You're welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa three days ago from a vice president at eco bubble car posted a thread of 27 tweets He was talking about the need for Nigerians to identify as Nigerians and not just as a northerner Sardinia Ebo house or Yoruba or any other tribe or religion he started with the words Nigeria is drifting and somewhere in between he preferred a solution That's a summit of national unity convened by governors our media consultant and a Tico's 2019 presidential campaign spokesman Shagun show me is joining us on the show this morning. Good morning, Mr. Show me Good morning plus TV. How are you guys doing? Well good good to have you as well? All right, so we know that Former vice president at eco bubble car has been speaking about national issues But this time around I want you to just hit straight to the heart of the matter and tell us what exactly is the key message I think is trying to put out there Well, I guess you know, I mean, it's it's a very different from that release Petrots must from time to time respond to what they see as probably present danger in the system You cannot really love this country at its level and be seen all of the country going in their separate ways Without offering something that looks like a suggestion or probably an admonition or even a way out What I think about car has done is to say that look Nigerians All of the things that we see is no reason for us to break up our country or to revert back to our ethnic lines Or tribal positions it started by saying that oh as far as this concern all he knows is describe is Nigeria Then he went to stepfather by say look It seems to be that the conversation around the country's National conference. Let's chat. Let's have a way to know what we want to do and then he said to the governor's You don't have to train the total just yet All of you as a bunch of leaders Managing the country at subnational level which are states divided into 36 and plus a budget You can come together You don't have to wait for just one person at the presidential villa or a president Whoever the president may be in this case is present worry Why don't you all come together and have this dialogue among yourselves? Raise the kinds of stakeholders you all need and promote and have this national conversation for national unity Driven not by the V line of which are but driven by the middle level authority Which are the governor so I think it's his own contribution to say I'm not keeping quiet I'm not just looking and you know taking any political capital from the crisis in the country I mean did demonstrating that every leader who is a statement was constantly Putting ideas that can unite us and get us where that's what the idea is. All right. Um, there's been some criticism Towards Take what book if you see if you look through there, you know most of the responses to that tweet or that thread There's people who have mentioned that he was silent at certain times And you know asking why he suddenly has found his voice now that the southern governor decided to meet And at other times when other northern governors had, you know come together, you know, he didn't You know have this ideas Also criticism for him not speaking out, you know, when there was you know conversations concerning the midst of Communications and digital economy is a pandemic. So how would you respond to to that? Let's say that we welcome the comments and the engagement when you make a statement at that level you want it to be again It's not engaged means nobody even ready When they're engaging it you take time to listen to what they're saying some of them You say okay, I can agree with this and we'll improve on it and some of them, you know, it's just mischievous in this Particular instance, I need to state that stated very clearly Nobody of article stature can ever be reduced to a talking parrot It's not his responsibility to speak on every issue and all issues and good job into every frame or even speaking a way that makes the situation All worse. Yeah, some issues require all the people to talk about Some issues require he speaks about and you must be fair to him Whatever you will say about that you cool. He has consistently acted like a statement bringing in ideas Communicating on his calling people to issues that require all of us to take pay attention to and it's very busy trade Now if you will say Why is it not talking when northern governors are talking? sometimes wonder When you state the two of yours, are you not just plain to the gala? Sometimes when the northern governor speak the issues already been engaged and there isn't any real Replact but when you have a station where southern governors for the first time come together not minding the party lines In one location you can see that the amalgamation of not a southern post sector it is already up for conversation When you add on top of that all of the ethnic jingoists and champions who are pulling from different set Then you know that we need to say something and if vice president the former vice president and our presence I can be a spoken. I think people should try to Limit themselves to what he has said asking him to to speak all the time asking him to talk on part timey asking him to speak even when somebody's dog is not eating well Asked him to speak when their wives don't get pregnant is unfair to someone who speaks all the time and when you look at the Twitter generation and that tell you that You engage them and you watch the way they behave and all of that You kind of like get the impression that we've lost it at some point in time in terms of national orientation. Why they're angry with everybody They're angry at everything. There's nobody that I spare. They have no Restrain is okay. Let's just leave the messenger for a second and take a look at the message And it does not indicate that we're developing Progressively of course, there's a lot of energy for young people and that energy must come out But I think that when leaders are saying don't let us destroy the country We must be happy to say, okay, we've heard this and you know, you never even know some of these things are trolls Some of these things are sponsored. Some of these things are political You know issues, but I always say and I say all the time When you are a public figure of the nature of article you must be ready to accept some amnesty version Amnesty version means a natural level of criticism that comes with being in public space. And so in that bread Okay, we take it I think we understand you have taken some of their comment It will speak some more where some more issues come up. You will talk about it But this particular one you have said it in the absolute interest of national unity I young child will not know the potential of the crisis before it comes Experience makes it another limit know that what another limit can still see said sometimes children cannot even see They're climbing on the tallest mountain I'll quickly also just ask if you can quickly share on this one is his ideas of you know governors all coming together, you know across 36 states Regardless of party lines and religious leanings Does that in any way mean taking away the responsibility from the president or Does it mean? Yeah, that doesn't mean accepting that the president at this time may not be capable of really put Nigeria under in the right direction I Think that it's consistent with our own idea of the pollution of authority and power and responsibility We cannot always insist that the one office of the one president Is where all ideas must come from is where all solutions must come from he was trying to say that look We've seen what the southern leaders have done. They've come together to have a conversation Why don't you stretch it a little further? Pull yourself together. You have a very wonderful platform called the Nigerian governor's forum Lock yourself in and read the modalities to assure that more Nigerians can participate in the conversation and driving Why must change or? Substantial issues of this nation. Why must it come from just the president? And I'm not sure that at this time I would say he's saying the president doesn't know and that's not it There's time for politics and there's time for national build what he was talking about and what he was trying to say that gentlemen governors Don't feel so helpless You are the ones that are in charge of your environment You know your stakeholders if you want to have a conference to discuss and engage Why not do it together shooting with champion? Some one Nigeria everybody in the country is not going to be a successionist and Definitely, I think we never subscribe to an idea of a country that is as magnificent and as glorious as Nigeria breaking up So I'm glad that earlier in your message you mentioned that you know You welcome criticism and that that's important as well You know when you take that because some of the comments we've seen you know Response to this message has been poking at the motive behind what Attiku said So could you clarify what you know might have driven Attiku to post that message on Twitter? It's the same day that Made Attiku speak when COVID was coming Before COVID hit the country Attiku was the first person to say let's close the airport. Let's close the airport There's no motive there when we started when COVID finally landed Attiku was the first person to say let's gather together And raise some money private sector. That's who he is It's unfortunate Sometimes I wish it was not a politician, but at last he is so when he speaks There's always not tendency to think that there's a political capital or political opportunity to take from it But you must measure the language that Attiku picks Any politician who wants to pick take value from the crisis now will not be speaking unity That person will probably be pumping the same hate and probably be blaming the president and probably be saying That's not what I think we're saying so leave politics aside Some leaders still believe that this country is worth salvaging So so if you say there's no political motive Can you confirm to me that Attiku has no plan to run for presidency in 2023 I don't understand how I don't understand how whether I think we will run for president or I think we will not run For president. I don't know what got got to do with speaking to national issues at this time And on that question of article running for president, let me put it this way Attiku is not a type of leader who doesn't research Listen shortly to what is going on in the country Examine his own soul to be sure that he can you know put it together and Contribute and all of these things that will come and help article to take a decision on running or not running He would take that decision in his own time No one should say that there's a gag on Attiku just because he ran for election in the past We know people in this country who just overheat the quality when things don't go their way We are members of this country when people are safe baboon and all of that will be dipped in blood You have never I repeat never found Attiku once say anything that is Indecorous about this country and if this generation Cannot say okay. We see a good man here Perhaps the future generation a historian would take a look at all things and say okay That was a Democrat. He really meant to offer his country. All right quickly speak also on his views concerning restructuring How much believe does he have in the fact that Nigeria needs to be restructured and you know explain also if you can What type of restructuring he might be leaning towards I Think that first of all you have to know that people come from the North East Sometimes we are we're quick to lump the knot together as though there are no underpinning issues that bother on Restructuring even in the north you cannot say to me that people of Benway who you call North Central would be happy with the process That doesn't give them enough opportunity to show themselves as egalitarian Detail the people in Southern Canada and also let's go easy on lumping Everybody that has a Muslim name from the North has been Comfortable with this arrangement. I've said Attiku believes that for you to have a great federation Especially now that you have a lot of young people in the population in bubbling and too much energy I think we believe you are not aligning to grow well If you strive for it by insisting that you want to take all the power in the center I think we believe that the powers that we put in the center are a way way way too much They're not the person who's sitting there is not going to be able to do it There's no jack of all three and I think we believe that we can begin to devolve power to the constraint path so that those parts can feel on Hinched one of the areas where I think was very strong one is that I think I've never been able to understand