Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm going to show you what I do with some of my practice watercolor paintings Because I paint a lot and lots of people don't practice because they are worried about what they're gonna do with the painting afterward If they don't like it and they're gonna waste a lot of paper and this is a couple of paintings that I wasn't really thrilled with I was trying to do some kind of crazy sky stuff. I got a lot of weird Bleeds and things and blooms and yeah There's some beautiful areas in there But as a whole painting it didn't work and I do a lot of paintings that I'm never gonna frame This was something I did for Earth Day recently and like what am I gonna do with that? So let's turn it into something else and then here's one where I was practicing painting the tulip fields and a beautiful big sky But I did this again later and it came out much more beautiful. So what am I gonna do with this one? Well, let's do something else with it. So I started cutting them down into bookmark size pieces and I could either use just the top section. I could use the bottom section I could cut them in half and use both sections really depends on what you see in each little section of your whatever your piece is and This one is part of that globe and I'm gonna leave that white So I have that really stark difference between all that color and all the white and I'm hitting this with a little powder bag So that my embossing powder doesn't stick and I'm gonna stamp a sentiment in some Versa mark And I'll show you in a little bit the stamp sets forgot to do that when I was filming this section But I've got it in my misty so I can stamp over again in the same spot And I'm going to stamp this sentiment this little phrase and it's the sentiments are in these two inch columns they work great for two inch type of bookmarks and And after it's all stamped in this Versa mark, which is basically an invisible ink I'm gonna throw some embossing powder on it. This is white embossing powder I have bought a couple of these little jars of it so I could put it in a container like this Spoon it on and since I use white more than anything else. It's made sense I'll show you how I do my other embossing powders for those who don't know So flick off the excess and then I'll grab my heat gun And the heat gun will melt that embossing powder and it gets more intense more bright If you don't use that powder bag in the first place, you'll get little stray bits all over the place So it's helpful to do that because it kind of gets rid of the static on the page before you do your embossing So that one was really cool and then here's a I'll show you a couple of these others while I'm doing the stamping portions And I was trying to see which sections I liked most in them Did I like the the part with the yellow on it on this painting the yellow came out kind of weak I wanted something a little more intense That sort of thing But there's some beautiful areas that I could do some Embossing of sentiments in you could stamp flowers and all sorts of things all over these But I want to show you some really specific tricks that I came up with For some of these this one is cut into two and a two and a quarter inch strips They were a little wider I ended up cutting them down eventually But you can see how each one will have a whole different flavor To it depending on what exactly you decide to use from them And this is the two sentiment sets. These are both from penny black and they're meant for bible journaling But I use them for bookmarks because they work really well They're like I said, they would fit well on a two inch Column like you would get in a bible if you were doing bible journaling But for these I'm going to do a whole bunch of them and save them for my church for fundraiser later on in the year So now I'll line one up again In the misty get it all set up the way I want it And ink it up with plain black ink You can do all different kinds of ink colors and again I love the misty because you can reink it and stamp it again and get it all lined up And perfect, which is great You can align your sentiments in an area that's dark so that the color will show up And on this one I was thinking that I was going to use white and I decided to use gold So I'm going to use some gold.  It's going to be a little harder to see Once it's embossed When it's on dark and this is one of those places to experiment with that and find out how dark can you go How light can you go for making each one of them look great? But this wow embossing powder this gold is really pretty And becomes really beautiful and shiny And it will be really elegant on the finished bookmark So heat that baby up And it will be ready to go and I am going to alter these After all of the embossing is done So hang with me if you're just not somebody who's been wanting to learn how to emboss So I'm going to paint over top of these I wanted stronger color So I'm just going to do another layer on top because I used ink that Is uh waterproof If you don't use ink that's waterproof then you might not want to paint over top of them But I used ink that's waterproof and I'm just going to layer other colors on top And I'll experiment with how dark or how light I want to get it And I cut them longer in some cases than I needed them to be Because I wanted to have room to decide do I want it To be a really tall one do I want it to be a short one? Do I want to cut off certain areas that kind of thing? But I'm just kind of playing around now this one has Uh really lightish purple behind all of this white embossing and I wanted some real strong contrast So I just put some strong colors underneath of it and paint right over top of what's there So if you have some paintings that weren't all that great This is a great way to take just those sections that might have been okay or even a section that was Really looked terrible on your actual painting And add some color to it on top so you really can't see anything underneath of it All you get is this beautiful wash of color underneath And you could also practice with what colors blend well into others which ones layer well on top of others It's a great time to experiment And here's that gold one And I'm going to add a whole lot more color on there to try to make that gold show up more And spread out some purple colors some pinkish colors Play around with it. You can use a lot of different techniques on these This one the color came out really soft And you can do really soft color you can do really strong color really doesn't matter at all depends on what your preference is And just add add some fun to them and add some other color And trim off any areas that come out funky because there's no requirement for the size of a bookmark You can make them short. You can make them tall Now this one was the most interesting because this particular this little part of the globe There were some white spots and white areas That it made the words a little difficult to write so I or to read So I put some color over them and then took a dry brush Around the edges to smooth that out so it didn't look like I had big globs of color Because I didn't want to interrupt the reading of the words so just put some darker color around those to finish that off and then There are some colors some paints that are They're staining and then others that are not staining and I wanted a test to see if These greens that I had used were staining or not by soaking it in water because there's sometimes when you can Soak a piece of paper in water and get almost every bit of color out of it So I threw it in the thing of water just to see what would happen And the other