He wanted to leave now, huh? Let's see. That's my fly swatter right here.    No, he did not do none of that You see some chicks you all of a sudden you bully Hey, but now that they got Brian cash won't walk like that.  How you want to finish ever so long? I was playing.  Yeah, you can't make a big thing Someone apologize to you. Yeah, I think that's it I Lot of times you can build callus to certain things you hear people who grew up in whether silly the Miami who's seen so much loss who's seen so much negativity that they learn to walk through it It's not that they learn to heal or they learn to cope. They almost become numb to it, right and Mentioning devs passing There is no amount of adversity. There is no amount of loss There is no amount of lessons learned that could prepare a father to bury their own child You have publicly shown us moments of mourning moments of reflection moments of celebration when you are Taking your quiet moments from that because the one thing I always pay attention to at funeral is All the people that are around that help who's ever dealing get through it Because I know eventually they all leave When you finally got that moment where it was just reflecting on your child and not seeing his face again What was that like for you? It's a struggle man it's a struggle every day and The biggest struggle for me is looking at my kids knowing they ain't never gonna see their brother again The pain in their eyes That's what really give me the most You know what I mean when I got a look at my wife. She just started crying for no reason And it's just like it's something you would never get over. You know what I mean? It's a black hole in my heart forever And I'm gonna be all the way honest with you man.  I promise you man Because I got enough money to do it But it was some it was it was people like wallow was people like freeway It was people that let me know that it understand that I'm here for a bigger purpose man And when I sat down and I really thought about it.      I Was a low-ass boy up to that point.  I paid bills. You know what I mean? I took care of my family. I Take care of my sisters. I take care of my dad. I take care of my mom kids that's not even my kids Because they lost they dad But that day I became a man when I watched my son body So it was it was a it was a gift and a curse. It was a good thing and a bad thing Because it was a very painful thing to see your son laying here cold and stiff in but I Know I sent him off right You know what I mean and in Islam, that's a big thing sending them off, right? So and I had some good brothers, man.  I will always love you And respect you brother For life. I appreciate that but yeah That was the day that I Know it was real How does the light shot do Gil like how how do you wake up in the morning and Be what you became which was a light for us Like every time I click on the post from your yours of yours.  So You know What's done is done Like you said she's not coming back That's the one thing that's a fact so for me to wake up every day and Allow my family to see me in emotional state where I'm not strong That's not strong You know what I mean, I'm only Really weak around my woman and my friends You know what I mean Other than that I Gotta I gotta stay strong for my kids man Because they lost a brother who They probably was a lot closer to Then I was as a father to son You know what I'm saying because at the end of the day if if Y'all three is brothers and all y'all is one year apart I'm gonna go to him to ask him. Hey, what you think I should do about this? Yo, man What you think about this girl? Yo, man Hey You're not coming to pop because you got two peers Right around you that's all y'all the same age y'all wrestle together y'all do the boxing gloves on y'all box together at the crib Y'all y'all go see girls. She got a girlfriend. You you feel what I'm saying. So They've had a relationship with him that was even more closer than me Then my one son it was his rat partner. Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying, man So it's like I got to be strong for them. I got to be strong for my wife I Gotta be strong, you know, and don't I have my moments Every day it ain't been a day to one by where I haven't had a moment because the reality of it is For some reason Every morning that I wake up That's the first thing on my mind Like I'm like it's like I'm what like I know it's real But it's like so I wake up as my cheese like I almost want to Make myself believe it's a dream You feel what I'm saying.  We appreciate you Oh Shout out to you in the big three.  Okay. Let me just say this.  Yeah, he can play. Yeah, I was going out.  He like I got a win Like I'm expecting to be from here Oh the score gets six to four now.  That was good. I want to be better than my uncle dirt Right Records That's how I go. Yeah, so a lot of times the younger brother They'll be there be the best because they have the most passion Yeah, could they see no, right? They see no other brother didn't have the older brother made some mistakes They ain't doing that. Yeah All the time his older brother fueled him to success You know, he know it but he just they got they got close up the most That's why I love Sterling is Shannon Shaw relationship, right?  But that's what he wanted to be like it's probably and that's what she was his fire his passion and made him That dog was not there. So yeah, but I'm good stories though. It's always good to see them kind of stories Don't look at step digs and Trayvon and all boys You know, you would tell them nothing to be like, no, I just want it because because by nature it becomes not a Jealousy thing for any competition, but it becomes I Want to hear my name too? In the house Because when he was nine and he was the running back for the little Hawks and I was six And everybody was running Johnny He had four touchdowns and he Johnny had four touchdowns today. You like this. You six you like man Now you like now the whole time when you become a running back your whole time now I'm gonna for a touchdown Yeah, that's why you have a little kid here. He had two of the yards rushing. He take him out the game. He mad Not that bad over here So you guys pretty much set the sentence for us to walk and what so crazy is bro how people always say that like y'all Like y'all up it we don't even look at us like that you would tell you would our camera guy will tell you We don't even look at us like that like Bro, every day we usually got on the black Nike sweatpants and sneakers and a day. It's like I Wake up a day. I go to my studio house. I get my content.  That's it Yeah, if you could take it you can leave it either or and we're gonna get your great interviews in the process of Giving you the game, right? So for us, it's like we not in a lane. They not an arm lane. We ain't in Joe Button's lane We not nor relaying. They not know it. No, everybody can eat. Right. Yeah, everybody could get serviced Thanks Bros keep hold up Yeah You can't have the Tiffany blue Rory without without right The Tiffany blue ups You film me and you got the checks of the blue You film me you can't have the Tiffany blue Rory without the Tiffany blue ups any fresh work That's what you call stunt and one-on-one. You have dripology Mmm. Yes, you know, I'm just in my I Only been driving those but my slingshot since while it bought me that joint.   I do not play old niggas.   No four points.  I'm gonna cook ISO Joe motherfucking Crawford I do


