Someone joined us from the community team here in the Philippines. That is Leonore beside me What's up everybody? Welcome Leonore. When did you arrive? I arrived about two days ago. It was pretty crazy that plane ride is long So as you know Leonore is part of the community team which we have many members of how many people are on the community team Leonore. I think it's over 20 now. Over 20? Do you want to join us here in the Philippines as well? Before we get into that, let's hear a little bit about Leonore's background. For those of you who don't know who Leonore is Can you give us a 30-second intro? Oh boy 30 seconds I did podcasting for a while and then I got into YouTube stuff and then I got into a little bit of live streaming Well, that's a lot less than 30 seconds Tell us in the comments below what you think of Leonore. Do you have any feedback for him? What would you like to see him do here in the Philippines? The current plan for Leonore is? Right now. I'm gonna be working on MGN. The first thing I plan on doing is getting some more games on MGN and getting more people involved into more team games and Hopefully you're gonna have a lot of fun with that. So that's my number one concern and plan right now So for those of you who don't know MGN is our multi-gaming network. The channel you see behind me YouTube comm slash MGN Or you can click the link up there to check it out and One suggestion I had for Leonor is to focus on creating in-game guilds in popular games that you can join So you can all play together as the MGN Family what games do you play that you'd like to join an MGN guild in tell us in the comments below and Let's use hashtag ask Leonor instead of Hashtag ask George because you're really asking Leonor to support those games. Isn't that right? One of the main games that we've been playing on the live stream for MGN is the sequel world. It's been a pretty big Edit point the secret world It's been pretty successful and a lot of people have been buying the game to come join and play with us So it's a it's a lot of fun So check it out and check out MGN because they're gonna be a small section on that And for those of you who want to join us possibly in the Philippines We do want to bring in more people who will take advantage of working together in a team in the same environment And if that's one of you you think head on over to Jobs.freedom.tm Which will take you to the website you're about to see behind me and Leonor So jobs.freedom.tm look through any of these postings and if you feel something matches your skills apply Or you could just contact the community team and Tell them that you would like to join us in the Philippines and they will forward any good reasonable requests to us Can they also contact you on LinkedIn? Well, yes, they can thank you for bringing that up So yes, I have a LinkedIn profile The link is down there in the description below and you're welcome to reach out to me on LinkedIn Do you have a LinkedIn Leonor? I do but it needs to be updated So maybe Leonor will include a Link to his LinkedIn in future videos so you can contact him there too for any professional inquiries In the meantime tell us what kind of games you would like to join an MGM guild in down there in the comments below and Please help me welcome Leonor. He'll be here for six months or more in the Philippines And I hope you'll enjoy all the content. He will bring to you recorded straight from the Freedom Headquarters Till next time guys, I am George and I am Leonor and you've been watching Click that I to partner with freedom and join the freedom family so we can all grow Together you get many perks like position music You also get epidemic sound a lot of other access to royalty-free videos Sponsorships many things to help you grow just click the links down there in the description below To get involved in our community our forums our discord chat servers Meet our graphics team meet our community team all of that on discord and the forums What are you waiting for get started and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family You are part of it. We are all part of it, and we're all growing together To get more George click that big f that will subscribe you to Freedom Central home of the George show click the freedom family plus one video to see I'm having a new baby number four and the 60 million dollar video to see the 60 million dollars coming to freedom to help you grow


So, I don't know how many of you are aware, but we are in the middle of mass extinction of species right now, but we still don't understand the consequences of this widespread loss of species. We can describe and depict ecological ecosystems like network of species interacting each other via predatory links and the study of food web which is this network of species is based on these matrix, but the problem with these matrix is that they don't give us a lot of information about a single node by just the general structure of the network. So, this is my wall and my suggestion to break it is to use what is called network theory which developed is on its own matrix like this one that can give us information about a specific node in the network. I will show you an example. This is the cat's centrality which give us an information about with how many species a particular node will interact. I scaled the Serengeti ecosystem food web which is this one for every species for its particular cat's centrality. So, the size of a node is directly proportional to its centrality. At this point I can ask where is a particular species for example the elephant. It's here which relatively high centrality and a lot of neighbors and I may ask also where is the lion for example. The lion is here. The important is not the position of the species in this case but the size of the node. And we can see that the lion has a relatively low cat's centrality. But what's the most central species in the network? It's just a small hyrax. This is quite unexpected from a pure ecological point of view especially for the lion which is a top predator. This is just an example of the new kind of information that we can access through network theory. And finally I will finish my time with a consideration which is that food webs are complex systems and to study complex systems we need an holistic approach and network theory is conveniently an holistic approach that can help us in slowing down the current extinction rate and preserve the decline in biodiversity. This is just an example. It was a giant sloth, ground sloth three meters high that went extinct some thousand years ago due to spread of Homo sapiens in South America. Question?


e but it's got wood and plastic isn't that kind of fun it does need cleaned um kind of like geometric i don't know how well it's going to clean up so i'm going to mark this one as tlc it's going to have two bracelets with it okay i froze again did you win no you didn't win honey that's weird i don't think i froze on my end you guys having problems with the app tonight this is number 32 i'm going to call this one tlc it may or may not clean up so we're just going to run this at a buck we're just going to run it at one dollar some really cool beads didn't freeze okay hey Irene yes at times for me too oh she did win i saw atrina one i see atrina one let me look maybe i did freeze nope i see atrina okay here we go one dollar on this one tlc 10 seconds it's running you guys give Irene a follow she sells here on what not also we're running for a buck if anybody wants this to craft with nope okay we'll keep you know what let's add to it how about that let's add i've got this little elephant it is i think metal cute little elephant just on this chain right here and then this is a plastic this is plastic you this is plastic you can see the seams it's not bone guys not bone not allowed to sell bone on what not and then this little dangle thing i don't know what this is but it's going in here too yes correct yep somebody looked it up in the rules yep and let's edit this so we're gonna make this a bundle yeah i thought that was the rule and then somebody confirmed it they looked it up okay here we go i'm gonna change it to three dollars since we added some pieces and here we go so um this looks like bone but you can see it has the seams and it's just plastic and we're running for three dollars 10 seconds three bucks for all one money and this thing's really cool i think it'd be a cute little pendant or something amy's in there thank you amy yeah no problem not a problem i mean look it up double check but that's what i was told and then somebody confirmed it so all right that was number 32 all right let's see what else i'm gonna grab some more oh this is a cute bundle okay you guys ready for this what's the rule guys um no bone i mean everybody knows ivory is not allowed but um on what not i don't think you can have bone either uh this one is just dirty it's metal it needs cleaned uh there may be some plate wear once you clean this up that needs bent up some plate wear here cute little piece little jewelry piece this is a hair thing it is definitely um looks like sticker residue may or may not clean up but it's cute that'll be hidden with your hair and then this is a little ring and it looks like the letter c in there and it's got butterflies and flowers and it is a size 8.25 or eight and a half approximately so you're gonna get all three for one money we are gonna whoa excuse me i think my voice is going out i've been on for a while we're gonna do three dollars on this cute little bundle and here we go a ring a bracelet and a little hair accessory all right here we go three dollars 15 seconds or i'm sorry 10 seconds it's running i changed it and this is metal but it needs