So we're back long overdue for our coffee chat because you, as we can say by looking how bronzed and beautifully look for us, you've had a week away, haven't you? Yes, it was awesome. I just, Florida is just my heart is in Florida right now. I never thought we, you know, United States, we always used to make fun of Florida. You know, you can, you can, there's a game where you can type in your birth date and put Florida man and see what some man got arrested for in Florida on your birthday. But it's literally, I mean, I have my dissent assured on right now. It's literally, which says make America, Florida. Yeah, which literally, yeah, just, it's just nice to be in a world where you can be a human being and you don't have to worry about all this crazy nonsense and you can just talk to people and hug people and no one thinks you're weird and no one thinks you're crazy because you don't, you know, so, so thank you. Oh my God. Yeah, it is. It's really, I am freezing over here today. It's gone really cold again in the UK again. So hence, I'm sitting here shivering. But, and if everyone sees a smoke, often cross it is my incense sticks. There might be some warbs and little mystery people in there as well, but I am smoking incense. I don't panic. So one of the things we wanted to talk about today was integrity and what you just said there really hit home to me because this is the week of David Dyke's 70th birthday. Happy birthday, David Dyke. And I've just listened to a tribute from a lot of people on him.  Look at what people like David Dyke have been through. And he has stood in his integrity and his truth. And now he's got millions of us across the globe that are agreeing with him. And for me, he is the old, you know, what an example of integrity. There's a few others we could mention as well. But it's in what these people have been through is off the scale, isn't it? Oh, absolutely. And I, you know, as we were saying, I'm going to read a quote here because I think this the person that left this quote or this comment on my interview with Jamie Salay, who was going to be with us eventually too. She this woman summed it up and because living in your integrity is easier in thoughts than it is in action. It's so much easier to hide behind the crowd. It's so much easier to web to create a web of lies to protect you. But to live in your integrity, sometimes you're met with a lot of resistance that can be scary. And this lady wrote and I think this sums this is true for a lot of us. She said, Jamie's courage extends far beyond those of her former inner circle or even her skating peers. She is the lucky one. She is the awakened one, the light worker, the powerful one, the one that makes her more so and her gracious humility in the face of all of her losses. She has held the line when so many others came in. That's another reason they have shunned her. Her courage reminds them of their weakness. Her boldness reminds them of their conformity. She has been set apart. And the hard part about being set apart is the isolation and the loneliness. But this is where we grow. This is how we learn how to balance both light and dark and not everyone can. It just makes me emotional reading that. Your courage for everybody, your courage reminds people of their weakness. And that's I think when people stand in their integrity that takes courage and it freaks people out when they see somebody doing that and taking the arrows and taking the mud slinging and they still stand tall with their head held high like David Ike has done for many years. Bless his heart. Thank God he's being vindicated right now. Oh, no, I know. And only to certain people watching, there's still a lot of people and that really made me emotional what you just read then and whoever wrote that comment, good for you. And you and I say it a lot, but our listeners and anyone who takes the time to add something that is moving the world forward to the place we want to be in because we can't have it both ways. We all talk about a lot of spiritual stuff and it's all being connected. But that means, are you making a decision on a day to day basis with all aspects of your life that are moving us forward to the new world that we're creating or are you slipping back into old habits and don't get me wrong, we all do slip back into old habits. I certainly do anyway. But you know, when someone who ever made that comment and took the time to do that, they have made a step vibration and that can be the difference between someone carrying on and not because you and I talked, you know, it's easy for us. No one knew who we were, apart from on our own little, little micro bubbles before we started doing this. We didn't really have anything to lose. But people like Jamie Sillay, David, all the big names that are existing well known people in their own rise, they've had so much to use. And by them showing that courage, it is literally gives everyone else the courage to just do whatever they're able to, to step forward, to step up to the plate. And you need these people that are going to be those shining lights to show what's possible. Absolutely. I know I told her and the blue check mark people, Sean Stone, too, these people that already had a platform before all this happened, and they stepped up and said, I need to stand in my truth. I need to speak the truth because the people you call crazy, they're correct. They're right. You know, and so I my massive respect to those people who I know.  And I know how hard it's been for us to get the pushback and stuff like that. But, but as I said, like my Twitter following is all of you guys like that. I hardly ever get any bad comments on Twitter because it's all of you guys. I built it off of us of Derek Atlanta. So, you know, it does take a lot of courage. It takes courage to admit when your ego's in the way. Because sometimes the ego will trick you into into you will you lie to yourself in order to preserve your own sense of self worth, because even sometimes when you stand in the truth and you have that backlash, especially from people that you love, it can be very painful and very scary. And so sometimes the ego tries to work around that instead of instead of living in that integrity.  It takes courage to do that. Yeah. And self awareness is key to everything. You know, we can't move forward in any way without that level of self awareness and also having really good friends like we to each other, we can we can be really honest with each other and pick each other up on things if we're not seeing it themselves. And you know, I definitely noticed still my ego kicking in and in certain situations. And then that's really great where one where I recognize it myself and also where I've got some really good friends who say, Hey, you know, and because you need that and that is what being a good friend is being a good friend to me and standing in your integrity is, you know, having those awkward conversations, putting yourself in those situations when you know in your heart that it's right to stand up for what you believe in, you know, most people will stand up to bullies or will not see an animal being abused or a child or something. But it's like those decisions that you take every minute of every day are what defines you. And we all know that when we're living out of balance with our own integrity and not being honest with ourselves, it's really difficult. It puts a huge, huge pressure on yourself spiritually, emotionally and physically, doesn't it? Yeah, when you are out of alignment, it's some I was actually talking about this with our friend Stephanie, you know, when we even with the active exercise when we find like our body is out of alignment, normally that means something in our soul is out of alignment because the energetic body is now projecting that onto the physical because the physical can be the GPS system. And so, yes, there are times when your spirit, your soul can be out of alignment because you're not being integral with yourself and your own, you're not, you're not settling yourself into the truth. You might know the truth, but you're, you're acting in a way that you're ignoring it and if that makes sense. And so that truth is still there and so it's going to nag at you and it's going to push you out of alignment until you actually sit down and settle into it. And it's something that I have been really kind of getting aggravated with, I think. And maybe this is because I've had 15 years of literally working on, I'm not done, you're never done working on yourself, but I think sometimes too in the spiritual awakening and its integrity, you know, we think we look at all these tarot card readers and dousers and we think that spirituality, that's not, that's just communication with the other side. Spirituality is working on yourself, is working on your own self without the projection of the external. And that is finding that integrity within yourself. You know, dousing is not going to give you integrity cards. I'm going to get you have to find that within you and then you have to stand in that. And it's interesting, Jamie said something yesterday I interviewed just to give you guys an example where she talked about she had an underactive thyroid. Yeah, when she started speaking her truth, all this while she said all of a sudden she didn't have an issue anymore. And her doctor or the person who was helping her said, that's because you're speaking your truth. It's so true. And we see this so many times and I see it a lot in the animal world as well, where if the humans in the animals lives aren't speaking their truth or living in alignment with their sole purpose with their integrity. And that's going to be different for all of us. Integrity isn't something where there's a right or wrong. It's going to be very individual to each of us. But we know we know deep down when we're not in integrity with ourselves.  