these recaps on Mondays, but I did one yesterday, but today Bow is feeling a little bit sick and I think there was a lesson to be talked about today on a lot of these stocks, so I want to kind of talk about that, but if you have not seen yesterday's video, yesterday I did a P&L update, so I kind of went through my numbers, I looked at how I did, I kind of wanted to see where I was on the year, and it turns out I'm up over a million dollars already on the year, so, and that's after fees, locates, commissions, everything, that's net net net. So yeah, I mean it feels really good, I feel great mentally, I'm doing pretty good, physically I'm working out more, so everything's been going really good for me, and that's only because I am put, I'm making my own luck, right? I am the guy that's showing up working out five days a week, I'm the guy that's watching all the videos every single day, I'm the guy that's putting in the work, and it's no surprise that I'm seeing results guys, so yeah, so what I want to talk about today is trading, so we've kind of entered a market guys where it's slowing down, right?  So all of these traders that were making money, money, money, money, money didn't understand that they needed a process to actually keep the money, right? They needed to keep the money, right? So now we have entered a market where it's relatively slowed down. We're not seeing much gaffers, we're not seeing much action, and these markets are the markets where people lose the most amount of money. Now, why do people lose the most amount of money in this market? It is because they don't know what they're doing. They are anxious for a trade. They are hungry for a trade. Imagine you've been eating steak every single day for the past four months, right? Every single day for the past four months, you're eating steak, and now you're subject to only eating salads. I don't know about you, but that would make me go crazy, right? That would make me go crazy. So think of that as the market right now. We've been blessed to have steak after steak after steak after steak. And now all we have is salads in front of us. And now what the problem is, is if I see a steak over there, there's thousands of hungry hyenas that want that same steak as well, which gives us a lot of competition, right? So we have entered a market, guys, where there is not much place, there is not much action, there is not much opportunity. So whenever we see a little bit of opportunity, everyone just jumps to it. Everyone just jumps. So what that tells me is this, guys, what that tells me is that there is not much edge in this market currently right now, when this video is being recorded, right? It's September 15, 2020. So as of this moment, there's not much action in the market. So what does that tell me, right? As a professional trader, I want to only put my money in stocks that I know have an edge, right? So let me give you an example. If I know that a stock is being pumped up on rehashed news, they put out the same news a week ago or a month ago. If I know that a stock is being pumped up because they have an offer incoming, or if I have a stock being pumped up by a chat room, that to me gives me an edge, right? If I have a stock that gives me an edge, that means that I have a higher probability of making money on that setup. So I want to bulldoze in my money in that setup because I know that I'm going to have higher opportunity there. Whereas now we're in a market where there's not much opportunity, stocks aren't really moving. The range is not really good. A lot of stocks are easy to borrow. A lot of stocks are trapping. So rather than bulldozing a Ferrari into these setups, I'm throwing in a smart card. I'm throwing in a small amount of money. I want to be able to, you know, kind of keep, it's like, it's like I'm practicing my layup, right? So imagine I am basically wait, I'm basically waiting for the Super Bowl, right? So the last few months was the Super Bowl. Now I'm sitting here playing the regular season games. You know, it's not exciting. It's not anything crazy, but I am practicing. I am staying sharp. I am staying disciplined. I am staying patient and I'm just putting in the work and putting in the time because I know that the Super Bowl is probably coming back in a couple of months and I want to be able to be mentally sharp enough to take advantage of that. So in these slow markets, guys, I am sizing down. You could see, you could see guys that I'm not really trading much size, right? You know, I'm making $500, $600, $100, right? I'm trading stocks like MRNS and I'm getting out before the VWAP reclaim. I'm ignoring this stuff. You know, I've wired down my account back down to $35,000 and, you know, guys, I'm just kind of taking it slow right now. I'm taking it slow because currently in this market, I don't feel comfortable risking a lot of money, right? So if I don't feel comfortable risking a lot of money in this market, why the hell should I be risking anything at all, right? I'm just trying to stay here and trying to basically stay in shape and stay prepared so that when I do wake up one day, when I do see a stock that has an edge, when I do see an opportunity that I still have the mental capital and I still have the ability to realize, all right, now the market is heating back up again and it's time to take advantage of it. So today was one of those days where the market is starting to show signs that it's heating up again. It's starting to show us that, OK, maybe there is going to be an opportunity today. Maybe there is going to be something here today. And to me, I don't want to risk until it is proven, right? So normally what happened is in a hot market, we had two or three or five stocks moving on the day and you could choose whatever stock you wanted, a trade or whatever you wanted. There was plenty of food to go around for everyone. But now, well, at least today, we had two or three stocks moving. So let's kind of recap, right?  Let's kind of recap some stocks that were moving today, right?  So funny story before I start talking is at the start of yesterday's YouTube live, I dropped my iPhone and I cracked it into a zillion pieces. So I basically got a new iPhone. So yeah, I mean, I think I'm going to sell this one. But anyway, point is that I've been really clumsy with my phone lately. So MRNS, right? So MRNS was a stock that was gapping up today, right? Gapping up on news and my thought process was simple, right? I saw a death line at three twenty. So what did I do? I shorted, let me see if I can zoom in more, give me a sec. I shorted the death line. I was not greedy. I took the money when it popped back up to resistance. The death line, previous support becomes resistance. I shorted again and I made my money. So over here, I made my money and I walked away. I did not get greedy and say, I want more money, more money, more money because greed ends up getting you destroyed in this market. You would have been destroyed if you were greedy. Now let's talk about PSTV. So PSTV was another stock that was gapping up big, right? So all I did is I drew my support line and I said, if this support line breaks, chances are, if it bounces to that level again, I'm going to short it. So support broke, bounced there, added to my winner. Again, support broke. So covered here and now I'm just chilling. So again, nothing really crazy made about $1,000, $1,200 today. But the point that I'm trying to show you guys, the point that I am trying to make is that, you know, I'm taking a slow in this market. I am not risking much money in this market. You know, when the market was hot a couple of months ago, I would be making 10, 20, $30,000 a day. Now I'm making 500 to $1,000 a day. And that is because the market is inconsistent, right? The market moves in cycles. There's going to be cycles where large caps are hot. There's going to be cycles where small caps are hot. There's going to be cycles where options are hot. There's going to be cycles where something else is hot, you know? So right now, right now we are in a cycle where large caps are in action. Small caps are slow. And if I am more of a small cap trader, I'm just staying patient and waiting for my place to come back guys. So again, trading is about pattern recognition, right? The more you see these things happen, the more you understand them, the more you can kind of look for them. So I have very specific patterns that I'm looking for every single day. I'm either looking for death lines. I'm either looking for low hanging fruits. I'm either looking for first red days. If my patterns aren't there, I have no reason to short. If my patterns aren't there, I have no reason to trade. So sometimes what we end up doing is we end up forcing trades. We end up getting greedy. We end up pushing ourselves way too much and we end up losing. Today, MRNS was a death line setup at 320. I covered at 310, 305, 303. Made 10, 15 cents twice on it. So I made about 30 cents total on it. Had I said, you know what, last month I made $1,000 on this setup. Last month I would have made $2 to share on this setup. I'm going to hold it. You know what happens? You lose it all and more. I am doing a very good job not getting greedy in this market. Because I know that this is not a market to get greedy in. A few months ago, you could have been greedy in this market and it would have paid off just because you missed all those big plays last month. Doesn't mean you use those same strategies and that same patience last month, this month, when the entire market has changed. Does that make sense, guys? So I wasn't planning on doing a recap video today. I wasn't planning on really talking about a lot of stuff today. But I had so many members reach out to me and say, hey, man, like I overstayed my welcome on MRNS and I lost, you know, it was a death line set up and I lost. And my question to you was you were up 20 cents. You were up 25, 30 cents. Why didn't you take it?  