cleaned up and may have a little bit of paint loss thank you norm thanks so much that one's coming to you that was number 33 is that your first purchase thanks so much thanks everybody for coming in i'm trying to get this sticker off of here is not cooperating all right awesome thank you all right let's do another little bundle here this is just a fun little stretch wood bracelet here's a little santa wood bracelet bangle this one has i'm gonna say probably some plate wear on it i don't know what if that's like a bunny this is metal little cuff um i don't know i think that's just a pattern on the inside i don't think it's signed unless that's how they signed it and these are just cute little bangle bracelets so it's a bracelet lot all one money and we are gonna run this one this is number 34 um i have a nice wood lot if anybody is interested in checking that out you guys can check the auction tab let me know if there's any numbers you want me to run hey lee gogo hey styler thanks guys for coming in thank you so much 10 seconds three dollars it's running for the bracelet bundle this is number 34 amy got it thank you amy here is this is going to be a single item it is well it's got a it's t i e r r i don't know if that's supposed to look like an a but it's a wrap bracelet actually you know what i don't know i feel like maybe it just needs clean do you see how it has like that white in in there do you guys want me to run it i think it's a wrap bracelet do you want me to put it with something else here let's add to it let's put it with this shell necklace shell and wood vintage and then this little shell necklace and another vintage shell necklace okay this is going to be number 35 three dollars we're going to run it here in just a second here we go it's shell necklaces and then the little wrap i think it's a wrap bracelet maybe it's an enclave i don't know what it is 15 second or 10 seconds three i'm sorry 10 seconds sudden death if anybody likes that one norm's in there thank you norm that one's coming to you and you guys can check out that wood bundle it's a nice bundle i've got bags upon bags upon bags all right here we go let's do this bundle this is all plastic it has like a little dangle all plastic real pretty plastic it's kind of i don't know looks like that this is a i don't know it's on these ribbons okay so it hangs like that so there's two necklaces here i'm going to run this this is number 36 three dollars that's it hey moon sky thanks guys for coming in hey blue moon blue moon did you have your first show yet honey 10 seconds best and highest is going to take it so we've got this necklace on the ribbon and then this necklace right here plastic anybody on those not yet all right let's add to this one too we are gonna add this cute little it's gold tone it does have some imperfections on this but it is cute so i don't know if you can craft with it and hang charms from it maybe it's not perfect it's tlc that one's tlc this one here is got some plate wear just plastic looks like this and how about that hopefully this weekend all right you guys follow blue moon at it i'm going to put tlc in this one this is number 36 tlc and we are gonna run it just waiting on it to load okay here we go 10 seconds it's running if anybody wants any of those nope okay let's add i think this is gonna change your mind these cute little bracelets and then look at this cool bracelet it's got this clasp on it and then it has these cool dangles all right so we're gonna add these two bracelets i gotta change the photo and we're gonna still stick it at three bucks guys so wearable and tlc it's a mixture and it's loading 10 seconds it's running and lilac showers is gonna take that congratulations that's a lot of stuff thank you so much i do have on discounted shipping which means the most you pay in shipping is eight dollars and 35 cents all right here is another bundle this one is here's your clasp and then oh okay so it's got i think this is a little shell do you think that's a shell and there's actually two of these so you're gonna get two of those and then this one here i think this could be glass i think it is it feels cold here's your clasp yeah i think it's glass so that one is beaded like that and it's long enough to double so you're gonna get those two three necklaces number 37 three dollars and we are gonna run it in just a second if i can find it need to go in there we go super cute right three dollars it's gonna be run in for three necklaces ten seconds best and highest is gonna take it it's running atrina got it thank you honey all right i got another cute bundle for you all right here we go we've got um this necklace right here it's on this like uh box chain i think is what they call it and it comes down into this right here and i'm not really sure how this is supposed to to go but it's got i have no idea what this is guys so you might have to play around with the dangle down here i don't i don't really know okay so that's that and then you're gonna get two metal bangles a plastic bangle and this bangle which kind of looks like that on the inside okay so you're gonna get four bracelets and a necklace and i don't know what's up with the necklace i don't know how you wear it you're gonna have to figure that one out 38 $3 on this right now right here it's loading sorry guys maybe it's loading all right it just got stuck let me try that again and if you guys check the auction tab let me know if there's something you want me to rerun we're running this for $3 uh 10 seconds sudden death and it's running TT girls in there TT you're still here you've been hanging in there girl if you guys want to see what one of my um bling shows looks like you can go to the auction or i'm sorry to the sold tab and you guys can kind of check that out i'll be having a stone glass and stone show uh next sunday it'll be all glass and stone it's already preloaded if you guys want to check it out and that's your thing okay this one is really cool i'm gonna run this one by itself these are stone this is plastic okay but look at that clasp so i don't know if this is artisan made or not yes amy that's right up your alley isn't it sweetheart all right number 39 i love this necklace i think it's so cool so it's stone or i'm sorry i think stone or glass and plastic i'm not sure what that is up there but it's cold oh awesome blue moon awesome honey that was so cute 10 seconds it's running for $3 again it's got this really cool clasp on it this is some sort of stone i think and this is plastic i love this necklace this is cool any gold and or chunky pieces um i'm just doing like a grab and sell i have a wood lot that had kind of some chunky pieces if you look at the auction tab number 28 let me know if you want me to rerun that i do have this purple necklace i'm going to run right now actually you know what i think these are hair things or bracelets you could probably wear it as a bracelet i have small wrists but it stretches a little bit i think they might be hair things or bracelets or maybe both does anybody like those they're kind of cute right um i think they're just plastic i think they're plastic this is going to be number 40 three dollars and we're going to run them i'll look in my bag in a second and just see if anything seems big but there are some items there's a few things that didn't sell three dollars 10 seconds if anybody likes the hair things super cute hair things or bracelets i'm not sure what they are guys i sold out of the other ones i had these are the only two i have left good night atrina okay this one's a little weird it is a glass piece i think it's artisan made it looks like that okay and then i paired it with this cute little bracelet that kind of looks like tps it's not very big okay so you're going to get the necklace and then the little cuff bracelet the cuff bracelet is for a smaller wrist maybe even a kid i'm not sure we're going to run this um for three dollars best and highest is going to take it you talk about a unique necklace 10 seconds it's running brandon's in there thank you brandon that one's coming to you it's number 40 i'm guessing that necklace is probably artisan made i would say okay that was number 40 let's do chunky oh let's do this blue lot you guys like blue this isn't really chunky but um we've got these beads and here is your class looks like that three colors i believe yeah there's that and then this i think is just plastic that's how i check if things are cold i put them up to my cheek uh this one has a little bit of plate wear up here but it's pretty on the bottom so you're going to get that and then this one is signed k r and i think this one's glass and some some of it's glass yeah the green and the blue is glass so that's really pretty okay so this is a really cute bundle four pieces here this is going to be number oops number 41 i'm going to start this one at five best and highest is going to take it we're going to run it for 10 seconds there you go five dollars 10 seconds it's running it's a nice lot thank you thank you for your bids fly like showers is going to get that thank you all right would anybody be interested in the purple bracelet slash hair things if i added this awesome vintage necklace to it oh that's right there we go with the two bracelets slash hair things i'm not sure if their bracelets are hair things how about that let's do that together hey noelle farm girl scavenger noelle everybody give noelle a follow we are going to run this for three dollars the necklace and the two bracelets slash hair things i don't know if they're hair things they kind of look like it i have a hair on my face let's run this i love this necklace it's just plastic 10 seconds it's running for three it's a cool necklace look at that