Hello and welcome. So glad that you're here. Each and every one of you, whether you're watching this live show or recording, we just want to welcome you here to the non-profit show. Julie and I are honored to have Heath Bloomsdine with us today. Heath is the Regional Director at Oort America and he's going to talk to us about stewarding your donors in particular in different communities. So stay with us, but before we dive into this conversation we of course want to remind our viewers and our listeners who you're looking at or possibly listening to. So hello to Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Non-profit Academy. I'm Jarrett Ransom, your non-profit nerd CEO of the Raven Group and we are honored each and every day to be able to show up to be of service and have conversations with leaders like Heath today thanks to our sponsors.  Hey if you've missed any of our episodes you know where to find us you can get us on Roku, YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, as well as Vimeo and for those podcast listeners like I am go ahead and queue up the non-profit show wherever you stream your podcast. So we were just sharing in the green room chatter about how you know you can watch this episode with Heath later today or if you wake up in the middle of the night and you're thinking how do I steward my donors? Heath is going to catch you up on all of that as well as any of our previous episodes before. So Heath Blumstein welcome my friend. Thank you very nice to be here thank you both. It's wonderful to have you. You know Oort America I've learned about this organization through you and for those of you watching and listening Heath and I go back several years in the non-profit community and so I've been you know watching your journey you've been watching my journey it's just been a lot of fun but tell us a little bit about your role and a little bit about Oort America. Thank you Jarrett. You know I'm thinking about it I think I know you so long I think you were a junior nerd when I first met you. I think so you're right I wasn't quite at my prime so thank you for acknowledging that. Of course happy to. So Oort is a global education network driven by Jewish values and innovation preparing people and communities for meaningful and self-sufficient futures. So what does that mean? We are a very very large education network we're based in 39 countries around the world. We have 41 schools and two universities. We service over 200,000 beneficiaries each and every year and I can give you numbers but I think I'd rather give you some key words of what Oort believes in which you know spurs a conversation with many many fine wonderful organizations throughout the U.S. and world. We believe in sustainability, integrity, innovation, passion, cooperation, excellence and to keen alum and to keen on and it's repairing the world and repairing our community. So that's that's a little bit of a sense of what we do. It's amazing. That is so powerful and especially in this time of in this point in history where we are failing and flailing civically. I've got to believe that this mission and this voice of your mission really resonates with donors no matter where they are. Oort World Oort of which Oort America is a subsidiary. World Oort was formed in 1880. Just a few years ago. Oort America this year is celebrating its 100th anniversary. So we have chapters throughout the U.S. that still believe in the passion of what we do and we are you know we always strive to bring in newer donors. So our donor base spans the age of you know teenagers who contribute because they speak to the organization or you know people higher up in age. So fascinating. I mean well this is for another day but this multi-generational giving and engaging with different generations. Wow how powerful and how challenging is that really really interesting. I've got to ask you with an organization that is so uh has so many years I was going to say is so old but it has so many years in service. Have you seen your mission change or navigate because of what's going on to it to two different things? You know it's an excellent question and the bottom line is no. Basically our mission has stayed the same since 1880 and certainly for the past 100 years. We have adopted we you know from teaching students to become good citizens we now have adopted the STEM and STEAM educational philosophy and we you know are trying to be leaders in that field. You know we teach in the schools cybersecurity which you know is a new growing field that we try and adapt to the times but relate it back to our mission. It's so important and that's one thing we've talked about here on the show is the advancements of technology and how that has impacted our sector even the way we communicate you know with our stakeholders and constituency bases. I'm just so amazed I mean even though I've heard the story from you Heath but to hear it again you know this just deep rooted organization and what it stood for and continues to stand for going forward it's just it's just amazing to know that it exists and it's still thriving. Tell us a little bit if you would about how you and your team and the rest of the organization has really managed to communicate with your stakeholders to carry out this mission for 100 years and what that looks like for you. So our national office is based in New York City. We have regions in Florida, Atlanta, Chicago and Detroit and so and then it comes to me. So my actual title is Director of Southwest Region but primarily I work with Southern California and I work with different communities west of Kansas City and certainly west of New Orleans, Louisiana all the way up to Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. So we're talking about a diverse part of America where you have different time zones, you have different cultures, you have I mean you don't just like jump in the car and drive down the road and meet with a donor so how do you navigate fundraising in a different community that I would say are pretty ding-dang diverse? Well being that my half of my job consists of working in Southern California and I don't live in Southern California, I don't live in California. I have lived there twice in my life and I established a friendship with a gentleman actually we celebrated 30 years of being friends in this year and I've worked in three organizations in California including Orte and he's been on the board in two of those organizations. I'm sorry this is now my fourth organization I'm working with. He's been on the board in two of them he was very active in another and he was the one I went to and said you know I'm with this new organization let me talk to you about it and I asked him to host a house party for Orte which he did. This was in December of 2019 and he had about 25 people at his house and knowing him he was disappointed it wasn't you know 50 but he believes thank goodness he believes in me he believes in the program that I shared with him and you know as a as a nonprofit professional especially development professional I think you look for three types of people you look for people who can give money you look for people who are workers and you look for people who are connectors and he is a connector and he has helped me tremendously navigate a city I don't live in anymore through his connections of setting me up with people. So I'm kind of surprised because that's not the answer that I thought you would give us but I really think it speaks to the power of that word you use the connectivity and finding those people that are going to help shepherd that part of your work your journey and the mission it's very interesting that you give so much honor and credence to that part of it. Look I was very fortunate enough Orte sent me on a conference with staff and lay leaders from the Jewish federations of North America in August of 2019 and we went to Uruguay and to Argentina and I saw the list and I saw my Jewish federations that I work with on that list and I worked the room I met people you know introduced myself gave out business cards yes that's still a thing and really made so many connections that because of the pandemic you know speaking to them on phone email zoom I was able to visit a number of those communities that I don't work in for example I had one trip where I went from Phoenix to El Paso I met with a Jewish day school in El Paso I met with the head of the Federation in El Paso the next morning I flew to Houston I had a meeting that night the next meeting the next day I addressed the Federation board then I flew to Dallas and I had four meetings in Dallas before coming home two days later so it's these people that I met along the way that I established relationships with and that's an entree into the city that I don't let go that's amazing I speak to I love what you said you know those those three pillars really for development professionals and you're carrying that out through connections and other communities tell us a little bit about your upcoming trip that you have and how that is stewarding donors in a different community so on that trip to Argentina and Uruguay I met a wonderful young individual who was the president of his Federation at the time and we struck up a friendship and he told me he had one year left and then he was done with the Federation and he was also chairing his school capital campaign drive and he was really impressed with the work and the the work that work does around the world so he was going to Israel through the University of Tennessee on a mission and I had him meet our staff in Israel they were impressed with him he was impressed with them I set him up with our new CEO he became on the board of World America and he is a Southern gentleman from Chattanooga when the Museum of the Jewish Southern Experience opened he contacted Orton said you know this would be a great trip for us to make and I happen to say to the CEO that I have led these type of trips before in the United States so she said great you're in charge so we now are going September 11 through the 13th we have a group of 10 who are registered to go we have people from Chattanooga from New York City from Detroit from Atlanta and it's a it's a wonderful group great leadership and also some new people to the organization and it's 48 hours on the ground showcasing the Southern Jewish experience and of course you know Orton involvement in it through the years so it's a great opportunity you know it's it's going to be fascinating to find out so much of what your lessons are because I would imagine some of these folks they haven't traveled for nearly three years and so what is that