What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysCaseBricks.com We're giving away two Wax Party promo spots away with this Jaspys High Roller Mystery Crate Numero Uno And again guys, this one is the best odds to win a Wax Party invite Although it is a little pricey, you're gonna have opportunity of getting some very very big hits As you can see the ceiling is 2800 plus Now I was gonna take photos of this stuff but this thing sold out so fast I mean I don't even have to show you guys anything You guys are gonna be very excited though, this is some nice stuff in here Now the worst hit is between four to five hundred So obviously just like a normal box when you buy something There's no guarantee that you win anything back in value But at least with us we're letting you know what you're gonna get possibly at the high, at the low And more often than not guys, I've seen plenty of boxes that people buy for a thousand dollars And don't get back more than a hundred, two hundred dollars So getting back four or five hundred in value is definitely good It doesn't mean the card can be potentially graded It can go up in value of course during the regular season if during the off season There are players in the slump who knows picks it up and can definitely go up Now again this format is ten spots guys so there's ten hits What we're gonna do is first open up the crate, you guys are gonna see all the hits Then at the end we're gonna randomize the ten names and the hits And whatever you match up with is what you get, that's simple Now this crate is all five cards but it does sometimes include boxes, packs, break credit, graded cards, etc So this one's just all cards though but just to tell you guys there So here we go guys And again here's a dice roll, here's a customer name So from John down to Hilton bought in straight up and then John won from Mega 12 and 13 So congrats to everybody, paying a fraction of the price to get some nice hits Alright well, let's do the crate So I don't know if you guys have seen our crate before, we used to have locks on it But we ended up like kind of losing them per se And then one time we lost the keys and then we had to kind of break the locks So now we just don't really use the locks at all Obviously a nice little custom crate that Nick got us there a few years back And we like to call the crate more being higher end stuff so, you know, get some nice stuff Now again guys there are ten cards in here And here we go Alright the first one is a very very nice one, this guy finally got paid by the team he's been on Since he was a rookie, very very solid quarterback in the NFL This is an Immaculate autograph of Lamar Jackson 4 out of 25, very nice on-card as a shadow box from 2019 Immaculate So like a second year autograph right there And there you go, very nice land jack there Next one, this guy's had the craziest, one of the craziest Premier League seasons Like ever honestly This guy is just scoring goals like there's no tomorrow And has a chance to win the Champions League I think soon right, in a few weeks This is a rookie technically from 2019 Top's Chrome UCL It is a speckle refractor, graded a PSA9 and it's Erlen Halam That is a PSA9 like I said, speckle refractor And that is a beauty and one to definitely hold on to Beautiful stuff here So the true red during that year in 2019 Ended up selling for like 150 or 160,000 as a PSA10 which is wild So this guy is definitely a good one to hold on to Next one, probably one of the most iconic cards Now his actual rookie card is probably more iconic But this one is probably second right, from 1986 Fleer It is a PSA5 but still sells pretty well It is a Jordan sticker Michael Jordan rookie sticker There you go, 86 Fleer Very very nice card right there Alright, we're gonna start getting into some of the bigger stuff here guys Some of the bigger stuff Now this one is one of the nicest cards man And this one's raw, definitely can grade it I don't know how it's gonna grade because it is a die cut But it is a rookie Bowman's best from 97 Kobe Bryant Look how that pops Doesn't look so beautiful So sick right there Like I said, I don't know how it would grade but I'm sure it would probably increase the value But beautiful beautiful Kobe rookie right there And there's a facsimile of his autograph right there Sick card right there man Next one This guy was the number two overall pick a few years ago now This is a contenders 75th anniversary ticket Graded a 9-5-10 And it's Jalen Green Now we're graded a 9-5 and a 10 auto Now this card is not numbered but it is a 75th anniversary It's kind of hard to see it but You kind of look close, they can't really zoom it in too much There's little 75s all over the background So they call it the NBA 75th anniversary ticket So a little bit of a variation there But a very very good player right there for the Rock It's a young team still, hopefully they definitely get better So that's a nice one right there And I think we're halfway through, halfway through guys Next card obviously is a raw card but it is numbered to 8 It is from Donner's Optics Obviously one of the best players in the MLB And it's a Shohei Otani And that is an elite series autograph And it is numbered 6 out of 8 From 2022 Donner's Optics And again, not a bad one to potentially maybe grade Or something like that if it's gradable But it is pretty nice just to keep as is And a beautiful little popping card right there Alright, let's continue on Next one Another very nice card, this one's also raw It's one of my favorite type of variations It's cracked ice This one is a veteran ticket cracked ice Number to 25 And it's Luka Donchich On-card veteran ticket from Contender's Basketball And that is a beauty And that's 2 out of 25 Alright you guys, so that was one of the first ones That were over a thousand right there Out of a thousand I should say So those are one of the bigger ones there This one's also a very nice one too as well From 2014 Finest This is a PSA-10 Super Fractor Of Drew Brees And again guys, this guy's stuff is also very very undervalued But he'll soon be in the Hall of Fame I think it should get a little bump This guy's one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history But just doesn't get enough love But that's a Finest Super Fractor 101 PSA-10 Of Drew Brees And a very very nice one Alright a couple more guys, a couple more Next one we have This one also too is not graded So definitely potential to definitely get some more value back This guy's obviously back in the MLB After a little little suspension hopefully Learned his lesson and hopefully doesn't take anymore Of you know ringworm cream But this is a nice part and definitely gradable And if it comes back with good grade It could be a really nice one This is one of the Tatis Jr. Bowman Chrome Firsts Which is 70 out of 99 And then like I said to be honest guys This card looks pretty clean for the most part Obviously I'm sure there's stuff that I can't see under a microscope But or with a microscope But very very nice one there And that is a beauty of a card as well And remember he's just signed a much bigger autograph Not like that anymore So that's a nice one And here we go guys This is the top card I think he just said one recently Not even too long ago maybe I don't know when he said it But just recently one sold for $2,800 This is a very very low pop You know one of the better quarterbacks From the 2020 draft class This is a 2020 Panini Contenders Optic Autograph PSA 10 Of Justin Herbert And again it's on card Beautiful PSA 10 Like I said one recently sold for $2,800 So a good one to hold onto Those rookie tickets man Whether it's contenders or optic They'd definitely love to hold their value So that is a very very nice one So there you go That was the crate so Got the Herbie The Tatis The Super Fractor The Luca The Shohio Tani out of eight We got the Jaylen Green Um Jordan Sticker We got the Erlen Halon And we got the Lamar Jacks I mean Joey BA No Jaylen Hertz though But you know it's all good They're all great quarterbacks Alright so now I'm going to switch The teams guys and then I'm going to Type in the names and then We'll uh or not type in the names But type in the hits and then we'll Randomize the list of names and hits And then we'll see who gets what Both Lasso Super Bowl You know Both won a national championship One of them won a Heisman I guess The other one didn't but he was close But they're both great Give me Jaylen Give me Jaylen all day I will be honest I wouldn't have said that last year Before the season but After this past season I'm all in on Jaylen Hertz Lamar Jackson He does look like him Missed the Sterling no you did not buddy That is coming up next man The only reason it was $35 Noah Is because we gave away A thousand dollar spot here so Obviously the mega's not worth a thousand dollars But the spot in this break was worth a thousand dollars So we put in the price of a mega In a thousand dollar spot Put it in there divided it by 30 And that's why we charge $35 Because the mega box wasn't The reason why people were buying in They were buying in to win this spot For only $35 If I take out the Herbert I probably I really love that Kobe I mean I just think Slab Dub would look pretty sweet But But yeah I mean I'd probably go with the Kobe Just because I love it or the Erlenhalan I mean Tatis is great That's probably one of the higher valleys Of Kobe or the Erlenhalan I mean I love the Luca crackdice too But yeah no Yeah the title usually tells you What we're doing with it So yeah sometimes people think oh man They're charging so originally priced for a mega box They're scammers but it's like no bro That's just a filler box that's all it is We're just getting a small box Doesn't cost too much do a break Because you can still get something nice out of the break But then the real reason why you're buying it Is to win a spot into a bigger break So Alrighty guys so here we go then So again Lamar Jackson We got the Justin Herbert for Tatis Breeze, the Donchich Shohio Tani Jaylen Green, the Kobe The Jordan Holland And The Lamar Jackson Alright guys here we go So again we're going to click the dice roll Boom Two times alright well this is not going to be a crazy Randomize them One Two Boom Hilton Alright now two times Two times One Two Boom two Tatis at the top down to Erlen Holland At the bottom And let's see how this worked out here guys Here we go guys So Hilton you just got the Fernando Tatis Jr Nice that was one of the top hits there Joshua with the Drew Breeze as well Nice that was also one of the top hits Jaylen Green Contenders Going to Bryan that was also a nice hit That was a little under the spot price But a very nice one there as well And then John hey this was your spot You won in the mega number 12 Fleer sticker Jordan a very nice hit as well Nathan congratulations buddy You just got the biggest hit Out of the whole mystery crate That's a $2,800 Justin Herbert man Congratulations Hilton walking away with the Shohei Otani Very nice out of eight John getting the Immaculate Autograph of Lamar Jackson Joshua very nice Also getting the Luca That is also a top hit as well Cracked dice out of 25 And walking away with the Kobe as well Very nice buddy With the Dica refracted there for you And then John again with your mega box There you got the Erlen Halon Top Scrum UCL rookie speckle PSA9 So again guys I appreciate it again This was very fun I hope that you guys liked it I know it's a little pricey but You know some nice stuff there It also has two wax party promo spots We still have to do that But again I'm going to talk to Nixie We can probably post up another one Maybe similar a little cheaper maybe Now here's the dice roll, here's the customer names We're going to randomize the customer names Now two and the top two names win a spot in the wax party That's a four to one five times One Two Three Four And five Wow look at that John Man Four to one five times you got both One from your mega box And one from your straight up spot Congratulations man that's crazy Four to one five times Oh So now you're invited to the party man There you go So you got both of those spots from the mystery crate Random hit Appreciate it folks again Love to do another one of these hopefully tomorrow Jatsby'scasebrace.com guys thank you


