Let's go over to our man, Mr. Basil Chapman, as we do each and every Tuesday at 20 past the first hour. And don't forget, folks, Basil has an outstanding show here. Every trading day, 12 to 1 Eastern Standard Time, also a great newsletter, the opening call.  You can go right into the featured content, you hit the opening call, you can hit subscribe right there. You can get the opening call for one month for $128, six months for $5.95, which is a savings of $173, a year for $9.95, which is a savings of $541. All three folks come back with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Basil Chapman, what's going on? Hi, Tom, how are you doing? We've finally got our big spring day here, beautiful sun shining after a lot of rain. That's awesome, man. It is. Yeah. You know, it's interesting. I saw some of our tigers and tigers talking about yesterday up in New York, they were walking out in Central Park. Yeah, so. Oh, that's not wrong. Spring is sprung. That's a beautiful thing. It is lovely. Yeah, we've waited a long time for this. Oh, my gosh. The sun might be shining, but the clouds are there for Wall Street. Wow. That's for sure. Yeah, so we were talking the other day, I said that for subscribers to an opening call, we had gone short the Dow back, it hit a high on the 23rd of April at $26,695. We had just gone short, so we've been short all that time. What's really important about this is that I've been talking about the weekly chart that had been so strong, but the data was starting to show deterioration. Okay. And in my show, my Tiger Technicians Hour, and I'll do a little bit more of this tomorrow for those who are just joining for the first time, listening to me. My Tiger Technicians Hour, we've been talking about the different indices, how the, did they say means chart? I'm sorry, I'm going to get a chart up right now and let's do this. So this is going to be quite important in terms of, there we go, because I've tried to be full. Oh man, am I having a problem? That's okay. Sorry. That's a shame. I had it already. I don't know why it's not giving me the chart, but I can do a still application. So let me just show the chart if I can, if I can get it up here so that we can talk apples to apples. There we go. There we are. So the Dow itself is breaking down in terms of the support that I was talking about in the 26,100 to 25,900 area. That's number one. Number two is that the daily charts were starting to show some deterioration in the key indices. The weekly charts had been really strong. So what happens over the next two weeks is going to be very important for those weekly charts because for the magnitude, the moving average convergence divergence and the slow stochastic to really go negative, you would need probably about another two, maybe even 300 points on the Dow to start impacting them. That's to the downside. But what I would say is that just for right now, the upside looks very limited. We might be getting a little bit overboard. The VIX index is really screaming higher. So I'm looking at it in terms of what happens to the general market if, in fact, on Thursday, if there is a China, if the tariffs are raised, what happens if China comes back with tariffs of their own? It doesn't have to be big, but it might be just those that affect us kind of inflationary, like maybe materials, maybe whatever it is that affects the day-to-day life. Our own tariffs affected us. I mean, everything's from China. Not only that. You can just go to Home Depot, Lowe's or Walmart. The prices are increasing. Right. And not only that, the measurement that the Fed uses for inflation and what we in our day-to-day lives experience, I don't know where they get, there is inflation. There's no question about it. And so, okay. So with that aside, what I am looking for is that there could be some, at least for another couple of weeks, there could be a lot of shaking. It's mostly because we were overbought. I mean, I was talking to you about the XLK breaking out into, that's the S&B tax sector skyrocketing to an all-time high. So the monthly chart has really improved. And it says there should be tremendous support. It's at 76.15 down to 72, the nine-period moving average on a worst-case basis. But at the same time, you can see that in the daily chart, that's a pretty quick and sharp pullback. And it is starting to affect the weekly chart. So that means, as far as I'm concerned, the nervousness is there, and that should impact the market. So I think that there's a cap. The most important thing is I think there's a cap. We are still trying as much as possible. We've had some really nice positions. They're still holding very well between 3% and 22% on the upside. I'm trying to keep those, and I had a webinar about a month ago. I discussed what we're looking at, why we're looking at these things. Why these particular sectors are very important right now? Why we would like to start positions and try to hold them as long as possible? Because I think they are going to be the important sectors over the 2019 period. So one of them is that I was looking at the tax sector has been quite vulnerable. Maybe other areas are starting to show some support. So we are short the SMHs, which is the semiconductor. So it'll be an easy trade. We've had to try a couple of times with the last ones working out very nicely. And there's a pattern that I talk about very often, where it looks like a lower case H. And if the left side support is taken out, in this case, 113.49 and the SMHs, that's not good because it means now you're making lower lows and lower highs. So key support will be that gap with about 100 and I think it was 110.56. That was that gap up on the, I think that was that news that came out and Intel's spike on the 3rd of April. So that low, there's a gap just below that. So that's going to be very important. I suspect at some point we're going to fill that gap in the SMHs. And the weekly is still very strong. So it's very ironic that we could have had such a powerful move from December. And if you look at the S&P, I'll go to the SPI, it's a little bit easier. Look at the SPI. The SPI's had just two red candles. This might be the third red candle from the low that was made of the 200 period moving average when it made its low in December, the 26th of December at 233. And it's climbed all the way to 294. And in all these weeks, it's had just two red candles. This might be the third, so it definitely needs time. That's really what I'm looking at. So we've got our short positions, we've got our long positions. It's going to be important. You've spoken about the TLT, but if you look at the TLT, good action today. That's the Lehman-T-Bahn fund. So I'm always looking at this and saying, historically over the years, decades, actually, when the markets start to show some volatility, that always implies going down. Maybe that's the only time they say the word volatility. I know. Isn't that funny, man? I really do this. I know. I mean, this phase, it was really volatile from the December low to the most recent high. But no one talks about it. Anyway, the normal reaction is that money goes, it migrates from the uncertainty of equities or stocks, and it moves to the so-called safety of bonds. I do like this action, but the last peak, D, in the chapter, we've always looking for that fourth highest peak at 126.69 on the 28th of March, suggested that when we came down, which was a chafty, when we go up, you want to see that taken out. Not in D, but should be C. So this is already D. So I'm looking at this and I'm saying that's a long way to go to 126.69. So that's going to tell me a lot about this market because if the TLT bonds goes into the 126.80 or the 127s over the next week or so, that's quite serious. That means that a lot of money is coming out of stocks and going into bonds. So I'm looking at this. Got to be very careful right now. And folks, the way you get thousands of newsletters, come over to our website at TFNN. You're going to go right under featured content, bottom line, opening call. You see it right there. You can get a month, six months a year. Great newsletter. Of course, you can watch them every trading day right here at noon. Bows, we have a great one. Safe one. Get outside. Play some tennis. Have a good time. Get another half an hour. Beautiful. Thank you. Stay right there, folks. Come right back.


How is climate justice linked to the COVID-19 vaccine? Just as we have seen with the climate crisis, the world's poorest and most vulnerable people are the ones who are worst affected by the pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic, 350 has been calling for a just recovery for all. And that includes, as a priority, putting the health of people first, with no exceptions. However, we are now seeing what the World Health Organization is calling a shocking imbalance in the global distribution of vaccines between rich and poor countries. And I might add, between rich and poor citizens within some countries. If this deep inequity were to continue, it would take several years before everyone was vaccinated. And until everyone is safe, no one is safe. One way to tackle this would be to wave the patent on all vaccines. If we do that, then we can boost the global production and distribution of the vaccine. Some political leaders have started to talk about this. But frankly, we need a lot more. We need global leaders to take a real stand and put people before profit. Do we want to put the lives of people around the world first, or do we want to favor the profits for select corporations? It really is time for leaders, particularly those of industrialized nations, to take a stand and make the right decision. World leaders need to recognize the lived reality of people around the world. That is really important to us achieving climate justice, as much as it is for us to resolve the ongoing health pandemic.


