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It's good defense that sack on that last play hurt me It was good dude to play before he went hard flats and I had my comeback route Cloud flats I anticipate him to go hard flats again. I had my tight end on that play. I got sacked. I just But I played good defense the first driving pool and want to get a pick and want to get somebody to come free I'll give him a free five if you want to see Yeah, yeah, very now not the way he played it when it got that that open That's our time is test. Why do you not pick it?  Oh, that's gotta be a book boys That's easy.  I knew he's won.  Let me know Listen, I ain't got here. God damn.   I play anybody's watch me a little bit has seen that dot Good hat boys great defensive Put a one in the chat if you ever saw that dot before Y'all had to see that dot before if y'all ever watched me stream man I mean, bro, how fast is my I put I put Lawrence Taylor on the bench this game starting to notice it. Ah, man.   Can't have a single dot in the whole field Damn, man. Oh, these kids is Damn, man.  Oh, that's my fault.   I'm putting my team star.  I don't like that. Come on man.  I need somebody to fight for me He playing a little bit better now Vic is just killing me Shit miles Garrett. Yeah, good play. Let's go Earl can definitely fly but that was too close to comfort really. I didn't think I'd even be close. I gotta press I gotta press me Oh my god Thank you, man Let's come on man.   This guy's they gotta be dead.    One drive. I'm box. This is much I promise y'all He won't give me Cleft going cleft. You just got Catch the ball kid. All right, it's coming through show every time now.  Sometimes five, sometimes six, a lot of coverage. The one thing I noticed, honestly When he pinched the line, he's more than the title to go Blitz. When he spread the line He's more entitled to play coverage. In the world, I just get his face blown off like that. Then we go on aggressive You know, he's gonna give me a big play whether it be on the fade on the outside or fade up the middle The way he's playing now, he's changing it to a cover three shell and I don't know if he's Going to be too wide holding like that I don't know if I want to take the chance G. G. Let's go, man Draw one up Anybody in the chat would be on anything other than conservative right here I might have saved it. No, I guess you gotta get the ball But I might have saved the time out for the the clock I feel like a draw player or a toss will take three seconds all the clock where a dive might only take one Two seconds of the clock You know what I mean chat And and ultimately what type of kickoff are we doing here is my main is my second question I might have would have saved one of my timeouts for ice field No, but you gotta give yourself a chance Perfect kick no timeouts and squib is entirely Yeah, but if that's one that out of bounds one corner out of bounds, which are oh man, this is tough We're gonna cover the kick We're gonna cover the kick.    I just don't know I'm gonna get off the pocket What was your play there you three deep? I mean michael vic just like bro Michael vic just Me plays michael vic just I swear to god. There's no michael vic in that game probably. There's no michael vic in the game I don't get first down What was this?    See I can't I can't deal Here we go the michael vic show Madden save me What's he needs What's he needs? Check come on check Come on chat. I see I can't just like that was the worst I've ever seen clef in a box be honest Big game man shout out to the chat shout out to the sub shout my man uh kept I feel you Hey, youtube uh hit the hit the like button hit the sub button comment on the see On what plays clef got lucky because he said in the chat that he got lucky And he missed touchdowns. I felt like every play he got was just a broken play Oh, let me let me talk to the talk to me I really felt like every play was like a broken play Michael vic saved them. It was a good game. I felt like I played phenomenal defense that game I felt I gave one touchdown up when I forgot the deep quarter the outside guy And other than that, I mean I felt like I played great defense man I've seen clef play way better offense than that and that was a good game He played great defense too, man. He really messed it up Good game chat hit the like button


All right pop quiz pop sort of quiz pop pop you if you know this it wouldn't surprise me okay you may not know this which would surprise me okay who directed the nightmare before Christmas Henry wow what was his last name Selick I that doesn't surprise me but I think most people if you had asked me I would have said Tim Burton most people associated yeah which is poor Henry man you know that's his film yep it was just produced by Burton well it's it's Tim Burton's story right Tim Burton's characters right he was he directed it yeah poor guy so hey welcome back to our stupid eggs is going I'm Tim Burton and you can follow us on Instagram Twitter for more juicy content oh yeah turn flow and subscribe if you haven't been like button we were watching fantastic beasts ask me if I care last night okay because we do this thing every year Ashley hosts it because we figured out if you start the Friday after Halloween yeah go to the end of the year you can watch all the Harry Potter films so she wanted to start with fantastic beasts since it's prequely I was watching it was joining it because that's my favorite of the three yeah and just watching it and getting it to the end spoiler alert if you haven't seen Fantastic Beasts you don't know what about to say plug your ears for five seconds why they just listen to all the ridiculous stuff and didn't stick with Johnny is their loss it is their loss what they did to that franchise by not having Johnny because when he shows up I'm like yep he's he's supposed to be the one guys yep they they lost a lot more than that yeah they sure did the second two did not make no them very much if any money no and it was very obvious though the third one it's like I wish Rowling would write more books and then you can have someone adapt those and turn them into screenplays because I've she's a far better book writer than a screenwriter he's also like a cunt talk about the like the biggest fall from grace I've ever seen it's for no joke for a person her own cast members yeah are actively like talking about how she was is one of the most beloved people on the planet and then she's just like decided to die on a hill yeah some god damn with her with her flag it's so weird it really is strange so anyway say her basic responses to everybody is like yeah I don't care I'm getting paid okay wow thanks JK seems doesn't need pub man she doesn't need that or the money me and my me and my film club always say that it's a shame no one knows who wrote Harry Potter because you just want to enjoy it you don't want it you don't want to think about JK Rowling you're just like how how could somebody so tell everybody it was written by JK Simmons they won't know the difference exactly yeah today this is a new trailer of a Malayalam I think it's is it a series or is it a Sony L.I.V. I can't tell I can't tell anyways but it's called Wonder Woman or women plural there wonder yeah women wonder women and I think it has some people that will recognize agent Tina no there's no more wonderous woman that's appeared in cinema this past year here we go I'm not we were putting together not to fail when I found out that I was pregnant me I'm a single mother and I don't think it's important the way from young Gracie I am very okay for mother in law also joins the class of course your mother-in-law is pregnant sure why not yeah oh we know her I'm sire they're not married but we live together in Goa I think in the class it won't only be a whole hour of a breathing practice what I love a ball and I keep on the radio pregnant friends it kind of takes a village to raise a child and here you are making that village it is very important that you support each other a good-for-nothing I'm in love that just looks like a that just looks like a big hug if that's as good as the trailer please be as good as the trailer yeah that's that looks absolutely beautiful that just felt like a big hug and