Now for our welcome note, I would like to introduce and invite one of the youngest media mogul from India, Dr. Anurag Batra. He is a serial entrepreneur and a mentor to many successful entrepreneurs. Dr. Batra, a man of many talents and someone who adorns many hats. Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Dr. Anurag Batra. Thank you, Toral. Give a big round of applause to Toral. She's been here all day.  It's my honor and privilege to welcome all of you to the fifth edition of IMA. In the morning I said sixth, it's the fifth. We did the first in 2004, fifth October 2004. I'd like to especially welcome all the jury members. I see Mr. Ashok Basin and apart from being the head of digital transformation at Hero Motor Cop means transforming the company in every aspect. He's our link from the first year of the Indian marketing awards. He was in the jury of the first Indian marketing award jury in 2004, so I especially requested Mr. Basin to come. Please give Mr. Basin a big round of applause. I also see Mr. Singh, who's the MD of Hershey's. He was among the youngest MDs and CEOs in India of a large corporate. He was also a jury member among the 13 MDs and CEOs who were jury members. I just want to tell you that more than 500 entries were received this year. 130 got shortlisted. Tonight there are 51 winners. There are two excellence winners. 151 brands participated in the Indian marketing awards. 52 agencies participated in the Indian marketing awards. There were 13 grand jury members. As I said, two jury members couldn't make it. Yashish who spoke in the day and Mahesh Gupta, rest every jury member were there on time. There were 20 assessment juries and the total categories are 26. As I said in the morning that these are the most honest, credible and process driven awards. They can always be better and we have feedback this year from the jury, so it will be better. Also Mr. Abdul Khan, who's been the CMO of Tata Teleservices and has been in corporate India, is there Mr. Sunandan Banja Chaudhary. He normally doesn't make mistakes, but he once made a mistake of hiring me in a job at J. Walter Thompson. His head is now a headhunter advisor to many companies. Mr. Winner Eye of Rye University and BioArveda is there. My new friend who's bird is on 11th August from Volkswagen is there, Mr. Sahan. So I welcome all the marketeers, brand owners and everybody who's part of these awards and once you see the jury AV, you'll realize that these are honest awards. I think for me our awards are about honesty. Everything else follows from there. So you cannot buy these awards, you cannot converse for these awards and when you see the jury chairs, comments, when you see every jury member's comments, you'll know that these were discussed, debated, contested and in some of the categories, the bronze has not been given ourselves. So really, when jury put a stamp to it, they were putting the stamp of their own credibility and their own assessment. So apart from the data that we presented, and data is never enough, but it's a jury that has built brands, built businesses, so they understand this. So when you win an award tonight, you know that you've rightly earned it. And last thing, when winners come up here, please clap for them because if you don't clap for them when you're here, they will not clap for you when you're here. Thank you, God bless you.


Russians hit Ukraine's US-supplied M-1150 assault breacher vehicle for the first time. Russian soldiers from the 21st Brigade recently targeted a US-supplied M-1150 assault breacher vehicle belonging to the Ukrainian Army's 47th Mechanized Brigade near Stepov, according to Army Recognition Media outlet. Details surrounding the extent of damage inflicted on the assault breacher vehicle remain unclear with uncertainty over whether the Russian soldiers significantly damaged or destroyed the vehicle in the strike or if they targeted it after a previous immobilization. The recent engagement marks the first confirmed loss of such a vehicle since its deployment in Ukraine. The presence of the M-1150 assault breacher vehicle in Ukraine originated from an undisclosed delivery by the United States with its existence revealed during the Ukrainian Missile Forces and Artillery and Engineering Troops Day on November 3rd, 2023. The M-1150 assault breacher vehicle, also known as the Shredder, is designed for efficiently breaching minefields and complex obstacles that could slow down military advances, primarily utilized by US combat engineers. The M-1150 assault breacher vehicle features a specialized turret housing two linear demolition charge systems employing mine clearing line charges propelled by rockets. Additionally, the M-1150 is equipped with a lane marking system to mark the cleared path, an integrated vision system, and a high lift adapter which can accommodate either a full width mine plow or a combat dozer blade based on mission requirements to confirm lane safety. The M-1150 is based on the M-1 Abrams Tank chassis sourced from surplus army stocks and refurbished to align with current M-1A1 Abrams Tanks standards.


Tirana, capital of Albania, celebrated its independence day on November the 28th. On that day too, its citizens joyfully celebrated their liberation. On the main street of the city they marched in procession. Modern Tirana consists of two cities, the old Albanian town and the new, which was built during the Italian occupation. And here it was that the Albanians celebrated the second liberation of their country from oppression. Overhead flew RAF Halifaxes in salute. Dropping leaflets and food for the last time. At the saluting base stood members of the allied military missions, among them Russians, Yugoslavs, American and British. These are the troops of Albania's guerrilla army, the men who never admitted the occupation of their country.  And now they were marching in triumph as an army under their own flag. At the Cenotaph in Sydney, Australia, men of the film industry paid tribute to Damien Parra, Australian war correspondent. This young cameraman lost his life while recording the heroism of his fighting comrades in the Pacific. His camera's eye had roved over many scenes, glorious and ghastly. Libya, the tragedy of Crete and the immortal siege of Tobruk. And when the Australian imperial forces moved to the Pacific, Damien Parra went with them. The assault on Salomar. In the steaming jungles of New Guinea, he risked his life a hundred times to bring the pictures of that terrible campaign to the outside world. He flew in to cover the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. And then, in the fighting on Peleliu, he fell. Damien Parra's story is that of other men who fought for the allied cause. Not with gun or grenade, but with pen, microphone and camera. And in so doing, have given their all. Logs like these once became furniture. Now, birch, maple and mahogany become plywood and are made into war weapons. Boiled till they are thoroughly tempered and still steaming, the logs take us kindly to the razor as a well-soaked beard. About a mile of veneer can be peeled from a log in one long sheet. The sheet can be as thin as human hair. Cut to manageable size, the veneers are run through mechanical dryers. One of the secrets of the enormous strength of present-day plywood is the glue used. Alternate flimsy sheets of glue and veneer are interleaved. At this stage, the leaves can be flicked over like the pages of a book. In the hot press, the glue disappears completely into the wood. In this workshop, narrow strips of veneer are joined up edge to edge to be shaped into auxiliary fuel tanks. The army also uses numbers of folding plywood boats. Very buoyant, they've saved the infantry any amount of pneumonia. Lengths of 20 feet, the ply for horse gliders is supplied already cut to shape. This means a great saving of labor. Gliders are built strongly to crash land in safety on a few yards of uneven ground. The occupants don't suffer. All the planes of this war, mosquitoes have perhaps the most dramatic story. They were the answer to the RAF's call for a plane that could bomb Berlin in daylight and get away with it. First made in hundreds of scattered furniture factories while the Blitz was on, they established the right of present-day plywood to be considered a true engineer's material. Such ply will bear tremendous stresses. The mosquito hit the heart of Germany when she still thought herself all powerful. Plywood made the plane possible. That's one use for timber in wartime and here's another. But in Burma, machines give place to elephants. Captured from the Japanese, they are being used by the 14th Army to build roads and bridges. Plank with the precision of a carpenter. It can also lay off work with the same precision. In Burma, there were elephants who downed trunks at 5 p.m. in winter or summer alike. Being elephants, they never forgot. The answer to that evergreen question, how much wood would a woodchopper chop if a woodchopper would chop wood? At this woodchopper swing session in Australia, one of them hacked his way through in 34 seconds. What a useful man he'd be to have about the house.


