is a saxophonist, vocalist, songwriter and producer who hails from New York. She has toured around the world and has shared the stage with many contemporary jazz notable such as the Ripping Tons, Nick Collion, Chuck Love, Cindy Bradley, Hiroshima, Bob James, David Samford, Gerald Albright and the list go on. She has enjoyed 10 billboard, top 30 charting singles. I am so honored and happy to have her here on the show today. Please let's welcome Miss Paula Atherton to the show. Aloha Paula, how are you? Aloha Gwen, thanks so much for having me. Thank you so much. I know you are on Eastern Times, but it's late, it's where you are.  For those of you who don't know, I just saw Paula a couple of weeks ago at the Oxnard Jazz Festival in Oxnard, California and she killed it, absolutely, killed it, killed it, killed it.  And look, she is here today. So I guess, thank you for coming. So let's get this interview started. How did you get into the music industry? How did you get to the music industry? Well, let's see. I started singing really early and then playing flute when I was nine and studying jazz in my teens. And that's when I started playing saxophone. As far as knowing what to do business-wise, there's no map on that. It's kind of like trial and error and you're gonna make a lot of mistakes. And I did. Did you come from a musical family? No, no. I just loved music. I didn't even really get lessons when I was a kid because my parents couldn't afford it. So I didn't really start to have lessons myself until I could pay for them. Really? Yeah, yeah. But you know, when you want something bad enough, you work to get it. Yes. And it was in my heart.  And I'm glad you did. I'm glad that you did. Now we know you sing.  Yes. What other instruments do you play? I play soprano sax and I've recorded some tunes on soprano sax on my first couple of albums. I kind of stopped recording on it because I can't bring it with me. On the plane, you know. I bring my alto, my flute and my microphones and stuff but I can't bring another instrument. So, but I think I might play it on my seventh. I have room for another song or two and I might, I might bring that back. And I played baritone sax just for parts, you know, like a rent one, I don't own one. I'm not bringing it anywhere. Don't call me. I think it's like humongous, you know. I love it, but it's, you know, it's outrageous. It's so huge. And piccolo, I'm a clarinet owner. You know, the woodwinds pretty much, you know. All the woodwinds instrument. And I play enough piano to be able to write, you know. Nice. Nice. I'm a woodwind person myself. I played flute. I started out the clarinet and then played flute and piccolo in college. So I'm with you there, girl. All right. I'm with you. Now I asked this question of all my artists. I love to hear their answers. The pandemic put everyone at its standstill, especially the entertainment field. What did you do during that time to keep saying? My career took off. It did, it did. It absolutely did. I had my first number one on Billboard in 2020 during COVID. During COVID, that's when you, that's when everything opened up for me. I'll tell you the truth. It sounds completely insane, but I'm not making it up. My sixth album wasn't done yet, but the first single, Can You Feel It Was, and we released it in January. And I think by May, it had hit number one on Billboard Media Base and the Smooth Jazz Network. And because we were quarantined pretty much, and you see I'm in the studio now, so we just went about finishing it and released the full album that September. And then in 2021, I released Summer Song, another single from Can You Feel It, and that went to number one. So I'm not, I'm telling you the truth. I mean, it was crazy because I couldn't work. I couldn't go out and do anything about it, but as far as what was happening with my music on the radio was crazy, it was amazing. Well, I know I play some of your stuff on my radio show, and it's out of this world, trust me. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Trust me on that one. So you didn't do, I know a lot of entertainers, they did a lot of online shows. Did you do any of those, like online performances? Oh, I did some of them with tracks and stuff like that. Yeah, I did a few of those. You know, musicians were doing whatever they could do, you know, whatever they could do.  Absolutely, I mean, that was, it was scary. I'm in New York and it was terrible here. Yes. I was like, I think the worst, the worst state in the United States, we were losing like 8,000 people a day. It was really like crazy. And you look at that on TV and you're like, I don't know, am I ever gonna work again? Am I ever gonna be able to go anywhere or do anything? You know? So thank God that things, it took a while, but at least they turned around, you know? Yes, yes. Now we're gonna talk about your albums and I'm just gonna go through the list because you have six out right now. As you said, you have a seventh that's up and coming but it's not out yet. Still working on that one, right?  I love the names of these, I love these titles. 2018, you had Shake It. And then of course, your latest album out now came out in 2020, is Can You Feel It? Yeah. I want you to tell us a little bit as to how you came up with that title for Can You Feel It? It just seemed like the right thing to do since that was my first number one on Billboard and it was a title, we just made it the title track of the album. I mean, previously I didn't do that. I had a concept for the album and it wasn't one of the songs, except for Shake It. Shake It was one of the tunes on the record too but before that, you know, it wasn't. But it's hard coming up with names for things, things like instrumental tunes, very hard coming up with a name or a title for an album, difficult to do. But since that went up being, you know, my first number one, it seemed like the only way to go. Nice, nice. Now, I want to congratulate you because we just talked about this before, before we're coming on air. I want to congratulate you for you. Could you tell me yourself that you just, your latest single that's out now entitled Ready or Not has just hit number 10 on the billboard? That's right, today, yes. Right. It's true, it's true. Yes. Yes, I know.  You're killing it. You are so killing it. Congratulations on that. How did you come up with that title Ready or Not? That sounds like a title like, you know. You know, again, it's an instrumental tune. So we were like, what are we going to call it? I think my husband came up with that one. It was either him or Adam Hawley who produced it. I don't remember.  What do you think of this? What do you think of that? So I don't remember. But it was either Adam or my husband, Lou, that came up with it. Ready or not, everybody, you need to get ready for Miss Paula Atherton because she's on it. She is definitely on it. Now you have collaborated with many artists. Who would be your dream collaboration? John Batiste. Oh, really? Oh, really? I can see you doing something with him, too. I love him. I think he's great. He's just so joyful and he brings so much joy to the world with his music. I miss seeing him on Cold Bear now. So yeah, I'd love to collaborate with him. Well, you know, like I tell everybody, you need to go ahead and speak that into existence. You know, just say, you're going to work with it. I just did. And you never know. You never know what's going to happen, Paula. You never, you never, never know. Never know. Now let's talk a little bit. You never know. Now there's many saxophonists out there. I want to know what sets you apart from these other saxophonists that are out there in the industry. I think everybody kind of has their own sound and their own identity. It's such a personal instrument. You're creating the wind to make the sound. So if I played, if I took somebody else's saxophone with their mouthpiece and read and their whole setup, I wouldn't sound like them, even though I'm playing the same exact thing that they are. I would sound like me because it really has a lot to do with the person that's playing it and how they hear sounds. Now you have worked very closely with Miss Cindy Bradley. Yes. Yes.  Well, it's kind of like a tongue-in-cheek name, kind of a joke, you know? Because when we go out to dinner sometimes, we have margaritas and stuff and have some laughs. And that's just the title we were calling ourselves. And when we started doing some shows together over the past couple of years, the agent wanted to know we were called. And I was like, the fabulous lawns. I don't know what else to call. And so we went with that. Now, do you and Cindy have anything coming up in the works? No, we did a couple of shows this year. The last one was at Glenora Winery.  I'm hoping next year that we do some more. We played our first show was last year in Norfolk at the Waterfront Jazz Festival. And it was raining and there was a lightning storm. So they told us that we had to go in an indoor venue. And we were like, where's that going to be? We were opening for David Sandborn. So there was a lot of people there, right? So they drive us to the back of this building and they opened the door and we walk in. And I walk in there and I'm like, oh my God, it was the Scope Arena in Virginia. Do you know what that looks like? Oh no, really? Yes, I know. It's like the size of Madison Square Garden in New York. Yeah, with a Jumbotron and everything. That was our first gig. That was our first gig that we did. Oh, wow. Where are we going to go from here? You know, yeah, it was crazy. Oh, I can imagine your face. I can imagine your face when you saw that. I was like, I mean, the sound was great. Everything, the lighting, it was wild. It was wild doing a gig like that in a place like that. It was great. Well, I want you to talk a little bit about you work with an organization that brings music to autistic children, cancer patients and hospice patients. I want you to tell us a little bit about the work that you do with the organization Music That Feels. They're a really wonderful organization run by this great woman, Kathy Lord. And I studied music therapy. So I'm always interested in the wonderful things that music can do to help people, different types of people in different situations. So yeah, I did a show for a recently Labor Day. We played at Calvary Hospital, which is basically a hospice hospital in New York. And it's such a gift being able to do that, to give to people in that way. It's indescribable.  And that's not the reason why I do it. I just, I like giving of myself like that. But it's like they say to us, when we're in that hospital, they're like, first of all, they're so nice to us and thankful that we're there. And they're like, this could be their last show, these people that are here. So it's an important type of work. Sometimes it's not easy, especially in a hospice situation. When I do that, it just wipes me out, you know? But it's about giving, being kind, caring for others. It's the best we can be. Yes. Yes, and that's just such a gift to music, to take your music, to share with those people, whether it's the kids and the patients. Yeah. That's remarkable. For our curious saxophone players out there, what brand of saxophone do you play? I've been playing Dakota sax. I endorse them and I play them on the road. I do workshops for them and that sort of thing. Oh, nice. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. But we have a few more minutes and I have a few more questions for you. Okay. And this one I have to ask all my artists. I have to ask that. What advice would you give to a new musician coming into the industry? New musician, new artist, what advice would you give them coming into this industry? Follow your path, listen to your heart and stay on your own path. Everybody has a path. It's like your fingerprint. And it's easy to maybe look at things that other people are doing and feel like, well, I wish I could do that. You may be doing that. It's just not your time yet. You have a different path and you're just wasting time looking at what someone else is doing. Your thing is gonna be unique to you. So you just have to kind of follow that, pay attention to it and you'll get there. Just work hard. You'll get there. I love that. I love that, I love that, I love that. Now, what upcoming shows do you have? What things should I be walking on my calendar to come to see you perform? Well, let's see. October 1st, I'll be in Louisville, Kentucky doing a double bill with Carol Albert. And then October 2nd, I'll be at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, New Jersey playing with Jazz and Pink for the Hub City Jazz Festival. Okay, we'll show you how it's done. Yeah, that's right. And then the week after that, October 7th and 8th, playing at Brothers in Norfolk, Virginia. Yeah. And I have a bunch of things coming up next year. We were just talking about Portugal. So I think my show there is going to be on May 11th in the Algarve in next May. Okay, so where can people go? Number one, where can people go to find your music? And number two, where can they go to find all of your upcoming events? Because I know you need to name all of them because we don't have time, but where can they go? Well, I'm on Facebook. I have a fan page and a friend page. Twitter, I'm on Twitter, Instagram. My Instagram handle is Paula Atherton Music on Twitter at PathertonOne and I'm on LinkedIn. It's about it, I think. Okay. And what's your website? My website, which is my name. Yeah, what's your website? It's PaulaAtherton.com. Okay, so you hear that, everyone. Go to, what is it, PaulaAtherton.com? Yeah. Go there, you can check her out. It's a great website. You can check her out, you can check out where she's going to be playing because I'm going to be following her on some of these things. And I need to try and get her here to Hawaii. We talked about that. Most of the time. Yes, yes. I'm also on Banzantown. If people want to join Banzantown, they get done. Yeah. You said everyone, right? You heard that. Paula, I thank you so much for being here with me today. I'm going to have to do another interview with you, probably here in a couple of months, find out what's going on, anything new, keep in track of you.  Well, thank you so much. I mean, I have a great team. I'm working with great producers and it makes all the difference in the world. Well, you stick with that team. You stick with that team and I'm going to keep following you for sure. I told you to stick with my team. They're the best. Thank you so much again for taking time out of your busy schedule and late in the evening over there. But thank you so much for taking the time to sit here with me for this interview. I'm definitely going to be following you and you might see me in Portugal next to you. Never enough. Oh. I might be speaking in front of my fans, my viewers. Oh, yes, most definitely, most definitely, most definitely to my viewers. Thank you so much for tuning in and until next time. Aloha, thank God bless. Thank you so much for tuning in and donate to us at think.kawaii.com. Mahalo.


So the Jaguars the Jaguars takes the playmaker the viscous you know, man Again the direct them run on receivers the run-on receivers. They say oh AFC South the Coles y'all want to take Michael Pimcher. You know what? Let's do our thing, too Let's do our thing, too and the Jaguars who have had quite the offseason and just quite the quite the past two years really doing a lot of unloading on On talent they end up adding talent to their roster and LaVisca Chanel reminds me of He seems like somebody that could be similar not saying that his career is gonna go like his but what he does To me he reminds me of somebody like Cordero Patterson somebody who can come in Be a receiver be a return man provide you that electric play You could put him at a running back a little bit, too You can just move him around on the field and he be just that a playmaker So we'll see what goes down with that now The last type of pick that from the Jaguars that reminded me of something like this was shoelace It was shoelace But we'll see what happens with the viscous Chanel and hopefully the Jaguars and their front office They'll get some things in line to where when it comes to the end of the viscous Chanel's contract That he'll actually want to be like hey, I want to stay here I want to stay here because I don't know what it is about Jacksonville recently But when it comes to the end of these dudes contracts, they ready to get up out of Duvall I have no idea what it is But hopefully LaVisca Chanel can be part of this whole well He is part of this whole rebuilding process for the Jacksonville Jaguars and them just pretty much Starting from scratch really starting from scratch They still of course have garden men's shoe. They have linen for net for now They have yonakin guy way for now, but I'm sure we all expect both of those guys to be gone any day now Especially yonakin guy way I expect him to get moved before in a for net and we're in a for net I expect them to release him if they can't find a trade partner After the draft or during the draft I mean so after the draft I expect him to get cut So we're gonna see what happens. We're gonna see what happens But this is a good pickup for the Jaguars but I'm just I know they are rebuild most so it's gonna take some time But I'm just I guess it'll be a good it'll be a good situation for him Because the team as of right now and no things could change but as of right now They don't have the best roster in the world and again That's part of the process when you're rebuilding you're starting from the bottom working your way back up But um if he can shine now on this roster and of course that we still got Six more rounds to go still got the rest of the second and then three through seven But if he can shine on what's expected not to be the best roster in the world Then just imagine what he'll be able to do Once they do start turning some things around so it'll just be a matter of time it may take I would say for the Jaguars I think it will take about Two years I think about two years maybe this year and the next year and then maybe the following season Then that's when they can start to do some things. Oh, we'll see what if they end up getting um Not travel Lawrence Oh, wait, is that in a travel on some cleansing of the quarterback? Yeah, I think that is his name Let's see what happens with that. But anyway team can be clean appreciate y'all I know the hell is there a lot of Ravens fans right now that do not like this video because they wanted Ravens to get the viscous shenot, but it's all good man. We'll see what my Ravens get but anyway Jaguars good pick good pick And again if he shines during these dog times, then just imagine when he what he can do when things turn around for the better Anyway, team keep it clean. I'm out


Hello and welcome to this video lecture on selection sort. This is a series of video lectures on sorting methods and algorithms in C language. So this video is the third video in this series. See we have seen how to sort an elements firstly using bubble sort technique and next using insertion sort. In this video we will see how to use selection sort or what is selection sort algorithm. So by the end of this video lecture you will understand the working of selection sort algorithm and also you will be able to apply this technique to sort a given set of integers. So before we go ahead with this video lecture I strongly recommend you to refer to the following topics which will help you to easily understand the concept of sorting using selection sort. You are to be well versed with using arrays with using loops and also you should be able to understand and swap two given elements in an array. If you are well versed with these concepts in C then you are good to go to learn selection sort. So talking about selection sort what we do in selection sort is that we select the element with the minimum value. So when we scan the entire array and find the most smallest valued element what we do is we swap this element with the element in the first position in the array. Say for example I have an array or a randomly ordered array has been given to me as a job to sort it. So I will to sort in the chronological or ascending order. So what I want to do is I want to find the smallest valued element and I will be scanning the entire array just to find the smallest element and once I find the smallest element the algorithm shifts or swaps the smallest element with the element in the first position in the array. That is how the selection sort algorithm works and the same process is repeated for all the elements until the element or the array of elements is sorted. Now you can choose the maximum value in the array and put it in the last position or you can choose the minimum value and put it in the first position. Both ways selection sort will give you the same result when you are sorting the array in the chronological order. In our case in this video lecture I will be looking for the minimum valued element and swap it with the element in the first position in the array. Let us go ahead and see the algorithm. Let us look at the algorithm of selection sort. Firstly we start scanning the array one element at a time. We set the first element as the minimum element and then start scanning the other elements in the array. Now for each of the unsorted elements in the array when we scan the next element if the next element is less than the current minimum value we set it as the minimum value. This scanning and setting of the minimum value is done till we cover all the elements in the array. Once we find out the most least valued that is the least valued element in the array what we do is we swap that minimum valued element with the first unsorted element in the array or the first element or the element at the first position in the array and we repeat this process for the remaining n-1 elements till the algorithm sorts all the elements in the array. Let us look at the pseudocode of the algorithm. This is the pseudocode of selection sort. Now this algorithm takes an integer array of size n and minimum index is assigned to the element at position i where i is currently at 0. Then j is at a position of i plus 1 and it goes scanning the array till j is less than n and if j that is the element at position j is less than the element at minimum index what we do is we set j index as the minimum index and then after all the elements till size n-1 are checked we find the element with the least value we change or swap the minimum element with the first element where i is pointing to the first element in the array. Now let us look at the simulation of selection sort. So let us look at the simulation of selection sort. So this is visualalgo.net where the simulation of various sorting techniques is given for us so that we can understand it clearly. So here is an array of size 5 in random order and we are going to see the simulation step after step. So initially 5 is selected as the minimum valued element and then the entire array is scanned just to see if any value is less than 5 if it is less than 5 then that value becomes the new minimum value. Here 4 becomes the new minimum value. Now 2 becomes the minimum value since it is less than 4. Now 3 is scanned but since 2 is less than 3 2 remains the minimum and after 1 is scanned so 1 becomes the new minimum and now 1 will be swapped with the element in the first position of the array that is 5. So the minimum valued element that is 1 has now been sorted and it has found its final position in the array. Now we are going to check for the rest of the array that is 4, 2, 3 and 5. So 4 becomes the new minimum it is compared with 2 and since 2 is less than 4 2 becomes the new minimum. 2 is compared with 3 so 2 remains the minimum as it is and 2 is compared with 5 so it remains the minimum. So 2 is now compared and swapped with the first element in the unsorted array so 2 comes to its final position in the array. Now 4 becomes the new minimum in the unsorted array 4 and 3 are compared and 3 becomes the new minimum 3 is compared with 5 and 3 stays as the minimum value and now 3 is swapped with the element in the third position and gets to its final position. Next 4 becomes the minimum value in the unsorted array this is compared with 5 since it is less than 5 it remains as the minimum value and then here we have a sorted array using selection sort. This is how selection sort works. Okay, time for a quick question. I want you to pause the video and answer the question. The question is what changes have to be made in the current algorithm that we have discussed to sort the data in the reverse order in reverse chronological order. Pause the video, make the changes and answer the question. Okay, so if you have understood the question and you have gone through the algorithm once again so the answer is if you want to sort it in the reverse chronological order instead of looking for the minimum value one approach is that you search for the maximum element and then replace the maximum element with the element in the first position of the unsorted array. For this you need to use the correct relational operators and do the correct comparison of the operators just that so that you select the maximum element and then swap it with the element in the first position to sort the elements in the reverse chronological order. These are the references. Thank you for watching.


