We value your feedback. This is all about youth and politics. And today we want to talk about transformational leadership. What is transformational leadership? Who is a transformational leader? And I want to talk about this particular issue there, that this big word that you can say written here, this big word here, what does it mean? Are we considering this word during this coming election? We need to talk about this political party or that political party. Do we have this kind of a leader in the ballot? This is a conversation we need to have even as we talk about transformational leadership. And I have a fantastic panel ladies and gentlemen. To my far right, I am with Kangondu Junior. He is a counselling psychologist and of course next to me I am with Kathleen Morely, a research scientist. Thank you so much for coming. And of course I will engage with us, let us know what you think about this particular issue. The hashtag is one in the morning at Ram Aguko and at Y254 channel, which is the official station handle. And of course let us know where you are watching us from. Let us engage about this and of course you can ask your questions. Feel free to share your opinion in regards to this matters concerning transformational leadership. But before we get into the integrity, first things first, Kangondu. It's been a while since you met. Oh yes, it's been a minute. It's been a minute. Tell us how you are doing and for somebody who is just meeting you for the first time, something a bit more about what you do. Yes, thank you so much Ram. Happy to be back here. My name is Kangondu Junia from Mankia, Africa and also working with my good friend Kathleen and the future leaders, you know, GBR, Kenyan chapter. I'm a counseling psychologist. GBR, business round table. Global business round table. Yes, where she is the chair and I'm the vice chair. The future leaders, Kenyan chapter. So under her leadership we did some amazing work with transformational leadership and also working and supporting young people to grow in a holistic way. I'm a counseling psychologist and also a transformational coach helping people to negotiate life stages from one level to the other and also manage life issues as they come about. Earlier on we have talked about is it that there are so many challenges or is it that people don't have the mechanism and the ways to deal with the issues that most of them are not equipped and that's where we are there to heal nations and transform lives. Kathleen, um... Kathleen, a bit more about what you do for somebody's meeting for the first time today. Okay, alright. So my name is Kathleen Moribi. I tend to think of myself as a thinker of my generation in one of Africa's most forefront young leaders. When you mentioned that statue of the thinker... Yes, exactly. Yes. Yes, exactly. I'm very passionate about how young people are using their ingenuity combined with the nexus of technology to champion innovative solutions that solve global challenges and also accelerate the economies of the world. Thank you so much for coming and I appreciate your presence. Let's talk about what a transformational leader is. I'll get both your opinions in regards to this particular terminology because, yes, we're talking about a transformational leader and for someone who is listening they are like, ah, kizumu mingi. Kwaili? What is this transformational leader by definition in your own words? I'll go by the word itself. The word transform. Something is to influence something in one or another. It could be in a negative aspect or it could be in a positive aspect. But if you're looking at it from a positive spectrum, transformational leadership is the ability to influence or to provoke positive change within the societal structure. So we're looking at systems that are already in place but you have identified gaps that need to be changed for the betterment of the expected outcome. I'll give an example of a transformational leader, Kibaki. During his tenure we were able to see the adoption of the constitution and it is from the practical aspect of that constitution and in its status of play that we were able to see other transformational leadership coming into existence and borrowing from that and being very confident into explaining or disseminating information that they feel members of the society could consume in one way or another. Yes, yes. So the difference in transformational leadership I like what she is saying and transformational leadership is not just about the position because every other person can be a leader by the mere fact that they are in that position but they are merely doing nothing about transforming their lives and also changing their lives. And I'm thinking of John Maxwell when he takes us through the stages and the levels of leadership not only the position but also getting to think on the performance that they are guiding and walking through with and also changing their lives. The thing is, yes we have leaders but they don't have visions and the question is if they don't have a vision will they be able to help us to get to where we want? It's not only having the vision but also having the means and mechanisms of getting us there. And this is where Kathleen is talking about when this particular position or you are a leader in a certain segment or other leaders because we have seen so many gaps when one's regime is over and done we don't have people who are coming up people that can be able to take their position and no wonder we get to hear say during the barriers of a prominent person and especially the leaders we can't fit in their shoes but the question is what they are able to actually mold and ensure that they are able to help other transform to the kind of a leader or leading to a transition from one leader to another that is smooth. Precisely. And that's very important because we have seen the gap and no wonder we go for the who is who or Tom Dick and Harry in the village by the mere fact that we are related by blood or even we share the same neighborhood and this is not that they have quality leadership styles and this is how we say this is our son and when we have such as a qualifying factor for these leaders then we go wrong. So that means the needs of this particular community, society are not going to be met. And so we got a tissue but I am looking at the Kenyan setup and of course we are going to connect this with the Kenyan youth because the majority of what is other youth absolutely. And we agree that if the youth know what they are doing then they will vote for the right people. When it comes to a transformational leader how can you pick out a particular transformational leader from the rest? Is it possible? Yes, we have seen them being in office for so many years and some are fresh because during these coming elections we have fresh faces that are coming out. How can you pick out a transformational leader from the crowd and make the right decision? I think it also boils down to an individual understanding of what leadership is even before we even get to what a transformational leader is. And leadership to me is both an art and a science. You need to have a certain talent for you to be able to influence a crowd towards a certain dimension. But you also need to have certain techniques that you will use to influence this change that you want to see in the community. So as youths we need to look at it from that point. There are so many people who can be leaders you are a leader in your own fort but are you able to influence people towards the change that they want to see in their own community. So now this is where Kagondis talking about the gaps. Is it in the policies? Is it in the advocacy issues? Is it in the institutional frameworks? Is it in the regulations? Yes. Yes. Yes. If you look at the examples of transformational leaders that we have, most of them are very quiet. There are not people who will go out and shout I am going to do this and do that. You look at their actions. At the end of the day actions speaks louder. What have they done in their own fort? So that now you can actually magnify that into how they are going to impact the change once they become the leaders that they want to become the leaders to take. You look at it from what have they done so far. So the past influences the future in this case? Not entirely. The achievements, the lessons, the growth. Everyone has a past but what have you achieved from your experiences in the past? What are the lessons that you have picked? How have you applied that in your daily life and can we see the progression? That is something that youths should be able to look at it at that kindly because it is from that point that they are able to say this is a transformational leader. Because there are so many types of leaders, so many styles. We have the autocratic leadership. You talked about servant leadership. There is a strategic leadership. There is democracy that we have in Kenya which is very participatory and consultative but is that on paper? Do we see it on the ground? Even as we talk about transformational leadership is it just words? Do we see it on the ground? Do they have the potential to be transformational leaders? Because you can't start when you talk about there are so many people that are coming up to fight for this position. Does that mean that we did not have transformational leadership before? Do we need to look at it from an aspect of capacity building? Do we need to train them? Do we need to increase the knowledge based on what leadership is all about? Because it is from that point that we will be able to understand these gaps. I like that and especially because what you have seen today when you talk about new faces in the arena there are a lot of showbiz in the whole spectrum. We have seen people walking down in the streets taking photos, selfies with the mamambogas and all that in the name of serving these people. The question is what they are before and this is where Kathleen is talking about it has to start with the individual first even before you come to the limelight. Could it be that you are also transforming these mamambogas that you are taking photos with as you are giving them handouts as you are giving them some tokens something to inspire their businesses in one way or the other? The question is what happens after that? Is it just for the mere fact that you want to be seen? Is it just for the likes and also for the followership? We have seen so many leaders who come for that particular occasion when they are looking for the votes and all that but then after they get into their offices they get those positions you see them at the end of their time coming back to ask you can you get me back to their office and I am going to do ABCD but they never deliver and the question is when they are doing those photos when they are going to the mamambogas giving them 500 bob do they have the desire and also the interest of these people or is it just a personal interest to ensure that they are showing that they are doing something like where I come from I have seen roads that have not been done for the longest time possible and that has been one of the things that they use to do the campaigns every other person is coming down saying that I am going to tamak this place I am going to pipe water to these homesteads we are going to get electricity but it has been done since time immemorial so what we like is people do what they mean even as we talk about people who don't do what they are saying because we are talking about promises being made and nothing being delivered in some instances now does it mean being a transformational leader can be challenging even if someone is yes there is a dark side to transformational leadership dark side yeah there is a dark side to everything basically most transformational leaders always begin with the end in mind they don't look at the minor details I see myself building a road I see myself developing the infrastructure of this place but do you have the right people to begin with you are just looking at the bigger picture but what is the road map are resources part of it resources are part of it key resources, key activities what is your unique value proposition how are you going to do things differently so you are selling the bigger picture but you are not selling the road map so it becomes very difficult for people who are exposed intellectuals and that's another disadvantage