Good afternoon. I bring you love and greetings from St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Livermore. Let me say that again. I bring you love and greetings from St. Bartholomew's Church in Livermore. I just want to let that settle. You are loved by a group of people, many of whom you probably have not met, but we reach out those arms in spirit and intangible ways, and I just want to make sure that that is known. It strikes me as I stand here today, and as I heard this horrible news, that if our religion is defined not so much by the doctrine we profess, but by the faith that we actually live in our day-to-day lives, that in today's world there are only two religions. There is the religion that, as Dr. Tarsine said, sees us all as children and creatures of the same God. Every single one of us is an atomite or an evite. There is no such thing as the tribal divisions between the blessed and the cursed, between the in and the out. Those distinctions simply don't exist in the mind of God and in the economy of God. But then there is the other religion, the tribal religion, the one that says the outsider is a threat that must be eliminated, and that only those that are within the fold can really be called children of the real God. Everyone else is less than and is something else. Well, there's no question as I look around this room that nobody would be here if we were not adherents of that first religion. And that first religion has some noble origins, and I think it's important that we all educate ourselves. And I know in a moment of terrible grief it may be a little presumptuous to speak of that, but I believe that the pathway forward, the pathway that leads to peace to a world where this happens less and eventually not at all requires of us a certain depth of understanding that may be greater than we yet have. So this first religion does have some noble origins. If I were to begin a prayer with most high, omnipotent good Lord, many might guess Islam and not Christianity, obviously not in the English language, as the source of that prayer. But others know that this was the formulation that St. Francis of Assisi almost always used in his prayers. He did not receive this from his training in the Judeo-Christian tradition. He received this from his travels and the experiences and the education that he had going throughout the Muslim lands of the world. We have been inter-pollinating for so long that we do not know how to exist otherwise, but we try to pretend that we haven't. We try to hold on to notions of ethnic purity, of racial purity, of religious purity, and yet reality always encroaches upon that illusion. Think about it for a moment. I cannot imagine a Christianity without the witness of Francis of Assisi, who pulled his wisdom from outside the Christian sphere, or for that matter of St. Thomas Aquinas, who went back to the wisdom of the ancient Greeks and Romans. I cannot imagine an American music without Africa. I cannot imagine a Christian spirit without the wisdom of the ancient Greeks and Romans. I cannot imagine so many of the beautiful, artistic, and scientific and mathematical and philosophical traditions of the world without the influence of people that those who adhere to those traditions might call the outsider. But there is an even better reason behind adhering to that first religion, because if there is one thing that all of our varied faith traditions, and I don't mean to erase the differences, we are very different from one another in so many ways, and those distinctions are important and were never meant to be erased. But if there's one thing we hold in common, it's a vision. That vision differs in detail, and it goes by many different names, or whether we call it Shalom, or Paradise, or Heaven, or Nirvana, or whatever other name we might give it, we all share that vision of a perfect and blessed peace, of a state both inwardly and outwardly, where violence and warfare and hatred are simply unknown and unconscionable, and we share the belief that the transcendent and the divine that made us and within which we live and move and have our being made us for the purpose of striving for that state and ultimately achieving it. Well, it simply defies reason to say that if that is the reality in which we exist, that violence and hatred and elimination of the outsider could possibly be a tool for achieving that end, it's simply not possible. So the only way we can create the very thing for which we were created is to use the weapons of peace, to begin living Shalom and Salam in the halting and incomplete way that we of course must in this time and in this place and in this world, but right here and right now. And it means that our weapons are in a way very weak. The weapons of the second religion are far flashier and at first glance far more effective. But in gathering today the way we have, we are employing those weapons of peace to the fullest. And let's not wait until something like this happens again before we do this again. Tomorrow, when there's nothing horrible in the news headlines, let's do it again anyway. And same with the next day and the next day and the next season, next Ramadan, next Passover, next Holy Week in Easter, next festival, next occasion, next opportunity to simply smile at your neighbor who looks and believes and speaks very differently from you. Let's do it every single day. Those weapons of peace will win.


We just decided on our biggest interest rate hike in our history as a central bank. We raised the key rates by 0.75 percentage points. This was a major step to make sure that inflation returns to our 2% target. And President La Carte made clear that more steps are to follow. Now, there are three things you need to know. First, inflation remains far too high and it will stay high for quite a while. This was the key factor in our decision to go for a big hike. Second, for now the economy is holding up. This is mainly due to tourism and a record number of people that have jobs. But businesses are suffering from high energy prices. And there's still a shortage in materials and equipment. So three, the economy will slow down substantially in the coming months. People and businesses are less confident because the outlook is very uncertain.


honored and humbled to be part of the 50 most influential women in media advertising marketing as chosen by impact magazine to me what's particularly heartening is the fact that you know made a career transition a mid-career career transition that happened you know after spending nearly two decades in the media now into the world of public policy and I think it's equally exciting to say how the two worlds really meet how the transition has been very very exciting and how the media world continues to be very relevant to me in whichever field I go to here on it's great to see how women bring many many qualities on the table which in some ways many surveys have now proven that having women leaders on companies boards having more women in leadership positions in companies actually impacts the company's performance positively so not only is it something which is a nice to have and we understand that many many companies are now talking diversity and inclusion they are taking a number of initiatives to make sure the gender equality is a reality but they're also increasingly realizing that the mere presence of women is impacting business performance in a very very positive way and that's clearly because they bring a number of skills to the table that help improve the overall performance of companies


Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast I'm your host Rob dial and if you have not yet done so hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast I'm assuming and if you happen to love this podcast Please do me a huge favor go to Spotify or Apple podcast or however you listen to us and give us a rating and review The more positive rating reviews that we get on those platforms and whether those platforms actually show this podcast to people Who have never heard of it before and that way we can grow and more people's lives can be impacted So if you would do that for me, I would greatly greatly appreciate it Today, we're gonna be talking about how to get past the fear of failure Let me say this before we dive into specifically the fear of failure. I Believe and this is my own personal belief that fear is the absolute worst thing in the world The and we can think back to the phrase the famous quote the only thing to fear is fear itself I believe that fear is the worst thing in the world and let me explain to you Why I think that is number one it stops people from from chasing their dreams There's so many dreams that lie dormant inside of the cemetery Because people just didn't follow them because they're afraid of something so it stops people from chasing their dreams It stops people from having the life that they truly want this one life that they get it stops people from Starting a business it stops people from asking that person out it stops people from pursuing their dreams fear is Also the root of hate because you fear what you do not know We all fear what we do not know and if you knew and understood the other person They're past what they've been through you can never hate that person which means that fear is the root of war You know I the one country fears another country is going to attack them And so what did they do they attack first so that they don't get attacked because I don't want you to attack me And so it's like I'll go to war with you because I'm afraid of you attacking me So I'm going to attack you first because I'm afraid of death And so I believe that fear is the worst thing in the world and it it holds people back from everything that they truly want And so when we go into the fear of failure The I mean if the amount of messages that I get of people that don't follow their dreams Or haven't done what they truly want to do because they're afraid of being judged You're afraid of what their mom's going to say they're afraid of failing They're afraid of what would happen if their business went under all of these things So they just don't chase what they truly want to do and what's interesting about the fear of failure is that it actually has Nothing to do with failure That's the interesting thing and that's what we're going to dive into deeper today Is a fear of failure has nothing to do with failure It's the fear of your insecurities coming to light mine too. I have the fear of failure that pops up all the time, too I think that every single successful person has the fear of failure in some sort of way whenever they go and they start something new But just some people listen to the fear and do nothing and some people don't listen to the fear and create the life that they want But it's the fear not the fear of failure the fear of failure is actually fear of my insecurities coming to light at the center of everybody's fears is I'm not good enough and if I'm not good enough that I won't be loved at The center of every single person's fear is that I'm not good enough and that if I'm not good enough I won't be loved if you think of your biggest fear all of the fears of you know Like I always hear like I'm gonna run out of money or I'm not gonna be able to be a great parent or Whatever it might be if my business is going to fail I'm going to screw up my relationship all of those because you feel like you're not enough to actually succeed in those and if I fail at those things I Will be shown my greatest fear which is I'm not good enough this business failed Comes to the surface my biggest insecurity. See I'm not good enough to run a business.  