Hello, I'm Javier Hernandez, reporting from Washington. Severe weather hammered the Midwest this year. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, heavy rain led to a citywide flood that forced the federal courthouse staff to evacuate their building. This is a catastrophic flood in progress. On Friday, June 13, floodwaters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa crested at 31 feet, 8 feet above the floodline of 1993, and well above the 500-year flood plan. We anticipated that perhaps the basement would be a loss. That basement has flooded probably three or four times in the last 15 years. We never dreamed that it would get above the basement. This video was taken when the river was at its peak, and this video was taken a few days later. This red line marks the floodline of 93. The following Wednesday, court staff returned to the courthouse to salvage what they could. We've got the U.S. Marshals office pulling their stuff out. Probation. Probation got hit pretty hard here on the first floor, and then the clerks office, we're pulling our stuff off the second, third floor. First floor offices here that we can salvage. Most people are maintaining a sense of humor. You laugh to keep from crying, and we're doing pretty good. In fact, the district court is doing pretty good. In spite of the circumstances, before the water reached the building, court officials activated their continuity of operations plan, or COOP. This plan outlines a course of action to get the courts up and running after an emergency. One of the first steps was to transfer data for finance, administration, HR, and jury administration, as well as day-to-day activities to the Sioux City courthouse. Data for electronic documents, notes, email, and the court's website were moved to the national platform supported by the administrative office of the U.S. courts in Washington, D.C. The district and bankruptcy court notified the AO and said, hey, the court's closing down because of the imminent flooding that's going to occur or expected to occur. And so they fell over their case management, their CMCF replication. So both the district and bankruptcy court fell that over and that takes a matter of just minutes now. We do about 20 to 30 of these a month for various reasons, power outages, upgrades, and so forth like that. This is Renee, and I have a question about Cedar Rapids. AO officials also activated the Judiciary Emergency Response Team to provide administrative and procurement guidance to the courts. I leave this meeting, I'll be signing the TSP order. The next challenge was finding office space for the entire court. The GSA found this building on the south side of town. We are packed in here like sardines. Fortunately, we all like each other. But not everyone fit, which led to some creative, temporary solutions. Until we can get the temporary space, we thought we'd try to work out of my home here for a couple days. It's working okay, but not great. We went it that way. Having our paper files and everything that we need to do our work obviously is ideal and that's what we have in our normal space. The court has gone to a lot of electronic filing, so if you have really good internet access, you could do a lot of what you need without having those paper files, but right now we have neither. Another challenge is where to hold prisoners during court proceedings. The temporary plan is for the U.S. Marshals to bring in secure buses. Right now we're making temporary facilities here and that'll work. But if it's going to be longer in a year, then we need to make something more permanent.  And although they were the hardest hit, probation officers never missed a beat thanks to their high-tech mobile phones or smartphone devices. Very important. Not only important to get the data, but also to be able to make contact with offenders like I was mentioning earlier and staff because all of our staff listings all of the important phone numbers we have are in those phones. Remarkably, on Tuesday, June 24th, court proceedings resumed in Cedar Rapids about eight business days after the disaster. I think that a lot of people in our community are suffering. I think to see the United States courthouse and the staff go back to work and provide service to the public is critical. I think that the fact that we're up and running will cause optimism in the community. There's no word yet on when or if the Cedar Rapids staff will return to their building. For the US federal courts, I'm Javier Hernandez in Washington.


Welcome to the Jalassette News to get top stories in cryptocurrency and Jalassette's and break them down into bite-sized pieces. Today it's all about mass adoption and institutions. So first up, Square's Cashhab Bitcoin Revenue surges 600% to $875 million in Q2, profit is up massively. This is going to lead us into our next article which talks about PayPal and how they will also be getting cryptocurrency. Also, there's a new billion-dollar company investing in Bitcoin. How amazing is that? It's because institutions are finally coming in because there's so much going on with our space. Which will lead us to our last article and I think one of the big stories of the day is that Bitcoin is set for a bull run that will dust NASDAQ as Ethereum, XRP and other altcoins face an uphill battle which is stated by a Bloomberg forecast which is very highly detailed which will go over the cliff notes but it's all really coming together. And finally this is day three of our $100 Ethereum giveaway so stay for the end and we'll be giving away $100 Ethereum at the very end. But first let's take a look at the market. So it is August 7th, around 1220, Texas time and a little bit of a pullback which is healthy. I am glad to see this because I gotta tell you when things go up too fast too quickly it just doesn't really set well with me. So Bitcoin down 3% now at a paltry 11.4% that's not so bad. Ethereum 371, I thought it was going to top out at 400 but here we are so a little bit of pullback I'm okay. XRP 28 cents, watch out. Tether's Tether, Bitcoin Cash or Cardano down pretty big 6%. Now it's at 13 cents. Bitcoin SV again, Litecoin, Chamberlain. Everything's down, down, down, down. What's this? 10%? Vertezos. What are you going to do? So that's cryptocurrency. Now I gotta tell you if you're in the traditional market and you're just coming in, welcome. This is a normal day. Some people call this a massive drop-off. We call this a Friday. So if you are just coming in, hold on to your seat because it's about to get bumpy. All right before we get into today's big stories, I need to go over something from yesterday and I just wanted to make a quick correction because everybody had told me some information I wasn't aware of. So this is the story we did yesterday and this is Scott Melker. He's known as the Wolf of All Streets on Twitter, a pretty prolific trader. He talks about how he fell victim to a SIM swap attack and basically what he says is he doesn't use text message to factor authentication. What he uses the Google 2FA which is an app that you can download on your phone and what he does is he keeps it on another device and he says, he keeps it offline. So for the Google 2FA, usually it's only available for mobile devices and when I tried to download it on my MacBook, it was not available in the App Store but from what a lot of people have told me, they have downloaded on their tablet. So if you have a tablet, this is probably an easier way to store your Google 2FA and I will link this video from yesterday in the final part of this video today so you can take a look at it but basically what it is is you can use the Google 2FA you can have on your phone or you can have on your tablet. I don't think you can use it on your computer unless you download some specialty types of apps but I'm not into that and that was it. So thanks everybody who let me know about that. That is fantastic information. Let's get into today's stories. So first up, Square's Cash App has a massive revenue which is not surprising. So what's going on? So Square released its performance report Q2 2020 on Tuesday and the companies that revenue including Bitcoin revenue was 1.92 billion. So hey good for them making some money which is an increase of 64% year over year. Now the Cash App Square's popular payment service achieved a gross profit of 281 million up 167% from last year. So it looks like even in the down market what's going on with the economy I would say they are still doing pretty well. So congratulations to Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder and also founder of Square. Looks like he's not doing too bad but here's where it gets interesting for us. It says here excluding Bitcoin. Excluding Bitcoin Cash App's revenue for Q2 2020 was 325 million. That's up 140% but in the second quarter