All right, guys so What are you the most confident I said is what do you eat on keto and there's really not a simple answer to this The reality is we have people that are in you know, the UK and Australia and Singapore and China and Taiwan and Hong Kong Canada and Mexico y'all we all eat differently So to have a short answer anytime you meet somebody if you're following somebody online like this is what you do This is how you eat you probably should stop following them because most likely that's not what you're going to do. So after 20 years of guiding people to this journey Nobody eats the same and it's never perfect and you have to find your own way But I do have a simpler path that you can figure out I can tell you some things to eat not to eat but what I can tell you also is that if you're going to do a strict ketogenic diet that It takes time you look at six months to a year to really figure it out otherwise, you're probably going to quit and the reality is most people deviate off of it and But if you can stay in ketosis and elevate your ketones, then it's it's remarkable what can happen So I'm going to show you what how I eat and what some foods that I use Here in oh, look at this I'm tick tox telling me to do something. I'm not sure what it's telling me to do. So I did it So here's what I'm gonna. I'm gonna show you some things to eat the first thing I do in the morning This is how a day of my life would go now prior to prove it It was crazy. I would get up in the morning. I would fast probably three times a week I would eat usually bison burgers with avocado in the morning I'd have two bison burgers with avocado about 40 grams of protein I would have chicken thighs for lunch with the salad every day for lunch the same thing And then for dinner would be a variety of things. I usually go off for dinner I was single back then when I first started so I would go out to dinner my wife and I when we got married We'd make like really cool low carb. We'd make pot roast a lot of pot roast. We'd make steaks burgers I'm allergic to fish. I couldn't eat fish. So that's what I did Um You from a question mark. I'm from America. I'm from Canada. I'm from where am I from?  They're not actually eating meals and they're gonna quit If that's if that if you're like that if you'd like to snack a lot on low carb options Who are my who are my low carb snackers out there? Hit me in the chat. Let me know who you are. It doesn't work long term. It just doesn't work long term Situational a snack is a snack a snack should ever replace food if that makes any sense So I'm gonna show you what I do. So first thing I do in the morning. I wake up. I Drink my ketones first thing in the morning Sometimes I have coffee with keto cream. Sometimes I don't Around lunch time. I've opened up this thing. I just got this in that's why I'm doing the live on this It's just arrived. So where are my people eating proven meals right now if you're eating proven meals Tell me what your favorite meal is so This is what I do. I have Meals that come in What's really cool about these meals is that they're already pre-packaged for me. So this one's 440 calories It's very low carb keto friendly right off the bat. I don't have to worry about the carbohydrates I don't have to worry about what's in it mostly organic at least all-natural What what can be organic that's organic some things are some things are not but it's all-natural and what's really Special about this is that the fat that they use in it is all fat That is not going to simulate bad in your body One of the things that people are struggling with today is that the fats that they're using and how they're cooking with them are Actually not helping them. They're hurting them and it's in that's important So everything in here is designed For people that want to be low carb healthy healthy healthy eaters And so I have this for lunch and I don't do this every day I do this four days a week the other three days I figure I Because I want to do some of the things that I like to do that aren't necessarily in the box So this one's here is a chicken parmesan with broccoli. That's this one I Plop plop plonio plop plop. How do you a poblino? I don't know how to say that. It's really good though I just don't know say it poblano, poblano. I say that right poblano. This is poblano chicken skillet This is this one. So this one is this is a chicken parmesan with broccoli This is 430 calories. So right off the bat right here. I'm just under a thousand calories for today So now I get to make up my different calories with things that I might enjoy So I might add a little extra protein to this because I'm a little bit bigger I work out a lot a lot of my females. This is about all they will eat for the day This is it. This is your food consumption for the day with a little bit of maybe snacks or something as a little added bonus But that's the reality of keto. That's that's the reality What happens is people want to get really creative and overwhelming themselves with all these different things and they tend to overeat Not eating the right amount of foods and they're not getting the results that they want and they all quit So that's the crazy thing if you're gonna quit why even start that journey? So this is a really cool way recently I've had a lot of people come on and what they're doing is they're saying listen I don't necessarily want to eat this food all forever But let me do it for 30 or 60 days so that I can learn what it's like and then I can find what I want to keep I want to give but what I want to do what I don't want to do it like that's a great idea Because the alternative is is to go home figured out and fail before you even get it figured out So this kind of gets you set up and to be figured out. There's some really cool things This is like a mini plate. So it's something that's really for on the go It has a really good dipping sauce. It has some peppers in it and then some chicken in there. This is really cool It's some 450 calories. So this is just easy for on the go.  So it's pretty awesome stuff. There's a variety of different foods in here but this is what I do this comes to me once a week and I have it in my refrigerator and I get to cook it up My wife uses it also my there's more boxes downstairs. This is just mine But there's more stuff downstairs and my brother-in-law uses it to who is also keto So we're all different keto in different ways But this is the cool thing y'all is if you want to really maximize your health You and you want to be keto you probably know what you're doing if you're not started already what you're doing isn't right at the same time if you want to You know, you gotta in your brain to put in your mind It's gonna take six months or a year to kind of figure it all out People well, you know, I tried it for a month. It didn't work for me. That doesn't mean it doesn't work It just means that you didn't commit long enough to it It's it's been around since the human existence of humans. So it works It's just a matter of people committing time to it And that's it's tough because when you know you when you know that there's a process people need And it's like the Sun, right? Everybody needs the Sun. There's a very very very very unique person out there that may genetically can't handle the Sun But as a whole we all need the Sun. You can't say the Sun's bad You just say that I need a certain amount of the Sun and it's the same thing with keto It's the same thing with food. It's just got to take time to figure out what that is for you And with different cultures, you're gonna have to find what's working within your own culture So that's what I do.  Does it mean you ever have to you have to quit forever? Not necessarily, but if you want to be keto and you want to maintain that Upward level of health then we have to really reduce those things And find an alternative that's better for you. That's why I drink my ketones I do that four days a week other three days I give myself a little bit of flexibility on leeway now my flexibility on leeway might be watermelon It might be some apples. It might be a little bit of corn chips It's not necessarily chicken wings, which I don't mind chicken wings by the way, but It's not pizza. Those are not my flexibility. That's me. I've been doing this for 20 years So I've got I've worked myself out of the pizza world Truth is is every time I eat pizza, which is not very often I'm usually pleasantly disappointed even though I'm optimistically excited to have it because it's like I haven't had it forever. It smells so good and I eat it. I'm like, yeah, you know It really didn't do much for me. I'd rather have a steak so Y'all get your ketones in your system It's a game-changer You know, it's I'm gonna be doing a talk here in a little bit I haven't decided how I want to do it But if you get to know me, I'm not super confrontational as a whole. I just I've never been and But there's something I have on my heart that's pretty heavy that You know, I hear people and usually they're like, you know nutritionist doctors Actually less doctors but nutritionist maybe some nurses fitness instructors personal trainers That are like you don't need to do that. You don't need to drink ketones You can do it. You're you can do it through diet and lifestyle. They're they're just they're ignorant. That's what they are Not that I used to think adren's is a bad word. That just means they're unknowledgeable and understanding something and when you're Unknowledgeable and understanding something and you're an influencer you have to be really careful And it's one of the reasons why I appreciate a lot of my medical doctor friends that I have is that they're the first ones that they're Unknowledgeable on something. They're the first ones that they don't poo poo it and they don't they don't say don't most of them There's some that do the most of them don't they're the ones that are more open-minded saying listen You should check it out Investigate it and decide if it's fit for you. We put it correct But I appreciate that because there's some influence about there That just they don't understand people and I and I always ask each one every time every time I hear it from I'm talking to him I ask him directly how many lives have you changed and give me a number if it's not if it's not above a thousand or 5,000 or 10,000 lives then you got to be careful because When you're working with people that are going through emotional stress psychological stress physiological stress have autoimmune challenges health challenges Ups and downs GI challenges all these things Doing a hardcore diet and exercise Probably isn't gonna work for him fast enough for them to change your life And that's not even that's even not even adding the science behind why it won't work for him Just lifestyle choices is gonna be hard for them to make changes So if we can give them support and help to move them along the way, why would you not right? Why would you not give them that it's just no different than that same person that says that they go out and drink to have Fun like why you have to drink the fun, but you shouldn't have to do that, right? Well, it just makes easier. That's why that's why I do it It makes it more fun. So If you're gonna get healthy why not have tools to help get you there and so those naysayers there I haven't decided how I'm gonna do it yet. It's coming And how's coming with me? I'm just kidding, but um But I'm excited about that because you know, we found a recipe that works And the recipe isn't food the recipe well part of the recipes food, but it's drink your ketones every day It's simple y'all you get therapeutic ketones in 30 minutes. You feel better energy and focus you live better You just feel better. It's I always say when I first started with privet I'm like if I can give you the end results of how it feels to feel good You will do more to get to there, right? If I can teleport you to Hawaii You're more likely to make effort to get to