So hi everyone, thank you for joining us today for our webinar on how to make the best of quarantine in life and business. Knowing what to do is hard right now and there's no one answer. COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus pandemic has disrupted daily lives and has caused the world economies to free fall into massive downward spiral. That is why we are now bringing this informative webinar by our esteemed mentor to share tools which will help you navigate, survive and thrive after this quarantine is lifted. We'll be breaking the topic down into two phases, personal and business during lockdown. Also to all the attendees out there, please type in any questions you might have and we'll try to answer as many as possible at the end of the session. I would now like to introduce our speaker. Mr. Harish Mehta is a motivational speaker, a certified business and executive coach from ActionCoach International USA. He is also a certified John Maxwell leadership coach, a certified law of attraction trainer and the founder of disrupt engaging with the minds of people to find the new within you. He believes that growth thrives on a single point agenda, which is action. With four decades of experience and knowledge gained through all the trainings and programs, Harish is an accomplished speaker, coach, trainer, teacher, mentor and facilitator. Please welcome Mr. Harish Mehta. Hi sir, welcome. Thank you. I'll just start, share my screen as well. Thank you. Please start sir. Thank you very much Sonali. That was a great introduction. I want to introduce to the people today a great subject close to my heart. These 90 days will change your life. And I mean it. These 90 days will change your life. Now, do you know what is in store for you for these 90 days? How life is going to evolve and how you are going to create a new you?  Sonali, I don't see my picture. Do I need to see or it's not okay? It's visible sir. It's visible to the attendees. Oh, lovely, lovely. So I cannot see myself. I'm so happy. Brilliant. The people who are there in the room, I promise you two things.  These 90 days are going to create a new you. And I mean it. I repeat, I mean it.  Do you know where you live here in your mind? Do you know? What is there that is stopping you to become who you need to become who you can become and who you will be in the next 90 days? I'm sure most of you do not know what's going to happen to you in the next 24 hours, 48 hours or a week. Why? Why are you carrying this uncertainty in your mind? Do you know there is a fear in you? There is a fear in you that you do not know what's going to happen. And why is that fear? Because the people you are surrounded by today. The people who live around you. And I am going to share with you how to create a new you. If you have already not done it, I want you to do it. If you don't want to do it, you will not change. You will not become who you can become. Every single day, there are 24 hours. Every single day, there are 24 hours. And each of us has those 24 hours with us.  These 90 days are not going to come again. I promise you, these 90 days are not going to come again. And the lockdown is going to be extended after the 14th for another period. And that's the trial that you need to go through. So please, people in the room ask yourself, how can you get the best out of yourself in these 90 days? The 90 days will end on the 1st of July. And there will be a new world. Are you prepared to accept the new world? Are you gearing up to look at the new world? Are you promising yourself to create a new world in your life? Yes, I mean it. Are you promising yourself to get a new world in this life? This is God's gift to all of us. This is God's gift to all of us. These 90 days will shape you to create a new you. I mean it. So what do you need to do in these 90 days to create the new you? Each one of us is having a 6 AM to 11 PM every single day. Each one of us is having a 6 AM to 11 PM every single day. What's your routine today? Is your routine the same, the better or the worse? Are you getting up at 6 AM or you're lasing till 12?  Remember, I am ready at 9 AM and sitting on my home office desk to attend to people. 9 to 12 is my attending to people. Making those calls, making those webinars, sharing those messages and coaching people. Did I know when I did my last seminar to 270 people in Cochin on the 7th of March that I'm going to be speaking to a TV screen and I'm going to sending these messages to thousands of people and I'm going to be sending these messages to thousands of people to a TV screen and I'm going to sending these messages to thousands of people around the world and listening from the great people around the world sitting in my office at home. Did I know this? No. What did I do? I accepted the new life. I created the new me. I need to speak for the next 90 days and maybe beyond into the screen. Teach the people around the world and tell them that life is good. Make it better every single day by working hard on yourself. Yes, I mean working hard on yourself and these 90 days are not going to come back. I promise you, the more you learn in these 90 days, I repeat, the more you learn in these 90 days, you will earn much more after the 90 days. How you are doing your routine, your 90 days starts at 6 a.m. and ends at 11 p.m. every single day. Today I want each one of you to pick up a chart paper. If you don't have a chart paper at home, pick up newspapers. Put it on the wall and write down your 90 days, how you want to invest in these 90 days on yourself. I mean it on yourself, on your personal growth, on your personal development and on the development of your family. And in case you are employed on the people you are surrounded by or the employer. You've got work to do when you sit in your home office every day, 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. I'm giving you two hours break, 12 to 2. And organize your life in such a way that you can keep yourself happy. You can keep your children happy. You can keep your family happy and also participate with them in the daily routine that the family needs to do together at home. This is the best time you could be with your family, with your parents, with your children, with your wife and with the neighbors. This could have never happened in the normal day which you used to live before the 22nd of March. And I must promise you that the things that you can do today, you can create a new world for yourself, which is going to be so good, so beautiful and so full of gratitude that these days will be etched in your memory for the rest of your life. This is a great story that you are writing for yourself. Yes, this is a great story that you're writing for yourself and this is going to reveal to the world how you earned respect for yourself, for your time, for your people, for your environment. And this is what I want to share with you today. How to use this 90 days to grow, to become good, better and best. Greatness is visible who work on themselves for these 90 days. And yes, why I repeat, this 90 days is going to be your life. You could never have thought about it that this will change me, this will create a new me. Now, what do you need to do to work on yourself, to create a new you. You need to work on yourself by getting up in the morning, 6am and doing your bed. What did I say? Doing your bed, you've never done that. So the habit of doing your bed needs to come in. And as soon as you see, you can get into that zone of doing your bed. And if possible, you and your wife could do the children, make them better, sit together. In case you are doing prayers, you can do your prayers. In case you want to read, you can read. In case you want to learn something, you can learn something new, which you have never done in this 6-9am. And when students, children, teachers, they all go to school. Your children also need to go to school. They need to go out of the door and come back into the door and sit in their classroom at home. Could you ever imagine that you could create a life for them? The world over has shifted. Similarly, you pick a corner in the home and start your office at 9am. Done with your breakfast, done with your bathing, done with your readiness, you are ready to now take office. Now you have written down yesterday before sleeping in your default diary, what are the errands you need to do? I mean, got to do myself and getting things done from people. These two lists need to be prepared every single day. Got to do myself and getting things done from people.  If you're a business owner, you have a team. If you're an employee, your employer is waiting to speak to you and the other members of the team to get into the daily huddle. The huddle could be between 10, 15 or half an hour. Once you've done the huddle, each one of you who is a part of the huddle in the office is getting into his own zone to complete the task for the day. And in case you need to meet more often, you can fix times to meet again before lunch. Lunch starts at 12 because you started early. So before 12, you can do your team huddle and the employer can get into huddle again post lunch or before you close for the day at 5pm. I promise you this is the discipline in case you can follow it. You can make this journey better. What you need to do is plan your today, plan your tomorrow, plan your week, plan your 15 days and plan your month. All plan in the crisis that you're going through is not about panic, is how about creating a new company, a creating about a new team because they are now all thinking and the more these people think, the more they listen, the more they do. Remember, productivity is going to be at the peak when you focus on these areas.  That's the meeting room. And today, technology is providing you that. Remember, what did I say? Technology is providing you that in case you don't have it, install it right away. Do not sleep through it. You all have got smartphones. You all have got the computer, the laptop or the iPad. Connectivity, connectivity, connectivity. Communication, communication, communication is the essence. Connectivity and communication are the two things that you need to have today. And I must share with you in case you feel that you want to get the same life after these 90 days. I promise you, you're going to be wrong. The shift that needs to come, needs to come today. And as soon as it comes, you see a new life emerging. Listening, learning, growing. Sharing, caring and looking after each other. And now that you're with your family, give more time. Post your 5 p.m. a six to nine program. And then again, write your routine so beautifully that you are so happy at 11 p.m. that you had a great day because you planned the day before you slept. This is a new life I am giving you. And I promise you what you need to leave. Write down these five words. And I hope since that you are caring, which you need to leave from your life. Number one. Number one. Those who complain needs to forget from today. I promise not to complain. I promise not to complain. And number two. I promise not to criticize. I promise not to criticize. Number three. I promise not to gossip. Get out of the zone of receiving and posting and forwarding those WhatsApp messages, which have no value.  Why I say this is because these 90 days are creating a new you. And when you shift, you have unwired yourself to rewire to a new routine. And remember the quality of your routine defines the caliber of your performance. This new routine is going to take you to a new life. A new life for you, a new life for your children, a new life for the wife, a new life for the parents, and they're going to so grateful. And remember this, that this was the best thing to have happened to them in their life. This. Coronavirus, which has come. This is a blessing in disguise for the planet Earth. It is going to reset itself. What did I say? It's going to reset the world. The whole planet is going to be reset and it's going to come out emerging beautifully well. And you know what I mean by that? You are going to accept greatness in people, greatness in human beings, and greatness in life. Once you move into that zone, once you move into that zone, once you move into that zone, you will see life has changed with you, with the people around you, and with the people whom you communicate with every single day. And life is too good to be ordinary.  Now that you have written this one, stop complaining, stop criticizing, stop gossiping, stop worrying and stop procrastinating.  