The seven best associate degrees of 2023, that's what we're gonna be talking about today. We're gonna be going over associate degrees that are actually worth it, right? So there's a lot of people out there that wanna get jobs but they don't necessarily wanna go for the full bachelor's degree because bachelor's degrees do take 5.1 years on average, right? They're not four years like most people think. And so a lot of people end up going for associate degrees because they can get those within one to two years. But some associate degrees are much better than others and that's what we're gonna be talking about in today's video. So if you appreciate this type of video, go ahead and associate your finger with that like button and let's jump into it. All right, so first one on the list is going to be information technology management. Now, this of course is a technology related degree and one thing that is great about the tech industry is there are so many different ways for you to break into it. You can literally break into it with an associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's, doctorate. You can do certificates. You can self-teach. You can try to get like an entry level job and then vertically or horizontally shift into a technology related job. There are so many different ways to break into tech. That's one thing that makes the technology industry the best industry to work in, in my opinion. But with that being said, sometimes people don't wanna put the pressure on themselves to self-teach or to get a certificate or anything like that. They just wanna go ahead, get a degree, do more of a traditional education type of thing and an associate degree can work in those cases. So with this one, you'd expect to make about $45,000 a year starting out and 80,000 in mid-career pay. If you look up Information Technology Manager on Glassdoor, you're gonna see they make about $138,000 a year. And if you type in Information Technology on LinkedIn at the entry level, right? Because there's a lot of careers out there that have a lot of demand, but not so much demand at the entry level, you're gonna see 218,000 entry level results. So really, really good stuff there. So again, my preferred method for getting into technology in general is getting certifications or doing some sort of online course in order to break in, get that first entry level job, and then you can go anywhere you want from there. But with that being said, I know some people do prefer going to university and getting more of a traditional education, so this is gonna be an option for you. Number six on the list is going to be Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound, right? So this is one of many medical related associate level degrees that you're gonna see on this list. And I've talked about this before on the channel, but the great thing about medical related degrees is you actually have to get the degree in order to get the job, right? There's a lot of different examples of jobs out there where the degree is kind of optional. It's becoming more and more optional as time goes on. But with medical degrees, you truly do have to get the degree in order to land the job and that gives the degree itself value. So with this one, you'd expect to make about $55,000 a year starting out an 81,000 in mid-career pay and the meaning score is 88%. Now, one thing you're gonna notice about the meaning scores with medical degrees versus basically any other type of degree is the meaning score is much higher.  So there's a lot of jobs out there where you are making a positive impact on people's lives, but you don't necessarily get to see it.  Few days later or a week later, you release them and they're good to go. Whereas if you're creating some sort of piece of software, yeah, you are helping a bunch of people out there, but you don't necessarily get to see it. So a lot of the time, it can be much less satisfying for that reason. Now, if you type in diagnostic careers in general on Glassdoor, you're gonna see $72,000 a year. And if you type in ultrasound on LinkedIn, you're gonna see 25,000 results at the entry level. So yeah, this one can be a really good one to get into. Number five on the list is going to be project management. Now this is one where you're gonna see a lot of boot camps and online programs and stuff like that that can teach you how to get into project management. And you can go that way, definitely. There's a lot of certifications and certificates as well. But with that being said, again, some people prefer going more of a traditional route. And so this one is an option for you. If you look at the stats, entry level career pays $50,000 a year, mid career pays $85,000, and the meaning score is 52%. If you look on Glassdoor, project management makes $86,000 a year. And if you type in project management on LinkedIn at the entry level, you are gonna see a whopping 353,000 results. Next one on the list, number four is going to be electrical and computer engineering. So sometimes engineering degrees can be relatively good at the associate level. It really depends on which one though. With this particular one, you can expect to make about $47,000 a year starting out in 87,000 and mid career pay. And the meaning score is 58%. Electrical and computer engineers make about $81,000 a year. And if you type in electrical engineer on LinkedIn at the entry level, you'll see 38,000 results. Computer engineer at the entry level, you're gonna see 83,000. Number three on the list is going to be instrumentation technology. So this is one of those careers where a lot of the time you do have to get an associate level degree in order to get into it. So it does require some education, but it doesn't require too much and it's really good pay. So with this one, you can expect to make about $51,000 a year starting out, 90,000 in mid career pay and the meaning score is pretty good at 59%. Instrumentation technicians make about $62,000 a year. And if you type in instrumentation technician on LinkedIn, you'll see about 6,800 results. But with that being said, there are other names for it. Number two on the list is going to be another medical related degree. And if I'm being honest, I could put almost all medical degrees here because if you count the fact that you have to get the degree in order to get into the career, if that's like the most important factor to you, then it's just, you know, medical degrees dominate associate degrees. But number two on the list is going to be radiation therapy. So this one, you'd expect to make about $65,000 a year starting out and 95,000 in mid career pay and the meaning score is a whopping 92%. That's the highest meaning by far on this list. If you type in radiation therapy on Glassdoor, you're going to see they make about $114,000 a year. Although I think that adds in people who have bachelor degrees and master's degrees, et cetera. It's not just associate degrees, but you can make really good money with radiation therapy even with an associate level degree. And if you type in radiation therapist on LinkedIn at the entry level, you're going to see 5,800 results. So there's a bunch of different types of radiation therapy and there's a lot of other job types depending on the type that you specialize in. And with medical degrees in general, a lot of the time there's a bunch of different niche degrees. There might only be like 10 to 15,000 jobs throughout the United States, but there's like a hundred different variations of these different little niche jobs. So you really do want to do your research when it comes to these medical careers and medical degrees. And by the way, if you just want to get into a high demand, high salary career as fast and efficiently as possible, check out the free digital marketing masterclass which I'll put down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. This masterclass is from my friend Seth who has gotten literally thousands of people jobs over the last few years. He's the best in the world at getting people digital marketing jobs.  He is routinely getting people with no experience and no college degree jobs within about three to six months.  You can check them out. I have a whole playlist of them and all of these people have gotten jobs using what he teaches. So again, I'll put that free masterclass down in the description as well as the pinned comment below if you want to learn more about it. Number one on the list is going to be no surprise and that is going to be computer science and mathematics. So it was interesting. This is actually a combination degree and it is at the associate level. Now keep in mind with these combination degrees a lot of the time not enough people graduate with them for these statistics to actually be valid. So it could be that there's just not a large enough sample size here. But with that being said, computer science, you know, it's another one of those where you can get into those software development jobs without a degree, but it's nice to have one. It definitely isn't a scam to get a computer science degree. Now, if you type in computer science and mathematics on Glassdoor, you'll see 72,000 a year. And if you type in computer science and mathematics on LinkedIn at the entry level, you'll see 34,000 job postings that have those as keywords. Check out this interview of James who was able to get a job at 16 years old using the digital marketing masterclass that I mentioned before. Really interesting to hear and I think you'll really enjoy his story.


I want to speak about border villages for a moment, because most of the Northeast states have international border. Those villages in the border areas, in the international border areas are critical because they are the eyes and nerves of the country. If people living there are not going to be able to get information or see what's happening and convey it in time, any among...


So, if I write this down, it's again a conversion start question. So I start with 56.0 grams of aluminum chlorine and I want to end up with grams sodium chloride. So I need to convert. So if I plan this, you've seen in the previous question, from the chemical reaction equation here, I know that my mole conversion factors, if there's nothing written here, that means you're assuming a 1. So we know for each one mole of those, I get 3 moles of those. So I can go from mole to mole. Now I want grams to grams, which means I definitely need to convert first to mole. So mole, aluminum chloride, I'm going to go to grams aluminum chloride. And at the very end, I want to go to grams sodium chloride. So it goes at the top, and then probably coming from mole, sodium chloride. And in between, I had mole sodium chloride and mole aluminum chloride. Here, I can write the numbers from here. So I have the 1 here and I have the 3 here. Now the question is, how do I get the other ones? How do I get this one here? So this one is again previous chapter. This is why I told you that in the class, you have to be fast finding these molar masses because you don't want to spend too much time on it. So I want to know one mole, aluminum chloride, is how much? So one mole, aluminum chloride, is one times the mass of aluminum. Here, 0.698 plus 3 times the mass of chlorine, 0.3545 is 0.698 plus 3 times 0.545 is 133.33. So that's what goes here, 133.33. And now the other one, one mole sodium chloride, one mole here, is one times the sodium. So my sodium is over here. So it's 0.599 plus 1 times the chlorine, 0.3545 is here. And this is 22.99 plus 35.45, it's 58.44 gram. So this goes here and here we have the gram on top, so 58.44. And now I'm typing everything in my calculator. So 56 divided by 133.33 times 3 divided by 1 times 58.44, which gives me 73.6 grams of sodium chloride. So I'm going to start with 26 and then I'm going to write it as 26.


Activity-based management, known as ABM, is an extension of activity-based costing. By providing better product costing information to management, ABM helps focus on reducing costs, improving processes, and improving decision-making. One of the benefits of activity-based management is improved pricing decisions. When companies have more accurate product costs, they can have more accurate product pricing to customers. Another benefit assists with product mix decisions. Again, having improved product costs means more accurate gross margins. Management might decide to shift production towards a more profitable product. Activity-based management assists in cost-cutting decisions and allows managers to look at costs as either value-added or non-value-added. Value-added costs are activities that increase the perceived worth of a product or service to a customer. Not all costs are value-added, however. Some are considered non-value-added. These activities add cost to a product without increasing the perceived value. Although not all of these costs can be eliminated, management spends considerable time looking to reduce these types of costs. Finally, activity-based management assists in the planning and control functions of management.


