Doesn't tell you what to do with them, doesn't tell you to give them extra time to cross the street, doesn't explain any further, but it's progress. At least it's in the driver's manual now. Oh, busy, busy page. Okay, so electronic travel aids. Susan had mentioned verbally about a Moet sensor. That's on your bottom of your screen dead center. It's that black and white picture. It was a sonic sensor. It would send out information depending on which way you had the selector switch for the person's thumb is. It was in a lovely, like that harvest green color that your old appliances came in. And really it would send out a signal whether a short focus or a longer focus, basically like in Star Trek, it'd be like your long range sensor or your short rate sensor. It was to be used in conjunction with a cane. You would use it to wave back and forth to explore if there was an object in your path or overhead. Obviously, it came and has left mostly because it's been replaced by newer technology. It's then not the first. Other ones that have been like it up on the page, you can see on the right hand side, there's the BAT-K sonar cane. And you see that one was clipped onto the cane. There was also something called the laser cane at one point, but that has gone the way of the dodo. And if you try looking up laser cane, you're just going to learn about Parkinson's and quad canes. So that's not the same as the laser cane. The laser cane was very similar to the BAT-K sonar. Above that, there's the mini guide that would be similar, just a smaller handheld version. There's the ultracane, and this one's still available for purchase, the ultracane. I've played with it.  And again, it's doing the same thing. One lead sensor that shoots out a further beam, one that's narrower. So depending on which one that you're checking out, you can get the vibration feedback in your handle depending if you're about to walk into a chair versus maybe a door that's much further away. That's a jar. Yeah, the proximity glasses. It's a concept product that's being pushed out on the internet currently by Videre. I have no idea where that is. Maybe it's Spanish. But it's very similar to the eyeglasses. That's the one on the top left-hand corner. Both of them are doing the same thing that the ultracane, the BAT-K sonar, the mini guide and the mode sensor. There's a built-in way of it sending out a signal and reverberating back to the device, the glasses in this case, and it will vibrate and let you know whether or not you have found an object that's in your path.  The only two that are different on this page. Oh, I put eSight glasses on there. They seem to be very popular, but they're not an O&M tool. They are a low-vision tool, and it doesn't belong in an O&M circumstance. So I know some people got all excited that maybe the eSight can be used to drive with answers. No, don't do it. eSight is not for O&M and it's not for driving. I actually don't even know if there's actually a relevance to the classroom because most kids don't want to look like Jordy LaForge and have big glasses on anyways in the classroom. But the two on the page that are different. There's the wee cane on the far left side. This is not a fancy tool like the others where it sends out a proximity alarm. It's actually a measurement tool for the O&M instructor to help correct the student's gait and find out if they are holding their cane at midpoint. Really cool. We had a demonstration on that about eight years ago in Calgary at a workshop. It has got my mind churning about all sorts of assessment applications, but really it hasn't moved really very much from the conception stage from the manufacturer. Bottom one, the spot stick. That one's interesting because it looks like a handle attached to the cane, but it actually picks up, if I understood correctly from reading it, it actually is picking up on a sensor in the room that will announce to you where you are and that they use it on the bus system.  Very interesting device, but obviously not here. Oh, those were the trends that have come and gone or should really come and go or some may be stuck around, but haven't for very much. The practicality of a lot of them, they're expensive and a white cane is much cheaper. Here's the area where there's been great growth and really practical applications. The original Trekker Maestro, that's the one on the left-hand side, that has a palm pilot with two other gizmos. One of them was the microphone. The other one was the GPS receiver. It was cumbersome, awkward. Thankfully it was replaced eventually by the company of Humanware with their Trekker Breeze model and all in one type of thing.  The bottom center, the Captain, whether it's the older white model or the slightly newer revised black one, that was a product that was out about five years ago as well to compete with the other ones I've already mentioned. Oh, the tactile Braille compass has been around for decades and not very well used. I've only played with one myself for less than a handful of experiences, but very dependable if you're teaching gift cardinal directions. It's a really good tool. The smartphone at the top, really the one up there from Mobile Geo. I think that's on a BlackBerry platform or some other thing. Obviously, as smartphone technology has taken over it, all you guys know that the iPhone has accessibility features and maps. I know that some of my former students have used this. In fact, I had a student who replaced his Trekker Breeze completely practically by just using the iPhone. Yeah, here's great leaps and bounds. From the original talking GPS where the guy in California, I remember the picture of this, he had a big giant backpack with 2N10A sticking out the back and he was wearing headphones and the short little video I saw was him walking up with his cane and having this huge backpack on with the battery pack and everything. And then he had a conversation with a bus driver, but he knew where he was because his GPS was talking to him through. Maybe we've come a long way, baby. That's all I can say. Okay. When I mentioned the Wii cane, they're made by this place, the Touch Graphics people. And they do a lot of things for orientation mobility. They got some great technology talking models that they have programmed. So raise tactile diagrams with auditory built into them, tactile maps, I mean, even the use of 3D models well before anyone else was doing that. And then they've done some research stuff. This is really cool stuff. The talking tactile head, it doesn't have an application at this moment in orientation mobility, but they're working on this bust of a head where no matter where you press on it, it will announce to you left eye, right eye, nose, cheek, ears. So think of a 3D model of a building and now you can actually press on various windows and it will tell you what floor that is or where the east entrance is. Smart grips are cool for people with three-ball palsy or other contractors, so those are really neat. Anyways, there's their website. I suggest you go there and just look at the stuff they have. There's stuff for Teacher Division in Parrot with educational implications, but then there's also all these cool things for orientation mobility. Touch Graphics. Okay, here's a brief soapbox. Of those five books listed there, I haven't read the last two, The Mobility Matters and Cain Confessions. I just ran across them when I was pulling this presentation together. I found this, I found her website, I found a really great audio clip. Which I've given a link to and I really actually want to buy both volumes. So maybe that will be on my wish list. But I've read the other three and although they tell stories of various people who are visually impaired, what I really at the time clued into and really liked was how they got around, how their orientation mobility skills were a journey, literally. A process of them learning how to get through their environments. The first one, the Cock-Eyed Fellow. It's funny because with RP, similar to the Lady with the Cain Confessions and Mobility Matters, having RP and losing your vision over time, the reliance on those O&M skills need to ramp up. But then they also like to think of themselves as a sighted person. So a very interesting little story. So if you haven't read any of those books, pick one and read it. But if you have a moment, go to the last lady, Amy Bouvard's Cain Confessions. There's a 50-minute clip. And the main thing that I pulled out of that that I was really interested in was her revelation, her personal revelation of, well, why don't I use my white cane inside somebody's house? There's this perception that once you reach somebody's home, the cane gets folded up, pushed in your backpack or put by the door and then you're left to do sighted guide. And her little story is she's very much left to fend for herself in this house where there's tripping hazards galore and dawn on her as, well, why didn't I use my white cane to not trip over this lady's oxygen tank and cord and stuff like that and not fall down the stairs. So interesting, I'd really like to buy her books. Okay, so, so box number two. I didn't know where to fit this in in my whole presentation because I'm rolling pretty fast. There's a lot of slides to get through. So here, a use of ID cane for children with low vision. As you know, in this province, we have a lack of O&M instructors and a lack of O&M service for kids who are more severely visually impaired, blind and conversely, that means the kids who are low vision who still need O&M training are getting even less service. On average, I was seeing at the peak, kids with low vision being seen anywhere from, I don't know, three times a year, maybe once a month. They were really close in proximity to O&M instructors, whereas the kids who are more severely impaired, blind, were either being seen once a week or once a month or somewhere in between. So the kids with low vision, not seen as much. And the further they were away from any C&IB center, the less service they got. Well, what happens is then the kids don't know they might be using an ID cane for street crossings. And I have in my role as both a TDI and an O&M instructor, I've been parachuted into a couple of situations where, okay, here's just one story, for example, a grade 12 student who, low vision, he actually himself had advocated for getting some training. So the school board then, at that time, I was working for the consulting service model. That school board brought me in at the $50 fee an hour or whatever it was back then. And I did some O&M training with him specific to White Cane, how to use it, street crossing, even though he had lots of great vision in his school and didn't need it to get around. But he was tired of almost being hit by cars. He had had, if I remember correctly, five close encounters with cars, and actually one time the key got clipped, and he got scared enough that he, by grade 12, recognized the need for an ID cane. If we don't introduce an ID cane to a child before junior high, then you have the whole host of complex junior high attitude to have to deal with in trying to get them to use an ID cane. I had come across an article, I can't remember if I posted it or not, it's not in this presentation, but it talked about how the success rate of low vision kids in crossing streets, when they're trying to use like one of those high visibility safety vests versus the success rate in using a White Cane, much higher with the White Cane, very low with the red vest. So just one of those plugs I'm putting in there, I know we don't have a lot of O&M instructors. It's great for me to say that we need to have more training for kids with low vision, get them an ID cane in their hands. The problem still exists of, well, how do we get them trained? And we'll chat about that towards the end. Okay, other soapbox, Susan had mentioned echo location. For those of you who have no idea what echo location is, I mean, you learn about it in every O&M course, and not in the way that Daniel Kish uses it, but echo location is just the ability to listen to your environment and use the sounds to figure out where you are as an environmental clue. You hear the pop machine running in the hallway as you're walking to the office, you know, you're about halfway. You're just using echo location to hear it. Your cane, if you are not a constant contact person, this one doesn't apply as much because you're always getting feedback, but if you're a capper, the two-point touch, you get a lot of tap echo back from your walls, and you can use that information to navigate better. What Daniel Kish does is, as he's described it, you can call it echo location when you're actually talking to them. He calls it active sonar. He makes a tongue click, and he changes his tongue click depending on the environment and what he's trying to get back information from, and he has honed his skill where he rides bicycles, walks around, jogs, does all sorts of amazing things.  