Let the fear go. The fear needs to be out of your mind. The fear is one thing when you say, I will face the fear and the fear will disappear. I promise you when you face the fear, the fear will disappear. I promise you when you face the fear, the fear will disappear. The fear will disappear. Now what I want you to do for business owners, for people who are employed, I want you to look at in business, in business, what is a crisis? In business, what is a crisis? A crisis is an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which decisive change is a bending. I repeat, an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which decisive change is impending. Now what do you do in these circumstances? What do you do in these circumstances? I will share. Life is defined by the choices you make. So please make the right choices. Please make the right choices. Why I say that? You need to make the right choices because it's all about the choices that will create the new you. And those of you who are leaders, I want you to write this down. Those of you who are leaders, I want you to write this down. As a leader, you need to guard your heart and feed your mind. As a leader, you need to guard your heart and feed your mind. Number 2, protect yourself and your people. Protect yourself and your people. Protect yourself and your people. Communicate. Communicate in a proactive, positive and a pragmatic way. Communicate in a proactive, positive and a pragmatic way. Create an action plan, create an action plan and then execute, test, measure and adjust. Do you see? There is so much to do in these 90 days and I must share this with you.  What you feed your mind determines your appetite.  Is your best chance of a successful exit? I repeat, your ability to stay positive is your best chance of a successful exit. What we feed on is what will nurture us.  So true, just like what we eat, it determines how our body functions. So two, what we watch, what we watch, what we listen and what we read will determine our health. Remember, what you watch, what you read and what you see, do and become is important. What you see and what you become, the new beliefs that are going to come into you, the new be, the new do, the new have, I know. The more you be, become who you need to become. You will become who you need to become provided. You know what you want.  When you know what you want, you get what you want. And when each one of you listening to me today, remember, you will get what you want when you know it well enough. You will get what you want when you know it well enough. And today, you need to get clarity. What do you want? Why do you want how to is a process? How to bring that shift in you is a process. And in life, these 90 days are a gift to you from the universe to change the way you think. Do you think? How much? And what do you think? What words could happen to you or the best can happen to you? Every moment in life today, from today onwards, is an opportunity. You keep knocking new doors. You keep creating a new life for you. And life is creativity in crisis. I'm sharing this every single day with lots of people. Every single day, these webinars I am creating. In people's lives, a thought is coming. I need to look at myself and rewire, redesign myself. When I look at myself, both as an individual, as a parent, as a father, as a son, or as a leader, or as an employee, I see myself emerging and creating that new me. I'm sure each one of you listening on this webinar and those who will listen to this webinar later, will be inspired, will be motivated, and will be influenced to take this journey to a new level. A new positioning, a new me is going to emerge. And remember what I said to you. What you feed your mind determines your appetite. You feed scarcity. You feed scarcity. You'll be hungry to get negativity. You'll be hungry to have negative people around you. You will hungry to get depression around you. And when you feed good thoughts, good words, good activity, positive mental attitude, enthusiasm, and self-discipline, you don't need to think what's going to happen.  You'll become good to great. Provided today you leave the bad and the ugly in terms of the words, in terms of the people, in terms of the choices you make and what you feed is what you're going to get as a result. And this is what you need to share with the family, at home with everybody.   Are you looking after yourself in terms of health, physical fitness, mental fitness, and emotional fitness? What are you doing in your routine, in your 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. every single day to be physically fit, mentally fit, and emotionally fit? Allocate time, allocate time for your personal and for your family to get these three zones right. Personal fitness, mental fitness, and emotional fitness. This is going to bring that shift in you. When you allocate your resources, which is time today, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., you will see that where it's going to take you. It's going to take you to a new level, a new level where you yourself will not believe. And when you now make that decision, post this call, during this call, that I am going to challenge myself, I am going to create a new me. I want to share with you my famous cliche, which I use. It is in your moments of decision. It is in your moments of decision that you design your destiny. So commit to yourself. Commit to yourself so that the mind can conceive. I need to change. I need to bring that change in me and believe in that thought that, yes, I believe in myself. And when you say I believe in myself, not only you, the people around you will also believe in you. And you, as a leader of the house, the family, and the leader in your business, in your profession, in the job that you do, as an employee, or as an employer, or running the business, you will see these shifts will create a massive result. I promise you, every single day, when you've written your 90-day plan on the wall and stuck chips of paper into it, the postage pads, if you have it, good, if you don't have it, buy it. If you can't buy it, cut paper, put that gum and use it. Do not go to excuse mode. Do not go to blame mode. Do not go to a denial mode. I can't do it. I've never done it. So do it. The cards should become I can. I can, I will, I am, and I must. Look at the power of these words. Just speak these words and see how much power do you generate? And all this comes from here, the power of your mind. And I know, and I must share today, the six powers of the mind will change you. Number one, imagination.  Keep them bright and you are now on the job of protecting yourself and your people. And remember, unless you do that, the virus is spreading fast and therefore we have a responsibility to find out the best practices and practice them. We have a responsibility, not just to ourselves, but for others to be considerate and plans in place for your workforce while keeping them connected. Virtually, who is it essential that you keep connection with is important. In these times, it's very important to communicate. In these times, it's very important to communicate. Before I move on to the five tips for effective communication, I must confess, use the six faculties of your mind in a positive manner. Use the six faculties of the mind in a positive manner. Number one, imagination. Number two, intuition, your gut, your gut feeling. Number three, will, the desire and the burning desire. Number four, memory. Use all your good memory in these times. Number five, perception. Your perception today should be positive, sharing, caring, listening, learning, growing. And you will see you're creating a new level, not only in your personal life, but in the lives of people around you. And finally, reason.  Do the effort that needs to be done to have, to capture that Mount Everest that you can imagine in these 90 days. And then beyond, life is going to be so good that you'll bless, you got this lesson today from all of us. That yes, today is the day that I need to make a decision to make that shift, not only in my life, but in the lives of people around me and the business or the engagement or the job that I'm doing. All the six areas that you need to work on is yourself, is your health, your people health, your company health, your relationships, your people at home, your people at work, your people whom you deal with. And it's important when you deal with people, ask them, how can you help them in these times? And remember, the more you communicate in these times, the more they are going to belong to you.   And when you are having enough resources in your six a.m. to 11 p.m., socially grow people within the neighborhood and within the people. So you're looking after all these areas. Now, let me come to the final point, the five tips for effective communication and communication connectivity is the goal today. To connect with people, connect with people, to communicate with people, I wanted to take your notepads out and write this down. I got this great message two days back from one of my great coaches in USA. Five tips for effective communication. And I'm sharing this with you. Number one, communicate relentlessly. Communicate relentlessly. Write in your default diary before you sleep. These 20 people, you need to communicate first thing in the morning, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.  Self-discipline, you've got to get ready and sit in your home office nine to 12. Remember, this time is not going to clump. Back in your life, you can sleep till 12 and never wake up in life. Or you can choose to wake up at 6 a.m. and create a new life.  And those of you who make that move will become a new human being. And those of you who sleep, I wish they listened to this over and over again. And find that time to make the choice, to make that decision to change and design their destiny, conceive that thought, commit to that thought, believe in themselves and take action. So as I said, number one, communicate relentlessly. Number two, simplify and be direct. Simplify and be direct. Number three, listen and encourage input. Listen and encourage input. Start listening people. Leaders, start listening to your employees. 75% listening and 25% is what you need to respond to what you listen. And encourage them to keep speaking, not only to themselves, but to people within their surroundings so that it has a multiplier effect. 60 into 60 into 60 into 60 into 60, that ripple effect will go on and you would have touched the lives of people, not only in your city, but around the globe. Next, number four, illustrate through stories like I have been sharing in my coaching programs every single day what is happening. My gurus are sharing with me about a lot of stuff happening in America. There is domestic violence. There is unemployment which is growing up. People are sitting at home and the women are getting mad. I hope that changes and in India, we encourage our people sitting at home to be a part of the household routine. Please allocate your time between five to nine in the evening and six to nine in the morning to those parts which need attention. And finally, affirm with actions. What do you need to affirm? First, affirm to yourself. When you speak to yourself in the morning, you say, I am confident, I am fearless, I am confident, I am fearless, these affirmations and then I am limitless, I am unstoppable and I am the best. Use these five affirmations every day. You can use it 50 times, 100 times, as many times as you want and see not only you, the family, the people, the people you communicate with, they will change. And remember, do not leave your people to wonder. That's a mark of caution. Do not leave your people to wonder what's going on and what you are doing to protect them and the business. I repeat, do not leave your people to wonder. Unless you communicate, they will wonder. What's going on and what you are doing to protect them and the business? Be clear, be caring, be consistent and be commercially minded that you have to look after them and the resources that you're deploying, both your personal reserves and the company reserves to keep the company afloat during these times will come back multi-fold. I promise you, never ever all business owners listening to me today have a fear that once you deploy your reserves, deploy your personal reserves and your business reserves, you're going to be doomed. Let that go out of your mind. You are investing your reserves in keeping your assets together, in building your assets to become sharper. They are sharpening their skills, they are sharpening their knowledge, they are sharpening their belief set to become better humans and they are creating a happy living at home and at their office where they are working. And why do I say that is emphatically, be clear, be caring, be consistent and be commercially minded to give them this benefit of leadership sitting from home. And let's not be silent. Please, let's not be silent but take control of the narrative and be the voice that provides solutions and options for helping us move forward in a safe and secure manner. So communicate in a proactive, positive and a pragmatic way is the lesson that I'm teaching you. Now I still have some time. Yeah, create an action plan. I will read this out quickly so that you can remember and we'll be sharing a copy of this webinar, each one of you. Create a daily routine to stay focused and productive the employee. Be careful what you spend your time listening and watching. Be careful what you spend on time listening and watching. Know your income and cash situation. Preserve cash, don't spend unnecessarily. Find ways to create value to your