All right next question is from Conn Nielsen for athletes What is a good balance between cardio resistance training and mobility training? Oh depends on the sport it does right if you're whatever sport you're doing that most of your training should be practicing That sport playing that sport Scream it doing scrimmage lord. Yeah No, I've trained athletes shut up Practice your sport Most often that's where most of your workouts should should be placed now as far as strength training is concerned depends on what you're doing If in it depends on what your season looks like if you're doing lots and lots of practice I Strength train with athletes once a week sometimes because they're doing so much other work mobility work daily And not intense daily some days are intense some days are easier But every single day we'd be working on mobility because mobility done properly Really attacks the main reason why athletes performance may decline Which has to do with just poor movement patterns and injury dude 100% This is if I could go back and redo my entire programming of my athletic career I would place way more emphasis on Strength and movement and in in terms of like building a solid base Is I mean it's really important to build that foundational strength And so that has to be you know what you really focus on in the very beginning, but also you know once you get to that point It's about how well how effectively you can move how explosive you can you can move and how quickly you can Stabilize on command you have to have you know an even higher level of command over your body and Healthy joints to be able to pull that off and nothing addresses that better than you know quality mobility practices and really focusing on strengthening your range of motion This is one of those questions This is really hard to answer because there's such an individual variance like like many questions that we have to try and answer And you do you have to really look at where your shortcomings are and as an athlete because if you have a weak gas tank Then you I would I would have you do more cardio Let's say you're you're carrying an extra You know 15 20 pounds that is not helping us out in your sport You know your sport is not a sport used like with leverage like maybe wrestling or something like that And then you being an extra 15 20 pounds overweight I might have you on the treadmill doing more more work to burn calories and burn body fat to get you leaner and Lighter and work on your endurance because you lack there if you're somebody who doesn't lack there so much Then it's it's gonna be less emphasis there I agree. I think with both you on the mobility thing. I don't think anybody can do too much of that I think that's something that we can all be better at and and I think it's an area that a lot of athletes neglect But again still it really depends on how much of a limiting factor that is in your performance of of your sport And and every sport is very different. So it's a tough one to answer now if you're just a person who Considers themselves athletic because they like to go pick a ball up every once in a while and play a sport or they do athletic things But then I also want to build muscle then I also have, you know different advice for you Like you have to understand there's gonna be a give and take and everything if you're my sport is the number one focus Then like Sal alluded to I might be only training you one day a week And weight training because most of the time's gonna be geared around getting you better at your sport and your skill But if you're somebody who's just like hey, I want to be an athletic person But I also want to build a physique well then I might have you training two to three days a week Yeah when weightlifting with you know intermittently using cardio and using different drills to keep you athletic and mobile and Mobility is the one thing probably that we all would say in common of that just needs to be in there on a regular basis for sports


Welcome to Talk Story with John Waihei. We have another very interesting show for you this afternoon. Actually, we are bringing back some of our former guests to talk about a very important subject, and that is teaching reading to people, but especially to children. And the name of the show would be the power and promise of reading aloud. So we have the reading experts. First of all, we have Kara Kuzunoki, not Russian by any stretch of the imagination. Not the show anyway. And the Executive Director of Read To Me International. And with her, we have Lin Waihei, who is the President of Read To Me International. And as part of full disclosure, also married to me, which is why she's such a special guest. I am on my best behavior viewers, so don't expect anything really crazy to happen on this particular show. All right, here we are, ladies. You're going to talk to us about reading in your organization. So how, and by the way, these guys are like teachers, you know? So they came to, not only did they work their way into my show, they also brought the question. Just so you know what happens if you bring teachers to your show. Now, how long have you been, how long has Read To Me International been in business? 23 years. 23 years? Yes. Wow. We've been working very hard. Did you folks succeed somebody else, or do you look much too young to be working in the same place for 23 years? She's just, Tara has just been with us for a little over a year now. What does that say? You're the one that looks young? Is that it? No. I think I look rather aged. All right. What do you guys do? What is it? What's your mission? My mission is to share the love and joy of reading aloud. And why is that important? Why is reading aloud important?  Yeah, I go great books, The Black Stallion, which is my favorite, you know, and all of the variations, the Tom Hardy boys. I'm sure you guys have heard of Nancy Drew and the rest of it. So what do you read to kids in this day and age? Well, first of all, why is reading aloud important? I think you nailed it. So what was your former profession or job before you came to do ThinkThack?  What's Kara's job? Does she just sit there and like nod her head? Is that like because the president's here or? She works really, really hard. Okay, so. Okay. That's my point. You were once governor of Hawaii and you wouldn't have been there had your father not read aloud to you when you were a young man. Oh, good. Good. Well, okay. Well, okay, so. Thank you for all the bits. Yes. Being read to. So we, okay. So seriously, we know that when children are read to, they will have the skills they need to become successful readers for the most part, okay, for the most part. So this is why it's critical that when parents bring their children home from the hospital from day one, in fact, they can even do it prenatally while the child is still in the womb, read aloud to the child and great start.  But reading works, right? Reading works. Kara? Yes. Non-Russian. Non-Russian. Let's, what are some of the programs that read to me? Sure. So last time we were on the show, we talked about our Hapamotolello program, which, just to refresh everyone's memory, is the program where we have volunteers going into correctional facilities in Hawaii and coaching inmates on how to read, I'm sorry, how to write and illustrate their own children's storybook for their child. So these are inmates, lady inmates that wrote to their, wrote books for their children. Right, right. And we actually have some samples today, but it's for many different ages, particularly young children who don't have access to their mother being at home and so they want to have a way to connect. And that's one of our signature programs that we've been running for quite some time now. We've seen and heard success stories and actually we're featuring one of our authors from that program at our next conference coming up. Well, really? Mm-hmm. So where's the example of the book? Okay, so what do we do, John? We read aloud. Okay. So I have to read a story. No, but I want to see a copy of the book first. No, not yet. Not yet, okay. Not yet, we want to keep you in suspense. So this is called Andrew, Jew, and Drew, and it's written by Barney Salzburg and he is one of our two keynote speakers for our conference. Well, we're going to talk more about your conference in a little while. Now, now. We're going to talk about it now after I read the story, okay? Okay, go ahead. So Barney Salzburg has written this book and you will notice as we go through this book it's very creative. It's kind of out of the box kind of book and that's really what our conference is about. Okay. It's about igniting your imagination. So this is Barney and it starts off by saying Andrew was a doodle boy. And you know when I go out into the classrooms I always have to say, do you know what doodle means? Because otherwise they erupt into laughter thinking is something else. So that's how we start. He was a doodle boy. I'm glad you clarified that. And you'll notice the lines throughout this story. He drew and drew and drew. What is that? Okay. It starts with a line, okay? Andrew never knew what would happen when he began. Oh wow. Isn't that neat? Yes. He began with nothing but what? Take a guess.  A line. A line. There we go. Oh boy. I'm not that good a student back then. And before he knew it. He was flying on a kite. Ideas would start to fly. He's now in a rocket ship. Andrew thought that making a drawing was like making a doodle. Is that a good guess? Magic. Magic. Okay. I got it. How are you getting? But I do want to talk to you though a little deeper. This was written by... Bonnie Salzburg. Bonnie Salzburg. I won't finish the book. But this is a sample of the kind of person that we have coming to our conference. Okay. When is your conference? We should set some foundation. Your conference is next week, I understand. It is June 6th and 7th. Thursday and Friday. To all day celebration. One of the people that will be presenting at that conference, I understand, is Bonnie Salzburg. Yes. And what will he talk about? Like how do you write a book? What's the importance of a book to a child? What exactly will he present? I think he's probably going to address the parents and educators that we have there and the service providers and talk to them about ways that they can show their creativity so that children can learn in a fun environment and get into reading in a way that's fun and enjoyable. Okay. So you're going to be having a conference next week. Yes. It's a two-day conference. And who are some of the participants that will be at the conference? Their parents. Their teachers, preschool teachers, elementary school teachers. What about older kids? I mean, teachers that teach at the intermediate and high school. Will they also be there? It's really not meant for them, but I think some of the strategies that we share probably could help them. By the way, we also have another, and he's a national author. Both of the national authors that we have are award-winning authors. And we also have Keiko Kaza, and I think we have a couple of books that we can show. Right. So people are invited to the conference? Yes. Do they get any kind of credit for it? We have non-PDE3 credits for DOE. And we don't understand a word. Don't worry. They know what it is. So that the rest of us know what's non-PDE credit. Well, it's credit that they can apply for. For their professional development? Well, something along that line. It can be added to their records so they can show and they can earn credits that way. So this is also important for professional development as well? Yes. For preschool teachers as well. Okay. So this conference will have Andrew... Well, it'll have Barney Salzberg as one. And you're going to tell... What's your other... Keiko Kaza is the other one. So I think we have a couple of book covers that we can show. Okay. So this was her first book that she wrote. It's called The Wolf's Chicken Stew. Very adorable. And one of our favorites which I brought today as well is the second book cover that we have to show you. It's called My Lucky Day. All right. And it's got a little twist because... It looks like the fox is not going to eat the little piggy. You don't think so? I don't know. It just looks like that piggy is dancing there looking at the little piggy. Well, you will have to read the book to see who's lucky day it was. Okay. Well, maybe it's the fox. Maybe he gets eaten. So they come to the conference, right? So that'll be taking place next week, Thursday and Friday, I gather. And you're going to be holding it where? At the Ko'olau Bow Rooms and Conference Center. Oh, on the windward side, Ko'olau Bow Rooms. All right. So in addition to holding conferences, I'm sure you build up different types of programs. We were just talking about the prison program. And why don't we just kind of brief us again about what's going on there? You mean in the prison? Right. So right now we actually just finished our last sessions for our newest cohort of incarcerated parents there. And we have seven graduates in July graduating from the program. And we're really excited to launch their books. It's in the production right now process. And we have books that shared different things about mommy's love for you.  