He even had a guide dog at one point in his life, too, but he is one who uses this active sonar to get information from his environment and actually be able to discriminate between the size and type of a vehicle, different styles of trees, the different construction materials of buildings, the differences in fences. It's really amazing, and so there's a little YouTube video there. That's very funny. He appeared on PopTech, and so he's actually quite funny for the first 10 minutes or so, and then he goes more serious and shows some video clips. If you've never understood what his version of Echo Location is, click on the video. He has come to Alberta before. There's been students who have had their parents arranged through FFCD, the family supports their children with disabilities, to pay for him to come and train them, and then the role of the O&M instructor becomes more complicated because now there's another instructor who's teaching a different skill set, and when Daniel is not there, how do we as an O&M instructor enforce what Daniel's taught so the kid can use it effectively and not lose it? So anyway, Echo Location. This comes up an awful lot in listservs and in discussions. Insurance in Canada, if any of you have subscribed to AER, the Association of Educational Rehabilitationists in Blind and Visually Impaired, I honestly, it's a national association of Canada and the US, and you should belong to it. There's lots of email information through them about various issues in Teachers of the Visually Impaired as well as O&M, and a lot of times this comes up. Now in the States, this Forest T. Jones and Company, they provide private practitioner insurance for O&M instructors. Not in Canada though. So a decade ago when I was investigating this for myself, I hit that brick wall and then ended up trying to figure out if there's a Canadian equivalent. I emailed the CNIB and asked who do they use nationally, and I had gotten some information back in the day in pursuing it. A lot of paperwork because it's not the norm. It's not an easy thing to define. They want a lot of background information, and in the end I got bogged down with all this amount of paperwork that I gave up doing insurance, and every time I practiced O&M, when I've been under the auspices of the school board, I've always been covered by ATA, so that was always the benefit of working for a school board as the O&M instructor slash TBI. We could chat more about that later, but that's all I got to say about insurance at the moment. Okay, so another soapbox moment. Susan mentioned dogs versus canes. So this is a quaint little soapbox movement. We're kind of unique in Alberta in that we've had pockets of students, high school students or even junior high students who have had a dog, and this is unusual in most of North America. It's funny, one of the dog schools that placed the majority of dogs with the students here in Alberta, they're a dog school who's operating both in British Columbia and in Alberta, and they started in BC, but it's funny, as far as I've understood from my colleagues in BC, there are no students in BC who have been placed with a guide dog. When I went to the Seeing Eye school out in New Jersey, and I asked them what's the youngest and what's the parameters around that, and they said the 16 would be the youngest, which means high school, and that's only the rarity. So for us to have had seven students, all of them north of Red Deer to have had dogs is an anomaly. It's not the norm. Now this is a fun one too. I'll get back to guide dogs in a moment, but this is a real thing. There actually are guide ponies and guide horses. I'll only spend a minute on this one. I can't remember if I actually took this picture back in 2011 with my Blackberry, or if I just had this sitting in my archive from someone else, but it was the first time that I had actually noticed a guide horse or guide pony. It's a real thing. There are advantages. They live up to 40 years doing the service as opposed to the 8 or 9 or 10 years before a guide dog has to be retired. Yeah, and also I didn't want to write it on the screen, but you can also put those little baggy diapers on the guide pony, and their lovely little horse apples will fall into the baggy. Much easier to clean up than your guide dog who has to be taken somewhere. Yeah, there's other things that can talk about guide ponies, but because they're so eastern seaboard and so not around here, I'm not going to talk about them anymore, but this was one of those trends. Okay, so getting back to guide dogs and the White King. Not every province has this. Not every place in the states has this, but we have this in Alberta, a blind persons rights act, and it has been tweaked in the last decade and a half. It's interesting. I got at the bottom of this page a little reference to British Columbia, since I'm doing a little comparison game here. They had, their older act was called the Guide Animal Act, and it's funny how that Guide Animal Act had a small byline in there about white canes, and that's where that quote came from at the bottom of the page. It says, in the old Guide Animal Act for 1997, it said, a person who is not a blind person, according to accepted medical standards, must not carry or use a white cane.  They replaced that act. Like, totally the Guide Animal Act doesn't work anymore. It doesn't exist anymore. And it got replaced with BC's Guide Dog and Service Dog Act, which then covers not only dogs used for orientation mobility, but also for all those other ones. They increased the fine from the old act from 200 up to 3,000, but they dropped any mention of the white cane. So really, there's no legislation in British Columbia about white canes. So I guess with the old act being gone, if you in BC want to carry a white cane around, even though you're not blind, there's no law against it, I guess. But there is an Alberta, technically. So back up to the top of the page, our Blind Persons' Rights Act was amended in 2004 to basically tweak the fines. I've got it buried in there. It says the fine of $250 used to be only $25. So that means if someone was impersonating a person who's blind and has a white cane, they would have had a $25 fine.  So they upped it by 10-fold. Same thing with, for example, the guide dog part at the mid-page. If somebody, TaxiCab, for example, wanted to deny access to the cab because he got a guide dog, they in theory could get fined up to $3,000, whereas back in the old days it was $300 and the court proceedings would have just been overwhelming for the person who was the dog user and probably would have given up. So they gave this a little more teeth. Interesting in the act, the wording is interesting. It says, and this is the quote from the middle, nothing in this section is talking about the rights of the dog guide user. Shall be construed to entitle that person, the blind person, to require any accommodation, service, or facility in respect of a guide dog other than the right to be accompanied by the guide dog. In other words, they can't start demanding that they have the right to a bowl of water, that they have the right to let their dog use the lawn too. They can't demand that. Most places are really accommodating and let that happen, but that's not what the act speaks to. Oh, and if the guide dog is not behaving himself or herself, if the person who uses the dog can't control the behavior of the guide dog, all of their rights in that act pertaining to guide dogs is moot because they couldn't keep the dog under control. This just reminds me of a brief story about my wife saw a person with a guide dog and the guide dog would urinate all over the auditorium when they were in class. Those are the kind of instances where the person who is the dog owner doesn't have the dog properly controlled. Okay, we've got 15 minutes, moving on. We talked about ID Canes. For those of you who don't know what a telescoping cane is, it extends. A quad cane for the visually impaired is white. It could have a red bottom, but for those who also have mobility issues but also are trying to identify themselves as being visually impaired, mobility canes in the bottom corner on the right there is what you mostly see, but then there's these things called the AMDs, the adaptive mobility devices. Susan knows more about the Kinetic cane, which is an older model to this and she had her husband build one, and I still have that, faithfully have that shown up to some schools occasionally. This is just the modern version of it. It's for the kids who have more difficulty holding onto the device, or you can use them as a training tool.  