I might imagine it's it's actually gonna be quite it's gonna be some really tough to watch moments because I'd imagine in a film like this you're probably gonna have somebody lose a baby yeah something I something's gonna something there's gonna be some tragedy yes heart-wrenching right yes and you're gonna get connected to people I love this unless they're bad at making a trailer that fits what the film is I'd imagine most of it's gonna be this really empowering lovely fun film I'm gonna show this to my wife she's probably gonna love this thing I can tell you already there's gonna be people who don't like it because there's gonna be women they're pregnant out of wedlock there's yeah anyways yeah but I it but probably not this is Malayalam Malayalam oh so that's why I have really high I know me too as it's it's Malayalam cinema so you can have a good story original it's a very original story right all about pregnant women it from all different backgrounds which is awesome but then you're also gonna have great acting yeah all the acting looks superb and clearly pregnant for all kinds of reasons yeah sorry yeah I just what's there not to like about that that has wonderful dripping from every frame yeah it was just a left a smile on your face and like you're like I hope I like this was kind of was I obviously I hope that it goes into tough subjects and all that kind of stuff but it feels like at the end kind of like a Mimi right you're gonna be happy in the end I don't know maybe no but that would my suspicion will be that's a vibe it was giving yeah the vibe it gives is that at the end that after through it all through all of the pain through all of the agony through all of the problems ultimately there's the hope of the power of women and the and women being the the primary force that propagates us forward as a race and I I can't wait yeah I'm very excited for this to have a film all about pregnant women I'd be obviously I know there's calm like rom-coms almost in America like what to expect when you're expecting I know was a rom-com many years ago here funny enough three men and a baby was yeah knocked up I guess is obviously a pregnant film yeah more of just a fun comedy you know Juno yeah but those aren't really pregnant no I mean that gets Juno is a little bit but it's obviously there's other stuff and they are pregnant as right no I've never seen this is very original and obviously since there's such taboo and touchy subjects in India about obviously women and how they get pregnant yes you know there's the subject matter just you know talking about a woman's menstrual cycle or even talking about a woman being pregnant or there's just there's so much ignorance and prejudice around it I'm again love the trailer can't wait to watch this I'm only I'm not Indian at Tamil is pure Indian but okay I know I'm pretty sure it's Malayalam yes Sony what other film from Sony did we see we just saw one recently from Sony live well hold on and we liked it that's what I remember but I don't remember which one it was sadly sorry everybody you guys Sony let us know because I know series wise they've they did Rocket Boys which I'm right that's what I was thinking of I think there was a movie I was thinking of that I think there was a movie and then obviously they've done the series that everybody loved that we haven't seen yet in mm-hmm what was it called scam that one that's that's their series so it seems like they're doing a really good job as well as all the other OTT platforms which is wonderful to see really like that's not a strong suit very much here of OTT films there you'll occasionally see a good OTT film but most of them are pretty mediocre they don't have the consistency that India has no no I feel like most of them are just okay here and unfortunately or some bad the best ones in the past couple of years on our OTT platforms have been the ones that were designed for Oscars and they give it a limited theatrical release so it qualifies and then it does well on OTT and then you'll sometimes see other bird box obviously that a lot of people like that was great many a couple years back which was a Netflix film so though occasionally but I feel like they're really consistent but we know how much money they've put into it in India recently yeah which is cool I'm excited yep I know this probably won't be one that we'll get like a ton of like sad sad life it feels like that not that but this is kind of the films that get us excited no but you know who would be promoting this just by you know loving it would be people like Radhika Apte and yeah Kalki Keklin would they're the kind of women and swastika yeah they'd be like watch this watch this watch this if they see it and love it but wonderful thing about Malayalam industry is that they do support these they do it's a very unique industry and people maybe it's just because the Malayalam industry has for a long time put forth just good content good acting good story as opposed to the audiences aren't just expecting big mass which once again nothing wrong with big mass films I'm not not knocking them but it's just very unique because Hindi they don't support small films like this no which is strange to me and in other industries I feel like they don't support it like Malayalam industry does which is one of the things I like about Malayalam industry me too anyways let us know what you thought about this one and what should be the next Malayalam film that we watch down blue


Good evening and welcome to episode 365 of the private property podcast. I'm your host Usama Mandoa, comando. Joining us for the first time, welcome to the family you've certainly been missing out on incredible shows rather on the property across our social media pages. So do make sure that you go to our Facebook, YouTube or of course wherever you get your podcast, whether it's Spotify or even Apple podcasts to catch up on all the great episodes that you have already missed out on. And for all our regular viewers on our Facebook page, Instagram, YouTube, welcome to it. You know how we do it. Every single weekday, you and I have an appointment at 7 p.m. We're always in conversation with a property expert who helps us make better property decisions. And it doesn't matter where you are in your property journey, this is the show that helps you on your property needs. 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So I can't wait to see as the spinach grows and the whole other vegetables that I've already planted in the garden. And of course talking more of our shows that you can catch every weekday at 8 p.m. Every Mondays and Fridays, you can catch Chad on the Home Shoppers Show, where he takes you through incredible properties that you can find on www.privateproperty.co.za. So they make sure that you tune into that one. It gives us a good taste of what is possible, right? And sometimes it's just something to use in your mood board. I know I go to, you know, the website very frequently and take screenshots of homes, different properties and some of them added onto my own mood board for a property that I'm like, this is my dream home and this is exactly what I wanted to look like. 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It's the first time that you're even hearing this concept we'll be looking at what exactly is it. So I'm almost a you know sustainable architecture 101 and really getting a good sense of what it is, what is it not and how we can go about and what it looks like at different types of projects whether it's residential or of course you know commercial projects. And I'm joined this evening by the by the by the young Daniel van der Maruvel who is the founder at LEAF Architects. Daniel good evening and thank you so much for joining us this evening. Hello it's wonderful to be on your show again. Thank you for inviting me. It's only a pleasure Daniel.  