I'm Sam Vaknin and I'm the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. Research failed to find any substantive difference between the psychological makeup of a narcissist who happens to have homosexual preferences and a heterosexual narcissist. There is, however, one element which might be unique to homosexuals, the fact that their self-definition hinges on their sexual identity. heterosexuals usually would not use their sexual preferences to define themselves almost fully. Homosexuality has been inflated to the level of a subculture, separate psychology or a myth. This is typical of persecuted minorities. However, it does have an influence on the individual.   In a way, he makes love to his reflection.  The somatic narcissist directs his libido, his sex drive, at his own body. The cerebral narcissist concentrates on the intellect. The somatic narcissist cultivates his body, nourishes, nurtures it, often is often a hypochondriac, dedicates an inordinate amount of time to the needs of his body, both real and imaginary. It is through his body that the somatic narcissist tracks down and captures his sources of narcissistic supply. The supply that the somatic narcissist so badly requires is derived from his shape, from his build, from his muscles, from his profile, from his beauty, from his physical attractiveness and irresistibility, from his health or from his age. The somatic narcissist downplays narcissistic supply directed at other traits of his, even at his intellect. The somatic narcissist uses sex to reaffirm his prowess, his attractiveness, his irresistibility, his youth. Love to him is synonymous with sex, and the somatic narcissist focuses his learning skills on the sexual act, on the conquest, on the foreplay, and the cortical aftermath. This deduction becomes addictive because it leads to a quick succession of narcissistic supply sources. Naturally, boredom, a form of transmuted self-aggression, boredom sets in once the going gets routine. Routine is counter-narcissistic by definition because it threatens the narcissist's sense of uniqueness. An interesting side issue relates to transsexuals. Philosophically, there is little difference between a narcissist who seeks to avoid his true self and positively to become his false self, and a transsexual who seeks to discard his true gender and positively become a member of another gender. But this similarity, though superficially appealing, is questionable. People sometimes seek sex reassignment because of advantages and opportunities which they believe are enjoyed by the other sex. This rather unrealistic, fantastic view of the other is faintly narcissistic. It includes elements of idealized overvaluation, of self-preoccupation, and of objectification of one's self. It demonstrates a deficient ability to empathize and some grandiose sense of entitlement. Most transsexuals say, I deserve to be taken care of, or of omnipotence. Some of them say, I can be whatever I want to be, despite nature and God in defiance of nature and God. This feeling of entitlement is especially manifest in some gender dysphoric individuals who aggressively pursue hormonal or surgical treatment. They feel that it is their inalienable right to receive such treatment on demand, and without any strictures or restrictions. For instance, some transsexuals refuse to undergo psychological evaluation or treatment as a condition for the hormonal or surgical treatment. It is interesting to note that both narcissism and gender dysphoria are early childhood phenomena. This could be explained by problematic primary objects, parents, dysfunctional families, or a common genetic or biochemical problem. It is too early to say which the research is meager. As yet, there isn't even a great typology of gender identity disorders, let alone an in-depth comprehension of their sources. A radical view, preferred by Ray Blanchard, seems to indicate that pathological narcissism is more likely to be found among non-core, ego-dystonic, autogenophilic transsexuals, and among heterosexual transvestites.   Thus, to be rendered the sexual object of their own desire. In other words, they are socially attracted to themselves, that they wish to become both lovers in the romantic equation, the male and the female. Becoming a male or a female is a fulfillment of the ultimate narcissistic fantasy, with the force self as a fetish, a narcissistic fetish. The transsexual, by transforming himself into the opposite sex, provides himself with a closed space, closed universe, in which he and he alone is the lover of himself, in his role as male and female. Autogenophilic transsexuals start off as heterosexuals, and end up as either bisexual or homosexual.


My name is Eder. I'm here from Christ cities and On Sunday morning, I woke up with like really horrible pain in my chest like right in the middle here and it's very unusual that I have those kind of pains and So at the end of their service we pray for healing and you know I just pray with all my heart that that pain was gonna go away because he was really bad and Yeah, I went away. Thank God. So yeah My name is Christina and for two and a half weeks I had really bad like neck and shoulder pain and it prevented me from even working very easily It hurt me a lot and I prayed on last Wednesday and It went away like right after prayer and I haven't had it since my name is Johnny and I Think it was last month. I had a really bad ear pain in my right ear and I couldn't Really hear that good for a really long time and right after the prayer It just went away My name is Allie and I'm here from Tri-Cities So I hope you guys are ready because my story or testimony has been 13 years in the making and As embarrassing as it was before to talk about this, but ever since I was little I suffered from like chronic Conceptation which if anybody's ever been constipated, you know, it's not fun being constipated for a day or two days But 13 years and it just kind of became a part of my life. I didn't think it was a big deal But long story short, I was talking to Vlad like two or three weeks to go out their church And I kind of briefly mentioned it and he's like can I pray for you real quick and I'm like, yeah You know sure so he put his hand on my stomach and I came home And I was like talking to my husband and I'm like, I hope you believe in miracles Cuz I just got healed and then I was like, I hope I didn't just say that for no reason And then every day like for about a week. I didn't really see any results after that And I was like, oh man, maybe I shouldn't have announced anything, you know I should have just went with the flow but every day now for almost like two weeks now I've been good. So I'm just gonna declare my healing and that's my story and I'm sticking to it So last Friday Saturday Sunday her legs were hurting really bad that she could barely walk She had to hold on to things and so the scar in her hand was because she was holding on and she slipped and she slipped her hand because her legs hurt. So last Sunday before service we have pre-service prayer and the adults have the pre-service prayer as well. So they prayed for her and so she still felt the pain. Sunday night she went to home group and she still felt the pain. She was just believing in faith. Just like Alessia, believing in faith that, you know, I prayed for her, I'm going to be healed. So then next morning her husband scheduled an appointment to see the doctor because her pain was so severe. And so next morning she was listening to Pastor Vladimir Matane. She was just believing, taking it by faith that I will be healed. And she was talking to her mother and she was saying that mom, I can walk. I am healed. And instantly the pain was gone. She canceled appointment and no pain, no more. Let's put our hands together, you guys. What an amazing God.


