About once every few years we get one of these books where the contents are supposed to be life-changing but when you start reading a book you hear the same old cliches you have to face when scrolling through social media. But when Jordan Peterson takes control of these cliches, the work combination, the tone, the velocity of speech, they simply work. And Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Toronto, a sighted scholar and one of the most influential public intellectuals of the English speaking world. And three years passed since the release of his first mainstream book, 12 Rules for Life which was centered around Jordan's idea of order versus chaos. And now he is back and his new book, Beyond Order, 12 More Rules for Life is the yang to the yin, adding some chaos and disruption to your existence purposefully, thus completing the first piece of the puzzle, 12 Rules for Life. Savly influenced by yang, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Goethe and many more, Jordan Peterson uses their philosophy as spiritual windshields as one of the purposes of the humanities is to teach one how to live well. And I want to give a quick heads up that this book is dense and contains a lot of sub points that feed into the main chapter and this is why you should read it carefully and thoroughly. The first rule in the book states that one should not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. Now we are surrounded by social structures and to operate within these structures one needs to acknowledge and understand the complexity of such arrangements or at least try to comprehend how these came to life. Because we have a system where the people who inherited the structures have no idea why their grandparents even developed them. And these social institutions have to wrestle with chaos and novelty, they must adapt and constantly morph into something up to date. And there will always be limitations on how the world must be perceived and acted upon if an individual aims to solve a particular problem, the complexity of his simple solution will cascade across multiple domains. It must also appeal to others, it must be able to operate within other structures and provide benefits for others. It cannot simply be good for you but the people around you as well including your family, community and ultimately the world. And Peterson states that a good solution to an important problem must be repeatable without decay across repetitions. Repeatable in a word across people and across time. And these universal constraints that are biologically manifested and socially imposed decrease the complexity of the world to a universally understandable domain of value. And criticizing creative achievement is another thing we are doing on an individual level. This reflects in our behavior in how we interact with one another and how we compete with each other. Sure it can come in handy to spit on Justin Bieber due to the never-ending manifestation of groupthink as it is quite easy to drink a glass of wine and casually trash talk others while we have never sung a song on the streets or performed a live concert. But what if we start looking deeper within one another or at least attempt to consider the complexities of our world so that we can gradually push and better understand creative achievements and how these can push the world forward. And although we are kind of in a state where we are sort of amusing ourselves to death right now let's face it creative achievement is difficult to catalyze and also maintain. This is why we need to fix the basics first and we must perfect ourselves and solve the main problems which manifest across multiple dimensions of human behavior and innovation will be the cherry on top. Now since childhood we absorb and learn to see and act by following the heroes and stories that are captivating to us and this raises the question who are you or at least who could you be feeding into the second rule of the book imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that. And you are all starting with a clean slate and we immerse ourselves into the wonders of the world. We resonate with a particular type of character or story or life and these are a call to action for the untapped potential that lies burbied within our human natures and might never emerge and develop without that call. And we are all part nature and part culture and let's face it a really good story can trigger an outstanding burst of insane motivation a really good story will sketch the eternal battle between good and evil will clear up the fog will set you on a path to discovering yourself and get the gist of the moral and moral position you will stand for both on a social and personal level and this is very much true for me as well naturally when I was young I was watching a lot of cartoons and if I start thinking deeply about these characters I still kind of resonate with them till this day and the same goes for the movies I watched once I grew older and you know started developing a little bit of taste and I found that I value truth and freedom and privacy but also lean a bit toward introversion and somehow solitary lifestyle and Jordan Peterson provides a meta answer to the who are you question and this is indeed an ideal type of answer but you know attempting to get as close as you can to this ideal will also get us closer to our true selves we are part of the eternal force that constantly confronts the terrible unknown voluntarily and we can become so sharp and so dangerous that if we had to use our true power in a controlled manner we will get absolutely deadly in a way that can keep evil in its layer we are able to manipulate chaos and turn it into controlled order and GP states that this unperceivable veil of true self is transmitted in a form of stories that are difficult to consciously understand and remember that the mirrors in your mind can also reflect the best of yourself and not the worst of someone else now the third rule states that you should work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens and this particular chapter is especially interesting because most humans do not know their actual limits we are living in a world of instant gratification and let's face it they are kind of soft and GP has a special type of suggestion and that is to ask ourselves how hard can we work on something and the advice might seem pretty standard but what you can do is pick something that you want to do and you say to yourself okay i'm going to hammer this particular task and work on it as hard as i can flat out until i deplete my tank simply to see what my limits are how far can i get until i get tired of bored frustrated or how far can i get until i break and give up and this is one of the things that you will need to do at least once in your life and if you find that particular point of exhaustion then you will know when to pull back once you start approaching that limit and next time operate within that limit and you should focus doing this when you're young because obviously that's when you have the most amount of energy but it's never too late and this is how you can get resilience as well you make a list of things a list of challenges and you start attacking them with full force just to simply discover what your limits are and of course the challenges must match the particular person as sometimes you might have to face burdens that you cannot carry and i view this as taking small doses of poison simply to end up to a point where you will be harder to kill whenever there's a hard challenge that you need to face now the fourth rule states that one should not hide unwanted things in the fog and Jordan Peterson constructs a very good argument exploring that particular moment when you have something running in your mind something you know you need to face challenge and tackle either mentally or verbally but you simply choose not to do so one of the most common examples where people are hiding unwanted things in the fog and that Jordan Peterson had to deal with in psychotherapy is actually marriage but he's going to expand on that in a future chapter and it's not just about marriage it's also about the things that people are hiding from each other when having to deal with the triviality of daily life because there's oftentimes a complexity of micro problems you choose to simply ignore and if you do not face that particular something if you choose to ignore it and hide it in the fog hiding under the table at some point this will explode and what you will find out through exploration and self-improvement is that the stuff you are afraid of you're scared of is most of the time not that real we suffer more in imagination than in reality so what you can do is start asking yourself a question such as what might my problem be and you will have a starting point and now you can at least try to guess about your stability and rule number five takes us deeper and deeper and this