They know he's a time dancer. They got me on the baseball. I waited on him on the baseball. I visited him throughout the contract. This year, you can't watch this issue. They're doing great. Mr. Maloney, do you think that the President is emphasizing our control now? We have a small wager on this, Andrea. At least share it with us. We were doing a baseball. Small wager on arms control? We were just talking baseball about how sad it is to throttle Donald Lemonade's important international repercussions there. Did the President say that? He would get in trouble with Missouri. No, I said it. What about arms control? Is the President emphasizing it now? Mr. President, did you meet Mr. Murphy just now? Any news on the Middle East, sir? Wow, answers. One win. And the game was appointed in 1935. The only win in mathematical gymnastics was to win the last 21 games in the season. And the final series was with St. Louis, which was the team they had to beat. Maybe four straight games in that long series. And it's in Ripley's believe it or not. It's never been equal to this record in the last few games. But to show you what that will be announced until the team gets up there with how that must have been done within them. They then went into the series against Detroit and lost four straight. But you could just tell. That's the gas house game? Yeah. When was that? It was back in 1935. I know that was a gas house. That was in 19. Pepper and Martin, Leo DeRosha, Brandon Frisch, Dizzy Dean. They were unbeatable. That's why you were trying to do it. You know they got so superstitious about that. They really earned the title of the gas house game. They would not have their uniforms long. No, they thought that to do that would break their strings. So pretty soon they were the most... Good thing it was a shorter season. They were in Brooklyn with Dodgers. They were in their game after the series. And one night, around midnight, they got thrown out of the hotel. Because down in the lobby they pushed the furniture back and started a baseball game. A major league team kicked out on the street. Midnight, they got a game with that. For being rowdy and rowdy? Never happened a month at all. That's correct. They had a routine, didn't they? Where am I throwing the ball around? Like the Harlem Grove Trotters in basketball. Everybody, I used to like to go and watch it. Infield practice and stuff like that. Dizzy and Dizzy Dean, the brothers of the two pitchers. They called the rule that should exist in baseball was not having any contact with the people of the fans. Because what they would do is, before the game, they would go up and play for Prey. Prey's away from a couple of the honkers and they go through the stands selling hot dogs. It wasn't Dizzy that wanted to win in the broadcast. He just slut in the third. He just slut right in. In the third years. He got thrown out. He got thrown out. He slutted and got thrown out.


All right, so I'm going to do this a little bit different. I'm going to need a volunteer from the audience. Help me to move an object with the, hi. So, Juliana, hi. Yep, we're going to use this computer. Please have a seat. Yeah. OK, so what I'm doing now is actually putting on a neural headset. This is the product that we developed. It's called Immotive Epoch. Each of the light that you see on screen is one of the sensors that send Juliana's brain wave. Yep, so what I'm going to show today is how you'll be able to move an object on screen just by thinking about it. I hope that you can see Juliana's face. You just smiley. OK. Yep, give me a normal blink and cleanse your teeth. Oh, you're doing that right? Yeah. All right. So this is a little bit of an expressive suite, which is basically we reading from the brain while we're reading all the facial expression that you can have an avatar mimicking your expression in real time. All right, so I'm going to go ahead. And first of all, I'm going to kind of set the baseline for your brain. So just be normal. It's just a little bit of calibration. It's going to go for eight seconds. You don't have to think about anything. Just be yourself. Now you can choose an option, you know, an action. You want to push the group or pull it or let's do pull. All right. So now I'm going to go ahead and ask you to think about pulling this group toward you just by thinking. You can use your hand. You can not use it. It's up to you. But thinking about it for eight seconds continuously, right? So ready? All right. First time it's not going to move, right? It's trying to read your brain. OK, so ready? Go. So now can you try to pull that group toward you just by thinking the same thing? Oh, OK. This is a little bit harder. This is the first part is basically based on your motor cortex.  This one is more on the visualization. So it takes a function of your brain's visualization. So same thing, you know, I'm going to ask you to think about this one fading, right? For eight seconds. And let's see how that compare to your actions. Ready? I'll try. It's a little bit harder. Wow. Oh, OK. Cool. Thank you.  At Emotive, what we're trying to do is we, you know, as you all know that from the beginning of mankind, the way we communicate with machine has always been in a conscious form, right? So you normally consciously telling a machine to perform a task for you. So either it's as simple as turning on and off the light or it's as complex as programming a robot, you know. For us, we look at the communication between human to human and we see it's a lot more complex. We not only take into account the conscious intent, but also the non-conscious expression and emotions. So at Emotive, we're trying to create a technology that allows computer to take not only your conscious thoughts, conscious comments, but also your emotions. So computer now be able to understand what you feel about the material being presented to you, right? So hopefully the force is gonna be with us. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to my channel. Today I'm unboxing a pack of compression gloves that I bought because I suffer from Ray Nose Syndrome. Ray Nose disease causes some areas of your body, especially your fingers or toes to feel numb and cold in response to cold temperatures or stress. As you can see there from my fingers, one finger is currently going through a Ray Nose attack whereby it's a lot thicker, a lot more inflamed and quite itchy and quite uncomfortable. That's another finger that also has it. So I've read that one of the things that you can do to help combat the symptoms is to actually wear compression gloves. During an attack of Ray Nose, the affected areas on my hands usually first turn white then they often will turn blue and then they'll feel cold and numb and as I warm my fingers, my hands, the circulation improves and the areas tend to turn red, throb and tingle and swell. So these gloves are supposed to be helpful also for other conditions that are like rheumatoid arthritis. I ordered a size small because you had to measure the width of your palm and pick the size based on that which kind of made me think that these might be quite good. So these cover a lot of other things as well capportano syndrome, soft tissue and sport related injuries and I also liked the fact that they came in different colors and I got pink because I kind of like pink and if I'm going to have to wear compression gloves, I might as well look pretty in them as well. So these are also supposed to be doctor developed which is another reason why I decided to choose these ones. So these also come in black and the company does a variety of other compression devices that you can use for areas like the knees or stuff like that. The packaging is very solid. I ordered this off of Amazon which means that the delivery was pretty awesome. I have Amazon Prime so I got them the next day really and because you have to measure them you have to measure your hands you kind of have to be accurate with that but when you put them on for the first time they do feel a little bit tight in order to stretch out but once you adjust to that within a few minutes it's basically like you don't have anything on at all and after I wore these for the first two days the swelling on my fingers had gone down completely which was amazing for that to happen in the middle of winter with my fingers. Now because they are pink they do get dirty very quickly especially if you're quite active and you've got five kids to run around like I do but they're very easy and simple to hand wash and I think with hindsight I probably should have got the black ones. The pink ones were only nice for the first wear but they've held up really well the stitching hasn't come off at all and I like the fact that these ones have got the really long finger gloves which goes all the way up nearly to my fingernail. Other compression gloves haven't been able to get to that point so they are hand wash only it is 88% cotton and then the rest is spandex which is how you get the stretch the compression it's not possible to do that without adding spandex to it but they are super comfortable they've held up really well and they've done the job and they keep my hands feeling less cold when I'm wearing them and I am able to get on and do the work that I am supposed to do that I normally would find quite difficult when I'm not wearing them. I hope that you found this review of the compression gloves useful and if you did please do give the video a big thumbs up down below if you haven't already please do subscribe I put out new videos every single week until next time take care now bye


Now, as some of you know, I've moved into a new place. I've shown you some of it and the moving process or in the comic books and whatnot. And I've shown you some of the plants that we have, but there's a fair bit of variety of plants that we have that I haven't shown you, which is on the premises of the property. Sort of the place that we're renting. We're renting unfortunately, we're not owning the space, but we're renting long term. And the place we moved into, they have a lot of trees, a lot of different fruit trees, and just edible medicinal plants in the yard. One of them was a fig tree that we've already harvested some figs, that's some delicious figs, rosemary, and whatnot. But one tree that's on the premises is an elderberry tree. And we just harvested some elderberries. Let me show you this. And this is from the yard, right? So we took this from the yard. And what we're going to do with this is make liqueur. Every year, during the summertime, there's this little bit of harvest, whatever we end up harvesting from the neighborhood or we buy or we grow. We take a little bit of that and we make liqueurs. And one of the ones I've made that I'm sipping on right now is a lemon liqueur that we made, which is absolutely amazing. And this thing, the liqueur for this is, I've had it for about 10 years. I cut up a whole bunch of lemons, organic lemons at one time where I bought them and ended up doing, just buying some vodka. And I usually make my liqueurs with vodka, and sugar and putting it all into a jar and putting the vodka on top. And you just let it, I don't know what that word for it is, but basically builds up, right? Over the years it gets stronger and stronger and stronger. And one way I like drinking it, I crush up ice and just pour the liqueur directly on top and you just sip this for a long time. And that's what we're going to do right now. We're going to prep the elderberries to make some liqueur. So basically, and they're very fragile, the elderberries. Okay, they're little guys. I'll show you. So I'm going to take the elderberries from here and just put them in a glass jar that we have, right? And then later on we're going to take, you know, just give them a quick wash and take these mixable sugar, pour some vodka on top and close the container, the jar that, you know, we have a whole bunch of jars. We're going to put it in there and let it cure, I guess, for, you know, a while, for months or years actually. These lemon, this lemon liqueur that I have is for years. I've got blackberry. From the crab apples, I didn't make any crab apple liqueur, but I did make some blackberry and blueberry jam as well after making the crab apple paste. So I made liqueur out of that as well, okay? And while we're doing this, I thought I'd answer a question that came my way, a request that came my way. It came twice. I'm not sure if the same person or two different people, but thank you for the request because, you know, I'm making this video. I'm going to talk about this a little bit because it's something that I love, which is, you know, the request for the video was, you know, talk about being a geophysicist because for about 10 years during the 1990s, I functioned as a geophysicist. My main gig was a geophysicist. I got my degree as a geophysicist with a minor in mathematics, and I worked in the field for about 10 years traveling across Canada and the United States, some parts of the United States, but all over Canada, and it was amazing and I loved it. So one person specifically that I remember said that they were, you know, thinking about becoming a geophysicist or we're going to become a geophysicist and they wanted to know what it was like. So, you know, let's just talk about that a little bit. I'll happily talk to you about, you know, anything to do with geophysics because I love it. It was amazing and I thought it was, you know, by luck and by some personal choices I ended up becoming, you know, getting this education and working in the field. Okay. So I'm going to clean my elderberries and I'll, I'm not sure where we're going to go with this. I do want to tell you how I got into it because it's related to education. And here's the, there's the elderberries, right? Super cool. And you can eat them. Okay. And they taste okay, but they're not strong flavored. And I read up online the family the elderberries come from. I didn't know this. I read the toxicology part of it and it said that like a lot of different fruits, some fruits like apples, apple seeds contain, I believe, cyanide.  