In this video we're going to talk about classifying triangles, using the angle sum theorem for triangles, and also the exterior angle theorem for triangles. But first we're going to talk about classifying triangles. So that word classify, what does it mean? Well, what it means is we're going to try and organize possible types of triangles, and we're going to organize them by their sides and by their angles. So let's begin. So if we talk about classifying triangles by their angles, there are three ways to do that. An obtuse triangle is one in which one of the angles is obtuse. In other words, it's greater than 90, but less than 180. A right triangle is similar. A right triangle has one right angle. And then lastly, an acute triangle has not one, but has all of its angles or acute angles. So we have a special name for an acute triangle when all of the three angles are also congruent to each other. If all three of those angles are congruent, then we have what's called an equi-angular triangle. Next, we're going to talk about classifying triangles by their sides. We have two main types. There's a scalene triangle and an isosceles triangle. In a scalene triangle, none of the sides are congruent. In an isosceles triangle, at least two of the sides are congruent. So since there are three sides in a triangle, if we have all three sides congruent, then we have a special name for that. And now it turns out that these two green statements are related. If we have a triangle that is equi-angular, then I know for a fact that it must be equilateral. Likewise, if we have an equilateral triangle, then that triangle is equi-angular. In other words, we can draw the biconditional statement between the two statements. If we have an equi-angular, then we have equilateral. If we have equilateral, then we have equi-angular. So let's take a little bit of practice with this. Can you classify the top three triangles by their sides? What about the bottom three triangles? Can you classify them by their angles? What about this triangle? Can you classify it fully? In other words, can you classify it both by its sides and also by its angles? Well according to these little congruence marks, none of the sides are congruent. And so that means I have a scalene triangle. And then each of these angles, the red congruence marks, shows that none of the angles are congruent. And furthermore, angle B here looks obtuse to me. And so this triangle is scalene and obtuse. So we classified this triangle in two ways by sides and by angles. What about this one? Pause the video. Try it out yourself. This triangle, C-A-T, is scalene and right. And how about this one? Make sure you recognize these congruence marks. This triangle is isosceles and also obtuse.


No, but it was, you know, it was a beautiful experience, you know, is that we grew so close, so fast. And, you know, one of the things that I don't know if everybody knows this, but that last shot of Opie while he was alive. I'm in the scene, it's only Charlie and Kim and Tommy, but everybody else showed up for that last shot, so it's really just me. There's no acting required, I'm just kind of looking at my brothers and saying goodbye. Thank you very much.


Russia prepares new plans to cut off supplies of weapons from abroad for the Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said his country's military is working on new plans to cut off supplies of weapons and ammunition sent from abroad for the Ukrainian forces. During an interview on Russian television on Wednesday, Lavrov said there were calls among military experts to interrupt supply, roots channeling weapons from the west to Ukraine. He observed that Ukraine is receiving more and more and better Western weapons, Lavrov said. Railway lines, bridges and tunnels are being considered, he said. I assume that they will make professional decisions on how to make these deliveries more difficult or ideally stop them together, he added. Lavrov said Russian attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure, such as the country's energy grid, were already making it more difficult to deliver new weapons, and I am convinced that there are other plans being applied in this regard, he added. The foreign minister also said he was convinced that Moscow would achieve its goals in Ukraine thanks to its patience and perseverance. I am convinced that thanks to our perseverance, patience and determination, we will defend the noble goals that are vital for our people and our country, he said. Lavrov said while Moscow wanted the conflict to be over, Russia would take its time to achieve its goals on the battlefield. We are in no hurry, he said. We are a patient people, we will protect our compatriots, citizens and lands that have been Russian for centuries. The conflict in Ukraine was, in fact, Russia in confrontation with the U.S. and the West by proxy. Lavrov also said. We are at war with the collective West led by the United States, which is a nuclear power, he said in comments shared on the Russian foreign ministry's Twitter account.