Hi and welcome to Movement Matters. I'm your host, Christy Linders, physical therapist and board certified orthopedic clinical specialist. Movement Matters is designed to bring you not only the most effective physical therapy tips, but also holistic information to help you achieve total body wellness. Since this pandemic, people have been more active in their home environment, doing more gardening, home projects, and outdoor exercise, including regular walking, which is good. However, I'm seeing more back, hip, and knee injuries from this rise or simple change in activity level. I have a value pack show for you today where I, your virtual physical therapist, will be providing you with simple tips and corrective exercises to do in your own home to resolve your back, hip, and knee pain and also help you overcome pain from hip or knee arthritis. First, I want to share with you the secret to ending low back pain in video number one.   It's been around since the beginning of time, just waiting for you to call on it to help support your back. But no one told you it was there. If you have back pain, you need your TA to form the anatomical girdle with your deep back muscles to support your spine. You see, the TA contracts just after your brain has the initial thought for motion.  Your TA fires. Then your arm moves. Try it. Pull your belly button in towards your spine. Go ahead.   Here you have it. That's the secret to ending low back pain. I pulled that. I designed that right from an expert from my book that will be out in the next month or two on how to get rid of low back pain. But in addition to pulling your belly button in to engage your anatomical girdle, you want to be sure that you have the proper flexibility in your glutes and your hamstrings which can, when tight, put extra strain on your low back and make you more vulnerable for injury or pain. So if we look at video two, if you are suffering from back pain because you've been bending, cleaning, doing too much gardening, remodeling your home while you've been quarantined and staying at home, these stretches are the go-to.  And you want to breathe three to five seconds. It's an excellent stretch. Then you want to hug your knee to your opposite shoulder so your foot goes on the other side. You put your outside hand on the outside of your knee and your inside hand somewhere on your shin. And you hug your left knee up towards your opposite shoulder again. Breathe in three to five seconds. Then just stretch your hamstrings.  And the last one is to draw both knees into your chest, give them a hug, and breathe three to five seconds. That will do great to relieve all the tension in the big glute muscles, your hamstrings, so take the strain off your low back. Enjoy. Those stretches are excellent, and they can be your first course of action if you have an episode of low back pain, and they can also be your regular course of action. Now I've got a great question that just came in. Is it better to sleep on your back, side, or belly? I often wake up with low back pain if I don't sleep on my back. And so that's a great question because it's something that many of my patients complain of in the morning they have back pain. They catch themselves on their side or on their belly. It is optimal for your spine to sleep on your back with one pillow fit specifically for you for your neck and a pillow under your knees. However, we do roll around on our sides. Sometimes we end up on our stomach. Sometimes we prefer to sleep on our stomach. If you are a side sleeper, it is important to put a pillow between your knees to try to maintain the pelvic relationship with your knees so your spine doesn't strain all night long. And also our shoulders and our hips are wider than our waist.  So that's a great question. So I also have another exercise that we're going to do right now that is great for alignment. It is great for back pain. It is great for poor posture. It is great for hip pain or hip arthritis. So let's look at video number three. If you have hip pain or hip range of motion limited because of severe arthritis or you have poor posture and having back pain, this is one of my favorites. It's one of those exercises that you're not really sure what it does except for you know it does something and you always feel better afterward. So you're going to want to get on your hands and knees. You could do it on a bed, on a floor, anywhere.  So you only want to go back as far as you can keeping your tailbone to the sky and sucking your stomach in without pain. So if you have hip arthritis this is great. You may rock it back and forth here 20 times and then pretty soon you feel that that pinch deep in your hip is going away. So I call it a modified version of quadruped rocking. So enjoy that wonderful stretch. I love that exercise and one thing I love about it is also if you do have knee pain you can do it on your bed. It doesn't have to be on a hard floor or anything like that. Now I want to talk about alignment a little bit for a bit and also the fact that I have a little bit more of an exceptionally swayed low back.  Other people may be more rounded and maybe you've saturdayed us hunched over for 25 years and you've become more rounded and you can't achieve the horse that's been ridden too much position that's okay. Just try to go for as much of a flat back or use the cue that I used which is tailbone to the sky and only move back as far as you can while you're trying to keep that arch.  This is a great exercise because with those conditions the femur the head of the femur I almost said humorous at your shoulder. The head of the femur can migrate forward towards the joint capsule and cause your psoas muscle to tighten up to try to stabilize the joint. So this exercise the quadruped rocking with your spine mildly swayed is to help make space in the posterior capsule of the joint so that that ball can sit further back in the socket and get rid of that groin pain or that front hip pain that you're suffering with every step while on your walk going up and downstairs. So why I mentioned alignment as well with this exercise is so many people tend to lean a little bit off to one side or you stand on one leg or you turn and watch the tv off to one side. Those are our repetitive patterns of comfort our path of least resistance when you do the quadruped rocking your hand should be directly under your shoulders your knees directly under your hips and you're going straight back so any muscle tightness that has happened say on one side because you've been leaning off to one side one side tight in the other side stretched gets stretched out and reeducated so your brain gets that pattern of straight and alignment not lean to one side not twisted to one side and I remember when I was in New York City and I gave this exercise to someone who when they rocked they deviated a little bit off to one side they had hip pain on one side I said I like to say this is for alignment but a lot it feels like you're not really doing anything and so he went and said you know what I'm doing that 20 times a day I do 20 repetitions and that really does something I don't know what it does but I feel so much better afterwards so I wanted to call that to everyone's attention it doesn't feel like you're doing much especially if you don't have hip pain or hip arthritis and you're doing it to align your spine because you've had poor posture or poor sitting habits that you weren't aware of so do it anyway do 20 repetitions it's very very important so on alignment since I'm talking about hip and knee and back pain let's look at video number four where I show some alignment doing a single leg squat hello ha let's talk about the young athlete why are young athletes so at risk for knee injuries for one it's usually because of alignment they're not able to maintain this straight alignment with their shoulders hips knee and ankle when they're running forward or jumping and landing they end up having a collapse where either the hip drops or the knee dives in and that happens from either foot weakness or tight calves that occurs after a recent growth spurt or hip weakness here where the hip muscle is not strong enough to stabilize them in this position so when they go to bend they'll drop here or the knee caves in there's many ways to fix that stretch your calf strengthen your hip muscles and work on proprioceptive training which is balanced training and learning the new alignment until it becomes a motor plan which I'll show you in some images to follow I mentioned hip and knee alignment here with the high school athlete because I've seen too many young athletes coming in probably after a growth spurt I was one of those people that sprained my ankle injured my knee hurt my hip dislocated my shoulders I grew too fast and my muscles and everything hadn't stabilized I was told back then I was 12 so I kept injuring myself and so I bring up the high school athlete because it's one of those things that we go through a growth spurt and we may have been fine two years ago playing soccer high jumping playing volleyball and landing from a jump or running cross country whatever the sport is that is a running or a jumping or a moving sport they may have been landing perfectly last year and now they've grown and one side has that dysfunctional pattern that I'm showing I showed you in that video where the knee dives in or the hip drops because the muscles haven't stabilized that that athlete's body because of the growth spurt and it can happen on one side and I typically do see that so to prevent young athletes from injury we need to