I was going to add to my winner if it bounced and then it bounced too much and I didn't make any money. All right, guys, let me tell you this. When you are green on a stock, when you make money on a stock, take a little piece off to pad yourself, right? If you are up 10 cents. If you are up 15 cents, you know what? Cover half, cover a quarter, sell half, sell a quarter, whatever, whatever position you're in, exit for a profit on a little bit so that you are mentally comfortable, either A, stopping out for break-even on the rest or B, giving yourself a little bit more room to be patient on these stocks. So if you lost today on MRNS, it's 100% on you because you were greedy. You did not stick to the process. You did not nail and bail. You did not take the money. You felt like the money wasn't enough and you overstayed your welcome and you lost same thing for PSTV. Maybe you missed PSTV short and you went all in on MRNS as a revenge trade. Guys, every single day your goal is to trade with the most amount of edge. If you do not see edge on these stocks, you do not trade them. The reason why I am doing very well in this market is because in my off time, I am studying. I am recapping. I am learning. I am trying to improve rather than trying to wiggle myself out of bad trades. Does that make sense?  A lot of people are asking about my shirt. This is a one-of-one. Does that make sense, guys? Okay, so that's kind of what I want to talk about on my end. So I want to open it up to a brief Q&A for the next few minutes. So if you guys have a question, let's do it. Thanks, guys. Oh, you guys want to see something really cool. So my brother, so it's actually really funny. So it's really hard to get a gift for me or for Bao or anything like that because, you know, I'm very blessed. I'm very thankful to have basically everything I want. I don't need anything. I don't want anything. I don't want people to spend their money on me. All I want you guys to see, guys, is, well, all I want you guys to understand is that I get happiness from just like other people being happy as well. So anyway, the point is that I'm really hard to get gifts for. So my brother got me this awesome piece of art. It's Donald Duck with Cell and like a bunch of cash and stuff like that.  Yeah, Daffy Duck. Sorry, my bad. Um, what was I going to talk about? Someone sent me the question. Someone sent in two bucks. Bro, I'm going to refund you. I don't know how to refund you, but just take your money back. He said any advice for a 17 year old. So let me tell you what I was doing when I was 17, right? So 17 was when I was getting, uh, one of my first jobs. Uh, I think, I think even, uh, I think I started Starbucks when I was 18. But before Starbucks, I was a cashier at, uh, like a local grocery store.   Like it's a little bit overwhelming. I get it. I get it's overwhelming, man. Like, you know, we have a thousand videos and it takes time, but you know, that's why we had a jump starter course. That's why we have, uh, kind of all these shortcuts. So my advice to you would be to get the accelerated course. If you can't afford it, if you can't watch it, my advice would be to go to the trading videos we have on YouTube, maybe watch two or three YouTube videos a day, start from maybe the older videos. So go to the, here, let me, let me show you guys. So let's give me a sec. All right. So go to the MIT YouTube channel. Go to date added oldest and just start with topics that you see, um, that makes sense to you, right? If you want to learn the first bound strategy, here's a video on first bound strategy.  Bow has a free live trading video, 45 minutes of live trading, bro. Like we have everything here, guys. So please, please, please, all of the resources are there. Everything is there. It's just, you have to spend the time to do it. You know, I'm going to keep using this working out analogy because I love it so much. It's just like for me, you know, when I started working out, I expected to see results in a month and you know, I wasn't really seeing anything, but you know, everyone told me to keep pushing to keep going and eventually you'll see results. And, you know, two months in, I'm not seeing anything crazy, but I'm seeing a notch more than what I saw before, which is motivating me to keep pushing. So my advice to you would be in your off time, watch some videos, educate yourself. If you have questions, reach out. You know, a lot of people, they want to get trading. They want to get started in the stock market. I posted my million dollar a year on Instagram yesterday and I had so many friends and family saying, I want to start trading. I want to start trading. I want to start trading. And my question is, you know, why do you want to start trading? Do you want to just start trading? Cause you want to make a shitload of money? Okay. Yeah, most people do, but do you have the love? Do you have the passion? Do you have the ability to, when you start losing money, when you start getting discouraged, when you start feeling upset, do you have the mental motivation and discipline to keep pushing forward? And for me, I am a very disciplined person. It must be in my genetics. It must be for my father. It must be for my family. It's, I don't know what it is, but for me, what I know is that even though I hate something, I keep pushing forward because I want results. I am very goal oriented. I have set, I write down my goals. It's actually, I was actually talking about this in one of my other videos, but I'll kind of mention it again, is every year at the start of the year, I write down goals that I want to achieve, whether it be monetary goals, whether it be goals with friends and family, whether it be investment goals, whatever it is, I write that down and I put it in an envelope and I seal it at the beginning of the year. And then on new years, every single year, I open that envelope and I see how close I got to those goals and what I could do to keep pushing forward. So for me, I'm very goal oriented, right?  If I could give away a million dollars and I never have to work out again, but I have the results, I would do it instantly because I hate it that much. But even though I hate it that much, I am still trying to be disciplined and still trying to keep forward because I like the results that it brings me, right? It makes me feel happier. It makes me feel confident. It makes me feel better in my skin. So the whole point that I'm trying to make is that times are going to get tough in trading, in life, in working out and in everything. But do you have enough love and enough passion for what you're doing to keep pushing forward? And that is the question that you should be asking yourself. Watch the videos, join for a month, see if it's for you. See if it makes sense, man, because at the end of the day, trading is now for everyone. You have to be disciplined to be able to do this. And that's why I don't understand how more bodybuilders, how more army guys, how more of these people are not into trading because to be in the military, you have to be disciplined. To be a bodybuilder, you have to be disciplined. It's the same formula in trading, right? It's the same formula. As long as you are disciplined, you will make money. I've been disciplined for years and years and years.  And now people are seeing, all right, now there is something real. But if you hesitate and you don't start, you will never be successful, man. Like to me, to me, it doesn't make sense that you have a millionaire trader like me, you have a trader like that made one point four million dollars in one day who's made five, six, seven million dollars in a year. Trading consistently for like four or five years, right? And we're charging guys five dollars a day to learn how to trade like us. That is an investment in yourself, guys. That is an investment worst case scenario. If you pay two hundred dollars for a month, you will walk away with two hundred dollars worth of education that will help you in the future as well. So my question is why are you guys hesitating? The longer you wait to start, the longer it will take for you to get results. Had I started trading today when I'm 26 years old, it would have probably taken me until I was 30 to have these results. So my advice to you who is 17 years old is start trading now, start learning now, start educating now, because by the time you're 21, it'll all pay off, my friend. The edge that you have compared to anyone else is that you have your youth. You have your age. And let me tell you something, bro, for all the success I have, for all the money I have, everything that I have, I'm 26 years old right now. If I could go back and be 17 and start all over again, I would because that would give me an extra two years more than I had now. Does that make sense, guys? Does that make sense? Sorry, I'm just reading through the comments here. So that's it, guys. Everyone loves this shirt, bro. I don't get it.  So that's it, guys. Do you guys have any more questions for me? I think I'm going to kind of wrap it up. I know that you guys like these short and sweet videos. So let's do this, Tosh. Let's do this. I want you, Tosh, to... I want you guys who are not in MIC, who are not in MIC right now. I want you guys to text Tosh and tell him... I don't know. What's a good word? What do we talk about? Tell him to text him the word 17, OK? And we'll give you guys $20 off an MIC monthly membership. So rather than it being $197 for the month, we'll give it to you guys for $179.  But I just want to give you guys an extra way to get started. I know $20 isn't much, but please just let it be. Let it be the start that you guys need to get started, right? So text Tosh at<PHONE_NUMBER>. And he'll give you guys a discount on the monthly membership. So thanks, guys. And please leave a comment on the video with one lesson that you learned. And next week, I'm going to pick a winner for a giveaway that we're doing. So thank you, guys, and I will see you guys back in the room.


