We digitize library special collections and faculty material and material from community and our goal is always to make this material publicly accessible. The construction of the digitization center and its staffing, so the development of the center is directly tied to the library's 2010 to 2015 strategic plan. And so one of the goals of the strategic plan is to create a comprehensive digitization program to provide unlimited online access to materials of research and teaching value. So some of our funded projects are initiated externally. We're digitizing a large archival phone right now for a group of scholars from the University of Tokyo. There's donor funded projects that are initiated by us. So one recent example of that is Chinese-Canadian stories. So we created a portal to bring together material about Chinese-Canadians. So that's material from our special collections and then some of it was contributed by our community partners. So we have this form that we ask people to fill in, but accompanying that we also have a digital collection policy. So it guides our decision making and taking on new projects. And it's also available on our website under the documentation area. And so it asks questions like are there possibilities for creating partnerships and collaborations that could come out of this project? Does the material support the teaching and research that goes on at UBC? And is there a possibility of obtaining funding? And then we sit down with the team in the digitization center. And as I mentioned, anyone is welcome to propose a project, but it's a good idea to come and talk to us first. So many of you might wonder why we have so many scanning devices here. And a lot of them are unlike the ones you have at home, which are just your regular 8.5 x 11 scanners. Well, a lot of the materials we have are quite large, as the one I'm holding right here. So with our 54 inch wide scanner, we can scan material like this at very high resolutions and then derive as many types as we want from that. So this is an example of how we scan something that's large format. So we feed it into the scanner like this. The scanner pulls it in. And we're scanning this at 400 pixels per inch. So the resolution is quite high and we'll be able to use this comfortably for a variety of purposes. So sometimes we have to work with pieces of material that are very fragile. We would normally, if this were in good shape, use our sheet fed scanner. But in this case, we're going to use what we call the TTI. So what we'll do here is put the artwork on this table. And the first thing that has to happen is we need to position the artwork so that it's in the frame of the camera. It's properly squared up. Then what we'll do is we'll go through a focusing procedure. We'll neutralize for white and gray balance. So what we want to make sure is the exposure values here are within a certain range. And in playing around with the exposure time of the camera, as well as some exposure compensation, we can move these values into the area that we want. And then once everything is ready, we'll actually take our shot. Now once the shot is captured, it goes on to what's called the contact sheet. So this would be the point at which you would start to kind of examine it, make sure that things look the way you want. So oftentimes we have to scan things that are rare. And this is an example of that right here, a rare book. And we have to take the greatest possible care with them. And so when we do that, we use the machine behind me right here, the ATs. So it's quite simple. The way it works is there's a pair of cameras up here at the top, and they shoot one page each respectively in sequence. So we'll go ahead and put the book here on the cradle, lower the platen, and then we go ahead and fire off the cameras, and they capture a page left and then right. So what we'll do with this later is to crop it and work with the color balance, brightness, contrast, and things like that. And so essentially the procedure is to turn a page and to continue to capture. Once we've digitized material, we go ahead and do some post-processing on it. That often involves fixing things like the color balance, cropping it, rotating it, making sure the brightness and contrast are good so that the final product is appropriate again for public consumption. So that's uploading to the web, printing, et cetera. We usually use Photoshop to do that. And it's often a multi-step process, but we can also often automate that to make it a bit quicker once we've got our initial parameters. Once we've digitized our material, we add it to our digital content management system, which is called Content DM. It's produced by OCLC. And what that involves is adding the digital objects and the metadata together to create a record for that object. And we do that over and over again. If there's one object, we do it once. If there's a thousand, we do it a thousand times. And then that's uploaded to our digital content management system. It's approved, indexed, and then made available for public consumption. Once the items are in our digital content management system, you can go ahead and find them on our website at digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca or through the library homepage, which has federated search, and you'll find our objects there as well.  And most of our images are fairly high resolution, so you should really enjoy them. The Digitization Center has been open for about a year, so we've had that long to think about our workflows and procedures, and now we're starting to think more about our future plans. So that includes, we would like to work more closely with, to get more projects submitted by faculty and to work more closely with our liaison librarians to get the material out to students and faculty so that it's being used. We've started a blog that's available on our website and we're also really trying to keep a list of our current projects so that people know what we're working on and so that we can share what we're excited about.


Hello and welcome. Today we're going to be looking at taking spreadsheets at different formats and converting them to a plain text CSV file, which is a comma separated file, comma separated value file that we can then easily manipulate with scripts. So in my directory here, I have two spreadsheets, one in an open document spreadsheet format and the other one in a Microsoft Excel format. And we're going to be using LibreOffice. So if I wanted to view these, I can say LibreOffice and I can give it one or both of those files. I'll just give it the Microsoft spreadsheet. And there you go. It's an example file that I've created for you guys that has basically, it's a list of people and addresses, phone numbers and that sort of stuff just for testing out scripts. I'll have a link to this in the description of the video as a CSV file. So here it is. And let's say we want to convert that to a CSV file. Again, it's going to be a plain text file where each of the cells is separated by a comma or whatever character you want. And the way you would do that in LibreOffice is go to file and save as. And then you would choose what file format you want, in this case text CSV. And we will click save and it will say are you sure because you're going to lose formatting. So if you had fonts and colors and other advanced things in the spreadsheet, you're going to lose those. You're just going to get the text, which is what we want. So we're going to use the text CSV format. Now it's going to ask you, what do you want as a delimiter? Again, the default is a comma. You can use any character you want. There's some suggestions here. You can use tabs, spaces. I tend to use a pipe character because that's very uncommon in the text. But the most common is going to be a comma. And then the string delimiter is going to be, let's say you have a comma in one of your strings. It will put your strings in quotation marks so you know the difference between a comma that's separating a field and a comma in your text. Anyway, I'll click OK. And now that's saved, I can close this out. And I now have a file called people.csv. And I can cap that out, people.csv. And there's the list names. And then if I want, I can say grep. And I can grep something like Jones from the list. You can find everyone with the name Jones. If I want, then I can grep from that. And I'll say Alice. And I'll have Alice. And then I can do something like cut dash d for delimiter. It's going to be a comma in this case. And if I want, I can go dash f for field four here. And then we go, I got her street address.  And I'll get her address along with her city and zip. Another thing you could do if you want to be a little more advanced about it, instead of using grep, if you have FZF fuzzy finder on your system, I can say cat people.csv and pipe that into FZF. And now, when I hit Enter, it gives me the full list names. And I can type something like Johnson. And I want April Johnson. And now I hit Enter, and it does the same thing. But it allows me to do that quick fuzzy finding search. Now you're going, Chris, that's great that you showed us that. But I thought the title of the video says how to do it in the shell. Well, you're in luck. Let me go ahead and remove our people.csv file. And we just did that with LibreOffice by saving it as a CSV file. But as you can see now, I have those two file formats in here. You can actually use LibreOffice in headless mode. So I can say LibreOffice dash dash headless. And then I can say dash dash convert dash two. And I can give it the format I want to convert to, in this case CSV, and the name of one of our files here. So I'll give it the open spreadsheet file this time. I'll hit Enter. And now it just created our CSV file for that. So again, now we can do the same thing we were doing before, list it all out, or go back to what we typed out earlier with FuzzyFinder here. And again, I can do like Smith. I want Mary Smith. There we go. And there I have her address. So again, it's LibreOffice dash dash headless for headless mode. And then dash dash convert dash two, the format you want to convert to, which are there other formats, but we're working with CSV files here and the name of the file you want to convert. Now, it's kind of a long command. So of course you can alias it if you wanted. You could do something like this. You can say alias, I'll say two CSV equals that. Now, you put that inside your RC file for your shell, and you should be able to type in two CSV and give it a file for. So let me remove the file that we've generated. And now I can say two CSV and I can give it the Excel file. And now I can cat out that people, that CSV file. So now you've taken the big long command that looks like this and changed it to this. So that's what aliases are for. I hope you found this useful. We're going to look at more file conversions in the next upcoming videos. And I hope you enjoyed this. If you did, be sure to like, subscribe, comment, all that good stuff. Check out filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris the K. There should be a link in the description. You can search through my videos there. And also think about becoming a Patreon over at Patreon or a patron over at patreon.com for slash mail x1000. There's a link to that in the description. And as always, I thank you for watching and I hope that you have a great day.


