Good afternoon, and welcome for joining us in Community Matters here on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Ethan Allen, filling in his host for Jay Fiddell, who cannot be here today. And with us today on Community Matters, we have a whole team of people, actually we have several teams of people from Kalani High School. We have Brian, we have Vance, and we have Carmen here. Welcome. Thank you. You're having us. Oh, hey, it's great to be here. These guys are doing exciting stuff with robotics. I think you've won competitions and you're gearing up for another competition, if I understand it. And you've got all sorts of good stuff going on. So why don't maybe one of you start telling us a little bit about the overall view of the program. About the program at first, or our program? Your program. Okay, so our program, it started in 2009 with five boys and one mentor, Mr. Silver, and he made that possible with them. And they started from the ground up. And now we're here, maybe, was it ten years, nine years? Nine years. Nine years later, and we're thriving as a team and hoping to do a lot better, a lot more later on. Great, great. So you must be dedicated as if you spent nine years cultivating the sport of robotics or the sports, I guess, of robotics. I'm dedicated because students are dedicated. If the students weren't willing to work as hard as they do in doing everything they do, I wouldn't be doing what I do. So it's cyclical. It goes around. I give to them, they give back to me, and together they've done incredible things. I can't be more proud of this team and watching it develop over the last nine years, seeing kids come from freshmen, all the way to their senior years, going to college, be graduate students in college, get into careers after college, and that we're now seeing that first group make it to that level. Excellent. Super. So Carmen, what got you interested in robotics? Well, in elementary, I was never actually introduced to robotics, so when I found out there was a robotics team at Kalani, I got interested in it and participated in it, so that way I could maybe help spread the word of steam, science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics to other elementary schools, which is an experience I never got to do. Excellent. That's great. And it's, you mentioned the first competition. Yes. Is that a spinoff of what used to be the U.S. first? Dean Cayman. Oh, it's the same thing. Yeah. Many years ago, I'd met Dean Cayman when he was just getting up and going. And so tell our audience a little bit about the first competition. So the first competition, so the main competition that we do is our big robots, about 120-pound robots, five feet tall, and that's called FRC, first robotics competition. And we have six weeks starting in January to build a robot and to compete. Our team goes to one outside regional, outside of the state, and then here in Hawaii. And if we work hard enough to win an award, we go to the World Championships, and this year it's in Houston. Uh-huh. Excellent. And so each year, as I understand it on a Mac competition, when you get your stuff in January, you get a kit of materials and you're sort of told your robot must do X, Y, and Z. You must stick a basketball into a hoop or something like that. And beyond that, you're sort of free to do what you can do with the stuff in the kit, right? Yes. And that's got to involve elaborate planning, a lot of creativity. So the first two weeks, it's a lot of catting, which is computer aided design. And we draw our robot onto the computer, or first we draw it onto paper and stuff. And then once we have the ideas that we want to implement, we put them into the computer. And then after we do that, we finish. We start cutting the parts, making it, welding it together. And then the last couple of weeks, it's finishing it up, stuff putting on the wheels, putting on all the shafts, making sure all the motors work, putting all the electric on programming, and then it gets bagged up and then it gets shipped to our first competition. Uh-huh. Yeah. Great. And do you have any of your photos or anything relate to the first competition or? There's a couple photos of us working on the robot. So this is a picture of the electrical of the robot. So that's maybe in the fifth week, that's what we work on to put on the robot. What's really cool about that shot, too, is the students designed it so it was a hatch cover. A lot of teams put the electronics underneath the robot. They get extremely difficult to get to if there's ever a problem. They were able to design it so it would come open so they'd have easy access to it. And then they could fold back up into the robot to be safe and secured for gameplay. Excellent. Yeah, very, very good. See, this is why people have to think creatively, right? Just go with the design that everyone else is going with. And so how many times have you done the first now? So have we been doing it all 10 years? 10 years, right? We've done first for nine years now. We've played in Hawaii for those last nine years. Okay. This will be our ninth time in the Hawaii regional. Hawaii regional is its 10th anniversary this year. So that's really incredible. We're proud to be excited with it to be right with the beginning. And we've gone to outside regionals. We've done six outside regionals. And we've been to worlds all eight years of our program. Congratulations. And then this year we're going back. Wow, you guys must be good at what you do then. Carmen, do you want to explain how we won the award to get there? So the award that we won was the Engineering Inspiration Award. The judges believed that through our chairman's presentation, we managed to inspire them on how engineering is a big part of our community and it can also help us in the future. Absolutely. So it's not about just building a robot.  Yeah. That's what we were before the show talking about, right, is the many ways that automated systems now, call them robots, if you will, are helping them. They're doing more and more of the routine stuff and it's having profound effects on our communities. It's changing our whole workforce, the way people think about jobs, because many of the jobs that your parents or grandparents did, just a robot can do them faster, better, cheaper now, right? And the jobs you'll do tomorrow aren't invented yet, you know? Yep. We're hoping to invent a few of those ourselves. Excellent. Good job. I guess the beauty of this is you get more experience in the coding, in the building of these things, understanding the constraints and the powers, you'll be able to think more and better ways to get tasks done that now seem sort of impossible.  People don't like it, but you can't ask a person to do that. We'd be mind-boggling, right? But a robot could do it just endlessly, right? Crawl along the beach, if it could select cigarette butts. So we're hoping to get to a future where there are going to be no cigarette butts. Well, it's just no one will want to smoke. Well, that's the ideal. So we'll start at the beginning before we have to get to the root problem with the trash. Ah, that's always better to cut the problems off before they get started. I agree entirely. So where do you guys want to, what are your dreams about taking robots to? Personally, I want to do computer hardware engineering, so that's building computers and making new computers, making them do better things. So back then when the computers were the size of a room and then they compressed it to circuit fit on a table, stuff like that. So you want to keep shrinking stuff down and getting it better and better, yeah. I want to become an architect when I grow up. And if there were robots in the future, it could maybe help with planning, making blueprints better and checking like the foundation. So maybe we show the video at this point. Yeah. So maybe I can explain a little bit about the video. So the video is a is a summary of the year. It qualifies us for the Chairman's Award, which we unfortunately didn't win in South Carolina, but we hope to win in Hawaii. So it explains what we did this past year and what we did throughout our whole history of the team. Cool. Team Magma strives to involve the community in science, technology, engineering, arts and math, also known as STEAM, through hosted tournaments, demonstrations and outreach events. Our team members and alumni have volunteered at FLL tournaments as judges, emcees and scorers. Our team also ran an innovation fair at FLL State Tournament, including math, science and life size board games to spark interest in STEAM. This year, we have done eight robot demos, exposing over 500 people to STEAM. At Robot Demos, we bring robots to various places such as schools and community centers. We demonstrate what we build and let everyone from our community learn about our program. We do this to hopefully inspire the next generation to engage in STEAM. This past year, we have held eight week long camps, totaling over 100 students from grades kindergarten to eighth grade. This is our second year of running the GTEC program, and we have obtained two grants worth $5,000 total for the two upcoming programs this summer, providing more than 20 hours of programming to 32 elementary and middle school students. We send out our bristlebots all around the world to help inspire the next generation. Over the past eight years, we've inspired over 10,000 individuals and 20 different schools. Many of those individuals have gone on to join robotics teams, just like ours. This year, we have taught six classes over three weeks, teaching 20 to 30 kids per class in military bases on the island of Oahu. These classes are offered at a discounted price to allow military children to have opportunities in STEAM education. The Mobile Maker Space is our initiative to spread and inspire students to become involved in STEAM. This mobile space is fully equipped with 3D printers, laser engravers and more. The idea for this is to take it anywhere on the island, giving access to tools and knowledge to FRC teams and aspiring makers alike. This year, we held four week long classes, teaching numerous middle school students the many applications of STEAM. Our products are student designed and made using a laser engraver and CNCs. These