Hey guys, welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. Today I'm sharing with you my most favorite kitchen items perfect for gifts this Christmas. So my name is Kristen, I am sister number two from SixSisterStuff.com, and I have been a food blogger since 2011, so I have been purchasing all kinds of kitchen gadgets, kitchen appliances. I literally owned them all, so I'm just gonna share with you some of my most favorite things. Some things are really little, and some things are a little bit bigger. So here are some of my most favorite kitchen items. Number one, a silpat. Now if you've never heard of a silpat before, these are my most favorite things. They're bendable, they can cook in the oven, they are perfect for cookies. So you don't have to use the non-stick spray all the time. All you have to do is put one of these on your cookie sheet, put your cookies on top, bake them as normal, and you will never, ever have burned cookies again. This is one of my most favorite things to use. Number two, now my family thinks I'm so funny because I have gifted this to every single one of my sisters because I love them so much. They're the magnet teaspoons. I love it because they all stick together. And so I don't lose them and they all have a place to go when I'm ready to put them away. So that's one thing I love about it is it keeps me a little bit more organized and not just all shoved into a drawer. Anyway, starts at a fourth of a teaspoon all the way up to a tablespoon. Number three, this is called a chopster. Now I've mentioned this probably, oh, I don't know, seven or eight times in my recipes because I love using this. I mostly use it for cooking ground beef and it cuts, and turns everything perfectly. No more of this wooden spoon stuff. I'm telling you, when you make ground beef, having a chopster is a game changer and it's, I don't know, about five to six dollars. It changes on Amazon, but this is worth every penny and the perfect stocking stuffer for the cook in your kitchen. All right, you all knew this was coming. Number four, the Instant Pot. Now Instant Pot is kind of my thing. I am slightly obsessed with Instant Pot. It is actually the number one sold product right now when it comes to kitchen appliances. It's gaining a lot of traction and a lot of speed because people are realizing how amazing it is. So I'm gonna show you my new favorite Instant Pot. So I finally upgraded to an Instant Pot duo. That's a six quart. All those who are asking why I don't update, well I'm still gonna use my other one. So it still has the same feature. You can still quick release and do venting. It still will work great. One of the things that it does have is a little lid handle where you can put your lid so it will work. Now it doesn't have a manual button, but it does have a pressure cook button which is the same. It also has a yogurt button which we're gonna try out in a few weeks. But I really think any of the Instant Pots are wonderful. All right, number five, kind of sticking with the Instant Pot. If you have an Instant Pot, I highly suggest getting an Instant Pot insert. Having one of these will change everything for you. Having one of these will make your life so easy when it's cooking. For example, say you wanna make my sesame chicken. So you're making the chicken in one pot. As soon as it's done, you go ahead and lift this pot out, put your new pot in with your rice already to go. And it makes cooking time so much faster so you don't have to jump your chicken somewhere, rinse out the bowl, and put all the rice in and then cook it. It's just a whole lot easier to have two different pots. Number six, this is my last thing with the Instant Pot, I promise. If you wanna look at my other Instant Pot must-haves, I'll link it to the little dot up there and it will lead you to the other things I suggest when you're purchasing an Instant Pot. But this one is new. I had someone send this to me and I just wanted to show you because this is perfect for someone who has an Instant Pot. Or if you're looking for a white elephant gift, this is probably one of my new favorite things. So I don't know if you've seen this little guy. He is so cute.  The steam is gonna go right out his ear. Let me show you how it works.  But because I'm holding the camera, it's hard to do both at the same time. But you understand how it works. He goes on and then when the steam comes out, it goes right out his ears. Number seven, the Amazon Knives. Now I've had so many friends review this that I decided to give it a shot myself. They're really great and they're a really great price. I think my favorite part is that they come in lots of different colors. So with these Amazon Knives, you get six of them and they're really sharp and they're really great. The one thing they did suggest is not to wash them in the dishwasher, but to hand wash them, which is what I usually do with my knives anyways. So if you need some new knives or you wanna come up with a creative, cute gift, these knives would be perfect in a cute little kitchen gift basket. Number eight, this is one of my new finds. My sister introduced this to me. It is a marble rolling pin. You can find this for about 20 bucks on Amazon and I'll tell you, it is so heavy. It is amazing when you make cinnamon rolls or cookies or anything that you need a rolling pin for. This thing is so nice and it's really, really easy to clean compared to the wood one I used to have. I also love that it comes with this little stand that you can put it on so when it's in your drawer, it doesn't roll around. And number nine, last but not least, is a Bosch. Now this is a little more on the more expensive end, but I use my Bosch for everything. It's my go-to mixer. I've had all kinds of mixers, but my Bosch is by far my favorite. Now up in the corner, I show you how I can make six loaves of bread, literally in one sitting. But my Bosch, I can make huge amounts of cookies, amounts of bread, amounts of pretty much anything you need a mixer for. You can double or triple your recipe in the Bosch. The Bosch is such a beautiful, easy design inside of the bowl you can attach all kinds of different things. All right you guys, I hope this helped you find some gift ideas for the chef or the cook or just the person in the kitchen in your family. And if it's you and you just wanna buy these gifts for yourself, it happens to me all the time. Thank you so much for stopping by. I will see you next week. See ya, bye.


Hi. I'm Luis Torres Torija. I'm a physician and a Quality and Patient Safety Specialist. I'm also a Patient Safety Movement Foundation Ambassador in Mexico. And I joined the Patient Safety Movement because I truly believe that it's possible to improve healthcare attention. All this through collaborative strategies that can reduce the risk of damage of our patients. Thank you.


Welcome back to my channel.  That is for sure I definitely want to say that up front and also this was actually more like two days worth of mess The night before this one I did not get this done And so it was just a busy day as you can see I had groceries that were left in the living room that need a JP We put away and there's just yeah a pile huge pile of dishes and My husband was home the day a couple days before this So we were using like coffee mugs and things like that like crazy and just yeah a lot to get Uncovered it wasn't just like one days worth so I do want to say that up front and again I don't get this done every single night and sometimes this routine actually kind of happens more like nap time in the afternoon like before we have dinner, but this night it was after dinner time and Actually my in-laws had my girls for the evening So it kind of gave me time to get a jump start and as you watch this you're gonna see the Sun Slowly going down so before I get too far into this I wanted to say about this vacuum cleaner because I get a lot of questions about the battery life And as you just saw I changed the battery and the battery in this last a good amount of time I can get almost my whole house Vacuumed with one battery and I just vacuumed the walkway I didn't really vacuum the entire living room and that's usually kind of my goal is just to hit the living room the dining room the kitchen and the bathroom Areas and sometimes it's not even entirely perfect But at least if I get some of the mess cleaned up from the day's worth of People coming in and out and whatnot It at least gives me a jump start for the next day So if you guys watch my videos a lot, you know that I love method anti-back I use it pretty much everywhere. It's my go-to. I order it very often from Grove Which is where I get all of my cleaning products and I love all three cents I do get all three cents most times when I order just because it's nice to have a variety and This area is definitely something that has to get hit every day If not twice a day sometimes just because I have three very little girls that make lots of crumbs and lots of mess So this dresser I actually got at a garage sale for five dollars like many many years ago It has been a changing table for me and has been obviously my coffee bar And it really holds a lot and when you see me empty the dishwasher You're gonna see me walking that direction because I store like a lot of my cooking dishes and Tupperware containers And that kind of thing in that so that's an idea for you guys if you need extra storage Dressers honestly make great storage, especially if you can find one that the drawers slide in and out pretty easily So obviously you can see I had a nice pile of dishes And I always like to tell you guys that our dishwasher is broken and I put that cup under there on purpose because My girls have climbed up on the lid so many times It's just slowly broken it down And so it will almost hit the floor if I open it all the way without the lid there But to be honest this dishwasher is Amazing it has been so great definitely the best dishwasher I've ever used and it gets things really clean one thing that I do a lot in it Is I put white vinegar in the rinse aid and I talked about that on my Instagram account not that long ago And I had a couple of you message me and we're really surprised that that works and it does it actually gets my dishes Really spotless, and I don't know I think I actually maybe one of my cousins gave me that tip one time or something And ever since then I've been doing that sometimes I also splash a little bit in the bottom and It does a really great job at keeping it clean And my dad is a construction worker and builds homes and he even highly recommends that just because It helps to keep the pipes and everything cleaned out with grease and stuff that you know naturally builds up from your Dishwasher because this was kind of like two days worth My dishwasher got really full quickly, and I had quite a pile of dishes to wash So I just decided you know what I'm gonna get it all caught up and go ahead and hand wash a whole bunch of them Even though it is my nemesis. I hate hand washing dishes, but if I have to do it to get caught up I definitely will And sometimes I even just grab like a beach towel or a bath towel and throw it on my counter I generally do not have a dish strainer and actually I think whenever we moved into this house I got rid of mine just because it feel like it's a temptation to leave it all drip dry And if I have it on towels like this I feel like I'm quicker to put it all away and kind of get it all cleaned up instead of just leaving it in The dish strainer, so I don't know it's just might be a mind-over matter thing for me, but it definitely works So another thing that I love using is this bottle brush for my blender I know there's a lot of people that say to put the soap and the water in the blender and just turn it on You know and let it wash itself But I just feel like it doesn't get all of the grime from underneath the blades very well So that's why I like to use a bottle brush And it's a little tip again if you guys have a blender that has the bottom in it That doesn't come out a bottle brush really does a great job at cleaning it out and the sun was slowly going down So I had to turn on the light switch and then I went through and washed our water bottles and yeti's and tumblers and all of that Most of those I like to wash by hand, especially like our yeti's or any type of the coffee mugs They have the stainless steel inside. I just don't really like putting them into the dishwasher And I feel like they get marked up and kind of get a build up on them sometimes I don't know they just don't clean very well in dishwasher plus I want them to last as long as possible So I'll use my bottle brush for that I wanted to chat with you guys about something that's been helping me stay a little bit more motivated And I talked about it recently in one of my vlogs But I thought I'd go ahead and talk about it a little bit here in this cleaning video And that is making a list for the next day or even for your day like in the morning Waking up and just making yourself a little to-do list I just feel like it helps me out so much and I actually have been using a Specific calendar that I can write out a list for each day. I'll leave it linked below. It's only a few dollars I believe it's like seven dollars on Amazon plus It's really cute and it helps me just kind of stay on track and write down like what I want to do the next day What are my goals or sometimes throughout the day? I'm like oh, I really want to get you know So and so done the next day so it helps me remember that and kind of helps to give a little bit of a brain dump Sometimes when you're trying to remember everything It just can be really overwhelming and stressful and I think just writing everything down helps your brain to not have to Keep track of so much anybody else store their frying pans in the oven That's something that my mom has always done and I guess I just inherited it from her plus to be honest this kitchen It has nice space like it's a large kitchen, but the cabinets There's not a ton of cabinets as you can see like I don't have a ton of storage So it kind of gives me one more area to store something in my oven Plus that is the only frying pan. I have I'm a big minimalist when it comes to my kitchen and That big huge nine by thirteen frying pan is the only one I have and I love that because I tend to wash it More often because it's the only one that I have and I actually have been having people ask about where I got that and it's From a company called princess house, which I don't believe I can link for you But I found one on Amazon that's very similar and I'll leave the link in the description box along with some other Things that'll be in this video So now I'm obviously in the bathroom and I like to just get the countertop area cleaned off, you know Things picked up off of the floor Put in the hamper. I'm not like super particular like I don't wash the mirror every night or anything like that But at least washing up the counter And getting it kind of cleaned up for the next morning Guys are new to my channel I hope that you hit the subscribe button and stick around and I will see you all in my next video


