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- [Tatsu] Kemuri means "smoke" in Japanese, so everything

we do, I try to incorporate a little bit

of some kind of smoke.

I just wanna incorporate the roots of Japanese cooking, and

my experience from being in Texas to create this, like -- I

don't know -- "John Wayne on acid in Tokyo" kind of situation.

You know what I mean, so.

(laughing)

Izakaya is a Japanese gastropub; it's essentially a go-to

place for, you know, people in the neighborhood in Japan.

And the whole concept is, you're drinking and

eating little snacks here and there, and you're just

shooting the (bleep) with your friends -- that's izakaya.

- [Takuya] To me, the vibe's great, you know. It feels like

kinda walking into Japan. There's all these still Texas

elements inside and really high energy, positive energy.

- It's like a roadhouse in Japan.

(laughing)

Or, izakaya in Texas.

(fire crackling)

- [Takuya] Ramen is very regional; you can tell, especially

as we've traveled all over Japan.

- We live in Texas, where we can find awesome barbecue.

- [Takuya] It's just the natural progression.

- [Tatsyu] Essentially, Texas ramen is regional to here.

When we started playing around with it in 2012, family

meal -- let's put a brisket on it, oh, that's pretty good --

that really started it all.

I think it's all about the balance.

For me, I think brisket can't be too dry; essentially, like,

it melts in your mouth.

- [Takuya] The thing about brisket and smoking, so many

different variables that they place.

People that eat ramen are like really passionate about it.

[Takuya] Same thing with barbecue.

- [Tatsu] A lot of people ask, "How does Japanese food work

with food from Texas and smoked stuff?" and I always tell

them, the core of Japanese cuisine is dashi: it's actually

smoked, petrified bonito shavings, and you make stock

out of that, and it's almost used in every dish.

There is a smoky, umami element to it, just, you know, kind

of hits you right there.

(sizzling)

[Tatsu] When you go to Japan, in usually, like summertime,

there's a lot of street festivals, and they have a lot

of street vendors. And one of the things I love

is street corn -- in Japan, essentially it's butter-soy.

This corn is grilled, we skewer it, we add a little

butter/soy, and we finish it off with the yuzu pepper aioli

we make, queso fresco, there's togarashi bonito

flakes, green onions.

In Texas, we have the Hispanic influence, so the Mexican

street corn, you know.

- [Takuya] Elote.

- [Tatsu] It's elote, so, marry those together, why not.

BBQ Boat: it's essentially this platter of barbecue, but

it's kind of on the rotation, whatever we are feeling

at the time, we'll smoke it and make a little barbecue boat.

- [Takuya] A sushi boat.

- [Tatsu] It's kind of a little play on a barbecue

plate, our way.

The boat is cool, because it's an eclectic mix, you get

to experience what we're doing here.

- Sometimes we'll put stuff on the boat

that we don't have on the menu, put three items on there.

Today we're gonna put a brisket, duck, and unagi.

- [Tatsu] Which is eel.

- [Takuya] Well the brisket is a Texas-style brisket,

so we smoke it.

The unagi is the freshwater eel, that gets cold-smoked, and

then we finish on the binchotan grill.

Binchotan is a Japanese coal that burns longer and cleaner.

And then we have a duck, that gets smoked, and then we

finish it on the binchotan grill as well.

We always try to put the brisket on there, and the other two

are kind of rotating. I feel like a lot of people wouldn't

order it, but the unagi, once they try it, then they'll want

to start ordering it again.

- [Tatsu] This space right here used to be a barbecue spot.

Essentially this spot worked out perfect.

It's not a planned thing, it's not like we made this

out of thin air, but it's something we lived through.

- [Takuya] Yeah, definitely a representation of us, being

Japanese-Texans.

- [Tatsu] Yeah, it's just natural progression

from who we are.

We're Japanese, and I'm an immigrant, and I was raised here, so

(laughing) it just happened, you know.

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Apex Capital Visits the Texas Border - Duration: 5:54.

Apex Capital took a trip to the Texas border.

Laredo, to be exact.

We spent some time with our client Ramo Carriers.

I am Mario Tarradell with Apex and I interviewed Omar Gonzalez of Ramo Carriers, Huriel Saldivar

and Javier Andrade, both with Apex Capital.

