Calm down. What's up? Money Geeks. Mr. V here. Welcome to another video, guys. So, in this video, I want to talk about some stocks that I'm actually looking at, and I'm adding to my position with some of these companies. And a lot of these companies are companies I've actually covered here on the channel. But when I saw this opportunity with this pullback, and I'm adding more to my position because these are not companies I'm string trading, or I'm actually looking at maybe day trading now. These are companies that I'm looking at five, 10 years down the road. So, again, during this period, when I see the opportunity to art, I'm actually jumping in and adding to my position. So, that's what I want to cover into this video. But before we get started, guys, if you're new to the channel, we took up our hard to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So, if that's something that interests you, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content. So, when it comes to the stock market pulling back, there's usually two kinds of people, right? There's people that panic and sell, or there's people that look for opportunities and buy. Again, so, when you look at the people that panic and sell, you can tell that these are people that haven't been in the market for a long time. And then we look at the people that are looking for the opportunities to buy. These are people that have been around because they know how this thing works. The market goes in waves. People are used to just getting green, green, green, they're not used to the red. So, when you see the red, they panic a lot. So, again, right now I'm in the position where I'm looking for opportunities. When I see the market in this kind of a situation, I'm excited because it gives me an opportunity to load up on my long-term position. So, that's what I wanted to make sure that we cover here. So, let me jump right in here and bring this up so you guys can actually see as far as the long-term positions that I have in some of the companies that I am looking at. So, the first one that I have here on my list is Social Capital. So, again, this one is the ticket symbol IPOE. I like this one because they are in the process of taking SoFi public. So, SoFi is a social finance app that helps people to manage their money. I mean, holistic money management, this company provides it. SoFi provides it. So, IPOE is taking public. The way I see this particular company to me, it's the next square, in my opinion. They do everything when it comes to a money management perspective. So, they do loans, they do investing, they do money management, credit card. I've just name it.  And their demographic is specifically millennials, which they love because they're using the app, they don't have to deal with people. So, I really like this one. And so, I bought this, I think it's about $15. It's pulled back and I'm not even worried about it. I'm adding more as I see the pullback because this is definitely a long-term play, in my opinion. The second one here is NEO. Again, NEO has gone up to close to about $70 before pulling back. Again, NEO to me is one of those plays where down the road, they are going to explode. I'm not worried about NEO. I'm holding NEO long-term because I see the opportunity there. So, I'm going to keep adding to NEO and I have no fear on that. And then we move on to Churchill Capital. Again, this is one that people got so disappointed because when they announced that they were going public with their merger with Lucid Moto, everybody thought the price of the stock was going to go up, but the reverse happened. The price of the stock rather went down. So, you're thinking in yourself like, what happened? It's just because of the way that merger was actually structured because I think Churchill only owns about 16 points, something percent of Lucid Moto. And so, people were not super excited. Wall Street wasn't excited about that until the merger goes through. And then that's where you would see the actual stock price is going to really balance up, but I don't really care. For me, I'm looking four or five years down the road. So, I'm adding more as I see the opportunities. I bought more when it dropped down to 27. And I'm going to keep adding. Again, my goal is to hold this thing long-term. This is not a string trade or just a quick flip. So, again, I want you guys to be aware of that. And then we move on to this one is torchlight energy resource. I've covered this particular stock here on the channel and I'll tell you guys why I'm buying it because they are merging with Metal Materia, which is a nano-material producing company, which I think as the future of really coming up with these durable, less heavy materials that can be serviced in all sort of industries from airline industries to even just transportation. So, I like this one. Again, the pull-back here gives me an opportunity to continue to build my position in the stock. So, and then last but not the least is cooler technology. Guys, I talked about this company here and this one in particular is over-the-counter. So, this is OTC, just so you guys are aware. I talked about this company here on the channel and because I saw what they were doing, this company provides a technology that protects batteries. If you think about the batteries that we have in electric vehicles today or any technology that's powered by battery, that batteries get impacted by temperature. So, if it's too hot, the battery can explode. If it's too cold, the battery doesn't perform as it would. So, these guys, the technology really protects that battery in really hot or cold conditions and keep the battery safe and keep the battery operating efficiently. So, they actually partner with NASA to protect the battery that is on the rover that just got to Mars. So, to me, this is a company that's up and coming and I see a bright future in them. So, I keep adding to my position. Even though so far, this pull-back hasn't really impacted the stock. Like, if you can see today, the stock is up 21%, which is kind of crazy. You think like, hey, the market is pulling back. Why is this company going up? So, but again, this is one that I like and when I see each of the dips down here, as you can see here, I keep adding to my position. This one, I'm looking once all this settle, this stock is gonna run huge and I'm not selling one share of this one. I'm gonna hold this one for a while before I even consider taking off some positions. But for now, I'm actually adding more to my position. So, there you go, guys. Those are five stocks that I'm actually looking at right now during this period. I'm adding to my position. Again, guys, these are my stocks and I believe in these companies, it doesn't necessarily mean that you should just go buy them. You have to do your own research and be comfortable with where you put your money. These ones are stocks that I'm looking for, five, 10 years down the road. I don't plan on selling them anytime soon. For stocks that I'm actually looking at, string trading, that's different. My strategy there would be different, but the ones that I'm actually looking at long-term, I don't really care when I see a dip I add. When I see a dip I add and that's just the way that works for me. 