This is going to be a rehash of a presentation I gave to my co-workers. We used Git, obviously, at work, and we used it in kind of a weird way. And we found that when we brought new developers on, it took them a little bit of time to get up to speed on using Git. And I noticed one thing when I was learning Git, which was that people who have gotten over that Git learning curve, they start to say things along the lines of, you know, Git really makes a lot more sense when you finally understand food. I found that that was not terribly helpful. I found myself saying things like that to a friend of mine who then gave me the feedback that, yeah, you said that, too, and a lot of other people said that, and I didn't really get it until I had that same epiphany myself. So I sat down to think about what the perspective was that made Git finally make sense to me, and this is what came out of that. So, Git makes more sense when you understand Git. I did a quick search for that, came up with a million results. This was one of my favorite ones. This was Kent Beck last year, actually earlier this year, finally figuring out the Git commands for doing graph manipulation stuff. And I thought this was awesome for two reasons. One, because it was a great example of this statement of the form. It makes much more sense when you understand X. And two, because I read, I've read several of Kent's books, and he's great. And it just fiber gets to me that I have understood something before he did. And that was really cool. This was the other awesome one that I came across. Homie Moe. I had some manifold stuff in Hilbert's space. This was great.  Yeah, I don't know what to say. Okay, so my goal for giving this talk to my coworkers, and I hope that some of you will take this away as well, was that once you understand where the pointy bits are in Git, and you understand what they do for you, you can get a lot more comfortable using Git without feeling like you're going to chop your leg off. And more kids. So Git is obscure. It also is ridiculously powerful. There's a reason so many of us use it. Most of that power, I find, comes from the way that Git looks at your code and the history of your code. And that's not really Git. That is a computer science thing that can be taught. And once you understand that, again, it becomes much easier to use. This is a great quote from a couple of years ago about Git Rebase Interactive. This is from a wonderful article about running a Jamaica that you show up on the read. These slides are all online. And I can show the link at the end. It's powerful. It's from the way computer scientists see the world. It's surprisingly easy to think about. I wrote this for a number of co-workers who do not have computer science backgrounds. I expect you guys to get this fairly quickly. But it's the same set of slides, so I'll just run through them. This is the neighborhood where I live in Portland, Oregon. It's fantastic. Lots of trees and everybody gets lost because it's not on the grid. Some friends of mine call this the Vortex of Portland. Nearby, there's a bridge. Here's a drawing of Konigsberg-Prussia, a family tree, a social network, a really fun graph they generated at Facebook a while back showing connections between cities. Some sort of sporting event, I assume. And a fun screenshot from Visual Phasaurus, which is a really fun little thing to load up at parties if you load it up 10 minutes beforehand because it's a job. So what these things have in common? I decided to run through these slides again with some helpful graphics overlaid on them. Here's my name right again. Here is the Morrison Bridge, Konigsberg-Prussia family tree, social networks, both part of the Facebook sporting event, Visual Phasaurus. The things that these things have in common are one, that they don't have places to be, and two, they have ways to get between them for anybody who's not having their science degree, they call that graph theory. This is a screenshot from the Wikipedia entry on graph theory. Scared by the math. Or as a friend of mine, as a co-worker of my footage, all I heard was nerd, nerd, nerd. A graph is a collection of nodes and a collection of edges that connect, each edge connects two nodes. Nodes basically are places to be, and there are ways to get between them, and that's all you need to know. The history of graph theory goes back to the 18th century. As I was told the story, and this may be apocryphal, but as I was told the story, there was a favorite pastime of people with money and time to try to walk through the city of Konigsberg and cross every bridge, of which there were seven, exactly one time. Tempina, and this guy Leonard Boyler, who was famous among mathematicians, wrote this paper and basically invented graph theory. I said I was going to talk about it, and this is the timing, this is the perspective that I wanted to share. Gip commands are really about working with graphs. Going through those pictures that I have before, in a different order, we have nodes that are places to be, edges are ways to get between them. I have some examples. Konigsberg pressure, this is the original graph theory problem. The thing that I really love about this particular example is that one of Boyler's key insights was that from the perspective of this problem, it doesn't matter where you go, once you've crossed a bridge, if you go onto the island and you walk around and you keep shopping, it doesn't matter what that is, because from the perspective of the problem, you're only concerned about which bridges you're trying to cross. So this idea of taking only the key information and throwing everything else away is something that I really love, and it's key to being able to actually solve problems. This is an example of a fairly large graph. This was Facebook doing some connections between cities, and they colorfully linked between them more brightly if there were more pairs of people in those cities that had friendships with each other. I also like this one because it shows where the world is on Facebook and where it isn't. Again, my neighborhood, I should say about that. One other thing about graphs is that sometimes, actually there is something to say about that, in this one you can go across the edges in either direction, in this one you can only go from one end to point B, and if you want to get back, you have to find another way to get back. We call that kind of an edge, a directed edge, and that kind of a graph is a directed graph or a digraph for short social networks. I just included this slide to illustrate to my non-technical coworkers that you can attach information in a graph to either the edge or the node. Family Tree is a directed graph with some interesting properties that non-mathematicians don't really care about. This one I included because it's exactly the same as the Family Tree in structure. It's just describing a very different problem and I thought that was kind of cool. I only included the visual as a source because when you look at it, it's completely obvious what it is and you don't have to have any idea of what graph theory is, but it's also like no translation is required to think of it as a graph. It's sort of the mathian continuum of graph theory. So, the point. When I learned graph theory, it was a lot of fun. It changed the way that I looked at the world. Once I had that perspective shift, I started to see graph theory in a bunch of different places and I thought that was a fun thing and I was really, I was kind of upset when I learned graph theory that I was 27 or 28 years old and all of my life I had not known about this stuff. It was just kind of an accident that I wound up learning about it and I was like, hey, this is really cool. I don't want to walk up to people and say, hey, learn about this, it's great. I've gone on about graph theory in these slides because it is really about manipulating graphs. So having that tool set, in addition to being sort of a general thing that helps you look at lots of different problems, it also helps you think about it. Most of the power I've said earlier comes from the way that it looks at the world. Once you understand that, it becomes much easier to use it without feeling like you're going to shoot your foot off. And again, I'm going to throw this in because it's a joke. It was funny. Okay, so this is a screenshot of my primary Rails application network from back in May of last year and the screenshot is from GitX. This is merge hack. Anybody have Git repositories that look like this? So, yeah, the Git repository is a graph. Every commit in Git is a node in that graph. It's a point in history to where something happened that you care about and you said this is this version as of this point in time and here's what's interesting about it. And that, unless it's your very first one, that has some history that came before it. So nodes can obviously point to other nodes that they're based on. So you say, here's the initial state of the world and then I make this change and then I make this change and then I make this change. And of course you can branch off and that's time travel and all kinds of other stuff. Most commits point to one, you can have commits that point to two or more and it has to be octa-gathering, we've all seen. Actually, I think it was today, possibly just an hour or two ago, Michael Schwerin gave this great talk at OSCON, gave, again, this talk at OSCON, called Git for ages four and up, which is a great talk. You should go and watch it if you're at all shaky with Git. I included this partly because it's a great link and it's worth watching the video, period. And partly because it's another example of this, it makes so much more sense when you understand X. Go check it out. He uses Tinker Toys to describe the state of the repository as he goes. It's great fun. The short version of that is that most Git operations do one of these. They either add a node to the graph or they move a label around from one node to another node. And when I say label, going back to the Tinker Toys thing, he's got these structures that he makes out of Tinker Toys. And then these 3x5 index cards are labeled like master and feature branch that as they type commands to make new commits in the graph, he takes these labels that are on popsicle sticks and takes them off of one node and puts them on another node. And that's the effect of doing Git merge or Git rebase or whatever. This is a screenshot from Git X, another one, a simpler one. Any non-max here? I see one. Two hands over there, three. All right. I saw somebody tweet earlier that this conference was like the best ad for Apple ever. So anyway, Git X is great. I use it every day. It uses four colors for its labels, where label means either a branch or a tag. When you're looking at it, it shows the current branch in orange. It shows local branches in green. It shows remote branches in blue and yellow to indicate a tag. And I'm going into this because it's kind of relevant to the way that I learned to get better at using Git. The reason that Git is horrible to learn is that it uses this random terminology and it assumes that you know what it means. Local branch references move around when you do things like Git commit and Git merge. Remote branch references move when you have done stuff on your local repository and then you type Git push. So that's saying, take the state of my world and make the state of that world over there be similar. Tag references don't move at all. Sorry, it's going to be the last time I get this presentation. There's this other concept of reachability. So if you're looking at this graph and you're standing at H... The history of the world that you can see is HGFBA. If you're standing at E, you can't see H and vice versa. So each of these are sort of like alternate universes. There's another fun way of thinking about it. And the reason that I mentioned this is that references are a way that you can sort of nail down parts of this graph. References, which is to say a label, which is to say either a branch or a tag are a way of making commits, which is to say nodes and the history that they depend on, something that you can get back to. The reason I mentioned this is that when I first started using Git, I was super paranoid about using code. I would actually back up the entire directory before I did something I was worried about. Change to the parent directory, recursively copy the whole thing to a backup, go back in, do something that I thought was a little bit scary and confirmed that it worked. And if I was happy with it, then I would go back