What's up y'all? So, Mr. O'Shea Duke Jackson just put out a video called Kendragy Media Thirstiness Gets Exposed by This Male Model. And I watched the video and I'm pissed and I have thoughts. Let's break this down. Kendragy is a former radio personality and I think she still does radio part-time who now runs a dating show after the success of Kevin Samuels. And on this dating show, she brings on either men or women who are seeking love. And those people are bombarded with DMs and messages on Facebook and Instagram. And despite how good the person might have presented themselves to be, they typically always report back that the quality of people they reached out to them was poor. Eric Giver, you have any kids? Yes, I do. I have five girls all by the same date. You have five daughters? What, you want to marry? How did y'all not get married and have five kids together? We got like four ten kids. What number are you? I can't answer that. The unfortunate reality is people who tend to go on things like this do not tend to be the best quality of people. People who tend to find interest in somebody simply because they saw them on a dating show tend to not be the best quality of people. But nevertheless, she's made a name for herself and she's been successful. And I believe she was successful before this, but the first thing I want to talk about is Kendra G. Kendra G, for a lot of reasons, embodies the boss-bitch aesthetic. The I can do bad all by myself. I don't need a man. I want a man. Archetype. I've been vocal about men running far, far away from this type of woman. But I think her interaction with this Ugandan male model is an exceptional example of the problem with these types of women. But just like my case study recently about Atlanta restaurants and how they mistreated Keith Lee and how they mistreat most of their patrons, these types of women tend to be in those types of big cities. Atlanta is a very good example of it for many reasons, primarily because these types of women think that they're God's gift to everything and everyone. Specifically men, they think they're better than you simply because they're a successful woman and you are an average man. Even if you are above average, the operating premise is that you're average, at least in comparison to her. And that your role in her life should be worshiping her and your role in her life should be celebrating her greatness. Due to the success of this brother, he's got millions of followers throughout his social media platforms. She reached out to him. And her very first message was, hey, how are you doing? Hi, I'm Kendra G. How's your day going? It's the weather like in Uganda right now. You know, small talk, pleasantries, her very first message was, are you single?   She wasn't self-aware enough to realize that his response was sarcastic because he responded in a way to show her how she should have approached him. Hello, good afternoon Kendra. She didn't pick that up. Now, again, I think multiple things are going on here.  I think it's also the contempt of being American and talking to somebody in a third world country. I think it's also the contempt of being a quote unquote celebrity and talking to somebody who you think is not or you think their light isn't as bright as yours. But nevertheless, it is contempt. And what's ironic is even this Instagram page that she's DMing him from has less followers than his page that she's DMing. But yet and still, she saw it fit to approach this brother this way. Whatever reason why she thought this was acceptable, it's a shame.  And it goes back to that delusion that we've been detailing that's present in so many modern Western women. The delusion of this is an acceptable way to introduce myself to somebody. The delusion of this person should be happy that I'm even reaching out to them, me of all people is reaching out to you. And also the delusion of I can care less about the outcome because that's how it comes off. Now, despite the fact that she made several pleas prior to this message for somebody to help her find him, she couldn't humble herself to be polite. Not even respectful but polite. And you know, recently we've been talking about how she's starting to sound more and more like Kevin Samuels. And I've been telling guys to be careful about women like this. If I have 100 single women and 10 men, automatically every woman is not gonna get a man. Some people call it chameleon, but women are starting to figure out that, hey, if I can just regurgitate some of the stuff I've heard men say, then I'll get men on my side because they don't have the presence of mind to sift through who actually means what they say and who lives what they say versus who knows what you want to hear. Who's an intellectual stripper? Who's an intellectual prostitute? And this interaction alone is enough for me to come to the conclusion that whatever she's been telling women now that is Kevin Samuels-esque is just intellectual prostitution because her life and her interactions do not exemplify the humility that she's encouraging women to have. She doesn't have it. I don't know if you know English. I don't know. But as he was walking down the street, everybody was looking at him. He might be homeless.  But you know what? He was tall, dark and handsome. As an African, I would be remiss not to also talk about the third world contempt. I'm somebody who's really honest about the reality of African countries, particularly the reality of Nigeria, because that's where I'm from. I'm somebody who agreed funny enough with Trump when he called Nigeria a shit-hole country. I'm somebody who thinks that Africans, just like people in Atlanta, need to start being honest about our shortcomings and honest in a way that we can now start moving towards solutions. However, wealthy people in Africa are living a completely different life than some of our brothers and sisters over here might assume. To be wealthy in Africa, and I don't actually think this is a good thing. I'm just letting you guys know what it is. But to be wealthy in Africa is far better than being wealthy in America, primarily because of the astronomical wage gap, primarily because there's no middle class, there's no credit, there's no government assistance. So if you are wealthy in Africa, you will be worshiped. So whatever kind of ego you might think you have because you're making some good money and you live in Atlanta or you live in LA or you live in New York, I can guarantee those rich guys who live in Lakey, those rich guys who live in Potacot, those rich guys who live even on the mainland in Lagos, the ego is not comparable. So you're going to have to approach them with respect. And this brother is doing really good for himself in Uganda. Now, whether or not he's making the same amount of money as Kendra G, I don't know. What I do know is his money goes further where he is than it does here. So the idea that you're offering him an opportunity or an experience that he otherwise wouldn't have access to, it's not true. And I say that because part of this delusion is this lack of awareness. Also, for a little bit of context, these videos that are going viral of this brother walking through the streets with a shirt off and you see women turning around, it's not what you think.  Six packs don't have the same effect in Africa as they do in the West. And primarily because just cultural context is different. Typically, in more impoverished areas in Africa, we associate wealth with having a rotund figure. So the wealthy men are the older man with the big stomachs. And wealth is more important than looks. People say it's not about being handsome, it's about if you have something in your hand. So most people are licking like, what's wrong with him? Other than the videos that you see him in a suit, because then he looks like somebody of a higher socioeconomic status. But most of the thirstiness is actually coming from Western women, white women and black women in Europe, in the Americas. And like I've been talking about, there is this fetishization of the black male image.  And the tell-tale sign is when we're reduced to our aesthetic, the tall, dark and handsome, and our perceived ability to perform in the bedroom, that is fetishization. Not our perceived intellect, but just the fact that we look good. Umar Johnson a while back in a moment of honesty, he said that African men are not gonna tolerate the stuff that black women do in the United States. And that's true. Very often a lot of women in the West, they talk as if the world has better men to offer than the men that are available to them. And the reality is very different. On the macro, men overseas are not making the kind of money as men here. That's just the reality. On the macro, men overseas are not as accommodating or not as flexible with gender roles as men here. They didn't grow up with single mothers. They grew up in a hierarchical structure where dad had the final say and mom was in her traditional role as a woman. So him conforming to your way of life is actually the stretch. And furthermore, it's worth noting that this new 666 thing that women are looking for, other than some pockets in the world, the rest of the world isn't that tall. The rest of the world does not earn six figures in mass. And in the places where they are that tall, they definitely don't earn that money. In a place where they earn that money, they're not that tall. So again, we have to be clear, concise and honest about where are our best chances to find what we want and who do we have to become for it to be successful?  And that's not to say that we're better or anything like that, but that's just to say that our tolerance for this neo-feministic contempt is so much lower. And if you ask our women, there is a lot of good that comes with us, but there are a lot of challenges as well. Shit not sweet on the other side. So I would encourage women and men alike to spend more time working on yourself as opposed to focusing on how green the other side might seem. During their interaction, he dismissed her politely by saying, I hope everything is going well for you there. And she said, it's amazing. This isn't surprising. These quote-unquote boss, successful women tend to not have the self-awareness or the honesty to admit that they're unhappy other than the occasional TikTok breakdown where they're crying and looking for sympathy. But the reality is a lot of these women are miserable. And Ebony Kay Williams is a great example of this because now she's talking about all the woes of in vitro and trying to have a kid by herself. And I believe Kendra G is in that same camp. But no, things are not going amazing. And it's because of you. And just like that Atlanta restaurant that Keith Lee went to and had such a terrible experience, the real milk and honey, your reflex is to pretend like you're above. In their case, they pretended like they didn't know who he was, even though their employees were scrambling to accommodate him. In her case, her feelings aren't hurt because he dismissed her request. But again, because as a people generally, we're so unwilling to face the reality that we'll just mask as if we are impervious. We're beyond reproach and nothing bothers us because it's all going amazing because it looks that way. Nothing gets off. And then these same people end up breaking down one day and you're like, what happened? I thought everything was amazing. I thought you were single and happy. I thought you were only eating high vibrational plates.  And the other thing too to keep in mind is she offered her show in a way that she thought it would be doing him a favor. You're gonna get more followers.  Number one, he already has more followers than you. And number two, he already has women reaching out to him. Probably women of better quality than the women on your show. But again, that cognitive dissonance won't even allow you to conceptualize that truth. That brother's in Uganda. Do you know what Uganda women look like? Do you know what Ethiopian, Eritrean women look like? Do you know what South African women look like? You do this, brother, no favors. Because not only do the women in proximity to him look better than the women on your show, but they behave better as well, right?  Without considering the fact that some of these women are better educated than you. Most of these women are bilingual or trilingual. And for you to assume that they are less intelligent simply because they haven't been socialized in the language of your oppressor, in my opinion, is the height of ignorance. And I think we need to add more texture and color to these conversations and to these dismissive egotistical assumptions. And if you had taken two seconds to do your due diligence, you would know that.  Everybody is an employee.  Or the outcomes you're getting, the outcomes that you want, if so, keep going. But if not, hey, you're just gonna have to deal with the fact that men and women alike will no longer want to be around you. If you run into the right men or the right women, they are going to dismiss you the way that your energy dismisses everybody else. And they might do it politely and they might let you think you won. But nevertheless, the scoreboard is still gonna be the scoreboard. My message is simple.  You are not God's gift to everybody. This is not a video game where you're the first player. People don't work for you, even if you have employees. Honor yourself and honor other people. Do not talk down to people. And for the love of God, your first interaction with somebody should be a cordial one. Do not lead with demands or requests. Lead with humility and grace.  Like, share, subscribe. See y'all in the next one. Peace.


