The Kraft Foods Company presents Harold Perry as the Great Gilder Sleeve. The Great Gilder Sleeve is brought to you by the Kraft Foods Company makers of Par-K Margarine. Millions of women all over America serve Par-K because it tastes so good. And now in many states you can buy this delicious Par-K Margarine in yellow quarter pound sticks. Yes the same spread that tastes so good now comes in handy quarter pound sticks already colored a rich golden yellow and ready to serve. That's Par-K, P-A-R-K-A-Y, Par-K Margarine made by Kraft. Well guess what, the circus is coming to Summerfield. It'll be a great day for the kids.  Hee hee hee, Andy Oakley. Yep, the Great Gilder Sleeve. And this is how he got them. Good afternoon my friend, are you the city water commissioner? That's right, Throckmorton P. Gilder Sleeve. Well my name is Captain Blacky Sparks, manager of Sample Brothers Diagnetic Circus. Well, glad to meet you Captain Sparks. Always happy to see the circus come to town. Well I'm happy to be here. Mr. Commissioner, we'd like you to help us get water out of the circus grounds at Sherman Field. Well I guess we can run a pipe out there. Ha ha, good good. I like a man who can make a fast decision. Boom boom. Boom boom, oh yes. Well I guess it'll take quite a lot of water for all those wild animals. How many have you got in the circus? Well Sample Brothers Diagnetic Circus has a gigantic menagerie, including ten gigantic elephants. Fifty genuine Arabian ponies, one two ton hippopotamus. Oh, have a camel? No thanks, I don't smoke. Well thank you, thank you for your cooperation Mr. Commissioner. Drop into the circus grounds any time you can do your paper. And here, here are six tickets with my compliments. Good for any performance of Sample Brothers Diagnetic Circus. Well, thank you. Now I gotta run, gotta go unpack the elephants' clothes. What? You know the circus business, boom boom. I hope he's the guy they shoot out of the cannon. Well thanks Brady, I'll go out there. Yeah, got some tickets to the circus. You have? Yeah, here's one for you Brady. Oh thank you Mr. Gilles, please. My, my, Brady's going to the circus. Well I'll go finally, Roy. What?  Oh, his little Brenda over this afternoon? Yes, but she's the people and he's the circus. I'll give little Miss People a ticket too then. Who's that? Marjorie, what are you doing peeking through that knot hole? Oh, hello Auntie, shh, I'm watching the circus, it's a riot. Oh, let me look. Oop, Marjorie, he's wearing the tops of my red pajamas. Linoceros, oh, his pet turtle. There goes our salad. What's this? Marjorie, how long has this been going on? I don't know. George, if he keeps that up, he might do it. Things packed. Every spring I have trombone. I have trombone. I have trombone. Things packed. Every spring I have trouble with that boy. I wonder if he'd really join the circus. And I'll talk to him as soon as Brenda leaves. Must be Judge Hooker. Probably coming over to borrow my spray gun. I bet he has aphis in his rose trellis again. Hello, guilty. I'd like to borrow your spray gun. I know, Judge. I have aphis in my rose trellis. Just as I thought, you'll find the spray as usual in the garage, Judge, as if you didn't know. Well, you don't have to be so grouchy.  Well, the circus isn't making me happy. Huh? Leroy wants to run away and join it. Well, guilty at some time or other, every boy dreams of joining a circus. There's no dream, Horace. He's making plans to leave. He's already packed some of his things in his little Boy Scout bandana.  No, but I'm going to. I've got some tickets here for him, but I'm gonna tear him up. He can't run away with the circus if I don't let him go near it. Uh-huh. Guilty, how many times do you have to be reminded that the quickest way to make a boy want to do something is to forbid him to do it? It's simple psychology. Now, my advice is to... Judge, your advice is always simple. No. Guilty, if I were you, I'd take Leroy down to the circus and get him a job. Judge, are you out of your mind? Naturally not. Let Leroy carry water and pitch hay while the circus is in town, and if I know circuses, he'll get another one in two days. Well... That's hard work, Guilty. Leroy hates work. By George, Judge, for once I think you're using your head for something besides a hat-rack. Well, thank you, Guilty. Too bad you can't think of a use for yours.  May I come in? Sure. Look at this room, plastered with circus posters. Keen, huh? Leroy, how can you sleep with all these wild animals leering at you? What's this one? Sample Brothers Circus Presents Beatrice. The Beauty and Her Beasts. Some lions, huh, aunt? Eh, yeah, yeah. Leroy, I'd like to have a little talk with you. Okay. You were playing circus this afternoon, weren't you? Gosh, did I leave my turtle in your pajama pocket? Well, I don't know, Leroy, but thanks for warning me. My boy, how'd you like to join a real circus? You mean...  You mean it, aunt? I certainly do. Gosh, I wonder if I'll get to water the elephant. Don't worry, you will. Come on, morning at seven o'clock, Leroy, and I'll come out during my lunch hour and see how you're getting along. Gee, thanks, aunt. That's all right, my boy. And I know you're gonna like it. If he does, I'll sue Judge Hooker. Blackie. I'm sorry to interrupt while you're working your liars, but we've got a financial problem. Oh, another one? Where did I get out of the cage? I think we picked a lemon when we came to Summerfield. The tickets ain't selling here. Well, you're the business manager. Stir up some local interest. Why don't you try the old chestnut? You mean we get the mess to be guest ringmaster? I thought of that, but he's out of town. Well, there must be some city official who likes to play big shots. Who is the big fella with the handsome mustache you brought the kid down to work this morning? Didn't you say he's the local, uh, water commissioner? Yes, but he's trying to cool his kid off on circuses. We couldn't get him. Well, uh, maybe I could get him. What? Let me know if he comes around again. Uh, pardon me. Well, the water commissioner. Well, hello. Hello yourself. I came down to see how Leroy's getting along. Captain, where is he? Oh, he's around someplace. Say, we were just talking about you, Mr. Gilda Sleeve. Meet Miss Beatrice Sample, owner of Sample Brothers Gigantic Circus. How do you do? How do you do that? Miss Sample, you say? Yes. Well, if you're a sample of Sample Brothers Circus... Miss Sample not only owns the show, but she's the star. Beatrice, the beauty and her face. Oh, yes, I've seen your picture. In fact, I have it on the wall at home. Oh, you do? Nice. Mr. Gilda Sleeve, whenever we play a city, we like to confer an honor upon one of its important city officials. Oh?  Guest ringmaster? Why, yes, it'll be good business for us and good publicity for you as a city official. If you don't mind your picture in the paper. And, uh, you shouldn't. Well, I've never been interested in publicity.  I mean, perhaps I shouldn't pass this up if it means something to the city. Well, good, good. We like a man who can make a fast decision. Boom, boom. Yeah, boom, boom. Hey, no, wait a minute. Blackey, why don't you go find a uniform to show Mr. Gilda Sleeve? Uniform? On my way, boom, boom. Now, Miss Sample, let's not rush me into this. Just what does a guest ringmaster have to do? First, you make a grand entrance in your gorgeous uniform.  I do? Why don't you come over here with a bandage rehearsing and test your voice over the public address system? Well, I've always been a little shy of microphones. Oh, now, Mr. Gilda Sleeve, I'll bet that deep voice of yours will sound wonderful. Oh? Well, I might just try it out. What'll I say? Oh, just welcome the people to the circus. You know that ladies and gentlemen stuff. Oh? Boy, give Mr. Gilda Sleeve a fanfare. Well, fanfare. Now, let's see. Ladies and... Sounds pretty big. Say, you're sensational. There, my band likes you too. What was that? Oh, that's Leo, my big lion. Oh, I hope Leo likes me. Oh, Miss Sample, this is Leroy, my little nephew. How do you like working for the circus, Leroy? I'm quitting the old circus. Quitting after half a day? I'm kind of... Now, Leroy, let's not be too critical of Miss Sample's circus. I rather like it. Are you kidding? No, I'm not. In fact, tonight I'm going to be guest ringmaster. You ring? Yeah. Now, where were we, Miss Sample? Dang, Bertie, no doubt about it, all kinds of dishes taste better with parquet margarine. Mr. Wall, ordinary food ain't ordinary when it's got parquet on it. Take, for example... It's a delicate parquet flavor that makes the difference. Wonderful on pancakes or biscuits. But even real ordinary food, even the ordinary is kind of food you can think of. Of course, the reason parquet margarine has such a wonderful flavor is it's made from the selected products of American farms. The fact is, it's made like a luxury. As I was saying... Furthermore, Bertie... But, Mr. Wall, I'm saying what you're saying, but I'm saying a difference. I'm saying that just the ordinary of kind of dish of warmed-over vegetable makes a nice-tasting dish when it's covered with golden yellow parquet. Okay, Bertie, you say it your way. What I'm saying is whether you