Self-harm is a difficult part of mental illness to talk about because there is a lot of negative stigma that goes along with it Many individuals struggle with self-harm, but are unsure of how to cope with it or deal with it Since they are often insecure and uncomfortable talking about it. They seldom receive the answers and support they need We're here to help you end that stigma and to give you the advice and Resources you might need to go from self-harm to self-care Self-harm is defined as the deliberate and voluntary physical self-injury That is not life-threatening and is without any conscious suicidal intent While self-injury can be almost synonymous with self mutilation and other phrases The important part here is the intent Self-harm is often used as a coping mechanism to deal with physical mental disorders such as Anorexia nervosa, depression, borderline personality disorder, general anxiety disorder and more Physical pain is used to combat the overwhelming emotions building up in one's mind and to relieve the stress that cannot be easily soothed When a person has a physical injury There are obvious things we know to do to get rid of the pain For example, if you have a cut and are bleeding you were taught to apply pressure to stop the blood To put some bassetrissen on it and to cover it with a band-aid Unfortunately, mom and dad probably never taught you how to deal with your persistent Exitrential crisis and unbearable panic attacks Those who self-harm might feel lost And are not sure what to do when there's mental pain But they know how to deal with physical pain by dealing with the type of pain they're confident in dealing with They feel more in control for a while and feel they've dealt with the emotional pain Until it bubbles up again Self-harm is becoming an unfortunately more common way of relieving pain in young adults It's important to find other healthy coping methods to use instead The following methods have been tested and confirmed to work for many previous self-harmers If you're feeling an urge to harm try screaming Either into a pillow or in a place where no one will hear it and think you're in danger It really helps to take a deep breath and scream everything out It may seem silly or weird, but it will definitely help to take some of the stress away Try exercising jumping jacks running, etc Exercising has been known to release chemicals in the brain that make individuals generally happier So although it may seem hard, go outside for a brisk walk away from sharp objects while you cool down Pay close attention to the sensation of your feet on the ground and the wind on your face As well as noticing everything around you with intense observation Try squeezing ice. This sensation is similar to the sudden shock of pain that comes with self-injury It will also relieve feelings enough to clear your mind from wanting to self-harm Try drawing on body parts with red ink over where you want to injure Alternatively put stickers on where you want to injure The point is to turn skin into art that you wouldn't want to damage or Change your outlook on the visual stimulation of injury Try playing loud music and having a dance party Lock your door shut your windows and blast your favorite song and dance like crazy Just try to drown out the pain in the music and let out your stress through body movements Try cutting or ripping apart a piece of cloth or paper Try punching a pillow or a punching bag Throw a pillow against the floor or an empty wall Try cleaning the bathroom or kitchen, etc. Try stomping around in heavy shoes or jump around in them If you have a pet pet them Try taking a cold bath. This is similar to squeezing ice, but more intense This will definitely alert your senses and provide a very similar but healthy distraction Try watching your favorite movie or TV show This is similar to that of listening to your favorite song You want to draw on yourself in something you know you love and you know makes you happy If the physical methods don't work or you feel like you may self-harm soon, but aren't quite there yet Intrapersonal methods are used to train the mind to cope with these feelings before they escalate Focus on breathing exercises or meditation One individual shared their experience with meditation here with us Every single mental health professional I've been to or spoken to has always stressed in the importance of meditation For the longest time. I wasn't convinced Then I downloaded a guided meditation app on my phone on the recommendation of a friend And I found that it helped more than any other coping mechanism. I've ever tried People think the point in meditation is to clear your mind But in fact, that's literally quite impossible to do even the most trained Meditators can't truly clear their minds Meditation is used as a distraction to concentrate on something Intently and focus your body to feel everything by allowing yourself to feel it you subsequently relax It's an amazing coping mechanism And if you can have the sound of waves or a campfire crackling sound in your ears while doing it It's even more relaxing and distracting from your current mindset Try writing out your feelings. This works for some but also you must recognize if it doesn't work for you Sometimes writing causes people to relive past stresses instead of coping with current ones If you do want to try writing here are some ways to write out your feelings Keep a journal write on yourself Ask yourself questions Sometimes it's important to be a third-party voice to your brain and try to analyze things Think I feel this right now. Why do I feel this way? What brought this on? How can I avoid this coming on again? These are the true ways to be able to combat your mental illness and eventually overcome this horrid thoughts Make a list of all of your positive aspects Anything counts for this you can put down something as great as I love my eyes or I love the way I look in that one blue dress or I like that I can make babies smile or Even something like I like how dedicated I am to watching this one show for hours at a time on Netflix It may seem silly, but it'll be fun to add to over time And it'll be nice to look at when you're feeling horrible or bad about yourself Hobbies like playing an instrument baking knitting etc. If the smell of cupcakes brings you bliss Maybe you want to bake them when you're feeling down if part of your stress is food related You could make them for a neighbor a friend or family member Trust us. No one will ever complain or ask why you made them a yummy dessert List the many uses of a specific object Look at that brick lying in your backyard or that plastic bag lying on the floor or that flower in your front yard What could it be used for besides the obvious? This is a great coping mechanism because it gets the creative wheels in your brain turning and thinking outside the box Which takes a lot of concentration and focus It also helps you to view things from outside the norm which can be applied to your own insecurities Take photos Go to a local park and take pictures of the flowers the trees in the sky It's peaceful and you can have them to look at later Nature definitely helps relieve anxious and depressive thoughts Get involved in the community Do you love dogs, but can't own one because your landlord won't allow it? Go volunteer at a local animal shelter It will give your heart great joy to help out dogs and cats who need some extra love and can Rejuvenate your sense of purpose in life Reach out to a friend or family member to talk this is Essential a reason why a lot of people's self-harm is because they don't have any kind of support system Although it may seem scary to tell a close friend or family member. You can't go through this alone No one expects you to go through this alone and no one will blame you for asking for help We assure you any of your close friends or family members would 100% rather you reach out to them and confide in them which they'll totally feel honored by then have you get hurt If you're a self-harmer, we hope that these tips will help you in your journey Know that you are not alone that others experience the same things you're feeling and that there's no shame in asking for a little help and That's that. Thank you so much for watching our video. I'm Ashley You can follow me in some of my socials down below be sure to follow psych to go on any of these platforms Take care of yourself, and we'll see you in the next video


