This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. It's one o'clock on a Monday afternoon, so you must be watching Think Tech Hawaii research in Manoa. I'm your host, Pete McGinnis-Mark, and every Monday at one o'clock we bring an example of the research which is being done at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, dealing with subjects such as atmospheric sciences, oceanography, earth science, and planetary science. And it's my pleasure today to welcome back to my very best friends because we're going to be talking about planetary science. We have Linda Martell and Jeff Taylor, who are both at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. You've been hosts on this show, so you know the ropes. So welcome back, and I believe we're going to hear an update on PSRD, Planetary Space Research Discoveries. Is that correct, Linda? Yep. We have a big project. We've been doing for 21 years. 21? 21? 21. Yeah. Planetary scientists, I think, think of the earth. It's one of the planets in the little community of the solar system, so we like to think about planetary processes and compare earth with other planets and all the processes that are happening on them. So Planetary Science Research Discoveries reads the research papers about planetary science. We read them, and then we rewrite it for a more general audience. Okay, so this is a web-based informational post thing that you do for the general community, correct? Right, right. So we do have other scientists reading it, but they might not be chemists or physicists. So we try to write it so that anybody outside somebody studying Mars will understand what's going on. What the discoveries are and how they came to be and what they mean for us on earth. And you're not actually doing the research, but you're rephrasing the material which has previously been published, probably quite recently, so that the general scientific community can understand it. And their parents and their families, right? Not just other scientists, but the general public who is interested in science, kind of the same people who would read Scientific American. And I know you've been on this show in the past discussing PSRD, but do you have any understanding how many people might actually be reading this kind of website? So we're looking at monthly hits, around 60,000 a month, which is kind of good for something that's cosmochemical in nature. So we're not so much mission-oriented, but we're looking at the researchers who are taking the data and looking at the rocks and reporting on that. And Linda, by mission, you don't mean you're supported by a NASA space mission per se? Mission would be trying to promote STEM education or mission would be trying to sort of encourage local school kids to do something. Yeah, that's true. Communication, we're now funded by the NASA, what is it called? The Directorate of the Planetary Science. The Emerging Worlds program fundamentally funds us now. And Emerging Worlds, Jeff, is part of NASA's Planetary Research. Planetary research effort, yes. Planetary research effort. And you've been doing this for 21 years? Yeah. Wow. How many articles do you have? So we're closing up to 200. Almost 200, yeah. 200 full-length articles, and the first one, by the way, was the Life on Mars debate from the famous Martian meteorite, whose name is Ellen Hill's 8401 for anyone keeping score. And so, yeah, that was an interesting article. It was one of our more complicated ones. And we tried to give pros and cons of ideas, and there, there was a lot of pros and cons of this asserted discovery.  Yeah, it is. There is no complete consensus. Well, there actually is a consensus. But the original discoverers are not backing down from them. And what we really learned from it, you know, it was an interesting thing how science worked. We really learned what you have to do, even if you have a sample of a rock from another planet, to prove that there was life in it. Very difficult job. We had HIGP people working on that issue. Ed Scott did a paper on it. We covered it in PSRD. And this issue of water on Mars and life on Mars, of course, is big today. It started us 21 years ago, but it's still carrying through. So you've had about 200 articles in 21 years, so a little less than one article a month is sort of the target. That's what we target, yeah.  If we go to the first slide, we can actually see, of course, here we have the URL at the top left of anybody who's here on scene. So, Jeff, can you just describe a little bit about what we have here? We can see the parts and pieces of it. It has the big prominent thing on the left-hand column is the headline article. That means the one we got up within the past month. And in this case, it's about volcanism and creation of an ancient atmosphere on the moon of all places. And I believe we'll be talking about that in the second half of the show. Yes. And then there's a list of all the most recent articles down there. And then, on the right, you see the Cosmos Spark. These are short reports, and we have over 100 of them now, I think, where we highlight something interesting without going into the depth that we do in the big article. And you can see the title, like the second one. Oh, that's what we're going to talk about next. The Bounty of Iremeterize found on Mars. Yes, I can't wait to get to that one. And the bottom is Apollo 17, source with throw value. This is a review article written by Jack Schmidt and others to go back to the Apollo 17 site, and he reinterprets his field observations in the context of all this vast remote sensing and sample studies that we've done. And I believe one of the co-authors was a former graduate student of ours, Mark Robinson, correct? Yep, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Great. And then falling off the bottom of the screen, we have news and other things as well. Other things. And along the top, you can see this. We archive everything by topic, and you can search it. There's a search thing. There's a subscription. We have 1,500 subscribers in 57 countries that don't pay for the subscription. But every time we have something new going up, they get emailed. In 57 different countries. Yeah. Remarkable. How did you get the word out that this is such a useful source of information? It is word of mouth or internet. Electronic word, yes. Electronic word. And people, it's amazing how we get letters sometimes, emails from the general public. And what they like is that it does go into detail. It doesn't talk down to them, though we try to be very clear. And the people who really want the story go to it. At the same time, scientists in one field, especially like a geophysicist who doesn't know much geochemistry, he'll read these articles because that keeps them up to date on these things without him being bogged down by massive amounts of geochemical jargon. And they're used in astronomy classes, too. Yeah, for undergraduate students studying for their comprehensive exams. We've had numerous people tell us that that's what they do from other places. Well, the topic of today's program is hot topics in PSRD. So, Linda, why don't we go on to the next slide? And you can tell us a little bit about one of the exciting reports which Jeff alluded to on that website. So what do we have here? Can you explain for our viewers what we're looking at here?  