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Hello and let's talk about the results of the Bihar elections. Now the results came out late yesterday night or early today morning, however you want to put it, leading to a lot of memes, of course, comparing it to the US. There were also some allegations of irregularities. But when the results finally did come out, it looks like the NDA, that's National Democratic Alliance, just managed to secure a majority. They got 125 seats, the majority was 122. The opposition, Mahagar Bandhan, led by the RJD, secured 110 seats. Now this election and these results actually raise a lot of questions. They have a lot of implications countrywide. A key aspect, of course, has been the fact that the RJD is still the single largest party. The BJP, on the other hand, performed much better than last time, whereas the major story of this election has been the decline of the JDU under Nitesh Kumar. It has become the junior partner in the Alliance. Of course, the other major story was the emergence of the left or the re-emergence of the left, rather having secured 16 seats and they are likely to be a very strong force in the new assembly. We talked to Pranjal of Newsclick to analyze some of these implications, to see what lies ahead for Nitesh Kumar, of course, but also for Bihar and the future of opposition politics in the country. Thank you, Pranjal, for joining us. So we looked at the numbers and the NDA seems all set to form the government. Although very interesting election, of course, a lot of ups and downs, a lot of uncertainty till late in the night. So quickly to start with, before we go into some of the topics in detail, what are your maybe three top takeaways from the election? So Prashant, my three main takeaways from the elections would be that RJT has emerged as a single largest party in Bihar election, which reflects that Tejaswi has done well, RJT has done well. And this is despite the fact that one and a half months ago, nobody was even assuming that RJT would be in fight. Second, and the most important thing that left has revived in Bihar. They had a strong base a few years ago, a couple of decades ago. They were present in strong numbers in the assembly. But after that, they were nowhere there. But they still had mobilization on the ground. As a result, you have 16 members from the left parties in the assembly now, two from CPIM, two from CPI and 12 from liberation. And the third most important thing would be that Nitesh Kumar has lost the stature that he had in Bihar for being the chief minister for so long, and also being the key partner in the NDA Alliance. Absolutely. And we'll go through these one by one. So first of all, the key point you mentioned was the RJT itself. And like you said, about three months ago, everyone was predicting a massive victory for the NDA. People were talking about maybe 200 seats. RJT was nowhere in the picture. And in about less than a month, maybe two months, they really turned it around. Now, some of it, of course, was because of the strength of at least some Alliance partners. But what Tejaswi seems to have done is also sort of begin to create a narrative as a credible leader, which he really needs to expand on in the coming months and years as well. Right. So actually, if you look at the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and the vote here that the current NDA in 2020 would have had in 2019 Lok Sabha election, it was 54.32%. And by that rate, they should have won 223 seats right now. But right now they are limited to 125 in total. So that tells you that what the situation in last one year has changed specifically in last two, two and a half months has changed. RJT has done phenomenally well. They've become the single largest party. My personal understanding is that this entire narrative of one picking from the social justice that the Lalu Prashad Yadav had made ensured in Bihar or had promised in Bihar, picking up from there and then bringing in this entire narrative of employment. Bihar has seen one of the massive unemployment rates in the country. So this entire agenda of ensuring economic justice as well has done wonders for RJT there. But things are still very complicated. I wouldn't completely say that it's just this entire narrative of ensuring jobs and economic justice has done wonders for RJT. If that would have been the case and if just looking at the numbers of people participating in the rallies, if we would have gone by that, RJT should have done much better. So definitely then there's another angle there that NDA specifically, BJP has been able to also ensure that it increases its tally because of the different caste or mathematics that they ensured, different smaller parties that they came into the fold of NDA. And then the entire incumbency was clearly against JDO, which we will come to later. Absolutely. Right. And in this context, what I suspect remains key also is that they just we as a task of making sure that the campaign does not end here and it keeps continuing so that because I think one of the criticisms that was leveled against the party was that for a long time it was basically not really very much there on the ground and the time was just not enough to catch up. That's one of the most important reasons why RJT has not done better. That all of a sudden you can't land up one, one and a half months, two months before the elections and start making these grand promises, doing election campaigns and then assume that you would be able to defeat a party like BJP and win elections. So and that has been the problem even in the last term that even in the last term, RJT was the single largest party. But somehow they were missing from the they were missing as an opposition. Even during this entire phase of COVID-19 lockdown, the problems that migrants had to suffer, the Musafa Nagashelta case, the only consistent force on the ground that way was the left party is nobody else. Absolutely. And Pranjil, coming to the next point, which is regarding the performance of the left. Now, interestingly, this I think is one aspect which NewsClick, of course, has covered, but also many reporters on the ground were fairly certain from the very early phase of the campaign that the left would have much better performance and in fact, a very good performance. And this, I think, indicates the nature of the consistent work that the left has been doing in the sections in Bihar where it's strong. So could you maybe also take us through the kind of buildup that is happening? So as I pointed out earlier that even, I mean, if you look on the streets and in Bihar, the role of the opposition was being played by the left parties, whether it's CPI, whether it's liberation, CPI, they were consistently raising issues of the people, issues of employment, crime rate, even in the flood affected areas, and then about the migrant workers. So left has been there. So you have to understand one thing that in states like Bihar, despite whatever the alliances you have, until unless you don't have an organization on the ground, and I think that is what is applicable throughout the country, that if you don't have organization on the ground, you will not be able to convert your support base into electoral base, or even in terms of you won't be able to convert it into votes. And that's where the left parties have specifically in Bihar gained one because of consciously being the voice of the people raising issues. And second, having organization to make sure that this alliance works out. So I mean, the left has made sure that in seats where they were strong but they could have not won without the support of RJD and Congress. They have made sure that those votes get transferred. And in the areas where the opposition, I mean the Mahagat Bandhan, other candidates were fighting, they have also transferred their votes to them. So this could have not been done without left having an organization there. And left has built an organization because of raising people's issues, as I have said. And having a 16 member block in Bihar assembly is a big thing to happen. So I think that is where left will play an important role. Issues like employment, issues like crime, COVID mismanagement have also become election agenda because of a constant pressure from the left parties in the Mahagat Bandhan and on the streets. Hopefully, left will continue to do the same in the assembly as well. Absolutely. And coming to the final point, of course, Nithish Kumar's record, so to speak, he is probably said to be the Chief Minister once again. But what is definitely going to be sure is that he won't have the same clout as before. He will not probably have the same amount to say when it comes to cabinet appointments, when it comes to decisions. And what we are likely to see is that a BJP will probably take over much more of the levels of government than before. So in that sense, this has been quite a setback for you. Obviously, I mean, if you look at JDU, they have lost 28 seats in comparison to 2015 with a vote share loss of almost 2.2%. And it's very clear from the election results that the entire anti-inconvenancy was being faced by JDU, not the BJP. So BJP has been cleverly able to do that. While on the other hand, you also need to understand that the Lok Janshakti party, which is a LJP, has been able to narrow cut down JDU to an extent in a lot of the seats. While BJP doesn't seem to have suffered any loss because of LJP or a very minor loss. So now with all these combinations being there, BJP having 74 seats in the assembly. Even if, as promised earlier, a lot of BJP people have said that Nithish Kumar would be Chief Minister. I personally think Nithish Kumar would be a Chief Minister who will be continuously dictated by the Bharti Ajanta party in Bihar. BJP will have a bigger seat, not just because they are a bigger party in Bihar, but also they are in the Central Union government. And the most important thing as Nithish Kumar has himself announced in these elections that this is going to be his last election. So actually, if you look at JDU, there's no second generation of leadership which is there in JDU with Nithish Kumar announcing that I'm not going to be fighting elections anymore and this is my last election. I don't think Nithish Kumar is in any position to push through his agenda. Right? And if his entire narrative of ensuring Jungle Raj ends, development comes to Bihar, if that would have worked, he would have not lost 28 seats in Bihar. So Nithish Kumar, even though would be Chief Minister, but the big brother role will be played by the BJP there. BJP is going to remain the strong force there. It's going to remain the stronger partner in the Alliance. And what's going to happen in future, you never know, Nithish Kumar has been named as Palturam quite often. Is he going to remain Chief Minister for five years? One will have to see. Right. The possibility does remain that six months down the line or one year down the line, the BJP could really assert its claim as well. And why would BJP not do that? They have 74 seats. They have clearly emerged as an important, one of the most important players in Bihar, where the regional parties had dominance over the last two decades. So why would not BJP want to capture the entire state? Absolutely. And in this context, Pranjeel, a final question regarding the implications of national politics itself. So we have a situation where the BJP's model is now pretty much clear. It has a huge amount of money it's throwing in. There is a clear use of schemes in a particular way, as far as targeted scheme, targeted benefits are concerned, which benefit a particular section of the population. There is a lot of calculation of caste and other arithmetic, which helps them choose the right kind of candidate. And despite all this, we have also seen that they have not really been as successful in state elections as they should be considering these factors. So in the coming state elections, what do you see as the chances before the opposition when it comes to putting forward a resistance to this machine?  They've just escaped through it. They were 122 was the majority mark. They're at 125. So it's not overly in favor of the NDA alliance. Of course they have one, but I also personally feel it's not something to be disheartened about. Actually, there's an interesting fact. If you look at the vote share of the NDA and the Mahagrad Bandhan, the difference is hardly of 0.1%, which comes to something like 13,000 votes.  The other important factor here would be, in my personal understanding would be Congress. They fought on 70 seats and they performed badly. They will also have to understand that in states like these, where the regional parties have a better chance of defeating the BJP or somebody, they should leave more space for the regional parties and not push themselves to, not push the regional parties to give them more seats. So that's there. As far as national elections are concerned, obviously, BJP has a clear upper hand right now.  They have a lot of money, the infrastructure that they have, it could have not been countered, it has not been countered. If these different regional parties and progressive secular forces in different other parts of the country fight together, they still might be in a position to give a tough challenge to BJP. If they fight separately, I don't think that's happening and that's also very evident from bipolar results in a state like Uttar Pradesh, where BJP has like one majority of the seats with one seat going to SP and BSP winning none. So how else would you counter? Precisely.  Exactly. I mean, and one thing needs to be understood, even if it's a strong regional party in any state, they will have to go on the ground and if they're in the government, work more ferociously. If they're in the opposition, connect with people. You can't just land up one month in advance and think that you might defeat BJP with such a strong digital infrastructure, money infrastructure and muscle infrastructure. So alliances, sitting progressive, secular alliances together, connecting on the ground and building organization, I think would be the way forward for opposition parties in the country. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Pradha, for speaking to us. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news from the country and the world. Until then, keep watching News Click.


