how to handle team members with bad attitudes. Disruptive team members is a problem we have all faced, either when managing a team ourselves or working in a team. Other team members' bad attitudes can quickly affect your own attitude and performance and the team's attitude and performance. And dealing with negative employees is energy draining at the best of times for all those around them. I'm going to take you through six steps to take to improve the situation as a manager of that team. And if you are a co-worker, these steps will be just as useful for you to follow as well. This is what we're going to cover. Bad attitudes can be more disruptive than poor performance on team dynamics, happiness, and overall team performance. It is in no one's interest to allow team members to continue with a bad attitude. My name is Jess Coles and I've had a 25-year management career in innocent drinks, fosters, EY, peer consulting, and many other less well-known companies. I've also won best team prizes at national and company level. I've had to learn how to handle team members with bad attitudes early in my career. The worst thing to do is do nothing, even though ignoring the problem appears to be the easiest. Like many new managers, I learnt this the hard way. And if you're new to this channel, in hard-start training provides online business courses to help you improve your personal performance and that of your team and business. And if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe. So let's go through six key steps to take for the benefit of all. When you're thinking about how to handle team members with bad attitudes, the first and most important step is not to ignore the problem. A team member with a bad attitude can quickly infect others with negative behaviors and you can easily see team morale and motivation heading downwards. It is your job as a manager to handle this problem. To do your job, you cannot ignore the situation. You must take action. All the other team members are looking at you to see how you will react and your reactions are going to be setting the rules, not what you say. If you take no action, you're effectively signaling to the team that it is perfectly fine to have bad attitudes through your lack of action. If team motivation and happiness drop, then team performance is likely to follow fairly soon afterwards and then you'll have your manager are worried about your performance. So take action as quickly as practical after you become aware that a person in the team has a bad attitude. And if you're not the manager of the team, then your role is to make the manager aware of the bad attitude of a team member. And before you speak to your manager, take the time to gather some examples, note down what is said by the person and when. Start the conversation with your manager along the lines of, Peter, I'm worried that something is wrong with Bob. He seems very down and is being very negative at the moment. Some of the examples of what he is saying to colleagues is and then go on to a couple of your examples. If your manager is not aware of the problem, they will not be able to take action and successfully manage disruptive employees. So don't ignore the problem or hope somebody else will say something, take action. The second step when planning how to handle team members with bad attitudes is to find out exactly why the employee has a bad attitude. There can be huge range of reasons and until you know why the behavior is happening, it is very hard to decide what action to take when planning how to handle employees with bad attitudes. Some examples of the reasons could be, firstly, the team member is really upset at how they're being treated at work. Colleagues might be causing them problems, they might have a problem with what you as their manager is doing or the actions that you've taken or they may have recently missed a promotion, et cetera. There can be a whole range of reasons. Secondly, the team member has problems at home or in their personal lives which is impacting their outlook and behavior at work. Third, the employee is a negative or a glass half full person. You know, they're always looking for faults or what could go wrong. Fourth, the employee might have low self-esteem or low confidence and is trying to bring others down to make themselves feel better. These are only some of the many reasons. Before you start dealing with the negative employee, speak to other team members. You know, is the bad attitude being experienced by all or many of the team members or is it just being experienced by one person? Collate a number of different examples from several team members so you can provide examples to the individual rather than just your opinion. This creates a much stronger impact and it's much harder for the team member with a bad attitude to just brush off. Then have a private meeting with the individual with a bad attitude. Use the examples to highlight the issues and ask what is causing this behavior. Then stop talking and actively listen to their answer. Give them plenty of space and time to respond. Don't take the next steps until you understand what is causing the bad attitude and disruptive behavior. The third step when planning how to handle team members with bad attitudes is to decide if the bad attitude is likely to be temporary or a more permanent feature. For example, if you have a team member who's worked with the company for years and until recently has had a good or reasonable attitude, then there is a good chance of being able to improve their attitude. If you have a new starter and they seem to be discerning discord within their team already, then there is a good chance that this might be a personality issue and a more permanent aspect of their behavior and personality. So after understanding the reasons for the bad attitude, use your judgment to weigh up the effort of supporting the person to change their attitude and the likelihood of that support being successful against the time and effort you'll have to put in. For what appears to be a temporary bad attitude, then the effort is like to be very worthwhile. If it appears a more permanent feature of their approach and behavior, providing them support and coaching is a lot less likely to be successful. You'll not be able to change the behavior and attitude of the other person unless they understand the problem their bad attitude is causing and they want to change their approach. The disruptive employee has to choose to change. You can't make them change or choose for them. The fourth step when planning how to handle team members with bad attitudes is to decide the best course of action. There are a wide range of actions that you could consider and it is important you choose the right approach for the given situation. The sureer you are that the individual is having a temporary period of bad attitude then the more it is in yours and the company's interests to support them to get back to a more constructive and positive attitude. This saves the time and cost of hiring a new person and training them, et cetera.  All good reasons for investing the time to see if you can help them change their attitude. The more permanent the bad attitude appears to be or the less evidence that the person has been more positive in the past then the stronger I advise you to take steps to remove this person from the team and the company. You know, for example, if the person is recently joined and is demonstrating a bad attitude when they should be on their best behavior what will they be like when they are more established in the business? You know, why take the risk and keep them in the business? Use your judgment as to how temporary or permanent the bad attitude is. Consider this when planning what course of action to take. The fifth step when planning how to handle team members with bad attitudes is to set out your expectations in writing. In most scenarios, I would suggest that you set out a personal improvement plan with the individual. This is a written document that you put together setting out your expectations of their behavior with examples of what good behavior or attitude looks like. A very important step is to get the individual to contribute and give them the opportunity to negotiate points that they feel are unfair or unreasonable. If you have gathered sufficient examples in step two then this process will get to mutually agreed goals that you need, i.e. improving their behavior and attitude even if the individual is being difficult. Give the individual a timeframe to improve their attitude. You know, three months is long enough to see significant improvement to a bad attitude. If there is no or little improvement you can always take more formal action sooner than three months. Set measurable milestones where possible so both you and the other party know when they've reached acceptable attitudes and behaviors. This step is not as easy to do for attitude issues as it is for performance issues. An example might be, you know, team members are no longer experiencing negative behavior and to measure this you could use several people's opinions rather than just your own. You know, this is fairer and it seems to be fairer and therefore less disputable. Then set up fortnightly or monthly progress meetings and capturing writing the progress or the lack of it with the individual. Try to avoid a situation which has your opinion pitted against theirs. Use factual evidence or third party opinion as much as possible. Coach and support the individual as much as possible or get another person to undertake this role assuming you've decided that improving the individual's attitude is beneficial for the team and the business. This is a really important step so do put the time and effort to do this. The sixth step when planning how to handle team members with bad attitudes is to make the change happen. As a manager or leader, learning how to manage disruptive employees to a successful conclusion is important. As discussed, bad attitudes can create a lot of problems for you, the team and the business. So one way or another, you need to help the person's attitude to a much more positive place or move the person from the team and the business. I believe in giving team members a good chance. Spending time coaching, listening and supporting them can make a huge difference to their attitude. Helping them remove the problem that is causing their bad attitude will also make a huge difference. With valued employees that have added a lot to the team, then making the time to support them is a no-brainer. Keep a documented framework of the support you provide and keep monitoring their progress against agreed expectations. If you have listened, supported and coached, yet there is no or very little change to the team member's bad attitude, then you need to take sensible steps to remove them from your team before they do further damage. Or if the team member with a bad attitude is a new person on probation or early in their career with your company, then it is your judgment call whether you move much more quickly to remove them from the business. Do not shy away from taking steps to remove disruptive employees with bad attitudes from your business. Good luck in how you go about dealing with negative employees. By taking positive action, you are signaling to the individual and your team that you will not put up with bad attitudes. Be as supportive and as fair as possible. And if that doesn't work, take alternative action. Remember, the most important action to take in how to deal with employee with a bad attitude is to start the process that I've taken you through. The sooner the better. Do visit us and take a look at our online business courses and resources to help you lead and manage your team more effectively. Thanks for watching and I look forward to speaking to you again soon.