why we're not able to have Multimodern multi-layer policemen Policing that it allows the states to have police local government and all of that and don't forget them I think who came from a system and a generation where they knew how local government works And in their own times some of them were able sent us, you know scholarship by local government So they have seen a system that work. These are a this is a generation that saw the civil war This is a generation that saw all of our premiums And this is a generation that has also seen the military system and the unit system and the flaunt federalism were running now And before anybody would tell me that oh, why didn't that he could do it when he was vice president? Hello The kind of country we run the different between the president and the vice president is like a different between Heaven and earth unless the president keys into an agenda Sometimes it's difficult for any other person to push it the vice president truly is a spare tire Some responsibility is created But please do not hold article fully responsible for what vice presidents can do after all Or she but you who is a son of the whole family is in the villa now How come he's not been able to influence them to do a national conference It is the limitation of the kind of structure we want so article believes a restructuring He has always believed the restructuring is written a lot of book in restaurant restructuring is champion restructuring is the cost system We're structuring and I do not know if he decides he wants to run the Nigerians given opportunity You'll be sure that article will restructure almost immediately. Okay, so we understand, you know, this restructuring calls and One of the tweets here from article reads I call on Nigerian governors to stop waiting on Abuja To make changes and instead convene a national unity summit of all Nigerian governors to iron out the thorny issues affecting the destiny of our nation and figure out a way to resolve them, you know, that's basically what he's saying So I think one of the important questions here is who will build the cats which governor? Do you think right now will stand up to begin to make these conversations and leave? Well, they have a very they have a strong structure that works They have a governor's forum. There's a chairman of governor's forum. They have a south south or not It's out in a southern governor's forum. They have chairman of this guy, you know, the constituents say, you know Six you political as in governor's forum. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? They have a secretary up on the Nigerian governor's form. They have more than enough capacity ability All that is required is the political will and are you telling me that you can have a meeting of Governors in Nigeria If you can have them go to each other's wedding ceremony attend things to their children, you can have them meet a jerk You can have them meet on other issues Why can't they meet on an issue that seems to be very loud in the light in the hearts of their people? There's hardly any section of the country that is not talking about this matter Some of them are for it. Some of them are not for it We have tilted it to a level where quite a lot of noise is coming on on succession is that means people are even Actually asking to leave the country to leave the union. You can't have all of that and then not say to them Oh gentlemen, yes, we could wait for a good job. We want but in the meantime while a good guy is making up his mind Why don't you go nuts? Take the lead Well, yes, you just mentioned key stakeholders, you know when I asked who will build the cat and he said Political will is a challenge But I mean the minister of state for petroleum just yesterday saying said Categorically that the government does not lack political will So if the government does not lack political will you mentioned people to do it Like so when should we be expecting this national unity conference or something? The minister of state for petroleum, they need to know how that works Those are appendages of the presidency They can sit down there and wait for their leader to give them the north Governors, if only they know their powers are Separate respected independent entity living their own states Therefore, if the governor's forum platform will be used to convey a meeting of governors And I can imagine them now I bring the framework what can be discussed what kind of a discourse I can imagine them now saying how many representatives will come from each of the states or how many are they want to pick it up And I can imagine them saying, okay, we'll have that meeting. Maybe luck or just say, okay Yeah below our this is where look what that is. We used to be a capital here It's one of our ancient capital is the conflicted you can you if you can be chairman of the Committee to do the validation your Mars will provide us with an opportunity to have it there And if they don't want luck or just they can go to Calabar if they don't want Calabar They can go anywhere in the country the Nigerian landmass. We know where our borders are We can pick a budget we can pick Lego if you come to I'm sure my government will be willing to do it There is more than enough Space for us to have this dialogue We are not in want of a space what we need or what I think we suggest in is you guys as governors Take the lead take the time Convey this conversation first have it among yourselves and then set up a framework to have it I'm even if you give the presidency was to come for a conference now The president is not the only one that's going to generate the list of what we would have there Some of these things have to come from governors some of these things have to come from all of these I you know the ethnic groups are very very I call blah blah and all of these people are not Invisible to governors. That's what he's saying. All right. What would you say are some of the Factors that might make this convergence difficult or you know has stalled it from happening for a long time And how can we defeat some of these factors? Because you know, there is obviously I believe some governors who may not be interested in this, you know Uniting of the Nigerian governor's forum So is that maybe one of the factors and also how effective will they be being able to Implement the resolutions that they come up with as a Nigerian governor's forum Okay, very good. One thing you have first is first When we when we encourage governors to take the lead we're actually devolving power and responsibilities to them If only they can think properly the second thing you need to understand is that I doubt if there's any governor who says I'm aware of what the issues in the country is Why has it been difficult for the people at the presidency the previous one and even this one to do it? Because it's about removing power from the president Now it's not good. I'm gonna go to excitingly be willing to sit on the conference and say oh Take some of my powers take some of my past take some of my power The people were hoping would take that power at the governor's because we're not going to restructure until we restructure into our Individual houses or in our individual opinions No, we're going to be restructuring in a manner that devolve more power more responsibility to governor's Let us hope that if that finally happens a whole lot of them be more responsible Dear for you can you know influence things from the middle of the pyramid It doesn't have to be at the base all the time and it doesn't have to be at the apex all the time So I think that if the idea has been put on the table if they will not insist that oh If an idea comes from I think we they cannot take it or they would take it Only when it is clear and sitting them in the face that it was the best idea of the table then I think they could Consider it I think what has no path to force them neither does they have any ability to compel them What he can do is what you can do even you you can come up with the paper and call it the suggestion for way forward At least it shows that he's thinking about the problem and even man is thinking about the problem And he's also articulating this position on it. He doesn't have to be 100% correct. No one individual has all knowledge. No one individual has no idol That's why we are asking for this some of people are asking for this dialogue and hopefully even if we had a conference Don't forget that they are still roots. It must go through if you still need these governors It has to go through all the time 16 times of assemblies. That's how this thing works That's how we structure it so there's no any how you flip it these governors are critical to the peace prosperity safety and unity of this country and finally I want you to speak on the Nigeria is drifting Quote and If you still believe and if I took a book I still believes that Nigeria can be saved If you know action is taken critical action is taken or have we drifted too far off to be saved Well, there's a you know what I say when the English master is teaching time You've heard it before like a student. Time saves night. The idea of a sitting time shift nine is that time makes things better and Time destroys things if if something is decaying and you don't quickly attend to it There's gonna come in time where okay is beyond being used and Detroit away But if there's something is getting bad and quickly getting to read this article of pressure remove the bad But speak on all of that then you can save it. That's precisely what this is all about How there is the country drifting we cannot be in denial It's to be very austere like to say. Oh, we're not hearing all of the look non-state actors Are taking hold of the space you have you would go home in the south You have a iPod man in the south is you have all sorts of characters Non-state actors who are now beginning to hijack the emotions of the people are pushing them in all sorts of direction Some of the agitations are legitimate Some of the means and ways they're going about it is totally unacceptable, but there are we still have governors We have president we have local government chairman when you have the governors You are as good as think you have the local government chairman on board and the governors are not they're not so unschooled in Management that they are not able to figure out what to do. And you know, sometimes they will get idea by inspiration Perhaps now that I think was inspired to put this out there It's up to the governors who are in charge today to take it or if they think it's not good enough for them Probably leave it. All right. I'm not going to say anything other. Thank you. Well done. We see you We appreciate your effort for anybody that is talking Check on show me. Thank you so much for joining us on the breakfast this morning interesting conversation looking forward to speaking with you again Yes, thank you All right. Thank you guys. Have a nice day. You too, sir All right, so we'll take a break here and next up we're speaking with a you by Wabba NLC president in Nigeria Here's the wanted man as a Rufi has declared him in just a minute