last year the app generated Bitcoin revenue of 125 million. Analyst Kevin Roke pointed out in a tweet that Square's second quarter Bitcoin revenue was almost 3x the volume of Q1 2020. So imagine that you are a company and you just do normal payments right and all of a sudden they you know you have a great idea you know we should just offer Bitcoin because maybe people might want to buy that and Jack Dorsey is a huge believer into it and they go yeah sure whatever you know we'll see how it goes and then you double triple quadruple your profits that's not too shabby of a resolution. So if you take a look like this Square Bitcoin revenue by quarter Bitcoin is accounting for a huge chunk of their revenue. So of course they make money on the payments and all those different things they're doing but the big thing is Bitcoin. So if they didn't have Bitcoin half their revenue is gone or maybe not half somewhere between a third and a half but it's a lot of money. I'm going to take a look at the chart here. I mean it really doesn't matter percentage wise. I mean if you're making almost a billion dollars look we're at 800 million here this is Q2 2020 2020 and we're almost hitting a billion and it just keeps going up like this. I think other types of payment processors would look at this like maybe we should get on this because all we got to do is just offer this cryptocurrency. We may not believe in it that might not be our core value but we need to listen to what the consumer wants and apparently they want a lot of this thing called Bitcoin and that is why I truly believe that PayPal is going to get in the game. Now there's been rumors going around that PayPal is going to get in the cryptocurrency which would be fantastic because they have a ton of users just like the cash. So I mean if you have the cash app you have PayPal let's say some other type of like a Venmo gets into something like this as well. I mean it's just sky's the limit so I just don't see why PayPal be like you know what we don't want an extra billion dollars. Our core principle is just fiat and that's all we're going to do so that's it. No they're a company they have to appease their shareholders so you better believe when I'm talking about cryptocurrency and it actually happening it's going to happen. Do I know when? I have no idea when but as a business I can tell you right now they're going to go for it. So speaking of mass adoption let's take a look at the next article which is talking about a billion dollar company is investing in Bitcoin. This is just one more of these institutional investors coming into the fray so what's going on here. So on a recent earnings call the billion dollar company MicroStrategy said that they were sitting on a 500 million dollar cash reserve that's always nice when that happens but chairman and CEO Michael Saylor today doesn't think it's too smart to hold on to that much cash long term and I gotta tell you that's a different viewpoint than some people do. Some people as far as investors go they think cash is king and I gotta tell you in certain ways I do too because I know that the dollar is weakening and there's different problems there but as push comes to shove regular cash is important to have on hand it just is because you can do a lot of things with it so but if these guys are like you know what we see the writing on the wall we see the quantity of easing we see the weakening dollar we need to put this into something that will appreciate and what usually can appreciate well these different hard assets so here's what the CEO states he says it makes sense to shift our treasury assets into some investments that can't be inflated away let me read that last that can't be inflated away so that brings me to a little quick little quick article from July 29th Pantera Capital and talks about two centuries of debt in one month I'm not gonna go with the whole thing just the first part here and it says the United States printed more money in June than the first two centuries after its founding last month the U.S. budget deficit 864 billion was a larger than the total debt incurred from 1776 through the end of 1979 that's amazing so here's the budget surplus or deficit not too bad 1981 you know it was supposed to be out of control 95 well I want reverse not too shabby and then 2000 2005 10 then the financial crisis and here's to 2020 so congratulations America you're number one again this leads me to my next point the dollar and its weakening status so this was on July 29 2020 and it states the U.S. dollar index has slept slipped nearly seven percent in the last three month period in fact the index that measures the greenback against six of the major currencies is down really nine percent from its march highs and is on track for its worst month since 2011 so I'm not an economist I don't know exactly what's going to go on but I can tell you when I look around I don't see a lot of positives as far as the economy and what's happening with the dollar now do I think that the U.S. dollar will lose its reserve currency status I don't but people bigger and smarter than me definitely do but it remains to be seen and we can only find that out as things unravel but I will say this it's kind of important to hedge your bets and that's why I'm in the cryptocurrency assets because I believe that at some point we're going to need something other than the U.S. dollar all fiat in the history of the world has collapsed at one point or another do I think you know the dollar is going to collapse tomorrow no but I can see it weakening to a pretty poor status and that's why I'd like to hold or do hold gold, silver, bitcoin and different amounts of altcoins because I believe in them and what it's going to happen in the future anyhow let's get back to the article so micro strategy the company itself is looking to put half of its 500 million dollar cash reserve into alternative stores of value microsoft strategy president and cfo fong leg described the plan he says we will seek to invest up to another 250 million over the next 12 months in one or more alternative investments or assets which may include stocks bonds commodities such as gold digital assets such as bitcoin or other asset types I like how he said here digital assets such as bitcoin not just saying bitcoin only so that leaves it open to a wide swath of interpretation and I got to tell you I don't see any other way why they wouldn't do digital assets cryptocurrency because I mean they're just one in a handful of investors or institutions that are coming in I mean look we got fidelity assets they have like seven trillion assets under management you got TD Ameritrade with one trillion assets under management you've got Van Neck which were huge gold bugs and in January of this year they came out and said you know what as good as gold is bitcoin's better and they give you seven different examples for it and of course the big guy Paul Tudor Jones which apparently is an investment legend in the 80s early 90s and he came out and said look I'm going to put in two percent of total investments into bitcoin futures and when you have these types of big places and big players going we're going to do this it opens the door for other investors and institutions to come in and say you know what if Paul Tudor Jones is doing it if he's doing it TD Ameritrade all you guys are doing it there's something to it and we'd like to follow smart money anyhow that's my thoughts on that let me know what you think of the comment section let's move on to our last juicy piece bitcoin set for a bull run that will dust NASDAQ as Ethereum XRP and all coins face an uphill battle this is a Bloomberg forecast and I'm not going to go through the article it's kind of boring so what I'm going to do is just give you the highlights of where they got their source material from which is the Bloomberg crypto outlook which was just released in August and let's take a listen or let's take a look I will link this in the description so you can take a look of it look through it thoroughly it's it's fascinating the amount of time that these guys go through all these things and actually look at what's happening now in the past in the future it's mind blowing and that's how I I've realized that my own shortcomings as far as the financial field because I'm like wow I can't do that so what's going on here and they state bitcoin prudent moving further from speculative digital asset the potential that bitcoin will be the primary crypto asset store of value in an increasingly digitalized world is getting traction and I got to tell you my bitcoin came out it was all about being a currency a currency a peer-to-peer currency decentralized as time has moved on people have realized it's not going to happen so I mean you may think that's going to happen and maybe it will I don't