College football is already ditching their 12 team playoff. That's because in 2026 we're already expanding to a 14 team field. It was clear this year we need more than four teams in the playoffs and so we'll do the 12 team playoff for two seasons than in 2026. We'll move to 14. I think it's a good thing. With 14 teams it's likely going to be a bracket where the top two seeds are who gets by so I just can't wait for the drama and the arguing of who were actually the top two teams in the country once again and who actually deserves a buy. Overall 14 teams, four rounds. I think it's a good number. What do you guys think?


The last thing I want to say in SPSS about accessing data is about importing data. And you know, compared to entering it manually, it just makes me feel like this. And I resort to cheesy clip art to show how happy I am. Because no doubt about it, importing is absolutely the best way to go if you want to get data into SPSS. Now the nice thing is SPSS can open text files, it can open CSV or comma separated value files, and even XLSX, that's Excel files, as long as they're formatted, right? Now, what do I mean by formatted, right? There's a term from Hadley Wickham in the R developer community, tidy data, and it's referring to something very specific. It says that your file should have only one sheet. So that's one worksheet, even though Excel can take more than that, that each column should be exactly equal to one variable, and that each row should be equal to one case. And an important thing is no funny stuff in your Excel sheet, because Excel is very flexible. And when I refer to funny stuff, I'm talking about things like macros and formulas and graphs and formatting and comments or merge cells, or headers taking up their own rows, or duplicating row numbers, you don't want any of that. Basically, you want to treat it like a CSV file. And if you do that, then you find you can import it very easily into SPSS. And in fact, let me show you how this works. We're going to try this in SPSS, but I want you to do two things. First, I want you to download the course files, and that will include a zipped folder by this name that ends with data sets. That's going to have three files inside it. I'll show you those in just a second. And then you can also open up this syntax file that will work with them. But let's go to see what's inside the folder and explain a little bit what's going to happen here. The folder that I've asked you to download contains three different files. Now, I have both the folder here, and I have the three files saved separately next to it, but normally they would be inside it. But for the syntax to work properly, you want them sitting separately on the desktop. All three of them contain the same data it says MBB, which stands for Mozart, Beethoven and Bach, because this is Google Trends data about the popularity of search for each of these three composers names since 2004. This first one is in CSV or comma separated value format. The second one is a plain text file, and it's tab separated. And the third one is an XLSX file. So it's an Excel sheet. And you can see it's the same number, but it appears a little bit differently when I do the quick view here on my Macintosh. What we're going to do then is open up the syntax file. And we're going to see what we need to do to import each of these. Now, I've saved the syntax, but the fact is, it's easier to do this stuff through the menus. Now I give some information here about using the file path. In each of these syntax commands, I have to specify the file location. Now this is the format. If you're on a Macintosh, like I am, of course, you'll want to change Bart to be the name of your home directory. If you're on a Windows computer, you're going to need to change it to something a little more like this, or possibly depending on the version of your operating system, using backslashes instead. Anyhow, I'm going to show you how to import each of these. And I've got the duplicate information here in the script, in case you want to run it that way. But it's actually really easy to do it from the menus. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to come up to my data window, I'll just click over to that. And my data window is empty right now. I'm going to go to file, open and data. You do that if you're opening an existing SPS file, or if you're importing something in a different format. Now here I'm on the desktop, you can see my folder there. But you can't see the three data files I have next to it, because right now, it's only going to display files that are in the dot save. That's the SPSS proprietary data format. I'm going to click on that, and come way down here. And we'll start with the text file, the TXT version. So I'm going to hit that. And now you can see that it's there. I'll select that file, and I'll click open. So now I have the SPSS text import wizard. And we can scroll through most of this pretty quickly. It has if it matches a predefined format, something that would have saved somewhere else, it doesn't. It has if they're delimited, yes, they're delimited by tabs in this case, are the variables included at the top of the file, you see how they show up here as the first row? Well, I click yes. And now it excludes us because it knows that those need to be the in the header of the data file. It continue. Each line represents a case. I want all of the cases. You could sample from it if you had a very large data set, and it would allow you to do exploratory analysis more quickly than you could otherwise. It asks what delimiters appear. Now by default, a text file, the one that I have uses tabs in it knows that it asks about text qualifiers, I don't have text qualifiers in here. So I just hit continue don't have to change anything. Now I have dates here at the beginning and they are year dash month. Now, SPSS can handle dates. However, it doesn't like the fact that I'm using year and month without the day associated with it. Consequently, I'm going to leave it just as a string variable as a text variable, and it still works properly in any analyses I want to do. So that's fine. I'm just going to hit continue not changing anything here. It asked if I'd like to save the file format for future use. That's the thing I was referring to in the first dialogue here. And that's if I want to paste the syntax, I could do that, but I've already got it pasted. I'm just going to hit done. And there it is, it's opened it up, and it's formatted properly. If we go to variable view, you can see it's got a string variable, it's got three numeric variables, it has the proper number of digits, has the proper number of no decimal places, and it recognizes them as nominal, which actually is not the case. So I actually need to come here and change that to a scaled variable. Because the data that you get from Google Trends is sort of zero to one percentages in terms of relative popularity search terms. So I change that to scale. And otherwise, I'm good to go. Now let's do the same thing, but with a CSV file. To do that, I'm just going to get rid of this data file, I'll just open up a new one. There we go. I'll come back up to the file and open to data. This time I need to tell I'm looking for a CSV. But if you remember, that's actually under text. So I click here. And except this time, instead of selecting the .txt file, I'll select the .csv file. And what you find is that the procedure is almost identical. There's only one super tiny change here. I hit continue. I tell the variable names are at the top. It is delimited. It needs to know that each line is a case, I just hit continue on all this. Here's the one difference. When I did the text file tab was automatically selected. Now that I'm doing a CSV, which means comma separated values, comma is automatically selected. I hit continue. It does the same thing with months, we're going to leave it a string I hit continue. And I can hit done. And you see, it looks exactly the same. I do have the same issue though, that these three numbers, which go from zero to 100 are coded as nominal, I need to change them manually to scale, right? And now we'll do the third one, an Excel file. Now, in a lot of programs, you get very stern warnings about importing Excel files. And there's good reasons for that. Because Excel files are very flexible, and people can put a lot of stuff in there, again, comments and changing column widths and merging cells that make it easy to use Excel just for displaying information. But if you're importing, you don't want to do that. Fortunately, I have it set up as tidy data already. columns are the same as variables, rows are the same as cases, there's nothing else in there. And so what I can do in this case is come to file, open, we'll go to data again. And this time, I come down to this one, it actually has Excel file as a format. There it is, I'll hit open and you'll see that the dialogue is different in this case. It says opening Excel data source instead of the text import wizard. It says read the variable names from the first row that's checked by default. It knows how many rows of data I have. And it's got this thing about maximum width, I don't need to worry about that. I just hit okay. And that was that. Here's the data from Excel. It's the same data, I still need to change these three measures manually, you could save this information in syntax if you're going to be doing it many times over. But that is sufficient for what I need. And so it turns out that importing information into SPSS is really easy. And it's massively more efficient and easier to do than entering it directly. You do it in a spreadsheet, especially if you did on Google Sheets, if you're entering stuff manually, you can collaborate on it. And then you save it as a CSV file and you pop it in there. And then you can get straight to your analysis. And that is the point of all this work anyhow.