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Hello, everybody! Watch this video to find out how to recover data from a RAID system based on myD2 network attached storage and how to retrieve files from such NAS if it becomes inoperable. Network storage devices by DanElectronic are marketed as NAS solutions that don't need complicated configuration procedures. To improve data storage reliability, this NAS can build RAID 1 arrays. In this case, all data written to one hard disk will be copied to the other disk as well. This will protect your data against loss. Still, just like any other storage device a NAS may break down sooner or later. And as a result, all files still remaining on the disks will be automatically inaccessible. When connecting disks to a PC, it is not always possible to see the files that were stored on them due to a mismatch of the file system or the RAID data right in NAS. The operating system may not recognize the disks and when they are connected, it may suggest initializing or formatting them for further use. In this case, you will need a data recovery tool to read and recover your files from the RAID. For starters, let's explore how to create a RAID on this storage device. To manage hard disks, you need to access the administration panel of the NAS system. Open a web browser and enter the IP address of your NAS. Type the default login and password, they are admin and 123.4 respectively. After that, go to the Tools tab and click on Storage Tools. Type this option, enable RAID, then choose the array type and click Apply to confirm. You will see a warning that all data will be erased from the hard disks. Click OK to continue. It starts the process of building the RAID, so you will have to wait a little until it is over. In the Storage Status tab, you can see the condition of this disk array. By now, you are finished with the settings and the storage device can be used, so you can write files to the hard disks and so on. If the storage device breaks down and you can't access the disk array anymore, the RAID can still be rebuilt and files can be retrieved with the help of a data recovery tool called Hetman RAID Recovery. In case of a NAS storage breakdown, the information stored on the hard disks remains intact, but if the disks are connected directly to a computer, the operating system may not recognize them. As a result, you won't be able to access the files stored on the disks. That is why you need a software tool capable of rebuilding the damaged disk array and retrieving your files. Hetman RAID Recovery supports most popular file systems and RAID types. It will come in handy if you lose access to data stored on a network-attached device as a result of hardware error, a controller failure or other hardware issues. You can use this program to recover data after a device breakdown, accidental removal, formatting, misconfiguration or NAS firmware issues. To access the disks, they need to be taken out of the NAS device and connected to a computer directly. Remember that it has to be a Windows machine. If the operating system of this computer suggests initializing or formatting the disks then, don't do that, because it will make recovery a lot more complicated. Instead, download, install and run Hetman RAID Recovery. When started, the program will automatically scan the disks connected to this computer, rebuild the demonstrated system and display it in the main window. As you can see, in my case, the program was able to detect the RAID type which was built with these disks. To search for files, right-click on the array and choose Open. Then select the required scan type, where you command beginning with a fast scan. This will take less time and it works fine in most typical recovery scenarios. But if the program can't file the missing files, then go for full analysis. Go back to the main window, right-click on the disk, analyze again, full analysis, specify the file system for this disk and click Next. As you can see, the program has easily found all the information that used to be stored on the disk. You can use the preview window to see the contents of all files. Select the files you want to restore and click Recovery. Specify where to save the data, choose the disk and folder, and click Recovery again. When the operation is over, you will find the data in the folder you have chosen. Summing up, it's not too difficult to recover data if your storage device is down. The most important thing is to understand what to do and choose a good software tool able to restore your files from the disks. And that is all for now. Hopefully, this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching. Good luck.