up, delete the backup and continue working. And if I screwed it up, then I always have that complete copy to go back to. Has anybody else done this, or is it just me? I'm good, okay. Thank you for validating that. I did that for like a year until I finally realized that when I did those things, I was always worried about what some merge was gonna look like or maybe I was playing around with rebase, which is kind of a dangerous command. But I realized that I was always working on a branch when I did this. Branches are references, and references make commits reachable. So what I could do was create a new throwaway branch, you know, from wherever I go and get checkout-meat-food. Do whatever I was trying to do with that branch. If I screwed it out, then I could switch back to the original branch, delete the new one, and that history would eventually be garbage collected. If I got it right, then all I had to do was say, get reset this to go over there or do the merge or whatever it was, and continue working. That one thing saved me, well, first off, it saved me a lot of time in, you know, that CP-R, et cetera. And then it really helped me figure out what was actually going on and feel a lot more comfortable that even if I did something really dangerous, I could always get back to where I started. And so this became the strategy that I would use, and this is why I spent a little bit of time talking about Gidex in particular. Gidex lets you look at the state of the repository at a particular point in time, and then when you hit Command R to refresh, it goes back and updates the display and shows you the new state after you've done something weird. So what I started to do, and this is a strategy that you can either use yourself or teach people who are new to it, you basically check out a new branch and, you know, I consider that like a save game. You look at Gidex and kind of visualize the part of the graph that you're interested in, and you really understand what it's telling you, what each branch label is, and figure out what you want to do. Do what you need to do, switch back to Gidex, and before you hit refresh, you'll figure out in your head what it's supposed to change to after you hit refresh. So you say, well, if I had this branch over here, this level here, and this level here, and I did emerge, then I hope that this one has moved up and now there's a new command that points to both of those things that were there before. So you figure out in advance what you expect to see when you hit refresh, and then you hit refresh. And then you have a chance to either say, ah, I was right, I've learned something, I'm able to make these predictions, or I didn't understand something correctly, and then you have a chance to figure out what was different. Do you have a chance to learn something new? That's really it. I have some prepared for my coworkers, but I don't remember them at the moment, so I'm not going to try and do live coding on stage. I'm completely unprepared. The slides for this talk is on the website, to thinklikeagid.heros.com. And yeah, that's it for me. Any questions? This is a question for the broad audience. I'm curious to know if using Git, I have a chance to do a graph theory. What's always so interesting to me is not knowing exactly what the whole everything is due to graph. And I was curious if anything is used for this, you know, as knows the tool that actually was I'll just sort of leave it at the graph So to try and paraphrase the question, the command line is sometimes hard to approach and you're wondering if there are GUI tools or something that you can use to work with it in a different way, in the alternate ways of representing it? Yeah, I don't use GUI, but the system is actually making modifications to the command line by looking at the graph or the page and getting an actual license to use that. I have just actually trained two non-technical co-workers to use GUI Tower and they seem to do reasonably well with that. It's like $60, but they have a particular trial that you can play with. GUI Tower, it's gith-tower.com. Anybody else have tools that they like? I just have a comment for the last question. You can also remove labels around GDX as well with your mouse. Can you really? I don't do it personally, I can't do anything. Sorry, the comment was that you can remove labels around GDX, which I did not know, that's cool. Yeah? This is Gith-tower, I use it at a lot of games and I wish it had more features. The comment was, Tower is great, but in the back, in the yellow. Here's a fork by Brother Bar, I think it's the name of the guy that's like a much more advanced version of Gith-tower. The Brother Bar fork, I saw something about that this morning, I was going to check it out, thank you. Yeah? Did explaining it like this help less technical people, like designers or from the developers understand it? Unfortunately, the two designers who I was really hoping I wrote this for them, both of them were actually out that day. Sorry, the question was, did this talk and did explaining it this way help less technical folks? And yes, it did. I got great feedback from the QA person, and I don't want to say if the QA person is non-technical, but they're certainly less technical than the dev team. I got great feedback from our father, Toner, and those two people I've since trained to start doing it again. Any other questions? Thanks very much.


And Nigerians have been advised to be intentional about their profession and businesses as it is the best way to achieve results, and by extension produce the desired changes needed to grow the economy. This advice was given at the Ecclesia Realtors Conference, a gathering designed to transcend the ordinary and inspiring entrepreneurs who have a repression for real estate. Details in this report. Over 350 entrepreneurs are gathered at the maiden edition of this conference, convened by Adoselian home and reality. It is said to be not just a gathering, but a journey designed to spark the curiosity of those who intentionally want to choose the dreams in the world of real estate. If a focus fool can do more impact than a genius, how do we get to our dream? Simon Adosé is the host of the conference. He welcomes all in attendance by explaining why the conference is themed on intentionality and how Nigerians can get through their dreams. One thing that has helped us and one thing that has distinguished us from every other is one thing, we do things intentionally. Every detail thing that we do, we do with intention. The way we view and interpret the world will always determine the way we respond to it. You want to push through every ghost that you see, you want to push through it. Right in your video, it's not just a dry land, but I'm seeing water on it. After like two months, thank you again for your effort with anticipates. Undoubtedly, speakers are drawn from a powerhouse of exceptional and experienced professionals who gladly share their wealth of experiences, guiding the participant on the path towards success. Former Lagos State Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Sam Igubei, speaks on the artness of the conference theme. In his presentation, the former commissioner speaks about a power of connectivity and building human capacity. Be intentional. In other words, don't let it go without you deciding within yourself as to what you begin to do next. I know some people's modus operandis avoid government as much as possible. But what did I say?  You are trying to build an industry sector that will be transparent, that will have accountability, that will have efficiency, and a sector that can then drive investment. In an interview, the convener hints at making the event an annual one, while other speakers share insight on several aspects of the ever-growing real estate business, including closing of sales, need for profiling, and understanding the market and customers' needs. Give me the assignment of talking about how to close big sales. You need to profile yourself. How do you profile yourself? It's a list of things that you need to do. Number one, you yourself. Confidence mentioned that. How are you looking? Are you looking like 15 air? And you want to close a 500 million energy? How? The person that you want to... See, to get people to bring out money from their account is not easy. You have to keep on creating that presence, making yourself that go-to person.  You have them at heart. The moment they understand that, and that can only be done by consistent posting. No doubts the entrepreneurs at the event have been impacted by the Ecclesia Reuters conference, which has acted as a catalyst to fuel in passion to do great things in the industry.


In Chinese medicine, one of the most incredible things that I have so much respect for is how we look at the interrelationships between things, how things are related is very, very important. You know, when you have a toe problem, you don't go to a toe doctor in Chinese medicine. We look at the pattern and the pattern is often where the toe problem is coming from because the body is all related. It's not these separate parts that we're so accustomed to because in conventional medicine, you know, everything is broken into these individual specialists and even the surgeons are looking at the individual body parts, you know, the thumb and the forearm and the bicep. But in Chinese medicine, we treat according to certain patterns and that's what I think is the very unique genius of it. And honestly, why it's often so effective, especially when they are confusing or mysterious symptoms. Hey guys, Dr. Alex Hein, author of the health book, Master of the Day, Doctor of Chinese Medicine and licensed acupuncturist. So before we jump in here, very important links below this video. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine, link right below this video is to contact my office and my private practice there. In this video, I thought I would just share some very simple common signs that I see of liver and gallbladder dysfunction. Right. So these are pathologies that are still in the physiological phase, meaning they're not progressed to the structural level where it is more serious than before. You know, for example, where a person needs a gallbladder removal because there's necrosis. But recognizing the early signs is really, really, really important to prevent more serious pathology and illness. So the liver and the gallbladder in Chinese medicine, depending on your diagnostic framework, are considered the wood organs, wood phase. So this is describing a kind of function in the body and a physiological and pathological process. But I thought I would share some common signs and symptoms that are super common clinically that I see very, very often, probably in the top five things that I treat. The first sign is stomach dysfunction, i.e. reflux, gurd, indigestion, or you're noticing excessive burping now. So very commonly I see sourness in the mouth or bitterness, often in the morning, burping more often, indigestion, gurd, reflux, burning, stomach, or epigastric pain. Now this is more serious from our perspective than just what we call spleen sheet efficiency, which is kind of like a pancreatic enzyme deficiency, where the person is low appetite, burping, food kind of sits in the stomach. It doesn't quite go down. It sits like a rock, people say, slow, sluggish digestion. This is an increased pathology, because now there's development of what we consider heat in Chinese medicine, and that's the gallbladder involvement. Now the second sign that's very important is more systemic. So menstrual irregularities, abdominal pain, or bowel changes. So the liver in Chinese medicine is one of the organs really strongly related to regulating a woman's menstrual function. Menstrual regularity, blood quality, the bleeding duration, et cetera, et cetera, as well as the PMS symptoms, you know, the lack thereof or extremely severe PMS symptoms. But another very important thing to recognize is that the liver is also the organ, one of the organs that takes the brunt of stress. So when people are excessively stressed out and they're existing in this state of sympathetic dominance, always being on, we will often feel more tension in the pulse. So it's called a wiry pulse. The wiry pulse is a pulse of what we call stagnation. So if you can imagine, if you're feeling rushed and stressed, and your kid says something to you and you want to bite their head off, that quality is mirrored in the pulse image, if that makes sense. So it's this pulse image of frustration or agitation or that feeling of you want to honk at someone in traffic. That image, that metaphor, physically in the pulse. So the liver is one of those organs that begins manifesting some of that stress, in addition to the heart, tachycardia, heart racing, palpitations, as well as the kidneys. So there are four or five other signs that fall into this category as well, maybe more of the liver aspect, but I thought I would share these because they're useful to recognize, to be careful. The first would be waking around 3 a.m., which is around the liver time of night, which is a very, very common time, probably the most common time I see patients say they wake. The second is headaches, especially band or tension headaches around the head, sighing or having a lump in the throat, gynecological irregularities like irregular menses, severe PMS, breast tenderness or fibrocystic breasts, and finally chest stuffiness or fullness in the ribs. This is all liver, gallbladder, the wood category in Chinese medicine. So those are some key signs and symptoms of liver and gallbladder involvement. And I share these so that you can recognize the early signs of imbalance before they progress to something more serious or more structural. So that's all I have for you today, guys. Before you go, check out these related videos right over here.


