People still cannot tell Asians apart welcome everybody to the hot pop boys David and Andrew here We got another case of the mainstream media mixing Asians up with each other long story short Ali Wong is divorcing her real husband Justin Okuta, but when the mainstream media was reporting it They were getting her husband mixed up with Randall Park who's an actual famous actor and only played her husband in a movie and a lot of people were really Offended by this on reddit Twitter different blogs a lot of outrage And you know the interesting thing was initially when me and you heard about this we didn't think it was a big deal I mean I knew it was kind of a big deal like a little bit But we were worried about like the New York subway shooter and you know he had shot a bunch of Asians too So I was more like yo guys I don't want to be like a representation and only care about this when this is happening like literally right outside of my door But Jeff Yang then wrote a think piece about it a week later And it kind of made me reconsider How big of a deal it was because there was a reason it went viral It's because so many people related to being mixed up for another Asian at their workplace or at school Or in like a social setting. Yeah, it's happened to all of us actually anybody who's ever been in media And even the Asians who have never been in media just every regular Asian who's been in a space where there's Maybe not a lot of Asians or it's ran by non Asians. You'll get mixed up for each other, right? And in the article Jeff Yang interviews a lot of celebrities about different people They've been mixed up for especially in the media space if you guys know about Western media It's probably like less than 5% Asian So it's not like the medical field where Asians are theoretically overrepresented at like 40% 50% We're talking about fields specifically media sports marketing sales You know more things that have a very low percentage of Asians in it Basically, you're bound to be mixed up for like 50 other people. Yeah So let's talk about why it's actually so bad what it actually means at its core when you break it down And then like who cares the most because I do think there is a generational divide I think young Asians while they are insulted by this instance Especially because Ali Wong is famous and like oh man finally the news cares about the personal life of an Asian person That's actually progress in and of itself right no, it's not perfect But then they couldn't Google things correctly, which is like ridiculous for a news source But anyways, I think the younger people might not care as much as the older people Yeah, I think the reason younger people don't care as much is because one It's less likely to happen to a younger person and not only that I think they kind of care less about the approval in I guess like white spaces that the 40 year old Asians and up You know, we're talking about the Asians that care what parade is a lot of young Asians don't even know what parade I don't know what parade. I didn't I'd never heard of it. Yeah, but you know like Asians who are sort of still locked into like the old days, you know, like the 40 50 60 year old Asian Americans They're probably like man, this has happened to us our whole lives and we made so much progress Just for them to not know who Randall Park is. Yeah Yeah, I mean it was MSN MSN is kind of like a like a boomer source. Yeah, I think that You know, but Jeff Yang in the article he does do a good job of talking about this like invisibility cloud That Asians have in like non-Asian spaces for example Justin Lin getting mistaken with Justin Lin is a very very rich famous movie director getting mistaken for being a Chinese delivery guy Like a food delivery guy on his own set You know examples like that There was different Indian anchors that were talking about oh, yo, they asked me to be on like Debate somebody really big on this issue and I wasn't even the right Indian. They were thinking about yeah We're not talking about instances where it's just like some random person on the street catches a glimpse of you and then mistaken your name This is actually like the workplace. These are actually like famous people. These are like the institutions are making this mistake So that's why I really think like it kind of reminds Asians that I don't know if it's like the facial features or whatever But a lot of people just kind of like look at our faces and they don't scan it with detail Yeah, I would say to them.  It possibly looks like Terence and Phillip You know how the Canadians in South Park are drawn with like much less detail than the actual South Park characters But here's the point is that anybody can mistaken you for anybody like I've had Asians mistaken me for other Asians Right, so it's not just like white people or black people that would do it to us But I'm just saying that it just shows that you don't really care that much You're not taking the time to really think and you don't feel like there's any repercussions for mistaken that person for someone else I remember growing up a lot of black people told me and my black friends told me that they used to get mistaken for other black people And this is like maybe like 25 years ago. I think in 2022 that's viewed as very taboo Yes, I think a lot of people are very careful to not mistaken the black person as someone else anymore But I think for Asians they still it's it kind of goes back to like how Asians are treated People just don't care to get things wrong with us. Like it's not a big deal.  Oh my goodness. It's like it's like who cares if you insult an Asian It's not that big and I think there's a couple different reactions to it because I used to get mistaken for my manager Who was like many notches higher than me at Verizon when I was in college like my store manager Like the district manager would even come in and think that I was the manager, right? And I'm like dang you think I directly report to you. I'm like way lower than you on the scale But yeah, couldn't tell the difference. It's a quiet was like a white area. That's you in the little email profile picture, right? Right, right. I mean, I mean you guys were both East Asians, but of course regardless you guys didn't look that much alike Yeah, I was like, thank you for mistaking me for like somebody who makes like way more money You're like, no, trust me. I'm actually not that good of a worker. Yeah. Um, I think that there's different reactions to it I could have like dyed my hair and got piercings or tattoos or did anything I could that would make me seem in in the white gaze to be like a different Asian that doesn't fit their stereo To be more distinct. I mean, I know a lot of Asians who wear a loud clothing a lot of girls get like highlights or streaks Or like a belongs or whatever I mean, I think that's the reason why even someone like Eddie Wong like even dresses the way he does partially because he's just It's so loud and just different like it's just that it's you're not gonna get him mixed up with with another Asian Yeah, I do think that the younger Asians not only does it happen less to them But I think the younger Asians kind of care less because I see a lot of younger Asians entering non-corporate past Where they would basically could avoid this right? We mean younger like 20 like we're talking about like 20 years Entrepreneurs like much more common for like Asians under 30 than it was for 30 and up crowd Yeah, and that's what I noticed is that people who don't want to deal with sort of this like potential mix-ups And you know, so you have to sort of bite your tongue in corporate America Jeff Yang talks about that because he's like What are you gonna do try to rip down the whole structure as you're trying to rise up the structure like I think there's less people Wanting to deal with it. Yeah, but and again like this kind of goes back to the spaces that you want to be a part of and when those Spaces mix you up and don't care that much about your identity and get your name wrong Then you pretty much feel like those spaces don't care about you I've heard stories of like Asians who go to like a church that's predominantly not Asian, right? And then like they're going to the church and you're at a church, right?  And it's like and it's like people are not used to scanning it We always said there was an analogy if you're not very familiar with pizza like maybe people in Asia Aren't don't have super high pizza IQ.   