Hawaii, right? But if you never know what it's like to get there, you're more likely to have an excuse never to go So drinking ketones is is a teleportation to Hawaii and it gets you excited to want to go Maybe work out which I'm going to the gym here in about three minutes It gets you excited to maybe eat a little bit better It gets you excited just to go to bed at night because you feel good and you want to keep taking care of yourself And then when you start seeing your how your family is treating you differently and people are treating you different Yes, people treat you differently and when you are healthier people act differently around you They don't feel bad for you. They actually are they're excited for you That is you feel that and it perpetuates a positive momentum in your life And that's what this does and the recipe is drink your ketones eat Four days minimum high quality foods at least two good whole low-carb meals preferably that's all you eat Don't add a lot of those four days the other three days you do the best can and listen I was gonna do a live on fitness, but I did set it not to do it If you really want to change your life, you got to get mo you got to get active You got to get your body in motion I have a good friend of mine. My name is keto wheels and her name is Tammy She's been in wheelchair for many years and she inspires me and and if somebody knows her tagger in this video I'll tell her I was talking about but She inspires me why because yeah, she's in a wheelchair and life is not always easy For her she got a lot of things but man she keeps her body moving And I'm like dang. I need my hip replaced. I need my knee replaced I need my other every place I just said two shoulders completely done And I get complacent and I'm like man. She's got it figured out So get your body moving and then find a way to be accountable and accountability can come in a lot of ways Accountability is important accountability So be accountable to something I like social media because if I'm gonna say I'm gonna go live I gotta go live, right? So I use social media as an accountability. I'm gonna go run 10 miles. Well, then You guys can call me on it if I don't Right. Um, sometimes it's a friend or a family. Sometimes it's a co-worker But having accountability is important and accountability works better um, people have paid me a lot of money to Help them be accountable and I promise you this You can give me $10,000. I'll take it you give me $10,000 to be accountable And you're more likely to be accountable to a friend and a family and a loved one that you see every day That you have to look in the eye then it is giving up the money for me Because there's there's no emotional investment in me, right? There's an emotional investment of money But there's more of an emotional investment in that person that you're looking in the eye And when you feel like you're letting them down, you're more likely to do it anyway And so accountability is another big factor and that's the recipe for success You just do that do that do that do that do that over and repeat and repeat and repeat So y'all I gotta go work out Have an unbelievable night. I gotta put that food in the fridge It's in my office, which is far from the fridge So I gotta go put my food in my fridge, but um, I appreciate y'all listening Remember if you don't have your ketones get your ketones get back to whoever is inviting you to follow my pages If nobody's invited you to follow my pages then reach out to me But if somebody invited you to follow me get back to them Get your ketones from them. Don't quit Drink it for at least 90 days before you ever give it a full shake like it takes time Everything takes time anything great takes time Everything takes time. Yeah, you might feel it faster, uh, but it still takes time to figure things out Um and get back to him if not get back to me and I'll take care of you and help you out If you haven't gotten your proof of meals and you're in america get your proof of meals. It just It's like, oh my god, this is so much easier and one week of meals is the same cost for my wife and I that uber eats so it's like We've saved tons of money by getting these foods too because we when we uber eat it's always this this this this it adds up to Damn fast that we spend maybe two uber eats a week is more It's way more expensive than one box of food for for for us for the week. So, um, It's simple. It's easy y'all and yes, unfortunately, we're not in mexico yet So i'm sorry not our food our ketones are but our food is not um, so y'all I appreciate y'all have an unbelievable night and uh, We'll see you on the flip side. Cheers


welcome back y'all I think this is day four being here day three at hunting camp I'm gonna throw a shirt on so you don't have to look my exhausted body that's the thing I'm I'm totally exhausted I just took a nap and y'all this is rough this is really rough it's rough physically it's rough mentally there's bow hunting for elk public land nothing around like the most remote place I've ever been besides New Zealand probably I've hunted the evening after I set up camp I hunted the morning the next day I went fishing and then I hunted a full day that's two and a half days so I hunted a half day this morning I don't know if you could tell I'm exhausted I think what's even harder than hunting these elk is is filming the whole thing like self-filming this hunt and try to capture everything on camera it's it's really impossible I got so lucky the first day I went out and I was able to hear elk or see elk and then hear bugles and get out I had time to get out my camera and film those I really think I've been hunting that same group of elk this whole time there's that one big bull and a bunch of cows and a couple of spikes in the group and just the way I've I've looked at their trails I've literally just like analyzing poop every day and tracks and around watering spots like I have walked the same ridge these miles of ridges for days now by the time you see them there's no time to get out a camera and really good you know film anything and most of the time they're they're busting me before I even see them I'll get like a glance of a leg or you know just just like and some antlers moving if I'm lucky enough to see the bull you know I'll start to move around and then all of a sudden like there's there's one cow or something over here that spotted me already and they take off it's it's just so impossible it seems to sneak up on them and even more impossible to get it get them on camera at least with a big camera so my strategy is just take take a GoPro on my head and when it happens just turn it on and and shoot I think that's my only chance to to get any real elk on camera footage besides seeing them from far away purpose to me coming up here is to really learn about elk hunting and immerse myself in it by myself and learn through failures that's how I've learned everything in my life like the best way is just go out there and experience it time time on the water time in the woods and then you learn from those failures and I've had some help from some buddies on you know general information general areas but I'm learning I'm learning a lot every day so I'm totally exhausted after this morning I was just like mentally done I called this bull down and I heard him bugle early in the morning I went to an area where I busted them last evening and I figured there'd be something there and as soon as I got up to the same elevation where they're hanging at gave a call heard a bugle and he started working his way down I couldn't see him but I could hear him getting a little closer and then and then I saw his antlers and it was in the Navalanche shoot and I could see him about a hundred yards away and I started to get into position to make a shot and there were some elks or some cows up on this ridge that were his cows I guess and one of them saw me and busted and then he just kind of disappeared I don't know where he went and they're just like ghosts I don't know how when you hear them run through the woods it sounds like I heard a cattle coming through there and breaking branches and you can the sign of an elk versus a sign of a whitetail like all of their poop and tracks and even just moving through the woods it's so easy to see but they're silent it seems or I guess they're just sitting still every time I'm walking through there and they bust me so like I came up here just to learn like I didn't really have that big expectations to get on elk much less a big bull like a shooter bull but now I've seen this bull for every day I've been here and I'd love to make it happen I'd love to just get anything would be a monster accomplishment what I think is the plan what I think my best chance is to stay up there with them so instead of exhausting myself going up and down the mountain I think this evening I'm gonna take my pack out to it I'm gonna build my pack up a little heavier bring a couple meals and my cook kit and I've had I've had some problems with the coal it's been colder here than I thought and so much more dehydrated up here than what I'm used to I just go use breakfast I had some eggs and ham and potatoes but I've basically been eating the same thing every day I've got I've got a few fish left so my resources are running down but I just kind of want to give you a tour of the the pad here four days in show it show you what it looks like it's kind of like a hunting bachelor pad and it's a reflection of my mental exhaustion right now my tent is it's huge and it's so comfortable and I don't want to leave it I really don't want to take my little tent and stay up there on the mountain I think it's gonna be even colder but it's been cold here I've been sleeping in this this Sierra designs sleeping bag it's a 20 degree bag and the key is this sleeping pad right here this extra huge sleeping pad I got that's made by Teton I think yeah it's an extra large and I've got the cot to match it and it's I mean I can sleep as good on that as I can at home over here is our is our laundry center I got my dirty clothes in here hanging up this is just kind of a total wreck situation I've been I've been trying to charge things but I'm running low on batteries and this thing that one of you guys sent me it's been pretty cool but it's dying now so I'm trying to charge these GoPro batteries get them going I'm almost out I've kind of kept a lot of clothes and food and just general stuff in this big bag here I don't have my puffy pants I wish I did but I've also been using these these basmati bags just organized different stuff like this is toiletries medical stuff foods only brought two pairs of pants so I'm just alternating those letting one dry and using the other and then that's my pack it's been pretty light but this is what I've been carrying some extra clothes rain gear it's been raining every day and my lenses and camera stuff and then obviously like knives flashlights yeah it looks like an absolute wreck in here because that's what I am right now but I love you I don't want to leave you step outside the house here this place is covered with flies and mosquitoes I've really been having to close make sure I close that so I don't get flies in here got another storm brewing off in the distance it's about that time of day the truck it's covered in dust I've got one cooler here and this is what I've kept my kept my fish in I've got eggs you know there's my fish I have left so I'm gonna eat those for a head up on the mountain for the big-time journey here's my bow it's hanging up right there really having to make sure I don't bang I'm carrying this I'm not it's not strapped to my back so it's a lot of work having your pack and then just literally carrying your bow in your hand step back out out here this is my my hangout pad this is where I come and I just look at nature get the fire going and sit in my little seat right there just kind of check out the the scenery and then I've got my other cooler it's kind