Good morning Hawaii folks. Good afternoon and a good evening for our other viewers, including especially Tina, Professor Randall, Ben, and David. And we have with us today the winner of the Great Teacher Award from the Society of American Law Teachers. Ben, you've got to love an organization whose acronym is SALT, right? I always thought that when I first joined them 30 years ago, I was like, this is great. Yeah, because if you call somebody the SALT of the earth, that's a very high compliment. Exactly. Hey, we have Tana Patterson, mediator, arbitrator, conflict coach, consultant in Germantown, Maryland. We have David Larson, not only an experienced professor at the Mitchell Hamlin School of Law in St. Paul, but also the engineer and the pioneer of the New York online case resolution project that has exponentially increased access to justice for a lot of people. And Ben Davis, a parapetetic professor of law, retired from the University of Toledo, picked up by University of Chicago School of Law in Illinois last semester and this semester by Washington Lee School of Law in Virginia. Welcome all of you to the year of the tiger. Welcome to Black History Month. What do you think some of the leading scholars of Black history might have to say about the polarization in our society right now? Professor Randall, this has been a topic of yours for decades. So what do you think they would say? I think, and this goes back to something Ben pointed out weeks ago and his point, I kind of disagreed with him, but I'm here to acknowledge, I was wrong and he was right, that this disagreement over the things going on with racism now is different in the overt decision to try to ban specific discussion of racism and not just ban, you know, you can discuss that Willie Mays was the first person, you know, sort of to cross the color line, but you can't discuss why, how he got there, the process. Florida is in the process of trying to pass a law to say that you can't make white people discomfort. You can't teach anything in the classroom that would cause, and it's very specific, it's not saying any students discomfort, it's saying, you know, white students need to not be discomfort. So to the extent they pass these laws in these states, it's going to be generations to undo that if you ever undo it. So that to me, it is the difference is that it's the legal system has this slow moving to change, people support the legal system even when they disagree with the underlying law so that that to me is a huge problem because people will defend the laws, even though they will say, you know, I don't entirely agree with the law, but it is the law, so we should go with it. And yeah, that's a huge problem. And Tina, you and I listened in on a webinar yesterday, which went into this with extremely knowledgeable experienced speakers, including Paulette Brown, former head of the ABA, and others. And some of those laws are really, really scary. They essentially deputize vigilante parents to pursue personal complaints against teachers with substantial financial penalties, and as well as career and professional penalties. What did you hear yesterday, Tina, that most concerned you about what's happening? So to provide additional context, they webinar that we both attended was regarding critical race theory and critical race theory as it applies in both academia, but at the higher level, but also at the other levels and what's happening in terms of conflict at the state and local levels in terms of jurisdictions, specifically what was unsettling to me was this encouraging as you stated, parents are being encouraged to report teachers who may be in conflict. And so some people have taken that to the other extreme and say, you know what, if you want to call in and report a teacher report your favorite teacher and what they've done to help your child, how they've helped your child to learn, how they've helped your child to really to apply rational thinking or critical thinking and get away from this nonsense. What struck me and I wrote this down on my post-it note was reconstruction reboot. That this to me is more or less a reconstruction reboot where we are literally looking at laws and legislative matters to further restrict people's opportunity to voice their opinion and to vote and how that's really being muffled or it's being spun in such a way that if you do have a different opinion that you are considered the contrarian, the outlier, the problem versus here's a differing point of view. And let's pause for a moment and listen. Well, I would jump in by saying that in case anyone has a doubt about this, this is all insane, okay? All of this is insane. In case you were sort of trying to think, well, you know, it's the law of this and it's insane. And so just let us start from that point of view. I want to encourage. The second thing is that I push a lot on the idea of academic freedom, which would mean that when even in K, all the way up to grad school, right? Where what I understand is that for certain books like we take the whole mouse thing, right? That there were teachers who had students of a certain age, maybe grade, middle school or high school, whatever. And in deciding what they were going to use as materials in that classroom for whatever pedagogical goal there is, they thought that was an appropriate book to use. And so now you'll have people trying to second guess that and saying, no, you can't use it because it has this word or that word or something. I have a real problem with that idea of that you can second guess.  I understand all that violence, okay? I stipulate, I know what you're doing. You're trying to do violence on teachers so they quit, which a lot of them are doing, or they, you know, toe an insane line of whatever the subject is. And I just think that people ought to recognize this is insane. And even though it is happening that you have to at whatever point you can counteract, for example, when they talk about parents talk calling out or denouncing teachers, okay, about what they taught their students, I think teachers should ask, can you please give me the employer of that parent too, so I can denounce them to their parent, to the parent's employer. Because I've been in situations where people called my employer about something I said about it.  I was doing as a private citizen anyway. And I, when I went in and talked with the dean about what he was getting, I said, can you, next time somebody call, ask them who their employer is? Because, you know, I'm going to state school and everything's out in the open.  And if I sound a little virulent here, it's because I'm just sick of it. I'm just, I think it is insanity. And just because there are people who have power, we're talking about insanity, doesn't mean that it's anything that we have to accept. And on the contrary, it's, and I know it's hard, but as teachers, you have to use that freedom in that classroom and see where the chips fall. Or I hope you don't leave because the teachers are so important to what all our kids are trying to get through and learn and all. But, you know, these are nonsense people. These people who are doing this or whatever the rationalization, whatever the language they're using, it's nonsense. It's nonsense because it's impinging on the notion of a teacher in a classroom like we all had, making decisions as to what they think we can deal with. And trust me, I had books to deal with that were difficult when I was a kid. In fact, I talked about it the other day in class, I was teaching. Yesterday we were teaching about South Africa. I told him a true story, which was, I met the president of South Africa after Monday, I was getting tabloom and back. And I told him, when I was in sixth grade, we had to do scrapbooks. And I did a scrapbook, we're doing one in Africa, then you had to pick a country. And I picked South Africa. And I went to the library and got books out. And I made little things cut out with, you know, that scrapbook paper and made little pictures of gazelles and got all that stuff. And then I read this book. Wait a minute, I got read this book and the last chapter was about apartheid. And I'm trying as a sixth grade to understand apartheid. I had no clue what was going on with this weird word I'd never heard. And I told that the president of South Africa, he told me they never understood it either. Okay, so, you know, that I told about that in class, you know, is that critical? Disagreement we had that I had with you before, because I think you think teachers have a level of academic freedom that they don't. That it may be good if we want to give teachers academic freedom, I'm not disagreeing with that. But in fact, teachers ain't had that level of academic freedom for 50 years, that and it's been being eroded constantly as we've been trying to get teachers to teach to pass exams. And so over the years, school districts have controlled what, when, where, and how teachers can teach, including what materials they can teach. And we didn't pay attention to it before. It's really not that that I don't think teachers have that level of academic freedom by law. I don't think they have. Yeah, you know, Ben made the comment that we don't have to accept this. You have to probably be a little stronger, we can't accept it. The Carnegie Endowment for Industrial Peace said a really interesting article about polarization and what we can do about it, and made I thought a really astute observation that partisanship has been equated with patriotism. That's a really strong statement, but I think it's a really accurate statement that we are living in a period now on partisanship equals patriotism. And we've got to kind of deconstruct that and tear it down. And, you know, one thing we can do is encourage people to call out. And when Ben would say we don't have to accept it, we can accept it. And one thing we can do to address that is call out our own parties. And when we're here, people in our parties doing extreme things, we've got to call it out and say what it is and then how has Ben would say how insane it is. And don't just quietly let it pass. It's really important that people are encouraged to call out their own tribe, because when that happens, I think it's much more powerful than when somebody on the other side calls it up because it just gets dismissed. So people can take responsibility for their own colleagues and their own party or click or own organization. I think that could be a real helpful move towards trying to reduce this polarization. That's a great idea. And I love Tina's idea. Well, what about rewarding parents for pointing out to schools and teachers, things that teachers do that increase the growth, the understanding, the humanity of those students and those groups, rather than