one states that you should abandon ideology and with this one gp goes far away into the last quarter of the 19th century a time when the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche announced that God is dead and Nietzsche holds that we have blood on our hands because we haven't simply killed God but we also killed that which gave our life meaning and the remaining escape from nihilism is the birth of a new type of individual the super human one that's strong and powerful in a way that allows the creation of new personal values and with God being dead the emergence of the superhuman is a necessity so that society would not drift toward the opposing rocky shoals of despair and over systemized political theorizing and this is not as simple as it seems with psychoanalysts such as young arguing that we are not sufficiently in position of ourselves to create values by conscious choice and this raises the question what makes us think that we are capable of creating ourselves ex nihilo from nothing from scratch and this brings one more problem onto the table which is if we leave our lives according to our freshly created values and centered around those what remains to unite us gp argues that it is much easier to blame a system with the victims of the systems being supported by ideologue always being innocent and the perpetrators of the system as evil because if the power is the problem those who have the power are the singer of cause of the world's suffering and once each system would have identified the source of evil they would have something to aim for a world where only you and people who think like you are good is also a world where you are surrounded by enemies bent on your destruction who must be fought and gp constructs this idea that it's much more safer morally for you to at least attempt to remove the speck of dust in your eye which is also part of the messianic path which is also part of the imitation of the hero and this is not going to be a political issue you need to solve for a sociological one but mostly a spiritual and a psychological one because a sophisticated writer is not going to divide characters in the book by saying that one is good and another is evil it will be more complicated than that an almost eternal battle and struggle between light and darkness so ideology is dead and with god being dead as well what should we do we should at least try and begin to tackle problems that are not so macro level inclined and do this on an individual level addressing problems that are smaller in scale and embedding this type of default into your own being while simultaneously taking responsibility for the consequences and results so have some humility clean up your room take care of your family follow your conscious straighten up your life find something productive and interesting to do and commit to it when you can do all that find a bigger problem and try to solve that if you're there and if that works too move on to even more ambitious projects and as a necessary beginning the process abandon ideology now coming in full force with rule six which states that you should notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated and opportunity is missed by a lot of people because it looks like work in a culture of instant gratification and excess dopamine bursts more work is seen as a daunting monster if you think about it we are kind of putting this type of mindset right from school the time where you could do some extra homework that was not a requirement but it could get you additional points in the long run and this skill happens when we grow up as well and in order to develop the skills to be able to seize opportunities one must pay attention first so you can start asking what would happen if I took responsibility you can then start confronting what GP calls a dragon that's just the size that you are likely to defeat fill up that empty glass of water if you're a guest offer to help clean the dishes in the workplace offer to help complete the tasks no one else is doing and remember that it appears that the meaning that most effectively sustains life is to be found in the adoption of responsibility


other districts friends of mine so the chromebooks i've had a lot of problems with breakout and things of that nature i just want to make you aware of that i think uh mr good was just made aware that a lot of problems with that one-to-one doing what we're doing right now that's fine it was the breakout issue that they had a lot of problems with just sharing that with you thank you for that and i do i will say this that before before we purchased zoom dr bison who is our director of digital learning she did some testing with with actually students at each level in the district and uh we did test it out so i will definitely look into that and make sure we get the model numbers and try to figure out uh are those are they the same models of chromebooks that we've purchased in a district so thank you for that information thank you any other questions comments i just had one final um reopening question about um and actually it's good that miss liner and miss christis are here about uh email access for elementary students especially those in the remote academy do we have an update of where we're at with that i know that was something that was requested many many times from many parents and many members of this committee in the spring we never got there um and i was wondering where we were at with that um i'm i'm i'm less concerned about students in the hybrid but um i'm especially concerned about our remote students fourth and fifth graders um and the usability of google classroom without receiving notifications over email so i guess i'll address my question to dr mcneil but happy to have it farmed out uh did i'm gonna give our co-administrators the first crack at that did you want to talk about that so they can display their leadership skills thanks rod um i would say that we we do need to talk with the tech department about that we were aware of the issue in the spring as well um and we we just came on yesterday so it is on our list of questions to ask great i hope you ask them early and often um as somebody who had two fifth graders as a parent last year um it was extremely frustrating uh to help them engage independently with their work and they have access to their um to you know getting notifications about their their you know feedback um and you know i don't want to speak on behalf of teachers so i won't but uh maybe you should ask them too because they might have some feedback for you on that as well um i think that's it um anybody else okay great um so the next item on our agenda is the superintendent search process update mr schlickman okay um when we flip uh screens here because i was at the policy procedures um okay uh we send out to everybody the draft minutes of the september third meeting uh we've completed a document which we call the invitation to apply for a seat on the superintendent search screening committee i want to go first through the recommended composition of the screening committee the school uh one notice we're saying and we really mean it the school committee will strive to ensure search committee members include underrepresented constituencies as members are chosen to fill the seats as described we'll have three school committee members three parents one central office administrator two principals or assistant principals representing different levels two teachers representing elementary secondary one municipal government representative and three other stakeholders preferably including a student and we stress that this is an open category may include additional teachers parents or members of the community who would add value to the committee so that's sort of a wildcard category to bring in a committee of 15 that is representative of the community uh one of the stressors is that uh people who volunteer to be on the committee must attend the orientation meeting and state that they will attend the orientation meeting which is scheduled for september 29th it's seven p.m it will be zoomed um and we will start screening uh resumes on the week of october 12th uh there the deadline for filing this will be next thursday at three p.m so it is a very tight turnaround uh we are going to ask everybody here to go and send the invitation out to uh all constituencies that you know uh it is posted on the irlington super dot com website uh we are asking people to send a statement of interest of why they would be a good member of this uh screening committee plus identify any and all categories they may qualify for and so the timeline would be uh tonight we'll approve the size and composition of the screening committee deadline for applying for a seat is september 17th the search process subcommittee will be to recommend screening committee members in september 22nd uh the full school committee will approve the screening committee