And the images were taken by cameras on rovers that are on Mars right now, those robotic rovers. So there's no astronauts ever yet on Mars. But up on the top left, it says Meridiani Planum. That was the first meteorite ever to be found on another planetary surface. And what's the sort of scale of that rock? That one, they said, is the size of a basketball. Now, so you have to imagine their cameras on the rovers sort of scanning the landscape. And how would they ever even notice this rock? But a scientist realized that the bounce of light off that rock matched the Martian sky. And he thought, well, the only way to do that is to have something shiny that can bounce that. And they were like, yeah. And they thought, could it be a meteorite? And then, by chemistry, they decided it was an iron-nickel meteorite. And all of the other rocks which we're seeing now are also meteorites? All meteorites, all iron-nickel meteorites. Searing by the rovers driving across the surface. And they are identifying rocks which have fallen from space, because we've had Ed Scott come on the show and talking about meteorites. So what makes them special, apart from the fact that they have a mask? Well, OK, first, so those rovers were never, their mission was never to look for meteorites right on the surface. So it was a special thing to sort of find them and realize that these pieces could make it through the Martian atmosphere and land with some of them breaking up. We were talking about the atmosphere a little bit. Yeah, some atmosphere is pretty thin.  And so they would make a little crater. But at the same time, maybe they landed long ago when the atmosphere was thicker. Do we know anything about the age of these rocks? How long they've been on the surface of Mars? Nothing. Nothing. They're looking at the roundness. But we know that there's a lot of sandblasting going on the surface. So they're thinking the roundedness of those rocks are probably just sandblasting. And is this unique? Have we ever found, for example, Geoffrey or Luna scientists, have we ever found a meteorite on the surface of the Moon? We have actually found them on the surface of the Moon. We found some melted iron meteorites in the very first mission. And the cover of the Science Magazine issue describing the rock has a thing. It looks like a mini Moon. It was a very funny iron sulfide thing that crystallized in a funny shape. And you mean back in the 1960s? Back in 1969.  And that is different from most. But now we have so many of those kind of meteorites that we can put it into a group. And its name, and it was the first to give the name of a geologic feature, it's called Bench Crater. We do that in Apollo 12. It was in Apollo 12. But doesn't the fact that you can get the meteorites on the Moon, as well as on Mars, raise some of the interesting possibilities? How does a rock get to one planet, maybe, from the asteroid or another planet? Big catastrophic collisions. And you can guess where I'm leading. I mean, if you can see meteorites on the Moon, the nearest object nearby is the Earth. Could we find a meteorite from the Earth on the Moon? Do you think that there must be? It has been looked at quantitatively, sort of, by how much impact would transfer out of Earth orbit, how much would land on the Moon. The idea is that there could be a few, in any lunar soil, a few parts per million of Earth material. Now, that means you have to look at C1. You have to look at almost a million little particles. But it can be done if you can automate it. And we're not talking about chunks of rock, which is the basketball size, Linda, you were showing us. But we're thinking about little fine grains. Fine grains could be a millimeter or a few millimeters. But could be, imagine if it was driven from the Earth four billion years ago, it could have the first life forms preserved in it. And certainly, you could see parts of the Earth's crust, which are no longer present on the Earth. And even though you have a millimeter-sized object, it is possible to date them, characterize the chemistry, and with all the microanalytical techniques that we have available now. I mean, the whole idea is really exciting that you might be able to have Earth-like materials there. On the moon. And we, as you probably know it, Manoa are working for Lucy as his team of smart people, he, students he worked with, to develop techniques to identify minerals that might be from Earth, and for that matter, anywhere else, and identify them spectrally and go in, take that sample out so we could sample it. And we're working on these things now. The hard part is sampling it automatically. We haven't gotten that far yet, but I think we will be able to. Okay, well, unfortunately we're getting towards a break now. And that was just one of the two hot topics. So we'll have to leave this particular discussion there, Jeff. 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And welcome back to Think Tech Hawaii Research in Manoa. I'm your host, Pete McGinnis-Mark, and my guests today are Linda Martell and Jeff Taylor, who work together on planetary research discoveries, CSRD. I've missed something out, but you are both researchers, Jeff, you're a professor at the university, and Linda, you help with the web design as well as some of the- I'm an academic support, so I- You're an academic support. Helping with many NASA grants and proposals and doing a lot of outreach. You do all the work, and Jeff takes all the fight, right? Yeah, that's not true. I thought it would be okay with me. All right, so we saw on the first slide that there's a new hot topic, which is ancient lunar atmosphere. So I want to delve into this particular topic in the second half of the show. And Jeff, I think you brought along some other illustrations, so if we can go on to the next slide. This looks familiar even to me. Did anybody see the work that they call it last night? The Super Moon? Super Moon. I was clouded out, but- I was great from where I lived. Oh, very good. Anyway, the moon is an airless body. It has, the atmosphere it has isn't even officially called an atmosphere because the molecules in it do not collide with each other. So it's called an exosphere. And it lacks an atmosphere because the moon is so small, lacks a gravity to retain the atmosphere. To retain the atmosphere, but that doesn't mean it never had one. And no one quite looked at this before. We see all those, this is the picture of the nearest side of the moon. You see those dark areas. Those are called the maria. And they're formed by lava eruptions. And the most efficient way of transferring, say, water and other volatile species like sulfur dioxide from the interior to the surface is in lava flow. And so these lavas when they came up may have put quite copious amounts of material. And the next illustration, if it goes on the next slide, will emphasize the point that the volcanoes are pretty smelly, gassy kinds of places to work, right? They are. And in fact, the picture on the left shows our host wisely protecting himself from noxious gases. And you can see the gases coming up when the volcanic feature on the right, which is in, where is that? That's the Pueblo Fent in about 2002. Yeah. So these things put out really quite a lot of gas. And there is a lot of gas in the atmosphere. And it's reasonable to assume that lunar lavas, when we had volcanic eruptions early in lunar history, would have been degassing the same amount or? Probably less than what the earth does because the moon has less water. It does not have no water like we used to think, but it does have less water per eruption than maybe by a factor of 10. Because we had Lionel Wilson about three weeks ago on the show and he was talking about lunar lava flows and fire fountains. He didn't actually discuss much about the gas content of the magmas. Yeah. And we still don't know for sure. All we know is that the interior of the moon, the water in the interior of the moon is not uniformly distributed. And presumably this changes as a function of time? Does not all lunar lava flows at the same age? No. What really counts, it does change. You use up some when you erupt the lava, but most of the interior probably has not generated a lava. And so that water is whatever the primary water was. However, the ones that did erupt, if they erupt with enough volume in a given time, that may make a temporary atmosphere. But we're talking millions of years ago. I'm talking billions of active. The PSRD article, which is the hot topic on the website right now. Can you walk us through what kinds of, first of all, who was doing this research? Because it's not necessarily done at Manoa. But then what kinds of ideas are presented on the website? Oh, yeah. So the