Just giving you a preview of a few of them. The pig is hanging out with the fox. Well, that's a surprise. I don't want to spoil a hair story. But this pig is very different from that pig in Kekela's book. And for some reason pigs are the trend now. Everyone wants to write about pigs or foxes. And so we have a really wonderful story about a pig who's lost and wants to find a way home. And all of the books kind of have that theme of love and sending a message home to their kids. And these again are mothers writing to their children, right? So is this one of the... Is that a book? This is one of the books that we have that we've published. And you can see it's... A beautiful day. Yeah. And it's also a beautiful book. And it's amazing that some of them are... Can illustrate as well as they do. We help them with the stories, helping them to write the story we go through and we do edits and edits and edits. And this book, whatever they write, like this one has actually been published. Yes. Now at your conference, will you be... Will people from this program also be there? The prison program? Actually, we have a very successful story about one of the ladies who went through this program. She's going to be on an authors panel. So we always have a Hawaii authors panel. Three people that are coming. And they are Tammy and Lois Kim and... Gabrielle Holt. Gabrielle. Gabrielle Holt. We're going to take a short break. And when we come back, I want to talk to you a little bit more about how you are integrating this program into your conference because it sounds like very interesting. So we'll be right back. Aloha. This is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About where every other week, Mondays at 3, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. It's a really interesting show. We welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows. You got a lot of them out there. And we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well. So I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to come away inspired like I do. So I'll see you every other week here at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Cynthia Sinclair. And I'm Tim Apachella. We are hosts here at Think Tech Hawaii, a digital media company serving the people of Hawaii. We provide a video platform for citizen journalists to raise public awareness in Hawaii. We are a Hawaii non-profit that depends on the generosity of its supporters to keep on going. We'd be grateful if you'd go to ThinkTechHawaii.com and make a donation to support us now. Thanks so much. Welcome back to Talk Story with John Wahey and our exciting guests who are here visiting us from Read To Me International which has dedicated itself to the concept that reading aloud to children makes not only for better students but a better community. It gives parents and students a chance to be with each other. We have two guests with us this afternoon as you met earlier, for those of you that watched the first half of the program. We have Kara Kusonoki, no other pronunciation. And we have Len Wahey married to the host.  The joy and the promise, power and promise of reading aloud and independent reading. I mean, this is like normal stuff. When you're eating breakfast, in case you want something to read, here it is. Except our house is so messy. Do not invite people to our house. No, I'm not. But you got to understand, the mess has something to do with reading. And it's everywhere. So we were talking about your conference, which you're having next week. And you bring inviting teachers, inviting parents, inviting people who deal, I guess, with children in general. And some of the, I guess, clients of your program that you run at the Women's Prison, where the women actually learn how to write and do produce books like these for their children. So tell me more about it. I mean, so they'll be there. They'll be, what's going on? They're going to be, this particular author will be on a panel. No, no, no, no. I meant to say that this particular author that we're featuring was released. And after her release, she went to the Hawaii Book and Music Festival and looked for a publisher. When you say released, you mean released from prison? Yes. And she went to the Honolulu Book and Music Festival to look for a publisher. And she found one. So she is a real published author. Wow, so this book can be bought. Not this one. Another book. Yes. And then she also wrote a second book. Her first book was Mommy Loves You. Oh, what a great title. And the second one was My Best Friend. She's got two books that have been published. And so she really is an author coming out of this program. And she'll be a participant at the conference. Yes. As an author. Now, you have other programs besides this prison program. I know that you've got something with the homeless. So, Kara, why don't you tell us a little bit about your program at the village? Sure. What's the, I forgot the name. So the village's name is Kaweeke Village. And it's actually located near San Island Access Road in Evelay. And it was actually a concept that was dreamt by Dwayne Creesew as well as different developers and nonprofits together who wanted to create a solution, a long-term solution to provide housing for formerly homeless families. So it's first of its kind of public-private partnership. And so far, they've finished a first phase of the village. And so there are about, I want to say, 80 families or maybe 80 individuals living on site right now. So there are like 80 individuals who are families. There are a number of families. A substantial number of families, though, because they're living there right now. And what do you do? What's your program? So, so far, we're excited. We launched what we call our Readers' Rallies, where the entire... What are you calling it? Readers' Rallies. Readers' Rallies. Okay. Right. So we invite the whole community at Kaweeke Village to come together for a night of books, read-alouds, music, and food, and social networking. And we've had two so far. The first Readers' Rallies we had featured Jake Shimabukuro as our featured guest. And it was a really wonderful evening, right, Lynn? Yeah. Unforgettable. And I'm sure that the people there must have really enjoyed it. I mean, it's not... I mean, I don't get to see... Right? You should have to pay $60 to see Jake. Yeah. And so we opened it to this community. I'm stuck at home reading passwords. Yeah. Well, next time you should come to our next Readers' Rallies because our next guest, this is happening in July, is going to be Robi Kahakalao. Oh, wow. She knows she's got a great hit out on the Hawaiian kind radio. Mm-hmm. Right. I mean, she is... Kaliki Oka Vai, I think, or something like that. It was written by Brickwood Galateria. Oh. From Sanita. It's a beautiful song. It was a song dedicated to mom. So it's perfect. Perfect. Perfect for the work that you do. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And so she... What... You said you had two of these programs. Right. Jake played at the first one. What would happen at the second? The second, we featured Frank DeLima. Frank DeLima. Right? Classic. Classic. Very much comedian, personality, brought his energy to the crowd. So people were dancing and laughing. I'm sure he... I'm sure that he taught the audience how to speak perfect English, too. Oh, absolutely. Along with Buta Hunt, and Peanut Butter and Jelly, all the classics. Really? Mm-hmm. I can just see him going eight, eight, eight. And all of a sudden, what? Isn't that what he does? Four to two. Four to two. Two to two. Yeah, two to two. Something, yeah? Sounds like Frank. So, okay. So you're working at the homeless village. Now, is any part of that program going to be incorporated into your convention? Mm-hmm. No. Well, I... No. Okay. Well, because that's just... Well, at the end of our program, just for maybe 45 minutes or so at the tail end of our conference, we do have the guest authors to feature national authors. They will be reading aloud something from their work. So you're... We conclude with a read aloud. Okay. Well, we already talked about one of your authors, Barney Salzburg. Yes. Who is a national author. And Keiko Kasa. And you mentioned... Keiko Kasa. Keiko Kasa. Keiko Kasa. So they showed... Keiko, we just showed her. Yes. And who else besides those two, if anybody, do you have the conference? Tammy Yi. Who? Tammy Yi. Tammy Yi. Yes. Okay. And Lois Kim. Lois Kim. Who had gone through our program. And Gabriela Ho. Okay, we have some books that we can bring up. These are from our Akuma O'Lella program, where we work with the inmates at the Women's Correctional Facility. So these are books that were written by some of your other... Wow. Yes. Guests, who might also be guests at your convention, but this is one called I Love Hilo. Yes. By Yvette Butterfield. No. What's this book about? This one is all about... So Hilo is Yvette's hometown. And she just recaps all of the places that she says is a must-seize of Hilo. So she's almost like a tour guide of sorts in this book. There's children. That's great. Lots of pictures. Food. Entertainment. Lots of fun in there. Oh, terrific. Okay, we got others. We got at least two more. So why don't we shoot the books out? This is the great advantage. Is this another book that's being written by somebody in your program? Yeah, this is the... These three that we're featuring right now, they were all done by the inmates. And they've all been published. Yes, this is the... Yes. There's one more. And there's one more. Those have all been already published. The Hawaiian underwater adventure, the one prior to this. So these books are all published books that came out of the prison program. Fantastic. Okay, so get... And these people, at least some of the people that are in that program will be at your conference. Just one. Because the rest are still... I got it. Yeah, too bad. Well, hopefully one day, you know, they'll be released and make a meaningful contribution to this project. Oh, fantastic. Now, I know that one night, I got dragged out to Waianae. Oh, yes.  And it was just an exciting evening at the Waianae Library out there. Was it the Nanakuli? Was it the new one? Nanakuli. So we got about two minutes, so why don't you tell us real quickly what happens in the Nanakuli Library in the district of Waianae. Oh, sure. So we also, recently, goes out to different communities and offers workshops. We do read-alows for fun. And so that particular event that you're talking about is where we go out and we read to kids. It's just a fun way of really getting parents engaged. We see a lot of gay members. There were a lot of parents that were actually bringing their kids in to listen to you. Do you have celebrity readers and people like that? Or do you invite people? Out of our programs, like Kahoiki Village, we do. So we try to bring in different people. But what we like to model is that anyone can read out loud. It's just a matter of just trying it out, having fun, making a few mistakes and learning from it. That's really the value, I think. And, you know, as a parent, kids connect to their parents most closely, especially when they're young. So it's really about that bonding and experience that they can share together. Well, that's fantastic. And, you know, the thing about reading aloud is that it also helps the reader. Absolutely. I'm happy to be here anyway. Absolutely. Well, we want to thank you for being with me this afternoon. And I also, I guess, we want to encourage people to find out more about your conference. Now, where can they do that? You've got a website or something? We do have a website. The website address is www.read2meintl.org. And they can also follow us on Facebook or Instagram. Right. Well, thank you. And it's good luck on the conference. And thank you for all the good work you're doing. Thanks for having us. Thank you for having us.


