Greetings and welcome to the introduction to astronomy. In this video we're going to talk about the structure of our Milky Way galaxy. So look at how it is composed and what it is made up of and look at the general structure and some of the history of that. So let's go ahead and get started here and what we see is first of all how do we determine the structure of our galaxy. It's not an easy thing to do primarily because we are stuck inside our galaxy. So it's a little harder to determine that than it is if we could look at a different distant galaxy. So an example would be, it would be very hard how do you know the shape or extent of a building if you're stuck inside a single room. You might have windows to look out to give you some idea but if you could not move from that room and had not seen the building before you would have a very difficult time determining how many floors the building has. How high up does it go? How far down does it go? We have a very similar issue with our galaxy. We cannot easily see through our galaxy and in fact one astronomer William Herschel in 1785 counted stars in various directions to try to get the first rough map of the Milky Way. And here what he found was our sun relatively close to the center of the galaxy with stuff but he did notice that the galaxy was flattened that there were far more stars in this direction than there were in the up and down direction so he saw that there were far more stars here. Now one of the problems that he had is that he did not understand that there was a lot of dust. We did not realize that there was dust and in fact looking off this way would be the center of our galaxy and most of the stars there are completely blocked by the dust so there are actually a lot more stars here in our galaxy extends a lot farther off here to the left than it does to the right and while it was a first great map of the Milky Way it did not tell us the true extent of the Milky Way galaxy. So more modern measurements because as I've said Herschel's measurements were limited meaning that he did not know about dust and that limited the part of the galaxy that he actually was able to view so as we see in the image here Herschel's image is just this little black section here he was only looking at a very small part of our galaxy. However looking at the globular clusters gives us a better idea that's because they are distributed pretty much uniformly around the galaxy in a spherical halo and this tells us a much better idea of what the galaxy is like so we can see that the galaxy is now we have all of these dots in here each of these little dots represents a globular cluster they can be seen over large distances so we can see them even when they are very far away and if we can assume that they are pretty much centered on the center of our galaxy then that means that the center of our galaxy is here roughly well outside even the little section that Herschel was able to observe back in the 1700s so studying these globular clusters and Harlow-Shapley here was one who was able to do that and he was able to find that no we're not near the center of our galaxy as Herschel had found from his measurements but we are actually well away from it so let's look at what our galaxy is made up and what our galaxy is composed of so the different components of our galaxy we have several different we have several different ones here and what we have is we have the disk of the galaxy which is really most of the visible material when you look at a spiral galaxy which is what our Milky Way is most of that material is the disk material it contains things like the spiral arms and the dust in the gas and is where stars would be forming so it would be sites of star formation and that also makes it very visible because there are bright stars forming there so our disk shown down here is the very flattened area that goes right through the central portions of our galaxy and is where the galaxy is flattened now there's also the halo which is a spherical distribution that's where those globular clusters that Harlow Shapley saw were and when he measured those those Harlow's globular clusters are then centered on the Milky Way so we happen to be located here actually towards the outskirts of the galaxy but there is a halo a lot less material it has the globular clusters but has a lot less material a lot less certainly not any gas and dust that would be forming new stars now there's a couple other components as well and we have the bulge of the galaxy so the central bulge is noted here that is an area that is kind of in between the disk and the halo the disk is very flattened the bulge is extended a little bit and then the halo is a big spherical area around it so this is an extended distribution of material around the center of our galaxy the galactic center itself contains a supermassive black hole about four million solar masses so four million times the mass of our sun and then out beyond that not shown in the image is a dark matter halo now we saw the halo itself that stuff we can see but there is also much more unseen or dark matter around the halo this is very important we know that it exists because of gravitational effects and we'll take a look at that later but we know that it exists there that there must be far more mass than we can possibly see and dark matter is one of those things that astronomers are continuing to study today so what does our galaxy look like well what we'll see is that our galaxy when we look at it we actually see an edge-on view so we do not see our galaxy as a great spiral galaxy we see it edge-on because we're sitting inside it and it gives us a very limited view of what we're able to see we can use measurements and observations of other galaxies however to kind of predict what our galaxy might look like so we can make some measurements figure out where different dust clouds are figure out the extent of our galaxy where the denser portions are where the least dense portions are and use that to be able to try to determine what our galaxy might look like and an artist's conception might give us something like this that we would then be able to see our galaxy so here is the central bulge of the galaxy in towards the center the whole thing we're seeing is the disk we get the distinct spiral arms spiraling out from the center and we also in our case we see a central bar that means there is a bar of material going through the middle of the galaxy and that is important because we see a number of other galaxies that have this as well and in fact the spiral arms start from the edge of the bar not from the actual center of the galaxy itself so this is an example of what we might be able to see if we could travel hundreds a hundred thousand light years away or ten thousand light years away straight up out of our galaxy and look back down on it to get that full view of our galaxy so what do we see when we see the spiral structure when we see some of it in the image here we can take a look what do we know we now know what our galaxy looks like a little bit better we see that there is very distinct spiral structure as I showed before we have various different arms there's the Sagittarius arm into the Perseus arm out here and the Scutum Centaurus arm is the main arms but there's also some other ones going here so our galaxy doesn't have just one or two spiral arms but has a number of them that have formed we know it has those several distinct arms and the bar going through its center which again we've seen those in some galaxies and a question can be why do we get spiral arms in some galaxies but not all of them so why do certain galaxies show us a spiral arms and what we think in terms of how spiral structure forms we can actually look at that very briefly here and what we find is that you know how do spiral arms form well one thought is that maybe they form because the galaxies undergo differential rotation now that's not unusual it simply means that the inner part of the galaxy rotates faster than the outer part so you could imagine that if you had blobs of material that stretched across the galaxy with the inner parts rotating faster and the outer parts rotating much slower that they would spread out over time so you'd start to get them spread out a little bit here and more here and then finally you would form distinct spiral arms just like we saw in the estimation of what our galaxy might look like the problem is these would not last a very long time after just a few galactic rotations which might only be a billion years or so they would wind up and be completely gone so while it can form spiral arms we need some method to be able to retain the spiral structure for the lifetime of a galaxy and we're talking 10 billion years in that case since we see spiral galaxies at various ages and the way we believe this works is through what are called density waves so a spiral density wave what they are is areas of increased density much like the material material bunches up the way cars bunch up in a traffic jam so the compressed material as the density wave travels through where that compressed material is here and here then that forms that is where star formation is going to form so stars are going to begin to form in these areas where the material is compressed you push more material together you're more likely to begin to be able to form stars so while the density waves themselves would be invisible this highlighted star formation makes the density waves stand out and gives us the pattern now because the density wave would would move much slower then the actual rotation of the galaxy this would allow spiral pattern to maintain for astronomical timescales so just as a traffic jam itself can move slower than the individual cars if there are cars bunched up on the highway and you're moving through that you slow down as you're moving through it and then you pick up your speed again so overall the cars will move through it the stars would move through the density waves but this is where they would be bunched up and where new stars would form and those very bright hot new stars that form would then highlight the density waves giving rise to the spiral structure that we see in galaxies so let's go ahead and finish up here as we do with our summary and what we've looked at in this section is that our galaxy is an example of what we call a barred spiral galaxy meaning meaning that it has a bar going through its center however this is not simple to determine because we are stuck inside it when we look at other galaxies we'll be able to easily see whether they are ordinary spirals or barred spirals or other types of galaxies the composition of our galaxy contains the disk halo central bulge the galactic center and then a dark matter halo outside that and we believe that spiral arms can be maintained by density waves which bunch up the material much like cars within a traffic jam so that concludes this lecture on the structure of our galaxy we'll be back again next time for another topic in astronomy so until then have a great day everyone and i will see you in class


