not only do we focus on price indexes of goods and services, but those potential asset bubbles not only be monitored but reported to you and I into the public as well. I have a question for Mr. Frank, but I'm out of time. But I think there's going to be a second round, so hopefully I can get my question asked. And I now yield to Mr. Gray. Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. Let me ask both witnesses. Currently, the unemployment rate, according to the Labor Department, is 8.1%. What can the Federal Reserve and Congress do to put Americans back to work? Mr. Brady, do you have any thoughts or views on that? I do. One, I think the Fed is trying to do too much. They're trying to make up for, I think, some failed economic policies in my view from the White House. And I also believe, they're sort of like the doctor who gives you a pill every five minutes and says, how are you feeling? Take another one. How are you feeling? Take another one. As a result of actually creating uncertainty, I believe the Fed, the more the Fed does, the less responsibility Congress and the White House is taking for getting the right fiscal decisions, getting the right tax policy, getting back to the constitutionality of it. And you have made, I think, a good point saying that it would make it perhaps more constitutional if we had the presidential appointment here, that it becomes not a private sector, but more a public sector. But a raise is the fundamental question that I thought the Chairman would raise, is where is the constitutionality for either one of the proposals that are before here? Well...


Well, hello, hello, and welcome to vlogtober! I promised a while back that I was gonna do, like, a makeup get ready with me kind of a thing. So, today is Saturday. My brother is actually coming over. He now lives in Iowa. I know last time we spoke, he lived in Kentucky. He just recently moved. I think I mentioned it on a plan with me at one point. But I figured I would get ready. It's super late in the day because I've been doing housework like literally all day and I just took a shower hence the wet hair. So I figured I had a little bit of time. It's like five o'clock right now. He's coming over around seven and then we're gonna go grab some dinner together. So I will vlog a little bit of him when I see him. But I figured I would just show you what I'm using for my makeup and just kind of chat, I guess. I don't know. And also the tripod leg is like right in front of the drawer I need to get into. So I have a whole hodgepodge of stuff right here. I hope I grabbed all the stuff I needed cause I'm like, I don't know. Alright, so I got all my brushes. I even grabbed, these are all of my backup brushes or brushes I no longer use but can't part with because, you know, I spent money on these at some point in my life. So I actually have a couple of new products that I want to try out that I recently hauled from that like Ulta haul in the car. No, did I? Yeah, I hauled it in the car. So yeah, I use my number seven beautifully matte makeup base because I have a super oily skin and we're going to put this on here and I get this at Target. I just put a little tiny bit on so I just look kind of funny right now but that's okay.  So I just, I do what I can you guys, I do what I can. Come here brushes. Okay, now makeup forever, matte velvet plus I am in the shade 25. I actually just got a message or actually I saw my friend Kayla on Facebook. She works at Sephora and she said that she had some email coupons to share for their, you know, annual 20% off sale. So she's like, let me know if you want one. And I commented. I'm like, yes, please me. So I think I'm actually, once the coupon comes, which I think it's like on the 14th or something, I'm going to set up a time to go and actually see her because I want to, you know, Kayla and I have been friends for a really long time and I buy stuff at Sephora once in a while. I'm kind of an online shopper because, you know, people and stuff. But I'm like, I should just like do this in person and like talk to her about what I'm looking for versus me like just thinking I know what I'm talking about, you know. I know what works for my skin, the things I have used, but you know, she might have some good suggestions. And I want to get more into like skincare. I've been like totally slacking on the skincare lately, like in a really bad way. So this is my primer that I use for my eyelids again, oily. NARS, what is this called? NARS Pro Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base. This stuff works wonders, just wonders. I've used other stuff in the past. I think I've used like a Benefit product and oh gosh, I think there's been like a Too Faced product that I've used for my eyes or like eyeshadow base and nothing has ever worked until I found this guy. So I really, really enjoy it and I think it's pretty amazing. I can wear it all day and it doesn't crease on me. It actually, let me be clear, it does crease at some point in the day but it's like super, super late in the day if and when it does. So let's see, I'll take my painterly paint pot from MAC. Put it on my eyeballs because I got veiny eyeballs and I don't like to use my fingers too much because of the oils. Not my thing, you know. I don't need oil on oil on oil on oil because, eww. And now I need a blending brush. It's almost too fluffy of a blending brush. Oh, do you guys see Doyle? Doyle! What are you doing? What are you doing? You coming up? He doesn't know it. Oh, he's right here but you can't see him. He's too short. Hi Doyle, I can see you but nobody else can. I know, it's so sad. Okay, I'm gonna use this brush. Oh, it's like a dual brush. Where did I get this one? Priest's Shadow from Crown Brush. I don't think I actually purchased this. I'm pretty sure this came as like a gift set with something else because I would have never bought a brush that has two ends to it because I like to store my brushes like this upright. So I would much prefer, and I know it's probably not the most cost effective, but I would much prefer to buy one of this brush and one of that brush and just call it a good because I'm just gonna ruin one or both sides of them eventually. Alright, I think that's blended in and now I can't put it in my little cup. I gotta leave it back down here.  What's next? It feels weird that I'm like talking through it. I just kind of like do it and I'm done and there you go. Alright, maybe I'll do my eyeballs first and then I'll finish up my face makeup. Alright, so now that I got my base on, I'm gonna go in with this Rimmel London Scandal Eyes. Ta-da-da. Let's see, this is called Rich Russet.  It's just like a cream eyeshadow and it's got like a little bit of shimmer to it. It's not glitter, it's just a little bit of shimmer, which I like a little bit of shimmer even though I'm like almost 37. Don't judge me, but I like it. I think it like gives a little bit of a pop to the eye and makes it look a little bit more interesting than just matte shadows, which I'm gonna actually put on some matte shadows in a second, but I don't know, I just, I don't know, I like it. It's not too youthful looking, I think. I don't think I'm trying to go too far out of my appropriate age range, I guess. I like the way it looks. I just blend it out with a regular eyeshadow brush, whatever this is called. I don't know what it's called, but it's just an eyeshadow brush. It's not a blending brush. I'm just trying to like even out the color because you like kind of goop it on with this thing and I don't even know if they carry this stuff anymore. This is like really old, I should probably like get a new one, but I haven't. Then I go on with my Sonia Kashuk palette, which is called Eye on Neutral 02. I got this at the Tarsier and yeah, then I kind of just start blending stuff. So I'm gonna take this clean fluffy brush and really all I'm doing is blending stuff. So I'm just gonna take like, I don't know, like the lighter colors and put them like more towards like the beginning of the eyeball, like up here too, because that's what the beauty gopro is on the internet side to do. So put a little bit in the corner and then like some up here, you know, lighten and brighten in some areas and then you want to darken in others because you know, that's what they tell you to do. So that's what you're supposed to do. All right, and then I'm gonna take like this color and it's kind of like more of a medium brown and then kind of put it on the last like half of the eyeball. I don't know. Just kind of make like a little V almost, but like really sloppy V. I don't know, I'm kind of sloppy with my eye makeup because I never want it to be like too cut and precise because it's just like not who I am as a person. So I just want it to look. I want my makeup to always look like me, but like a better version of me. I don't ever want my makeup to look not like myself, I guess. I don't know. And no shade to the people that really want to like transform themselves with makeup because I agree. You should do whatever you want to do, but it's just my own personal style. Okay, so I just took like, not the darkest shade, but I took like this brown, the one above the black, P.S. The black and then this gray are like really horrible in this palette. I'm just letting you know. All the other colors are fantastic, but I just took that darkest brown and then just put it in the last kind of quarter of the eyeball and it's just kind of like working it in and not moving it up any. And then kind of working it into like the last little portion of the crease. All right, looks pretty even. So we're just going to go with it. All right, all the stuff I've used is like over in this corner here. And then I'm going to take this brush again because it's not clean, but it's got a lighter color on it, which I've wiped all of it off anyway and I'm just going to blend out all the edges because sometimes I look at myself later in the night or like later in the day and I'm like, whoa, I did not blend that out properly. So if I'm going to take the time to actually wear eyeshadow and do something fun with the makeup, I better like do it right. Okay, I think we're all blended.   