We'll try that. Ratbeard, Contessa, Old Scratch. We'll see. Ratbeard, Contessa, Old Scratch. Old Scratch, Ratbeard, and Contessa. Who knows? We'll try this. They'll try this and see what happens here. If we... Okay, he's kind of in an interesting spot, and so are we. Um, okay, we've got like heels right in hand right away, which is really good. Let's go for this. We're gonna go for this. We're gonna go for this. We don't need that one. Done. Okay, we'll try that first. So we'll get up some agility and some will for us and strength for Ratbeard. Um, we'll get up some spell power and then you can block damage because that always seems to be okay, ish. I'm not 100% sure about that choice, but we'll see. Contessa's gonna be good. I kind of would want Contessa to be in Viz, but we'll see. Contessa can basically go full ham next round, which is great. On what's his face? Okay, free range, nice job. What we could do, that one's kind of okay. That's kind of spicy. We could do that, just because we can. Why not? Um, done, done. Let's do that. Let's do that. It's not gonna do much, but it'll be better than nothing. We kind of have to just hit really quick here. Um, we honestly have to hit really quick. It's kind of annoying. He spawns so close. He's spawned so far away and he doesn't move, which is really, really obnoxious. Mega hit, fantastic. Okay, really, really good there. Really, really, really good. Relentless as well. Nice. Another one, no, unfortunately not, but he is bleeding now, which is good. It would have been better if he, if we had the other thing up, but we don't, which is unfortunate. Okay, they're going to kill each other, which is great. I don't mind that at all. Do not mind that. Okay, go right big. Can you block? No, you cannot. Okay, that's cute. That's cute for not blocking. I'm proud of that. Attack, Ketchum, immune, because we need to go and refresh up. Thing is as well, again, gosh darn it. Gosh darn it. Brad, yep, Brad and Doug. We got Doug and Brad. Doug and Brad, mate. They're going to come in here. Going to come in here and attack us, mate. Yeah, mate, yeah, mate. Okay, that should do a lot of damage there. We're going to do that. You can go down there. You can then go in this next round. You will attack big boy there. We're going to take out these minions because they do a bit of damage. Did a bit on them, not the most, but we can do another attack next as long as they're in the same formation, which will be useful. So yeah, that's good. That's two rounds. I really wish the silver bullets lasted a bit longer because two rounds is not long enough. I don't think two rounds is long enough here. Yep, we are definitely still on duck of death. He does a lot. He's hard. He's hard. I think we might have it this time though, I think. I don't want to speak too soon, but touch wood. Hopefully we have it. This one I think is going to be the one of the toughest ones for us to solo. This is an old scratch, I think. I think we're going to be kind of stuck here for a while. But I mean it's fine because we've got free companion stuff. So I mean we can be here as long as we want. We can be here all day. Who knows? I don't really take care. Okay, that doesn't do too much. Okay. Any good drops yet? No, not yet. We haven't even finished this. We're just trying to solo, just to prove that we can solo these. We've done two of them. We've done Captain Blood and Brass Monkey. We haven't done old scratch solo or Duck of Death, which we're currently trying to do solo. Okay, that'll be a lot. And we don't really need that at the moment, so we're going to do that. You can go and super strike him. You can go and do that. That should do double damage. Done. Hopefully that's good. Still have Bless Bullets, which is great. I'm really happy that these guys have kind of focused against me, which is really, really good. This is Omega, which is going to do a lot. A lot of damage. Okay, Mojo Echo, nice. Okay, that was pretty good. Pretty good. Okay, that was good. That was good. Super Hurt, nice. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Bloodstorm again, nice. Can we get some relink? That would be great. The Dodge. Why would you dodge? Why would he dodge? It's not cool. Why would you dodge? I'm mad. I'm mad now. Okay, we will kind of do all of them again. I think we might do another, definitely doing another heal. Old Scratch might do a heal as well, because this is kind of bad. This is kind of bad. Not going to lie, kind of bad.  Okay, that is not good. These minions are kind of obnoxious. Okay, good job, free ranger. Nice work. Naske work. Canaske work.  It's not that it like is too big of a deal, but you know, it's a bit of a deal. Okay, we'll do that. We could do this. I think we could do this.  Old Scratch is now full health again, so we can get some of this out, hopefully. Okay, that did a lot. No Relentless at all, which is annoying. Okay, there's the hit all finally. That took a while to show up. Geez, kind of happy about that though. Happy about that. Not going to lie, happy about that. Really, really happy about that. I think we could kill him. I think we could get him. Okay, yeah, you shoot Old Scratch. I don't care about that. Okay, cool. I think we can get him. Think we can get him. I hope. I really, really hope we can get him. We should be able to. Old Scratch can do that, I suppose. It's going to do a bit of damage to us. 400, 400 knockback. We'll just do that. And then we'll do that and hope we kill. I don't know. Fingers crossed, team. Fingers crossed. We did it. We did it. I don't care that he dodged, because as long as, as long as can test it, yes, we did it. We did it. We solo duck of death. Oh my gosh, that took forever. Geez. That was like six tries. Holy moly. And we, we got a skeleton key as well. Fantastic. I'm so happy. I'm actually really happy about it.


A lot of things happening at the end of last night's game fallout from that game trickling into today What's the latest from the stadium Meredith? Bob it's pretty clear there is no love lost between these two teams if you didn't know that before it was evident last night Flash already mentioned the fact that there have been a couple Suspensions both Kevin Cash and Aaron Boone received a one-game suspension So you will not see them in the dugout tonight and said it'll be Carlos Mendoza managing for the Yankees Matt Cotaro for the Tampa Bay Rays Araldis Chapman got a three-game suspension However, he is appealing so he will be available out of the pen tonight earlier today Aaron Boone spoke and I asked him whether or not he thought his suspension was justified No, I don't think I should be sitting out tonight nor chappy But you know, I also do respect the process and the thoroughness and the and Care that they gave to to kind of walking through this and so, you know, I accept it But I certainly don't agree with it when they informed you of the suspensions. How did that all take place? What was your initial reaction in and what did they say in explaining it? Actually Brian Cashman Called and let me know just a little while ago And then and then I had a chance to speak with Chris Young who I have a ton of respect for that It's in charge of this this thing and you know, we had a quick conversation and and that was it Obviously cash was pretty upset in light of what had happened When he had mentioned about your team having poor coaching and poor teaching.  I mean, you know, I'm gonna take offense to someone popping off in the heat of the moment No chance and tonight will give me a time to reflect on that a little bit and maybe tighten up my coaching techniques Reldas, do you feel as though your three game suspension was warranted? I don't think so. I mean, I think it was a little harsh You know, and That's the reason why I'm going to appeal the decision It was tough then in the moment meaning, you know, three minutes prior to that we had just had a guy thrown at Uh, so fairly raw with what was being said But always want to show to the guys how much we care about them as a staff as an organization myself personally And and want to be able to express that


I would want people to see my style as like, just like, dang, like that dude looks good. Like, he taking care of himself, like, that's a grown man. When it comes to fashion, I think my style is just kind of uppity-ish, but at the same time a little bit more relaxed. You got on a really, really nice outfit and you just feel like that guy, and every time I go into the stadium, that's how I want to feel like, I want to feel like I'm the best thing walking. You are in the national football league, like, you can take care of yourself and, you know, express how you feel through what you wear.