And that's why there's always a reminder, whether it's our physical body, whether it's what we're attracting into our lives, whether it's what our animals are displaying. There's always a clue there if we're open to looking out to it and listening to it. And when we don't listen to it, I mean, I've got plenty of examples where I've known something deep down, but I've chosen to hide it because it's sort of been put in the too difficult to handle box for me. And then when I do that, I can see the signals get louder and louder and louder until I eventually address it. There's only so long you can bury your head in the sand. And I think what we've seen a lot over the last few years is we've seen all of us, so many people just learning so much by listening to other people, taking in other opinions, other thoughts, which are perhaps the opening our mind. But as we keep saying, there comes a time where you've got to then say, well, what resonates with me? What is right for me? How do I want to lose my life moving forward? How am I going to react to these situations? Yes, absolutely. And a lot of that too, before we signed on, I knew we were going to be talking about this, I was thinking a lot about the idea of even with integrity, the idea of even boundaries, knowing your own boundaries. And I know when I went through my trauma therapy, I had never really thought about boundaries before because I was allowing people just to take advantage of me all the time. No one had ever talked to me about that. And there are hard boundaries and there are soft boundaries and that's going to be different for every person. And I think sometimes when you are living in your own integrity, you're living within your own boundaries. You have a hard boundary where somebody crosses a line, if something's done that doesn't resonate with you, that's a hard boundary. If you acknowledge that boundary you've established for yourself, you're living in your integrity. And of course, and there are softer boundaries that are more negotiable in life. But I was thinking that for me when I was healing and going through my healing journey, that was a great place to start in learning my own self too. Like what do I tolerate and what don't I tolerate? What is negotiable? What isn't? And when I stick within that boundary, that's when I feel more aligned with myself because I'm honoring my own self and allowing myself to have healthy communication with other people and that helps me stay integral. So that's something I would suggest people figure out your boundaries. It's actually with integrity. We've talked off camera about stuff like this and just sticking to what you know is right and being able to handle the pushback you get because abusers don't like boundaries. They want to push those boundaries harder. It's very easy to project your boundaries onto someone else. And you know, I'm sure we've all done it. But the whole point is, is your boundaries as an individual are yours. But they'll also change as you go through different stages in your life as well or go through different experiences. So for example, at the moment, I was having that conversation funny enough this morning with someone about boundaries.  And we might not like to hear that because it's very easy to say it's Biden's fault or it's Boris Johnson's fault or it's this person's fault or it's that. But it's not at a micro level. It all comes down to us. And I think for me, some people sort of don't like that. For me, it's the opposite. For me, it's absolutely perfect because it means there's nothing that I can't change. It's just a sovereignty and self-power and awareness because at the very least, you can always change how you're reacting to what's happening in your life. And when you change that reaction, your emotions change, your energy changes and everything else starts shifting. Absolutely. It's a total plot twist power move. And I think that when you realize that you are in total control of that, and it doesn't mean that when you realize your control of that that you're going to figure it out overnight. It's a process of having to break down your own illusions that you have about yourself, too. That's part of the healing process. And it's so, it can be very hard to do, but it's so rewarding because you learn so much about yourself and what in you being able to hold again that sovereignty throughout this whole experience that we're all going through. And it's kind of, I know of Marca said this before, it's almost like we're in spiritual quarantine. It's almost kind of like, you know, before this point in our history that we know of, whenever one country was having issues, we'll just say because we're on YouTube, issues, people could leave and go to another country, right? That's kind of the idea of what America was founded on, even though we're now questioning that history. But for a lack of a better example, that's kind of what the country of America, United States, was founded on. But now we're in a situation where we have no, there's nowhere to go. Exactly. And isn't that the perfect scenario? Because that's when you can't run from yourself anymore. Exactly. And we all have to get to a stage. And of course, if you're recovering from a major illness or you've just lost a loved one, that might not be the time that you choose to work on yourself because you're in survival mode. But when you are at a stage where you are forced, and it is part of human nature, that's why people like Joe Dispenser and Wim Hof do their work, you know, there's part of human nature where sometimes we have to let the messages to us get really, really loud and don't beat ourselves up about that. If that's, there's a reason for why we're all behaving like that. And that, you know, the mass psychosis programming that we've all spoken about to a blue in the tape. But at some stages, once you've realized and accepted that, I don't talk about that anymore, because I'm not using that as an excuse anymore, because I can recognize it. I don't always recognize it. And when I don't recognize it, something goes wrong. And then I'm like, okay, where's this come from? So it's, I think it's really important. There's a difference, I think, between not beating yourself up, because what you don't know, you don't know. But once you do know it, then you've got to then put your big boy pants on and take action. Once you know better, you do better. And that's doing better for yourself. It all starts literally, and that's one thing I know, we've talked about this, I'll talk about some blue in the face, because it frustrates me. You know, we've been trained to think that we have to have a savior, we have to have someone come in on a white night and like save us. And that's I've said all the time, don't sit around eating popcorn, waiting for the Kennedys to do something. If that's what you're waiting for, that something is never going to happen. You have to save yourself. And when we all start working on ourselves, that vibrational I mean, I use your example of time cap and we talk about the tuning forks. If one tuning fork is up here, it's going to pull the other one up. So by you just working on yourself, that's going to ricochet out, out of you. And it's probably going to inspire everybody else to start working on.  But the thing is, is like, there's no, you're never going to be done here. No, if you're just working on yourself, you're doing it. There's no finish line. No, I promise you no balloons like fall from the ceiling. And all of a sudden, God, you're like, you're done. No, it's never done. It's never done. So, but just by starting that process, you're already like taking that, I mean, again, that's a power move. How much of a power move is that to say, you know what, bad guys? I won't take that power back. And I'm going to fix myself. Thank you. You at least have played it completely. And I think, you know, it would be so boring for all of us if it was easy, you know, anyone who's had children, it's not easy.     No, they're like, just take me for another walk and now everything's forgiven. And I think it is very hard. We sort of can look at ourselves and I certainly do it all the time.  So now I'm getting better at recognizing it. It's taken me a long while, folks, a long while. But I don't mind, it doesn't matter if it's taken me, it doesn't matter whether a particular lesson comes to you. As you said before, the universe doesn't care how long you take. It just cares you get there at the right time for you. So and there's always something you can do. So this is the beauty of the technology that we often criticize. This is so many free resources out there. So many free resources out there. I mean, I've been going on a lot the last few weeks because I love it about the Wim Hof stuff and the breathing in the showers costs you nothing. Everyone can do some study on a breathing technique that resonates with them that will instantly change their physiological state, their emotional state, and that will resonate.  So and anyone can take a cold shower. Oh, yeah. Okay. So every morning I take a cold shower, ice cold shower every morning. And people think I'm crazy, but I know he talks about that too. But that is something that has literally changed. I mean, I'm not a stranger to cryotherapy. I was about to say cryptotherapy. Cryotherapy. I'm not a stranger to cryotherapy, which is the refrigerator you go into where it's like negative something. I don't know how cold it gets. It's really cold and you're in there for three minutes. And that really has helped. It's amazing. And I'll tell you too, Catherine, I mean, I'll admit it, these last couple of days, now everybody knows I get up early and it's never super easy to get up early. You get up early too. But these last couple of days, I've had a really hard time getting out of bed. But it's been like my body feels heavy. And I realized today when I was practicing, I was like, I think I'm, I think there's some depression. Like I think I'm going through something. And just recognizing that just instead of saying, God, why can't I get out of bed? Just recognizing that something is shifting and perspective in myself is shifting. All of a sudden, I started to feel a little bit more liberated. Just acknowledging that. And then I took my cold shower afterwards.  Like, why am I feeling this heaviness? What is, what is going on in me that needs to now be addressed? It's not about ignoring it or trying to immediately fix that it's, it's recognizing it and, and, and figuring out where that alignment is. And that's part of being human guys. We, we didn't come down here just to like drink Coca Cola and watch reality TV. We can learn, you know, although contribute and contribute. And every person that's doing something is contributing in their own way. We need all these levels of contribution. There is no hierarchy in being a good person. You know, it really so isn't. And I think that's all we need to do is be good and kind to ourselves and others.  And sometimes you need to take yourself off balance, consciously or subconscious subconsciously or consciously to be able to say, Oh, this really does work. Oh, this is really serving me. Nothing in, life is designed to stay the same all the time. I think that's really, really important. I'm speaking to a client about weight. There's not a single animal in the whole of the kingdom that is designed to be the same way winter and summer. And yet as humans, we've decided that we should be a certain weight. And that's what's acceptable. Well, any animal survival, you know, coming into the winter, if you're an area of the world where you have seasons coming into the winter, all your instincts are saying store, store fat, store fat, store fat.  