Hey, we're back. We're live. We're here on Community Matters with Rabbi Michael Krasnijanski. He comes to visit with us every couple of weeks and we really enjoy learning from the Rabbi. Welcome to the show Rabbi. Thank you Jay. Always a pleasure being here. So you're having an event on the 18th and that's 18th of July this week. Correct. Can you talk about it? Sure. As you know, we had two Torah scrolls that were stolen from synagogue from Chabad a little over a year ago, about a year and a half ago, December of 2018. December 2017. But the 18th is lucky. It is life. And a couple months ago, we had two new Torahs that were dedicated to synagogue and we did a big Torah celebration. And this Thursday, we're having another Torah dedication. Someone else came forward and had a Torah written in Israel and it just came actually today. We're gonna have a big celebration this Thursday. In fact, this Torah is different than that. It's being written for all the children, all the Jewish children under the age of bar and bat mitzvah, under 12 and 13 years old. Usually when you write a Torah, people participate by sponsoring a letter of the Torah. This one is only for the children. And many, many years ago, the Rabbi Rabbi Schneersen talked about, we know that the Torah represents unity. The Torah unites us as a people. The Rabbi came out with this project to write a Torah and everyone should participate in the writing by sponsoring a letter and also to have special Torahs written just for children. Rabbi was a big, big, big advocate of invest, Rabbi invested many, many, many, many hours and thought and teachings to the children, future generation, the future, our future. Well, about education, is it? As a matter of fact, Chabad has lobbied for and sponsors Education Day in Hawaii and maybe nationally as well. Nationally international. Yeah, that's really important. So that's, you know, synonymous with the whole mission and certainly with the Torah for the children. Right, that's this Thursday and everyone who's listening, please come and join us at 5.30 p.m. There's going to be a lot of music and dancing, great festivities of the whole family. I remember, it must be 60, 90 days ago, I visited you in Atkinson at the Chabad Temple there and you had two Torahs that you had achieved after the theft a year ago and there was a Klezmer music playing, was it Klezmer? It was very catchy music, it was dance music, Jewish dance music. It was on Atkinson Drive and there were hundreds of people there and there was a chuppah and you had people, I mean, especially anointed people because not everybody can or should do this dancing with the Torahs and they were having such a good time and I said to myself, gee, I would have to be 50 years younger if I was going to dance for this long with this kind of vitality because those guys holding the Torahs, they were dancing up of storm, they were, I couldn't do that anymore. Never know until you try. Yeah, I was there with Josh Green, Lieutenant Governor and we were, hopefully you'll be able to come again this Thursday, maybe bring your crew and it'll be good, it'll be good, very important. It's a statement, but tell me what is the statement? The statement is you have been able to obtain another Torah for the children this time, it takes a long time to write one, you write one by hand, you have to have a special scribe to write it by hand. It takes about a year, close to a year to write a Torah, big undertaking. Well the statement in general is that it was tragic when the Torahs were stolen and our task, and the Rebbe pointed out many different occasions and it's in line with the basic teachings of the mystical teachings of Judaism is to turn something negative into something positive, to turn things around. So it's not enough just to replace the stolen Torahs, if two were stolen then we're going to replace them with four or five new ones. It's a statement. Yeah, it's a statement. And it was many, many years ago before it was so commonplace in Israel some Arab Palestinians, Palestinian terrorists, broke into a Jewish Chabad school while the students were praying and began to indiscriminately shoot at the students and five students were killed. These were young kids. These were young kids, maybe 13-14-year-old kids. This happened in the early 60s and the Rebbe came out and said that the only appropriate response to this tragedy was to build five new institutions, five new schools corresponding to the five kids that were killed. Because with increased darkness, yeah, I got to increase the light, so to speak. And that's been the Rebbe's general teaching and approach to things of this nature, this extreme nature, but in general, turn everything into something positive. Where in Israel did that take place? That took place in Khar-Khabad. Khar-Khabad is a village right next to the Ben-Gurion airport, not far from Tel Aviv. It was a village that was founded in the early 1950s from the Russian emigrates, many of the Chabad Asidim were Russian and they came from Russia. They emigrated to Israel from Russia and they established a little town. Today it's not little, today it's very large, very big, and that's where it happened. You know, every little town, every city in Israel has a history like that with some kind of needless attack, with murderous intention and result. I know somebody who is out of Kibbutz. I can't remember the exact name, but David was in the name and was in the northeast corner of Israel. They're underground, Kibbutz is underground. Oh wow, because