Although a great empire, the Incas lacked a written record of their history, but they did leave us a myriad of awesome myths and legends, including the strange depictions at Nazca. Could the waving man at Nazca, for example, be an actual representation of a deity emerging from a portal or a stargate? This piece of ancient art shows signs that it may be somehow relating to the Sumerian Abzu. The Abzu, which is often spoken of in Sumerian text, and literally means distant water, ab meaning water, and zu translates far, distant, or deep. Many experts have deciphered this as placed at originates groundwater, fresh water that maintains life with the use of irrigation. But is this the true meaning of the Abzu? In a hymn to allil, the text reads, the Abzu, which no one can understand, its interior is a distant sea, which heaven edge cannot comprehend. In the Curse of Aged, the text reads, Abzu, where the fates are determined. In Sumerian text, the Abzu is always preceded by the article thee, which lends the belief that the Abzu is a state of being or state of mind. As an example, one might say they are going to New York, a specific location, or they may say they are planning to go to the city, which implies a state of being, as in shopping, nightlife, or dining out. In the Sumerian text relating Inanna, Inki's daughter, and Inki, Inanna speaks, I shall direct my steps to Inki, to the Abzu, to Iridu, and I myself shall speak coaxingly to him in the Abzu in Iridu. Directed her steps all by herself towards Inki's Abzu in Iridu, Inki, the king of the Abzu, the Lord Inki, looked up at the Abzu. It becomes apparent that the Abzu is something that is a lot more than a simple source of underground water. We know that from these texts that Inki is the source of the Abzu, and it is located in his city of Iridu. Inki is also recorded in these texts to have to look up to see the Abzu. To have to look up in a land that is extremely flat must mean that Inki is looking up to the top of the highest building in Iridu, which would be the temple, Ziggurat. This is confirmed by a fragmented text on the Heron and Turtle, which reads, Then on the Ziggurat, King Inki was on the Ziggurat, the great brickwork of the Ziggurat, the Abzu, the brickwork of the Abzu. Once in the Abzu, they totally immersed themselves in its water. Without the Abzu, the great gods would simply have grown old, like the rest of mankind, and eventually died. They had to continually enter the Abzu and immerse themselves in its water in order to extend their lives. This is the state of being that is referred to as entering the Abzu, a state of rejuvenation and exhilarating moment where water itself can be controlled and where one seems to levitate inside the Abzu. It just seems to us somehow that these things are related and maybe the waving guy of Nazca is going to the Abzu. He is facing the water which has led to some to theorize. He may be signaling the fishing trade but nonetheless to do with water and perhaps a portal of sorts and maybe clues to this connection can be further explored in Peru at the site of the Devil's doorway. Within the Heiu Marca mountain region of Peru there have been found a mysterious structure close to Lake Titicaca. It had only recently been found in 1996 in fact and though local people already knew of its existence it didn't become widely acknowledged to much more recently. It looks like a carved rock measuring 7 meters high and 7 meters wide. At the center there is a 1.5 meters wide niche which gives the impression of a door. As told by local legend many structures including Tiwananku and this structure which is known as the portal to the gods or the portal to heaven were erected by Lord Maru, a ruler who came from the land of Mu, an ancient sunken continent which was once situated in the Pacific Ocean. It's called the Devil's Door by the locals because some have claimed that people have disappeared and in some cases reappeared near the door. Some have noted strange tall men accompanied by glowing balls of lights walking through the doorway. The Midas Monument in Turkey is another example of this type of mystical and inter-dimensional gateway existing with stories capturing the imagination for ages. Even to this day if you have the magic touch some would say you have the Midas touch and this is because the 19th century Scottish archaeologist William M. Ramsey who visited the area and called the monument Midas City. He associated the Yazalakaya with the Phrygian King Midas due to the inscription engraved in the rock bearing the name of that monarch. Known as the Midas Monument it's a beautifully decorated façade carved into the vertical rock dating back to the 7th century BC. Its appearance resembles an entrance to a temple but actually only a very shallow niche is carved into the rock. Most popularly it's used to house a statue of the goddess Sibili also known among the Phrygians as Matar and its similarities with that of the devil's doorway thousands of miles away in Peru are shocking. The façade has a square shape with a side length of 16 meters. It is an imitation of the Phrygian Megaron a rectangular structure with a large deep hall fronted by a much shallower anti-room or porch. The niche carved into the rock is surrounded by geometric patterns invoking the maze. The whole structure was topped with an Akaterion but unfortunately it has not been preserved to our times. Above there is also an inscription in Old Phrygian carved into the rock. It states that a certain Attis, perhaps a priest, dedicated this monument to King Midas because Phrygia was ruled by several kings bearing this name. The researchers are not able to clearly identify the monarch who was honored by this monument. Could the cultures be connected? Are these ancient representations of some sort of power source? Physical passageways hold the potential for wormhole or stargate capabilities. Perhaps in the ancient times they were very active but as we said before only the stone material will survive in the shadows of time. What are you guys thinking about this anyway? Are we onto something with the doorway connections? What do you guys think is going on? Let us know in the comments below and as always thank you for watching.


What else about the new watch? What are we, new bands, right? They've got their, what are they calling their vegan leather thing, fine woven, I think? Yeah, fine woven. Okay, so when they announced the, we are getting away from leather for all of our products. I turned to my office manager who was napping on the couch beside me, this would be my cat. Yes, of course. And I said, well, goodbye, Hermes. Because the Hermes leather bands have already been pulled from sale.