It's a great thing When you screw up, it's not failing Failure is not final failure is a function of success Failure is not final The only time that you fail at something is when you give up at it If you don't give up at something it is impossible to fail at it Think about that for a second if you do not give up at something It is literally impossible for you to fail at it.    I think of somebody in your mind That when you see them you're like yes that person is the epitome in my mind of success It could be money. It could be happiness. It could be fame. It could be great relationships great parent When you see someone who's successful, however you define success what you really see is somebody who just didn't give up That's it. What you're seeing is someone who didn't give up The owner of Honda has the famous quote of saying that success is 99% failure The great thing about success is you just have to not fall once and you figure it out and it works and it clicks and Almost everything that you've ever wanted just kind of falls into your lap. Like if I think about Building the company that I own now. I screwed up many things building this company at one point in time Years ago. I was the only person in this company I was the sole person and so over time I screwed things up and screwed And I figured out what works in the sales department what works in the marketing department works in the operations department Put people in place hired people hired some of the wrong people and I screwed up many times while building this company now we have over 30 people in the company and It took a lot of failure to build a company from zero people to 30 people and I guarantee to go from 30 to 100 I'm gonna have to fuck up a lot more stuff and I'm okay with that because when I fail Okay, quote-unquote fail, but fall and I mess up. I learn more You learn more when you mess up than when you do something right right and just wake up And my business was doing well. No, there's a lot that had to go into it And I probably succeed with my ideas like 5% of the time in my company the rest of the time I feel like I'm just throwing stuff at the wall and we're just gonna see what sticks And it was the same way with the podcast like with my podcast this one Well, I like somewhere of whatever it is or over 1300 episodes 1400 episodes We're at a lot of episodes right and I remember when I first started I remember seeing a statistic that the average podcaster and this is way back in 2015 So there weren't many podcasters back then But way back in 2015 that the average pod podcaster gives up after seven episodes So I just made a decision if I'm gonna start a podcast. I'm not going to stop Why because everybody else along the way is eventually going to give up and if I just don't give up I'll figure it out. I'll figure out my flow. I'll see what works. What doesn't work and eventually I'll be towards the top now. It was just my thought Luckily it worked, you know This is now the number one always between number one and number three business and mental health podcast in the world It's one of the top 100 podcasts in the entire world out of every podcast and there's like 1.7 million of them and People always say like what's what's the secret to success in podcast? Tell me the secret like how can I get to where you are in six months?  I just didn't stop I had bad reviews. I had crappy comments.  Do you have it in your mind now? Think about where you could be if you just did not give up Think about where that business could be think about where your health could be think about where that Relationship could be think of that thing that you gave up on years ago And if you didn't give up where could you be right now? You would have a vastly different life.  Because you've given up on yourself many times Out of the fear of failure Where could you be if you didn't give up on yourself? You have to what I have what I like to call failure amnesia you have to Completely forget about the times where you've quote-unquote failed and only think about successes Even if it's just one success just think about that one success all the time Because if I look at like personally for me what pops into my head So yeah, I have a successful business now But I've had multiple Businesses that were not successful that I screwed up on that I ran into the ground that I lost all my money that I went negative in my Accounts I've had multiple of them and if I would have taken that past event and place it into the future and Not started because of what happened in the past and I wouldn't have the business that I have now you have to have Failure amnesia you have to think about the future more than you think about the past never walked Like when you think about who you are and what you learned You never walked through the same river twice because you're not the same person and it's not the same river We're constantly changing life is constantly changing and to think that what happened to you in the past is automatically Gonna be what happened to you and we'll what will happen to you in the future is crazy Because with my failed businesses as an example I learned how to not fail businesses because I failed businesses so that's the the important thing is that the The past is not supposed to be placed into the future of oh, this was the end result of this thing before Like if you're in a relationship right now And you have you're afraid to get it or maybe you're afraid to get into a relationship because you've had some Negative relationships in the past and you're looking at your negative relationships in the past and you're throwing them into your future and saying well Yeah, I probably shouldn't get into a relationship because my relationships in the past were like this This is what my relationship with the future probably gonna be like no because you're not the same person you learned What you want what you don't want how how you don't want that person to show up how you don't want to show up You've learned from that same way that if you're the exact same thing is true in the relationship as if starting a business Have you had failed businesses in the past or do you know people who have failed in the past sure? Maybe but you learn from all of these things you learn from every single experience that you have in your life The fear will never actually go away. I don't know if the fear will ever go away Successful people are not fearless They feel the fear, but then they just decide to do it. Anyways, you have to do the same When you look at someone who you look up to it's very successful Maybe it's your uncle or maybe it's someone your grandfather or maybe it's a friend of a friend or whatever it is There's somebody who probably has the same amount of fears than you The same amount, but they just decide to do it anyways Here is what I'm positive of though that person that you see that is ridiculously successful Has had way more failures than you The people who are the most successful are the biggest failures when you look at people like Michael Jordan he was cut from his high school basketball team When you look at people like JK Rowling She had 12 publishers tell her that her books sucked and then she finally got one to pick it up She put out Harry Potter and all the Harry Potter series have sold more than 500 million copies Imagine if she had given up after the 11th publisher You have to understand that everybody feels the fear of failure But what you're really feeling is just a feeling of the insecurity of what happens if I do this and it doesn't work out And people judge me and I judge myself and I show and I am shown that I am not good enough I don't about you. I'm more afraid of dying and not seeing my true potential than I am of quote-unquote failure. I Expect failure. I think you should welcome failure Feel the fear and do it anyways You're gonna feel the fear and when you're sitting there you're about to go do something new The fear will arise, you know that feeling inside of your body the physical feeling of like, oh, yeah, I'm definitely feeling fear right now Okay, breathe into it and then dance with the fear go and do it anyways. It's no big deal It's not gonna disappear.   Yep, there it is I feel it. Let's go. So instead of it holding you back in paralyzing you it actually starts to repel you Expect the fear do it anyways dance with the fear and remember this You only have to succeed once So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode Please share it on your Instagram stories and tag me at Rob dial jr. 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I went to the Charlotte collecticon, and I accidentally spent $7,000. What's up guys, we're back with another instance where I, uh, I messed up a little bit. I went to the Charlotte collecticon this past weekend, I think, maybe it was a week ago, who knows how long it's been. I think this should be coming out very soon, there's a lot of videos from Charlotte collecticon, so hopefully you're enjoying them. But I went to VIND, which basically means I was set up there and I had stuff for sale, I was supposed to be selling stuff to people, not buying stuff. And as you've already seen on the thumbnail, the intro, I spent $7,000. So not only did I ignore the fact that I was supposed to be selling stuff, but I also spent $7,000, which is a lot of money. So I figured I'd make a video going through everything I bought. I also bought someone's childhood collection that we're going to go through in this video and see if it was actually worth the purchase. And I also have some stories from the weekend that were not in the vlog that I think you guys might enjoy. So before we get into it, we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away a goat format giveaway, first edition as your priest, a sinister servant from the video game, and a thousand eyes restrict. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, let me know down below what's your favorite item I bought, or your favorite story that I told. And as we're going through it, I might look a little tired. And that's because I drove seven hours and got home at 1 a.m. yesterday after collecticon on Sunday. So I am completely pooped, but we got to keep making content.  All right. So first off, let's go through the booster boxes that I picked up or didn't pick up. So first of all, we're going to start with this ancient sanctuary booster box. This is a first-ed booster box. Petty Party was selling this at our booth and no, I did not buy it actually. Someone walked up to Peter, aka Petty Party and bought this from him and then immediately handed it to me and said, Hey, you want to open this on your channel? I said, of course, man, let's do it. So I have this box. It's not mine will be opened very, very soon. So if you're excited to see a vintage first-edition booster box, this will be opened up. Hopefully we're going to pull that in me controller, which is a very rare PSA 10. A lot of people still need. So that's the card we're looking for out of there. A lot of really cool stuff. So great start.  We get to open it up. So that's very, very cool. Hopefully we're going to pull a secret rare, some ultra rare. It's going to be good. Then we have a box that I actually did buy a 36 pack magic ruler box. This was unlimited. So a guy walked up to me and said, Hey, do you guys buy Yu-Gi-Oh? And I was like, depends on what it is. But yeah, sure, I do buy a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh. And he goes, I have a magic ruler 36 pack booster box. I was like, that is something I would buy.  