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Well, you remember our barber in a castle in a little town in Italy, how he's a talker in a gossip and everything and they say what's gonna happen tomorrow? Well here, newspaper paper is like our barber only with the comic strips. But a wonderful thing about a newspaper paper is the Sunday paper. I guess the reason they call it a Sunday paper is because it's away about six pounds.  If it was to come here, you would get all the mixed up with a newspaper paper. They got so many editions. As a six-star edition, that's where we're winning the water. Then as a seven-star, that's when the other side is a winner. Then the eighth-star, we're winning. A ninth-star, they're winning. Then there's a ten-star. That's the paper of the day. And they want you should hardly be able to wait for next day's paper so the headlines, nobody's a winner, is a stable-amater. But still in all of the mamma mia, I guess you know what's happening in the world. And when I'm reading the papers, it makes me very sad. So sad, sometimes I'm not able to work. And so I'm gonna go next door to my friend Pasquale and I'm even a winner. And the top is a big amount, I'm gonna say. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi, hello, hello. Hello, Pasquale. Eh, that's a lot of little cabbages, boss. Sounding like a fellow's a jumper from his airplane open as a parachute and find out there's no strings attached. Oh, Pasquale, you know how it is. No, how is it? Well, what's happening today? You can't live a normal life when you read what's going on in a paper. The water, the bomb. Oh, so that's it. Luigi, the trouble with you is you read the wrong newspaper. Huh? That's right. And the newspaper you should read is from a Kansas city. Pasquale, how come you're reading a paper from a Kansas city? Hey, Luigi, look out of my ears. Do they look bigger to you? No, no, Pasquale.  But why should your ears be bigger? Because I got the biggest idea I've ever got. And when Pasquale gets a big idea to fill up his brains and push out the ears. Give it to Pasquale. What's it as a big idea you got? Come here, come here. Look. Take to the paper and open up to the farmer's section. Right? Read, read. Today, at the farm in the center of the United States, all of them improvements to water and electricity grow you on a vegetable. Self-sufficient, wonderful, hide-the-way. Pasquale, I'm going to understand. What's all about?  Luigi, I'm a buyer on that farm. You are? Sure. Comes to the day they drop at the Adam and the Bomb on a Chicago. Pasquale's an ohay, he's a living in a prairie. Pasquale, how are you going to say such a thing? I'm going to hear the people talking like that, but I never believe they really mean it. Well, I mean it.  Me and my daughter Rosa. But if you willing to come along, I'll make it for three. What are you laughing at? Pasquale, you don't have to move on one step. Rosa, she's away 250 pounds, right? So what? If any bums is going to be dropped, say if it's the place in the country, it's going to be right here in the Chicago in the back of Rosa. Why's a guy, eh? Wait, there's some day you're going to be laughing from the other side of your nose. Pasquale, if you're serious, I'm going to want to talk with you. Here in America, I'm a God of freedom, and that's no mean of freedom to run away. Well, hooray for Patrick Sir Henry. All right, all right. So you're an American. What do you think is going to happen if you live in a Kansas?  Pasquale, I'm going to like this conversation. If you don't mind, I'm going to go to my night school again. Go, go, see if I can. Just to remember, I'll try to give you advice. I'm going to want to give you advice. All right, then take your choice.  I don't know. All I know is I don't want to be a Pasquale. You don't want to be a Pasquale. Listen! The class should have started 15 minutes ago. I wonder what's keeping Miss Balding. Sure, that's the first time my teacher has ever been late. Yeah, I'm a hopper, nothing is wrong with her. Wait a minute, I got the idea. Let's show her what good pupils we are, huh? We're going to start the class anyway. That's a good idea. But until she comes, I'm going to be the teacher. Now class, quiet please, I'll call the road. Mr. Basco, presente. Mr. Horowitz? Yeah. I speak up louder, Mr. Horowitz, or I'll have to keep you off the class. You, it's no bargain. Good evening, class. I'm sorry I'm late, gentlemen, but I've just come from a very big school conference and I have some news that concerns all of us. That's what isn't this for you. Well, the school board has decided to try a new idea. So once every three months, we're going to hold a gigantic city class meeting. Now, this Friday will be the first one and it will be attended by every night school pupil in the city, over 10,000. By the time they get through calling the rules, the meeting will be adjourned. Please, Mr. Schultz. We feel that these city class meetings are of tremendous importance, especially in these times. It gives us all a chance to get together, to see and know each other, and to discuss our problems. Is there going to be some big speaker there, Miss Baldwin? No, no, that's just it. We don't want anyone outside the night school classes to participate. And, well, the board conferred a great honor on me. You mean you are going to speak? No, but they thought I was doing so well with my class and I had such good material that they gave me the honor of selecting one of you. They say you got good material and I feel like a worn out herringbone. Miss Baldwin, I could never... Just a second. I'll accept. No one's refusal to speak. After all, there's nothing to worry about. This meeting will be attended by people just like any one of you. Himmel, imagine if they're like Olsen, that like sitting in front of 10,000 quiz kids with spitballs. Mr. Schultz, please let me get to my point. Now, I've decided that you tell me what you would speak about and I'll make my selection. Mr. Baskill, what would you like to talk about? Huh? Well, I... Honestly, Miss Baldwin, if I had something to say, I would talk about... Well, we'll get back to you. Mr. Schultz? Well, as long as you ask me, I'm going to tell you. I would say, why are we being such high toxins and why are we getting so little for the dollar? What's happening in Washington? And I mean D.E.Z. All right, Mr. Schultz, all right. We would immediately declare a moratorium. All right, Mr. Schultz, all right. It must be the first day of the new version of Congress. Thank you, Mr. Schultz. I may use you. It's no use, Miss Baldwin. I'm already too poop for Friday. Mr. Harowitz, have you any ideas? Well, Miss Baldwin, it seems to me it might be good to say the way to keep our senses in this world is to be strongest within ourselves and to be strong to those who look to us for guidance, our families. The family must be stronger than ever. That's a very good thought, Mr. Harowitz. Mr. Olsen? Well, Miss Baldwin, as you know, I could talk fluently on a thousand subjects. Maybe I could start with my analysis of world events. Then I could summarize the glorious history of America. Then I would forecast the future. And during the next hour I would answer questions from the audience. Then there would be a short recess while everybody went home and got their guns. Mr. Schultz. Well, Mr. Basko, we're back to you again. Miss Baldwin, I think what everybody said is very, very good. I wish I had such a good idea. Well, I'm sure you have. Surely you read the newspapers and discuss things with people. I'm going to discuss it. Sure I'm going to discuss it. Take a Pasquale. He's a tell me, he's a moving away from Chicago, so when Adam Bomers is coming, he's a no here. Imagine. He's so sure Adam Bomers is going to be dropped. He's never even figured out how you stop it.  I'm going to want to be a Pasquale. Freedom is something I'm going to hold on to. I'm not going to explain the freedom, but maybe I'm going to tell him to listen to me. But what good is it that he's the one who listens to me? Mr. Vasco, you're going to be the speaker. Me? And the subject of your talk will be what freedom means to me. Before we return to life with Luigi, we'd like to say a word about chewing enjoyment. When you're busy at your job or working around your home, it's a satisfaction to chew on a smooth, delicious piece of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. That good, easy chewing goes right along with your work. Helps keep you feeling right. It makes the job seem easier and pleasanter. 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Mamma Mia, I think they use that word of freedom to advertise all the other words in a dictionary. Anyway, I was starting to write when all of a sudden a man I'm never seen before came to my store. How do you do, sir? Oh, hello. Come on, come on in. Is this some antique you want to buy? Not today. My name is Byron and I represent the crusade for freedom. That's funny. My name is Abasco. I'm going to represent the same thing. Oh, then you've already been told about the petition. What the petition? I thought you was meant to buy my speech. Perhaps I better explain, sir. The crusade for freedom is a big national movement in America and on our freedom scrolls. Excuse me, you talk very nicely. You was born in America, huh? Yes, Massachusetts. My father was born in Rhode Island and my grandfather was born there, too.  Well, Mr. Abasco. Can I see one of those petition, Mr. Byron? Why, certainly. That's what we want you to do. Read it. Here. All right. I believe in liberation. I believe in sacredness, dignity, divine right of pleasure, aggression of freedom bell, Dwight the eyes in a hour, Harada Stassen, Cordella Hall. Mamma Mia, I'm better not to sign a discipline. Why not? I'm gonna leave a room for Harry S. Truman. Don't worry, Mr. Abasco. Here. Just sign your name on the board. Oh, sure, sure, Luigi. Barsacot. There. so it would be more of a me to put down well thank you very much mr. Basko you know after we've collected all the signatures these freedom scrolls are going to be permanently enshrined in the base of a huge freedom bell in Berlin my name it too huh well of course Eisenhower Stassenhall the basket Truman hey that sounds a pretty good huh well you sound very enthusiastic mr.  