products introduce the public to applications of laser cutters and bring attention to the diversity and impact that robotics makes on the students. Dear Mr. Silber and Team Magma, thank you for coming to Kahala Elementary to show us your robotics team. When you guys presented your robots in the first 30 seconds, I was already amazed. When I go to Kalani High School, I'm totally going to join Team Magma. Sincerely, James. My time on the robotics team has taught me what I want to do in my life and I discovered my passion in mechanical engineering. My favorite part about being a mentor is getting to work with students, showing them the opportunities for them to be successful, watching them struggle and then figuring out in that aha moment of, I got it, I made it, it worked. That's the cool part about being a mentor. That was that was amazing. You guys do great stuff. You take this program into schools, like elementary schools, like you were saying earlier. So we do this through our academies. For example, we have our Makers Academy, which involves the make mobile. The great thing about the make mobile is that it's off the grid so we could take it anywhere on the island and give students and teachers an opportunity to get an experience with steam machinery. Excellent, excellent, super. And I thought you wanted something a little more of the Chairman's video. Yes, so the Chairman's Award is an award that is given out to a team that embodies an example other teams can follow. It's the most prestigious award in first. And that's that video. I can see why that generated that for you guys because you're clearly doing good stuff on your own, but then you're also sharing it out widely and inspiring others to follow in your tracks and surpass you even, right? Oh yeah, Mark of any great teachers and other students surpass themselves. That's right, that's right. You just help a little support, get some barriers out of the way and let them go, right? Yeah. So we are going to take a quick break here and we're a team, the team from Brian, Vance and Carmen from Kalani High School Robotics Team have been here and we're going to take a break and be back with some new guests. Hi, I'm Cheryl Crozier Garcia, the host of Working Together on ThinkTek Hawaiʻi. Join us every other Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 4.30 when we discuss the impact of change on employees, employers and the economy. Aloha, my name is Reg Baker and I'm the host of Business in Hawaiʻi with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday at 2 o'clock. We highlight businesses and individuals that are successful in Hawaiʻi and we learn their secrets to their success. I hope you can join us and listen in because we always have a pack of information on successful stories in Hawaiʻi. Aloha. Aloha, how you doing there Latties and Laddies? This is Angus McTeky and I'm ThinkTek Hawaiʻi and I have my favorite show. Hibachi Talk with my good old buddies Gordo, the Texana and Andrew, the security guy. Please join us every Monday. No, it's Friday, every Friday from 1 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. here on ThinkTek Hawaiʻi and you can also find us on YouTube. Hibachi Talk. Aloha. Heel sisters here with a healthy tip. We encourage you to enjoy the food you eat this holiday season and keep it local and healthy. Yeah, eat the rainbow, eat the rainbow and if you need any produce come to the red barn on the north shore. Aloha everybody. My name is Mark Shklav. I'd like you to join me for my program Law Across the Sea on ThinkTekHawaii.com. Aloha. Looking to energize your Friday afternoon? Tune in to Stand the Energy Man at 12 noon. Aloha Friday here on ThinkTek Hawaiʻi. And they're back here at Community Matters on ThinkTek Hawaiʻi. I'm Ethan Allen filling in for Jay Fidel and with me today is a team from Kalani High Schools. Brian was here earlier and we have two new students and I'm sorry I didn't get your names. Hi, I'm Noah Eckfield. Noah. I'm Roby Porter. Roby. Glad you both were able to join us here. And so we were talking before about some of the amazing things that your team has done the first competition and all that kind of good stuff. But I gather you know other aspects of the program, right? Yeah, I am actually our treasure for our team. So I do look kind of more at the business side of things. Very important to know. Very important to know you can't run businesses without treasure, right? So how do you, well that's a good question though. How do you, I mean these are not cheap things to do. The robots themselves cost money. If you're trying to go off to these competitions, you have to pay for transportation. How do you organize all that? So basically you spend about $80,000 a year, which is a large sum of money. A lot of it does go for trips and a lot of materials for our, I guess, to build our robots and things like that. So every year we start off with a budget saying what we're going to do for, I guess, how it's the money's going to be split up with the money we gained from last year, how much we're projected from our three businesses. We actually have, like Carmen said earlier, we have Kalani Robotics Academy, which is a major fundraiser for us. We have Bristol Bus. What is the academy? This is a kindergarten to eighth grade academy that it's a week long, normally over the summer or fall breaks. So you guys work with kids then from K-8 basically? Yeah. Okay, cool. We teach them the instructors and they run four different camps simultaneously during that week. The schools then pay you guys to do this. So this is, you raise some funds that way. Cool, excellent. Oh yeah. Oh, sorry. Some other businesses that we've created over the years is one that we're really proud of, which is a Bristlebots LLC, which is a small micro robot, which started off with us cutting off the heads of toothbrushes and strapping cell phone vibrators to those. But we've since then reached out to different companies in China so that we can manufacture our very own parts. And we're currently in the sixth generation where they're able to be more widely used to a wider age range. We usually aim for it to be in elementary school and we're hoping to be able to reach it out further. And so these Bristlebots for our viewers may not know. What do they do? So basically what they do is there's bristles on the bottom, like a bristlebot, and then it has a cell phone vibrator on it so that as the cell phone vibrator spins, the bristles kind of vibrate and then it moves around on its own. We use them to go to elementary schools and hold demonstrations there where those kids get a very good initial stepping point to get interested in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. I myself was one that was captivated by these little robots. And I just kept going and I was like, I got to do this. It's so fun. And now I'm here on the robotics team that inspired me in the first place. Excellent, excellent. Eight years ago, we developed this product, and Noah was in one of the schools. We had several of our other students that are now team members that were participants in the parent and student nights. Wonderful. What was really cool about it is the kids used their stuff they learned in school, the cadding and engineering class. They used the cadding to actually develop everything about it. So all the artwork here is all CAD. This is shipped into one manufacturer to produce the bag, another manufacturer gets the toothbrush, and what that's going to look like, how wide, how long it's going to be, everything is cadded out. So just like any other manufacturing process that would be done in a normal corporation, these high school students are doing it. Right. And you have to figure out how to coordinate all that and get the right parts together and the right numbers. Yeah. And then you have the assemblies and sending it out from here. Yeah, excellent, excellent. And then you've got another product here too. Yeah, actually, this is one of our newer ones. We call it magma crafts. We're lucky enough to have a laser printer, which we were able to utilize with different programs. And we actually designed this. And as you see, this one is our B. We, um... Connect. Yes, it's two-sided. So we originally just had the pieces out by itself, but then we realized with this, it just has a cleaner look, as well as it's just easier to put together. Sure, sure. And I see it. Well, so those come apart and you build puzzles? Yeah, you can build it. This is actually the picture of what it looked like. Cool, excellent, excellent. Very neat, very neat. So, and then again, you're selling these and raising money for your hub. Yeah, wow, this is, this really is, I mean, it is a business. It is. And that's great. That's, this is really, you're really preparing yourselves. And it's more than just, you know, turn to page 45 in your textbook and do the list of problems, right? Which is how unfortunate too much of school is taught, right? Yeah. This is much more real world stuff. It's like, oh, we've been spending a little too much on this. Now we're going to get the funds to go off on our next first competition, right? Yeah. I think my favorite thing about being on the robotics team is being able to use what I've learned in school. Instead of just having it as like useless knowledge that like, oh, I learned how to do geometry. I learned how to find all three sides of a triangle. I actually get to like use that and use those equations and put it into effect and figure out the answers to the problems that they give us. Sure. Yeah, exactly. How do you make X number of products using the least amount of material? How do you cut it? Yeah. You know, it's a classic geometry problem, right? Yeah, exactly. And then, of course, the whole business aspect. Who can produce that for you? At what cost? At what time frame? You know, how reliably, right? And you begin to learn all about sort of statistics and probability in terms of what kinds of tolerances you need because your laser cutter has to cut within very, you know, very limited. Yeah. Wonderful, wonderful. And so when is your next competition coming up? Our next competition is coming up from March 31st to April 1st at the Stan Sheriff Center. It's the 10th annual Hawaii regional, as we've said