The association of licensed telecommunication operators of Nigeria says the accumulated debt from the structured supplementary service data, all to them by banks, rose to 80 billionaires of November this year. The chairman of Akan Gbinga, the buyer made this known in a recent interview. He said at the time, we will come when telecommunication companies will be forced to withdraw from U.S.S.D. services, as banks refuse to pay. Recorded in 2019, telecommunications companies said they could no longer provide the services for free and propose to take a cut of 4.50 Nare per 20 seconds from the charges paid by customers to the banks. However, the banks geeked against it, alleging that a bill raised costs by 450%. Earlier on our break first show, the break first wave spoke to President Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria, engineer Ike Inamani. I think the general public know that if something is not done and the payments are not made by the banks, unfortunately, the telecom settle may not be able to provide this service anymore. And the reason we are making this known to the general public is at the end of the day. It is the subscribers that may suffer from it. The reason being that this is not an issue that just came up, it's been on for many years now. In 2019, there was, when the debt was still about 32 billion, there was agreement rich in terms of how the banks were to pay it. They ignored that agreement, did it on or it? In 2021, by this time, the debt has risen to about 42 billion. Another agreement was rich that evolved the CBM, the telecom regulator NCC, and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy. At that point, we all felt a final arrangement has been reached that will ensure these debts are paid. Unfortunately, the banks again have totally ignored the agreement and refused to honor it. And the consequence of that is that the debt has now risen to about 80 billion. And our consign is that with the trend and the way the banks are approaching the issue, there is clearly no means or willingness for them to pay. And unfortunately, it was simply little inability of the telcos to be able to offer the service. Now, two things is important here. The banks already have the money because they've already debited the customers, you know, account for this money. So the money is sitting with the bank. We're not asking for something that the banks not already have with them, right? The second one is that there's an agreement that this payment should be made. And for some reason, the bank just refused to make the payment. So it's good to put this in perspective. It's not like we are threatening the industry or the country. We're simply making it known that, unfortunately, we are running out of the resource to continue providing the service that is meant to be paid for, which for some reason the banks have simply refused to pay.


Welcome back. The world marked Malaria Day yesterday with the theme reaching the zero malaria target. It comes as scientists from Oxford University say a vaccine they developed has proven highly effective in a trial in babies in Africa. They also say the vaccine was 77% effective in the year-long trial of 450 children in Bukina Faso. Coming back home, Nigeria has one of the highest numbers of global malaria cases, as well as the highest number of deaths. And this morning we're joined by Dr. Ronaoud Iqbe to share on what Malaria Day and of course efforts that need to be taken here in Nigeria and across the world to read our continent of malaria if possible. Good morning Dr. Ronaoud. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. I want us to start with some positivity this morning so let's quickly share or get you to share with us some of the good things that we may have achieved in the last long while in the last couple of years in the fight against malaria. The positives? Yes, absolutely. Okay, so malaria as we know is linked to Nigeria and Africa and it's been an age-long battle so far but despite that we've been making gains you know there's been increasing the use of insecticide death meds from about 2% in 2000 to about 55% in the year 2015 which is good. So that means there's been a little drop in the incidence of malaria despite the fact that it's still one of the greatest out there in Africa so and also interventions like fitment testing also been stable though so I think we're making some progress but there's still a lot of work to be doing. Really Dr. Ronaoud Iqbe despite this progress we know that Nigeria has you know is the country with one of the highest you know malaria deaths and incidences in the country and this statistics is even you know more grim in you know the rural communities so how can we take the anti-malaria fights to the rural communities to make sure that they're carried along with all the successes they were recording you know in the fight against malaria? Well I think a lot of advocacy needs to be done. First for malaria control there are a lot of things that need to be done. Firstly we talk about vector control that's the mosquito itself it has to be controlled. Now typically around those our environment is dirty, the gutters are clogged up, they are not moving, a lot of stagland water, bushes around us all of that. So those are the first things we need to do get rid of the breeding sites for these mosquitoes. Discharge tracks properly, clean the gutters regularly. I was even discussing with someone yesterday that back then we used to do this such this and it is thrown out there which was a regular thing but now it's it's no longer the norm you know our gutters are all clogged up and stagland, mosquitoes are being left right at the center. So these are the things we need to bring back. We need to be more responsible and proactive towards keeping the environment clean. Then secondly you need to get tested and treated. So not everything is malaria really. Everybody has a slight headache. I have malaria and you go and pop the pills because part of the problem now is resistance to some of the routine anti-malaria because a lot of people are abusing those medications. So these are some of the messages we need to scale up out there. Yes Mr Iqbe, talking about that you know drug resistance to anti-malaria and also fake medicines. How's Nigeria dealing with these challenges? Well it's a tough one really where for instance we really don't have tight regulations as to who gets drugs and to where you can walk into a pharmacy or chemists or roadside market and buy whatever drug you want to buy simply because I think you have malaria. So these are some issues right. So we need tighter regulations as to how these drugs are accessible to everyone out there. All right that's you know like you mentioned there's a lot of work that also needs to be done that would help the fight if our environment continues to allow mosquitoes to breed and to increase in numbers then you know we may never win this fight. So we have a long way to go and when you mention gotters I'm looking you know even on Lagos Island the all of Lecky Phase 1 Victor Island there's a lot of these gotters that Saturday environmental sanitation would not solve. There's a lot being infrastructure deficit really is a huge problem. So I hope we'll get back to that before we end the program. Let's talk about the vaccine trials that have started in certain countries in Africa, Kenya, Ghana and I'm not sure what the last one is. How well is that going? Is that good news and do you think that those vaccines will eventually get to Nigeria? Well it's good news because so far we've not been able to eradicate it through the normal testing and treating and like you mentioned have a long way to go. So if the vaccines are available I think that might scale up our efforts toward eradication. So so far they've said they have about 70% efficacy on the current trials doing right now which is actually very good and I think there's also a first trial somewhere sometimes once yes with the RTS vaccine and there's a first three being planned across four African countries. So it's a good step really so I think it's something we should be happy about. All right Dr. Ronald Ipe, thank you very much for your time and thoughts on the breakfast this morning. All right, we'll be taking a break here to share some good news. We just shared some regarding the malaria vaccine and this one is about Nigerian students who are doing great in Diaspora. Stay with us.


Hi, my name is Olisa Enrico, but some people know me as another name. It's my pseudo name, it's my superhero name, it's my rap name, spicy. Now rap is a part of hip hop and hip hop is the ultimate form of expression. So rap is the ultimate form of expression in word, whether it's written word or spoken word. That's what I think. Now, you might already have a way of writing, lots of ways to get in, or you may never have tried writing a rap.  You're going to need a few things. You're going to need a pen and paper, or if you prefer, you can use a device. I'm not really a device person when I come to writing, but whatever works for you works perfectly. Let's get into it. Do you know what a bar is? People say this all the time and they'll be like, oh, you got bars, but they don't know what that means. They think it's a clever line, but really, it's a measure of time. A bar is a piece of music, usually it's one line. Let's use something you might know, green eggs and ham by Dr. Seuss. So he says, I do not like them saying I am, I do not like green eggs and ham, I will not eat them in a house. I will not eat them with a mouse. I know the whole thing by heart, but anyway, did you notice every line right? Each line would be a bar. Watch me count it. I do not want them saying I am, I do not want green eggs and ham. I will not eat them here or there. I will not eat them anywhere. Each one counted four beats. Each one is a bar. Each line is a bar. So now that you know what that is, we're going to write some bars. In green eggs and ham, the bars rhyme at the end. We're also going to try to rhyme at the end of the line, but if we rhyme in between, that's fine. And what's really cool about hip hop, about rap, is we don't have to be perfect. Our rhymes don't have to be perfect. Our raps don't have to be perfect, just like in life. You don't have to be perfect. We're just going to do our best, and that's all that really matters. So don't get in your own way. Don't sink too hard. Just try some stuff out. Make lots of mistakes. That's the best way. The strategy we're going to use today is called a word bank. I'm going to write my words on the board. We just need a rhyming word to start with. Now a word bank could be anything. Maybe I write all words that are about space, and they don't rhyme at all. They're just all words about space, and then I build a rap about space and be super cool. I've done it before. Love that. Our words are going to rhyme. Let's see. What words should we do? How about time? I like time. Time. And we're just going to brainstorm a bunch of words that rhyme. So I'll use the alphabet. I don't know one for A, B, blind, sublime, sublime, C, crime, dime, crime, crime, crime, enlighten. Told you it doesn't have to really rhyme, because kind of rhyme or use assonance if you want to fancy words. Enlighten, which reminds me of frightened, grime, E-B-C-D-E-F-G-H, high, sure, why not, high. I'm J, I don't know one for J, maybe later, K, kind, line, lime, I got to say my alphabet you guys, help me out, L-M, mime, mime, do you know one for O, I don't know, maybe later, P-Q. I think that's the word, I think it's the word, it's the word, like a, like a peel, or a rhyme, or a rhino, maybe, I don't know, Rhine, Q-R-S, where did it sublime, sine, like a math, or sine, like here's your sine, sine, T, we did time, time, vine, wine, or wine, like that, W-X-Y-Z, ooh, maybe we think that's the word, I think it's the word, maybe we think of wine, and maybe some more will come up, but we just do this and do this and do this until we can't think of any more, we could probably go on for a long time, but let's try to build some rhymes now. Now, don't think too hard, this is the part where you start going, does that make sense? Is that cool? Am I cool? None of that matters, we're just trying out a new technique, or one you've used before and having some fun, the more you do it, the better you get at it, like anything else in life, anything else in life, you get better with practice, okay? So first I'm going to look at the words, hmm, and see what I see, what does it make me think of? Maybe