the opposite. We now have people who are exactly, as you've said, trying to not just prevent dialogues to share understandings and build understandings, but to penalize those dialogues. And Professor Randall, you make a really good point. That's been out there for years. A lot of it under the line, under the table, but teachers know that. They know what they can go in the room and be comfortable with. But now, all of that's being taken away. Teachers have very little say over bringing up anything about which there is any controversy. Except that the thing is, is that bringing up anything that which there's a controversy is not because, you know what, we could go in and complain to the school board about stuff and the controversy that comes from not teaching it. That would be an alternative to say, hey, when you teach it, don't teach that my child is hurt. They sit in the classroom and you talked about X, Y, and Z. And you never mention how many people died on the Trail of Tears. You never mentioned how the United States was involved in the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom. So, my child is sitting in that room hurt because of that. And maybe thinking out loud now, that might be a great response to start calling, going up to school districts and complaining about what is being left out and saying, you know, my child is hurt too. And Lord knows I've seen over the years with various parents that I've known who have been on the case at the school every day almost trying to make sure that their kid gets treated properly from every aspect of it from whether it's in the classroom for content or disciplinary stuff or anything like that. You know, there are these background problems that certainly in the K through 12 era in terms of who gets disciplined and who, you know, I think their racial disparities and all that stuff, that's a problem in schools. You know, that's there already. That is part of what people are fighting against. So now, in addition to that, in the classroom, you're going to have this kind of insane history being taught, this insane English being taught. It's the kind of thing that creates at least in my head a contradiction that's so enormous for ordinary person that they have to find a way to counteract it. I noticed one thing is that I've seen these students in some place, I can't remember what it was, they created their own band book club, right? All the books are being banned. They created a book club to read them, you know, and there's nothing that the school can do about it, you know, and teacher could go and teach them there. With this mouse thing, there's a bookstore in I think Knoxville is giving away free copies of mouse to get a student and has a parents teaching guide for how to teach mouse to like eighth graders for all the nonsense that's being said. And I want to emphasize something too, is that I like to call this the charming bigotry. There's this soft bigotry that goes into these kind of presentations that say, oh, we're not against that. We just have a concern about this word or that word. That's an old game that's been played a long time, kind of called of a charming bigotry could be charming semitism, anti semitism, charming racism, you call it charming anti Native American stuff like that. You know, we're so used to that kind of stuff being allowed to go under the screen because the person seems so sweet and nice. But, you know, it's unacceptable. It's just not acceptable and it has to be called out. I myself was told the Department of Education years ago, when they were presenting at the UN about the Committee on the Illumination and Racial Discrimination, I asked them, we're at point blank. Why are you dumbing down our kids? I mean, let's get real, why?   It's, to me, it's just appalling. And whether that's Kate all the way up to grad school, it's appalling, you know. And we want inquiring tough-minded kids. We got teachers that help stimulate people to grow. Still thankful for the eighth grade teacher who got my daughter to understand math. And she became a math whiz. It was magical. She was having this trouble before him, but a boom, found a way, you know. It's a particularly dangerous time because we're in a pandemic. So people are preoccupied and we've got state legislatures taking advantage of that preoccupation. So they're doing things quickly as quickly as they can, as quietly as they can, hoping that people won't notice. So one thing we have to do is bring those things into the light and make sure everyone understands what's happening and what the consequences are. That's our responsibility. And, you know, getting back to the idea of polarization and what we can do about it. One thing we can do about it, and we've seen this recently, is people using cartoons and humor in violent ways and using cartoon figures to kill people. And not sufficient response to that to say, this is absolutely unacceptable. And what you're doing is when you do that, you're really dehumanizing people. And maybe you're really encouraging violence then. And, you know, I think these are the kinds of discussions we need to have and to have compassion and say, you know, we understand how difficult your life is and how you're struggling, but understand that things are happening out of sight that are going to have even worse consequences for you.  Well, yeah. And how about the child tax credit stuff? For example, all these families just lost in December, this child tax credit that apparently took a lot of kids out of poverty, right? And it's really hard on those families that had that, right? But instead, we're talking about banning this book or banning this thing and all this stuff as opposed to passing the legislation that keeps those kids having food and all the other things that they would need. It's this distraction games that are just boring, quite honestly, that these people think that that's the way that they can get into power by ginning up somebody's animosity towards other people. Well, people are suffering. You know, it's hard out there for people. I respect that difficulty that all kinds of people are going through, and we should be finding ways to help them to get through this and get on to the next thing, you know? But it said, we were having these nonsense battles about whether Mouse is a good book or the catcher in the ride. Man, I remember the catcher in the ride. It was like a revelation to me. It was like it talked to me as a 15-year-old in a way that no other book had done. You know, it's just, I see these parents all upset. First of all, I don't believe that this is just random parents getting upset. I think there's a financing political agenda behind them. And secondly, you know, I'm thinking of all these people who make comments about, oh, you're just upset about the fact that they're going to learn about what your grandfather did, you know? Or as this one student said, you know, she said, the only person to be upset by any of this stuff is that we're learning somebody who wants to have it come back. So let me ask a hard question here, which is in our last few minutes. And let me start with Tina on this one, because you directed us toward the effect on the kids, the students, the youth. What is the impact of this battle that's going on that you're talking about that we have to resist? What's the impact on the kids, on the youth, in your view? Tina, start us off and then Professor Enno? Sure. I think the impact, depending on the age, is feeling conflict. If they're young enough where mom and dad say go, they're going to follow along. The adolescents and college age, they're probably going to challenge because they know something different or their friends are telling them something different. I'm not positive to give others an opportunity to speak. Professor Enno, you were going to... Well, I'm not sure what the... I know what the impact of things going on with my children were in schools, but they are in their fifties. So that it's been a while since I've had kids and school age kids. But I know that a large part of the stress I had as a parent was negotiating and helping my children negotiate the racism in the school and the racism that came up against, that they came up against. And I think that that's going to be a huge problem. And it makes it harder when the parents themselves are undergoing racism and is stressed out because of the racism they're undergoing. Parents often don't respond appropriately to their children's problems. Not that they hurt the children, but they get mad at the school because they are trying to protect their children from the racism. So I think that the division, what may happen is more conflict that the teachers and schools are going to be called in more conflict between parents because why parents are complaining? Black parents are going to be complaining too. And so you're going to... And Asian and Native American and Hispanic parents and you're just going to get teachers and schools in more conflict. I think one consequence is that one thing I like to think that education does is that it introduces you to other realities in the world and perhaps concretes your compassion for other people. And literature can do that. And you can get, even though you're not traveling to certain places, you can learn about other experiences and other places and become sensitized to that. Well, the kids are going to be policymakers, not that long. And if they don't have that kind of holistic worldview, then I'm really afraid is what their legislation is going to look like. So I think one of the huge consequences of limiting the kinds of resources and books that children are exposed to, it's going to give them a very narrow, inaccurate perception of the world. And it's going to have tremendous consequences for the policies. That's fantastic. And we're out of time for today. But maybe we've come around to realizing there's another player on the stage who is severely impacted by this, which is the teacher that, like us as conflict resolution professionals, teachers are facilitators for learning. And if you take away the tools and the peace of mind and the confidence in being able to have those exchanges to support and encourage the students to have those exchanges to explore ideas and experiences that may conflict, but that may generate learning and understanding working through that conflict, we can't afford that for exactly the reasons that all of you have said, we can't afford that. We have to stand up to that. Thank all of you for your time today. Come back and see us in two weeks. We will be continuing on on dealing with hard questions, difficult conversations to make good trouble. Thanks so much, Professor Randall, Tina, David, Ben, and all of you who have joined us. Take care.


