is Prince Dykes. Welcome to The Prince of Investment. Coming to you guys and girls live all the way from a beautiful city and state of Denver, Colorado via Honolulu, Hawaii. Don't forget to hit that like subscribe button and share button. And as always, I don't have a lot of time and I definitely know you guys and girls don't have a lot of time, so we're going to jump straight into it. As you guys and girls can see in the description box, we're going to be talking about the housing market and why haven't we seen foreclosures on the market? You see in previous episodes, I talked about the economical slowdown coming and how it would impact housing. Welcome to the episode discussing how to find houses that go on foreclosure, but go into foreclosure. But as the market, as interest rates, well, first of all, we have inflation that is rising. And then from inflation, the Federal Reserve has become aggressive.  We're raising interest rates still. This has caused housing market to slow down along with stocks and along with all asset classes. So if it's slow down, people are kind of wondering, so what's going to happen in the real estate market? Is it going to crash like 2008? No, I think the people who live through 2008, like myself and who are investors and financial people, we have what we like to call post-traumatic stress syndrome. Not what I like to call, which is really a term. But when you become fearful that something is going to happen again, that was a very traumatic incident that you went to in the past, went through in the past. So why do I say that we're investors have post-traumatic stress syndrome? Because we saw 2008 when we had the housing market debacle with CDOs collapsing. And you guys and girls know that's for another episode. But as things started to turn, I started to look for foreclosures. I started to look for houses that have become on the market, things like that. So one of the first things I wanted to discuss and talk about today is what was the difference between 2008 and right now currently in 2022? The first thing is, yes, we had a housing market that started to decline in 2008. That really collapsed in 2008. So for a prime example, let's say I purchased my home for $400,000. I turned around today, the housing market collapsed. They said my home was only worth $300,000. I just lost my job. I can no longer afford the mortgage. I lost my job. I can no longer afford the mortgage, but my house is only worth $300,000. I purchased it for $400,000. And let's say if I still owe $400,000. Guess what? Now I'm less to foreclose on the home because I can't afford the home and I can't take the market to the, I don't want to take the house to the market and sell it because it's going to be sold for less than what I purchased for. Y'all know the simple concept. Buy low, sell high. Now buy high and sell low. So that was a dilemma that a lot of people fell into where they started selling their own homes. People just walked away from homes, all type of things, right? Hey, I lost my job. Plus I can't really sell the home and things like that. So currently what we're experiencing is, let's say back in 2020, we saw this economical push into the housing market. When we saw this economical push into the housing market, this was due to the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates as a way to stimulate the economy throughout the pandemic. These kinds of interest rates, what it always does is raise asset classes. So we saw stocks go up and rally. We saw real estate go up and rally. Crypto was even, everybody was rallying in the asset class. So now I purchased my house for $400,000. Now it's worth $600,000. As the market starts to pull back, now my house is only worth $500,000. I paid $400,000 for it. Now they're telling me I can sell it for $500,000. I lost my job. You see the layoffs happen. Amazon is laying off. This company is laying off. This company is laying off. Sprint Airlines is cutting this many employees. Frontiers cutting this many employees. And this is going to be a trend as long as the Federal Reserve continues to be aggressive with interest rates. Now my house is only worth $400,000. I mean, I paid $400,000 for it. It's only worth $500,000. I got put into that layoff. I lost my job. I don't have a way to, I can no longer afford my mortgage. Guess what do they're going to do? I have a house that I owe $400,000 on that I can take to the market and sell for $500,000. So I'm going to take my house to the market and sell it for $500,000. Once I sell it for $500,000, I'm going to profit $100,000. So most people who walk into situations where they lose their job, lose their careers, and they can no longer afford their mortgage in this current economy in 2022, people can literally just sell their house. Now we noticed the housing market has shifted. It went from a buyer's market to a, it went from a seller's market. Now it slowly turned into a buyer's market, like we always know what will happen. So before the seller, you could just say, Hey, sold as is, take whatever you can get from it.  Now it just turned into the hands of the buyer. Well, I think it's going to be a great opportunity for buyers. Start about the end of next year, middle next year, end of next year, depending on how the inflation and interest rate things kind of play out, how that plane lands, right? So this is why you don't see houses going for foreclosure on the market currently. That's why you haven't seen that spike. Something that was waiting for a while. I said, okay, unemployment, people buy these houses. Some people stretch themselves very thin to get into houses at the peak. Now, I mean, they wrote checks, they did whatever they could do, they overbeated their homes, the house of praise for $500,000. They won the bid at $550,000. They came out of their pocket for $50,000 just to get into the home. The $50,000 they really didn't have. Now they have a pretty high mortgage. And the best thing that can happen to them is hopefully interest rates start to peel back down, which I expect to kind of start to happen the middle of the end of next year. So now let's say if you just got into this home, you stretch yourself in, then all of a sudden the housing market starts to pull back. What are you going to do? Right? So right now, people are just selling their way out of the problem. Hey, I can just sell this house, walk away with the profit. Good thing. But as we walk into next year, I changed my viewpoint on the foreclosure market because I'm paying attention to everything, how it changes every day. The one thing is, is that people who purchase at the peak, who may lose their job, the house may not, the house was, for prime example, in the situation I gave you, the house was worth evaluated at $500,000. They paid $550,000 forward. They had to come up with $50,000 to just close on the house. So they came up with $50,000, probably everything they had to close everything they had. Now they close out on the house for $550,000, right? And the house wasn't even worth $550,000 when they got into the house. They overbid it. Now the house and market start to cool off, meaning interest rates continue to rise or whatever. The house is no longer worth $500,000, the step is worth $450,000 now. You paid $550,000, the house is only worth $450,000. Here you go back into that situation. Hopefully, that person can still afford the mortgage. Hopefully, interest rates drop. If the person, if you're in that situation and you lose your job and you can't pay your mortgage and you can't do it for, not for abearancy, but a way to reorganize your mortgage, right? Have some type of forbearancy put in there and you're going to be in a hard spot. You're going to be in a very hard spot if you walk into that situation. My best advice if you do walk into that situation is to speak with your mortgage. The mortgage broker will own you a loan and say, hey, I can no longer afford the home, but let's reorganize the home. Let's reorganize the payments. Let me take about six months, seven months. Most mortgage lenders will work with you, especially in times of economical hardship. They know that you're having a hard time.  