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What is up guys, Joe Holland here. I am here at the Rip Dam Sporting Camp. It's a couple nights today already and Max and I are fishing today for something totally new to me. We're going for the GMO of Maine. We're going for the Splake, which is a half brook trout, half toad. The Splake has been in Maine for several years now. They cannot reproduce, but the state likes them because they grow really fast for, they grow faster than a lake trout, and they're pretty aggressive fish. I don't know how they taste. I really don't know how they look. I caught one in my life. I caught one once when I was in high school. I was fishing with a buddy and I thought I had a four pound brook trout, four and a half pounder. It was big and we were really excited about it. And he was like, oh, you gotta get that thing mounted, man. That's four and a half pound brook trout. It doesn't come very often. So we brought it home and his dad looked at it and he's like, wow, nice Splake. And it turned out it was a Splake. We couldn't tell because the tail had been pretty well chewed probably from the hatchery and it had like a square tail and it was really colorful. But hopefully we get a couple of these top side today and show you what they look like. How deep do you think we got? I'll play 40. Wow. I would not have guessed that. I'm gonna set the second trap and the first one's up. Did you leave it up? Yeah. Maybe it's a bait flag. Right. What's she doing, bud? Running? Yep. Anyway, whole colors. Splake, yeah, beautiful. Perfect. That didn't take long. No. Internet fishermen be like, you don't own the whole lake. We got a fish. Any sauce? Nah, it feels like the same as the last one. All right. Oh, he's spitting it at the hole. Oh man. Doesn't look like it's rolling yet, but that doesn't mean anything. You want one? Yeah. Feels all right? Nice. Beauty. That's a pretty fish. It's prettier. A lot prettier than a lake trout. Hold them up. Jump. All right, that's three flags. We're not even set up. Three flags, two fish. Perfect. Look at this frigging area. Holy cow. He's almost got all the water.  It feels decent about it so far. Still feeling good? Peter? Nice. Wow, that one's even got like a purple tint to it. Yeah. That one looks more like a lake trout, man. Yeah. Very nice.  And if you're worried about dead bait working, what are we at? Five flags, three fish, and we just got our traps in? Yeah. Yeah, we don't even have, I mean that's four traps in. Right. Because we're playing on jigging. Not very big, but he's there. Might be my first flake of the day. He feels small, real small. Oh yeah, there he is. That's a pretty one. Yeah. Look at that guy. Nice. Oh, we got one, two flags up. Yeah. We better get to it. Yeah, I know. There he is, guys. Wow, he is pretty red. Most orange like. Nice. All right, on the board, first flake that I ever tried for. Right. Let's, I'll just leave this. We'll go get yours, because you got two flags up, I believe. Yeah. So. Nice. Number. Five. Five. I think. Anything? Well, I got a flag too. Wow.  Maybe different size. Average. Oh yeah, a little bigger. Wow, look at it. They get prettier each time. Super pretty fish. Yeah. And I got a flag too, man. Yeah. I got another flag too. Actually, that might be a gold one. Was that another hook from there? Hold on, there's another hook from there. There is another. Yeah, I can get that one if you hold that one. Oh, there, we'll help him out. That's not from you. No. Cool, we got a leader. That's a pretty one. Wow. Holy cow, look at the colors on that. Yeah. He's like blue when you turn over. Yeah. Nice. Smashing them. Down and dirty? Down and dirty. This one there. Yeah, he's real small. I might have lost him. I don't know. Yeah, I think I lost him. Nope, he's still there. He was coming up. He feels a little better now, but nothing, nothing. The right home about. Wow, he took some line. They bite pretty good for pound for pound. Wait, outside of the mouth. Just barely hooked. Look at that, buddy. Holy cow. Beautiful, huh? Yeah. Oh, my big smelts up outside. Yeah, that's my big smelt. Got him. That's a super pretty one, guys. You got orange and purple, orange, purple, yellow, all the colors, and they got dots on their cheek plate, which is another sign that it's a splake and not a brook trout. And then the tail isn't flat. The tails actually beat as well. My big smelt's been up for a minute. Oh, nice. Cool. Good job. There's something there. That's bigger. That's bigger than the last couple. It's not huge, but he's definitely bigger than the last few. A huge bigger bait on this one. Saw the hole, he got a little active. Pretty light line, so I don't want to horse them. And the bottom edge of your ice is always a little bit sharp, so you got to be careful when they're working you, just to let them go through. Yep, always backwards. Oh, he wrapped himself all up. Nice one. He's in a pocket. That's weird, eggs coming out of them. I thought these things are sterile. There he is, guys. Nice one. Beauty. Guys, we're having a day out here.  That's all you need. If you're fishing dead bait, my advice is don't let it freeze and have like frozen stale dead bait. You know, keep it as fresh as you can. It's freezing as the day's going by, but we're going to bring it in the shack. We got three holes drilled for the pop-ups because we were going to do some jigging with a life scope, but we have not had a chance to stop. No, we have not. It's an awesome opportunity for you, having this close to home, having just such an amazing fishery. So if you get your teeth kicked in like we did yesterday and have a hard day, you can always come over here and have a good day fishing. Have a great day fishing. Yeah, right. Really. And I mean, we're fishing these splegs pretty much like tolls. They're all set up anywhere from 30 to 60 feet of water. Water's relatively, I mean, as far as Maine goes, it's pretty clear in here. We're fishing our baits anywhere from eight to 10 feet off bottom. And the fish are really cooperating today. Splake are pretty aggressive.  They take tons of line. So don't sit around, let your traps up forever because you'll show up and have a massive line on the ice, especially if you get a cold day. I'm running size six eagle claws, tying on 10 pound floral leader, running anywhere from 10 to 15 feet. Normally you'll run barrel swivels with live bait, but we ain't got that problem today. It's dead bait only. So they ain't swimming around and messing our lines up today. Just barely a splakeage. Yeah. Pretty fish. Yep, got him. He's not huge, but he's also not close. Oh yeah. It's in that range. Yeah. Yeah, he's good. He's like that other good one I got. Nice. I will say one thing. These guys fight like crazy. Oh yeah. Look at that guy. It's funny, like every single one of these are different colors. I know. Sorry to say, buddy, but you got another flag up too. There you go. Is he on? Yep. He took a run on you. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't feel very big. Just a little. Oh, dude. Beauty. What is he eating that smelt? He's half the size of the bait. There he is. Got him. Got him. He's another decent one. Oh, they're nice. That's 17, 18. Holy cow, yeah. Fat belly. Pretty. I mean, feel that. Dude, feel how hard his belly is. Yeah. He's loaded with stuff. And they're still eating something else, huh? I'm just blown away. I was just picking it up to check it. And I got it up like two foot in the air and something just grabbed it. Got another one on, gosh. Feels pretty solid. Fighting like crazy. Oh, here we go. He's turning back for you. Oh, he's coming in on you hard. Eat it, eat it. Oh, he's coming to you. He's coming. He turned. That was pretty exciting. How you gonna fly? High flyer.  Jesse, I'm not getting that coffee. No, you're not getting the coffee, I guess. Might be better. Big headchigs. He's just flying a hundred miles an hour. Got him. Nice little spleek. How's he feeling? Comer night. At 10.30 in the morning. That's crazy. Good average one. Number 20. That's crazy. Yes, sir? This one feels decent. Really? It's got green on it. That one looks more towed than anything. Yeah. Look at that one, guys. Beautiful. Like it? Yeah, I do. Big one? Oh, yeah. Nice one. Beauty. Good one. It has just switched to rain. So we took a minute and got the otter set up. So we're gonna be in there jigging out of the rain unless we get a flag, which is pretty highly likely. Got him. That was a runner. Here he comes. Yeah, a little bit better. Not a lot. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you're getting other flags. They're out of this world. I hope the camera can pick it up. Being wet. All right. What do you think, buddy? Another one? You in there? Yeah. Got it? Killing it. Oh, nice one. Yeah, by far the biggest of the day. Look how dark he is. Is that a tog or a spike? That's a spike. Yeah. It's a nice one. Oh, yeah. By far the biggest. Good one, buddy. Oh, wow. He's long. Yeah. Skinny. You feel like purple on the gills. Iridescent. Every one of them is different colors. I know. I don't know if he's come back. Oh, there he is. Got him. Got him. Got him. He came back. He's tiny. This might be our smallest one, yeah. Yeah.  