We bought it. And he's like, actually, do you also buy magic? You guys saw recently, we did a magic redemption opening. So we were back on the magic train and Rich, a friend of the channel from Magic to Millions, who was on that other video, he's my new magic guy. So I said, Hey man, they got some magic packs. You want to pick them up? So I picked them up for Rich from Magic to Millions. And we bought these packs right here, which alliances is a pack I opened with Rich. And we pulled the force of will. So that was pretty insane. We bought 10 of these alliances packs. Very awesome looking packs.  I think this was 1996 when we looked it up last time. So that is extremely old. That's before Yu-Gi-Oh even started. A lot of people still think it, you know, we came out in 1996. It didn't even though it said 1996 on some of the cards. Then we picked up six tempest packs, which are also really old and really nice magic product. I've not opened this myself. So I don't know much about this, but I will say I love the old squad. And look at this. Is that ET right there? It might be. So those are not mine. Those are getting shipped to Rich, but I did pick those up for him. And I figured I'd show you guys because that's just like really vintage and awesome looking stuff. And because it goes together with the magic ruler booster box, I did buy all this from that one guy. He said, come buy the booth if you want to buy it. So I did. I came back. We had a little discussion. It was a fun time. And that wasn't all the booster boxes I personally bought. I also bought a legacy of darkness first edition. This is a hobby box. Oh, actually, I didn't even check. Wait. Oh yeah. Cause there's 36. I don't need to check. So yeah, this is a yada box, obviously, because if it's 36, it's injection fairy Lily. That's the hobby retail thing. And that works for the third set through the ninth set of Yu-Gi-Oh. None of the other ones have 36 until you get the legendary duelist later on. I say that and there might have been a couple of weird ones. Like I think Millennium Pac-Man had 36. There's some other weird ones, but mostly it's all 24. This is a cool box, but this wasn't the big one. The reason I got this was because I went to Troll and Toad's Booth, by the way. And they had some Yu-Gi-Oh boxes laying out. This is one of them. They also had this box right here. First edition pharaoh servants. This is a hobby box because it is a 24 pack. And when I saw both of these together, they're both a okay price. Like I thought it was going to be a lot higher. And I was like, hey, what can you do for both? They gave me a discount on both of them. So I just had to pick them both up. So beautiful boxes. I actually don't own either of these right now, but who knows if we'll keep these or box break them. I don't know. It just depends on what happens. But eventually I want to end up with all 11 of these. If I did keep these, I think I'd have like six of them or something. So we'll see what happens. These are awesome pickups either way because look at the condition of these boxes. I mean, they look absolutely awesome.  I see a rip, maybe just a rip bowl. Not a rip. Very nice. Really good condition. I mean, those look like they might have come out of a case recently. And speaking of booster boxes, I picked up the oldest booster box I have ever bought. A Magic the Gathering Fallen Empires booster box. This came out in 1994. So it started in 1993. So it was a year after Magic released. Obviously way before you go in the U.S. that was 2002. So eight years at a time. This is someone of a meme box in the Magic community because it's just a really bad set. You know, there's not much in here. But how often are you going to see a sealed booster box from 1994? It has that vintage magic look to it, which is pretty amazing. This will not be open on the channel though. I just wanted to buy it simply for how it looks. And the fact that it's almost a 30 year old sealed box. And I just love it. And I need a little more magic redemption. There is a rip on the back. So if you can see it's right here. So I do want to get one of those acrylic cases and just throw it in there. And throw this up in the background for future videos. I think it is a really awesome looking box. And it wasn't that expensive. You know, usually like these old boxes when they're actually good sets are tens of thousands of dollars. This is a really terrible set. So it was really cheap. Then we have even more sealed products. The title dragon ruler of waterfalls.  Go check it out. Also go check out the 2014 and 15 if you missed it because nobody watched those. I don't know if it was because it was collected on weekend, YCS weekend or whatever. I don't know, but not a lot of people watch them. So go check those out. The 2013 though, this is a really hard one to find. So I had to pay a lot more for this one than I would for like a regular like Redox and Tempest. Those are not very expensive. The title and the blaster are pretty expensive. So I picked this up because it's a rare tin and pretty happy with it. It's a very cool looking one as well. So awesome tin pickup. I also grabbed a monster box from Moe at my own booth. He was there and he had a monster box and he was like, yo, I hear Ruxen likes these. And I was like, yes, Ruxen does like these. So pick this up for a future mystery box video. These are actually decent mystery boxes. That's why I picked it up. It's actually going to be a fun video to open up. Maybe get some dual steel lines to mention a chaos. Stuff like that. And speaking of stuff from my own booth, Lewis, a game into Jugio had three of these tactical evolution blisters, which he sold me at a pretty awesome price. A price that I'm willing to be opening these up in a future video. So keep an eye out for opening tactical evolutions of Labyrinth of Nightmare. We recently pulled something pretty big. I don't know if you guys have seen that from a pack from one of these blisters. So if you have not seen that yet, it might be coming out soon. So pretty exciting. I'm probably going to open these up and maybe get something better in the future. Well, maybe not better, but as good maybe hopefully. Then we got something that is not actually a pickup. I went to TCA gaming's house the day before the collector con. He is the most generous man you will ever meet. If you guys have not checked him out, go check him out. He does mostly Pokemon stuff, obviously based on this. But if you go over there, he will just start handing you stuff. And he's like, Nope, you're taking it for free. And you're like, Are you sure, man? He's like, Yeah, there's more coming up to what he gave me. I'll show you guys in a minute, even more exciting than this. But he gave me and Chelsea and Chelsea is not necessarily a card person. So she was like, you can go ahead and open mine on the channel or whatever. So these are both the boxes that he gave us a Pokemon 151. The new set that we probably have already opened recently. I think one of these was opened in that video, but I don't have the actual stuff when I'm recording this. So it's a little bit of a time craziness going on there. But I'm super excited to open this up because this set is super fun. It's nostalgic for old school fans of Pokemon, the original 151 Pokemon. So if you've ever played Pokemon, you know these Pokemon, which is what's super fun about it. So I'm super pumped about those. Thanks again TCA gaming. We're going to be talking about him again in a minute. We also have some packs I picked up, which first of all, here's a couple of cool ones. We have Astral Pak 8, which is a cool pack, and then Astral Pak 5. Not like the craziest packs ever, but they are very cool tournament packs. Pretty exciting. They were not very expensive, like 20 bucks each or something, not that crazy. But the same booth also had some other Yu-Gi-Oh packs that I was super excited about. One that is pretty rare when I did the every pack opening, I could not find. It's not Astral Pak 4, so don't get too excited. But it's very close. It's one of the last packs I searched for, Turbo Pak 6. And not one, but 19 Turbo Pak 6. These could contain the alternate rare Dark Arm Dragon. We have pulled it on the channel before because I bought a whole box, but let me tell you, that box was way more expensive. These were actually at a crazy good deal. When I saw them, I was like, how many do you have? I want all of them. And I bought all of them. So this was a super cool pickup. This is like the rarest Turbo Pak. You don't see it very often because Dark Arm Dragon was insane. So getting these 19 packs is just really exciting. And we're still not done, guys. We're still not done. There's more. I had a couple flips where I bought something and then just put it in my case and like sold it again later. I think I bought a Blue Eyes Ghost Rare. I bought like a Starlight Exodia PSA 10. The guy gave me a pretty good deal on it. And then Vintage wanted it. So I gave it to him for like not quite market. So I made a little bit on it. He got it still for a good deal. So that was pretty fun. Then I also picked up a couple more graded cards that didn't flip. I bought them and put them in the case, but didn't get enough interest in them to actually sell them at the show. But I do have these cool 2017 reprints. These I bought at the same time. It was a Time Wizard CGC 10. I'm not going to lie. I started looking at this label. I don't like the new label. I think some people have said, oh, it actually is growing on me. So far, I don't like it very much, but maybe it'll grow on me. The old ones I thought were cool with the colors. And then we have an IOC. You guys know how hard it is to grade these reprints. So this is actually kind of crazy to get a 10 on these. These are for sale, by the way. Some of this stuff will be for sale. Some of it I'm going to be opening. Some I'm just going to be keeping. So if you see something you're interested in, you can hit me up. I'll let you know if it's for sale or not.  I bought a collection from one guy. It was like a mini collection. It had some good stuff. Some of it I actually sold already, but it had like a Secret Pharaoh's Rare, Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Of course, your star reader. So I didn't actually, actually, I want to look at the condition of some of these. The Red-Eyes Black Dragon. So it's minty, actually, which is, oh, never mind. I think I paid near mint.  Okay. Well, that's a little bit of a let down. That thing's going to be like, play at best. So when I bought these, I couldn't really evaluate condition very well because the lighting in there was not great, which made it a little bit difficult.  I had some scratches on the surface. So I did see that when I was evaluating. It was kind of hard to see like light scratches and stuff. This one I remember looking, go, let's see if I was right. Foil looks really good on this. Wow. This actually is nice. This is a near mint ghost rare, which is very rare to, you know, find these days, especially with no scratches on the foil. That's great. I don't know if I have the unlimited. I think I have the unlimited of this. Pretty sure Junior sent us that. I'm not sure though. I got to recall which ones he sent us. Dark Arm Dragon. I thought it looked better than it did until I saw it a second ago and it had some scuffs on it. And that's when I was like, I'll look at these live. I need to stop looking at these. Yeah. This is certainly scuffed up. Lightly played. That's fine. Ironically, you had an X-Tox Hydra. He didn't know who I was.  