Dear students, in this topic we shall discuss the features of cardiac muscles. The cardiac muscles are found only in the heart. These muscles are striated muscles like the skeletal muscles. So, they share many characteristics with skeletal muscles, however they differ from skeletal muscles in several important features. The cardiac muscle cells are called myocytes and these cells are mononucleate, that is, they have only single nucleus in each cell. The skeletal muscle cells are mononucleated. The cardiac muscle fibers are innervated only diffusely by the excitatory, sympathetic neurons and inhibitory parasympathetic neurons. The skeletal muscle fibers are individually innervated by the excitatory motor neurons axons. Dear students, the cardiac neural innervations are only modulatory in their role. Hence, these cardiac muscles are produced because of the electrical activity of pacemaker, not because of the nerve impulses. These cardiac neural innervations do not produce post-synaptic potentials in the cells. So, their role is only to increase and decrease the strength of the contractions of the cardiac cells. Dear students, the cardiac muscle cells are connected with each other through interclated disks. These interclated disks are electrically connected to the cells, so the action potential generated in the pacemaker region is rapidly transferred from one cell to another through these fast conducting pathways. Dear students, now we shall discuss the contraction mechanism of cardiac muscles. The contraction mechanism of cardiac muscles fundamentally resembles two that of skeletal twitch muscles, meaning it is activated by an increase in cytosolic calcium ion concentration. However, difference kaha pe hai that is the action potentials length differ in both cardiac and skeletal muscles. Skeletal muscles' action potentials are of very short duration. Is ke mukab le mein, action potentials in cardiac muscles have a plaito phase of hundreds of milliseconds long. Dear students, ye jo action potential ki long duration hai aur uske baad longer refractory period hai that prevents the tattinic contractions of cardiac muscle fibres. It also permits the muscles to relax.  Dear students, the regular pace and prolonged duration of action potentials causes the heart to beat, iterate which is suitable for its functioning as a pump. To batohar pump ke jab heart ne kama karna hai toh phir ye wali regular pacing and prolonged apis are required jo ke heart ke muscles ke paas hai. Dear students, heart ke muscles ki contraction ka jo mechanism hai, excitation contraction coupling jo hai that involves raising of the calcium ion concentration in cytoplasm. Calcium ions ka influx 2-3 kon se jaisi ke skeletal muscle fibres me hota hai usi tarah se hota hai that is across the plasma membrane and from the cells internal resources involving sarcoplasmic reticulum. Choke sarcoplasmic reticulum mein calcium ions ka store hai isliye cardiac muscle fibres ke andar bhi jo network hai sarcoplasmic reticulum ka aur T-tubules ka wo bohot elaborate hota hai.


The official U.S. Presidential Cancer Panel report from the National Cancer Institute on reducing environmental cancer risk. What can we do now? That's all we need. We know there's a problem, but what can we do about it? First, to review, one and a half million new cases of cancer a year. Men, women, and children, and a half million deaths. With a growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer, the public is becoming increasingly aware of the unacceptable burden of cancer resulting from environmental and occupational exposures that could have been prevented through appropriate national action, especially children who are considered more vulnerable than adults to increase cancer risk from virtually all harmful exposures. Unfortunately, the report concludes the grievous harm from this group of carcinogens has not been addressed adequately by the National Cancer Program. The American people, even before they are born, are bombarded continually with myriad combinations of these dangerous exposures. The panel urges you, Mr. President, most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care, cause cripple our nation's productivity and devastate American lives. Strong words, but what can we do? They don't give much dietary guidance. Basically, they just say choose organic and free range. Exposure to pesticides can be decreased by choosing, to the extent possible, food grown without pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and washing conventionally grown produce to remove residues. Similarly, exposure to antibiotics, growth hormones, and toxic runoff from livestock feedlots can be minimized by eating free range meat raised without these medications if it's available. Avoiding or minimizing consumption of processed charred and well-done meats will reduce exposure to the carcinogenic heterocyclic amines and polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Unfortunately, they don't go into specifics in terms of which types of fruits and vegetables and which types of meat are the most contaminated. I assume they avoided going into detail so as to not to upset any particular agricultural sectors, but it does diminish the report's practical usefulness. Thankfully though, there's a large body of new evidence now in which thousands of different food samples have been tested to help guide our day-to-day grocery store decisions, which we will cover next.


This is Dennis McMahon and welcome to Positively Vermont. And my special guest today is Mark Breen who was involved with the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium. He's the senior meteorologist and planetarium director at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium located in beautiful St. Johnsbury, Vermont. And there's so many things to talk to Mark about. We last had Mark on Positively Vermont five years ago, and I'm sure a lot has happened since then. Welcome, Mark. Well, thanks Dennis. Glad to be here. I just want you to tell our viewers a little bit about yourself first. Sure. Yeah, I have been a meteorologist at the Fairbanks Museum for over 35 years now. I originally came up here to Vermont to go to school. Linden State College and now Northern Vermont University Linden had a great meteorology program. And so I came up here specifically to do that I wasn't anticipating that I was going to stay in Vermont. And then that opportunity came up at the museum. Essentially, the Eye on the Sky program that's on Vermont Public Radio started just as I was finishing school. So the timing was perfect. I just went from school right into doing that. And so that's basically, you know, I guess, I won't say it's necessarily the majority of my job but it's a primary part of it. While I was at the museum, I was asked to learn at least enough astronomy to do a public presentation in our planetarium. So, you know, for about six, seven weeks, I read books, I went up in our planetarium and I practiced and basically got hooked on it. And it just fascinated me in terms of one starting just to recognize the stars and so forth but then extending that into lots of other sort of areas of interest within astronomy. So, and shortly after that became the planetarium director, and I've been doing that for over 30 years as well. Tell us a little bit about the Fairbanks Museum, how it got started. I understand it was founded in 1889. Tell us a little bit about the history, the museum and the planetarium. Yeah, well, it's certainly unique to have such an amazing museum and the planetarium in the town that's relatively, you know, quite small. I mean, St. John'sbury, the population is only seven or eight thousand and I grew up in an even smaller town down in Connecticut and we had nothing like this. So, I think Vermont in general, there are a lot of our relatively small communities that have some amazing treasures and the museum's a great example of that comes out of the industrial age in the 18 hundreds. The Fairbanks family from St. John'sbury was quite influential really statewide a few of the Fairbanks became governors of Vermont. But in particular, they invented the platform scale. They became a very wealthy family and frankly Fairbanks the founder of the museum wanted to give back to the community. So, he had already been collecting stuff from all around the world he was just fortunate to be able to, to, you know, as a very wealthy person he traveled parts of the world. And he wanted to share that, that experience of being in other places, at least with the local people in St. John'sbury and so that's essentially how the museum came to be. The planetarium's a much later addition. A director at the time, Fred Mould, he was absolutely fascinated with the science in general. There are lots of stories that before I got there, he would lead classes he would have, you know, a snake or an owl or a crow right in the classroom with him, you know, giving lessons about that. But he was also interested in astronomy and so with the efforts of the talent so forth, created the planetarium was one of the first planetariums in the northeastern US and the only public one in Vermont, and so that was 1960. And so the planetarium is an amazing and also a fairly unique part of the institution. I understand it's the only public planetarium in the state. Yeah, it remains that there are a few portable planetariums now with some other organizations and we've added that to our sort of things that we do we have a portable planetarium as well. And of course, you know, I think a lot of people because of the presence of I am the sky are familiar with the meteorology and astronomy parts of the museum but a museum has a large natural history history collection birds and mammals from around the world. It's a very rare and even extinct species, along with a great collection of bits and pieces from around the world, and also some local history as well. Right. Well the website has a great deal of very good information and some photos about those other aspects. Yeah, but maybe could give us a little description of the planetarium itself in terms of the equipment and what it's capable of doing and various technical aspects of. Sure. Well, about this time, two years ago, we were in the process of tilting the dome. So equipment that went in in 1960 actually lasted for 50 years. The company spits planetarium company was actually amazed that it was still running 50 years later. But it really had kind of worn itself out in fact, we couldn't get parts for it