use parquet for cookies or cooking is just a wonderful taste and fruit. That's certainly right, Bertie. And parquet costs only about half as much as the most expensive spreads. And Bertie, to steal a line from you, here's what I'm saying to our friends. Just try P-A-R-K-A-Y. The margarine with a delicious, wonderful flavor. The margarine made by Kraft that tastes so good. When Sample Brothers Circus came to town, little Leroy made boyish plans to join it. To discourage the idea that Great Gilder Sleeve got him a job watering elephants and pitching hay. It worked. Leroy quit and went home. But guess whose ringmaster while the show's in Summerfield? Guess I'll go in and see if Pee-Vee's heard about it. I need some between-the-act cigars anyway. Hello, Pee-Vee. Hello, Mr. Gilder Sleeve. What can I do for you this fine day? Pee-Vee, I'll have a half a dozen of these cigars. Very well. Pee-Vee, guess what happened to me when I went down to the circus grounds this noon? Get squirted by an elephant? No, Pee-Vee. Bits by a snake? Yeah. I'll have a mighty good snake fry remedy. Pee-Vee, that's not it at all. No, no, don't tell me. Let me get. Oh, Ferb. Did you get tattoos? Pee-Vee, will you listen to me for a minute? They wanted an important official to be guest ringmaster tonight. So who do you suppose they chose? I don't know. They chose me, Pee-Vee. You don't think? Certainly. Have a look at this uniform they gave me to wear. I'm taking it home for Birdie to Alder. That's young. Yeah. Last fellow who wore it wasn't quite as big an official as I am. Size 36. Take a look at this, Pee-Vee. I'm wearing this high silk hat, these white riding britches, patent leather boots, and a red coat with gold braid. My, my. I'm doing it to stimulate business for the circus. And that should stimulate business or that. It takes me back to the time I wanted to join the circus. You, Pee-Vee? She wore pink tights. You know why. Pee-Vee, you wouldn't have liked circus life. I don't know. There's a lot to be said for it, Mr. Kelly Thieves. Free board and room. I don't like hot dogs that well. Work six months and loaf six. Yeah? Well, that wouldn't be bad. Good pay, too. I know an undertaker over in Dexter who takes every summer off and travels with the circus. An undertaker. What does he do? He's a clown. He's a clown. He makes more money in a few weeks than he does the rest of the year. Well, Dexter must be a very healthy town, then. Quite a life, the circus. Chance to know interesting people, too. Takes Miss Beauty and her Beast, for instance. What? No, Pee-Vee, you know I'd never become interested in a circus woman. No, no, I wouldn't say that. I'll see you at the circus, Pee-Vee. Look down and see if pretty has that gold sash pressed. All right, George, this ringmaster's uniform isn't bad. These whip cord trousers make quite an impressive noise. I feel like Cecil B. DeMille. Yes, sir, I'll show them how to run that circus. Well, Uncle, you look gorgeous. Thank you, my dear. Hi. How's it like that?  You said it. After the way you felt about Leigh-War joining the circus, how did they ever persuade you to be ringmaster? Well, Marjorie... I don't suppose the fact that the circus owner is an attractive woman had anything to do with it. Marjorie, Miss Sample, asked me as a city official, so I considered it my civic duty. The fact that she's a beautiful blonde has nothing whatever to do with it. Leroy! Only kidding, huh? Well, there'll be no kidding about the circus. It's a very old and honorable name. And profitable, too. And I may just take a whirl at it this summer during my vacation.  Here's a goldfish, Miss Gillesley. Mine, mine, you sure look elegant. Thank you, Bertie. Just like the grand potentate of my lodge.  A sword, no, Bertie. Just a riding crop. Oh. Them white riding pants fit after I let them out? Oh, yeah, just fine, Bertie. I don't think anybody will know after I put on my sash. Mind you, you hold one end while I whirl myself into it. All right, auntie, go ahead. Dizzy. Steady, auntie, while I tuck it in. There. Thank you, my dear. Well, how do I look? Just like the grand potentate of my lodge. Better get down to the lodge. I mean the circus. Look at all the people. Say, I'm quite a drawing card. Well, the more I think of this, the more I'm convinced this is the place to spend my vacation. How else can a man travel and make money at the same time, unless he's a traveling salesman? Well, look at my ring, master.  Yeah, thank you, Miss Sample. You look gorgeous in yours, too. Just like a drum majorette.  Just like a drum majorette. Say, aren't you afraid the lions will scratch your knees? Oh. That's our cue. We're on. Oh, yes. We make our entrance together, don't we? I'm a little out of step. Step on the platform. Good luck. Thank you. Same to you. It's quiet in here all of a sudden. Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. This is your guest ringmaster and water commissioner, Brock Morton P. Gillesley, presenting Sample Brothers Gigantic Circus with the most stupendous array of stars and animals ever assembled under one big top. Well, I got through the elephant ballet, all right? You're doing splendidly, Gilles. Hooker. I always said you belonged in a circus. Oh. You're just jealous. Oh, you're wonderful, Mr. Gillesley. Keep it rolling now. Rolling? Oh, yes. And now, ladies and gentlemen, presenting for your amusement, amazement, and approval the sensational, death-defying aerial act, the flying fiddlies. Pretty close. Beast of the center ring. Presenting the final and feature act, Beatrice the beauty and her beasts. The bold Miss Beatrice will now enter the cage with the most ferocious assemblage of man-eating lions and tigers in Somerville. And I mean the world. Catch me hiking with him any place. Okay. Leo won't jump up on his barrel. Who? Take your riding crop and give him a prod through the barn. Me? Well, these bars don't look very strong.  Give him a poke. Nice lion. Get up on the barrel. Now, Leo, nothing personal. I'm a Leo myself, born in August. Give him the thick. Go ahead, kitty. Nice kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. Don't be so gentle. Hit him with the thick. Hit him? Well, if you say so. Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have to run over to Miss Samples' trailer. Business. I have something to discuss with her. See you at home on this. I'm in here. Hi, George. I made a good ringmaster for those who saw myself. This is the time to ask her about being ringmaster during my summer vacation. I play my cards, right? I think I could persuade her. Well, her trailer door is open. She plays the guitar. Oh, Miss Samples. Well, come in, Mr. Gillesley. Thank you. Nice guitar. Mother of Pearl trimming. You play well. Well, it helps me relax after my cat act. Sort of relieves the tension. Sit down, Mr. Gillesley. Well, thank you. I want you to know I think you were terrific tonight. Well, thanks again. I dropped in because I want to have a little serious talk with you. Well, I'm glad you came by. I was a little lonely, anyway. Well, like Blackie says, I'm a man of fast decisions, Miss Samples. And this day with you in the circus has given me some great ideas. Oh. I can tell you like music, Miss Samples. Oh, yes, I do. Music appeals to everybody. Now, if you had a ringmaster with a deep voice to sing a song or two, you would add a lot to the show. Oh, well, who'd you have in mind? Who'd I have in mind? Far away places with strange sounding names Far those far With the strange sounding names Are calling to you and to me Oh. You bet. They call me a dreamer Well, may that I know me Those far with the strange who me Mr. Gildersleeve. Did you like that? Oh, Mr. Gildersleeve, I loved it. Good. Then that makes it easier for me to ask my question. You don't have to ask. I'll marry you. Huh? Circus. You would be at risk, Miss Sample. That's not what I had in mind. I thought perhaps during my vacation this time. Oh, I wait for your vacation. We'll do it right now. What? We'll be married tomorrow night in the center ring, your friend Judge Hooker officiating. What? We'll make it an after-show and chart 25 cents admission. 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Yes, sir, you'll see everybody. Everybody except me. And me. Little Leroy. Good night, folks. The Great Yilder Sleeve is played by Harold Perry. The show was written by John Elliott and Eddie White with music by Jack Newton. Included in the cast are Walter Kathleen, Mary Lee Robb, Lillian Randolph, Earl Ross, Hitler Graham, Peggy Newton, Barbara Whitey and Eddie Marr. This is John Wall saying good night for the Kraft Foods Company, makers of the famous line of Kraft quality food products. Be sure to listen in next Wednesday because if you think the Great Yilder Sleeve was in hot water with that lion tonight, wait till he starts investigating a haunted house. You'll like this pleasant, quick way of making leftovers more delicious. Just add a little Kraft prepared mustard then you add a lot of tang. Hidden flavors in boiled ham, sausage, most any meat pop right out. Every bite tastes better. Now you can get two kinds of Kraft mustard. 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Let's talk about insomnia. I'm going to tell you what insomnia is and what it is not. And yes, this is scientifically charged information. Based on a study published in Cortex Journal, insomnia isn't just about not being able to fall asleep. And it's not about how tired you feel. It's more about your mind not calming down when it should. Sometimes when you're in bed and tired, your mind is too active and that's what keeps you awake. So why does your mind stay active? Well, our brains are pretty good at making and getting rid of thoughts. There's a special gene called ComT and it's involved in this process. If you have a ComT gene mutation, you might not have enough of a certain thing called L-methionine. This L-methionine helps your brain get rid of thoughts and relax. I want to emphasize that this is not a substitute for medical advice.


