Attention five points residents. This is a community notification of a new sexually violent predator in your area. Please stay tuned to the following short program for more information. Hi I'm technician Ron Hackett with the Denver Police Department. The sex offender registration and compliance unit at DPD is responsible for the registration monitoring and tracking of all registered sex offenders and sexually violent predators who live in the city and county of Denver. Here's a brief history of sex offender legislation in Colorado. Our state laws trickle down from federal government mandates. In 1994 we had the Jacob Wetterling Act which mandated that states would establish a sex offender list. Megan's law of 1996 said that the public would have access to those sex offender registration lists. The Pam Litchner Act of 1996 stated that some offenders might have to have lifetime registrations and the Adam Walsh Act of 2006 unified sex offender laws across the country. In Colorado the legislature has determined that sexually violent predators by definition pose a higher risk to the community at large and therefore mandated that upon their release from the Department of Corrections the community must be notified. Sex offender notification in Colorado happens in two ways. The first is passive and ongoing through the sex offender registration process which is a list maintained by local police departments. The second way is active via community notification for those offenders determined to be sexually violent predators by the courts or by the parole board. Most sex offenders in Colorado are supervised by the criminal justice system in our communities. Most sex offenders engage in crossover behavior which means they may have been arrested for one type of crime but be apt to commit another.  There is no typical sex offender but all tend to be deceptive, manipulative and secretive. 80 to 93% of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the victim. Sexual deviancy begins in mid to late adolescence.  The community has a vested interest in helping offenders to be successfully managed in the community. Sex offenders have the same need for housing and employment as any other citizen.  There are approximately 16,500 registered sex offenders in the state of Colorado. About 65% of convicted sex offenders are placed in the community on probation. The remainder are in the Department of Corrections or Community Corrections. Offenders may be caught for one type of offense but be at a high risk to commit another type. Crime of conviction is only one indicator of risk.  The offender's residence must be verified quarterly by the Denver Police Department. The full sex offender registration list is available by calling the Denver Police Department Identification Bureau at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Convicted felons and those with multiple convictions are posted online at denvergov.org slash police.   Now, here's a look at the newest sexually violent predator living in Denver. Here's an overview of the registered sex offenders currently living in Denver. There are 2,524 total living within city limits. In Denver Police District 6, there are 433. Precinct 612 has 133 registered sex offenders. Of those, 97 have felony convictions and 36 have misdemeanor convictions. Isaiah Joseph Lucero is a sexually violent predator currently living in Denver. He's 46 years old and was born on August 30, 1975.  He's currently living as a transient in the 1900 block of 29th Street in the five points neighborhood of Denver. School is located within one mile of this offender include University Prep School at 2409 Arapaho Street, Coal Arts and Science Academy at 3240 Humboldt Street, Gilliam School at 2844 Downing Street, Coal Middle School at 1350 East 33rd Avenue, Garden Place Academy at 4425 Lincoln Street, Gilpin Montessori at 2949 California Street, Annunciation Catholic School at 3536 Lafayette Street, Montessori Academy of Colorado at 2500 Curtis Street. Parks located within one mile of this offender include Gloville Landing Park, Curtis Park, Morrison Park, Williams Park, Siencio Park, Columbus Park, Franco Park, Community Plaza Park, Highland Gateway Park, Sonny Lawson Park, Denver Skate Park, Cuernavaca Park, Stout Street Children's Park, Maestas Park, Commons Park, St. Patrick's Neighborhood Park, St. Charles Place Park. Recreation centers located within one mile of this offender include Gloville Rec Center at 4496 Grant Street, St. Charles Rec Center at 3777 Lafayette Street, Glen Arm Rec Center at 2800 Glen Arm Place, 20th Street Rec Center at 1011 20th Street. Bus routes located within one mile of this offender include Route 48 Broadway and Lawrence Street, Route 48 29th Street and Brighton Boulevard.  He's not currently on parole and registered with the Denver Police Department on August 8th 2022 as a transient living in the 1900 block of 29th Street in the Five Point neighborhood of Denver. Pass charges against this offender include sex offenses, child abuse, kidnapping, felony menacing, assault, driving under the influence, menacing, vehicle theft, obstruct police, property damage, disorderly conduct. Isaiah Joseph Lucero has been determined as sexually violent predator after meeting the following criteria. Criteria one age 18 or older on the date of the offense or under 18 and tried as an adult. The offender was age 31 at the time of the offense. Criteria two, the crime must have been committed honor after July 1st 1997 and convicted honor after July 1st 1999.  The offender was convicted on September 21st 2006 for criminal attempted sexual assault on a child. Criteria three, the relationship to the victim was one of the following. Victim was a stranger to the offender or the offender established or promoted a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. The victim was a 13 year old female. The offender was known to the victim. Criteria four, positive results or the passing of a risk assessment instrument administered by probation parole staff and a qualified treatment evaluator. Positive results include an assessment for the presence of a mental abnormality, a level of denial regarding the offense, treatment appropriateness and motivation, presence of sexual deviant interests. The offender was evaluated by the Denver County courts with positive results determining him to be a sexually violent predator.


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Hey, welcome back to my channel. For those of you who are new around here, my name is Michael, aka Dr. Cholini, and I'm a senior interventional radiology resident physician. And you may have noticed that I am no longer on IR right now.  Probably. It's kind of crazy because this is essentially it for me. So I started this whole diagnostic radiology journey way back in 2016. I first started with a surgery internship in New York in 2015, 2016. And then now four years ago almost, I started this journey into radiology. When you go through this whole matching process way back to the end of medical school, you think that you still have so many years ahead of you. But then one day you just kind of wake up and you realize you're pretty much almost done, which I pretty much thought would never happen.  But it's actually coming to an end right now. So pardon me if I'm getting a bit nostalgic for you all, but it's just a little crazy to think about that five years ago I started residency and now I'm ending residency. Now I still have another year of fellowship or my final year of residency, but I'm not going to be at this hospital anymore, which means I'm going somewhere completely different. And I'm almost done here. Like my job is done here. It's crazy. Like I said, I started this whole journey four years ago in radiology. I went into radiology with an open mind. I pretty much had no idea what I wanted to do. I was open to doing any of these subspecialties, whether it be breast imaging, musculoskeletal imaging, neuro radiology, pediatric radiology, cardiothoracic imaging, et cetera, et cetera. And obviously I had an interest in interventional radiology, but I wasn't dead set on it until I got here. So I was about 80% sure I wanted to do IR when I got to residency, but I wasn't dead set on it because after all, diagnostic radiology lifestyle and interventional radiology lifestyle are completely different. Most people go into radiology because they feel like it's going to be an easier specialty. And what I mean by that is you don't have to take call as a diagnostic radiologist. Well, sort of, because you still have to read studies overnight or maybe later in the evening, but you're not going to have to come in in the middle of the night and get paged to read a stat CT, because you're always going to have someone in the hospital to do that, either at your practice or in your hospital group. Now on the interventional radiology side, there is a good chance that you will get called in multiple times while you are on call and some people just don't like that. And to be honest with you, I don't really like being called in either, but it's my favorite subspecialty of radiology. So that's why I did it. The chance of getting called in was one of the main reasons that I still had that 20% reservation of not going into interventional radiology. And I actually had my first IR rotation at the end of my first year. So it was like, I think March or April of my first year. And after that rotation, I was about 98% certain I wanted to do IR. And then I had another rotation about halfway through my second year of radiology and that pretty much did it for me. So I obviously loved my first rotation and also my second rotation as well. But I never took call until a year ago. So once I started being in the fellow call pool, I started to get a taste of what being on call is really like. And I can see why some people who go into diagnostic radiology don't want to kind of live that lifestyle. Because the IR lifestyle is pretty similar to a surgeon. It isn't as demanding, but you do get called in for emergencies all the time. Not every time you're on call, but I would say a good percentage. And the percentage you get called in depends on the hospital you work at, whether it has trauma, what patient population it takes care of. All those factors kind of weigh into how often you get called in. Either way, for me, I just kind of love the field. And it was my favorite out of all the sub specialties of radiology. And that's why I chose it. So why the heck am I even telling you guys this to begin with? Well, I think I'm getting a bit nostalgic because I won't be doing any more diagnostic radiology after pretty much the next two weeks. Because I'll be moving to New York City starting my IR fellowship in which I won't do a single bit of diagnostic imaging whatsoever.  So the weird part about all this is my residency is ending during the kind of tail end of the COVID pandemic, which makes it kind of anticlimactic, unfortunately. And I don't mean that to be like, oh, woe is me. I don't get to graduate residency like usual because obviously there are some crazy circumstances currently. But it's just weird. That's the only way I can describe it. It's anticlimactic.  And it's going to be some great accomplishment. But then you realize we aren't going to have any of that residency just effectively ends. Usually we have a big graduation and a big celebration for our radiology residency. Every single resident and faculty kind of comes together and we have a huge banquet where we kind of roast people and have dreams, have a good dinner. It's awesome. And then we all go out afterwards and kind of celebrate together. We get to say goodbye to our friends and colleagues we've worked with the last four years. And we also get to say goodbye to our mentors who have mentored us through this crazy process that we call residency. Now we don't get to do any of that. And I don't even get to say goodbye to my mentors. I don't even get to shake their hand and thank them for helping me through this absolutely exhausting journey. I don't get to thank them for teaching me every single thing they know. And I don't really like that. It's just how it has to be right now and it's kind of anticlimactic. That's the only way I can describe it. So I'm literally finishing residency and I can't say goodbye to people or hug them or shake their hands or hang out with them one last time before I leave. It just kind of ends and then we go our separate ways and we likely won't see each other again. So yeah, I now have about two weeks left on this cardiovascular imaging rotation. And then I go to vascular surgery and do a three-week vascular surgery rotation focusing only on the endovascular techniques because it's good to see how they do things and they do things a little differently because they are trained a little bit differently than IRs are. So it's nice to kind of get their take on things and how they approach certain cases, especially endovascular cases. And I only have three weeks of that rotation and then I am officially done with residency, which is crazy. So basically I have four and a half weeks till I am officially completely done with residency. And before I move to New York City, which is crazy, I'm moving to New York City in probably the worst time anybody could ever think of. But I signed this contract a year ago and I'm still excited to go because New York City is awesome. I love New York City. I used to live there. I love the program I'm going to. And I get to focus 100% on my craft, which is interventional radiology. Super excited. And yeah, that's about it. So hopefully this video wasn't too nostalgic for you all. I just can't believe it's all coming to an end and this is my last time ever reading diagnostic studies. So if you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. If I like them, I'll respond to it. Make sure you smash that like and subscribe button and follow me on Instagram if you don't already. Turn on those post notifications so you are notified when I post a new video, which is usually about once or twice every week. Also, I'm doing a giveaway coming up, but I'm trying to wait for all of these companies to get back to me because they're kind of on hold for all the COVID stuff. So if you want to get a jump ahead on the giveaway, go ahead and subscribe to my channel and also follow me on Instagram. Those are about two out of the three or four things you'll need to do to enter my giveaway. So go ahead and get a jump start on that. I'll let you know very soon. And that is for my 100,000 subscriber giveaway, which I'm getting to be a little late now. It's going to be a big giveaway though, so go ahead and subscribe to my channel and follow me on Instagram. Anyways, that officially concludes this video. See you all on the next one.


