Hello, thanks for joining us. This is the sixth session of the CSOT Tech integration success series. We are so excited to have you spending some time with us here today as this is the final session in this series. We're gonna kind of buzz through a couple of things and then also get your feedback on your experience here. So thanks for hopping in today. If you've never joined us before, I'm Angela. I taught kindergarten for 15 years and I lead community here at CSOT. I'd love for you to tell me some of your experience of joining these sessions on Twitter at Mrs. Gag. You gotta be curious to hear from you. Also keep in mind today, I might be asking you to hop into a CSOT class as a student. So if you have, you know, maybe you open another tab when we get to that point or maybe you have your phone or a device handy that you might wanna hop into. You might be joining as a student later in this session. And as a reminder, you can get a certificate for viewing this session. We will give a six character code normally in two, three digits segments. You'll have to listen to the entire session to get that if you're watching the recording. But shout out to all my people that are watching live. You don't need to worry about it because it will come to you in a follow-up email that should land in your inbox hopefully in about two days. So today our topic is e-learning days and home learning. You can find the slides here following this bit.ly but you'll also get them if you've registered. So today I actually have been thinking a lot about this topic as I see many members of our community kind of sharing ways that they really like to stay connected with not only their students but families during times when they are not at school. And I asked a question in our technology integrationist group on Facebook about what are people's plans? You have formal plans because here in Minnesota where I'm at, we're gonna happen to kind of some things happening there but that kind of sparked my idea. So our plan today, this is kind of gonna be a little bit of a quicker session because a lot of it is I'm hoping to get your ideas and sharing some thoughts that you have about how this might work where you are supporting students and families but the plan for today is we're gonna talk a little bit about what am I even talking about when I say e-learning days. I'm gonna share some examples of some of the language used here in Minnesota but then I'm gonna share just a couple of quick ideas and almost I would say things to think about as you start doing some brainstorming and we will do a little bit of that in a CESA class today and then I'm gonna give you a little sneak peek of some ready-made ideas that will be coming to your teachers hopefully in a couple of weeks related to this topic but maybe a little bit more generally those connections that can take place even when students are not at school. So as always just a reminder, if you are live you can type in questions in the question box as well as we progress through this session. So to start with an example, so I am curious when we hop into our CESA class and a little bit what it's like where you are at or where you teach or support learning but in Minnesota, this is actually language that I've linked here to some information from the Minnesota State site that defines an e-learning day as a school day where a school offers full access to online instruction provided by students, individual teachers due to inclement weather. So of course in Minnesota that usually means a lot of snow and ice and things like that or really, really, really cold temperatures and included in this plan needs to be first of all creating a plan at the district and school level but also letting families, giving them notice about how this will work but also having the ability for students to have access to teachers during that day if they're actually not in school. So this is more of a very formal plan that would be created. So I'm just throwing this out there because I'm actually curious to learn more about those of you tuning in if you do have formal plans in place but when I was polling and kind of asking this question in our group, a lot of people don't have a really formal plan in place and I think this could be a really good opportunity to learn from one another in this community to see what could be some amazing plans that could be created that do involve CISA. So not only to fill this specific need of, if you're missing school for several days, I know there's a lot of different weather situations or things that happen in California right now, right? And there's lots of fires that were definitely problematic. So of course we're not talking snow but there's a lot of things that can keep students away from school and how can a tool like CISA be included or play a role in a portion of that plan. So to kind of get your, I don't know, your brain thinking about this a little bit, I'm just gonna review a couple things to keep in mind as you are thinking through this or what kind of some of these plans might look like. So the first thing is obviously access to technology at home for your students. So that is also something that at least in Minnesota is called out like what is your plan for that if students do not have access to technology at home, what will that look like? Now on this slide, we are assuming that they do have access to technology at home and specifically when we're talking about CISA there's really two ways that they could view any sort of content that you add to the class. And I just kind of wanna point out from my perspective what a couple of things to keep in mind. So on the left, option one is they're just going to sign into the class app at home. So keep in mind that would be something that is different than the family app. And in many cases they might not have the class app downloaded on the device or they've never actually signed in to the class app at home. So you would need to obviously think through, well, how do we make that happen, right? Or what directions are we gonna give them to do that? And we recommend if you are having students sign in to CISA the class at home that's going to work best if students are using email or Google sign in because there are, that is a more personalized situation where we know exactly who is accessing and signing in because they have to use their email and password. And then on the teacher end, you need to make sure that you're turning off students can see each other's work because technically at home if a student is signed in and they're working at home maybe their family is, it's left logged in or something like that that potentially might be something where student work could be viewed by someone else in the household if that's not signed out appropriately. Option two, they might be viewing content from the CISA family app. And that means that they wouldn't have to get signed into the class app at home. They would just be viewing anything that the teacher sends through announcements that would show up in the family app or a family signs into the account. Now, one of the benefits that I really like to highlight in this flow is that announcements are translated and this can be really, really helpful if you're thinking about the situation where the students aren't in school, you are trying to communicate most effectively with families to try to also describe what is being asked of the student. That can be really, really a good feature to take advantage of via those announcements. The other thing that I would mention too is we've always suggested not sending home the class QR code. So you'll notice on the left, in terms of signing into the class app, we're not suggesting you do that if you have QR code sign in. So this would be on the right a really good solution for those of you that have classes set up with class code sign in and actually might be a great solution if you even have email Google sign in. But again, I'm trying to get your, you're thinking about this a little bit for how you might approach this. And the other thing to consider too is that activities, the actual feature of activities is only available in the class app. So a lot of times I will see teachers asking, well, how do they finish this at home for homework or how do they, you know, how did the parents see the activity so they can do it with their child? That is only something they can do if they're in the class app. So again, if your students are using email or Google sign in, they can get into the class easily if they have that app downloaded or they're going to the website. But keep in mind, if you're working with younger students that have class code, they will not be able to view activities. So again, have no fear. I'm going to show you a couple ideas related to that. The other thing I want to point out if your school or district is really starting to think through this is a really, really nice feature of paid C-soft for schools is the trusted networks feature. And this is something you might not even be aware of existing but what's really cool about it is that your admin can create a situation where the students can only, depending on where the student is signing into the class, it will automatically change the class settings so students can view each other's work as turned off. So that means, for example, let's say we're a fourth grade student, we are working in our classroom and students can see each other's work as turned on in the class because it's a really collaborative situation where students are commenting out of their student work and doing all of that. But then, oh, we have an e-learning day and now I'm at home and I want to sign into my C-soft class with my email address. When that student signs in at home, if trusted networks is set up, it recognizes that it's not the network that is at school. So it automatically changes those class settings to turn off students can view each other's work. And again, that's just a privacy feature that is included and you can use if you do have C-soft for schools. So that, again, kind of is another thing to consider or be aware of as you're potentially making or thinking through your plan. So I am a huge advocate and proponent of actually communicating and sharing via announcements. I think it's a really, really simple flow and I think a lot of things that teachers might ask students to do that maybe normally, they would do via an activity in the classroom can easily be shared and sent via the announcement. And then you're not worrying about all the things that we mentioned of making sure students can't see each other's work is turned, all that stuff. You're just set to go, they don't have to download a different app or anything like that. So I'm actually gonna play this video that I shared with teachers. Actually, I think this was about this time last year, but it shows you the steps that you can take to easily make this type of communication happen. So let's take a listen here. These are our teachers, it's Angela and I often get asked the question, how do I connect with my students? If we don't have school, it's a snow day. As you can see here in Minnesota, we've got lots of schools out or maybe it's an e-learning day or you wanna find just a fun way to connect. I'm gonna show you. Good morning, third graders. It's Mrs. Gadki. It's a big snowstorm, so we're not at school.  