before, and it's showcasing the First Robotics 2017 competition game, First Steamworks. And what that is is it's like a, it's a steampunk theme game where we, there's an airship on the field and there are actual people inside the airship for the first time ever in any First Robotics competition. And the robots have to deliver these gears that are about 12 inches wide in their circular like gears. And the robots deliver them to a peg which the pilot inside the airship then pulls up and then grabs the gear and sticks it on a stick where they rotate it to spin rotors to get the airship prepared for flight. It's really hard to put into words kind of how complicated it is. Oh, I can see a lot of moving hearts as it were, you know? Yeah, that's great because So we're really hoping a lot of people come out to the Stan Sheriff in order to witness and watch this. Saturday is going to be a great day when we're going to see a lot of the game action. It should be a lot of fun because if multiple robots are trying to get this peg at the same time you have to be able to either cooperate or compete for it, right? First Robotics is all about teamwork and being able to work with the, with brand new people. It's like you are set in an alliance with two other teams. You may not know anyone on the other team. You get to know each other pretty quickly to discuss strategy, discuss what you're going to do and how you're going to do it. Oh, I see. So it's got both elements of cooperation and that's great designing on their part. That's very exciting. So what are your chances? Well, I personally have been watching a lot of the live streams of the competitions leading up to the one we're going to be at and we went to a first week competition. So we were kind of the testing phase where they initiated a lot of new stuff and I'm thinking that we have a pretty good chance because we have two things that can do the things it's supposed to very efficiently and quickly. So what we're aiming to do is climb up a rope. So it's just a free suspended rope and our robot has to grab onto it and climb up it in the last 30 seconds of a match and we can do that in about six seconds from bottom to top. Oh, wow. I should have to get your robot against my little cockatoos.  Well, this is great. This is great. I mean, again, I can see it involves all these different aspects of learning and thinking about design work, thinking about mathematics underlying materials, points of view, physics, fiscal science, right? Yeah. As well as the soft skills of learning to work as a team and cooperating, breaking up your tasks into the subcategories and all that you need to do. So again, this is great preparation for the sort of the world of work. What you have to do in work is you're working with people. You're sort of competing with other people, but you've got to know when you can sit down. You've got to be able to rely on your partners and friends to do their part of the business because your part may depend on theirs or vice versa. And yeah, excellent. And, you know, gets into art, which I like. That's the other thing that Steve, of course. Yeah. It used to be just STEM, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and then we add the art in because we think it's good for them to be able to express creativity through their engineering and not just, oh, build a box. No, you build a box and it's all pretty. All right. It's got lights on it. It's got wings. Exactly. Crazy. And you're also learning the social sciences. Could be steams. Yeah, there you go. Next up. All the afternoons drive you crazy in education these days. All right. Well, this is super. So real quick before we wrap up, what advice do you have for younger students coming in who might want to get excited or get involved in this? I feel like just for younger students, just be open to doing whatever because coming in, I had no clue what I was going to be doing on this team. I didn't know much about anything, but just being open to willing to try, you can learn a lot, I think. Good. The kind of words I live by is you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.  It's something that I can really encourage because you're never going to know unless you try. Yeah, yeah.   The people that just succeed all the time don't really have that feeling of, ah, dang it, but I got to do this better. Right, no, I mean I'd be very resilient. Resilience is a key capacity in a standard age. Hey, it's been a wonderful to have you guys here. This has been a very exciting show. So when's the competition and where? March 31st, April 1st at the Stan Sheriff. Okay. It's free to enter, no cost there. Parking is still UH, so you got to pay the UH guys. Nine o'clock to four o'clock basically will be the time frame that the robots will be in action. We recommend that people wear closed-toed shoes and you can go around and walk the pit area where all the teams are. We'll have 37 teams here in Hawaii, from Australia, Taiwan, China, Japan, from the mainland U.S., and then our local teams here, Wahu, Big Island, Molokai, Maui, Kauai, we'll all be represented out there. So it's really awesome to see all this international teams get together and play. Cool, we should have to see if I can get Jay to send a big tech crew out. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's amazing.  All right. Hey, well thank you all. This was great fun. This wraps it up for Community Matters here. I'm your host Ethan Allen, aloha.


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There's a limit to everything. I've come to the end of my rope. You made a deal with me, Wilson. So far you've done very well. But you can't back down now. It's too late. I've done everything you've assigned to me.  It's tearing me to pieces. It's wrecking my nerves. I can't eat. I can't sleep. It's too late to quit, Wilson. You've gone this far and I warn you. You can't pull out now. Murder, murder, death. How long do you think I can go on doing such things? How long? You'll go on and on until we're through with you. I won't. Yes, you will. Furthermore, you'll like it, Er. Well, you know what'll happen. What do you mean?  If you think you can walk out on me after all you've done, considering what you know about everything here, well, you've got another thing coming. I'm afraid. Afraid of what? Afraid I'll lose my mind. You won't. For the last six nights now I haven't been able to close my eyes. All I can see is poor Gregory Hellman. Hellman? Yes, a wake or a sleep. All I can see is his body buried in the cellar. Two weeks ago it was John Henderson dying in agony. I wake up in the middle of the night screaming. Oh, nonsense. On the surface I'm a quiet, gentle person. No one around me knows the awful things that go through my mind. That's what I'm afraid of. What? All that I'll suddenly go haywire. Look, Grisken, you've got to let up on me for a while at least or I'll crack up. All right, Wilson. All right. We'll give you a rest. You will, Grisken? Yes. After this one. What? Which one? Olivia Martin. Olivia Martin? Yes, Olivia Martin. Oh, what's wrong? I thought I'd worked that all out. Oh, the plan's fair, but there are a couple of loopholes, Wilson. And one thing we don't want is a loophole, right? We've never slipped so far. We can't afford to now. Well, all right. I'll check on it. I'll straighten it out. And make it airtight, Wilson. And then, then can I get away from everything for a while? If you plan it so that Olivia Martin takes the rep for everything, then I see no reason why you can't have a rest from all this. All right, Grisken. I'll do my best, but... But what? Is there anyone else who could work it out? No. Only you, Wilson, and you'd better start now. Understand? Yeah. Yeah, I understand. I'll be back around 5.30, and I'll expect a foolproof plan. I mean one with no holes in it. So long, Wilson. Yes. Well, Wilson, you're on the spot, aren't you? You heard what the boss said. No loopholes, no slip-ups. And Olivia Martin must take the rap. But just how are you going to plan this murder, Wilson? Olivia Martin, Olivia Martin, husband Fred Martin, wealthy advertising executive. How? How? How can I work it out? Oh, you can do it, Wilson. You can do it. You've planned things like this before, and the one who really did it was never caught. But Olivia Martin is, is innocent. You're very clever. You can concoct something and make everyone believe it, whether it's true or not. Yes, but what? I, I'm up against a blank wall. Come, come, Wilson, a professional killer, a murderer. One who knows all the tricks up against a blank wall. Yes. There, there must be some way. Yes. Why don't you plan this one in reverse? Look at it from the standpoint of the detectives. Start with the moment Olivia is accused, accused and trapped. Then reverse, Wilson, and work backwards. Yes, yes. I'll start with Olivia when she's caught. That's right. Now, supposing it's this way. Suppose Olivia Martin had returned to her home in New York. The plane she was flying crashed, and her husband's secretary, Doris Hammond, was killed. Now, Fred Martin, Olivia's husband, who has been living at his club, goes home to question Olivia. Hello, Olivia. Fred. Oh, Fred, it was terrible. I can't imagine. I'm sorry, Olivia. I don't know what happened. All of a sudden, my motor went dead. I couldn't find a clearing any place. I thought I saw a place, but it was more trees, and with no motor, I couldn't pull up in time. Where were you going, Olivia? Well, well, after you left for the club, I got to thinking things over, and I just couldn't remain another night in this house alone. So I decided to go to my sister's in Detroit. I see. Poor Doris.  Fred, I'm so sorry. So terribly sorry. No, no. Get hold of yourself. You couldn't help it. I know how you must feel, Fred. I'll certainly miss her. Can you ever forgive me? Of course, Olivia. I never want to fly a plane again. Never. Tell me, how did Doris happen to be with you? Where was she going? Well, she said she wanted to visit a friend in Buffalo, asked me if I'd drop her off there. How did she know you were flying that way? Well, I went to your office and told her I was going to Detroit and asked her to draw some money for me. I told her I'd be glad to put down in Buffalo. I can't imagine why she'd leave the office in the middle of the week to visit friends out of town. Maybe she had some business to attend to on the side. Olivia, are you telling me the truth? What do you mean? Have you told me the real reason why you wanted to leave town? Certainly.  