T. F. N. N. Headline News Update. Here's Tom O'Brien. Hi folks, this is Basil Chapman, those of the Tiger Technicians Hour at noon Eastern time each day. I'm here for the 10 o'clock a.m. update. Straight off this you'll have the binary, the bull bear binary option hour with Tom and Tommy. But at any time the dial is up 73 at 25,698. A nice rebound from the low rising lows of the last three days, but it is also making lower high. So we're going to watch this closely to give you parameters right now. 25,696 up 70. If the Dow gets to up 110 and holds a plus sixties or more between one 10 this afternoon Eastern time and to 20, I would say that would be likely to have a good close. If there is a give back and you're only up like 20 points or something by the we've seen this happen in today for the past few days. Opening early rally, I have a technical indicator that says there should be a 9 to 11 point E mini rally overnight into today that would help the market when that wears out. You've got to be careful. So right now the parameters to look at are very simple. Dow up about 60 at between one 10 and to 20 this afternoon. That's a positive. S&P has to be up about eight and right now the S&P is up 7.43. So it needs to be up at least six. But I would say eight because if it's only up two or three points and the Dow is only up about 20 or you give back and the market's negative, that would not be good going into tomorrow for last day of the month. There should be some buying. So we're looking at that the VIX index as well. The VIX index. Let me just do this and forget about the VIX because the VIX is up. Now it's down a little bit. But I really want to just show you the QQQ is very important. The NDX100 trading vehicle up 55. If at 170, 850, if the Qs are up about a point at that particular hour, I was doing about 110 to 220, that would be good. But it really needs to be a lot higher to be able to regain the strength that it had a week and a half ago. I think it's starting to fail. The technicals are fading and at any point in the next three days, you see the QQQ is under 176. That's going to be a problem as far as I'm concerned. The weekly charts all around are still very strong. So it would be shorter time. We either use time or we use price and we consolidate. That's kind of the way I'm looking at the market at this point. Stay tuned. We've got Tom and Tommy coming up. Then you've got Simple Swamp, then you've got Mind Show, the Tiger Traditions Hour, Steve Rhodes, Dave White, and Tom O'Brien. Have a great day.


of Scotland for example have said that it's not necessarily the methodology that's the problem it's the fact that university places for scottish domicile students are chronically underfunded in scotland and their alliance on international students is becoming more and more and of course the numbers coming to scotland international are dropping does that context for universities and colleges concern you in terms of the skills for the future so i mean the whole funding piece was a really interesting area for me because i suppose it would be fair to say that when i was appointed to do this i was given a very very free hand there was an underlying message don't come back with something that's going to cost a lot more okay so now that's entirely understandable given that the kind of physical position we're in that said we spend 3.2 billion every year in this whole area which must be five to seven percent of the the parliament of government's entire budget so i don't think the problem is under investment in this whole area but i think there is duplication and the inefficiencies in the system that said you know you can't ignore the fact that you've got a line of university principles and staff and college principles staff that are worried about funding and i think there's more that can be done to release some of the shackles i think university should be free to determine for example how much of their provision they want to put into full-time education versus delivering graduate apprenticeships and delivering degree apprenticeships through a you know through not just not full-time education but a kind of earn and learn approach and at the moment graduate apprenticeships are kind of capped every year their funding is uncertain they separated off into a different kind of system why don't we trust universities be able to use that funding as they so wish so i think that elements could be released but i think like probably every sector of the learning education system probably every sector of the economy funding is a is a concern going forward and then just one final question on the duplication what duplication in the system did you notice so i think it's it comes back to the lack of clarity that you had multiple different agencies involved in qualifications development in funding of itself in the development of somewhat of the educational frameworks if you are a business at the moment and you're interested in workforce development it can be difficult to know whether you go to business gateway local enterprise job center plus skills development scotland so i think there is naturally duplication in the system not born of any bad intent but of a system that's been allowed to evolve or a system that is fragmented and doesn't collaborate as tightly as it could and through a lack of political direction to shape the system thank you very much do you want a supplementary on this Stephanie Callanan thank you convener so just going back to something that you said earlier James about you know you have to accept that things can go wrong when you're talking about handing that power down regionally there as well and it just makes me think right away about politically ministerial accountability for it as well and i'm just wondering what your thoughts are around that is there a kind of i suppose like aeroplanes when they crash you know it's a team going in there to look at why that actually happened i'm wondering if there's anything from your business background that you could say that's the kind of direction of it that the accountability wouldn't be an issue i think it's just i mean business culture versus political culture obviously is often very different you know you speak to most business schools and they talk about permission to make mistakes you learn more from your mistakes and you do your successes and it might be incredibly naive to say that in any way you know we could achieve a system politically that would allow for that certainly if i was the accountable officer for a major agency you know i would certainly live in a perpetual fear of terror that something goes wrong that i'm in front of the audit committee or a committee being scrutinised as to why did money over here not deliver what it was supposed to or you know worse to end up in the wrong place and that's just that that's just a way of life i think my observation would be that overall the benefits that will be achieved by putting greater trust into the people that are actually delivering things on the ground and that are connected into business and college and universities will far outweigh the problem but obviously we live in a place where there's more political and media scrutiny on the bits that go wrong so i might just be incredibly naive thank you stephanie now thank you can we move to Liam Kerr now please yes thanks convenient good morning mr withers on a similar topic actually one of your structural recommendations was the establishment of a single funding body which would cover the sds the sfc and potentially sas and the rationale for doing that was i think he said there was a fragmented system at the