how cool is that and you could totally pair it with that nobody likes it okay that's okay let me know if you want me to rerun anything that was number 42 there's a nice wood lot that's still listed see what's in this bag this is all plastic all plastic you can see the seams of the of the beads okay so this one is plastic it's got this little metal piece down here and here's your clasp so you're gonna get that and then you're gonna get these two i think maybe they're shell and wood and then this cute little maybe leather bracelet so just a little bundle here three bracelets and a necklace the necklace is all plastic and then the piece at the bottom is metal this is number 43 we're gonna run it at three dollars best and highest is gonna take it pretty little bracelets thanks everybody for coming in i hope you'll follow um i usually do on tanglings this is uh just a grab and sell end of the night thing i'm doing tonight three dollars these are really pretty i don't know what kind of shell that is maybe conch i don't know tt girls in there thank you nice pick up honey all right that was number 43 okay let's see what else we have how about some chunky bracelets one it's purple two pink three white and then this one is kind of a peachy color they are all plastic they're 44 chunky and fun oh is she not taking requests yes i am honey i'm sorry i wasn't paying attention to the chat i was trying to move quick um i'm also on my computer and for some reason did you put a question mark after it honey cat lady what's what number did you request can you put it back in the chat three dollars ten seconds i'm gonna scroll up and see if i see it oh clear glass beads i'm making sun catchers oh i i don't i'm just pulling from a bag honey i'm just pulling from a bag i don't even know what's in here it's been a while um since i put these things in here so it's stuff i've been needing to uh go through and i haven't had haven't had time so i'm just grabbing and selling here's a pretty bracelet i'm gonna run this as a single i believe it's glass glass and rhinestones it's really pretty and it's moving so it's gonna be number 45 15 seconds i'm sorry 10 seconds three dollars it's beautiful and they go from like black to clear and they're kind of like a crackled glass they're beautiful it's a beautiful stretch bracelet nope okay if anybody wants me to rerun that just let me know hi trident you guys i'm trigged in sorry honey trigged in you guys give trigged in a follow she sells here on whatnot let's see what's in this one here is this this is not my normal type of show i usually do either pre-loaded or um a unsearch untangling is what i'm known for here is a really pretty plastic necklace you guys be sure to follow farm girl scavenger newell she's helping out in the chat right now here is another one i think this is wood and plastic really pretty and then here is the class and i think that's just plastic as well so we've got four necklaces i think here four necklaces all one money i think i'm on number 45 maybe no number 46 i think number 46 oh my goodness number 46 three dollars and we are gonna run it three dollars all one money best and highest is gonna take it it is running for 10 seconds sudden death there you go you've got one two three and four thank you lilac showers number 46 thank you this one here has a a weave through it now i think there might be some plateware on this but look this has like rhinestones through it i don't think i've ever seen that and it's white and then i'm gonna pair it with this cute little um rhinestone necklace just a second it's kind of getting stuck that looks like this it's pretty long no it's not signed this is what it looks like right there okay and i think it's more modern but we're gonna run these two together number 47 thanks everyone for coming in i'm moving really fast tonight so i'm not really following the chat very well if you have a question please put a question mark so i see it i'm usually more chatty but tonight i'm just moving quick 10 seconds three dollars if anybody likes it all right let's add this to it it is a little red white and blue and gold tone chain necklace and i think these are just i think they're plastic so you're gonna get three three for three you ready here we go this is number 47 10 seconds it's running if anybody likes it if anybody wants me to rerun anything under the auction tab let me know okay no problem thanks for taking a look at that here's your clasp and these are smooth so i think they're just faux pearls it does have like a little extra little wire right there oh this is really pretty it's got little rhinestones in between as well oh no it's okay thanks noel no worries no worries and here's this clasp and this is just plastic but really pretty so we're gonna run these two necklaces this is number 48 run it here for three bucks oh it didn't run oh okay i can run it again let me run this one real quick three dollars 10 seconds it's running okay let's do 48 first this one's awesome i don't know if these are glass or what they are but it's really pretty this is number 48 nope nobody wants that one so 47 didn't run okay you guys remember what it looks like or do i need to get it back out it had the white necklace with the rhinestones and then it had the red white and blue and then it had the blingy one sorry i thought i ran it 47 10 seconds three dollars ah bears thank you honey thank you so much here is a bracelet bundle it is a plastic flower little scuffy wuffy on the faux pearl looks like that big yellow chunky bracelet this is one of those um what's it called noel stretched charm bracelets but there's no charms and there's no markings on it this is a bracelet this says forever friend sister and it's got that toggle got this a little shell bracelet we've got this bracelet that says china i think yeah china and we've got this bracelet and then i think these are little i don't know what these are little disks they feel plastic and the little monkeys so you're gonna get all of these bracelets for one money here we go whoops there's this one too here we go number 49 three dollars best and highest 10 seconds three dollars there you go 10 seconds it's running this is lot number 49 ah bears you got it congratulations whoops all right let's keep going here all right this is a shell bracelet looks like it's got some glass on it as well and then this is a necklace it looks like this these are really pretty i think they're just plastic and shell so three shell bracelets and a necklace all one money this is going to be number 50 if you like shell three dollars eight thirty five is the most you'll pay in shipping it starts out lower and is discounted up to eight thirty five and then it's free shipping after that 10 seconds it's running if anybody likes this three shell bracelets and then this has some shell on it as well really pretty colors nobody liked that one huh all right no problem i thought that was cute that's number 50 all right let's see what's in this one what is this this is a this is cute it's a little toggle clasp and it's got little painted shells on it it looks like so it's a bracelet or an anklet maybe i'm not sure bracelet or anklet i'm gonna run that one number 51 two dollars sudden death 10 seconds best and highest is gonna take it yeah i don't know if it's an anklet or a bracelet probably depends on the size of your wrist probably a probably a bracelet yeah it's cute see the little painted shell i think it's a shell looks like a shell i don't know what it is maybe it's resin 10 seconds two dollars if anybody likes it tt girl likes it thank you thank you so much that one's coming to you all right we've got another little bundle here this one's really pretty it looks like this and it's on this nice little rope thing and then we've got this i think it's just plastic and it's on this little chain and then this one is really cute it's got this little sunshine that is open do you think it's broke or open i think it's open so maybe it's supposed to look like a c or a crown i don't know but it's on this chain and it looks like that so you're gonna get those three bracelets or three necklaces this one's uh got some nice weight to it all one money anybody wants me to rerun anything let me know um from the auction tab 15 seconds this is running for three dollars nice little bundle three bucks 10 seconds best and highest is gonna take it tt girl is winning thank you brandon is in there thank you and brandon got that one thank you so much thanks for the follows everyone uh this here is piercings i don't know what kind of piercings but it's just a bunch of piercings that one looks like a spider and a bat um i don't know where they go i don't know if it's ears or nose or what um i'm gonna go ahead and run that all for one money you guys can figure it out i don't know if they're pre-owned if they've ever been worn again you guys i would just say wash everything because i do not clean anything this is gonna be number i think 54 i don't know all one money three dollars number 54 i think some of them might go in your ear like if you have like an inner ear piercing or something like that three bucks but i don't know for sure but there's a bat and a spider belly button eyebrow yeah i don't know nobody all right no problem anybody wants me to rerun let me know here is this it is this pretty bracelet hang on i think that might be glass not a hundred percent sure it feels cold and then this is a new york company necklace this is one of those that looks like an invisible necklace and it's kind of has these same beads on it as the bracelet so i'm gonna pair that together night t t girl have a good night honey thanks so much for coming in number 55 three dollars and we're gonna run this it's loading 