And I just think it's insulting because a lot of people don't care if they get it wrong with Asians And that kind of goes back to all the other Asian issues of like people not caring about Asians or people Wanting to hurt Asians or when they hurt Asians they feel like they're not hurting like a real person You know what I mean? Yeah, it's kind of like it does it does connect back to it Of course, this is like on a pop this sort of like media level vague Terrence and philip Isation, you know, let's say western people get to be full south park characters And we're Terrence and Philip like the sticks figures like there's a lot of You know you could extrapolate to what it means to a lot of different sectors of society I think that that's kind of what Jeff yang was pointing at I think one thing he didn't do was talk about what people do to like Get out of that like 2d-ness and to become 3d Like I said, that's why people like try to do everything they can to be like identified with other things Whether like that's the cool like really hip hop Asian or that's like the blonde haired Asian or this is like the Rocker Asian with the purple bangs and the lip ring.  Oriental faces and I got called one time the craziest one Andrew Jet Li from Wong Fu So it was not a nightclub I think people are kind of late, you know, it's dark and stuff But regardless jet Li from Wong Fu is who is that? First of all jet Li is a real person.  You and yeah, uh, just and chan kept any of them anything. Yeah But a plate of fried rice I think to me it goes back to like you said how much do you care? And then how much are you at the whim of your environment? American western society until recently hasn't really ranked asians uh with that much importance even though You know asians have important jobs and things of that nature They're sort of these faceless cogs in the machine And how do we step out of the background and into the spotlight and not to be like above other people But just to have our respect for what we've done I think is a good question and that was sort of you know my extrapolation of the jeff yag article Yeah, um, you know what makes it tough and i'm just gonna close off here This is kind of a funny point But a lot of people talk about if you talk to asian guys about hair They're like man, there's not that many hairstyles for asian guys man that look good So a lot of them end up getting similar hairstyles So it really doesn't help man and not listen.  It's not going to end and you just kind of got to deal with it You know like this has been happening for 50 60 years probably 70 years as long as asians have been in america And it's going to continue to happen to happen a little bit more So, you know find a way to deal with it and uh, yeah Do the little things if you want to be more distinct, but you can always you know Like I just think it's a generational thing though like the older generation that cannot recognize asian faces I do think is uh is aging and I do think that in a way like at first I couldn't understand why this article was going so hyper viral on social media Uh, but then I realized like not everybody was living in new york going through the subway shooter thing like we were Like, you know, literally we're like outriding like you know, is that him? Is that him?  I don't even know what that is. Anyways guys, uh Let me know in the comments down below if you guys think that this is a big deal Or not let us know if you have any stories about being mistaken for somebody whether that's in work or another setting Let us know because I think everybody has been mistaken for somebody else like at some point in their life And especially if you're asian, um, but yes, it happens to everybody. We understand that So, uh, please let us know in the comments down below. Thank you so much for watching We are the hot pop boys and until next time we out. Peace


We're back with the breakfast in Plastivia, Africa. Stand for us to talk about sports this morning and Monday, Thomas joins us on the show. Monday, it's good to have you join us. That's a fantastic day to talk sports. Mercy, thank you so much for having me. So a quick one, what a lot of people have described as the World Cup miracle. A lot has been happening in the World Cup. I know that Germany in 1954 actually was known for the miracle of that game that was played because they earned it, and so that particular title, it was also followed with another win in 1974, and of course, 1990 and in 2014. I'd like to quickly share your thoughts on the fact that Germany, a very strong team. I remember in 2019, I was a German fan, I was supporting big, big time, but of course they've been knocked out of the game. Your thoughts, really? I mean, just like you hinted, many people are saying that it's a miraculous World Cup and it's a World Cup of offsets, and that's why we love football. That's why we love soccer. I mean, before the World Cup got underway, people of course had termed it as the most controversial World Cup. People also called it the Money World Cup and some people also said that it was a World Cup that had no respect for human rights. But here we are in Qatar, about 40 games played already and we've enjoyed all of them. African countries are coming to the party, but specifically this morning, I'd like to talk about the offsets. Yesterday, Costa Rica had a chance against the German side and for the second consecutive World Cup, that we're seeing Germany knocked out in the group stages. They were knocked out in the group stages of the 2018 World Cup and here we are in 2022. History, it's repeating itself. It's not only Germany that are the casualties. Japan, of course, are the teams who are dishing out this offsets once again. They beat Spain yesterday by two goals to one and they also did beat Germany by two goals to one. So it's a World Cup where you don't have to underrate any team. If you underrate any team, you are going to face the music for sure because everyone has a chance. Everyone is here to play. Of course, the 32 nations that qualify to the World Cup show in their respective qualification series that they deserve to be at the World Cup. So the World Cup is the ground where you do not have to underrate and I know it's too early, but this is the greatest ever World Cup that I've ever witnessed, mercy. So, but let's talk further. How would you rate the performance of African countries in the World Cup? Yes, it's also a World Cup where African came to the party. Imagine on the final day of round three we are expecting all African countries to make it to the knockout stage. I know Tunisia already out yesterday just confirmed Morocco or in the round of 16, Senegal where the ones who started the party, today we could get to see Ghana and maybe Cameroon because like I said, you don't have to underrate anybody. Brazil taking on Cameroon today, Cameroon need all three points against the Samba boys and it's very possible. We know why because Brazil are going to come in with a team B side. I know the team B side of Brazil are very deadly, but some of them have not played in the World Cup before. Some of them, this is their debut World Cup game. So a lot can happen. So I'm completely impressed. I'm completely excited that Africans once again are the World Cup for the first time since 2018 that we are seeing African nations trying to progress out of the group stage. And the 2018 World Cup was an absolute shocker. No African side made it to the round of 16, but in this year's World Cup we are seeing the likes of Morocco making it to the round of 16 for the first time in 36 years and not just making it to the round of 16, topping the group that had Belgium and Croatia. It's a remarkable World Cup for Africans and I'm pausing for that. So which African country would you be seeing progressing to the next stage? Do you see Senegal at least beating England? I can remember that same question. It was you that posed that question to me. That was two days to the World Cup when we were here on a Friday and we talked about the chances of African side. And I told you Senegal. And when I told you this, Sadio Mane was cleared to play at the World Cup. And some days later, Sadio Mane was said, hey, I can't play this World Cup. And what Senegal are still putting on the fire. Senegal are still doing greatly, even without their talisman, the African best player of the year. The likes of Ismail Assad, Khalilu Khalibali, he's been supreme at the back for the Senegalist side. So taking on the three Lions of England this weekend is a 50-50 game. It can go either way. A lot of people on the papers are giving it to England. But England are not ready for what is going to hit them. Senegal are going to bring the game to them. And if England are not careful, they're going to be knocked out by the Terango Lions.  