Great. I am going to call this meeting to order and I started both calls. It looks like Rhea and Chris and Crystal and Susie are missing. Brighton. So the first thing I'd like to ask is on the minutes, does anybody have any corrections or revisions? I know you all read this before. Looks good. So do I hear a motion to approve the minutes as submitted? So moved. I move Dale moves. Second. So I have a motion by Dale and a second by Ellen to approve the minutes as submitted. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay, the motion to approve the minutes has passed unanimously. Moving on. To accessions. And I think all of you know Eileen, she's the registrar. Eric's on vacation. So she got to come. Yeah, I heard as Eric go. Believe. I know. What? You didn't believe it? Does he have a straw hat? Okay, guys. She needs to make one of order. We all hope that Eric is having a lovely time again. Sunny believes. Great. Okay, we're good. Proposed accessions for this month. There are three. The biggest and probably most daunting from our point of view is the first one, the one on channel eight archives. So this was the public access television channel. And their archives are mostly on video cassettes and DVDs and beta maps and a variety of other formats that we are looking through from the 70s through the early 2000s. They are videos of programming from that channel eight distributed. There are a few that are longer programs and we have most of the archives of that program like the upfront program was an interview show with local leaders. That is five linear feet by the bank or boxes with the archival material. And then it is kind of all over the place from there. We're pretty excited about it. We did work together to move the archive from the channel eight building. And so it's on site and we are reasonably sure that we can take care of it and it fits. I had a question, Eileen. Do we have the proper equipment to access all of these different?  We have everything except the umatic player, which is probably not the right word, but it was before I was born. They have channel eight has a lead on the player. They're just not functional and he has a friend who can fix them and so we're working on it. We do want one. There is, if we accession these, there will need to be discussion about how best to store the content. And whether that's digitizing everything or transferring the material onto DVDs, which last longer, it's an ongoing. We do have a beta cam player in the archives. What is umatic? I've never heard that word. They're really big beta cam tapes. They look like VHS tapes, but they're a little bit feared. They're from the early, it shows kind of the age of the archive. Kind of like this thing. I thought they were all big. The next up for consideration is 2020.001. This is a couple of scrapbook art books and two drawings. From Julia Criswell, she was an art teacher at Walmart High from 1935. They're rather chubby. I wonder what this means, the pie face lady. Anybody ever dared call me pie face? These scrapbooks have hand drawings on the nurse's uniform. That's great. It is. That's great. The uniform is from the Longmont Hospital Training School for Nurses. And some archival material about Dorothy Iranian Thompson. And when she wore them, and when she got married. She wore them when she got married? There's a blurb about her wedding in the newspaper. That's included. I see that. That's interesting. And she was at the training school. Right before she got married, when she got married. So it aligns them. So do I have a motion to accept the February accessions as presented? Brandy? Motion to accept. And a second. And is there any discussion? Okay, it's a quiet group. I think there's too much stuff here. There is a lot of stuff. We did not take everything. Well, there's some that you did indeed already leave out. We were in things that were duplicates weren't taken. So they're all individual pieces. And we focused on specifically Longmont history. Longmont specific programs. And, yeah, there was just a lot there. It will be a big project to catalog it all. I guess. But we're looking forward to it. Anybody else? If you're ready to vote, then all in favor of accepting this accession? Aye. Aye. Opposed? The motion to accept all post accessions has passed. Ms. Kim. Yeah, let's see the report. Sure. So as usual, I'm not going to read this word for word for you guys. I'll let you read it through at your leisure. But I will pull out some highlights to just bring to you our attention. Just for lack of a better word under administration, that's some sort of high level stuff that we've been working on at the museum. Oh, an outriding's here. Thanks. So good. Thanks. Longmont trains never fail to disappoint. We're working on the directorship for you. So I know some of you actually were in attendance of the event that they held here at the museum, but the consultants that are working on a feasibility study for the performing arts slash conference center actually gave a presentation to City Council a couple of weeks ago. They concluded what's sort of officially phase one of their research, which really just kind of makes some determination about whether or not there is demand in the city for a performing arts center and or convention center, and their assessment concluded that the conditions are favorable. Phase two really will dig deeper into understanding what that means and trying to look more specifically at what a funding model would look like, what would sustainability look like, what would building a building look like, like all of those really meaty questions. And so the real hard work is yet to be done. And so I will keep you in the loop as I hear things on that. The LDDA and the museum have partnered to lead a cultural plan initiative. And so Kimberly McKee and I are working on putting together a RFP, I think it's going to be a RFP, to hire a consultant that will essentially bring artists and creatives from across Longlot together to try to understand where we can invest in a way that will be the biggest bag for the buck. As you guys probably know, Arts Longlot basically has dwindled. They used to receive city support and without a really functional board at this point. Sandy Cedar has reallocated the funds that were originally going to go to them to support this effort. And really the aim of this is try to understand how we as the sort of creative community in Longlot can reinforce and support each other with limited resources because we know that that's the case. And so having a real plan to put in place to create that kind of map forward will be really important. So that's just now really getting started. And then of course the library feasibility study is going to have some conclusions probably in April. The Performing Arts feasibility study will probably have conclusions in March or April. The creative district has some documents that they've already done. So these are all the documents that another consultant will be able to draw from to create this sort of bigger cultural plan. Moving on down to marketing and development. I think we've probably said this a million times, but just to reiterate it one more time. We really have. We know pretty darn sure at this point based on the work of the budget office that we have achieved the tier two revenue threshold to be able to apply for SCF and tier two funding. And so we'll make that application just as soon as we can. The auditors are going to be starting to work on that very soon. And as soon as the auditors have completed their work then we'll be able to put the application together. The application is due in May, but the portal is already open so we can submit the application tomorrow if we have all the stuff together. How much do we get from them now? Well, so it's varied over the last few years. I think in 2017 we got $30,000. In 2018 we got about $19,000. Last year we got about $23,000. Yeah, last year. This is going to be amazing. It's going to be a really big deal. And it's just an estimate at this point because until there's actual tax revenue and until they actually don't have any organizations are in tier two they won't know what that distribution looks like. But they're estimating that we'll receive an additional $150,000. So it'll be a very big deal for us. Cam, you said somebody asked last time how many tier two organizations there are in Boulder County. And I remember you said Chautauqua, but didn't you say there were one or two others? Yeah, I don't remember them off the top of my head, Dale. But I know it's Chautauqua. It's E-town. Seems to me there's some kind of a performing arts group. And that may be it. There's not many able to count it off. But it's the whole of tier twos that the money gets distributed. So there are loads of other tier twos in other counties. Yeah, for Boulder County tier twos there's really I think maybe four. And I can get that. Let's see. Some of you I think were here for the Terry Manger opening. We had about 250 people for that opening reception. And it was super fun. People were dancing, which I think you can call a success. There were about 60 Giving Club members that were here for the preview portion of that. And Terry gave a private tour for those folks, so that was really fun. Summer camp, I'm just kind of jumping down a little bit. Summer camp registration is open. So if you know anyone that's interested, there are some really exciting summer camps that we've got on offer. And then that kind of moves into the educational program. So Discovery Days. So far we've awarded 464 out of 600 scholarships for that program. That, as you may remember, the Dodge Family Foundation has given money to provide scholarships for a lot of our educational programs. And that was part of it, the Discovery Days. There's also we've awarded $3,000 for the school tour scholarships. And those are four schools with an above average number of students that qualify for a free and reduced price lunch. So which is one of the sort of markers that we use to try to determine the schools that are in community. And so those are the books that we're targeting for those scholarships. And then we've awarded nine scholarships for the Spring Break Theater Camp. And we've still got some to hand out for that program. But I know Anne and we are really working hard to get those scholarships out. And then moving down further into collections. Probably none of you have that Elizabeth. Elizabeth Baudouin is a new museum technician. She works almost exclusively out at the Museum Collection Center. And she's dutifully taking photographs and documenting collections out there. This is the sort of last leg of our IMLS grant that supported the move to the new storage facility. And so she came with really really high recommendations. Her partner was here in Colorado. And so she was trying to find a job out here. And so from across the country, lots and lots of really good athletes. And she has done a lot of work. You can probably speak to this. And very short time that she's been with us. She is kind of a workforce. Yeah. So that's good stuff. Yeah. She's got lots of East Coasts. Her background. Lots of Boston museums. And her last was at the Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine. Yeah. Pretty short. Yeah. She'll be a good addition to the museum world after that. For sure. Eric is finishing. He's put here, finished at chapter eight of the One Lock History book. But I suspect he's further along than that now even. And that's out of nine or 10 chapters. He was thinking he might combine the last two chapters. And the draft is due to the publisher in May. So that's clipping right along. And we're all very excited about that. Should have it here in November. Back at the next page there under visitor services. We've got an artist that we're working with, Eric Zimmer, who you may notice on this white back wall of the atrium, is a whole bunch of tile work, basically, that are these little paintings with encaustic on them, white wax on them. And so those are on consignment. So they're sewn really quite well. We're very happy with that arrangement. Eric's been super easy to work with, so that's always good. We're also, we've done an exhibit catalog for a Terry Maker show that should be released beginning of March. We have photos of the actual installation that are in the catalog. So that made for a delay in getting it out after the opening of the exhibit. But it's for sale. If you are interested, you can go to our website and buy it even through that. Did you notice that Terry got the front page of the Denver Post Leisure section? Who is her agent? She is her agent. She is her agent. How did she get that?  