one I'm just painting some phthalo blue over top of it And look how beautiful that comes out. It softens the painting underneath And makes it a really good background for the sentiments that's there Now this one clearly was staining those colors didn't come off at all So I'm going to again add the blue right on top of them And let it soften out the image in the background and see how that works with the Gold in the sentiment that I have there so that we can see whether or not that's going to be readable If that's not readable then all we do is toss it And since I wasn't going to do anything with the painting anyway, none of this is a loss It's a learning experiment to see what happens when I layer colors over top of each other What's going to soften what's not on these guys from this this painting? Look at that pretty one with all the glitter in the embossing powder I decided I didn't want those buildings in there That was the only thing I didn't like about these so I just painted over the buildings with a couple different greens And moved the color around until you know, I kind of smoothed it out So I didn't have any hard edges that showed that there used to be a building in there And just fluff around it With the dark green and then put some water around the edges to smooth it out so it would blend Into the scene that was already there and not be funky and weird Line it up get it up there with my trees and kind of in the same color add a little more dark green if it didn't fully disappear And that's really all I had to do so each one of these I added a black layer and then a color layer and then another black layer And on one of them I actually just cut the whole scene in two parts just to see what that would do to have two sections On one one bookmark I think they all have come out really beautiful But you can see you can leave extra space at the bottom extra space at the top You could stamp a flower on some of these You could add other things to them. There's a ton you could do And these three I think are my absolute favorites out of all of them because look at how beautiful They came out and that was just from a painting that I did on earth day just to put something onto instagram And here I was able to use it for a project So I hope this gives you some ideas for what you can do with some of your paintings that you tried things. They didn't work out Might give you some encouragement to practice if you know you can do something else with that painting after it's all done Thank you so much. Click on my face to subscribe. There's more to see here in classes in the doobly-doo and I'll see you next time


Thanks for joining us at Think Tech Hawaii. And for those of you who are willing to and support Think Tech, this is fundraising time. Think Tech lives on its donations. It's truly appreciated. Anything that you're willing to put in, go to Think Tech Hawaii website, click the donate button and help us out. And today we have with us a returning for the first time since September, a retired Hawaii judge, Sandra Sims and author, working on her second book, Back to Vegas and other points that may or may not be disclosed in the course. Tina Patterson in Germantown, Maryland, mediator, arbitrator, business coach, consultant and master of many trades and also co-chair of the American Bar Association section of dispute resolutions, Women in Dispute Resolution Committee, which is one of our more active and more productive committees out there. They presented resolutions, directories and other things to really move the needle in diversity in dispute resolution and in law, which have both tended to lag behind a lot of the rest of the country and the professions, unfortunately. And Ben Davis, former chair of the American Bar Association section of dispute resolution and now professor, visiting professor at Washington and Lee School of Law and Professor Emeritus from the University of Toledo School of Law. Welcome all of you. Well, we're almost all the way through midterm, still waiting for a few house results, but basically the majorities and most of the positions have been determined. So Ben, where does that leave us? Where are we headed? Or do we even, can we even guess? Well, I had a couple of thoughts. One was much of the reporting on the election has been about the quote unquote absence of a red wave and what happened to the red wave and where's the red tsunami, et cetera. Even a lot of the little cartoons are all framed in that way. But the thing that bothered me is that that framing focuses on the red. My thing is that this was a blue wave, a very blue wave across America. Just think of all the deniers who did not get in. We saw some flips of state, both state houses in Michigan. You saw all five of the ballot initiatives on abortion. Abortion, they passed in Michigan, they passed in California, they passed in, I can't remember the third state. Even Kentucky. Even Kentucky, yeah. Yeah, well, Vermont. Vermont was the third one in terms of pro-choice and then Kentucky and Montana, they voted down the efforts in anti-choice. And so, that's a five for five. And so, that idea, at least to me, of let us change the conversation and think in terms of we are living a blue wave, which I think is gonna continue. And the second part of it is that there was a term used over the past few months and stops of this was row-vember. And row-vember was the term for this time. And I'm convinced that row-vember is what happened, what you saw, a row-nobby happened across this country. And that energy from people losing their rights and saying, this is not the way it's gonna be, that's the way I would frame it. There's some talk about people worried about democracy. And I respect that because when Pelosi's husband was hit, I could see how people would say, this is getting political violence crazy. And in the chaos, we can't have, but I thought the two things that really struck me the most were we had a blue wave or a row-nobby that happened. And that's the way we should think about it, going into the Georgia runoff and on for this next couple of years. And I just have to tell a joke, which is that somebody put up something that said that a runoff is not a perenting approach for Hershel Walker. Thank you very much. I'll be here all week. Okay. Ooh. I would stab, I'd say, ouch, ouch. Ooh. Ooh. So, there you go. Row-nobby and blue wave, that's me. Sandra, what's your take? I agree with him on pretty much all of that, but I saw something else or at least I sense something else. And that is the power of young people. Because I don't think there was any way to, at least in terms of how the media and fundants approached it, it didn't seem to be a way for them to even determine or to measure what that was gonna look like. I mean, we knew the young people were out there, but I don't think it was any, they didn't quite know how to gauge what's going on in their heads, except by maybe you'll see, you know, a march or protests and there were plenty of those. Part of it's too, because, you know, we're in a new, you know, I'm old school and stuff. And so I still have a phone here, but, you know, they don't have, a lot of young folks don't have these home phone numbers and landlines and stuff, which is where a lot of posters really start to call. And then even if they get your cell number and try to call you there, you know, they're from the generation that, I know my kid, they don't answer the phone if they don't know who it is. So you're not gonna get that and you're not gonna get the responses in the traditional way that we think of determining polls. That's gone. That's gone by way of, you know, all the other media and forums that are out there. I think back to the protests we had here in Honolulu, following George Floyd's death and George Floyd's murder, I should say. And there was a huge rally here in Honolulu over 10,000 young people for Black Lives Matter.  