I'm sorry. They will rearrange your mortgage. You don't have to pay your mortgage for maybe up to a quarter. For most people, I know that speak with their mortgage companies. They give you 30 days, not 30, 90 days, three months, 90 days, and then they'll reevaluate it. They give you 90 days and they'll reevaluate it. Give you 90 days and reevaluate it, right? So when they give you those 90 days and reevaluate it, they'll allow you to do what? Change your mortgage if need be, all right? So that's one of the things you don't have to worry about when you are not have to worry about. But those are one of the things that you can do if you run into economical hardships and you own a mortgage. So that's the things they do to protect people. Look what happened in 2020, when you saw so many people lose their jobs, lose everything they had in 2020. You know, you saw restaurants and industry get demolished, right? Have a hard time. So many companies start to lay off and so many companies did freezes, but the government rushed to the printer and print out all this PPP money that we're dealing with now. It felt good because it fixed the problem temporarily, but in the long term, we have to hurt right now. So when the government did that, they did what they call forbearances. So forbearances was ways for people to keep their homes and to keep them in mortgages that they probably couldn't afford or they couldn't afford. But it was a way to reorganize your debt. How does that work? Let's say I owe $400,000 on my particular home right now. With that $400,000, I in return call the mortgage company and say, hey, I can't pay $3,000 a month for a mortgage because I just lost my job and things like that. They say, hey, we're going to give you up to 90 days. You don't have to pay your mortgage for 90 days. We're going to rearrange your debt where you're going to pay the mortgage on the back end. So when you do start to pay back your mortgage, your mortgage payments may be a little bit higher, but it gives you three months to kind of get on your feet or whatever. Hopefully, in that three months, you can get unemployment, something like that, to at least you can make one mortgage payment in the timeframe, maybe every other month, or maybe you can strap together something before you get back on your feet. Mortgage companies do this big time when it comes down to hard times. When you can't afford your mortgage, you can't pick up on some of the things that's going on. So right there, there you go. That's why we haven't seen the mortgage crisis. That's why we haven't seen foreclosures. This is why we haven't seen them because people now, the housing market is hot and I purchased my home back in 2020 and I can't afford my mortgage. I can just sell my way out of the problem and walk away with 50, 60, 70, 80, $100,000 depending on the situation. Why walk away and foreclose on my home when I can just sell it for a profit? That's why we have not seen a uptick in foreclosures because the housing market is still kind of hot. Now, if you're someone that caught the market at the peak, meaning you will use one of those people that overbid it for a home that evaluated less than what you paid for and you had to come up with all this money for closing because the home wasn't worth what you purchased it for, then the market starts to cool off and once the market started to cool off and let's say if you get laid off while the market is cooling off, now the house, if you did want to sell it, you're back in a bad situation where you may have to short sell because you're going to be upside down. The house would value it at $500,000 but you wanted to bid at $550,000, you closed at $550,000, meaning that you had to pay another $50,000 and the house was only worth a half a million. The market cools off.  Now that you're unemployed, what happens? What does that mean? You can't afford your mortgage. You can't afford your mortgage. You can't sell the house. Let's just sell it for a loss. You just don't want to walk away from the home. You can try to speak and reorganize your debt. One situation I just told you about earlier or you can be in that situation that a lot of Americans faced in 2008. Those are the people that may be getting into the foreclosure markets and short selling markets, things like that. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's going to be my time for today. Hopefully you guys and girls took away something from the show. Notice and see, get something to understand of the economical machine, how it works, how is it different from 2008 in now? Why haven't we seen foreclosures but we see the cool off in the market? Things you can do to protect yourself, not protect yourself, but if you walk into one of the situations where, hey, you just became a first time shareholder, not shareholder, but homeowner this year and you supposedly got laid off and you can't afford your mortgage, what are you going to do? Can you sell your way out of it or do you need to afford parents your way out of it? Hey, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you guys and girls took something out of it. Hope you learned something from it. As always, y'all know my name. I'm Prince Dykes. This is the Prince of Investment and to the next video, podcast, cartoon or whatever it's crazy, y'all see me do around the globe. My name is Prince Dykes. This is Think Tech Hawaii. Peace, be safe. I'm out and thank you.


10 English Phrases for Encouraging Someone, from EspressoEnglish.net 1. Keep Up the Good Work Say this when the person is doing well and you want them to continue. Keep up in this case means continue. 2. That was a nice try. That was a good effort. Use these phrases after the person didn't succeed and you want to help them feel better. 3. That's a real improvement. You've really improved. Use these phrases to say that the person is making good progress. 4. You're on the right track. Use this phrase when a person is close to the answer or close to success but hasn't reached it yet. On the right track means that they are going in the correct direction. 5. You've almost got it. Use this phrase when a person is coming very close to succeeding. 6. Don't Give Up The phrasal verb give up means to desist, to stop trying. So you can say don't give up to encourage a person to continue trying. 7. Come on, you can do it. Use this phrase to emphasize the person's ability to succeed. You can say this to a person who has low self-esteem or has difficulty believing they can succeed. 8. Give It Your Best Shot Your best shot means your best try. So this phrase is used to encourage someone to do their best. 9. What Have You Got To Lose This question is used to emphasize the fact that if the person doesn't succeed, there won't be any negative consequences. So they should make an effort. 10. Nice Job, I'm Impressed The phrase nice job means that the other person did something good. It is not related to their employment or profession. You can also add I'm impressed if the person's success surprised you in a good way. Thanks for watching English Tips from Espresso English. If you liked this video, please share it.