Would you like to learn how to cook salmon perfectly every single time? Well, that's what I'm going to show you in today's video. We're going to make ours. I'm going to bake it in the oven. It's pistachio crusted salmon with a few other things. Not too many though. Very simple recipe. It's going to be in the oven right away and out comes this. Oh, it's just incredible salmon that you're going to love. This salmon turns out so tender and juicy. You're not going to believe it. You're going to make your salmon this way all the time. I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to do it right after my chef joke. All right, here's chef joke number one. Can the salmon be contained? No, but a tuna can. So I wanted to mention that this recipe I got inspired by by reading a book that my son brought to my attention called Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat. And they talk in that book about slow cooking the salmon. And so I decided to try it and it works great. So this book is really fascinating. It helps you master the the basic elements of cooking and it talks about those four ingredients. And I tell you, it's pretty fascinating. I've gone through the book a little bit, but I've got lots more to do and there's lots more to learn. I'm going to leave a link for this book down in the description. You can check it out if you want, but I highly recommend it. For the salmon today, I'm using Trader Joe's Fresh Atlantic Salmon. It is farmed. I don't usually buy farmed fish, but I have made the exception here just because it's reasonably priced. And it does taste pretty darn good. I also prefer king salmon over, say, sockeye, but king salmon can be very expensive. Anyhow, the piece I have here is not even, right? You can see how thick it is over here as opposed to the other side. It's about maybe even a quarter inch thick. Okay, so let's take the salmon out of the packaging and place it on a paper towel covered plate, which we will then pat it dry. I have a parchment paper covered baking sheet here, which I'm going to place the salmon on. Easier cleanup, right? Who doesn't love that?  I don't eat a lot. I'm going to do both sides and the edges. Paper is going to slide around a bit, but that's okay. And I'm going to lay it right there. And then I'm going to season this very lightly with some salt. Not too much because the sauce we're going to be putting on here has salt in it as well, so we don't need too much. Just a little bit all the way around. Okay, I'm going to be using coconut aminos here, teriyaki flavor. This has a little bit of sweetness in it. So you want to use this just a little bit, just a little coating. And if you don't want to use the teriyaki style, you can use just regular coconut aminos. And it's not sweet. This just has a nice hint of sweetness. Now, at this point, we'll need our pistachios. Now, I have these from Costco and they are delicious. They are salted and they're just fantastic. Now, I'm going to measure out some pistachios and I always make more than I'm going to use for my fish because I use them on other things as well. So I'll place these in my food processor and then we're going to grind them up. Now, you can grind them as fine as you want. I like them to be just a little bit crunchy. So go ahead and pulse these and you want a consistency that looks something like this. So you'll see we've got some small pieces and we have a little bit of the larger sizes too. I'll pour these in a bowl and then we'll go ahead and spoon it on the salmon. You just want to get a nice even coating all across the top of the salmon and make sure to press the pistachios into the salmon just like you would the like button if you were enjoying this video. Once this has a nice coating, we'll place it into a preheated 225 degree oven for about 40 minutes. You can check the internal temperature. You want it to be about 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay, it must be time for Chef Juke number two. Do you know what it's like to be a fish? Nope, I don't, but I'll ask a salmon. You remember all those pistachios that we had left over from the salmon? Well, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to place mine into a mason jar and I'm going to save them and I'm going to put them into smoothies or I'll put it on my oatmeal or I'll put it in a salad.  So while that salmon is cooking, we have time to cook up a little side dish and so I'm going to do something easy here with some asparagus or I'm just going to grill it up on the stove. So we'll coat it up with a little bit of olive oil and season it with a little bit of salt. That's basically all you need. All right, I'm going to take this over to the stove and I'm preheating a cast iron pan here over medium heat. Now you can see it's got a little smoke coming off of it so it's nice and hot and I'm ready to go. Okay, we'll drizzle a little olive oil here or you could use avocado oil if you want. I'm going to swirl the oil to cover the bottom of the pan and then I'm going to toss in those asparagus. Don't overcrowd your pan, just make sure that most of them can touch the bottom of the pan that way they'll caramelize and taste even better. These should be done in say five to seven minutes. The only other things we have to prepare before our fish is done is just slice up some lemon and we'll chop up some basil or you could use parsley. If you're using basil, go ahead and stack your leaves and roll them up and then slice away. The salmon was done at 50 minutes so I'm going to go ahead and slice it up into pieces and plate it up. This salmon is so tender and flaky. You've got to be really careful when you serve it up so it doesn't fall apart. We'll add our beautiful asparagus here, perfectly cooked, at least for me. And then we're going to season this up with some of our basil that we chopped up earlier. Give it a little sprinkle and then we're going to finish it with a nice squeeze of lemon all over the top, even on the asparagus. I love the flavor and the tenderness and the flakiness of this salmon. Let me know who's making this in the comments below. Another side dish that would go with our salmon is our jicama fries. These are low carb and delicious, nice and crunchy. If you've never tried them, you got to try them. Click the link on the screen and it'll take you right to the video. Hey, I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you did, let me know by smashing the like button and leave me a comment down below, all right? We'll see you back here next week for another delicious and healthy recipe.


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My name's Tom Randolph. I'm an agricultural economist with Illry, and I've been helping to develop this concept for a new mega program on livestock and fish. The program, what we're trying to do is something new in terms of the way that CG works with partners, the way that we focus our research. And what's new about this program is that while we'll be doing some of the types of research that we've been doing in the past, in terms of trying to address some of the major constraints that are holding back smallholders from using livestock and fish as a pathway out of poverty, is that instead of doing our work everywhere in bits and pieces, we're trying to focus it now into a few selected value chains in a few selected countries around the world. And we're going to commit to transforming those value chains and to working with development partners in large scale interventions as the research knowledge partner, in real time helping them to have impact on a large number of smallholders, producing a greater amount of animal source foods for poor consumers.