Welcome to this website with the Land Portal Foundation, the Asian NGO Coalition, Angok, the Association for Land Reform and Development, ALRD, and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation, G-File, and is taking place against the background of a six-month collective drive to mainstream the land rights of the rural poor in the climate agenda. COP28 is almost upon us. Thank you for joining us. My name is Henry Bonsu. I'm a broadcaster and journalist of UK and Ghanaian background and delighted to be moderating today's session on securing tenure, enhancing disaster management and adaptation. Now this webinar will focus on the underexplored nexus of climate change, natural disasters, and tenure insecurity through a series of presentations. Our speakers will provide insights and highlight practices of mitigation and adaptation in the context of insecure land rights. They will also compare positive case studies as well as challenges. First, let me go through some all-imported housekeeping rules. Now the webinar is in English but we will have simultaneous translations in Spanish, French and Portuguese. To access the translations, you just need to go to the globe icon at the bottom of your Zoom window, click on it and select the language you want. The webinar will last 60 minutes. We've set aside about 15 minutes for Q&A, could be a bit more. If you have questions, please post them in the Q&A box and not in the chat box. Do use the chat box to let us know who you are, which organisation you belong to and where you are joining us from. Feel free to follow the live tweeting from the land portal Twitter account. And finally, we're also recording today's session and we'll share the link later. Now we've gotten that out of the way, let us turn to today's topic. Climate change induced disasters and communities' attempts to protect themselves and create solutions are now a top priority on the climate agenda. At the centre of mitigation and adaptation discussions have been urban populations, particularly those in informal settlements. Meanwhile, the rural poor with limited or no access to land tend to be overlooked. Not only are peasants highly vulnerable to the impact of floods, droughts, storms or wildfires, because they have insecure tenure rights, records or formal registration documents. When natural disasters strike, they often lose their land and are forced to migrate. Moreover, insecure land rights provide little incentives or capacities to mitigate or adapt to the effects of climate change. Think about it. People are less likely to plant trees or protect the forest if they fear that their land could be taken away at any time. Protecting people's land rights likely leads to long-term investments in land and may help to combat deforestation. Now this conversation is of particular importance given next week's commencement of the COP 28 in Dubai. Let me introduce you to our speakers. In the interest of fairness, I'm going to introduce them in alphabetical order. Now we have Booble Ahmed. Now Booble is a legal and development professional with over 15 years of experience with key expertise in human rights, gender sensitivity, inclusion, land rights, environmental justice and conflict sensitivity and peace buildings, a lot there, as well as legal aid. Alternative dispute resolution, so ADR. ADR is the deputy manager at the Association for Land Reform and Development, the ALRD. Now we were due to have two other panellists, one from Brazil and one from Nicaragua, both female speakers, who are deeply steeped in the land rights movement, but sadly due to ongoing tensions in their region, they are unable to join us. And in some way you might say, this highlights the issues of context, fragility, of violence, of indigenous struggles that we are focusing on today. Our Brazilian speaker was due to be Sarah Marquez, who is the co-founder of the Caranguejo Caballeres Resistic Collective, which is a popular educator, a black woman and a single mother. I'll tell you more about her, even though she isn't here, it's important to know because we do have someone who will speak on her behalf. Now Sarah is the councillor for Bee Democracy in the State of Pernambuco and a member of the Pernambuco Black Women's Network, the Climate Observatory and the Climate Adaptation Network. Now Sarah has shared a video of her hometown Caranguejo Caballeres in Recife. The video shows us the reorganization of the community garden created during the COVID-19 pandemic to guarantee food in the community. Let's run that video now please. Just a moment, I'll get it going. We're just waiting for that video to run and then we'll see a video from our other colleague and then we'll begin our discussion. But these videos are important to give you context and then we'll see a video from our other colleague and then we'll begin our discussion. So you there, you saw Sarah and her community in the middle of their activity and it's important to get a sense of just how grassroots her organization Caranguejo Caballeres Resiste is, the collective, so there you see them in the community garden and mobilizing from the grassroots, guaranteeing food in the community. It's an inspiration to see. Amanda Martinez will be speaking on her behalf in a few minutes time. But let's move to our second video and it depicts the everyday struggle of the Munda people of Bangladesh. Now Munda is one of the indigenous communities in the country, it's on the frontline of the climate crisis, rising sea levels and salt infiltrates. Let us run that video of the Munda people in Bangladesh. Well, well, well, that was quite powerful. Just think of what that woman said, land gives you power. It gives you a solid future, especially for your children. So that was the Munda community in Bangladesh on the frontline of the climate crisis. So let's start our discussion. We'll start with Bubul. Can you tell us more about the key challenges for families in the coastal parts of Bangladesh as well as the char lines, the people with insecure land rights? And also, let's talk about the challenges for them as they adapt to climate change. Which strategies do they use? Please go ahead, Bubul. Hello, Henry. That was a very powerful video and it's really set us up nicely. So now please flesh out what we were thinking. Tell us about the challenges and the strategies. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. And good morning and good afternoon. Whatever applies to you on the globe. Yeah, if I follow the question, the answer would be in the coastal part and char lines. So we have two different geographical regions in Bangladesh which are vulnerable to climate change effects.  So let me give me more details about the vulnerability of these families to climate hazards. For coastal regions, the coastal regions are prone to cyclones, strong surges, coastal erosion, and the southern part of Bangladesh, which is near the Bay of Bengal, the sea, we have, has undergone extreme weather events, such as successive cyclones from 1988 to 2022. Almost every year we have faced cyclones, drought, changing precipitation patterns. One example is that the cyclones sit or in 2007. Another example is a cyclone, which happened in 2009. And the last one is the more devastated one is cyclone, which had the landfall in 2020. And all those cyclones swept away houses every time and properties of many families, many shrimp and soft shell crowd farms that used to dominate that landscape in the coastal areas in the southwestern part, where this video was taken from. All the lands we would see livestock such as cows, goats and chickens become a rarity and land use become a challenge after these extreme weather events, according to members of the community. We have found that the high salinity of farmlands following the cyclones affected both the growth and quality of crops and livestock. Due to salinity many agricultural lands become largely unproductive. Rising sea levels, exerbate flooding and salinity intrusion in this part also affect livelihood and habitability as well. In Bangladesh we have thousands of shorelands and I'm talking about shorelands. So this is a very unique feature of this delta, it's a delta country. And what is a shore, if I briefly explain that it's a piece of land or more like an island in the course of a river or in the estuary is called a shore. And the families of shorelands often face flood and river erosion and most of the larger shorelands which are situated in the coastal area additionally face cyclones, storm surge and coastal erosion. So do erratic weather patterns such as hotter summers and milder winters. This has negatively affected farmers production calendars and expected incomes, I mean the productivity of the crops. Families in the coastal areas and shorelands often lack secure land tenure. This insecurity hampers their ability to face and rebuild after the extreme weather events like cyclones, storm surges or floods, including river erosion. Showing proof of land title is essential to avail credit here and in receiving agricultural and social services that are offered by government, following by any climate hazards, but due to lack of tenure security, most of the families become left out of these services which make them more vulnerable than those with secure land tenure. Tenure insecurity also hampers the families ability to invest in sustainable agricultural practices and other innovations. In terms of adoption as strategies, we have found that agricultural households often adopt various disaster response strategies to reduce the impact of climate change on their livelihood. Such as diversifying their income sources, changing cropping practices, crop diversification. For one example would be that for one example is that you know cultivating more salinity tolerant varieties. Other adaptation as strategies includes, I mean include growing vegetables on mud towers in the dams, in the floating beds, and in the beds which are prepared