Okay, it's time for the Q&A. Let's get some questions up there. I got Pete here in Discord, so let's give a hand to Pete. Get some questions going. Pete, do you got your webcam on there? Yeah, I'm getting a repeat of your voice about three, four seconds. Are you watching the stream live in the background? Yes, I should not. Correct, go ahead and mute that. Okay, now that we got that, it looks like we got a question. What measurements or experiments were done to evaluate the RF hash of the boost converter? It wasn't very sophisticated when I first got it, which is no longer, by the way, no longer obtainable at that amperage. It's a shame the ham who built that died. But anyway, I just had it connected to a battery in my basement, and I did a before and after. So I had the radio running with it and without it before I started mounting it. And that's a great question because it brings up a larger point that most regulators, power supplies, anything that has to do with changing voltage, they're almost all a terrible, terrible problem with RF hash. So you have to assume that components like that are bad until proven good. So great question, a great thing to watch out for whenever you're doing anything with power supplies or changing voltages. Very nice. We got another question from the Twitch here. Let's see. ArmoredDKrab says, thanks so much for sharing. Curious if you worry about security of the van, what was the microwave rack for? Sounds like two different questions. So the security of the van, I assume you mean physical security. I am a little worried about it. I should have better protection for it. Now when it's stored long term, it's in a garage that's with cars that are much, much more expensive than this van is for car collectors. So it got good security when it's stored. But yeah, I'm a little, I am a little worried about it when it's parked, say, at a hotel or even at home. So I don't have a good answer for that and I should have a better answer. The microwave rack, that was just by chance that a guy in our club was retired from roving himself and sold me his entire collection of microwave van. So I wanted to get into microwaves at some point and I just took that opportunity, which happens a lot in radio. You have equipment available now that you think you might use in the future and it's at a great price. And hey, get it now. You might save, you know, hundreds or in this case, thousands of dollars in the future. I mean, that rack that I showed with the microwave capabilities, if I got new equipment there, you're looking at at least $15,000. And I didn't pay anything like that. I didn't pay five figures for that equipment. So it's not on the air yet, but it's there and ready to go when I get the lower bands ready. Very good. We got another question from Dead Pixel in Discord. How do you deal with your van's total payload weight? Yeah, it must be heavy.  No, it's the total payload rate. There's a lot of special things about this van. It's a package that goes with things like TV vans. They also have a lot in common with ambulances. Ambulances have a lot of heavy equipment with AC requirements. So I don't know what the number is. I think it's well over 9,000 pounds. And I assume that even with my heavy batteries, that the whole van weighed a lot less than it did when it was used in the TV van. Although I have to admit that engineering-wise, I didn't compare the weights or even measure how heavy it was. I made a guess when I registered the van. And I made a guess at 6,000 pounds. I think it's below that, though. So good question, but I don't have a really good satisfying answer. Yeah, it's definitely got to be a beefy van, right? So we got another question in Discord. Testing 2 asks, whether seals and grommets and water intrusion on an old van was the rubber all crumbling? How much of that did you need to refurbish to make the old ship sea-worthy again? No, I didn't have to replace anything yet. There was some water infiltration through the connection on the roof to the satellite antenna. Real early in the presentation, I showed my buddy lifting that satellite antenna off. So that had some water infiltration on it. And I put a 4 or 3.5-inch cover on it, and it hadn't been a problem since then. As far as the seals for other cables or even the doors, the only moderate problem was some of the seals for the doors were coming off. But they weren't dried out, so it didn't have a real problem there. Now, I haven't done a lot of cables that run to the outside, especially through the roof. So that is a concern when I do start wiring. That's one thing I should say that I'm not using a lot of... I got a screwdriver antenna on the back for HF, but I haven't done a lot of work with getting the VHF antennas out. That obviously involves a lot more cables and ones that run through the roof instead of the floor, so I do it to watch out for that. Very good. Another question from Twitch here. Calvin, luck as those are such densely packed racks. Are you able to get access to most of the connections without fully disassembling it? Yeah, luckily... I'm going to take a step back. Part of what I wanted to do was make a little video tour of the van. But I ran out of time with the tropical storm that ran up the east coast. He said, Mike, excuse. It's a good excuse. It's true. Anyway, it's really good accessibility to the back of the rack. So the first three racks that are together, there's a back door where you can get access to the AC panel that is played and the box for the generator, and there's like a storage area back there. So it's pretty good accessibility. I think the only problem I have in the upper side of the driver side and rack number three, it's hard to get access to the screws to put the rack equipment in that amount from the rear. But other than that, it's pretty accessible. Now, obviously, if there's interior connections that I have to fix, the racks have to come out, or maybe at least the racks on top have to come out. Pretty good accessibility on both the front and the back. That's good. Nothing like taking a full day to take stuff apart just because you forgot something. Oh, yeah. Okay. We got another question in Discord from Bunzel. In addition to the van you showed us, or the van, do you have anything else for airflow or cooling to prevent hardware from overheating? No, and I do worry about that because it gets pretty darn hot in the van. It gets less hot than it did in my minivan because there's less glass to let sunlight through. I do have one other fan that I put in the back. So I opened the back door when it's particularly hot. I opened the back door and I have a fan that's powered with 12 volts to get a little bit of airflow in. But I'm kind of surprised at how hot it's been that none of the equipment has failed so far just because of heat. And I don't know what to say. They work better than I would have expected that I have any right to expect. There are physical opportunities in the back I would suppose to get even more fans going. But so far it has been an issue and I've activated on HF at least up to like an air temperature of 95 degrees outside. So far so good. That's a great point though, great question. And I know if you remember at the beginning of the presentation I emphasized that I can't have the van engine on. I can't have the AC system on because of RF hash so while I'm operating I can't have any air conditioning on as much as I would like to. Oh wow, that's a bummer. Yeah, especially if you came to DEF CON with that thing, it would definitely be a sweaty situation. Someone's asking are you going to do a video tour of the van? I want to do this time but ran out of time. It would be especially nice I think when I get antennas on it though because it's kind of limited to just the interior. It's not too much to see. It would be nice to see it in operation I suppose. But I'd like to make a video when it's more exciting when I can show the pneumatic mass in operation and the rotator rotating. I hope I'll do that someday. Very good. Do we have any other questions on Twitch or Discord for Pete here? K-O-P-A-K on his ultimate van life van conversion. I'm not seeing anything yet. We'll give him just a few more seconds to throw a question out. Okay, it looks like that's it for the Q&A. Well thanks Pete for the presentation. Maybe we'll see some demos or some other content maybe next year at DEF CON. That would be great. I hope we get him an opportunity to get together live. Thanks for being a great host and holding my hand through this 62 year old getting used to Discord and Twitch and all the other stuff at one time was kind of overwhelming. You guys did a great job. Thank you. Thank you and we'll see everybody for the next presentation. Next up we have K8AMH with the National Traffic System and Radiograms. So that will be coming up in about 20 minutes. So we'll get going on that and we'll see you guys shortly. Thanks Pete. You're welcome.


My name is Jenny Fawate and I'm from the Solomon Islands and I study at the Victoria University and over the last years I've been doing diploma in community development. I think the best thing about studying in Australia is I get to build a lot of new networks and it helps me a lot to broaden my knowledge, but more importantly, given that Australia is close to home, I find that that is one of the reasons for me coming and learning from here. I've met so many, many friends, friends from the different countries, both in the developing countries and also the developed countries, but as well from different agencies, from the non-for-profit organizations and even the local governments here, my contribution to my country in terms of development is in relation to the work that I've been doing prior to coming here. Help women in my country especially, where issues to do with economic empowerment and as well as the challenging issues that my country is facing. For example, issues like eliminating violence against women. It's a very major issue in my country and that is an area that from studying here in Australia I was able to go learn from what's happening here. I'll go by and share it with my other organizations in my country and the government as well and see how does that knowledge and experience I gained would be able to help my people by in my country so that they can see the potential and also develop our country in terms of having to improve on some of the things that we think that we are not able to meet.


