Welcome to Psychic Medium Tony Green. I am Tony Green, the Psychic Medium. The beginning of the show, even though I do it twice a week, is always ridiculous. I'm hitting the wrong buttons because I'm reading questions right up until I go on air. So there's that. Okay, you guys, here we go with the show today. This is going to be a good, good show. I can feel it already. So a couple quick things. If you'd like to call in and ask a question on air, the call in number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you would, and please remember to hit the one. That's where I was going with that, because if you don't hit the one, the hand doesn't go up and I don't know you have a question. Second, if you are watching live on YouTube, thank you. Thanks. You can put a question in there. Now, here's how the show basically works for those of you who are new and even those of you who are returning. I go back and forth between questions on the call log. I'll answer a question on the call log live and then I'll go into a question on in the chat. So if I missed your question, I'm not ignoring it. I don't think it's boring. I'm not anything like that. I just may have missed it because the chat now is going to go really fast. I mean, it's going to start flying. And so if I miss your question, just please repost it. And there's no people, people. There's no good guarantee I'm going to get to anybody's question. Don't be upset if I don't get your question. It's not personal. I have one hour to do the show because it does air on TV and it's a one of the shows is only a 30 minute slot. So they only play the first 30. But I have I have only one hour. And so if I do not get to your question, please don't be upset. Don't take it personally. Just come back during the next show. If your question is super duper important that you need an answer right now, you can schedule an appointment. I'll be happy to answer all of your questions during that appointment. Okay. Okay. Alrighty, I'm going to start with Oh, don't be scammed. If anybody reaches out to you saying they beat they are me, they are lying. I don't reach out to anyone for any reason. So please don't be scammed by anyone. Okay, I'm going to do names and then songs or songs and then names or the combination of both of them together. So are you ready? The first name is Luis L O U I S E. The next name is Penelope. The next name is Penny. The next name is Jerome. The next name is Devante. The next name is Lila. The next name is Maricio. Wow, he says Maricio. Okay, I need to quit. The next name is Marisanda. Okay, the next name is Peter. The next name is Joy or Joyce. The next name or both. The next name is Esmerelda. The next name is Guadalupe. The next, you guys, I could not think of these names if I tried like seriously. The next name is Jennifer. The next name is Michael. The next name is, well, it's not, I don't know if this is, well, it's a name, but Hindu. That's a H-I-N-D-U. That's all I'm getting. Okay, now I'm going to, now the name could be your name, their name, a loved one on the other side's name. Alejandra is coming through Michelle, my bell, that song, but it's also a name. I love when that happens. I just love it. Okay, next we are going to go to the songs. Now, this song, this could be a song they loved, you love, it could also be the answer to a question that you have right now, or it could be a confirmation your loved one is with you. So, Michelle, my bell is the first song. The next song is that song, Come Together Right Now Over Me. That song, the next song is, and I could have just said those words, but I really wanted to sing that. Even though I can't sing, I know I can't. It's okay. The next song is, that song, All We Need Is Love. I don't know. I'm not getting any other words to that. The next song is, I think it's still that Come Together song.  And this song has been on before. So just so whoever that is for. Okay, the next song is, I'm giving it two more seconds. And if I don't get another song, we're gonna, we're gonna, I hear Nirvana, which I always hear for the show. We're going to, we're going to move on if I don't hear a song. It's that song, wobble with it, wobble with it. Yeah, yeah. I can't, I can't even pretend to try to sing that song. But if you know it's for you, it's for you. I'm going to do one more song, and then we're going to move on with the show. The next song is, Oh, Living in America. James, I think it's by James Brown, Living in America. I'm pretty sure it's by James Brown. It's that, Living in America. I can't, I can't get the beat of it. Well, I can't get the beat of any of the songs, but typically I get a little bit more to the song than that. Okay, here we go. I'm going to start with callers, and then I'm going to go to chat. Please have one question available. And make that question clear and concise. And yeah, I'm going to go to 860, 860. What's your name and where are you calling from? Okay, Lisa Marie. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Oh my gosh, but that's the name of, I think that's the name of an uncle in an aunt that I have that I've also, let me get into their energy love. Okay, so Lisa, the first thing they want to say to you is, of course, that they love you and they're with you and they're helping you through whatever it is that you're going through right now. They also want you to know, I know that either, excuse me, everybody, is this for me? Okay. And this is for the next, I know this is a bit of a way off. Lisa Marie, I know it, but it Christmas is going to be spectacular. So whatever's going on by Christmas, everything should be spectacular. It should be in the right place. And you should be moving in the direction that you want to move into. And everything should be unfolding beautifully by Christmas. That is given the fact that you take the steps you need to or want to take. Don't procrastinate is what I'm hearing from them also for you. Don't procrastinate. And then I'm so sorry, Lisa Marie, I know what they're going to say, but I'm going to show you the way they're, I'm not going to show you, oh Jesus, no, I'm going to tell you the way they're showing me all of a sudden the song, you can dance if you want to, you can leave your friends behind because if your friends don't dance, then they're not friends of mine or some something like that, that song came in. So what they're saying is just dance, dance through your kitchen, dance through your living room, dancing. Well, maybe not the shower, but just dance. It's going to change.  That's what dancing is for humans. Okay, so just like dance that old energy off and dance yourself right into a new frequency and new vibration and and they're playing that they're singing that they're giving me that song. Let's kick it. And there's this could go into two songs, but it goes ice, ice, baby, that song, which is hilarious to me because I know. Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. That song ice, ice, baby, too cold, too cold. And I'm laughing because like I could, I would never even just think of that song. But those are the songs that they're giving me for you.  I think that's their biggest message for you. And keep moving forward. Okay, love. Or Hartford, am I going to yell? Yeah, it feels like yell. It feels like yell. Now you have free will and choice. You can change that. But as of right now, everything is yell. Okay, everything is going to be yell. Okay, you are so welcome. Have an amazing rest of the day. And thank you for calling in. Remember, everybody, I'm here every Monday at noon. And every Wednesday at seven p.m. Both of those times are central. So Heather, Heather is in the chat. And that's going to be the first thing I'm going to take today as far as a question. And I did a clearing for everybody on the show already. But we're going to do some more clearings with this thing that Heather has. So Heather has been in a relationship. And this relationship has been very difficult for Heather. And she has been trying to get out of it for quite a bit of time. And so one of the things I'm going to do is start clearing. We can, we can let go of what's no longer working for us. So let's clear that. And we can let go of relationships that are no longer healthy. And I get a no on that. So we're going to clear that. And I'm going to also, and this is really important. I know I've done a TikTok clearing on this, but I'm going to do it now. And here for everybody, all manipulation has been healed, cleared, released along with all that caused it and kept it. And we're going to, we're going to clear that. And here's the thing. When we know that someone is not good for us, and they start to manipulate us to keep us with them, well, they know they're getting the better end of the deal. They know that they are absolutely 100% losing a good thing. Otherwise, they would have just let us go. And one of the things that I try to gently say to people all the time is if the tables were turned, they would not think twice to walk away. If it was in their best interest, or or if there was something they really wanted, or something else came along, they would walk away without thinking twice. But because we're empathic and we're sensitive and we let guilt and manipulation make our decisions for us, we end up years later still repeating the same cycle listening to the thing. And Heather, in this case, and in many cases when we're dealing with people who have either substance abuse, or they're just manipulative, even if they don't drink or do anything else, they're just manipulative and they want what they want without caring what we want or caring to make the situation better.  And this might, the way I say this might be shocking to people, we're not here for anyone else. Everyone is responsible for themselves. Everybody is responsible to take care of themselves, to heal themselves, to fix themselves. We can offer guidance. And if we're healers, we can offer healing, right? But even psychiatrists, psychotherapists do not work on their own family and loved ones for a reason. If somebody truly wants to change and be a better person for you, there are so many resources and ways they can do that. And if they're not changing, you just have to, if only one person on the boat can survive, it must be you. Because you have enough common sense to see that the boat is sinking and it's not a good boat in the first place. It's very difficult. I don't say this lightly, okay? I've been in situations that were so difficult to leave. And then I never ever wanted to be in another relationship afterwards because it was so painful and so difficult to get out of that situation. So I don't say it lightly, but what I will say is when you're in a relationship with someone and those dynamics are unhealthy or they are toxic, the dynamic of the relationship and or the person, which if the person is the relationship is, it is sucking the life right out of you. And you have to, you have to save yourself first, especially if you have children. Because if you have children, you're showing them unhealthy relationship dynamics and you are, it's as difficult as it may be. This is a full grown adult you are dealing with and that person can definitely take care of themselves and be okay on their own. And they don't need you. They just want you and they don't even want you for the right reasons. And whatever they feel, the time they had with you was a gift, not an obligation. And that's with anybody, any place at any time. Yes, it hurts to break up, but if you get to be with someone, that time together is a gift. If you start looking at it or using it like you're looking a gift horse in the mouth, then you no longer get that gift. Nobody is obligated to be with and or stay with anybody else, even if there's a wedding and a marriage. There is nothing in this world that says you have to stay with a person, especially if it's an unhealthy relationship and or dynamic. And I know a lot of people will say, well, you're supposed to make it work. Don't you think we tried? Don't you think that one of the people was trying the whole mother frigging time to make it work while the other person was sitting on their morals or their ego or their pride or running the streets expecting us to make it work? Don't you think that at least one of the people in the relationship was trying to make it work? And that's why it lasted as long as it has. And now it's just time to throw it in the trash and walk away. And just because that person says they want to make it work now doesn't mean that doesn't mean do diddly boo. Because what they say and what they've done over the past couple years, what they've done is who they are. What they're saying is how they get you to stay so they can continue to be who they are.  