going to look like and then that whole boots on the ground how do you engage folks with something through travel and through an experience that's going to be super magical and it'll be really interesting to to find out about that as part of this fundraising in different communities are you finding that you have more success when you can bring people into these other communities and in really dare I say getting them to go to a different city or meeting you in a different city like what does that look like it is a juggling act I really have to be honest with you you know when I go into LA I meet with some of our donors every year sometimes I feel that they get tired of me heck I get tired of me next week I actually have the opportunity we have our head of education in Israel flying to the United States and he's bringing a student who just graduated high school who's in a year before he goes into the army and he credits the robotics program with Ort sponsors as turning his life around so when this trip was announced I jumped on it immediately and I said I would love him to come to Los Angeles so we are going to be in Los Angeles for just about 24 hours we have five meetings set out because people are dying to hear something new something different and hopefully they'll get inspired by it like I was inspired when I first met him so it's a it's a wonderful opportunity and you know I was chatting with him this morning and he said you know the hopefully the jet lag won't be an issue and I said no no we're gonna hit the ground running you'll be fine you'll be like yeah give a beat yeah I love that well these personal interactions you've spoken of that throughout this entire conversation he you know really going to the gentleman in Southern California how he's helped to connect with other organizations do you find that you know with an organization that serves so many individuals in so many different communities that it really is dependent on these power of personal connections like I believe that in any organization I've worked for you know personally I cannot work for an organization I don't believe in the mission and what I when I speak what I tell people is I do what I do because my son had such an incredible Jewish day school experience from when he was six weeks old until he graduated Arizona State every step along the way was somehow involved in being Jewish and leading a wonderful Jewish life that led him to where he is now at 23 years old working for an Arizona State Senator who the reason he went to work for him is because he saw a big Israeli flag in his office so I dedicate myself for his career to help other students around the world have some semblance of a wonderful Jewish education experience and so when you witness that and when you are talking with your donors that might be in such vastly different communities is that something that they can grab on to and understand or do you find that those donors can then relate maybe something that's happened that way within their own communities that you that you wouldn't necessarily know about because they're in a different part of the country you know many people have different philosophies on fundraising and it's true you know I will say that I am not a fundraiser I was never trained to be a fundraiser I'm actually an MSW but my philosophy in fundraising is to have a conversation have a conversation with someone how we can better our community how we can better the community around us how we can better the world so judging based on the conversation if somebody has children if somebody has grandchildren if they went through a Jewish day school setting it's obviously a natural to bring that up but it's really you know it's talking about our schools we have six schools in in in Ukraine that had a close you know but we also have schools in Soviet Union we have schools in Argentina we have a tremendous day school in Mexico City so it's finding out where they're from what their passion is and then steering the conversation that way amazing there's so much to offer you know for this organization can you talk to us a little more you know specifically like when COVID hit if we can think that you know far back like how did you manage relationships and how did you continue these relationships in these communities because no one was traveling right we you know so many people were fearful we're still fearful how did you manage the conversation at that point you know what I did and I can't speak for everyone but what I did was I called up donors and I'm saying look I'm just calling to check on you yeah I'm not asking you for anything I just want to make sure you're okay and do you need anything because we do have some resources so again it's you know it's trying to be genuine it's being honest it's checking on their welfare making sure that they're okay my gosh I had this one woman in Los Angeles that told me she thanked me and she started to cry because she said you know I'm the first person that is called to check on her outside of her family and friends wow and you know sometimes we have to put fundraising aside for the greater good and I think that time was the greater good to check on people we care about from professional to donor relationship and to make sure that they're okay yeah it's that has been Julia the one key piece of advice that I I know so many genuine fundraisers like yourself you know Heath even though you don't consider yourself a fundraiser but me being a person that really values relationships and the value of conversation really just ties in with that and I think Julia we've heard it and that it just it still speaks to my heart I love it it does and you know what's interesting about that Jared is it wasn't like this came out of fundraising 101 this seemed to be something that was kind of like an organic natural thing for people that were in if you will the relationship business I mean that they genuinely just started calling and and the first time I heard it I was like wow you're pretty smart and then I realized as we started hearing this that this was just part of the human condition but these fundraisers had that somehow in their personal ecosystem to to actually be drawn to that so it's fascinating Heath to hear you say that yeah well when you care about people it's a it's a natural thing to do yeah and you want to make sure that they're okay yeah yeah absolutely you could also falls back to your MSW that masters of social work it's just right there in you absolutely hey tell us a little bit we don't have too much time but you did kind of drop this really big comment that you're celebrating 100 years as an organization so what does that look like it looks like we are trying to get many generations involved in letting them know that it's the hundredth year celebration of work America we are preparing for a big gala in New York City in November we different areas have done different things to promote the hundredth year anniversary and of course we have our trip to New Orleans that is you know part of the hundredth year so we're doing different things you know it was it would be much bigger had we not been handcuffed for the past couple of years but we are very happy to to have this and and look forward to the next 100 you know milestone marketing what and a blessing I mean there's so few organizations in our country profit or non-profit they can can say they've done a hundred of anything right I mean it's really an awesome awesome part of this and it's been a lot of fun to hear about you Heath, Heath Loomsteen director Southwest Region of Oort America has been joining us today check out oortamerica.org it is a vast website there are tremendous resources and it really tells the story of how this organization works throughout the globe with a lot of integrity and insight into some very structured principles and I think I have to say Heath when when I was going through that website I was like wow I know your work but I don't know you it was really an interesting thing I'm like oh yeah I know where you where you've been working and how you do things and so that was really cool to see this journey having marched forward so we are honored that you would come and share with us today for those of you in the green room one of the best stories I heard was that Heath was probably one of the first five people that Jared shared that when she was expecting her son so pretty cool absolutely yeah we had a great working relationship and you know as Heath shared one of my very first clients so he knew me when I was just a junior nerd as he said so thank you and thanks for joining us I've loved learning about this organization love learning about how you're taking your passion and your personal purpose forward in the world to do so much good and drink some sweet tea for me would you while you're in New Orleans I would appreciate it thank you both very much it was a wonderful experience I appreciate you having me on oh my gosh it's been fun again if you don't know who we are we'll tell you one more time I'm Julia Patrick CEO of the American nonprofit been joined today by the nonprofit nerd herself Jared Ransom CEO of the Raven group I like to call her my nonprofit nerd because she really is again we want to thank all of our presenting sponsors who make these conversations happen day in and day out many of them since the very beginning of the nonprofit show blue meringue American nonprofit academy your part-time controller nonprofit nerd fundraising academy at national university staffing boutique and nonprofit thought leader but wait Jared what's on the screen behind you I know cannot wait we're going to have someone from be generous with us soon very soon so you'll learn a lot more about them each and every month right along with our other sponsors so thank you and welcome welcome to be generous it's going to be really fun part of this new movement of fintech you know really seeping into the 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All right, Frank Eliana, who is of the business day, is my guest this morning as we take a look at what World Bank is saying about our currency. The World Bank says that the Naira has weakened by 40% against the U.S. dollar since the mid-June devaluation, although these measures are intended to improve the fiscal and external accounts of the nation. The inflationary effects in the near term can erode the purchasing power of households and weigh on economic activity. In June 2023, the Central Bank of Nigeria directed deposit money banks to remove the rate cap on the Naira at the official investors and exporters window of the foreign exchange market and allow