Our video lesson now is nuclear chemistry. In particular, we will deal with nuclear reactions. We have essentially gotten to the real chemical aspect of nuclear chemistry because we will be dealing with reactions. We will have reactants and we will have products. In virtually all cases, we will have only one reactant because it will decay into multiple products. We will characterize these reactions according to what type of radiation will occur or be emitted into the reactants. First of all, all of these reactions will begin with an unstable isotope. The unstable isotope will then be reduced to a new isotope which may or may not be stable itself plus some type of a radiation. This process is called either transmutation or radioactive transmutation for long form or a decay or a nuclear decay for long form. There are a number of examples. First of all, the most common is the alpha decay. An alpha decay is a case when an alpha particle is emitted. An alpha particle is simply a helium nucleus. If you take a look at the numbers, written up high, we have the atomic mass number which is the combination of protons plus neutrons. Here you can see that the numbers always add up like in a chemical reaction. 210 equals 4 plus 206. Bismuth has a total number of protons and neutrons equal to 210. Helium has 4 protons plus neutrons. And thallium has 206 protons plus neutrons. At the same time, underneath we have the atomic number, the number of protons in the nucleus. The number of protons in the nucleus tells us which element we're dealing with. If you have 83 protons, this is bismuth and it's always bismuth. If you have two protons, this is helium and it is always helium. If you have 81, it is always thallium. And you can see 83 equals 2 plus 81. So if you begin with bismuth, it will naturally decay to an alpha particle, a helium nucleus, plus thallium. That is alpha decay. Another type of decay, which is quite common, is beta decay. An example of beta decay is sodium decaying into a beta particle plus magnesium. A beta particle actually is just what we call an electron. But it's historically called beta decay because it was the second decay that was put on record and identified back between about 1898 and 1910. So if you take sodium and you begin with 25 protons plus neutrons, we will go to, well, zero. The electron doesn't have a proton and the electron does not have a neutron. So we'll move all those protons and neutrons over the magnesium, just like this. We have 11 protons here and then negative 1. What does that mean? Well, actually it doesn't mean we have negative 1 protons. It means we have a charge of negative 1 because this is an electron, as mentioned before. So somehow, how did we have 11 protons and we end up with, this is strange. Well, as I've mentioned in a previous video, the neutron is not a stable particle. The neutron will naturally decay when isolated during a path of about 12 minutes when it's alone because it gets pretty lonely into a proton plus an electron plus energy. But inside of a nucleus, this process occurs much more slowly so you can see that the neutron will decay into a proton plus an electron. So reactions like this will cause electrons to be ejected from the sodium and as a result a proton will be created. This is then beta decay when an electron is emitted. Related to beta decay when an electron comes out, we have something called positron emission. Positron emission was quite a mystery when it first did occur because nobody really understood what a positron was. Positrons were really understood a bit later during the 60s during the period of particle research that was introduced to in a previous video. And positron emission tomography or PET PET scans began to be used in the 90s for medical applications. There for example, silicon will decay into a positron as its radiation plus magnesium. We have 26 protons and neutrons in silicon. We don't have any protons or neutrons in the positron and we will get a magnesium with 26 protons and neutrons. We begin with 14 charge, the positron takes away a positive charge and then we get a magnesium with 13 protons left. This then is positron emission which is weird much like beta emission is weird. But hey, we didn't make the universe, we just live here. Gamma radiation is what comes next and you have to be careful with gamma radiation because although there is a radiative decay, it doesn't have any mass. So it's not like an alpha particle or a neutron or an electron, it's just like a flash of lightning. It's a bolt of energy. And the problem with this bolt is that bolt of energy left my hand like the marker. The energy has a location, that's pretty weird. But in any event, the gamma decay is going to be like taking a barium, releasing this big chunk of energy and it's a big chunk of energy and you get another barium back out. We're not changing the mass, 137 is 137, 56 is 56. The mass doesn't change, the number of particles doesn't change but a lot of energy is released. So what does that mean? Well, it's like being in a very high excited state and then you chill out. Where does the energy go? It leaves. Which is why often a product that is in what's called a metastable state or a very excited state will decay to another state, may or may not be stable itself but essentially this one just has a lot of energy in the nucleus and it will give up that lot of energy in the nucleus in the form of gamma radiation. And as explained in previous videos, these gammas have a lot of energy, they have a lot of power and they're very good for creating semiconductors and different types of material but they also have a very significant impact on the human body. There's a lot of energy that is given off, as I've mentioned, in the marker and it also has a specific position so it's strange. It's often called a gamma particle because it has energy, particle that is just energy and no mass, sorry, particle that is energy with no mass but it's mostly called a particle because it has a simple location. Finally we come to bombardment which is a reaction. It's not really a transmutation because no new type of particle radiation is essentially given off. What you do is, it's not a decay I guess is what I'm trying to say. The bombardment reaction for example is if you take beryllium and you hit it so we have two reactants in this case. If you take beryllium and you hit it with an alpha particle, one of these, what you're going to get is you're going to get very stable carbon and you're going to get a neutron. The point with the neutron is once you create a neutron you can use it to probe lots of different things. These are very good for use in creating semiconductors, they're very good for use in nuclear reactions and they also can be very good for doing different medical probes. In this case these reactions were understood by the experiments done in the 60s during colliders. They continue to be done for different types of research and they have many different types of medical applications. Thank you for your attention.