And that protest was organized by teenagers. And they did it via their media, you know, the Instagram and the TikTok and all the other stuff. That's how they organized it and all the different high schools and stuff. And they came together and I was just, and I thought to myself, my goodness gracious, we've got a whole generation out here that we don't even, I mean, we're not that we're not counting a man, but we can't read them like we can so-called read, you know, what Latinos are gonna do, what Blacks gonna do, what women are gonna do. We can't read them. And I like that. I like that. And they're asserting that leadership, they're asserting their positions.  Yeah, and a couple of the points that you raised and you raised many that are really worth digging into and considering more and we've only got half hour to work with so we'll do what we can. But the one is that's the generation for whom reproductive choice is a present right in their life, in their face reality. Exactly. Looking at choices and consequences in a very immediate, very personal way. Exactly. And the second thing is that's also the generation that as you really accurately identified is the most subjected to the social media barrage as their news source, as their opinion source. And you've combined those two things which have been in conflict since at least 2016 where the social media has been pushing exactly what Ben talked about, the red wave, not just for the 2022 campaign, but for most of the last six years, if not all.  Exactly. Exactly. Tina, what strikes you about what might have been somewhat unexpected or different or may tell us something about what happened in the midterms? Thank you, Chuck. I think a couple of things. I agree with the media attention regarding the lack of the red wave. And what I saw was that there, as far as social media is that there is a growing distaste for using social media to a webinar. And we're seeing it more so with young people. Yes, it's a media outlet, it's a way to get information but if it starts to be information that is going to be harmful or basically attempts to hurt someone, we're starting to see more pushback. And I think the younger people are taking the lead but others as well are saying, can you stop with the false narrative and putting forward these stories? It's thinking about speaker Pelosi's husband. There was a conversation. The governor of Virginia decided to make a comment regarding what happened to speaker Pelosi's husband. And it was very, I'll say it was very unkind. People not only spoke out but they were consistent and we're seeing this where you can't make comments that literally step away from civility. It's okay to have a different perspective but when your comments are harmful or hurtful, voters are reminding these elected officials, that's not acceptable and that's not the narrative we want to carry forward. I think we're also seeing people looking at the bigger picture. Yes, we're talking about reproductive rights but what else does this impact who I choose to marry, who I love? And it is generating some concerns, some fears, some call to action, although it's not been branded as such. So I'm seeing more of that where people are saying, Roe versus Wade and the overturning is just the tip of the iceberg. And we don't stop this now. This is gonna become a runaway train and we're certainly going to be talking about where do we live, who can we live with? And as I indicated earlier, who do we love? But I have been very pleased with this pushback on that narrative that you're putting forward. It's not appropriate, wishing that somebody be sent back home because their spouse has been harmed. That's not appropriate conversation. It's not. It's not. As a leader, the expectation is higher. And I'm glad to hear our young people saying it but I'm glad to see more of a ground swelling from voters overall that you're just saying, that's just not acceptable. Don't bring that forward. No, and those are great insights. So one of them raises a question. Do you think people connected what happened to Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband to the January 6th violence? Was it the logical outcome? The next step in the January, was that what the January 6th people were really intending to do if they got in there and got control? Well, if I could jump in on that, the guy when he got into the house was yelling, where's Nancy? And that's an immediate resonance with what was going on in January 6th, inescapable for anybody, you know? And I think that political violence aspect of that was brought very abruptly back to people that you can't ignore what you saw with your own eyes and what the chaos and the people behind the chaos want to have happen, I think is okay. It reminded me in a way of the governor's race in Arizona where Katie Hobbs did not debate Carrie Lake the whole time. And I remember Pundit saying that she was looking weak and all that. And she just came out with a little message where she said, well, people know who I am, people know who she is, they just got to decide they're gonna be adults. And I was like, she was really smart. I don't have to debate her, I'm serious, I'm an adult and she is who she is and it worked for her. I just thought that was really insightful by her as a candidate. You know? You want chaos? You want to actually run a country for everybody, you know? Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, Ben. And I was thinking of the same thing as like when you were tying the, what occurred in January 6th, even though there were these efforts to minimize it and make it like, oh, did nothing happen. But by that investigative panel bringing out so many of the details and the horrid sickening, disgusting details of what was taking place and what was done to the officers, how frightened and how they have the effect of, we're never trying to kill Pence. I mean, good Lord, the effect that it had on the representatives who were in, they were trapped, they were literally trapped. And I don't think it wasn't until we got a real strong sense, I mean, some of us thought that, but we got a real strong sense of what was occurring when the panel started talking about those things.  Oh, yeah, that was not a nothing.  And then when the Pelosi, when our husband was attacked and we've come back to that, I think you're right. Ben, it's like people were just starting to say, wait a minute, this, we've gone too far. We've gone too far. This is not what we're about. There are issues that need to be determined in this country. We just sit here and argue about the election in 2020. There's stuff going on. There are things that we need to take care of. There's a world in crisis. And we're arguing about who did, was the election in 2020 still, and of course, it was not. So, and I think with those, they had those single issues. I think like Kerry Lake is a really good example of that because there was, at least to my knowledge, I don't know that she addressed any real issue other than what happened in the past or what she thinks her interpretation of what happened in the past. People in that concern, they wanna prepare for what's happening now. We gotta take care of our communities, our children, our schools, our, you know, our world. We got bigger fish to fry than you guys grievances. I mean, that was another piece that I got at least maybe that's just my own personal thing, but I feel really strongly about that. And I know