She called Ray Rinalding when he was on vacation in Bogota and had him write that for her. That's great. I was so shocked to see that. Wow, that was great. She's a mover and a shaker. It was a very good, it's a very nice review of the show. So we were very pleased to see that that was good stuff. Under visitor services, we detailed that opening a little bit further that there were 91 members and 173 paid admissions, and then we sold nine new memberships. So opening receptions are always a good time to be able to excel. What did they do with all leftover food? I don't know that there was any. I think it got all eaten up. I have a question. On the postcard that went out for the opening reception, it said it was $8 for adults to go to the reception. It's a paid thing. We treated it just like an admission. Yeah, I was hanging out with our installation artist installing our show at the firehouse, and I was like, we should go. And then we found out it was cocktail dress requested and $8 to get in, and we were like, that's not for us today. Are you going to the bar? Yeah, no. No. Well, we handle it just like we handle regular museum admissions. So if you're a member, you get in for free, and we do the giving club preview before the actual opening reception, and so we treated it exactly the same way. The difference being, I think what we're going to be branding for the opening that's going to happen, is it in June? The opening that'll happen in June, we probably will have that one on the free day. Cool. So that exhibit opening will be free, and that's purposeful because that one is a more kid-friendly, kid-focused exhibit, and that opening will be a daytime opening. So a really different feel, a really different audience, and so we found in the past that with those kinds of events that what ends up happening is that people kind of get distributed all over the building and in the courtyard and in the gallery, so in order to make that feel like it's got some presence to it, it's great to have it as a free event. So we scheduled that one specifically for the free day for that reason. Cool. Cool, cool. Oh, let's see. Each auditory of programming, Justin's got a big list there of the programs to highlight for you, and he's working with a new intern from C Boulder, Adrian Wright, who's really been helping him pull together some of the work that he's been doing. So you see that we've got concerts in the Curious Theater and these are the things that we did in January, February. The Senate candidate forum, we had over 400 people here for that event, so that was a really big deal. We set up the classroom A. I'm losing, what's the name of that? Kaiser C. Thank you, Kaiser C. We set up Kaiser C with a monitor so that overflow people could go into that and still see the event. So that was a really successful thing for us to do. And then upcoming stuff, we had movies and concerts and then someone was talking earlier about this event, the Music of the Spears, which would be a conversation with Terry Maker and with a scientist and a religious scholar. So that's going to be really fun. A lot of hard work has to do with being a Christian. So we're sort of bringing together this overlap of science and religion and art. So that'll be a very interesting one. And then later, March the 26th, Terry and I will be in conversation and we'll talk about some of that stuff as well. It's really interesting and kind of unique in terms of contemporary art, so it's a good thing to talk about. Then in exhibitions, you see there, Jared puts together this really great graph that is sort of the only way that we can compare exhibits over time, this visitors per day. If we look at overall revenue or overall attendance, it's not a very easy comparison because some of them are much longer exhibits, some of them are much more intensive exhibits, and so really the thing that helps us understand visitation more than anything else is to look at the average number of visitors a day. And so to look at this, you're looking at the amped exhibit and then the next one, the sort of salmon colored one is the Lane Dixon and then the big, big one is Lego to help you read that one. So this is over here now. And so I think looking at the end of the graph, what we can take away is that Ansel Adams was really quite successful. That is the most successful art exhibit that we have hosted to date. And so the numbers for that were really great. And then the exhibits team currently are working on developing an exhibit called Kiki the Tiny House, hands-on home building. And they are actually building a tiny house at the moment. And then also they're building a shepherd's wagon and a lot of other sort of interactives and things that kids would be able to communicate and have fun with. So that's going to be a very cool exhibit. It'll appeal to kids but adults as well. The Tiny House movement is so big right now. So I think it'll be a very successful exhibit. Jared's also hosting an SCU intern. And so I think those patients love working with the exhibits and all of that hands-on stuff. All right, in public places, the call for interest has been right now through the Art on the Move project and that's our temporary installation where artists install a piece of work for a one-year time frame. The commission has approved the commissioning, the direct purchase of a sculpture called Urson Major, which you guys may remember because it was installed as an Art on the Move piece last, two years ago. And it's a big bronze bayer, if you guys remember that. So we're actually going to purchase that one and it'll be installed on Main Street as soon as we can get all of the contracts. What is it? It's basically a bayer that's standing up. It's pretty much life-size. You know what the bayer is at the big building downtown there? Is it like that? No, it's much more realistic. Oh, I think that one's realistic. It's blue. It's blue. It's blue. And it's also super-sized. Yeah. I would not want to be that bare. So the bronze one that you guys are buying has texture. Yeah. It was very popular when it was installed during the Art on the Move a couple of years ago. And so, you know, people who've gotten all kinds of feedback. Well, that's great. We want to bring it back. We want to bring it back. I want you to go. Oh, boy, that's a great question that I don't know the answer to. I think, but don't quote me. I think it was $30,000. Yeah. We have done, Angela has done some preliminary data research where she is taking a traffic collection, data collection and overlaying it with the Art and Public Places collection. And she is able to give us a lot more verifiable data about how many eyeballs are hitting public art. So we've sort of just started that project and she's working with her intern to really flesh that out more so that we can get more verifiable data about who's seeing public art, which will be a cool thing to be able to demonstrate. And then the Unity project, some of you may see have seen that. Mario, who was the artist that created that originally, we are contracting with him to do some renovations of these. It's been damaged. And so he's going to do some work to fix that. And I believe that it's true that we're going to try to video it so that we get that documentation on the agenda here in public media. That's my report. Does anybody have any questions for me? Well, I don't have a report. On to old business, I just would mention that if you don't mind when Joanne sends out the packets, you can just let her know whether you're going to be able to be here or not. That's helpful because sometimes you have to make sure we have a form. And I know sometimes there's a train or kidlets or whatever that doesn't always work out. But if you could let her know, then that would be very helpful. Do we have any new business? I'm glad Joanne put this round with rules of order. A piece of paper. I will credit Eve with that. You've did a lot of work on that. Thank you. You're welcome. We'll try to get a little more, a bit more lined up with that as we move forward. Anybody have any other comments? Yes. Where does it go? Stop smelling. Okay. I should have been more specific about which comments. Yeah. Okay. If there aren't any more comments or discussion. Actually, I do have a question. Okay. As a city council liaison, am I a voting member or no? I'm just... So that's when I... because there are some that I sit on that I vote, and some that I don't. Historically, the council liaison has never voted. Okay. So that's what I wanted to make sure. But you're welcome to make any kinds of comments. Okay. Certainly. Participate in the discussion. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. I have one question. Joanne, who do we get to publish these things? Is it the same person? Is it the same company every time? This is not cheap. Sure. I can get with... I have Joanne get with you on that because I honestly don't know what printer we're using. The stock is really expensive. There's a large printer based in Denver that does a lot of, like, athletic programs. Wow. They do that. And they... they tape like that. That would be one of my guesses. They're really quality and affordable. So, okay. I don't remember what they have are. Because this museum is always sending out stuff like this that is very impressive. You have to be able to get people to sign up for all the good things we're doing. Got to catch their eye. Yep. We're in the same league with Chautauqua and E-town. That's right. Oh, yeah. Got to keep up those standards. All right. So, do I hear a motion to adjourn? I've made it to adjourn. Ellen. I have a second. I'll second that. All right. Oh, good. All in favor. All right. All right. I'm closed. Okay. There'll be no further business this week.