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sold for a full asking price of 120 with shipping within seconds of listing it. Founded a yard sale, bought it for a dollar, took a best offer of 175 plus shipping. Oh my goodness, this sold for $500 on Mercari. Wow, so 15 into 300. That is awesome. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. All right, in this video, we are going to talk about big money bolos, items to be on the lookout for, items you can hopefully buy low and sell high. I am going to tell you where they got it, what they paid for it, and what it sold for. And this is going to help all of us learn. So I posted this in my Bolo Buddies Facebook group. It is a screenshot that says, share your best March Bolo. So basically, I invite everybody in the Facebook group to share their best Bolo. And I also invite my Bolo Buddies YouTube members to join in on this as well. So members do get a shout out or a mention and they are also linked down in the description below. So if you see me pop up an eBay store or a YouTube channel, they are members at level two and they get the perks. So if you'd like to join memberships awesome, if not, it's completely free to be a part of this video. You just to get the perks, you have to join at level two. So let's get started with the first big money Bolo. And it says sold this Anthony Robbins Personal Power CD set for $79.95, paid $8 at the Goodwill and knew right away to grab it because I found it at the same Goodwill a few years ago, sold in less than a week. And this is what it looks like. Anthony Robbins Personal Power. So I wonder if that's like a motivational thing or that's interesting. Bolo Buddies member Champagne Taste 73. This is her eBay store. She does not have a YouTube channel. So the eBay stores are linked down below. If you go down and click on them, you can click on the heart and that will allow you to follow their store and you'll get updates when they post new items or when they send out coupons to their viewers. Okay, so definitely be sure to do that as well. So what did she sell found this at cause for pause thrift store paid 17 didn't really think it would sell or at least not for as much. So I put a good price on it and it sold in two days for $60 not bad for a turtle. It's a stained glass turtle lamp. How cute is that bought from Goodwill for 99 cents and sold it for $84.99 plus buyer paid $69.10 to have it shipped to the UK left positive feedback. It is an insco jazz greats collection. Billie Holiday music box gold bless the child tune. And this is what it looks like. I don't know about you guys but whenever I get music boxes, if they don't tell me the song, I'm just like I don't even try because I cannot figure out the songs. Let me know if you guys struggle with that as well. Here's another one from Champagne Taste 73. She said bought this Vilroy and Bach teapot cream and sugar at a thrift store for $25 sold in two days for 75 plus shipping. She said yay me. All right. This is what it looks like and it says bergen land pattern. So she was able to identify the pattern. So if you can identify the pattern definitely put that in your title got these at an estate sale bulk buy paid about 15 buyer paid my asking price. It is a mid summer murders DVD set one through 18 Acorn media series mystery tested. So for $299.99. Wow. So 15 into 300. That is awesome. So my first of the two bolos I got to share here. Woohoo. So this is a clean cut under counter touchless paper towel dispenser. Why touchless paper towel dispenser? That sounds kind of handy. Yes, really it was 1599 at Goodwill. I ran comps and scooped it up sold for an offer of $175. A paper towel dispenser for $175. What? This is my second Bolo got it for 50 cents at my local thrift shop where all the plus is 50 cents and was asking 60 based on comps but took a best offer of 50. That's 100% profit. So happy dance. It is a sensey buddy blanket. Lovey with an elephant head. Not all are quite this much but some are really good Bolo's and if you get them for a dollar or so they will still turn a great profit. Thanks to Rebel, the Rebel reseller for all the plush info on her YouTube channel and to Bolo buddies me for sending me to watch her stuff too. All you guys on YouTube are hugely helpful and inspiring. I'm working on my YouTube channel too. It's a progress but edited my first video so we'll see how it goes. All right. This is what it looks like. It is a sensey buddy. I've never seen a sensey buddy lovey. Have you guys? Okay. So she said she is starting her YouTube channel and it is basket case mama's fab finds and that is her eBay store and her YouTube channel. So this is what it looks like. So go show her some love with a sub. Let's get her started with some new subscribers. This one purchased for $1.50 sold after five to six months for full asking price plus shipping. All right. The next one picked up at the Goodwill for $2.99 sold right away for full asking price plus shipping. This one is wears Waldo. Now I have sold something similar to this before and mine didn't sell for this much. If I remember correctly it didn't but it's called find it. Where's Waldo? Game find it game a shelf contained adventure 2017 Waldo version 34.99 plus shipping on that and that was a cool find. Got in an online auction after dividing everything out. I probably had about three dollars into this. I accepted an offer of 35 from a repeat customer. It is a Mark's Disneyland Playset Hobby Horse Parade Float Main Street Vintage 1960s Cream and this is what it looks like and this comes from Bolo Buddy's member Vintage Spice and she really knows her Mark's items her toys. Definitely go check out her YouTube channel. She's incredible. Found this song book in my late mom's piano bench. I had never heard of Dino but after Googling concluded mom had purchased the book in 2008 or 2009 at his show in Bronson. Is it? Oh I forget my elementary. What I learned in elementary school is Mo Montana or is that is it Montana? We're going to go with Montana. Many of Dino's sheet music books are on eBay but there was only one of these priced at over 100. There were none available anywhere online. I wanted it gone quickly so priced at 85 with free media mail sold in seven days. Nice Bolo to pick up at yard sales. This is what it looks like. It is a Dino Cart. Hold on. Cart Sonoscus Million Seller Piano Arrangement Solo Sheet Music Book. That's what it looks like. Oh my goodness. All right. Let me start with Thank You Courtney. I love selling vintage baby clothes. I bought a bunch of dresses on what not for $86 shipped. Sold three of them for $78 plus shipping. I kept a couple of them so my average cost of sales for the ones I'm selling is $5 each.  Thanks for matching up the bloomers with the right dress. Hope you have more soon. This one comes from Dare to Dream Big 1313. This is her eBay store and she purchased these dresses from my what not show and you can see here she sold three of them. It looks like one sold for $24.65. One sold for $29 and the other one sold for $24.65. And Cost of Goods was around $5 a piece and she did keep some of them that she put on some of her baby dolls and if you watch my videos on a regular basis, I showed you pictures of her adorable baby dolls in another video. So you're going to have to look around for that one. I can't remember which video it's in but super, super cute. The items she bought from me were just incredible and looked so good on her baby dolls. So thank you, Heather, for sharing. I appreciate that. If you guys would like to follow me on what not, that would be amazing. There is a link down below in the description. If you use that link to join what not, you are going to get $15 to shop. That is my referral link. So go down there in the description and join and get $15 free money. You can buy something to sell, right? I mean, we're all resellers.  All right, this one says, I keep having to give a shout out to Dominic, the prime time treasure hunter for his awesome find. Oh, for this awesome find, his estate sale hunting tips helped me be able to find this awesome vintage PC game in a box of old paperwork on the bottom shelf of a cabinet on the second day of an estate sale. I found this game nestled in there and knew it was going to be good. I couldn't wait to get home and list it. I bought it as part of a big box of items. I picked it up for 10. So probably under a dollar. I ended up taking a best offer of $225 before the night was through. It is a Zach McCracken and Alien Mindbenders IBM PC X2 PS-2 Tandy incomplete. Whatever that means. But anyway, shout out to prime time treasure hunter. He has an incredible YouTube channel. I think he just hit 50,000 subscribers. Definitely sub him up. I will link him down below as well. So that was a nice abolo. All right, the next item here picked up at the Goodwill Benz, pay by the pound. So maybe 75 cents sold for full asking price of $54.99 plus shipping buyer is all in for 66 87 sold and 48 hours. So a fast sale. When I picked it up, I had no clue what it was besides a strange looking animal. Just strange enough, I thought I better take a chance on it. I'm glad I did. It's a character in a video game. It is let's see, don't start or no wait, don't starve together rare beefalo plush plushy official KLEI entertainment. And that is definitely a weird looking plush. I probably would have grabbed it as well. This next one comes from childhood finds. And this is her YouTube channel. She said, I have to share this one because it's so unique and beautiful. I got it for, I got it at my very first yard sale of 2023 and paid about a dollar for it. I listed it high and took a best offer in less than two days for $65. And it is a vintage ornate footed vanity tray framed lace abalone shell butterfly in lay. And it does say read. So probably additional information down in the description. But how cool is that? This next person wrote most of my sourcing is from the free play. I'm sorry, free pages and curb alerts lately can't be free. You know, you cannot. And let's see what this is. It says vintage MCM TV trays fiberglass from country landscape. Oh, I'm sorry, farm country landscape metal legs times two sold for $50. Some of the screenshots are really small. So I have to lean in. That's what I'm doing. My eyes are just not as good as they used to be purchased in a huge video game lot, which ended up being about two to five per game overall. It is a conquerors bad for day. Nintendo 64 2001. Oh my goodness, this sold for $500 on Mercari. It