I was like, whoa, is that different now? But you can see the basic flow. And what I'm, again, anything that is typed in that announcement can be translated automatically on the family and to whatever language their device is set to. So that is a huge benefit. And of course, students still have access to all of the creative tools via the family app as well that they can just reply with an ad photo or video or drawing and things like that, which I think makes it pretty slick. Now, get ready. I'm excited for you to share your ideas because this is, I want to give you a time to share like, oh my gosh, we haven't even thought about this or actually, this is what we do or we've tried this and this has worked great. So I am sharing the QR code right here to the CSAS class. You are going to sign in as a student so you can scan the QR code or I am going to show you right now the text code. This text code is good for the next, you can see here, 59 minutes. So if you are joining via the recording, you will have to scan the code and you can still hop into this class and see what other people have said, what they have suggested, how they might approach something like an e-learning day. And again, some of the suggestions I'm making are probably not to the level of a full on e-learning plan, but they're definitely related to connecting with students and could absolutely be added to a component of an e-learning day plan that your school might be making. So go ahead and hop into the CSAS class, use any of the tools, maybe you just want to shoot a little video and tell me, is your district doing this? Is this something that your school does? What have you seen your teachers do? Have they tried this? Do you have families connected so announcements would make a lot of sense for them having access that way. And while you are getting connected, I'm actually going to shout out the first three digits to get the certificate. If you're watching the recording, those digits are six, seven, three. So write that down. You'll need three more that I'll share in a moment, but I'm hoping people are getting, it appears like I'm offline. Let's just refresh this class. I'm actually going to give you just a few minutes to post something in our class and actually share your thoughts and do a little bit of reflecting. And it's okay to completely say, I have never heard of this Angela. I have not thought about this. Now my head is spinning. Awesome. Or maybe you're going to share something that you are already doing or have something in place. If you're in the midst of creating a plan in your school or district related to e-learning days that you're not able to attend school, where are you at in that process? And of course, because this is a class that is very general with the student names A, B, C, D, right? Make sure you add a comment that actually has your name in it or maybe even your contact information if people would like to reach out to you and kind of do a little more brainstorming with you. I'm going to play a little bit of music because I truly want you to spend just a couple of minutes sharing what your ideas are and maybe something that you might try or think about doing or have successfully already done with teachers. So go, oh yay, we have one post, woo woo.  So let's give you some time to do some work. All right, well, I'm just scrolling along here. We've got all sorts of ideas coming into our class. So a couple of things to note, thanks so much for making sure you include your contact info. Oh my goodness, this is going to be a jackpot. I love it, I love it. Make sure you include your contact info if you are willing to kind of extend the conversation beyond even this little seesaw class here. So e-learning days, we're in the first year of one-on. So e-learning day will be coming in future years. Oh, so good, we're catching people maybe at the beginning of this, right? So Skype or Zoom to connect live with students. Last year I posted directions for kids to take videos of fun they were having in the snow and post them.  We use another platform for older students, which allows them to hold collaborative discussions online. So that is also pretty common. I've also heard that we're in the process of creating e-learning templates for K5 students. We are creating both paper and digital options, great idea. Families have the option of doing activities paper or digital. Our idea is to create a multi-page activity for each grade on an e-learning day as a digital option. We feel both are needed because not all families and students will be connected. We want to seesaw eyes all of it as an option. I wonder if that's Joni sharing that idea. I'm not gonna play the video, but we'll check back on that for sure. So there are all sorts of things coming into this class. So I hope you stay connected to keep taking a peek at what is coming in here. Oh, good, good, yeah, yeah. Add your comments of your contact information.  Awesome, awesome. Yes, yes, yes. So this is hopefully, like I said, I don't have all the answers, but I do have some things to consider as you start planning and making this, thinking about this option that seesaw can play a part in this type of communication or learning. So this I think will be a great start to the conversation. I'll let you keep adding to that and checking in the class as we progress here because I just wanna show you a couple of more things and preview something that we're gonna be sending your teachers. So going back into the slides here for a moment. So one of the things that we're working on is we feel that one of the major components of seesaws of course connecting those families because we know that that circle of learning is really, really powerful when it involves this family, the student and the teacher. So one of the things that is coming soon to your teachers via email, we're hoping for December 17th is we just wanted to create a situation where we know that school breaks are a great time for families to enjoy extra time playing and creating and learning together. And that we know that research does show that talking, reading and trying new things at home really supports success in school. So we're providing five ideas to get you started. So we have things like build a reading fort, interview a family member to discover their best childhood, favorite childhood memory, play your favorite games, cook or bake something together, show where you go. And the idea is that they choose one of these things to experience together and then they're sharing them what they've done back with you via seesaw. So we are recommending that teachers use the announcement flow and we will have a different component, a different PDF that's just for teachers that literally allows them to copy and paste some texts that we have already put some language on that they can create an announcement for their families. They can attach the PDF. This is again, this is still in draft mode so don't worry, this is not final. You are getting a sneak peek of this. It is not quite polished and ready yet, but this is the idea we're going for. And again, we're really trying to make that connection that there is still a lot of learning that can take place at home in really fun, interactive ways that most likely families might be experiencing anyway when they are on a break from school. So we were inspired to do this because we see a lot of teachers creating similar things on their own, on social media and sharing, which is always amazing, but we also wanted to save teachers time and we'd like to do that and make it easy for them to try something new that maybe they actually haven't thought of this before or trying something to really engage their families throughout that time that they are away. So stay tuned, be ready to kind of support your teachers and saying, hey, you know, maybe I heard this was coming. Did you see this? So stay tuned, this will be coming again. Like we're saying, we're hoping on December 17th, we're also hoping to offer a couple of the resources already translated into Spanish. That would be one of the language that we're starting with to have this handout also available in that language. So we are gonna hop into some questions here. Oh, yay, so we definitely have questions coming in. Kristen is wondering, will there be student friendly directions that come with the email to use in classrooms? So great question, Kristen. So when we look back on what we are creating here, we really built it to be very visually, oh, we're gonna do polls in a minute, really visually pretty clear. So this is really intended for families, but we wanted to keep the text to a minimum. So we've included pictures that really cue in those different activities or ideas. So hopefully that's helpful, but you'll let us know, Kristen, what you hear from your teachers. Jeff is wondering, does an e-learning day count as a student day or do you need to make up the day at the end of the year? Great question. So in Minnesota, and I'm not a complete and total expert, if you have that formal e-learning day plan created where you have to have a formal plan and you have to notify families and teachers have to be accessible and I believe there is an approval process of that plan as well, then yes, my understanding is it does actually count as a real student day. And again, that's more related to Minnesota. I don't know, I don't know everything. And that, again, is my interpretation. So let's see. Yes, he's saying there are lots of snow days in Maine, too. Many of our students have no access to devices or services. So I think, Jeff, in this type of scenario, what I'm sharing here on the screen could a lot of this, most of it also can be done without devices or technology. So that could be something to consider as well. And shoot, I just deleted one question. So if you're like, Angela, you didn't answer my question yet. Put it back in there because I accidentally just deleted one. But while you are formulating some more questions, I have a couple of questions for you. And before I go into that, I'm gonna give the next three digits of the code for the certificate. Those next three digits are six to one. You will need all six digits to get a certificate if you're just watching the recording. But guess what?  So Joni, thank you, thank you, thank you for clarifying. She's saying, yes, e-learning is a substitute for a student day only for inclement weather in Minnesota. Yes, specifically, thank you, Joni. All right, so as I mentioned earlier, this is actually the sixth and final session in this series. We started way back in July with our Tech Integration and Success series. And really, this was something that I wanted to provide for those of you really supporting students and teachers and give you some ideas, give you some resources, hopefully connect with those in a like position to help you out a little bit. So I wanted to kind of gauge your reaction if you have joined us before. So first question that's going to pop up, how beneficial to you was this sixth part, Tech Integration and Success series. So if you will just take a moment and click right on the screen, we are going to give you time to cast your vote. So go ahead, this will help us determine is this something we should do again? Was this helpful? We'll also be sending out probably in the next few days, we're actually going to send a recap of all six sessions with a bonus session as well. So keep in mind that we'll also be coming at you. So I know about 30% of you listening have voted so far.  That's great info to hear. Or maybe it was extremely beneficial. That is also great info to hear. So go ahead and just click on the screen. Let me know what your thoughts are. And if you are finished with this, maybe you wanna type in some more questions that you wanna get to before we leave. I have a couple more questions I wanna ask you, poll questions while you are here about this series and participating in this series. So thank you for taking the time to just let me know your thoughts by clicking on the screen really quickly. We're gonna close this poll in just a second. All right, so let's do the next one. Would you join another series like this? Yes, no, I'm not sure. So go ahead and click on the screen what you are interested in. And again, I'm really talking about the entire series. Maybe this topic was not exactly what I was looking for. Think about if you've been to other sessions, what you would, if you'd be interested in joining another series like this. So we're giving you some time to cast your vote here because you are live with us. All right, thanks for voting. Very helpful. I think I've got two more questions for you. Did you like the time of day this webinar was held? Yes, no, or I'm not sure. So when planning this, I had gathered some feedback in a survey with tech integrationists and various support positions saying actually I kind of like that it's during potentially my work day so that I'm not adding to my workload at a different time. I also know a lot of people are very, very busy and often you are running around from classroom to classroom and meeting to meeting. So maybe you're thinking, there might be a more ideal time. So just letting us know quickly by voting would be wonderful. This has been held at 11 Pacific, one central to Eastern each time that we've held it. Same second Wednesday of the month. All right, and one more question for you. Did this series give you useful ideas, tools and resources to help your teachers? Yes, no, or sometimes. Thanks for sharing your two cents here. Look at, I've saved a little to do list, right? We're doing it right now. Let's just get it done. So thanks for voting. And then we're gonna hop back into questions that people are asking and then we'll be cruising