And that's very pictorial. No, no, I'm never positive. I'm never positive. But that's a lot of patriotism. I'm not positive about it, Super Eagles, because Super Eagles, in reality, jokers. But what is happening at this World Cup? I'm so excited to see what Africans are doing. And, okay, so fingers across, we don't want to begin to delve into the composition of the player, especially for England. You have the likes of Saka. He's been very great. And we have seen how amazing he's been with that game. One would think that the game between England and the United States would probably end with England taking the lead, but unfortunately it was a draw. Like I said, we'll just leave that at that. Let's get back home here and talk about the National Sports Festival that's been declared open. How does that make you feel and what are your expectations? I'm expecting a whole lot. And I'm talking about my feeling. I'm over the moon because in Nigeria, we're trying to get things work. We are trying to make sure everything work. And from my point of view, from my field, I love to see things working when it comes to sports. And in a competition like this in a tournament or in an event, sporting events like this, where you get to see 28 different sports and over 16,000 athletes from age 18 to 25. So that is getting the youths of the streets, getting the stallings to work because I tell you Nigeria is a country that is blessed not just with resources, not just with mineral resources, but with human resources as well. We've got what it takes to be ruling the world right now. I'm pretty sure we are still excited about what Tobias is doing on the global stage, but this is how it all begins. The National Sports Festival, back to back, we are seeing it in action. This time it goes to Delta. And according to the reports, Delta are still running the show. They've won it the last time. And this morning, they're still doing, so we've got some games and some events coming up. I'm excited that the National Sports Festival, I mean, in a season where we are struggling to see the NPFL in action, but the athletes right there, when we talk of all the sports are still striving, they're still trying to make a name for themselves. And it all begins in a competition like this. And I'm excited about the National Sports Festival. The president, Mohamed Bori, was represented by the Honorable Minister of Youth and Sports, Sonny Darry in the opening day. And we also saw some great and elaborate opening ceremony where Ruga performed. So, I mean, it's not just sports, it's about entertainment as well. And I'm excited, Mercy. So, but which of the spots are you going to be looking out for, really? All right, 28 different sports. I'm a basketball fan. I'm a big basketball fan. I actually love basketball more than I do love football. But I, yes, I'm also looking forward to basketball, but the funny thing is that we are seeing squash, we are seeing chess, mercy, we are seeing dots. I mean, these are foreign sports, and that is what we are having at the National Sports Festival. I mean, it's a resurgence and it's good to see that we are not left out of the other side of the world. We are trying to compete as far as other sports is concerned. It's not a town where we just get to talk basketball and football and anchor. It's a town where we get to talk cricket. It's a town where we get to look at the stars we have and harness them for what is to come. And I'm pretty sure the future holds a lot for us. Okay, I'd like you to show your last words as we course the conversation down now. Mercy, a lot of offsets are here to be unfolded this year's World Cup. I mean, I'm excited about the Qatar. Before now, the 2002 World Cup... Unfortunately, we have been disconnected, but we have to let this conversation slide at this point. We still have the likes of Senegal at the World Cup and of course Ghana. Let's see what becomes of this African countries because that's what it is. Africans are rooting for Africa and we can only hope that, you know, an African country will make us proud despite the fact that Nigeria did not make it and also very excited about the National Sports Festival that's been opened and with all of the games, especially games that were not used to been introduced. It just shows that we're developing. You can only get better. That's the size of our conversation this morning on the breakfast. Of course, we take a... It wouldn't be a break, but it would just be an overall. This morning would definitely come through on Monday or things being equal. Thank you so much for being part of the show from 7 o'clock up until this moment. If you missed out on any part of the conversation, would like that you join us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We're at Plus TV Africa and Plus TV Africa Lifestyle. Now you can also subscribe to our YouTube channel. We're also at Plus TV Africa and Plus TV Africa Lifestyle YouTube channel. My name is Messia Boko. 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Hey guys, my name is Boris. I'm a board certified physician assistant and this quick video is going to be about the CASPA essay. So the pre-PA essay that you have to write, basically why do I want to be a PA, communicating that to PA schools, and also about the interview. If you're lucky enough to be invited for an interview at a PA school, you know, what it is about that. And so the video is titled, What the CASPA essay and the PA school interview have in common. And so I was just thinking about that. I'm driving home from the office.  And this is actually going to be a good one. So what do the CASPA essay, the whole essay about why do I want to be a physician assistant, what does that and the interview have in common? What they have in common is the PA schools are evaluating whether or not you're a good communicator. Why is that important? Because like I said in another video that I just made, what is it we're paid to do as physician assistants, as doctors, as any kind of medical provider. We are literally paid to communicate. That's our entire job.   But the thing that we're actually doing every single day is communicate. You know, we're not laying bricks. We're not building things. We're not designing engineering systems. We're not building products. We're not shoveling driveways. We're not serving food. We are literally paid to talk, paid to communicate. And the better you can communicate, the better of a provider you are. You may not even know as much medicine as some people. You may know less medicine than all kinds of other providers. That's what up-to-date is for and that's where your supervising position is for, you know, early on in your career. And you'll get more and more knowledge as you practice more. But knowing medicine is important. But the most important part of our job is knowing how to communicate. So why do PA schools put so much emphasis on this 5,000 character essay? Isn't it kind of unfair to expect people who are science people or biology and chemistry people who are good at studying science to suddenly be like, you know, Pulitzer Prize-winning writers? I think that's what the Pulitzer Prize is for, right? It's for journalism, I think. Anyway, isn't it kind of unfair to expect people that are good at science, good at learning science, biology, statistics, math, chemistry, all that kind of stuff who want to practice medicine? Science people. Isn't it kind of stupid and unfair to expect these people to be really good writers? I don't think so. I actually thought that it was kind of stupid and unfair at one point. But yeah, I don't think so anymore. I think it's actually a good idea to expect these kinds of people to write a really good essay that shows not, you know, a sob story, not their whole story of their life, not that, but just shows that they are a good communicator for the reasons that I just told you a few seconds ago. Two, besides the essay, what is the interview mainly trying to determine? It's whether or not you're a good communicator.  Okay, maybe you shouldn't be, you know, a provider. There's that too. But I think that the main thing that the interview is for is to determine whether or not you're a good communicator. Okay, so keep that in mind as you're writing your essays and as you're preparing for your interview. I'll see you in the next video.