to leadership how do you stimulate the intellectuals because they know what you are talking about is capacity building part of this particular issue here it is if the members of your community are not exposed to certain ideologies if you are not stimulating them to certain intellectual capacities how will they understand the road map I will build this school but how is it benefiting them I am going to build this hospital how is it benefiting them you will build the hospitals but it is not going to be beneficial to them in the long run they will say the hospital will be just a building because we have seen roads that are not built, I know places I travelled to a particular area and that road was pathetic and I was asking myself this what leader what kind of a leader is this and I ended up asking myself so many questions, is it about the leader or the people of the leader working with all the resources what could be the challenge here when you talk about the vision and how to get there that could be the main challenge and I love the fact that we are looking at the resources and the people surrounding you and this is where the thing to do with mentorships comes about you need to mould other young people or even people near you around your table to actually ensure that they also are able to transform and also deliver on the things that you promise to your people many other times we are just about to get to the rainy seasons but the sad matter is that we also have people complain that they are being carried along by the floods and all that then immediately after that they will be drought and the question is, is it that we are really that equipped, we don't have the capacity to actually deliver in terms of even the food security and also the infrastructure and when you get to hear about the farm it's not that we don't have the rents or the waters it's only that we don't have the right infrastructure and this is where the leaders have to be very intentional in terms of meeting the needs of these particular people so it's not just about building the roads or putting up a certain facility and all that, do they meet the needs of these particular people because like you saying you can have some big buildings you can have some very big resource centers but they are actually those are just dead capital or rather funds that are just sitting there without benefitting their people and this is where they have to be really in touch with the needs of their people you don't have to be in the city that's where your bedroom is and you just show up in the village or where the people are for the name of just getting the votes or just showing that you are there so if we talk about being in touch then does it mean that it is not actually the best kind of leadership in my own opinion it is not it is not it entirely if it stands on its own if it stands on its own if it stands on its own because it makes the leader feel a certain way remember the followers of the community are borrowing from the vision of this transformational leader so what happens if the members of this community do not buy into the vision what happens very true because we have seen even those transformational leaders that you are talking about tending to apply the other types of leadership when there is need be so we can say that entirely we have to be a transformational leader but the thing is are you aware when need be to actually portray a certain character in terms of the other leadership styles because you can be so tender you can be so soft you can be a man of the people but there are situations that require you to be hands on and actually instilling and also commanding like putting your foot forward to ensure that things happen so the thing is are you able to dictate are you able to actually pick when there is need be to play these different roles a good example is what we call now the CAPS county action plans was there public participation to say that Nairobi County these are the pillars that we are going to implement do the youth know these things exist when you say media and entertainment that's one of the pillars how are you impacting the youth in terms of media and entertainment do they even know what are the channels that they need to use for them to be impacted as a youth who is living in Nairobi County what can I do you see now that that's an ideology of a transformational leader but are the youths buying into this vision do they have an idea of the existence of this kind of thing so you have to borrow from all kinds of leadership styles there has to be the participatory approach which now brings democracy into play sometimes you have to be autocratic if they are in discipline you have to be authoritative yeah this is how things are this is what we need to do and this is how I mean it when I say ABC and there is a time to apply one yes yes yes yes so if that is the case it means the solution leadership is standing on its own is going to be very challenging it's assuming that everything works in an idealistic way right now if that's the case what should somebody do when they are in a position where they do not understand the kind of leader they are dealing with you see the kind of leader where you don't know their mind you don't know what their next move could be and of course it's always hidden it's always that hidden card that they play that of course you will only realize it when you are at that particular point and it's too late and then it's already being played that particular card how then do you handle yourself in that particular time point in time when you are talking about the point of view from the follower yes I think also to mention that most leaders have a personal vendetta we cannot run away from that you have to do a little research as an individual you cannot be led by mass you cannot just follow the crowd what are your needs as an individual what are the gaps for example as a youth I am unemployed who is talking about unemployment crisis in Kenya right now who is talking about how we are going to change the policies that affect MSMEs people that are starting their businesses who is talking about the regulations business law do youths understand business law you started a business do you understand the laws that govern the kind of business that you are doing do we have leaders that educate youths about this so at an individual basis level understand that person do research on that particular person yes connect and connect with your needs because it is only then will you be able to identify I identify with this person why is everyone talking about this leader who is am I allowed to say the name no problem why are you so passionate about this person have you read his manifesto I haven't come across it so many people are very passionate about this leader why so here we have different leaders and just to mention for example if it is him he has stood out in a particular area and that's what makes him to be a subject of conversation yes there is a need he has identified and he has capitalized on that and so have the areas if for jokwa is weed ruto is haslas that's what you talk about here but now the thing is there is no rationalism there you are looking at it from an emotional perspective and that's where we go wrong and from the leader side they capitalize on that capitalize on that it's very easy for you to send emotions it's very easy and if I see that this is what you're desperate about I'm going to sell it even if I don't see any value from it and that is what this leaders are doing so it is for us as youths to rationalize everything let's look at things from a logical perspective in the next 5 years how will this leader impact my life and again as I say research where do I want to be in the next 5 years then marry your perspectives together with this leader I like it when you bring that element of emotions because emotions actually makes things happen and if you are able to touch the emotions of the followers and all that they are really able to connect with you as a leader and you see the followers from the other end we always complain that the leadership the government is doing nothing absolutely nothing in terms of our civic duty in terms of getting to letting us but it's very important for us to understand that you also have a mandate a responsibility individually to ensure that we get empowered and this is when we say that this is a possibility of having a leader with no portfolio or even now we can be able to pick what they have done see what is happening once they get their liwi or their certificate to contest in a certain seat we are seeing the media houses putting out a portfolio meaning that everybody has a footprint that they have left behind something that they have done before and also this is why we need to really be aware of the people that we have and are placing on those positions because you can tell me that my area MP is someone that I can do some homework on this is somebody that I have here though we can rely on that only but you can be able to pick where they have been what they have done before most of these leaders get into the political arena they could be in the corporate world or even in a certain institution what has been the history now let's talk about that particular part what has been the history is it right or okay for a leader to get offended because some do get offended when you question them or what they have done in the past but you did this you cannot deliver if you did this in the past and they get offended they are like oh this guy he is hurting me and that is the notion everybody wants to defend themselves and ensure that they get to that position but the thing is you can tell me that I am going to perform and my track record is not showing the same and this is why we say everybody leaves a footprint everywhere they get to and this is why we get to hear someone was in a 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Alexander Panov, welcome to WPC-TV. You're a former deputy foreign minister of Russia and also, of course, your ambassador in Tokyo, here in Seoul. So you really know this region extremely well. What do you think of American foreign policy in this region, the pivot to Asia and so on? First of all, I would like to say that I am now deeply involved in studying actually American policy to this region, especially toward China. And I would like to say that, of course, the United States had a great role in this region. It's out of question. It will be, well, not realistic to realize that maybe to prognose that America may leave the region. It's absolutely not so. But at that time, for American policy, the greatest problem is China. What to do with China? It's really so. And well, up to this moment, there is no clear strategy, as I see. Of course, it's a combination of containment and cooperation, which is the main pillar of American policy toward China. Sometimes it's more containment, sometimes it's more cooperation. But still, what is China? What will be China in the next decade, for instance? What must be the response of the United States? It's not yet clear. And sometimes it's steps which are, well, natural when the United States is trying to invite China to some cooperation. But on the other hand, America is not hiding its attempts to contain China and arranging alliances, arranging relations with some countries, and which China regards as deterrence policy. And what does your country, Russia, feel about this? Well, Russia, unfortunately, is still not so much involved in the relations in this region. And we, I mean, some politicians, diplomats, and business people, we insist that Russia should be more involved in affairs in this region. But reality is such that the Far Eastern region and Siberia has not developed much enough for Russia to play some big role in this region. But at the same time, we saw that many countries of the region would like to have Russia here in Asia Pacific as a balance to China and to United States. So small countries, they prefer, of course, not domination of any power. So, well, we have some room for maneuver. But at this moment, of course, we're more and more inclined to have relations with China, which is natural, because there is no other choice. But at this time, for me, as for my ambassador to Japan, it's clear that we should pay more attention to our relations with Japan as well. Dutch Prime Minister, thank you very much.