authors of this are Deborah Needham. And she's at NASA Goddard. Marshall. Marshall, sorry. NASA Marshall Social Center. And Dave Kring, who's at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. So Jeff wrote the article based on their paper. And it steps through what they mapped out as lava flows at different time sequences to try to get an idea of volumes and of gas release. And you know, on these articles too, after Jeff does this great job of turning it into interesting, more common, you know, speak words, we pass it through those authors to get there okay. And first of all, approval because this is their idea. Did we get everything straight? Did we miss anything? And before it ever goes out to the public, just didn't. Just to cover yourselves and also to make sure it's scientific. Let's make sure it's right because we, you can inadvertently, because even I'm not an expert in everything. I know it's hard to believe, but you may oversimplify too much to the point where you make it wrong. And that's why we run it by the author. So that anybody reading our website knows it's authoritative and we've got it down. And we have a glossary, which is always very handy. A sociable glossary is what I've seen, that's really good. Well, let's run through this sequence of events. This sequence of events. You've got a number of slides here. So on the left hand side, of course, is the moon. Yes, there's a series of them. The moon is showing the same picture before the near side, the one we see from when we look up at the full moon from the earth. And what it will show is by colors, what lava flow came in in approximately half a billion year increments, starting about 3.6 billion years ago. And time in billions of years of the bottom on the right hand diagram is time before the present. Before the present. Right. So if we go to the next one, that read each new sequence has read lava because they just went in and they're red hot after all. And the graph on the right shows the volume of Mari basalt in cubic kilometers and in that time interval. So in the time interval of greater than 3.6 billion years ago, we had like one and a half million cubic kilometers erupted. And therefore, that would put in a certain amount based on the assumed water. And by the way, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide which actually are bigger in abundance than water. And so we don't confuse the viewers. GA is billions of years. Billions of years. All right. And that's one thing. And part of Lady Gaga's name. Let's take a look at the next time step then. So now the red ones are the new ones added. And notice the big peak on the right is now five and a half million metric tons in a half a billion year period, which is when you start adding up the amount of all these gases, which is what Needham and Kring did in that interval, it is enough in this is the key interval here to make an atmosphere that is a traditional atmosphere that is collisional. That is the molecules bump into each other. And it is harder to escape. The escape rate goes up because of more gas. But the amount is retained. And they estimate that it would be retained for 70 million years that the moon would have an atmosphere whose pressure is bigger than the current atmospheric pressure on Mars. And almost 1% of what the Earth's atmospheric pressure is now. And compositionally, would it include oxygen or nature? No, it would be carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and probably water vapor. And everything else would be in small amounts. And it would not be breathable. So maybe more like Venus rather than the Earth's atmosphere. Yeah, and yes. OK, and one final thing on this particular diagram, Jeff, the red patches, which are the more recent larvas in this time period, aren't in the same locality as the purple one. So did the center of volcanic activity change as we look at the moon a few times? It does change, but there is some overlap. I bet if we look at the next one. Yeah, let's go on to the next one. See, there's a red one in that big, that's the man the moon's right eye, that there's young flows on top of older flows. So we do get a lot of that. And that messes up the volume estimate, by the way, because you don't know, especially the volume in a given time period, because how many older ones are covered, and you just don't know for sure what's underneath them. It requires good geological, photogeology look. And it goes without saying that we're only seeing volcanic lava flows in the basins. You always see it. You're not seeing it occurring in the pylons. Not everywhere, yeah. Yeah. And I think we can run through one more slide. That's the youngest one. Notice the big peak is early on between around 3.4 to 3.6 is really where the action takes place in volcanism on the moon. And if you go to the next one, it shows a neat graph that is from the one after that. And there's virtually nothing for, say, 3.3 billion years ago to the present day. Yeah. And so the next one shows a graph of this atmospheric pressure in PA is Pascals. And that is about 1,000 of that unit is about one atmosphere, which is what the Earth's atmospheric pressure is, right, when atmospheric pressure. And 1% of the Earth's atmospheric pressure. So it's 10,000, 100,000 of this year. Why having a lunar atmosphere? Why is that an important attribute to the understatement? Well, besides the fact that it changes the way we look at the moon, you can't look at the moon the same through time. It's not the same in the past as it is now. So that's kind of interesting in itself. But the other thing is all those volatiles that came out might have migrated through places where it was permanently shadowed even then and collected in the lunar polar traps. And maybe some of them, we know they're a gas at the lunar poles in permanently shadowed regions. So if we were ever to send a lander to the lunar poles and maybe take an ice core, what I think you're saying, Jeff, is that we might be able to see a record of the atmospheric of the degassing? The degassing of the moon. And then when other processes like solar wind, putting hydrogen on a lunar surface, maybe that's a component. Maybe impactors that have a different nature of sulfur isotopes or hydrogen isotopes over time. Maybe they give a different signal so that there is a history of the moon's volcanism and bombardment possibly preserved at the pole. Just as, say, if you take a Greenland or an Antarctic ice core, present day. Good analogy, yes. Isn't that interesting? I mean, this is the whole idea. Isn't that so amazing to me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And alas, we've already come to the end of the show. I just want to thank you, Linda and Jeff. It's been a great pleasure having you on the show. This is the first time all three of us have been on the show together. Let me just remind the viewers, you have been watching Think Tech Hawaii research in Manare. I'm Pete McGinnis-Mark, and my guests today have been Linda Martel and Jeff Taylor who collaboratively work on planetary science research discoveries, which is just one of the websites which you can find at the University of Hawaii's website. So thank you again for joining us and come back again next week when we'll have another interesting guest to present to you. Goodbye for now.


Acenobacter bamanii is a major cause of hospital-acquired infections and its outer membrane vesicles, OMVs, have been found to play a role in its pathogenicity. In this study, researchers examined the differences in OMVs produced under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. They found that OMVs from hypoxic conditions had a different protein profile and caused more severe damage to lung cells than those from normoxic conditions. Additionally, they observed that OMVs from hypoxic conditions increased the ability of A. Bamanii to invade lung cells, suggesting that hypoxia may enhance the pathogen's ability to spread. This article was authored by Satio Suzuki, Fani Subsem Wang, Kujing Arita, and others.