4. Best Ways To Choose Business English Course Materials When teaching business English, it is important to tailor lessons to the maturity and ability of the class. Essential to any lesson is the course materials to be used by both the teacher and the students. By tailoring these course materials to be more relevant to the business English students, the teacher will hopefully gain a greater level of interest and create a better learning environment. To assist with a teacher with a style and type of course materials to be used with a specific business English class there are several things the teacher could do. 1. Research First The teacher could do some research about the culture, company or industry of the students. The needs analysis taken by the students in the first class could be used to give some indication of the best course materials to be used. The teacher could also draw on their own experience or the experience of colleagues in regards to which course materials may work best. In any event, the relevance of the course material to the students will impact their learning and every effort should be made to tailor these materials to the students and their preference. 2. Source Materials Once a teacher understands the style and type of course materials that are best suited to their students, they can easily source authentic materials like newspapers, radio stations, magazines, brochures, TV shows or movie to use in the classroom. Getting business English student familiar with using authentic materials is fantastic as these materials are readily available to practice both readings or listening and in turn, students can then practice or speaking also if they choose. Although these course materials are not created and do not offer any educational structure, the ease of access, the variety, and the relevance makes authentic materials a necessary and compelling resource for teachers in the lesson and students at any time. 3. Created Materials Equally, the teacher can also invest some time in created materials by making their own course materials like crosswords, word search puzzles, role play cards, flashcards or gap fill activities. These are excellent course materials as the teacher can actually tailor them to the students and the specific theme of the lesson. These created materials can be brought in their relevance to the students or very specific to them, creating a greater level of interest and a better learning experience. The benefit of these materials is they will provide an engaging way to learn with an educational structure that works and that is enjoyable or even fun for the students. 4. Ready to Use Materials Of course, the syllabus will most likely have created materials like a course book, workbook, gassettes, DVD, videos, student books and a teacher's book too. Students may also draw on other language books and dictionaries. These materials are very structured, offering the ability to grade and educate in a controlled manner, but it is important not to find to follow these course materials too closely. There is a real risk of lessons losing their relevance and student becoming disengaged if a teacher simply works through the course book from start to finish. Do you want to teach business English? A balance must be found with all the materials listed above to ensure students have a learning experience that interests and inspires them, but that is also structured and gradeable. A teacher needs to make sure the course materials being used are introduced with careful thought and purpose. This will lead to engaged students ready to learn and a successful lesson and syllabus. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Animals can learn to repeat behaviors to earn desired rewards through a process called reinforcement learning. This process involves the ascending dopaminergic projections to the basal ganglia, which have been previously linked to this type of learning. However, little is known about the role of the hippocampus in this process. In this study, researchers found that a specific population of hippocampal neurons and their dopaminergic innovation contribute to op-amp self-stimulation. These neurons are located in the dentate gyrus, receive dopaminergic projections from the locus coruleus, and express D1 dopamine receptors. When activated, these neurons cause mice to press a lever to earn optogenetic activation of these neurons, selectively activating the locus coruleus projections to the dentate gyrus or blocking them with D1 receptor antagonists produces similar effects. Additionally, calcium imaging of these neurons revealed significant activity at the time of action selection, but not during passive reward delivery. These findings suggest that the hippocampus plays a key role in. This article was authored by Elijah Apetta, Isabella P. Fallon, Ryan M. Hughes and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


I'm concerned about effective stakeholder engagement, not just stakeholder engagement. And by that I mean I must have access to information. So we're here talking about ecosystem restoration, how we're going to monitor it, what are the indicators to tag it to. So coming from a local community perspective, I need information that is communicated in simple language to me. I saw a question already about ecosystems classification. At the local level, the people may not know that much about the IUC and classifications, but they know we have narrow road wetlands, they know we are forest wetlands, we have marine ecosystems. The reason I say effective engagement is that we are at the local level. We know our communities, we know our foreign abilities. When it comes to ecosystem restoration, we think about trees, we think about plants. And so we know what our sun types are, we know about the weather conditions, the heat, the drought. So if you're working on a restoration project, the communities have to be involved. The local ownership, the local buy it because who's going to keep the care of those plants? Who is going to ensure that they water? In my country, we have a lot of damage from woven atlas.  But when you have effective stakeholder engagement, the people will ensure that those plants are nurtured, cared for and cultured to fruition. Another thing with effective engagement, we see the need also for advocacy. We are taking care of the plants, taking care of the situation. But there are times where we have to advocate for better practices, better governance for the higher work from the government. Because sometimes we have investors, we have investments that require some of the best lands around the course and what's on the course, our wetlands are there. And we are not going to start to see our wetlands being destroyed. So there are times now where we have to advocate. We have to remind the government, you made commitments. You made commitments to ecosystem restoration. Why are you causing destruction? So at the local level, we have a lot of roles and responsibilities to ensure that the decade for ecosystem restoration is productive, is satisfied, protects nature. And so we work together in groups and we build partnerships and collaborations with the government. So that they can know what we're doing. So that our work can be part of the reported mechanism because you need the data. You need the data from the local groups, what's going on, you know. And so the data from the bottom up is very important. And another work is voluntary. And because the ideas confront the people, it's best practices for sustainability. That's how we look at it. It's not something that's going to start today and end tomorrow. It has to go on. It has to develop the people in the communities. And when we partner with the government, when there's trading, when there's meetings, we can build capacities because we don't have all the answers when it comes to the auditory and the indicators. But by working together, we learn and we contribute to the process. And hopefully the government can see that our involvement makes the work easier for them because we at the grassroots level, we are doing quite a bit to keep systems afloat. Thank you very much.