people that feel the same that come on now, we got stuff to do here. We don't have time for this foolishness. And then when you get terribly mean spirit about it and you're turning to violence, it's like, you know, I'm out of here, but just not doing this, you know. No, and those are really great points to bring out and bring up and understand. Hey, and they raise the question. Did what happen in the lead up to and the midterms and the aftermath of the midterms? It did those at least to some extent, effectively discredit the replacement theory, the, that whole set of Republican talking points that Trump and McCarthy and others, Robert Green Gates had been living off of for the last few years. I think it has. What's left of those? Yeah, Tina. I'll just say this quickly, because it's not specific answer to your question. I think it has, and I think it's going to impact the conversation regarding who becomes the next speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy is not favored. He is, he's got to run just like everyone else. And it's partially because of these theories that he's been putting forward where the Republicans are saying, do we really want this narrative to come from our speaker? Not necessarily. Yes, Nancy could be representing the minority group, but Kevin, not so much. And I think we're seeing this where the distaste for carrying that narrative forward, people are distancing themselves. Some Republicans are saying, hold up, let's not talk about 2024. That's too far away. Right now we need to stabilize them. We got stuff to do. Well, I noticed today, Nancy Pelosi stepped down and said she's not going to run for speaker, which, and then she even mentioned about passing their torch to a different generation, which like, and following what you say, Tina, it's going to just change the conversation because much of their capital has been spent on, Republicans' capital has been spent on demonizing Nancy Pelosi. So you don't have that to do.  I'm going to put someone else up here who's going to be talking about what we're going to do for the country. And you guys go after that person and see what you're going to do. And I think that's really what she's done is kind of thrown that down. It's like, okay, do you want to do something for the country? You just want to play games with me. And strategically that may be, and then we'll go straight to you, Ben, but strategically that may be a brilliant move because it moves the focus. Yeah, for 16 years, she's been the leader of the Democratic Party in the House, and including majority. And it's put the focus on the leadership and the direction of the choices. And on shifting the leadership, changing the leadership to people that are more in tune with and aligned with the real issues, the real values that voters have brought into play in the election. Yeah, Ben. Yeah, I agree 100% with what's been said. And I'm kind of reminded of those big waves you have off Hawaii where you see those surfers and those blue waves. And I just feel like a whole lot of cold water got blown on a lot of Republicans right now. Oh, yeah. Cold blue water got blown on. And the problem that they have is, they didn't have a platform in 2000. Far as I've seen, they don't have a platform. They don't. Except the classic Republican one, which is reduced taxes, right? That's all they got. And they got, and on all these issues, whether it's climate change or infrastructure or these fundamental rights issues, I mean, the only thing I saw some of these candidates on the Republican side do was kind of delete things from their website that they'd been saying before when they started to feel that row heat. But you didn't hear, you know, that's all I saw. I didn't see anybody saying, you know, stepping out of line. And the other thing is that, you know, I think it's Clyburn said that politics, the blood of politics is money, right? And if their donors are the same ones that have been before who are telling them this story that they need to say, I don't see how they get out of that box of being how they've been. And how they've been has been kind of like a little bit of chaos or a lot of chaos. A lot of chaos, a lot of chaos. And they've fomented chaos everywhere they, you know, they've just fomented chaos, except is it, yeah. And what if you flip that perspective on its head, Ben, instead of saying these Republican talking points are what the donors wanted to see them sell in advance, what if it were the Republicans going to their donors saying, we can sell in advance these talking points, they're going to serve your interests. And now they haven't. No, no, I was reading somewhere today where some of the following Trump's announcement that he's gonna run against some of the major donors for that were part of his campaign before that they're not doing, it's time to move on. So he's not gonna, you know, I mean, he may be out there and it may end up, it may very well be that that's, all the Republicans will be able to put up because he's just gonna be in the way of everything. And they just can't, they can't shake themselves of him unless he goes to jail. That's a really important point, you know, between Trump and DeSantis, do you see either one of those two letting go, giving up, deferring to the other? No. Unless one of them goes to jail. Right.   I mean, one of them will be divisive and the other one will be, we're gonna bring people together, right? That's gonna be the two games. But I'm talking about the policy underneath. The only policy they have underneath is cut taxes. That's an old story. And, you know, cut Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut Social Security, all that, which is what Scott was running this is Republican Committee on. It's just like.  And that's not for a modern world. And, oh yeah, well, that's the, what are we gonna not support Ukraine, you know?  I mean, I'm like, that's not serious. It's not serious.  Yeah, yeah. It's like, what you got? So what's it gonna take for Kevin McCarthy to get 218 votes, not only to become Speaker of the House, but to get any legislation by? I don't know. Cause they're, cause we don't know what they stand for. I'm like with Ben, that we don't know what they stand for anything other than the tax cut. So if someone comes forth with something, they don't even, there doesn't seem to be like any sort of issue or policy like Ben has said that they've become known for and they're wanting the votes for that you're gonna get a majority of people in the country to vote for. I mean, it's great to do these Republican primaries cause you can, yeah, you can do that. But are you gonna appeal to a national electorate? And he didn't do it in 2020, he's certainly not gonna do it in 2024. Well, and Ben's points are really important one. Yeah. If the Republicans with the media and history and so many things on their side came out of the midterms the way they have losing the Senate and getting such a narrow majority in the House that their own factions may prevent them from being able to do any... Exactly, exactly. What's gonna happen in 2024? Where are we headed? Well, maybe I'm an optimist, okay? But my view is that the American people at least this time around showed that they weren't gonna get played. And I think that American people got an attitude which is they're not gonna get themselves played.   