I'm Rick you false Instagram Twitter for more juicy content Thank you to every boost for some picture unfolds to the content scribe like button and even though it's happened a few days ago Congratulations, India. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. I do the I can't even say the name of it though It's called the moon. Oh, yeah Is it Chandrion three Chandrion three? Yeah We are very aware of it obviously and the accomplishment that it was in terms of being the fourth country to land on the moon Hi, and also the first to land on the dark side of the moon and outside of Pink Floyd Yes, and the the first one to do it at such a low-price tag exactly Yeah, so this is we've gotten a lot of reactions one did not only just talk about it because we haven't yet We've we knew about it Stories and stuff like that. We haven't done anything like that But we got a lot of people on the YouTube comments asking us for a reaction to talk about it So this goes over a little bit of the stuff is this is CNN post See the moment and he becomes the fourth country to land on the moon. Obviously. It's a big deal There's only four countries that do it so far it's kind of crazy you think I mean it happened so long ago for the United States and it was a big race between us and the Soviet Union at the time, right? But we are very aware of how much it costed India as opposed to How much it usually costs correct that's very aware of that and I think the amount of time from Inception of idea to creation of craft to the actual accomplishment as well. Here we go It has become now the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon after the US and China and the former Soviet Union Just moments ago. We're talking just a couple of minutes the sound ray on three. No, wow What a video Three spacecraft landed on the did Modi do a live reaction. I don't know maybe maybe did he has his own reaction channel now Yeah, I'm already sharing stunning photos from the mission and look at these pictures of the approach. It's not very dark It's a rare close-up of the moon's kind of dusty gray terrain This mission comes funny. It doesn't even look real. Yeah, it's not just like the one we land Yeah, exactly failed to land a spacecraft correct NASA has announced multiple Yeah, Russia had a major failure just before this First woman in person of color on the moon's surface But India landed on the South Pole of the moon and experts believe there could be ice mineral deposits valuable elements there And a guy named Murray joins us live in New Delhi with more. I can only imagine How excited people are Vedic a Absolutely the moment that's all planning happened coffee. You should have seen these people behind me now They're leaving this temperate pavilion that was set up, but they were clapping Who a better internet her or me during the Roger DK It's not manned right? No, it's just a craft in it like a yeah rover something like that exactly I think it I think it's a rover as well as a you know, they can take samples. Yeah International Space Center there so a lot happening at the International Space Station rather right now We still have the Indian Prime Minister speaking life This is like people have told us and scientists have said a moment of intense national pride Back to you exciting moment. They're joining a very small fraternity Vedic a suit with the reporting there. Thank you so much Let's bring it out Mike Massimino. He's a former NASA astronaut and professor of mechanical engineering Looks like an old thumb I give your mom a moonshot Yeah, so the South Indian dubbing he should there's There's ice there So the interest with ice is that it can be possibly made into drinking water to support crews Oh, I thought he was referring to the law enforcement organization here in the United States It's a rocket fuel to use the moon as a place to launch to further locations out in the cosmos So that is the great interest with the South Pole and no one's been able to land there yet This is the first yeah, just pull that one off So this is big news and looking forward to what they'll find out there And what are they trying to find out there well if they can if they can find that ice And see learn more about it how it's composed of what what form it's in where it is exactly and maybe how they can process it into Drinking water and how they can maybe process it into fuel Also, just the orbital mechanics the physics of getting to the the reason it's so difficult is because if it's a difficult place to get to Based on the math the physics your old mechanic is harder to get there than is in the toward the center of the course Previously so sharing hopefully they'll share all that information. I would expect they would what the terrain is like If there's any atmosphere there at all any traces of any elements there So all of these things will help us understand the South Pole Which is of great interest as a possible landing location not only for more spacecraft like this But also for people in the future It's just been a few days since the Russians their unbanned mission to the moon ended in failure It crashed into the surface of the moon was very sad and now the India has has landed this Are we in another moon race? I mean, what do you see with with this? I guess we'll rush back. Yeah, I hope it's not over. I hope it's not a race I think it's good to have a little competition, maybe but I hopefully we're gonna be sharing information together I think what we're seeing here is that it's possible now to get back to the moon not just 50 years ago like the United States that an incredible accomplishment was just a visit now We're looking to go back and settle there and explore there and go there for science and for vacation for a national You know, this is a great For them literally also strategically economically to see what resources there And can we use it as a place to move to other places in the in the cosmos to launch from there So I think and how quickly can we turn that real estate into a profit exactly? We can't get there for the last 50 years It's been I know it's tough to get there and so on but now that we see it's possible more people think about what they Can do there and so that's why I think we're seeing this this heightened interest particularly in that location on the moon But I hope it's not really a race. I hope it's cooperation is not an easy thing to do This is the first time a country's been able to pull it off Hopefully they'll share that information and hopefully we can go together. It's it's a scientific community usually is pretty As a generous like that between different countries around the world. It's when you get the government's involved Great friend. Yeah, we'll see what happens to we'll see what they will be watching. Oh, I hope everything keeps working Yes, and they got a rover. It's looking awesome. We'll see what it is so far Mike Asimino, thanks so much look forward to the book. Oh, thank you. Thank you Yeah, it's it's super exciting. Um That that was I had heard about the whole russia thing too. No That always sucks, man My toxic trait is uh thinking like I could probably get to the I can't I can't yeah, no, I'm just amazed they're able to do those kinds of trajectories from a flat earth Exactly just boggles the mind and it's not lost on People here in the west obviously by that newscast, but also news articles here Everybody was covering it. I mean all news articles including non scientific and non traditional news articles like variety and the hollywood reporter and things of that nature um How it's this isn't just another moon landing. This is this is a one of a kind first of its kind In in many many respects and it's it's made You know by saying that india becomes the fourth country to land on the moon. That is true But this is more of a first in many respects than it is a Fourth uh long time since anybody was there. Yeah, and it's it's it's without question The most difficult of the moon landings. It's potentially the most important and it's also the By far they've proven how it can be done for far far less expenditure It's it's an amazing achievement that Proves how much india is at the forefront of scientific Exploration Let's it's very very cool. That's all I don't know who was saying it I don't I might have just been people trolling. They said it was clearly cgi that and then somebody was like Have you seen bollywood cgi? But then I was like, what if it was red chilies though? They can do it. Well, people did the same thing with uh, they thought stanley cubrick, right? That's who they That's who said uh, he he said it himself He said he did it. Yeah, I just it's it's for every fact There's going to be a hundred conspiracy theorists. Yeah, who no matter how many facts you give them Won't give up their conspiracies. Also, where's this um I forget it starts with an eye their nasa name. Oh, I don't know where it's headquartered, right? Yeah, I do not know is It doesn't say Uh, it's is something something something. Yeah, it's their nasa and I don't know where they're headquartered I because I don't know if it's like in shinai if it's in hydra bad if it's in mumbai I don't know what you guys let me know. Um, anyways big accomplishment I know a lot of people are very excited about this and I just wanted to obviously talk about it and say a few things so let us know what you thought any other information that we need to know about it and uh Which planet are we going to next? I want to live on jupiter Breathe those delicious gases Well, I do that every time we film