Daniel and I were talking over here you know he was even joking that he he's he got his hair all done just for me for this show this evening. Many of you at home know him. I was sorry I was even saying to him so he's gone and grown a beard and a mustache you know is it a is it a thing of the times? Is it COVID? I know many people I do more sorts of things but he is looking very young. You know he's looking fashionably handsome and in very young. And thank you very much for cleaning up for the show Daniel. And I think to pick starters with with our conversation and looking absolutely amazing is when we talk about the sustainable architecture what is that? What does that even mean sustainable architecture? I think sustainable architecture really the primary goal is not only do we try and save the planet one step at a time but in other words it's about using the resources on the planet more effectively and more sparingly but it also means money in your pocket so it's about it's really about efficiency so it's about smart building design and it is about using the available technology. You know the the days of just using energy and using electricity indiscriminately it's really over as you know it's common with all our blackouts and the price of electricity as you know has gone up over 385% over the past few years. So it's really a concern it's not only about saving the planet it's also about saving money. You know Daniel as as you were talking through that and one of the big things you were saying is minding your pocket. Part of me you know thought about how I know there's probably somebody at home thinking oftentimes when you talk about you know going green or anything that has to do with sustainability people often think about the cost of that and thinking that if anything that's just going to cost me more whereas obviously we're talking also about the the sort of long-term costs and not just the the costs sort of up front and when you're building when when when we think about you know people who are worried about the costs you know what would you say to them because I know that one of the things and we've spoken previously about even going green in our homes whether you want to for example use solar and just the different ways you can be more economical when it comes to sort of energy usage and I know that one of the big pressure points does tend to be the cost of I'll say making that change from what we are currently used to and unfortunately people don't also then factor in what should be currently spending and the potential then save in that regard so what would you say to people who are very cost-conscious especially those who are looking at you know your more residential projects that are not sort of high-end residential projects? Yes firstly I think what is required is a mind change and a behavioral change and if I can use the plastic bag kind of concept to where you know in supermarkets they start charging plastic bags and that didn't seem to help really but when the moment that people started supermarkets started issuing recyclable bags and bags you can use more than once I certainly made that change I certainly certainly don't use plastic bags anymore and I save money and I don't throw things away I recycle it I reuse it vegetable peels goes on to the compost heap so yeah it's a kind of firstly it's a mindset change and secondly then the moment that you can see if you implement small steps for example probably our most single expense is is energy so in a case where you've got an existing house you can do simple steps you can do things like just changing your light bulbs to LED light bulbs which consumes 20% of the electricity of a normal traditional light bulb you can do you can reduce your you really can reduce your water heating bulb very effectively I'll give you an example I switched over to gas gas geysers which means it's not an electric geyser that runs and keeps the water hot at a certain temperature over time it heats the water instantaneously the moment that you need the moment you turn up a tap that is when the gas kicks in and that's when you get hot water and I can tell you that in my personal experience I've saved 1,500 random months on my electricity bulb now that if you think that you can get a gas geyser for anything from six to 12,000 rand you can really pay that geyser off very quickly so that's the first thing that you can do second thing you can do the third thing you can do is really if you're going to buy new appliances if you're going to buy a new washing machine or a new fridge look for the echo label the new generation of appliances are far more energy efficient they use less water and by the way they're much quieter as well so so next time did you go and buy a washing machine or a dishwasher look at an energy efficient make and then I also want to say that this I'm talking about you know behavioral changes really the idea of popping in clothes into a tumble dryer if you can hang it outside in a good old fashion sun if you can do rinse a few cups do some hand washing do some wash your dishes by hand small things like that every scent counts and every time that you do that you are saving energy I just want to put it in perspective you know we all have a collective responsibility towards the planet otherwise it's going to be our children's problem one day and households contribute 25 percent of warm gas green gas emissions and in South Africa households and you can know you know that with escom sort of blackouts households consume anything between 30 35 to 38 percent of the total energy that escom generates that's an awful lot so if each one of us just do our little bit and consume less energy then we're making a big difference that and secondly we're a water scarce country so it's about really it's raining tonight get yourself a big jojo tank how is that rainwater you can use it for you can use it in your garden you can you can use it for any other thing instead of using rinse for water and a third tip that I want to add is that I've made a simple connector of my gray water my my bath and my shower water goes directly into my garden so you know again so why waste something where you can reuse it and my my motto is always reduce reuse and replenish so I think it won't adhere to those three three things and then the last thing that I want to say besides solar and besides gas if you get cold you put a jersey on and when you get hot you take the jersey off so if you can just do simple devices like for example use a proper if you can't afford double glazing use you can use an efficient coating on your windows a lot of heat enters and escapes through your windows look at shutters even look at thick curtains anything that will and reduce heat gain and heat loss um off the windows I must say that your roof your ceiling is where most of your heat escapes and where most of your heat is gained so a simple insulation in your roof will make a big difference it really adds again to your energy usage and it makes your home more comfortable if you've got an existing house obviously there's not much you can do but yes a simple tree that can give shade a deciduous tree where the last sun in and would provide shade in summer can make a big difference and lastly I just want to add in terms of that is that what we've got to do is is that we've got to look at simple things at small steps if you've got a leaking window if you've got cracks under your floorboards if you've got a gap in your door add a simple sealant in because you'll be amazed how much air and how much heat enters and escapes through that simple little devices like that can make a big difference not only to your energy consumption but also to your monthly bills I am this evening in conversation with Daniel van der Marwijn who's a founder at Leaf Architects we're looking at sustainable architecture and already seeing the love that we're getting on our social media pages especially on Facebook Ghana, Razilani, watching, sending there those green hearts LH France was sending those green hearts and I see Bianca Combs saying guys it's my birthday I do ask that you join me in wishing Bianca a very very happy birthday I do hope that you've had yourself an incredible incredible day so far and to make it extra special for you Bianca can you slide into our DMs I am going to send you a copy of the of the property guide I'm going to make sure that the team gets you that copy to celebrate your special day I think this is the first time that we're having somebody's birthday or one of the first times because we've had a few birthdays in the past few months but certainly Bianca do slide into our