And from what I understand, from what, you know, I'm going to follow this up, but from what the little write-up said, these things, right, contain a little bit of cyanide. So it's not a good idea to eat a lot of these, I guess. So what we're going to do is we are going to make liqueur from this. I'm not sure if this is these types of elderberries that also fit into that category. And some of these branches, it was sort of mid-season or end-season, some of the, some of the little branches only have a little bit and there are some here that, you know, they're very full. So supposedly you're supposed to cook these if you're going to eat them, cook them a little bit to, you know, make them not so toxic. But we're going to make liqueur from them. You know, there are recipes online of how to make liqueur. And what we're going to do is basically take vodka and take sugar and put these things in a jar, wash them, put them in a jar and put the sugar on top and pour the vodka over top of that and let it sit there, right? So let me tell you how I got into geophysics. Okay, I think look at these things. This is beautiful. Like they're beautiful, shiny black. So while we're doing this, let me tell you how I got into studying geophysics. And it was just by luck. I just happened to take a course in high school where the teacher was amazing. And it's basically the reason I got into doing geophysics was because of this teacher. And a few years after that, after doing geophysics, 10, 12 years after that, I ran into the teacher and I told him that he inspired me to get into geophysics and I thanked him for it. It was a pretty cool moment, actually, being able to thank someone who guided you in a certain direction that paid off, right? But basically I was taking an Earth Science course, Earth Science 11 at high school. And as far as I'm concerned, Earth Science should be a mandatory course in high school. It teaches us about the home that we live in, the planet Earth. And I learned a lot and I used a lot of that stuff in the real world like weather patterns and learning about the geography of the Earth, where I was and what I could expect. There was a lot to it, right? So it was a fantastic course and the teacher was teaching, you know, the follow-up to Earth Science was geology, geology in grade 12. So because I liked the teacher, I took the geology course as well. And, you know, I was into sciences, so I was already full-loaded sciences with chemistry, mathematics, and physics, 12. But I ended up taking geology as well because of this teacher. And during the process, during the year, this teacher, you know, we looked at geology. Earth Science was more general about meteorology, astronomy. The astronomy stuff was amazing for Earth Science. But geology was more focused on Earth formations, rocks and minerals to a certain degree how things formed, right? And during the year, I can't remember if it was the middle, the beginning, or when it was, basically the topic of geophysics came up, the word geophysics came up, and I, you know, it didn't really ring to me too much at the beginning because I hadn't heard the word geophysics too much. But it interests me because I was taking physics at the same time. I like mathematics. Or let me rephrase, I had a very, I never really had a good math feature, so I just knew mathematics was important to learn. So I gave it weight, I gave it interest, right? So geophysics was intriguing to me, and I remember in class, you know, the teacher was asking, was not asking, was talking about geology and geophysics and stuff like this and, you know, jumping between the two words and I, you know, I was in high school, I was in grade 12. I didn't know really what the difference was.  And I can't remember if he gave an intricate explanation or just what I remember. But the thing that I remember were, what he said was, the difference between a geologist and a geophysicist is, a geologist knows where oil should be and a geophysicist knows how to find it. That's what stuck with me. I don't know if he talked about it for five minutes, ten minutes, half an hour or he just said that, and that was it. But that's what I remember, that's what I retain. And for me, it was more important to be able to do something than to know how to do something. So early on, I lucked out and decided to pursue geophysics. So when I went to university, first year of university, I signed up for the geophysics program. I signed up for the geophysics program at a university where the geophysics was very theoretical. So I remember, you know, it was combined, when you signed up for the geophysics program, it was a combined course. I believe the first semester you took geology, in the second semester you took geophysics or vice versa. But I did the geology part. I remember doing the geology part, it was very similar to geology 12. It was really easy because a lot of people hadn't taken geology 12 or didn't have the opportunity to take geology 12. And I remember taking the geophysics course, the geophysics segment. And it was okay, intrigued me. There was a lot to it. There weren't too many people taking the course. Here's another one that's like pretty fuller. There weren't too many people in the class. So it wasn't one of the big auditoriums where you're taking calculus or chemistry or physics first year where, you know, you're sitting in a room with 200, 300 people. This was maybe like a high school class size, 20 people, 25 people, 15 people. But I remember the course required us to memorize a lot. Memorize a lot of formulas. There was a lot of proofs involved in the course where I remember one of the proofs we had to do, we basically had to regurgitate three pages. There was three pages of proving a formula that we basically had to memorize because no one really understood what we were doing. It was just monkey see, monkey do. And we'll go through the hoops and just... It was ridiculous. I didn't like it. I thought it was useless and it was useless because I didn't understand what the formulas represented. I knew some of them, but a lot of them would say, you know, if you've ever done proofs of anything, you know, there's a concept you're trying to prove. You start with one equation on one side and another equation on the other side and you bring in other equations. You know, left side, right side. You know, you do substitutions, and put things in and combine equations. At the end, hopefully you get the left side equal on the right side so you prove that this thing existed. You know, there's a lot of assumptions in the process. So it was... It just didn't make sense to me to memorize this thing without knowing what was happening. So after finishing my first year university, and I wasn't really into it, so I didn't do well in the calculus. I failed first year calculus, right? I barely went to class and I thought I could cram and I couldn't cram. I failed first year English, but I did really well in what I liked in the geology and geophysics, right? I got, you know, A's in the geology and I believe A in the geophysics, right? So after the first year, I sort of took a break. I took some other courses just to see what, you know, business and arts was like and I worked a little bit and made a little bit of money and traveled a little bit. And then I went into geophysics again at a different university, not through the physics department, but through the earth science department. Because earth science was the course, really, that I thought was one of the most important courses I took in high school. So I took geophysics from the earth science department and we ended up doing a lot of geology, but there was a lot of geophysics involved as well. Some mathematics, some physics, right? Not a lot. It was a very hands-on program. The first place I took just, you know, I know the questions are going to be coming, so might as well preemptively answer these. The first year I went to university, I went to UBC, that's where I took it for a year and then took a year off. So at UBC, back in the late 1980s, it was very, you know, through the physics department, it was very theoretical. And then I went to Waterloo, University of Waterloo in the late 1980s and I went through the earth science department, right? So we ended up doing a lot of geology, a lot of environmental work, a lot of hydrogeology, a lot of geophysics, some mathematics, some statistics, some physics, right? It wasn't as math and physics heavy as I had liked. So what I ended up doing was I did some extra work to get my minor in mathematics. So I took some extra courses and ended up getting a geophysics degree.  I really did. I had to take some serious courses that I didn't have to prerequisites for that I had to learn on my own and stuff like this. And as far as I know, I was the first person from the earth science department to get a major in geophysics with a minor in mathematics. I'm not sure if that's true. I remember from the time I looked at it and since the program had been introduced, I think it was like 10 years or something, the program was the first person to do it, which was pretty cool.  Geophysics degree with minor in mathematics. That's not bad. I liked the way that flowed and I like mathematics. I knew it was powerful. I knew I wanted to take some more mathematics courses. So that's what I ended up doing. Now, quickly on, into my geophysics education at Waterloo, at the university where I went into it from the earth science department, I decided that I wanted to do environmental geophysics. So the oil thing, even at high school when my teacher said geophysicists know how to find oil, geologists know where oil should be found, I wasn't really interested in oil. Oil didn't really pique my interest. I just thought that was cool to be able to know how to do something. In university, I quickly decided that I wanted to get into environmental geophysics. I really focused on the environmental part of it. Hydrogeology, and environmental geophysics back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, it was fairly small. There wasn't too many people in it. I was lucky enough I was in a co-op program. I was lucky enough for my second work term. I ended up working for an environmental geophysics company and I learned a lot there. I just learned more in the semester of working that I did regarding environmental geophysics in a couple of years of studying. So I learned a lot and right away I decided I wanted to go into that field. I was like, this is how much we've got so far. So I decided to become an environmental geophysicist and I did some work in other fields as well.  But coming out, I didn't plan on going anywhere else other than environmental. The way I ended up getting my first gig, major gig out of university, that basically is the company I worked for for the next 10 years, 9, 10 years, doing environmental geophysics, the way I ended up getting that job was through running into someone, one of my mentors, Mark, if by chance you see this, thank you, you taught me a lot. So basically, what basically happened was when I finished my last exam of my four or five year degree of pretty heavy program of learning geophysics, getting my major in geophysics and writing multiple math exams and taking multiple math courses to get my minor in mathematics, the last exam I wrote of my university career, okay, I had a big grin on my face walking out of there because I knew I was done. Sleeve deprived, making my way back to the residence I was staying in and flying out the next day. So I'm walking back to my residence and in the parking lot, I run into my mentor, one of my mentors, lifetime mentors really, through work, through everything really, ran into him that I had work with in a previous co-op term, in a semester, right? I had worked with him and I ran into him in the parking lot, big grin on my face and he turned to me and said, well, Chichou for you, right? Chichou, what are you doing?  