Here's the fun things that are new. Your standard golf grip has now been augmented by various other grips. The one above, that's the horizontal one, that's from Comdi de Renda. I just thought that was a really cool looking cane. They're using, as you can see, a wooden grip, but they've got green section, green cord, and they have all sorts of other colored canes, and that's just cool. And if you really want to buy one online from Germany, go right ahead. But it was available in Canada through Ambutech. You've got the golf grip that's black. You've got the wooden one. You've got now the newer cork one. It's got a different feel to it, a little bit warmer and forgiving. And then just launched in the last year and a half, all these colored ones, and it comes with the appropriate tip that also is colored matching. The colored canes are a great way to get them to want to have something a little more fun. And speaking of that, colors, huge colors. Now the one on the bottom with the funky flower pattern, again, that was from that Berlin site from Germany. So that's kind of cool if you want a cane that's got a wooden handle with flowers ordered from Germany. But otherwise, all the ones above are what Ambutech offers. So you can get your cane with a combination of black, blue, gold. You can see the whole list there. The only one I'm going to point out is someone with the two red stripes, and it's got the little arrow pointing to the poster. Because Ambutech actually supplies to places around the world, it's probably why they offer the wooden handle one, because obviously there's a market for it in Europe. The canes that have the two red stripes mid-shaft up the cane, in some places that's identified as deafblind. So in the United Kingdom and in places of Europe, Spain, that means deafblind. There's also additional places where an all green cane would mean low vision, which I thought was very interesting. That I think was Brazil or somewhere in South America. Okay, tips. There's a whole bunch of new ones when I was checking this out, because the ones in the top left-hand corner, which look like old photographs, those are ones I own, and I've showed them off at many a workshop, and I got all excited when they introduced the ceramic tip and the metal tip, because those were cool. But now Ambutech offers all the other ones you see. Oh, except for the Bundu basher. That's just an amusing one that I like to look at, because that's used in Africa, in literally bashing your way through the bushes in urban rural Africa. The push broom one, I'm going to figure out what kind of application that is for. I guess it'd be for the kid who doesn't actually have enough arm strength to sweep, but it would clear a wide path in front of them. The hook one actually has a hint of swivel or bevel to it, so that when it hits stuff, it's not going to always, it's going to have a little hint to give. They had introduced a high mileage, harder plastic tip in their marshmallow, and then just this past year they introduced it as one of their roller tips. So that's pretty cool. I'm very much interested in this Dakota disc. I know that I had purported to kids that they're going to go camping with the parents.  But the ball is still hollow, and when you hit rocks with it, it could break open. The Dakota disc, however, apparently is the solution to that. So I wish I had one in my hands to actually look at, because that definitely would be something very interesting. And then like I said, when you change all the colors of the handles, you now can have matching marshmallow hoods for all those ones. Okay, so here's some improvements. They did the white cane. The one on the left is the graphite cane. Graphite is nice and flexible. It doesn't bend as easily, so therefore you're not trying to straighten your aluminum cane. However, each of those little grommets, the ferrules, the insert tube, that is still made of aluminum and can still bend as I found out the hard way with my nice expensive graphite cane. But most of us are used to the cane on the right, the cheaper aluminum one. You can see this particular one, that the ferrold, the wider section that clamps down over the narrow section, has bit into it. Sometimes these canes are notoriously getting stuck together, and then the kids can't collapse their canes anymore. Solution. Here we go. So in the last couple of years, the folks at Ambutek have experimented with a slightly different one. Instead of ferrelling out the sections of the aluminum cane, they just created similar to their graphite canes, this little insert, and it's a little dome, and they even have a little spiral to it with the idea that if it does get stuck, you can give it a little twist in the reverse direction, and it should pop apart. Interesting. I had my hands on one in the last two weeks, and it was stuck, even though it was this style. And I thought, oh, okay, well, there's still drawbacks to this model. Then one of my students got a brand new cane and got this as the brand new end. So Ambutek, once again, they changed the style of metal, and they stopped having that spiral, grooved look to it. I'll check back in with my student in a while and see if after bashing around in the hallways with it, if it gets stuck as well. But this is Ambutek's attempt to improve the product, so I'm very excited by that. Okay, we've got nine minutes left. Susan asked, what about colored canes? So you can see on the bottom there's this red one. In context, having a red cane, my mother-in-law wanted this for Halloween. I know of others who've gotten an all-black cane because they wanted to look dressier for their grad ceremonies. They wanted to confidently march down the aisle, but they didn't want this big white thing sticking out and being the attraction. They just wanted to be able to navigate the auditorium with the cane that matched their graduation gown all black. Okay, great. And I know of a student who had one like the one that's on the top of the screen, where every segment was a different color. Fun! But remember, back to that Blind Persons Rights Act. In there, if you are able to download the Blind Persons Rights Act, what about white canes being two-thirds white? Therefore, the black one, the red one, and this multicolored one are not actually a white cane. And really, we have a hard enough time getting drivers to figure out what the person's holding at the side of the street when they wanted to cross. Some of them are like, it's a white stick. Hey, what's that stick thing? Oh, yeah. Some of them figure out that it's supposed to stop and give a little more extra time for the person to cross. But a lot of times, drivers don't. And now if we confuse them by having our kids with an all-colored cane that's not white, yeah, just not what I would recommend. However, if just the tip section doesn't have to be red, there's no law in Canada that says it has to be red. It was just a trend. So you can have the section at the bottom where the tip is to be gold or pink or whatever the kid would like. Here's some other alternatives. And here, the one on the left, Morrison had it in black and then added some decals to it from the Automobiles Department at the local Canadian Tire. The one on the right, we seasonally decorated it for Christmas time. Or if I'm not correctly, at Valentine's and St. Patty's Day, we put different streamers on just so that they can buy in and also gives them a teachable moment. You can add whatever you can during your teachable moments with the kids. And this doesn't have to be the O&M structure. It totally could be a TBI adding bling to a cane. So long as most of the cane is still wiped and drivers aren't confused, I'm good with it. Okay, going on to other trends. This was back in 1981 where one of the first buzzers for Crossing the Street for the Blind came out. Very exciting. People thought it was the best. In Canada, not so hot because we got winter.  And winter takes its toll on our appliances, electronics and whatnot. So a lot of those buzzers end up not working so well. We have come a long way from the earlier ones on the right, as you can see there, to the yellow ones on the left. The yellow ones on the left also vibrate for the deaf-blind user. So it would, you press it, and then you press and hold, and it's supposed to vibrate when it's time to cross. And of course, the tactile arrow tells you which direction to go. So unlike the old days where there was just one button on the post, now they are trying to get them directional, so you know which way to walk when you're crossing the street. Here's an example on the left again of one from the States and then a different model also from the States. Those are from my travels around the U.S. However, there's talk about, this is a great article if you wanted to read it and be bored because if you're not an O&M instructor this probably doesn't mean anything to you, but this is a little abstract where they're researching different ways of crossing the street. I think this is actually one where I got the reference to using a white cane at street crossings improves your ability to cross. Anyways, it's there if you want it, you can find that later. Here's things that are trends that I've improved over time. Like LRT platforms, at least in Edmonton, have all got these truncated domes, the little yellow bumpy thing. They have that along the edge of the track. They've put that on all brand new LRT stations and then eventually they retrofitted all the underground ones which had been around for 40 years. They finally retrofitted those. It was unfortunate that a person who was blind died before they fixed that. Probably one of those catalysts to get it done, but they got all those done. They also introduced these priority waiting areas for people who have multiple disabilities, so that's great for a lot of access. Also, in terms of access that has improved over the last decade, the top one is the light up indicator on a regular bus. So as buses have been replaced over time, they now have indicators to tell you what stop it is. That one has the time. If I had waited a few more seconds, I could have got a picture of next stop at being 118th Avenue. The departure board below changes when it tells you when buses at one of the major transfer stations are coming up. So that was also exciting. Here's what applies to you guys. For those of you who are familiar with the essential components, it's an exciting document because it's one of the first ones that actually talked about how the O&M instructor is part of the whole learning team. Prior to that, there's that Teaching Students with Visual Impairments Guide 5, which was published way back in the 90s. And there was a chapter in orientation mobility, but it really wasn't very comprehensive and didn't talk about the need of having an O&M instructor as being part of that essential team. So the new document, and I say new because it came out after I was starting my training. I know it's, what, 13 years old now? But it was a great document to have to hang our teeth into. Sink our teeth into? Whatever the phrase might be. Anyways, if you don't know about this document, please talk to somebody who does. This is how you guys can support O&M. Aside from teaching people in schools and staff and parents, the Human Guide, which is the technical term in the O&M world, you guys all call it just side of guide, which is fine, I'll be with that.  