What's good everybody Chris from jasses case breaks calm doing 2023 tops finest baseball eight box case PYT number three all Cardship between this is the third that we've done in the last couple hours. It's been hot So let's keep on rolling with it, right? Then a fresh case PYT style means we're all good to go From the three up top Tristan with the D bags James with the last bottom mojo in the white socks Tristan with the D bags all the way down to Michael with the gnats Let's Get to stepping Really the main thing is just the rookie color. I've been so good in every case and our big names to not just you know Guys who have played four games and then got demoted, but you know our big names Jordan Walker Adley Volpi Let's keep it going though Eight more boxes PYT three. Thanks again y'all good luck. I've got single digits on four for sure Let me just double check how much I've got left on the site 7 11 14 and 15 for four five six and seven respectively So we can walk all night on the finest folks new release for today Mets James M was eating there Alvarez Sanga just missing a bread baby. I'm sure James wouldn't mind more of the same So see what we can do here first box. Let me let me grab one for the for the man real quick If we do I won't do my spiel or always try not to but you know Let's let's just say future Hall thing. That's awesome. That's awesome. Come on Yes, sir, I Think for the big the big picture for the marlin's gonna be Max Meyer I think a top five pick in 2020 and then the birds have a few Garrett Mitchell rice terrain Joey Weemer They've all had some moments throughout the season. I think they've all kind of dealt with injuries, but they get healthy Sky's the limit man. Let's hope we pull some big monsters for a will For Mike everyone is in this break. Good luck. Thanks again. James blast Bob mojo has been hidden last to have been hit I'm starting up James M one more time Starling Marta Well, excuse me Joey Joey P. How's the Mets here? I'm shocked Starling Marta Mets first auto refractor rookies at finest Michael Harris the second From the Christopher Morell rookie refractor in a sleeve Nice big bopper for the Cubs and will The Michael Harris going to the Braves and D. Why he was a cut I won't do it Some people don't want to hear it. Oh Nice time to get this one nine out of 99 on the true green butter Henderson rookie nice Aaron with the Baltimore Orioles The monster game yesterday against the Yankees in the Bronx to Congrats, man Golds and an extra We had a few boxes of the next shot of and Aaron will come in about this one Jim Palmer 14 out of 50 on the auto the whole fame Nice there you go Aaron There's a Volpe right off the rip like blue Austin Riley 212 out of 300 for D. Why and the Braves Corbin Carol with a Francisco Alvarez base this time Shot to not see him in any kind of color. We've been hitting so many of them today Corbin Carol going to Tristan and the D backs Matt Smith got the Yankees and the Volpe Nick Prado on the vapor 68 of the 250 Kansas City Royals Donald He's not some moments this year too. Yeah, Nick Prado Man, he sounded for a second Kyle Stowers Aaron Billings and clean it up here I thought it was Gunnar for a second Kyle Stowers on the rookie refractor auto for the Orioles Jordan Walker, you know the big era on the rookie refractor as well for the pirates and Adam Man I thought we got him for a sec Shades of series two Gunnar Adley and Kyle Stowers all seem to have the exact same card art That was an annoying pretty great first box. Keep it going here. We want more of the same I will say that 2k 24 cover the black mamba edition I I don't want to give pte money or pre-order, but man that cover is pretty sweet The companies don't even do like physical copies of the There's no no, there's no cd. We're gonna disk. I want to mess with it But we are all tilted which is very annoying and a 250 Carlos Korea for the Minnesota twins Oliver on the board That's not Joe Mallor Brown rookie refractor as an Adley other Josh Young for Tristan and the Rangers I'm a Jordan Walker for Joey.  Miguel Vargas with the refractor. I'll throw a sleeve on Maybe Vargas going to the Dodgers Chris Butler Nick Prado one more going to Donald and the Royals There we go. That's a nice one 186 out of 300 on the blue light blue Corbin Carroll Nice one for Tristan and the D-backs And our next auto Ken Waldechuck Rookie pitcher for the eighths when we go to Ed P on the refractor I want to get a man. I think I've ever pulled a mower personally for someone free bonus Could I send one more for the mess 48 out of 199 on the teal For Joey, excuse me Eight out of the 848 out of 150 just looks weird I'm scared to touch the camera Because now it's noticeably tilting I think we're all right The camera just explodes What's the finest? Jose Altuve Next auto going to be Alec Burleson Rookie for the Cardinals It's going to go to Joey Al Burleson working refractor auto Jose Altuve going to Houston and Aaron. Let me have a call on it Houston's name too often Heather Cardinal, Wilson-Contreras 54 out of 99 St. Louis, Joey On the green Josh Young Rookie More for Tristan, one more Jordan Walker For Joey And our Rookie's finest auto, Gabrielle Moreno Nice break so far for Tristan. We're only three boxes deep Gabrielle Moreno on the finest Rookie's auto Nice one Volpe on the rookie refractor and a blue Jose Ramirez for Cleveland and Jacob 110 out of 150 on the JRAM Nice Volpe refractor for Matt and the Yankees Logan Ohapi Finest Rookie's for Rob and the Angels And one more Adley for Aaron Purple Max Scherger for the Mets and Joey 201 out of 250 One Grisham Rookie refractor in there as well Let's watch Rampage This is Rampage Baby That's Creed II Is Rampage not on? I'm telling what? Six? Play to get the highlight On the rookie auto, starts off with box four Cleveland Guardians top cross, but just got called up A couple weeks ago, Cleveland Guardians, Jacob On the bow and nail of Rookie refractor auto Volpe Got a nice one for Matt Smith and the Yankees Teal Shimmer 27 out of 175 Anthony Volpe And the rookie color had been killer in this product so far The couple nice ones every single case There we go Congrats Matt Next auto, ooh another nice auto First off, 121 out of 251 Soto for the Padres And Cassandra and a Christopher Morrell 125 out of 150 Got a real hard hot start to the season Chicago Cubs and Will Nice Will, congrats Christopher Morrell Out of 150 on the blue auto Miss Adeline, it's Jordan Walker working with refractor Great first half of the, I'm telling you man Just something about this finest Logan Webb, out of 300 on the white blue For the Giants and Ada And the Christopher Morrell and the rookie finest Max Meyer on the Rookie refractor as well Nice man, congrats then Sometimes all you got to do is ask Got to rule it into existence sometimes Nice hit, let's keep it going though Second half of this case I really want to hit one of those Finest rivalry die cut autos Dual auto It'd be a heck of a randomizer But that'd be pretty fun to hit too Got some summery going Blazers and rockets tied Blazers just took the lead on a Shaden Sharp layup 62 to 60 Five laps in the third Shaden Trump got 13 points and five rebounds But a couple of our top four picks Scoot Henderson at pick three for the Blazers Allman Thompson at four for the Rockets All's kind of waiting for Victor And it's the Vickerman Yamashita tonight In just 40 minutes Exciting man It feels to me Like when uh When Stephen Shostard made his debut For the Nats Everyone, even if you weren't Like my mom who did not care about Either the Nationals or the Pirates Even she was like oh my god Like let's watch For the longest time I had it taped On my DVR The Tivo did Remember Tivo? On Direct TV? Good times All right Box five here Starts off with Natalie With Josh Young Another Gabriela Moreno 112 out of 199 on the Teal I'll call it a color match With the uh The Teal jerseys there One more for Tristan And the Divas Got a Bryce Turing, Teal Shimmer And a Green Nester Cortez Nasty Nester Two out of 99 for Matt Smith and the Inks I haven't really seen a lot of Nester Cortez on it So that's pretty cool Nasty Nester on the Otter And the Teal Shimmer, Bryce Turing There we go There's one for Mike And the Brewer's 28 out of 175 That's one coming out of there We pick up in that stack Calralli out of 250 Seems to have a lot of Calralli color I'm sure that Ed will complain For the Mariners Is this Nice Other fierce rivals Oh it's the Black and Yellow The Black and Yellow Pretty much one per case of these For the New York Yankees Derek Jeter Fierce's Robert Lee's Diethead That was nice right there Yankees box here for Matt Smith One more Gunna And how about this one for the Rangers 53 out of 75 on the Rose Gold Josh Young That was a sharp looking card right there 53 out of 75 Josh Young Nice one Tristan and the Rangers Congrats I thought Calralli was like really good last year And one more for them It is a Yankees box Play Holmes On the Refractor Auto M1 Play Holmes or Refractor Auto Excuse me Oh so you're a wine Got it It was a windmill Okay okay Very nice Find us Rookie's variation Is you killed Tovar He got it obviously Obviously last year with the talk with baseball Was Jayron For the Rookie's But Calralli I mean that home run The walk off home run To quench the postseason spot Obviously a lot of people talked about But you put a really good defensive catcher Good switch hitting power back behind the plate too Like super valuable So it would always catcher starting to switch it You know baseball pioneer Matt leaders You know I get it Matt leaders you know Big force When you talk about like the Mount Rushmore Guys who change the game You know satchel page Jackie Robinson Breaking the color barrier You know Babe Ruth Ken Griffey Calralli is written You know just another student of Matt leaders Adley Matt leaders You know the Baltimore World Switch hitting pipeline It's right there Bunch of rookie Bunch of great rookie color G-O-L How about a Mike Traut auto on a 25 There's been some fire We've only done only finances Our third case of finance today But it has been fired every time Bro we're rocking and rolling We are cooking in the lab here Bolby color Corbin Carroll color Josh Young color Blacks of Francisco Alvarez color Hell we may even pull an Elie Del Cruz He ain't even in the checklist And he might be here I don't know Finance is just that thing hot right now It's not possible for this It might be I don't know man Finance is just kind of crazy Like I said I got four more cases of this on the site right now And then we can probably vote up some more after I got seven cases Total Four, five, six and seven The remaining for PYTs JazzpieceCaseRikes.com Here's box six though See if we can get some of the nice low number here yeah Green Lava Six out of ninety nine on Louise Castillo It's a beauty man Oh a green green Sean Green auto Thirty six out of ninety nine One of my all time favorites growing up For the Dodgers Chris Butler Four home run in a single game He's a big bopper Nice Sean Green auto And a green speckle Obache Forty eight out of one twenty five Toronto Going to go to Richard On the blue the Seekiel Tovar Seventy two out of one fifty That's that color match I'm talking about baby Seekiel Tovar out of one fifty for the Rockies Joseph King He said the Rockies down the head There's always a right There could be none at the headline They're shuffling the card though Other Anthony Volpe World's finest trade turner And a Simeon Woods Richardson Second auto here For the Minnesota Twins and Oliver Going backwards now man This is not Joe Mallory But one more working twin And one more auto For all of them Nice Got a gold Forty two out of fifty Riley Green gold Not too bad right there For the Detroit Tigers and Steven He had some momos throughout the year See if we can keep it going Detroit Steven Nice Riley Green gold Doesn't matter rookie color has been hot It's not the twins we want though Just we want the one We want the hometown hero The MVP The three time batting champ You know The future MVP Who's your whole family Justin Morneau I love Justin Morneau He's too much to include Morneau, Maurer Jason Kuehl Remember Jason Kuehl Michael Kedier Chris Herman Chris Herman