membership on september 24th orientation on september 29th it's seven p.m and the first screening meeting is the week of october 12th so i move that we approve the timeline and the uh the structural membership of the uh screening committee second uh discussion um let's i guess this is a big one so let's um so miss exton um can you can then um subcommittee just talk a little bit about why a student was not sort of identified individually and just preferred in the in the other group of three uh the feeling in discussing with mr kutcher and masc is what we want to do is state that we want one but not to limit the seat so that i think the intent is that we will have one but uh uh we're trying to keep this as flexible as possible i so i'm with that because it sort of feels like it's subtly in there i'm just trying to figure out thinking of as we're sharing this out to everyone like encouraging students to apply to to have a seat on this on the screening committee because i i would really like to see a student on the on the committee as i would too dr jinger so this is a question uh apropos of this we have as part of the anti-racism working group a student group working on personnel and staff diversity um and one of their proposals which actually was at one point brought to you in public comment was to we've been sort of gathering a group of students interested in helping out with the hiring process so i guess my question to you is whether it would be helpful if a recommendation came from anti-racism working with the bsu and the student council or the student representative um or whether you'd prefer just that we encourage students to apply and fill out the form and then you select among the applicants mr shuffman do you want to take that one or yes yeah i uh the uh the intent is that you should identify all affiliations and that if you are being backed or coming with the membership in in that group i think that would be looked upon very favorably all right thank you very much we will promote the uh the effort and get get folks to apply yeah we would love to have we would love to have a broad representation on the committee and that's sort of the intent but we also don't want to force the issue of uh from folks who are not necessarily interested so that we have a little more flexibility as well you know we have a cohort they're they're rare in a go good so make sure that uh they send it in and if there's a preference from the group we certainly want to look at that great um other comments i see dr ellison ambi so dr ellison ambi um i just wanted to point out that we did um discuss the uh request that we had had about student seat um that came from nois weeder um earlier this summer both in email and and presented to school committee and we didn't feel comfortable with specifying seats for these positions in part because then you start having other groups come and say well we want to see two and we and and we're really limited in terms of the number of people that we can have on the committee and still be functional um so this is the manner in which we chose to handle it but we did bring this up and and discuss it great other um feedback or questions from the committee looking okay so mr schlickman you do you have a motion did you already make your motion now i'm losing yes i did i moved that we accept the uh structural membership in the calendar outstanding and who gave you your second sir i didn't hear where mr hainer and by mr schlickman second by mr hainer um so let's vote miss exton yes mr carton yes dr ellison ambi yes mr hillman yes mr schlickman yes hainer yes and i am also yes all right um do you have more for us mr schlickman on the search timeline or was that all did you sort of wrap it all up for us in one go i did wrap it up in one go however i'm talking to mr kutcher uh and i just want to state a couple of things first of all the brochure is out they've mailed it out to their mailing list it is posted online both on the masc mailing list and on the earlingtonsuper.com website um there are inquiries being made as we speak this is a desirable job and mr kutcher says he's fielding inquiries from some excellent candidates so i think that we're on a good path great thank you mr schlickman uh moving on uh only an hour behind to the 810 agenda item policy first read kd8 kdab temporary signs and banner bedh and bedh dash e public comment at school committee meetings and acab uh harassment uh mr schlickman do you want to give us uh what we need on these they're all you know if members of the public wish to read them they are all in novice um and this is a first read so uh is my understanding correct mr schlickman that we will be reading these tonight and then voting them at a subsequent meeting no and let me just uh get to the uh uh we need to vote them tonight because we're gonna we have one that we're going to uh waive request to waive the uh the the rules but i've just got to find um the original email um where i had it all written uh oh let me let me go through it this way uh first of all um the the one that is uh tricky here just in terms of the timeline is acab harassment that this is required to be passed um and we needed town councils advice one of the things that we were checking with council on was whether or not what the evidentiary evidentiary standard was connected to this policy he opined and then made some technical corrections acab was recommended by masc to fulfill the requirements of new federal regulations uh moraheeley and a bunch of other ag's are suing to block these regulations uh but uh they're they're still before us so that we do need to adopt this and if our good attorney general was successful uh in in her litigation or new administration changes the uh the the federal regulations we we go back and revisit this again but uh because of the august deadline for having this policy in place i move that we uh suspend the rules to consider acab on the second read discussion on so this is just the motion to suspend the second read so any discussion okay uh so just for that piece um we're going to vote miss exton yes cardin yes dr allison ampey yes dealman yes your shipment yes your heiner yes i'm also yes okay now i move adoption of acab harassment second discussion all right motion by mr schiffman second by mr heiner adoption of policy acab harassment miss exton yes mr cardin yes dr allison ampey yes dealman yes mr schiffman yes your heiner yes i'm also yes okay um and then do you need anything else do we need to do anything else with tady abe or bedh and bedh dash e tonight okay there are just for first reads i just want to report out on what they are very briefly first of all bedh is been and bedh dash e have been circulating around for some revisions uh uh to change some of the language to be more inclusive so we're taking out the word citizens and bringing in residents um we're adjusting it to fulfill the legal requirements of the natik decision um it's just a little more clarity in terms of what we're doing so it's not a drastic change in what we're doing but we're making a clearer policy kdab temporary signs and banners this is brought to us by town council is something we should be doing because of the issues surrounding the posting of banners and temporary signs on school policy on on school department property and that we need to have clarity so that we do not inadvertently create a public forum on our property so that we have control over what is posted both in our right to express government speech and for our right to uh control um speech from the school within certain uh certain guidelines and that's laid out in kdab great thank you mr schickman um any discussion about any of these seeing none um subcommittee and liaison reports and announcements budget dr alson ampy nothing to report community relations mr heiner nothing to report yeah mr cardin uh nothing to report at the time this time uh facilities mr thielman we we had a good conversation there we're all set uh policy mr schickman we just reported sure did all right uh superintendent search process again we just reported uh arlington high school building committee mr thielman no report uh liaison reports seeing none announcements mr heiner yes i'd like the indulgence of the committee uh joseph albany's a resident of brightview here in allington turned 100 years old today joseph graduated waltham high school in 1939 later served in the united states navy from 1942 until 1946 he attended training in menthess and chicago he was assigned to cherry point north carolina and flew numerous flights up and down the east coast of the united states searching for submarines following that he served on the uss ranger as an aviation ordinance first class in the pacific theater after his service ended he attended northeast university where he received his bachelor's degree in business in 1951 he eventually went to work for raytheon where he met his wife adeline joseph lived in summable