Dear students, in this topic, we shall discuss absorption by active transport and endocytosis. The epithelial cells of villi absorb many nutrients against their concentration gradient by active transport in which energy is utilized. The substances which are transported by active transport include most of the glucose molecules, amino acids, type aptides, tripe aptides, and many vitamins. The mechanism utilized for the active absorption of these substances involves a sodium core transport mechanism which supplies energy for active transport. In this mechanism, molecules to be transported bind to a specific transport protein which is present in the micro villi. This protein requires that sodium ions bind with it, then it will transport the molecule to be absorbed, the molecule of the nutrient to be absorbed. When sodium ions bind with a transport protein, then it has a tendency to move down its electrochemical gradient into the interior of the cell. Since it has a co-bound molecule, for example, amino acid, glucose, or peptide, then it also pulls the co-bound molecule. So both sodium ions and bound molecules are co-transported into the cell. This mechanism of active transport, which involves co-transport, is known as secondary active transport. Dear students, the transport proteins involved in co-transport are of five types which are present in the luminal membranes of epithelial cells. Each type of these transport proteins is specific for transporting certain groups of amino acids, peptides, and glucose. Dear students, endocytosis is also used by some absorptive cells to take up larger oligopeptides. For example, human milk has immunoglobulins. A human or other mammalian newborn, when it feeds on its mother's milk, then these immunoglobulins are not digested, but as such, intestine's epithelial cells of will-i in immunoglobulins are endocytosed as such, in larger oligopeptides, as such, cells. This process is called endocytosis. Certain substances are also absorbed by endocytosis.


I'm Barbie. You can follow the Instagram Twitter for juicy content Thank you dirty resource on patreon follow stood counts grab like button and I loved it. Yeah, how can you not amazing? Yeah, and I I think I know why a lot of Indians that I've actually heard didn't love it as much as what's your take on that? Yeah, it's so American Yeah, me too if you didn't grow up in the 80s and 90s with Barbie culture American culture There's so many reference like a lot of them right from the get-go if you if you if you don't know American cinema You're not gonna understand what she does at the very beginning of the film Which is funny because I was explaining to a lot of most like it's probably similar to mass cinema for indians To very very us. We did not grow up with it And so it's the opening sequence for Barbie is frame for frame the opening of 2001 a space Odyssey Yeah, and then you're right all of the references a million references I mean for example Ashley and Alexis and Micah So much of this meant so much to them because I remember when I gave the kids baths the girls had mermaid Barbies in the bath I mean, it's just all of them were actual references to real Barbies. Yeah, and It's just so difficult if you didn't grow up because a lot of them were I one comment I got a lot of it's like they felt it was childish. I'm like, yes on purpose It's a childhood toy and when you consider From the outset the last time I was this Flabbergasted by something that when I initially heard about it. I thought I don't get that Was when Heath Ledger was cast as the Joker. Oh, yeah when he was cast at the Joker I thought good actor, but I don't get it based on the other Iterations of the Joker. Yeah, and then he just you know life-changingly incredible performance of all time And then this this script and this film Multiple oscar noms for this baby can be yeah, great, but anyways I was the only person on the plane. I think that I think there's actually federal inmates on death row who saw Barbie before you. Yeah, I think of another new release Vishal Bardwash is cool. Yeah Has finally come out with a tree. Wow ten years. I know Obviously taboo alia Faisal a bunch of dough is that It's a little sister So many other people as well In case you don't know, but if you are anywhere near Los Angeles Mr.. Bardwash is gonna be at the Los Angeles Indian Film Festival here in a few weeks And he's doing a masterclass will we be going as well as a screening of this film, but I funny thing is I think it comes out Before It's at the festival really makes no sense. No because it says it comes out on October 5th, and I don't think oh the festival Yeah, that's not like 15th weird. I mean I Ever the last class that's yeah price of admission enough exactly. It's just weird. Yeah, normally festivals are always first, right? Maybe it's just a special screening. Yeah. Anyways, let's just get into this Two years in the making or something like that.  I didn't need to see a trailer Yeah, I would really love to know anybody who which it would be probably just be People in the West, but even they would be familiar with taboo and now Ali Faisal who's doing so much stuff here Yeah, I don't know names here though. Unfortunately. No, but they're recognizable for anybody who cares Yeah, anybody who cares about cinema would recognize them, but I'd be interested to know the intrigue because I mean just The fact that it's Vishal directing taboo and Ali starring That's enough for me to go see a film. I don't need a trailer. I don't need anything else I want to see a movie that has them in involved go anywhere because it's on Netflix. Yeah Is it getting a theatrical release or is it going straight to the platform straight to platform? Okay? So maybe that's why it's Just because it's streaming or maybe they just wanted to do a Q&A I guess with Vishal after as far as the delay. Yeah in terms of why it's going to Indian Phil Vestival Los Angeles Almost a week. Yeah after yeah, I think it's like the 13th or so. Yeah After its release on on on the platform. Yeah, anyways Written and directed by Vishal and produced produced and it's score. I assume. Yeah. Yes. Yep He just he does it all taboo There was a one guy like we all we've seen him a lot No, I got He's a Indian guy that I pointed at I just feel like we've seen him We've seen her too. What do we just see her in? Well, I can't even pronounce that name. That's so I believe it's one Mika one Mika I think so forgive me if I mispronounce that we just saw her in something. Why do I it could be one Mika or one Mika? Was it jubilee? Was that the last thing we saw her in? Oh, that would be correct. Yes, but I feel who who was she in jubilee? Oh She's in Vishal's TV series as well. That's why I saw her name recently Okay, so I feel like I've seen his name. Okay. Yeah, just says she was in one episode of jubilee So I wouldn't necessarily recognize her unless she was highly featured in that I think it's because he's she's in Vishal's new thing. It looks I mean intense It looks it's based off true stories what it said, right? Yes. Okay, and the end of book About it about true events. She likes doing that. Yeah.  Yes novels. Yes I mean at least from what I haven't seen everything of his obviously and you're When you have these people associated with it when he's helming it and you have taboo and Ali You're you can trust that what you're going to be getting to coin the word again Is is is something that's going to be artistically Elevative and then in addition to the artistry being elevated you you know under his Control and the writing The only the only question is going to be how true to the novel will it be and only those who've read the novel would know And I think that's somewhat immaterial because I think you can trust If there's anybody who's proven they can take something that was written and translated to film He's done a fine job, but Shakespeare's easy to translate. Yeah, so simple Not just to translate to the screen but then to contemporize it to your culture and modern events very easy so so simple And I'm surprised like he's probably one of a million who've done it and he's is probably like oh, yeah, it's so common I mean You guys in your spare time have probably taken the four and a half hour play hamlet and turned it into something wonderful Do you think taboo? When your phone was around has a closer relationship with Vishal or your phone when he was around Only she can answer that Yeah, only she could answer that and it wouldn't surprise me if the closeness would be more approximate with her counterpart as an actor because of the nature of the work But but who knows I think all three of them were pretty dang close um So the only thing he is in production outside of that tv series and also what is oh, it's a documentary. Okay I thought I had heard he was working on another Shakespeare adaption Was it oh wait a minute. What was it? for you No, I've heard it on on well. We had we did more than hearing it on the internet Yeah, but I don't we not when we were in Mumbai. Yeah um That was a very direct And I if I'm not mistaken I want to say it was. What play was it though? I I just don't know if it's still I think it was mid-summer mid-summer. I think so Now I don't know where it stands in that regard. I don't know if it was just but I think it was one of the comedies I think it was mid-summer If he could do any If he could do any Shakespeare adaption him show him. Yeah, which one would you want him to do? Oh my goodness. Well, I would love a comedy Because he's done he's done nothing, but tragedy is this far So I would love I think he could do anything I would love truly The one that would be the most interesting to see him do and what he would do with it would be His particular vision of mid-summer. I I he could do so many Things that I can't even begin to imagine There's so much