The university and college union has called an 8-day strike across around 60 of the UK's universities, starting the 25th of November and ending on the 4th of December. This is what you should know about it. Part 1. What is the strike about? The strike is about two sets of things. Like last year's strike, this year's strike is about pensions. That time, we were striking against proposed changes to the university's superannuation scheme, the USS, which would have ended guaranteed pension benefits for university staff and drastically reduced the amount of money they get when they retire. Long story short, there is no real deficit to the USS, but an accounting trick is being used by universities UK, that is, the employer's body that negotiates with employees, to justify cutting pensions and increasing premiums. Although the USS as it stands is doing fine, if these changes keep happening, fewer and fewer new university staff, who are of course usually the poorest and most precarious, will sign up. This could actually make it unsustainable in the long term. Losing their pension scheme would obviously be a disaster for the roughly 400,000 people who are signed up for it. But this year's strike is also about much more. It's about pay, workload, equality and job security. Despite the efforts at cherry picking the data, the university's and college's employer's association, the opponents of the striking workers, their own report shows that staff wages have fallen in real terms by about 17% just since 2009. UCU claims that staff in higher education have seen the value of their pay decline by 20.8% since 2009. Whoever you believe here, these numbers are really bad. Everyone knows that more and more university staff are working short and precarious contracts and getting more and more overworked. This of course gives employers more power over us and means we're not free to do the kind of research and teaching that we think is most important if it takes just a bit more work than the low hanging fruit. And the strike is about different kinds of inequality of pay along lines of gender, race, ability and so on that universities are doing little to end. But the strike is also about much more than just these specific things. It's about what we want universities to be like and the way they're going. Research is increasingly geared towards what can maximize short term gains and not towards what we think is most important for our society. And the same is increasingly true of teaching as well. What striking teachers are saying in America is as true here as it is there. Our staff's working conditions are students' learning conditions. When you squeeze staff, students feel the pinch as well. Very obviously, overworked, overstressed and consciously anxious people aren't going to be able to perform their best. Nor is this any sort of decent way of treating the people whose labor keeps the universities going. It's also worth pointing out that the decision to strike was made democratically by a UCU ballot. The UK has extremely restrictive trade union laws, so strikes can only take place if over 50% turn out to vote. The fact that so many universities, including some of the country's biggest ones, did that. Tells us something about how important this is to university staff. If the university management listened to their staff, cared about what they thought and did what they could to fix things, the strike wouldn't be necessary. That would be nice, but it's not the world that we live in. In the world we live in, negotiations on all these problems have gone on between the union and management, and nothing has changed. Striking is the last remaining option if we want to stop the destruction of the UK's universities. Part 2. How do strikes work? A strike is a coordinated withdrawal of workers' services, with the aim of bringing day-to-day operation to a halt. Typically, this is done by forming a picket line, which is supposed to stop others from entering the place of work and to inform people about the strike's cause and goals. Strikes have been used by labour movements around the world for over a century because they work. They have won things like the 10 and then the 8 hour working day, weekends, sick pay, higher wages, better safety conditions and a lot more. For decades, the numbers of strikes taking place around the world has been dropping, and unsurprisingly, this has coincided with the lives and conditions of working people getting worse and worse. Some people even think that strikes don't work anymore, but they haven't been paying attention. In just the last couple of years, teachers, fast food workers, hotel workers and many others, especially even in the United States, have gone on strike and won better wages and conditions for their members. The recent LA teacher strike is one example. Their wins included a 6% wage increase with no concessions, demands for class size caps and reducing class sizes across the board, a moratorium on charter schools, additional school counsellors and librarians, a nurse in every school and demands against racial profiling and for migrants' rights. Strikes are a form of direct action. They work by disrupting day to day operations enough that employers feel they have no real alternative but to give in to strikers' demands. For a strike to actually be disruptive, things at the workplace must be stopped from running as usual. This means that staff and supporters must not cross picket lines or reschedule cancelled lectures and events. Doing these things directly undermines the strike by limiting its impact. Like lots of other important things, this might be inconvenient, and universities will likely refuse to pay workers while they're on strike. But this shouldn't deter anyone. Losing a bit of pay in the short term is a lot better than losing much more wages and pensions in the long term. Even from a purely monetary perspective, going on strike is much cheaper in the long term than the alternative. Part 3 What's wrong with crossing a picket line? Strikes only work if enough people do it. They only work if they actually manage to disrupt things enough for the people in charge to feel that they have to give in to the strikers' demands. And that only works if people don't cross the picket line. Crossing the picket line isn't a neutral act. If you cross the picket line, you are directly undermining the strike. So on strike days, don't cross the picket line, don't use any university facilities, don't go to any scheduled lectures, seminars or supervisions. Part 4 What You Can Do If you want to support the strike, here's what you can do to help. Do send messages to the head of your department and your university management, such as the vice chancellor's office, to let them know how you feel. Do send messages of support to those you know who are striking, especially those on precarious contracts. Do come and visit staff on the picket lines to help out or just talk. Do come to teach out that staff will be organising on strike days. Do hang out, and if necessary, have fun and enjoy life, read, learn etc. in other non-university places. And do tell your friends, family and anyone you think of about the importance of the strike. Thank you very much.