What's going on everybody this is Giovanni from the options trading channel it's been some time since my last video and I have some information to tell you and as this video progresses I promise you it's going to go from terrible to better to good so bear with me as always I apologize for not updating you guys live as the trades happen but let's start out by letting you know there was catastrophic failure in our trades and I'm sure that a lot of people are going to be saying in the back of their in in the back of their minds what they've been saying all along which is I told you so it's the inevitable that this was going to happen catastrophic failure on not one but two trades macy's trade and beyond meat now let me tell you what I think happened and it's all just theory and it's in my opinion but this actually happened and I can show you the trades by all means I will show you the account but I will tell you that we lost on macy's well actually macy's wasn't as bad as by and beyond meat macy's we sold the 20 dollar calls that expired a week or basically four days from the day that we sold them this was naked call options by the way we sold the 20 dollar calls last monday the expired in four days were expiring four days and we sold them at seven cents and this was about the same time it was at the same time that game stop was sort of happening and I'm sure that if you're watching my video by now you know exactly what has been going on in game stop that's why I haven't really said anything about game stop everybody in their mom has covered game stop but basically the short interest in macy's was attractive in in that group that's that ran up game stop and I'm not saying this is what happened this is all in my opinion it was attractive because it was a heavily shorted stock and for no reason the day after uh that's that we sold no two days excuse me two days after we sold those naked call options it ran it ran um I believe from about fifteen dollars something like that uh to over twenty dollars so it went over our strike strike price this was macy's and the only thing that saved our butts and I should have started this conversation uh with beyond me but the only thing that saved our butts on macy's is I was able to purchase 2,500 shares um after the market closed the day before it actually ran I just had this awful feeling in that trade because of game stop and the reason why game stop was was running up and I ended up losing about fifteen uh fifteen thousand dollars on that naked option position sold them at seven ended up buying them back at like 73 cents 74 cents if I remember correctly and I ended up losing about fifteen thousand dollars luckily I held those shares from 16 dollars and 30 cents around there all the way up to 21 dollars and 70 cents almost 22 dollars and so I made back 13,000 dollars out of the 15,000 that I lost and we we came out of that whole trade about two thousand dollars down a little more than two thousand dollars so that wasn't that bad what was bad was beyond meat beyond meat they came out with news the day after that we sold those naked call options I can't remember exactly what what it was the two tens I believe we can look at the screens here in a little bit and the morning after we sold them they came out with news that they made a deal with Pepsi about some snack vegan snack something of that nature healthy snack and it just the stock price jumped up we were down on the account last week on the account as a whole we were down about 30,000 dollars we had it up to about 428 we it was bouncing around 428 429,000 and we we brought it all the way back down you know over 30,000 dollars in losses but with beyond meat what we did was to help salvage that trade we rolled those calls over to February 19 three weeks out in beyond meat we had a 13 we actually incurred a 13 thousand dollar loss it was terrible it was terrible I had a terrible week last week straight and as blunt as I possibly can that is the honest truth that's what happens that's the danger of trading naked call options more than anything call options not put options put options is naked puts are in my mind in my opinion better and not necessarily safer but again if you know what naked options are the difference between calls and puts trading those naked and why it's infinitely more risky riskier is that is that the word to say to trade naked calls because you literally have infinite losses a possibility of infinite losses side note if we hadn't had done anything and just stayed put in those positions it would have worked out both maces and beyond meat ended up coming back down to earth and those options that we sold would have been expiring or they expired worthless but the danger in doing that and not taking action is if it just continues going way above your your strike price you got to pay the difference I mean it's a terrible thing we did the right thing we we covered our butts and that was that oil oil has been absolutely phenomenal our investor is wanting to stay in oil it's not our play I don't claim that it's my play it's I don't claim that oh you know I invested in oil now he from the get-go was like hey here's this chunk of change the only condition is the only limiting factor if you will is you have to invest in oil we have to and he doesn't know anything really about the stock market himself the investor himself he just knew that he wanted to invest in in oil and so I mean it's doing awesome phenomenal it's doing great the account went from literally 420 829 thousand even I mean it dipped down below 390 thousand dollars 30 40 thousand dollars in the hole and I'm here and proud to report that we've made back most of our losses the account is back up up above 420 thousand so we've gained back over 20 25 thousand dollars on the account was still a lot left to collect on the table the other thing is amazon I'm going to show you our trade our naked we have a spread we sold some vertical spreads for amazon and they just came out with earnings they crushed it they absolutely crushed earnings the only uncertainty is that Jeff Bezos is stepping down SEO and I don't know what that's going to do to the price of amazon tomorrow morning but it looks like we're in the clear let me show you all of those trades let's go to the computer screen and I'll talk to you about those trades even the macy's trade beyond meat's trade and amazon trade that we have currently on one last thing is this has been an awesome experience without a doubt I've had so much fun it is very stressful and nerve-wracking to say the absolute least but I'm having a blast doing this it is somebody else's money but I am looking after it as if it were my own the opportunity that I was given is unbelievable and I'm just rolling with it and we're doing really good for the exception of last week last week was our worst week ever absolutely ever we had two stocks go completely against us and we were never expecting that we were expecting maybe you know maybe two three four a year we had two in one week it was a wild week so let's get to the computer screens and let me show you a little bit about what's in our portfolio what positions we hold and then our past terrible trades already and here is the account and I had a comment in my last video that the screen was really tiny and so I ballooned it up and I hope you can actually see it a lot better this time around okay amazon amazon amazon check this out we sold two verticals two different verticals the 3700 calls we sold and we bought the 3710s that expire for this week on this friday 20 of them and we also sold some puts 3050 puts and we bought the 3040 puts verticals here and again 20 of them and then I also sold two 3800 calls these are naked now these are naked 3800 calls all that expired this friday I sold them at 765 currently they closed yesterday or excuse me they closed today today's february 2nd if I haven't mentioned it so I'm up a little bit on that just 20 but tomorrow hopefully they should completely decay not completely they'll be a little bit left on the bone but they should be good and then one four thousand dollar call naked I sold it at 335 down a little bit again 20 so that is the big amazon trade we stand to make about 4700 this week on this play alone let me show you all the other positions that we currently have we are buyers of options of all of these that I'm about to mention just to give you an