they've had so many of that. What we have here is the memory of this sort of thing and you demonstrate exactly what the Jewish reaction is when something like that takes place or when they come around and steal your Torah. So one of the things that we're going to talk about today is two things. In Chabad we mark two days. One today, which in the Hebrew month is the 13th day of the month of Tammuz. Can you spell Tammuz? T-A-M-M-U-Z. It usually falls out around July or August. And today in 1927 the previous Chabad Rebbe, the name was Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Shneerson, who lived in Russia, was born and raised and grew up in Russia. At some point he, this was during the height of the Communist reign, and he was arrested for his tireless work on behalf of keeping the torch of Judaism alive in Russia. Because the Communists forbade any kind of religious practice and it was illegal and by punishment of death or imprisonment to observe anything Jewish. However, the Rebbe, the previous Rebbe, he had a whole network of schools and synagogues that were pretty much underground where all of the activities were kept up, but they were kept up in hiding and it embraced the whole length and breadth of Russia. It was a big, big, big undertaking and at some point they arrested the previous Rebbe. And those days when you were arrested it wasn't like prison today where you have rights and you have due process and representation.  They killed people like flies all the time and there was a great danger for the Rebbe's life. And there's a fascinating story. The end of the story is a very good story in that he was released. But, you know, the behind the story, the behind the scene was an amazing story of firstly unbelievable courage in the part of the previous Rebbe in handling this whole, this whole affair. His name was what? Yitzhak? Joseph Isaac Schneersen. Joseph Isaac Schneersen. The name Schneersen. And he was a Talmudic scholar to begin with. He was a brilliant Talmudic scholar as well as a teacher. And here's a picture of him. Yes. See, Rebbe, Joseph Isaac Schneersen, the sixth Rebbe who lived most of his life in Russia. What part of Russia? Well, Chabad was, Chabad is the name of the philosophy because this movement has the very distinct philosophy. Chabad in Hebrew, me is an abbreviation for the words Chokhmah, Bina and Das. Wisdom, understanding and knowledge. Chokhmah, Bina and Das. Which is translated as wisdom, understanding and knowledge which represent the intellectual faculties. Because this Hasidic movement placed a great emphasis on the intellectual, the need to intellectually comprehend and understand and not just accept things on faith, things of that nature. And a Chokhmah is a smart person, a wise person. A wise person, exactly. So Chabad is the name of the organization is known by Chabad or the movement is known as Chabad. But Chabad is really the name of the philosophy. The town in which many of the leaders lived, going back 200 years, more was called Lubavitch. That's why it's Chabad Lubavitch.  They're still there?  I doubt there are a lot of Jews there though. Well actually they resurrected the town and they rebuilt the synagogue there. People went back after the war. Well no, people go to visit and to visit the gravesites of the holy men there. A lot of people killed there during the war.  But with a great miracle he was released from prison and in no small part because, fascinating story, because pressure was brought to beer on the communist government to release him by, I think it was Roosevelt at the present in the United States. There was a, maybe you would know, Morgan Thor, he was the... Yeah, Robert Marvithay. Yeah, he was, he was the, what position did he have? He was like... I don't know what's often he held but he was in FDR's cabinet. Yeah, he was in the cabinet and he was Jewish. And then there was the Chief Justice Leo Brandeis. Jewish. Jewish. They all were brought in and they put tremendous amount of pressure and through Roosevelt, the Russian government, the communist government freed the previous Rabbi. He was expelled and freed him by expelling him from Russia. Oh, so they expelled him at that time? Expelled him from Russia. He went to Poland, Warsaw and he was there for many years and he finally got out of of Poland after the Nazis took over. The Nazis came to power. Lucky to get out. It was lucky to get out again with the, with the aid of the United States government and it's a fascinating story how a member of the SS was put to the task of finding the Rabbi Schneers in Warsaw and getting him out of Warsaw. And at first, the, the, the Rebbe, the previous Rebbe, he wasn't hiding at the time because the Nazis were hunting down Jewish leaders and killing them. He was in hiding and until he was, he was notified by his followers in America that this big effort is being undertaken to get him out and that such and such person would contact him and that such and such person was an SS man. And the reason why the SS did that was, I guess, curry some favor with the United States. This is before the U.S. joined the, we had friends all the way through in high places in the United States. He was, he was like the world leader of the Jewish leaders. He had a lot of followers and I guess the followers were not only, you know, in Russia and in Poland, also right here in the United States. And he was, he was a, he was the founder of the movement. He was the sixth generation. It had existed before. It existed in, in it started in the early 1700s, or in the late 1700s. And this Rebbe who we're talking about who was freed from prison was the sixth in the dynasty. And then when he passed away in 1950, his son-in-law, Abel Menachem Schneersen, who was the seventh Khabad Rebbe, he was the Rebbe of our generation and he was the one who took a small group of followers. At the time after, after the Holocaust, so many Jews got wiped out that, you know, it was just embers left from what was and he rebuilt it into the worldwide movement, which we have today. Let's take a short break, Rabbi. We'll come back and talk more about the Rebbe, Rebbe Menachem Schneersen and his life and what he did for the Khabad and the Lubavitcher movement and how that impacts us today. We'll be right back. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines. I was the head coach for the Punaho Boys varsity tennis team for 22 years and we're fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championship. This show is based on my book which is also titled Beyond the Lines and it's about leadership, creating a superior culture of excellence, achieving and sustaining success, and finding greatness. If you're a student, parent, sports or business person, and want to improve your life and the lives of people around you, tune in and join me on Mondays at 11 a.m. as we go Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Aloha, I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough of Sister Power here at Think Tech of IE and Sister Power is all about motivating, empowering, educating and inspiring all people and we have various subjects here. Sister Power is here at Think Tech every other Thursday at 4 p.m. Again, my name is Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, host of Sister Power. We look forward to seeing you. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at sistersandparandkawaii at gmail.com. Look forward to chatting with you soon. Aloha. We're here with Rabbi Itchel Krasovansky. He's the Rabbi of Khabad of Hawaii and we're having a very interesting discussion about Khabad dating back to 17th century and all the rabbis that have been involved in Lubavitch and across the world. So we talked about Rabbi Yitzhak who died in 1950 after an interesting and troubled experience with both the Russians and the Germans. Thanks to the support of the American government he was able to get to safety on both occasions. And now he left behind him his son-in-law Rabbi Menachem Shneerson and that's 1950 and see that's modern times as far as I'm concerned Rabbi. So how did that work? How did Menachem get into the leadership position? That's a very interesting question. The Rebbe assumed the leadership, Rabbi Menachem Shneerson assumed the leadership in 1951 one year to the anniversary of the passing of his father-in-law and he served in that capacity as the leader of Khabad. That's a symbolic period one year, it's a mourning period. Yes and he served as Rebbe until 1992 passed away in 41 years and it was a remarkable remarkable period when the Rebbe energized the small Khasidic group Jews and through them the wider Jewish community. You have to understand that 1950 was just a barely 10 years or less after World War II, after the horror of the Holocaust when the survivors many of them who've come to America or two different parts of the world were all shattered and broken, demoralized and the Rebbe began with a message, a very positive message, a very rejuvenating message about the goodness inherent in this world, latently, in this world and life and through the teachings of the Torah and the mystical teachings of the Torah. They needed to hear that. They needed to hear that and it drew many many many people to the Rebbe and the Rebbe started this outreach effort, send out young rabbis to different communities across the United States and across the world and today there are several thousand Chabad centers around the world all teaching the message of the Rebbe, to be inclusive and welcoming and loving and the relevance and the positive message of the Torah. A Chabad center is a congregation? Yes but it's more of a Chabad houses because it's more of a house feeling than a formal... People spend a lot of time there, they gather there, it's a social experience as well as a religious experience. Exactly and it's all a very loving, non-judgmental, welcoming experience and that's what... Don't forget the eating part. Eating part is the most important part. Right. So okay and when were you ordained by the way in all of this? I was born in 1916 and I was ordained as a Rabbi in 1985. You come to Hawaii right away or were you? And I came to Hawaii in 1987. It seems like a long time ago but it's not that long ago I'm sorry. So you know this is it's really interesting so there's a there's a combination ceremony we're having here on the birthday of the Rabbi Yitzchak and Rabbi Menachem is happening this week. Both of them are being celebrated. Right so the the birthday and the celebration of the release from prison of the previous Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Schneersen that is today in the Hebrew calendar and the commemoration of the Rabbi's passing was this past week and you know many many Jewish people around the world. I don't know if celebration is the right word when you commemorate the past. But it's it's it's not a sad it's not a sad commemoration it's the commemoration that you know that that highlights and celebrates the teachings of the Rabbi which are you know which are as relevant today and as needed the world