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Carol Nash with Alan Reed a Year ago when Luigi Basco left Italy to start his new life in America He promised his mother that he would write her and tell her about his adventures So now we look over Luigi's shoulder as he writes another letter to Mama Basco in Italy Mama Mia Yesterday, I find out that Italian boys very popular in America All over in the magazines in the newspapers unsigned is the picture of a two beautiful American girls Both the crazy over same Italian boys on a bottom at sea which it's when there has a Tony But in America Mamma Mia everything is a big in all the country when the fella has a cold is Just a plain of cold but in America fellow catches a cold in all directions So he takes the four-way cold tablet Out of countrymen for squali who bring me here and has spaghetti palace next to my antique store He's now giving his a fat daughter also reducing pills Last the week as she say takes so many reducing pills. She gained a six pounds Mama Mia you should see her she is only girl who can be in two places at the same time But don't worry. I'm still a singer and my business is all right This afternoon when Jimmy O'Connor my 12 year old general manager come home from school. He say hello boss Hello, Jimmy. How was school today? Not so hot. Is there no steam hidden school Jimmy? It's got nothing to do with that boy. It's just an expression. What it means Not to so hot Jimmy. Well, it means um crummy crummy What that means crummy means not so hot. Oh, why you don't The first place we better skip it for not to so hot crummy skip it Jimmy sometimes I think of there's two kinds of English in America Kind you learn in day school and kind they teach me in a night school What's doing around the storm is it Luigi? Did we get any mail? Sure this morning a postman bring me six the pounds of man Six pounds three letters and a catalog from Cesar O'Buck He's a finer writer if you get any check in those letters boss check so who's it going to send us check Doesn't anybody owe us money is other way around do we owe anybody money? Jimmy sit down we are still at it. Okay, boy Here's the first letter from the current silver company read it Jimmy Dear mr. Basko with regard your order of November 3rd We cannot send you the candlesticks you ordered until you send us the money you owe us We will send you the candlesticks when you send us the money. Uh-huh. What should I answer boss say? Please the cancel order is impossible for me to wait that long Our next letter Jimmy well this one is an important boss It's only a circular from Frank Hoover and son only Jimmy Hoover is important a fella Washington is the father of a country Hoover is the father of a vacuum cleaner But mr. Luigi this Hoover wants to buy a two-volume encyclopedia for only $16 right them as soon as I get $8 I send it for first the book But boss what good will one book do you then I'll be the smartest the fellow in Chicago from letter a to letter M Okay, and the sign it Luigi Basko and the Jimmy what a Jimmy boss mr. Hoover signs is a letter Frank Hoover and his son so I sign Luigi Basko and a Jimmy You're just like a son to me Thanks, boss But where do you expect to get that eight dollars? Don't worry Jimmy soon. We're gonna have money see this other letter What about it? It's from my cousin Salvador Who hasn't taken story in Boston? Remember Lady who ordered Admiral Perry mirror from me Mrs. Dixon. She's been coming here every day soon We get the mirror Jimmy, and we make a $200 profit. How do you figure $200 you're paying Salvador $200 for the mirror And Mrs. Dixon is going to give you $300. That's only a hundred dollar profit. Oh, no Jimmy Explain when the lady pays me $300 and I paid 200 that's a $100 profit, which is a hundred dollars I don't expect so so a hundred dollars. I get and a hundred dollars. I don't expect to that's a $200 That's not good arithmetic. It's a watch not good arithmetic. Maybe not the but I make a more money that way But mr. Luigi, what does Salvador say about the mirror? I read you that dear cousin Luigi Last the letter you send to me is to come here without a stamp, and I must pay letter carry it reset If you're reading this letter now, then we're even Don't be impatient Jimmy here's the mark Last week my papa who was 80 years old and he's not feeling too good So doctor tells him he must smoke only one a cigar a day Papa does this and now he's a feeler worse because he never smoked a cigar before in his life One of the Admiral Perry mirror coming wait Cousin Luigi, I'm sorry, but not surprised to hear about your troubles with the pasquale When I come to this country pasquale, he also tried to make a me marry his larger daughter, Rosa He promised me he make a biggest the wedding in a history of a Chicago That's the way. I'm a living in Boston The mirror boss the mirror cousin Luigi I'm a very fond of you and this year. I'm sending you Christmas presents But boy is an estimate Admiral Perry mirror is on the way Cousin Luigi your papa was a my uncle my papa was your uncle you honest fellow And I trust you with my life or so mirror is coming to you. See you're dead Hmm, well, that's a good what's good about it COD means collect on delivery. That's right. So I collect the mirror and delivery You don't understand boy when the expressman delivers a mirror you'll have to pay him $200 cash Express man. I don't know express money. I owe Salvador money. Well, that's the way it works though You pay the expressman and the company pays Salvador you mean Salvador express company more than he trust his own cousin Looks that way that's the Salvador I'm so angry with him. I'm not going to move him down from a first the cousin to a second What's more important is where you're gonna get the $200 I don't know first The better call-up express company and find out when they bring Admiral Perry mirror, okay Sorry, what is a finer Christmas present, but I get the $200 a pet for the mirror Maybe one express a man. I give him a COD. I give him I owe you Hello, Mrs. Dixon, I'm glad to see you mr. Basko has my Admiral Perry mirror come in yet. Well, you see I can't understand it It's only coming from Boston. Why should it take so long to get here business is slow I've been very patient about this it's been a month since I gave you a $50 deposit and I don't have the mirror lady I don't have the $50 I give it to Pasquale for the rent Mr. Basko really? How can you run a business that way? I don't know he's a very hard Please the Mrs. Dixon is there nothing to worry about cousins have a dog. Oh, hello, Mrs. Dixon. Hello young man Why did express them people say Jimmy? Oh, they're gonna deliver the Admiral Perry mirror this today today That's wonderful. See Mrs. Dixon. I thought there's nothing to worry about. They said a beer no later than five o'clock It's on the truck. Do you see Mrs. Dixon? It's a funny country when Admiral comes to buy truck in a set of boats It's about time. I'll be back at five mr. Basko. Goodbye. Hello, baby.  I'll pay you when I get the mirror not before But if you're giving me two hundred fifty dollars now then a mr. Dixon you absolutely sure to get the mirror Look mr. Basko. I've already given you a fifty dollar deposit. Maybe you like to give me five or more fifty dollar deposit I Should say not if that mirror isn't here by five o'clock sharp, then I'll thank you to return my fifty dollars You're welcome a lady That was a good try boy Jimmy, you know something what things is a not to so hot National Express Luigi Basko, I'm gonna win you back. I got a box for you Jimmy must be Admiral Perry in a box There's an admiral in there. He must be a midget Thank you very much. You go by does not so fast See you all day. It's a little matter two hundred dollars. If it's so little then don't worry Look, mr. All I know is I gotta get two hundred dollars or the box goes back on the truck Pleasure mr. Expressman wait to five minutes sit down here read the series of robot catalog We gone boy. I go see Pascuali Give my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello.   She's your wife. She's an after my wife I'm just thinking out loud Pascuali, I'm not the coming over to talk about the Rosa. I'm a coming over to talk about to me All right to find we talk about you. How would you like to marry Rosa? How did we get back to Russia so quick if it wasn't easy All right, Pascuali, then we talk about a roster fine. I'm listening with my ears the wide open How would Rosa's father like to lend me $200 my ears. They're just a suddenly close up Please Pascuali, I must have a $200 right away. What's the four you need $200 for Adam or Perry at Samara He loses a job. No, Adam or Perry. He's a dead. Then what a four he needs a $200. I explain $200 is to pay for mirror Luigi.  So what a ten cents a mirror Isn't that the mirror for shaving is antique. I just to get from cousin Salvador Don't mention his name. I don't like a fella who refuses to marry Rosa You're gonna go through life or not to like in a lot of fellas of Pascuali What's your cousin a Salvatore they got to do with a mirror? It's a business Salvador sends me a picture of Admiral Perry mirror and what the kind of a picture is it?   So I need a $200. You want to send a Pascuali show Luigi? I understand it all except the one to take it. What's that Pascuali? Where you gonna get the $200 That's the way I come here Pascuali. Goodbye Luigi. Please Pascuali express men as well I don't give you $200 and suppose you don't sell it a mirror that I'm a stop for the Pascuali Lady is coming five o'clock. She's gonna give me 250 dollars more. You mean she's a paid 300 or for what?  I make another 50 you make a hundred dollars a profit sure See I'm a good a businessman. You're letting me $200 a now Luigi. I'm thinking you see the little wheels are going around in my head I'm a dizzy watching All right, I'll lend you the money on a one condition Please Pascuali don't to bring a rosa up again. Who's it talking about a rosa? I'm talking as strictly business to between the two friends the two countrymen I've decided to lend you the money on a 50-50 deal. What do you mean a 50-50 deal? What do you make a $50 profit to we split? 