Greetings, friends. Welcome to CTUCC Conference Cast for September 27th, 2012, the regular podcast of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ. Whoever you are, and wherever you may be on life's journey at this very moment, you are welcome here. We begin this week's conference cast with this meditation from Patricia Bjorling, Associate Conference Minister for Generosity Ministries, read this week by your podcast host. When the disciples see others working miracles in Jesus' name, they try to stop them. But as Mark tells it in the ninth chapter of his gospel, Jesus welcomes it, and he cautions his friends. He warns them against driving others away, and urges them to be at peace with each other. This gospel text has leadership in mind. We have several teachings related to a perceived challenge to Jesus' authority, and things that get in the way of doing God's work in community. We can hear in these lines warnings about abuse of power in a variety of iterations, and imagine a havoc it can cause in families and groups. Possibly most dramatic are the sayings about causing little ones to stumble, which may have originally referred to young children. Heroes of the day would have been all too familiar, like us, with exploitation and violation of youngsters, not the least sexually. Yet the violent language of this passage, with its reference to removing a hand, a foot, or an eye that causes you to stumble, as Jesus puts it, is still troubling. It is clearly meant to be understood metaphorically, not literally, and to highlight God's hatred of injustice. Mark ends this passage with the image of salt, salt that has lost its saltiness. And how does that happen, unsalty salt? Well, it might cease tasting very salty if it becomes contaminated in high proportions over time with other unsalty substances, such as gravel, dirt, or sand. It would then be quite useless as salt. Mark links salt with peace. And in that context, salt becomes an image of integrity and wholeness. Being at peace with one another is about wholeness in community. When there is wholeness in a community of faith, church controversies are dealt with openly and honestly rather than being swept under the rug. There aren't any parking lot conversations, no gossiping about one another, no griping about the pastor or church leaders. Wholeness is also living in such a way that you don't have to lose a hand or a foot or an eye. Metaphorically, of course. Providing leadership in a community of faith can be challenging, because journeying together in a community of faith can be as unpredictable as it is wonderful. May we always remember that Christ is with us. And may we always be at peace with one another. Here is a prayer for this week. Christ, help us keep our saltiness. Christ, help us nurture communities of peace and wholeness. Christ, be with us. Amen. In the news this week, 70 ministers ordained educators and musicians came to Silver Lake this Monday in Tuesday for General Association. They came to seek the reviving wisdom and energy of Bishop Yvette Flunder, pastor of city of refuge UCC in San Francisco, California. And they found challenge, inspiration and renewal. She told her story of the spiritual nurture but social rigidity of the Church of Christ in which she was raised. Though persuaded of her call to pastoral leadership, there was no route to ordination for woman in that setting. And there was no way to shared committed relationship for a lesbian woman. Part of the struggle of her life has been to embrace the gifts of her early learning with its energy and depth of faith commitment, even as she shed its unnecessary burdens. She praised the United Church of Christ, the denomination she adopted for its willingness to take risks. From its public stand against local TV broadcast blackouts of African Americans during the civil rights movement, to the 2005 General Senate resolution affirming the right of all people to marry.  And let me say as a sister outside who came to the United Church of Christ after a long period of time working in other denominations in other ways. I came to this church because it has a history of risk saving. That is what you see. And what kind of people would have that kind of boldness with my thinking to have put itself in harm's way? She urged her colleagues in the room to seize this historic courage and to go to the risky places. Reflecting on the story of the Good Samaritan, she observed that it is not enough to heal the man who has been injured. Something has to be done about the road which allowed him to fall into the hands of robbers. This is what Martin said. He said on the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside. But that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's path. Truth and passion is more than flinging a coin to a baker. It is not haphazard and it is not superficial. It comes to see that an antithesis which produces bagers needs restructure. Yes, amen. General Association is the oldest annual gathering of clergy in the United States. Last Saturday church leaders came to the North Haven Congregational Church from all over the state to learn more about extending an open and affirming welcome to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning persons. Some churches have asked why it is important to take the vote to become open and affirming or ONA. Panelist Missy Sturdiment, a Christian educator and a long time Silver Lake staff member told the group. We don't have to vote anymore with some who's not a Christian. Here's the word Christian.  That's when it's time to stop voting. Participants learned about getting started with the work of ONA in a congregation, taking steps after a declaration, working with young people and the needs of transgender persons. During worship, Farmington layperson Marty Boyer and North Haven pastor Scott Morrow provoked laughter and deep thought with a but and dialogue concluding with these words. My religion works for me and yours works for you. My religion and your religion working together can bring heaven down to earth. What's the end of the month? And so conference archivist John Van Epps joins us here in the studio with this month's Touchstone with History. The theme of our General Association gathering for ministers this week was revivals. Now that may seem to be more appropriate for evangelicals or Pentecostals. However, revivals are part of our tradition. In our church histories are many references to revivals, outpourings of the Holy Spirit, the quickening and refreshings of the Spirit. One of the first leaders of revivals in our state was the itinerant preacher George Whitfield in the 1740s. Jonathan Edwards is prominent as a leader of the Great Awakening in the 1740s and especially his sermon centers in the hands of an angry God. Church leaders estimate that about a third of our clergy favored this revivalism for their churches. Between 1740 and 1760, 150 new churches were formed in New England. However, Yale and Harvard were against it. Eventually this revival spirit waned and even Edwards was dismissed from his church in Northampton. Then in the 1790s there was a revival of this spirit with the second Great Awakening. A leader in this movement was Jonathan Edwards Jr. Even Yale got the spirit with Timothy Dwight as its president. This saw a division among our churches between old lights and new lights. Old lights favored the more rational intellectual approach of many of our churches. The new lights advocated the evangelical approach of the revival spirit. This split churches and associations, many of whom traced their origins to this split. Another leader was the evangelist Ashahel Nettleton from Killingworth, who preached in Connecticut and New York. Another great evangelist was Charles