on some floating materials. And cultivating saline tolerant vegetables around the shrimp ponds, applying recycled households water for irrigation, vegetable production installing ponds and filters to filter water, rainwater harvesting, wearing livestock, forestry in the islands, community-based early warning system, nature-based solution, for example applying indigenous people's traditional knowledge and customs on conservation of mangrove forest, which has been shown in the video, the Sundarban. It is one of the largest mangrove forest on the planet. So that is, thank you. But we'll tremendous. That's an excellent start to our discussion. And it's great to see that the people at the grass roots in the charlands and these vulnerable delta areas are responding to what they've seen, and they're embracing techniques of adaptation as well. Of course, we've got the long term mitigation but they're doing things immediately in terms of diversifying, looking at different types of crop rotation, considering the challenges they're meeting. Increasingly frequently. So that's great. Thank you very much. And I'm going to come back to you a little bit later on. But that's great. Okay, so we've discussed the situation initially in Bangladesh. I'm delighted to say that Sarah Markers can join us. Before we hear from her, I would like our audience, just let me remind you to please use a Q&A box to send your questions. And also please identify yourself in your organization. Lots of you are doing that. It's great to see people joining us from Beijing, from Campuchia, from Nairobi, from Australia. This is wonderful from all over the world. This is a truly global event. You can hear my enthusiasm. People are really interested. Okay, so a reminder of who Sarah Markers is. You saw her in the video a moment or two ago. Now Sarah is a grassroots organizer in the community of Caranguejo Tamayeres. The community has insecure land rights. So Sarah, let me ask you, and I know you're going to speak in Portuguese and we have translation I'm pleased to say, looking at the little globe on the bottom. Sarah, what are the key challenges for families in the northeast region of Brazil, specifically your community? How are they adapting to climate change? What strategies are they using? Sarah, welcome and over to you. Fishing, centenary fishing in Recife, Pernambuco here in Brazil, in the northeast of Brazil. In the northeast of Brazil, in a community that was occupied by the people in that slavery abolition that didn't really exist here in Brazil, today we have a lie abolition of slavery, of slavery. It means it's always safe. We are in the urban quilombo, they are people, in their majority, black women, who live in a very large security, because the government's work, the government's services don't reach us. So we don't announce the police, we don't announce the armed arm of the government. The strategies are to live together, to live in community and each one helps each other. I am a popular educator and I formed a collective called Caranguejo Tabaeares Resiste, which I found with other people to defend the land. This is an example of how we live and what strategies we use to survive in a land that is ours, but that we don't have any direct action from the government. We founded the collective Caranguejo Tabaeares Resiste to resist the withdrawal of government houses that should have work to defend who is on the ground and have less resources. So this is an example of the insecurity we live in these communities. Our community is Ribeirinha, it is very close to the river and passes canals. Recife is well cut by canals, one of them is this one from Caranguejo Tabaeares, that is watered in a very important river in the city, which is Ribeirinha. But in this river, also in this canal, it passes all the drops, not only from the community, but also from this western region of the city. This is watered in Ribeirinha, which is very central, which is located with Beberib. Here, Recife, in Pernambuco, is known as the one who talks about very big things. So we say that the river Barib, the river Beberib, forms the Atlantic Ocean. From here, if we don't take care of this river, we are not taking care of the world. So if we don't take care of our territory, we need to take care of the world. And he's still there, hanging over you, but you are using the community and the organisation to respond. Because if the only services you're getting are the police and security, trying to harass you, well, that tells us a lot about what you're having to cope with. But you are challenging it in a fantastic community where we'll come back to you in a moment, Sarah. Thank you very much indeed. I'm going back to you now. In what ways do more frequent and extreme natural disasters contribute to tenure insecurity in Bangladesh? This is very important because we saw it illustrated in the video you shared with us, and a number of people are posting questions for you, and I think also questions will come to Sarah. But for now, Bobo, explain how these more frequent and extreme natural disasters are contributing to tenure insecurity in Bangladesh. Thank you. Natural disasters, if I talk about natural disasters, which is more frequent and extreme. In terms of frequency and extreme effect, I would describe two, especially two. One is flood and other is river erosion that have a high impact on land tenure and high land use issues. Every year, many parts of Bangladesh are flooded by heavy rainfall and overflow of river banks. Our areas, which is in the northeast part of Bangladesh, experiences plus floods almost every year. Poverty forces people to cultivate marginal lands that may be too steep, too dry or too wet or too prone to erosion.  And also they occupy fragile public lands and the areas that are vulnerable to flood flooding, high tides and storm surges. So one important example of such marginal flood prone areas are the chore lands. Chore dwellers are mostly the landless families, whereas land ownership of these chore areas is at times highly disputed.  River erosion in a serious threat that people living along the rivers and the coastal areas have to face on daily basis. Given the population density and unequal land distribution, many poor rural people are forced to live in flood erosion prone areas along the rivers and the coast. I mean, estimated that at least 20,000 families become homeless due to river bank erosion every year and are forced to migrate within the locality or to urban areas, thus contributing to the growing number of urban poor. When river erosion occurs very fast and suddenly people can lose everything overnight. In other instances, river erosion is more gradual and people have time to move their assets, for example their house and belongings. But loss of cultivable lands and homestead is inevitable, they have to loss. Bangladesh Center for Environmental and Geographic Information, CEGIS, this is one of the services of Bangladesh government, notes that every year Bangladesh losses 32 square kilometers of land due to erosion in rivers and more than 250,000 people become victims of land erosion every year. So many people, I mean, one estimates was the previous estimates was the 20,000 families become homeless every year and here they become affected of land erosion. Many of the people losing their land have no other options than moving to major urban centers and some end up as statement dwellers with even a slam shack beyond their reach. Moreover, it is estimated by 2050 the rate of bank erosion along the three main rivers system will increase by 13% and by 2100 by 80%. So 18%, sorry. As a result, some 15 to 20 million people living in these areas would lost their homes, lands and area specific livelihoods. Other climate hazards like strong or tidal surges, coastal erosion, landslides in hill areas caused land loss and adversely impact on tenure security. So, yeah, thank you, that is the bubble you paint a pretty terrifying picture there. If you look at the rate of bank erosion that you gave us and consider the population of people who are in a highly vulnerable situation losing their homes, lands and area specific livelihoods and for context. A Bangladeshi's population is growing, of course, it's now around 170 million of which nearly two thirds or so are rural and looking at the square kilometers 148,000 square kilometers. So again, we can put into context the amount that is being lost every year. Boo boo, a terrifying picture, but thank you for giving it to us and more questions are coming in for you. I'll put them to you shortly. Sarah, back to you. I can see you waiting for us. Here's a question. You mentioned that you're working with a lot of women, women of color specifically. In what ways are women and men differently affected by tenure insecurity in Brazil? Let's talk about gender here. Does it affect them differently in their response to climate change? Over to you, Sarah. In this training of the Collective Taranguesa Baires Resist, which I am in this core foundation as a black woman, because we say here in Brazil that the lack of home is a black woman. Here in Recife, we do this discussion too, because if you go to the record, most of the houses are women's bosses. And they are black women because we live in a country that has not yet abolished slavery, slavery. So we live in a country that has a false racial democracy and that women, as always, are on a much more vulnerable side, but also on a much stronger and more combative side. They are women who take account of slavery. We are women who understand the precision of having a home. We live in a country, for example, we are in black November in Brazil, that in some states, including the country, is celebrated on November 20th with a zombie symbolism of the palm trees, who was killed, a boss from Quilombo who was killed. But we have a country that, before its federal constitution, which was in 1888 and 1850, states that you have a law of land that is poor, that those who do not have possession do not have the right to land. And who do not have possession?  