That's it. That's it. That's all you can do. Okay, I'm going to go to the next caller and the next hot caller is 203. 203, what's your name and where are you calling from? Hey Michelle, how are you? Like my mother died a year and a half ago. I was wondering if I could ask if there was any advice or messages from her. Okay, what's our first name, love? Yep, your mother's first name. Connie. Okay, just a second. Okay, so the first thing I see is there are two women here, one's a little fuller and one's a little like normal size, whatever that means for your world. And I'm going to tell you that they are both they're together, they're very together.  It could be an aunt, but I feel like it's it's a grandma. I'm also going to say that they're both they're both with you a lot. Okay, now do you have a child, a daughter? Okay, good, thank you. So they also and and I need to so if you're okay when if your daughter is still young, it's still there. But when she was young, she could see the older woman all the time, like the grandma or the great-grandma, whatever it is, she could see her all the time. Now that she's a little bit, is your, well, how old is your daughter now? Yeah, 25. Okay, thank you. I'm going to tell you when she was young, she could see the other side very, very clearly and see everything. I mean everything on the other side. As she became a little bit older, that kind of subsided a bit. That could reopen for her again. And it could reopen like all at once. It's not something that goes away. It's something that is in us and we it's like a door that we open and or close. It's not a gift from the outside. It's something each and every one of us is born with and we facilitate it or we do not. Okay, excuse me. I'm going to tell you your daughter could open that door. If it opens, here's the thing with your daughter. I don't know why this is where they're going with the message, but they are. If your daughter reopens that door, it will open wide open just like it was when she was very young. No in between. It's either shut or it's wide open and she'll see like everything. And then in her doing that and that being touching you, it will also strengthen whatever gifts that you have. Now one of you, at least one of you has been asking for this.  I wish I could see like I wish I could communicate with with whatever it could be just to communicate with one person. But when it opens, it's going to be like floodgates flying in and there's nothing external stopping it. Typically what closes the door for people is fear like we're young and we see something that scares the bejesus out of us. And then it shuts it down or closes the door. And then we think, well, that's gone. It's never coming back.  Oh, did everybody see that flash of light as I'm saying this? Yeah, baby.  It will be open. Now be aware of the fact you can later on tell tell them I don't show me this, don't show me that. But I this is the message they're bringing. Okay, I'm just I'm just going to stop it there and I'm going to say this is the message they're bringing. I hope this might not be what you called for but this is what they're giving you for you and your daughter. And I hope it makes sense to you. And if it doesn't, that's okay, it will. And that is what I have for you. And I hope that this was helpful. I think I'm a little sensitive to things when she was younger. So she'd be interesting to see what happens. Yeah. And I and again, once it opens for her, I feel like it's going to open for you. And it will be an amazing, like a really amazing experience for both of you. Okay. You are so so welcome. Thank you for calling in. I'm here every Monday at noon and every Wednesday at 7pm. Both of those times are central. You can call in<PHONE_NUMBER> to ask a question over the phone or put one in the chat. Hey, Patrick, how are you? Maris, Kerm, well, who is that? Carney? Hey, Carney. I need to go up a little bit in here and just try to find the last place where the questions kind of let off. So I'm going to do that as best I can. Stephanie, I'm just going to start with Stephanie's question. If you did a question before that, I apologize. Hi, Tony. I have a question. I started a new job recently. Would you be able to tell me if this is the right career path for me? Okay, Stephanie, is this the right career path for Stephanie? Yes. You're going to change. There's going to be a change coming. You're starting off, Stephanie, in the right space, but it's going to, it's going to, this is the beginning, not the end. Okay. So whatever you're doing right now, it's going to give you possibilities and you will be able to expand or jump into the next step. I hope that makes sense for you, Stephanie, but where you're going right now is good. It's a good starting space is the way that I would say that for you, Stephanie. So I hope that is very helpful for you. I'm going to go to 417, 417. What's your name and where are you calling from? Linda. Hey. I'm calling from North Carolina. Hey, Linda, how can I help you today? Over, way over 30 years. And it just doesn't feel like I use around, of course. No, no, no. What's his first name, love? Vincenzo. Vincenzo. Okay. So the first thing I get is I, I'm going to tell you once somebody passes over, we have, and it's been a bit of time. It's our thinking of them that helps us feel them. They can always be around, but we, it's our intention and energy that we give to them that brings them in. Okay. So that's the first thing. The second thing is on the other side, they also evolve just like we evolve here. And so when we need them, I'm going to tell you, okay, so when we need them, they're there. Okay. And we'll feel them. Okay. Especially like around holidays, we feel them more strongly. But here's a thing for Vincenzo. He's always in the car and he wishes you would play different music. He's always in the car with you, in the vehicle with you. And he wishes you would play different music. He wishes, like the first thing I hear is that old time, got that old time, a rocking row, the kind of music that moves the soul. Okay. So that's, he wants something a little bit more meaningful on the radio when you're in the car with him. He wishes, because he's, he is always, no matter what, you get in that vehicle and he is there with you, taking off with you since day one, always driving with you and making sure you're safe. Sometimes trying to literally like drive for you. Okay, love. So just know always, always, always. So if you turn off the radio and you just have conversations, you'll start to feel his energy in the vehicle. And then, but also if you put on some old school music for him, he would adore that, he would really, really appreciate that. Okay, love. Do you have any messages for me? Yeah, that, that is, that is the message he's giving you, that he's in the car with you. And that he, and that if you could play different music, but he is always with you, like your, your original question was you didn't feel him as much. I think that was your original, it was your original statement. But the message is he's always with you and he's in the vehicle with you. And he is very much attached to you is the way that I would say it. So that is what I would say to you. Now, I'm going to say this, I know there are a lot of new people calling in every single week. And I always forget, you know, I don't always do the whole intro, but I'm going to do it now. If you're calling in<PHONE_NUMBER>, or you're in the chat and you're asking a question and you want to connect with a loved one, and you want a specific message from them, please ask that question right away. And I will do my best to get that answer.  And because there are so many people calling in and in the chat, I, I limit it to one question and one answer. So once I've given that answer, just due to the fairness of everybody else, I'm not going to go into a whole second thing. But you can schedule a private appointment with me. And then we can spend the whole time getting messages for you. And you would do that at my website, t-o-n-i-g dot i-n-f-o. I'm going to go to the next question. Hi, does my grandpa Gary have any messages for me? Okay. And again, like when it's something like that, any messages, I'm going to give the first thing that comes through. And your grandpa Gary is definitely saying, Trisha, Trisha, your grandpa Gary is saying don't settle. There's something that either has recently come in or is coming in. And it's either within the past six months or the next six months, I get six months time frame, and I'm hearing do not settle. So if this were like a, let's say somebody's coming in that wants to date you, I'm just using for examples, not for reels. Don't settle. Make sure you're getting, you know exactly what you want and you're going for it. If it's, let's just say, for example, Trisha, a job, don't settle. Don't take it because you think something else won't come along. You can take the position, but don't, don't stop looking for what you really want and what will be the best thing for you in the long run. Okay. That is what your grandpa Gary is saying to you. Definitely do not settle. And even if you're already in something and it doesn't feel right, or it doesn't feel like it's going in the direction you want it to, it's okay to look for something else. Just because we decide to go down this road, when we find out the road needs construction or is under construction or there's big huge potholes or whatever it is, we can switch roads. We can get off this road and get on a better road. Okay. That's what I'm getting for you. I hope that makes sense. Trisha, I really do. Excuse me. I'm going to go to five, one, six, five, one, six. What's your name and where are you coming from? Hi, Tony. This is Kavita. How are you? Hey, Kavita. Have you gone to Greece yet? No, you have not. What's going on? No, I'm going May. May. Okay, excellent. Yeah. But what I wanted to know today is, I have a sense of, I have a question. Should I change to this other dentist? The initials are BG. I don't want to name put his name on the online Dr. G. Would he be better dentist for me? No, he wouldn't. I'm getting a no right away and I'm getting like a, kind of a feeling in his. Really? Oh, wow. I'm sure he's fine, but just not what you would be looking. You would be really disappointed if you went there. Okay. That's the person I have now, Dr. S. He's pretty good. He's fine. I do feel like if you want a different dentist, one will come in in the May time. Okay, so. Okay. Whether that means. Yeah, because I just have some issues with the dental practice, like they're billing. I just feel like they just bill more than they should, you know, things like that. So it's, yeah. So that's why I asked. Okay. Here's what I'm going to say. That could be accurate. That could be. What I'm going to say is, you're going to find somebody and may you really like. Now, maybe you're in Greece and something comes up and you end up going to a dentist there and you find out like a lot of the things you've been doing or whatever, or in May, you're going to meet somebody a dentist in your area and you're going to get, if it's in your area, I feel like there will be a referral from somebody to this particular dentist so you'll know you can trust them. Okay, Kavita. Okay, great. Thank you so much. You are so welcome. You have an absolutely amazing rest of the day and thank you so much for calling in. Beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I am going to go to, hey, goodness gracious, Terry T. Jay Francis, my boss. Oh, God. Boy, talk about catching me off guard there, Jay Francis. My boss died last week fairly suddenly, wondering if he will come up in names and songs. Did he? I don't know. Louise and Penelope, Penny, Joyce, Jennifer, Michael could all be mine.  