Oh, is that a brook trout? Jesus. Don't believe someone. I don't think so. No. Oh, you can see the stripes on this one. Yeah. It only looks more like a brook trout. I know. Like a young brookie. Like, look at that. Wow. That thing's like bright purple. That is. That's the prettiest one by far. That is beautiful. That is the new record. That's the record? That's the new record, 32. Nice. Native mainsplake. Quick release. Another nice one. 36. Nice. Yeah, we're getting wet. One comes in from the left and then like another one will come in from the right. That's purple. This is insane. This is insane. That's right. That's it. There it is. Number 40. All right. Well, I guess we can count them. Biggin. Biggin. He is a pretty one. Gave a wicked fight. That is a good one. The tip of his tail is even charred orange. I don't know if people can see it or not. Oh, I'm up. Nice. Yeah, that's usually the next one after that. All right. Well, here we are. Joe's fighting a fish. We got a flag there. And another flag there. And we just got, what, three more fish? I don't even know at this point. Quick release. There we go. That's how you do it. Yeah. A closed way and extra 40 pounds right now. Oh, man. Rain. How about you? Oh, I am. I'm extra heavy today. This ice fishing gear is not made for rain. Yeah. And it has been raining for a while. Nice one. Another pretty one. Pretty? No. We need that bait. Another good one. Yeah, I had that earlier with those big head shakes right at you. Nice one. Beauty. He's a chunky one. Yeah. Feels decent, but he's a mile away. Oh, yeah. Nice one. That bait. Good job, buddy. Nice. Beautiful. Nerves of steel. Come on. Come on, baby. He's in the hole. He's out of the hole. There it is. That is the 50th fish on the day. Half a century, Mark. There it is, guys. Half a day. We got 50 on the ice. We only fished four lines each all day. There it is, number 50. Going back. Can't believe we did it. Cannot believe we did it. I'm going to have to watch the film myself. He puked up a pin. See it? Yeah. He's something.  You getting bigger? I think he was around the boulder. Yeah, he got a little bigger. He's 17, 13. 12, 11. That was a nice one. Yeah, just... These things are gorgeous. Beauty. Fortale. Way bigger than I thought. Yeah, he's not tiny. All right, pick it up. Guys, this is the last trap of the day right here. Feels like a cask. Yeah, imagine. Last trap of the day, we got a flag. And it's a dandy. Is it? Oh, look at that. Look at the color on that one. Oh, man, that's a beaut. What a dandy. Holy... Nice. That puts an exclamation point on the day. I would say so. And look at this fish. Do you see the color on that? Look at that. It's like a char. Holy cow, yeah. Oh, man. He's got a hook already coming out of his face.  You ain't kidding. All right, guys, that is going to do it for the fishing part of today's video.  What do you think, bud? How do we do? Last track. Oh, that was incredible. What do we end up with? We ended up with 56 fish. Crazy. 56. 56, give or take a few. We might even lost count. Ah, yeah. I honestly, I couldn't tell you, but it got pretty hectic there for a while. Awesome fishing.  It could have been a bigger day. We only fished four lines each. Yeah. As you guys can see from the overhead, we covered just about every square inch of this 200 yard patch where we caught all those fish. Maybe. Maybe, not even 200? Yeah, maybe. How many miles did you put on? I put on six miles today driving a 200 yard square. I burned one click of gas in a 200 yard square. Oh, man. We had a pretty well buttoned up. That was awesome. Yeah. What would you say for these flakes? So we targeted them what from 35 to 65 today? Yeah, 35 to 65 anywhere from 8 to 10 off bottom. Yeah. Dead bait. Dead bait. Yeah. Light line and small hooks. Yeah. Yeah. That was pretty much the ticket. Yeah. Pretty awesome day. So hope you guys like this video. Hope you like the format of it. We might do some more like that in the future. And we're going to talk over tonight what we're going to do tomorrow. We have endless possibilities going out of Maxis Camp. There's literally 100 different opportunities within 20 minutes. Yeah. We got some decisions to make tonight. We got some, we got some decision making for sure. Some deer with onions and peppers and potatoes for dinner. Doesn't get a lot better than that. This is some deer that my good buddy Russell Oluwisha and gifted to me. And the cool thing is Russell and Max are friends too. They work together in the Rockland area a couple of years ago. So small world, very small world as you guys know. Okay guys, that's going to do it for tonight. Dinner was pretty well awesome. Had an amazing day on the hard water. By far the most trout I've ever seen in one day. And a lot of people, I mean, some years I don't see 56 trout in a whole year. And to see that many in one day was pretty special. So pretty amazing day. Hope you guys enjoyed it. And tune in for tomorrow. So we got a little multi-species day going on tomorrow.


And away from Lagos to Edo, state were students of various universities across the state, described the 12-week extension of the ongoing industrial action by ASU as unacceptable. The students blocked the entrance gate to the Benin airport. They also took their protest to the state secretariat of the Nigerian Union of journalists. If we add the D-Shat money for subsidizing a version 4, but for the past three months, they did not see money to send to ASU because why? Because why? We, the common man, we are the ones suffering it. And the inflation, the flat, they are the ones using it. Enough is enough of the foolishness. We cannot continue like this. Just a few days that the local airport went on strike, in less than 24 hours, they brought them back. They brought them back. They brought them back. I sat on Thursday of last week. We've been home for 80 days. 80 days. Yesterday we have been told that they've added 12 weeks more in a government. How will a government prioritize politics? Aviation to education. And you recall that we remain on fire when it comes to reporters. Yes. I want to assure you very strongly that the points you have raised this afternoon will be taken to the appropriate quarter.


India is, in my opinion, not a country. It's almost like a little world of its own. What India is today, it is a Bully world, that a country in which you have right now a lot of energy. It's the second most populous country now, but it will surpass China. The world can't do without India. We made an important step this year, having our India Economic Summit for the first time outside of the nation's capitol and into one of the economically most important states. I would like to thank you, particularly, for joining us to contribute in a positive way to the development of this great country, India. All of the heads of India Inc., some of the most prominent faces, all make time to come here and, of course, a lot of the journalists and discuss some of the current events that are occupying everyone's mind these days. It's important for all of us to recognise the whole set of opportunities that we are sitting on and to recognise the important fundamental strengths that India has. It used to be a market in itself, a resource for a unique blend of talent. Now it's also a powerhouse. In a recent survey, people were asked, would you be ready to work in the fight against corruption? In India, 74% of the people said yes. When I go to some of the villages in India, when I go to slums in India, you see a lot of young people who are making change happen in their own localities. And I think they are, you know, they are shapers, even without the recognition of this kind.  If you see a dynamic India, it's us who's going to make it. I am hoping that through energy and healthcare and all the infrastructure build out, we can work together to actually improve the quality of life of these 7, 800 million people who earn less than a dollar a day. Several ideas came to address the issues of inclusion, harnessing talent and transparency in governance. It's important that India continues this path of inclusive growth, of equitable growth, to close gaps, to ensure that the benefits of India's economic really benefit all segments of the population.