So he didn't know. He hadn't seen the X-Tox Hydra shorts or anything like that. So he wasn't just memeing on me. Then we got a water and chances. I actually picked up three of these, I think, and then two of the rights. But then I think VOP picked up three of the cards. And then I think it was Uber that picked up the other one. So I immediately moved them as soon as I picked them up. They're like, wait, I want those. So I have one left of that. And then I got a engage and engage, I guess is the correct way to say it. These are very new. So I'd hope they're in good condition. They seem to be for the most part. We've got a Terezia. This is an actual real Starlight. I will say when you look at these side by side, it is so much easier to read the Starlight Rear's name than these. These are impossible to read. Look at this. Try and read that. If you don't know what card it is, there's no way you're reading that. So another reason Starlights are better, I will say, you can actually read the card name. This, it just blends in. If you kind of go like that, you can kind of get it. But like Starlights, it doesn't matter what angle it is, you can read the name. So I do like that better. I don't like not being able to read the card. You're like, what is this? I can't see. So the Terezia is very nice. The Terezia, how do you even say that? I don't know. Battle is a chaos. Starlight is definitely not very expensive, but it is pretty cool. Oh my gosh, what is that? Oh my gosh, we got stuff on the edge. We got stuff on the edge. This is going to be, this is going to be rough for me, I think. This pickup might have been one of our worst ones. We have a Shooting Majestic Star Dragon. I do have a PSA 10 of this for sale as well. So all of these I will have for sale, the ones I just showed you the singles. And then I was going to do this collection, but I think this video is going to end up being too long. So we might do the collection in a separate video. I have one last story before we end this video.  He had a bunch of evolving skies packs that he was handing out to people. And apparently there was some sort of error with them, where they were just crazy pull rates. And so Chelsea and I both got, I think, like nine packs or something, and he was just giving them out for free because he's the most ridiculously generous man of all time. You guys got to go follow him. So we opened like 18 packs or whatever. Here's what we pulled. We had a Zinnia's Resolve. We pulled a Copycat. We pulled a Rehan. A Leafeon V-Max, I think this is like a $70 card. And then I pulled, finally, the Moombria. Yeah, this is a $500 Pokemon card. So I have not had a chance to really evaluate it yet, but I know if it can get like a BGS like 10 or a black label, they're pretty crazy, even though there's like thousands of these graded. It's insane. It's one of the most hyped Pokemon cards of all time. It's only a couple years old, but it is a really beautiful looking card. And Rusty essentially gave it to us by letting me open the packs. There seems to be a little bit of a line right there. I don't know if you guys can see it. Yeah, down the right side right there. So yeah, this is not BGS quality, I don't think unfortunately, but it is overall pretty good condition. Maybe it could squeak by the PSA 10, who knows, but that was a super cool card to pull. I didn't think I was going to pull anything, so I didn't record it unfortunately. I pulled it and I was like, wait, what's going on? I didn't think I was supposed to be able to get this. It's a very rare pull. So those packs were like insane. They were just like absolutely loaded. So unfortunately, that will not be in the vlog or else it would have been a great way to just start it off, kick it off, pulling a $500 Pokemon card.  So if you guys don't know, Collecticon brings in a lot of different voice actors, whether it be from Big Anime or Yu-Gi-Oh, different Yu-Gi-Oh series. And there were several Yu-Gi-Oh people there at this event. And I forgot to actually bring anything specifically for them to get signed. But I did have one card that I eventually decided to get signed. A first edition Black Rose Dragon.  Because we got this signed by Akiza's voice actor. Her name is like Erika Schroeder, I think her name is exactly. I don't know, I probably messed up the last name. But she has really cool signatures. As you can see, she did the red. She did Akiza. She did some hearts. And then she has her actual signature in black. And I was like, you know what? Let's get this first edition Black Rose signed. Which by the way, it's moderately played, slightly played. It's not near-man or anything. Don't freak out. But I thought this would be cool. And I was a little bit on the fence with, if it was smart or not. And I was like, I don't know if this is going to be really like a good idea or not. So I want to hear your guys opinion in the comments. But I did decide after getting the signature, Chelsea actually wouldn't got it for me. Because the lines were really short before everyone besides VIPs was in there and I was running the booth. So she wouldn't got it for me. And once I got it back, I am definitely happy that I did it. I really liked the look of this card. And I'm going to be throwing it in my Edison deck. So my Edison deck now has a signed first edition Black Rose Ghost Rare. But this was like a $600, $700, $800 card that I got signed. And some people now will hate it. Because it has like writing on it. But I think other people like me will appreciate it. I think it's really cool. And I'm going to keep it in my deck. I don't think I'm going to be selling this. This is something that I want to keep. Because it's just a good memory and it looks really awesome. So I'm super pumped about it. But I want to see your guys opinion. How many of you guys think that I completely ruined that card? And how many of you guys think that it was a smart decision? Or if you're just on the fence, I want to know. This has been a big variety. Pokemon, magic, Yu-Gi-Oh. Hopefully you guys have enjoyed this. Sort of a different style. You know, a little bit slower paced and more like the old school ruckson. So if you did enjoy it, make sure to let me know. I might do it again in the future. We're going to go through that childhood collection that I picked up at Collecticon very soon. That was the only other thing I didn't show you guys. But it's pretty big. So I'm going to save it for a separate video. Shout out to TomFo Show, Daxter Tomato Juice, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto Dina, America Doister, Supreme Stage 21, CJ, and then a Thai show, Ian Moose, and Junior Barting, Robert F. and Thomas McLean. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.


this is the end it's over okay i didn't film anything this morning because i'm busy running the double as hack day uh so this is our all-day build-a-thon create-a-thon think-a-thon hack-a-thon so we had like like 20 amazing project pitches they're already put on the board so these are projects that people are going to create a thin air today and invent my goal today is of course to make my daily vlog to finish out the week and also to try to capture and document what it's like to be at one of these events now you can go watch the video from last year where i did the same thing but this year we'll have all new projects i know it's gonna be amazing day hopefully it's a mildly entertaining video i dropped my water i pulled a david hog and i dropped it right on the ground but i will clean it up this gap is not dependent on the fully convective limit which is shown in the green dot of vine right there but there's definitely a large difference and if i was to change those two parameters that i've that i've chosen you can see if i fit between the two i can change the noise properties of the data you have students who want to do this there are lots of new packages to help your students get started with the data get started finding planets and get started fitting transport the most obvious one is this gap gap in the radius distribution of small planets which we believe is due to photo vibration that was actually discovered prior to guy at the o2 but with guy we can now see this for the entire planet population the reason why essentially stellar age is mostly unexplored as a property to investigate facial planets is that stellar ages are really hard just gave a talk about kepler and i forgot to record the camera was all set up tragedy and now back to the hack today how's the sewing hacking going so it's going well i decided to teach myself how to quilt today i want to make a quilted comet in honor of mariah mitchell and caroline hershal who were astronomers and also good with sewing you're winning thank you it's going very well we do like to see a demo we would like to see a demo so you can see how it changes the covariance matrix and the predicted mean of your function as you change the hyper parameter by hand that's actually i think that's really useful actually okay i'm hacking i'm hacking at astro hack week i spent all of my time making astro hack week work daniel taught me that hack facilitating like you can do one or the other but it's very very hard to do both well you can you can hack your hack facilitation this is a black hole x-ray binary that does really weird stuff we're using deep neural networks to make it less weird so far so good we had a couple different things going on sort of like bouncing ideas back and forth about figuring out what's up with the sun only using metadata and i'm also working on some logo design for the it's going i'm working on a new tutorial yep i'm kind of beta testing wait and hold on to see if it needs updated and where we can improve it to make it more accessible to a variety of expertise documentation so critical we're working on the making a website for the astro architect so you can see the singles at the astronomy's kevin bacon or the more sort of useful thing for people is to see how they're connected to people it's quieter in the poster all today it's the last day a little bit of a harder day you got late posters and then just a lot of other people sticking around but it's been a surprisingly busy day for science i'm so happy the league of astronomers is still a thing this was i mean this started when i was a student 15 years ago at u dub and it's awesome that it's still a thing and they still use the name go league of astronomers in the end star chose booth is still hopping i encourage you to go to the repository which is linked on the wrap up slides so that's the meta hack the one where the let's call these semi-official repository for all for all of the was hacks so basically we're making a network where every author every astronomy author is a node and the edges that connect authors are viewers that they have co-authored together in keeping with the spirit of was sustainability and the sustainability initiative i made reusable coffee sleeves i made a pouch because i needed it i wanted to avoid using my computer as much as possible today i learned how to sew and maybe i also learned how to sew and uh i am almost partway with my travel blanket and then down here is the travest system awesome we did it the double s hack day is done year seven in the books something like 25 slides awesome garments cool things made web services attempted to be launched internet fought with a classic hack day and now the closing reception this year with mac and cheese with crab and lobster and bacon pretty good i think ranks very highly in the closing reception history okay that's it for me double s over


Today, there was a catalyst on the stock. So that catalyst today was the effect filing. And now this stock could dump shares. The interesting part about RDBX is they have warrants at $11.50 and every penny above $11.50 is profit. They've been trying to pump up the stock every single day to get it to above $11.50 because if it's above $11.50, those warrants are profitable.