DMs and I'll make sure that the team gets you a copy of that book I want to go for a quick break to find out who the lucky winner of that 500 rand in cash that is up for grabs this evening as we run of course our competition on our Facebook page I hope that they're watching so that they're able to claim the price let's see who the lucky winner is and that lucky winner this evening of that 500 rand cash price is LeBochang Golodze LeBochang Golodze I hope you're watching drop us a text down here below in order to claim your prize and if LeBochang doesn't claim that prize it is of course going to roll over into the money bag tomorrow evening but we still have some time to find out if LeBochang is indeed watching us and of course can claim that price as we continue our conversation with Daniel from the Malacca on sustainable architecture now Daniel I think you you know you've done sort of a great job at pointing out some of the the behavioral changes that we can certainly you know make at home that obviously you know adds to the bigger conversation around around sustainable living and making sure that we're very conscious of you know our energy usage and trying to of course watch our pockets because I think one of the really really big things is costs of everything are going up we saw the you know the hike you know the rate hike a few months ago we know that petrol price is going up so we really do want to you know find different ways that we can save money regardless of where exactly we are saving and I've got a few comments here from our viewers at home who also share that particular sentiment on our Facebook you know page and we've got who tembalay to Makanda saying which I could save on levies and a special levy and that's a huge one and then with that one I mean on the levy front that's that's one way and I certainly um you know say tembalay to watch some of the episodes we've done on levies because they're different ways to also get a sense of why your levy amount might be what it is but where special levies are concerned we know that we sometimes turn to find that special levies get raised when adequate planning wasn't done and now they have to raise a special levy in order to pay for that particular thing and you know one of the big things that pretend to raise special levy for for instance is even around the paint job whereas we're able to save up for that particular job as opposed to sort of waiting the last hour for it and having to raise those special levies. Send them a client to the same electricity is so expensive I'm considering solar geyser system installation in my property Umata Shanang is saying doing laundry by hand is a bit extreme for me but I'm all for saving the earth I am big on that Kanam Rajilani is saying that's a good thing to use water from the bathroom to your garden it's actually saving water famine that's a big thing I think you know gray water and being able to really reuse your bath water for your garden is is a game changer especially when you know you've got a big garden and even we have you know even when you have a small garden now Daniel I think one of the things then when we talk about sustainable architecture and we look at for instance a residential project you know what does that then look like for somebody who is about two built so you know we're not now talking to people at home where we want to make these different changes but now when we're looking at we've got a relatively blank canvas and we want to obviously be as as as mindful of the environment as possible what does that then look like for for those of us who are going to go into a building project you know to me I have a whole idea of sustainable architecture green architecture is almost a cliche and it's something which everybody's bandied around good architecture good design is sustainable exactly exactly you know and there's a lot that we can learn from our forefathers there's a lot that we can learn from traditional technologies where they did simple things like just it's called smart design it's about orientation how do you orientate your house your main windows do they face north do you block of sun on the south on a west side do you use the south side window opening sparingly little things like that do you use natural ventilation effectively to cool the house down in in in summer do you look at sun angles where you know that the sun is low in winter so it can enter into the space to warm your internal spaces and by using your roof overhangs and patio spaces veranda spaces effectively you can block the same sun out in summer because the sun sits higher so it's really little things like that and in also I think what we need to do is to add is that you really need to look at the way that you use materials if efficiently and the days of taking building rubble to a dump is over you can reuse that same building rubble to make new concrete you can use sustainable materials like bamboo bamboo is an amazing sustainable material instead of having forests dropped down and brazil and amazon or some other beautiful tropical island use sustainable materials like bamboo recycle where possible you can recycle building materials even better if you're going to have an existing structure don't demolish it upcycle it re-adapt it redesign it in a way that it works for you it's far more cost effective sometimes to use an existing structure and adapt it to contemporary use or to your specific requirements then to go and buy a new property or do demolish it and start all over so that's the first thing that I wanted to say and then secondly also you need to look at the long term so if you can implement certain principles already for example if you in your house design if you allow for sleeves and so on for a phased implementation of solar panels we've done properties where people can afford say two panels they buy two panels they've got the inverter but at least they can run their wi-fi they can reach some some lights then a year or two years later they add another two panels and some of the clients now are completely off the grid they've got all the panels so now in terms of the design make provision in terms of roof space in terms of sleeves that you can eventually go completely off the grid rainwater i mentioned the rainwater harvesting is and using it more effectively really is another way of saving resources so i think it's about energy efficiency it's about the structure it's about design efficiency it's about the thermal insulation of your house when we design properties and colder climates eastern free state and near the suit and those areas where it often snows and gets very cold we actually allow for insulation not only in the roof but also in the walls and in the floor because that's where the cold comes in and that's where the heat or you know also can enter or escape so little things like that that can really assist you greatly towards achieving a more energy efficient and a more sustainable green environment and by all means invite plants into your home i'm a i'm a great gardener i've got plants all over me and all around me and it's it's amazing what plants can do in the home they purify the air they contribute oxygen so incorporate landscaping into your budget and into your design in terms of the way that it interacts with your your social spaces indoors and outdoors is amazing concepts like living rooms and living walls where you can incorporate the architecture in fact what we see is we see a great emergence of landscape architecture and architecture where people start incorporating landscaping and planting and vegetable gardens and rooftop gardens but into the environments into their homes and onto their stands and i think you know that's actually you know Daniel it's so great that the different variety of of things that we're able to do at home and it isn't dependent on you know the type of property you have so sort of more high-end properties but regardless of the the nature of the property that you have there really are different things that we're able to already stop doing and that could potentially be a cost saver because i think one of the things that many of us are feeling i think all of us i don't i don't know a single person who isn't feeling it is that the