Hey guys, it's Liana and I'm here today to talk about my new favorite book, The Wolf by Leo Carew. Follow me on Instagram then you'll know that I've been freaking out about this book because it is like the literal greatest thing ever. I talked to my TBR about how the way this book looked. It looks like it should be my new favorite book and I was more right than I could ever have even imagined. I am completely gobsmacked so I probably shouldn't be filming this yet because I barely finished it so I'm still kind of processing how blown away I am by this but we're doing it because I want to talk about it and it's amazing and you should read it right now. So briefly kind of what is this book about and then what makes it so amazing. So this book, it takes place, it's a fantasy in the sense of the way that the conqueror saw guys fantasy. It's an alternate history fantasy so it's not a magic system, it's not a magical new world that doesn't exist. It's our own like earth world in the Dark Ages but it's a reimagined history where instead of just our own Homo sapien humanoid species having survived through the Ice Age into the Dark Ages, other humanoid species also survived. So like what if Neanderthal had not died out? What if other humanoid species like that had survived long enough to form language and culture and be players in you know our history and politics. So if you like look at the map in this book it's showing like a Britain but it's everything is renamed and reimagined but that's where it's taking place in our own world but as if we were not the only ones to survive. Most of the story is told is an omniscient narrator but most of it is told from the perspective of the Anakim and the Anakim are these sort of more developed Neanderthal type species culture people. You do also see this sort of human side of things those are the Southerners and there is a sort of a main protagonist on that end of things that you do sort of check in with and you do see that side of things as well but most of the story page count word count wise is told from the perspective of the Anakim and basically the story has a very Viking Norse feel it's a very harsh climate the Anakim have a their their diet and their culture and their living circumstances is very reminiscent of like a Viking inspired world which obviously is my jam if you follow me at all like anything remotely Viking related I'm like yes please but they're obviously they're not Vikings they're their own thing they're a completely different species and it's uh again yeah they're not Vikings but it has that kind of feel I mean they drink mead and birch wine and they eat you know like lingonberries and they drink out of horns and it's a very earthy kind of vibe they're very large people they're very large creatures they're much much larger than the our ancestors of Southerners they're more long lived they live like 200 years on average they're not you know immortal like elves or anything they just live longer they're physically larger they live longer they have other natural adaptations that help them survive in this harsher climate um that the book kind of goes into um but so they are physically different and that is all very well explained and very well thought out and it is largely based on this author's research into like how Neanderthals were different and I mean some of it is invention but it's sort of a an extension of what might have happened had they continued to evolve yeah so it follows um it's basically a giant war story the Southerners like our own ancestors wanting to invade and take over everywhere and the Anakim are physically larger and stronger but they're not invaders so in that sense they're very unviking the Vikings went around raiding all the time invading other lands the Anakim they are very content with their own land they just want to protect their own land which is being invaded by the Southerners and they don't want to expand but they want to protect what is theirs so again it just follows the all the politics within the Anakim culture and society as these war games play out as well as some of the politics going on on the southern end of things and about why they're invading and who's invading and who's doing what so it's a very political war-centric type of story with a lot of Nordic vibes okay but so from that description you're like okay and that's sounds decent sounds like a pretty good fantasy book doesn't sound that out of the ordinary why is this so special and it's the world building the world building is insanely amazingly intricately developed and when I say that if I heard myself say that I would interpret that to mean something really dry where it's just listing constantly tons of facts and details just throwing info dumping exposition at you with here's what they call this and here's how they do this and here's their structure over this and it's not like that at all not at all there's some of that obviously any fantasy book has some info dumping to get you sort of you know into the world but not very much at all in this book the world building is just built into the fabric of how these people live and interact with each other and and how they go about things and I was so blown away by how life like it felt that it felt like a piece of history rather than a creative fantasy that I looked up the author because this is his debut which just let me just give up on life right now he was a bioanthro major and I was a cultural anthro major but I did take some bioanthro classes but as soon as I read that about him it clicked why this book it's just so miles and away different and I don't know for everyone but definitely for me it's approaching things from a lens that I understand and that I feel is superior but maybe it's just my it's my preference to me world building in the best fantasy books can often fall flat and feel quite lifeless which is kind of strange because to me a world is defined by the life within it and this book approaches things from a very anthropological perspective where the way that the culture is built it doesn't feel like it's just like sort of a creative thought exercise of what if a culture was structured like this um I mean it is a bit that way but because obviously the whole thing is a massive thought exercise of what if Neanderthal had survived but it's really just it's this sense of he's literally just sat there and asked what if questions until a culture was formed and it's perfect for that reason so everything is taken into consideration how this biology of these these other creatures would affect the way that they like physically the the ramifications of physically being different how that would manifest itself in culture how that would manifest itself in what they value and how they interact in how they structure things in in everything so that is seamless it is absolutely seamless and the the literal differences that um he's researching how Neanderthals are different in terms of their their inability to maybe understand symbols the way that we do and isn't necessarily that doesn't mean they're dumber than us it doesn't mean they're more simplistic it's just not how they're wired and so their culture would necessarily reflect that and again the way this has done you don't have a narrator saying oh they these aren't Neanderthals and they can't understand symbols and therefore they do things differently they do it like this no it's just built into their society the way that they record history is more is reliant on oral history is more reliant on memory is shared memory um they are more long-lived so there's more there's a longer period to be able to spend memorizing and recording it in that way um and they they do have symbols they do have some rudimentary kind of i don't want to say written language but written form of communication but it's not their strong suit necessarily and there's just so many details in terms of how they would be different from us and it feels real it feels so real and even though they're very distinctly different from from uri or from the southerners which would be uh who we would be descended from because what we do spend most of the book with the anachemes so you're necessarily more invested in their side of things because you're with them more but just in the way that when i studied anthropology a lot of um things that if you just heard about a practice by itself or culture just a fact about it you would dismiss as being barbaric or primitive but upon reading a really in-depth um description a really in-depth ethnography about who these people are why they do this what led them to do this how that you know ties into their cultural identity and you might still like objectively say okay this is a barbaric thing to do it is a violent thing to do but it's not just that like there is a logic behind it it makes sense and these people are just savages like they it makes sense what they're doing in a very very complex cultural way so the anachem are quite violent this whole book is very violent i mean the southerners are violent as well most definitely um but they're not just these barbaric others they uh they have very