employer. Yes, find ways to create value to your employer. If your job is at risk, what can you do to create an income stream? Find what you're good at that could add value to others. Don't wait for things to happen. Be proactive, take consistent daily action. And for the employer, know your exact financial situation. Preserve current revenue streams. Manage expenses, cash, don't spend unnecessarily. Be an example and lead with a positive and disciplined mindset. Look for opportunities to provide services, products that add value to the market. Create scenarios and potential response options. What would happen if revenue drops? The situation persists for an extended period you get sick. So now take the time to think through contingencies. What will we do if there is a shutdown and we must close? This continues for the next two, three months. I have reduced or no revenues and cannot meet my financial obligations. Me or my key people catch the virus and cannot functions. Here are a few questions and thoughts for your plan. How will you address these issues? Will you send people home and if so, how? Will you lay off people permanently of initial short periods? If so, who would you release first? What services can you keep offering and how you will offer them? How will you change your operating model to meet the needs of your customers? What would you put in place for employees who must continue working? And you must monitor, adjust and optimize. Execute, test, measure and adjust. We must act and act quickly and decisively while checking what's working and what's not working. We must be constantly tracking to see the results of our plans and actions and be open to making changes. The reality of the environment does not require, I repeat, the reality of the environment does not require us to shrink to a grain of sand but to stand and become a bridge or a mountain. Now, I must come back and share with you life is defined by the choices you make. So make the right choices today and be the leader. Be the leader you need to. Guard your heart, feed your mind, protect yourself and your people. Communicate in a proactive, positive and a pragmatic way. Create an action plan, execute, test, measure and adjust. I hope you carried these inputs and in your personal life, write your daily routine, write your 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., get up in the morning, look at physical fitness, look at emotional fitness, look at mental fitness, start using the words, I can, I will, I must and promise yourself that I will move on the journey and I must share with you before I close my last, which is my gift to you, a template which is being shared with you. I, Harish Mehta, promise myself to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind. I, Harish Mehta, promise myself to talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person I meet. I promise myself to make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them. I promise myself to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true. I promise myself to think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best. I promise myself to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own. I promise myself to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.  I promise myself to give so much time to improving myself, to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others. I promise myself to be too large for worry, too noble for anger and too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. I promise myself to think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, to think well of myself, to proclaim this fact to the world and not in loud words, but in great deeds. I, Harish Mehta, promise myself to live in the faith that the whole world is on my side so long as I am true to the best that is in me. I am sharing this with you. Thank you for joining me today on this webinar. This 90-day period is a great challenge. It's a great opportunity for each one of us to grow, to learn and to create not only a new you, but a new you around you. And I mean it. And the routine starts from today. If it is not there, it is there from today. Make that decision, grow up and grow the people around you. Sonali, thank you very much. I am ready for questions if any. Thank you so much for such a wonderful session, sir. It was so inspiring listening to you and it was such a pleasure to have you here. I hope everyone took something out of this session and it was absolutely amazing. I'm sure if they carried in their mind, they will grow from today. Definitely, sir, definitely. So we already have a few questions lined up. If you permit, we can give everyone a two-minute break for them to write down any more questions that they might have and we'll continue in two minutes again. So all the attendees, if you have any questions... And I want you to give them these gifts, send them by gratitude mail for all those people who attended. Definitely, sir. We'll send them the recording as well as the gratitude mail after the session. And also those of the attendees who want to have a call with me, I'm happy to give a 15 to 30 minutes coaching session with them. They can note down my mobile number, send me a WhatsApp, 992091747 and also mail me Harish Mehta at actioncoach.com. And from the Action Coach community in India and worldwide, I must share with you, we are all here in this world to help you become better in life and in business. So connect with us, stay with us, and we are blessed to serve you in these times. Wonderful, sir. We'll share your contact details with everyone as well in a mail after the session. So if anyone wants to contact him directly, please get in touch. We have another five minutes. If there are any questions, I'm happy to answer. If they need to speak to me directly, I'm happy to address them. Feel free, but let go negativity. Let go negative people from now onwards. Be positive, be proactive, and be the communicator. Be the change that you want to see in the people around you. I am the communicator, and my job is to influence people to grow, to learn and grow people, grow themselves, and life is too short to be ordinary.  Add value to yourself and to the people around you and see that how greatness is visible in every action that you take from now onwards. Great. So we have quite a few questions lined up now. I think I'll start with them. I'll read out the question, sir, and you can give the answer after that. So just brief course says how to stop distraction while working as we have to use technology, but at times technology itself engages in other unuseful content. Focus, focus, focus. Where focus goes, energy flows. Remember these keywords. Focus, focus, focus. Where focus goes, energy flows. Attention, focus, and energy are three things that you need to put here in your mind today. When you focus on one particular activity, it gets done. When you focus on too many things, your mind gets distracted. And I said, use your mental faculties to the best.  You'll get the results in minimum possible time. When you want to do too many things, you get nothing. I promise you. You look at the way I focused on my speech today. 55 minutes of focused speech. No phone calls, no disturbance, no having tea, no getting up to the washroom. When you discipline yourself, so self discipline. And enthusiasm. And 24 by seven positive mental attitude will get the results you want. Perfect. The next attendee says every business is driving with cash crunch right now. Suggest how to manage this problem. I have given you what you need to focus on as employer. Keep the cash ready. Look at the expenses you need to make. Take out your reserves. Your personal reserves and your reserves from the business. And in case you do not have reserves from the business, borrow money. Borrow money from the banks. Go to them. I need to survive. Do not hesitate. Be open. The government is going to give you a lot of money to survive these four months. Remove the fear from you that you have no money. When you let go the fear, the fear disappears from today. Be proactive, communicate with people and reach out to people to help them. The money will come. What businesses you are in. Ask money from the people who have to give you the money back and help those people who need your resources. In terms of your goods, your services, do not procrastinate. Do not think, should I do or should I not do?   So deploy everything that you have. Be proactive, be enthusiastic, be positive and create that environment. Remove negative thoughts from your mind that we will perish. You will perish only if you want to attract misery. When you attract abundance, goodwill, good thoughts, you can never perish. The universe will participate. And remember, write down these words on your notepad. What you think is what you become. What you think is what you become. And when you think you are rich, you will become rich. All your thoughts will move towards the universe and you will attract all that good that is waiting for you. The more you think negative, the more you will attract negative. The universe is going to participate. And remember, the more you believe in yourself, the more you bring those positive thoughts, the more the world is going to care for you. The more you give, the more you have. Isn't that great? So start giving and start having. Start attracting those good things and you will get them. The universe is waiting to share with you the resources that the universe is having. Believe in that. Believe in yourself. And say, I will, I can, and I must. When you use affirmations, the mind shifts and it's all here. Whether you carry a scarcity mind on an abundant mind, even with 100 rupees, you are rich. And you can always say with five crores that I have nothing, I may perish. How you think, what you think is what you become. Carry this affirmation and spread this message. Become wise here, healthy here and healthy mentally, healthy physically and healthy emotionally. We'll take you on these 90 days to survive well and thrive thereafter post these 90 days. Spread this message to yourself first inside. Go in and spread it. I belong there. And when you see you belong there, you start speaking the same language like me. I speak this language for the last five years and attract good, better and best. And I'm creating this new life in the lives of people, coaching them, mentoring them, teaching them. And also inspiring, educating them and influencing them to shift their mind from a negative mindset to a mind power, mind power, mind power. Look at the way I say power. It generates power in you. It's all how you do what you do. And how you do is how you become and what you become is all there. So leave your bad habits. Leave where you're coming from. Promise yourself to take the new route. And I have gifted you this. Read this. I promise 200 times every day. You see the result? Your pattern in your mind is going to shift. You're going to create a positive mindset and believe in all those 15 sentences which I recited. And that is your power. That is what you're going to get. So I'm so very happy Sonali that I could do this program with you. I am grateful to Business X and would like to do a series of programs for leaders, for business owners, and for people in profession. I would like to do a question and answer session henceforth so that I could address those 10, 20, 30 people in that one hour addressing individual questions is the new ball game. And I'm going to address them and promise them and make that shift in their lives. And I'm there to help you all remember my job for the next 30 years is to recreate life for people, a good life, a healthy life, a wealthy life, and a sharing and caring life. We all grow together. We all live together. We all inspire each other, and we all influence each other in these times is what my messages. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And looking forward to chat with you personally. Sonali, please get this momentum on. Definitely. Next 90 days, we should do nine seminars to people, and I'm happy to share it through your platform, Business X. That's great. Wonderful. Thank you so much. We have a few other questions, but they were based on the same theme. So I believe you have answered them all really well. Thank you so much for your time, sir. And yes, I really hope that we can continue with this series with you. And everyone, if you have any other questions, please contact us directly as well. He'll be more than happy to answer your questions personally as well. Thank you. Enjoy life and share a good life with your people from now on. Your time starts now. Thank you so much everyone for joining us today. All the recordings and the highlights of the session will be shared to you in an email afterwards, along with the details of our speaker. So please feel free to get in touch with him with us if you have any queries, any questions at all. Thank you so much for your time and we'll see you next time with another session. Thank you so much. Stay home. Stay safe. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bless you. Thank you.