the free float of the Naira against the dollar and other global currencies. Well since then, the Naira has fallen from 473 Naira to around 800 Naira officially. As we are celebrating our 63rd Independence anniversary, we want to take a look at how the Naira has fallen from grace to grace, a currency which was originally the British Pounds and was changed in 1973 to the Naira was stronger than the U.S. dollar, but was at par with the British Pounds. But today, look at where it is against this same U.S. dollar, 800 Naira and 1000 plus. We have been joined by Frank Olianya, who is of the business day. Hello Frank. Good morning and it's a pleasure to be on the show. It was a pleasure to have you, Frank. Now how serious are we in changing this situation with a minor economy based on oil exports, solely based on oil exports? How serious are we as we talk about improving our economy? It's very, very frank with you actually. And again, on this new administration, we created that from the day one that starts together, first of all maybe, and then also new strategies in showing a little bit more transparency. But I don't think, I think we are like from May to October now, I think we're like almost five months into, I can't seem to pinpoint exactly what has been done in terms of moving the economy forward. Yeah, we saw a lot from the government about what it intends to do. We saw a lot of, we have removed the subsidy, we have removed, we have floated the Naira. You know, there's been little in terms of action, in terms of maybe lifting the infrastructure deficit, increasing productivity in the manufacturing sector, also encouraging other sectors of the economy to pull their weight since we are already having a shuffle from our oil revenue. And we also seem not to be moving too quickly in terms of reforms in the oil sector. Production levels haven't moved significantly. I can also seem to see the kind of urgency that's required, you know, to ensure that the oil majors and all of our operators in that sector of production activity is we haven't really done so much, you know. So there's a lot of talk, but little movement is like a rocking chair, a lot of motion, but no force applied, you know. So I don't think I can give any form of pass mark to the president administration in terms of we have also seen the quality of scheme that they brought on board and absolutely disappointed in the selection and the kind of people that they brought in. And of course, it's already beginning to tell because as of now, we haven't seen any vision from, for instance, the Ministry of Education doesn't have anything by hand. We have not seen anything maybe from who is the Minister of Interior, who is the Minister of Commerce, you know. So a lot of them have gone back, like we replaced an old government with this, with the same government. I don't know what exactly happened in May, 2029, but it's like it's visible. We haven't moved any steps, like I can say, there's something significant happening in the economy currently. And it impacts the confidence of investors when they are, because they've seen all of this. They're seeing things that are happening and they are thinking to themselves, where exactly is the direction of the new government? What does it want to do? I can't beat my chest to say this is exactly where it's possible. It has said something about mining. It has said something about the Greek sector and not about actual action. It even made a promise to the manufacturing sector that hasn't fulfilled 70 billion naira that it plans to give to manufacturers, you know. So that money hasn't been released, you know. The other way, it made a promise of $3 billion loan from Apprentice and Bank and NNPC, and that money was never released. So it's almost like that's an audio kind of government happening, you know. A lot of promise, but all of them don't amount to anything at the end of the day. Headlines we saw today on the punch newspaper is that man is saying that they're experiencing the worst period ever in history. It's not surprising, you know. It's absolutely ridiculous what we're seeing, you know. Also, some of us are surprised, you know, because of the nature in which this administration started, the nature in which it was selected to power, you know. So a lot of things already started very wrong with it and they've already gotten worse since it started, you know. And as it is the renewed hope that the promise that somehow has not turned into any hope at all, you know. So manufacturers, their problems are very clear. It is not something that you need to go to school to learn. It is something that has already been written several times. This is what it's facing manufacturers. They require incentives. They need electricity. They need infrastructure. They need finance, all right, for them to move. Then you come in, rather than face those challenges and address them, what you end up doing is to increase the burden that they have been facing by floating the Naira and making it almost impossible for them to even have access to these cash dollars that they have been facing in time past. Any same government, the first priority would have been how do I make it easier for these guys to access dollars so that they can bring in their goods from overseas, you know, because we don't we don't manufacture the things that they require here. They are raw materials. Yeah, and then the farmers themselves are also having problems going back to their farms. So that also is a major challenge of its own. Although the Senate today, the news as we saw, the Senate yesterday, someone, the security chiefs to come and discuss with them so that they can find a way forward. However, it's been days since it's just been days since the new central bank governor has been confirmed along with his four deputies. What would you say to those who are saying that, look, President Tinubu just came into power. He's not the one that's caused all the problems that Nigeria is going through. Why are Nigerians being impatient with him? It's the same excuse that the same people gave when Buhari came in and spent six months and didn't select cabinet. They said we were being impatient with him. We should give him a lot more time. And then they stayed there for eight years. And perhaps it wasn't enough time for them to do something. I don't know what it means when you come into an empty or into a dirty house. And six months after that, or three months after that house remains dirty. It means that you're not ready to work. So for the cleaning, what exactly are you doing to change the environment that you came in? We have talked about how the government continues to run a very expensive government. Okay, so why don't we start from there from day one? It only tells you that there was no plan to actually cut down the cost of governance. All right. And then from there, we graduated into 45 ministers. Right now there's something one more name. I'll make it for the six ministers. But six ministers that have done absolutely nothing from the days they were appointed. It's like five months, all of them took office. The minister of communications and digital economy, for instance, have not made telecom industry in the past five to two weeks. He has been running around with, take people and also released some vision about what he thinks to do and all that. But then you're not meeting the people who provide infrastructure for the digital economy that you want to build. The same, I just spoke about the minister of education, who has not even said anything about the direction that he wants to take the education system to. So several of them sitting on a salary for the past how many weeks and doing nothing else to do it. So how much longer, how, and my judgment at the point where you're talking about patients, that's, we are, we have a lot of patients. The economy has a lot of patients. The economy is on his knee. The mara is on his knee. So we don't talk about patients when your house. When there's fire on the mountain. Yes, I get that. Have you heard about the currency re-denomination being speculated in some quarters? It was all over the place, say, two, three weeks ago. Of course, the central bank has denied that, saying that they have nothing like that on their table. But what do you make of the idea of currency re-denomination? Is this something you think Nigeria should be considering at this point? Considering the free fall of the Naira right now? I think they have gotten to a point where the, as in the expression has, has been over. So everything becomes, let's try and see if this won't work. If this doesn't work and all that. And what it only tells me is that these guys didn't have any plan at all when they came in. They didn't have, there was no blueprint as this is what our government is going to be defined by. You know, that this is what we're going to be known for. This is the direction that we're going, which is why we didn't see any direction. Even with all the speeches that were given by the president, there was no single itemized direction that this economy supposed to take. Because this is where we want to go and all that. So the civilian has resorted to what they're making or was doing, which is if this doesn't work, let's try this one, if that one doesn't work. So it's like gambling, you know? So if it works, you say, oh, yeah, it works. You know, if it doesn't work, if people come up to you, they say, no, this is all we want to do. So it has gotten to that point now where the expression has taken place and everything becomes, let's try. In every room, there is truth in this. The thing is that if we can recall, this is how the Naira re-domination started. When they started talking about that, people were saying, oh, the civilians say that they want to do this and the civilian came back and said, no, we don't want to redesign the Naira. This is what we want to do. I didn't want to re-design the Naira. So this is the desperation that has gotten into the government because there was no proper planning from being one of this is what we want to do. If that was, I want to see it, but it's not showing. Well, Frank, thank you so much for your time. Always interesting having you on the breakfast. Thank you. Always a pleasure. Frank Eliana, he's a technology and media editor at the Business Day newspaper. That was our first hot topic. From there, we'll move on to the second hot topic, which we'll bring to you in a moment. After now, I want to take a look at teachers. Have they been celebrated enough? Should their rewards still be in heaven? Well, we have a teacher who will be joining us in the house for that. Stay with us.