Says hey, I'm moving out to California. I'm currently working for night. I want to transfer. What do I got to do? I said hey, you know talk to your terminal manager going about the whole process of it mark shows up And since then he's been he's been killing it and he's been waiting for his blue International truck. Well, my name is mark Santoyo and I was just awarded my blue International for becoming a million mile driver with night transportation. It's like a dream. I mean it's a long process It's not just something you can just jump in and do. I started off with the Ohio Terminal, so I would like to thank a lot of them especially like to thank Freddie for allowing me to transfer out to the SoCal division. He really didn't have to but He took me under his wing. I Appreciate that and I really appreciate everything that everyone in this company's done


Other than wins and losses, the most common statistic you will see to compare one picture to another is his earned run average. And usually this would be shortened and we would just say is ERA. So what an ERA is, is a number that tells you based on how a picture has pitched so far, it's the average number of runs that he would give up over nine innings or one complete game. So how do we find the ERA? First thing you do is you would take the number of earned runs that that particular picture has given up and you would divide that by the number of innings that he has pitched. And so what this would give you if you just did this part is, you know, that's the average number of runs that he has given up in one inning. But ERA is for a whole game. And so then what we would do is take that and we would multiply it by nine and that would give you your ERA. So because, you know, there are nine innings in a regulation game. So I went out on the internet and I got an example here that we can run through. It's a pretty simple mathematical thing but just to make sure you got it covered. So I picked out a guy named Babe Ruth and he was a pretty good baseball player. And he's more known for his pitching or he's more known for his hitting but he was actually a pitcher too. And so in 1917, Babe Ruth, he gave up 73 earned runs and that was in 326 innings pitched. So we would take 73 and we divide it by 326 and that's going to give us 0.2239. And so then we would take that number and we were going to multiply it by nine. And then what that would give us is 2.01 and generally the ERA is rounded off to the second digit. So 2.1 is Babe Ruth's ERA for that year, I think it was 1917. And so this is a pretty good ERA to have. Generally when a pitcher's ERA is under three or is three and under, that's a pretty good figure to have because you know that means that you're giving up, on average he would be giving up three runs or less and so hopefully your offense will be powerful enough to get you at least three runs.


30-minute lunch lift. Come on. There we go. There we go. That's what I'm talking about. All right guys We're going downtown. I had to divert from the mountain run today. I'll explain downtown. All right. Let's go. Come on It's coming YouTube be patient. It's coming. Oh, baby. Okay. We made it downtown and it's cold out Filming outside is about to get a lot harder for you guys as the winter months arrive And so why am I not filming up in the mountains right now? Well, let me read a comment from yesterday from Damien remember when we were talking about that the value proposition with running shoes Well, I picked up my first pair of Skechers ever yesterday. I'm hoping these deliver a lot of great value I'm not gonna be running in these today Rather, I'm gonna be running of course in the Clifton fives and the beacons But here's a comment from Damien and it just it made me laugh and I love it So here Damien's from Wisconsin and he said this There's lower-end Nikes at department stores coals locally in Wisconsin 40 to 60 dollars But hard to beat 20 dollar hokas in reference to my hokas, which I'm wearing right now and I lifted in today I bought them for $20 off a craigslist Filas usually lowest price out there 30 dollars for running shoes no bells or whistles but comes with free Humility Damien. I love it and yes a little bit of free humility perhaps in the Skechers I don't know another area of my life where I Where I have some humility is this car and this car is a 2002 Toyota Corolla And essentially it will not make it in the mountains when it's snowing So I was planning to go to the mountains today to film for you guys But I probably would not have made it back. I would have gotten stuck up there for sure So I decided to change plans. I'm gonna film in Denver today in the city So I had to divert my plans from mountain filming to urban filming where yes We're gonna compare the new balance beacons to the hoka Clifton fives. Let's do this All right starting off in the hoka Clifton fives and then I'm gonna I'm gonna wear my vest my raid light vest on the run Carrying my beacons and then halfway through the run exactly halfway I'm gonna switch over to the beacons and I want to make the transition very as quickly as possible Because I just want to have that muscle memory in my feet in my legs and just to remember like okay How did the hoka Clifton fives feel and then boom right into the beacons just to give you that really precise Comparison and again, I realize the category of shoes is just slightly different But a lot of you are asking to compare the two and so that's what I'm doing I'm trying to listen to you guys So it's gonna be interesting to carry these and then I don't know if I've ever done this before I don't think I have where I'm carrying a shoe on a run Switching halfway and then just boom muscle memory trying to remember exactly how they feel. All right, let's go Gonna talk about these shoes in one minute, but true love and I we're actually off tonight on a Friday night We're going out on the town crazy to a swanky cocktail party. I gotta go get ready. I'll be right back be right back We runners can clean up a little bit. We can clean up a little bit You know, we sometimes prefer dry fit clothing and spandex and you know polyester But hey, listen, we can clean up every now and every now and then. All right, guys Let's start with a beacon some specs on this guy right now. The beacon is Incredibly lightweight 7.7 ounces 7.7 That's amazing. The beacon has a nine millimeter drop from heel to toe nine millimeter from heel to toe It's definitely a soft landing, you know And I think that is why a lot of people are comparing this beacon to the Clifton 5 is that it's got a lot of that fresh Foam through the midsole the flexibility on the beacon pretty incredible like I think it's a flex Personally, I think it's a flexible shoe compared to many others like I could bend this in half If I wanted to like right there right there and the Hoka Clifton 5 10 ounces so about three ounces more than the beacon 10 ounces for the Hoka Clifton 5 The Hoka Clifton 5 I didn't even actually realize this has an 11 Millimeter drop from heel to toe heel to toe 11 mil That's pretty high on the scale of running shoes. How about the cushion? How about the cushion in the Hoka Clifton 5? I think this EVA foam through the midsole. Yeah, I mean, it's got some cushion for sure That's what the Hoka is known for is having good cushion through the midsole And I'm gonna talk about that more in a second and then the flexibility I Would put it more in the category and I don't want to stretch it too much But more in the category of moderate to stiff or moderate to rigid if I can use that term So see I'm it's not definitely not quite as easy to Flex compared to the beacon now as concise as possible. I'm gonna try and compare these two shoes Who wins the game when it comes to the upper? I'm gonna give The Hoka Clifton 5 the win for the upper this upper in the Hoka Clifton 5 It's a new they're calling it like an engineered mesh. It's very comfortable I would put it on par with the turbo the Nike Pegasus 35 turbo It's got a really comfortable upper Whereas the beacon is more of a knit upper which is also comfortable But this this feels like it has a little more Compression around the top of your foot in a good way So it's it's more hugging your foot whereas the knit upper in the beacon It allows your your toes and the top of your foot to Splay a little bit meaning spread out And I actually prefer a little more of a snug fit through my upper on any running shoe And so anyway the upper goes to the Hoka Clifton 5 and through the midsole who wins the midsole game I'm going with a beacon. It's a little more comfortable a little more cushion a little more Yeah, you sink into the shoe a little more in the beacon which maybe you don't want that But if you want a little more Forgiveness when you step down into the shoe, you know just to help you in my opinion recover on easy days I'm going with a beacon over the Hoka Clifton 5 It felt I'll be frank like it felt a little stiff through the Hoka Clifton 5 All right the important part of the video right now when should you use each shoe and guess what yes It's different times. It's different. It became very clear today in the streets of Denver I you know did five miles in this guy first five miles in this guy's second And then I doubled up with another mile in each one just to make sure I Understood the feel of each one the Hoka Clifton 5 in my opinion is gonna be perfect For the eight to yeah eight to 20 mile middle to long distance runs I don't think it's a easy day shoe when I was running in the shoe at nine minute pace It just didn't feel good. It felt clunky It felt like I had to use that meta rocker that Hoka is known for so I had to try and land on my heel and I am more of a land on my four foot type of runner So I felt like I had to change my stride at at slower speeds in the Hoka Clifton 5 Just to get the benefit of that meta rocker design in basically all of Hoka shoes So eight eight to 20 mile middle to long distance runs in the Hoka Clifton 5 Whereas the beacon the new balanced beacon is gonna be and I'm sticking to my guns on this I'm sticking to my guns on this three to eight mile easy days Although I will say this I switched from this guy after five miles to this guy as soon as I put this shoe on Which is three ounces lighter than the Clifton 5. I immediately was like, oh my gosh I want to run fast. Let's do this. Let's do a time trial. Let's do a workout Let's do a race like I felt like this shoe was poised for running fast Immediately as soon as I put it on and actually if you look on Strava, let's connect below I I think my splits got a little faster in this shoe as soon as I put it on however By mile nine or ten for the day in this guy I Was starting to feel tired and that's why I mentioned a couple days ago that I don't think the beacon is made for a Half marathon or marathon distance race I think you're gonna be losing too much energy because it's too flexible. Does that make sense another big question? Would I buy these shoes again? Absolutely 100% can't wait for the beacon version 2 which is I've seen photos of it It looks actually quite a bit different, but I'm excited for it. It's being released. I believe early 2019 maybe spring 2019 would I buy the Clifton 5 again? The verdict is still out the verdict is still out. I will say though Today after running in both shoes my planter fasciitis Feels amazing. It feels amazing now I'm doing a lot of upkeep and maintenance on my pf right now, but I'm telling you Jessica at Roadrunner Sports led me to this shoe and Like walking around my house right now. It feels Amazing good news good news YouTube and the question of the day what I don't we've talked quite a bit about Recovery shoes on this channel. I'm curious to hear. What is your go-to? Middle to long distance running shoe and why middle so for me I would put the you know definitely 10 miles plus type of shoe or even 12 miles plus You know depending where you're at and your training schedule and your training regimen and how old you are and like just the But like I love going out for 20 miles And so like that's that's my mentality and just getting a good long run in so not a tempo run But just a good long run or a middle distance run What is your go-to shoe for that? I'd appreciate learning and definitely like if you have the time explain why I Think a lot of people would appreciate hearing your insight into why you chose that shoe for middle to long distance runs We could talk all night. We could talk all night But I got to go to a swanky cocktail party and I got to get some sleep tonight at some point at some point When will that happen? I do not know but tomorrow. Oh We're we're gonna we're gonna talk about yeah the Nike Vamaro 14 We're gonna talk about we got to talk about the Nike Vamaro 14's remember. They were stolen Four or five days. They were stolen somebody took my Nike Vamaro 14's Seek beauty work hard Love each other. Thanks for being here YouTube. Thank you for being here. Boom See you tomorrow