Hello, I'm Timothy Reid, Eden Vice President of Open Professional Collaboration. And in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Eden, we're interviewing some of the well-known experts in the field of online and distance education to talk to us and give us their opinions and feedback over what's been happening to us over the past year and what might happen to us in the future. And I'm very happy to be here today with Marcy Powell, who I mean, I can present her in a million different ways, but let's just say she's a keynote speaker, author and consultant, both in Eddish Cater and also an important figure in the corporate world, the United States Distance Learning Association, President, Chair, and most importantly, perhaps, Eden Fellow. So Marcy, let me start off by asking how you are and how has the pandemic affected you professionally? Thank you, Tim. It's so good to be with you. And I'm doing very well. It's funny because in the pandemic, everyone keeps asking how we're doing, working from home, et cetera, but I've been working from home for over 20 years, so it's no difference, right, for me. But it's been a blessing to get to help others know how to do it and how to stay engaged and not feel isolated and so forth. And it actually prompted, well, I was writing a book before the pandemic hit because I knew, we knew the projections were that by 2025, 80% of the workforce would work remotely or hybrid. And so I started writing this book on how to leverage the distance and achieve excellence when working remotely, and I started writing a book a year before the pandemic hit. So it was timely. Indeed it was. Indeed it was. Okay, I think for a lot of people, they've been pushed, screaming and kicking into online education. And I think over this year, year and a bit, we've learned quite a lot about our teaching and learning education in general from the pandemic. So I mean, do you think we're ready for online education at a larger scale? And in which case, how do you see Eden as an association being able to contribute to education and research? I love that question because here's what I saw with the pandemic. It thrust us forward, propelled us in exponential ways that we were not expecting where we knew what predictions were going to be. We didn't anticipate it to happen overnight. And it did. And it caught many universities and businesses off guard. And so what I think from your question, what I've seen is that sadly, adjusting to the pandemic that quickly was not the top quality online learning, even though many experienced it and sadly, they experienced poor quality. But at the same time, we have universities like many who are members of Eden who have been doing it for 30 years and know high quality. And we know how to deliver and teach in engaging and incredible ways, integrating many digital technologies and making it as good as in person, if not better. But if you look at the media and what was put out not only from across Europe, but globally from the US and on, many articles about how awful online learning is. So first, I think our challenge is to get people past that experience. And that's not easy, but I believe we can do it. I think the world knows we don't have a choice. This is, and I hate the phrase the new normal because everyone's using it, but it is the new normal hybrid environments, the hybrid workplace, the hybrid learning environment, all of this is changing. And so to answer your question, I believe that Eden is the place that Europe needs to go to see how to do it right. I think a lot of our experts in the field, a lot of Eden fellows and a lot of the member universities have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share. And I love that we have been in the open educational resource field for quite a while and produced some incredible letters, research documents and publications on that, blogs, et cetera, a myriad of delivery methods for people and videos. I love that we're doing this. So, Tim, I guess the question I'm saying is I think that Eden is poised to contribute greatly. And I think the world knows it needs to move forward now with digital learning in a large, much grander scale. Yeah, I think you're completely right. One of the, I mean as many things I like about Eden, but if I could only choose one, it would definitely be the members because there's a lot of expertise there and people are very generous with their time and their opinions and their comments and I think that helps a lot. That is so beyond true. It's been such a blessing for me personally to be part of the Eden family because I cannot tell you how many times I could just email or call upon anyone that I know in my sphere of influence and sphere of network that influence me to say, I see this place or this university or this system that needs help and you're the perfect person. And people like you said, just deliver it. And I think also that when you look at the vault, I call it the vault, you don't call it that. That's my word for it. There's a vault, a storehouse, a repository of a wealth of experience that even when we can't do it in person, there are many publications and resources to read. But I do love the willingness of the Eden family and that's what we are, we're a family. I don't think you could have said it any better. I think family is definitely in the word. I think that's absolutely a wonderful answer. Thank you, Marcy. Okay, you know, the European Commission have put out this digital education action plan because I think they recognize the importance of this transformation in a way to reset education for the digital age. And that is one big step forward. So I mean, you know, with your experience and the amount of time you spend thinking about these sorts of things, how do you see this process of digital transformation of universities? It's a very loaded question, but very much right in line what I think about quite a bit. And I love the European Union and across Europe and the work that's being done towards the digital transformation. Education system has to change. We've used all kinds of words like reimagined education, redefined, we use a lot of different words on knowing that to keep up with digital times, there has to be a digital transformation across the education ecosystem from early elementary or young four and five year olds all the way up to postgraduate level. And I also see that digital technologies are quickly transforming the workplace. Look at automation and artificial intelligence alone. And we've seen that while it will do away with I believe the last report I saw from Gartner was 75 million jobs will go away, but 133 million new jobs. Our business is educating the workforce, preparing students for their future workforce or current. And that includes reskilling and upskilling, adapting to the new place, the new workplace. So if you look at it this way, Tim, with digital transformation, we know that the workplace is changing. We know jobs are changing. We know work styles are changing. If you just look at the multi generations, we all have a different way we approach work. And our just the whole mentality, the mindset, let's say it's a different mindset by generation. That's a good term for it. And we have to adapt in education. We have to adapt so that we are fulfilling our mission. And so I see that we need to embrace digital technologies, especially in the virtual and online world, we need to take technologies and embrace them and put them into this new world that we live in. Imagine the new merged campus, a virtual world where you can see hybrid students that it's really their holography. There's holography of one of the instructors is not really in that room physically. And so are some of the students. You can see them across the classroom. There are some physically sitting there, and they're separated if we need that. And these students are particularly wearing some of the latest goggles that are available for virtual reality. They can see real life what's projected on the screen. And so even though they're in a lecture hall, they're getting they're in an immersive environment. So that's a digital world where virtual reality, holography and other technologies are being merged into the classroom. I think I have another, you can kind of see here, I put this one in just to show you that we're seeing that already in virtual reality enabled cities around the world. And if that's what's happening across cities or across the United Nations and other places, this is the times we're living in, things are changing. And so we have to look at what does that look like in a classroom, where we can take things apart and put them back together with whatever we're trying to teach or reskill. So again, you can see what a classroom might look like in that new virtual online world that's infused with digital technologies. Does that make sense? It makes a lot of sense. And what does it look like? It looks like a lot of fun to me makes me want to go back and be a student. A lot of fun. And really the trick here, not the trick, I would say the biggest blessing here would be that we have so much power in our fingertips for the classroom for immersive learning experience that are beyond what you can do in a traditional classroom. And once we show that to people who have experienced it from the not so good side, I think we're going to go a lot farther in propelling it the right direction with high quality. I think that is a wonderful note to finish this conversation. Marcy Powell, thank you very much indeed. Thank you. You are so welcome. Thank you. Thank you.