Post game now after a thrilling 66 a 58 victory for the Stevenson women against Alvernia and joining us now is head coach Jackie Boswell and also soft bar Trisha telly and who had a tremendous game We'll get to Trisha in a second, but Jackie you were very emotional obviously after the last game against hood and with good reason You wanted somebody to step up you wanted your team to step up basically and really care about what's happening They did and so talk to us about that. Yeah, I'm really proud of them. I thought they showed a lot of Fight a lot of competitiveness today. That's what we were so fired up for before, you know I and I even told them that like if I didn't think you could do it I'm never gonna ask you to do something you can't do so it was just a matter of pushing them these last couple days and I give them a lot of credit though every day in practice. They came back with an attitude of okay Let's get better and that's what you got to have if you're gonna quit We're not gonna go anywhere, but they're just too good to quit and I'm just really proud of them happy for them to see the shots fall that we've been working on and Just really come proud of the competitiveness so from three for 19 three-point distance against hood to seven for 14 today 50% a lot of that was this young lady Trisha telly and four for five from three-point distance You are a good three-point shooter. You were a good three-point shooter coming into the game How did you feel today and what exactly happened out there? I Feel like we've been going through a really rough patch and I feel like during practice We really pulled together and today we played together as a team and a lot of my shots We're coming from other players passing me the ball So it's really just be created for everybody else and we played really well together today. Do you enjoy coming in off the bench? Yeah, I do I Provide that spark does she change the game for you? She does I think that we we hopefully got everybody in the right spots But you know the way our injuries have been going everybody's got to be ready to go at any time And you got to be ready to take that starting roll off the bench roll whatever it is Everybody's got to do it and players one through 15 Ken Morgan Penic is now out for you, but Olivia Coleman is back She had a huge game looked like she was finally herself today talk a little bit about that Yeah, I mean she's been working to get herself back You know after being out for three weeks Cardio's a kind of a little bit of an issue But I thought today she really sucked it up and did everything that she could so and and our team relies on her And it does open up shots for like Tricia and Kelly and Denny and all them All our shooters open up better when you know, Olivia's in the game for us So you're 10 for 18 from three-point distance. I did the math myself. I hope it's right How long do you like how many threes do you take every day in practice? What's your what's your regimen like? I don't really take any shots. I just whatever we shoot during practice the shooting drill. She comes up with Well, whatever you're doing it works and when I'm not open live gets the ball She's Trisha telly in great game today for three pointers. She's Jackie Boswell head coach of Stevenson big win over alvarnia 6658 I'm Gary Stein and this is Stevenson sports. Go Mustang sports TV You


Pandas. Possibly the cutest animals in existence today.  I mean, who doesn't love pandas? We love them so much we put them in our movies, cartoons, anime, anime, treats, rap songs, fast food and of course our favorite wrestling tv show, the WWF. Now it's no different for the girls from the worldwide K-pop sensation Blackpink. In a recent episode of their web series, the members are seen handling a baby panda as reported in an improper fashion. Chinese netizens were angered citing Chinese regulations that baby pandas should be handled only by professionals wearing proper gear following proper procedure. They said the mishandling could have killed the little cub. And as you can see in China, they are very strict about wearing a mask and gloves while handling baby pandas. But wait, this took place in Everland amusement park, a Korean-owned park on private property in Korea. Germany doesn't have any jurisdiction on how you treat your German shepherd. So why does China have any say in what Korea does with their pandas? Meet Fubao. Fubao is actually the first ever panda to be born in Korea. She was born in July of 2020, just three months ago.  They both arrived from the Sichuan province in China in 2016 as a 15-year-old loan. Yes, you heard me right, a 15-year loan. Technically, almost every panda in the world is legally owned by China. So why are pandas so protected? And why is China so strict with regulations? Well, pandas are an endangered species. As of 2014, there were 1,864 pandas in the wild and about 400 in zoos. It is incredibly difficult to obtain a panda. So difficult that only 26 zoos in the world have a panda. In the United States, only four zoos have pandas. Zoo Atlanta, Memphis Zoo, the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, and the San Diego Zoo. I'm telling you, this could be the San Diego Zoo. Although a lot of these pandas grew up in the United States, they belong to China. Same with Fubao. Although she was born in Korea, she's about as Chinese as a mooncake in autumn. So how much does it cost to actually own a panda? And by own, I mean lease it from China. In short, really expensive. Really, really expensive. The loan itself will be anywhere from 10 to 15 years, and the loan payment is about $1 million a year. Yes, you heard me right, $1 million a year. Well, what about food? Well, pandas primarily eat bamboo. A lot of it. They eat about one fourth of their body weight, which is about 40 pounds. That's 10 times the amount that average humans eat a day. So 40 pounds a day for one year is about 14,600 pounds of bamboo, which comes to about $50,000. Additionally, pandas need a special space or enclosure to live in.   This is the Copenhagen Zoo. This particular enclosure costs them $24 million. Wow. So if you wanted to own a panda for 15 years, which comes to $39,750,000, you could buy $1,800,000 Blackpink albums. You still thinking of buying a panda? And it's no surprise they're so rare.  First, check out their fur. They have horrible camouflage. I mean, look at this coat. What are you trying to fool, dude? Any predator could find them from miles away. Let's look at their diet. As you know, pandas eat a ton of bamboo. In fact, 99% of their diet consists of straight up bamboo and nothing else. But guess what? Their stomachs aren't even designed to eat bamboo. They're bears. They have the digestive system of a carnivore. They only digest about 17% of the bamboo they eat, leading them to eat 20 to 40 pounds of bamboo just to compensate. They spend 10 to 14 hours of eating every single day, which leads to pooping 40 times a day. Now let's check out the reproduction. A female panda only ovulates once a year. And in that one time a year, they only have a window of two to three days. If they don't conceive in that window, then they're forced to wait a year again. When you thought it couldn't get worse to add to that, the problem is that male pandas just don't care and are so unmotivated. Handlers have had to give them Viagra just to get them to work. And if by some miracle, some act of God, these pandas do have a baby, panda cubs are the most helpless animal in the world. Cubs are blind, tiny, and they can't eat by themselves. They can't even poop by themselves.  The popular YouTube channel, Tears, who gave them straight up F ranking. And even then, F is kind of generous. Who designed this animal? Whoever did honestly needs to be fired. Literally, their only survival trait is that they're really cute. But I mean, I guess they do that pretty well. Honestly, it's a surprise that they aren't extinct yet. If only they knew Kung Fu.  Hey guys, that's my video. And if you guys liked it, remember to give us a subscribe. And if you guys want to support this channel in any way, head to our Ko-Fi page. There's a link in the description below and try to buy us a coffee. And as always, skadoosh.


Example two, Wilbert was eligible for the American Opportunity Credit for 2018, 19, 20 and 22, Wilbert's parents claimed the American Opportunity Credits for Wilbert on their tax returns for 2018, 19, and 20. No one claimed an American Opportunity Credit for Wilbert for any other tax year, so only three years thus far, the American Opportunity Credit has been claimed for Wilbert for only three tax years before 2022. Therefore, Wilbert meets the second requirement to be eligible for the American Opportunity Credit. If Wilbert were to file form 8863 for 2022, the box on part three, line 23, should be checked. No, if Wilbert meets all the other requirements, he is eligible for the American Opportunity Credit. Let's do another one. Example number three, these are great. Glenda enrolls on a full-time basis in a degree program for the 2023 spring semester, which begins in January 2023. So we're talking tax year 2022, but it doesn't happen until 2023. Glenda pays the tuition for the 2023 spring semester in December 2022 and we're usually on a cash-based system, so you paid for it, but you didn't actually get the education or you're not gonna until 2023, even though you paid for it in 2022 with the tax year being 2022. Because the tuition Glenda paid in 2022 relates to an academic period that begins in the first three months of 2023, the eligibility to claim an American Opportunity Credit in 2022 is determined as if the 2023 spring semester began in 2022. So under normal conditions, you would think that would be the case. Under normal conditions, in other words, you would think you would be on a cash-based type of system, possibly being able to take the credit for the payments made in the year they were made, not when the service was provided. However, if you try to take advantage of that system, which would be usually a more unusual circumstance by trying to prepay more upfront, then that's why they put this three-month limitation thing in there. All right, therefore Glenda satisfies this third requirement. All right, tip. If the requirements above aren't met for any student, you can't claim the American Opportunity Credit for that student. You may be able to claim the Lifetime Learning Credit. So if you can't get the better one, American Opportunity Credit, you might be able to get the worse one, but it's better than nothing, the Lifetime Learning Credit for part or all of that student's qualified education expenses instead. Who can't claim the credit then? Who can't do it? You can't claim the American Opportunity Credit for 2022 if any of the following apply. So your filing status is married filing separately. They don't want that because they think you're gonna take advantage of it possibly by trying to lower your AGI, Adjusting Gross Income, below the threshold so you can take it or something like that. So that's common with if you're married, then and you're looking for some credits for these credits, then usually it's better to file married filing joint than married filing separate. You are claimed as a dependent on another person's tax return as such as your parent's return. So if you're claimed as a dependent, you can't claim the credit yourself because the assumption is that your parent is supporting you. That's one of the conditions to be a dependent. So you would think that your parent possibly could claim the credit, but not the student. So see who can claim a dependent's expense later. Your modified Adjusting Gross Income, your MAGI, your Adjusting Gross Income, which might be modified by a factor which could be related to foreign income or something like that. But typically your Adjusting Gross Income, that's a phase out is $90,000 or more, 180,000 or more if filing jointly, MAGI Adjusting Gross Income modified is explained later under effect of the amount of your income on the amount of your credit. Okay, you or your spouse were a non-resident alien for any part of 2022 and the non-resident alien didn't elect to be treated as a resident alien for tax purposes. More information on non-resident aliens can be found in publication 519 if you wanna dive into that in more detail. You weren't issued an SSN Social Security Number or I-10 by the due date of your 2022 return including extensions. You can't claim the American Opportunity Credit on either your original or amended 2022 return. Also, you can't claim this credit on your original or amended 2022 return for a student who wasn't issued an SSN Social Security Number, an A-10 adoption number or an I-10 by the due date of your return, including extensions if an A-10 or I-10 is applied for on or before the due date of a 2022 return, including extensions and the IRS issues an A-10 or I-10 as a result of the application, the IRS will consider the A-10 or I-10 as issued on or before the due date of the return. All right, here's our flu chart question and answer. Can you take the credit American Opportunity only not talking lifetime learning here? So you can claim the American Opportunity Credit for 2022. So did you pay qualified education expenses in 2022 for an eligible student? Normally you will get the form from the financial institution indicating at least tuition was paid. If yes, we continue on. If no, we go down here. You can't claim the American Opportunity Credit. Next item, did the academic period for which you paid qualified education expenses began in 2022 or the first three months of 2023. So you paid for it in 2022. We're on a cash-based system.  If yes, we continue. If no, no, is the eligible student you, your spouse have married filing jointly or you're dependent, you claim on your tax return. So are they you, your joint spouse or dependent, someone with a social security number on your return? If yes, we continue. If no, no, are you listed as a dependent on another person's tax return? So in this case, we would think no, because if we were a dependent on someone else's tax return, then we would think these someone else possibly could get the deduction, not us because in essence they're supporting us financially, you would think. So in this case, no continue. If yes, you can't take the deduction, but possibly the other person who's claiming you can. Next is your filing status, married filing separately. So you can't have that. The IRS is skeptical of married filing separately. So if you're married, you gotta file married filing joint is the general idea. So if no, it's not filing separately, we continue for any part of 2022 where you or your spouse, a non-resident alien who didn't elect to be treated as a resident alien for tax purposes. So we gotta say no on that one and to continue. If so, then is your modified adjusted gross income? Your MAGI, this is the income phase out $90,000, 180,000 if married filing jointly. If it grows income less than that, it's gotta be less than that. If it's over that, then you're gonna lose the credit capacity because you make too much money. But if it's less than that, we continue. Did you use the same expenses to claim a deduction or credit? So you can't like double dip on the credit. So if you used the same expenses to get a deduction somewhere or you use them for another kind of credit, you can't like take the same expenses and apply it to another credit that would be double dipping on the expenses. And so we're gonna say no, we're the same expenses paid entirely with a tax-free scholarship, grant, or employer-provided education assistance. So that would kind of be similar to the double dipping if it were because if you got tax-free money for free to pay for the expenses, it's not really an expense because you got free money to pay for the expense with the scholarship or grant or if the employer provided the benefit and you didn't include it in income because that was the point of them providing the money so it's not included in box one of the W-2 form, then you would think you can't get an expense because you're not paying in taxes on the income. You already got a benefit for it in that case. And then so we'll say no, did you or someone else receive a refund of all the expenses? Did you or someone else receive a refund of all the expenses? So in other words, I guess you paid for the expenses there and then they refunded the expenses in which case you didn't really pay for the expenses because they were refunded. So we're gonna say no, then you claim the American Opportunity Credit for 2022. There's some qualifications down here, but that's the general questionnaire you can have in your mind. You can picture that nice questionnaire in your mind when asking these questions and then you wanna overlap that with the Lifetime Learning Credit questionnaire.