is complete. And CIB stands for complete inbox. Just in case you didn't know that was one I didn't know. So I thought I would show that with you guys. So between $2 to $5 for this and sold for $500. That is incredible. I paid a little high for it 15. But if you can find this set for a lower amount or really most religious texts, great Bolo's. It says it looks like it sold for $64.99 knew the mortal Messiah series Bruce R. McConkel six volume complete set LDS Mormon. So it looks like they're Mormon books. And so for $64.99 cost of goods 15 sold this shirt from the brand Ibex Ibex that I purchased from a local thrift store thrift city paid $7.99 and I listed it for $110 took a best offer of $99 took one day to sell. I've been looking for this brand for a while and now it feels good to scratch it off my Bolo list. Ibex never heard of Ibex. It looks like it's a plaid flannel wool shirt. And this is what it looks like. Okay, let's see if I can pronounce this. This Chabur Asuka I think that's how you say it plush also known to some as the Russian Mickey Mouse bought for $2 at the valid value village and sat in my store for a long while waiting for the perfect buyer. It is looks like it's in a little sailor outfit and it is a rare toy and it looks like it's sold in Canada for $199.99. I'm not sure what the conversion is but definitely a big money Bolo check it out never seen one of those found at a yard sale bought it for a dollar took a best offer of 175 plus shipping best return of ROI return of investment. I kept wanting to say income yet. So a dollar into 175 that is amazing vintage nine inch Heisner H E I S S N E R terracotta gnome West Germany musician in great condition and this is what it looks like bought this at the bends 100% silk but had so many spots and beads missing everywhere sold it for full asking price of $199 within two hours of being listed. So the item is a mess it has spots and beads missing and still sold for almost $200. I'm going to pop it up here for you guys that is absolutely crazy it says vintage tan chew 100% silk beaded and that's all I can see there wow that's crazy just goes to show I mean who knows maybe somebody's going to fix it maybe they're going to dye it maybe they're going to use it for what do you call it crafting I'm not sure I purchased this air maze 3000 Hebrew typewriter from the 1960s at an animal rescue thrift store for $10 I listed it for asking price of 1600 and accepted an offer of 1300 this is my biggest sale ever and this comes from Bola buddies member crazy little critter and vintage collectibles and it's a typewriter check it out found in a storage unit I made my money back in all the furniture so this is all profit sold in less than 48 hours with my 10 promo for the month buyer all in for 97 and change took me like two weeks to get a battery so that I could even test it it's a Ben 10 Omnitrix watch FX lights and sounds by Bandai 2006 and it works how cool is that got a sealed bionicle at the L I'm sorry SLC Ben's nine ounces so a little over a dollar and took a best offer of $99 yeah these Lego bionicles especially if you can find them in the original packaging definitely a Bolo even if they're not sealed and you have all of the parts you can sell them I've done really well with bionicles huge Bolo I paid $1.19 at my local Goodwill this is a Tomagachi a rare one at that with the music notes printed on it seems that Tomagachi connections do the best so for full asking price of 120 with shipping within seconds of listing it had 26 views three likes and offer and a message thank you so much Courtney for inspire me to get out of my comfort zone and explore new areas like plush and toys I am now addicted oh my goodness plush and toys is so fun he sold this on Mercari for $120 found this beauty at a local Goodwill in Jackson Mississippi paid $1.94 could only find one other sale on eBay and it was an auction so I decided to try my luck I took eBay's advice and started the bidding at 115 within minutes I had my first bid could never imagine the price would climb to $670 it's a glassy baby if you don't know what glassy baby is get familiar with it I have never found one I would love to find one I'm not really sure if they're in my area seems like certain parts certain states in certain areas they're more common but this is what it looks like $670 paid $1.94 that is awesome oh my goodness I love it I love it I love a good bow low all right I'm new here and a new reseller this jelly cat was my first big sale I got it at an auction with a lot of toys calculating it I paid around a dollar I thought that I could sell it for 35 somebody offered me 20 only 30 minutes after I listed so I asked rebel the rebel rebel is the rebel reseller on youtube this is her channel she is wonderful and she said that my price was low I decided to price it high at 115 but I came down to $80 on the next day after two days I sold it for $80 on posh mark I'm so happy thank you for all your videos I'm learning a lot that is awesome and I have a video also on jelly cat if you guys haven't seen it definitely go check that out jelly cat can be a big money bow low found this manhattan toy company black leopard plush at the good well for five dollars just sold for full asking price of 150 plus shipping on ebay only took about a week to sell this is what it looks like it is a 30 inch manhattan toy company black spotted leopard jaguar panther plush big cat yes anything realistic like lions tigers I sold a cheetah big money in these things the bigger the better I know they're a pain to ship but mine I sold was probably about this big and it went for $150 and you guys are going to see that in a video so stay tuned just crazy crazy I found this vintage eden lamb thermal plush at my local church thrift store I paid a dollar for it and it sold for full asking price of $135 this is my biggest plush sale to date and I have to thank Courtney and rebel the rebel reseller for their plush videos I would have never known to pick this up took a few months to sell on ebay oh my goodness it's so cute it's an eden blue terry lamb waffle weave thermal plush floppy toy vintage stuffed animal and yeah the thermal anytime you can find the thermal ones there are so many big money bow low plush but there are so many more bread and butter so if you decide you're going to list plush don't get discouraged if they don't sell super fast plush is typically long tail unless you find the big money ones but when you find them you can usually source them so cheap and some of them just go for crazy money $135 on this little lamb all right you guys we're going to stop there thank you so much for being here thank you for watching look at all those shoutouts to the rebel reseller I've been telling you guys to go follow her it looks like some people are listening and it's paying off um rebel and I both like to sell plush so you will see plush category videos on both of our channels so be sure to check those out and definitely educate yourself educate yourself educate yourself on which plush to look for but um I pick up the bread and butter also I enjoy um helping people find like those plush that they need you know there's always somebody looking for a particular plush that maybe they lost especially those vintage ones and the lovies and things like that all right you guys go join my Bolo Buddies Facebook group I want to see your best Bolo so up next will be April so go to the Facebook group and share your best April Bolo thank you for being here if you're new here I would love for you to subscribe to the channel if you've been here a while thanks for coming back and I will see you guys at the next one there's going to be some videos popping up here and here one down below and a subscribe button um if you'd subscribe that'd be awesome and thanks for watching


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I'm looking after the kids for the next three days. Solo, dadding, and we're stopping at my favorite coffee shop in the Sunshine Coast, Punchier, for a preschool coffee for me. Muah. Love you, have a good day. Love you. So the kids are at school now. Just jumped in Lycra. It has stopped raining for the first time in a long time here on what is apparently, it's called the Sunshine Coast where I live. It's not the Sunshine Coast during February, and for this part of the video, I thought I would jump on the Chapter 2 Railway. This is where the story started for me in terms of my favoritism towards SRAM. So, let's go for a ride, and I'll explain to you why. So we are at the Giroin Sporting Complex. I'm on the Crit Track here, and before we get into this little discussion, I wanted to thank today's video sponsor, Being Squarespace. If we actually have a look at my wife's website here, which was built just recently, it's on a Squarespace platform, and you can see how clean, simple, yet intuitive it is. And my wife, who's a non-techie, personally loves how easy it is to go into the back end, altered text, layouts, color schemes, et cetera, without needing any development skills. If you're keen to get a website off the ground, go to squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you're ready to launch, go to squarespace.com backslashcamnicles to save 10%. See all the relevant details below in the video description area. So first things first, outside of today's video sponsor, and thank you so much for your support, I'm not getting paid by any of these brands that I'm talking about today, SRAM or Shimano. Clearly not Shimano, but a lot of you might be thinking, SRAM's behind this, this guy's getting paid. I'm not getting paid anything. Yeah, right, mate, what are you doing the video for then? It's a really good question, and one that's worth answering. And essentially, big project on the channel is building up a super lightweight bike, the Factor O2 VAM. And we're gonna be putting some components on it. Obviously, I put those components to vote on the channel, and also on my Instagram. Got heaps of votes, SRAM Access E-Tap versus Red Mechanical 22. One super light, one's new tech, but I also got a ton of questions. People asking, what about Shimano? What about Durace? And I answered many of those questions, but I couldn't get to all of them. So I thought with all these questions coming my way, why not create a video about it and explain to you why. And I don't wanna disappoint the tech heads. This isn't a super technical video where I'm gonna blow your mind with some bit of analysis or something that I found within SRAM versus Shimano that's gonna change the way that you select your group sets. This is more of a personal story. And some of you might be thinking, if it started with the Chapter 2 Rare Ray, then clearly it's the one bike. That's why I'm a fan of SRAM, because Shimano don't offer this system, and I love this system, because number one, the gear change is amazing.  