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In other words, very hands off on this program. I would put this more in the active category just by nature of the fact that I do own a lot of single stock. And there's obviously a lot of research that goes into that. Very simple for me, I'm very aware and I cover the market as a hobby. I'm a dork like that. But I'm very aware of these. But for the new investor, this might be interesting to you because the research has already been done. Number one, number two, I think a lot of people are attracted to the idea of being more of an active investor and pursuing more of a kind of a dividend growth type of profile. Now, if you looked at this portfolio and you didn't like how I have the sectors broken down and the picks that exist therein, you could adjust that to your liking, which is great. So the idea behind this is to take this as kind of a dividend growth framework. And that's the beauty of M1 finances that we can really accelerate the knowledge share out to the masses. And people who don't have the slightest lick of insight about the stock market or they're very unfamiliar with a lot of these companies that I have in here, they can really help give you a head start in looking at how somebody like myself with 25 years plus of experience in the market has broken down the sectors in the way that I have to comprise this dividend to growth portfolio. Now, I do want to premise that this portfolio has gone through some changes. It has evolved over time and initially started as an aggressive growth portfolio, which did really great. It did great. I was invested in Amazon, Google, Facebook, Uber, Nvidia, some high growth stuff, some PayPal's of the world, et cetera. And I leveraged out of those and I entered into phase two of this portfolio, which was the ARC portfolios, which was very, very short lived. I got cold feet. I liquidated that out after about a month of owning the ARC ETFs, they kind of had a blow off top and went up and gave me a really quick accelerated little to have a profit in there. And I've leveraged it to this, which is phase three. And I look at this portfolio as being much more fundamentally based in nature, a portfolio that can really stand the test of time and one that I can really, really grow to something special. Now, the next incentive threshold in this is 25,000 and then 50 and then 100. But I've built this portfolio to house that $100,000 milestone and beyond. In other words, this is a dividend growth portfolio that I've got built my way. And so it allows me to kind of be the investor I want to be within this portfolio. But we're doing quite well here. You can see the invested dollars contributed, we're almost up to a doubling. So not too bad. That would be a 2x of a portfolio, but can't scoff at that. And then a little bit of earned dividends here. This will start to really increase over time as the dividends are rendered on some of these, because now the focus is on those value and dividend paying companies. So we'll scroll down here. This is newly incepted now. So with all the volatility in the stock market that's been going on, I'll jump into some of these technologies really taking a hit. But just to give you kind of an idea of what's in this particular slice, we've got Visa, Cisco, Broadcom, Intel, couple of these I don't own in the larger accounts, most of them actually, a couple of them I do with Cisco and Visa and IBM. But a couple of these I don't write. So in one finance allows me to grab some exposure to these specific sectors within the dividend growth strategy. And there might be companies out there that I don't want to own in the bigger accounts. Furthermore, as I fund this up, it allows me to kind of dollar cost average these names here. Healthcare is a great example of how I've built these slices. And again, I'm going to make this portfolio available to you guys in the comments section. So click over and take a look, you can peruse through how I've custom built each of these slices. Again, you may look at UNH on the top end and say, I don't like that. I, you know, I, I, I want to do this exclusively and I want to add Johnson and Johnson as the top end healthcare. That's great. That doesn't work for me because I already own a big position in Johnson and Johnson in my Roth IRA. So I built this portfolio as more of a complement to my larger accounts here, and also look to get some exposure to some of those companies that I don't own in my in my other account here. So, you know, I click into Staples here, I don't own Costco in my other account, I do, in fact, own it here in the Staples category. And it allows me to grab that that a little bit of exposure and grow wealth. And that's what a lot of people miss about investing is they think it's just an overnight game. Growing wealth over time takes time. And that's really the key takeaway here is that this has become a lot more passive and a lot more in line with who I want to be as an investor. But I share this openly with you guys to provide some insight on the very specific strategy of dividend growth investing over time. And with that, guys, we'll kick you back and we'll conclude that. All right, guys, fantastic. So I really hope you appreciated this review of the dividend growth portfolio. This is all single stocks. And these are stocks that I don't necessarily want to own in my larger accounts, but good companies nonetheless pay the dividend.  I'll fund it with a little bit every couple of weeks, every month. And over time, we'll get this up to a sizable amount. I've built this to house a six figure at least portfolio. And I do look at this as being a very, very important strategic angle to my overall wealth going forward. 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Hello and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad in which we would look alternative at alternative minimum tax part three of five. It means part one and part two are completed. Make sure to view them before you see part three. This topic is dreaded by many students and frankly when I listen to CPA review explaining this topic it gives me a headache. So I try to make I'm trying to make it as simple as possible to you because this topic is covered on the CPA exam covered in an income tax course. As always I would like to remind you to connect with me on LinkedIn if you haven't done so. YouTube is where you would need to subscribe. I have 1,700 plus accounting, auditing, tax, finance, as well as Excel tutorial. If you like my lectures please like them, share them, put them in playlists. If they benefit you it means they might benefit other people connect with me on Instagram. On my website farhadlectures.com this is where I add value to your education to your CPA preparation where I go in depth unlike a CPA review course. I explain the material. I teach you the material. So if you're interested in supplement on your accounting courses or your CPA exam I strongly suggest you check out my web. So this is where we end up the prior session. We looked at the regular taxable income plus the adjustment plus the rental minus the depreciation minus the sale on the asset plus the incentive stock option and we come up to alternative minimum taxable income before the exemption and basically on the form we are right here. The next thing we're going to do is look at the exemptions and here are the exemptions on the forms you may or may not see them and this is for 2019. Those will change for 2020, 2021, 2022 but once you understand them I don't think they're going to change that much but they will change. So in case you are looking at this at this lecture in 2022 and you might be saying this is an old lecture well they might change the adjustments make sure you know how to follow. Okay so this is the exemption but let me show you the exemption and where you can see them better. So for single the exemption is 71,700 but you will start losing part of that exemption when your AMTI exceeds 5, 10, 300. Merit file and jolly your exemption is 11,700 but the phase out will start at 1,020,600. Don't worry we're going to work an example. Merit file and separately this is the exemption and the phase out will start at 5, 10, actually 300 not 5, 10, 300. The phase out exemption exemption is reduced by 25% of AMTI in excess of the income limit simply put when you have a dollar one dollar in addition to 1,020,600 for every dollar you would use 25 pennies 25% okay you would lose 25 pennies from this exemption. The best way to do is to work an example let's assume Marge and Homer have an AMTI of 1,100,000 they're married fighting jointly so the initial exemption for them is 1,11,700 but guess what Marge and Homer income Marge and Homer income AMTI in excess of 1,020,000 therefore what we have to do we have to compute the access and by 25% of the access we will reduce this 1,11,700 so simply put the 1,11, the 1,11,700 becomes 91,850 how did we do this first we'll find the difference what's the amount that's in access so let me just compute this so let's see how much they are above the exemption so this way we multiply it by 25% let me increase the size of this and this is what you have to do on the CPA exam because you'll have the calculator given to you so you just want to make sure you're comfortable with that so 1,100,000 and you will deduct from it 1,020,600 so they are 79,400 in access they're going to lose 25% of that so this whole thing this whole thing because they're 17 this whole thing this whole formula here end up to be 19,850 and this is how much they lost minus 1,11,700 therefore their therefore their exemption is 91,850 not 1,11,700 okay also after the after the deduction after the I'm sorry after the exemption you might have credits usually most people don't qualify for those credits AMT people child tax credit child independent care credit contribution credit because your income is already too high so you don't really qualify for those you might qualify for the adoption and the foreign tax credit those credits are available so simply put let's take a look at this picture again and do this on the form so basically this was our taxable income for this individual for this example to 17245 they're married filing jointly married filing jointly therefore their exemption is 1,11,700 do they qualify for the whole thing yes why because their income is way below the limit so now we're what we're going to do we're going to take this exemption to 17245 minus 1,11,700 their AMTI is 105,545 now we're going to multiply this by the tax rate what tax rate well if this a flying six is below 194,800 we multiply it by 26% and it is if it's above this amount we multiply it by 28% minus 3896 and those you know that number will change but if we take 105,545 times 26% our AMTI or our AMT tax supposedly is 27,442 then we have no credit online aid therefore our our AMT tax is 27,442 we compare this to our regular tax our regular tax is 25,740 guess what we do have AMT as a result of the AMT we have to include an additional one thousand seven hundred and two dollars on our taxes now how do we add this from a form perspective this one thousand seven hundred and two will go to form schedule two of form 1040 1,702 then schedule two offline of schedule two offline one basically this that's assumed that's the only thing 1702 so this is the total then this number here will go to on your 1040 line 15 other taxes 1702 so when I was in practice when I was in practice it went from 6251 to the 1040 directly they did not have schedule two back then but the point is oftentimes you have to explain to the client it's okay could you tell me where this the 1702 came from because usually the client they look at their 1040 that's what they look at this is that this is form 1040 like what is this 1702 then you have to understand it came from usually again in the past I would go right to the AMT schedule but now you have to go to the schedule two because they're trying to simplify the process which is they make it they have more forms how do you simplify things by having more forms but that's not the point so it's coming from line one from your schedule two and this is coming from 6251 then the client sometimes they want to understand this so so I you never complete 6251 in practice actually the software does complete this this form for you but it's very important that you understand how it works some of the next session actually I'm going to complete 6251 in a form of a CPA simulation because when you learn you want to learn you have you want to have a strong base and I will not be surprised if the CPA if the ICPA gives you an AMT simulation it will be unfair but hey life is not fair but I will I will work a CPA simulation with 6251 and hopefully by going through these series of lectures you just put this AMT topic behind you and you tell them bring it on I'm willing to take to take on it in the next session we would look at part four of five which again I'm going I'm planning to work an example of a CPA simulation where you're going to have full confidence in answering these questions as always I'm going to remind you to like this recording visit my website farhatlectures.com and don't shortchange your education or your CPA preparation it's a lifetime investment good luck study hard and stay safe