15 seconds i'm sorry 10 seconds three bucks and i believe this is glass these pink beads are glass really pretty no one okay thanks for taking a look at that i was number 55 if anybody wants me to bring it back just holler this one's kind of cool okay so this is an eagle and it looks like a bracelet and then this i don't know i don't know what all that is maybe i don't know but it opens like this it's one of those now i will say there's a little bit of stuff right there so you're gonna get these two bracelets i don't know i was trying to see if it felt cold it feels kind of cold but maybe not it might be a mixture of things that one's kind of loose because see there's that glitter that has the glitter in it and then that looks like maybe how light i don't know that one might be i don't know it may be a mixture guys i'm not sure sorry it's just a cute bracelet number 55 we'll start this at two best and highest is gonna take it 15 seconds two dollars it's running brandon likes it thank you to change that 56 okay six all right does anybody see anything they want me to run under the auction tab if so let me know here's a nice bundle this one's really nice guys okay so this is cold it's like there this one is a plastic cute little bracelet this one i think that one's cold too that one's nice too cold uh this one i think goes around your ankle and it has bells on it and then this is silver tone it's got like a little heart right there and it looks like that so you're gonna get all of those oh no well all right here we go all these bracelets i think two of them maybe three are glass this is a great lot number 57 we're gonna start this one at four bucks it's a nice little bundle there you go 10 seconds it's running nice lot guys it's got some glass in it thanks everybody for being here appreciate it and brandon is gonna take that one as well congratulations that's a nice bundle i have a um i'm gonna be shipping for hours tomorrow okay this is wood and plastic or wait i yeah wood and plastic on that looks like that this one is i think it's plastic it looks like glass but i think it's plastic and this one is ruby road a ruby road necklace and it looks like this so three necklaces three necklaces one money this is gonna be number 58 three dollars we're gonna run it here for three dollars 10 seconds sudden death best in heist is gonna take it there you go it's running if anybody likes it this is lot 58 i already sold all my bling there were 100 of those 100 bling items from earlier so check out the sold tab if you want to see what kind of items i also sell when i do a preloaded show it's a little more fancy fancy and organized let's see see what's in this one all right you ready this is plastic necklace cute this one is a little heart looks like that on a chain that type of clasp no markings this one's really funky check this out how does that clasp so i think the clasp might be broke on this so you just are gonna have to slip it over your head because see it's just connected there but it's just like a geometric type deal this is just a chain necklace it would be good for charms nothing fancy here and this is a cute cuff that looks like this that's your bundle this is gonna be number i forget 59 three dollars yes thank you lilac showers i think you but maybe i didn't sorry i'm a moving quick tonight where's my manners all right here we go three dollars for the bracelets rummage raiders thank you for the raid you guys follow rummage raiders this is running for three bucks sudden death thank you guys for coming in thank you thank you no takers on that one let me know if there's anything under the auction tab that you would like me to run i don't have any bffs i don't but i will definitely make a pile but i haven't found any lately i don't know what's going on it's like now that somebody wants them i can't find you know what i'm saying that's how it works right i know rummage raiders you guys give rummage raiders a follow this is a lice clayborne i'm sorry i think it's lice clayborne and it is a rhinestone bracelet looks like that so we're gonna run that pretty little bracelet this is number 60 three dollars on this one 10 seconds sudden death best and highest is gonna take it here we go no they want bff bracelets it's um a long story somebody accidentally bid on one one night so now they just want all of them three dollars it's running three bucks and it is signed lc which is lice clayborne i believe pretty little nobody wanted that oh my goodness okay no problem thank you for taking a look at that where's them at the same time oh my goodness oh my goodness you guys can let me know if you want me to rerun anything this is a gold tone lot so these are cufflinks um is that signed i can't read it it looks like it might be i don't know they're gold tone cufflinks we have a gold tone brooch it is signed rsk you guys these are gold tones sometimes they kind of lose a little bit of their color so these are not perfect we have a citizen quartz watch i have no idea if it works it is gold tone it might or might not work this is a big old chunky gold tone um it's got two rings on it and it's just a oh it's a bracelet i'm sorry it's a bracelet and a necklace gold tone there and then this one right here this one looks pretty cool i don't know that looks vintage to me and it's on this this is a cute lot guys the little faux pearls and they're both on both sides okay so the watch is untested yes i've got tons of items in the buy it now as well number 61 we're gonna run this one at five where is it it's not it there it is five bucks there you go 10 seconds five dollars it's running best and highest is gonna get it a brooch um a citizen watch cufflinks a really cool vintage bracelet lilac showers nice pickup honey and i think those might be signed but i can't say for sure it looks like it i don't know what it says though five dollar holla that was a big bundle nice pickup okay glass i think two of these uh zigzag bangles think black and teal and then this little cuff maybe how light uh no markings on that it does have it looks like plate wear on the inside so four bracelets and thank you lilac showers i appreciate your purchase 61 we're gonna run this for three bucks for the bracelet lot here thanks everyone for being here thank you for the follows let me know if you want me to run anything in the auction tab and that is running for three ah bears thank you honey there's a cute shell lot there's a cute wood lot there's some cute lots that are in the auction tab if you guys want to check it out okay this is one of those wrap bracelets you wrap it wrap it wrap it and then you stick it through this little thing it's got this cute little uh is that drusy maybe i don't know what it's called and then this one has a little bit of plate wear or maybe that's just the color of it but cute little beaded necklace okay so you got the beaded necklace and the wrap bracelet that looks like that that's your bundle whoops two piece sit it down here go ahead and run that this is gonna be number 63 three dollar start cute cute lot here and it for three bucks ten seconds it's running little wrap 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Thank you John, and since most of you are probably associated with the Navy, I just want to thank you for your service. It's a privilege to be here. It's a lovely setting and historic. And it's interesting that the gentleman that John just mentioned, the local son, was killed two weeks before the end of the war because that's the same scenario I have in this book for the main character's son. The main character's name is Cora Blake, and she's from D. R. Ile, Maine. And all the women that he mentioned are all from New England. So it's kind of a hometown story. I'm not sure, I mean, this is a more sort of professional audience than I usually speak to, so I may be repeating things you already know about the gold stars and the blue stars. That it was traditional since World War I to put a blue star in the window if you had a child in service, and they were called Banners of Honor. And if that child was killed, then you put a gold star over it. And the touching thing about these banners is that they were handmade. Mainly you could buy them in the store, but a lot of women just crocheted them or sewed pieces of fabric together, sometimes with elaborate tassels and decorations. And they are, you can still find them around. In fact, the cover for this book was inspired by a real artifact that I found at Bay State Military. And it was a piece of linen, just like this, with an oval in the middle. And it said, My Soldier Boy. And the moms would embroider those words, My Soldier Boy, and make a little sampler, and then put the picture of their son in the oval and then frame it. And the cover is extraordinary. Knopf did an amazing job on it. And they replicated the sense of texture that was present there. You know the stats about the involvement and the casualties. So of those 116,519 Americans who were killed overseas, about 30,000 are buried in the American cemeteries. Of those 30,000, almost 7,000 of their mothers made this journey. It's the first time in history that the sacrifice of mothers was officially recognized by the United States government. And these pilgrimages have never happened again. It was the result of specific legislation that was passed in 1929, but it took 10 years to get it passed. It was initiated by the New York City Mayor LaGuardia in 1919 as an effort to compensate the families for the loss of their wage earners. There were many parts to that effort, and the Goldstone Mothers Pilgrimages was one part of it. Finally, in 1929, Congress passed legislation that allocated $5 million for these pilgrimages, which was a lot of money in those days.  