and then moved to arlington where he lived for over 50 years he finished his career as a human resources director for unitrobe in watertown joseph is the father of two children grandfather of four and great grandfather of five they celebrated this morning up at brightview uh a whole group of veterans had a car parade went around the circle waved at him his family several members of his family came from all over the united states and they were able to set a room the side farm i've had the privilege of having breakfast with him prior to coveted once a month with the veterans group and i hope i i wish i was as active in my mind today as he is right now thank you for let me share that with you thank you mr heiner any other announcements or future agenda items okay um so our last agenda item is executive session to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with union and or non-union personnel or contract negotiations with union and or non-union in which if held in an open meeting may have a detrimental effect to conduct strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation in which if held in an open meeting may have a detrimental effect collective bargaining may also be conducted um so we need to vote to go into executive session and then um my expectation is that we will adjourn from executive session so we will not be coming back so um we're going to take um so what i'm gonna ask we're gonna go ahead and vote to go into executive session and um i'll ask that members of the public who um are we can't continue our meeting um with members of the public like in it so if you can leave if you're still around your device and if you're not we will leave for you um so that we can keep keep moving and we may maybe i think we'll make our 10 o'clock tonight which is i think a first during my time as chair um so that's exciting um so uh to uh can i get a motion to go into executive so moved back in uh mizeksten yes mr cardin yes alison ampie yes this is thielman yes mr schlickman yes mr heiner yes i'm a yes all right guys thank you thank you to everybody for coming i can't bye guys


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You got Nick's colossal patch card Kembo Walker to 99 Kembo for the Knicks Interesting to see is that a Nick's Jersey? He's a Celtics Jersey Clippers dual Jersey key on Johnson 61 out of 99. This has been a fantastic case We have like big hits in every single box so far. Bernard King Nick's auto 13 of 25 NBA greats Yeah, rich. It's a pretty cool card, man treasures of the hall Warriors in the Jerry Lucas auto one of ten We'll contact you via your email Adam. I would I would think tomorrow So we'll just shoot the both of you an email make it a little more formal than all of this and then you guys can decide if you actually do want to random it or Sell or maybe the other wants to buy it off the other person. It's gonna be all Handled via email. So whichever emails on your account with with late and sports cards That's Adam, man God jazzed out of a Mitchell 72 of 99 Yeah, of course, congrats again on the chance at that one or at least a share of it currently printing plates, what is that? That's kind of cool Anthony Edwards Lamella ball and Tyrese Halliburton T-Wolves Hornets Kings Flawless triple logo, man. I mean, that's a pretty cool printing plate triple logo, man Edwards Halliburton and Lamello, so let's see the Hornets again was Harper the Kings Harper so this is no random Hornets Harper and these guys second tier Harper and then T-Wolves Yeah, so no random on this one Harper has the Kings and the Hornets I pulled a trick. I pulled a logo man guys. I told you I would That's pretty cool. You can draw it on there if you want you can draw the logo man That's a cool one. 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That's Keon Johnson 79 of 99 Keon man keep an eye on Keon Johnson guys He can be pretty good for the Blazers now, but pretty good man and on the back we've got a Peerless signatures for the Warriors Sarunas Marshall onus 525 Sarunas all right Let's go ahead and do our recap That was a great case, man Some of them were redemptions, but there's some big redemptions here. All right. Here are all the relic cards the jerseys Isakal Coro Dwight Howard with the magic Boban Marjanovic Anthony Davis Keon Johnson Kemble Walker Corey Kisper Jamal Murray Nicola Husevich Andry Simons Darius Basely Jalen Brown Moses Moody James Booknights KD and Jonathan Kaminga autos now Marshall onus Keon Johnson Miles McBride Nick's redemption there That was triple jersey rookie material auto triple crime got Jerry Lucas Warriors Bernard King as a Nick Cameron Johnson B.J. Armstrong Jerry West Christian Wood and Jaren Jackson jr. Nothing else is in a mag here man. 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Aloha, welcome to Global Connections. I'm your host, Grace Chang, and I'm joined here today by Dr. Sung Kyun Ko of Hawaii Pacific University. He's a professor of international relations and political science, and we'll be talking about the Korean War and its significance today. So welcome to the program, Dr. Ko. Thank you. Nice to have you here. Okay, thanks. Great, great. I've been teaching at Hawaii Pacific University on East Asian international relations, Asian politics, numerous different courses. So you've been here for a while and doing this for a bit, so could you please give us a little background on your history, your work in this field, where you came from? Yes. Well, as you said, I'm a professor of international relations and political science at HPU now. I've been teaching almost like half a century, 50 years since 1963, and I've worked for State Department also, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then taught at various universities in the mainland and East Asia. And as you said, my field of specialties, international relations, focusing on East Asia. I was born in Seoul, Korea, then raised there, then came to the United States for study. So after receiving my doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, I went back to Korea and worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and taught at the Seoul National University at the graduate school level. Then I came back to the United States in 1972, then since that time I've been teaching at HPU until now. Did you say you also worked at the State Department? Yes. Oh, okay. When was that? In what capacity? That was from 1970, 1972, then from 1972 to 2003, as I was linguist. Oh, okay. Well, that was an interesting times. Yes. The 70s, when a lot of change going on in East Asia, the U.S. starts to open up with China. Right. So there must have been a big impact in East Asian international relations. Right, that's right. And you got to see that a little bit in sight into that while you were working there. Well, it was a really very interesting job because my job was essentially to introduce the United States to visiting VIPs from Korea and sometimes other countries too. And basically, to take this VIP visit to various parts of the United States, visit the Congress, visit Supreme Court, then Defense Department, State Department, whatever, then we travel around all over the United States, go to New York, Boston, and go to Harvard. Okay. Yale, Princeton have a seminar with the professor specializing in the area which VIP is interested in. Okay. Then we go to Chicago, then go to Stanford in California. So actually, I travel around all of the United States almost like over 30 times. And that was really great experience I've had in my life. Yeah, yeah. And you have contact with all the specialists in the different universities, the major departments of study there. Right. That's a great introduction and an interesting, must have interesting conversations and insights from that. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. And so, I mean, that's a really fascinating background. So you were, you know, you were born when the Korean War had unfolded and going on and then you were teaching throughout like most of the Cold War period. So I know you're, so currently your project is you're working on a book on the Korean War. Yes. And that is, you know, history, but also talking about the significance of it today and also incorporating some of your background or your own experience of the war. So let's talk a bit first about the Korean War itself, I mean, and this book project that you're working on. Very good. I've been working on this book project for some time and very likely will be published sometime coming June. Great. So almost halfway. And I wrote this book because there are so many books written on the Korean War. I think it's over 20 books and various authors and all that. But most books written by American authors. So they touch on American perspective, American interpretation of Korean War. There are very few books written by Koreans themselves, although Koreans were the objects of Korean War. They, they were the, you know, experience of all these Korean works, Korean going on and everything. For whatever reason, maybe not too many books written by Korean authors. So I felt that I was compelled to write something with Korean as a Korean American and to give Korean perspective. Makes sense. So, so I studied on this book and then it's basically a survey to Korean War. And after this, I plan to write another book, which will be similar to Korean War. There will be definitive study. But anyway, the book which I'm writing include the beginning of the Korean War to the end of Korean War. So three years spent of Korean War. So Korean War started with North Korean invasion of South Korea on June 25th, 1953. That ended July 27th, 1953 as Armistice was completed. During the three years of war, both sides, North and South side, compelled to commit themselves destruction, only destruction.  