Okay, I promise you that. I'm not as beautiful as the beautiful people on the internets. Okay, next item is, I'm going to put on eyeliner, which I haven't done in like maybe a year. This is the Urban Decay 24-7 Glide on Eye Pencil in Bourbon. And yeah, I don't do a wing liner. I just kind of like lightly line and then I'm done because it's too overwhelming for me. So I just kind of like, I don't know, just draw a little bit and I kind of like smudge it too because I don't feel like it needs to be perfect. And I kind of mess it up after I'm done with this anyways, especially when it's like a, like a cranny kind of a pencil, cranny, like a crayon, crayon, crayon. I don't know how to say that either. I do have some liquid eyeliners that I don't ever use because I just don't know how to use them properly. So I'm going to take a little teeny, teeny, tiny brush and then I'm just going to like smudge out what I just did. So it doesn't look super patchy because it does right now. So if I just like smooth it out, it looks like I meant to do what I just did. This is like low bar lifestyle makeup situation. Just, you just make it work. Like Tim Gunn says, make it work. All right. I think, yeah, I think I got it right. Okay, cool. Now we're going back to the face. I've been testing this out lately. So I got these when I was at Ulta recently. This is the Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer and I am in the color light to vanilla. I've used this for many years and I love it. However, I've been using this. This is the Tarte Shape Tape and I'm in the color Fair Beige and to be honest, I've been kind of loving this. I'm just digging it. So yeah, but this applicator, like I get it, but it's a lot. Like it's very, very thick. So I don't, I don't know. I don't know. So I don't know. Just highlighting things and also I'm like getting like all these like little spots on me. On my face, which is why I need to go to Sephora and see Kayla because like I said, I need to get like more into the skincare situation, which I haven't been for a long time. So I need to do that. Cause like even the texture of my skin is like changing. I don't like it. I don't like it. I want it to stay the same and it's not going to. But yeah, I really like this stuff and this really goes along like a little goes a long way with this thing, but I'm still not used to it. So I've only been using it for a couple of days. So, but I really like it and the coverage is good and it doesn't like, I don't know, cause I have really oily skin. Like it kind of concealers can sometimes kind of like crackle throughout the day and get some separation like after you've been wearing it for a little bit. So yeah. This blog is just like kind of turning into a makeup shitty chat, huh? Let's see here. All right. I really need some like concealer. Let's, let's see what we got. Let's see what we got. Okay. All right. I have this. This is actually a under eye thing. I think yet under eye concealer, but it's like really, really wet. So I don't like it for this. But it's the Lancome Efasteness Waterproof. I don't know. What color am I? Claire too. So I'm going to just take a little bit out and then I'm going to use it in some spots that are kind of driving me nuts recently. I'll see if they conceal anything. We'll see. But I actually really like this other concealer as like a more of a wet concealer versus like a creamed one. Well, that doesn't make any sense. But like a, like a pot, like a, I don't know. I don't know what I'm trying to say. I don't do beauty, you guys. Like I'm just kind of with stuff in my nose. Like around the edges. It's getting like veiny. I'm like getting fricking old, you guys. Anyways. Okay. So that is done. I'm just going to like pat it again. Make sure I got all the places. And then next thing, I take my Rimmel Stay Matte pressed powder. I'm in the color 011 Creamy Natural. And oh, I don't need that. Just take a big old fluffy brush and I put this all over the place because this is really, really good for oily skin. I used to actually use a long comb product that didn't even work as well. And then I discovered this on Da Booty Gurus on YouTube. And then I haven't gone back. So I really like this stuff and it's like super, super cheap. All right. So that's done. And then I take a little bit of, this is the Tarte Amazonian Clay 12 Hour Blush in Exposed. And I've hit Pan a while ago.  But I am going to use a highlighter today. So we'll see how that goes. I might look a little bit cray-cray, but we'll see. All right.  So here's that Becca highlighter that I got. And this is in the color Champagne Pop. And I'm pretty sure this was like a collaboration with Jacqueline Hill. What should I need? I need like a brush that works. I don't really have like a fan brush because I did it at one point and then I like, was like, I'm never going to use this. So this is kind of a fluffier brush that's not as dense. I'm going to use this, but I'm going to go like, I'm going to go like this. I'm just going to dab a little bit. I'm like afraid. Ooh. Fancy. Okay. I can get into this. All right. This is like the weirdest way to do makeup. There's a brush like this. All right. Now I have the other side of the brush right here. So I'm going to just go like that to make sure there's no like jagged line. All right. Yeah. I can see it. All right. I'm going to turn. I'm dealing with the only natural light right now. I'm going to turn this light on. It's going to get really yellow, but I just want to see if I can like see it because I don't have like, oh yeah, you guys can see it, right? Can you see that? You can't see it on this side because the natural lights right there, but I think you guys can see the like Emily's glowing. I'm not even going to turn the light on because it just gets like, I look like an oompa-loompa. Okay. There we go. There we go. All right. So I've done that. I don't do anything to my eyebrows because they're like kind of dark already. So I just kind of take a little spoolie brush and comb them out. They're not so crazy looking. If I get excited, sometimes I will like fill them in, but and next is the lashes. I think I have like one pair left of fake lashes. And the last time I wore fake lashes was to my what, cousin's wedding. I lived in Fargo at the time, but I just moved there. So what, three, four years ago? Last time I wore fake lashes. I don't mind wearing them. I just, I don't know. It's just like not my, not my dail on the daily, you know? And I don't go to that many like special events that I should wear them. A lot of the events that I go to, like if you guys watch my plan with me videos, are pretty casual. Like jeans and a t-shirt kind of casual. It's very rare that I go to like a dress up kind of event. All right. Okay, lashes are done. I use Drugstore mascara always because I've tried a lot of the high-end ones. I don't think it's any different, to be completely honest. But this is the Maybelline the Rocket Volume Express mascara in black and waterproof. So that's what I use. And then I am going to use my L'Oreal Paris Infallible Makeup Extender setting spray. I'm just like, I don't really know what's in here, but it's some sort of makeup extender. Oh my gosh. But yeah, that's, whoa. That's what I do for the makeups. And let me, I'll give you a better review of my face in a second here. Let me, whoa, move the tripod and zoom in on my eyeballs, maybe. Oh gosh, this is like too close for comfort. This is why I can never be like a beauty guru. But here's my attempt at eye makeup. It's really, really sloppy, but I really don't care. I don't know what that looked like. So I hope it focused. I don't know, just kind of basic. Anyway, okay. I'm going to back up because it's like too close. Oh, you guys can kind of see the highlight on this side now too. Okay, this is way too close for comfort. So I am going to turn the camera off for right now. And then I will check in when my brother comes over and will take you to dinner.  I don't know if he left it outside or what the heck he did with it. But anyway he's been kind of like in communicado for the day which doesn't really make any difference because we're supposed to have dinner at 7 o'clock. It is currently 741 and he was supposed to be here at 7 o'clock. And then he tells me, oh I had pizza a couple of hours ago so I'm not hungry. Let's just do a rain check for next time. Like okay, so now I'm all like I guess I'm not gussied up. You know what I could do? I'm currently watching Pretty Little Liars and the dog is judging over there. You know what I could do since I'm like dressed is I could go to Target because Target has some of the best shopping late at night because nobody's there. On a Saturday night at like about the time I get there, put my shoes on and all that, it'll be like almost 8 o'clock. So maybe I'll go and do that. I don't know what I need. I actually do. Hold on. I do need a couple of groceries. I'm at the computer now. I don't know why I came to sit at the computer. I came to do something over here. My brain is like I don't know. I don't really know. But you can't really see my highlighter that much. But I have like this spot it's kind of raised. It's not like it's not like a pimple or anything but in like really bad lighting which is like my guest bath lighting well it's not a guest bath. It's just like a half bath downstairs. I went to use the bathroom down here and I was like oh my god that looks horrible because there's a little bit of highlighter on there. I shouldn't have done it you guys. I shouldn't have done it because it like shows off the texture really bad so oopsie you live and learn. You guys can kind of see it. You can kind of see it. Yeah that's like it's like a little bump and it's not like a pimple because it doesn't usually if I'm getting a pimple like it's like I feel a lot of pressure and stuff so I don't know what the heck it is but again I need to work on the freaking skincare because my skin is like having issues because I'm getting old. Oh gosh it's probably my brother again. I'm at my computer so my computer shouldn't ding in a second anyways. Let's see. Yeah he says I'll call Jim next week to talk to him about Thanksgiving. Jim's my uncle. He wants to go to my uncle's house in Minnesota for Thanksgiving and he was wondering if I wanted to go to and I'm like I don't really care either way so whatever and Jim is my dad's brother so he's on my dad's side of the family and I think the vlog has only met well hmm my grandma that was here when I moved into the house originally so what was that in July you guys had seen her with Doyle on that couch situation over there that was my mom's mom so anyway alright I'm going to put the laptop away and um yeah I think I'm going to go to Target because Target I think is open to like 9 or 10 and just get