Hi guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. So today we are going to be talking about my favorites for the month of October. So if you are interested in hearing the best of the best this month, then just keep watching. Like October had so many product releases and I wore so little makeup. I really went through the motions of the month and the only times I actually wore makeup were the days that I filmed for the channel. So there isn't a lot of behind the scene products that I've been wearing. These are just products that I've tested out this month that really stood out to me that I found myself continually using throughout the days I was filming because I don't wear makeup really to my job. I just wear like a powder foundation and mascara. I'm going to talk about my powder foundation and mascara though that I've been loving. So this mascara I featured a couple months ago in my monthly favorites but it needs to be mentioned again because my Pat McGrath favorite mascara ever. It dried out so I've been using this and this is a really good replacement and it's also only $2.99 and this is the Essence Lash Princess False Effect Mascara. Now Essence has a lot of different mascaras out. Get the green one, the lash princess. It is really amazing. It's just a really generic mascara wand but honestly it really separates and lengthens my lashes way more than any other mascara that I've used in a while. I've been using this and today I actually used the Colourpop Volumizing Mascara and this sucks. This gives my eyelashes so much length, so much volume, so much more separation. This mascara seemed so terrible compared to this. So this is like the best $3 I've ever spent so if you're looking for a really good cheap mascara this was really awesome. Also something as far as my everyday makeup routine has gone is this brush.  This is the Esum X57. So it's basically just like a little kabuki brush and I love how the handle is so short. I really feel like I have a lot of control with it. It just feels really nice and comfortable in the hand and I just love the way this buffs on foundation. It spreads it out super quickly.  So I've just been loving this. I've been grabbing for this everyday. I get more coverage from it because of how dense it is and just the amount of control I have. I really can have it spread without a bunch of powder flying into the air. So Esum X57, absolutely amazing. So definitely look into this brush especially if you are into powder foundation. This has been a game changer in my routine. By the way, I'm working on like day three in a row here so it's not really cooperating. So next is a foundation that I've been loving. So I've been really limited on the foundations I can use because I got super tan. I spend like eight hours a day outside for my job and none of my foundations were matching me. Even the darkest ones that I had didn't really match me. So basically I was too dark for all of my foundations and I just felt like I looked so ashy and dead. So I had like two foundations that actually did match me. And so I picked one up at the store and this one is still a little bit too light for me and it's a bit too cool tone for me but I really enjoyed the formula. This is the Makeup Revolution Conceal and Hydrate Radiance Foundation minus in the shade F8. I am starting to lighten up a little bit because it's not as sunny anymore. So foundations are matching me a little bit better but I really enjoy this formula. So their first formula foundation is matte and it's really a perfecting foundation and though I do like it I just love something about a natural hydrating foundation. So when I saw this I was so excited and I really do love this formula. If you're looking for something long wear don't go towards this but the finish of this on the skin is really natural but it still gives you coverage. So it still is perfecting but it's just more moisturizing and not as dry looking as the matte one. And this is the foundation that I'm wearing right now as you can see it is more so of a medium coverage but it just looks so soft and healthy on the skin. I love a good luxury foundation but you know what sometimes from the drugstore you can really find some good ones. So I've been really enjoying this one. So now it's time to get into more of the fun holiday releases. Like I said I haven't had a ton of chances to really dig into products so I'm still doing that even with these products but these products specifically in the last month really stood out to me. So the first one that I have is from Laura Mercier and this is the Cheek Canvas Soft Cheek Canvas. You guys also seemed very interested in this palette and I'm sorry I didn't have time to do a full dedicated review on this palette but it is so good. It's one of my favorite face palettes that's been released in a while and this I was going to pass up on but when I saw it in person I had to have it so it has really cute packaging. It's a little odd but I oddly like it and then you open it up and you reveal just a beautiful cheek palette. It's just highlighters and blushes so you're getting three highlighters and three blushes and I just love the tones of everything in this palette. I love a good pinky blush so if you don't like a bright blush on your cheek you're not going to like this but you have more of like a neutral color a bright pink color which is what I always go for and then this really bright pretty coral color which is actually what I used all over my cheeks today really soft really great blush formula. I wouldn't say it's the most amazing blush formula but it is really nice and then you have really pretty highlighters you have a really bright white one this one's more pink and gold and this one is more pinky base but they are very flattering for light skin. I would say dark skin tones the highlighters might be a bit too ashy for you but you can make it work but light and medium skin tones this is stunning right now I am wearing this highlighter and this is what's on my cheek and it is incredible so the formula of this itself is approved by me and I love a bright cheek so I love the colors here and I've been using this all the time this is probably my most used makeup product from the new makeup that I've purchased and it's just my kind of colors and I'm loving it and it's slept on it's super good it really is my favorites video wouldn't be complete without a couple eyeshadow palettes so the first ones I have I've mentioned a couple times before and I've done a full dedicated review and these are from the new Tom Ford Soleil Nage collection I don't know why this collection just really speaks to me so the first one that I've been loving is Soleil Alune which is the one that sold out super quick and I think everybody's in love with so I have this color right here washed all over my lid nothing else, not even bronzer so it's really bright and I just like that it's my skin tone but really bright and shiny and really great for just like an all mascara look when you don't want too much definition or depth in the eye and the formula of this is incredible this one is more unique it's for a very light, bright, icy eye but if you like something a little bit more deep and smoky Soleil Nage is amazing and I feel like this one is probably the scariest of the three to people because it's just like it looks like it's for a cool tone smoky eye but honestly this color all over the lid alone is stunning either of these two as a little bit of a liner really would create a very natural pretty defined look and I just love this for the winter I think it is wonderful so I would definitely check out my full dedicated review I also review the third palette but these two I've been obsessed with super wonderful and the last palette that I have to talk about is a quad from Pat McGrath from her holiday collection and this is the Blitz Astral Quad in Nocturnal, Nevada this is the one in the baby blue packaging and then you open it up just the whole experience that's what you're paying for and then you have the typical mother ship packaging and then the colors in here seem scary compared to the other ones that she released but honestly this one is my favorite I love the looks that I've created with this quad and it's just really unique and pretty and you can actually make it quite wearable as well if you just want to add a little bit of pop of color you can go for that or you can apply just the gold and a hint of the purple color it's not too crazy I mean you have to be a color lover to really like this one of the three little ones that she's come out with this one's my favorite I do love the rose one as well that one is stunning and I think most of you guys would prefer that one but just something about this is so much more unique to me and the fact that this is all her very special formula that makes her line what it is I love all three of them but this one deserves a whole moment because beautiful I will again link my review to this down below for you guys okay, only two more items and they're both from Fenty and I haven't shut up about them so they're both the holiday sets so this first one is a lip gloss and highlighter set so the highlighter is in sand castle and the lip gloss is in sweet mouth and I was very rudely corrected