Am gael, mae gennymau y cysyllt fel yng Ngôr 1, Liam McArthur. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it is carried out of the number of beds needed in the proposed new Balfour hospital in Orkney. Cabinet Secretary, is there a role of NHS boards, in this case NHS Orkney, to develop and implement clinical strategies for the provision of healthcare to the populations and to Cadw iawn iddynt. Oeddynt mae'n bwysig o'r hyfforddiad, yn gweithio'r piwyddau ar y bwysig, mae cael ei gynnigion bwysig eo'r negrach a'r llai'n bwysig i gyd. Mae gweithio yn bwysig i fod mae'n bwysig i fod muretau o'r tynnebu amdaliadau. L Gymru, hi'n ddershwm ddflennos i gweithredu iawn. That response that I did catch, she will be aware of concerns raised by me directly and by my constituent Dr Ian Cunningham regarding the capacity at the new hospital in Orkney. The outline business case quoted a potential requirement of 56 beds against the plan provision of 47 inpatient and two assessment beds. Calculations carried out by Dr Cunningham on the basis of the figures available from ISD and obtained under freedom of information suggested that at the very least the new hospital may be as many as 12 beds short. Will she therefore agree to look again at the assumptions that are being made by NHS Orkney to justify the plan bed numbers? While reducing average lengths of stays, providing more care at home, greater use of technology and an increased emphasis on preventative care are all very welcome, does she accept that being overambitious or indeed unrealistic in the assumptions that are made, or determining bed numbers principally on the basis of cost, is not in the interests of either patients or indeed staff in my constituency? Cabinet Secretary, it is important that we get the bed numbers right, but also the configuration of the services in general. I know, for example, that they are looking at the plans for the new hospital to include, as I understand, 49 beds. However, the proposed layout will allow a more effective usage of those beds as the current layout limits the usage due to the inability, for example, to separate men and women in the existing hospital. In essence, the new hospital's layout will allow for a better management of bed capacity. That is going to be complemented by an increase from 13 to 42 day-case chairs and that NHS Orkney plans to make significant changes to clinical practice prior to the opening of the new hospital, which will reduce average stays, reduce admissions and increase the proportion of elective surgery performed as day cases in line with the rest of the direction of travel in the rest of Scotland. However, I can say to the member that, clearly, the full business case for the project is going to be brought forward later in the year. It will require to demonstrate that the new hospital will be appropriate to meet the needs of the population before it will receive approval from the Scottish Government. I will continue to liaise with NHS Orkney as the local member would expect me to do. We will have oversight to ensure that the new hospital, which I am sure everyone will welcome, meets the needs of the local population. 2. Jenny Marra To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to give boys the HPV vaccination. The Scottish Government is advised on all immunisation matters by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. At its meeting on 7 October 2015, the JCV highlighted the importance of the on-going modelling work being undertaken by Public Health England and Warwick University to aid its consideration of extending HPV vaccination to adolescent boys. As this is a complex piece of work, the JCVI might not be in a position to provide its final advice until 2017. The Scottish Government will, of course, carefully consider any future JCVI recommendation about HPV vaccination for adolescent boys. Jenny Marra I am very grateful to the Minister for her answer. I understand that the Joint Commission on Vaccination and Immunisation is doing this work at the moment, and I am glad that the Scottish Government will take cognisance of this in 2017. I am sure that she is aware that gay men under the age of 45 in Wales are now offered the vaccination, but there is evidence that it should also be offered at a much earlier age. The throat cancer diagnosis is due to overtake those of cervical cancer by 2020, according to the throat cancer foundation. I am very glad that the minister has this on her radar and that she will be listening to the advice of the HP, of the Joint Commission on Vaccination and Immunisation. I am not sure that there was a question there either. I was waiting for it. I would like to remind Jenny Marra that the HPV vaccination of girls was introduced for protection against cervical cancer. The uptake rates are very high, and you get herd immunity. There is a particular case for men under 45 MSN men attending gamon HIV clinics to have the vaccine. The Scottish Government is considering the JCVI's recommendation, and we are working with Health Protection Scotland and NHS Scotland to identify potential routes for the delivery of any programme to vaccinate MSN and the cost effective price. To ask the Scottish Government what discussion it has with local authorities in the Highlands and Islands and Transport Scotland regarding proposed infrastructure projects. Transport Scotland officials routinely meet Highlands and Islands local authorities, and those meetings are arranged as required. In addition to a twice yearly meeting that is held with the Highland Council to discuss major road schemes and strategic transport planning matters, the most recent of those meetings were held on 9 December. I thank the cabinet secretary for that reply. Cabinet secretary, from Shetland to Argyll, from Lewis to Murray, Harbour, Peer, Slitways, Rhodes and Bridges, they all need to be repaired and replaced. Therefore, many people are surprised that a Transport Scotland priority is the A9896 so-called link road. They believe that they have made a case for it. The proposed expenditure of about £65 million would mean that a one-mile stretch of road is going through an area that is identified in the local plan for a park. It has been dubbed locally as the mad mile. Cabinet secretary, to personally review that and to meet with me to discuss this better use of that sum of money, please. The member will be unsurprised to learn that I do not share his view. I do not think that it is true that local people do either. The A9896 link is a key part of the future infrastructure proposals for Inverness. Its design has been influenced by the current and future demand for housing, employment and aspirations for what is Scotland's rapidly growing highland capital. The proposed scheme has been part of the Highland Council's infrastructure aspirations to support the continued expansion of Inverness for over 10 years. Without the new link road, there will be a significant impact on the future effectiveness of the trunk road and the local roads in the immediate vicinity. Therefore, we will continue to invest in the project to make sure that the project happens for the benefit of the future aspirations and the current needs of people around Inverness. I take into account Tuesday's topical question to ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the condition of the fourth road bridge. The fourth road bridge opened to vehicles except HGVs from 23 December after the completion of temporary repairs. New state-of-the-art monitoring equipment in the form of electronic strain gauges and tiltmeters have been installed on the bridge and they are continually monitored and, since traffic has been introduced to the structure, they remain within acceptable parameters. A permanent repair to allow HGVs across the fourth road bridge will commence in the coming days and subject to favourable weather conditions and no further defects being identified, the bridge will reopen to HGVs in mid February. In 2012, the fourth road bridge capital budget got chopped in half. Looking at next year's budget, the capital maintenance budget suddenly sees an 80 per cent increase. Bearing that in mind, was chopping it in half for four years a mistake? As ministers have said repeatedly, the fault that has occurred was not predicted. The works that have been undertaken are fulfilling our obligations around the bridge will continue to take place and will allow all traffic over the bridge, as has been stated by the Scottish Government. To ask the Scottish Government what criteria need to be met before Transport Scotland undertakes safety upgrades where rural roads intersect with trunk and other major roads. Criteria is in place to assess the safety performance of the trunk road network on an annual basis. Transport Scotland screened all locations on the trunk road network. We are three or more personal injury accidents have occurred in the preceding three-year period, or where a section of road has had an accident rate of 1.25 times above the national average if for that road type over the same three-year period.  