distinct values very distinct cultural system cultural hierarchy and what they do makes sense for them and it makes sense to you as the reader as you're going through it because you really get a sense for it it's not just being told to you that this is what they value so they're doing this like you really feel their connection to their own value system in their own worldview uh and everything in what they in just how they approach everything what they value and what they're what they're willing to sacrifice for live for fight for live for etc and where this becomes most apparent how it how anthropological it is and i the anthropology major in me literally gobbled this up is that the southerner who is the main antagonist who is the sort of engine behind this invasion he's approaching the invasion from a very anthropological perspective um and i mean anthropology was born from the fact that the british empire needed to understand the cultures it was invading in order to invade them so that's what this guy is doing he needs to learn about the anachem if they're going to invade because to you have to understand your enemy essentially so he is studying the anachem and he wants to figure out what they think and feel and what they call things and how they understand things so that he can invade them better and so that does help the reader to understand but just that whole approach is he's not just saying you know where are they gonna attack and where is their main force and i need to destroy their weapons and that's obviously important and that's covered as well because it's a very war-centric book but he's taking the time to learn about nuances in their language about how they have words for things that we don't and why would they have these words and what these words means to them and what that says about what they value and how that's gonna inform how they react to an invasion and it's fucking phenomenal i just don't have other words for it this is the best built thing that i think i've ever read the story is fantastic it's on par with game of thrones it's on par with you know what an epic battle-centric you know fantasy but it's the building of the culture and and belief systems of the people here is just so seamless and perfect and it's i just it feels real like nothing these characters does falls outside of what you come to understand as being their culture it it's all part of it they never act outside of what you've come to understand as being their culture and it feels so real for that reason what they do even if it's even at times kind of hard to identify with because they are distinctly different from you know from uri you understand what they're where they're coming from and why they're doing it and it makes sense and it it's just it feels real and i am blown away just blown away so yeah um i highly highly highly recommend this book um it's just it's just so so good like obviously the anthro nerd in me is is loving it but even if you're not into anthropology i can't imagine that you'd read this and not appreciate on some level the intricacy of the world building the intricacy of the culture building and i cannot wait for the next book and if this is his debut this is his first book oh my god he better write some more it's all i gotta say about fan so yeah let me know in the comments down below how you feel about world building um if what i've just sort of been describing and oozing about appeals to you if that's what you look for in world building what your experience with good or bad world building has been if i've picked your interest or if you have already read this i'd love to talk about this book specifically but uh let me know your thoughts about anything and everything in the comments down below and i'll see you in my next video bye


When you guys are getting the kind of performance from your offense that you did today as a defense, how frustrating is it to kind of let one like that get a word? Yeah, you know, we obviously, you know, want to never let them score whenever they get down there in the red zone. And towards the last touchdown they had, we had a big play and then had a penalty on the goal line as well, which allowed them to get more downs and end up scoring. For you guys, it feels like there's almost always, at least in the last couple of games, you guys are able to identify and if so, what's going on there? I mean, I don't think it's a theme, I just think it's an offense that is losing, taking the shot down field and then it just comes down to someone just winning. What do you feel like you guys at 3-5 will put yourself in a pretty tough spot here with 9-0? How do you think this team will react to this? I think we're going to react, you know, how I know we're going to react and how we have in the past, which is, you know, come out and continue to work, continue to stay together and try to find a way to improve. Obviously, you don't want to be, you know, 3-5, it's uphill battle that we have now, but we put ourselves here. But the best thing that we can do to fix the problem is stick together. How tough was just, you know, that last drive of theirs and we've done so well keeping out of the end zone except for their first drive, how tough was that last drive not being able to get to the stop? Yeah, it's tough. Like I said, you know, we want to obviously never let them get down there. I felt like, you know, we had a good start to that drive and then penalty here allowed the extended drive and then X play. And then when it got in the red zone, it was another penalty. So just find ways to play cleaner and to give us the best chance. You guys working hard to, you know, get turnover and affect the quarterback. Obviously, you know, turnovers tonight. I don't think couple hits on the quarterback. How tough is that against any quarterback when you're not affecting it that way? Yeah, obviously, you know, you want to affect the quarterback. And it's tough when you're not getting those turnovers. He didn't really give us a lot too many opportunities, you know, to get the ball off. But I thought we applied pressure on them. We did apply pressure. You know, we used to get those hits that we wanted, them sacks that we wanted. Is there anything you can pamper them to use losses on the road? It's like, in East High Stadium, you guys are a lot different than you are on the road.  They found those two big plays back-to-back, 32-yard pass at the right side and then Warren got them down that goal line. Yeah. Giving up the killers right at the end there. What's that for? Obviously, like I just said, you know, you're not executing the way that we know we can as a defense, you know. Every group, whether it's special teams, offense, defense, nobody wants to be the one to let the team down.  So obviously, when you don't do that and you come up short, that hurts. And even at the end, you know, we get to stop with the two-minute situation. Offense gets opportunity, you know what I'm saying? Like, the situation that they were in was not favorable at all and still having a chance, you know, to drive it down the field as long as they did, like, you know, it's put them in really bad situations. You know, us as a defense, we got to do better. But with the run defense, you guys were really good for about the first four games of the season and that seems like teams have had more and more success. What do you feel like is going wrong there? I don't know. I just think it's just trying to be a little bit more sound. I think when, you know, you start having situations like us where you like stuff in the run, stuff in the run, you're expecting teams to do something super exotic to try to mess with you and then, you know, it might run the most basic play.   So it's just getting back to the fundamentals, the basics, you know, everybody, myself included. Taking that one play at a time, one day at a time. You know, it's Thursday night, get back in on Tuesday and we got to be ready to work. This is last week, like I said, everybody was loving this up. This week on Thursday, not even five days later.   You got to show up every week or else you'll get beat. Smile and look at the next guy. He's like, you ready to have some fun?  And yeah, the guys who went in play their heart out. Yeah, yeah, Will was very composed in the huddle. He did a great job marching us downfield. We're very close, obviously. They played well. They had a good defense and they closed it out. We just got to be able to finish in the red zone with those opportunities. But yeah, it felt like we had good momentum. We were moving the ball. We were going well. We only gave it like one sack on that drive. Yeah, we just came up short. We're a pretty tight-knit group outside of the facility and even in the facility when we're in meetings and stuff. So like I said, when a new guy gets in there, you kind of smile and be like, hey, this is your opportunity. Let's have some fun together. Yeah, it definitely helps that we're a tight-knit group outside of football and we're just able to just bond and like you said, throw another guy in. It's just like going in the rotation. Everybody feels good with each other.