Finney, called the father of modern revivalism. He began his ministry in the 1820s and preached throughout the northeast. Initially there was resistance from settled pastors. Lyman Beecher was known for his dramatic and emotional approach to preaching. Yet Beecher said he would meet Finney at the border of New England and fight him all the way to Boston. However the two men met in 1827 and by 1831 Lyman Beecher invited Finney to preach at his church in Boston. There's another intriguing aspect of this emphasis on evangelism and revivals. This emphasis did not lead to a withdrawal from the world or social concerns. Rather it was these new light preachers who were at the forefront of the movements for social reform. This is exemplified in Lyman Beecher and Litchfield and Jonathan Edwards Jr. at what is now the United Church in New Haven among many others. These new light preachers became active in movements for social reform, temperance, and eventually the abolition of slavery. Their successors like Washington Gladden became active in the social gospel of the late 1800s. So revivals and evangelism are part of our heritage. Other stories on ctucc.org this week include a profile of the Reverend Dr. Sarah Worcester, the new pastor of the First Congregational Church UCC in Coventry whose passion is to make God's love real in people's lives. Visit us as well for the stories in September Contact where you can see some of the ways people are living and working out the idea of Go Big. You'll find all the current headlines at ctucc.org slash news. Speaking of Go Big, that's the theme of this fall's annual meeting of the Connecticut Conference to be held at Middletown High School on Saturday, October 20th. Ministers and delegates will hear from the Reverend J. Bennett Guess, Executive Minister for Local Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ. The Board of Directors has proposed a significant change to the way church gifts will be allocated to state and national ministries for the delegates to consider. Three resolutions are on the agenda and so is lively, inspiring, soul-reviving worship. The official call has gone out and registration is open now. You can learn more at ctucc.org slash annual meeting. On Friday, October 19th the authorized ministers' luncheon features the Reverend Christopher L. Weber who will describe the birth of a vision conceived 170 years ago when he speaks on defining the dream, James Pennington and the beginning of the struggle for racial equality in America. Sign up for that event together with your annual meeting registration. C.T. Women of the U.C.C. hold their first fall retreat in Mystic on September 29th. The Fall Women's Spirit Retreat of Yoga and Sacred Chant will be at Silver Lake October 12th through 14th. Bishop Carlton Pearson will speak on Live by Faith, Due Justice in Hartford on October 13th. And don't forget the authorized ministers' luncheon on the 19th of October and the fall meeting of the conference the next day the 20th. Silver Lake's Fall Action Weekend when they get the facility ready for winter is October 26th through 28th. Mission Works, an event celebrating and educating about the global ministry of the U.C.C. will be held in Cleveland, Ohio October 25th through 28th. The second of the C.T. Women of the U.C.C. retreats will be on October 27th in Cheshire. Authorized ministers should mark their calendars for the full boundary training on November 1st in Southington. And on the edge of fire, a men's spirituality retreat will be the weekend of November 16th at Silver Lake. You can always learn about what's coming up in the Connecticut conference at ctucc.org slash events. And that brings this conference cast to a close. Thanks to Patsy Buerling for her reflection and to GarageBand for our music. Primary funding for conference cast comes from your congregation's gifts to our church's wider mission basic support changing lives through the United Church of Christ. This is Eric Anderson, the Minister of Communications and Technology for the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ praying that your days this week may be filled with the presence, the guidance, and the grace of God.


Students, now let us look at one more interesting model for vendor selection, that is the set covering location model. Set covering location model is applicable for the selection of the vendors. Now if you look at this model, we have a minimizing function, minimize z where what you need to minimize is the sum of y j's for any value of j, subject to different constraints. Now the constraint is about the assignment. The first constraint if you see is that the sum of y j's should be greater than or equal to one for all j's. What does it mean, y cannot be less than one, y1 cannot be less than one, vendor. Then j actually belongs to n k, j could be any number n. Then y j should belong to 0 1, assignment b, y would either be 0 or it would be 1 for different values of j, so these are the three constraints which you need to define for a set covering model. y j is defined as before in the simple plant location model and n is the set of vendors, who can supply item k. The objective function thus minimizes the number of vendors employed, the set covering method is minimizing the number of vendors. And the first constraint actually ensures that each item will be supplied by at least one vendor. y when you say the sum of y j should be greater than or equal to one for all values of j, what does it mean, it means there should be at least one vendor for that item. One vendor will supply at least one, it can be more than one, it can't be less than one. Then the second constraint actually represents the binary nature of the DC envelope, so y j belongs to 0 1, either 0 or 1, so assignment type of a problem, either the vendor is selecting or not. But at least one vendor should be selected and it can be more than one for the purchase of item. The second constraint is all about the binary nature of that assignment. Then the model presented above actually assumes that the vendors have no capacity limitation. Set covering model k, the thing is that there is no capacity included. We assume that the vendors are actually uncapacitated, their capacity is unlimited. So they do not address the quality of the supplied items from the vendors. In this model there is no variable for quality, so we are not taking it explicitly as the part of the model. The set covering model also assumes that the cost related to purchasing are the same for all the vendors. There is no purchasing cost involved in it. In a simple plant location model we had the purchasing cost which could differ from vendor to vendor. But here there is no purchasing cost involved in it, essentially it's just like the assignment of that vendor. So that is also a limitation for set covering model. So we assume that the purchasing cost for all the vendors are actually same. So in set covering model you can see that it's a simple model in which you actually look at the assignment of the vendors and you try to minimize the number of vendors while trying to satisfy most of the demand. But at the same time there are so many limitations in it, there is no purchasing cost or you assume that in this model that the purchasing cost for all the vendors are the same which in reality might not be the case. We also assume that there is the quality of the vendors are same which might not be the case and we also assume that they have like face fixed ordering cost associated with them which might not be the case as well. So there are limitations to it which can be modified. So set covering model can be modified and such variables could be added to it. But the basic model is actually essentially the assignment model, thank you.