I am grateful to the minister for his answer. The Cree Valley Community Council in my constituency has become increasingly concerned about the safety of the road junction where the A71 2 meets the A75 trunk road just outside Newton Stuart. As he will be aware, the A75 carries a huge percentage of heavy goods vehicles and the A71 2, a large number of timber lorries. Local opinion is that this junction constitutes a major accident waiting to happen, yet all approaches to Transport Scotland are met with a response that says effectively no fatal accident history, so no action. Would the minister agree that it is time that local opinion in those circumstances is given more weight by Transport Scotland, especially when endorsed by elected representatives from all parties and at all levels? Mr Ferguson asked me about the criteria that I have given, but I could go on to say that we always look at specific localised circumstances as well to see if there are any other interventions that can be made. I think that it is right to target resources to where they can make the biggest difference. Road safety is a very serious issue, but I am very happy to look at individual circumstances to understand them more fully. If the member writes to me, I will then look at those circumstances. To ask the Scottish Government how it supports unpaid carers in Glasgow. This Government recognises and values the vital contribution that unpaid carers and young carers make to the lives of those who care for them in communities across Scotland, including in Glasgow. That is why we introduced the carers bill, which has now passed stage 2 of the parliamentary process. The bill is an important part of our programme of health and social care reform, which will extend the rights of all adult carers and young carers across Scotland, ensuring that carers can be supported in their caring roles. At other Scottish Government initiatives, such as the voluntary sector short breaks fund, the young carers festival, and the care report of employment scheme, benefit carers across Scotland, Scottish Government care information strategy funding to NHS Greater Glasgow Clive is over £1 million and £90,000 for 2015-16. This investment is contributing to a wide range of support to carers in Glasgow, including training for carers, young carers projects and information advice service to carers in acute hospital settings. Minister of Glasgow City Council is tending out service provision at six carer centres across the city. The centres offer vital support such as information advice, income maximisation and access to respite care. Minister, given that the council's previous poor track record and matter such as adult day centres for learning, disabled and personalisation, can the minister enter into constructive dialogue with the council to ensure that the city is well prepared for the enhanced carer support, which council will be required to deliver following the passage of the Scottish Government's carers bill? Presiding Officer, I am aware that Glasgow City Council has undertaken the process that Mr Doris has referred to. He will appreciate that this has been a decision that the council has taken. It is not one that the Scottish Government is directly involved in. I am very aware of the good work that is done by carers centres. I visited the south-east Glasgow carers centre last March on the day that we lodged the carers bill. I saw first-hand the good work that they are doing locally. One of the changes that we have made to the carers bill with direct relevance to carers centres at stage 2 is to make it explicitly clear that, where advice services exist, the local authority does not need to recreate them. I can assure Mr Doris in advance of the bill coming into force that the Scottish Government will maintain a constructive dialogue with the local authorities, including Glasgow City Council. To ask the Scottish Government what the value is of projects under construction or development in the Edinburgh area under the Hub Southeast Scotland programme. Currently, there are 15 projects with a total value of £192.6 million, either in construction or in development in the Edinburgh area under the Hub Southeast Scotland programme. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. The recent announcement of the £330 million of capital projects across Scotland includes £25 million for the Lothian NHS bundle. Can the cabinet secretary confirm that the Firhill Partnership Centre is part of that bundle and is able to outline the timescale for construction of this long-awaited new medical facility? I notice that, in the projects that I mentioned previously, two of them are the Crammond primary school and also Fox cover primary school, two schools that I attended. It is nice to see them being extended. However, in relation to the health projects, I can confirm the interest and support of the member for that project and recognise the work that he has done in relation to that. I can confirm that the Firhill Partnership Centre is part of NHS Lothian's partnership bundle, the construction of which is expected to start in 2016. Until financial clause itself has reached, I am unable to confirm at this stage when the facility will be completed. However, it is estimated that the construction period would be around 18 months. To ask the Scottish executive how much it has overspent on its estimated ICT budget in the last five years. The ICT budget for the core Scottish Government has not been overspent in the last five years. Well, it has been well overspent in the last three months. In 2012, the Auditor General recommended the post of chief information officer to develop support and improve cost effective ICT services. Why did it take so long to fill this post and why are so many hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money still being wasted in our ICT contracts, including £450,000 every month for NHS 24? Mary Scanlon will understand that it is good to see the better together alliance is still alive and clicking over there. Many of the ICT reforms that we have to undertake are complex projects. On the common agricultural policy system, for example, there were substantial changes in the policy applied by the European Union after the original business case was put forward by the Scottish Government in 2012. A reasonable-minded assessment of the fact that there are major policy and structural changes in a system of that nature requires us to adapt our ICT challenges, principally. Mary Scanlon will understand that point because of the importance of guaranteeing compliance with EU schemes in the expenditure of public money, which is an issue of great significance to the Scottish Government and the European Union. I understand and appreciate Mary Scanlon's interest in those questions, but I assure her that those issues are the subject of very clear and sustained investigation and management by the Scottish Government, both at ministerial and official level, to guarantee that we utilise public money in an effective way to deliver for the citizens of Scotland. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with the council leader and chief executive of North Lanarkshire Council. Minister and official regularly meet the leaders and chief executives of all Scotland's local authorities, including North Lanarkshire Council, to discuss a wide range of issues as part of our commitment to working in partnership with local government to improve outcomes for the people of Scotland. The cabinet secretary will be aware that the redundancy decision by Tata and the DL plant and Clyde bridge plants and the indications from HMRC to reduce staff at its Cumbernauld tax office, along with the press comments by North Lanarkshire Council regarding potential redundancies as a result of local government budget settlements over the next year. Would the cabinet secretary commit to establishing a round table meeting with elected members representing the area, along with the local authority and other agencies, to identify how we can mitigate against the economic impact of the levels of redundancies anticipated in North Lanarkshire area? We are already involved heavily in addressing the issue around the Tata potential closure, and my colleague Fergus Ewing in particular has been leading the way through the working party to make sure that we do everything that we possibly can to find a buyer, and he recently announced a subsidy of £195,000 to ensure that the plants will remain open until we find a buyer. In terms of the wider issues, we will always be happy to work with all the stakeholders in North Lanarkshire and in every other part of Scotland where there are threats to jobs and the possibility of redundancies to try to ensure that everything is done. First of all, to potentially protect such jobs, and secondly, if that is not possible, to find alternative employment for those affected by redundancy. Question 10, in the name of the net mill, has not been lodged. The member has provided an explanation. We are just moving right now to First Minister's Questions. Question number one, Kezia Dugdale.


The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the E.I. DuPont Dinamoys and Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents Lifetide, starring Walter Pigeon, with Walter Houston as our commentator. Before we begin our play this evening, may we remind you that the best time of the year for redecoration of your home is in the fall. And the paint you will like to use is DuPont's speedy wall finish. It covers dingy wallpaper and most other wall surfaces in one coat. It comes in 11 rich pastel colors. Although speedy is an oil paint, it thins with water and can be applied with brush or roller. It dries within an hour, free of brush marks. For your fall home decoration, use speed easy. Its name tells the story. Speed easy, made by DuPont. Before turning tonight's program over to Cavalcade's commentator, Walter Houston, may I remind you that in weeks to come, DuPont will present many great broadcasts with leading stars from stage and screen. Among those who will be Cavalcade's guests are Edward G. Robinson, Bob Hope, Jerry Cologne, Francis Langford, Clark Gable, and many others. And now Cavalcade's commentator, Walter Houston. This evening you are going to hear my good friend Walter Pigeon as Dr. Norman Bethune. A man I am frank to admit I knew too little about until the war came. In thinking about this evening's Cavalcade, which is called Lifetide, I tried to search out of its particular meaning to me. A meaning I now want to pass on to you. Bethune was a man with a great heart. Because he was a scientist as well, hundreds of thousands of hearts are beating tonight. That otherwise might have been still forever. A fighter as well as a scientist. Norman Bethune's battle was waged not in a laboratory, but where a man were waging the endless struggle, which is the price of freedom and human dignity. It was in Spain and in China that he originated the idea of a mobile field blood bank, an idea which has been developed and widely used so that it is now making precious plasma available to those wounded on every fund. Listen to the story of Dr. Norman Bethune, as he is portrayed by Walter Pigeon in Lifetide, written by Robert Talman for the Cavalcade of America. Lifetide. Listen. That sound is the first and last sound in your memory. It is the falsetting of the human heart. In it, like the tides of the sea, the life flood of all humanity ebbs and flows. Remember that sound as we bring you this chronicle of a man of our time who touched the fountain head of that most ancient and sacred of human mysteries, blood of the living and blood of the fallen, inseparably fused in his legacy to us, the blood bank, that lifetide of the human race. Lifetide. Sometimes it is a fevered and irregular pulse, lifetide of a man rested on a hospital bed. One of four men, a New Englander, a Southerner, a Canadian and a Chinese, all doctors, all dying of the same disease, tuberculosis. Norman Bethune was the Canadian. Well, gentlemen, how about it? We're all doctors. What's the prognosis? How and when shall we die? How about you, Fisher? Well, this is the summer of 1926. I shall probably drop dead in Boston in the winter of 1934 while writing a prescription for a man with nervous indigestion. Lim. I shall die in China. China will be fighting for her life. I hope I will die fighting for her. And you, Bethune? Well, as for me, I've done all I'm likely to. Loved a beautiful woman and made her my wife. Wanted a career in surgery and did better than I expected. I won't stay here, but I won't go back to that life. Oh, I will probably die out west somewhere, Tucson. Likely, let's say 1932. And I shan't be sorry to go. Everything from now on would be an anti-climax anyway. Lifetide. The pulse quickens, but the pace is more even. This is the pulse of sudden resolution. Death tugs at him. In a moment, the tide will turn and slow. Resolution. I want, I want. He did not even know what it was he wanted. Maybe I could write a poem, paint a picture, something like that. I've got to do something before I go out. I've got to. The patients take time. Somehow, anyhow, time to accomplish something. He rises from sick bed, walks over to the main building in the sanatorium. I apologize to you gentlemen for interrupting what is undoubtedly a very important staff meeting, but I have decided to appoint myself the doctor in charge of my own case. That is your privilege? Dr. Bethul, furthermore, I ask your permission to perform a surgical operation on myself. I will require at least one assistant and full equipment for artificial pneumothorax. Well, gentlemen, we've had bad results with that operation, Dr. Bethul. And as for your idea of piercing through your own chest cavity... What's the difference whether it's mine or somebody else's? Well, gentlemen, Dr. Bethul is willing to undertake it entirely at his own risk. Gentlemen, I am not only willing, I welcome the risk. Lifetide. The force is strong and exultant. His health improved by his own skillful surgery. Norman Bethul has emerged from the shadows. He is a chief surgeon of Sacred Heart Hospital now in Montreal. Depression years.  