that this highlighter actually does exist it's in one of the kilowatt duos my mistake, I'm sorry so this does exist I don't own that duo but it's a really bright highlighter my highlighter right now is pretty bright but I just want to show you how did you I don't I don't like I just very lightly pressed my brush in and I don't know that I love my highlight being this bright to be honest it's a bit much for me but the formula of this is just incredible okay and it comes with a lip gloss and you guys know this is like the best lip gloss formula ever in sweet mouth so I love applying this with like a nude or a pink lip liner and just putting this over top it adds a very light wash of champagne over top and it's just a very versatile color to add a little bit more touch of brightness to the lips and overall I just have been loving this set I've been using these two items quite a lot and I think it's a really great value especially for somebody like me who owns so much makeup it's always nice to pay a little bit less to get smaller items so they don't take up much room and so I don't feel as guilty as well but I've been loving that this month along with the Fenty glossy posse lip gloss set I think everybody who are interested in her lip glosses jumped on this set so it comes in a really nice tin case and then you get five lip glosses and I've just been grabbing for this I'm so lazy sometimes with picking out lip colors so I'll just put on a generic lip liner and then one of these glosses on top so right now I have on the ColourPop Lippie Pencil and BFF3 which by the way ColourPop Lippie Pencils are like the best and then I have this more chocolate gloss all over my lips and you see it's not too dark the lip liner is what really makes it dark and all of these colors aren't super pigmented they just have a small tint in the glosses the tint is enough so that you can see on the lips so you can't just put like a random lip liner underneath you have to kind of figure out what looks good but like this hot pink isn't intimidating but if you put like a neutral pink lip liner underneath this is going to add a little bit of color Fussy is already in their line but it's one of the most versatile colors for every day this color I will admit I haven't used yet so I don't want to talk about it but the chocolate one I love it's not too dark but it's perfect for fall lips as well as this orange for the holidays and the fall as well I love a good orange lip so I just love the formula of these lip glosses and I love having different color options to choose from this one I feel like I've been mentioning in every holiday favorites video that I can speak about it in but it's just so good such a great value for it so that is all I have as far as the products go I would recommend if you are interested in any of these if you can get them for the Sephora VIP sale do it you can get them for 20% off I strongly recommend everything the Tom Ford quads Laura Mercier Pat McGrath and then of course both of the Fenty those are the items that you can still purchase for the VIP sale let's talk about my channel of the month I've been wanting to talk about this channel and I just did a collab with her Kinky Sweat my friend Alicia just her personality and her video quality it's just getting better and better she's really putting her love and full effort into her videos and it truly shows she is a genuine person and even if I didn't do a collab with her it just so happens that's how timing worked out but I've been planning on featuring her this month as my channel of the month because she has a great personality her knowledge and passion really shines through in her videos and I feel like her channel has been very slowly exploding she's gonna grow to be so much more big and she deserves that so if you like really in-depth makeup reviews you guys should definitely go subscribe to her channel because she is awesome and let her know that I sent you and that's all I have for today's video and for this month's favorites not the most amount of products I think that's good I'm trying to work to keep things at a little bit more of a minimum just for my wallet's sake and that just seems to be the trend in beauty anyways I get so many comments from you guys saying that you're out of no buy so I'm going to try and accommodate to that as well so if you aren't subscribed to my channel already please make sure you take the time to do so and let me know your favorite makeup products for this month and I will see you guys in the next one bye guys have a good one


Hi, my name is Lucille Franks mom and he asked me to tell you about my medical story. I had Artificial insemination in 1992 And it was successful. It was such a wonderful feeling after Trying to have children. That was my dream come true And I found out in April that I was going to be the mother of triplets So I was so excited and this by the way was in New York And I saw this construction worker and he was in a hole and all I saw was his face And I said to him by the way, I'm having triplets ice cream Then he goes right lady. So nobody believed me because I'm this little itty-bitty thing So it was so exciting and I used to work down in Manhattan And then I found out at 20 weeks. I Had to go on bed rest because they were concerned about Me not being able to hold the children and also the concern for the safety of the triplets so my life Was all of a sudden turned around from going to be working on Wall Street working with the Executives I'm laying in bed bored out of my brain So here I find out all the daytime Game shows I'm not one of those for soap operas, but anyway The good news is pregnancy is going great And then all of a sudden I feel something on my leg and It was itching the heck out of me So I went to my doctor the gynecologist in this case obstetition obstetrician and she sends me to a Dermatologist I go see her and they do a test and they say I have some kind of which is well-known pregnancy rash And I was a little upset about it because they wanted me to take prednisone And I didn't want to take prednisone. I'm not a medicine type of person at all And with that they said well, you're going to have to take it. It's only going to get worse so I took the prednisone and The rash didn't subside it didn't get any worse, but it was Very uncomfortable So with that on that note My doctor all also says I had a due date in December They moved the babies up four weeks because they felt At that point it would be too much of a risk for the kids They made it start to lose weight and they were concerned With the overall health of myself and the triplets so on its dreary day in November I had a C-section and Kids came out beautifully. They was very quick. They said It's going to be five minutes in between and I was expecting that so when they said it's a boy I and I knew in my heart of hearts what they were but I never told anyone and I said yes It's a boy and they said it's a boy. I said I know that they go. Oh, no. No another boy And it was so fast and they said it's a girl and I screamed. Oh my god. I got my family so it was so exciting and then three days later I'm in a hospital well-known hospital in New York and I'm not really want to Look in the mirror, but I was brushing my teeth and I'm saying I look pretty green I said these lights are terrible in this hospital and it was an old hospital. So I attributed to the the lack of lighting and then I find out later that day that The one of the doctors come in and said well, you need to get a blood transfusion And by the way prior to all this I said to my doctor Listen, I get very heavy menstrual cycles. I am concerned when I have Give birth that I should maybe have blood lined up for me because I'm a heavy bleeder And she was like, oh no. No, this is no problem. That's why I mentioned this once before this So needless to say the doctor comes in that night and says you have to get a blood transfusion I'm like no. I'm not doing it. Like yes, you have to I said well, I'm not doing it so this was three days after the birth of the triplets by the way and He said well They didn't tell me but they told my family if I don't do it. I'll have a 50% chance of Not seeing the next day So with that in mind They convinced me to do the blood transfusion and then when my three brothers told me they love me I was like, oh my god, something is really wrong because they never said that in my whole life So I said, okay, I'll get the blood. I was more worried about getting aids from blood and hepatitis type C so I get the blood and All of a sudden I have negative reaction. They say I'm building up antibodies to the blood and That is why I wind up on life support basically all my organs failed and Now I'm intubating I'm in the hospital and I'm Starting to get dialysis I have renal failure with all this going on and I'm telling one of the renal specialists I said listen my kidneys are coming back because I'm urinating very well and They keep insisting that I get these plasmapheresis treatments and what I basically have is They call TTP. I H us. It's a a blood disorder And the reason I think I got that is with the C section I lost a tremendous amount of blood that nobody really told me about but my husband saw a pool of blood on the floor Now