This is the space in the body through which life descends into the fetus. So this is the brahma randha.  If you have a newborn baby in your home, you would see a certain part of the skull is not formed. Have you noticed this? So the child has to be handled gently, that part is just skin, there is no bone. So, this part in the yogic terminology is referred to as brahma randha.  So this is known as brahma randha. So this is the space in the body through which life descends into the fetus. Because life has descended into the fetus and life keeps its options open. Whether this body is capable of sustaining it or not, it keeps the options open. That much awareness is there in the life process. So it keeps that trap door open till the last minute. It wants to keep it open. Just in case it finds the body unsuitable for its existence, it will leave. And it does not want to leave from any other passage in the body, it wants to leave the way it came. A good guest always comes through the front door and goes out through the front door. If he comes through the front door and goes out through the back door, that means your house is swept clean. So he wants to go out to the same door, so he keeps it open till the last minute. He wants to keep his choices. There are any number of probably if there are doctors or obstetricians you would know, there are any number of cases where by all medical parameters the fetus is healthy, everything is fine, but for some reason a stillbirth happens. Simply because the life within is still choosing. If it finds the wrong kind of body is happening, life has its own karmic substance and the fetus has the karma of the parents. So it has made its choice, it is 90% of the time it is correct or more it is correct. Sometimes it is conscious that it could make a wrong choice. So this is the reason why during pregnancy so many precautions were taken to create a different kind of atmosphere around a woman who is pregnant. We are giving that up now, a woman goes to work, she sits in the cinema, she goes all over the place, such a thing is not maintained anymore. This was done just hoping something better than who both of you are comes into your womb. You know what I am saying? You are husband and wife, you are of a certain quality.  Someone better than you should come into your womb so that for that sake even a husband was not allowed to see a woman beyond a certain stage of pregnancy because she is to be kept in a certain state of comfort and well-being with a certain type of thought, with a certain type of atmosphere, trying to please her system in all ways, right kind of incense, right kind of sounds, right kind of mantras, right kind of food, everything so that her body is in a state that it welcomes the right kind of being. Maybe in today's world it is, all these things are out of question. So if a being enters into this particular fetus and finds it unsuitable as it evolves to become a baby, then it leaves, that is why one door is kept open. So this is the brahma randha. And even when you leave one day, you can leave whichever way. But if you leave through the brahma randha, it is the best way to leave. If you leave consciously whichever part of the body, it is fine. But if you can leave from there, it is the best way to leave. So because there is lot of talk about this, there are books which have been written about it. One thing is there's a huge possibility that one, an individual people may start imagining things on top of their head or between their forehead, they keep imagining many things. Because you need to understand this, wherever you focus your mind, there there will be some twitching. If you want, right now you experiment, hold your little finger like this and focus at the tip of this little finger, you will see within a minute's time there will be twitching. Any part of the body if you focus your mind, some twitching you will notice. So that is not to be mistaken as some other great process happening within you. Or of course there are physiological twitches and twists happening here and there. Once in a way it happens to you, you are slipping some part of the body, little bit of twitch and this and that. Especially if you are very nervous, it could happen to you quite often. If you're at ease, it may not happen. If you're in a little bit of tension or stress, it could happen to you in different parts. So that is not to be mistaken either. I don't know if I should say this because if I say this you may start imagining all kinds of things. If you become meditative now that you are becoming, as you do Shambhavi, I shouldn't say this, it'll lead to all kinds of things. Because people have a very wild imagination. I always avoid telling them anything which is not in their experience because they will start imagining all kinds of things. Anyway, if you don't do this to yourself, it's not necessary. If I hold my hand above my brahmarandra even up to four feet above, if you hold it, you will see a clear feeling in your hand which is always in the form of like a something like an ache. This will be always happening if you keep your energies in a certain way. This can happen to every human being, but it is happening within. It doesn't extend itself beyond. Because the final two chakras out of the 114 chakras that are there in the system, two chakras are outside the body. If dimensions beyond the physical become a constantly, constantly active process, some of you might have felt this in your Shambhavi, for a few moments you feel something beyond yourself has become active. So if a dimension beyond your physicality becomes a continuously active process within you, then after some time these two chakras which are dormant and outside the body become active.  You've seen a police antenna?


Good afternoon, and this is Michael Lee Lanning talking about my book Hispanic Heroes, Medal of Honor, Recipients Over Our Time. This was a book that I found interesting to write. I've written about 30 of them by now. But it seemed like I was doing some research on a book on national cemeteries in the state of Texas for the Texas A&M University Press. In taking photographs of headstones and visiting each cemetery, I noticed I kept seeing a repetition of Hispanic names. When I finished the book, I went back and took a look and found out that Hispanics had played a major role in ever war, which I knew, but they'd also received their share of Medal of Honor all the way back to the 1800s. It's probably the first thing to do, as established that I had to do, was determine just who is Hispanic or what does Hispanic mean. The actual official designation for a census use and other use in the government for Hispanic only dates back to the 1970s and has been many other words like Latino, Latinx, Chicano, but Hispanic is the word that the National Medal of Honor Society uses to determine just who is Hispanic and who is not. The word Hispanic goes back to the Iberian Peninsula in Europe, Spain and Portugal. People from there were known as Hispanics, although they didn't say they were Hispanics, but that is where the word Hispanic came from and is used today. Broad use and Hispanic as anyone from Mexico, Central and South America and Cuba, and of course born in the United States of Spanish parents. It's pretty hard to define in a lot of ways, and it was very useful. What I did was use the National Medal of Honor Society, use the certain rules that they had that I just mentioned, that they would decide on who is a Medal of Honor recipient. The research for this book came from the Medal of Honor Historical Society. They're located at Point Pleasant, South Carolina, which is on the Charleston Bay. Interestingly, it is on a retired aircraft carrier from World War II, the USS Yarktown, and they have archives on the Medal of Honor recipients, and they have much of the Medal of Honor time and care for people. Going through their archives was very interesting to find some first things that stuck out to me from a person that's gone through the National Archives on many occasions to find out just what material is there. Usually when you research, there is not much material there, or there's entirely so much it's hard to determine what you've got. And Medal of Honor recipients is surprisingly how little materials there really are for research, especially on the earlier recipients of the Medal. I think in the Medal, it's got to be realized that with 400 million Americans have served in the armed forces since the beginning of time. Since that time of 400 million, only 3,500 have received the Congressional Medal of Honor. I might backtrack a little bit there. Everyone calls it the Congressional Medal of Honor, although officially it is called the Medal of Honor. It's called the Congressional Medal of Honor because it's given by the President in the name of Congress, and that's where it gets the name of Congressional Medal of Honor in both common use of it and Medal of Honor as well. In determining, I could pick up a file and almost immediately tell you whether or not the recipient lived or died receiving the Medal of Honor. If the recipient didn't live long or died receiving the Medal, the file was very, very thin. Most of the people that received the Medal of Honor all the way back from the Civil War were young men, 18, 19, 20 years old. The Caislin one up in their upper 20s. They had very little life experiences before they were drafted or volunteered for the armed forces, and in their files was a citation, maybe a little bit of information that had been gathered, an interview with a relative or someone else, but I went into the in-depth research to try to determine as much as I could and include in the book the personal stories of what these young men did before they received the award and if they survived after the war. Unfortunately, as was true with most Medal of Honor recipients, less than half lived to receive the Medal officially from the President. Most were awarded to their parents because they were died