What is up guys? Welcome back today. I've got a quick video. It's called the top three dieting secret weapons My top three dieting secret weapons and ones that I'm sure a lot of you are aware of But something that I really want to share with everyone out there Just to help people out when they need it. So these things Condiments or sweetness that I use that are very very low in calorie and Low in carbs low on everything and so you can use a lot of them to make if your bland food tastes nice So let's say you're having chicken breast with no oil Salt and pepper is fine, but as far as sources go most sources are just complete sugar. That's it All there are carbs and too much of it So if you want to put on a decent amount of sauce on your on your chicken, it just doesn't go It doesn't fit into your diet. So what you want to do is get replacements. This goes for sugar as well and Maple syrup. So what I'm going to show you is my replacements for your everyday condiments that you use on your food So first things first and that is stevia There are various low calorie sweetener artificial sweeteners out there. I Go with stevia It's not artificial. It's natural. It's from the stevia plant and They say that one teaspoon worth of this is equivalent to the sweetness of one teaspoon of sugar I actually don't believe that I think it's a little bit less, but it's pretty much the same. So, I mean this whole entire container is 150 serves and each serve has 1.4 calories in it So what's that just over 200 calories for the whole entire thing I mean That's crazy. So this this might last.  I haven't I Haven't come across a Better tasting low calorie maple flavored syrup. It's not maple syrup maple flavored syrup They play on words there, but certainly looks like it certainly tastes like it and for this whole entire Container there is 10 servings for 18 calories each 180 calories for this and whole this Entire container Once again, you can't go wrong anything you're going to be using sweetener for you can use it in your coffees You can use it for your pancakes, obviously In your oats in the morning, mate the result The possibilities are endless and it's amazing stuff So that would have to be my second tip second dieting secret. I use both of these on the daily The third one is not a sweet note. It's going to be savory and it's actually Sources low calorie source options now go to any health food store or any even just go to your your General supermarket and go to your health food aisle and there should be some low calorie options There's low calorie pastas. There's low calorie sauces maple syrups breads There's everything It may some of it doesn't taste good. I must admit but these two sources I've found and They taste pretty good. So they're from the brand fountain As I said, I found them in that the health food aisle at the supermarket I've got a soy sauce option and I've got a barbecue sauce option Soy sauce barbecue sauce my two favorites and they both come in a low calorie option now. So absolutely Stoked I think there's a sweet chili sauce as well, but I couldn't find it I'll definitely be getting getting that one because I'm actually I'm getting sick of the old barbecue sauce but I'll tell you the exact macros. Okay, so we've got 25 serves of 20 mils so We've got eight calories per serve So 25 by eight is 200.  You don't need much at all I mean you guys know what soy sauce is like so 50 serves five mil serves Three calories per serve. That's 150 calories per bottle Well, we got 150 calories 200 calories 180 calories and about 200 calories. I mean guys This is this is gonna this is gonna sweeten and flavor your food for like a month and You've got less than a thousand calories here.  There's different brands out there for different people You might not like these ones, but I'm sure there's something else that you can use and I'd really recommend it. I hope you guys enjoyed this video subscribe if you haven't there's definitely plenty more to come We're getting it peace


Hello and how are you all today? My name is Priyanka. The question says construct the angles of the following measurement. Now here we need to construct an angle of 15 degree. I have already written down the steps of constructions. The first step is to construct an angle A O B equal to 30 degree as you did in the first part of this third question like this. So this was a 30 degree angle that we made in the first part. Now what we need to do is we need to construct O E that will be the angle bisector of A O B. So bisect angle A O B so that the two angles that you have made becomes equal to what 15 degrees because half of 30 degree is 15 degrees itself. So what you need to do is you need to firstly draw an angle of 30 degree then draw a bisector O E like this. Taking C as a center draw an arc taking this point as a center draw another arc and then mark this point as E join O E. This is your required bisector that is bisecting the full angle into two parts 15 degree each. So this is our required construction of 15 degrees. This ends my session. Hope you enjoyed and have a good day.


on the 15 line. That's really amazing. Yeah, I'm a great ripper. You are. Alright, so we're going to make a pillow here. Tell me what to do. Okay, you're going to love this. It's really easy. The first thing you do is you measure the size of your pillow. And this one is a 15 by 15 pillow. So when you are covering a pillow, you want to make it kind of snug fitting. Okay, so we're going to cut pieces that are 15 by 15 to make it nice and snug. Yeah, so we get our piece of fabric out. Oh, it's so pretty. I actually also, if you want to try, I love ripping fabric. I'm a fabric ripper. Do you want to try to rip? We can cut some with the cutter and then also do a little ripage. Yeah, we'll do both. Okay, so let's get this lined up nice and on here. We'll find the 15 and go like this. Okay, and then we're going to rip that. So you just pull it apart. Some fabric ripping all the way to the end is fine. Alright. Wow, how do you know it's not going to go crazy? Well, nice quality fabric rips right on the grain, so it gives you a really straight edge. Wow, that's pretty cool. And so for pillow making, especially when you're not doing like real fine stuff like quilting. So you see, we can kind of, you kind of use your fingers to press it out. It's called finger pressing because the heat of your fingers will actually do a little bit of pressing for you when you're sewing. Wow. You can see, you pull it down and it is exactly on the 15 line. It is, that's pretty amazing. Yeah, I'm a great ripper. You are! Okay, so then we're going to do the other one. Now you're going to get to cut, line this up right here. Sorry about the dog, Barg, I told you that would happen. Yeah, it's all good. Wait, let's get this a little bit more lined up. So where did you get this fabric at? I ordered this from a little tiny online shop called Bloomerie Fabrics. Okay. And they're out of, they're in Virginia somewhere. And I like them, they have really nice quality and they do some fun little sales. This was a remnant sale they had. Yeah. Okay, so now you're going to stand where I am and you're going to hold this down. Okay. You're not a lefty are you? No. Okay, so then, wait a minute, let me stand there. Are you a lefty? No. Okay. Okay, go like this and stand like that. Well, I just moved it. That doesn't matter that much. Okay. Are you good? Yeah. Well, I'll hold it down too. Okay, then we'll do, rip it off there. Okay, so this is going to be the front of the pillow. Okay. All right, it's going to go just like this.  