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Hello Hawaii, here I am, I'm Wendy Lo and I'm your dear friend as we journey to take your health back. We are coming to you live from downtown Honolulu from the studios of Think Tech Hawaii. Today our topic of discussion will be on a journey towards optimal health and healing. And that's something we all need to take time and learn about again, optimal health and healing. And that happens when we first of all realize it, acknowledge it and then we start directing ourselves in that direction. It is so, so clear for what we need for our bodies once you put it out there. And so we really want to know, let you know that when we embrace all the areas of our spirit, spiritual, our soul and our body that we can obtain this kind of optimal health. Today we are so honored to have a dear friend who's so passionate about health and her journey that she's created and she's a founder of the Health Journey Hawaii that was established for the purpose of providing health perspectives, options and general health principles for our spirit, soul and body. So I'd like to introduce to you Sheryl Toyofuku. Welcome. Aloha Wendy, thank you so much for having me. You're welcome. Thanks for making the time to be with us with your busy schedule. So Sheryl, just tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, Wendy, I love watching Think Tech Hawaii. All the positive things that you have on this program, very healthy and positive. So it kind of resounds with what I do. I'm a, mostly I'm a mom. I'm a grandmother. I'm a daughter, a sister of friends. I am also a registered nurse by trade, a former oncology certified nurse. I also was the founder. I'm the founder for Health Journey Hawaii. And formally as associate director for the foundation for East West Medicine. So I'm a health advocate, I guess you could say. I want people to be on a journey towards optimal health and healing in our spirit, in our soul, in our bodies. So that's basically my background.  So you not only understand what you should do in the clinical environment, but you do and you practice that at home. Is that correct? Oh yeah. As a grandma, I have children from, grandchildren from ages 14, 6, 3 years old and a 1 year old. So you know, to try to keep them healthy and also my daughter and her husband. And I'm just so excited about trying to help them understand how it, what it takes to keep our bodies healthy. And it's not just our bodies, it's our spirit, it's our soul. Because fearfully and wonderfully we're created spirit, soul and body. That's correct. All areas need to be optimally healthy. So on your first slide, I know it has all your little credentials there. So I'd like to pop that up right now. And I just want to just ask you to share a little bit about all your relationships, your experiences, your affiliations that have equipped you for such a time as this. Well in nursing school at the UH Manoa campus, I loved going into nursing because I love helping people. But of course, we only learned one perspective. And my heart is to be able to see the different perspectives. After I graduated, then worked at Coakini Medical Center for a season. And then transferred to Polymomy when Polymomy Medical Center opened up. And at that time I started to think, you know, as a former oncology certified nurse, I started to wonder, there must be other ways to treat cancer. And then I started doing my research. Doing what the word says about health and healing. And see, then started to talk to naturopathic doctors, MDs, but also they had a complimentary view of health. So as I started to learn, I thought, my goodness, there's so much out there that I did not learn in nursing school. That really began my journey. And no fault to you. I understand a lot of students after they graduate from medical school. I don't care. You have medical school, Harvard, Yale, medical, that they don't get or they're not equipped with enough information about the value of fruits and vegetables or just the value of good nutrition according to better quality of health. Is that correct? Yes. So I just, I guess it's just understanding that area of the need to incorporate the whole person, spirit, soul and body, again cleansing our spirit, cleansing our soul, cleansing our bodies. Again, feeding it the right nutrients that the body needs, that our soul needs. So that's the general health principles that I usually share with family and friends. Yeah. And you know, I remember in one conversation that we had, this would be a really good visual for the audience. You were telling me that when you were collecting platelets from the blood samples, maybe just share that little story because that was so clear to me.  And so you clearly saw that when you were looking for samples. That made the change in my life. Exactly. Because as a nurse in the hospital, you know, you have donors come in because you have some patients that are on chemotherapy where the blood counts are low. So we ask donors to come in and they come in and we lay them down in a bed and then we're monitoring as we pull out blood from one arm, it goes into this plasmapheresis machine that separates the blood cells. And then the rest of, we take out the platelets which is what the patient needs and the rest of the blood goes back into the other arm. Sometimes a platelet bag would look nice and clear and yellow, but sometimes it would look sticky and gooey and very cloudy. And I would turn to the donor and I would say, well, what did you have for breakfast this morning?  And I could see it in the blood. And I start to think, okay, what does my blood look like? And that's when I started to make the changes. And each time I did that procedure with the donors, that's what happened. So that, I wanted you to share that with the audience because immediately that they had that quality of food, it affected the quality of their platelets. And so that's exactly the greatest visual I always keep in mind whenever I have choices to make. And now if I kept eating this apple, my best friend, my platelet bag would be clear and probably transparent translucent versus eating the other choice where you said it was cloudy and not of the best choice. Right? Well, it's a matter of going back to the garden and eating the phytonutrients and other nutrients that have been placed here on earth in its natural form to help this body to heal and to be optimally healthy. And like I said, the best, the fastest food ever. So this is your best food. Apple a day. Keeps the doctor away. And let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food. And so those are such profound statements that we heard as a kid. And as we grow up, we hear that so cliche. But you know what? If we just follow those simple rules, our quality of life could improve a lot. That's correct? That's right. Right? So on the next slide about health and healing with aloha. That I want you to share with us as a woman of faith living in Hawaii has this affected your personal world view in life and health choices that you have made for yourself and for others. It definitely has.  