costs of you know the general cost of living of course of going higher with petrol prices going up we know food is also you know going to go up so when we recognize that our homes are a standard cost that isn't going to go anywhere our consumption is going to more often than not stay relatively the same so in winter we'll typically want to get some heat and in summer we obviously wanted to you know to be cooler and we'll probably want our gardens to look a certain way trying to then find ways of making sure we cut costs as much as possible and keep them low because i think it's one exercise to cut them but also then be be able to do that from a from a long-term perspective also becomes so keen i just want to add something else i remember our grandmothers all had fruit trees and vegetable gardens and you know you went into your grandmother's garden you picked fruit and you and they cooked spinach and they cooked beans from the garden i personally have started incorporating edible plants in my garden instead of planting beautiful roses you know what carrots and spinach are beautiful plant them you'll be amazed at how bountiful nature is i i cringe when i see people in winter they sweep over leaves and then they burn them don't burn your leaves make a compost heap put it back replenish the earth replenish your garden eat from your eat from your garden yeah and i think that's actually you want to be able to eat from your backyard regardless of how big or small i mean i i do as you were saying that i'm like absolutely agree we've got a few peach trees we had a grape tree that unfortunately was not in the greatest position so we couldn't have to move that grape tree and i think a peach tree is one of those things that we many of us you know had in homes growing up as a really trying to grow stuff you can eat in your garden and and not only sort of you know pretty things that kind of lie there is so important but then before i let you go any final tips for our viewers at home when it comes to just sustainable architecture but really how they can make their homes as eco-friendly and as sustainable as possible yes i want to say you might have heard of the concept the sick building syndrome and it's called VOC so it's volatile organic compounds now if you've got synthetic things in your house like those polystyrene or you know all these kind of different carpets that's not made or materials that's not made from natural products it's actually going to make you sick so not only is there a thing of that it's we're consuming petroleum based products to manufacturer of synthetic stuff but it's also going to make you unhealthy in the long run so get rid of slowly and slowly if you're going to buy something if you're buying a new carpet if you're buying a new device if you're putting new curtains in if you're putting a new floor in use natural products as fast as possible recyclable products as fast as possible use products that can be recycled like i mentioned bamboo before and that's easily replenishable and not only will it benefit your health it will also benefit the planet and that's certainly a great note to leave 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to the St. John's Barrier Security Hub. I've been on Medicaid since I was a kid. If it weren't for eRap, I wouldn't have the means to fully support my child of the month. Today, we are here to deliver over 600 petition signatures from all across the state giving voice to the unheard. We're asking Governor Scott to protect and expand life-saving healthcare and housing policies that were implemented under the pandemic. 200,000 in Vermont have benefited from Medicaid and their VT Emergency Rental Assistance Program, the Emergency Housing Program, during this pandemic. The public health emergency is scheduled to end in January, unless the governor asks an estimated 30,000 Vermont residents will lose their Medicaid. Whether or not the Biden administration extends the public health emergency, we're calling on the governor to ensure that no one in Vermont loses their healthcare or housing and that the emergency measures are expanded so all in Vermont can enjoy our human right to healthcare and housing. I'm sad. Oh, sorry. Is there a staff person that we could deliver the message to? Uh, let me see if there's anyone. Where do you have the petition votes on? They're on these posters right here. Right there? All the signatures, yeah. And speak with anybody in the staff's office right now. You can come through if you want. First, and then he's coming in. Are you both? So you can shoot here? Yeah. There's some folks here that said they were beautiful. That's what I'm all doing there here. When I go to my room, they check. There is not a staff member here at the time, folks. You can leave those here, and I will make sure he gets them, but he's not even in the office tonight. Okay, thanks for checking. So it seems like we can't speak to anybody in the governor's office. So we'll have to share our stories here.  Thanks. Hey, who's that? Who's that? That's all right. Who's that queues? And I work part-time at Washington Animal Health Center. I've been on Medicaid for a long time, and I'm in project-based housing. I always have to calculate when I have to, when I work too much or anything like that. Sometimes, and also, I am calling on the governor and legislature to work on the homelessness issue as I have for people out on the street, as I've had to send two people south because they had no other alternative, but to go south, even though one of them had a full time job. I'd like to close with, anyone can become homeless. It can happen to anyone. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. I think so. To leave some of the things because what you're telling me two hours from now, I may forget. Right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. We can try to relay all this. We're just having two more stories to tell. We're filming stuff. Sure. So my name is Zoe. I live in Plainfield and have been on Medicaid since I moved to Vermont two years ago. I work two part-time jobs, one of which doesn't offer any benefits, and the other would take over $300 a month out of my paycheck for health insurance. I already have over $100 a month of medical costs that insurance doesn't cover. And as someone who makes just over the Medicaid limit, I can't afford to lose it. Cheaper public market plans would also be expensive for me because they don't fully cover essential services like mental health and eye care, both of which I rely on daily. Why are these the options we're left with when hospital CEOs and insurance companies are swimming in money? You know what the right thing is, Governor Scott. Don't cut anyone off of Medicaid and instead expand it so that everyone in Vermont has free public health care. My name's Griffin Chumley. I'm going to be chairing 35 Skylar, McGuire, either the White River. My name is Skylar and I live in Bristol. I work two part-time jobs and earn around 30K a year. My employer does not offer benefits. I've been suffering from debilitating anxiety tax as the Medicaid cutoff approaches. My chronic health conditions are becoming worse from the stress of losing access to my doctors. All of this is happening because I work and will make too much for Medicaid despite living paycheck to paycheck. Losing my Medicaid will hinder my ability to climb out of poverty. There is no logic in this system and I am traumatized from having to wonder what parts of my body I'll need to neglect to afford to live in this state, especially during times of high inflation and a housing crisis. Vermont Health Connect and their plans, including tax credits or subsidies, provide zero respite in actuality. It's time to put people over profits. Health care is a human right. Expand Medicaid. Wow, I see yours. Oh! Thank you. We're going to leave these petitions here with you. Sure. Like each one is at demand by the Constitutional and Constitutional. Sure. To stop this insanity and to put people first. We're going to have legitimate concerns, folks. Well, make sure they get these. Thank you. Thank you. You're very welcome. Thank you guys. Health care, stop. There you go. Two, oh, one, two, three, four. All from me and I get back to back.