I couldn't see anything because I was upright and I couldn't see the floor But anyway, I need this to say I'm telling you doctors my kidneys are coming back. No, no, no You need more pharesis. You need more pharesis So it came to the point that my then I was having no Kidney function whatsoever urinating very little but what was happening is the plasmapheresis I was rejecting my body was rejecting and my antibodies were building up so strongly That my kidneys basically from whatever happened at the caesarean shut down so I'm still on life support. I can't talk I'm writing like crazy on a notepad to the nurses Telling them because they wanted to give me other treatments and I kept saying no, no, no And then in the interim they're trying to get me off the respirator And this happened at least five or six times and I would tell them no, I am not ready and They would again Take off the two and then I will later. I would be back on life support So finally they started listening to me and one of my dear friends Made up on it came by and I was very nervous because I was getting another treatment And I was actually off the respirator. I said, oh Stay with me because I'm a little worried every time this happens I go into Respiratory distress so I was concerned about getting into respiratory distress so my best friend is with me I said listen, I'm getting this treatment now Please stay with me because I am concerned and if I can't talk I wave my hand That means you gotta get somebody to stop the treatment So when she's there sure enough 20 minutes into the treatment, I feel it I wave my hand and They come in they say cold blue and guess what I'm back on the respirator so now It happens again and I tell them let's listen you'd have to listen about me when I tell you I'm ready to get off I'm ready to get off and in the interim I'm doing dialysis three days a week Which is a Not a not a good thing. They were probing my neck to get me access many times. I've got body Punctures all over my wrist. I said, please get a real doctor. They had these people that were experimenting on me You know medical students which are all well and good But when you have somebody in this condition, they could learn by looking not by trying so anyway, I go back on the respirator and In December they decide to put a fistula in me because they say It's Dialysis it's difficult to do through a port on the neck So with that I get surgery And they put a fistula in my arm Which is going to give me access so that I Can have dialysis actually to this arm and you could see this is where all the punctured wounds were From when I had dialysis So then they actually remove the fistula. What was that a couple years ago? Yeah, I waited almost 15 years to remove the fistula because I was concerned if I Had to get dialysis again, so they removed that the actual team that put in the kidneys, which were incredible by the way in Westchester so with that I'm back on dialysis and I'm not having it. It's not a good thing. I wind up getting Steroidsychosis they were giving me treating me with prednisone to keep me alive and they said well We have to do this to keep her alive But I never knew what Steroidsychosis was so I'm starting to feel a little off and While I'm on dialysis I'm seeing I'm getting like hallucinations and I never did any drugs before or smoked or Nulltrain so this was all new to me, but I was hallucinating as I'm on the machine And it was the scariest thing in my life so with that And finally I'm having the dialysis and they get a psychiatrist and One of them say well if she's not dead within five days We'll be surprised So that then on another note Before all this I was in the hospital for a good two months. I Get another treatment Plasma freeze this this time and my father's with me and I said dad if I Do the hands again, or I can't talk you've got to stop the treatment sure enough it happens again So they stopped the treatment I wave my hand and one of the doctors that comes by and says oh by the way You shouldn't have gotten that because you could have had a heart attack. I said you don't have to tell me I felt my body building up with fluids. So before I got on the respirator again, they stopped it So then I finally two months in the hospital. I get to the privilege of going home And the privilege of coming down to New York three times a week for dialysis and I was so weak that my husband used to have to carry me from the car to the hospital because from the car, we didn't have a wheelchair and I was too proud to be in a wheelchair. So anyway, it was kind of romantic. Here we are going through the streets being carried by my husband So anyway, now I'm on dialysis and like I said, I was starting to feel a little weird and I go into full-blown seratikosis, which is basically the illusion mind and My husband and his sister wanted to check me into a mental hospital So I go there and I'm looking around and I said now I know This is medically induced why I'm off, but these other people I don't know But they scared the lights out of me. So they're insisting.  So anyway, they sent me home And that's when the doctor said oh, if I don't see you her name in an arbitrary for five days It's a miracle. So what they did was they gave me howl duel, which is a medication to offset the side effects of psychosis But it makes you very stiff and rigid and you have no emotion whatsoever. You're like a blank slate but anyway, I Get through it and how I got through it was when you reduce the amount of prednisone in the body the The side effects are reduced. So basically when I went down to almost I think 20 milligrams of prednisone I was thank God back to myself So it was all good. I'm trying to get stronger. I'm walking I'm still living at my mother's my mother. God bless her raised the triplets with me for the first six months and Finally I go home in April And I'm still on dialysis, but now I get because I'm kind of stabilized They send me to where I lived in the Bronx. So it's a little easy. I don't have to go into the city I'm able to walk again My husband doesn't have he takes me the first couple of months, but eventually I drive on my own So it's all good. I Say this is how do I deal with this and one doctor? So well, do it like it's a hard time job. So I did But it was no picnic. There were many times where I would bleach for hours after the treatment and I actually saw a patient of Around maybe 10 feet away from me. He's bleeding out. I'm seeing blood on the floor and now the dialysis nurses didn't notice I said by the way, I think you should check that patient and he almost died right there So it was it was very frightening and I was always awake because if they gave you too much heparin Which is a blood thinner. You could basically bleed to death So anyway, I did that for almost five years And I was on various transplant lists one in Westchester one in New York one in Philadelphia And I said, how do I know? My brothers have three brothers. I didn't want them to give me any kidney Although one of them was a perfect match. I just didn't want anybody to suffer So I get this call In July, but backtracking in November. I tell my father. I'm so excited November 7th, and he was not well. He otherwise he would have gave me a kidney. I said dad, guess what? I am so close on the list and This was the one and I don't know which one they didn't tell you so he was so happy He goes, do you made my day you made my life then the next morning he dies but I know That He knows that I was gonna get well. So anyway the next day The next day I go into the Alice's And I'm doing okay, but I don't know he's gone But I just get this feeling because the night before I want to see him and it was very bad the weather and it's I just want to see dad because he was on oxygen You know, but anyway, I didn't get to see him And I find out that night two o'clock. He's he's no longer with us And I was very close to the most daddy's little girl, but anyway six months later Monday Alice's and now my bones was starting to go and they said that's when you have to worry all of a sudden I Go to dialysis and I've always talked to my father people think it's nutty But we had a good relationship and I look up in the sky And it was July 24th. I said dad. I can't do this anymore. You got to help me And I see it was cloudy day And all of a sudden the skies part and I see a blue streak of light And that was his favorite color. I said, okay dad, I know things are gonna get better Sure enough the next day July 25th, I get a call We have a kidney feel And I was like I was in shock. I was so happy I said you kidding me because no no what happened was the person before you Didn't want it. They're waiting for their fathers. So we have a kidney But we don't know if you're a match. I said, okay So I called my husband and he was frozen. He works in the courthouse. He couldn't even move But I was so excited. I'm jumping up and down. I said we got to go. We got to go So we go and it's in Westchester. So that night they do all this blood work and they tell me well We don't know if it's gonna work and it's a match. I said, okay, so I'm up all night I'm sitting up. I'm jumping around my husband's sleeping. Oh, are you kidding me? How could you be sleeping when I'm getting this kidney, right? So the next morning I find out It's a good match So now we go into surgery It's a seven hour surgery. I had the best team incredible And I'm like, all right, I'm gonna be off dialysis. This is amazing. So that's a Wednesday and they say They pumped me up with fluids about 40 pounds and I'm like, what's going on?  