When we announced our clean BC plan, we knew that we had to do something about housing stock here in British Columbia And now I'm pleased to announce that under clean BC We will be adding an additional rebate bringing the total opportunities for savings to three thousand dollars on a heat pump and two thousand dollars on windows It's great to see that there's an increase in rebates that families will now have access to and in doing so also reducing the carbon footprint Heat pumps in general are great for families great for the environment it offers both heating and cooling and In a lot of circumstances We've had families that are able to cut their heating costs basically in half from what they were and at the same time improve their air quality in their house Those rebates help people right away, but over the long term it also helps them with their energy costs I'm really excited about the opportunities that this program will create for businesses as well They get to save money and reduce the footprint reduce the greenhouse gas emissions making BC a cleaner place to live work and play


Well, as you were just watching video I'm assuming of that that final at bat. What did you take away from watching?  So, yeah Do you think Halley and missed missed calls there? Do you think he failed the ball? No, no, I thought he was close to the pitch, but he was quite doubtful.  Throw strikes tonight after struggling last night. Is that hurt worse when you feel like you're thrown well and it still ends up like this? Yeah, last night, you're not even thinking about last night at all.  You know, you're trying to execute and unfortunately, you know, things didn't work out the way we wanted.


So, for a second, I almost forgot that the smug, elitist, limousine liberal, Bill Maher existed until I saw one of the segments from his show appear in my YouTube subscriptions feed and then I remembered, oh yeah, Bill Maher is a thing. And against my better judgment, I clicked, I watched it, and I wanted to just see like if his show had improved at all, and the answer is a hard no. He basically now is comparable to any typical anti-SJW YouTuber that you'd see. Like you could tune into Tim Pull, Dave Rubin, The Quartering, and Bill Maher sounds exactly like them. At least in this segment he did because he decided to talk about cancel culture. But he correctly pointed out that, you know, the right, they're really trying to weaponize this issue right now and, you know, use it to demonize the left. I know that Jim Jordan is calling for hearings into cancel culture, which is absolutely preposterous and a waste of time, but he's trying to say, look, I'm different than the right when they talk about this issue. So here he is trying to distinguish himself from the bad faith arguments using cancel culture that we hear from Republicans.  And this muddying the water is unfortunate because cancel culture is real, it's insane, and it's growing exponentially, and it's coming to a neighborhood near you. Okay. So you think that he's not going to do the same tired rehashed argument we've already heard with regard to cancel culture? Like we've already heard the complaints, we know. So you know, he's going to bring something new and valuable to the table. He's going to actually talk about the impact of cancel culture on normal working class Americans. I think this conversation is actually warranted. Like how far should we go in basically letting employers fire and penalize, you know, working class Americans, people who aren't celebrities because of their activity on social media? Of course, I think that racist people getting fired. Like I don't feel bad for them, but also, you know, the principle of firing someone because they have politically incorrect views that does make me feel uneasy because perhaps, you know, people who I know who support BDS and don't support what the government of Israel is doing to Palestinians, you know, I wouldn't want them to be fired for, you know, their speech, get penalized by their employers. So, you know, I think that this conversation is pretty necessary to be had, but that's not really the conversation that Bill Maher has here. And he only cites one example of a man getting fired for using the white power symbol, but that's it. Like that's the one example that he cites. He then pivots to using the same exact arguments that we've heard time and again about how, oh, well, this like person said something, the celebrity said something that's like not politically correct. So they were fired from this company. It's the same thing. It's literally indistinguishable. He doesn't offer us anything new, no unique insight into this issue here. Now, I think that there are intelligent and nuanced critiques of cancel culture. Ben Burgess literally wrote a book on this and I haven't read it yet, but I am interested in reading that to kind of challenge my own beliefs and biases with regard to this issue in particular. But I do kind of want to empathize or sympathize rather with Bill Maher because he was canceled, for lack of a better word, back in the early 2000. So he had a show called Politically Incorrect and he was fired after 9-11 for saying, quote, we have been cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2000 miles away. That's cowardly.  Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. It's not cowardly. So I understand where he's coming from. He basically was fired because of the outrage mob. So I can understand how he's sensitive to this issue. He cares about this issue. Having said that, though, what he offers, though, contrary to what he promised in the beginning, is not some sort of unique left wing or even liberal approach to cancel culture. He says the same things that Republicans say. And I'll tell you, after we watch the clip, why he's missing the point if he actually wanted to make a valuable point about cancel culture, why he's focusing on the wrong things. 80% of Americans, young, old, rich, poor, conservative, liberal, white, minority, all hate the current atmosphere of hypersensitivity. Yeah, everybody hates it, and no one stands up to it. Because it's always the safe thing to swallow what you really think and just join the mob. So if someone asks you if Justin Timberlake owes Britney Spears an apology for not being a perfect boyfriend when they were teenagers, just say yes. Easy. As Justin did, issuing an abject apology and then vowing to return sexy back to where he found it. We find out that teenage Justin hadn't become a perfect person yet.  What a cat. Although I truly believe any guy willing to wear matching outfits can't be all bad. Now, as for a song called I'm a Slave for You? Nothing? Is this something? The Mandalorians, Gina Carano is a person I'd never heard of and resent that I have now.  And she made some Nazi analogy. Who doesn't these days?  It's always OK when Trump's the Nazi.  By the way, you can't work in Hollywood if you don't believe what we believe. Yeah, in the 50s, that's exactly what the left complained they were being told. Now, the week before it was Chris Harrison's turn in the barrel, he's the host of The Bachelor and is stepping away, stepping away to educate himself on a more profound and productive level than ever before. Oh, good, good. Because all my life I've looked up to the host of the Fuckest Ranger show. And if I thought I couldn't count on The Bachelor for moral guidance, I don't know if I could go on.  It's because he wouldn't throw one of them under the bus when it came to light that in college he attended a dress up like we're in the old South Party, which is not a type of party we should be throwing in that it winks at a civilization built on slavery, yes. But apparently in 2018, millions of people were still doing it. And mature people understand humans are continually evolving as opposed to Wokeville, where they're always shocked we didn't emerge enlightened from the primordial ooze. What's Chris Harrison supposed to do? Build a time machine, go back to 2018, and knock the mint juleps out of their hands? So to me, that was not necessarily persuasive at all. This isn't unique. If you genuinely want to approach the issue of cancel culture from a different perspective and not the traditional conservative perspective, why wouldn't you bring up how Colin Kaepernick was blacklisted from the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem? Why wouldn't you bring up how CNN contributor Mark Lamon Hill or The Guardian columnist Nathan J. Robinson were fired because they criticized the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians? Why wouldn't you bring up how an elementary school teacher in Texas was fired because she refused to sign a pro-Israel oath? Why wouldn't you bring up how LGBTQ youth are more likely to be bullied than their straight and cisgender counterparts? I mean, is this not them being canceled? Does cancel culture not apply at a younger age? I mean, these are genuinely terrible instances of cancel culture that I think should be addressed and called out if we want to even use the words cancel culture. I think that has been hijacked by the right and there should be a different term for that now.  But I mean, what he's bringing up here, these are just boring celebrity scandals. And that's not anything that's new. Like what he's saying is not unique at all. I mean, look at the story that he brings up with Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. He basically makes it seem as if it's bad that Justin Timberlake apologized to Britney Spears after all these years. But is that really that big of a deal? Is that really an issue of cancel culture? Is Justin Timberlake now canceled and ostracized and marginalized from society? No, he's still a multi-millionaire. I mean, is it really a bad thing? Do we really want to not normalize people reflecting on their past bad behavior? Like for me, when I think back to the way that I treated my classmates even in middle school, I cringe and I wish that I could talk to those children today and apologize for the way that I treated them. Am I canceling myself? No, I think that if you want to grow as a society, it's important to look back so that way we don't repeat our mistakes in the future. And really the broader point that was made in that New York Times documentary about Britney Spears, which was fantastic by the way, it went right over his head because the broader point was about how the misogynistic media was hypocritical because on one hand they'd over sexualize and objectify women at young ages like Britney Spears, but simultaneously they jump at the first opportunity to demonize and blame these women, label them as sluts and sexual deviants for breaking the hearts of innocent teen heartthrobs. Like this is a double standard. Men are treated differently than women. They were and they are now. And I think that reflecting on this is important. In fact, I'd say that self-reflection is necessary because if we don't