Plan? Didn't you have a definite idea in mind when you wrote that note to me at the club? Yes. You seem to have forgotten the note. Why don't you tell the truth, Olivia? Aren't you running away from something? Running from what? Why don't you tell the truth? Yes. Yes, I did make up my mind to do something terrible. I was going to kill her. And myself. But after I mailed the note to you, I seemed to come to my senses. I couldn't go through with it. So you decided to forget the idea and go on to Detroit? Yes, I swear I changed my mind about killing her. I just couldn't be a murderer. You expect me to believe that? I know what you think, the note and everything, but I didn't do it. The note is certainly evidence against you. Where is the note? You must destroy it, Fred. Don't tell anyone about it. What time did you talk to Doris at the office? About noon, I think. And you mailed the note the night before? Yes. Left town at five? Yes. What did you do in the meantime? I can't remember. I'm so confused. I went shopping for a while. Are you sure?  You're going to have a hard time proving that. It's the truth.  Police? What do they know about it? They were waiting for me when I got back from Boston. They'd already found the note at my club. That's where you made your big mistake, Olivia. But I... The detectives are here now. I want to talk to you. Come in, Captain Evans. Thank you. Olivia, this is Captain Evans. Good morning. He'd like to ask you a few questions. Yes. It's true that your husband left you a few days ago. The idea that you were to get a divorce? Yes. You believed that your husband was in love with another woman? I did. Do you know who that woman was? I did. After he left you, did you write this note to him? Yes, I wrote it. But I didn't mean it... The next day you got some money at your husband's office. And at exactly five o'clock you took off in your plan. Yes, but I changed my mind. I couldn't go through with it. Where were you between noon and five o'clock? I went about town. I really don't remember what I did. Can you prove where you were during that time? I don't see how I could... What difference does it make where I was between noon and five o'clock? It makes a lot of difference. Because it was about that hour that Rita Bartow was stabbed to death in her apartment. Rita Bartow? The head of the art department? Yes. The weapon has not been found. There were no clues, excepting your note to your husband. Rita Bartow? I don't understand. Rita Bartow was the other woman, the woman your husband was in love with. I'm sorry, but you got yourself in a tough spot. Come along, Mrs. Martin. Well, there you are, Wilson. Conclusive evidence against Olivia Martin is the murderer of Rita Bartow. Olivia will never be able to prove where she was between noon and five o'clock when she took off. Rita Bartow was dead, stabbed, no weapon found.  Because Olivia knew her husband was in love with another woman. That's what she said in the note. That's right. What about that note? How can I manage that? Oh, you can do that easily, Wilson. Someone as clever as you are can arrange you the tale like that. Now, let's move back to the day of the plane crash. The day when Doris Hammond, Fred's secretary, was killed in the plane flown by Olivia. Olivia, we are presuming, has told Fred that Doris was going to visit friends in Buffalo. Now let's see what happened between New York and Buffalo. How far have we come now, Mrs. Martin? Well, I don't know, about 75 miles. That was quite a storm back there. Hope we don't run into any more. I don't like a plane during a storm. I don't know anyone who does. Doris, aren't you just a bit upset over this trip? What do you mean? Just that. Do I seem upset? Yes. Is something preying on your mind? Yes, there is something bothering me. A guilty conscience? What? Isn't that what it is? What are you talking about? Are you looking forward to a nice visit in Buffalo? Well, I don't consider it a visit. It's part of my job. A very pleasant job, too. I'm sure you'll miss the job and its attending interests. Working late at night, several nights a week. What do you mean by that? Why should I lose my job?  What? Fred isn't in Buffalo. Where is he? I don't know, but wherever he is, you'll never see him again. Put this plane down. Let me out. You're mad. I'm going to put it down. Straight down on its nose. What?  You can't do this. You can't. Put that key back in the switch. I won't. I won't. Give me that key. Pull up! Those trees! Pull up! No! They hit the treetops, and when a farmer who sees the crash reaches them, he finds Olivia thrown clear of the wreck and still alive. Doris, of course, is dead. Not bad so far, is it, Wilson, but now what? Now this should happen after five o'clock when Doris and Olivia took off in the plane. Now what should happen between noon and five o'clock? Yes, that's the period Olivia can't account for. All right. Let's go back to, say, two o'clock, two in the afternoon. One of your own choice characters, Wilson, who has been working in Fred Martin's advertising agency as an artist, has just returned from an errand, an errand on which he's been sent by Doris Hammond. Remember that. Doris Hammond. And the character is Jack Mallory. Jack Mallory, where on earth have you been? Do you know what time it is? Two o'clock. Oh, uh, I'm sorry. I got to talking, and I didn't realize they are. What about the art layout? Did we just select one? Oh, yes, this one. She made a couple of changes in it. What change? Oh, nothing important. Just wanted this section here set up in red. It stands out better. Hmm. Yeah, so it does. Well, uh, I better put this through right away. Sorry to have been so late with it. I'm glad you got back with it before I left. Left? Mm-hmm. Where are you going, guys? Mr. Martin Ford, he wants me to join him in Buffalo. Something important has come up. Buffalo? I thought he was in Boston. Yes, but he had to run over to Buffalo in a hurry. Oh, Buffalo? Mm-hmm. Oh, that's strange. What's strange? Hmm? Oh, well, uh, I mean his being in Buffalo. Oh, what's strange about it? Oh, I don't know. I suppose it could be in Buffalo. What's the matter with you, Jack? Well, nothing. Nothing at all. You lean over here. What? Why? A little closer. Hmm. Well, what's the matter? Well, of all things. I've seen everything. He's actually had a drink. You have all people. Well, I don't approve of it as a rule, but I walked back from Rita's place. I got my feet a little wet in the rain. It felt kind of chilly. I thought I was catching cold, so I stopped in the bar and the way back, and I had a drink. Well, I hope you don't get sick. I can't afford to have you and Rita both out. No, no, that's right. There's lots of work to be done this week. Take off that top coat. It's damp. Let me have it. I'll hang it over the radiator. Well... What's wrong? I wondered if you'd do this.  Yeah? Well, what do you know? That's a fine thing. I just got it yesterday. Oh, I must have done that over at Rita's when I blocked that section in red. You ought to get it out as soon as possible. Uh, here, hand me that towel from the closet and dampen it. Oh, don't bother, Doris. I'll have it cleaned tomorrow. I'll get some of it out now. Thanks. Oh, certainly hard to get off. That's probably dried in by now. Strangest ink I ever saw. It doesn't seem to be ink. More like blood, if you ask me. Blood? Let's see. That is strange. Uh, let me see that art layout. Hmm. It does seem a little darker than this on the card. Oh, maybe the cloth has something to do with it. Perhaps. Better let the cleaners worry about it, huh? What time are you leaving, Doris? In a few minutes. I'm flying from the airport around five. Well, good luck, Doris. I'll see you in a few days. Thanks, Jack. Take care of yourself. And lay off the liquor. That's bad stuff to get started on. Are you kidding? What do you think? For a few moments, Doris stands staring after Jack as he passes through the door to the outer office. She picks up the towel, studies it for a second, then tosses it into a desk drawer and leaves the office. Now, Wilson, what happened preceding the incident we've just worked out? Well, suppose it's arranged that Olivia Martin visits her husband's office and calls on Doris, her husband's secretary. Good afternoon, Miss Salmon. Oh, how do you do? I'd rather hurry. I have a number of things to do this afternoon. Help you? I'm quite busy yourself. Yes, my work always doubled when Fred leaves town. Fred? Yes, Mr. Martin. Oh, yes. My husband. I suppose it does seem strange for an employee to call him Fred. But for some reason I've gotten into the habit and can't seem to break it. He doesn't seem to mind, however. Is that so?  