some stuff I don't know maybe I'll do a Target haul afterwards because who knows what kind of treasures I'm going to find but I think I need like random things like milk and bread and stuff and stuff. Can you guys see him? There he is there he is on my Instagram today I've been posting a lot and Doyle has been just like loving this situation because this sofa is leaving tomorrow but anyway okay I'm going to run to Target and do my thing over there and then I will just check in later because now I'm hungry going to Target which is probably not the best idea but oh well you gotta do it you gotta do it once in a while alright so I am back from Target I figured I'd do a little bit of a haul before I put all my stuff away so I got some food random things and then I also got random things that aren't food so I decided to try these I've heard really good things about this way better brand and I've never seen the nacho cheese ones maybe I've just never been looking but my mom really likes these and I think she gets the sweet potato ones which I've had which are good but I really wasn't in the mood for sweet potato because I have like several sweet potatoes like actual sweet potatoes at my house right now so I want to test those out lean cuisines these are like my favorite thing I only get the glaze chicken and I eat these for lunch all the time also I eat for lunch sometimes these are I like the wine infused salami ones why is this not focusing there it goes from hillshire farms but it's hillshire snacking they're so good actually I was talking to somebody the other day about hot dogs I mean I know that these are technically sausages but I'm like obsessed with cheese hot dogs and I don't get them often because they're like not the best for you I saw them and I was like you know what they're turkey and there's cheddar inside like let's do this thing I got more yogurts I have one of these in the morning before I go to work got a couple bananas I needed some A1 sauce and then also I got these these were on cartwheel and fun fact about me I am like kind of obsessed with the Jack Link's turkey jerky it is one of my favorite things and it's also one of my like edible guilty pleasures so I got two of them and okay so over into the non food situation I got this table runner it's a really pretty linen and it's I think it's gonna look really nice on the table actually let's go look at it on the table so I thought it was nice just like kind of blackish slate color it's not like a deep black which I kind of like and then with this nice linen color and I just think that's gonna look really nice on there um yeah a nice little stripe table runner for the fall or actually for any time of the year to be completely honest so I'm gonna put that on a little bit later I also got this brass Smith and Hawkin what the heck are these things called like to water plants and stuff but it was on like major clearance so I figured why not and I needed something like this anyways so that works I got some ibuprofen I'm gonna take this to work as I am running out of my little travel sized ibuprofen um and then I've actually looked at these bowls for a while at Target they have like a ton of them and these are like a set of bowls you get two of them but at my target they were pretty inexpensive so they've obviously been marked down a couple of times and now it's 50% off the last time I saw it I think it was only like 20 or 30% off so I'm glad I waited but these will make great serving bowls and I love like the little foot at the bottom like this little thing I think that's so nice if you guys remember I did a Target haul a while back for a bunch of home stuff I've got those white porcelain footed bowls which I'm kind of obsessed with as well so this will be a great addition to like the serving collection um and then I feel like everyone always runs out of toilet paper and paper towels like at the same time but these are my favorite ones and I'll kind of explain why so this is the cotton L one I actually got the 12 rolls which is like the double rolls I think the other ones that I currently have I have a couple more rolls but they're like the mega roll they unfortunately don't fit on both of the toilet paper holders that are installed currently in my home so I have to get the smaller ones so yeah I think I have like two more rolls of that and then I'll be done with it because I literally can't put them on the toilet paper like ring on the wall until I've gone to the bathroom a few times so it's kind of irritating but from now on I'll just get these ones and then these the Viva Vantage with strong scrubs like cloth the ones that are like textured like this these are the best paper towels I have ever seen and they feel like they're like stretchy I don't know how to explain it I would just recommend going and getting a pack of these this is a 6 pack and I think it was $5.99 or $6.99 and then there was a dollar manufacturer coupon on Cartwheel for this and this and I'm not sure when they expire but anyway those are the things I got so I'm gonna now put all of the things away but I'm gonna close out the vlog here because I'm not doing anything else so let's go find Doyle quick hey Doyle where are you he was down here and then he moved hey doodle dog come here buddy uh oh here he comes here he comes hey little guy Doyle challenge accepted yeah ok well that's the Doyle challenge for the day because I need to get some of that frozen stuff in the freezer so hope you guys are enjoying the vlogs if you are make sure to give it a thumbs up you can always subscribe as well and the vlogs are just kind of going up when the vlogs go up but anyways I will see you guys in the next video thank you so much for watching and stay tuned bye guys


So without any further delay, I'm turning, if he wishes so, to Mr. Torero Cullen to start our discussion. Thank you so much and hope you can hear me well. Yes, we do. So let me start by saying that the medium or long-term future of agri-food systems cannot be predicted. That means it's a sector that works, it's a system that works and the risk and uncertainties. And risk is something that you can predict the probability of the loss function and therefore you should be able to ensure. But uncertainties are something that you cannot predict and makes the system extremely complex. This system has a complex sets of interconnected activities that go from primary production, processing, distribution, which includes trade, the trade issues you mentioned. In the last year, the maximum level of restrictions were about 17 percent of the calories traded, which creates significant exacerbation also on prices. But it also brings consumption and all of them are integrated with socioeconomic and environmental systems, which depend upon the behavior of billions of people. All what we can predict is that we will be facing significant challenges in the future, where we observe in the 70s, in 2007 and 2008 to 2011 and today. Brings up the complexity of the system, brings up a system which has a market structure, which is highly concentrated in the exports, especially on cereals, and also brings a system that has significant interrelationships and interlinkages. The way and the extent to which we decide to address them will depend pretty much on how we determine the future of the agri-food systems, as well as our future and the future of next generations. In FAO, we have been focusing on 18 drivers, 18 drivers of agri-food systems. And they comprise, for instance, population dynamics, economic growth, macroeconomic stability, which is something that normally we didn't look at. And for example, today, high level of indebtedness of countries exchange rate variability, and the link between energy and food has been a significant issue that we need to look at. But also in both science and innovation, poverty and inequality, capital and information intensification of production processes, scarcity of natural resources, of course climate change, and this is just to mention some of the 18 drivers. I will just want to highlight three key challenges that clearly emerge from the analysis that we have been doing on these drivers. The first challenge is that food is very unequally distributed across countries and households. And this is essential, why trade today with the current distribution of food is crucial. Between 702 and 128 million people face hunger in 2021, and this is chronic hunger. More than 3.1 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet because they lack sufficient income to buy the required nutritious food. Many people have experienced unexpected income shortfalls through about by lockdowns due to the pandemic, and more recently the rising food and input prices in connection with the war in Ukraine, and are creating an additional burden for low income families. If, for example, we look today at the nine food groups that we need to consume to be able to have access to healthy diets, most of Sub-Saharan Africa and some South Asian countries won't be able to have access to those nine food groups. The percentage rate they can self-produce from themselves right now in the photograph today is extremely low. This brings again the importance of trade today. The second challenge is climate change and the fact that if we continue as of today, our agri-food systems will be unsustainable, and climate affect us in four dimensions. One is extreme temperatures. Second is excess of water or lack of water. We have just seen what happened in Pakistan and the problem of the flooding and which is a key rice producer, the fourth in the world, of India rice. Consequence of that, India put this for restriction. Third, volatility and variability. And fifth, how diseases will evolve. And in the previous session you heard how health is changing because of climate. So agriculture is already affected by climate change and more frequent and stronger extreme events such as roads, floods, extreme temperatures, and salt water inclusion due to rising sea levels. Farthermore, land, water, soil and biodiversity are progressively degrading. So nutrient depletion, extensive deforestation, overexploitation of marine resources, and pasture and pollution at all levels rise serious concerns not only for agri-food systems but also for the broader socioeconomic systems and stability of the environment. At the same time, agriculture itself and related land use generates more than 20% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. And it is estimated