of running low on ice but other stuff in there milk vegetables whatnot still got my fly rod ready to dangle if I need to right here I got my water filtration system I just take this hose pull it out of here and I can kind of wash off whatever I've taken one bath since I've been here it was kind of like a half bath situation it was down there in that river which is coming from the ice off the mountains and that really sucked that was one of the quickest little baths I've ever had the first couple days I really just enjoyed setting up camp fishing dabbling and scouting and stuff like that and now mentally like I'm just I'm I'm here for the elk it's gotten me like when I've heard those first bugles it was like this is next level right here next level hunting and because it's such a big challenge I just want to do it it would be an incredible accomplishment and that's my focus right now I might need to go catch a few more fish but if I'm heading up in the mountains it's pretty much just gonna be mountain house meals and hopefully we can stay warm so oh I'm gonna rest a little bit more eat up and then we're heading up there for good and you're coming with me still raining a little bit of hail it's time to head out spend my next round 16 18 hours on the mountain bags packed prepared I've got the equivalent of four bottled waters in there I've got food I have basically everything I need to sleep I'm leaving the big bad behind gonna miss you baby I'm hoping that this is gonna be worth worth it maybe not I might just freeze my butt off on a mountain tonight but we'll see but this this camera I'm taking that I'm filming on right now it's a little bulky but it's a much smaller lens I'm not taking my big lens I'm just going for an arrow through an elk and that is my focus so I'm not gonna be filming a whole bunch but I do have to put you guys away now it's gonna be wet so you're going in the pack all right I'll see you on top of the mountain this is my new home look at it my sleeping bag my thermo let thermo sleeping pad and I've got a pillow there's my gear I'm gonna leave all my gear inside of here mark on my GPS or old friend beef stroganoff I had the herd big as heard that I've seen so far I was chasing out a couple of cows and they knew something was up like they knew they were being chased and one made a sound I'd never heard that before I mean whitetail kind of snort this is like a bellow it's loud rushed up this spot where I had literally sat for an hour the other day hoping something would come nothing did they went right through there and then I was sitting there and then I heard something crashing behind me I looked back and there's a giant herd of elk like 20 elk coming up the spot so I had to rush into position and they were a little farther 120 yards obviously not you know the bow distance so I had to rush up the mountain again but when I did that with the sun going down the air cooling down they could smell me and they knew something was up and I kept kind of like peeking around and they just they were blowing and sorting and they knew I was there so I never could they were close like there were 50 yards away I could have got a shot but I couldn't stand up to draw and I just peeked my head out they took off you know and then at the very end of the day I heard some awesome bugles and I'm staying up here with them like I'm here there's also bears here so we're gonna put the stroganoff up pretty tight and also I had to move my camp actually I'll show you guys on the next episode I'm in a deadfall area like a bunch of trees are falling down I heard one fall while I was sleeping at my base camp the other night it is scary how loud it is and it can kill you like these big trees or I don't know why they fall down so much but they fall down a lot and I'm in the middle of a bunch of deadfall trees and there was one that was like ready to go where I set up camp so um you always got to check that when you're setting up your camp I should be okay I came one step closer today guys I'm gonna enjoy my beef stroganoff over here enjoy my little tent for the night it's definitely not as good as my other one but all this for these elk I'm close guys hopefully it happens tomorrow stay tuned subscribe so you don't miss the next video and I'll see y'all there


Welcome to another Optaplanner example. This time we'll be looking at investment portfolio optimization. This is a form of financial optimization. So in this case, we are going to the stock market and the other markets out there in the financial setting, of course. And we are going to buy certain assets. So for example, we'll be buying stocks from Red Hat and Google and Oracle, as you can see here, or other companies like Tesla, Ford, and so forth, which is very typical in financial optimization. We'll be trying to maximize our expected return. We'll be trying to make as much profit as possible. So let's take a look at what happens here. So we have all of these different assets classes. This is just one data set. And you can see that, for example, for Red Hat here, we have an expected return of 13.6%. And we have a standard deviation risk of 29%. This was taken from quite some time ago. So these numbers, of course, change every day. And this is based on historical data, of course. Now let's take a look at what happens if we want to maximize our expected return. If we can invest 100% of our money on these different assets and what the planner will recommend us to do. Now let's take a look at what happens if we optimize this. It's quite clear that it's telling us to invest 100% in Tesla Motors. Why? Very simple. Tesla Motors has the highest expected return. It has a 54.7% return, which is, of course, higher than everything else. So it's very clear. We should invest everything in Tesla. That's a good thing. It's a green company. But you might also notice there's a downside on investing in Tesla Motors. The downside is that there is a big risk when you invest in them because they have a standard deviation risk of 53.9%. That's very high. It basically means that, although in general you'll get a lot of money back, there's a good chance that you will actually lose all your money.  So you might want to invest in other things too. More importantly, every one of us has a certain amount of risk they want to take with the assets that they buy, of course. So instead of going for a standard deviation maximum of 100% here, let's see what happens if we go for something like, okay, I don't want to take more than 15% risk basically. The standard deviation is a measure of risk. So let's see how that happens. We solve this. And what you now see is that on the bottom you can see the expected return. It's much less now. It's only 30% instead of 54%. But you can also see that our standard deviation risk is no longer 53%, but instead it's 15%. So now it's telling us that we should apparently buy Apple, not my favorite thing to buy, but we should buy 24% of them.  So how do we calculate that standard deviation risk? First of all, this is the input given from historical data from the number of websites you get out there. And then we have a formula to calculate the average standard deviation risk. Now this is not actually the average because you cannot just take the average on these numbers. There's something else that comes into play, which is called correlation. So here's the correlation. So let's take a look. For example, between the first two stocks, Red Hat and Google, there is a correlation of 0.05. So that means that when the Red Hat stock becomes more valuable, it's likely that the Google stock also becomes more valuable for about 5% at least of what the Red Hat gained. This also means that if one of them drops, that the other will likely be affected too. So this is quite interesting. So you can, for example, see that apparently Red Hat and Oracle are quite tied together. They have a 0.6 correlation. And you can see, of course, that everything has with itself, every asset has with itself or every asset class has with itself a zero correlation, of course. And of course, you can also have negative correlation. So for example, here's an example of a negative correlation where the Oracle and the McDonald's company are, for whatever reason, they are negatively inclined. This means that once Oracle starts making more profit, when their stock value increases, it's likely that McDonald's will decrease with at least 1%, which is probably more than a rounding error than anything else, I think. But anyway, that's what the historical data is telling us. You can see sometimes they're higher, right? And once you would mix in other types of assets, like, for example, gold or silver, you would actually see a higher, more correlations that are negative. Because when the stock market crashes, then gold rises, and vice versa, of course. So we need to take those correlations into account. So how do we take those into account? Well, again, Optoplanar just applies those in its calculation to calculate this total standard deviation risk. So you're probably wondering, what's the formula to do that? Well, this is the formula to do that. It's a very heavy formula. Apparently, it's called the Markowitz portfolio theory or something like that, whatever. As you can see, it's not a simple formula. We take in the weights of how much we're investing in that stock. We take in, of course, the standard deviation of the stock itself, of the class itself. And then we also add in the correlations, which are over here. Those, no, the R is the correlation between those two assets and so forth. And we do lots and lots of sums over those. And then we do some squaring over those. So this is actually a formula which, as you can easily see, that goes up to... Here we have to the power 2 and to the power 2. So that's up to the power 4 in terms here. And here we have terms up into the power 5. Which is quite a heavy formula, as you can imagine. Of course, this is no problem for OptoPlanar, because it can handle basically any type of constraint. So, yeah, and for example, if you have two assets, this is the way to calculate that formula. But if you have three assets, it becomes actually heavier already. This is it. And if you have, like in the example I have here, 12 assets, it comes much, much more. Despite that, we can actually calculate it quite quickly. And with OptoPlanar, we can do it even with incremental score calculation, which means that we don't recalculate the entire formula, but only incrementally the part of it, which has changed when OptoPlanar starts changing things. Okay, great. We now know that apparently we have to invest in these combinations to maximize our return and to stable, while we stay below our desired risk ratio. But we might have extra constraints. For example, in this case, we are investing in there are three sectors, namely the tech, the cars and the food sector. You can easily see that right now, I would be investing 48, actually more, more than 50% into the food sector, because I'm investing in Starbucks and McDonald's, right? So actually 56%, we are currently investing in food. So let's say I don't like food that much, or I fear that I expect that there will be a crisis in food very soon. So I don't want to invest more than 20% in food, right? So now I've changed it. As you can see, the direct result is that it tells me, okay, 65% is too much. We can actually see the hard score breaking here. So let's see what happens if we solve this. Let me just go back here and see what happens if we solve this. And you can see right now that as a result of this, now we are only, we are buying 20% of Starbucks stocks, and we are buying no McDonald's corporations. So if you actually look here, we can see that the food, we are now investing only 20% of our budget into the food thing, right? Similarly, it would be easy to add a constraint which says we want a minimum amount to invest in tech or something like that. That's all possible, of course, right? And Sectors is