Basko well goodbye sir and thank you very much for your help and oh yes I'm sure you'll read up on this literature and get the people you asked to read the same thing huh it's important you know if they want to make a voluntary contribution they may too oh sure sure and I don't know what I'm gonna get you hundreds of names I'm sure you will you've got the spirit well goodbye goodbye hey wait wait there maybe you do me a big favor huh certainly what is it you want to be the first to sign Basko Ali Basko Ali come here I'm a guy the wonderful thing for you to sign it's a very important that way to back up you just went through a pipe for light that's the red light that's a turn of blue from being passed so fast take easy starter from the finish and to go backwards a nice and a slow that's well a you and me don't have to argue you no more you read this and then you'll be happy to sign the dissipation Silas Luigi your brains the flu you Cooper maybe I'm never signing nothing since I've been in America the only thing I ever signed as a check it's a break in my heart every time I do it I wouldn't assign the Declaration of Independence if a George Washington himself handed me as a falter pan and stop the stuff under my face with that pamphlet even if this is the most important thing you could sign it who knows what's important all I know is keep quiet the shut your face to stay out of trouble that's my slogan when you stuck with it oh Pascuali are you the first one I asked and I must start off bad listen I wouldn't wait for Luigi I'm not a hard man at the bargain with that I'm even willing to forget that insult about you don't want to be no Pascuali I tell you what I do I'm a bit very happy to put in my signature on your paper if you put your signature on a certain paper I got tonight the Pascuali what a paper you want I should shine marriage license with my daughter Rosa there's a nothing to do no Pascuali what's the marriage you got to do with a freedom plenty you got it the Rosa wants it well what do you say my son just to say that the magic word yes and I buy that a farm in the Kansas and we all are going to live it together three happy little newlyweds answer is a no Pascuali n-o-o-o stop stop I know how to spell a no it's only trios okay mr. bachelor if that's the way you feel and forget the petition my signature is I'm never gonna leave my fingers all right then I'ma get others I don't need you everybody else is gonna be happy to sign all right go go I'ma still willing to give you a chance if you don't get your signature's that a place in the Kansas is still open all right how do you gonna see how wrong you are because nobody wants to be a Pascuali oh listen to you ah here's a wonderful a place here right in the middle of the park everybody's a pacifier come on mommy I'm nervous well here I go how do you do lady I'm gonna represent the crusader for freedom I already gave oh how do you do sir I'ma represent a crusader already signed oh that's a nice hey excuse me mr. it's nine o'clock but I'm gonna want the time mama that's so funny I don't think of those are people even hard to what I'm a said I don't think they sign anything I'ma gonna ask the people on a bench is that they ain't the movement excuse me lady here you are then a sense but lady that's all I had but the lady oh a body can't even have some wait I don't know I oh excuse me I didn't mean to pump it hey mr. sorry I'm in a hurry but you don't know what the oh maybe that maybe you sign my mama before I'm open my mouth everybody's a closet hey pardon me sir I'ma got a petition is for you good that may be the judge of that all right to be judgeable to stand still what's the matter with you people I'ma got the most important thing of today crusader for freedom and you know what you mean in my office yeah you get off that soapbox soapboxer what a soapbox I'm not standing on anything you know what I mean this is a peaceful parking we don't want any speeches man I'ma no mechanism speech look get going before I take your name down all right all right to take my name down what yeah I'm willing to do anything I'ma give you my name and are you giving me yours how you doing no good I'ma got only two more names of beside yours in five hours well that's a public all right people they don't want to listen or or a day Fred or they don't care well I'm going off so long and good luck so long and a mr. excuse me but I'm in a hurry maybe you say I don't sign anything without my lawyer well I gotta bring them here I'ma get a two signature very funny mr. what do you want don't know away I'm gonna want to match a no cigarette and I'ma know the time I'ma represent the crusader for freedom not interested but the maybe maybe if I'm explaining you I'm a guy figures things out for himself if you want to waste your time well well you see this the crusade well nothing I can see you're not excuse me lady I know it gives me great pleasure to introduce one of our teachers miss spaulding teacher of the high second group in Lincoln night school who will introduce the main speaker one of her students ladies and gentlemen I told the school that I was greatly honored when they selected my class and I think they will not have failed in their choice for I'm sure we shall hear a very interesting understanding and sincere talk on the subject what freedom means to me I am proud to present to you one of our own mr. Luigi basketball ladies and the gentlemen I'ma feel very bad to come here make a fool of myself my teacher and all of you I'm a very sorry I was asked and I'ma never should have taken a job I'm a no-speaker I'm not gonna make a speech and I'ma got to no speech maybe I'ma sure to change what I'ma said a little bit when I miss spaulding gave me responsibility I'ma started to write a speech something happened and I was a stock so instead of a saying I'ma got to no speech let me say I'ma got a beginning I'ma got to no middle and I'm afraid of the finish maybe you interest maybe I should have tell you what happened the crusader the standard for don't you think everybody should assign the maybe people they take everything for granted they don't realize what they got like a fresh air cut it off and I see what's happened you see what I mean I thought I knew I mean I thought I well what's it he's all a mixed up ladies and gentlemen hey Luigi come here I see you push quality was a final speech you made I'ma proud of you really told me please please a press call it was a better speech I let everybody down to basket why did you run off I'ma sorry miss spaulding I should have never have it done what I did talking about mr. basco you did the most wonderful thing possible what come here hey hey what's happening what's there to be the pastor down hey that's you look like my like a my position that's right as soon as you finished everybody asked to sign one why I think they've already collected $300 in voluntary contribution mommy you mean everybody here isn't gonna say that's right you've got 10,000 signatures and a thousand oh how wonderful hey you see pasquale now what do you say to Luigi don't a haul around me what I said it before I meant you mean you really were a pride of me Luigi was one of the greatest speeches I ever heard is made me see a few things are different I'ma moving to Kansas you mean you know want to be a pasquale that's a right I'ma want to be a Luigi and now life with Luigi takes you to New York where we hear from General Lucius D. Clay national chairman of the crusade for freedom who has transcribed a few words he would like to say to Luigi basco Luigi you give me a great hope and you also fill me with considerable pride it has not taken you long to learn what America really stands for you have also found that because you believe in its ideals you can reach the hearts and minds of its peoples thank you very much Luigi and the many thousands of other volunteers who are undertaking the crusade for freedom but thank you especially Luigi for your faith in your new country and your belief in freedom yes mama Mia now you see why America is a wonderful country and it's a word to fighting for because only here is it the possible for a little immigrant like your son to hear from a great the general and a great American like general clay is like I once wrote to you in America everything is a possible you're loving a son Luigi basco the little immigrant the makers of Wrigley spearman chewing gum hope you've enjoyed tonight's episode of life with Luigi and they want to remind you that a package of Wrigley spearman gum gives you long lasting enjoyment at a very small cost you can treat your whole family to Wrigley spearman and you can enjoy it often every day with almost no effect on your pocketbook then to Wrigley spearman gum is a wholesome healthful treat because chewing is good for teeth and digestion so when you're doing your shopping be sure to include a few packages of delicious Wrigley spearman chewing gum treat your family often to chewing enjoyment the makers of Wrigley spearman chewing gum invite you to listen next week at this time when Luigi basco writes another letter to his mama basco in Italy life with Luigi is produced and directed by Cy Howard Macbenoff writes the script with Lou Dermott Jay Carol Nash is starred as Luigi basco with Alan Reed as Pasquale Hans Conrad Schultz Jody Gilbert as Rosa Mary ship is misbalding Joe Forte as Horowitz Ken Peters as old a portion of this program was transcribed in New York music is under the direction of bloodbust Bob Stephenson speaking this is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System


Okay, we're back. We're live. We're here in Honolulu. This is, gee, I guess this is research in Manoa. And we're talking to Andrea Gabrielli, researcher at HIGP in SOWEST. That's the Hawaiian Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in SOWEST, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at UH Manoa. And he is not here. He is joining us by Skype from New Orleans. In fact, he is covering the meeting of the American Geophysical Union, which is taking place in New Orleans right now. And we have the good fortune to connect up with him by Skype. So welcome to the show, Andrea. Looking great. Louisiana, the hub of this year's American Geophysical Union meeting. So why did you go? So here, I have my poster behind and I'm here at the Convention Center to report what is happening. What are the exciting discoveries of science that are being discussed here at the meeting? AGU is the largest meeting in the Earth and Space Sciences. The American Geophysical Union was founded in 1919 and it counts about 62,000 members worldwide. So it's an international association. But this year we have about, I was talking to some people here at the organizers of the meeting. We have about 24,000 attendees from a variety of countries. So this is an interesting story because this is the first time in a while that the meeting is actually moved from San Francisco because usually this meeting is held in San Francisco, California. But this year we're here in Louisiana. So some of the organizers of the meetings were mentioning that this is a wonderful opportunity to innovate the meeting and also to talk a little bit about science in other areas of the United States to engage the vibrant community that we have here in New Orleans and also talk a little bit about science on the Mississippi River. So talking about the various things that are happening here. So these are the news of this year meeting here on the banks of the Mississippi River. So what do you got behind you there, Andrea? What is that? This is just the poster that I presented yesterday. So this is some of the research that Robert Wright and Paul Lucy, John Porter and many other people at HIGP are dealing with. So volcanic gases and developing new spectrometers to measure fog in Hawaii and also forecasting volcanic eruptions all around the Earth. However, the meeting is not just about volcanoes, but we have planetary science. We have meteorology, atmospheric sciences. And particularly this year I was particularly struck by the fact that education and policy makers and policy making were also present. So that was kind of interesting. And particularly there are many undergraduate students who joined this year meeting. And I talked to some people from the University of Texas. They have undergraduate projects sponsored by NASA and other federal agencies who actually investigated the Northern Lights, the Aurora, to try and get spectra from the auroras. And so try to understand the composition, the particles that create aurora. So that was particularly exciting as we also have