A non-governmental organization Alliance for Africa has called for proper awareness and sensitization of the people on the violence against persons' prohibition, a VAAP Act, which was signed into law in Imo State by Governor Hope Uzudima. The organization's program manager, Blesen Duru, during the stakeholders' meeting in the WERI, capital of Imo State, said the lack of awareness on the provisions of the law might bring about an increase in sexual and gender-based violence cases. She therefore asked the stakeholders to speak up whenever there is an abuse against persons without discrimination. The fact that there are lots of violence around happening in our community, in the society, in our neighborhood, and as women we don't need to keep silence, we don't need to be part of that group that condemns victims or survivors when they speak up. So we're also letting them to know that we have a framework in law, a state law, that they can hold on to, that will provide the support that they need when they make complaints on any form of violence that is committed on a woman or a girl child. It's a good meeting and what we are doing here, apart from the law being captured since December 2021, we want to now sensitize the people to really know what the law is saying so that such acts will not be carried out and people are not aware of it. My take, I mean, that there is need for more awareness to be treated on the ground, which has been passed into law by the executive of Imo State last year. This law is very, very apt, very important, that the public are made aware of the provisions that will help end violence against persons in Imo State. I won't talk about persons, but not talking about just women. Everybody, both male and female, have protected on that.


Hi and welcome to Learn WordPress. Let me show you how to use this really cool feature called DeoTone. The learning outcomes for today is applying and clearing DeoTone filters to images, creating a custom DeoTone filter, adding DeoTone to videos, and lastly adding DeoTone filters globally in the site editor. DeoTone means combining two colors as a filter, then applying it to an image or video background. Depending on your needs, DeoTone can make your images pop and it allows you to further your branding through colors and create even more striking designs. Let's look at a few examples. With DeoTone, you can completely change the look and the feel of an image. In the next example, we will contrast two different types of DeoTone filters that I have added to the image at the top. Did you know you can also add the DeoTone filter to the post-featured image block to meet your design requirements? DeoTone can be anything from a simple gray scale to a mixture of any two colors. And something to take note of, the DeoTone effect works based on high contrast images. And don't be worried, images and videos in your media library will remain unchanged so the image or video is never modified in your library. To add a DeoTone filter, select an image and then in the block toolbar, click on the Apply DeoTone filter icon. You will see a few DeoTone filters that come with your theme. You can easily just click on one of them and it will make the change for you. If you want to change it, click on the image again, select DeoTone and apply a new filter. If you would like to undo the changes you've made to the image, go back to DeoTone and click on Clear. You can also click on Shadows or Highlights and select one of the colors from your palette. So let's go ahead and select a color for our shadows and then a custom color for our highlights. In this case, I'll go for something more purple. A DeoTone filter can be added to a video in the cover block. So let's go ahead and add a cover block and select a video from our media library. Once inserted, I will make sure I select the cover block and then we can follow the same process as before. Click on Apply DeoTone filter and then select one of the DeoTone filters that meets your design needs. The last aspect of using DeoTone we want to discuss is setting DeoTone filters globally in the site editor. So when we make our way to the site editor and click on Styles, we can open up the style book where we can edit the style of individual blocks on your site. So let's open up our style book and make our way to media. Here we can add DeoTone filters to images and the cover block. So when I select the image block, I can add a DeoTone filter that's provided by my theme and some themes provide more options than others. And once I select a DeoTone filter, you will notice that it also applies to the gallery block. Next, we'll make our way to the cover block and add the same filter.  But let's see this in action on the front end. So as you can see on the front end, the DeoTone filter has been added to the cover block, galleries and individual images. The last important thing to highlight is that when you add an image, gallery or cover block to your site now, it will automatically add the filter. So let's for example add an image block and select an image from our media library. And once we select the image, the filter automatically applies. Next, we can add a cover block, select an image from our media library and once again the filter has been applied. And now of course we can change the opacity of the cover block to make it lighter or darker. I trust you will find the right DeoTone filter for your website and visit Learn WordPress for more tutorials and training material.


Hello there everyone. This is Melissa Armel with the Stock Swoosh and I'm finally getting a chance to go over the results from 2021 and it's February. In fact, it's almost March in two weeks. So it has been, needless to say, a very busy start to 2022, but we cannot forget 2021, which was still a good year. And again, it's very hard to believe that we're almost two years out of COVID. The volatility that we're experiencing at this point even now kind of reminds me of COVID, but 2021 was really not a volatile year. If you go back and look, in fact, let me pull up, let me pull up the, here, we can go back and look at 2021 right now. This was 2021. I mean, this is where we started the year and I had the queues up here. So we're on the queues and then we ran all the way up, up, up, up, up, up. Last high in the market was 1122. It was around Thanksgiving and then this was the end of the year. So it was a very bullish year for the market and it really wasn't volatile because we had many dips that got bought. We had many new highs and it was a very, very bullish year for the market. The interesting thing was the backdrop of the economy. I just didn't see it resulting in the year that we had. I was really surprised when we kept rallying and I think it's kind of like all coming together now where we're seeing this volatility this year and you're not seeing the smooth moves and the follow through to the upside like you did in 2021. We did shorts. We did calls. We did puts, which are shorts. We did calls, which are loans. We did, we did everything last year and I do everything on the newsletter. Again, a long, I look for bullish gaps. We do calls. Any short is a put, which is I look for bearish gaps. So I rate the gaps in the morning using my rating method and then I send the trades out emailed usually in the pre-market. There are some times that I'll send trades out during the day, but like today, everything went out in the pre-market pretty early and we didn't do anything in the live day. So I had sent everything out in the morning before the open. If you have questions, you can email me at melissathestalkswitch.com. You can feel free to call me at 929-3200 Gap. You can also email me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So right now it's earnings season. We're towards the end of it and then we'll start second quarter too. Again, this year's just flying, flying by, but it's a great time to trade in earnings season because you get a lot of gaps and that's what everything I do is based on. That's why it's called the Gap Options newsletter. So I'm very excited about 2022. It started out to be a great year. Again, it has been an active year. I wanted to show everyone the results for 2021 though because people always like to look at a bigger scope, a wider time range of things just to see what we did in the calendar year of last year. So there were 302 winners last year. There were 156 losers, 13 break-even trades, total win ratio of the letter year to date last year. That was 2021. 