Destroying each other, killing each other. And so it started by North Korea, so at the beginning of the war, Civil War. But U.S. intervened four days later, then intervened until the end of the war. Then when North Korea was destroyed by Douglas MacArthur, then Chinese intervened, it was end of October 1950, and it became a sign of American War, essentially. It became internationalized. Internationalized. International war, basically. And the war lasted until July 1953. But what brought about the war? What made Korea divide and take two sides that wanted to destroy each other? Even before, you know, the Americans, the Chinese, under communists? Very good question. When the Korea was liberated, August 15, 1945, Korea was supposed to be. Free, independent, self-government country. That was promised by Cairo Declaration in 1943 by Roosevelt, Jung Isaac, and Churchill. But then that has never been fulfilled, although that was essentially the promise which a light power was given to the Korean people. Instead of Korea being united, independent, the Korea was divided. Especially for the military convenience. When Japan surrendered, then the Soviet Union involved. Then the Soviet Union involved, then the U.S. involved in the Korean Peninsula. So they want to divide Korea into two parts. So the other part be occupied by Soviet Union, the other part by occupied United States. Interestingly, that was proposed by U.S. side. And the person who did was Colonel Dean Rusk, later who became a Secretary of State on the Kennedy. And he did it essentially to expedite military convenience and military consideration only. And didn't think about the impact of division on the Korean people. He didn't think it would impact the Koreans amongst themselves, that they would spur on a civil war amongst Koreans. And he didn't think about the consequences of division. And essentially division precipitated the Korean war. Because North Korea, led by Kim Il-sung, South Korea, led by Seung-man Rhee, want to unify from their point of view. So Kim Il-sung want to unify from communist. And Seung-man want to unify from a democratic, free enterprise point of view. But North Korea had more military strength than South Korea. So North Korea decided to invade South Korea because they felt that they could actually occupy South Korea within a few weeks. Basically take it over. Take it over, essentially take it over. But Kim Il-sung made a mistake. And Kim Il-sung didn't expect U.S. would intervene. If Kim Il-sung expected U.S. would intervene, then he would never invade South Korea. Yeah, probably not, yeah. Would have calculated that that would have been a very risky move, right? It's miscalculation. Yeah, but the U.S. was very concerned because China had already become taken over by the Communist Party that defeated Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang forces. So this was something that was just beginning to color the U.S., I guess, geostrategic thinking. Right, right. So as you said, China was taken over by Mao Zedong and finished the occupation of all the mainland as of October 1949. And after that, that is essentially a very good point because that essentially helped Kim Il-sung to make up his mind because he felt that Mao unified China and why not him unified Korea, just as Mao did in the mainland China. So essentially that helped him to engage in this all our tech consul of Korea. Neither side was successful, in part because the intervention of the U.S. and the South, Chinese and the North. And yeah, so the aftermath of this is that we still have, today North Korea is prominent in American news because Americans don't have direct relations with North Korea, still close to South Korea, and collaborates quite closely militarily and otherwise. But yeah, the situation there is kind of left hanging, so to speak, since the war. Well, that is a very good point because when the Korean War ended in July 1953, essentially it was Amistice, which means ceasefire. The ceasefire still continues, more or less. And there has never been peace treaty between the North and South, between North Korea and United States, partly because United States refused to recognize North Korea. And North Korea resent that. And North Korea's provocations, developing all these nuclear weapons, everything, essentially because they felt they've been ignored, they've been primarily punished unnecessarily because of whatever reason the U.S. has had and whatever the other countries has had, the other countries probably, some countries essentially recognize, the Great Britain recognized that North Korea has diplomatic relations, but the U.S. never recognized North Korea. So peace treaty has never been made. Essentially that causes one of the major problems, North Korea, South Korea tensions, North Korea, U.S. tensions and all that. And how come U.S. did not recognize North Korea? Because U.S. felt that North Korea doesn't deserve recognition because, yes, North Korea has been developing nuclear weapons. This is basically the issue of which comes first, peace treaty, reconciliation or confrontation continue to be. Yeah. So we still have a non-concluded conflict, essentially. Essentially that's correct. Great. Well, let's come back after this break and continue with this conversation. Okay. Sure. Okay. You're watching Global Connections with Grace Chang here with Dr. Sun Kyung-Koo. Okay. Hello, I'm Michael North, inviting you to join us on The Art of Thinking Smart, every second Thursday at 12 noon, here at the beautiful ThinkTech studios in downtown Honolulu. I'm guest hosting for David Chang of Wealthbridge. Now we're talking to Hawaii's most intelligent, accomplished leaders about what makes them successful in their professional lives. By absorbing their practical wisdom, all of us can think ahead, think deeper and become more successful ourselves. We look forward to seeing you on The Art of Thinking Smart. Hi, this is Jane Sugimura. I'm the co-host for Condo Insider. And we're on ThinkTech Hawaii every Thursday at 3 o'clock. And we're here to talk about condominium living and issues that affect condominium residents and owners. And I hope you'll join us every week on Thursday. Aloha. Hello. Welcome back to Global Connections. I'm your host, Grace Chang, here with Dr. Sun Kyung-Koo of Hawaii Pacific University. And we're speaking about his book project on the Korean War, as well as its significance today. So welcome back to the program, Dr. Ko. Thank you. So let's get into the heart of what your book project is about, because we were talking before the break about the international dimensions of it, the Cold War dimensions. I understand your book is really about the war itself, how it was conducted. So let's get into that a little bit. Well, the book is composed of a number of chapters. Well, the difference between my book and other books are that I included my own experience in the book. So I was in Korea during the war. I was 13 years old. And although I was young, but I was very concerned with the war itself, so I tried to find it out as much as I can. So I had all kinds of experience with war, actually, when the North Korean troops moved in to Seoul, Korea on the June 28th, 1950. And as a young boy, I went out to the street and tried to look at what the North Korean soldiers looked like. And they marched in and the tank was right in the middle of the street, the T-34 tanks. And they really looked like soldiers. And compared to soldiers I've seen before the war, the South Korean soldiers, and compared those two models of soldiers, North Korean soldiers, really looked like soldiers. Very professional. Very professional. So they moved in to marching into Seoul, and I look at them. They seemed to be completely indifferent to the citizens coming out to see them. I was surprised that I felt they may be hostile, but I didn't see any hostility. They're just simply not interested in the people watching them. Some of them smile, but not too many. Citizens who came to look at the North Korean soldiers, they were kind of curious, and they had a high degree of