We'll be able to fit her in there. So the back of it, what we're going to do is we're going to measure how long this is. Okay. And it is 28. So we're going to just cut this in half. Okay. And then we're going to just do folds so that, hold on, I'll show you. Okay. All right. Do you want to rip or cut? I like the ripping. Okay, let's do it. It is so fun. I love ripping too. So I'll do the first cut for you and then you can just rip that open right there. I did better job ripping than I did. Yeah, just you can, you can hold it up and really rip. It's not going to go around. Perfect. Perfect ripage. Okay. Yeah, I like it. Okay. So then we want to, what we're going to do is go over to the iron. Okay. This is something else I don't do. Morning has to do all the ironing at home because. Really? That we never ironed is while we grew up. Right. I know. Right. Right. Yeah. I can, some people's parents, remember did do a lot of ironing. Like they'd show up for school and they'd be all pressed and I'd be like. No, not me. Okay. So we're just going to press right here and right here. So you just press that. And now what I, all I did was just kind of make a nice deep fold here. Okay. And we could sew this down, but I don't think we need to. Unless you think you're going to be washing this. No, I'll be fine. Okay. Yeah. So just press that down, that corner down. Yep. And we're going to do the same thing with the other one. Okay. That seems, do you want me to move this? Yeah. And that same fold is okay? Yep. Okay. Um, you know what we should do is fold, have this be. Yeah. Wait a minute though. Just working out the kinks here. Make sure it lines up. There we go. So that we don't see this. Okay. And this fabric is by Basic Gray. She's a fabric designer. Okay. That's her company name. Now, when they design these, how do they, how do they do it? Well, just like I have a publishing company, there's different fabric design companies. So they will, um, you can, there's a bunch of these, uh, so they will like, I think they do a lot of it on computer, like on computer programs. And they have a lot of artists who do it and, um, different, different people. I'm trying to think of an artist who has done, I don't know if you remember, like Ed Emberley, who did all those like funny, remember when we were kids and they have like, um, like those funny drawings where they would teach you how to draw like an alligator with like a crazy face and stuff, like step by step that a lot of that was Ed Emberley.  So all we're going to do here, this is called an envelope style, um, pillow. And so we're going to put those together and you can see that this is the envelope right here, envelope, envelope. And then we just take this piece and we go right sides together. Cause it's going to be turned inside out. And we get our pins right there. I want you to grab one of the thousand pin cushions. Yes. That's because that's that like, that's from the um, flea teak. Oh, is it really? Yeah.  And then. Yeah. And then we'll just pin these all together and just stick them in there. Yep. The ball should be going towards the center because you don't want to. All right. Now let's go over to the machine. You sit right there. Okay. So the first thing we do is we just, we're going to sew along the edge here. Okay. So you just put your foot down. Okay. Do you want me to do it now? No. Not yet. This is called the sewing foot. Oh, okay. So this is the foot I'm putting in. I realize that. That is called the pedal. Okay. Okay. So we're going to put the needle in. Okay. And I have this thing right here, which makes it go nice and slow for you. Okay, good. And you're just going to sew along the edge here. Okay. So I'll help. Nice and tight? Yeah. I'll help you. Don't worry. Go ahead and press the pedal. You can push it all the way down as fast as you can. It still won't go very fast. See, we can make it go like that. Or we can make it go nice and slow. Oh, stop. Yeah. Okay. I just folded. I didn't. I was being a show off. Okay. Go ahead. Now it goes right over top of these little pins. Yeah. It'll go right over. Some people take them out, but I usually just leave them in. Does it ever hit the pins? Rarely. And then you just, then the pin just kind of bends. It's fine. Keep going. I found a boss in the project here. No, I'm glad you are because I don't know what I'm doing. Sometimes these corner pins, I'll take them out, but I think it was going to be fine. Okay. Stop. Okay. And turn that thing so that the needle goes down in. Yes. Perfect. Okay. So now I'm going to lift up my foot and turn to make the corner. Oh, that's really cool. Now keep going. All right. Do I don't need to do anything there, right? I will tell you that the pillow, I use that for my seven classes. It gets real flat. It's like from Walmart. So your pillow, if you want to go get a better pillow form, if you happen to like this in the end of what I'm taking over. Okay. And one more, a couple more. And then we'll stop again. Okay. Stop. And put it back down. Yep. Oh, such a good student. And take your finger and lift that pedal up. It's up a little higher. Up a little higher. You can feel it right there. Oh, yeah. There we go. And then we just turn. Turn. Okay. Put the foot down. Yep. Halfway done. Halfway. Now have you ever caught your finger? I recently finally did it. Everybody talks about that. And I was like, I don't know how they possibly could do that, but I recently did. And just like clip my fingernail pretty low. I could see how it happened to me. It was when I was sewing one of those llamas and I bought this particularly thick fur. And I was kind of like pushing it through my machine. And, um, okay. And a couple more. There. You do that thing where you put the needle down. And then turn. Lift up the foot. Yep. And then we just turn it 45 degrees. Okay. Almost there. See, you're going to take up sewing, aren't you? Yeah. This is awesome. Well, I really started sewing because I bought my first house. And I really, I wanted to make curtains and pillows. I wanted to decorate. And so, yeah, just keep on going. I was kind of straightening it. So I made curtains, which is so boring making curtains. Super boring. It's just like really long straight lines. All right. And almost done. Let's put it down and turn. And then we're just going to sew like a little bit over those stitches. And that will secure the stitches so they don't come undone. Okay. Go ahead. Okay. Perfect.  Yay. And then I have a little cutter over here. Okay. Now we'll just have to put that iron on because we're going to iron it.  And cut the corners so we have nice sharp corners. Okay. Do you want me to start taking the pins out? Yep. And then we just put it on the pillow and we're done. Wow. Fastest sewing project ever. That is awesome. Like, technically, like, you know, people would want you to sew that down, but we don't pay attention to that. You're going to listen to their rules. That's right. Let's do what we want. Man, I could use this and if I could figure this out and do this at home. Yeah. I could really change, because I do a lot of staging for my houses. Yeah, it will be perfect for that. Yeah. And throw pillows make such a huge difference. They do. Do I turn it inside out first? The first thing we're going to do is we're going to cut our little corners so we get nice sharp corners. You can do it with that if you want. Now make sure, though, that you don't cut that. You just want to cut, like, like an eighth of an inch below that. That's good. That's good. Okay.  I know. It's still in the box. And get some, like, you know, IKEA has really cool fabrics. Like, good.  Yeah. And you can find some cute stuff that could, you know, really liven up a couch or whatever. Yeah. I really like this color here. All right. Okay. Now all we're going to do is just... See this? Grab one of those chopsticks. Chopsticks. Yeah. Because... I saw you poking the corners in the other one. Yeah. Exactly. So we're going to poke corners. There's more uses to these than just Chinese ones. That's right.  Okay. So you just get in there and poke those corners out. Give them a little pressure. Is that good? Mm-hmm. Oh, I see this one's not popped out. Yeah. There's a kid up there. Stomping. That'll happen. All right. Okay.  They can't. Yeah. They can sew a little. I think that sometimes they prefer that I'm not around when they do this. Yeah. Okay. Now just let's press it flat. Okay. When I gave the... When I had the little sewing class, my daughter going into eighth grade, she took the class. Oh. So I had her fill a spot and... Have you done anything for their school? I helped with the musical, the middle school musical. I helped make costumes. So I'll do that. One of my 13-year-olds into theater. So... Oh, this got a little funny on the back, but that won't matter. All right. Now you have to finagle that in there. I know it looks a little small, but it's going to look good because it'll be tight. Oh, and let's close this up so the old ladies don't get mad at you. Nope. There are injuries. Work related injuries. Peace. Yeah. Now you got to really work it in there. Okay. Work it into the corners. You got to fluff it up. Yeah. Let's work it up. Hello. Oh, that is so cute. Isn't that cute? Yeah. Now you have a cute little pillow that matches my bedroom stuff. Yeah. I love it. Thank you so much. You're welcome. It'd be fun too. You could put like tassels on the end. Yeah. Or wrap it like a ribbon. Yeah. Pretty pretty. Yeah. All right. Good job. Well done. Thanks.