Like, well, sometimes they're sleeping the kidneys. I said, what does that mean? It takes a little time. Sometimes they don't work right away So now with this extra 40 pounds of fluid on me, I can't breathe So Sunday, I said, listen, I don't want to go into respiratory distress. I need dialysis They're like, no, you don't. I said, no, no, no, I know my body.  They bring the machine up to me and they do dialysis and now I can breathe and then a day or two later, I started urinating and just kept urinating and urinating and Thank you, Lord My kidneys are great. And by the way, I received two pediatric kidneys and That was in 97 and God willing, I still have them So it's all good But what I would say in regard to doctors there are Ones that are great. There are ones that are not so great but what I recommend is Go by your body because you know your body best and if you're not comfortable with the doctor you're with You should definitely switch doctors. Here. I thought I had the greatest doctor and by the way She said to me she was crying when she saw me in my condition and said she wanted to quit her profession and It is what it is, but I'm on this transplant medication I've been taking it for over 22 years and thank God I'm doing well. I Am what they call in the of surprise. So I have to watch I have to be careful with as far as People that are sick. I can't go near but I've my quality of life has so improved The only regret I have is that I wish I was healthy for when I had the trip once I was able to do what I wanted to do with them but you know you do the best you can in life and you learn from Things that happen to you although I feel She ruined my life as far as the quality of life I tried to make the best of it and you thank each day for what you have and you do the best You can and that's why I was a little tough on the triplets, but it was because I wanted them to be able to Deal with ever life comes through and I my only regret is that I didn't show them more love and have the time and ended Be more loving is what I'm saying. I mean I always love them obviously, but be more affectionate and show them But sometimes there were times where I couldn't even get out of bed. I wanted the other thing I didn't mention was because of I Don't know if it's the medications. I was having severe hemorrhaging and I had to have a partial hysterectomy, but thank God, you know things are good and The other thing I failed to mention though in Six years ago because of one of the medications I had a stroke and I Was also the ironic thing was I was working in the hospital and I said I'm having a stroke Nobody's listening again and sure enough. I'm in the hospital and I say give me the medication I think it's called TTP that Prevents the effects of a stroke again Nobody's listening so I had to go into Get brain surgery because I Have water on the brain. That's the only surgery. I don't remember and thank God I recovered. I had to learn how to walk again.  So I just say to everybody don't take anything for granted be the best that you can be and Be strong because if I listen to anybody I wouldn't be here today But I knew I wanted to be here to raise those beautiful babies That God gave me and they'll always mean my babies and I think they have Done so tremendously and they are such incredible people and That's my motto. Just never give up and no matter what they tell you listen to your own body And you all have a wonderful day, and I thank you for listening Well, I think everyone wants to know how old you are How old am I? Oh Do you really want to know you can guess but let me tell you I look amazing for my age. I am 61 You be hard-pressed to find anyone that looks that good at 61 let alone a double kidney transplant and the reasons she Actually ended up having that stroke is because she was so stressed out working at this job for the past Who will you how long were you there six months? Yeah, you were there six months. So, you know after she had all these health issues You know that led into financial issues and she had to still work despite being in that condition So, you know, it's really horrible that the medical system can almost take away everything you have and give you nothing back I wish I had a memory as good as hers and even after She she had her stroke. She still remembered Like oddly specific things that I could that I obviously don't have the brain for so Thank you guys for joining me today and enjoy the rest of your week. Thank you so much. Enjoy your week By the way, I forgot to mention when I was in the hospital in New York All of a sudden I'm in the room and I didn't realize there was a priest to the left of me and Cardinal O'Connor comes in the room and now I'm like, oh, please don't tell me these are my last rights Why is the Cardinal here? So my husband comes to me and he goes, don't worry Lou He's only here because the priest next to you was very ill. I was like, okay so he talks to me and He gives me his blessing and then I find out that Christmas in 1992 he dedicated his homily to me and asked everybody to pray for a very young mom That's um in the hospital that's struggling and is on life support and has triplets So between him and all the prayers, that's why I'm here today But the main thing I didn't mention why I'm here is because my husband Frank Has been by my side from the day we met He did not leave the hospital for two months. He slept by my side either on the chair or on the floor and Unfortunately, the few times he left is when I went back on the respirator, but without his support and love I Wouldn't be here today and the reason I'm saying this is that Besides, you know taking charge and never giving up when you find somebody that's so dedicated like that and Is there for you day and night? You just have to appreciate everything you have and the support system helps with everything in life on that note You all have a great day and thank you for listening and you have any questions. I'll be more than happy to help you and Thank you very much


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On my website, you will have access to additional information and resources such as PowerPoint slides, True, False, Multiple Choice, Notes, CPA questions, 2,000 plus CPA questions and hundreds of exercises that are considered quasi-CPA simulations. Take a look at the first question. Parent gave securities with an adjusted basis of $10,000 and a fair market value of 9,000 to a child. Fair enough. Later, the child sold the securities for 7,000. What is the child's basis for the securities? So the parent gave it to them. The parents had a basis of 10. When they gave it to the child, it was at 9,000. What's going to happen is this. When you have a gift situation and I have plenty of lecture, I have one whole course, one whole lecture, 24 minutes about basis of gift. You have to know those bases very well. So what do you have to know? You have to know that you don't know the basis until you sell the asset. So simply put, here's what happened. This is the 10,000, which is the fair market value. I'm sorry, the 10,000 was the adjusted basis. The 9,000 was the fair market value. This is what we know. Now we sold the securities for 7. Now here's what's going to happen. When we sell the securities, we sell the securities right here. Guess what? The line that's going to be closest to this line will be the basis. Which line is the closest? This is the line that's the closest. Therefore the basis is 9,000. Simply put, if they told you the asset was sold for 12,000, so instead of 7,000, and I can assure you this question is very common. If they told you the asset was sold for 12, which line is the closest to 10? 