there that he he could do a literal thing and just make it kind of fantasy He could also just make that metaphorical and turn it into something contemporary and Indian I think he should take Shakespeare's worst work and make it into a great He could do that. What's Shakespeare's worst work? Well the popularity of some of his and You'll agree with what I'm about to say He has some other lesser known things that a lot of scholars consider to be His lesser works in terms of when you watch the evolution of his writing. Yeah, I I find Romeo and Juliet to be quite sophomoric. Yeah, yeah, and and a bit Disconcerting. Yeah, and and of his stories. It's by far the The great thing about Romeo and Juliet is it's the most accessible if anyone was getting introduced to to Shakespeare Especially a young person. I'd say go to Romeo and Juliet, but it's because of that that to me. It's his weakest It's his weakest. It's a good story, but it's it's it's a very weak Sanjay live and solid did it better Yeah, I see what Vishal would do with Romeo and Juliet though because he wouldn't do what No, he wouldn't do what Sanjay. I mean nobody would do what Sanjay does, right? No, um, he would make it a lot Darker and grittier. He would he would he would Yeah, what was the other Romeo and Juliet Indian adaption that we saw wasn't there another one of Romeo and Juliet Yeah, there was like an adaption. I do not remember M. Leela. It was another one that Which the Malayalam one that not that's not Romeo and Juliet. It's not what I'm thinking of What was the Fafa one?  Oh, yeah, it was um Was it Hamlet? Yeah, it was it was Hamlet. No, no, no. It wasn't Hamlet It was um Mcbeth? Mcbeth. It was Mcbeth. Yeah. Yeah, it was Mcbeth. No, I'm thinking about the film. It was definitely Mcbeth. It was Mcbeth Um And we said which was a really wonderful adaptation three times. So that's oh shoot this well the channel is now going to be gone Anyways, uh, very excited. Obviously, uh, with just the director and you know the story about that at the Pasadena Playhouse Yeah, uh, obviously who's involved. Uh, very much looking forward to another Vishal film Yes No, wait, I'm on his page right now He's a short a short you mean since the the channel started. Yes. Um, Yeah, darling. He was composer. You mean one that he helmed. Yeah, this is his first I think this is our first director that he's helmed new since the channel started. Yep Uh, that's exciting. You're very excited. Unfortunately. It's not theatrical release. I always Yeah, I prefer that but whatever which I find Well, it's Netflix. That doesn't surprise me. Yeah, but also I like it. We said in the past like him and Anya most of their films are Technically flops. Yeah, most of them. Yeah, um, it's just sad, but Just goes to show you it doesn't mean anything. Obviously, uh, it doesn't make a great film But anyways, let us know what you thought about the trailer if you're excited for it What should be our next Vishal Bartow? Or should we haven't got to all of this stuff yet and taboo and taboo on all the possible Let us know down below


Hi, I'm David, I'm Stacy, and we're from Leeds, England, and you're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs. Perked here at the Flying J in Fargo, North Dakota, tonight. In the last spot that was available, and it was very hard to squeeze in here, as you can see the pumps are right in front of me here. I'm gonna try to squeak out of here without hitting anything. I added onto these pumps a few years ago, and they brought them maybe one too many. One too close to the parking spots there, because it's very tight to get in and out of that spot now. But I did it, there we go. Look at that. Okay, now this is the entrance, I don't want to exit here, so I gotta go to a U-turn, and go out the actual exit. This is one of those old, old Flying Js that was built ages ago, and then sort of updated and renovated, which it's really nice now, but the parking lot is definitely not up to par with what I would call modern standards of Flying J, but then again, you know, I'm from Canada, and I've seen a lot worse. Alright, there we go. So we gotta go out the back here. Look at this guy. There's huge flags on top of this truck. Does he drive down the highway like that? Is that legal? Well, I guess so, why wouldn't it be, right? Look at this guy on the left here. Bumper stickers galore. Good for him. Good for him. He likes attention. He got it. So we have, oh, it's six, six and a half hours to get to the border. We're gonna cross at North Portal, Saskatchewan, from Portal North Dakota, and go up through Regina and Saskatoon, and then make our way up towards Fort McMurray, Alberta. Way up there in the heart of oil country, Alberta. I'm actually kind of sad and upset this morning.  Whenever I'm really big into simulators and stuff like that. So I was really big into Farm Simulator 19. I still am. Love that game. And I had been building up my farm on there for probably three weeks. I had over 200 hours logged into that game. And this morning I woke up and my saved game was gone. Just disappeared. I checked all the backups. I checked the cloud. It's just gone. It's like somebody went in there and deleted all of my work. So frustrating. But we're gonna start over and instead I was building a farm in Ravenport, which is sort of like an American area. I went over to Felsbrunn now, which is a German area in the same game. I'm gonna build a German farm. I can't believe all that work I put into it. I sort of just have it running in the background just to pass the time when I'm bored, right? So it's not like it's a big loss. But still, it's a lot of time that I put into that. I had big plans for that farm. I was gonna be a big shot. I was getting there. Had all my own equipment already. All paid off. That was pretty successful. Someone took that away from me. I don't know if someone did it or just the game did it. Once the game just uninstalled itself one day for no reason. I went to open it up and it said you need to install the game. I've been playing this for months. That was my frustration this morning. Super sad I lost my farm. But I'm gonna take what I learned from building up that one. I'm gonna build an even better one. Do any of you play simulators or any computer games like that? I see only real computer games I like. I like a little bit of first person shooter. I sort of like Call of Duty and stuff. But I don't know. I like the simulator. Some weird. Or maybe you're weird. I don't know. My farm is gone. I am so pumped right now. I'm taking my break here in, well, here at my usual Casey's General Store. Truck stop in Carrington, North Dakota. And I figured I would YouTube how to fix my game. Oh wait, what happened? It just closed itself. What happened? No, that's not what's supposed to happen. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I YouTubeed how to fix my problem, get my saved game back. That it was actually back up. Or it was actually backed up. And I thought it was working. One second. 252 hours worth of game time that I put into this. Come on, you gotta work. You gotta work. Come on. Come on. Come on. Open up. Open up. It just shuts the game down. Well, what in the world? Oh, my farm. I want my farm back.  Oh, it's frustrating. Frustrating, let's try it, Chaos. It's really frustrating. Let's try it one more time. Let's try with this one. See if it'll load this one. I used a different folder to restore this one. Okay, it's loading up in the corner over there. Loading. Come on. Come on. I believe in you. I believe in you. Abracadabra. Whatever I need to do and work. Come on. There's the start button. Come on. Come on. There it is. There it is. There it is. Okay. There's my tractor. There's my tractor. There's my combine. There's my other tractor. Yes. Yes, we got it back. Good. Oh, what's this? Oh, yeah. I had leased this tractor because I was seeding this field. I need to get my money for that. Ah, $6,000. Yes. Thank God for YouTube. It was a simple fix. I just had to go to the backup folder, like, back around and take the files out of this backup folder, copy and paste them and delete the old folders in the old file and then repost them with the new files from the backup file. And here we go. Oh, that makes me so happy. Oh, thank God. Thank you, God. 252 hours I have put into this game. Like, over the course of weeks, I only put in, like, a little bit here, a little bit there. It's not like I play it all day every day. I still sometimes have it running in the background because it's a simulator, right? I can tell my worker Jose to go and plant my field or seed my field and he goes and seeds the field while I go do something else and then I go and get my other helper, Jorge, and he goes and harvests my other field while I also fertilize my neighbor's field for him and I make money with that. And Juan does that for me as well. So I have all my workers that do all my work for me, right? I'm just the boss and I just sort of oversee everything and make sure my farming activities are all taken care of and that money keeps coming in, right?  That's why I really like this game because it's a truck driver and I don't have a lot of spare time.  It's fun, okay? Stop laughing at me. It's fun. I got some good workers working for me, too. Well, we decided to go for a walk here, Carrington North Dakota. It's a beautiful day and trying to get out of the truck this summer as much as possible and walking again like I did two years ago. So we walked all the way across town. The truck stop we're at is all the way down there over the bridge and I forgot to take the GoPro, so we're left with my phone and the bad mic. That's okay. At least you guys still hear me, right?  