Well, thank you so much for that introduction and thank you all for being here and for giving me this chance to be with you. So as we know, the point of us all being here is that we're trying to think through a new tool for weakening the economic strength and political power of the defense industry to say to the defense industry, change or die. We also know that if this campaign succeeds, a lot of real people will lose their jobs and they will also be organizing as they often do with their corporate bosses to prevent Pentagon cuts. And so that's where my field of economic conversion that is converting swords into plowshares, that's where that comes in, to sort of find a way out of that dilemma and to say to companies, not only we're divesting from you because you're doing all this bad stuff, but here are alternatives that you can use to stay in business and to keep your workers employed doing things that the country and the world actually need to have done. So I thought I'd do three things. I'd first just sort of sketch out the two basic requirements at the federal level for converting a war economy into a peace economy. And then as we know, there are lots of dimensions to the conversion challenge. We mentioned converting foreign and domestic military bases. We've got defense-dependent communities and then we've got these companies. And so divestment is really focused on the last of those, on company conversion. So what I thought I'd do is lay out a couple of the pros and cons of the idea of converting these companies. And the last thing, I was asked to look at the role of workers in the conversion process. And so I'd like to lift up a couple of examples of brilliant visionary labor leaders who did some of the best thinking on conversion that I think exists. All right, so first, what are the requirements for converting a war economy to a peace economy at the federal level? The first is the fancy term is fiscal shift. And we all know that as moving the money. We can't just cut Pentagon spending. We have to invest it on the civilian side of the budget to create what economists call demand polls. So pulling those companies from the defense sector into civilian and commercial manufacturing. So I bet pretty much everybody in this room feels like they've talked and argued till they're blue in the face about moving the money. And we did have a small downturn in the military budget, very small, pushed by the Budget Control Act. But I think we can all agree that on this issue, we are not winning right now. And so that's why I think this idea of thinking through divestment is so important to go after these companies directly. But the key to both strategies in my view, both arguing for cutting the Pentagon budget and for divesting, is not just cut and divest, but to invest. So the investment piece is the key. So with the fossil fuel divestment campaigns, which I think we'll be hearing about later, it's pretty obvious what the investment needs to be. We need to sell oil and gas stocks and invest in renewables. For defense stocks, it's more wide open. How do you invest in a way that's going to be the most important to creating a peace economy?  Creator of conflict that no military is ever going to be able to contain. If climate change itself is not contained, even the US military thinks that that's true. And so I think what we need for a big national mission to take the place of the military mission is creating a low emissions economy. So in a way that makes our job easier, we simply need to follow the path laid out by the fossil fuel divestment campaign and invest in what they've been talking about. Investing in. So the other piece beyond this moving the money piece is the best term I can come up with is structural shift, which I don't think is a very good term. So I'd love it if somebody came up with a better one. But the basic idea is targeted assistance to these companies to help them overcome the inertia of we're going to stick with what we've always done because it's too scary to do anything else. And also the actual technical obstacles to moving from defense production into civilian production. So I'll just mention a few of these tools. One is obviously figuring out how to commercialize defense technologies. I think the best, most ambitious effort along these lines, it wasn't nearly ambitious enough and it had a lot of defects. But it was called the technology reinvestment project engineered by the Clinton administration. And it gave grants to create these consortia and teaming up defense businesses with commercial businesses that actually knew how to manufacture for and market to the commercial sector. And then there were also on these teams academic institutions, economic development agencies, some nonprofits, and in a few cases some unions. So part of my job is to come up with examples of conversion success. And it's really hard to do, particularly in this century when basically the defense budget has been moving up. And most of the research and development dollars are focused on the defense market. And we obviously haven't had increased investment on the civilian side. So it's really hard to find those successes. But I've got one to lift up here, which was created by one of these technology reinvestment project grants. It was a technology called Hybrid Drive. It was developed by Lockheed Martin. This was a hydraulic system for one of their military jets. And they teamed up with a bus manufacturer and several other partners. And they figured out how to take this hybrid drive technology and turn it into the drivetrain for an electric hybrid bus. So this was this hydraulic system. And Lockheed Martin, in its lack of wisdom, just as they were figuring out how to do this, they decided to sell off this business to BAE Systems. And BAE Systems put those buses, well, with those partners, put those buses on the street by the year 2000. There were 125 on the streets of New York City. By 2011, they were driving around London. And in Japan and in Canada, they were also on the streets of San Francisco, Chicago, and Houston. And now there are about 8,000 of those buses. They're working fine. So this is possible. However, as the example of BAE Systems that we just heard makes very clear, 8,000 buses is not going to be enough to move this defense behemoth to rethink its agenda and move into the civilian sector. And really, the only thing that's going to do that is if we are successful in moving the money. So this reinvestment is really the key there to getting. And with respect to hybrid buses, we've got to have a drastic program to invest in keeping global temperature rise to 2 degrees centigrade so that we avoid climate catastrophe. That's the kind of program we need. If we have that, some of these defense behemoths will, as they have, figure out how to get into that market and actually succeed in it. So I can talk about a few others, but I don't want to take up too much time. I want to go through just a couple of the pros and cons of trying to do this, of companies converting. So in terms of the cons, sorry, I'll go with the pros first. The main one is that we, as citizens and taxpayers, have invested huge amounts in military technology, and so we should recoup those investments and turn them to productive use. At least that's the argument or an argument. Another is obviously the workers and their livelihoods. And the third is to reduce this backlash to cuts in the defense budget and reduce the political pressure to keep Pentagon budgets climbing. So now to the cons. The example, well, I'll say simply that there are reasons that defense companies may not be competent to do commercial manufacturing in a lot of sectors. Exhibit A is my daughter's high school, the beginning of her senior year in high school. This was about a decade ago. She's in a Maryland high school. And for the first week of the school year, nobody had a schedule. They were running around, basically it was a total loss the first week of school. Why was that? Well, they decided to move from paper schedules to put it all on, to make it all digital. And maybe you can guess who they decided to get to do that job, and that was Lockheed Martin.  And so as I say, nobody did anything really in any educational domain in the first week of class. So Lockheed Martin, I suspect, was adopting a method that defense companies like to employ, called concurrency, meaning you get something into production and then before you've really tested it out and figured out where the bugs are, and then you figure those out as you go along. So that's the kind of practice that if defense companies are actually going to succeed in the commercial sector, they've got to unlearn. And there are many others. For example, cost plus contracts. They love them. You low bid, get the contract. And then you say, oh, by the way, it's really going to cost a lot more. And the contract says, this is how much we're going to pay you plus a guaranteed profit, plus whatever you can get us to add on in terms of to run up the costs. They've got to unlearn that if they're going to make it in the commercial sector. But it is possible. We do have these examples if defense companies recognize that they need to understand commercial manufacturing a lot better than they tend to do. So the last thing I wanted to do was just mention a couple of these visionary labor leaders that really did some of the best thinking that I've ever read on conversion. One of these is Walter Ruther, who was in 1945, he was a vice president of the United Auto Workers. And he knew that as the war came to an end, if the workers had worked with their companies to convert pretty much the entire manufacturing base of two minutes. Oh my god. Well, OK. So he figured out that he needed to come up with some sort of plan so that his workers would not be left high and dry as the war spending came down. And so he wrote a brilliant monograph called Our War Plants Expendable, in which he produced detailed plans for converting war plants to upgrade the rail system and to build affordable housing. That didn't happen. We had the Cold War instead. He tried again in 1969 when we thought the Vietnam War was going to be ending. It wasn't. Anyway, he came up with this plan, Swords into Plowshares, a proposal to promote the orderly conversion from defense to civilian production to meet critical national needs. And there, his key new idea was that companies should be required as a condition of their contracts to put a certain portion of their profits in a government trust fund as a kind of conversion reserve so that if they were going to convert, either because they were forced to, because they lost contracts, or they did it voluntarily, that there would be this fund there to fund that transition and to help their workers, to give workers benefits to the extent that the plan didn't succeed, so that there was a real incentive there to come up with a plan to convert that would actually work, because if you didn't, then you were going to be giving all of your profits to your workers in the form of benefits. So this was a key idea of national legislation that was proposed year after year up through the post-Cole War period. And I think it was probably the smartest idea that they ever came up with, to actually incentivize these companies to do it. That's where I'll have to end.


The MBTI test has been used for career matches, relationship and marriage counseling, and personal development. But why not also use it for fun too? Here's what you should be for Halloween based on your personality type. INFP. Sweet, loving and compassionate, these artistic souls know how to spread kindness, so dress up as a fairy and sprinkle some of your magic. The world just wouldn't be the same without your pixie dust. ENFP. Spontaneous and free spirited, these adventurers know how to dream big. And what's bigger than the ocean? Follow your fish friends and embrace your inner mermaid or merman. ISFP. Sensitive and observant, you have a keen eye for beauty. Too bold for a traditional life, you would rather carve a path of your own instead of following someone else's. So go wild this year and create something special as a painter, like Bob Ross. ESFP. The world is like a stage for all you lively entertainers. You always manage to find yourself in the spotlight, so why not dress up as your favorite actor or actress? Halloween was always meant for you. You get to do the tricking while treating. INFJ. Y'all are a classy bunch. Well read and creative, you make wise old souls. You love to promote change with compassion. And who's softer than good ol' Mr. Rogers? Put on your favorite cardigan and be the role model we all love. ENFJ. Charming, altruistic and natural born leaders. You shouldn't just dress up as a president. You should run. How sweet would that be? INTP. Innovative, logical and creative. This eccentric combination creates the perfect opportunity to dress up as a mad scientist. Just try not to blow up anybody's house if you're trick-or-treating. ENTP. For all of you ENTPs watching, you're probably wondering why none of these costumes are scary. Known for your quick wit and being the devil's advocate, consider dressing up as the Joker. ISTP. Ah, you make an interesting bunch, passionately curious about the world. You like to take things apart just to see how they work. You should be a Lego person. Why build a costume when you can build your own? ESTP. Adventurous and quick to think on your feet, you should be a skater. The risky lifestyle attracts you and y'all make a spicy bunch with your competitive nature. INTJ. Intellectual and strategic. You all make champion chess players, so why not dress as a knight and play the game on a bigger board? Will you accept this challenge? ENTJ. Confident, rational and business-like. You're all entrepreneurs at heart. Dress up as your favorite leader. It might just give you more business ideas. ISTJ. You should be Sherlock Holmes. With your analytical mind and fact-checking skills, you've got a knack for solving puzzles, so grab a magnifying glass and start looking for clues in your classic trench coat. I know you can work those earth tones. ESTJ. As good citizens, you enjoy tradition and order and do what it takes to preserve justice. You should grab your gavel, polish your glasses and dress up as a judge. What's your personality type? What do you plan on being this Halloween? Please share your thoughts with us below. Also, don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more helpful tips and share this video with others. With your help, we can reach more people and provide our support. Thanks for watching!


