So, I told you I started jumping rope, right? You did? It's actually insane. Like, yeah, sure you get ripped and stuff like that, but you should have seen last weekend. I was just at the park, just whipping around like I do. I know how you whip. You know how I do it. I know how you whip and name it. So, I'm stripping that jump rope.  I go into public places and I'll just start jumping rope. Immediately. Ass grabs. If girls are like grabbing my butt. Honestly, it's getting dangerous. You want to look like a god? Two things. Do this workout and work out when it's 12 o'clock in the afternoon when the sun's coming down. Why? Because the lighting makes my body look like I'm a god. We're going to be doing eight exercises. High intensity interval training. Subscribe to the YouTube channel and, heck, you know what? If you want to go in with the Zen dudes, click the link below and join our free seven day jump rope fat loss challenge. Hey, let's get in the workout. All right, guys. To start things off, we're going to do jump rope single leg. So, follow Brandon and switch from your right to left when he does. Again, I know I always say regular bounce fundamentals, guys. From Brandon's torso upwards, he's got his elbows in, wrist jutting out from the sides of the hips. Very little movement and he's only coming about one to two inches off the ground. That's perfect. If you need to do regular bounce and you can't do single leg, that's totally fun, guys. Remember, in terms of physique, you can still get just as great of a workout. You can never do any jump rope tricks, but you can swing a weighted handle rope pretty fast without messing up. You will have an amazing body. So don't get discouraged if you can't do all the tricks. It's more so about can you follow through with the fundamentals. So next up, guys, jump rope mummy kicks. Now, all we're doing here is staying on the toes. You should always be on your toes when you're jumping rope. But here, we're slightly kicking the foot out and alternating it. So think of just running in place, except instead of kicking the feet back, you're tapping them from your toes to slightly out. So tap, tap, tap, tap. And just a very small range of motion, guys. It doesn't need to be this big thing that's going to make you mess up. And of course, you saw Brandon mess up there, guys. Mess ups are totally fine and they are also inevitable.  Just get back up and do it again. Okay? All right, guys. Next up, high knees.  You can see Brandon's coming the whole way up. He's bringing his knee the whole way to the middle of his torso, which is what you want. Don't flake on me, guys. Don't go low. Don't go low intensity. Get them up there. Get the knees up there. Remember, all you got to do is do this for 30 straight minutes and then you're done.  So get in, get intense, and then make sure you guys get on with the rest of your life. All right. So today's structure is a little bit different, by the way. But we're, I noticed, I gave you guys two jump rope exercises, then two body weight, then two jump rope, and then do body weight again. So here comes the body weight calisthenic portion. This is the three-step twist. As you can see, Brandon is going middle, right, middle, left. And as you can see here, Brandon is just using his body and turning his hips while his shoulders are pretty much staying straight forward. That's exactly what you want. Very little movement, whether in jump rope or body weight exercises. Efficiency and correct form is much more important than looking like you're going balls for the wall and looking like you're going really hard. Good guys. Next up, back to jump rope. We're going jump rope heel tap. Jump rope heel tap. So you don't need to tap your heel every single swing of the rope. But as you can see, Brandon's swinging it and then every second one, he's tapping the alternate foot out. Now this is something like riding a bicycle. It's a little bit difficult to get this rhythm down. If you're a good dancer, this will come naturally to you. But otherwise, as you can see, Brandon started off not being able to do this at all and he's really good at it. So don't get discouraged guys. All you're doing is tapping the heel out, clicking it and pulling it back in. Good. All right. Next guys, the last jump rope exercise of this workout. We got jump rope fast skip. Now this looks a little bit like heel tap except what you're doing is your stutter stepping on the foot that the rope's coming around on. So what I mean by that is if you can see here, Brandon is just skipping and then when he pulls his foot up he's kicking that same foot back while the other foot comes down for the first time. So think of this as it's very similar to boxer skip but it requires a little bit more agility of which we will of course be doing a tutorial. I'll show you the tutorial in a little bit here. Good guys. Two exercises left and guess what? They are body weight. So to start things off, we are going to be doing side leap frogs. Brandon, so we're going to be doing side leap frogs guys. Brandon is just jumping back and forth while maintaining that good position with his body. He's not bending over too far but he's still being explosive enough, excuse me, to get something out of the workout. See how he's pushing off from side to side? That's really what you want to do here. This is meant to be explosive because that's how your body burns more fat in less time. It will only adapt to the inputs you give it. So if you worked out at a slow pace, guess what? Expect slow results.  And last one guys, the plank side toe touches. All Brandon is doing here is maintaining a plank and then very in a very composed manner, slinging his feet out to the right and to the left. This is great for, it's a little bit more advanced than just a regular plank because you're engaging the sides of your abdominals, which are your obliques. And so it's like a plank, but just a little bit more challenging. Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Zen Dude Fitness Workout Wednesday. We'll see you on the next one guys.


This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community Matters here. Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii and I've never got quiet. This is a half hour program that explores the Hawaiian connection with the Vietnam War. I'm your host, Vic Kraut. Our guest today is Ken Cupjick. Ken had one of the more obscure but nonetheless critical jobs in Vietnam and that was predicting the weather. A skill more akin to an art as opposed to a science. It is however much unappreciated or underappreciated. The D-Day landing's enormity in the invasion of Europe and the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany hinged on the weather forecast of a young Royal Air Force group captain meteorologist. More than one operation in history has been upset by mother nature. At least one attempt by the Mongols to invade Japan in the 13th century was interrupted not by an army or navy but by what appears to be a series of typhoons the Japanese called the divine wind. We know it better as kamikaze. Before Ken was commissioned in the United States Air Force he went to Cornell University and received a degree in chemistry. He subsequently earned a degree in meteorology from Penn State. Ken served on General Mo Meyer's staff as weather briefing officer in Saigon. In 1968 he served on the University of Hawaii's meteorology research staff prior to returning to Cornell to obtain a law degree specializing in international affairs. We can spend the rest of the program listing Ken's accomplishments as a lawyer. Suffice us to say Ken has been practicing law in Hawaii since he was licensed and has a catalog of accomplishments in contributing to the body of law pertaining to acquisition, construction, and community development as well as lending his writing talents publications on numerous law related subjects. If you're interested in Ken's career you can visit Hawaii.com HawaiiLawyer.com and get the full details. Aloha and welcome Ken. Aloha, good to be here. Thank you. I noticed your career you started off in chemistry in the sciences. How did you end up as a meteorologist? Well it was a long story but started with Sputnik. Go for it. In 1957 Sputnik went up and we had to beat the Russians and so most of us went off to sciences and math or science or engineering so I went off to college in that area. At the same time we started having some trouble in the south and some sit-ins and the like and as a chemist I thought maybe I wouldn't be able to be a good citizen so I decided I better go to law school at some point and figure out how to work the system understand it and the like so I'd plan to do that but I was in ROTC and I had a four-year commitment to the Air Force and wanted to fly but my eyes got too bad and they sent me to Penn State and I got my meteorology degree and was there a weatherman for the next four years. Was it your career chosen for you or was it one of those things that you had as a choice of maybe five or six different careers? Well I wanted to fly and when they told me I couldn't do that I picked this one that was the only one that came up on my radar. As I said predicting the weather is much more of an art than it is the science especially in Southeast Asia it had to have been a heck of a challenge just to come up with a forecast for the next five minutes never mind predicting what tomorrow's operations are going to face. Can you tell us some of the difficulties you might have had? Well first difficulty was that most of us are trained in temperate meteorology so they sent me to Randtool, Illinois to learn tropical meteorology in November and December so that was that was struggle. Well this is the military we're talking about. The tropics of weather operates a little differently but North Vietnam is even more challenging in that North Vietnam and China were the only two countries at the time who were not on the world meteorological net and so on the weather map where you have all the stations reporting in two blanks there at China and North Vietnam and that's where a lot of the key weather came from. How did you guys overcome that? Well we had covert people in the ground that I could talk to we had constellations that would circle out in the Gulf of Tonkin that I could talk to I could talk to all the pilots in the air at any time and more importantly we also had the first version of satellites that came through so we were able to they only make one pass a day around but you get a cloud picture in the visual spectrum and it would help you a little bit. So you guys basically were responsible for not only providing forecast information for in-country operations but also for the folks over in Thailand who