Which is definitely, found the pipe, I'm not sure where the pipe is, it's buried again. So the next botch up was this. Good Saturday morning. Morning. Saturday the first, did you realise it? I think so. That's half a 2023 gun, back in the pants and hoodies. We're in pants and hoodies, it is absolutely freezing today. It's nice 14 degrees but this wind is brutal. But I prefer that to 30 degree heat. Yeah. Right, what we're doing? We're going to, when the bathroom's redone, that the soil pipe is being relocated to there. So we're going to put soil pipe in here and we're actually going to connect that into the manual. So we'll either use the existing soil pipe, which we'll see about, or we're going to use the pipe from the gully, because that's being disregarded. So hopefully we can fix the gully pipe to save us getting rid of the toilet. So the toilet will be kept in as long as possible. So we're going to avoid getting rid of the toilet we will, if not, it just is what it is. We're into clay. So we're going to need some adapters, plastic to clay. So this is our manual. And we've just been in the greenhouse where we have two manholes, don't we? Oh, Alex has done that way. So we've got the first one up and we chucked some water down that surface gully and that came straight in. Straight to that little one there. You see it's a bit clogged up but that's only surface water so it's just silt and stuff. Looks like the main is very rarely used. It's a 6-inch main and then you've got this branch coming in. And obviously you've got next door surface water coming in from this side. And then we lift this one up, which is definitely the foul. Alex just flushed the toilet. You can see it's foul anyway by how clean it is. So there's our branch coming in. So there's your 6-inch main again down into the street. And then you've got our 4-inch 100mm heading back towards that manual. So we're going to get a line up, spray up to locate that pipe. And then once we've, we're going to dig about here. About here so shallow as possible. And we're going to put a chamber in here and connect into the main. And we're going to put a gully in at that far end because I think the sink's going down there. So there'll be a gully going all the way down here, connected into here. I think we'll be able to put a T or a Y on here because we'll put a rodable gully in so it can be rotted back to the main. You can rod back from that to here and you can rod from there to here. So there's no need for a chamber. So we'll put a Y or a T in it. So that's okay. And then here we should just be connecting on to one of the existing pipes that are coming into this chamber. So yeah, a lot of flags take up, a lot of digging. So it's time to get cracking. No point in having a mic on today. I've spoke. Can you hear me now? Right, let's start digging. Plenty of tablets today. So keep me supple and bending. We'll catch in a bit while I'm doing the battery change. Here's our charger. This is DJI as well. Oh there you go, DJI. Got a little cable at the side. There's your batteries. There's your button to give you how your batteries are doing. Just changed the dead one. That one's already live. This one's going to get plugged into the radio because while we're charging, this is the mics. And they're little box where they live. That's actually, this is the charger. This is where they all live together. There's a receiver and there's your two mics. And basically they sync together automatically. So as soon as you open that box, they sync. You take that out of the box, plug them in and away you go. And I think this is probably the third time. Maybe we've had to charge this box. It's absolutely fantastic. It's just, it's feel-proof. It must be feel-proof for us to use it. We highly recommended it. I think about 280 quid for the whole lot. So, but once that gets to four bars, it keeps the batteries charged for ages. So they just charge, obviously they get put in there and they just charge in there automatically. It's just the same, I think USB-C, I think, cable. So, I didn't know if they were doing loads, so I had to put them on. So while they're charging there, we charge the batteries, which also last for ages. Fantastic. Better than the GoPro because they have like a ribbon, instead of plastic. This is like plastic on the GoPro and it tends to like fold and get in the neck and fall off. So that's great. And we very rarely change the batteries because when we're not using the camera at dinner time, we just put the camera on charge and just top up the battery in the camera. So again, DJI Osmo Action 3, the camera. DJI mic and the DJI battery pack. Everything. Fantastic. Way better than GoPro. I highly recommend them. So, back to the digging side. I don't know how to say that we're soiling it. Do you soil a bit too far? I put a mark out. The mark was banged on. Found the pipe. Are you sure the pipe is? Yeah. It's buried again. So that's off the ground. We've been using the post holes to get the muck out. So we're looking this up, begging up, beginning to get in and cut the pipe and then start heading back towards the gully. It's there. That's probably about two foot down there. It's probably about two and a half foot down all together. Sorry about the wind. Yeah, it's basically going to whack the stretch out as quick as we can. And then once that's hit, Doug, we're going to come over here. Hopefully this is the more straight forward side because it's shallower and there's actually a pack to connect onto here. We'll just be connecting onto the end of this clay. That's going to be a junction with two bands sealed on each end so you can drop it in and connect with it. So yeah, let's crack on. Found some a bit better for this camera. There it is. The deepest point of any of our digging that. So it all gets easier from there. Yeah, I'd say that's two and a half foot. Don't forget this is raised patio which gave us a little extra digging. This is all coming out eventually. So that's the other thing when we come through here. Through here into there. Once we smash all this up, we can chuck all the bricks on that pile. It's going on the recycling pile. Flags again smashed up and over there and then we'll just leave this level. So yeah, let's carry on. Use the wind. It's just a quick uptake from up when the mic's on. There we go. Now we've got some light in here on the camera. Going great guns here. Nice, beautiful soil. I know and it's even dancing nice white sand now. Down this section here. As you can see we've got a pipe running down power with our channel. So we're going to come along here, roughly alongside that gully and then we're going to put a very slight turn in it up to our new gully there. Even that doesn't have to have a slight turn. We can put it, we can come straight. We can come straight along here and then just put the bend into the gully at the end there. So yeah, because we might be a bit close to the foundation there. I'm guessing this foundation isn't very deep in this extension. So yeah, going out nice. Very nice. That's it. Just back in town, that's what we'll just keep digging. I won't go any deeper there mate. I reckon we'll put not far off our depth there. New style working our way back now. Start taking these flags up and I don't know what time it is but we'll probably head in for lunch time soon but we're doing alright. Is that an Apple Watch? Yeah. Is that the new style? Apple Watch Max. Nice. Half 11. Half 11, seen a bit. Very nice on the time lapse. We left you recording over dinner. Oops, we should be in. Alice has just got that lump to take out and then pretty much straight back now. Sorry about the wind and this pipe which we thought goes down into the main connection to the main we're not sure if that pipe but that end goes disappears into nothing. We're not sure if that's been put in as a soakway or what but we'll have to see what goes on there. But if that is that pipe then we'll just disregard this gully and then Robbie and Robbie can put the downspout into the gully at this end. So keep digging. Can't get all this out today. So ready for a good start on Monday. It's going to rain. Hopefully get all this out. Get all this out and make a start over there so we can find the pipes. So yeah, it's coming up for one o'clock so we'll get stuck in and carry on. Sun's out now. It's not three o'clock yet because the pick of the pops is still on. Alright. I've never heard any of it. Anyway, I'll give you a little Death Star French run of where we're at so far with this one so stand by red five. Yeah. So the next botch up was this. Obviously we said before we saw the pipe which we thought I had to connect to there which it does but there's nothing coming out of it because it's blocked completely with like crappin' roots. And there's how they've connected it to the existing. They just smashed a hole in it but just butted up to it and put a like half a collar in so it would like ricochet into the hole. What was it? No, just throw some DPM thrown over it. So that's another botch job. The wrong pipe though didn't we? Yeah, for a minute we thought we had the wrong pipe. So now, we're over there.   I wish every dig was like that. I know. I actually enjoyed that. I didn't think we'd be this far today. While he's doing that, we're there now and now I know what's happening. We're finding an existing pipe and just giving it a connection up here for the waste pipe to connect to once it's been transferred outside. See, I listen. I listen sometimes. And that that's our next task and then we'll be here Monday for the rain to get all these pipes in and get the frigging spares off. Yeah well, sorry, sorry Nia. Shit. The pipe's exposed and as you can see there's two collars on it so we can just break it off at one collar and smack it on. Don't even need to cut it. So, very happy days. We've got both the hole dug and the trench dug.  