67% win ratio. An average risk per trade was around 7500. You do not have to risk that. That's an advanced trader risk, but that's what we're talking about here with these types of stats over 1.6 million. So again, you can take one contract to trade and I've been trying to do more, really been trying to do more to show people with a beginner account what you can achieve. And I'm going to try to continue that even though it's a lot of time for me and my assistant to do it, just to show you if you take a lot less risk. Now, again, I've been trading since 2008, but it took me three years to figure out my program. So really since I had pulled everything together, it was three years after that. So I'm going on 10 years having the business now and 13 years trading. I'm at an advanced level. When you start out when you're new, you can start out with a beginner level. You can start out with a $200 risk, with a $300 risk. Again, one contract. And I do think it's important for people to start out at the beginning slowly and work themselves up. And you can do that even if you have a large account. So these were all the trades starting from the beginning of 2021. So the parentheses show the trades that were losses. Okay, just so you know. And we did have a few breakeven trades. And I get this question a lot. And you can tell that here from the results looking at all the winners and all the losers.  Okay, so I call trade on a Monday that expires on that Friday, because that's how I call it. Like I wouldn't do it two week out unless it was a holiday. So I call trade on a Monday that expires on the Friday on the newsletter. And say the trade Monday goes, it's profitable. It's like 100% winner right away.  Just because you have a lot of time in something doesn't necessarily mean you want to hold it if the trade goes and it works and you get the momentum, you can book the profits. Like today I called trades all the trades today, except for one went right away today, you could still be in them, because even week and a half, but you could have gotten right out. Anyways, what if I call trade on a Monday? And that trade is down. Do I kill it? No, I don't kill it. I don't kill it because I give trades a chance to work and it has a whole week. You see what I'm saying? So that's why the amount of risk that you take is very, very important so that you can hold it, you can hold options overnight, that's the benefit of doing options. Again, I'll pull up a chart in a minute. But anyways, you can hold it. And then the reason some of these look like full losses is because they were because like I might take a trade and if it never goes right, never goes green, never goes positive, never gets some momentum, never works, basically, just goes flat loses, then I'll write it out until the very last day of expiration for the possibility that may flip and work and go green. So that's why I'm just I play to win. So I take the train when or lose and that's how I play it. There are people in the letter that kill the trade if it's down 30% or 50% if it doesn't go the first day, but then they miss out on trades that do go I will tell you that because not every trade goes the same day I call it and you need to know that. So pick a risk and choose a risk and a number of trades you could do at one time if you have to hold them. So that is also why the the losing trades are almost the full amount basically of the position size or a partial if I was able to get out of it with the move like here with the Twitter, like it might have a move the last day and then it just doesn't fully go around. Okay? There's something else so it's going to say we're talking about to think about what else was going to say and I just lost my train of thought. Um oh I know. So some of the ones that were smaller winners were ones like that I I was in it and then I was holding it was down okay and then I'm holding it right up until like if it expires Friday right up until Thursday if I'm up something like like this HD 1750 I'm not going risk losing a total amount in it if I'm up into it into the Thursday. Do you know what I'm saying? Because it is a positive trait. I remember every amount of risk that you had you have the full amount at risk like let's say you had a thousand dollars risk and say you were up a thousand and something yes you can hold it but you're risking not only the thousand you risk plus a thousand you're absolutely risking two thousand like that's how I look at it seriously that's how I look at it. I'm risking the full amount of men plus the profit if I don't get at when I'm up okay at some point you have to come to terms with where you're going to exit trades but all of them are looking for momentum actually let me just show you what I mean by momentum here and again all the positive traits all the losing trades here's a break even let me show you the best example actually still is really PayPal here for what for momentum is that a nice move today this like this is a good move here high was 139 lowest 129 that's momentum it continued okay but this is like a move in something um what would not be a move I'll tell you tell you right now this is not a move this trade was slightly up yesterday apple calls but it didn't really move it reversed today but anyways you wouldn't have gotten in and got out of this yesterday what would have been the point so this is no more momentum even though it was slightly positive so I mean that's an example so we're looking for momentum so that is how I look at the whole big picture some days I will call like today I called a bunch of trades you don't have to do them all you could say I'm going to do one a day that's it boom there are maybe days I don't call any trades it's the same thing with the room if we don't have any good rated gaps I'm not doing anything I don't know until I get up in the morning now I think we're probably going to have something to every day right now in earnings season and that has been the case but it's about the criteria I use the rating criteria to do the work in the morning that's why the trades go out so early so that's what you have to watch and know um I remember this Disney that just didn't work out Disney wish today actually let's see how Disney clothes we didn't do it I didn't like it it was a bullish cap I didn't didn't like it what did it do nope thank god we didn't do it I did not like this I'm gonna see what this did anyways the set earnings the earnings were last night