undergraduates this year. So that was something. And also the innovation this year is taking place by having experiments. Because walking, I believe we have some pictures as well. There is a picture. I think it's the second that I sent you earlier. Let's take a look at your pictures, OK? We're going to take them and I'll describe them to you. I want to show you how large this convention center is. OK, let's take the pictures and I'll describe them to you and then you can tell me what that picture is about, OK? Let's look at the first one. One second, Andrea, we're just getting the pictures up. The first one should be basically just the center of the convention center where there is the big AGU logo. And that's the place where basically we can see people can go and talk. But I also want to draw your attention and the attention of our viewers to the massive convention center because this one here in New Orleans is actually bigger than the convention center in San Francisco. And this one is about 1.1 million square feet. OK, we see a picture of the convention center now, Andrea. It is absolutely massive. We see a picture of the convention center now. It's got the AGU logo on it and there are people all around. So what is that to demonstrate for us? This one is just to show you the American Geophysical Union logo and actually the center of the meeting. But let's move on to the next picture because that's where we can see the convention center and how really massive it is. So we can have a glimpse of how large this meeting is. Yes, oh yes. It looks very big. The ceiling is not as high as the ceiling here. It's 1.1 million square feet and we have almost 24,000 attendees this year. So now we see the attendees. That's basically the poster hall section. So you can see there are many posters hanging, such as the one behind me. We can see many posters hanging, people sharing their research. And this is a wonderful occasion to basically learn more about specific field, learn new things, but also network because that's the place where new collaborations begin. They give birth to new collaborations between institutes, universities, and also federal agencies. Have you met anybody new? Absolutely. So there were some people from the INGV, the Italian National Institute of Volcanology, INGV, and people were there. They were particularly interested in our research that we're doing in Hawaii because they also have some sensors on Stromboli Volcano, on Atena Volcano in Italy, and also in Mexico. So they would like to compare results obtained from their instruments, which are mostly in the ultraviolet parts of the spectrum. So they work with UV lights with respect to our sensors, which are in the thermal infrared between 8 and 14 microns. Also, NASA scientists were interested in comparing our instruments to satellites and observations. So mostly the Goddard Space Center. And so that's just for me, but imagine, you know, I was talking to some friends of mine, we had a sourest reception dinner, or our friends and colleagues from Hawaii, both current and former, were able to meet in one specific venue. And I was talking to some of them, really, there is lots of things going on between universities and really new collaborations starting. It's just a wonderful experience. Have you made any new collaborations, Andrea?  And Presto, you can have an agreement to make a collaboration. Are you seeking that? Have you found that? Have you established new collaborations with the Italians or otherwise? Yeah, we basically, we discussed about writing new proposals for asking for more funds to really carry out, carry on and continue doing these research as really, you know, trying and better forecast volcanic eruptions using sensors and instruments developing and furthering our advances in technology and really trying and developing new sensors. Yeah, you know, Andrea, you know, one of the big topics of discussion I'm sure at the AGU, and you referred to it a minute ago, is making application for grants and trying to get research money. And I know there must be discussion here in New Orleans at the AGU right now today about federal funding, because this administration has been less than generous in federal funding and maybe has cut some of the federal funding. So what is the discussion on the floor about federal funding from this administration right now?  This one is particularly trying to develop military applications. So I was talking to various people and, for example, our research in HIGP is also involved in developing sensors for, you know, various applications. One of them is actually the military, because the sensors which we are developing are imaging spectrometers. So they can be used to also to, well, we use them to identify gases, but they can also be used to identify materials, camouflage targets. So Paul Lucy actually at our institute is doing some of this, exactly some of these research specifically for military applications. So really there is a shift in what is important and what is, you know, trying to keep up with the federal fundings and everything. Are there federal agencies there with you? Are you talking to representatives of the government? Can you engage with them on the possibility of grants and research money for these projects? Well, I talked to some people from the, again, NASA and also the National Science Foundations about these things, but also there are specific sessions here at HGU where people can basically are trained on how to write proposals. So really these are very useful, especially for the younger scientists who really can learn the niches, you know, and where really you can apply for having grants money and how to actually receive this money to carry on this research, which is very useful. Yeah, this is very important. So you may come home with some money. Am I right? Ah, we'll see. We'll see how these collaborations that I mentioned earlier will evolve in the future. But for now it seems that most, again, in HIGP are well represented here. We have many people presenting research to show new results, showing new science being created. And so really it seems to be doing pretty good at these meetings. How many people are there from SOEST and HIGP? What sort of contingent do you have around you? We have about 100 different presentations. So it's a pretty big number, you know, and a variety of people here are here talking about volcanoes, talking about lava flows, talking about planetary science, talking about meteorites and lunar geology and planetary geology and geosciences. So it's really a very nice hub to really discuss science. Well, I know that at these programs you have presentations also. You have, of course, posters, but is anybody from Hawaii presenting? Absolutely, yeah. There are various presentations that people can attend. And some people present, prefer posters as it really, you can stand next to a poster and really talk to all the people passing by because it's really well organized. There is an app, it's an AGU app on your phone where basically you can check presenters and topics and it's really organized. There is a number behind every poster so you can really walk towards the posters that you are interested in and really you can talk to the right people at the right time. So posters are a really good occasion for networking because you can really stand next to your poster and talk for hours to various people. Talks are very good for conveying information and showing images. There is not a lot of time usually to answer questions and answering questions. So usually at talks you have to catch up with presenters afterwards and there are various areas that are specifically arranged in the convention center where you can have such meetings. So it's really well organized and New Orleans is doing a wonderful job in AGU as well in organizing this meeting. Andrea, we're going to take a short break now. We come back, I want to talk more about New Orleans. I want to talk more about how it is today, how it is for you, what kind of experience it is these days because obviously since the hurricane it's changed. We'll take a minute break. We'll be right back with Andrea Gabrielli of HIGP. Good afternoon, my name is Howard Wigg. I am the proud host of Code Green, a program on Think Tech Hawaii. We show at 3 o'clock in the afternoon every other Monday. My guests are specialists from here and the mainland on energy efficiency which means you do more for less electricity and you're generally safer and more comfortable while you're keeping dollars in your pocket. Andrea, we're back. We're live with Andrea Gabrielli. He's from HIGP. He's a researcher and he joins us by Skype from New Orleans at the meeting, this fabulous meeting of the American Geophysical Union which is taking place in New Orleans right now. So Andrea, we're going to take a look at more of your pictures but first I wanted to talk to you about the exhibits. What do you see on the exhibits here at the AGU meeting? Yeah, so we talked a little bit about science, a little bit the science that is being presented. We talked about federal funding but also one area, one big area of the Convention Center is actually used by exhibitors to present new products. So basically there are a variety of industries and also federal agencies and also journals which scientists might use to publish their research in which basically are there to talk about innovations and new products. So I believe we have some pictures as well of these exhibits. We're looking at one picture, Andrea. We're looking at one picture right now. It's a picture of a number of exhibits on the floor. It's up from a mezzanine looking down on these various exhibits. So these are some aerial pictures that I took and you can really see the extent of these exhibitor units. So basically drones is a pretty interesting topic that is really hot right now here at AGU. I went and talked to some companies and organizations about their drones and these are really, really expensive, thousands of dollars drones. They can fly cameras to take pictures. There are radars to actually map sea floors. There are environmental sensors, really cutting-edge technologies that are being presented and that are based on the research that is carried out by the scientists. So we really can see a variety of sensors, environmental sensors to measure temperature, humidity, trunk on climate change and we can also, and drones too. And one of the applications that is really being discussed here at AGU is to use hyperspectral imaging, which is one of my areas of research for example, and agriculture. Because basically these drones can be used to fly over crop fields to monitor the emission and absorption feature in the infrared to actually determine whether plants are stressed or not in terms of water needs. So this is something really interesting. There are some major discussions also on food security and exactly on how to use new sensors and new technology in terms of food production. So that was something interesting that I learned at the meeting as well. Yeah, you know, when you talk about drones, Andrea, and you talk about sensors from drones that are some distance from what you want to test, that would be kind of a long-distance sensor. That would be a sensor that could see or somehow sense things at hundreds of feet or maybe more. But