Yes, I've been here for several years. You've been Fred's private secretary for how long now? A year. Pleasant work, is it? Oh, you've no idea how absorbing this business can be, Mrs. Martin. I realize that it must have a certain amount of extremely interesting moments. Well, you should drop around here more often, Mrs. Martin. How right you are. Things might have been different. Different? Yes, I... I mean, if I had taken an active interest in the business. Well, at times it gets rather dull waiting at home. Especially on long evenings when one's husband has to stay in town on business. But I... I mustn't take up your time with personal problems. I want you to have a check drawn to me for $500. Very well, I'll attend to it at once. Have you heard from Fred since he left? No, I haven't. He phoned me this morning. He did? He left an important paper at home and he knew I was flying to Detroit tonight to visit my relatives. Yes. So he wants me to drop it off for him at Buffalo. Buffalo? I thought he was in Boston. He was. But he had to rush over to Buffalo. Some unexpected business came up. He says he needs you very badly. He wants me to come to Buffalo? Yes. I told him I'd notify you and bring you with me. I'll be leaving the airport about five. Well, I'll meet you at the airport. Is there anything in particular he wants me to bring? No. Nothing but the paper he left at home. Very well, I'll be at the airport. Do you mind flying, Miss Hammond? No, not at all. That's good. I'll see you at five. Well, Wilson, so far so good. Doris, the secretary, has been killed in a plane piloted by Olivia. Prior to that, Jack Mallory returned from a visit to Rita Bartow's apartment with a stain on his coat. And shortly before that, Olivia talked to Doris in the office. Now, what happens while Olivia is wandering about town till five o'clock, the time she took off from the airport? Well, it was after two o'clock when my man Jack Mallory, who was working in the art department, returned from Rita Bartow's apartment with the art layout. Doris had sent him there about noon. All right. Now, let's see what happened while he was at Rita's. Hello, Jack. Doris phoned me. Said you were bringing that layout over. Oh, yes, Rita. The client wants you to pick out the one you want to use for the display. I know. How do you feel? Oh, all right. I just didn't feel like coming to the office today. Oh, well, Doris said you were ill. Had a bad call. Oh, no, not too bad. I'll be all right tomorrow. No, I see. Well, here are the layouts for next week. Which one do you want? Well, I'd planned on this one. But I think you should make this section in red. Mm-hmm. I see. Well, that's easy. I'll fix it up in a jiffy. A little standout better that way. We'll run this other one for the week following. OK.  Thanks. Where are you going all dressed up? Shouldn't you be in bed? Why, I've got to go out of town this afternoon on that Henderson deal. I... Well, I wanted to put it off till next week, but, well, Mr. Martin insisted that I get it settled as soon as possible. You shouldn't be running around too much, darling. Well, I don't really have a cold. It's that sinus trouble again. Uh, why don't you try a change of climate, Rita? Change of climate? Uh-huh. Yes, you can take that job in California. Quit Fred Martin after all he's done for me. Fred Martin isn't the only advertising man in the world. No. Why, don't you think you'd like California, Rita? I've always wanted to go there. I've had an idea I could do very well. Some nice jobs in the movie art departments. Well, I'm not interested in movies. I've thought about going out there and settling down.  Well, I should a bachelor do all that. You...you have ideas about getting married, Jack? Yeah. Yes, I have, Rita. Well, good. I'm glad to hear it. Uh, what time's your plane, Rita? At two. How about a little lunch while you're waiting, huh? Very well. Well, leave your bag here. We'll pick it up later. All right. I've got something important to talk to you about, Rita. Important? Yeah. I got a nice raise this week. Well, that's fine, Jack. I want to ask you a question about you and me. Yes. Well, go ahead. No. No, not now. Come on. We'll talk about it during lunch, huh? Now, we know, of course, what Jack had to say to Rita. That's obvious. Marriage. But if Rita was ill, why was she leaving for an out-of-town appointment? Well, the next step is the most important. Remember, Wilson, Olivia and her husband, Fred, had come to the parting of the ways, and Olivia wrote a note. Yes. That was the part that made the whole thing logical. The part that afforded a perfect setup for me. Olivia was pacing the bedroom floor long past midnight when Fred came home and knocked on her door. Now, Olivia, you awake? Yes. Come in. I thought you might be asleep. Sleep? How could I sleep? Well, it's one o'clock, isn't it? Yes, Fred. I really didn't realize it was so late. You don't usually bother to see if I'm awake. Don't I? For the past two months, you've gone right under your own room. Yes, yes, I guess I have. Get your business settled? Yes, I had quite a bit to attend to. Have dinner at the club? Oh, yes, the club. Then why didn't you answer my call? I had you paged. They said you hadn't been there this evening. Perhaps I hadn't arrived yet. Really? Well, I think I'll turn in. Good night, Olivia. Why don't you say it? Say what? What you came here to say. What makes you think I had anything particular to say? I've known all evening you were planning to tell me something when you got in. Well, that's nonsense. I've known for months this was coming. I know what sort of business detained you. A woman. What? At first I believed your stories about working late. But as the weeks passed and I realized you were growing cold and the whole thing became clear to me, then I knew you were evading me that you were lying. Go on. We've been married ten years, Fred. I've done everything humanly possible to make our marriage a success. Have you? I think I have. That's your opinion, Olivia.  I've tried not to believe it. Oh, let's not have a scene, Olivia. Please. What do you expect me to do? Laugh it off. No, not you, Olivia. Certainly not you. I suppose you'll say it's all my fault. I'm to blame for everything. I haven't said anything. Then why don't you? Why beat about the bush? You came here to say something? Say it. Very well, since you put it that way, I will. I'm going out of town tomorrow on business. I'm sending my things to the club. When I return, I intend to live there. Fred. Now wait a minute, Olivia. I haven't finished. I want you to get a divorce. On any grounds you please. Desertion or whatever you wish. Divorce? Do you mean that? I do. Very well.  No, Olivia. Nothing. Good night. There you are, Wilson. That was what led up to Olivia's writing the note to Fred at his club. The note that made this whole thing possible. She mailed it the following night. That note was the complete evidence against her, Wilson. What does it say? Fred, the very thought of losing you, the thought of divorce, the thought of giving you up for another woman is more than I can bear. The shame, the disgrace, the scandal of it all would, I know, drive me insane. Regardless of what you may think, I refuse to accept the responsibility of the failure of our marriage. I know who caused it and I know who she is. You'd never be happy with a woman of her type. You'd be throwing your life away. I refuse to give you up to her. And so I have made a decision. Goodbye, Fred, Olivia. Now, Wilson, because of that note, Olivia will be accused of the death of Rita Bartow because Rita was really the woman her husband was in love with. She thought it was Doris, Fred's secretary. She lied to Doris when she said Fred had asked her to bring Doris to Buffalo. Fred wasn't in Buffalo. Olivia planned to crash the plane and kill herself as well as Doris. But Olivia survived only to be accused of the death of Rita.  And the ironical part of it will be that Olivia killed the one person who knew about the odd stains on Jack's coat, blood stains. Yes, Doris will be the only one able to clear Olivia and place the guilt on Jack Mallory. But Doris will be dead. It works out perfectly, Wilson. You're not up against his blank wall now. The murder is perfect and no one will ever know who really did it. That is, no one but you and I. It's wonderful. Airtight, not a single loophole. I've got it, Grisken, not a slip up on the whole thing. I knew you could do it. I've never figured this one out. I tried a new slant. I started at the end and worked backwards. Backwards? Yes. Well, just so it works out, okay? What does it matter? Now, look, Grisken, you said if I figured this one out that I could get away from all this for a while. I know, I know. Well, then how about it? Okay, Wilson, I'll give you a month on one condition. Oh, what's that?  What do you mean, Grisken? I know that other outfit's been after you. I know they've offered you a better deal. But if you try to walk out on us now, well, I don't think I need to say any more. How about a raise when I come back? A raise? Okay, Wilson, that's a deal. You'll get a raise. But if you know what's good for you, you'll be back here in exactly one month. Yeah, yeah, sure. I understand. I'll be back. Why am I not going to leave you? You know, I wouldn't think of such a thing. And maybe while I'm gone, I'll figure out some new tricks. Yeah? Well, mm-hmm. Enjoy yourself, Wilson, because you're going to be a busy man when you get back. We've got a... Well, this is going to be a busy season for murders. So long. Yeah. So long, Chief. The boss was perfectly satisfied with the way Wilson worked out the details of the job. And Wilson was more than pleased, too. Of course, all I did was to suggest a plan he used once before. Only I suggested it to him in reverse. And the strange thing was he didn't even recognize his own plan. Yes, Wilson had used this one before. He used it last year, about six months ago. November, to be exact. But neither he nor the boss were aware of it. In other words, a plot is just as good work backwards as it is forwards. Oh, by the way, I should mention now that Wilson was not an employee of Murder Incorporated, and Griskin is not against a chieftain. No. Wilson, well, Wilson was really a top writer for a detective story weekly. And Griskin was the editor of the magazine. Poor Wilson was just up against a blank wall. So I thought I'd help him out. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Beginning next week, the Whistler will come to you at a new time. Friday night at 9. Remember, next week, Friday at 9 p.m. Original music for this production was composed and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. The Whistler is written and directed by J. Donald Wilson and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


We've had four different one in 1,000 year flooding events just this summer. And if you think that isn't going to affect you, you should know that 28 million Americans live in flood zones and don't even know it. How is that possible? Well, only seven states require landlords to let renters know their apartment isn't a flood zone. And in 21 states, realiters don't have to disclose flood risk to prospective buyers. And it's only after you make an offer on a house. But with floods happening more often and getting worse, it's important to know where you stand. So look up your state law and check if you're in a FEMA designated flood zone. Places that flood ones will likely flood again. And remember, most insurance doesn't cover flood damage, so make sure to get an estimate before you get the keys.