are bombing the north? Right the in-country operations mostly where we had total air control the army of go almost no matter what our weather forecast was except for during Quezon and TEP but over the north we were in a hostile environment we had the NM range and the tropics clouds would go up to 60,000 feet and they had to go from Thailand into Hanoi fly over the range refuel somewhere around those big clouds drop their ordinance and then come back over the range so it was pretty difficult. In those days you had to take evasive action by visual acquiring the Sam's Migs or ACAC so if you didn't have visual flight rules or three miles visibility and 3-8 cloud cover you couldn't see your target. That must have been terribly frustrating not only for you but for the operations people if you couldn't see the target you can't see what you're going to be bombing so I would imagine and your life's in danger and your life's in danger. We set a hundred planes up in a mission and sure and if you didn't have the right environment you'd wasted all that money and probably the lives of some people. Yeah that was I remember we were talking about Jack Broatt and Thud Ridge and going downtown in his books and you mentioned a couple of other books dealing with the operations in the north basically telegraphing where we were coming and when we were coming right and and then piling on top of that the the very the vagaries of weather. Well the missions were to get in two missions a day we had a bomb at 8 a.m. and at 4 p.m. because the planes had to go from Thailand to Hanoi back to Thailand back to Hanoi and back so you can only get two missions in a day and if they we didn't show up at 8 they knew we're coming at noon and there'll only be one mission so the rest of the day they could operate without. Well how convenient. The Navy was a little different this was the Air Force Navy's out in the Gulf and I guess they could fly at different times the Air Force where I was provided the weather to the Air Force and to the Army. Well I think the Air Force probably had a little longer distance to go because considering Yankee Station was a whole lot closer to Hanoi and Haifeng and coming out of Toc Lea or Karat or wherever. We used to we divided the north in the six we're calling route packages and three of them were for them I think we're Air Force and two of them were Navy and they had Haifeng and one part of Hanoi and we had the rest of the western part where Dien Bien Phu was and the southern part North Vietnam and I did the go now go forecast for the missions over the north. How stable were those forecasts not not reflection on your ability but I mean did mother nature cooperate most of the time? Well one time I told them that it'd be clear in 15 miles visibility and they got there and there's a typhoon. For a pilot that's the difference day and night yeah for the meteorologist it was a difference in 15 miles on the forecast. That's true.  We thought it was going to move into Hainan Island and it moved 15 miles to the west unfortunately it was on our route so that's why it was that was not so much fun. You were telling me earlier about having to scrub some of the missions based on whether you as you said a hundred aircrafts up in the air and they've got to be refueled and again if they're going in country and if you're scrubbing the mission and then they have to go back what do they do? Well we didn't have the full say on whether to hit the target or not. Washington D.C. played a big role in the decision making. We had our frag teams would set the targets together and I briefed the decision maker the general two hours before and they'd make a decision to go and sometimes when we're in route refueled or perhaps over the gulf Washington would call and scrub the mission so the pilots would have to drop their ordnance in the gulf and fly back home their lives at stake and the like. This didn't sit well with the military people in Vietnam and the generals and the colonels and the command post were complaining up one side and down the other about Washington not understanding our mission and then some years later when I got to law school we had Nicholas Katzenbach who was one of the people at the other end of the line had been Johnson's attorney general came up to a cocktail party that we had at our law review and so I explained to him my story and his response was those darn generals they didn't know what was going on out there. My point on this story is that not that one side was right and the other was wrong we had a significant communication problem between the field and home and I observed that because I sat in the command post of MacV and Seventh Air Force for the year that I was there and I saw most of the decisions were made and we'd used to brief the senators and the congressmen that they'd come down on the climatology and other things and I'd be there for the body count briefing and the other things but it was quite apparent to me my mouse in the room or the fly on the wall that we had a significant communication gap. I wonder if that has been resolved in the intervening years. I don't want to know. You didn't get the opportunity to travel much throughout country did you? I was not allowed to leave the Saigon area because I had a special intelligence clearance and therefore I was not cleared to travel anywhere else. Part of that had to do with the type of information I was receiving in order to make my forecast. At the time you were there we were receiving an awful lot of information about terrorist activity that was going on in Saigon in fact other large metropolitan areas within the South. Did you happen to experience any or see any? Well a couple things one I felt for the first 10 months I was there I was safer in Saigon than I was in New York City. My previous posting was on Eastern Long Island at Suffolk County Air Force Base and it was the city safe you know we used to go to the city all the time but I thought it was safer in Saigon. The last two months offensive hit and changed everything nothing was safe at that point. One example of safety there was a golf course Saigon Country Club and they had crabgrass grains on it because you couldn't grow the grass low enough it would burn out in that heat on it and the bunkers were real bunkers they were manned with machine guns and sandbags they were regular they were the sandbag I were the bunkers for the golf course but they were banned and during that period of time and during Tet the biggest some of the biggest battles were fought on the golf course as the insurgents came through and there were quite a few people killed where we were playing golf on it. Hopefully you weren't playing golf at the same time that they were running their operation. Well the night before was when they celebrated Tet and it's time to chase the spirits away a lot of fireworks from time it was dark till after midnight it was as light as day just from little fireworks going off and so it was something like I've never seen we have new years and other things we celebrate here but it's quite small change compared to the constant roar through the whole time and the light that was put off just by the little firecrackers all through a city of three million people the next night when I went home I lived a mile off base that a bicycle went to and from the base we had been warned that there's something was going to happen but no one thought too much about it and the explosion started middle of the night and I said out there and there's more fireworks out there and then they kept going and getting louder and we turned on Armed Forces Radio and they said stay in place don't try to come in they had come through the perimeter at Tansenute they were firing in the streets throughout on it in sort of two days it was trapped there at our villa we started going up on the roof to watch the gunship shoot buildings two blocks away and things like that and then the shrapnel started going over the roof so it was time to hide under our beds it's myself and one other guy there were six of us GIs that rented this villa then two of us were there the rest were on base at the time and so we had one old M1 rifle between us and we hit under our bed until two days later they told us it was safe to come in and so we walked up the mile to the base and the MP battalion I think was the only thing there at the beginning and how they brought in the big red one and I looked at them and they were about 17 year old and they looked more scared than I was I didn't get off for two more weeks slept on the floor in the command post and they finally said it was safe to get off we'll get back to you in a minute on that Ken I'd like to hear some more about Ted but first let's have some messages and we'll be right back this is Think Tech Hawaii raising public awareness I'm Helen Dora Hayden the host of voice of the veteran seen here live every Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii as a fellow veteran and veterans advocate with over 23 years experience serving veterans active duty and family members I hope to educate everyone on benefits and accessibility services by inviting professionals in the field to appear on the show in addition I hope to plan on inviting guest veterans to talk about their concerns and possibly offer solutions as we navigate and work together through issues we can all benefit please join me every Thursday at 1 p.m. for the voice of the veteran aloha aloha I'm Marcia Joyner inviting you to navigate the journey spend the time with us as we look through and discover all of the ins and outs of this journey through life we're on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. and I would love to have you with us come navigate the journey okay aloha we're talking with Ken Cutcheck about his experiences in Vietnam particularly we were just talking about Ted you've got a couple more stories about Ted you said mentioned something about your first day back of work after oh no first day I got off base Ted hit was stuck off for two days got in had a sleep on the floor for 10 days till they cleared out things the people had come through the perimeter we put about 400 bodies in a common grave near the end of the runway towns people come out and put flowers on their graves so you didn't feel like you were real comfortable they finally let us go off and I went to my place which is a mile off base and that night 100 rounds of rocket fire came into Thompson so we ran up to the roof again with a flat top roof in our building and a big fire going on they they had hit the BOQ and a chapel and they were burning up I'm taking pictures and pictures and pictures I finally noticed I had taken 40 shots on a 24-shot roll and I was so scared I