I watched it this morning and I saw what the market was doing but this was up this was up it had a one quick fast move if you wanted to get out of it as a day trade or go along but I knew it wasn't going to be right as an option and I was right I was right shut this fell and it had good earnings and it was up so it closed your gap dot but it couldn't hold on so again all the trades we're doing are we're buying calls and selling them when they're up or we're buying puts and we're selling them when we're they're up if I'm in a trade to the last day I will sell out of it I don't forget to get out of your trades it's a good habit to get out of your trades when you are even up or down on the last day don't not get out of them there's they will convert into shares if you don't when you're up the last day so even just get into regular habit even if you're selling something at zero seriously and time value goes every single day you know this if you've done options in the past the difference between Thursday morning and Thursday afternoon is time value the difference between Friday morning and Friday afternoon is a different time value too so you got to be aware of that some of the bigger trades we did last year Facebook was a big one look how how many how many times we did that there we didn't we've done the market a lot this year we did the market more I think in 2020 Adobe was a nice stray there all of these you can see you recognize all the ticker symbols we do everything that has volume I'm always looking for volume in the options strain we don't do things that don't have volume that just makes no sense to me we want stocks to move I'm looking for institutional money that's either moving the stock price higher or moving the stock price lower okay so I'm always looking for something that has volume MCD that was a nice strain remember that Microsoft too some of the bigger ones here we did and then it like if it's a break even it's probably the last day that I'm getting out break even to UPS was a nice one Twitter we did not do that today I didn't like that paypal we did several times that's been another one for us NVIDIA didn't work out that one time but NVIDIA has is something that can be a good stock to trade as an option because it has big moves Palatine remember that that was a big train BYND some nice moves in that stock too I have to look at when those earnings are Google is expensive to train what if something cost outside your price range and I call it then you don't do it you don't do it like I called an Amazon today it was expensive so if I call something that is pricey and the price point where you can't even do one is out of your price range you're not doing that trade it doesn't happen that often but you need to know that you need to stick within the parameters of whatever you're doing with the size of your account zoom is something else we did a bunch of times last year some nice trades in that and again the market I think the market's great to play like today was a volatile day and a great day to play the market and we played the market to the downside today and it worked so when I if I see the market will do something which I did this morning in the morning then I will look at it and I will call whatever things I think are the best gaps and I'll call them directional moves with the market oh here was NVIDIA here was the one with the NVIDIA not all the NVIDIAs yeah NVIDIA is still pretty strong I will say that though some nice moves here tests of Boeing we did Boeing more in 2020 but we did do it in 2021 some big Boeing trades another stock and rock and roll some of these things are so nice to do as options why they're expensive to do estate trades even though I do them they can be spreading estate trades but you know the cost of the options really sometimes it's just it's so worthwhile for the moves these things can have particularly particularly if they move overnight if they move overnight in your direction and you're in them and that's how some of these trades are just monster trades that's how you can get a 200% return on investment a 300% return investment I mean we have those types of trades how you're in it overnight you're in it overnight you're in it overnight and it goes like that boom you're golden um and and we that's what we did in this Facebook here hold on let me pull this up this was this year I don't want to confuse because I'm going over 2021 we were in this into the drop this was a huge trade for people so I had called the 290 puts and then it dropped and opened at 244 so it dropped basically crashed on the earnings and it was like 40 some points from the strike and this was Thursday it expired Friday so that's how you get these really big moves overnight sometimes when you're in trades and they go in your direction if you're going to call on a gaps up if you're in a short or a putt and a gaps down so here's an example of one that we did this was this year though this is what the letter looks like and actually my assistant is working on a new format for the letter which looks really really nice actually which we're going to start I think this week but you get the symbol whatever we're doing strike whatever it is so you know expiration date boom this was 18th this is Friday like I said type is a putt it was $21 for one which actually for Amazon is cheap so you could have paid 2100 sold at 72 profit 50 100 return an investment 243 percent I'll show you the chart in a minute and then if you had an advanced risk for contracts risk of 8400 sold at 72 20,400 243 percent return investment so that was in here we did that on the 18th and then again we're playing the momentum so it's a putt so we want selling and we want a shorting and we get a drop and then we get the drop and we get out so you get the drop out boom out you take it get out again gap trading for me is about momentum you got to get the direction right and with options you've got to get the timing right so I'm showing you from 2021 the results with an 8,000 our risk per tree we're we're off to a really good start for this year though I will say that I did do the 2022 results so far year to date but again this year has been very volatile so that makes for good trades you got to get the direction right just like I did today today was tricky um but having conviction knowing what to do all of these things help you can you trade with the beginning risk yes yes you can like I said you can take one contract and if you have a small account you can trade options with a cash account you do not need a margin account to trade options if you don't know what I mean pick up a phone and call your broker they will answer all your questions for you trust me they want your business they want your account if you want to learn my method you could take my golden gap course I do that usually once a month although I have not done the class this year so far it's been a busy year for me like I said I'm just getting to do the last year's results now I do have a class plan for the end of February the February 26 and 27th if you want to sign up but if you want to sign up for the newsletter you just sign up and join you can get the trades tomorrow for a lot of people right now we had that inflation number this morning it was a disaster I'm telling you you're getting to the point where you've got to start thinking about your future and what you're doing to make things happen for yourself you can't rely on other people and I know people got nice stimulus checks you know since covid but that wasn't the never gonna last and now you look at you see what's happening to the prices of things you know you gotta make more money so you know there's ways to do it in the market but you've got to know what to do you can sign up for the newsletter you can take the golden gap course again this is the class that I teach once a month but the newsletter itself has no prerequisites at all 12 month subscription is $69.99 and a half annual subscription is $49.99 the newsletters are emailed to you and again no prerequisites and there's no trials if you want to sign up you can email me you can sign up and again it's one of these things where people have been doing very very well you can always email me for upcoming class dates go check the website see what's on the site again February 26th and 27th it's the first class of this year and then March 1st is the first trends class for the combo so join today if you're interested in getting involved pick up a phone and call me if you have questions email me if you have questions have a great night everyone