And what we tend to do as humans is we try and smooth it out. And for me, that's where it goes wrong. You know, Catherine, that's so funny. That's what the yoga, the yoga sutras say that that is the baseline of human suffering. Is because nature bought anything in nature. Property is the laws of nature. It has a birth, a life and a death. Therefore, it's always changing. It's always ebbing and flowing. And we try to control it and keep it. We get confused with the eternal side of us versus the property side of us. And that's where human suffering comes from. Is this need of like to control something that can't be really good, that is supposed to move. It's supposed to ebb and flow. And part of finding that piece is learning how to move with the ebbing and the flowing as it comes. So it's, you know, the sutras are written 5,000 years ago. So I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing that humans still are struggling with this. And it is struggling and you never see. Again, I know I'm not saying all animals, you know, everything's got their place and nature is cool. You know, nature is half only the strongest do survive whether you believe in the battle of the fittest. You've only got to go and look out on the plains and see which one gets eaten to know that there is some truth in that.   So, but I think this is this obsession of us humans of having to control everything. And I think it's really relevant to what we're going on through now. So there's a huge, huge thirst for knowledge about what's going on, what's going on at the moment. And I think there's a lot of positivity in that because the fact that there's so many people asking questions now and questioning the narrative and looking at the world through as you know, it's a massive positive, but we don't have to be able to control it all. If we can control ourselves and control our own sovereignty and our own choices, then we're okay. Yeah, absolutely. And just live in that integrity. Absolutely. Well, I was going to say, and I guess the audience can answer this too, talking about the breath, because the breath is connected to the nervous system. And I know we're possibly going to be going deeper into that and soon with another guest, but Catherine, if you and if the audience is more interested in going into deeper dive into breathing and the different channels through the body, I would be totally down to doing up a chose with you on that Catherine, because you did that breath learning how to breathe properly is, is something that can change something right away. Change something so the way I think I'd love that. And please let us know in the comments below if that's something you'd be interested in or not. And there's so many different ways that you can do it and so many techniques, but they're all the same thing. You know, if you listen to Wim Hof, what he's achieving with his breast is the same as what Joe dispenses, achieving with his meditation and the breast in there. So there's a lot of things, but where I love it, I mean, I don't do it into the same level as you did, but I've been doing it for years because when you're working with abused or stressed animals, you don't need to spend a penny. So I'm a natural health therapist. And so I have a lot of tools in my toolkit, but the most important thing in all our toolkit to me that outranks any, you know, med bed, device, supplement to anything is our breath because you can alkalize your body, you can control your strength levels, you can control your autonomic and sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system with your breath. And but very importantly, you control your coherence level and your energy field. And if you want to know whether it's working or not, get an animal in the field, in the room, whatever it might be for me. I mean, the moment I should have a video of it, I've got to, I'd need someone there holding it or stand, perhaps I could set up a scan to do it. I will do it so you can all have a giggler task. So every evening, my daughter, my husband tonight, because my husband's not at home at the moment, we're doing our Wim Hof breathing. And because, okay, ideally you do it in the morning, we're not all together in the morning, so we'll do it in the evening.  And it's quite difficult to concentrate because it is just absolutely adorable.  Ravi, my dog Ravi, well, I know that I'm breathing properly in my practice because he'll start snoring beside my mat because it relaxes him so much. But guys, I mean, it is, I mean, in Sanskrit, breath work is called pranayama. And what prana means is life force, your energy and yama is extension. So they're telling you that your breathing is extending your life's capacity, whether that means a longer life or the quality of life is up to the practitioner to decide what that means. But it is so true. And just being able and to watch your breath because if you're somebody that is having a hard time finding boundaries or having a hard time finding your integrity, watch your breathing around certain situations. Because your breathing is going to tell you how you really feel about certain situations because it's connected to the nervous system. So if you find yourself holding your breath, now we hold our breath for excitement too, but you have to recognize the feeling around the holding up, but fear as well, the panic, whether the breathing starts getting faster, then you're going to feel your heart rate. So that is a good indication if you've lost connection to the intuition inside of you to say is paying attention to your breath, paying attention to it. Yeah, it's so exciting. There's so much to do. So, you know, for people, everyone watching is in a different situation, different environment, different budgets of everything. And what I just want to say is there's just transformational stuff you can do and get access to that will cost you nothing that can really, really take you forward. And I would say have fun trying and seeing what works for you. So do let us know whether that's something you'd like us to cover more. Because for me, it's just the absolute cornerstone of everything. And I just, and I've still got a long way to go with it. And I'm sort of, you know, sort of aware of it. And it's something that I've really had to when I first started doing it, I had no idea just how badly I was breathing. And by badly, I just mean I wasn't serving my physical body, my emotional body, my spiritual body by being breathing so shallowly. And, but just by learning a few simple techniques, it's improved so many aspects of my sort of physical health, my emotional control, etc.  And I just said, well, you know, the inhale is a power. It's a power. The inhale is chronic. It's, it's rising. And I was like, you know, if you do a handstand, if you try to do a handstand on exhale, you're not going to go anywhere. You're going to, you're going to deflate. And the look on our face, like, like just not even realizing that, yeah, that's the power. Pay attention to the way your, your, your, your body intuitively knows how to start. That's the play. You know, yeah, you don't have to buy anything yet. You don't have to like, you could just start paying attention to how you're breathing. The nose is going to calm you down. Mouth breathing is going to stress you out. You've got the left nostril is feminine. The right is masculine. If the right is clogged, put your fist under your armpit. Hold it down. It will unclog the right opposite for the left. Certain times of the day, the right is going to be stronger than the left. You can start playing with this to learn how your energy is moving because that's where the energy is coming from is that breath. And it's so, and so many people, especially in yoga, start yoga and they're like, Oh, that's the boring part of yoga. No, it's not. Yeah. That's the mat. That's when you're like, I have sweat more and Pranayama classes than I have in Asana classes. Absolutely. It's incredible. It's incredible. So, um, so I would, yeah, and that's in you. And that's the beautiful thing is Catherine's like, you don't have to go buy anything. No, you have it. Don't need to worry. You don't need to do anything. You know, it's anyone can do it wherever you are. And you know, it's fantastic. I use it a lot when I'm out with the animals and everything or whether I'm out with other people's animals, you know, you can do it any place, any time. And it's, it's free and it's accessible to everyone. So I just love it. And I think it helps getting it back, circling it back to the integrity side of things is when you become aware of your breath, you become very, very well aware of what's really going on with yourself, with your emotions. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, that is just to give you guys just one more example. When we do back bending people panic and they stop breathing and then we teach them to keep breathing even when they're panicking. So you start to recognize when that breath stops and that's when you're panicking. So absolutely. It's the biggest plot twist there is. And that's the one thing they tried to. Absolutely. They know, they know. We don't want to see any tight or restrictive nose bands on your horses because don't stop a prey animal trying to breathe. You are asking for trouble. It's very disrespectful. But can you imagine the way their stress levels go up? So look at ours. Look what happened to us.  Mine goes up just watching other people do that. In all seriousness, I'm just like, Oh, no, you know, so I think, yeah, just become aware of it. Let us know what you're noticing. And, and, you know, enjoy the journey for all these things. Enjoy the journey. I love it. My daughter and I've got a challenge at the moment where we're having to, you know, not having to choosing to learn a new skill every month or two. And it's really, really good fun. And it's such good fun to be beginning in something because there's no pressure. There's no pressure at all. Beginners. Well, I will tell you guys, so as a teacher, I will say the easiest students to teach are the beginners and the advanced students because both the beginner and the advanced know that they know nothing. It's the intermediate.  So it's the advanced beginner. So it's a great place to be a beginner because you are right there with that advanced student to where the advanced student knows they know nothing. Yeah, it says no pressure at all when you're a beginner. So you can just have fun and enjoy the process. So and take the time it takes for you. So thank you so much. We will be back in a minute. Quick toilet break and we will be back hopefully with a very exciting guest. So thanks so much for anyone who's watching. Let us know whether you'd be interested in more breathing stuff or not. And also let us know what your noticing it does for you and what techniques work for you and how that affects you and your animals. Absolutely. All right, guys, well, I'll see you soon, Catherine. And I'll see you guys. Bye. Bye.