something silly, I don't know, I like to mine, build a box, once upon a time is the first thing I think of, once upon a time I couldn't think of a rhyme, that's a hip-hop crime, I was lost in my mind, doesn't make any sense, that's okay, I can change it later, that's a great part, I was lost in my mind, but now I'm feeling fine, sublime, this kind, I thought of another word, sunshine, I don't know what it sounds like, I should probably try it before I move on, let's try it. Once upon a time I couldn't think of a rhyme, that's a hip-hop crime, and I was lost in my mind, I don't need that word, let's cross it out. But now I'm feeling fine, sublime, this kind, sunshine, hmm, sunshine in my face, it changes my rhyme, remember Greening's and Hammond was rhyming at the end, I just changed my rhyming word, hmm, let's go with it, sunshine in my face, life in this place, a taste, a taste, no waste, doesn't make sense to me now, but let me try it, maybe it'll make sense to me. Once upon a time I couldn't think of a rhyme, that's a hip-hop crime, I was lost in my mind, but now I'm feeling fine, sublime, this kind, sunshine in my face, life in this place, a taste, no waste, feels weird, but we'll come back to that, no waste, feels, let's just go with that, because that's our feel, feels weird, tell the truth, feels weird, life in this place, I'm gonna cut this out, I don't like it, it's cool. Once upon a time I couldn't think of a rhyme, that's a hip-hop crime, I was lost in my mind, I won't feel fine, sublime, this kind, sunshine in my face, life in this place feels weird, okay, I can go on, and it helps if I have a focus, like if there's something I want to talk about, but you can just play with the technique, I'll tell you a story. I'm part of this program, I teach at a program called the residency, shout out to the residency, it's like a hip-hop, intensive camp, all these young people come together and they work so hard, and I got the opportunity to build a rap with one of the teachers there, and I wanted to do one that was using this technique. So I wrote four pages of rhyming words, look at all these rhyming words, and this took me like a week, I didn't do this all the one day, I did this over a long time, and anywhere I was going I kept my little notebook with me, and I would, word would pop up or somebody would say something, and I would just write it down, like, ah, that rhymes too, ah. And then I went through using this technique, built my rhyme, and I didn't like a lot of it. So I changed it over and over and over again, because I don't expect to be perfect, I've never been perfect, and I'll never be perfect, but I'd like to share that rap with you that I built. I learned it, and I performed it, and it goes like this, ignite your imagination on a search for inspiration, take an inhalation, and pique the situation, a generation facing cultural annihilation by assimilation, exfixation by incarceration, destabilization by gentrification, extermination by sterilization without authorization, maybe just intoxication, it's a covert operation of misinformation, dehumanization, spiritual contamination, but this is an affirmation that hip hop is creation. So you try it. Write down some words that rhyme, build some lines, change it, rearrange it, reframe it, give it some focus, make mistakes, lots of them, make lots and lots of mistakes, because you get better every time. Alright, don't forget to rap, R-A-P, rhythm and poetry, and that's a rap.


We had aggressive begging everywhere. And we had every day on average, 60 or 70 serious felony crimes, including robbery, stabbings, 22 murders, 1990. And that was very serious crime, as well as quality of life crime. So what did you do then to clean up, you know, the subway? It was very easy. It's exactly what the transit police now in 2023 are doing in New York once again. And surprise, surprise, the success they're having is crime is going down and quality life is improving. We focused first on fare evasion. And fare evasion was a dollar 15 theft of service. The cops did not want to enforce it. They thought they were just protecting the revenue of the transit authority. Plus they would be tied up anywhere from 12 to 24 hours processing that fare evasion arrest. We structured it so that we put teams of officers working together, supervised, and we would arrest 10 or 15 or 20 fare evaders, hold them together and then bring them upstairs and we created what we called a bust bus. It was especially a quick bus where we could process the prisoners right there at the station. Seven out of 10 could be released immediately because they had no record so we could effectively give them desk appearance tickets. But three out of 10 were found to be wanted on warrants or in many instances carrying weapons. So the figure we used back in 1990 was one out of every 21 we arrested had some type of weapon on them and one out of every seven had a warrant outstanding usually for a previous transit offense. So the beauty of what we were doing was the public saw for the first time in 20 years the police were actively going after the fare beaters. There's one line of argument that is like, well, that's really what was the difference maker here is it's almost like it's less about the public disorder perception of things and more about you're kind of creating a pretense or like almost like a fishing expedition to be able to stop a bunch of people and then from that you're able to find the people that have outstanding warrants and so forth. And that is really the part of it that's having an effect more so than broken windows more broadly understood. Is there anything to that? What you're describing is the term is called a pretext stop that stop that you're trying to find a reason to make a stop. Broken windows policing, however, is about probable cause. It's an offense, a criminal offense or a administrative offense in the case of the subway oftentimes that the police officer actually sees the violation, it's probable cause. He has probable cause, they see him picking the pocket they see him accosting the other riders on the system. So the far left has been able to really muddy the waters significantly relative to trying to equate broken windows policing which is probable cause policing quality of life policing with stop, question and frisk both of them are essential tools of American policing and need to be practiced legally need to be supervised closely and need to be defended vigorously and I'm a staunch defender and proponent of both of them. How would you defend stop, question and frisk? Because that seems to be the even more controversial policy where there's been real constitutional questions and rulings against it because you're not actually, as you say, you're not intervening after a crime. It's the police officer kind of saying, okay, we, I believe that this person is about to commit a crime and doesn't that contribute to rationing up the tensions? Let me explain, stop, question and frisk is protected and governed by Terry versus Ohio Supreme Court case 1968. We studied extensively when I was in the police academy in 1970 because it was so new that you have to believe that a crime has is or is about to be committed and have to be able to articulate the reasons for that. And that articulation is critical. And what has happened in recent years unfortunately because of poor leadership, poor supervision, poor training, his offices are not trained enough as to how to articulate why they made the stop. And it's allowed in the case of New York City where it was overused, well intended but overused in the early 20th century. Could you give me an example, just a concrete example of what is a good use of stop and frisk and what is a bad use of stop question and frisk? Well, basically it goes right to the heart of reasonable suspicion. You have to be able to articulate why are you making the stop? And in city after city around the country and it's been determined that many of those stops are being made inappropriately. So it's given stop, question and frisk. Oftentimes it's called stop and frisk but the important part of stop, question and frisk is the question. You stop somebody, you have the legal right to stop them if you have reasonable sufficient that you can document but then your question. And then the questioning basically may lead to effectively the frisk, the fear that the individual may be armed. So it's an essential tool of policing. Some cities have tried to claim that they don't do it. You cannot police any community in America without the officer having the ability to do a stop, question, frisk. It's like going into a doctor's office and the doctor's not allowed to ask you any questions. How about why are you there? One point that our colleague CJ C. Armella highlighted here was that in that essay, Kelly said that broken windows policing is a highly discretionary set of activities that seeks the least intrusive means of solving a problem whether it's prostitution, drug dealing in a park, graffiti, public drunkenness and moreover depending on the problem, good broken windows policing seeks partners to address it, social workers, city code enforcers, business improvement, district staff, teachers, medical personnel, clergy and others. Do you agree with Kelly's argument there or clarification about broken windows that there's more to it than the police need to be out there aggressively enforcing every infraction? That's correct. He has never basically indicated or have I that you have to enforce with the rest every infraction but you do have to address the infraction that broken windows is never gonna work with just police enforcement. It has to work with what did Kylie and Gunn do in the transit authority? Even as we were arresting fair evaders, seven out of 10 of them were stopped but then they were released with a ticket. They weren't jailed. They were inconvenienced for half an hour or so but they were simultaneously cleaning up the subway. They were getting rid of the trash. They were getting rid of the graffiti. They were improving, getting rid of the, on 6,000 train cars they got rid of that graffiti that was like the hallmark of New York of the 70s and 80s. And so there's with a partnership with the station masters with the transit authority, with the police. This is an example, the business improvement districts in New York that are so successful. Grand Central Park, Bryant Park. Why are they so successful? They focus on cleanliness. They focus on enforcement and they focus on furniture. The idea of benches and street lights. The creative idea of Bryant Park of not having permanent benches and chairs because you can move around.   And it's that creative thinking that is that what broken windows was all about. The dotted line on the top is the incarceration rate in the US. The bottom is New York City during the relevant time period and you see the divergence there. It actually goes down in New York City. So it's not obvious. Every year. Every year. Yes. So it's it's not like, you know, just locking up all the criminals or something made New York safer and New York during that time period saw greater crime improvements in reducing crime than the rest of the nation. So that's an interesting aspect to note of your approach is that did not require mass incarceration. Some of what resulted with that lower crime, et cetera, was increased tourism, increased jobs to support that tourism. The number, it had not been a new hotel open to New York when Giuliani came in in 94 for years. And then you started having all these boutique hotels popping up. I think there were like 65 of them in the space for a couple of years. And I remember going with Giuliani in 94 down to the South Side Seaport, an international meeting of real estate investors and telling them point blank, you want to start taking a close look at putting your money into New York City because we're going to make it safe. And we did. And it continues to be a relatively safe city compared to some of what's going on in America. Hey, that's an excerpt from our Reason livestream with Bill Bratton, who was New York City's top cop. He also worked in LA and oversaw dramatic decreases in crime. We talked about what's going on now, what worked in the past, what might work in the future and how to square all of that with the need for civil liberties. If you want to watch the whole video, check it out. And if you want to check out our Reason livestreams, we do them every Thursday at Zach Weismiller and I at 1pm Eastern time, go to reason.com and check us out.