then you have also sensors that have to be right up close. Am I right to assume there's a kind of distinction there? A sensor that could work for hundreds of feet or miles and a sensor that needs to be right up on top of whatever it's sensing. Absolutely. And I talked to some people because the goal here and when safety allows, you know, you can basically bring this sensor close to the things that you want to monitor. Now, in case of gases, it's dangerous and we prefer remote measurements. But on other occasions, it's really needed to go close and to measure. And here, what scientists are interested in that these sensors needs to be compact, needs to be small, needs to be field portable. And also this is another tendency. I talked to many people in this exhibit hall about the importance of having compact sensors. So this is another. There are now microcomputers. Arduino is a, which is an Italian invention. That's really making a way, really a small computer. Raspberry Pi, people are talking about these new computers and new technologies to really make these sensors small and compact. You know, when you go to a meeting like AGU, you not only get to network and you get to collaborate and you get to find out what the other guys are doing, but you also get to confirm that your work is where it should be, that your work is up at the frontier, that you are pushing the frontier. So are you able to confirm that here at the AGU meeting here in 2017? Can you say that you have had confirmation that your work is right up at the frontier of science? Not only my work, but the work of thousands of other people. Absolutely. Because I, you know, this is really, this is really an occasion where you can learn about different fields. Because sometimes, you know, being in a university, in a university you are focused on one particular research. But in this meeting, this is again the largest meeting of all the earth and space sciences. So basically, you really can learn new things and new things even on different fields. And so this is where you really realize how important this science, this science that is being discussed here, how important it is, how important this science being discussed. So aren't you, you've met a lot of people, you've seen the commercial exhibits, you've heard the presentations. I'm sure you've seen a lot of posters.  And what's on the list? When you get back to Honolulu, what would you be doing based on what you learned at this convention? Well, probably, I'm going to, I have a small list, mostly again a list of connections that I made. So follow up on emails, you know, discuss more about what's for the future, what's really, again we mentioned this proposal, this grant applications and everything, and really to really continue carrying out this science. Hawaii was well represented, there was a source to stand right there and also the convention center, and I was happy to see that, I was happy that Hawaii was, you know, not only represented by the scientists that are here, but also represented by these stands to really, you know, make some advertisement of our outreach about our possibilities and our convention center. I attended a Geological Society of America in Honolulu and were very well organized and I talked to some people there. So I was happy to see that SOAS was also present there. Well, you know, it strikes me that SOAS is really at the front end and you probably have had confirmation. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. That's also the confirmation. But not only SOAS, we mentioned people presenting research, we mentioned the exhibits. Now, also another area of the meeting is used by universities and university departments who actually present the research that is being carried out there. I saw University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Texas, University of Arizona State University, they had a big stand right there. So really, and even international, the British Royal Society was there. So really a variety of variety, lots of variety. Yeah. How about the schools in Louisiana? How about the schools in New Orleans? Are they represented? Anybody from Chile? Absolutely, absolutely. And again, this is a... It's really... I mentioned before the fact that the meeting was moved from San Francisco to New Orleans and this is really a fantastic occasion also to engage the local universities here to talk about, for example, the science on the Mississippi River, the... For example, the environmental areas here in the Delta of the Mississippi, the unique wildlife that is present here, the swamps, the Louisiana swamps, and really the unique creatures that live here. So not only technology, as you can see. Well, Andrea, this has been a great discussion. Really appreciate you phoning in with Skype. It's lovely to be able to connect with you while you're far away at a conference like the AGU conference. I hope that when you get back, we can talk further. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy not only the conference but the joys of Louisiana and especially New Orleans. It's a great city even now. Thank you so much, Andrea Gabrelli, HIGP researcher. Thank you very much, Dave. Merry Christmas and see you soon. Thank you. Aloha, Andrea.


So in this video, we're going to talk about how to make yourself Indestructible how to build a situation where no matter what happens in your life no matter what situations arise You always have a way out.  How do you make a situation where you're invincible? Well, most people as you can see do know how to get to the ups So they take action some sort of action that keeps them up or at least floating What that means is they do know how to sustain at a minimum Whatever they have in their life, whether it's their paycheck, whether it's their health whether it's their marriage But if you don't put enough actions, obviously over time it will deteriorate So you want to start with the 10x rule you always want to start with 10x Actions that is the basis for any form of growth So what that means is start multiplying the amount of actions you're taking in your life to Improve the different areas that you personally care about So you want to have better health make sure you work out ten times more you want to have a better income Make sure you make ten times more phone calls ten times more emails more messages more Everything basically and the same with your love life You don't have a better love life call your partner more talk to them more send them cute messages all the time Improve things do the actions that work on your relationship then improve your relationship, but do them more often So that's one part of the equation. That's the up cycle. How do you deal with the down cycle? How do you actually protect yourself though from the downs because that's something that I experienced for a long time I would take these 10x actions and I would see a sudden strong growth in my life But then what would happen is all this momentum would go up and then I would bump into a wall the obvious Dip that happens to people, but then the dip would kill me the dip will bring me back down Sometimes even lower than the point that I actually started on so how do you avoid this? How do you carry a situation where you're invincible? Financially in your marriage in your health the answer is you want to have a plan to be a backup for every single condition and situation in your life what this means is not that when you set goals You want to start having all these exit plants and plant bees and what if I fail Whenever you go for a goal always go for that goal and go all in on that goal I'm not saying to have a backup plan for your goal I'm saying have a backup plan for your life. So for example what happened to me was I would get into a bad mood I would get into this kind of crappy mood because I didn't sleep enough because I was overworked Because something bad happened because of a bad thought and then would spiral down into this crash What I did over time over the years was learn my patterns learn how my brain works Learn what brings me up and makes me go back into a very fulfilled a very creation type mood Even right now I'm on two hours of sleep, which is not healthy But I did make that decision yesterday So I've learned over the years how to manage that how to make sure that I don't crash So for this example whenever I'm on two three hours of sleep What happens is around the noon around 1 2 p.m I start crashing in terms of my mood and this is almost exactly that time right now We're at around 3 p.m. In Israel time So because I know my patterns because I've built my plan bees because I've built my backups I know this is going to happen.   What patterns do I have? I'll give you another example I have a pattern that's related to bad ethics whenever I Don't tell somebody the exact truth or I hide something from somebody or I did something bad And then I don't want to confront it what happens is I get very introverted and I just don't talk to anyone So in these situations what I learned that works best for me is two things one of them is to actually Confront it is to actually say this is what I did and it's not okay to actually Admit my fault and when I do that I find they releases me immediately from that introversion The other thing that I found that works really well is to force myself to talk to somebody Maybe a good friend maybe my wife and then tell them about that when I do that it Immediately helps me see the right action to take and then to prevent the download spiral now Would sometimes last in my life for sometimes an hour and sometimes a few days sometimes weeks or months so if you do not know how to clean up yourself how to close plug the leaks in yourself because Imagine if you have a leak in your house and you just let it run You're basically gonna ruin your house in a few weeks or a few months the same thing here If you have a bad bad pattern that happens in your finances your relationship or your health and you do not take care of it You do not plug it you do not take it out from the root and learn how to deal with it As long as you do not confront it whenever you're gonna have an upcycle in your life You're gonna crash in the future and then all those gains will be lost So have you actually earned anything no because if you invested in the stock market Let's say that the stock market right now is at a thousand points and then went up to fourteen hundred points So that means you made forty percent on your money But then what happens if it crashes and you didn't realize your profits You're basically it got up and then it crashed And now you're at Basically eight hundred points, so you're twenty percent less than what you started It doesn't matter how high you got it matters how high you are right now So make sure you have a solution for all of these patterns Let me know if you have any questions about this topic This is something that I'm very very good at and I would love to help you and answer your questions So feel free to check out my e-book at the description. 