moment which is impacting the ability of providers to deliver so what are the risks as you see them then of not going forward with a single funding body so i'll use apprenticeships probably as an example um that i think is an incredibly part incredibly important part of the whole learning system i think that in order to establish apprenticeships as that critical part of our learning system it required a distinct focus i think it required distinct funding and it probably required distinct agency ownership to establish it i think is exactly those things that are now holding it back so as long as apprenticeships for example remain carved out from our whole wider learning system and i put over here where the separate agency with separate funding separate kpi's uncertain annual funding it will remain separate from the system and it will not be mainstreamed so dividing university college and funding into one agency in sfc an apprenticeship and training funding into sds to me crystallises a false divide between what we call at the moment education and vocation the idea that education delivers learning and vocation delivers skills where in reality the position is much more nuanced education clearly delivers skills for the workplace workplace and vocational routes clearly deliver broader learning on problem solving innovation and other things as well so my view i suppose glibly is if you want to join if you want to join up system you need to join it up and having funding brought together into into one place makes sense there are there are real risks in that though so one of the risks i would identify is that unless you have a culture that recognises the enormous value of apprenticeships for example putting that inside a body that maybe has hitherto largely looked after university funding is one large part there's a risk that you could dilute the focus on that so the timing of it is critical again my view was on balance that in order to properly mainstream apprenticeships as an example then it needs to be absolutely plugged into the mainstream of funding qualification development curriculum development and and careers provision as well but the might that might be and i haven't stipulated my rapport but it might be that you need some safeguards in there that there are certain thresholds of funding that have to be ring fenced for you know certain parts of the system but overall i felt that by joining it up you're more likely to end up with a joined up system i'm grateful for the detail another risk that the committee has been alerted to is in so university scotland made a very useful submission to us and in that submission university scotland has suggested that if with a single funding body there could be a risk to the university's status to the ons classification and indeed their autonomy with that move to a single funding body which of course would have exactly the opposite effect in in terms of restricting their ability to respond to the needs were you aware of that as a risk when you made your recommendation and if so why did you why did you nevertheless make the recommendation and if not does that cause you to reflect on whether that's the right recommendation going forward yeah so my understanding is that the creation of a single funding body in of itself does not present that risk it is more about what the status of that body is so ndpb or not i deliberately didn't get into what the governance status of that of that body should be in part because it looked like a bit like a rabbit hole and it was incredibly complex so i walked i walked from that and the only body that i made a specific recommendation on in terms of what their legislative or governance status should be was the future of skills development in scotland for two reasons one i was asked to do it specifically in the terms of reference and secondly i felt that the really quite unusual status of sds is a public company limited by guarantee rather than something established in statute or as an executive agency ndpb didn't feel appropriate for a body that's about delivering ultimately a public service and to be accountable to ministers and i didn't take a view on what the governance status should be of the new funding body but hopefully it would be taken as as read that i wouldn't certainly want that body set up in any way with jeopardised on it on s relationship or the status of universities themselves so if that requires it to be an ndpb i mean i'll leave that to others who are better versed in public sector models for agencies but if that's what it requires then that's what it's what it requires but i don't think that that is the argument itself that you shouldn't bring funding together on the one body very grateful thank you very much Liam Kerr and can we move to Bill Kidd please thank you yes thank you convener and thank you mr withers for an interesting background and for the review of course on the back of what you've just been talking about the review did suggest setting national priorities it didn't actually set them itself but it did suggest that these are important so you might not want what you've said you might not necessarily want to point the finger at who the should actually be taking responsibility to do that but what are your thoughts on how these priorities couldn't should be divided and and what should be taken into account to please okay so i think this recommendation as much as anything really lands government with a with a difficult one and everyone agrees with prioritisation until you're not a priority and so this will be challenging and not least for different sectors of industry i used to work in food and drink the idea food and drink wouldn't be a priority would be a declaration of war to businesses in my in my old sector and i think it needs to be done on on the number so who should who should make the decision is is one question obviously we have a national strategy for economic transformation and an end set delivery board i think they have a pivotal role but one of the reasons that i recommend in not only the establishment of a network of regional employer boards but also a national employer board is to help inform that so i think it needs to be informed by business i also think it needs to be informed by third sector and other groups but it will it will come down to a political call really as to as to how you establish those priorities and for how long does a priority remain a priority my observation on end sets is that the long having a longer term 10 year horizon for economic ambition is a very very good thing my criticism would be it sort of prioritises everything that currently exists and everything that's coming down the line we're coming down the line which doesn't feel like prioritisation so i think there's a need to really define what are the areas of Scotland's competitive advantage and i would add alongside business voice insight and foresight in where the economy is going but identifying where does Scotland have competitive advantage competitive strength where does it have competitive opportunity and what are the areas of significant change that are going to affect other four corners of of scotland so whilst i haven't been brave enough myself in asking other people to be brave i haven't been brave enough myself and identifying what they are you know the transition to net zero i would probably use an example of maybe something that would be that would be in there but at the moment what we have is lots and lots of reference to green skills i don't know what they are in order and i haven't known no one's really actually drilled in to say what to what they are well just on the back of that then government for instance should is normally people's idea about who takes eventual responsibility and many things but do you think that that should be led along a path of working with other