that agri-food systems all together contribute approximately to one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions. The third challenge is that we will need to produce more with less. And again, we need to distribute it better. And the United Nations Population Division projects in one scenario that the world's population could reach close to 10 billion by 2050. This means that it is very likely that farmers will have to nourish an additional 2 billion people in less than 30 years from now. And they will need to do so while drastically reducing emissions, as this will be a requirement for all sectors if we are to a very catastrophic climate change. So colleagues, to address these challenges, to move away from business as usual, implies facing contrasting objectives. And we have to increase agricultural output while reducing its environmental footprint, pursuing sustainable yields while minimizing land use expansion, and increasing productivity while preserving employment, and just to mention a few of them. So we need an agri-food system transformation that brings a future of sustainability and resilience, where these trade-offs will be addressed and balanced, and can only materialize if the agri-food systems evolve and adapt on both the demand and the supply side. But for this, we also need to bring the concept of real cost of food to incorporate the externalities, positive or negative. That's the only way we will be able to align the support to agriculture and the incentives that we have in place. On the demand side, for instance, we need shifting diets for the ones who over-consume protein by increasing the share of planet-based protein sources. Not only will it be beneficial for mitigating emissions, but will reduce the risk from zoonotic diseases, limit pesticides use and contribute to reduce antimicrobial resistance. Different choices regarding quantity, safety, nutritional content, social and environmental footprint of food to consume and waste may trigger completely different agri-food system outcomes. Demand side policies and provision of general public goods such as education and transpiring information may promote critical thinking and awareness. For example, campaigns that arise awareness about food waste have proven very effective to reducing it. On the supply side, optimal use of inputs, agricultural approaches, not only could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also provide co-benefits in terms of additional ecosystem services and pull integrated with the broader circular economy. Adapted for and appropriate by small-scale producers, could additionally lead to sustainable intensification and resources sparing and improved logistics, and this is clearly today in the use of fertilizers and pest samples. However, rising the climate mitigation potential of some new agri-food system technologies will depend on access to low-carbon energy as they are relatively more energy-intensive. This also holds for deployment of cold chain and packaging technologies which can help to reduce food loss and waste by increasing energy and materials use. Dear colleagues, let me just say that the challenges ahead are daunting and it brings a system which is playing in the world of risk and uncertainties and we need to have smart government policies and we need to bring all the science and innovation data and good governance to be able to implement this so that we can trigger the changes that we need now to be able to create a transformation of the system that could allow us to produce more with less in a sustainable way but especially improve the distribution of the food across the world. Thank you very much.


Welcome to Toffey TV. It is the final word. Brighton, Hovalian, Nill, Everton 2, Ace of Pairb, a Wade Day performance for the Toffey's gives Everton all three points and takes us into the international break in a good mood, a good mood net. Underfeed, two games away, four points and I'd say Leeds was a good point, Arlen Road, a good home in and a really good away win. We threw to the next round and the league cup as well, so a couple more days to go of the transfer window as well. It's all a nice start of the season and I think today's performance. I think out of the three games, just because of the way Brighton started the season, started it really well and everyone's four goals in two. Everyone was giving them the big and all that as you normally do and we haven't won there either. We've been there four times and we haven't won them. The home side I don't think had not won this fixture. So we've gone there and we've taken the tables on them and it was just a really, really good all round performance. To be honest, I think the first ten minutes I'd have been happy, I was saying to you wasn't that happy, I'll be happy with that point here but it was just, we rode the game out really well. We seemed in control towards the end. The goals we took really well, the Damari Gray goal, it just feels like, I was telling to you, pass it, because you don't expect a winger to just watch you. I don't expect a winger to score, to be honest. It's been so long, we've all been conditioned. The team itself, we had to obviously start with Keane and Paul Gates at the back, no Mina, no Godfrey, who both had problems. It was very weak. Gabamon had an abscess in his mouth, Mina had a noch, don't know where Tom Davis is, obviously no Keane. There was no one like if you went one little down, you need to change the game, there was no one really. Possibly you won't be on a good table. Andy Gordon was back in there, we had two goalies in there, so we wouldn't have eight players. It was a rather weak side, rather weak bench sorry, and you're worried about that. But you're right, listen, the first 30 minutes were not great in terms of like us creating. It was a bright enough and a lot of the ball, but without actually doing anything with it, they didn't have too many opportunities. They had a lot of the ball and they were breaking in midfield really quick. But once they got to the edge of the box, we dealt with it really well. They didn't have, I don't think they had any big chances, they clear cut opportunities. I think most of the shots on target were probably outside the box. Exactly, and I think what we did was, we did what we did last week at Leeds, we restricted them to very little clear cut chances. And I think the thing which would have been said in this game was, cut out the mistakes, don't give these opportunities. These be offered last week off two mistakes. They're not renowned for being a goalscorer, they're being renowned for being a good passing side. They're renowned for moving the ball quickly, but they're not renowned for winning. The XG is amazing, the XG is amazing, it's top four last season XG, but XG doesn't win your games if you haven't got a centre forward. It doesn't matter, our possession today was 34%. It was the same last week, and yet we've got four points out of the games. About half the passes of them as well. Because we control the game by not allowing the opposition to get in the box, essentially. I think before the season we said, with Raffer-Benith as a manager, you can imagine that games at home are going to seem like these. Most teams below us will get at them and then these are the way games will go and stay tight and compact and try and come away with a goal off a set. That was always going to be the danger, today was going to be set pieces. They got a few early on in the first half. You saw the team news before the game, obviously spoke about it just a minute ago. What did you make of Keane and Holgate starting? Who else could you start? Obviously me and... It's a bit of a nil point if you can't start anyone else can you? You knew when the team news was, you wasn't in the team in you. Let me change the question. Okay, go on. Was you confident that Keane and Holgate would have kept it to be cheap today? No, maybe that's what your question should have been. That's probably what your question should have been. No, no, I wasn't confident. Because we've seen them play together and they're not great together. They're not great together, they've got mistakes in them. And I was worried today off set pieces because these are good off set pieces. These scored last week on a set piece on the 10th minute and then scored the second goal with a mistake. But the capitalise on mistakes don't work really well. And they've got Duffy and they've got the other kid at the back as well. Lewis Dunk. Dunk. And that's what changes game set pieces, but I thought we dealt with most of the set pieces. Huddersfield did the night. Set pieces weren't great for us because obviously we've changed from one system to another. We've gone from last season playing a system where we were very deep on set pieces. And this season we've changed it to Zonal. And sometimes that can take a little bit of time or if you switch off. But I thought today everyone worked hard and they cut out those mistakes. So I was very nervous about them starting. But they did what they needed to do. They just defended. They didn't mess about. They didn't get caught on the ball. They didn't. They weren't passing it round the back. It was just that, get it and kick it away. Don't worry about anything else. I suppose that was a frustrating thing. Like you said in the first half an hour. We were winning the ball and he couldn't really seem to get out of our half. It was just the first 20 minute counter-attacks. I don't think we had a chance. We didn't have a chance. We just seemed really slow. We had a few ways the ball was getting round the edge of the box. We never actually had any attempts. Didn't have many shots off in the first half. Didn't have many shots across from some set pieces for those were terrible. And it wasn't until Townsend got older the ball. And I thought probably the last 10 minutes of the half we started to wake on things. Five minutes before we scored I think we were starting to get a little bit more joy. With Charleston was dropping in and picking the ball up and going nowhere. And he was dead filling that first half. I didn't get much better in the second half. But there was little signs. And I think Greig's goal shows you what you can do sometimes when you've got a little bit of pace and you have a shot. I think there was a couple of times in the first half we were sitting there going just shoot. Just put your foot through the ball to a couple of players. And he had the ball on the left hand side. He