Our conversation took place at the Ramo Carriers headquarters, an apartment-turned-office.

Ramo Carriers was formed in 2011, and began factoring with Apex in 2012.

The company hauls a little bit of everything, including rolls of paper, machinery, and medical

supplies.

A bit more history on Ramo Carriers: Omar was the general manager at a trucking company

about 2009.

There was a fence surrounding the company offices in need of repair.

The fence needed to be fixed so the company could pass certification.

That fence would become the inspiration for Omar's vision when he formed Ramo Carriers.

He wanted a trucking company in top shape, from the trucks to the fence, because a company

in top shape delivers excellent customer service.

Ramo Carriers, like Apex Capital, knows that without world class customer service, you

have nothing.

Like anything else, it has a beginning.

It started actually from one of the living rooms that we have and my son's bedroom

and it started growing and getting a little bit bigger and I needed more space.

I went to my garage and I turned that garage into an office and now we're here at an

apartment.

This happened from 2009 all the way to the present which is 2018.

I'm growing out of this apartment as we speak.

I came connected with Apex through a friend.

He recommended a factoring company and he mentioned Apex, that is was a professional

company and it provided the services that I needed at the time when I was growing.

I started investigating more about it and basically it evolved from there.

I started working with Mr. Huriel.

We as a company provide a service and we have to give very good customer service to our

clienteles that we have.

We have to deliver on time, we have to pick up on time, we have to turn in goods and he

provided that service in return as the attention that I needed for my company to grow.

To provide me with the necessities of funds, basically more of a one to one basis that

we have.

He's kind of like a family member of Ramo Carriers, I'm also a family member of Apex.

It's something very mutual.

And that is what I call my foundation, my financial foundation that I have.

They have a system to this point.

Their system works great for Ramo Carriers.

I can turn back and go into their system and I can see what I've done for the past four

or five or six years.

Everything is stored in there.

They are very professional in their system, in their customer service, in their management.

The attention is well above and beyond what I have seen from other companies.

You need a factoring company.

I would choose Apex anytime anywhere compared to other companies.

When I first spoke to Omar, he had goals.

He told me what he wanted to do, where he was at and I thought to myself; okay in order

to help him get there, I need to get involved in his company.

I'm not going to just process this invoice, I'm going to get to know him.

I need to know what he's working with and I'm going to use everything that is available

to me to help him reach those goals.

You know, speaking everything single day whether it is about his work or what's going on

in his life.

It all ties in together because at the end of the day, we're not going to treat our

clients as a number.

We need to look at them as a business partner because we're a team.

No it's just great to see that relationship, how it builds on a day to day basis and over

the years.

Huriel really cares about his customers, he really looks to understand their businesses.

Mr Omar came over a year ago to our office to visit and tell us what his plan is for

the future and then that way we understand what he is trying to do, what his goals are

and then we try to look at what do we have available that we can help him to meet those

goals that he has.

And Huriel has done a great job of understanding that and trying to help Omar reach all his

dreams and goals that he has for himself and his family.

Apex is in the same mentality that I am.

That's what makes them different than the competitors out there; customer service.

Customer service will make you shine or will make you fail but if you have a very good

positive attitude towards giving that customer service, that's what makes a company different,

that's why people go after you, they ask for your services.

That's how I was told about Apex and I'm still with Apex to this point, I don't plan

to change.

Ramo Carriers and Apex Capital thank you for watching.

We hope you'll join us again soon.

Goodbye for now, Laredo.

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Texas teacher placed on leave for talking about her wife - Duration: 5:07.

Hey everyone, it's Zinnia.

Let's read the news!

From Newsweek:

"An elementary school teacher in Texas was suspended after she allegedly spoke about

her sexual orientation with her students, officials said Tuesday.

Charlotte Anderson Elementary art teacher Stacy Bailey, 31, was suspended with pay in

September.

Officials with the Mansfield Independent School District (ISD) said it received complaints

from parents about her discussing her sexual orientation with students.

… District officials said the teacher was not suspended over her request to include

LGBTQ language in its nondiscrimination policy.

Instead, the district said, Bailey was suspended because she "insists that it is her right

and that it is age appropriate for her to have ongoing discussions with elementary-aged

students about her own sexual orientation, the sexual orientation of artists, and their

relationships with other gay artists."