40 for you for me and 10 for you But that's not a 50-50 Luigi. How much is a 40 and a 10 and how much is a 10 and a 40 so it's a 50-50 Okay Okay, Pascuali express men is waiting here is it 200 dollars of my little partner and remember I charge only same Interest of the bank six percent. That's all right only bank a charge of six percent a year and a you charge a six percent a minute America I love you you like a pop up to me Motion to ocean Well, I'm a six person man. I come here to your 200 dollars. Oh boy. That's great. Here's your receipt, mr. Best Thank you Jimmy give me screwdriver There he's a lot of saw that's a Jimmy now I pull out the mirror take it easy Jimmy Me We all the broke Ladies and gentlemen in the last two days two young entertainers have gotten their big break in show business on Donna Michi's new CBS afternoon show your lucky strike every afternoon Monday through Friday from now on Don will be here on CBS Introducing three or four promising young performers singers actors and comedians each day after you've listened to them Don will phone three CBS listeners daily asking you to vote on which entertainer gets the big break Listen tomorrow and every weekday Monday through Friday at 4 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time to your lucky strike Starring Donna Michi over most of the same CBS network stations And now for the second act of Luigi Basco's adventures in Chicago we turn to page two of his letter to his mother in Italy And the so Mamma Mia mirror is a broken And I pay two hundred dollars to see Admiral Perry loses the first battle If he sees it what happened to a mirror Admiral Perry goes right out and sinks Express Company But Jimmy he tells me to go to Express Company. Maybe I get back in my two hundred dollars So I go and the mama Mia. They ask him is so many questions and they send them into so many different people Mr. Basco was the damaged article a dead animal buried off the was a broken mirror Mr. Basco was the damaged article spoiled meat eggs or poultry was a broken mirror Mr. Basco was the damaged article of flour fruit or vegetables was a broken a mirror Mr. Basco was the damaged article a broken mirror if I say yes, so do I get the money first? How was it packed fiber box wooden box crape corrugated burlap barrel bale hamper, please mr. Basco stop me Please keep talking. I'm learning new words Are you familiar with the word triplicate? What this means? I'm going to make three copies of this report one goes to the main office the second goes to Boston and the third goes to mr. What the mr. Fisher does with his copy he sent it to mr. Hubble and mr. Hubble he sent it to the claims clerk Who is the claim clerk me? That's a good you nice to fellow You'll give me the money now I go home or just a minute mr. Basco, but a please I must I have a 200 dollar by five o'clock today sure you see Pascuali he loaned me $200. Yes. Yes, mr. Basco You'll get your money, but not without a certain amount of red tape. I'm in a hurry. I take the money without Patience mr. Basco patient. There are just these two forms the exception report and the joint inspection report Oh, I'm a man. I fell out the report the one you'll give me the money these things take time But rest assured mr. Basco National Express will make good your claim. Are you sure certainly the National Express company has never yet failed to pay an honest claim We're a solid is the rock of Gibraltar and you know the rock of Gibraltar If I don't a pepper squali is the money by five o'clock, then he's gonna make him a man in the rocket Gibraltar My little fifty-fifty partner. How's that little business a deal to come along what squali you said of that already What's the matter with you Luigi?  It's a bad news The best quality what's the better news in a fifth fatigue in a mess is a five o'clock Lady comes into your store and I pay you two hundred and fifty dollars You give me two hundred and forty dollars. You keep it a rest for yourself. What's so bad news about that? Squally the mirror is a broker. Well, that's What do you say? Please the best quality.    You're my only friend any fellow who's a friend of yours.  I save him money from antique a business Is there no more antique a business, huh? I'm gonna break it down at the wall between your story to my store And I'm gonna make a one a bigger spaghetti palace. Oh And what you're gonna happen it to my antique every Tuesday. We have antique tonight one antique of free with a two and a half dollars of dinner I Then what I do don't worry, Luigi. I got a bigger plan for you.  She's gonna sit at the cash register to keep a one eye on you and one eye on the money Is it this or your last to worry Pascuali? That's my final a sentence and this I don't take you worried for it You sign a note what kind of note promise sorry a note What the four if you don't pay me my money by five o'clock then you promise it to my rosa What do you say my son? Okay? Okay Papa son You've been all day boss What primary to Jimmy are three minutes to five we spend the last two three minutes to get it Jimmy What are you talking about? When a clock strikes a five is a good buy and take a store. Hello, Russia Didn't the express company give you back the money by the time as I pay me I'm gonna be a head waiter by name of Pierre Hello, Mr. Vasco hello, Mr. Dixon. It's five o'clock you have my mirror. Oh, he's a long story, Mr. Dixon You see never mind never mind just return my $50, please But I don't have the $50. Hello Luigi my friend. Hello. Hello. Hello, Pascuali. Five o'clock on the dot Pascuali, here's the Mr. Dixon. Mrs. Dixon. It's really nice at the media. Why? Why? Because of your hard luck is it make a my pleasure possible is the happiest moment of my life Sorry, I'm not gonna say the same I'd like my deposit, Mr. Vasco I'm gonna give you the $50. This is a Dixon and I'm gonna give you Luigi a little sunshine Rosa Looks like a big storm and not a sunshine Rosa, Rosa Hello to Luigi Mrs. Dixon it's a given me great pleasure to present to the future. Mrs.  Bear's school for me where it's from same place is your last one Boston I don't appreciate a day for any more broken of things.  Yeah, boy Mama me I hope Look is that the mother Perry mirror mrs. Dixon. Oh, it's beautiful Now, you know why I wanted it so bad. He's only yours and this is it. Oh, thank you, mr. Vasco. Now, here's your money. Thank you, but swallow. Here's your money, but a Luigi by friend I know I terrible my promissory. No, sir. Goodbye. Rosa Should I take a bite Papa? Goodbye for swallow. Hey, what do you mean a goodbye, Louis? Sure, you're gonna tear down a ticket store and make a one the biggest spaghetti palace, you know No, Luigi, I've been a tank in if you can a saddle want a mirror to make a hundred dollars a profit Yes, a Pasquale. I'm gonna tear down a spaghetti palace and make a one a big antique So mama Mia Everything will work out fine Lady pay for me a Pasquale make money and he give me part of it Pasquale say he gonna give me roster for Christmas But I don't worry She wants to fit under my tree next week, I Think I go in a record place and I make a little a record of letter and a send you Listen careful to my voice. 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Hello, everybody. Happy Sunday Funday. Happy day six of your shadow work challenge. This was the day that I was actually the most excited about because today on your exercise, you got to do Richard Simmons sweating to the oldies. But before we get into that, there's something I want to ask you guys. I am now have been made aware with some of our friends in France that perhaps I have to be careful how I see this, perhaps maybe some of the more potent interviews and topics that I cover that I have to put on the other platform is not accessible to our French friends due to censorship. So that's the case. I've been thinking about this all morning because I noticed with the tomorrow episode that I released yesterday the full conversation we had. I had to put it on the other platform and some people left comments. They couldn't see it because they're in France. And so I was really thinking about this this morning, like, how am I going to be able to get these interviews to our friends who are in countries where they're being restricted, not their fault. They're just being restricted by their governments. And I kind of considered maybe doing a mailing list. I had never done a mailing list before, but I've worked for businesses who have. And so I was thinking maybe if you're from France, will you send me an email at esotericatlant.com and so I can figure out what's going to work for you guys. Like if I put these interviews in a mailing list or from MailChimp or something and it went out to you, is that could you see it then? Basically is what I'm asking. How can we figure this problem, this puzzle out, right?  And so for our patriots, friends over in France, let me know what I can do. Let's figure this out. How do we get this information to you guys? We can't put it on YouTube. So how are we going to do this? So let's figure this out together. How to get around this obstacle. And then of course, if a mailing list that's something you're all interested in, I can start doing monthly mailing lists with more information about yoga courses, shadow work stuff, interviews, all that kind of stuff, whatever you guys want. Just talking out loud right now. Let me know. Let's figure this out together. All right. Now back to Richard Simmons. So once again, this was my favorite. I was so excited about you guys doing this today. And so let's go back and look again at what you guys had to do. So you had to do today. The 60 minutes went into the oldies. And I said to make sure to smile and have fun while you do this one. And again, this was the Richard Simmons. And I told you yesterday that there was a very specific reason why I picked Richard Simmons. And I already discussed this in our Signal Group. There's actually multiple reasons why I picked Richard Simmons. But what I wanted to get you guys to do is to do an exercise where you couldn't help but have fun, where you could help but have joy brought up in you within the exercise. And Richard Simmons always for the most part, generally speaking, sparks joy in people. And so this has to do with a lesson that is taught in the Bhagavad Gita. And now the Bhagavad Gita is one of my favorite, favorite, favorite, all-time scriptures. And there was a concept that was spoken about the Bhagavad Gita or is spoken about the Bhagavad Gita, which really hit me hard when I first started to study it. And it's basically loving the work for the sake of the work and not for the fruits of your labor. Now any one of us who was raised in a Western society or even not just Western society, we've kind of been taught to work really hard for the benefit of that hard work, right? Like get the good job, work the long hours so you can afford, you know, the beautiful house and the suburbs with the pool and the car and all that kind of stuff. It's all about the reward. Whereas when we're looking at the spiritual implications of what Krishna is saying in the Bhagavad Gita, no, don't even think about the reward. Don't even think about the finish line. Be in the moment. Enjoy the work for the sake of the work. Now when you first start to incorporate exercise as a modality for shadow work, a lot of pains come up in the body, which is necessary. That's the friction, right? And so it's hard in the beginning to be able to lean into that pain and enjoy that pain for the sake of working through the pain, if that makes sense. And so I wanted to put in Richard Sim and sweat into the oldies so that you could actually have a modality of joy and over time start to incorporate that element of joy into even the exercises that aren't so joyful. I'm not saying be toxically positive because toxic positivity is frankly disgusting and it's not a part of spirituality. So when you're doing the yoga and the bar and these movements are triggering deep held emotions, I'm not saying to just smile and grin and bear it through it. No, not at all. I'm telling you to lean into the tears, to lean into the grief, to lean into the sorrow and embrace it as Shanti says, welcome it. So in the beginning, I thought if I could just add one day a week where there's an entertaining exercise, then maybe this concept will start to shift in the mind and the patterning can change because one thing we're also looking at here is changing your way of thinking. So I just got off the signal group saying, you know, one thing that that we have to learn, especially as Westerners is to toughen up, right? And we know that the controllers have tried to make us weak. They've gotten to us to a place where we're scared of our own bodies.  