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enjoying the Geminids from above and below, presented by Science at NASA. On the night of December 13th, into the morning of December 14th, 2018, tune into the night sky for a dazzling display of fireballs. Thanks to the International Space Station, this sky show, the Geminids Meteor Shower, will be viewed from both above and below. Sky watchers on the Earth will be sprawled flat on their backs, scanning the skies for fleeting streaks of light or meteors from small particles or meteoroids burning up as they plunge into the atmosphere. While most of those viewers won't be pondering what the shooting stars are made of, astronomers and planetary scientists will be. The meteor camera on the space station will provide clues. Meteor records HD video from inside the Window Observational Research Facility, or WARF, looking through the highest optical quality window installed on a human space vehicle. This camera helps scientists identify and monitor the activity of meteors from bolides, extremely bright meteors that typically explode in the atmosphere, to much fainter ones not visible to the naked eye. The camera is equipped with a diffraction grating, an optical component that allows incoming light to be split into selected visible wavelengths of light that are signatures of various elements, sodium, calcium, and magnesium. By measuring a spectrum or chemical fingerprint from the meteor, the presence of these elements is revealed. Meteor science principal investigator Tomoko Orai of the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan says, our observations focus on annual meteor showers such as Geminids and Perseids because they're meteoroids originated from known comets or asteroids, so-called meteor showers parent bodies. The spectral information will tell us the chemical makeup of the meteoroids and of their parent bodies. This can help us understand their origin and evolution. The instrument also helps improve estimates of how much material actually enters Earth's atmosphere. Findings could help mission planners protect spacecraft and Earth from potential collisions with meteoroids. So what parent body spawns the debris that results in the dazzling Geminids? Many researchers hypothesize that they are related to a rocky asteroid known as 3200 Phaethon, which passes closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid. Phaethon may be a rock comet, a dormant comet that has accumulated a thick mantle of interplanetary dust grains that can slough off as the comet nears the Sun. Phaethon may be an asteroid that was once rich in ice and organics like comets, originally located in the main asteroid belt, which has become active as its orbit has evolved closer to the Sun. Bill Cook of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office offers another possible explanation for the Geminid source. There is another object, Apollo asteroid 2005 UD, that seems to be dynamically related to Phaethon and has physical similarities. Some researchers believe that 2005 UD, 3200 Phaethon and the massive amounts of debris that cause the Geminids are all products of a larger object that has broken apart. Researchers continue to debate the cosmic drama underlying the Geminids. Meanwhile, Cook gives this advice. Best viewing is Friday morning around 2 a.m. your local time, after moonset. In the suburbs, you could see around 40 to 50 meteors per hour. Under ideal conditions, you could see about 100 meteors per hour. Darker is always better when viewing meteor showers. For the full spectrum of science underway on the space station, go to www.nasa.gov.iss-science. For more amazing views of our skies and beyond, visit science.nasa.gov.


In May 2022 Frontier published a top level roadmap for Elite's future development that alongside the narrative updates we've now seen to the game also promised what they called a key feature overhaul in early 2023. In this video I'll go over what I think are likely the key candidate features for that overhaul and why. You know by now how this bit goes. If you enjoy our videos please do hit the thumbs up, subscribe and ding the little bell so you don't miss any of our Elite Dangerous content and to directly support our work here at the pit you can also join our Patreon community. Links to that and everything else are below. When discussing the mysterious key feature that Frontier spoke of there could of course be any number of candidate features within Elite Dangerous being referenced. If you ask any six commanders what features they think Frontier are overhauling you'll likely get six perfectly legitimate but all very different answers. Where possible I've tried to gather some small pieces of evidence or clues that might lead me to think one way or another and I've then filtered them out to see what I think the most three likely candidates are. With that said then and in no particular order. Number 1 CQC If you were a new player coming into the game you could be forgiven for not even knowing that Elite's answer to fast paced enclosed map deathmatch, team deathmatch or capture the flag even existed. If you didn't know it existed and I told you to go digging around in the games front menu looking for it you wouldn't even find a mention of it. Close quarters combat or the CQC championships as it's called on screen if you manage to find it is actually referred to on the menu selection before you enter the main game as Arena. You can since the launch of fleet carriers queue for an arena match from within the cockpit of your ship except here it's called CQC and not Arena. With me so far CQC has had a long and rather tortured history becoming an optional stand alone client on PC and consoles as well as an option from the main menu before that stand alone client was itself pulled due to lack of engagement from the player base with the match centric game mode returning to the main game client option only. Across all of that history however the CQC arena mode has remained largely unchanged. As I've mentioned if you're unfamiliar with the CQC arena it's a fighters and small ships only match based deathmatch team deathmatch and capture the flag option that is brace yourself really really good fun like really good fun but almost no one outside of a hardcore dedicated sub community of Elite Dangerous plays it with any regularity. The reasons no one plays it are both complex and simple being a match based game it requires opponents to queue for the game in a lobby in order for matches to be set up outside of an organized CQC session generally speaking if no one is queuing for a match then no one else queues for it and the vicious self-reinforcing cycle of not queuing because no one else is queuing continues ensuring there are no queues. Away from the queue issue there's no way to guarantee that you'll only end up in a match with for example just friends or just players of a similar level of ability meaning as you'd expect you may struggle to play with your friends or if you're new you'll likely get your pants roundly handed to you over and over again by someone who isn't new to the game thereby ensuring that you never queue again. There have been multiple threads on the official forums pleading with Frontier to revisit the arena idea. Adding it as an option in the main copy is definitely a step in the right direction and with a few other tweaks and improvements like adding bots as an option and closed private group play etc for example it's very easy to see how the mode could be brought more into the mainstream of Elite Dangerous and even become a tidy gateway drug to entice new players into the main game. If Frontier were to revisit the arena idea in modern times it seems unlikely they would do so without also including the on foot portion of the game as well. In fact I've commented on a number of occasions on this very channel that the current on foot conflict zone offering has a very enclosed deathmatch feel to it more than it does an armed struggle to control an asset in a system. I'd love to think Frontier were going to revisit CQC but honestly having taken a lengthy run at it already from the developers and designers perspective it's going to be a significant uphill struggle to convince the executives holding the purse strings that such an underused existing feature is worth spending money on. If that is indeed the case that's a crying shame as I'm not sure those same executives realise quite what an awesome feature they are so very very close to nearly having.  