stabilize the hip to help support the knee but also for all of us who have been at home maybe walking more bending in the garden going up and down the stairs in our homes tackling sorting projects that we might not have had time before because we were commuting to and from the office it's very important to stabilize your hip to control that abnormal alignment because abnormal alignment leads to wear and tear at our joints which leads to arthritis so if someone like that young athlete is doing a single leg squat with their knee diving in every step their knee isn't bending this way it's bending this way and so over time every time you go up a stair every time you go down a stair your knee is twisting and then that is causing abnormal wear and tear which will lead to arthritis in your knee now if you're that athlete where the hip is dropping and I show the trunk kind of leaning over to the side you see the keep the the the hip dropping down and caving in that is hip weakness that is driving that alignment dysfunction and you need to strengthen the big hip muscles to stabilize your pelvis on your leg like this so we can stay here instead of dropping down over and over again creating abnormal movement of your hip joint in the socket which causes it to wear and wear and can lead you down to arthritis so all that said the hip muscles are what control the rotation of your thigh bone not your quadricep muscles per se it's your hip muscles they're rotators so while we will strengthen your knee and I'll show you later you really need to strengthen your hip muscles for your hip and to control that extra motion at your knee that you may be having when you're going down the stairs so let's look at image number five and I'll talk you through it so you're going to pull your toes up you're going to squeeze your buns tight and press your knees down and you will slide both your legs away from each other the reason why I want you to push down excuse me is I want you to feel the muscle directly behind the the hip ball the bump on the side of your hip that's your gluteus medius muscle and that is what's going to help stabilize your pelvis on your leg when you go up or down your stairs so what I tell people to do is to squeeze pull your toes up press your knees down slide both your legs away from each other at the same time for 10 repetitions then reset lift your toes up squeeze your buns and then you slide one leg out for 10 times so now you're using the opposite leg to stabilize you while you exercise one leg then you reset toes up buns tight press down slide your other leg out for 10 times you will feel a burn most likely doing those 30 if you don't you can do another set of the open that's a great exercise that's my first course of action that really helps to strengthen the gluteus medius muscle to help your knee and help your hip while you're going up and downstairs while you're landing from a jump while you're running which is repetitive jumping and any other activity that we may be doing more of now during this pandemic so now we're going to put the gluteus medius to work in function so we're going to look at image number six where you're going to have a band around your ankles your feet are going to be pointing directly in front of you and your feet are wide you're going to suck it in because now you know that's a secret to ending low back pain and you are going to crab walk is kind of what I've called it all of my career um sidestepping is another word monster walks I've heard and you're going to wide walk step by step to the side never letting your feet come together because you don't want to slack the band that would be too easy so you'll take a little step and then a little step a little step a little step you can go down your hallway back and forth all the way to the right and then you come back to the left so I can your stomach in exercising your gluteus medius and putting it into function because function is being on our feet so I've got another question thank you so much for sending these questions these are these are fantastic I love to be able to provide this show for you to have the right information in the exercise so that you can do it in your own home so what are the best preventative exercises someone can do to avoid or hip or knee replacement and just second part of the question if someone has challenges walking up or downstairs due to knee pain what can they do so to answer the first question I have a series of hip exercises that I call the hip rotator cuff exercise it's a four by four so let's go to video number seven to show those what I have found to be the most effective series for hip strengthening exercises whether you have tendonitis knee pain hip pain hip arthritis is to get the deep hip rotators functioning properly so to do that I do a hip four-way series I call it so you land your side bend your knees and you do a clamshell I do 10 then you hold it open and you tap your foot from horizontal back to your other foot then you bring yourself an alignment so you're in a straight line with your knees bent and then you clamshell again for 10 after that you hold the knee up and tap your foot navigate your gluteus medius you go in a straight line make sure you're not forward but in a straight line and you lift up and down you want to make sure you don't lift up so high that you use this muscle you only want to use this muscle so that's about all you need to do you get a good burn and you'll rescue your lower body enjoy so those are my favorites and I had a very big problem with my hip playing beach volleyball in San Diego I kind of somewhat dislocated it and tore the labrum and I was trying to find a way to do what I was explaining to you in the quad rocking which is to get the head of my femur back up into the socket so it wasn't causing me the groin pain and those exercises that I just showed you were terrific and really were the thing that got me including the quad rocking that got me out of the water and got me back to running and playing volleyball at the time so to answer the second part of the question which is if someone has challenges walking up or downstairs due to knee pain what can they do so there's something that's called a hip strategy that I use on my patients who have hip or knee pain but mostly knee pain walking up and down the stairs so let's play video number eight when you have hip or knee arthritis it's often very painful to go up and down stairs and many of us have stairs in our homes stairs into the doctor's office or stairs into different stores so this is a hip strategy and what this does it puts more load into the muscles of the hip than into the knee muscles and takes less force off the front of the knee so what you want to do is instead of going up and down the stairs straight up and down like this it feels a little funny at first but it works great you want to bend at your hip so you're sticking your buttock back your back is straight and then you step up so you go back it's like a little bit of a crouch and then you step up you'll immediately feel the load going right into your powerful glute muscles and your hamstrings and the same thing for going down let's say I'm up on this small step I don't want to go down like this which puts a ton of force right on the front of the kneecap I want to kick my rear back and then step down you can see when I kick my rear back my knee automatically bends and you feel the load go into that it might take some practice but please try it every time I use that strategy I get the same reaction so now I just preface it with it feels weird it feels like you're crouching down I've had my family members do it my patients do it I young and old everyone says the same thing when I do that my knee doesn't hurt going up and downstairs it just feels strange because you feel like you're very crouched down but you do feel try it you do feel the load in the tensing back in your glute back in your hamstring and it takes the load off your knee so if you've got knee pain you're going up and downstairs multiple times a day where you live in a home like I do that has stairs you want to make sure you use your hip strategy and you don't overuse the compression on your knee and then you can decrease your risk for having knee surgery and a knee replacement by taking that repetitive load off your knee so I love this we have another question I need to do knee exercise on the bed when I do this while pressing my knee to the mattress it hurts one of my knees is there something I can do to help with this exercise this is perfect timing thanks for sending that because I was just going to go into a knee exercise so in the next video I show a knee exercise and in the second part of the video I show me putting my hand underneath the back of my knee to press into and a roll underneath the back of my knee to press into if your knees hurting when you press it down we don't want you to have pain when you do these exercises we want it to be pain free so our job as physical therapists is to try to find a way that you can perform an exercise without pain while you're getting your body healed so let's look at video number nine many patients have come in complaining of knee pain as they've been doing a lot of yard work doing a lot of bending while they've been doing more home projects so I wanted to show you a very simple exercise to help your knee from suffering from pain one of them is called a quad set and so you want to put your legs straight on some surface here and then you just push the back of your knee down so you take the back of your knee and you push down