THINKTECH Hawaii. I'm your host, Kelea Akina. Our show today is called Lawyering for Social Justice, and we're going to talk about legal resources for the economically downtrodden, and we'll address the issue of how lawyers at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice are providing crucial legal services to an important population in Hawaii. If you want to ask a question or participate in the discussion, you can tweet us at THINKTECH-H-I, or just give us a call at area code<PHONE_NUMBER>. Our guest for the show today is Gavin Thornton. He's the co-executive director of the Appleseed Center. Gavin, welcome to the program today. Good to see you today. Thanks so much for having me. Well, I've enjoyed sitting down with you and getting to know you because at the Grassroot Institute and at Appleseed Center, we work on common problems. We're working on trying to make society better and more livable for those who are least advantaged. That's right. At Hawaii Appleseed, what we're really trying to do is create a Hawaii where everybody has the opportunity to achieve economic stability and success, very similar missions. That's right. In fact, you use a term there that the public may not be absolutely familiar with, economic justice. We know what economics is, the system of money and finance that gets goods to people in our society. We have a sense, maybe vague of what justice is, but when we put them together, economic justice, which is what Appleseed Center stands for, what are we talking about when we want to accomplish economic justice? Really having systems that are in place that give everybody a fair shot at achieving economic stability and being able to just live and work and achieve their potential. That's really what it's all about. Because the way that the tax system is structured, the way that regulation on businesses or on other things is structured, really impacts people on a day-to-day basis and can have a lot of influence on whether people do well in life or whether they don't. For those who are struggling to make a living here in the island, and that's a huge population and a growing population, there are many services that are provided by the government and by non-profit organizations. There are soup kitchens, there are shelters, there's medical attention, there are opportunities for job training and so forth. But the Appleseed Center focuses on something else, something that cuts across the lines really of all of these services. What is it that the Appleseed Center provides to those in need? Well, we actually have five different subject matter focus areas. The issues that we focus on are the issues that we really see as being core to a person's life success. And those are, in Hawaii, a really big one is affordable housing. All right. So affordable housing and homelessness. What we call economic justice, but we're looking at issues of taxation, issues relating to wages for that one. Hunger is another issue that affects a lot of people in Hawaii, just access to sufficient food, healthy food.  Well, let me just stop you just for a second, then we'll go on to the other two. You're talking about housing, economic justice, and you're talking about what was that through hunger as well. But what you do is different from what many of the nonprofits do. You're not actually necessarily operating a food distribution program. You're not necessarily putting people into shelters and housing. You're operating at a different level. I don't want to use the word higher, but it's a level of engagement of the system that those who are in need sometimes can't do for themselves. Right. It's the 30,000 foot view, really looking at the systems and policy. In other words, you go straight to the law. You go straight to the legislature.  And do you even litigate if necessary? That's correct. So we do some litigation. It's become a much smaller part of our work since we were initially conceived. But it is an important part of the work for those barriers to people's economic success. That just aren't getting addressed in other ways. So your work ultimately impacts the individual. But you're not necessarily doing it on behalf of individuals. You're doing it on behalf of an entire class of people who need affordable housing or who need health care and so forth. What's an example of what you do in the area of housing that impacts the system? Well, one good recent example that some of your viewers may be familiar with on the Capitol lawn a few weeks ago, we partnered up with Habitat for Humanity and had a demonstration accessory dwelling unit, a small home that a homeowner can build on their property and rent out rents that are typically more affordable than your regular multifamily apartment. So you were showing what could be done with the accessory dwelling unit legislation. You're actually fleshing out for the public to see and for legislators to see this is something that will help the poor. That's right. And that's part of a project we've been working on for a few years now. We initially wrote a policy brief identifying accessory dwelling units or ADUs as a potential way of helping address the affordable housing crisis. Then worked at Honolulu City Council to get a law passed that now allows ADUs to be built. We created a website HawaiiADU.org with a bunch of resources encouraging homeowners to pick this up, seize on this opportunity to be part of the solution. And then providing this vision with the demonstration project a vision of you know that you can touch and feel this is what you can do. Well, you talked about housing, economic justice, you talked about hunger. What were the other two major core areas? So the other two areas that we don't currently do quite as much work in, but we're still very interested in education. That's a huge one of course. And access to health care is another big one. At Apple Seed Center, some of you, perhaps most of you are lawyers. Is that right? Not most anymore. So my co-director, Victor Jiminyani. Victor, I know him. He's a terrific guy. Yep. And we've had him on the program before. Yep. And long history, a career of advocacy for low-income people. In the state. So he's a lawyer, doesn't do a whole lot of lawyering these days, works a lot in public policy. And then I'm also a lawyer as well. The rest of our staff, non-attorneys. It's a small staff though. So we have two other folks that are permanent with us. And then two people that are with us through the AmeriCorps VISTA program, which is a federal government program that's really about community service. And they're called VISTA volunteers. Now, if Apple Seed wasn't doing what it's doing and it's niche here in Hawaii, what would be missing? Oh, man. What vacuum would there be? Yeah. So one of the big reasons for our existence, the reason for our existence, is there was that vacuum before. So originally when we were formed, we were formed with the intention of doing class action litigation, impact litigation on behalf of low-income people in the state of Hawaii. Because there wasn't a whole lot of that happening. Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation does some work but focused on a particular area. Hawaii Disability Rights also focused on a particular area. So that's one thing. I think the broader thing though is really looking at these systems, policy, and how it affects low-income people in the state. You know, there are many viewers that I have who are not at the... Well, they're not in their careers yet. They're in college or they're at the early stages of their employment and so forth. And I always like to explore possible career paths with people. And you've taken an interesting one. I mean, you started off after college going to law school, and then at some point you decided that you weren't going to go into the big bucks area with law in terms of commercial law or Wall Street and so forth. But you took those years of education, which costs quite a bit, I'm sure, and decided, well, why don't you tell a little bit of your story, how you went from law school to your first position. And it's a little fascinating. Sure, yeah. So you were in Virginia, is that right? That's right, I attended law school at the University of Virginia. You know, pretty decent school. Lots of my classmates went off to pretty successful careers in the private sector doing pretty well, making a lot. And when I went to law school, I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do. But over time it became apparent that I was really interested in some kind of public interest work. But prior to that, before going into this kind of public interest work that you're in today, you did spend some time in the corporate world. And you did have a taste of what it was to earn a fairly good salary. That's right. So as a summer associate, so in between years in law school, I went to work at a big private firm. And it was right after the dot-com bubble burst. And we were suing brokers that had invested in these tech stocks. I mean, more than I've made sense, essentially, until just maybe a few weeks ago, actually. Let me get this in perspective. In that one summer, working at a firm bringing in the big bucks, you made more money than you have in your career for how many years? Well, that's salary-wise. But I've been out. I graduated in 2002. So about 15 years. I was making a better salary when I didn't even have a law degree. Wasn't a member of the bar. But the reason why I do this work- Right. And that's the question I really want to get to is why you've chosen to pursue this set of values rather than financial success, per se. And so that summer was very informative for me. It made me realize that I didn't want to be doing that. I wanted to do something that had an impact. And actually, I ended up doing what I'm doing kind of on a fluke. I had decided to go into the Air Force to follow in my father's footsteps. And I was all set to go and found out right before I walked for graduation because I had checked the asthma box. They would no longer have me. It's like that old 4F disqualifier. Yep, yep. And I was devastated at the time, scrambling to find any kind of public interest opportunity I could. The first thing I found was at Legal Aid Society of Hawaii. Now, where were you when you got that offer from Legal Aid Society of Hawaii? My wife's from Seattle. So we were in Seattle. I had taken the bar exam there. So you went from Virginia to Seattle. And I think your first position with Legal Aid Society wasn't even on Oahu. Where was it? That's right. It was on Hawaii Island in Kona. Well, that's quite a traverse, isn't it? It was. It was close to East Hawaii. That's right.  