I guarantee you some folks listening to my voice now who have been playing Elite for multiple years won't know what Power Play is and if they do know what it is they won't know what it's for or even better when asked the question what is it for they'll reply it's what you do to get prismatic shields and packhound missiles. I've been playing Elite Dangerous since its launch as a beta product following the kick starter around 10 years ago and I'm not sure what it's really for or why I would want to participate in it outside of obtaining packhounds and prismatics and every time I do go to participate for the aforementioned kit acquisition purposes I end up shuttling meaningless things from point A to point B after staring at a weird map for a few minutes. For the uninitiated Power Play is an in-game system that allows you to pledge your allegiance to one of the galaxy's super power figureheads like Aisling Duval, Edmund Mahon or the T-1000 from Terminator 2. Once pledged you can perform actions on behalf of those powers that will affect the ebb and flow of influence they have enabling the acquisition of star systems to their respective banners. In return through a somewhat strangulated process you can earn the right to buy kit for your ships that can't be obtained from anywhere else. The kit is only available from specific power players meaning if you want it all you need to pick up and drop allegiances left and right making said allegiances largely meaningless. Think of it as background simulation turf wars on super power scales with prizes. There are folks whose entire game is Power Play outside of the kit acquisition mechanic but I think it's fair to say that they're probably in the minority. Power Play has fantastic storytelling potential it's almost completely player driven and as such is something hugely unique to Elite Dangerous and it should be a massive draw to the game but in its current incarnation its very presence is obfuscated, its inner workings a mystery without some lengthy forum reading and its longer term benefits to the more casual player difficult to decipher. There are some movements story-wise from the power players themselves currently that has me wondering if changes to Power Play are on the cards. The T-1000's position at the top of the Federation for example is about to be challenged by space Rockefeller in an election in June this year. Also as I've mentioned before on this channel the artist formerly known as D2 so Jin A surgically altered by salvation and his goons now has the ability to commune with the Thargoids on some level. She is now off on her own doing who knows what and I'm still not yet convinced she isn't going to return with a legion of Thargoid drones in tow to establish herself as a power in the bubble for the Thargod cultists to flock to. Likewise giving those players that want some sort of non-killy option for Thargoid engagement a banner to fly under. Frontier have presumably got a long-term reason for a character in their lore to be Dr. Dolittle but for Thargoids and a solid argument can be made looking at the war map currently that the Thargoids are indeed already a power just without a figurehead that also speaks a galactic standard language and doesn't spew caustic goop. If Evdev has other plans for her which is of course totally a possibility then they are currently obscured. Number three then in November of 2021 Frontier put out a focused feedback request with regard to all things tied to ship engineering. The feedback was duly offered and gathered and indeed acknowledged by Frontier but the last time a review of all things engineering was meaningfully mentioned by Frontier was December of 2021. Ship engineering and specifically the gathering of the materials needed to facilitate that engineering is one of the biggest bugbears that is continually raised by the community with the word grind being thrown around quite liberally. Ship engineering is also of the three things I've mentioned the one thing that probably touches the most players. If the decision at Frontier on what to overhaul was based solely on bang for your buck I'd imagine ship engineering issues would have to be right up there near the top of the list. If I was forced to pick a personal favorite of the three things I've listed here and a thing of the three that I thought it most likely to be the subject of a revamp it would be ship engineering. Just to be clear however and it's important to note that this in particular is a very personal perspective it's not so much a case that ship engineering itself needs a revamp. Personally I quite like the way it works for me however the sticking point and the single reason I don't engage with it more is the acquisition of materials and if Frontier were to take a run at overhauling engineering it's this area that I think they may be able to affect large changes quite easily and see large changes as a result. It's already possible to acquire fairly large swathes of certain materials as part of running missions in the Thargoid war and with judicious use of the material trader network I can see how it would be possible to add a few more materials as mission rewards overall and then encourage players to use the mat traders to get what they need. Ultimately rather ironically my personal leaning toward engineering as a candidate feature is due to my relative level of engagement with that feature when compared with CQC or Powerplay and the reason I don't engage more with CQC or Powerplay is likely because they would in fact benefit most from an overhaul that would encourage increased engagement. I do just want to give an honorable mention to exobiology as well in the days of the Odyssey Alpha test exo bio had a mini game associated with the plant scanner that it was widely felt had no place being in Elite Dangerous so loudly and enthusiastically was the feeling expressed that F Dev stripped out the whole thing before Odyssey launched but they did at the time promise to return to the game loop. When Odyssey launched quite a lot of dust needed to settle from Odyssey itself before dev efforts could be justified returning to the plant scanning gameplay. I'm not convinced that the plant scanning mechanic as is really needs further development efforts but it would be nice to see exo bio fleshed out a bit more in some fashion to add more depth and options to it. I really don't think that is on F Dev's radar right now however. What key feature do you think Frontier are planning on overhauling? What key feature would you like them to overhaul and just when do you think that overhaul will arrive? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now. Thanks very much for watching. If you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and maybe take a look at one of our other videos linked on screen right now.


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So it can go anywhere between 10 centimeters to about 40 meters. So again, they have good the probes has different applications in farming, in environmental monitoring, in viticulture, in horticulture as well as in in the council work and in the irrigation scheduling as well. So again, the probes we are talking here is similar to this. It can come with the cables and also they are cable less and they can connect to the data logging system, which it's similar to this, but this is not the only top. So there are a number of the different tops. Some of them are battery operated. Some of them are solar panel operated and they can go for quite long top. So batteries normally are lithium batteries go anywhere between three to five years in one of these units. The data transmission systems is not only through the network of the area but also is happening through the Bluetooth devices as well that we have. Again, these guys as a standard size comes at the 30, 60, 90 and 120 centimeters and anything longer than that then we have a different options in terms of soil moisture monitoring. So that's the the probe type of the equipment that we do. We also provide weather stations, actual weather station as well as the virtual weather station that you can adjust it based on the location that you have. The actual weather station, the physical weather station that we do, we do partnership with the MetoSpecil and the virtual weather station is actually extracting information from all of the weather station around the area and depends how many weather stations are around. So the more weather station there are then there would be more accurate information that you get from our virtual weather station. Also do satellite imagery, so including NDVI, MASVI and ERMI, chlorophyll indications, bear soil indications. So all of those imageries are also available through Cintiq and through our software. All of the information can come through a platform which is called Eramax Live. We also have another platform which is the desktop based at the Eramax desktop, which is the older version of the Eramax. So from the dashboard