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Tuesday, April 7th, 2020, we're still stuck in quarantine. Here we go again. We're going to talk about coupling volume and trend. So last week, we talked about window dressing and the theory of that, and then we went into the psychology of all this trading and what type of psychology you need to have during this time. But now is when volume becomes a big indicator, almost outside of price, but it's always second to price. So before we do that, let's just talk about a little market analysis, and I want to show you guys this chart of gold futures. Okay?   But point is that, yeah, it's probably at all time highs, but the fact that in a bear market, supposedly, something like gold would, in my mind, be at lows, but it seems like people are moving money from the market and putting it into gold, because there is that may be a little safer bet for them, but there's a lot of things that go into that. There's a lot of stuff that goes into that. So the point here that I'm trying to make is not just that the bounce may not be over in the market. It's also that, notice the volume, okay? Granted, we have jammed to highs, okay? But look at what the volume has done. The volume has just straight up trended off.  So obviously you see we jam higher, but there's really no continuation or follow-through on the volume side of things. So that's when the push, yeah, that's when the push is not convincing.  And dude, that's really the truth behind the whole matter, because if we look at all of this, the situation we have here is, and I just did this for fun. So Orrin talked about the death cross last week. And so I just went about and made a little moving average crossover strategy that all it does is when the 50 breaks the 200 on the 10, really it puts a little red arrow. So one thing I want to point out here is like this period in time, right? Which is obviously more exaggerated than this period in time. But the point here being that we got the cross, okay? We officially closed here that confirms and then we panic and now we continue to bounce and bounce and bounce and reclaim. Once we reclaimed that 50, that was pretty much game time from there. Granted, we were not in the same market conditions that we are currently in here. And so for me and in my mind, I'm not entirely convinced the bounce is done simply because, like in this case here, you have the cross down, push into that, panic again, and you get the push. You almost always get the push back into these levels, okay? And so that's why when they talked about yesterday, do we go to 280 or 285 first? Or do we go back to 240, right? I don't think we're going to go back to 220. It's just my thoughts, my feelings. I really don't see us getting back here. I just don't see that happening just based on volume. There would have to be some significant, I think, virus. Something new comes out, something worse, but I doubt, like once that bottom's in, spies shown in the past, once that point of no return, bottom, Max Payne is in, then from there, stuff, buy the dip again. So you've got to expect some pullback. There's still uncertainty, but ultimately. And another thing to consider here is that even in this downtrend right here, we had slight downtrend in volume and then bounce, and now volume is increasing again. And so now the volume is starting to follow the market itself in the direction it goes. So here is what you would consider, you see this big bounce right there. But during the big bounce, you had a downtrending volume, even after the bounce perked, right? This is called divergence. So this volume is diverging away from the trend. That volume is in a downtrend, yet we are in a strong uptrend. So now the volume is trading roughly in the same direction that the market is. And so I think we found a range. I think we found a bottom. I think people are starting to get back into the markets because, for one, I personally, I don't see us going back to lows. Even with all the coronavirus stuff, even with quarter earnings, the new, each earnings coming out in the future, I just don't see us truly panicking again. I'm always up to chat about the market. So number one, volume confirms your trend. Volume can also confirm your revertful points, and volume confirms your support and resistance lines. Something very important to note here is that cumulative volume, okay? That means it adds up. For those of you that didn't know what that means, just had to spell it out for you. Confirm. Cumulative exam. Yeah, right. It's going to be on the test. Confirms support and resistance lines when identifying a line determined by a consolidation zone. So this is a method that Val uses that we all talk about, and it's finding a level that really has nothing to do with a wick or a high and a low. We're looking at a level that it has consolidated within for a lot. Let's say, for example, a nice little range consolidation. Yeah, it's a range consolidation. And so that becomes a way to validate your support and resistance lines. It's not just a pop, and then it pulls back. It went sideways at this level, or it dipped to it, stayed at it, and then pulled up off of it. But it trended there and stayed within a range for multiple, multiple days, maybe weeks. That is when you have a situation where you've got to take into consideration volume plus time spent at that level. Exactly. I was just going to say, because the emotional thought of someone holding through that consolidation, you've got to take that into account. It could be more emotions in play on a crack or break of that range of consolidation. Price signals are the single most important factor of anything, but volume should always be your secondary confirmation. A lot of people like to use tape as a secondary confirmation, but in reality, that's volume, so just look at the volume. Volume, tape, level 2. Yeah, re-tape. Yeah. It's all about just combining factors into your favor, so combine them all. But they're all secondary to price. So the lines are most important. So now I want to show you guys this. So this is, so yeah, JB3CK007. JBEC007 is what I'm going to assume that says. That is a good example of price consolidation. So you can see that now your range to choose from is 55 to 45. So on the pop back to it, you can consider 45, a consolidated support zone that turns resistance. If 45 breaks, your next line would be 55, based on this amount of consolidation. And if you didn't know what that looked like zoomed in, I did that for you. Sorry, I'm just kidding.  See you guys. We'll see you later. Peace. Adios. Thank you so much for watching our video. 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The MATV gets upgraded. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni adds to their arsenal and see how one corporal uses 3D printing to enhance warfighting capabilities. This week on The Core Report. This week, Marines with 3rd Marine Division completed their wargaming exercise in the snowy slopes of Kongchang with their South Korean counterparts on February 3rd. The 1st and 2nd Marine Division celebrated their 76th anniversary on February 1st. Both divisions were founded in 1941 during World War II. The Core is upgrading the mine-resistant ambush-protected all-terrain vehicle, or the MATV. Nicknamed the Beast, this truck provides better protection than its lightweight Humvee counterpart. The upgrade adds a heavier and wider steel layer to the original armor, plus a dense foam layer. The foam addition will work as a crumple zone and allows the vehicle to take more damage without endangering the Marines. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni upgraded their arsenal with the arrival of the Navy's E-2D advanced Hawkeyes. The carrier airborne early warning squadron 125, also known as the Tiger Tails, flew from Norfolk, Virginia and arrived in Japan on February 2nd. They brought the E-2D here to reinforce their commitment to the security of Japan and to peace and stability in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. The E-2D is equipped with the most advanced airborne radar in the world, the APY-9 radar. This allows them to detect and track targets earlier and with more accuracy. The Tiger Tails presence will maximize force lethality, survivability and mission effectiveness in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. The whole concept of the MAGTAF being very self-sufficient, we are a self-enclosed entity. That same philosophy should translate into additive manufacturing or 3D printing. So right now we have two printers, they can print in a couple of types of plastic. We're also going to be moving into fiberglass, Kevlar, nylon, high-strength, high-temperature fiberglass and carbon fiber. With that, that enables a much wider range of things. So anything from a screwdriver that doesn't conduct electricity to a UAV or anything in between will be able to create. Corporal Hunt is the only marine in MAGTAF right now who has had formal training. He is the one that is conducting informal training right now and is the one that is creating all of the initial designs and products for the MAGTAF. The reason that we want to bring this training to such a broad, diverse range of marines so everyone from Lance Corporal to Captain to include several sailors on the medical side is so that they can be the ones to bring those ideas forward. We are not the only beneficiaries of this work, but the Marine Corps in general.