guess I had ripped the sprocket holes on the first one and all of them were taken on the same frame but the worst part about the the rocket attack was that they hit the PX and got the beer supply and the shaving cream oh dear so they were shaving cream all over the place and the beer supply was hit and so everybody was fighting mad I think it was mad but there was another time when I got back in after that they issued me an M16 and a 38 revolver I had had a half hour of pistol training at summer camp in the summer of 62 at Langley Air Force Base and I've never been given any instruction on an M16 and I would go back and forth on a bicycle so I'd be pedaling around with my M16 strapped on and my pistol on my hip and one time when I was going along the primitive road I could hear them and my first thing I did was I jump off and grab my camera fortunately it hit the building across the road and from that point I decided to hit the ground when you're young and dumb and you do things like that and I'm glad to be home that's funny you mentioned young and dumb because in our group we were talking about the difference in age you mentioned the 17 year olds the difference between a 17 and 18 year old and a 21 year old or a 25 year old is like you're a million years old when you're and you're looking at that 21 year old until they've been there about six months and they look like they're 80 yeah that's about it you get over very quickly yeah but you can imagine how old we were because we were in our 20s yeah I was 24 and 25 when I was there yeah I don't know it's you did some time at the University of Hawaii in the meteorology department was that after your active duty time or I was immediately after I processed out on my return my wife from here we were going to spend about six months long on the beach till law school began and I took her down to alamona court played tennis hit a drop shot she went down didn't get up so we had to get a knee operation for her oh dear and the day before the airport covered it we didn't have any insurance so I had to go to work and so I knew these fellas up at UH because they'd come through Saigon we're doing a study on forecast methods for Southeast Asia and because I had operational experience I went up and knocked on the door and said hey you got room for me on this team and they said sure and so I spent the next six months developing forecast methods for Southeast Asia and this is the time I think we may have discovered for the first time that our cone of storms were really hurricanes because as I said satellites were coming in we had nimbus which was would make our pass once a day or so and or every so many hours and we put all these pictures together and we counted 12 of these storms from Mexico over to Southeast Asia they were all kind of interconnected and a couple years ago here you might have seen the paper with three of those storms connected on a light but if you go this is the least traveled part of the globe 10 degrees north of the equator roughly people travel north and south and ships through it but hardly anybody would go east west where the weather moves and so we found that these things existed and every so often one would spin north and they'd come by Hawaii or go into the Philippines or if they didn't spin north they'd head into Saigon at the end of their track on it so that was one of the things we discovered while I was there we also found that it was storms like these that would suck all the moisture down or the dry air down out of Siberia and clear out the Red River and the Black River Valley so that's good bombing time for Hanoi which was the purpose of the study in some way benefits in on one way but learning how to better kill other people I guess well it's the whole data is who uses it and how they want to use it I imagine again dealing with the folks in Thailand and giving them forecasts did you have any interface with the Navy at all none the Navy ran their aeronautics or aerologists they don't have meteorologists they have aerologists but they ran their thing totally separate maybe at some level up at Scott Air Force Base and alike they communicated but in my four years we never had anything to do with the Navy talk about inter-service rivalry the shift from science to law how did that you mentioned something about you wanted to practice law and you're waiting for the Cornell time frame getting there you had this desire to do things or help people I guess I wanted to understand why our system seemed to be having so much trouble which early 60s and so I figured I needed to understand that and learning a law degree was the best way to do that and become an active citizen I got to law school and I discovered that you can't write a law that I can't interpret more in one way which led me to believe that what I know about our system and I think I know a fair amount now it's as good or better than anybody's around the only difference is who's administering the system because the executive gets the first shot at interpreting the law and if you want to call the executive on it you got to go to court and we do have an independent judiciary but it takes time sometimes two to five years to resolve that issue and not everybody can afford it so the 80 percent of the time whoever's in the executive branch gets the chance to interpret the law to do pretty much what they want so that's what I learned at law school and I was no longer so idealistic on it but it's we because of the laws we do have and the Bill of Rights and other things I think we still have the best system that I've studied and you know my degree was with some emphasis in international affairs so no or fact that we have an independent judiciary puts us a little bit different than most other places and what makes it independent to a large degree is the lifetime appointments of the judges that they can't for the most part be caught under someone's thumb they may be beholden to someone before they get there but once they get into a federal judgeship they're not beholden to anybody except for impeachment and there's perhaps been one or two of those and over 200 years of the United States well I think of you're talking about beholden to anybody I recall so many of the chief justices as many of the other associate justices who were nominated by a president thinking that that particular judge was going to go in and follow their philosophy and do a complete 180 on them so first of those was probably not maybe not the first the first time wherever Hugo Black senator from I think was Georgia or Alabama goes on the court and becomes perhaps one of the most liberal justices there ever was at the time and then there's of course just a suitor who became known as the stealth justice because they had thought he was going to rule one way and he turned out that he start ruling different ways from what they expected have any advice for returning veterans today given your experience or giving certain circumstances I'd get an education it gives you more options I was trustee at mid pacific institute for about 21 years and we learned that the kids going out of high school weren't trained the way the employers needed them they were trained that based on a system developed in industrial age where everything was locked up and you do a production line and they do one thing for the rest of their life today our kids are between six and 12 different jobs by the time they pass on and our returning veterans have lost some time in grade best thing they can do is upgrade themselves and get an education perhaps an education that allows them to be more flexible to be able to collaborate and solve problems hands-on work no matter what the industry changes and the job changes you'll have some ability to try to change with it and always have a place so that's my take is get an education well thank you Ken I appreciate that and hopefully some of our veterans will take your advice we would love to have some feedback if you would like to be on our program or if you have some comments please send us an email at 808 vietnam vets at gmail.com I would like to thank the staff here at think tech Hawaii for all their support and assistance surely without them this program would not be possible please come back again next week for another issue of it never got quiet mahala


Russian Navy gets anti-aircraft ground missiles. Russia's latest air defense system, which is capable of not only intercepting aerial threats, but also destroying maritime and ground-based targets, has been put into service with the Navy. The use of the Poliment Redut system against surface targets has been successfully tested, and the air defense system is currently being finalized to hit ground-based targets Russian Defense Ministry officials told Izvestia. The missiles integrated into this system will replenish the arsenal of Russian Corvettes of the 20380 and 20385 projects as well as the 22350 series frigates. The Poliment Redut weapon was built on the basis of the S350 Vityaz air defense system and is designed to intercept aircraft, helicopters and cruise missiles. It can fire 9M96E or 9M96E21 missiles with a range of up to 50 to 150 kilometers respectively. The system is also equipped with 9M100 short-range missiles. The missiles can hit targets at altitudes ranging from 5 meters to 8 kilometers, moving at speeds of up to 3,600 kilometers an hour. Experts say that this system will significantly strengthen the fire capabilities of modern warships. Like in the Soviet era, weapons for ship-borne air defense systems were initially designed to have the ability to shoot sea and ground-based targets, so this signals a return to previous tactical traditions. Dmitry Konev, editor-in-chief of the Military Russia website, told Izvestia. According to him, the same system can be used in different circumstances as it can fire at maritime and ground-based targets without requiring any major modifications. The Poliment Redut has simply been upgraded to a normal air defense system that can now be used as a dual-purpose system the expert explained. Today, the Russian Navy has nine 20380-series corvettes in service, with two more vessels currently being built for the Pacific Fleet, which should be commissioned by the Navy in 2024 and 2026 respectively. Meanwhile, the Corvette Mercury entered service with the Black Sea Fleet in May and work to build another Corvette, the Strogi, is currently being completed. All these warships were designed with the use of stealth technology, and the 20380-series corvettes have a powerful arsenal of weapons. These include the Euron anti-ship system with the X-35 missile, and they are equipped with a universal 100mm A190 artillery mount that can fire up to 80 rounds per minute.