of the Eramax, you can have a look at, it's a constant monitoring of all of those three parameters that as we indicated, as well as all of the information from the weather station can be brought into the dashboard of the Eramax. And if you have an irrigation controller, irrigation system, let's say mate system or Galcons or GSIs or Arabells or other other service providers in the industry. So we can actually fetch the data from their website through the API to the dashboard of the Eramax or you can do vice versa, from Eramax to the dashboard of those companies if they do have the capacity to deliver. So yeah, in terms of availability of the product, so we don't sell directly to the public. So we normally work through the network of the dealers. In Australia, we have somewhere around 70 to 80 dealers. I look after all of the accounts in Australia and New Zealand, but we do have other representatives in the different parts of the world. So we do have a presence in Europe as well as in US offices as well as the warehouses, just in case, in terms of distribution, we need to. The main market is in US, as big dollars coming from there. But again, the birthplace of the products was in South Australia. And we're doing a lot of work with the different research centre in South Australia, in different states in Australia. So any questions up for it? Also, we are next to the harvest in the shed. So just in case, if you have a question, please reach out. I was just just had a question for you. Cintex is a pretty popular system and you've got a lot of customers here in the Barossa. Just in terms of you've explained all the technology, but I was just going to say people like to see how that's working on other people's vineyards. So we've got this system on some of our demonstration vineyards. So if you did want to get in touch with someone who's using Cintex, you can come through me and I can put you on to vineyard owners or Chris Rogers and just to have a chat about it, because it's always helpful to you know, get that testimonial from the same with any of these systems really, I guess. In terms of installation and the extraction of the the probes, that's one of the main things. So we are proud that we can claim that it's the undisturbed soil probe. So again, as soon as you install it with the proper auger that goes inside the ground, then immediately you can put the probe inside that that's a whole or the whole and the information is valid immediately. So again, you don't need to wait. You don't need to prepare in a slurry. You don't wait for two or three weeks and that come to effect, especially with the shorter rotation crops, leafy crops. So you do want to get the information straight away. So again, this is pretty much within the minutes. The information that coming from the probes are valid. And also I'm very, very, very important point. Ownership of the data is to the owner of the probe. So we don't own the data. So we just provide the data at the platform for the farmers, for the growers to access that information. But the ownership is yours. Thank you. Any questions? Medi, could you tell people around how many probes they need to install in their farm to have a good control or to give an idea? OK, per hectare, you need this or per block. You need this number of probes to have a rough idea of what they need to be monitoring the soil moisture properly. A very good question. So again, in terms of per hectare, how many would you recommend we do not do so? This is mainly based on the zones, like the soil types that you have in the different parts of the paddocks. So again, could be up in the hill or down in the hill, different soil types, lighter soil. So of course, the water penetration is this different water absorption and how it travels through the soil is different. And you can clearly see that how the water is traveling in the soil after or before irrigation. So again, based on answering the questions, based on the zones or the soil types that you have, I would recommend that, you know, to go at least take one probe for each zone. But again, you can take them out and then put them, install them in the in the in the next locations if need be. So to get the more specific information about that, the specific sites. So just run it for a year for six months, see how it goes. Then you know your soil type. You've already done the soil tests. Then you get the information from the earmacks and from the probes. Then marrying these two information together. So it gives you a really very good insight about what's going on down in the root zone. And then you can schedule the irrigation based on that information. One more question. Do you pay for the system or per site? Probe. So the payment is actually per probe. So again, you pay for the probes. But probes also comes with one first year software and free software subscription from from the second year. It depends how many probes you have, really. So again, as a, like, let's say end user of the probes as a grower. So again, if you have a number of the probes, then, you know, you qualify for the like brackets, like a price brackets. So the more you have, the less you pay per per subscription. Subscription is on from the second year is ongoing. So again, as long as you want, you can keep it running. And then let's say you got a short rotation crop and you got you paid for, let's say, 12 months subscription. But halfway through, you finished with the season of that growing season. So you can let us know just a quick email, let us know or let the dealers that you purchased it through, then we can put a stop on that. So again, let's say you use six months of it and you would like to use the next six months in the next year. We can do that as well. So again, it doesn't expire. So that's in terms of subscription. But in terms of probe, once you bought it, that's yours. Yeah. And also we provide repair and support services and agronomic advice as well. So again, this is a part of the deal. So again, I look after Australia and New Zealand in terms of when it needs to be done in terms of agronomy, in terms of interpretation of the data, in terms of anything that needs to be done with the probe. It is not working warranties. Everything it is comes back to me. So again, it is a one to one direct communication and relationship with all of the clients that we have in the region. Yeah. Thanks, many. Yes. Yes. So actually, the question is mainly for you, Nikki. You said that there was a large number of growers through the Barossa who've got one of these systems. So has the Association thought about the possibility of treating those as a network over lane, over reasonably good resolution source survey that you've got in the Barossa and therefore people who don't have a probe can nevertheless take advantage of the data coming from the people who do. And of course, that then raises a question about the data ownership that was alluded to before, because whilst the person who owns the probe owns the data, a does Sentech nevertheless have access to that data and what privacy or other controls do they put in place? But if the Barossa Association, for the sake of argument, was interested in setting up a network, does the facility exist to enable that data to be shared in a network arrangement? Very good question. And it's one of those situations that I need to sit on the fence. So again, as I mentioned earlier, so again, this information is completely belongs to the owner of the data, the Opro. As long as they are happy to share the information, we are not in the position to make any comments. So again, we would just say yes. But as long as it's written in writing, as long as it's like a text message or an email, that yes, I allowed my information to be shared with such and such, then that's OK. In terms of security to the sites and information that's available, so this is a three-factor authentication to get into the accounts. So again, this is not easy to break in. And also, we partnered with some of the big names in terms of irrigation controllers Galcon, Galileo, and the GSIs. And these guys are like a super protective over their IPs and their information. And for that reason, we have to do it. And we also have a quality control system. They monitoring us twice a year in terms of IT and access. And yeah, that's super secure in terms of data access. They answer your question. We have managed to collaborate with all the weather state, well, 15, Chris, 17 of the weather station holders that were set up for the Teowar project. We do have that network in terms of weather data. And that's reported in our video watch newsletter throughout the growing season. But yeah, as you say, it might be a bit more tricky for us on moisture monitoring. So well.