know maybe technology will catch up but right now it is too slow it is too expensive and people can't across the entire world that many people billions of people can't adopt bitcoin and make it function well look at 2017 we've had that many people and the darn thing was hit its limits so as far as a store of value yes I definitely see that and I can see why it is and I always say that bitcoin is digital gold so you know this report kind of validates but my thinking was later on it states here ethereum pop appears more speculative versus bitcoin ethereum is extended last year's highs and leap to one of the top performing major crypto assets in 2020 but we view its rally as more speculative versus the favorable demand versus supply conditions supporting bitcoin and again I got to tell you there are some people in this space that say bitcoin is old and it is worthless don't invest into it just don't just go into altcoins and whatever they talk about and there's other people say you know what all the altcoins are just there to steal your money and it's only bitcoin and I have a hybrid approach I think that everybody should own a little bit of bitcoin because you never know nobody's notes are diamonds here no one can predict the future if you if you can please leave a comment in the comment section and I will get in touch there's a good lot of football games coming up but in reality no one can really predict so I always feel like it's best to hedge my bet and put money into bitcoin and different things like ethereum cardinal chain link tasos eos v chain all the different things that I think are going to do well and so you can take a look at this and go yeah this is definitely going to happen or not just depends on where you think things are going to go I think smart contracts I think decentralized finance I think oracles and I think on-chain tracking are going to be big so that's why I invest in what I invest into moving on it says volatility bitcoin getting upper handers gold and this is pretty interesting because we'd always heard about you know cryptocurrency is so volatile but in here it talks about it's really not that bad it says the lowest annual volatility level versus gold in about three years favors bitcoin price appreciation so I know there's a lot of gold bugs they're very happy right now gold is hovering around 2000 which is fantastic I think it'll hit up to 2300 who knows but I believe that the savings account of the future is gold silver bitcoin next up it says bitcoin and gold correlation on the rise though the 0.35 correlation of early august is in high by normal standards it's the trend that matters and we can kind of see these things coupling in together do I think that'll be totally in sync no I do not and I do believe that bitcoin is going to eat into gold's 10.9 trillion dollar market cap I don't see any other way around it if you're not familiar with this I've talked about this many a time this is the all the money in the world markets and it goes from silver well it says e-square is worth 100 billion so if you're looking at silver that's just silver great cryptocurrency here we are that's at 244 billion military spending budget deficit coin the bank the fed's balance sheet which is way higher I believe now billionaires they have 8 trillion look at these guys 8 trillion dollars between them fantastic good for them gold is at the very high end or the I guess the low end of the shallow pool 11 trillion here's the fortune 500 companies which you got Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook the 20% that makes up the S&P 500 there they all are they got trillions here's the stock market and they got 89.5 trillion here's the entire money supply 35.2 trillion here's global debt 253 trillion and here's real estate at 208 trillion but that's not even the big one the big one right here is derivatives at 11.6 trillion and maybe what we really talk about this is the gross market value the national value 558 trillion and then if we're going to go down this is the high end estimate because no one really knows it could be 1.0 quadrillion so when we start talking about like how much bitcoin cryptocurrency assets can really break into and eat away at the different markets there's your answer so when we start talking about 1 trillion 2 trillion 10 trillion market cap people like that's insane it's not insane that's reality we talk about quantitative easing and advancing gold but again this one kind of talks about and affirms my what I was thinking about the more quantitative easing and different problems that we have and people get nervous about it the more gold and bitcoin will go up lastly it states mainstream bitcoin adoption something needs to go wrong to end mainstream bitcoin adoption see years ago it wasn't like this years ago it was uh you know bitcoin could just go away because I mean who's going to use it doesn't make any sense and people aren't adopting it but right now we're at that critical point where and it's not even now it's it's already passed there's no way that bitcoin's going to go away and go to zero that's ridiculous so when it talks about something needs to massively go wrong to mainstream adoption they are really laying it out there and being the truth and they state relative scarcity of the benchmark digital asset needs adoption as the primary price outlook metric and the indicators we track remain clearly positive especially with the amount of scarcity that bitcoin has because only has 21 million so what are you going to do then to finish up it does say bitcoin addresses point towards 14 000 they say this is in the short term and it states here one of the most robust on-chain indicators of bitcoin adoption which is address is used suggests a price or close to 14 000 versus about 11 000 on august fourth so if you're looking at the short term we could be seeing some fireworks but who knows and then lastly it states bitcoin 10 000 breach set to dust the nasdaq so fundamentally bullish and breaking above the key 10 000 resistance bitcoin is a solid foundation on the back of a steep correction in period of disdain all-time highs in the index in july and the most extreme stretch above its 50 week mean in over a decade may indicate stock market buoyancy limits from quantitative easing which more directly supports the price of quasi currency stores of value so i will link this in the description of the video it's very it's very in-depth but those are the main points and here's what i think in the very end of the day it's good if bitcoin goes up because everything else goes up when the water when the water rushes into the harbor which is the you know the bitcoin wave all the boats all the boats go up all the altcoins and i'm i'm ready for that so hopefully that happens all right let's give away some money huh so unstoppable domains i partnered up with them they reached out to me and said hey we'd like to give your subscribers some money and i was like sure i'm sure they'd like to do that so in today's economy who doesn't want a hundred bucks so here's how it goes all you got to do is just make a comment of eitha 10k now let's do this tomato coin to 10k today's gonna be tomato coin to 10k just just say tomato coin to 10k and put in your unstoppable domain dot crypto in the comment section so first of all why is this important or why is unstoppable domains important so this is how i see it there's two things i'm not gonna beat a dead horse we talked about this yesterday but uh back in the early nineties when the when the internet was coming around when i was around uh well still around uh people would buy up domains like it was going on a style they'd buy up you know streetwalk dot com they buy up uh john smith dot com they buy up casper dot com or whatever they they buy because they knew at some point businesses were going to need those domains businesses didn't really understand it but some people did and they snatched up a ton of them so then later on and my proud example is casper dot com so anybody casper dot com like eight years ago nine years ago and then they sold it to the uh betting company for like millions so imagine spend like 20 bucks on a domain at like go daddy and then later on they're like hey we need that for like two million sure i'll sell it so the same thing's kind of going on with unstoppable domains their domains are dot crypto so like for me i bought my own domain which is dan likes dot crypto and that's all i use so what's awesome like that is that i can use that as a domain and i can also use that as a payment so what's great what they just announced a couple days ago is that uh coinbase is allowing instead of using these long like we talked about before these these long public addresses for your bitcoin for your ethereum for your x or p for whatever cryptocurrencies you have