it tightens your thigh muscle you can do 10 or 15 of those should be pain free if it isn't pain free you could put a little folded towel underneath and give your knees something to press and to tense this muscle in the front of your thigh to progress that you put a roll or a beach towel or something behind your knee you can see it better from here and then you lift your lower leg so you're pushing the back of your knee down here and lifting the lower leg do about 10 to 15 of those to really activate that muscle and then you swing over into your chair and then you kick it straight so you're just straightening like this resting on a chair try this so I want you to try that so you can fold a towel underneath your knee or roll a towel and press down however much you need you could bunch up a blanket so that your knee is not hyper extending into the soft surface of your bed because you want to be able to engage the thigh muscle above your knee cap without having knee pain so you may need to adjust the surface that you're doing on it like that using the roll fold the towel so that you don't have knee pain because I'm not really sure if I answered the question earlier about is there exercises or are there exercises you can do to prevent a total hip replacement or a total knee replacement but for the total hip replacement I have many patients that are coming in with severe arthritis in their hips and they're planning on getting one in the future but let's say they want to wait 10 or 15 years until they're older and they just want to make it through so the exercise prescription is is extensive but I do have for the people that are trying to prevent their hip replacement I do have them do quadruped rocking so that I can get them a little bit more range of motion again I want it to be pain-free so if you rock back and you get a pinch that's as far as you rock back and then you just stay before that pinch for 20 repetitions and you do it every day and you will notice that you're going a little bit further and further back as you open up that hip joint when we have arthritis sometimes it's a square peg in a round hole so to speak and you may never get the full range of motion because there's a generation in the joint but you can also achieve full pain pain-free function as you go about your day and that's what we're trying to get the next thing I will have them do is try to stretch out their hip muscles like I showed you in the back stretches but you have to go gently and there's there's other hip stretches I'll have to maybe do that in the next show I didn't have a video for that but also it's important to do my hip rotator cuff where you lay on your side you might not be able to use the band at first because you may have pain so you can do that four-way clam shell that I showed earlier to help engage your deep hip rotators and those exercises are great to help you prevent your hip replacement or get you to pain-free so that you can enjoy what you're doing right now if you're intending to have it in the future also if you're trying to prevent or hold off a knee replacement or just function better because you don't want to have your knee replacement for six months or you can't have it for six months you're waiting and you want to be able to function now because you're in excruciating pain doing those quad sets and the short arc quads where you have the roll underneath you will help you a lot stretching your hamstrings like I showed in the back video will help you tremendously and also which I think you learned when we were talking about alignment strengthening the gluteus medius muscle so you land your back you put the band around your ankles you push down and slide now every now and then I have someone that likes to bend their knee when they slide or lift their leg and why this is a problem if you have knee pain is because it will hurt your knee your knee is no longer stable when it's not locked if you bend your knee a little bit and you slide the knee is going to move and that's going to cause that twisting and you will have pain so you need to make sure you lock the knee press your knees down pull your toes up squeeze your buns and slide apart because you also get a quad set when you press your knee down those are some of my favorite exercises as well as the hip rotation four by four because I mentioned before your hip controls the rotation of your thigh bone so if you're getting that excess rotation on your stairs it's leading you to have knee pain and you're doing the hip strategy well because I know you will be now then you want to exercise your hip to stabilize that thigh bone so it's not twisting so much while you're going downstairs and then your knee won't hurt as much so I hope that as you answered your question so we're about out of time I hope that you enjoyed this I can't wait to hear more questions in two weeks of what you would like me your virtual physical therapist to provide for you you've learned the secret and low back pain so please practice that and two weeks ago virtual physical therapist number one I showed you how to engage that in a video if you would like more information we'll look at image 10 which shows you that I post regularly on instagram which is christine lenders pt and I also do it on facebook which is christine lenders physical therapy and you can go on there and get a wealth of videos and information they're quick they're short they're for a wide range from jaw pain to ankle pain to shoulder pain you name it so thank you so much for joining us thank you so much think tecawaii and all our sponsors and donors for allowing us to bring this to you in your home stay safe everyone and I'll see you in two weeks life is better when you listen to your physical therapist


The missing person has the right to privacy. They have the right not to be found. Just because someone is reported missing does not mean that law enforcement will then tell the reporting person where they've been found. The person who's making the report, the one who is concerned about them, also has the right to know that that person is okay. So the way that we balance that is whatever law enforcement officer contacts a missing person or someone who's been reported missing, and that person is 18 or over, meaning they're a missing adult as opposed to a runaway or a missing child, then that officer will check their welfare and then ask their permission to give their location information to the reporting person. If the missing person declines permission, says, you know what, I don't want that person who reported me missing to know where I am. They have that right as well, so that's where it stops. That's important because there are situations of domestic violence or stalking situations, and people have the right not to be found, adults specifically.


on Coop Dog Rainbow because there's something that's associated with the rainbow. In fact, the whole organization is called Rainbow 8808 and we're going to hone in because this rainbow is exactly what it is. It's a whole spectrum of issues that this beautiful lady has brought to the table and has put 100% effort to help in the society here. But we're going to hone in on some more specific parts of that rainbow today. So let me, without further ado, introduce our wonderful guest today who is just a colorful lady in herself, Caroline Goliou. Correct. Beautifully said. A lot of people just don't know. It's J-U-C-H. You said it's a Polish? It's a Polish name. My husband is 100% Polish. Wow. Okay. So bringing more diversity to Hawaii as a guide and you yourself, just give us a little background info. Okay, Native American. I am Hispanic and I'm Irish. 2% African American. What? Yes. Okay. So you're tracing back from Ancestry.com. Yes. And what do you think you are, though?  I think I'm an international spirit. Absolutely. Yeah. And thus the rainbow colors, yeah? That's it. That really goes. Now before I forget, you had this button on and unfortunately we had to take it off because of the green in it, but it was a little rainbow sign. And can you just tell us what your button says? Because you said it's part of your uniform. Why? Yes. Well, it says I love, I heart my gay son.  