So, you can see over there, there's a National Geographic gender revolution, I totally agree, we are in the midst of a gender revolution, and the children are leading it. And it's a wonderful thing to see, and it's also humbling to know they know more than we do about this topic of being gender expansive. But I just want to say something. This is not the original gender revolution in the last century. So I am a child of the 60s, and we were the flower children, and we were accused of smoking dope and not taking baths. We did smoke dope, but we did take baths. But one of the things we also did was challenge gender stereotypes. So we had men with long hair, men who wore jewelry, women who stopped shaving their legs, and an insistence that William could have a doll. So there is a history, I think it goes back to the civil rights movement, then into the feminist movement, then into the gay and lesbian movement, and now to the issue of transgender rights and the transgender and gender expansive movement, and definitely beyond the binary. And what we have, therefore, as we sit here today, is we've got the earth moving under our feet. So we used to think, a lot of people still do, the gender is bedrock. That's why you say, when somebody's going to have a baby, boy or girl. And we situate a child before they're even born in their gender, which we need to be humble enough to say we don't know yet, but we still do it. Now we've got gender is moving boulders, and it makes a lot of people nervous. And that's why you were seeing a lot of pushback, like no transgender people in the military for no good reason, because these moving boulders create a lot of anxiety. But they're here, and we should celebrate them. But we've always had gender as fluid. I wanted to show you this picture. That is a 17th century Flemish painting, little boy with goat, okay? So this is a little boy in the 17th century. But fast forward, go to the earliest 20th century, find a picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a white dress. Because in European culture, which traveled over to the United States, all children dressed the same till age seven, and they dressed like this. And then there was a sudden differentiation between male and female. So the girls kept dressing like that, no more for the boys. But we still have gender fluidity in terms of expression, different than we have now in the 17th century. Now let's fast forward. Okay, this is my local pharmacy in Rockridge, Oakland, Pharmaca. And I was walking in, and I saw this child, who was referred to as a boy by his mother, wearing by the candy, this is a candy counter, wearing work boots, little painter pants, an REI ski jacket, and a pink tutu. The amazing thing is nobody looked twice, because it was Oakland, California. What they also didn't notice, which I did, is he was also stealing candy. This is the child of a colleague of mine, in his full gender expansive self, with his wings, his wand, and at Toys R Us, which, you know, gluttony for punishment going to Toys R Us, but asking for his toy Tonka truck. Now we remember 1972, William's doll, that was a big deal. We feminists in that era, were going around to schools talking about boys can play with dolls. The book comes out, William can have a doll. And that was wonderful. And it was really a sea change in children's books. And now, let's come to 2018. You see all of these books here, and I want to alert you to another one that I don't think I see here, by Colt Keohmeier, called Stacey's Not a Girl. And I would definitely recommend that you all have this in your libraries, because it really deals with a child who doesn't know yet, and is exploring. And it's just a wonderful book in that regard. Now I want to go back to the 1940s, because we went back to 1940s, to the turn of the 20th century. I'm coming back to the 40s. You're wondering why I have Stuart Little up here. E.B. White, without knowing it, wrote really the parable of the parents with a gender expansive child. Okay. Review. I'm sure you all know this story, but I'm still... Mr. and Mrs. White. I'm sorry. Mr. and Mrs. Little have a baby, out comes a mouse. They're shocked. The pediatrician says, this is wonderful. You have a little mouse. They're not so sure. But they rise to the occasion, and they learn how to raise their mouse so that their mouse can be safe and filled with pride. But they also protect their mouse. So when there's a nursery rhyme about the three blind mice, Mr. Little says, we tear that page out. We do not want our child to be worried that they're going to be going around the house with a farmer's wife trying to cut off their tail. So out goes that one. I reread the story, and I thought, this is what it's like for a family with a gender expansive child. They often have a child they did not expect. They don't know what to do for their child, which direction to go in to make sure their child is safe and happy. And they also know they need to protect their child. The only difference between Mr. and Mrs. Little is they're not going to know the day their child was born. They may know by the end of the first year if they pay attention. They may not know till their child is 10, 20, 40, 50, but somewhere along the line, they're going to have the child they didn't expect. And that's changing now as people are doing gender neutral names saying let's be open to expecting anything, but in general, for most parents, in this moment of history, it's a surprise. So now the kids I want us to think about today are the ones that often get forgotten, and these are the gender expansive children. And these are what I call the small T in LGBT. So we know about LGBT, but little T's are very different than big T's. And we really need to bring it down to childhood. So what do we have here? We have a child who's expansive either in gender identity or gender expressions. We have a child who does not accept the gender that matches the sex designated to them at birth or the social expectations for the roles and behaviors for that gender or both. Now, Eric already ran through these. I'm just going to repeat. I hope you don't mind. Basic concepts. Gender identity, who I know myself to be at my core, male, female, or other. And that's the being of gender. Then we have gender expressions, how I put my gender presentation together. Things I like to do, clothes I like to wear, where I move, and so forth. That's the doing of gender. Underline the next one.  They are separate. They can cross lines with it.  Do you have any books about boys and dresses?  What they can know is their child-like stresses or wants to learn about kids with dresses. So we just always have to make sure we don't collapse them all into the same category. Now, here's a cheat sheet for gender expressions. How to tell if a toy is for boys or girls. Do you operate the toy with your genitalia? Yes, it is not for children. No, it's for either boys or girls or children of any gender. I didn't do the slide, so I have to just add that.  These are all children here who are transgender. These are children who change from one gender to another at different ages. The child in the tutu is from the Netherlands. I think you might recognize jazz in the corner. And the child in the top is a local child from the Bay Area. Here's some more children. All of these are either gender-expansive or transgender kids. And the one, I think, that is most compelling are the two in the corner, because those are identical twins. One of them has had treatment, puberty blockers, and hormones. And you can now guess which one is the one who is transgender and which one is the one who is cisgender. That is stayed with the gender that matched the designated sex of birth. So one of them is transgender, the other is not. Now, we're going to talk about making sure that children's reading is gender-inclusive. First thing is we've got to toss out everything we learned in school about gender to do that. Just to review, I don't know about you, but what I learned in school or just at home was gender comes in two boxes. One for boys, one for girls, one for men, one for women. Figure out which one you belong to based on what's on your birth certificate and act accordingly. That's the gender binary right there. Then about the turn into the 21st century, people came up with the notion of a gender spectrum. I'm on the board of an organization called Gender Spectrum. And it was a great new concept that instead of having one box here, one box there, how about an infinite variety of colors and hues that gender goes along? I think that's a great idea. One problem with that. It still has two poles. Feminine over here, masculine over there, or you can switch them either way. But it still runs along the spectrum of the binary. So that troubled me. So I made up something else. And I came up with a new picture called the Gender Web. And I thought, huh, this could work. So imagine a spider web in a tree, three-dimensional, pulling in three directions, and some spider spun it. And it's going to be different than the next one. So I made this up that we have a gender web. Imagine that web. And we have every person has their own gender web. And they weave together or spin together nature, nurture, and culture to make the gender that is them that will be unique. So let's go break it down. Threads in the gender web. We've got nature, nurture, and culture as the umbrella. Now let's break it down. We have your chromosomes, XX, XY, or something else. We have the hormones. What kind of hormones do you have flowing through your body? It starts in utero. We have your hormone receptors. How are they taken in in your body?  