All right. So in this video, I'm going to talk about how I close fat deals, high ticket deals without a sales call. And when I mean high ticket, I mean 30 K plus deals that I'm closing pretty much every week now. The funnel is useful content to a DM chat conversation to a close. And this is an example from a client who signed up last week. He found me through something I'm going to show you today in this video reached out through Facebook Messenger chat. And you can see the end of our conversation here where he just said, Hey, let's go. And you signed up shortly after that. So I'm going to share with you the process here and what it takes for you to be able to close really expensive deals like this. Before I get into that, if this is your second or more video, watching on my channel and you're finding it valuable and useful, please hit the subscribe button. I have something called the gentleman's agreement, which basically means that you get to watch this content for free. But it takes me a lot of time and energy to come up with these ideas and film these videos and make it useful for you. So if you are appreciating these videos and you're finding it useful, please hit the like and subscribe button. And I would really appreciate it. So let's go over to this doc here. This is actually a training I did for one of my groups. And I want you to take a look at this graphic here. So if you've played video games at all, when you're younger, they always have this health bar, and it looks similar to this. So think of this like the bonding bar, the more expensive your offer is, the bigger this bar is. So the bigger the black spaces and the more that you have to fill up. Marketing is how you increase this red line here. So what is marketing is basically getting awareness and attracting people to your offer and getting attention. So prospecting, posting content, sending emails or sending an email, publishing videos just like this, having conversations with people in your market. Every time you do these marketing activities, you are increasing the red line. You're making people more aware about what you do and you're building up that bond with your market. The closer it is to full, the closer this red bar is to full, the easier it is to sell your offer. The less red there isn't here, the more work you're going to have to do on the sales call. You're going to have to do all those convincing and objection handling tug-of-war and you're going to have to really work hard on the sales process when you're on the phone with the person. So if you want to sell without the phone, you need to fill this bar up. You need to be doing marketing to get this bar as full as possible. So your job as a rainmaker, whether you're doing this for your own offers or your partnering with a client and you're doing this for them, you're doing marketing for them and you're closing deals for them, is to push the bar as close to full as possible. Push this bar as close to full as possible. This is if, by the way, you want to sell really expensive offers without a sales call. So how do we do that? Well, you do that by dialing in the offer and doing stellar marketing. So everything I mentioned up here basically, emails, posts, content chats. And so stellar marketing reduces the need for pushy sales. And if your marketing is on point, sales becomes simple order taking. You just show up to the I do this in chat, you can do this on a phone call if you'd like. But by the time a prospect is talking to me, it's very similar to this where they just ask a few questions and they're in, even if it's a very expensive offer. So that is how the psychology around how I close big ticket deals without a sales call is I fill up this bar and I use marketing to fill up this bar. So by the time I get on a sales call or by the time I'm having a conversation with somebody, it's just a few questions back and forth. And the deal is done. Now, before I show you an example of what this looks like, you need to understand the process, the phases that a prospect goes through before they buy an offer when they see your offer. And this can happen in a matter of seconds, milliseconds, it can also happen over a period of days and weeks and months, maybe even a year or more. So the four phases are first, there's the dopamine hit, right? Ooh, what's this? What is that? That looks interesting. The next thing that goes through their mind is how is this different? Then has this worked for anyone like me? And then how can I be sure this will work for me? They started judging, right? I'm not quite sure I've seen this before. So how does this break down into marketing language? Well, first, we have the obvious outcome. This is a specific claim of what your offer does in a certain time period. So what are we getting done together? You want to answer that question? Then we have how is this different? So this is your unique mechanism. What makes your solution different than other solutions? It doesn't need to be 1000 times better than every other solution, it can be. But if you can make it a little different, it's going to stand out. That's what makes it unique. So for example, what I'm sharing with you now how to sell big ticket deals without the phone that's different for people who are used to just selling everything on the phone. It doesn't make it better than selling on the phone. But it doesn't make it better depending on your situation. Maybe you don't want to be on the phone, right? So it makes it different and unique from other offers out there. Then we have proof has this at work for anyone like me. So proof is personal or client case studies showing that your claim is true. Anybody can make a claim. Anyone can say anything they want, right? I see newbies doing this all the time and the huge claims that they can't deliver on. You need to show proof if you're going to make a claim. If you tell somebody you're going to make them a million bucks in 30 days, well, you better have a case study or proof that you've done that before.  So proof. And then we have a risk reversal. How can I be sure this will work for me? So risk reversal is just taking the risk off of the plate of the client and you're putting it on you.  So if you don't have the proof and you don't have the case studies or anything, you need to take all the risk. You need to eat all the risk because someone has to take the risk and you don't want to put that on the client, right? If you if you're not getting the result, then you shouldn't be getting paid anyway. So risk reversal, you can do performance based deals, which is you only pay me when I'm successful. Or you can do things like money back and action based guarantees. Money back is what I do on my current one on one action based is what I do if I'm doing like a coaching program and the client is responsible for doing the work themselves. So performance deals, money back, action based guarantees, it's ranked in order of effectiveness. So performance deals, hey, you only pay me when I'm successful. That is the least amount of risk for the client because they're not paying you anything upfront. Money back is the second, the second most effective because they're paying you something upfront, but they can get the money back if they don't get a certain result. And then action based is the least effective because they have to go and do a bunch of actions in order to get the money back if they don't get the result. But this is risk reversal. You're taking the risk off the plate of the client, you're putting it on yourself and you're making it easier to say yes to. So keep in mind the phase as a prospect goes through when they see your offer, these four phases here, because this is going to help you with your messaging and crafting your offer and dialing it in and your marketing. So if you think about the bonding bar above, anytime you miss one of these four things here, you dock points and your bar gets smaller. So if you don't have proof, boom, there goes the red bar. It goes like to half or like close to zero, right? Or maybe you don't have an obvious outcome, or your outcome sounds the same as everybody else. There's no unique mechanism. Okay, we're going down even more. So think about that bar at 100% and every time you dock, you miss one of these things, you dock it by like 25% or whatever. Not perfect, but just think of it that way. So the closer you are to 100, the easier it will be to sell your offer. Again, our goal is to get that bar as close to 100 as possible. So most offers I see, they usually only have one or two of these four. Very often they'll have a big outrageous claim or outcome that they talk about, but they don't have anything unique about it. There's no proof and there's no risk reversal. All the risk is on the client. And so another thing that I often see is they'll have an outcome plus a risk reversal, but they don't have anything unique and they don't have proof. It's going to be hard to get sales if you want, if you have zero proof. That's why getting your first client is always the hardest.  You need the obvious outcome, you need the unique mechanism, the proof and the risk reversal. And now you have an easy yes offer if you have all those things. And you can do this effectively with a sales letter that is so useful that it's considered content. So here is an example. This is a dock that I created in the beginning of March and this is for a new one-on-off, one-on-one offer that I rolled out at that same time. And then I also had a YouTube video walking through the sales for free. Basically just reading over the sales letter. But this document here hits on all four of these things. Right? There's an obvious outcome at the top. Boom. Then we have a unique mechanism which is selling programs without the phone. High ticket programs without the phone. Boom. Number two. Number three. Do we have proof? Yes. I stacked the proof right at the top here. Right? So I have six case studies that I just put at the top. So we check box number three. Risk reversal. I have a money back guarantee. If you don't make at least $100,000 in six months I give you your money back on this offer. It's an expensive offer. It's a premium offer.  So we've checked all four of those boxes. And to expand on this it's a very useful document. So you can go through this. It walks you through step by step what I do in the one-on-one offer. If I were to partner with you on this. And at the end there's just an invitation to work with me. So it says hey if you enjoyed this content here are the next steps. And so the next steps from here is if you want to implement all these things together you can reach out to me here www.SeanAnthony.co. And so this is an example of a sales letter that's useful. So useful that it's considered content because people can go through this and get a result on their own. If you want to see this by the way go to phonelesssales.com it'll take you to the stock and you can read through this on your own time. So that is how I close. That big ticket deals without a sales call is I have a dialed in offer that touches on these four things here and I have stellar consistent marketing where every day I'm going out to the market and prospecting and posting content. I'm sending out emails and publishing videos just like this. I'm having conversations with my market. And by the time someone reaches out to me it's just a quick chat conversation. Maybe they ask a few logistical questions. Maybe they tell me a bit about their situation and what they're looking for. And just like this within a few messages they could be in even on a very expensive offer. So if you want to see this guide it's a more in depth guide on how this works. Go to phonelesssales.com and it'll take you directly here. And if you want my help setting this up with you then you can see how to do that on this doc and you can reach out to me. We'll have a quick chat conversation. You'll see the process firsthand. And if I think I can help you with this system then I'll tell you more about how that works and how to get started. But I hope you found this video useful. Remember the four things here. And remember this bonding bar and you're trying to fill it up with your marketing. Okay. So hope this was useful. Hit the like button if it was. Let me know in the comments what you thought about this video and what you think about videos like this. And if you like it if you don't like it let me know and I'll see you in the next one. Take it easy.