today does feel like a big football day in New York. Why? Because there was a GQ interview with Baker Mayfield, in which he was quoted as saying that he, quote, cannot believe the Giants pick Jones' six overall, and that it, quote, blows his mind. After the writer, Clay Skipper, told Mayfield, it's seen that scouts can't accurately predict who will be a good quarterback. Mayfield is, forget it. You've got to win, and then goes on to say a player has, quote, a history of winning and being that guy for your team, or you don't, implying that Daniel Jones' 17 and 19 record at Duke doesn't make him really a capable winner. Mayfield, though, then jumped on an Instagram post later today and said, this is not what I said. Just so we're clear, I also said I was surprised I got drafted number one, then was talking about the flaws and evaluated quarterbacks where I brought up winning, being important. Reporters and media will do anything to come up with a clickbait story, heard nothing but good things and wish nothing but the best for Daniel. Of course, people still got very excited. For the sake of argument, I'm not saying I don't believe Baker's walk back, maybe it is true, I don't know. Writers often who are writing a story in which it's a feature like that, they don't have to go face the guy again the next day, so if they take it a little bit out of context, it's not the same as when you were covering the Knicks and you'd have to walk in the locker room the next day. So you never know, that could be slightly out of context. I'm willing to guess the truth somewhere in the middle. He probably did say some other nice things about Jones that didn't get included because they weren't interesting and he probably did say, I can't believe they picked him that high. And guess what, is that a big surprise? Well, because of a couple of series in the pre-season, everyone now goes, oh, of course you should have picked him that high? We're just changing the story right away. Why are people surprised by this? I don't think it should be a surprise. What we're surprised is that Baker Mayfield is that guy. Why would he be surprised by that? What I'm saying is that the surprise is him saying something like that about another player in the league when you haven't reached the status that, look, Baker has a lot to say. I think we've learned that about him. We knew that about him when he played in college and he clearly believes that the world needs to hear everything he has to say. He has an opinion and he's not afraid to share it. This used to be a, he's got a chip on his shoulder. He's a small town kid who nobody believed in, always gonna have to defy the odds.  But now we've kind of reached the point of arrogance, I think, with him, where he'll say anything. And that might have been a moment where, as I think it was described, he's with the writer. There was something on Sports Center that inspired him just to, he wasn't asked about Daniel Jones. Like let's make that clear. It wasn't as if he was asked directly what do you think of Daniel Jones. He saw him on Sports Center and then just kind of off the cuff was like, I can't believe they drafted him. Right. You know, and that sort of was a reaction and the writer probably was like, well, there's some gold. Right. And took it and knew, of course, because it's New York, it's going to catch fire as it has. And it also gets the story that you clicked that you wanted to get. But that's all comes back to Baker though. And that's the awareness of probably not something you need to be saying. But he has an opinion on things and he's not afraid to share them. In fact, I think he believes that people want his opinion. Not only that. People want to know what he's thinking. But we all know he's got a lot of nozzle in him too. Of course, come on. But that's my point. Right. So we could play this game though, however. And I'm curious again from the fans who are upset about this, 800-993-776, is how many of them now want to take on Baker Mayfield? And how dare you say that about Rookie quarterback? Because I think we can play this game called Who Said It. And we can use the quote like, I can't believe they drafted him that high. And then choice A is Baker Mayfield said this. Choice B is most Giants fans said this. Choice C, all of the above. Exactly. I'll go all of the above. That's what I mean. So let's not be stunned that something like this was said. What I'm kind of taken aback by is a guy going into his second year has a lot to say and not necessarily has a lot of accomplished yet. So that's the stuff I think people warn you about. It's the karma thing. It's like, you know, worry about your own game. There's enough there to keep you busy. Now, Freddie Kitchens weighed in. Oh, head coach in Cleveland first year. Why not? Let's hear from the coach. No, I don't have any comments. It's, I think you probably need to go back and look.  But that was during the draft when that was going on.  So I don't really have any comment for it. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't. So it's nothing against Daniel Jones. It's just, he was talking, you know? I think he did have something to say about it though. He was also asked if the Browns bullseye is growing. We don't care. We don't care. All right, it's already on there. So it doesn't matter. We'll be ready to play. I don't know what a bullseye is. I don't know what that is. Anybody know? Anybody know what a bullseye is? If they're not trying to beat our, we're not trying to beat their, I don't know what else you do. Because that's what we're gonna try to do. Hopefully they try to do the same. I'm gonna tell you one thing now. Let's coach me, coach Kitchens. I already made a Garandam tee.  And now I gotta kill somebody. Who's it gonna be? Who wants to tangle with old Freddie K? There's something about Freddie Kitchens that is just wild, crazy man. He's one not to weigh from killing somebody. He does sound like he's wearing a cowboy hat when he's speaking. There's just something very... I don't know, what's a bullseye? What's a bullseye? Only bullseye sees right in your face. Now I'm gonna take these pants off. Coach, coach, calm down. Coach, he does sound a little triggered, doesn't he? He does. Like all of a sudden, you feel there's a bullseye, and you think, why, why would there be a bullseye? Why wouldn't there be a bullseye? Like he got real triggered real fast about that, which again suggests that this bothers him. If somebody said to you, do you think there's a bullseye on your team? And he just was like, oh, I would hope so. You know, just kind of plainly just says it. Yeah, I mean, I'm... There's a bullseye in everyone's head. Every team we're playing this year, we have a bullseye on them. But he sounded triggered by it. This is good. Look, this Browns thing is interesting. Besides the fact that those guys, especially O'Dell, we'll get to that in a minute, can't stop talking about the Giants and can't stop talking about New York, I feel like this Brown season, which seems to have a lot of, there's a lot of interest in this team because A, the franchise has been epically bad for so long that Baker is an outspoken quarterback who's a Heisman winner who played well. And then you add O'Dell to the mix. And there's a lot of anticipation for this team, but I wonder if this is gonna be one of those things where they are compelling to a point where they might be more compelling if this whole thing just blows up on them. Because there's a lot of emotions and a lot of egos being crammed into this team and now a lot of attention. And when there's a lot of attention and emotion and egos put that into a drink, it's toxic. So that's the second thing I'll ask to everyone is expectations for the Cleveland Browns. Do you think they're gonna win the AFC North? And there will be, you make a really good point. I mean, Baker Mayfield talks a lot. And last year, things went really well. They had zero expectations. And they exceeded the mull. Easy to talk. They were seven, eight and one. They easily could have been nine and seven. They were, there were a couple of games. They lost heartbreakingly, bad field goal kicking, et cetera. So they had no expectations. They exceeded the mull. Remember, they fire the coach and then he starts making face, right? Like he and Hugh had that altercation or not really an altercation. He was calling him, I get a rookie and he's being brash. This year's different. This year it's all expectation. There's something about it. You could argue, like you won athletes who are personable, personality, who are willing to say things instead of being boring. Like what was Daniel Jones' reaction to what Baker Mayfield said? Quote, I think he's a great player. He can throw it and I enjoy watching him play. I know. That's a direct quote. You know, so do you prefer that? He can throw it.  You know, there's some entertainment to this player, but there's also something to be said about speaking up too soon. You and I talked the other day about something that wasn't sports related and it's sort of like when you're young and you're a fast riser, you still have to show some humility. It's still very important to show some humility and not walk in and look at the generation ahead of you and say, you guys don't know what you're doing. We're here to clean up your mess.  And I think Baker's got a lot of that in him where he's got a lot to say and he feels like everybody wants to hear it.


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What's going on guys? Welcome to my top picks for April 2023. So in this video, I've got five brilliant products to show you. I've done my best to go out there and find products which you will have never seen before. And the best thing about these products, they're not just random picks for the sake of doing a YouTube video. These are products which are in niches, which are about to explode in popularity. So all five of these products have massive potential and they're ready to get started with right away. I'm gonna be showing you the supplier where you can source these things from. I'm gonna be showing you what the buy price is, what my recommended retail price is. I'm gonna be showing you the Facebook interests to target. I'm gonna be showing you product descriptions for all of these products. And I'm also gonna be showing you the data behind these products as well. So you can see just like I have why they're such great products. And with that being said then, let's jump straight into product number one. So product number one is this 24 LED indoor LED lamp. So if you've been in the drop shipping space for longer than five minutes, you're probably fully aware of a big drop shipping company called Twinklin Tree. They've made a significant amount of money well in excess of seven figures selling products similar to this one. And that's where the key is not this exact product but products similar to this. So it's a proven niche. It's a proven concept and a product in my opinion that people are guaranteed to love. So it comes in lots of different colors, which is good because it gives you lots of different scope for attracting and bringing people onto your store. Obviously not everybody is going to want the same product. And the reason I wanted to show you this supplier then is because they're the cheapest ones. They have this 15 day on time guaranteed delivery. And as you can see, you can buy depending on the color for in and around six pounds. However, I'm going to take you across to these guys because they have some different variants which may be to the liking of different people. And they also have this multi-colored one. They also have a video too. With a product like this, you don't, the product kind of sells itself because of the effect it gives off and that wow factor and that initial kind of attraction that people have to it. You can get away with very simple and basic videos just like this because it's what the product looks like which sells a product, what not somebody says about the product if that makes sense. So the benefits just to quickly reiterate is obviously a very popular niche. It's good price ranges with some great profit margins. It's a proven concept. We know that because there's companies out there selling similar products and it's an ideal Facebook market as well. What I mean by that is that from my experience, the strongest buyers on Facebook have females over the age of like 40, 45, even 50 plus and they will be the types of people that I would guess who would be interested in buying a product like this for their home. As for product description then, I've written one out. I'm not gonna bore you reading it through word for word. So if you do want to go ahead and sell this product, feel free to pause the video, take a screenshot, whatever it may be, adapt to this, use this or copy and paste