Y1s and 2s. Oh, did I just get pooped on? What the? This video is brought to you in part by TrueTechTools. Quality tools, essential support. What is going on guys? So we have a no heat call here to run. Just got on the roof and D1 here is the one that wasn't at temperature. The other ones were, I can smell gas pretty strong since I walked up to it. So it's not firing off. It's super. And it's a Linux. Let's see what we got going on here. We got a W1, W2 call there. We have a 59 code. Gas valve one, not energized. Default. Energize three default times. Two minutes after demand. Well yeah, probably because it didn't light. You think? It does have occupied at least this time. The other one didn't have occupied. So, well look at that. It's another one of those little blue modules there which I found out that the bigger uglier one is actually the newest version. So see if this one's exactly the same as the last one. And then you figure out why I got really bored the last place I worked at. Because it usually ends up being the same thing over and over and over. And when that's pretty much the primary equipment you work on is one brand. For the most part, it gets pretty boring. Let's see if we can reset this thing. Press and hold. Should blank it out. Starts over. Still got a call. I'll just take a look at this belt. Pretty tight. The dog just gets, that is warm. Let's get the old spectacles out here because I can't read anything up close anymore. I heard a click. But not seeing anything coming across there.  Smelly, smelly. All right, let's watch this happen again. So the spark module must be working but we're only getting a little bit, probably a couple of flames across. Definitely not getting down to the flame sensor. So let's watch this again. We're probably getting it right down in here. Yeah, look at that. Look how those left chambers right there are pretty burnt.  Yep. See, we've got three of them. Heat exchanger. Yep. That's it. Well, in this case here, being as the burners, they've got enough rust on the ends of them.   Hopefully this one actually has a breaker. I'm going to do two things here. We could check the exchanger first, which would save us a lot of time. If it's garbage, we can like, quit right away. There we go. Check the bearings on the blower. Don't feel any shaky, shaky. Looks like that's actually fairly straight, which is kind of nice and surprising. We can probably see that best from that rear panel back there. You know, not horrible. We could probably look at the back side a little bit better. Yeah, that motor's a little warm. Depending on the voltage you're running, it should be somewhere between 6.2 and 6.2. That's weird. Same thing both ways. Full load amps. Let's go 6.2. Well, let's put this back together. We'll look at the back side. Let's see if we can get this thing cleaned up and running for now. I don't know why they didn't do this like they do the residential, but they would have had a burner bracket across there. It would have been pretty easy. It would appear that they haven't been pulled out since the time they were installed. Yeah, it looks, oh yeah, look at that. Oh yeah. That's nice. Man, that bad boy is rusted. Mcgrimless would be happy. Well, here you go. The flame sensor don't look too bad. We'll just go up and down with it this time. I'm not going to get too crazy and break the ceramic. Move on to the next because some of these are pretty bad. The middle is not the big issue. It's these crossovers which may have to run a piece of sheet metal through there to clean that out. Yeah, this one's pretty bad too. This one might end up getting put on the other side upside down if it needs to be. There's really no right side up, but I always kind of like to have this side like this. So we're going to put the two crap ones at the very end and it's going to be the crossover section on the right and the crossover section on the left. Putting this hunk of poop right down here in the spot. Putting this one with the crappy out like that towards the left. You put one of the bad ones in the middle and it pretty much kills your chain going all the way down to the flame sensor. Okay, we've got all the screws in there except for one on each side of that one. Let's see if this Nancy Pansy fancy little hunk junk will run. I wonder how gas pressure is for my most popular apps I've got. Come on, you can do it.  All right, let's turn this thing on. Let's reset it. There we go. Time I did it. A little bit better maybe.  This is an 06. Holy mackerel. 0.3, that was pretty impressive. If it was a spider web or something like that, which it could be, but usually you get a little more pressure than that on the outgoing side. It's just you wouldn't have it at the ends of the orifices. There it goes. Slowly, slowly, slowly. Come on, slowly, slowly. Yeah, it's not getting it. We're not even getting up to an inch. Let's see what our incoming pressure is. Let's go ahead and stop this thing. All right, we got five inches of water column coming in. That's an inch over the three and a half mark. I mean, it ain't great, but it would work. This is a two-stage valve. Makes me wonder, are we getting power on all terminals so that it's firing on high and then dropping to low? I can check out here. Now obviously the gas valve is not going to open because we don't have the plug in it. Somebody keeps asking how I'm paying in things on my meter. It's got a place on it. It's just part of it. Yeah, we got it on one. Nothing on two. I don't know what the normal order is on this. If it normally does two at the same time, and this thing's smart enough if you jump them together, it's not going to work, right? 27, jump over this other one, nothing. So we only got it on W1. Now you know these plugs can be garbage.   They're all going to be, they may need a look too to see if they've got anything in line with that W2 that's possibly breaking it. All right, there we go. Y1s and 2s. Oh, did I just get pooped on?  I think somebody's throwing something. Yeah, somebody threw something.  Yeah, somebody threw something. Or it could be one of the 5,000 birds that just went by. Now that we've plugged that back in, let's see if we get 24 volts on both terminals. 27 going to the other one. Now we've got 27 volts on high.  Look at that, and then the meter shuts off. All right, now let's go ahead and try putting that back together. Everything else in this whole thing is like horrible shape. That's kind of why I thought maybe that might be it. Here's high and low. There's gas valve. So you got high. You got low getting powered off the ignition module, it looks like. And then you've got high coming off the, it looks like a plug.  So we know we got 24 volts. The valve is not opening up. I have a bad feeling about the module, but man, we can order burners, gas valve, and spark ignition. This thing's a piece of cake. Yeah, you know what? They need a gas valve control module and whatever else. That's what we're getting them. And we're going to tell them what they need. We're going to order a new gas valve control module, 11 burners, and if they got other issues after that, we'll deal with it then. Yes, he's back. All right, we've got goodies from Linux had to buy a next day air. Otherwise he's going to wait forever for it. We got flame sensor, igniter, burners, and ignition module. I figured why not. They asked if I needed them, very much was get them. It's not going to hurt way. Everything else is in horrible shape. So let's get a couple of things out of there that don't belong. And let's get up there on the roof. All right, let's go ahead and turn this off and see if we can get this thing swapped out with wholesome goodness. They got more money in the box. I think they do the burner. That looks a little bit nicer than the last time. That's for certain. Gas valve looked like it was the same one to me. So we're good there. Ground yourself. We got that. As usual, what I usually do is I put it in the decision makers ballpark and tell them, Hey, here's my concerns. Here's what I think should be done. And then if they don't do it, I mark it on the paperwork. Hey, customer declined doing whatever it is I recommended. That way, if it goes out later, then they can't count it as a callback. They can't say that we missed anything. It's putting everything documented. And you can't say that, you know, we didn't do them a good job. It just pretty much covers you for all that. You know what I just noticed? The award for the most pitiful install goes to this guy. Let's put the shutoff valve after the union. That's, that is super smart there. We're going to do what we got to do to get it changed.  