And then you had to be transported and organized. It was literally a military operation that was run by the War Department. Being the War Department, their records exist in triplicate, and you had to make some of those yourself at least. They are collected in the National Archives, where I did a lot of the research. In fact, I've been to every location that's in the book, including Musorgon, Verdun, and Paris. So included in those vast files of documents are the itineraries, the original itineraries that the Mothers followed, as well as what they call the Liaison Report, which is the report that the young lieutenant who was assigned to shepherd these women had to make every single day about every woman's habits. If they ate, if they had a headache, if they had a fight with someone, all of that had to be documented kind of a little like daycare or something. So it wasn't until 13 years after the war that some of these mothers had closure for the first time. It was also part of a joint effort by the more wealthy women. You know that in World War I, we lost a lot of elite educated youth, because it was believed that the war would be over by Christmas by the time that we entered it. So there were a layer of wealthy women who could go to Europe and see their boys. They actually were part of the group that went physically to Washington and lobbied to get this legislation passed on behalf of those who couldn't afford it. Now there was a big difference in the 30s, well, many differences in the 30s from today. It was a very divisive time, racially and ethnically. There was a lot of prejudice that was pretty open, and among that cultural attitude was segregation, and it's important to talk about it because otherwise it will be lost to history. But the truth is that the Black Gold Star Mothers were segregated from the White, and they went on tramp steamers while the White Mothers went on cruise ships, and they were given food that the War Department felt was more appropriate. All of that is woven into the book, as well as the divisiveness just between our five women. The five main characters are all from different cultures. We have Cora Blake, who's our librarian from Dear Isle, Maine. We have an African American seamstress named Selma, who works in a Boston factory. An Irish maid named Katie from Dorchester. You'll be happy to know I personally did the research in Dorchester. I went to church, church bazaars and hung out in the bars there and kind of got a feel for the neighborhood. We have a Boston Brahmin named Bobby Olson, whose family owns a railroad. And we have Will Amina from Proud's Neck, who is a former tennis star in a precarious mental state. And all led by Thomas Hammond. Now, since this is a forgotten, I'm going to come back to the situation of African Americans in a minute, but to introduce you to another important character, since nobody remembers these pilgrimages, the question is how did I find out about them? Well, I was lucky enough to be shown, again, a diary that was written by Colonel Thomas Hammond when he had just graduated from West Point Academy. He was one of the chosen young officers to accompany the Gold Star Mothers Tours. In real life there were about a dozen women in each group, but in the book there's five. And Thomas Hammond is a real person. His diary was shown to me by his son, Nicholas Hammond, who, when I mention him in another context, you'll know exactly who he is. He's an actor and writer and director, but when he was a child, he was a child actor, and he played Friedrich in the original Sound of Music. So Nicholas comes from a military family. His father, Thomas, and Thomas' father, Thomas West, were both colonels and both buried in Arlington. So my first introduction to the whole Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage story was through the eyes of a 24-year-old boy who jotted down his observations in this Wanamaker's department store daybook. It's not a consistent narrative, but it's about 20 pages of handwritten notes, and many of them are pretty amusing, his point of view about these ladies and all their quirks, as well as his own experience of following in his father's footsteps, because his father commanded troops in Musargon. So there are many layers to that story. Just to return for a moment to the Black experience in World War I, the percentage of Black soldiers was really small, probably less than 10%, and they did not mainly serve in combat positions. That was segregated also, although there were two, the 92nd Infantry and the 93rd, who participated in Musargon. And overall about 800 Black soldiers were killed during the war, about 5,000 injured. And touchingly, the boys were buried where they fell, and there was no discrimination in the way they were buried, so Black and White are all mixed together in the cemetery. It was really the courage of these ladies to face the unknown that motivated me to write this book. It took me 25 years to write it, not consistently, because I would have been in a mental institution if that were the case. But because I also have a career in television and as a writer-producer, and I have a series of mystery thrillers about an FBI agent named Anna Gray, so I was doing other things and raising two kids. But I collected these little pieces as time went on. And what inspired me to keep going was the individual courage of these ladies to leave their hometowns, leave their husbands and children, and go off to the unknown. They traveled by themselves. They didn't know each other. The only connection they had was that their sons fought together and died together. In this case, it's the Yankee Division that all the sons were part of. And I also think that the sacrifice of women and more has been greatly understated, and so I wanted to bring attention and give a voice to that experience. Just to give you a sense of what Young Hammond had come to expect from his experience there, I want to read you a quote from the actual colonel who was in charge of this operation, Colonel Ellis, who said this to the young escort officers. You must consider the temper of the women and take that into consideration with the objective of the pilgrimage, which does not tend to be a calm mental condition. Many of them will become hysterical on the least provocation. And he went on to say, looking back, this was in no way a holiday or a pleasure trip, but on the other hand it was necessary to prevent overemphasis of the sentimental side in order to prevent morbidness or hysteria. So obviously they could face the guns of the enemy, but God forbid they should encounter a hysterical woman or 7,000 of them. Despite these dire predictions, many of the women had a great time. You know, it was the trip of a lifetime. They never would have gone to Paris without it. And they were very grateful. They wrote letters home and they came back and I have the transcript of radio speeches that some of them made. They had great food. You know, they were treated like queens in Paris. They actually wore banners that said, Gold Star Mother. And the French were grateful. The French, you know, participated in many of the ceremonies, the French Gold Star Mothers. And there's some very touching accounts of them together laying wreaths at the Arc de Triomphe. But I want to read you a little piece that's an actual letter from one of these ladies. One of the things I'm finding about Star for Mrs. Blake that's so gratifying is that it's helping people become more in touch with their own family history. And suddenly they remember the Blue Star or the Gold Star from their great-grandmother's window. And in this case, this is from a reader. It's an email I received last week whose memory was stimulated by reading that Cora and the ladies went to Europe on a ship that was called the SS Harding. That's true. That's one of the ships they went on. And he said, Why do I know the name SS Harding? So he ran up to the attic and he found his great-grandmother's letters. And in them he found what he remembered, which was a note written on stationery from the SS Harding by his great-grandmother. I just want to read you one thing that she said. Dear folks, we left Hoboken at noon today and expect to be in France next Wednesday. I was delayed at the French consulate's office in New York and reached the pier in time to see the ship one mile out. They had to take me to it in a tugboat and I had to climb up a ladder on the side of the ship. I've seen it done in the movies, but by golly I don't think Pearl White has anything on me. One other defining fact for the book that I discovered in the research is that World War I, like every war I suppose, created its own type of injuries that had never been seen before. You'll hear a lot about it. I'm sure many of you are well-read in the history, but it is often referred to as a war of technology because many new ways of killing people were invented during that time and one particularly effective combination was the use of poison gas and machine guns. The way it worked was that the Germans would lob these canisters of poison gas into the trenches and because the gas is heavier than air, it sinks. Then the soldiers are sent gasping standing up for oxygen and when they stood up they'd be mowed down by the other new invention of automatic machine guns. That resulted in a new spate of facial injuries that the world had never seen before. It's fascinating and one of the characters in this book is a victim of that kind of attack. His name is Griffin Reed. He's an American expat journalist living in Paris and he, like the real victims, underwent about 16 different operations in England where Sir Harold Giles was a pioneer actually in modern plastic surgery. They had to invent it