We're in the ditch here for a reason, buddy. Same reason I brought the poop bags with, buddy. Do you ever? Go on. Have at it. Find a good spot, man. All of this grass here. Take your pick. You're the only one here, man. Pick the best spot. Looks like they got like a little pool over there and stuff. Nice little town. It's very nice. It's just like all of Manitoba, you know? Canada's just up the road there behind me. Saskatchewan's up there. So this region feels very much at home to me because it's exactly like my home region. It's beautiful in the summertime. There's no place I'd rather be in the summertime than in my home region. But in wintertime, I'd rather be almost anywhere else. But summers are just amazing. It makes up for it, I guess. I guess if we have those terrible winters, at least we get beautiful, beautiful summer. Maybe it's just that we appreciate the summer more. I've said that before because we have such long, cold winters. So when we finally get warm weather like this, it's a little bit more appreciated than for people who get this every day or almost every day all year. Though I think I could get used to having the ocean closed by pretty quickly. I think I'd be okay with that. Is that the spot, Diesel? No, no, no, no, no, don't eat. No, no, no, no. No, drop it. Drop it. No eating poop. What is it with our dogs? Diesel, Chevy, and Frank. If they find poop outside? I don't mean to discuss you right now. I'm sorry if you're eating, but do your dogs do that too? If they find any, they don't just sniff it. They eat it. What is wrong with our dogs? Carrington. Is that what I said the town's name was? I can't remember now. That's the town name, anyways, if you were wondering. I'm sure this little flower garden here will look a lot better in about a month. It's like this town is much like Steinbeck. Church on every corner. They got to do something about that cross in the center there. I'd actually like to fix that for them. I don't like that. That should be fixed right away. Diesel, maybe next time we come through here, I'd have to figure out who owns the sign. I don't want to just mess with it without their permission. It bothers me, though. All these trucks coming down from Canada into the U.S. That guy was waving. Maybe he watches the vlogs. Diesel, maybe he's going to watch this vlog. Wouldn't that be cool? All right, so we've got to go all the way down this road up over the hill back to our truck, and we'll get going. It's a good day now, especially since I got my farm back. Hey, Diesel, 252 hours worth of farming almost down the tubes. I'm not going to lie. I was really upset about that this morning. I only lost about maybe 20 minutes of game time.  Like I said, I only put maybe 20 minutes into it.  Oh, during the night, I turned all the power off for all of my plugs and all my outlets during the night because I don't want my batteries to die over the night. So my computer died over the night. Now, usually, if my computer dies, it still saves my game or at least I can go back to my last save.  I don't know what happened. The point is, it's fixed. I got my farm back. I'm a happy farmer. Truck the farmer.  I'm going to walk over here. You are embarrassing me. Such a nerd, you and your farming game. You're not a farmer, man.  You don't got to be so mean about it, Diesel. I'm a farmer in my heart when I'm playing the game. I've actually learned quite a bit about farming from the game. It's a good educational thing. We're coming up on our buddy, just on the other side of this sign here. Everybody get ready to say hello. You ready, Diesel? There he is. I wonder what his name is. Just happened to be walking past the town dealership here. All these new Silverados. I'm still not a fan of them. Though they're growing on me. You know, eventually, like this high country is pretty nice. Look at this. It's nice. The main thing, the main complaint I have on it is the front end. I don't like that they shortened the front end. Like they shortened the hood here from the old models, but they added that length into the cab. They also made the box, pardon me, the bed, deeper and wider, right? Though this one's really small. But, I mean, yeah, they're nice trucks. I'd buy one, but I like mine better. What's it going for here? High country is selling for 63,000. It's not focusing. Come on. 63,385 US dollars. It's probably close to 90,000 Canadian dollars from somewhere around 85 or something. But, that is the high country. They'll grow on me, you know. I just wish they wouldn't have shortened the hood. That's my only complaint. And what do we got over here hiding behind this last one? Oh, hello there. I'm from Tennessee because you're the only tenacity. Ooh, it's a high country too. 2,500 Duramax. Diesel, we better get out of here. We better get out of here. I'm married. I got to go. I better get out of here. That was a close one, Diesel. But I'm a faithful, loyal husband. Keep walking, Josh. Just keep walking. Look at that house over there. That's a beautiful home.  Just, you know, with all the modern amenities. I don't know when this house was built. Oh, it says right there. Must be some kind of like historic place. Let's see, what does it say? It says the Putnam house. Available for rent? Really? That would be cool. Putnam was 1907. Look at that. Velva. Welcome to Velva. North Dakota. Yeah. That's right. Look at this place. They got green bins and farms. A little general store. A sign that says Velva. 1,300 friendly people. That way. Really? We missed it, Diesel. Shoot. That sign said 1,300 friendly people. And then had an arrow pointing to our right. I guess that's where the town is. We've actually gone through a walk-through, Velva, before. There's a truck stop right up here on the right. Senex. And I've stopped here for night once or twice. And it was last summer, right? Yeah, and then, yeah, Velva. This is the town with that crazy siren that goes off at noon. Scared the daylight's out of me. I was walking right past town hall at noon. And the siren goes off. To me, it sounds like an air raid siren. Or like some, like we're under attack. So I'm looking around, no one else is panicking. I'm like, we're under attack! No one else is panicking. Why are you not panicking? The Germans are coming! It sounds like a war siren. But apparently that's just sort of like the old church bells. Except now they just have this really loud annoying siren that can be heard for five miles. Every day at noon. Can you imagine if you worked a night shift and that thing blasted right across the street from you? Every day at noon. Trying to sleep. I'd like to go back to the church bells better. I like those better. Ring those things at noon. Those were nice. Some cathedrals had really nice or some churches had really nice sets of bells where they would like ding a song? Is that how you say that? Ding a song? They'd sing a song for you. Right? A bunch of different bells. Beautiful. I love hearing that at noon time. At noon time in Sunday mornings. That's nice. A whaling siren? You replaced it with a whaling siren? Alright, Velva. Whatever makes you happy. Whatever makes you happy. So we got about another hundred miles, a little over a hundred miles to the border at North Portal. It's a sketch one. And I'll be driving till two or three in the morning. Central time, I'm sure. I want to get far enough today that, uh... Oh, what's your problem? I'm not going fast enough for you? I what? Fine then. You're speeding. So are you. Hey! Speeders. And we're at the last fuel stop before Canada. You know what that means. Actually, there are more fuel stops at the border, but this is the last one that I have a fuel card for. Get pump number one, too. Aren't we lucky? Look at us. Diesel, we're special. We get the special pumps right by the doors. Fueler on up here because once we cross the border we got a carbon tax to deal with. I don't want to support that. I forgot to wash my windshield again. Shoot. Too late now. I've already set my mind to leave. I've got a long way to go today yet, too, so I want to get going. Been dragging my feet just a little bit today because I have the time, too. And sometimes when I have... When I have that opportunity, I take advantage of it. Full disclosure. Sometimes Trucker Josh drags his feet. Now it's time to hammer down. No more dragging feet. No more laziness. Focused energy on the road and getting to where we need to get to. I want to get to Saskatoon tonight. Saskatchewan, way up there. That's a long ways yet. Probably another six hours at least. Yeah, I'll be driving straight into the sun again. That's great. An hour and a half will be in Canada. That just raced across the road in front of me. Bolted across the border. Without going through customs. That's an illegal cat right there. I'm arriving at 39. What if we're going to chase him down? Arrest him? No? Pardon me, sorry. It's an undocumented cat. They'll deal with him, I guess. He'll probably get a nice house. Benefits or something. Am I going too far with my jokes? I'm sorry. Just joking around, guys. Calm down. It's funny. Laugh. So this is Saskatchewan, Canada. Welcome. I guess they should welcome me. I'm technically from Manitoba. This isn't my home province, so I should be getting the welcome. But nobody's here to welcome me. The border guy didn't even say welcome. He asked me a bunch of questions and set me on my way. Where are you sending me, Mandy? 37 kilometers turn right on Surasavvn? Oh, that's an Estevan, right? They have a weird truck route that goes around their little tiny Main Street downtown. And we're back in Canada. True North. Strong and free. Does it look strong and free? I think it does. Look at it. Look at that. I'm in a weird mood today. I think I had one too many coffees. I think I need another one. Diesel, should we stop for another coffee? I think you're acting pretty weird already, man. You're talking to your dog for crying out now, man. I don't think you need any more coffee. You sure? I'm gonna get another coffee.