Me akkordare, me akkordare, me akkordare de la diemla Do you remember?  That's what people in Canada don't often understand They cannot comprehend. Lives are at stake right now As well as livelihoods and traditional ways of life And life itself, the earth around us, which is dying This is Wilson. He used to be a fisherman But he was poisoned because of the thumping of the waves into the bay His upper mercury poisoning and his legs needed to be amputated He didn't get into an economic analysis of the market's logic Because in the market's logic, what matters is how much I'm going to win, how much I'm going to invest But you lose the spiritual human values We were controlled by Spanish, Portuguese, German, UK, Japan, Holland and now Indonesia Why? Because our sources Resource extraction, mining has aggravated and continuously aggravates the human rights violations in Papua When you're speaking about Indigenous peoples and resource development You're not talking about the quality of life You're talking about the way of life and you're talking about life itself Indigenous peoples have been living prophetically to defend that idea That God has given us a unique relationship with the earth Part of solidarity between the churches And the people has to do with understanding that very simple thing They are going to destroy the Mother Earth That for us, Indigenous peoples, has a lot of value That depends on our life Because the Earth gives us our food What is the space where we are? The social, natural, cultural space The political, economic space Where we carry out all our vital activities That is the territory of Indigenous peoples We not only resist, but Indigenous peoples have proposals And we have a way of life in which we are defending And our proposal is to respect nature Respect our cosmovision, our way of life God's mandate was that humankind has the responsibility to tell the land And make it productive for the benefit of all living things It's not for us to exploit it It's not for us to derive wealth out of it But it's to make sure that out of it we have life And so we must treat the environment, we must treat the resources And trust to us knowing that there are generations yet to come Who must benefit from it And how can we then with this mandate just stand by And watch as these things are happening The fundamental basis for churches' pursuance of social justice M&S from the biblical moral imperative That every human being is God's creation And that has intrinsic value There is a need to elaborate international laws That are fulfilled and that ensure the right To a natural, secure and healthy environment Now it is clear that the legal norms are not enough We can think that there is a perfect legal system That protects the environment But that is absurd, at least in the case of Guatemala Where we have a law that is extremely weak And that is really not taking into account very important aspects As the same respect to the decision of the populations The words are really diplomatic They remain empty when it is about defending life When it is about talking about life that has already been lost To the sincerity I prefer to tell them with my thousands of words What we think and feel Maybe they think that I come from far away But that area where I come from Is also part of the global aldean It is sufficiently known That economic model has produced so many victims And that therefore we are in the duty To rethink it and look for the construction Of a society that is really democratic and sustainable Therefore what we are required to do of course Is to organize ourselves, to network ourselves Both at the local as well as national and international We need to do that if we have to survive To be in solidarity with the struggle of the people Requires of the churches to be ecumenical And when I say that it is going to be It is bound to be a choice between churches Remaining as monuments or being movementists I will remember I will remember I will remember the land Just in Canada Was a mining conference looking specifically At Canadian mining companies in what we are doing Throughout the world especially in countries In Africa, Latin America and Philippines And it was attended by 150 people 50 of those people were church leaders Around the world in these countries in the global south So these were their first hand experiences That they were sharing with us And it was very much an eye-opener for me personally And I had to after this conference Take a look at my own ethical investing And make some changes So this motion is a way for us to engage This issue at every level, members, congregations Sinners and the national church So I urge you to pass this motion In order to ask us to wrestle with this ethical issue Please vote The motion is carried Thank you very much


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Welcome to The Journey. Today we're going to talk about how customer reviews can help your SEO. So business owners and operators, they need to know what the customers think about their store, right? And so whether it's a brick-and-mortar or an e-commerce business, it's helpful to know what your customers are thinking about your products and your services. And then knowing what your customers actually think, it can help you to better shape your business and your products. But did you know that your online customer reviews and your search and optimization go hand in hand? Let's take a look at how those tiny little stars can actually improve your SEO for your business. So why do customer reviews matter for SEO? Well, online customer reviews have emerged as one of the most important digital marketing tools, especially for small businesses that want to compete with those larger corporations. The best part is your company doesn't have to do a ton of work except for encouraging your customers to leave their favorable impressions about your business on one or more of the leading customer review sites. And if you still aren't convinced that online customer reviews matter for promoting your products or services, let's take a look at a few statistics to seal the case for receiving those online customer reviews. Yeah, customer reviews drive buying decisions. I know they help me out whenever I'm looking for a new product or service. In fact, nearly 95% of shoppers rely on online reviews and read them before making a purchase. And there's 72% of people in a recent study that I read that won't take action until they've read reviews about a business. And I use reviews to really determine my eating decisions. I'll go on Google and take a look at reviews of a potential restaurant to see if it's worth it. 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And now we talked about why they're important, but how do customer reviews improve SEO? So Google has dominated the search engine market for years, no surprise. The company has recently placed much more emphasis on how its algorithm calculates search engine results. So although YouTube videos and social media have gained more prominence in how Google ranks businesses, the company's own customer review site has morphed into one of the most important search engine ranking factors out there. Yeah, and the typical local business compiles 39 Google customer reviews with local businesses showing up on the highly coveted local SEO results acquiring an average of 47 Google customer reviews. That means local businesses average 4.4 out of five stars on Google My Business. All just 5% of local businesses have an average review rating of fewer than three stars. 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Now, we are talking about Satyagra, the most important topic on Gandhian Ethics, that well, important in the sense, because this was the means of engagement with the real world that Gandhi developed, sticking on to his ethical ideals. It is easy, it is one thing and it is easy to enumerate ethical ideals and it is another to implement it. In fact, criticism various ethicists or religions or moral codes always face, is that they have prescribed code of conduct, but how to implement it or how to put it into action or how to make it engage with the world out there, requires kind of, is the test of the theory and the theoretician. So, when we talk about Satyagra, we talk about Gandhi's ethical ideals meeting the real world out there. Now, what do we do when a person conflicts or a human predicament, if I may support it? People differ in their opinions and because they differ in their opinions, they have conflict about it. Now, some of us or one party in the conflict would perhaps accuse the other of being unjust. So, we have conflicts about justice, whether justice prevails or not, how do we arrive at it? How do we arrive at the solution of a conflict? Now, if you take a look at the slide, we talk about conflict, how does can a moral person engage with injustice. Now, here yes, we talk about conflicts, but we talk about conflicts and with for the ease of understanding from a particular perspective, where we seem to be, where we take the perspective of a moral person trying to engage with injustice. So, what are the prevalent methods of engaging with injustice? A is rational discussion and B is violence. Are these successful? Now, this is a question that we need to ponder on that well, it is very simplistically put, very simply put up here that well, it is either rational discussion or violence, which seem to be the only two ways of engaging with injustice and that is how perhaps it is. How can a moral person engage with justice? The prevalent methods that we see here are rational discussion or violence. Are these successful? Well, let us look at it this way. How does one engage with injustice? Say there are various notions of injustice to say between a factory owner and a factory employee between a landlord and a tenant. Forget about the power structures. It could be conflict between friends, it could be a conflict between or a disagreement between family members and one seems to be accusing the other of being unjust. So, how does, how do you or when we talk of Chatyagra from a person's perspective or one perspective is how does the moral man wish to convince the apparently unjust person? Well, one is the entire edifice of human justice as practiced currently today is through discussion through means of rational discussion that well or appeal to reason. The entire era of modernity focuses its basis on reason or rationality that rationality or reason is objective and by appealing to reason we can resolve any discussion. And of course, when this fails we always have violence to count upon in fact that is why entire nations have armed forces and policemen have batons and firearms in their hands. So, violence has a final means of tackling justice. Now, let us see what does Gandhi talk about this. Now, let us consider the first aspect, rational discussion. Well, this is supposedly the most civilized