In naming ionic compounds you need to get comfortable with two things. You need to be able to write the name of the compound by looking at its formula and you need to be able to write the formula of the compound from its name. Let's do writing the name from the formula first, it's relatively easy. All you need to be able to do is recognize the ions in the formula and know their names. So let's run through some examples. Our first one here, you can see that it's made from sodium and fluorine. We know that the positive metal ion comes first and that it has the same name as the original element. The negative non-metal ion comes next and we replace the end of the name with id. So instead of fluorine, we have fluoride. So the name of this compound, NAF, is sodium fluoride. Next one we have here is made from the elements lithium and sulfur. The sulfur is the negative ion, that's going to become sulfide. So the name of the compound will be lithium sulfide. This one here, FE is iron, it's one of those elements that doesn't have an obvious symbol. So it's made from iron and oxygen. The iron keeps its name, the oxygen is the anion so it becomes oxide and the name of that compound is iron oxide. This next one, SR is strontium, burns with a beautiful red colour strontium and it's also made from iodine. The iodine is the negative element, the negative ion, so it will become iodide. The full name of the ionic compound is strontium iodide. Okay, those four were all ionic compounds that used monatomic ions. In the case of three of them, you can see that some of the ions occur more than once. So in lithium sulfide, for instance, you've got two lithium ions to every one sulfide ion. And in iron oxide, you've got two iron ions to every three oxygen ions. We will get into how you work that out in just a little while. These next ones, however, they're made from metal cations but polyatomic anions. And really all you need to be able to do here is recognise the polyatomic anions. So in this first case, we've got magnesium is the metal ion, so it retains its name. And you should be able to recognise now that SO4 is the sulfate anion. So we just write sulfate. So the name of this compound is magnesium sulfate. This next one here, PB is lead. And the OH here is the hydroxide anion. The fact that it's been put in brackets with the little two means that you have two hydroxides. So two separate hydroxide anions for every one lead cation. This one here is a little bit tricky. You need to look quite closely. But again, if you're familiar with your polyatomic ions, you'll notice that the cation here is ammonium. It's one of the few cations that's not metal based. And the anion here is nitrate. So that's ammonium nitrate. One of the most common fertilisers and explosives bases in the world. This last one here, we've got two aluminium ions. And the polyatomic ion is the anion is carbonate, CO3. And you can see it's in brackets with a little three. That means there are three carbonate anions for every two aluminiums.


Welcome to Out and About on the ThinkTech live streaming network series. I'm your host David Tosaka and delighted you are joining us here today, where we explore a variety of topics, organization, events, and the people who fuel them in our city, state, country, and world. As a disclaimer, any views, opinions expressed by me are strictly my own and not connected with any organization. Joining me today in the studio is Joan Chatfield, a community leader serving Hawaii for over 50 years. Welcome to the show today, Joan. Thanks, David. Glad to be here. Tell us a little bit about how you happen to come to Hawaii. Well, as well as saying that I've been here so long, you also can say that I belong to the Marino Sisters, and I graduated from college, and they assigned me to come here for a year. Well, you don't go to Hawaii for a year. I came, and within a day I knew that I'd be here the rest of my life, and here I am, arriving when I was 23, and now I'm 85, and then I'm still here, so that's what it is. I came as a young teacher, now I'm an old teacher. You're not old? It's relative. Tell us what kinds of things you came to become a Marino Sister. Well, that's a long question because the word that is used in the Catholic tradition is that a person has a vocation, okay? That comes from the Latin word, call. So it isn't something that you think up, it's something that you answer. I guess from earliest days I always thought I wanted to join a group. I didn't know which one, but I wanted to join a group and go somewhere. When you grow up in New Jersey you love it, but you're happy to go somewhere else and come back and visit, so I joined Marino, which is a worldwide organization and was trained. I went at 17 to Marino in 1950, and then they sent me to college, and when I graduated from college they sent me out here. I originally was getting ready to go to Georgetown Medical, but the person I was substituting for out here had cancer in the mouth, very, very painful, and I was going to be here a year. They were going to send me back to school and send it, well, that didn't work out that way.  Almost life. Tell us about your growing up years, anything unique, different? Well, yes. I grew up as the third daughter of a prominent man who had owned a shellac company in New York and who had been married to a wonderful woman, I guess, for 24 years, and she died, and then he married the person who evidently he had looked at from a distance because they were only married ten years, my mother, and I have two older sisters, now both in heaven, but my father died twenty days after I was born, so she was left with an eight-year-old, a six-year-old, a big company to get rid of and a big house to get rid of, and in the Irish American tradition of New Jersey or of the East Coast, she moved back in with her mother and her two unmarried sisters, so that meant I was this little baby brought into these very strong, competent, caring women, and it was a wonderful, when I think of it now, I was probably not prepared for life because, like, I never heard them argue, I never saw them lose their temper, I never saw them disagree in front of us. Now, I'm sure they must have disagreed otherwise, but we never saw it, so I wasn't really well prepared for the life of the real emotions of adulthood. What made you have the calling, or how did the calling come to you