And if it depends on your world view, how you see things, so it's going to depend on what you take in through reading and what you're watching, what you're learning and what you're actually believing. And so living here in Hawaii, we are so blessed because there's such a calling and destiny for Hawaii and we're called to live life abundantly.  So when we were created, created from the dust to the ground, the earth, and then blew his breath of life into us and we became a living being. Man became a living being. So it's health and healing with aloha. Right. Right. And so no one knows. In fact, it was voted to be the healthiest state in the nation. And by looking at us, you would think we are the healthiest state because the sky is so blue. The air is so pure. The water is, again, different shades of blue and it's just gorgeous. But there are so many different health challenges that people don't see. And so just tell me some of the more obvious ones that are so apparent to the locals. Well, we're really facing a health care crisis, actually, in our country. Yes. Hawaii, if you think of the olden days, how healthily they ate the poi, the kalo, the bananas, the coconuts. But right now, we're seeing a tremendous amount of pharmaceuticals in our bodies. Our bodies are becoming polluted with all the food, some of the food we eat, the beverages we drink that makes us more acidic, just the electromagnetic frequencies that's all around us. So our bodies are becoming a little bit more toxic. So that's what's causing, I believe, the health care crisis. So what do we need to do is we need to look at some of the causes that are causing these health challenges and try to start to detoxify from some of these things. And there's ways to be able to do that, to detoxify. Again, it's not just our bodies, but there's strongholds in our minds, whether it's anger or unforgiveness, bitterness. Those need to be cleansed. That's toxic. So in our soul, those are some of the things that need to be cleansed. And then, of course, in the spirit, there's so much corruption and evil sometimes around us. So we need to really be strong spiritually in order to counter some of these things, these health challenges that we are facing in this hour.  And that's what it is. You're sharing your heart with the people that are listening, that there are so many issues and challenges on the outside. And I think the key, as well, is awareness and education. And so, yes, the audiences of Think Tech of Hawaii and with this show, as well, entitled Take Your Health Back, they're going to be privileged to hear how we can make a difference in our own world, in our own health, because we have only one body or one temple that we should steward it well. And some of us are not doing the best job, but by coming and listening to these types of shows and getting the information, the wealth of knowledge from people like you who want to share, I think that's pretty much one of the first steps. And then taking into action what they learn here on the station. So I'm so excited that you're here just sharing that. So on our next slide, it's entitled Health Consequences. Well, because of the health challenges, these are some of the consequences where polluted our bodies becoming more toxic. So what's happening is you see the increase the rise of heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, autism. And it seems to be that there is such, I guess, a perspective or a worldview that this is what we do. Go to the doctor, go to the hospital, get all the pharmaceutical medications. But that's my passion is to share that there are other options to the consequences that we're facing. Are we getting at the root cause of the diabetes or the cancer or the high blood pressure, whatever the condition might be? We need to get at the root cause and not just treat symptoms, but also try to find the solutions and deal with the root. Get rid of the root problem so that we can have the health and healing that we still long for. And we all on this journey myself too, I've gone through a journey to really try to cleanse my body and nourish it with the proper nutrients. I had to learn this after I graduated from nursing school. So it's not just gloom and doom, there's hope, right? Yes, definitely, there's too much hope. Okay, and that's why we're here. We're giving people hope as they take their health back, right? And so I'm so excited to hear that because sometimes you just, no, what are we gonna do now? Everything is so against us, whatever we breathe, eat, and whatever we do is so not in our favor. But you're here to give us some solutions, right? Okay, so on their next slide, it talks about some health solutions. And what we wanna share with all of you is that we need to take our health back. And that's why I chose that title for this, because we can take it back. Once we have the right tools, the tools of knowledge, the tools of health and finding out some solutions to the problem. But again, first, like you just did with us, explain to us the problem. And then we're gonna find a solution to what we're needing to solve. So what are some of the solutions that you may help us with on this journey to? Well, if you think of the challenges is that we've given, abdicated our responsibility for our health to someone else. Whether it's the doctors, nurses, hospitals, and all that. And then we wait till we get, we are sick. And then we start taking care of our health. And we've turned to the widespread use of pharmaceutical drugs and chemicals and we don't get at the root cause. So those are the challenges. But now we have the solutions. If you think about the causes, then what are the solutions? It's be proactive, take responsibility for your health. That's why I love ThinkTek Hawaii and what you're doing on your show. Let's take our health back. Right, and it's right there on the slide.  And so what do you want? I mean, my ice box, my cupboard looks like the one on the right. I don't have anything on the left except olive oil. And I put actually coquina oil for my face and for remedies. I gargle with, if I do need to, I gargle with coconut oil to extract all the toxins out of my mouth. And so all these things, I already practice. So I'm like on track with you, girl. So health care reform begins with you. Because again, it's all about choices. And we need to take the responsibility and don't wait till we're sick to do something about it. And think that there is natural nutrients that have been put here for this body to heal. So again, that's the whole basic things about helping to take our health back. Right, and the whole key on that, like you just said, it's easier to maintain health and to fix us when we're broke.  