organisations and groups in society who have experience of the green skills elements and of the business elements and working together on some sort of way of bringing responsibility together across a board before it is then put into policy yeah i think there's a real strength to doing that so if i just quickly think about my experience in food and drink government used to write the industry strategy of food and drink which didn't make any sense to me you know government have their role it doesn't strike me their best place to write a strategy for any industry so but that can be quite easy for industry to allow to happen because when things go wrong it's government's fault there's no ownership of it and so i do think that there's an important principle about industry and business taking ownership of their own strategic direction and how you embed that kind of structure into data government work i suppose is something governments wrestle with and you have advisory boards and you have steering groups and the stakeholder groups by the dozen that help inform that but i think it is a valuable part of the the approach the other thing i think that is really important is the need to compare approaches with other countries compared to nations you know we're very obviously patently not the only small country trying to work out how to transition to net zero so i think that relationship with other EU countries are more broad than that certainly when i did my work i looked at germany and switzerland and singapore ireland in terms of skills systems elsewhere and i think again in food and drink most of the good things that that were done and most of the successes were ideas taken from elsewhere that's very helpful thank you very much indeed for that thank you thank you mr well as you mentioned at the very outset about how at the beginning of your review process ai wasn't anything people were talking about but now it's all people are talking about so i'm curious as you know your as your review is sitting there how adaptable is it to the real pace of change that we're see happening externally so i would probably use that to justify why i didn't pick my winners in terms of priorities because it does it does move at a rapid at a rapid rate for me what i was hoping to do and hopeful has made some contribution towards is thinking about how you build a system which can then pivot absorb to whatever the priorities or opportunities or challenges might be of particularity so one of the free and you know i i tried to follow evidence in the work that was done between myself and the kind of secretariat that supported me and it was clear within that that people wanted a system that was more agile and flexible now that's easy to say and it is really difficult to deliver but having a system which particularly puts greater autonomy and ownership on places regions to determine what's right for them allows them to pivot into as an opportunity you know a big inward investment is made in an area a company lands it needs a particular skills requirement free up that system to allow them to work more agile and regionally they will work more agile than i think they can nationally so my hope would be that in taking a whole system approach and building a system you build something a machine in a sense that can build an agility flexibility and can be free to move with changing priorities and changing opportunities no thank you for that i suppose we've i wondered if there's anything that you were hoping to be able to present to us this morning that you've not had the chance to say i know that's a bit of a an open question there but i don't think so i think that the kind of culture of reform we have touched on yeah to be honest i think we've kind of covered most of most of the areas i do think that i think was the focus on your first panel i do see the educational reform and reform of curriculum what's happening in schools is absolutely integral to the broader skills piece i mean it's obviously cliched to say it all you know it started it started as young as possible but the whole parity of steam piece and equity of learning opportunity is the ballgame in all in all of this and culturally practically and financially the system doesn't embed that it serves to smaller proportion of both the pupil population and the wider population of the country and you know a system that does that in a country like scotland whose working age population is shrinking on s thinks our population will shrink faster than any other part of the uk the immigration situation is different now we are out of the european union the need to make the most of the skills and potential of the population we've got requires us to reform the education system as well as the post school skills and learning environment so i do think that the two go hand in hand and i think that there's a lot of good in certainly what professor haywood's proposing but i could certainly relate to in what i've seen so what do you think that the scottish government should do next so i go back to stabbing the vision for what good looks like that needs to be the north star so we're clear where we're headed i think it needs to i caught the end of the last panel which said you're never going to achieve consensus so give up on that and be bold and take some decisions in the certain probability there will be people that will be very upset and nervous about that in my experience the people who will be upset nervous discombobulated by that will not be customers of the system that will be people that are involved in the delivery of the system care less about them would be my message to to government so i think keep the momentum up and try momentum unstoppable and that means setting that that vision and start putting in some of the early steps and i've identified five that i think that could be done to try and make it much more difficult to reverse out of reform than it is just to carry it on no that's super thank you very much james and i'd like to thank you for your contribution this today obviously this concludes the public part of our proceedings and the committee will now consider its final agenda items in private i'll suspend the meeting to allow Mr withers to leave thank you very much


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So you heard it here first guys reviewing your dunk subscriber dunks is coming back and with a vengeance with young bar What's good welcome back to dunk tip Tuesday we got Barth again We talk about building muscle he had a dunk session with Jordan Sutherland and Isaiah this week And he gives us inside scoop and guess what? Subscriber dunk reviews are back if you watch this episode and share some energy with me So I appreciate it. I love you. I hope you can listen to this This is I never got a podcast platform you could possibly think of and it's in high quality with audio videos ridiculous I'll give you so much energy. Just give me a little bit of back. I love you Have a good one. Enjoy this learn keep growing dunk life. Baby. Let's go What's popping off Barth? Let me tell you about the story I just had first of all do your golf intro for the dunk tip Tuesday welcome the dunk tip Tuesday Do the the golf go ahead what you were just doing do my golf club intro Yeah, no the the golf introduction as if we're teeing off. Oh, yes Here we have Steven Salley in corner bath At the tee ready to spit bars for dunk tip Tuesday Welcome back folks episode 14. Have you seen all the episodes probably not that's fine It's because he's already elite This is for the people that need to learn and to get into the dunk life don't Barth By the way is one of the best advocates for what the dunk life represents. I just want to put that out there I'm a dunk life day-wonder. He's a day-for-life day-wonder and also, let me tell you what I told just to get that This is an exclusive