suspicion, what would North Korean soldiers would do? So all these kinds of observations, I will include in my book. Then when the Chinese soldiers intervened in the end of October 1950, the Chinese soldiers simply pushed the United Nations forces into Seoul for the South. But Chinese soldiers moved in Seoul on January 3rd, 1951. I stayed in my home until January 2nd, 1951. Then when I heard the communist soldiers outskirts of Seoul, then I moved out from Seoul, then across the Han River, then I walked from Seoul to Taegu, which is about 150 miles distance. So during that time, I saw the battles someplace. I saw the United Nations forces, South Korean soldiers, and the American soldiers. And that experience is written in my book. So as far as the soldiers that you witnessed coming into Seoul from North Korea as well, like the Chinese soldiers you were mentioning, are they coming in? What's their purpose? Are they trying to conquer, occupy, remove the government, take over institutions? You're able to observe them seemingly, it seems like very directly, in everyday street life. So what were they there for, what was their purpose? So Kim Il-sung wanted to unify the country under the theme of national liberation. So soldiers move in and want to occupy and want to move down all the way to the south. So essentially, soldiers are trying to occupy entire South Korea, then incorporate South Korea into North Korea as unifying the country. Essentially take over, occupy. Exactly. Just like Ma Jie-ting took over entire mainland China. So essentially that was Kim Il-sung's objective. And so when you left Seoul, it was after the Chinese also had moved in. There was a UN force in Korea in order to observe, right, the observation. Well, United Nations forces led by United States forces, I mean essentially United Nations forces led by United States forces. So they actually went all the way to Pyongyang and near to Sino-Korean border after MacArthur was successfully landed in Incheon, September 15, 1950. But Chinese intervention forced them to retreat all the way to the 30th parallel, then to the Seoul, then further down. So that's when I left Seoul, January 2, 1951, then walked from Seoul to Taegu. Understandable, very uncertain situation then. That was really interesting because that's the war time and I saw the battles and all that. So that part is written in my book. And essentially what happened is I almost killed several times during the course of this marching down to Seoul. One instant was when I arrived in Okcheon, Okcheon is just a few miles from Daejeon, Daejeon is the major city in the middle of Korean Peninsula. What happened is at the time a train arrived and train, riding a train was exceptionally part of something everybody wanted because, you know, a train was not available and just run every once in a while. The train arrived there and then about 20 young men came down from the train and stayed the same place, wire state, and they were officers' candidates. And then the train was supposedly for the next day, 5 a.m. So they told me they could take me with them. I said that was really wonderful because I don't have to walk, all this snow and cold weather and everything. So I felt that that was great. So the next day they tried to wake him up but I couldn't simply couldn't get up. So I told them why didn't you guys leave? So they left. And then I went back to sleep. See about 10 minutes later, a tremendous explosion occurred. And what happened is, northern girlers came down Ongcheon through the mountain and then put the mines on the railway track. And that actually exploded and the train was just completely destroyed and everything. And I didn't see, you know, these officers' candidates being killed or anything but I assumed maybe that because nobody came back to the city where I was staying at the time. So if I rode that train, then I was killed, no question about that. So yeah, there were real direct effects anybody could have gotten caught in and seriously injured if not killed?  And so basically when that happened, then we couldn't go down because girlers saturated around that area. So we just hide wherever we could find the place to hide. Sorry, are these Chinese communist guerrillas or North Korean guerrillas? North Korean guerrillas, good question, because the guerrillas came down through the mountain. So they tried to invade through the natural landscape. Sub-target, objective guerrillas were essentially sabotage and assassination and trying to destroy it, whatever they could find in railway tracks and all that. They used all means of warfare, not just conventional with a uniformed professional. So I mean, we're talking about today, why the Korean War now it's over 60 years now, right? Why it still has significance? We talked about, you know, it's a conflict that hasn't, technically hasn't been concluded. But you know, you talking about the actual domestic experience, like how the Koreans amongst themselves experience the war. And yeah, so what is, yeah, what is the importance of the war today? I mean, it's very interesting the history itself and to know especially about, you know, firsthand experiences and what it was like to confront guerrillas as well as... Right. Good question. Number one, the Korean War hasn't ended when it sees fire. So although there is no shooting going on along the demilitarized zone, but still there are tensions, Korea is the most fortified country in the world. North Korea has about one million soldiers, South Korea has about over 600,000 soldiers. For whatever preparation for the combat that may occur because of ceasefire, because a ceasefire means any time the war can be broken out, no guarantee for anything. So that's number one. Number two, because of that condition of ceasefire, both North Korea and the South Korea has accelerated building up military forces. And because of ceasefire, North Korea, South Korea do not trust each other. So as of yesterday, there was a joint military exercise, ROK and the U.S. forces going on that's going to last for two months. So that essentially precipitated the tensions, continuations. And the North Korea, they want to develop nuclear weapons because there is no peace treaty. And the more North Korea trying to develop nuclear weapons, the more South Korea, U.S. responds to whatever way to deter. And work more closely together, the U.S. and South Korea. U.S. and South Korea. And that's probably kind of a mutual feed, right? Like if the North Koreans see that the U.S. is in South Korea supporting South Korea, then they feel anxious about that relationship. But then they build up their weapons or attempt to. And then, you know, the other thing happens the other way around. Right. And secondly, because of Korean war, not only North Korea, South Korea do not trust each other, but also North Korea has not been able to accommodate themselves into type of government structure to benefit people. Essentially, North Korea is very oppressed people because of this ceasefire issue. So they spend most of their money for military buildup, not for the people themselves. And South Korea also spend one of the highest spending per capita. And from a, you know, percentage from GMP compared to other countries. On their military. On the military. So both North Korea and South Korea waste a lot of money for military buildup. Right, right. And I mean, are there reasons still to believe that North Korea will invade South Korea if the U.S. forces are not there? I mean, have there been any chances to work out the differences between the two sides of Korea? Good question. Right now, there are about 23,000 U.S. forces in Korea, which is very small a number. It used to be, U.S. forces used to be during the Korean War, over 350,000. But most of them were drawn and the only small number of U.S. forces left over there. So actually, they don't play that much important role in terms of combat. They're symbolic. I see. U.S. commitment to South Korea's defense. That's what essentially what it meant to be. So do you think, like, what are the prospects in the near future for what will happen in the Korean Peninsula if you could sum that up for us in a few seconds? Well, hopefully, you know, U.S. and North Korea would reconcile each other, have some kind of peace treaty, and then that would help to reduce tensions. After that, North Korea, South Korea reconcile each other either for unification or to exist based on peaceful coexistence. That would help tremendously to reduce tensions in Korean Peninsula. Well, thank you. Thank you so much for bringing your experience and your many years of research and observation of this issue going on in Korean Peninsula. Welcome you back some other time, Dr. Koh. Thanks for your remarks. Sure. All right. It's my pleasure. Great. Great. And you've been watching Global Connections with Grace Chang and Dr. Son Kyun-Kho of Hawaii Pacific University. See you next time Thursdays at 1 p.m. Aloha.