Aloha. Welcome to Moving Hawaii Forward. I'm your host, Tim Apachele. Today's title is Traffic and Gridlock or Only Words. Try living it. For those who have to commute each day bumper to bumper for one or two hours each way. For those who commute each day round trip and stop and go traffic for two or four hours traffic or gridlock, they're just words. But they're an endurance that is hard to describe but required to perform. But that's what we're going to try to do today. With me today are my guests, Leo Bright and Steven Hanaman who commute to downtown Honolulu each day. For today's show, we get to hear their story, their commute. Stephen, Leo, thank you very much for coming on to Moving Hawaii Forward. I appreciate taking the time out and willing to talk about your experience. I have to admit, it takes courage to talk about what you guys do each and every day because it's a big part of your life. It takes time out of your day and it's not always easy to talk about because there's so many impacts about traffic. The reason I wanted to have you on is because when we talk about traffic, it's just that. It's a word. When we talk about gridlock, it's just that. It's a word, bumper to bumper. They're just words. But they have real impacts to people's lives and that's why I want to thank you very much for coming on and speaking about it. So, Leo, I'll start with you first. Describe your daily commute and how far you drive, where you start, and just tell us your story. First of all, thanks Tim for giving me an opportunity to address this issue. I have been doing this for over 20 years and my day typically starts at about 3.30 to 4 o'clock to get to town. I work at the convention center and rather, even if I start at 8 o'clock, I need to be in town by 6 o'clock to avoid any fender bender. If there's a fender bender, then they'll add on another hour and that hour translates to the rest of the commuters till the next 2 to 3 hours it carries over. But typically, you need to plan your day ahead and allow yourself minimum 2 hours getting. And there's a magic time that you want to get out of town too. If you can make it out of town, buy 3, not 3.10, not 3.5, 3.05. But if you can make it before then, then you at least reduce at least an hour and a half. So 3 o'clock, you have a devotee time where Fred Flintstone slides off the brontosaurus into his car and off they go. There's this magic wand that you wave and hope that you get there. So you're telling me that you have to wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning just so you can start work at 8 o'clock. And what time do you go to bed? Well, it depends. At times I was working 2 to 3 jobs, so sometimes I would work from 5 in the morning till 10 o'clock at night and then reach home at 1 o'clock. And that's at night by the time you're at home and if you don't get pulled over by the police for weaving on the road. Because you're tired. Okay, let's clarify that because you're tired. And the police want to tell you the basics of safety and forgets to give you back your ID. You meet them at 1 o'clock. My type of job, which is I'm a chef. So in the food business, your adrenaline is going. So it takes a while to just shut off the machine. So typically I fall asleep at 2, get up at 3.30. That's wild. That's brutal. Let me ask you one question, Steve. I'll get right to you. If you get off at 3 o'clock, what time do you get home in Kapolei? Okay, if. That's if. And that's a really actually the perfect world. It's a good day. I would get home by 5. Okay, so there's a solid 2-hour one-way commute. One-way. And then you're getting up extra early, so you avoid that 2-hour. Okay, so, okay, that describes how traffic and preparing for the gridlock impacts your life. There's a lot more questions I'm going to ask you. But Steve, tell me about your commute. Hi, Tim, and thanks for having me on the show. Thank you for coming. Appreciate it. We can talk about my commute. I moved out to Kapolei about eight years ago. Things have changed drastically since then. The traffic has just compounded and gotten worse and worse. And as it goes along, I was looking for other ways. I have an electric vehicle. I'm one of those lucky people that everybody hates that gets to use a zipper lane. And that does save me a little bit of time. How much? Between Kapolei and downtown, it can save me 15, 20 minutes, which it adds up. Yeah. If I miss my window, I'm the same as Leo here. I try and get out of my house by 5.15 at the latest. It's about every minute I'm past 5.15, it adds 2 minutes to my commute. It's just every minute is 15 minutes added. Every minute is another is 2 minutes added to the trip. How long have you been doing this? Well, I moved to Kapolei eight years ago, like I say. And the traffic's gotten a lot worse. If I leave my house after 5.15, it just gets longer and longer. A beautiful day with light traffic, a holiday. I like holidays. I can get to work down at a little hot tower marketplace through the HPU campus there. I can do it in 35 minutes. And that's going fairly close to the speed limit, the normal Hawaii traffic. If I leave my house at 5.30, that can be an hour, an hour and 15 minutes. The longest it's taken me with accidents trying to get to work on time is almost three hours. And that's 24.15. I mean, if you really think about it, each and every day, every year, times every year, times another year and another year, let's make a chunk out of our lives being taken out. And that's time you're not spending with your family, with your children. There's times that you're not taking care of your own health because you could be working out or exercising once you get home.  And that's stuck on the same H1 roadway. Let's look at it this way. I like to do numbers. Okay. If I'm being conservative and saying I'm only going to spend an hour commuting each direction, it's a good day. That's 10 hours a week during a work week, 520 hours a year. I'm sitting in my car and I can't do anything. I'm just stuck in traffic, a minimum. Translate that to productivity and work week. That's 13 weeks worth of hours. So you probably wouldn't agree with the national studies that for Honolulu, the average time commuters are stuck in traffic is going to go from 47 hours to 50 hours a year. That sounds low then. That's misleading. And I actually heard that story and read some of it and it said time wasted in traffic. That doesn't spend, that's not time commuting. That's just slow downs as a result of heavy traffic and not all your drive time. Right. Okay. So it is kind of misleading, very misleading. That's not that. That's not a way. That's not reality. Misleading statistics. I think it was, I can't remember right now, but it was lies, damn lies and statistics. Leo, let me ask you a question. With the amount of time you commute, how has that impacted your home life? I like how he put together the numbers and the math and it really begins to dial in on the actual accumulated time that you spend in just trying to get here to there and how it affected me. I would carefully think the job that is offered, because in reality you paint to work.  And so those things had to equate to what you were earning. And so I would be more selective on the types of jobs that I would be offered. Again, I'm a chef, so my opportunities are pretty broad. I can do personal chef, I can do teaching, but along the lines that as far as jobs, there has been a lot of promises to create jobs that you can work at home. I mean, we had the Ihi Lani and we recently had the Kamakani Ali, one of the largest malls on the island. But my experience with that, I mean, most recently, I try to get in with the hotel. Reason is because they have the wage skills that I'm looking for. And they promised first pick and we had a special job fair just for us. Whereas I went there, I realized that they already hired out six weeks in. So finding work in Kapolei is not going to be as easy as I think it's DH Horton or DR Horton said that there's going to be the creation of potentially 7,000 jobs as a result of the Opa Bili project. We'll get to that in a bit. I was, what I try to get to is when you spend two hours one way or more, what's the duty you mentally, I mean, physically? Are you drained? Are you fatigued? How does it affect your health and your mental? Well, I'm glad you asked that because it became, like I told you, I work long hours and at times, because of the events, you have seven days a week you can be working. It became I needed a calendar to know where, what job I should be at. And it seemed to be one big long day, the same day repetitive.  