We all know sleep is crucial, but have you ever truly grasped the domino effect a single bad night can unleash? It's not just groggyness. It's a cellular symphony gone haywire, impacting everything from brain power to immunity.  Neurons like traffic lights guide information, synapses repair memories, and learning flourishes. Sleep is the city's curfew, allowing this vital maintenance. But pull an all-nighter and chaos descends. Traffic jams clog neural pathways, attention plummets, and decisions falter.  The ripple effects go far beyond foggy thinking. Immunity plummets. You're vulnerable to illness and infection. Emotions go haywire. Anxiety and depression flare, leading to mood swings. Hormonal havoc. Cortisol, the stress hormone, spirals, fueling anxiety, and disrupting sleep further.


Empire-funded think tanks are not valid sources, notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. Attention journalists, it is never, never acceptable, under any circumstances, to cite think tanks funded by governments and the military-industrial complex as sources of information or expertise on matters of national security or foreign affairs. If you do cite them, and again, don't, then at the very least you need to disclose the conflict of interest their funding causes in your reporting, and you need to make it abundantly clear to your audience that it is a conflict of interest. This happens every single day in the western media, but just as an example, take the way the independent Australian publication Crikey has shamefully published a bogus propaganda piece about the Chinese government persecuting LGBT people, with their sole source being the Empire-funded Australian Strategic Policy Institute. As soon as you do this, you're guilty of journalistic malpractice. As soon as you find yourself writing anything like, according to my source from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, you have ceased to function as a journalist, and are now functioning as a propagandist. It's insane that this extremely obvious fact isn't better understood. You all get that you can't cite unverifiable claims by outlets like RT or Sputnik, unless it's for official statements from the Russian government, but for some reason you've been told it's okay to cite think tanks that are paid by western governments and arms manufacturers in your reporting. It isn't, and it never has been. It has always been a brazen violation of journalistic ethics, and if you give it a moment of intellectually honest thought, you will know this to be true. Australians need to stop talking about AUKUS as a defense partnership. It's got nothing to do with defense. You don't need long-range submarines to defend Australia's easily defended shores. You need long-range submarines to attack China. Anyone who doubts this hasn't been paying attention. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating explained what this is probably really about the other day, saying it's about taking China's nuclear-armed submarines out to cripple their second strike capability, i.e., to allow the US to win a nuclear war against China. It's not a defense partnership because it's got nothing to do with defense, and it's not a defense partnership because it is not a partnership. It's the US Empire driving Australia to its doom to nobody's benefit but the US Empire. One of the biggest obstacles to building a robust anti-war movement is people's belief that their own individual activism and opposition makes no difference, which is simply not true. Your individual activism and opposition makes almost no difference, not no difference. These might sound similar, but they're actually literally an entire infinity apart. If your efforts to oppose our trajectory toward World War III made no difference, then those efforts would be pointless. But if your efforts make even the slightest bit of difference above absolute zero, all that means is a lot more people need to join you to help turn us away from this dangerous trajectory. Hollywood has given us the wrong impression of how these things work because the narrative structure of movies always places all its emphasis on the actions of the individual protagonist having an immensely consequential effect. Luke Skywalker blows up the Death Star. Frodo destroys the One Ring. The Avengers save the universe. The storyteller needs to make the hero's actions have major consequences to get you to care about their adventure and thus get you to care about the story they're telling you. But real life isn't like that. In real life it takes many, many people to bring about real change. The actions of one individual make very little difference. Even people like me who have larger than average voices are just a tiny drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things. Real change doesn't depend on the individual, it depends on the collective.  It takes the collective to keep civilization functioning and it will take the collective to change it. One bee sting won't protect the hive, but many bee stings is deadly. The bee doesn't hesitate because its one individual sting isn't going to bring about its Hollywood ending. It just stings. We need to be like that. Sting with all the power of your one sting, whatever that may be, organizing, attending protests, gorilla street activism, writing, tweeting, making memes, distributing literature, talking to people, making videos, whatever you can do to help wake up the rest of the bees and alert them to the threat that our collective hive has come under. You won't stop the empire by yourself. You won't make a major difference. But you will make a difference. And there's nothing anyone can do to stop you from making that small difference that you can make. Take that unstoppable small difference and work toward getting as many of the others to do the same, because enough unstoppable small differences will necessarily add up to becoming an unstoppable big difference. And once we hit that point, healthy change becomes inevitable.


Hi, my name is MC3Lavin and I'm here to talk about my experience at RIMPAC 2022. My overall experience at RIMPAC was amazing. I got to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of cool things and stay in a hotel downtown Waikiki. You can't argue with that. But I didn't know what to really expect coming out to RIMPAC and with so many things going on with so many different countries, I knew that it was going to be a pretty full plate. I got to cover things from ships pulling into port to special forces repelling down helicopters, onto buildings and clearing compounds, to riding on a rib with the Australian Army and doing man overboard drills with them, as well as two photo exes as one being the group sale of every single ship that participated in this exercise. Another benefit to RIMPAC was all the people that I got to work with. I got to work with so many awesome people with so much knowledge that applies to our rate, whether it being from MCs to Canadian Army imagery technicians. Everyone just had so much knowledge to give and it was really cool just being able to work with them, seeing how they operate. I would absolutely recommend RIMPAC to other MCs just to showcase your skills, hone in your skills and then also being able to soak up as much knowledge as possible. I definitely enjoyed my time here at RIMPAC and a part of me is hoping that I can come back and see what's going on with RIMPAC 2024.


For kids and teens, the amount of arsenic flowing through their bodies was found to be about 15% higher for each quarter cup of daily rice consumption. A similar link was found in adults. A study of pregnant women found that about a half a cup a day of cooked rice could raise urine arsenic levels as much as drinking a liter of arsenic-contaminated water at the current upper federal safety limit. So that suggests that many Americans may be exposed to potentially harmful levels of arsenic through rice consumption. But you know where Americans get most of their rice arsenic from? Rice Krispies, though brown rice Krispies may have twice as much. Organic brown rice syrup is used as a sweetener in organic food products as an alternative to high-fructose corn syrup. Big mistake is organic brown rice syrup products may introduce significant concentrations of toxic arsenic into people's diets. For example, two of these might hit the provisional upper daily arsenic limit based on the water standards. Toddler formulas with added organic brown rice syrup have 20 times higher levels of toxic arsenic. And in older children, thanks to brown rice syrup, a few cereal bars a day could pose a quote-unquote very high cancer risk. What about rice milk? A consensus statement of both the European and North American societies for pediatric nutrition recommend the avoidance of rice milk for infants and young children, and generally toxic arsenic intake in infancy and childhood should be as low as possible. To this end, the UK has banned the consumption of rice milk for young children, a notion to which Consumer Reports concurred recommending no servings a week of rice milk for children and no more than half a cup a day for adults. The arsenic in various brands of rice milk ranges all over the place, a 15-fold difference between the highest and lowest contamination, suggesting manufacturers could make low arsenic rice milk if they wanted. Consumer Reports found Pacific brand and rice dream were right about average. Though perhaps for rice dream it appears the vanilla or chocolate flavors may be lower, rice vinegar doesn't seem to be anything to worry about, but rice pasta and rice cakes end up similar to pure rice, which makes sense because that's pretty much what they are. Though pasta is boiled, and so we'd expect the levels to be cut 40 to 60%, like when you boil and drain rice. If for some reason you just couldn't live without rice milk, you could make your own using lower arsenic rice, like brown basmati from India, Pakistan, or California, but then it may have even less nutrition as at least most of the commercial brands are fortified. Better options might be soy, oat, hemp, or almond milk, though you don't want kids to be drinking too much almond milk. There have been a few case reports of little kids drinking like 4 cups a day, running into kidney stone problems due to the relatively high oxalate content, averaging about 5 times more than soy milk. How about 30 videos on the touch on soy milk, how it may normalize development in girls and reduce breast cancer risk, as well as prostate cancer risk in men? Some of the latest science on soy milk includes an association with better knee x-rays, suggesting protection from osteoarthritis and an interventional study, suggesting improved gut health by boosting the growth of good bacteria. Though drinking 3 quarts a day, 10 to 12 cups a day for a year, may inflame your liver. 2 cups a day, though, can have an extraordinary effect on your cholesterol, a whopping 25% drop in bad cholesterol after just 21 days. An ounce and a half of almonds every day, like a handful a day, can drop LDL 13% in 6 weeks and reduce abdominal fat, though a cup of almond milk only contains about 10 almonds, less than a third of what was used in the study, so it's not clear if almond milk helps much. But there was a study on oat milk compared to rice milk, 5 weeks of oat milk, lowered bad cholesterol, whereas rice milk didn't, and even increased triglycerides, may even bump blood pressure a little bit. But the oat milk only dropped LDL about 5%, and that was with 3 cups a day. So as plant-based alternatives go, it appears soy milk wins the day. So why drink rice milk at all when there are such better options? There's really not much nutrition in rice milk. In fact, there are case reports of severe malnutrition in toddlers who centered their diets around rice milk due to multiple food allergies. Infants and toddlers have increased protein requirements compared to adults, and so if the bulk of some poor kid's diet is rice milk, coconut milk, potato milk, almond milk, they may not get enough. Oh yeah, show me one case of quashior core that bloated belly protein calorie deficiency due to rice milk. Here you go. Here's another one. Severe quashior core, not in Ethiopia, but in Atlanta, Georgia. Because literally 99% of his diet was rice milk. So these malnutrition cases were not because they drank rice milk, but rather because they drank rice milk nearly exclusively. But I just used these to illustrate the relative lack of nutrition in rice milk. So if you're going to choose a milk, that is well go for one that has less arsenic and more nutrition.