If there's already an O&M instructor teaching what cane skills, you can reinforce all those lovely cane skills that we do. Hey kid, keep your cane in the midline, that kind of thing. Teaching them concepts about, you know, which is left and right, what is the front behind. All those are so super valuable to teaching them when it comes to street crossings. And getting them prepared to read maps, tactile maps. Those all help so much. We're going to talk about conducting environmental assessments and making recommendations and advocacy in the next slide. We just wanted a little brief reminder, like Kim said last month. Remember, if you're teaching white cane skills to kids, you would better be an O&M instructor selecting the right cane for them. That's the O&M instructor's job. Outdoor skill training, independent mobility training with the cane. Again, O&M instructor's domain and then assessing their O&M skills at that point. Again, O&M. So here, you as the TBI supporting O&M. Okay, the snow removal, real brief story. I remember we're a dad, junior high. He snowblows the driveway and the walk path and the neighbors all the way up to the bus stop area for his daughter every time it snowed. Beautiful. So if you as the TBI can support the parents doing that and encourage them to do that, that's awesome because that just, it took one less stress out of that kid's world. New construction of schools. We'll talk about that in a few slides in a second. Modifying existing school environments, which requires you to liaison with all those fine people in a school or school district. And this is just a small, funny point. There's one point one of my colleagues had tried to get an O&M contract for the school and the school board then went and got operations and maintenance to come out and see the kid. It was funny. So here, truncated domes. That's what these things look like when they're used on street crossings. They just help you align yourself and get across. This is in California. It also shows the slope as well as when intersecting sidewalks come along. Not so hot when there's snow, but in this case you can use snow to shoreline against as long as the sidewalks are cleared. Here's a little slide on helping your kids in winter. So you can review that later. There's tips on that. And if you go to our website on the RCSD webpage, I've got some of those posted there. Here are some problems with those truncated dome things though. Once you got ice pack on a street corner, now you can't square off very easily to cross the street because now you've got to jump over the hump. The left picture is an LRT platform. The one on the right is also an LRT platform, but of course it's covered in snow and you can't really tell the texture under your cane. So that's another hard part. Here, advocating for your kids in school, the bus on the left was one that my student who was visually impaired and was cerebral palsy and a hard time reaching and grasping with one hand specifically. That one bus was his. He had a hard time getting out of the bus because it was the opposite hand and also the contrast was poor. I wanted him to have the bus beside his bus, which was run by someone different, but it had higher contrast and it had two handles. So this required me to advocate for the kids, sorry, with this transportation department to get his bus, which was the gray one on the left, to add better contrast striping and install a second handle. Oh my goodness, was that a lot of work to get done. New buildings versus old. The one on the left is an old building and obviously bad contrast. The one on the right is Grant McEwen. Again, bad contrast, especially coming down. This one perspective going up isn't so bad, but coming down, it's just gray. So obviously the persons who were visually impaired in both of those pictures were going to have a struggle. Again, the one on the left is a brand new school built five years ago in Edmonton. The one on the right is a brand new school built up in a rural town in my zone and worse, the fact that there's a bad contrast on the right, but those steps, as you can see, sort of fall off. And I'm surprised the other kids didn't hurt themselves. This was another school that I served where they had a big common area where this is a big pit. So use a TBI, see your kids wandering these things and can trip. I'm more concerned about the low vision kids, of course, with these ones because the blind will use their canes. Here again, a music room with several tiers. And this one irked me because I knew the kid was going to have tripping hazard issues. Before he transitioned to the school, I asked him, hey, is he tripping issues?  That irritated me. So little advocacy, velcro tape, only took three months to get them to figure out who was paying for the $50 roll of velcro tape. But there, high visibility helps all kids, not just my kids, the visual impairment. Here again, you got those center posts, lots of kids run into these things, not just the kid who was visually impaired. Simple adaptation, easier to see. That's a $5 roll of tape from Walmart or from Princess Auto or wherever it was. And then sometimes I recommend to schools to actually mark those first steps on landings and risers. Some I had to write big reports to get them to do it. The one on the right, I just mentioned it. And my first visit by my second visit, that's what they did. All done, love it. Anyways, so your role would be helping adapting all those environments. Last slide, if you've got questions or comments, if it's not in your chat window, I'm going to copy my chat window so I can actually look at all your comments later. But if you have any questions you can email me. You can obviously visit the website that I mentioned that I have some of those ONM resources posted on. And again, here's a plug for the Canadian Vision Teachers Conference because there's more people who logged in now. We need volunteers. Stephanie and I are the co-chairs of the steering committee. Please go to that website and check out our conference. Right now it looks like we're going to be at Wessem and Tamal according to the website. But that will be changing as soon as Stephanie and I and the chair of the facilities committee make a final decision as to the venue. If you have any questions about the conference, that's the email to use for me, not my work one. That's it. I'll wait three minutes over time. Apologies. Well, I'll complete that talking now. There's lots of information coming there. Thank you very much for putting the time into creating that presentation and then allowing it to us all. So everyone have a great evening and we'll see you down the road. Nelson, there are a few questions that were sent. Perhaps those of you who did send them could direct them to Nelson and he can maybe respond back to the whole BFC. So via email you're talking Roy at a later date. Yeah, via email. Okay, thanks everybody. Take care. Bye-bye.


In this video, I want to talk about the compound inside of compounded interest. So we measure time in years for financial problems, but interest could actually incur much sooner than the year, the year into the year. We could be collecting interest monthly or quarterly or something like that. So what really is the best number of compounds? So what we're going to do is in this, in this video, we're going to experiment. So we're going to do a mathematical experiment. So we're going to fix our, let's say it this way, a sum of $1,000 is going to be invested at an interest rate of 12% per year. And we want to find the amounts in the account after three years if it's compounded annually, semiannually, quarterly, monthly, daily, just to list a few things, right? So what do we see here? So we're going to invest $1,000, that'll be the principal. The interest rate is going to be 12%, so r equals 0.12. And the time that's going to lapse is going to be three years, t equals three. So those are going to be constants throughout this entire exercise right here. What the variable is going to be, is going to be the number of compounds. So I want us to see what happens as the compound changes, but everything else stays the same. So if we do an annual compound, that is we collect interest only at the end of the year, that means the number of compounds is going to equal one. And for this entire discussion, of course, we're going to use the compounded interest formula, a equals p times one plus r over n to the nt power. Which we did see that p equals 1,000, r equals 0.12, and t equals three. And then n, we will treat as this variable, will allow it to fluctuate here. So annually compounded means we'll have one compound per year. So we want to compute the amount after three years, so a of three. That's going to be 1,000 times one plus 0.12 divided by one raised to the 1.3 power. Now you don't necessarily need to be a hero right here. These type of financial calculations you put into a scientific calculator. And if you crunch the numbers, you're going to get $1,404.93. So that's pretty good, I would say. After three years, you made about $405 upon that original investment of 1,000. So you almost got back 50% gains over the three years. Well, what happens if we were to instead compound semi-annually? That means we get interest twice a year or every six months. So how this will change the formula, instead of ones right here, you're going to get twos, right? And so notice, obviously, by increasing the exponent, by increasing the exponent from 1 times 3 to 2 times 3, went from 3 to 6, that should make the expression get bigger, right? But notice, you're taking the denominator and you instead of divided by 1, you're divided by 2. So increasing the exponent should make the quantity get bigger, but increasing the denominator makes the quantity get smaller. So as the base, we have this exponential competition going on here. We have a to the x right here. The base is getting smaller, but the exponent is getting bigger. So how does that affect the result, right? Who's the winner? Well, we're going to see here that in the end, it turns out that the larger power seems to be a good thing, even if the base got smaller in this conversation. Because when we compute this value, 1,000 times 1 plus 12% divided by 2 raised to the 2 times 3 power, you end up with $1,418.52. And you can see that's a difference of about $14. So yeah, you made more money during the three years by getting semi-annual interest, all right? Now, it wasn't a huge difference, right? I mean, because remember the original interest that you collected was about $405. The second one, you got about $419. Like I said, it's about a difference of $14 there. And so $14 over three years isn't a huge gain, right? But I mean, it is extra. I mean, if I could choose, I would choose semi-annual versus annual, right? And where did that extra $14 come from? Well, basically after the first six months, this investment strategy gained some interest that wasn't here. And that interest, although small, it was able to start collecting interest in interest in interest. And so over time, it adds up. So more frequent compounds did seem to give us a boost, right? So I'm just going to mark down what happened here. We were up about $14 compared to the original investment. Great. What if, and so notice we doubled the number of compounds. We had one compound versus two. If we doubled the number of compounds, we gained $14. Great. What if we did that again? What if we doubled the number of compounds? If we did, if we compounded quarterly, we had four compounds per year or that is interest every three months. What happens in that situation? Well, it's easy enough to compute the numbers, put them in the formula. The amount after three years will be 1000 times one plus 12% divided by four this time. And then we raise that to the four times three power. So again, the exponent got bigger, but the base got smaller. So this balancing act, what happens? Well, the number does get bigger. It's going to be $1,425.76, right? So this is going to be about a gain of $22 from the original investment. Great. But how about the semiannual comparison? If you look at that, we're again, I'm just going to kind of round this up to $1,426 just to make it a little bit easier there. In that situation, you don't get the same amount of gains, right? In that situation, you only gained about seven, seven or eight. Again, depending on how you're rounding it, I'm just going to keep things simple and say seven right here. That when you double the number of compounds, right, you gain $14. When I double the number of compounds again, I only gain an additional $7. So that's kind of interesting that you'll notice that even though we, again, we doubled the number of compounds. The increase was only about half as the first one, right? So you got more money, but the amount you got was