I skipped down.  In your off time, do you do what you want to do? Live? Live. Just live. Just find a way to enjoy. And then I'm hearing that song, what's it all for?  I'm just hearing that, what's it all for? Something studios and something, something, something. But it's kind of a rap song. But it's, it's a, the point is like, have a good work life balance. Patrick knows how to do that. I mean, Patrick, you are amazing from what I can see at having a good work life balance. Oh, Patrick, you're back. That's awesome. Welcome. Welcome back. Patrick, welcome back. Okay. Jay Francis, I hope that was helpful. I'm going to go to the next person who I believe is 610. 610. What's your name and where are you calling from? Hi, Johnny. This is Sonia. I'm calling from Pennsylvania. How are you? I'm good. Thank you so much. How can I help you tonight today? Beautiful. Before I continue, I wanted to point out something. You have a live event. This is Daytona, the very second that's on the website, but it's not the full URL. Okay. So that event happened already. That is, I should take that off of there, but it, it already happened. That event is over now. Right. No, I just wanted to mention that as well. I just wanted to point that out. I think here's somebody who just wants to go there. Oh, okay. Thank you. But anyway, so how can I help you love? I just wanted to call in and it because my partner of eight years cheated on me and she moved out with some time in December.  But surprisingly for my birthday, I received a card and a letter to every sorry and she's turned me as tech e-card as well. And then I respond. I'm not responding on her basically, but I just wanted to see, you know, what you're picking up about this. Yeah. A lot of, I have so much sarcasm for her.  So she fucked around and found out, first of all, sorry for the swears, but this is an adult show. And you know what? Who cares how she feels? Like, I'm sorry, not sorry. Who cares? Who cares if she feels badly now? Who cares if she feels like she wants you back now? Who cares if she realizes she made a mistake now? Because you know what? That was not a one time. Cheating is never an accident. Cheating never just happens. Like, your clothes don't just fall off when you meet someone. There's a lot of steps people take to cheat. There's, there's the whole like, unless you meet somebody in a bar and hook up in the bathroom, which still decisions are being made and, and your partner is being completely forgotten about in those moments, I don't care how you feel right now. Ma'am, keep it pushing. This isn't about her, my love. This is about you and you're doing the right thing.  She wants what she can't have. And the more she can't have it, the more she needs to prove that she can. And this is about you having self-respect and self-love and not taking this back and moving forward knowing there's going to be something or someone better for you. Now, okay, so she messed around with someone thinking it would be a fun little diddly-do. She found out she lost you. So sometimes when people lose somebody, they have to get them back because they feel like then they weren't wrong or they didn't do anything bad or see it's not so bad. They took me back. In this case, you just need to keep going in the direction you're going. If she's still with this person, and I feel like she is, she will stay with this person. She's not going to make that choice. She just doesn't want to lose you because you brought a lot of really good benefit to her. I hope that makes sense for you. Yeah, thank you. And you're welcome. And here's the thing. And again, just like at the beginning of the show with Heather, I'm going to say this to you. People who do us dirty, okay, whether they think we have evidence or not, whether they think we know or not, or if we do know or not, if they're just not good to us, we don't have to be compassionate to them. Okay, our actions do not have to be compassionate to them. We can be compassionate about the fact that they are a really messed up person that makes bad choices, but we do not have to let them back in and show forgiveness and do all of these things. We can forgive whatever we need to forgive in ourselves so we can move on in peace. But taking them back, they just do the same thing over and over and over again until they get help and they get therapy and they figure out why they took those actions in the first place. And that can't be something we tell them to do. That has to be something where they finally look in the mirror and go, you know what, I'm really, I behave like a degenerate sometimes and I hurt people with my actions and I have to figure out why I do that so I can stop doing it. And when they do that and figure that out and then they can completely change their behaviors, then maybe they can have a conversation with you. But until that time, she doesn't deserve even your airspace. I'm sorry, I'm on your team. I'm on your side. I'm on the side of nah, we're good over here. We're good. We see we can make it without you, but you can't make it without us. So you should have never done us dirty. We're solid. Go get your own solid ground. I'm sorry it's not what you skipped to. I'm sorry that grass wasn't greener. I'm sorry that pie wasn't juicier. But guess what? I'm solid. I'm good. And the next person that comes in is going to be a better person. And if I take you back, those words won't be true. Okay. And that's what you stand on.   And that is not what you deserve. You deserve mutual love, respect, and caring. Okay? Okay. And I know that it's easier to hear that sometimes it's easier to hear that take the person back and they've learned their lesson. And if that were the case, I would tell you that is, sweetie, that is just not the case right now. Okay? That is so not the case right now. Do you feel that she'll be sorry that, you know, that she lost me or whatever? Because I'm not ever going to talk to her again. You think she'll be sorry for that? She's sorry she got caught. And she thought she was, she, I'm going to tell you this, she thought she was so smart.  And she thought she was so smart. And she's sorry she got caught. And she is sorry you're not in her life because there were a lot of things you did for her. But I'm also going to tell you, because she's arrogant, she runs on ego and not spirit, she would do it again. She would just be smarter about it next time. I suspect that. She would just be smarter about it next time. I don't know if she's that smart. And here's the thing. I'm going to ask you to write her, don't send it to her, but write a goodbye letter and then burn it and let this be the end of it.  But let this be the end of it and move on with your life. And if she- I am, I am moving around. If she- Yeah, she doesn't know that I'm going to build my home in these areas. She doesn't know that. Good, good. And don't tell anybody that might tell her. Don't, don't do that. Okay, love. Just keep your private stuff private, okay? Yep. Okay, sweetie. Thank you so much for calling in. Thank you. And you can call back anytime and I will give you whatever guidance I get. Okay, love. Thank you, Tony. Have a good day. You too. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Kami wants to know, hi, Tony. Will my fiance be okay for the next month or two? Thanks. Yes. I instantly hear yes. I hear yes. Yes. Everything is going to go well and be okay. That's what I am hearing love. Okay. I'm going to go to 415. 415. What's your name and where are you calling from? Hey, Tony. This is Jessica from Pennsylvania. Hey, Jessica. Yes. So, when this, hey, I'm trying to make it quick. I know it's your end of the shelf. When it's, when the new moon came in yesterday, I started, a lot of emotional pain started coming up for me, which I haven't felt like it feels like in a really long time. And I'm wondering what kind of insight you could share with that. It's basically like this longing to hear back from like business contacts I reached out to to like close deals and as well as like hearing from people and I'm like resisting. I'm not resisting. I'm just not in the mood to keep following up with people anymore. Like it's a really old pattern and I'm like letting it go now finally, but it's, it's bringing up this stuff for me up, you know, clearly. So just wondering what you could share and what it's going to clear. So comfortable. So I'm not a astrologer and I only know what I hear other people say on some videos, but what I've heard about this new moon, it's in Pisces, which is extremely emotional. And the astrological new year starts with Aries, which we I believe are in or about to jump into Aries. So we're starting a new astrological new year, meaning everything is ending and it's ending with a Pisces new moon and Pisces new moon and depending on where this falls for you personally is supposed to be extremely emotional and extremely a purging of some things and significant healings can come in during this time. Now along with this new moon, there are many other things going on like I believe Mercury is sitting in one house for two and a half months, which is pretty unheard of and something else is sitting in a in something like planets are just sitting right now. I would recommend if you if you work with new moons and planets or you want to know more about it, find somebody who's very credible online and on YouTube and look them up. Everything I have heard and it personally experienced from the full moon to this new moon is complete purging and endings of things for us, not necessarily with even other people, but things that no longer work for us serve us. They never worked for us or served us. Now we are able to just let that go and move forward. So everything you're saying is pretty much a spot on for what they're saying with the new moon and in Pisces and then rounding the corner. If we're not in Aries already, rounding the corner into Aries where it is the astrological new year and kicking that off in a completely different way. And then don't forget we have two eclipse or an eclipse coming up in April and this eclipse is actually hitting the US it's going pretty much across parts of the US and that is going to continue this whole clearing things out and healing things and again