But it's not one bike. It's something else. So I'm just looking at the radar here on my phone, and I don't wanna get this camera wet. Not the bike wet really. It's already got a bit wet because the ground is pretty saturated. So let's go home and finish off this video. So let me tell you back to 2018. And in 2018, I was an absolute nobody in the cycling industry. And look, I still am a nobody, but back then I was a real nobody. And also I was dead broke. I'd been working for over 12 months on a company called Bike Chases, an online marketplace for bikes. And I hadn't been getting paid anything. So I'd sold my car, I sold my specialized S-Works, Time Mac and bought an LA Sprint, so I could at least ride around on something. And I had no money to funds any bikes or any equipment, but I wanted to get a new business off the ground. I wanted to leave Bike Chaser and start my own YouTube channel. And I wanted to have a cool project when I started the YouTube channel, because I wanted to engage the audience. So what I did before I started this YouTube channel is I reached out to a number of brands to see if I could build up a criterion bike at a discounted rate in return for content. And this is it right here. Chapter two rare, my dream criterion bike. I'll put the video up here somewhere. It's my most popular video of all time now, but back then no one knew what was gonna happen. And essentially I reached out to these brands to see if I could get the bike at a discounted rate in return for content. And I'll be forever thankful to Mike Pride from chapter two for leaning in. But I also reached out to SRAM and Shimano. And I don't wanna talk out of school, but the Shimano rep who I eventually got hold of over the phone, he kinda laughed me away as if to say, who are you? Why would you even bother calling us up asking for such a thing? And to be honest, I don't really blame him. I was an absolute nobody. But then I got an interesting call from the general manager of SRAM in Australia. His name is Rob Eva. And he had read my email and had even watched a video that I'd sent him. An example video of some content we'd made on bike chaser. And he heard me out. He listened to my vision.  And then another conversation and they ended up, so there it is, SRAM Force One Buy. I do absolutely love this group said, I'm not just saying that. But the thing about Rob, at that point in time, he did not need to give me his time of day. He did not need to even respond to the email, but he called me up. He leaned in. Maybe because he thought of me as a bit of an underdog, somebody who was trying to have a crack, kind of similar to SRAM's story against Shimano in the industry. I'm not exactly sure why, but I'll never forget that. He could have told me to bugger off, but he didn't, he leaned in, he engaged with me and he gave me an opportunity and I'll be forever grateful. So it's an emotional thing that makes me wanna buy SRAM a lot more than Shimano. I still buy and use bikes with Shimano as per the BMC team machine and the Giant TCR. So if the bike comes with it, I'm not gonna deny it, but if I have the opportunity to put these group sets onto a bike as I do with the Factor O2VAM project, I'm gonna go for SRAM. So part two of this video, Rossy, you here, mate? Rossy, come on, up here, good boy. Over here, no, no, no, over this side.  Come on, over here, over here. So the second thing that I wanted to share with you is a little bit of what has been going on behind the scenes, notably some changes to this channel or some tweaks, I should say, because what's happened in the last couple of months, we've had a big change on the channel. We've moved the RCA training tip show, which was on a Wednesday. We've moved that to a new channel and I'll link to that new channel below if you wanna check it out. But as a result, it's kind of left me with where do I do reviews, where do I do stories, where do I do training tips, et cetera, because I don't wanna muddy the waters. This is supposed to be more of a, as you can see, casual vlog-style series where we're sort of, you know, my kids, my wife are in it, riding around, dogs relaxing on the couch, et cetera. And as I said, I don't wanna muddy the waters. So what we're gonna do is keep the Friday vlog series the way it has been going. But on Wednesdays, incorporate some reviews, some training tips, et cetera. That's external to the Road Cycling Academy training tip show. It'll just be on this channel instead and that way we sort of keep the format the same and I don't muddy the waters with people that like the casual side of the Friday vlog series. What's been going on behind the scenes? Well, Rossi's full Rancho Relaxo mode. My wife Alice is away at the moment. She's in Byron Bay on a bit of a business trip. So I'm solo doubting it at the moment. And I've been super busy on the Road Cycling Academy. We've just hired a brand new coach. Ryan Thomas is his name. He's helping me out with the Road Cycling Academy for the Aussie clients, which is cool. Back in last year, got a coach on board in the UK, Danny Roberts-Clark as well. So RCA is kicking some goals, which is awesome. It's great to have those guys supporting me so I can spend more time on content creation, which is what I really want to continue to do. And that is pretty much it. If you've gotten value out of this video today, I always forget to say please give it a like. If I don't say it, people will forget to do it. So give it a like and I'll catch you in the next video. I don't wanna walk away, wait till we fast up. Walkin' straight with the jazz stuff. I know I will leave.


Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz That's drunk! When it came to mascot platformers, Mickey Mouse was pretty reliable. He starred in two fantastic games for the Sega Genesis, in Castle of Illusion and World of Illusion, and some really solid games on Super Nintendo like Magical Quest, The Great Circus Mystery and Magical Adventure 3, the latter sadly staying in Japan. It certainly helped that Mickey was popular enough that only the best quality developers were reserved for making these games, with the illusion games being made by Sega themselves, and the three aforementioned Super Nintendo games were created by Capcom. Then in 1994 came a game called Mickey Mania made by British developer Traveler's Tales, who at that point had only made okay-ish at best games like Toy Story and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Huh, that's kinda weird, so what's the deal? Does this game measure up to the lofty standard set by Sega and Capcom? Well, not quite, but Mickey Mania still has lots of great qualities, albeit with some annoying flaws you gotta deal with. Yeah, I've talked about this game briefly in the past, but this one is worth talking about more in-depth. For one thing, this game just looks incredible, and it should, considering that actual Disney animators provided over 1,500 original drawings to make the game look authentic. The idea here is that Mickey travels back in time to six of his old cartoons, even as far back as 1928's Steamboat Willy, along with other classics like The Mad Doctor, Moose Hunters, Lonesome Ghosts, Mickey and the Beanstalk, and 1990's Prince and the Popper. And sure enough, this game looks like you're actually playing through the cartoon itself. The sprite animation, the backgrounds, the enemy design, the color palette, everything here is startlingly accurate. It is really cool to see. That's really the primary appeal of this game. I caught myself just openly gawking at the screen at times. So, how does the game play? Well, that's where things get a bit dicey. Mickey can take up to four hits and has four lives and unlimited continues to get through six levels split up into about four or five stages each. On the surface, this looks like just another run to the right hop and bop style platformer, but Mickey Mania is much more of a puzzle platformer, if that makes sense, where not only do you defeat enemies as you go, there's other stuff you gotta do in order to progress. Like for example, right away here, you gotta go out of your way to ring these bells for some reason, which extends this bridge before you get locked into an area with these boxes dropping bombs on you. Do I destroy the boxes? Do I do something with the bombs? Nope, you destroy the gears on the left and right sides. The whole game is like that. It's not always clear what you're supposed to do to advance, and it's one of those things where you either have a certain intuition for it or you don't, and even then, the game still puts up signs telling you what to do.  