Hello, and welcome to Physical Chemistry. This is a series of short videos that describe and introduce all the topics that are in a typical physical chemistry course. The purpose of this video in particular is to introduce you to the format that we're going to be using for these videos. So first thing to be aware of that you already have noticed is I'm using something called a light board for these videos.  I write on the board. I'll write equations and text on the board, and I can talk to you while I'm writing. If you're curious about the mechanics of the white board, there is a separate video that describes how the light board itself works.  A piece of advice I have for you as you watch these videos is to treat these lectures the way you would an in-person course lecture, and that's to take notes during the lecture. So I know it's going to be tempting to sit back and watch these lectures and assume you can absorb all the material, but that's not true. There's many, many, there's several hundred of these lectures. You're not going to be able to remember all the material. You're going to have to refer back to find some equations to remember some detail. And it's a lot easier to find the stuff you're looking for when you have those notes written on a piece of paper than if you have to dig back through and remember which video to find that in and find out where in the video that equation was used. So take notes the same way you would as if you were listening to me in a lecture hall. The related piece of advice is, as with any course, make sure and use the textbook. Again, you might be tempted to say you can get all the material from listening to me on these videos, and I appreciate the vote of confidence. But in fact, I'm not going to tell you all the material that's in the textbook and all the material I think you should know. I'll skip some details. I'll skip steps and a few derivations. Also, when you're reading a textbook, of course, you can go through a derivation or you can read the text, you can back up and read it as many times as you want or you can work the steps as slowly as you want. So textbook is not only a duplication of the material, but it includes some information that's not in these video lectures and vice versa. So treat the textbook as a complement to the videos and not an either or sort of thing. Doesn't matter to me what textbook you use. My class, there's a textbook, my textbook that we use for many portions of the course, but any physical chemistry textbook would be fine. Most of these topics are found in nearly any physical chemistry textbook, so many different physical chemistry textbooks should work. The important piece of advice is just make sure you keep up with the lectures and follow along in the textbook as you go along. But there are advantages to doing these lectures over video. One of those advantages that you should certainly make use of is adjusting the speed of the videos. I have had some students tell me they think I talk too slow, they wish I would talk faster, the videos kind of drag on a little too long. I've had almost an equal number of students tell me they think I talk too fast, they can't keep up, they wish I would talk more slowly so they could absorb the material. I don't plan to adjust the way I talk, mainly because the words come out of my mouth at about the speed that my brain is producing them. So I have a hard time adjusting my talking speed. The good news is you can adjust the speed that I'm talking at. There's a couple different places you could be watching this video, but if you're watching it on YouTube, there's a little gear icon, setting icon down here on the lower right. Click that icon, choose the speed you wish to watch the videos at. I think you can speed me up to twice as fast as I'm actually talking or slow me down to twice or four times as slow as I'm actually talking so you can adjust the speed to whatever makes sense for you.  And likewise, I won't get impatient or bored if you slow me down and make me take twice as long to finish the lecture. So make sure and take advantage of that feature of the videos. Another nice thing about having these video lecturers is I can provide links to previous topics so very frequently when I'm talking about a topic and I introduce a previous topic, I'll put a link in a video that you can use as a refresher if you've forgotten the equation that I've just brought into the course or if you've forgotten the topic that I just mentioned. Those will typically show up as little cards up here in the upper right on YouTube. So you don't need to be worried if something pops up here and says suggested videos that may feel a little bit like it's an ad or feel like YouTube is trying to trick you to go away to somewhere else. With very few exceptions, every one of those suggested videos that pops up in the upper right is a link back to some previous part of the course that I've put in there myself. So for example, if I say now we're going to talk about the ideal gas law and I start talking about it, if you don't remember what the ideal gas law is and a little card pops up here that says ideal gas law, you can click on that link and it will take you back to the place in the course where we talked about the ideal gas law. So like I said, overwhelming majorities are links back to some previous part of the course. Sometimes they might be to some side topic that's not a key part of the course but there are always some additional resource for you to use to brush up on what we're mentioning in the course at that particular point. And similarly, there are videos that pop up at the end of each one of these lectures. So all of the 300 plus videos in this course have been arranged in a linear sequence. You don't have to watch them necessarily in sequence but if you watch them in the right sequence then it guarantees that no new topic is introduced before the things that it depends on. So at the end of each video I'll pop up a screen that gives you a link to the following video. So right about now in this video up pops a screen that gives you a preview of the next video in the sequence. If you want to just keep moving forward linearly in the course you can click on that preview and it will take you directly to the next video in the sequence. You don't have to watch them in that order but that's the order they're designed to be watched in. So that takes care of my brief pieces of advice for how to get the most out of this course and what the format of these lectures is going to be like. So the next step is go ahead and click on the link, the end screen that should be on the screen right now and we'll start talking about the topics that we'll talk about in BKM.


A business Nader's debt rose by about 4 trillion Nare in the past five months to take the portfolio of 45.25 trillion Nare. It was lent out the weekend. An official data reviewed by the nation yesterday indicated that the government raised about 3.34 trillion Nare through its regular issuance of domestic debt instruments between April and August. The depreciation of the Nare also impacted the external debt stocks as the documents which were sourced from the monthly issuance reports by the DMO, the Central Bank of Nigeria, and two leading investment and finance firms that deal in government debt issues. After Steven Asit's management and Vetiva Capital Management Limited earlier in the month, the DMO had reaffirmed that the national debt stocks had risen to 41.6 trillion Nare by the end of the first quarter and that March 31st, 2022.