Beyonce's album dropped hard, the world shaked from it or shook and I can't stop shaking my booty body for Beyonce. Body rolls and booty shakes, kale and ginger shakes, a smoothie. I'm gonna live forever for Beyonce. All I know to talk about is 23 cat photos, you can't die without seeing.  Trend report. Women in Japan, Japanese women in Japan don't want relationships. Men pay to cuddle women who don't want relationships in Japan. 36 gifts to make you popular on the holidays, not gifts, gifts. 75 traits that make you an introvert, read before the party or at the party on a phone and company, alone and texting. They left the dumpster open outside our window, so at night we throw things in, an old desk chopped to pieces, craft supplies unused, a succulent collecting dust.  Martinis are made with gin and sweet vermouth, I think I'm an introvert, maybe. We throw in 13 novels and three self-help-ish books, a cracked plate, mismatched cutlery, old sheets, a mattress, actual garbage from the kitchen and the bathroom, a chair. Ten photos that will make you believe in humanity, like dying. A man in Hungary cries over his son, sheeted, concreted, crushed under a sheet in the street after a car wreck. Like art, a man straps odd shoes to cold feet and patterns fields of snow into giant snowflakes, it melts in a day or two. He smiles, crunching snow in France, near a lodge, a photographer in a helicopter makes photos, the world's screen shares, stares, wonders why it's so cold and no one will ever see these snow secrets. 15 memes that made 2013-2013. I don't think you know what a meme is, it's a kitten, it's an LOLZ kitten or a cat meme. Cats speak like black men or women are expected to speak in comedies and cartoons, it's okay because it's a joke, it's okay just because it's a joke. It's an internet hoax, it's an internet joke. In the morning they move the dumpster down the street and lock it, install porta-potties in its place that leak brown liquid smelling. Beyonce, bounce, booty, body, Beyonce's body, I'm gonna live forever, Beyonce. Just have to say her name this week you guys and people will love you. Our next person up here is Caitlyn Donahue, she's a DIY media mogul who cut her teeth as culture editor for the San Francisco Bay Guardian where she had weekly columns on weed, sex and style. Please welcome Caitlyn Donahue. Last summer I managed to get my bike stolen twice in one week, don't ask. Financial circumstances dictated that I become reacquainted with our city's streets, so I walked. I walked everywhere and I walked all the time. I ran through shoes. It was summer in San Francisco so that was cute for me. I saw weird tags on buildings that I'd never noticed before. I noticed cobblers who could get the shoes that I was messing up prepared quickly. I got my feet back. Perhaps more excitingly I discovered the feminine wonders of mini skirts without thick leggings and bags that you can wear over one shoulder. These are kinds of trappings that kind of escape the practical bike rider. Of course, being on the street all the time meant I was also available to talk to people more. I just want to take an informal poll. How many people find the street harassment here in San Francisco to be more pervasive than in other cities? Yes or no? A couple in the back, some other people. There's no right or wrong answer. I'm just kind of asking your opinion on this. I don't even know the answer to that either. For me, in my case, there was a lot of hollering going on. You can blame the mini skirts if you must, but it is a fact that I was getting a lot of conversation time, largely with random men, more than any other segment of society and not necessarily by my own instigation. All this begs the question. If street harassment is not always an attempt to get laid, then what is it? Of course, because I'm a rider and because I have a bachelor's degree in sociology, concurrent to starting the journal, I was also starting to research the academic literature that's been written on the sociological phenomenon of street harassment. In her 2002 paper entitled The Harm That Has No Name, scholar Deirdre Davis identifies the term with the following characteristics, quote, the locale, the gender of and the relationship between the harasser and the target, the unacceptability of thank you as a response, which I find, this is Caitlin again, I find interesting but kind of like a problematic way of judging these situations, just because we're trying to say thank you to things that we don't really appreciate. Anyways, back to the quote, and reference to body parts. She also says, quote, street harassment can be understood as an element of a larger system of sexual terrorism. Law scholar Bunkosul Chun argued in a 2011 piece that street harassment may not even fall under free speech laws because it constitutes fighting words, which have been defined by the Supreme Court as aggressive words delivered to a specific person face to face, so that would not be protected by the Constitution. In fact, street harassment has been policed in the past, enforced as many laws are in an extremely racist manner. In 1951, for example, black tenant farmer Matt Ingram of Yancyville, North Carolina was convicted of reckless eyeballing, which he had allegedly directed at a white woman who was at the time 75 feet away from him. So just to keep these things in context. So back to me. I couldn't get used to the fact that sexually explicit conversations with men were a new feature of my pedestrian days. I complained to every single person in my life and heard crazy stories from my friends about men yelling from across the street at them to hold their hand up to see if there was a ring on their finger, men running into elevators just before the doors closed to talk, men pulling up next to my friends who were riding their bicycle, the men are in a car asking if they did sex work. So we came up with the following options for dealing with street harassment. This is not an exhaustive list. Number one, ignore it or pretend you're flattered. If you're me, if you're like me, this is not necessarily a tenable option. Number two, carry a bullhorn. I'm just kidding. Unless someone has a bullhorn, they want to lend me. I meant wear big headphones. Even though as I mentioned before, this is not a foolproof way of escaping conversation. Number three is what I like to call the Pam Grier solution. This approach is typified by a scene in Sheba Baby. How many people have seen Sheba Baby? I see a couple. Okay, cool. My dad, his girlfriend, and Michelle, cool. Right. Okay, so I'm referring to a specific scene in which Pam Grier, aka Sheba Baby, is trying to track down a loan shark who holds some information about the drug cartel who has killed her father. Her informant works behind the counter at a diner, so she goes into the diner, talks to him, asks him where this loan shark is, guy tells her where the loan shark is, and she leaves. She walks away, like Pam Grier does. And he watches her walk away. And the way that she moves in that moment, this is my interpretation, of course, but it's like she's acknowledging his gaze. She just got this dirt from him, and she's, in return, letting him look at her posterior view. In the scene, Pam Grier is gazing at the male gaze and using it to get things. I find this concept interesting, because although it's certainly not the central issue that we should be concerned about as feminists, the practicalities of how to deal with the male gaze have got to be included in any pragmatic feminist school of thoughts. If you're a separatist, the answer is to avoid the male gaze entirely. In Pam's school, which I believe is a school of feminism, she models her physical presence into the perfect object to look at, which is a tool she then uses to dismantle and literally shoot apart male power structure. I'm not saying that the Pam Grier approach is going to work for everyone, plus not everyone wants to wear super, super tight, high-waisted pants, and that's okay because the best part about feminism is that we can do, it can be whatever feels good to you without disempowering others, so I'm just saying this is one approach. But that being said, I do like the ideal of meeting the male gaze head-on, being ready, anticipating, kind of framing the scene, if you will, making it unclear who's having one over on who when inappropriate words are kind of thrown out on the street. Basically, I'm a big fan of studying something in order to defeat it. And to study street harassment, sometimes it is cute to wear a mini skirt. One, I remember New York. I say New York instead of I remember the smell of New York when AIDS was new. David wrote a book about it by accident because as he was dying from it, he wrote, I don't know how, I don't have to say more than New York to you because you know, you know that cheap pizza place on St. Mark's and 1st, you know the CVS at 4th above the subway stop, you know Lessington and 71st, that supermarket so small and very expensive. Central Park, it's green, there's benches, in the winter it's bare. You know the rivers, the east side and the west side, you know the financial district, and I haven't said anything to tell you yet about AIDS or about New York, it's just a list of ideas. Broadway, MTV Studios, Saturday Night Live, Times Square. I want you to know about AIDS, the first wave when it decimated a generation of men but words like skin and ideas like metaphors are failing, so all I say are AIDS, New York, decimate. David tried, made art, he was good at it, then he wrote, and his friends died one by one and also en masse, then he died and now I can never meet him, there's nothing there. There's something there about the not meeting, some kind of grand idea to be uncovered but I've got nothing. AIDS, New York, Central Park time, my friends are getting AIDS now here in San Francisco. Coyt Tower, the Castro, Dolores Park, Golden Gate, Folsom, my friends now are getting HIV here in the Mission and Soma on 6th and Atoma on Buchanan. They're getting HIV here now in December when it's warmer than October and not because October is cold but because December is hot. They're getting HIV during long weekends when the festivals happen and on Monday nights, not a generation, not decimation. I'm not David, I'm not angry about it. My friends are not dying left and right, they're just getting it and bragging. There's something there, a poetic connection to make, a bigger statement than just my friends are getting HIV. San Francisco, New York, me, David, dying, not. It's almost too clever and too easy. Two, there's a woman who lives on the street outside my building. Every day her face is swollen from beatings and I've seen her give an old white guy in a tattered navy trench a hand job for crack. I've seen her yell at men who try to touch her. I've seen her sleep and drool in her sleep. I borrowed her. I put her here in this poem because I can to make it better, to roughen me up, to show you San Francisco, to show you David, to show you I know something about something.  Her novel The Prayer Room came out in 2009 and she's currently at work on her second. Let's welcome Shanti. You go first and I'll come up behind you. Okay. I won't be able to pull you up, he said. You'll have to do that yourself. You got strong arms? I don't. He clasped her arm where the muscle should have been. Okay, well, you're small. You'll be fine, he said. Give me your backpack. I'll carry it. But it's mine. There you go again. I'm not going to take it. I'm going to carry it so you can run. She took it off and gave it to him. He had to loosen the straps to get it on. What's in here, he asked. Water. He took the pack off, opened it and cursed quietly. You brought these all the way from Oaxaca? Portillo. He shook his head. I guess they'll come in handy. He was wondering about her, she could tell. What passed across his face was a cool fast cloud of doubt. She wanted to tell Chaco that on a journey like this, you kept the things you owned because you never knew what might be stolen by rough hands or sorry circumstance. But because she was a girl with hummingbirds in her heart, she kept this wisdom to herself. She let Chaco do the knowing. And then you put the backpack down and look straight into Marisol's eyes. You'll have to keep up, okay? He cupped her elbow. Don't get left behind. Running for a train is easy because you have a goal in mind. And that goal makes you forget about the raw skin between your thighs, the pounding in your feet and knees. It's a race. You have a chance of winning. Pulling yourself onto a moving train is something else. It's here that you begin to doubt yourself when you realize just how weak your arms are, how quivering the elbows, the deathblades of the tracks below start to feel very real. Marisol's hand grasped railing. She faltered. Her elbow flailed and the momentum of the train was harder and stronger than she was. She felt her grip slipping. She felt the downward pull of the tracks below.  