And he goes, no, no, no, no, no, I need you. I asked him what he meant. He says, look, he says you finished, what did you get? You get geophysics, you got your degree, I got my degree, I'm 100% sure I got my degree. And he said, okay, give me your resume, you're hired. And I was like, no, you don't understand. I just finished the hardcore program. I wasn't going into starting work right away. I needed a break. And I told him this and he said, no, you don't understand, just give me your resume and you're hired. And I said, look, I don't even have a resume. And I didn't. I finished my exam and I just wanted out and I wanted a break. So I hadn't even made a resume. I said, look, he goes, just go put something together, give it to me, you're hired. Whenever you want, you can start. I couldn't turn that down, right? So I went, I went to my apartment and, you know, and at the time, you know, access to computers wasn't as, you know, no one had easy, easy access to computers the way we do now, right? Home computers were expensive, extremely expensive, especially for a student, right? So you had to get computer accounts at university and stuff like this and a lot of labs were closed.  I think the pentiums were out then.  And he tracked me down. I was in Waterloo. That's where, like, you know, I was going to school, Waterloo, Ontario, south of Toronto, right? So, I, I had found my way. It was a couple of months later. I was in California at the time in San Diego or near San Diego. Actually, Los Angeles. I was in Los Angeles. No, actually it was in San Francisco. Sorry. I was in San Francisco, I believe. It was in San Francisco, LA and he tracked me down and I called him back.  And he said, where are you? And I told him I was in California. You know, I think Los Angeles, maybe. I said I was in Los Angeles and he said, what are you doing there? I need you here, which was Ontario. Right? Check out the bee hovering the elderberries. Right? That's cool there. So, he said, I need you here. I go, I need you here. He goes, I need you the next day after you gave me a resume. And I was like, dude, okay, I'll be there as soon as I can. He goes, look, be here by next week, at least. I go, okay, I'll try to be there. So, what I ended up doing is, you know, my funds were limited, right? So, I ended up catching a bus, midnight bus, graveyard, 18 hour bus ride on the ground, all the way to Vancouver, BC, Canada, from California. And then from there, I caught a plane to Ontario and I worked as a geophysicist. And what had happened is, he was working, he had got a position for one of the largest geotechnical companies in the world, international. And he had started a geophysics branch of this company. He was a solo guy, specifically environmental related, right? And in Canada, he was the only one working as a geophysicist for this company. And this company has multiple branches across Canada, across the United States, across the world, Australia, New Zealand, all over the place. Thousands of employees, right? So, he had started on a satellite office, one man solo operation, trying to sell the idea that environmental geophysics had a place in this conglomerate, multinational geotechnical company, right? That they could bring in the revenues. And that was what I wanted to get into. It was ideal. It's by luck, by circumstance, by, you know, working with him. And he knew what I was capable of and usually when I take on a project, that is maybe if, you know, I've learned to really focus on something, on a specific thing and I work my ass off. When I work with him, during the co-op term where I work with him with a different company, so he trusted me and he had mentored me, right? So for four months, I learned from him how to be a geophysicist, right? So he molded me and he knew what I was capable of and by luck, we ran into each other at the right time for both of us because he had just gone into his company trying to sell geophysics. So, just to make, you know, just to make it shown that this is viable option program that this company should offer and he needed my help, right? He needed me to be there to do a lot of the grunt work and so he could, you know, and he could dump a project on me and, you know, make sure that I would put my heart and soul into it. He knew what I wanted to get into. So I hooked up with him and we started working as together, you know, he was my boss and he had bosses, but he was really the one I had to answer to and he was a hard ass.  There's different areas of geophysicists you can go to, just like anything, any embrace that has, you know, it's fairly large umbrella that you can approach it in different ways, right? You can be theoretical geophysicists, you can work as an astronomer, right? You can go into meteorology, you can go into exploration, you can go into oil, resource extraction, you can go into oceanography, right? Or you can go into the environmental aspect of it and I love the environmental aspect of it I saw a need for it it was where my heart was and it allowed me to do a lot of solo be my own, you know, smaller and sometimes larger, right? So we started working together and just to give you an idea of what he expected and how cocky I was, I guess if you've gone through university, if you've gone through high school, any type of centralized formal education you'll know that in general the lower level you are you know, a lot of the courses you take they're not really relevant they try to give you a broad point of view of, you know, they try to give you a really broad view of broad education, right? High school, graduating from high school they're just trying to indoctrinate program people into fitting some kind of mold when you get your bachelors from university you're sort of, you know, expanding on that and focusing on some kind of field and applying things that, you know, you've learned or you've been trained to do, right? When you go into masters you're sort of on the cusp of sort of new ideas and doing field work and trying to own something, right? Trying to fully understand something and when you're getting your PhD you're basically contributing new ideas and new ideas happen in the master's level and bachelors level as well but that's the main focus with PhD you're introducing a new concept a new perspective into a certain field, right? So for bachelors, you know, which I got is sort of going in there using what you know, right? And, you know, I learned certain things coming out of university and geophysics for, oh, the wind is picking up hopefully the microphone is not creating a lot of wind noise but for geophysics for those of you who don't know or for those of you who are in it you can basically break it down into sort of a step-wise system especially the environmental aspect of it but you can also focus this on geotechnical or any other geophysics or any other field, really basically in geophysics what the steps are you sort of work on proposals if you're higher level up in the system that you can write proposals so, you know, you write proposals you give presentations you go collect data you process data you analyze the data and you present reports to your clients and I've sort of done I've been lucky enough I was in it long enough to go through all those phases where I would write proposals for projects talk to the clients get the projects go into the field collect the data come back process the data analyze the data present the data write the reports and talk to the clients if need be give presentations or what not so that was very cool going through the whole stream but at the beginning when I started working I wasn't doing that proposals I wasn't involved in because it takes a while to start writing proposals because you have to know every aspect of the work involved so I was sort of involved involved in initially learning how to collect data at university I learned and I'm pretty meticulous with my work so I collect good data and I like data so I analyze good data so those two areas I was not bad in I still needed fine tuning a little bit especially knowing how to function in the field because it's really important to know what the do's and don'ts are in the field because if you do the wrong thing in the field you might not come out of there right like construction sites or the wild, the bush industries factories there's a lot of activity in those areas there's a lot of dangers in those areas and I've known people who've died in the field right in the company we knew people two people one for sure I'm pretty sure there were two that the person made the wrong step just wrong turn and he got run over by by dump truck so you have to know what you're doing so the first thing you need to learn as a geophysicist really the first thing you need to learn is how to live through the learning process long enough to become a good geophysicist right so really pay attention to the safety concerns of wherever you're going to wherever the field may be if it's nature make sure you take the nature training programs make sure you listen to the people telling you where to go where not to go how to deal with wildlife if you're working in industry in brine pits near brine pits or landfills or construction sites make sure you pay attention and you got your you're listening, you're watching you're careful I learned that fast because when I was growing up in high school it was around construction so for me it came naturally I've worked in just through family I've worked in construction sites since I was 13 probably so it sort of became innate for me collecting data I always like because with geophysics what you end up doing is you use computers technology to basically probe into the earth or into space or the atmosphere and try to figure out what's going on and that always interested me so I was good with technology and I was good with instruments so I could collect good data I was very patient you have to be patient to be able to collect good data so those two areas I learned quickly how to do I wasn't involved initially in writing reports so we would go out to a field and he showed me how it took me under his wing again my mentor and he showed me how he wanted grids laid out, how he wanted data collected what do's and don'ts were and within a week I was going out on myself and setting stuff up and collecting data and bringing everything back if you want to know about data actually we did do one video of how I showed you I collect data with when we're setting up the 10 by 10 grid so if you want to know how environmental geophysicists almost all environmental geophysicists have come across unless you're running with the GPS system at the time in the late 1980s or early 1990s this would have been early 1990s you don't want to collect so many instruments it's just extra instruments you're carrying and if you're using electromagnetic methods they add more noise factor you weren't really using geophysics you weren't usually using GPS systems when you're collecting data with a grid but in that video I sort of show how I set up most of my grids in the field like 99% of the grids I set up in the field using triangulation not triangulation but Pythagorean theorem so basically I would go to the field and collect data and then bring them back processed data using different types of software and sometimes right now the software runs pretty fast back then if you're doing creaking you're trying to contour data and stuff like this you're running stuff with batch files over the weekend you set up your batch files you work on it during the week you set up your batch files for Friday and press the enter button hopefully it runs properly and gives you the output you have the output Monday morning sometimes you go into the office on the weekends make sure the batch file is running well and stuff like this so there's a lot of things you need to take care of I'm saying I'm going off on tangents all over the place and if you're you're studying geophysics hopefully you appreciate when I'm all the tangents I'm going down but one of the places that really, really I got schooled in that I needed reprogramming and education and was writing reports after a few weeks my boss my mentor asked me to write the final report for this project it was like a $3,000 project or something one day field work doing electromagnetic methods EM to collect data on a grid and analyze it and find buried drums simple during the early 1990s where there's a lot of gas stations early 1990s, mid 1990s and picked up a lot later on where a lot of places, gas stations were old construction sites houses they were trying to remove what do you call it gas tanks and stuff that were buried from decades ago because they were leaking so he asked me to write this report I wrote the reports I was cocky I thought I was doing well I want to collect the data one day I came back, processed the data next day and one day or two days and created AutoCAD drawings and contour maps running different software and ended up writing the report and gave him the report and I was sitting on my computer doing other work processing other data or something and within half an hour or an hour my boss came and stood at my cubicle and my cubicle I was sitting on the thing and he took my report and plopped it down on the desk and said Gicho what the hell is this looked at him and I sort of went and he goes what the