So the art tour the writer producer director spike Lee is added again in his latest TV series She's gotta have it which is on Netflix right now. So how did I feel about it? Well, let's get into it My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion Hey guys, thank you so much for tuning in for my opinion slash review for she's gotta have it a Netflix original But before we get into the review, help your boy out by clicking that subscribe button Also, click the bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and also give me that thumbs up Let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes now I am a pretty big fan of Spike Lee. I pretty much love all of his content I've said before in other past videos that he is a very unconventional director He is always putting out pieces of art that is completely different from any other filmmaker and I really do appreciate that Now this is cause she's gotta have it if you did not know it is based off the 1986 movie that was written and directed by Spike Lee as well based on the same name and I do recommend you go see that as well if you want to it's only an hour and 24 minutes It is on Netflix and if you want my opinion slash view my take on that I did shoot a video of that and uploaded on my channel a few days ago So there's a link to that down in the description box, but now You know, I really did like that film It is predominantly shot in black and white that oh at oh 86 version film and a reason for that is because Martin Scorsese a big-time director in Hollywood taught Spike Lee In New York in NYU. That's where they that's where he graduated school from and that was based on Martin Scorsese's film the raging bull which came out in 1980 And that film was predominantly shot in black and white and it had a few scenes of color And so that's where Spike Lee got the idea in 1986 But now he's doing this Netflix series and I'll just go ahead and say off the top that You know why I did like both series. I did enjoy the 2017 version better. That's pretty common. You mean will common sense It's pretty much a given why because you know Spike Lee had more resources and also now You know, this is 31 years later. And so he has much more experience, you know in the film Making industry. So I mean I'll say it like this the 2017 Netflix version is what he wanted to do and the 86 version is what he could only do and I say that just based on Like the budget because in the 86 version the budget was only $175,000 it was only his second piece of art that he put out So he really didn't have that much creative control and what not What's also fascinating and I mentioned this in the 86 version review is that you know There was no retakes and that whole 86 version and that shot the whole thing in 12 days I just said that the budget was a hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for the 86 version And I tried to research what the budget was for this Netflix version that came out in 2017 But sometimes they don't release that information and I couldn't find it this Netflix series is a 10 episodes This is the first season and Spike Lee did write and direct all 10 episodes and based on that This is a first ever in Netflix like out of all the Netflix series. No director has actually Directed all episodes of a given season and Spike Lee is the first one to do that So, you know Spike Lee, I just want to give you a little applause on that for being the first You know, I do kind of consider that you know somewhat of a big deal But this is you know both versions is kind of described as like a comedy or dramedy or comedy or drama or you can just say for short like you know a dramedy and What it's about is you have a character by the name of Nola Darling. She's in her opportunities You know, she's a some you can consider her a feminist and she's an artist She's somewhat of a painter and she's just going through life in Brooklyn, New York You know just trying to do her thing, you know not be labeled by what society, you know What cast her as and she just kind of bouncing back and forth between three to four lovers You know three men and if you want to add a fourth You can say a woman too now this the first version came out in 86 And that was a big deal then because just pretty much there was no content and mainstream media that addressed that I mean, of course, you know, it's always well society not me But society always says that it's okay for you know a man to sleep around and have multiple partners You know, but if a female does that, you know, she's called a number of names And so Spike Lee did have a lot of testicular fortitude for making some content like that in 86 And now he's kind of doing it again adding a lot more flavor in 2017 And I'm kind of led to the party with seeing this We're seeing this series Some of the you know, some of the critiques that people have been saying is like, okay, that was a big deal in 86 But that's really not a big deal in 2017. I don't really see what the big deal is I don't even look at it like that. I just kind of look at it as just more content You know, that's pretty much entertaining But we have no la darling. She's been played by somebody named DeWanda Jones. It's just not popping up on my radar I think she did a great job Some of her lovers are a character by the name of mars black man played by anthony ramos jamie overstreet Played by lyrick bent Someone named grill chiles played by cleo anthony And opal gillstrap played by elfinish hadera They all did a great job and what I one of the things that I did appreciate in this series is You know, nola knows her pickings or whatever She you know, each lover that she has in this series and in the original movie are completely different She kind of has like a family man over here You know an exquisite model over here that travels the world And you know introduces her to exotic things and is very spontaneous and is really narcissistic Then she and these men are older than her But then she always she has a guy that's younger to her by the name of mars That's like really into you know hip hop and younger to her and just kind of makes her laugh So she's really good with her pickings and you know in my opinion if she can you know Bunch out of these people up into one person I mean you can argue that she can pretty much have you know the perfect mate Um, but one thing that I want to mention is the character mars blackman played by uh, anthony ramos and the first episode I really wasn't fond of his character initially because I just thought he was a poser I thought he was faking it You know just trying to be down or whatever with all his hip hop swag and stuff like that But about 10 15 minutes in the episode, you know, my senses came to me. I was okay I don't know what I was thinking brandon. You know, he's being genuine.  Uh, he was very funny. Um, you know, he had his own sense of style And I like that I like when people are doing their own thing and this character mars blackman played by Anthony ramos was doing, you know, just that to the tee something else is fascinating about this is in the 86 version of this Of this series of the movie in 86 Spike lee was the character in his own movie playing mars blackman And mars is actually the name like when he was writing this series in 80s or this movie in 86 He could not come up with the name for mars blackman So his grandmother gave him the name like, hey, won't you name him mars and just let you know lord spike You know, she was talking to her grandson mars is the mars is the name of my grandfather So mars is actually the real life name of spike lee's great great grandfather or whatever And so I just think that's kind of neat or whatever that he used that and he's kind of just paying some lineas You know to respect to his ancestors and part of his family and I just kind of think that's cool But uh for the most part, I really did enjoy this series One thing that just stood out to me is this is in brooklyn new york And the first thing that popped up to me is the amount of color in this whole series It's just bright with color from like I said nola is an artist She's a she's a black american african-american and so she's really passionate about expressing herself With the african diaspora and just african culture And so she'd be painting the hell out of these portraits So whatever putting them around the city and they're just so much color You know in these paintings and that's just really something that stood out to me There's so much color in her outfits and her clothes and her apartment and just the whole Background of the whole series like the cinematographer did and spikely did a great job with all the contrasts in this series These 10 episodes because that was just so much color and popped out at every scene And this is also something I noticed especially because the 86 movie was predominantly shot in black and white or whatever Something else that I really did appreciate was the soundtrack the soundtrack was fire I mean there was like not one song in this movie Or in the I keep saying movie in this series that I did not appreciate This series is broken into 10 episodes In each episode is only around 30 to 35 minutes. So it's not that long. You can easily binge watch this In a weekend, of course, or even a you know a weekday after work You know, you can just kind of fly right through this and you know What's easy is like you don't even have to sit through the credits anymore with netflix as soon as a An episode is over They have an option where you can just skip the credits and skip the intro and just fly right into The next episode so it flies by for you But the soundtrack was dope. I mean they had some frank Sinatra in there It has some rap has some hip hop has some jazz has some r&b You know from you know recently ever past a few years to 50 60 years ago Just all these important gyms and artists that you know with all these great tracks over the years in the past Decades, you know Spike Lee did a great job of picking those films out And something else that I appreciate that I've really never seen anybody do before At the end of every song that that popped up in an episode He was able to show on the screen the album cover of set song or whatever And that's just something that you know Not too many people do and just kind of gives you an example Why and why I like about spike lee is he just kind of stands out from every other film maker And so that's just on top of the color and the soundtrack.  But you know, some of the sex scenes that he was using That he shot or whatever I really do like the aerial shots above her Her bedroom and I would talk about the specifics when I get to know this character Let it run because I'll just go ahead and give you Something now there was a lot of things that I did like about no less character In this series and there was some things that really kind of turned me off But you know, if you really was, you know down for nola, whatever, don't turn the video off now I'm going to explain all that later The thing that another thing that stood out to me the most was the fourth while breaking in this whole series Where the what said actor they just stop with her doing and they look at the camera and they talk to the audience So whatever and it's not that they're just talking to the audience this fourth while breaking Every scene that they was doing this every actor. It was like poetry or whatever. It was so poetic. I can't even say that word It was so poetic anyway It was it was powerful and it had a strong Impact or whatever and it just it spoke to me every time like, you know, they everyone was just really Making a definitive statement about, you know, how they felt in the moment with their surroundings right there And it just spoke volumes or whatever.  I didn't want to leave anything out or whatever Something else that this series talked about With all the characters is there's a lot of egos. There's a lot of pride There's a lot of self-esteem issues as well This addresses a lot about women and what that grows through in society from just different walks of life Because everybody is a product of their environment or whatever and that kind of shapes and moses or whatever And we for the most part We did get to see why everybody thought the way they thought why everybody walked the way they walked or whatever You know, of course women, you know they don't like to be call holes and be words and skanks and things like that and this series did touch on that or whatever And no one should just ever disrespect a woman or whatever But and this may piss some some people off, but at the same time Let me make sure our worth is correctly and our phrase is correctly, but I don't want to say that. Well, I'll just say man and woman There's not I don't want to put everybody in the box and saying that a man should act this way and a woman Should act this way. No, I'm not saying that but There are some there is a lot of character growth You know between the characters in this series to where If they did change their behavior Maybe they would not be treated a certain way or whatnot And I'll give you an example and this may turn some women off or whatever But there was a character in this movie that was wearing a very sexy dress a very provocative dress And I think this was like an episode four And she was doing it because she wanted to feel good about herself. She knew it was sexy She knew it was going to draw attention. She knew it was going to turn heads But at the same time there was a male in this In the series it was like, hey, if you don't want attention You maybe shouldn't dress like that and that kind of pissed that character off or whatever And that may piss you off too like male shouldn't think like that But at the same time you had women in this series that was given no that same advice that was older That was elders or whatever.  