it, whatever you'd like to do. As for profit margins then with that cheaper supplier that I showed you, we can source it for just six pounds. I see absolutely no reason why somebody wouldn't sell this for at least 30 pounds, leaving a very healthy profit margin of 23.99. If I was gonna sell this product myself as well, definitely have upsell or bundle offers because the chances are somebody's gonna be buying two, maybe even three of these different things to scatter them around the house. So definitely give your customers that incentive to buy more than one of these things to bump up the average order value. As for tags and then there's quite a lot of scope for products like this because there's so many different applications. You obviously have Christmas when we get that far, events, parties, that sort of thing. Weddings I believe would be a massive one for this, but in terms of generic terms, tagged in the average show who just wants to put it in their home, go for things like interior design, LED lamp, lighting designer, and home decor products. Moving on to product number two, we have this outdoor camping sleeping bed for a single person. Before you skip pause or leave the video thinking this is just a crappy generic product. There's a reason why I wanted to show it to you then. And rather than talk you through it, I'll show you the video. So what's really cool about this, so half the battle when you go away is having to have either an electricity source. So you have a pump to pump things up or you have a really kind of cumbersome manual pump which takes forever. This one however has a really cool kind of built-in hand pump which you'll be able to see here. So you simply kind of push down on it almost like you're doing CPR on it. And because it has all the different kind of individual slots or pads I should say rather than the whole thing inflating, it inflates super quickly. It's gonna be super comfortable. And because there's no kind of electronics or batteries involved, it is like a manual thing. It makes the bed super lightweight and as we just saw it's also waterproof as well. So it's a brilliant bit of kit and again there's tons of scope for products like this in terms of who you can tag. You can tag at hikers, campers, mountain bikers, travellers, all those sorts of people. Another great reason to sell this product here in the UK obviously just to make sure you check gauge cranes for your own country. It's about to spike massively in popularity. The clocks went forwards. Recently it's lighter for longer. People are going on camping trips in the next few months, it's just a fact. And as we can see from the screenshot here that's backed up by the Google Trends information. So more and more people are gonna be looking for this exact product. The benefit is just to reiterate it's a trending niche as we've just seen. It has that USP, it's lightweight with a built-in hand pump. It's in a big niche, well massive niche, lots of different niches, mountain bikers, hikers, campers, travellers. And also some great profit margins as well which we'll jump into in a second. As the product description feel free to pause the video, take a screenshot, whatever you'd like to do if you wanna sell this product. Moving into those profit margins then, cost of 16 pounds and seven, camping gear, especially high quality stuff tends to be quite expensive. So I would start this at 50 pounds, see how we get on. And if you see some traction, start building that price up. When I actually checked this product out on sell the trend here, we can see they're recommending selling prices $80 which I think is a bit steep. I'd much rather start lower, get some traction, get people onto your store with an attractive price and then start to build that price up as long as you can keep or find where that conversion rate sweet spot is. It's obviously a tried and tested product as well given the fact that it has nearly half a million dollars in sales. As for tags in, the list is pretty endless to be honest. My go-to would probably be for campers, people going on camping trips. So this would include interests like outdoor life, camping, outdoor enthusiasts, outdoor recreation. And again, there's just endless lists of different magazines you can tag it as well like outdoor world, so on and so forth. As for product number three then, probably my favorite on the list maybe is this outdoor LED solar light. So let's actually jump in to the supplier and they have a handy video as well. And again, what I love about this product is you don't necessarily need to get too technical or too strategic with the ad creative that you use because a simple chop up of what you're about to see says everything about the product and it's the effect and the type and the actual product itself that sells it. You don't need anybody to talk about it or point out the fact that it's an LED light. People can see that from the video. So what's really good about this product is it comes in many different colors and they also have price breaks. So one for 10, two for 16 and four for 30 pounds. So it gets super profitable and the more of these things that you can get your customers to buy. It's also in a super popular niche or what is about to become a super popular niche because we're getting hours extra solar light, sunlight here in the UK. It means people are starting to look for these products. They're going to be spending more and more times in their gardens. They want to make the gardens look nice. They want to get some cool lights. The main reason though, why a bit of a side note, this is my favorite product of the video is because jewelry, angel jewelry, all that sort of thing tends to be super, super popular, does really, really well on Facebook. That type of jewelry that reminds somebody of a loved one which is why I believe that an angel solar light would be, again, just perfect. It's a proven concept that in my opinion is guaranteed to work. Just to reiterate those benefits then I've already touched on the fact that I believe it to be a proven concept in a popular niche. Great profit margins, which I'll show you in a second. Easy tag team because we're going to be tagged in an older generation which typically take pride in their gardens. Easy content creation which I've touched on as well. I don't believe you'd have to spend too much if at all anything, you'll probably just be able to chop that up and see what kind of results you get. And last but not least, an ideal Facebook market. I've already touched on that earlier on in the video. Females over the age of 40. As for product description then, if you want to take a copy of this, feel free to pause the video, screenshot it, do what you got to do. As for profit margins then, buying one of these things, 10 pounds. My recommended retail price would be just for 20 pounds. Get people in with a super low attractive price but then bank on the fact as it stands there with the asterix that as a worst case scenario, it's going to be 10 pounds. I would struggle to see anybody just buying one of these things. It's going to be two, if not three of them so they can line them along a path, whatever it may be. As a tag team in terms of interests, go for people who take pride in their gardens, spend a lot of time in their gardens, interested in that sort of thing. Garden as well, house and gardening, garden in center, gardening, know-how and country life. Moving on to product number four is this car step. So I'll show you in a bit better terms how it actually works. Whoops, let's replay this. So basically what it is, it's like a metal device which has a hook on it and as you can see, it hooks onto the latch inside your door. So when somebody's going on a camping trip again, which is about to become super popular and they have a roof box, whatever it may be, well they just want to clean their car, use it for cleaning the car so they can get to the roof. It's a super safe and easy way of giving people access of doing that. For this particular supply, they're a top brand. It comes with three pounds 78 shipping, which is a shame, but you do get an on-time guarantee with that, but it's a super low entry price of just 41 pence. So if anyone wants to kind of dip their toes into drop shipping and sell a cheaper product, just to kind of see how things go, this could be an ideal one for you. In terms of those profit margins then, including the shipping, you're looking at about four pounds and 19, with a recommended retail price of 20 pounds. You could even bump that up maybe to 25 depending on how things go, which leaves a decent-ish profit margin of 15 pounds and 80 pence. As for targeting, the list is pretty endless, so I would split this out across different campaigns to see which ones kind of get the best traction or best results, but my starting points would be camping, travel, road trips, and outdoor sports. As for product descriptions then, same as the previous products, I've written out a pretty decent description which you can adapt and change to your own liking. So feel free to pause the video now and take a screenshot. Moving on to product number five is this marble run game. The reason I wanted to include this is because when I was a kid, I had something very similar to this and I absolutely loved it. So it's almost like they're bringing it back. So I definitely think people of my generation who are starting to have kids and they want to show their kids the same sort of toys they played with when they grew up, then I definitely think this product has that appeal. Not only that, the evidence is there of being a solid seller that people are interested in. We can see a pretty fast incremental increase in the amounts of orders, which shows a good demand of not to mention nearly a million dollars in sales. This is the listing on AliExpress then. What's really good about this product as well is it kind of leans itself into a natural upsell for your customers. So you can have a super low attractive price to get them in and then once they're on your store, you can upsell them to a bigger package. So we have the cheapest one, which is 194. Super cheap, that includes free 11 day delivery and that is for 77 pieces as it says there on the top left. But you can work your way all the way up to a massive monster set of 308 pieces. Just in case you've never seen this game before, then just quickly the way it works is that you get all these different building blocks and slides and twists and turns, that sort of thing. And then you can build your own kind of theme pack or roller coaster slide type thing where you put the marble in at the top and then it races down to the bottom. So it's a pretty cool, pretty fun product and it keeps children away from screens, which is a big positive in terms of a grandparent's mind. So that could be a margin angle for you. As like for the previous products, I've done a product description for this product as well. So feel free to pause the video and again, just adapt to this to your own liking. As for the profit margins, this is a really cheap product which potentially could be super, super profitable. I've low bored it here quite massively because I like to work on kind of worst case scenarios. The cost is anywhere between two and 15 pounds depending on the size of the set of course that you go for. I would start it the cheapest at 20 pounds, which is low enough to be considered an impulse purchase. But then once you've got somebody onto your site, people always want bigger and better. So you could have split payment methods on there to encourage people to go for those bigger packages and spend instead of say just 20 pounds anywhere upwards of say 50. Working on these low ball numbers though, looking at profit margins of between 18 and 35 pounds. In terms of targeting, it's pretty endless to be honest. You can target existing brands out there which just make toys and building toys for a similar age group of children. So Lego, building toys, hot wheels, that sort of thing. We can get a bit more specific. I definitely think it's going to be the grandparents buying this product. So you can target grandparent related interests. And you can also go one more specific than that. And Facebook actually lets you target parents with children of certain age ranges. And with that being said, that is all five products that I wanted to show you guys. If you've stuck with me this long, I really do appreciate it. Don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed my content. Any comments, questions, videos, suggestions, anything at all, post them down below. I really hope there's some value for you to take away from this video. And even more so, I hope you can make one of these products a success and work for you. Thanks for watching guys, I really appreciate it. And I'll see you in the next video on Wednesday. See you then.