12 is 10. So the basis will be 10. Now let's see what happened if they told you it was sold something in between. What do we mean something in between? The child sold the asset between 9,000 and 10,000. So it sold at 9,300 or 9,700. In between 9,000 and 10,000, then the basis equal to the sale. The basis will be equal to 7,000. The basis equal to the sale. Whatever the sale is, if we sold it for 9,300, the basis is 9,300. If we sold it for 9,700, the basis is 9,700. Simply put, if we sell it in this orange area, we have zero gain, zero loss. That's the whole point. And again, I have 24-minute lecture about gift basis. It's very important that you need to know for the exam. Let's take a look at this question. In the current year, V exchange, unimproved land for an apartment building. The land has a basis of 300,000, a fair market value of 420, and was encumbered by a $100,000 mortgage. The apartment building had a fair market value of 550, and was encumbered by $230,000 mortgage. Each party assumed the other's mortgage, what's V's basis in the office building. So V gave up the land, gave up the land, and received the building. Now, this topic is extremely important on the exam. And by the way, what do I mean by chapter 13 income tax course? It means this is where I cover the material. So this is called like-kind property exchange, like-kind, which is non-taxable transaction. It's very important that you are familiar with this. This is chapter 13, and I have a 15-minute lecture. Actually I have more than 15-minute lecture about this topic. But, you know, 15 minutes just to kind of get you used to it, then we work two or three more examples. So the point is you have to be very familiar with this. Now, there's two formulas that you can use to solve this question. One I call the fair value formula, and the other one is called the cost basis formula. Whatever you want to use, it's up to you. So I'm going to give you both formulas and show you how you can solve this question to find the basis in a non-exchange property. So here's what's going to happen. So if we're using the code method, so we're going to go with the adjusted basis of the new, which is what we're looking for, equal to the adjusted basis of the old, should the spend works properly, the adjusted basis of the old, plus the adjusted basis of boot given. We're going to explain those. Okay. Plus any recognized gain, so if you're recognized gain, you're going to add to your basis, minus fair market value of boot received, minus any recognized loss. So this is not the long formula, this is called the code approach or the basis approach. So let's take a look, see what we have. Well, the adjusted basis of the old, we are given an asset that's worth $300,000, plus the adjusted basis of boot giving. Are we giving any boot? This is the question here. Are we giving any boot? And the answer is yes. Boot is when we give cash. Hold on a second. We didn't give any cash, but in the problem they told you, assume the mortgage of the other party. Assume the mortgage of the other party. It means you gave them cash. So you're going to add 230,000, plus any recognized gain. We're not going to recognize any gain, although we do have a gain, which is the gain is if they ask you about the realized gain, the realized gain is 120, which is 420 minus 300,000, but they're not asking us about this. So we did not recognize any gain, minus fair market value of boot received. Did we receive any boot here in this example? And the answer is yes. If they relieved us of the $100,000, technically we received the boot, but it's not taxable. $100,000 minus the recognized loss. There is no recognized loss. So all in all, let's take a look to see what we have. So we subtract the fair market value of the boot received. So we have 300,000 plus 230 minus 100,000. So that's 530 minus 100 is 430. So the basis of the new property is 430,000. Now this is one method. Let's take a look at the fair market value approach. So under the fair market value approach, you're going to take the fair market value of the asset received, fair market value of asset received, which is 550, and you're going to deduct from it minus gain the third, and you're going to add to it loss the third. Now, if you don't know, I mean, if you're not sure what's the logic behind those, you can go to my, again, I showed you my lesson, you can go there and I show you in details why you deduct the gain, the third, and add the loss, the third. But I'm just going to go ahead and solve the problem now. Always you can go to my chapter 13. So what is the third gain? I told you that we have a realized gain of 120. I told you we have a realized gain of 120, which is 420 minus 300,000. We have a realized gain of 120. This is realized. How much of that was recognized? Just a second ago, I told you none of it is recognized. Therefore, all of it is the third. Therefore, I subtracted the third gain, and there is no third loss. 550 minus 120 equal to 430, which is the fair market value approach. You want to make sure you are comfortable with this problem like this. I can assure you, you will see this problem on the CPA exam day, either in a multiple choice format or a simulation. I'll bet with you that's the case. So make sure you know this. Otherwise, go to my chapter 13, subscribe to my website, and there's plenty of exercises to help you master this. Let's take a look at this exercise. Lemon owned 2,000 shares of spectral corporation common stock. They were purchased year one at 1050 per share. In year four, lemon received a 5% non-taxable dividend. In year five, the stock split to 4.1. In the current year, lemon sold 800 shares. What's the basis of the 800 shares? Fair enough. So here's what's going to happen. We originally paid $2,000 times 1050. So that's, I believe, that's 21,000. If my math is right, that's equal to 21,000. That's equal to 20,000. So this is what we paid for. This is what we paid for. We paid 21,000 for 2,000 shares. Then we received a 5% stock dividend. So 5,000 times, let's say 5% first, and add it times 5%. 5% 50 plus 50 equal to 100. 100 new shares. Now we have 2,100 shares. Then we got a stock split in year 5, 2,4,1. It means they double our shares. That's 4,200 shares. So what's happening is what we originally paid 1050 per share, our basis now is way less than 1050. So how do we know the basis per share we take 21,000, divided by 4,200. Let's do the math. Let's do the math real quick. So we invested originally $21,000. We invested, we invested $21,000 and we have 4,200 shares. So our basis per stock, our basis per share is $5 per share. If we sold 800, well, we're going to take this, $5 times 800 shares equal to 4,000. Therefore the answer is 4,000. The answer is 4,000. So simply put, you invested the original amount and you received more shares. As a result, your basis goes down.  Why less than half? Because you double the shares and you receive a 5% extra. So yes, so that makes sense. And then this is the right answer. Let's take a look at this question. Again, this is from chapter 13. It seems those questions appear from chapter 13, which is basis for property. Dekker, a 62-year-old single individual, sold his principal residence for the net amount of half a million after selling expenses. If there's any selling expenses, you can deduct. Dekker bought the house 15 years ago and occupied it until it was sold. On the date of the sale, the house had a cost basis of 200,000. Last month, Dekker purchased a new house for 600,000. What amount of gain should Dekker recognize from the sale of the house? So first of all, here you have to know simple rule section 121. Basically, what does that mean? If you're single, you sell your principal residence. And if you lived there within the past two years, within the past five years, you can wave, you cannot have taxable 250,000 if you are single. If you're married, filing jointly, you can have up to half a million. So we're not married filing jointly. We're dealing with a single individual. So they sold it for 500,000. And here they told you within six months Dekker purchased a new house, you can ignore all of this. This used to be the old rules. They're trying to confuse you. So they received 500,000. The house has a cost basis of 200,000. The realized gain is 300,000. Now 300,000 is here, but they're not asking about the realized. This is the realized. They're not asking about this. If you realize what's asked, you'll be, yeah, 300,000. They're asking about the recognized.  What you're left with is 100,000. I'm sorry, 50,000. And the answer is 50,000. So be careful. It's not zero because it's only you can wave or have tax free 250,000 a single. Therefore, it's not zero. Immediately you can cross out zero because it's more than 250. I don't know how they came up with 175. I'm not going to confuse you, but yes, that's out. So the answer is 50,000. Let's take a look at this question. This question from chapter 21 seems from partnership, I assume. Chapter 21. V, a 50% partner in both partnership. V tax basis involves January 2nd, year 1 and 60,000. Ball did not have any unrealized receivable, appreciated property or property that has been contributed by its partners. That's fine. On December 31st, year 1, Ball made a 10,000 non-liquidating cash distribution to each partner. So this should be a 10,000 dollar non-liquidating the ball partnership income tax reported the following items for year 1. Tax exempt interest income 80,000 dividend income 12,000. And the question is what are total amount of gross income from ball should be included in vales year 1 adjusted gross income? Well, it seems there are three things. There's cash distribution. Cash distribution you have to know it's not taxable. So that's out. Tax exempt interest income. Well, it's telling you it's tax exempt interest income. It's not included. Dividend income. Is dividend deductible? Yes, it is. Do we have 12,000? No, we don't because we're a 50% owner.  Therefore, 6,000 will be included in your gross income for vales gross income, not in your gross income. So basically this is how you compute this questions like these. I can I'll bet with you. You will see those on the regulation exam. So make sure you are familiar with this. In the next session we will work additional questions as usual. I would like to remind you to visit my website, subscribe. You're going to study for your CPA exam only once in your lifetime. Invest. Take the time to do it. Okay? If you have any questions, I'm always here to help you and good luck.