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss the following question which says what must be subtracted from 2x square minus 7xy minus 3y square minus 1 to get 4x square minus 8xy minus 4y square plus 1. Let's move on to the solution. We have two algebraic expressions given to us 2x square minus 7xy minus 3y square minus 1 and 4x square minus 8xy minus 4y square plus 1. We need to find the algebraic expression which must be subtracted from this given algebraic expression to get this algebraic expression. For this we subtract this expression from the first algebraic expression given to us. So we first write the given expression 2x square minus 7xy minus 3y square minus 1. Now the expression to be subtracted would be written below this expression in such a way that the light terms occur one below the other. So 4x square would be written below 2x square then minus 8xy below minus 7xy minus 4y square below minus 3y square and plus 1 below minus 1. Next we need to subtract the second expression from the first expression. So we will change the sign of each term in the lower row from plus to minus or from minus to plus that is, now since the sign for this 4x square is plus we will say it would be minus now here it would be plus, here also it would be plus, here it would be minus. Now with these new signs of the terms of the lower row we would add column y's that is 2x square minus 4x square would give us minus 2x square then minus 7xy plus 8xy would give us plus xy then minus 3y square plus 4y square would give us plus y square minus 1 minus 1 would give us minus 2. So this is the required answer.  So this is our final answer. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution for this question.


Hi everybody. Sorry, this is Nick Lund from an Audubon of BirdSafe Maine. I forgot to hit record at the beginning. We're kind of jumping into the middle.  We'll get to the volunteer piece in a minute. This is my, this is Professor Marr from, or Mayor Marr, I'm sorry, I was going to say Mayor, I always do that incorrectly. Professor Mayor from USM, a founding partner in BirdSafe Maine, and she's going through what we find in the spring in the city of Portland. Okay, cool. And right, so that's showing you just like I said, sort of a timing of the, of the finds. But this is actually how many birds we're finding across the seasons, and there's a few things going on in these slides. So this depicts our, our five seasons where we have found birds and the first thing that might stand out to you is that fall is pretty busy. And we definitely find a lot more birds in the fall that we do in the spring and that probably has to do with a few factors, not least of which is the fact that there are probably just more birds as you if you saw Nick's initial slide just showing you the number of birds that are migrating south is a lot more than migrating north and that's because you have all those babies that are hatched in the spring over the course of the season that are now moving southward and not all of them make it to go back north in the, in the next year. So we do find more. But you can see that we have been finding birds in the spring in the fall and we've also see that we are increasing the number of birds that we are finding even though our effort hasn't actually increased, especially between fall 21 and fall 22 but there's some other reasons that I can go into as to probably why we are seeing such a big increase and this is also one of the reasons why we are excited and a little anxious perhaps about what we're going to find this spring pattern that we saw from fall 2022. And not the crux of the matter is that there's a building in particular that has really come online now that we have access to. There's another there's a couple of buildings that are close to the waterfront that are are open and we can get to because they've newly constructed and we think that that's sort of driving this increase. What you also see is that the majority of the birds that we find are dead. We do find a little over half of the birds that we find are not alive, but then we do find about maybe 40% of the birds are stunned. So they have hit the window. And they're often just sitting there motionless you can, you can tell that the bird is stunned and not quite with it and what we can do is, as Nick slide showed before you can call avian haven and we can have some rehabilitators take care of them. So what we do is we just move the bird to a safe place under some cover of bushes. It may make me cover it may not. It depends on the extent of its injuries a lot of times you just can't tell because they're internal injuries and are pretty traumatic. The other category of birds that we find though to our strikes and this is when and this is just being in the right place at the right time, a bird just hits the window and then pretty much just bounces off. And, and those can be hard to identify because the birds hit real quickly and then fly away so they're a challenge but we do see a fair number of birds that just strike as well. Alright, so that's sort of some of the overall patterns. Nick alluded to the birds that we find, we find birds from many different families, not all of them are songbirds but the vast majority of these birds that strike our songbirds. And you can see in particular that the, the most vulnerable birds are the New World Sparrows and the warblers. And again that's not surprising because of the birds that migrate through Portland. During the fall and the spring and Nick, feel free to jump in with your bird expert hat on here too for for talking about any of that too. These thrushes are another big one. We find quite a few hermit thrushes. We found Swainsons, some other thrushes in there too, as well as. Yeah, those are some of the predominant birds. Yeah, it's partly because you know we have 20 or so different warblers that come through Maine, and, you know, to 10 or so different sparrows species so there it's sort of a stack deck a little bit. Often it's sparrows and warblers but but we found everything from large woodpeckers to wood cocks to all kinds of other things. Yes, thank you. All right so that's if we let's go in we can dive down a little bit deeper and look at these two families in particular of the warblers that we find. The warblers are by far the most common, no pun intended, and oven birds are kind of a distant second but those are particularly vulnerable and if you're that's not too surprising given the habits of common yellow threads they like to be down low, kind of thrushes and things like that and so when, then they take off, they'll are more prone to running into the glass buildings when they, if they're trying to just look for food or avoid a predator or something like that. So common yellow threads by far the most abundant and then amongst the sparrows, it's the white-roded sparrows. Again, sparrows in general tend to like to be down on the ground, hopping around looking for food and are particularly vulnerable to glass strikes so we find a lot of white-roded sparrows. They're I think the most common bird overall that we find and again swamp sparrows distant second and then we have these unknowns to see a lot of those are strikes because they hit they bounce and then they fly away and sparrows can be difficult enough to identify, especially when they're in flight so so that's one thing that we found there and then in terms of location so this is another big important piece of the data that we collect, not just what species we're finding but where we find them. And so these are some we found birds at something like 67 different locations along our route and Nick's going to show you what that route is in a few minutes. Again, fall accounts for the bulk of these but but we do find them significant number in the spring and actually if you boil it down there are six buildings in Portland that are responsible for about two thirds of all of the collisions that we find along our survey route. And these are the addresses and Nick I don't know do I have time to kind of narrow down and show them our top three. Okay, if you want to