"Parents have the right to control the conversation with their children, especially as it relates

to religion, politics, sex/sexual orientation, etc.," the statement continued."

Now, it could be the case that the school district simply phrased this poorly.

But such a policy as stated would be disingenuous in the extreme.

On its face, this stance presents an appearance of neutrality, treating sexual orientation

altogether as something to be discussed by students' parents and guardians rather than

their teachers.

But in practice, it's hard to imagine such a policy being applied neutrally at all.

When was the last time a teacher was put on leave for mentioning her husband?

When was the last time a teacher was put on leave for mentioning his wife?

Really, when was the last time a history teacher was disciplined for teaching about kings and

their many wives, or First Ladies and their role in American civic life?

This is clearly a non-issue – when it's about straight people.

Yet when a teacher – or an artist being studied – has a same-sex partner, this is

now treated as a fact of their life that needs to be quarantined and kept out of the classroom.

When the sexual orientation of straight people is a constant and unquestioned presence in

the curriculum, this supposedly neutral policy really only serves to elevate one sexual orientation

above the rest.

Such policies are a cousin to the UK's Section 28, which required that schools "shall not

intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality"

or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality

as a pretended family relationship".

The ambiguous scope of this law created an atmosphere of overbroad caution and wariness,

where schools now felt it was necessary to shut down gay-straight alliances and teachers

were discouraged from stepping in when students were subjected to homophobic bullying.

This school district's policies may not single out queer sexual orientations by name,

but their uneven enforcement effectively singles them out as a uniquely unwelcome intrusion

into the learning environment.

"The sexual orientation of artists, and their relationships with other gay artists"

is not some ancillary or trivial area of study that can be so easily discarded.

When I was in 6th grade, my art class had a unit on Keith Haring during which we somehow

managed to learn almost nothing about him.

Sure, we learned plenty about the technical aspects of his work, and some recurring visual

themes like babies and dogs and UFOs.

We were even tasked with creating our own art incorporating some of his best-known motifs.

But it wasn't until years later, when I looked up Keith Haring online, that I found

out he was gay.

We didn't learn that Keith Haring was a gay artist.

We didn't learn about his AIDS activism, or his work Silence=Death.

We didn't learn that Keith Haring died of AIDS.

In our class, all of his extensive commentary on social issues of the 1980s had been silenced,

cut out, quarantined.

We received a deficient education because someone took it upon themselves to section

apart the life of this great artist, and decide for us that his illustrations of dogs and

hearts were more important than the reality of the inspirations and life circumstances

that fueled his creative work.

All we were left with was art, a very limited selection of art devoid of anything remotely

challenging, without an artist.

I see this school district trying to cut such an inappropriate line through their art curriculum

and through the lives of the faculty tasked with teaching it.

It's as if they want the event of teaching to take place, without the inconvenience of

a teacher who exists in her fullness as a person with a life of her own – the same

life that heterosexual teachers are allowed to live unhindered.

That is the furthest thing from neutral.

Thanks for watching, remember to like, comment, subscribe, and support more of my work on

Patreon!

See you soon!

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Who is Ted Cruz? Conservative Republican Senator of Texas | NowThis - Duration: 7:45.

Aspirations?

Is that like sweat on my butt?

That's Senator Ted Cruz.

Former Republican presidential aspirant turned key White House ally.

Rafael Edward Cruz was born in 1970.

In Canada.

But he moved to Texas at an early age.

Throughout his adolescence, he went by the nickname "Felito,"

but it didn't last for long, because, he said,

During this time he aptly called his "unpopular nerd" phase,

young Felito was trying so hard to desperately fit in.

He ditched his glasses for contacts, took up sports,

and even covered a rival school in toilet paper, leading to a car chase with janitors.

But with time, comes change. And boy did he get cool.

[Rapid Gunfire]

Cruz attended two private high schools before graduating from Princeton in 1992.

At Princeton, many of Cruz's peers used the word "creepy" to describe the one-day Senator.

He'd reportedly often sport a paisley bathrobe and walk through his dorm to where the female students lived.

His roommate at the time recalls fielding frightened girls' complaints like,

"Could you please keep your roommate out of our hallway?"