Hi, my name is Jessica Knuck and I'm a 4-H State Ambassador Gardner. Do you want to introduce yourself? Okay, my name is Jordan Gardner. I am a recruiter in the United States Navy. I've been in the Navy for 70 years. I'm stationed out here in Alabama. Okay, so what was your major in college? Okay, my major in college was, I was a business administration major. I started at the University of Arkansas also and then I moved out to Alabama. Now I'm at the University of Alabama to complete my BA. And what is the date like on your job? Okay, so it's just two parts. So right now as a recruiter my day, I spend most of my day talking to applicants about the opportunities that the Navy has to offer about their personal goals and goals that they might want to achieve in their career and to align to see if the Navy can help them achieve that goal. How has the coronavirus affected your job? Just like anybody else. It has made my job a little bit difficult with getting in front of a lot of different applicants. A lot of my market has been high school seniors and college students. So with the lack of being able to go, getting schools, getting in front of students, being able to talk with them face to face, that has impacted the way we do things in recruiting to a lot of things is now virtual. We have to do a lot of things on Skype, Microsoft Teams, but the fact that we can get out and get our face in front of people, coronavirus has kind of slowed us down on that front. And what is the best thing about your job? So the best thing I would say about my job is bridging a gap where an individual might have like, hey, this is what I want to achieve and bridging the gap to help them achieve that goal with like, okay, here's the route that you can take. Here's the programs and things that can help you get there. Here's the accolades and the certificates degree plan to help somebody say, okay, they thought that that goal was impossible to now possible. Is the Navy something that you wanted to do when you were younger, or did you have a different idea of what did you do? So for me, service was a, in my plan, the Navy was not. So when I was in college, I always knew that, hey, okay, I would take some time to do service. I was going to do, my original plan was to do four years. But I talked to all branches, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. And at the end of it, at the beginning of it, Navy was, I couldn't swim. So I couldn't, I didn't, Navy was never on the top of my list as a non-swimmer at that time, about after weighing my options and speaking to every branch. And you know, you fast forward seven years later. I believe I enjoyed this, what I do for living and all the benefits I've received, I made the right decision for me. Do you suggest the Navy for anyone going into, or planning to go into any service? Absolutely. My advice to everybody is if you're looking and going to service, do what I did. I would say go look at every branch, because every branch there's a branch for you. So if you're looking for specific things out of, you know, benefits or education or adventure or whatever you might want to do career-wise, research and look in and speak to a lot of different people and find out where's your fit. Because it's just like a lot of personalities, the Navy has a right fit for some people. And it was right for me, but it might not be right for everybody. So my advice was just, do you do your due diligence, research, speak to people, talk to different recruiters and what feels comfortable to you, then you should pursue that. And then my final question is what advice would you give youth interested in your job? So for me, and if you're just now joining, you couldn't be a recruiter. A recruiter is a step that you get some experience. You got to be like put up for this year, but any advice for anybody who's going into the Navy in general, my advice would be to go in with an open mind, remember why and what reasons were important to you and all stay open to learn a lot of different things. Because it's going to be at the very beginning, it's just going to be very different for whatever you used to. Okay. And everybody's experience is different. So when you go in, my advice would be go in with an open mindset to experience new things and meet new people. And then you learn and grow from there. All right. That's all the questions that I have for you today. Do you have anything that you want to add to something that you said before? Go Navy, beat Army.


This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. India is traditionally a tea-drinking country, but Indians are gaining a new taste for coffee. This has led international coffee companies to consider moving into the market. At the same time, local business people are looking for new ways to profit from the country's tea-drinking tradition. They are opening new places that offer tea. Coffee shops have spread from major cities like New Delhi and Mumbai to smaller towns. In the past 10 years, cafes have become increasingly popular. India's huge population of young people has quickly taken to the coffee culture. Indians now drink twice as much coffee as they did 10 years ago. The success of the coffee market has gained the attention of foreign companies like Starbucks. The American-based company will open its first store in India later this year. Other companies like Lavaza and Costa Coffee are already there. The head of the India Coffee Trust, Anil Kumar Bandari, praises Starbucks decision. He says cafes in India have become central to the lifestyle of the young middle class. He says coffee companies like Starbucks should have been here before. Almost any cafe chain which has a reasonable quality with its service, ambiance and food and coffee first will succeed in this country. Look at the young population, he says. They are all taking to it like ducks to water. India has over a billion people. Business experts point out that half of them are under the age of 25. Yet even with the growth in coffee drinking, Indians still drink eight times more tea. They have been drinking tea for more than 150 years. India is also one of the world's biggest producers of tea or chai as people call it locally. Indians usually drink tea at home or in offices or buy it mostly from street sellers. But some business people hope to change that. Amulik Singh Bidral is 36 years old and a graduate of Harvard University in the United States. He opened a place called Chai Point in Bangalore, the center of India's information technology industry. In less than a year, 13 more Chai Point locations have opened in the city. One tea drinker in Bangalore welcomes the new outlets. Out of home options like this are new, especially since coffee drinking has boomed in the last couple of years. This is a little different. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal.