So I mean you can't necessarily give me I'm not saying that a man just has a the right to disrespect you or even a woman has the right to disrespect you You know if you're dressing like that No, no, no, no, I'm not saying that but at the same time You can't get mad at the attention that you may receive based on that decision That you made and that is just one of the arcs that one of the characters had to go through You know in this series that kind of had to deal with their growth um This also has like And with the fourth wall breaking it's not just nola this doing the fourth wall breaking. It's all the characters as well You know giving like nola is giving her side of the story and her perspective of how she's dealing with all her lovers But we also get the perspective of all her loves as well all three men and the woman as well But what I also like that, of course, you know, we're going to get more content Opposed to the 86 version because this is 10 episodes and that 86 version was only an hour and 24 minutes We also get to see some backstory from the lovers too We get to see where mars hangs out with his friends and when he's not with nola We get to see where jamie is hanging out when he's not with nola as well Whether he has a family or not children You know a wife that he may or may not be separated to a divorce from and going to school and things like that We necessarily don't get to see Any other aspects of uh, Greer's life the model that's super duper narcissistic But we don't necessarily have to spike Lee was you know Did a good job of balancing all that to knowing what? The honest members like myself will want to know As far as the character's best or besides nola or whatever and that just has to go with the writing and you know The editing and his directing and just you know knowing what we want to see or at least what I want to see What I appreciate and knowing what you know can be left on the cutting room floor Uh something else that I do want to address in the um in the black community Um, if you're not black, please don't get offended by this I'm just gonna be honest with you But when it comes to therapy and not necessarily today I mean I grew up here in this a lot of times but as far as black people going to therapy It's always discussing like the black or african-american people like I ain't going to therapy I ain't going to that that's like white people shit or whatever You know, and that's just something that people will say we don't mean that in a derogatory sense We're just seeing that but a lot of black people Let me just let me just speak for myself I don't want to speak for all black people But because I just can't do that because we are super duper vast But you know, I've always heard that, you know, black people really just don't like to go to therapy That they just don't feel like that's you know for them and that can be extremely problematic And cause a lot of problems and therapy is important. So one thing about nola and I don't want to jump too far ahead is Actually, let me let me press pause there The Okay, let me okay. Yeah. Yeah, we can all address this and when feels hoops. I'm gonna press pause there about the therapy I'm gonna come right back, but I want to say something about nola's character for the most part. I did love like nola's character Um, I will talk about something that I did not like that I had the same exact problem in the 86 version and I am disappointed that sparkly didn't fix it But for the most part, I like nola because she's very honest. She doesn't hold any punches She kind of for the most part. She's she just tells what the deal is.  She's very transparent.  So I will give it to nola for, you know, addressing that and not holding back any punches But at the same time nola can be very annoying at times She's very unstable and she cannot know what she wants and just throw temper tantrums or whatever Because a lot of times when she's asking for help and people try to help her She just kind of she kind of uses and abuses them or whatever and she gets this feedback from everybody Or whatever not just the man but her parents the man. She's dating the woman. She's dating You know her co-workers and things like that and so it's just like, you know, really annoying or whatever She has all these rules. I'm like, yeah, you know what it is.  I thought you cared about me or whatever I thought she's gonna take care of me. You know, am I this am I that I mean It's like, whoa, wait a minute. You don't want making all the rules and now you don't want catching feelings You know what the deal is so just kind of like all that back and forth. It was just kind of annoying to me or whatever And um, I didn't you know, I didn't like that but it was somewhat of a realistic character And you know, this can't have a Mary Sue or whatever I mean people in real life do have problems and that's okay As long as you and people do make stakes and that's okay As long as you're trying to fix those mistakes and address those problems and going back to the therapy I felt that she did do that because all the problems that she had She realized it early on in episode three or episode four and she tried to fix it. Hence she'd go into therapy So I respect the fact.  That's insane.  I've never really known him to be an actor and he did a pretty decent job I did enjoy seeing him on screen. I I did like that And as far as if nola's character did like get all of her problems and you know things ironed out You're just gonna have to see the series for yourself Um, I do there is something else that I did not like I did not it was 10 episodes I did not like episode 10.  No, if you've seen the series You know what I'm talking about if you haven't seen it You will know what I'm talking about and real quick before I end this and before I get my reading I just want to also listen my easter eggs or whatever There were a lot of easter eggs with spike lee and all of his films that he's directed over the years with Malcolm mix crooklin I was going to say He's got game now. He's got game Malcolm mix crooklin and also do the right thing Those are the only those are the only easter eggs from past films that I noticed if you notice any more Please let me know in the comment section below. Also. There is an act Spike Lee sister joy lee she played nola's mother In this series or whatever. So, you know, that's kind of just cool how you know He's bringing in his family and also if you watch episode six There is a scene at a gallery And there is this a random woman that comes up and she just expresses How much she likes nola's paintings and I know that at one point nola was like, hey You look so familiar and this is an easter egg that woman that pops up is actually the original nola darling in the 86 version And her name is Tracy camilla johns or whatever and I didn't catch it the first time when I was trying to do a little Look at some information before I shot this review and I saw and I was like, oh snap Was that really her? So I had to go back and I was like, man, there was her or whatever So I didn't notice it the first time but you know, I just kind of liked that or whatever And yeah, I already talked about that the main thing that grabbed me off is at the very first episode And at the very last episode of this series episode one episode team When nola was breaking the fourth wall Addressing us with you know, her poetic voice She made a definitive statement just saying, you know, nobody's gonna own me I'm my own person. Uh, I'm nobody's property. No one is going to fit me into a box And she's referring to her lovers but No one ever tried to do that Everybody tried to take their relationship with her past a booty call or past a friend's with relationships A friends with benefits. Excuse me type of deal Everybody wanted to you know, just be you know with her and respect turned like, hey, I don't want to just have 60 I want to take you out. I want to be that man for you. I want to be able to do this I want to be able to do that. No one tried to own no one tried to own her not the men Not the women So I never really understood why she was making these definitive statements. The series never addressed it They didn't address that in the 86 version and they didn't address that in the series Now there are some things that happened within the series in the middle of the series that kind of Maybe led to her thinking that way and having that pattern of thought But the series started out that way in episode one and I'm just like, okay Are they going to go back and have some backstory of so why she feels this way? Because I also said that everyone is a product of the environment or whatever But then the the series or the movie both of them never went back and so addressed it Something happened to when she was a little girl at school anything like that Somebody tried to grab her in the street one time and that pistol often made her go to therapy But that happened later on. I mean, she had a great background She had loving friends from all directions. She had both of her parents in her life Or even if that's fine, you know, still people have problems. That's okay. I'm not judging anybody But the series never did address why she feels like she's being owned And that is just something that kind of turned me off. But overall guys, I really did enjoy the series. It was a lot of fun Um, you know, it was a really nice take on someone else's life from Brooklyn, New York That had a lot of color great soundtracks great characters It was a fun ride. It was an easy watch and also it had to deal with uh, it talked about gentrification It talked about race relations and racism and who people that think Reverse racism is a real thing which is incredibly stupid And even if reverse racism was real, it wouldn't be real if there wasn't racism in the first place So let's fix the root of the problem before you try to get mad about somebody with reverse racism It also this film also not film, but series also depth a lot with Like what molados it mixed people of black and white descent and them embracing themselves and accepting who they are and accepting How society would view them and there's also some mixed people in and I think mixed people are beautiful And there's also some mixed people in this that really don't know how know what groups are truly identified with And that could be very problematic because I've met a lot of mixed people That know their view is black and they accept black and that's what's up and they accept white and that's fine too And people they know how to you know, accept both and that's great But in society there are still I don't mean to be offensive, but I'm just going to be honest There are also a lot of mixed people that have psychological problems You know, I would I would do what I can to help those people But there was a so many aspects and elements This just had to do with real life in this series that spike lee adapted and he just did a real a really great job And you know, I really did enjoy the series if I had to rate She's got a habit this Netflix original out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it an 8.5 out of 10. Yes an 8.5 out of 10 But guys that is just my opinion. Have you seen she's got a habit? Do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing If you like this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up If you didn't provide constructive criticism at the bottom in the comment section If you're watching on youtube subscribe to my channel Go to my website check me out there and also look me up on social media Facebook instagram and twitter are that good stuff It's right there at the bottom of your screen and I made it very easy by providing a link Down in the description box below But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review of spike lee She's got a habit on Netflix right now. And before you go, don't forget that my name is Brennan Keith Avery And that's just my opinion. Peace


Hello, and welcome to this presentation of the STM32G0 Extended Interrupts and Events Controller. We will be presenting the features of the EXTI controller. The Extended Interrupt and Event Controller, called EXTI, provides up to 34 independent events split into two categories, configurable events and direct events. These events benefit through smarter use of low power modes, taking advantage of the STM32G0's capability to wake up via external communication or requests. This is the block diagram of the Extended Interrupt and Event Controller. Configurable events are generated by peripherals without interrupt capability, but which are able to issue a pulse. The EXTI controller provides interrupt detection, masking and software trigger. Direct events are generated by peripherals supporting interrupt requests. In this case, the EXTI controller is used to generate events to the CPU and to request system wakeups. The Extended Interrupt and Event Controller can generate interrupt and event as well as wake up the processor from stop modes. Virtual events are linked with external interrupts from GPIOs, PVD and comparators Comp1 and Comp2. Direct events are linked with RTC, TAMPA, 12C1, USARTs 1 and 2, CEC, LPUART 1, LPTIM 1 and 2, LSE, UCPD 1 and 2. The Cortex M0 Plus supports two ways to enter a low power state. 1. Executing the Wait for Event Instruction WFE. 2. Executing the Wait for Interrupt Instruction WFI. With WFE, the first instruction executed after a wakeup event is the next sequential one, Instruction N plus 1 in the sequence on the left. By implementing WFI, the processor jumps to the Interrupt Service Routine when an enabled interrupt request is received. Note that an interrupt request is a WFE exit condition, but an event received on RXEV is not a WFI exit condition. This figure aims to explain the various stages enabling the conversion of a configurable event active edge into an interrupt request. The first stage is the asynchronous edge detection circuit configured by two registers EXTI-RTSR1 and EXTI-FTSR1. Any edge, possibly both, can be chosen. The software can emulate a configurable event by setting the corresponding bit in the EXTI-SWIER register. The bit is auto-cleared by hardware. An AND gate is used to mask or enable the generation of the interrupt to the NVIC. Finally, a flag is set in the EXTI-RPR1 register when the interrupt is generated to the NVIC. This flag enables the software to determine the cause of the interrupt. This flag is expected to be cleared by the interrupt service routine. This figure aims to explain the various stages enabling the conversion of a configurable event active edge into a processor event. Both configurable and direct events can be configured to issue events to the CPU, steered to its RxEV input. Unlike interrupt requests, the CPU has a unique event input, so all event requests are all together before entering the event pulse generator. The registers used to mask the generation of events are different from the ones used to mask the generation of interrupts, EXTI-EMR, instead of EXTI-IMR. The CPU wake-up signals generated by the EXTI block are connected to the PWR block and are used to wake up the system and CPU subsystem bus clocks. Both configurable and direct events are able to request a wake-up. A wake-up occurs when an asynchronous edge detection circuit has detected an active edge or a flag is set to 1 in the EXTI-RPR1 register. Consequently, software is expected to clear the flag in the EXTI-RPR1 register to disable the wake-up request when the source of the wake-up is a configurable event. For direct events, the flag is located in the peripheral unit. These flags enable the software to find the cause of the wake-up. The wake-up indication is asserted when either the interrupt or the event generation is enabled. See the OR gate combining EXTI-IMR and EXTI-EMR registers. All CPU wake-up signals are all together and then all with the event requests. The SIS wake-up signal is asynchronous and wakes up the clocks. Once H-clock is running, the synchronous C wake-up is generated. A direct event is able through the EXTI controller to generate a CPU event and trigger a system wake-up. The active edge of direct events is the rising edge. Direct events do not rely on the EXTI controller to assert interrupt requests because they have their dedicated lines to the NVIC. Otherwise, the same circuit as the one described in the previous slides is implemented. Direct events can be independently masked for event generation and interrupt generation. The interrupt mask is only used as a wake-up mask. The STM32G0 has 5 IO ports. Ports A to D are 16 pins wide. Port F is 4 pins wide. Each of the 16 EXTI configurable events related to GPIO ports has an independent multiplexer. The EXTI multiplexer outputs are available as output signals from the EXTI block to trigger other IPs. The EXTI multiplexer outputs are available independently from any masks defined in the EXTI-IMR and EXTI-EMR registers. This table provides all inputs of the EXTI block and indicates for each of them whether it's a configurable event input or a direct event input.