Hi, everybody. Make sure I'm out of the feedback zone for that. I'm going to introduce myself briefly, just because if you enter my name on Google, you might get some surprising results. So I'm talking a little bit about navigating the gender landscape. And for me, this goes back to 2003. And this was when I was an undergraduate. And my big goal was to grow up and be a lawyer. That's what I was going to do. That's what I was going to be. I was studying literature. And one day I was leaving a lecture, and I walked past this free and anonymous HIV testing clinic. And there was a call for volunteer test counselors. And something that I'd heard in lecture was really weighing on me. I was in a very contemplative mode. And there was one day left in the application period. And I thought, what the hell?  What am I doing? This is just a volunteer position. It was only supposed to be for five hours a week. Well, flash forward almost a decade later.  I wound up coordinating that clinic. I did the free and anonymous testing. That meant I was doing the pretest counseling. I was doing the actual test administration. And I was doing results disclosure, which means you tell people whether or not they have received an HIV positive or negative result. I went on to go work at Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco.  Actually, one of the largest and one of the first to be totally youth focused. And a lot of great queer programming. I had my office at this fantastic facility for HIV positive homeless youth, the first in the country dedicated entirely to providing services for people like that. In terms of an in-base clinic with a medical doctor, full-time RN who was there, full-time housing, private bedrooms, meals, the whole nine yards. Fantastic job. I did street-based outreach. I was still doing counseling. I was working at about five different clinics in San Francisco. And it was still my job to tell people whether or not they had HIV and to do long-term care. So I was doing a lot of work with AIDS care. I wound up getting a grant. I went to Tanzania. That was really fantastic. I was in the Bogamoio area. And I was working in the district hospital out in the field as well. My job was to provide care. But where I was going, there were so few doctors. It was basically triaging death. To go out into the bush, to go into people's homes, and to say, basically, who needed help first? That was what the goal was ostensibly. What it meant was saying is this person is going to pass away by the end of today. And this person is probably going to pass away by the end of the week. That's kind of depressing work. There's a lot of great things. And I don't want to paint the picture of the dying Africa, because it was also really incredible. I did that. And I went back to Larkin Street Youth Services. But it was a little bit harder for me to work in a corporate-style nonprofit. A lot of the ways of where the money is coming in, a lot of questions, a lot of problems, and then the earthquake in Haiti hit. And I had a moment where it wasn't even a question. I knew I was just going to go down. I got permission from my supervisor. My supervisor got permission from his supervisor. That supervisor didn't move up the chain of command. And three weeks before I left, I was informed. We're going to wait for the airplane. From, maybe it's a drone. Three weeks before I was scheduled to depart, I was told that if I left for Haiti, I would not have a job when I returned. And I said, I accept. So when I came home from Haiti, I began my full-time career as a queer-independent porn star.  I'm very involved in sex worker activism. And I'm very involved in challenging a lot of the norms that are in the porn industry, a lot of which are gender. So I also want to ask a question.  So we have some familiarity with this issue. For those of you who don't know what it means to screw up someone's gender pronouns, let me explain. Because that might seem really obvious. You look at somebody, they're a man or they're a woman. And you call them he or she. And what does it mean to make that kind of mistake?   But that's still in a binary. That's still saying you're either one or the other and you make the mistake and you correct it. When I started to do queer porn, this is where my notions of gender really started to get challenged. I was screwing up pronouns all the time because I would work with someone who was male-identified but had a vagina. I was working with someone who was female-identified but had a penis. All kinds of different things happening with the body and with the presentation. And I was also confronted with people who said, I don't relate to gender at all. I'm gender queer or I am agender. I use they pronouns or I use Z or zur or her with an HIR and all kinds of crazy things. And I was really getting sad because I was making people sad all the time. And I did want to screw it up. And I was like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm just never going to use a gender pronoun ever again in my life. They. I like they. They is broad. And at first I was doing this just to kind of dodge the screw up. And after a while, I think I started to get the point of the lesson. And that's the point of why do we have to rush to put a flag down on somebody's gender in the first place? And that's where this story goes on. A map. A map has a compass on it for north, south, east, or west. But we know that space is bigger than that. We know that when we interact with space, we're not just going north, south, east, or west. We could go up. We could go up into space. And what direction is that? What if we went down into the ground? What does it mean if someone's on a different part of the globe? What happens when we change the dimensions of a map? And just north, south, east, and west are a little bit more confusing. What about those spaces in between north, south, east, and west, when you're southeast or northwest, somewhere kind of in between? That's some more space. So it's not as simple as left, right, up, down. There's actually a very big space, a lot of dimensions. And so gender is kind of broken down into many of them. And I could start to talk now. And in 30 minutes, and I'm just never going to finish all the dimensions of gender. But because we're in a tech crowd, we're gonna start out with a very simple way to think about it. Hardware and software. We've got hardware. This is kind of our chasis, is what we get around in the world with. And it's made up of a lot of different things. We have morphology. And morphology is gonna be what you're looking at, what you see, what you interact with. And that's where we tend to start to designate gender right away. When someone has a child, is it a boy or is it a girl? What do they have? What's in between their legs? And then we tend to make the decision right then and there without thinking about it. No one asks an infant, because an infant can't answer. We just take a look.  And that's where you start to see the blue and the pink and the toys and the expectations. And we actually do know, there's a lot of great studies that show that when an infant, if they're all kind of swaddled up and wearing blue, will be handled by people around them differently than if that same child is swaddled up in pink. We will actually start to have different things we say, different ways that we touch, different ways that we interact. But we also know that there's this other little interesting complication and that's people who are born intersex. That's when you take a look and you say, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.  And that's a huge, huge determining factor for the way we do gender, especially with young men, is to take a look at what they've got between their legs and say it's very important that what they've got looks like dad. Or they're gonna be confused. This is what we use with circumcision.  And apparently when they're spending a lot of time together comparing their Johnson's, it will be problematic if one looks a little bit different than the other. There's a whole big question of consent that's happening there.  And without any knowledge of how it's gonna grow or change throughout their lifetime or when they hit puberty, the saying was it's easier to dig a hole than it is to build a pole. And they removed a lot of those small micro penises and constructed with vaginoplasty to make vaginas and to raise kids as girls. Because we made the assumption that they were gonna be a defective male. And to be a defective male would be unacceptable. That would be too hard for them. They would never have anyone who would love them. They would always feel uncomfortable in the locker room.  All kinds of problems. So you just go ahead and make the change. And a lot of people were into that idea because the whole nature versus nurture suggested that, hey, there's this pink-blue effect. If we just start really early and we raise somebody very effeminately, it's all gonna work out. They've got, they've got, now they have a vagina. We're dressing them up in pink. We're gonna teach them a lot of gender norms. It's gonna be fine. It never really worked out fine. What's the next layer back on our hardware aside from just what we see is gonna be chromosomes and genetics. It's not just as simple as XXXY. And actually when you start to look at XX or XY, it's a rough estimation. XX and XY never look that simple. They really do look like squiggles. They're really incomplete. And there's actually more information than even just XX or XY. There's even more chromosomes that get jumbled in. And there's a whole genetic sequence that with one little change, you're gonna have a lot of diversity that happens down the line. So there's a chromosomal level that you don't get to see. There's a genetic level. What are some different genetic traits? And what are the hormonal levels going to be? When we all start out in utero, we are all working with the same cells that begin to specialize. And it's really interesting to look at some of these pictures. And a lot of times you never see them in anatomy class, but we have analogous tissues. As it turns out, a male body is really not all that different from a female body. There is so much that is shared in common. And a lot of this just goes back to the way we're starting to develop.  The taint. It has a seam. There is a seam you'll notice on somebody's body that starts from kind of the front of their genitals that moves back. And that's a tiny little seam. And if you've ever wondered, why is that there? Why is that there? Why is there that little line there? That's actually where the body has started to fuse when roughly six weeks into your development, there was a flood of hormones that said, this needs to come together and it starts to stitch up. So that little line that you see that can follow down the testicles and move back towards the anus, that's where something came together. Wasn't necessarily like that before. You can also still see that line is a little bit there on someone who has a female body as well because things are fusing there as well. This means that some of the tissues that we see on the body are gonna react the same way. Scrotal tissue is actually gonna be very similar to the tissue of the labia. So if you've ever wondered like, this is how things feel like when people touch me, but I would never, ever in my wildest dreams be able to imagine how it felt for somebody else because I have a completely different body. No, you don't. It's very, very analogous. And you can go back and look at that. So hardware starts to get complicated because we're working with the same cells, we're working with pretty much the same genetic sequence among all of us for as different as we look. We're all very, very, very quite similar when you look at the source code. So we have that, Devin is a big difference. But what about software? What's the software? We have all this hardware, but what does hardware do without some software behind it? And that software is a lot of the way we're upraised to be how to act in our gender, the way we present our gender, and what happens when there are complications there. So in terms of, you know, we talked a little bit about the pink and blue and the toys, but I wanna move back to gender presentation. And I'm gonna go ahead and use a bit of an example. I've got some hairy pets here. And these are a new thing for me. I started growing out my hair this summer. And the reason was, as I was out and about, it was a nice summer day in the Bay Area, one of the few that we had, and I was wearing a tank top. And I hadn't quite shaved and it was a little bit stubbly.  And I just kind of immediately started to tease me. And my gut instinct was to apologize. You know, I just kind of like, oh yeah, I know, I totally was gonna rush the house, just wanna get the bar to me and my friends. I didn't even do makeup. And I caught myself. Why am I apologizing for my body? Why am I apologizing for something that my body does normally? Why am I apologizing for the way I look? Who is this guy? Is he the gender police? What's, am I being arrested? What's happening? Am I being detained for deviating from my expected gender?  