dystopian time. On this note of like crazy people, I think that's the perfect segue into our weekly dose of stupidity and it's very appropriate that we have a doctor on for this week's segment folks. In a world of politics dominated by the strange, the deranged and outright insane, we'll now take a moment to shine a light on the craziest of what politics has to offer. This is your weekly dose of stupidity. There's going to be a lot here to unpack when it's done, but we'll just try to get through the whole thing. And this man right here is going to drop a nuclear take at the end. So wait for it. Great advice because so many pastors don't want to get involved in these kinds of fights. But this really is a fight for religion as well. We know the left is waging war on those who want to believe in God, to believe in religion. Let me play from Joe Biden just to show you how far this goes. I want to be crystal clear about what's happening in the country. We have a pandemic of the unvaccinated. That means if you're unvaccinated, you're much more likely to one get COVID-19 to get hospitalized and three die if you get it.  Yeah, they're playing. This comes straight out of the Marxist handbook, right? We try to set as many different rules. I never got that. Yeah, I love that handbook. We can tear it apart and rebuild it in the image you want. At first in America, it was racial tension. Black versus white. Now we're moving from vaccinated to the unvaccinated.  These things have played out before in history where you take a certain group of people and demonize them. And I'll tell you what it is. It's a framework for animosity between two groups at best. It's coming. It's a framework for a future genocide. We need to stand up and speak out against this kind of stuff. This isn't even FDA approved. It is insanity. Well, look, Pastor, I appreciate you coming on the program with this strong voice because I think others will learn from you and I think others who are pastors as well will learn from this and their strength in numbers. And so I appreciate you laying it on the line for us. God bless you, sir. We'll talk again soon. Okay, so I just first question I want to ask David after watching that, how could like, why should I not like jump off of a cliff? Well, luckily, I don't think most people think that way. I mean, so he claims here that the unvaccinated are there's going to be like a genocide of the unvaccinated. They're committing it against themselves by not getting the vaccine. And comparing it to skin color, you're not born with the vaccine.  This is my biggest issue. I have no conservatives in my family. I didn't grow up conservative. I grew up like kind of religious, but not like completely off the deep end religious.  Like I really have a hard time understanding how someone can watch that and be like, that guy's exactly right. Being black is just like being unvaccinated. Like, how do you, how do you make these comparisons with the straight face? I don't understand how people can do this. Yeah, yeah. Dr. Heem, I've got to ask you because you are like in your, this is your field. So how like, does your head like, is it going to explode? Like, I'm honestly speechless. Like I can't find the words like after, after I watched that by IQ score, like dropped significantly. Okay. So first of all, quick criticism of Joe Biden here. I don't like that he said that we have a pandemic of the unvaccinated. That just seems like you're downplaying the term pandemic. There's definitely a better word out there that you can use instead of pandemic of the unvaccinated. So that's just the first thing right away. I'm super nitpicky when it comes to vaccine rhetoric and choosing your words carefully. There's a lot of problematic things, not just that this guy said that I've been hearing a lot lately. For example, and I got into politics because I like to watch Jimmy Dorr, but he said this recently on Joe Rogan. He said it's a experimental vaccine. Experimental vaccine to me is one of the most harmful pieces of rhetoric when it comes to vaccine research or this vaccine. Why? Because it was experimental when they were doing human trials. The human trials are now finished. Like this no longer an experimental vaccine. It's been studied. 400,000 people enlisted for I think Pfizer phase three trial. And now it's been like a year since people have been vaccinated. This idea that it's experimental or another one that it's not FDA approved, as though there are some testing that the FDA didn't do or like that they're still expecting to do before they pass the FDA approval. The FDA approval from what I've seen, the only difference between the emergency use and the actual FDA approval is like paperwork and kind of like bureaucratic things. I didn't see any specific this test wasn't done or something like this. And I think these kind of things are so dangerous. And a lot of people say, how can I be anti-vax? I got the vaccine. You can push anti-vax rhetoric without actually being anti-vax yourself. It's why we have to be very responsible when it comes to this stuff. And there's people even in healthcare that are maybe negligent or not quite as careful as they should be when it comes to the rhetoric on this stuff. I debate COVID deniers on my stream all the time. It's like one of my features. And it blows my mind that this kind of stuff is so widely accepted. And what really, really hurts me is that pro-vaccine people aren't charismatic. They're not out here making YouTube videos that get shares, tons and tons of shares.   Maybe they should though. Think about how we still rely on Bill Nye the science guy for a lot of our scientific communication. And this is actually one of the shortcomings of the scientific community. One of my PhD courses is scientific communication. Because the scientific community has realized that in the last few decades, we've really fucking, there's a big gap between lay understanding of science and the scientist's perception of what people understand. People go to all kinds of conferences, give these crazy elaborate talks, but no one's listening because they're so caught up in their own jargon. And that's a push that's being done in the academic field now is like, listen, you don't need to be the craziest smartest nerd in the world. What you need to be able to do is convey your message to people on a stage, talk to people and have a personality to go along with your facts. And I think I hope that we learn a lot from this pandemic and this is not going to be the last pandemic probably, and that we can take some lessons away from this. Yeah. Sarah, how about what are your thoughts on this? Because I feel like even though I'm relatively desensitized to this kind of like bombastic rhetoric, I still like somehow they managed to like out crazy what I thought was like the ceiling, like they burst through that ceiling. And I just it's really exhausting to the point where there's so much misinformation like what he was talking about. It's hard to keep up, right? Because I mean, I certainly have been trying to tackle anti-vax sentiment on my channel. I know David has been doing that as well. It's just it's so hard because one of the issues with anti-vax people, I've seen this firsthand, is that if you show them like a human support or a David Dole video, or if you show if you send them like these debates with Dr. Hemel, I'm sure like obviously is prevailing in these debates, it still doesn't matter because it's about trust and they're not going to trust someone who they don't know. And so people in my family who are conservative, who are anti-vax, they didn't actually change their mind until they saw firsthand how COVID affected one of our family members. And you know, it's things like that. So I don't I think that public health messaging is super complex. And he touched on it's like the CDC had this issue with, you know, the mask mandate and whatnot before Delta hit the United States, how to draft public health messaging that's concise and clear and doesn't drive more hysteria. But Sarah, what is your thoughts on overall like the level of ferocity of anti-vax in the United States?  So there's I have like so many thoughts and some of my tricks are about to be a little spicy. So I'm sorry, everybody. I say I'm sorry, but am I really sorry? Don't be sorry. So like, one of the things that like this, just hearing the clip, like, it's always these like white conservative men who are like, we're on the brink of genocide. It's gonna be a tool of genocide. This concept of like governmental genocide is like, you don't think about it in these terms, but like it's so deeply rooted in the concept of white supremacy. Like, it's not that they think there's gonna be like a genocide. It's that they're so afraid of losing that inherent white privilege that they equate having to do anything responsible or having to be responsible for anything, including like their own bodies and their neighbors, that like they equate that with like a loss of privilege. And they don't view it as like they they couch it in these like sneaky white supremacist terms, like scare people into not getting the vaccine. And like a lot of people really haven't done the internal work to like recognize that stuff and learn to dismantle their internalized white supremacy, learn to dismantle their internalized misogyny. And like, you know, we find it on the left too, like you have anti-vaxxer leftists too. And like people think they adopt this label leftist and they're like, I'm good, I don't have to do the work anymore. But like they don't do that inner soul work of like, oh my gosh, like is this how is this enable enabling white supremacist systems in America, because ultimately, people of color are the ones that are dying and suffering the most because of the because of COVID. So when you hear these like, oh, it's going to create tools for genocide, they're really just talking about a loss of white privilege and a loss of whiteness.  