I was dreading today. I always dread digging for drains because the last one we did was in Roy's. Oh, that was awful. But this one was Liddy Owl. Like I said, I wish all digs were like this. But that'll be all for today then. We will be back here Monday with the pipes and the pipe bedding so you will see us then when we're installing so time to skip to the future. Morning. It is Tuesday because Monday we were rained off immensely. We got to Berry's picked up all our most of our pipe stuff and it was just absolutely chucking it down. So we thought we'll go home have our lunch and everything and see what happens and just kept going until like 2 o'clock and then Daisy came over so we had to maybe sit Daisy with Mum while I'll say I have to go off so yeah, we ended up not coming in yesterday. But thankfully the muck doesn't look too slushy. Still quiting. Still quite nice actually. Thank God we were dreading this was going to be slush. But yeah, there's where we there's where we were left off at changing that. Adding one there. You know all this. So I'm going to get that fence panel took out so we can get our stone brought in and get all this set in. Brought our laser level with us today and we can get all that sorted. I'll get you set up then in the meantime while we get this fence panel removed I'll go and get the stuff then. I think getting me cut her out to cut all the pipes out and then just in case of getting our pipe stuff. That's what I was thinking, yeah. Right, I'm sure Alex has just gone round and explained all this but that's last job because once that's done there's no toilet in the house which is obviously we need the toilet today for that last job. Next job is going along this trench and bottoming out where all the caverns have happened that's all fell off the pipe there. The pipe's in the way now so I'll be knocking that off so I can get in with the saw to get this pipe cut off and then we'll be getting prepped for the our T-junction to go in. So while I get messing around down here with the power tools Alex can start coming on getting all the loose stuff out but yeah I'll set it up there Al and shine it towards the fence. Just getting set on the laser level now so we can just dip off the laser level and check we're okay. The other way you can do it is with a string line as well. When it's getting up let's go back to town maps that's what I meant to say. Pick some of this up yesterday the real deal, the stuff you're supposed to use and I can see why people use fairy liquid because that was about 18 quid so we'll be looking after that 18 quid. If you get better stuff from Asda I'm not going to go into details. Yeah so there you go. Right you get cracking on here Alex and I'll get cracking you might as well use the noosebakers a bit now. Let's do this. These things are tame. Grass is covered in grasshoppers and e-wigs isn't it? The garden's full of them. Yeah. There you go. In the hole further so it's going like this and it's going to have an 11.5 degree bend just to start it back. I've lined the pipes up a bit tight. Now onto the plastic this kinks off a bit because it's big so much better than the screwdriver especially down here. So I've lubricated this so I can push it oh there's just no room. I've lubricated so I can push it over the collar like that so I can line it up because I don't want the kinking it where the bottom of the pipes meet I want that smooth transition there so I can feel that that's nice and tight there there's no gaps in it. So now we slide that back up get this rascal in position beautiful job. Nice and tight. We can start coming backwards now maybe come out with a couple of foot piece out there and then we can put a bend in it then. Get some snow get some snow under there before we start. Right 5% a bit of a quick I've been editing that it seems to be that we're always going for a break excuse the wind again but we always do an update before we go for a break so there we go toilets can be used again now but by the time we've done that this afternoon the toilet will be out of action so we can start going backwards now back to our gully and we can start stowing up in a bit so yeah we've done it that rattle makes all the difference with the band seal it's just quick and easy and it's all in line now nice job because that's the main sewer for the house it goes off into the main over there there's 6 inch maples out into the road so I expect there's a manhole just outside in the street nope I don't know where that main goes out that way so usually there will be 2 manholes there's the nearest 2 manholes down there in the main road I don't know how you're supposed to rob that obviously from that way and that way so yeah Alex is gone I'm going to head to the van now and get a nice little break so straight pipe as far as it will go till it hits the other side then we're going to put that 11.5 degree back and take it straight and then there will be a couple of straight couplers 3 meter lengths wasn't strapping a 6 meter length pipe to the van yesterday too wet and windy back on it after a break Dad's just nipping off now to go grab another either 11 or 15 degree connector there just to make that so while he's doing that I've got a job to do involving some bricks I've got some this this was in there along with a fiberglass pipe there it is that's obviously not in use anymore I've got those 2 bricks out thankfully I've got those 2 out so we're going to replace them with the new bricks and somewhere it's like the face is blown off so get rid of that and replace that I think he wants 2 course of brick going inside on the window on the inside part of the window just to level up for the sale I think he said so I'll get that done now do a little hand mix and it's about it when Dad comes back we'll get that done and then all that's left is that happy days catching a bit and back and forwards just image calculation here just needed 2 fittings not 2 so I've just picked up a C15 put a 15 on that and that will drop down to that don't even need to check that fall that's got a hell of a fall on that put a nice gradual fall right down to our junction which is now buried I should just patch in those 2 breaking that that piece of there's one up on the roof to do so while he's doing that I'm going to finish this bit off and then I'll film it properly so you can see what's going on Al, can you just chuck me a goes please let's get you a couple can you make me a right please that's no good is it that's been trodden on can you grab that pipe please once it's fell in it's only temporary across the trench further over that way that's it I love that I think I've done this brick's done there's that one up there and then the one's in the window so I've got to do a bit more of a mix that's what makes it roddable for the weather don't tell me I picked one without a lid I bet I did you know to buy a lid I've still got a spoon in the garage just lift that up please mate he's sneezing on it looks like he's sneezing on it hang on, see you again looks like he's sneezing on it so you don't need to lubricate the socket and the pipe but if you do you've got a lot more adjustment in it and you can spin it let's get some stone around it just push that in that way touch just scrape a bit of sand from underneath the bottom of it and you see it down just the gore directly below where I am stop going that close to the wall a bit further across the trench towards me there we go we're all done things have fallen on that so that's the existing pipe that's completely useless we're just leaving that in no point taking that out so now we're going to get this level with stone get it packed up with stone and then we'll use all this to backfill what's left we're going to throw over there so the grab can reach it left over pipe hopefully we can find a lid in the van I can't last to buy a big lid anyway yeah they're not expensive yeah that's it I'm going to get backfilling this while Alex is up there blown brick out for us Paul's asked us to do that brick there just pointed it out he's being drilled and blown so we're sorting that out while we can he's already done those two down there so I'm getting in the let me get this all back down be careful don't think so look at that boom that I cannot get over how easy that was compared to the last one there we go that's the big one done that's all we've got left is that other one where we're just making it an L with 90 degrees one that's about it just go backfill this now with all that crap happy days so we'll catch you over there for the next part the gully's got the water in it it just wants a little bit to tip it over the edge so it runs and we'll show you what happens far away have a look away at the front of it you can hear it in here then so it's a good one yeah good flowing nicely there that dirty water was just the dust from the clay pipes we cut the pipes so as you see it runs clear now so that's our foul and that's our gully so that proves we've connected to the right pipe you'd be surprised how many people say we've connected to the wrong pipe someone will probably put in the comments words to tie wires even though we're not building the wall so there you go that's all in, stoned up ready to go we've dropped the gully down slightly because the ground's a bit high there and it's all getting redone so what we're going to do now is get this backfilled well Alex is going to get it backfilled while I start on this and then once it's backfilled we're just going to put the flags back loose on top just so it's tidy no bedding, just scrape it down low and just drop the flags in so just all that get your big spade you'd be quicker with the big spade and use as much of this as you can up there huh? use as much of that in there as you can and anything less use it down here because this is reachable by the grab wagon where that isn't so it's imperative we get rid of that give it a good brush and then we'll drop the flags back on later and then he's doing that and going over there to get started on that then I just need to go in there and do them bricks