What's between your legs? We have secondary sex characteristics, such as beards, breasts. We have your brain. We have your mind. We have your socialization, your family, your school, your community, and community in the largest arch, including spiritual organizations, educational organizations, et cetera. We have the culture. The culture you live in, which may not be singular, the values, the ethics, the laws, the theories, and the practices. All of that goes into one child's gender web, and one adult's gender web. But now we're going into the Twilight Zone. Fourth dimension. It's not just three dimension. I went, oh, there's a fourth dimension. That's time. And time is critical here, because every child alters their gender web. As they weave together nature, nurture, and culture over time, it's not necessarily static. It may be stable for many people, but for other people, it may ebb and flow, either their identity or their expressions or both. So for example, we just heard at our clinic about a 92-year-old person who just announced that they're transgender and is transitioning after 92 years. So that doesn't mean they just discovered it. But in terms of the flow of gender throughout a lifetime, things go a long way up. Now, gender web is kind of like fingerprints in the following way. No two children's gender webs are going to be exactly the same. We could say snowflakes, too. But let's use fingerprints. That's how they're the same. But here's how they're different.  They're immutable. That's how we identify people is by their fingerprints. Any of you who has to do that for the state of California, like I do as a psychologist, they want your fingerprints. They will be stable. But your gender web isn't. It's not fixed at birth. And it can change over the course of your life and certainly over the course of a child's childhood. Now, I want to just quickly run through a laundry list. Because this is the, and a lot of these terms are made by the kids themselves. And this is not to put kids in boxes. But as you know, kids love categories. They love categories. I like to put things in categories. So these are the categories that actually, mostly, I got from the kids, of the different ways the gender web can show up. So we've got living outside boxes, 21st century gender creative children. We have transgender children. We have gender expansive children. Now, as you said, gender expansive can cover everybody. But I'm just using them differently so you'll know the different terms here. Gender fluid children, that could be one of two things. I flow over time, or I flow within myself right now. So it covers both. We have gender non-binary children. You've also heard gender diverse, gender non-conforming, and gender variant, which was the original term. And as you know, language is political. So what's good today will be politically incorrect tomorrow. So we'll just keep changing as we go. This is a whole group of kids you all should know about. And these are the gender hybrids. And this was taught to me by a seven-year-old who parents ask, could I meet this child? Because they couldn't figure out what this child's gender was. So I went to the waiting room in my office, my private office. And there was a child sitting there wearing essentially basketball uniform head to toe. Not a warrior's, but a basketball uniform. Came into my office, migrated them. Then they twirled around and had a long blonde braid with a pink bow at the bottom. And then twirled around again and said to me, you see, I'm a Prius. I said, uh-huh. And they said, yes, yes. I'm a boy in the front, and I'm a girl in the back. So I'm a hybrid. So I went, OK, we got gender hybrids. Then I started meeting a whole bunch of other gender hybrids. And so we have the gender Prius. We have the gender minotaur. Now, I use that term. Nobody came into me and said, I'm a gender minotaur. But what they did come into me and say is I'm one thing on the top and another thing on the bottom. And often that was to explain away their genitalia. And most of the kids who are gender minotaurs love mermaid. So make sure you have a lot of mermaid books. Because I really, you think about it, it works. Then there's gender by season. I can wear my whatever I want at home, but at school I can't. Or my parents won't let me. So you have summer girl, school boy, school year boy, or just summer non-binary school binary to conform to what's expected at school. That would be an example of by season. You have gender by location. It's cool at home, but not at Grammys in central Utah. Then we have, this was a new one, a gender Tesla. So this is one of the kids I've been seeing for a long time who also comes to our clinic. And at our clinic, we had had a rating scale that our medical director had made up about, so where are you today if one is boy and 10 is girl, where would you put yourself so that you can, like a slide where you can see where it was going from one visit to another. And we said, we got to scrap that. It's binary. We can't use it. So we had just grabbed it. However, this kid had been giving their measure for a long time and they liked that. So when I came in, they said to me at the clinic, they said to me, Dr. Rosenthal forgot to give me the scale today, you know. And I said, oh, well, what did you want to tell me about the scale? Well, I've moved from a four to a six, meaning from girl to boy, four to six. And I said, okay. And then I said, well, maybe we could think about, and I told this person about the gender Prius. I said, maybe you're trying to tell me your gender Prius. And they found that really intriguing. And then they thought for a little bit and said, I don't think so. I think I'm moving towards Tesla. And they did. And they are now a very happy transgender boy. So we have gender Teslas. We have gender ambidextrous children. Now this came to me where two moms asked me to seed their child because they could not figure their child out. Their child refused to declare a gender. And both the moms are scientists. And they said, we just want facts. We want answers. So I met with the child, I didn't know either. So I met with the child, got to know the child. And this child clearly did not want to just, didn't want to talk about gender, just wanted to play Legos, just didn't want to declare a gender. And was gender fluid by location chosen by themselves. They were a girl across the street with the neighbor's friends, but a boy with their brother. So I was meeting with the parents for the feedback session. And I thought, I got two scientists here. I don't know what to do. I don't have facts for them. So I made it up right then. I said, you know what I discovered? I discovered you have a gender ambidextrous child.  And they can go back and forth between the two or merge in the middle, at the midline. And they said, that's great. We love it. It's scientific. We can tell our friends. It can have to do with the brain. And all of a sudden they're caught on like wildfire. And all these kids love being gender ambidextrous. And then we have gender smoothies. Now this one came to me from a teenager I worked with who was as gender expansive and exciting as you could imagine. Very colorful in my waiting room. And so this person came in and said to me, so you see, I am a gender smoothie. You take everything about gender. You put it in the blender. You press the button. You got me a gender smoothie. So we have that gender smoothie. We have gender queer youth. And this is a term that really started about 15 years ago. There's not only a term for a person but a social movement and continues to be. And we also simply have a queer movement that just includes anybody who doesn't go by the norms for either gender or sexuality. Then we have a gender youth. That can be one of two things. I'm no gender or I'm a gender. So we have a lot of kids who identify as a gender. And we have two groups here.  The proto gay children are often the kids who early in life show up as very expansive in their gender expressions. And as they get older, they discover that at their core is their sexual identity is not straight. And so gender does weave together. And there's a lot of explanations for this. But we'll just say for now that gender is a forerunner. And often many people remain gender expansive. But at the core is they arrive at their sexual identities. Then we have the opposite. We have a group of youth. And often these are youth who are designated female at birth have always been quote unquote masculine in their presentation, sometimes known as butch dykes.  And they discover a community that they never had before. And they love it. And they become part of that community. And through their romantic relationships, what they discover is when they're with another girl, they are actually not feeling like a girl. They experience themselves as boring.  