Complicating things a bit further is that Mickey's movement is momentum-based. In other words, he takes a bit to get up to full speed and takes a bit to slow down, which can be frustrating for some folks. It's one of those things where the visuals take priority over the actual gameplay. Sure, the sprite animation and artwork is incredible-looking, but it's gonna wind up and wind down, so to speak, before Mickey actually does what you want him to do. It definitely takes some getting used to, but it is at least consistent throughout the game. The weirdest thing about Mickey Mania is that it has loading time? What? Is there a CD inside the cartridge or something? It's really strange, and it's really only a few seconds between stages. The longest I counted was about six seconds, but hey, I guess Mickey has to reticulate splines, synthesize gravity, and set advisor moods or something before continuing his adventure. I was half expecting this guy to show up to yell at me about cutting back on funding. Mickey Mania was also released on Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and PAL regions even saw a release on PlayStation. I've really only spent time with the Super Nintendo and Genesis editions, and picking the better game is an easy call. It's the Genesis version. It has more levels, more music, and it's a textbook case of the Genesis's wider resolution, lending itself to a better experience since you can see more of what's ahead of you and what's behind you. Oh, and there's no loading time. Must be all that blast processing. But yeah, while the Genesis version is better and offers more content, you really can't go wrong with playing either game. Mickey Mania kinda gets lost in the shuffle a bit considering there's like seven other 16-bit Mickey Mouse games, but this game is solid once you settle in with the controls, and of course, it helps set the game looks awesome, as you can clearly see, and the music here is also really good. It has a real Capcom vibe to it, and it kinda reminds me of Super Ghouls and Ghosts in that way. Another neat thing about this game is that if you're into collecting cartridges, this one has stayed at around $10 over the years, and it's a solid pickup if you see it available. All right, I wanna thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Well folks, it's time to talk about the elephant in the room. College degrees and specifically how Google professional certificates are making most of them irrelevant. That's right, the diploma that you work tirelessly for, that symbol of education that you wear proudly on your wall, it's great, it's fantastic. Unless of course you end up drowning in student loan debt and you can't find a job in your field. But don't worry because I have a solution for you. Enter Google certificates. This is one of my favorite cheaper, more accessible alternatives to a traditional college degree. So sit back, grab a snack, gently tap that like button, prepared to be underwhelmed by the state of traditional college education, but prepared to be impressed by Google certificates. And let's get into it right now. Number seven is going to be the Google digital marketing and e-commerce professional certificate. Now by the way, there aren't that many Google certificates, so this is one of my least favorite ones, but it's still better than a lot of the alternatives like going to college to learn about modern marketing. And going to college to learn about modern marketing strategies is kind of like learning how to drive a Tesla by studying poor strong carriages. The marketing landscape is constantly changing and colleges are notorious for not being able to keep up with the times. And by the time you graduate, you will probably have learned information that worked 10 or 15 years ago, but doesn't work now. Back in the day, marketing was kind of like a game of telephone where you'd start off with a good marketing message. And by the time it got to the consumer, it would end up extremely distorted. But now you have modern marketing techniques where data and technology are the stars of the show. You don't have to guess anymore. It's kind of like upgrading from a flip phone to a smartphone. You have access to so much more information, you can reach your audience with laser precision, and you can track your results in real time. So it's very clear that modern marketing is where it's at. The unfortunate part of modern marketing is it is constantly changing. The way you run ads on Facebook five years ago is completely different than the way you run ads now. And colleges being the traditional institutions that they are move about as fast as a glacier. So this is a beginner level course. It has a 4.8 out of five star rating. They say that you can get done with it in around six months or so with about 10 hours of studying per week. But self reporting shows you can get done with it much faster than that. Now, keep in mind, the word digital marketing actually comprises a bunch of different sub fields such as SEO, which is search engine optimization, pay per click or PPC, search engine marketing, email marketing, etc. And if you type in digital marketing on LinkedIn at the entry level, you are going to see 68,000 results. And on Glassdoor, they make about $68,000 a year. Now, keep in mind, this is the Google professional certificate that's hosted on Coursera. Google also has many other digital marketing certificates, which I think are great. And that's actually why I put this one at the bottom of the list because I think a lot of their other certificates are great and they're also free. Next is going to be the Google IT automation certificate. Now in this one, it says you're going to learn in-demand skills like Python, Git and IT automation in order to advance your career. So you are going to learn a little bit of coding here, right? It's not too advanced on the coding because I know that scares a lot of people, but it's specifically going to be applied to IT or information technology. Now here are some of the skills that you're going to learn. You can pause the video if you want to see that. And it has a score of 4.8 out of 5 with over 30,000 ratings. And again, it says it can be completed in about six months, but all the self-reporting shows that it can be done much quicker than that, usually somewhere between two to three months on average. Now, according to Google, there's over 530,000 U.S. job postings that have something to do with Python proficiency. And over 75,000 of those are entry-level jobs. Now, there's a ton of different jobs you can go into with this skillset. One of them would be a junior system administrator. There's about 12,000 results at the entry level, but like I said, there's a ton of other jobs out there. And you'd make about $63,000 a year. Quick pause to give you a special deal from our sponsor. Coursera is offering $200 off their Coursera Plus annual subscription. This is a global offer so anyone in the world that wants to subscribe to Coursera Plus can have it. Now, this is an incredible offer that gives you access to thousands of different courses and certificates, including the Google certificates. So make sure to click the link down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. Now, back to the video. Next is going to be the Google Associate Android Developer Certificate. Now, this one isn't technically a Google Professional Certificate. They basically did this in association with Android. But I decided to include this on the list because I do think there's a ton of demand for people who have this skillset. So for instance, 95% of the top 1000 Android apps contain Kotlin code and Kotlin is exactly what you're going to be learning.  I'll just show one of them. Mobile Application Development shows 3,800 results on LinkedIn at the entry level. And if you type that into Glassdoor, you're going to see $80,000 a year. Next is going to be the Google UX Design Professional Certificate. Now, UX stands for User Experience. And they claim that in less than six months, you can get job ready for an entry level job in UX Design. And this one scores 4.8 out of five stars with over 56,000 ratings. And again, this is one of those where it says six months, but realistically speaking, you can do it faster than that. I would say however, this is one of the more intense Google Professional Certificates. And by the way, I'll have all of these listed down in the description as well as the pinned comment below if you want to check them out. Keep in mind, I am an affiliate of Coursera, so if you use my link to check this out and you end up purchasing one of their products, I will get a small commission. Now, this one does say that it is beginner level and UX Design is not the easiest one to get into. I'd say this is a little harder than a lot of the other ones on the list, but it is going to help you to get your portfolio together. And I did make an entire video on this one. So this may not be the only thing you need to get into UX Design. You're probably going to have to build a portfolio outside of this and you're probably going to have to build your skills outside of this certificate alone. But with that being said, I also did an entire video on this one, which I will very likely link. But according to them, there are 99,000 in-demand job openings in UX Design. And this is one thing I forgot to mention, but with all of these certificates, when you complete them, you get access to a private job board that over 150 large and well-respected companies agreed to hire people from. And another thing that's really great about these certificates, this is actually probably the best perk and almost nobody talks about it, is that you actually get to list these on your LinkedIn. And a secret that a lot of people don't know is you don't actually have to finish them, right? You don't actually have to be done with them in order to list them on LinkedIn and recruiters and hiring managers can find you through these certificates. So you can just say that you're in the process of taking it. And when they search the certificate, they may find you. So this is one way that people have been commenting on my channel over and over again, that they are getting discovered by hiring managers and recruiters, aka the people who make the decisions on whether you get interviewed and inevitably get a good chance of landing the job. So with many of the other certificates, there's a ton of different jobs out there that you could potentially go into. One of them is Interaction Designer on LinkedIn. At the entry level, there's about 2,900 results. And if you type that in on Glassdoor, you're going to see $110,000 a year. So if you're somebody who is really interested in art and you don't want to keep it as a hobby, you want to do it as a profession. You actually want to get a job doing artistic related things. This can be a really good choice for you.  You can pause the video if you'd like to see them. Now we're going to talk about the Google Project Management Professional Certificate. So this is a really good one as well. It's another super valuable skill set. It is beginner level. It says that it takes about six months, but again, you can do it much quicker than that. And it has a score of 4.8 out of five with over 71,000 ratings. Now I really do like this one. There's another certificate where it's kind of standard that all project managers get that certificate as well. So I don't think this is the only one that you'll get. You will very likely want to get that other certificate as well, but it just gives you access to so many opportunities. And they say there's 479,000 in-demand job openings in project management. And this is a super valuable skill set that is never going to go away. In fact, I would say project management is just going to keep growing as the years go on. So if you type in project manager on LinkedIn at the entry level, you are going to see over 70,000 results. And on Glassdoor, they say project managers make about $84,000 a year. Now, of course, there's a bunch of other career paths you could go into with a certificate like Scrum Master, but just for the purposes of keeping this video short, I'm not going to talk about those. And again, I made a video specifically on this one, so you can go check that out. I highly recommend it.  