update just a quick rundown I'm you know this this video is already long enough apple bought three 120 call that expires march at 2070 down quite a bit on it trading at 1690 down 1140 beyond meets we still hold 40 of the 290 calls that expire february 19th but or we sold them at 515 already trading down to 60 and 60 cents 60 and a half cents we still have 2400 left to squeeze out we're up on that position 18000 but those are inaccurate numbers because we as we talked about beyond me we lost quite a bit I'll show you exactly how much we lost on that one docuSign we're up on bought two 3790 trading at 40 dollars IGV bought two 3920 up to 45090 and PWR WAPAL is in its on this one bought two of the 220 that expire march and square bought one I wish I would have bought a ton more but only bought one of the 190 calls that expire february 19th I suspect we're gonna roll over this one and can add add to that that position there bought it at 3205 currently trading at 3845 10 I was down on this one until today bought at 1520 currently trading in 1655 bought five of them with a hundred dollar calls that expire february XBI I believe we just got into this one today this is a spread here bought the 135 calls sold the 150 call expires march five of them and we are down 100 whopping dollars XHB down a little bit as well 50 dollar calls five of them 1180 trading at 1165 XLK I believe we also just bought this one not too long ago I believe and that's a spread that we have going on 114 125 call from march and bought four of them actually I do believe that we bought into these calls today let's move on to the account statement I should know the account is is at 423 768 dollars so we're just five six thousand dollars off the highs of this particular account let's get back to the bad terrible trades I know I'm going through this really fast trying here we go Macy's just I mean these are all the trades these are wow the trades of us buying back all of those calls that we sold at 73 cents it was bad it was absolutely bad here we go this is I'll show you where I bought those shares yep here is we bought them at aftermarket on the 26 about 20 2,500 of 2,500 shares at right around 1630 sold them at 2,175 so I made 13,000 dollars pretty much overnight I mean this was catastrophic failure I definitely want to show you beyond me look at that down for the year 18,000 dollars that we still have about almost three grand to collect and squeeze out of the current position that we're in Macy's see 2,000 about 2,100 dollars we are down so it wasn't as bad it wasn't as bad nearly as bad 10 you know for the year we're down 2,100 so it's not terrible not terrible by any you know stretch of the imagination when you compared to a 420,000 other account beyond me beyond me it was the absolute catastrophic failure there but hey life goes on you you live and you learn I'm learning a crap ton by the style of trading it is it's adding it's adding to my skills to my resume so to speak and I love what I'm doing now two major losses 2,100 each but look at that oil this year oil has been amazing phenomenal and everything else oh silver I didn't even talk to you guys about silver I did trade silver made $3,400 on that all the rumor from the GameStop guys I bought it at 2880 just one and I sold it at 2948 every cent guys every cent that silver moves is $50 it's it's quite phenomenal it takes about $15,000 in margin to trade one of those suckers so I was nervous about it and this was in the middle of the night I did put in a stop loss and it looks like it executed at 440 in the morning on the first so that was that was a wild ride so that's gonna add thank you everybody so much for watching I know this was a much longer video than you're used to but I had a lot of updates to update you on if you like this video I would greatly appreciate it if you hit that subscribe button down below don't forget to thumbs up this video see you guys next time hoping it's a green trade see you guys later


Since I've been focused on improving my life, there is one decision that has been the single biggest decision I have ever made and has by far made the biggest impact on my life. And I truly mean that of anything that I've done in the last five years. The one thing that has given me the lifestyle and the life that I have always dreamed of is something I have not talked about here yet at all. And that one thing was building a successful online business. Now in this video I want to share with you the four reasons I think everyone should build an online business because of the way that it completely transformed my life. What's up guys? Alex Hine, author of the book Master the Day. Now I've put together something brand new. It's a 30 minute audio MP3 on the three keys to building a successful online business that pays you to live the life you always dreamed of. So I'm actually building an early interest list for my first business course I'm launching in July. Now this course is not for everyone. It is for people willing to invest money and it is not going to be a simple $100 course into building a real online business that can pay them to live the life they always dreamed. The number one reason for me building an online business was meaningful work. You know when I was working at my first jobs in my 20s I couldn't help shake this one damn feeling which is that why am I alive? Like why am I wasting 40 hours a week for nothing? Like I'm getting paid $35,000 a year to live in an apartment I don't even really like that much to spend 40 hours doing something I don't want to be doing for what?  Like this is the purpose of life? Screw that. I wanted work that even if I got paid nothing 2500 a month just to exist I would have gladly taken that with a job that I loved and that's the main reason I started building my business. The second reason was I wanted control of my time which meant control of my destiny. You know how am I supposed to be able to live out my best life with 40 hours dedicated to someone else and on top of that there's no reason for me to even do a good job at work because I get paid no matter what. But what happens if I wanted to get double the income, double the salary? If I work double as hard I'm not going to get paid double as much so what's the point? You know for me I wanted for example to be able to take two vacations a year. Now working for someone else I can't do that at most companies but now as an entrepreneur I take four vacations a year sometimes I'll just work remotely from France for a month. Like that is the awesome part of having an online business and even though I don't do it much the most important thing to me was that I control my destiny now I control my future. I make my own schedule I can work from anywhere I choose the projects I get to work on to a certain extent it's the freedom of having that. And that brings me to the third thing which is freedom. You know for me I always dreamed of the freedom to be able to take a normal Wednesday off, go to the gym, get lunch with a friend and in the evening maybe guess what I board a flight because I'm going to Southern Spain and I'm just going to write my book for a month and have a good time drinking wine drinking just these vermouth a nice vermouth sitting outside in Barcelona with friends hanging out and then a couple hours a day writing my next book. Well guess what that's exactly what I did in July two years ago I wrote my second full-length book milk the pigeon tracing the footsteps of Paulo Coelho in the book The Alchemist going all over southern Spain Andalusia Granada Sevilla I went all over southern Spain and then at the end I met my friends in Barcelona some friends I had from living in China and we drank vermouth every night sat out in the sun and just had the best time of my life I rented an Airbnb for a whole month I would write for a few hours in the morning the evening and afternoon I took off and that is the sweetest part of an online business that level of freedom is not something you can have really any other way that I've seen it and the last reason to build one is that there is an almost infinite upside you know five years ago I've had my business for five years only two of it two years I've had YouTube and when I started like the dream was what if I spend nine hours a day I replace it with work I love and I'm barely making enough to live I'm getting paid like 2,000 a month barely enough to survive but I'm happy as hell that was the best case scenario but now five years later not only am I only working three hours per day in my business I mean I'm I'm doing a doctorate I'm in medical school but on top of that I've launched five books I have a YouTube channel on the hundreds of thousands of subscribers and more important to me you always DM me email me tell me my content has helped you change your life that is the shit I live for that is the most fulfilling thing in the world and now I've got speaking opportunities new books products online courses events coming up like it just gets more exciting with time and I never could have predicted that and so the beauty is that when you build an audience-based business like this the new things that come out of it every single year it just gets more