out of here. All right, thanks for making your choice. Very helpful. All right, so we're gonna close this poll in just a few seconds. So if you haven't voted, make sure you tap on the screen quickly here so your vote can count. Awesome, I am gonna hop back into questions because I wanna make sure that we wrap some things up for you before we say goodbye. Stacey is saying, will you redo this seminar series soon? Well, stay tuned. We'll see, I wanna get feedback of what people think we should do. Let's see. Oh, Michelle, I love this series. I'm so sad it's ending. So I actually would love for you, all the poll questions were very multiple choice, right? So it didn't give the opportunity to do just sharing your thoughts. So if you would actually either type into our CISA class today, if you're in there, some additional thoughts about this series or to elaborate on a thought, that would be amazing if you could do that. Or right now, if you wanna actually type into the question box and say, actually, I love this time because of X, Y, and Z. Or shoot, I wish it wasn't the second Wednesday of the month, or it would be better if or could you work on doing this instead? Or maybe you like a different format. This is a time to share your ideas in the question box of this session or even in our CISA class, which again, lots of people are still posting to and joining. I love it. I'm just going to be approving all of these comments so you can learn from each other and maybe reach out to each other and work together, right? Let's make it a little bit easier for you to figure some of this stuff out. As always, we have lots of resources for your teachers for free. We have PD and your PJs that teachers can check out. We also encourage you to join. If you haven't yet, our Facebook group. So this is a great place to share these ideas and say like, ah, I totally don't know how we're gonna handle these e-learning days. Just think about that. I'm gonna go back to the class for a moment. Someone's asking for the code to get in. So go ahead and write down that text code. It will work for the next 59 minutes or even take a picture of the QR code of the class if you choose to do that. Of course, this is a collaborative space meant to be here for you to get those ideas from those of you in like positions. All right. So Stacey, let me, she's giving me a different time. Make sure you put the time zone in there too. That's really helpful. A little bit of talk Andrea is saying know some more about the translation aspect. So when I was talking about translation in CISA, if you go to our help center and you just search translation, you will actually see some articles that show you about that or teach you a little bit more about that. But really, really briefly, any text that you add to CISA or students add, so for example, notes, comments, messages, announcements, all of that is can be automatically translated for families and vice versa. So if you have a Chinese speaking family, if their phone is set to Chinese, when they get that announcement, they will see a button that says C translation. They click it, it automatically translates it to Chinese. They can also type back to you in Chinese and it will come back to you and you will have the option to translate it to the language you are viewing in. So it is pretty amazing. So check that out if you haven't done so yet. All right, so Jeff is in, great, great, great. Let's see, Kristen is sharing. I'd love to have a mini version of this presentation sent after the recordings. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. So all of these slides come in a follow-up email, but this series is a little bit different than our PDMPJs because it is a series. So it takes place over multiple sessions. So we actually have to craft a separate email to get sent out. So sometimes people panic and say, ah, I haven't gotten the email yet because usually it comes an hour later. These will come more like two days later. So keep an eye out for those. We will be sending those as well. So Andrea, hopefully the translation is very accurate. I think we use Google translate is how it works in CISA. So keep that in mind. Oh yeah, so yes. So Michelle's saying, I love the session when we got time to reflect on ourselves. Yes, the one where you had us reflect on our work and then Matt from the dish that textbook. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Michelle for your feedback. I love the specifics. I love your energy and sharing that really helps us decide is this something valuable? Is this something we completely scrap and never do again? Let us know. Let us know how we can make it better. What would you prefer to see? What would you, do you like a different format? All sorts of those things we are up for consideration. Let us know what you would like. Okay, we will also be sending out, as I mentioned, a recap of the entire series which will basically allow you to binge watch every session again if you want to. So that's also something you could pass on to colleagues that might be interested. So keep that in mind, that will be coming soon. So again, to recap our chat today, what's we thinking about? How can we make those connections when students aren't at school, maybe due to weather or maybe some other situations happening? How could CISA support that continued learning and communication and connection? Remember in about December 17th, we're hoping to send out that inspiration to your teachers as well where they could give us a try and we've tried to make it, we've tried to set it up to be really, really, really simple where it's not taking them very long to actually make this happen with their families. And of course, feedback about this is really, really valuable. And in fact, if you wanna email me, Angela, at cisa.me and you wanna just describe more of what you'd like to see or describe your experience here, I would love to hear from you as well. But thank you so much for spending these six sessions with us over the last six months. And we're eager to kind of see where this takes us next but your feedback is really, really critical in what the next thing looks like. So please let us know, please share what is happening on Twitter as well. I love to stay tuned with Intune with what is happening in your schools. So very, very appreciative of the time that you are taking to spend with us and learn more and support your teachers even more and students. So thank you so much for being here today and for joining in all the sessions. And if you're thinking, oh my goodness, this is the first one I've come to. They are all also on our YouTube channel. So you can check that out as well. So thank you everyone. See you soon.


As the governorship election approaches convener of the Big Ten Coalition of Political Parties and CSO for Obidati 2023, Professor Patutomi is calling for INEC review of the 2023 presidential election in 12 states of the Federation to bring justice to the election process, if not then a court process to reverse rigging on an outright cancellation of the February 25 election. It seems to have become the pattern for certain politicians to use thugs to visit terror on the people, prevent them from voting, alter the vote and often meme them and in the end there are no consequences. This is why this pattern resurfaces every four years. We insist that since our justice system seems to fail us, supranational institutions need to kick in. We shall forward a list of governors, other elected officials and their henchmen involved in electoral mach practices at the International Criminal Court, and demand for secretion. It is very convenient to stay in Washington, to stay in London, or in diplomatic residences and say become, become, when in their own societies they don't do that, people actually get out there and express themselves.  That is a moral crisis for those who express such. And so we must say to ourselves, let's engage in dialogue with these people. Perhaps they don't understand the level of the massacre that they are bringing about by preventing people from letting it come out.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, and in Mrs. Reagan, Mexico and the United States of America. Presidents of our countries are becoming somewhat of a tradition. The rapport we build as individuals is in keeping with the finest sense of that valuable tradition. Our ability to meet and face-to-face discuss the issues of the day honestly, that is, as one would expect, between the elected leaders of two countries whose people by the millions interact with each other on a daily basis. Not only are our destinies tied, but in ways too numerous to count, are present as well, common border and a common American heritage as well. The people of our countries, Spanish and English-speaking alike, work together to ensure the peace and stability of our hemisphere. That is especially true in regard to Central America. Mr. President, I understand your deep concerns about the turmoil plaguing that region. We do not agree on everything concerning this situation, yet the level of respect in our relationship is inherent in our systems of government and embedded in the souls of our people. As you said in your book on constitutional law while assessing Rousseau's influence, liberty and equality are values incompatible with despotisms of military cooperation with communist and other aggressor regimes. We appreciate the creative and energetic efforts to bring peace to the region by the Contadora Group in which Mexico, the conflagration in Central America, appears too close to ignore. Like a fire in one's neighborhood, this threat should be of concern to every nation. I look forward to discussing with you, Mr. President, this issue of utmost importance. President Donald Madrid, early this is this year's decisions and to protect democracy and independence in the hemisphere. Cooperation and respect between the United States and Mexico will do much in our efforts to promote peace and improve the standard of living of our people. There are obstacles in the broad and complex relationship between our countries. I am happy to be in charge of transmitting, through your dignified conduct, to great neighbors and reliable friends. And we know and conduct our relations with you in the mutual respect of our independence and of our cultural and political concepts. Mr. President, I thank you and your distinguished wife for your cordial welcome. I effectively meet our responsibility to solve the problems and overcome the obstacles in the wide-ranging and complex relations between our two countries. It is with great pleasure that I transmit through you warm greetings from the people of Mexico the great people of the United States of America. And we know how to conduct our relations in mutual respect for our independence and our cultural and political concepts. We have learned to solve our problems with serenity and realism. Two peoples with different histories and cultures with imbalances and disparities bilateral relations highlight our dialogue. Our talks will cover trade and tourism financing and investment. The very close relationship between our border zones and human and labor aspects of the Mexican works. I must recognize, Mr. President Reagan, that this device has been found in you and your collaborators. Your government has supported various financial programs to overcome our economic difficulties. And it has also been open to overcoming difficulties in our commercial relations. We must expand and enrich this attitude and attitude to dialogue and negotiation. Our exchange of ideas covers the purely bilateral field. Both countries are members of the international community and we share responsibilities of the American continent. We are all concerned about threats to peace, the problem of the arms. We also support the Central Americans in their social and economic development programs and encourage their efforts to build democracy and respect human rights. To that end, let us apply the principles and rules of international law established by the countries of the American continent. Self-determination, non-intervention, equality of states. Latin America is suffering the most severe economic crisis of modern times. Its peoples and governments have been obliged to implement harsh economic programs to cope with the situation. We are correcting the internal imbalances that come under our responsibility. The imperative of solidarity is a duty based not only on ethics, but also on expedience. Mr. President, I thank you very much for your warm welcome.