Tack för att du kom. I den här show har jag tagit en del av videoverket Driven. Det är en kollaboration med en annorlunda svensk artist Monika Larsen-Denis där. Det här är en kort presentation som börjar här. Det här är en dokumentation från en skrivning på PS1 2001. Det är done with Monika. Vi har mött på Royal College of Art i Stockholm, 97, och vi har gjort många jobb samtidigt. Fortsättning, public installations, text-based works, och videon. Det här är en stil från videon. Det här är omkring relationer, gender roles, trust and mistrust, and power, and the passion, and also the sensualist in taking notice of small details. Here you see Driven at the PS1. Especially like when we show Driven as a large scale presentation to see the contrast to the peace, which is so private and intimate. Something happened. It doesn't come up. I'm pressing this down here. Okay, we have to press harder. This is another outdoor public screening. And this is in the center of Stockholm. It's the biggest square, and it's done when the city was the cultural capital of Europe. Here you see Driven projected onto a castle. It's at the Varnås Foundation in Sweden. Varnås Foundation is a sculpture park. And here you see another work we have done together. It started out as a public installation at the airport in Stockholm. The title is around and around. And these sentences were printed onto the luggage carousel. So when you were standing there looking for your luggage, you got these sentences. And it's about failing to communicate in a relationship and the limits of language. We have done this piece into a postcard, especially for this show. So you're welcome to get one when you step out from this talk. I also want to show you more of my own work. I do videos and large scale photographs. So this photo is one by four meters. My work is focusing on masculinity and the contemporary man. It's about playing roles as a woman and as a man.  Somewhere else is both a photograph and a video work.  I'm a woman looking at these men and I'm also directing them what to do. In the video, I asked them to open and close their legs in a special rhythm. So it becomes like a dance, a choreographed dance. I use different symbols of power like architecture and in this case nature. But also beauty itself. This picture was shot in San Francisco at Stanton Beach. The piece is about the fear and the freedom of losing control. To be in something larger than yourself. And in this case it's very hard to control the nature. My works are stories about powerful, vulnerable and beautiful and insecure individuals. Here you see the dotcom people, the dotcom professionals before the crash in 2001. It's shot in Stockholm. I always use real people in my work. I mean if I need a businessman I go out in the street and look for a businessman. And I ask him to take part and then I'm directing them. So I transform reality just one snap. Like from when they have control and then in this case I put these men into the water.  This is a video work. Here I use a well-known man for the first time. This piece was done before 9-11. I think that's important. I wouldn't like to do it after. I had an opening in New York City, the 7th of September 2001. Which was a very intense and strange situation. During the first time people were really laughing about the president. And then this horrible thing happened. And the gallery had to close. Because I mean this piece really got different context. So it was difficult for even the gallery to know if it was appropriate to show it. But he showed it again and he opened after three days. And the reaction was compact silence. I think this is my most shown work. I've shown this work constantly since then. And it's always changing with the current politics. I took the material from CNN and made a new story. It's all the silent pauses when he's not talking. So he's showing off not a powerful man but the other sides. He shows off insecurity and confusion of a person that's being afraid. And the little boy that wants to get applause. And a boy that wants to be loved by his father. Here's another work. Maybe a familiar power situation. I don't know. This photograph belongs to an ongoing series that started 2003. So far it's consist of 11 photographs. And I'm also doing a video work. Here I show people as still lifes. As nature mortar objects. It's an equal objectification between men and women and objects. And it's also about life and death. I wanted the man to have bare feet. So you can see this living skin compared to the books that had leather fabric. So it's this contrast in the piece. It's about being surrounded of something that you cannot control. Or you can control your small area. I mean the books are shaped after his body in the closest area. So you can influence your nearby area. These works are all very large scale photographs. I like the physicality of approaching a photograph in a more physical way. This man is like the story about the princess and the pea. But it's layers of our time that he has to relate to. For me it's a contemporary archeology. I feel that this structure is history.  And we will feel that this was a very long time ago. This photograph is my latest project. It's both a series of four photographs and a video with the three channels. It's about security and of being enclosed and protected. But also the opposite of being isolated and not seeing the bigger picture. Like the journalists in the war they were called embedded journalists. They went there to get a better picture of the war. But they were so embedded. So it was hard to get it. So this is both in your private life and in a bigger picture. I also think about the world and the nature at large. Like the icebergs melting in Antarctica. In the video I'm asking them to slowly move out of the bed. So it's like a waterfall or they move very slowly. So they almost move like insects or creatures that you don't know. It feels also very abstract. So they are going away and I actually don't know where they are going. I'm curious to see where the men in my works are going. I feel like the people in my pictures are not portraits of these people really. They are more distant and they are replaceable. It's more a constant flow of humans. This was what I had to say and if you have any questions you're welcome.


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Welcome back MechanicalEI! Did you know that Pythagoreans were the first to deal with regular solids, but the Platonists were the first to study solid geometry? This makes us wonder, what is solid geometry? Before we jump in, check out the previous part of this series to learn about what two and three-dimensional Laplace equations are. Now, solid geometry deals with the measurements of volumes of various three-dimensional figures, including pyramids, prisms and other polyhedrons. It consists of two intersections. First, an intersection of surfaces forming an intersection curve, which is the intersection line of two non-parallel planes in E3-dimensional space. In general, an intersection curve consists of the common points of two transversely intersecting surfaces, meaning that at any common point, the surface normals are not parallel. Second, interpenetration of solids. When one solid penetrates other solids, then the surface is intersect, and at the bottom of the intersection, a typical curve is formed, which remains common to both sides. This curve is called the curve of intersection. In addition to frontal, horizontal or profile planes, which offer principal orthographic views, additional planes are set up so as to be parallel to the edges and faces, which should be shown in true sizes. The views projected on these auxiliary planes are called auxiliary views, and the technique used is called auxiliary projection technique. This technique helps promote solid-solid projection and is mainly drafted out on drawing sheets. Hence, we first saw what solid geometry is and then went on to find out what auxiliary views are. You helped the channel grow. So, here are the top mechanical EIs of our last videos.