We're not that delicate. We're the survivors of ancestors who survived plagues, fires, all sorts of stuff. We are their descendants.  You are not a delicate little flower that will break it at any moment, right? No, you're tougher than that. And so that's one thing that spirituality is going to teach you. You have to toughen up. I mean, my friend Cindy and I were having a conversation this morning with Stephanie and some other people at her shala. The teachings we have now in spirituality are nothing compared to what people went through before us. The toughness, the brutality that they had to go through. I mean, there are stories of what spiritual teachers, historically speaking, are not nice people. They're tough people because when you're coddled, when the coddling is happening, then the ego is being stroked. We have to come up against the ego, right? If you haven't been pissed off at your teacher at some point, then your ego hasn't been pushed, all right? And that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to shatter that ego. We're trying to allow the pains to come up in the body. So if you've got a shoulder pain, a knee pain, a back pain, a toe pain, whatever it is, it's not a pain that should be coddled. Yes, we're going to modify. Yes, we're going to work with it. But we got to ask the body, okay, body, what are you trying to tell me with my right shoulder hurts? What are you trying to tell me? So that's your body's way of communicating with you. There's an injury here. There's a wound here. In all of these wounds, all of these physical pains are just manifestations from something emotional, even injuries. So even if you have the propensity to sprain your left ankle, okay, well, what's your left ankle trying to tell you then? Does that make sense? Now, I also want to reiterate that with detoxing. When you start to detox, that only are you detoxing food and chemicals, all sorts of stuff, but you're detoxing emotions. And as our friend Emmy said, energy is not bound by time or space.  So what to expect with detoxing headaches? You got to get some headaches, tiredness, you're going to all of a sudden feel very lethargic, or you could come to the point where you're actually having a hard time sleeping.  This is all normal, very, very, very normal. As far as the castor oil bath, there's been a lot of conversation on Signal about this castor oil bath, all it's for is to help with your inflammation. It's detoxing your fascia. And so any type of digestion issues you have or respiratory issues you have are not coming from the castor oil, okay? So if you had stomach aches after doing the castor oil bath on Friday night, it's because of something you ate earlier that day. It doesn't have to do with the castor oil. If you're finding yourself coughing now, you're having some respiratory problems, good. Something's moved. Something shifted and shook up. That's your heart chakra. That's right here. So what is being presented to you? So if you started to cough and you're feeling that come up, what is your body presenting to you to now work on? I can't answer that for you. That's why we have the journaling is for you to start to come to that conclusion yourself. Now also, you guys, yesterday you did sound bowl healing for the first time too. And I'm curious to know how you like sound bowl healing. Is this something that was new for you or was this something you've done before? Now tomorrow, Monday, November 7th, you're now a whole week into the challenge. So you're going to go back and do the 45 minute bar exercise. Again, the same one that you did the very, very first day. And you have the option to add ashtonga nurses, 20 minute beginner yoga into this workout either before after the bar. Now you're going to do your cold minute, your cold shower for five minutes. And then you're going to do another meditation. So you're going to do a 15 minute all meditation. I have the link right here. Now, all is the word of God. Okay. And with meditation, I've noticed that a lot of people do not do not understand meditation.  No, that's not meditation. Meditation is finding a one pointed focus. You're not trying to create anything.  Okay. I'm very hesitant to use the word manifestation because sometimes that word is used in the negative for spirituality on a negative purposes.  Your Dharma is what's owed to you. It's your life purpose. If you try to manifest something that isn't yours, then you're dabbling in black magic. So I'd be very, very careful about that. Okay. Now, so with the 15 minute meditation, you're going to turn this chant on.   And this is going to get your spine to start to straighten. And this is, this could be very uncomfortable for you at first. Okay. Again, the spine is Shoshuna. So expect in this process of this shadow work, expect for your back muscles to get sore. It's okay. Remember, you're not a delicate little flower. We got to toughen up the soreness in the spine is all those muscles coming back to life. Muscles in your spine that perhaps went into atrophy as you got older. And as those muscles start to come back to life through strengthening, you're going to pull your spine up. Okay. And the wall is going to help you stay in that upright position because your spine carries Shoshuna, which is the tunnel of energy that carries Kundalini. Okay. And so if it's bent and it's hunched over, it's like a hose, right? When a hose is bent, the water can't come through. And so we want to get that, that column of energy to be as upright as possible. Okay. And that might be frustrating for a while. And if your back is sore, awesome. That means that you're training those muscles, it will pass. Okay. So you're going to get comfortable on the floor, sitting with your back against the wall and listen to this Aum meditation for 15 minutes. Okay. So as you hear the Aum, I want your mind to be focused on that mantra on the Aum. Okay. If you find your mind slipping off into other thoughts, just acknowledge them, let it go and bring your mind back to the Aum. This is getting that one pointed focus. Okay. And that's all 15 minutes. So and I'm actually going to be bringing in hopefully a meditation teacher on towards the end of the challenge. You should not be meditating over 15 minutes. If you go over 15 minutes, you're moving into derangement, psychosis, all sorts of mental issues and escapism. And so this meditation teacher is going to get into that. Why any of the great teachers say only 15 minutes at the very most. All right. 15 minutes, that's it. Because we don't want you to go into derangement. We don't want you to go into psychosis. We don't want you to go into escapism, any of that kind of stuff. Okay. So only 15 minutes to get that one point of focus and then you go about your day. Starting tomorrow, you're also going to start a food journal. You're going to start writing about your food. And that's why I had you study the doshas this weekend. So since you're weak into the challenge, now you're going to add a food journal onto your daily journaling. This is going to give you a better understanding of how the energy of food affects the energy of your body in order for you to find the best food source for you.  Not one diet is good for every person.  Don't leave anything out. And then 30 minutes to an hour after you eat, I want you to jot down how you're feeling. And again, reactions to food don't just look like stomach problems or rashes on the skin. They can also look like anxiety and depression. And so I want you to note that as well. Are you feeling panicky an hour after you eat? Are you feeling depression an hour after you eat? I want you to write that down. And throughout the rest of this challenge, you're going to be doing this. And so at the end of the challenge, you're going to have a whole record for yourself to start to see what foods work for you and what foods don't. And I know that this is going to be really hard programming to break. Okay? We have been conditioned and programmed and trained to believe that certain foods are healthy and certain foods are not healthy.   Okay? An apple, a raw apple for someone like me whose vata is detrimental to my health. Grapes are detrimental to my health. For a cup of though, apple and grapes are great. Okay? So this is about matching your energy with your energy. We have this weird thing called intuitive eating now. And that is something I think everybody on the spiritual path should kind of turn away from because our psyche has been so broken and so programmed that we don't know what intuitive eating actually is. When your dosha is out of balance, it's going to crave what it's out of balance with. So if my vata is out of balance, I'm going to crave apples and grapes, which is the last thing that I should be eating when it's out of balance. And so I have to have more intelligent eating, understanding the energy, knowing the energy, right? Because knowledge protects. Sorry, I thought I heard someone come in. Knowledge protects and knowledge is power and knowledge is infinite. Okay? And so for the rest of this month, I'm not putting you on any type of diet plan because I don't believe in diets anyway. I want you to examine yourself.  Now I had this a week into, I added this a week into the challenge for a reason. If we were doing like a six month challenge, I would probably add this in on the second month. But we're only doing 30 days. So I added it in the second week. That is because you've now had a week of exercise. And the more you exercise, the more you're going to become entuned to your subtle body. All right? And so sometimes, especially for so programmed to believe a food is healthy, that we won't notice the side effects that our body is trying to tell us that this food is not healthy for us. But now that you're studying the dosages, now that you're exercising, you're becoming more in touch with your subtle body. And so you're going to pick up on these things a lot easier now. We're talking in the chat signal group, you know, people saying, Oh, I eat healthy, but I'm having this issue come up. Well, obviously, there's something in your diet. If you're eating healthy, but you're getting a headache, there's something in your diet that isn't working for you. Just because the controllers tell you something is healthy doesn't mean it is. I mean, hello, the controllers tell you this is healthy. And we know it's not. And so this is where this deep programming and you're going to see as as the guy from the Tarteria documentary says, you're going to start to see when your backup programming kicks in, where you have this panic, because you're told that this thing is is healthy. But now it's near tell to maybe it's not healthy. And so that backup programming is going to start to kick in. All right. And so that's something you're just going to have to watch yourself go through. And I will tell you when it's also kind of an identity crisis, I think, especially for Westerners, because a lot of this stuff is not coming from what we perceive to be as our culture, right? Like the Ayurvedic system came from India.  