method and what exactly happens in a rational discussion for conflict resolution or for dealing with an unjust opponent well. What it requires is that first it requires that both of them coming to the discussion table. The parties coming to the discussion table should A, accept the possibility that they are fallible and biased and thus an honest attempt to take the others perspective. So, accepting the possibility that we are fallible and biased thus an honest attempt to take the others perspective. B, rational discussion takes place between psychological beings with desires and the latter can contaminate the former. So, this is an important assumption that should be understood by the proponent or by when we talk about rational discussion that rational discussion takes place between psychological beings and that the latter can contaminate the former. Let us briefly talk about this. Let us say we have look at it this way. We have the entire judiciary in any country is set up for enforcing justice. And it is such a simple evident truth that it no more strikes us as anything profound that when we engage lawyers a better lawyer can perhaps win a case undeservingly and an inferior lawyer would lose a case even though truth be on that side or justice be on that side. Now, what does this mean? This means that well rational discussion can be guided according to the motivation that we are all psychological beings that we have seen that rational discussion is in favour of the more articulate. So, let us note this down that well rational discussion favours the articulate and is against the non articulate. This I would like to term as a structural flaw. Now, this is something that Gandhi very much takes into account that rational discussion takes place between psychological beings and with desires. And the desires can contaminate the rational discussion. So, let us think of a classic example where in the Indian scenario a lesser educated tribal is coming to seek justice from a urban or an establishing industry. Now, the entire and both of them seek redressal in the judiciary, but definitely it is the industrialist who has better access to articulate lawyers to advocate his position and case much better than what the tribal can do. So, if we talk about rational discussion then rational discussion comes out to be favouring the ones who are articulate and is definitely against the one that is non articulate. So, Gandhi being a lawyer himself understands the importance of how rationality itself can be guided or goaded into the direction what where one really wants it to land. So, thus Gandhi is critical of rational discussion as conflict resolution methodology because rational discussion is desirable yes in principle, but it is of limited value in practice. After rational discussion let us go ahead to the next option that comes forth. The next option that comes forth is conflict resolution, violence as conflict resolution sorry. Now, this leaves us with violence as a means of resolution, so frequently used in human history that its abnormality does not seem unusual, this disturbed Gandhi. Now, if we see that well throughout the human history we have had violence as a very dominant means of guiding history or very dominant means of resolving conflicts that it almost seems so usual about it that its abnormality does not seem unusual. That its abnormality does not seem unusual this is what disturbs Gandhi. So, violence has become so common in human history that it does not seem disturbing at all nations raising armed forces, arming the police all seems so usual. In fact, the absence of it would seem striking violence or potency of violence, potency for violence seems so obvious that the normative issues around violence are almost forgotten. The utility of violence drowns the normative questions of it of its justification or rather more accurately the lack of it. Now, what is violence as conflict resolution? Well, let us consider this that well we engage in a rational discussion and it falls off and then we have violence as the backup method to sort it out. And that is why countries and nations the whole world, nations of the whole world raise their own armed forces. That is why policemen are armed or that they have been given the legitimacy which is again a question that can the state really give the legitimacy to the internal police to use violence against its citizens. But that apart for the time being that well it is such a common place to find armed forces and armed policemen all evidence or symbols of violence as means of conflict resolution or of tackling disobedient behavior that it seems unusual or abnormal to conceive of a possibility with the lack of violence. Now, look at the sensitivity of this man called later to be called Mahatma Gandhi that he finds this notion of violence disturbing something that we are so used to it today or perhaps in all times that these evidences of violence do not hurt us that or do not disturb us more accurately. So, we find that well non violence as or violence as sorry violence as conflict resolution as a very standard back up measure. But violence or potency if you look at the third point mentioned here violence or potency for violence seems so obvious that normative issues around violence are almost forgotten. Now, what are these normative issues is violence wrong? Now, perhaps the answer to this most people would answer would to this question would be that violence is inevitable. Now, is this the answer of the question posed well what is the normative answer of this question. So, this normative answer of the question has almost escaped us because it is been taken as a standard measure to tackle injustice well then let us raise the question. What is wrong with violence? Well first surprisingly or disturbingly this question almost escapes us perhaps we do not reflect through life about wondering that well what is wrong with violence? What is wrong with violence? Well Gandhi has an answer to this and Gandhi has thought through this and the answer flows from his ethical claims. Well why is violence wrong and perhaps immediately most of us would be short of words to answer this. Well Gandhi put structured answer to this claim well according to Gandhi a or one violence denies the ontological claim that all human beings have souls and that they are capable of understanding each other with empathy. Now, if I am allowed to play the role of the empathetic advocate to Gandhi's views for today's audience. I shall rather use the word self over here that well what is Gandhi meaning Gandhi does not have a religious underpinning as we would be skeptical of it perhaps today. Well what exactly is meant that well all human beings are equal all human beings are equal in moral potency and therefore dignity. So, the point that Gandhi is trying to make is that well ontologically if all of us have souls or selves and these selves are capable of understanding each other with empathy. So, there is a we are all morally potent to appreciate the other perspective and there of offer dignity to the other. Now, this is Gandhi has been influenced by the Syadwad doctrine of Jainism which claims that there are many perspectives to reality or that a conflict is a difference in perspective only. So, whenever we have noticed that Gandhi is not advocating relativism rather Gandhi is claiming that well relativism is because of the difference in perspectives not because truth is relative. So, truth is relative only while till we keep the perspective into account take the perspective into account. So, to Gandhi makes a claim that it is an influence from that this is an influence from Syadwad and it is that a conflict is essentially a difference in perspective only. This greatly alters the way the understanding of conflict that well violence and three finally violence is to confuse one's perspective as the only perspective failing to see the other's perspective and being open to revision. So, these are very common sensically simple yet profound observations that can be made from Gandhi's ethical ideals that well to be violent is to seek a resolution and this resolution is required only because one fails to see the perspective of the other fails to see the perspective of other. So, being open to revision is very much required and is an easier way of or is a more moral right easier and accurate way of doing away with violence. Now, what more about violence well Gandhi goes ahead and says that well violence coerces behavioural change not a change of attitude. So, when we talk about violence it only forces an army that conquers another nation has conquered it, but has not changed its attitude and what Gandhi seeks is a change of heart not a possession of physical entity. If we could discuss further about Gandhi's metaphysics we could understand that well Gandhi makes postulates the necessity of assuming a self or a soul force is because the body is the domain of violence, but the soul or the soul force or the self or the attitude is not the domain of violence and we can contain the body we can give pain to the body, but to bring a change of heart or as he calls heart and the famous dichotomy between head and heart change the self requires a more nonviolent peaceful intervention what he talks about in which is Satyagra. So, further why is violence wrong because it violates the moral integrity of the vanquished it forces them to act against their conviction well with the moment the victor conquers the vanquished the vanquished are forced to act in the manner that the victors want them to act. However, this acting is not out of their conviction, but it is out of force or fear or coercion. So, for the vanquished we find that their confirmation is only physical not mental as Gandhi would say spiritual and what perhaps many of us could understand as attitudinal. So, when we bring about a difference that difference we can force them physically or when the victor forces the vanquished physically, but the aim of a resolution is to bring about a change from the inside. Next, we talk about a transformation of views may be slower, but is definitely more desirable of the more impatient of the audience they would already be poking with this question that well it is fine that we can use Satyagra or we can use patience or we can use avoid the use of violence. This is going to take a lot of time it is simply easier to punish the errant citizen by the stick of the policeman rather than to argue convince with him or tolerate his indiscipline for him to learn well accepted that transformation of views is slower. But what Gandhi argues is that it is definitely more desirable because it is long lasting which comes out in the next issue that we talk about. This point or bullet we talk is that results of the violence of violence hardly lost whereas, non-violent resolutions last longer and finally, violence breeds violence it is a quick fix that works and inside repetitions as