Cruz left the girls' dormitory for Harvard Law,

graduating in '95.

Fresh out of law school, he took a position with private practice,

Cooper Carvin & Rosenthal—

where he helped prepare his boss's testimony before the House of Representatives

in former President Bill Clinton's impeachment proceedings.

In 1999, Cruz joined George W. Bush's presidential campaign as a domestic policy advisor.

According to co-workers on the campaign,

Cruz would send emails at all hours boasting about his most recent feats.

Cruz claims his role was crucial in the famous Florida recount,

the one where a guy who lost the popular vote ended up winning,

but a few top Bush aides don't even remember Cruz having a role.

Bush's campaign manager noted,

In 2003, Cruz became solicitor general of Texas,

a powerful legal position he held for 5 years,

longer than anyone in state history.

He turned what had been an 'under-the-radar,

apolitical office into an aggressively ideological one,'

fighting to display the Ten Commandments on state grounds

and defending a law criminalizing the sale of dildos.

To again quote Cruz's roommate:

By 2008, Cruz jumped back into private practice,

joining Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius,

where he'd work to help big pharma peddle drugs.

He represented a pharmaceutical company

that urged one of its employees to promote "off-label" use of the company's products,

a practice that urges medical professionals to prescribe

a drug in ways other than those approved by the F.D.A.,

just to sell more drugs.

He lost.

But that didn't hurt Cruz, who ran for Senate in Texas in 2012 and won 56% of the vote.

Cruz and his wife, Heidi, who is still a high-level employee at Goldman Sachs,

helped usher Ted's winning Senate campaign thanks to loans from Goldman Sachs and CitiBank—

both of which they failed to disclose in a campaign finance report,

which is DEFINITELY illegal.

The couple did disclose them on personal financial disclosure forms

in the Senate -

and they claim their failure to report the campaign loans was "inadvertent".

By 2013, with Cruz leading the effort to defund Obamacare,

the government shut down.

After the shutdown,

many of Cruz's closest allies were very upset with how badly his strategy had failed.

A former aide to Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said it was

After 16 days, and minor changes to Obamacare, the Government was back open for business.

That groundswell of respect and support would bring Cruz In 2015,

to announce his presidential candidacy.

In the midst of his run, Cruz was a key speaker at a religious liberty rally held by this guy:

Their sons are rebelling, hanging out with homosexuals and getting married.

And the parents are invited.

What would you do if that was the case?

Here's what I would do:

Sackcloth and ashes

At the entrance of the church,

I'd sit with cow manure and I'd spread it all over my body, that's what I would do.

Although Cruz less backlash than he did for allegedly eating a booger,

But with him, it's a big old juicy booger falls out of his nose,

sits on his lip for a good 15 seconds and then falls to the bottom lip—

and then like he's a lizar-reptoid or something- lizard.

The tongue just loving it, this is actually probably how he eats, he's from another planet.

Cruz ended up suspending his campaign in May of 2016

after being bullied endlessly by Trump and a batch of others.

To sum it up, here's a bunch of clips:

If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate,

and the trial was in the Senate,

nobody would convict you.

I'm beginning to understand why Ted Cruz has been hated by everyone,

every place he's ever been.

I am not endorsing Ted Cruz, I hate Ted Cruz,

and I think I'd take cyanide if he ever got the nomination.

I got along with everybody.

You get along with nobody, you don't have one Republican-

you don't have one Republican Senator and you work with them everyday of your life,

although you skipped a lot of time— these are minor details.

Trump even threatened to sue Cruz for not being a natural born citizen

and accused his father of being linked to the JFK assassination.

Cruz's general vibe led to the internet accusing him of being the Zodiac Killer,

an accusation still being investigated.

It didn't stop there.

At the Republican National Convention,

Cruz took the stage for what many thought would be an endorsement of Trump,

If you love our country,

and love your children as much as I know that you do,

stand and speak and vote your conscious—

vote for candidates up and down the ticket

who you trust to defend our freedom.

The morning after, he defended his decision, saying,

But just two months later...

This is Ted Cruz calling. I was calling to encourage you to come out and vote on election day.

2020 could spell hope for a Senator Cruz who could be looking for revenge on the very man

who mopped the floor with him throughout the entirety of the previous cycle.