I just did the George Bush, whatever, but you know. But we get the point, we get the point. But you know what I mean? It's just, you know, I may be wrong. I mean, it's different places and different things, but you know, you got, I mean, I'm just not gonna do red state, blue state here, but I'm gonna do more sort of along the lines of how is it that you can live in a state and be the point of the poor states in the United States and you can vote against things that would help you to be better by voting for people who will keep you poor? I mean, that's a question to every American I see in every state that's down in the last 10 or so states on the list on everything, whether it's child mortality, literacy, education, poverty, whatever. It's like, how many times do you have to be in this spot until you say, you know, there's something wrong with this where I'm voting for you and then you're saying I need to blame this person over here for my problem. It's, you know, I don't know how long that has to go on, but it just seems to me it's gone on a long time for a lot of people who are hurt in bed, you know. Okay, in our last minute, Sandra, any idea of where we're headed? I'm with Ben, I'm an optimist and I have, you know, I have tremendous faith in our young people and their ability to remake this country and address these because they're having, there's so much of what, you know, there's so many, so much of the rights that we sort of generation fought for that they've had to see those things being at stake of being lost is motivation for them. I think you look at the gun rights, you know, the gun rights issue. The young people are the ones that are most affected by that, by this avalanche of, you know, gun violence in their schools. I think for most of us, the notion of having to do, you know, drills for shooters never occurred to us going to school, but this is a part of their world and it's just not, it doesn't make sense because it's not necessary. And I think they're seeing this like this is not the way, I mean, I'm not against people having guns, I'm not, that's not my position, but I think there's certain things, you know, people just shouldn't be walking around with assault rifle. So it's just not necessary. And for them to be so directly impacted by these things is something for them to kind of fight for. And I think that's what you're seeing. And so Tina, to finish us off, let me phrase it a little differently. What do you think are the markers that may tell us where we're headed in the next few years? I think that's markers. People are literally organizing, they're coming together and they're not using the tools that Nielsen ratings and other pollsters have used. Yes. They're being innovative, they're being creative, they're taking different approaches and saying, you know what, I'm going to text you, this is where you need to be or let's get together and have a circle. So in some ways, it's innovative in other ways, it's the approaches that we saw our grandparents take, we saw our elders take when they didn't have technology. And I think that's the marker that we're seeing where people are saying, enough is enough between the events of January 6th, the increase in school shootings and people, for the most part, never thought that Roe versus Wade would be overturned. And the reality is it's happening. So now what? And now means we need to take a different course of action. What worked in the past, it isn't working. So, you know, if the older folks can't do it, the younger folks will. They're gonna do it. Exactly. Well, that's a great note to leave things on. Thanks everyone for joining us. ThinkTaiKawaii, support us if you're willing and happy Thanksgiving all. We'll be back in a couple of weeks. Thank you so much for watching ThinkTaiKawaii. 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No. Yeah, I mean I Kind of like they skimped out on the flavor you can taste it, but it's not like They're cheddar cream or something, you know you bite into you get a mouthful flavor that yeah, you can taste it It's fine. It's not bad. It's just I Know what I recommend them.  It's fine for that. Yeah, I mean It's not getting a perfect score for me. Mm-hmm, but no, I like a whole bunch of flavor They're fine They're not, you know, not like those other chips you have done. Oh those ones. Yeah, they had more flavor I get a series on them. Now those were really good every one of them. I liked every one of them I like these they're just not you know, it's not like wow now. Those are great. It's Okay, yeah, they're good That's right Yeah, I was hoping for more. Yeah. Yeah, I really was from them We brought them with us when we went camping, but we just didn't have time to do a review on yeah So we brought them home. Well, we probably couldn't made time do the review But I didn't know they was like a different I knew she had brought snacks But I didn't know they was jalapeno and cheddar. Yeah, but yeah, so we're we're home now as you can see and Well, we got home Monday, so Everything went good truck around like crap coming back, but I got it fixed. Yeah It's a breeze now. It wants to run and she messaged me yesterday And I said trucks running better. I said good. You said she'll fly now She was running to run She was doing a good job yesterday. Yeah Well, when you got four cylinders and it's only running on three and you're pulling a boat and a trailer and all your camping gear and a motor and yeah, it didn't It wasn't liking it on three cylinders. No So it's running good now. We had a great time. Yes, we did on the River Chaz. They call it the Chaz Chaz a whiskey Chaz a whiskey. I won't even try. But yeah, everybody just calls it the River Chaz Right on the Gulf Coast. So we were in the Gulf jumping our boat We were out of the water several times It was fun. She said we should name this boat Airborne So alright guys, well again, like I said, they're fine I'm just not like real impressed with it to me. It's just a chip, you know, it's a good chip, but it's not Like I'm great. Yeah, I've had better But like I said to some people those might just be perfect for me if they if they like jalapeno But they don't like the hot hot. Yeah, these would be fine for you guys You know you guys can eat these with no problem So, you know for someone like that, they'd probably be spectacular, but to me they're just they're good That's it But to some people they probably would be super if he if you like if you like a little spice But you can't handle a jalapeno like a jalapeno popper It kind of tastes like that a little bit. Yeah, cheese A little bit. So if you guys like him, but you can't eat them You can probably handle these these will be fine. They're pretty good So alright guys that being said, I guess we're gonna sign off now Okay, she's gonna take her daughter to lunch tomorrow her and her mom for For her daughter's birthday. So I'm gonna be here. I May do a live stream. I don't know. We'll see Yeah, I might just do the live stream. I don't know. We'll see. Okay. Okay.  It's not gonna be like regular campgrounds where you pay, right?  You got pee find a bush Huh? Yeah, and we're gonna be out there with the bears Huh? Yeah Need some bear spray Like a pepper spray I Don't know. I think it would be alright though. So we're gonna go check that out. So, you know If we find some good spots, we'll upload them and here in a couple weeks We're gonna go again, huh? Yeah, and stay tuned for more boating and fishing videos, right? Yeah. Alright guys Thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Like I said, she's out for now about y'all check out her channel She's did you get one up today or are you still working on? It's almost time Okay, so she's gonna have one uploaded here shortly. So stay tuned for her video and We'll chat it you guys soon. Shea Bear, the myth and man of legend gone for now. Remember Shea Bear for president 2020 We'll see y'all soon. Bye. Bye now