And then, talking about the zombie, we talked about giving the zombie woman, who with him followed the symbol of Quilombo. And these women come today to defend their territories. They are these women who feel the impact, first of all, of the climate change. We are in Recife and Recife. It is the third city in the country that can disappear. We are below sea level. And these impacts are felt, first by women, because they are the ones who lead a family. They are the ones who take care, mainly, where their children go. They are the ones who are at home and when they feel they come, who take their things, who take, even here in Recife, last year, we had a great tragedy, 130 dead people. And these people have colors, they have color, they have a face. They are not the magic people. They are always people like me. Black women, black boys, because, mainly, who are at home, when they feel they come, or the barrier slips in these places, as people said before, that the government does not arrive, that the state does not arrive. Who are we? And we live this insecurity. And women, as a majority, as a leader of families, are the ones who feel more. And I think they fight. If you are going to do any study in Brazil and Recife, in this record that I do, that I talk about the territory of workers in the world, today, literally, I'm talking about the territory of workers in the world, that I'm talking about with you, people from several different countries. If you are going to talk about this, you will understand that, if you are going to do this study directly, most of the houses, on the Brazilian side, are led by women, by black women, with very low income, and who always need to arrange a way of survival, of adaptation. We have a discussion. I'm part of an adaptation network, climate, anti-racist, because first of all, you think of the race, because, as I said, there is the face, there is the color and there is the people who first receive this impact of climate changes, because we live in cities that if you are going to look up, or if you are going to look at Recife in tourism, you will see that there are two cities, the city of Recife, that you are going to tourist, that you see that it is below sea level, but you are not scared, and there is the city that I live in, and there are the workers, that if you come there, you will see that there is a channel cutting, that there is yellow, and that there are houses with few structures that were built by these women, and that it is sustained by these women, and that's why women feel a much stronger impact. Sara, thank you very much indeed, a very powerful answer, and you give us a lot of history there, and you helped us to understand why you see this as a strong gendered and ethnic lens. It's very important the gender and the colour of those who are most vulnerable in your country, and as Romy Sato has just posted, for those who may not know it, Quilombo is a denomination for communities of black enslaved people who resisted slavery that prevailed in Brazil for over 300 years, and was officially abolished in 1888, and I say officially, because as Sara says, it is still not gone. You're saying it is still there. Now, for the final round of questions, because we don't have a huge amount of time, I would like Bubu and Sara to restrict your answers to two minutes maximum, so that we can at least get a few questions in. Bubu, final question to you, and it's about knowledge and data. Bubu, what data do you rely on to raise awareness of the interface between land rights and climate change? How accessible is the data? Bubu, we're struggling to get to you. Bubu, yes, you're muted. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Thank you. In terms of credibility of data related to land rights and climate change, we prefer either civil society organisations study or non-governmental research institutions or academies, for example, universities. Although the government statistics office and other research institutions and international finance institutions like World Bank more often carry out surveys which cover a large sample size of respondents, but those surveys focus more on the macro and physical impacts of climate change. Social impacts of climate change from the perspective of the community, which we think is important, but that is something is often missing in those services. One issue of the CSU study or of a study conducted by a particular department of a university is the data accessibility. Online versions of those study reports are not much available despite the current trend of publishing the study report in the research gate or other service, other web portals. But the same goes for government data. We might get access to the national data. We have an NSO, National Statistics Office that is Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. We can get access to that national data, but it is very difficult to get the governmental data at the micro level. In recent times, I have found some useful data in relation to land rights climate change from FAO, UN Happy Dead Publications, which is one solid ground title. But we also rely on the media reports and some media house that have very useful and resourceful articles. They also have community voices in their reports. We also rely on their data also. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for being brief. Sara, I would ask you to be similarly brief. From your experience, how can secure land rights contribute to the successful implementation of climate change adaptation measures? Please, Sara. Thank you. It is a community that has specific laws that should have specific care, because we are more vulnerable. And then we have this resistance, there are representatives who make this discussion with the prefecture and the civil society. But even so, the government, the company goes there and uses a lot of leadership to take this law that was also close to the federal constitution. But we act as guardians of these laws, of resisting in the territories, because our territories are the ones that make the city not all cemented. There is no concrete building a city below the sea level, fishing a city that has mugs and who studies climate change a little, what is happening is the importance of mugs to drain the waters that come from the river, from the sea, and when the rain falls. And these territories are the territories that take into account this. And we do this struggle, saying that we want to have our land as a land that is more collective and that does not open for this war with the immobiliaries, and with political power, because they do not take care of our territory while we are, but when the immobiliaries arrive, they make great commitments. Clara, thank you very much indeed for explaining the intersection between the land rights at your level in a low-lying city and the successful implementation of climate change adaptation measures, especially when you're looking at the context of big business and development. Fantastic stuff. Right, so let's now move on to the next part of the event. We have about 10 minutes for Q&A. If you have any further questions, please use the Q&A box, and if possible, identify yourself and the organisation you belong to. I won't get through every question, but the key ones are, here we go. There is one for you, Buble. Helena Paul from EcoNexus says, she worked on the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources. And she wants to know, Buble, how useful is that, the voluntary guidelines? How useful? Yeah, thank you. Thank you for this opportunity to respond to the question. I would say from our experience, community, I mean, voluntary guidelines, that means the visibility is very much applicable here, because we see any kind of policy formulation, any kind of formulation of plan, or any kind of measures taken by the state. Often the affected people, the communities are left behind, but or few of them can get the chance to incorporate their voices. Because of the process to select the participants of that consultation, where the community consultation is required, that is not that much inclusive, that selection is very much dependent on the political, that is very much politically driven, and also there are some administrative bias. So the BGTT is very much applicable so that the community's voice is hard. And also we are talking about this community-led adaptation, also nowadays we are talking about locally-led adaptation. So local people or community people should be the heart of the process. So their voices, their views should be reflected in all the policies, all the plans and all the projects are supposed to be taken for them, supposed to be for their resilience and adaptation. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Bubu. Thank you for being brief. And Sarah, an important question for you. One of our participants wants to know what are the major lessons learned in securing land rights for traditional communities in the areas where you are working in Recife? The major lessons that you have learned in securing land rights for traditional communities? First of all, we don't guarantee land rights. We continue to fight and resist. But that's it. The main lesson is that, as we started talking about, women are facing this struggle and it's not romanticizing, it's not thinking it's beautiful. We are resisting and fighting every day. The main lesson is that we have to be together. And we are building strategies for those who should guarantee this right, which are the governments, right? Governments should guarantee this right. But we need to be doing this every day. One of the strategies is this. I'm here talking about the world because we have been asking for regularization in the prefecture since 2019. They say that they guarantee this right, but they don't give the start of it. They guarantee the right of people to have land rights because they don't want us to be in our lands. So the best way is to organize.  