My gender presentation is my own. And I am not under any obligation to present it in a way that makes somebody else comfortable. I can present it however I need to in order to get through this world. So I started to grow it out and it was interesting to see how things changed. For one, there's kind of this expectation that I hate men. I hate men because this means hating men. Well, that's weird. I don't quite understand that one. The other assumption is that I'm a feminist. That I'm like really into being a woman and I'm really into feminist causes, which we also associate with feminism. And the really interesting thing about that is I do not identify as a feminist. I don't. I stopped identifying as a feminist for a long list of reasons, but a lot of which being I don't think I'd ever captured what happens with the way we interact with the femme or the effeminate as a whole. There are boxes, gender boxes, that we all kind of live in. And we have to find our own maps to get out of these boxes. And that's when you can toss all this little brief. I did a quick like five minute gender sex hardware software spiel, but we're gonna pull that back and say what are those boxes look like? And if I say something like man, what are some of the things that we start to think about initially? We have no ideas. Which the hair, hairy, hairy, taking up space. Whether it's a beard, whether it's on the arms, whether it's everywhere. And so let's take the hair that goes kind of everywhere. It starts to occupy space. In general, being a man seems to have a lot of things that relate to taking up space. Like for instance, sitting down on public transit, you're gonna notice that the way people look is gonna change the way they take a seat. Who is taking a seat and sprawling? Who's being polite and taking up less space? Very little space. That's a box. That's a box that someone is in. So someone who looks a little bit more effeminate is gonna be in a slightly smaller box in that situation. And every context is gonna change the way things work. So we have hair, we have taking up space. What are some other things we associate with being masculine or a man? Size. Yeah, definitely. And a lot of that is related to things like testosterone. There's a lot of testosterone and that's what's gonna help make that size. It's gonna help make that hair. It's gonna make that voice that takes up a lot of space, that resonating voice. Testosterone does do a lot of these things. We could also say something like violence. Serial killers. When someone is holding their keys on their walk to the car and it's night, they're not worried about the drag queen coming up behind them and mugging them. You're not worried about the smaller woman. You tend to be more worried that it's gonna be a man who comes up behind you and mugs you. But we know that mugging can happen from all kinds of people for all different kinds of reasons, but we do have that base assumption.  And is that fair or is that not fair? And here's the other question of that, is what do those expectations do to masculinity?  Viking is man. That starts to be a box too. Because, and this is where my notions of feminism started to change, sexism impacts everybody. Sexism is a set of roles and expectations for how you're going to be.  So what happens to someone who is a man who is maybe a little bit effeminate, who maybe has a lisp, who dresses a little bit differently, who doesn't like to play sports? We notice they get picked on a lot, usually pretty early. That's a box. There's also that box is, how are you expected to meet people and be social? Who's supposed to initiate? We have a lot of ideas about who's supposed to initiate something and it should be the masculine that initiates this, whether it's a date, whether it's going to, you know, ask for a raise, things like that. We tend to expect assertion from something masculine and we tend to expect that it's gonna be, you know, more active for that, more receptive for something that's effeminate. That you wait till someone comes and talks to you. Again, that's smaller, slightly small box. So what happens when you start to break it down? What happens when you start to break those boxes? Well for one, you start to have people diversifying language. You start to learn that man and woman can't contain our experiences as humans. No word, no word, no matter how many neologisms we ever come up with here, we could vote for a whole new set of words and expectations and those words would never contain the experience any human has on earth. There is no one word that will ever do it. So breaking down gender may not necessarily be about changing the lexicon. It might be something a little bit more human to be present with somebody. But words do give us a framework to start to understand things. They start to move things to the front of our consciousness. So when we start to say, this person uses a gendered pronouns, aside from just going, don't say he, don't say she, don't say he, don't say she, you also have to let go of your expectations of what that person's going to do. And it actually takes a moment where you have to get to know them. You can't make those same assumptions. You can't make the assumption that they are going to initiate or that they are active. You have to actually find out. You have to start to ask about limits and boundaries. You actually have to negotiate your social engagement to an extent. And that's something that deep down I don't think we have a lot of practice doing because we do have a map that we drive across. We do have, you know, North, South, East and West, you know, those are simplifications that we use because without them it would be very hard to get around. You know, if we were being completely ambiguous and recognizing all the different maps and frames of preference, we might not ever be able to get someone from one place to another. They are very helpful. The problem is, when do we start to care more about the map or the language or the vocabulary than the person that it is referring to, the signifier and the signified. And we tend to get very fetishistic about our signifiers and we tend to forget about what's signified, which is a person. Another way to break it down is to take a look at the images that we see and pornography gets a lot of criticisms for that. And a lot of them are absolutely worthwhile. Absolutely very right on types of things that are being talked about. What happens to a man? What happens to a woman in the scene? And a lot of people talk about the degradation of women who are in a film and the same expectations they have. And this is where it starts to get tricky. Who gets paid more for a scene? A woman. A woman will have hit a lot more for a scene. Who do you see more of? You will see more of a woman. Men are actually beheaded. That's kind of the interesting thing about what we're saying about masculinity is that a man doesn't even have to be a person in the scene. He doesn't need a head, he doesn't need feet. He shows up, he does his thing and he leaves and the scene's really gonna be focused on the woman and her experience in the scene. Whether or not it's fake, it's still about what is her face doing? How is she reacting to all these things happening? There is not a lot of thought given to how a male in a scene is experiencing that scene, what their relationship to what's happening, what their relationship to their role is and they get paid less. And if you screw up once, you're never getting hired again. That's kind of the other thing. It's a lot harder to get work. It's a lot harder to hold on to work. There's actually a challenge. So I started out by talking about a lot of the advantages that men have with these boxes in terms of being able to occupy space, speak up, get promotions, but then those boxes become limitations again in another setting. And this is a setting where there gets to be an advantage if you have a receptive body or you have a passive role because that's what people are watching it for. Changes, the context will always change the privilege that you get and your box will always become limiting in a new circumstance. That doesn't mean it's great for women. And it also changes hiring standards on another level. How long do you get to work if you're a woman? That's where we get to flip it again. If you're a male in the industry, you're gonna be able to work for ostensibly as long as you can work. Doesn't matter how old you get. It doesn't really even matter how much your body changes. You can keep working. Once you've landed that role, you're in. If you've got a female body, chances are you're gonna be there for a couple of years before you leave. Given that I first started appearing in my first pictures and I've done very few in 2008, it's 2012 and I'm geriatric.  Retire, I'm 27. Not to mention the fact that retirement means something different because what am I going to be allowed to do when I leave?  You get it back by and large because people look at what you were doing in that scene as the active role, disembodied also. It's hard to recognize somebody without a head. And people tend to not be looking at the face at all. Gonna get to go back because we have expectations that someone who has a male body wants sex all the time. And it makes sense for them to be doing what they're doing. We look at a woman in a scene and we say, why is she there? Why would she want to be there? I get why he's there. He's getting paid to have sex, I understand that. Why is she there? Because she's getting paid to have sex, same reason. But we'd have a lot of ideas that it's damaged. She's damaged goods, she has drug addiction problems, she has psychological problems, she got hurt as a child. She wouldn't be here unless those big bad men were holding her there. She'd be running and screaming and escaping at the first chance he got. Starts to be limited again. That box got big, you can make a lot of money really quickly, then it got small real fast in a heartbeat just right when you wanna leave. Someone has to stay, their work changes, and a lot of it's because they age. Who is allowed to age in our culture and who is not allowed to age? Who do we want to just go away when they stop looking pretty and they stop being the peacock ostensibly? That was another big change to confront is how am I expected to be a woman on camera? What happens when this grew in? You don't see a lot of that, you don't get hired. That's an interesting one. When you start to change the way you present, who wants to see you changes? You're a little bit harder to figure out.  They're a little bit confused. They don't really necessarily wanna see it. It takes more work. That's another great excuse I've seen. It takes more work to figure out why they're there, what they're doing, who they are. Are they atop, are they at bottom? What's happening? That's another big type of change. It's hard to break the rules. When you work in an industry that fetishizes all those rules. The way you get to exist in your space, the way you get to interact with other people is very, very different. I'm trying to break that down little by little by changing the access to resources that people have and to continue educating about gender. But first and foremost, to have a chance to start speaking is a big part. Social media is changing gender in a big way. Not just because we're having conversations that we haven't had before. And if someone could give me a heads up when I've got five minutes left, just yell at me or throw something like an avocado. Social media is changing the way we look at gender because we're changing narratives and we're starting to introduce New Lexicon into everything. Right now, if you look at Twitter or Tumblr or Pinterest or things like that, you're gonna hear a lot of voices, maybe not a huge number, definitely not the majority, but a lot of voices who are saying, my gender doesn't match what you expect of me.  Thank you, I was spot on with that. And kind of breaking it down by sharing that and by also sharing their bodies in the process of it. If you go onto YouTube right now and you search genderqueer or transgender or intersex, there's a lot of people who are gonna open that door and show you what that's like. They're gonna show you what it means to say, this is the body I started with and I am achieving the vision I have for my own life and the vision I have for my interactions with others. And I'm gonna open that door and let you see it. I'm gonna let you see either the pain, the times when it was really great and it worked out, celebrating the times when someone got their pronouns right, when they were at school or work, challenging the hard times when they got fired. We don't tend to hire, it's not just even in pornography, we don't tend to hire people who are transgender in any job capacity. It forces a lot of homelessness and sex trafficking in many ways because if you can't get hired to work at a Starbucks because your gender's a little bit too confusing, where are you gonna work? That's the hard part, you take what you get and you open it up again. This is my body, I don't get work except for this work. Here's how it's changing. Here's my blog, here are my friends and here are the call-outs. That's the big thing that's happening is people confronting standards and saying don't use those pronouns to describe me.  The compass is not spinning out of control. The compass was never in control. There was never North, South, East or West, there was never male or female. Those are just standards we dropped on, the infinite diversity of the human experience and the infinite diversity of the human body. All that source code of our DNA, all that source code of our chromosomes, it's too immense for us to ever look at raw. We have to look at it in some kind of definable form and those are whether that's words or software or images, we put it into a framework that we can understand but that beautiful source code, that beautiful source code, that beautiful diversity that we cannot comprehend, that's what the call-out is about. It's really about sitting down and saying let's have a little bit of reverence and humility for just how beautiful and broad and how diverse we are, how there is no set of conditions we can say to find male or female. That those characteristics are every characteristic that everyone feels vulnerability, that everyone feels strong at sometimes. We all have the capacity to be the predator and we all have the capacity to be the prey and when we start to attach a lot of these ideas to who's the predator and who's the prey, we miss out on sharing our experiences. We've let our assumptions mean more than the person standing in front of us and that's what it means to break down the map to say I'm not going North, South, East or West, I'm going 360 degrees all at once. Thank you so much. Thank you.