Going into the return ish area down through into the building and finding that shutoff is not going to be on my radar. I thought they were going to give me a new cable for the igniters. Man, you can tell those are taken out on a routine basis. Look at that. Oh my goodnesses. We're going to leave this old one. It's all nicely rusted. Usually not a big proponent of changing flame sensors for schdizzles, but we are going to do it just because of the poor quality of the connectors. Nope, that was just the stub from the other side. So we're going to leave that right down there for later in case somebody else needs it. There we go. There we clear it. There we go. Unfortunately, it's going to go halfway. Then you've got to come down a little bit. Go that way and take it back up again.  I mean, this is common sense stuff here. What we're going to do, I don't know if I have enough black iron fittings to change it the way it should have been done to begin with. That's three-quarter. I don't carry a crapload of that. Hell, nobody even uses black iron anymore. They went into this crimp it on stuff because nobody knows how to use a threader. Okay, we got it out there. So in theory, the only thing we're going to need to re-dope is that we'll use the pipe as our vice stand. We're on that mat, so we're not going to put a hole in the rough. Okay, there we go. While we're at it, let's look for cobwebs. None there. Nothing white in the back of the orifices. That will happen sometimes. That's pressure. Let's have the next problem. Have we half-tashed it long enough that we now may have to replace the holy, holy dog crap, man.  Yeah, that belt, that belt is destructive. This one here is a little bit better, but not much. Perfectly flat. Look at that pulley. Perfectly flat. That's a 5-8, so they probably don't have that in stock at the local supply house. All right, let's measure this stuff and see what we got, see if they got one. New to the iPhone world, so we got four inches there. Nice. 5-8, pulley. Yep, four inches. That's four inches. We're good, so that's pretty damn accurate. All right, let's see if they've got a 5-8 adjustable, 5-8 adjustable 4-inch pulley. 4-inch pulley, that's 5-8 shaft. Let's see if they've got one in a belt. And thanks to the infamous world of editing, boom, we've got our new pulley and our new belt. So let's pull this turkey off there. I do got my ultimate, I do got my posi lock puller here, which I bought this for pulling hubs, which has the adapters, and this is the one they gave you.  This kit here just for the hub puller was like 350 bucks, but it gets it clean off there. And after breaking some of the cheaper ones, I was willing to spend it and unfortunately, TrueTech Tools doesn't sell that. So they are one of the best pullers on the market and they're made in America. You'll see why here in a second. It's more of an issue with the bigger pulleys than these little burger ones, but you'll see here in a second how nice this thing is. So we just loosen that up a touch. This here comes around. Boom. Back up the inside one. Okay. So there's the jaws. Now we spin this one. That one right there, tightens the jaws up and boom. There we go. And just like that. It's tight and going nowhere.  So there we go. There we go. And this is why I like this 1520-24. Everything tightened up. We said that the 208 volt amperage is 6.2. It's 6.2 on both of them, which is very unusual for whether it's 208-230.  Temperature compensated? No. Let it fire off of the door shut. That way it kind of gets the most accurate as far as disturbances. There it goes. There it fires. Good deal. Starting off at 1.7, 1.8. There we go. Sounds a little better, don't it? Remember what I said? 6.2. 6.7.   No wonder why it was so flipping hot. There we're shooting in at 3.9 inches of water column. That could be a problem, so we better drop that down just a little bit. 3.4, 3.3. Leave that there. So the high fire does fire. Let's see if we can get this fan blade or fan speed fixed here.  That lets it start to cool down. That way when I just kill the fan, it's not going to be as bad on it. Okay, just loosen that up, pull that out. Let's go one whole turn and see where that puts us at. Now, I've got a RPM gauge and all that out there. Yeah, let's see where that puts us out on this. Yeah, I have a feeling that somebody probably put the wrong size pulley on there too, or they got the wrong motor on there. This poor motor's lasted now for four years, probably overdrawn the whole time, and what's as bad as that pulley was totally eight out. I mean, how bad that was. I mean, that pulley, there's how it should have been. So we got that adjusted already. We are running right at 3.48, and we need to check temperature rise, which we've got probes for that, which it's going to be hard to do and get true accurate ratings here. There goes 6.7, 6.6, 6.6, and I was ready for 6.2 and the other rating was 6.8. Either way, there's 6.5. We're underneath that highest rating. I'm good. I don't want to go too slow. We're going to have problems. So we're going to go ahead and throw one thermometer inside the return.  Let's flip that temp, which is the third one up. Turn air is 73. Discharge here is one of the three. The manifold pressure could be as high as 3.7, 1.6. We was at 1.8. Fan don't change speeds, so I'm not going to worry about the low pressure setting. 40 to 70 degree temperature rise. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to be a good guy here. We're going to mark that stuff on the inside. 40 to 70 degree delta T and 1.6 and 3.5 inches water column. It's kind of the most important crap that you need to know, and it usually gets destroyed along with model numbers and stuff like that, but most companies are getting smart enough to put it on the inside. And we also had, now return air is 84 minus 84. We're at 40 degrees, 40 to 70. So we are good. We are good. Now if this thing can't count on its own placement, even though I know it's probably getting radiant heat, not my problem. Let's go ahead and pull this panel here. We'll see if we can get an actual measurement out of the discharge air. So we can stick that bad dog right there like that. Don't know if it's really going to classify as return or radiant heat because I don't know if it it feels good over here, man. This feels beautiful. Okay, let's go back into our our delta T here. Right now we are running about 49, 50-ish, 137. That's what we got on that one, 137, 86 in return. And we got our gas pressure down here at 1.83. So did it drop down to low fire? Yep, it dropped down to low fire. We can bring some cold air into the building. That'll bring her back up to high fire. There you go. All right, she's looking good. No problems on the heat exchanger. Heat exchanger had it been replaced not horribly long ago. If that thing did transfer over to the lower fire, then she jumped right down there at the very last minute. Well, we know when we checked it that we were good on that. So I'm going to just leave it alone. It was accurate to what I had there. I mean it was right in there and we were in high fire when we did it. So I'm just going to go off of what we had there and we confirmed it with the probes and then it dropped down to low and then it basically was backing itself out. It's almost, it is five o'clock. By the time I get home it'll be a lot later in that. We are good. We did way more than most people have already done did. We know that it's set up correctly. Oh, they're going to go again already. Well guys, that's going to wrap this one up. I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video. If you would, hit a like. That's going to wrap this one up. I hope you guys are ready for a whole new year. I'll just keep on going, right? Until next time, later. Okay, there's 1.6. We've got low fire done since it kicked back out. So we're good on that. So we got right around 30, 31, 32-ish. Definitely under 40 for low. Then we go to high. We should be right in there at the under our 70 mark. Filters are fine. I checked those before I left. All right, got the soapy soap. Big blue on there. No leaks. Not even on the Union that I didn't take apart.  No leaks on that back here either. Got that sprayed, got all that back in there sprayed. All right, got the wire ties on there. Good to go.