You can pause the video and check these out if you'd like. Number two on the list. And I would say this one is actually tied for number one is going to be the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate. And yes, I say data, not data. I'm sorry. I just can't say data. It just sounds weird to me. I know it's technically data analytics, but I say data. All right, get over it, please. So again, they claim you're going to be job ready for a data analytics role in about six months. And it has a score of 4.8 out of five with over 98,000 ratings. This one has been battle tested over time. Also, I reached out to basically all of the data analytics related YouTubers and I asked them what they thought of this certificate and pretty much all of them said it was great. Now, many of them did say you can get a job with just the certificate, but chances are you want to do some other things like make a really nice portfolio, maybe take some other certificates, etc. But one of the great things about these Google Professional Certificates is you can do it all on your own time. You don't have to quit your job, move across the country to go to college. Now you guys know me, I am constantly searching for the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to get into these high demand careers. And unfortunately, I was not able to find like an online course or a bootcamp that met my standards. So my current number one recommendation for getting into data analytics is actually taking this certificate. Now again, you might take other certificates and you really do want to work on your portfolio, of course.  But with that being said, this is actually my number one recommendation for getting into data analytics at this current time. So according to them, there's over 380,000 in demand job openings for data analytics. And by the way, this is another one that I didn't mention, but over 75% of Google career certificate graduates in the United States report an improvement in their career trajectory. And this is all within six months of certificate completion. So that is phenomenal considering these certificates last time I checked only cost around $39 per month. So you compare that to basically any other way of getting educated or you know, trying to get into a job like for instance, colleges, which cost about $100,000 for a college degree or going to a bootcamp, which is probably going to cost you at least $10,000. This is a ridiculous value. This is basically a cheat code at this point. I don't know how long this is going to last, maybe after a good saturator or whatever, it's not going to be as valuable. But right now, people have been reporting to me left and right that this is getting phenomenal results. If that changes in the future, make sure you stay up to date on this channel because I will be talking about that. Now, according to LinkedIn, there are 150,000 results at the entry level for data analyst position, which is great. And according to Glassdoor, data analysts make about $71,000 a year. Now, of course, there are other positions you can move into where you'd make a lot more than that. That's basically just the entry level position. Now here are a bunch of testimonials if you'd like to pause the video and check them out. And the other one, one B that is tied for number one on this list is going to be the Google IT support professional certificate. This is probably the most well known Google certificate out there. So why does this one come in at number one tied for number one with the Google data analytics certificate? Well, it has the most ratings out of all of them. So it has a score of 4.8 out of five stars with 151,000 ratings. That is a ton of people who have taken the certificate and rated it extremely well. It also says it takes around six months to take it. But again, realistically speaking, it's much quicker than that. In fact, for this particular one, a lot of people have told me they've been able to knock it out sometimes in a few weeks, a month, a month and a half, two months. Now on the listing, it says there's about 400,000 in demand job openings in IT. Now, I do somewhat agree with that. But realistically speaking, you should probably just aim for going for one of those jobs. So for instance, help desk is a great job to aim for because you can kind of confuse people if you list a bunch of different common job titles like they do here. And then they go for one of the ones that's a little more difficult to get into. But help desk is probably the easiest one to land. But you can literally just select one of those jobs on there, type it into LinkedIn and see how much demand there is. So for instance, database administrator 128,000 results at the entry level, and you make about $84,000 a year system analyst, there's 146,000 results at the entry level, and you make $87,000 a year. And out of all the ones on the list, this one probably partially at least because it's been around for so long has the most positive testimonials. I mean, you can look all across the internet, whether it's YouTube, Reddit, Google, any number of different places, you're going to see a ton of testimonials from people that have taken this certificate. Now, is it still a good idea for you to have a really nice portfolio where you can actually showcase your skills, not just the certificate that says you have the skills? Yes, absolutely. Make sure you have a good portfolio. It's so important in this modern world that you not only just say, Hey, I have XYZ skills, but you actually demonstrate that you have those skills by using an easily accessible portfolio. But yeah, especially the top two on the list, the data analytics as well as the IT support certificate, phenomenal. Now, is this a replacement for a college degree? No, that's like saying a screwdriver is a replacement for a hammer. They are used for completely different things. There are some careers where you do need to get a college degree to get into them. And so in that case, you would use a screwdriver, right? Screwdrivers, the college degree. There are many careers where you don't need to get a college degree to get into them. And so in that case, you'd use a different tool, you'd use a hammer. So comparing these to college degrees is really just an apples to oranges comparison. The first thing you need to do is identify what career you're trying to get into. And then the second thing you need to do is figure out what skills or tools you need to get there. And in many of these cases, you absolutely do not need a college degree in order to land a job. And that's kind of why Google created these certificates in the first place. And in many cases, college degrees will actually set you back. So yeah, I'm a huge fan of these certificates, not only because they can help people get jobs, but I think another benefit of these that a lot of people don't talk about is the fact that these will help you to figure out what career path you want to go down, right? So instead of investing tens of thousands of dollars to go to college to figure out what your, you know, passion is or your life purpose is, you can just take these certificates. And if you don't like it after a few weeks or a month, you can just switch to a different one. And then eventually you're probably going to find something that you like.  So I did a detailed breakdown of the data analytics certificate. And I highly recommend that you check that out. I'll put it right here.


I am thrilled to kick off this celebration by introducing the inaugural NEA Foundation Student Voices for Education Award. We are super excited about this new award category created to recognize the importance of student voice and student leadership. This award honors the ultimate stakeholders, whether one student, a group, an organization, any that serve as a driving force for elevating students advocating for their right to a quality public education. I'm going to ask Valerie to join me on stage for this presentation. I want to introduce to you an organization that began in 2012 through Twitter exchanges and now it has grown into a national organization that believes that to achieve equity in schools power must be authentically and meaningfully shifted to the youth most marginalized in our education system. They are empowering and positioning youth across the country to use their voices as agents of social and political power. I promise it's not coincidental, but the recipient of the first ever NEA Foundation Student Voice Award is to an organization that's named Student Voice. Please put your hands together and welcome Lee Walden and Nina Jackson who are accepting this award on behalf of Student Voice.  Across the country public schools are grappling with understaffed classrooms, underrepresented students and communities filled with confusion, pain and vitriol and politicians who continually put their own agendas above the needs of our students and our nation. Though with the work of students that engage with Student Voice prove anything, it is that young people have always found ways to rise to a challenge. This award and award recognizing the importance of engaging and uplifting students is proof that students are gaining greater relevance and are starting to truly be centered at issues of education and school equity. While it's easy to believe that increased interest in education either in the news or in our communities has caused more problems by reigniting the polarization on school issues, the participation and intention of every single community member of public schools can only make our system of learning more informed, relevant and most importantly empathetic. Still as Student Voice is shifting through at this current moment, how to center those who are most often erased in silence is ongoing and complex work. So making space to ask those hard questions, embracing humility to hear answers you didn't know, being bullied by someone who doesn't know as much about you and allowing those individual spaces and opportunities within your organizations is critical. Bettering ourselves is how we build a better education system with more empowered young people who truly have all of their resources to make the voices horde. Thank you again so much for your recognition and support.