knew he had the player for pace which is fantastic that we've now got a player who can get his head down. Because Dom and Charleston are quite quick but they're not like... You don't see Dom making a run with the ball or you never see him making a run behind. Which Charleston seems... So we fear to Dom. Dom doesn't go out looking for the ball anymore. Dom stays between the posts and that's where he does all his best work. That's what he's been told to do and that's what the kind of striker is. Which Charleston goes looking for the ball but there's very few times where Charleston picks up the ball like one-on-one with the full back or the centre back and goes on the outside and beats him. More likely to win a free kick. It's more likely to come inside a lot of time where Gray just got his head down, beat him and once he got that half yard just thought I'm making it and once he hits it, can the keeper do better? Probably. I imagine the keeper probably could have done better but he hits it and it goes right in the corner and that's what happens sometimes. Sometimes that shot rolls back to the keeper and not, you know, but I'd rather see that than sometimes when a winger goes and then stops and checks and that was the difference. Every time they broke on us, which they did quite a few times in the first half, they had to stop and put the foot on the ball because we got a good defensive line and when they put the ball on it, foot on the ball, that had had Allen and the corey. The corey was stopping them and Allen had come round and nicked and I think that was just those little differences today.  We're one-nil up now. We know they've got to come at us now and we've got to hard time and the manager would have been saying the same things. Don't give away silly mistakes. Don't give away silly files. Silly set pieces. First time being a goal up, isn't it? Half time. First time being in the lead. This season, yeah. First time we've been winning half time this season. Never again. So to come out second half, I thought, first five minutes again, they dominated and they got a free kick on the edge of the box, which looked like he was shaping to put a top corner and he's put it the other way and to be fair to Jordan Pickford. Jordan Pickford could have gone, you know, took that step and gone and that's what they're looking for, I think, plays in that position. They're looking for the goalkeeper to take the step because they think they're going to go to the corner but he didn't. He stayed where he was to the very last minute, which is, listen, if it goes top being everyone would have gone, why didn't you go early? But he didn't. He waited. This is something I think Neville Southall mentioned a while ago about goalkeepers in general. He said too many of them gamble now. He said sometimes you've just got to wait. You've just got to wait and he waited and he hit it and listen, it bounces off him and it nearly falls but it could have gone any way but we got it away and to be fair, there was only really a couple of skers in that half and that was one of them. Like I said, I don't think they had many shots on target. That weren't outside that were in the box. They had a couple from outside the box. Tross side had one, he had to wait too much space to get the shots off. We tried to curl it around and Pickford obviously nearly saved and jumped on it really quickly so I don't think we're giving much space. I think the message would have been today, don't let them get in behind you. There was one, I think there was one in the first, second half as well sorry, where they got down our right there left and he pulled it back and the shot was actually going wide and Michael Keane kicks it back into play and the box is full and obviously that led to a bit of a skirmish. They never really had a shot but that was the only real one I think at 1-0 to worry us and maybe if Michael Keane looks around he just lets that go on to play. It looked like it was going out but I'm guessing he's thinking the goal's behind. Oh yeah, yeah, but what you don't want to do is kick it directly into the penalty box. What you don't want to do is put snow on it, don't you? You just hit it right there. Thankfully they don't have a play who's reacting to it. Well that's the difference though isn't it? They don't have a play like that. Listen, we've been here a couple of times. I remember the first time we went, I think we got beat 1-0, I think it was around Christmas. I think it might have been a couple of... I think it was two days after we... not the first one, it's the second time. The first one was the ruining one wasn't it? The first one was the one. The second time we went there we got beat 1-0 and they scored literally... it was two days after we got... after we beat Bayley 5-1 and literally they had a corner that hit Gomez and went in. So it can't happen. So you've got to be wary of it of course but we dealt with it, we got it away. We had men behind the ball and I don't think they had many more. One shot I think from outside the box that Jordan Pickford pushed wide, done well and I think Sheamus Cullman cleared it up but apart from that they had nothing all game and we just started to get men behind the ball and we were breaking well and our second goal to be fair was superb. It was a superb ball inside the full box. It was a good run from Cullman getting across him straight away and then obviously if you get across your man you have away from him or you get brought down as a penalty obviously. It was a superb ball and Sheamus Cullman you know, you get in the box we were going with a little bit of pace and straight away we said penalty didn't we? We were watching it, we said penalty but you don't always expect to get them. You don't because whatever and we don't expect them and without any force or fanfare it was just like it's a pen because it was and I know that sounds stupid but as Evertonians we're so used to not getting those decisions and yet we've got two in two weeks. Do you think we should have had another pen? We'll get back to the first one in a minute but what about basiwm handball? No, there was the pull on the charlison. The pull on the charlison. That was the penalty? And the handball on basiwm. No, I wouldn't give that as a pen. I think it was too high up. No, I just think his arm was in a position where I'm not sure it would be a penalty. But what about the red charlison? Yeah, it was definitely a penalty. It pulls him back. Same as the one last week. But it's a pen but these are the things that annoy all football fans. We're one nil up, we're away. We've got a penalty and we've got a fantastic opportunity to go and double our lead with half an hour to go in a game where we're controlling. It might mean controlling the possession but we're controlling the game. And we were sitting and we were seeing the charlison with the ball both of us and we were like, what's he doing? What's he doing? Has he been told he's on the pens this week? But you could tell by other people's faces that he wasn't on the pens. But players don't want to make a big deal of it because they don't want it to turn into something it's not.  Because most of the time when two players square up to each other and everyone runs over they're just trying to get them away but the next minute you're pushing, you're pushing, turns into a big thing. So it's just your own team, you don't want to do that. So you could see that, you could see the ever play sort of slowly saying to... The charlison was like smirking like that. He was like, the charlison but Tansen was like, come on. And then Alan was saying, Alan was like talking to obviously both Brazilian probably saying this.  Dom didn't get involved. It's not in Brazilian is it? It's in Portuguese. Portuguese. Dom's staying out the way but then Coleman comes over and Tansen just knocks the ball out of his hands and rolls to Dom. I thought that was brilliant. I started seeing Alan's go up from a charlison and he's getting silky. It always happened when he's had a bad game he starts getting selfish and he's like, I want to push something. When he's had a bad game he's been clapped, he's been absolutely clapped today. If you're Dom there, you're just stood there feeling a bit awkward. You're like, oh, I missed this now.  Dom's that, we've seen this before. I've seen it with charlison last year against Chelsea. We saw it, the famous one with Morales when he cried about it and then missed it and we end up drawing the game 0-0. But the thing about to me was not only you causing trouble for yourself but you're putting pressure now on Dominic Arvill-Lewin to score the penalty. You're putting pressure on him. To be fair to a charlison, his last penalty was for Brazil and I think the ball's still going up in the Olympics. Silly run-up, won't it? Luckily enough, it was great to see those senior players get older. It was nice to see Tansen who's only been at the club a couple of months talking to him. It was good to see Alan you know, compatriot and it's good to see James Cormann going over to saying you're not the penalty taker. Come on. Let's have discipline at this club. Let's have leadership at this club because that's what's been needed. And I thought that was really important to show that leadership and I was delighted we had that leadership and then Dom steps up exactly the same as last week. Listen this, no matter what you think about Dominic Arvill-Lewin or whatever, ever. That shows what kind of person he is someone who practises, someone who's meticulous, someone who's being on the training field practising his penalties knowing that he was going to get an opportunity and he put it in exactly the same places he did last week and never go too nill up. Keep going the right way and it's the word. It's a great penalty. Bright in the corner. Brilliant penalty. That's someone that's a muscle memory that every day in training I'm going to hit that spot. I'm not thinking of anything else. I'm not thinking of oh God this goalkeeper might have watched my penalty from last week. I might know where I'm going. I'm going to change where I go. No, that's where I hit it and that's where I'm going to put it and he did and you tune it up and then it's can you control the rest of the game? Can you get through the next five minutes? And I think actually that's when Pickford pulled off a good save that he pushed wide. Can you get through the next five minutes and then the next five minutes and then the next five minutes and start wearing these down? And we did. We did through getting men behind the ball and you know good work by a lot of the players and clever subs. Well it don't went off soon after the penalty didn't it when I've been injured? I don't have a calf problem or something. I don't know. He looked like he looked. I don't know what it is. We're recording straight after the game so I don't know what it is. Obviously I think it will be coming on putting an extra man in midfield. Well the will be was about to come on anyway and I think maybe it might have been a muscle problem. If it's a muscle problem we know he's had problems with his I think his thigh before his hamstrings. You've got to be very careful with that.  