Many of the names need no introduction. Jahasho of Ferguson, Joshua Lewis to Marshall, the back, Lindel, Sween and Nathan Quashe. All eyes will be them. JDL Joseph is back in the lineup and he will be an integral part while Jaheem Dancler will be expected to bang home goals at the top. Jerry Moe is on the bench. Well, look for Lewis, a captain to lead the back four and Quashe to play an advanced role of Jayce Charles and Rogers. And of course, Lindel, Sween will lead the San Juan North secondary attack. I mentioned that they were only beaten three times since 2019, twice against San Juan secondary and Isaiah Diaz, his job critical in goal for them. No, of course, Marfan in the lineup, but Ashing and Oliveri, national in the 15 talent will be expected to provide some quality while Stapleton has banged in nine league goals. Well, as mentioned, the back two of the, well the middle two of O'Brien and the four to make sure to solidify things there in the middle of the park and of course Stapleton up front, who will be the man responsible for putting the ball in the back of the net for Rima North secondary. Let's look back at the 90 minutes of action. Got us to this point. Did start with drier conditions and some spectacular efforts. And then look at this, Joseph, all held by Diaz. Joseph again would start this one, Lindell Swindow, across his footing and the opportunity. Swind kept quiet for much of the match, but of course, he did have his moments where he caused disruptions, Diaz with the save and then Ashing service. And look at that from Stapleton and a save from Xavi and Haynes. Four from Swind. Of course, he's balled back into the area, forcing all sorts of acrobatics. And then Chase Charles, we swam a score from there in the semi-finals, not this time. Second half for Rima, started to come to the party offensively. Xavi and Haynes needed to be brave whenever he was called upon. Marfan came on as a second half substitute, almost knocked one in past Haynes. But 90 minutes could not find a winner. And we caught Ken Guy though, as an opportunity to give his team a chance. Staying in the competition. Will he be that guy? East Zone, integral winners. A Cinderella story, relegated in their first season in 2014. Dropping to the senior grade division, climbing unbeaten into the Premiership and advancing past San Juan North Secondary to win the championship. What a story. Well, listen to the raw emotions that you're hearing here at the Larigone Stadium. Not even bad light could stop them. They were better. They are champions.


Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the mindfulness session of the MHPN All Together conference. My name is Kim Siew. For those of you who perhaps did not attend yesterday's mindfulness session. So just a quick heads up that sometimes my internet could be a little bit intermittent. So if there's any disruption, do bear with us. But I don't expect that to happen and I don't think that it should be tracked from your mindfulness experience here. So first I would like to acknowledge country. I'm delivering this session from Adelaide, the land of the Ghana people. And that I recognize the importance of their connection to land, water, culture and community. And that I respect their elders' past, present and emerging. Okay, in terms of the structure of today this session, I would like to first take the first 10 minutes to just get us all on the same page as to what is mindfulness. I think mindfulness is so mainstream that I suspect most of you here would be aware of what mindfulness might even have a regular mindfulness practice, but it's great for us to get on the same page. I would like to bust some myths about mindfulness for those of you who are skeptical or think you are not good at it. And also I want to share some research on the benefits as well. If you've heard all of this before, then just sit back and pretend you're listening to your favorite bedtime story all over again. Okay, now after that I will take you through a mindfulness meditation session. And most importantly, I would like us to agree that we all need to stay safe. So at any point during the meditation, if you feel any strong emotions coming up for you, just do resource yourself. So what that means is open your eyes, take in your surrounding, listen to sounds. You need to get up, have a walk, drink a glass of water. Just mainly look after yourself. I don't believe that would happen because I plan to have you feeling hopefully more grounded, centered and perhaps even uplifted after this session. Alright, let's move on to what is mindfulness. I am using Joanne Gabbard-Zinn's definition which is that it is awareness. And you cultivate that by paying attention in a sustained and particular way on the present moment and non-judgmentally. So in other words, what it is is really just being aware of what's going on right here right now for you. And not judging whether it's good or bad, right? And this all may sound so simple but for those of us who practice regularly, we know that it's actually not very easy because our mind tends to wonder. It tends to either go back to the past replaying stories and conversations about what's happened, who said what, why didn't I do this, etc. Or it goes into the future planning, worrying, etc. So we need an anchor, right? We need an anchor for attention to stay put. So the anchor that is more accessible for us is the breath. We breathe without even realizing it. It's there. Another anchor we can use quite readily available to us is one of our five senses. It could be sounds. I've trained myself to when I feel very busy in my mind is to actually try and listen for the silence around me. And that really starts to settle my mind. So you can try doing that. But we can also, you know, when we're drinking our coffee, smelling the coffee, tasting the coffee, sensing the coffee going into our stomach, sensing the warmth of it. Mindful eating, mindful drinking. When we're walking, we're really noticing the sensations and movements of our legs, for example. So there are many ways we can anchor our attention to the present moment, to what's right here. So a lot of people think they can't practice mindfulness because their mind is so busy, they're always having thoughts. I want to just clarify that this is normal. I train as a meditation teacher with some of the most renowned meditation teachers in the world, Tara Brock, Jack Comfield. And they assured us that even now their mind do wonder. And the trick is also to not expect that we're really getting rid of thoughts or emotions. And it's not necessarily relaxing because once we start to quiet our mind, our unfinished business of the heart might serve us. So using John Kabatzi's terms, he says we need to cultivate in our mindfulness practice seven attitudes. And the first one is not judging and letting be allowing and accepting what's going on, what's come up for us to just be, to let it be here. And then what we do is we become very intimate with that, with the present moment, with our anchor. And we use the beginner's mind, so we observe what's going on with fresh sets of eyes with curiosity.  So how can we be curious about it, right? And then we need to not feel that we're striving for something, so trying to achieve something, trying to be blissful, trying to be enlightened. The more we strive, the further it is that goal that we're trying to achieve. So it's about patience and it's about trusting ourselves that we have it in us to be able to be present and be mindful. So why is it so useful? Well, I was really surprised when I found out recently that there are now 17,000 publications that shows the benefit of mindfulness and how it can improve our general wellbeing to reducing depression, anxiety, pain, and of course stress. And really, I think it all boils down to the fact that it improves our regulation, our self-regulation, because from a physiological perspective, when we're able to calm and ground ourselves, our parasympathetic nervous system kicks in. And it slows down our heart rate, it slows down blood pressure, improves our digestive system with the fight, flight, and freeze response of our body, of our mind, sorry, the amygdala actually comes down. So then this gives a chance for prefrontal cortex, that part of our brain that is the executive functioning, emotional regulations, relationship making decisions. That part of our brain has a chance to work, it becomes activated. And also the research has shown that by practicing mindfulness, for those of you who are, you know, we're all here as mental health professionals, it improves our therapeutic presence. So in other words, you're much more there with your client, and that helps you to be so attuned to your client, attuned to what's going on within you while you're listening to your client's troubles and challenges. And then it also broadens your perspective to the suffering, to the suffering of your clients. And what that really helps is that it of course improves your empathy and compassion, and