I caught his first career for a month Did you really? Yeah And it was just getting pretty dope Who was he supposed to fly? Joe Mallory left the Because his kid was immediately born Hey congrats to Joseph Hey congrats to Chris Herman too Who else was? I don't know why there are so many mediocre twins They just does a following Joe Mallory But I remember like Ryan Dolman was catching games for them When he went to first You know I remember He was a mediocre But I remember rookie Carlos Gomez He was all the twins Obviously Joe Nathan Yeah these are a perennial Who's who? Of Of You know what I'm remembering On purpose You want something to punch you all over it? Maybe Wait hold on So you You sell your tickets Before Shoei and Mike Trout If you heard Shoei You know Shoei Johan Santana hits you And then has Arvin Probably from the rest of his career Oliver Do you have something to tell us? I don't know man Kind of some shady stuff going on with you I don't know I don't know man Is he the Urgent Santana? Johan Santana Oh Johan Oh the ball at Dr. Stadium That's Johan Santana Do not Do not say that's Johan Santana I'll dare you He gave that team It's first no hitter And literally sacrifices career because of that Go nuts Should be a whole family He was shocked by the ball and it hit you Go on Johan Maybe throw up with his With the left arm or the right arm Maybe he's keeping the left arm safe Another fiercest or finest rivalry is Dica Gonna be Juan Soto for the Padres One more for Cassandra Go to one more Black and Yellow On the finest rookies Michael Harris the second Nice Looks like he might be heating up Black and yellow Michael Harris Going to the Braves And D.Y. I'm in It's a pretty good bucket list to have Pinky Olderan At a 250 for the Rangers One more for Tristan Is Josh Stung in there? Yes Josh Stung isn't there Our next auto The Old Group Aguerra 39 out of 150 Four more Pirates top prospect Pittsburgh Going to go to Adam Cupperman 39 out of 150 They maybe need to look out for this year too They may play Spoiler I think it's a little too late for them In early July Right around the All-Star break But you know or not Reds cool down Pirates might need a My friend Johnny Without the Outer Stadium Was a kid For a freeway series game And he got B He got They're taking BP And Vladi Senior was in the outfields Excuse me real quick Look at this 5 out of 10 This is a crazy looking card Ronald Acuna Jr This is a nice looking card This is a Clean-ass card for D.Y. and the Braves That's a sick photo of them too What is this parallel called? This is fire Our lowest card On a parallel so far We had an out of 5 auto But this out of 10 What? Red and black vapor D.Y. But yeah Red and black vapor Out of 10 Nice man congrats Total looking card Next up Jordan Grosschance Looky refractor auto for the Marlins Going to go to Mike Thompson There we go Mike Yes sir This has been another nice box Got a big one coming up too Rookie color has been killer And it keeps going 39 out of 300 White blue Francisco Alvarez Joey P and the Metz Metz have been killing it today If the Metz are available in the rest of these breaks Hey man you gotta think about snatching them Bryce On the blue aqua vapor Out of 250 our cover boy For the Phillies It's going to go to Steven For D.Y. with the refractor I'll throw the sleeve on as well So yeah my friend Johnny Is in right field when they were still doing all you can eat And Vladi senior is taking Just fielding in the outfield for BP He doesn't remember who hit the home run But Vladi it was a brown roll double Vladi senior is like going for a fly ball And just kind of lets it go And my friend Johnny is like eating a hot dog or whatever It bounces into the stands Thonk hits him in the head And he's like what the heck And Vladi senior sees this happen And he just points and laughs at him He points and laughs at this like 10 year old kid And so for like the rest of his life My friend Johnny has had like an irrational hatred Of Vladimir Giorgio senior Hates his son Hates him Causes him a bum Just you know everything Dude Vladi Your game I was sitting with like 10 rows up the first base line Or the third base line Yeah Before the net's up there So and he sweets, he throws the bat It hits my mom in the shoulder Oh my god It shoots up five more rows I'm assuming she was okay Yeah yeah she's nothing like that She was fine Did they give her a ball? Did they lose?    And just for telling Give me Jackson and Matt all over the chip All right The eighth and final box I'm a pretty stacked case of finalists Let's keep it going here We got more to find us up in the shop right now Oh Josh Young Rookie Otto One more banger from this case Tristan grabs one more Woo Josh Young Rookie Refractor Otto Nice man congrats Nick Prado on the lava out of 100 Nice one here for the roles of Donald 50 out of 100 I do I remember for Nano Rod You play for like a trillion teams With the sideways cap The bow and arrow The bow and arrow Pretty dope Orban Carol Rookie Finest variation Matthew Libertura on the Rookie Refractor in there Alex Bregman 112 out of 199 on the teal Houston Astros and Aaron And one more for the Rangers Little Rangers box Marcus Simeon 4 out of 99 on the true green Otto It's in the All-Star game Having a heck of a year Tristan and Texas Nice man congrats again VP of Interstitial and Intermediate Oh no All over And a green speck of little color match Shintaro Fujinami Oakland A's and P One more parallel Got a light blue Zach Lillard 284 out of 300 Why would he do that? Why would he do that?  Yeah that's not nice man That is pretty funny though I can't find it As long as you both laughed about it All right we'll do another recap here So all of these are going to get top loaded Lots of color Obviously our big rookies As well Then we'll do an autograph And top loaded Parallel Recap Marcus Simeon Nice Josh Young Rookie Otto This 5 out of 10 red and black That's a sick one for Acunia Black and yellow Michael Harris Gold Riley Green The Rose Gold Josh Young Black and yellow Derek Jeter Christopher Morello on the auto Gabrielle Moreno on the Corbin Kerala 300 Gunnar Henderson out of 99 And the starting where I take this start us off Another pretty crazy case Number 4 on the site at Single Digits Right Now JaskiesCaseBrief.com Thanks again y'all, bye-bye


When I was 11 years old, I came to America from Ukraine, and when I was 13, I had a dream to get a bike.  We had a bike, but we had three other brothers that we had to share. So, as an immigrant, we came to America, you know, land of the free, you know, land of opportunities. I'm like, I'm gonna give myself a bike. So, at the age of 13, I started looking on a yard sales, and I found this bike, this orange mongoose.  The price was about $200, and you gotta know, I was 13 years old. I mean, like, there's no way I have that kind of money. It was a fall, and the leaves started falling, so I'm like, I'm gonna start raking some leaves. So, I grabbed my cousin, Mitri, and we just, every Saturday, for like a couple months, we just would go and rake some leaves. I remember I had about $150. I had, I needed to get $50, and so we come to this house, and the yard was packed with leaves. I'm like, this is it. I mean, this is where we can make some serious dough. This is where the cheese at, you know? So, we knock on the door, you know, and this grandma comes out on a motorized cart. I'm like, this is it. This is a gold pot. There's no way she's gonna rake these leaves. So, you guys understand, I'm in America two years. The only words I know is a high-buy and Coca-Cola, you know?  She starts smiling. I'm like, I'm like, this is going good. So, we, you know, we started raking. It was from the morning. I kid you not, it took us about seven hours.  So, I stroked on fingers and I swear she said $100. I mean, I was the happy. She came out, gave us a cookies and milk. I'm like, this is going good. This day is gonna end really good and I'm gonna get the bike. To my greatest surprise, she comes out and brings out $10. Honestly, I got heartbroken. I was like, I'm an immigrant. I just got taken advantage. I got ripped off by an old street lady on a motorcycle cart and like, did not even see that coming, you know? So, I remember looking at my cousin, I'm like, dude, we worked like eight hours, made like 25 cents an hour, you know? So, like, I gave her the cookies.  So, in the story, I got my bike. Six months later, summer hit. I was going from the pool.   And I kid you not, I sold my $200 mongo's for a Big Mac. Yeah, and I'm still going through some healing right now. I mean, it's been... But what I'm saying, the next year comes around, we go again. We go by her house again. I'm like, cousin looks at me and is like, should we do it? We found no work whole day. I'm like, dude, you want to work whole day for ten bucks? And I looked at him and I said, you know, it's not worth it. I'd rather be broke, but will not work for ten bucks, 25 cents an hour. Where am I going with this? You know, we as Christians, we're called to witness and be evangelized. What's evangelism? It's sharing your faith at work, at home, everywhere you go.  But you know, I'm not going to come as a kind of depressing note, but only 2% of Christians actively witness or share their faith. The question I have is, what are 98 are doing? Honestly, I'm going to tell you this story. The reason why many Christians don't evangelize because they think it's not worth it. The story of Matthew chapter 19. Jesus is chilling with his disciples, right? And Peter gets up and he says, Jesus, we left everything. Are we following you? What are we going to get? I was like, when I read, I was like, wow, that's kind of bold, Peter, you know? Jesus like, hey, what are we going to get, bro? We're following you kind of selfish, you know, asking Jesus. Well, I was surprised what Jesus said.  It's Matthew chapter 19 verse 27 and Jesus says, And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands and houses for my name's sake shall receive a hundred fold and inherit internal life. I believe many Christians believe the lie that when you take care of God's business, God's going to fail to take care of yours. You know, Peter said, Jesus, we are following you. First of all, let's get something done. Following Jesus is not coming to church on Sunday once a week. Listen to the sermon and go home. Jesus said to disciples, follow me and I'll make you fishers of man. So following Jesus Christ, it's winning souls and making disciples. So, you know, and Peter says, Jesus, we left everything. We left our homes, our, our, you know, things, everything. We followed you. He meant that in this scripture, he showed that, hey, we want to focus on your goal to win souls and make disciples. And I believe that many people trade God's commission for their ambition because they wanted to get their stuffers. They want to get their career. And they think that I don't want to do God's thing. But in the same scripture, you know, Jesus says, but many who are first will be last and the last will be first. After saying that, he's saying to his disciples, just because you left everything, follow me, my purpose is to win souls and make disciples. It seems right now that you're just losing, that you are last.  Just come once a week, never win souls, never witness. They seem like they have all this time pursuing their education, their job. They seem right now, they're first. By Bobo says, many who are first will be last. And those who are last will be first. I want to encourage you, when you take care of God's business, when you go out, you witness, God's going to take care of your business. And you will see at the end, you will win, amen.  But whoever will lose his life for Christ will gain it.  The first will be last. You know, it's better to give than receive.   You are working for God. And when God sees that God will help you in your daily lives, in your daily decisions. And when you go out and witness and share your faith, God sees that and God promises that maybe you are right now lost, that you will end up being first and you will be blessed. So I encourage you. Our church purpose is to win souls and make disciples. Every person in our church is not a visitor, is a leader. Amen.