for the listeners and the watchers not behind the scenes if you guys tune into this Sometimes you get behind the scenes sometimes you get nuggets that I would share with Barth But I'm putting it public in the world ready. I'm ready. You guys are inside on the joke So I posted An Instagram post me doing the one-hand dunk like Cassia Stanley in the dunk contest Sometimes well actually all the time I post the best content I could possibly post because that's how I like to create my art That's how I like to post videos. That's how I like to use social media the energy that you guys know about it You guys know well. That's what this video is about. It's all about the energy behind it, but Sometimes you jump on the algorithms. You said why not ride this wave? I didn't even know there was a dunk contest I was way out of the loop by the way. I tuned it. I didn't even know it was all-star weekend I didn't even know that it was going on. I tune in I catch it. It was fun And then I'm like, oh, this is a perfect time for me. Just post something viral on Instagram I'll post my one-hand dunk cause a controversy get some engagement. So I said who did it better, right? Cassia Stanley get his head by the rim. It's like no competition, right? So some people love to comment like he did it better and I want to be like this How do you know and the the inside joke with that is that? No S and I'm not even cursing look I took out the word the rest of that word no s because obviously he did it better You're not catching on that it's engagement.  So someone just did it. You can go to that post It's me when it's 510. It's a yellow background and I do a one-hand dunk Cassius is a one-hand dunk He goes Cassius did it better and I've responded How do you know question mark and he's gonna comment again? I baited him So I'm getting a double entendre comment out of the point of the post which is engagement So point being to start this podcast and start this episode is when the end it when you're trying to build energy Don't let anybody sway that energy. Just just use it and just amplify it every chance you get you can amplify it Even if someone's being a little dangus and they're bringing me down Am I getting frustrated because I can't do this Cassius Stanley and I haven't made progress on my one-foot jumping in a long Yeah, and guess what that's fine, and now I'll let Connor Barth talk I was kind of curious actually what you like you had posted that and that was the first thing I thought was like Well, he knows this so why did he do this? Yeah, so that's what I like about behind the scenes is that I don't like I don't always like engagement But I do like to see funny comments So I'm trying to just make the engagement about funny comments and I like people that say funny stuff They're like the big all Stephen you did it way better as just like you're just hyping me up those guys That those those are the real lovers. There was something I did on tiktok that was like that Like oh no, I so Isaiah Isaiah and all these guys like my birthday was this Saturday, right? What and yeah, oh, I said happy birthday. Yeah But um so Isaiah commented on like the post I did that day, and he was like congrats on turning 30 and But I'm not turning 30 and so like they just started this train of people being like you're 30, bro That's crazy.  You're me. Yeah, you're like me So what's funny is first of all you're closing. I was gonna say I thought you were a lot younger like a two years younger But you're the same age We're closing in on 30 and we're definitely gonna be flying at 30 So we're creeping into the realm of like wow instead of being like there's a weird barrier I'm in right now is like how come I'm not jumping higher than this if I've been training for so long But then once I hit 30 it almost flips like dude this guy's 30 still flying. What's yeah, like you know I could jump like three fourths as high as I do and people like damn you're in your 30s And you can dunk still like that's crazy And I'm thinking to me. I'm thinking like if I'm not jumping higher at 34 than I am right now I did something wrong. I know I'm gonna go to remixes Bootcamp and see if I can siphon some of his blood. Yeah So yeah What so it's dunk tip Tuesday this week right now someone listening to it today the Ides of March Which was yesterday because we're posting this on Tuesday So the Ides of March are yesterday today's Tuesday. You wake up Tuesday. What should a dunk or do? What's something that you want to tell him right now go with your heart go with your gut Tell him right now right when you wake up Well, just like it's it's a Tuesday. They're watching this. It's Tuesday.  There it is folks.  That's the corner bar an actual tip Whoa Sliding down the face time. So let's see what mine would be mine would be right now the energy I'm in is oh I was saying this today Attention to detail because we talk a lot about the goals the long-term goals But how many times this is this is part of the dunk life This is why I have you on again and again and again and again again because How much do you think about dunking when you're not in the gym? It's almost like too easy. I think yeah, I think it's the other way around I think it's how often do I not think about dunking That's why I asked it that way because just that's how I want people to see their dunk training Is that it's always training a.k.a. the dunk and In the lifestyle I Didn't want to just say dunk life. Yeah, but but I will say like yeah Like like I I think about dunking far more than I don't think about dunking But it's like obviously it's just connections right like everything is connected like hey Do I want to have this pizza from Pizza Hut or do I want to have like chicken and a salad and some fruit? Or and that's like that's me thinking about dunking but not necessarily directly thinking about it And it's like hey Do I want to go play basketball the night because these random people invited me or do I want to not do that and go? Lift and do the training I'm supposed to do like I'm thinking about dunk life and like it's 10 o'clock at night Do I want to stay up and edit these extra posts or do I want to like actually get the sleep? I need wake up earlier and not waste as much time during the day so that I can get more done But still do the things I need to do for dunk life And then because I coach then it's I'm still thinking about dunk life because it's like how do I help these people live their Nice life Their dunk life. Yeah, so that's that's what I wanted to talk about is that Anytime you're not in the gym anytime. You're not actually dunking or anytime.  Yeah, I would say that like If you think you're really diligent in the gym, but the rest of your life is a mess You're probably not as diligent as you think you are Because it will that personality trait will kind of like spread out into everything you do in life Definitely, but the same thing is okay. Maybe you're not that diligent in anything right now. That's fine But start being diligent in one thing and that mentality will spread to the rest of your life as long as you stick with it so I Totally agree now. I want to ask you this you had a crazy dunk session this weekend. Can you talk about it? Talk about whatever you want. Let's tell me about it. Tell us who is there golden bear showed up the pics are filthy Yeah, so so Isaiah Rivera came CJ came Austin Burke He came Justin or Justin Jordan Sutherland came a golden bear came to take pictures Ball his life was there Who else do you listen like it's crazy because they're all our friends Yeah, think about that lineup and think about like what just happened and think about what this will Seem like in a few years all those people together and the golden bear shooting.   