The most suitable backbone of an international phonetic alphabet is the Roman alphabet. It uses most well-known characters and is employed by the majority of the languages with a phonographic writing system. Such an alphabet has been developed by the International Phonetic Association. This unit looks at the general structure of the International Phonetic Alphabet, also discusses the principles of the International Phonetic Association and will then define transcription systems for present-day English. The International Phonetic Alphabet can be defined or can be subdivided into the following components. We have consonants, a set of consonants, we have a set of vowels and we have diacritics. Let's look at them in more detail. Now here you see the system of consonants as provided by the International Phonetic Association. They are grouped according to place and manner of articulation and the state of the glottis, that is, whether they are voiced or not. Let's look at an example. Now this is a voiceless retroflex, fricative and the symbol is on the chart. In addition to these pulmonic consonants, we also have non-pulmonic consonants and an additional set of symbols. For example, this one which is a click consonant that is produced with a velaric airstream. The system of vowels provided by the International Phonetic Association is defined by means of a reference system, the so-called cardinal vowel chart. Here you see the primary cardinal vowels, for example, and if you swap the criterion lip rounding, you get a secondary system. Here you are where you have and to take two examples. Now these 16 symbols are normally supplemented by central or centralized vowels. For example, the most well-known one is the central vowel schwa. Finally, we have diacritics. Diacritics are additional elements that define phonetic details that can be associated with each particular sound symbol. For example, we have the diacritic superscript H, which defines a plosive as aspirated. Now with this system, we can define the sound systems of the languages of the world. For example, we could transcribe something like, well, let's identify something. So here is a nonsense word. Well, this is supposed to be that one. And now we know how it is pronounced, namely, part-eng-shoth. From this phonetic alphabet, consonants, the vowels, and the diacritics, each language can now pick the subset of symbols that are required. For example, in present-day English, we have, in RP, we have 44 phonemes, that is 20 vowels and 24 consonants, and many more allophones. But how can we represent this sound system most adequately? Well, the International Phonetic Association provides some guidelines here. The IPA was inaugurated in 1886 under the title of the Phonetic Teachers Association. Among the first members, founding members were Paul Parcy, for example, a French teacher, phonetician. The editor of the first IPA's journal. And the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen was another founding member, was another linguist who was interested, and so was Henry Sweet. So these could be considered the founders of the International Phonetic Association. Among the primary goals of the IPA was the establishment of a phonetic alphabet, which should be applicable to all languages. The first version was published in 1888, so this is perhaps a date which we should remember. First publication of an International Phonetic Alphabet. And together with this publication, a number of rules were set up. For example, the first rule is quite simple. A transcription for a language should use one separate letter for each distinctive sound. So one symbol for one phoneme and not several. And then it should be consistent. Consistency means, well, you should use the same sign, the same symbol for sounds to be found across languages. And then of course, something we have already defined, you should use as many Roman characters as possible. And finally, diacritics should be avoided wherever possible. So this is then very important. Now, here you see the journal, the International Phonetic, the handbook of the International Phonetic Association, where the versions of the International Phonetic alphabet are published periodically. Since 1888, the IPA has maintained these principles and has worked constantly to remedy defects improving upon signs which proved unsatisfactory and extending the alphabet to provide more symbols for languages which had not received consideration at the outset in the 19th century. Now what about present day English? Now, we know present day English has to pick a subset of the International Alphabet for the transcription of its sound system. From the early days, and that was the days when Daniel Jones published his EPD, his English pronouncing dictionary, from these early days, three variants of transcription systems were developed. Some of them include a larger number of exotic symbols, others are more simple. Let's look at a narrow phonetic transcription first. Narrow phonetic transcriptions, first of all, are represented in these angular brackets, whereas phonemic transcriptions are always presented within slashes. So that's a significant difference. If more symbols and phonemes are used, the transcription is per se not a phonemic one because there is more information but a phonetic one. Alternatively, you can call it alophonic or narrow. Now, as I said, narrow transcriptions are represented in angular brackets. Let's take the word Paul as an example. Now, in a narrow transcription, we would mark that the plosive is aspirated and that the final alveolar lateral is velarized. So here you have diacritic symbols, which are added to the standard set of symbols, also the colon, which indicates length. In a broad or phonemic transcription, the principle is adhered to one symbol per phoneme. Yet, in order to allow more phonemes to be specified, such transcription systems use a number of additional symbols. This is a helpful method for the description of more specific values of particular phonemes. For example, in Paul, we need a special symbol for the R. We cannot use the normal O. But you see now we're transcribing in terms of phonemes and dispense with diacritic symbols. The most economical transcription systems are the so-called simplified phonemic transcriptions. If possible, they confine themselves to the set of symbols available on typewriters or computer keyboards. Thus aiming at a high degree of intelligibility for the foreign learner. Simplified phonemic transcriptions go back to Henry Swede's broad-romic system, which we discussed in another clip. And to Daniel Jones attempts to simplify his own E.P.D. system. So one possibility of converting Paul into a simplified phonemic transcription version could be this one here. Sometimes, however, such systems maybe can be misleading. In the Atlas of North American English system the word, or this, stands for my and not for may. Now what sort of systems do we use in present-day English today? Today we have two most popular transcription systems. On the one hand we have the transcription system for received pronunciation, the standard phonological dialect of British or more precisely English English, which has been published in the LPD, Longman's pronouncing dictionary. And the person responsible for this transcription system is the English phonologist and phonetician John Wells. In North America, a different transcription system is used in North American English. The Atlas of North American English system published in Bill Labov's monumental work about the phonological dialects of North America is some sort of standard. This system goes back not only to Labov himself but to American structuralists such as Leonard Bloomfield, Bloch, Traeger and Smith and some others.