And now we're going to move on to Dr. Mifflin. Unfortunately, there are no cables up here, as there usually would be. Does anybody know where the cables are? Good morning, everybody. I wanted to talk to you about the experiences I had in Zambia. Since Dr. Teske and Dr. Mifflin and Dr. Ambarri were so gracious to allow me to go and spend two weeks there in August of this year. This is a picture of the hospital that I went to. This is taken from on top of a water tower that's near the hospital. The hospital itself is in this grove of trees here, which are mostly mango trees and such. And this is the Malaria Research Center, which has also been built at the hospital, which is a little newer. So the trees aren't as full. Just to give you an idea of where this is located, it's located just outside the city of Choma. If you go straight south, you'll find Victoria Falls. And about straight east, you'll find the capital, Lusaka. Macha Hospital is a hospital composed of five wards. This is a picture of men's ward. There's a women's ward, a TB ward, obstetrics ward, and a pediatrics ward as well. Macha has a total of 206 beds and is served by three doctors. Macha Hospital was originally started by the Brethren and Christ Church, and this is the Mission Church. It's now run by the Zambian government, but two of the main doctors are still missionaries of the Brethren and Christ Church. One of the main doctors is Phil Tuma. His father started Macha Hospital in 1956, and he's a pediatrician. He's looking at a growth chart here. And the other thing Dr. Tuma does is he's the malaria researcher there. And his efforts over the last 20 years in malaria research have reduced the amount of malaria by about 90% in the area. So he's really done a great service. The other main doctor is Dr. John Spurrier. Dr. Spurrier is who originally introduced me to Macha Hospital.  He trained in ER, but I've seen him do just about everything that a physician could possibly do at one time or another.  As you can see, I'm a little bit far away from the eye here. This is when I was a fourth-year medical student, and I'm closing up a C-section that I had done with Dr. Spurrier. I first went to Macha Hospital when I was a first-year medical student in the summer of 2001, and since have been back now six times total. So this is a rough example of my itinerary. Week one, on the way over, I met with Molly Beddingfield in London. This was the cause of some disappointment because her daughter is... If I can get this to work. This is her daughter, and the single guys on the trip were a little disappointed that her daughter was not actually involved with the meeting. However, what she does is she's the founder of Global Angels Foundation, which raises money for children's projects throughout the world. And so I was meeting with her. She's become interested in Nepal, and I was meeting with her to talk with her about whether or not there could be some coordination between her efforts and what Jeff Taven and Himalayan Cataract Project are doing in Nepal. Then after that, we arrived in Africa, and I say we. I went, Dr. Embodied joined us a weekend, but I went with a general surgeon who I went to medical school with and a maxillofacial surgeon and dentist. I did two days of eye clinic where I saw about 90 patients each day. A lot of patients with trochoma, some corneal foreign bodies, some corneal ulcers. I had the interesting experience of seeing a corneal ulcer doing a scraping, walking over to the lab, reading a book about how to do a gram stain, doing the gram stain, putting it on the microscope, seeing gram positive rods, and then going back and treating the patient. Which is something I have not had the chance to do here. Then I spent a day going through all the equipment that we would need for cataract surgery and repairing what needed to be repaired. Then I spent a day doing surgery and anesthesia with the general surgeon and helping him and the dentist to do the things that they needed to do. I spent a day working on some other projects that I had been doing in Zambia over the last 10 years, and I'll talk to you a little bit about those as well. Then a quick trip down to Livingston to see Victoria Falls and pick up Dr. Ambody. When he arrived in Macha, we did pre-op exams on Monday. Saw another about 90, 95 patients and signed up about 40 for surgery. I did surgeries on Tuesday and Wednesday, post-ups on Thursday, and then on Friday took Dr. Ambody to Lusaka to fly up and also to our university teaching hospital with Dr. Grace Mutati, who is the chairman of the ophthalmology department there. She also worked with us on Tuesday and Wednesday and learned some techniques from Dr. Ambody, including capsular rexis. Did we? Yeah, so we did extra-ocular surgery, but not intraocular. Just briefly, cataract makes up a large percentage of blindness in the world, glaucoma. So we attempted to address cataract. We didn't do any glaucoma surgeries. We did remove some corneal foreign bodies and treated ulcers. Treated several cases of glaucoma and didn't really encounter any river blindness and did encounter some cases of childhood blindness that were beyond our capabilities at the time. And just a reminder, this comes from the Himalayan cataract project. The life expectancy of a blind person in the third world is roughly a third that of a person with sight. So it's not just a matter of restoring sight. You know, these are...working to restore sight in the blind in the third world is saving lives, too. These are the procedures we did. We did about 19 cataracts. I did three horizontal tarserotomies for glaucoma. I removed two...or I'm sorry, Dr. Ambody removed two conch tumors. I removed two lid tumors. Dr. Ambody did an open globe on a patient who had had an open globe for roughly two to three weeks. And I removed about five corneal foreign bodies. So this is Dr. Ambody in PREOP, examining one of the cataract patients. As I said, we saw about 95 people worked from about 8 a.m. to about 8 p.m. And the next morning the patients came for surgery. And we're all... Not every patient was able to actually have surgery because of, for example, one patient was unable to lay flat. And so there were a few patients who were unable to receive surgery there. This is me doing a horizontal tarserotomy, trachoma. I think Dr. Ambody can attest that trachoma was rampant, even in teenagers to patients in their 20s. Just about anybody who presented with an itchy eye turned out to have trachoma. So it was something that we saw over and over again. And in the elderly, quite a few patients have marked tracheosis from trachoma. This is Dr. Ambody doing surgery with Dr. Grace Mutati, and he's teaching her some things. In particular, we were able to teach her capsular rexis. And that's important because the University Teaching Hospital had just received a shipment of a FACO machine, which they were going to begin using, but had not yet unpacked when we arrived. So this was something that, this is a skill that she will need in order to use those. And so Dr. Ambody was able to teach her that this is, again, Dr. Ambody doing some teaching in a break between cases and then back to more cases. I think, again, Dr. Ambody would be able to attest that the surgery days were long and busy with very difficult cataracts and really quite a challenge. Among the challenges are doing conch tumor removal under the exceptionally bright light of a direct ophthalmoscope. You can see the cataract microscope here, which had been functioning quite well up until halfway through this case. I'm briefly taking a photograph and then returning to my screwdriver and wrenches. I did manage to get the microscope back functioning to finish this case. And this is the microscope. So it's an example of how working in the third world you sometimes have to wear multiple hats. And I was glad that I had been an engineer as an undergrad. Yeah, that was a good one. Doing an open globe under topical anesthesia was difficult as well. Another difficulty, this is a photograph from three years ago where I'm with my kids in Zambia as a fourth year medical student. This is Sidney and he was the nurse who was trained in the ophthalmic scrub nurse. He died of renal failure about a month before we arrived. So that complicated things as well because I ended up being the ophthalmic scrub nurse instead. And then the other challenge that we faced was actually just exceptionally difficult cases. This is a patient we chose not to do any surgery feeling that it was probably just beyond our ability with the equipment that we had. But this is a 15 year old girl with light perception vision who from the history I believe got chemical burns from a bush medicine treatment for conjunctivitis. And you can see that the cornea and conjunctiva have completely epithelialized or keratinized, I'm sorry. So if anybody has any ideas on how to fix this well in the third world, please let me know. So I'm going to make a little transition here. Five things that I will not miss about matcha. Toilets without seats. I'm really tired of that after two weeks. Equipment failures, mosquitoes, so many mosquitoes. Geckos.  I'm okay with geckos but not when they jump me from behind. And again equipment, equipment failures. So at matcha they have a book called primary surgery. It basically walks you step by step through every surgical thing you could ever encounter. And so I just wanted to read a quote from it because I think it introduces the next part of my talk well. You may be cherished, supported and praised and congratulated by your Ministry of Health or you may not. You may be in a health surface which is steadily improving or one which seems to be getting steadily worse if that were possible. Expect that you may be cut off from the rest of the world for four months of the year. Matcha has great Wi-Fi most of the time. Not great, well we were there. On top of everything else AIDS may now be endemic in your district. But finally your greatest blow may be that your predecessor who was promised that he would be posted to your hospital for only a short time never ordered any stores or planted any cabbages. This last line or planted any cabbages is actually very significant because a lot of things that happen at the hospital revolve around things like planting seasons, whether or not patients can travel to see you at a certain time, whether or not patients have money to travel and so on. So if you have somebody who needs to be referred you may not be able to refer them because they won't go because it's planting season or there's countless things that are social that affect your ability to provide care. And so one thing that I've always believed is that if you're practicing medicine in the third world you have a responsibility to think about more than just cases and clinic. And so this is how I actually became involved with doing more than ophthalmology in Zambia. This is a little girl named Mercy. When I first arrived in Machia as a first year medical student I got off the van and somebody ran by and said, do you know how to take a blood pressure? I said, yeah. They said, all right, you're anesthesia, come on. And this girl had just arrived. Her hands were burned so severely that from the first joint down was just charred in black and bone. And I spent two months changing her dressings. This is the result after the contractors from the scars. And when I got back to Boston for medical school they emailed me these pictures and said, can you do anything to help out? And having spent two to three months changing this girl's dressings without any anesthesia, I kind of felt responsible. And so I decided to ride my bike from Boston to New York City and back and get people to sponsor me to do that to pay for this girl to have surgery. This is her hand after the surgery.  