Well, we've got about a minute left. What on your heart has driven you to be in law for the public interest and for those who are economically disadvantaged? You know, when I got to Legal Aid, everything just clicked. And I was able to get into people's homes, see how they were living, see the impact that I could have on helping people to have the opportunities similar to what I had in my life. Well, thanks for making that choice and serving the people of Hawaii. I'm talking to Gavin Thornton, who is co-executive director of the Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice. Taking a look a bit at his own motivations for working with those in society who are at least advantaged. We're going to talk a little bit more about the nuts and bolts of the work and some of the things taking place here in Hawaii. We'll talk about the problem of houselessness as well as the need for more housing options overall for everyone. And more economic justice. We'll be right back. I'm Kili Akeena on Think Tech Hawaii's Ehana Kako. Don't go away. Welcome back to the second half of Ehana Kako here every week on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network. I'm Kili Akeena with the Grass Root Institute. At the Grass Root Institute, we like to say Ehana Kako is a great place to be. We're going to talk a little bit more about the problem of houselessness and the need for more housing options. We're going to talk a little bit more about the problem of houselessness and the need for more housing options. We're going to talk a little bit more about the problem of houselessness Ehana Kako, which sounds like a venerable saying here in Hawaii, a Pule Kako, that means let's pray together. At the Institute, we like to say let's work together as well. Let's work together for a better economy, government, and society. And that's why we are so grateful for organizations like the Apple Seed Center that are doing exactly that. And they're reaching out to a population that has particular need, a population that can't afford lawyers or necessarily the kinds of advocates that those with greater wealth are able to do. And Gavin Thorgin, who is the co-executive director of the Apple Seed Center, is at the front lines of making it possible for that population to actually advance itself. Gavin, let's go back and talk about the people whom you serve. Sure. Could you describe that population? Yeah. You know, I think it's gotten broader over the years. So we did a poll last... Unfortunately. Yes, unfortunately. More of us are falling beneath a certain net. Right. More and more people in Hawaii, and I think across the nation, are struggling to make ends meet. We did a poll last year that found that nearly half, 48 percent of Hawaii's residents are living paycheck to paycheck. And so for a lot of those folks, I mean, that means missing a couple of paychecks and being out on the street. That's right. You miss your rent, you miss your mortgage payment if they have a mortgage, and that's about it for people. That's a pretty desperate state, you know, that lack of savings, that lack of cushion and so forth. So we're seeing the houseless population grow largely because of people who can't make their final payment. Right. The current payment. That's right. The trends that we've been paying a particularly close eye on are the homelessness or houselessness population going up and up year after year. And also the gap, the growing gap between wages and housing costs has continued to grow, especially over the last 10, 15 years we've seen a widening gap there. You know, what I like is to see a spectrum of solutions at work. Our viewers know that the Grassroot Institute works at maybe a 50,000 level height. We're looking at 1920s shipping laws that impact global trade and seeing if we can alter that so that there's a trickle down benefit to places like Hawaii. We're looking at what's taking place in terms of federal laws regarding agriculture and so forth. We're looking at bringing greater venture capital for new industries into Hawaii. So we're kind of up here. And then there are those that are at the ground level who are out there directly meeting the needs of those who can't provide the things for themselves to have housing and jobs and education and health care. I see Apple Seed Center in the middle working on the systems that are at play right now here in the counties and in the states helping large numbers of people by dealing with our local laws and advocating for certain needs. Would that be a fair assessment? I think so. That sounds about right. I mean our focus is a state focus statewide at the county level. So I think that's about right. We pay attention to what's going on at the federal level and even look internationally for some solutions. You know really a lot of our work is focused on what are solutions that make sense? Are those solutions that have worked well elsewhere that have worked well in an environment similar to ours? Kind of a best practice. Like you were talking about that accessory dwelling unit. That's something that's been modeled across the world and sometimes in third world nations and we bring those solutions over here and use them in our own front yard. Exactly. Now we were talking a little bit earlier about some of the things you've done for those in need of housing. How about in terms of economic justice and kind of explain that again a little bit more. Apple Seed is very concerned about that and what is that Apple Seed doing? Sure. So this legislative session, this past legislative session that just wrapped up or a big push was on what we call tax fairness. That's because unfortunately a lot of politicians made a big push out of taxation. Possibly. I mean so the issue that we have been very concerned about is Hawaii has a very regressive tax structure. That's right. That means that low income people are taxed at much higher rates effective rates than folks that make more at the higher ends of the income scale. So and that's largely due to the general excise tax. That's right and you know I think we took some similar positions Apple Seed and the Grassroot Institute. We all want to see better education of our keiki. We all want to see teachers paid more. We all want to see our schools improved. We all want to see solutions to our mass transit problems. But going back to the GE tax, which as you mentioned is so regressive, doesn't really help those who are in the greatest need. What are some of the regressive problems that the poor experience with the GE tax? Well every time someone goes to the grocery store, pays their rent, even goes and gets medication. They're paying tax on that. For low income people who spend 100% of their paycheck on those necessities, they're getting taxed every time. And with the GE tax, just the way that it's set up, it's taxed multiple times during the stream from the manufacturer to the consumer. So low income folks are paying about 11%, over 11% of their income toward GE tax. That's a huge amount of money for these folks. That is, and they don't have the means with which to have tax strategies or to shelter some of their money or even get a wholesale discount card at Costco and so forth. So they're the ones who are at the lowest level of consumption in the stores getting hit with that GE combination really, GE sales tax here in the state.  So you're advocating and being a voice for those whose voice wouldn't show up at the legislature, whose voice wouldn't be made known in the media were not for the kinds of things that Apple Seed is doing. Right, and I think taxation is a great example of that because that's, as soon as you say tax policy, people's eyes glaze over. And it's something that people really have a tough time digging into I think. And that is why I think our work is especially important. Now there's a tax measure that you are in favor of the state legislature, the earned income tax credit, which would provide credits to those under a certain income level to help them out with the tax burden. Is that right? That's correct. So the federal earned income tax credit, this is a federal credit that's been on the books for many, many years. It is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the nation. It's responsible for bringing more children out of poverty than any other program in the nation. It's had broad bipartisan support. Reagan supported the expansion of the credit. And so that's something that's been really effective. We've been trying here in Hawaii for well over a decade to get a state equivalent. And this year we finally looks like we've got one. Well, yes, at least it'll go to the governor's desk and so at least to that extent I congratulate you. And you know the thing I like about our discourse is we can take different perspectives. Right. You and I have gone out to lunch and we're aware that at the Grassroots Institute we share with you the desire to see those goods that the earned income tax brings about for those in need. There's no question about that. But we've raised some questions as well. Questions about the fact that it raises the impact of taxes upon those in the higher income. The current version of that bill would put Hawaii as the second highest in the nation in terms of earned income tax. And so we're just a little bit concerned about how that might impact those who create the jobs or those who come here and invest in the economy and so forth. Not so much to have a debate with you, but I was wondering how do you respond to some of those concerns? Right. Well, I talked about the regressivity of the GT and on the other end of the income spectrum with the GT and income taxes and other taxes, low income folks pay, they end up paying about 13 and a half percent of their total income towards taxes. Right. And we documented it sometimes going higher than that. But go ahead. And then on the higher end of the scale it's like the figure is eight and a half percent of the wealthiest folks. Sure. Income is going to state and local taxes. And so we look at it as a balancing that we need to maintain or increase the level of services that people are providing. And so how do you pay for that without exacerbating this problem of really, really high tax burdens on the low income folks? Well, as long as we're looking for a solution that is good for everyone, we'll be all right. We'll have you back sometime. We'll chat about how we define that marker called fairness. But our time has gone too quickly today. And I want to thank you, Gavin, for being on the program. Just appreciate your insights and more than that, your dedication at Appleseed, you and your colleagues, to what you're doing for Hawaii. Thank you so much. This is a wonderful conversation and look forward to continuing it. Thanks. As I mentioned to Gavin, this time has gone far too quickly. And so I have to say aloha to you that we're at the end of our show. We've enjoyed bringing this a Hanukako broadcast to you. I'm Kaley Akeena with the Grassroot Institute. Our guest has been Gavin Thornton. And we've been talking about lawyering for social justice and addressing the issue of how lawyers at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice are providing a crucial service. Thanks to our production engineer, Ray Sangalong, our floor manager, Robert McClain, and all the people who've done a great job to contribute to our ThinkTech productions. And if you want to see the show again, go to ThinkTechHawaii.com or YouTube.com slash ThinkTechHawaii, where there'll be a link to more shows just like this one. Thanks so much for watching. Mahalo. We'll see you next time. Aloha.