In this module, we would look at an example which is quite close to what is known as running Musharka in Pakistan. It is not exactly the same product as being offered in Pakistan, but that should give an insight into the use of Musharka for something which could be considered as a working capital financing product. The running Musharka in Pakistan offered by some Islamic banks offers a working capital financing based on Musharka. Although based on Musharka, but effectively it offers fake returns to Islamic banks without necessarily exposing them to loss of capital. So this is an important aspect of this application of Musharka which inherently is a profit loss sharing arrangement. However, the way some banks may use Musharka in the context of Islamic retail banking or Islamic business banking, this could generate some fixed returns to the bank effective. Although the terms and conditions of the Musharka would remain unchanged, but the way this whole structure is managed by the banks, it effectively generates fixed returns for the bank. So this could be deemed as an example of risk management in Islamic banking and finance. We have a complete set of segments dedicated to risk management and we might look into this aspect of risk management when we go to that part of the course. So let us look at an example. Company A is seeking working capital finance. This could be a company in manufacturing sector. This could be a company in agriculture sector. It could be in any, it could be in the service industry as well. An Islamic bank may be willing to do so, but without exposing itself to the general risks faced by the company. Islamic banks like banks, they are risk-averse. They would not like to acquire a lot of risk on their book because this is not deemed as good for the stability of the banking system as a whole. And many regulators would not feel comfortable with this kind of behavior if banks start acquiring a lot of asset from the market, a lot of risk from the market. So the bank actually gives a certain amount of money as working capital financing to the company. So because this is based on musharaka, the money given by the bank to the company A must go into financing or building some musharaka assets or a well-defined musharaka slash partnership activity within the business of the company A. Because this is musharaka, the money contributed by the bank should be mixed with the money contributed by the company A into this musharaka activity. In most cases, that musharaka activity within the business already has a value. So that value could be considered as the contribution of company A into the musharaka activity. In case of profitability of musharaka activity, the bank would have its own profit share and the company would benefit from the profit of that musharaka activity as well in accordance with its own profit share. So part of the profit would go to the bank and part of the profit would be retained by the company within its structure. So this is the case when there is some profit generated by the musharaka activity which is a segment of the business within the company A. How is the bank's profit share determined? An Islamic bank and company A agree on profit ratio that is highly in favor of Islamic bank. The profit distribution ratio agreed between the two parties would favor the bank. In this case for example, 10 percent of the profit may go to the company and 90 percent of the profit may go to the bank at least to start with. So if the bank is looking for 10 percent return, it will work like this. Financing amount is 100,000 rupees, expected return to be generated by the bank is 10 percent. Profit from musharaka activity in this scenario one is 50,000. Bank's share would be 45,000 and company's share would be 5000. So this 45,000 bank's share would go to the bank and the company would have 5000 profit retained by itself. Now because the bank was actually looking for only 10 percent return i.e. 10,000 rupees profit in this case, so it would actually have this 10,000 rupees on its own book as its profit and the remaining 5000 would be put into another account within the bank in the reserve pool. So 5000 would go into the reserve pool and the remaining 30,000 from here would go back to the company in the form of the investment. So this would be reinvested in the musharaka asset. Now in case of a loss or in case of a return which is less than the expected rate of return of 10 percent, in this case if the profit from musharaka activity was 10,000, bank's share would be 9,000 because it gets 90 percent and the company's share would be 1000. So company would retain 1000, this 9,000 would go to the bank. Bank is looking for 10,000 hence from the reserve pool that would actually get 1000 would make its total profit of 10,000 dollars which would be the 10 percent return the bank was looking for. At the end the musharaka assets would be valued in most cases the agreement implicit kind of understanding between the bank and the company is that the musharaka assets would be stored back to the business for a price which is equal to the musharaka facility which in this case was 100,000 USD or 100,000 dollars.


Have you ever wondered how a man knows that a woman is the one the one the one the one the one? Well, when I think of the one I think of being in love So when does a guy know that he's in love? When does he know that this person he's with is the one he actually wants to make a Significant investment in that he wants to spend time with her and maybe consider a long-term relationship Is it on the first date? Is it on the third date? Is it in the first three months? Is it a year? Does it even happen can men actually fall in love as I know a lot of women that don't believe that? Well, I think this is a really tricky question because The reality is is most human beings are rather dysfunctional in their emotional maturity and relationship skills Let me say that most human beings and when I say human beings I mean men and women alike Okay There's this fallacy that men are the emotionally unavailable ones The emotionally Constipated ones and the ones who are unable to actually commit a relationship and while that might be true in many cases I can tell you women have just as many fears just as many Dysfunctionalities that make them less inclined to be in a relationship Well, let me just say in a healthy happy relationship because the reality is is dysfunctional people are in relationships every day today So what's the difference between the emotionally healthy person and the one who is like I said Constipated emotionally unavailable weak relationship skills Well, they've actually probably done some personal development work to heal childhood wounds and traumas and adult traumas that cause negative patterns and limiting beliefs in their life and And what I'm why is this so important because the reality is is we've all had some wounds in our childhood or wounds in our adulthood especially for those in midlife because you know the Demographic I speak to as midlife which is after baby making years and before retirement And the reality is is most people at this age bracket the 45 and up crowd We're talking about a divorced population roughly 75 percent of people over 45 or a single actively dating are divorced And by the way, do you realize that you know first marriage is in divorce 50 percent of the time second marriages end 65 percent of time and third marriages end about 75 percent of the time So what does that say about people? Why can't they stay together? Because gosh if you thought you met the one if you really thought you met the one that is the person that you would spend a significant time in It's because sadly humans are rather Unconscious to two critical components to understand about love and that is really love attachment style And also the amago the amago so I want to talk about two books for a moment One is the book attached by Amira Levine and Rachel Heller love attachment style basically I'm going to give you the cliff note version the way I view it Is somewhere between the ages of baby to two to seven or twelve We adopt an attachment style. That's either one of three types. It's anxious Avoidant or secure or repeat that anxious avoidant secure now within anxious There's different variations of anxious and with avoidance. There's different variations of avoidance And secure simply means that they trust love they trust what they're in is healthy The reality is is most men and women are either anxious or avoidant and while the book says 50 percent are secure. I think that's by the way I'm recommending this book so you understand it But I think the idea that 50 percent of people are secure as a crock of shit I actually believe that we all have a default of either anxious or avoidant So why is this so important to understand because a lot of time when a man thinks she's the one It's because he's experiencing love attachment style love attachment style Now the other thing I shared with you before is something called the amago the amago and if you haven't read the book by Harvelle Hendricks and Helen Hunt called getting the love you want I highly recommend reading this book and the amago is all on page Oh, let me just go to the back of the book to find it the amago starts on page 33 42 68 153 156 so forth and so on and the idea of the amago Is that we oftentimes choose people like one or both of our parents because we have a Unresolved wound with our parent and so we choose someone like one of both of our parents in relationship And have you you've seen this before I've seen this with men who have daddy issues They have issues with daddy. So they oftentimes choose older men I'm just using one example or men that have mommy issues choose Controlling domineering women in many cases And they don't understand they believe that this is love. That's the real critical thing to understand here is this This attachment to this human being you've just met Which is actually the amago means Image or what we're really looking at is an image of what we grew up with And on a subconscious level we're trying to heal the childhood wounds and traumas from that Wounding that happened in childhood. So when we think about the one Oftentimes we're either experiencing Love attachment or we're experiencing the amago and it's not genuine love The other thing that happens in the early stages of dating is lust and limerence Which is basically limerence is extreme infatuation And lust is just I want to fuck your brains out Men tend to experience lust more so than women but women also experience it on a first second or third date And this is why with the minute You have sex way too soon from a woman's perspective You can bond to a man because chemicals also are released from your brain like oxytocin As well as estrogen testosterone and all those Dopamine that's released that makes us think we're in love. In fact, this is what happened with men when they're on the prowl When they're on the chase You know, you all have heard how men love the chase, right? But what are we chasing is it I want to be in a relationship. I want to be in a relationship I'm going to chase the relationship Or are they on the hunt for sex with their bow and arrow and they're going to capture their prey Oftentimes that's what we're on the hunt for. It's not a fully committed relationship And and it oftentimes I'm repeating myself with the word oftentimes But I have to say this because I don't want to make anything sound like an absolute But there are many cases where the minute a man ejaculates All those chemicals of that lust and limerence disappear And one of the reasons why men bolt so quickly is because they realize they're not you're not the one They're not in love with you So how can you determine if a guy actually values you outside of love attachment style outside of the amago outside of lust or limerence Well, that's what I want to lean into in a few minutes And I want to share with you a story Because this is kind of near and dear to my heart because even when a man makes all this effort That i'm about to share it could still not be the one and sadly Several months ago my son who my oldest son Had ended a relationship with a woman he'd been dating for about six