Oh waiter. Yes, sir. I'll have a slice of baked ham, potato salad, and a cold bottle of papped blue ribbon. Yes, sir. Finest beer served. Anywhere. From Hollywood, Papped Blue Ribbon. Finest beer served. Anywhere. Proudly present. Green Directors Playhouse, Production, Appointment for Love, Director William Citer, Star Charles Boye. Green Directors presented excursion into comedy. The motion picture story, Appointment for Love, starring Charles Boye with Gale Storm, and introduced by the director of the film, William Citer. For something like 35 years, people have been laughing at the efforts of our guest screen director tonight. And their laughter has been a compliment, for most of his 175 films have been comedies. Among them, Roberta, The Affairs of Susan, and One Touch of Venus. Ladies and gentlemen, the director of tonight's story, Appointment for Love, Mr. William Citer. Thank you. Recalling those 175 films means me a little weak in the knees. I don't know how that many pictures ever happened to me. But somehow they did, and one of those that amused me most is tonight's story. And now we hope that Appointment for Love will be your appointment for laughter, as Charles Boye recreates his original role of André Casile, a successful playwright with Gale Storm as Dr. Jane Alexander. As the critics say, it's the best André Casile plays. André's parties are the best things about his opening nights. He serves the most darling order. Well, André, I've been producing your plays for five years. And this looks like the biggest yet. Oh, thank you, George. Tell me, did I invite that girl to my party? Which girl? The one standing near the door. Oh, huh? But I think she's a friend of somebody's friend. They say she's a doctor. A doctor? She couldn't be a doctor. She's too attractive. André! Happy doctor! Hello, Nancy. I'm so glad you could come. I'll bet you are. I've been out of town for three months and you don't even know it. Yes, I've missed you, darling. Terribly. Well, don't take it so hard, Pat. The best actress in New York is back and raring for work. Tonight's play was sensational. What about the next one? Well, we'd love to have you, Nan. Why don't you talk to George about it? With André! See you later, darling. I must speak to somebody. Hello. Oh, hello. Are you enjoying the party? Oh, it's very nice, but I don't seem to know many people. Well, mostly from the theater. I'm mostly out of it. I know.  Doctor what? Dr. Alexander. Jane Alexander. Oh, tell me, tell me, Doctor, just between us, do you have any clinical opinions about André Cassell's new play? Really? Really. Terrible. No good, eh? No good. I saw it. I agree. I wrote it. I know.  Not at all. Who could mistake the charming, Mr. Cassell? Charmed, but not a very good playwright. Now, you agree that my situations are phony, contrived, and unbelievable? I agree. Absolutely. No, no, you're not just agreeing to be polite. No, not at all. The people in your play are unreasonable, illogical. No, no, wait. They were in love, and love is an unreasonable, illogical emotion. I'm sorry, Mr. Cassell. André. André, but love is very logical. Scientific, put two objects with a affinity and a test tube, and they merge through attraction. It's the simplest of all formula. That's very scientific, I'm sure, but... Well, all you do is add a little rose-colored romance and cloud up what's really happening.   You like your plays. You're right again. I adore them. Well, now they will always remind me of you. And what will I remind you of? Well, I imagine a test tube full of rose-colored romance. Good night, Mr. Cassell. No, no, wait, wait. Please, Jane. Good night. André, you really want to cast Nancy in your next play? Oh, if you want to, George. You know, I think I just fell in love. With the doctor? That was no doctor, Georgie. That was a woman. Good morning, Dr. Alexander. Well, what are you doing in the hospital? Well, I came to see you do it. Do what? Make love with the test tube. You know, you said you put in two people. And Mr. Cassell. André. André, I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to have social calls in my private office. Oh, but this is not a social call, Jane.  I was sleeping a wink last night, thinking about what you told me. You'll have to leave. Then have dinner with me tonight. Well, I'm sorry. Tomorrow night, then. No. Very well. As my doctor, you should know, I'm in very great pain. Where? Here. My heart. It hurts. What was that? The sound of a test tube calling to its mate. Would you have dinner with me? I will not. I'm in agony. Mr. Cassell, this is a hospital. Well, then your business is to cure the suffering. I am suffering. No. All right. Dr. Alexander, what's going on here? Oh, why, nothing, Dr. Gunther. And Dr. Gunther, I'm in agony. Great agony. You look healthy enough. I'll show you.  Yes, we'll administer the proper treatment. And after the treatment, I suggest it. Yes. Thank you, doctor. Doctor. Yes. Bring two test tubes. We may need a spare. Will that be all, Mr. Cassell? Yes, thank you, waiter. You know, my dear doctor, I'm still uncaptivated by your theory. I wonder if you really believe it yourself. Well, let's take your theory, Andre. The writer's view of love. Emotional, hectic, and full of fizz. Well, we've dined together five or six times, but still no fizz. Oh, it's too soon. Besides, the setting is not right. I'd like you to see the terrace of my apartment. Sound of the traffic, million miles away. The lights, twinkling like a vast necklace, inserting the city. And in the moonlight, oh, it's so, so romantic. Wow. Hello, Patrick. Oh, hello, Nancy. Hi, Andre. Hello, George. Jane, these are my friends. Nancy Benson and George Hastings, my producer. Dr. Alexander. Hello. How do you do, doctor? Andre was just telling me about his terrace. Oh, the terrace. The sound of the traffic, a million miles away. The lights, twinkling like a vast necklace.  The terrace. I don't care. Excuse me. There's a call for you from the hospital. I'll take the call here, waiter. Hello? This is Dr. Alexander. No, don't do that. I'll be there in 10 minutes. Get everything ready. Goodbye. Well, duty seems to call the doctor. I'm sorry. It's an emergency, Andre. I'll go with you. No, it'll probably take hours and hours. Good night, everyone. Oh, good night. Good night. Good night. Patty, you shouldn't have waited out here all night. I wanted to. I'm so glad you did. I was afraid you'd be tired. I am, but I feel wonderful. Let's sit here on the steps a minute. Of course I will. They said she'd die, but she didn't. I've never seen you this way before. I never felt this way. Dr. Gunther was there. He said I willed her alive. I couldn't tell him how I felt. I couldn't tell anybody but you. And you were right here. I'll always be here, Jane. Andre, about that theory of mine. Yes. Just before I left, I broke a test tube. It was empty, Andre. You know, Jane, I've invented so many characters, little puppets for my place.  I've been very clever, but I don't feel clever now. I just want you to marry me. And I now pronounce you man and wife. Andre. My darling. Oh, Andre, it's four o'clock. So? I'm late for an appendectomy. What? I'm due at the hospital in 10 minutes. I'll call you later. Aren't you even going to kiss the bride? Well, I suppose after the appendectomy. Honey, where are you? I'm home. Oh, that's fine, dear. Why don't you... What do you mean home? Of course, darling. But you can't be. I'm home. You're home and I'm home, too. Where? Here, in the same building. You're 17A and I'm 22B. I took my own apartment. You did what? Well, darling, it's the only scientific solution to our problem. What problem? Oh, it's the problem of maintaining our individual identities. Yours is a playwright and mine is a doctor. Otherwise, they'd just be lost in a hodgepodge of old-fashioned marriage. All right, all right. Don't say another word. I'll be right up. Going down, up. 22. Well, wouldn't you know it?  I'm going up, they want to go down. You can't win. 22. Apartment of a Rome. We'll see about that. Now, Jane. Isn't it wonderful, Andre? It's horrible. But I'm going to live here. All right, and so am I. But you can't. That would spoil my plan. It's not a plan. It's a plot. But Andre... Are you going to live with me in my apartment or not? No. If you'd only let me... All right. Wait, Andre. You haven't given me a chance to explain.  Going up. Jane, down. I don't know where you get such ideas. Look, if you want to go up, I'll take you up. It's all the same with me. Not you, her. He won't stay in my apartment. Well, maybe she's just old-fashioned. 17. Andre, you have to be reasonable. Well, is it unreasonable to expect my wife to live with me? Well, if you ask me, I'm not. But there are several reasons why I should live in a separate apartment. And they probably all come out of a test tube. Well, if that's the way you feel, I'm going home. Down? Up. This could make me neurotic. Well, when we married that I was a doctor and that I was going on with my work... Yes, but I didn't know I would have to make an appointment every time I wanted to see you. 22. Well, the routines of our lives are different. They just wouldn't fit. So we'll live apart, isn't that sensible?  We can have breakfast and dinner together. Fine. We'll be just as married as other people, but we'll have our own lives. 22. You can write and carry on your rehearsals and I won't interfere. But I want you to interfere.  But I want my own life too. 22. There is no room for sticky notions of one roof over our heads and jealousy and all those other things that make marriage difficult. Jealousy, my dear doctor. You wouldn't even know how to be jealous. 22. Well, of course not, dear. Jealousy is a very simple matter physiologically. It's merely a secretion of the adrenal glands. Very well, very well. You live on the 22nd floor and I live on 17. I'm sure we'll be very happy. You and me and the elevator boy. Welcome to the Screen Directors Playhouse production of Appointment for Love, starring Charles Boyer with Gail Storm and introduced by the director of the film William Citer. You are in Madison, Wisconsin, city of beautiful homes. That rusty lawnmower seems to weigh a ton. You, hot and tired from trimming your grass, pause to catch your breath. The screen door opens. Yoo-hoo! It's your wife. And in her hands is a tray containing, you guessed it, Papst Blue Ribbon. Finest beer served anywhere. Yes, during these hot August days, you're just one of millions of men all over America to whom that Papst Blue Ribbon bottle means welcome relief. For Papst Blue Ribbon does something more than quench your thirst. It gives you taste. Blue Ribbon tastes. The kind of taste you can't get anywhere else in the world except in that Papst Blue Ribbon bottle.  