sure. Okay, so so our top three bird buildings that where we find these birds so we'll start with number three in third place is this building on 10th Street it doesn't actually have an address yet, but it's a brand new building. It's across from the narrow gauge railroad you may be familiar with it. And this is the one that came online, really in the fall of 2022 and we are finding a considerable number of birds there and for some of the reasons that Nick alluded to before. It's, it's close to the water so birds, if they're following the shoreline along their migration path if they're using that as a route things like that then, and then they drop down and they rest and they drop down into this lovely habitat that's right adjacent to the building. If they're flying over at night and then they're going to rest during the day and so there's good habitat and then there's a lot of glass right nearby to so those three factors are probably contributing to why we find so many birds there. In this place, we have this building which is located on commercial street but it sits back from commercial street a little ways by separated by a parking lot, but it has some of the same attributes, there's really nice habitat some of the largest trees I think in the old buildings are sitting right here. And there's an alleyway that separates a parking garage from this building where those trees are and so birds can come in there that and see that great habitat and then when they take off. They just hit the windows because there's a lot of glass and those windows as you can see here reflect the habitat right around there. So about one in five birds that we find strike here. And then the biggest culprit where we find a quarter of the birds are at this building, which is right in the corner of Hancock Street and 10th Street across from the ocean terminal. Again, right against the water. There's a lovely courtyard in the back that traps birds again because of the shape of that. There's nice habitat adjacent to it and just like I said, a fair amount of glass so those are sort of the places that we have found the most to date. And it'll be interesting to see how things shape up again this year, and I'll stop sharing in part because we do have some new buildings that are in that same general area that will be monitoring for sure this year. So, okay. Thanks Chris. That was awesome. And I will say before folks ask we are in contact with the owners of all those buildings, and they are aware of the problem. The trouble is, it's, it can be very difficult to retrofit a building. It can be extremely expensive, it can be technically difficult to get up and treat areas. And there's no requirement right now for anybody to do anything. And so even well meaning business owners, even if they wanted to, you know, take action, it can be very expensive and hard and so we're not trying to sort of shame building owners, especially ones that are already existing. We are working with them and are happy to help them take action where they can. But we are trying to, this is a scientific effort to try to learn about this, especially to get ordinance pass that will take care of this in the future so we don't have new giant glass buildings coming down. But we are working with those buildings and others on potential treatments. Okay, so I'm going to jump in now. And let me say to that folks have questions you can put them in down in the q amp a box at the bottom and we will get to them at the end. But we're going to try to power through some of the stuff about what it takes to be a volunteer here. And I forgot how to share my screen do that again here we are you see that again. Here's the wrap. And what we are trying to do is walk a diverse route through the city. So when we started this work it was really about, hey, does the science that we've learned in other parts of the country. Does it also apply to Portland, which means two things are birds hitting in Portland, and are they hitting more often against buildings with more glass than than non buildings. So we designed this route to take us by both it takes us by buildings that have a lot of glass, but also some of the more, you know older or different buildings in Portland that don't have as much class you think about the old port, think about a lot of sort of smaller windows a lot of brick. Those are buildings are not particularly, you know, jump out as being dangerous to birds, but we wanted to see if that poor more out in practice. And after two and a half years, we can say unequivocally that yes, birds are striking against the city of Portland, and they are striking against buildings that have more glass more often they are with other So this is the route is slightly modified from, you know, we sort of tinker with it a little bit each season but it's basically been the same throughout. We start down here. Can you see my cursor Chris. Okay, start down here at Ocean Gateway. It's just kind of a nice place to park. There's plenty places to park down here, and we do find birds against the entrance to the ferry terminal there. We start there and we go across the street to the wax building. This is the building that Chris identified as being the one that has seen the most strikes in the city so far. We typically start there we walk down the street. This is part of the new development. This is that number three most dangerous building the sunlight building down here. Up we go down four street we walk up middle street go all the way down here to the TD Bank building up to one city center up to this workout anytime building which has seen a lot of strikes before there's a 24 hour gym with a lot of glass.  That's the route. It takes about it's a couple it's about two miles. It takes about an hour that right Chris. So it's been a while so yeah it just depends on how many birds we find but yeah you can usually do it in about an hour. So all so the way it works is that you ideally you meet up with a buddy or another volunteer in the morning, and then you walk the route looking for birds. If you find some you may not find some when you're done when you find one you have a couple options you can you take a picture pictures are very important to this process and I'll actually go into the pictures a little bit more. We use the pictures as our advocacy pictures of birds on the street. It's very sad but it's but it's very helpful. We're talking with business owners talking with folks to say look at this, look at the face of this problem it's undeniable there that birth strikes can be an easy problem to overlook, unless you're sort of confronted with it. So we asked folks to take pictures of birds, and then if the bird is dead, you can the best thing to do is just move it to an out of the way place. In the past we've worked with usm students who've collected birds for for study. We don't have that right now, and we don't need the carcasses of the birds. It's probably best to let nature take its current course with with insects and things and just move the bird out of the way if you feel okay doing that. You can collect them if you'd like, but but that's not required. So for injured birds gets a little trickier. As Chris said, there, there is very little that rehabilitate rehabilitators can do to help birds that have that have struck. These are small birds with internal injuries, typically, and that's just a difficult thing to fix. However, we do have a partnership with avian haven and you are welcome to collect a bird if you want and call avian haven to see if there's something they can do. Otherwise, what we often do is if you are able to, to catch the bird and often you can. You can just place it out of the way, you know, a lot of times birds are sitting right on the sidewalk, where they are, you know, susceptible to gold predation or to getting stepped on by commuters. You can just move the bird to a place where it can recover a bush or a tree or somewhere out of the way. That's giving it the best chance that we can give it. And we'll see what happens there. But here's the route. This is how that works. And let me see actually I'll come back to those. Well, let's we'll do the photo so. Oh, real quick. So Mark asked if the buildings are color coded on the map. So the buildings here are color coded to these to be numbered but our intern are our GB cog fellow Katie did this sort of rainbow thing now and so yes purple is Ocean Gateway, and then it goes around the chromatic scale from there all the way back to purple. So we have greater Portland Council of Governments through AmeriCorps has given us a fellow this year, a wonderful young woman named Katie, who is actually up presenting on this work somewhere in the mid coast to AmeriCorps crew right now so she can't but she put together this really helpful