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Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. It is Wednesday. So it is what I eat in a day I have a super fun day plan for you today. I have a couple of fun halls We've got diesel and Lola all my food for the day and a wonderful fantastic Dinner recipe so you definitely want to stay tuned for that So if you want to see what I eat in a day on the blue plan on ww stay tuned This morning, I'm feeling a scramble of sorts So I went ahead and grabbed a few things out of my fridge and freezer and we're gonna make a really hearty scramble I'll probably have some strawberries and blueberries with this but for my scramble today. I'm gonna use these sausages Oh, these are the Sabantino's basil paleo Chicken sausages actually got these at Costco. I love them. My husband does not like them. I love them We're gonna use these in tonight's dinner recipe, too So it kind of made sense to you have one for breakfast each one of these sausage links is for smart points So I'm gonna do one sausage link I'm probably going to do one to two eggs to kind of put together that scramble You guys know my latest obsession with basil So I'm gonna put in some fresh basil and then I weighed out on my food scale 84 grams, which is two smart points of sweet potatoes. So that's this here I have some extra green onions from a previous recipe and some extra zucchini So I'm gonna chop up the zucchini chop up the basil and we're gonna throw this all in a pan And we're gonna have a scramble for breakfast this morning avocado oil warming up in my pan I'm gonna go ahead and pop in that cut-up sweet potato that I measured out and then over here I have the I did about half the zucchini the green onions quite a bit of basil because it cooks down and I'm obsessed I also have that sausage all cut up and I'll throw these in here for safety I have a couple of eggs as well. So this is what's going to comprise my scramble So I'll be back to show you my breakfast. All right guys breakfast is served. It looks amazing Look at this huge Scramble that I got out of those ingredients. I was able to get a ton of veggie Super well-rounded with adding in the sweet potato So the only thing that has points here in my scramble is four points for the link of sausage and two points for The sweet potato again, I just waited out on my food scale and then of course for some brightness some fruit I have some delicious strawberries and blueberries here. So my breakfast you guys is six points this entire Breakfast six smart points. Look at diesel.  I'll tell you guys. Sorry my screen You can see the screen. I apologize, but he spends Most of his day outside the other day he was inside for five minutes the entire day. He just loves it It's nice and cool. He can see everything. I just washed his dog bed cover So he's happy as a little clam out there and then this one. She's been laying in bed all morning, huh? Are you happy in bed? Yeah, he sure are huh baby before I show you what I want to show you my items I'm gonna show you came packaged in dry ice Who else loves dry ice? It's so cool how it's all smoky So let me show you what came packaged in this dry ice So enlightened reached out to me and asked if they could send me some ice cream to try and share with you guys So I said of course I love ice cream So they sent me these flavors some of them. I've actually never seen in the store So that was super exciting from their website now You can order directly off of their website, which is amazing because sometimes it's hard to find the ice creams in the store And I found them to be more affordable even on the website and they came packaged so well Actually, they came in this box and there are two big blocks of dry ice all this packaging literally everything was frozen Solid when it came in so way to go enlightened So what I picked they let me pick some flavors is the marshmallow peanut butter I've actually never had this flavor. It's a hundred calories for half of a cup all of the inlined ice creams I believe are three points for half of a cup So I grabbed the marshmallow and peanut butter that sounds so good And then mid chocolate chip is my very favorite ice cream ever So of course I had to pick up that one now this one because it's a hundred calories maybe more points I'll just put them here on the screen And this one I have had before and it is so good This is a movie night and it is buttery popcorn pieces of candy. It's really really good I really like this one and then this was when I'd never seen and this is the black cherry chocolate chip So I was thinking this might be like the Ben and Jerry's cherry Garcia, which used to be my favorite ice cream pre WWE not gonna lie So I was excited to be able to pick out four pints and then I picked out three boxes of the bars as well I believe the bars are three points. I'll put all the points of course on the screen So these are the mint chocolate chip I had to get those because like I said mint chocolate chips my favorite this one. I love I've actually had this before I've shown it in a couple grocery hauls the coffee chip is so good and then this is one I'd never seen before so this is a new to me This is monkey business and this one is made with almond milk, which is really really cool I thought we could take a quick peek at the ingredient. So everything looks pretty good now There is your writhwa tall in here. There's only five grams, which is not bad It's about the equivalent of about two packets of sweetener. So that's not too bad It does have natural flavor that I don't love and the sunflower oil is not expeller press But you know what for a point-friendly ice cream it actually overall has pretty darn good ingredient Now this one that isn't made with almond milk So the other ice creams are generally made with a skim milk. So you can see the skim milk there and Coconut oil. Sorry, which I love that they are made with coconut oil. That is such a better option Of course, there's cane sugar in there And then the same amount of sugar alcohol So really you guys not bad. Is it the cleanest around? No, but hey, we only have a certain number of points every day So choose what you spend your points on wisely and enlightened as a fan a fantastic choice So they were kind enough to offer me discount codes for you guys. It is not an affiliate link Simply a discount for you. I'll put them on the screen. There's two separate codes Whether you choose to buy pints or bars and I'll put it down in the description box So if you like enlightened, you can have it shipped to your doorstep usually save a little bit of money play with the dry ice It's a win-win. All right, my friends. Here's my lunch you guys. I'm so excited. Doesn't this look so Good, I'm probably going to have some cottage cheese, too But this is the main portion of my lunch my salad So let me show you all the components you guys always ask about my different salad concoctions that I throw together So first I'll show you guys the air fryer that I use I bought this a while ago I've shown this in a couple of videos. This is actually the copper chef air fryer It's just a tiny little air fryer, but you guys I love this thing for quick easy recipes You guys know I have the power of an elite. I'll show you So I have that big air fryer down there the red one that things just cumbersome and big when you only want to Cook a small amount of food. So I bought this off of Amazon for about $40.  Love it. Love it. Love it easy to clean just the basket style So I use my air fryer, of course to cook up my chicken. This is the chicken I use today This is the cauliflower new chick on the block the original I really really like the spicy version in my salad But I'm out of the spicy and I have like one and a quarter bags of these so I wanted to use them up I don't even like the spicy by itself, but it really just adds good flavor in the salad But today I just have the original so I have three pieces of that for three smart points I topped it here with some little cherry tomatoes. I just use the organic ones from Trader Joe's I always buy my tomatoes organic because they are on the Dirty Dozen and then to top my salad I did one ounce of the Trader Joe's organic crumbled feta. This is not low-fat Fat-free.  It's so good. So I used one ounce of that My salad is made up of basil because that's my new thing is adding basil to salad It's so good you guys try it and I only added about four leaves I just broke them out and mix them in with my greens my greens are these organic girl protein greens These are really good and I have these on hand So decided I wanted to use those up and then I topped it with my traditional one tablespoon of sunflower seeds I really like the added flavor and crunch of the sunflower seed on my salad So that is my salad itself and then I always make up my own vinaigrette I actually have this recipe on my website So head over to there if you want the recipe it's shown in with one of my other salads, but essentially here's what's in it So salt and pepper Balsamic vinegar. This is the best balsamic I've ever had. It's thick. It's sweet. It's so good I actually bought this off of Thrive Market. There's a link down below for Thrive You actually get $20 in free products when you join the Thrive Market highly recommend you guys Great great prices about 30% less than your traditional grocery store Thousands of good whole delicious foods free shipping comes to your door within a couple days Great community involvement with the Thrive Market. They give back to the community. Just love them overall So that balsamic you can pick up there. It's literally just a dash of Dijon mustard and then whatever oil that you want to use I do one teaspoon oil probably half a teaspoon Dijon mustard about one and a half teaspoons balsamic vinegar Pinch of salt and pepper and you have a literal one smart point salad dressing and it's so delicious So there's my lunch and then I literally just take my dressing Look at that. Oh So good Drizzle that right over the top and there is my lunch So it's three points for the chicken three points for the feta cheese One point for the sunflower seeds So that is what seven points and then one point for the dressing so my salad is eight smart points So I did decide to go ahead and have some cottage cheese along with my salad So I have four points a little over half of a cup. I just wanted to use what was left in this container This is the Nancy's cottage cheese. I don't love this. I think the good culture is so much better This one has kind of a weird taste. It tastes almost like sour cream With cottage cheese bits. I know that might sound bizarre, but it is kind of a bizarre taste and even texture So I will not be repurchasing this but I really really do love the good culture one They were just out when I went to the store So I have four smart points worth of that and I haven't been updating you guys on my water This is my fifth one of these Yay me so there is the rest of my lunch for four additional smart points. All right guys It's here my Aaron Condrum planner for July through the end of 2020 in all of 2021 I'm so excited you guys know I absolutely love Aaron Condren I use my planner every day several times a day So I want to show you guys kind of what everything looks like so they send you this cute little I guess it's kind of like a magazine That comes with your Aaron Condrum planner and kind of tells you about some of the products that they have So that's really cute. They didn't have that last year and then there is a little card Here is well from Aaron Condren. It comes very very nicely packaged I did kind of open it to make sure that this was the right one And I say the right one because I ordered a second Aaron Condrum planner It is obviously not personalized because I don't know who it's going to but I ordered a second one to do a Giveaway so stay tuned for that. It's just going to be thrown in there sometime So that is on its way as well, but this is my personalized one So I'm going to show you let's unbox this see all the good stuff I picked out and first let's take a look at that beautiful planner All right So it came in this box, but then it also comes in its own box Which just protects it and keeps it nice during shipping So then you just fold that back and you've got your Aaron Condrum planner It always comes with like some cute little like accessory type of things. There is a 20% off I'll show that here at the end of this clip So it's the first one that can take advantage of that can get 20% off But look at you guys isn't this the cutest I did go ahead and upgrade to the rose gold binding That's actually an upgrade the traditional binding is either I think silver or gold But I decided to upgrade to the rose gold. I think it's $10 more I just thought it looked really nice with the actual cover of the planner you always get this little ruler I usually just take it off the front, but yeah, look at this. I've got my name on it. I use this for real estate I use this for YouTube.  