look back to the past and think about the bad things that we've done, we'd never be able to progress as a society. Like imagine if debate surrounding the treatment of LGBTQ people was just like dismissed and trivialized as cancel culture. Well, we can't look back and think about the way that we treated gays or blacks because that's just cancel culture. I mean, it's really important to look back and learn from our mistakes. Otherwise we'd never progress and that doesn't just apply to social issues. That applies to all types of issues, economic issues, foreign policy issues. If we never looked back at our foreign policy mistakes, we'd never be able to correct our mistakes now or not make those mistakes in the future. But would it be cancel culture to look back at the Iraq war and think, man, that was a really bad decision. George W. Bush was literally lying to all of us by trying to gin up support for a war when there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Is it cancel culture to want to cancel George W. Bush? Furthermore, are there not genuine instances where we should cancel people? I think that George W. Bush, a war criminal, should be canceled. Bill Maher did an address Andrew Cuomo who has three sexual harassment allegations against him. Is it not bad to cancel powerful people who abuse their positions of power? Would it not be bad to cancel someone like Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby? Like if we're talking about cancel culture, I think that it's perfectly reasonable to discuss the parameters. Like who do we apply cancel culture to and what should the ramifications be? But when we're talking about celebrities, I don't care about celebrities. They're rich, they're powerful. And I hate to say it, but nine times out of 10 when celebrities are canceled, they're not actually canceled. In fact, they usually have more opportunities presented to them. They get book deals. They then get to go on social media and talk about how they were canceled. Hell, Kevin Sorbo, he went on Fox News last week because his Facebook page was deleted because he was spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and he was claiming that he's canceled now. So like it's lucrative to claim that you've been canceled. Victimization pays. That's why a lot of people do it. And he also brings up Gina Crino from The Mandalorian because she was fired from Disney for making insensitive social media posts. But what's weird to me is that like he's talking about cancel culture, his message presumably is specifically to anti-SJWs, but yet he's conflating what Disney, a private multimillion dollar company did to something that society does. So who actually is guilty when it comes to canceling? Is it these private companies? Is it Hasbro for canceling Mr. Potato Head by taking the mister off of it and making him gender neutral? Is Disney responsible for canceling Gina Crino? Or is society the ones who need to change here? Because I don't know who you're talking to. You start by talking to the SJWs who we named specifically, but then you cite examples where a company like Disney fired one of their employees. Like if a worker, a normal worker at Walmart made the same posts that she made on social media and was fired, I think that that is bad.  But if a multimillionaire celebrity doesn't, I'm sorry, I don't have as much sympathy. You can say in principle, it's still wrong, but I don't have sympathy because she's gonna be okay. In fact, now she is a martyr for the right. Ben Shapiro is now making a movie with her. So I mean, the question is, when we're talking about celebrities, like are they ever really truly canceled? You could say Harvey Weinstein was actually canceled, but isn't that a good thing? And see, this is the problem. Like if you're talking about cancel culture as it relates to normal Americans, working Americans, that's a different story. Because if they lose their jobs, that actually does lead to them getting canceled for lack of a better word because they then lose their livelihoods. But when a celebrity gets canceled, they're still millionaires, they're still powerful. They still get other gigs. He also brings up the bachelor host who defended a contestant's racism. Now again, at the beginning of the segment, he talked about how Republicans are weaponizing this issue, I'm paraphrasing of course, but then he goes on to use the same exact arguments that Republicans use. Here's the thing, there's always going to be talks of political correctness and has it gone too far? You know, are we being a little bit too rigorous in the way that we hold people accountable or too extreme in the way we hold people accountable, rather. And this is always going to be part of political discourse. It's how society grows. And he said it himself, like as human beings, we're constantly growing and learning. And mature people understand humans are continually evolving. So if that's true, which he's right there, wouldn't you argue that this is all part of the process? Sure, you can say that people get a little bit hasty and canceling sometimes, but I mean, this is all part of the process. I don't think it's inherently bad to look back and say, hey, maybe the media mistreated Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake didn't behave appropriately. Maybe he should apologize to her. Like, is this really a bad thing? Aren't there better issues that you could focus on if you genuinely care about cancel culture this much? And again, I understand why Bill Maher from his position cares about cancel culture, but at the same time, I also don't really care that much about him because even though he was canceled, he wasn't canceled in the traditional sense because his show was canceled, but he has a new show on HBO. He is a multi-millionaire. So to me, my response usually is crime in your river. I don't care about celebrities who get canceled. This is gossip.  This isn't actually substantive. It doesn't actually further political discourse, but what Bill Maher does here is he makes the Republican Party's argument for them who are trying to prop up cancel culture as a serious issue when in actuality, they don't really care about cancel culture. They're trying to cancel people. They're trying to cancel leftists. Why doesn't Bill Maher or Republicans speak out against all of the leftist speakers who are disinvited and banned from college campuses? Why hasn't anyone defended Noam Chomski who's been blacklisted by mainstream media for over a decade now, probably? Why aren't we actually talking about the real instances of cancel culture where we canceled intellectuals and people who actually are insightful and challenge the status quo? We don't do that. We don't actually defend the people who are canceled, who challenge power. We defend the people. And when I say we, I mean anti-SJW YouTubers and Bill Maher to be clear, they don't actually defend the people who are canceled, who challenge the status quo, who challenge the powers that be.  It's just, I would take you more seriously. One, if you were consistent here and spoke to other examples, like examples of people like, you know, Nathan J. Robinson, Mark Lamont Hill, elementary teachers, not signing, you know, pro-Israel loyalty pledges, I would be more inclined to take you seriously if you focused on that and not like celebrity gossip issues as it relates to cancel culture. So I'll leave that there. Bill Maher is now basically an anti-SJW YouTuber and he did post this video to YouTube. So welcome to the club, buddy. You can get your video taken down or demonetized and then you could start a Patreon and you can make the Dave Rubin bucks. Although you're already making that. So I don't even know why you're on this. It's not a grift. Maybe you're just like misled genuinely. Either way, Bill Maher, still not watchable in 2021. Shocker.


Virtually every day we are all confronted with the activity of our intestine, and it's no surprise that at least some of us have developed a fascination with our intestinal condition and its relation to health and disease. Over the last years, the intestinal microbiota, or gut flora, has been identified as like a fascinating new organ with all sorts of functions. Well, if the bacteria in our gut make up like a whole separate organ inside our body, what about doing an organ transplant? What would happen if you transferred intestinal bacteria from lean people into obese people? Researchers figured that rebalancing the obesity-causing bacteria with an infusion of gut bacteria from a lean person might help.  But when you're sticking a tube down people's throats and transplanting feces, I'm thinking, what do you use as a poop-cebo, if you will? Both the donors and the subject brought in fresh stools, and the subjects are randomized to either get the donor stool or get transplanted with their own collected feces. That was the placebo. You get your own back. OK, so what happened? The insulin sensitivity of the skinny donors was up around 50. That's a good thing. High insulin sensitivity means low insulin resistance, the cause of both type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes. The obese subjects started out around 20, and after infusion of their own feces, they stayed around 20. But the group of obese donors getting the skinny similarly started out low, but shot up near to where the slim folks were. It's interesting not all lean donor stools conveyed the same effect on insulin sensitivity as some donors had very significant effects, the so-called super fecal donor, whereas others had little or no effect. Turns out this super donor effect is most probably conveyed by the amounts of short chain fatty acid producing intestinal bacteria in their feces, the food bacteria that thrive off of the fiber we eat. The short chain fatty acids produced by fiber-eating bacteria may contribute to the release of gut hormones that may be the cause of this beneficial improved insulin sensitivity. The successful use of fecal transplantation has recently attracted considerable attention not only because of its success, but its capacity to prove the cause-and-effect relationship that the bacteria we have in our gut can affect our metabolism. But within a few months the bacterial composition returned back to baseline, so the effects on the obese subjects were temporary. We can get similar benefits, though, by just feeding what few good gut bacteria we may already have.   Fecal transplants and probiotics are only temporary fixes if we keep putting the wrong fuel into our gut. But by feeding prebiotics, such as fiber, which means increasing whole plant food consumption, we may select for and foster the growth of our own good bacteria. However, such effects may abate once the high fiber intake ceases. Therefore, our dietary habits should include a continuous consumption of large quantities of high fiber foods to improve our health. And if we don't, we may be starving our microbial cell.