you can just use dan likes dot crypto and you can use that for payment so if someone says hey pay me you know in uh i don't know tomato coin and send it to dan likes dot crypto then that's all i gotta do so like in coinbase so i'm gonna show you yesterday's winner a matter of fact so yesterday's winner was uh david well this is them this is unstoppable domains actually paying david herbert david herbert dot crypto he just put it in the description said eth at 10k which today is gonna be 10 tomato coin 10k and 100 bucks to him just for doing that and that's how easy it is so imagine like instead of putting in this long super long uh public address for all these different ones you can just put in one which would be david herbert dot crypto and that's it and you're and that's all you gotta do so when you sign up for his doppel domains you know you get your domain fantastic you click on the hamburger or the menu where we want to call it and you go to where is it my domains so i already bought my domain there's dan likes that crypto i'm gonna click on manage and here's all my cryptocurrency address i need to add in a big point a silica like coin all that stuff and i can select the digital one so see like how i have my ethereum address here you need to do to win the hundred dollars you have to have a unstoppable domains domain like a dot crypto dan likes that crypto tomato coin dot crypto joe blow dot crypto whatever potato foot dot crypto so you just put that you find your ethereum address to wherever it is and you can put a bunch of mint in here and also you uh you can put any any cryptocurrency in there you can have a ton of them right that is your essentially your wallet for everything so instead of setting somebody like here pay me in bitcoin here's my bitcoin address here pay me in ethereum here's my ethereum address they can pay you whatever they want they can pay you in silica and it'll go to your silica wallet they can pay you in bitcoin and it'll go to your bitcoin wallet so that's the big thing if you have any questions about that in the description of the video it's gonna say set up your domain and it's it's just unstoppable domains dot com forward slash features and just follow the the steps right there it'll show you how to you know purchase the domain to set up your your wallet if you need more information and it kind of is pretty smooth so right now this works at coin base in huobi you can just put in you know dan likes crypto and send whatever but it also works a lot of different very popular wallets like my ether wallet atomic wallet and a bunch of others so just so you understand that's how it all is so put in there tomato coin to 10k and zaji will from unstoppable domains will actually pick the winner and i'll announce it manana all right that's it for today so thanks for taking with me and it was a bit longer but a lot of good stuff out there so just so you know i always want to say give like random shoutouts to all my subscribers or to all the people who've joined up and there's a join now button underneath doesn't give me anything special nothing special like a tip like a buck 99 you want to do that sure great and these are all the people that do it i appreciate them all so like shout out to the new ones bill austin a suey vasent bun i'm sure i crushed that one mark just zhadra who else we got uh steven hulet shana's life that's a good one uh igor poosts and sam rossman winewomenwages.org bam david and uh my man medic uh medics there so um yeah thanks a lot i really appreciate it now if you like these types of videos you'll be two months gonna pop up on your left and right i don't know because youtube has total control of that i don't control any of that stuff just like any kind of scam ads that you saw before during and after this video i have no control of that youtube handles all that so complain to them and uh that's it so check out those videos and uh see you on the next one


Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cameron Williams and Novak Djokovic's former coach, Marion Vyder, has come out with some interesting comments over the last couple of days regarding Djokovic's pursuits at winning the calendar slam last year. He's come out and said some interesting things about tournaments that maybe Djokovic should have avoided. This is what Marion Vyder had to say in an interview. I was not in favour of his participation in Tokyo. Deadlines were busy, there was little time to prepare and the failure under the five circles drained him a lot of mental and physical strength. I understood his goal, he longed to win gold for Serbia. He broke up there and then it turned out in New York. So there you have it. Marion Vyder's saying that he wasn't in favour of Djokovic playing in Tokyo and would rather have seen Djokovic win the calendar slam than try and go for gold in Tokyo. We all know that Djokovic is a proud Serbian and he does everything for his country. You see him play Davis Cup a lot of times. He played AOTB Cup. He's very fired up in those team atmosphere whenever he is wearing the flag of Serbia on his chest. And the Olympics is a big goal for Djokovic. He really wanted to play that Olympics and of course the pressures of the Golden Grand Slam, something that no one has ever done on the men's side. That was also there if Djokovic wanted it. So he went for gold, didn't quite make it and of course we know what happened in the US Open Final. And according to Marion Vyder, that was what cost him the final. If he had not played the Olympics maybe Djokovic would have won the final of the US Open and gone down in history as only the second man to win the Grand Slam in the open era in a calendar year. Let me know down in the comments below. Do you agree with Marion Vyder's comments? Do you think that if he had skipped the Olympics would he have won the US Open or do you think Medvedev was still gonna win that US Open despite Djokovic being a little bit fresher going into that tournament?


I like what Ambrose Red Moon said, that courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the judgment that what you want is more important than your fear. I used to be intimidated by people because they had more education, because they had more money, because they had credentials, because they had contacts, because they had four-color brochures, because they had books, and I didn't have all these things, because they had infomercies, and they had television, exposure, and I didn't have all those things. But the judgment that providing for my family was more important than my feeling inferior, more important than my fears. The judgment that I have to control my future, the judgment that I want to be able to take care of my mother, that when my mother becomes ill, I want to be in a position to do more and just pray for her. Oh no, whatever she needs. Medically, I will be able to write the judgment that my children would have a choice to go to the college of their choice to give them a competitive edge in the future. The judgment that, oh no, one day I'm going to be able to have vacations, I will go to Paris, I'll go to Tahiti, I will go to Jamaica, I will go to Hawaii. The judgment, I have more time for myself. The judgment that I'm going to secure my grandchildren's future and my great-grandchildren. The judgment of those things that make life worth living was more important than my fear. What is it that will make it worth it for you to face the rejections? What is it that will make it worth it for you to brainstorm and not be intimidated and say I can do this? What is it that will make it worth it for you to raise the bar in yourself and say I've got some more stuff in me, oh I haven't even gotten my biggest deal yet. What is it that will make it worth it for you to go back to a customer who slammed a door in your face? What is it that will make it worth it for you to make know your vitamin that you become empowered by it? What is it that will make it for you when you want to give up? You can't buy a sale and things are working against you and you get close to making your numbers and then they double your quota. What is it? You've got a sales manager breathing down your neck. Don't give you the tools, don't give you the resources that you need. You're working in a toxic environment and rather than working together, they're working against you. What is it that will make it worth it for you to get out of the car when you want to keep driving past the office because of the stress? What is it that gives you the strength and the power?  What is it that will help you get back up again? I want to show you how to be part of the notification gang. It's sort of simple. Click subscribe and then you click on this little bell here. Boom, bam. Boom, that's it. And you get notifications as soon as the videos are up. Peace. Do it.