just one axis, right? So right here, you can see the sector, they're in the Starbucks sector, and you have the McDonald's are also in the, sorry, they're both in the food sector. In this case, all of them are in the same region. They're all in the global region. But let me load a different data set that's created by Satishi Yurinki, who helped me create this example. And you can see here in this data set that we have a number of different types of asset classes. These are real asset classes, they're not individual stocks anymore. And we see that we have UK equities, which is in the region UK, and which is in the sector equities. And then we have ex-UK equities, which I put in the region global and in the sector equities. Again, I'm not a financial expert. Might be big there in my data set. But of course, this is just an example. And then of course, we have a couple of others like UK bonds, which are in the UK, but long-term bonds are just global, right? So when we optimize this, we can see we get these numbers. Now, let me just show you on regions, I've actually put a limit on no more than 18% in the UK. So let's say we raise that to maybe 30%, 30%. And we calculate this, then you can see that it will be... Actually, it chooses to invest more in the UK right now. Actually, apparently it really likes the UK. So let's see what happens if I actually put this on 100%. You can see that it goes up to 36% no more. Let's give it some time to find a good solution here. Up to 36% in the UK, right? So the combination of these two is 37 already. Okay, now, if instead we don't like the UK, let's say I don't want to invest more than 10% in the UK, you will see of course that the result of that, we don't invest that much in the UK anymore. And of course the UK is this line and it's this line, UK bonds line. You can see that we have those effects immediately. Similarly, I've put limits on the sectors, as you can see. For example, currently we're putting 40% in equities. There's a limit of 40% there. It probably wants to invest even more in equities if it didn't have this constraint. But for example, for bonds, even if you put a 20% maximum limit there, it will not affect it of course because it only wants to invest 9.7% in bonds at this point in time to maximize that return. So I hope you find this example interesting. And if you want to know more about this, try it yourself in the Optoplanar examples. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching this demonstration. If you want to know more about Optoplanar, just go to the website optoplanar.org. And if you want to try this example yourself, just download the zip and zip it and run the examples. Thanks for watching.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com coming at you with a 2014 little blast from the past prison football solo pack, number 16, with 10 of those hip parade multi-sport random player spots being given away. First ice roll though will be for the break itself, big thanks to this group for making it happen. There's all the teams right there and then the second ice roll will be for the giveaway part. Ice roll two and a four, six times for names and teams, one, two, three, four, five and six, got Brian at down at Daniel, two and a four, six times for the teams, one, two, three, four, five and six, Denver down to Detroit, no trade windows in these, here's the first half, here's the second half, just print and rip. Alright, let's see if there's any surprises in here maybe. 2014's a decent class, alright there's Derek Carr rookie saying his goodbyes to Raider Nation, Teddy Bridgewater as well, kind of weird seeing, been with the team for a while, really kind of weird seeing Derek Carr perhaps in a different uniform. Although, him saying goodbye to Raiders was a little trade leverage. Alright, so there's Derek Carr for Daniel and the Raiders, here's a Teddy Bridgewater rookie, will be, are we going to see him in action this weekend? Jason, no Jason has Miami, sorry, this is Minnesota edition, this is Filippo. I know Tua's out, I don't know who's starting for Miami. His red, white and blues, right there, an old kid reporter card, not too shabby for a little sell-out pack, now let's see who's going to get into the next break. Let's gather everybody's names from Jason to Daniel and everyone in between, new dice, new list, top ten after three, two and a one, three times, one, two and three. Now from eleven on down, eleven through thirty-two, sad times, Daniel sad times right there for you, very close just on the outside looking in, but you didn't get a lot of spots, you got to be in the top ten somewhere, right? Alright, top ten, happy times for Brian, Filippo, Nestor, Baranis, there you go, Daniel, Jason, Daniel again, Brian, Daniel and Brian, so there you go top ten, we'll see you in the next video for the break, jaspyscasebrakes.com, bye bye.


Happy Sabbath. Happy, happy Sabbath. Are you excited to be in the presence of the Lord? Yes, we ought to be joyful in God's presence because Scripture says in the presence of the Lord, there is fullness of joy. And at the right hand of the Lord, there is pleasure forevermore. We gave Him the glory for this great privilege that He's given us to study together as a church and to pray together as a church. On this special occasion of 10 days of prayer, you know the theme for this year is priorities of faith. We appreciate our friends who've been following on the Internet and all of you who've been coming night after night to pray with us. Our study is so, so important and I believe that the Holy Spirit this week and the next will continue to speak to our hearts. We've been studying Matthew chapter 5, particularly the first 12 verses of that chapter. And we've been looking at the beatitude, special revolutionary proclamations of the Lord Jesus Christ, which were not just demeaning to His context, but are also very relevant to all ages, including ours. Our study began with a study of verses 1 and 2 of Matthew chapter 5, and the theme was priority of proclaiming the principles of the kingdom. Priorities of proclaiming the principles of the kingdom. And we look at two important points based on verses 1 and 2 of Matthew chapter 5. We look at preparation for the proclamation. Preparation for the proclamation. How Jesus, the Bible says, saw the multitude. He became aware of the condition of the multitude. And the Bible says he went up the mountain. We learn that mounting, particularly in Matthew's Gospel, represents at least four things. And one of those, which is particularly in focus in verse number 5 or chapter 5 of the book of Matthew is it is a place of teaching. It is a place of power as well in the book of Matthew. It is a place of, you know, power. It is a place of prayer. It is a place of revelation. And Jesus ascended the mountain and the Bible says he sat down, which is a posture of a teacher. And it is also a posture that paralyze, you know, that of Moses in the Old Testament. So preparation for proclamation. And then the text also says in verse number 2 that Jesus opened his mouth and began to speak to them or to teach them the same. That is an idiom. Opening of the mouth is an idiom that speaks of the solemnities, the solemnity of what he was about to proclaim. Sitting down spoke of his teaching posture and the fact that the Bible says he spoke authoritatively. So we see in the text number 1, preparation for proclamation and then the power of proclamation. On a second day, we went into the beatitude proper. We looked at the first of eight beatitudes and the topic that day was priority of poverty in spirit. Priority of poverty in spirit. We look at two things based on verse number 3 of Matthew chapter 5. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The first thing we saw is the paradox of poverty. How could the poor be blessed? How could the poor, you know, be approved of God or congratulated by God, which are all renderings of the word used for bless, which is Makarios in the Greek. But the paradox is it is through spiritual poverty that we experience spiritual prosperity. And the next thing we look at is the promise for the poor. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. We learn that that kingdom experience is both, you know, noun and letter. In other words, it is a realized experience and it is an anticipated experience. It is in prospect and it is in retrospect because when we believe in Jesus Christ, we enter the kingdom of God. So that was the second day's message. Then on day 3, which was on yesterday, our study was based on verse 4 of Matthew chapter number 5. And the topic, priority of pain. Priority of pain. And of course, we learned two important points. Blessed are those who mourn, okay, for they shall be comforted. First thing we learned is the purpose in pain. There's such a thing as natural pain, which is normal to the human experience. Then there is unnatural pain, you know, that we all do experience in our lives. Then there is supernatural pain, which is grieving or which is feeling sorrowful for our sins. And we looked at that as well. And then promise of comfort. He says they shall be comforted. And that word comfort basically means to come nearby or alongside to help to encourage or to comfort. And we learned that the Holy Spirit is our comforter. The Son is our comforter and the Father is our comforter. And so when we mourn our spiritual bankruptcy and acknowledge our need for God, He comforts us by forgiving our sins. He comforts us by also ameliorating our emotional pain or our physical pain. Interesting study. And today we are continuing our study of God's Word. And the topic of today's study, which is based on verse number five of Matthew chapter five, is priority of placidity. Priority of placidity. And of course to be placid means to be calm and peaceful. Okay? And our text today is Matthew chapter five and verse number five. I ask you, if you will, to please turn your Bibles to this important passage of Scripture. Matthew chapter five and verse number five. As you flip the pages of your Bibles to this text, may I please inform you that I believe in the supremacy of the Bible. I believe that the Bible is the ultimate authority. I also believe the sufficiency of this book. It is sufficient to make us wise unto salvation. And finally, I wish the year with Ephem might believe in the summation or the totality of the Bible. That all Scripture comprising the Old and the New Testaments only and 66 books only is God's inspired Word. Believe that what means say Amen to God. So on that faith or believe, I'm going to read the year in Matthew chapter five and verse number five. The Bible says, Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. As we study today, it's titled Priority of Placentity. And I ask the Holy Spirit now to lead us as we study. Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you for the glorious privilege to study your trustworthy, inspired and infallible Word. As we study a word together today, we ask that the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible in its entirety will illuminate Matthew chapter five and verse number five. And will give us insight for living. And as it has pleased you to use a frail and feeble vessel as myself, I do not ask for mighty words of human wisdom to move the audience. All I beseech you for, Lord, is that humanity will diminish and that divinity will dominate as you speak to us pointlessly, powerfully and personally in the name of Jesus Christ and the people of God say amen. Priority of Placentity. I remind you that that word simply means calmness or peacefulness or meekness. Priority of Placentity. Our friends in a world that values assertiveness and control, Jesus in our text presents a counter-intuitive blessing for the meek, for the placent or for the gentle. Our society often misunderstands meekness as weakness. It often overlooks its strength and value. Friends, I want you to understand that part of the Beatitude which we are studying today is actually Jesus' teaching and this Beatitude overturns conventional notions. The particular Beatitude we are studying, blessed are the meek, overturns the conventional notions of power and success, of power and success. Jesus says to these people, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Now the big idea that we glean from this text is this. Placentness is the best practice of powerfulness. Placentness is the best practice. In fact, it is the best truth of powerfulness. Friends, I want you to know that there are two important aspects that we will explore as we unpack our text and as we expand the big idea. Number one, power in Placentity. Power in Placentity. Number two, promise for the Placent. Promise for the Placent. Now let's look at the first point together. Power in Placentity. The text says in Matthew chapter five and verse number five, blessed are the meek. We mentioned on the first day that the word blessed in this text, Macarius, means to be happy. It also means to be approved of God. It means to be congratulated by God. In other words, this is the attitude of the blessed. This is the attitude approved by God. This is what should be prioritized because it is the most important attitude. Now Jesus says to his audience, blessed are the meek. What does he mean? The word meek that is written in that text is actually from the Greek praes. And that word praes means gentleness. It means humility. It means self-control. It means, you know, to actually be humble. It is not weakness. As a matter of fact, it implies strength under control or power under control. Now it is when the powerful chooses to be blessed that he or she is meek. When the powerful chooses to become and chooses to be peaceful, even in the face of provocation, he or she is said to be meek. Friends, I wanted to know that it is worth noting that in this beatitude, Jesus is specifically quoting from the Old Testament. He's quoting Psalm 37. Now when you read Psalm 37, you discover that the writer was going through a great deal of trouble. The writer was going through difficulties. The writer was being persecuted. The writer was being troubled. Evil unbelievers were trying to cut the writer down. Friends, I wanted to note that they were slandering him and trying to ruin his reputation. In fact, they were plotting against the writer of Psalm 37 trying to take his life. Now how do we respond to these circumstances? What is our attitude when we find ourselves in such situations? What is our attitude when such difficulties before us? Friends, please note that this statement of Jesus, this statement delivered by Jesus, was delivered to a Jewish audience that was going through the terrible ordeal of being under the dictatorship or under the dominion of the Roman government. They were under Roman occupation. They were looking for some kind of redemption. They were anticipating a messianic deliverance. Friends, they were hoping that there would be a messiah who would overturn Romelu and restore Israel to a political and a military power. Several guys had come before Jesus, Bakubab or even Barabbas, the insurrectionists, trying to be the messiah, trying to bring some sort of deliverance so the people's thirst for a messianic deliverance was so, so intense. These are the people Jesus is speaking to. These are the people Jesus made this statement to. I want you to note, friends, that in ancient times, meekness was often associated with weakness. Meekness was often associated with subservience. Weakness was associated, you know, meekness was associated with being under some dominion of others contrasting with the prevailing cultural admiration for power and assertiveness in that time. In fact, in Mediterranean societies all the time, they place enormous stock in honor and status. Yet, Jesus says to these people, I mean, eager for deliverance, eager for some kind of redemption, blessed are the meek, blessed are the meek. And friends, I want you to note that our society today is just like the Mediterranean society. Our society today is just like the time of Jesus. There is a society of power play, struggle of the most powerful. May I inform you, friends, that Forbes India, Global Firepower Military Strength rankings of 2024 evaluates 145 countries, considering over 60 individual factors like troop numbers, military equipment, financial stability, geographic location and available resources. And friends, these elements contribute to a power index, underscore the word power index, school with lower schools indicating stronger military capabilities. In other words, nations that are the strongest. And this study found in the other rankings, it had United States on the top with 0.0699, okay, having a military personnel, estimated to be 2,127,500 and you go down next to Russia, to China, to India, to South Korea. In other words, these are the strongest nations. These are the powerful nations. Our world estimates nations in terms of how powerful they are, militarily, economically or in other respects. Oh, friends, today we see sure falls in Ukraine. We see fighting in Gaza and all of these places. As you look at the global community, there is a strive to dominate. There is a strive to show strength all over. This is the world we live in. Now you come home on the continent. We find precedents and different leaders showing falls at the level of the church. Leaders want to show or stem their authority, even in the local departments of the church. We live in a culture that, you know, allows the show of falls and power. Yet Jesus says, blessed are the meek. Blessed are the meek. The meekness is not the same as timidity. It is Noland who writes that a more accurate interpretation of the word priase or the word translator meek should be powerless, powerless. In other words, he says it is voluntary powerlessness. What that basically means is we exercise God's strength under his control. Demonstrating power with our undue harshness and asserting powerfulness. So meekness is voluntary powerlessness. Now what does that mean? You see the Greek word priase was used in three ways in ancient times. It was used by doctors to describe a soothing medicine. A soothing medicine. The word was also used by cellos to refer to gentle breeze. Gentle breeze. And the word was used by farmers to refer to, you know, herds or a crawd, a millherds. Now these three things we are looking at are powerful. Medicine is powerful, depending on how you use it. One tablet could ruin your life. One tablet could make you feel okay. Wind may be nice as you are enjoying it, but when it becomes some tornado or some hurricane, you know how disastrous it can be. Herds may be, you know, contained, but when it is let loose it can be disastrous. My point is that these things are powerful, but they must keep their power under control. Otherwise, there will be damages. So these three uses of the word suggest to us that the meek is someone who is powerful, someone who has authority, but has chosen to be placid, to become and peaceful. All of these things, the medicine, the wind, the herds, have power. When that power is under control, it is called meekness. It is called voluntary powerlessness. Voluntary powerlessness. Now the Bible uses that word to refer to Moses, this most powerful guy who evidently went to the University of Egypt, who studied apparently, military science, who was a sophisticated guy, strong. Now the Bible describes Moses in Numbers 12, verse number 3. Now the man, Moses, was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. See this description of Moses. He was very meek, in spite of being a military personnel, a great leader of the children of Israel, a man of God. He was very meek, the Bible says. Now friends, I want you to note that meekness, placidity, calmness, especially in provocation, peacefulness in provocation, is the gift of the Holy Spirit. Galatians chapter 5, verses 22 and 23. You read that text, the Bible says, the fruit of the spirit is meekness. Meekness is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Meekness is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. And I will illustrate how meekness is manifested, how meekness is exhibited in our lives by sharing few biblical examples. Notice what meekness is. The first example I will share with you is the example of Abraham. Abraham and his relative, Lord. Remember these folks are together. And Abraham is the most influential. He's the most powerful. He's the elderly. He's the leader of the family. Now he notices that there is a commotion or strife between his servants and Lord's servants. Now Abraham, being as powerful as he was, has had the authority to tell Lord that, hey, guy, you can go on your own. I don't want to be with you. And you just go. And Abraham could have taken authority over where was better or more better. He didn't do that. He exercised meekness by doing this. Genesis chapter 13, verses 8 and 9. The Bible says, so Abraham said to Lord, let's not have any quarreling between you and me or between your husband and mine. For we are brothers. We are brothers. It's not the whole land before you. Let's part company. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left. That is called meekness. Abraham exercises meekness. And what is he doing here? What he's doing is what the Bible speaks of in Romans chapter 12, verse number 10. Honor one another above yourselves. He didn't choose the most fatal. He said, the choice is yours, Lord. Take whatever. If you take the best, that's fine. Choose whatever. And I will be the last to choose. Oh, friends. Philippians chapter 2 and verse number 3 in the Bible says, let each esteem others more important than themselves. How do we relate to our wives, to our children, to the people who work in our offices that we are supervisors of? If there is disagreement, how do we relate to them? Do we demonstrate authority? Do we show some false? Or do we esteem them more important than ourselves? Abraham was a meek man.  And this character friend is called Joseph. Joseph was a victim of sibling envy. This man was sold into slavery. This man was mistreated. He went through all kinds of humiliations and traumas. And eventually, long story short, this man rose to prominence. And his very brothers, who were the beginning of his tragedies, who were the beginning of the disastrous experiences he had, came in need of help, in need of food. And now they discovered that their brother had actually become prominent. Notice what the Bible says in Genesis 45. Four and five. And Joseph said to his brothers, I'm talking about people who offended him. Take none of that. Please come near to me. Take none of that. Please come near to me. How many of us extend olive branches to people who have offended us? Joseph said, please come near to me. How many of us allow people in our spaces who have done some stuff to us? He said, please come near to me. The Bible says so they came near. Then he said, listen to this. I am Joseph, your brother. Please note, at this point, they had not recognized their brother. God had repackaged their brother, and now their brother reintroduces himself to them. This is Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. There is nothing wrong with reminding people of what they did to you. But notice what Joseph does next. But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here.  