And I always tell people as we age, okay? We can't do anything about numbers. I mean, I'm 60 years old, loving it and going full speed. But it's a choice I made because I want this quality of life. So I'm doing everything possible in my heart and mind to have that quality of life. And I want others and same for you, Cheryl. You're a grandma and you look fabulous and you look and you feel fabulous, but it doesn't just come, we're working at it, right? So we're gonna take a 60 second break right now and when you come back we'll share more about tips on how to look and look and feel as good as we do. So join us in 60 seconds. Mahalo. Mahalo. Aloha, my name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea is on Think Tech Hawaii every other Monday at 11 AM. Please join me where my guests talk about law topics and ideas and music and Hawaiiania all across the sea from Hawaii and back again. Aloha. Aloha and Mabuhay. My name is Amy Ortega Anderson, inviting you to join us every Tuesday here on Pinoy Power Hawaii with Think Tech Hawaii. We come to your home at 12 noon every Tuesday. We invite you to listen, watch for our mission of empowerment. We aim to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower. Again, Maraming, Salamat Po, Mabuhay, and Aloha. Aloha and welcome back. Here we are at the Think Tech Studio, Hawaii with our dear friend Cheryl Toyafuku. In the first half, we just talked a little bit about gloom and doom, about the health crisis in Hawaii as well as the world. And so I was like, oh my gosh, what's going to happen to all of us? But there's hope. And so what we're going to learn more about is the solutions. And we've already dealt with some of the solutions. And she had a slide there showing us, what does your home look like? Is it a lot of greens and vegetables in your ice box? Or is there a lot of pills in your medicine chest? And so I attested that mine looks like the one on the right. And so it says, health care reform begins with you. And so if you want more of this information, just continue to stay tuned. And also share this video with others because there's hope at the end of that rainbow. There's a lot of hope, but we just have to take that step towards that direction. So on the next slide, we're going to be talking about health and healing options. And so there are so many health care options, mainstream medicine and alternatives. What do you do for your own health and what do you recommend for others? Well, thank you, Wendy. Well, every morning when I wake up, again, it's all about choices. I can choose to have this big donut and coffee or a shake or something. Or I can choose to have a healthy smoothie, a healthy shake. So that's why, again, it's all about choices. And so I start the day off with a healthy smoothie, plant-based protein, along with some kale, and adding in some other things, some other things that are in my refrigerator, like on the right-hand side of that last slide and not in the left. But adding these things into the smoothie, again, with that plant-based protein powder to help. And so that's one choice that I make every morning. And then there's other choices, too. Again, cleanse my body, cleanse my spirit, cleanse my soul, and then nourish it with the proper nutrients that it needs. So it depends. So when you go to a lunch, what are you going to choose? When you have your dinner, what are you going to choose? And it's very challenging. It's challenging for me also. So when you go out and you have to make your choices, but we can do that. We can learn what it takes to keep our body healthy and help each other. That's the key. It's educating ourselves, making those lifestyle adjustments, and then helping one another. And I think hanging out with like-minded people. And that truly helps, because in the beginning of my health journey, I hung out with all my local friends, and they're still my friends, by the way. But they would say, Wendy, just eat it. It's just another burger. Wendy, just eat it.  Just eat it. Just eat it. And they didn't realize that I was having many meals, and everyone's telling me, just eat it. So I had to make a decision. And it's not an easy one.  It's so easier to take the bad choice, because it's tastier. It's what we're used to with this comfort food. But I'm speaking to myself all the time, Cheryl. I'm like, OK, what should I eat? Oh, of course I want that prime rib. But yes, I'll have the salad, and I'll have less or no bread. So I'm making a lot of choices consistently. I tell people, if God can change this, take a chick from mine, He can change you.  But you know what? In my home at this point for the last 10 years, I don't cook meat, pork, beef, or chicken. When I go out, I might indulge, or I might say, hey, can I have a slice of your steak? But I cut it back a lot. And I'm talking to myself all the time. Don't eat it, don't eat it. And yes, in the morning, I start off with a shake, just like you. So like-minded people, girl. Anything that's green in my fridge, I'll throw it into the blender and drink it. If I don't start my day off like that, and if I start my day off the way I used to, the whole day is naughty. Because that starts the day off on that foot, the wrong foot. So I purposely make my smoothies every day, cutting my kale from my tower, putting it in my blender and drinking it up every morning, starting off my day on the right foot, and it makes life so much easier. Right, yes, so you're right. It's all about choices and options. And there are options out there. Hey, if I get into an accident and I need my leg sewn back to it, then take me to the hospital. There's a mainstream medicine. There's medication sometimes we need. But there's also alternatives or complementary things that can help, especially if you have a chronic degenerative disease. There's things that can help. Besides whole nutrient dense foods, you have the homeopathics. You have the herbs. You have so many things out there that can help this body. So many options. Yes, and then of course, again, options in spirit, soul, and body. So again, our spirit, there's supernatural healing. I'm a believer. I've been healed supernaturally many years ago that I developed a physical ulcer because I was going through a very difficult time. And I went to a naturopathic type of doctor, and I got better, but then it came back because I wasn't dealing, again, with the root cause, the root issue of pain or unforgiveness or whatever it was. But once I was healed supernaturally, that all changed. And I'm so grateful and blessed. So it's also spirit. And that powers you up. I think that's why the good Lord put you through that experience so you can speak from your heart and you can share your heart with others. And in fact, I've heard you speak many, many times.  