They've passed the semi-final, it's got this competition on its various guises but they won't be bettering that run this year. They're out regardless of tonight's result. I'm just going to have a moment to remember. That's a good turn. Bradford suddenly wiggled into a bit of space here. Can they get the pass right? Robertson was lurking but instead Angle goes on his own, then gets the cross into the box and he's knocked out of play for a corner. Bradford do have a chance to get back in. It's Callum Cook, captain tonight. Cross comes in towards the penalty spot. It's headed forwards to keep us back, pedaling there. It does well to make the save. Decent effort. Robertson has a good touch forward out of the space here. They can get the pass right and they can't. That one's running away for it. It's got the man on the overhand. He's probably run offside now so he has to go it alone. In fact he does eventually make the pass back. Cook again, all from deep. It's a good looking one. It's heading clear in the back post. And it's just over the head of Kelleher. Bradford again, recycled possession though. Can they get the ball into the box? It's a good looking effort. And it's into the back of the net. Robinson converts it home. It was a cross initially. In fact I'm pretty certain it was a shot. Reese Stormton there found the space. Brilliantly got past his man and got the ball in. And so he scored at the weekend. It's his second in as many games on the attack from Bradford. Again just trying to wiggle some space. But he can't quite make it for the cross. It has to make the pass back. This is going to be an effort from distance from Kelleher. He goes short instead. Good effort. Bunch clear at the near post by Keeper Hoffman. Hoffman was standing resolutely. Again trying to build a way through this Bradford defence. Bradford thoroughly earning their 1-0 lead at the moment. But here is an opportunity to hit back. It's the shot and it's a good save. Horne beat the hero there. They've managed to finally pick their way through. And the effort came. The goalkeeper was equal to it. Three minutes of adding time. Staying behind Ron. The attack now after the toes. It's a good looking ball in towards the back post. And stretching out of the back post. But not able to get it on target. It wasn't at a nice height. The foretoe off the head. They can't get it home. The season. And it's a terrific one as well. An absolute thunderbolt after he brilliantly brought it under control. And Sunderland are back on level terms. One wall giving much space for a cross. But it does come in. And that's taken a deflection and gone wide of goal. We're disappointed that the man found space there. But we're delighted then in the end. The shots up in deflection this game does finish. As it is at the moment. We'll go to penalties. That's the way off the EFL trophy. But this is a great chance to get it. In terms of a winner. Clearance there by Staunton. He got the assist in the first half. It's just saved a certain goal there. Back positioned himself well. And scrambles it away from goal. Pass. There's a bit of space to attack here if they can get it right. Good interception. But the space on this does nicely. Can they get the ball into the middle? They can. And it's gone wide. There are a couple of shooting opportunities there for Bradford. Drellkeld had the first. But could in the back post. Couldn't send it goalwards. Sunderland do from the free kick. Fritz Schott takes it. And hits the ball. Superb effort there. That's a lovely pass. Can they get the shots away? They can. It's a terrific save. He was alert there. He got down to his left hand side. It's a really strong palm on that one. Manages to just about tip it round the post. Another time to get it into the box. There isn't. Final whistle. And we are heading for a penalty shootout here at Stadium of Light. And it's saved. It's a poor penalty. But scored against QPR recently. And a shootout. But he can't score this time. Good save that by Hornby. First of the shootout he can. That's a blistering penalty. You don't save those. Vantage Bradford. Knees stepping up. That's a terrific penalty. Find on the top corner. Two spot kicks each. Here's Sutton. Keep it the wrong way. Harris. Can't quite get a finger to do it. Here's Gooch. He scored the winner of Wembley in the final last year. But he's missed this one. Brilliant save there by Hornby. Full stretch tips it round the post. Match point Bradford. Can Evans score the winner? He can. And Bradford take the win. It won't make a difference in terms of where they finish or the qualifying in this group. It's a small consolation for Orman. As they win this shootout by four penalties to two. The two teams couldn't be separated after goals from Robinson and Broadhead. Went to penalties. Bradford win the shootout.


The opening ceremony for Cooperative Spirit 2008 took place Saturday, September 12th to officially kick off the Coalition Forces training test held in Hohenfels, Germany. ABCA is a combination of American, British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand infantry soldiers. This specific training is designed to test interoperability. First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment Private Adrian Jones thinks the experience the cooperative spirit offers is unparalleled. I think it's for everyone, it's a good opportunity to enhance on the skills that we've been taught from a basic level and now in a battalion environment with other nations that have different SOPs and different ways of training but we have to also work together as a team in a cooperative environment and do a good job. The Force on Force section of training begins next week.