Dear students, today we will be diving into the microscopic world of blood cells to observe the effect of concentration, different concentration of solution on their structure. And this process is also called as plasmolysis and de-plasmolysis. It reveals the importance of osmotic balance in the cell or osmotic balance for the cell health. So, first of all, we will discuss what is plasmolysis and what is de-plasmolysis. So, plasmolysis is the shrinkage of protoplast of the blood cell. It caused due to loss of water from the cell, while de-plasmolysis, in de-plasmolysis, when a plasmolysis cell is placed in any hypotonic solution, it absorbs water and swells. So, this process is called as de-plasmolysis. Dear students, for this experiment, we will need microscope, three slides with cover slip, droppers, ringer solution, hypotonic solution. And for this experiment, I will use 3 percent saline solution and hypotonic solution. And for this experiment, I will use distilled water, alcohol swab and unused syringe. Let us start the procedure. First of all, I will take off my glove and clean my finger with the help of a alcohol swab with alcohol swab and prick it with the help of needle or unused syringe. Next I will add this drop of blood into 0.5 ml ringer solution. Now take three slides and mark these slides like A, B and C. In next step, take a small amount of your sample on each slide, one drop of your sample on each slide. Now, for the next step, take a small amount of 3 percent saline solution and mix it with your blood sample on slide B. Take a little amount of distilled water and add it on your sample on slide C. Now, cover your slides with cover slip, carefully cover it with cover slip to prevent any formation of air bubble and same for next two slides B and C. Now we will observe these slides under microscope. First of all, I will take slide A and observe it under microscope. Now I will observe slide B under microscope and now slide C. Dear student, in slide A, you will observe the red blood cells retain their bacon cave shape because ringer solution is isotonic solution, so there is no osmosis. While in slide B, you will observe the cells shrink in their structure and size due to plasma lysis and in slide C, you will observe the cells increase in their size and swelling due to de-plasmal lysis. Dear student, this experiment helps us to understand the fundamental process of how cells interact with their environment and how they can respond to any change in their osmotic conditions.  My young scientist, the material required for the blood smear preparation consist of any type of dropper for the correct measurement, we will use the micro pipette, dips for taking the blood, there is an instrument and the pins, alcohol swab, slides and the cover slips, methanol, gymsa stain, water, we will visualize our slide under the microscope. So first we will record our experiment in our log book which is an important bioethical measurement for the lab. So first we will write the date, the time interval and the other main important details we will want to record it and obviously we may have also it is important that we should have the data book or the practical copy. Now I will start the procedure, first I have to disinfect totally and clear my finger. I will take a clear slide which is also cleared by the ethanol and we will put a drop of blood, clear the finger, then I will take another clear slide and at the angle of 45 I will make a comet like shape, first I have to fix, then I have to drag it, you can see here a clear comet like structure has been formed, let I have to drag it, so before going on further steps on the procedure I will wear the gloves. The first washing will be with the methanol, so that we have to fix our slide, in methanol we have to fix our slide for 2-3 minutes, we will give the washing of the gemstones, we will wait for about 5 minutes and transfer it to another clear petri dish, after 5 minutes I will wash it with the water, so I will put this dry slide under the microscope, first I will adjust it at the lowest magnification power, it is the 4x and one important measurement which I have to do here, I will see the slide in a zigzag manner and we want to see each and everything then we have to go just like this, so we have to cover each and every cell, as the blood cell is consist of different type of not only the red blood cells but also the white blood cells, in the slide we can see the biconcave shape of the blood cells and various types of the white blood cells consist of macrophages and the neutrophils, eosinophils, mesophils, depending upon their shape we can see here and classify these cells, along with these we can also see here the platelets, on 4x I can see their various small spots of the red blood cells, so with the more magnifying power I can fix it, I am using 10x magnification power and these cells are more beautifully visualized to me, then I am changing the 40x and at the 40x I can see by moving the slide various blood cells and more perfect view I will change the lens, the objective, the 100x and power visualization, better visualization I will use, oil immersion, one drop of oil immersion is enough, so my young scientist the blood-sneer preparation experiment is very important not only for the medical point of view but also in the biology lab we can see and compare different types of the slides which are of the different species which may be of different abnormalities so it is very important experiment thank you


Russia sent robots in Ukraine to transport wounded soldiers. New images shared on Telegram by Russian soldiers reveal that the Russian military is using ground robots to safely transport injured soldiers from battlefields. According to Bulgarian military media outlet, in one compelling image we can see a tracked ground robot, its dual-chain systems flanking either side as it maneuvers through the muddy front line. The robot's central carrier or stretcher houses a wounded soldier with a splintered left leg encapsulating a dramatic moment on the battlefield. While the specific location of the photograph remains unlabeled, many US sources suggest that this unmanned ground vehicle is operative in the 87th Rifle Regiment currently located in the Avdeevka region. Drawing upon this information, it's fair to assume that the photograph might have been taken as an injured Russian soldier was evacuated from the front line in Avdeevka. There's no clear-cut data regarding the model of the robot or when precisely it was dispatched. Russian engineers boast a myriad of robotic vehicle prototypes. Notably, they all utilize wheels as opposed to tracks.


Good morning, everybody from the hustle and bustle of Winnipeg, Manitoba We're doing our thing winter has arrived, and I don't think it's going away. I'm pretty sure this snow is here to stay I've got to grab some fuel. This is Friday for me when I'm filming this. I Had to go into the city here and grab a big pallet It's supposed to be added on to a load that we have in our yard So I picked that up already. It's on the tail end of this Tri-axle step-deck roll tight that I have Tied it down in there and we're gonna load the rest of the other freight onto this trailer as well because where it's going it needs a tri-axle Obviously for the reload because this freight is really light But since it's Friday, I want to fuel up while I'm by flying Jay here so that I don't End up not being able to fuel I want to leave the truck full of fuel for the weekend or at least As as full as I can, you know, I'm gonna go in the other driveway This is our big and mighty flying Jay Here in the east side of Winnipeg isn't it nice? Isn't it nice? Oh, and here comes mr. Flying Jay himself. What do you know man of the hour? Thanks, bud. I need some of that. I'll take it right now Where are you going? Where are you going you missed your stop? He's he's gone Okay, no, he wasn't going here Wonder where he's going. Well, there's another one over there parked back there Well, where's he going? This is the only flying Jay on this side of the city He's going for a joy ride. Oh, well, hopefully they got some fuel in the ground here. I Haven't run into any shortages yet myself. It's really expensive But we haven't run into any shortages, so that's that's all that matters Alright, there we go. There's only one one pump here per side. There's no satellite pumps So you got to grab the fuel all from one side So what I do usually is I fuel my far side first. I'll drag the hose over there Feel that side and then come back around do my driver's side and then I'm done That's just the way I do it. Let the government know that I am fueling Once again nosy people All right Like what do they care when I'm fueling right? But I have to enter it into my e-lock. Oh Let's shut her down for a bit. You take a rest. I just ate an orange in here and everything really smells Orangey it's a whole truck.  You don't want that Got my fuel cards, right? Yes Excited. Oh my gloves.  