receiving the Medal. The Medal of Honor, of course, is the highest decoration received by any American soldier, airman, marine, or coast guardman for a direct combat with the enemy. The Medal was originally established during the American Civil War. It went through many renditions and who was eligible all the way up to today. In the Civil War, it was given out very loosely because there was only one Medal to give. In one case, an entire regiment received the Medal because they all registered to vote and it was as an insanity. After the war, these Medal of Honor recipients were scrubbed to determine just who deserved the Medal and who didn't. Of course, the Mexican American, excuse me, Hispanic Americans have played a part in American history before it really was American history. When the English have settled on the East Coast and the colonies, there already were thriving communities in the Southwest that were established by the Spanish. In the American Revolution, Hispanics from the South didn't really participate because they were too far away and had their own concerns. The few Hispanics that did participate primarily were Spanish and Portuguese that had come to New England as fishermen and another tradesman to be in the war. Interesting in the Revolutionary War, although there wasn't a Medal of Honor, there were Hispanics involved in pretty high places. We've all heard of Lafayette coming from France to help Washington. We've not heard of a fellow named Morales that came from Spain and also an advisory position and more responsible, more importantly, he helped get loans for the American army and government to survive and he became a close friend of General Washington. In the Civil War, as I said, again Hispanics, there weren't very many. They were pushing up in Texas and in California. There were a few California regiments used to protect male lions and various security. In Texas, there were Hispanics that volunteered for the Texas Calvary Unit. Overall, there was not enough Hispanics to play any major role in the Civil War that came from what typically what were considered Hispanics from Mexico and South America. There were three, however, that did receive the Medal of Honor. Two who were born either in Spain or from Spanish parents and another one born in Chile. Two of these were Navy and one of them was Army. I won't go into each individual's great account of what they did, except to say when you read the citations that are in the book, it is just extraordinary heroism that you just can't believe that a person could do and take on and survive. And of course, few did survive. Interestingly, the three Hispanics that served in the American Civil War, only one of them was recognized afterwards. The reason being, two of them that were made, that were approved for the award, weren't around when it came time. Their ships either were decommissioned and they went home or basically they went AWOL, but they had proven themselves brave sailors before that occurred. The next person to receive the Medal of Honor was in the Boxer Rebellion and he served with the Marine Corps and served with again, went into a tremendous amount of enemy fire to save his comrades. World War I, we finally had quite a number of population of Hispanics here in the United States, but there was not, Hispanics were as they are still today in some cases. There were some prejudices and some people that tried to keep them separate and away, but indifferently from the Hispanics, then the black Americans, African Americans, was a treaty of Hildago in 1848 that took the last portion of New Mexico and Arizona and made it part of the United States. In that treaty it said anybody that wanted to could go back to Mexico or anybody that remained would become a U.S. citizen and that way Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans became U.S. citizens with that treaty and by that treaty they remained citizens and were eligible to the benefits and responsibility of citizens. They were one of those things being the drafts during World War I. During World War I, there was one Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient and his name was Barclay. Interestingly, he did not claim to be Hispanic and only many years later did his family come forward and say he was Hispanic. His father was an Anglo soldier in Fort Samuelson in San Antonio, but his mother was Hispanic. His father left and his mother ended up raising him, but Private Barclay interestingly earned his Medal of Honor in World War I. Camp Barclay outside of Abilene, Texas was named for him during the expansion during World War I. When it closed, the flagpole was put in storage. That flagpole was brought back out in 1999 when the VA cemetery was established in near Abilene and that flagpole was set up at the entrance. So the Barclay flagpole and the Barclay heritage lives on. Come World War II, I might go back on Barclay. Barclay never claimed to be Hispanic while he was in the military and he was killed getting his Medal of Honor. At that time, a lot of Hispanics were put in what they called labor battalions or service battalions and he wanted to serve in the infantry and directly play a part. So he never played up the role of being Hispanic. In World War II Hispanics were eligible for the draft and came forward voluntarily. It's interesting that the number of Hispanics that earned the Medal of Honor in World War II that several of them, in fact four of them, were born in Mexico and came to the United States as children with their parents seeking a better life, primarily in the fields and orchards. The Hispanics from World War II primarily came from Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California because that's where primarily where the Mexican populations were. Their families were primarily farm workers, traveling workers, migrant workers, but had had their own communities and were proud to step forward and serve. It's interesting to read, again the files are thicker from those that survived, but then read the letters of some of them that didn't. All of them said they went off to serve their country and if they were killed there would be the insurance money from the military that maybe their mother could build a house. The patriotism was no less from the Hispanic Americans and even though that they weren't enjoying all the benefits of white Americans, but they received it. Now I should stop a minute and say when I wrote this book, I did not write a, I am Anglo obviously, I did not write this book to show the many bad things that happened or the many prejudices or the many things that were done against. This book is not done about the bad things about Hispanics, it's about the good things about Hispanics and I wrote it not as a gringo writing about Hispanics, but as a soldier who wrote about his fellow soldiers. I served 20 years in the United States Army, served as a company commander, a tune leader and recon the tune leader in the Vietnam War in the infantry and served with many Hispanics both as commanding them and them commanding me and have the greatest respect for all soldiers, very much including Hispanic soldiers. My background was from a farm background and was very familiar with migrant workers and very familiar with Hispanics that live locally. Now, during World War II, there's stories of courses both in the European theater and the Japanese theater. They served in nearly every area both in a Marine Corps and the Army. Some of the most interesting ones were, I think probably if I took, had to look at any one character and say, he really represented what was going on in the whole situation was a soldier from Texas who was born in Mexico, Maurice Garcia. He was born in Mexico, came to Texas, lived around the Houston area, worked as a migrant field worker, joined the Army, earned his Medal of Honor, was badly wounded, came home, his city recognized him. The Houston, near Houston had big ceremonies for him when he came home. He was honored. Been his hometown of Richland, Richmond, Texas, just south of Houston, held honors at the courthouse. After the courthouse, he was hungry, so he went to the nearby Oasis Cafe. He walked in to be told that he was in full uniform wearing his Medal of Honor and a whole couple of rows of other medals he'd earned, quoting his combat implement badge in the war. The owner told him, we don't serve Mexicans. He obviously, and for quite rightly, started to argue the owner of the cafe had several guys came up behind him. Several sailors that were in the uniform backed up Garcia, and it was just about a pretty big riot going on. When the police got there, they arrested Garcia. He went to, was put in jail briefly. Lulac came to his, helping several national television, excuse me, radio programs came to support him and he was released. He ended up, he ended up working for the VA for a number of years. Unfortunately, was killed in an automobile accident, not too long thereafter. Mostly, though, the stories in the book or the tremendous amounts of courage, died fighting the enemy, the Medal of Honor given to his family back in the White House or some other appropriate situation. It's interestingly, it was an Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient that when President Harry Truman at the end of World War II presented it. A lot of people I think have heard it said that Harry Truman made the remark one time that he'd rather have the Medal of Honor than be president. Well, he made that comment several times, but the first time he made it was when he was awarding the Medal of Honor to an Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient. In looking at the people in World War II that received the Medal, like I said, four of them were born in Mexico. When they came back, either them or their families, if they didn't survive, were awarded high medals by the country of Mexico as well. It might also be remembered, or people might not know, Mexico was an ally in World War II and they provided a fighter squadron that fought in the Pacific, so they had a concern for their fellow Mexican Americans in the United States. The people then in World War II that received the Medal was a high plane. When you only look at 3,500 out of 400 million, you realize how difficult and how closely the thing was monitored. There were quite a few in World War II that probably deserved the Medal, and it was not until the late 2000s, early 2000s, that the United States went back and did a survey of all the Mexican Americans, Black Americans, Asian Americans, and Jewish Americans to see if any of them might have earned the Medal and for one reason or the other, primarily discrimination did not receive it. They added 17 people of that, so 17 out of the 60, and many of those came out of World War II. In their stories, you just have to read their citation to see the vividness of a typical one would be it, even though wounded, he charged the enemy bunkers and knocked out the enemy in it, and then another bunker he went and charged in with hangar nades was just unbelievably turpitude and bravery, and having served in the field in combat with bullets going on and being fortunate or rather unfortunate enough to be about 10 meters from a young man that earned the Medal of Honor, not an Hispanic in the Vietnam War, I'm fully aware of what it takes to earn the Medal. When we got to Korea, Hispanics were increasing in numbers in the United States and were increasing in numbers in the military. If you follow a timeline to the