You change. You change. Everything changes. I'm going to ask you a question. Can you get what you want?  That's why you don't get what you want. Do you guys get me? You guys are chickens. I see people walking in here do f***ing unlock. Like unlock. I see people walking in here how to introduce themselves to anybody. You guys understand where money comes from? Do you? People and people, they want relationships. You don't have a relationship with anybody in this room. The reason why you haven't made what you want to make is because it's f***ing about you. Once it's not about you anymore and it's about serving people at a higher freaking level, more money comes to you. That's it. But if you're not going to initiate a conversation like what's up dude? I'm Andy. What's your name? Hiro. Hiro. Hiro? With an H or T? With an H. Man, you had me tricked. What's up? Hiro. I'm Andy Elliott.  Did anybody else do this to you here? Yeah, a couple people. Couple people. How many of them are in this room? Only a couple people make the money though. You get it? Do you get it? That's the that's the deal. Only a couple. And by the way, did you all know that it was the right thing to do to be cool to somebody? Say hi, make it feel important. Did you all know that? So you knew to do it but you didn't do it. Why? Because it's about you. You're so concerned with yourself that you couldn't do that for someone else. Do you guys get me? You want to know how people get rich? Relationships. And don't you ever think that it comes any other way? If someone else tells you, hey man, I know a fast road to make money. Bullsh**t. If they're telling you it's to make relationships with people, treat people really good, increase the value of the way that you treat people and the value of your skill yourself, the value of your habits, the value of your mindset. If that's what they teach you, then you've got a good teacher. But if they tell you, oh man, I got this funnel. I've got this this advertising.  I don't care. If you don't treat him the way that I just treated him, it doesn't matter. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor. I'm going to tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video. Nine of you are all the same. And then when they meet me, done. Done, dude. Those nine fools ain't got a chance. Do you guys see how to win now? Yes or no? Now listen, some of you, you're still trying to get it. You're like, I don't get it. So what's the skill? The skill is you're asleep. Nobody can change you because you won't change. You know what to do, but you don't do what you know. What value is it to try to teach somebody who's uncoachable? You guys get me? Okay, so one thing that I'll ask tonight is that we all remember the word coachable. If you're not coachable, I don't have anywhere to go with you. I can't. Dude, you're here because you guys have some reason in your heart to believe that if you come out to this event, you could leave differently and you could have different things in your life that you've always wanted.  You don't get more things. You become a different person and that different person is capable of getting different things. The same you will get the same you got now. Dude, you don't shift on me. I can't get you anything different. I can't get you a better relationship with your wife. I can't make your kids look at you differently. I can't make you look in the mirror at yourself and see yourself differently. And you think someone else going to see you differently and they're going to pay you more money.  See, there's a lot of fake-ass people in this world that try to teach people bulls*** science, say this word, do that. No, you change. You change. Everything changes. A man changes. His whole household changes. A husband changes. His wife follows next. She changes. You can't go tell her, hey, you need to change.  You change first.


I need a running blade when I have a prosthetic that works perfectly well. This is a question I get a lot and it's an understandable one, so I'm gonna demonstrate live. I'm sacrificing my body for you. I hope you appreciate why it is so necessary to have the proper equipment to ride. So this is what it looks like when I run on my walking foot. So as you can see, there is absolutely no actual bounce. There's no energy turn coming from this leg. Not only does it look terrible, it's also very, very uncomfortable. I feel so much pressure in my knee and my lower back and my hips because this is not built for that kind of motion. Inefficient, painful, and slow, which is why. We use running blades. This is one of my running blades or sports blades. It's actually built to have the energy returning to allow me to have that spring in my step where I can actually run. So running blades actually have that spring and that bounce allows you to be able to run more comfortably. See how I can actually get some bounce because it's got that spring. I do indeed dream of the day where maybe there'll be like an all-in-one prosthetic that works for absolutely everything but for now we have different tools for different jobs.


So overall, this initially started when we got here in March, we started reaching out to the canine folks and the EOD folks. We've been able to do multiple iterations of on the ground and air training that achieves what we have to do as far as being an assault battalion. We have to do time on target planning or assault planning. We've created a notional scenario where we're going to go insert some canine units into an area where there's been known enemy forces in order to clear and secure so that we can insert friendly forces into a future date. We've got EOD teams and medical teams back here as a standby reactionary force. And as the scenario and the training goes throughout the day, canine is going to trigger EOD response, is going to trigger medical response, and in the meantime we're going to be acting as transporter for all those units. It's really fun, I mean especially being able to get creative and help them achieve training goals around flying and around our training. It's like being able to create your own opportunities and your own fun and it's not just work, like you get to enjoy it. It's a lot of fun. And everyone that we've worked with here in the Air Force has been wonderful to work with and they really enjoy it. As much as we do the opportunity to get out and do fun things.


One of the best definitions of a true patriot today, I believe, is a person who defends his country against its own government. I love my country. It's the government that worries me. One of the best ways to defend our country against our government is through the search for historical truth, especially as it relates to war. This is a theme of my book, A Century of War, where in our state, quote, we must learn to avoid war and develop a general will to peace. I believe the key to this development is to learn the truth about the real causes and effects of wars so that we can see through the false propaganda, which is used by political leaders to convince us to go to war. It has been the wars of the 20th century, which have been the primary destroyers of individual freedom, even for the winners of those wars. As Ludwig von Mises stated in his book, Socialism, war is harmful not only to the conquered, but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace. The essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created wealth around us. Labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys, end quote. In a recent book by Andrew Basswick entitled Washington Rules, he states, Proud of World War Two, Americans by and large viewed military power and institutions with skepticism, if not outright hostility. In the wake of World War Two, that changed. An affinity for military might emerged as central to the American identity. In quote, his book is a history of the huge shift in public opinion, which tried to avoid wars into acceptance of permanent war with the war on terror. The event of 9-11 was the perfect storm for the destruction of American freedom because we are now at war permanently with terrorism. And there is no way to tell when the war is over or who could sign a peace treaty for the terrorist. One of the benefits of the government and war is that it gives complete control over the people and their property and dissent is stifled. There's a great book out now entitled It's Dangerous to Be Right When Your Government Is Wrong. Maybe some of you have seen that book. It takes a courageous person, a courageous patriot to stand up to his own government and say that war is wrong, but it needs to be done to protect freedom. You can be accused of being disloyal, even if you question wars that have been over for some time like World War One or World War Two. One of the best books of this year is entitled Marius Mosaic by Peter Janney. It's not only as a courageous book, but it's a personal challenge to Janney because he exposes his own father, who was a high level CIA executive, at least of being in the know about the murder by the CIA of an American citizen here in America, who happened to be a family friend. I'll talk more about the book later, but I want to give you his quotation in the book about patriotism, quote, patriotism, real patriotism has a most important venue. And it is not always about putting on a uniform to fight some senseless, insane war. There is a higher loyalty than real patriotism demands and encompasses, and that is loyalty to the pursuit of truth, no matter how painful or uncomfortable the journey, end quote. Revisionism about war is a search for historical truth to bring history into accord with the facts, with the purpose of trying to promote peace and to prevent war. This is very large subjects. I want to confine my remarks to only two specific aspects of revisionism on war. First, we need a new paradigm for political labels, which needs to include the fact that the political philosophy of fascism is a political philosophy of the left and not the right. Collectivism includes communism, socialism and fascism. Confucius is reported to have said that you can lose your liberty by corruption of language and the meaning of words. I think this needs to be a revision of the political labels left and right and conservative and liberal because they've become rather meaningless in the description of the political ideas that are current today. As you know, the terms left and right as political labels arose out of the French Revolution and was certain but where certain parties were seated in the assembly based upon the ideas that were pertinent to the French Revolution. I would suggest a new designation of something like at the top of the end of the spectrum, the words individual freedom or simply individualism. And at the bottom end of the spectrum, the word collectivism, then you can place the ideas on a value system as they relate more to one and to the other. One specific reason I think this is important is because of the word fascism has been designated as a political system on the extreme right and also on the right of place conservatism and libertarianism. Communism and socialism are placed on the left. I believe this is particularly important because I think that the so-called progressive movement in America, which began with the Spanish American War and met the peak of its influence through the reforms of 1913 and the World War One is in reality fascism. I think that fascism should be lumped together with communism and socialism and described by the phrase collectivism. There are many writers who agree that Franklin Roosevelt's new deal was fascism. And I think that the 20th century America has evolved into a political fascist system of war and welfare. Benito Mussolini was the founder of European fascism in Milan in 1919. He came to power in 1922 in Italy. He remained in total control for 21 years. I quote him in my book, A Century of War, for a statement that he made in 1927 as follows, quote, fascism believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. War alone brings up to its highest tension, all human energy and puts a stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it. It