Hey everybody today is August the 29th Wednesday Here getting to my computer a little bit late again That is because I dropped off my son at school again. It's just gonna be a daily routine Just a couple days out of the week, but any who we're looking at possibly playing the upside here guys No signal yet Probably not gonna get a signal for another two candlesticks or so But as always we are going to check forex first and see See what's going on here. Oh, we have pending home sales Which is a low impact That comes out at 10 Eastern time and then 10 30 crude oil inventories. That's high impact high impact event reports 10 30 if we do play calls, I'm looking at the 290 calls that expire in two days. I was the 31st I like those the best trading at 96 by 98 at the moment So I can really good here. I like it. I do. I like it here. Let's go ahead and buy for being in a 97 cents 97 cents I bought the 290 calls that expire in two days at 97 cents Dip down It's just trading sideways. It's trading sales, and I feel like the market isn't gonna go anywhere And and I gosh, I just had this feeling here, but it's it's okay. I still like it everything does look prime to the upside and I'm not necessarily too worried about it. I just am worried that My entry I'm worried about my entry that I got up so high I bought in at 97 cents and so already trading at 90 by 92 So we're just gonna we're just gonna hold these calls here. I'm hoping that As it gets closer to nine, excuse me 10 30 Eastern time that it starts trending up higher 23 minutes until that report comes out. I'm just gonna sit tight with these these calls here I Feel confident that I'll be getting out at the very least not a huge loss We are back up to 90 by 92 cents. There we go. I like it here. Come on, baby Let's see 95 by 97. Here we go. Now. We're in the green. There we go a dollar I'm trying to get out at 107 107 That's my target. I'm still holding on to these calls. I'm even 96 by 98 again. I bought at 97 cents And it's dropping down It's it's just going up and down and I really feel like the next 15 minutes It's gonna continue doing this because of that crude oil inventors coming out at 10 30 Boy, it seems like it's just Just sitting there right where I bought at 97 cents. Isn't that interesting how it always seems that way? Want to talk about a roller coaster ride? I'm still holding on to these calls here 94 by 96 for the record I'm even now 96 by 98. It tested to 90 28 Three times now. Isn't that interesting? Let's see if we can break out here. We go. Okay now We're now we're rocking here 101 by 103 Really close here 105 is on the ask 106 is on the ask target price of 107. I'm trying to sell it 107 the ask is 106 7 is on the ask come on and Boom I sold guys done. I'm out 107 guys that is awesome Bought it 97 cents. I bought really high and sold at 107. That's good stuff Very very good Very good. I like it. That's a tough trade to be in I think I'm proving to myself that if I just go by my rules gonna be a okay Dang look at that 108 by 110. I'm done That was one heck of a big of a long trade That that was tough. I Will admit it got in right here on the one-minute chart I got in right here as soon as it started dumping down and then went back up and it and it stayed flat for me And then it finally took off. I'm very happy with my strategy Even though that I got a horrible entry. I followed my rules I think I think because of the way that I traded and sure like this this could all blow up on me You know next month or whatnot, but I feel like if I can learn to really Follow my strategy follow my rules. I can't lose very much. Look at that 110 by 113. Thank you so much for watching everybody. This was a good trade and Let's do it again tomorrow guys. Hit that like button hit that subscribe button. It'll help me out tremendously You


Hi there! My name is Sandy Allnach. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I want to bring you another in the 24 Tags of Christmas for 2016. Every year I do this series of six videos in a row, and I make four of each tag and give them away here on YouTube and over on my blog, so you'll want to be sure to leave comments, and in both places if you'd like double chances in order to win, and stay tuned all week to have as many chances as possible to win a tag in the mail.   You can see it's only partially cut through, and then I'll take a pair of scissors and trim a strip that's going to hang off toward the top of the paper. You'll see how that comes into play when I assemble my tag here. So I'm going to color this in colored pencil. I'm doing this on some Nina Desert Storm cardstock, and this is something I often use with my Copic markers, but I'm going to use some green pencil and some red pencil to add a little bit of color to this. It's some pretty quick and easy color. There's a lot of detail in here, but the greens in the background, I'm just doing some super quick scribbling of color in here. I'm not going to worry about shading or anything on this background portion, because I'm going to do some things with dimension and make these skates really pop on this pretty little tag. You can use any brand of pencils, of course, with it. I like to use Prismacolor pencils, and there are links to all the supplies in the doobly-doo down below. I use a pencil sharpener called a Quiet Sharp pencil sharpener, which is something that gets them extremely, extremely sharp, and it has auto stop, so it doesn't eat up your whole pencil. So there'll be a link to that in the supplies list down below as well, and over on my blog. I picked a red pencil to just add some color to the berries that are in here, and then I'm going to add some color to the shoestrings as well. And the shoestrings are actually part of the bow, so they've tied the bow out of shoestrings, which I thought was a really cute thing to add to this to make it a little more Christmassy and tie it to the skates rather than just have a piece of ribbon on there. Kind of fun. There's a couple portions up here that I'm not sure which part was part of the ribbon and which is part of the shoestring, so if you get this stamp, you can decide on your own whether or not you want to color that red or green. I left a few parts that I could color with red later, and then since the shoelaces are going to be dangling down into the high skates, then the skates are also going to have some red in them. However, since I'm going to do some layering with this, I'm going to only color partially down my tag using the red, and I'll now switch down, and I'm using a silver pencil. It's actually a shiny silver pencil, and I'm going to color the blades on my skates, just fill them in with basic straight-up color, and add just a slight amount of shading and contrast using a black pencil, because I want it to have a little bit of contrast there, but not a whole ton, because what's really going to pop is going to be the next step on this, which is going to be to start coloring the skates themselves on white cardstock. My original thought had been to use a white pencil and color them on the Desert Storm cardstock and make them a one-layer tag, but I realized it would be a lot easier to use the white paper to do that, that carrying through of the white, and it's also going to make them pop a lot more. So now I can just add a little bit of red detail for the shoelaces, and a little bit of gray or black detail in the skates themselves to add some dimension, and you can decide how much dimension you want to add, this may be more than you're interested in, but what I'm doing is adding some shading behind each one of the pieces of fabric, you can sort of see there's little stitch lines around each of the panels on the skates, and adding a little bit of shading around that makes them look like they're dimensional. You could alternately, if you're really into fussy cutting, you could layer each one of those pieces and glue them on top of each other, it would really add some dimension without coloring really at all, except to color in those shoelaces, which would be kind of cool, but I'm using a really soft pressure to use this same dark pencil that I used heavily for the bottom edge of the skates to just add very very light color to the rest, and just a little bit of shading from the outside in, and I'm not stressing about the direction of the lighting, I just want to add a little bit of shading so that heel panel looks like it's popping forward, and that sort of thing, get a little bit of dimension around it, and using a super light pressure allows you to have some flexibility in how dark you make it, because you can keep going over it. If you get too heavy with the pressure, it's a lot harder to remove color than it is to add just a little bit more and even it out, and the sharp pencil makes a really really really big difference as well, because you can get into any of the texture of the paper with just that sharp sharp nib of the pencil. So add a little bit to that back skate as well, and get some some soft coloring in there, and then part of the shoelaces is going to stick out over the top here, so had to add a little bit of red in there. I'm taking a kneaded eraser, and I'm going to go over those areas that I colored that are supposed to be shaded, that really light gray color, because I didn't want them quite as dark, but since I had such a light touch with the pencil, I could go over them really lightly with the kneaded eraser, and get rid of some of that. I fussy cut out the skate shapes themselves, so I made it as simple shape as I could, so I didn't have a lot of fussy cutting, and then added it on to my tag. I put a little B creative tape along the edge now of that top strip, and then used a pencil to fold it around, so I would create a loop on the top of my tag. This is a great way to add a loop onto anything that you need a loop onto, so remember that you can just leave that little tab on the top. I did forget to color in the little silver things on the buckles of the skates, so I did that after I got them all finished, and then I took a little glossy accents to add to the berries. Just add a little extra shimmer and shine to it, a little bonus thing to add, you could also do that with stickles, and make them a little bit more fun that way. And what a pretty little tag. I stamped the skates in red onto a brown bag, and the ribbon, I just looped twice through that hole and then tied a bow at the top, super easy to do without having to do any heavy knotting, and the person could take the ribbon off and use it again if you're using a really light touch to that knot, and having it double looped inside that loop makes it very sturdy, it's not going to fall off or anything. And this would also double as a Christmas ornament, wouldn't that be kind of fun? So I made four of these for the series, and if you are interested in potentially winning one of these, I'm doing a giveaway, so leave comments in the doobly-doo down below. You can also leave comments over on my blog and have another chance to win. You can hit that 24-14 or 2015 to get to the playlists from those years, and you can click on any of the previous videos that are already available to see the rest in this year's series. Thank you so much for joining me for this. I hope you're enjoying the series because I'm having a blast making all of these tags. Can't wait to send them out in the mail to the lucky winners. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye-bye.