So you're not getting a lot of family time? You got to send me pictures. Okay, well, that's quite a statement. That's quite a statement. Just to make it, I mean, that you can go into a whole subject of what it takes to raise a family. And what type of income would it take to support a typical family? Yeah, Steve, you? Similar to what Leo just said, but not having a family life is something that you end up with just by the fact that you have to commute. If we go back to the basic numbers of an eight-hour workday and an hour lunch, if you're lucky, plus two to three hours commute, you're looking at 11 and a half, 12 hours, you're gone from home. You have to factor that into what your wages are and say, okay, I'm working 12 hours a day, I'm gone from my house. Is this job really worth it? And sometimes on the commute home, I'll call my wife and we'll just talk on that hands-free and I get comments all the time. The only time we ever talk is when you're in the car. Mom spent into one and a half days, I should be at home sitting in that car. Well, that leads me to my next question because if you are in gridlock, bumper to bumper, what do you do to occupy your time? You can't text. You can do hands-free communications, but you leave so early, who are you going to talk to? And Steve, you leave early enough where you're going to speak to in the morning at least. Yeah, it's true, nobody. So what is it? Do you listen to radio? How do you unwind when you're being wound up? I guess is my question. For me, the radio is my best friend. It tells you what route to avoid. You need to... And a few jokes along the way, huh? Depends on what radio station you're in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. You have to have a sense of patience and I'm still working on it and trying to ignore people telling you you're number one. But what really can you do? And that's the thing I realized that we became more... we accepted this.  Why not? It's longer. You add on another 45 minutes. We're going to take a break, but I want to get back to this question with you and Steve. I do want to leave one comment here.  And I guess we'll get back to that statement when we come back from this commercial break. Hi, I'm Chris Leitham with The Economy and You, and I'd like to invite you each week to come watch my show each Wednesday at 3 p.m. Aloha and Happy New Year. It's 2017. Please keep up with me on Power Up Hawaii, where Hawaii comes together to talk about a clean and just energy future. Please join me on Tuesdays at 1 o'clock. Mahalo. Aloha. My name is Reg Baker, and I'm the host of Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're a show that broadcasts live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30. We highlight success stories in Hawaii of both businesses and individuals. We learn their secrets to success, which is always valuable. I hope to see you on our next show. Aloha. Hi, welcome back. I'm Tim Apachele, your host for Moving Hawaii Forward. And with me today, my guests are Leo Bright and Steve Hanaman. And we're talking about their commutes and their daily challenges with getting to and back from work. So welcome back. Thank you. I wanted to get back to that comment about, you know, we are the land of aloha.  How do you do that, Leo? Well, I try to pick up some at Walmart. Okay, good answer. Steve, how do you do it? Deep breath. About the only thing I found that I can do that helps a little bit is to actually, when people want to change lanes, I let them. And that makes some people mad. Believe it or not, again, the people honking at me behind when I let somebody over who wanted to come over. But just doing something like that kind of relieves the stress because otherwise it's a competition. Yeah. Well, it moves traffic faster by letting people in. I spoke to a driver for the emergency truck for the state during commute hour. And he said, if people just let each other in when they see an indicator, flow of traffic would move so much faster. I agree totally. So you do that just to maintain your sanity? To maintain my sanity. And hopefully, somebody will return the favor someday, but you never know. Pass it forward. Pass it forward. Okay. Has, do you feel stressed out when you're done with your commute or before you start? Are there any symptoms of stress that you guys experience? Because, you know, that's the number one thing they cite in all studies, house studies is stress, the stress of commuting. I'm just wondering, personally, does you feel the impacts, either overtly or not? Well, I realize, even just to commute, even if you just commuted, okay, A to B, no work today, go home. You wiped out. You wiped out. Your energy's wiped out. Yeah, but. And there's nothing to do with getting older. And the older part is when you can stay in a car for three days and still have a sense of humor. But what I'm trying to say is that I think you become numb, but you're not up, you're not really, you know, you're not in the mood to go out for weeks or go do the things that starting to pile up that you can only do on your day to day. It's a really important point. I had an hour and 15 commute each day one way. And I just think to remember that is I just didn't have any energy. I just didn't feel like really engaging with my children who were very young at the time. I just wanted to sit and hit the couch and just veg out. But you know, that's the death knell. Once you hit the couch, you're done. It's tough. Pretty much one thing that it does fatigue you, and sitting in the car sounds like a sedentary thing. There's nothing going on. It should be relaxing. But you are tense the whole time. Stop and go traffic.  So you've got to constantly focus on what's going on around you where you end up causing the three hour delay for Leo here.  So sometimes I've called my wife and said, you've got to keep me awake. I'm just exhausted. And I'll get home. And that's it. Like Leo, you're just... Well, that's when you mentioned sleep or fall asleep, because I think they're they're discovering right now that the number one or one of the major increases for accidents, even fender benders, is the fact that people are falling asleep at the wheel. Well, after 12 to 14 hour day, I don't know how you're doing that, Leo. That's nuts. That is nuts. So, okay. Well, I'm going to hit the question. Since you're from Makakila, you're in Kapolei, I've got to ask a question about this pending real estate development that's coming online or will be coming online, known as OOPI. There's going to be approximately 11,750 new homes out there. The developer has promised that there'll be a multitude of new jobs that people who buy into the project may have the opportunity of working in Kapolei. I'm not buying that exactly, because job promise is just that. It's a promise. There's no, there's no guarantee. Mayor, Ruthie Haneman, no offense to your namesake, promised that there'd be about 10,000 jobs for the light rail project, and that is not, that has not come to be, and at best maybe there's a thousand jobs that's been created. So, given the fact that this, and it is the largest project in this state that has ever been approved, what's your viewpoint, Steve? What's your opinion about this new project? A large percentage of our traffic problems right now are caused by the price of housing in Hawaii. The closer you get to downtown, the more expensive housing is. It goes up dramatically once you get within a few miles of the downtown core. So, people have been forced to move further and further out of town to be able to afford housing. And as more people move in, more people move out. Oh, Peavey is just the latest example of what's going to happen. There's be a lot of people move there who have jobs downtown. Right. And it's going to increase the traffic. I don't, you'll probably ask a question about the rail sooner or later. Sooner or later it's coming. It's going to come out. It's coming. I'm pretty sure all those people moving into those houses in Hawaii are not going to be riding the rail. Tell me why you think that, because you know what? The council members that voted for this, they, they bought that bill of goods. The land commissioner board, they bought that argument. Tell me why you think that's not going to be the case. Well, I've been where that rail station is in Kapolei in the middle of the farm field, nowhere near the regional transportation hub in Kapolei, which is, I can't figure out that logic. But what leads me to believe this more than anything is a discussion I had with one of the planners at a rail project meeting. Okay. I asked him specifically, what are the demographics of the people that are going to ride the rail? He says, I just don't see it. I sit in traffic every day as one or two people in cars and none of them go from what I can tell