And since he came out to our family, it's been a whole new world. He's opened up a whole new world to us. Things that I was seeing, but I always said, well, they don't bother me and I won't bother them. And then when my son came out, then I realized there's much more to it than that. You can't just see discrimination and walk away from it, especially when it's in your family. And you can't deny it and yet I know many do. So my badge, sometimes I think of it as a badge of courage. But really in reality, all it is is an opening spot. It's welcoming others to talk to me. It opens them up. They know that I'm a safe person to talk to. Was this the inspiration to you creating this Rainbow 88? And by the way, you should maybe tell our viewers what this all encompasses before we hone in on some specifications. Well, we're a 501C, which makes us a nonprofit. And we focus on the whole family, whether it's a one-person family or a multi-person family. And so we do try to support, love, and inform those. And so the supporting is the big, big role that we have. And what are the type of families that you tend to focus on who need more support? Okay. Families that have any problems if it's just relating to each other, because we can go down that route through my master's and social work. I have been a therapist and I can talk to you one on one about what it means to be the mother of a gay son, a lesbian daughter, although I don't have a lesbian daughter, but any of the alphabet, the LGBT community, you know. Actually, I want to remind everyone that the reason I met you is because it was at the Woman's March a few weeks ago. And Carolyn here was at a booth, right outside where everybody was congregating. And you had all these sanitary napkins piled up along with some canned food or something. Ben and hygiene products. Right. And so that was an aspect we hadn't thought of before. And because we, on a weekly basis, 52 weeks out of the year, supply a week's worth of fresh fruits and vegetables and milk and dairy products. Yogurt and... Two homeless people or two people's shelters? No, no, no. Two yo, which is youth outreach. Okay. They've been in Waikiki for 25 years. Great. And so we helped them along. When we asked them how can we support you, they said, we can't fill up the youth after always hungry. And that clicked something in me, because my mother said, in this country, no one should ever go hungry. And she said that, and I said, that's what we can do. And so we started out with just canned foods. And it was killing me as a mother thinking I can't survive on canned foods. And so I said, don't they like vegetables and fruits and dairy? And she said, yes. But the food bank has no refrigeration, so we can't get them. And I said, then that's our niche. And from then on. And we've been doing it since November of 2013. Right. Well, that's wonderful. But in addition to that, again, the image of the sanitary napkins on the table, too, just reminded me that there are certain issues as being a woman where people don't talk about that you need to deal with. That's right. And if you're homeless or if you're from some, I don't know, you could be on the streets, you could be in a battered home, you could be in a happy family, but sometimes those little things. That's right. And some of the women that came up that day, it was such a wonderful experience. One of them said to me, you know, I often wondered what happened when to a person who is on the streets, living on the streets, and they get their period. Where do they go? What do they do if they don't have money for housing? Then where does this come from? And I said, well, yo does what it can, but this is our effort in helping them. And so when we turned over, I called it my three bags full. We had so many. We had over 400, almost $500 worth of pads and tampons. They even gave me some shampoo. They gave me, you know, they just brought and it was wonderful. They come with their bags, you know, or it was in their backpack and they'd take it off and they'd start shoving it in, you know, on the table. Right. And who were the people who do receive these products? They are the participants, the youth. Right. The youth at Yo. Okay. So can we talk a little bit about that? Oh, yes.  And then they figure out things sometimes. But many are unfortunate to have that. That's right. And they're out there on their own for some whatever reason too early without enough support, physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, so many things. That's right. And when we started, I had a problem with getting donations because people's reaction was, oh, they're just problem children. They don't like to follow rules and they're misfit. And I said, no, do you know a statistic show that runaways are running from something, either abuse in the home, and that could be verbal, sexual, physical abuse, or it could be that the parents throw them out. Oh gosh. And I've talked to some youth who have said, well, the other thing, we have a rainbow and everyone can connect set with the LGBT community. But remember before we started talking LGBT, Hawaii was the rainbow state. Every time you saw a rainbow, it was connected to us. And it still is. The rainbow warriors, right? They, you know, rah, rah, rah. And there's your logo. And there's our logo, and the rainbow cameras. And I love our logo because our logo shows that rainbows don't discriminate. Regardless of age or sexual orientation or preference or identity. So how many in these youth problematic groups in Hawaii include LGBT members who are struggling with multiple issues? Multiple issues. Well, they say 40% of any runway population is LGBT. And yet the LGBT community is only supposed to comprise of 5 to 10% of our community. I don't believe that though. So see, see, but they are more likely to be thrown out than another. Or do you think they are forced out? Like they will choose to leave because it's just so much pressure and lack of support at home. That's right. So either way. One young woman told me, she said, well, once I told my father that I was a lesbian, he said no daughter of mine will be that. He said all my daughters are going to have grandchildren for me. So guess what? She went out, she got herself pregnant and he still kicked her out. And so she lived on the street for many years, you know. And I met the little girl. She was adorable. And I have a daughter of the, yes. She's a homeless with her daughter. She was. She was. She now has found a placement, but she was living on the streets. And if that doesn't tear your heart out, I don't know what what else. Exactly. You know, so this brings out so many issues, you know, this can of worms of why these poor innocent youths are out in the streets and we back up into parents and their interpretations of life, which bind them to certain expectations. That's right. So how do we go about, you know, backtracking and educating people or opening up people's views of acceptance? Well, that's the hard nut to crack. Because first of all, nobody wants to talk about. Yes. And I would like to have people start opening their eyes up. When they go to a family party, when they go, because our families here in Hawaii are, you know, a hodge podge of everybody. Sure.  And you go and all of a sudden you don't see a particular person. All of a sudden a member of the either host family or a member of some of the visitors who you've seen year after year and all of a sudden this person is just missing and they don't talk about them. Oh. Ask about them. Ask about them. I miss, I miss seeing your son, your daughter, whatever, or I miss, remember a character of them that brought, drew you to them. Why aren't they here? Where are they? So there's a lot of shame and embarrassment from the older generation who feel they cannot confront these issues, which actually destroys the family. And I have a hard time with people who have a house over their head, who have food on the table and clothes and all the things that are necessary in our daily life. And they don't understand the person that doesn't have it. Um, in my community we also have, it's not helping hands, but it's a safety watch in a neighborhood watch program. And I was there, one of my first times that I went, we go on Monday nights once a month, every two months, something like that. And we walked through our townhouse association. And as I walked up and said alone and was talking to people, they started talking about, we have to be careful. You know, right then was right after, um, Aloha, the airline. See, I've forgotten what the airline was. They just one day in April, just closed up shop and all of their people were out. And it was right after that. And they started talking about, we have to watch our neighborhood because, you know, we're going to have a lot of homeless up here. And so I wanted to strangle them, but I didn't. So I just interjected. I said, Oh, do any of you have any friends, cousins, aunties or uncles that are out of work because the airline went belly up. And they sort of looked at me and I said, Think of them. They are our brothers and sisters too. See, and so that awareness has to be there. And sometimes I just want to, you know, shake them, shake them up and say, about us. It's not about something else. You know, this is a huge topic and just telling me the case study, not even the case study, but a personal, your late, the girl who was kicked out of her house, it just tears my heart apart too. So we're going to take a quick break and we'll come back and we'll continue talking about and opening up our eyes and hearts to what's going on and why we are so apathetic to homeless and sisters of the youth. So don't go away. Very important stuff to talk about. Hello. Thank you for watching Think Tech, Planet of the Courageous. I'm Dr. Dean Nelson, host of Planet of the Courageous. In Tibetan mythology, it's said that you pick this planet to learn something. You picked your birth on this planet to learn something. This planet is spinning and hurling through space at 67,000 miles per hour. And it takes courage to not slip into fear and collapse into anxiety. One can find so many justifications for selfishness and prejudice. But we have two ears to listen to one another and one heart that can provide a common ground. But this takes courage to stay in that space. We've chosen the right planet for the opportunity to learn, courage, and try to solve so many challenges. Aloha. Thank you for watching. Looking to energize your Friday afternoon? Tune in to Stand the Energy Man at 12 noon. Aloha Friday here on Think Tech Hoy. On behalf of Rainbow 808, it's just opened up this world that we prefer to just say it has nothing to do with my life. I know there are lots of homeless in Hawaii and so blah, blah, blah. But it's just, Caroline, please awaken us about the situation. And we all know that homeless is a huge problem here. But, you know, when it comes to the youth and why they're kicked out or why they left the house and consequences of them being on the street and so on and so forth, especially girls, can we talk a little bit more about that and some situations you've seen that we need to know? And this was before I ever started Rainbow Family 808. It was several years ago our daughter, I have two children, a daughter and an adult, both of my children are adults, and my daughter had her own apartment and I was given a call. I took a call from a friend on the big island who said, Caroline, please help this young man.  