number of Hispanics in the United States, it's really very, very small until the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to 1920. That's when a lot of Mexican families with their children immigrated to the United States to escape the violence of the revolution that was going on in Mexico. And of course, many of these men were of age when it came time for World War II and then Korea. The fighting by Mexican Americans came probably to the biggest interest and biggest exposure to people of the United States early in the Korean War when General MacArthur, commander of the Allied Forces, made a big turn around the left side to invade at Enshan to take pressure off the Pusan perimeter. When he did so, the tide was low and the Marines had to use ladders to scale the port. Excuse me. There's a famous picture that was taken of a Marine lieutenant leasing his troops up over the wall. And as it did, a hangarine came down and he suffered. He took the blow of the hangarine and instead of his men dying. But the picture that was taking just a few minutes or a few seconds before that went national and covered pretty well everywhere. Come to Vietnam War, we had another increase in numbers of Hispanics who fought in the war. The General Idea Marine Corps and Army again. But it was a process where there were more and more Hispanics to fight the war. And let me check my notes here just a minute. Probably the most famous Hispanic to receive the Medal of Honor in Vietnam was Rocky Versace. Rocky Versace was father was Anglo, but his mother was from Spain and had come to the United States as an actress and writer and was reasonably famous in her own right. Versace's father was a career military and Versace was a West Point graduate. He was captured by the Viet Cong early in the war. And despite torture and deferrations, he continued to stand up to him, sing American patriotic songs and fight back and argue against them and refused to sign any papers saying that American was wrong in the war. The Viet Cong finally so tired of his actions that they executed him. And after the war, people that were imprisoned with him came forward and got the medal for him that he deserved. And the war against terror that has been, I guess, ever since 9-11, we've only had one Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient. It had been very many overall. His name Richard Petley from Santa Fe, New Mexico. I'm scared. He served with the 75th Ranger Regiment, lost an arm in hand and still fought on and received his medal. He came back and has been important in Veterans Affairs since. Many of the Hispanics that survived the war, all the wars with the Medal of Honor, end up working with the VA because that was positions that the government could offer as a reward and also in positions that they could help their fellow Hispanics as well as fellow soldiers. I skipped over this fairly rapidly just to try to get everybody in. And then I'll try to go back now and mention some more interesting characters. Some of you may have heard of Admiral Farragut in the Civil War, who the one who gave the order damned the torpedoes full speed ahead. Few people realize that Farragut was actually Hispanic and that his mother was from Spain. He went all the way up to Admiral and was the highest ranking at the time. I am speaking to you today from Lampasas, Texas, which is right on the border of Fort Hood, which is no longer Fort Hood, but Fort Carvassos, Texas, named after General Carvassos, the highest ranking Hispanic, not a Medal of Honor recipient, but a recipient of several high ranking medals of themselves. And I worked with him a couple of times, an amazing soldier of bravery and intelligence, just one heck of a heck of a soldier. Other people along the line, excuse me, Sergeant Rocco, also from New Mexico, he was one of those guys that had quite a youth in that he worked with, excuse me, he was a gang member in the Albuquerque area. He finally got arrested and the judge said it's either the Army or jail. He selected the Army, became a medic and eventually a helicopter pilot, and as a medic, he received the Medal of Honor, and he later went back, became a warrant officer, retired, went back and became chief of the entire facilities, VA facilities in the state of New Mexico. When the war of terror started, he volunteered to go back on active duty and served six months doing desert storms, primarily counseling veterans and talking about veterans benefits to his fellow veterans. I think it's a unique history of unique peoples. It is though, although I've looked at hundreds of Medal of Honor recipients, their citations and their histories, you know no difference except by the name. The only way you recognize it is by the name being Garcia Hernandez Rodriguez instead of Smith or Jones, and sometimes we miss them because their name Petley or Barclay, but it shows the pride of the people and the proud of the individuals. And although I brought up that trouble within the Oasis Cafe and other instances of prejudice, there's also instances of being recognized. In one case, the Medal of Honor recipient came back, was very disabled from his wounds since Southern California and his town and built his family a home for him to live in. In other cases, in every case, in fact, there is either an army post or in a town where the recipient is from, there's either a library or a city hall or some major place that's named in their honor. Also, there's highways and roads across the United States named in honor of Hispanic medalist recipients. Ships, several have been named after Marine Corps and Navy veterans with the Medal of Honor. So the recognition has been there and it has not been denied by any means. The book, which is available from the Texas A&M University Press, as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all the other distributors, gives the citation, the formal citation of each soldier, sailor, airman, and marine, of what they did to earn the medal. Then I go in to try to go in their background as deep as I can. Once again, on some of those that are deceased, it was difficult to find any information about where they went to school, what they did for what kind of occupation they had in background. And interesting in one of those cases, I found a Hispanic medal of honor recipient that was born in Mexico and never even became a United States citizen until three years after he received the medal. So they were not only American citizens fighting, they were Mexican and Hispanic citizens fighting for their adopted country. Then I go into more details on the actual battle in which they earned the Medal of Honor. And if I have any quotes from people that witness and the quotes are nearly always typically that he saved our whole company, he saved the life, he saved the platoon. We were not a broken out without his bravery. Most of the recognition is almost a disbelief that a human being could be so brave to charge into enemy fire and enemy opposition to save his friends and to lead the way for them to continue the battle. Then I go into what they did, if they were portion enough to survive the battle, I go into the presentation of the medal and then what they did after. And like I said, many worked with the VA, several of them stayed in the military, but all of them had very honorable lives after. Of the 3,500 medals of honors that have been presented, as we say in the book, 60 of them went to Hispanics. But a total number that have been awarded, there's only 66 living Medal of Honor recipients. And I say that, I guess it's correct, but they are, we're losing, especially World War II era on a fairly much frequency. And the numbers going down with fewer being presented with the hostilities in the Middle East. The medal itself is an explanation in the book that I talk about. And then I go back just a minute. I conclude each of the presentation with where the veteran is buried. And like I said, in the Texas veteran cemeteries as well as veteran cemeteries across the country, there's usually a special section for, excuse me, a special section for Medal of Honor recipients. If not, the information on the cemetery, it'll always say, we're honored to have two Medal of Honor recipients and they're located in Block B or Block B or something like that. So that recognizes it from there. Of the 66 living Medal of Honor recipients, I think right now I'll have to go back and check. But I believe two are still living who are Hispanics. So that kind of brings the whole gambit up to date. I think though the Medal of Honor itself is on a blue ribbon around the neck that you're probably seeing from watching various presentations by the presidents on television, especially recently. Many of those have been from both Hispanics and others from the review that have been taken. I see now we've got a question that's come in. It says, reference your cemeter book on Jewish Medal of Honor recipients, namely Benjamin Solomon who graduated from the University of Southern California. Ask how do you research to get the service records? Perhaps you can expand on how you did the research. I think, like I said, the research that I did all came from the Medal of Honor Society at Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. The service records can be received, just Google service records and it gives you the location. It takes a long time to get much back. But I would suggest contact if you want the entire file on Benjamin Solomon, who had a very interesting time as a Medal of Honor and receiving his Medal of Honor. And he was a graduate of the University of Southern California. That information, I would suggest that you contact the National Congressional Medal of Honor Society and just Google it and it'll give you the address and any appropriate phone numbers you need. Those folks are tremendously helpful. In fact, I dedicated this book on Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients to the staff at the Society. And like I said, it's on the board of USS Yorktown. What they did was build out part of just not the flight deck, which is the top which you see, but the next deck, which is a huge cavernous opening where the planes are shipped and made an awesome Medal of Honor recipient. The second question is, who was the Mexican citizen who received the Medal of Honor to tell you that? But it says in each case who were the recipients. All of them were born in Mexico and came as children. In one case the parents in San Antonio. I welcome any questions they have, but at the time we have, I'll be glad to answer them as well. And developing the book, a great deal of information that told me how the Hispanic numbers grew in the United States along the numbers that participated in the wars as well. I think we've pretty well made the whole turn here, but it's without a doubt Hispanics have served bravely and loyally and as an important part of our U.S. Armed Forces, basically from the time we've had the Medal of Honor to the present and will continue to do so. The United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard provide unique opportunities for young men and women to progress. Since many of the Hispanic community is living in poverty, it is a good way to exit that life and to serve our country as well. I can say I was nothing but honored to write this book and it felt very proud that my name is on the cover of a book about Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients. Thank you for listening today and I wish you all well.