I just absolutely love it So you can see that it's going to start 12 2021 but it actually that's just kind of an at a glance of the entire couple years But it does start in July so you guys have plenty of time to order and get your Aaron Condrum planner before July I'll give you all the details here in just a couple of minutes, but this is it you guys I'm so excited so you can see that it goes through all of 2020 so there's December and then it also goes through all of 2021 So whenever you buy an Aaron Condrum planner it actually lasts you a year and a half, which is such a fantastic deal So each month is separated with a quote. It's just gorgeous. I absolutely love it each month I have an at a glance calendar now. You can choose your calendar to be vertical or horizontal I chose horizontal and then there is also a Beginning page for a month that includes a bullet journal I usually write my goals here And then I usually put some type of inspirational sticker quote there on that beginning page of the month And then I did my month laid out this way so last time I had it laid out the other way But I like that on each day. I actually have a bigger space to write I was finding that it was in this for me at least in this calendar type of a format It was just a little tougher to fit everything So I opted to go this format for the rest of the month and then we're on to the next month So I just love it. I think it is so absolutely beautiful in the very back You have a little tab that says notes So if you guys can see that there's some note pages Which I really like because I use those a lot to write down phone numbers or just kind of whatever I need to take a note of and then there's actually the year 2022 which I think that's really cool that they even give you the year the next year so that you can at least see dates If you're trying to plan something towards the end of 2020 or 2021 so I really like that and then every Aaron Condren planner comes with some stickers. So these are the types of stickers that you get with your planner They're very similar to last year. I've honestly used 90% of these from last year I use these ones all the time. How freaking cute are these and Then I use these as well these like little square ones I use those to track my weight my weight loss every week So I love those and then I use this a time. This is just a super cute Two-sided folder in the back of your planner and then also in every planner you get a perpetual calendar So this just has months no dates. So there's no dates on here. Well, there's dates, but it's not like year specific So it's just another perpetual calendar and that comes included with every Aaron Condren planner Seriously, you guys, it's so cute. This is the Aaron Condren life planner. It's the perfect size I can throw it in my purse. Like I said, I use it all the time. So now let's break into some of these goodies So these are all the free things that came with my planner So I didn't buy any of these they came with so they always give you three what they call compliment cards These are just really really cute I like to put these with thank-you notes that I send to people or with birthday cards or anniversary cards I just think that they're really cute They also gave me 20% off your next purchase when sharing with a friend or family So down in the description box is the link to head over and join the Aaron Condren insiders club It's free to join when you join the insiders club. You actually get $10 off of your first order So take advantage of that, but also take advantage of this for future orders Here are the codes if you guys want a screenshot. It looks like there's two separate codes for 20% off There's one and there's one now. It is only the first person who uses these I'm assuming so if you're interested join the insiders club and then try to input that code it check out And then they also give you some gift labels. So these are sticky back So it looks like there's a couple two from super cute So all that came with my planner and here's what I bought with my own money outside of my planner So I bought a petite journal. I bought a couple of sticker packs and another sticker pack I love these book ones and then I think this came free with my order. This is the organization clutch So it's just like a pencil bag. It has a zipper top I like to keep my markers and any loose stickers that I might have in one of these little pouches And again, this came free with my order. So before we open up the books I did buy these floating flowers floral high glass stickers or high gloss stickers I should say because they match really good with the cover of my planner and then I had to get Because we need these in our life. These are the petite planner goal-setting journal pack So it has fun stuff on it like make the day count goal Today is the day. Let's do this that type of thing like motivational things I like to put that in my planner when it comes to my weight loss and also when it comes to my career So I love those. Let's go ahead and open up this petite journal So this is the petite journal of and it includes 80 productivity pages. Oh, how cute is this? Peel back the later layers so the world can see you shine and then basically it's like a to-do list I do a lot of list-making. I'm majorly a list maker Especially when it comes to like planning for my YouTube channel and my real estate career So I bought this because I thought that this would be great to put in that back pocket and always have available for notes And then the other thing I bought you guys. This is so freaking cute This is the flower power sticker book that includes washi and clear stickers. There's actually 529 stickers in here, which I love these I bought one of these books last year and I I mean I've used almost all of them It's so crazy. So look at how cute these stickers are. They're just absolutely adorable. This is the flowery one So again, I bought this because it goes really well with my planner I think these are adorable so you can design pages customize your pages make them fun These are clear stickers. So they're clear backs. Look at gold. Love. Yay. Love this. It's so cute I love these circular ones and then I like this too These are also clear to do me time. Hello weekend note appointment Love that just so that you can have these marking your main calendar So you know if you have something coming up. How fun are these? It's just such a great deal and you get 529 stickers Incredible, I'm not sure of the cost. I'll make sure that I put it on the screen for everything So you would have already seen the other sticker books, but I'll put it on the screen here for this one But yeah, you guys so cute So these are the extras that I decided to pick up with my Aaron Conjuring planner So now take advantage of the 20% off if you're one of the first couple to use that But stay tuned you guys. I am going to be giving away a life planner I'm just waiting for it to get here and then I'm gonna figure out exactly how I Want to incorporate that giveaway here on my channel. So there you have it check out Aaron Conjuring down below Don't forget to click the link join the insiders club and that's how you'll get ten dollars off of your first order All right, it's afternoon snack time. I've got a smoothie Aka protein shake ready to go So what I have in this puppy is I have half of a cup of my so delicious dairy-free organic coconut milk for one Point and then I have about a half of a cup of water just to add a little extra liquid I have a frozen banana a bag of frozen kale and then I have you guys already know my primal kitchen collagen fuel and peanut butter I love this stuff. It is so incredibly delicious I'll put my discount information here on the screen for you guys But I just buy this off the primal kitchen website I am about to go order some other flavors because this stuff is killer So not only do you get a good dose of collagen? It's only two smart points for the scoop You also pick up some protein at 11 grams fan Tabulous ingredients this stuff is so good. It's absolutely delicious So I have one scoop of that and then I have about a teaspoon of Chia powder. So this is organic chia powder I like to use powder over chia seeds in my Smoothies just because I don't necessarily like that seed texture and this stuff is amazing from that stop I do have a discount code for these guys. It's not an affiliate link. It's just a discount for you I'll put it here on the screen and it's in the description. So that's that so let's pop the lid on this guy and blend her up All right, hello gorgeous there. She is You guys you cannot taste the kale at all and it is such a fantastic way Honestly to get in those extra greens So it's two points for the collagen also a great way to get in some extra collagen and it literally tastes like a peanut butter milkshake It's so good. So two points for the collagen one point for the coconut milk I do not count points for blended fruit. So this is three smart points Is it that time of day where you will get a bone? Do you guys want a bone? All right, let's do it. We got to get in here.  