Good to see you. I'm chillin. I'm good. No, like this is a second time this week I feel like a lucky man. Oh, was that was that Monday already? No, don't ask me what day it is I barely know it's crazy. All right, so Craig Jax Has listed for this week and next week. What do you have on the agenda, please? We got so much so starting with tonight young the giant is gonna be at the San Augustine amphitheater And this is a really popular alt rock band. There's so much fun You might know some of their hits my body cough syrup mind over matter They've got milky chance with them opening. We also spoke to the group's leader Lead singer sorry Samir Gidea about the show recently you take a listen All right, you know, you can always try to start at a theme, but you know that often ends up limiting you I think what we Do is is try and unthink even when you are living within a structure like this Where there's a storyline that other exists I know before even American Bollywood was an idea. We've written, you know, 50 60 songs and we're just Trying to see what was naturally coming out and this you know from the subconscious and I Think when we finally hit on the theme which often happens kind of midpoint into what seems like the end of a writing process That's kind of when we really hit the gas and it's a fine balance of Not letting structure like overrule everything and doing a line for improvisation and space Now I love songwriting that just you have the ability to really function on so many layers and you know the people who could listen to many tracks on this record and and see it as story of love and story of loss and On its face, there are so many elements like that, but if you kind of dig deeper in some of the significance and You know, you think I've waited to be a deeper territory Can I be honest with you? Yeah, I didn't understand what the hell he was talking about like I don't know But I'm just gonna ask you like it's the music good. The music is good Okay, cuz I haven't heard them before so like I think if I hear the music and I hear that sound clip that I will Understand cuz I heard Bollywood.  I'm I'm I'm sorry Stacy. I'm just I'm trying I'm old So please tell me more tell me more what else is going on so a Friday night tomorrow night There's this really cool exhibition popping up at Wild Crafters a show of lights by Meredith Mason and this is to show Showcase her lights, which are all handmade one of a kind and this collection is Intentionally playful and very colorful because she said and I quote I believe this world needs color and light and I'm bringing it Okay, so with that kind of like we know exactly what we're going into and it sounds really fun And the pieces themselves are also available for purchase in case you fall in love with one or two So it's tomorrow night at Wild Crafters, which is a fantastic Boost free bar if you haven't checked it out yet. Yep. I love it. What else you got now Saturday? This is a whole thing This is the natural beauty fest at the equestrian center It is the largest natural beauty and wellness festival in Jacksonville is a great place for naturalists looking to you know Learn more connect with like-minded people or salon owners who are looking to book some new clients make a little extra money Which we're always doing They'll have lock stations braiding stations haircuts onsite So if you need a little touch-up and you can't get in with your your usual, maybe you might have some luck I don't I don't have a usual here And I've got a usual for my haircut, but I do not have a usual for my locks. No, I need to go I know I know that surprises me.  So like you need to go to the natural beauty I gotta find somebody like in Oakland. I'm good like I go to my dude. He's good, but you're gonna be here for a minute So it's time to just you have just given me the key. Thank you very much. You're very welcome That leads us right into reggae Sunday. Yeah, you've got the locks already. You've got the good vibes Bring it to reggae Sunday at Wicked Barley. They have one of my most favorite back patios in Jacksonville because it backs right up to I believe it's Potter's Creek And it's it's incredible and this this party specifically is like No bad vibes only goodness everyone's, you know winding down the week getting ready for the new week They'll have food some of their incredible beer and they'll have two of Jacksonville's best reggae band split tone Who I spent a lot of my 20s watching at the beach bars and King Eddie Peely Peely So the music has spent a lot of my 20s Right on right and that starts at 11 a.m. On Sunday and it's free to attend by the way Have you seen the ads for the the new Bob Marley movie? Yes I'm torn. I'm not sure. I mean, I love Bob. I love I love I'm always I'm always a little suspicious of biopic Kingsley Ben Adir is a great actor if you haven't seen him in the new secret Invasion Marvel show Oh, we should talk about that because I have thoughts Does that need to be another review? We need to bring that up and listen at a later time I'm gonna bring my buddy batter on here. Who is all things like comic books We still got some more to go go ahead and then on the 28th skipping ahead a little bit The wicked out pop-up gallery is a special event put on by placemaking jacks Which if you don't know placemaking is where they're activating unused areas of downtown so this is the first of the three pop-ups in the petite series and this one is Gonna be tied in with sweet peas. It's on on Hogan Street downtown There'll be an art gallery space where artists are showcasing their interpretation of Florida So who knows, you know, that looks like that's different for everyone through their own lens DJ Alpete will be there who we love and so it'll be time and that'll be from 6 30 to 9 30 And it's free to attend Alpete is is my dude and doppelganger. He stole my name Like he did No, he stole my name. He was like Al. Alex and that's a good name I'm gonna take you and you can show up to sweet Pete's on the 28th and you can now No, no, no, no, I've given him, you know, he can go ahead and do his thing. It's fine So kind of you to let him keep his name. I am a giver. Very humble You know me so well, I've known you for two weeks No, what else we got a silent disco? What is this? So like, okay, so this is the thing where people would heads on the headphones on and dance without Music actually playing so not out in the air not normally so hush hush is really well known for these parties They do it really really well you get a pair of headphones and there's three channels It's and you're connected to one DJ at one table, but there's three channels. It's usually throwbacks Current hits and there's there's a request line So when you're on the request line part in your headphones anything could come up literally, okay But it's so much fun It's also an interesting way of how they get around the sound ordinance at 10 p.m. In Jacksonville and they're so smart It's so fun There's something very different about the hush hush silent discos where you're looking across the bar not everyone around you Is listening to the same station that you are but you spot that one person across the bar who is and you are vibing with The stranger for a few seconds and it's it's really it's it's very unique. It's a lot of fun It's at a Ruby Beach tomorrow night from nine to midnight and it's eight bucks. All right next one now This sounds very romantic. This is the mid-summer night out at the Jacksonville Arboretum. Have you ever been there? I have not. Oh, we had an Arboretum stop. This is it's so beautiful. Okay on any other day It is just it's a great hike. It's a just a really pretty walk And this is Shakespeare the UNF Shakespeare Club doing a mince a section of mid-summer night stream The alive DJ optional speed dating which sounds very interesting too. That's the 28th ticket start at $15 Sweet my friend Catalina Sylvain of create jacks. Thank you so much for hip me to what's going on in town. Thank you out


This AI is different from anything else I've tried. I'm gonna show you a couple features that I'm excited about, and then at the end I'll show you where this AI really goes to another level. This AI understands how you work and your knowledge base. So it's like your second brain. You can ask it a question and it can pull ideas buried in meeting notes and docs from months ago and bring new insights to mind quickly. I can also use brain to get detailed updates on my team without bugging them. It knows what's blocking a project or what the next steps are. It's an AI project manager. But the thing that takes it to the next level for me is that it follows me throughout my work. So if I'm working in a doc, I can ask questions about that doc. Or if I'm trying to get caught up on a thread I missed when I was out of the office, brain will get me up to speed. It's contextual AI.