anymore. So we changed in 2012, we changed to a new system which is a computerized system. And there's some pluses and minuses to it. I won't, you know, disguise the idea that I don't think the star field is quite as perfect as the other, but on the other hand, we can use this system to fly around the solar system. You can take an orbit around the earth or the moon, you can even fly out of the solar system so there are a number of capabilities that it has added to what we can do. It's a relatively small planetarium. It seats a maximum of 35 people. And we now have some flexible seating, which we didn't have before. And what that allows us to do is, you know, especially if we have a kid's group, maybe a Boy Scout group or a Girl Scout group or something. You know, they'll come in and we can just move the chairs out of the way and they can kind of relax on the floor and look up at the sky, just as though they were laying outside in the field. I will never forget my field trip in grammar school to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. That was such a such a thrill at the time, particularly with the space program getting launched, you know, right. Yeah, amazing to see all that stuff at the same time, the space was getting in the news every every hour during those days. And of course, you know, even present day, you know, there are a lot of different things that are going on with astronomy, different missions to different planets or comets in the sky, and we can much more easily with this new system be able to immediately present that information for folks so they, you know, get a one a sense of what what it is that they're looking at but we also have some terrific presenters that are able to, you know, translate that into, you know, basically, you know, just an everyday kind of person. What are they looking at and why is it important. That's great. Well I understand that there's some exciting things coming up in the museum itself is going to open reopen at the end of this month tell us about that. Yeah. So every year for the past several years we have closed in the month of January. It's a it's a month that you know we don't have obviously a lot of visitors from out of town that come through. So we take an advantage of that we close the museum it allows us to basically open up all the exhibit cases do some really significant cleaning, but it also has allowed us to refurbish and represent some of those collections that we have. So what we're doing again this year with the pandemic. Obviously, visitation would be low anyway so we've extended that into the month of February but the last weekend in February, we will reopen. We've redone in particular. There was a long exhibit case that had a lot of mostly birds in a few mammals from Vermont. It's been the same since I came here almost 40 years ago, and it was time to do something. And so that has that entire case and all of the different specimens in there have been redesigned reimagined so to say I mean it's still, there's still in a case there's no information about it, but you know you have much more information to go on. It certainly has been refurbished and updated. So it's one of the many things that we've been working on. And of course we're pretty excited because once we get into spring and the ground thaws, we're going to be adding to the museum also about that science. Yep. So this is something that we've been working on that kind of behind the scenes for the past couple of years. Any endeavor like this you know we're doing basically a major addition to the museum the first one since the museum was built. And in order to do that obviously it takes a lot of resources so we've been doing a lot of work like I said behind the scenes but at the end of this past fall, we were finally able to announce that starting either late April or early May, we're going to break ground and we're going to build what we know as the science annex. And the idea with it is to do a kind of a multitude of things, but primary purposes are to give us room so that we can do some hands on science exhibits, which is something the museum had many years ago. And then various things change over the years. We instituted some of that again but because there are a lot of programs at the museum with meteorology and astronomy. That's what we're going to focus in on. On the other hand, you know it's a large addition. And so there are other opportunities here including working with the Community College of Vermont, St. Johnsbury's particular branch of that. They've been kind of looking for a new home and a lot of their programming fits in with a lot of the programming that we do. And so they're going to be part of our new addition. And it also, and this is one of the things that we've always been trying to do, but in keeping with the museum we wanted to add handicap access to our second floor, but that's always been a challenge because of the structure of the museum. It is a historic building so we can't make a lot of whole scale changes to it. But this has allowed us to be able to do that. And we're taking advantage of some, well, very Vermont, very modern sort of techniques we're using something called mass timber construction. So it kind of promotes the Vermont forestry industry. And it also is a renewable resource so in terms of, you know, the addition resources that we're using it's a very green sort of addition as far as that goes. So we're trying to incorporate all of the things that the museum kind of stands for you that the museum is is there to help promote stewardship of the earth and that type of thing. So we're trying to incorporate that as part of the addition. Tell us about some of these cold and safe outdoor exhibits that will be going on. Right, so this is something that we obviously had to figure out last summer. The museum didn't close. But, well, for example, the planetarium that we've been talking about, and it does see 35 people, but it's in a very small enclosed space. And as a result, there was no way to be able to open that to the public during this past summer.  I mean, it's not like a. No, there's no question about it. On the other hand, we were able to highlight different things that people could go outside and see on the upcoming evenings. We talked about the comet that was visible last summer. And all of those kind of things we still incorporated into our programming that was just simply outside. Another thing that we had that was outside as the butterfly house. And in that, what we do each spring, we bring in new plantings and we also have the various chrysalises and of the either moths or butterflies, and they hatch out and we get generally native species. So there are approximately five or six that we concentrate on. And what about mid summer or so when they've all hatched out, it's pretty cool to just walk in and you know the butterflies are all around you. They're landing on different plants and lots of information about that so we're going to be doing that again this summer. We have changed that slightly. We've made a somewhat more permanent addition to the backyard of the museum. It's a large greenhouse like building, but it's a very large building so again with with the socially distance, you know we can still do not only butterflies but we've been able to extend our seasons for education program. And this is kind of a three season room where during the spring and well into the fall we can do some outdoor programming where we'll do something just briefly as a classroom type of setting, and then we can walk immediately out of that museum's backyard, and we can do things well for example, I did an astronomy program, not too long ago, well back in the fall, but we were able to have the kids create the solar system. We had one student who was the sun and then we had, you know mercury and Mars, literally going around them but we could do that outside. And so those are the kinds of programs that we anticipate doing through the summer. And tell us about some of the things that are going to be going on in the universe that you're in tune with right now. Yeah, I think the one thing that I've been paying close attention to is the Mars, the next Mars rover, which is almost ready to land lands on February 18. In fact, I think it lands at five minutes before four o'clock which is pretty amazing to think, you know they launched it several months ago, and they've got it down to the minute in terms of when it's going to land. Those are the kind of calculations that go into a successful program and fortunately, we've been very successful in recent missions that have a lot of successful missions. And so this is the next in the generation of rovers that will be landing there. And so again, that'll be landing on February 18, and usually takes a few days for it to kind of test out all of its equipment, so forth gets settled in. So I anticipate some really cool pictures coming along as we get into months of March and April. I believe its mission length is six months, but very often the way that NASA designs things, for example, the Curiosity rover, that's still operating many years after its initial mission had finished up. How will you interact with that? Do you have any arrangements with other entities such as NASA to monitor this? How will you participate in the Mars landing? Well, one of the things that NASA has increasingly done a great job with is providing planetariums like ourselves with sort of up-to-date videos. So in other words, as they do some sort of exploration, I know one of the things that they concentrated on is finding evidence of water on Mars' surface or just underneath the surface. And so Mars has a sort of a science branch to it that's committed to education programs like ours, and so we will get various videos and even activities that we can get students to participate in just so they can better understand what's going on with the current mission. That's really interesting. There was a comment Leonard that you observed. Tell us about that comment. Right. That was just discovered last month, the month of January, just after the turn of the year is the first comment discovered in 2021. Each year there are very often between 20 and sometimes as many as 40 comments discovered, and about, let's say, 20, either 19 or 20 of them aren't visible to the naked eye.  They're telescope objects, which is great for people that are studying them.  