A new phase of war with underwater drones is starting between Russia and Ukraine. Russian specialists are designing an underwater strike zone with a 5kg payload. It will also monitor hydro-technical facilities, a defence industry source told TASS. Design is underway of an underwater strike drone with four engines. It will carry a 5kg payload and have a range of up to 1km. Trials have to begin in February, the source said. The new craft will be used in Ukraine specifically in the Nipah River. The military need hardware to destroy hostile targets. It is an underwater strike drone, the source said. The drone will be also used in mine clearance. It will monitor hydro-technical facilities at a depth of 30 meters. If there is a report about a mined bridge, Pylon, you do not have to call divers. The submersible drone will be engaged, the source said. Earlier Ukrainian engineers have begun testing a new underwater drone that's expected to be used in attacks on Russian targets, including elements of the Black Sea Fleet. The unmanned underwater vehicle, which is known as the Marichka, was developed by a group of volunteer engineers calling themselves AMO Ukraine. According to the group, the unmanned underwater vehicle is 6m long and has a range of more than 997km. While to the casual observer it looks like a conventional torpedo, AMO Ukraine said the drone is capable of performing attack, transport or reconnaissance missions.


Why is it that if a guy gets a girl pregnant and then he decides that he doesn't want to really be in the kid's life? He doesn't want to be a father. He doesn't want to have anything to do with it He still has to pay child support.     What is the real reason why you're single right now? Simple it's because people don't respect your time I literally just drove an hour away from my house to come see a girl that I've been talking to for a good like two weeks We've FaceTime called texted a bunch We connect really well And I drive out here to come see her after yesterday. She she bailed on me yesterday because of work And I come out tonight anyways and uh Yeah, nothing Doesn't say anything. I drove an hour for nothing What do you want? What do you want? It's not that simple. What do you want? Damn it. What do you want?   It'll look normal except it'll just load and load and load and load And say like not available and it'll never give it to him. He'll think it's like a technical error So this guy hits me up and says this girl we've been friends for a while eight years actually And I was wondering if he could do a loyalty test for me. We've been talking for a minute now So I asked if they're talking exclusively. He says yes exclusively for a while now So I decided to help out and here's how it went. So you're my suggested pages. Do I know you? Um, I don't think so but hi Huh, yeah, hi, and either way I thought you were cute. Are you in michigan too? Yeah, and thanks Huh, I should probably ask if you're single right about now. So are you yeah, I'm single Are you so at this point I send it to the guy and say he's not looking good He says keep playing along just be like are you talking to someone right now? So I asked and she says I don't really know it's kind of complicated But no even though she sent all this to him last night and said she loved him Then when I say I mean her city she says actually I lied. I'm not single.  Oh, let's have sex right away very common when you're just getting back from deployment.   What? And she's always been a b***h.


Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E-C-E-O man. Hey man, I got it live today, man. I got some... I got Kings in here today, man. Say man, I got my boy, L.D. 300. He having a co-host right now, man. Hey, some difference? Something we gonna do on the side of the mic, you know what I'm saying? And I got my boy, Derwin Lam, man. Hey, welcome to Boss Talk 101, man. Thank you so much for allowing me to come up here, man. Man, man. I couldn't do it without you, to be honest with you. You are... I believe, you know, you wanted to... Patriarchs did when they come down to helping the community. Yeah, that's what I'm committed to, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you from Stop Six? Brisbane, yeah. Okay. Well, how was it over there?  I didn't hear some stories. I just passed right on by. I go on the weather for the Middle Wales or something. I don't even... I don't even stop. And y'all got too much going on. Hey man, listen, I learned a long time ago to stay out the way. A long time ago. So, just give us some insight on who you are, man.  How was it coming up in Stop Six, young kid? I lived in other places, like originally from Fort Worth, my family's... All my family's from the north side of Fort Worth, you know, man. Oh, you're from the north? Well, most of my family is. So, I would say north and east. But I was raised on the east, and I lived on... Okay. ...any, my mom and them. North side, shout out to my homie, J.J. Berry. Yeah.  I feel like... North side. I feel like I'm just of a north side dude as I am east side dude, man. Okay. As a family, my dad, my mom, and all them grew up over there. But my criminality, things and stuff that I was doing when I was young was, you know, on the east side. Yeah. Yeah. Without criminating myself. Well, we don't want to... We're not those other shows, brother. We're not trying to get you in no cross. But we do want to talk about just coming up, like when you first came up and started, you know, are you from a single paranormal? No, no. I mean, it was until my awesome stepdad came in. But I didn't read my real dad until I was 16. But at first it was just me and my mom and my little sister. And then my stepdad came in years later. So great dude, man. You know, love him to death. My mom, great people. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, when you think about that area over there, you guys got a... Y'all got a great lineup when it comes to different leaders, I think, about in that area for some reason. It's hard core, but what don't kill you make you stronger, right? Right, right.  Yeah. Some kind of, you know what I mean?   Man, honestly, if I'm being real with you... Yeah. What happened to me was a lot, what happened to a lot of black kids that won't, black young men that won't admit this, that a lot of us was looking for a way to fit in. And a lot of us were looking for a way to fit in, maybe and to survive too.  And I realized that as a young man that my thing was to affiliate myself with somebody wherever, it was almost like I felt like I could be a part of a group or part of, it's like sports or anything, you want to be a part of something. And that's what it was for me, because it was my cousin who really that made me like wanted to be involved with the affiliation because I looked up to him. You know what I mean? So, I looked up to him, so I wanted to kind of do what he was doing, so it was kind of like, that's kind of where I start, kind of like following him and the group and the cliques and stuff like that and not knowing what I was really getting myself into. You know what I mean? It was more like me like a fade or a fat thing to me, not realizing what I was really getting myself into until it started getting like that. You have to get out that portion, get into that water, things start changing and stuff like that. So, my perspective was different. I always felt like I was different than all the guys anyway, because I felt like that wasn't really my calling, that wasn't really what I was supposed to be doing. You know what I'm saying?  And my spirit wasn't supposed to be like that. It was me that, you know, my curiosity and me not having really nothing else to do and me wanting to be like that, and it was like, man, I'm like that, so I'm going to try to do that. A lot of people want to admit this, but a lot of boys, a lot of men are like that. They not really like that, so you got to get like that. What I took from a lot of those guys, man, was personally from me was like, besides like, it's way deeper than affiliation and gang culture to me. To me it was like, these dudes was like, a lot of my cousins and my friends and family, they were like, real like family and brothers. Like I never had no issues, and even on the other side, you know what I'm saying? I never had no issues with people that were Cribs. I didn't have issues with people that were Bloods. I just saw it like, as dudes were like, coming together as brothers and families, and I still see that to this day, when I was over there yesterday, talking to the little bro and talking to all the guys. It's like, man, you know, it's a genuine family, a genuine love. I'm not even thinking about gang banging. None of that is not even in my mind or nothing. It's like, man, these dudes are like real life friends and real life brothers and they not haters and they not, you know, they support me and anything I do as far as like the community, the martial arts and stuff like that, they come to my events and it's real, real, real love. So that's what I took from it. I mean, a lot of people take that. So you were at martial art. You do martial art. Oh, yeah. How was you trained in that? Yeah, so my mom, my mom was actually in karate at a young age, and I used to go to her karate class with her in Fort Worth, you know what I'm saying? And so, and then, you know, she was training with one of the elite guys in Fort Worth at the time. And later on, you know, when my dad came into play, he was also a martial artist. That's actually how my mom and my dad, step-dad, and my biological father was in the martial arts. So my family's were... So you known in the hood as this? Yeah, you know, that's where everybody know me as a martial arts fighter.  You know, I started to grab you when I shook your hand. I didn't shake it firm, but I say to me, you know, I let you make it. You been to prison? Long time ago, 1995, 1996. So you went up in there? You already was on your martial arts? Yeah, I knew. So I started training. I started doing martial arts when I was about 7 or 8 years old. You know what I'm saying? What prison did you go to? No, I was in Colorado at the time. Why are you in prison in Colorado? I was in Colorado. So Colorado split.  I'm breaking the laws, man. Yeah, yeah, just... If you understood, it wasn't even nothing like that. It was me being young and misunderstanding the conditions of my probation and not knowing and me violating it because I was young and being dumb not knowing the game. It was really something small. You know, I was on probation for an assault and harassment and I didn't end up going... I stopped going on my classes and stopped doing my hangar management doing all that stuff. Then I ended up going to, you know, catching a robbery case and a pistol charge and all that stuff. So I got this. I ended up getting what you call it... What's...  Violation. Okay. And that's what happened, you know. So it wasn't like...  It was just a young knucklehead, technologically knucklehead not really, you know, doing what I was supposed to be doing. Did you have to drop one of the cats in there with the bang-bang boat? Man, that's the story that I want to hear right now. Yeah, I got in one fight in jail, man. One fight, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, one fight. And, you know, believe it or not, when you come from a background like martial arts and stuff like that, in a street fight, I'm not even really thinking about that stuff. I'm going for what's going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually fought in a ring. I fought a couple of pro boxing fights. I fought MMA fights. I won a world title in kickboxing 2008. Wow. I was international kickboxing for the World Champion. That's something to be proud of, man. Yeah, so... It's something to be lyrical, too. Yeah. You tell my hand and do all that. Thank you for letting us know. Yeah.  