for everybody it's going to be a little bit different depending on what your sign is and where this falls for you. But I really look at it and see if it matches what you're going through right now. And the one thing I would say about this is don't go against the grain. If something's clearing out like for you love where you're fighting your urge to reach out to people keep that going and allow new to come in because there are people that will come in that will be reciprocal there will be good back and forth and a lot of times when somebody's no longer in our energy or our life it's for us it's happening to help us and to take us to the next level and have people come in that are more in alignment with who we are now. So I would definitely say moving forward whatever comes up look at it say I see you have a nice trip and let it go you're you are pretty spot on with the way you're feeling and I feel like a lot of people are feeling that this this whole weekend and they'll be feeling it through the next week so thank you so much for sharing that. Thank you so there's not like astrology stuff I mean is there anything like specific that like I need to know or something I mean I know you went through a lot of that I'm just saying like psychically. The one thing I would say to you is definitely don't be the person who is grabbing on is what they're showing me like like okay so what they're showing me is you feel like and maybe you don't feel like this but the analogy or the vision that I'm getting is you're trying to grab on to things that might be from the past or might be whatever they are however you would want to describe them to hold on to it but if you don't grab on if you don't reach out if you if you let go you can use your arms as wings okay so that's what they're showing me so where you want to kind of tether yourself or have that security or that connection just let go and instead fly in a new direction and I know I see what they're trying to say and hopefully I'm conveying this correctly and again it goes back to if you don't reach into the past you'll be sprung forward and there will be new connections new people that match you where you are energetically business personal everything friendship everything so allow all that energy to drip off you it's like taking off as we head into spring taking off those big toxic winter coats filled with dirty snow or however we want to say that just taking them off and letting them melt and drip down the the sewer way is what I am getting so then as you do that you will then be able to fly forward into almost into arms or into people that are ready for new healthier relationships also with you does that help you love yeah I like it I like the visual so okay yeah that is helpful thank you you are so so welcome and thank you so much for calling in and I I I know sometimes I will give a message and I kind of give it it's meant for you and the way I'm saying it is meant for you but the way I give it might sound a little vague and there is purpose behind that number one sometimes that's just the way spirit brings it through and I can't I can't change the way spirit brings things through me and it is meant for that particular person and if I have to restate some things to make it a little to make it understood better it's still going to be the same message but it will be just understood just a little bit better for that person and personally but sometimes also not everybody's supposed to know what this means to the person receiving the message okay okay thank you so much everybody for being here I will be back Wednesday at 7 p.m. I'm so grateful for everyone who was here with me through this whole time I'm so grateful for you taking this journey and I look to Wednesday at 7 p.m. thank you so much have an absolutely amazing rest of the day


The next item of business today is the member's business debate on motion number 14521 in the name of Michael Russell on the Celtic rainforest. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would be grateful to those members who wish to speak in the debate. Could please press the request-to-speak button as soon as possible? I call on Michael Russell to open the debate. Seven minutes, please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am grateful to the Parliament for cross-party support from my motion and for the chance to talk about and celebrate what is an important issue for Scotland. The word rain, and its reality, is depressingly familiar to people in Scotland at present, particularly after what has been officially the wettest December on record. But most people will be more familiar with the term rainforest in connection with places that are somewhat more exotic and somewhat warmer than Scotland. It is only recently, as the excellent new book on the rainforest of Britain by the Edinburgh-based environmentalist Clifton Blane explains, that our own temperate rainforests, which are often rare and threatened habitats, have achieved formal conservation status. Our rainforest supports some of the oldest land plants on earth, which appeared long before the dinosaurs. The Celtic rainforests, which lie in our Atlantic coast, are also some of the most species-rich areas of plant and fungi not only in the UK but in the world. For example, in my own constituency, one of those forests, the one at Napdale, is a rare and fertile treasure house, containing no less than 25 per cent of all recorded types of Britain's mosses and liverworts. All along our north-western coast, there are abundant ancient species-rich havens, which are home to oak, ash and hazel woodlands, all packed with a plethora of colourful lichen, moss, ferns and fungi. The species that dot the forest floor and enjoy an aphithic bond with the overhanging trees contain a joyous mix of names and uses, from yellow speckle belly, to the stinky stitka, to deceptive featherwort, to the slender mousetail moss. However, I am going to declare a favourite, thanks to the excellent and imaginative cherry-tay plant life. I am the species champion of the tree lungwort, a large and verdantly green lichen that can be found in several of the rainforests in Scotland. John Gerard first documented the medicinal use of tree lungwort in 1597, although his prescription of the lichen to treat lung disease, based solely on its similar physical shape to a lung, might not be up to current diagnostic standards. More contemporary uses of the lichen include using extracts to treat the gastrointestinal system of rats. I am no lichenologist, I have to admit, and I am no lichenometrist either. A lichenometrist, as I am sure you know, is one who calculates the age of rock by measuring the diameter of the lichen, which covers it—something that I do not think anybody in this chamber knew until this afternoon. However, I admit to being growingly aware of the rich variety of the lichens that we have as our heritage here in Scotland, particularly in the Celtic rainforest, and growingly concerned at the very real threats to them. That is the primary reason why I have sought this debate, Presiding Officer, to draw attention to those threats, to inspire action from parliamentarians in Government and to celebrate the work that is being done already to protect and conserve them. There are two principal threats to our Celtic rainforest, and those are habitat fragmentation and the intrusion of non-native invasive species, particularly Rudidendron ponticum. Rudidendron was introduced to the UK from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 18th century and supplemented by Himalayan imports thereafter. It spread far and wide, and it threatens Celtic rainforest by its sheer vigor in what is an ideal habitat. It crowds out and overshades everything else. In recent years, SRDP funding has been vital in beating back the challenge, and it is essential that that funding line continues. Great work has been done by bodies such as the Scottish Natural Heritage and the Forestry Commission to assess and combat the spread of Rudidendron in key areas. Much of the actual work on the ground is being done by third sector bodies, community projects and volunteers. It is crucial that we not only value their work but give them the support that they need and deserve. The need for more trained and supported volunteers is flagged as a key outcome in the Government's challenge 2020 to develop understanding and awareness of nature. The means of combating habitat fragmentation is less straightforward. Plant Life Scotland is doing a commendable job working to identify zones of opportunity, whether there is a proper environment for species growth or whether there is not yet present all the species that would be able to flourish in that environment. Plant Life Scotland is working with land managers and teams of volunteers to identify the zones and make plans for how to manage them to ensure species growth. The bigger the area, the more contiguous areas there are in which Celtic rainforest species are able to grow, the more we can ensure the long-term survival of this unique and vital habitat and all that it contains. The Celtic rainforest is the largest of Scotland's 43 important plant areas, the criteria for which we are established in the global strategy for plant conservation. Plant Life Scotland has committed to providing effective management for 75 per cent of Scotland's IPAs by 2020, and it is incumbent upon all of us as environmentally concerned citizens to do everything in our power to help to achieve that task. As everyone here is aware, awakening interest and then converting interest into action is always a challenging task. Education is crucial and we need to engage the widest possible audience. One way to do that is to ensure that we commend and celebrate those who are already hard at work. In that regard, it is good to see the John Muir Trust, Plant Life Scotland, the Ardroy Outdoor Centre of Trust in my constituency, the National Trust for Scotland and the Forestry Commission working together to create an award scheme that aims to recognise those who are building a deeper connection between people and groups of all ages in the outstanding natural environment in which we live and take our recreation. Those organisations and many others work tirelessly to engage with communities, schools, families and landowners to build such connections, while undertaking the essential effective management of our wildness, wilderness and wetness, all parts of the typical Celtic rainforest. I am sure that the minister will want to join with me in thanking them. I look forward to hearing more of what she and the Scottish Government are doing to take the care and conservation of our Celtic rainforest forward. The Celtic rainforest in Scotland are fantastically beautiful by their repute and globally significant, and we should consider ourselves lucky to play host to such an extraordinary variety of very rare species. I welcome the conservation efforts of the organisations which my colleague Mike Russell has already highlighted and stress the support that is needed by the Scottish Government and how important the awards are for Plant Life and the National Trust for Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland and the John Muir Trust and the Ardroy Outdoor Education Centre Trust, which my colleague Mike Russell knows about, I am sure. Also, the heritage lottery fund is important in this context and, of course, the backing of Scottish natural heritage. I would particularly like to thank my colleague Mike Russell for his motion to highlight this important issue. A number of my constituents in South Scotland have raised their concerns about the issue of deforestation to me recently, and the loss of much of our native woodland is due to human impact and the changing climate, which is indeed a tragedy, and we must address this as parliamentarians. The Celtic rainforest ignites the imagination. For those who have not visited, myself being one, the names alone paint a picture of this otherworldly habitat. You could explore Puck's Glen or go on a hunt for blackberries and custard or octopus suckers, I understand. I am certainly now looking forward to a visit, perhaps over the summer recess if I am still here indeed. The balance of heavy rain and mild temperatures creates a vivid environment that is very humid and that is able to nurture the lichens, mosses, liverwats, fungi and ferns, which in turn help to maintain the humidity.  