In 1769, Lagrange published On the Solution of Numerical Equations. The paper discussed the theory of equations and presented a numerical method based on continued fractions. To find a real solution to a polynomial equation, Lagrange proceeded as follows. First, find, if possible, two consecutive integers p and p plus 1, so a root x is greater than p and less than p plus 1. A root x is p plus 1 over y, where y is a new variable, and substitute this into the equation, yielding a new equation. By construction, 1 over y is greater than 0 and 1 over y is less than 1, so y is greater than 0, actually, y is greater than 1. So find consecutive integers q and q plus 1, so a root y is greater than q, and y is less than q plus 1, and Laver rins repeat. So let T as Lagrange's method to find the first three convergence of a solution to x squared plus 5x minus 18 equals 0. So we can evaluate our polynomial at 1, 2, 3, and so on, which gives us, since the expression is negative at x equals 2 and positive at x equals 3, there must be a root between 2 and 3. So we'll let x equal 2 plus 1 over y, and we substitute that into our equation we get. So again, evaluating our new equation at 1, 2, 3, and so on, we find, so there is a root between y equals 2 and 3. So let y equal 2 plus 1 over z, and substitute, and again, we'll evaluate and find there is a root between z equals 2 and z equals 3. So we'll let z equal 2 plus 1 over w, but let's put our results together. x is 2 plus 1 over y, but y is 2 plus 1 over z, but z is 2 plus 1 over w, and so on. And so we have our continued fraction expansion for our solution x, and we can find our convergence. The first convergent is just the whole number part. The next convergent will incorporate the first fraction, one half, and get. We'll incorporate a little bit more of the continued fraction and get. Now remember, the convergence are ultimately larger and smaller than the limit, so we conclude that our solution is someplace between 5 halves and 12 fifths. And in fact, if we compute our polynomial at these two points we find, so the root is between these two values.


OK, solid calcium oxide and gaseous carbon dioxide will react to form solid calcium carbonate, according to the reaction that's posted on the board. So if we had 56.08 grams of calcium oxide and 44.0 grams of carbon dioxide, what would be the total mass of the reactants? OK, so the first thing we want to do is write down what they give us. So this is 56.08 grams of calcium oxide and 44.00 grams of carbon dioxide. So it asks us, what would be the total mass of the reactants? How would we go about doing that? Pretty obvious, right? How would we go? Add them together, right? So 56.00 plus 44, or 0.08 plus 44.00 grams. So how many sig figs, or how would we do sig figs on this? That's the question, right? So this would be 100.08. So this has four sig figs, this has four sig figs, but this has five. Is this the right way to do this? Why? After the decimal, it's very good. Yes, it's the amount after the decimal place when you're doing addition and subtraction. OK, recall that one. OK, so this would be the answer to the first question. Is everybody OK with that? So what would be the total mass of the products after this reaction? Can somebody help me out with that one? How would I figure that out? What would it be? Why? Because the law of conservation of mass tells us that mass cannot be created or destroyed. So the number over here should be the same as the number over here, right? Because we can't destroy or create after this, OK? So what would be the total mass over here? 100.08. OK, and I guess that's all we can do on this one, because there's not two products. Any questions on law of conservation of mass? Pretty straightforward, I think.


Aloha and welcome to At the Crossroads. I am your host, Keisha King. We bring you conversations that are real and relevant. Today is no different than a real and relevant conversation. However, it is the last conversation of the year, hence the title Year in Review. We're gonna take a look at this whirlwind of a year for 2019 and then we're gonna touch base on our second half of the show and tell you what you can expect for 2020. There will be some changes that I'm excited to share. But first, before we tap into that, I want to say thank you. Thank you to all the guests who have spent time with me right here at this very table in our studio to talk about conversations that mattered to you, that mattered to Hawaii and that mattered to me personally. I've had a great run. Starting in January, I hosted, or yes, I was the host and had wonderful guests that joined us for our inaugural show where we talked about life and the changes that happened throughout our life and how we should navigate through those changes. My guest at the time was Florenda Denise Lee and she shared with us some of her ideas and what she does as a life coach and as a children's book author. One of the things that she shared with us was the importance of keeping your priorities in their proper perspective. We went from carrying that conversation to moving forward and talking about mental health and mental health awareness. During that show, we had Sherri White. She is a counselor in the state of Florida. She is a family and marriage therapist and she spends a great deal of time speaking with our youth about their feelings, about feeling safe enough to be vulnerable.  She told us what it meant to be a toxic male. She expressed the importance of therapy and mental health awareness in the African-American community. Through that show, we learned the importance of going to therapy and seeking out counselors, not only counselors and therapists for children but for adults too. It was during that episode that she shared a little bit about herself and her personal work and the reason for her work and I also shared. That conversation led to another guest who came on board with us to talk about mental health awareness, specifically depression. It was during that episode that I shared my personal experience in caring for a loved one who battles with depression.  I took that episode very personal and because I'm going through it even now and I still stress the importance of seeking help, getting the therapy that is so needed in all communities but especially in an African-American community where there are at plenty of times this disregard for mental health awareness because of that dreaded seaward no one wants to have as their label. We moved on and we had conversations in the month of February about love. We talked to two love coaches and it was a wonderful experience to have a husband and wife team come on and share their experience as love coaches and as marriage counselors specifically. They shared with the Brouchard family, shared with us their experience in life in their own marriage. They talked about everything from compromise, from saving and spending and finding out who was the saver and the spender in their marriage. But we also talked about difficult subjects such as infidelity and reconciliation. It was during that episode that we shared with you, all of our viewers, the importance of forgiveness and we taught the lesson and the greatest takeaway that forgiveness is not for the other person, it is for you. See when you learn to forgive someone it says more about you and it helps bring peace in your store and it allows you the very necessary opportunity to move forward because oftentimes until you express forgiveness to someone, you're still holding on to something that maybe they have even let go of. So forgiveness has to do with you and your personal growth. They expressed in that show that if you have unforgiveness it's as if you're drinking poison expecting someone else to die and it just doesn't work like that. We know that now, we knew it then when they shared that with us. So we thank them and all our other guests for being on the show sharing those ideas and that very important topic of forgiveness and healing and growth. It all dealt with grit in a growth mindset but then we switched gears and we talked about entertainment and we had none other than Steven Hill, one of the stars of the Magnum PI reboot that is now in their second season. When he was our guest, he was here talking about that series and it was in its first season and we were hoping that the show would come back on for its second season and lo and behold, it did. And now we watch Magnum PI every Friday night at eight o'clock now instead of nine o'clock on Fridays on CBS. So if you don't have time, if you're not at home you can always get the CBS app and I don't know if I'm allowed to advertise that but that's just something that if you wanna watch Steven Hill who was a guest on our show that's how you can find him. What we also talked about during that show was his own family member who has special needs and he talked about the caregiver in his special in his sister's life and he talked about how it's important to surround yourself with people who are caring and loving and can help and support especially those with special needs. We also had as a secondary guest on that show someone who