diminishing, right? This has to do with the rate of change that as we increased the number of compounds, it was going up. So it's increasing. So as the number of compounds increases, the amount increases, but the rate in which it's increasing seems to be following. We could say that our function with respect to n here, it's increasing, but concave downward, all right? Well, let's do one better now. Let's go from quarterly to monthly, right? There's 12 months in a year. So if we triple, triple the number of compounds, how does that affect the result this time? We take 1000 times 1 plus 12% divided by 12 and then raise that to the 36th power, much bigger power, but smaller base. In which case, then you're going to get $1,430.77. So that's about a difference of $5. So we tripled the number of compounds this time, but again, we didn't gain as much as when we had doubled it the previous time. All right, well, let's basically times this number by 30, roughly speaking. As we go from monthly to daily, right? And I'm excluding leap year. Sorry, this was going to just do 365 days for a standard year. You'll notice here as we take the daily here, 365, this would look like 1000 plus 1 plus 12% divided by 365 and raise that to the 365 times 3. When you crunch that number, it turns out just to be $1,433.24, which is only an increase of about $3. Again, I'm rounding here. It's about an increase of $3. But again, we increased the number of compounds by like 30 times, right? But you only gave $3 there. It would appear, I mean, when you look at this table here, the values on the right are increasing, but at a rate at which the rate at which it's increasing seems to be shrinking. So that suggests that this function with respect to n is increasing, but concave down. It's the rate at which it's increasing is diminishing over time. And so it appears that even though we keep on getting bigger and bigger and bigger compound numbers here, there's sort of a limit to how large these numbers can be, right? It's not just going to grow without bound, right? It seems like there's a limit to how big this number can be. So what happens if the number of compounds continues to increase? Why stop at daily? Why not stop at like, say, hourly, right? What if we want to collect interest every hour? We're going to take the 365 here times it by 24. And you know, so you insert that into the appropriate part. What happens to this number? And why stop at hourly? Why not take secondly? Is that even an option, right? What if I want to calculate why I want to calculate interest every second? So we're going to take the 365 times the 24. I guess I jumped minutes, right? Whoops. Let's do minute. Minutely. I'm going to times that by 60, right? But then let's go back to secondly, because that's what I wanted in the first place. I need to times that by 60, right? So you can make the number of compounds get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, right? That should make this number get bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. But what is the limit here? How big can this number get? And I mean, because as a consumer, right? If I'm investing this money, I want the number of compounds to be bigger, bigger, bigger. It seems to give me more money. Even if it's only a little bit more, I mean, I would want it to be more. So how big can this be? What's the limit that this number is approaching right here? So before I can answer that question, I want you to notice the following. If we take the amount with respect to time, right? This is equal to P times one plus R over N to the NT. So this is our compounded interest formula. To answer this question about what the limit here is going to be, I'm going to make a slight tweak to this formula that'll make more sense when we do it in just a moment. And this tweak is going to be inside the exponent. I'm going to multiply the exponent N times T by R over R times NT, right? So use times it by number one, assuming R is not zero, which if you have no interest, then clearly this problem becomes mute at that point. So we're going to times the exponent by R over R and then playing around with exponent rules for a second. This becomes P times one plus R over N to the N over R. Right here, whoops, I need to have a bracket right here N over R to the, cause basically what I did here is I'm just pairing together this N over R right here and then the exponent will look like R to the T, like so.  I'm going to say that M, a new variable is going to equal N over R. Make that substitution right there. And then the above formula A will become P times, sorry, times one plus one over M to the M power and we're going to raise this to the RT. So again, this calculation might seem a little bit weird on what's going on right here, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to consider this number right here, one plus one over M to the M. So I kind of, I want to consider this and so I'm going to ask myself, what happens to this as M goes to infinity? Cause notice that as M goes as, I should say as N goes to infinity, right? Our interest rate was fixed. This would look like infinity divided by R, right? That's just going to be infinity. So as M goes to infinity, M is going to go to infinity, but the calculations can be a little bit cleaner by using this formula right here. We're going to see this on the next slide right here. So as M goes to infinity, what happens to the quantity one plus one, one plus one over M to the M power? All right, some of these we could actually compute, like if you plugged in M equals one, you're going to get one plus one over one, raise to the first power. This is going to give you two to the first, which is equal to two. So it starts off at two, great. Then we stick in like five, you're going to get, you're going to get one plus one over five to the fifth power. And that's going to turn out to be six fifths to the fifth, right? And you can compute what that is. That would be approximately 1.48832. And so again, I'm just going to use a calculator to help me out here. If I plug in M equals 10, you're going to get 2.59374. If you plug in 100, which is 10 squared, you're going to get 2.70481. If you plug in 10 cubed or 1,000, you get 2.71692. If you plug in 10 to the fourth or 10,000, you get 2.71815. You plug in 10 to the fifth, which is 100,000, you get 2.71872. Did I say that right? 2.71827, excuse me. And if you plug in a million or 10 to the sixth, you get 2.71828. So even though the variable M in play is getting bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, these numbers are getting closer and closer and closer to some number, right? Somewhere close to 2.7182, right? Like you notice as you jump from 100,000 to a million, the first four decimal places were the same. It's just the fifth one that changed. And so it turns out that this number is not just going to explode in size. We're getting closer and closer to a unique irrational number. And that irrational number is, if we continued with this calculation, again taking larger and larger values of M, we end up with 2.71828182845904523536. And you can continue on. This is an irrational number like pi. Its decimal expansion isn't necessarily a repeating thing. It doesn't repeat after so many digits or anything like that. So we can't actually write down the pattern. We'll just have to kind of stop after a while. But it's a very important irrational number and this number is called E. It's the number E, which you might have seen before. In this video I'm trying to give you some explanation on why E comes into play. So if you take the previous formula that we saw on the screen right here, this right here, this number in the middle approaches E. So as M approaches infinity, this is gonna approach P times E to the RT power. In other words, we get a formula which is often referred to as continuously compounded interest. You get A equals P, E, R, T or some people call it PERT, right? It looks like a word sort of. There's no numbers in the formula whatsoever. They're all variables. And so if we were to allow the number of compounds to go towards infinity, right? If the number of compounds went towards infinity, we see that the formula P times one plus R over N to the N, T, this will approach some limiting value, P to the E, R, T. And so this number E comes into play because it tells us the limit that this interest can form if we take the number of compounds to infinity. You get this PERT formula. And so if you think of the number of compounds going towards infinity, that means in a finite amount of time, if there was an infinite number of compounds, that means there would have to be a compound at every instance of time. And so this is often referred to as compounded continuously. That is, it's continuously compounding. There's no moment where a compound isn't happening. The number of compounds is infinity. So if we revisit the original problem of this video, we have $1,000 invested for three years and an interest rate of 12%. What would the continuously compounded interest look like? So we take our formula PERT right here. We plug in 1,000 for P. We plug in 12% or 0.12 for R. We plug in three for T. As you see right here, E is this irrational exponential number which your calculator should have a button that either has the number E or often looks like E to the X or something. Use your calculator to help you with this calculation. In which case you're gonna get $1,433.33. Which if we compare that to, oh, I've lost it, where is it? Scroll, scroll, scroll. Nope, this wasn't it. I'm lost. Here we go. If you wanna compare that to the number we had before. So if you took the month, we take the daily interest rate, $1,433.33. Going from daily to continuously is really not much of a, it's nine cents is the difference going on there. So no one, the bank's not ripping you off much by nine cents over three years. But even still like most of our interest like with a standard bank account is probably at monthly, right? And you can see that it's only off by about $3. Oh, again, over three years. That's like a dollar per year. The bank not using continuously compounded interest is not gonna be much of a problem for us as consumers. But what I should say though, in terms of computer simulations, like if you are an economist or some other type of like financial mathematician, if you're trying to make simulations models to predict the stock market or other type of investment strategies, then this continuously compounded interest formula is a much cleaner formula. The calculation's a lot faster even though there's an irrational number in there because we're just gonna round to two decimal places when we're done anyways. So this form is a lot faster for my computer to do. And when you have to do tens of thousands of calculations in a second with your computer simulations, this continuously compounded interest formula starts to become a strategic advantage.  It's a very useful tool for estimating the amount in financial problems even if there's a little bit of error. The gain speed and simplicity is sometimes worth the error because after all, all models are wrong. The question is how small is the error? A good model, we don't expect the error to be zero, we just expect it to be small. And so as we continue with our discussion of financial math, we'll see this continuously compounded interest with this number E in play. Turns out E is gonna be our favorite exponential number in play, believe it or not.