and more exciting and if you do it right more and more fulfilling now I'm super excited for this new course because I've always wanted to launch a business course when I reached a certain milestone in my business the reason being there are so many bullshitters on the internet selling business courses like I have a public brand you can see what I'm doing you know I'm a real person you know what you have an idea of where my income comes from so I've included that brand new it's a 30-minute audio download if you want to build an online business this year I'm launching a beta program for 50 people it's gonna be launching in July on send you want to have your own online business add yourself by clicking that link below and downloading that free audio and I'll notify you when I open those spots that enrollment in about a month or two so I hope that helps you guys I really do believe like there's so many things I worked on in my life my happiness my fitness my relationships and my character but truly the thing and I mean is honestly the thing that made the biggest difference in my day-to-day life every day was having my own business online because that's nine hours a day I no longer hate I made all the difference in my life and so if I can help you shorten that learning curve from five years to one that would be sweet so if you'd like you can join me there at the first link in the description otherwise check out my last videos right there and right there


Good morning and law and welcome to law across the sea. My name is Mark Shklav. I'm the host of law across the sea. Law across the sea as you as the name sounds features lawyers who travel across the sea to and from Hawaii talking about what they've learned and the knowledge and customs they brought and taken with them on their travels. Today the title of my program is One Country, Two Systems. How is Hong Kong fairing as a special administrative region of China? With a big question mark after that. And my guest is Carol Peterson. Carol is a professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law here in Honolulu and is also a professor of law at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Carol began her law career in New York, New York City and came to Honolulu before she moved to Hong Kong in 1989 where she taught law and worked with the Hong Kong Legislative Council for 17 years before returning to Hawaii in 2006. So she's had a lot of experience in Hong Kong and it is not, well it's kind of coincidental that today is Martin Luther King Day. Welcome Carol. Good to good to see you. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here. And I think we're going to be talking about human rights and civil rights maybe in connection with this question. Now what is One Country, Two Systems and the special administrative region? What do they mean? What is the definition of those and from someone with a lot of experience? Please tell us what it is. Sure. One Country, Two Systems is a concept that was originally proposed by Deng Xiaoping. The idea is that territories that were not under the rule of China but China wanted to regain could come back and join China but maintain their own separate legal and economic systems. Deng Xiaoping originally proposed it with Taiwan in mind. Needless to say Taiwan is not interested and has made that very clear. But then in the early 1980s when Margaret Thatcher and the British needed to negotiate on the future of Hong Kong, they went to meet with the Chinese negotiators and Deng Xiaoping kind of pulled One Country, Two Systems out of his back pocket. That was not what the British wanted. The British were hoping to get an extension of the lease on the new territory section of Hong Kong. Now everybody knows this but the lease only affected the new territories. Actually, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula were ceded in perpetuity from China to the British. But those were the treaties that were always referred to by the Chinese government as the unequal treaties because they were basically the result of the opium wars. So Deng Xiaoping took the position, we're not going to extend the lease beyond 1997 on the new territories, we want to regain all of Hong Kong on July 1st 1997. The British resisted that at first but eventually agreed and then the idea became let's take this concept of One Country, Two Systems and try to make it as concrete and detailed as possible. That was one thing that the British insisted on. And so they drafted the Sino-British Joint Declaration which is a bilateral treaty that's been registered with the United Nations and it provides that Hong Kong will become a special administrative region of China which it did on July 1st 1997. But will continue to have its own economic system, a capitalist system and continue to enjoy all the civil liberties that the people had become accustomed to and also continue its own separate common law legal system. And so that was the first special administrative region and then the same concept was applied to Macau which was a Portuguese colony and Macau became a special administrative region of China in 1999. So one country meant we're going to come back and be part of China, the motherland, the big China. Whether you want to or not because it's widely known and public opinion polls showed in the 1980s that the majority of people would have preferred to have either stayed British or if they couldn't stay British to become an independent city-state like Singapore. So they were not asked. And the majority of folks were where were they from? I mean they were from China, right? Right. When the British acquired Hong Kong island, historians say there were probably fewer than 10,000 people there. Maybe migrant fishermen lived there, some there were some indigenous residents of the new territories part. The reason the population of Hong Kong is now 7 million is because after the civil war and then again during the cultural revolution, loads of people left China, fled China and settled in Hong Kong because they preferred the stability and the relative freedom of a British colony even though it was not a democracy, they felt they had more rights and freedoms in Hong Kong. Some people continued to migrate on to places like Canada and the United States, other places because they were always afraid that Hong Kong might not be a permanent place of refuge. But it is particularly ironic that these people were handed back to China given that they had fled China. Yeah. And the folks had come from a place where they were afraid to lose their rights and they thought they would gain some sanctuary, I guess. And now they're in a place at that time 20 years ago when they're going to be returned. Right. They were their descendants, of course. You know, a lot of people who live in Hong Kong now were born in Hong Kong and they identify as Hong Kongers but they are, in general, they are the descendants of refugees. There are also a lot of people who came to Hong Kong as part of the British colonial administration. People migrated from India, from Pakistan, from Nepal, from western countries. Diverse area and it's also a wealthy area. It's more than the little village when the British got there, right? That's right. Hong Kong has a vibrant economy. At the time the joint declaration was ratified in the mid-1980s, there was a huge disparity in income between Hong Kong and mainland China. Not so much now, but because of that disparity, one of the principles of the joint declaration is that they have separate finances. So mainland China gave up any right to tax Hong Kong, which is rather significant. What you would normally think of as a sovereign right. Hong Kong also has its own monetary system. It still has the Hong Kong dollar. Separate monetary control. It's its own customs territory. Hong Kong was admitted to the WTO as a separate customs territory. It has its own immigration border. I have a Hong Kong ID card. I'm still a permanent resident of Hong Kong. I can go in and out of Hong Kong with my Hong Kong ID card. But I do, I need a visa if I want to go to mainland China. Okay. And so I can see they kept a lot of the economic benefits to Hong Kong. But what did China get out of this? What's the one countryside of this? What does China get?  