as they went. And even when they were put back together, they were difficult to be seen in public. In fact, in England, they had special benches for these soldiers to sit on so they wouldn't scare little children. But those who were eligible and for who it worked were fashioned with a mask, a facial mask that was as thin as a calling card, well as a credit card. And it was made of metal and it was molded and fitted to the face based on photographs from before the injury. And then the metal was actually painted to match the skin tones. And it hooked on over the ears. It had sometimes a mustache attached and eyeglasses. And from a distance it was pretty good. In fact, these were done by artists, by sculptors who gave their time to that cause. And there was a clinic in Paris where an American sculptor went over there and worked with surgeons to fit these men. Also, the other thing that was developed during World War I was solving the problem of identifying and burying the dead. Because again, as John mentioned, we had multiple disarticulation due to these high-powered shells. And there were procedures developed during the Civil War to deal with battlefield fatalities. But we never had the situation of trying to return bodies overseas or, you know, this happening on foreign soil. So on August 7th, 1917, the War Department authorized the organization of the Graves Registration Service, which continued to operate until 1919 and even afterwards, even when the cemeteries were being built. If a man died in the field, it was the responsibility of his comrades to attend to his body by marking the spot, and that was often done with a crude cross and the dog tags. Later, the Graves Registration would go out there when it was more safe and retrieve the body and then either send it home or keep it there. Now, the decision about lots of these remains were moved around a lot, and it was obviously important to keep them identified. But at a certain point, it was up to the families to decide whether they wanted their remains buried overseas or brought home. And this was a hot, controversial topic of the day. Some people felt it was more patriotic to leave the soldiers where they fell as a statement of our commitment to our allies. And some people just could not afford the funeral expenses, even though the government would bring the boy home. That was an issue, so they opted to leave him there. And you'll read about what happened, what typically went through, well, what I imagine, went through the mind of a mother making that decision in a star for Mrs. Blake. Now, again, I had original material to use in portraying this process. They recalled a report of disinternment and reburial reports, again filed by the Graves Registration and their documents written by hand, and I guess they're the first sort of CSI documents that we have, identifying the soldier often by dental records or a description or parts of the uniform. In these reports, there aren't any photographs of the bodies. The other question that's been asked, that I've heard being asked, is why weren't the fathers included in this movement? And there's a historian named Lisa Boudreau who pointed out that although this legislation, I'm quoting, had endorsed the role of woman as nurturer and suggested a maternal bond that surpassed the paternal one, there's also an appreciation for the newfound power, influence, and status of these women that they gained in the fight. In other words, the maternal bond was commercial. It was a cultural fact. Mothers love their sons. Mothers are revered. Mothers are American. Mother love is American. And in the book, I hint at possible other reasons for these pilgrimages besides honoring them and the compensation, which are political. It was the depression. It was a strong symbol of a government in charge to be caring for these bereaved women. And also the American Legion had a large part in endorsing this because they were helping the Republican Party to get votes, so they were very vocal in endorsing the pilgrimages. And it's shocking to realize that not only did these women not have a voice in deciding about war, but they didn't even have the vote until the war was over, until 1920. So at this point, I usually read from the book, but this is not that form. So I'll just say that in writing this book, I've come to meet contemporary Gold Star Mothers, and that's been a privilege and an honor and incredibly touching. There are the two organizations that are very active today, the American Gold Star Mothers and the Blue Star Mothers. They're both on Facebook. And in fact, if you go to their websites, there are some, but take your hankies with you because these moms have made little videos about their sons, which just are very penetrating. And the moms that I've met are courageous and they're outgoing. They would like some more attention to their cause. Their mission today is still what it was in 1929 in the charter. The charter reads that no Gold Star parent shall go without a roof over their head or enough to eat. So today, the Gold Star Mothers work with veterans. And this group up in Northern California that I met, the regional branches are individually active in different ways. And what they've decided to do is every month they go to the local VA with a birthday cake and they celebrate the birthday of the vets who are there and they bring them a pair of socks each. So in closing, and we can take questions, I'd like to read a comment that was left by a Gold Star Mother on a blog. The blog is a book review blog called Book Snob and you can leave comments and this is what she said. As a Gold Star Mom, my only child was killed in Iraq in 2004. I appreciate the tears you shed for our children and for me and the other Gold Star Mothers. I need to back up and say that the reviewer said she cried at the end of the book and also she called it a cautionary tale for us to remember the mother-son bond and think about the newfound power of women in deciding the fate of their children perhaps. So this was her response. She said, I appreciate the tears you shed for our children and for me and other Gold Star Mothers.  This book can make an impact by telling the story and to educate readers on who exactly a Gold Star Mother is. Less than 1% of the country is affected by the wars but that 1% the military and their families are carrying 100% of the burdens of these wars. I'm glad you read the book. I highly recommend it. I don't see a Star for Mrs. Blake as a cautionary tale, however, but more as a persuasive acknowledgement of the incredible sacrifices made by the military and their families in times of war, a little-known concept in this day and age. So thank you all for being here today and thanks. So, questions? Yes, sir. Well, I'm not sure that they were cremated. You know, I think they were just brought back. You know, the remains were, but the decision was up to each family. Each family had cards and they would, is that what you mean? Yes. Yeah. I actually have that, those documents. The procedure was you'd be, you'd be contacted. Okay, this was just right when the son was killed.  It was, I have a copy of a letter that was just handwritten. In fact, it's in the book. It just says like, sorry to say, son, you know, private so-and-so killed, time and date. And it's like just a signature. I mean, a handwritten one-line note. And that was often the first notice that the mom got. Later, there might be something more formal. But that, it was shocking, but that's what it was. So you'd be notified. And then you would then get a form. It was a form. Like, check this box from the War Department saying, I declare my wish is to be A, son buried overseas, or B, brought back. And you would just check a box. And so it went. Yes, sir? Because actually, my son-in-law has an uncle who is in St. James in France. Oh. But the family had great controversy whether they were bringing home or not. I don't know how they resolved it. He's there. I've been to the grave. But the family still has sort of better memories. Who really was accepted as the authority to sign the box? Because I can see where a husband and a wife wouldn't necessarily agree. Absolutely. I guess they had to figure it out. One of them had to sign it. I mean, it would be a parent. It would be the closest relative, you know. But just at a father or mother? At a father or mother, you know, and I've always intuitively been the old-timer, when a mother is a closer bond, it would be much more significant for her to make the decision. You know, you're mentioning the vote when you talked a little bit too much. It has to be the authority. That's a very good question. Do you remember specifically what went on within the family? Or have you heard of it? I really know that. And it seems to me the moment. So it's sort of a psychological feeling. I can see where I would feel different in my wife. I'm sure that's true. Of course. I mean, there's no good answer, right? Yeah. It's very emotional and personal. No, the father, not formally, not formally. Although I'm sure that if they were able to, they would.  And by the way, if you're ever interested, you can get Battlefield tour guides to take you out to the real Battlefields, which I did, which is astonishing. Because there's still unexploded munitions and German trenches. You know, the Germans were up there for almost three or four years building little trench cities. They actually had little railway cars and electricity up in the hills because it was close to the border. Which Battlefields did you go to? Have you been there, too? No, my father was there. Oh, really? Interesting. So he was a contemporary of Colonel Hammond. Yes, it was. Biggest battle in the war for us. Yes, ma'am. You mentioned earlier that, often discussed, as Phil had mentioned, so my question is, at that time, what kind of coverage was given by the making newspapers, if any, and publicized, is there, how did you, were you able to receive a compliment in real time? Yes, in real time it was big news. Very big news. Every small town paper listed the mothers by name of who was going and where they were. And often they wrote letters or published in the paper at the time.  