It's just that the Western world was the first takeover in this new world starts with an O system that the controllers want to implement. So you're literally going back to your ancient roots of understanding energy, understanding herbs, understanding oils, all that kind of stuff, okay? So every person is literally going back to their ancestors and how their ancestors understood food, time, all that kind of stuff. But this is something that's going to take a moment to understand and to learn, right? And so be patient with yourself as you take these notes as you discover this stuff. That's why I always say in a healthy home, every member of the house will have a different dinner, right? No one in the house should be eating the same dinner. That's not, no, everybody in the house should be eating food based on their specific dosha and not everybody in the house is going to have the same dosha.  But I want you to start to think about that and really start to break that programming that they have us in because all the programming they put us under is not for our highest good and we know this. So journaling, how do you feel a week after tomorrow? How do you feel a week after the challenge? How do your clothes fit differently? Are you noticing muscle toning? Is the exercise getting easier? Is going to bed earlier getting easier? How is your overall feeling and mood progressing through this? What new emotions are coming up for you? How did you like the all meditation? How was it different from sound bowl healing? Okay, so some people, you might be in the dark night of the soul right now. When I say how was your overall feeling and mood progressing through this, I want you to journal the truth. I don't want you to live in the land of toxic positivity. If you're feeling like shit, write about it.  I've been there. I have been there. You know, it's a rough road. It's killing yourself isn't easy. It's the initiates path. It's never easy. And so I want you to be very honest with yourself about where you are. Be vulnerable with yourself. All right, list five things that you like about yourself. The five things that you're grateful for today. List three new things you learned about yourself over the last week. Once again, turn your electronics off before one hour before bed. Go to bed before 10 and then we'll get into Tuesday tomorrow. So we know astrologically, we're in a crazy time right now too. Saturn and Uranus are doing their tango, which if you know anything about the planet, Saturn is like father time. Saturn is very organized. Saturn is very much about a schedule.  All right. And so they're squaring off and doing their tango right now. We also know we have a blood moon coming up on Tuesday, which is a very interesting date for us here in America. We know that we're in a clip season. So the universe is offering you a lot of friction. I think it's very divine timing that this shadow work challenge is coming over this time astrologically as well. And so when we know what's going on, we can handle what's going on.  Whatever happens in the exterior world politically is going to happen. It's already in the works, right? I want you to observe what's happening within you. Where is Saturn and Uranus squaring off and tangoing? Where is that causing friction within you? I don't even want you to really pay much attention to the outside world. What is happening inside you, right? Whatever is happening in the outside world will happen and we'll get through it. But for this, I want you to instead of looking outside of yourself for the answers, I want you to look inside of yourself. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And I'm trying to think if there's anything else that we wanted to talk about. People are having a hard time finding the signal group. I will put a link again. It's on the community board on my community board, but I'll put a link again for you guys to join us over there and just keep rolling through it guys to saying easy. It's not easy, but no one ever said spirituality was supposed to be easy. The ones that said it's supposed to be easy are the infiltrators, right? You're doing more by doing the first week of this challenge. You've already shifted your ways, yourself in ways that you're not even aware of yet. And so awesome, incredible, great, amazing. Just keep going.  Even if that means you have to crawl, just keep moving forward. Marnie Alton said something once. It doesn't matter how fast you're going when you're going in the wrong direction. Likewise, it doesn't matter how slow you're going when you're going in the right direction.  This is why you came here to human was for this, for this work. So all right guys, let me know your experiences down in the comment section below. Once again, I'm heavily shadow banned. We're doing something right. So please share this video with everybody. Like, leave a comment, share away so that we can get this stuff out to other people and really get humanity to get off their asses. Stop the people sitting around eating popcorn, saying they're watching a movie or are the people holding us up right now. And so we want to spread this message and get people to really start to use their body and learn the lessons of their body so that we can all move together collectively through this collective karma. All right, guys, I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye.


What stood out to you from the defensive effort tonight? Yeah, obviously we knew Taken DeLove, try to bring his percentages down. That was game plan, first part of the game plan. And then limiting Tramond and effect on the game with his passing and mission accomplished. I like how our young guys finished the game, too. I thought they showed real progress and all around good defensive effort. Let's talk to Teplay who's mentioning the team needing to win the games they're supposed to win. How pleased are you with the team's level of focus these last couple of games? Yeah, you know, Golden State played really well last three games, and this game really worried me. So take care of business was important. Right now we look forward to playing two elite teams in the next three games and be a good test to see where we are. But we know we're going to need our physicality and athleticism to play against those two teams. So good test coming up for us. Kenny, you talked pre-game about with guarding the Angelo playing to the numbers and what the stats tell you. Is there any advantage to counting a guy or coaching a plane against a guy that you know so well in him and his tendencies? Yeah, I do think it helps knowing him definitely and knowing how good he is. Obviously, we made a concerted effort to limit his touches. He was 5 for 8 from mid-range in the first half, just so everybody understands that the analytics doesn't work out what he was from mid-range in the second half. I'll be curious to see. But heck of a player, I'm glad we slowed him down a little. But definitely an advantage when you know a guy. Now you were caught up in the game. Were you able to hear any of the chance for him? He was only here two years, but he got quite the reception. Yeah, I love it. I mean, that's great of our fans. I think they appreciate it. They appreciated what he did for us. And I know our coaching staff and the guys that were here really, really appreciate them. I know they were all talking to them. I had a good moment with them before the game. We definitely have a place in our heart for Dilo. And also, you kind of touched on it. But going 5-2 against those seven losing teams, do you feel you got back on track a little bit? Yeah, yes. I mean, it was an important stretch. And I kept saying, we need to get money back from previous missteps. So the fact that we made some money back, like I said before, though, the challenge now is the Toronto's and the Indiana's of the world. Where are we against those elite team? I do think despite Kyrie's injury, obviously, Kara's coming back and getting back into form is huge for us. DJ coming back, the fact that we're more healthy than before, I think that's huge. Once we get Kyrie back, we're going to keep getting better and better. I feel good where the team is right now. And that's one other thing I wanted to ask is, I know it's a week before evaluation, but do you have any sense of where Kyrie's at right now? Yeah, I mean, no update. I definitely don't want to speculate. No, nothing to give you there, Greg. Understanding that, obviously, each team is different, and that was a somewhat depleted Golden State team. But are there things that you've seen defensively as you stack one way after the other that you think are sustainable going forward, things that you can use going forward to playing the Indiana and the Toronto's? Yeah, I mean, our Achilles heel has been our rebounding. So the fact that we've, I thought, tonight was one of our best rebounding games of the year. So we do get stops. We're good forcing teams to miss. I think the rebounding piece is huge. We've got to keep improving there. I thought we slipped a couple of games with our transition defense, especially in Washington, which gives us some regrets. But our transition defense got back on track these past two games. So those are the two big rocks that we've improved. But still have a long way to go, Brian. And I think on the other side of it is our turnovers. If we can become better at taking care of the ball, I think we have enough talent in there to be a top 10 offense. I do. There's no doubt about it. We just got to keep working on taking care of the ball better. I think playing, being healthy and playing stable lineups is going to help that tremendously. Coach, Rody's three-point shooting is night and day compared to last year. Have you seen us changing him or anything he's doing differently this year? Like, where is this coming from? He's not hesitating as much. I think he's more confident. He worked hard over the offseason on his shots. Because he continues to shot.  You know, you just can't, I think, in the past, he relied on his athleticism all the time and just driving it. You just can't do that in this league. It's too good. They learn you quick. That's going to be his kind of his development piece. So, you know, was he going to be a consistent shooter? If he can do that, he's going to be a really valuable player in this league.