And maybe that was in Deng Xiaoping's mind is a way to get it. Sure. Well, a lot of it is nationalism and regaining territory that China felt had been, the Chinese government felt had been stolen from it. And so there's that nationalist desire to regain the original territory. I'm sorry, that you think is a sincere desire. I hear you saying that's more than just money. Oh yes, far more than just money. It's nationalism, national pride. And one of the things that was interesting to me is that in the mid-1990s when I traveled to Beijing, I was there in 1995 for the fourth world conference on women, the UN conference, because I do a lot of work on gender inequality. And we were in Tiananmen Square for the opening ceremonies. And as our little bus was leaving to go back to the conference center, I saw this massive clock. And I had heard about it, but I had not seen it yet. And it was a clock in Tiananmen Square ticking off the days, the hours, the moments until Hong Kong would be returned to China. And after Hong Kong was returned, they put up a clock from a cow. I think after that they had a clock for the Olympics or something like that. There's always a clock. And it does appeal to certain nationalist sentiments in China. A lot of people feel very strongly that it was wonderful that Deng Xiaoping made this deal to get Hong Kong back and to get it back peacefully. Because if they had not agreed to the One Country Two Systems model, I think a lot of Hong Kong people would have protested. And the United Nations might have been asked to intervene. Well, and so Deng was thinking of a way to get back this little island or this area into China for nationalistic reasons. And he was trying to do it in a peaceful way, but it's not a socialist way. And so he gave up something too. Yes. The Joint Declaration promises that the socialist system of China would not be practiced in Hong Kong and that there would be no significant changes to their way of life for at least 50 years. That is one thing that... And so a lot of people are wondering what will happen in 2047. It's scary how quickly it's coming. It seemed like a long way away at the time, but now it's coming rather quickly and people are beginning to wonder, because some people are very unhappy with the way it's turned out. There are some people who are arguing for independence in 2047. I don't think Hong Kong has a chance of getting independence, although I think they would do very well on their own. I don't think they'll ever get that. But other people are asking, will China at least agree to continue One Country Two Systems or might China argue for full integration, which the Hong Kong people are very frightened of? Well, it sounds to me like the deal was better for China than it was for the Hong Kong folks or the British. Yes, I agree with that. And that actually, he said 50 years and at the time everybody thinks 50 years is hell, but it's 20 years have gone pretty fast and there's been not a lot. I mean, I've heard and I'd like you to tell me a little bit about some of the problems that have occurred. Sure. I want to start by saying that, first of all, when we think about theories of autonomy in international law, the theory of giving a region a high degree of autonomy is something that is often suggested as a way to avoid armed conflict. And so when the One Country Two Systems model was detailed in the joint declaration, a lot of scholars who study autonomy models around the world said, wow, this is a great one, that it gives Hong Kong on paper more autonomy than most other autonomous regions. It's unusual for an autonomous region to be able to control its immigration border, to have its own currency, etc. It's a very completely different legal system. So on paper, it really does provide, I think for an exceedingly high degree of autonomy, what I like to call in my scholarship the potential for internal self-determination. You think of external self-determination as the right to secede, but internal self-determination means you respect the territorial integrity of the larger nation, you're not trying to leave, but you exercise this high degree of autonomy and have many differences in your territory from the rest of the territory. What hasn't worked? The reason the potential for problems arises in the fact that the joint declaration was very detailed on civil liberties, very detailed on financial independence, very vague on democracy, and of course the British didn't have a lot to argue with there because they had not given the people of Hong Kong democracy either. And so it was always an appointed governor, British would sail in and with the big hat, the colonial hat, and more recently they'd fly in, but it was an appointed governor from England, always a white man. The legislative council was originally completely appointed as well, and it really was not until they started to prepare Hong Kong for the transition to 1997 that the British started talking about democracy reforms. And originally the British had a proposal that would have created essentially a parliamentary democracy system in Hong Kong in time for 1997, that's where China objected. And you could see the Chinese government did not want Hong Kong to become fully democratic before they regained Hong Kong. So the way it works is the chief executive of Hong Kong, who is the replacement for the governor, has to be a Hong Kong citizen, not someone sent from Beijing, so that's good, but he is officially appointed by the central people's government. There's a selection committee that is indirectly elected in Hong Kong, but it's such a complicated system and it pretty much guarantees that this selection committee will not select someone that Beijing disapproves of. So the people of Hong Kong have been fighting for a long time for democracy. The legislative council is now half elected from geographic constituencies, but there's also these things called functional constituencies, which are again designed to guarantee the government has a certain number of pro-government legislators. And so the governance system has become almost, it's almost chaotic, because I feel sorry for the chief executive, because he doesn't have the support of the people. And so it's very hard for anyone who's this appointed chief executive to really govern Hong Kong. And let's talk a little bit more about that after our break. Okay, all right. Thank you. So all this hacking has become a major topic. I'm Andrew, the security guy. Join me on Hibachi Talk and learn a little bit more about it. I have my friend Gordo and my puppet buddy Angus. Check us out on Fridays at one o'clock on Think Tech Hawaii. Hi, I'm Marianne Sasaki and I'm here today to tell you about the Women's March on Washington on January 21st. It's an incredibly significant march in which both men and women are going to stand up for women's rights, women's reproductive rights, and all the rights we've accrued over the past 40 or 50 years. There's also going to be marches in each city on each island, there's one in Oahu. I urge you to join a march and stand up for women's rights. Aloha, my name is Danelia, D-A-N-E-L-I-A. And I'm the other half of the duo, John Newman. We are the co-hosts of Keys to Success, which is live on Think Tech live streaming network series, weekly on Thursdays at 11 a.m. Aloha. Aloha. We're really angry at the students because they felt they were threatening you. We are back. We are back. And we've been talking off air about what happened in Hong Kong. And I learned a little bit today because I was sure that this was all about money. That Hong Kong, I mean, I've been to Hong Kong and it's pretty impressive. And I even went to Hong Kong before it became part of China again. That comparison was tremendous. But you've told us that it's nationalism. And I am impressed with that. And I understand the colonial background of China and how people could be upset about that. I get it. And so tell me one more time, what does China get? What does China get? It's not just about money. It's a lot is the idea that China has risen again and it has recovered what the western colonial powers stole from it. You have to remember also that the Communist Party is not elected government in China. And but even if you're not elected government, you need to have some claim to legitimacy. And economic development has been one of the Chinese Communist Party's claims to legitimacy. But the economy is slowing down a little bit now in China. And I think a big part of their claim to legitimacy is expanding China as a world power. And that means it includes regaining Hong Kong, regaining Macau, building artificial islands in the South China Sea, flexing your muscle. Someday, I fear they may insist on regaining Taiwan. China does not need Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau for their economy anymore. I mean, look at the economy. China's economy is so well developed. They don't need these territories for any other reason than nationalism. So it's a good viewpoint to know how to deal with China in the future because you have to think from a different standpoint, from a standpoint of this means more to them than money. They're willing to fight for this. Yes. Okay. And that this one country, two systems was a clever, a smart negotiating tool to get back what they wanted without firing a shot. That's correct. And so what remains with this one country, two systems? What's out there? What's part of it that is in discussion? Well, there are many things that I think have worked well. I mean, I have to tell you, sometimes people say, oh, Hong Kong is just another part of China now. And I always say, no, no, no. If you think that, go to Hong Kong on June 4th. And you will see thousands of people in Victoria Park lighting candles in memory of the victims of the Tianan Square massacre. That's the only city in China where you can do that and not be arrested. And I see the mainland Chinese tourists watching. They can't believe it. I can still say whatever I want in Hong Kong. I wrote, said, spoke, said whatever I want in Hong Kong. There's freedom of expression, freedom of religion, et cetera. But there have been some