What's good Josh boros back out again with another video, so we're gonna check out fans who inappropriately touched WWE wrestlers man. Look look y'all. It's cool You get to go to these shows CDs wrestlers that you've seen over the years on television You're up close and personal to him shouldn't be touching them y'all Yeah, you shouldn't be able to groping and grabbing the human beings just like you and me I don't know how job would feel if someone was groping and grabbing on you. Well, let me rephrase I think some of you guys would like someone to groping grab But when they're trying to do their job and I'm sure they don't want to be touched and field on so we're gonna check out the Moments where the fans are saying, you know what I pay good money, so I'm gonna touch and feel we're gonna check this out Appreciate all love support do the damn thing fans are some of the most energetic and passionate people in the world However, fans do overstep their boundaries and have inappropriately touched the wrestlers Triple H and Cain's championship first mask match is mostly remembered for Cain's dramatic unmasking Yeah after the match However, one female fan in the audience made the night memorable for a different reason about a minute into the match Cain and Triple H went over the barricade and started fighting amongst the fans a woman in the front row was right up against the game She loving it decided to touch Triple H's backside. It was incredibly subtle and most viewers didn't see it Whoa Didn't even sell the inappropriate touch when he first appeared in the main roster Damn Reigns along Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins would always walk through Hey, man, women be getting away with some some stuff if our man was to do that to a woman boy Oh my god, that should be mmm. Hell I knew just saying the crowd when they made their entrance Even after the group ended Ron Reigns continued entered through the audience But these incidents are probably the reasons why he stopped doing it during a match against Fondango on Smackdown Reigns is making his entrance like normal However, a woman staying next to Roman thought she wasn't close enough and decided to rub her hand along all the fans reaction afterward says it all at a different event a fan went even further. She was definitely moist Afterwards if she was there with a guy That guy didn't stand a chance the only thing she was thinking about on the car ride home Roman Reigns that's cold While walking through the crowd a woman tried to get Roman Reigns to touch her chest She's even Roman Reigns. He's right prized by it One fan instant was so weird that Derby decided to erase it from history shortly after the shield broke up Ronas Vicky's usual entrance for a match against Kane on Smackdown a girl decided to grab Roman's hand and Reigns had to actually swipe her away Maybe he felt like Ron Reigns is too aggressive or something But either way they decided to remove the instant when the show is made available on the devil. Oh, wow If all that seemed inappropriate Just wait till you watch this during Randy Orton's early years in WWE He had this ladies man persona now whether this is part of the script or it was just Orton being himself is up for debate But one female fan decided to play a lawn while at a non-televised show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin A woman decided to lick the legend killers.     Like, you know who I am. I'm the legend killer. You know what's up bro He just sat there just Don't go hand the business in the ring Styles when he's definitely debut he faced up gets Adam Cole in Ring of Honor The two put on an amazing show and the fans were eager to show their appreciation Maybe a bit too eager after winning the match. AJ went to hug a fan only for that guy to go in for a kiss Styles immediately walked away, but it was an incredibly awkward and inappropriate moment Besides those the one other place where fans get up close with their favorite wrestlers is at meet-and-greet events We've seen men do awkward and sometimes just inappropriate things to female wrestlers at these events But it happens to male wrestlers too.  It's unclear if the undertaker was comfortable with the kiss or not Yeah, the very least this is very surprising to see Yeah shocked a lot of people or so another incident that shocked people was when a fan tried to touch Sasha Banks's butt on live TV To see that watch this video. Yeah, man, like I was just saying man That it's just for all people men and women just keep your hands to yourself. Unless you had a house show When you had a house show then it's fair game But now this was great man, this was fantastic. I did not know Randy Orton was getting he getting love like that at the house shows man, yes Just licking all over him pause. It's just wild just wild man Coming down below. Let me know if you had the opportunity To I guess for whatever reason they were cool with it You had an opportunity to touch a WWE wrestler Bell or female Who would it be comment down below? Let me know and what would you touch? Specifically, I know the comment section about the be wild so comment down below Let me know who would you touch and what specifically on that person. I appreciate all the love and support Bro 250k appreciate y'all kicking me to your own next one. Peace


I want to start actually firstly by thanking the Irish government, my good friend and colleague Brendan who runs the development cooperation effort here and also you sir at the Institute for giving me an opportunity to have this discussion with you. It's always great to come to Dublin, but particularly for me in my professional capacity now because over the 27 years I've been working in aid and development. One of the partners with which we've had the strongest relationship always especially at the country level has been Ireland and I think this is a really important moment as we shape together the future set of goals and the way we achieve goals on international development for both Ireland with your presidency coming forward on the EU and for the UK with the set of things we're involved with in shaping the future. So we've had a really fantastic day of talks today between the two governments on how we're going to work together in that period ahead. Ireland has consistently been for the last several years one of the most generous providers of development assistance and Irish aid has acquired an impressive reputation globally. My very good friend I'm going to ask Simon my colleague to to pass it up to me up to me my very good friend Ronan Murphy who used to do Brendan's job did a fantastic job in in telling the story of Irish aid. You'll see that my copy is extremely well-thumbed. We have learned a lot from the way you've developed your program. I'm not on commission for this but but if I were I would be advocating to you even more strongly if you haven't read this story. It's a story that should make every Irish citizen proud of the contribution you have played to global development and improving the state of the world and certainly in the UK where we've also tried to improve in recent years we think we've learned a lot from you. I think I know the government is in the process at the moment of finalizing a new white paper on aid and development. I can tell you that we in the UK will be studying very carefully the judgments and the decisions you reach and I think it's very timely for you to be going through that policy making process. But I also know that this issue of aid and development has been a matter of some controversy here over the recent period partly because of the economic challenge partly because of some of the cases you've had to deal with in the very recent past. Basically what I would like to do this afternoon is set out what I think the core case for support for international development is during a time of downturn and I would also like briefly to touch on how we deal with problems when they arise and solve the challenges we meet. We hear and I