So many needing him. Doctor, tell me, the eye is a chance for my little girl. Already we lost one, and now the doctor at the clinic says I can never have another. Ah, I see. Well, there is one thing we could try. It's never been done in this country. Certainly never on a child of ten, but we could try. Please try, Doctor. Please do. We will have to remove one of her lungs altogether. No. It's a very unusual and dangerous operation. I must warn you in advance. How much? How much will it cost, Doctor?  That's all the payment I want. Nurse. Nurse. Yes, Doctor? The silver clips quickly. There's more gauze. Here, Doctor. Read the blood pressure. It's fallen another ten points. Pulse. Well? 32. That settles it. It can't go on. Get the patient ready for a transfusion. But, Doctor... Hurry up, we've no time to lose. But, Doctor, we couldn't find any of the right blood type. You mean to tell me I'm going to lose a patient because some fool couldn't arrange a simple transfusion? Well, there's no way to force people to volunteer as blood donors, Doctor Bisson. Oh, I suppose not. Somebody else should finish this job. I bet type zero blood. Nurse. Yes, Doctor? Get a sterile container. I'll take a liter of my blood and transfuse it into the patient while it's still warm. Pulse is nearly normal now, Doctor. Good. Hooks, please. Retractors. Doctor Bisson, let me... You're too weak. It's all right, Nurse. I'll be steady enough when the real job begins. She's coming around now, Doctor. Good. Good. Was it big? Did you have fun there, Yvette? The doctor brought it, Yvette. I ever saw... She's yours, Yvette. Take good care of her, won't you? She just came out of the hospital herself. The child is well. It was a very beautiful operation. I felt very happy doing it. Yes, I will sleep tonight. Wife tied. Sometimes it is a fanatic pulse. The heartbeat of a fear-crazed animal. Heartbeat of a mob. Bethune did not sleep that night. That night in October 1935, through the streets of Montreal, men with swastika armbands surged in the vanguard of a mob of hoodlums. Sharp windows were broken, innocent people set upon and beaten. That night, Bethune witnessed the first blow by the Nazi's fifth column in North America. Let's see, old Joe Stringerman. Please, my father's done nothing. Why don't you let us alone? A quiet Jewish will give you some of the same. But he's old, his heart is weak, he can't stand. All right, then let him off easy. Only ten licks with a rubber hose. One, two. Hold him up, hold him up, make him stand on his feet. What's going on here? What are you doing to this man? Who are you? Bethune is my name, I'm a doctor. Arian or non-Arian? I come from a race you wouldn't understand. I'm a Scott. We're violent and unstable.   Lifetime, a mounting pulse of anger, tidal wave crashing over the breakwater. I tell you, the sickness of the world isn't in these hospital wards. It's out there in the streets.  Blood. That's what gives life and that's what they hate. They've smelled blood now and they'll not stop till they've spilled plenty of it. We must fight them wherever they strike. They struck in Spain. Norman Bethune went there to fight as a doctor. He found Madrid in ruins. Ambulances needed at once, desperately. He drove back to Paris to see what could be done, but ambulances cost money. Too much money. Maybe his friends at home could help. They didn't. This ambulance makes pretty good time for a jalapé. Yeah. We should be in Madrid before dark. Say, do you mind drawing up here a minute? I'd like to get a picture of that old man with the donkey. Okay. Make it quick, though, will you? I get nervous on this road. Oh, this won't take a moment. Hola, señor. Un momentito. Por favor. Vengo a que pasar muy rápido. Ya me voy. He wouldn't even stop. Well, get in. Let's get going. Wait a minute. Listen. Planes. German dive bombers. What are they up to? There's no military or any other kind of target around here. There's something in the valley over there. Come on, let's have a look. If I didn't see it with my own eyes, but, though, I'd never believe it. Children with bloodstained rags wrapped around their arms and legs. Children without shoes, their feet swollen to twice their size, crying hopelessly from pain, hunger and fatigue. 200 kilometers of misery. We moved as many as we could. We might have spared ourselves the anguish, for most of them were bombed in almerie again that night. We worked as long as we could by the orange glare of the burning buildings. In the darkness, the moans of the wounded children, the agonized mothers, and the cursing of the men rose higher and higher to a pitch of intolerable intensity. One's body felt as heavy as the dead themselves, but empty and hollow. And in one's brain, burned a bright flame of hate for the enemy that had done this thing. We're listening to Walter Pigeon, as Dr. Norman Bethune in Lifetime on The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by E.I. DuPont Dinamoison Company, for better things for better living through chemistry. Your Cavalcade commentator is Walter Houston. Lifetime. Story of Dr. Norman Bethune, inventor of the Mobile Field Blood Bank. Being used as you hear these words to save precious American lives, wherever the men and women of our armed forces fight the battle against oppression. Almost motionless sometimes before its turning. War in Spain, 1937. Between offensives, Norman Bethune is preparing glass jars of precious blood plasma to be moved up to sectors where the attack is to take place. Bethune and an elderly Spanish doctor have worked far into the night. They work in silence until...  Don't you know how valuable that stuff is? I... I'm sorry, Dr. Howard. Dr. Bethune, he did not wish to do this. You are being unkind. I know what I want to say to him. I'm sorry, Dr. Bethune. Since I am no good here, I will go and join my brothers on the battlefield. I have no bitterness, doctor. I am grateful for what you are doing for Spain. Goodbye. Go after him. Tell him I apologize for my stupid, ill-tempered remarks. I'm trying to blame my own failure on somebody else. Failure, doctor? I know I'm not doing this job properly. We ought to be sending blood right up to the front in refrigerated containers. But we haven't enough plasma on hand. I've been afraid to risk what we have out there on the line of fire.  You shall have all you need. My blood bank is a success. Being able to transfuse casualties in the front lines has saved a great many lives. I know that the final battle will never be lost. Blood of the living will sustain the fallen. And it will be given freely and with love. This thought is with me as I leave for China. Dr. Bethune, what to China? Carrying on the work he'd started in Spain. Friends and comrades of China, thousands of your soldiers have fallen fighting for you. They will live to fight again if you will do one thing for them.  Who will be the first to volunteer? I'm afraid it is hopeless, doctor. What's the matter? Didn't they understand what I was saying? Yes, they understood. But they are afraid to give their blood. Bring one of the patients up here. The worst one. Go ahead, orderly. You heard what the doctor said. Yes, commandant. I go to Old Bay. Nurse, hand me that alcohol and sterile needle. Here, doctor. Careful there. Careful. Set the stretcher down gently. That's it. Good. Now then, nurse, help me here, will you? You are going to transfuse the patient yourself, doctor? Yes. All of them if necessary. As Norman Bethune lay down beside the dying Chinese soldier, and the lifetime began to flow from his veins into the wounded man's body, the little circle of peasants watched in dismay. Then they witnessed a miracle.  What happened? I'm home again. These are people of my village. Yes. These are your people.  What kind of people are you anyway? Look, he lives. Orderly, bring up another of the wounded men. The sickest one. Doctor, I am very old, and maybe the blood is dried up in my veins. But I would like to give. Do not put woman's blood in a soldier. Let me. I am strong. I would give. Three o'clock in the morning, December, North China, near Linxiu with the Eighth Route Army, mud walls, mud floor, mud bed, white paper windows, smell of blood and chloroform, cold men with wounds. Is this one alive? He lives technically speaking. He is alive. Give him saline intravenously. Perhaps the innumerable tiny cells of his body will remember. They may remember the hot, salty sea, their ancestral home, their first food. With the memory of a million years, they may remember other tides, other oceans, and life being born of the sea and the sun. And this one? Will he run along the road beside his mule at another harvest with cries of happiness? No. That one will never run again. But don't pity him. Pity would diminish his sacrifice. He did this without sentimentality or China. Four Japanese prisoners cut away that bloodstained uniform, lay him beside the others. There they are. Twenty operations tonight, 16 heroes and four enemies. Blood separated them. Blood has brought them together. Administrator of the anesthetic, please. Gloves, nurse. Dr. Bateson, there is no anesthetic. Not even chloroform? Not even chloroform.  I... I will not feel it at all. I promise you, doctor, if you can make me well, so I can fight the game. All right. Gloves. Here, doctor. Oh, throw them away. Look at the holes in them.  