And it is worth asking about it. And I think it's ultimately what these people are trying to get to is like the concept of government overreach is really more what they're they're talking about. But it's so couched in fear of vaccine and all this vaccine fear mongering. Because like people's if you read George like coffee talks about how like people's conservative fear centers are literally bigger in their brains than liberals like there are actual like biochemical differences in the brains. It's so cool. Read George like off. So you get this like, these people that are like, they're actually trying to ask the question about government overreach more than they're trying to talk about like the vaccines. And like this is where I start to get people's like you're so scared of it being like microchip and stuff like that. But like, ultimately this tech bro stuff that we worship is already overreach the NSA is already overreach. Like if you're going to talk about like these overreaches into our health, the government getting involved in vaccinations like you are walking around tagging yourself paying off every cell phone tower the government can turn on your Alexa and find your Netflix history if they want. Like you've all read now people are these same people are also screaming to put cameras in schools so we can watch what our kids are being taught. Like they're asking for more facial recognition software. They stopped talking about like the hyper militarization of the police as like a national security issue. And like we've allowed ourselves to be stripped of these securities that like they're kind of they're struggling to reconcile like the problem is actually their question of government overreach. But they can't like understand that we've already allowed it to happen. And this is just a version of government overreach that's creating public good because at the end of the day like forcing people to get vaccinated. If we're being honest really isn't even about the unvaccinated people getting vaccinated. It's about the healthcare workers that have to be manning those beds around the clock have to be doing that work. Nurses are quitting left and right. We're losing health. You should see how low the morale in the hospital has been. It's a higher pandemic because we used to look at each other in the hallways and smile or you know a quick chat. Now everyone's masked up. Everyone's working crazy hours. We're social distancing in our offices so the morale has been brutal. And like yeah it's been very taxing on I mean listen I don't even work in the COVID. I do research. So like I can only imagine if someone has to wear the face shield the mask the everything for the you know endless hours it's like 15 hour days and like it's and we're losing healthcare staff left and right and like and people didn't understand the beginning either like because they didn't literally see people dying in the streets of their city they didn't understand the hospitals were overwhelmed and the the reason we were masking and quarantining wasn't because people were like collapsing it wasn't like the stand where people are coughing themselves to death and then they're dying in the streets it's that they're dying in the hallways of these hospitals but we're removed from that so we didn't see it and the healthcare staff were burning out and frying and that's why it was so hard for people to make that decision and start trying to pretend it was about government overreach but like the the right is so good at fear messaging like he might love that you're talking about like healthcare messaging and like really getting in there as scientists because I as much as I love my science my friends that do like science work I'm like I love boring you should never speak in front of a crowd you have like the speaking energy of like a piece of toast and I love some people it's not just the energy too it's also like the some of the concepts are really difficult to explain if you haven't actually thought about how you would explain it to like a fourth grader or something like that you know what I mean yeah like if I come out here I'm like yeah you need to have the mRNA be translated and then you need the spike protein and the antigens like people just like in one year out the other year right I want to give you guys in my recent covid debates I've been using this example and I like it a lot and I'll hand this over to you guys you can use it in your future uh covid discussions I uh tell people you don't trust the government on this covid stuff right they're like yeah I'm like okay what about if the government sent you an alert on your phone right now and they were like listen we have had a nuclear accident and there's radiation in the air and everyone is exposed and you need to evacuate right now would you would you think it's okay for a mother to tell her child don't worry I don't feel the radiation on my skin we're not going to listen to them and and most of them are like no that's not right and then I'm like okay so now let's draw a comparison to show you why this is one to one and I find that that works very well because once you start to distrust the system of government you can it's like a slippery slope or like you know if you once you start to distrust the establishment it's a slippery slope and I can draw you to some crazy conclusions from there and I think that like that is a good rhetorical tactic to use to say listen if you don't trust this what do you trust how do you know that insulin will work if you have diabetes you don't know that like you didn't actually look at what do you how do you know what's in the side of anything right if people say what's in the inside so like these kind of discussions I think are nice and sometimes I find people who are pro-vax no offense to us but we're a little dismissive um too dismissive too quick I think we should be a little bit more patient um and you know if people take baby steps to get there I like it um and I'm for that there's a certain segment of this discussion that I feel like it maybe it's not as big as I I think it is but there are people who are apolitical or maybe even on the left who are anti-vax and that's because they have this fear of big pharma and I mean I covered a video a couple of weeks ago where there was a somebody was a a pharmaceutical researcher and she was anti-vax and she was in the hospital with COVID-19 and now she realized she should have got the vaccine but she was anti-vax as a pharmaceutical researcher and you know you make the connection here these people are hyper aware of how destructive big pharma has been but then apply that to everything including vaccines even though they're backed up by science even though we see in the real world people in the hospital are unvaccinated they still have this fear of big pharma that almost overtakes everything else and I mean the logic yeah but there's someone in my life who is a close member of my family and and she's a nurse and she's also anti-vax and it's and she's not conservative she's you know she's left she's or she's apolitical but but she has a skepticism of big pharma and I understand that aspect of it and I think if we if we talk to these people at least that section of it talk to them in a way where we understand yes big pharma has had this disruption but we have to look at you know the real world impact right now of the vaccine what it's had I mean clearly it's brought the numbers down and now people that are in the hospital aren't vaccinated we have to be able to you know make these connections and not have our fear of one thing applied to every aspect of the industry and you know what's actually I would even take it a step further I would say yeah pharmaceutical companies all they have to care about is money what's the good way to make money to make an effective vaccine what's a really bad way to make money to make a vaccine that doesn't work look at what happened to AstraZeneca after two people got a tummy ache or something right like the that this like this is like all eyes are on these these pharma companies they will do everything more than any other time in their history of their company to make sure that those vaccines are effective because they want to make money so it doesn't have to be like this oh they're changing their motive no their motive is still to make money and they will do that by making an effective vaccine and I think that is like a good way to push back on that