One of the most common questions I get asked is, you know, how do I start day trading? So what me and my mentor about it for our viewers on YouTube is create a free mentorship course that reveals our 12 secrets that every single brand new day trader should know before they get started. But please take note that there is limited seating every single week. So please reserve your spot at myinvestingclub.co. Link is in the description. What's up everyone? It's Tony Zohi on another weekly video for you guys. I hope you guys enjoying the weekend and also had a great trading week this week. You know, today we don't have a weekend mentoring session, it's going to be next week. So if you haven't, you know, submit the charts yet, go ahead and submit them so we can go over that, you know, next week on Saturday. Yeah. So this week has been, you know, it's it's not that slow, but it's it's not that, you know, great like the week before, right with the GME and also AMC kind of stocks. But this week, we kind of have the new sector was running, which is NFT.  But it's it's and, you know, it's all hype, right? And so I just want to kind of go over that today and to actually, I mean, like, you know, to show you guys how you can have a, you know, thought process around it or like, how can you trade those kind of, you know, tickers. And so, yeah, let's bring on some charts. And yeah, I'm going to go over one of my trade on Friday.  I mean, I've been getting a lot of DMS people been asking me, you know, where should you size up, you know, take advantage of that opportunity.  It's really an art. It's not that easy. Right. I mean, it was that easy. Like everyone could be rich by now. Right. So, yeah, you know, trading is more an art than, you know, rather than science. So, so I'm going to bring on the chart on this one. Yeah. NFT stocks. What was that? T-cat. I think this one is, you know, pretty much like a head of the snake. You know, for me personally, every time, you know, that we have a crazy sector is was running, you know, for me, I mean, you know, like the, the real edge for me on the short side is to wait for the extension, right? Wait for the chart to get extended to the point. And then when it, you know, when it turns, it's going to be, you know, a huge dump, right? Basically. And, you know, that's basically what we've been seeing with GME, all the world, Wall Street, you know, bets on this one.  My first red day, I mean, for the short seller, I love to see, you know, the new sectors coming, right? I mean, coronavirus, this one. GME and now we have MST and NFT.  I was thinking that it's going to run. Okay. And let me bring on the. Hey guys, my name is Toss Bradley. I'm one of the head mentors of moderators at my investing club. If you have any questions about getting started in trading, getting started in the MIC, MIC in general, text me at<PHONE_NUMBER>. This is not a robot. It is me directly on the other end of my business line. And we'll get you in the club. We also have special promotions going on that I can get to you depending on your trading needs. Hit me up. Back to the video. Chart here. Intraday. I mean, my expectation on this was, I mean, yes, we have another sector. It could be crazy, you know, the new stimulus checks are probably hitting their accounts right now.  And, and I was really expecting for it to kind of rip, you know, to kind of go to, I don't know, 100 and 200. And then I was, you know, basically waiting patiently waiting for that first red day, right?  It just really doesn't make sense.  Next day, gap out by saying, man, this is it. Okay. Second day, third day, you know, maybe 60, 70 or 100, right? But, you know, on the second day, it ran, you know, like for me personally, on this kind of squeeze, I thought, you know, it's going to go to the moon.  But then, you know, it went red on the same day.  I mean, yes, you know, market, you know, anything could happen in market, right? So that's why we have to kind of, you know, be prepared for it every day, right? So, but I'm not really prepared for this one because I thought it's going to be like the same as the previous sectors that, that, you know, is run before it's going to go, you know, extended a little bit more and then maybe on a day three and day four, it's going to offer us a really good first red day. Right? I mean, I believe that, you know, a lot of people has been waiting the same way that I did. But then on this one, you know, it's just, you know, tight, right? And, you know, it went red. And after that, you know, what else can you do?  Right? I mean, the move is not really that substantial. And, and so that's why I was so hesitant to kind of take this trade because, you know, for me, when the sector is running, like, you have only two options here. Right? So you want to be a part of the herd that you want to go long. Yes. You know, follow the trend, whatever. I mean, that's fine. Right? But I'm not alone. But I don't want to chase, you know, this kind of, you know, stocks. So I think for me, like, I think, you know, Alex and Harry did the best, you know, they went along here the moment the stock kind of reclaimed this and broke this 2480, which is the previous high. This is the edge for long.  Right? And also on this one here, previous high, see 11 line, you know, you wait for that to crack, you go, you know, follow the trend go long. Right? And that's this is like the front side. So for me, thank you so much for watching our video. If you want to see more of our videos, please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking the button here. We do our best to post a new video every single day. If you have any questions about M.I.C. or any general trading questions, please text us using the number here. Also, stay up to date by watching some of our most recent videos right over here.


I think the investment climate in the country, and I work for a company that invests in technology-enabled startups, and I think the investment climate in the country has become much more positive. We've seen that in the amount of capital that's come into our country. We've seen that in the amount of entrepreneurs that are being created. We've seen that in public markets as companies have gone unlisted. So overall, I think it was a great interaction with the PM. Like I said, he had some phenomenal insights and gave some very good suggestions. And I think the environment today is very positive and under this government's administration, I believe that in the next few years it will get even more positive.


«Daddy, why are you dressed up like a dolphin?» Mitchell laughed as he picked up his daughter. «I'm not a dolphin, you goof!» he said. «I'm a shark!» The little girl in his hands giggled and buried her teeth at him, growling and playfully flailing her arms around. «Rar, rar, I'm a shark princess, daddy!» she yelled gleefully. «Can I be a shark princess?» He chuckled. «But you're such a pretty princess already! Why would you ever want to be a shark?» Samantha pondered this for a moment, putting a hand under her chin as she had often seen her father do when he had to think hard about something. «Can I be a shark princess later?» she asked.  Mitchell said as he set his daughter down, brushing down her tutu. She cheered at this and snatched her mini cauldron from off of the couch. Sam excitedly bounced towards the door, her gray-clad father tailing close behind. It was a cool evening in the town of Mollierville. The wind gently pushed brown and orange leaves across the ground as the orange sun cast long shadows as the light faded from the sky. It was Halloween night, and it was the first year that Samantha Nichols was old enough to go trick or treating. She let her father excitedly buy his hand out into the yard, pulling him past the carved jack-o-lanterns and cobweb tombstones. Her father laughed as they ran, readjusting his costume as it slipped off of him. As they hurried past their driveway into the lawn of the neighbors, a figure rolled out of the shrubs in front of them. Springing to his feet, he sprinted towards the confused pair, shouted, «Take this, pond scum!» and slammed his fists into Mitch's abdomen. He doubled over in pain, his daughter angrily shouting at the man who was rushing towards a waiting black van. «Daddy, daddy, are you alright?» Sam wordly looked over the figure kneeling on the ground. «Do I need to get mommy?» He groaned, pushing himself up with one hand and dusting himself off with the other. «I'm fine, sweetie», he said. «It'll take more than that to put your old dad out of action». He glanced towards the street, which the van had quickly vacated. He shook his head at the absurdity of it all, and took his daughter's hand as they walked towards the first house. Agent James sat in the back of the van, head in his hands. He had failed. His first major mission, and he blew it. Not only was the shark still mobile, but it still had the hostage. He was in for a demotion for sure, probably all the way down to bait duty. The shark would free the Roman cause havoc, and it was all his fault.  They would have to send out a squad tomorrow to clean up his mess for sure. Shark number 32145 Shark Class Terrestrial Shark Punching Command Shark 32145 cannot be directly punched in the frontal cranial region due to a hostage human being used in the shield. Due to this, agents are to approach the shark as swiftly as they possibly can, apply direct pressure to the frontal thoracic area of the shark, and retreat just as swiftly. Multiple agents may be required to carry out SPC repeatedly if the shark needs to be punched further. Description Shark is approximately 1.4 meters long. Notable features of this shark include fully functional lower appendages used for bipedal locomotion and a lack of the rough texture normally found on shark skin. More frighteningly, the shark appears to be holding an adult male captive in its mouth. As recovering the subject at this point will require actions further than those described in the Shark Punching Commands, this male adult has been deemed irretrievable. It is unknown whether this subject is aware of his condition or not. This shark is extremely dangerous due to its terrestrial locomotion as well as its obvious parasitism and possible telepathic and anesthetic abilities. Under no circumstances should this shark be kicked, as it may kick back. Agents must move faster than with aquatic sharks, as this shark is fully mobile on land and can move as rapidly as some of our agents on land. Addendum All right agents, I'm sure you've all heard of these. I've heard the whispers around the halls in cafeteria and well, it's happened. We have a tight brown on our hands, a full-fledged humus shark that needs to be taken care of immediately.  Godspeed and good luck, Boxer.