Hey, what's up coach welcome back to the podcast now today's question comes from a basketball trainer in Milwaukee, right? He asked me he said, Hey, Ben, I'm just starting my business. And I'm considering taking out a business loan to use to get a gym. And I asked him like once he sent me that text, I asked him, well, how many clients are you training? And he said, I'm just starting my business. And then he went on to say he's considering either getting a partner or taking out a loan. And I went on to explain to him everything that I'm going to explain in this video and a quick disclaimer here. My response to this is, I think very conservative about risk with your business and gambling. And I try to take the most logical approach. When I think about these things, because I've seen so many people who have reached out to me who have taken business loans who have gone into business with other partners that don't have good outcomes. And then they come to me and they ask me, well, what should I do now? So here's something that I think has really helped me. And I think this will help you if you're considering taking a loan or having a partner. And here's what it is. If you're just starting your business, you should not try to get money or be in debt to anybody. I strongly encourage everybody to not have a partner at the beginning of your business. Don't get a business loan. Don't put yourself in a position where right when you start your business, you automatically owe people money. And the reason why is because you haven't proven the concept yet. You haven't proven to yourself that you can actually get clients. And there's nothing worse than starting a business without the proven concept. And then now you have this huge pressure on your shoulders to pay back a loan. Or like the partner that is putting up the money, you owe him interest, right? So this is why I'm a big believer at the very beginning of your business. Do everything solo. Go make money. Don't ask for people to give you money. Don't ask the bank to give you money. Prove it to yourself that you can get clients. And in the future, if you're going to get a gym, for sure. It would be smart to get a business loan because you already have money that's coming in from your clients. I have zero problem with people who do that. I think that can be a really smart thing if you already have clients and you need a lot of money and you want to take a loan. No problem doing that if you have clients. If you don't have clients, that shouldn't even be on your radar. And one thing I would say is a lot of people try to take the easy way out at the very beginning of their business and they wait and they say, well, I need a partner with this or I need a loan in order for me to get started. That is not the proper way to start your business. The proper way to start your business is to understand what is the problem you're solving. Go solve that problem. And when you solve that problem, you get paid in exchange for solving that problem. And when you do that and you start to get good at that, you start generating income without having a loan or without having a partner who's trying to put up money for you. Don't wait for that sort of stuff.  You need to prove to yourself that you can get clients. And getting a loan after you have clients, to me that makes sense. So I hope this helps. Don't put yourself or your family or your business at risk at the beginning unless you've already proven to yourself that you have clients. And I've worked with a lot of people who have facilities. Those people who have facilities that are really successful, you know why they're really successful? It's because they got clients way before they ever got their facility. Hopefully that helps. See you later.


We're back. We're live 10 o'clock on a given Monday. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Stink Tech, Hawaii. And this is the middle way. We're talking about China's students in Minnesota, Minnesota, the middle of the country. You'd think the China students would be on the West Coast, the East Coast, but not true. Okay. And we have Becky Filins. You're going to talk to us about it. And Joan Brzezinski is going to talk about it. And Becky is going to introduce Joan all from the University of Minnesota. Becky, can you please introduce Joan? Jay, I'd be thrilled to. And thank you for kicking off the program. Joan Brzezinski is the executive director of the China Center at the University of Minnesota. As director of the China Center, Joan has assisted the state in their discussions with Hanban regarding a state level visiting teachers program. She has developed a number of professional development seminars and meetings for Chinese language teachers throughout the state. And Joan has worked with school districts to bring quality Chinese language programming to schools to enhance Chinese cultural offerings. Joan has made more than 30 trips to China and has visited most major regions, including throughout China, but also Hong Kong and Taiwan. Joan, thank you very much. I could have gone on and on, but there's a lot to say. And that's here. Becky, what is your scope of the show? Can you give us a handle on what we're going to talk about here? Yes. The scope of the show will focus on the Chinese students at the University of Minnesota, how they've been coming to the university for over 100 years, what that has meant to the students and the university, and to the relationships between the state and the country of China. Wow. Okay, Joan, welcome to the show. Nice to have you here. Joan, tell us about your program, the challenge, and tell us how long you've been involved in it and what you do for it. Okay, so I'm director of the China Center for the University of Minnesota. Center has been at the university since 1979, and its mission is to facilitate exchange between the University of Minnesota faculty, students, and scholars, and to promote understanding for Minnesotans and US people on China, as well as, right, promote understanding of Chinese people of the US. So our goals are to really do a lot of public diplomacy and a lot of exchange with China in order to build those bridges. Okay, well, I guess the university has a special pension for this since it's been doing it for so long. Why? Why is the university interested in bringing Chinese students over and having this program? Well, the history of the Chinese students at the university started rather early. We'd have over 100 years of exchange with China. Our changes began in 1914. The US in general had begun its relationship with China, bringing students over in 1872. The first 120 students came as a part of a Chinese education mission from the Qing Dynasty. That exchanged in last very long, and the government was toppled, and a republic was established in 1912. And then in 1914, our students came in the second wave of Chinese students that was primarily funded by the Boxer and Demedy scholarships. So those students arrived from Shanghai, and they came here to study mining primarily. And they were here for a short time on campus, and they were part of a group of about 700 students that came under that program during those early years in 1900. And fast forward 100 years, the university Minnesota has been in the top 10 of university institutions related to receiving Chinese students. I think one of the reasons for that is the university has always been strong in programs and degrees that Chinese students want to pursue in the early 1900s. That would have been mining and agriculture. And in the mid 1900s, it would have been engineering and mining and agriculture. And then towards the 20th century, the end of the 20th century, those degrees changed to business and computer science. And in the 2000s, here we're looking at students that are coming for a lot of health sciences and other types of pursuits, including management and other degrees in which universities had tremendous strength over the last 100 years. These undergraduates are graduates. And if so, what percentage of them are PhD candidates? Okay, so since I guess I don't know when, how are we counting that? The Chinese students, primarily in the early days, since 1979, let's say when we resumed our exchanges with China, primarily scholars and graduate students. The undergraduate student population didn't really begin to grow until like 2010. And at that point in time, well, I mean, they had been bits and pieces here and there and little new students coming on mostly private funding. And in 2010, the students, undergraduates and the graduate students sort of flipped. And from then on point and through today, the greater number of students on campus are undergraduate students.  