Afterall, he already made his plans very clear...

Take over the world, world domination.

You know, rule everything, rich, powerful—that sort of stuff.

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Is West Texas Sinking Into a Hole of Its Own Making? - Duration: 8:00.

Is West Texas Sinking Into a Hole of Its Own Making?

Parts of West Texas are sinking — and other parts quaking and shaking — thanks to oil and gas extraction.

A new study using satellite data to measure ground changes near Pecos, Monahans, Wink and Kermit, Texas, finds multiple disturbances, including places where the ground is sinking up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) a year.

In one spot, the ground dropped so much that it formed a new lake, Lake Boehmer.

This area of the oil-rich Permian basin is relatively sparsely populated, but hydrocarbon extraction there is booming, and the area is crisscrossed with roadways and pipelines for moving oil and gas.

The network is enormously dense, said study researcher Zhong Li, a geophysicist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

This infrastructure is threatened by the shifting ground, Li told Live Science.

Man-made change.

Li and his colleagues measured the ground changes as part of a wider project examining how human activities are altering the Gulf Coast.

West Texas is a big place, Li said, and many of the hotspots for ground movement are fairly small, on the order of 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) or so across.

To pinpoint these relatively small regions, the researchers turned to two satellites, the European Space Agencys Sentinel 1A and 1B.

These satellites launched in 2014 and 2016, respectively.

Among other things, the satellites use radar to measure changes in land surfaces over time. .

The team focused on a 100-mile by 100-mile (160 by 160 kilometers) square in West Texas, just south of the New Mexico border and slightly southwest of the cities of Midland and Odessa.

Within that square, they searched for changes of at least centimeters per year that covered areas of between 200 square meters and 2 square kilometers (about 650 square feet to 1.2 square miles).

   . They found many.

In two areas, the ground was actually rising slightly.

At two wells on the border of Winkler and Loving counties, the surface had risen 2.16 inches (5.5 cm) over the study period, probably because of the injection of wastewater from well-drilling below the surface.

Similarly, part of the North Ward Estes Field, which is in Ward and Winkler counties, saw an uplift of just over an inch (3 cm) from 2014 to 2017, likely due to the injection of carbon dioxide into the rock to pressurize the reservoir and enhance oil recovery.

Settling down.

In many other spots, the ground was not rising, but sinking.

Near Wink and Imperial, Texas, old wells that have been abandoned but not properly plugged with cement have allowed freshwater to seep into the ground, dissolving salt formations deep under the surface.

As voids open up underground, they can cause the surface to sink or collapse.

 Near Wink, a sinkhole opened up in 1980 and another in 2002; the ground around these sinkholes is still dropping down by about 1.5 inches (4 cm) a year, Li and his colleagues found.

Near Imperial, subsidence from leaky wells that were in some cases drilled 50 years ago has caused major problems.

Boehmer Lake, a brackish body of water just south of town, didnt exist until 2003, Li said.

Now there is a lake! he said.

Farm-to-Market Road 1053 near the lake is sinking by 4 inches (10 cm) a year, Li and his team discovered.

That road has been closed due to its instability.

And at the Santa Rosa Spring southwest of the town of Grandfalls, the ground is also dropping.

The surface level has gone down by 9 inches (23 cm) total since 2014, the satellite data revealed.

This subsidence is probably also caused by the dissolution of salt formations below the surface, Li said, though its not totally clear how or why the salt is dissolving so rapidly.

Finally, the research team discovered about 1.7 inches (4.5 cm) of subsidence at Wolfbone Field, south of the town of Pecos.

This field has also been the site of six small earthquakes, one in 2015 and five in 2017.

The ground is likely slumping at Wolfbone Field because of the large amount of oil removed from the subsurface since 2015, Li and his team wrote in the journal Scientific Reports.

The same changes could make temblors more likely, they added.

Li and his team are funded by NASA to investigate the man-made geological changes along the Gulf Coast, and they still have two more years to complete that project, which will cover West Texas all the way to northern Florida.

Theyre now attempting to get funding to study the rest of the Permian Basin in West Texas, as well.

Monitoring the changing landscape will help in coming up with new methods to prevent further sinking, sliding and quaking, Li said.