needs it today as when it was spoken 20 30 40 years ago. Well that actually brings me to an interesting question which I thought about you know whenever we've met you've indicated with great affection and respect you know how much of a contribution Menachem Rabbi Menachem Rabbi Rabbi Menachem Schneersen has put into the Lubavitcher community and indeed he is he is permeated through that community but you also said that just now that there have been seven rabbis correct since this is what 17th century or 1700s in the Lubavitcher community in the Chabad organization so the Chabad movement Chabad philosophy so what happens after Rebbe Menachem dies isn't there an eighth and a ninth I mean don't we have a succession plan here and you think it could be you well I first of all I can tell you the easy the easiest answer as the first answer in reference to me the answer is absolutely not I had to ask okay thank you that's a very interesting question when the Rebbe passed away because Rebbe had no children I mean his wife could not have children the Rebbe passed away in 1992 there were many many you know experts who were who were saying that now the movement is going to wane and going to fade away because it no longer has a leader but in the last 25 years what we saw was the very opposite not only has it grown but it's grown exponentially when the Rebbe passed away in 1992 there were maybe 1000 Chabad centers around the world today there are over 5000 these are all that's the amazing thing young people who actually never met the Rebbe in person but are studying the Rebbe's teachings and are enthused and inspired by the Rebbe's message and teachings and they themselves have gone out and become Chabad Rabbis and pass that message on it's a message that there's a lot of aspects to it but at the core is the faith of God of the Torah in each and every one of us every single human being has an important role to play in this world contribution to make it's bigger than all of us bigger than all of us but it needs all of us it needs all of us it needs all of us or each and every one of us to make our unique contributions only we could make but after a time don't you think that the Rebbe Menachem Rebbe Menachem Schnersen's message will will fade simply by the passage of time you know I give you 10 years 20 years 50 years ahead don't we need to have another Lubavitcha Rebbe who will carry the torch who will reinvigorate things as we go forward so you would think so but no I'll tell you why okay so for example we know that the temple the Jewish temple was destroyed close to 2000 years ago it was burnt down by the Romans and the question is why can't we rebuild another temple right it's a good question right many synagogues are burnt to the ground and are rebuilt you know a year or two later why why was a temple never rebuilt and the answer is synagogue is a small little holy place but the temple represented God's you know manifestation here on earth and because it's such a large larger than life edifice so we are taught in the Torah that when the Messiah comes you will rebuild the third temple so in answer to your question you know rabbis come and go teachers come and go when one person you know passes on someone else steps in and moves things along when you have one rabbi when you have a rabbi yeah the rabbi who was larger than life and who embodied the truths of Torah in a way that just really boggles the mind is like the personification of all the things that you that you learn in the bible in the Torah i understand and you know what this suggests that going forward i would like to meet with you again and ask you what those teachings were and to see if we can get a handle on the you know the essence of what the rabbi was was saying and why he has outlasted his own death this this way Rabbi it's an itchal kresen jansky so nice same here as always thank you i hope you have a wonderful event i'll try to be there yes thank you and everyone please who's hearing please listening please come as well yes


May the 20th, it's Wednesday, it's 11 o'clock. That can mean only one thing, it's Trump week. I'm Tim Apachele, your host. And today, like every other week, we have so many things on the plate to talk and discuss. Let's just jump right into it. The title of the show is, Vaccine, No Vaccine, We're Back.  This is a title that basically indicates and implies that opening the economy may be more important than the rising death toll in this country. There is a balance. It is important to open the economy. No one disputes that. The question is, what is the balance? What is the proper way to forge ahead, to get people back to work and open the economy? But at the same time, stop the cases, prevent the cases, and more importantly, stop the deaths of Americans. We're at 92,000 deaths. And for me, the way I perceive this whole problem is, the economy is more important. Donald Trump's reelection is more important than the deaths of many, many Americans. I wanna discuss this with our guests. Winston Welch is here with us today. Stephanie Dalton and Cynthia Sinclair. Welcome everybody. Hey, hi. Aloha. Winston, let's go right to you. There's been many discussions about how one opens up this economy. We know that the many of these states, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, they're not necessarily opening the economy as per the administrative guidelines on consecutive weeks of declining cases before things are opening up, be it bowling alleys, be it restaurants, be it hair salons, you name it, tattoo