And look at how great you look and how great you feel. And so people want that as well. And they think it's a secret, but you're not keeping it a secret. You share it with so many others. So on the next slide, it tells us that it shows us a picture of you in your talks and I just wondered if you could please share with our audience the health principles that you share at these gatherings. Yeah, well, we need to keep it, try to keep it as simple as possible. So I just share pretty much general health principles. First of all, personally for myself, I pray and fast to see what's going on with myself. And then secondly, try to cleanse and detoxify whatever's going on in my body or my soul. And then nourishing and strengthening. Once I cleanse, then it's time to nourish and strengthen the immune system and then renewing and restoring, renewing our minds, renewing our bodies, our cells, our tissues, our organs, and then educating and adjusting our lifestyles, educating each other and making those lifestyle adjustments that we need. Very good, very good. So the first principle you mentioned is pray and fast. So could you just elaborate on that?  Do you fast for 40 days? What do you do? Well, again, it's who is your healer? Who do you pray to for health and healing? And what do you read to help with your health? And I read the word that shows me, OK, these principles will help in your process of healing. And then finally, there are hindrances in our own life. You might know the story of David and Goliath. We all have Goliaths in our lives. Maybe it's really in-stage diabetes or cancer or something that's terminal. We all have giants in our lives. Or it's something financial or something going on with a relationship that's toxic. So I tend to depend on someone besides myself. Right. And that's good. That's your strength. And that's the blessing that you have that you can count on him to guide you through these times and take him to the prayer, the healing garden, where you can just go and cleanse that way. The second principle you talked about was to detoxify and to cleanse. And it is so important to begin with that. So how do we start to detox and cleanse? Great, thank you. The slide does show the body part. But again, it's cleansing and detoxifying spirit, soul, and body. Again, it's all connected. So there's maybe things you need to cleanse in your soul, strongholds of the mind or whatever. But then actually cleaning the body, you start with the colon. There's a colon. The microbiome of the intestinal tract is so important to keep healthy. So your gut is so healthy. There's a brain-gut connection, actually.  So it's important to cleanse the colon. There's many different detoxification programs. I personally take one that's called intestinal formula number one and number two. Of course, fruits and vegetables help to clean. But sometimes you need extra help. And I try to do it seasonally, what actually vacuums out the stuff in there and helps the peristalsis, the movement goal better. I get it. You do it regularly to get regular. And that's so important to detox and to cleanse that way. You mentioned the word microbiome. That's like a buzzword. Everyone's talking about microbiome. What is microbiome?  And I actually think almost to the point where your first brain, that's your gut.  It kind of just guides your whole health journey right here in your gut. And people don't realize that. And so to be able to detox and to cleanse regularly, it really, really matters for your quality of life. Is that correct? Correct. Yeah. Because your intestinal system, you have your reli there. You have the way your nutrients are absorbed.  So the microbiome is so important that when you take too much antibiotics, for example, antibiotics, antibiotics. So you want to be able to take probiotics. Because you, again, want to heal your microbiome and make sure that you have the good bacteria as well. So there's so many things that we can learn from each other and how we eat to keep our microbiome healthy. The things that supplements we need to take, digestive enzymes, or probiotics, prebiotics. So there's things that we can learn from each other. And I share some of this at some of the health seminars that I share. So later on, if anybody needs to, they can get in touch with us. And we can guide them to your talks because it's usually a full room. Everyone, and the sad part, though, that I feel is half the room has some issues that they're dealing with. And they've come to hear some solutions. But the good part is that they hear the solutions, and now they need to take action. So I always say success is not just being at the right place at the right time. But success is when you're at the right place and at the right time, but you take action. And so that's why when people come to hear you, I think it's very key. On slide number 12, we're going to jump ahead a little bit on slide number 12. It tells us about your journey. So what is a final reminder that you would like to leave with us on this health journey, Cheryl? I think we're all in a journey. And I believe that the good Lord who created us really wants us to live life abundantly. And so on this journey, it's a matter of not just principles of keeping your body healthy, but your spirit and your soul healthy. And that area we all need help with. So I try not to depend only on myself, but I depend on friends like you, but also on the good Lord to help me during times, especially in this hour, we're facing that health crisis we talked about and the doom and gloom things we talked about health. But then there's so many solutions, there's help, there's hope, there's healing. And so thank you, Wendy, for allowing me to share this. So you're on point right there. And so I listened to you so many times. So I gotta let the audience know that what I've done to kind of remedy my health journey or help my health journey is I'm going line dancing, okay?  I'm sweating, I'm detoxing, but I'm laughing and I'm having so much fun. And I think that's the key. And I look at all the people in that room when I'm dancing with them, they're doing the same thing. And I'm there to share with them some of the answers by making healthier choices and laughing and just being a positive mind, body and spirit and of course, asking for blessings from it all that we receive by doing this. So Cheryl, thank you so much for spending the afternoon with us today, we've learned a lot and we're gonna continue to learn more as we hang out with positive, like-minded people like yourself. So mahalo, Cheryl, for being here. Mahalo, Wendy, thank you so much. You're welcome.