All right, I've got the boat cleaned off. I trimmed the front of my steering thing here. I even replaced the oil in the motor gears at the back there. Got my paint. And I think I'm ready to go. Oh, yeah, I also have a paintbrush and a screwdriver to open the paint. First, I'm just gonna start with blue. And right now, there's some good stun. I'm gonna do a last minute weather check. Just to hopefully see that it's not gonna rain today. Well, it should be clear this afternoon. It might rain tonight a little. However, it's still in the morning. So as long as I have the rest of the day of good sun, paint should be basically, you know, at least waterproof by the time it rains. All right. Okay, one coat of blue-ish. I'm gonna need at least two, maybe three. And I might be able to get away with two coats. Yeah. Yeah, look good so far. Didn't even get myself too much. Wait, what's your question? I used most of my can of blue there. Now I have a can of black and a can of white. I wanna paint white tiger stripes on the boat. And then have some black accents, I guess. I'm gonna need another can of blue. So I guess I need to go to town kinda ASAP. It's like a whole day trip going there and back. You know what? I probably have enough for this blue left to do the side here and then the other side. And that's where the tiger stripes are gonna be anyway. And then maybe you'll see how far the blue goes and maybe I can get this whole pontoon and that one but none of the inside. I don't know, wherever it goes up to, I could just do gray for the inside part. No, that would be kinda cool. I have plenty of gray, I mean black and white. I can just mix them up. No, I don't have gray. I have black and I have white, which means I have gray. That actually sounds like a good idea.  Well, I think that sounds like a good idea. That's pretty good. Wait a second, let's see. Yeah, I think I wanna make them gray. I don't necessarily want black on the boat because black, even if it's just little stripes like black will absorb heat more than that or that. Well, that's kinda cool. I don't know, somewhere between there. I think I can make that with that paint roller more or less.  My brain says it should work out. So I'm doing one strip of color and then I add a bit more white and I'm just gonna keep adding more white as I go. I didn't have enough blue to really start with straight blue so I added some white before I even started. I wasn't planning to do, but we'll see how it goes. All right, not bad. You can definitely see some roller marks. I knew that would be there. However, I'm hoping the roller marks will be kind of distracted from by the tiger stripes. So let's see how that goes. I don't really have time to blend this better. It's good enough. Guess I need to wait for these to dry a little before I can paint the sides. We've got here, looks like a tiger stripy color if you ever asked me. Looks great. Guess I need to change my roller color. Maybe I'll paint that this color. Yeah, by the time I get that painted, I should be re-colored here. Good enough for me. Yeah, I think that's pretty much it. All right, whoa, cool, man. So these ones I did with the roller, these ones I did with the brush. I think I like the brush ones more. Ah, whoo, not bad. That was pretty good. I don't know what I'll paint the middle like. I'll probably just paint these gray or something. Well, I had a couple hours before the sun goes down, so I painted the interior. You know, all this part in here and these hatches and those posts, all that stuff back there. I guess looking pretty good. The only thing I still have to do is these guys up here and those things, little posts. But there's no where to stand up here because this is all fresh paint, so. I'll just do that later. I wanna have to paint the motor area. I did do the rudder. I just didn't do the motor because I already painted in front of it so I couldn't get to it. Oh, I'm silly. Yeah, that's looking great. Well, hold on, let's get it in a good shot so I can make a nice thumbnail. Yeah, that's the thumbnail right there, right? Yeah! Oh, maybe I should be in the thumbnail. Okay, let's get it. All right, Jamie, get on the motor.


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A short presentation is intended to inform you and your loved ones about strategies for managing side effects of diarrhea. I want to talk to you about a subject that you probably don't talk about at parties or over the dinner table. In fact, it probably is a subject that you may not feel comfortable talking about at all. Yet, it is something that can have a big impact on how you feel and how your body functions. It is also a subject that your health care team will be interested in talking to you about. This webinar is about diarrhea. If you are being treated for kidney cancer, you may experience diarrhea, and this webinar will give you some important information to help you deal with this common problem. Diarrhea is a term that describes loose, watery stools that occur more frequently than usual. Diarrhea is a common problem and something everyone experiences. If you have experienced it, you will know that you often need to make more frequent trips to the toilet and have a greater volume of loose stool. In most cases, diarrhea symptoms usually last only a couple of days, but sometimes diarrhea can last much longer. In these situations, diarrhea can be a sign of a more serious problem. Diarrhea occurs when the food and fluids that you eat and drink pass too quickly or in too large an amount, or both, through your colon. Normally, your colon absorbs liquid from the food you eat, leaving a semi-solid stool, but if the liquids from the food you eat aren't absorbed, the result is a watery bowel movement. The digestive system has a number of important functions. It helps transport food through the intestines. It helps digest and absorb foods we eat. It also helps balance fluids and nutritional building blocks, such as vitamins and minerals, in our body. Severe diarrhea can interfere with these functions and cause the body to get out of balance, leading to other medical problems that can be serious. Many cases of diarrhea go away without treatment, but if you experience diarrhea, you need to let your doctor know. What are some of the causes of diarrhea? Well, there are a number of diseases and conditions that can cause this problem. Common viruses can cause diarrhea. Most often, people refer to the symptoms these viruses cause as the stomach flu. Usually, symptoms caused by this type of virus will get better in just a few days. Contaminated food or water can contain bacteria and parasites that can cause diarrhea. Jardia is an example of a common parasite that causes diarrhea. This can be found in contaminated groundwater. There are also many bacterial causes of diarrhea. Diarrhea caused by bacteria and parasites can be common when traveling and developing countries and is often called Traveller's Disease, or Traveller's Diarrhea. If you are being treated for kidney cancer, there are medications you may receive that can cause diarrhea. Cancer treatment medications as well as antibiotics can have diarrhea as a primary side effect. Many foods can lead to diarrhea. Lactose is a sugar that is found in milk and other dairy products. Many people have difficulty digesting lactose and experience diarrhea after eating dairy products. Fructose, a sugar found naturally in fruits and honey and added as a sweetener to some beverages, can cause diarrhea in people who have trouble digesting it. Sorbitol and menital are artificial sweeteners found in chewing gum and other sugar-free products and can cause diarrhea in some otherwise healthy people if you eat too much. Physical and system changes resulting from abdominal surgery or gallbladder removal can affect how the bowel functions and lead to diarrhea as a symptom. Chronic diarrhea can also have other causes such as Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Celiac Disease, and other autoimmune conditions. So what do you do if you develop diarrhea? Well first, you need to let your doctor or nurse know that you are having the problem. If it is not too severe, they may just have you monitor the symptom. If your diarrhea lasts longer than three days or if you become dehydrated or have an increased abdominal pain or blood in your stool or a temperature greater than 102 degrees Fahrenheit, then call your doctor. Your doctor may want to see you to determine the cause of the diarrhea. Your doctor may examine your abdomen to determine the location of abdominal pain and may also listen to your abdomen with a stethoscope. You may be asked about any medications you are taking including over-the-counter drugs or natural supplements that you take. Blood and stool samples may also be taken to help determine what is causing your diarrhea. Most cases of diarrhea clear up on their own within a couple of days without treatment but if this does not happen, even if you've tried lifestyle changes and home remedies for diarrhea without success, your doctor may recommend medications or other treatments. The treatments that may be recommended will depend on what is causing the diarrhea. For bacterial infections, you may be treated with antibiotics. If your diarrhea is a side effect of your cancer treatment, the dose of your medication may be adjusted to see if that will help reduce the severity of the symptom. If your diarrhea is severe and you have become dehydrated, you may be asked to try to replace the fluids by increasing the amount of water, juice and other liquids that you drink. If you are unable to drink enough fluid to prevent dehydration, your doctor may recommend getting fluids through a vein in your arm. Water is a good way to replace fluids but it doesn't contain the salts and electrolytes such as sodium and potassium which you need in order for your body to function properly. Your health care team will be able to recommend other things that you can eat and drink to help replace these minerals. Diarrhea should be treated initially with diet changes such as foods found in the barat diet, bananas, rice, applesauce and others. In some patients, reducing dairy from the diet may help with general gastrointestinal symptoms. You may be directed to use anti-diarrheal medications per package direction by your doctor if diet alone is unsuccessful. Drink plenty of clear liquids every day but avoid apple and pear juices until you feel better because they can make your diarrhea worse. Avoid caffeine and alcohol. Add semi-solid and low-fiber foods gradually as your bowel movements return to normal. Try soda crackers, bananas, toast, eggs, rice or chicken. Avoid certain foods such as dairy products, fatty foods, high-fiber foods or highly seasoned foods for a few days. Some research suggests that probiotics, foods and supplements containing beneficial bacteria may help treat diarrhea. Helpful bacteria live in your digestive tract where they help digest your food and protect you from harmful bacteria. Probiotics contain strains of living bacteria that are similar to the ones normally found in your digestive system. Probiotic foods such as yogurt, cheese, miso and tempeh are generally safe to eat and may help. Side effects of probiotics might include gas and bloating. Check with your doctor to be sure that this is right for you. Ask about anti-diarrheal medications over-the-counter, anti-diarrheal medications such as Imodium and Pepto-Bismol may help reduce the number of watery bowel movements that you experience. It is important to know that certain infections, bacterial and parasitic, may be made worse by these over-the-counter medications because they prevent your body from getting rid of what's causing the diarrhea. Check with your doctor before taking these medications or giving these medications to a child. Diarrhea is a common side effect of many medications and infections and most people have experienced it. It is normally not a serious problem and usually will resolve in a few days in most cases. It can become a serious problem if it does not resolve because of its effect on fluid and electrolyte balance in the body which can interfere with normal body processes. If you begin to have a problem with diarrhea, you need to talk with your doctor or nurse to let them know so that they can help you to correct the problem. Follow your doctor's advice. Be proactive to help resolve the problem. Keep well hydrated, watch your diet, and avoid situations that make the condition worse. With help, this symptom can be controlled.