hell is this so I picked it up and started flipping through it and at university I had never gotten anything back that had so many red marks on it okay it was crazy it was just red marks and arrows and he looked at me and I looked all of a sudden my ego dropped went off a cliff and he looked at me and said look this is not academics you're not here trying to use fancy words and stuff to say something that could be said in three words you're not going to write a paragraph to say this whatever it is you're trying to say a whole page where you can say it in a single sentence right our clients are not looking for fictional story they're not looking for fluffy words they're looking to find out what's going on with their investments right and he said basically look at start reading the reports that he had done over the years right since he started this project over the last year I guess or six months or eight months and copy those use a lot of cut and paste and put in the appropriate information and you know write the few paragraphs that need to be written and condense it basically get rid of like 80% of what I had written so that was one aspect of working as a geophysicist that I learned quickly which is if you're working as a geophysicist you're not there to write essays you're there to take the data you've collected to take the situation what you understand of the field and of the situation analyze data process the data process the data analyze the data and present the data using as few steps as possible to get as much of the idea as you can across okay that was sort of the beginning of my experience as a geophysicist and I did this for a number of years and I did you know I remember when and you know I got the job and initially usually most companies you go to large companies you go to you're basically on a three month three month probation period so after my three month probation period where you know I was fitting in I was liking what I was doing my bosses and my other bosses office manager and stuff like this people that ended up working with they liked me I fit into the group atmosphere and this was a satellite office that this multinational conglomerate had so you know it was a small office and I was really lucky starting off there because I learned a lot from everyone I work with and basically after the three months probation period they came up to me and said okay you know I could order my own business cards because up to that point I was using generic business cards geophysicist and my name wasn't on there I was handing them my bosses card right getting them you know getting those people to contact us through my boss because he was the filter okay so they you know they asked me what I wanted on my card I gave him my name obviously and as the title I wanted environmental geophysicist and I remember the first time I said this environment to geophysicist my boss my mentor turned to me and said listen that really restricts you right if you say geophysics you can do anything people understand that you're a geophysicist you know you could do oil you could do exploration resource you could do anything you want to do environmental geophysicist you're mainly going to be focuses on environmental geophysicist and I told them that's exactly what I want and as far as I know right I don't know this is 100% true or not but I didn't know anyone else that I come across any other geophysicist that I come across and it's a pretty closed community there weren't you know there weren't too many geophysicists at the time when I was doing this there's a fair bet I guess if you can look at it as such a niche market but overall as you know compared to several engineers electrical engineers you know mathematicians if you compare it there's very few people like numbers wise that go have geophysics as their title geophysicist as their title and I never came across anyone with this but I was the only one that I know of at the time that had environmental geophysicist written on the business cards which I thought was awesome I liked it I loved it actually so I started working as an environmental geophysicist and doing that I specialized in electromagnetic and magnetic methods my bachelor's thesis was the title was using Euler's equations, Euler's Deconvolution to pinpoint the depth of magnetic anomalies in the ground specifically environmental barrels, pipes, buried metal because it was a test site that we had at the university where I was able to go on there and collect EM and MAG data over a dense dense grid it was a small grid it was I can't remember how big it was maybe 100 by 50 or 200 by 100 grid where they had buried pipes and barrels and metallic objects, metallic sheets and stuff like this because that's a lot in environmental geophysics one of the things we ended up doing is trying to find buried drums or map contaminated plumes or find leaks in the ground usually near surface for environmental you go maybe with radar and seismics I've gone a lot deeper you go into the 10s I can't remember how deep I went it was less than 100 meters we did some seismic work where we're trying to more geotechnical involved we're trying to do geophysics for building brine ponds some of the work I did was geotechnical the dams around lakes that they were building they were going to dump tailings so some of that stuff was deeper down I did a lot of radar associated with that and some seismic and some electromagnetic as well less so mag and gravity but basically my bachelor's thesis was collecting data on a very dense grid and it was collecting data every half a meter by half a meter of mag and EM data trying to find these anomalies you know pinpoint them and specifically using a new program that had come up through a company I worked with the work I did was with one of the larger companies the software companies that was also producing equipment that they were it was a new module for a program called creating contours creating gridding program that they had to create maps and process data so it was really cool with doing that I got involved with a lot of different people and it was really awesome once I got into the field to have environmental geophysicists on my business cars and I really loved it and I ended up doing a lot of environmental geophysics traveling all over the place a lot of places by myself into the bush into the field working from all temperatures from in Canada minus 30 degrees plus with the windshield to in Canada plus 30 degrees with the heat and the humidity so extreme temperatures but amazing amazing gives you a lot of time as a geophysicist if you're doing this type of work to really meditate to think because it's a lot of it is very once you start doing it it's I guess it's the word the methodical you really think about what you're going to do you lay down the grid and it's very routine really you just have to make sure you're doing the mathematics properly and it's pretty straight forward and once you set up the grids you know you collect your data and collecting data is not the most exciting thing to do especially when it comes to E.M. and MAG methods where you get to put on a lot of miles I walked a lot and it's very routine where you take a few steps to collect data take a few steps to collect data or one or two steps to collect data press a button look at your data and once you start doing that it sort of becomes hypnotic and you let your mind wander you think about different things like art, politics, economics and you have the opportunity to grow as a human being that's the way I looked at it that's the way I treated it and it was amazing I liked it and it kept me in shape and that's one thing you need to be as a geophysicist if you're going to the field one of the safety factors and one of the health factors you have to be in shape you're going to be working with a lot of equipment some heavy where some heavy that you have to lug around and it's amazing experience keeps you in shape and it was a lot of fun I saw a lot one of my most amazing experiences occurred in Labrador Newfoundland near Nain and it's northern Canada and it's amazing crazy terrain you know I live, I grew up in the west coast of British Columbia and it's a rainforest and you get gigantic trees here really huge trees I've seen the Redfoot Forest in California and I'm used to old trees being very very large very very big but in Labrador right when I went to you would see trees that were as high as you were like six feet tall that were like 300 years old because the growing season was so short that this is all they grew the rings around these trees were really really thin and they were extremely old and very sparse they didn't look lush the terrain is oh wow I forget my geological terms pre-Cambier and basalt it's just rough rock cliffs amazing with you know there's metamorphic most of it a lot of it metamorphic a lot of it igneous a lot of the metamorphic rocks you see it's sedimentary rocks that are layered that got distorted and you see basically if you want to think about a mathematical term you see parabolas and curves and polynomials right I forget all the terminology geological formations that you get right but they're amazing and when you collect specifically at this place where I was in amazing experiences I was doing a radar there penetrating really deep into the ground and we're seeing the formations the rock formations, the curves, the parabolas basically the polynomial equations in the bedrock it was amazing it was amazing so the data part the collecting data part was fantastic analyzing this data presenting this data but one of the most amazing aspects of it was the terrain that I got exposed to and the nature I got exposed to one of the things that we did we're at this and I don't know if the mine is still going at the time it was the largest nickel mine in the world it was going to produce 80% of the world's nickel I believe and it was basically a huge camp where people from all walks of life went there to do their work there were a lot of geophysics I was one person there I was sent there with two different people sort of people that were in the co-op that were doing a term and one person that was newly hired that I had as helpers basically helping me to do radar there and then there's a lot of miners there's a lot of people doing geotechnical work there's just a lot of everything geophysics group we were one of the smaller ones and we got placed on an icebreaker now we were there towards the end of August so we were living off the icebreak we were stationed in a bay there was no ice around all the ice had gone but in the winter time we would get iced over and that's why they needed an icebreaker there because you couldn't be there otherwise I was there in late August early September and during that time in that area you get black flies, you get mosquitoes in northern Canada the bugs are incredible the black flies what's the saying they carry horses away or something like this like there were days where we were going to areas where there was a lot of black flies and mosquitoes I would wear mosquito netting and you would you'd be wearing gloves you have you have your field equipment you wear gloves, you wear mosquito netting and you put duct tape around your wrist where the gloves missed your suit and your ankles and stuff at the end of the day to the icebreaker, wherever you are you take your stuff off and black flies have gone through the duct tape and you have a ring around your wrist of black flies biting you that's how insanely large these black flies are and how aggressive they are so it's incredible and there were some days where like that wow, it was hard work, definitely hard work there were some days where they were there with T-shirts and collecting data and stuff there were a few images few periods, few days that have stuck with me from that trip that I did but one of them was an evening where and we would get flown out I guess I should mention this in the mornings because we were on an icebreaker we were being dropped off in areas with a helicopter so in the evening you have meetings with the different group leaders and because I was the geophysics rep there I guess the highest level person there collecting the data and stuff like this I would attend these meetings with the different groups, different factions that were getting flown off the ship at different times so everybody would get assigned a time when the helicopter was you would have to be on the helicopter and the helicopter would take you and drop you off somewhere and come back and take someone else from another different company to a different location we would get assigned helicopter times in the mornings sometimes we get assigned usually they ask you what time you want to be there and in the summertime when you're doing geophysics you're usually one of the first ones in and one of the last ones out you're staying in there as long as you got daylight we get flown out at like 5am or something like this whenever you know one of the earliest people the helicopters would drop off right so the helicopter lands on the icebreaker you know we load our stuff on