Welcome back to the second part of this lecture. My name is Helmut Gergen. I'm a astrophysicist at the Research School of Astronomy Astrophysics, which is part of the Australian National University. Now, we just learned before that there are the life cycle of stars, how it works, and when you look at the Milky Way, as you see here on the right, there are many many stars in the Milky Way region and you're probably asking the questions, I mean if every star is a Sun, if every star is a star, you would ask the question, are there other planets out there and maybe possible life forms? This was a very important question that astronomers tried to solve. However, these planets around other stars are very hard to find because they are overpowered in their light by the light from the host star. So it took a long, long time to detect alien worlds. It actually took until 1995 to Swiss astronomers from the Geneva Observatory where they could announce finally the discovery of the first planet orbiting around a different star, different from our Sun. That led to an entire, this new concept because using spectrographs led into a new research area for astrophysics to search for these exosolar planets. And in the meantime, over 500 planets have been identified as of July 2011 this year. Let me quickly show you how astronomers can detect this very fine signal from planets around other stars. I show you this here with the help of this little movie here. What we have is we have the Earth here on the on the left and this very bright star that has a planet orbiting around it. In this frame here, the star orbits around the planet. It is invisible because of this very bright light from that star. However, what we can do is we can measure the gravitational effect of this planet on the star. And that is shown here with the help of the spectrum. That's a spectrum of the star and you have some absorption lines and these absorption lines are moving back and forth when the planet orbits around the Sun, the Sun orbits around the planet, then you see how the spectrum lines, spectral lines, changes as a function of time. So over time we see they're moving back and forth. Sometimes the star is coming towards us and sometimes the star is going away from us and that is shown in the fingerprint in the spectrum. So that's an indirect way of identifying planets around other stars. Let's come back to the question. How big is the universe? We learned about the geocentric and the heliocentric model just in the first part of this lecture and let's go now into the 20th century and see how astronomers learned more about the size of the universe. As part of this research, the fundamental question was there, how far are objects like these sparylnabular, that I show you here a couple of photos, on the left and here on the right, how far are these objects away from the Mickey way? Now, this is the Mickey way with all the stars and when you look with the Hubble Space Telescope or with other telescopes into different regions, you identify these sparylnabular and the fundamental question was how far are they away? Are they part of our Milky Way or are they further away? This whole discussion about the size of the universe led to the famous great debate before the US National Academy of Science in on the 26th of April of 1920. And here are the two models that were discussed as part of this great debate. Shapley, the famous astronomer, argued that the Milky Way, there is only one Milky Way out there. It's only one such large object and this is essentially our universe. So you have the Milky Way, looking here from the side, it's about 300,000 light years across 30,000 light years thick and you have all the sparylnabular that I showed you photos before are simply very close objects that belong to our Milky Way. On the other hand, Hippocrates, he championed the idea that the sparylnabular are in fact island universes like as big as our own Milky Way but very, very distant and therefore you cannot see them in details. So this is the model he proposed. You have the Milky Way here with the star that is over some and it's about 50,000 light years across, about 6,000 light years thick. There is nothing between the Milky Way and the island universes, these are the sparylnabular so it is a long, long distance out to the next island universe. Similar to the discussion about the cheer centric and the heliocentric model here in this discussion, both sides had very good arguments and the case could not be settled, it ended up in a draw. It took another few years to find the answer to which of the two models is correct. It was the famous Edwin Hubble on the 6th of October 1923 who observed with the telescope a very special type of sparylnabular that I show you here on the photographic plate. On that night, he took this photo and he identified Norway stars, that's why he put his N letters here and ticked the position where he identified Norway. But then he also realized suddenly that one of the Novi was in fact a variable star, a Cepheid star, and that star belonged to this Andromeda nebula. So in other words, if he can measure the distance to this single star which is part of this nebula, he could also measure indirectly the distance to the galaxy, to this Andromeda galaxy, Andromeda spiral. And that's what he did. Luckily, Cephides are a very good distance indicator. You can use the periodic behavior of the light curve as a measurement of their distance. And that's what he did. And he wrote a letter to Shapley saying, I believe the range and median magnitude are near 1.0 and 18.5 respectively. And the conclusion out of these measurements was that the Andromeda nebula is in fact 700,000 light-years away from us. So a much, much larger distance than what was predicted for Spira nebula by the model of Shapley. Shapley immediately realized the impact of this measurement and he wrote Hubble back is, oh, sorry. He immediately realized the impact of this measurement and of this distance measurements of the Andromeda nebula and he wrote back to Hubble. This is the letter that destroyed my universe. So he realized his model was not the correct one, but it was the island universe model that is a better description of our universe. And let's have a look at some of these beautiful galaxies, or Spira nebula, as they appear in the sky when you use a telescope like the Hubble Space Telescope. It was realized that there are many, many other incubates out there. Billions of light-years away from Earth and they have all this beautiful spiral pattern here like M51 and here. Sometimes you see them face-on. It looks from, by just looking through these different images, it becomes clear. They're relatively flat in the appearance, round, flat objects, where all the stars are arranged and the gas. Sometimes you see them almost age-on, like this case or here. Sometimes they are interacting like as you can see here. So there are millions of galaxies out there similar to our Milky Way and each of them have many, many billions of stars. So you're wondering, how does that work together? I mean, we live here in the Milky Way, which you identify as a beautiful strip in the sky of a bright region with many, many stars in it. And then you have the Spira nebula, which looked totally different when you see images like this. So how does that geometrically work out? I like to compare this with the giant ferris wheel analogy. When you're standing in front of a giant ferris wheel, you realize most of the light that you see from the ferris wheel is essentially distributed in a disk at a slightly different angle, very quite comparable to a galaxy which looks like that. Now what happens when you take the right and you go actually on the ferris wheel and see the light then? How is the light distributed in that situation? In fact, because you are now in the disk of the ferris wheel, all the light is now distributed in a 360-degree circle around you. That's exactly what we see here with the Milky Way. Because with our sun and the Earth we are living in a galaxy we call Milky Way, therefore we see this as a strip in the sky going 360 degrees around us. If you could step outside of our own Milky Way, it probably would look something like this. Our Milky Way is a Spira nebula. The location here would roughly indicate where we are living without the sun in one of the arms of the Spira galaxy. The Earth, the Sun and the planets are located slightly off the center of the Milky Way. The entire size of the Milky Way is of the order of 100,000 light-years. If you live here, if you have a friend and you want to communicate over there, it takes 100,000 years to get the message across. And it takes another 100,000 years to receive the answer. A Milky Way, a galaxy, every single galaxy that I showed you before, essentially consists of huge numbers of stars. In the case of the Milky Way, it would be of the order of 300 billion stars. This is making up a galaxy like Aurora. Now, I show you a little movie here that shows roughly how we imagine today the universe looks like. So we have here an indicator of the arrow, that's a simulation. So this is not real, but this is a very close simulation, very close to what the universe is expected to look like. We have a galaxy labeled here as the Milky Way. And we are now flying through the universe and to show you a couple of features. The universe looks like a neural network, it has many, many empty spaces, but then large numbers of small galaxies, we call dwarf galaxies, and then bigger galaxies, which are the spiral and the elliptic galaxies. Let's have a look. If you can browse through, here we go. So if you could take a spaceship and fly through space away from our Milky Way, that's how the universe would look like. So you see these filaments coming across beautiful galaxies here, a spiral galaxy here, and then smaller galaxies, and then you have sometimes huge constellations, arrangements, associations of galaxies here, which we call galaxy clusters. So you have thousands of big galaxies right at the same location. This is how we imagine the universe looks like in our models. Now, the question we can ask ourselves is that it? Can we all go home tonight and satisfied knowing that we have a good understanding of how the true universe looks like we're living in? You probably guessed it already, the answer is no. There is a dark side to the universe. Since about the 1980s, there is increasing evidence that observation evidence that about 80% of all the mass in the universe is made out of dark matter. And this is not dark matter like black holes or neutron stars or planets. It is in fact a very exotic type of hypothetical matter that is invisible and interacts with us, our own world, only gravitational. Now I show you here a little dark matter simulation of our own Milky Way, how the mass execution of the dark matter is expected to be around the Milky Way. Let's have a look. So here we have, this is all dark matter, although it's shown here in bright colors, it's actually the dark matter that slowly forms over time, that's a time movie, it shows you how these different dark matter halos accumulate and merge together to form a Milky Way halo. Let's start the movie. So you can see here, initially with the large number of these subhalos that form and merge together to build a bigger, bigger halo that forms here right in the center. And over time, which is indicated here with the redshift, we have a system that we think looks very similar to our own Milky Way. And there are two fundamental observations that come out of these super computer simulations. Two observations, namely we have the number of objects that we expect, the number of subhalos, of dark matter subhalos that we expect around the Milky Way. About 500, if you do head count, between 500 and 1,012 galaxies, objects that look very small because of this dark matter size are expected around the Milky Way and distributed in a spherical, symmetric distribution, as you can see here. Now this high resolution simulation can be now directly compared to what we actually observe around the Milky Way. Let's have a look at what we see there. This is a graph of a figure that shows you the Milky Way satellite senses in 2011. So we have the Milky Way here as an age-owned feature, right here at the disc of the Milky Way. And you have labeled here the red dots are labeled the 12 galaxies that are found around the Milky