Hi everybody, Jeff Watts here. As you know Paul Goddard and I are releasing another charity Christmas single this year and we're hoping that to raise even more money than we did last year when we managed to raise £400 for good causes. This year we asked social media to help us pick an agile related charity and we had some really good suggestions. Unfortunately we can't pick all of them so they've all gone into a hat and Paul is going to select the winner. Over to you Paul. Okay all the entries are in my Christmas hat. I'm just going to dive in now and pull one out. Here we go. That says Shelter from Wayne Kenny. Well done Wayne and Shelter is our chosen charity. Back to you Jeff. So thank you to you Paul and thank you to Wayne for your suggestion of Shelter, a thoroughly worthwhile cause and as he quite aptly put in his tweet, Shelter where we can help the homeless to be courageous about their situation, be open to being helped, be focused and committed to improve their position and get their self-respect back, mapping the Shelter objectives to the scrum values. Nicely played Wayne. So all that's left for you to do now is wait until 9.30 UK time on Monday morning when the actual song video will be released and all the guess work will be over.  Anyway for now, a merry Christmas time to you all from myself and Paul.


Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape. Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. You are kneeling in the church of a Caribbean village seeking the sanctuary it might offer.  Listen now, as escape brings you less crutch field story, violent night. I came awake suddenly, wide awake. It's a trick you learn around the back countries of the Caribbean. If you want to stay alive, I didn't move. I didn't make a sound. Just stared into the darkness and listened. Then it came again. Somebody was on the veranda. I slid off the cart, reached for my pistol on the table and stood up. Barefooted, I moved quietly across the room and stopped by the shutters. Senora Crady. Who is it? Pepita. It is Pepita. Pepita? I am come to warn you of terrible danger. Are you alone? Yes. All right, wait a second. Quickly. What's wrong? What's the matter? Toward the village. Toward Monte Miguel. What? What? Fire. What's burning? The estacion of the police. The federalist, the army barrack, other places. It is a revolution, senor. Revolution? Who is it? Who's behind it? Alecran. What? He has come out of the jungle again. One thousand men are following him and now more from the village. He has guns, trucks, cars, radios. Call himself governor of the district. Governor? He won't last 48 hours. Everyone say it is revolution all over the country.   Alecran will never forget. Not ever. Not before one of you is dead. Yeah, maybe you're right. All right, thanks, Pepita. Thanks for everything. 10 minutes later, I lay hidden in the clump of bamboo by the irrigation ditch, 30 yards from my house, watching a convoy of army trucks swing in from the highway and roar up the road toward the plantation. I kind of struck out then, run away, but I had to know the odds. No, whether Alecran was making it personal, whether he still remembered. The trucks skidded to a stop. Men with rifles piled out, circled the house. Spotlights cut through the night, lit up my bungalow, probing at the shutters. But I didn't see him until he stepped into the circle of lights and called out. Mr. O'Grady? Mr. Barry O'Grady? Alecran. Your Westerners die, Mr. O'Grady. You may as well come out. Educated in the States, but as cunning and cruel as the wildest Indian in the bush. Are you afraid of me, Mr. O'Grady? Are you afraid to come out and greet an old friend who has not forgotten you for a minute? Alecran, leader of a revolution, self-styled governor of the district, had he taken time out to lead this raid personally. Yes, Papito was right. He hadn't forgotten. He blasted the bolt off my door with a Tommy gun, and then with a half a dozen of his men he plunged into the house. It was time to get out. I'd wanted to know the odds, and now I knew them. I didn't have a chance. I ran for nearly two miles through my coffee groves, along the banks of the ditches, through the patches of bush, before I finally played off. I was beside a narrow road leading back into the hills. I dropped down by the edge of it and tried to get my wind back. Alecran. For two years he'd waited, and now he was coming after me. He'd been trying to start a revolt then. I'd dragged him away from my workman, taken his gun away from him, and beaten him to a pulp. And now he was back in control of the whole district with a wolf packet as heels. And then suddenly I noticed the headlights of a car coming down the road from the hills. The lights were too close together and too low to the ground for an army truck. There were ranches up in the hills, resorts, it might be a private car. It was worth a chance. I worked feverishly. The car was close now, and moving fast I gathered an armful of brush through it and the road struck a match and set fire to it. And then I dropped down in the ditch and waited. All right, easy now. Don't move. Who are you? What do you want? I want your car. No, it is impossible. Let me go. Oh no, you don't. Let go of that. Stop it. Stop it. You're hurting me.  Thanks. Well, that's a lot of gun for a lady. I will take care of that. Do you know who I am? No. I am the daughter of the governor of this district. You're what? It's true. I am the daughter.  I promise you, senor.  You're too late. Your father already has that idea. Or more likely a whistle. You know, I think you're going to come in awfully handy before morning. What do I call you? What's your name? Maria. All right, Maria, let's get this straight. I got one chance in the thousand of staying alive, and if I can help that chance, I'll do anything.  No, please. We're going to get out of here. We're going to get out together. Whatever happens.  All right, now get the car started. We came off the side road two miles from Monte Miguel, crossed the main highway and took the old road toward San Vicente. It was 110 miles to the capital, but the sports car was fast. It could outrun any army vehicle Alcatron's men might have. There was a good chance he hadn't yet blockaded the San Vicente highway. Now it was a good dream. It lasted for two miles, then it popped like a soap bubble. In the road ahead, sir, lights, trucks, men moving. What do you want me to do? Brakes, hit the brakes. Come on. And get this thing turned around a minute fast. Amigos. Sí, sí. All right, come on. Step on it. Let's get out of here. Come on. Master, it was close, plenty close. Well, we're still lucky. We could have barred straight into that. Or they blocked us, but at least they didn't get us. And we still got a chance of circling back. But what's wrong? What is it? I don't know. I'm not doing anything to them. Yo, wait a minute. Yeah, yaggin's smell it. A bullet must have smashed up in the gas tank. Wait, we're out of petrol? Yeah, get it over to the side. All right. No farther. Clear over to the canal bank. The irrigation ditch. Go on. What are you going to do? Here, give me a hand. We're going to get it rolling into the ditch. Come on, let's go. What do you mean? They'll be along here any second. Find where we sank the car. Come after us. We don't have much time. Now, come on, let's get across that ditch. In the water? No. I will not do it. I will not go into the water. Oh, you won't. Hold your breath. Now, just take it easy. Quit fighting and relax, will you? I'll get you across. It's only 20 feet wide. All right, easy now. All right, here we go. Now, grab the back. Oh, it takes me all my life.  Maybe not.  Now, come on. I am not going into that jungle with you. No matter what you do to me, I am not going. Come on, move. Alakrann had outmaneuvered me, outflanked me. There was no use trying to break south toward the capital. He had the whole area sewed up. So I decided on a gamble. I turned back. Head for the last place on earth, he'd look for me. The village of Montemigalitz. It was nearly midnight when we entered the village. I kept a tight grip on Maria's arm and hurried her through the back streets and alleys, heading toward Peter's room on the other side of town. But we didn't make it. A patrol of rebels came around the corner and moved toward us. We couldn't turn and run. We couldn't go on. We were trapped.  The door was only a few feet away. I stepped over and tried it. It was unlocked. I drew my gun and pushed the door open. All right, come on. There's no one in. Inside, quick. What are you going to do? Wait for the patrol to pass. Now be quiet. Not a sound, Maria. That was lucky. Well, double lucky, in fact. The head man here has gone out and left some clothes already for me. Antelones, camisa, sarape, sombrero. Now, if we can find something for you. What do you mean? Well, dress like we are. We don't have a chance. Oh, here. Here, this ought to do it. Catch it. Now, here's a shawl for you.  If you think I am going to change my clothes. Get behind that curtain and do it anywhere you want, but get into that dress and do it fast. In a few minutes, we were back into the marketplace, walking rapidly. And then as we passed the great doors of the church, I've frozen my tracks. Alecron. He was launching in the back of a Turing car. Fat and evil. This way. Wee. Into the church. If he sees me, we're finished. Slow and solemn now. I'll write up the steps. Keep your head down. Odd, half-scared the way the villagers go in. Up toward the front. In here. All right, this is far enough. Now kneel down. Well, we're safe for the moment, but I... Alecron. Alecron. Don't move, Maria. Don't cry out. The gun's pressed against your side. Please.  Better yet, really pray. You are listening to Violent Night, tonight's presentation on Escape. Next Monday night on CBS Radio, Ronald Reagan stars in the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Carbean Williams with Wendell Corey and Gene Hagen in their original screen roles. Next Monday night, when you will also want to hear Tyrone Power in suspense's production, The Guilty Always Run. And now, Escape and the second act of Violent Night. The Padre white-haired and old knelt at the altar and went on with his prayer, not hearing the summons from the back of the church. Some of the kneeling villagers turned a look and then turned back quickly. Beneath my syrapia, I kept the gun pressed tight against Maria's side. Very! Alecron was walking up the aisle toward the front of the church, moving slowly and deliberately, stopping to glance along each row and study the kneeling worshipers. You cannot come here with arms with my son. This is a place of peace. Oh, and I am a very peaceful man, Padre, as long as I have not denied the things I want.  