It teaches us... It teaches us... Really, it taught us... It teaches you discipline and control. Let me tell you something. I knew that I was different than a lot of people that I used to hang around with. I knew that because I knew my spirit was different. I knew I didn't have no business doing some of the things I've been doing. So that's why my transition to, like, moving away from hanging out with the street dudes was real smooth and easy because I was intelligent enough to watch and wise enough to see what was going on. Watching my... Oh, yeah, we feel a crash. This ain't... We in some dead end and we ain't joined the ride. We headed to the wild. It was never, like, a badge of...  It was like that, but... Now, you did right.   No, once I realized this was gonna lead to a different kind of tragic place, like, whether it was death or jail for the rest of my life, I was like, man, I ain't really with this. I ain't really... I don't wanna be like that. I don't wanna do that. So, nah, man, God put a different kind of spirit in me than to be that kind of person. So I can't just... I'm not gonna rep this thing and say I was the hardest one, but I'm down. I was down and I'm down as a man, regardless. So... But when it comes to, like, being hardcore and trying to represent that life to the way you die, that's just not who I am, who I was supposed to be. So I was able to move around quick. I just use what I got now and the people that show me love and that respect me from all neighborhoods. We're not... I'm Fort Worth, anywhere, Northside, Southside, Westside, all places. People show me love, so I use that to bring people together in all communities. So I'm not... I don't like being labeled to one place or one thing because I feel like I represent all communities, you know what I'm saying? And I'm friends with some of the biggest bosses, the biggest dogs from the Southside to the Northside to the Eastside to the Westside. I'm connected with all the top dogs. So what's your overall goal that you're trying to get accomplished with, like, what you're doing with the kids and whatnot, or what's the goal?  So for me, like, although mom and them did the best they could, you know, when the generation is different, they can't teach you or tell you certain things that they don't know. So you're really being raised by the world, by the people, your peers, the people that you're in front of. So my thing is trying to tell these kids that I wasn't told to me and that I had to learn on my own by taking that transition and walking life, saying, you know, man, I was a crash dummy. So just making mistakes, trial and error, and just trying to figure it out. So when my thing is when I do these programs with these schools and these kids, teaching them, hey, this is what you don't have to do. You don't have to be like this. It ain't cool to be a gang member.  It ain't cool to kill somebody. It ain't cool to go to prison. It ain't cool to rob regardless of what TV, music, whatever you think you see or think is right. Because I was influenced by what I saw on TV, colors, you know, the movie colors. I was influenced by all that stuff. So as a young man in my mind, I didn't realize I was already transitioning my brain to try to be something I wasn't supposed to be. And so now I'm going to tell people that these kids that it's okay to be who you're supposed to be, who God created you to be. That's the number one thing is that you ain't got to crash out.  But to me what's cool is having a good bank account, you know, understanding like, you know, love, life, God, spirituality, and having a good credit and having a house, having a car, having a good woman, having kids. But you can defend yourself with also being able to defend yourself if necessary, when necessary. So with martial arts, this is the thing. If you learn martial arts, I grew up confident in not learning how to be a bully or not doing that because I knew how to fight. I knew how to do that. So I didn't have a mentality of wanting to test people or wanting to mess with people and wanting to do stuff like that because it gave me a confidence and a spirit that I don't have to do that. I don't have to do that unless I have to do that. I was in situations like, I mean, I don't know what you're familiar for four words. Like back in the day, there was a club we used to go to called Club Midpoint back in the day. And it was like really like a war zone. It was fighting all the time. You know, I never went there with the expectation of fighting, but it happened. But it's not really what I wanted to do. So my thing is, if I'm not trying to fight in a ring or a cage, I'm not trying to do that. So what I teach the young guys, most of the guys in my gym, the fighters, I've been owning the gym for 10 years now. Damn. Oh yeah, I'm a full martial arts gym. I'm the only black-owned mixed martial arts gyms in the state of Texas. Beautiful. Black-owned. Beautiful. And I've been coaching for 20 years. I've been involved in martial arts off and on for 37 years. You know what I'm saying? So fifth degree black belt karate and doing Taekwondo. Third degree black belt Taekwondo. I've been doing jiu-jitsu and grappling and wrestling for about 25 years. Damn. You know what I'm saying? So I've been doing Muay Thai and MMA the whole thing for a long time. So wrestling, the whole thing. So I use the platform of mixed martial arts to bring young men in to try to change the challenge of mind while they're thinking they're coming in to learn fighting. I'm teaching them fighting because that's what they want to learn. But what I'm really doing is getting inside here. What's the age bracket you really dealing with? So mainly, we take them as young as five, but my main group is the ages between 14 and 30 years old. And I like that because when you think about 14 and 30 or it's just those ages that you're keeping a lot of people focused on something other than. I hear you. Other than. Because there's a lot I can get into at 14 and 30, bruh. For sure, but I want to know. Do they really... Because I'm going to tell you something that I noticed. I noticed that people ain't got that fighting in them no more. They're not really... One, you know, you get hit in the... Are you seeing that fight? People are fighting. They want that contact, that physicality. It's a spirit. Like everybody that come in my gym come from a similar background of myself. And so it's like a lot of the people that come in the fight gym come from kind of hard background. So that's why I'm... Is there about that squabbling? No. Listen, I got... So you know I put three people in the UFC. Okay. Three people. Three people in the UFC that we put in our gym. I got guys now fighting right now. Mix martial arts, boxing and kickboxing. Everybody in my gym are dogs. Yeah. Everybody.  Like I've been one of the top trainers around here for a long time. Here's the thing. Some people that come in the gym, it's my job. You see some people they say, they might not look like they got it. But some of them have it. They just don't know that they got it. Oh yeah, I come from... And you got to bring it out of them. A similar but different. I definitely know that part. But I'm trying to see, are you seeing a lot of people with biting, fighting and that's not cowering down when it get a little rough? No, I train these guys, man. These guys are... Everybody, like I say, everybody in my gym that fight for me. I got about currently fighting for me like pro and amateur about 13 fighters. There's not one of them that's... They're about it. They're ready.  No, no. They're saying no USA or training on them. No, no. Yeah, I'm just... I'm talking about spirit. Yeah, don't take it as nothing in general.  Soon as somebody walking in the gym, I'm real good at like, you know... I'm real good at like seeing who's... who's got it and who don't. They don't take me that long to figure out if you got it or if you don't got it. Right. You've used that word spirit about three, four times now and you also use God about three times, man. And that's very important when it comes down to the aspect of really understanding which way you're going with whatever you're doing, right? Right. You know what I mean? It's the center of my life, right? It's the first thing in my life that I live by because I tried it the other way so many times and it confused me. It gave me identity crisis and made me frustrated. It made me hurt and I was lost. So in order for me to be found, I just realized I got to do it this way and I have to... That's why he said trust in God with all your heart and make God understand. Do you have a lot of kids from stop six in your gym? No. No? Uh-uh. Not really at all. It could be from anywhere. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So I don't... It's not a certain territory. No, I'm not labeled to a community. I'm every community. You're trying to capture the world. Yeah, man. Everybody training my gym come from everywhere. Most of the kids in my gym, some of them are suburban kids, some kids from north side, south side, some are Mexican kids. There's maybe... I got like three kids in my gym from stop six, but it's everyone. I'm trying to reach everyone. Yeah. I like that as well. When you look at the way that... You said earlier that you basically... They think they come into fight, but there's something else that's underlining that's way more important. Right. And that's the whole game, even with what we're doing here. Exactly. The thing is to bring people in so that we can try to find a way to channel things into a positive aspect. A way to where you make a way out of no way. Touch some places that will never be touched except you get them in a certain group setting in order to do so. You know what I mean? So if they come in my gym, right, and my mind is everybody is not going to be a world champion fighter. Yeah. But my goal is to make everybody a world champion in life. That's it. Simple. So some guys that I've trained years ago don't fight no more. But it became very great men in their life because of the me teaching and talking to them about God, about life, and never giving up on that spirit. Because if I can see that there can be something that I can save, I know that it's going to take time. And I'm patient with that, just as God was patient with me and my family was patient with me when I was trying to find myself in that world being lost and things like that. So if they don't become a world champion, I'm okay with that. If they become a world champion in the process of me teaching them, that's fine. But if they become a spiritual world champion, then I know that I've done my job and I know that I've done what God has wanted me to do. So my gym would not be open right now. I know that. My gym would not be open right now if I was self-gloating myself. If I was about me, I know that gym wouldn't be open. See, the gym is the foundation. That's all it is. It's the foundation and it's the structure for God using my gym to do everything else that I'm doing in his life, like working with the kids, speaking, public speaking and all these things. See, 25 years ago, if you would have told me that I was gonna be coaching mixed martial arts, I would have laughed at you. Out of the blind, there was no way. I thought my path was gonna be something else. Probably not even being it right now, talking to you. That's the way it was me. My mother was always worried about me in that world because I was a loose cannon, bad tempered, fearless, didn't care trying to prove myself. You were physical in the six. Yeah, and that's just how it goes. Right. So at the end of the day, if I didn't get a hold of that in my mind, in my spirit, I wouldn't be here. So that's why I'm trying to do the same thing for the kids. The hardest thing for me is walking in a room. We went and did some of the guys from all the neighborhoods went and speak to the kids in the middle school. When I go in the schools and I look at the kids, the first thing I'm looking at is I'm trying to read the spirit. And I see a lot of them already broken. Yeah. At 13, 14 years old, broken mental. See, I can't say that I didn't come from love, right? I think that's why I got so much to give because I had people that did love me. And I think that's what saved me was the grace of love and prayer from my mom, my dad, and different people. So that's why when I go in and see these kids and I see the spirit already broken, I'm like, man, it breaks my heart. So what I'm trying to do is reach them before they're all the way gone. When I'm 13, 14 years old, you can still get them. I also realize that I'm not going to save every one of them. So I have to understand that that what I have is I have appointed assignments. And I just fulfill those assignments and keep doing it. So every day that I wake up, it's not about just me.  