Well, of course, last summer, we had the fortune of seeing Comet Neil wise. That's just an acronym for a telescope that discovered it. But the idea was that all of a sudden we walked outside. I remember my daughter in law was visiting from Southern New Hampshire and, you know, we walked outside, walked down the street because this is visible right in the middle of town of St. John's Creek and all of a sudden there it was. So, with that in mind, Comet Leonard may be a, well, they call it a naked eye Comet. In other words, you don't need any special equipment. You should be able to walk outside and see with your eye. It may get that bright in December. So it's still a long ways away. Somebody sort of gave the idea that predicting comments is something like predicting tasks.  They're very independent that way. It could be bright. It could be dull and we won't really see much of anything at all. So there's a lot of uncertainty. One thing that I did find out about this comment, this comment. It's approximate orbit is somewhere around 800,000 years. So it's been a long time since it's came by the sun. And in this particular case, they don't think it's going to come back. And if they're wrong, who's going to know. But because it is, it's a comet that either has only gone by the sun perhaps once or maybe not, not anywhere close to the sun. Comets that are new, don't tend to be very predictable. And that we've, you know, basically, some folks will remember Comet Cahootek, way back in the 1970s. Comet Cahootek was supposed to be the comet of the century and everybody was so excited and it turned out to be kind of a dud. But what we found out was that it was a new visitor to the inner part of the solar system. Comets that are first time visitors, so to say, they don't always produce spectacular displays. Sometimes they do though so I guess we'll know in December. That's great. Well, one of the things I like to ask you about is the online astronomy programs that you have that people can tell us about those. Yeah, I think it takes a little exploring. I guess one thing that came to mind just the other day is that that old TV show. So you think you're smarter than a fifth grader. Well, this is pretty much the challenge because a lot of our programs, just because of the nature of the museum, you know, we focus in on school groups. And so a lot of our programs are focused on teaching kids, but I've had any number of adults who have either been in some of our kids programs or they picked up some kids books and so forth. And it's a great way to get introduced to something that you're not otherwise familiar with. So I say that as a way of exploring our various programs that we have, you can either get to them by going to the Fairbanks Museum website, which is simple Fairbanks Museum dot or G or you can go to our YouTube channel just, you know, just search for Fairbanks Museum and all kinds of programs will will appear. And one of the series of programs and I believe it's listed somewhere in the like sixth, seventh and eighth grade section. But this is definitely, you know, a great kind of series of programs, talking about the motions that you see in the solar system. We watch the moon, but the moon changes every night that you look at it, we watch the planets and they change over weeks and months, we watch the stars and they change over weeks and then seasons. And so it, you know, these programs are basically designed to give you an introduction to what you can go outside and observe in the sky. Also, a little bit about. I read a lot about how the pandemic has changed the light patterns or light pollution that's admitted by big cities and how has the pandemic changed the night sky the visibility of the night sky. Well, I don't know that it's changed it a great deal locally. Yeah, our population is lower. At the same time, though, I think it has changed people's well time structure, just in general. Many of us will be working at home or at home more often the kids are at home more often. And we're not going out and doing other things. And so I've had any number of people that have contacted me affect just the other day. I had done a program on astronomy through was the Norwich Public Library. And afterward, there were a couple of families that contacted me saying, we just took a telescope out of the basement, you know what have been collecting dust. And so they brought it out. And basically the question was, okay, what next. And so I think people are finding that whether it's a matter of finally having time to do something, or maybe just appreciating the fact that maybe all the other busy stuff that we did wasn't. As important or fulfilling or whatever. And so here's an opportunity, and it's a great family activity.  I have a few friends that, you know, they're often asking me what I just saw this bright object, you know, it was, I was out walking my dog at four in the morning what was, what was I looking at.  I bought a telescope myself, I just haven't had the time to calibrate it or get it. But I just, I love it because as a kid we used to do this we used to try to see flying saucers of course, or in the aircraft or whatever you know but certainly I've been reinvigorated in the concept, just walking out in the morning here it's just beautiful you can see the moon and the sun come up and it's just amazing environment that we have. Tell us a little bit about that environment by the by the museum. What's it like for stargazing by just the visitors or people who live there. Well, you know, we're really fortunate that so many places in Vermont, you know we have relatively dark skies, you know we have some small villages and you know very small cities, certainly. So if you're not in this place that has dark skies, you don't have to go very far to do that. And so that's certainly that is one of the key things in terms of seeing the sky is to really have, you know, a dark location now, having said that, you know, because I live right in St. So yes, there are street lights around, but in my backyard, as long as I don't trip the motion sensor light. It's dark enough in my backyard that if I look straight up I can see the Milky Way which is a relatively faint, you know feature in the sky.  I think I've always found that convenience is an important part of pursuing something like that. So in other words, if it's really difficult to find a place to look at the stars, you're just not going to do it very often but if it's relatively easy like I said, in my backyard it's in the middle of a small village, but I can see the sky. And so, if it's convenient, and you have the time and again with this pandemic, you know people have found that suddenly they do have some time. And I think that that's a plus right there but but we are fortunate that we don't have a lot of light pollution, and we really can see deep into the night sky. That's wonderful. Tell us a little bit about how the public can get involved organizations that can interact with you or support your efforts tell us about how the museum functions understand as a membership, and tell us about that membership and volunteers. Yeah. So, yeah, there are a lot of ways that you can kind of participate and what the museum is doing. Now, in terms of volunteers, we have a number of people that volunteer in different aspects of the museum. We have a large collection of items that they're not necessarily always on display, but it's a really important to preserve those items so that somebody that wants to, for example, do some research.  And so, it might depend on your interest. You know, if you're interested, for example, in birds and mammals, there would be some opportunities that way. If you're interested in something like textiles and you have a wide range of collections and so a wide range of interests available for people. The other thing, of course, that you mentioned, you know, memberships, the museum really depends on having memberships because that allows us to do many of the things, you know, whether it's preserving and researching various things in our collection. But it also, you know, let's face it, the building has to stay warm in the winter. All of those things are really critical. And membership is a really great way to do that. And this is, you know, it's a two-way street. You get a membership. Obviously, you can come into the museum for free. You can come to the planetarium for free. But in addition to that, you also get various announcements about programs that are going on at the museum. And we have some special members programs. So if you are a member, you get invited to certain programs. And, boy, one of our favorite things to do, we have a couple of very social events. Obviously, we've had to curtail those during the past 12 months or so. But anticipating that maybe this fall we'll get back to a more normal sort of pattern that way. So when we do, and I know we will, then just imagine having a party in the museum. I mean, what a great place. I mean, you've got one, you'll invite your friends.  But it's a very social atmosphere, very different than it's not like some stuffy old science museum, you know, that kind of thing. So it's really those kinds of things are great fun.  And then finally, you know, we just mentioned that the museum is making a major expansion. We have raised about 90% of the funding for that. But we still have a little bit more to go. And so, if you're a person that really feels committed to making sure that, you know, science continues to be flourish that kids continue to learn about it that adults continue to learn about it. Then supporting the museum through, you know, some kind of donation toward our new expansion that would be a way to support the museum as well. That's a tax time is coming up so people might want to think about that. Well, there you go. That's right. Yes. Yeah. Excellent. Well, this is really been very exciting. I'm really thankful that you're able to meet with us today and explain what's going on and maybe when we get back to normal times, we can review some of the activities that have been taking place. At that time and we always love to have you it's been five years I can't believe it, but we have to get, we have to get you back a lot sooner than that. Yes, well, I, let's, let's make sure that it isn't another five years. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Well, thank you very much Mark. We're being our guest today and positively Vermont. This is Dennis McMahon, my guest today has been Mark green the senior meteorologist and planetarium director at the Fairbanks Museum and planetarium in St. John's very Vermont. Thanks for watching.


Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel Daniel Rose here you're gonna join me in the kitchen today We're cooking up some miss or what amazing spicy Ethiopian red lentils yum Okay, the star of the show is gonna be the spice blend called Burberry fantastic stuff if you live near an Ethiopian or African store You can find it there otherwise buy it online I used two round tablespoons and it was kind of spicy if you're not such a spice fan Maybe one will be enough here. It is red in color lots of spice Next we're gonna need is our lentils I'm using red lentils here, and I always give them a good old rinse You want to give it one minute under some running water like I'm doing and then if you see any weird stuff like Rocks or coins or people that shouldn't be in lentils then just throw them out. All right next thing We're gonna need is onions. I just use one medium-sized onion some folks will use tomato paste as well I didn't bother now I live next to Ethiopians for one year neighbors and I learned a few tricks from them the key Is patience when you are frying the onions you want to give it a lot of time to get it nice and caramelized So one medium white onion finally chopped and then gather your onion age with your knife and get ready to put it in Now we're gonna go for put your instant pot onto saute mode and chuck in a good bit of oil I also noticed my Ethiopian neighbors never measured the oil.  I never get that very good caramelization, but it's almost the same thing Bit of salt depending how you salt your berberi is it should be unsalted. So add salt to your taste Then you want to of course fry your your finely chopped onions in the oil And as I said before this is where you want to just chill out and let it do its thing Really don't rush this part of us but when your onions have got a nice little bit of browning on them then throw in the berberi and Here's you want to start stirring pretty quickly. You don't do not want these spices to burn They are already toasted so keep mixing keep mixing and I Give this a couple of minutes and I do the same thing for the lentils This is also something I picked up from local Ethiopian folk who live next to me for a year They would toast the lentils for like a minute alongside the berberi and the caramelized onions and in my opinion This is a big deal. This will really make a difference between Getting that really nice taste and not but you can add the water first if you feel the need to do that so here's my one cup of red lentils that I gave a rinse under and I'm just gonna mix it in here with the Onions and the berberi and make sure everything comes together nicely in the instant pot keep it off the sides and Give it a good old mix and look it's coming together pretty you can't smell this because berberi is fantastic all right, we are now ready to add the H2O the water the ratio I use is one cup of red lentils to three cups of water and it comes out perfect So do not tamper with the golden ratio of one to three you might get away with one one to two point five It'll be a bit drier, but I'd go for one to three so three cups of Mineral water tap water whatever pleases you and then make sure everything's nicely mixed together in your instant pot And then chuck on the lids and we're gonna want to of course put up the valve now I gave it ten minutes and that really gets everything nicely mixed together the onions just melt into it You can do seven if you prefer it'll just be a bit more crunching the onions Here's my spice cabinet do not come to my house in the event of the apocalypse But I do a lot of spices there all right, so our cooking is underway We have nine minutes left and here's me releasing pressure I went for a quick release because I was damn hungry when I was making this video But you can do slow release and take off the lid and here you go I had this last night at an Ethiopian restaurant, and I look pretty much like this here is our mr. Watt It's a bit like the Ethiopian equivalent of Dal. I love these chef pans I buy them from a restaurant supply store, and yeah, this is enough for one person for dinner Or two not very hungry people put it in there and keep it in the fridge there in your chef's pan But for actually plating up. I use this magnificent little bowl. I picked up in an Ethiopian store I really love the stuff that they have for sale there. This is the thing lovely isn't it and Then put your mr. Watt into this and you know two ladles fulls You'll be surprised the stuff will really fill you up now of course It's traditional to eat this with injera teff bread fermented teff bread I didn't have any so what I did was just grab an old piece of pita bread and put it on the side And that's it you use the bread as your fork and I scoop it up, and it is delicious Hope this video was good if you enjoyed it want to get more please subscribe to this YouTube channel Thank you guys for watching


In our two education matters, members of Government College Maccordie Old Boys Association have resolved to restore the alma mater by renovating some infrastructure in the school. This was the high point of the school's national convention and annual general meeting in Maccordie. The president of the Maccordie Old Boys Association, Dr. Muhammad Adamou, while speaking at the convention said despite a number of challenges, there were some positives which recommended the Governor of Benu State for. As with any association, the Moses is a finance, at least we need money to do a lot of projects in the school and the money can only be gotten from the old boys. You know these days, you build the burden of education to government alone, alumni will have to come in, BTS will have to come in. So we are trying by all means to contribute to the school that made us what we are today. Governor Samuel Orchum, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education Margaret Okwe, who spoke on the efforts of the state's government in providing quality public education. She also commended the old boys for their complementary efforts. Promises and these are people that when they promise they will not fail. They have said they are going to rebuild the principal's house, they are going to renovate the principal's house, renovate some classrooms and do what they can do as old students. And with the calibre of people who are staying this morning or this afternoon, they are not going to bring down, they will not put the government to shame. An old boy of the college and guest speaker of the occasion, Professor Patrick Ucasse of Kogi State University called on the old boys to ensure that the school's high standards of the past are restored. A situation whereby the college has become a doping ground should be completely discouraged by the association. Consequently, a strength and highly competitive admission process based on merit should be introduced by management of the school, commencing from the next academic session. By also ensuring that teachers posted to the school have the requisite qualification, experience and passion to do the job. Earlier, a delighted principal of government college Makodi, Ambur Adjina, spoke on a delight in hosting the old boys, but she also listed several challenges facing the school. The convention featured the presentation of our words to outstanding members, well wishes and old boys who had passed away. Thank you. Thank you.


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Ok, on the top of Sunlight, my 54th 14er, so I've now climbed all the 14ers in Colorado. Swinging around, that's Windham, did that yesterday, a sunlight spire to the left, a little under 14,000 feet, 13,999, that's the ridge that just came up, and this is a pretty gnarly class 4, no doubt about it, and there's my pack down there, that's actually where the marker is beside my pack, that's Chicago Basin, and this is the infamous jump, so there's the summit block right there, and so then you come down to here, and then you jump to the rock that I'm standing on right here, and as you can see it is pretty exposed, it drops off into infinity on that side, and there, so it's pretty, my soles are pretty wet because it's been raining all day yesterday, so I'm not going to do the jump, but anyway, I'm very happy to finish the 14ers, so climb on!