We're gonna pull up All right, we we've got a special negotiator coming into the scene His name is gonna be mr. Cornwood I'm gonna be handing over the scene control to him cornwood All right folks, this is gonna be officer cornwood. Okay, he's gonna hit take over the negotiations We've got some some military folks inside they know hostage they've been through the war, okay? The one we're talking to who's doing the negotiations lieutenant Cornwood's about to talk to you Doing today Lieutenant commander first things first I'd like to thank you for your service. I also served in Desert Storm I was stationed Berlin. I understand sir, and I know this might be unfortunate circumstances But you have to understand at the end of the day I serve the Constitution. I do not serve the president Now I want you to understand that I want to tell you what we got going on here We got to which probably trains in here. We have one host RJ Now we would like to get that host RJ out of here safe and sound now if you're willing to comply with us We can get that host RJ out here safe and sound. How does that say? Absolutely lieutenant command now now here here's what we're gonna do today is uh, what we'll figure something out You help us out. We'll help you all out. How's that sound? Absolutely, so what do y'all what do y'all want to let let our friend here go Y'all want no spot strips on the way out of here Okay, well, how about this how about y'all go ahead and let the hostage go and we can go ahead and not put down any Spock strips on on the way out Odessa, Texas, son Odessa, Texas went to East Texas Baptist University Damn good and best damn weather the side of the Mississippi Absolutely all right here's what we need to do they're asking for no spot strips on the way out I think our best course of action here would be as a Officer bass laid out in the last bank high situation would be to place some police cars in the several exit areas and funnel out their release to one location Down the road and go ahead and set up another spot What is that? PN real quick sir. This is trooper Andrews All right, I'm gonna continue negotiation. I'm doing fine. It was a lieutenant Ten a commander I'm back now Andrews, please can can you can you let the damn sheriff work Andrews?  Oh bless his heart Well, absolutely well you can go ahead and let that hostage go if you want to go ahead and let him go right now We'll we'll give you all free access without any sort of a police bike If that's the case y'all can keep him Listen up real quick here. This is this is gunnery sergeant huge anus Listen, you're gonna have to move that a police cruiser out of the way there We got we need a clear line of the movement for our assets, please please move that That police cruiser there. Oh, absolutely. We will move the police cruiser that is directly in front of the Directly in front of y'all's vehicle here. Yo, y'all's blacks at that Absolutely Madame wife left me Shelly Cornwood.  I've been on a Co-operating God saved me. Yes, miss me guys Can you not go faster?  Oh my god.  Mr. Cornwood? Please tell me you didn't disable this vehicle Mr. Cornwood Mr. Cornwood said that he was gonna be okay said he's from from Rust Island.   Mr. Cornwood?   You're trying to get to 15. Can we get a pick up off a great ocean?  What does that even mean?   I meant verbally not physically Are you trying to say like good cop bad cop? Is that what you're trying to say? Well, I was gonna go for more for the bad cop bad cop thing bad cop that okay All right, you know, why don't you could go in there for a second?  Okay. What about my taser? Don't take any weapons out of your holster. Okay?  Okay, can you do that? Can take the flashlight out? No, that's physical violence Well, I just put into the eyes. No, don't put it No, don't take any weapon out of you. Don't make sure your hands. I'll just give one of these Well, well, well What do we have here What was that? How can I help you officer? Well partner other guy. Where's the other guy? You don't need to worry about the other guy, okay?   Listen now officer coming up with the hell's coming up St. Patrick's day I was robbing this candy store. Okay, that's you that you were accusing me of why would I just go clothing? Well, why would I go to the the the clothing store that's right across the street from a police garage? Thank you. I appreciate I know you tell me son.   Can you take care of Charles? I'll Guys please My friend it's It's not what you think man. Okay, I swear. I swear.    It's robbing a bank.  Yeah, sounds good to me, huh? I can go under oath right now It's like you put me under a polygraph and I got you Insides are like a stone Like stone, it's a it's a stone. Uh-huh like a rock Yeah, yeah I've been to Iraq. Okay, you know, I did serve in Desert Storm actually I was stationed in Berlin, but I Done a little bit of military work myself. Okay. I've seen the polygraph.  Okay? No, no, we had just got done Pay listen that you have to get it right. It's not just stripping. Okay. It's paintball mud stripping, right? Yeah, we're waiting to for it to get into the mainstream Listen son You're lucky uh I think they're watching me. Okay It's a mirror son But I don't know I don't know when the watch commander's gonna Please please sir, please so you best be you best you best be careful. Okay. Well, we're gonna be having a Separate discussion.  Paintball session in the mud and no son out in the mud Yeah, like yeah. Yeah, it's listen. You didn't hear what I told you was it's the mud paintball strip sesh No, no, no I'm not I'm not going down that road again. Okay. All right.  That's all I'm gonna say You ever play a battle royale, listen, I've read the battle round. I've read the I've read the book All right. Okay. All right So it's just last man standing right when uh-huh All right, so whoever can snitch the best per se. Gotcha. So does he have a machine gun or does he have a spoon? All right, so I like H1Z1. All right, so he found a he would be found a pistol right now, okay?  Listen, I'm more of a I'm more of a wannabe two-tapper. I go for the taps and then I just hit lots of body Yeah, that works that works.  So I mean the bullet drops. Well, anyway So, okay, so why don't you try to go for a two-tap? Tell me something that might be two-tap it Okay listen These outfits were wearing are not really that camouflage Yeah, I think we should have gone with more of a green to make it more believable for our for the shoot You know I mean and that was his fault He decided to go with tan and as soon as we got there we realized it But we just had to kind of roll with the punches because it was that we gas money was on the line at that point Okay, I mean where's there, you know the forest right right behind the Polito Not the Polito sides is the Harmony garage right across from Harmony garage behind the bank. We just that little forest area Okay, yeah, we were just changing back into our normal clothes and you guys rolled up on us.  You know what I mean? I guess it's just we were trying to be as realistic as possible, you know out there paintballing and Stripping plus people stripping things that people wear normally, right? It's like if I went out there in a duck outfit and started stripping it just wouldn't make that much sense, right? That's that's true. All right. Give me a second.  Did you I didn't see you just to right this second. Yeah, that's right That's what I thought you're quick, huh? Listen son. You're lucky. You've been dealing banter's not me, okay?    I want to put this one away for a long gas time Yeah, this was the one that's gonna fall in the sword that one's gonna walk in free So if you go down the hall I'm sorry about the stripping. I didn't want to have we couldn't we didn't need to had it Well, I wish you would have saying earlier, man, you could have saved your skin I'm sending Charles Johnson up there.   All right, cheese Here's the guy that's going to Bowlingbrook for five years because you know He just you just had to on principle even though his buddy flipped on him. He wouldn't sign a confession, you know My conscience is clear Well, I hope it guides you through Bowlingbrook, Mr. Johnson. Yeah, hopefully Bo Vice isn't there Oh One time that you took my heart, baby, you can love me you can leave me. I'm a Don't


It's a two-part question. Does Mark 16 verse 9 through 20 deserve to be treated as Scripture or just a footnote? And why is drinking poison and being bitten by snakes listed with things like healing, deliverance, and speaking in tongues as evidence of believers? Yeah. Well, I'm not a textual critic, but I'll say that, but I'll also say this. I've never seen a good defense of the longer ending of Mark, that is, verses 9 through 20. And for that reason, I'm in the camp, which most, I don't want to say all, but certainly most textual critics, I'm in the camp with them that does not think verses 9 through 20 are authentic. The only reason it really matters is because of what the question alluded to, that you have snake handling preachers living in different parts of the world, parts of the country. They've made use of this material and they've died or been responsible for somebody else's death. So, yeah, it does matter in that respect. But again, I'm in the camp that really can't find a good defense of the authenticity of verses 9 through 20 when it comes to Mark 16. Now, by way of textual evidence for the longer ending of Mark, again, verses 9 through 20, which is pretty weak, I'm going to read a little excerpt from Omonson's book. This is from Omonson and Bruce Metzger, a textual guide to the Greek New Testament. And this is an adaptation of Metzger's textual commentary on the Greek New Testament. So they write this. They have several manuscripts, including four Greek unsealed manuscripts of the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries AD, continue after verse 8 as follows with a few small variations. And here's the verse. But they reported briefly to Peter and those with him and all that had been told. And after these things, Jesus himself went out through them from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen. So you have four manuscripts, what this amounts to four manuscripts from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries. So this is 700 to 900 years after the days of the apostles, okay, that after verse 8, they add that little statement that I just read. Okay. And then that's where in those manuscripts, that's where Mark ends. It ends with what we have as verse 8 and then this little addendum. Now all of the manuscripts that have this reading, okay, except for one old Latin manuscript continue with verses nine through 20. Now what that means is that the longer ending of Mark, verses nine through 20, this is the best manuscript support for it, 7th, 8th, 9th century AD. Stuff that's older is not going to have, they're not going to have the verses in it. So here you are in the New Testament text, text critical debate about, you