Hello, you're watching the Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Casualties mount in deadly blasts in Afghanistan. Chile's constitutional assembly debates key proposals. Police killings continue unabated in the United States, says the report. And for our final story, we take a look at Brazilian social movements struggle for housing. At least 31 people are believed to have been killed in four explosions across Afghanistan on April 21st. Sources told the BBC 87 people had been wounded. Attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State terror group. One of the bomb blasts targeted a mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif, which is the capital of Bulk province. Islamic State stated that the blast was carried out using remotely detonated explosives placed in a bag. Sources cited by Tolo News said that 400 worshippers were present in the Ser Dukan mosque at the time. It is one of the biggest mosques in the area and is used by Shia Muslims from the ethnic Hazara group. The community has been repeatedly targeted by Sunni Islamic militant outfits, including the Islamic State. The group has also claimed another attack in Kunduz. The vehicle was blown up near a police station which killed four people and injured 18. The BBC has also reported a third explosion in Nangarhar province where a Taliban vehicle was hit by a mine. Four of its members were killed. The fourth blast was caused by a mine planted in the neighborhood of Niyazbek, near Kabul. Two children were wounded. Thursday's attacks took place two days after two bomb blasts in the national capital. The attacks took place at Abdul Rahim Shaheed's high school and near Mumta's education center. Both are located in the predominantly Shiite Hazara neighborhood of Dastebarchi. At least six people were killed and over 20 were injured. Next we go to Chile, where key developments took place in the constitutional assembly this week. The body has been tasked with drafting a new Magna Carta to replace the exclusionary neoliberal text of the Pinochet dictatorship. The assembly was set to vote on 52 articles related to environmental protections on April 21st. They were presented as part of the second report of the Assembly's Environment Commission. The articles were related to the mining sector, water resources and use and soil among other things. The report also conducted issues of food sovereignty, energy, human rights and property. Constituents were set to vote on each article separately. However, the entire proposal received only 98 out of 103 votes necessary for it to be approved. It has been sent back to the Commission for revisions. Meanwhile, in a major step earlier this week, the Assembly approved a proposal for water and wind. These resources will be enshrined as natural assets which can be used under permits but not possessed. The chamber also approved key social and labor rights in a session held on April 20th. These include the constitutional rights to decent housing, work, health and freedom of association. Constituents also approved proposal for the recognition of domestic work. Constituent Maria Rivera stated that arbitrary dismissal of workers would be prohibited. The right of workers to participate in company decisions has also been approved. The constitutional assembly is a product of the demands raised during the 2019 social uprising protests. The new constitution must be completed by July after which it will be put up for a referendum on September 4th. We now take a look at the United States where police forces have killed 589 people in traffic stops since 2018 up to April 2022. Approximately 10% of the 1,100 police killings recorded each year were related to traffic violations. This data has been compiled and analyzed by the Mapping Data Violence Project. Most killings by police begin with traffic stops, mental health checks and domestic disturbances. Other instances included non-violent offenses and cases where no crime was even alleged. Activists have long argued that police should not even be deployed in some of these cases. This is especially important in cases of mental health crisis which police are not equipped to handle. US police have killed 348 people in 2022 so far.  Higher rates have been observed in 48 out of the 50 largest US cities. Black people constituted 28% of those killed in traffic stops by police in 2021. Meanwhile, they form only 13% of the population. Most recently, 26-year-old Patrick Lioia was killed by police at a traffic stop in Michigan on April 4th. An autopsy has shown that he was shot in the back of his head. 20-year-old Dante Wright was killed in Minnesota in 2021 after being pulled over for a hanging air freshener and reportedly expired registration. Mapping police violence have also documented rampant impunity when it comes to police killings. 98.2% of cases between 2013 and 2022 have not resulted in officers being charged with any crime. And for our final story, we go to the state of Sierra in Brazil. Since 2014, its capital has recorded a 53% increase in the number of unhoused people living on the streets. 22% of the people asked, stated that they had been living in these conditions for one year. Social movements and groups have been organizing and occupying existing infrastructure to address the crisis. This includes the neighborhood's villages and favelas movement or the MLB. It has occupied and housed 100 families in an abandoned courthouse in Fortaleza. Here is a video by Brasil de Fato on the housing deficit in the city and MLBs fight for better living conditions. Let's have a look. It is not necessary to walk many blocks to see the tough reality that devastates Sierra's capital city. Whole families that, without a house, have in the streets the only alternative of a place to call home. According to the municipal street population census, carried out in February this year, 2,653 people live on the streets of the city of Fortaleza. This number represents a rise of more than 53% when compared to the previous survey carried out in 2014. We talk about homelessness, but the problems and issues of people living in the streets don't begin with homelessness. Before losing the houses, before going to live on the streets, research showed that there is a previous poverty condition. Organize, occupy and resist. This motto has been guiding many of the acts seeking for solutions to the homelessness issue. It has been about eight months since the neighborhood, villages and favelas movement has been occupying an old Palace of Justice discommissioned seven years ago. Many of the families living here now had just 350 reais provided by the emergency aid federal program and had no conditions for affording rent. In my case, I received only 250 reais monthly, so we are here together. We will resist. We have legal instruments to make this real estate be directed to popular housing, especially in more central areas of the city, such as downtown Fortaleza, because it facilitates access to public services. It already has a urban infrastructure at people's disposal and mainly it becomes easier access to workplaces, social rights, education and health care. About 100 families from Fortaleza's poor neighborhoods are part of the occupation, which became home for many people that had to choose between spending their money on food or rent. The place became a political space that assembles most of Sierra's housing movements. After eight months of struggle, the concession on the building was not allowed, but the families got a total of 40 social rents. These rents will be neatly run by the social movements seeking to keep these families living in downtown Fortaleza. So, although the non-concession on the building, they continue in downtown Fortaleza claiming housing in these areas, where there is an already consolidated urban infrastructure. And that's all for today's episode. For more such stories, visit our website at www.peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.