A man. I'm told he has some woman with him. They may have come in here. I will only need a moment more to finish checking your followers. No, I cannot permit that. Padre, you know who I am. Now we can be friends or we can be enemies as you choose. Of course, burning the churches not to my liking. Go, wait outside if you wish. I am on the point of dismissing the congregation. You may watch them as they leave. All right. You're clever at compromise, Padre. I'm sure we will learn to understand each other. Adios. Let me first attend me now, then. That is all my children. My son. What is it, Padre? This way. Follow me, both of you. Come quick. Come on, Maria. Yes. In here. If you are taking a big chance, Padre, if he finds out you are in trouble. You have heard of sanctuary, my son, the sanctuary of the church. Yes, of course. Unfortunately, I cannot assure you that sanctuary, but perhaps I can help you in some small way to find your own sanctuary. Thank you, Padre. In a few minutes, when everyone has gone, he will be certain... Who is it? La La Cran. One moment. I am informed that you're hiding a man and woman from the congregation. Open this door. Have patience. Now. Here, behind the desk, there is a way out. All right. Both of you, quickly. The passage opens on an alleyway behind the church. Open now. My children. Thank you, Padre. You're welcome. When we came into the open alleyway, we were on the very edge of the village, on a crooked path that ran between the walls and backs of the buildings on one side and the dark, dense mass of the via diablo jungle on the other. But for a moment, we were safe. Barry. What? Back there, in the church, would you really have killed me?  But if I have to, I will.  Hate you?   You're my ace in the hole. I've got nothing against you personally. You just picked the wrong man for a father, that's all. I couldn't go. Wait. Hold it. Barry, don't shoot. It's only a child. Yes, it's only a child, but he knows who we are. And you'll have the whole town up here in two minutes. There's no choice left now. Come on. Barry, what are you doing? Where are we going? To the jungle. Into the fire diablo. Yes. I've got to rest. All right. All right, Maria. We'll slow down and take it easier. I don't think he's going to find us now. I think maybe we've got a chance. Can't we stop, Barry? No. No in ten minutes we wouldn't be able to move again. Well, the sky's beginning to light, and it'll be dawn in less than an hour. He can't chase us forever. He's got a revolution on his hands. Barry, all been so strange. Like a nightmare. All mixed up. I hated you at first. Oh, forget it. I didn't know who you were, what you were doing to me. And finally, I began to understand.  Good, Maria. It works out better that way. In fact, I'm afraid I... I like you very much. What? Afraid? Maria, we'll be out of this before long. And what do... Wait. What is it, Barry? Those are dogs. What? Yeah, they're trailing us with dogs. No matter where we go, now they'll find us. Oh, Barry! Come on, Maria. He ran again down the twisting jungle trail. On and on, knowing while we ran that there was no way out, no way of escape. And then suddenly we burst out into a clearing and stopped on our tracks. We're ahead of us. Dark and ancient. It's stones worn by traffic rains grown over with lichen and moss was a Mayan pyramid built by men dead for centuries lost and forgotten in the Vaya Diablo. We broke into a run, crossed the clearing. We are going inside, Barry. Why not? What have we got to lose? Nothing at all, Mr. Alady. Holy crot. All right, inside, quit working. Excellent. Right into the trap, just as I hoped. He's behind us somewhere. At the edge of the clearing.  Always predictable, Mr. Alady. One knows precisely what you are going to do before you do it. Alec Brown, listen to me. I've got Maria with me. I recognize her at once. Then listen.   That's entirely up to you, Mr. Alady. I read my voice and mix. Then an empty gun. Embarrassing indeed, Mr. Alady. Now my phone begins. Come on, Maria, back inside. Quick. Well, I'm out of cartridges. All we can do now is run. Run as far and as long as we can. And then what, Barry? You killed me as you told him you would. You know better. I thought the threat would hold him off, but it didn't. You hurt him. Yes, I hurt him. It is not a surprise, Barry. My father has hated me for years.  Where are you, Mr. Alady? Are you scared now, Ronnie? Maria, keep moving as quiet as possible. Maybe you need something to help you run, Mr. Alady. He's got a machine pistol. Hurry. I cannot go so quickly. Why are you afraid, Mr. Alady? You're not afraid of the plantations. Is this what bothers you, perhaps? It's not you. Maria, Maria, wait. There's a ledge right above us here. I can feel it when I reach up. Broken boulders. Now there's a chance. Now listen to me, Maria.  What? Make a noise. Talk so that you'll think that we're still together.  I'm going to wait for him here. Right up on that ledge. All right. Go on. Little, oh, be careful. Be very careful. I scrambled up on the ledge and got set. And I felt around in the dark and found a rock as big as a man's head. And then I waited. You're tiring yourself for nothing, Mr. O'Grady. There's only one way out, you know. This way. I raised the rock and waited. He was close now, very close. I listened to his steps. Trying to judge his position by the sound. You're not being very friendly, Mr. O'Grady. I feel very warm for you. He was right below me. I raised the rock and smashed it down on his head. It's all right, Maria. It's all over. Maria, two weeks in that stinking jail. And now you drag me out and bring me down here to the harbor. Why, Captain? This way, Mr. O'Grady. All right, so you won the revolution. Now you're the new government. All right, fine. I got nothing against you. My fight with Alecran was personal. You know that. Quite true, Mr. O'Grady. I know that. However, Alecran was one of our leaders. You killed him. The usual sentence is dead by a firing squad. I know that, Captain. They said we are permitting you to leave the country. The launch is waiting to take you out to the ship. You should consider yourself very fortunate, Mr. O'Grady. Captain, look, there was a girl, Maria, Alecran's daughter. Where is Maria? I believe you are speaking of my wife, Mr. O'Grady. Your wife?  But I must warn you that if you ever return to the republic, that sentence will be carried out. Your wife? Maria and I were married yesterday at the church of Sunday Isabel. As a wedding gift to Maria, I gave her your life. Your ship is weddings, Mr. O'Grady. Are you? Under the direction of Norman MacDonald, Escape has brought you violent night by Les Crutchfield, starring William Conrad and Joyce McCloskey. Featured in the cast were Don Diamond, Ben Wright, and Edgar Berrier, with Michael Ann Barrett, Byron Kane, and Richard Beals, your announcer George Walsh. 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When it comes to basic functionality and overall usability, everything that he has done has made the platform demonstrably worse. And those who use Twitter know that I'm not being hyperbolic. But on top of that, it's also become a safe haven for bigots as well as Nazis. And most recently, it's become evident that Twitter is now a massive cesspool for misinformation and fake news. Which is sad because Twitter used to actually be an important tool for journalists to deliver up-to-date information. But now that utility is almost gone thanks to Elon Musk for a number of reasons. First and foremost, Elon Musk stopped using software that is supposed to identify misinformation. And to make matters worse, he's recommended accounts that routinely spread misinformation. In a now-deleted tweet, he recommended war monitors and scent defender for users who want up-to-date information on the Israel Gaza war. But as journalist Batbender points out, here's one example of how unreliable the two accounts that Elon Musk promoted are. There was an obvious AI image posted in May depicting an explosion at the Pentagon. This would be very easy to verify. Instead, both accounts immediately shared the fake image in order to go viral. And this is a direct result of the incentive structure that Elon Musk created, where engagement and virality earned you money, but accuracy does not. Now on top of that, someone responded to news that the Israeli Prime Minister told Gazans to leave ahead of his siege and pointed out that there's nowhere for them to go since they're blockaded on all sides. Now one of the accounts that Elon Musk recommended responded saying, better find a boat or get to swimming LOL. Now let me just first point out the obvious. It is utterly despicable to laugh about innocent civilians, most of which are children who are soon going to be bombed to death. That is gross. But as a supposed disseminator of on-the-ground war news regarding this conflict, you would assume that they'd at least know that Gazans also aren't allowed to flee by sea as well, considering the fact that the Israeli Navy is blockading them by sea as well. It's not just the big fence that locks them into Gaza. They also cannot leave via sea. But according to Elon Musk, this is someone who we can trust. But while one of the accounts Elon Musk promoted laughed at Palestinian deaths, the other is viciously anti-semitic.   I mean, maybe this is his way of giving us a both sides take on this. But obviously he ended up deleting that endorsement of these accounts. But even though he withdrew his endorsement of those two hate-mongering accounts, he still regularly interacts with very hateful accounts on a regular basis. That includes Libs of TikTok, whose tweets have encouraged nearly a dozen bomb threats. And on top of that, he's interacted with Peter Sweden, a Holocaust denier who was fear-mongering about Muslims in Sweden. And on top of that, he interacts with bigoted far-right account and Wokeness, who shared a picture of Muslims in London, calling it a ticking time bomb to which Elon Musk responded, saying demographics is destiny.  