Yes, it was very big news. Yeah. I might just add that you mentioned the Bureau of the Guardian. I think it's that I didn't realize until I was reading something the other day that the Guardia was a fighter pilot and maybe Rick and Dr. Squadron. Can you believe that? Oh, my goodness. I didn't know that. You guys should live up here, but when we were kids, I lived in New Jersey and the old Guardia used to read the funny papers on Sunday mornings to everybody when the papers went on strike. I remember that as a kid. It was great. We thought very much of him and now I hear he was instrumental in this, you know, quite a character in his own way. Yes, indeed. A leader. Any other thoughts? Yes, sir. On the same topic of permission, how did the War Department handle the sheer logistics of bringing the soldiers home at the disparate commissions that would come from families for probably several years apart? I know. Well, you know, they kept records, I guess, the best they could. It's amazing to imagine that, but it's all handwritten records that hopefully were kept with the right remains. But I must say that that's a question that's raised in the book as well. I mean, even today, it's all handwritten records. Yeah. Well, you know, you think about it. I don't know if you all remember the only guys, the bonus, do you remember that? Yes, the bonus army. The guys all promised a bonus and they never got it. They never got it. And again, trying to, the paperwork involved in giving them bonus it must have been unbelievable. They had the troops that charged on the bonus guys there right there by the river in Washington. That's right. Right. I mean, charged out of the horses.  I had a neighbor that he was killed by a Japanese neighbor in World War II. But his wife found out another friend who wrote and said, I understand here. Oh my. She was pregnant. She found out. Yeah. It's heartbreaking. Logistics, I mean, when you talk about it, one thing about bringing them back, trying to find the people, you made the comment that you had to find the mothers. Yes. A lot of these guys came in. I mean, during the depression, they didn't really have the associations. So they didn't necessarily have that kind of a record when they came in and wrote down that I lived in such a situation. Well, that's true. That's true. Well, thank you. Thank you for being here. I appreciate it.


a true freezer here. The complaint is that when it kicks on that it makes a funny noise. So check the coil and nothing's froze up inside there. Backside's all clean. The drain's looking good. The fan's not hidden. They said it's mainly when it kicks on. So we'll let it down here. So we're checking this area here to see if there's anything going on down there. What it is, I turned it down then we turned it on. It looks like the evaporator has been changed. At least the capillary tube has been changed because they ran it on the outside because a lot of times you can't get it in the inside. Got some good old frost back going back here. Looks like the compressor's been changed. I'm thinking either it's fled back or the compressor's just starting to go out again. Looks like a 14 compressor.  No taps on the high side to check the pressures at all. So you only see half the picture of what's going on. We're going to go ahead and valve on here and see whether it's pumped down. These don't have a CPR valve on them. Must be designed to take the brunt force. Connections all seem tight. I mean it's holding, but I think it's fled back because once it clears out it stops and doesn't do it anymore. But man it really seems like it's going slow. But I mean the valves are at least holding. You could add a CPR valve to it and that would help keep the suction from going too high. Well what we can do is we can check the amp draw and see what our amp draw is when it kicks on. The Decumse app is not as good as the Copeland.  So you've got to write it in yourself. So you've got A, J, lock rotor amps 68.4 which is a 68 there. Start windings 3.02 ohms, runs 0.48, start capacitor is a 146, run, relay, overload, half kit, rated load amp 7.9. It doesn't really give you all of the data on the amperage quite as detailed as what the Copeland does. Clamp right onto our common here because you don't want to measure your fans which hopefully we don't shorten it now when we do this. That way it's there on this compressor and we don't have to look it up again. Then we've got ourselves a flood back situation here which also could be why we're not pulling down very good. We could cheat and restrict that flow a little bit. See how it does. There's closed. There's a few turns back. This is not very scientific here. There's not a whole lot else you can do. If it does freeze product, now they did say the product wasn't freezing very well, then you come back to the situation of do you say it's time to replace it because even though it's in an excellent shape, it's just getting older. So you know, is the evaporator been replaced yet? You don't know. So it may have been, may not have been. How long ago was that? Was it just the compressors changed? They changed the capillary tube? Hard to say. Normally you wouldn't do a short cycle like this, but I think we can. That would clamp down on that to regulate it. May have to call true and check with them to see if that's the right compressor. All right, just spoke with the factory. This is a September 23rd, 96 ship tape on this. This is 23 years old. The compressor is identical to the one that was originally in there. Dryer says and the compressor says 2014. So I'd say, you know, it was replaced maybe five years ago, but our section pressure should be somewhere around 20 or 12 to 14 at zero degree box and head should be somewhere between 215 and 240. I don't usually go with just pressures, but in this case, you know, we need to look at what's going on and it's running. I think I was up at 25. Now green it, our box is not at temperature either. I have no high side tap. So I'm going to tap that thing and see if we can find out what that is. If it's high too, then we may have an issue with it being overcharged. At this point, why did it do it up till now? So let's do that to find out. I'm going to use this just for tapping purposes right now. And I'll take it back off to use them on my R290 units. And then I, like I said, I usually change them out afterwards. I can always drill this. It's a lot of a tap into it. Look at my temperature gauges. So we're running about 7.7 on our sub-cooling. Superheat's 53 and it's adjusting. So we're not extreme in one way or the other. The pressures are coming down some. I'm going to lean towards the compressors starting to go out. They said from the factory this does not come with a CPR valve. So far my pressures are pretty close to what they're saying. Our superheat sub-cooling seemed to be fairly accurate. We're not at box temperature yet. The pressures dropped quite a bit since the beginning. Suctions within four pounds, what they were saying. I must say we're charged correctly and then our compressors just starting to age prematurely. Decided to braze in a permanent refrigerant stem on it. We're going to pull it back on it. We went ahead and recovered the refrigerant. We're going to pull it back on it. We're going to recharge the factory spec. The refrigerant seemed to be fine. Either way I wanted to remove that tap. I'm not a fan of those at all. Yes, I'm doing it the way that I say never to do it, which is a slow way, but it's a small system. So anyhow, we're going to pull this thing down. We're going to recharge it. That way we can eliminate possibly any contaminants in the refrigerant. Maybe possibly any mixture of something else.  I want to be 100 percent certain before I push them down that road. We're charging her through the high side there. It's pulling back through the soloside. It kind of tells us there's no restrictions, which we already know that, but just good practice. When I get done, I will valve it off at the valve right there. I'll suck the refrigerant back in to the unit while it's running so that you're not making up for these long hoses that normally we would not recommend. Go ahead and pick it on and see what kind of noises it makes with it even being a little bit under. Our pressures are pretty well equalized, about 50 and 87. It's just got issues, so we're going to get this last bit here pulled into the system. So we're going to go ahead and shut that off, dump it back into the system. You can see that added in most four pounds to five pounds of difference on the suction side. To say the least, we're pretty well right back to where we were originally. So the recommendation is going to be either let it go or replace the compressor. At this point, we know what the pressures are. We know that it's charged right. If they choose to do that, then we'll go ahead and get the filter dryer replaced and everything else. Get the unit cleaned up completely and kind of go from there. Right now, I'm just going to go ahead and brush that off and get that cleaned up, and that should be about as much as we can do for today. Chose to pump it down one more time, and she's not getting it all the way down to zero. I'm going to say our compressor's a little weak, and that's got something to do with what's going on.