My plans for kids and youth, I think our education system has very serious problems. The problem is not failing at something. The problem is how you react after you fail at something. So this idea that we really punish people because they don't succeed is not a good idea. You must encourage them and be compassionate to them. What are the plans for the women at school? To give women more say in society. I believe that women are smart women. It is the best interaction. And many of the students were asked questions. So we answered freely and we are such exciting momentousness. What are you doing, Padyat? My work from Kanyakumur to Kashmir, not by bus or train. I thought it should be something that is slightly difficult to do. And then if you are going by bus or train, you are not meeting so many people. If you are going walking, you are meeting quite a few people. What is your childhood memory now? Many, many good childhood memories. My grandmother, sometimes she would hide behind the curtain. If I came back from school, she would hide behind the curtain and she suddenly jumped out and escaped. So I like that. And you, what is the good memory of yours? In the back audience.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines?  In Kenya, federal government health workers embark on national strike demanding overdue promotions. Argentine social and political movements mobilise in support of the RT gas project. And New Zealanders approve euthanasia and the referendum reject legalisation of recreational cannabis. In our first story on Thursday, demonstrators protesting the death of a black man in Washington DC faced severe repression at the hands of the police. A violent dispersal by the police was seen outside the 4th District Police Station of Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department. Demonstrations were being held there for a second consecutive night on Thursday. The protests were in response to the death of Karen Hilton Brown last week during a police chase. According to reports, witnesses saw the accused police officers chasing 20-year-old Hilton Brown for riding his moped without a helmet on last Friday that's October 23rd. During the chase, Hilton Brown was stuck by a passing car. The car crash eventually led to his death at a hospital due to the injury sustained three days later. Testimonies by witnesses were corroborated after body cam footage from the officers was released to the public on Thursday after considerable public outrage. Washington DC has a policy of preventing the police from chasing vehicles over traffic violations such as riding a motorcycle without a helmet. Hilton Brown's family has alleged that the chase was what precipitated the crash that eventually killed him. They have demanded that justice be delivered. The police are also yet to give another reason for the chase since no contraband was found on the victim nor was any crime being reported in the area. Family members have been leading demonstrations demanding justice as the 4th District Police Station for the past two nights. On Thursday night, the police used tear gas, pepper spray, flash bangs and even rubber bullets to forcibly clear the demonstrations. The forcible clearing, according to Black Lives Matter DC, led to over 200 protesters getting injured. Both the parents of Hilton Brown, Karen Hilton and Charles Brown were, according to reports, pepper sprayed by the police as well. Police cleared and blocked the entire Georgia Avenue that led to the police station. On Thursday, health workers employed by Kenya's federal government across the country started an indefinite strike action demanding promotions and job redesignations that have been long overdue. Earlier in May and again in August, unions had served strike notices but rescinded the planned action after assurances from the government which had sought more time. However, no progress was made towards resolution. This time, the unions have decided to press ahead with the strike of which the government was notified seven working days in advance. The striking workers are represented by an umbrella organization called the Kenya Health Professional Society. With no attempts on the government to resolve the issue, Petersen Wachira, chairperson of the Kenya National Union of Clinical Officers, announced that to quote him, it is a very unfortunate moment that we are giving you such bad news. Beginning midnight, there will be no COVID-19 screening in all ports of entry. He added that this time they will only come back when they have letters of promotion and their members have been redesignated. Unions demand that the number of years of stagnation in the same job of an employee must be considered as a factor along with his or her qualification in implementing the promotions and redesignations. In our next story, since October 21st, members of various Argentine social movements and political organizations have been mobilizing in support of the RTGAS project and the struggle of Dolores Hveré in the recovery of her inheritance. The RTGAS project is an agroecological production initiative. Its objectives are to produce healthy food, generate jobs in agroecology and achieve food sovereignty in the provinces. It is an alternative to the extractive model. It aims to work the land without damaging the environment. The project is made up of landless peasants, social activists, agricultural technicians, rural and environmental organizations supported by the excluded workers movement, the MTE, and the union of workers of popular economy, UTEP. It is based on three fundamental pillars, truth, justice and reparation. On October 26th, under the banner of I support the RTGAS project, thousands of citizens, political leaders, social activists, feminists and environmentalists carried out massive demonstrations at the Casa Nueva Ranch. The ranch is owned by the Hveré family in the Entre Rios province and is the headquarters of the Sociedad Rural Argentina in the city of Buenos Aires. SRA is a civil organization that brings together large estate owners in the Pampas region of Argentina. Dolores Hveré is the sister of former agriculture minister during the Macri regime and president of the SRA, Luis Hveré. Dolores, who is also an owner of a ranch and other properties of the family by inheritance, was allegedly swindled by her own brothers. When their family died in 2009, her brothers not only excluded Dolores from business, but also prevented her from accessing her heritage rights. She did not receive a penny or have any assets in her name. Their father had assigned a house for each of the children. However, her brothers expelled her from the house that belonged to her. Luis Hveré and local estate owners who support him have also been demonstrating demanding full possession of Casa Nueva, calling the establishment of the RTGAS project an attack against private property. Nevertheless, social movements are determined to fight in defense of the project and Dolores and several others who have been exploited for decades by the large land owners. And finally, on Friday, according to preliminary results announced by the Electoral Commission of New Zealand, more than 65% of voters in the country who participated in the referendum approved legislation allowing euthanasia. Though nearly half a million votes are yet to be counted and the final results will be announced in November 6th, it is by and large clear that a yes vote has prevailed. New Zealand had another referendum too. The second one was on the use of recreational cannabis, but it was disapproved by more than 53% of the voters who said no. Both the referendums were supported by Prime Minister Jacinda Arden of the Labour Party who was re-elected earlier this month in the country's 53rd parliamentary elections with a huge majority. However, her support in the case of the recreational cannabis issue was much more qualified. The yes vote on the legalization of recreational cannabis would have made New Zealand just the third country after Canada and Paraguay to do so. The opposition Green Party, which supported the legalization move, criticized the government for not endorsing the yes vote prior to the voting in a concrete manner, leading to confusion. Jacinda Arden's government in 2018 said in the UN that it believes in drug harm reduction instead of a criminal justice approach and Thursday's referendum was proposed in that direction. Euthanasia is legal in very few countries in the world. Even in countries where it is legal, the terminally ill person needs to satisfy certain conditions. Similarly, New Zealand will also have to pass a law if euthanasia has to be allowed. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back on Monday with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it.


Both the pistachio principle and the fecal excretion theory were put to the test recently by studying the effects of peanut processing on body weight. Let's feed a bunch of people a half cup of peanuts every day for a month, and another group will feed the same amount of nuts, but will grind them into peanut butter first. So half cup of peanuts worth of peanuts versus peanut butter. And that was added on top of whatever else they were eating in their regular diet. So calorie-wise, at the end of the month they should have put on a few pounds. Well as we saw before in the whole nut peanut group, that just didn't happen. But that's why we have the peanut butter group, right? Not a lot of shelling or crunching necessary with peanut butter, and the cell walls of the peanuts were all ground up, all the oil released and made available for absorption. And they didn't go extra chunky, this was smooth peanut butter. So if the reason people don't gain weight on nuts is because of all that chewing or fecal fat loss, the prediction would be that although the whole nut group may not pile on the pounds, the peanut butter group definitely would. But they didn't. Neither group gained the expected weight. The plot thickens. Next we'll explore the dietary compensation theory.