to the helicopter tie it up hop on to the helicopter and then the helicopter will fly off and it's amazing looking at the terrain from that high up into the shields the Canadian shields and stuff oh my wow wow wow right and then we get dropped off somewhere some of the places we were getting dropped off they were on slants and they weren't clearings so a couple of times the helicopter would you know fly into a place and land one side one of its you know the helicopters have legs like this right the long I don't know what they call them but they would land one side on a slope right and they're hovering the rest of the time and we would have to throw everything all of our equipment off to the ledge of the slope right and then jump off and when we jumped off they told us this right off the back you know when you jump off lay down on the ground right and when the helicopter takes off and it's clear you can stand up again because if you're on a slope and the helicopter's hovering you throw your equipment on there if you stand up when the helicopter's taken off or during this hovering process when it's got sort of a little at least one little ledge on the ground where it's a little bit more stable if the helicopter does you know loses its balance twist it's going to take off your head so yeah that's why you have to lay down on the ground right I'm assuming this has happened before it didn't happen with us but it was something that we're definitely aware of and as soon as we get dropped off we lay down the ground helicopter we're clear you know we go about our business right and then you come back later in the evening and it's a good timing here we're getting towards the end end of this right and this is how much we've gotten so far today like so we're going to make a liqueur out of this nice so this last little story my greatest one of my greatest memories of being a geophysicist is coming back from one of these days one of you know fields collecting radar data for 12, 14 hours right coming back and at the end of the day when you come back geophysics you're transferring your data you're backing up your data so the people that were helping me out to do this they would eat and go to sleep they were drained they were exhausted I've been doing this for a while so I was you know when I go to the field or when geophysicists go to the field if you're doing this hardcore you're in there you're focused you're doing the job you're getting out as fast as you can right so I would you know set the equipment to be processed and there was a little bit of or transferred over right and there was a little bit of timeline while the computer does its thing where you have some downtime right and when I was doing this we had heard that there was going to be a full lunar eclipse that night okay so it was a dry camp unfortunately so I didn't have any liqueurs or cognac with me but I went up to the top of the icebreaker where we could go to I had Cuban cigars with me at the time I smoked a lot of Cuban cigars I traveled to Cuba came come back with Cuban cigars and stuff right so I went to the top of an icebreaker at like one o'clock in the morning right helicopter is probably picking us up at like 5 o'clock in the morning so one o'clock in the morning on top of an icebreaker clear skies you can see stars galore watching a full lunar eclipse start all the way through at the same time getting spiral auroral borealis with different colors predominantly it was greenish bluish right smoking a Cuban cigar on top of an icebreaker in a bay in Labrador right and the Cuban cigar I had was a large one it was a hoyo de monterey double corona I know this because at the time I was smoking hoyo de monterey double corona is a lot of I got my hands on a lot of hoyo de montereys when I went to Cuba I brought back you're only allowed to bring back two boxes to Canada when you travel somewhere that's 50 cigars I came back with 12 boxes of hoyo de monterey double coronas bought in the official cigar stores at the time and they were cheap at the time each box was $80 right 25 hoyo de monterey double coronas for $80 and I came back with 12 boxes of those I was smoking a lot of hoyo de monterey double coronas that's one of my most amazing experiences as a geophysicist that trip that I went there and we were there for two weeks, two and a half weeks and I was given longer to do it but there was a certain budget when you're doing this type of work you got to stay pretty tight within your budget and I stayed well below my budget and everybody was happy and we were in and out and there was a lot of other things involved with that project so I'll do more updates on geophysicist I'll tell you more stories about some of the geophysicist experiences I've had running into pairs seeing grizzlies some of the environmental work that I did some of the things I came across the good and the bad but that's I guess sort of the introduction to what I was like being a geophysicist some of the experiences where I came from what some of the processes involved in and one of my most memorable memories one o'clock in the morning in Labrador on an icebreaker in a bay in clear skies watching a full lunar eclipse with spirals smoking a Cuban cigar that I brought back recently from Cuba there wasn't really too much missing maybe a nice it was amazing I'll see you guys in the next video bye for now


Wife pranks husband by hiding under bed, immediately regrets his reaction. When you have been married to someone for years, you can become curious that the spark is still alive and well. This particular wife decided to see for herself was her husband's love for her as strong as she thought it was. When her plan backfired, she would regret the moment she ever decided to do this. Imagine being happily married for years, then out of nowhere feeling your partner suddenly starting to grow cold towards you. Their pulling away is so out of the blue that you can't help but wonder was it something I did? She decided to test the waters and pull a silly prank on her husband to test was his love still there. However, his reaction left her gobsmacked. All the while as her prank was in progress, she noticed her husband's passion for her dwindling by the day. She worried was he possibly having an affair or perhaps he was nursing a secret addiction to drugs or maybe even something worse. She was absolutely hell bent on finding out what was causing her husband's distance, but his reaction would leave her wondering why she even tried to find out. While planning this prank, she decided to put all of her feelings about what she felt was missing from their marriage down in a note. She loved her husband very deeply, but it was important to her to know was he just keeping up appearances with his happiness. She needed to know the truth now. In order to uncover her husband's true feelings, the devious wife wrote down absolutely everything about the relationship that bothered her and why she wanted a divorce. Her idea behind this was to discover her husband's true feelings to get to the bottom of his dismissiveness and lack of passion. Her plan wouldn't go as smoothly as she would have hoped. Her plan was in order to get a proper gauge on his reaction to this earth-shattering news, she would lie under the bed and leave the note on top of the bed. From there she would be able to see his genuine reaction. It was a very complicated and hurtful prank that she wasn't sure would work, but she had decided in her head that this was the only way to do it. In the wife's head, what she imagined happening was watching her husband break down in heartbreak and at that point she would emerge from under the bed to comfort him. She would have gotten her answer and know her marriage was strong. However, the wife did not receive the answer she was looking for at all. In fact, his reaction confused her even further. She wrote the note as bloodly as possible from her point of view about how she felt the love had been slowly fading from their relationship for years and how she felt it was over. She knew she had to go and hard to get a reaction from him. Satisfied with what she'd written, she got underneath the bed and waited for him to come in. It would prove to be the worst decision she had ever made. As she lay under the bed, waiting for her husband to return from work for what felt like hours she turned her plan over and over in her head. She wondered what her planned backfire on her. What if she didn't get the reaction she wanted? Would counseling have just been easier? Very soon she was about to find out everything she needed to know. Finally, the moment of truth had come. She heard his car pull in and the front door open. As his footsteps made their way up the stairs, she felt her heart beginning to race. She was about to get her answer. As he came into the room, she immediately began to regret what she had done. His reaction was about to prove her right. She saw his feet standing in front of her, motionless, as he read her note in silence. It was far too late at this point to take back her elaborate prank. She was about to get her wish to see his true feelings, and she was sick with nerves. As he started to pace she wondered what was going through his head. She had been hoping for tears, but she heard none. She was about to hear his true reaction. As she lay there on tenterhooks, waiting for something, anything, from him, he did something that she had been dreading all afternoon. He started to laugh. Then he pulled out his phone and called someone. Hey, guess what, my marriage is finally over. I know right, I thought she'd never get the message. I'll be right over to see you he said then walked out of the room. She was speechless. Her worst nightmare had come true. His words had cut her right to the core, and she began to sob. Even the worst case scenario she had imagined hadn't gone like this. She wondered who he had called, whether it was a mistress or just a friend. Either way, his nonchalant reaction told her everything she needed to know. She was about to find out who he had called with his news.  She has hoped for his dramatic emotional breakdown and for him to sob his eyes out for her. However, it seemed like her foolish plan seemed to play straight into his hands, and he was delighted. Now she had to deal with the fallout of her actions. As she managed to drag herself out from underneath the bed, she was faced with much more than when she had crawled under not half an hour previous. Her husband simultaneously seemed happy to be rid of her, as well as potentially being with another woman. Could it have gone much worse? However, she was about to find out exactly who he had called. As she reeled from her life-changing news, her body still racked with deep sobs, she tried to comprehend how she would go on without him. It was at that point that she noticed it. There, on the bed next to her relationship death sentence was another note. He must have left it, and she had not noticed. She was about to get her answer. As she picked up the note and began to read, she could feel her heart beginning to shatter even more with every word. Still, she needed to know the truth. That had been the entire purpose of her prank. As she read down the page she felt herself sob harder and harder, as he detailed everything that she had been so afraid of for months. After building up the courage to read it, she saw what he had written was short and sweet. He had written Dear Wife, Next time you try to trick me into proving my love for you make sure that your feet aren't sticking out from underneath the bed next time. She could not believe it. She had been caught in the act. How would she ever live this one down? Despite planning her prank down to the last detail she had let herself down with the most trivial and small detail, she was totally humiliated at the way it had all backfired on her. On the bright side, she could see her husband was light-hearted enough to make a joke of it. Would she be able to get over this embarrassment? As she put the pieces together, she realized her husband hadn't even been on the phone at all, and had been faking the call to get under her skin. She deserved it really. It had taught her a valuable lesson about playing with people's emotions to get what you want. It never works out. Would her husband be able to forgive her? Sometimes this kind of a prank can be the ultimatum that a couple needs to see where they stand with one another, but it is not something that would be regarded as healthy. Having trust in your partner and being open and honest is the only way to deal with issues like this in a healthy manner. Thankfully for this paranoid woman, her insecure prank didn't tank her marriage, but who's to say how long it lasted after displaying her manipulative behaviors? Sometimes all you need in a relationship is trust to get you through the ups and downs that are inevitable in life. Going to elaborate measures to see if they will react dramatically is never indicative of a healthy relationship. Hopefully for this couple, they learned to communicate better, so she never had to pull any crazy stunts like this ever again.