You got guys communicating and whoever across the line of scrimmage you know we have came up short you know we have you know we've been in tight games where like this past weekend we lost by a field goal and just like things like that where we could just make that one extra play and I think that's where we have to the mindset on defense how can we make that play that they making an offense or whatever it may be how can we get the ball off the offense and like you know they creating turnovers we have to win that turnover March we don't want to turn over the ball of course but I can say we have to create ways to get the ball off the offense because I said we right there we want to be especially like we doing hell of a job on third down we on the field on third down now it's the next step in getting the ball. Does using two quarterbacks is that hard to kind of prepare for the way that they're doing that? I don't think so I think when you if you watching for them and you taking the coaching especially when we getting out of information that we we getting you know because they are when they when one quarterback in is different and the other quarterback in is different you know they doing different things with each quarterback they both can run a little bit but of course Driscoll you know he can run a little more than you know a meal so you know you kind of when you prepare and you getting ready for these type of games when they each one of them come in you kind of know what you to expect and you know what you're gonna get no doubt and then I think that's what we come in as players as leaders you know we have to have we have to hold each and every one accountable you have to hold each other to a hot standard no matter who on the field who not on the field you know we have to go where the mindset that we trying to win a game you know these and these guys you know these new guys get signed on the Wednesday and have to play on the Sunday they doing the hell of a job they have done hell of a job for us and then and just the props to the type of team we have because these guys don't know everything and then just the communication we big on communicating on the field so I think that's where helping these guys out you know by make it coming in and make plays so yeah the standard still up there you know matter if they you know get called up on the Saturday yeah I think that's when coach Rave say everyone have to prepare like a starter that's what we expect especially as a leader that you know like I said I'm gonna give my all I expect guys to prepare and get ready to play in the game. A better mindset which I am feeling today we had a little Christmas giveaway thing today I got me a bottle of pappy so I'm feeling real good right now but nah man it ain't doom and gloom obviously losing four straight is definitely something that we don't want but you know we have a great opportunity in front of us to guard there and beat our division opponent Houston Texans which is going to be a really cold game so that should be exciting and fun but yeah you know we still control our destiny to go out here we just got to win out and that's the bottom line but it starts this week when Houston yeah I mean sign a new guys every week the roster just definitely always fluid still don't have any answers for you on that but you know at the end of the day we just got to guard there and execute the guys that we have out there yeah I mean I'm playing really good obviously they're running back Damian Pierce is not out there no more but they've been running this two quarterback system with Driscoll and Mills they've been playing really well so this is not gonna be any type of cake walk or anything like that we're gonna go out there and play really good football to beat this team at home um you don't really see it around the league especially I mean just was been there but like I said they're doing similar things when they're both in the game but obviously when just Driscoll's in there it's a little bit more leaning to the run but obviously he can throw he's been a quarterback in his league for a long time so I just feel like they're trying to mix things up to give teams different looks to so we can communicate a little bit better I think the previous experience helped a lot as far as just knowing what it takes and knowing what your routine is gonna be in order to prepare I mean it's different every week who we play yeah but the way you prepare it's not it's the same mostly so it's just understanding what it takes and going out there every day and now I get to get the reps a little bit more so just going out there and getting better and then your first start was against the Texans the second time around with it how much of a benefit potentially is that if you're the guy I think it's a really cool opportunity and I think it's that at the end of the day it's an opportunity so I take it like any other one I mean yeah my first start was against them but that too much don't matter it's a little bit in the past it's about going out there and try to prepare for them this week and they've been playing hard games against these last few teams they've been playing and you just got to respect them I think I gotta keep getting better brother I mean six weeks worth of learning I mean at the end of the day I'm just trying to learn some every day continue to grow and get better thank you also opens up coordinator said that he feels like the game has slowed down for you some how would you describe how it has I think you just continuous reps I mean it's been about 14 15 weeks and seeing the same stuff every day going against a great defense with sorry because it just continuing to try to grow and get better every day and learn from mistakes and not be scared to make them you know that's what it's about when it does slow down for you what what other benefits are there it just helps the team at the end of the day if I'm comfortable out there then they can be comfortable knowing that I know what I'm doing and good to go sorry he also said some of some of the things that have been kind of teaching points they talked to you about are now conversations if you kind of felt that transition and notice that you've gone from kind of taking instruction to more in conversations with him about certain stuff I think it's more like any relationship you have you just continue to grow and build and at the beginning you have a lot of stuff to learn especially coming into this league but starting to get used to the how it goes and just continue to like I say grow and get better Roger McFerry mentioned that one of your best


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All right, welcome to this lecture on electronic spectroscopy, where the topic will be to talk about the spectroscopy or the types of light that are absorbed by molecules when you change their electronic states rather than their rotational or vibrational states. So we know that molecules can change their position in several different ways. They can translate, they can rotate, they can vibrate. But each of those motions involves changing the positions of the atoms of the molecule, the nuclei themselves, changing the locations of the individual atoms. So since we're moving the nuclei around, those are called nuclear states of the molecule. The energy levels that are produced when we solve the Schrodinger's equation for those types of motion are nuclear energy levels. Nuclear in this case doesn't have anything to do with radioactivity. The word nuclear here just means having to do with the nuclei. So we know that the spacing between those energy levels, the translational energy levels are based very closely together in most cases. Rotational energy levels are somewhat larger, but still less than kT in most cases, and the vibrational energy levels are spaced with an even larger spacing. But molecules, in addition to having nuclei, also have electrons. If we want to fully describe the state of the molecule, we need to specify not just where the nuclei are, but where the electrons are in that molecule. So if the electrons have their own potential energy, they have their own energy levels, and we can calculate the electronic energy levels of the molecule. So the question that's going to be relevant is what is the spacing between those electronic energy levels? Because as we've seen, if the spacing between the levels is very small, then there's many of them occupied at room temperature. If the spacing is large, then only the lowest levels, or perhaps even only the ground state level are substantially occupied at room temperature. So the main question is going to be how far apart are those electronic energy levels? So what we could do, of course, is what we did for translations and rotations and vibrations. We can write down the Schrodinger equation if we're able to solve, write down the potential energy of the equation. We can solve Schrodinger's equation, but we're not going to do that for the electronic states. Instead, I'll just point out that every time we solve that equation so far, the energy has ended up looking like some h's in a numerator, a mass in the denominator, and then some details that depend on specifically what the problem was. And the h's in the m's show up because there's an h squared over an m in the original Schrodinger equation in the kinetic energy term. So in general, what that means is the lighter an object is, the larger its energy levels will be. And that is one of the most important things that determines the energies of electronic energy levels. When we're talking about nuclei, the smallest nuclei we can have is a hydrogen atom, or hydrogen nucleus. Its mass is about one gram per mole, or in SI units, that's about 10 to the minus 27th kilograms. Mass of an electron, of course, is much lighter. Electrons are about 2,000 times lighter than a hydrogen atom. So the mass of an electron is much, much smaller than one gram per mole. It's only about 10 to the minus 30th kilograms. So that's about three orders of magnitude smaller than the mass of a hydrogen atom. So what that means is the energy levels for electronic states where we're moving light electrons around are going to be several orders of magnitude larger than the energy levels associated with moving nuclei around. So the spacings are going to be quite large. In terms of actual quantitative numbers, so we know rotation energy spacings are smaller than vibrational energy spacings, and we've just convinced ourselves that they're probably going to be even smaller than electronic energy spacings. When they're expressed in terms of wave numbers, we've already seen that rotational excitations usually take a few wave numbers, somewhere in the microwave portion of the spectrum. Vibrational energy excitations might take a few hundred or a few thousand wave numbers depending on what type of bond we're talking about, and that's in the infrared portion of the spectrum. Whereas electronic energy levels, as we'll see in just a second, typically require maybe 10,000 or 100,000 wave numbers in order to be excited. And that falls typically in the ultraviolet or the visible portions of the spectrum. So again, several orders of magnitude larger than the energy required to excite nuclear emotions. All right, so what are these electronic states? What do they mean exactly when I say an electronic state of a molecule? Let's start with what we know about vibrational and rotational