oh yeah, about that so yeah, head over there now we'll get cracking on that we've dropped, there you go shown this before all backfilled bullies in, tested it Alex started backfilling he's just nipped two of the bricks up there in the bathroom a couple is doing the loose ones on the internal wall and then yeah he's going to start getting revolver, let's get it all backfilled I'm going to go on this now I'll cut it back to the light colour pipe to this pipe because we want to go this way a bit as much as we can so yeah that's the plan, we'll have to smash it out there and then we can pull it out from there so yeah, let's get cracking on this quick updates and then what I've been doing as you can see we uh forgot the bends cord we're going to degree angle now no, it's got a name it's a sweat bend something like that it's a special bend anyway, it's got a foot on the back of it as you drop that's for your soil pipe to come down into so what I've done when I'm meeting the clay is I've actually chamfered the pipe off that much it just slots inside the clay so it can it locates itself bang on so um it's perfectly aligned there because where the bend is here so now I can put the band seal on and um a rest bend that's what it's called, a rest bend so now I can put the band seal on get it all sealed up, get it back filled just put a length of pipe out to bring it out of the ground and then stick it out of the ground far enough then the foam can always take the top off and put the black on top of it or where the colour can be used which always helps because the toilet is disconnected so yeah, Alex is doing all around here he's finished all the bricklaying he's currently left fully he seems to have disappeared that lot didn't he yeah, he seems to have tested it's all working so he's just getting all that in there brushing it all, brushing it flat and then just throwing the flag back down loose just um just for now until it gets done properly like I say, the whole garden is getting done this raised patio is getting dropped because these are going to be patio doors here and here, so the raised patio needs to go so everything is getting dropped and leveled so um right, I'll get back to the time, that's where I get this last little bit done and then I'll jump on this with Alex I think, can we do it well, what dream work that was the easiest stringage we've ever done I like it so just a recap, we have dug down and found that pipe there connected a T to it so we could have a gully over there and we have brought this up to take the waste from the inside to the outside now we're just we've backfilled it, now we're just laying down the flags until the garden is done just so it's safe yeah, that was a pretty productive two days so I better make this wrap up quick because the battery is going to die thank you all very much for watching if you enjoyed be sure to give us a thumbs up and if new to the channel you want to see more be sure to hit subscribe and tap on that bell that way you'll always be notified when we upload that's a massive help and we greatly appreciate the support this has been pipe playing with Steve and Alex and we'll see you in the next video


Mae'n gwybod i'r bwysig ac mae wedyn dweud, rydyn ni'n gweithio'rgynnyn nhw'n gyllidol iawn. A phwylu'r problemau ei dweud i'ch gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio yn y ddweud. A oedd yn y dda ni'n gweithio'r botwm sydd wedi gyd, yn y cyfle yma, mae eich gweithio yn ôl o'r gweithio'r gweithio a'r gweithio'r gweithio. Mae'n gweithio yn ei gwybod i'r brwdeneddau, a gynnau'r arfer o'n ei gweithio. gyda'r idea was that they would enclose these areas, keep their cattle, their sheep back at the homestead, allow the area to regenerate, they'd harvest the grass, they'd take it back to their livestock and they could harvest three times a year. And when we got there we would take it down to the valley bottom. When we were standing there this chap appeared over the horizon and he was called Gebra Michael Dester and I was asking him how things had changed. He said well if you compare the past with the present it's like the distance between the earth and the sky. ON Now this project made an enormous difference to their livelihoods. Now, he has his cattle at home, his sheep at home. He brings the grass to them, his milk yields have increased instead of his children having to go and watch over the cattle all day. The children can now go to school. After we had left him, we were walking along and had lots of children came up to show us their exercise books, and obviously thrilled to bits.... because now they were actually learning something.


HBC dot just radio. Welcome back. Um, we are privileged to bring you today the launch of our HBC you expert series. So this is a little bit different. You guys are used to This podcast air being dedicated to conversation and dialogue about HBC you specific what's going on on our campuses What are the some of the outcomes that we can expect for things that happen around our campuses in the way that they affect our campuses? But this is different We are giving a lot of our invaluable and Beloved sponsors of the HBC you digest which you can become one on patreon.com slash HBC you digest a chance To put forward their expertise out in the air because not only do we have sponsors who so graciously support our work But they are experts and professionals in their own right And so we definitely want them to have the opportunity to get out to the world They're their views and expert opinions on a variety of things going outside of the HBC you campus. So today is our inaugural Broadcast on this and our first guest the guinea pig of sorts is a proud graduate of the university a seasoned HBC professor at several campuses and now a highly sought-after communication consultant consultant and this is dr Erica Sutherland who you can find on all social media at doc Sutherland and at our website www.docsutherland.com so Professor great to have you on this morning to kick this off for us Thank you for having me.  You you've done presentations at our annual training summit long-time support Long-time mother who has corrected it corrected me when I've got not a pocket Corrected I can for the culture typos and errors editor at for hire. I'm supposed to have a book coming out I haven't turned it into you So this is my bad also So you you've been a tremendous resource for the digest over the years and with so much appreciative of that But now we want you to give our listening audience Some of your your expertise in the area of comms And and the first thing I want to ask you is of all the years that you've spent as a PR practitioner a Professor a consultant We are now in an age where PR is facing this very unique culture and that is one of lying Yeah You know you typically see it and you typically hear about it in the realm of politics and specifically to the white House where the press secretary is is dealing with okay? They got a message they want to get out, but the president says something different the press secretary is under scrutiny for lying admitting to lying And now you're seeing this kind of Trickled down to other places first What what's your sense of how this this culture kind of changed it to start with the president? And and and whether it did or it didn't what is your sense of being a practitioner? Who in a lot of ways we you know We often have to interpret the truth of different ways, but we don't lie. That's rule number one. You do not you do not lie So talk about that rule and then juxtapose it to how everybody's lying now Well, I want to start with not everyone you really can't over generalize a whole bunch of people But if there is a there is a significant amount of lying happening today So and in terms of where I began As many things as we can attribute to this current president. I don't think he's the first person who ever lied I'm pretty sure that that's something that obviously has been going on at the beginning of time What has escalated it in the recent past is just a boom of not only the internet But social media and social media culture or digital media culture because people are able to hide Individual citizens are able to hide behind that the veil of anonymity in social and digital spaces and they can portray things that are just not true There's been an entire TV show catfish about it in the data world It's just something that has been because has become a part of our social fabric for better for worse mostly worse and As a professional in the public relations profession I first want to say I hold accreditation in public relations as do many other people who are associated with the public relations Society of America and various other professional entities and We are for lack of a better word sworn to operate under The proper conditions as you mentioned interpreting the truth on behalf of our client but not lying being transparent being truthful Even when it's not always good news and That's something that everyone doesn't subscribe to What is also happening is because of the technology Age that we're in so many people have access to work in this Overall umbrella of communications, which means so many different things to different people and people are just Jumping into the profession without any training Without any sort of professional ethics or standards They feel any type of compelling to abide by and that's what's happening And that's what's happening in the highest levels of our government Sometimes the highest levels of corporate America higher education other industries as well Because people are being hired and being put in these high-level decision-making public-facing positions Where they're not being held accountable and they're only being held accountable to what's going to win the popularity contest so I think the real issue is Amongst whoever they're trying to be popular amongst You know, obviously the president is very unpopular in a large part of this nation