Joseph reconstructed the narrative. He reconstructed the traumatic narrative, and now he's pointing the possible divine purpose in all that he experienced. Look what Joseph does for them. In Genesis chapter 15, verses 20 and 21, the Bible says, But as for you, you men evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring it about as it is this day to save many people alive. Now and therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones, and he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. That is called meekness. When the people who have offended you, meet you, at a time when the table has turned, they say you are now in the conference president and the other guy who mistreated you is still in the field to the first pastoral meeting. What is your speech? Do you say, ladies and gentlemen, the law has been good. Redemption has come. No! Joseph doesn't do that. He spoke kindly to them. He did not insult them. Why? Because he was meek. Meekness is exhibited when the people who have offended us fall on our authority we treat them with respect in the same way that God in spite of the different evils we've done against him looks on us in pity. He looks on us in compassion and he saves us when we cry on him. That is called meekness. Joseph was meek. Listen, friend, meekness shows itself when we are right and not when we are wrong. Joseph was right. And now he's gracious to his brothers. Let me give you another scripture, Matthew chapter 5 and verse number 44. Jesus illustrates what this meekness means. He says, but I say to you, love your enemies.   And pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. Whoa! This is Jesus. He says, show your meekness by the way you relate to the people who have offended you. As I said, meekness shows itself when we are right and not when we are wrong. Several years ago, when internet just started to come in my country or the country I was in at that time, we used to go to cafes to browse the internet and to scan documents and send them. And I went to the internet cafe that day. I actually had a picture to scan and send back home to my family. And then we were on a queue. Everybody giving their pictures or working with the guy at the front. I saw people just, you know, being sneak in by the guy. So I don't know whether that was holy anger or whatever that got in me. I said, boy, you don't do this. I mean, I'm on the queue. I've been here for hours. I've been waiting. The system was down. And now it's up. And you're taking all the people away. And I decided in my country there's something called banji.  He said, it is my turn. And I would be the one to be served. I decided to cause noise. So the guy said, OK, OK, OK, OK, you come. It was my right. So I went. I took the picture, gave to him. He scanned the picture and asked me for my email address. He sent it to my email address. And guess what, brothers and sisters? The subject of that email he sent I have never forgotten since 2002 in the subject space he wrote gentility. Did you understand that? He wrote gentility. I don't know why he wrote gentility. Apparently I was not gentle towards him. Even today I still remember that I could have done it better. When it is your right that's when you must be meek. When it is your turn that's when you must be meek.  Let me give you another story. This is the story of David. For no reason he was envied by his boss. He became a homeless wanderer. A fugitive. He was running from saw who sought to kill him. And guess what? One day as David is walking around with his men he sees the one who was after his life in a state of vulnerability. The man is there. David has a sword. David's men said, Oh God has worked wonder. Let me read it to you so you know what I'm talking about. Listen to what David's men said. The Bible says, Then the men of David said to him This is the day which the Lord said to you Behold I will deliver your enemy into your hand that you may do to him as it seems good to do. David's men sound like some pastors in the conference or some elders in the church or some folks in your offices who will say the Lord has done it. Now the tables have turned. Government has changed. There is a new power now. So the former president or the former cabinet members now is the time for them to get what they work for. His men said, This is the Lord's doing. Let's begin to execute. Let's start to kill. But listen to David's response. Number one, David took his sword caught a piece of sword's gamut for evidence. Even in that action of David the Bible says he was unhappy that he did that. But yes what I want you to see the Bible says, And he said to his men his men who were preaching divine deliverance he said the Lord forbade that I should do this thing to my master.  He has become an enemy to me that I did not look for but he is still my master. He is the Lord's anointed to stretch out my hand against him. I will not. But look at verse seven of 1 Samuel 24. The Bible says so David restrained his servants with these words. Ignace is restraint when you have the upper hand. Restraining yourself when you have the upper hand. David said I will not. Governments come and go if you are in the new government in Kenya or the new government in Liberia please exercise restraint restrain yourself. You may have been mishandled marginalized disenfranchised humiliated but exercise meekness by restraining yourself when you have the upper hand. If that is clear say amen. Now let's talk about the most meek or the meekest of all. In Matthew chapter 11 verse 29 about Jesus the Bible says this is Jesus speaking I am meek and lowly in heart. I am meek and lowly in heart. The one who is speaking in that text is the God of the universe. I am meek and lowly in heart. Now Jesus demonstrated his meekness through his condescension coming to this earth in the form of a servant. He demonstrated his meekness through the service of humility. Listen to what the scripture says in John chapter 13 Jesus knowing that the now listen to this kingly the Bible says Jesus knowing that the father had given all teeth into his hands. Number one Jesus had all things. Number two that he had come from God Jesus knew where he came from he came from God. Number three that he was going to God Jesus knew where he was going.  In light of that fact the Bible says he rose from supper and laid aside his garment he took a towel and guarded himself. After that he pulled water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet and wiped them with the towel with which he had guarded himself. Now listen friends take note of this Jesus is serving with a mentality with a consciousness of who he is he came from God and all things giving to him by God he is going back to God in light of this this great and powerful man serves his servants listen ladies and gentlemen service does not take anything from us people think that if they help their wives in the house with some chores or if they help their children in the garden there are other men in the office or if they help their other men in the church it is a show of weakness No! Jesus knew who he was he knew that serving them washing their feet will not take anything from him so he washed their feet Oh friends Jesus the Bible says be in the form of God being God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God taking the reputation taking the form of a born servant and coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself he humbled himself he became obedient to the point of death even the most shameful death the death of the cross this is Jesus the Bible says in Isaiah about him chapter 53 verse 7 the Bible says he did not open his mouth and the Bible says when they heard they are in sauce at him he did not retaliate no he did not when he suffered he made no threats they say you know what continue what you are doing one day I will come in Mankino and you will know who is who No! I will become conference president and this whole thing will stop be careful how you treat me I am a potential young man I could be the secretary I could be the first head of the church No! Jesus did not issue threats No! he was being mistreated but you know what he entrusted himself to him who judges justly some of you have been mistreated whether by government or by church or by your colleagues in the office or by family members hey entrust yourself to the just George don't retaliate let's close this message in the next few minutes with the last point promise for the placid promise for the placid the Bible says for they shall inherit the earth what does that mean remember that when Jesus made this statement he was quoting Psalm 37 the conflict in this Psalm is between the righteous and the wicked it appears that the wicked are winning and the righteous are losing that's how it appears so what does he do now what can the righteous do in such a dangerous and difficult situation should the righteous fret no God said do not fret because of evil men you know a fight no the law stands bar to protect and the righteous fight the battle for them he says in Psalm 37 the salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord he is their stronghold in time of trouble oh friends then what should the righteous do when the wicked are winning when the evil folks in your office are winning when the evil folks in the country are winning what do you do friends meekly submit to God's will by trusting in the Lord verse 3 by delighting in the Lord verse 4 by committing your way on to the Lord verse 5 and by resting in the Lord verse 7 so what is men what is the result of resting in the Lord the Bible says they will inherit the earth which simply means that they do not have to be afraid of anybody or anything because God is in control of them and their circumstances to inherit the earth means to reign as king over yourself and your circumstances to the power of the Holy Spirit it is the same as inheriting the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God in some 37 verses 10 and 11 the Bible says a little while this is God's admonition to the righteous in the face of the wicked wickedness a little while and the wicked will be no more though you look for them they will not be found but the meek will inherit the land and enjoy great peace are you there friends the meek will enjoy the land and inherit great peace inherit the land enjoy great peace friends to inherit the earth means to dwell in the earth made new forever and what is that earth made new in relation 21 1 2 3 now I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away because there was no more sea friends Revelation 21 continues then I John saw the whole let's set the new Jerusalem listen to me ladies and gentlemen we are going to eternally inherit the earth that's all we see heavy is my home heavy is not any believers home the earth is our eternal home we will have 1000 years vacation in heaven but that's not our home I say yes to good news the new Jerusalem the holy city after 1000 years will come down out of heaven from God prepared as a brother known for her husband and the Bible says and I heard a loud voice from heaven saying behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people God himself will be with them and be their God God takes the headquarters of the universe from heaven to earth and the meek inherits the earth this afternoon we will have season of prayer I think that's about two all of the prayer needs prayer requests will be praying together on many other important prayer points prepare yourselves for this afternoon if you are following online you are also warmly invited to be a part of our prayer session oh friends please don't miss what God is saying to us today priority of placidity prioritizing meekness placidness is the best practice of powerfulness show your power by your placidness your calmness listen to these words if you cannot possess yourself through the power of the Holy Spirit in this world you can never possess the kingdom of God possess yourself control your anger wipe all your irritability become be peaceful as much as it is in your power be at peace with all people


In Benway State, a high court has upheld a suspension of former National Chairman of the People's Democratic Party, PDP Inyotcha Ayu. Ayu was in March, suspended by his word, ESCO, of a failure to pay dues, appropriately ending his reign as the PDP National Chairman. The word ESCO had also accused Ayu of anti-party activities, after which they passed a vote of no confidence on him. They alleged that the PDP chief tend to not vote during the governorship and state assembly elections held on the 18th of March 2023.