route map, and I will have these. I will email this around to folks for a map, but I also will have them during the group walk on the 18th. I'll talk about the group walk a little bit more in detail in a second but every kickoff day for this work we all get together and we get everybody to walk the route together. It's really helpful to sort of figuring out what the route is to talk about where to look. And so I'll do it again at the end but I want to encourage everyone to join us on April 18 at six in the morning. I'm going to get that out there right now. This is early work, six in the morning at Ocean Gateway and we'll all walk together and it's a lot of fun and really educational. And that's a late start. But I won't scare everybody away. Katie also put together these great photo slides and this is something that is really helpful because getting getting good photos is really helpful to our advocacy effort. So Katie put together these slides clear identifiable and evocative is the is what we're looking for. Photos like this are not super identifiable. I can't tell what bird species that is I'm going to guess white-throated sparrow. But that's helpful to see the glass that it's struck by but not super helpful to help us understand what type of bird is a photo like this. You know what shows you that this is a living creature was a living creature this common yellow throat. It is a very evocative and clear and identifiable photo. So this is the Collin Bergs again with a common yellow throat sewing the building and evocative photo blurry photos or difficult lighting this can be hard are not as helpful. This is a Lincoln sparrow I can tell but you know, because of the lighting conditions here this isn't a photo that we'd be sort of be able to use in an advocacy context. So others are here are some clear photos of in this case a black hole warbler and another common yellow throat. And again to swamp sparrows showing you some sort of good and bad photos. So if you feel comfortable, you know channel your inner advocate channel your inner photo journalist, get right down on the ground. Take a clear photo it really helps a lot with the back end. And so how does it work. So this is how you walk around. You start, especially early on it's at six in the morning. So the biggest challenge for everyone in this work, myself included is getting up in the morning and getting out there. I will say, once you are once you are out there and especially once you're done it's seven in the morning you've walked a couple of miles you feel great about yourself. You've seen the city in a different way. You get some coffee and you don't have to worry about eating that croissant because you've just been walking around. So it does feel great for the rest of the day once you do it, getting up is is is never any fun, but some people love it and I encourage you to do it. You. So typically you start at Ocean Gateway. This is down there along commercial street. This is where we'll meet for the first time I will say you don't need to start there. So when you have at least two volunteers every morning. Sometimes we have more many mornings we have more. And when you have more you could choose to walk start a different part of the route. We encourage volunteers to communicate with each other to see where everybody is starting. The truth is something we've learned in the years of doing this is that birds sometimes don't last very long on the sidewall.  And so, and that's one of the reasons why we start so freaking early is because we have to beat the gulls to the birds. Correct. So, but we found that if you so it can be you know if you're starting at Ocean Gateway, it may be an hour or so before you get to some places on commercial street. But if you start at different places and then you can stagger around and have a better chance of connecting with bears on the sidewall. But we started traditionally at Ocean Gateway. Bring the clothes you need. I will have some Ziploc bags and paper bags to distribute if you want them. Otherwise it's basically just standard walking and make sure to have your camera. When you find a dead bird or a live bird take photos and then take note of the time, the building you are at the address, the species if possible, and any other notes you may have. And at the end of the day, you're going to send those to me. And that's what it looks like when you're done when you're done. Congrats just let yourself for being a good person this is real. This is real good work. I mean this this work is directly contributing to policy changes in city in Portland and around the state. And so you are helping so thank you so much for for doing get some pastries and get some coffee. It's that's the best part, and then email the photos and the info to Chris and I. And then we make sure the bird is identified correctly, and we slot them into our database that we can use for advocacy later on. All right, and then finally we're going to begin on the 18th. 6am at Ocean Gateway. I will share these two things as well. This is how it's going to work here. This is an electronic waiver for folks to sign out. This is just something that may not have to do for our volunteers. And we also have this sign up sheet. So this is how this looks. Some of our, our core team here is already signed up for days but you see I will share this around everybody. You can pick the days that work for you. You can do as many days as you want or as few days as you want, a totally up to you. If people choose one morning a week. That's great if you can do that if you can't do that that's totally fine too. But you'll see there's spots for four different volunteers here. Hopefully we'll add them out. You can go with the group or you can choose a different way to go. And then what we asked folks to do is put their contact information into this other tab down here. That way different volunteers can connect with each other as they're going out to see, you know, are you sick are you showing up or where are you going to start things That's it. Yeah, we generally asked that at least one person for that given day make contact with the other people just to coordinate and and yeah so everybody's on the same page. All right. Okay. So, Chris, any other things to add before I jump into questions. I will say we do as the sunrise gets earlier we do start earlier as the as this spring goes on and it gets a little rough. And as spring goes on and you have to get up a little bit earlier, maybe like each week, the time changes a little bit more. And again, that's where it's good to sort of coordinate with other members of the of the team that day, so that everybody agrees what time we're going to start. Thank you. I'm sorry I'm looking at the chat to and there's a, there's one question that I'll let you take but yeah Diane Davidson is still contact for wounded birds Marsha yes. And yeah if there's four volunteers usually what we do is we will do it to and to so we pair up to people will walk in one direction to people will walk in another direction. I guess that a pair may start at a different location along the route to and so we'll we talk about if we're going to walk clockwise or counterclockwise. Yeah, and pairing up is important. You know, we have never had any kind of problems on the streets, but anything is possible on the streets, walking in pairs, really does help that. We encourage folks to do only what they feel comfortable and safe doing. Again, we've never had any kind of issue with anybody on the streets but but this is out in public and an early in the morning so do what you feel comfortable with. And, and that's, and that's great. Let me answer a few more questions from the questions here. If you can't make it on the 18th can we still join later absolutely. I will send around the sign up sheet to all the interest volunteers everyone who signed up for this and pick a date and then just get in touch with the other volunteer doing I would encourage you to maybe sign up for a date. That you know other people are already doing or that I'm doing and that way you can, or Chris or any, any people that we connect with someone to make sure that you're going around so it doesn't have to be on the 18th. Steven's about Merlin sure Merlin is a very helpful bird identification tool that you could download on your phone, and you can just hold your phone out and it'll identify the bird for you. Merlin is awesome for birders of all kinds, whether you're doing this or just birding and so please download Merlin, I will say that we're not don't worry too much about getting the identification right. It's really hard when these birds are injured or, or, you know, it's dark out there. That's something that Chris and I do really well, and, and, and get a good photo, and then we can make