Yes, you hear it everywhere in Madison and Manchester and Mobile and Memphis. Papst Blue Ribbon. Finest beer served anywhere. Your taste will tell you why. Now back to the Screen Directors Playhouse production of Appointment for Love, starring Charles Boyer with Gail Storm. George, I've come to you as a friend. I need your advice. Well, what is it? Oh, I've married a monster. You mean Jane? Yes. She lives on the 22nd floor. I live on the 17th floor. I won't go up and she won't come down. You want my advice? Yes. Shoot it. But I love her. Well, then shoot yourself. I can't. I'm too brilliant. Well, what do you want me to do? With five floors between you, you don't need a friend. You need a helicopter. You know, it's this silly idea she has about marriage. You know, two people have to be two people. Well, that's nice if you like gin running. She wants her own apartment so she can carry on her work. Oh, I get it.  That's a cinch to break up. How? Go ahead and live your own. You'll be so jealous you'll set up lighthouse keeping in your hip pocket. She doesn't even believe in jealousy. She says it just glans. So it's glans. But get them working on your side. Maybe you're right. Sure am I. I know what I'm talking about, Andre. I've been divorced three times. Andre, I'm surprised at you, a happily married man, inviting me to his apartment. Well, why not?  And see, I wanted to see you again. Alone, of course. Don't explain, Pappy. Just make with the arms. With... Yes, well, we're just a minute. Say, are you expecting somebody? No, no, of course not. Why should I kiss you? Well, you keep looking at the door. Where's the lady doctor? In the balcony? She's at the hospital. You know, Nancy, it was very nice of you to come. Why? You asked me and I wanted to. It's been a long time since I kissed you, Pappy. No, no, no, Nancy, wait a minute. No, no, no, no. Hello, Andre. Oh, I'm sorry you're rehearsing. Yes. You know Miss Benson, dear? Of course. How do you do? How do you do? Well, I guess I'll be running along. Oh, please don't go. Just keep on with what you're doing. I'd like to stay and watch you, but I've got to hurry. I have a gentleman waiting in my apartment. What? Oh, it's all right, dear. I just dropped in to say hello anyway. Bye. I thought I'd been around, but this beats me. You didn't marry her on a bet or something, did you? A man in her apartment. Must be a cozy arrangement. Well, you know, I better go and explain this to her. Oh, sure. Poor kid's all broken up about it. She's probably terminated with jealousy. She did say a man, didn't she? That's what the lady said. That settles it. I'm going up. Up where? Just up. Yes, Andre? Oh, Jane, I must tell you something. You know, we were not really rehearsing downstairs. No, Miss Benson was paying me a, shall we say, social calls? Shh, not so loud. You'll disturb him. Him? Who is him? What is he doing here? A patient, no old friend of mine. I'm watching his fever. Why don't you move his fever into the hospital? Because I expected to break any time, Andre. Well, aren't you even going to let me in? Not now, dear. I'd prefer it if we were alone. I don't like his being here. Why not? I have no objection to Miss Benson being in your apartment. I know you haven't. That's a trouble with you. Andre. Why can't you be like other wives? Why can't you be jealous? And nag me a little bit. Because jealousy is a primitive emotion, and I am a scientist. George. Come on in, Andre. Uh, sit down.  How can I sit down? My marriage is finished before it even started. Didn't it work? What? The jealousy trick? Oh yes, it worked fine. It made me jealous of her. Wow. What happened? Well, I created a scene, a beautiful kissing scene with Nancy Benson. My wife thought we were rehearsing a play. She's so involved in her work, she doesn't even have time to be jealous. Well, look, Andre. Suppose you had a character in a play in your position. What would you do? Oh, well, that's a different thing. Oh, watch different about it. A good plot is still a good plot. The wife is a doctor. She devotes more time to her patients than to her husband. She refuses to become jealous. What does the husband do? Third act? Third act. Well, well, I imagine he would become a patient himself, vegan illness, some kind of accident. Now, she's a doctor. She has a doctor's duty and a woman's instincts. Now, the wife wants to take care of the husband herself. But the other woman gets there first. She lavishes her attention on him. The wife walks in. Jealousy triumphs. Can't turn each other's arms. That's it, Andre. I'll do it. I'll pretend I broke my leg. Well, a sprained ankle should be sufficient. Good. Now, go home and start suffering. I'll get in touch with Nancy Benson and Jeff. Curtain going up. How happy you poor darling. I came just as soon as I heard. Oh, thank you, Nancy. Oh, it's nothing really just a sprained ankle. How are you in much pain? I think I can bear it now that you are here. But what about your wife? She's a doctor, isn't she? I'm alone, dear. Alone in suffering. A broken man. Darling, George Hastings just phoned.  It's about time you got here. Yes, Nancy came to see me, darling. Isn't that nice of her? Charming. Now, Miss Benson, if I may examine my husband. It's my ankle. I think it's sprained. Let's see.  Miss Benson won't think you're a great, big, strong man. Stop torturing him. That's strange. Andre, we'd better take your temperature. For his sprained ankle? Might have gone to your head, dear. Now open your mouth. And don't bite the thermometer. Leave it there and don't try to talk. Now, Miss Benson, would you mind telling me what you're doing in my husband's apartment? Discussing a play. But there's only one play being made around here, and you're making it for him. If you take that thermometer out of his mouth, he's choking. Well, let him choke. Oh, let's see it. Well, it's just a little more like it. Like what? Like a wife. Here, here, turn your face to the light. Mm-hmm.  There's nothing wrong with your ankle. Well, what's wrong with my face? Spots. Spots. You've got the measles. Measles! Well, I think I'll just run along. Oh, just a minute, Miss Benson. Would you mind stepping over here into the light? Now, wait a minute, Florence Nightingale. Well, dearie, you've got them. Spots? Measles. Beautiful measles. Oh, no! As a doctor, I'm afraid I'm going to have to see that you're quarantined. You won't be able to leave the building. Darling, you mean she and I? We will have to stay here together? Well, happy. Oh, no. Doctor or no doctor, that's not going to happen. Darling. Yes, darling. And I'm speaking to the doctor. Darling, what is the saying, you know, physician, heal thyself? Well, yes, that's... Physician, heal thyself? Spots, darling. You're getting them. She'd be just mean enough to get measles at a time like this. Measles. Oh, that's wonderful, Andre. I can't continue my medical duties in this condition. You can't even leave the building. Measles. We'll share them together. We'll make it a honeymoon. Darling. Darling, what about, what about you? Uh, oh, her. My measles are just as good as yours. Anyway. Now, look, Jean. Jean, it's so simple. We'll use your apartment. Plenty to be. Well, what about me?  You can stay here. Alone? What'll I do? Count your spots. Come on, darling. Going up? Going up? Oh, boy. When will I tell my psychiatrist? We're moving into 22B. Isn't that lovely? Oh, I was laying 8 to 5. You'd move into 17A. We're going to spend our honeymoon there. Andre, I forgot. The measles. What about them? The elevator boy. Oh. Well, here's where you get off. Happy honeymoon. Happy measles. You have just heard the last act of appointment for love. In a moment, our stars, Charles Boyer and Gail Storm, and our screen director, William Citer, will return to the microphone. I happened to pick up a movie fan magazine the other day that was dated 1926. You can't imagine what changes have taken place since those old days, especially in the home lives of the movie stars.  Their idea of a good time consists of a few friends sitting around in the backyard, a plate of sandwiches, and some cold bottles of papsed blue ribbon beer. Yes, everything in perfect taste. Blue ribbon taste. It's that blue ribbon taste that makes this internationally famous beer so popular here in Hollywood. I'm going to ask the star of our radio program to bear me out on that statement. Mr. Charles Boyer. Mr. Boyer is it true that papsed blue ribbon is Hollywood's favorite beer? Well, I don't think I'm in a position to know. Well, are you ever served papsed blue ribbon in the homes of movie stars? Quite often. And of course, my wife and I also enjoy Tinahu. Charles. Yes, Gail. You know, you and I have a performer's view of appointment for love. I wonder how Director Bill Citer looks at the story. Well, Bill. Well, as I see it, appointment for love is more than just a comedy. It has a very deep and delicate social significance, a sort of moral. Of course. The moral is never trust a woman. Certainly not. The moral is never trust a man. You're both wrong. Well, what is it? Never give an elevator boy the measles. Well, as long as we are drawing morals, Bill, there is one lesson we actors and actresses have learned from all our pictures. There is no such thing as a good performance without the guidance of a fine director, such as yourself. And that's a lesson we'll never forget, Bill. Thank you, Gail and Charles, from all the directors. Good night, Bill. Gail, good night, everyone. Good night. Good night. And good night to you, Charles Boye, Gail Storm and William Citer. A quick reminder before we say good night. Tomorrow is the beginning of the weekend, two delightful days of relaxation. If you are planning picnics or backyard cookouts, be sure you have plenty of papped blue ribbon beer cooling in the refrigerator. It's a pleasant way to spend the weekend with friends and neighbors and papped blue ribbon. Finest beers serve anywhere. Your taste will tell you why. Next week on Screen Directors Playhouse, papped blue ribbon presents Apartment for Peggy and our star will be Gene Crane. Appointment for Love was presented through the courtesy of Universal International Pictures, now releasing Sword in the Desert, starring Dana Andrews, Marta Toran and Stephen McNally. Gail Storm will soon be seen with Dennis O'Keefe and Jeff Chandler in Abandoned, a Universal International Picture. William Citer's latest production is Borderline, starring Fred McMurray and Claire Trevor. Included in tonight's cast were Virginia Gregg, Jerry Hausner, Howard McNear, Drift Barnett and Don Stanley. Appointment for Love was adapted for radio by Richard Allen Simmons and original music was composed and conducted by Henry Russell. Screen Directors Playhouse was produced by Howard Wiley, with dramatic direction by Bill Karn. Listen again next week when Papped Blue Ribbon presents Screen Directors Playhouse, production Apartment for Peggy, director George Seaton, star Gene Crane. Screen Directors Playhouse is brought to you by the Papped Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, New York, New Jersey and Peoria, Illinois. And set your way with the best wishes of the Papped Blue Ribbon dealers from coast to coast. James Wallington speaking. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.