to go and be a marital sister? Okay. Every marital sister will tell you a personal story that fits them. My story is that I probably heard missionaries come back from the Orient, from the South Pacific, and speak at church, and of course we would all get in the car and all go together, and I have a feeling that I probably heard a good enough story and said, oh, I want to do that, and I responded to the story, but the calling was in there. There was, in fact, they say that I even said it to the dentist when I was five years old, so go figure. I don't know how I knew, but I knew, and I've never doubted it. I think, I don't know how many people say this, but I can sit here in all honesty and say that I have never had a doubt that this was not the right thing to do, which I know many people can't say that, and they struggle, eh, should I, should I, you know. What would be a brief history of your time here in Hawaii? Well, I started out teaching in high school, and I did that for 18 consecutive years, and I tell you, when I came, you couldn't even measure what I didn't know. It was unbelievable, and I was 23 when my students were 17, okay? So that's a six-year gap, and it's still six years. It hasn't changed. So when I meet them now at age 85, ah, guess what? They realize, well, they realized a little earlier that I wasn't that much older when I was teaching them, but they taught me wonderful things. I taught science and religion. Then later, after Vatican II, the big meeting in the Catholic Church from 1962 to 65, after 1965, many nuns did not want to teach religion. There was a lot of change, a lot of, well, they weren't all, sure, they liked all the changes, and I thought the changes were marvelous. So I was very happy to teach religion full-time. So from 56 to 65, I taught just science and religion. After that, I taught just religion. And then I was sent off to get my degree in further education, and I did that in California. And why did I go to California? Because it was the farthest away from New York, the Marinal headquarters. And I knew too many people who went to New York, and then they left Marinal. I thought, ah, not going to do that. So I enjoyed California. And I also, to be truthful, I wanted to go someplace where nobody knew me. Because in New York and New Jersey, I was from a prominent family. And without it, it's, oh, are you Angela McKayle's daughter? Are you Henry Chaffield's daughter? Yes, I am. So what?  They say hello to your parents that they're happy to meet the, you know, anyway. So I went to California where I fought. Nobody would ever know me. Until one time I met Joan Chatfield Taylor, who was working for the newspaper in San Francisco, that was funny. And we are related distantly, but. Tell us a little bit about your higher education adventures. Well, let's see. I think my first degree after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in, from Manhattanville, I went on and got a degree in theology from USF, University of San Francisco. Marvelous, right after Vatican II, and it was very, very fun. But then when I went back for my doctorate, I purposely wanted to be, and I sometimes call myself a practitioner of questions. People are sometimes afraid to ask the questions that would bring forth the information. And as an educator, I really felt getting a degree in sociology of religion was more important than getting another degree in theology, because you can pack up theology by just reading enough books. But it might not be your theology, but you can talk about it because you read the book. Whereas if you're in sociology of religion, you ask the questions. And the parallel is the psychologist asks people, the sociologist asks society. And it's been very, very practical for me. That's wonderful.  Is there a reason for that? Yes, yes, yes, yes. First of all, it doesn't really make any difference what someone's academic credential is if they're authentic. And if they're authentic and you find out later that they have a doctor, well, that's nice. But you don't want to listen to them just because they have a visible credential. That's one part. But the other part is any education that you get along the way, real or academic, is a gift. And I didn't want to brag on the gift. I just wanted to say thank you for the gift and use it. And sometimes I consider it a union card to the boys' club, because sometimes when things are tough and you want to get a point across, you say it, and then you have somebody planted who will say, well, Dr. Chatfield, would you repeat that again? We're right on, you know? But I don't plant too many audiences. What was your first job or assignment once you got your degree? Once I got my degree. Well, Bishop Ferrario, I came back to Honolulu with my doctorate. And Bishop Ferrario, within a matter of minutes, literally, he had planned that I would work for him as what the Catholics call, for a diocese, an ecumenical officer. It's a formal title. Every diocese is supposed to have one. And most of them do. Over 200 dioceses in the United States, 200 have active ecumenical officers. There's an organization of ecumenical officers. And I ended up being asked by him if I would do that. And of course I said yes, I was delighted. And I had learned along the way that the way to be an ecumenical officer, your most important book is the telephone book.  And you say, you know, I'm the new ecumenical officer for the Catholic Bishop. And Bishop Ferrario has given me this job. So could I meet you? How about a coffee shop? How about it? I met more people. I had drank more coffee for this. And you know, it's amazing. You meet people. And you really want to talk to me. Yeah, I really want to talk to you. And I had an index card afterwards. And I'd fill out an index card on what I learned from that person. And I always tried to ask the question of, well, what kind of religion did you practice when you were a child, when you were growing up?  If you are still a member of the church that you were born into, and you're still a practicing member when I was interviewing them, they represented maybe 20% of the people I talked to. Everybody else had been something, not Catholic or not. I don't care what they were, but now they are something else and were a minister or a professional in that religion. Now, that's a significant thing that you can only find out by talking to people. You don't get it on a forum. You don't figure that out from a forum. You figure it out from drinking a cup of coffee with them. You've been involved in a lot of community organizations. One of them was an organization that spawned into what is now called Project Dana. Would you explain how you got involved? Oh, Project Dana, dear Project Dana. And Rose Nakamura and Shim Kanazawa, wonderful, wonderful women in Honpa Honji. They were, shall we say, the inheritors of Project Respect. OK, now watch this, Project Respect, R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Realize effective support programs for the elderly through churches and temples.  