states. If a molecule looks like a harmonic oscillator, it's got equally spaced vibrational levels and then stacked on top of those are lots of rotational states with smaller spacing. Each vibrational level has its own family of rotational levels. If we zoom out a little bit, we can see that those vibrational levels live within this well, which is not quite harmonic. It becomes anharmonic if we move to longer bond lengths. But that one potential energy well, that one bond, is one of only several different bonds that can cause the molecule to experience. So there's this family and this figure, the green, blue, purple, yellow and red curves are all different electronic states of the molecule. I show you another picture. These are all pictures based on real molecules. The picture on the left is for an O2 molecule, the energy levels on the right are for a nitrogen molecule and two. So you can see that there's several different curves. Each of those corresponds to a different electronic state. Each of those electronic states has its own family of vibrational levels. And the scale is such that we can't see the very finely spaced rotational levels stacked on top of the vibrational levels. So now, in terms of actual units, the spacing in this nitrogen example, the spacing between the ground vibrational level in the lowest electronic state and the ground vibrational level in the next electronic state, works out to be about 50,000 wave numbers. So that's just an illustration of the fact that the electronic states are spaced by tens of thousands of wave numbers typically. So what are these electronic states? What do they mean? If I ask you to describe the electronic state of an atom, let's start with atoms because they're a little simpler than diatomic molecules, if I were to ask, let's say, a general chemistry student, tell me what you can about the electrons that live in a nitrogen atom. That general chemistry student might give me an electron configuration. Nitrogen has nine electrons, so the electron configuration is 1s2, 2s2, 2p5, for example. So that's a way of specifying the state of the electrons in the nitrogen atom. Some of them live in S orbital, some of them live in P orbitals. There's another way of describing the symmetry, the properties of those electrons a little more compactly. We give it something called a term symbol. I won't explain exactly what this means, but we can say that the term symbol that describes those electrons in a nitrogen atom is this superscript 4 followed by an S. We would pronounce that quadruplet S. It's in a quadruplet S state. And again, I won't specify exactly what that means. Think of that as just a label we use to describe the electrons in this nitrogen atom. There's more than one possible electronic state for the electrons in that atom. So for example, if the molecule was not in its ground state, if I didn't put the electrons in the lowest possible energy levels, I could excite one of them. For example, let me take one of these electrons. Actually, there's a typo here. Take one of these electrons from the 2p5 configuration and excite it up to a 3s1 configuration. And that's a different electronic state of the molecule. I've taken one of the electrons out of the 2p orbital and I've promoted it to a 3s orbital. That would give it a different term symbol. So the point is we can put electrons in different orbitals, give them different energies. Those all correspond to different states of the molecule. That's really all we mean by electronic states. When we move on to molecules rather than atoms, things get a little bit more complicated. Those of you who remember MO theory or the very small minority of you who enjoyed MO theory might be able to remember that the electron configuration for an N2 molecule is this long string sigma 1s2, sigma 1s anti-bonding 2, et cetera. So that's just a way of describing where are the electrons in the nitrogen molecule? Are they in sigma orbitals or pi orbitals? Are they in bonding orbitals or anti-bonding orbitals? And just like the nitrogen atom, we can give that electron configuration a term symbol to describe the symmetry of the electrons in various ways.  But again, the ground electronic state of the molecule where all the electrons are in the lowest possible energy levels is not the only one. We can excite that some of those electrons out of the lower lying levels up to higher lying levels and that would correspond to some different electronic state. So rather than writing out electron configurations, I'll just say that the term symbols for the ground state or the excited states, we might write them as singlet sigma or doublet sigma or triplet sigma and so on. So each of those term symbols looks something like this. There might be superscripts before or after a capital Greek letter and there might be a subscript that is a G or a U. And those all have different meanings. In this class, we won't get into the details of how to understand the term symbols in detail. I'll just mention what they are, but you won't be responsible for them. The capital Greek letter, sigma or pi or delta, that's a lot like the S or P or D that would describe orbitals of an electron and a hydrogen atom. S, sigma being the Greek version of an S, pi being the Greek version of a P and delta being the Greek version of a D. Essentially what's that's describing is the total angular momentum of the electrons in this molecule. There's a subscript that describes whether the electrons are symmetric or anti-symmetric with respect to reflection of a particular type. There's another superscript which corresponds to a different type of symmetry called parity. Those, we're not gonna think about too much. The one we are gonna be concerned with is this superscript number in front of the Greek letter which describes the spin of the molecule in particular the total spin of the molecule in a way that describes its multiplicity. So for example, we know that electrons can have spin of plus one half or minus one half, spin up or spin down. If the total spin in the molecule is zero, if the spin quantum number S is zero, then this quantity two S plus one would be one and we call that molecule a singlet. It's in a singlet state. There's only one way for that spinless molecule to exist. On the other hand, if the spin is one half and the spin could either be up or down, two S plus one, one S is equal to half, that turns out to be two and that's the doublet molecule which refers to the fact that there's two configurations the spin can exist in. So all we need to know for right now is this superscript number describes the spin of the molecule. Okay, so what else can we say about the electronic states of the molecule? Look at the curves on the right side of the screen here. If I put the electrons in a different configuration, if I promote some of them to an antibonding orbital, if I move them from a sigma orbital to a pi orbital and so on, that's gonna change where the electrons are in the molecule. It's gonna change, for example, what the bond order of the molecule is. If I promote, if I take let's say a nitrogen atom and I promote some of the atoms from bonding orbitals to antibonding orbitals, I can convert that triple bonded nitrogen atom in its ground state to a double bonded or to a single bonded molecule. So I can change the bond order of the molecule by moving the electrons into different orbitals. By changing the bond order, I can certainly weaken or sometimes strengthen the bond. So on this diagram, the way I recognize a weaker or a stronger bond is by how much energy it takes to dissociate the bond. So in this case, the ground state of the molecule, nitrogen is a triple bonded molecule in its ground state. It takes a lot of energy, this much energy to dissociate that molecule but in one of the different electron configurations, one of the different electronic states, it takes less energy to dissociate the molecule. So each one of these curves has a different dissociation energy corresponding to how strong the bond is. I can also, by changing the electrons, that also has an effect on the bond length of the molecule and that's also visible in this figure. The ground state of the molecule, the bottom of the well is located at this particular bond length, whereas some of the excited states have the bond lengths that are a little bit different. And that makes sense if I weaken the bond, if I take nitrogen with a triple bond, compared to nitrogen with a double bond or a single bond, the weaker bonds tend to have longer bond lengths. And you can see that in this figure, that the weaker bonds tend to have longer bond lengths. We can also see that the different curves on this diagram all have different curvatures, which we think of as the spring constant. Remember when we solve for the vibrational energies, the curvature of this well, when we treat it as a harmonic oscillator, determine the frequency of the harmonic oscillator, the frequency with which the molecules bond vibrates. So some of these molecules have relatively soft spring constants, some have relatively stiff spring constants, and that affects the spacing of the vibrational energy levels and the frequency of the molecules. And the last difference between all these different curves is, of course, what happens when you stretch the bond to the point when the bond dissociates, if I have N2 molecules and I stretch the bond, what I end up with after dissociation is two nitrogen atoms. And those nitrogen atoms themselves have electrons. You can see on the diagram that sometimes when I dissociate the bonds, the products have one energy, and sometimes when I dissociate a bond, the products have a different energy. And that's accounted for the fact that the nitrogen atoms themselves dissociated into different electron configurations, either dissociated into nitrogen atoms in the ground state or I dissociated into nitrogen atoms that themselves may be in an excited electronic configuration. So some of those details we can get just by looking at this diagram. All right, so what we have learned about electronic states so far is that by putting electrons into different orbitals, different positions within the molecule, different wave functions, that can certainly change the properties of the molecule, I can change its energy, I can change its bond length, I can change its vibrational frequency. Every one of those electronic states is not just one state, it is a description of the molecule that allows it to vibrate with different frequencies and therefore have a completely different vibrational ladder of vibrational states that live within that electronic state. So this electronic state has its own vibrational ladder, this electronic state has its own vibrational ladder and so on. The spacing between those electronic states is quite large compared to the spacing between vibrational energy states. It's on the order of tens or hundreds of thousands of wave numbers so that requires UV or visible light to excite it. And then when we want to describe these electronic states, usually what we do is we give them this cryptic label like singlet sigma plus G and the important part of that label for us in the near future will be the spin term, the singlet doublet triplet portion of that term. So what we're gonna do next is combine all that information and use it to describe the types of light that molecules will be able to absorb but that will be in the next lecture.