And in the early 2000s, it was all optimism and light and and hopefulness and, you know, building better bridges, so to speak, you know, finding relationships, exchanging, you know, students both ways and professionals both ways. I was involved with some of that and I remember the optimism. So now maybe it's not so optimistic. I think Donald Trump had an effect on things and, you know, the whole, you know, isolationist movement in this country, including Minnesota, has probably changed that and the immigration policy and visas and the like has probably changed that. So, query, how has it changed that, if at all, in the past 20 years? It would seem to me that, you know, you have headaches that you didn't have 20 years ago. Yeah, I think the challenges for students to come to the U.S. have increased over the last five years, let's say. And those challenges are certainly on the visa level, how to get a visa to come to the United States. Certainly the pandemic has had a tremendous impact on student mobility, students going abroad and students coming from international countries to the U.S. The Chinese population, I would say, from about 2014 to in 2018, 2019, had been very stable. We had about 2,500 Chinese students on campus and that population is a little bit around 40%, I would say, of our total international student population. We, as a university, had a philosophy that we didn't want to over recruit from one area of the world and keep a balance of students and because Chinese people make up about 40% of the world's population and seem about right to keep that percentage there. So it's from 2018, though, going forward with the changes to visa rules and the uncertainty that was presented by a number of executive orders on whether or not students would be able to complete their degrees, if they had a return home every year to get a new visa to come back, not being certain whether or not they could or they couldn't and also the sort of threats to, I think, the curriculum practical training and the optional practical training programs that students can take advantage of while they're in the country to gain some experience working for a company or an institution that is in their field and so they can take that experience and then go on to further their careers elsewhere. Those programs were often under threat. I would say nothing really actually happened to the programs, but there was constant discussion at the political level about what to do about these programs and maybe shut them down. So I think when students are planning their degree program and they can't see a clear path, one to graduation and then after graduation it causes them certainly some hesitation before they commit to a fairly expensive overseas degree, right? So there's that and then I think recently in certain areas students, especially in STEM and other areas have higher scrutiny from the visa offices and the political and I wouldn't say I would say policies on terms of what tools they come from that kind of thing and that may deter a number of students as well, but in general I would say there have been a lot of obstacles to student participation, but I would say that we've been very pleased previous this year during the pandemic. We did primarily online for those students that weren't able to get visas and come online and remote learning. This year they're all welcome to come here. I know visa processes were delayed and lengthy, but a lot of students have arrived. I'm waiting for this year's enrollment numbers. I don't have them yet, but we think that although I'm sure there's been a fairly good drop in the number of students, but we still have a healthy population on.  I don't want him to go to a school in the middle of the country that is not Harvard and Yale and Stanford and I imagine that's competition for you. Also seems to me that the United States has made itself less attractive to a Chinese family, wants to send their kid to an American school. Maybe they'll decide on another country. I know that for the lawyers who take LLMs, I'm familiar with that. They'll go to Britain just as quickly. They'll go to Canada and that'll help them in the practice back in China. What's your thought about competition? What is the reality about competition between American schools and between American schools and schools in other countries? I can't speak specifically to the competition and recruitment scenario. I can tell you that, yes, the Chinese have far more options today than they ever have in terms of overseas schools. I would say the university ranks quite highly globally, but other universities have really also improved their rankings globally. I think they have lots of options. I think it's incumbent on a university to really think about the students that they're recruiting so that we're not competing with Yale and Harvard. Those students are not coming to the University of Minnesota, but we are competing with University of Michigan and Wisconsin and Illinois and maybe UCLA or University of Hawaii. I'm not really certain what attracts them, but I know that in certain areas, we have to really identify the students that one fit well for the University of Minnesota. The programs are the strongest for them, but they are the strongest for our programs. I think our recruitment efforts in terms of our Chinese students have always been really focused on trying to get to that group or that student population that is high quality, but is also a good fit for the university. What's the special sauce that you offer? Aside from the academic, I mean, is it housing? Is it the weather? Is it the excellent pizza parlors downtown? What is it that you believe they come for? Well, I think for a major tier one research university, we're kind of unique and I wouldn't say all together unique, but in that we are on urban campus and we sit very nicely in between the two cities, St. Paul and Minneapolis. We have access to all sorts of museums, entertainment and sporting and the usual sort of American cultural sort of feel. I think those things as well as we have at least Chinese restaurants on campus. I think that little bit of home as well as the sort of cosmopolitan urban environment that they get when they're here is a draw. I also think for the families of the Chinese students that are coming, they're looking at safety. I mean, every city has its issues and certainly Minneapolis isn't a city that doesn't, but I think overall they feel comfortable with the on-campus safety and on-campus environment. So those are I think our special sauces and draw and just our Midwestern friendliness people are very kind and open to, I think, foreign guests. A heart of America. So Becky, how much of what Joan has said so far you agree with and also what would you add to what Joan has said so far? I think I agree with Joan and I loved your question, Jay, about the secret sauce. I'm thinking after a hundred years there's probably also a number of legacy students who come to the university because family members did. I think that the university has a center in China, so there's a presence there that leads people to have a familiarity with Minnesota, so they know about it, they want to come. And I was interested in more of the recruiting activities, Joan. What exactly happens in terms of recruitment? Well, it's changing because of the pandemic. China travel is not really consistent, so instead of visiting high schools and talking and presenting to students in person, a lot of that's now being done online, which has got good and bad to it. Only from the standpoint is before the online or sorry the in-person recruitment seminars were largely on the shoulders of our two people in the Beijing office, but now when we go to this online format we can always bring in colleagues from the main campus so that they can hear directly from people in international students' scholars office or the college alt recruiter that they want to talk to is right there. So that works really well. It also benefits family members because when the programs are at school, the parents don't always get to attend, so they get to attend these online programs and that makes them happy. I think that's really good. We also have shifted to a more of a training model for high school counselors, and so our staff in the Beijing office works really closely with EducationUSA, which is a US embassy program, but they do a lot of interaction with high school counselors that are counseling kids that want to go international, so that we have them understand more about the University of Minnesota. They can clearly present it to their students, and then there's a connection that we can make that way too. Jay, we've had governors who have led trade missions to China, and I know that part of those trade missions have included emphasis on the research capabilities of the University of Minnesota, which Joan alluded to, so that's another feature that our global top corporations in conjunction with government support and the University. It's a compelling package when you put all of that together. Joan also mentioned safety as a feature or a reason why a student might come, and I did some research before we started that there were 3,800, I believe, incidents of anti-Asian racist incidents in Minnesota, I think over the last year. Joan, I'd like to know if the University is addressing that type of incident. Oh yes, this was obviously something that's very important to the China Center and our work, but also it's important to all of our colleagues across the system, and as Asian H has presented itself, either Minnesota or other places, the University has responded with messages of support and resources for those students who have. How do you stop these incidents? Do you prosecute? I don't know how much prosecution has been going on. I know that in some of the cases, especially like just recently, there was a defacing or vandalism of among Ultra Center in St. Paul, that these cases certainly are being prosecuted. There are just so many different types of incidents, and I can't comment on the research that Becky's done, nor can I comment on specific incidents, but I can say that we have campus resources for these students to find support and counseling, as well as the China Center and the International Student Scholars Office is presented to talking and listening sessions for AAPI staff and for students. That was earlier this last spring, and then there has been a number of community organizations that have gathered together to also present programs on this, so I think there is a large number of people doing as much as they can, and it isn't an issue that is very short. Well, how do the Chinese students feel about it? I mean, and by the way, it's not just Minnesota, it's the country. All I got to do is open the newspaper on any Monday morning, and they'll see that, you know, things happening all over the place, sometimes or coverage, sometimes less, but there's a baseline of this sort of thing all over the country.  I'm angry, but that's just me. I don't know how you guys feel.  