And you saw the video of Horta, and resisting is a piece of each thing. We do courses with women of artisanate and Horta is a great place of resistance. It's a great symbol because when we plant and show to the government that our land, that they reject, that they sell there, and make changes, saying that this land doesn't serve because they leave it there without a structure, we take the food out of this land. This is a great symbolism. We plant in the way our voices and our voices planted. This shows that our land serves and our land gives fruit. So one of our great strategies is to take out our land from our land to the food. The grass, the grass that makes tea, that makes the bathroom and that takes care of people. So this is a great symbolism and resistance. And Sara, a quick follow up. You're highly organized, which is excellent. But what about legal support? One of our participants wants to know whether you are getting legal support from any organization. In the presence of the public power and the power of the people together. The people are together doing this discussion. We don't have the right guarantees. We have a constitution that tells us that we have the right to have a living but we are always vigilant. We are black people and people who are in these territories that were occupied. We don't have that guarantee. We fight every day, as I said, we fight every day for our land and for our house. We don't have that guaranteed. But we join some organizations, we have organizations in Brazil, in the whole country that makes this discussion about land and territory.  We use our body to guarantee this right. We use our image, we use our speech and our struggle to guarantee this right to live. To guarantee this right to land. But there are organizations that support us with popular lawyers and we resist day by day on this land that is ours but that they always want to take because being in some cities, like mine, in Recife, we are always in dispute because they always want to use our lands and also many cities. Here we have traditional people who come before that lying discovery that is there, for example, in the city of Manaus and they go there and try to extract gold for garinfar. And here in this city, in Recife, they garinfar the land to put the building and the country is divided like this. But the great strength of us is our struggle, our people. Thank you very much, Sarah. And we've just got enough time for one more question to Buble. Well, we've got a couple of questions and I'm going to ask you to take them together, Buble. And you have answered some of this already but just as a reminder, our participant wants to know what the biggest challenge is for you and government to provide land tenure security in disaster risk areas to communities. You've answered some of that already but also this question really, what is the current ownership or tenure situation of the Charlands and have there been any community-led ideas or solutions proposed to improve access? Especially that question, what is the current ownership or tenure situation of the Charlands and have there been any community-led ideas or solutions proposed to improve access, Buble? If you can take the two together please and be as brief as you can. Yeah, I will try to respond with these two questions. One answer I will take not more than two minutes. One challenge we face is the top-down approach of solving the land tenure security because our land management system is governed by the top-down approach. So the policy, we have a policy that is cost-land distribution policy but it is not effective at all because government have other agenda, they have other interest. So the political economy at this moment is very challenging. So we think it is one of the best solutions to allocate the public land to the people who are climate vulnerable. So it will help them, it will make their resilience better and their adaptive capacity will be more sustainable. But instead of recovering the lands which are occupied by the musclemen, the influential people, government is not taking that trouble, government have the bias in some case the fear of, I mean there are political bias, administrative bias at the compliance level. For that these lands are not being recovered and distributed among the vulnerable families who are mostly the landless people. So by the policy they are entitled to get that land but as for the non-compliance of that policy they are not getting the land access to and the land to new security over that lands. So that is the most vital challenge we found the non-compliance part. And in terms of in terms of shorelands ownership land ownership, so government have no specific for shorelands. It is governed by some other laws and that Kuslan policies are applicable after that lands are identified and recorded as government land. So here also the non-compliance of that land law policies and laws are also the challenge. And the community in terms of community laid solution putting at the national level yeah we are trying to maximize the voice of the people by means of community dialogue and also we have arranged the public hearing where responsible government officials face the public face the communities and also at the national level we are advocating for that the community we have first we do arrange some consultation with the community and with their recommendation we do advocate for at the national level. So yeah in terms of that community they actions there in place but that is we must contrast that is not that much as we as we should thank you. Thank you very much indeed for that Bobu really appreciate your final answer and unfortunately participants and there are many of you I'm delighted to see you from literally all over the world we've run out of time and we will have to close the webinar but thank you very much for staying with us for the last hour even though we've overrun by a few minutes apologies for not being able to take all the questions. Let me thank our speakers Sarah Marquez from the Karanguiju Tabares Resist Collective and Buble Armour Deputy Manager at the Association for Land Reform and Development thank you to our audience as well for your participation thank you also to our hosts this webinar has been organised in partnership with the Land Portal Foundation the Asian NGO Coalition and the ALRD and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation I'm delighted to have been your moderator thank you very much I look forward to being with you again it's been a really energetic and instructive conversation and let me say finally have a great day thank you Henry goodbye thank you Buble thank you Sarah and God bless you thank you


What's a good explanation as to why the Ravens treat Tyson Williams the way that they do? Should the Ravens bench inside linebacker Patrick Queen? Is there a health issue that nobody's talking about going on with Marlon Humphrey? These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. YouTube Team Keep It Clean, what's going on is to engrave in here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subs. A series where you can ask me any NFL question you want and we answer it in a video just like this. If you're a part of it you can send me an email to teamkeepitclean at gmail.com or for the patrons. You know y'all can already send directly on Patreon, y'all ain't gotta go through all the hoops and all of that. Anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I love y'all, I appreciate y'all, we got some good questions as we always do every single time, let's do it. First question came from my guy Darryl W. He said, what's good in Graven, thank you for always bringing quality content to the flock.  Now my question is, how are we treating Tyson Williams? I get it, he fumbled, he's not the first and most certainly won't be the last, but it's amazing how other players can have continual bad performances and we stick by them. Lamar had fumbling issues his first year and we stood by him. Well that's a little different because that's your first round draft, pick your quarterback, your neck of franchise quarterback, and so that's a little bit different with that one. Hollywood had some big drops and we stood by him. Again, different because that's your first round draft pick, your wide receiver, who your quarterback hand picked for you to select, so that's a little different scenario there too. Queen came tackle worth anything and we stand by him. Oh, that won't hurt my heart, but again, first round draft pick, big investment, so much different. He said, I think Hobbes needs to drop that doghouse policy. Williams is surrounded by good players who will pick him up and help him get better. I love that. I don't see Clyde Edwards at Lair on the bench and he had a fumble that arguably cost the chiefs the game. If this is the way we're gonna treat him, maybe we should treat him and I hope he balls out the way Waller has for the Raiders. What do you think in that doghouse? But Tyson Williams, yes, he best runner on the team and not even close. I just with him, it's a weird situation, man, because the Ravens, they've been struggling running the ball all year. He has given them their best running plays, obviously, besides Lamar Jackson, but yeah, just those two have been given the best running plays. Under other running backs, they'll get like maybe three, four yards pop, but with Tyson, Ravens just simply aren't invested in him. That's all it is. They're not invested in him. So the fact that that's the reason why they'll bench him, they had him inactive for the game, that's why they don't care that they don't give him any carries like that. That's why it seems like they may be sort of phasing him out because they're not invested in him. And that's it. He wasn't a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh round pick. He was an undrafted rookie free agent. He was on the team last year. And then this year, he only got his opportunity because literally everybody got hurt. And I think the Ravens view it just like that, like, hey, yeah, we hope that he does well when we do give him chances, but we don't have to give him chances because it is what it is. He fumbled it because he's already on a short leash because the Ravens, and again, they signed all those running backs. And so he was already on a short leash. So with him, when he walked into that doghouse, he was probably, he already probably had one foot in there because they were like, man, if you make one mistake in front of first game, he had the fumble. So and then, of course, the fumble on the goal line against the chiefs and those were potentially some big play. Now he didn't, they didn't lose those fumbles, but still they were fumbles and they could potentially lose them. But it does seem like he, if those rumors about the Ravens possibly trading or running back or receiving offers for their running back are true. Yeah, I feel like it could be Tyson too because, again, they just simply are not invested in them. Next question came from my boy Howard. He said, what's happening in Raven? This is more of a comment than a question.  