Everyone Basil chapter on the 15th of November and mid month, and we've got all of November to try to make a new high above $36,565 that was on the 8th of November in the Dow, dogey candle peak F and chap weight methodology pullback shop into the 14 period moving average trying to rally now it is up 96 points and it's really after five sessions after that high a week ago we're looking at something that is is holding well but it's not showing tremendous strength but the is strength based on the nine period moving over the 14 period moving average and holding there that is giving it some internal strength and that I have to respect is something that could allow for higher prices. The S&P has pulled back from the high in today high but it's still at $46.88 up five which is $47.18.50 was the all-time high just over a week ago it's pulled back and it's holding very nicely within this range kind of make a V-shaped pattern well it needs to clear $47.06 by Tuesday and that says yep then it can do it but we're looking at the resistance in that weekly chart two weeks in a row we've held will the third week be the resistance again in the chaff weight inside track repellent zone looking at the QQQ one two three there we go uh pulling back down 32 cents at $394.38 huh if you look at Tesla look at this Tesla had round numbers and all sorts of things made an all-time high of $12.43.49 had a round number low of $12.17 the next day they had round number low of $12.08 and gap down as pullback is now $9.89 after a peak G2 doji candle highs and the peak E in the weekly chart so there could be a little bit of an influence there however we are looking at the QQQ so the IWM which was leading and is that as that kind of I wouldn't say it's fading but it just isn't leading anymore it's down 49 cents it's just kind of stuck off that all-time high of $244.46 look at gold gold's holding very nicely has pulled back from a recovery high it's down 5 at 1863 I would say the 18 1835 to 1829 area is really strong support this week if it can hit 1881 that's fantastic now look at the dollar holding very nicely this pulling back it was pulling back now it's up six ticks should make another leg higher it's acting very well it's a TLT that's really interesting here because for over three weeks since the 25th of October it's just been going sideways to down and that's just telling us that everything has its time for it for a digestive phase and that's where it's at thank you for letting me present those guys the webinar coming up on Wednesday and I will between the Boston Investors Group it's going to be I'm the guest speaker it's online go to the front but go to the Google and you can check it out Boston Investors Group and I'll be the guest speaker there


Upward Bound recently held its career day at the University of New England campus in Portland. Theodora Calico gave her first official speech as the new president of the University of Southern Maine. Leslie was there and has this report. Well President Calico, you have just given your first official speech as the new president of USM to a room full of Upward Bound students. What a lovely message you gave. One of the things you said was to be quiet and listen. I think our politicians should listen to you when you say that. Well everybody should listen to me, but it's a really good recipe for success in life. And you also said that you found your calling was through public education, even though you had had a private school background. Tell us a little bit about that. I was at what's now the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and that was where my first real teaching in the United States was and I had no idea what to expect. And the students blew me away with their promise and their excitement and their potential for being just as accomplished and wonderful as any other students I had met in England or America or anywhere. So and they needed, they needed the chance. You know the ones that I had met before in private higher education would have all the chances. They had the chances. These people, these students were coming because they knew they weren't going to have that many chances and this was one for them. Well I think your message was encouraging for everyone who is here listening to it, not just the students, but everyone to say yes to opportunity. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And you've just done that by coming out of a two-day retirement? It was great. Retirement was excellent, but as I said, when the call came I was ready. I said yes to it. I can still give some things that people need to receive. Well you're not just ready, you're enthusiastic and we are thankful for your yes. Well I'm glad, I'm grateful that somebody asked. Thank you. Okay. Well I'm with Laurie Davis now who's the Executive Director of the TRIO program at USM. What is that Laurie? TRIO programs at USM are made up of two federal grant programs. One is Upward Bound and that is a program that serves low income and first generation meaning that the students' parents did not attend college or graduate from college and that program serves high school students in eight southern main high schools, Samford, Bideford, Massabesic, Sackopee Valley, Bunny Eagle and all three Portland high schools. And then the other program that I oversee is called Student Support Services and that serves students at USM, college students, and the goal is to ensure their success at USM and their graduation. So this is our career day where we have people from the community come in and talk about their careers and their career paths. President Calico just did a wonderful job sort of tracing her journey to become a college president which I think was really helpful for students. They often think in high school I'm going to be A, fill in the blank. And the reality of careers especially in this day and age is that it's a more meandering path and that you start out in one place and you go end up someplace else. It may have a connection with where you thought you were and it may not but she really told them to follow that and that was a great message.  Did you have to turn away students today? I mean it was packed. Our program our summer program is a federal grant we're actually obligated to provide a six-week summer program which for us is residential because our students come from a wide geographic area and that's part of the federal law and the federal grant that funds us. And so we have about 62 students in residence this summer. We also have other students that we who aren't living with us this summer they either have graduated from high school and are heading on to college and a wide variety of colleges from SMCC, USM, YCC, Bowdoin, University of Maine and Machias. Our students go everywhere. That's terrific. Well we look forward to seeing these students out there running our world someday. Yes and they will be. Thank you. Thank you.


Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy! In this video I am going to walk through the observation project that you have for this semester and tell you a little bit more about it. Now I'm not going to read through all of the instructions and details here, I'm going to try to hit the high points to be able to get you started. So there's a lot of information here that you can read through, but really in order to be successful the keys are that you really need to be able to get this started early. The idea is that you're going to be making observations of the sun. And what that means is observations of the shadow cast by an object. So if you have your object here and the sun is up off to the side someplace, so the sun is shining up here and it will shine rays and it will cast a shadow on the ground right here and that is what you're going to be measuring. So I'm going to have you measure that shadow length, that would be L, and the object height and that's really what you need to do over the course of the semester. I ask you to do this about 10 times during the semester and you don't need to, it does not need to be done every single day. Once a week is great, every week to 10 days will easily get you this number of observations required. So you're going to use the data table that I provide at the end or make up your own. But let's go ahead and look down as to exactly what you're going to be measuring and the altitude measurements do need to be made at a specific time. And that is about 12.15 p.m. when you are on standard time, which would be during the winter months generally, or 1.15 p.m. during the summer months and it depends exactly on when the time change is that year as to when those occur. I will post your reminder of course when times do change. This works pretty well as long as you're any place around central Pennsylvania. So as long as you don't go too far from that, then you're actually going to be fine. You don't need to worry about the changing a different time. Now if you're in a different location for very far east or west of that, then you may want to reach out to me and we can look up and determine what kind of times are going to be best for you to be making your observations. And I also ask now that you do take a photo of each observation. Now that's just a picture of your object with the shadow being cast and your ruler set up to measure the shadow. You want to submit these at the end of your final write up. I'm going to have you show a picture with your first submission, but you will need one for each observation that you make. So just make it a habit of snapping that photograph, which will also give you that permanent record of that as well. Now in order to get the most accurate measurements, you're going to need to set your object on a very solid surface. So you don't want to put it in the grass. That can make it a little more difficult to measure. You also want things that can be easily measured. Now let's take a break from here. We'll come back to this in just a second. But let's look at the types of objects that you want to be able to observe. So here is an example is for box measurements. If you're using something that is like a box, you want to measure it as shown here in the first one. See how it starts right at the end and then measures outward toward the shadow. Note how the box is turned so that the shadow comes straight back from it. And you get little to no shadow along the sides. You don't want to measure the long way as shown in the middle photograph here. And while this one is actually not bad, some of the problems here are the way it's turned is trying to determine exactly where you want to measure the shadow. What point do you pick and what point do you get here? So the fact that this is kind of curved makes it a lot harder than when you get a nice straight edge to the shadow like this. So it really just depends on how you want to do it. So this one can work. It really have to be a little bit more careful though when you're making that measurement. Now, if you're measuring say something like a can instead, there are the way to measure it is as is shown in the first one here. And that is measuring from the back right here and then measuring forward right to the edge of the tip of the shadow. Note how it's rounded and you want that very tip. But you also do not want the shadow that goes along the side of the image there. You only want the shadow from the very back corner here to the tip of the shadow. You don't measure underneath the object as shown here. And you don't measure that shadow along the side of the can as shown in the last measurement here. You'd only want to measure from right there to the tip of the shadow. That would be your shadow measurement if you're using a can. Now, if there's some objects to not use, a can or a box works really well. But there are some things that you don't want to use and it's just because they're very irregular shapes. Note the irregular shape here. This is not something that you'd want to use. Where are you measuring the shadow from? And where is the end of the shadow? You've got to be very careful as to exactly what you're measuring here. An object like the chair here is very difficult because it's got a very irregularly shaped shadow. And the giraffe here, same kind of thing. When you're measuring the shadow, it's hard to determine exactly where that shadow starts because the shape is not regular. Again, try to stick with a box or a can. Any of these are not going to work well and are not going to give you accurate measurements. You also need to make sure that you're measuring the shadow along the bottom. So you don't want to measure the shadow in this direction. You don't want to measure it at an angle going down. The shadow that you want is the shadow along the ground. That is what we are measuring. So you don't want to measure it at an angle.  It's very easy to tilt this a little bit one way or the other. And unless you have a level there to make sure you have it exactly straight up and down when you're making your measurement, that can throw your values off a little bit. So those are some things just to watch out for when you are actually making these measurements. So that's what we want to measure here. Now that's all you need to do for right now. You do not need to worry about anything else. Once you make those measurements, I show you how to start the calculations here. So there is some trigonometry involved. But again, all it inquires knowing is which buttons to push on the calculator. And I will give some demo videos that explain that for you later. You also need to know the latitude of your location. For most regions around hack, we can use Harrisburg and it works out very well. And that would be 49.75. The latitude of Harrisburg is about 40.25 degrees. This is what we call the co-latitude or 90 degrees minus the latitude. And that is what we will need for the calculations. However, again, you need not worry about this till the end of the semester. And I will give you far more details on this later on. I do look for 10 observations. Now that is for a full semester class. For shorter classes, that will be adjusted. You do want to record everything in the same sets of units. So if you're measuring in inches, that's fine. Don't try to convert them into centimeters. If you're measuring in inches, make sure you measure your object height and your shadow length in both in the same sets of units. And we will look. I also give you some sample questions. You're going to need these for your write-up. But there's some things for you to think about as you get started. So I also will give you some breakdown as to the final report. I'm going to go over that in far more detail later in the course. But you could read a little bit about it here. And this is what your final write-up is going to look like. So I'm giving it to you now. You don't need to do any of this right now. This is just to give you a chance to look ahead. The only things you really want to look at here are the part on the data, which is number three. So again, you need a photo of each observation. I ask you to do three days in between observations. So don't make them seven or eight days in a row. You can. Those are fine as extra observations. But for me to count those 10, I am looking for two full days in between the observations. So February 1 to February 4, I only give you credit for four observations in any individual month. So the idea there is to get them spread out over the semester. Here I tell you that if you're in a 12-week course, you're getting eight, six-week course, five, and the four-week course looking for at least three observations. Again, you can always make extra observations. So if you want to make an extra 10 observations and make 20 of them, I will look through everything that you submit and grade those. Do not make up data. Make sure you are not making it up. If you don't make the observation, don't make the observation. Please note, 30 points is all the data are worth out of 160. And 15 of these will be given during the semester. So you could make three observations that could give you up to half of that credit. It's not worth faking the data and getting caught and risking a zero grade on the entire assignment. So if you don't get observations for a while, that's fine. Just don't try to make up them. I've had to give people zeros on the project. It's never fun, but I can't just let something like that go. In order to get credit for them, you do have to submit the observations during the semester. I collect them three times during the semester. And if you do not submit the observation, then you don't get credit for it. So if you make five observations in September and only submit one of those, you will not get credit for the other four at the end of the semester. Also, if you do not get credit for the data, if you use only my data, I will be providing some data. That's fine. If you don't make any observations, you just lose this 30 points. And you can still do the rest of the write up and get the rest of the points, even if you make no observations. So let's go ahead. I'm not going to go through the rest of the details here again. We can look at that later in the semester. But that just gives you idea if you want to look ahead. Now, here is a data table. And I provide different copies of the data table for you in different formats for whatever you want to use. What you want to record right now is the date, the time, your location. You can tell me what city you're in. You can give me a zip code. Just something that tells me what your location is. That does not have to be the same if you make observations from different locations. That way we can see if there's a reason that some observations don't quite fit in. What were the sky conditions like? What is your shadow length and what is your object height? These are the only things you need for right now during the semester. The rest of this will be completed at the end of the semester. And I will provide additional information on how to go about doing those calculations. I give you a room for 20 again for most classes only the first 10 are required as long as they are spaced out as given in the handout there. So that concludes this lecture video on the solar observation project that you will do over this semester. We'll be back again next time to continue our introduction to this course. So until then, have a great day everyone and I will see you in class.