Yeah, and like he's 18 now He started training when it was 13 and like now he's actually getting to be like pretty good and like he He started training for dunking before I started training for dunking, but I knew about Yeah, but it's just like that's really wild. Yeah, but he was younger. So like I think Travis don't did CJ junk He did after so CJ CJ filmed for like Isaiah And for balls life and then he he dunked after a little bit same thing. It's gonna be a ball as life session, right? Yeah, yeah, so you yeah, so you won't see me posting it for a while But it'll be out on ball as life whenever it's out on all his life. So That's super sick. So tell us any highlights that you can share or like just you can do So Isaiah and I dunked pretty good Jordan Sutherland is literally on another planet That guy is insane like like Like I'm a good dunker. Yeah, Sutherland is a god tear dunker like we we jumped for three like three hours and it was one of those and Like he was doing the runks three hours into the session. I was literally about to die Yeah, like how you feeling now that was I feel fine yesterday. Yeah, I have a lot of muscle soreness, but knees feel good Yeah, ankles feel good Was it a full dunk day for you like you were prepped and ready for it Or was it kind of just like a day that you could dunk this this was a full dunk day for me I actually jumped really really high at the start of the session like I had a windmill with almost my back foot on the Frito line But I just didn't have hands and that's fine. I don't honestly it doesn't mean that much I mean, sometimes we just you don't have hands. You don't even got legs. Yeah, and sometimes I have hands and not legs so What do you do on those days? I like make dunks that I shouldn't make but my hand speed so good that I make them Anyway, that's so funny. So what would you prefer hands and no legs or no legs and hands? You just said the same thing twice Whatever dude, and and but yeah, I would prefer to just jump super high and not have hands because even if I don't have Even if I don't have hands I can still just bang the ball and that is the set I mean we already talked about this last week like bang. I just want to bang it Yeah, did you like the edit I made for us by the way? Yes, I did I think all my followers liked it too That's awesome. Dude. I want to we're gonna do that every week. We're good. That's the beauty of this part We'll see what happens. That's definitely gonna be a snip when we fricking say you got no hands Do you want to know what you hit? Yeah?   I was looking at my tick-tock and I have 25% of my followers of my 19,000 or women Excuse me is that not weird and my is weird on Instagram is like 99.99% men, but on tick-tock. It's a quarter of my followers or women. I Wonder what that is. I think it's probably because the posts that you have no hands. They probably like maybe Maybe what do you what do you really think that is? Why would that be I want to check my stats now? I kind of think that like I just think tick-tock is more of like Something that everyone gets on and just scrolls through and sees things that would be my guess You know Drake had a really powerful line in his latest song. I think it's called lemon pepper freestyle Hmm. He had a really intelligent line that I really liked which I've been feeling lately I might have discussed this with you which I definitely said on the podcast that no one really listened to I don't want to say no one but very few because when I post dunk stuff Thousands of views when I post stuff that I want to talk about that's not dunk related It gets very few views, but anyway, it was a good idea, but and I wanted it out in the universe I don't even care if anybody listens It's just for me is to express myself to get it out of my body because if I leave it in my body It's gonna make into energy that I don't need And what it was was that social media is becoming so saturated and so many people are trying to make things look good Not just like show off. I'm not saying show off I'm saying like marketed wise like worried so much about how well it resonates or what they're saying when and And and they're so because it is a smart tactic, right? I definitely think like I was saying in the beginning of this podcast is I was trying to get engagement I think there's still a balance, but I think people got so focused on the marketing pieces They forgot about the content. Yeah, I think tick tock is more of that just genuine like here's a funny thing Here you go, and it's not really marketed at anyone and like that's actually good content. It goes up That's what I like about yeah, yeah, like Instagram became like you can't really get this like oh post something funny And it'll get a ton of views and like go all over the place because it has to also be like Formatted properly to be marketable and get engagement like I think that's so lame But it is I get it. That's how they make money But yes, but I still think on Instagram if your post is too ridiculous It still goes viral like for example somebody with no followers if they had some crazy event happened to them Whether it's good or bad it could go viral because people pick it up and you know I'm saying what's crazy Like it's delayed sometimes like sometimes I'm gonna post something and then months later It'll go viral cuz like enough people saw it and just pops up. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, so my the thing was I was saying was I was the whole point of what I brought it up was I feel like We got too far away from just making good content and also just doing good things like for example If you tried to keep posting your stuff like for me, I can't really dunk right now So instead of trying to make the best content I'm working on myself physically and then say in two years I jump higher than ever now I have a video from like of a three-year gap where I didn't make progress again You know and then that's a really impactful video whether it does well or not is besides the point But it's it's how it literally changed my life and it's like the story, right? It's it's like showing a big event that is the whole reason I got into Instagram and the first place was literally just to track my progress and it didn't have so much to do with like Me wanting anyone to notice me It's still really not like that like Instagram for me is a little more business like but I'm actually gonna focus more on Tiktok now because I want to do funny stuff Yeah, like I just like doing stupid stuff this session actually had a lot of that For people to see it. I just got to drop the Drake line because I brought it up I don't want to forget it do it which was so all of that nonsense I was just talking about that was about that disconnection was Drake summed it up in one line where he says Something about fame has been disconnected from excellence Which I think sums it up great Which is like tiktok is like people get famous quote-on-quote with a lot of followers, but they don't have any Value like Entertainment is fine like people say silly is not good silly is great entertainment is entered I love comedy and stuff like that But some people get viral and then there's nothing there like people follow because it's they're getting followed Yeah, and like it's interesting too because There's there they're getting followers and like you know, they're making money off of it, too And it's their content might be kind of funny, but it's not the same as like comedy like I don't know how to describe it exactly, but it really doesn't have much value in my mind It's it's almost like it's it's like this guy does funny things instead of just is funny meaning like they're like Oh, that is a funny act like if someone falls down like say for example someone played a prank Right, but then it's like okay. He's doing a prank like but the prank doesn't work But it's like oh, he's doing a prank so he's a pranks deserve follows You know I mean like it doesn't even work one of the things that really annoys me This is just random and like kind of sidetracking now, but like social media in general track. It's so fake. I Hate it so much.  