to where the rail goes. And he said, well, we're not really targeting them. I said, what do you mean? You've only got three, four parking stations and you're telling me 50,000 commuters a day are going to get off the roads. He says, well, we're actually expect most of the people riding are the ones that are riding the bus. So they won't mind. They won't need parking. It's like, wow. Okay. So you're going to cure the traffic problem by taking the people that are riding the bus and letting them transfer to a train and then get on another bus. How is that going to help my freeway? I don't get it. Hoopopili is just going to add that many more cars to the road. So let's say, let's say that each house out there and Hoopopili has at least 2.1 or 2.2 on average individuals per household. I would say at least 50% of them are going to get on the road. Most of them are not going to have the opportunity to work in Kapolei at a job that pays well enough or high enough that they're going to be able to afford those houses and work just within miles of where they live. I would say most of them are probably going to have to go downtown still to find employment. Or they come from downtown and go out to work wherever they're going to work. But it doesn't matter which way they're going. They're going to be on the freeways. Okay. Leo, have you had time to think about this project and how much better or worse is that going to make your commute in your life? First of all, I wanted to keep it clean. So I'm not going to bring politics into it. Well, you can bring politics, but you still have to keep it clean. But I like a lot of things Steve brought up is buying what we're being sold by the politicians, the councilmen who voted for this. My thing that I wanted to use my time for when we're talking about Hopili, that is self-sustainability. We should be moving more towards self-sustainability. Hopili also has been the place where they produce all of our product and food right now, and it quakes out to 45% of our food immediately here without relying upon outside sources. So at one of these meetings that I went to just last week called IAL Important Agriculture Land and explaining to us how they designate land for agriculture and land for urban, as the more they explain, the more confused they got. It as if they're describing the exact purpose and the use that Hopili has, well, it's called a loon farm right now. It has a history of forming way back in the railroad days, and it has a history of being the best soil to produce this type of food. Very important point, you. And it has a history of having the only place on the island that has all this sun that you need to produce the product. So in other words, you have some of the politicians promoting self-sustainability and we should become more dependent on our own resources, and yet they're taking away something that is already working. A lady that came to the meeting brought two items. One item, a basket full of locally grown food that you can eat.  We cannot eat brick and we need to start thinking about the future. The purpose of people like Dr. Dudley and who are passionate about stopping this and has been fighting it for his first as the issue became on the table. And the biggest thing is that if we don't stop this, Hopili, the production of Hopili, we won't have a way to become self-sustained. We already have something that is working. In other words, why recreate the wheel, move it someplace else. And like I said, I was going to keep this clean so I didn't want to bring in the word money. Well, you just did. You can say money. The question is how was it used to get this project approved? Now, I am going to bring in the politician aspect here. I did ask one of the representatives in Fairness, he is a state representative of Matt Lopresti. I asked him to the show and they declined. In fact, the quote that was given as to why he didn't want to talk about this was the following. With all respect to what you are doing and the information you wish to present to the public, Representative Lopresti is hesitant to discuss this on a TV show. Okay. I understand that, but you are a constituents. You are talking about the problems. We have just heard you for the last 29 minutes. I believe that politicians who are involved with either the state or with the city county, they need to get on the show and explain it from their perspective of why the traffic is the way it is, how it is going to get better, and how Opapili is a great idea. I did ask council member Pine to come on the show. They are looking into it. I hope to have her on. Actually, it was the city and county that approved the Opapili project. In all fairness, they should be able to present their position and explain their vote. I think that is critical for everyone who lives out in your area to hear and know why and how this thing got approved. There is going to be more Opapili behind Opapili. There is going to be more projects, trust me. I only have 29 minutes, 30 minutes for the show, and I apologize. I wanted to get to rail. I wanted to get to a lot more things, but I want to thank you, Steven and Leo. I want to thank you very much for coming on the show and sharing your experience with us.


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What's up guys? Welcome to SPM Buzz. My good name is Miskith Inji and right here with me, I am hanging out with founder of Africa e-digital connect summit right here with me, Sylvia. Hi Sylvia. Hi. Hi. How are you? I'm good.  Maybe you could tell us how did you actually start the e-digital summit and what was the inspiration behind that? Okay well let me start off by saying age is just a number. Anyone could be any age and you can do magical things especially for our continent. For the Africa e-digital connect summit, it's just one of our major events that we do as e-digital connect and e-digital connect is an ecosystem for entrepreneurs and professionals in the tech sector, tech and digital sector and our aim is usually to foster digital transformation education and visioning an Africa where everyone no matter your background, your geographical location, you have access to knowledge and tools for digital transformation so that people as people go out there to pursue their careers, I mean someone told me, one of my partners told me that if you're breathing you need technology. Yes so anyone, everyone wherever they are, whether it's in business or career, you need technology so our aim is to make sure that everyone wherever you are you have access to the knowledge and tools. Yes brilliant. Now Sylvia we are here because of the China trade week. What are you guys doing here? Okay, Africa e-digital connect summit is part of the China trade week. We have a dynamic and very strategic partnership with them because China trade week is majorly focused around exhibitions and to add value now we are bringing in the summit inside the China trade week. So probably a huge way is just outside there watching this interview, tell them why should they should come here. Here there are a lot of things happening. There's a summit which is majorly sensitizing people on various things like fintech, cybersecurity, I mean I realize that in Africa many people are not even conscious of the cybersecurity measures so come here learn and even get opportunity to network to interact to connect to view the various exhibitions that are happening here. If you're missing out on this you are really missing out on a lot. Now you know because you're here Sylvia it's because you probably believe in the collaboration that you know the Chinese and Kenyan counterparts can you help us? Let me know what do you think is the state of that relationship between Kenya and China right now in terms of business? Yes the relationship between China and Kenya has always been big because I mean everything we use is Chinese it's made in China so it would be really bad for us as a country to miss out on the goodness that China brings and I'm very happy to see even our president fostering bigger relationship with the Chinese and if you look at Kenya Kenya is on the on the spotlight in terms of our digital transformation and business Kenya is a business hub so as enlarging our horizons with the China government is a big big big milestone in the in the digital and even you know marketplace for everyone that is in business. All right Sylvia thank you so much for talking to us we can't wait to see what the CTW has to offer this week. All right thank you so much come connect interact and happen China trade week Kenya is happening see you all. Thank you so much that was Sylvia right here with the founder of eConnect Summit yes thank you so much for watching.


Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to my channel. So you guys ask for this and ask and you shall receive. I am doing a haul for my Sephora VIB order. I also have a few things that I did purchase off of Ulta as well, so I'll just sneak that into the video. But if you guys are interested in seeing what I bought from the Sephora VIB sale, then just keep watching. So about last week I posted my Sephora VIB recommendations and I will link that down below and up in the cards. But a lot of you asked to see my haul. And what's actually really funny is I don't participate in the VIB sale that often. I normally will pick up like one or two things, but I never pick up a bunch for some reason. I just don't, but this time I feel like I went all out. This is the most I think I've ever purchased from a VIB sale. So I'm just gonna get straight into it. I think I actually only purchased one thing that I recommended in my whole video, which is kind of funny. But I did end up picking up the Soul Tree palette you guys convinced me. So thank you so much. You guys are the reason that I decided to go ahead and buy it. And I just want to say thank you. You are right. This is way prettier in person. The colors just look pretty plain to me when I first saw this palette and I was like, I don't need it. I don't need it. I don't need it. The only reason I want it is for the packaging. But honestly on the eyes, this is so gorgeous and this is such a good everyday palette. This is definitely a palette I can see myself reaching for and not having any problems creating a look for everyday and it's going to look great. And I mean, the packaging. So yes, I did pick up the Soul Tree palette. I caved and it looks great with all my other palettes. So, so far I'm not disappointed. I will update you guys as I continue to use it more. Alright, this one was a huge splurge. I think it's originally like $150. I bought it with the intentions that if I don't like it, I'm just going to return it. I just wanted to like see this in person and own it for a little bit at least to really get that full experience. But this is the Tom Ford Soleil Eye and Cheek palette and I got the cool tone one. They have like a warm tone one. So look, it comes in this little fancy pouch. I don't own too much from Tom Ford. I'm not a huge Tom Ford fan, but I just like, I don't know. Anyways, this is what the palette looks like. I mean, this is me in a palette. I think it's personally, I think it's way prettier than the other one that they had, the warm tone. This highlighter is amazing. These two colors are very, very sheer. They're supposed to be, but you know, this palette is kind of hella expensive for what it is. I'm not sure if I'm going to return it yet or give it to my mom. It's really, really nice, but it's also a lot of money. So, alright, so Kelsey, Brianna, Jay and then Mel Thompson. They are awesome YouTubers. They do a lot of similar videos to me, but like way better and way more products. They convinced me to pick this palette up, the Kevin Aucoin Nude Pop. I'd only heard good things about this palette, so I went ahead and picked it up because it's totally my color scheme. It's these beautiful mauve-y purples and they said it was awesome. I really need to play with it. I've only swatched it, so I don't have too much to say about it yet. But I can see myself creating some gorgeous looks that I'm going to love with this palette. I just gotta play with it some more, but I don't know how I feel about this packaging. It's really cool, but I also picked up a lipstick from NARS. I don't know what overtook my body when I added this to my basket because God knows I need another lipstick. But this is the shade Barbara and it's a pinky nude. It's really pretty. Did I need it? Absolutely not, but it was 20% off. I love the NARS packaging and their formula is super good. Like I said, I don't know what possessed me to put that in my basket, but nonetheless I added it and I like it. I also got the Too Faced Born This Way concealer. I've been eyeing this for a while. I got it in the shade Light Beige. I finally just bit the bullet and do it because I've been looking at it for so long.  For some reason, the Maybelline Fit Me is just not doing it for me anymore. I just want to experiment more with concealers, so I thought I'd give this one a try. I'm not a huge, huge fan of Tarte Shape Tape. I know everybody else loves it, but for some reason it doesn't do anything for me. I keep trying to love it every time I use it, but I just don't. So I'm trying that one out and I also picked up the Laura Mercier Flawless Fusion Ultra Longwear Concealer. I don't know if this is my shade. Hopefully it is. I haven't squashed it, but this is N2 or 2N. It looks very yellow and I remember when this came out. A lot of people were talking about it and I just figured, why not? I'll give it a try. I can always return it if I don't like it, but I did pick this up. These were definitely impulse purchases for me. I've been avoiding wanting to buy these. I've just been turning my nose every time I saw them because I was like, I don't need that. I don't need that. But something possessed me again and I just added these to my cart. I got two of the Huda Beauty Little Mini Obsessions Palette. I have a couple of them. I have a warm one and then there's a smoky one and they do love them, but they aren't made in the US. They're made in China. So I don't know. I finally, I don't know. I was just possessed. I added them to my cart and here they are in my hands. So this one is the Amethyst one. I mean, look at that. Isn't this so incredibly stunning? I can create so many. Oh my gosh. This is so beautiful. I haven't even swatched these yet and I'm like, I also got emerald because all the looks everybody's been creating with these have been so stunning. This middle color right here. Oh my. Is this an everyday palette for me? Absolutely not. Did I waste my money? Probably. Will I ever use this? Not often. I don't know. I just love these. I love how tiny they are. I just, I love their color themes. Even the older ones and the more boring ones, like I still really, really like those. So I'm happy I got these. Actually, okay. That's all I got from Sephora. I feel like I went through that really fast, but I actually, like I got a lot of products.  I usually will pick up one or two things at a time, especially with Sephora because they have free shipping. I'll just pick up one or two things and it kind of accumulated to the collection that I have now. So I don't do large hauls. So this is pretty large for me. I also did make an order off of Ulta because they have an amazing reward system. I actually prefer to purchase from Ulta instead of Sephora because Ulta has a much better reward system.  So this entire order I made off of Ulta, I didn't pay a cent for. So I love Sephora, but Ulta is awesome. Like if you can get it from Ulta, I would recommend it. And they were having 20% off as well. So I got a lot of lashes. So the first one I got was the House of Lashes Iconic. These are like an oldie back in the day. Everybody loved these and I just feel like I missed out on that. And so I just ordered them looking at them. I don't know how I feel about them. I'm going to have to see them on. I don't know that they're my cup of tea when it comes to lashes, but we will see. I also picked up just a pack of Demiwhispies and Whispies for my makeup kit. Thank you for the people's makeup. That's boring. These two are also boring for my makeup kit. New Mac Pro Longwear Fluid Lime. Somebody told me that the Maybelline, the Tattoo Studio gel eyeliner was amazing for their makeup kit. They loved it. It worked great on everybody. I bought it. It smudges and it transfers on everybody. I'm just not about it. I'm a fluid line kind of girl. So I picked this up for my kit. I wanted a nice new fresh eyeliner.  I don't know. It's only a couple bucks. I don't know why I bought that, but I wanted it. I love Lily lashes, by the way. But they are so expensive. These are like $30, but these are the, I was about to call them the Foamink style, but these are the Foamink style, but in the style Conn. Conn has been my favorite go-to lash. But I think the first pair that I had, they were Mink, because these look a little different to me. And normally between the Mink and the Foamink, they kind of look different. These look totally different to me. Because these are my original, I don't know if it's because these are worn, but these are my original Conn's, and the bottom is the new Conn's. It's not even showing, but they look really different to me. So I'm like, I'm very confused right now. I'm actually about to be really sad, because these do not look like my first pair of Conn's. Anyways. Oh, okay. So the last thing I bought is from Dose of Colors. This is from the Katie and Desi line. And I just thought this was a gorgeous little nude color. I got the my main velvet lip thingamal barber. Yeah, I'm trying to swatch it for you. Yeah, I just think it's a really Gorge nude. Did I need it? No. What really pushed me to buy this though, was that it's the velvet kind, and not the actual liquid lipstick kind, because I don't really care for liquid lipsticks. I mean, I do like them, and I use them pretty regularly. But at the end of the day, if I can get a velvet formula over a liquid lipstick formula, I would prefer that, because I love the color pigmentation that you get from liquid lipsticks. But if I can get it to be more comfortable and easier to layer, I will go for the velvet formula. In case you're curious, I actually picked up the palette for the Katie Desi collection when it first came out, and it is sitting in my palette collection over there waiting to be used. I have been so busy, I haven't even had time to use it yet. So eventually, who knows when, because I've had it for like a month, and then some. A look on that palette will be up. This palette I used in case you're curious is my Pat McGrath little guy. That video's coming up very soon as well. I've been trying to do a look a day, but I've been very busy, so it's turned out to be I'm doing one look every other day, and eventually it will become a cumulative video, so just work with me. Anyways, that is my haul. I hope you guys enjoyed what I purchased. I hope you guys enjoyed my first haul. Remember to subscribe to my channel and do all that, and I will see you guys in the next video. Bye.