And so he did.  And she said, I have to throw you out.   Anything, girlfriend, you're the safest. That's right, yes. You know, and she said, she said he's now living on the street and we're worried he's going to get into drugs and into prostitution. And we're, I'm just worried about him. What does a young man at 17 do on the street? And I said, so I talked to my daughter. I called some churches and they said, well, give us some information and we'll put it in our bulletin next week. I said, no, no, that's not. I can't do that next week.  And so I asked my daughter, you have this, this apartment, she was subletting one room. So she, you know, the prices of, and it wasn't a fancy apartment, but it was a three bedroom. And I said, you're already running it out to one young man. Could you take him, this, this one young 17 year old, right? I said, I will help him get a job. We will pay his first month's rent with you. We'll pay for two months rent with you. We bought him clothes and food and, and sheets and vandals and everything. And we moved him in because I don't know what he would have done. But I put myself, how would I have felt if my parents had thrown me out? Of course. You know, I would go, where do I go? What do I do? You know, and if you were the one on the street, how would you feel if someone did bring you in and say, hey, it's okay. You can stay here. Get your work. You'll be all right. That's right. And how does that change a person? Yes.   Well, the people who had been buying things, had them in their hands, went and put them down and walked out. And so finally the owner or the manager was able to get the mother out of the, out of the store. But then he told the young man, he said, I have no guarantee that your mother's not going to do this again. Right. And he said, I don't know how much I just lost in all those sales because no one wanted to be around the conflict. Exactly. And nobody wants to be involved with anything with any risk. That's right. At any risk. And they don't even, you know. Does it shock you to today that there's so much, just, I don't think narrow-mindedness is even the word for it. It's so far beyond that. That people are continuing this type of concept and lack of embracing of diversity, which we've kind of brought up to have. Isn't it? Is it shocking or is it something we're missing here? I wanted to continue to be shocking because every time I just take it for granted, then I become part of the problem. And so there's that, you know, oh, I've heard this before. Oh my, you know. Have you tried to talk to the parents who have shunned their kids because of their lack of acceptance, whether it's because of LGBT issues or whatever? Well, I had, years ago when we, we had a support group once a month. I did that for almost 18 years. But that was for the LGBT community. Right. You know, and, and I did talk to those. One mother had said that the only reason she was at the support group meeting was because her son said, you either go to the support group meeting or you'll never see me again. Wow. And that was quite, but that was the only way. Did it work though? Did she change your concept? She spent most of her time at our meetings crying. She would come with a scripture verse and say, she's blaming it on. Yeah. Well, she'd say, how can I resolve this knowing that this is in the Bible?  And so we knew how to answer, but we like to have it come from everyone rather than just whoever is holding the, the support group. And so we had a lot of people that would say, oh, and then they would, they would counter her, her, her, her Bible study with, you know, with something else and say, well, what about that? How can you? Part of me says, if it's your child, and if you bore that child for nine months and you know them, and that's one of the things that brought me when my son came out was that. How old was he when he came out? 22. But you sensed it when he was growing up as an adolescent? No. Not at all? No. It just kind of, did he talk to you or you just have caught him or what? It was right before he finished college. And right after dad, it signed on the bottom line with all the, paid all the bills. Oh, I see, a clever boy. But he has very, very, very, very smart. And then he came out to us. And see, at that time, which is the best time to come out is when you're safe, you know that you have something to run to, you have some means of escaping. And it just tore my... But you can't control that. A lot of kids are struggling with their sexuality when they're 12 or even earlier. And it's earlier now. 22 is old for today's age. Do you know in high schools now, even in Hawaii, interviewed some lady, she said her teenage daughter had a handful, a handful of friends who are going through sexual operations in teenagers. In teenagers. And it's not just the concept, it's just the actual operation. That's right. And see, that's how far we moved on some aspects. But we haven't moved all the way. So, yeah. The question is, how do we get parents who are struggling to accept their child for whatever reasons? How do we get them to accept their children?  Well, there's the other side to that. That till the age of 18 to 21, they are financially responsible for them. And so, my idea, when I'm really having a bad day, is I want to arrest them all and slap them with a charge and make them pay. If they can't get along. See, this world is so diverse now and we have so many avenues for help. There is all kinds.  What's at the bottom of that?  And you're destroying yourself. You are hurting and just bleeding inside. Well, I'm glad you can see their part because all I see is the pain of a kid. No, because it's both ways. Because once a parent, always a parent, right? That's right.  That's right. But there's also a tough love program for that. Yes. Go back to how we can help these youths who are on the streets or how do we even kind of move forward with this? Okay. Well, first of all, it's personal. You have to really feel the need. If you don't have that situation in your home, if everything is... Someone called our family, the... What is it? Leave it to be your family. Which is absolutely not true. But you have to have that heart.  And the thing is, though, we know there are children born to parents that have no mothering skills, have no nurturing skills, because the father is just as liable for this. And it's a vicious cycle because they will end up having kids who might be doing the same thing. And so they may not have grown up in the home that I always counter that right away with, wait a second, I wouldn't want that to happen to me. And so it's just... I'm in this turmoil all the time trying to feel for the parent, but looking because the parent has money, they have avenues, they have a roof over their heads. When it rains, I have a real problem because I know the kids are out in the street. And the thing is, remember, if 40% of all runaways are LGBT, that means 60% are straight. And so that was one of... That isn't one of the... Yeah, it was one of the things, yo, you've outreach in Waikiki taught me. Because when I first went to them, I was known more for an advocate for the LGBT community. And they said to me, well, you know, we would really welcome your help, but you know that we can't isolate whatever you give us just to deal. And I said, oh, never, never, never, never. Not with this, not with our group, because we're... We don't discriminate. And that's going back to the rainbow idea. You encompass every aspect of the spectrum. That's it. You've got it. You've got it. So inclusive that it doesn't matter where you come from. How do people reach you? And how do youths who really feel or you have friends and family who think they need? How do they come and approach you? They can call me at<PHONE_NUMBER>. They can email me at rainbowfamily808atgmail.com.  It's rainbowfamily808.com. See what we're doing. Today, I'm going to change clothes, jump into my comfortable clothes, and we're putting on a Valentine's barbecue for the kids. Oh, wonderful. So we're doing hamburgers and hot dogs. I made potato salad, and I just hope it's okay. It's all good. It's all good. And chips and soda. And we're going to have them make their own ice cream. And they will come. They want to come. Well, they come because they're used to going to yoke in Waikiki, which is part of the Waikiki Health Center. They're just one of the programs within that. That's why we collect the money so that we can buy whatever it is. Yeah. You know, that's why if they have... I'm five, Caroline. You know, thank you for reminding me. It's Valentine's Day, and it's so sad that some people are not fortunate enough to enjoy it in the way they want to. And so, Caroline, with the biggest heart I know in Hawaii, is providing that for them. And if only you can think a little bit with your heart to support these youths and to support Rainbow 808, and to talk to families who do need this help, and embrace everyone. Please, happy Valentine's Day to those people who need the heart. Thank you so much for everything you've said today.  Oh, I love that. I love...