I love pesto shrimp and pasta So I'm so excited for tonight's dinner. So let me show you what is in our recipe. You're going to need some shrimp So I'm going to be using this large cooked shrimp minced garlic Lemon juice pasta of your choice. I'm using the fiber gourmet light linguiney They did a couple months ago revamp their fiber gourmet pasta. They changed the nutritional information So now it's only 100 calories per serving 25 grams of fiber 17 net carbs 7 grams of protein and the best news of this Revamp is that it's only two smart points now for two ounces of pasta Traditional pasta is anywhere from five to six smart points for two ounces. So that is amazing That is two ounces dry. So this entire bag is for servings because this bag is eight ounces So always measure your pasta dry. You can pick up fiber gourmet on the net trishan website There's a link down below for net trishan best pasta ever. It's the only pasta we buy Yeah, and you can't be two points for Two ounces of pasta. That's incredible. You're also going to need some salt sugar snap peas And some pesto now if you don't have pesto you can make your own The recipe actually gives you the directions to make your own pesto But I'm just going to use what I have left of this jar of pesto So let's get started on tonight's dinner So the first thing we're going to do is bring a pot of salted water to a boil So that we can go ahead and add in and cook down our pasta I also have a large skillet over here that I've sprayed with some non-stick cooking spray We're going to bring this up to temp and then we're going to add in our sugar snap peas And get started on making this pasta. I'm hungry and this sounds really good Once your snap peas have been cooking for a little while about three minutes or so We're going to go ahead and add in our shrimp mine have the tail on So i'm going to go ahead and pull the tails off before adding them Into the pan here and then we'll add a little bit of garlic So let me get the shrimp in and we'll add the garlic. All right So shrimp is in next step is putting Quite a big scoop of minced garlic in there And then i'm going to put in about a teaspoon of lemon juice just to kind of bring out the flavor of the shrimp And we're going to let this cook until the shrimp is completely warmed through and our pasta is actually coming along Nicely here and then we'll drain it And that'll be ready to go. This looks so good. You guys i'm so excited for dinner tonight So in my bowl here, I have one quarter of a cup of pesto We're going to go ahead and add that entire quarter of a cup here to the shrimp and the snap peas And then i'm also going to put just a little pinch of salt Our noodles are just about done and then the last step is is to add those directly into the pan All right noodles are in we're going to give this a stir We just want to make sure our noodles get coated in that pesto. That's it you guys dinner is ready how Quick and easy and simple. So let me get this stirred all together Plate it up and i'll be back to show you dinner and give you the smart point All right, so here is my dinner for tonight. So this whole pan of pasta made four servings total Each serving is five smart points on both the blue and purple plan and six smart points on the green plan Not bad at all for pasta pesto and shrimp. So tonight's dinner is five smart points So for dessert tonight, I'm going to have an enlightened mint chip bar I do have a couple of discount codes for enlightened. They're not affiliate links They just gave them to me for a discount for you guys They did send me these bars to try and mint chocolate is my favorite everything So these are 90 calories and they are two smart points apiece So that or i'm sorry three smart points apiece. So that's going to be my dessert Thank you for joining me on another what I eat today to lose weight on w w I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today seeing all my great fantastic food The dogs some halls and just an overall super fun day The recipe I shared with you for dinner tonight is down in the description box on my website So go in the description box click my website. 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I was thinking because I was like, yeah, it's kind of to keep it on the topic of Ramadan. So But I don't know. This is just something well two things like as a Christian, you know, you know, just speaking to Christian, you know family or you know about like the crucifixion. It's almost like it's so emotional and it's like the crux of Christianity and There's you can't really speak logically about it or you're right because it's just so emotionally bound to the Christian Paradigm, it's what unites all of Christians to they don't all believe certain things But that is one of the things that they're all united on right. So it's something that's How do you you know what I'm saying? I just I feel like that's kind of the point like like my mom for instance She's she's like amazing and she actually she's like she's like when I when I when I call out to God I say Allah God, you know, she believes in the Prophet Muhammad But when it comes to the crucifixion, it's like She she's she can't let go of it right and it's so it's just it's like really amazing So I'm just kind of wondering it from your experience or just in Dawa or you know, I'm saying like how do we kind of How do we bridge that in the sense that we know that that? That someone was made to look like he said he said I'm you know I'm saying so it almost makes sense that they would believe that So kind of what just me experience your perspective on that Well, one thing is like I said sometimes you got to do the the multiple-choice thing that I mentioned you know like if You had a choice if the choice was yours That in order for God to forgive you He had to kill Jesus who didn't do any of this Or That he could forgive you just by grace and you making a sincere effort you saying sorry just ask sometimes just reducing it down to just Presenting it some type of rational kind of multiple choice. It puts it in a different context because ultimately it's it's something that for for a Christian that's salvation, you know myself when I was Starting to read the Quran and read more into it. That was the one issue for me personally. I was like, yeah, I believe God is one I don't believe Jesus is God Everything I'm reading but then when it got to that particular issue That they didn't kill nor crucified him only a likeness of that was shown to him And with no other details I Was it like put me in my crisis Like what am I supposed to do and then I had to really work through that like well, what does That issue really involved for me. Why do I feel so attached to it because that's to do it how we're forgiven Right and that's one of the gifts of religion is a means of forgiveness Right like how do we right our wrongs? You know not just there's writing our wrongs that we do from one human to another right that that's one But then how do we write the wrongs that we do before our creator? right that has to be like of like Not prime primary importance because some one thing I even learned this was maybe about a just a few months ago This reflection really hit me that We believed in the Ten Commandments Right as Christians everybody knows about the Ten Commandments. What's the first one? Right? Exactly Now she'll have no other guys before me which we can easily translate as la la la I Said wow, and don't we believe that God gives a sense of priority to things So there's a list of Ten Commandment. Why is that the first one? We would say There's intention behind that being the first commandment And so it made me realize even still like I said I've been Muslim for almost 28 years I'm still learning and it just hit me recently That wow like Islam is reviving The primacy of the first commandment right and that's why Allah says and advises us when we have these discussions with the people of the book Say come to a word we share between us Which is not whether or not Jesus was crucified peace be upon him The word that we share between us is that we both say There's nothing worthy worship God. We both say there's one God. God is one and so That caused a shift for me personally just to focus like Okay This crucifixion thing that is an issue, but that has to do with how we rectify our affair with God But there's this other thing that's even more important believe it or not. It's more important than that Which is the very first commandment? If we can agree to that Then let's see what's Calling to that in the clearest most unambiguous manner Because once I shifted my like I said I literally became obsessed with this issue of crucifixion I wrote songs. I was in the band at that time I have songs about two songs in particular that I wrote about this issue of the crucifixion Okay as a Christian and so here I am writing a song, but that's how much it like It gripped me, you know spiritually and theologically that I'm writing about it in a rock song, you know But again, I had to look at what else is around this You know what I mean? How am I forgiven? And when I finally got to the verse in the Quran where God talks about sacrifices and how just like fasting He's also given right sacrificial rights to this community and also other communities But he says it's not their meat nor their blood that reaches a lot It's the piety in your heart When I read that I was I was done with that whole thing. I was like, okay Even as you know having this understanding that you know as a Christian we do okay They were always being taught. He was the sacrificial lamb He's you know that the Jews used to have you know to be forgiven at the sacrifice of lambs and animals and Then he realized it's actually there were other things they did like what if you didn't have a Lamb or a sheep mean you can't be forgiven. No that other things you could use grain You're right certain types of stocks that you had stored up Why because it really in the sight of God, it's not just Ultimately like the verse is it's not the meat or the blood or in the the case on the Jewish tradition It's not the grain in the wheat that reaches a lot. It's just The sincerity of giving up sacrificing something of value For him As a sign that no, I'm serious. I'm sorry and I'm gonna give up this thing You see I mean so for me Those types of things are really helpful and at the end of the day I would just encourage Kind of shifting the emphasis to the first command because that's something as a Christian Yes, we know those 10 commandments right just Consider the first one. Why is that the first the first commandment is not about salvation at all Right and we have plenty of beautiful and very powerful supporting scripture about the oneness of God and Even forgiveness that's attained just by believing that and those who just say la la la the heaviest thing on the scale Right, we're forgiven even just for saying that believing it obviously in our heart and saying it forgiven And just offer that is the good news say that's our good news the gospel is the good news That's the good news at the end of the day We just can present it and so I'm just trying to share some tools to consider And your next presentation with mom You know to say a mom, you know, let's reflect on the very first command Because I think maybe we've got sidetracked with some of these other things that are important And we do that is also getting to talk about women in Islam and he jab in Islam and jihad in Islam Start with la la la la Islam is the revival of the first commandment That's all it's it's it's unambiguous uncomplicated monotheism That it's finest that we should be proud to have that in this form So just something to consider It may a lot got all our parents, you know our siblings Our cousins and we should beg for that Ramadan, you know, I'm talking to myself, too Like did I pray for my my mom at that last night? I didn't You know, so I'm saying this just a reminder you're reminding me of my mom and my dad My three brothers and sister and my grandmother You know, we gotta pray for folks. Don't be stingy with your prayers and just Thinking about yourself and your issues and your needs