Any company still buying ads on Twitter should be boycotted. And they are absolutely correct about that. But while we're on the subject of ads, Twitter's new ad format makes it so that way a plethora of insane bigoted ads can't be reported or blocked, nor do they disclose the fact that their ads, which by the way is illegal as GoodPoliticGuy and the community notes pointed out. So we've watched the world's richest man devolve into a fascist over the course of a year, and as he goes down, he's taking Twitter with him. Which isn't just sad. It's troubling because this has real-world ramifications, right? His radicalization spells doom for the rest of the world. And journalists are now explaining how difficult it is to get accurate information out in this environment that Elon Musk has fostered because now they're effectively having to compete with verified users spreading fake news and misinformation because that's what gets clicks and engagement. Wired reports, for many reasons, this is the hardest time I've ever had covering a crisis on here, Justin Peden, an OSINT researcher from Alabama known online as the IntelCrab posted on X. Credible links are now photos. On-the-ground news outlets struggle to reach audiences without an expansive blue checkmark. Xenophobic Goons are boosted by the platform's CEO. End Times, folks. When Peden covered the escalation in Gaza in 2021, the sources he was seeing in his feed were from people on the ground or credible news agencies. This weekend, he says verified content or primary sources were virtually impossible to find on X. Boosted by the algorithm that promotes users willing to pay X $8 a month for a premium subscription, posts from those with a blue checkmark shot up to the top of news feeds for people seeking information about the conflict. Rather than being shown verified and fact-checked information, X users were presented with video game footage passed off as footage of a Hamas attack and images of fireworks celebrations in Algeria presented as Israeli strikes on Hamas. There were faked pictures of soccer superstar Ronaldo holding the Palestinian flag while a three-year-old video from the Syrian Civil War repurposed to look like it was taken this weekend. As a result, Peden says that he and his fellow OSINT researchers have to spend their time debunking years-old content rather than verifying and sharing real footage from the conflict. And as this Bloomberg headline puts it, the Israel-Hamas conflict was a test for Musk's X and it failed. And ironically, you wouldn't actually be able to see that headline if that article was shared on Twitter because Elon Musk chose to remove headlines to make the site more aesthetically pleasing. Yeah. So as much as I complained about Twitter before, as a toxic hell site, before Elon Musk took it over, this is one of those situations where you really don't know what you've got till it's gone. Because love it or hate it, Twitter was useful in disseminating accurate information and sure, there were issues with fake news before he took it over. Sure, it was still very toxic as a social media platform. But whatever usefulness it once had is now non-existent thanks to Elon Musk. But to his credit, in destroying Twitter, he also destroyed the myth of meritocracy simultaneously because those who assumed anyone with wealth had to be intelligent are now realizing that our capitalist system isn't as fair as they once thought it was. Because most people, I think, can clearly see that Elon Musk is not a genius.


So, good afternoon, I'd like to present to you ideas to, yeah, people should really, can I have your attention please? Okay, so basically what we want to present here is some discussion we had inside the Document Foundation in how to modernize and to bring to 2017 the LibreOffice Help. What we have in the user knowledge ecosystem is that we have the help system that is bundled in LibreOffice. We have user guides and books that are written and published by the community. We have a very extensive Wiki for a lot of information gathering. We have an Askbot, it's a question and answer website for the end user. And we also use mailing list. And also the user is able to look into Google for information. Sometimes brown some videos in YouTube. There is also a partial open office forums and Wikis and also independent forums like Reddit and so on. Okay, so this is the universe of information that you can get for the LibreOffice technology. So what we have at the moment is the following. The LibreOffice Help is designed into XML and it was designed about circa 2005. And at that time we had issues with browsers. The browser's war was full. No compatibility, no browser manufacture was comfortable in adopting standards. So at that time Sun Microsystem adopted an internal only solution which is a specific XML to hold the contents and the navigation of the help system. The internal browser is write a web. That was easy because you just have one tool and you don't need to test with several other browsers. So then they developed a C++ wrapper to create an index and to connect the dialogues to the help pages. Okay, the issue is that now when you look at 2017 we have a complex way to edit and update, how to test and visualize the XML that is written for LibreOffice. There is no rich text editor available. So what we have is a help authority extension that you connect in your writer document and then you start writing your help page. The problem is you need quite a lot of skills in XML and specificity of the schema to understand what the help content is. So for end users and for people that wants to collaborate there is a quite steep entry barrier to start writing help files. It's also we consider it's an obsolete technology and for example we cannot insert in the help content, we cannot insert multimedia, we can insert images but not videos. So this is a very old way to assist the user. Looks old and cumbersome to read because it's fully textual, it's terse in terms of information, no animation, no videos. So the idea is to move forward and to get a better LibreOffice help. So some requirements that we have in this challenge is first of all preserve the legacy content. We are not going to write again everything. So we have to use what we have and transform it into something better. We want to lower the barrier for the community participation. So make it easy for the newcomer to start contributing to the help content. It's much needed to give volunteers an objective to contribute because some of the community is eager to contribute but they are not skilled for development and they want to add to be part of the team and by writing help pages, by giving to everybody their knowledge it's a good way for that. We want an easy to update and easy to track software development. We want a dynamic, vivid and pleasant way to read and watch. Use modern technology for animations, videos, support the current process of translations because in LibreOffice we have at least 30 to 50 active language out of more than 100. An easy way to find information in online websites and to work online and offline because in some locations you don't have access to an internet. So basically the idea is to start phasing out the XHP technology and perhaps this is just a suggestion, start phasing in HTML5 which contains a lot of improvements from HML and at that time 10 years after the XHP design HTML5 seems to cover most of the requirements. And also to assist the offline help is to develop a small JavaScript page server. You load a page that has JavaScript and the JavaScript will help you in the navigation. So why phasing out this XML? Well, the XML and the transformation has issues. It's not so standardized as we see for common HTML5. I spent a lot of time discovering that the transformation works in one browser and it doesn't work in the other. So there is a difference and we would like to avoid having to be very specific to a given browser. And also it's not XSLT, it's not a technology that is so easy to get in the first glimpse. You need to study on that and understand what the transformation is doing. So it's a steep ramping for Neophytes and the community contributions and updates on new contents. XSLT is not by very few, it was important maybe 10 years ago but today I don't think we are using that much this technology. So what I see in the W3C website is that this seems to be a technology that is slowly phasing out. So we have this browser difference in the implementation of this pair of technologies and I think that it's becoming obsolete too, replaced by a richer HTML. So this small JavaScript microserver will be used too. First, display the correct help page required by LibreOffice application so that when you click in the help button in your dialogue you need to go to the right help page. It used most of the resources such as navigation, history, bookmarking, caching included in any major browser. Handle the indexing and searching text among pages so that we can find and look for a specific string or a specific keyword and get a list of pages. And perhaps supports the old XML and the new HTML simultaneously. Well, this is basically the idea that we have in terms of evolving the help content and the help technology. I have been spending a lot of time looking at what we have. There is good, the results so far tested were quite encouraging and perhaps we have a good way to not open the help contents to a broader audience of contributors. So that's my message for you about the help on LibreOffice. I can take questions. No questions? Yes? Do you have a timeline for this implementation? No timeline, exactly. We are working on the availability of time of any of the contributors so far. The foundation is analyzing a possibility of opening a tender to quickly have it implemented. The complexity is low in that case, but it's an extensive work. Some issues have to be considered especially to preserve and support the translations of the contents. Nothing more? Okay, thank you.