Our guest this weekend is Tom Di Lorenzo, a professor of economics and history at Loyola Maryland University and also a friend and senior fellow here at the Mises Institute. And our topic is the PC cancer that is spreading across campuses and universities in America, not only Yale and Mizzou. Tom is particularly well equipped to handle this topic, having fought the PC monster really throughout his academic career. He took on the Lincoln myth which is of course one of his great achievements and he also took on and exposed the evil of the Hamiltonian Federalists as the great centralizers in American history. Now I have to apologize in advance, we caught Dr. Di Lorenzo traveling so he's on a cell phone and the sound quality at points is not optimal but I guarantee you'll enjoy a very interesting and informative interview on what's happening with PC on campus from an insider and an academic, Tom Di Lorenzo. Tom I'm sure you've been following the recent events at Mizzou and what strikes me about the situation is this, you know Mizzou is not Yale, it's not Berkeley, it's not Wellesley. Do you think students and their parents really understand how left wing most universities are, even big state schools, SEC football schools like Mizzou? No I don't think so, I see parents at Loyola University, Maryland, they keep paying $40,000 to $50,000 a year for room board and tuition and I think they have no idea the place is really like most American universities now by these cultural Marxist ideologues who really are enemies of free speech. Their basic mantra is that free speech is okay as long as you agree with me when my sort of extreme left wing Marxist views, they believe and they teach, they teach students that it's an honorable thing to destroy the right of free speech to the oppressors, who they call the oppressors, which is basically white heterosexual males, everyone else to be oppressed and it sounds crazy but that's pretty much the way it's been for quite a long time. You might remember Jeff, in the 90s there were a whole bunch of books written by Dinesh de Souza and one of the other neo-conservatives on political correctness and made a big stink for a while and then it kind of faded away but this has been simmering and getting worse and worse every year since then and so that's why we see these absurdities such as we see at Yale University or the University of Missouri. In your experience, have the kids changed over the last 20 years? Are they getting worse? Are they special snowflake syndrome exaggerated by right-wingers or is it true? Well, my own experience, a lot of my students, their parents work in business, they work on Wall Street, they're from New York, Connecticut, the mid-Atlantic and so I get, most of them seem to just get a chuckle out of all this. They understand this farce but then there's maybe, I don't know, a percent that fall for it and for example, when the maliciously libeled our friend Walter Block for getting a very mainstream speech on the economics of discrimination, you know, a whole bunch of the students piled on and sort of collaborated the administration in this awful smear of Walter but at the same time, every single letter to the editor who's in the school newspaper supported Walter Block and condemned the University administration and the economics department so the vast majority of students in that incident were disgusted with the whole thing but there still is this minority that is manipulated by faculty, by the way, you know, I don't think that those teenage football players in the University of Missouri thought of this on their own, they're always manipulated by these sort of conniving, scheming, cultural Marx faculty members who grow all of these kids during freshman orientation and they begin brainwashing them in their ideology and so I think that's how things like this happen. So Tom, you've certainly been accused of being on PC, especially with regards to your books about Lincoln. Tell us what sort of fallout did you experience with faculty and in terms of your own career development as a result of having crossed the line of political correctness? Well, they pretty much left me alone. It's kind of funny. I had the time the book in real late came out.  I was teaching MBA classes all day Saturday at 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. and the dean at the time thought, well, this guy's too politically incorrect. We've got to get him out of the MBA programs. So that's what I've been trying to get out of that schedule for years. And so he actually did me a favor, but they pretty much left me alone.  And so I didn't have any any reprisals over that, but I did over the Walter Block scenario when Walter Block gave this speech. He basically wrote mainstream talk on economics and discrimination. For example, if I pay a woman half of what I pay an equally qualified man, the theory goes, well, I create a profit opportunity for my competitors. She can offer her a 20% pay raise and she will certainly take it. And I still make money on the deal because she's still underpaid. That's pretty much it. And oh, my goodness, you know, the president of the university sent an email to the whole world of denouncing the instant comments of Walter Block. Walter and I, of course, did that in moving on the local radio station in Baltimore. We wrote probably a couple of dozen articles on loomuckwell.com about it. They took revenge on me for that. But I have tenure. They can't do much. So they did freeze my salary for eight years. That's the price I paid for sticking up free speech when one of my friends was a lawful university president, Brian Lanane, is the name. But there's an interesting point here, right? Is that you and Professor Block didn't grovel. You didn't resign. You actually fought back. And we see so many of these kind of simpering academics just immediately try to issue some mea culpa and it never works. I mean, there's no amount of apologizing that can ever satisfy the progressive appetite. No, and that's the you use the word apologizing. That's part of their pain plan. They always demand an apology no matter what the issue is, because it's not enough for them to libel and smear and sender you.  And in the Walter Block case, of course, Walter would never have apologized for for giving a great speech on free market economics. But the university administration and Loyola University of Maryland have several members of the economics department to apologize for him. So they were the letter in the school newspaper apologizing for Walter's presence on campus. And then I, of course, wrote a letter back saying because they find it in the economics department and the chairman of the economics department at the time was violently opposed to what they did to Walter and so was I, of course. And so we wrote, you know, a letter of our own saying, hold on a minute here. The chairman of the department was not behind this later with I. So this is basically a lie. And so, yeah, they were just basically pandering to the university administration in hopes of getting maybe a 3 percent pay raise next year instead of the usual two and a half percent, almost academics behave in my experience. Well, you've been teaching for a few decades. Can you talk about this rise of the administrative state? In other words, have you seen the emphasis shift from teaching and classroom expertise to this sort of bureaucratic administrative state in university settings? Well, you know, every university has ever grown in bureaucracy. So I've seen it in my entire career as a teacher in 1979.  For example, when I first got to George Mason University in 1981, it was still a small state school, but I was there for eight years. And the bureaucracy probably quadrupled or quintupled in size during that whole period that I was there. Not exactly, but the Congress. And so now, you know, with cultural listening charge, the universities all have some sort of vice president for multicultural affairs, and they have a huge staff and a huge budget. That's, by the way, is what these people in numerous in Missouri are demanding. If you read on the web, their list of demands, the university president, he was too slow in turning the whole university into a politically correct and sane asylum under the guise of multiculturalism, as they say. Because he didn't do anything bad. I've searched the web, but I can't even find any kind of racial incident that might have instigated these students. I read on the web that one person claimed that someone wrote a swastika in the bathroom, but I've never known what. He needs to get too upset over that sort of thing. And the other thing I read about in Missouri is that one student, the president of the Student Union, claims that some guy in a pickup truck yelled a racial slur at him as walking across campus. And that still is not verified, just his word. And it's hard to believe that that is what caused the university president to resign from his job.  So the real reason for all this is they're upset that they heard a white guy in the university president putting in their own words. He was not really one of them. He was a businessman who got a job and he was not really a cultural Marxist ideologue, apparently, and that was very made them very unhappy. So he's gone. Yeah, well, it's interesting.  Right. It seems like we're forgetting about about what I hope is still the majority of students. Yeah, well, the media, of course, they didn't go to engineering school or business school, you know, they're, they're, they're part of the cultural left to the multicultural left. So they, they play out these things. But, but even at my university, like I said, these business students that I have, they want a job on Wall Street. They're not, they're not there to become a multicultural crusader or anything like that. They just talk the best they can. But they're all about learning business economics and getting a job. And I think the same is true of the engineering students and, you know, all the sciences, biology and chemistry, they all want to go to medical school or something like that. And so, but you can do the humanities and some of the social sciences. And that's where the rot is in American academia these days. And, you know, in the kids in computer science and things like that, they're, they're relatively safe from this, which is a good thing. And they're probably, probably are the majority. But what you have, though, is you have faculty who are manipulators, you know, they're connivers and manipulators. And they do get a hold of these kids of freshman orientation. And they start beating into their heads the idea that, you know, white oppression is, is so, is the reason the cause of all the world's, world's problems. And so they learn that language and they get a minority of students to be loudmouth activists like themselves. Tom, do you think there's a point where parents and student borrowers are going to say enough is enough? Maybe there's always going to be demand for fancy or elite degrees from Ivy League schools like Yale. But when you're talking about a more generic state university like Auburn, is there some point where parents say it costs too much. There's too much debt involved. The degrees aren't worth enough in terms of the job market.  Could we potentially reach a point of peak university or peak academia? Well, I certainly hope so. I do read more and more of these days about people saying things like that, like go to a trade school or learn a trade or become an apprentice.  And I don't know how widespread that is. At the same time, I still see these parents who spend so much money. An old friend of mine has sent his daughter to Dartmouth, said it, writing that check every year felt like pushing the Mercedes off a cliff every year. We have to write that tuition check. I still see the parents, you know, they want their kids to have that teddy green and not be left out. And that's the culture that's been green in our minds for decades. It is changing. You're right. It is changing. I do see a lot of parents becoming increasingly upset. Even during the Wolter Block, you ask that I mentioned earlier, I had an alumni right the one guy in particular. He said, I was just to write a $50,000 check to Loyola. But after reading about what they did with Wolter Block, I'm going to send it to my church instead. And I had several like that from big years to the university. And that will change things if you can get some of the board of trustees to get their heads out of the stands and not looking at being on board of trustees. That's just something that can improve your social life or make a few business connections and be responsible. That will change. That can change things, at least in some of the institutions. It's interesting that you bring up alums. You know, I'd like to ask you about this. On the one hand, I'd like to think that alumni could do a lot about this PC nonsense by withholding their donations, not attending football games, that sort of thing. But when you look at some of these schools, their endowments are so huge, they've got hundreds of millions of dollars.  Maybe they're the amount of money in universities as such that alums actually have very little power. Yeah, you've got problems like what did I just read? Yale has, what, a $25 billion endowment. So, you know, you put yourself in the shoes of the current administrators of Yale University who think that they're probably going to retire in the next five, six, seven years themselves and they're sitting on a $25 billion endowment to be. And so I'm not sure they would really care that much about some donor that said, hey, I want my $100 million back because their time horizon is not that long themselves in their job here. You don't get to be a university president very often at age 35. And so I'm not sure that that strategy became a work. I have seen examples of it, but it's a matter of dollars. I suppose how many dollars? Professor Tom Di Lorenzo, thank you so much for your time this weekend. I know that you have a lot of fans among Mises.org readers and listeners of this show. And I suspect that this is a topic that is only going to intensify. Ladies and gentlemen, have a great weekend.