I'll operate without Gloves. Doctor, you will excuse me, but do you think you ought to? There is a cut in your finger there in this infection. I know what I'm doing, but before I begin... Orderly! Yes, Dr. Bateson? Go to your commanding officer. Tell him to contact China Aid Council in New York and arrange transportation for me back to the capital. I'm going home to America. You are leaving us, Dr. Bateson? I must. Americans have got to be made to realize that China is fighting the first battle of our war. If it's too bad, you must go, doctor. You know what the commandant says to the men when he starts an offensive? What's that? You will not think it disrespectful, if I tell you? Of course not. The commandant says, you have your marching orders. Attack. Bateson is here to take care of the wounded. He says that, does he? Hmm. Scalpel nurse. Norman Bateson died that night of an infection caused by operating without a 15 cent pair of rubber glands. Thank you, Walter Bateson. Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Norman Bateson gave his great heart for our freedom. Can we in the same cause give less than a little of our blood to the American Red Cross blood bank? Here is Gaine Whitman speaking for the DuPont Company with a story about a typical American girl in her nylon stockings and some of the many interesting ways nylon is serving in the war. On May 15, 1940, a typical American girl walked into a store and bought a pair of stockings made of a new material. A new material with a new name, nylon. The next day she wore them and that night she washed them. There she made a surprising discovery. Less than half an hour after she washed her new nylon stockings, she found they were dry. Men trying out their first nylon fishing lines too found they didn't soak up water and dried in a few minutes. People using their first toothbrushes with nylon bristles found they never grew soggy because nylon sheds water so easily. No one dreamed then that nylon's resistance to water would one day mean a great deal to the comfort and health of American soldiers fighting in faraway tropical jungles. But today the army finds nylon invaluable in jungle warfare, keeping dry as the first rule of health in the jungle. The first hammocks issued to jungle troops were soon eaten by termites. Their mosquito nets mildewed, ripped and fell to pieces. Nylon hammocks and nets stand the hot moist climate. Nylon ponchos mean that a soldier carries four pounds less weight, so nylon ponchos have replaced cotton ponchos and raincoats, serving not only as raincoats but as shelter tents, foxhole covers and waterproof bedding rolls. Nylon shoelaces are now standard equipment. Shoelaces made of other materials rotted quickly in the moist steaming air of the tropics. But nylon retains its strength and keeps a man from losing his jungle boots in swamps and mud holes. All of the toothbrushes issued to jungle troops have nylon bristles. Nylon headnets protect soldiers from the voracious tropical insects. Four years ago, when a pretty girl bought her first pair of nylon stockings, she found that they dried only a few minutes after she washed them. Today, nylon's ability to dry quickly, plus its great strength, roughness and long life adds to the health, comfort and fighting efficiency of American soldiers slugging through the jungles ever nearer and nearer to Japan. Nylon is only one of many of the DuPont Company's better things for better living through chemistry. And here is Cavalcade's commentator, Walter Houston. One better cold night nearly 200 years ago, by the light of a flickering candle and with a drum head or a desk, the man dipped quill into ink and wrote these words. These are the times that try men's souls. You've heard them before, I know. Men have repeated them in times of great struggle, finding comfort and guidance in the preservation of freedom. They were written by a great patriot, Thomas Paine. And the plain, homely men of 1776, realizing their full meaning, fought on to win the liberty we enjoy today. We want you to rediscover these words with us next week, and they will be spoken again on Cavalcade. Our star is one of your favorite actors, Edward G. Robinson. The play in which you will portray Tom Paine is called The Voice on the Stairs. Thank you. Thank you, Walter Houston. Next Wednesday, September 27th, is Victory Fleet Day, the third birthday of America's hard-hitting Johnny on the Spot wartime merchant fleet. Victory Fleet Day will honor the private shipping companies of the U.S., which under control of the war shipping administration, operate the great fleets made up of three-and-a-half thousand liberty ships, tankers, and other vessels, which deliver the vital supplies of war to our fighting men. Cavalcade joins with all America in saluting the experienced, capable private managements, which are so successfully operating our vessels, which are supervising the unbelievably intricate and difficult loading and unloading of the millions of tons of cargoes needed to wage this total war. Remember, in weeks to come, Cavalcade will bring you exciting dramas with the most famous of Hollywood stars, Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Francis Langford, Clark Gable, and many others. Walter Pigeon, star of tonight's performance, appeared through the courtesy of MGM, in whose production, Mrs. Parkington, he will soon be seen. For materials upon which tonight's play was based, Cavalcade thanks the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation for permission to use material from the biography, The Story of Norman Bethune, by Ted Allen, to be published next spring by Little Brown & Company. Musical score of tonight's production was arranged and conducted by Robert Ambruster. Next week, Voice on the Stairs, starring Edward G. Robinson, brought to you on the Cavalcade of America by E.I. DuPont Dinamours & Company of Wilmington, Delaware. Until next Monday evening, thank you, and good night.


Our Viking journey continues ladies and gentlemen welcome back to channel My name is Jack the bus and yes I'm very excited today because we're continuing Vinland saga and it has been quite the journey throughout these short the short time We've been with Thorfinn seeing the fall of Thor's at the hand of Askeladd Well, I guess Askeladd's men and Thorfinn already going on this sort of mini arc mini journey of wanting revenge because he killed But it kind of works in conjunction with what Thor's told his son like before he passed about having sort of no enemies or no Grype with with anybody and then immediately his son is just confronted with this situation where of course he's gonna want revenge I mean the irony just reeks but guys we're gonna hop into this one If you knew the channel makes you drop a sub and let's get started He's still with them I mean Askeladd's holding the proof himself and then he gets a real fight Dude this sounds like the narrator of the intro of one piece to say Long to live in England I mean I've known little to nothing about About vikings in general before this show so I mean everything is learning experience the journey begins Let me mean that begins one number six man It's interesting like the mix of CG sometimes So the king of Denmark is using vikings to like raid and then an invade I love his voice They make a path for the king to take over England the king of them are to take over England and yeah, they're higher ups basically automatically What are they being cold shrew just deal with annoying bugs What even is that got the survival skills of his father probably Pirate The battle plans My god my god Is this like the English army jumping them were they sold out? How do they know? Bro isn't even worried these guys are professionals.  He's got to get a confirmed kill man No, sir, so what do they refer to the vikings as pirates? Is it like derogatory?  He what is he like eight at this point?    He's getting like more and more comfortable with just taking people down Oh, he's getting long hair getting much more proficient too with his blade Like dude, buddy leveled up. Oh, it's like it's like not even remotely affecting him anymore either They're like actually using him No, he's getting older But they're actually putting trust into him to like do work for them interesting I mean at this point it looks like like years have gone by I didn't know I expect him to stay with him this long. I thought Asgore was going to be like a returning character Like later in the season or something Oh my gosh, bro Ah, he's got his father's fighting skills. I like the fit He's getting better and better that scares me as I feel like it should I feel like he's become more like his dad was whenever he was like a fighter in his prime What is the king's name So the current king is like trying to use them command them King Ethelred. Oh, he killed all the Danes. Oh Mom's just ranting. Oh Where's the door? Oh, wait Oh, maybe he does get separated from Asgore. Well, 1080 east and anglia the east. Oh, he's in england. He's got a gnarly scar The long hair is a look man.  I'm excited. I'm just ready for it This is not gonna be good Where's your husband? He's dead, isn't he? Everybody in the show is dead. I will say this does move very quickly holding with thorns And now he's separated from Asgore lad Thank you Dad's serving in the military. Hmm because the Danes attacked us. So his her dad is in the english army Isn't Thorfinn part of that quarrel? Oh my I was like, why is she why is she looking at him?  What did I say, dude? Everybody dies in the show. I'm just ready for it. I'm just prepping myself A danish scout.  I was just guessing bro is waffelin So the the english referred to like the danes as pirates not vikings She's like, I know he's been through stuff Actually, though Wait, john was actually her son's name. Oh, that's a little dark Wait, what are you doing? I'm with that Thorfinn. What are you doing? What are you doing with that that fireman? What is he doing? They're gonna pillage wait this village. Why would he tell them to run or are they headed here?  How disappointed would they be? Oh, I saw like last episode sort of the the development of Thorfinn But this was by far his biggest jump yet Like calling him a changed person would be a very very big understatement because this is a completely different person now And I feel like he is starting to become and and follow in the footsteps of the footsteps of his father Thor's I almost adore steps But the question is will he reach a breaking point? Like I mean I feel like he already kind of is Like Thor's did whenever that switch flipped and he thought about his wife Helga I mean Thorfinn is is probably like a teenager at this point And he's already thinking about his family and how they would see him in that light But Thor's was more like what he's missing out on if he does die I think like it started to scare him being in war because he couldn't go back to Helga Thorfinn's a little bit different in I feel I feel like this this was like an episode to symbolize the loss of his innocence And his mother sort of watching him through this woman is like a spectator of that I don't know it's very interesting though Like I said so much like does the moves vinland saga moves so fast, man It's like whiplash keeping up with it Like that's where you're the stay with asclad's crew like for the long run despite everything that happened But I think Thorfinn wants to stay there two one day challenge him to a rightful duel whenever, you know He's not a child but guys that's been it for my reaction today I hope you did enjoy makes you leave a like on this one does help me out quite a bit and I'll catch you next time Is base