parlors, they're just opening up. And we're seeing on the news, what I would call just blatant disregard for wearing masks and people crowded together in restaurants and bars. And will this cause a second rise, a second spike in cases and deaths? So what do you think the balance is and where do you think we are on this issue, Winston? You know, it's a good question and it's obviously the question of the day on everyone's mind is how do you strike the balance? You've got masks unemployment, the worst here in Hawaii of everywhere. And yet everyone here wears mask. If you're not wearing a mask out in public, basically considered a pariah or a sociopath because we realized there's value in wearing the mask. That's just like a no-brainer. But you have other folks that are saying yes, but we got to reopen this economy sooner than later because the risk of deaths and suicides and drug overdoses and spousal abuse and all of that, that the social ill coming from folks not having their work and something to do and contribute meaningfully is going to be worse of an impact than it opened up the economy. So I can understand that. And then they're looking at information out of Sweden that said they didn't have as strict of conditions as say Norway did, but their death rates are comparable. I'm not sure that we have a full picture on that or not, but obviously with the states, it's a free for all. It is do what you want to do and let's see how it comes up in a couple of few weeks. And here in Hawaii, we're at one end of the spectrum where we have no new cases yesterday, well, one in the big island, but other states, we're gonna see mass surges and what that means and how we're gonna respond to it is the question of the day how we are. Let me ask you this, what goes through your mind when you watch the news and you see video footage of people gathering shoulder to shoulder in big, large groups, more than 10, you know, they're not all living in one same household and there's either no mass or if there are some people have them, some people don't and they're in very close proximity. What goes through your mind when you see that? Winston? Oh, I'm sorry, you know what? Here, because we're here in Hawaii, it doesn't make sense to us because we have been following the guidelines of our health department, of our governor, even the CDC, which says wear a mask in public. This prevents spread of this illness. So for us, we don't understand that but from the other perspective where they say, no, this is against my freedom. I don't wanna wear a mask. We need herd immunity. There's a completely different perspective there that we're not embracing in Hawaii and that I think we're fine not to embrace, let's see what happens in the other states and we can make decisions down the road but there's no sense in putting everyone at risk here before we've seen, so maybe some massive surge that's popping up. Unfortunately, I think we're gonna be seeing that. Okay, well, thank you Winston. Stephanie, same question. Do you think the fact that people across the country, sometimes in these southern states are refusing to wear a mask because it's a bravado thing that Donald Trump also is not wearing a mask and it's a political statement versus a scientific concern about the spread of COVID-19? Well, I think you include, I mean, among those multiple choices, I think you've hit them, but people are so sensitive to being boss around. I mean, it's really strange but I think that they feel infringement on their rights. Does that mean they wanna make the decision on their own? I wish they would, but I just feel that there's some attitudes and beliefs that are driving a lot of this irrational behavior because the option, and also I believe there's late and other stuff going on, maybe even this egocentrism or whatever it's not gonna happen to them in a way that might be happening and that they identified impacted groups are not theirs. So in addition to the resistance to being told what to do even by medical experts, there's a belief that it's not gonna happen to them because they identified impacted at risk, highly at risk groups are not there. Okay, is Donald Trump trying to create a new political strategy and his concern with reelection is paramount of course.  That's the quote. Is this Donald Trump's overt attempt to get the economy numbers start to roll up again and therefore see an increase in his polls and therefore hopefully his reelection? To what degree are we in that environment? I don't know, I think we're there.  Is this apparent to the independent voters out there? I mean, obviously those who follow Trump will do and say whatever he wishes. The Democrats, I think it's apparent of what's going on here. I think they see what's going on here. What do you think the independents are thinking on this topic? The independents tend to be thoughtful and mindful and deliberate in their thinking about where to invest in their government. I'm hopeful that they might see that, but on the other hand, we have these huge issues of beliefs and values and also it's what that NIMBY thing, not in my backyard. All right. Even if I'm in a state that's impacted like New York and I'm up in Albany, hey, NIMBY, I'm not, let's get on with it. It's not for me. Gotcha. I think it's really fragmenting in that way across the country, especially with the lack of an overarching policy for us to all relate to. All right. Let me jump to Cynthia on this same question. Cynthia, what are your views on it and what do you think's really going on here? Well, I think he is absolutely trying to commandeer the whole entire narrative. And we have some really good examples of that. There was the main data chief in Florida that was ousted from her position because she refused to change the numbers and to alter the numbers of cases and so they fired her. We know that he's threatened Michigan, that if they don't stop mailing out the at home ballots and the boat from home ballots, that he's going to cut all federal funding to their... Okay, we're gonna talk about that next. Good point. I'm glad you're bringing that up. We'll talk about that next, keep going. Okay.  