and probably the world so I think that what has changed fundamentally is that What people are striving to achieve has changed our people striving to best represent their client and uphold professional standards And the diligent about doing good business. That's not necessarily always the focus now the focus is often on likes and retweets and shares and blogs and Again just winning that overall popularity contest by any means necessary, so I don't know how we fix that But that's where we are. What do you think that that means for the industry at large because it's almost like if you have to turn your role into Communicating a message for currency as you mentioned like likes and retweets right rather than just saying I'm giving you accurate informational representation Right. Do you feel like it's going to evolve into Okay, public relations is It's not the same. It's not even public relations. It's almost it's not storytelling. Is that where you think it's going? Yeah, it's really almost gone back to let me put on my professor hat for a moment to the press agentry phase of the evolution of public relations to The pt Barnum era where it was really just all All spin all fluff and whatever would get people to buy tickets to his events Um, and we're back to that almost right around a hundred years later Um, a little over a hundred years ago is when that kind of a phase in the industry started because there were no professional standards yet Um, of course people have been communicating forever, but as a profession, it's relatively new And so we're going back to that Um, how we got out of that era in the past was that people found that businesses will be more successful By operating under some sort of um, reasonable strategy and standards and ethics Um, so I don't know it what they didn't have was the the abundance of technology that we have now and the speed of communication that we have now So we'll see if this is a phase or an era or if we're just in a new world here Um, I think time Has yet to tell that it seems permanent when we judge through the day-to-day Things that we have to put up with in here in the news But it may not be in the grand scheme of things because that's what I you know, my idealistic hope is But in terms of how we operate I think that What we can best do is individuals in the profession to make sure that we uphold our personal ethics, whatever they are um And I would like to believe that most individuals Um Have a personal ethic that won't allow them to just outright lie on behalf of a client Of course, there are people who do that. Um, and I'm hoping that the majority Is the flip side of that Um But those people who do try to uphold ethical standards are really facing a certain amount of pressure Because you're in competition with people who just don't care And and we'll outright lie admit to lying and continue to do so unapologetically So how do you fit that in with your own professional goals and aspirations and being able to serve a client or even get a job If you're asked to do these sort of things, um, I think that it's really getting tougher And it really boils down to hopefully someone um having a seat at the table In the organization in that c-suite Being able to say okay, we need to operate strategically So within that strategy, we have different functions and if people can find their best fit within this this crazy space Then that would be the ideal situation. Let's talk about two of those functions primary one If I do something good, I want everybody to know about it If I'm in if I'm in crisis I have to respond and get out of it. So let's talk about two examples or one example of each one Let's start with the bad one. So if you were the press Consultant or the press secretary for Baltimore mayor Catherine pew for example.  Okay, this is the first week after you're out So what how do we handle this now because it we're on the back end of the crisis But you're still very much in it. So how would you advise her about what happens today going forward? right, I believe that in the best essence of interest of the city and Especially other black women who may aspire to office and they're being categorized in a group with people who have had various scandals along the year along The history of especially Baltimore I think that it would be important and ideal for her to really be transparent and say I am guilty of Unfortunately putting some of my self-interest Above those of the people of Baltimore and for that I apologize with that apology needs to come some sort of action Whether that be reimbursing Funds that were improperly used. Whether that be Committing to some sort of community service publicly or privately But something to show that she does care about the well-being of the city on an ongoing basis not a one time Let's go to a food bank and do service for two hours and do a photo op something that would be more ongoing Is what would be ideal to help people? Be more drawn to believe her Because people are already inherently distrustful of politicians Especially politicians who have resigned due to his handle for obvious reasons So that will be the ideal situation and especially if she ever intends to uh Enter public life again. She's going to need to clean this up That's not always what happens if she kind of wants to go quietly away into the sunset You may have a different perspective of you know, um, I apologize that I wasn't able to fulfill all of my campaign promises Here are some of these successes that we had during my time as mayor And I look forward to seeing this that you continue to thrive in these other areas and going about your business So it depends on really what what she wants to do if she wants to really clean up her image and potentially have a chance to do something Um public facing in the future That's plan a if you just want to go off into the sunset with some sort of decency Um, it's self-respect plan b. Hmm Here's a here's a good one and I this is a curve ball because I didn't tell you I was going to ask this This is for a good person. So, all right. Let me brace myself.  If you're working with Beyonce Is there something that you Coach her is it is it leave it alone or there are things that you can do that either interject or squash A lot of what's going on line because I would imagine Branding wise it works well for both But I would assume that the hive at some point is going to want to Beyonce to speak to or reference or say something about, you know, I don't think so I disagree with that because Beyonce is on her own throne Literally and figuratively right she's in an another realm and for her to Stoop down to the level of those who poorly try to imitate her miserably try to imitate her Um would be beneath her. I mean again, I mean, but I'm a I'm a member of the hive So you're biased on this issue I'm a member of the hive and of course I'm a member of the hpc you have right so You know, I tend to you know go hard, you know for People who try to dilute what hpc's are all about right um So I definitely think it's beneath her her brand her performance her impact with her with her coachella or b cella performance um Is so highly respected and almost no one has anything bad to say about it leave it alone You know let the imposters be what they are it's very clear what it is and no statement needs to be made the only thing She could possibly do is to continue to uplift hpc's release some new another scholarship program She already has some release another um Program that's going to help hpc students or the schools themselves release a homecoming performance You're gonna you're gonna show up for just to divert the attention back to her But I don't think we need to address the imposters at all That's the thing because it's so interesting. She doesn't seemingly need any brand help She releases albums and movies with no no marketing. Right, so you don't Is it is it something again? Like I said, she's in a different realm What does that is that something you can manufacture? Is that something that you can sit back and say this is the way that we're gonna do it Or is it just that talent just have to meet timing just have to meet technology and you just become that I believe it is manufacture I believe Beyonce's image and brand is highly manufactured and it has been so since she was a child This has been in the works pretty much her whole life started You know under the leadership of her father and she's you know evolved to run it on her own or have other management um But everything that she's done pretty much her whole life has been geared toward her becoming this this Epic superstar So I think that the way that she's crafted her image and her look and the type of music the type of content She addresses the type of performances and and I always feel like I've grown up with Beyonce I'm somewhere in in her age range. I won't give any details But you know, I feel like we we've almost grown up together the things that she talked about with destiny's child As a teenager we're teenage things the things that she talks about now our grown woman things our mama things You know, um, and so That has all been crafted very carefully and I know that she has people who and I know that as an artist She's looking at it herself What her competition is doing that even though she hasn't at this point, but she did at some point in her career um And she's looking to see what's out there. What are people talking about? What are people care about and how can I artistically Represent that and uplift people that's very well crafted. She's an expert at it And that's something that yeah, it could be created because she's not the only superstar who ever existed, you know She's in that realm with you know, michael jackson. I know she highly looks up the senior turner There are a few others throughout time. You only get a few in a lifetime But yeah, it it will happen again, you know, probably in another couple generation or so But it's not something that every entity or every person can do it for someone special But yes, it can be done Fascinating stuff. Uh doc, it's such a pleasure to have you on again remind us all where we can find your website your social media So everybody who's in need of that that communications expertise can can reach out and touch you and and start paying you Sure, um, I'm at doc southerland on social media at doc f o u t h e r l a n d And w w w that doc southerland same spelling dot com. I'm on my website Let me know if you need my assistance. I look forward to hearing from you and connecting with you Thank you, jared for having me