Hold onto it, he yelled. Pull yourself up, pull, grab on. She pulled up, she grabbed. Her foot found a rung and she was on. Chaco was behind her, his chest pressed to her back. Climb up, he breathed. They climbed. He hoisted both of them to the roof of the train. Thank you, she said to Chaco, you saved me. You fall, I fall. He was making a promise. He was stating a fact. He unzipped her backpack and opened a bottle. Salud, he said, took a sip and passed the water to her. We'll get stronger stuff than that tonight. There's a phrase she'd learned since coming to America, one she wished she'd known that day. So long, suckers. She would have shouted it from the train top through the busy streets to Vaca, to the men, to Manuel and Monterey. But she didn't know how to say it then, so she said nothing as the train gained speed. She turned and watched the shrinking past, the far away camp, and let her nose, her throat, her mind fill with the pleasures of her promising wind. As they rode that day, she began to understand the boy man who had given her a road away from Vaca. Chaco's barbaric crown of hair was born of a ceaseless wind. His voice, loudest in the day and with no apparent volume control, came shouting over the rumbling tracks. Everything he said was certain, a pronouncement, because on this train running beside it, lying flat atop it, you needed to know exactly what you were doing. And if you didn't know exactly what you were doing, you acted like you did and hoped for the best. The first day on the train, Chaco told her to sit sideways or even backwards if it didn't make her any sick. Just don't look so much, she said. Stop looking, soften your eyes and try not to see. You learn things on a train, more than you learn in a car. First thing, you learn about the trees. Second, you learn not to see. The trees and the trees and the trees will get you. They will reach out from the tracksides, leafy fingered in your face, like you're an exotic visitor, and you have to touch just once, just once.  There were so many trees on this trip from Monterey that Marie wondered a few times if they would ever reach the desert or if they were going south to the Amazon instead. The train slowed down for stretches, slow enough that women could run between the tracks and toss them water bottles. Old women, young, most looked as poor as they were. Chaco took their bottles and waved to them. They looked like they need that water more than we do, she said. Why take from them when we have enough to don't ever assume you have enough, understand? He blinked at her. They give us these because they have people out there, and they hope that someone else is handing bottles to their kids and their husbands. Around them were Chaco's friends, the collection of young men and boys who had found each other on this journey. There was Pepe, Mauro, and Flaco. There was one they called Nutsack. Nutsack was older than the rest and spoke good English. He'd made the mistake of translating the word for them, and the name had stuck for good. The boys talked about their plans. Plans were very important and everyone had one. We're going to be mojados. Flaco threw his fist in the air as if farm labor were a great adventure. Pepe, who was only 11, was looking for his mother. She worked in a factory somewhere in Michigan. If he didn't find her, he decided to be adopted. If any of them could be adopted, it was Pepe. His eyes were dark puddles. They would have shimmered nicely in the orphanage sun. He seemed to imagine an American fairy woman who would take him in and love him and feed him all he could eat.   The next time you see me, you won't even know it's me. Nutsack taught the other boys the words they need to know. A jornal was a daily wage, a camión was a truck, a pala was a shovel, and tierra was mud.  Tierra, Nutsack said, mud. The boys slapped their chest and laughed at the sound of it. Mud, mud, so oafish on the roofs of their mouths, so dead. In the afternoon, they grew quiet. They couldn't sleep because sleeping meant falling. But the afternoon was a time to pretend they were somewhere else, to think of home and slip feathers into the cushions of their futures. When Maddie's soul started to doze off, she felt a pinch. How are you? Chekosa asked. Okay, she said. These trees are driving me mad. The trees look good on you, he said. He cleared a strand of hair from her mouth. If they had been alone, he would have kissed her. Thank you. So I have a brother, a twin brother, and he lives in New York, and he's a writer. And we've been doing this writing project, so I'm going to read some of the things we've written. And some... The first two are... poems written in response to each other, and the rest are collaborations, so... This first one is called Vancouver. There is nothing like a trench coat in the rain. Can you conceive of that? With fuzzy lining that you can zip off if it's too humid. I'm thinking specifically of Vancouver, where the streets are small. There's so much heroin there unexpectedly. The lining kept zipped in there in Vancouver. But I'm trying specifically to be general, so that you don't know what I'm thinking. And I think it's working but failing too, because now all you know about me is that I have a coat and I wore it in a city once. And what I haven't said is that in Vancouver, it was cobblestone and it was cute. And they have thanksgivings while we have Columbus Day, which is kind of weird and funny. And that there really is a lot of heroin there and the street prostitutes are of many ages. And that there's also rich people with babies, just like here. Now I'm staying away from meaning, and what I'm interested in mostly is what I'm not saying. Vancouver indicates a city, one that exists that I've been to, with expectations flipped. But where I am instead, does that make me American? Am I an American with a trench coat?  That's where the art is. I think the place is where you have to make up the new thing from the missing thing. I guess I'm lazy. This next one is also called Vancouver. Fuzzy bear lining lined and zipped in, even in Vancouver, where heroin can't cobble enough street together to be more than an alley.  On Thanksgiving, which is really Columbus Day, but not really here anyway, is it compelling enough for you to know so little about me in this poem? Street prostitutes specify in all ages club the labor market is such supply, demand, invisible hand, et cetera, et cetera. Vancouver. Now we get into the sex.  Bears are men with hair on bigger bodies, beards, seasonal variety, beach bear, hunter bear, polar bear.  You don't have to clap in between each poem. If I make you want to clap, you should clap. Thank you, Micah Sidourney. Happy early birthday to us all. Our last performer up here is Dax Tran Cathy. Dax is a... Yeah, you can clap for Dax right now. A professional independent artist who makes art and performs under the title Villanette. His cardboard sculptures have been commissioned by the Exploratorium and by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He's the artist in residence at the Exploratorium. That is so amazing. And Falling Sky, which we're about to see images and text from, is his first graphic novel. Please welcome Dax Tran Cathy. Normally I don't do these internet things, but I really wanted to figure out what the possibilities were of publishing in a browser window as opposed to on paper. So what I was trying to do, besides like the content, which is what it is, what I was trying to do formally with this thing is to make a book that I could never publish in paper, like I could never put binding on it, because the pages are different sizes and the reading goes in different directions and stuff. Here we have a boy, and he is mopping the floor outside on the road, and he runs out of the convenience store as we can tell by the open door, and he's shouting after these people, Chow, and she turns around and says, Peter, hello. He says, Chow, how are you? We haven't seen you since June, and she interrupts, this is Kateria Henry Peter. Hello, ma'am. I'm Peter Small. I'm Chow's friend. We grew up together. Chow, can I show you something? We're here to see Jack, she says. And they just watched this lady walk down the pier. Meanwhile, Peter is like, please, he's trying to get her attention. I've been working on something. I thought you weren't coming back, and she acknowledges Peter for the first time. Sorry, hi. It's good to see you. I thought I wouldn't ever see you again. I've been building a boat, and he grabs her hand and he drags her off, and she's like, Peter, you can't swim. Why have a boat? But they go anyway. They go outside of a shipping container. She says, as she snoops around finding this boat and discovering that, in fact, her name is written on the back of the boat, which is a little disturbing. So she says, well, so. But then Peter comes up, and he says, here, I made this last summer, and he presents her with a box. Oh, I never had the chance to give this to you. Oh, wonderful. It's a dress. You made it yourself. So many pockets. And she takes the dress, and he says, I don't know if it'll fit you, right? I finished after you left, and she responds, thanks, Peter. I'm so sorry I didn't write it all. I didn't think I'd be gone so long, and he kind of stammered, chow. I never thought I'd see you again. I thought you'd moved away for good. No one knew where you were. You just left. Oh, sorry, Peter. I didn't mean to worry. And he looks down at his hands kind of nervous. It's just, I swore if I ever saw you again, I swore I'd tell you I should've told you before you left. Can anyone guess what he's about to say? I love you. I'm in love with you.  And she looks down into the right, like you do, and you don't like the news that you're hearing. Peter, you're wonderful. Thank you for the gift. And she removes her hand from his. I'm not looking for a boyfriend. I'm not staying here. I'm not staying here. Can I come? No, I don't love you, Peter. I'm sorry. And he looks down at his feet and at the junk on the floor. You're going to show me your boat? She asks. And he looks up at her. No, that's okay. I'd love to see it on you. Will you try it on? Here, I'll be outside. And he leaves. So she puts on the dress and she steps outside. And he's not there. Peter, she asks. And we see the rest of the marina where they are at. And as you can see, there's no more image down here. So I guess we will look around in the marina for Peter. And he's not there. Get it? The wonderful things you can do with infinite canvas. And then here we see a boat. And the boat is listing. And her eyes get wide again. Oh, my God. And then she has disappeared. And here we see that she is running presumably towards the boat. So she dives off into the water. And then all we see is hair. And then after that we see Chao rising to the surface in a midst of bubbles. And then just light. And then she breaks free into the air. And this is one of those infinite canvas things where you can just scroll around and see all the stuff and try to find where the next button is. And there it is, amid all the debris. And then again, looking around. And there's just debris in the water. And no person. Damn it. And we come down to these frames here and we have a thing. We see the garden pruners in her hands and it is cut out of a different thing of paper. So this is the conceit of the novel whenever there is something cut out of paper. You can click on this thing and forgive this block page up and navigation up. But you can click on this thing and it will open up another chapter which is based on those things. So for example, this is another chapter over here which I'm not going to read for you. It's just here for demonstration purposes. There's like another chapter with more story and different people on it. And anytime there's like something that's cut out of another piece of paper it will open up another chapter with more stuff in it. So what I'm trying to do with this graphic novel is to set it up so that you can end up like five chapters or ten chapters just open and going along in them and maybe you never even finish a chapter and maybe you never even finish any of the stories that I've written but you just get like a glimpse of all these different things and you read as much as you want to and then when you're sick of it you just close it. I don't really have anything to say in closing other than I'm still publishing this thing and there will be a new page up this week and it's at failingsky.com as often as you like and you can follow the Twitter stream if you really want to know like everything I'm thinking as I draw it like which brush has failed me today. But thank you very much.