And I want to welcome everyone to this edition of the Public Good App House. We'll be showcasing tech for your nonprofit to unlock the power of location-based data. So, the Public Good App House events like these are initiative of the TechSoups Caribbean Studios. At TechSoup, we believe technology like smartphones, internet connectivity, training, and more have the power to serve our communities better. So, today's presentation we have Munira Lakanwala, as director of tech and training at Little Sys. Munira coordinates key projects initiatives related to Little Sys technology and the program to train aspiring power researchers. She also leads Little Sys participation in Crescendo, a project with Action Center on race and economy and power change to map the corporate power structure that profits from and is complicit in Islamophobia. Thanks, Munira. I'll let you get started. Thank you. Hi, thanks so much for inviting me to join. My name is Munira Lakanwala and I work at an organization called Little Sys. We're actually primarily a research organization that does what we call power research on power structures. So, kind of our mapping is more relational. We're looking at the way that corporations and government are kind of working together and mapping the kind of relational networks between corporations and government. Some people call it kind of corporate opposition research, and our work is really focused on supporting grassroots campaigns that are kind of challenging corporate power locally and nationally in some cases. So, as an organization, we're known as Little Sys, and that kind of, I can talk a little bit about that in a second. Our other name is Public Accountability Initiative, and our work is kind of broken into three areas, producing independent research, training organizers, activists, campaigners in doing kind of power analysis and corporate research. And we do this sort of through strategic partnerships with different organizations as well as kind of general trainings to the public. And then the third part of our work which I'll focus on today is the technology that we have created and provide for free to the general public to use to do the kind of research that we do. We have two technology offerings. One is the Little Sys.org database, which is, we get our name from Little Sys. Little Sys is the opposite of Big Brother, so it's a free open source research platform for researching powerful individuals and organizations, and it's, yeah, a wiki-style tool anyone can sign up for an account and use the database and also edit the database, so add research to it. And then the second tool, Olografer, is our mapping tool, which is what I'll show you all today. And it's integrated with the Little Sys database, and it's, yeah, a way for mapping kind of relational and power networks. Just a little bit about the history of Little Sys tech, the idea sort of originated in 2008, and it really came out of this need that we saw kind of in our movements for social justice to have a place where a lot of this research that was like living independently on different researchers, Google Drives could be housed in one place. It was a way to kind of bring together so that people who are doing corporate research wouldn't have to sort of start from scratch, that there would be a kind of database where some of the relationships would already be recorded, and people could kind of build their research off of that. And then in 2014, we developed Olografer, which is our mapping tool, and the name is, you know, two parts, you know, oligarchs and graphs, so mapping kind of power structures, and it became really useful. We saw it as an opportunity to help take the research that's in the Little Sys database and bring it to life. And I'll show some examples of Little Sys maps in just a second.  We have, you know, over 16,000 at this point, people who are using the Little Sys database or have used it, have used the mapping tool at some point, and the database itself has over 400,000 people in organizations in it, and, yeah, a million, a million and a half relationships between different entities. So I'll just actually show you all a couple of maps so you have a better sense of what the tool looks like. So just real quick, this is kind of just the homepage of the Little Sys.org database. The database is comprised of entity pages. So basically like profile pages on individuals and corporations or other kinds of organizations. Some people have referred to us as the involuntary Facebook of the 1%. It's a way that, and the data that's in the Little Sys database comes from publicly sourced data. So in order to add a relationship to the Little Sys database, you need to cite a source, and users use primarily publicly available data to do that. So, you know, for corporations, securities and exchange commission filings, other kind of primary source material is a lot of what users are using to add relationships to the database. So I'm just going to show a few examples of maps. I know that this tool is different from some of the ones that we have already looked at. So an example of the kind of map that a user might make using oligrapher is something like this to sort of look at kind of who is giving money to different hacks or different kind of business associations that are sponsoring certain kind of bills. So this is a map that was made recently, or actually, sorry, not recently, to show some of the organizations that were kind of, you know, sponsoring or supporting a certain kind of bill that was being passed locally in Florida. And it's, yeah, a way for users to and researchers to be able to kind of take maybe what might feel like wonky data or information that, you know, might not, might be hard to kind of convey to a reader in a news article and visualize it and be able to share it that way. So it's really about like the power of visualization to help tell stories about the flow of money or the way that kind of power functions. Another map that was made actually early on in oligrapher, in the life of oligrapher, is this map that actually went viral I think at some point. That's about the different banks and entities that were profiting from the Dakota Access Pipeline. And so this is a multi, this is what we call like a story map. And that's partly because it has these annotated slides that help you move through different parts of this very large map and help tell this kind of like complicated story about how, you know, different banks and financial institutions are sort of propping up this, you know, kind of environmental disaster. So these are, yeah, two kind of examples of maps that have been made by users and to help kind of translate research into a story. And there's definitely like more examples that you can look at if you sign up for an account and log into the database, you can explore more kind of user maps here and just kind of get a sense of, yeah, the breadth of research and mapping that's happening on the Little Sis database. So I'll actually stop there. Thanks so much.