Losing your job is almost a miserable experience, but in some cases, there are signs that you're about to get fired. You need to pay much closer attention. It would be best if you recognized signs of termination because it affords you the chance to improve your performance and fix any fundamental issues that may be the cause of your termination. It also aids you to figure out a plan and prepare for your future if you do find yourself without a job.  Your workload has gotten smaller. While you may feel that your boss burdens you with too much work, it may also be that he gives you much work because he acknowledges your dedication to your job. Although it is not advisable to carry out tasks that are way more than your job description, it is said that the reward for hard work is more work. Thus, for any role handled adequately, it is natural that you will gain more responsibilities and duties as time goes on. But what if the exact opposite is happening? Like, you find that specific tasks are disappearing from your calendar or that you've been told to delegate some of your tasks to other coworkers. Well, this could be a sign that your boss is planning to send a letter of dismissal across to you. 2. You've been asked to merge with or train someone up. Training up a new employee could be seen as an honor. For instance, the management team finds you capable and senior enough to take on other higher responsibilities and wants you to hand over your current position to a newbie under your wing. However, if you have suddenly found yourself being asked to teach them how to do your job, then alarm bells should be ringing. This could be one of the warning signs that your boss intends to get you fired and replace you with someone else. Another signal is a merger. For instance, when a company wants to reduce their staff, they employ a merger process. If the boss merges you and your subordinate, or worse still, asks you to groom that individual, it necessarily is, but it could be that you are on the verge of losing your job. If your company participates in the merger, pay attention to any overlap in your specific job duties with what other employees do. If an overlap exists, that doesn't necessarily indicate termination, but stay aware and be prepared for potential changes that may affect you. 3. You get removed from or left out of projects. Let us assume that one day you are the key point person on a project and then suddenly you are redeployed or replaced with either little explanation or direct explanation that you are not hacking it. When an employer starts reassigning your work to other staff without giving you a clear understandable justification, this could very well be assigned that the department is preparing for your departure. It shows that your boss no longer values your opinion as it pertains to the business. This, in short, is the equivalent of a door being closed in your face. However, it is done in a painfully slow fashion. According to Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and author, even when you try to get back your regular duties, it seems different to get cooperation from your boss and other managers. In fact, they suddenly shadow ban you, making your work life frustrating. 4. Colleagues start to act weird around you. One common trait about coworkers is that if the news of your dismissal leaks out somehow, they begin to act strangely towards you. They may immediately become silent or look at you with pity when you step into an office, or they may mutter words quietly to each other, or even begin to avoid you altogether. Also, those usual rumblings, gossip and pre-sharing of information with your peers never go on when there's a rumor that your employer is preparing to terminate you. Co-workers or clients around you are suddenly acting a little bit weird. It might not be just you, it could be that they have advanced knowledge of what might go down, or be speculating from the sidelines. 5. You're left out of the loop. What do you think about being denied access to the company's online portal, or the Wi-Fi's password changes without you getting informed? Well, if it becomes difficult to assess essential data that would help you perform well in your job, or you're not invited to important meetings or included in email chains, or just generally out of the loop when it comes to dates-to-day details, the signs may mean that your boss thinks you no longer need to know things. Little by little, however, it feels as though you've been caught out of the core company, and a pink sleep may be coming your way. Words of Michael Kerr, an international speaker and author of The Humour Advantage, there could be other reasons for this happening, but suddenly, one may be that your leadership has lost the trust or confidence in your abilities, making you vulnerable when and if layoffs happen. 6. You're asked to provide detailed documents, feedback on your work used to be informal and undocumented, and any mistakes you made were pointed out to you in private with a friendly talk. Now everything suddenly involves paperwork, although this is not always the case. You should be worried if you're randomly called upon to present reports and resources handed to you. Indeed, it may be that the company wants to make new decisions, however, increased scrutiny is a phenomenon that is rarely initiated by the accounting department. Robert Dylan Schneider, author of 50+, Critical Career Decisions for the rest of your life. In an interview with Business Insider said, The boss believes that you have wasted time on inflated expenses. Even if you are 100%, it doesn't matter. Find out if you are the only person being scrutinized. 7. Complaints about your performance. One of the easiest ways to tell if your job may be in danger is to consider your performance.  How have your recent performance reviews been? If you've been scoring low time and time again, it's likely one of the signs you will be getting fired. This reviews are a chance to see whether or not you are on track and rectify any issues. So if they haven't been going well, you may not be satisfying the people in charge. Employers may place employees on an improvement plan to see if there would be any improvement in your work before deciding to terminate your position. If you find yourself in this position, pay close attention to details of the goals you need to reach, but if the complaints are still regular, then you might be getting fired soon. 8. You are no longer praised. Can you recall the last time your boss commanded you for your work? When, recently, has someone said you had done an excellent job? If it hasn't happened in a while, this is one of the significant warning signs of getting fired, even if you performed a miracle never before witnessed by a mortal being, it seems your boss wouldn't acknowledge it now. If your boss is not the type of person to give compliments, you may not take it seriously. However, if your boss used to give you kudos for your hard work, but suddenly stops, then something is wrong. Also, if they go out of their way to compliment other employees, but not you, it is a warning sign. After all, there are only two possible reasons why a naturally vocal boss will not give you commendations.  9. No polite chit-chats between you and your employer anymore. In the good old days, your work hours were prepared with polite chit-chat and casual conversations. In times past, you gossiped with co-workers and even made weekend plans with your boss. Now those days seem over, and the only communication you get is via email, then something is most definitely up. You used to be friends or friendly, at least. But now there's tension whenever you are in the same room. In the words of the international business speaker and author, Michael Kerr, Once your relationship has deteriorated to the point of being toxic, then how your boss treats you from ignoring you to publicly berating you can be obvious signs that your job might be in parallel. There is nothing worse than living in fear, especially when it comes to your career. If you notice any of these signs, attempt to recollect where you may have made mistakes and take appropriate steps to amend them while you still can. If you're still skeptical, then start to search for other opportunities early enough.


Each year, about 7,000 couples file for divorce in Maine. Very often it's the children caught in this emotional crossfire between angry parents who pay the highest price. Peg Glibe is the executive director of the Kids First Center, and she talked with Tom about the classes they offer for parents and children to help them through the process of divorce and separation. Peg, thanks for joining us to let us know what's going on with kids first. Well thanks so much for having me, I always enjoy coming and talking about what the agency is doing. And of course, there might be some people out there who don't know what Kids First is, so before we get into what's coming up in the fall for Kids First, could you just describe the organization and what its mission? Absolutely, we are a private, non-profit located in Portland, but our programs cover a much broader area geographically, but the whole focus of Kids First is to help families through the transition of divorce and separation and make that transition as seamless as possible for their children. We also work with blended families, step families as well, because that sometimes is a difficult transition as well. But our whole mission is to try to keep kids out of the middle of divorce and separation. I think one of the big things that you do is have support groups just for kids themselves, and there's a whole set of them coming up, isn't there? We do. In the fall, things get very busy, although they haven't slowed down that much this summer. But all our divorce support groups for kids start up in the fall, and they're all starting up about the third week of September. Your listeners should know and your viewers that if you visit our website, you'll get all the current dates and times, and our website is kidsfirstcenter.org. But the groups are designed to give kids in grades one through 12, four different groups, but we work with kids in grades one through 12, a safe, neutral place to talk about what's happening in their family. They're great programs. They're led by mental health professionals. They're not counseling. It's a support group, and they meet for six consecutive weeks. Great. And besides the workshops and the support groups that you do, you also have conferences, don't you? We do. We have an annual conference every fall, and we always try to stay on the cutting edge of the topics. This year's conference is the perils of virtual venom, latest issues in electronic discovery. Our conference is going to be about social media, Facebook, and how it impacts co-parenting. It's going to be great. It's in October. Virtual venom. So I guess there's some warnings about the use of that. They really are. They really are, yeah. Are there special issues that are particular to children of divorced parents or divorced parents? Well, they really are. Because kids are very, very smart. And they use the social media all the time, and they know how to use it. And we will discuss things like, can you imagine learning about your mother or father's significant other on their Facebook page? That kind of thing. Oh, yeah. That would be an issue. Yeah. It would be pretty rough. So we're going to talk about the appropriate use of social media. It has great uses to stay in touch with a parent who may live away. Skype is a wonderful thing. And I think it's really important for parents and attorneys and mental health professionals and the judges to understand what parts social media and the internet plays in co-parenting. So that really reaches out to a broad group of people. It does. We hope they'll all come to the conference. Great. And do you have other conferences or workshops coming up? We have free evening workshops all year long. And they're designed usually for professionals and for our clients. Our website always keeps a up-to-date list of what's being offered. Okay.  There is. I even have to read the title because it's so esoteric, but it's going to be great. It's the cognitive, the social cognitive connection, a workshop for parents of divorce with children who have social learning challenges. This is done by Barbara Friede, a very well-known mental health professional in Portland. She does a great job. Yeah. I guess people, if they don't quite get what that is all about, but they're intrigued by it, they could go and get the more information from your website. Yes. Absolutely. There'll be a good, broad description of it on our website. Anything else happening that's coming up either in the fall or later in the year? Well, you know, Tom, we rely on the generosity of our community. And one of the things for our conferences, we're always looking for corporate sponsors. And so that's what we're doing right now. And I'll tell you, to be aligned with an organization like Kids First is a win-win for everybody. Your programs, sometimes there's a fee for those programs, right? Right. Right. But no one has ever referred few services if they can't afford them. We provided over $57,000 of free services last year alone. Wow. So you really do need support to help those people who can't afford those kinds of services? Absolutely. Well, thank you very much. And again, if people want information, the phone number on the website? The phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and the website is KidsFirstCenter.org. Great. Well, thanks again for joining us. You're very welcome.


Yeah, I try not to think that I'm going to come into the season and just hit 60 homeruns because of the way the offseason went. It's really fun to hit in the offseason, but it's hard. So coming into the season, I try to balance what the actual expectations are versus how many homeruns I hit off of the hit tracks in the offseason. I think for me, the thing that I'm most excited about is the possibility to get a full season of the bats and really just to see kind of what I'm capable of because I do in my mind have expectations that I'd like to see come to fruition and the game is hard. It's a lot harder. I feel like playing in New York, but I feel like the last couple of years have prepared me for what it's like to have highs and what it's like to have lows and really how to find that happy medium to just go about my business the right way. 60 homeruns, the expectations on them. You know, after watching the pace that Luke was on last year and knowing that that's probably what 60 homeruns would look like, I don't know if I'm in that company just yet. Do you know specific numbers of mine that you may be not going to share with us? I have a couple bets in my head that I've made with myself, not bets, I guess goals that I've made with myself of. You know, I know in my career I have 162 games played, exactly. And I'm hitting 258 with 24 and 82 homeruns so to know that over the course of a couple of years where I didn't get a consistent amount of the bats and that's the numbers I've put together, I feel really good about the numbers in my head that I kind of have looking at those numbers. So especially with the progress I feel like I've made in some areas of my game.