We're making homemade rolls today. They're light fluffy crunchy on the outside and buttery and Boy, are they delicious coming out of the oven We're going to start making our rolls and the first thing you're going to do is you're going to put a one and a quarter cups of Whole milk in a container. You need to put it in the microwave and it needs to be lukewarm just like a baby bottle So it took mind a minute and 15 seconds to get to that temperature Make sure you stir it good and make sure that just the top is not warm and the bottom is cold So you can test this on your Arm just like you would a baby bottle and it should be just barely warm feeling so it shouldn't be hot Now we're going to heat up our mixing bowl under some hot water so that when it gets down in there to activate the The Bowl does not cool it off too much We're going to use the regular paddle for this. We're going to pour this in We're going to put in a teaspoon of sugar which helps it activate as well Five tablespoons of butter softened. I'm going to put this in the microwave just for a second And while I'm doing that I'm going to pull up my mixer and Barely turn this up Make sure it's not too hot for the yeast couple of minutes. Now if you have quick activating yeast There's really no weight So you don't have to wait the two minutes you can just continue to follow to the next step Otherwise, you do need to let it activate for a couple of minutes Now what we're going to do is we're going to turn the mixer on the remaining flour So being like me, but I have to show y'all what to do make sure it's on the lowest setting and we're going to start adding flour I'm going to scrape the sides and let all of this extra get down in there because I think it's about right We're going to take it out of here. It should be sticky, but manageable. Okay, and we're going to get this dough Put it right here on the counter And all and you're going to do a quarter turn and do that at least in 360 degrees circle for just this one Because in a few minutes We're supposed to need it for eight minutes, but we're not going to do it the mixer is this dough is perfect We're going to let it rest for ten minutes right here on the counter And then we're going to come back dough has rested ten minutes So we're going to take the dough a little sticky on the bottom We're going to throw it in the mixer done just perfectly fine. I haven't done any anything in there So we're going to take it out and we're going to need it now I'm going to show you how to knead dough in case you don't have a mixer and you're young you got plenty of energy You're going to take your dough. You're going to push it away from you Fold it.  It's in a good to me it's a good consistency and I don't really think I need to keep Needed it or anything So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut this I'll start with half then I'm going to put this in half again Then you're going to pick up each piece and you're going to roll it into a ball Tucking the edges underneath it and you're going to place it in your buttered Dish which I have not buttered. So let's butter this dish I only want to butter the dish about an inch up on the side Because you want the dough to be able to cling to the side as it rises Okay, so don't butter it all the way to the top. So you're just going to pick this up roll it Tuck tuck the seam underneath and set it in the pan And you're going to do them all that way if you think one's a little bit too big or that you didn't Do it evenly you can take some off And give it to another one like I just did So you're just going to continue to roll these and put them in the bread pan and it's ready And we're going to make a few in a muffin pan pan I'm going to butter the bottom and not try to get the top at all so I'm going to do six sections and then with each section I'm going to Cut it in three pieces And then we're going to roll them the last one. So we've got the little circles And some of them are bigger than others. I might trade out some big ones for little ones Just to make it look more even. Okay. Now we are going to Put this in a proof I've got my oven on proof so It is the right temperature for rising the dough. You don't want to rush your dough rising don't turn your oven on You know so that it's a warm temperature You want it to rise slow Okay, so we're just putting a little plastic wrap over the top and We're going to place it in the oven, but I'm going to get both of them ready before I do that rise double in size All right, our smaller rolls have proof These are still rising I want them to rise a little more We're going to be patient with those and these we're going to take the top off of and get them in the small oven and bake them You want to be careful you don't want to cause your go to fall and So we're going to start them They're going to bake about 20 minutes. This oven we're putting at 375 But if you were baking them in a large oven you would bake them at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes And we'll see in a minute. Our rolls are ready to cook So I took them out and put the oven on preheat and I'm going to let the oven preheat right quick We're going to bake these at 400 degrees All right, we're going to pour butter on these and I'm going to do half with butter and half with sesame seeds I'm just going to have in half and You can tell by looking at these rolls in this pan since I have in my oven the ones that were on the outside These were next to the smaller rolls rising. They didn't get as much heat. So they didn't rise as fast now I'm going to take a little bit of egg wash and Put on these other ones Make sure you do it lightly. You don't want to smash them and we're going to put a few sesame seeds on these That's smashed So you got butter and sesame Going in the oven 400 degrees look good It's so funny how they how they rose and you can tell the ones that we brushed actually Get into them a little bit Pouring better over the top all try to pull this apart while it's still hot y'all just see how pretty it looks It's when bread's the best Well, it's hot goodness. It's nicely crunchy on the bottom Nice and crunchy on the bottom Very soft in the middle You usually want to pull your bread apart, but you can't pull it apart when it's the hot you're going to get burnt They're really pretty y'all Yeah, me this is delicious. These are better than they these I prefer these So and they take less time to make because you roll in a bigger roll They take a little longer to rise, but we're not doing a double rise So it shouldn't be that big of a deal. This is a very easy recipe. If you got a kitchen aid mixer There's no reason why you can't mix these up and have them for Thanksgiving They're very flaky on the outside. They have a really good flavor. I'm gonna let Chris taste them crazy I'll flake it out. It's cuz you pour that butter on Mm-hmm Let's eat these All right, y'all whatever you do make sure you melt that butter and pour over these because the bottom of them are so flaky and That butter gets in there and they're just absolutely amazing your family and friends will be like you are the bomb so These were really easy. They weren't hard at all The you just got to have the patience to let them rise So I suggest you try these this Thanksgiving Make a lot of make-ahead recipes and save your oven for these delicious rolls So thanks for watching Colored Valley cooks where we cook like mama did


So when you're trunking, you can't put it on a tourniquet, right? So you come in here, and it's got that hemostatic agent. So in the video yesterday, I don't know if you noticed, this guy started it. He wiped the area with this, and then started feeding it. But why would you do that? If you don't have this fun, cool pressure bandage, you can create your own. So one for one, so keep that nice pressure, there you go. What are you doing while she's packing this wound? Okay, so it's packed. The chest is rising. The two, your way, and your J-Fact. So this comes away with talking about those closures. Pack it, pack it, pack it. Holding pressure right.


Thank you very much. I think this second-land conference is really timely, timely in the fact that it comes in a moment where people are looking into this social, environmental and economic impact of COVID-19 and how best we can fix our society and our economy. Because this COVID has led into kind of increased inequality and we need to look at different and innovative way of resolving this inequality in our society. And on that land has a huge role to play in terms of enabling element to economic recovery, but also we have been talking about this housing aspect which has been central to the response to COVID-19. And today we cannot talk about housing without talk about access to land and tennis security. And we know that we have many people within the Arab region on Africa sub-Tahari and which has in a very precarious situation and living in informal settlement. So this conference I think this is an opportunity to reflect what is a good way to link those, you know, fundamental area for human being and the land management and administration system, including access to decent housing, to decent livelihood system and others. So as long as a session on land and conflict is concerned, I think that this is another perspective we can take because this COVID-19 is an impact on livelihood system will increase competition around resources, financial resources, natural resources, but also around land resources which become a scare, especially in the context of Arab region where we have desertifications, where we have climate change now, and a lot of factors that lead to further competition. So this conference could be I think it's a leeway to really discuss the best way we can support traditional makers. We can support policy especially in those post-conflict countries to better, you know, develop a sound system to capture the value of land in a way that can help us reduce inequalities, but at the same time allow us to bring back the economy in the right track. I think those are some considerations which are very important on the perspective of UN Habitat and we would like to thank the partnership between World Bank, UN Habitat, Dubai Land Department, and the government of Egypt and including GERCN as well.


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