a conflict solution. So, violence breeds violence so once we see that well system of say public lashing is working so we the administration of the leadership is keen on using it again and again and but to have the same effect perhaps it has to increase its dosage. So, the next bullet talks about it well the dosage of violence increases to attain the same effect. So, we have to increase the dosage of violence to attain the same effect so any punishments may have to be escalated to have the same effect it is almost like the case of antibiotics that well we use it as an last measure, but indiscriminate use of it reduces susceptibility reduces its effectiveness and increases susceptibility to it. So, therefore, we keep have to increase the dose that was a simplistic analogy, but for the moment it can be seen to make some sense well and means and ends this is what many times we see that Gandhi has talked about that means and ends. When we talk about means and ends that Gandhi's philosophy is always about the importance of means and ends when we talk about that we require any act is towards a goal, but is the goal separate from the entire process followed to achieve the goal. Now, for those who have a very clear distinction between means and ends especially considering its importance this of course is not a chronological classification, but this is a moral classification. So, when I am saying that well Robin Hood is stealing to distribute amongst the poor the consequence may be well the hungry are fed, but the means can that is that to be included into the action to be judged to arrive at its moral potential according to Gandhi yes that means. If you look at the slide means is not separate from the end, but a constituent of it peace after violence is still violence. So, when Robin Hood feeds the hungry is still not morally appreciable act because the food has been stolen. The next issue that Gandhi talks is that comes out in the Gandhi and ethics ethical model is that the method for fighting for an objective was not external to, but an integral part of it. So, the method of fighting for an objective is not external to, but an integral part of it. So, no matter what weapons you use be the weapons that are used or the methodology that is used is not external to the objective it is a part of it. As put forth in Anthony Parallel's book a non violent revolution is not a programmed seizure of power it is a program of transformation of relationships ending in a peaceful transfer of power. Take a moment to reflect over it well enter Satyagraha now what this is where seeing the futility limitations and downright moral wrongness of the two means of conflict resolutions Gandhi arrives at the Satyagraha. Satyagraha is about the appeal to the goodness in the opponent with a strong underlying assumption that goodness is prevalent in all and that all are fallible that one is fallible that each one of us is fallible. According to the fourth issue of a fourth point about Satyagraha Satyagraha is about being open to revision open to compromise it is of an ability to take the perspective of the opponent compromise is not negotiation rather openness. So, many of us would understood would understand compromise as negotiating without a moral denominator, but for Gandhi compromise is not such kind of a negotiation rather it is openness to see that one's perspective is perhaps inaccurate and therefore, it needs to be revised. As they say evil can be killed with good even the wickedest person is capable of feeling for the other only this faculty lies under used Satyagraha only aims to awaken this.  So, there is a possibility of love even in Hitler only it was confined to very few the whole point of Satyagraha is to incite this potency into spreading into decision making. So, for Satyagraha patience and love are the weapons of Satyagraha. So, when we talk about Satyagraha what is the methodology of Satyagraha it is patience and love the Satyagraha waits patiently showering trust on the opponent and silently suffering offenses only in the hope of making the opponent realize their folly. Now, so briefly put what mean by Satyagra is that well it is tools of conflict resolution of fighting injustice a non violent tool and no it does not is not confined to rationality or rational discussion only it is incorporates the human motivation for action. So, when human beings or when one person patiently waits suffering injustice in the aim of sparking out the goodness or good sense of judgment in the opponent that is when Satyagraha is successful that is the objective of Satyagraha. We can find various examples of Satyagraha and from a simple fact that when you see say you land up in a heavily crowded hot damp counter selling tickets and you find that the person who is selling tickets is not has mistakenly or has intentionally sold the ticket to somebody behind you in the queue. Now, either you can fight over there and ask cited as a case of injustice, but the Gandhian or the Satyagraha way would be to patiently smile and to make the clerk feel that he has done a mistake by jumping the queue or disregarding the queue and that is the objective of Satyagraha. So, when one makes a mistake and the other attacks or accuses it puts the doer in a defensive he tries to bring about justifications and that is what Gandhian always caution was about the misuse of rational justifications. So, he always brings about justifications to justify that lapse, but if one is patient and one is loving and one can wait for reform in the other, well it brings about change and so Satyagraha is all about patience and love for the other and with the eternal undying hope that moral potency that all of us all human beings are equipped with moral potency it is only a matter of time and patience with which one can spark it off in the other. Well, but finally, there are limits to the patience of the Satyagraha and let us keep in mind that Gandhi dealt with a lot of this Satyagraha was not some mere theoretical speculation in a textbook academic institution. It was a means of struggle of the Indian independence movement. So, Gandhi has suggested that well ordinary people or people will lose out on patience and Satyagraha cannot be infinitely patient. So, Gandhi had devised other means for such situations other means like economic boycott civil disobedience non-cooperation and various other which constituted the armory for the non-violent warfare that Gandhi talked about and practiced against the British with success. So, when one does not cooperate or when one does not boycotts the other that is also sense of moral pressure what can be termed as moral pressure well the limits of Satyagraha. Now, before we you read the bullets on the limits of Satyagraha well first I would say that many of us listening to this would be skeptical, cynical about the possibility of about the possibility of Satyagraha as a means of struggle. It perhaps assumes too much or it expects too much from human beings not to seek revenge not to seek justice by any means rather wait for the other to realize his or her mistake. But let us slow down and look at it that well here is was one man who has actually used this methodology in India's freedom struggle with phenomenal success. And they could make sure that crowds of people given to armed policemen are largely charging them. So, I think this instrument of non-violent warfare has of course been demonstrated in action in history but it is also prevalently used today in the way we discuss in the way we talk or deal with people around us. Many of us are Satyagrahas many of us do wait for the other to realize his or her mistake and in this period of wait we do suffer. Some are patients some are less patients some are very patient just as say a father would or a parent would be patient towards the airing or child with the hope that well the child would realize it is his or her own mistake and better. So, but however let us now come back and look at the limitations of Satyagra. Now today this notion may seem like a fairy tale but it was a vital practice in the freedom movement of India as we talked about. Satyagra assumes the goodness and civility of the opponent for Satyagra did not seem a potent possibility in the Hitler rule Germany. Thousands of Jews which were almost in human skeletons and taken to concentration camps did not provoke the goodness or did not invoke any goodness or civility in the oppressing German army. So, Satyagra assumes that there is goodness and civility of the opponent non-cooperation assumes an interdependence between the two parties if the opponent can continue to function in isolation of the other party non-cooperation may be far less effective well Gandhi talked about economic boycott and non-cooperation now here we need to take the local because to understand any concept we need to take its context into a factor in its context well the goodness and civility well many have argued that Gandhi was possible because the British were the colonizing power because of the inherent sense of practicing justice in the British non-cooperation was successful. Because the Britishers used Indians in the colonized India to run the country so a non-cooperation by the native Indians did bring their administrative apparatus to a standstill so non-cooperation was successful economic boycott was successful because the Indians were a essential part to the functioning of the British in India. So, the context also lends meaning and this is not a formula or a claim that Gandhi would say that it is unequivocally applied cutting across the local or circumstantial conditions circumstances well Satyagra was possible only so was possible at time in world history was it the moral high ground of civilization or the power of Gandhi. The answer to this question will infer the possibility of the resurrection of Satyagra so I leave this question with you that well to all of us or all to most of us perhaps or to many of us who have been skeptical and cynical of this extreme Gandhi notion well for one Gandhi did exist in flesh and blood and it did use Satyagra as a means of freedom struggle. So, we have a concrete example of how Satyagra was used as an non-violent means and I leave this question to you with now that where the Satyagra was possible because of the moral high ground of those times or was it possible because of the insistence and the aura or the magic or the power of Gandhi if it was possible because of a moral high ground of a particular time perhaps my answer would be that no it was possible then if it was possible then it would be possible now it would be is still in practice and it would still be possible in future only it needs to be summoned or by force like Gandhi. So, I leave this question to you to an open ended question to explore the possibility of Satyagra in your life or in the current scenario with this we end the notion we end our exploration of the Gandhian Ethics.