And I have to do that with great intentions and purity in my heart. I can't do it for the cameras. I can't do it for myself. I can't do it for show. It has to be something that's within you. And when it's within you, it'll flourish outside of you because the change has to come from the inside out and not the outside end. Yeah. Ministry is serious when it comes down to your servitude of what your gift is. That's important, man. You know what I'm saying? You got to have it. If you don't, you don't even feel filled. If you don't do what your heart desires, if you're trying to help people. That's the whole game with me. When I do this, I do this from the heart, man. And I ain't going to do it. That's why when you called me that day, it was a no brainer that, hey, man, bring your own boss talk one on one because of your spirit. Because of what, when we locked in, it was just like when you talk, it's just something about certain people click, you know, and for you to be doing something for the kids. That's another thing. I think teaching self-defense and stuff like that, that's like really something that needs to be going on. Yes. For real. It's a lot of people that just, for lack of wanting to engage in something physical, I feel like that's why the murder rate is what it is. People don't want to fight, you know what I mean? Sometimes it's a fight thing. I agree with that. It ain't for killing, you know. We supposed to get this on. They want to slide over somebody that stepped on your feet. Somebody trying to punk you a little bit. You don't even want to, man, throw some punches. You might lose a fight. He might never mess with you again, you know. But that's why I feel like it's good. But that's my major question to you was just, are you seeing, because it's one thing to have a bad attitude and feel like you tough, but it's another thing to get hit and keep fighting. I just kind of, I don't know, I just, I just feel like people ain't really body no more. Like they getting hit, they don't want no more smoke no more. You know what I'm saying? You ready to go grab a gun, right? You don't got a hit in the mouth.  I'm living up. I'm gonna go, I'm gone. I'm gonna go, you taking out running for the, get the strap, you know. Come on, man. You don't even squabble. Dossle. Everybody docile now is what you're saying. Everybody lay back. They ain't doing nothing no more. I feel like they enjoy the people. They'll fight, they'll shoot the hoes. The hoes. Hoes. They shoot the fighting. Hoes. Yeah, it's a pride. It's a pride and ego thing with these dudes. Just think about that. Nobody wants to be humiliated in front of other people. Nobody wants to take L's in front of people. Society got a big role to do on that right there. Right there. You see that? Yeah, why is it like that? Why do you think it's like that? You know I'm not going to go that. Social media, the normal ass of social media, but I feel like it's a lack of self confidence because everybody's going to lose a fight. Right. So taking a loss and then another thing is people just winning fights. They not knowing how to win a fight. They so happy you don't got some. I've seen people that really should have left somebody alone and then they go all overboard. You know what I'm saying? Now you making him have to do something? You make me think about that case the other day in the school where the kids was fighting. One of them shot the other. What stems this type of activity within the school? So with that, you know what I mean? Just a question. With that particular situation, it goes back to what he was saying. That particular situation, that kid was being bullied, picked on, messed with, robbed, jumped, talking about. They was messing with this kid. So is there things that show that that was really going on? Yeah. I believe I saw that. It's people campaigning it that way. Which one is it? They lay that boy right on out. I know that. I'm just trying to understand because you know, everybody can paint a certain picture. I get it. But I'm saying, okay, so you're saying there was some evidence. Yeah.  He says, I mean, the kid did not want to fight.  The day before that they had beat him up. They had jumped on him. His mom had went to talk to the school. No one did nothing. They tried to get to the police. Nobody did nothing. So the next day he shot him. Wow. He shot him. So I'm not saying that he's right. It is what it is. I'm not saying that he's right, but it is what it is. Yeah. Because at the end of the day, we got to look at both sides of that. See, again, like in a situation like that, I was always taught if they don't want it, you know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? I was supposed to be getting to get with that kid. I'm still, I mean Charleston is trying to work that out and talk with him about, you know, talk with him about, you know, self-defense and stuff like that. I believe Charleston talked to the mother. Yeah, he was there that day when they let him out. I do know that. And she would, I think he spoke to her about me and wanted me to get with the kid about getting some help. Well, the thing I say is that somebody, now that's supreme. I have to say somebody has to do something. Instead of sitting back and everybody just chilling, somebody got to do something when it comes down to these situations. There has to be somebody that's stepping up that's really trying to make change. So many times we talk about the situation and we don't engage in the situation. That's good for social media.  You see what I'm saying? But when do we take those opportunities like you're talking about to get in there and really show for an effort to try to inject change in our youth? You know what I'm saying? You know that's my favorite thing to say. How do we change the narrative? How do we stop this from happening? How do we get our kids stronger? You're asking me? Yeah, I'm asking both of y'all. The harsh reality is that you have to, when it comes to dealing with kids because they have so much access to information, you have to really be an example of success to these children in order for them to listen to what you've got to say. So you're saying you've got to be successful in order for them to listen? Yeah, I'm saying that. Yes, sir, and I'm serious. But then at the end of the day, if you're not looking like that, I'm saying you need to be looking like you're handling your business. That's right. You need to have some things that I desire and you've got to be seeming like you've got an understanding of how to get to something in order for somebody to want to listen to what you've got to say. You know, the bomb can tell you something good, too. I know that you can learn a lot from anybody, but that's not the kids. The kids are the day not doing that. Not the kids, they're looking like they've found these people that's, again, we're just living in a different world. But I do think there's self-defense. Like, that is a real key thing to finding that inner strength to fight through things, to persevere, to have some endurance and go through tough things. I feel like it's a lot of people who just, I just feel like they're missing a hose. I like what you're saying, but I like what you're saying, because no matter what, when you really think about it, the time you're spending with these people is a time that you're sharing different conversations, different times, father figure times. This is really injecting change.  I mean, I'm at the gym five days a week. How long do I do a client community? A couple of hours a day. That's a good time, man. Every time, though, I'm always planting that seed and planting that thing. Exactly. And I agree with what he said about they got to be able to see that you kind of got your stuff together, because I was talking to one of the partners and said, well, you can't really help these kids if you're still in a neighborhood and still doing these kind of things.  You can't reach them like that. You just can't.  Like you said, it got to be something that they desire to reach them.  There's a lot of them that I help. Yeah, but that's a genuine relationship. I hear what y'all saying, but I have to be the devil's advocate, because I keep thinking about you. You in the gym, it ain't really what it's the time you're spending with. Yeah, absolutely. You ain't shining and blinging and all that. It's an injected time that he's there with those kids. You see what I'm saying? That has nothing to do with everything else. And it's just raw. You see what I'm saying? But if you deal with that kid that don't do that, like you're talking about, and he's steadily looking at his phone and coming up with these scenarios with the music, then that's that kid too.  Am I right? Physicality is something that needs to be really pressed. A lot of kids don't necessarily play football no more. Physicality, there needs to be more outlets for that, especially for kids that's from rough places. Physicality is a big deal, man.  You got to have all of that type of stuff in you. I think it's coming from a rough place and being involved with an area gym, like having a gym that's where you can go to, and they doing stuff like that. Man, some quality character individuals that you know that's going to come out of there. So check this out. I had three kids that came to my gym a little over a year ago. Their mom's out of the east side and stopped to see some. Dad was a pastor. These three kids, good kids, but rough around the edges. They came to my gym. That's how this happened. They walked in my gym. They were brothers. They walked in the gym, seen everybody sparring. I seen it in their eyes that they had it. Would it take? But the arrogance and the ignorance of not knowing the fight world and fight game had them thinking something different. So this is what I do. They come in the gym. I'm looking at them. Hey, I get to them right in their face. What's up? What you got? What's going on? The attitude is different. Hey, we come over here to spar. I said, have you had any training? No. Street fight dudes, we're coming to spar. This is what I do. You want to spar? Well, let's get to it. I want to know who you are right now. You coming to my gym with this spirit and see you spar. So I put them in the lion's den. I threw them to the wolves to some of my best guys. Sign the waiver. Y'all go spar. They went in there and went hard, tried to fight hard, tried to go hard.  