but I taught myself everything in order to develop and launch this product all by myself. So to answer your question, I got the new washer dryer set in about 2016, and then I became really obsessed with solving this problem. I think I came up with a solution in 2019, and then it was about 14 months from the time I came up with the solution until when I launched in June of 2020, pandemic launch. Yeah, this is so fascinating. So for people listening, I mean, you're mentioning solid work. So it's like for the nerds out there, people like me, we got CAD, we had Rhino, we had, I guess Sketchup would be considered an interesting new modeling sort of lighter weight now, but solid works is a deep one. And so for you to be able to learn that, I mean, that is a massive acquisition of skills just to get there.


Welcome, everyone. Welcome back to my show, Looking to the East, our twice monthly review of what's going on in Asia. We have a very special program that we do periodically with two of my friends and two related people to my university, Kansai Gaida University. We'll be covering a number of economic and political issues in the show. So if you're looking for a perspective on what's going on in Japan in particular and how Japanese people are looking back at the United States, please stay tuned for the duration of the show. I want to introduce to you our guest today. First guest is in Paris, France. So it's quite late in the evening for him. It's Dr. Paul Scott and I know Paul from his previous engagement at Kansai Gaida University. He's also a professor in Europe right now. So Paul, thank you so much for joining the show. And thank you for inviting me. Yeah. And then we have a graduate from Kansai Gaida University Asian Studies program as I was as a student, an undergraduate student, Jiri Masteki. And Jiri is a partner at Kitama Partners Law Firm in Osaka, which is one of the major firms in the Osaka area. And frankly, a success story when it comes to graduates from Kansai Gaida University. Jiri, thank you so much for also joining today. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you. Great. So we have a number of items, topics that we discussed in advance of the show. The first one is just in general, what is your perspective? And maybe I'd start with you Paul because obviously you spent many years in Japan and following Japanese politics. But now for the last few years, you've been living in Europe and looking at Japan from that perspective. So we have a Prime Minister Kishida and recently we had the unfortunate event of the former Prime Minister Abe being assassinated, which really impacted the Japanese public and also Japanese politics. Kishida seems to be buffeted by a number of different issues as a result of the popularity of his cabinet and also of him has remained quite low. So Paul, what is your view or your assessment of the struggles of the Kishida administration? And maybe if you don't mind looking into the crystal ball, do you think he'll survive? I'm not sure if it's the struggles of the individual Prime Minister Kishida or actually the struggles of the Liberal Democratic Party, which has always, despite its stewardship over the Japanese economy, almost nonstop since 1955, has always been plagued by corruption, has always been plagued nonstop by scandal. And the popularity of Japanese Prime Ministers has rarely been high. I mean, he's started off high, sort of 63% and now down to 40. Japan has, when I taught at Kansai Gaidai, taught of course on Japanese politics. And I asked if anyone could name the Prime Ministers of the last year, or I think they're about six, you know, they get an A for the class and oh my goodness, one student almost got all six of them. So the problem is the problem of a challenge of Japanese democracy. I mean, usually, and I don't want to say it's normal to have a politics of alteration, we have a party in power and then one out of power and, you know, Republicans and Democrats, which is normal. So one party democracy. The opposition is weak. Only 97 seats in the lower house. The LDP still has 261 from the last election. So despite the fact that they're corrupt, it is the inability of the opposition to amount to successful campaign. So Kishida, you know, could come and go and it could be someone else and someone else. We could have a repeat to a couple of Japanese Prime Ministers in the next couple of years. Yeah. So if he was to be replaced, then given the strength of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Congress or the diet, that it would probably be internal power struggles that would potentially take him out and have someone else replace him, I would say. That's what's so interesting. And I want, you know, to come in on this that even in a in a very strong one party, if you want to call it very strong majority party democracy, there usually is debate. You could say that there's democracy within the within the party. Exactly, Stephen, what you're talking about. I don't see that. Okay. I don't see that in Japan. I see a very, very conservative, you know, seniority based party. And there's not going to be an Obama type figure. And, you know, very positive towards, towards the former President and Senator from actually challenging his own party. Amazing. Absolutely amazing that he could win the election, the nomination, excuse me. So I don't see that happening within the LDP. So self reforming. I mean, because she does cleaned out his cabinet in part and purged it. But you can even say, you know, could put in more women, but, you know, they're very conservative, very status quo women. So gender really doesn't make much of a difference there. Although it's nice to see as a photo opportunity. Right. Yeah. Jerry, what do you think you're in Japan? You're reading about this every day. Sure. Well, you know, of course, we've been, you know, rocked here in Japan by a recent assassination of former Prime Minister Abe. You know, his, if we sort of take a historical perspective, you know, I would disagree that there has been a few actually strong, very popular Japanese Prime Ministers. Nakasone was one of those, Koizumi was one of those, argue Abe was one of those, of course, all in the LDP. I would agree, of course, that the LDP is is basically, you know, the ruling party of Japan. And while there have through the years been certain other parties which have exercised some sort of, you know, counter pressure, it hasn't really, you know, changed Japanese politics to a multi-party democracy. I would totally agree with that. Now, back to the assassination, however, you know, I've right after the assassination, I live in Nara, which is where the assassination of a former Prime Minister Abe occurred. My son actually goes by side IG station where it occurred every day to go to school. It was shocking. You know, I think a lot of people at the time felt that, oh, well, this is sort of a JFK moment from the American perspective anyway. This is sort of a JFK moment, you know, for Japan. I don't, living here and seeing things as they're unfolding, I don't necessarily think that's going to be the case. Actually, historically, if you look at Japan, it's been a while, 86 years precisely. But in the 20s and 30s, you had acting as well as former Prime Ministers assassinated, you know, through political violence, primarily right-wing and the alternationalist movement that had them back then. So, political violence, while certainly shocking, I think, certainly to modern sensibilities and the way it was done, is not something that's going to fundamentally change the country. What is interesting is going forward, you know, the relationship between the LDP and, you know, various elements, again, the Unification Church, which was, you know, the part of, you know, the reasoning, at least according to the assassin for the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe. So, you know, as far as the future, we'll sort of see how it goes. But I would agree that the LDP, if there is going to be any sort of change in Japanese politics or direction, it's going to be internal. It will be as a result of an internal struggle within the LDP. Yeah, so one of the observations that I made, and I saw in other locations as well, after the assassination that Abe, despite being in the former Prime Minister, you know, camp, he was no longer directly in power, still controlled the largest faction of the Continental Party, the LDP party, and was somewhat putting breaks or influencing Kashida's policy. So, even though he was not in the forefront, he certainly had tremendous power. But now he's gone. So, that creates a kind of internal tension on who will lead that particular faction and how whoever that new leader is will influence the Kashida agenda, which Abe and Kashida did do or did have different agendas in terms of how they looked at Japan. Abe is considered to be more conservative, more nationalistic to some extent. Yeah, I think, go ahead, Jerry. Oh, sorry, yeah. Look, it seems that Kashida, when he came in, had essentially three major things to deal with. It was the COVID crisis and the planned reopening of Japan. It was the economy, of course, with the rising prices falling in and the geopolitical issues around Taiwan and various other things. Unfortunately, he doesn't, you know, whatever faction he may be from, I don't think the public perceptions that he has handled any of these areas particularly well. And again, that's actually, that's not just, I think, the internal or domestic view, but internationally, I think as well, particularly with regard to COVID and the reopening of Japan or the non-reopening of Japan. Yeah, that provides an interesting, nice segue. Thank you, Jerry, for helping me out in my role here as moderator to our next topic. Yeah, and that is this incredible depreciation of the yen over the last six or seven months. So before the show, we talked about the dollar yen raping one dollar, one US dollar to 143 yen, whereas within a year, it was down in the one, what, 108, 105 range? So it's been a 30, 35% depreciation, which makes me feel poor, guys. I don't want to end base salary and put it in the dollars. You know, maybe I should be applying for a government aid. You know, that's a joke because obviously it doesn't really affect prices in Japan as far as I can tell, maybe other than like the price of gasoline. But on the flip side, from the external perspective, Japan is now on sale. The euro, the dollar goes so much further than it did, you know, just within six to 12 months ago. Japan hasn't fully opened to international tourism, but I'm sure as soon as they do, people are going to get their calculators out and go, Japan is now cheap. So anyway, Paul, how is this being interpreted or how are you viewing from Paris? I know you're planning a trip to Japan and it's now 30% cheaper than it was six months ago. So for you personally, this is a bonus. This is 1985 all over again, or even 1945, all over again, where the Americans set the end dollar exchange rate at 360, all stories about why they did 360 because it's a circle and 360 degrees. But of course, to make Japanese exports cheaper, never ever thinking that Japan would develop competitive products. And then that gets into a job, that becomes that becomes the political problem of trade of trade imbalances, and maybe even a type of bigger thy neighbor.  