back to the channel. If you haven't yet, make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest content we put out. At this point, we've got success coaches in our program who are putting out content pretty much every 24 hours. So make sure you subscribe. Now, if you want to get in contact with me, there's two ways you can do that. Visit the description in this video. You'll be able to eva book a free 15 to 20 minute call with me where we jump on Zoom. I can answer some questions with regards to your business or you can send me an email to makemoneycoachingsportsatgmail.com. So today I want to talk about the pros and cons of CoachUp. Now a lot of coaches reach out to our company every single day and they talk to us about CoachUp. They ask us questions, is CoachUp good for my business? Should I be marketing myself on CoachUp? Should I be using the platform? And what I thought would be a good idea was to come on here and talk about CoachUp and give you the pros and cons on how it will either affect or benefit your your training business. Now if you don't know what CoachUp is because I know there's a lot of coaches who watch our channel from all around the world but CoachUp is mainly based in North America, the US, Canada and it's pretty much a platform where you sign up, you create a profile and you... well parents can log on and they can choose a trainer to work with in their local area. So it's a fantastic platform and a lot of coaches who join our program have come through CoachUp. So it's a great platform and it's one that if you use to your advantage it can benefit your business but having worked with coaches already I can see that there's a lot of pros and cons. So the first one is I'll go through the pros and what I see is beneficial to using a platform such as CoachUp. Number one, it's great at generating new leads for you because you simply as a coach you register onto the website, onto their platform, you create your profile and parents can look for you in their local area. So if you're based in Baltimore, Maryland and you're promoting your soccer training services, parents who are in that area can log in see what local coaches are around that do either one-on-one training and do small group training and they can book a session with you. So that's the first one, it can generate new leads and it can create business for you and your company. Second pro is it has a payment system already done for you. Something that I know a lot of coaches really struggle with when they first start a business is creating proper payment systems. So in our company what we do is we teach coaches how to create an online payment system where parents aren't paying you cash, they're paying for your service online. So CoachUp already provides that. They provide that and ultimately you don't have to worry about the payment system. Parents log in through their account, they book your service, they pay online and then CoachUp will pay you for the service. So you don't have to worry about any charges, you don't worry about dealing or talking about money with the client everything is done for you. The third one is CoachUp is a well-known company. So being a well-known company, being a well-known platform that ultimately means that that website or that company is generating a lot of traffic which means a lot of parents when they think of private training that might be the first place that they're going to look when they want to hire a private coach to work with their child. So being on CoachUp is a benefit because it's well-known within the training industry and parents are very familiar with that type of website and with that company. So being a well-known brand means that there's a lot of traffic and that can generate new leads for your company and for your business. Now let's move on to the cons of CoachUp. So we've talked about the benefits now there's three things I look at that when you use a service like CoachUp it can create a lot of cons, a lot of disadvantages to you and your company. Number one what CoachUp pretty much does is it compares you to other trainers in the local area. So when parents log in through their profile through their account what they can choose is the cheapest trainer in their local area. So you are going to be competing against all other trainers in your local area and most probably parents who are on there are going to be looking for the cheapest option. So if you aren't the cheapest option and you're very expensive then the likelihood you might not be able to get a lot of clients because parents will be looking ultimately for a cheap trainer. So that's one of the disadvantages of being on CoachUp and using the platform on there. You're being compared to other coaches on price not on quality and not on value that you add. Now the second disadvantage is that when you use CoachUp to gain new clients or to work with clients ultimately you pay CoachUp a commission. So CoachUp takes a commission from what parents pay you for your services. So ultimately what it is it's an administration fee that CoachUp keeps for you using their platform and for you getting new business. So ultimately if you were to do it privately and if you were to gain clients yourself that administrative fee wouldn't exist but if you do it through CoachUp CoachUp keeps a percentage of what you make. So ultimately you aren't getting the full amount that you are charging for your service. So that's a disadvantage because if you have a lot of clients that coming in through CoachUp the amount CoachUp are keeping becomes really high compared to what you will be making. If it's the odd client then the difference might not be so so much but if it's a lot then ultimately CoachUp is going to keep a lot of your income and your revenue. Now the third disadvantage I look at and this is something a lot coaches have asked me and also I've talked to coaches about is the inconsistency of clientele. So a lot of coaches sign up to the website CoachUp or the company thinking that that alone is going to generate consistent clients and consistent revenue. Now sometimes it does but you're going to go through stages where there's going to be inconsistency in clientele. So you might go through two, three, four weeks where no parent has booked you for your services. So relying solely on CoachUp is not beneficial to your business because you're not going to be getting consistent clients.   A lot of coaches what they want to do is they want to just log into CoachUp, create a profile and just sit back and wait for people to come to them. That ultimately is a lazy way of doing business and in the long term it doesn't work because yes you might generate a couple of leads, you might get some business here and there but in the long term it's not going to be sustainable because CoachUp won't give you consistent clients. That is something that you have to go out, you have to go and promote, market and try to attract parents and clients into your program. So if you need more help, if you currently use CoachUp for your business and you're thinking to yourself do you know what I want to move away from this platform, I want to create my own brand, I want to create my own business, I want to be more self-efficient then connect with me. There's two ways you can do that. First way is book a free 15 to 20 minute call with me via Zoom. You can book it through my Canonly link in the description or you can send me a question to mainmoneycoachingsports.gmail.com. Thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next video.


Babe, what are you doing being rocky? It's like 50 degrees outside. Put your clothes on It's freezing What's up players? What's going on guys Dan Whimper from ZenDude Fitness and today I'm in my home city of Philadelphia Philip Philly the Phillies the Eagles the flyer We decided to come in to Philadelphia today to show y'all how to jump rope like a Philadelphia legend his name Is Rocky Balboa people okay? So we are out here in front of the beautiful Philadelphia Museum of Art and we're gonna do a little boxer workout today you with me if you guys like this video go ahead and give it a thumbs Up below also subscribe to the channel if you want to know Anything and everything about getting fit and living a better lifestyle and having more fun with the jump rope and your body We're gonna do some of Rocky Balboa's most famous jump rope moves And we're gonna do them in the ZenDude Fitness format of 30 seconds on and 10 seconds off So once you learn some of these moves like I'm gonna show you you can rope this into a workout Then I want you guys to repeat five times. It's about a 30-minute workout Those of you who have been here before you get you get what's going on You know how these work if you also want to recommend a jump rope that we use in this video Check it out. The link is below. All right, ZenDude Fitness. I'm ready for a hoagie. Let's get after it My ladies and gentlemen so for a rocky workout today We're gonna start off with jump rope boxer skip if you haven't seen the tutorial on this yet Go ahead and check out the jump rope boxer skip tutorial All we're doing is alternating our feet and like the thing says if you guys can't do all these tricks You know, that's fine My most important thing is that you guys are getting up every day and doing the thing and moving your body And this is the this forms the base of any boxer skip that or boxer You know workout routine jump rope routine you're going to do all right guys next up Jump rope heel taps heel taps now feel free to kind of add your own style in here I speed up by slow down the point is that and you'll notice if you watch any of the great Rocky movies That's what he kind of does too. This is meant to be fun. This is meant to be a freestyle So go ahead and add your own flamer Good guys next up we have toe taps So we're just reversing it and putting one foot in front of the other and doing toe taps And feel free to switch it up between heel taps toe taps I even throw a side swipe in there the point again guys is to have fun and give it your own kind of flow Good guys up next now. We're doing toe taps, but I'm going side to side So look how one foot taps out to the right or to the left while the other one meets in the middle And feel free to go slow or fast as you can I want you guys to challenge yourself But I want to make sure that your form is correct and that you're doing these properly Come on then do nation next up feet front to back This is a very common boxer skip and also shuffle if you notice here, too I kind of do feet front to back and then I just pause and let my feet kind of stutter step in the same spot We just call that the boxer shuffle as well. So feel free to mix it up. All right guys next We're just going into the double under. Okay, so if you haven't seen the tutorial on this one Go check out the double under tutorial not much motion in my body I'm staying on my toes my knees are slightly bent to absorb the impact and there I just threw in a side swipe double on the back guys and fast skip a very famous move That rocky bit rocky does pretty frequently. Um, if you see here I'm just kicking my leg out or my other one taps the ground twice and here again I'm adding my own little boxer variation of this that I saw him doing in the movie Good zen do nation last one and probably the most challenging trick is you see here I'm going to mess up and I include these mess ups because I think it's important to remember that no matter How good you get at jumping rope? You're always gonna have mess ups. Don't get frustrated. Just move on to the next guys So we're doing side swipe double under if you haven't yet check out the how to jump rope like a pro video That'll show you how to do this sequence right here It's a good thing. It's not snowing out here or yeah, my nipples would probably be red cracked and bleeding