And that is why you saw all of those front page articles in New York Times magazine cover stories about the Boyzitz-Smith College. Because these are many youth who enter college as lesbians and exit as transgender men. So those are our proto-transgender youth. And the last one is our most concerning group that all of us and the books we read need to always be thinking about. And these are our gender tootsie roll pops. And these are the kids who are one thing on the outside and the other on the inside. And usually, if you think about a tootsie roll pop, it's brittle on the outside and the soft, gooey stuff. You want to get to on the inside. So who they really are, they're hiding. And they have to put up a false front, which they try to make palatable to everybody else, but they're suffering. And these are the kids we hear as the gender dysphoric kids who need some help and support so they can be who they are. And so there's another way to understand that when we're thinking about the gender tootsie roll pops or any of the other kids, that every person has a true gender self. And that's their internal sense of both their identity and expressions. And it's theirs, nobody else's. And then all of us have a false gender self. We have some way sometimes where we hide our gender. I used to be a girl who was a wizard math. And my mother told me no boy would date me. So I never told anybody. I was good at math. And of course, these many years later, that pains me that I had because I was trying to conform to a certain gender trope, I couldn't just be who I was and incorporate being, identifying as female, who is good at math. And I even tried to, I went to a big public high school. And I was the only girl in my AP calculus class. And I thought, I'll never get a date this way. So what I did was I backed into the class, thinking because of a crowded hallways, people would think I was coming out of the algebra class. And so they thought, what's with her going backwards? So it never worked, but I tried. And then we have the most important thing. And this is where our books really help with gender creativity. And that's the weaving together of a unique authentic gender self based on our core feelings and chosen gender expressions. We don't choose our core sense of self. We can choose our expressions. But we can choose to make them go underground. We can discover them, but it's not a choice. It's just who we are. So let's just review then gender creativity, if we put it together, is each child's personal artistry and composing a unique authentic gender web based on core feelings of gender identity and chosen gender expressions. So how are we supposed to know a child's gender? Rule of thumb, not for us to say, but for the children to tell. Is it a boy or a girl? I don't know. It can't talk yet. Good rule of thumb. Adult, where do we come in? All children come to us with gender creativity. What we owe them in exchange is to give them exposure to the whitest variety of gender expressions and identities and open the pathway for them to explore their own. Simple as that. So you can take a moment. Think about all the books in your library. Do they include all the flower children of the 21st century and all the ways they do their gender? And it's important not just for the gender-expansive readers but for all readers, that all children in every classroom and in every library have an exposure to gender in all its infinite variations. So how do you become a gender-creative librarian? First, you call on your gender angels, right? So what? What are gender angels? These are the feelings, attitudes inside you, lessons you've learned, efforts you've made to recognize gender in all its variations as a healthy part of humanity. Gender angels allow you to promote gender creativity in the children. Gender angels facilitate gender acceptance within the entire world you and the children live in. We also have gender ghosts. And anybody here who says they don't have one is lying. We all have them because we were socialized in a culture that hasn't been always so friendly to gender infinity. So what are they? So here you've got the things you were taught that come together in beliefs, attitudes, feelings, reactions to tell you things like transgender children need therapy. They're ill. We have to teach children appropriate gender. You can't just use any bathroom you want. Actually, you can, by the way, legally in the state of California in a public school. We are the only state that has that statute that gives children in public schools the right to the bathroom that matches their gender. So yay, California. Transgender boys are not real boys. Transgender girls are not real girls. You can't just live in the middle or say you're neither boy nor girl. It doesn't work that way. And you can fill in the blank. We all have them. So we've got a war of the worlds. We have a gender ghost going against our gender angels. So we all have them. And typically, we will discover them. And typically, they're not going to get along well. They don't. So our task is to let the gender angels drown out the voices of the gender ghost. So it's like Jacob wrestling with the angel. Jacob needs to win over the angel. So how do you do that? Self-examination, self-reflection, and working in groups, getting feedback, friendly feedback, not accusations, friendly feedback with your colleagues, your friends, your family. Just check each other. Just check each other all the time and listen to the kids. They'll tell you when you messed up. They will tell you. And why should we do this? Because anything else is going to do harm to our gender-expansive children, to all children, and not to mention to the world around them. Now, in doing that, beware your subtle gender microaggressions. So first definition, what are they? Brief, commonplace, daily, verbal, behavioral, environmental, and dignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slides and insults towards a marginalized group. Gender-expansive trends gender children count as such a group. And when it intersects, that they have other areas of diversity that come together. It's double, triple whammy. We always have to think about that together, because children aren't just their gender. They're their race, they're their ethnicity, they're their class, and so forth. So you got an accumulation of microaggressions. If they keep happening, you can create a trauma in a child. And more so if someone is from more than one marginalized group at the same time. So when I explain it to parents, I say it's like this. If you go like this on your skin, it's a ping. But if you keep doing the same ping, you get a welt. And after that, it gets infected, and it can be really serious. So we don't want pings. We just want to stop pings. And what are some pings? If you do not use a child's pronouns that they're asking you to use, that can be a microaggression, particularly when the child's being very clear what they would like. If you slip, if you forget, oh, you know, I've just known you so long as one thing, it's just so hard. That's understandable, but work on it. If you refuse to use a child's preferred name, if you ever say, oh, this is a book for girls. Or if you have different sections, one for boys, one for girls in your library.  Where do I go? If you have no books in your library that reflect a child's gender, if you have any books that lay out rules for boys and girls, rules for boys, rules for girls, and if you have books in the library that have gender stereotyping. Now I want to press pause there, because you can either throw them all out or use them educationally to critique and critique them with the children. So I'm gonna give you an example of how I tried to do that with my daughter. We only allowed our daughter to see, she was the older one to watch public TV. We thought we could shield it from commercialism. It didn't work, because she got old enough to go to other kids' houses. She came back, she said, hey, you know there's more than one channel. So we didn't lie, we said, yeah. So we decided we had to give in and let her watch the channel that all her friends were watching. But we did it, we would sit with her and critique it. And one of them at the time were battery operated dolls that did all kinds of things. And it was all kinds of toys for kids that they were, so we would do the, this was the 70s, we would do, it's commercialism, it's capitalism, and look what they're trying to trick little kids into. So one day she's walked through a commercial and she goes, mommy, look at that doll.  Pause, I want one. So you can try. So the thing that we're working on is for all of us to be able to say we are gender allies to all the children. So we're gonna work to eliminate ghosts, but also we have them. So sometimes what you need to do is build a firewall around them so they don't escape and hurt our gender creative children or any child. So think of yourself, and your library is a full length mirror. No child wants to look in a mirror and either see a distorted sense of themselves or be invisible, not even be able to find themselves. You are that mirror, the books are that mirror. So the best thing you can give a gender expansive child, reflect actively reflect back to them an authentic and positive image of who they are through your words, your actions, your feelings, and your books. Thank you.