We are here. All of these contacts are tankers at anchor, tanker at anchor, and yeah, just south of Trafalgar Bank seems to be like a tanker sleepover, and I think I'm going to have to go inside them because there's lots of traffic outside them in the traffic lanes. There you see. So I don't really want to mix it here. So I got to go in here. Of course, what we're going in here is that there, that's a lighthouse because that's land that is the Cape Trafalgar lighthouse.  This isn't great. And now I'm a sailing vessel. So it's a slightly different core of song. It's the one long blast followed by two short blasts. Looks reasonably good in front of me. Listening on the radio, I think there's been a collision in the Tarifa TSS. Find out shortly. Find out shortly. All sorts of screaming and turn to the port, turn to the port. Why did you do that? So that's all over there somewhere. And I'm going over there somewhere eventually. Let's give her a song. Trumpet. Spain. That's the first sighting of Spain. Good morning. Paloma Point and we are just jiving our way towards Tarifa. Wind is variable light. I think it's about five knots now. Been up to about seven this morning, which is when I started sailing. Yeah, it's five and a half now indicated five and a half. So we're just mooching along at about two knots through the water. But because the reason I came this close to land is because the current's in our favour up here for the next two and a half hours probably. And that's given us a speed over the ground of three and a half knots. So we've got a knot worth of current taking us in the right direction. And it seems like the currents going through the straits are a little bit tricky. And from what I could work out from the descriptions, I get a bit of plus and a bit of minus here. Whereas if I'm out in the more central, I just get a lot of minus and then some nothing. So better to be here for the plus. And I've managed to time it, although I didn't try and time it. I was trying to go as fast as I could. But it's worked out that I'm getting a bit of a push. We're only making 3.8 through the water. But because of the current, we're making 6.2 over the ground, which is pretty damn good. Yeah, 6.5 there. And what's even more pleasant, oh, folks speeds up to four knots now, that's good. Ah, wind's gone up to seven and a half. What's even better is that they're motoring over there. See, no sails, they just got their engine on. I'm going faster with my sail in my 1960s design boat. That's not a 1960s sail though. So this is quite fun. I'm enjoying this. I'm racing them. That's the lighthouse at Tarifa. That's my current waypoint. The next waypoint, Cabo de Gado, which is a mere, what was it, 178 nautical miles. So yeah, that's another mouthful of the elephant. Getting set to throw in a quick jibe. A monster. Leviathan. Only minute now he's going to hit the throttles and fly on by. My IAS thinks that's very on a collision course. And at the moment I have to say I agree. Jesus, he's even turning towards me now.  I think he's six and a half knots behind. That's a grumble. It's really nice. He's waiting for me to get out of the way before he floors it. I think he's hit it now. Yeah, look at the turbulence out the back. Try this jibe again. We're going downwind at 160 degrees in 13 to 14 knots. Over here, the continent, which is Europe, Gibraltar, a place I am very familiar with, a sailing course. I'm going to learn how to be a... Worms have gone again. It's the string. Shoot it. Shoot it with your gun. Shoot with a gun. That's what the bullets are for. Get twit. Hang on. Let me clean this for you. No, that's better. All right. So over there, Marbella or Marbella. Depending if you eat paella or paella. Yeah, so there's all kinds of shenanigans going on over there. Or at least there was when I was a young lad in Marbella. Next, Fungarola. Then Malaga. None of which we're going to stop at. None of which we're planning to stop at. But as you can see, we're in no country for old men territory again. It's not quite Biscay or the North Atlantic, but I've actually been pushed around as much by these smaller waves as I was or at least as I can remember being in the bigger waves of the oceans. It's kind of, you know, yet again, it's just a little too strong the wind for comfortable fun time sailing. We're making reasonable progress in roughly the right direction. You know, we're kind of going in almost every direction where the debris is out. Yeah, so it mustn't grumble. So for the first time, I'm actually chickening out of the weather of the wind. I need a little bit of comfort. I've been out of no sleep last night and I've had about 10 minutes today. So it's really time to put comfort ahead of speed. And here we can see this is a very nice app called Windy. And that's the current time, local time 2200. And you can see the orange is the high winds, very high winds. The green is the 10 to 15 knots, which is lovely. Orange is 15, 20, 25. We're currently in 23 knots average.  And I need a break. So we're heading in towards the green area. I'm going to run up the coast here from Fwangarola towards, but not to Malaga. As the wind turns, I'll turn with it and just do for around the coast there. And as you see, as the time moves on, it stays roughly. And that's one o'clock, three o'clock. There's always a greener area until in the morning, it's actually going to get luxurious around three o'clock. So then the wind's going to die back quite a lot. And I'm hoping to be somewhere around about here at that time.


Okay, good day Dr. Sanjay Sanyal, professor of department chair. So this is a dissection of the right side, supine cadaver. I'm standing on the right side, my camera portion is also on the right side, towards the head end. So we have completely opened up the axilla, the right arm, right cubital fossa, to show the neurovascular structures in the muscles. So this muscle that we see in front of us, this is the coracobrachialis. This takes origin from the coracoid process and it gets inserted onto the major side of the middle of the humerus. This muscle that we see here, this is the biceps brachialis. Incidentally, this is the reflected pectoralis major. So come back, this is the biceps brachialis, these are the two heads of the biceps brachialis. This is the short head, taking origin from the coracoid process. And this is the long head, which goes inside. The tunnel produced by the transverse humeral ligament and the long head then takes origin from the supraglinoid tuberculosis cap. And these two then unite from the belly of the biceps and we can see the biceps tendon is coming down here and the tendon is getting inserted here. This is the tendon getting inserted in the cubital fossa on the radial tuberosity. And as it gets inserted, there may be a bursa underneath. At the same time, we can also see that it is giving this aponeurotic expansion majorly which we have cut. This is the medial side and this is the other cut portion of the aponeurotic expansion on this side. This is the biceps aponeurosis. The biceps aponeurosis reinforces the roof of the cubital fossa and also reduces the pressure of the biceps tendon on the radial tuberosity. Once we reflect this biceps, we see the next fossil underneath. This is the brachialis. The brachialis takes origin from the anterior surface of the humerus and it descends down from spot of the floor of the cubital fossa and it gets inserted onto the anterior surface of the coronoid process of the ulna. This is the musculocutaneous nerve that we can see here coming from the lateral cord of the brachial plexus. I have lifted it up. It enters the arm at the point of insertion of the coracobrachialis. And therefore, this coracobrachialis muscle is referred to as a landmark muscle because it indicates the location of the entry of the musculocutaneous nerve as well as the site of the nutrient or tree to the humerus. The musculocutaneous then supplies the coracobrachialis and then it runs between the biceps and the brachialis as we can see here. And then it supplies both these muscles and then it comes out between the two laterally and it becomes one of the lateral cutaneous nerve of the fora. If there's injury to the musculocutaneous nerve which is not very common but can happen, then there will be paralysis of the plexus of the elbow namely the biceps and the brachialis. However, in which case the patient will still be able to weakly flex the elbow by virtue of the brachioradialis which is supplied by the radial nerve. I want to mention another clinical correlation pertaining to the biceps. The biceps is with two heads. As I mentioned, this is the long head. The long head can rupture in old age due to degenerative wear and tear. In which case the rest of the biceps will bunch down here and there will be a hollow in this region when the patient tries to flex the arm. And this is referred to as pop-eye deformity which can be seen in certain people in old age. This is a clinical picture of a patient that the author tended to showing pop-eye deformity. The next muscle that we can see here in the cubital fossa is this one here. This is the pronator tiris. This forms the infromedial boundary of the cubital fossa and this muscle that we see here, this is the brachioradialis which forms the infrolateral boundary of the cubital fossa. So having mentioned these muscles, now let's take a quick look at the neurovascular structures. Let's start with the superficial most vein that we can see here which we have preserved very carefully. This vein that we see here, this is the cephalic vein. This is formed on the radial side of the arm, forearm. And as it ascends up, it runs in the deltoid pectoral groove, namely the groove between the deltoid and the pectoralis major. This is the deltoid muscle. And then it opens, goes through the deltoid pectoral triangle or the clavipectoral triangle and pierces the clavipectoral fascia or the costocorocate membrane and it opens into the axillary vein and we can see that here. As it's running up, it gives a communication across the roof of the cubital fossa which we can see here. This is the median cubital vein which communicates with the basalic vein and that we can see here very clearly. This is the basalic vein which runs on the median side of the arm. This basalic vein then runs up and it unites with the vena commitantes of the brachial artery and it ultimately forms the axillary vein which we can see here. This basalic vein is accompanied by this nerve which we can see here. This is the medial cutaneous nerve of the arm and further down, it is the medial cutaneous nerve of the forearm and we can see it is coming out from the medial or the brachial plexus. While we're talking about the nerves accompanying the superficial vein, let me mention that the septalic vein is also accompanied at part of the distance by this nerve here. I have reflected the biceps to show this nerve here. This is the terminal part of the musculocutaneous nerve. The musculocutaneous nerve, after it is supplied, the coraco brachialis, the biceps and the brachialis, we can see it is running between the two and then it becomes cutaneous and it becomes known as the lateral cutaneous nerve of the forearm and in this place, it is accompanied by the septalic vein. The clinical significance of this is that this vein is quite often used by the nurses and other people for venisection and venipuncture and in so doing, if there is extravestition of blood, it can produce irritation and numbness, tingling, panesthesia along the distribution of this lateral cutaneous nerve of the forearm which is the terminal branch of the musculocutaneous nerve. Likewise, the spacilic vein is also used for venisection and venipuncture and if there is extravestition of blood, it can produce irritation of the medial cutaneous nerve of the arm and the medial cutaneous nerve of the forearm. Now, let's take a look at other structures in the cubital fossa. Going from medial to lateral, we have this structure here. This is the median nerve and we can see that the median nerve is found with the axilla by the lateral root of the median nerve and the medial root of the median nerve coming respectively from the lateral cord and the medial cord and the two unite to form the median nerve. Medial nerve initially is lateral to the axillary artery. It then crosses in front and then it becomes medial to the brachial artery in the cubital fossa. After the median nerve, we have the next structure here. This is the brachial artery. The brachial artery is the outward continuation of the axillary artery. We can see this muscle here. This is the t-rease major. So therefore, after the t-rease major, the axillary artery becomes known as the brachial artery and my finger is tracing it. This brachial artery runs just lateral to the median nerve in the cubital fossa. These two structures, the median nerve and the brachial artery can be injured in supra-condylar fracture of the humerus in children as well as anterior dislocation of the elbow, which is also quite common in children. In which case, we have to reduce them immediately. Otherwise, there will be jeopardization of the blood supply and or the nerve supply to the distal part of the arm. The next structure I have already mentioned is the tendon of the biceps. And finally, if I retract the brachioradialis, we can see this nerve here, which I am going to lift up now, this nerve. This is the radial nerve. The radial nerve comes from in front of the lateral epicondyle and here under the brachioradialis, it divides into a superficial division which runs under the brachioradialis and the deep division which we can see continuing here. This is the deep portion of the radial nerve, which supplies not only the brachioradialis, but it also supplies the muscles on the extensor aspect of the forearm. So therefore, in the cubital fossa, the structures from medial to lateral are median nerve, brachial artery, the bicep tendon and the radial nerve. The boundary is, superior boundary is an imaginary line joining the medial epicondyle, where my right index finger is located and the lateral epicondyle where my left index finger is located. This is superior boundary. The infromedial boundary is the prognitor teres and the infrolateral boundary is the brachioradialis. And this median nerve, as it progresses down, it goes through the two heads of the prognitor teres, namely the human and the ulnar head where it can get entrapped to produce the condition known as pronator syndrome where the patient will have pain in the cubital fossa and numbness and tingling in the distribution of the median nerve. These are some of the clinical correlations pertaining to the arm and elbow. Thank you very much for watching. Dr. Sanjay Sanyal signing out. David O. is the camera person. If you have any questions or comments, please put them in the comments section below. Have a nice day.