To deal with my mental health, to just talk to somebody, if it's a professional, that's great. A lot of drivers have headsets, you could talk to a therapist while you're driving. If you have a family member you can trust, just a vent to or a get outside. Just like those little bit of moments right there where you're outside, you're away from the truck, and then I started eating healthier and that made me feel a lot better. It's one of those things like you just got to find your groove and like what really like just lifts your spirits, you could be anything.


St. Luke's Churchyard in Chelsea. Charles Dickens was married here. For Londoners today it's just somewhere for a quiet lunch hour, but for Vladislav Chitty and Professor Zislav Stahl, it will soon have a special meaning. They are Londoners now, but once they were officers in the Polish army. In this churchyard will be the only memorial to 15,000 of their comrades who died mysteriously in Russia during the war. Some were found buried in a forest called Katchin. The rest vanished without trace. In this issue, Echo looks into one of the last unresolved crimes of the last war, the Katchin massacres. December 1939, Hitler invades Poland. The Second World War begins. While the German armies advanced from the west, the Soviets crossed Poland's eastern frontiers. Caught in a massive pincer, the Polish army collapsed and surrendered. The victors divided the country down the middle and imprisoned every soldier they captured. Russia took over 200,000, 15,000, half Poland's officer corps were never seen alive again. Many were to die near Smolensk in a forest called Katchin. When they died and who killed them has been one of the great unresolved mysteries of the last war. In time, the Germans were to accuse the Russians and the Russians were to accuse the Germans. Whoever did it destroyed half Poland's future leadership. All we know for certain is that they died like this. Postcards from relatives in Poland began to be returned undelivered in the spring of 1940, a year after their capture. So began the mystery. A year later, German armies were deep in Russia. Poland was an ally. The men were released. Sikorski, Poland's leader, flew in. His officers were missing. Why? The Russians were evasive. Sikorski demanded to see Stalin. Already he knew that until spring 1940, the men had been in three camps. Kozelsk, Ostashkoff and Starobelsk. Faced with this evidence, Stalin claimed they'd escaped 4,000 miles to Manchuria. Sikorski didn't believe him, but neither could he believe the men were dead. Just 400 of the 15,000 were to survive. One was a young cadet officer, Vladislav Chiki. I was an inmate of the camp at Kozelsk. We were there about four and a half thousand prisoners. I was a cadet officer. In April 1940, the Soviet administration of the camp started taking practically every day a batch of officers, about 70 up to 300 men at a time, and were taking them out of the camp. We didn't know anything as to their destination. Next time they were heard of was not until April 1943, when the German army discovered the mass graves in the cutting forest. Their bodies were lying in the same order as the groups who were leaving our camp. They were dressed in the same winter uniforms in which we survived the winter 1939-1940. Of course, the evidence produced later by the Russians tried to indicate that they were murdered in August or September, but August in September in Russia, in that part of Russia, the weather is very hot. To the Germans, it was a chance to split the Allies. To Katyn, they brought an investigation commission, the press, and even the Polish Red Cross. The Poles were suspicious. They didn't want to believe the Nazis, but piece by piece the evidence began to bound up. The Germans discovered or retrieved from the bodies hundreds of various documents. First of all, Russian newspapers, then letters and correspondence from Poland to the Prisons of War, and also diaries. Now, none of these documents showed any date, which was beyond May 1940. There was a diary kept by a major Solski who kept the entries until the very last moment. In fact, his last entry was we are in a forest and suddenly it dropped. The investigators agreed. The men died while Germany and Russia were still at peace, but now their time had run out. For the Red Army, the tide of war had changed. Soon Smolensk and Katyn were there again. The dead were not allowed to rest. The Russians, refusing an international investigation, appointed their own men. No Poles were invited. Their experts, of course, accused the Germans. The whole grisly process was repeated. But once more, the accused were not there to answer. New evidence was produced, but world opinion remained confused. Only 4,000 were found in Katyn, the rest they never accounted for. In Katyn, you have discovered the bodies of the prisoners of war from the couriers camp only, over 4,000. But at the same time, we lost still two camps of prisoners of war, about nearly 4,000 from Starobier and over 6,000 from Ostashko. We had to assume that they were liquidated in the same manner, but in some other places. In my view, the crime was committed by the Russians. And only evidence, facts, points to their guilt. I am also of this opinion as a majority of Poles. The crime of Katyn was committed by the Soviet government. And I am sure any impassioned international tribunal would find Soviet government guilty of this mass murder. Somewhere the killers still live. Their memories are their only punishment.


No growl, just me, Basil Chaff and Senein, for the one and only, Tommel Brine. We're looking at the tower on this Wednesday, the 16th of August. The tower is down 64 at 34,081. So I'll do this real quickly, because we've been discussing this for quite some time. I used two moving averages as really important. It's part of the package of all the different tools that I have. For this nine-period moving average, when it goes green, it means that the price is very pr- whatever you're following is strong. When it goes pink, I can make it red, I'll make it pink, because I don't want to interfere with the actual red bars, the down bars. It means that you've probably gone from a cell signal to a cell mode. That isn't always the case. But look at this, the Dow, today's the first time that it's gone into the pink. And the day's young, anything can happen. But so far, that's what it is. All the others, S&P, look, here's the S&P. Oh, why does it keep slipping around like that? Come on. What did I just do? Yeah, we go. Let's get that back. If I can actually find it. Oh, there it is. One, two, then you're going to see my background there. Look, the Dow is down, the S&P, pink for quite a few days, the QQQ and the X100 trading vehicle, pink for quite a few days. We've been waiting and waiting and waiting, IWM, pink for quite a few days. You can go gold, gold's been down for quite some time. So this is really important. In terms of just confirming what we've been looking at for some time. So let me just go through all the numbers here. Here's the Dow. I need to just get out of this. I'm not sure why. Let's show it up like that. And I want to go there. Okay. So what we're looking at is the Dow is down 76 or 34,870. Using this arch formation. You see that we started looking at this as a potential arch formation. And it's so fascinating how prices do that. Look at each high. As it got to this fourth highest PPD, each one was just a little bit higher than a little bit higher. And if you look at the technicals, that nine-period moving average was really strong. If you look at the MACD, the moving average convergence divergence, was showing that that high that was made right there on the 1st of August, that wasn't quite as high as it was on the previous high. The stochastic was really strong, but it actually started to weaken. And then this blue line was right at a very overboard level. And using this particular technique, using just two or three techniques within the Chapman Wave smorgasbord of tools that we have, we actually went short right there on the 1st of August. But the reasoning was everything looks as if there was a short term high and that if there was a pullback, because of the width of this nine-period moving average over the 40, it would take quite some time. It wouldn't just be look at how much time it took and then it didn't even turn pink and the 34,588 high was made on the 16th of June using this one indicator and turned around and it did a one-to-one, perfect one-to-one to the upside measured move from the 32,586, lower the 25th of May. We go to less than just three weeks later, we go to the high of 34,588, pull back to the 33,610 level and then we scream up to 35,679. And look, even that, you remember that day, whatever day that was, it was the 8th. Let me just check what day it was. It was the 10th. On the 10th, we had that sudden, very sharp move to the upside. But even then, that nine-period moving average was slowly diminishing the distance between the green nine and the 14-period moving average. So now, yes, the thing. Finally, we've got this confirmation that the Dow has gone from a sell signal to an upgrade to sell mode. That doesn't mean, oh my God, sell mode, now we're going to go down another thousand, two thousand, three. It just tells you, it designates the tide that now you're in this bigger tide and now we'll see what happens. What's the 50-period moving average is right there at 34,682. I said based on, I show this to my subscribers every day if I can actually find it. I did something crazy. Yeah, there we go. I said to subscribers to my opening call newsletter. This morning, this is one of the charts we send out. This is the Dow daily. On the left side, it just has moving averages and the Chapman wave notation. The middle one has automated Chapman wave resistance support lines and the 120-minute chart. And look how many support lines there were all the way to the 200-period moving average which coincided with this red 34,894 support level and we are now trading at 34,791. We're under it. So that's the one thing that was really important in terms of how we can look at a rollover that can take time. Sometimes, look, the weekly chart hasn't even acknowledged a little dip. It's still extremely strong. So I've been saying for a while, it's the daily charts that we're looking at that are going to go from sell signal to sell mode. Let me just do the exact same thing on the others before we get to a break. Here we go, S&P, same thing. Down below the 50-period moving average, MACD is weak. The stochastic is flat at 13%. That's not very positive. And the on-balance volume is not even getting to oversold level. And you've got the pink nine-period moving under the 14 and all I can say is that that weekly chart is still strong but finally the price has gone under the nine. It looks like it wants to test the 14-period moving average in the weekly chart, which is at, right there, 4390. So that's only about 19 points lower. Let's see what happens then. The monthly chart on the right is still very strong. QQQ, let me just do this quickly because we've got a lot to discuss. Peak D in the Chapman wave. We're always looking for that fourth highest peak. That's where other things can happen. Well, lo and behold, the 38, 387.98 on the, I think it was around about the 17th, 18th of July. There's the QQQ NDX100 sauce tumbling down. And now it's got this very big, almost pyramid shape in the daily. The weekly chart hasn't even given, we have to wait for Friday's close. So far, hasn't even given a cell signal. And the monthly chart is still looking very good. IWM real quickly, the small caps, not good at all down. 192 of 186.21. And the weekly chart, and they made a double, he's double top, so unbelievable how prices get within one point and then turned down, even after months. I'll be back. Basil Chapman sitting in for Tom O'Brien and the dials down 153, as if he's down 27. You back in a moment.