Aloha. Welcome to Global Connections. I'm your host, Grace Chang, and I'm here today with Dr. Linda Learheimer, Professor of History at Hawaii Pacific University. We're going to be talking about the topic of violence against women and the myth of rescue with Linda today. So I welcome her to the program. Thank you. Hi, Linda. Thank you for coming and wonderful to have you here. Thank you for having me.  So can you tell us a bit about your background in the field? Yeah. So I'm a professor of history. I have a PhD in history and my research is on French history from early modern French history, mostly focusing on the 17th century. But I have another hat, which is I teach women's studies and I am the coordinator, the minor in gender and women's studies at HPU. And I've been part of women's studies programs for my whole career since I was a graduate student. I've been teaching women's studies, working for women's studies programs. So this is something that is really important to me. Yeah. And your specialization in French history also is about nuns, right? Yeah. So I work on women and religion, particularly on nuns, and really nuns. It was the 18th century. Nuns with an autonomous spirit. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Really interesting research I know that you do in that field. Yeah. Yeah. One of the few places where women could actually be autonomous and exert power was in the convent in that period of history. Interestingly enough, right? Yeah. So that's why I'm interested in it. Yeah. I mean, your work really, I mean, this topic of women and their autonomy or efforts to limit that, I think this is an ongoing issue, which is what we want to talk about today on this topic of violence against women. In particular, we're interested in talking about this on a global level. Right. Yeah. So I recently gave a talk about this, about global feminisms and focusing on the topic of violence against women and what I call the myth of rescue. It's not really my idea, but based on a lot of recent writings about, I guess, feminism and decolonization, post-colonial feminist theory. Although I'm not really a theorist, more of a practical ... Yeah. ... I focus more on the practical. I think theory and practice really inform each other. Exactly. Theory helps us to kind of interpret that, right? Yeah. Well, one of the things I love about gender and women's studies is the way that what you study applies to real life and it's the relationship between theory and practice.  So as a historian of 17th century France, I don't really get to, you can't really do activism on that subject, but the relationship between ideas and activism is really an important one. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's interesting. I mean, what you study in 17th century France, I mean, we see how the institution has changed over time. So I mean, this is what, history is a very dynamic thing that we see changing. Even up to today, we know, understanding the background is important to understand the contemporary context. In your talk, you talked about the immigration order that President Trump had issued. There was an interesting element that's related to our topic today. Could you tell us about this? Yeah. So most people, when they talk about the executive order, only focus on the travel ban, but there's also part of this pretty long executive order are instructions to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to collect information about people who've been involved in terrorist activities, things like that. And one of the things that they collect information about is foreign nationals who have been engaged in violence against women. And they particularly single out honor killings as something that they want to collect information about. And that's part of the executive order. That's really interesting. Yeah. Why do you think that is included in the, I mean, terrorism is one thing. But I mean, it's not that they're not important, but they don't seem to kind of logically go together in the same category. Well, it actually made me really angry when I found that out because it's like, there are a lot of examples of using what seem like feminist positions to justify really racist positions, racism and Western imperialism. And this just seemed like another example of that. You know, it's not, it's highly unlikely that Trump really cares about violence against women since he's threatened to cut all of the funding for violence against women act grants in the upcoming budget. And we don't know if that's actually going to happen. But you know, like $480 million are going to be cut out of these programs that help victims of domestic abuse and domestic violence. And I mean, it just seems so ironic that there's a focus on what is really minor in the US, at least they're like, nobody really knows how many so called honor killings there are, but no more than 30 a year, 25 to 30, whereas there's 1500 women or more who are murdered by their, their partners or spouses every year. So it's like, okay, that, you know, that's a domestic and so clearly it's in the interest of feeding Islamophobia. Focus on because nobody ever talks about honor killings except in relationship to Islam. But yeah, like a high, that is the statistically, right, the very high level of death, but or women murder of women is in the hands of a loved one, or a partner or somebody that they're intimate with or dating or yeah, so that this is a terrible problem. And we don't I guess I mean, there are statistics being collected about that, but certainly not. There's it's not a priority, at least not for this new administration. So to focus on only on violence against women by Muslims is disingenuous, to say the least. Well, and that's where the post colonial theory kind of comes in, right, because there's been a history of invoking this desire to protect women as as a part of an imperial mission in the colonies, right, during the the 19th century, 20th century. And we heard that with with the American led intervention in Afghanistan against the Taliban, right, how they were treating women. Yeah, so the I mean, just those are great examples. The example it reminds the Trump order reminded me of when the US was preparing to bomb Afghanistan. There was a lot of talk about saving Muslim women from the Taliban. And what's ironic is that women and women who had been making people aware of what was going on with the Taliban and were opposing the Taliban work, they were also opposed to us bombing. So, you know, nobody said to them, Well, would you prefer to be like, oppressed by the Taliban or to have your community bombed? I mean, those aren't real choices. And it was, it really is has been used as an excuse for US imperialism and militarism. If you go back to the 19th century, and I think one of the things that we don't understand, most people don't understand is that I attempt to save women on the part of Westerners has actually had the opposite effect. It's in fact, associated led to an association of the women's rights with Western imperialism, which is actually kind of a lot of the background for why many nationalist movements, particularly in the Middle East are they latch on to, you know, traditional gender roles as representing traditional culture because of that history. In British India, for example, there was a lot of justification for imperialism around violence against women, particularly the practice of bride burning. And the British passed all these laws to try and not just to stop set set, but then to impose their own ideas about marriage on India. And that led to this association of women's rights with British imperialism. So it was hard to when Indian nationalism arose, it was hard to make to it's made it more difficult for women's rights to be integrated into that movement. There's a very strong women's rights movement in India today. Yeah, because of that association with imperialism, the cultural practice is an object of imperialist, you know, efforts to eradicate. So you want to preserve your autonomy so that develop the symbolism of its own that undermines that.  And that's true not just abroad, but also, you know, among minority groups in the U.S. as well. Yeah. And I mean, this practice of Sati is, you know, it's a Hindu practice or associated with certain, you know, communities that are largely Hindu. But, you know, so it's not just Islam, right? It's not just the association. But yeah, just as a general kind of practice looking at foreign civilizations or cultures. And recently, you know, we hear a lot of international incidents, right, of that, that really captured the headlines. Right. The one the Delhi. The Delhi rape case, for example, which kind of really sparked a lot of outrage internationally. But there was also, I don't know if there was a lot of attention to it in India, but you kind of studied that quite a bit. Well, I mean, I talked about this in my talk, I have a friend who's worked on this and told me about these women's groups in India that were really important in raising consciousness about not just about the, that particular case, which became a kind of, you know, huge news sensation and sparked riots and demonstrations all over India. And that's what we heard about. But we didn't hear about these women's groups in India that were pushing for the conversation to be not just about, oh, how horrible this person, that this person was, was raped and murdered, but that we need to, like, put that in the context of the problems that women in India face every day, just trying to get to work and navigating public space. And those conversations kind of fell, I don't know, I don't think most of us heard that, but that was going on on the ground. This one group in Calcutta that my friend has been, was actually part of, because she's Indian, and she was there for some of these protests, was organizing regular take back the night marches every six weeks, I think. So to make sure that this wasn't just a one time thing, and that it became not just a question of protecting women, but of really changing the system, empowering Indian women. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, really interesting. So let's, let's continue this after a little break here, Linda. Thank you. 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Are women and men equal? They're equal. Who's better? Who's better? Tune in. Tune in. Welcome back to Global Connections. I'm Grace Chang, your host. And today we have into the studio with us is Dr. Linda Lurerheimer, Professor of History at Hawaii Pacific University. And we're talking about violence against women and the myth of rescue. So before the break, Linda was telling us about this topic of the incidents in Delhi a few years ago, the very, very horrible case of a gang rape of a medical student. But how the difference was between the international kind of representation of it and what was actually going on in India by women's rights groups. Yeah. I guess the point I wanted to make was that we tend to think that we know how to help people, especially in the West. This is something that really irritates me, that we feel like we know best and that those poor people in the global South, they don't really understand and that we need to enlighten them. I mean, it's a continuation of this, actually of this imperialist project, even by well-meaning people. Whereas in, if you look at that particular case, and it's just one case, two cases, all over like in Afghanistan, this group, the RALA, R-A-B-A, they are, they're the ones, they're working on the ground, they know their communities, they are sometimes they're more progressive than we are. For example, one of these groups in India invited transgender people to participate in their marches. So that kind of challenges our prejudices and assumptions that if you leave the West or you leave the US, it's not people are less, I don't know, less enlightened or don't have, I mean these people all over the world, they know what's best for their communities. They can think for themselves. Right, exactly. They're only to be told, oh, you're oppressed. Yeah, and actually, I think that sometimes we in the West make things worse for them by, you know, by, through programs that actually impoverish women, disempower them. And that's one of the things I think we need to look at ourselves and look at ourselves critically and also look outside of ourselves for models of activism because, you know, what's going on in, around the world is just as or more inspiring and can provide models for us and on how to make changes at home. Right, so this is that part of the myth of the rescue, right? We really are talking about cases that seem to get a lot of international or Western attention, right, because they kind of reinforce for us that, you know, maybe they're not as well along the lines as far as progress and gender relations, but in the efforts to try to save them, are we really empowering and really uplifting and doing meaningful things to change the situations of gender imbalance? Well, and that idea of saving others is just inherently unequal, unequal. It reaffirms this idea that Westerners are superior to others, which is that we need to, like, break and challenge that myth that somehow we're superior. And that, every time we talk about saving others, it really is reaffirming, it's all about, you can never save somebody unless if they're equal to you, right? Yeah, well, sort of like, they're an object to be saved rather than that they have agency. Right, exactly. Yeah, they can tell you or, you know, I guess that's the issue. I think that came out of this discussion is that, yeah, do the people that purportedly are, we are trying to save, do they have any voice in choice? Yeah, well, they should, right?  I think the problem, too, is that sometimes we assume that our problems are everybody else's problems, right? We need to let, not women, because I focus on women, but people in other cultures and parts of the world define what are the key issues for them. So, I think Westerners are really obsessed with, like, women's dress and the repression of women's sexuality. Instead of, like, focusing on, well, asking women in other parts of the world what are the key issues that matter to you? I mean, it might be poverty or, like, water rights, food security, freedom from being bombed, those are feminist issues, too, right? So, I think that it's important for us not to impose our vision of what we think progress for women is on others. Yeah. I mean, in this historical association between, you know, outside efforts to promote women's rights, is there still that association with, you know, in certain countries of feminism, with the imperialist project? I think there is, for some, I mean, obviously, for fundamentalists, people who want to go back to traditional values, I mean, that's definitely part of it, Westernization, and feminism isn't the only thing, but it's associated with Westernization. But I think for women activists who may or may not call themselves feminist, and there are those activists everywhere around the world, I mean, so I think there's a huge desire for a kind of solidarity, not a rejection. I mean, obviously, that's not blanket, but one of the things that was really striking about the Women's March was how many, there were marches on every continent, including Antarctica. This was the march after the inauguration, yeah. And it was really very inspiring because of that, it raised that possibility of solidarity across cultures, and that doesn't mean, solidarity doesn't mean that we all have to agree, but that we need to work together to create global change across boundaries, not creating more boundaries, but finding ways to, I guess, solidarity is working together for a common project, people with diverse interests working together for a common goal. Without imposing agendas locally. Right, exactly. And listening to one another and acknowledging that we may not always agree on what the important issues are. I was, I'm hoping that that impetus will, that that will carry through. Continue onward, yeah. It wasn't just something that happened in the United States, but the fact that women in Africa and South America and all over were marching in solidarity, it's a lot of promise. And very different from what you were talking about, were you started with the immigration order and trying to, or other top down efforts to try to, or use this purported purpose of wanting to save women, versus this really kind of bottom up, like, you know, more empowerment, right? So, yeah, we were talking about how, I'm always very wary about this idea of saving anybody, and one of the, this is true in the Delhi rape case, but also here, when I remember when the allegations against Trump came out, there was all these people who were appalled. We wouldn't want that happening to our wife or daughter, but it's this wanting to protect women. That's almost as, that's almost as bad as that, that impulse to protect is actually, you know, reaffirming women's subordinate status, right? A weaker position. Where the goal should be to empower women and not have them be reliant on male protection. And that was one of the points that the Delhi, or the Delhi feminists were making as well, refusing to let the conversation be about, you know, we don't want this happening to our daughters, but, you know, this is a human rights issue, this is an issue that goes beyond wanting to protect them, and in fact protecting them doesn't solve anything because it just leads to more policing of women. Okay, yeah, so this is maybe one way to see these efforts to protect women from honor killings or from the Taliban and their, is that it's protecting them, but that's keeping them subordinate. That's sort of like reaffirming their weak position.  But, I mean, it's, it is a problem because at the end of the day, what do we do then? I don't want to lead people thinking that we should just, you know. Well, in the beginning you said you were talking about global feminism, right? Yeah, which is kind of... And the S is important, it's not just like one, you know, one movement where everybody's going to agree. You know, we need to find ways to work together across boundaries so that we don't reaffirm, so that we, I mean, we can help each other rather than one person helping the other, rather than it being about saving people. It doesn't appear on the news very often, these issues, unless they're very sensational, but you know, at least, so there are many more things going on than the women's marches across the globe, you know, in January, but that at least shows an instance of that kind of global... So we need to work on the grassroots level to create connections and coalitions to help improve the situation of women around the world. Yeah, yeah, so that's kind of good evidence of that. And I think, well, today we have all of these conversations going because of the unity that has been involving. Yeah, yeah, so the conversation is ongoing. Well, thanks for the great points and this excellent discussion, Linda. Thank you for having me. Come back again anytime. Thank you. All right, thanks. Okay, thank you all for tuning in to Global Connections. I'm Grace Cheng and I'm the host of Global Connections here every Thursday at 1 p.m. See you next time.