seven months And he made they developed a really good friendship. I met her she met my ex-wife He met her family. They did lots of activities together. He spent time with his friends He really liked this person But for some reason He wasn't experiencing that feeling of love He wasn't experienced that feeling of love and as much as he kept trying Because he knows that this person is a really good human being in fact We're just speaking today how he misses this person. He genuinely misses her but for some reason He wasn't feeling love now my suspicion is is because we've been so adopted to the love attachment style or the amago That he hasn't experienced, you know, he probably Let go a really great woman because I met her. I think she's a really great woman but he's probably hasn't Developed enough experience with himself to demonstrate to recognize the difference because he's never had a really bad relationship in his life Well, technically his college girlfriend was a little bit bad But and I feel for him and why i'm sharing this with you is sometimes we can make a ton of investment And it's still not be right. This is a crapshoot the dating mating and relating game This is why i'm such a big proponent Of doing the inner work Before you actually put yourself out there in the dating realm This is why I wrote my book what the heck is self love anyway a journey of personal development self-help and spiritual work All the books I recommend are listed below That's one of the reasons why I have a coaching practice to help you ask the right questions In the very early stages based on your personality because your personality is different from one woman to the next to the next So based on your personality and your needs of compatibility I helped you determine By crafting the right questions to ask men in the dating process And if you need help with that check out the link to a free discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you So what are the ways men show you they're the one? And again, this is not a guarantee But this is just to give you some examples because you might recognize that you're in a relationship where this isn't happening And certainly when men are doing this you have a greater chance for relationship success So i'm going to put on my trusty glasses. We're going to put it up our notes And the first thing is he makes effort to spend time with you. That's a great sign I can't you know It amazes me how many women I talk to are in a relationship for six months and the guy sees you once every other week But jonathan weren't a long-distance relationship, but jonathan this but jonathan that no To build the roots to deep trust and trust isn't just fidelity trust means Can I count on this person to care about my feelings as much as my own feelings? That's really what trust is And it's difficult to build that trust over the telephone You guys spend more time on your smartphones than you are face to face And let me tell you in the beginning stage of dating it takes about 100 hours of face to face time And by the way, that's that's only eight hours in any given shot. Okay, and you can't count weekends Separate eight separate time together It's going to take at least 100 hours and why i'm saying that is most men who are in the short run Most dysfunctional men disappear in the short run This is why i'm such a big proponent ladies I want you to read my coffee muck that was made for me especially this is me This is the friend who made it for me. This is my book.  What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results That's what it is I'm encouraging you to dig a little bit deeper than the surface because many of you are operating from the fantasy Way of relationships works and if you're not familiar with my relationship iceberg. This is handmade Most of you focus on what's above the water line, which is attraction and chemistry But what's more important is compatibility shared values blendable lifestyles and emotional maturity and emotional maturity is actions matching words Victor consciousness not victim consciousness and here in the united states.  We speak up to one another But I can tell you ladies you oftentimes don't speak up because you're afraid to lose a guy Well, that's only that's only shoving it under the rug And you'll spend months and months if not years with the wrong person because you don't speak up because you're afraid to lose the wrong guy And I'm only yelling to shake you up So a man Who genuinely sees you as the one? He makes effort to see you on a consistent basis.  They're just simply words They're really just sentence enhancers and look at I'm not here to suggest my advice is the truth You have to decide the truth for yourself I'm just a contrarian my advice is contrary to public opinion and traditional expectations Talk about the rant I had about who pays for a date the other day all right number two He introduces you into his life his family his friends his co-workers associates Essential people in his life a man who genuinely is starting to think you're the one will do this Now as I said earlier, this is not a guarantee But it's certainly a good start.  I'm like I get calls like this all the time I can't believe I can't begin to tell you the calls I get from women who literally Their their level of standards is so low and their boundaries are almost non-existent And I love the way brunet brown talks about boundaries. What's okay and what's not okay for me By the way, thank you Justin for the $10 super sticker. I really appreciate that um Here I got to put this on the board just to say thank you. I appreciate that By the way, you can purchase a super. Thanks if you're watching the replay right now. So, um, so coming back to He introduces you to family and friends number three He wants to hear how you feel he genuinely wants to talk about your feelings That's a great sign That he sees you as someone special that he sees you beyond the surface Most men and women date at a surface level because you're so I mean We're so indoctrinated in superficial things Ladies if you haven't heard about hypergamy Google it right now because oftentimes women are seeking men far superior to them Men are trying to find that younger model type We're in a dysfunctional way of dating because very few people date from a heart centered space and yet many of you think you do But I invite you to read the book if the Buddha dated if the Buddha dated This throws out the bullshit gender rhetoric and says how can we connect at a heart centered level? Instead of the superficial level most people are dating today He wants to feel he wants to hear how you feel. He's considered of your feelings. He doesn't stonewall you When you express your feelings. He doesn't try to avoid it Usually those men are avoidant or fearful avoidants. You can read about it in the book attached by amir levine and rachel heller folks Most humans are rather clueless to the mechanics of a healthy happy relationship and I speak for myself as well I got to be candid with you.  I was following the programming just like my mom This is a picture of my mom and dad when they were in their 20s. I was following the programming go to college you know Graduate college get a job meet a girl get married buy a house start a family. I was following the programming Most everybody in the baby boom gen x generation. That's what we are programmed to do I was clueless it took me a listen I've only recently been working on this stuff to understand it. Maybe the last ten or Listen, I've been a dating coach now going on 13 years But even in the beginning I was just giving basic advice teaching women how to improve their online dating profiles I didn't really start studying this stuff Until I did the Hoffman process insight seminars just to name a few reading all these books And by the way, I'm still messed up. I still got issues folks. I'm not perfect I just happen to be a communicator. It's easy for me to communicate. Well, that's not true Because I had an issue with a friend the other day a female friend And I had a very hard time articulating my feelings because feelings aren't fluid feelings can feelings can be so confusing It's sometimes hard to put in words what you're feeling because there's mixed feelings going on This is why I'm here to say Stop thinking of relationships in the naive way stop thinking of it in the the disney way the notebook way the wedding crashers way I was watching a cute video on red wedding crashers And start doing the work because then you'll be able to attract A man who's more likely to actually lean into a healthy happy relationship with you because the next most important thing a man can do Is he knows that he knows you're the one he apologizes if there's a misunderstanding or conflict He doesn't get defensive. He actually has that ability to pause and regulate his feelings You know, it's interesting when john glenn orbited the earth The first man to orbit the earth, I believe Or was the russian now?  Instead of blaming others in fact like I said before we're in victim consciousness where we're pointing the finger at others But we're not looking at the three fingers pointing back at us So when a man apologizes for misunderstandings, that's a great sign He's a grown-up and sees you as the one and lastly he progresses the relationship forward meaning you're not feeling doubt You know almost everybody I've spoken to are in healthy happy relationships Every single woman I work with Or a friends with I have lots of female friends who are in great marriages or relationships And they all say the same they never felt doubt with their guy if you're feeling doubt That means something needs to be worked on in the relationship And what that means is you might want to read these books together to determine if you're actually a fit for one another Is this sinking in with you? Is it resonating? Please let me know say it's resonating with me in the comments Hit the like button share this with your friends check out the links below So I know this is resonating with you and I guess and all right folks I think this will be a great place to wrap up we talked about how a man knows She's the one just to repeat he makes an effort to spend more time with her He introduces you to his life family friends work associates essential people in his life He wants to hear how you feel. He's consider of your feelings. He does not stonewall you He apologizes if there's any misunderstanding or conflict between the two of you. He doesn't get defensive He progresses the relationship forward meaning you're not feeling doubt because if you're feeling doubt Chances are he's not feeling you're the one and it's a time to talk to one another Okay, I hope you got value out of this live stream If you did please give it a thumbs up. Please share it with your friends. Please subscribe to my channel Please write a comment in the comment section or in the chat box purchase a super sticker super thanks As well, and I'm going to wrap up this video as I always do first off give myself a big gigantic jonathan barrick of self love I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm asking to turn to someone a pet a teddy bear pillow and give it or them a hug of love Because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it. We could all use more love in our lives I want to thank Gina and holly and janet and elaine and t davis and