Way. So if all the dark matter that I showed you before, all these dark matter clumps form enough stars, you should see them as small little 12 galaxies being distributed around the Milky Way. What is immediately clear from this comparison between the previous slide and this one here is that the numbers are vastly different. Only about 27 12 galaxies are known by today. And the distribution doesn't seem to be homogeneous. In fact, they are following essentially this yellow strip here, which is called the disc of satellites, which is an arrangement totally unexpected and not predicted by cosmology models. The fundamental question that we are trying to answer today is what is the origin of this discrepancy? I mean, there are two possibilities. Is the theory of dark matter incorrect on a galaxy scale or do observers simply overlooked hundreds of these dark matter clumps with their associated 12 galaxies? These are the two fundamental possibilities to explain the discrepancy between the models and the observations. Now, in order to address this issue and to find possible answer, we here at Australian National University and the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics reinvested $10 million in a new instrument, a new telescope, which is called the SkyRamper Telescope as shown here. The SkyRamper Telescope has a huge CCD array, so essentially a huge camera, and this camera covers a very large chunk of sky with one single image. This shows you the footprint of the camera compared to the size of the moon and compared to the large majority of the clouds that you see here in the background. With this camera, the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics wants to scan the entire southern sky blindly, so we don't look into objects, but we actually scan the entire sky accumulating of the order of about 150 terabytes of data, imaging data in different photometric bands. With this imaging data, we'll be able to data mine the information out of these images to look for very elusive, optically elusive objects like these dwarf galaxies printed by the cosmology theory. As part of this effort, I'm running the MQA satellite survey, which is this initiative to search the entire southern sky, which is shown here with all these dots, these are individual pointings. The scanner per telescope reduces the survey that scans the entire southern sky blindly. It's a five-year program, and we analyzed these 150 terabytes of digital images to search, among other things, for these predicted dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies. What we want to address as part of this project are three main questions. How are the dwarf galaxies and the dark matter distributed around the MQA? So we hope to find many of these dwarf galaxies and the associated dark matter to see how they are distributed in the southern sky. Is the current cosmology model consistent with the most accurate observations that we have at the moment with the MQA? Another very important question. Is this discrepancy resolved, or does it still persist after the major survey? And every single object is very precious. Every single dwarf galaxy that we expect to find, we want to physically and chemically analyze to find their properties in order to understand what makes them the faintest galaxies that we know in the universe. Now, if that was all a bit overwhelming talking about galaxies, the size of the universe, planets, other life forms, and the life cycle of stars, I would like to conclude with a quote. All our life yearns for answers. Why are we here and where did we come from? How did it all begin? Are we unique in this, or is there other life form in the universe? These are all tough questions, but sitting under a dark sky and looking up has somehow brought us closer to the answer. Thanks for listening.


good to know thank you David are you on would you like to say a few words about the work you've been doing yeah can you hear me Alina? Yes absolutely okay great thank you yeah I'm David Coolier an associate professor at the University of Arizona and president of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and I'm joined in this working group by AJ and Tom Sussman and Patricia Webb now we've been gathering information this fall to examine FOIA oversight models in the states and around the world to see if there are ways we might be able to improve the oversight structure within the U.S. FOIA system while working this working group has been labeled as reimagining OGIS I think it's important to make it clear that we're not looking at the performance of OGIS or federal agencies you know I can't speak for others but I believe OGIS has been a benefit to the country and that the nine staff members work very hard I can't imagine reimagining Alina Kirsten or anyone else of OGIS so in fact one thing that's emerged from our research is that OGIS does a lot very little from the figures we've gathered so far per capita basis OGIS is actually the most short-staffed office in the world and that's even when compared to states, provinces and cities I mean to put that in context OGIS's staffing level is equivalent to FOIA mediation agencies in Israel and the UCOM territory and staffing levels are greater among at least 40 other jurisdictions including Connecticut with 16 staffers Philippines with 41 Peru 780 Brazil 2200 I mean surely we could do better here so far we've talked to dozens of experts and gleaned a lot of research and we're seeing consistent themes when it comes to ideal structures particularly when it comes to organizations independence its authority, its resources for example more than 16 nations have oversight agencies that have the power to compel agencies to disclose records without a requester having to hire an attorney and go into court and it's almost in all cases free in some cases agencies have provided more protections and independence from the executive branch including in their budget some models include remedies within the judiciary to streamline the system and reduce litigation including in the state of Ohio for example it seems to be working very well a lot of really interesting practice out there we're looking at and we hope to share draft report at the beginning of this next year January spread around get feedback discussion before the March meeting and we'd like to include a model of what the perfect structure would look like understanding you know that could be some challenges getting that applied in any timely fashion but would also probably include some short term recommendations as well while we work on this we welcome further input thoughts from the committee members thoughts from anyone else so anybody wants to talk about this topic I'd be happy to do so just reach out thank you all right David thank you so much I'm just going to quickly ask if anyone has any questions for either AJ or David they've been doing a lot of great work I don't see any hands up in the chat so I've asked everyone on the committee if they could stay a little past one o'clock I know we have some public comments that we would want to receive and most folks have the ability to stay a little past one I believe Michael Morrissey has to sign off at 1pm so your homework assignment is to tune back in and read the transcript and watch the YouTube video later to see what you miss same goes for anyone else but at this time I just want to turn my attention to public comments we look forward to hearing from any noncommittee participants who have ideas or comments to share we're capturing all oral comments in the transcript any member of the public may speak or otherwise address the committee and we're going to go ahead and ask Michelle now our event producer are there anyone is there anyone queued up on the telephone line and would you be able to have would you be able to share instructions again Michelle as to how to call in on the telephone line please absolutely Elena so once again ladies and gentlemen as we enter into the into the public comments session you can press the raise hand icon which is above the chat panel you'll see a little icon and so that's how you can ask the WebEx audio if you are on the regular audio line you will need to press pound 2 on your telephone line okay so that's how you get into the and it looks like we do have somebody actually in queuing and we do have Alexander Howard okay Alex go ahead please hello everybody thank you so much for hosting this public meeting on FOIA I can't tell you how much I appreciate your commitment to these issues and your commitment to these forums in public for the entire country to be able to hear the debate back and forth these issues are really complicated and the dedication that you all have shown to engaging with them is admirable and as we head into I hope a season when the United States will be re-engaging on the United States commitments to the Open Government Partnership next year it's worth noting that this committee exists because of the second national action plan and I hope that as we move forward that that will be reified as something that is valuable I know that there are some challenges though with respect to getting these recommendations before Congress in a way that's actionable and gets them to be incorporated into reform and I hope that you'll continue to be advocates internally and externally for agencies taking actions that don't require legislative action and that I think require a somewhat different public posture and just some feedback on public engagement it would be wonderful if the co-chair of the committee the Department of Justice Office of Information Policy would promote the fact that these things are happening using social media press releases and otherwise encouraging all of the different stakeholders that exist to know that this is something that's out there and for all of the different people who were involved in the process to be more engaged in it and I think it's also somewhat lonely to show up at the archives and see sparse attendance online I think that's even more stark what I wanted to say today however is a bit focused on something else which is the sunsetting of FOIA online for a lot of people that is how they engage with the federal government and FOIA they go to FOIA online.gov and dozens of agencies use it as confirmed Biogis DOJ this is something that's going to be sunset over the next coming months and I hope that the committee will use that as an opportunity to think about how FOIA should work online in ways that it doesn't currently and I think today's discussion is a really useful articulation of that in terms of thinking about how and where access to people's personal files, personal data and should be available to them safely and securely online using a lot of existing pathways that identified in chat the thing that I think is a huge opportunity ahead of you all is to consider how and where FOIA.gov could and should work if there were an application program and interface on it that enabled third party applications a whole ecosystem of applications created by nonprofits or for-profit entities to be able to make and track FOIA requests that go into FOIA.gov and go to agencies this is something that can and should I think be nurtured cooperatively through the different pathways that exist around data disclosures that exist elsewhere in federal government if you look at the communities of practice that exist around categories of data at data.gov it's the same kind of thing could and should be working at a FOIA.gov that's been rebuilt with the people it serves by the Office of Information Policy and the GSA's 18F team using open standards based on a common schema for FOIA data that creates a much more open and collaborative process and I would hope creates a different kind of role for the federal FOIA Ombuds Office to help people through that process being stuck the delivery of this as a service and it's my hope that you all won't just stop with having a showcase and promoting a showcase to vendors that this is something you'll actually be building with the stakeholders who make FOIA requests to ensure that FOIA.gov isn't just a place to get FOIA stats it's a place that every American knows they can go to get information that is alright about a government or about ourselves if our information is within government and I want to put this out in front of you all as a challenge. We're going to have a great