Whether or not Democrats are able to take back the Senate is probably going to come down to some really close runoff races in Georgia However, they will retain control of the house. But unfortunately, they did lose some ground. They lost a couple of seats Now even though Joe Biden was at the top of the Democratic Party's ticket centrists are still blaming the left blaming the left Suggesting that it's them their progressivism their bold message. That's why we lost some ground in the house Why it's so difficult for us to take back the Senate. It's like this is a parody But no, this is actually something that Democrats like Abigail Spanberger have been arguing lambasting the left for making them lose So as Scott Wong and Mike Lillis of the Hill reports Moderate House Democrats lashed out at their liberal colleagues Thursday Using a marathon caucus-wide conference call to bash progressives for advancing an agenda that centrists said cost the party a number of seats in Tuesday's elections and impassioned representative Abigail Spanberger Who squeaked to victory in Central Virginia took liberals to task for promoting the policy of redirecting funds away from police departments an idea that took off following the death of George Floyd in May and that Republicans used that on the campaign trail to hammer Democrats with charges of nurturing crime Spanberger called the Democrats campaign strategy a failure quote I do disagree Abigail that it was a failure speaker Nancy Pelosi interjected We won the house Representative Mark VC delivered a similar condemnation lamenting that the far-left's approach to several issues including moving funds away from the police and Banning fracking had given ammunition to GOP attack ads VC said he had watched GOP commercial after commercial Using video footage of Democrats uttering the words to fund the police to great effect Liberals immediately pushed back on the moderate's narrative Progressive caucus co-chair Pramila Jayapal jumped into the fray and argued that Democrats would not be on the cusp of ousting President Donald Trump from the White House without tremendous energy from the far left at one point on the call representative Debbie Mccarcel Powell Mccarcel Powell who lost the election cried and lamented that no one could pronounce No one could pronounce her name according to a Washington Post reporter I totally just butchered her name house Democratic leaders rocked by the results set on Thursday's call that they want a post-mortem Review of the election strategy that led them astray Representative Sherry Bustos head of the party's campaign arm who narrowly who narrowly won re-election Said she was frustrated by bad polling and the loss of good members But she defended the Democrats message and tactics noting that the house remains securely in the party's hands Heading into the next Congress so I just have to pause for a moment and get back to representative Debbie Mccarcel Powell as Everyone is like arguing Back and forth screaming about no, this is your fault and no, this is your fault.  This is what you're crying about like we're having a conversation here about strategy and you're crying that nobody can pronounce your name Democrats are a mess. Listen as someone whose last name is Figurato Deal with it. Are you not used to it by now? I'm assuming that she's older than me get used to it She lost maybe that's why she's crying. I don't know But look getting to the substance of this article individuals like Abigail Spanberger are completely wrong They're idiotic This is why Democrats lose what she's saying because rather than remaining hyper focused on every little thing that Republicans might say in response to your message.  Are you really saying that the Democratic Party should go against this mass movement who's calling to defund the police? I mean, they already have to an extent Joe Biden said no, I'm not gonna defund the police We're gonna actually increase funds to police departments across the country So you're already kind of doing that but do you honestly think that if you Create a message that is you know bulletproof. No Republican can you know lob it attack against it?   So why aren't Democrats the one making Republicans afraid why is it that when you have the high ground when it comes to policy?  I Mean Republicans have in their platform. We want to repeal Roe v. Wade and marriage equality. Oh Bergfeldi Hodges We want those overturned Why aren't you attacking them? Why aren't they afraid of you? What's because you suck?  That's why You should thank the left for whatever enthusiasm there was had it not been for the grassroots efforts of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Joe Biden might not have been victorious in Minnesota in Michigan But they don't get that Because they listen to highly paid consultants who get paid millions of dollars per year to give them the worst advice imaginable and she probably you know consumes MSNBC and CNN non-stop that just reinforces all of their bad strategic ideas This isn't savvy Saying that oh well you you have to tweak your message.    I mean a party who is worried about a very unpopular minority parties Criticism is just they're not worth a damn.  It's that they didn't push far enough It's that Joe Biden was resistant to what their input was So I don't I don't know what to say. I mean Democrats are insufferable They are just it's infuriating because it doesn't matter what the outcome of the election is We can have an election where literally centrists lose every single seat and progressives win every single seat And they will still say well, this just proves that centrism is the way to go They can get blown out and the conclusion will always be You pushed us too far left Centrism is what we need it doesn't matter the narrative is already predetermined It's just more convenient for them to use this narrative To lambast the far left because their corporate donors don't want them to move left if they embrace Medicare for all All that money that they take from health insurance companies that goes bye-bye like that So of course, they're not gonna jeopardize, you know that money those campaign contributions So they pretend as if their strategy is sound and it's really the left who's hurting them when in actuality It's them their lack of a policy vision That's hurting them not the left the left is helping you so thank them


Hey everybody, this is Hari Swaminathan from optiontiger.com and I'm continuing the video series on the SPX intraday tick trading, tick trading algorithm as well as the custom RSI indicator. In this video I want to make a trading plan for making about a thousand dollars a day from one to two trades $1,000 a day and so what are the parameters of the account size? What are the parameters of the trade the delta of the options the expiry and all those kinds of details I want to cover in this video. In yesterday's video we looked at the rules and guidelines for trading the ticks and the custom RSI indicators. So I just want to do a very brief recap. First of all you want to let the ticks develop for one hour unless there is strong momentum at the open in which case it's a momentum trade rather than a ticks trade. Then after the one hour you want to see the sentiment of the SPX. If this SPX is between minus 5 and plus 5 then it's considered a neutral market environment because the average true range of the SPX for any given day is 15 or slightly even higher. Then you want to align your calls or puts with the market sentiment which means if it's bullish you go for the calls, if it's bearish you go for the puts and then if the ES is bullish and the ticks are more than zero and increasing and the custom RSI is in the bullish zone then you want to go in for calls. If the ES is bearish the ticks are less than zero and it's decreasing and the custom RSI is in the bearish zone then you want to go in for puts. Anytime you go in for a trade you want to look for some persistence of at least two dots on a five minute chart. If the ticks and the custom RSI are not in sync there is no trade. You take profits if the custom RSI starts turning around or the ticks start to go the other way and finally you do want to step down to the one minute chart every now and then to get a finer view of what is going on whenever needed but then you want to revert back to a five minute chart for trading decisions. So now let's look at a trading plan for the ticks and the custom RSI indicators. Once again the objective is that we want to make about a thousand dollars a day over one to two trades. So now we are looking at the SPX options but you can trade the spider also or you can trade the ES futures or the options on the ES as well. So the first thing is what expiry do we choose? You can choose the same day expiry also if it's in the morning session or you can choose the next two day expiry. Now as we know the SPX has multiple expiries during the week so you don't want to spend too much on the options so you want to get to a nearby expiry then you want to choose anything between a 35 to a 45 delta whether it's call or puts. The trade plan assumes an account size of 30k and the 30k number avoids the pattern day trader rules which apply at the $25,000 level. If you assume a five contract position and you can start until you're comfortable you can start with