with Liam, Liam has, are we still in stage one of the objectives movement? What would classify a stage two? So stage one is, Ignomance of, stage two would be denial and stage three is acceptance. It depends on what you mean by stage one and stage two and stage three. But I think it's still early, put it that way. I think the culture has absorbed a lot of objectivism. The culture has absorbed a lot of iron rand, a lot of good things about objectivism. Well, everything's about objectivism is good, but a lot of fragments of objectivism, if you will, of the objectivism is a system, but elements of objectivism have been integrated somewhat into the culture and into thinking. The fourth system has not been, the full integration is not, there are pieces of it out there, pieces of reason and rationality where iron rand has really had an impact, but there's still a lot of work to do. We're still very early, there's still just not enough objectivists and primarily there's just not enough objectivist intellectuals. It's much more prevalent now than it was in any time in history. There's a lot more activity, there's a lot more content, there's a lot more things going on, there are a lot more people involved. It's not even on the same ballpark as the 1960s where it was iron rand and Nathaniel Brandon now granted they were giants, particularly iron rand, and there's no giants of their scope anymore then there was Lenin Pekoff and other giant and there's no giant like Lenin Pekoff anymore, but then there were a lot of mini giants, a lot of really, really good people, many more now than there were back then. People, the intellectuals today put aside Brandon, Lenin and maybe some of the Harry and some others. I think the intellectuals today who are objectivist are much more knowledgeable about objectivism, but yeah, I think it's much bigger than it was, much more substantial, much more influential than it was. All that work that iron rand and Lenin Pekoff and to some extent Nathaniel Brandon did in 1960s and 70s influenced the culture, changed the culture already and it's going to change the culture even more in the future. It was never on national television back then, it was almost never on national television and to the extent that it was, it was iron rand and iron rands of course not around but I've been on television, if I can say so, I've been on television more than iron rand was, not as good obviously, not as influential obviously, but have been, it's not an issue, but iron rand now often appears in different TV series where there was Mad Man or Dirty Dancing, one of her books appeared, the characters, the shows that was at the animated show, the Pixar did that was clearly influenced by ideas from Iron Rand, even the director said so, didn't necessarily do a good job of it, but heavily answered, you know, Rand was in Johnny Carson, yeah, three times, it's amazing. And she was on other big shows, but all right, television was very different back then, you had long shows where people talked, all no shows like that anymore. And in terms of shows that number of people watch, look at some of the places that objectivists have been interviewed, look at the influence Alex Epstein is having, look at the number of places he's been, you know, people he's talked to, shows he's been on, it truly is amazing how much reach objectivism is having today I think much more reach than it had in the 1960s. And Iron Rands books are selling more today than they sold in the 1960s. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe, press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you, I very much appreciate it.


With Roland Garros over for another year, and Novak Djokovic, the champion of Roland Garros for the third time, and achieving a 23rd Grand Slam title the first man to ever do that, let's go have a look at the reaction on Twitter after Nole's massive achievement by some of the greats of the game. Starting with Juan Martín del Potro, he says, what a champion, Idemo Nole. Ladies French Open Champion, Egas Fiontek said, congratulations, Djokovic Nole, with a couple of emojis after. Carlos Alcárez, the man that Djokovic beat in the semi-final stage, says many congrats for the trophy and for the new record. Legend Rod Labour came out and said, congratulations on winning 23 majors, Djokovic Nole, and cementing your legacy in another command performance at Roland Garros.  Kudos to Kasparud, who valiantly pushed this great champion all the way. Victoria Azarenka, another Grand Slam champion, said, unreal Djokovic Nole, the greatest mental strength of any athlete ever seen. Andy Roddick came out and said, tough to make any numbers-based argument against Djokovic Nole being the best. If you're making an argument against, it's likely based on feelings and not the record. Congrats on 23, crazy to even think that's possible. The final one comes from Rafa Nadal, the man who held the record at 22 slams. Many congrats on this amazing achievement, Djokovic Nole. 23 is the number that just a few years back was impossible to think about, and you made it. Enjoy it with your family and team. So there you have it, some of the greats of the game, acknowledging such a historic run. And of course, Serena Williams has done this before on the Lady's side, but we've never seen a male do this. Djokovic obviously had 22 slams with Rafa. We saw Roger get to 20, which was unbelievable at the time, a few years back. And who knows what's going to happen now? Is he going to get to 25? Is he going to get to 30? Let me know down in the comments below how many more slams can Djokovic get 25 sims realistic, 30? If he plays until maybe 40, and he keeps playing at this high level and beating these guys up, maybe, maybe you can dream big, but man, what an achievement. 23 slams, the most of any male in the history of tennis.


Let's write a program to solve this problem. Which combination of quantity, price, and discount is cheaper? Here's the code with the method named getTotal to calculate the total price, and a main method that calls getTotal. What really happens when we call methods in Java? We start in the main method, and Java allocates memory for variable amount1. Every time Java starts a method, it creates a stack activation record that keeps track of the method's variables. Java then has to evaluate the right hand side of the equal sign. This requires a call to getTotal. That call creates a new activation record that gets stacked on top of the record for main, sort of like a stack of building blocks. GetTotal allocates space for the three parameters, and the three arguments, 12, 3.5, and 7.5, get copied into those parameters. We then calculate the total, and then get to the return statement, which does two things. It takes the methods activation record off the stack, and sends the return value back to the method that made the call. Now that we have the value of the right hand side, we can assign it to amount1. Continuing on in main, we allocate room for variable amount2, and on the right hand side, there's another call to getTotal. Java once again creates an activation record for getTotal, and stacks it on top of mains. It allocates room for the parameters, and copies the argument values, 14, 3.05, and 9.25, into the parameters. We again calculate the total, using these different numbers, and get to return, which removes getTotal's activation record from the stack, and sends the total of 38.75 back to the caller, where it gets assigned to amount2. And that's what happens behind the scenes in a Java method call.