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We are discussing the variational method and we have presented an introduction to it. We have said that what we do is we write a functional epsilon 0 which has more or less the same form of as the ground state energy. The only difference is that the ground expression for ground state energy would involve the actual wave functions that we do not know and for epsilon 0 we have some trial guess wave function that we have given and then we said that this wave function would have some associated parameters which are called variational parameters. What we do is we vary these parameters, change the values of these parameters, calculate epsilon 0 and upper limit theorem tells us that whatever minimum value we get for epsilon 0 is the maximum possible value for E 0 or the upper bound or upper limit of E 0. So, let us demonstrate this by going back to our old friend the hydrogen atom. Of course, we do not have to do this variation treatment for hydrogen atom because you already know the solutions. But since we know the solutions this hydrogen atom provides a very good test system that we know the expression for energy. We know that this Hamiltonian is like this and its ground state. So, since its ground state I am only bothered with the r part of the Hamiltonian. I do not bother about the theta and phi Hamiltonian because I know that in the ground state wave function there is no theta phi dependence. Also I know the ground state energy. This is something that well I am not sure if I have written exactly in this form earlier but it is the same as what we have written earlier. I know the energy. Now, the good thing is I should be able to use variation method and get something that is close. We have not really derived the theorem yet we will do that. But right now we are taking it axiomatically for the next 15 minutes or so and we are working it out. And when I say we are working it out I am lying because I will not work out anything. I hope you remember our rule.  I am not going to do so much of integration and all because then it will take a lot of time and it is quite mundane you can do it. So, we will try to see whether we get a similar expression first of all and we will try to see whether the minimum value of epsilon 0 that I get is more than E0. If it is so how much more? Let us proceed. So, let us say I take a trial or guess wave function phi equal to e to the power minus alpha r square. So, alpha is a variational parameter. I am not using this Q as variational parameter just as yet. Let us see what happens if I just vary alpha. If it is not good then of course I want to try with 3, 4 and so on and so forth in the exponent but we will see what happens. And why am I choosing this e to the power minus alpha r square all of a sudden? Two reasons. First of all this is a well behaved wave function is not it? Because it goes to 0 at r equal to infinity the Gaussian function. Secondly, I am cheating a little bit because I already know the solution. I know what the 1s wave function is that is e to the power minus k r sort of it is an exponential decay. So, Gaussian decay and exponential decay how different are they? What I am saying is an exponential decay is something like this I goof sorry this is a let us say an exponential decay something like e to the power minus k r and what is a Gaussian decay is something like this. So, I might as well play around with this parameter alpha and try to see whether I can bring this Gaussian down here as close to this exponential decay as possible. There will always be some mismatch in near r equal to 0. I will normalize and get it as close as possible. It will never be exactly the same but it is not very different. I mean if we close one eye and shut the other a little bit we will we can live with this and we will see whether we can really live with this or not. So, phi equal to e to the power minus alpha r square. So, alpha here is the variational parameter that we have discussed already great. So, now this is the expression for epsilon 0 we know this. So, what I will do is I will just write down but not solve I will only give you the final solution you solve if you want and you should solve and convince yourself that this is correct. This treatment is from McQuarrie's quantum chemistry book not McQuarrie and Simon physical chemistry McQuarrie only McQuarrie quantum chemistry. So, I just plug in the expression for Hamiltonian and I write the value I write the expression for the trial wave function and all I have to do is just see what I get and this is what I get I am giving you the answer please work it out yourself you will have to use a standard integral attribution okay this is what I get what is the denominator denominator is simpler right e to the power minus alpha r square. So, multiplied by e to the power minus alpha r square what is it and then integrate from 0 to infinity this is what you get. So, when you divide the numerator by the denominator you get the value with the expression for epsilon 0 function of phi as 3 h cross square alpha by 2 mu minus e square alpha to the power half divided by root over 2 epsilon 0 pi to the power 3 by 2 fantastic what is the next step what am I looking for I am looking for what is the value of minimum value of epsilon 0 okay how do I change the value of epsilon 0 the only thing that I can play around with here is alpha variation parameter. So, I keep on changing the value of alpha okay and I have to look for the minimum. So, essentially I have to again well even though we have said it earlier I will draw that curve once again let us say this is the value of epsilon 0 with respect to alpha and to keep things simple I will just show one minimum let us say this here is the plot. I seek to find the value of epsilon 0 at this value of alpha. So, to do that I have to first find this value of alpha where epsilon 0 is minimum. Now let us think of what we have learnt in high school calculus I have a plot how do I find the minimum of a plot or the maximum of a plot for that matter differentiate and equate it to 0 right for maximum as well as minimum the slope here is something like this the slope here is 0 is not it. So, what we have to do is we have to know what happened we have to find the minimum value of epsilon 0 to do that we simply differentiate epsilon 0 with respect to alpha and equate it to 0 right first derivative has to be 0 that is all how do you differentiate between a minimum and a maximum by the way yeah for minimum as well as maximum this is the first derivative is equal to 0 what about the second derivative second derivative is it 0 or positive or negative for maximum and minimum I leave it to you to refresh your memory on that here at least in the curve that I have shown I do not have to worry because I have not even shown a maximum only a minimum point is there. So, differentiate this and equate it to 0 what will you get you will get a value of alpha is it not that value of alpha turns out to be mu square e to the power 4 by 18 pi cube epsilon 0 square h cross to the power 4 I have given you the answer you should not be satisfied with that you should differentiate it equate to 0 see what value of alpha you get and convince that whatever we get convince yourself that what we have written here is indeed correct please do it. So, we plug in this value of alpha here in the second term and in the first term what will happen I will get some expression for epsilon 0 it is a function of phi and that expression turns out to be minus 4 by 3 pi mu e to the power 4 by 16 pi square epsilon 0 square h cross square and I am calling this E min perhaps I should have called it epsilon min but then I am using a different convention than Macquarie I wanted to get back and be at par with him. So, I have written E min which is what is written in Macquarie's book E min turns out to be minus 4 by 3 pi e to the power 4 by 16 pi square epsilon 0 square h cross square that turns out to be equal to minus 0.424 mu e to the power 4 16 pi square epsilon 0 square h cross square yeah I just clean it up a little bit for you. So, this is what we have get minus 0.424 multiplied by this factor and this is what we have got from the exact solution minus 0.500 multiplied by the same factor. So, is that good or is that good it is good first thing we see is that this is a demonstration of the upper limit theorem E min is greater than E 0 it is close since it is close I say the agreement is good but it is still greater than E 0 it is not less than E 0 that is point number 1 this is not a proof by the way it is an illustration. Now, we can think that we have got 0.424 and here it is 0.500 how can I get closer to 0.500 and the answer would be by playing introducing some other parameter I have taken a Gaussian parameter. So, instead of 2 I can write q and I can play around with q and you know what will happen if q goes closer to 1 and I am saying this because I know what we 1 S wave function is if q goes closer to 1 then the match should be better. So, the energy that I get should be closer to the energy that I get from the exact solution besides I could multiply this by a number maybe so that you get the correct function but that may not make any difference. So, I can play around with the exponent here. So, if you put in more parameters I get a closer match well when you do this kind of what I should say curve fitting if you use more parameters you always get a better match and sometimes there is a stranger which is called over parameterization. Here we do not have to worry about over parameterization that is great because remember that cartoon on the cover page of the previous module we cannot do better than the best whatever we get is always more than the actual value of energy. So, even if you over parameterize it is not a problem it is a beautiful consequence of the upper limit theorem. So, I can actually increase the number of parameters I can have trivial parameters eventually but does not matter. So, if you can if you have the time and if you have the capability you can just keep on increasing the parameter number of parameters. So, what we have to do is we have to optimize this epsilon 0 functional that is related to energy with respect to each and every parameter. So, you need to do iterations and you can understand that here we are looking at a very simple system we are working with only one parameter for larger systems there will be many many parameters. So, if I try to do it by hand it will take you so much of time that by the time I am done the problem may not be relevant anymore. So, you have to use computers. So, requirement of this excessive large number of calculation requires an interfacing of chemistry with computers. Conventionally when you think chemistry when you talk about chemistry you think of color smell many times bad smell weaker conical flask weighing balance yeah but now we see the computers turn seem to have an important role to play in chemistry because you cannot do this computers any longer without sorry you cannot do this calculations any longer without using good computers. So, this iterative method is sort of our introduction to the requirement of computational chemistry of course we are nowhere close to the actual thing yet in this course. Computational chemistry nowadays has developed into a huge field will not get into computational chemistry but we are taking baby steps towards it. What I am saying is that this is the first baby step our introduction to