then helps you build a much stronger reliance, therapeutic alliance with your clients. And actually research that also shows that mental health professionals who meditate, they are seeing higher improvements in their client from a symptom reduction and rate of change perspective. I also want to quickly touch on what's the difference between meditation and mindfulness. So the key difference is that meditation is just a much more, I guess, formal practice, and it is that deliberate training of our mind to stay, to pay attention. But at the same time, while it's improving our concentration, we're also increasing the awareness part of our consciousness. And there are many, many types of meditation. Mindfulness meditation is what I'm trained in and I will be guiding you through that today. But of course, there is loving kindness meditation visualization, which I also do and teach, but also mantra. You hear people do that. I don't do that so much. But ultimately, the key point of whether it's meditation or mindfulness is to really help us become much more aware of our conditioning, our conditioned mind, the way we think, our patterns of thinking, so that we can, you know, awareness is the beginning of transformation, of change. And over time, we start to see that all these things that we cling on, there's a real impermanent nature to it and nothing is permanent. So what then that also helps us to do through that process is that we're much more open and accepting to the changes in life to what's going on and increase our window of tolerance for change, for uncertainty, for pain. And I really like what one meditation teacher says. He said that, you know, it's like when we put a tablespoon of salt into a cup of water, that cup of water becomes really undrinkable because it's really salty. But if we put a tablespoon of salt into a big pond of water, into a big pond, then that water is still drinkable because it's really not that salty. And this is what mindfulness and meditation really helps us do. It actually expands our mind and expands our tolerance for stuff, for challenges in our lives. And I also want to give a quote to what my teacher Jack Confill says. He says, you have within you an unlimited capacity for extraordinary joy, love and communion with life and for unshakable freedom. And for me, really, this is what meditation and mindfulness has have really done for me in that it really makes me feel that I have choice. I have freedom because I have a choice in how I feel and how I respond to situations. So on that note, I'm going to take you through an equanimity meditation today.  And the reason I've decided on that meditation is because of the topics that you will be attending today, which is on family violence and loneliness and social isolation. And I think as mental health professionals, you help a lot of people in that situation, and it's important to stay equanimous. So equanimity is really a quality where we're able to stay calm and balanced in the midst of chaos and challenges. So whilst we try to alleviate other people's suffering, at the same time, we must accept that there will be situations in people's life where they have to deal with themselves and that we may not necessarily be able to change. So it's a bit like that serenity prayer. May I have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. So I invite you now to sit in a way that you are comfortable sitting.  If you're not, just gaze down on the floor. And what I get you to do now is to take some deep, long breaths. So breathing in deeply and deliberately slowing down your outbreath. And as you slow down your outbreath, imagine or sense that you're allowing the tension that you may be feeling in your body to wash away with your outbreath. So I invite you to just breathe naturally, allow the breath to come and go. And you begin to notice where are you sensing your breath. It might be at the tip of your nostril, the back of your throat, maybe the rise and fall of your chest or your belly.  And as we spoke before about the attitude of mindfulness, could you bring a beginner's mind to what are you noticing about your breath this morning? What qualities do you notice? The temperature, the fluidity. You may sense that your breath is breathing itself. You may also sense that there is the beginning of ease and calm permeate through your being. And if the mind continues to wander, that's also okay. We're not judging. As soon as you become aware that your mind had wandered, that moment itself is a moment of mindfulness. And so you gently guide your attention with loving awareness, with kind awareness back to your anchor. It could be your breath or maybe it's the sounds around you. Bring yourself this precious moment to be right here, setting aside your responsibilities, your roles, your worries and concerns for the next 10 minutes, just to be right here. You also choose to check in with the body and make sure you're not still holding tension. So perhaps check that your jaw is relaxed and cleanse your teeth, place your tongue at the top of your mouth. Check that your shoulders are relaxed, roll them down back down the spine.  Now I invite you to begin to reflect the benefit of a mind that has balance and equanimity. In the sense what a gift it can be to bring a peaceful heart to the world around you. Let yourself feel an inner sense of balance and ease. What I invite you to do is I'm going to say some phrases and I invite you to see if you could sense them in your heart, in your being. And this is really like a little sort of well wishes for yourself. May I be balanced and at peace. May I learn to see the rising and passing of all nature with equanimity and balance. May I be open and balanced and peaceful. May I be balanced and at peace. May I learn to see the rising and passing of all nature with equanimity and balance. May I be open and balanced and peaceful. We acknowledge that all created things arise and pass away. Joys, sorrows, pleasant events, people, buildings. We let ourselves rest in the midst of them. We also acknowledge that all beings are as to their own actions and that their lives arise and pass away according to conditions and deeds created by them. And while we can love and care for others, we cannot fix them, no love for them. And so you might want to bring a group of people, some specific people you know and wish them equanimity. So bring to mind someone or a group of people. And as I say this phrase, see if you could feel it for them. Your happiness and suffering depend on your thoughts and actions. May you learn to see the rising and passing of all things with equanimity and balance. May you have true equanimity. May you be balanced and peaceful. May you live with a peaceful heart. I invite you to expand your field of equanimity to this mHPN community. And we say to each other, may you learn to see the arising and passing of all things with equanimity and balance. May you be balanced and peaceful with a peaceful heart. And finally, let's expand our field of equanimity to the whole world. May I bring compassion and equanimity to the events of the world. Others happiness and suffering depends on their thoughts and actions. May I find balance, equanimity and peace amidst it all. May I learn to see the rising and passing of all things with equanimity and balance. May I be open and balanced and peaceful. May I live with a peaceful heart. Welcome back everyone. I hope that was a helpful practice for you. It is my hope and vision that at some point in my lifetime that people will embrace mindfulness and meditation the same way they would brush their teeth every morning.  I hope that you'll find that mindfulness is so good for us in every aspect that you will find a minute or two in your life to come back to your breath or do a longer practice. And I thought this is really a nice little poem that I found about and how just a little bit a day will help. Little by little I'll learn to know the treasured wisdom of long ago. And one of these days perhaps we'll see that the world will be the better for me. And do you think that this simple plan may team or her a wise and useful man or woman. And finally I just want to mention that I also offer a free online meditation every week on Wednesdays at 7 o'clock to 7.30. And you can contact me if you wish to get the zoom link and I'd love to see you guys there. You can also check out my website cheetahlift.com. But other than that I wish you all a lovely day and thank you very much. Stay equanimous.


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When I look at the campaigns we looked into issues and crisis management, it is often said that when you do not handle an issue well, it becomes a crisis. And what we saw today was some sterling effort by agencies who have not only been able to manage, but also curtail some of the crisis work that they have done for their clients and seen a shift in tonality of messaging. So, kudos to the agencies who have done some sterling job under issues and crisis management.