So I just thought I'd start in advance by thanking you for your time, patience, tolerance. I used it and we were talking earlier and we thought it would be interesting to get the ball rolling really fast and he wanted to read a section from his book. I was actually going to show some images but that didn't work out today so figure it out. Take from the entropy of bones. The main character is an African American Mongolian girl who kicks butt and takes numbers. And there's not much to really set up here. This may sound a bit familiar to some people.  The cop was white and lived in the rich suburbs of Antioch. The kid lived in a part of Oakland known as the Bottoms. The cop's excuse was that he thought he was pulling his taser. Oakland wasn't buying it but the jury did. They gave the cop the lightest sentence possible. Oakland answered by lighting its streets on fire. That's what the news report said at least.  It was bandana-faced, trustafarian, so they got off calling themselves anarchists alongside the usual opportunistic, infection-type people that availed themselves of whatever tragedy they can find to grab whatever they can find. They were the ones who maintained the chaos on the streets. In response, the Oakland police department strapped on their ride gear and swung for the fences, trying desperately to maintain whatever crumbs of water they could find. Of course, I knew none of this at the time. I just walked out of my first and only high school party and found a full-scale riot jumping off. Parties over! If anyone wondered how they could hear me over the music, they didn't bother asking. They were all following instructions, packing up and figuring out how to get out of the sandwich shop except for the little kid.  He understood quickly enough and killed the music just as the sound of the breaking wood from the beer garden behind him made me jump. Only I leapt off the small back window and onto the second floor balcony to see the beer garden. A skinny dread anarchist had already made his way over by the time I landed. His friend was trying to make it over the fence as well.  You're not welcome here. I whispered as I threw him back over the fence. Freakin' pigs are everywhere!  Your problem, not mine.  You get one chance to leave here on your own. He did not choose wisely.   The front gate to the plate glass window shop had already been locked down. Across the street, we saw a troop of talented baton-building police officers making their way from the headquarters to the border of Jack London Square to the main riot in front of City Hall. Did I stutter the first time? Go home. They were going to stay here.  Riot equals change of plans, no? Where are we going to go? A mousy girl who made me ashamed to be female cried. Bryce called. He said some of the others had been attacked. Bart is closed. They all told their parents they were going to stay out all night. At each other's houses, but we're going to spend the night here kind of like a sleepover. We even have sleeping bags. For the love of all things non-nerd, I beg you to stop talking. I looked at them in earnest for the first time. They were the last of the 200 who had come and the first, the intelligent outcast. They were as new to fashion as I was. It was a costume for them. For many, maybe all, it was their first night out. Around 190 bolted and some paid the price. But these 10, plus the little kid, they had stayed loyal through the fidelity and the fear. With what little sentimentality I had to assert, I knew I would get them home. So I'm going to start with the obvious question. Why did you pick that passage? Because we're in the bay, and I love the bay. And I love Oakland. I love an Oakland that I fear is disappearing. I feel like the bay that I love is disappearing. There's a pock line only in Cali do we riot in our rally. And I just love that we rioted. I love that there was a time when we stood up and just said no. And yeah, there are politics with it and yeah, there's drama with it.  But there was a point where we said no. And now we're saying okay. And now we're not saying anything. And now we're forgetting to speak. And that, I don't like that. So, you know, a good thing about a novel or about a book is you get to hold on to a moment. And that's a moment for me. A moment where we said no. Well, and I'm really interested in that moment in particular because it's in the context of a series of novels. You know, the liminal people, liminal wars and entropy of bones that are about people with superhuman abilities. And yet that's in there. Well, I mean, you know, you have a movie like or, you know, even the book like The Martian, you know, and it's like, you can talk about how much fuel it takes to get to Mars and biodomes and other scientific stuff that I'm not really sure about. But when it comes down to what's the story about, it's about a person trying to figure out how to get through their life, how to stay alive, how to survive. And, you know, that's a good story. And I think that story should be expanded out. And the people who get to survive should be expanded out. Do you know what I mean? Like, I'm interested how an African American Mongolian girl deals with the riots in Oakland when police are going nuts. You know, I'm interested in how people of color survive this world when it's pretty clear that there's a lot of things set up to say that we shouldn't. Well, also, I mean, going back to the world that this is a part of, for some of the people in the audience who haven't read all the books, how would you describe the series? It's about a bunch of people who can do weird things, getting into some weird situations, making bad decisions, and coming out the other end of it. Well, give an example of weird things and bad decisions.  If your father figure is a sadistic weirdo that says that he wants you to find a girl that can control animals and bring him to her, the smart thing to do is to do that. If you don't do that, then you have to deal with the consequences of that. And what I like writing about is the consequences. I like seeing what happens when people don't make the right decision, because I rarely make the right decision. And that actually leads into something that we were discussing just before we came up here, where I have jokingly asked you, so when's that last book going to come? Knowing that that's like the worst question to ask anyone. Ask my parents who didn't get to talk to me for months when I was finishing my dissertation. But you had some really interesting comments about why you wanted to end, why you want the next book to be the last book in this. Yeah, so they're novels, they're not comics, and I love comics, and I'm working on a comic with John Jennings, and it's going to be great and amazing and it's going to change the whole face of the universe. But these are novels, and novels have ends. It doesn't seem like that, thanks to Harry Potter and every other series that has 9, 10, 11, 12 books in the series. But what I like about a novel is that there is a definitive end to it, and it's so tempting in this world, it's so rich, I can spin off a thousand and one different things in it again and again and again. But in the end it comes down to a family, and a family who has to make some rough choices and deal with the consequences. So once they've sort of made those big choices, in my mind I want to give them that time to rest, to go away for a while. So you want this story to end for the family, but what about the world that you've created around them? There's some other writing projects that I want to do, and I'm fortunate in that nobody knows who I am by and large, so there's not a huge clamor of like, I'll give you $50,000 for the next book, but if anybody will, then I'll write it right away. I will totally do that. But since nobody's asking for that, I have that freedom to be like, I get to say when this ends, and that's a rare thing for a writer. So I'm like, okay, this one's going to be done. I'm going to write some other stuff. I'm going to take over the comic book world. And then when I'm done with that, if I want to come back to the world, the world will still be there. There's still one dangling character that we don't see in the last book that can come back and cause trouble. Well, something that you've kept coming back to also is family, and I've read a recent interview where they asked you about your take on radical politics, and it even came again in the passage that you read. Could you talk a little more about sort of what you see the role of radical politics in relationship to family? Yeah, I mean, I think family is not blood, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not trying to tell anybody else how to live, but family is not blood. Family is choice. And the people that choose to back me up, and some of them are in the audience, and the people that I choose to back up, that's my family. And it's been that way from the beginning, and I don't really know another way to live.   That's not family. Family to me is like, I'm hungry. I'm poor. I'm starving.  Yes, or I'm confused. I don't know what I'm doing.  Yeah. So I have black family, I have white family, I have queer family, I have straight family, and it's not like different families. They're all linked. And in politics, when you hear it in these political circles, I think everyone is political, that's why I did the weird finger thing. When you talk about politics and everybody's talking about family values, they're not even talking about my type of family, so how could they be talking about my values? A person who, in my mind, is as close to a big brother, father figure for me, is in the hospital right now, and they're cool on insurance right now, but after 30 days, they don't necessarily have insurance. I got terms of insurance that I never use. That's my family. Why can't he have my insurance? That's my politics around family values. In this country, we're so not even in that dialogue that I just stay out of the conversation by and large. Would you say that, to the extent that you are in the conversation, that it comes more through your writing? I'm really weird Facebook post. I just have some weird Facebook posts. I'll come out publicly. I support Bernie Sanders. I don't know. I feel like how one lives is political. How you vote is interesting. How you live is political. How I live is political. To the best of my ability, I try and live my politics. I don't skirt the poor, for I am the poor. I work in education. I work in education as much as I can.  I just feel like they're connected. One thing I want to do is I'd like to open up to questions now, knowing that we'll probably come back to asking questions for each other. I prefer there to be more time for questions than for just dialogue between two people up on the stage with things in front of them. I think some people want cards. I'm going to take questions also from people raising their hands, but I also had a question handed to me. How does gender express itself in your writing? That's a good question. A critique that I had on the first book was that it was very Madonna-whore-complexed. I think that was true, but I think that was true of the character. That's the way that he saw the world, and so that was his impact. I think with entropy of bones, I didn't realize this was my first attempt to write a female character. As I wrote her, I found her gender expression to be not... I found a gender expression. What I wanted to write was a young woman who hadn't been impacted by all the BS that I've seen so many young women impacted by. Because of her skills, because of her training, she never felt at the mercy of any man. That creates a very different young woman than I've seen in most of my career. That's what I was trying to do in that book. Limital war, gender expressions generally tend to be more like... Everybody's a badass. Everyone's a badass in their gender.  One of the characters that I love, it's a minor character, is a black woman who owned a gin joint in Louisiana in the 1930s.  I like badass women. That's pretty much what I'm saying. Really a big politic in the first book was there was a character, a bad guy, who raped another character off-scene. I love that the main female character was like, there is no forgiveness for this. There's no walking around it, and she chops the dude in two. Well, actually she explodes his brain, but it's just like that sort of like, nope, there's no equivocating about this. I like those kinds of characters. I hope so. So just for the mic, for those that didn't hear us, how do you live your politics when your career path doesn't necessarily support that? First and foremost, I'm giving no advice to anyone who lives their life. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm making things up as I go along right now. So that said, two, I'm going to make an assumption here.  Okay.  You living your life as a healthy, happy person in San Francisco is a political act. Like, there are so few black people in the Bay or in San Francisco. Like, I'm surprised there's not a riot going on. There's too many black people here. To be a happy, healthy black person in this country, like in this country, definitely in this city, whatever it takes to do that, that's political. I love, I work in San Francisco and I can't stand coming here every day. But when I see black people smiling in the street in San Francisco, you did it. I think after that it's like, you know, where's your energy?  