The RSPB informed me that those Scotland accounts for only 0.05 per cent of the world's land area. It is home to 5 per cent of moss species, calling it a global moss hotspot. The aforementioned environmental organisations have laid out positive steps for protecting these habitats. As Mike Russell has highlighted, Rhododendron ponticum, though attractive, spreads a forceful rate. Having tried to pull out quite a lot of it as a volunteer myself, it is quite a challenge and the volunteers should be commended to do this work. We need long-term plans to tackle this and other invasive species and I welcome the control initiatives that are being worked on by the RSPB in plant life. I am also pleased to see discussions of more effective deer management mechanisms and hope that the land reform bill will assist in this problem of overgrazing. Further difficulties can result from fragmentation. Small islands of habitat are far more vulnerable to weather disturbances and disease and networks need to be built up. We have a responsibility to acknowledge that our activities mean that these habitats may not be able to sustain themselves as they once could. In my region of South Scotland, where the species eye champion, the forest of moth, resides in daffled sunlight and moist open areas, there may be forests. That is a good example of habitat, such as the Celtic rainforest, which needs careful management. I am pleased to lend my support to raising awareness of those issues and echo the call of schools, community businesses, communities, businesses and local authorities to engage supportively in conservation work for the Celtic rainforest and right across Scotland. I am inspired also by the Governing Nectar Network, an exemplary initiative on the Ayrshire coast tackling the issue of fragmentation for pollinators. The co-operation of local people and businesses and the local authority has made this something that could be rolled out across Scotland, I believe. As Shadow Minister for Environmental Justice, I am delighted to see foresters, land managers and conservationists working together to preserve our Scottish rainforest. The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh has developed an innovative programme to calculate how best to manage a habitat within the big picture of climate change. Looking to the year 2080, where some of us anyway won't be here, I suppose, the tool can be used by forest managers to consider different development ideas. With a co-operative and science-based approach, those environments will thrive long beyond that, I hope, and won't be reduced simply to a myth. Thank you. Many thanks. I now call Jamie McGregor to be followed by Rob Gibson. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I, too, congratulate Mike Russell on securing this member's debate. I also thank Plant Life Scotland for their very useful briefing. As they suggest, the Celtic rainforest, that is the temperate woodland found along Scotland's Atlantic coast, and based on Cesarloke, Darnie Birch and Hazel, is often overlooked. Indeed, I suspect a number of members were quite surprised to hear Scotland does actually have its own rainforests, albeit ones that are certainly not tropical. But they are an important and globally rare natural resource and are valuable for the diversity of species they support, including the rare mosses, liververts and lichens to which Mike Russell has referred. I'm told that a typical forest ravine in Argyll can contain as many as 200 species of mosses and liververt. He mentioned the specific woodland in Napdale, which has 25 per cent of Britain's entire mosses and liververts, including a species that I don't think he mentioned, known as the prickly featherwort, and rare filmy ffans, which are so-called because of their translucent-looking ffons. It's no wonder that the Celtic rainforest has been described as a lyconologist mecca. I hope that we can encourage more lyconologists and lovers of rare plant species to visit our Celtic rainforest as this extra wildlife tourism could be a welcome boost to local economies in the countryside. I remember once visiting a rainforest in New Zealand and eating part of a cabbage tree, and I don't know what bush tuck I can be found in Scotland's rainforest, but I'm told by my oldest daughter Sabilla that the wild garlic does make very good pesto. Of the motion refers to the impact of the invasive rhododendron ponticum. I do agree with that. Indeed, I've spoken about the effect of invasive non-native species such as this on a number of occasions in this chamber. My late father Charles McGrigor was an expert collector of hybrid rhododendrons, and I readily accept that they produce wonderful colourful blooms in botanic and private gardens. Rhododendron and azalea gardens in Argyll in May are something to behold in their magnificence, but unchecked in the wild, ponticum can spread readily and snuff out other plant species in their wake, as can Japanese knotweed and Himalayan borsum as well. We need to see sustained action to prevent the spread, harming our biodiversity, and I would commend SNH for their continued good work in this regard and hope that the SRDP grants will continue in order to help volunteers and others take care of looking after our biodiversity in this way. The spread of rhododendron ponticum is a great threat to our Atlantic woodlands. I join Mike Ross and others in welcoming the efforts of organisations to educate young people about the forests in their communities, and I would encourage constituents to consider supporting schemes such as the Flora Guardian, where individuals can volunteer to help monitor and conserve some of the special plants in our woodlands. One note of caution to them if you're visiting a Celtic rainforest in summer, be sure to take a migeonet with you. These woodlands also are useful because they give shelter to rodea, reddea, sheep, and many native and migratory birds, such as the woodcock, which comes in the winter in particular. To conclude, Presiding Officer, I again welcome today's debate and hope that it will help to raise awareness of and understanding of the important Celtic forest habitat that we're fortunate enough to have in our guile and in the West Highlands generally, and whose long-term future we should all be aiming to secure. It's been there through changing centuries, and I hope it will be there for many more to come. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I think that Mike Russell is due considerable congratulations on bringing this important debate to the chamber here at the beginning of a year where climate change is in many people's minds the issues that affect Celtic rainforest, which stretch from the far north of my constituency at Lochheribol down to his own in Argyll, is one of the treasures of our country for various reasons, because it's a thermometer, it's a thermometer, it's the kind of measure about the way in which our natural habitats on the edge of the Atlantic are actually coping with the kinds of weather that we face. The Celtic rainforest at Ardvar in Ascent was one of the reasons why the Racky Committee got involved in one of the problems that face such of the Celtic woodlands that we're discussing today. Ardvar at about 58°25 north and around 805 hectares is an area of complex woods, old sessile oak, birch and birch dominated with oak in that area along with Loch Avulun. But the problem is that for many of these areas, the issues about the way in which they're managed will allow us to see whether they are regenerating or not. There's broadleaved deciduous woodlands in 32 per cent of Ardvar and about heath and scrub etc in 33 per cent. I have seen with my own eyes that there should be a lot more of the deciduous trees and a lot less scrub because of overgrazing. SNH is a partner in the Celtic rainforest approach. It does so as a lead body to advise the Government. I see that there are many other partners in that. I wonder whether, in fact, they have a handle on whether the John Muir Trust, one of the partners, has policies about deer culling that will aid the recovery of the Celtic rainforest or not. I have been very worried to read issues about the way in which their culling policy has left deer on the side of the hill and not taking it off the hills. I would like to know whether SNH feels that that is a good way for the John Muir Trust to behave. I have to say that we also have a problem about whether or not the local estates next to where the John Muir Trust is in Ascent near Ardvar can manage their deer because there are suggestions that there is very deep culling but which the public does not know the detail. The question about the Celtic rainforest being able to regenerate does allow us to question whether all the partners are doing their best to do so. The Ardvar example was what led to the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee investigating deer management across Scotland and led to ministerial intervention to protect our native woodlands like the Celtic rainforest. The debate that we are having today allows us to see that in a considerable context. It is very important. The RSPB has suggested to us that the Celtic rainforest is under real and present threat, one of which is the wrong level of grazing. That is why I brought the subject to the centre of my remarks just now. The production of the strategic local deer management plans, which is widely seen as a positive step in protecting native habitats from overgrazing, is an absolute essential for the Celtic rainforest in the future. I have sat at the exposed point of slate in the Isle of Skye, where six-inch high oak's nestle in the heather is stunted by the prevailing gales and by overgrazing pressure. There are many more potential Celtic rainforests out there if we get the balance between tree growth and deer management. That is why we have got to celebrate and encourage the conservation of the Celtic rainforest, as Mike Russell proposes. Many thanks. I invite Eileen McLeod to respond to the debate. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I begin by adding my thanks to my colleague Michael Russell for bringing this motion on the Celtic rainforest to the chamber this evening for debate. I share his enthusiasm for this important part of Scotland's natural environment, and I am especially grateful to the other members who have taken part in this evening's debate for their support. As we have heard this evening, the Celtic rainforest thrives on rare and misty conditions, high humidity and minimal fluctuations in temperature, and that creates an important habitat consisting of numerous common and rare species of mosses, liverwats and lichens. There are an exceptional number of plants growing on or hanging from trees, and the ground is often ankle-deep in a blanket of mosses and liverwats. Obviously, as Mike Russell has already mentioned, as a Scottish Environment Link MSP, he has already lent his support to the tree lungwort, a green leafy lichens that grows in Scotland's woodland along the west coast. I do not think that it is an exaggeration to highlight the international importance of the Celtic rainforest. As members have highlighted, as well as it being a habitat for those mosses, liverwats and a rich array of lichens, it also provides homes to many rare and important faunas such as the Pied Flycatcher and the Checkered Skipper Butterfly. The Celtic rainforest may not be as well known as, for example, the tropical rainforest of Amazonia, so I am pleased that we have had this debate in the chamber this evening so that we can recognise the real genuine value and be able to explore opportunities for their enhancement. Although the rainforest stretches along much of our Atlantic coast, Argyll is, of course, a heartland of Celtic rainforests in Scotland, with many iconic sites such as Glen Crenn, Glen Nant and the western shore of Loch Oll. We should not also forget, and I know that some members have already mentioned this, about the cultural and the tourism importance of those forests. It should be absolutely no surprise that the forests attract visitors from far afield who come to enjoy our ancient green scenery and the incredible wildlife. A recent publication by Clifton Bain, The Rainforest of Britain and Ireland, is a traveller's guide. That also highlights the very uniqueness of those habitats and encourages people to explore those spectacular lush woodlands and to understand their value to the environment and to society now. As Mike Russell and others have pointed out, unfortunately there are threats to those iconic forests, in particular our invasive and non-native plants, browsing pressure and climate change. However, I cannot tell you how much I need good news right now, but actions are being undertaken to protect and improve the condition of those habitats. That can only be fully effective with co-ordinated effort and that long-term commitment from a wide range of organisations. The Forestry Commission Scotland, for example, is finalising the national strategy for rhododendron control that encourages landscape-scale partnership work, specifically within designated sites, and that will be sometime in the spring. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Plattenlife Scotland is also working extremely hard to develop a project to restore Atlantic woodland, which includes the removal of rhododendron. That will focus on four special areas of conservation in Scotland, on each to the north balaculosh woods, the morphin woods, the sunurt and the Loch Lomond woods. On the national forestry state, the expansion of the Celtic rainforest is being achieved by the efforts of Forest Enterprise Scotland through removing the non-native trees from plantations on ancient woodland sites. I understand that there are plans for up to 40 sites to be cleared over the next two years, including a large area of spruce in Napdale Forest. The Forestry Commission Scotland's native woodland survey of Scotland recorded that a high level of grazing by deer and sheep contributes to the poor condition of many woodland habitats, including the Celtic rainforest. I take the points that have been raised specifically by Rob Gibson in this regard in terms of our deer management, but as Mr Gibson is aware, our deer management is always an issue that we are taking forward in the land reform bill. Under the Scottish Government's biodiversity route map to 2020, one of the areas that we aim to focus effort is on the reduction of browsing pressure, given how special it is. Overgrazing has been mentioned with sheep and deer. Is there going to be a formula to work out what a sensible grazing level is? The provisions that we are looking at in relation to the land reform bill are, as I said, the Scottish Government's biodiversity route map to 2020. One of the areas that we are aiming to focus our effort on is specifically on the reduction of that browsing pressure, because we know how special our Celtic rainforests are. They need to be protected properly. One project that has already been mentioned around the secrets of the Celtic rainforest was managed by Plant Life Scotland, and that is working with the land managers and communities across Scotland's west coast to deliver the improved condition of Woodland. That work is to be commended. I would also like to put on record my thanks to Plant Life Scotland for their very helpful briefing that they provided for this evening's debate. On dedicated sites, of which there are many within the Celtic rainforest, grant support is available under the current Scotland's rural development programme, demonstrating our commitment to protecting and improving important habitats in Scotland. Obviously, in the longer term, the climate change in just pressure may pose other threats, and the research is indicating that the potential for the future loss of biodiversity in species in these Atlantic woodlands is high. The smaller and the more isolated the woodland, the more vulnerable it is to those losses. That is why we are helping the forests to adapt to future changes through actions that encourage regeneration and expansion, and so we will build greater resilience and adaptability. All of the work is part of the Scottish Government's prioritised plan for meeting the international targets in a route map to 2020. In closing, I thank Michael Russell again for bringing this motion. A very important motion on the Celtic rainforest to the chamber this evening. I very much welcome the considerable attention that is given to these important habitats. I support the motion absolutely in recognising the importance of this woodland and the threats that it faces. I certainly commend the efforts of all those involved and all of our volunteers in its conservation. I am particularly pleased to learn that groups such as the Ardroy Education Centre Trust are helping to engage and educate local school children and communities, because education in this regard is so crucial and, indeed, embedding that understanding and awareness of such important places with local communities and young people is something that is very close to my own heart. Those are truly special places that deserve special care, conservation and management. Providing a living link to our natural and cultural heritage, we must all do our utmost to ensure that they are protected properly so that we can secure their long-term future, as my colleague Jamie McGregor said in his remarks, and to encourage more people to visit our Celtic rainforests, which are magnificent and very unique. Many thanks, minister. That concludes Michael Russell's debate on Celtic rainforest, and I now close this meeting in Parliament.


How are you today all? Let us do the question which is given to us. It says write three numbers whose decimal expansion are non-terminating non-recring. So in this question, we need to tell about three examples. So let us start with our solution. Non-terminating non-recring decimal expansion means that first of all it should not end at a point and also the remainder do not occur or repeat itself after few steps. So one of the examples which can be given is 0.01 then we can have 001 then the number of zeros can be increased and then we can have one again then we can have four zeros and one and then we can This procedure can go on and this is one of the examples of non-terminating non-recring now this procedure will never end and also they cannot be a period when we can have bar over any number Proceeding on to the next example It can be now in place of one we can have two like 0.20 20 then 200 then 2000 Then 20,000 and So on so this is again one of the examples of non-terminating non-recring Proceeding on to the third example as we are required to give three numbers So it can be 0.003 Then 00003 Then 00003 so the number of zeros are increasing First we had two zeros then three then four Then we can have any number of This type of procedure only so these are the three numbers which Explains you what are non-terminating non-recring decimal expansions are all about So I hope you enjoyed the session Bye for now


Hello from Munich and Electronica 2016. ST recently acquired AMS's assets in NFC and RFID technology and they've wasted no time in putting those new resources to use. Renny Wutter has joined me now as marketing manager responsible for the new portfolio. So how does this acquisition complement your existing presence in this market? So actually if we take on one hand the existing AMS reader portfolio which ST acquired, it's a high-end analog performance NFC readers and this is combining to the ST expertise of digital and security. This gives us a one-stop solution as a full portfolio for NFC expertise. And we can offer now techs dynamic or so-called interface techs plus the reader portfolio ranging from entry level to high performance readers with the best analog performance and also at the top range the NFC controllers. So what about the applications the ST25 NFC family are being used in? So actually there are a lot of applications NFC readers are used in but historically we started with payment or a point of sales application where the analog performance is paramount and it's really important to have a high field range and the performance to read out cuts. But in addition there's also the automotive sector where they have similar constraints and performance requirements. We have a lot of metal around this application where our features like automatic antenna tuning, high output power, dynamic power adjustment comes into play and eases the life of the engineer and fastens the speed of development and ease of certification. Renny you've got a demonstration here to bring some of those features to life. Let me show you one of the most important features first, the automatic antenna tuning. If you look here you see the face shift so the needle holds positioned and also the output power is the length of the needle. If for example I put the mobile phone on you see how the face is shifted and also the output power is influenced. What the chip can do is that it has an automatic adjustment command. If I hit this one you see immediately how the needle is going back to the 90 degrees face shift which is ideal. Another nice feature is that we can of course communicate with any NFC mobile phone on the market. Just to briefly show you if I put the mobile phone in here you will see how the communication is started and I could push a picture or a website to the phone or from the phone to the laptop. Another thing which is also very interesting for access control like in hotel doors or automotive applications is the inductive or capacitive wake-up which is built into the chip itself and here you see how it's measuring the environment. If I get close with a card you see immediately the interaction and the system wakes up from sleep and for example the card door opens or the hotel door opens for you. This can be of course also done with a mobile phone. Last but not least the chip is very powerful. It can find a lot of cards in proximity. You can drop but you can place up to 20 cards. One of our customers achieved you see five cards here in proximity and also in bigger range. So it's very powerful and at the moment in analog performance probably the best chip on the market. Randy thanks so much for talking to us. Enjoy Electronica 2016. Thanks a lot for your interview.