Hey guys, Shabir 1000 here with another Meals on Wheels Today we got some meat in there. Let's give it a shot Let's see what we got here. This is Salisbury steak gravy, mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables now I'll try to show you the The nutrition facts, but I poke the hole right through it I don't know if you'll be able to see it or not, but there's what we've got Okay, but let me see if I can get this up here to you guys so you can see maybe The nutritional facts on here If not, I guess it's no big deal, but anyway, hopefully you guys seen that you can pause it Just I can do sorry Okay, but it says Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes and gravy mixed vegetables. I see No gravy in here guys. None. I see no gravy. They screwed up a bit somewhere One last night said green beans and it had broccoli in it You know, I don't mind broccoli, but now it says gravy no gravy by the potatoes I got some butter here. I'm gonna put on it and then give it a shot too Here's the potatoes, potatoes, of course, they're probably instant Let's let's check out these I've got some it's got carrots corn Green beans and peas in it. I'll give this a shot try the Salisbury steak a little piece of butter on here I'll give it another shot with some butter and they go slab of butter on there. Okay. That's not bad with butter With the gravy If it had gravy, I think it would be all right. Let's try these potatoes with a little butter Yeah, they're just instant potatoes You know mushroom you get two little tiny mushrooms They have none of the potatoes, but I mean it's just a slab of meat It'd probably be good if you put it on a roll or something. I Don't know but drop the ball on this one So I was very steak, so But it's so dry and it's misleading.  I mean saddable, but it's not great. So all right guys. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it For tomorrow for another meals on wheels All right guys, so thanks for watching again and for now. Bye. Bye guys. Take care


What's up guys, Michael with Jaspy's doing a quick recap for our 2022-23 Tops Merlin chrome soccer 12 box case break. Pick your team number two. This was done on Fanatic's live Here is the list in case you forgot But again into the recap here I'm not gonna try and pronounce most of these guys names, but so let's go through here Marrow some rooks And so Refractor it's cool and Marcus Edwards start getting into the autos here soon Holland refractor had a Jude Bellingham renaissance. It's a case hit Very nice. Some of the autos Antony Sorcerer's auto Not numbered at a Pedri a top gold atomic out of 50 Dennis Gold auto out of 50 out of 50 rookie out of there Zavi had a 50 had a Holland to 150 Dino auto out of 100 Some other autos here Timo Werner Nicholas Raskin orange to 25 This one was to 15 the teen hop rookie Antonio Silva auto out of 75 Letaro Martinez Sorcerer's auto Kobe my new menu red out of 10 rookie Rodrigo Ribeiro at a 75 another one base and a sandro tonali auto there So that does it. Thank you to everyone who got into the break. Thank you guys for watching Let's see you guys in the next one. Bye guys


Okay, so in honor of Kung Fu Panda 4 releasing today in theaters, we're gonna be playing the Kung Fu Panda 4 Obvious Roblox.  Yeah, make sure you grab a friend, because it is a two-player obby, and unlike me, I got no friends, so I'm gonna have to join with someone random. Oh, okay, let's see if I'm up. All right, here we go. Okay. So yellow, yellow, green, green. Got it. All right, let's begin. Go, go, go. Okay, so you press the, okay, thank you. You press the green, I press the yellow. There you go. That's some good teamwork right there, man. Oh, better watch out with the flames. No one to burn, do you? Okay, um, what do we do here? Okay, see the green button over there? Press green. Green is go. I'm believing you. Oh my God, that was too close. Okay, so I go here. Then I look for the yellow button. Oh, I see it. I got you right now.  All right, so we go this way. I think there might be a green button over there. Okay, pull the levers to keep the doors open. Oh, I see. Now you need to pull the lever. Is there a button right here? I don't think so, right? Wait for me. Okay, so she activated this door. Nice. Go, go, go. Go, go, go, Kung Fu Warrior. We got this. Oh, I see a yellow button.  Okay, so I press this. And there's something. I don't know what I did, but I did something. All right, there you go. All right, you got it. Big brain. Okay, so do I go this way? It's locked. No, it's a dead end. I think you need to come over here. All right, I think she's locked. Oh, I got you, man. Dude, I was going to leave her trapped there. I should have just left her trapped there. No, that's messed up. All right. Oh, what is this? Oh, I see like some sushi rolls over here or something. Oh, man. It's like some Ninja Warrior type beat right here. Okay, so are we supposed to come all the way up here? Or do we go the other way? I have no idea. Okay, see one and two. Oh, wait, what? Okay, whatever. You can literally walk through it. I thought you had to press a button. Oh, man. Okay, we got, oh. That was a little too close. Okay, yellow, green, nice. And I think we have actually completed the first stage of this. Okay, nice. So we completed chapter one, stage one. Hey, okay, so I think each chapter has like three stages if I'm not mistaken. All right, this is stage two. Oh, man, there's a lot of stages on this. Okay, that's green. You need to press that because I am Team Yellow. Oh, that was tasteful. All right, oh, invisible bridge. Where did it come from? Who knows? Like a magic rainbow bridge or something. All right, come on. Okay, now we, oh wait, what? These buttons are timed. Oh, so you got to do this. You got to do this before the timer runs out. Don't leave me behind. Okay, nice. Oh, man. You better watch out. You don't want to get hit by the spikes, do you? Okay, see a green. Okay, nice. No, you're supposed to come up this way, I think. Yeah, you are. Where are you going? She's going for the sushi. Of course. Everybody loves sushi, huh? Press the button, press the button. There you go. Okay, sweet. Oh, man, that's a lot of food. We just keep eating. By the time we're done with this, Abbie, we're going to look like poe with our big old bellies. All right, there you go, nice. Where do we go from here? Okay, go. Oh, be careful with that. That was a little too close. Oh, the sushi. I see the sushi. I smell the sushi. We're going to devour it. All right, I need you to press the button over here. Press the button. No, don't do not fall for the food. Dude, it's a trap. There you go. Nice. Okay, what did I do? That did something. I have no idea, but activate the levers. Oh, it opens that. Oh, what is that?  Bro, did you just steal my food? I think she did, man. No, I'm going to be starving down here. All right, so now I put the lever over here. Just got to wait for the green lever. Hey, and then we have completed stage two, chapter one. Nice. I'm not about you guys, but I'm starting to feel like my kung fu skills are kicking in, you know? Okay, stage one, stage two. Oh, you're supposed to collect three of those dumplings. All right, whatever. Let's move on to stage two. Oh, look at this. Oh, this is way more intense, bro. Now they got crazy spikes swinging. Oh, no. These people are bad. I mean, this is training. It's not the real deal. They're trying to get us killed already. I believe in you, Ninja Warrior. There you go. Okay, nice. Oh, food. Okay, um, what is this? Oh, what is that? There's more sushi back here. Let's get it. I don't know what the sushi is for, but it gives you points. But whatever, man, let's keep going. Okay, number two. Am I going to die? Oh, okay, that was kind of scary. I thought I was going to get caught up in flames. All right. Oh, man, even the Wild God spikes, bro. It's crazy up in here. Okay, we got to watch out for that, man. Dude, this is getting really intense. All right. Oh, what is this? I don't trust this one bit. I feel like those spikes are going to come flying at us. Okay, maybe not. All right. Hurry, partner. See you. Oh, I thought it was the end, but it's not. Okay, meanwhile should get here. I guess I'll get some sushi to myself. If you don't mind me. All right, three. Oh, look at this. Bro, what is this place?  