hiccups recently. And probably the scariest was the disappearance of the booksellers. And what happened is there was a bookstore called Cosway Bay Books. And frankly, it's not high quality literature. They are salacious, gossipy books about the leadership in the Chinese Communist Party. And the five owners and operators, the people who worked at this bookshelf, they were getting pretty rich because people are hungry for gossip about the Chinese Communist Party. Probably wasn't such a big deal as long as it was only Hong Kong people reading it because people in Hong Kong can read anything they want and the books are legal. But as more and more tourists were coming from mainland China and buying the books and even ordering the books to come to mainland China, the Chinese leadership clearly got nervous. There was a very salacious book that was supposed to come out in January, right now, this month. And instead, what happened is the five men who were running this bookstore, one by one, started disappearing. Three of them disappeared when they were actually traveling across the border into Shenzhen in China. That probably wasn't very smart in their part, but they didn't realize that they were going to be targets. One of them disappeared from Thailand. He was, although born in China, he's actually a Swedish citizen and he was living in Thailand. He disappeared. The last one, Li Bo, was the scariest. He disappeared from Hong Kong. And although the Chinese government has never admitted it, we are almost certain that he was abducted either by undercover agents who came across the border who have no authority to operate in Hong Kong or somebody they paid to take him. All of a sudden, he appeared, as did his colleagues, on mainland television confessing to crimes, but not explaining how he got across the border without his travel documents. He did not cross the border legally. He must have been smuggled across. He was eventually returned. All but one of them have been released now. And he won't talk. He won't say what happened. But the bookstore is empty. They're not publishing those books anymore. So that is the most frightening violation of One Country, Two Systems. And I have said that there's not going to be any reconciliation between the people of Hong Kong who are very angry right now and the central people's government until they explain what happens, apologize and promise that it will never happen again because that's such a violation. They're not admitting that anything happened. They're just saying, oh, he made his own way to China and voluntarily cooperated with the investigation, which of course is nonsense. We all know that's not true. So that's one of the biggest threats to One Country, Two Systems. The other big concern right now is because Hong Kong people are upset about these developments and also the delays in democracy, there are some people in Hong Kong who identify now as either being localist, they call themselves, or sometimes even pro-independence. And they're starting to argue for independence. And I'm quite frightened by that because I think it could bring about a crackdown from mainland China. And so we've had incidents where some legislators who are elected, they used very insulting language when they took their oath of office. Right, young, young folks. The young inspiration candidates, yeah. I mean, they were elected to the Legislative Council. In my opinion, they were very foolish. Instead of just taking their oath of office and doing work for the people of Hong Kong, they decided to use very insulting language and to carry flags that said Hong Kong is not China. Their oaths were invalidated because they didn't read the oath as written. And then, although they were going to be given another time to take the oath by the President of the Legislative Council, in between that time, an action for judicial review was requested by the chief executive and the court ruled that they had lost their opportunity. They had not taken the oath, they had refused to take the oath. What happened in between, which really should not have happened, is the National People's Congress Standing Committee issued an interpretation of Article 104 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, its regional constitution. It has the power to do so, but it doesn't do so very often. And it was seen as interfering in the court process, which is a really strong, serious potential interference in judicial independence of Hong Kong. The judge, however, in Hong Kong, I give him credit when he wrote his decision, he said, I'm not basing my decision on that. I'm basing it simply on my interpretation of the Hong Kong oath's ordinance and what they did. I accept the argument that they refused to take the oath and if you refuse to take the oath of office, you can't serve. So there was a good faith legal basis under law? I think it's arguable, yeah. And so what happened to them? I mean, what... So they are appealing now. They appeal to the court of appeal. They lost there, but I think they're trying to raise money to appeal to the court of final appeal, which is based in Hong Kong. That's another feature of one country, two systems. The highest court of appeal is in Hong Kong. There's no court in Beijing that receives appeals from Hong Kong. So we'll see what happens. I was quite disappointed in what they did though, because I do think it's just throwing more fuel on the flames here and it's going to escalate the conflict. So I've been trying to argue for a conflict resolution approach, whereby if the central people's government would agree to more progressive democracy reforms and also promise that things like the disappearance of Li Bo will never happen again. And if at the same time, the more moderate hand Democrats in Hong Kong would agree not to support any moves for independence, right? And perhaps to compromise on democracy, what the Occupy Central Forces wanted in Hong Kong was the right to nominate anyone for chief executive and then complete universal suffrage. Central people's government wants to screen the candidate, so you only have two or three candidates. Obviously, you need something in between. The basic law does say there should be a nominating committee. My argument is it could be an indirect election. Basically, the nominating committee is elected by the people of Hong Kong. They nominate the candidates. You have to ensure that there's genuine choice of candidates, and it's not just a puppet of China. And the basic law is basically what was used to put into fact the one country, two systems program, right? Right. We had first the joint declaration, which is a very detailed bilateral treaty, and then the basic law was drafted between 1985 and 1990. And it's the regional constitution for Hong Kong. But it is a national law adopted by the National Peoples Congress, and it can only be amended with their approval. It's very detailed. It's 161 articles, very detailed constitution. And so there are some protections in there. Oh, lots of protections. One of the most important, if you're interested in human rights, is that Article 39 of the Hong Kong Basic Law incorporates international human rights treaties right into Hong Kong's domestic law. And the most important one is the international covenants and civil and political rights, which is incorporated through Article 39 of the Basic Law and also through Hong Kong's Bill of Rights Ordinance. So that's why I couldn't leave Hong Kong, as I promised my parents after three years, because suddenly I was teaching in a legal system that had taken an international human rights treaty and sucked it right into their domestic legal system. And that's every international human rights lawyer's dream. You want to see what will happen to these treaties when they're enforced by an independent judiciary, right? Okay, now, we are almost at the end of our program. What does the future look like? Where are we going? And is there something you want to conclude? I think the future is really up in the air. Recently, I have heard some scholars in Hong Kong say that China is looking for a way to rebuild its relations with the Hong Kong people. They did just announce that the very unpopular chief executive, Xi Yilong, will not be seeking reelection. It's really a selection. And so there is now an interesting process now where three or four candidates will be running. And I think at least a couple of them are much more popular with the Hong Kong people than the current chief executive. The problem, though, is right now, anyone who is popular with the Hong Kong people probably won't be trusted by Beijing and vice versa, unless they make this compromise that I talked about where Beijing promises meaningful democracy, at least moderate democracy reforms, and no more disappearing booksellers, no more violations of that one country, two systems. And the Hong Kong people agree to abide by one country, two systems and not advocate for independence because that's like a red flag to the ball for Beijing. You know, and Martin Luther King would have probably thought how can people live together in peace and different people? People have to learn to compromise and respect each other's territorial boundaries.