opportunity in this next year to talk about open government, talk about democracy talk about technology that improves democracy as the president just talked about this morning this conversation we're having is global and to learn from other nations where they've done this better and to learn from American states and cities that are doing this better that are explicitly connecting disclosures in FOIA reading rooms quote-unquote with a kind of structured machine readable disclosures we're seeing in open data and the end result should be someone being able to go to FOIA.gov doing a search and have it go all across the reading rooms go all across usdata.gov and then be able to see what's out there and what's missing and for anyone to understand who's asked for these things before instead of having the logs be obfuscated and for Congress and GAO and on buds off offices and you all to have an ongoing almost real-time dashboard understand the state of compliance and in theory that should enable all of us to not have to wait for these governance processes to trickle through but to be able to identify where and how there are stopping points in the process that are preventing people from exercising their rights and frankly to see where are stopping points in the bureaucracy which suggest that OIP should be pushing them much harder because I don't think anyone can argue with a straight face that what we have right now is good enough across the board. Thank you for hearing me out. Take care. Thank you so much for your comment. We appreciate that. We are moving on to the next caller in queue. Before we move on, can I just respond to that? No line is unmuted. You might go ahead. One second, Michelle. I think I want to respond. I'm sorry. I'm losing my train of thought on it while I look at the question. I appreciate it. Alex, it's good to hear your voice. I appreciate your comments. I just wanted to say many of the things that you mentioned are things that we are working on. The 10X team can do exactly as you said make it so that we are searching across agency FOIA libraries in one location on FOIA.gov and plugging in other places where records such as data.gov are available proactively. So the idea being that the requester goes to FOIA.gov they can do a search, see what's out there across the government even inform where they may make a request if that search doesn't suffice to make it so that they're satisfied with the records they're looking for. So we are doing that work. I think there's a lot of work to be done there always will be a lot of work to be done but we're working positively to build on FOIA.gov and start working to build on our practice disclosures but we're going to continue to support that and also just want to say that FOIA.gov of course is not just a site to go and see FOIA statistics. Back in 2010 when we launched it that was the initial goal but since then we've added so much more to the site including standardized forms for making a request. So requesters can go and make a request from FOIA.gov for a single location and having landing pages for each agency that has specific information about their FOIA processing on that page so that it's all easily accessible their FOIA regulations their FOIA irreverence handbooks. I can go on and on so I won't monopolize the time but I just wanted to say thank you for your comments but certainly that's the kind of feedback we want to get because we want to improve FOIA.gov we're not resting on our laurels but a lot of this stuff is stuff we're working on. Bobby, thanks very much. Michelle, I understand there might be a couple of other callers who would like to offer some comments. Yes, we do have Freddie Martinez on the line. Freddie, you may go ahead. Hi everyone. Thanks for having us here. I'm Freddie Martinez and I'm a policy analyst that opened the government and we're here and they thank you for having us because I think this is a unique place where we can discuss some of the challenges that we've been seeing with FOIA right now. I know that we've spoken individually with members of the committee members of the subcommittee OIP, OGIS and others both publicly and privately about some of the things that we're seeing. First, I mean I guess the place to start is that I think a lot of us in our community are surprised at the lack of commitment to transparency in FOIA in the first year of the administration at least anything that we've seen publicly. For example, we've been waiting for almost a full year for a memo from the attorney general on FOIA and how agencies should be complying with FOIA's presumption of openness and while we appreciate that the White House gives independence to the attorney general's office, if you look back in 2009 Attorney General Holder had a memo out about a month into the administration at the same time we saw President Obama had a day one memo on how agencies should be treating FOIA and it's disappointing to see that we're almost a full year into a new administration and we haven't seen similar movements and we've talked about this previously in other venues but I think we really want to see Attorney General Gardner talking about how agencies should be maximizing proactive disclosure, reiterating that agencies have to treat discretionary exemptions as discretionary. Agencies should be directed to improve their customer service and the importance of communication especially during remoteness. The other thing that we really want to see is that the Department of Justice really take a hard on not defending agency officials lack and back faith or clear violation of the spirit of FOIA. For example, agencies seem to have a far different understanding of the word reasonable as it appears in the FOIA throughout the text many times it appears and it seems to be quite different than what the dictionary definition of reasonable means and we would hope to see that the DOJ and agency lawyers under a new administration will revisit this policy. Those are just some ideas that we really think should be at the forefront of a new administration and we haven't seen that reflected anywhere publicly. The reason we bring these comments today is because we care deeply about the FOIA's recommendations and hope that both Congress and the executive branch begin to seriously implement them. For example, we've hoped that OMB would more seriously implement the recommendation for adding line budget items for FOIA officers. This recommendation could be done through executive action. It doesn't have to depend on the White House. It doesn't have to depend on Congress and we haven't seen any of those kinds of recommendations moving forward and then finally just a few other things. One thing that we also hoped would have improved in the new administration is communication about FOIA in general. Howard talked about the sunsetting of FOIA.gov but that also was not communicated well to the public. I think someone from the subcommittee called it an announcement but that description doesn't seem to fit. Many of us found out about the sunsetting through a listserv. We didn't find out through any official channels, any press release. In fact, when I heard about it people were asking if this was true and we thought it was a new window. We thought it was people speculating because of how poor of a job the EPA did of communicating the reasons for the shutdown, what happens to open requests, what the new systems might be, when they'll be open, et cetera. That's just one example of frustrations we're seeing in the community. Finally, we hope that Congress steps up in its role of providing oversight in FOIA. It's been about five and a half years since we've had open hearings on agency compliance with FOIA, the public view of how FOIA is working or not working. We hope that Congress will move more quickly on comprehensive FOIA, oversight, reform, and improvement in general. Thanks. Thank you for your call. I really appreciate that. Michelle, I know we have one more caller in queue. Can we open up that one? We have one more caller in queue. Call your line is on mute. You may go ahead. This is Bob Hammond. Can you hear me okay? Yes. Hello. Okay. I'm going to be extremely brief. The comments that I would make orally, I have placed into the panelist chat and also into YouTube. I sent them by email. Those are records that have been presented to the committee. My understanding of the law is that they have to be included in the minutes. With that understanding, what I'd like to say is most of my comments go to what's already been said, that the OGIS staff is magnificent. They're super people, but they are just so grossly underfunded that they cannot do their mission. You cannot mediate 4,600 cases in a year with three people. That's physically impossible. OGIS isn't doing it because they're not able to. When Congress established the requirements for OGIS and OIP that didn't provide any additional funding, some kind of work with Congress and others on that common goal. A lot of my public comments today show what happens when you're grossly underfunded. They're not meant to be mean to anybody. But I put them into the public domain because we just need to understand how grossly underfunded OGIS is. I would say the same thing about OIP. Bobby doesn't complain a lot, but they're similarly just grossly underfunded for their compliance mission. With that, I want to thank you all. Many of my comments are posted. I've put my email address on the cover slides of those. It's foraycompliance at gmail.com. If you want to contact me, please do and I'll spend some time with you. Thank you very much. Great meeting. Thank you, Mr. Hammond. I believe Bobby wanted to address a couple of the comments that were made earlier. Bobby, do you want to go ahead and have the floor? Thank you, Alina, and I just wanted to respond to Freddie, and I want to thank Freddie for joining the meeting and for his comments. We appreciate it. I just wanted to say that the department has fully supported the furthering the purpose of the FOIA and many of the principles that Freddie mentioned, particularly proactive disclosures, but the attorney general emphasized the importance in public statements in his first full week as attorney general at our Sunshine Week event, emphasizing that without accountability democracies is impossible and democratic accountability requires the kind of transparency that FOIA and recently our chief FOIA officer council meeting the associate attorney general of the United States echoed that sentiment and emphasized the importance of FOIA and in particular being the CFO council meeting the important role of leadership at agency and the CFOs in all aspects of FOIA administration. That to say, the department is committed to the government-wide FOIA administration and there's more to come and I look forward to continue to work with Freddie, you and the requests for community as we advance these principles. Thanks, Bobby. I really appreciate that. I am very thankful for everyone staying over a lot of time today. I know at 117, I'm just going to quickly wrap up. Thank all the committee members for all the great work that you've done so far. We're definitely in the home stretch for June of 2022 and I anticipate a really lively meeting in March of next year. While you're enjoying the holidays, please think about volunteering to be on the final report and recommendations working group next spring. This group works on the final report that the committee will be expected to vote on at the last meeting in June of 2022. Last term, the working group that weekly beginning in March to craft the final report see Patricia for insider tips on the fact that she loved it and survived and lived to tell about it. If you are interested, please let me and Kirsten know so far I have zero volunteers. Please consider this a holiday gift to me and Kirsten if you can volunteer, that would be great. Thanks to all of you for joining us today. I hope everyone in their families remain safe, healthy and resilient. We will see each other again most likely virtually, I predict at our next meeting Thursday March 10, 2022 starting at 10 a.m. If anyone has any other comments I'm happy to listen, otherwise I would like to call this meeting to a close. Any committee members have any other comments or questions? Okay, hearing none. Happy holidays, happy New Year to all and we stand adjourned. Thank you. Thank you