And that was probably the right thing to do. Well it was the right thing to do. Especially when you've only especially when you've got a couple of weeks as well till the next game. The right thing to do. And actually with Charleston when he went up front I thought he did alright. He held the ball up really well and he had a couple of opportunities that have a different passage coming. He would have had a tapping. And I thought We had a shot that went just wide into it. Well I thought midfield after we scored we just got older the game and we controlled. It was like Leithas week. We controlled the game. They had a huffed and puffed and then they tried to start playing it over the top and they were just saying we'll see going out because they haven't going to centre forward. And they just huffed and puffed and they never got anyway. And it was just it was that midfield I think it was the subs I thought the subs were brilliant. No matter but he says his tactics in the subs so far have been spot on. Every game he's got every... I thought last week that he could have maybe have brought it Five minutes. Thought he could have made a sub last week five minutes earlier just to just to get a grip at the game. It happens though sometimes things happen in a split second. You think your plays are doing well. You know it can happen really quickly but I thought if we want to tune it up and we even having to change it he wouldn't have wanted to bring Dom off there. Dom's out. Dom's someone you can knock the ball up to but we started playing differently. We started playing third man running a couple of little passes third man running giving the ball the Corey, a Wobby, a Charleston that little extra pass getting through and I thought we were so disciplined and we controlled that game the last 20 minutes brilliantly. It was never really I mean as I said I'm always near if you're watching a game football with Evan always because I've seen everything seen everything seen as being tuned up with whatever five minutes ago I've seen as tuned up with 30 seconds to go and not with the game I've seen everything with Evan so it was refreshing to see a controlled performance with the game. That was alright I couldn't see Brighton Brighton just weren't creating anything I know but I don't watch the game they didn't have any space in the final third I don't watch the game like that I watch the game through emotion I don't watch the game through the eye of someone who I don't watch the game You're watching the game thinking all the wind could blow in the ball I do, I do I genuinely do mate that's how I watch games of football I watched games that had a pure emotion because anything can happen in a game of football the goalie could kick the ball up and it could take a gust of wind and blow the ball over the goalie's head and they are it only takes one thing to change a game of football by the way when you're tuning up they shouldn't score it's all about momentum and we had them and to be fair when we were tuning up we should have scored more goals I said we would get a third one here didn't we? We should have the goalie had a chance I think maybe it may be Dom going off I think after scoring the penalty I think you could have had another 10, 20 minutes I don't know if you did have another 10 minutes but you had another 20, 30 minutes then you could have gone and got another one well listen it was all what I liked about the last 20 minutes was that we just kept the ball out they had a lot of the ball but they didn't go anywhere with it they didn't do anything with it what they did was they just huffed and puffed in midfield and we got men back and then we broke because they had committed and really it would have just been nicer seeing us get one more just to show the confidence levels that we had and the corey had one again he broke and it's come inside and the keeper makes a good save well we had a few didn't we? we didn't get on the ball and had it huffing away like we did most of the time in the first half we built a little pass and go down the left it went off and obviously that one with the corey it will be ran straight made a run down the middle and play it off to a child and I would say there's one in the last 10 minutes we just held the ball in there half so well and what we did really well what we did was great he came on and he just used the ball really well little one twos getting good areas becoming a different kind of number 10 and he's been, let's be honest he's had a really good start to the season and they said I'm the first I've given so much grief I've given so much grief in the last few couple of years because I just think just because I think when you pay a lot of money for someone he's not been good enough he's not been good enough and you expect you expect when you have two poor years I think you can have one bad year but when you have two poor years but again now listen this is the third manager and all it takes is that one manager to go I know exactly what I'm going to do with you this is your position Call over with Davies Silver had an idea of what he wanted to do but never used it and you'll have to use them as a winger but Benitez seems to know what he wants and it doesn't matter where he starts see this is the key thing right it doesn't matter whether he starts or he comes off the bench the manager knows what he's doing with them and what I like about today is because we had no other players to see Townsend for me is not going to come on and make a difference but a Wobie can if he's put in the right position and it's almost like the manager saying it's the manager backing his own game plan by the way it's the manager saying I've got a game plan and if this works out we're going to bring a Wobie on with 20 minutes to go and he's just going to grab all of the game and do what he needs to do that's a manager backing his own game plan rather than saying no we'll start with a Wobie and we'll go after it straight away and blah blah blah this is a manager I think that goes looks at the game and says this is what's going to happen because I understand the tactics of the game and there were 20 minutes to go whatever's happening a Wobie can either come on and hold on to the ball for us or he can come on and give us something to go and get scores from goals get us at the pitch exactly and I thought a Wobie did really well I thought Gomez did well as well I thought he did well the other night I thought he did well today I had a chance at the end as well didn't he he did from outside the box did we win a corner from that as well he had one where he won as a corner and he had one where he hit it from outside the box and the keeper had to make a smart save but again it's that intention to get in the box so far when I've seen Gomez in the last two games he's getting in the box he's not standing at the back he's getting in the box and maybe a lot of that comes down to who we're taking off and who we're bringing him on for and those kind of things and obviously you know Alan let's have a look at Alan's numbers by the way cos I just thought he was brilliant 49 touches 94% pass accuracy one assist staff for the penalty was it Townsend who made the pass for the penalty you got him assistant that might have been Jules 1-5 out of 12 key passes 3 there you go I thought he was sensational Alan today just all over the pitch he controlled the game brilliantly allowed to get a bit more stuck in I think the most important thing is that we see that every single week that relationship with Ducore has been absolutely fantastic so far seeing a lot of Ducore getting up the pitch a lot more obviously had that shot in the final 10 minutes Ducore is all over the pitch Alan is controlling the game in the midfield Ducore is all over the pitch though and it's it's telling that the manager is working on that relationship I think I think it's really telling that he's working on that and he's creating a base for those plays to go forward and he's asking some games Townsend to go forward, some games he's asking forward and back he's asking for Charleston to go forward and back he's asking a Wobie to go forward he's saying to them he's not something like a Wobie you just cast them aside on the right wing and go go and do it there but they're in the game now so I told Alan was a men's man of the match easily today is he your man of the match? Alan was a man of the match easily I agree with you, I think Grey had a good game just because of Grey's goal let's have a look at Grey's stats 32 touches 79% accuracy 1 goal shot block 2 key passes 2 and he's been he's been a breath of fresh air since he come into the side it's just nice to see a proper winger isn't it can play on the wing because he's a proper winger can beat a man can get him behind lots of pace and can score obviously with Charleston scores off the wing but he's centre four really isn't he it was just a really good performance it was a really good performance a good away win, first away win of the season nice to get that off your back straight away it's just a point out of the three games on the free to go on to them let's hope in the next couple of days we can make a couple of signings just to help that squad out get the players back who are covered as well obviously first game back it's Bernie isn't it home game next game Monday night under the lights couple of easy couple of games to expect we've got games coming up that we should be winning we should be winning the manager now can take stock of everything that's going on we've given ourselves a good base anyway to come off so being a good starter season the manager now can have a little look at it review the starter this season and as I said we've got a couple of days now transfer window see if we can get a couple more strengthen