iterative method the first baby step towards this fast field of computational quantum chemistry. And in doing so one thing that might happen is that you might lose sight of exact solutions is that good or is that bad see here we use some arbitrary function you know e to the power minus alpha r square Gaussian function not a really the exact solution yeah still we got it and then we said that will introduce more parameters. So, we will deviate further and further and further from the exact solution is that good is that bad but it is good in the sense that sometimes we may not even know the exact solution that is the reason why you want to do variational method rather than perturbation theory. So, if you can forget about the exact function that is great yeah just change the number of parameters do not bother about the wave function bother about the energy that is a good part of it. The bad part of it is that we might lose a little bit of physical insight. So, you see all these orbitals that we talked about after some time these orbitals may not be necessary anymore you can just construct the wave function here I have used one Gaussian function I can take a linear combination of many Gaussian functions I can take exponential functions I can take introduce some asymmetry factor. So, this way I can actually synthesize the wave function by using mathematical functions simpler mathematical functions which is great because I can with enough computational power I can find the energy and from the point of view of a conventional physical chemist you might be a little sad because you will not be able to perhaps after a while say much that is in relation to your good old 1 s 2 s 2 b orbitals or maybe you can we will see. Now that we have illustrated that this upper limit theorem works for hydrogen atom let us move forward to a formal proof of the theorem. Let us say once again that we can write this kind of Schrodinger equation for this arbitrary system and let us say psi i's are constitute the complete orthonormal unknown complete orthonormal set of unknown wave functions let us say there are n such wave functions here again I deviate a little bit from McQuarrie's treatment McQuarrie has written n I am writing i because I thought that you use n for a particular value and then use n as an index you might get confused so I am using i which is an index. So, now let us define an arbitrary wave function that we will work with remember phi we defined phi and this time I say that I can write phi as a sum of C i psi i is this valid actually it is because see what are psi i's we are taking an orthonormal set right a complete orthonormal set so they are like the coordinates of the function space I take some arbitrary function in that function space I want to work in that function space because system is same I should be able to express it in terms of the coordinates of that space the modes of that space right that is why it is perfectly valid to write phi equal to sum over i C i psi i I construct the arbitrary wave functions that way and as we have discussed earlier we define epsilon 0 to be integral phi star h phi divided by integral phi star phi over the entire function space okay so far so good I hope you can proceed yeah let us go proceed. So, what I will do now is I will write it out and I have written it out completely I should have animated a little bit more please do not get scared I will go term by term well I should have ideally written a summation but I myself get confused sometimes if there are too many summation signs so I have actually opened the summation so this is what will happen phi is what phi is the summation right so I have just opened it up C 1 psi 1 plus C 2 psi 2 plus C 3 psi 3 so on and so forth until C n psi n okay. So, the general term here C i psi i I sum over i right so actually I work with this complex conjugate remember a wave function or function in the bra vector is actually it is a complex conjugate left this left multiplies h operating on phi which is h operating on C 1 psi 1 plus C 2 psi 2 same thing in the denominator we have integral C 1 psi 1 plus C 2 psi 2 etcetera complex conjugate multiplied by C 1 psi 1 plus C 2 psi 2 etcetera etcetera okay integrated over all space. Now what will I do now I will remember that h psi i is equal to E i psi i okay so what happens when h operates on this let me write so what this means essentially is say h psi 1 is equal to E 1 psi 1 why have I put the arrow there this so what is h operating on C 1 psi 1 that will be equal to C 1 into E 1 psi 1 remember we are working with linear operators but I have written it so horribly I think I will erase it and I will write the whole thing once again what I am saying is this Schrodinger equation is something like this h operates on psi 1 to give me E 1 psi 1 so what happens when h operates on C 1 psi 1 that is the same as C 1 multiplied by h psi 1 is not it linear operator this will be simply C 1 E 1 psi 1 similarly h operating on C 2 psi 2 will be C 2 E 2 psi 2 so on and so forth okay. So essentially this ket vector will become sum over i C i E i psi i perhaps you understand I perhaps I do not need to explain in such meticulous detail but I still will in case somebody does so this is what it is I have not worked with the denominator yet I hope I have not made any mistake anywhere yeah so this is what I get in the bra vector I have C 1 psi 1 plus C 2 psi 2 etcetera etcetera sum over i C i psi i this in the ket vector I now have sum over i C i E i psi i okay. Now let us remember that the size are all orthonormal so what happens when I try to simplify this numerator or denominator little further first let me take this term C i psi i and this so maybe I will write this C i psi i and C i E 1 psi i so this will give me integral C i in ket vector sorry C 1 in ket vector C 1 psi 1 in bra vector yeah is there anything else well let us not forget that I have psi 1 here as well. I can take these coefficients out of the integral they constant so that becomes C 1 star C 1 right this this is actually C 1 in bra vector remember it is actually C 1 star so C 1 star C 1 comes out and inside the integral you are left with integral psi 1 star psi 1 d tau what is that that is equal to 1 because they are normalized similarly if I take this term and this term what will I get I will get C 1 star C 2 integral psi 1 star psi 2 d tau but then orthonormal right orthonormal right so these are all orthogonal to each other so this integral must be equal to 0 so I am only left with C 1 star multiplied by integral psi 1 star psi 1 d tau similarly I will get sorry C 1 star C 1 multiplied by integral psi 1 star psi 1 d tau similarly I will get C 2 star C 2 integral psi 2 star psi 2 d tau so the general term here will be C i star C i integral psi i star psi i d tau so ij kind of term will not be there and it will be a summation over i what will the denominator be similarly denominator also has to become sum over i C i star C i right because take these two terms again maybe I will take these two C 2 psi 2 and C 2 psi 2 here that gives you C 2 star C 2 integral psi 2 star psi 2 all space and if I take say C 3 psi 3 and well C n psi n then I get C 3 star C n integral psi 3 star psi n over all function space which is equal to 0 right. So this is what I get did I goof up a little bit in the numerator actually I did see here what I have written is I have forgotten something I have forgotten that I have E 1 also E i. So numerator turns out to be C 1 star C 1 E 1 right because the integral of psi i star psi i over all function space is 0 plus C 2 star C 2 E 2 so on and so forth. Nominator is C 1 star C 1 plus C 2 star C 2 plus C 3 star C 3 so on and so forth okay. So I will write it as summation that I have written here and I made a mistake while writing the numerator. So this is sum over i C i star C i E i divided by sum over i C i star C i. Now what do I actually want I am trying to prove the variation theorem upper limit theorem. So what I want to know is whether this epsilon 0 minus E 0 is greater than equal to 0 or not. So let me subtract E 0 from left hand side then I have to subtract it from right hand side also. So this is what I get yeah and the steps are simple so I will just rush through so this is basically one summation minus another summation all right. So I can just make one summation and in both the cases coefficient of E i is C i star C i so I can write like this E i and E 0 both coefficient is C i star C i so I get this numerator is sum over C i star C i multiplied by E i minus E 0 divided by C i star C i. Now please remember what is E 0? E 0 is our definition of ground state energy what is E i? E i is the energy of some excited state some excited state for i is not equal to not equal to 0. So will you agree with me that E i minus E 0 has to be positive or at most 0 when i equal to 0 yeah because energy of the ground state is the lowest right for all values of i other than 0 energies are higher and higher that is why it is called ground state. The ground state cannot be above the excited state well in case of some human being cities but they are not quantum mechanical systems fine. So E i minus E 0 has to be greater than equal to 0 because E 0 is the lowest value of energy among all the E i's that are possible remember i is the general index okay I should have perhaps written 0 here also if I define i to be 1 2 3 4 and so forth I am not writing 0 well whatever well the 0 means ground state that is point number 1. Point number 2 is what is C i star C i some complex number multiplied by its complex conjugate yields a real number can it ever be negative never complex conjugates are defined in such a way that when they multiply each other you are going to get a positive real number is not it yeah if there is any confusion please go back to some basic book of complex numbers 11 12 the book your doubt will be cleared otherwise just believe me when I say that C i star C i has to be a positive real number so this is also 0. So in the denominator I have something that is positive in the numerator E i minus E 0 is positive and I just said that C i star C i is also positive. So this epsilon 0 minus E 0 is a positive quantity divided by a positive quantity which is a positive quantity. Hence we have been able to prove the variation theorem or upper limit theorem which says that epsilon 0 minus E 0 is greater than equal to 0 or in other words the functional epsilon that we calculate by varying the parameters of phi can never be less than the actual energy and that is a saving grace that is why variation theorem is so useful. So that is what we have learned today we have done it from quantum chemistry's book by Donald McQuarrie we are going to use Piller's book also in this context what we will do next is that now that we have proved this theorem we are going to see how we can get an expression for ground state of harmonic oscillator how we can get an expression for the energy levels of particle in a box using variation method and somewhere in the line maybe before this or after this we will show that for trial functions that depend linearly on variational parameter we get a secular determinant and the moment we get a secular determinant the solution becomes very simple right and that becomes a cornerstone in trying to solve variational problems and then finally we are going to use this variation method and also perturbation method in multi electron atom right so all this is coming up in the next few modules as I say in FM channels stay tuned