I'm a mathematical physicist and I came to the IHS in 1964. How did I choose to come here? Let me start at the beginning. My university studies took place in Belgium, which was then my home country. I started with two years of civil engineering, then proceeded to physics and mathematics and ended up with a PhD in physics from the Free University of Brussels in 1959. Actually, I had spent time at the ETH, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, before and after my PhD, and that's where my scientific research career really started. In 1962, I moved for two years to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, and then at the end of these two years, I could either stay in the US or go back to Zurich, but another possibility opened up, which was a new institute called IHS in Bursarivette. My wife was in favor of Bure because it was in France and I accepted a permanent position there. As I arrived here, I found that the place was fantastically good from a scientific point of view and very pleasantly located. However, the financial situation was bordering on the catastrophic, but it didn't bother me too much because science in those days was rather different from what it has become. In fact, there were few research scientists and there was a lot of money for science. So, I moved to the IHS, which was a great place, but I kept ready to jump to another country if the IHS should collapse. This attitude has served me well throughout my career. I want to talk about the golden period at the Institut des Hauts d'Études scientifiques. Have I known golden periods in other places? Well, I have been in the academic world for over 60 years in various countries and I have seen a number of normally good places and a few great ones. The difference is that in great places I have really felt pushed forward intellectually by interactions with other people. It may happen that a single scientist creates a great place around him in his field of competence. That was the case with Réciost in Guadalupe Field, Syrie, in Zurich in the 1960s and it still is the case now with George Liebowitz in Statistical Mechanics at Radgers University. However, a multidisciplinary great place may also arise when several scientists share the responsibility of scientific organization. A superb example was the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton when I visited there from 1962 to 1964. At that time, T. D. Lee, C. N. Yang, Freeman Dyson, Robert Oppenheimer and others were around in physics. Another superb example was the IHS when I joined Alexander Grotendeck, René Tom and Louis Michel as a permanent member there in 1964. So-called permanent members were named given at the IHS to the faculty and there were also temporary visitors. Unfortunately, great places need not stay great forever. For instance, when I went back to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1970-71, there was a dispute raging between physicists and mathematicians and the place for me was no longer great. At the IHS, there was also a period of crisis in 1970, which is when Grotendeck left. But about from that, the IHS has enjoyed several decades of greatness. This is what I think of as the golden period of the IHS and that's what I'm going to talk about. What makes a place great rather than just good? Well, first you have to start with good people. Since I'm one of those people I describe as good, this may sound a bit arrogant, but let me say that at the time that I'm discussing, the permanent members at the IHS were all known internationally for their work and had international connections that were very useful to get people invited. The permanent members of the IHS were certainly not mediocre at this time and let me say that as of now they are still not mediocre. The IHS permanent members still form a group that can be compared without disadvantage to the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Let me add that Leon Motschan, the first director and creator of the IHS was certainly also not a mediocre person. The IHS started with good people but there's no simple recipe to ensure that you will obtain a great place. At the beginning, the IHS had one great asset. Following the model of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the scientific decisions were taken by the faculty. This means that the permanent members used their international connections to seek out well-established good people and new talents to visit the IHS in Bursuivet. The quality of people who came is impressive. For instance, Jean-Pierre Serre and Irving Siegel stayed here for a year. My wife has a list of those people we had for dinner at home. This includes Freeman Dyson, Eugene Wigner, Rudolf Piles and many, many more. This was an impressive period. Well, an able administrator will ask specialists to rate application lambda versus application lambda prime but one can do better than that. Forget about lambda, lambda prime and seek out double capital A. The early IHS permanent members were not specialists. Grotendijk pointedly said that he was a generalist, not a specialist. So when the decisions of scientific policy were taken after discussion between the competent people who would implement these decisions, you obtained a coherent program where an able administrator could take decisions that follow the fashion, the decisions reached by the permanent members of the IHS were ahead of fashion. It's not easy at all to make the right choices of scientific policy. Going ahead of fashion means that you risk to be wrong but if you just follow fashion then you are certain to remain somewhat mediocre. There were heated discussions between the permanent members and the director in what was then the scientific committee of the IHS which took the scientific decisions and it is tempting to remove these heated scientific discussions to avoid trouble. But then one is likely to remove the greatness of the science one is trying to get going. Let me try to say briefly what I got out of the IHS golden period. When I came to the IHS I was working in equilibrium statistical mechanics which is an area of theoretical physics which has a remarkably rich underlying mathematical structure. In particular with De Bruyne and Lenford we obtained a local global understanding of the infinite volume equilibrium states of statistical mechanics and the name DLR equation was later introduced to describe our result. I wrote two books on the structure of equilibrium statistical mechanics. At the same time I did something completely different namely I listened to talks by René Tom on differentiable dynamical systems and I also interacted with Steve Smale and his collaborators who taught me the theory of hyperbolic dynamical systems. So two completely different subjects and then a miracle occurred the Russian Yasha Sinai found a deep relation between equilibrium statistical mechanics and hyperbolic dynamics based on what he called Markov partitions. This opened a whole new field in which I had the competence to work. I introduced the concept of transfer operators contributed to the study of Sinai, Orwell, Bowen measures and so on. These were important for the understanding of hydrodynamic turbulence and later led to the theory of chaos and this in a nutshell is what I did during the golden years of the IHES. Let me explain the place and role of the IHES in those days in relation to French science and also more internationally. The statutes of the IHES did not indicate any specific role in French science. This role emerged from personal relations of the permanent members with French colleagues and the relation was different actually for physicists and mathematicians. In mathematics there were series of talks the Seminaire Tom, the Seminaire Grotendijk and later the Seminaire de lignes which were well attended by people from Orsay, Paris and also international visitors like Steve Smale and Barry Mazer. Grotendijk and later de lignes had a number of students collaborators which were either French or coming from abroad. In physics the situation was a bit different. There was a common seminar which I started and was soon joined by Louis Michel and later other permanent members. This was more like a physics colloquium in a very wide sense. We asked talks from all kinds of international visitors to the Paris area, Benoît Mandelbrot being a typical example. The physics seminars were also well attended by people from Orsay, Sackler, etc. who came whenever the speaker or the title of the talk interested them. There was