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Rydyn ni'n ddigon i'n cael ychydig, fyddwn i'n ddigon i'n ddigon i'n ddigon i'n ganddomiyoru, yn ffordd 나는 Americans. Felly dyna chi chi'n ddigon i unrhyw, wedi gweld yn ffordd pan yw ychydig yn gwneud. Yn beth gennym mor gweld yn digon i amsio i'n ddigon i'n ddigon i fynd i'r hun. a amgylch o'r ddweud yn un gweithfeydd, a rwy'n gofio'n gwybod i'r llyfr, a dyna'r llyfr yn dweud, a'n byw'r mwy yn dweud. Rwy'n dweud eich gweithio'n ddweud o'r proses, ddim ddweud o'r ddweud o'r gweithfeydd, Rwy'n ddweud cymeth yma'r ddweud eich cyfnodd yn ei gweithfeydd yn y lleidio'n ei gweithfeydd. Mae'r ddweud o'r ei ddim yn edrych yn y mae'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Ydych chi'n gofynu hwn i gyf Temple I. Rydyn ni wedi'i amser, ym mhwnnwawch chi'n gofynu. Rydyn ni wedi cyrraedd maen nhw, rhaid iawn i six o'r opfiwn ac saith eisiau'r reliant. Abertyd rydyn ni nid i gael i hanes, a rydyn ni'n gallu iddo i'r opfiwn. Rydyn ni wedi'w'n gweithio, mae'n mynd i'n cael eu cyfanydd, yna'r ymdindigol yna o'r sgwrdd. Mae'n holl eraill yn ysgwrdd. Mae'n ysgwrdd yn ysgwrdd, I'n gwaith i'r llwyddiadau i'r drw i'r yrthiwn. Felly, mae'n ddweud gan i'r llwyddiadau ddweud. Rwy'n rhaid i'r ddweud ar gyfer y llwyddiadau. Erbyn 18 yw, mae yna'r llwyddiadau a rhaid i ddweud o'r fan. A rhaid i ddweud i'r ddweud, a'r ddweud i'r blynyddiadau. Rydyn ni'n bod yn ei ffyrdd o'r sefydliadau. Rwyf yn cael ei gynhyrchol o'r cyfrifio felly, Mae fawr i'w bells wrth yma? Mae fawr i ddechrau 6 fawr! Fawr o fawr, mae gynnig wedi fawr i'r fawr i'w fawr. Mae'r fawr i'w fawr i fawr i'w fawr i'w fawr i'w wgwladiaeth. Mae fawr i fawr i'w wgwladiaeth i'w fawr, i chi ddaw i ddechrau chi'n gwybod o wath yn Scotland. I wnaethef yn gweithio chi yn gweithio eu bod yn ynglynth o'r fawr i ddweud o'r fawr am bulliedol. Ac mae gennym eich amgylcheddau arall sy'n gallu gwneud yn gweithio eu gwaith y maen nhw, ac mae'n gweithio ei wneud o'r hyffordd. Mae'n go iawn i'r club ac mae'n gweithio i'r bwysig oedd. Mae'n bwysig o'r gweithio o'r tîm iawn i'r gweithio o'r ddechrau yma, a gennym eich gweithio o'r tîm iawn i'r gweithio ffwrdd a'r adfôr. Edin, mae wedi eu gweithio'r proses yn y dyma oedd. Adwg, roeddwn i yn gweithio, weithio'r hynny sydd wedi cyflwyteru i teimlo i'r newid yw'r cyfath iawn, wedi'u ei ddylai freni, dydyn nhw'n rhoi ngraes youf. Yn y rhan o chwarae, wedi'u adranio ysgolafau yn ddyma providedos. Ond mae gwaith yma wedi dod yn ei chydigoedd i ddim yn dweud eich feme thanksi. Mae gydig ai gydig yn ddorynno ei gydig i'r dylen i'w cyfathio yma. Mae'r cyfathio'r ddrynedig yn i gydig i'r rhan o'r cyfathio'i diemniolau. Byddwch i'r bobl ein cwisigweithio a fachio'n arddig, a i'n gweithio fel dyna diogelio ddobl yma. Felly mae angen allai chi wedi rhoi'r mynd i fynd i ddysgu sydd i'n safgyntol, a byddai'n gweithio Michael, Martin i Greg i'r bobl a'r bobl. A dyna, rwy'n ddechrau, oherwydd, y cyfnodd cyfu sydd wedi'i ddweud sy'n dweud hynny, agon y tro cyfnodd cyfu, ac y gynllun y gweithio'r progrwys yn ysgolwyd. Dylai'r cyfnodd cyfnodd cyfnodd cyfnodd. Dynnodd yn ysgrifennu, yn ni'n gandwb yn cyfnodd gyfnodd, mae'n cyfrifau genny sy'n gwneud eich ddefnydd? As I said, as Chairman and Joint Owner you will always be judged by your decisions and, as I said, after six games to change the coaching team just doesn't show the progress we expected so we tried something different a mae'n cael ei gynllun ac mae wedi wneud yn gweithio o'r progrwys ac mae'n meddwl ar gyfer gan gweithio. Mae'n gwneud yn cael ei gweithio. Felly, yn y cyffredin iawn yn ddecharf? Dwi'n dechrau'n gweld i'r ffordd. Felly, mae'n ddweud'r ffordd yn ddechrau'r ffordd y gweithio'r ffordd. Mae'n ddweud i'r ffordd yn gweithio'r ffordd yn ddechrau'r ffordd a'r ddiwedd i'r ffordd a'r ddweud i'r ffordd i'r ffordd. Ie deallu gerais ni nifer o'r rhan o ran yn sefydledig, y gallwn ni'n rhan o'r sgol yng Nghaerdoedd. Yn ni'n mynd i'n mynd i growle. Dyna'r ysgrifeth isgwyr yng nghymfaen, gan fel gwelio, mae'n cael ei gweithio. Dydyn ni yn rwy'n gweithio eu gwirio. Mae'r gwaith yn Oeddon yn gweld yr gwaith yng Nghaerdoedd, Felly mae'n gynllenwch, mae'n falch, mae'n dweud a'i dweud oedd hynny yn fawr mae'r gynhalu ar archwlu, ac mae'n holl, mae'n dweud i gael ei wneud yn fwy o'r dweud o'r fan, mae'n ei wneud i'w byw yn gweithio'i fan, mae'n rhaid am dylai ei rhai o'r hyn. Mae'n dweud, mae'n trwy gynhyrch ar gion. ..a chi'n gwneud fan y stryd, ac yn gweithio'r stryd yn gweithio'r gysyllt hon. Mae'r gysyllt yn nifer ac yn nifer, Mae'n gweithio'r Stryd. Mae'n gwneud i'r clwr o syniadau yn dross gyrraeddol. henw'n rûr Eisteddf. Mae'r gysyllt yn fod ystod ag yn gweithio i'r gyrraedd a wedi'u g Nobody. Fy yw'r gysylltu'r gyrraedd a'i'r gysyllt ar Lyfansden. Fyddwn i'n gweithio'r trafnhef er mwyn sy'n gweithio. Ac mae'n bwysig iawn, mae'n dda i, bod y gallwn i'n holl oherwydd yn sicrhau pam несколькоu ymddangos, a d westbeth a'r amgylau, am ddebyg, a gwaith gwaith. Rhywb i yn oed yn dangos ei bwysig o'r dphrosioء yma arall i'r cyflosioedd yn 5 o 6 oed Rydych chi yn cyd-dwy yn ymwyaf pryd yma mewn ei rhaglen wedi'i gyd-dwy, ac yn y credu rhaid y byddai'n ddwy yn y cyflosioedd yma ac yn cyd-dwy yma'r cyflosiosect, a'n ganddo i'r du i ymwysig. David I'd like to say welcome back to Yorkshire, genuinely pleased to see you back here but how does it make you feel accepting a job for which with respect the sack time is clearly seven matches if you don't get it right? Don't you feel under pressure straight away? No, I've spoke to Edin and Stefan and I'm very comfortable in my own ability. I think as long as people see development and they see a clear plan of what you're trying to do and a vision, we all know when the business is where you don't get results but I'm very confident that Edin and Stefan will see a difference in the team. I'm very good at building the own squads of players and as I say, every head coach manager is always under pressure for results but I'm sure when we have bad times and good times it's how we react to bad times. Everybody in football is fine when everyone's going well and I think you find out really where you are when you're having a wee blip or a bad time and I think as long as we stick together we speak it over and we make sure that everybody here at Brantyr City knows that we're all pulling the right direction and that's the biggest thing that we have to get now and as I keep saying, that's something very good that is making sure that we're all one, it's not with me, I make sure everybody knows that Brantyr City's a community thing, it's a club thing and I've got to make people want to come here and watch games on Saturday and Tuesday. Edin, do you accept the responsibility for that division that's been spoken about between the club and the fans? Edin said he has to bring everybody together. Do you accept the responsibility for that division in the first place? The divisiveness between yourself and the fans of football? If you have a momentum you can do what you want as a chairman, you do everything right. If you have not a momentum you can do what you want, chairman is not right. Currently we have no momentum and if you see probably the picture, what I've been told, there was a picture made from me and Martin and Michael and then south end, it was half time. We've been one little down and I've seen them sitting on the bench and I said Martin and Michael, come on, we have a chance to win the game. So I lifted the coaching team to show my support, the only thing that I can do in this game because it was not a really good game in the first half and it was told, I don't know, I spoke with them 10 minutes to go, 20 minutes to go to influence the tactic or whatever. If you would have won 5-0 they would say listen, there was a positive momentum but if you have not this momentum, a negative one, then all the information, the pictures would be twisted and it's difficult. I think we have to bring this momentum back and the minimum is back to basics to really to show that everyone is working hard for the club and in the end it's about a club. When Stefan and I had made a decision on some of which we thought probably we want to go a different way in a different direction but at the end the club is that important that we had to admit after 6 games that progress is not what we expected so we had to make a change because it's all about a club. So what would you say to the disillusion bracket supporters to reassure them to try to win that back because that is going to be the hardest part for you? I mean results dictating the game doesn't it? If you've seen in some of the comments about our, which I still think and be as a club, very good signings, everyone was happy, everyone started to speak about championship which is once more over excited and under excited. Then we won against Shrewsbury which was a really good game where the team showed a proper team spirit. They've done a huddle before the game with the fans. It was fantastic. Fans have seen me later on at a service station and said they've never stayed until the last second of a game because it was that exciting. Four weeks later everything is loom and doom, how do you say in English? That's the momentum we missed and then the expectations raised after the Shrewsbury game to say Barnsley is coming. Barnsley is a proper automatic promotion spot team and then it started to go the other way but I don't want to see everything negative in these two years because don't forget we've been in the first year in Wembley. When we've taken over and in the summer I think we've done, like I said, good signings and everything was ready and after the Shrewsbury game we've seen comments, are we going up? So we have to come down, it's result orientated. If we win the next three games then everyone's happy once more so it's really the momentum we are looking for now. But we have to give David of course time because he can't change the world from one day to another and the confidence was very low from the players which is normal in such situations if you have no success. But we have to stick together now and really support the team and if they show effort and fight and are aggressive and we have a good chance at Blackpool and we can turn the situation very quick around then. Will you change because you obviously have this hands-on approach? Will you allow David to manage? I don't know where this discussion is coming from once more. When I hear and I've been told I'm picking the team, how can a chairman