Yeah.  But let me tell you about these three kids now. They're three of the best kids in my gym. Oh, they kept coming back. Listen, now the one, the one, the main one and just had his first MMA fight the other day and he won by submission. They've been in the gym and it changed their spirit. So they got the rest of the game and everything. It changed their attitude. The point is they, it changed the attitude because the atmosphere that was set in place for them was a good atmosphere. The people that was around them were good people. The people that was around them were mentors and leaders and there were people that understood them. So understanding that they felt comfortable, got the love and they, they got humbled. They realized they can't, they realized they can't whoop everybody. Then when they started realizing the skill set and realizing the cardio, the skill set, the respect and the honor that has been taught from through martial arts, then it changed their spirit and it changed their attitude. Now some of the three best kids in my gym That's a dope story. The best attitude. I remember when I first found out I couldn't whoop everybody. You know, it's, it's a humbling experience. It's a humbling experience, huh? Yeah. During lay-on, man, man, if there's anything, if there's any kid that's going without, if there's any situation, like I tell everybody to come on his panel, if you're dealing with something like that, hit me up, man. Like I say, we got more than enough to try to help kids and help the situation. If it's really serious situations out there where kids are going without, then we're here to help. That's what this story been about the whole time I've been here, actually. Speaking of that, I want to tell y'all that I just got Leonard Middle School, Fort Worth and, you know, Morningside. They have asked to bring, they asked for me to come in and teach my curriculum. So I have a life empowerment workshop program that I teach. And I did it for the Metro School, which is the alternative school up in Fort Worth, which is right by my gym. And then also now Leonard, I just talked to the principal. We met both principals from Leonard Middle School and also Morningside. Met with them and I'm going to be teaching my life empowerment program in their school before they go to, so from eight to nine where we teach them. So this program that I have, it's a program that teaches them life skills. So a lot of the things that school don't cover, which I believe is on purpose, you know, the school's systems don't teach people to be leaders and entrepreneurs. They teach people to be followers and brainwashing them with the stuff, a lot of stuff that you learn in these public school systems are things that these kids aren't going to use anyway. Definitely. So my program is the opposite. We're teaching things like, you know, how to have good credit. Open a bank account. Open a bank account. Stay out of trouble. Stay out of trouble. Teach from STD, all that stuff that nobody, you know. The doors are not being open on that in the public school. And then not only telling them that, but telling them the repercussions of what happens if you don't get this life together. These are the bad things that happen if you don't do this, but watch this. These are the great things you can have and these are the great things that can happen if you follow this life and this program. So I'm confident with this because I go in there knowing when I was younger and I was like, I want to save all of them. But God, he's appointed time and appointed time. That's it. So going there, a lot of the kids that I helped through these programs through school, they all, most of them ended up turning out good. So that's what the program is all about. That's the curriculum that I'm doing is for that. Could you tell everybody how they could get a hold of you? Yeah. 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That's one of my number ones. Number two. Let's see. I'll take a couple from each sport. Okay. There you go. Sugar Ray Leonard and UFC, or UFC I'm going to go with a shoot. Man. George St. Pierre. That's what I was thinking. Okay. I'm going to go with him because, you know. But then, or Anderson Silva. No, no, no. You just get one. Usman. No. Usman. You know what I'm saying? You see what I got to deal with? I said, I'm going to put you back on the panel. We got a control list. So you told me. I said, I said Sugar Ray Leonard. I said, I said George St. Pierre. Okay. And then. Number three. I need one more. Yeah. Okay. Dang. So I'm just going to say my particular guy. Hey. Roy Jones Jr. Hey, Roy Jones, huh? I don't think nobody I probably run. So yeah, you know, but. That's no. I like the top three. Since you only gave me three. That's all I need. Because we'll be here all day. Yeah. Y'all can go down through there. Y'all know how to do. But I like when he was going with it. Y'all going to sit here and just really go into it. No, no, no. We're going to just get three and leave it alone. Yeah. But I just definitely appreciate what you're doing, man. You know what I mean? It's to be noticed. Right, Andy? For sure. Working with them kids and all of that. That's a good thing, man. Makes me feel good. Definitely. It's a feeling. Helping anybody. It just makes me feel good. It helps me. You know what I mean? It's a good feeling because those days I have my moments.  And let's really recognize him for what they've accomplished. So let me share this with you real quick. My top fighter, one of my top fighters, I met him in one of the alternative schools. Really? When I was doing a motivational speaking panel to the whole school, he came up to me after we got through and walked straight up to me and said, hey man, I want to be a fighter one day. I want to be a fighter. And I hear that all the time. If you imagine, if I had a dollar for everybody said that I'd be rich, but, and I said, okay, come to the gym. And maybe like a few months later, I never heard from him. His aunt bring him to my gym. He's not left my gym since that day. He was 14 years old. He's 22 now. And he's one of the top flyweight prospects in the nation in MMA right now. Kevin Fernandez. Shout out Kevin Fernandez, man. You just got that serious shot out on Boss Talk 101. Yeah, Kevin Fernandez. Say, man, thank you so much, man, for coming on this show, man. We love you, brother. And if it's anything that you need from us on this scene on Boss Talk 101, and hey, man, give us a shout, man. Hey, straight up. And if you got anything else for it, man, I'll do. The man taking care of his business out there. Hey, man, it's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101. Appreciate it. Yes, sir.


I would argue that anesthesia is possibly the most important miracle of modern medicine. You might think of advanced cancer treatments and everything, but the reason we can't treat so many disorders now is that we can't perform surgery. It used to be the case that a good surgeon was a fast surgeon, and that's no longer true. We can operate on nine-year-olds today because we can sedate them controllably and also revive them. This is a picture from the Morton Auditorium at Massachusetts General Hospital in October 1846, when Edward Abbott here is having a tumor removed from his neck, and he survived to tell the world about it. At the time, they didn't know what actually caused you to go unconscious, and I would argue that that was the case for probably over 100 years after this. A very large part of modern anesthetics is mostly trial and error. There was one very important result already 100 years ago that there is a surprising correlation, not just correlation, but almost a perfect correlation over orders of magnitude between how hydrophobic a molecule is and how good it is as an anesthetic. Based on that, everyone assumed that anesthesia must just somehow work on our lipid membranes and change the fluidity or something in our lipid membranes, and then magic happens and then you fall asleep. It's not a bad model based on what we knew about lipid membranes and everything at the time, until some other experiments happened the last 30 years. So first we started to see a few anesthetics that broke these rules, and they were some of the most efficient ones. The second part is that people found the ligand-gated ion channels and noticed that there are certain mutations you can make in these channels that make it impossible to sedate mice with the mutants. It doesn't matter how much anesthetic you have, they are not susceptible to it. And that's of course a very strong indication that we have a binding site for the anesthetic in a particular protein involved in our nervous system rather than acting on the membrane. Today I think we know roughly what those binding sites are based, for instance, on Ryan Hibb's work. But if I draw this membrane, one could argue that both explanations are still kind of relevant. So if I have my membrane, it is definitely clear that if I have an anesthetic that's very hydrophobic, the anesthetic will go in here in no time, no question about it. And then of course I have this ligand-gated ion channel sitting here with some sort of binding site. And depending exactly what happens here, this anesthetic will enter this binding site or not, depending on how large it is, how solubility it is in the lipid bilayer and how easily accessible this site is. That in turn is likely related to, for instance, the cholesterol compounds binding here. So there's a competition for this binding site from cholesterol, anesthetics, other small molecules. It's a wealth of fun information there that I won't have time to go into. Why do I think that's important? Well, because I glossed over one important anesthetic. One of the most efficient anesthetics is actually Xenon. Xenon is known for many things, but not its great binding properties. Xenon is a small, completely hydrophobic molecule that doesn't really want to interact with anything. Xenon will instantly partition into the lipid bilayer. The question is why should Xenon bind? For a long time we thought that there might be some influence of the fluidity of the membrane or local pressure, although Olaf Andersen's group showed some 10 years ago that that's likely not the case. It's hard to measure, but they were one of the groups that used to argue for it. And if even they are giving up on the idea, I wouldn't believe it either. Xenon is subject to an hydrophobic effect though, but once it's already in the membrane, there's not going to be a strong hydrophobic effect to go into the protein. So I think the blind answer here is I don't know why Xenon is so efficient as an anesthetic. Do a PhD with us or somebody else and find out if you're interested. It's a super interesting result that is slightly intimately related to how lipids stabilize proteins and how proteins change their conformations depending on the lipid surrounding.