Aloha and welcome to Kondo Insider, Hawaii's show about association living, and as I've said many times before, about one-third of our population lives in some form of association here in Hawaii. And the purpose of our show is to talk about relevant issues going on and bring in great guests to talk about those. And I just want to mention to anybody, if you're interested in joining our conversation, feel free to call our hotline at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Well, we're in this political season and the 2017 Hawaii legislature is getting ready to get started very shortly. And so I invited as my guest today a very good friend, Alicia Malo-Affiti from Luigi Communications, who's a professional lobbyist. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Tell me, everybody about you, tell us about yourself a little bit. I am a lobbyist. I'm a registered lobbyist, but I'm a consultant, so I work on a variety of projects at the county and the state level. And I basically do anything from communications, shall reach an education to direct lobbying. And you have another little program you're the executive director of, I know, Poy Dogs and Papoke. That's my love. I want you to tell us about that. That's a very exciting program. Things we do professionally and things we do for love.  But we run the island's only mobile spay-neuter clinic. We provide high-volume, affordable spay-neuter services to people all around the island. And I also do animal rescue. We help people with vet care and other support care so that people can be better pet owners. I know for condos, particularly you offer programs of trapping cats and replacing them after they've been neutered, right? We try to work very closely with property managers. We know that the feral cat population has some problems here on the island, especially within condominiums and plant community associations. So we encourage trapped neuter return. That is, we help them trap the cats, get them sterilized and put them back. It takes care of a lot of the cat fighting, the howling, urination, a lot of the issues that condominium and property managers face. We want to help them come up with a viable, humane, compassionate solution. So if you're a condo and a board and you have that problem, they should call Poy Dogs and Papoke and ask for help. Absolutely. We will help them. And I can tell everybody, because I've worked in the condo industry for a long time, it really works trapping, neutering and returning them to the scene. It's a great program to solve the problem here in Hawaii, the feral cat problem. It's a great, great way to make a better place for you to live.  I mean, everybody kind of, I hate to say it, but the word lobbyist sometimes has a negative connotation to it. It's not very popular, yes. And so, how does that, I mean, how do you become one? And are there rules and regulations? What do you do to become a lobbyist? Most people don't even know what a lobbyist is. They hear it, it's negative, but they don't really know what we do. What we do is we work with clients, and it could be non-profits. It could be a for-profit corporation, and they might have an issue or a problem with the way the law is created, and they need a solution. So it might be something small, it might be something big. So we work with our clients to introduce legislation, a bill that can correct their issue, and we work with them to educate lawmakers, try to get that new law passed and implemented. And do you have rules of conduct, or when you're working with legislators in the sense of what you can do and can't do? Absolutely, we have to follow a code of ethics, just like elected officials do, and that has to do with whether we're taking them to dinner or providing other entertainment or providing a campaign contribution. We also have to be registered. We have to conduct ourselves in a certain manner as we go into legislator offices or work with other candidates for office. So absolutely, we have to follow a code of ethics. And me also being a lobbyist, as you know, I know that the legislator themselves, as well as we as a lobbyist, have to give very detailed financial reports and the things we've done to make sure that it's fully disclosed, and there are rules on what you can do and what you can't do. Absolutely, and I think maybe one of the misunderstandings or a perception out there is that legislators or elected officials are bought and paid for by lobbyists, and I will tell you right now, I'd be a very popular lobbyist if I could make a campaign contribution and get a vote pass. It really does not work that way. Everybody out there, every voter, every resident is encouraged to support candidates for office that support their issues. And lobbyists, that's what we do as well. I know from my experience, I've always found the legislator very open to hear from me, but at the same time, they make their own independent judgment because they're going to get both sides at a coin and people advocating for both sides of an issue. So I found the legislator being very sincere and trying their best and hear both sides and give an opportunity to everybody to be heard, but I'm with you. You can't buy and sell a legislator. First of all, they're ethical and they're good people caring about Hawaii, but it's just the rules would catch it. Well, I think in any industry, in any profession, you're going to have some bad apples. So I think once in a while, you hear about it in the news, but the majority of lawmakers, elected officials and politicians and lobbyists are good people and we're just trying to do our job. I agree. So the legislature, the system globally, or strategically or the high level, how often does it meet, how big is it? Kind of tell us about the legislature in Hawaii. So here in Hawaii, we meet once a year. It's usually the third week of Wednesday of January through the first week of May. So we've got about 60 days of working days in which to pass a bill and get it out and up to the governor for signature. We have a House of Representatives and a Senate with 51 elected House members and 25 senators. And then we have the lieutenant governor and the governor. And so if a bill is going to be introduced, how does the people bring the bills to the legislators or the legislators themselves make these bills? Where does the bill come from initially? So most of the time, it's because of constituent concerns on issues.  I need a solution. So you go to them. They will introduce the bill, the legislation. Your member in the House will introduce it and then your member in the Senate will introduce it. So you've got two bills being heard by what we call these chambers, the House and Senate. And halfway along there, they're going to cross over and they're going to be heard in both chambers again. At the end of all that, the last two weeks, we get the Senate and the House together and they need to finally negotiate on that bill to figure out, can we come to an agreement on what we both want for this legislation? And that assumes, of course, that the bill has value and merit by both the senators and the representatives. They see there's a need for this. So how about how many bills a year are introduced into the legislature? Do you have any idea? It's big. It's anywhere from 2,500 to 3,500 and maybe at certain times in the past, it's tipped 4,000. At the end of the day, though, after session is out, we're really looking at maybe 100 to 150 bills that actually pass out. So a number of bills don't even make it into a hearing. So the bill's been introduced. And so it's going to get assigned to committees for hearings. Is that kind of the next step? Yeah. So if you have an issue, so I'll take the caregiver issue because it's been recently in the news where a husband and wife couldn't actually live in a care home together. They had to separate them. So that's kind of a health and human services issue. So what the House and the Senate will do and their leadership, they'll assign it to health and then a human services hearing and then maybe even a finance hearing. So it'll go to each committee hearing first in the House and they'll mirror that in the Senate and then we call it crossover and that's when if the bills really made it through their own chambers, they're going to crossover and repeat that sequence. And it really, it's called subject matter areas. So it might go to consumer protection. It might go to finance. It might go to water land. It might go to agriculture. So all these issues are being introduced by people with all kinds of problems looking for solutions and it's going to be referred to committees that have more of the subject matter expertise. And who is the person that refers it or selects the committee it's referred to? So each of the House and the Senate has what we call leadership and it might be comprised of the majority leader, the caucus leader, it might be the Senate President, Senate Vice President. So each chamber picks, you know, four or five of their leadership to decide where to refer their bills to. So if that happens and the bill comes in that leadership will say, in the case you gave, that belongs in health and it belongs in housing or whatever it may be. Is it possible they'll say, we're not going to hear this bill at all if anybody? Majority of bills don't even get a hearing, not at all. So they are going to refer it to a committee and as a lobbyist and as the public, my job is to go to those committee chairs and make sure that they hear the bill. That is part of what we do as lobbyists. So the first step is the bill gets introduced by one of the elected representatives and the leadership then signs it to a committee. And then maybe that will get a hearing and maybe it won't get a hearing. Correct. And if it doesn't get a hearing, it's for all practical purposes dead. For the most part, it could come alive later in the form of another bill that's often discouraged, but a lot of things happen at the legislature that we can't control and some things we can. But for the most part, if the public is looking for a solution to a problem, then I think the lawmakers are going to do what's right. So we take a bill that's now been assigned to two or three committees, maybe one. Is it mostly one, two or three committees? I mean, I would say on average it's two committees. If you get, we call it a triple referral. If you get three committees that it has to go to, remember we only have a certain amount of timeline to get these bills out of their chambers. So it's very hard to get bills out if they have three committees. If they just have one committee, if it just has to do with a tax, the general excise tax, it might only go to the finance committee or the ways and means committee. Those move very quick. Those types of issues move very quickly. So I'd say on average, two committees. You want a couple of views. You want different people looking at it from different angles because issues are so broad, so complex, and lawmakers are voting on these issues. So like you said, we want to hear both sides. We want to get all the information, make sure we're making a fact-based decision on whether to pass it out or not. So triple referrals are difficult because of the time required and the amount of time you have with the legislations and session to go through this entire process of the public hearing and the testimony and this process. You're saying it's just generally very hard to get through a three committee assignment. It is, but in general, getting 76 people at the state capitol to agree on one issue and the solution to that issue, that is really the most difficult thing. So you're going to have problems. You're going to have challenges. And that's why at the end of the day, we're only going to have a certain number of cases of legislation actually pass through. So let's just take it now. Let's just say it's a single referral, a single committee. So that committee chair, they'll all schedule a hearing and you will have a chance to testify either over the internet, I would assume, or in person or both. And nowadays it's so easy. The state legislature's made it very convenient for people to go online to register to submit their written testimony. They can even type out comments right there online. They can also fax in their testimony. They can email in their testimony and they can show up. They can actually come to the hearing and offer oral testimony. So that's what we have, written testimony and oral testimony. Oral testimony is a little bit harder because you need to get to the capitol. You need to sit around. An agenda might have 20 bills to be heard. So you may sit around for an hour or two hours waiting for your bill to be heard. But the most effective is to put in written testimony and then to come down and testify. So it's important to be written and be there in person, not just to do the written testimony. And not everybody has the ability to do that because as I said, I am a lobbyist and this is my job and I do it for a living and I get paid to do it. But for everybody, you know, Joe blows sitting at home. It's a little bit harder for them.  