may be expected that this will be the century of authority, a century of the left, a century of fascism. For the 19th century was a century of individualism. Liberalism always signifies individualism. It may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the state for fascism, the growth of empire. That is for grass, for fascism, the growth of empire. That is to say, the expansion of the nation is the essential manifestation of vitality and its opposite is a sign of decay and death, end quote, very prophetic. Respect respectively, both Germany and Italy became unified nations in the latter part of the 19th century. The ideas of Marx and communism constituted an international movement advocating violence and force to eliminate private property and capitalism. Another international movement was socialism, which also attacked property and individualism, yet many socialists were stated that socialism could be established through democracy rather than by force, by simply enlarging the number of eligible voters. After World War One, communism became a severe threat to take over in Italy. Mussolini was a dedicated socialist and a journalist, and he supported fascism as a national movement rather than an international movement to fight international communism. He advocated force and war as a method to combat the violence of communism. There was no racism connected to fascism in Italy. In Germany, however, after World War One, where violence of communism was also about to take over as part of the international movement, it was Hitler and the national socialist German Workers' Party, which advocated force and violence to overcome communism. Hitler saw communism as a Jewish political movement and almost always referred to it as Judaism. It was Hitler who introduced racism to the fascist movement. Today, if someone wants to smear another person, a political person, they will say they're part of the extreme right.  People on the left often characterize as moderates and people on the right is extremists. Another excellent book published in 2007, which supports my argument that fascism is part of the left, is entitled Liberal Fascism by John Goldberg. He states the main idea of this book as follows. Quote, in this book, I have argued that modern liberalism is the offspring of 20th century progressivism, which in turn shares intellectual roots with European fascism. Jonah Goldberg points out in this book that Teddy Roosevelt, Herbert Crowley and his colleagues glorified war because it, quote, was the midwife of progress. Indeed, Crowley believed that the Spanish American War's greatest significance lay in the fact that it gave birth to progressivism. In quote, Goldberg points out that the progressive believed in the militarization of society and politics was considered the best available means towards centralization of power. You could use patriotism on the people to cause them to give up their liberty in the name of security. Goldberg states, quote, Wilson fully abandoned his faith in congressional government when he witnessed Teddy Roosevelt's success in turning the Oval Office into the bully pulpit. In quote, Goldberg further pointed out that the progressives were openly and proudly hostile to individualism and viewed the traditional system of constitutional checks and balances as an outdated impediment to progress because such horse and buggy institutions were a barrier to their own ambition. In quote, Goldberg thinks that Wilson may have been the 20th century's first fascist political leader instead of Mussolini. One of the 20th century's most astute intellectuals in political theory was Eric von Konell Leiden, who agrees completely with me on Goldberg on placing fascism on the left. He covers this in his book entitled Leftism Revisited. In chapter four that is entitled Right and Left, he points out that in Germany after World War One, the national socialists or Nazis were seated on the far right of the right stag or assembly because on the left was the side of the assembly with the internationalists, which were the communists and the socialists. The conservatives and the monarchists were national movements and were seated on the right. Since Nazism was a national movement in Germany, rather than international, they were seated on the right. He states, this is how fascism became placed on the right in political dialogue. I think it's an important part of revisionism to get language correct and to reveal to Americans, especially, that the philosophy of progressivism, modern liberalism and neo-conservatism are really part of the fascist movement and they all collectivists, along with socialism and communism. Today, the dominant intellectual movement known as neo-conservatism fits the definition of fascism. They gain control over the George W. Bush administration. And it continued to dominate American foreign policy with the tragic war in Iraq and other wars spreading throughout the Middle East, which was their original intent. Springs me to my second point on revisionism in war. And that is the problem of the CIA and its secret activities, which often lead to war. If you want to see where America first became known in the Middle East as the Great Satan, you can start with a book by Stephen Kinzer entitled All the Shaw's Men, An American Coup and the Roots of the Middle East Terror. The book explains how the British colonial policy caused them to rape Iran by taking its oil and placing the British oil company and a refinery in Iran. Without any real benefit to Iran at all, Iran's greatest statesman who was democratically elected, genuinely popular and well educated in Europe was Mossaday, who came to power and terminated the British imperialism by nationalizing the oil company. Churchill and the British appealed to President Truman to use the American CIA to overthrow Mossaday. But Truman refused on the grounds that the CIA was simply an information gathering agency and not an agency used to overthrow governments. This all changed with the election of Eisenhower in 1952, who brought to power the aggressive Dulles Brothers with John Foster's Secretary of State and Allen as head of CIA. The Dulles Brothers convinced Eisenhower that the CIA should be used to overthrow Mossaday because using that they used the argument that they did not do that communism would take over Iran. Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, Kermit Roosevelt, led the CIA secret and successful plan to overthrow Mossaday and then install the Shah to head the government. The CIA trained the Shah's secret police who continued to terrorize the people of Iran until the Shah was overthrown later by his own people. America, which had had a good reputation in the Middle East before that, then became known as the Great Satan because it became well known that it was a CIA that had removed Mossaday. Stephen Kenzel, who wrote all the Shah's men, continued his story of the disastrous activity of the CIA in his excellent book entitled Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. When Eisenhower left office in 1960, he described the CIA as, quote, a legacy of ashes, which became the title of an excellent and critical history of the CIA by Tim Wynum published in 2007. The CIA is now recognized worldwide as the great threat to many countries and the cause of much war and chaos. Back in 1971, the British historian, Arnold Toynbee, wrote in the New York Times, May 7, 1971, as follows, quote, to most Europeans, I guess, America now looks like the most dangerous country in the world since America is unquestionably the most powerful country. The transformation of America. The transformation of America's image within the last 30 years is very frightening to Europeans. It is probably still more frightening for the great majority of the human race who are neither Europeans nor North Americans. They, I imagine, feel even more insecure than we feel. They feel at any moment America may intervene in their internal affairs with the same appalling consequences as it followed from the American intervention into Southeast Asia. In today's climate, wherever there's trouble, violence, suffering, tragedy, the rest of us are now quick to suspect the CIA. In fact, the roles of the United States and Russia have been reversed in the eyes of much of the world. Today, America has become the nightmare, end quote. Of course, this was written long before the mid-east wars and all the involvement of the CIA there in the Iraq war. I do not think that timing is really a coincidence that one month after the assassination of President John Kennedy, former President Harry Truman, who had created the CIA in 1947, wrote an editorial in the Washington Post dated December 22, 1963, entitled, U.S. should hold CIA to intelligence. It states this. There's something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position. I feel we need to correct it. For some time, I've been disturbed by the way that CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government. Listen to this next sentence and see what event you think he's referring to. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas four months after Kennedy's assassination. Therefore, I would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as an intelligence arm of the president and whatever else it can properly do in that capacity and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere. Excuse me, this brings me back to the fantastic book Mary's Mosaic by Peter Genie who condemns the CIA for what he believes was the murder of Mary Myer, 11 months after John Kennedy's murder because the CIA felt that she knew too much about the assassination of John Kennedy and the involvement of the CIA. Mary Myer was a beautiful, independently wealthy, well-educated and influential person. The CIA apparently feared that her diary contained much incriminating evidence against the CIA. There are several accounts of the search for Mary Myer's diary. One is that on the day after Mary's murder, her sister, who was married to Ben Bradley with the Washington Post, both went to Mary's house to search for the diary. When they entered her house, they found James Angleton, chief of counterintelligence of the CIA, already there without permission or authority, also searching for the diary. Mary had known John Kennedy for many years since college days and was suspected of being his mistress after her divorce from Cord Myer. She was strongly opposed to the American intervention in the Vietnam and it was suspected that she had much influence on President Kennedy about Vietnam and war in general. As I stated, Peter Janney's father was a high-ranking CIA executive and Mary Myer's former husband, Cord Myer was also a high-ranking CIA executive. And for some time at CIA gatherings, while she was still married to Cord Myer, she was openly critical of the CIA activities. At the time of her murder, she was divorced from Cord Myer. In his book, Mary's Mosaic, Peter Janney's State, excuse me, the CIA's inception and entrance into American landscape fundamentally altered not only the functioning of our government, but the entire character of American life. The CIA reign during the Cold War has contaminated the pursuit of historical truth. While the dismantling of America's Republic didn't begin in Dallas in 1963, that they certainly marked an unprecedented acceleration of the erosion of constitutional democracy. America has never recovered. Today in 2012, the ongoing disintegration of our country is ultimately about the corruption of our government. A government that has consistently misrepresented and lied about what really took place in Dallas in 1963 as it did about the escalation of the Vietnam War that followed and which it presently continues to do in so many things. One solution to the CIA issue was stated by President Kennedy after the failed invasion of Cuba and which was organized by the CIA. And he stated, quote, I'm going to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. In conclusion, I believe that true patriot is the individual who will speak truth to power and try to bring history into accord with the facts, especially as to war. Thank you. Thank you.