What's up guys evil deer here, and I am back for some more Esperanto slash world of Warcraft lessons now before I break straight into this one I just want to um Let you guys know something in one of my previous lessons. I made an error regarding the use of teal versus teal I've now gone back and corrected that error. I've removed that part from the lesson So for future people so they don't like learn a mistake that's being given by me Um, basically the mistake was that I said that teal is useful people That's apparently incorrect. I spoke with many people about this A lot of people had the same mistake that I made apparently it's a common misconception But teal is used for both people and also animals. So you can say teal estus homo You can also say teal estus bestor. So just forget that little bit of my lesson from previously Sorry if I if I've completely screwed up on that one. I'm really sorry about that But anyway, let's continuing onward. We learned something new every day. I've been speaking this language for years and I'd been under and like using that as an error for like years. So sorry about that one. Hey, I'm gonna chase this guy down Anyway, let's do some revision. Shall we so first up What was the present tense for fly? It was flugas flugas And what was the word uh present tense for run? It was kudas kudas And what was the word for sky? It was chiello chiello. And do you remember the word for bridge? It was ponto ponto Um, and what was the word for city? It was urubo urubo And last one on the review. What was the word for serpent? Oh, sorry. Yeah serpent, but also snake Sotipento Sotipento Okay, so I just wanted to speak about something that Kind of caused a little bit of confusion in one of my previous lessons as well And that was um, the present tense idas in spoken esperanto you One second. I'm just gonna figure out what I'm gonna do in here. Um Thorough little walls freed. So how do I do that? Did you give me something to free them? And I'm back. Apparently I just had to break these chains. So that's all good Just free that wolf and I should be done And what about that one score freed all the walls? So Idas so for instance me idas a la lago can mean I'm going to the lake or it can mean I'm walking to the lake Okay, so me idis a la lago can mean I went to the lake or it could mean I walk to the lake because when we say I walk to somewhere we don't in english We don't really care about the fact that we used our feet. We're just using walk as kind of a I don't know like a filler verb instead of go I'm not sure if that's the best way to explain it But in esperanto if you you don't need to specify that you just say idas for You know going like all walking But if you really really wanted to specify that you went there by using your feet You could say pierd idas and remember what pierd means It means feet.  So walk basically Now you'll see that sometimes in texts like in some books and stuff But the majority of people will just say me idas a la lago when they're saying I go to the lake or I walk to the lake What else am I meant to do around here? I'm just going to keep killing these dudes Okay, so yeah, I just wanted to get that one out of the way now Let's begin with our actual lesson. So I'm going to start by teaching you. Um, the number seven eight nine So the number seven is set Set and the number eight is ock easy one to remember just think like off the course for instance and number nine Is Now now this is going to go really bad. I can see this is going to go bad very quickly But lots of people will make it With uh now it's got like a u with like a little special like kind of like enough u on top of it Whenever you see that U with a mini type of u on top of it.  It was sep What was the number for eight? It was ock And what was the number for five? It was covin and what about the number for nine? It was no Okay, now what I wanted to focus on in this particular lesson Why am I doing no damage to this guy? nature infected Someone thinks you're awesome. What? Check this out. Someone's blessed me with something that says they think you're awesome. Well, thank you very much Okay, so what I wanted to focus on a bit more in this lesson was the accusative case now If you've just started learning esprano, and you don't know any other languages You have no idea what that is But the best way to explain it. Okay is to give you an example. So for instance to say um Actually, I'll teach you a verb in order to help you learn this. Okay, so the verb present tense have is havas so to say uh, I have a You know drumstick that you eat you say Mi havas femurajon Now did you hear that sound at the end that end sound that is called the accusative case and it basically tells um You what is the object of the transitive verb? I'm just gonna heal myself up. Now if you're not very switched on with linguistic terms, this is going to get a little bit Um difficult to understand but the best way to put it is to say a verb There is two types of verbs. Okay, you have one which affects the subject so the person saying it and another which affects um The the object that it's talking about so to say mi havas Uh, for instance struton. So, you know ostrich. I have an ostrich. We have a struton You're basically saying that I have and the thing that I have is the ostrich, okay now Well, well watch out for the sotipento Just get rid of him out of way You're probably thinking right now. Well, that's that's really confusing. Why don't you why do we even need that?  Why do I need to specify? Everyone knows what I have But the thing is esprino is a language that was designed for everyone and not everyone around the world Has the same word order as english. Okay, so in english we say subject I have us verb um Femurajon Which is the object, okay Now some languages will actually say Femurajon object me I have us Verb, okay So, how do we know which one to use? Well, what does allenhoff the guy who created the language decided to do? Is he decided to bring in this thing will be accusative case So basically that n sound that you're hearing at the end of Femurajon Struton that tells you what is the object of the transitive verb Now let's put let's give you an example. Okay. Let's let's try something. So if I want to say I have a wolf, okay I could say me have us lupon or I could say lupon have us me or I could say me lupon have us It's it doesn't matter. They all three of those mean exactly the same thing In escranto Now I've already specified that one reason why this exists is because People come from different language backgrounds and we have different word orders another reason it exists is because In poetry for instance the ability to be able to swap around The sentence and completely change how it visually appears, but not what it means Is like a massive blessing for a spine. It allows it to be such a beautiful and flexible language So that's another reason for it. Now. What else am I going to do? I'm going to get another one of these hunters So I'm going to get this guy over here. So how would I say I have for instance? pants I would say me have us Me have us pantolonum Now you're probably thinking well hang on you said pants. That's plural and then you're thinking well hang on pants isn't plural Why do we have a plural in English? See that's a historical thing in English where I think originally don't quote me on this But originally back in the day with English Pants like a pant was like one leg of the pants. So pants is actually two pants Um, I think that's what it is. Don't quote me on that one, but it's something like that so In the Esperanto, we don't actually like pantolon means pants, but pantolon means more than one pan Pants, okay So just just get that remember that one as well because people will pick you up on that one I'm just going to quickly heal up now I'm actually quite excited because we are almost at the stage right now where we can start doing Instances now instances in World of Warcraft are basically like group A dungeons where you go down with four other people and you take on a big boss and stuff And that's going to completely spice up these lessons But anyway, I think we've got that out of the way We'll just do a little bit more practice with the accusative case Then we'll move to like a different area around here and try some other stuff So I'm just going to hand this quest in and I'll cut it right here Okay, and I'm back. So just going to pick up this quest quickly here. So grab that Except oh by the way, you see these two things here. So they're called kodos in this game now I'm pretty sure kodo isn't a real word like maybe apart from being some type of fantasy word But these dudes here they look like rhinoceroses. So from now on I'm just going to call these things rhinoceroses in this game and the word for rhinoceros in Espanol Is idinotero, idinotero So we are going to refer to them thus forward as idinoteroi because it's plural now So let's see what I'm going to do.  Let's let's take this one out. Okay, come here. Wait. Wait. Vulturo So how would we say I have a vulture? Mi havas vulturo And what's another way of saying that? Vulturo havas mi or mi vulturo havas So I'm just getting you used to hearing these different constructions So you can pick up on that accusative case because it is a hell of a concept to kind of wrap your head around if you're If you are monolingual like me and english is the only language you know because we really don't have it in english Now that is also partially alive because we do in some sense But it's very rare in english and Espanol it exists with all transitive verbs So let's see what I've got down here. I'm going to go down see if I'm going to take out this Crocodile here. So the word for crocodile in esprano is crocodilo Now This here I just want to let you in on some esprano slang. Yes, esprano has slang in espranto There is a verb Okay, so if I the verb for god, how can I explain this?  So imagine you're at an esprano event everyone there speaks esprano And you decide that you're going to speak english to someone else even though they speak esprano And you actually hear this common phrase where people will say ne crocodilu and I'll explain In later lessons what the sound at the end of that means because I don't want to go too far in depth But yeah, ne crocodilu means don't you know be a crocodile or don't crocodile So, yeah, that's just a little bit of random slang for you. I thought I'd just bring that up So how would you say? Um, I have a camps. I have a sorry a What is it plain strider? mi havas Kampan stirrupan. Did you notice that I also put the accusative case onto the adjective kampan The reason being is because remember how I said earlier in one of the previous lessons that the adjective Agrees with its noun. So if the noun is plural the adjective isn't plural. It's the same thing with the accusative case if Um, if the the noun is in the accusative case So it is the object of the transitive verb then its adjective is also in the accusative case. Okay Now the reason for that is is because you can actually move them around You can put the adjective in a different spot in the sentence as long as it's not confusing It will say like another verb or something Um, and it's also just to keep things in sync across the boards Anyway, so how would you say that same thing but put uh plain strider at the beginning of the sentence Kampan stirrupan havas mi And how would you say, um, I have a tree for instance Mi havas adabon and how would you say I have two trees? Mi havas do adabon Now you notice that the do the number it didn't change like it didn't become done or anything like that Because numbers in esprano, they don't take the accusative case They are they aren't adjectives or anything like that. They're their own separate class of words. So yeah To say I have a tree you'd say mi havas Uh adabon to say I have two trees you'd say mi havas do adabon Do adabon remember everything is uh in agreement there so The what we've done is we've made it a plural and we've also made it the accusative case Now let's just finish these little dudes off here. I'm just going to go through some revision I know I didn't teach you many new words in this lesson The reason being is because I just wanted to focus more on this accusative case But let's let's go through some revision So what was the word for sky? It was Cielo and how would you say um the Plain Strider runs From me. Okay La Campa struto curas de mi And how would you say the plane strider runs at me? La Campa struto curas alli. Okay, cool And how would you say um the plane strider ran at me past tense because it's about to die La Campa struto curis alli. Okay, very good. And how would you say um, I have a crocodile Mi havas crocodillon and how would you say I have five crocodiles? Mi havas kvin crocodillon And let's see if you can remember that little bit of saying usage I taught you How would you say don't crop it off or don't speak English when Espano is preferred? Okay, that's pretty much it for the rest for this lesson if you've enjoyed this lesson give it a like Share it for your friends subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you in the next video And if you're not there, well, I might leave your corpse at the bottom of that lago