pick a team? I mean you can ask the former managers and head coaches, I've never picked a team, you can ask Craig Abbott, we can ask everyone to pick the team is the manager's job and the head coach job. I could easily say when we went to Wembley and you made an interview with me I can say yes it was me because I picked the team the whole year but it wasn't, it was Stuart. So for me this hands-on, we have a lot of things to do off the pitch where I'm very hands-on because we invested in the pitch where I think Greg Abbott also mentioned it's the best pitch he's ever seen and David you played on it. So I think that's also kind of people should appreciate it that they see off the pitch we have to invest and we have to change the club in off the pitch to understand that if you want to be on a certain level, if you dream to be in another league then you have to prepare the club. The next league is the fifth highest league in the world so we have to prepare off the pitch on the pitch, it's David's job and it was the job from the managers and the previous head coaches to put things right. We can support as a club of course in preparing the budget to get the right players and to have a very good squad to have a realistic and competitive chance to reach our targets. But at the end, on the pitch it's about the management, the coaches and the players. When you said that David needs time you obviously will dictate that time but surely you don't appreciate the club now needs a period of stability. David's the fourth head coach in the calendar year of 2018. Yes, the first two have been the last season and Simon will sign until the end of the season. And for this season of course we need now stability definitely but we have to give David the best chance to be successful. And the best chance is if you all stick together and help David to have the right stuff and the right people around him to get whatever he needs. That's my job now, off the pitch. I think there's not much difference. I think if you look at the teams in Scotland, Championship, Premier League clubs, I think the biggest thing that English teams have is the budgets they have. Whereas there's been a lot of players who have left the Championship in Scotland and the Premier League on very successful careers in England. I think what you have in Scotland is you have a determination.  So every player that plays in Scotland has a passion, a heart. They want to play well and they're looking for a desire to come down here. I think budgets, the money it's in England compared to Scotland, is probably dictating where people see that finance. But I think if you had a lot of players who travel from Scotland to England, do really well. And I've noticed a few boys who travel from England to Scotland to go and play Struggle. So it's a mixture of, I think it's a mentality thing and who's going to play and I don't think football doesn't change. I think everybody's going to see the same principles and I think what I've done at Livingston is prove that I can coach and I can manage and I can develop players. And as long as the players buy into that, the two training sessions I've had with them, they've been fantastic, everyone in them. And I've got a lot of players to work with and as I say, it's one of the challenges that I really look forward to. Now it's about players learning, learning how I work, what my standards are and I've been positive rather than I've seen so far. I think we've watched them on Weiscout, I've not seen them live obviously, Greg and Martin have seen a lot of them. And really what we've got to work out is what we're going to do. We know it's going to be a tough game. They're a good sider at home and I say it's one we're looking forward to and the things that I've put across this week to the players, they've all bought into it so far. And after Saturday I've a better idea of players that I can look at and see where the strengths and weaknesses are and hope for them very good at turning their weaknesses into positive strengths. Is there any other players you've been with before? Is there any other players you've been aware of? Bradford, yeah, I think there's a load of young players, Edd, that says earlier on that recruitment has been well. It's been a lot of players that's maybe played at a higher level and it's my job now to galvanise them, find a solution as quick as possible. I said we've got to make sure we can start with that on Saturday. We've got a platform to build from. And then going forward we'll just keep building on what we want to do and what we want to progress at the club. And as it says, and hopeful over the next five or six weeks, people will start to see what I'm trying to work at, what I'm trying to do. But we will say it's all about results and that's the main thing in football no matter where you are. Has on, do you say that this form of play is here? Obviously it's a lot about that high level. Is it fair to say that we're going to achieve some of our goals and not doing some of justice in the team up to this point? I think under achievement is a one that's a wee bit strong. I think sometimes confidence goes. I think sometimes players are maybe a wee bit in the shell. Sometimes there's other elements in football. It's not just that it's football. Sometimes somebody made it away from football. But I know now over the last two or three days that I'm going to trust them. They're going to trust me and that's the biggest thing we're going to have. And as it says, the players of clear instructions are how we're going to play with the ball, without the ball. And it says we just need to keep working on that over the next five, six weeks to make sure we've got that in place. But under achievement, I don't know if it's a right word to use. I think people need to know that I'm a leader. And I lead by example in everything I do. So I think that's been clear over the last couple of days in training. They've seen how I work. I think they've enjoyed the training, they've enjoyed the intensity of it. So that's things, clear pictures in giving the players. You've got to realise that they're a young squad of players. And it's about me now giving them a responsibility when we play to make sure that they're going to have to grow up very quickly. And I'll make sure that they do it. And I'll make sure that they say they're part. They've got someone there that is going to encourage them. And make sure that we're going to go and try and get positive results in every game we play in.


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The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, has urged the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration in control, NAVDAC, to rescind its decision to ban the sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets and pet mortars less than 200 ml. Rising from a press briefing in Lagos, the Digi of MAN, Shegu Ajay Kandari, flung by CEOs of some distilling companies, says their regulator should rather consider in access, control, details and this report. The combined forces of the Food Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association and the National Union of Food Beverages and Tobacco Employees combined their voices to NAVDAC's recent ban. They say this regulatory measure places approximately 500,000 jobs at risk. They are received by the Director General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, who says the Association has their interest at heart. At this conference, senior members of the Union, as well as journalists, patiently waits to be briefed. The MAN Digi arrives and head straights the business. Shegu Ajay Kandari goes down memory lane on the memorandum of association reached between the regulator and the key stakeholders years ago. The MAN Digi who says the Association is mindful about the health of children and responsible drinking is however concerned that adequate consideration was not given before the outright ban as it negates the current administration's renewed hope agenda. He speaks alongside the Association of Distillers and Lenders. Post policy would amount to unnecessary and avoidable debilitation of the business of local and indigenous investors who truthfully and team have kept fit with the Nigerian economy. They have continued to invest and reinvest at enormous cost in the economy and in the Nigerian people who are the bulk of the nearly 500,000 people workforce. We are convinced that this present administration's renewed hope agenda will not be best served with this ban. If the administration is committed to encouraging and strengthening local investors, then this ban should give a way to assess control. Key players including key executives of distilling companies also share concerns of how it will also affect the entire value chain and not just the direct workers involved. And according to Nanda, the reason is to protect the underage from drinking alcohol. An average bottle of beer in Nigeria is 600 ml, right? Blast bottle. And an average bottle of beer in Nigeria has 5% alcohol volume. So if you do the simple maths, 600 ml times 5% is 30 ml of pure alcohol. Okay? So when you have a bottle of beer, you are consuming 30 ml of pure alcohol. Now let's take the sachet. The smallest sachet available today in the country is 30 ml. And sachet's spirits, let's say gin or whiskey is 40%. People see the percentage, they don't see the content. But if you multiply 30 ml by 40%, it gives you 12 ml of pure alcohol. So simple maths, one bottle of beer is equal to two and a half or three sachets. So if you want to ban sachets, why don't you ban beer? If the burning is sustained, we know how many people that will lose their job. In every household, every worker, at least, feeding at least five people, and look at the 500,000 that are direct workers of this distilleries company, multiplied it by five average.  In all the manufacturers association of Nigeria seeks collaborative effort to discourage underage drinking and encourage responsible drinking by adults and also the need for access control as it expects a reversal of the ban.


And then they're clear and then he drives right on by, right? They're not clear, you stop them right there, right? Not in this area. It's been in this area. We have to make sure you guys aren't like part of this. We haven't heard anything about that. We've seen it. We just received contact. Down there, they shot. I don't want you to shoot me because I'll reach down. Watch him. Alright. Don't stand too close. Don't stand too close. Pop it.