How do the Chinese students feel? I would say they're worried, and they're apprehensive. They don't necessarily feel as welcome as they may have when they first came, or if they've just arrived, they don't really know how to navigate some of that. It's difficult, I think, coming from a cultural majority to a cultural minority. And so it is also a bad experience that I think sort of sets them apart. And so that I obviously more conversation and dialogue with them to help them feel that they're welcome and they have a place on campus, I think is important. And the messaging that comes from our president and beans and other, you know, leadership at the university is important. But I tell them that tell them there's a lot of people in the country who care about them and want them to have a good experience here. And if you ever want to put them on a talk show with us, we're happy to tell them in person. I wanted to ask you about, you know, exchange programs, you know, because it should be, in my view, both ways. We had a show with a fellow last week who went to, he went to speak, he went to teach English in Shanghai. And he was there two years right on through COVID, right through. Only came back a week or two ago, had a great experience, and it was a great discussion. And now he's fluent in Mandarin, which I expect you are too, Joan, I would expect that. Anyway, my point is, though, that, you know, you really like to see it going both ways. If they come here and reset a certain number of students out of the University of Minnesota back there. So now you have a diplomatic connection, regardless of what governments do, students make great diplomats. Is this happening? It was. I think right now it's hard to travel to China. There's so much in the quarantine and you get there, you have spent three weeks before you can get out the hotel door. So that is a challenge right now for students. But frankly, yes, the University has a lot of different programs for students to travel overseas or learning abroad. Participation rate is huge. We also do a number of what we call custom programs, where faculty lead student groups to China.  And it is a really popular thing to do. And hundreds of students participate in that type of fashion. The old traditional and the study year abroad sort of thing isn't really a thing anymore, but students will go for semesters and private things. And the University of Minnesota has a Chinese language flagship program, which is a U.S. government sponsored language initiative that comes from National Security Agency through the program. And it is a program to develop high-level fluencies in Mandarin in a particular degree. And so, or a field of study. And so those students have done tremendously well and they spend a ton of time both in Taiwan and China other places. So it's quite robust that way. So you're happy to include Taiwanese students in this program too? Oh yeah. And the mainland Chinese, do they have trouble with that? No, generally not. I mean, everyone is at the University to study their degree and their thing. And I think that political conversation is left for other times. But and then I would say that the China Center also developed a China Bridge challenge in this last year because we saw the students were arriving and we also saw students weren't going. We wanted them to be able to connect with each other across the internet and follow a topic and present on a solution to an issue or a challenge that both the U.S. and China face. And we had six teams of students. All of them had to have at least one international Chinese student on their team and they competed with this case competition. And it was a really tremendously successful, I think, presentation. We plan to do it again this next year. And I'm excited to try to, like I said, build that cross-cultural team promotion and communication and get them working together so that even if they can't be in the same classroom, they can work together. That's great. And today, is there living arrangements, you know, diverse or do they hang out with each other? Do you take any steps to intermingle them? You know, there are obviously there are programs like honor programs and things like that nature that students tend to live in the same dorms if they're in that same program. And I'm sure the Chinese students participate as that as well. And like most students, when they arrive on campus, they live in a dorm with other students and probably non-Chinese roommates from opposite ends of the world. And then after that, though, many students move off campus and then they might move into an apartment with other Chinese students. But I think the university, especially our international students and scholars office work on a myriad of ways to try to connect students across cultures and involve them in different programs. One of the things that comes to mind is they have a world coffee hour where students representing different countries take a responsibility to develop a program. That's great. That's wonderful. Becky, I'd like you to address one area if you would with Joan. And that is, what are these students do after?  So how many of them do that? How many of them are able to get through whatever immigration obstacles there are and get a job and make a life and have a family and buy a house and all that? And how many just go back? Why don't you ask Joan that question? I'd love to ask her that, Jay. Joan, do you have a way, do you know how many of the students who go through the University of Minnesota are able to stay in the United States to establish a career, to spend their life in the United States? What do we know about them once they leave the University? Well, as I mentioned earlier, there are these programs called Curriculum Practical Training, Optional Practical Training in Students, can stay up to a year after their degree is concluded to work in a company or an institution to work in their field. At that point, should they want to continue to be in the United States, they have to have an employer that wants to give them an H1B visa, a working visa. And so that's really up to them and the employer and whether they choose to stay or not is really probably a function of whether or not they get that offer, but it may be also be a function of whether or not there's a better offer in China. And many companies are international or global companies. And so a, you know, a Medtronic may hire a student here to employ them in China, because they have that ability to do this. And a lot of these companies cross the world with their hiring. So it's really difficult to say, because, you know, in the 1980s, people stayed because they could and they had opportunities to stay. It was more of a, they didn't see a better offer or a good enough offer in China or with a company over there. And so it would stay. But nowadays, most Chinese students do their training and then they kind of return to China, either through international employment, or just to go back and work a job in China, because China's economy or less, several decades has really grown. And in the last recent years has really been booming. So there's a lot of opportunities for them that, you know, may not even exist here. You know, Joe, I'm just wondering, you know, one question about the future, always about the future, you know, and the future depends on, you know, the administration in Washington, depends on the relationship between the US and China, which has a certain amount of pressure right now. And your program, that matter, all the programs in the country, relating to Chinese students are, you know, a function of that relationship. And so you have to keep your eye on that ball, and you have to make plans around that ball, and you have to be thinking about how, what the future of the relationship is, so you can plan the future of the program. What are your thoughts? I don't have a crystal ball. I think, like, I think you've mentioned this earlier in our little chat before the program started, China's not going anywhere. And certainly, there are a lot of universities in China that are very good universities, and students will attend them. But I think they're good universities here as well. And I think the option to go to the best university you can always be in the Chinese students mind. And if that university happens to be in the University of Minnesota, then great. And then we welcome them. And if it's in England, that's fine too. I think the higher education field will be competing for, like you said, competition being much greater across universities, across countries, be competing for a more finite group of students. And I think that those students have lots of options. So our goal should be to be the best university that they can attend and attract those students. What strikes me that Chinese students, like immigrants in general, work hard. They study hard. They're into achievement. That's their life experience up to the point they arrive in Minnesota. And so they help the university by raising the bar, raising the intensity of their work, study their research, and so forth. So it's attractive. As a group, it seemed to me they're very attractive because they make for a better university to have them around. Do you see it that way? Yeah, I think international students, but Chinese especially, make it a better university. We want to welcome diverse ideas and people from all over the globe to come and to enrich our campus, enrich our dialogue, and to give our students who are homegrown information about global society and the things that they'll need to know to enact and work with people across the globe. I think building global competencies requires having a healthy and diverse international student population on campus. And that really means China too. We have to have a lot of really excellent Chinese students here. We work to get that done. Yeah, and this country ought to be involved in entertaining them, accommodating them, teaching them, giving them a career when they want one, a life in the U.S. And we ought to find places, including China, where we can send our young people to learn about the world. Travel is broadening. But before we get on to the summary here, I just want to tell you a short story. A friend of mine after high school went to China. He was a very adventurous fellow. He went to China and he learned Mandarin. And he drove a taxi cab until the authorities found him. And they said, no, no, no, no, you cannot be here driving a taxi cab without appropriate approvals. You have to go now. And he said, where would I go?  