But she has a thumb that works and two fingers that work is able to feed and dress and clothe herself. And this is her several years later. And it was very gratifying to see what you could do in the life of one person. And that led me to discuss with Dr. Spurrier about what else we might be able to do. The obvious big problem there was HIV AIDS. Zambia falls squarely in these dark red countries which are 15 to 34 percent HIV positive for adults. At Macha Hospital the first summer I was there. I had roughly two to three patients of mine die a day from HIV complications. This is a picture of the HIV, one of the HIV sections of the women's ward. And I was part of helping Macha Hospital start an HIV treatment program which grew so rapidly that it gradually was taking over the entire hospital. And they asked me if I could help them build a building to house the HIV treatment program. This is that building and it now treats 6,000 people in a three month period. And this is the mother of a friend of mine there who actually was one of the first ten patients and is still healthy and doing well nine years later. And this also shows these are drawings and colorings from HIV positive children. The HIV treatment program there has managed to reduce the transmission of HIV to infants from 60 and 100 infected mothers to about two to three and 100 infected mothers. So that's a huge advancement there. What I do now with the HIV program, these are bags of seeds and this is the agricultural development officer at Macha Hospital. And it became clear in the literature that HIV patients who were treated with antiretrovirals but in fact didn't have enough food to eat, still didn't do well. So what I've been doing with Macha Hospital is running a nutrition program for patients with HIV to make sure that all the patients who come through the HIV clinic actually have access to adequate nutrition. We provide seeds and training in agriculture. This is a family planting. I believe these are peanuts. And so we also we aim to provide protein. So peanuts are a good source of protein. Carbohydrates and fats and oils, these are sunflowers. And this is in coordination with CHAS, the Church's Health Association of Zambia. We also provide agricultural training. This is Daphias and this is the general surgeon who went with us, Andrew Steven. And this is one of the teaching plots where he shows people how to arrange crops and rotate crops and what to plant near what and so on. We also have a livestock program with, those are the she goats and the he goat. And we've provided nutritional training. This is a nutrition student, master's student from Kansas State and one from Tufts University who went and helped train Daphias in nutrition and also went into some of the rural health posts and trained people there and taught individuals who then went on to train other people in how to eat balanced diets instead of just corn and so on. And of the crops, so from the peanut crop, when we provide, we provide seeds to two to 500 patients per year. And their expectation is that they'll provide us a bag of peanuts. And those peanuts are used, this is a peanut butter maker. And so they're used to make peanut butter which feeds malnourished children in the pediatrics ward and gives us a good source of protein for kids there. This, I threw this slide in for two reasons. One is that as with any trip overseas there are beautiful things to see and Africa definitely has the best animals in the world. The other thing is that doing things in Zambia can sometimes feel like you're trying to move one of these animals. And the best example of that is the dental clinic. This is Dr. Paul, the dentist who went with us. We've been trying to build the dental clinic in Macha for the last five years. And for lack of being able to keep a dentist at Macha and lack of being able to find somebody to actually just connect a few things, we haven't been able to get that done. And so there's definitely frustrations involved with working overseas, but there's also great rewards. These are five things that I'm going to miss about Macha. Some of you may know that when I was a kid I lived on a banana plantation in New Guinea. I miss fresh bananas grown in my backyard. I miss Coca-Cola and glass bottles. The Coke in Zambia is amazing. I miss going into the villages and having people provide us Guatu, which by the way tastes absolutely terrible, but it's the hospitality that counts. I miss good friends and I miss my commute, which was roughly from here to there and took about three minutes to walk. So I'd like to thank the people who went with me, Dr. Paul, Dr. Andrew Steven, Dr. Bala and Body. I'd like to thank Tina Zarek upstairs for helping to get things together for the trip, for Dr. Teske for giving me time off of my retina rotation and Dr. Mifflin, for Dr. Tabin and Dr. Oliva from Himalayan Cataract Project who helped us and for Alcon and Dutch Ophthalmic who helped get us some supplies. And this last is a picture of the sun setting over Chobe Park in Botswana. Dr. Heer. For a nice presentation, I've found in a lot of virtual trips that they always wanted a fecal machine to get the expense of fecal training and consumables. Why not small student extra cap? Why are they getting a fecal in the sun? They're getting the fecal at the University of Teaching Hospital in Osaka. So the remote setting will not have a fecal, but the big teaching hospital will have one. That'll be the first fecal machine in Zambia that I'm aware of. And right now are three of the roughly 12 ophthalmologists who do small incision. And there's a reasonably good effort to train people there. They've sent one each of the ophthalmologists out to India or Europe to learn plastics and neuro and glaucoma. So each, Dr. Mutadi basically took the 12 ophthalmologists and said, okay, you're going to learn plastics, you're going to learn glaucoma, you're going to learn this. And so they've made a good effort to do that. Dr. Hoffman? Yeah. I think we've done that all incision extra caps for the rest of the citizens. And that's an attempt we've done at Ghana as well to try to build a sustainability model. And when we got to Ghana this last year, the new chief of the hospital that just returned from Germany, where he had surgery, Alan's been teaching the local folks a good fecal. So hopefully it can capture those individuals. I think that's, you know, it's just kind of an ongoing process to make the program self-sustaining. That's a great presentation. Thanks. Any other questions? Dr. Arambati? Yeah. It's, you know, it's been a fantastic experience for me over the last 10 years, going there six times total. I've learned a ton and hopefully I've done some good as well. But it's something that, you know, when you do stuff overseas, don't expect it to go perfectly. Be willing to be flexible. But it's well worth it. All right.


So it's Python of a hundred more time. Okay. So this week, our circuit Python community and Discord are connected. We do a lot of Adafruit stuff, but in general, the Discord server that we have for Adafruit, a lot of it's used for developing this language real-time over the last few years. So we always make a big deal when we hit another milestone, and one of the things I noticed is if you keep track of things, like folks on your Discord server, if you measure something and you celebrate it, it just seems to make it happen more. It works up, yeah. So 31,000 people, there happened to be 4,513 people online right now. That's nice. Thank you so much everyone, 31,000. Thanks. It's super cool that you're all there, and we're going to continue to keep it. One of the best places online. I'm starting to notice that other places online aren't as fun, inclusive, they don't have moderators, it's terrible. Well, it's like watching the news. People want attention and they don't know how to get it, so they get attention the most. I don't know. Well, I think most of online is getting worse right now. I think there's going to be more tools and people are going to just be like enough's enough. But I also know our communities, we're doing stuff we're getting better, and I think that's a little bit of a challenge, at least for me personally, which is we do such a good job in our Aidaford communities. When you start to go and you need to go elsewhere on the internet, it's like, oh no, this place is terrible, and there's just terrible people saying they're doing it wrong. Saying you're doing it wrong, saying you're making things too easy, I'll talk about that later. But anyways, thank you everybody. There's lots of ways to measure success. Yes, the Discord is a nice place. We have a great group of moderators and... You can watch along and play along as we develop Python on hardware together in the Circuit Python channels. Anyways, so that's our big news in the newsletter this week. Whippersnapper official bidder's release, we're going to talk about that later on in the show. Tonight we're going to play a video and more. Sound Reactive Glasses, we're starting to work on lots of things. Using NumPy thing, FFT conversion in Micro Lab. Yeah, and then this is, you know, starting to see some trends here. Or at least they're more visible.  They're using Circuit Python. So this one comes from Element 14, emulating VindjaDrom, uses Circuit Python. There's the Halloween Hackfest, DigiKey, Adafruit, Hackaday, check that out. They're giving me posters right now. I have one of the posters. Oh yeah? Maybe I'll get it later and I'll show it. But it looks, well, actually, you know what? It looks like this. Yeah, well, it's a little different, but similar. And then all the rest of the news, there was this really interesting version of Circuit Python that helps with low power and... This was just the most too-delft thing I've ever seen. Like having met PhDs from the Dutch universities, they're really good, they're really hardcore, and they always do something really cool, and their demos are awesome. So I'm not surprised. When I saw this, I was like, yeah, this is totally their bag. And it's always cool to see researchers using Circuit Python. There's a lot of computer scientists and engineers working on Circuit Python. We designed it for people who want to do Circuit Python as well. So Open Hardware Month, EuroPython's ahead. Here is a really neat CO2 and particle particulate, sorry, air quality monitor. Okay, 7GT, pluggy pluggy. Yeah, and this is really neat. Now it's in a Pelican case, so you can detect air quality and more. Just unending Circuit Python projects. This is a keyboard that specifically runs Circuit Python. So we're getting there. And then the last little bit of news, I think it's interesting, and it's more than just Python, but I think it shows where things are heading. So this blue is wireless. They announced a board today. This is called SWAN. This is, they're calling it the most extensive, extensible, advanced. You name it, it's the best feather-compatible microcontroller on the market. So it's built- It's kind of cool, like JTAG SWD design there. Yeah, and you know, one of the selling features for boards is works with Circuit Python. It's actually like, it's for ML applications. And it looks like they did design it for their own in-house use with the STM. I'm impressed they found the STM. I can't get STMs anymore. The STM32s are not around, but yeah, 120 megahertz with two megabytes of RAM and 640K of flash, that's a good, that's a lot actually, two megabytes of RAM. That's a lot. That'd be great for a lot of applications. And Fly from, Proof of Concept. Proof of Concept, productions with SWAN. You can see the little Circuit Python. And then they put together a really neat video. Oh, interesting. And I guess, I'll go to the blog post here. Yeah. They used to the PR too. Yeah, it's a board. You can see all the different things you can do with feathers here. Yeah, this is really neat. I'm so glad I'm in an open center that people can use. Yeah. And so to me, this is just another example of if you do something open, lots of people can use it. And this is why we're seeing feather. We had nothing to do with this. Nothing that made a power supply there. We're just going, oh, they're power supply. And they have a, oh, and by the way, Ray Ozzy, I don't know how to feel in there. You know him, right? Sort of. You work with him once or no? Something like that. All the way. A million years ago. Of course, I'm on it with Ray. Yeah. One of the neat things is, it has a video that came with it. Okay. And I'm going to show this video. That's the video. Because it's just neat to watch people do something. They have like a little circuit by something. Anyways, so take it away, Blue's videos. And thank you for doing the pull request to add support for this chip. And thank you for making a feather compatible board. It's cool. All right, here we go. All right, watch the video. Are your microcontrollers letting you down? Are you tired of bolting on integrated circuits and GPIO port expanders just so you can build even the simplest of projects?  C, C++, Arduino, Circuit Python? Can your development team ever agree on anything? Introducing SWAN, one of the most advanced microcontrollers in the universe. These beautiful cast-related edges provide access to 64 pins on the integrated STM32, supporting 20 communication interfaces. Skip print F. Join the modern age and step debug the SWAN using VS Code. And you can copy and paste your code in any of these languages because SWAN will run them all. Plus, SWAN is feather and feather wing compatible so you can store it in new heights with the coolest microcontroller in town. Isn't it time your MCU was as smart as you are? Store it in new heights. I, I... With feather and Circuit Python. I'll buy that for a dollar. I don't know. It's cool. I don't know. I don't know.