spooky, scary, scary, ten centimeters down your spine. It's Halloween time. Hey guys and welcome back to my channel. As I just said, it's almost Halloween time. I mean, it's the beginning of October, which means it's just Halloween season in general for me, although for me and my roommate, Halloween season started in the middle of September. That's when we started to decorate our dorm. But point is, with October and Halloween coming up, is Spukathon is here. That's right. This is my Spukathon announcement video. First off, I want to start this with giving a huge thanks to Books and Lala, because she is the one who has been running this. She used to do it a couple other Booktubers the past couple years, but this year they are unavailable to do it. So Books and Lala, she is just doing it on her own now. So it's really hard to do a Bookathon, Readathon type thing, all on your own, but she has continued to take up the challenge. So I really want to give a great shout out and thank you to her for continuing to do it because it will be my first year participating, although I've been looking forward to doing it for a very long time. So yeah, I just wanted to give a big thanks to her and I'm really, really, really excited. It's one of my favorite things about fall is Halloween and the cooling temperature. And just the aesthetic, the colors, the sweaters, everything. So now I'm going to start with my TBR for this. For those of you who don't know anything about Spukathon, it is a week-long readathon that is in the middle to late October, so that as Halloween comes, you can still have time to do a Halloween type things, like going to haunted houses or going to parties or studying if you're still in school. So this year it is from October 14 to 20, so that's about a week long. And it's the week before Halloween a little more than. So it's really just a great way to get into the Halloween spirit by reading like spooky books. And I'm just so excited to share my list with you. She has prepared five reading challenges for this. She mentioned that there might be Instagram challenges, but you know she's not really sure and that makes total sense. It's really low key this year, which is kind of nice. So yeah, let's get into my TBR and I'll tell you what the challenges are. And of course there will be a link to her announcement video in my description down below. Now let's get into it. So the first challenge is kind of the challenge of the whole Spukathon as a whole. And she does this every year where challenge number one is read a thriller. I mean it's Halloween. Whether you're doing Spukathon or not, reading a thriller is just what you do. So the book I have chosen to fulfill this challenge is like a loose thriller. It's a little more like it's supposed to be a little more horror, but I don't really understand horror books and how they can't be like thriller. Like there aren't really jump scares or anything like that. But anyway, the book I have chosen to complete this one is actually Stalking Jack the Ripper right here from behind me by Carrie Munster Colo. I chose this one because I recently got it when I was at Bronson Noble and I have a whole thing about that in the haul that I did a few weeks ago. But anyway, I think this is a perfect one because it's also a historical fiction, which I don't normally read. And I mean it's Jack the Ripper classic, but it's also Stalking Jack the Ripper. I don't know too much about this book because I don't like spoiling books for myself or other people. And even if you're just giving a synopsis, I feel like sometimes I can be duty dailed. But the line on the back of the book is, I was the girl who loved the Ripper. I'll let that sink in for a minute, yeah. So this is going to be a great Halloween book about murder and just, ah, just the Victorian era have such good murder books. So this is what I'm using to fulfill the first challenge and moving on. For the second challenge, challenge number two, it's read a book with red on the cover. And I had a couple different options with this. And to be totally honest with you, I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do because I have two options. I am thinking of doing, I'm thinking of doing Scythe by Neil Schusterman. Scythe by Neil Schusterman obviously has red on the cover. And as you can see, it's literally about death. This book is about a society in where everyone has figured out how to cheat death and stay immortal. But just because you figured out how to do it doesn't mean you should.  Because some people really shouldn't live forever and so that's what they are all about. And so yeah, there's the red on the cloak as well as along sides. So I'm debating on this one because I've been really wanting to read it and I feel like it's a really interesting book to read for Halloween because it is about death. It's not necessarily traditional Halloween in terms of like monsters or vampires, witches or pumpkins or anything, but like it still counts. Like death, murder, it's still okay. The other book that I'm debating on reading is actually Frankenstein. Smooth, I know. It's Frankenstein because this is just a classic Halloween book and I like this one because here's the red of course, but it also has like a red, orangey like tint on the sprayed edges, which I think is really cool. It's a classic, it's a little shorter, so it's a little more likely that I'll be able to read in a week. But yeah, I mean we all know the story of Frankenstein. It's a classic, I actually haven't read it, but maybe this Halloween is the perfect time to read it for the first time. So I might go with this over the other one, but if I have time I would like to read them both. If I am running low on time then I'm just gonna quick read this one. Moving on to the third challenge is read a book with something spooky and the title and that can be open to interpretation. So like if you think something spooky, if you think witches, vampires, ghosts, you know anything Halloween related as spooky and then if it has that in the title then you know that's completely up to you. The book I have chosen to do is the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman and I chose that because I meant to read it a long time ago, but it's also a book I don't own and it's I'm gonna be reading it as an audiobook. I chose to read the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman and I'm actually going to listen to the audiobook version of it because I don't own it in print and I don't really know where libraries are yet on campus and off campus that would have this book. Plus I think I need to do at least one audiobook during this because you know five books in a week like it's pretty doable, but I also don't know what my homework load is gonna look like during that time. So I want to make sure that I keep up with school and so audiobooks are a great thing for college students. I have a hold on the book so hopefully the library will give it to me in time. It says I should have it in like what was I like two or three weeks, but we'll see. Hopefully they will. If not then I don't actually know what I'm going to do, but you'll figure it out when I start videotaping the blogs and putting the vlog up. So anyway, challenge number four is to read a book in a spooky setting. Again this is very open to interpretation of what kind of setting is spooky for you versus you know. And so for this challenge I've chosen to read House of Salt and Sorrow because I feel like a house where sisters are constantly getting murdered. I mean that's pretty spooky. To live in a house where people are dying doesn't have to be a mansion. There just has to be death and then immediately becomes spooky to me. I also recently bought this book and I was really excited because I got a really great deal on it at Target. So this to me adds a spooky setting. I've also heard that this book is a very creepy book and it's good for Halloween because it's creepy not necessarily scary, which I think is actually one of the best things about Halloween is that it can be creepy as well as scary. So I think this is just going to get that other aspect and that other side of Halloween to it. For the last challenge, challenge number five, it's to read a book you wouldn't normally read. Now first off I just don't normally read mysteries, thriller, horror, anything like that in the genre just because I don't have have a lot of friends that read them so I don't really get recommendations but also with mysteries I feel like there can be very hit or miss is like either I know who it is the entire time and it's frustrating because no one's figuring it out when it's super obvious and then I get annoyed at the book and I just refuse or I have no idea it's a bunch of twist endings and it's really great. I have a hard time finding those kinds of books. I always end up with the duds which is really annoying but I mean it's Halloween spirit I'm gonna get into it no matter what and so the book I have chosen you wouldn't normally read is actually Murder on the Orient Express. I'm having all the fun with this whole reaching behind me thing. It's Murder on the Orient Express. This is a book I wouldn't normally read because it's a mystery. I don't normally read mysteries outside of October just like I don't watch horror movies except for during October or like in preparation for Halloween. But it's another like classic which I like and I need to read more of. I wouldn't normally read this too much. I've been wanting to but now I finally have a good excuse to read it so and again it's Murder so it fits Halloween and everything spooky and creepy. So that is my TBR for the Spookathon Challenge this October 14th through 20th hosted by Books and Lala and I'm just super excited. If you guys are going to participate in it let me know down below by commenting what your TBR is if we're going to read any of the same books or if you're going to read a whole new different set of books. Also if you have any recommendations for me of any good mystery or good Halloween theme book or anything with a spooky title because if the graveyard book doesn't work out I'm going to be very disappointed and kind of blood in the water. So I need backup choices for that and I'm just having a very hard time choosing one because it's like there's so many great options but at the same time I don't know a lot of them so it's like there's nothing which is completely ridiculous because I know that's not true which is why I'm asking for your help. If you like this video feel free to give it a thumbs up and click the subscribe button so that you can actually see the vlog that I'll be taking throughout the Spookathon and then you'll know when it's uploaded hopefully it'll be very soon after the week ends but I'm just gonna do a one week long vlog. Yeah so yeah please subscribe thumbs up comment below tell me your favorite thing about Halloween Favorite Halloween book anything along those lines I would just really love to hear from you guys and I hope you have a happy spooky October be aware of every scary, scary thing that makes a huge difference down the spine.