Okay, you got me. I got you. That is teamwork right there. At its finest. All right. We pressed it. Oh, this is going to be timed. So we got to do it quick. Oh. No. All right. So we got a band by our last teammate, but it's on good. We got MLG dude here. Hopefully we can make this work. I believe in a man. Just look at him go. Just look at the man go. All right. So I think we just beat this part. Oh, no, there's another part over there. We beat this part in the next one. And we should be able to. Oh my God. That was close. Um, we should be able to escape. All right, my boy. I need you to step on that. Okay. Hold on. No, dude. Is he trolling me? I just been trolled. Okay. This time, please don't throw me to the flames then. I believe in you, dude. You got this. Okay. Please stay on there. Where's the spikes? All right. There you are. Nice. Thank you. He didn't show me this time. I feel like I can trust him with my life now. All right. Now it's just up to him to cross. Go. Oh, he should have ran for it right there. I think he's a little shook right now. He's scared. Oh, will he make it? Nice. He made it. Right now, we open the door for him. And he shall do the same. Hey, what are you doing over there, huh? Oh, okay. Great. Not this part. Oh, no. I was scared. I was a little scared right there to make that jump. Okay. Go. Nice. You got it. Oh, that almost hit him. Okay. Oh, we got to press the levers in the flames. I see. Okay. So, no, come back. It's supposed to go in the flames. Oh, I should have ran for it, huh? Dude, I could have totally made that. But I'm just trying to play safe because I am not trying to die. Okay. Nice. I got my lever. No, behind you. What are you doing, bro? There's a lever behind you. Oh, no. This guy. There you go. Look. Oh, I don't think he sees the yellow lever on the other side. No, this way. Come here. Hey, come here. Oh, wait. We don't actually need it. You know what? I'm going for the exit. That's just for the bowl of noodle down there. If you want to get the bowl, then you got to do that. But in my case, I want to get out of here. There you go. Nice. And I think, oh, congratulations, my young disciples. Hey, what? You're well on your way being the next dragon warrior. You heard that. Because of that, I grant you the power of Skadoosh. Skadoosh. Danger points on our new move and come back next week. Nice. So we got this Skadoosh, emo, for completing the stage one. Nice. Now we can do the Skadoosh, man. I feel powerful already. We got this one. Nice. Okay. So we beat that chapter, stage one, and there is the chapter two and chapter three, but you got to keep advancing. But with that being said, I'm done with this Ninja Warrior training. I feel like I'm a little too over qualified. And yeah, dudes, I'll see you guys in the next one. Skadoosh.


It's real trouble cards, cribs, and I'm back with another one. Huge shout out to everybody watching this video. If you're watching this on my YouTube channel, stop right now, pause the video, smash the subscribe button. Also, give me a thumbs up. If you're watching this on social media, make sure you share this video and follow me and also give me a thumbs up. Today, we're in Moninon, Illinois, where we'll be reviewing an over 5,000 square foot storefront building. Also, it comes with two apartments right up here. One is the studio and one is the two-bedroom. The studio is running out for 800. The two-bedroom is running out for 1200. This beautiful storefront can be broken up into five separate stores. This is number one right here. We already got one running. So you're gonna get rent from that one. And keep that in mind. The rest of them are in here so you guys don't wanna miss this video but don't forget, smash that subscribe button. I'll see you guys when we get inside. Now that we're inside this beautiful, very large building, I'm gonna give you guys a few points. Point number one, you can purchase this building for $649,000. You automatically gonna off-top make $2,000 just for the apartment. That's not including a rent for the store here and then you can rent out each separate thing because it's like four more stores you can put in this part. If you're not looking to buy, you're looking to rent. You also can lease out one of these places and it is $9.50 per square foot. So let me give you the rundown. As you guys can see, this part here is huge. I mean, we have a lot of different things you can do. You can do a tech tool parlor, barber shop, office space. Honestly, nowadays since everything has changed, it's possible it'd be a great office space and people can come here and get them a little cubicle and they can work in here instead of at home because some people don't wanna work from home. Some people are not that productive at home.  So they can come in here, get them a little space, do what they need to do right in here. You could put one, two, three, four, five over here. One, two, three, four, five over there and then have a little common area with a little lunch room, put a little Vietnamese here and all that and then you got the whole setup. So that's number one, you could do it with this space. It's wide open. Again, with the commercial stuff, you have to put your own touches to it. So you obviously have to keep an open mind on how you want things set up. But I think that's perfect for a salon or barber shop or something of that matter. We also do have a little storage space right here. Man, you can store some stuff in there and then we have a bathroom.  More storage, you can store stuff in here. Very nice setup. Now, this unit is going to end, you can end it here, but I will possibly end it here. I'm gonna end it here because I want that outlet to go with this side. So I'm gonna end it here, bam, right there. Now, store number two. We have the furnace and everything hooked up right there. It's a nice little space. I probably put like a little refrigerator or something in there. Nice little setup. This space is huge. Now, you could separate this into another place. Stop it here. So it'll be from there to here. It'll be some smaller or the people with the barber shop, they can put like a salon slash barber shop in one area so they can have the barber or salon in the front and then the barber shop back here vice versa. So they can do that, that's it up. Do a teammate, partnership, husband and wife or business partners can make that happen right there. So if you decide to go with splitting it up or even a barbershop slash line, this is exactly where the door was before. So they took the door out and put a window right here. What I would do is put a new door right here just so you can split it up a little bit better. But it's all about preference. You could have them come through there if you're doing a barbershop salon. But women have a thing where they don't want, they don't like to have men in the vicinity while they're getting their hair done. So you maybe want to have it split up. That's what I recommend. This is number, what is that? One, two, three, four. It's number four, which is bigger than number two. Plenty of space. You can put your little store right here. You can put your little pet room in place. We do have outlets as you guys can see right here and all the way around. So you have plenty of space. And it also was a bathroom right here. Let me move this door. Bathrooms were, oh, that door was on the other side. There was a bathroom right here. So you're going to cut this off right here where the bathroom is. This would be the end of number four. Put the bathroom, fix the bathroom up. I know it looks bad to some people, but it's really not that much work. Just put some flooring in there, hit the sink, put the sink in there. It's not going to be that bad. Draw wall up top.  Me, it's possible that I would try to cut it off so each side can have their own space.  This place is huge. Store number five, stay alive. Plenty of space. You have emergency exits on this side, which is great. I mean, I don't even know what you can, the door was right there for this side. I need you guys to come and belong and let me know what you would make each space. Because it's just so many variables, so many different things you can do in here.  When you're dealing with this and you're trying to start a business, open your mind up. Or even, guess what else? Even one of those yoga places or something like that where people come here and exercise, get you a nice little setup in here. Just so many different things you can do. So with this over 5,000 square foot building, you can separate into five different sections. We already have one right here. They sell the vitamins and all that stuff right there. So this is what I want to do. This is my setup. Right here is going to be the barber shop. You already got the outlets, you have everything set up to make it a barber shop. The next thing, which start, we have bathroom right there. Don't forget about that. It's going to start about here. This is going to be the beauty salon. You're going to put a door right there. This is where the women are going to come in and get their hair done. This area right here. Then we're going to come over here. Wham! Right here is where we're going to put the nail salon. And we're going to block that off. The door is already right there. People are going to come and get the nails.  Get the nails done. And then of course, right over here, you have to eat. So we've got to have some type of food right here. So the local places who sell food, this is where we're going to have the food place at. We're going to come here and get them some food and all that chill over in the lack while they wait to go to the salons. That's the whole setup. That's what I'm doing with the building. And don't forget, we have the other building already pan, rent right there. And then we have the two apartments upstairs.  So again, this is in Munden Line, Illinois. Oh, let's look outside. You got all this parking here too. All this parking, then goes all the way down. We're going to give you guys a snippet of the outside of the video. So if you're looking to purchase, you're going to see the whole thing. And it's very, very nice and excellent area. Again, over 5,000 square feet with two apartments upstairs. You can separate into five different stores or you can leave in one. Or if you're looking to rent, you can always email me at Rome's house reviews. If you're looking for to buy, you can always email me at Rome's house reviews at gmail.com, whichever one you prefer. 950 or square foot if you're looking to rent. 649,000 if you're looking to purchase. It's a great investment and you're for sure going to make your money back. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, don't forget to smash the subscribe button for new houses, commercial buildings, anything. Email me at Rome's house reviews at gmail.com. I'll see you guys on the next one. It's realtorum and I'm gone.