I'm Marsha Joyner, and we are navigating the journey. Navigating the journey is dedicated to exploring the choices in life. Together, we explore the various paths the life's ending. Together, we make all of the difficult conversations easier. One of the difficult conversations is medical cannabis or marijuana. Today, we can explore the pros and cons of medical marijuana. Together, we can move this issue so that our loved ones do not suffer needlessly. Together, we can make sure that our own wishes and those of our loved ones are expressed and respected. So if you're ready to join us, we ask. Navigate the journey. And today is a special day because we are going to venture into medical cannabis. Yes, marijuana. Yes, cannabis, whatever you like. But we have a great guest today. Wendy Gibson is an RN, and she is an educator in medical marijuana. And all of the other titles lead us to what she is doing and what this conversation is about. What I know for sure is that there's so many people in hospice and palliative care that have the medical marijuana card, but there's nowhere to get it. And they die waiting on it. So our question, of course, is not only what is medical marijuana, but what is taking so long? Since 2000, the state approved this. What's taking so long that people are dying waiting? Well, it was only in 2015 that we passed the medical cannabis dispensary bill. And so that has given the state and the dispensary licensees time to create multiple corporations. Each dispensary licensee has to create a grow site. They have to create a manufacturing area as well as a dispensary. And every step of that process is new to Hawaii. And every step of that process, the Department of Health, has been tasked with creating entire sets of regulations and guidelines for them, including a seed to sell tracking systems. So it's not an easy task. But this long? Yeah, actually, this long. I'm not surprised that it's taken this long, personally. OK. Well, let's start at the beginning. What is medical marijuana? What is cannabis? Cannabis. It's a very unique plant that has chemicals in it, many chemicals in it. Some of them are very similar to chemicals that your own body produces. So because your body produces them, they're called endocannabinoids. So in the plant, there are phyto cannabinoids. In your body, there are endocannabinoids. And because your body is wired for that, we have more receptor sites for that in our bodies than any other type of receptor, it works for many, many different conditions. So we don't have a rejection issue like we do with medicine, drugs. No. You can build a tolerance to it, just like that's a normal response to other medications. But in terms, they have not yet found a toxic level of it. So nobody has died from cannabis. And that's largely due to where the receptors are in your body. Because with opioids, they shut down the breathing center in your midbrain. Because that's where there's a lot of receptors. But there's not so many when it comes to the cannabis receptors, and so it can't shut down your breathing or your cardiac function. Now, the Bible refers to this seed, this weed, as it is. And cultures all over the world have had this. It's been used for tens of thousands of years. China, India, I can't remember all the other countries. It was in Ayurvedic medicine, Greece. It's been around a long time. So what happened between the time that it was in full use and today? Well, it went wrong. It was legal in the United States, and it was available in pharmacies from 1850 to 1937. It was one of the top selling medications. It was available in many forms, in tinctures and oils, and even in a smokable form for treating asthma. But most of the changes came about in the 1930s. About 1937, there was a campaign against cannabis, as the medicine as they knew it as cannabis. And they changed the name to marijuana. And it's a racially charged slang term, mostly targeting Mexican immigrants. It was right after the Mexican War. And it was also during the economic depression. And then also the end of alcohol prohibition, when the Narcotics Enforcement Bureau was newly formed and they kind of needed a new target, they needed jobs too. So Congress passed the Marijuana Stamp Tax Act. After a large media campaign pioneered by William Randolph Hearst, it was a huge racially charged media campaign. And then the Reef for Madness movie was all part of that. What I read about Hearst is that all the newspapers, to that point, had been manufactured by Hemp, which is part of the plant. And then he has a newspaper nationwide. He also has a forest with trees. So he decided that it was better to make paper out of his trees than out of this weed called hemp. Yes, this was driven by industrialists as well. Because cannabis sativa is the medicine. And cannabis sativa, the other form, is hemp. So this largely shut down not just the medical portion of it, but it shut down the hemp industry. And hemp was being used to make everything, pretty much everything, all the fibers in your clothing, anything canvas. So ship sails, the ropes on ships, the oils were used. It was a great machine oil and also as a biofuel. OK, so that's when it was all shut down. Now, however, the Americans own the patent that says, gives all the things it cures. And the Americans own the patent. I would never say cure. But no, that's what they call it in the patent. The United States government holds many patents on it. One of them is a patent on CBD, showing it's US patent number 6630507. And it's held by the Department of Health and Human Services and has been since at least 2003. And what this patent says is that CBD is useful in minimizing the harms of, well, brain damage, ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. Also useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and HIV dementias, which is something that we are seeing coming to fruition in Alzheimer's clinics. Well, the one I'm talking about was 1949, where it lists. I don't have the number with me. But it lists what it can, it says, a cure for. And it lists these things. So that's wartime, right after the war. So back in 1850, the Pharmacist Guidebook, the United States Pharmacopia, that USP that you see on all of your medications, the United States Pharmacopia is the Pharmacist Guidebook. And from 1850 to the 1940s, cannabis was listed as a useful medicine, useful in the treatment of many, many conditions, including seizure disorders for alcohol and opioid dependence and pain, which are all things that we are just now rediscovering. So 1850, they knew this. I'm not familiar with the 1940s. I'll have to go and dig it up for you, yes. But I was amazed that they knew this. And yet there was this big push to do away with it, to criminalize it. It was further criminalized during the Nixon administration. 1970 was really the final nail in the coffin, making it one of the most illegal substances on the planet. Made it, putting it into a schedule one drug category, which it never belonged in. Scientifically, it doesn't belong in any of the categories. However, that was also a racially charged campaign. I remember as a child, there were reefers. I don't know what anybody, you know, I don't know anybody that had any ordinary people, because it was this thing that only entertainers had reefers. The jazz musicians. Yes. But I never heard of ordinary people in the community that had any of this. It was just something that was relegated to the entertainment world. Yeah. And so this was also, I guess it was only, I was a freshman in college in 1956, when I discovered that, well, maybe this isn't just for entertainers. You know, that's. Sure, yeah. Yeah, there was huge cultural revelation in the 60s, of course. Yeah. But still, it. But it was kind of kept underground. It was. It was. It was very secretive. And. Well, probably, because people were being prosecuted once the marijuana stamp tax act went into place. And that required that you buy a stamp from the government in order to buy or sell it and fill out paperwork. And if you didn't have, it weren't strict compliance, you could be prosecuted for that. The government only issued a few stamps, and they cost between $1 and $100 per gram, I believe. And so that, in 1937, that's about a lot of money.  OK. I'm a freshman, right, at Howard University. And on the table in the dining room, every table had salt and pepper and Lipton tea bags. Every table. So I decided, well, I can make some money, because everybody in Maryland, which was the tobacco country, everybody had papers where you roll tobacco. That was a given. Oh. Yeah, where you roll cigarettes. OK. Because that's what you do in a tobacco country, right? OK. So I decided I could make money, and I could charge $1. So I would take a Lipton tea bag, open it, put the tea in the paper, and roll it and sell it as a reefer for $1. Oh, my. Oh, my. And then a person that came along that really knew what it was jumped me down. Yeah, that can't happen. That ended like that. Yeah. Now we'll go to break. You're watching Think Tech Hawaii, which dreams live on thinktechhoai.com, uploads to YouTube, and broadcasts on cable OC16 and O'Lello 54. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. Some say scuba divers are the poor man's astronaut. At DiveHeart, we believe that to be true. We say, forget the moon. DiveHeart can help children, adults, and veterans of all abilities escape gravity right here on Earth. Search diveheart.org and imagine the possibilities in your life. And we are back with Wendy Gibson. And we are talking about cannabis. Wendy is an expert. She's an RN and an expert in cannabis education. And so she's here with us today to educate us on medical marijuana or cannabis, whichever you want to call it. I prefer the term cannabis. That's the botanical name, the name of the medicine. That is the, that's what it will be. OK. So where are we in the process? What happens next? We have the laws in place. People can apply for a card. And then they take it to special doctors who can then prescribe. I think this is a process. The doctor helps issue the card. Oh, the doctor helps issue the card. Yeah, you have to have your examination first. First. Oh, OK. All right. And then you get your card. And then you get your card. But now that I have my card, now what? Well, you're allowed to grow your, since the medical cannabis program was created in 2000, patients have had a right to grow their own medicine. And we just increased the plant count to 10. So that's the only legal way you can get your medicine right now until the dispensary's open. And we're hopeful that that will be by the end of August. OK, so tell us what is going on with? Well, we're at a point where we're just weeks away from being able to open the first dispensaries. And it's largely reliant upon getting lab and lab testing in place before we can do that. Some of the dispensary licensees have already grown a crop or two and have a product that they can sell as soon as it gets tested and passes the infection. Well, what are they testing for? Multiple things. They're testing for pesticides, heavy metals, any kind of contaminant, mold, bacteria. So that it's a pure plant is what you're, to make sure that it's a pure plant. Yes, because this is medicine that's going to patients. And some of our patients are children. We need to make extra sure that this is quality medicine. They'll also be testing to see which cannabinoids and terpenes are in there. Those are the active ingredients that have therapeutic value and are also responsible for some of the side effects. So we can look at the chemical profiles of them and we can dose it. And we can predict what the effects are going to be. What are the side effects? What do we look for in side effects? Well, it depends upon the person. It depends upon the chemical composition of the plant. And there are over 6,000 varieties. So I can't answer that question easily, quickly. The most common side effects for naive users, an experienced user generally doesn't have side effects. What do you mean a naive? A first-time user, somebody who hasn't. There can be some anxiety. Your heart rate may come up. Those are the two general negative side effects, dry eyes, dry mouth. Well, so now tell me the difference in the marijuana that or the cannabis. Thank you. Marijuana that you smoke, the cannabis that's a medicine. What's the difference? There's, or is there a difference? There's basically no difference. The cannabis that's being grown for medical use, we're trying to bring up the levels of CBD. Because for many years, the recreational users have been using