know you had a recent national conversation on aid. We hear that although there is still very high levels of public support for aid and development I saw one poll from here indicating that 80% of your citizens continue to support the priority you give to this. We also hear lots of criticisms and critiques and basically I would like to try and address the main critiques we hear in the UK respond to them and ask whether that line of attack and that set of responses resonates a tool with you here. The first line of attack on support for international development is that efforts to promote development are always doomed to failure. Actually that's an attack we used to hear a lot in the 70s and 80s but we don't hear nearly so often now. Because actually of course the last few decades have seen extraordinary progress on development goals of a sort that was it was impossible to contemplate three or four decades ago. In the mid 1990s as a lowly official in what was then the overseas development administration I was occasionally tasked by my then permanent secretary with writing briefing papers for him to take off to the OECD in Paris to discuss with his counterparts the state of global development and the future goals. And these great men because they were always unfortunately men in those days would go into this rather dark dungeon like basement in an unattractive 1960s concrete office block in Paris and have their discussions and those discussions ultimately led to the agreement of the international development targets which in turn were largely adopted in the United Nations as the millennium development goals. Now at the time the development of this set of targets was regarded as a rather racy proposition the idea that it would be possible to have global poverty to send every child to school to reduce by three quarters the number of women dying in childbirth to reduce by two thirds the number of children dying before their fifth birthday all by 2015. The idea of doing that in 1990 was regarded frankly as pie in the sky. And of course what we now know is that many of the targets have been achieved the halving global poverty target was achieved five years early. The target to do with providing access for more people to water and sanitation was achieved five years early. We have made enormous progress in health and education with plumeting infant mortality and much better access to education and these things have happened quite broadly across the world. This isn't just a story of China and East Asia since 2008 for the first time since records started to be kept. The proportion of people in Africa living below the extreme poverty line has been falling and it's a minority of people now in Africa who are in the most extreme poverty. So there has been a loss of progress. Of course not every target has been met and the naysayers like to pounce on the targets that were set and weren't met. But the analogy I like for this is the analogy of the fictitious high jumper who says that against the current world record of two meters 45 centimeters he is going to jump four meters. And in the end what he jumps is three meters 50. So is that an appalling failure because he didn't meet his target or is it a feat of exceptional brilliance. The second critique that we hear in the UK is that even if development has occurred aid had nothing to do with it. And again you know that was a critique that was quite widely heard and is still heard to some degree certainly in the UK. And you know the truth is reasonable people can disagree on the precise linkages between aid and economic growth and poverty reduction. Because it is the case that there are many determinants of whether an economy grows and whether poverty is reduced and aid in any environment is only a small part of the resource flow. As it happens I am trained as an economist and the best economists I know are reasonably satisfied that there is a positive causal relationship between aid and economic growth and poverty reduction. But it's hard to specify precisely and reasonable people can disagree about the precise determinants. But just think for a minute about a simpler test about the link between aid and the goals that aid is supposed to achieve. A decade ago the global level of development assistance was about $60 billion a year. Now it's about $130 billion a year. Over that period there has been exceptional progress on the sorts of things that aid is trying to do. So one of the reasons infant mortality has plummeted is that there is much better access to immunisation and all the other set of interventions that stop children dying before their fifth birthday. No one can deny the dramatic role aid has played in providing antiretrovirals to people whose lives have otherwise been cut dramatically short by HIV and AIDS. No one really can deny the role that AIDS has played in financing an opportunity to go to school for tens of millions of extra children across most of Africa. In fact of course even the skeptics have stopped trying to deny the contribution aid makes to those goals. What they try to do instead I think is identify a few of the failures of aid and leap to the conclusion that because some things have failed everything is similarly afflicted. And the truth is that the development community has opened itself up to that line of argument because we haven't in the past invested nearly enough in monitoring an evaluation or focused enough on the results we do achieve with the resources we have. We've started to get better at that in recent years generating more evidence on impact and the successes and in doing that we've achieved a kind of triple whammy. We have provided better evidence of our successes. That means we improve the quality of what we do so we learn lessons and we identify our failures better so we're slightly less likely to repeat them time after time and that investment in evidence and impact and results I think has been an important contributor to growing public support for aid and development as well. One of our leading newspapers in the UK set this out in an editorial last month. This is a quote. Global AIDS has wiped out smallpox. It's controlled HIV and AIDS in six million people. It's put 46 million more children into school in the past two decades and it will vaccinate one child every two seconds for the next five years. And when you tell people there is evidence to justify all that that's one of the most powerful things you can do to sustain public support. The third line of attack we then hear in the UK is that even if developments happened and AIDS contributed to it our problems now in Europe are so great that we can no longer be as generous as we used to be or as we promised we would be. Now this critique is a little bit above my pay grade so let me tell you what David Cameron's response to this critique is. The first thing he says is we made a promise. We have a moral responsibility to keep it. In the UK we're cutting public expenditure in almost every area very dramatically in most areas of domestic policy. But we do attach importance to the commitment we made to reach the 0.7 target which we will do next year and we've decided that we're not going to balance our books on the backs of the poorest people in the world. The second thing David Cameron says is that it's in the UK's national interest to promote progress elsewhere. Prosperity in the developing world will create new markets for us. Stability and the reduction of conflict which development brings with it reduces the threats to us. Climate change is only going to be tackled with the engagement of the developing world. It's in our interest to help them grow and develop in a cleaner greener way than we did. Similar considerations apply to concerns over asylum and migration, the threat of pandemics, the international war against drugs and to things like illicit financial flows. The UK, I guess like Ireland, is an open economy and an open society. We can't build a wall to protect ourselves from threats elsewhere