Not because of the big stage or national audience.  Oh, that's a strong word now. He said, it's more than obvious. They don't like the Ravens. Just listen closely to the call and all the commentators talk about as the other team all night long. Doesn't matter if we're on offense or defense or if we're home or away. It might just be me, but curious on your thoughts about that hashtag Raven Nation. Now me, I, because, you know, we'd be doing the streams during the game, so I can't really hear much that they're saying about the Ravens. I listened to it a little bit before, like, maybe like 20 minutes before we start the stream. And I turn on ESPN and see what it's looking like. And it's nice to see the stadium because it makes you miss it a lot. If you haven't been in a while, it makes you miss it a lot. And I have not been there since, obviously, not last year at all. I think the Titans playoff game. Yeah, Titans playoff game was the last game, the last Ravens game that I went to. And then we went to the thing this off-season, the whatever it's called. Man, I forgot what it's called. But anyway, so yeah, I can't really hear what they're saying. But I mean, it is what it is. It's part of the commentary. And something that I forgot where I was watching it. I think it might have been Strong Opinion Sports. But he was saying that with ESPN, what they do is they just try to find out which topic, which headline is going to upset the people watching. That's what we're going to go with. And I mean, it seems like if that's what they're doing with the commentary, too, then it's working. How was the next question? He said, what's happening in Raven? I was just thinking about the Ravens game last night as well as all of our games so far. The focus in my thinking was on one of our deficiencies on our defense. I think it might be time to switch Patrick Queen out of the Mike linebacker spot and into the Will linebacker spot and either see what Malik Harrison can do at the Mike spot or just put Josh Bynes back in the starting lineup like they did back in 2019. Remember when our former linebacker, 48, Patrick Onwasu, he said, I'm not spelling his last name. He just put Patrick, oh, I added the Onwasu. But anyway, he said, remember when Patrick played well in the Will spot in 2018, but it didn't work with him playing at the Mike in the beginning of 2019. So they brought Bynes and Fortin to stabilize the inside linebacker group. That's true. That's a good point. Really good point. I'm thinking that might work with Queen. I'm curious to know your thoughts on my idea. For Patrick Queen, man. It's been a lot of talk on Patrick Queen moving him, possibly benching him, replacing him with a Josh Bynes who is there, who they brought back. And that's not really a good look if your team has four linebackers, four inside linebackers, Patrick Queen, Malik Harrison, Chris Board, and Christian Welch. And they still signed a veteran inside linebacker to the practice squad. So that lets you know how they feel about the current group of linebackers. And that's whether you as one of those linebackers like it or not. So should they bench Patrick Queen or change his position? It is very tough to say because it has been a struggle. And they have benched him throughout some games. They've sat him down. They brought him out on some third downs. They sat him for a little while. But then in coverage, what do you do? Do you move Tyus Bowser back there to cover? Because Malik Harrison, he struggled in coverage. Patrick Queen, he struggled in coverage. Board, I do not remember how he did in coverage. I know toward the end of the Chiefs game, they had him out there. Because Malik Harrison was on Travis Kels. And that's Travis Kels, but still. He was dogging Malik Harrison all night, man. All night, he was dogging. They brought out Chris Board and quieted down for Travis Kels. But with Patrick Queen, first round pick. So there is that investment. The investment is there. But at the same time, we have seen first round picks. We've seen them get traded faster than ever nowadays. But with Patrick Queen, they just got to really work on the fundamentals, man. And it's crazy to think about it and see it. But they really got to work on those fundamentals, man. They have to because the speed is there. And it's crazy because I remember when I watched him, when I watched film on him back when the Ravens drafted him, my biggest thing was like, OK, he's fast. He's fast. But I just felt like he was too small. I felt like he was too small. I felt like he needed to put some weight on. I felt like he needed to just get a little bit stronger for the NFL. And remember, there was another guy back in, what, 96, where he got drafted and he said he was too small. He said he was fast, but he said he was too small to play linebacker. And it worked out pretty good for him in the long run. That being Ray Lewis. But with Patrick Queen, I just felt the same thing. And then I remember when he came out and he was saying that people felt like he was too small. But he's saying that he didn't pay no attention to that. Then he could end up getting bigger. He ended up putting on weight. So it's like the Ravens, they saw the same thing that he might have been a little bit too small. But it seems like everything that I saw myself and the opinions that I formed on Patrick Queen from when we drafted them. It seemed like some of that stuff came to fruition. He's not a bad player, but just the tackling.  And again, the strength and again, they're getting pushed back. And again, people are going to get pushed back. It's going to happen every now and then. But as a linebacker, you don't want it to happen like every now and then and then now and then again. So I mean, my solution to it, I don't even know, man, because it's like they've been and it's only been five games. But we've seen that same struggle though. But thank goodness the Ravens had won four out of the five games. But with Patrick Queen, it's just the situation, as you could tell. I'm flustered by it because I don't know. Because you hear about them say, oh, yeah, the Ravens putting on pass today in practice because they're going to work on tackling. And then you saw what happened. And then they did it again. They did it again. And then I think the whole pass thing, they talked about that. The week before the Broncos, yeah, the week leading up to the Broncos game. And then there was some bad tag on that game too. And then the following week leading up to the Coles game, like, oh, yeah, they put on pass today to practice tackling. They're working on tackling drills. And then you saw the Coles game. Tackling was terrible through all four quarters. Now it wasn't terrible through five quarters because the Ravens, they were only on offense. So with that being said, I just, I really don't know what to do. Maybe if he was to get benched, like really benched, not just a temporary bench, but really benched in the game, then it could serve as a wake-up call, possibly. And that could just really give him that extra motivation because with different people, everybody's not motivated the same. Everybody's not pushed the same. Everybody doesn't react to, I don't want to say punishment, but they don't react to... Punishment is not the word. I'm too much in dad mode right now. Everybody doesn't react to whether it be criticism or I can't think of the word right now. They don't react to it the same. But so they will just have to find, try different ways with Patrick Queen to just really try to get them back, get them better, get them wrapping up. Because again, the whole Marlon Humphrey thing too. Marlon Humphrey telling his dude on the field, he knows the cameras are watching. He knows they under the lights on the field telling Patrick Queen, wrap up, wrap up. And this dude, you could see how frustrated he was. And it reminded me of the whole Chuck Clark and Earl Thomas thing. Not, obviously they're not fighting, not even saying like that, but to where you could tell it was this pent up frustration, something that had been building, didn't just come out of nowhere, but something that had been building with Marlon Humphrey toward Patrick Queen. Not no beef or nothing like that, but just a frustration when it comes to the tackling, to where he, to me, this is my opinion. It just looked like he'd been holding back for so long, holding back, holding back, and then he's like, just wrap up, man. So I just, I really don't know what the solution to it would be. Because he's a first round pick, so again, the investment is there and he don't just want to bench him, but at the same time, you want what the best move would be for the football team as a