In this video, I'm gonna go over a lot of the important questions you might have about the career of accounting. Things like what accounting is, what accountants do, their job satisfaction, salary, how to become one, their job outlook, and the best places to live if you go into this field. Now, if you appreciate this type of video and you want me to make more, go ahead and let me know that by gently tapping the like button and commenting down below. And if you haven't done it already, go ahead, hit that subscribe button and ring the notification bell so that you don't miss out on my future videos. So let's get right into it. First of all, let's talk about exactly what accountants do. Now, according to Google, this is the first definition that pops up right here, but that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I'll just have it pop up on the screen. So it's a lot of words. And to be fair, there are many different types of accountants, so it's really difficult to say exactly what accountants do in a few words. But basically, accountants are going to examine and prepare financial records. They're also going to make sure that taxes are paid legally, but properly and on time. And lastly, they are going to assess the financial operations of a company to make sure everything runs efficiently. And if you're not sure whether you want to become an accountant or not, check out my free six steps to finding your dream career guide below. It'll be linked in the description. Next, we're going to talk about some of the different work environments that you might be in if you became an accountant. So when most people think of accountants, they think that all they do is taxes because if you've interacted with an accountant, that's probably what they've done for you. But actually accountants work in many other different settings that may or may not have anything to do with taxes. So for instance, about 25% of accountants work in accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services. 9% work in finance and insurance. 8% work for the government. 7% work for management of companies and enterprises. And 5% are self-employed. Most accountants of course work in offices, but over the last few years, many of them have been working from home. Most accountants also work in teams, but some of them work on their own as well. Next, we're going to be talking about job satisfaction. And this is an area that's very important if you're considering becoming an accountant. So according to careerexplorer.com, accounting is one of the least happy careers in the United States. It gets a score of 2.6 out of five stars, which is in the bottom 6% of careers. According to payscale.com, when it comes to meaning, accounting comes in a little bit low at about 38%. But when it comes to satisfaction, it's actually pretty good at about 71%. So you definitely are seeing some mixed results depending on the sources that you look at when it comes to becoming an accountant. So this is definitely one of those careers where you want to look into it, make sure you have a very good idea of what you're getting yourself into before you commit to it. But one of the positives of becoming an accountant is there's so many different directions that you can go because it's such a vast career. So if you become a certain type of accountant and you don't like your job, there are likely many different subspecialties that you can jump to relatively easily. And chances are you're gonna find one that you enjoy more. One thing that can significantly impact how happy you are is going to be the company that you work for. So for instance, accountants that worked for Google rated it at about 4.5 out of five stars. Whereas accountants that worked for this random place called EC or Tease and Co-LLP rated it at 3.1 out of five. So definitely check out glassdoor.com if you're thinking of working for a particular business and see how happy accountants that work at that business are. Next, we're gonna talk about how to become an accountant. Accountants typically have at least a bachelor's level degree and it's usually going to be in the major of accounting. Now one thing that's great about getting an accounting degree is you can work as an accountant or you can actually work in finance as well. Whereas if you got a finance degree, it's not necessarily as easy to work as an accountant. So accounting is a more flexible degree than finance since those two get compared quite a bit. There are also some colleges out there that offer specialized degrees such as forensics accounting or tax accounting. Now it is possible to become an accountant with just an associate level degree. Usually you'll get kind of an entry level job and you'll learn on the job and work your way up. But for the most part, most accountants do have at least a bachelor level degree. So numbers wise, 57% of accountants have bachelor's degrees, 23% have master's degrees and 3% have doctorates. So that's a total of 83% of accountants having at least a bachelor level degree. Most of them who have less than a bachelor's were likely grandfathered in and that option is no longer available. Next we're going to be talking about the pay in the United States. According to BLS, accountants and auditors make about $73,000 per year. If you can compare this to all financial related occupations, it's about on par to about $73,000. And if you can compare it to all occupations, it's $41,000, so it's much higher. Accountants that work in finance and insurance make around $78,000 a year on average. So that's one of the higher paying specialties. And the ones who work for the government make about $72,000, so it's a little bit lower. Most accountants do work full time and a lot of them work even more than full time at certain parts of the year. So of course, tax season is going to be a busy time of the year for people who do tax accounting for instance. And according to Glassdoor, accountants make about $70,000 a year so that does seem to match up pretty well. And business related occupations in general do make pretty good money, about $2.6 million over a lifetime, compared to the average of all majors and all occupations making about 2.4 million. And then business majors who go into business and financial related occupations make about 2.8 million over a lifetime. The highest paid occupations for business related majors in general are going to be technology or management related. So technology makes about 3 million over a lifetime and management makes around 3.3 million. So combining your accounting related skills with some really valuable technology related skills or leadership skills like Python, SQL, et cetera might be a good way to go. Next, we're going to be talking about the job outlook for accountants. And according to BLS, there are 1.3 million accounting jobs in the United States and it's growing at about 7% which is as fast as average. You can compare this to all other occupations which are growing at about 8% and financial related occupations which are growing below average at about 5%. Now, as economies become more and more globalized, aka countries are doing more and more business with each other, there's going to be a higher need for accountants that specialize in international trade. So there's expected to be really good demand in the future because there's going to need to be more and more accountants who are good at that. Many different countries trade and do business with the United States so accountants in the US especially are likely going to experience a lot more demand. Now, when it comes to the risk of automation, this is one that you hear about quite a bit when it comes to accountants. They have about a 50% risk according to willrobotstakemyjob.com and about 65% according to polling from accountants. And I do believe that there are some lower level jobs that are definitely going to be automated. However, jobs that require a lot of problem solving or they require you to be very familiar with tax law are not going to be automated very easily in my opinion. I talked about this extensively in the video where I talked about whether an accounting degree was worth it or not. So you can check that video out if you want to hear more about my opinion on whether it's going to be automated. Now I'm going to have some of the knowledge that you would need to know pop up on the screen right now. You can pause it if you want to see that. I'm going to have some of the skills you might need to know pop up on the screen. I'm also going to have some of the abilities you might need to know pop up on the screen, some of the personality characteristics that might be good for you. I'll have that pop up on the screen as well. And then I'm going to have some of the tasks that you might be doing on a day to day basis pop up on the screen, some of the technology related skills you might need to know, some of the tools that you might need to use, some of the work activities that you would regularly be doing, and some of the certifications that you might do, some of them are more general and then some of them are going to be specializations. And finally, let's talk about some of the best places to live in the United States if you are an accountant. When it comes to employment, the five best states to live are going to be California, New York, Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania. And when it comes to how much you would get paid, five of the better states are going to be the District of Columbia, aka Washington DC, New York, New Jersey, California, and Massachusetts. And then when you add everything altogether, according to zippia.com, the five best are going to be Washington DC, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island with Washington DC being number one. The five worst states to live as an accountant would be Wyoming, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and North Dakota with North Dakota being the worst. Check out my other videos right here. I made them just for you. Go ahead, gently tap that like button, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, et cetera, that you have on the video. And I will see you next time.