And welcome to another edition of Hawaii in Uniform, I'm your host, Calvin Griffin. And for those of you who may not have seen the program before, here we talk about a lot of different things concerning our veterans and military community and other related things also. We also like to share things or individuals who are veterans in the community who are doing a lot of great things. And one of the individuals who was working to make things better for his fellow veterans is Jeremy. Jeremy, go ahead. Hey, good afternoon actually. Aloha everybody. Good to be back on the show. Right. Yeah, you've been on the program before. Yeah, a couple of times now. Yeah. So, for those who may not have missed your segment before, tell us a little bit about yourself and what are you into right now? Well, currently I'm an 11-year military vet. I served from February 1995 to November 2006, served at two different branches, served with the Army, I served with the Navy, Army Reserves, Army National Guard, and did a wider range of different jobs and specialties within the military. Got out in 2006 and from that point on, I've been working actively with different veterans organizations. Currently, I've worked with the Fleet Reserve Association as a board of directors. Also I'm a part of Team Rubicon, which is a veteran organization that is crafted to do and perform disaster relief and emergency relief, not just within the United States, but also internationally now. So we can go anywhere in the world and provide medical assistance and rebuilding. We're rebuilding in Texas and we're also doing work in Puerto Rico. Okay. Is this the NGO or how does that work and what kind of organizations? They were titled a 501C3, so well, not a pure 501C3, but we are a nonprofit organization, but we're a veteran mainly. We have about 90% of us are veterans and the other, as we refer to as kick-ass civilians. So these individuals are like your EMTs, your police officers, your firefighters, other individuals with certain skill sets that make them assets in emergency situations such as natural disasters. Okay. So with the organization, do you guys work with the Red Cross FEMA, things like nature, or do you help to augment anything? Normally what Team Rubicon will do is they'll come in and they'll aid and assist if and where be they are needed. Mainly like within the hurricanes that was recently devastated Puerto Rico, we're currently going in and actually helping them rebuild, like physically rebuild shelters, hospitals, schools, homes. So we also provide those type of resources, manpower for free. So I mean, it's totally free. We go in and we just help out. Yeah. You say free as far as the volunteers that they supply most of their own equipment or how does that work out? Most of our equipment, like the larger equipment, from what I understand is applied through donations, but the military members, the veterans themselves, and the volunteers, the only thing that they're really compensated for is their travel. And Team Rubicon has worked out certain MOUs, Memorandums of Understanding with certain travel agencies and travel companies like Delta and America, airlines that provide tickets, free tickets for our members to go to the disaster areas. And then once we get there, we kind of just set up. We have tents, reefers, and the likes, or we might stay with the individuals there into the disaster area. Yeah. So. Okay. Do you look for people, if they want to join this effort, are there classes or what do you do to prepare people? Are you looking for people who are already prepared through their military experiences or other related? Well, the only real criteria would be your vet or you're one of those identified classes of emergency personnel that I've already had or received some type of training like police officer, firefighters, EMTs, doctors or nurses, which everybody's always in need of doctors and nurses. But on the military side, it doesn't matter what branch you served in, what your job specialty was. We also have in place online learning. And then periodically throughout the regions, because we're broken up in the regions like this is region nine, Hawaii and California and Arizona and New Mexico. We have training. So like we have chainsaw trainings, which is put on by the department of the Bureau of Land Management. So the wildland firefighters will come out and train us how to operate chainsaws. And then there's other training that's online to get you brought up to speed for, there's also background checks, but communication styles, how to operate comms, how to effectively communicate. All right. Speaking of communication, with the varied ethnic groups over here, are you looking for people with language skills because that's, of course, going to be very important in a emergency situation anyhow. Always. Always looking for anybody that has even the least bit of language skills because even if the individual is attempting to and has some type of rapport with the indigenous population, then that helps us with our job. I mean, it shows faith. It shows that we're actually here to help and we're trying, but we're always looking for people with any type of language skills. Yeah. Speaking of communication, it's also, I know, spoken word, but of course we have some people who are impaired as far as hearing. So sign language specialists, people of that nature, does that come into play also? Or could it? It could always come into play. The only issue with that is like if we're working in, say, a identified AO area of operation where there is limited resources as far as the individual's knowing sign language. Okay. Yeah. So, but anyone with any type of language skills, please look on our website, Google Team Rubicon, if you're a military, active, veteran, reservist, national guard, police officer, firefighter, EMT, divers, check it out. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, but I think we'd take an emergency situation, it would be obvious what help would be required in a lot of cases anyhow than afterwards as far as they had to follow up. That's when certain language skills or whatever would kick in, I guess. Definitely. Yeah. Especially if you're trying to find individuals, families. Yeah. You've got their displays like the tsunami that hit in the Pacific a couple of years ago where it devastated Madagascar and some of the outlying islands. People were just totally displaced. Yeah. And you've got to try to find where your family's from, you know, on the map, where you're from. So, yeah, you definitely need those language skills. Yeah. Okay. Well, I know there's a lot of things that we talk frequently, also offline and all that. Again, exchanging information, like there's a lot with the veterans. We try to share information. Some of it, of course, comes from official sources and other stuff is like through learned experiences because sometimes, like, say, you can go through a system and you can be instructed to be informed about one thing as far as factually how certain things go, you know, that also comes into play also. I know there's something that you wanted to share, but there's some piece of legislation that came out lately or something that affects the vets. Well, this one directly affects active duty members, but a lot of vets have family members that are active duty. And this also affects active duty members, beneficiaries and dependents. And what it is, is a couple of days ago, acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau, Mick Mulvaney, who is the acting, who is the director of the Office of Management and Budget has proposed a, I guess you could say watering down of the Military Lending Act. So the Military Lending Act states that military members and their dependents basically can't be taken advantage of.   Before they even walk into the door, they know exactly how much that man or that soldier or that woman that they make. And this is designed to protect them. So they're, the acting director of Mulvaney has came out and stated that he does not know if it is their responsibility to enforce. To enforce. The law, the act. So, which we all know with some common sense that all those agencies, they might not enforce the law. That's why we have the Department of Justice. That's their jobs. But at the same time, they're looking to, instead of being proactive, they're looking to become reactive. Instead of going in and saying, hey, we understand that you're this type of lender outside of banks. So anything outside of a bank, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can step in and say, hey, we want to review your lending policies. So that's a proactive state. And they want to move over to a reactive saying, well, we'll just take on complaints. Like if the service member files a complaint, which at that point in time, you know it's already too late a lot of times. Yeah. Because once it gets to that point, the next thing you know, it's a responsibility, or they put the onus on the service member to go ahead and prove that you didn't, that you were taking advantage of. And from what you're stating with this, is that it's plausible deniability on the part of the administrator or whoever this gentleman is to say, well, we'll get around to it if it happens or whatever and if one of them deals anyhow. Any unfortunate part is there are a lot of people out there who are more than willing to take advantage of service members because they know that if it even results in court, you could be legally right and morally wrong and vice versa. And I think that's a lot of people get into. Most people are trusting, but you have to redefine print. But the thing is, you don't want our service members to be put in that position in the first place. And like I say for this, it seems like the watering down or they're not living up to their responsibility as overseers or protectors of the military personnel here. Not at all. And several retired generals and acting generals and higher up officials have stated that it's just not about protecting the service member. It's also about our force being prepared to do their job. So if an individual has a top secret security clearance and they get upside down on a automobile loan, guess what's the first thing that goes? Their security clearance. So now that unit, that organization is a man down or multiple people down because they've all been taken advantage of. So it's a manning issue. And that's one of the things that we as taxpayers pay for these individuals to be trained up and to receive these security clearances to do their jobs and yet at the same time, if they get upside down in a loan, which is provided to them by some dealership and they get upside down in it, now where did that tax dollars go? Because now that person's lost their security clearance and can't do their job. Yeah, well in a way it would be like a form of extortion because if I, you know, came and claimed that you owed me a lot of money or whatever it was, you know, I'm saying I'm going to take you to court. In the meantime, let's say what's going to happen, let's say you get that interim, you know, by the time you clear your name. So I guess a lot of service members would say, okay, look, I can't afford to lose my clearance, my deployment options and everything else. So therefore I'll pay up. Exactly. And I think a lot of them have, you know, they know what's going on. They know how to work the system, like I said, to milk. And I don't say this loosely, but like I said, yeah, to take a full advantage of, you know, our service members, you know, and I think we need to have more advocates that will enlighten our members to what's going on, especially within the system. And Alexander, military side, you know? Well, one of the main parts of this piece of legislation outside of protecting the service member, it provides a service member with the ability to take these individuals to court on, well, in the severe sector, nine times I attend, the severe doesn't have the same protections. They have to go through what's called force arbitration. So the lending institution, whether it be a payday loans or whoever brings in their, for lack of a better word, their guy, their person, and says, you have to go through force arbitration. And this individual who might have a legal background might not. Yeah. Well, speaking of scams, we're going to take a short break. But stay tuned, please, and again, we're Hawaiian Uniform and we'll be here. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea is on Think Tech Hawaii every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join me, where my guests talk about law topics and ideas and music and Hawaii Anna all across the sea from Hawaii and back again. Aloha. Hey, Stan the Energyman here on Think Tech Hawaii. And they won't let me do political commentary. So I'm stuck doing energy stuff, but I really like energy stuff. So I'm going to keep on doing it. So join me every Friday on Stan the Energyman at lunchtime, at noon, on my lunch hour, we're going to talk about everything energy, especially if it begins with the word hydrogen. We're going to definitely be talking about it. We'll talk about how we can make Hawaii cleaner, how we can make the world a better place, just basically save the planet. Even Miss America can't even talk about stuff like that anymore. We got it nailed down here. So we'll see you on Friday at noon with Stan the Energyman. Aloha. Okay, you're back with the Hawaii, excuse me, Hawaii in uniform. Excuse me. I will continue our conversation with Jeremy. Yeah, this thing about the continue along the vein of taking advantage. You know, it's one thing I found over here recently as far as like, we have a lot of veterans who are in situations like home, the situation, things of that nature. And it seems like there are a few of the, I can say, housing organizations out there. I got this thing going and this may not be as widespread, but I'm more familiar. There's quite a few people I talked to where the situation is you get behind on rent. And what they do is they'll serve you with papers. I mean, I know a guy, a gentleman that recently just he was walking up to the office and said, okay, I want to get things squared away. And they said, no, we're taking you to court. Okay. They take him into court. And what happens is that now he has to, if he is found liable, automatically he has to pay for the legal fees and everything else. So therefore what happens, he goes in the court. All right. Got the attorney there. All right. So what happens is the, if the judgment is in the favor of the plaintiff or the housing, on top of the legal fees that he has to pay to the, or he or she has to pay to the attorney, then there's the other part that goes on where what they actually do is the manager will walk them through, or you walk them through the apartment when they're evacuating, excuse me, leaving the place anyhow. And sometimes what would happen is that the manager will tell them to sign off on his document, will fill in and later on. All right. So you have to go to court a second time. And the second time, what would happen is that you'll have a problem with, they'll get you for everything. Whether you've got to go ahead and like say repaint the place, all kind of things that you did not originally, you know, that acknowledge that wasn't there. So what happens, the judge will say, okay, well, you signed off on it, therefore irresponsible. So on top of the back payments and the possibility of having your credit rating, you know, affected, all right, you got to pay these $800 like sorry, for the legal fees, you know.  And like say, it may not be as widespread, but it's going out there, it's prevalent enough where people have to be aware of what's going on. And I think that needs to be addressed also because in a way, that is a scam.  And I think it definitely needs to be addressed. But there's something that a lot of veterans or people out there may be aware of. And if you are aware of anything that happened along that line, give me a call here. And like say, I'd like to know about it. And we're going to see about what we can do to address that issue also. And like say, there's many more things also. We don't want to be negative here, but the thing is if there are issues out there in the community that affect our veterans and even the other homeless people or people, viewers in general who have these different issues, we need to address it. I mean, we need to be more proactive in so many different ways. I think there's a lot of unsung heroes out there to try to do the best they can. But we need to network as far as the community to identify what the problems are and take it from there. So, you know. Well, definitely, you know, the old saying goes, trust but verify. So I mean, we can, as veterans, we can put forth our best foot and our best efforts. And when we're trying to take care of ourselves, and we're saying, oh, this is a great set up. These organizations say that they cater to veterans. If they say they cater to veterans, like I said, trust but verify, you know. Talk with the individuals, make sure that, you know, read the documents. You know what, in fact, if you don't trust them that much or even if you ran across them, go and talk to some other veterans. Go to find one of your local VFWs, find one of your local OVCs here, Oahu Veterans Center, or one of your veterans' organizations that you might be a part of and say, hey, do we have anybody here that has a legal background? Or at least can help me muddle through this contract or whatever, you know. But trust but verify. Yeah, gotta be very careful now, you know. Even thought of different organizations, even then, you know, trust but verify. Yeah, we have a bad apple. Yeah, we have a few, but that's another story there. Anyhow, I say a lot of things that they can wanna go ahead and get out there, but one thing I wanna go ahead and share is that on the 8th of November, we have the Hero, Remembered, Run, Walk, or Roll event that's taking place. If you wanna take part in this, it's gonna be again on the 8th of November and it starts at the Pacific Aviation Museum. If you're an ID card holder, there's no problem getting over there, but if you are a civilian or you don't have the proper credentials, what you can do is go to Nimitz Gate to the security office over there and they will issue a pass or give the appropriate documents to be able to participate in that. And again, this is open to everybody that wants to do this. Once a year, what they do is they have the boots. I don't know if for those of you who may not have seen it. This is a remembrance of all the individuals associated with Hawaii that were killed in combat or lost their lives in the service of the country. And when you see the rows and rows and rows of boots out there, it really hits home exactly, puts a human face on it. That's the only thing I can say, but it's really something worthwhile and it's a good chance for you to show your appreciation and thanks for those who have paid the ultimate price. Have you seen that? You've been on there, haven't you? I haven't been over to that one yet. Haven't been over that one yet. But to tag on to that one, also on August 26th, which is a Sunday, there will be a Spartan race. So this is for all your active duty members, veterans, friends and family. So it'll be a three mile sprint. It's an optical course.  It'll be at Kualoa, Kualoa? The ranch. The ranch. It'll be at the ranch. Kualoa Ranch, Kanye O'Aid, round, I think the start times around 7am, 0800. And there'll also be opportunity to meet Team Rubicon members and other veterans organizations that will be out there. So that'll be a nice one. I thought the Spartan run was just going down to Ala Moana during the holiday season and try to shop down there, you know? Yeah, either that one or Halloween. Try to get downtown through Halloween or Christmas. And it's a garlic. Also, as far as access to the base, effective one October, there will be some changes. We'll have some information up on that for you.  But there are policies to change now where you're gonna have to have a different type of ID. And you can go to the military base, either up at the Spark-Matsunaga Center, Ambulatory Care, and ask them up there and also the Army Garrison Control Center. And also you can call the Oahu Veterans Center, down at Foster Village, taught to Claire. And her number is 422-4000, and she can give you some more information about what's happening. But with this change, you wanna make sure you're prepared for this, that if you do need to have access to the base that you get this card, or the cat card as I call it, before one October. So that's a very important part. Then you have a card on you? Yes, I sure do. So for those service members, this is the one that's gonna get you on base for Tripler and the Veterans Center there. This one right here will no longer be accepted after October 1st, but you probably wanna keep this one, in case you do any traveling to the mainland, because this one is gonna get you into the other VA centers, if you find yourself in need within the mainland of the other 50 states. Yep, okay. So now, yeah, that's very important. The way things are changing anyhow, to be having access to the base or other types of services is very important anyhow. Hopefully there'll be more, we'll get some more information out there in the future about some of the other things. We're gonna try to keep it steadily updated on a lot of things, but there are a lot of different sources out there that the Veterans can go to. Again, I mentioned the Oahu Veterans Center. They have a website up there, and it's very informative. It's a great group to have down there anyhow. Okay, also, unfortunately, we have the issue of suicides. That comes up in one of the things that we have the Veterans Crisis Hotline. And if you know someone who is in immediate distress, of course, you always call 911. But if you're a veteran and there is time, like saying, to react or whatever, then the number they have is 1-800-273-8255. And that's<PHONE_NUMBER>. But again, that's another issue, like I say, that it still needs to be dealt with anyhow. We're still losing a lot of not only active duty individuals, but also in the Veterans community, there seems to be a lot of unfortunate incidents that are not being addressed. I know they were trying to address these many issues, but sometimes it's still falling a little bit short. And if you have a family member or even yourself that is contemplating this, sometimes you don't have time to work for this system. We need something that is really more immediate, and yeah, no, okay. Well, there was a recent article that popped up on my radar, and it was talking about one of the things that oftentimes, as we as Veterans, as soon as we get out of the military, we tend to isolate ourselves. We're like, you know what, I just don't want to be around people, and then you start going down that rabbit hole that you don't want to be around any people. And that's one of the first telltale signs that, hey, you actually want to be around people. It doesn't have to be, as we say, civilians or civilians, but you need to seek out other Veterans at least. Okay, point that note. We're getting down to the wire. I want to thank you for coming on the program. We'll do some follow-up stuff in here. I think there's still a lot of very important things that need to be addressed, like I really stress that, can't stress that enough need, all right? Again, being involved in it, even if you haven't served a day in the military, find out what's going on, because like I say, we do over to our men and women who are serving us. There are very small percentage that represent all of us around the world. And I want to thank you viewers for tuning in to the program. Thank you to Jeremy, and like I say, to tune in next time. God bless, and until that time.


National Signing Day for Division I Athletes is not until February, but today marked the early signing period where athletes could sign their letters of intent if they had already made their decision. Jacob Lindemann, a six-foot-four, 250-pound offensive lineman from Rozo, officially announced that he will play his college ball at the University of North Dakota. Lindemann verbally committed to North Dakota via Twitter in June and finally signed his official letter of intent today. The Rozo Ram earned all section honors both as a junior and senior and was named to the All-State Second Team this season. Lindemann was one of 23 recruits and one of six offensive linemen that signed to the University of North Dakota during the early signing period. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.