Welcome to Toffey TV, it is the start of 11 show Newcastle United versus Everton. Let's get into it and go Jordan Pickford. I've heard a few people suggest that Jordan Pickford shouldn't play in this game due to it being against Newcastle and at St James's Park. Maybe it might be better putting Begavitch in goal. I can understand the logic in a way. Begavitch played in the victory of Gullison Park. I can understand that logic to a point, but surely if you're Frank Lampard and you've got your number one goalkeeper, you can't be making decisions on the atmosphere or what your goalkeeper may or may not do. You have to trust them to have a good performance and put all that to the side. Otherwise, I worry about a goalkeeper like that in general or any player like that in general, so I'm starting with Jordan Pickford. Flap back for me for this game at right back. I'm actually going to go with Mason Holgate. He's back from injury. He played in that position and he has played in that position quite a lot. It's not something I'd like to see every week, but let's not forget that Seamus Cormor played on Saturday at Spares and could play against Crystal Palace on Saturday. I just think this is where we came a cropper last season when Seamus was having to play a lot of games back to back. I don't necessarily think that's right for him if you want to get the best out of him. I think he struggled himself anyway in the last couple of games saying they're getting forward. I'm going to start at Mason Holgate at right back and get a little bit more defensive in terms of the position, which we have in general been like that anyway. While Nathan Parsons has been out, we haven't been really that offensive at right back, so I'm just going to put someone in there who is very much an out and out defender. On the other side, at left back Michalenco, I don't think he played particularly well against Spares Arder, but there isn't really a replacement there at the moment unless you count Dwight McNeill as a replacement for him. So I'm going to start him at left back and the two centre backs, Connor Cody and James Talcaws, he picked themselves at the moment and again, Jerry Meane is struggling with an injury. I don't really see Michael Keane as a replacement. I don't think we need to be replaced anyway at this stage. I think he can play all the way through to the Whale Cup and then obviously Connor Cody will probably go away for the Whale Cup, but both of them will have a bit of a rest. I don't think Connor Cody is going to play too many games during the Whale Cup anyway. Intermidfield, I've made a change at Jester Garner Gay out the side again, three games in a week and bringing James Garner in. I think he's played well in the last few games as he, when he's come off the bench, I thought he was very good coming on against Spares and against Manchester United. Him in there with O'nana and with Alex O'Woby. James Garner I think in possession looks really good. I think he has 100% pass accuracy against Tottenham when he came on and I think he gets hold of the ball. He's very comfortable. I think we need that in midfield. We need someone who can calm the game down. I think this game will be a little bit frantic. It always is. Then we need someone in midfield who can get hold of the ball and calm the game down. I think it's Jester Garner Gay's pass on to being a little bit off recently, so I'd have him in midfield as I said. O'nana joining up, trying to maybe get past Malpite at times and obviously Alex O'Woby to try and drive the ball forward. On the wings, I'm going to bring Anthony Golden back. I think his best performance has been away from home this season. I don't think he's been at all good at Gollesson Park, but his performances at home have been good, so I'm going to bring him back. He's a great on the other side. Even though he's a ratic, I think he's always got that level of threat in him. Mr Golden chance against Spades, we know that, but he is a threat and up front I'm going with Malpite. I don't think Dominic Cavallun doesn't seem like he's in any position to start a game at the moment just from listening to what Frank Lampard has to say. He just doesn't know something quite right there. Some are not training all the time and they've got to be careful, so he'll start on the bench again in Malpite. I don't think he's been particularly good himself hard in the last few games and doesn't really seem to suit that being up front on his own, so there's some very, very tough game. I think there has to be a couple of changes just because of the older legs in the team. Use a little bit more of the squad. We'll see what happens. Listen, the manager might decide he might want to bring Tom Davison to the team for a just to go on again or whatever, but this is the 11 I'm going with anyway. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Do you disagree? Let me know. Make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more great videos, join us over on ToffeeTV. Premier the link is in the description. It'll be on the screen in a moment. See you later.


It's so beautiful here. It's safe. I'm surprised that we have such resources in Africa and we keep traveling outside Africa to have vacations. Please let's make use of what we have in Africa. We are so blessed. We are right here in the Gambia. I've had so much fun in the two weeks I've been here. I've not had this much fun. I've practically been all over the world. I've been around a lot of countries but what we have here in the Gambia, what we have in Africa is the best. I assure you. Africa is beautiful man. I might say that Gambia really surprised me. I know right? Not like a small country like that. You never know that they have such a beautiful you know hidden games like this. Like a hidden treasure. I'm telling you man. He already knows. He already knows. Walking in the streets. Oh my goodness like this is so beautiful man. Like for real like I just want to


As recently as December, three months ago, the budget deficit for the coming financial year was going to be almost $100 billion. That figure has come down by a third because of an improved economic outlook. The government spending about a half of that improvement on temporary measures to help people with the cost of living. The improved economic outlook is though largely due to the government itself, although things are a lot better than it expected. The unemployment rate has dived to about the lowest in 50 years, and the budget expects it to dive further still. That is pushing up government revenue from tax and pushing down government spending on benefits. Over five years, the improvement in the budget position just due to unemployment is itself about $100 billion. It's also pushing down government debt as a share of GDP, not because government debt is falling very much in absolute terms, but because GDP, the economy is growing precisely because of the government spending in the COVID years of 2020 and 2021. The benefits are mostly going where you would want them to. Low earners are getting $250 from April. That benefit goes to anyone who is in receipt of government payments. For people who the government describes as middle earners, those on up to $126,000, there's an extra $400 when they put in their tax return, an expanded low and middle income tax offset, which by the way finishes after this year. That would be the last of it. And from midnight on budget night, there's a cut in petrol excess. This will take about a fortnight to flow through. But that will benefit everyone, oddly, and it's the odd measure out in this respect, it'll benefit mainly high earners. High earners spend more on petrol per household than low earners.