So it is harder for the public to be there in person. So if they can't be there in person, they should be sure to communicate with their lawmaker. And I would say one thing. I've used the website to make, to testimony. It's a very robust website. You can do searches based on a keyword. You know, you can see the bills, the hearing dates, the schedules. You can submit testimony online by either writing in the notes column or by attaching a Word document or a PDF document. It's actually quite easy to testify in writing with our legislature here in Hawaii. And you can actually see other people's testimony at some point during the process. It's not online instantly, but it eventually gets online. And because this process is very quick, you really need to stay on top of these bills if you're following one. Now you can sign up and make sure you get a notice. Every time there's a hearing on your bill or your issue, then you'll get an email reminder saying, hey, your bill's coming up for hearing. Get in your testimony. It's a very quick turnaround. And we have, they have another office at the state capitol, legislative information, and they have people working there to help the public navigate the process. Well, this is quite fascinating. We have more to talk about. We're going to take a short break and we'll be right back in a second. Hello, this is Martin de Spang. I want to get you excited about my new show, which is Humane Architecture for Hawaii and Beyond. We're going to broadcast on Tuesdays, 5 p.m. here on Think Tech Hawaii. Hi, I'm Stacy Hayashi, and you can catch me on Mondays at 11 on Think Tech Hawaii. Stacy to the rescue. See you then. Hi, I'm Chris Leitham with The Economy and You, and I'd like to invite you each week to come watch my show each Wednesday at 3 p.m. Hello, I'm Mary Ansaki. Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii, where some of the most interesting conversations in Honolulu go on. I have a show on Wednesdays from one to two called Life in the Law, where we discuss legal issues, politics, governmental topics, and a whole host of issues. I hope you'll join me. Welcome back to Condo Insider. Again, you can join our conversation by dialing<PHONE_NUMBER>. We're talking with Alicia Maloafiti, a professional lobbyist in our legislature, and we're talking about how the legislator works. I guess some people would say how it doesn't work, but to me, I think that there's a very difficult job being a legislature. They have so much on their plate, and I think they're all trying to do the best they can for Hawaii. But we were talking about the ways and the importance of testimony by the public, and then review, you were saying, they can do it written and oral. So when you find someone goes down there and testifies oral age, you find that legislators are really interested, or they have preconceived, made up their mind, or how do you... No, I think that for the most part, I think just... I think all of us that are at the Capitol every day, anytime you see somebody take time out of their very busy lives to come down and share their opinion on an issue, the issue must be very important to them, because that's exactly why they're there. And so I feel legislators really appreciate folks that do take the time out to come down and testify. And do you have any words of wisdom for someone testifying, like be short, be honest, look them in the eye? Well, rule number one is never read your testimony. So I would say that if you're... And I have a master's degree in communications, and so what we like to do is submit your testimony if you can keep it to one page, but really pull out talking points. Like what are the three most important things that you would tell the lawmakers? Some of these hearings are timed. You get a little one-minute or a two-minute ding, and then they ask you to wrap up. You don't want to have to be wrapping up your testimony when you didn't state the most important issue. So I would... I think that that is going to be the most important thing to do. It's just be succinct and be clear and prioritize your message. I think I've different people you said also. You've given them the written testimony. Don't read it. It's probably frustrating to them, because they've read it already. You're just restating what you've already said in writing, and they want to hear from you one-on-one, mono-o-mono. This is the most important thing to me and why.  And they'll ask you questions if there's something that they need clarity on. They have the ability to ask the testifier some questions. I've seen that too, because people will testify that at the end they'll ask certain people to come back up and they'll ask questions, but I think we have to be respectful of their time. It's a very busy job and being succinct, and I want to throw in being honest, because I've seen people exaggerate in their testimony. And I think the legislators are smarter than that if you're not really upfront with them and you try to create a position that's really not based on the facts, you can lose credibility. I think also that some people, because a lot of these issues are emotional and very near and dear to their heart, you really kind of have to tone down the emotion. I think it, and I'm a very emotional person when I testify, but I think things that are very negative or name-calling or accusations, I would just try to keep it as positive as possible and really make sure that you're focused on the facts. A lot of folks do have emotion when they testify. I think that's okay, but not to resort to a more of a negative testimony. Keep it positive. So the bill gets introduced. It's referred to committee. The committee now has hearings and at some point in time, they're going to vote on that bill either as it is or typically they're amended, I would say. More often than not, they're amended. And so what happens after it gets passed by committee? Well, it's going to go back down to the floor. So basically each bill goes to their committees and are heard and the lawmakers in that committee will decide whether to pass it out. It goes back down to the floor of the entire House or Senate and gets voted on again there and it goes back to the next committee. So they keep repeating this process until we come to that crossover point and that is all the House bills go to the Senate and all the Senate bills go over to the House and they just do the same thing over and over again. They refer to committee, they vote on the floor and they pass it out again. So if a bill didn't get through all the committees in the House, that means it would kind of naturally die because it couldn't cross over because it never got passed out by all the referrals. It could die in the House, but like I said, if you're playing your cards right, you're going to introduce the bill in the House and introduce it in the Senate. So you might still have a Senate version of that bill alive. And so that bill is crossing over because sometimes it doesn't make sense. Why I got to hear this bill? I see it's moving in the Senate. I don't have time to hear it. We'll wait for the Senate bill to come over and then we'll hear it. So there's a lot of strategy that goes into moving a bill through the legislative process. And at some point though, they cross over and maybe it died in one House in the House, but not in the Senate. It crosses over and like you said, it begins the process again of going through the committee hearings. Absolutely. And then what happens? At the end of the day, after all these bills returned back to their House, we call them the originating chamber, the House or the Senate, they've got two bills or one bill and they can't agree on. We call it conference committee and the lawmakers from the House and the lawmakers from the Senate get together for about two weeks and they hammer out an agreement on what they think would be the appropriate language for that bill. So that's conference committee. It's the last two weeks of session. And once, not all bills pass out of conference.  If the House and Senate cannot agree, the bills are gonna die. If they agree, they go back to the floor for final reading. And so the final reading and then there's a final vote. Final reading, final vote. If they get enough votes, you need majority in the House, majority in the Senate, right? So we need 26 votes in the House and 13 votes in the Senate. And if they can all get those bills out and off the floor, then they go up to the governor for signature. So let's just, before it goes to the governor, now we're back and we're gonna have the vote in the Senate or the House and the majority approval. It's gone through a lot of vetting by now. It's been going, you know, these legislators are in the committees, many of them. Do most of these pass out after they've gone through this extensive process kind of quickly and unanimously? Is there still a fight on the floor of the final version where... Every session, there are gonna be very controversial issues. I think those are the issues that are going to have conflict on the floor. And the lawmakers who feel passionately about those issues or if they wanna explain their position, they're gonna do a floor speech and they're gonna get up and say, Speaker, I rise in support of this bill and this is why. And it could be because they have constituents who have issues, it could be a personal thing and it could just be that they know this issue better than everybody else. So there are gonna be arguments on the floor for and against these bills. I don't think there's ever, ever a sure thing. And so it gets passed out. And now it goes to the governor. What's his choices? His choices are... And by the way, if the bills could pass out quicker than the end of session, it could just be a really boom, boom, they're done and it goes up to the governor and he can sign it. He can let it become law without his signature or he can veto it. Now, usually about a month after session ends, he has to put out a list of the bills that he has not signed that he may veto, may veto. So that list comes out about the middle of June and he has to usually first week of July to actually veto the bills. And if he vetoes it then... Well, usually I would say if he vetoes the bill during an election year, that's it. The bills are dead and they may bring it up during the next session but this past session, they have a special election. A special session. Special session is they take the governor's vetoed bills, the ones they want to vote on and if they go down to vote on these bills they need two-thirds vote to override a veto by the governor. So they did this with the hospital issue on Maui. And that's two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate. It's the same set of standards and rules. Special session is very hard though but we have had special session and I think almost the last three, four years they've gone into special sessions.  No, I don't drink at all. It's very stressful. We have a lot of people that we're with from morning to night, the first hearings at 8 a.m., finance hearings. I've been at the Capitol till 10 p.m. at night. Sometimes hearings go till 2 and 3 a.m. So they work long hours. We work long hours and hopefully at the end of the day they'll be happy with what's passed out. Is the time they're not in the session, I don't know if they're in the session, what they call it, is that an important time to go talk with legislators? Because it seems like they're so busy during the legislature that you may be hard... It is, in fact, that's the best time to talk to them, I will say, except in an election year many of them are very busy working on their campaigns and even other candidates for office. I think for anybody, if you're looking at making a policy change through legislation, you should just try to talk to as many people as possible.  But it is, it's probably the best time to catch them, is that little, you know, second week of May through maybe the middle of November. Usually around November is when we're kicking up what kind of issues are we going to face, what kind of... Where do we think they're going to go as far as committees? Those are the folks we want to talk to and make sure we get in before session. When it starts, it's a rush. Have you ever thought about running for office yourself since you've seen the process? I have been asked to run for office repeatedly. I have to tell you, I just would never want to run for office. I see what these folks go through, the campaigns that they have to run. It is a lot of work and it's the kind of job that people just don't seem to appreciate. I mean, there's a lot of critics out there and until they've run their own campaign and had to run for office, I think maybe there's not a lot they could be saying about it. So, no, I am not interested in running for office. It's a lot. They take on a lot. So, we're going into the 2017 legislature. What do you think of this year? What do we think the hot topics are going to be? What do you see as going to be the forefront of the legislature in 2017? I think these are all the issues that are near and dear to our hearts as comma, aina. And I think number one is going to be housing and homelessness. As we see every year, these are very important issues. The cost of being able to afford to raise our families here. And the second issue to that is going to be, and you heard the governor already talk about doubling food production by 2030, and that's food security and food sustainability. So, agriculture is going to be, I believe, at the forefront, the ability of farmers to produce the food to stay here in Hawaii. I think the third issue is really that's been coming up year after year as well because we have some 2050 goals in mind, and that's energy. A lot of our energy issues and the ability to sustain the living here in Hawaii to have lower bills, it really comes down to families. And how do we continue to raise our families here in Hawaii? Those are going to be, I think, the top issues at the legislature. Well, I want to thank you for being here today.   You have to give up a lot of time and be ready to give up evenings and weekends and spend a lot of time on the issues, but it's very important for the health of Hawaii to have good legislation recognized by good legislators in our legislature. So, I want to thank all of you for watching this week's Condo Insider, and we'll see you next Thursday at 3 o'clock. We hope.