also an intense collaboration an interaction between the permanent members and the international visitors. The DLR equations that I mentioned earlier were a result from my collaboration with Oscar Landford who was then a visitor and the D is for the Brouchin who could not leave the Soviet Union but we corresponded with him and exchanged publications. I was a colleague of Grotendijk at the IHS for several years. What can I say about him? Grotendijk was one of several examples of people who made remarkable contributions extraordinary contributions to science and had otherwise a difficult life. I think of Galileo or Turing. The way in which Grotendijk abandoned mathematics also reminds me of the poet Arthur Rimbaud who abandoned a literary career for some obscure traffic in East Africa. One could also mention Newton and his various extra scientific preoccupations. The names just mentioned indicate Life Center not on pursuing a successful career but on trying to understand something general which was important to those people. At this moment let me interrupt the discussion of Grotendijk with a person's story. Early in my career I received a letter asking if I would accept a certain little scientific prize. I answered politely saying in my opinion thanks but no thanks I didn't care for scientific prizes. Then a little later after having forgotten about this prize I got another letter saying congratulations you won the X prize and I felt that I couldn't refuse it. Later I progressively understood that if you want to make a career in high level research you have to accept prize become member of academies and so on. That's not what I had in mind when I started doing science but that's how it turned out to be. Grotendijk would say that I got corrupted. Now more interesting for me than scientific prizes were hiking trips that I took mostly alone in remote parts of Mexico Iran, Ecuador and so on and these were important experiences for me but when I talked about those trips to Colise they often thought that I was boasting about physical prizes which was absolutely not the case. So I was afraid from talking about these hiking trips and also about reading Abela's Historia Calamitatum in Latin or other things that were important for me but that I understood I'd better not talk about. In this way I have survived better in the scientific world than Grotendijk or Galileo or Turing and this is not because I was scientific better but because perhaps I was a trifle more prudent. Let me return to Grotendijk. He was the son of a Russian anarchist who was traded during the Second World War by the French authorities to the German authorities and killed in Auschwitz. On top of being an anarchist he was also a Jew. Now Grotendijk himself was not an active anarchist but you can understand that he lacked the healthy respect for authorities which keeps you out of trouble. Politically he was incredibly naive. Having personally interacted with Grotendijk studied some small part of his mathematics and read part of his non-mathematical writings I think I have a unified view of who he was. He wrote, for my whole life my ambition as a mathematician or rather my joy and passion have constantly been to discover evident things. The person who wrote that was the same person who was incredibly naive politically. The person with the power of decision to create whole new branches of mathematics is also the same person who had little respect for authorities. The person who spent days and nights developing a new mathematical world is also the person who quit mathematics and spent his time doing what he called meditation which actually meant writing. Grotendijk did not leave mathematics and become insane. He pursued a life quest which was essential to him.


One of the big things out in the field when scouting for pest insects is not to just stop there. Oftentimes we go out to scout for aphids, weevils, other types of bad insects, spider mites for example, but the one thing we always forget to think about scouting for is going to be our beneficial insects. There are dozens of different types of beneficial insects that are present across not just North Dakota but across the country and actually I could probably take that dozens and make it hundreds if you wanted in terms of the number of specimens that are out there. Today I briefly just wanted to hit three of the big ones that are in the area. First of all, the ladybug. That is probably one of the biggest ones that you're going to see in parts of the Northwest, North Central and for the most part throughout North Dakota. Everyone can recognize the ladybug, that small oval quarter inch upwards to a half inch long beetle. Everyone recognized by either red and black or orange and black colorations. The reason they're such fantastic beneficial insects is their ability to feed in high numbers. Let's take the soybean aphid for example. In a soybean plant, 250 aphids per plant is your economic threshold to spray.  So just think about that. In your economic threshold, we can already knock out 200 of those aphids out of that 250 just by having them present if they're in high numbers. So when you're scouting, use that net. Make sure you're kneeling down to see if they're there. You might be able to prevent an entire chemical application. Another one of those insects would be that of the lace wing. Lace wing, very thin. It's about a centimeter, centimeter and a half long but really thin body. It actually has really tall wings if you will and it's very highly bane. They come in two colors, light green and that of a light brown color. Again, they can feed in high numbers, not just aphids but different types of mites and other small insects like scale insects. The last one I want to bring up is the minut pirate bug. When you hear that name, you think minut, you think small. It's about three millimeters long. Pirate bug, I always think of the coloration with dark and white checkered pattern on the wings.   The one thing I will say is they tend to have a bad rap. They can bite people as you work through the end of the summer. Of course, as crops start coming out of the field, trees start to lose leaves. That's when they move from those wood agricultural sites into areas where people can be. While they can have a pretty good bite, they are actually really good insects in the field. Using an entomology, when we talk about scouting, we talk about using a 15 inch diameter net and being out in the field doing sweep netting. You can see that here, a 15 inch diameter net. Oftentimes we're going to do 20 sweeps at five different field sites when doing that. As I said earlier with the beneficial insects, not only do you want to look for your pest insects, make sure you're looking for your beneficial insects as well. As you take your sweeps, go ahead and count the beneficials that be in there too and note what might be there. Having them in high numbers may be that key to preventing a future insecticidal application.


I am Dr. Jagdish, concerted physician, Manipal Hospital, Sajapur, Bangalore. I wish you everyone world health day, which we are celebrating on April 7th every year, which is a remark of the foundation of WHO, which was done in 1948. So, every year the WHO come with a team to protect our global health. So, this year the WHO has come with a team called as our planet, our health. This team they have chosen mainly because of the last few years we had a bad experience with the pandemic, coronavirus pandemic along with the severe pollution which can be air pollution, water pollution or food pollution and the incidence of the diseases which are like cancer or asthma or a heart attack or increasing. So, the WHO is main focus for the global to action to reduce or to protect our the planet and the human being health. So, as a people what we can do is to eat healthy food, physical activity, regular health checkups that is what we can as we people we have to do what we can do to improve our planet health is the main thing we have to eat healthy food, regular physical activity, regular follow-up and regular control of your sugars, BV and other things and avoid the air pollution, avoid the food pollution, avoid the soil pollution and avoid water pollution. This definitely will help us to protect our planet and our health also. So, as WHO says to as a team our planet, our health so that we can also contribute to our team for the our planet, our health. Okay, I wish you everyone a safe, healthy and fun time. I wish you everyone be safe, be healthy. Thank you.