And people died from somebody spiking the pills in the Tylenol bottle with arsenic, I guess, or something deadly. Anyway, Robert Wood Johnson Company, the Johnson and Johnson Band-Aid people, they were told you better do something for the community rather than just medical schools. They had supported medical schools from the days that they were a young company. So they decided to put out this program and call for proposals. And the criteria were you had to have more than one religious tradition represented. So most people had Protestants and Catholics. Some had Protestant Catholics and evangelicals. Some had Protestant Catholics, evangelicals, and Jews. We had all of those of the above, plus a whole bunch of others, Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Unitarian Mormons, with a whole bunch. Anybody that I had all these friends of mine, I said, you know, we're doing this project. Would you be willing? Sure, sure, sure. And do you know when we got the grant of $150,000 for three years? And it kept on giving because we were able to use that money for five years. We were able to earn money. And in 15 years, we turned everything over to Rose Nakamura, who had the best unit of care. And it was marvelous. And that was it. So it became Project Donna because Ruth Tambra named it. And Donna in Japanese means selfless giving. And that's the whole program of people serving the elders in their homes, but not in the denomination that they practice. But it's wonderful. OK, we're taking a short break. I'm David Tasaka. This is Out and About on the Think Tech live streaming network series. We're talking with Joan Shaffield, a community leader serving Hawaii for over 50 years. We'll be back in a minute, so stay tuned for more of the story. Hey, baby, that's you. I want to know, will you watch my show? I hope you do. It's on Tuesdays at 1 o'clock. And it's out of the comfort zone. And I'll be your host, RB Kelly. See you there. Truth is, I'm impressed. I haven't been asked such intelligent questions in a long time. Thanks. Men who lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread. And kissed them all soundly and put them to bed. Hunger is a story we can end. End it at feedingamerica.org. We're back. We're live. I'm David Tasaka. And this is Out and About on the Think Tech live streaming network series talking with Joan Shaffield. Joan, tell us a couple other community things you've been involved with that really grew into a vision way beyond what you had started with. Well, I had the privilege of being on the board of Honolulu Theater for Youth for, I think, 14 years or something like that. And one of the best coups. How do you know what is that, cuckoo? Anyway, what I pulled off. And I really did pull it off.  That was the theme of the play, the real play. So then the boy walks on the beach and he meets a man who tells him, you know, you got to be kind to your mom and all that. And she's been through a lot. He didn't ever know his father. Then he finally gets in the mother's bedroom and sees that was his father who walked on. Oh, it's a marvelous play for young people to see. So had to do with death and dying, right? And guess what we were just beginning, which is now a marvelous movement in Hawaii. And that is Hospice Hawaii. And Sister Maureen Kellerher of the Sisters of St. Francis had done a marvelous thing, making a section of the hospital then at St. Francis in Kalihi. And she made a section that was hospice.  At the same time shortly after they had Hospice Hawaii Inc. get started, which did not have a building, which was not freestanding. And it was the enemy. So I decided we would sell tickets to the play that had green paper or yellow paper. And then we had to play at community college out in Leeward Community College. And then we had it for three weeks. And on the last weekend, we had two big checks that people had paid to come in and we had the whole profit go to Hospice. And we called up the two leaders, the Franciscan sister, Sister Francine, who's now in heaven, and the head that then it was Dr. Maria Brose, employee who was working at Hospice, which is down in Ivalet. We called the two of them up and gave each of them the mythical check of $8,000 because we had recouped $16,000 in the nine performances that we had. And would you believe that began their conversation? Because God knows there are enough people dying that need the help of Hospice and you don't need to compete between Hospice. So I always felt that was, I like, that was one of mine in my back pocket. I like that one. My, you really had an interesting, I didn't know that, one of the many things. Tell us what really interests you right here and now. What are the things that really sort of? Right here and now, I think more of our professional people and more of our religious people should understand how much childhood years and experiences influence adult life and therefore should try to extract those stories and see what effect they're having on the present day and squirt into that timeframe something about forgiveness.  Like they were just hurt yesterday and they're still bleeding red blood from this wound. No, they're not. You know, come on, forgive the guy who did it, forgive the woman who did it. Just forgive yourself for not paying attention. Forgive yourself for maybe not knowing what the real story was.  And this is a too short a time to explain that, but it really works if you can get down to the bottom of what it is that keeps that hurt alive. And usually it's because the person hasn't forgiven themself and they haven't forgiven the other. We have a forgiveness project here in Hawaii which is very active and puts on a program every August usually. And it's out here. What we need to do is take that insight and bring it in here and bring it for the people. And I try to do that myself and I try to encourage therapists and doctors and it's amazing what people fear. And you know, there are really only two things, fear and love. If you can wipe out the fear, you can love. If you have the love, you don't have to fear. I mean, it all works out, but it's a anyway, it's a new thing that I'm kind of working on and get some help from the teachings of Anthony DeMello and people like that. But so, how's that? You work with many different religions in the state. You had shared with me that one of your first jobs coming out from Berkeley was actually doing a project for the Buddhist Church. That's right. Would you share about it? Oh, it was the most wonderful, wonderful project. They wanted to know, the Honpo Hongwenji Buddhist, the big temple on Pali Highway, they wanted to know if they still had to print everything in Japanese as well as English. And they said, could you figure that out? And I said, sure, simple. So what you do is you make a questionnaire and you send the questionnaire in English and then right next hook to the same pages, four pages in English, four pages in Japanese, exactly the same questions, okay? And you send it out. And of course, the Buddhists were wonderful. I don't believe necessarily in, you know, samples. I believe if you really know people, I want to send to everybody. So they sent it to 11,200 people. That's a lot of postage. But they were willing to do it. And guess what? They found out that they did not ever have to publish everything in Japanese. They could publish a few copies in Japanese and it saved them more money than they paid in postage. So they were happy with that and more money than they paid me, which wasn't a lot, but it was enough. It was different on with it. But the methodology I used was exactly what I had learned at Berkeley without a professor looking over my shoulder and saying, you ought to do this, you ought to do that, you ought to do the other thing. It was wonderful, absolutely wonderful. And the Honpah Honwenji Buddhist should go on record as having the best current address list out of 11,200 pieces of mail. We