sure that the identification is solid later. So, but Merlin really helps in the moment. Sylvia asked can you walk a half or two thirds of the route if you don't have time for the full route that's interesting. And walking the full route is preferred but any slice helps. And so what I would make sure you just connect with the other volunteers during those mornings and so you can let them know, you know what your abilities are but of course, anything that helps. We can also there's other options to like staying put at one building. You know we never know what we miss when we're not there. And, you know, staying at one particular building to see how many strikes occur there is a strategy you could do to if you're if you're living a long time. With all this info be in film will be emailed from Joel yes I will be emailing everything around, including links to the sign up sheet links to the route map, and, and, and things like that. If you have any other questions at any time please reach out to Chris and yeah Barry Barry makes a good point that the the shaming may help. Shaming buildings does help absolutely and you know it's a fine line between you know being standoffish and, you know, encouraging them to take action. We have seen it work and buildings do want to do the right thing, sometimes, sometimes not. And then, you know, we don't have regulatory tools at this point to force buildings to do anything. But we're working on it, but maintaining a good relationship and not an antagonistic relationship with with the design community is extremely important at this point as we're working to get agreement on an ordinance and get things through. So, yeah, so we're doing our best there. And somebody did ask about the ordinance, kind of the timeline for that for the with Portland. It is possible. So we have a draft ordinance now, we are working it together with the city of Portland. We think they're going to be supportive of it. We may be able to hold public events about the ordinance directly as soon as the end of this month. We haven't been put on the schedule yet but we are working on that we're fending on having two sessions one for the building and design community itself, and one for the public at large, then as soon as potentially may, we may be able to have a vote in front of the city council. We have city council support from the from the beginning here. So we'll see how it goes. When that comes I will be in emergency touch with everybody here and others to encourage you to come out and support this ordinance and honestly these images and the data that we collect gets us here, I mean it gets us in the door to say look it's what's what's what's happening on the street. So that's really important. Let me see here, send them out I will send them out. Have to drop off. That's it. Oh, somebody asked about another contact person at haven't silverman. I don't recognize that name. Anyone, anyone that even haven't can help or can connect you with someone who can help. You know they do incredible work over there and are willing to come down at different hours to get stuff. But sometimes they may be out sometimes they may be gone and so I generally encourage people to call any number even that they can, whether it's Diane's number, or the general number listed on their website Center for Wildlife is another one we work with they're based down in York County, and they can help. I see a lot of talking I just did any other questions. This is great. This is good work, and this is growing work and if you volunteer with us you know you are joining something I think you can be really proud of something that's that's making progress and so I thank you all for coming for your interest. If you have questions about what you can do at your homes, or what you can do at places that are not Portland feel free to reach out to. Put our addresses in the chat again. So you have them if you have more questions feel free to reach out to us. And Nick will be sending some more information. I will. I look forward to seeing you all on the 18th if possible. And if not seeing you wherever we can. And thanks everybody for your help. Thanks everybody for cutting for attending. Look forward to seeing you on the route. Take care. Bye.


le who are interested in joining the EG scooters so I'm hoping that group will happen one is from the complete streets one is from the M-TIC and also lots of positive comments about our flashing crosswalk signs and I hope everybody uses them push the button it'll make it flash thank you just a few things first I think I want to point I spoke about maybe a project labor agreement language as you know we're building a lot of things in town and I'm always very cognizant we're doing it in a fashion that's consistent with our values as a city some of the PLA stuff I did research in other cities I think it could be vulnerable to legal challenges so I have been working on drafting some responsible contracting language that would entail paying responsible wages participating in job training programs and also opening us up to you know private rights and actions just to make sure we're in compliance with workers comp so I hope that language for you in the next couple of weeks here on that other things final scooter stats for the month that we had it 2,245 miles traveled within the city limits here so that's that's pretty good for a fleet and the last week of that as you know was pretty dodgy weather so we didn't get a full month out of it I think you could look at the first week there's being more analogous to what we would look at if we had it on the ground it's not apples to apples but if that was traveled by cars there would be over 2,000 pounds of CO2 emissions avoided in town what I'd like to do is maybe work with Sue on developing a survey for the riders of the scooters there and really nail down how they were using the scooters to see how much of this actually replaced you know road traffic there and how much of it was just you know kids riding on sidewalks maybe drinking beer while they're doing it I don't know so we'll figure it out last thing and I don't want to give John Sundar on this but I've been talking to a lot of legislators if we think our charter changes are a slam dunk over there with the bags and the non-U.S. citizen voting we are sadly mistaken I think these passed by such a margin that we need to be really good advocates for the city and make sure these get over the finish line you know often a legislative tactic is just we need to be ready to get over there and testify in the drop of a hat because that might be how quick it is bringing people who are affected I think tell the human story on this and make sure it doesn't get legalized to death here and I think we can get it passed but it's going to be a challenge there so I hope we can all work on that and encourage folks in the community to do the same I just want to put out there that I am saving some of my personal time but you know from working for the need you know should you need the drop of a hat for somebody to go testify just let me know I'm into it so likewise yeah say this week except come join me tomorrow morning at Baguio's 8.30 to 9.30 the last couple of weeks have been well attended I'm looking to get enough people that I can just sit back and listen and not talk at all and I really encourage you to help me do that so thank you so I just have one thing really to report which is the the investment investment committee today met just prior to council and we are going to have a recommendation for you all about a divestment policy so I'm pretty excited about that so that's coming up on November November January 9th and then yeah that's it okay great I know everything is saying we want to get out of here I'll make it quick the Monday before last yeah last week's Monday I was fortunate enough privileged enough to be invited to a closed-door meeting at NYU Law that was put on by the oh god there's so many words here global resilience network and the international center for enterprise preparedness this is a group of a lot of folks from home and security from the intelligence community from other election administrators secretary states secretary folks from secretary states offices and some folks in the private and nonprofit community sort of looking back on election cyber security over this year and working towards making a sort of collective set of recommendations for the next year and yeah I mean it was it was great I was the only Vermontra there but just thought I would throw out that that happened and it was terrific and hopefully the report will be available soon do we have anything we need to update can you give anything quickly great okay so then without objection we would consider the meeting adjourned ten minutes and time