lighting processes and techniques to raise up the levels of THC to make it more fun, more recreational. However, the CBD in it helps balance out the effects of the THC. And both are hugely important medicines. But the medicinal hybrids are generally higher in CBD than the recreational use one. So the CBD, what is the difference in the CBD in the cannabis and the CBD in hemp, hemp oil? Hemp? Well, it's not actually a great source of CBD. You have to use a lot of plant to get it. Whereas if you're using the medicinal one, you don't have to use as much. Not many knows, too, in the hemp and the cannabis, because they're both labeled CBD. Well, hemp is cannabis sativa. It's just like the cousin of the other. And you're asking what the difference in the CBD levels are? They're higher in hemp, generally speaking. But it's still not the best source of CBD, mainly because it's a bioremediator, meaning the plant takes toxins out of the soil while it's growing. It's great for cleaning up soil, toxic soil. But if you're concentrating that and giving it to a patient, I'm not all down with that, unless you have really good independent lab testing to go with it, showing that there's no contaminants in it. I know we're talking about the medical marijuana, cannabis and hemp and all this. Now, since this is a plant that just grows, it's a weed, just grows anywhere, why is it that the state of Hawaii can't, you just said it cleans up the soil, the toxins out of the soil. You make paper, you can build houses, you can do all these things with hemp. Hemp has thousands and tens of thousands of uses. Doesn't it seem, now I know this is your field, but it seems to me that we could build houses less expensive since we have a housing shortage. If we grew hemp, used it as a building project that we could reduce the cost of houses. Yes, I'm very much a hemp advocate. And there were three permits that were issued in the state of Hawaii to grow it for research and industrial purposes. I'm hopeful that we'll see good results with that. I know that Mrs. Thielen, representative Thielen, worked for years. She's been a champ. She's been for years on him. And so there's so many products, I just think that the state has just missed the ball. But not using this. Well, what would really be most helpful is to get cannabis out of the schedule one drug category. It never belonged there. It is not a schedule one drug. Schedule one drugs have no medical value whatsoever. And I am a proponent of unscheduling it. Get it out of that scheduling process, not reschedule it. Because changing it to another schedule doesn't make much of a difference. Mostly because the FDA will never approve a botanical medicine as an FDA approved drug. They just don't have a process to do that. But it's not a drug. It's not a drug. But because it's being categorized in a drug category, the FDA approval process is the only way to make it into a prescription drug. And simply changing it to a schedule two drug, that's for a prescription drug. Which it will never be. The FDA doesn't have a process to make that happen. And no, and they are all employed by Monsanto anyway, so that's not gonna happen. Yes. Anyway, that's a different subject. However, from what I've read about the safety and what you've told me, this sounds a lot safer than any of those prescription drugs, any of them. I worked in healthcare for over 30 years, 10 of those in pharmacy. And I have never seen a drug that has such a great safety profile. And the side effects do not include death. And it has such a wide range of therapeutic uses. Because like I said, it's sort of part of your body already. Some of the chemicals in it are very similar to the ones that your body produces. So, you know, our program, we have been championing medical aid and dying. And it seems to me that if this were available, medical marijuana was available to people at the end of life, that the trauma and the suffering that they go through and that horribleness of giving them morphine until they just go away could be eliminated. This is part of what drives me. I took care of my mother when she was dying of lung cancer. And back then I knew nothing about cannabis, the medicine, and I really wished that I had known back then what I know now. I know my mother's, I helped my mother live her dying and I know it would have been a much easier process if we had had cannabis aboard. Well, I went through the same thing with my mother.  But so many patients I know at the end, like I said, we are championing the bill of medical aid and dying to assist people who are in that tragic state and say, I want out. If this was readily available, where they wouldn't suffer, where they wouldn't, the way they could go peacefully. Well, we do have a medical cannabis program and hopefully the dispensaries will be open soon enough so that some of those patients can make use of the medicine. Do we have a cadre of doctors who are still in yesterday and so that I'm not gonna do that to my patient? I'm not gonna, yes. Yeah, I'm a cannabis nurse educator and I am trying to educate as many nurses and doctors and anybody who will sit still for an hour and a half to learn about the endocannabinoid system and the plant chemistry and how this works. And there are companies who have policies against letting their physicians or APRNs make the recommendations and so that they have to do it on their own and because it's been so stigmatized and because this information just hasn't been out there for them, readily accessible to them and, well, the pharmaceutical companies pretty much fund the medical schools so everything has to be a five milligram pill for them to be comfortable using and they're not gonna be comfortable using something where the patient has to find their own dosage and they're not comfortable with botanical medicines like they used to be back in the day. That was standard of care and now the standard of care is, well, there's many protocols that they have to follow and cannabis simply isn't one of those alternatives although I would like to see it used more in place of opioids because I feel that this could help reduce the number of deaths from opioid overdoses. It could. Hugely. Well, you know, it takes an hour and a half you said to learn. Yes, and I give it for free if you want to put together a group of healthcare professionals or anybody who will sit still for an hour and a half. Well, our time has run out so we don't have an hour and a half but we would love for you to come back again, please. Thanks for having me. Aloha. It's been a real pleasure and there's so much to learn so we will come back and talk again. Have you. Aloha. We look forward to it.


So this year in Vail and here at the Stem and Clinic has been an incredible journey. What it means to me professionally and personally tend to overlap but I would say professionally it's really giving me a chance to maximize my career potential and really give me a huge diving board launching point into my professional career. The hands-on learning, the labs, the ORs, the clinics, the research, it just goes on and on and on. I came in here saying I want to learn how to write a grant. I've never written a grant. What a better place. Applied to seven different grants and we actually got one. I feel like you can only do that here with these resources. The mentorship here has been phenomenal. With Dr. Gleiss as a female in orthopedics, how do I have an awesome career? How do I make my dream career come true like she did? Another huge mentor for me has been Dr. Philpon. A lot of just talking back and forth and picking his brain and him being so open and so willing to just pour into me and my career and my understanding of everything. The lifestyle in Colorado has been phenomenal. The mountains have really found a new spot in my heart and being amongst them every day, how much life there is and how much growth and change of the seasons. Some really good advice that I would give my younger self. You're going to get a lot of nose in life and you're going to get a lot of oh I don't think you can do that.  I cannot thank my husband enough. He is this is really where I'm going to cry. He has given up his career for me as the fire chief. He followed his dream from the beginning and that was inspirational to me and it helped me know that you know when you have your mindset on a goal and you put your heart into something you can get anywhere you want to go. So I definitely encourage if you have a passion follow your passion.


beautiful internet friends and welcome back to Taboo Tuesdays, my favorite segment of the week where we tackle... this isn't a joke, I literally can't remember the tagline. We talk about, we talk about things on Taboo Tuesdays that sometimes people don't know how to ask about or want to ask questions and feel weird about it or ask questions even if they feel weird about it. So we're gonna talk today about something that had never crossed my mind before I was going to become an amputee. What do we call this? How do we refer to this without offending people? You may notice I'm wearing my handy dandy reference chart today. Thanks Gus Johnson for this awesome shirt, I adore it. What's okay to say, what's not okay to say? Now let me just begin by saying I am not the word police. I don't really believe in being the word police and I'm not gonna be offended by whatever you call it. In fact people have said so many things online about me and about it and whatever whatever you want to refer to my stump, nubb, residual lib, whatever, it works for me but I'm gonna go over sort of just a general overview of how the amputee community looks at missing parts of your body and how to refer to those as if you want to avoid possibly offending anybody. Pre amputee life for me, this was again something I never really thought about. I always just thought of like if someone was missing their arm like that part would be called a stump, right? Like that's just what I'd always heard. I don't know if that's what you guys always heard. Side note real quick if you would let me know what you think this should be called and again I don't take offense at anything around this topic. Let me know what you've always thought, what you always referred to amputated limbs, residual limbs as. As I went down the path of researching what being an amputee would actually look like I joined some Facebook groups which are super super super super helpful. I realized pretty quickly that not everybody said stump and then actually some people were offended by that. The medically appropriate term is residual limb. I guess it makes sense logically it's like the residual part of a limb. That is what medical professionals are supposed to refer to that part of your body as. My experience has been that doctors will absolutely still say stump. I know that that is actually deeply offensive to some people in some forums and groups. I know that it's like it's like hurtful to some people. They don't want that part of themselves referred to in a crude manner. They prefer the medical terminology which I completely and totally understand. Now personally I don't care. It's just not something that has affected me either way so I usually just call it my like nubbin. It just looks like a nubbin doesn't it? It's just like a little it's it's it's it's a nub of something. It's my little like it's what I have left. I almost has today to make this video because we live in a world of censored words right where where a lot of words are offensive and sometimes people feel like it's hard to keep up like what's offensive and what you can and can't say and I'm definitely not here saying you can or can't say anything I'm just here to say that for some people residual limb is the safest way to go so if you run into someone in public and you find yourself about to say stump in a sentence and you think wait I don't know this person I don't know their history residual limb is probably the safest way to go so there you go if you ever you know spent sleepless nights wondering what you should call an amputees missing body parts that are still attached. English is my first language I'm just still not super good at it. 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It really means so much to me that you spent a few minutes of your time here with me today. Now if you're an amputee I'm curious what your favorite or least favorite term is maybe there are other ones that are more creative and cool that I haven't even heard of yet. Let me know in the comment section down below. I love you guys, I'm thinking of you and I will see you in the next video. Bye guys!