Because nobody's happy. You know, it just doesn't make sense. Like, the way, whatever ways that you can spread joy in your world and spread joy to other people, do that. Like, play your part. Do what you do and do what you do well. That's what I would say. This is one, I'm going to do one of the next card. You have the titles of your three books, Limit of People, Entropy of Bones, and the Limit of War. The Limit of War. Limit of Wars. What inspired you to give these titles their names? The title, Limit of People comes from a book, Blackskins, White Mask, by Franz Fennell. And if you haven't read it, you should. I will say that. I've read that book probably once a year from the time I was like 10 until now. And in it, I'm talking about the post-colonial subject. So that individual liberated yet not free from a colonial mentality. He says that we are liminal people. We are people in an in-between space. And so that line always stuck with me.  I used to say, what's broadly liminal? And, you know, the notion of humanity, because connected in that liminal space that Fennell is talking about is this notion of what it means to be human. And that was an idea that only, you know, the colonists had, that the colonists was human and that they were dealing with these subhuman subjects. I mean, 1463, the Catholic Church says that those of African descent are not fully in-sold. I love that term, because then it gets sold. Anyway, but are not fully in-sold. And as a result, it's okay to enslave us. So we're not human. So I'm like, okay, so then if you're not human, there's another option of being like a slave. If you're not human, you could also be divine. So there's this, that's what liminal people is. It's like, where are you at?  You know, and that's kind of what they're playing with. So the first book was liminal people. The second one, liminal war, is what happens when those fools start fighting. And that's what goes on. And then entropy of bones is the secret to this young woman's martial arts skills. The ability to find the decay and the bones of all things. And that plays out in a broader sense in the final novel. That doesn't have a title yet. Cool. Did you have a question? Yes. I agree with everything you said. We have a question that was given to us on a card. Do you think it's hard to make it in the comic book industry as a person of color? And I would add to that as a novelist as well. Hell yeah. Jessica, I mean, I was, man, they pulled this quote. I had this interview and they pulled this quote. So it's a great time to be a person of color in the comic book industry. I'm like, yeah, there's context to that. I know, because I know people are looking at me like, yeah, for real, dude, for real. I've been trying to make my comic for like 15 years. This is what I think. I think if you're going to sit there and wait for Marvel or DC or even Image or Dark Horse or whatever, to look at you and tell you that you're good enough, it's going to be a long time until you get anything you want. And I don't know how you live your life, but in general, that's how it is for people of color. That's how it is for any group that isn't the dominant minority. If you're sitting there waiting for people to tell you fill in the blank, it's going to be a while. If you are a maker, make. Like, I wrote the first book, The Liminal People, and I self-published it. And I had it, and yeah, you remember a little book, it was like this big, and took it to comic book shops and took it to bookstores and sold it by hand. And Nalo Hopkinson, who was just up here before, awesome, amazing friend of mine who I've known forever. She was like, hey, she sent that to these publishers. I think they might pick it up, sent it to them, and they're like, yeah, good, go for it. Yeah, and tell us when you have another one. If I sat there and did the query letter and hear the first two chapters of the book, and I hope you like it, and blah, blah, blah, and hear some glitter in your letter or whatever, I don't know, I don't know. When I say it's a good time, what I mean is like for five grand, you can create your own book. I was listening to an interview with Robert Kirkman, the creator of Walking Dead. That dude made like seven comics before he did Walking Dead, like different series entirely. And what he did was he had a job where his boss would give him a payday advance. Please don't go to payday advance places in Oakland, they'll rip you off. But his boss would give him a payday advance. And the payday advance at the time was $1,500, and $1,500 was enough for him to print 500 comics. And so he printed the comics for $1,500, for $1,500. If he made the same amount off of it, he had to pay back the loan and got a little bit extra. And he did like $100 extra, and he got like $200 extra, and he lost some money sometimes. But he just kept doing the thing. You got to just do the thing, like whatever it is, just do it. And then you get better at it. And then as you get better at it, then maybe people will be like, oh, awesome, I'm a big publisher, I want to do your thing with you. Or you're making enough money that you don't need them. Like, damn, I wish Bill Campbell was here. He was a publisher from Missouri and publishing Bill Campbell. That man, in the past three years, has started putting out some of the most awesome, amazing stuff. He's going to be here tomorrow, you should totally check him out. Bill just got on it, and Bill was like, this is what we're doing. And he started publishing digitally first, and then he started printing stuff. He's got the, what is it, the quantum guide to assimilated Santerria. And that book is coming out. Like, it's on hit, but he did it himself. So I'm all about getting it done yourself. That way you control it, you own it. You control your masters. We learned this from hip hop. Always control your masters. That's what I would say. Next question. Yes. He gets everything from the TV series. No, I mean, and that's the thing. Like, that's what we, like, you know, I'm from hip hop generation, and we just didn't get it. We sold our masters to whomever who signed contracts, like, owning different parts of our artists. You remember Prince, remember Prince changed his name? Prince changed his name because they had his name under contract. My man couldn't make no money. He's like, okay, well, whoop, new name. So, yeah, now this age, I'm like, control what you make.  And, like, for no money, they wanted the rights to everything in perpetuity for forever and a day. I was like, I don't even know you like that. Like, you know, like, buy me a drink first. Like, just don't just reach around like that. So, just saying. It's just me. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I'm nervous now. Oh, no worries. That's my job in life. Hell, yeah, I need some illustrators. Yeah, man, give me your card. Serious. I've been writing my whole life, but I was a very bad writer for most of my life. Like, seriously, like, I looked back at some of my early stuff and I was like, why did I do that? I had, like, a ninja that could lift 90 tons in the store. It was weird. It was really weird. I wrote, like, all this, like, weird, bad stuff. But like, as a writer, I fully and honestly believe you have to get the bad stuff out. Like, you can't just sit there and expect that everything you put down on paper is going to be great. Like, you just have to just, just the worst stuff ever is just going to come out.  That line works. That this work. That that works. Yeah, I've been writing since I was seven years old. Six, seven years old. I was dyslexic. It looked like chicken scratch. Like, nobody liked what I wrote. I kept writing it and I wrote in high school and it was weird because I was working through issues. I was at a boarding school in New Hampshire. It was weird, weird stories. And then I wrote in college and was writing screenplays and some of them were okay, but a lot of them were very derivative. They looked like everybody else's stuff and then I was living overseas for a little bit. I started writing what I saw there and that was the first time I started being like, oh, I kind of like what I write. And then just kept writing and kept writing and kept writing. I've written, like, not even the middle people. I've written, like, five novels and none of them are ever going to get published.  I got this note that says, should probably wrap up now. So, what we're going to do, what we're going to do is we're going to do a quick, just, if we could do just some rapid fire questions, you know, some short questions and then kind of wrap it up. Yes? Yeah, I tell a story. The story has to lead. The other stuff is what's going on for me and my world as you see, the politics around me, the most important thing for me is to stay on tasks, stay on plot, stay on character, stay on development, stay on conclusions, stay on demo, all of it. Like, story is what drives it. People don't want to read my, if you want to read my political statements, go on my Facebook page. You'll see tons of them. But if you want to read a good story, then you pick up the novels. That's where I stay focused on. I went to a boarding school in New Hampshire. And I didn't even meet her like that. What I meant was, what I meant was, my family, I come from reading people, you know, like, despite the disorder in my house growing up in terms of organization, there was, it was stacks and stacks of books everywhere. And you could always pick up a book and read something, and you can ask my family something. And you can ask my fiancé in the back. It's the same problem now. There's stacks and stacks of books everywhere. She's not too happy with that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. He's in there. He's not in the third book. He's in the final book. He's a big part of the final book. Okay, we got like two more questions. People who haven't asked a question. I felt like however you got, in my respect, how do I learn from those who have come before me in terms of adjusting to this strange society? I kind of, I look at all of it as whatever it takes to get through. I'm gonna, despite some people's opinions, I'm a fairly non-judgmental person. And however it takes, the right, the right people are laughing right now. However, I'll speak specifically to the American Americans.  I was like, whatever it takes to get through, however you survived, good.  I survived and they gave me the option to make that choice for myself. So, I don't, you know, that's why I say my politics are a little different in that everybody's like, a radical politic, I come from a radical political family and I've seen the consequences of that. I think the most political, radical thing a black male can do is raise his kids. Like that.    They'll tell you everything you need to know. So, whatever it takes to get through, I respect it and learn from it. Excuse me, um, excuse me, there's, you would ask a question, you raised your hand earlier? Yes. No. Okay, so, okay, so here's, here's what I think about that. I think that our visions of the future have already been colonized.  In Cloud City? Running stuff? Running, anyway. So, they're like, oh, black guy in Star Wars, ah, ah, ah, and I'm like, why is there only one? Like, what, like, why is, because we, it's not like Hollywood is this, like, this, like, meritocracy of story, right? There is an investment in a certain type of narrative that continues to perpetuate a certain type of political social hegemony that dominates the world, right? And, like, the movie industry is an industry that is heteronormative.  I'm serious. Any movie, any movie, watch any movie, you will see it's all going on, we're not going to be able to survive. Don't worry, baby, I got it. And then, all of a sudden, right, you're like, what? Is that all it took? Is that all? So, there are these certain, like, stories that, like, Hollywood needs to say again and again and again in order for it to work. White people are the norm, heterosexual people are the norm, people of color can play a support role and make sure that the white guy always wins. It's important that that story is told again and again and again for that industry to work. But that's not all story. That's what I like about novels is that they have more access for more stories to be told. So, like, about comics, more stories get to be told. But again, if we're looking for ourselves in Hollywood right now, best of luck, you know? Like, keep looking, you'll find one or two and they'll be like, yay!  Yes. I agree. So, I want to do one last question because I want to hear a younger voice because we haven't heard a young voice. Please ask your question. On a story? Oh, God, yeah. Like, the one thing... Oh, sorry, the question was, have you ever given up on a story, gone away from it and then come back to it later? And actually, there's Nala Hopkinson in the back and she's my awesome friend who I love more than life itself. And I remember when, before I was published at all, and I was writing very bad stuff, and I told Nala about something and I said, yeah, I threw it away and Nala said, don't throw things away. Put them away. She's like, because if you throw it away, you can never see it again. But if you put it away, you can come back to it and look at it later. So, if something, if I write something that I just absolutely threw it away, and then there's a big trunk in the living room that has all the stuff that I don't really like, and then every now and then I'll open the trunk and look at it and be like, oh, no, that's a good sentence. And the way I figure it, if I can pull a good sentence out of ten pages, that's good writing. Well, on that note, I'd just like to thank you all again for your patience and for your time.