Go to Taiwan. He says, I can't go to Taiwan. I don't speak I. Who's starting? Okay, we're out of time, Becky. Can you summarize and add your thoughts to this and then we got to go? Yes, the University of Minnesota is celebrating 107 years of welcoming Chinese students to the campus. The degrees over time have changed from mining and agriculture and engineering to still include those but to be broader and include business and computer science and health sciences. What started out as a program for scholars and graduate students has broadened to include a greater number of undergraduate students at this time. There are challenges today. There are visa challenges. There are pandemic challenges. Joan and her program are overcoming those, keeping the program strong through bridge programs and practical education. The university is competitive. It's not Harvard or Yale, but we are a very strong competitor in recruiting international students because we know that international students makes a better campus. It raises our visibility and our credentials and we hope to see another 100 years of the students coming. Amen to that. And then my one phrase in Mandarin is straight down Chu Cheng, which means we will find a way. Okay? Xie Xie to both of you and Sai Jian. 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Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about 10 natural ways to control diabetes and lower your blood sugar. These are all the foods that you can incorporate in your diet without having to take extra supplements. So, I'm Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist at diabetes education specialist and metabolism expert. So, let's get started guys. The number one food in my list is spinach. Now, spinach is something is very versatile. You can cook it. You can use it in your salads. The only time I would probably avoid spinach is if you have kidney stones or have history of kidney stones, because spinach definitely raises your risk for that. But other than that, it is high in fiber. It is awesome. You can utilize it as much as you can due to high fiber content. Not only it's delicious, but also help lower your blood sugar. The next thing you can add on is cinnamon. Cinnamon is great because it actually, due to it is chromium content in cinnamon, it can lower your blood sugar. Now, you have to be a little more generous when you are using cinnamon in your diet, because a little cinnamon is not going to probably do you too much. But definitely, if you love the cinnamon, try to add on to things that you love. Another one is garlic. I know not everyone is a fan of garlic, but you can cook garlic if you don't like the smell. But bottom line, you know, the garlic is going to increase your insulin levels. So, if you can incorporate garlic in most of your meals, not only are they going to turn delicious, but also you will get your sugars under better control. Now, when it comes to fruits, apples are my favorite, because apples are so high in fiber. It is hard to not feel full when you eat an apple. So that's going to help prevent overeating. And you can incorporate apples in your salads. You can eat it with peanut butter. It's such a versatile fruit, and it will not spike your blood sugar. Of course, unless you eat a lot of it, but definitely it's a very high in fiber. It is filling and it's one of the best fruits for diabetes. Now, the next one in the list is turmeric. Now, turmeric, which is curcumin, the active ingredient in it, it actually directly goes to your beta cells and improves the insulin secretion and improves the health of your beta cells. Now, turmeric can cause a lot of gastrointestinal upset. If you overdo it, I would suggest that you kind of start slow and increase your turmeric in your diet to avoid to gastrointestinal distress. But definitely it's one of the best things as a diabetic you can use. Not only for diabetes or blood sugars, but turmeric also helps control joint pains as well. Now, bitter melon is the next one. Bitter melon is something that not very commonly found in the stores. But you can definitely find these in ethnic stores and you can definitely cook bitter melon. I mean, we have a supplement that has a bitter melon just because the bitter melon is not necessarily a common item. But if you can, if you like to taste and if you can find some good recipes, bitter melon can actually increase your insulin secretion directly as well. And that's going to happen only when you need, when you eat food. So that's another plus. Of course, Greek yogurt is something that is definitely in the list because of the probiotic. If you're not a yogurt person, I would suggest having probiotics or prebiotics. Whatever you can get your hands on is definitely something very important to reduce the inflammation in your body. It's antioxidant content definitely help lower the blood sugars. Remember, diabetes is an inflammatory disease. Whatever you can do to lower your inflammation in your body will help your diabetes as a result, probiotics are important when it comes to that. So when it comes to legumes, I would say lentil is the king of the legumes. And lentils are amazing because of the protein content. A lot of protein in lentil, actually, and it's super high in fiber. So not only helps your diabetes, but also lowers your cholesterol significantly. So again, you can make lentils in a variety of ways. You can make a soup, you can use as a topping, but try to find recipes and ways to incorporate lentils that will definitely help control your diabetes. Unless you're a carnivore and you don't need any legumes. It's a different story.  Of course, we have to mention nuts because nuts are amazing. When it comes to omega three and antioxidant content in it, again, another one that reduces the inflammation in your body. It also makes you feel full and reduces your overall calorie consumption and carbohydrate consumption. Not only that, they are also rich in folate, which is folic acid, thiamine, magnesium and all these things are, as we mentioned in the previous videos, are essential vitamins for any type two or type one diabetic. That if you are deficient in those vitamins, you will definitely suffer the consequences or complications of diabetes more often than not. Last but not least, I would say broccoli, cauliflower, these types of vegetables are definitely high in the list. Again, they are very high in fiber. They are anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant. Any food and vegetable that does that definitely will help your diabetes control.  That increase my blood sugar. Concentrate on healthy foods, healthy lifestyle. Of course, if you're not exercising at all and if you're overweight and you're not taking any medication, et cetera, anything can spike your blood sugar. But the answer is not to go and eat bacon or go eat processed meats and stuff like that or go with margarine. You have to make sure that you're still on a healthy diet because your health is not just your blood sugar. Remember that, guys, we'll see you in the next video. Give a thumbs up, give a like and please share our videos. All right. 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what we're gonna do is we are going to share them with your triad. Let's keep in mind for triad discussions, key is everybody needs to contribute. Okay, and we're gonna make sure that happens because you each have two minutes to talk to the rest of your group. One minute you're gonna talk about your similarity and the other minute you're gonna talk about your difference. The timer is going just to keep track for you, okay? You need to cite your evidence, which is protocol number two. You've gotta show specific by telling your evidence. What page did you find it on? What paragraph? Sew and talk about it. Now, if somebody in your group has that too, I want you to put two check marks on it. One check mark on your evidence flag if one person has it, two check marks if two people have it, three check marks if all three of your people have that similarity or difference. Does everybody understand what they're gonna do? Okay, all right. Six minutes, let's go. On page nine, paragraph one, I have a difference on line one, two, three, because it says, Dayland Gawaghan used his great strength to reach beneath its roots. Grasping the roots in his hands, he braced his legs with a mighty push he toppled the tree onto its side. And in the Onida version, his, the great spirit pulled up the tree from its roots and in this version, Dayland Gawaghan. I got that one too, so do I. So we put three in here. Okay, Ashley, you can talk about it. Page nine, paragraph two, line seven. He was afraid to put Yojiji-san into this blackness, but he knew if he ignored the dream, he would bring great troubles to the sky people. Yeah, and that's because in the other story, it did not say that if he ignored it, then there would be great troubles in the sky world. I didn't get that one. Wait, actually I did, so, but it was still on this one. It was still on there, one, two, three. I didn't have that one, so too. I already have three on this one. Hey, do you have anybody on Jacob?


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