also was an author who specifically worked with those who were in special needs and it was a wonderful dynamic to have someone who is living in that type of situation and then someone who can write about it she came from the point of view of an educator an educator in New York City. So she had a lot of experience and a great book to share which you can check out on our website if you go back to that episode which you can watch all of the episodes of At the Crossroads on our YouTube channel at thinktecawai.com slash YouTube and then you can find the At the Crossroads playlist there or you can go to youtube.com thinktec slash thinktec slash At the Crossroads. You can find us simply by going anywhere on thinktec thinktecawai that is. So we switched gears a little bit that was in March so then March is women's history month and boy when I tell you I was really excited because we had the civil rights attorney Daphne Barbie Wooten on our show and that was such a fun episode. We talked about powerful women past and present. She took us way back to Egypt and we talked about women who were queens and leaders of their nations and leaders in their households and we went into talking about the history of some women who were from Greece and other eras and then we got right here in the 19th and 20th and 21st century right here in America and we talked about all the women pioneers that we could fit into one show and we talked about the significant impact that they had right here in Hawaii even. So that was a fun and exciting and very educational show which I was happy to really just kind of sit at her tutelage because she's a wealth of information and quite frankly I said it to her then and I'll say it again. We could have talked about her for the entire 30 minutes because she has a plethora of awards and other accolades that we could talk about for hours on end. So she was a wonderful guest to have. As we moved along throughout the year I must take a break and tell you that that first quarter I was extremely nervous. So there were mistakes that I made. There were times when like even today I made some wonderful mistakes but every time I get on the air I make mistakes and we all do but I think there was an episode where we got on and we talked about how to overcome your mistakes and challenges and how to continue to press forward toward the mark instead of getting stuck and making continuous mistakes over and over and so we had another life coach that got on and talked to us about moving forward and overcoming and reinventing yourself. We talked about issues but then we also talked about happy coffee. This was a funny episode to me now that I look back on it because the three guests or two guests and myself we all unknowingly dressed alike and the colors that we wore if you go back to the episode about happy coffee you'll see we all look like minions. Now I wish I could show you the pictures but that's the mistake I made today. I didn't bring our pictures ahead of time but I had on blue and white and yellow and my guests had on blue and white and yellow and hers was a jumpsuit and so we look like minions on that episode and that's what happens when you're on live TV. You just kind of laugh at yourself and we laughed and laughed and laughed during that episode. It was fun but our laughter was not induced by the coffee even though the coffee is called happy coffee. We learned about one woman's experience in her life when she was remodeling her home and her children were of a certain age where they were very energetic if you know what I mean and so they were running around and her home was under construction and she felt overwhelmed and she was gaining weight and she started to have health concerns and someone told her about a company that sells other products in addition to the coffee and while she was taking those special nutrients and vitamins that she told me all about she eventually got in touch with the coffee and maybe some therapy and she regained her life. She regained stability and control over the things that she could control and she eventually learned how to let go of the things that she could not control and so for her it was about finding her flow again and finding the coffee which she began to sell and make money off of which supported the remodeling of her home and fingers crossed because that was a long time ago so this year is almost over and I hope the construction of her home is almost over as well. As we get to the halfway mark of our show right now I wanna say that during the halfway mark of the year we honored some of our local, I wanna say local celebrities but local premier women organizations we honored our very own Sharon Thomas Yarbrough and we gave her a award just for acknowledging the work that she's done for women here throughout the community in Honolulu. We also spent time with another woman's organization, Arborne, we made sure that we honored those women who were selling a product again but also they had overcome some severe challenges in their life and they learned how to press forward which was the whole essence of at the crossroads from the very beginning. We wanted people to find out what we had to offer here in Hawaii and make sure that they were aware of what was available to them and also how to reach out for help and give help. So when we come back we're gonna talk about how our show took a shift and got into service and we did that through some of our nonprofit organizations. So we're gonna talk about that right after this break you're watching at the crossroads, we'll be right back. Hi guys, I'm your host Lillian Cumick from Lillian's Vegan World. I come to you live every second Friday from 3 p.m. and this is the show where I talk about the plant-based lifestyle and veganism. So we go through recipes, some upcoming events, information about health regarding your health and just some ideas on how you can have a better lifestyle, eat healthier and have fun at the same time. So do join me, I look forward to seeing you and aloha. Aloha, my name is Wendy Lo and I want you to join me as we take our health back. On my show, all we do is talk about things in everyday life, in Hawaii or abroad. I have guests on board that will just talk about different aspects of health in every way. Whether it's medical health, nutritional health, diabetic health, you name it, we'll talk about it. Even financial health, we'll even have some of them is Hawaii's on board and all the different topics that I feel will make your health and your lifestyle a lot better. So come join me, I welcome you to take your health back. Mahalo. Aloha and welcome back to At the Crossroads. I am your host, Keisha King and today we're taking a look back at where we've been with At the Crossroads and we're gonna shift toward the end and talk to you about where we're going. So when we left off toward the halfway mark of the year, we started talking about service organizations. I got a little bit more involved with our community as I'm getting around and getting to know everyone and so I decided that the best use of my time was in service to others. I've always been that way and here in Hawaii as I've been making my way around and getting to know different people, I found that the only thing that I could do in my life that would last are things that help other people. It's been my life's goal to be, honestly it's been one of my life's goals to be a philanthropist. Now as an educator, I don't make a ton of money but I've always taught my own children that the ways that you give are by giving your time, your talent and your resources. So I certainly had the time to give and I have some abilities. So I won't say I have some talent in a braggadocious way, but I had something to offer and then whatever resources that I had, I did the best that I could to give what I could and so that became my focus. I wanted to give more and I used the slogan, giving is living and I live to give and truthfully I love to give and when I started to give more it took away some of the challenges that I faced when I had my down days while caring for my loved one who battles with depression. And I began to teach that, that the more you give, the better you will feel. Even though it's not my intent to give so that I feel better, it was really an after effect and that it just, it works for everyone. It's a win, win, win. And so I started to focus my shows more on the organizations who were giving. So we spent time talking with Veloja and Christine Bush and we talked about that organization and how they give to the homeless. They give to needy children. They give everything. They give school supplies. They give books. They give, let's see, clothing and right now they're doing a toy drive. So look up Veloja giving. We also spent time talking to the diaper bank, the Aloha diaper bank. I bet you didn't know that we had a diaper bank. You know about the food bank but you probably didn't know about the diaper bank. And what I liked about that organization is that they gave diapers, pampers to organizations who fed the homeless because we often think about feeding the homeless and we also think about