didn't even get 150 back, 150 out of 11,000 that came either because the person had died or the person had moved to the mainland and the post office wasn't up on the address change. Amazing, absolutely amazing. Yes, that was my claim to fame with the Buddhists. Would you recommend that all churches or many of the churches should have a demographic survey of their congregation? There's just no question about that. What are churches? They're not stone and mortar and insurance bills and fixed the roof bills. They are places where people gather. And you know, whenever there's a persecution, you put your church out in the meadow. You know, when the Irish church is being persecuted, all the pastors gave their sermons under the trees. So it's not the building and it's not the expense of the building, it's the people. So if you don't know who your people are, what kind of a church do you have? I don't care what the denomination is. It could be any denomination. If you don't know who's coming to your church, who do you think is important? The person who has, that goes back to having the degree that the degree person, they should come in here. I mean, no, come on. The church should give nourishment in life and things like that. What is the vision for your life now? Hmm. That's a lovely question, 885. My vision right now, because I'm a primary caregiver for somebody who's 95 and sharper than I am, I mostly want to just keep my energy up and my health up and please God, don't let me fall so that I can help her. But my real vision is that more of us express how happy we are doing this kind of service. There's something wrong with a grumpy nun. There really is. I mean, I think it's a contradiction. If you aren't happy doing it, either you shouldn't do it or you're doing something that isn't right. So I'm all for, you know, be happy.  What would be your suggestion or recommendation for the people living in Hawaii, especially younger people, if you were to give them some advice? Well, I do give advice now because I consider them, I laugh and I say, I'm the chaplain for the nuns. No, not N-U-N-S-E-N-O-N-E-S. Well, I don't go to church anymore. Oh no, I go to, I get God in the ocean. Fine, I mean God takes care of the ocean too. My thing is that anybody who cares about what goes on in religious traditions has to understand youth, has to do things for youth, has to, if you don't keep, but that's the advantage of having been a teacher. In high school, you are with students 175 days a year or more or less depending if they play hooky, but the whole idea is that you've got to understand where they're coming from and they're not coming from sitting for 45 minutes with a PA system that is terrible and doesn't know they can't hear. So come on, it's not deafness, it's acoustics. So I would have people understand the young people more and do things for them. That's where the Catholic Youth Organization, which used to be so strong, is now almost defunct. And it's defunct in other denominations also, the, oh occasionally they have 12 or 20 people who go, but it's the last couple of Popes, John Paul II and Pope Francis, those two, Benedict down as much, but they tried to have youth meetings, but then they go for like two weeks and that's it. You know, come on, make it a universal, make it a happy place for them to come. Well, John, it has been such a great experience having you on the show today. And we're out of time, the time flew so fast and we will have to wrap it up. I'm David Tosaka, this is Out and About on the ThinkTech Live Streaming Network series. We've been talking with Joan Chatfield, community leader serving Hawaii for probably over 60 years. We added 10 in this program, yeah. Okay. Thanks for tuning in and we welcome your feedback. Thanks to our broadcast engineer Ray Sanglang, our technical producer, Ian Davidson, our floor manager, Robert McLean and to Jay Fidel, our executive producer who puts it all together. I'll see you here every other Monday at 3 p.m. for more Out and About on ThinkTech Hawaii, aloha everyone.


SCP-1437 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-1437 to be contained behind a perimeter of 2 meter tall electrical fencing, which is to be patrol by groups of three security officers at all times. Any trespassers attempting to access SCP-1437 are to be brought into custody and interrogated and have found to be ignorant of SCP-1437's nature, dosed for the Class-A amnestic and released. Any items or organisms with the merge from SCP-1437 are to be immediately tested for hazards and have found safe to examine further. Experimentation involving SCP-1437 is strictly forbidden. Description SCP-1437 is apparently an endless hole measuring 3 meters by 3 meters, located in the ████████████████████ desert. Attempts to dig into SCP-1437 from the side result in the diggers encountering solid rock where a logic would dictate SCP-1437 would be. SCP-1437 is thus only accessible from its entrance above ground. SCP-1437 appears to be an access point to an as of yet unknown number of parallel universes. Objects have been known to periodically emerge from SCP-1437 at great speeds, including one US quarter, first known object emergence, large quantities of dirt and rocks believed to be an attempt by a parallel containment team to fill up their corresponding SCP-1437, a map of North America written in Spanish. According to said map, the government of North America is La Pública Popular de Aguas Nuevas, or the People's Republic of New Waters. A photograph of a skyline believed to be a radically altered version of New York's. Structures resembling coral or visible in a large flying organism can be seen in the distance. Several discs made from solid gold, accompanied the disc with a sheet of paper reading Please Send Rain. During a period lasting from 2000 to 2000, numerous individuals, most of whom wore D-Class uniforms, emerged from SCP-1437. All of them were dead on arrival. Footnote, it is theorized that the nature of SCP-1437 kills living organisms at the point in which cross-several between universes is achieved. All emerging individuals carried documents would appear to be their respective universe's documentation of SCP-1437. It is currently believed these D-Class personnel and previously mentioned documentation were sent as a gesture of desired cooperation. Emerge documentation 1437-1 Item number SCP-1437 Safety Rating Safe Republic Safety Procedures An authorized citizen are to be kept at a safe distance from SCP-1437 at all times. Any authorized tours of the area are to be accompanied by two security officers for their own protection. Taking of photographs is to be permitted. Any citizens attempting to go past safety fencing are to be arrested and handed over to local law enforcement. Description SCP-1437 is an apparently endless hole measuring 10m by 10m located in the town of Promise. Attempts to dig into SCP-1437 from the side result in the diggers encountering solid rock where logic would dictate SCP-1437 would be. SCP-1437 is thus only accessible from its entrance above ground. SCP-1437 appears to be an access point to an as-of-yet unknown number of parallel universes. Objects have been known to periodically emerge from SCP-1437 at great speeds, including One small pyramid composed of concrete, first known object emergence believed to be a building material. Large quantities of dirt and rocks believed to be an attempt by a parallel safety team to fill in the corresponding SCP-1437. A