know, priority manuscripts, the older manuscripts, you know, does it, if they're older, you know, should they be counted as better and all that kind of stuff. We did a whole episode on this, but you don't really have very strong evidence for the longer ending of Mark. It's centuries, you know, 7th century is what you're dealing with here. A second source, RT France in his commentary on Mark says this, this is a little bit longer. And I like France's commentaries. He's done a couple of them. I just like them. He's pretty good. He writes a number of later minuscule manuscripts. These are medieval and beyond. Give the longer ending, but mark it off with marginal signs or comments to indicate that its textual status is doubtful. So even the scribes themselves are making little notes in what they're copying. They're faithfully copying the longer ending, but they're putting these little marks in there. The 5th century Codex W, one of the earliest manuscripts to have the longer ending. So now you get, you know, in our text stuff, now you move back to the 5th century. You know, it's one of the few, one of the earliest. The other ones are going to be seven, eight, nine. Has a substantial addition of 89 words at the beginning of verse 15. So it's even different than what we have in verses nine through 20. This is described by Metzger as having an obvious, quote, obvious and pervasive apocryphal flavor, these 89 extra words, which consists of a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples concerning the ending of the period of Satan's power and the truth and righteousness now made available through Christ's death. Jerome records the same additional words and said they were found in some Greek manuscripts. Okay, so that's 5th century. France moves on to a little section on literary considerations. And he writes, most of the content of the longer ending, verses nine through 20, echoes usually in abbreviated form, elements in the resurrection stories of Matthew, Luke and John. And it does that as follows. And then he goes on and starts commenting about this or that. I'm going to skip to another section of France. He writes, the parts of the longer ending not accounted for in this list are those which go beyond the resurrection appearances, as such to describe the subsequent preaching and activity of the church. Thus, in verse 16, we have a summary of a basic baptismal soteriology, which has the flavor of Johannine dualism and possibly draws on the baptismal element in Matthew 28, 19 and 20. In verses 17 and 18, some of the signs which are related in Acts are summarized. And verse 20 is virtually a summary of the whole book of Acts in a nutshell. In the whole of the longer ending, verses nine through 20, the only element which is not easily accounted for on the basis of familiarity with other gospels and the book of Acts is the emphasis in verse 18 on handling poisonous snakes and drinking poison. The former perhaps reflects the single instance of, and it was involuntary, snake handling in Acts 28, three through six. But the expectation of these two activities as regular signs is the one distinctive contribution which the long ending makes. In all other respects, verses nine through 20 have something of a second hand flavor and look like a pastiche of elements drawn from the other gospels and Acts. Now that's the end of, you know, France's commentary there. So basically what he's saying is that in the longer ending, which does not have good textual support, everything except the snake handling and the poison, poison, you can find elsewhere in some other gospel or in the book of Acts. You can find some sort of example. And the only two outliers are the snake handling thing and then the poison. And the snake handling thing might be an illusion to the episode in Acts 28. Again, it's not clear because the episode in Acts 28 was certainly involuntary. But it might, you know, be some illusion of that. But then the poison drinking has no, there's nothing you can find elsewhere in the New Testament for that. And for that reason that this, the material you have in verses nine through 20 reads like somebody else just sort of put it in there drawing it from all these other places. In other words, it's a very second hand kind of feel to it. That reason plus the weak textual support, the weak manuscript support for verses nine through 20 are the reasons why virtually all New Testament critics, textual critics, do not consider verses nine through 20 as authentic. It's not as bad of a situation as something like first John five, seven, or the part of the ending of Revelation, like with Erasmus's text and all that. But it ain't good. It's there's it has weak textual support. And I will put a link on the episode page for this to a blog post that I found here from the evangelical textual criticism blog, you know, you could go up to the evangelical textual criticism blog like I did here and just put in, you know, Mark 16. And you're going to find, you know, what that group and they are just what they sound like evangelical textual critics, what they say about the longer ending of Mark and you'll find an essay by Peter Gury. We've interviewed Peter before on this podcast. And it's pretty good. I recommend it. Just looking through it here skimming here. I have read this before. But in this essay, this pot this post, he quotes Dan Wallace, because one of the arguments is that well, you know, the ending of Mark must have been original. And it was lost because of the way that scrolls were rolled up. And the end of a of a, you know, the role would have gotten tattered and lost blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, Wallace is somebody who's pretty much spent a career handling these sorts of things. And he says it's extremely unlikely that Mark wrote his gospel, you know, in a particular way where this is going to be, you know, some sort of explanation. Now, I'll just I'll read the excerpt here. This is Wallace. Now, however, if Mark's gospel is is earlier than this, the end of the first century, again, which is the controversy in and of itself, you know, as virtually all scholars acknowledge, regardless of their view of this synoptic problem, then he would have written his gospel on a roll, not a codex. And the first generation of copies would also have been on rolls. And if the gospel was written on a roll, then the most protected section would be the end. Because when someone rolled the book back up, the end would be on the inside, not the outside, to get tattered and stuff like that. To be sure, some lazy readers might not rewind the book when finished. Of course, they could get find a denarius at their local blockbuster, Wallace says, for such an infraction. But the reality is this sort of thing was a rare exception, not the rule. Consequently, if Mark was originally written on a roll, it's hard to imagine how the ending could have gotten lost before copies were made. So again, Wallace is a guy that has lots of experience with scrolls, you know, the way they were wound and so on and so forth. And you have other books as examples too. If this if this was a common event, well, then you'd have problems with the endings of other New Testament books too, but you don't, you know, it's just it's just this longer ending of Mark. So I'm in the camp, just to wrap this up, I'm in the camp with the, you know, the text of critics, evangelical and otherwise, who just don't really see a good argument for the long ending of Mark being authentic. And so for that reason, I don't, I don't feel like I have to doctrinally defend drinking poison and snake handling, because that's the only place you're going to get that stuff. And it's, it's highly suspect.


As we think about agriculture and we think about the environment, it's so important that we think about the ways that we actually do help the environment through agriculture and forestry practices. Things are not as they were even 50 years ago. The things that Extension does, like teaching people about no-till agriculture, that's a great way to improve soil health, soil quality, and then also helps us sequester carbon. In plant animal efficiency, we also learned about how poultry farmers and poultry farming is becoming more efficient and more environmentally conscious. The poultry industry employs over 86,000 people in Alabama alone and it's one of our largest industries in the state. And through improved genetic selection, thinking about improvements in feed, improvements in housing structures, we've really reduced our environmental footprint from what it was just 60 years ago. And in data and technology, there's a lot of advancements that are going on that a lot of people probably don't even know about. You think about drones in popular culture, you think about drones, but drones are used every day in agricultural practices to monitor for disease outbreaks, pest outbreaks, to also look at ways to monitor and output fertilizer and herbicides in a much more efficient manner. And when we think about conserving our natural resources, one of the amazing things is that Alabama forests are owned by people like you and me, private landowners. 94% of forest land is owned by non-industrial, we call non-industrial private landowners. Alabama also has amazing water resources. That's one thing that we are really known for in the state. We have so many in fact that in some parts of the state, you're never more than a mile away from a body of water, a lake, a stream, or a creek. So through this campaign, we have illustrated the science behind a lot of the current agricultural practices and the reasons why they're so important to improve the environment in Alabama.


Russian olives are fast growing and they'll grow just about anywhere. Because of this, they've been popular choices in the past as windbreaks and shade trees in Wyoming. However, the Wyoming Department of Agriculture recently listed Russian olives as noxious weeds. You may be wondering why this was done. Well, first of all, Russian olives are not native to Wyoming and they have their fair share of drawbacks. Since they grow so fast, they can quickly take over everything else in the landscape. Also, they use quite a bit of water and will deprive other plants of the water and nutrients they need to grow and thrive. So what does this noxious weed designation mean for you? Noxious weeds cannot be sold or transported in the state. So if you are hoping to add them to your landscape, you'll have to come up with plan B. Second, a noxious weed listing gives you the opportunity to get financial help from your local weed and pest district if you'd like to control any noxious weeds on your property. Thankfully, there are several alternatives to Russian olives, such as lilacs and silver buffalo berry. For a complete list of good alternatives, you can contact your local county extension office. From the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service, I'm Barton Stamm, Exploring the Nature of Wyoming.