Oh, it's that season. It's that season. There's nothing I can do about it She's got to accept it Spring will be here before we know it Yes, we'll just say that I Need some fuel please Only in Canada Most places aren't like this anymore. This is an old-school guard lock You grab this and you see you want to fuel up the other side, right? well, what you got to do is you got to Put that right there Oh Walk all the way around which isn't so bad. It's good to get the legs moving, right? Oh open the fuel tank. Okay Right Pull it. Oh this one doesn't pull. Oh Man, it's not gonna reach They still haven't fixed this thing. This thing has been busted like this For over a year now. I Can't reach usually you would go and it pulls further, but and it's leaking a bit, too Okay Does this one work? I see that thing up there is supposed to see this one works All right And we shall rearrange ourselves I'm coming at that one that's Annoying how long does it take for them to fix things around here? You see this one's almost snapped off already that cable I should have seen that before I even started and that pulley is jammed up there. I Called in about that last year already I should have cancelled this I guess cancel There you go I move ourselves To the next bump That's annoying. Okay, actually maybe this one does this one work? They just move over to this on here Okay, see that pulley works Okay, I Think this one probably works, too. I'm just gonna back up and go in there That's silly. That is silly gave a little toot. Let everybody know. Hey something's going on They all look and then they'll see that I'm moving backwards Buddy don't drive behind me while I'm backing up life of a trucker in Canada Never oh, we're spinning. Oh, come on. Come on girl. You got this you got this come on No problem So now that we're on this side We're gonna fuel my driver's side first so I always fuel the far side first Wonderful can't believe they haven't fixed it Well, oh well Okay, this one works right This one right pulley works. Yes, this pulley works Heads up if you're coming to the flying J off Lajomotie in Winnipeg Don't use that pump. They still haven't fixed it Doll or forty point nine per liter. Whoo. And these pumps are dirty, too Cheapers Cheapers can put that in Okay And then asked me for my loyalty card. I don't have it with me unfortunately, so I'll just skip that Hmm filling the tractor My unit number in Mm-hmm. I'm gonna put my super secret code in one second. This is like an extra long clip now All I want to do is show you how we fuel the other side and ended up having to move everything around Okay, so now it's saying I can fuel here So we're gonna do this the opposite way and that pump leaks diesel fuel on like just a few drops I'm gonna have to call in again about that. I already called in once They didn't listen to me This isn't demand Fuel stop right so there's nobody who actually works here They're all off-site Okay, so now this pulley will work and you pull it see that's how it's supposed to work and then Exhaust is usually pretty hot there you go That's how it's supposed to That's all I wanted to show you Turned into a big kerpluffle is it six hundred and sixty three dollars of diesel fuel Like I said, I haven't seen any shortages around here yet. I hear about them But they're all a long ways away from here. I Think most of our diesel fuel from here comes from the refinery in Regina If not there then we have another refinery up in Edmonton. I'm pretty sure that's where our diesel fuel I don't know for sure. It's not my specialty or anything off we go. Oh and coming fantastic. Oh, we're spinning Come on girl. Come on Find your feet. Come on There you go. Ah, she wouldn't leave me hanging. Oh Shoot that car hauler pulled in is using that same pump that I was using. Oh No, he's just realizing now. I would have told him that that one's not. Oh, well, he figured it out there There's a lot going on here right now We've got a few cars to move for people too. Oh Oh, I Wish this would be the vlog telling you This is my new car But no, it's not we're gonna keep a good distance from this one. It's got Manitoba plates on it I'm guessing it's going south That's nice. I don't think there's a word to describe how nice that actually is Well, whoever's it is is very lucky My compliments a very nice car we will take really good care of it Kind of a slow day today, nothing much happened. I did a few things Run around the city fueled up the truck there. I wanted to show you the process or process I keep I still don't know I'm gonna say keep saying it the way I say in the process of Fueling up at the card locks. That's how they used to all be or that's how most of them used to be up here in Canada But now it's pretty rare to find one like that Most of you have seen it before my videos, but it's for the people who haven't seen it yet that's so sometimes we've got a fuel up here and That's just the way it is. And then when we came back to the yard, we saw that nice red Ferrari That's a nice little treat to see it there. No, I don't get to drive those cars. No I don't even get to touch them. It's a privilege to even look at them So that car is already gone. I'm not too sure where it's headed need to know basis and I don't always need to know but Probably out there just for a short while before they threw it in one of our Auto trailers And I'm guessing it's probably going somewhere warmer than here That's all I can say man. Very nice very nice car. I just wanted to share that with you and Yeah, I'm just at home right now putting this all together And I hope you guys have a great weekend. I didn't have anything to film this week. It's kind of just took a break I was just Catching up physically and mentally and I was very tired This week. I wasn't sleeping the greatest. I was getting enough sleep But I took a little bit of a break from the vlogging on Wednesday and Thursday and sort of took it easy today But we'll be back at it full steam next week again Yeah This is actually alcohol-free Budweiser I don't know if I've told the vlog yet or not, but I have completely abstained from alcohol now for Five months ten days and 23 hours Haven't had a drop of alcohol Mostly because of our fertility Journey that I've been talking about here and there. I mean, I don't want to overshare Either make you guys uncomfortable or anything, but we're still Preparing for IVF. We'll be preparing for that and probably going for it in spring We wanted to start earlier already, but because of finances and stuff It's a very expensive procedure to do so we're just saving up our pennies and stuff And we're hoping to be able to start IVF which is in vitro fertilization In spring and hopefully maybe 2022 will be the year of the baby for us But yeah, that's one reason I totally cut alcohol out of my diet It's been five months over five months now almost five and a half months and For me my goal right now is to not touch it until Brit has given birth to our first child and Is finished nursing so let's say she got pregnant before IVF or let's say next spring She gets pregnant through IVF But be nine months plus another what six months of nursing. I don't know how long they have them I'll figure that out as we go. I'm not an expert on it right now, but I'll learn So probably at least another year yet, and I think that's good for me personally I really like the taste of beer myself. So I have I usually drink odules alcohol free now But recently I've just picked a Budweiser zero. It's got no alcohol in it, but I really enjoy the taste However, I think it's good for me health wise To abstain for now because that's something that can affect my fertility And affect our chances as well So that's another thing on the sidelines. I don't know if I've even told you that yeah, I've totally quit All forms of no alcohol in my body nothing just straight edge right now trying to get my body in as good of a state as possible so that Yeah, we can Get our first first baby into the world. We're waiting. We're still waiting And I haven't decided to come join us here on this earth yet, but It'll happen it'll happen soon doctors can't really tell us that there's anything wrong with us just the meetings isn't happening Not being fertilized so what they're gonna do with IVF is they take the egg and they fertilize it with my stuff My guys fertilize it outside the body and then once the egg is fertilized they implant it In the lady Trying to keep this as family-friendly as possible. You guys can always Google IVF procedures if you're interested I'm assuming the majority you probably aren't that interested. That's why I don't want to over share with you guys But that is a big deal that's going on in our lives and this is a daily journal of my life and when I Come back and look at this down the road. I want to be able to remember these times Maybe we can show our child this when they're old enough to understand that you know we've been waiting for years for you and Can't wait to meet you, you know Really want you already who we've been waiting a long time and You know, we're gonna give you the best life We possibly can and we're gonna try to get you some siblings along the way as well so that we don't just have one We'd like maybe three But we at least want to try and get you some siblings so that you're not grown up All by yourself as an only child, but if that's the way it has to be hey, you'll have us, right? We'll always be here for you and Every day of your life will be valued and cherished by us because Can't wait That's why I'm in this position right now is why I'm doing the job I'm doing right now because we're waiting for you. You're taking your sweet time getting here to us Hey guys, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks for hanging out and chatting this Friday.  I'll have to talk to the boys and see if they're up for it No promises, but there'll be more of those to come as well. Don't worry. Don't worry. See you later


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