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This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. Good afternoon. This is Ray Tsuchiyama on a slightly cool Thursday afternoon in Honolulu, Hawaii. This show is entitled Hawaii from afar. And we have guests representing the millennial population in the world. And they're from a college in Washington state. And it's a place that's just before the Canadian border about 80 miles north of Seattle. And I'm advising this group from Western Washington University under the leadership of Professor Patrick Buckley of the Huxley College, which is an environmental studies center for Western Washington University. And the reason why I'm kind of connected with all this is because I graduated from Western many, many years ago. And it's an honor to be advising this group who have come to Hawaii to kind of study it and kind of think about issues, policies, history, culture. And so I'm going to introduce one by one. And to my left, go ahead, your name and your major and your year. Aloha. My name is Kuxington. I'm a junior in Western Washington University and my major is sociology. Great. And then the second, go ahead, in the middle. Aidan Neveller. I'm a graduate student at Western Washington with a focus on energy and I'm studying environmental studies. Terrific. And the third? My name is Alephine Noreen and I am a freshman at Western Washington University and my major will be when I declare it environmental science. That's great. I have three students out of a group of about 809 students and they have spent a very hectic week studying all facets of Hawaii under the rubric of what we would call sustainability under the categories of economics, environment and culture. But why Hawaii? Have you ever been to Hawaii and why did you join the study group, Kershan? Yeah, so I've never been to Hawaii before, so this is my first time. So sustainability, I feel like it's a very big word or concept that we always mention or say it, but actually for me it's pretty vague and I don't actually know what are some of the practical ways to function in this society, I guess. So yeah, and Hawaii as I know is one of the isolated place and it highly requires sustainability. So that's why I'm here. I want to learn how it can function in sustainability. Yeah. Great. And why did you choose to come to Hawaii and have you been here before? As a kid, yeah. I've been to Hawaii once or twice through my parents' trips and as I mentioned before, my passion is in energy. And so one of the great things Hawaii illustrates is how to work with different constraints in terms of energy. High demand for electricity, not connected to other regional areas, Hawaii is a great example of how to rework your grid to work in a modern world. Perfect. Alaphia, why Hawaii? I've been to Hawaii a few times with my parents. We've been on Maui.  And so coming to Hawaii was like just a little bit of a step further away and they need sustainability practices a little bit more and so it's kind of a personal thing for me. All islands are the same with similar problems. So you've been to many, many meetings and places ranging from the Hawaiian mission, the 19th century houses near downtown, to a visit to the office Hawaiian affairs, to the state energy office, to uprigger hotels. So you've been a range of places. There must have been one that must have been very memorable and gave you some insights. Alaphia, which one was the most fascinating and give you a ha moment? Personally for me it was when we went out to the fish pond, the traditional fish pond out on the North Shore. Just getting to see the culture and the history that goes into that, as well as it's a current sort of a sustainability thing and it was really neat to see people getting their hands in the land and working with it. When you say hands on the land, what did you do? We actually, the nine of us picked up shovels and buckets and we helped shovel sand out of one of their streams that they have. So there was a connection to what you've been also studying about Hawaiian history and culture and did it give you any hints about the future? Yeah, a bit. It was really nice to have a little bit of guidance on where they want to go with the future and they were talking about the invasive fish species and wanting to eradicate those while still keeping some of the fish that they like and having sustainable practices for that. So it's a bridge from the past to the present to the future? Absolutely. Aiden, give me a visit that you had an aha moment and kind of linked it to your own studies about energy. Right. The visit I have to say that most sticks in my mind was not directly linked to energy actually, it was linked to culture and I was moving to the mausoleum for King Kamehameha and just walking around that picturesque area you look and you kind of think back to yourself the effect one life you know uniting the islands and just seeing the great respect and the great care that has been put into place remembering it and that was one of the impactful moments. We came off that earlier this afternoon and it was a good day to look through it. In your life though have you studied history or have an interest in history? Yeah, I mean of course we all go through history classes in high school, middle school, elementary but from time to time you read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond and other famous history novels and again I'm referencing the more mechanical energy history there but yeah. So it gave you a I guess a living experience that you could sense. Kirching, how about yourself? What visit that you personally felt most memorable in Hawaii? So I'm a big cultural person so I really loved the visit at the Hawaiian affair office. Yeah so the speaker basically talked about what's the cultural like or spiritual practices like in Hawaii like cultural and yeah and I just love how he introduced the aloha spirit which just carries like it's just really welcoming and yeah they do all kinds of like spiritual practices with different gods and I think that's really good because yeah like once you have the gods and you just have the respect for them and you have the respect for the nature and yeah I think that's just something that's really unique in Hawaii. Now when you came to Western how many years have you spent living in the U.S. now United States? Um this is my fourth year. Okay so four years you've been exposed to American culture people history all kinds of things so and then you came to Hawaii right and Hawaii is part is the 50th state we are part of the U.S. Right. Are there things that you saw that made you become startled and think oh although you're here it reminds you of somewhere else or it's it's not so American anything? Actually yeah actually I think the streets and the way the building are laid out is really similar to China and I'm from China by the way so yeah because I think because it's such a small island so people need to be like together like so yeah that way it's people live closer together and it's more than streets and people and cars and buses more congested. Yeah exactly yeah exactly. I never thought of that but you're correct that you know on this island there's 950,000 people but you're correct. So Alifair back to you so is there anything that you can take back as you're going forward to your studies from your experience in Hawaii that you said uh-huh I could apply this in my studies in somewhere is there anything? Um definitely probably like Sherry was saying with just sort of the general practice of the aloha spirit and being more friendly and more open with people and uh and I guess just really taking care of your family and and caring for for the land and for the people. I really thought that that made a lot of impact on me as a person and and it really makes sense so. Now you live you said you grew up on on in the San Juan Islands which I'm familiar with and and the beautiful islands out there very cold though. Yes and and you're going to school in in northwest and of course you're exposed to many cultures in in uh Washington state. Is there anything that you see back in Seattle Bellingham sign wise that you said oh this could be a benefit to the people in Hawaii anything? Um personally I am a fan of the Bellingham transportation system the bus system. Yeah um I wish they'd run more on time but that's that's their own problem. I think that that some of the transportation aspects could be used in Honolulu um just a little bit more of a of a bus system that might be more sustainable but then again I mean it varies from city to city what you can do so I'm not entirely sure that there's anything that I would bring back from from the islands or from Bellingham. To each other yeah oh okay but you but you said you would bring back your experiences dealing with Ohio with family and culture and history back to back to where you grew up or in back in Bellingham. Absolutely yeah that's that's really meaningful to me that's really personal. So Aiden how about yourself you study about energy you saw you met people involved in energy we're trying to deal with energy in a state that imports oil for electricity and has very high prices and that we need air conditioning and you know CDs and iPhones to power any takeaways that you could bring from the US or bringing things from Hawaii back to to the mainland. Right well I mean my thoughts on the constraints of an island I mean it's so hard to get energy to ship in the oil or to produce it here that people have to change their behavior and change strategies when we're dealing for example there's a high price of electricity in Hawaii and so one of the next is that's costing people more but it's helping people install solar arrays in their house because it's a better justification for them to change their strategy up when the cost of electricity is high you know it makes people seriously consider other alternatives and so that's it's a way people have been dealing with constraints and it's it's interesting to see just how people are solving these problems in the island. Is there anything that you so specific that you could say this is something you could benefit Hawaii at all anything? From Washington a lot of what we do is we talk to the people first so what the solar campaigns we have in Bellingham is the first thing they do is they stop by the local church or they call the mayor or they find local leaders in the community and that is such an applicable thing to the islands here because it's all about the people and so if you're going to make any sort of change in society you can't just do it with economics you can't just do it with policy you can't just do it with people alone it's kind of a mix of all three and so seeing you know ways that you could reach out talk to people first start a conversation make sure it's slow, deliberate and appropriate for all measures is one of the things that works both in Washington and in Hawaii. So you see people are the same they have to change their behavior but in order to do that you have to work with them you know that's that's the bottom line it's not just engineering or technology. Christian if you're going to package what you experienced in this week and you went back to China and to talk to your family and friends what would they feel would be the most interesting or unusual if they heard your stories to them? I think I've seen many institutions or companies that's working well like their business but they're working in such an environmental or cultural friendly way I think that's something I don't see that often in China because like we are still a developing country like we're really pressing on to like increasing the economy so yeah I just wish that there would be more business would be business like like in Hawaii. We'll go back to that point after we take this break and we'll be back to develop this story more about experiences of three students from afar in Hawaii. Welcome to Sister Power I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough where we motivate educate and power and inspire all women. We are live here every other Thursday at 4 p.m. and we welcome you to join us here at Sister Power. Aloha and thank you. Aloha I'm Keeley Akina and I'm here every other week on Mondays at 2 o'clock p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii's Hawaii Together. In Hawaii Together we talk with some of the most fascinating people in the islands about working together working together for a better economy government and society so I invite you into our conversation every other Monday at 2 