the squad get the players in hopefully some players don't go away on international duty all this stuff going on and listen I think the most important thing is for me anyway that I've been watching the first few games of the season and I'm not seeing this like horrible negative stuff we were told we were going to be seeing I'm seeing the kind of football that I like watching direct football taking chances having to go with the opposition and ultimately that's all we want to see that's all we want to see being in the lead and going for more we're building as well this time last year and I mean the start of the season we were okay we dug in a couple of games and Crystal Palace but then we put goals past Brighton and goals past West Brom and everything looked amazing but it was all a bit fake and a bit false where is this it looks like we are literally trying to build from the back defensive unit in now we're going to score goals as well so what's profession as well last season if you won a game you'd expect goals to be from Dumbledore at Charleston maybe Hammers and then I think after that was like Decorey had like a few a three I think Keane had three and then already we got Gray's got a couple so we got the one million worth Charleston, Dom's got three and three Decorey got one in the first game already I know Dom's got a couple of penalties but he's got three and three well if he took all the penalties last season if he scored all the penalties we scored last season rather than have it all stuck then he'd have had 20 goals wouldn't he it's all about confidence it's all about building confidence it's been a good start and I think most of it's only going to be happy with it so let's have a quick look at the stats go on match stats so 14 shots 14 shots, three shots for them five tools on target that's breathing for an away game one big chance 34% possession which is our sweet spot last year it was 38 this year it was 34 and obviously they had nearly double the passes we had but most of them are on the back it doesn't really matter you can have as many passes as you want as long as it says 211 that's all I care about so there you go good win good three points and it's been a good start to the season so let us know your thoughts in the comments on this one make sure choose the deadline there you are all over toffi tv because we'll be all over the transfer stories all day we'll have updates all day on what's going on what isn't going on who's coming in who's not coming in who's going out and who's not going out so make sure you have a bell for a late ticked that you're subscribing of course give this video a like and if you want more great videos daily live videos join us over on patreon thank you for watching the link to the description and also on the screen right now and we'll see you later


Greetings, and welcome to Working Together on ThinkTech Hawaii, where we discuss the impact of change on workers, employers, and the economy. I'm Cheryl Crozier-Garcia, inviting you to join the conversation. Please call in with your questions or comments to area code<PHONE_NUMBER> or tweet us at ThinkTechHI. Today we're going to do something a little bit different. We've been doing these shows for six months now, and in that time I've been collecting questions sent to me by viewers and fellow HR professionals. Today we're going to take a chance at looking at some of the more interesting questions to see how you might choose to react to some of them. Now these are fairly common. I went through the list and kind of screened them and looked for the ones that appeared the most, and some of them only came up once, but they're so interesting that they're worth discussing. So I have the list, and we're going to go over those right now. Myself and my invisible evil twin here will be commenting on how I would respond as an HR professional to some of these issues. So here's the first question. My uncle is newly arrived from the Philippines. He does not speak nor read English very well. He wanted me to call the HR department and find out some information about his medical coverage. The HR person I talked to said he can't give out information to anyone but the employee. Is this true? How can I help my uncle? Actually it is true. The HR department by law is obligated to keep all of the detailed information about conditions of employment, pay, benefits, and other issues confidential. And so they're not supposed to discuss those things with anyone but the employee. If your uncle really does have an issue where it's difficult for him to understand then what I would have you do is write a letter to the HR department that says that you are your uncle's agent and translator and that your uncle gives permission for the HR department to discuss issues of pay, benefits, and working conditions with you. And then have your uncle sign it. Have him take it to the HR department. And that way when he has questions he can get an answer and you will be able to interpret for him either via phone or in person if you go to visit your uncle's working place. So this was not I don't think the HR person trying to be difficult but it really is a matter of respecting the employee's right to privacy and the need to maintain confidential information and keep it confidential. So thanks for that question. Let's move on. This here's an interesting one. This one is about overtime. I work for an office cleaning company. Sometimes I have to work on Saturday but when I do I don't get overtime. My cousin who does the same job for a union company gets overtime for Saturday work. Is my company ripping me off? And the answer I would say is probably not. This is a misconception that many people have about overtime but the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act says that you get overtime pay at one and one half times your hourly salary or hourly pay rate for hours worked over 40 in a week. And it doesn't specify days, times, specific shifts.  So take a look at your pay stub and if your pay stub says that you've worked 40 hours or less per work week even if you did work on weekends or night shift or something like that then you would not be eligible for overtime pay. And if this is something that you feel that you really do deserve what you may want to do is ask your cousin to let you know the next time a position opens up at his or her working place and then apply for a position where union members do receive this kind of overtime pay for working on Saturdays. And thanks for writing in. This is another misconception that people often have about working on weekends, night shifts and this kind of situation. No one likes doing it but unfortunately the law does not require employers to compensate workers who do work those kind of funky schedules any extra for the work that they do. Here's another one that's very common and this one has to do with drug testing. I am applying for a job with a company that has pre-hire drug testing. Can they really make me take the test? Yes, they can. Even though we're in an environment now where marijuana is becoming legal on a state by state basis, the federal law still says that marijuana is against the law and so employers do have a right to test for marijuana as well as other illegal drugs either pre-hire or in a random type of situation. So yes, the companies you're applying to can make you submit to a pre-employment drug test as a provision of getting the offer of employment. And you may want to, if you believe that this is an issue for you, that is to say that you may not pass the test, you may want to focus on employers that will not ask you to take that test. And then avoid companies that have that requirement. So good luck with that. If you are taking a medication that was prescribed by a doctor and that would come up as part of the items that are tested for on some kind of pre-employment or random drug test, make sure that you take the bottles with you to the test and you can show those to the folks that are administering the test and they will write that down along with the prescription number so that you will not be penalized for having an narcotic in your system at the time of testing because you're taking them for legal purposes, okay? So good luck with your drug test and with your job search. And so just be careful with the drug test issue, yeah? Okay, how about this one? This one came from an HR colleague and they're thinking about some ongoing professional development, okay? I'm thinking about going back to school for a master's in HR or possibly getting my certification. Which would you recommend? Well, I have both actually. I did go back to school for a follow-on degree and I am a certified HR professional so I would say this, get both and here's why. The master's program or following up education gives you a good opportunity to bring your skills current, to learn the up to the minute most common practices, not necessarily best practices but most common practices in the profession and will give you an opportunity to meet and learn to work with people that will be competing with you for jobs. So you get a good chance to see how the market is going and that's a good thing but certification shows the prospective employer that you are committed, first of all, to the HR profession. Secondly, that you're committed to ongoing professional development because you do have to recertify periodically and it also shows that professionals recognize your skills, knowledge and ability as current and relevant to the profession. And that's the difference between a degree and certification. Degrees show that from a university perspective that the faculty of a particular university recognize your skills as deeper and more detailed maybe than others who don't have a degree but certification is granted by the professional organization. And so it's other HR professionals saying, yes, Cheryl is, she knows what she says she knows and we as fellow professionals support her assertion that she is a well qualified professional in the field. So it's very important to pursue appropriate certification as well as to update your certification when you've moved up and gotten more experience. One of the issues that I find very troubling is the issue of people that are under certified for the position that they currently hold. So say, for example, you're a young HR professional and the minute you're eligible, you sit for the PHR exam, the professional and human resources exam and you pass. So then you're certified and you