I'm being inundated with questions, so I'll ask one of myself Or I'll ask one of mr. McNeese. How's how about that? Will that work Kelly? Sure, sir Okay, so when so when the CG says transformation, what does that mean to you? You know that's that is a really good question because Transformation means so many things to different people But it so you have transition when you change from one's one station to another and you know where you're going Transformation is more like an open-ended journey You know that you're going to cross the ocean But you're not sure what you're going to get when you get there or how you're going to be able to adapt when you get there So you got an idea of what you're trying to get to but you're not sure what you're gonna look like when you're there But we'll all be there together Yeah So that's kind of them back to me and so So let me let me kind of I'll tag along after after that So when you're you know, I think one of the one of the interesting things about this job for me is Is describing a future state That's always difficult for leaders But I think you know, especially if you're if you're in an organization that provides a Different set of services than what you're used to being around. I mean so I grew up in the civil affairs community So I kind of knew how to describe a future a future state for civil affairs But a readiness division delivers a certain set of services to our partners and And so it's a little bit difficult difficult to describe it But as I talked to to Colonel Lewis and Colonel Jeter this morning I'm getting starting to get my feet under me to describe what what the future looks like and And how we can transform into delivering services either better or faster or more comprehensively and So I'll give you kind of one one example of that So you've got a facility out in the Denver area The Fitzsimmons facility and it's been under I've had units in that facility as long as I've been a general officer and one reoccurring theme That's that's always brought to people's attention about that facility is the gate is everyone identifies that the gate not working well or all the time as an issue And that that one singular gate creates Physical security issues so the so the real Response to that What's going on there? It really isn't just a DPW a DPW a problem There's also aspects of that that are g3 for Which which looks at the physical security of our facilities some of it's even the g4 That Looks at how much stuff is stored in the facility and so to actually improve a Facility for our partner or our partners that are there and actually improve their readiness Requires a little bit more of a comprehensive response And so if you you know if you participate in the commander's update brief the one that we had in In May Last one we had was in May and we ended up having a discussion about well, how does a physical security deficiency get In the facility itself. How does that? How does that get brought to the attention of DPW? And I think we identified kind of a gap that is pretty easily fixed Right now. It's just you step to walk over and make make sure that DPW knows that hey the CSS ticket that's going to come in Related to the Fitz Simmons facility is is Actually one that's a priority because it was identified as a physical security Deficiency And the other thing that then flows out of that is is the things that cannot be addressed Are are then able to be articulated better as Things that the commander may need to get involved in and so You know to me transformation Sometimes isn't About a new thing or even a new Even necessarily a new process It's about ways for us to communicate better about an issue and how do we respond to it? Do we respond to it comprehensively or do we just respond to it is one individual section at a time? Responding to it and I think a critical piece of that is always letting our customer know That there is that there's indeed an issue I'm going to check here real quick. There may be a Question in chat. Okay, so This one is from Robert Thomas sir, we're eager To see who will be where so we can make plans I suspect that quite a few green suitors that have been working out of Fort McCoy Will be working at Fort Schnelling at some point soon It also makes sense that we that we keep some people at Fort McCoy to work side by side with their civilian Counterparts it'd be helpful to know when that decision will be made you have any estimate as to when you will make That that decision well sort of as I laid out. I really have made The decision that we're going to be split station and I think what we're waiting for right now is feedback from the staff On some of the each is that you describe You know, I'm not I'm certainly not looking You know, I'm not looking to Make a decision that somebody comes back around You know a year from now or two years from now and second guesses What I'm interested in is making decisions that make sense for the command now some of that is is is found in the In the manning document for the command, you know, there's a there's a stationing action that's was proved And went into I guess the TDA went into fact back in October It sort of says where people are supposed to be there have been some of those positions that had been moved over to McCoy We we frankly we can't we can't piece an AGR for example. We can't PCS them a second time Just from McCoy back over to Schnelling so some of the changes That fall into that category will occur, you know when someone's backfill comes in Probably the best example of that that I know off right off the top of my head Is is the SGS position? So so the position actually on the TDA is supposed to be at Fortunately, but it was moved Over to Fort McCoy because that's where the previous commander thought that that position Could best be utilized and in and in my case and in my case I kind of my going in Assumption is is that people belong where the army? Thinks they thinks they should be which is identified in TDA documents and certainly in my case I really do think that the SGS needs to be nearest the commander to help organize The correspondents coming in and out with the commander and certainly it helped me to be able to talk You know to talk to the SGS without having to pick up the phone and Wonder if Colonel Venable is rolling his eyes that anything I might be saying I know he wouldn't do that, but he could be when you can't actually see somebody So we're going to work through it in a logical fashion and we will if I I mean I would I would say the Specifics on that. I'm kind of looking at Kelly next 30 days Easily within the next 30 days. Okay easily within the next 30 days Okay Do I have another another question from anyone? Let's see. Maybe I will follow up. No I have a hand raised So, let's see Long name and I don't have my glasses on hey Dominic. Sorry. I got my glasses on now So I can I can see you so go ahead Yeah, so so here I'll just give you I mean I'll give you some I'll give you some thoughts and some of this Will no doubt be Some of this will be kind of big hand-waved stuff. I realize I Think one of the things we kind of we kind of suffer from with a lot of our programs in the Army Reserve is We've been doing we've been doing them a certain way For a long time and in some cases we have to do them that way because that's what maybe even the statute says Or certainly the regulation says I think One of the advantages of this kind of innovation process that I that I'm trying to introduce the command to is this idea of try Something small something that's minimally viable And then get some feedback from those that it's supposed to impact and so I think from the family you know from the family readiness standpoint Or from the soldier family readiness standpoint as you know, you got a couple of constituencies That you're trying to impact soldiers and their and their families and in some cases extended families So in my mind those are so there are customers or our partners In this process and therefore there might be things That we need to know from them and then try you know try out try out for them You know, one of the things we've learned in the Army Reserve is You know we the double Eagle app I'll refer to it as the long-suffering double Eagle out It is a great idea. I think if it I think if it had You know kind of one overarching failing. It was that it was rolled out and and You weren't able to provide some of that kind of user feedback on what would make it What would make it more functional and So when I kind of think about you know when I think about soldier and family readiness You know part of it is is we went from we went from a an environment where we were deploying a lot as an Army Reserve You know six years ago now The environment's changed quite a bit and so now we were deploying much much less For for nine month deployments and we're doing you know Exercise support that may last 30 days We we we have we've had cove it Which initially presented some challenges to families that we hadn't we hadn't faced before And you know, so I I think it's this idea of how do we look? For ways to meet the needs of Those we serve You know, it's and it is geographic and so you there's I mean, I think there's always been this issue of unit cohesion Unit cohesion's always meant a lot to the army, but you're really having to kind of aggregate That cohesion at a much higher level and I think that impacts how people want to be involved So I've I've responded long-windedly With no real answers other than I think what I would say kind of to you and your team is Look for those ways. They really get some customer customer feedback from people That might tell us something That's a little bit different and so I'll give you a couple of examples We've already had some customer feedback on some things that I've said in the chat box So one is after my response about Fort Schnelling Receiving logistical support while working at Fort Schnelling has Has us at a disadvantage Can we have the UICs from Fort Schnelling updated so that the dodex and point to Fort Schnelling? I'm looking at Mr. Zerp who's in the room here with us and he's shaking his head because that's been a frustrating point to him As well and so that's like that's something that you know that we can work through because now we Understand now we're committing to a direction and it's something we know we need to work through a Different comment double Eagle app is not user friendly or millennial user friendly That is the majority of the military age group I think that's you know hey that comments right right on the mark and it gets into this idea of Really you got to get feedback from people before you commit you know Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars To something I think it's this idea of trying Trying small things getting some feedback and if and if it's you know If it's what people are wanting Then moving To something that's a little bit Give them another feature or another couple of features and keep getting their feedback I I mentor startups In at Texas Tech University and that's the process of startup goes goes with it has an idea It tries to get some feedback initially when it's just an idea Would this help you you know, let me know how how you feel about it Those those kind of customer interviews really have to occur in person. You know you can't Survey monkey is is good For for certain things, but it's things like this where you have ideas you have to find a way to talk To those that would actually be the customers of it I realize that's not easy when it comes to in the family world to find people that will actually talk to you and In reality find people that will talk to you that haven't been talking to you. I think that's always important So do we have a note? I got more double down on the double eagle app is not user-friendly for the civilian workforce I would agree with that agree with that wholeheartedly