Tom here from Lawrence Systems and on August 25th of 2022, LastPass reported a security incident. Now I'm reading this incident from their blog post, but this was also sent out as an email to LastPass users and customers and is notice of recent security incident. And we'll just jump right to the important part that you want to know. After initiating an immediate investigation, we have seen no evidence that this incident involves any access to customer data or encrypted password bolts. Now a little further down, it reads, we have determined that an unauthorized party gained access to portions of the LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account and took portions of the source code and some proprietary LastPass technical information. Our products and services are operating normally. So essentially what this means is this was a attack on one of their developers to get into their development environment, not their production environment. Undoubtedly the goal of the threat actor that was doing the attacking was to get into the dev environment, maybe make some type of code change that could be hopefully passing the QA cycle before it goes into production. That's a speculative reach, but that's usually why they're attacking the supply chain so they can get something into LastPass. But good news, there is no customer data that was compromised near usernames, the encrypted blob they hold on to. Now if you're curious what I mean by encrypted blob, I have a more technical video down below about how LastPass and I actually use Bitwarden as an example, but they both do the same thing where they do not store your master password. They don't even want your master password. That is done through a hashing mechanism. So it's never really sent to them. So it can never really be compromised. LastPass and they were among the first password managers that became big doing this, really decided not having your password was a great thing and just managing the encrypted blob because well that way there's less to take. That way the other angle is this one here where someone tries to get something into the source code by attacking a developer that maybe in some way weakens the way the system works. This is the attack that they're under all the time. Now I actually really applause them for the transparency because many companies I believe have minor incidents like this all the time or maybe this is major depending on your perspective on this, but they clearly have proper controls and we're able to see the unauthorized access and these things happen through different methodologies. Matter of fact, see my video of how I would hack you to talk about how credentials can be stolen even with proper MFA because I feel confident that the team over at LastPass has proper multi-factor setup but there are ways you can steal certain tokens and I'll have that video linked down below because we talk about token stealing and some of the details around that in that video. But back to the point of I'm glad they reported it but this also creates kind of a problem and here's a quick take from my wife on this. So you got an email from LastPass. What do you think of it? What does it mean? What does it mean? Yeah. It means they got hacked. They got hacked? They got, oh sorry, they got compromised. Compromised. That's how you read that? Yes, that's what it says. Do you think your passwords are still safe? Nope, I'm gonna move them. Okay. So it says that they took portions of their source code which means that they have their source code. I imagine that they can figure out how they do it and get in. Okay. Am I right? No. That's why I wanted to start it as a take. Okay. So. And the reason I brought that up is because as companies report even a minor incident people are used to usually the incidents being reported are customer damaging if you will. Leak of credentials, leak of passwords. Because of that most people see the security incident coming from a company and especially a password management company and there's a lot of concerns around it of things being compromised. That must be why they're noticing me. Not that there was something internal going on. I'm hoping though as more companies report and do clear reporting on any incidents around their products even if they're not a customer direct facing incident where they lost all of our email addresses or customer lists, et cetera. It's going to become the norm and get a better understanding from the security community and then hopefully more of the end users who, you know, my wife is more of an end user. She is not working tech and it's just the way people, the average person perceives it. I just happen to be sitting there and she was reading it and that's why I brought it up. It is not to pick on her. She just is a average password manager, user and not someone who like myself works in tech or in cybersecurity and has a more technical understanding of this. Now as far as acquiring the source code, this is also sometimes where people get confused but no, having the source code does not necessarily mean there's a way in. Bitwarden, for example, is a password manager that I choose because it's fully open source, which means it's been third party reviewed as is last pass, but also it can be reviewed by any third party. It's almost a joke and it was a comment I had the other day where, well, last pass had their source code stolen or some source code taken, but so did Bitwarden. Lots of people copy it. Security through obscurity is just a terrible idea. Having the source code is not that big of a deal and if having the source code leads to compromise, your code wasn't secure. It just wasn't well vetted and there was some problems with it. So I don't think that's really any part of the security. I also do not think this incident with last pass should taint people's belief of using a password manager. Now there's going to be someone hammering down in the comments down below that says, yes, shouldn't we all be using some locally stored password manager such as key pass? I think for technical users, that's perfectly fine for a lot of the more average, less technical people managing a database locally on their computer and backing it up properly. It's going to probably lead to more people losing some passwords. Having something that's deeply integrated into the browser is probably going to be a better choice for the average user. I don't see anything wrong with using tools like key pass or any local ones out there that are good. But that being said, it's probably not the thing that everyone should do because more people should be using this. I think password managers are a huge benefit to people who normally and the average user will do this. They will just use the same password in many, many places. And with so many different security incidents where sometimes passwords were lost, not the last past one, but with other companies, people's password reuse is still a massive problem here in 2022. But nonetheless, last pass, thank you for being so forthcoming with this information. We'd love to know more details if there's a security write up that you can do about how the compromise happened because as we learn from these different compromises, we understand better the risks we're facing. Maybe if we know some of the tradecraft that was used, there's always ways we can have a learning opportunity for all of us to defend against these things. But either way, companies should keep being transparent and people should sleep using password managers. All right, thanks. Links to the videos and other things I talked about down below. Does this say anywhere very clearly that no customer data was compromised? It says we have no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password evolves. Okay. So it basically says that there's that we should be fairly secure. But just by seeing it, it creates a perception. Of course. Okay. Of course. When it says the title is notice of recent security incident. Yeah. We call them security incidents now. Okay. Well, that's our common term in the industry now. For everything that happens. So they were hacked or they weren't? They got their source code. It sounds like, but not your usernames or passwords. Well, they don't store passwords, right? Well, they store an encrypted copy of our sign-in, though. Right. So that's the whole point of this is that because they don't store it, you can't steal it. Correct. If you can't steal it, you're not supposed to be able to access. Right. Okay. And thank you for making it all the way to the end of this video. If you've enjoyed the content, please give us a thumbs up. If you would like to see more content from this channel, hit the subscribe button and the bell icon. If you'd like to hire a short project, head over to lauranceystems.com and click the hires button right at the top. To help this channel out in other ways, there's a join button here for YouTube and a Patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated. 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I am Dr. Pankaj Singhay, Senior Consultant, Interim Medicine, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. Since all of us we know about that, we are celebrating the immunization program in Manipal Hospital. So, first of all we should know what is the meaning of immunization. Immunization means like getting vaccinated to prevent yourself from the protection of diseases. And you are going to protect others as well. So, we have a significant number of increased death in recent past and nowadays also. So, globally thousands of people are dying because of the severe infectious diseases. And thousands more end up hospitalization because of the severe infectious diseases. So, vaccines are the best way to prevent these diseases. So, we have different guidelines and recommendations of the adult immunization program compared to the children. So, if you compare with the WHO and US adult immunization program, we are little different than the other world. So, recommendation for the adult people in India, like everybody should get vaccinated for DPP, MMR, Influenza, pneumococcal and other vaccines also. And people who are at high risk, they should be get vaccinated because for the typhoid, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, that means very seldom. So, the one should get vaccinated not only going to prevent the infection disease in the particular population.  So, I would like to emphasize about the pneumococcal disease and vaccines. So, pneumococcal is a very mortal disease in the form of the pneumonia. Involvement of the layer of the brain and spinal cord, that's meningitis, infection of the ear, that is otitis media. And then, infection of the bloodstream, that is bacteria. So, best way to prevent these diseases are vaccines. So, we have two vaccines available for pneumococcal diseases. First one is a PCV, that is pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 30. It protects for the 13 strains of the pneumococcal bacteria. And another vaccine is the PPSV, that is pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine 23. It protects the 23 strains of the pneumococcal bacteria. And who should get vaccinated? So, a person who is more than age of 65 years, they should get vaccinated with this PCV 30 followed by PPSV 23 one year later. And population more than age of 19 years should get vaccinated if they have a certain medical condition like infectious diseases, immunological diseases like SLE, lupus erythritus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, liver diseases, kidney diseases, diabetes and neurological diseases like stroke. So, people who are more than age of 19 years with some of the immunocompromised condition or at higher risk, they should get vaccinated. First goes with the PCV 30 followed by PPSV 23 after the eight weeks of gap. And who should not get vaccinated with this pneumococcal vaccine? Either at the, they have a history of allergic reaction to the same vaccine or a reaction to the vaccine which contains the diphtheria toxide that is Tdap. Or people who have acute illness like viral fever, cough cold or any acute clinical condition or crisis. And what are the possible side effects you should monitor? Like person may have a pain, inflammation at the site of injection, redness or tenderness of pain. And generalized symptoms like fever, weight loss, loss of appetite or some of the joints pain especially in shoulders, they are not able to get rid of that. Hence, and then in terms of pregnancy, although there is no harm getting the vaccinated pregnancy, but you should be cautious in pregnancy. But ideally should be get vaccinated before pregnancy. So would like to conclude that since pneumococcal disease is very modern especially in elderly population or young population more than age of 19 years especially in immunocompromised condition. So this pneumococcal vaccine not only going to prevent yourself of the pneumococcal disease at the same time which is going to control the further deterioration or worsening of the primary medical condition. Thank you.