Hi! Well hello everybody and welcome back to my channel! I've got two things to chat about with you today. One being this is the start of my no spend March. I had commented on Christie's video from the former Mrs. Jones at the like very beginning of the year. She was talking about doing a no spend in January and I had told her I was planning on doing one in March. A few of you that follow her follow me and we got kind of wrapped up in the comments and I wanted to tell you no spend March is here. So what I think I'm gonna do is I was thinking about like Instagramming the process but I know a lot of you are not on Instagram so I figured I would do like a vlog style check-in of like how much money I've spent in a day and sorry if you hear like snorting and weird stuff. I'm in my living room and my dog is like offering me all of his toys right now so of course he picks like the best time to start playing right? So anyways I thought I would do like a vlog and just talk about how much money I spent. I haven't done budgets in a long time and I'm sorry about that. I will kind of get into why in a minute on my like second thing I want to talk to you guys about but I figured this would be a good way for you guys to just see like how much my life costs. I will talk about like fixed expenses as well as like going to the grocery store getting gas like everything that's going out of my pockets how much I'm spending on that I guess. So I thought that would be kind of fun to do. This will be like quick little easy vlogs. It'll probably be like five to six minutes or less so I will attempt to post daily. I know last time that happened that didn't really work out so well towards the end but I think I'm going to have the time to do it now so that is the introduction to the no spend. If you guys are not interested in like a little life update you guys can just click out and I will see you guys tomorrow for my first official day of no spend March. Alright so on to the life update um yeah so I was already planning on doing a no spend in March and it actually came at a really good time because this past Monday my position at my newest job I started working there at the very end of September was eliminated. So yeah I'm still a little confused about things and I'm not gonna say anything bad about the company or bash anything or really go into details about it because it's not gonna solve anything. I wish them well. I hope they figure out whatever they need to figure out for themselves and I'm moving on. So anyways I have a lot of free time on my hands so you guys are gonna see like an insane amount of the FDE on the YouTubes and like all the things. So I'm actually hosting I will put my Facebook I'm not Facebook I'm sorry my Instagram I'm gonna put I'm gonna like grab it real quick. I just made a new Instagram handle and I'm gonna this weekend start doing like a d-stache I've actually been meeting to do this for a really long time I just haven't had time to do it and now I like have the time so it's like let's do this thing but anyway this is I don't have any like follow or I mean I haven't like posted anything yet but that's what my like thing looks like sorry it just has like my logo and then in red it says d-stache on there I will leave a link below if you guys want to follow it. I'm gonna have a bunch of bundles of things that are gonna be for sale mostly planning related items I'll have some Erin Condren I'm gonna have some Chrissy and designs I'm gonna have some washi some like full washi rolls they're probably not gonna be like full full because I've taken samples off of them but and then I'll actually have some washi samples to d-stache as well I'll be doing like all the payments and stuff through PayPal and I'm hoping I can get rid of everything this weekend and then on Monday go to the post office and send all the stuff out so I'm only shipping to the United States because I'm shipping everything USPS with tracking numbers and everything so I'm trying to figure out like my numbers and getting prices and like things like that right now today and probably into the weekend as well and then hopefully by Friday I'll have it all figured out and have like bundles of things and I'm not gonna separate things it's just too hard to list every single piece of merchandise and it just becomes too much because you need to ship it on top of that and shipping is you know gonna be more expensive than the one item so I'm just gonna do bundles of stuff so I'll do like more decorative things more functional things and like it'll maybe a little bit of mix in the middle but I'll show everything on that but yeah life update FDE has no job yay but yeah but I mean I followed the Dave Ramsey program and have for a long time so I'm not like really that worried about the whole financial thing I mean obviously I would like to find a job and get that rolling and I'm not really I don't know if I'm gonna vlog about that too much during like the no spend I mean maybe I mean obviously if I find a job like I'll let you know obviously but um yeah so I'm not sure what I really want to do I'm thinking I might want to stay closer to home now but I don't know I there's just so many different like opportunities out there so yeah and I've also been toying with like opening or like creating my own business I mean I know I do this but like something else tangible to create income but I'm just like not sure so I was actually having a conversation with my mom today and I'm like I just don't have that like light bulb like moment or idea like I love so many different things like I love organization I love home decor I love my dog I love you know fashion and I mean obviously not right now because I'm like literally not wearing any makeup and I don't know if I've combed my hair after I got out of the shower this morning but um you know I just love different aspects of life I love different like beauty things and I I just don't know if I have that like one specific passion so I'm totally open to ideas if you guys have any ideas of ways I could you know generate income and you know work for myself full-time the conversation that really like I was chatting with my mom about is that I know probably some of you feel this way too it's like I'm kind of sick and tired of having someone else dictate my employment if that makes sense like how I'm gonna pay my mortgage or how I'm gonna pay my light bill like somebody else is dictating that and I would rather I know Dave Ramsey talks about this a lot of like I'd rather own my own job and then into that like own my own like business outside of that job when it became like bigger than just me if that makes sense but um I just don't know what that thing is you know you gotta like focus on something and then like mega work you know but yeah if you have suggestions put them down but yeah that's kind of what's going on with me I will have some upcoming video and content coming up this month that has already been kind of like predetermined I'm still working on the guestroom closet I was in there today doing some work and that I'm just kind of like buttoning up some things and then I will be showing you like the before and after footage I also have some things I want to work on in the bathroom and in the pantry which is weird because I've already done a pantry organization video but I think I'm gonna do like a like $0 makeover in one of the two areas if not more or both of the areas and I'm just kind of use what I have on hand to make that area a little bit better I think the pantry I'm gonna do at the very end of the no spend because I'm gonna try to eat out of the pantry and the freezer as much as possible obviously because I'm trying to like not spend as much as possible and so yeah but that is what's going on here another thing you're gonna see in this month's videos from me is going to actually be a haul which is kind of like strange doing a no spend but I had just purchased all of the from the sticker shops that I wanted to purchase from for go wild I am part of the wild for planners like conference people or whatever like I'm not a I'm not a speaker or anything but I am an attendee so I bought my ticket in I think it was January and they just announced in February I think it was February who the shop sponsors are like who could use their logo and have like official merchandise so I had already placed my order through Etsy and I think I placed the order like the day before my job is eliminated so like that worked out really well anyway but that stuff should be rolling in pretty soon I think three or like two of the orders had already shipped because I got from a bunch of different shops I figured I was gonna do a haul for you guys so I know that's weird to do it like right in the middle of a no spend but you know different strokes for different folks right so I think that's going to be it for me if you have any questions feel free to post them below and I will get back to you I can't wait to share my no spend month with you guys and kind of bring you along and show you what I'm doing and all that good stuff and how much I'm spending and I will see you guys in the next video bye guys here he comes there's a dog Doyle if it's a life update you have to be in it because you're part of my life sir Doyle you smell you need a bath maybe I can give you a bath all my time off huh yep forced retirement guys forced retirement all right see you bye


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