So you know what we do about it. This is what I do.   Let's wrap it up 17 minutes. What could we end it on in a dunk on a dunk note? Pay attention to details Details What's your current status with your training so dunk day went well? How did you recover from that? Well today I haven't actually worked out yet like Just people don't know this but it's a little bit later at night right now But actually as soon as we're done here. I'm going straight to the gym. So to do I am going to go squat Dang squat. I'm gonna deadlift heavy Probably not as heavy as I normally would because the session was so long But I'm gonna try to go as heavy as I can comfortably. Yeah, I got a question for you that I was talking about on my Instagram So I think this will be timely what has Been helpful for you in terms of getting stronger Versus gaining size or have you had a trouble gaining size or gaining size when you don't want to gain size But you want to get stronger. I Have not really had a problem gaining size. I also think that like people over Think the size thing like like coming like a lot of that has to do with how much you're eating to But like if you're just lifting to get stronger, which is usually like lower rep ranges, but heavier weights Doesn't always have to be but that's the general Like you're not gonna put on just insane amounts of size, but you will gain muscle You will get bigger, but that's not bad and and everyone kind of needs to like self-regulate again This everything becomes so personal. It's like some people gain size much quicker So like if you are and it's making you jump lower All right, maybe you don't want to gain size But if you are getting stronger you're gaining size and you're jumping higher and you feel better You shouldn't care unless you really don't like that aesthetic and then that's something else like you have to pick what you're training for so I Also, yes, and I that leaves it So my point would be that there's different ways to train and I like what you said the lower rep ranges I think that's the quick answer I would give is that at some point elite elite levels This is way down the line when you've gotten super strong and you've gotten jumping super high at some point You need to get a little bigger to literally have more muscle to have produced more force But that's way down the line And then the other thing I was gonna say is and that there's different ways to do that like higher reps and like stimulate more Muscle breakdown and muscle damage and I was also gonna say People need to just start doing it They always want to know these questions so like you said overthink that really stood out to me because people want to Figure it out so much But if you that goes back to the social media thing if you start doing more and start focusing your energy on Doing it instead of trying to look for the answers.  It's like a 44 44 that's a crazy elite and he's still doing basic stuff So Connor what would be the craziest thing that could happen to you this week that you want to happen? The craziest thing that can happen to me Yeah, out of the blue out of the blue 25% of my tiktok followers could message me Oh Dude, that's too many do the math. It's like like 5000 yeah, oh My god, okay, and now if you could have if you could if you could send them Okay, I pick a girl on Instagram. Do you have a crush? No Instagram, okay, forget that what about if you could have a guest pod. Would you have your own podcast? You know, I've been thinking about it But I kind of like coming on yours Okay, maybe we'll just do that. All right. I'm trying to think of other questions to ask you before we go Let's see the what's a common question you get dunk related or not dunk related Usually the question I get is it all genetics legs? Mmm. Is it no? Short answer is no So what is it? Well here here. This is an interesting question that I think stretches.  Yeah, but I I think it's overstated. I think that yeah like Yes, I had good genetics But I also jumped every day for 13 years and then I started lifting every day for three like I Don't it's a bad argument and and how much of it is genetics versus like nurture or what do people say that like Nature and nurture. Yeah, nature and nurture like I think it's much more to do with the nurture than it does have to be with nature as humans were extremely adaptable People so like use it, but just realize it might take you 10 years That's the problem people. Yeah, yeah, like genetic freaks will have a faster turnover of doing something Genetic not so freaky's will take longer but can still do it Got it. That's awesome. What's the nerdiest thing you did today today? Yeah, or and I looked up those like blockchain Images that are going around you know like people are like I don't know okay It's like a cryptocurrency for like pictures and videos and they like they have like limited runs of like videos and pictures And so it's like it's almost like card collecting like sports card collecting Like for the NBA it's called top shot and it's kind of going viral right now And like people are making like literally millions off of it Beautiful, but it just blows my mind because the things themselves are literally worth nothing Like it's just an electronic thing you get and they just don't make they don't send it to anyone, but you are you invested in Bitcoin? No, I'm not I am and I left it from like two years ago. So I'm just riding it Yeah, I don't think it was a bad idea and like if you can you should do things like that But it in the end it is gambling. So yeah, I'm this is okay for quick investment advice What I do is I I have some in the safe some on the risk Yeah, and you have fun If you have enough in the safe you can be a little risky What's the what's the best noise you can make right now at a good level that we don't break eardrums the best noise I can make I could give you mine. What's yours? Dude Killed it. I know wait. Can I get the raindrop? Oh Almost dang. All right. Well any What should we add to our podcast as we do this? What do you think we should add that be cool? Oh, you know what I want to do. I want to review dunks with you. So maybe next week will review your dunks Yeah, we should post to Instagram. Would you help me with that? Yeah, we could post to Instagram and have people If you can do the video, you know, what would be great? Listen, you guys are here in a sneak peek. This is a good stuff If you can post if you can do the logistical side of the posting reviewing people's dunks Yeah, I'll do all this side I'll do all the posting and I'll do all the and I'll do all the audio video You do you help me you look you come next whatever day and come with the videos of people or whatever day we do this Mm-hmm, and we'll review them together. Okay, so can we do that now people's Videos next week so you heard it here first guys Reviewing your dunk subscriber dunks is coming back and with a vengeance with young bar. I Love it. That's exciting. You guys should be excited. Why are you not excited? I can't hear them. I know that's true. I love them All right, buddy. Well, that was awesome. Thank you signing off. What do you want to say? No, that's it. This is the best I said what I want to live in a good life Let's give some juice to them really good life. Hope you guys you live in your best life me and Barth are killing it We're living our dreams I hope you guys are chasing your dreams if you're not living your dreams You could start right now even if it's uncarving patterns and uncarving a tree that you carve for years and years and years Start chipping away start doing it attention to detail do the things you want to do and just live your best life today right now Don't like