So this this will eventually in the bank of Japan will have to intervene, I think, and to to stop this and reverse. So this is a political this is becomes it always becomes a political problem. Exactly, you know, Toyota is making a fortune. Every one yen difference translates in hundreds of millions of dollars a profit.  And I did nothing to do that. And that's again, back to 1985, with the plaza courts and, you know, people, there's advantages and disadvantages for Japan. And of course, for the international community as well. So for the for the yen to be at its present value is again to repeat myself, is a political problem. And it's all political economy. Of course, yeah, these are it's all interrelated. The primary reason I've read that this is occurring is that the Fed in the United States in order to defeat inflation has raised interest rates significantly and is continuing to do so. And the Bank of Japan has done nothing has done has not raised interest rates at all. So you have this huge interest rate differential between the US rates and the Bank of Japan. So clearly, all you're right, this is a political issue. Ajiri, I know you were very passionate about this when we were discussing this. Right. Well, look, I think the reasoning and why this is happening is exactly as you're saying, I think most economic analysts agree, it's the mover toward higher interest rates in the United States. So, well, why does that create it? Well, that because investors, you know, who want to invest, for example, in bonds, they'll get much higher return on their investment with higher interest rates. Right. So they'll be investing more in US nominated or dollar denominated assets, which creates, you know, the imbalance. And therefore, you have the dollar, you know, relatively strong despite inflation in the United States, whereas the yen compared to dollars is just plummeting. The problem is that, as you said, also, Steve, the federal, well, in response to the Federal Reserve's interest hikes, the Bank of Japan has, it's not that they've done nothing, they've decided not to raise interest rates. They still want to keep interest rates at their current levels. And, you know, that it's going to be kind of a risky game because the Fed in the United States has, you know, signal that they're going to continue to raise interest rates. And so if the Bank of Japan's response is to, again, make the decision not to raise rates in Japan, well, then, you know, it seems that the currency gap is going to get even wider. Yeah, that's my question to you guys. And so, you know, if that happens, look, again, as Professor Scott said, it's good and bad. Record corporate profits in Japan. That's not necessarily filtered down, you know, to employee salaries and things like that. But, you know, Japanese companies, at least in exports, are doing quite well. The question is, at what point do you go beyond, you know, that threshold where it, the yen dollar imbalance is so great that it actually starts to hurt, you know, the Japanese economy. We'll see, you know, and I'm sure that only time will tell. But it is something that at least those of us who are living in Japan and seeing our, you know, the value of our money, you know, sort of go down the drain, it's becoming quite concerning. And also, you know, what the markets and risk analysis hate more than anything, it's uncertainty. And we have too much uncertainty. I mean, COVID, you know, the COVID recovery was not as fast as people felt in this higher inflation rates that was not predicted. But then you add in Ukraine, there's, how is that going to end? And I don't have a clue on how that's going to end. There's so many different scenarios from nightmare to something a little less than nightmare ending could be very positive as well to Taiwan. And Taiwan is not dealing with Russia. There's so much interdependency there. And, you know, I lived in Taiwan for three years. I work for the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. I'm very more than sympathetic. Taiwan is a democracy and incredibly successful. They are also the largest chip manufacturer in the world. And we know that some countries like India are hedging their bets, so to speak, and trying to produce chips just in case there's disruption. But there's too much uncertainty and exactly what Judy is talking about as an investor. Where's the safe haven on this? Yeah, that's the key point, Paul. And also, thank you for, as Jerry did, transitioning us to the end.  You guys are getting better at this. Thank you. But that's a very interesting perspective. Jerry mentioned there were three challenges for Kishida. This is obviously the third one. And although Japan will make statements and try and take a leadership role when it comes to the international politics within the Asia region, and certainly I think America is encouraging Japan to be more proactive about it, I don't know that Japan's actually made any progress towards establishing a clear perspective on Taiwan and so forth. So also, we were running a little bit out of time here, but I'd like you guys to think about this in terms of what's actually happening in Ukraine. When the invasion first occurred and actually on shows that we did together, we all thought that, oh, now China's going to watch that and Russia wiping out Ukraine will encourage them to potentially be more aggressive towards Taiwan. But the news as of the last, what, two to three weeks is that Ukraine is actually kicking Russia out. So it's turning, it's looking like and many are predicting that Russia is going to lose this war. So, Jerry, I know you're very passionate about this as well. So what do you think? Yeah, you know, it's doing so well. Does that discourage China, do you think? Look, I think it very well made. And I think that is, you know, certainly very positive development, you know, and letting authoritarians know around the world that, you know, they can lose and they can be put in jeopardy by alliances of democratic countries. The issue, I think, or maybe the difference is probably a better way, is that the situation in Europe is not the same as the situation in East Asia. I think particularly, I think a lot of Western, if you look at a lot of Western news sources, they often very much like to compare Taiwan and Ukraine is sort of the same sort of thing. Look, there are some similarities, but there are also some huge differences. They're in here, and this is where Japan's, Japan is in a rather difficult position, both political militarily vis-à-vis Taiwan. There is no EU equivalent in East Asia. There is no NATO equivalent in East Asia. So countries in East Asia, like Japan, like South Korea, who may have very strong worries and objections regarding Taiwan are a bit more hamstrung and rely much more on, you know, powers like the United States to deal with this, whereas there's more of a collective response in Europe in the Ukraine crisis. Paul, do you agree with that? I agree absolutely. The Americans, the US Congress and the American people are willing to send billions, and France and Germany are not sending a lot of, are nowhere near matching the American commitment. Great Britain. Or the UK commitment.  I mean, it's not even, it's about a quarter of a percent of GDP. It's not that much money. So we could send more and exactly, you know, whether what Mr. Putin's response would be to a military loss and, you know, to put this over to Taiwan, how do you say no to an authoritarian?  And this is the great advantage of a democracy. And that's where China sees our disputes. And I'm being really forceful here as a weakness and this absolutely a strength. Well, whatever I think about the Republicans and all of that Fox News stuff, you know, fabulous. Good. There's dissent. There's alternative opinions. There's criticism. How do you do that with Xi Jinping? So the danger in China is, you know, you have to be very careful of believing your own propaganda. And who's going to dissuade him from thinking that he can do this and persuade him, be careful of having a war with the United States. We're not weak. Yeah, interesting. I'm not a war monger, please. I'm not, you know, I'm not saying, you know, don't, don't, but don't test us. And the nightmare scenario is American and Chinese soldiers and sailors are killing each other. And how does that stop? I don't know. I don't know. Sinking an American aircraft carrier or damaging one, 6,000 men and women on those. How do you contain that? And there's no detente. Even during the worst days of the Cold War, we were speaking to the Russians for the Soviet Union. Yeah. And it's very dangerous now, because we're demonizing. And where's the dialogue? And so I don't like the mood in the United States so much in the Congress from both parties. Where is this leaving? I'm not talking about Ukraine, because also there should be discussions about, about exits and how does this end and what are our goals? I don't think there's been enough talk there, but for Taiwan, President Biden just on Saturday said he's, he's going to defend Taiwan and bring in the US military. The White House walked that back, but he said it explicitly twice and he said it before. So how does China read this? Who's in charge of US foreign policy? It's always the president. Yeah. So we're unfortunately out of time, but that last, last comment that you made, Paul, who is this guy who's our president now? I'm not used to this. Is this some kind of character change that's occurred with him? Or maybe he has the freedom now to be more direct in terms of how he's communicating to Putin? Certainly, that's no longer nuanced.  And now he's telling China that as well. So maybe a topic for us to discuss in a future show. Well, that would be a great topic. Yes. Yeah, towards 2024. Yes. All right. Well, we'll do that guys. And thank you so much for participating today. As usual, the time has flown by. Regarding the issue that Jerry mentioned briefly, the relationship between the unification or Mooney Church and the Abe Jiminto, his party and the many, many members of the party who also had relationships with this church. This is still a major political issue. And one of the issues that's dragging down the Kashida and Jiminto party. And it is a topic that I'll be covering in two weeks on this show with Michael Penn, who was a journalist who actually broke the story that this mysterious church that was related to Abe and was the motivation for the assassination was the unification church. He was the first person to actually publish that. So that'll be in a couple of weeks. So that's a wrap. Thank you so much, Paul and Jerry for participating in this show. Thank you. Really appreciate your perspectives. Thank you for the viewers for tuning in. And I look forward to seeing you guys in a couple of weeks. So that's a wrap for now. Aloha.