Hi, it's question in time again and this one says there seems to be an increasing number of environmentalists saying it's too late, what do you think? Well the problem is we don't know. Systems are inherently unpredictable, the global system is something you know the human brain has never had to figure out what's going on that kind of scale before you know this evolved this amazing thing in our heads evolved to be able to remember where things were in a forest environment probably you know what times of year to find things to basically take the senses, our sensory experience of the world and reward us for doing what nature required us to do to do the right things to to survive and thrive that environment and we've never had to think on a global scale before you know we've been thrust this creature that's evolved in a very kind of localized context into this global stage and being given the tools to make a difference to change things on that scale so it's really challenging because it seems we can change the climate we've seen we certainly can see the evidence of plastic that we've been producing in the oceans how it's affected life on earth it seems that we are putting well we know we're putting carbon into the atmosphere and it seems that that is having an effect on global weather and temperatures and so on we don't know you know tipping points are quite tricky because it's it's not clear where those tipping points occur you know they might be very close by they might be quite some long way in the future and all we can do or scientists can do is extrapolate to make models to extrapolate possibilities of the different levels and you know weather forecasting has got pretty good over the last couple of decades with computer models and so on so there's some evidence to say that we can make a fairly good guess about what might happen but then at the same time when you talk to weather forecasters they say well you know the slightest change in this thing might make this other thing happen and so we think 19 chances out of 20 it will happen like this but this other thing happens and it will be completely different so essentially we don't know and I think all the time we don't know of course there is a point in trying to do something about it we don't we don't know whether action now will make a difference to the future future generations the young people who are standing up now to try and say you know let's we need to do something about this because you're in charge now but you won't be here when we're inheriting the earth that you're creating now so so yes whether it's us humans making the climate change whether it's the Sun doing interesting things and there was plenty of evidence to suggest that the Sun is in some way contributing to what's happening on the earth's weather now we know that space weather can create effects on earth doesn't really matter what's happening if it's happening if it if something might happen in the future that would be catastrophic then why wouldn't we try and do something about that so for me doing what I do I feel I have to feel optimistic about the future I think in part because I meet lots of people of a like mind who are also wanting to make a change and when you get into permaculture and you start doing creative things when you start assembling ecosystems to meet our needs and to create beauty in the landscape then how can you not be optimistic and feel joy there and even if things do go horribly wrong in the long term why why spend a long time worrying about it we can worrying for me is something that we do it's a an emotion to make us think I need to do something about it you know to worry and to not do not act is going to just create more worrying so why not say okay yes this might happen that could be bad let's do something about what can I do as an individual right now to make a difference to the future and to make a difference to now and to the people around me and the world that I inhabit and so for me permaculture gives us the tools to make a difference now and hopefully the difference that we make now will make a positive difference in the future


Hello everyone. In this video, we will be exporting all of our mail, calendar items, contacts, and really everything else in our old account to what is called a PST file. This is an Outlook data file. This way we can then import that file into our new Office 365 account and all of our old mail, calendar items, contacts, etc. will be uploaded to Office 365. So to get started, we're going to have our Outlook desktop program open. Come up to the top left corner and click on file. Then we're going to select open and export, and then select import slash export. You want to select export to a file, the second option in that list of options there. Click on next. You want to select Outlook data file dot PST and click next. And then you want to make sure that you are clicking on the name of the account that you are exporting all of the data from. That way you're catching everything within that account and not just a specific folder or type of item. You then want to make sure you have include subfolders selected. That way all of your mail folders will come over as they are in your account now. You can then click next. Now we are going to select where we are going to actually save this PST file. So you want to click browse and best practice is to save it to your desktop. That way you know exactly where it is. So we're going to click on desktop under your favorites. And it's also best to rename your PST file to be the date that you are making this export. So today is June 26, 2015. That way you just know when all of the mail and calendar items are from. You then want to select do not export duplicate items from the list of options. That way you're not bringing over any duplicates that you may have in your account. Once you have selected that you're going to click on finish. You can then optionally set a password for this file. You don't have to and for our purposes right now I'm not going to. I'm just going to click on OK. Depending on how much data you have in your account this export may take a very long time or it may be very quick. With the account I'm using right now there really isn't a lot in here. So as you can see it was very fast but it can take quite a while depending on how much data is in there. So the next thing we're going to do is import that PST into our new profile that is set up with our Office 365 account. Alright so after we exported our data from our old account I went ahead and created a new profile using the Office 365 account where I will be transferring that data to. To learn how to create a new profile for Outlook you can watch our creating a new profile for Outlook video. But now we're going to import that PST file that we exported earlier. So we have Outlook open. You want to click on file. Click open an export and select the import slash export option. It should already be on the import from another program or file option but if it's not that's the one that you want to select and then click next. Then you want to select Outlook data file dot PST and click next. Then you want to click browse so we can go and find the PST file that we saved earlier. And the reason that we saved it to our desktop was so that it would be super easy to find. Double click on that. Then again you want to select do not import duplicates just to make sure that you're not getting any duplicate items in your new Office 365 account. Click next. It should already have the entirety of the Outlook data file selected but if it doesn't you can click up at the top on Outlook data file and it will import all of the data within that file. If you do only want to import certain types of data or certain folders you can select them individually down here. So if I just wanted to import my calendar events I could click on calendar and only those would come over but for our purposes I want to import everything so I'm going to leave the Outlook data file as a whole selected. I'm going to make sure you have include sub folders selected so that your folders and folder hierarchy and structure come over. And under import items into the same folder in you just want to make sure that the option that's selected is just the one with your email address not the one that says public folders. And click finish depending on how much data was in your PST file that we exported earlier it might take a while for everything to import or it might be very quick. But that is how you transfer your data from your old account into your Office 365 account. You want to leave Outlook open preferably for about a day just so that it can upload all of your data from your old account to your Office 365 account. But after that you can go ahead and keep using Outlook as you normally would.