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network join us for Hawaii Together. I'm Keeley Akina Aloha. Welcome back to this very insightful show with three young people on their experiences during a very hectic meeting filled visit to Hawaii as a collection of islands in the middle of the Pacific and they're here from the great Northwest and the mainland and applying what they kind of been studying to the issues and about Hawaii in the environment culture and economics and we were just talking to Kershing about what she would bring back or talk about more with her family and friends back in China and you have a very interesting point in that from the last you know so many decades starting with Dung Sha Bing I mean economy first and everything else second and you're correct that many people are waking up to issues about environmental pollution to how to plan for the future in specific planning about China is now when you look at your own life are you going back to China or staying in the US or going someplace what would you ideally want to do for my future so after I graduate Western Washington University I'm going to law school probably studying international laws and I think I will be working with refugees in Middle East that's my current goal probably in like immigration status and like to help them with that kind of yeah like policy what have you ever traveled to the Middle East I'm not yet and but I will be next next year oh that's that's terrific uh alifair so looking forward from your trip to Hawaii is there what do you hope to do in the in the future I know that you're studying environmental studies what what do you see yourself doing after college that this experience may be of benefit or you know what role do you think that you can play in society yeah so I am hoping to go on to study global climate change and working with that I'm looking to do it in sort of a marine biology aspect actually environmental science is sort of a pathway to that for me but currently I've been working for the University of Washington and their Friday Harbor labs doing ocean acidification research and so I'm looking to continue that and working with other companies that are doing sustainability factors and whatnot in order to help the oceans pollution issue and and ultimately get a global climate change well I think that's a great huge project as you know but of course what's happening in Hawaii you've probably seen the news reports on erosion recently and rising seas also with with fisheries under attack in our surrounding waters so the ocean is is very much a very sensitive area for for Hawaii but you have a very good point about you know researching about the oceans I think in the end though it's not only about the science but understanding what to do in policy you know what you're going to do to mitigate what's happening in oceans have you thought of that if you have the scientific answers or research how do you influence people to change their ways or government policies in the future that's a hard one because unless people are given a real incentive to change they won't change is very hard to to instigate and so I personally have thought about going into environmental policy and and looking at that route but I don't think that's for me I don't think I don't think I could hold it together enough to do it without getting too argumentative um but yeah so I'm just looking to get at the science of it and and hopefully find somebody that I can ally with in the environmental policies world but personally I will never go that route so you are focused on the science of global climate change great so Aiden how about yourself what do you see yourself I know you're in graduate school what do you see an outcome of your graduate studies where where are you leading into with with what you're doing right well with my studies I'm focusing on demand side management for electric grid so thanks smart meeting think energy efficiency so I have a policy background and that's kind of where I'm hoping to lean for I've worked for the city of Bellingham in the past and I'm hoping to do something where I can work as part of the city or another institution and just sort of figure out new ways to lower energy bills make things run a little bit cleaner a little bit greener anything you do to improve the system and we spoke to one of the residents here who had a control system and one of the things that he talked about was instead of going to every resident individually he went to the landlords the property owners and got whole batches at once and that is super applicable system because that changed me not only offers you know benefits to the landlords who reduce their costs but it helps a lot more people at the same time by improving their lives with market and that's something I kind of want to think about because one of the problems we have there is helping residents lower their energy bills especially when it's cold out right now so so Gershwin you're you're going to working with refugees and law and so forth but you must have been fascinated by our ethnic diversity in Hawaii which is quite unusual than the rest of the United States we have everybody and everybody's a minority in a sense but we all have to live with each other in many ways and so one of my questions is do you see Hawaii as a great experiment or a great model how people can live together in a positive happy way or you see are there any other ways so that the society could be made better through better governance or better leadership I think unfortunately I probably wouldn't like I am not able to answer that question because I for me personally I don't think I have investigated too much studying in Hawaii communities so I haven't really like looked into that and yeah so I actually don't know but yeah good answer but Hawaii is quite unusual because as you as you know we are island and we have to live with each other the 1.2 million people and we are crammed on this island and then we have to deal with each other and really develop a better better society and and we don't have any resources to do that and everything that we do has a resource have to be imported from the outside so going back to Alifair you have a goal stretching out anything about Hawaii that was very unfamiliar to you that that you saw and says wow this is very unusual although you come from an island background and you see some you know analogous things about people living on island have to deal with a small space surrounded by water but there was something unusual as well I had never seen this kind of thing before anything touch you in that way probably just the hugeness of it all the the mass population in Onowahu in Honolulu that is something that I'm unfamiliar with on an island at back home we are a population of probably 7,000 and so it's very small very rural and and that's not something I saw staying in the city obviously and so that was really interesting to see the impacts of the masterism that's here as well as just how many people live here and and go about their daily lives that was kind of unfamiliar to me that's interesting because there's an old adage hell is other people but we have to live with each other and kind of deal with each other we have to hide our thoughts a lot that emotions Eden so energy energy seems to be your kind of mind all the time so so you know it was anything in Hawaii that you saw as very precarious wow you're living in a place that it will be impacted by an event you know you know I would never say this but Puerto Rico's experience that many people in Hawaii are looking at that from afar I said wow that could be us yeah and that's the scary thought you miss one shipment of oil suddenly your peaker plants in the island have a little bit trouble and there's some uncertainty but I mean we looked at examples in the island of the quiet I think where they had solar arrays and battery pack installations and they showed just how one would balance the other and how together you know in unison with some controls they could solve a lot of the island's energy need kind of balance the system on their own without the need of those worlds so that was an inspirational thing just to hear about and yeah I think it's precarious paperwork every single place you are there's different challenges I mean we're worried about months at Mount St. Helens in Washington state there could be a tsunami anywhere out until the cascadio yes great earthquake in the future I was always this right of course you had a very interesting point two questions ago about about environmental kind of studies or concerns issues that perhaps Hawaii could play a role in China that it could if so what would that be and I'll just give you some examples like for example could there be an area in China in for business or government for to teach about tourism that's number one people are traveling all over China all people going outside within China they're traveling for the first time and going all kinds of places number one number two maybe Hawaii could be a role model or could teach or could be a bridge or talk to people about you know energy about about environment and so forth any any thoughts to that are there things from Hawaii that could be programs started in China in some way um I think Hawaii could definitely be a model for Chinese business um Hawaii could definitely teach Chinese companies to like um to teach them how to be environmental friendly I think that's really important um the other way is I think Hawaii is leading like many ways in renewable energy techniques and I think Chinese government can definitely work with one of the company like the solar city I think they could definitely cooperate together and just learn from solar cities technology yeah well that's wonderful to hear because uh so many times we think ourselves just of ourselves it was not much to to kind of export out but but this 30 minute session I think we'll give people in Hawaii great great insights to how people from the outside from afar look at Hawaii and see a positive in what we do and how we go about the business and for the future our state and I want to thank all all three of you for your time on the show and this is think tech Hawaii looking at Hawaii from afar from a young viewpoint that's very exciting and provocative and gives the guides to us for our future thank you very much


News Network.  I run Basel Chapman, the host of the Tiger Technicians Hour and the opening call daily newsletter to get T F N N. This is the T F N N noon update. The dollar's down 214 at 26,214. Just yesterday hit 26,689. Fractions away. The six points away from the last PT high on the 23rd of March. This is a chart on the left. It's hitting this. What I showed subscribers this morning. There's this support level. It's right on the support level. I have it going to 26,062 within another couple of days. I could do it sooner, but that's the way the pattern looks. And the weekly chart technically is still good. We'll see what happens here. This is breaking key support levels. The S&P also is down very sharply. The Dow's down 0.84%. The S&P's down 0.68. So this two-thirds decline, percent decline. 2903 made a leg D, probably a peak D today with a high yesterday of 29, 49, 50, 52. It has taken out key support levels. The next one will be 28,91. It must hold that. And that'll start impacting the weekly chart, which is still very good. QQQ, NDX 100. Very sharp pullback, 0.94%. Dow 180 at 187.14. There is an up channel, Chapman Wave Insight Check. Up channel support level is testing right now, but it looks to me like it's going to go to the 186s in short shrift. And the upside in all these indices is now kind of limited because of today's action. IWM is quite weak. It is down only 0.57, not as weak as the others. It was trying to rally. Now it's pulling back at 155.91. It really has to hold 150.460. Gold got smashed earlier again today, but now it's come back a little bit. It's down 11. It did take out the left side low. This is not very good at 12.73. Silver is also down quite sharply. Coming back a little bit, it's down 0.09 and 14.63. But the dollar has managed to have up greater than a dollar ago. There it is. So the dollar is having a nice move. It's up 0.08 at 97.77. I talk a little bit more about this in my show coming up right after this.  My show, The Tiger Technicians Hour comes up. Next Steve Rhodes is following that. Then Dave Wright and Tom O'Brien have a great day. Otherwise, I hope you stay tuned for my show. Very important session this one. We didn't expect it. I'll be right back.


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