housing the homeless. But we forget that sometimes homeless families have homeless children and babies need pampers and diapers and other needs as well. So we spent time talking with them. We also talked with other organizations. Some of them were Greek lettered organizations. We talked about how they raised funds to give scholarships to children right here locally. And they give scholarships to children who are typically graduating from high school and on their way to college. Sometimes these scholarships are enough to take care of their entire books for a full semester, a full year or they're ongoing. So if you are not familiar with any of the Greek lettered organizations here in Honolulu, I suggest you look them up and you can find them by looking for the Divine Nine or Greek lettered organizations in Hawaii or in Honolulu and you can find a whole plethora of them. Well, you can find nine of them but you can find a whole plethora of what they do. They do great things. They work with our children, they feed the homeless, they mentor, they have after school programs. I also spent some time working with and getting involved with the NAACP locally. And in fact, I serve as the education chair for the NAACP. And one of the things that is the focus that we had a guest on for is our 2020 census which is coming up in 2020 and we have some special dates about that that you can find out more about because we're gonna talk about that in just a moment. But that organization has a long history of working with all minorities to ensure that we are treated fairly and that we are counted which is what the census is all about. Wanting to make sure that every person on Island and throughout the state is counted because your count matters, okay? And there is a direct flow for how many people we have determines the amount of federal funding that we get through some of the organizations that are so necessary here. So when you think about housing, when you think about WIC, when you think about those types of programs it correlates with how many people we have in our state. So if you're not counted, you might not get funded for some of those programs in the way that you have in the past. So that's something else that we talked about at Great Link. I just wanna say though, thank you so much because there were a bunch of other guests that we have had on our show, Ballet Hawaii, one that's one of my favorites because I love the art. I'm leaving out a ton of people and a ton of guests who spent time on our shows but overall the goal was simply to say thank you to each and every one of you. Thank you to our sponsors and thank you to our viewers. Those of you who watch me here and those of you who watch me when I'm doing my Facebook live on the way here those were fun shows too. What we're going to do in 2020, let's talk about that. I'm excited to talk about 2020 because so many slogans are coming up for it. First of all, people are saying oh, in 2020 I'm gonna have perfect vision or I can see clearly in 2020, whatever the case, whatever your slogan is for 2020, so be it. What I'm saying is that I'm very excited about the year. I'm excited for every day that comes but I'm excited about what the show is going to look like. We will be back January 6th, 2020 and this is the last episode for this year but this is also the last episode for At the Crossroads, The Way You Know It. The way you've seen it, with me speaking with guests that may be here in the studio. It's gonna look a little bit different because our studio is relocating. So I decided that this would be a good time to put a fresh new look and to talk about one specific thing that matters to me a lot, a lot, a lot. And that's education. For those who don't know, I am an educator by trade. I have a master's degree in special education and I work for the Department of Education right here in Honolulu and I've been doing that for the past five years. I've been an educator for a dozen years but I've probably been a teacher all of my life. You see, I am the first born of nine children. So for those of you who've met my mom, for those of you who've heard me talk about her on my Facebook Live, she has nine kids and I'm number one. I love to say that. So for my sisters and brothers who are watching, yes, it took the opportunity to say it again. I'm number one, I'm number one. But in essence, I've been a teacher all my life. All my siblings have followed and had to do what I say. But as I became an educator, I've learned that it's more about getting obedience from people. I'm not a dictator, right? Really, in education, I'm working with people to help them become critical thinkers. And I just so happened to work with the most unique group, exceptional children, children who some say have special needs, others say have are exceptional learners, okay? I love what I do. My students and I have a great time in my classroom learning in a different type of way. I teach community based instruction. So there may be times when you'll see me throughout the city with a group of children and adults and we're learning in the natural environment. So you might see me at Safeway one day teaching my students how to make a purchase, how to count change, how to collect a receipt and make sure that you have the right change. That's what I do for a living. It's some people call it functional living skills or just living skills. I think I know what I do is important and it makes a difference in the lives of, I wanna say the most needy or most exceptional people every single day, my students and their families. Which is why I take what I do so very seriously because it's important. So we've decided to switch our show to talk about education as a whole, not just on the local level, not based upon what's happening in my classroom alone, but we are gonna take a national look at what's happening in education. We're gonna talk to decision makers, policy makers, policy enforcers. We're gonna talk to people who make the difference, the movers and the shakers in education and all this week and last, I've been reading about some of Hawaii's very own movers and shakers in education and my goal for this new show that will start in January 2020 is to make you aware of what's happening in education. And as always, my goal is to get you involved. I don't want you to have information for information's sake. That's what Google is for. I want you to have information that will move you to action. I haven't decided on a title for the show, but I am loosely considering the education. It's a little bit funny because it has somewhat of a negative connotation, but it's not negative at all. Have you heard the term instigator? An instigator is someone who moves people to action and you typically use that term when you're talking about two people who are in a fight. Oh, she's instigating the fight. Well, no, not necessarily. They're instigating you to move you to action. So I'm not sure if that's gonna be the title of the show or not, but the education instigator is something that I'm considering. Maybe you can help me. At any rate, I want to move you to action and education. I want you to find out and to know what's happening across the nation and in our state in education so that you can get involved and help make a difference. Teachers need you, students need you, and your lawmakers need to hear from you. So I wanna say thank you for watching at the Crossroads and I hope that you'll be back with me next year for our education show, whatever we decide to call it. And I'm hoping that you'll be ready to move, to take action, to get involved and remember that service is essential, right? Serving and giving is living. Thank you so much for this dynamic year and I'll see you in 2020. Aloha.


I have to confess, I can't have lied to you. We don't have 20 amino acids. We have 19, because this one, proline, I will keep referring it to an amino acid, but strictly technically, purely technically, is an amino acid. The reason for that is that the side chain here has three carbons, one, two, three, but the last carbon here is actually binding to the nitrogen in the backbone. And what that will mean is that the normal amino acid side chains that we would have, they would have the hydrogen here, right? The hydrogen that can participate in hydrogen bonds in a helix. But in proline, we have this five-membered ring, one, two, three, four, five. It's stolen the hydrogen. There is no hydrogen, but instead, it's a large, unbaltered carbon. And that will mean that if it can't participate in those hydrogen bonds, and it will take a lot of room, it's going to be very unfavorable to put this, say, in a helix. In fact, proline is the best helix breaker we know. If I have a helix predicted, and I find a proline residue, I would say that that's going to be the end of that helix. And it's a very strong signal in bioinformatics. We can see that in the Ramachandran plot, too. So it's kind of just a line here, because this one of the five-psi torsions has been locked in, right? The five torsion. So there are only two small regions where it can be, and neither of them is really compatible with the alpha helix.