Yo, yo, yo, yo, let me ask you a question and that is what do you think the top three attributes are to become successful in life? So what I'm about to show you is my personal beliefs on what it takes to go from this 0 to 1 as Peter Thiel would say. Okay, first I want to kind of bring this into context. I'm talking more or less about business. However, this can be applied to pretty much every single facet of your life. Let's get something straight. Right now society is moving fast. I mean extremely fast. If you look at jobs, jobs are created overnight. Jobs are lost overnight. If you look at the current statistics, they're saying roughly give or take a billion jobs or disappearing by 2030. Those are a lot of jobs. Also, if you look at our educational system is falling apart. Just the general way of people thinking is failing because we've been programmed and engineered to become worker bees, programmed and engineered to take orders from our masters. However, where society is going, one has to become a connoisseur of life. One has to become curious of life. One has to ask questions. One has to actually investigate. One has to be non-passive, become aggressive to succeed in life. These are my three attributes when it comes to having success in life. Numero uno, un, de, toa, Japanese, I think h, ni, san, Yugoslavia is 1,2,3, Spanish I guess is uno, dos, tres, okay, moving so forth. You know, kind of study languages on the side. Who am I kidding? I don't. But languages are a problem. Number one. This is the biggest superpower of all time and that is becoming autodictactic. Something in quotations over here, meta, learning. So what does autodictactic means? It means an individual who learns by themselves. See, I never went to high school, I kicked out roughly in grade 10, however, I'm the type of character that I learn by myself. I'll pick up books and I'll learn. I'll take courses on the side, I'll learn, I'll find. I'll learn to teach me if I don't know something, I'll learn by myself and I'm a connoisseur of knowledge. It's like wine. Well, you got to be like that. You got to be a connoisseur of knowledge. You got to have to have different tastes of knowledge. So autodictactic is an individual that learns by themselves, not from school, not from, you know, somebody telling you what to do, but from your own curiosity inside. And this is where it goes into the meta-learning. I'm telling you, this is a superpower. If you actually ask Elon Musk how he's able to create Tesla, you know, SpaceX and Solar City is because of his meta-learning. He's able to absorb information fast, understand the basics, the foundations of that subject, then move on. He's not a supreme expert when it comes to rockets or even like batteries, but he knows just enough to have a conversation with the engineers and his power is meta-learning and they tie it together. Number one is once you have that drive to educate yourself, that's when it goes into meta-learning. And I highly recommend that you guys figure out how you learn. For example, with me, I'm a very tactile individual. I like to read books and I like to execute it. I need to actually absorb what I'm doing to internalize it. Other people may be good at just like reading it and having a photographic memory is inside of them. But I suggest trial and error, figure out how you learn. Remember, there's a kinesthetic, auditory, visual, combine them all together. Maybe that's how you like it. For me, like I said, I need to actually do it then I'm learning it that way fast. Okay, that's number one. Number two, what's that Golden Talks about, right? I can set it over here. Right, by the way, two. Lynch Pin. Okay? Obviously, not everyone's an entrepreneur watching this video. A lot of you will be employees of a company, nothing wrong with that. However, where technology is heading with AI, where technology is heading with blockchain, a lot of these jobs will be lost, completely automated because at the end of the day robots will do a better, faster, and cheaper, and safer, saving a lot of human lives, okay? But what you can do to become a Lynch Pin, and let's first define what a Lynch Pin is. A Lynch Pin is somebody that's so valuable towards an organization that if they let that Lynch Pin go, the organization falls apart. So it's your responsibility.  So figure out ways for you to become a Lynch Pin in your ecosystem. You can't just be this schmuck who just sits down in the office and collects a paycheck.  We don't need you. We can automate you. We can outsource you.  Because without you, guess what, Jenga, everything falls apart. So focus on being a Lynch Pin. This applies for business. This applies for employees. This applies for being an athlete. Trust me. Kobe Bryant, motherfucker was a Lynch Pin, okay? That's number two. Become a Lynch Pin. Number three. I don't even need to go into this, but I have to. Become the best. Don't become mediocre. Don't become number two. Let's use Kobe Bryant again. Become the best. Don't aim for this and for that. Listen, it's very simple. If you become the best at what you do, whether that is a marketer or a business leader or providing a product or providing a service. If you become the very best, guess what? People will refer your company. People will refer you. People will go out of their way around the world to hunt down you because, guess what, they want to work with the best. This works on many different levels, A, deliver results, and B, people love to work with the best. It's an ego thing.  Man, I got Kobe. He's my coach because he's the best in the world. Everything goes to business. Maybe I'm going to go get Jay Abraham or get Warren Buffett or I'm going to get Peter Teal or Elon Musk. I'm going to be bragging to everybody. But the only reason I went towards these people is because they're the very best in their industry. It takes time. In years, Malcolm Gladwell talks about a tipping point. It takes roughly 10,000 hours. Some people debate it. Some people don't. Either or it takes time to become an expert in your field. Don't rush it. Joseph Campbell said it's all a part of the journey. People just want to get to the end, but there is no end. When you realize there is no end, just appreciate where you are. Work on your craft. Become an expert. Don't become an amateur and people will hunt you down.  At the end of the day, it's going to take time. It's going to take dedication. So put in the work, put in the time. Become better. Just saying the Warren Buffett says, and he took it from the Stoics, is go to bed smarter than you were when you woke up. So learn new things every day, experience new things every day. Take risks new every day and guaranteed you're going to climb up the ladder. It doesn't matter where you are in life. And next thing you know, you're at the top of the hill or top of the mountain.  But let's recap all three things. Meta learning that's number one, number one, number two is becoming the linchpin. You're becoming so unique, so special in your ecosystem that the crates to let you go. And finally, number three is become the very best of what you do. So people seek you out for your services or product. And that's pretty much it, guys. Let me know what your strategies or viewpoint is for becoming successful live, leave a comment below this video and I'll catch you guys soon. Peace.