Hey, you guys. Oh, I am setting up for today's monologue and I am going to be performing a monologue from the office. I believe it is season three episode 24. I just looked it up. I don't just know all of the episodes of the office, but I have seen the office many, many, many times the American office and the UK office. I've seen a few episodes a couple of times and then I've seen a few episodes of the Indian office and I've seen clips of the Chile office. So there's a lot of the offices. I would love, absolutely. I mean, who wouldn't? I would love to be a part of the office and in a different country. Like if maybe Columbia did it or Argentina or Mexico. If Mexico did it, I would love to play Pam. Today I'm going to be performing a monologue from the American office. Season three, episode 24, I believe. It's, you know, when they go to the beach and Pam walks on the coal and then she does a monologue to everybody. Yeah, so that's what I'm going to be doing today. So this is what I'm wearing and I was just setting up everything and I'm trying to figure out like what Pam would look like. Like in the early seasons, she did a lot of this, you know, the thing about the office is that it has an enormous following. So it's really hard to put your own iteration on that character because if it's not what people are already wanting it to be, then people are not going to like it, right? And same with me. Like if I was watching the office, if Mexico did it or whatever other country, then I would be pretty disappointed if the person that played Pam didn't play her how I was expecting. You know, where is the color weird? So this is what we're going to do. And like I mentioned, it is in Spanish. So I translated the monologue that I found and the link is in the description to where I found this monologue. It's the same place that I have found a lot of my scripts so far for this month or this week so far. I translated it into Spanish using Google Translate as a shortcut. What I like to do is copy and paste it. And then I will modify it because of course Google Translate isn't the best at translating. So I have it right here. I timed it a couple of times and it took me between one minute and 40 seconds to one minute and 50 seconds. And I am very close to being off book but I am just going to have it on my hand because, you know, I'm posting a video every day this month and it's just getting to be a lot. I think to be a lot. I just want to have fun. So whoa, the background looks a little purple. So yes, that's what we're going to be doing today. I don't have much to say today. I mean, I'm a little bit in a time crunch because of course I have other things to do. But today I was like, let's film the monologue during the daytime and not at night because the last few I have been filming at night because I've just had, you know, other things to do. YouTube isn't my full time. If you don't know what I'm doing, my name is Belchika and I'm an actress based out of California. And for the month of July, I have been posting a self-tape audition every single day. This helps me to practice to learn to, you know, learn the things that make me nervous, the things that make me excited, how to make my auditions look better and memorizing all of this stuff is just such great practice for memorizing. And I am also doing a giveaway for paper backdrops. If you guys want to know how to enter, it's in the description, not sponsored. They're gifting us these yesterday. If you watch yesterday's monologue, okay, I had, I had estimated that usually it takes me between maybe four and 12 takes if I'm like super ready, right, for filming like if I'm already off book, I'm trying to fix the lighting. If I'm already off book, it will maybe take me four to 12 times. Well, yesterday I didn't even like I was so exhausted, I almost didn't do it, but I didn't even think I did that many takes. And then when I counted the takes, there were like 23. So, yeah, so I guess I do around 20 takes. Yeah, let's see how many takes I do today. And then I will see you after I am done doing this. And like I mentioned, I'm just going to use the paper. And maybe you know what I was thinking, one of the days this week for the monologues, I'm just going to rehearse it off camera. And then once I'm ready to film, I'm just going to pretend as if I'm walking into a casting office and I get, you know, one time to do it. Maybe one of these days I'll just show you guys, you know, my first attempt. Yeah, so let me get to filming this. And for this late, I'm just going to say my name and then who I'm auditioning for. Okay, I'm just going to do it. I'm just going to do it one time. It's going to be the first take. Oigan, I want to say something. I've been trying to be more honest lately and I just need to say a few things.  Michael, you couldn't even do it? Maybe I should be your boss. Oh, I feel great. Why none of you went to my art exhibition? I invited you all. That really hurt me. Sometimes I feel like if some of you guys acted like I didn't even exist. Jaime, I canceled my wedding for you. And now we're not even friends. I miss you so much. You were my best friend before you went to Samford. And now we're not even friends. I shouldn't be with Roy. And there are many reasons why I canceled my wedding. But the truth is that none of those matters until I met you. I miss you so much. And now you're with another person. And that's okay. No, that's not what I'm trying to say. My feet hurt a lot. I think what I'm trying to say to you, Jaime, and everyone in the circle, I guess, is that I miss having fun with you. Only with you, not with everyone in the circle. Okay, now I'm going to walk in the water. Okay, I think that drink was okay. That would have been my first one. Okay, let me, let's just do one more. Let's just do one more. Hi, my name is Bélgica Rodriguez and I'm auditioning for Pamela. Oigan, quiero decir algo. He tratado de ser más honesta últimamente y solo necesito decir algunas cosas. Hice la caminata del fuego de carbón. Lo hice. Michael, tú ni siquiera lo pudiste hacer. A lo mejor yo debería hacer tu jefa. Ay, me siento genial. ¿Por qué ninguno de ustedes fue a mi exposición de arte? Los invité a todos. Eso realmente me dolió. Es como que a veces algunos de ustedes actúan como que yo ni siquiera existo. Jaime, cancelé mi boda por ti y ahora ni siquiera somos amigos. Antes de que fueras a Stanford, tú eras mi mejor amigo. No debería de haber estado con Rory. Muchas razones por que cancelé mi boda, pero la verdad es que ninguna de esas me importaba hasta que te conocí. Y ahora ni siquiera somos amigos. Y ahora estás con otra persona y está bien. Eso no es lo que estoy tratando de decir. Me dolen mucho los pies. Creo que lo que estoy tratando de decir de ti, Jaime, y supongo que a todos en el círculo, es que extraño divertirme contigo. Solo contigo, no con todos los del círculo. Ok, voy a caminar en el agua. Ok, that's it. That's all the takes I'm doing. I did two takes. That was it. Let me know what you thought about the takes. It was in Spanish because I would love to perform the office in Spanish. I mean, honestly, I would be Meredith. I would be willing to be Meredith. I would be willing to be Pam, Angela, Ryan, if they wanted Ryan to be a girl. Anyway, that was today's monologue. Let me know what you thought. Thank you so much for watching, and at the end of every video I feature another channel. This is a channel about cosplay and lots more, so you guys should go check it out. And if you would like to be featured on my next video, subscribe, like this video, and leave me a comment.