two contracts or three contracts and once you're comfortable you can assume a five contract position and we're also going to assume a five to seven point move on the SPX which is generally what I found once you get the right signal I think you can write it for about a five to seven point. Now it might not happen every time but you can assume a five to seven point move on the S&P and we'll put a stop loss at 25%. So now we're going to go into the platform and look at the option prices the expires and all of that and I'll explain all of this again but you're going to have a stop loss at 25% and if it goes down 25% you just need to close the position and in the long run this strategy will work out well the numbers will work out. Finally there are no adjustments and there's no carrying the trade overnight we're going to close the position either it's a winner or we take a stop loss and we get out so we're going to close the position there's no adjustments involved. So let's now go into the trading platform and apply all these parameters and see what a trading plan will look like and what kind of results we can expect. So in terms of a trading plan this is what we are looking at we are looking at the SPX options and as it turns out there's an expiry of two days you can go for the one day or the two days but don't go for more than that we do have expires through the week and so you shouldn't ever have to go more than two days. So if we open up the two days and let's assume we're going for a call position if you look at the deltas we have a 32 delta and a 44 delta so I would say you know strictly we don't have the 35 to ideally it would be a 35 to 40 delta all right so let's just choose the 44 delta because if the SMP moves five points then this would become a 50 delta and that would be the ideal time to take this trade off but you don't have to go for a 44 delta you can go for a 40 delta as well. So here we are we're taking a five contract position it's going for about 580 actually 560 if you look at the mid price but let's just say 580 so for five contracts that's going to be about 2900 dollar investment so now remember we have a 30k account one trade is going to take up about 2900 dollars now as I said when you first start trading you keep these contracts to one two or not even three just one or two contracts because you want to get the dynamics of catching the trade right and exiting properly and so once you've got that experience then you can move up to a five contract position and so this five contract position will cost us let's say 3000 dollars and so now if this SPX which is at 2976 and I said we can expect a move of anywhere from five to seven points so I'm going to simulate here you can see this gearbox here if you click it you this is the simulation window for the SMP and so from 2976 let's say it goes up to 2983 and you can see the profits developing 1039 so that's about seven points let's do 2982 and you can see that's about 748 to take off the simulation all you have to do is click this lock here and it goes back to 2976 you can see that we start with a delta of 212 so for every dollar we are going up 212 but then the gamma factor adds in so if we move up to 2982 our delta then becomes 284 so as you can see the delta is also increasing as long as the position is working out in your favor so this would result in about 750 profit so that's it I mean once you get that move and if you see the indicators changing direction then you want to get out of the train now if the if it doesn't work out in your favor because that can happen too even though you get the signal you got two or three green dots and suddenly a red dot or two red dot start appearing and the customer side turns around and if that happens then what you want to do is if you look at 20 25 percent of your trade that would be about 600 dollars I would say in this case if you look at it as a 6000 a $3000 trade 20% loss would be 600 so you take off the you take it off at 20% to 25% that's it you just let go and then you know once you have a trade a bad trade like that just take a break don't don't try to get back in the market right away and try to do a revenge trade you know that never works it's better to just go out and get a coffee or you know read a newspaper or something like that the strength of the signals are very powerful and so you're going to get seven or eight winning signals out of ten the two that might not work out you know it may take some time for it to play out or worst case scenario you take a 20% loss and you get out the goal is that we don't have out of ten trades that we don't have more than two losers like that so you can see the numbers will automatically work out if you can get seven or eight winners and just a couple of losers there and so that's the name of the game we want to make it a numbers game and we don't want to take the trade into the next day we don't want to do any adjustments but in this strategy there's no point in doing all of that if if the trade goes south just get out with a 20% stop loss because we are going to be making a lot more successful trades because the signals are going to work out 75 to 80% of the time so that's the trading plan for making about a thousand dollars a day and and like I said you want to keep your trades to no more than one or two now of course the market might present more opportunities on any given day the market might also present less opportunities maybe just one trade a day and sometimes they may not be a trade at all and so that's okay but if the market will do what it does from our side we don't want to over trade because the moment you start over trading that's when all the problems begin and but in general I I feel that there will be a trade opportunity in the morning session and there will be a trading opportunity in the afternoon session so you want to take advantage of these two opportunities and make the numbers game work for you thank you


There's a fundamental difference between values and culture and a lot of people a lot of organizations businesses That I help get confused between values and culture To have clear values does not mean you also have a clear culture Values are our beliefs and culture is our behavior That is the expression of those beliefs Which means that which means that the establishing of values is the easy part of of what we do in life Values are I believe this this and this that's good to identify those but the the culture is the expression the Implementation the application of those values. So you might say well, you know We have a value of transparency or a value of People first or a value of service Well, the only way we know whether that's true is If when we step into your organization or we buy something from you or we attend your church or whatever It may be that that is what we feel we feel that that is the norm of the behavior of your organization that I feel served that I that I feel that you are open and accountable and Transparent that I feel that people matter more than things if that's your value But not your Behavior then it is simply something you have in a vision statement or the branding on your website But for it to be the culture it has to now become the behavior of everyone that is involved in the carrying of those values Many organizations have great value statements, but when you do business with them That is the last thing you would think were the values And the way you know the values is not by what you tell us the values are the way you can Understand the values is by having a cultured experience in that restaurant or in that business or with that political party Or in that church or the organization the way you the and the way that you understand what the values are Isn't by reading the values, but is by having a cultural behavioral encounter with them And so you'll all know experiences where this is our values We're here to serve and we're here to you know look after you and give good feedback and good Communication or to empower you or believe in your potential And then what you feel is none of that is present in the people you dealt with on the phone All the people you dealt with in a certain scenario Because it's easy to establish the value the belief here's what we believe But all the hassle all the drama all the hard work All the inconvenience happens when you try to make the values The behavior or the culture so don't get confused between values and culture one is what we believe that's good But the other is what how we behave and that's where what's good becomes outstanding If you have a value that you can't make a behavior Then it will never be your culture and you can't claim it has been your culture and culture matters far more than your values do Your values can say anything But if you can't if you can't produce that in terms of a cultural behavior, it's worthless You can claim anything to be your value, but if you can't make that the behavioral norm of your Organization on your team your business your church or whatever then the value is really just words on a page words on a screen so values and Culture beliefs and behaviors two different things But a wisdom for life there to realize the difference make sure that both the same thing If you want to build a great organization make sure your values and your culture are the same