continue to recertify as you climb the ladder within the HR profession. Now you are a chief human resources officer, vice president or director of HR in a particular company and you are eligible for the senior designation but you choose not to certify. You don't go back and take the senior exam. My recommendation to you at that point would be absolutely take the senior examination and become certified at the senior level because that then proves again not only that you are committed to your profession, you're committed to ongoing professional development, you are passionate about your profession but it also shows that you are able and your colleagues in the profession are able to certify your strategic level of HR knowledge, skill and abilities. So do make sure not only that you seek certification the moment that you are eligible but that you also continue to appropriately certify as you climb the corporate ladder. You want your certification to match the level of the organization that you are currently in. And I am seeing a sign that we are headed to break. So please take a look at some of the awesome programming we have available on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Cheryl Crozier-Garcia and we will be back for more working together in just a moment. Yeah. Match Day is no ordinary day. The pitch, hallowed ground for players and supporters alike. Excitement builds. Game plans are made with responsibility in mind. Celebrations are underway. Ready for kickoff. MLS clubs and our supporters rise to the challenge. We make responsible decisions while we cheer on our heroes and toast their success. Elevate your Match Day experience. If you drink, never drive. Welcome back to Working Together on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Cheryl Crozier-Garcia with more viewer questions. Do feel free if you'd like to call in and join the conversation area code<PHONE_NUMBER> or tweet us at Think Tech HI. This question came from another HR colleague who is having some difficulty with turnover in her organization. And the email says, I work for a light industrial firm. Recently we've been experiencing a great deal of turnover. One of our competitors raised their pay rate by 50 cents, excuse me, an hour. All of the employees who have left us now work for them. The president says we can't afford to raise wages. What can we do to reduce turnover? That's a hard one. Particularly if your employees are at the level where an additional 50 cents an hour represents a significant increase in compensation. But there are some things you might try to do, even if the issue of raising the hourly rate is off limits and cannot be contemplated at this time. The first thing you might do is consider longevity bonuses. So say, for example, you hire a new employee. The person lasts six months on the job. And you would give them at that time some kind of bonus to reflect that they've been here for six months already. And then you could follow those along at a year, two years, et cetera. If cash is not part of the bonus that you could offer, how about offering paid time off as one of the benefits? So say, for example, you work for six months. You are then entitled to an additional day off at the next three-day weekend. So we've got one coming up. Next week is Memorial Day. Monday is a day off for most of us. So you might tell employees, OK, if you've worked at least six months, you get the Tuesday after Memorial Day off with pay. And when you work a year, you might get whatever vacation you've earned plus an additional number of days off. So there are ways to offer things that a competing employer is not offering that maybe don't cost as much as you thought they might have. But this is a real problem for employees. And I've certainly seen it in my career. And people, particularly HR professionals, will kind of look at that and say, why would they walk across the street for an additional $0.50 an hour when it's exactly the same job. And the only difference is $0.50 an hour. Well, $0.50 an hour isn't just $0.50 an hour. It's $20 a week times 52 weeks. It's for people that are making close to the minimum wage or have large families, et cetera. This represents a significant increase to their take-home pay. And so people are going to do whatever they feel like they need to do in order to continue to support their families and have a level of income that will allow them to have a comfortable life.  That's not the issue. The issue is they're leaving and you don't want them to. So focus on that. What is it that has value to employees and can you offer it in a way that continues to reward longevity and stick-to-itiveness? The other thing you may want to consider that I have found often is an incentive to stay is an employee referral program, where current employees receive bonuses for recommending folks that you then hire for other positions. Now you might say that, ooh, but then we run into the issue of having entire families employed by the same company, doing the same type of job. And yes, but in the case of retention, that's a plus, because people like working with their relatives, their friends, et cetera. And so you get the opportunity to continue to work with the people you love in a way that makes sense for you. And so then you disincentivize walking across the street for a measly $0.50 an hour. So think about those kinds of things. It doesn't have to be cash. It can be other things that are meaningful to the employee. And that really is the issue. No reward is a reward unless the recipient believes it's a reward. OK. OK, here's a hard one that I've actually seen this happen. And it's a really sticky one. I supervise a number of professional staff. The person who wrote in doesn't say which company or what kind of professionals, but professional staff. One of my supervisees has begun a romantic relationship with our vice president. They don't do much to keep their relationship quiet. Now, some department members are claiming that the vice president is showing favoritism to her new romantic partner. What can I do? Some of our coworkers want to join forces and tell the VP's husband. The best advice I can give you about this is stay out of it. First of all, to the degree that you can have a conversation with those employees that want to let the VP's spouse know that this is a situation, if you can talk them out of it, do it. You really don't need that kind of headache in your day-to-day work life. If there is a situation that you are observing where favoritism does appear to be a factor, then you should speak with the vice president. And if there's a perception that it is the employee that is the lower ranking person in the relationship who is using the knowledge of that relationship as a way to perhaps get over on some of the more onerous tasks or finagle their way into longer lunches, more days off, this kind of thing. If it's a performance issue, then you take it up with the employee just like you would any other performance issue without mentioning the relationship. If this continues, then you can take it up as you go further up the chain of command with the vice president. But as a performance issue, not as a relationship issue, because unless you have an anti-nepotism policy or an anti-fraternization policy, it really isn't up to the company to make a decision about who people date, who they socialize with, who their friends are. So focus exclusively on the performance issues that are impacting this specific employee's performance, as well as the performance of the rest of the group. And like I said, to the degree that you feel comfortable dissuading others from squealing to the vice president's spouse, you should probably do that, because nothing will be solved if they take this step. And it'll just make things a lot worse and a lot unhappier for those that remain. Let's see. I like this one. This is a hard one, and I've actually been here. I mean, I've seen the situation in action. So the writer says, I am the newest executive level employee in a large service industry company. Again, they don't say which one. All of my new colleagues have been in their positions for many years. The entire team has worked together for at least 20 years. I was hired to make some fairly significant changes approved by the board of directors and the CEO. But when I try to get information about processes that would be affected by these changes, I get nothing but resentment and pushback. Below the executive level, I am very successful and I am building a good reputation. But the executives just don't seem to want to do what they've hired me to do. And they pay me a very good salary to accomplish these things that just aren't happening. How can I get them on my side? You would have thought, wouldn't you, writer, that because the board of directors and the CEO approved these changes and then hired you to make them happen, that they would naturally be supportive of whatever initiatives you are putting forward to make these changes happen. But the sad truth is most people are change a verse. So my recommendation to you, it's a terrible thing to say. And I know that you're getting paid very well and good salaried jobs are hard to find. So here's the best advice I can give you. Number one, save your money. Number two, update your resume. And number three, start looking for another position that, in which you believe that you will not get this same level of rejection, pushback and resentment. Because toxic environments can have an impact not only on your work reputation, but on your personal health. And no job and no company is worth that kind of pain and heartache and unhappiness. So really, you probably shouldn't stay in a relationship that you believe is damaging or abusive or toxic to yourself, but you want to have an exit strategy that will put you in a good position to make your next career move. And I wish you the best because I've been there and I didn't like it much either. Gee, this half hour has really flown by and we're down to our last minutes. So what I'd like to say to you is, if you have other questions, please feel free to call in or tweet at think tech Hawaii or at think tech HI, I should say, or call in area code<PHONE_NUMBER> and we'll be collecting your questions. And then when we have enough of them, we'll be setting up another Just You and Me conversation. I'm Cheryl Crozier-Garcia. Thank you for joining us on Working Together at Think Tech Hawaii and I will see you in two weeks. Bye. These are all.