Now let's discuss St. John Rivers' character. Now in many ways, St. John Rivers is a foil to Mr. Rochester. In other words, he reveals the deficiencies of Mr. Rochester's character, but conversely, Mr. Rochester's character reveals the deficiencies in his character. Now, whilst Mr. Rochester is very fiery, very hot-tempered, but also someone who follows his impulses and his feelings indeed, it's actually his impulses that lead him to do some immoral things that God ultimately punishes him for. St. John Rivers is the complete opposite. He's someone who's extremely austere with himself to the extent that even if he was in love with Miss Oliver, he wanted to marry Jane Eyre because on paper that's what a biblical missionary should do, meaning that they probably would have a very loveless marriage filled with just pure duty. And of course, he tries to get Jane to marry him. Also, they ultimately realise that they are cousins. He tries to get her to marry him, but she ultimately rejects it in terms of the fact that they would really be in a loveless marriage characterised only by duty, and also she was still in love with Mr. Rochester. Now, as you can see behind me, I've created the quotations that you need to bear in mind when revising for St. John Rivers' character. The first quotation to remember when you're revising for his character is how he's described. He's actually described as being far more handsome and more typically good looking than actually Mr. Rochester, who appears very rugged and not conventionally handsome. He is described as tall, fair with blue eyes and a Grecian profile and the adjective's tall, fair and of course even Grecian really characterises his appearance as actually very handsome in contrast to Mr. Rochester, who's very dark, very stern, even older in his appearance. The second quotation to remember with his character is how he's described. Even if he's very handsome, he has an austere and despotic nature. Despotic means like he's a very harsh person and almost someone who strives to control people, especially the women in his lives. He strives of course to control Jane and to tell her what to do, i.e. marry him.  And of course what this emphasises is how he follows just religious doctrine almost to a fault and he doesn't do it purely because it's the right thing to do. He does it because that's what he's expected by duty to follow. Now the third quotation to remember for St. John Rivers' character is when it states he's firm, faithful and devoted, full of energy and zeal and truth. Now here there's somewhat word level analysis to do so you've got the literation of firm and faithful showing that he's really focused on religion but also focused in an extent on ambition in terms of how he wants to stand out in religion. So part of his focus on religion isn't so much just because he wants to be really religious. His religious zeal might also be for him to gain some kind of power in that area. The other key word level analysis to do for this quotation is the listing so full of energy, comma and zeal and truth and this one actually is syndantic listing because there is the continuous conjunction and and and. Now the other key quotation to bear in mind for his character is the declarative sentence, God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife. Now this is when he tells Jane that out of duty she should marry him. That's what is ordained for them in God's eyes and here you want to focus on the structural point that this is a declarative sentence and he's stating that she was intended to be his wife. Now the final quotation is when he tries to forcefully get Jane to marry him. He states you shall be mine I claim you and of course he takes a very typical Victorian male attitude towards women, towards seeing women as property. Jane doesn't get a say in whether she wants to marry him. He's the one that's pronounced that they are going to get married. Of course Jane rallies against this and ultimately rejects this. Now in this quotation the word level analysis you want to do is a repetition of you. So you shall be mine and I shall claim you and of course the declarative sentence mine. And here again this emphasizes just how he sees Jane in a very conventional way which is of course in contrast to Mr. Rochester who sees Jane as someone who is independent and also very much intellectual and of course Jane opts for Mr. Rochester who she genuinely loves more and whilst she does not love Mr. Rivers. So that's it when it comes to revising for the character of Mr. Rivers.


Hello, this is Laptop Media, and today, we will show you how to open the 15-inch version of the Lenovo Legion 7 and what's inside of it. To get inside this device, you need to remove 10 Philips head screws. Then you need to pry your way around the base, starting from either of the front corners. One of the big deals with this Legion 7 is its cooling. Interestingly, Lenovo has diverted from the conventional way of putting a ton of heat pipes. Instead, they opted for something that looks like a huge vapor chamber plus two tiny heat pipes supposedly cooling the VRMs and the graphics memory. As of the memory, there are two RAM Sodom slots, supporting up to 32 gigabytes of DDR4 memory. Now, the Core i7-10875H and the Core i9-10980HK version support speeds up to 3,200 MHz, while the other two options go as high as 2,933 MHz. Storage-wise, there are two M.2 PCI-EX4 slots, which can run independently or in RAID 0 mode. Lastly, the battery has an 80-watt hours capacity, which supports what Lenovo calls the Rapid Charge Pro. Essentially, this enables it to get charged up to 50% for no more than 30 minutes. If you'd like to see more disassembly videos of the latest notebooks we would highly appreciate if you hit the like button and subscribe to the channel.


Throughout the series, Mike has frequently identified the passages where the writer of Hebrews stresses the importance of belief in Jesus. Yet it seems the folks to whom Jesus refers in Matthew 7 21 through 23 thought that they believed in Jesus. Yet he says he never knew them and he cast them out because they did not do the will of his father. In my own attempts to reconcile these passages, I find that the same word justified appears in James 2 24. Quote, you see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone, end quote, as well in Romans 328 quote, but they are justified freely by his grace throughout the redemption that is in Jesus Christ, end quote. So maybe the folks in Matthew 7 21 through 23 either did not believe or they didn't believe the right stuff. I think I'm in the red zone. Can Mike help me get this across the go line? I only hope he said that because you won't fantasy. I don't know, but yeah, I love that's a nice. Yeah, right? It's a nice turn of a phrase there. I Think the key here is verse 23. This is Matthew 7 21 through 23 verse 23 Jesus calls these people quote workers of lawlessness. I would say that Jesus is targeting pretenders here. They had a profession, you know, Lord, Lord, you know, I mean this profession of their allegiance to him, but their lives showed they did not really believe they were workers of lawlessness. Now, if that isn't the way to take that passage, then we'd have to affirm that Jesus called genuine believers workers of lawlessness. I think that's a stretch to say the least. Another way another way of looking at this, you know, let's ask who is Jesus exposing? Okay, again, who's he targeting here? Is he targeting disciples or believers whose behavior was imperfect? Is he targeting disciples or believers who struggle with sin? Is he targeting disciples or believers who have times of weakness? Well, guess what? All three of those things describes the 11 disciples who weren't Judas. They all got scared. They all forsook Christ. They bickered with each other. They debated their own self-importance. Would Jesus really call those guys workers of lawlessness? I don't think so. I think again, he's targeting pretenders, you know. Where do we get the idea? I mean, honestly, sometimes we sort of subconsciously have this idea that the apostles and Paul were perfect, you know, and this becomes part of this works, you know, problem, this discussion. They faltered. They faltered. Disciples forsook Jesus. I mean, how bad can it get? They struggled with sin. You know, Paul, Roman 7.  Well, frankly, I think they do that because they somehow assume that Paul, you know, was some like sort of peon of perfection. Can Paul is human? He's as human as anybody else. Now, he might sin less, okay, but his sin will probably bother him more. Again, you could look at things like that, but he's struggling. He's struggling. There's no reason to think that he didn't struggle. Okay, he's not glorified. He's Paul. He's a human being. Again, that list, struggling with sin. Behavior is not perfect. They chicken out. They are weak. Those are the 11 disciples. So I don't think Jesus would look at those 11 guys and say, you guys are workers of lawlessness. Just don't believe that. So I think what Jesus is targeting again is his pretenders. Again, we have to remember, if we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. Everyone is going to sin. Everyone's going to struggle. Everyone's going to fail. So if Jesus is shooting at all those people who struggle and fail, well, I guess he doesn't have any disciples there. I guess nobody's a believer. Again, you have to think about the ramifications of where these different conclusions lead. Everyone fails. I mean, just who would Jesus have as a disciple? Again, I don't think he's targeting believers who are struggling here or who fail. I think he's targeting pretenders. They're not really believers. They might think they are, but they're not. Now that takes us to James. And this whole faith and works show me a man's faith and show me his works and then I'll consider his faith real. All this kind of talk, again, that James 224 was quoted in the question. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. Okay. Well, what we mean by that, what James means by that, I don't think it's terribly complicated. I think it gets complicated because we have been browbeaten into a merit mentality. We think we have to merit God's love. If we believe that, if we swallow that pill, then we create these conundrum. Works, according to James, justify faith and what that means is they validate faith. Works don't replace faith in anything James says ever. He doesn't replace faith with works. Works show faith is real. Works serve to point to genuine faith. Faith is the thing that we need to find out if it's real. Real faith is shown by works. Again, the problem is thinking of works like they can be interchanged with faith or that they replace faith. Works are not a substitute for faith in the book of James. He never says that. I like to think of, I like to marry Ephesians 2-8 to James. For by grace, you're saved through faith without works is dead. You know, smash the verses together. I think to me it's helpful anyway. Maybe it's not helpful at all. But if you think about that, for grace, are you saved through faith without works is dead. The absence of works doesn't say, oh crud, I just didn't work hard enough to merit eternal life. No, the absence of works says faith isn't here. Works are not a substitute for faith. Faith cannot be exchanged for works. Works show that faith is in the building. Now let's, this isn't a syllogism, but to try to illustrate this, I've been thinking a lot about this. And let's try to do it this way. Let's try to illustrate it this way. Let's try to swap in some other terms. So let's start with works and faith. So works or actions, maybe if that helps you. Works don't produce faith. Works don't replace faith. Works validate or demonstrate faith. In other words, works shows us that faith is there. Works are necessary to show that faith is real. Their absence invalidates a claim of faith. Now he's really talking about basically a total absence here. Remember, James says faith without works is dead. He doesn't say faith with 60% works. He says faith without works is dead. So he's really talking about the situation where there's basically a total absence. But we have to fix in our minds, works don't produce faith. They don't replace faith. They validate or demonstrate faith. Now let's use some other vocabulary and see if this doesn't help. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I have three sets of these. Let's use the phrase kind gestures and love. Kind gestures don't produce love. Just think about the truth of these statements. Kind gestures don't produce love. Kind gestures don't replace love. But kind gestures validate love. In other words, kind gestures are necessary to show that love is real. Their absence would invalidate a claim of love, wouldn't they? Let's try obedience and loyalty. Obedience doesn't produce loyalty. Obedience doesn't replace loyalty. But obedience validates loyalty. In other words, obedience is necessary to show that loyalty is real. Its absence would invalidate any claim of loyalty. To be a little more philosophical here, let's try effects and causes. Effects don't produce causes. Effects don't replace causes. Effects validate causes, though. In other words, effects necessarily require a cause. If there's no effect, there's no need to look for a cause. I don't know if any of that helps, but I think if we start substituting other words, because we have this works and faith thing that creates a lot of confusion, my advice is always to people, focus on merit and discipleship. As soon as you start using the word merit, it sort of cleans out the room a little bit in some cases a lot. When someone is talking about works, that's got to be part of salvation. What you're really saying is that we merit eternal life in some way. Anybody who really understands the gospel is going to be caught short by that and go, well, boy, I sure don't want to say it that way because then it sounds like God owes us something. Yeah, you're right, it does. But that's actually where you're at theologically. If your behavior is a necessary ingredient to salvation itself, then that's merit. That's merit. That's what that is. There is no merit before God. God doesn't want it. He doesn't expect it. He doesn't need it. He knows he ain't getting it. He's just not. That's why we have Jesus. That's why Jesus is the one who sets us apart and sanctifies us and so on and so forth. So merit, I think, can clear the room in a lot of ways. When we talk about sanctification, things like, let's use the word discipleship. And hopefully, we know enough about discipleship where we realize that that involves imitating Jesus. It doesn't have anything to do with merit, but it has everything to do with trying to mimic the experience, the life of Jesus, again, as a follower of him, not trying to earn salvation, but just trying to follow him, trying to imitate his life. The real question again, I've said this before, is why should we live a holy life? Shall we sin so that grace may abound? I want all the grace God has to give me, so I'm going to keep on sinning to experience that grace. This is a New Testament problem. Paul says in Romans 6, too, God forbid. He says, how can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried, therefore, with him by baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk into this of life. Died to sin is Paul's expression for, quote, you know, chose to follow Christ. How can we who have chosen to follow Christ instead of living for our own passions think this? And when we believed, when we chose to Christ, we were united to his body, you know, the body that died and the one that rose again. So the Christian life is the process of mimicking Jesus, dying to yourself, not putting yourself above showing gratitude to God as a son or daughter in his household, and of course, treating your neighbor as yourself. That's what Jesus did, being conformed to his image now that you believe. That's discipleship. That's what we're supposed to be doing. You know, we're supposed to be dying with Jesus, again, preferring others over ourselves and living according to what God wants us to do. We need to try to imitate that, not to earn the status of sonship or daughtership. Jesus was already God's son. He's doing this. He learns obedience by weakness, you know, all this stuff in Hebrews that we've talked about. Okay, we need to imitate that, not so that we merit God's love. God loved us before. This was even an issue. He loved us before he even sent Jesus. And our behavior isn't what sparks a feeling of love in God's heart for us. That's already there. But in terms of discipleship, we try to imitate Jesus.  We prefer others over ourselves. We prefer what God wants us to do over our own desires. And this is what we try to do. And you know what? If we do that, it's going to produce suffering. There's going to be a consequence to it, just like it was for Jesus. Now, in his case, he became obedient unto death. But guess what? He rose, so we should walk because we're united to his resurrection body, too. We're not just united to the one that's going to die. We're united to the one that rose. And so we should live. We should walk as though we're raised from the dead, meaning we're freed from the dominion of the curse of sin. We're freed from the penalty of sin. The point is imitation, not trying to merit God's love.  Your behavior doesn't spark that inside God. It's been there the whole time. So discipleship is to be like Jesus, not so that God will say to himself, gosh, here, she is so good. I want them up here with me. No, no. Be like Jesus because he did what was necessary to have you up there with him. You serve out of a grateful heart. If you do, God will reward that by using you like he'd love to use you to further his own purposes. So discipleship is about experiencing in your own body what it was like to be Jesus. That includes suffering and struggle.  And we are to imitate Jesus' love for the Father, which was reflected by the way he lived. And then take the consequences, just like Jesus did, knowing that a more abundant life is waiting for you on the other side. Jesus knew that. No doubt Jesus enjoyed being human, but it came with a huge cost. His life was never about pleasing himself. Rather, he, just like Paul says in Philippians, he took upon the form of a servant and he humbled himself becoming obedient, even to the point of death. So discipleship, this thing we call sanctification, isn't filling out checklists, isn't doing things so that God looks at us and says, gosh, they're good. I want them up here. They've earned it. No, discipleship is about experiencing in your own body what it was like to be Jesus. We live for God. We live for others. It's servanthood. I mean, there's any number of ways you can express it. There are lots of reasons, again, these are the big ones, to live a certain way. But meriting favor with God, trying to spark some love inside God for yourself, is not one of those reasons. Just isn't.


The Tamil Nadu government is giving all freedom for the private schools to run without implementing the RTA Act. The RTA Act mandates 25% of seats reserved for the students coming from poor and economic background. But this has not been implemented. In the findings of the TV Maslamani committee regarding the fees charged by the private schools and has been submitted to the government but the government has not taken any steps towards this and if you see many of the private schools they are forging documents and showing to the public that the students are being admitted under the RTA Act but it is only on purpose nothing has been implemented in the RTA Act and the RTA Act gives education without any fees for the students but these private schools they are admitting students under RTA Act and RTA Act and they are claiming that RTA only gives a concession for fees and they are taking fees from the students in these private schools on the name of shoes, uniforms and many other things and the poor children are being excluded from the private schools.