Hello and welcome to the session, let's discuss the following question. It says a hemispherical bowl of internal diameter 30 centimeter contains some liquid. This liquid is to be filled into cylindrical shaped bottles each of diameter 5 centimeter and height 6 centimeter find the number of bottles necessary to empty the bowl. So let's now move on to the solution. We are given a hemispherical bowl which has diameter 30 centimeter and in this bowl we have some liquid and this liquid is to be filled in some number of bottles each of diameter 5 centimeter and height 6 centimeter. Now volume of this hemispherical bowl will be equal to the volume of all these cylindrical shaped bottles that is volume of this hemispherical bowl is equal to the volumes of the sums of these cylindrical bottles right. So we have to find the number of bottles so let there be n number of bottles. So the volume of hemispherical bowl is equal to the volume of n number of cylindrical bottles. Now the radius of the bowl is equal to 30 by 2 centimeter that is 15 centimeter since 30 centimeter is the diameter and we know that radius is half of the diameter so it is 15 centimeter let this be capital R. Now the volume of the bowl is equal to 2 pi r square as we know that the volume of hemisphere is equal to 2 pi r square where r is the radius so you must write this formula. Now r is 15 so we have volume of hemispherical bowl is 2 into pi into r cube here also it is 15 cube. Now we know that the volume of cylinder is given by the formula pi r square h where r is the radius and h is the height of the cylinder. So now the volume of n number of bottles will be equal to n into volume of one bottle since each bottle has the same radius and the diameter so volume of n number of bottles will be equal to n into volume of one bottle right. Now n into volume of one bottle now the radius say r1 of bottle is 5 by 2 centimeter so r1 is 5 by 2 centimeter and the height is 6 centimeters so the volume is n into pi into r square that is 5 by 2 square into 6 so this is the volume of n number of bottles now volume of n number of bottles is equal to the volume of hemispherical bowl let's name this as a and b and let's name this as 1 so equating a and b we have pi into 15 cube is equal to n into pi into 5 by 2 square into 6 right. So now pi gets cancel on both sides and we have n is equal to 2 into 15 cube that is 15 into 15 into 15 upon 5 by 2 square that is 5 by 2 into 5 by 2 into 6 and here we have in the formula 2 by 3 pi r cube so here also we'll be having 2 by 3 and here we'll have 2 by 3 now 3 into 5 is 15 and 5 gets cancelled with 5 then 5 into 3 is 15 and 3 gets cancelled with 6 and we have this is equal to 2 into 15 by 2 that's not by 2 2 by 15 upon 1 by 2 so this is equal to 2 into 15 into 2 that is 60 so the number of bottles is equal to 60 so this completes the question and the session bye for now take care have a good day


Status of Governors and Governed Because the basic subject matter in discussing different types of regime is to address the conditions and relations between those who govern and those being governed. Basically, we are here in this session going to discuss the difference between the governs and the governed. That is, those people who are ruling and those people who are being governed, we have to understand the nature of relationship between these two and what is the difference in their status. We have to discuss this in detail. Because in democratic regimes, are characterized by broad consensus and representation based relationship between governed and governess. Because what is the characteristic of democracy? That there will be a wide variety of consensus between the two. And on the basis of representation, the people above who have sovereignty, who are behind them, who have their own people, whose votes are capable of conquering them. And what should be the most important characteristic of those people? That is the factor of accountability. Because they know that the people who have made us the rulers, we are accountable in front of them. They can ask questions, talk to us, and we have to go back to them. Because their votes are required if we have to enjoy this status again. So we can say that those people who are in democracy, who are under the control of the ruler, who are under the control of the ruler, what is the most important part for them? That the power they have, that is basically a responsibility. That is, by exercising that power, they have to fulfill the responsibility according to their power. And the most important thing in that power is the element of accountability. And then, along with that, there are participatory systems. In the world, all those systems, those who do it on the basis that the force behind them is the participation of the people. If they do it on their own, they can't do it so efficiently. And if people lower the level of participation, then the legitimacy of these rulers will be challenged. It is quite an interesting factor because legitimacy gives the right to the rulers that they are the representative legal constitutional rulers. But if the representation of the people is reduced, people's votes don't have a trend. People think that by giving their votes, the system doesn't make any difference. So there, even if that ruler chooses a few less votes, their legitimacy will be debatable. So we can say that the factors like openness, accountability, representativeness, participation, then rule of law, then redistribution of resources on equal basis and electoral process basically determines the overall status of governors and governed in a democracy. That is, the most important thing is that are those people who are rulers, are they promoting the rule of law? If the law is equal to everyone in their view, and there is no difference between rich and poor, then people are satisfied and this is basically the basis of the rule of law. Then definitely another important component of redistribution of resources. That is, the resources in the country, in the state, are they communicating to people in such a way that improvement is coming in people's lives or improvement is coming in them. Because if improvement or improvement is not there, then people will not be satisfied with that system or that system. So if we want to summarize this, then we can say that the rulers, the rulers and those who are governed, improve and improve. Their nature of relationship is linked with the performance of the rulers.


Okay, Princess says, what are the statistics in finding a partner? That's a great question. So I believe roughly today, in 1950, 20% of the population was single. And I believe in 2019, 55% of the population is single. Now it doesn't include single and or in a relationship. I think most dysfunctional human beings don't, you can find a relationship. If you wanna find a healthy, happy relationship, here's the thing. If you don't have good interviewing skills, your likelihood of a healthy, happy relationship, one out of 10. I'm being blunt. I mean, your chances are very slim. Two out of 10 at best. If you do not ask better questions right from the get-go. And it's very obvious today. Look, we have a divorce rate at 50%, and the other half of people that are married, half of them are miserable. So it's roughly a 75% chance you are not gonna find the right partner. But as a friend of mine, and by the way, and I think if you ask better questions, your odds increase 10-fold. 10-fold, if you know how to, by the way, that's my area of expertise. Check out the link to a free discovery call with me. That's what I teach you, how to ask better questions right from the get-go so you avoid the wrong person much sooner. But if you might all be saying Jonathan, then what's the point? And you might say, love is a risk. Yeah, love is a risk. But to me, it's still the best game in town. You know why, folks? I love myself enough to know. I love myself enough to know that no matter what, the universe has my back. God, universe, spirit, everything is happening for me. When you operate from a place of spirituality, from a place of trust, you know that it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life. If you hold a vision for yourself, that's one of divine love for oneself and a love for humanity, then you know what? You trust that whatever's gonna happen now is gonna happen. And guess what? We don't get it right this go around. We'll get it right the next go around. That's my, listen, I may sound woo-woo for some of you, but I still operate from that way. If you really wanna read a great book, read if the Buddha dated, if the Buddha dated.  All of this material I'm giving you and even creating a bit of fear, it's because, hey, it's time to become an adult. The princess energy out there isn't going to work. Sitting back in your feminine energy and waiting to be claimed. Look at that rhetoric, it ain't gonna work.  There is a lot of dysfunctionality out there. It's almost toxic. And it's time to remember that if you really wanna have a great experience in life, that it starts with the relationship with yourself. Hold on a second. By the way, if you're not familiar with Esther Perrell, she wrote a book called Mating Incaptivity, Mating Incaptivity, but she says the quality of your life is predicated by the quality of your relationships and it starts with the relationship with yourself and I'm gonna show you my coffee mug. Sometimes you forget you're awesome and this is your reminder. Yeah, yeah. All right, have time for one or two more questions. Let's go swimmin'.  There we go. All right.