The Stevenson University Men's Soccer Program is looking for players that are able to have success on and off the field. We're looking for student athletes that will succeed in the classroom, that will be motivated to succeed in the classroom, as well as the success they're going to be looking for on the field. The students that we recruit, we're looking for academically sound students that are going to be able to qualify for the scholarships that we offer here at Stevenson that are going to be able to meet the needs of college coursework. And then we're looking for them to shine on the field, we're looking for players that are committed, we're looking for players that are disciplined, players that can manage the time that is required, the time management that is required to go to class, to maybe have a job and to also practice six days a week and travel and games. These players have to be committed to everything that it takes to be a successful college student athlete. We are proud of the players that we have right now, I've been with this program for the last three years and we've been able to establish a strong group of players that have taken our Team GPA over a 3.0 for the last three years and earned the Team Academic Award from the United Soccer Coaches Association. With the Stevenson University Men's Soccer Program, we do have high standards here for our athletes. We expect them to succeed in the classroom, we expect them to succeed on the field. And what does that look like?  On the field we're looking for players that are committed, we're looking for players that understand that it takes a lot to be a college athlete, it involves a lot of strength and conditioning, it involves a lot of time, it involves a passion that you have to have, you have to play for the badge as we always say, we play for each other, we're a family. We've built this program up with players that truly care about each other, support each other, we're a very diverse team, an inclusive team, we have a team culture that is second to none and I love this team, I love this program and they will continue to support each other after they graduate and all throughout life. And so to be a Stevenson Men's Soccer Program, to be a Mustang, you have to bring a lot of qualities, you have to be able to succeed on and off the field, you have to be one of us, you have to support each other and you have to care about each other and you can see that from when we play, you can see the way we celebrate every goal, you can see the way we enjoy practice and I would encourage anybody to come and visit and see a practice and see a game and see what it means to be a Mustang. I think Stevenson University is a Division 3 program is able to give student athletes the ability to give recruits an unbelievable experience at the college level. The facilities that we have, Mustang Stadium, our team locker room, the support staff, we have the best athletic trainers, we have the best strength and conditioning coaches here that are able to take care of all the needs just like a Division 1 program. I've always said and I've been here for 14 years, I've always said that Stevenson University will give you a Division 1 experience at Division 3 level. We play in one of the best conferences in the country, very competitive conference with Messiah who has been top 25 for a lot of years and won 11 national championships. We get to take them on every year and we relish that challenge. We have an unbelievable academic pedigree here. We have an administration and president that supports student athletes, the supports, success in the classroom as well as on the field. We have a great community here at Stevenson, we have professors, we have an administration, we have staff, we have obviously a lot of students that come to our games that support our team and it's such a great atmosphere here that with a smaller school everybody knows each other, everybody supports each other, we support our other 27 varsity programs and I'm proud to be a Mustang and I'm proud to say that Stevenson will give you everything you need to be a well-rounded student athlete.


Welcome to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where I'm joined in the studio this morning by Mr Cheh Sabli who is the director of the Telecommunications Sanitisation Bureau for ITU and has just been elected for another four years. Congratulations. Thank you very much. And thank you for joining us in the studio. Yes, my pleasure. I'd like to start off by talking about ITU itself and your perspective on it. You're obviously going to be at the head of the Telecommunications Sanitisation Bureau for the next four years. How do you think ITU should evolve to maintain relevance in today's world? Yeah, that is quite important. The subject as a key subject of this plenipotentiary. We may think of two different domains. One, I want to highlight the first one should be some areas or some communities who have not yet connected. So how we can help them to be connected?  So we have to strengthen all our efforts to support them. The other area is the use of this ICT connectivity. But this use of this connectivity, if we can provide better solutions, better knowledge, how to use of these ICTs, that would be very, very helpful because of our life is already connected. So how to use of this, correctly use of this ICT or our service and the devices is defined of this, our quality of our life. So that would be very important, the subject for us. And also we expect our connected life should be safe and trustworthy. We have a more, more case to lose of our trust, to use of our this advanced services. So how I do bring the make of these societies more trustworthy, bring those technologies, bring those policies is extremely important to subject. So those are key subject how I do keeping our relevance in the world. Let's talk about standardization and your continuing mandate as director of TSB. I wanted to ask you what do you think will be your top three priorities perhaps and how do you plan to achieve them? Yeah, Telecom, ICT, these services are organized and operated by the systems and the services which need some technical engagement. So one of the key role of this our standard development is we have to support this better quality of standard. How we can develop, collaborating with our members to develop better standard, bring the value to the market, to encourage our business, to encourage our society. That is the first priority. So I strongly expect our members working together to develop better, valuable standard. That's the first one. Second one is there are many of standard organizations. So ITU should be continuing our effort to improve our standard development process. We need a more efficient, effective process to meet of our members' requirements, specifically taking into account our time to market and the end users' requirements. This is an extremely important subject. So if we improve our process, that would be a very crucial point to meet of these requirements. That's the second point. The last one is now ICT is working in many, many areas. We call it convergence, but I want to say more than convergence. We are really using this ICT, all areas. So how we can adapt or improve our, how we can extend our membership to bring up new areas, new atmosphere, new subject, new application-wise it is. That is a third pillar of certain important areas. So for the next four years, I'll do my best to meet of these requirements. And some of your events are very much bringing together experts from all these fields. AI in particular, I see, is something that has certainly been evolving under your leadership. Yeah, that would be a very important subject. So even ICT itself, but as a key example is AI is influence all of areas. So how we can adapt of this AI, how we can use of this AI in good objectives. There's a tremendous influence over all of our societies. Let's talk about good objectives. This is the first plenipotentiary conference since the world adopted the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I wanted to ask you, how do you see ITU's unique role in accelerating progress towards the UN as Sustainable Development Goals? Yeah, so meeting of these STG goals is one of our, as a UN agency, this is very important responsibility of this ITU. So look at this STG, 17 goals. Most of those STG goals has a strong relevance of this use of ICTs. Let me say innovation by ICTs has a tremendous impact of this support of this Sustainable Development Goals. For example, if we can provide better connectivity to the world, specifically these unconnected communities, we may dramatically enhance our financial inclusions. Financial inclusion is a critical minimum requirement for those people. So this is one of the examples. And there are other cases like AI. If we can effectively adapt and correctly proper way adopted this AI, we have a very easily improve our health environment, educational environment. Also we have to enhance our protecting our environmental areas, ecosystems. All this is very critical. Those are key elements of this Sustainable Development Goals. So we have to continue to bring of this, our roles to meet of this Sustainable Development Goals. Finally, you're not the campaign trail anymore. You've been firmly elected as the director of TSB for the next four years. I wanted to ask you, have you got a message nevertheless that you'd like to impart to our audience here? Yeah, ITU is an international telecommunication union. But we are working on this to bring of this better solution, better atmosphere to use of this ICT to the global. But all even all these visions, without our members participation, without our citizens, without our people's engagement, it's impossible. So the participating from our members, our industries, your academia, ITU as a multi-stakeholder model, all stakeholders, then your participation, bring of your opinions, your subject as really energy for operating ITU. So I'm expecting we are working together to meet of this very important goals for the next four years. Well, we look forward to seeing the progress and catching up with you again in the future too. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.