whole. Now Malik Harrison, he's a really good tackler. Really good tackler, very physical guy. Doesn't have the same speed as a Patrick Queen. Patrick Queen been great on the blitz. Maybe you could switch them for a game. I don't know, man. Maybe you could do that. Will Malik be able to handle that role? Hey, throw it at him and see. Throw it at him and see. What's the worst that could happen? Next question came from my guy, Lance. He said, hope your day is going well, but I'm going to get straight to it. I want to know if you believe Mark Andrews with the way that he has been playing, if he could be one of the Ravens best tight ends. Yeah, I mean, see with Mark Andrews, not that it makes him any worse, because he's been really good, but who had been some of the best Ravens tight ends? It's like three. Todd Heap and Dennis Pitta. They Mark Andrews. That's it. And that's obviously because the Ravens, they haven't been around very long as a franchise. So he doesn't have much competition to go against, but he, again, that doesn't make him bad because he's not bad. He's really, really good. But yes, definitely. And he said, also, I think we could, we should be questioning Marlon Humphrey. Is he healthy or does he just not want to play because he missed a lot of tackles and was getting beat by their wide receivers and tight ends? Hope you have a good day. With Marlon Humphrey, I think they're just tired. I think they were just tired because the defense early on, they did give up that 74-year-old play touchdown, but they were out there a lot, like a lot, especially in the first half or really throughout. I don't think the Colts got, like, not one, three and out. And if they did, there wasn't many of them. But the Ravens defense was out there a lot. And early on, the Ravens offense, they went three and out. Then they came back the next drive and they got a first down, but then they punted it right away after that. So the Ravens offense was not doing them any favors. And it did look like at one point in the game, Marlon Humphrey, he was really uncomfortable with something. So he had something going on. But hopefully it's not his growing that's bothering him. And the last question on this episode came from my boy Ricky B. He said, what's up in Raven? I got a ton of questions for Flock Nation. Uh-oh. First question, what is going on with Patrick Queen's tackling? Honestly, the whole team for that matter. It seems like we go for the big hit rather than the short tackle. I think that's what happens when that pressure been getting to. That pressure. And when your defense is giving up all these third down conversions, you're giving up all these big plays, these chunk plays, then you start to get desperate. And you start to forget fundamentals. You'd want to make a big play. You want to force the turnover. You want to be the hero.  Anyway, he said, my second question is, do we have any timetable on the return of Tyree Phillips and Ronnie Stanley? Ronnie Stanley, no. Tyree Phillips within the next, within the next like 17, within the next 17 days. So within the next two weeks and change, he'll be back on the roster within the next two weeks and change. Ronnie Stanley, though, no. Third, why does it take so long for the offense to get going? I understand trying to establish the run, but if it's not working, do what works and use pass to set up the run? Well, that has been a question from a lot of Ravens fans. That same thing, the offense has had some slow, slow, slow starts. And that has just, it's hurt the defense a lot. It's hurt the, it's just hurting big time because when your offense starts slow, then your defense who, in a lot of these games, they start off playing pretty good. So it's, when we look at Ravens defense, a lot of times for that, some of the reason, not necessarily an excuse, but some of the reason for their bad play, a lot of times could end up, because they might just be tired. They might just be really tired from being out there. But the offense would, they would help the defense so much if they just started off a lot quicker than they have been. So the defense, they could get stuff going and it just, everybody can help everybody. And he said, lastly, I do believe there is a speed back out there that has great vision that we could pick up for a bargain. They don't have to be a household name, but just fast with vision. Or do you think that it's a different, or do you think it's a detriment to our offensive line? Seems like we don't get as much push from the old line in the run game. That is true. We sure don't. Because we like, we got to speak back now in Tyson Williams, but we ain't got no lanes. And then again, with picking up a running back off the street. Yeah, that'd be cool or not. But they did that with three guys. They did that with three guys. None of them are speed guys. Well, Devontae Freeman is, but it's something that I took for granted was the handoff. The handoff from Lamar Jackson to the running back. It just, I just felt like, oh, you can put anybody back there. But this year has shown, like to me, no, you can't. No, you can't. While Lamar does enhance the running back that's back there with him, that the mesh point is everything. And if they can't get it together there, then it's just, it's not going to work. And there's less of a threat for that running back to do damage. And he said, thank you for all you do in Graven. You're great at what you do. Keep being you. I ain't nothing special, man, but I appreciate you watching and always sending in some fire questions.


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Hi, I'm Dean Perine, and on behalf of 1623 Farnham, I'd like to welcome Mr. Bruce Garrison. Bruce is the KS Fibernet CEO, and also my long-time friend Mr. Todd Cushing. Todd is the president of 1623 Farnham. Gentlemen, thanks very much for taking some time to speak with me today. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks Dean.  And Bruce, let's go ahead and start with you. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about KS Fibernet? So KS Fibernet, or abbreviated as KFN, we are a communications infrastructure provider. So what that means is we put fiber in the ground to enable all the great technologies that are going on in healthcare, finance, government, education, and so forth, also with the mobile carriers. We operate a 4,000-mile route-mile network in Kansas. We have done some expansion into adjacent markets, hence the reason we're having this conversation. And we largely serve the mobile carriers and, like I said, the large enterprise companies that are doing so much innovation in today's digital economy. So as you just noted, we're here for a very specific reason. There's some new news coming out of your newsroom regarding a partnership of sorts with 1623 Farnham. Why don't you tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, so we just recently did a network expansion to 1623 Farnham, and the driver behind that is all fiber touches a data center. Not all data centers are created equal, so it's important for us to be able to provide better solutions to data centers that are dense in network, dense in content, and dense in eyeballs. So that was exactly where 1623 Farnham falls. It also gives our enterprise customers an alternative to different public cloud providers. And it's in line with our expansion into adjacent markets where we can serve more customers. So looking forward to the partnership and kind of hit, it really hits our long-term strategy. Let's talk a little bit about that long-term strategy. I'm going to go off script just a little bit. Clearly, there was a strategy behind who you might partner with. So why don't you tell us a little bit about that strategy and why ultimately you chose 1623 Farnham? Yeah, our KFN, our kind of strategy for the foreseeable future, is it's one to put more network in the ground, put more fiber into a lot of secondary and tertiary markets, so some of the underserved markets in the Midwest. It is to provide bandwidth solutions to more of those customers, and that healthcare company that may be operating in kind of a market outside of Kansas City, they want access to the same applications, the same cloud services, and by extending our network to 1623 Farnham, it allows us to do that and serve those, let's call it more rural market enterprises with the same technologies they can get from downtown Kansas City or downtown Chicago. Awesome, so specifically the news is specifically about an Omaha point of presence, is that correct? Yes, correct. It is a premier location in the Midwest for us, like I said, adjacent market, that I've said a couple of times, and you just have to give network choices to your customers and so being able to extend our network to a site in the Midwest that has so many networks and content in the facility, it just allows us to better serve our enterprise customers, our mobile carriers, and actually serve more of them as well. Every relationship is a two-way street, so why don't you tell us from your perspective about the relationship that you have with KS Fibernet and ultimately how that relationship will benefit your customers. Sure, for Kansas Fibernet, we were obviously known, there were a big presence in the Kansas market, you know, the Kansas City market, and I knew Bruce through prior lives, and so we were excited to see him join KFN. For us, adding carriers is a big part of what we're looking for, so the ecosystem used to grow in 1623 and it continues to grow, and so we were super excited to see somebody who was as connected as they were come into our facility to take down some real estate and be able to have more connectivity happen and have people build a share, appear, connect through KFN in our facility, so we're really excited to have them be part of the team. Outstanding. Well, gentlemen, thank you very much for your time today. That is all the time that we have, and thank you viewers for tuning in. We'll see you soon.