so our only option is to help other countries tackle problems which if they're not tackled will affect us too. The fourth critique we hear is that aid organisations too often waste or misuse money and of course there's a big current case which you've been dealing with and which has the potential to draw us in as well in Uganda. I would like to say that I do admire very much the way the Irish government both here in Dublin and in Kampala where my colleagues work very closely with their Irish colleagues have been tackling this problem. I think you actually have led the dialogue with the government of Uganda on behalf of all of the donors and I know you've had a promise from the government of Uganda that you will be repaid and I'm 100% confident actually that Irish taxpayers will end up not losing a penny through this exercise. And I think that's really important where there is a fraud that the funds are recovered. That's a really fundamental part of the UK approach to dealing with fraud and corruption problems. I guess when you have a problem like this there is bound to be a temptation to ask well would it be better just to avoid working through governments where there's risky systems and just to work through intermediaries like NGOs or others instead. I am not sure that that is the best response. Ultimately every country has to try to develop its own systems and institutions and one of the best uses of aid resources is to help with the development of those institutions especially actually the institutions whose job it is to hold the wider system to account. So one of the things that we think is important in a country like Uganda is to provide support to the auditor general and maybe it's worth remembering that it was largely through the work of the auditor general that the current problems were exposed in Uganda and to try to build up their ability to do that kind of job in future and to try to support the reformers in the system who want the corruption problem to be dealt with. In other words how can we use problems of the sort that have been in Uganda to turn a crisis into an opportunity to accelerate the tackling of corruption and the improvement of the use of public resources. There are other examples given of the way in which aid can sometimes be wasted or misused. We have had a lot of concern in the UK recently over the effectiveness with which multilateral organisations the EU the UN the World Bank and the like use resources we provide through them. Actually I must say I share a lot of the frustration that many people have about multilateral expenditure but I would also say that the quality of that expenditure is improving. I think well well we are making big steps forward in improving our approach to securing value for money through multilateral organisations. I was going to say I think that but in fact that form of words I've just used big steps forward in improving value for money was one that the auditor general in the UK used about the UK's own approach to securing VFM in multilateral institutions. I had the important opportunity to exchange views with the UK's public accounts committee on this discussion on a Wednesday afternoon three or four weeks ago and they too their job like here no doubt is to find the problems with public expenditure but they too recognise that value for money through the multilateral system is improving. We've also in the UK had criticism recently about the way we use consultants and the idea that you know it's questionable whether private sector consultants should be brought into the development business and providing their services under the aid programme. Maybe they're too expensive or inefficient. I think there are elements of that critique I have some sympathy for but it is important to unpack it. Technical capability is one of the core deficits of most developing countries so of course they want to access professional services from places where there is more capability. And the truth is that there's a lot more purchasing of professional services that's not funded by aid programmes purchasing by developing countries from developed countries and the idea that European businesses should be excluded from competing in that global market seems to me to be a slightly silly idea. That said I think when we're purchasing consultant services for developing country governments from our budget we have to do two things really well. Firstly we have to make sure we're getting services that are valuable and I think often we do you know in Afghanistan we have finance work by consultants which has enabled that country to increase its revenue base from essentially nothing a decade ago to a billion dollars a year now. If Afghanistan wasn't raising that money in taxes they would be even more dependent on us than they already are so it's in our interest to provide those sorts of services. I was in to give another example Nigeria last month and there the head of the presidential commission on the power sector said to me that the value he had identified from DFID supported consultants trying to improve the power trade. Transmitted through the grid and its transmission and distribution was providing benefits to Nigerian consumers of more than a billion dollars a year. So I think there's lots of examples where technical assistance provided by consultants is high value. What we need to do though is make sure we buy those services at the cheapest possible price. And one of the things we've been saying to our own consulting companies is you need to do a better job than you've done in the past at getting the price right. And we're going to build the competitive market so we can drive the prices down and we're going to have more transparency of fee rates and contract costs so everybody can see what's being bought for what some of money. Let me let me draw this to a close. I've tried really just to say a few things. The first thing is development works. The second thing is that aid contributes to development. The third thing is that our interests are promoted by securing progress elsewhere. Aid management has improved even if there are steps we can still take to improve it further. To paraphrase the British newspaper I referred to earlier even in the most generous countries it's still the case that aid is less than one cent in the euro of national income. And actually most people in all our countries understand that. That editorial I quoted earlier went on to say there's public support for aid. A 2010 poll found that 55% of Britons think we should keep our promises to boost aid with just 27% saying we should cut in. And ordinary people vote with their wallets as well. We have annual events in the UK like comic relief and sport relief where the citizens of the country decide to vote with their own wallets on whether they want to contribute to these endeavours. And notwithstanding the economic crisis we've been through the best ever year for fundraising for comic relief was 2011. I attach a lot of importance as I said earlier to the collaboration we have with Ireland in shaping the future policy processes. We had a great event which the T-Shot came to 10 Downing Street on the 11th of August. The last day of the Olympics on food and hunger and resilience issues. David Cameron was really positive about that event. He got a lot of publicity. Perhaps it was the T-Shot and the Prime Minister who got the publicity. Perhaps it was also Mo Farrah who may have held to it. But it was a popular event. I know the Irish government are going through the presidency to have a similar event here in the spring of next year. And then we as part of our GA presidency will also be pushing forward this food nutrition set of issues. I think that's a great example of the way our two countries can collaborate. One of the great poets once said thinking about when is the right time to tackle problems. And this is what I feel about the development challenge we have. The poet said if not now when and if not us who. Thank you very much indeed.