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So we're here at the Computex and so who are you? My name is Tenshi. I'm the founder of the Acer computer. I'm also the founder of the Computex when I was the chairman of the Taipei Computer Association. So founder of Acer, so how is it possible that Taiwan is designing so many laptops like 80% of laptops or what is it? How is it possible that Taiwan is so much in front of everybody else? I've seen in 1976 when I found the Acer original called the Multitech I've seen the microprocessor technology is critical. So I promote those technologies to the society or to the industry and then we train 3,000 of the engineers in Taiwan. So everyone like to participate in this new application opportunity and of course in 1983 we introduced the first PG compatible products and then they created a lot of new opportunities based on that trend including the chip set, including the Xiamen Hantar manufacturer or display and many many other previous devices. So this is the reason I think Acer play an important role on this development, but in the same time the interpwnership here and also the small, medium-sized enterprise activity also make this ecosystem a cluster for Taiwan become so critical role in the popularity of the PC including notebook in Xiechuan. So what do you think is the role of Taiwan today? How do you compare it now? Compared to those times before like is it going crazy now much more things are happening And as so many new fields you're talking about IOT. Yes, the smartphone is bigger than PC now, right? So it's a big big change in the last few years. I think the based on the PC era we built up a lot of cluster, the infrastructure good for the future all type of ICT application. So including the primary service for Xiamen Hantar, including a lot of ICT design and also device design capability and now for IOT then we need a lot of application software and also the service. And I believe Taiwan, the culture of the interpwnership will make this new opportunity become one of the major player in the world because the role we play is really make all the partnership. We can work with everyone. And actually we also own some of the confidence many of the people they have to partnership with Taiwan. American company, Japanese, European company, they have to work with Taiwan in order to make a more effective of the solution for the market requirements. So you have all the talents, you have the talents, but you need investment, you need funds to make things happen, right? Right. Does Taiwan always have the right investment, the right time to make the new, you know, like not wait for Apple to do something but do it first, you know? I see Taiwan because local market is very small. We are now in the position to lead the market definition in the past. But Taiwan may become a leading innovative on new service or products for the Chinese marketplace for better quality of life because market is the driving force for the innovation. And I believe with a lot of capability, competence in Taiwan, they have a great opportunity to support the many of the Western player for their very realize their innovation opportunity, but in the same time Taiwan are going to have opportunity to lead the world for they reach the marketing sites in Chinese market and then we can make that available for the Western society. This, but this takes maybe 20, 30 years later. It takes time. You need a lot of new competence not so capable in Taiwan right now, but you can be done because market is a driving force for new innovation. This market you need to move fast, no? Yes. Like the market is moving so fast in two or three years, everything change, you know? Yes. I think the flexibility and the speed is the nature, the culture of the Taiwan. It's not a challenge to Taiwan. Challenge to Taiwan is, the Taiwan market is too small, very, very small.


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Ah, g'day mate, 40 here. So, I was just, what was I doing? Over the weekend, I was reading a book on Alexander Technique by Penelope Easton. And she mentions early on in the book how she recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome by something called mycal therapy. Why aren't I centered in this picture? Okay, so I never heard of mycal therapy and so I've struggled with chronic fatigue syndrome since I was 21. Basically Bedrin from age 21 to 27 with chronic fatigue syndrome. And it's kind of a weird thing that no one really knows what it is. So you certainly can't expect much sympathy and empathy for having chronic fatigue syndrome. So it's not something I talk about very much. And so I never heard of mycal therapy, M-I-C-K-E-L. So I looked it up and apparently you write down your symptoms so you might feel fatigue, you might feel blotto. So for example, before I did my stream with Doovid yesterday, I was just feeling really blah. So you write down your symptoms and then you write about what you're thinking, feeling and doing just prior to the symptoms and then you try to make different choices. And the developer of mycal therapy apparently has worked with thousands of people and he says that about 77% of them recover. So I'm incredibly intrigued. So I spent much of the weekend looking at mycal therapy. And there was one thing he said that particularly grabbed my attention and that was that his patients go from happy but sick to well and unhappy. So in other words, he pushes them to spend much more time and attention on what's negative in their life.  And I think I need to spend more time paying attention to what's negative and painful in my life. So there are certain failures in my life and I don't think I wanna list them but heck, maybe I will. So I'm a bachelor and certainly as an orthodox Jew that's a major failure in my life. So bachelorhood, failure, right? And that's the outcome. But the ultimate cause of that, as many steps up the chain, something about my predispositions toward selfishness, maybe some antisocial tendencies, desire just to do my own thing, self-seeking, perhaps unwillingness to compromise for the sake of other people, not having paid sufficient attention to earning a good living so that I could support a family because I just so I wanted to do my own thing like live streaming. Perhaps it's a result of me having delusions about my abilities as a live streamer and so putting perhaps more time and emphasis on live streaming when I should have spent more time earning in more prosaic ways. So maybe living in delusion is a significant part of the reason why I'm a bachelor at age 55. So thinking I should spend more time facing up to what's painful and negative in my life, just writing it down. 55 years of age don't have a lot of money say for retirement, I don't know about $14,000 say for retirement. I'm currently, the last few years I've only been saving money at a rate of about $3,000 a year. So I've made some changes and now I'm at a pace of saving money at about $10,000 a year.  And let me just journal about it and let's just say that's the outcome and then keep going back to the deepest cause because things like bachelorhood, that's a symptom, right? That's a symptom of, I think generally selfish self-seeking life, poverty again, I think is a symptom of a selfish self-seeking life not being sufficiently interested in being a service to other people just wanting to do my own thing. And so I think I could probably trace back almost all my problems to a root cause of a selfishness and a self-seeking attitude and inflexibility in my interactions with other people. So I was very struck by David Mikkel, MD, stating that his chronic fatigue syndrome patients went from feeling happy but sick to feeling well but unhappy. So when they were sick, they would try to practice the power of positive thinking, which I'm sure has its places. I'm sure there's room for positive thinking and there are some benefits for it and I enjoy being a happy guy 95% plus at the time. I feel good about myself 99% of the time, but I think I need to spend more time journaling about what's negative, journaling about say symptoms of fatigue or headaches or sleeplessness or selfishness and journal about the symptoms that I'm feeling then journal about what I was thinking, feeling and doing just prior to these symptoms and then journaling about, okay, what are some different choices I could make? Cause like there may be perfectly nice people that after I finished talking with them, I just feel absolutely exhausted. So I may need to exercise better energy management. Like, okay, I notice that whenever I talk to this person, I get exhausted. Maybe I need to make a different choice or I tend when I'm struggling to just ignore things and just keep pushing, keep pushing, keep pushing and maybe when stress and problems and failures like build up, instead of push, push, push through them, I need to take some time out to pray about them, meditate about them or just cut myself a break and rest. And you recall when I had chronic fatigue syndrome, it was my severe and all of my life since age 21 even before that, whenever I was doing things that I loved, I always had more energy than when I was doing things that I didn't love. So of course, many of the things that I love are really bad for me, but there are some things that I love that are good for me. And so I know there are certain things that I do that make me feel alive and so I can spend more time doing things that I love that make me feel more alive, more energized and I can choose those moments of excited interest to investigate topics and books and essays rather than trying to push myself, to slog through a book or an essay but seize that moment of excited interest when I'm happy and enthused and yearning to tackle this particular book. So yeah, doing what I love, I notice tends to produce more happiness and more energy and just pushing, pushing, pushing myself. There's a place for that, but I just can't let, you know, that that's slogging build up because it does tend to build, build and build and build. So maybe I need to take a little more time out for the power of negative thinking just face up to what's painful in my life where I'm failing in my life and perhaps look at the symptoms of fatigue, just feeling blotto and trace back the causes. Like I notice often when I've been working for somebody else, say in a job that I find boring or just a slog that I often develop headaches and neck aches and back aches and shoulder aches then as soon as I walk out of the job, you know, I feel fine, I feel great. So I need to switch into a mindset where I'm approaching that sort of work, you know, much more positively. Like, okay, I'm here to be of service. This is a way for me to make money so that I can be an upstanding adult. You know, let's charge into this and do good work because this will also expand my earning opportunities because when I'm in that kind of slog mindset, this is just onerous duty. Then I develop all these like physical symptoms of, you know, headaches and back aches and shoulder aches. So I need to move into that, you know, excited, energized, let's be of service. Let's get things done. Let's, you know, move ahead with my life. Let's seize these adult opportunities.