landscape painting believed to be of a location in Scotland, according to the painting its originating universe of sun is blue and its sky is yellow. Several discs made from solid gold accompanied the disc for a sheet of paper reading Please Stop Plague. A photograph of several scientists, all scientists pictured have unusually long fingers estimated to be nearly 25 cm long. A sheet of paper reading Thank You Please Send More Gifts. During a period last from 2009 to 2012, numerous individuals, most of whom wore bright orange jumpsuits, emerged from SCP-1437, all of whom were dead on arrival. All emerging individuals carried documents that would appear to be the respective universe's documentations on SCP-1437. It is currently believed that these individuals and the documentation they carried were sent as a gesture of desired cooperation. On 15 August 2012, a volunteer from the Foundation, Marco Perton, entered SCP-1437 wearing safety gear, taking with him a copy of this documentation. Emerged Documentation 1437-2 Individual carrying documentation was an adequate physical condition. The phrase, Property of SCP Corporation, was branded on the individual's left arm. Item Designation SCP-1437 Threat Level Little Special Containment Procedures SCP-1437 is to be contained behind a perimeter of 2 m tall electrical fencing, which is to be patrolled by groups of 3 security officers at all times. Any trespassers attempting to access SCP-1437 are to be charged with the crime of industrial espionage. Many items or organisms was emerged from SCP-1437 are to be immediately tested for hazards and have found safe examined further. After examination, suitable items are to be auctioned off to the interested collectors. Description SCP-1437 is apparently endless hole measuring 1 by 1 m located in the ████ outback. Attempts to dig into SCP-1437 from the side result in the diggers encountering solid rock where logic would dictate SCP-1437 would be. SCP-1437 is thus only accessible from its entrance above ground. SCP-1437 appears to be an access point to an as of yet unknown number of parallel universes. Objects have been known to periodically emerge from SCP-1437 at great speeds, including a statue of what is believed to be a reptilian entity sporting numerous eyes and tails, first known object emergence. Large quantities of dirt and rocks believed to be an attempt by a parallel containment team to fill in their corresponding SCP-1437, a glass bottle of water, a human femur covered in saliva, a cube composed of several smaller cubes, all of which are different colors, purpose unknown, a soccer ball, ball only have five sides. During a period lasting from 2000 to 2000, numerous individuals, most of whom wore D-class uniforms, emerged from SCP-1437, all of which were dead on arrival. The fact that it is apparently impossible to travel through SCP-1437 and survive has prevented the corporation from utilizing SCP-1437 for commercial purposes. All emerging individuals carry documents which appear to be the respective universe's documentation on SCP-1437. It is currently believed that these D-class personnel in previously mentioned documentation were sent as a gesture of desired cooperation. Several D-class personnel have been sent through SCP-1437 carrying copies of this document. First Documentation 1437-3 Individual carrying documentation was wrapped in bandages and appeared to have been blinded in a recent pass. Lacerations were present on the arms and legs, and the individual's tongue had been cut out. Object number SCP-1437 He's in level, unforgivable, holding measures. High Priest ████ is to bless the holding side of SCP-1437 every two years and blood sacrifices are to be dropped into SCP-1437 after each blessing. The sacrifices are to hold copies of these scrolls as a warning to any demons to stay away. Spirits are to be consulted after these sacrifices and the suggested changes to holding measures are to be carried out immediately. Description SCP-1437 is an apparently endless hole measuring 3x3 meters located in the ████ desert. Attempts to dig into SCP-1437 from the side result in the diggers encountering solid rock where logic would dictate SCP-1437 would be. SCP-1437 is thus only accessible from its entrance above ground. SCP-1437 appears to be a portal to the underworld. Objects have been known to periodically emerge from SCP-1437 at great speeds, including several discs made from solid gold accompanying the disc with a sheet of paper reading, Please Kill Foes. Large quantities of dirt and rock believed to be an attempt by demons to harm the High Priest ████ who was present at the holding side at the time. The broken remains of a human arm covered in saliva. A photograph of a metal bird flying away from a city. What appears to be a large mushroom is visible behind the bird, believed to be an attempt by demons at mocking us. A human eye which moved when touched, believed to be a lesser demon, was burnt immediately. During a period lasting from ████ to ████, dead demons wearing the skins of men emerged from the pit. They were thrown back in immediately and a sight was re-blessed by High Priest ████. First Documentation 1437-4 Individual carrying documentation was a heavily emaciated pre-adolescent who appeared to have been lobotomized in the recent past. Item Number SCP-1437 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-1437 is to be contained behind a perimeter of 2 meter tall electrical fencing, which is to be patrolled by groups of three security officers at all times. Any trespassers attempting to access SCP-1437 are to be delivered to our masters above for enhanced interrogation. Any items or organisms which emerge from SCP-1437 are to be immediately tested for hazards and have found safe to examine further. Any useful technology which emerges from SCP-1437 are to be delivered to our masters above immediately. Description SCP-1437 apparently endless hole measuring ████ meters by ████ meters located in Zone 29 of the Brazilian sector. Attempts to dig into SCP-1437 from the side result in the diggers encountering solid rock where logic would dictate SCP-1437 would be. SCP-1437 is thus only accessible from its entrance above ground. SCP-1437 appears to be an access point to an as of yet unknown number of parallel universes. Objects believed to be gifts intended for our masters above have been known to periodically emerge from SCP-1437 at great speeds, including 1. Diamond First known gift delivered to our masters above. Large quantities of dirt and rocks purpose unknown. from the extinct quirkus buck lee delivered to our masters above. The lower half of a human body delivered to supervising servant of our masters above is currently unknown how the gift sender was aware of the diet of our masters above. A document was sent in SCP-1437 thanking the gift giver of the object and requesting further tribute to our master above. A bottle of human intended wine. See Incident 1437-1. Incident 1437-1 on ████. A bottle of human intended wine emerged from SCP-1437. Recognizing an assassination attempt upon members of our masters above, the supervising servant ordered that a Don Burton explosive device be delivered down SCP-1437. Its orders were followed and the threat appears to have been resolved. This is a reminder of why we must be vigilant in our containment procedures. From now on, I don't want any of these gifts being taken out of containment. They are a clear and present danger to our masters above. O5-1