And so he's doing the same thing to Michigan. And it worked with Ukraine, right? So now he thinks it's gonna work with Michigan. And I think he's gonna have a little bit of a different response here in the home land than he did in regards to another country. I'm hoping anyway that people will be more up in arms about this. All right, well, since we're on the topic, I'm gonna read a quote. He basically said that Michigan is, this has been done by a rogue secretary of state. And that secretary of state actually got on Twitter and said, her name was Jocelyn Benson. She said, we sent applications, not ballots, just like the GOP colleagues in Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia. So what Donald Trump is basically doing is trying to set the stage, if we connect the dots to try to ban all mail-in ballots, which many states already have for elections. And if you follow this, you'll know if the numbers start going against Donald Trump either in the polls and certainly close to election day, you can see this as his springboard to say, see, I told you this was a rig election and create all sorts of disruption, if you will, in the American voting population. I can see it a mile away. Now, maybe my theory isn't well-founded here, but he did it in 2016 saying it was a rigged election. Guess what, it was a rig election in his favor. He had the help of the Russians. He had all sorts of help from WikiLeaks and the above mentioned. Winston, what are your feelings about the recent threats that Donald Trump is levying against Michigan and Nevada about their attempts to protect the voting population from COVID-19 spread? And they want to put in some mail-in ballots and Donald Trump is threatening federal funds from them falsely claiming it's illegal for them to do so. This breaking news just came out this morning. What's your thoughts about it, Winston? Yeah, it's scary. Any attempt of voter suppression in this nation is wrong. It doesn't matter whether it's to protect people from COVID or if you're suppressing minority population. It doesn't matter. We don't do that. This is America. We want each person and each voter to get this right, to have a chance to vote what that voter wants to vote. And when you're prohibited, because you have to stand in line, you may perish because you're trying to vote rather than voting through the mail. This is nonsensical. This is an enigma to a free and democratic society. Well, it seems to me now's the time to address it. I mean, don't wait till August. Don't wait till September to say, oh, we really do have a problem about how we're gonna conduct this vote for the general election of 2020. It seems to me now is the time for all these state, secretaries of state of each state to get on the same page about what they are and aren't going to do and called Trump's bluff about the fact that it's illegal and more importantly, that he's not in a position to hold up federal funds to any state based on their willingness to have a mail-in ballot or not. Oh, yeah, they will blackmail any state whether it's for an employment benefits forcing workers back to work. We saw that from, I think it was Steve Mnuchin today saying, if you don't go back to work, you won't get your benefits. Well, what if your workplace is really hazardous? You see this in the vote, voting, why would, I get it, he doesn't want, he thinks this is gonna be Democrats voting, but it's anybody who just wants to vote from the convenience and comfort of his or her own. Now Trump himself has used absentee voting. Yeah, and he says that it's fraudulent. Well, then why are we using it with the military? Just in the military ever, right? It's ridiculous and it's transparent and we see right through it. And it's, everybody says, when are the people gonna rise up? When are they gonna say enough? Every single day is a new outrage with this sort of stuff. So we've become not immune to it, but exhausted and where does it end? It's not daily, it's hourly. They assault on our values and our democracy in this administration. All right, thank you, Winston. Stephanie, connect the dots for us on this one. Where is this threat leading us to? And where will it end? And what will Donald Trump either accomplish? Or will this be his demise with independent voters and even voters of the GOP party thinking this is a bridge too far? What connected dots for us on this one? I think that the governor of Colorado, if you know his name, say it, but the governor of Colorado, is very perplexed at any of this confusion or lack of interest in the voting by mail because Colorado has done it forever. So there are numbers of states, what? There are five or six states that have been on this voting by mail for many years and have it down pat. And so I think it's time, as Trump has given all this responsibility to the governors in the categories relating to the protecting the people and saving us from the virus. Let's have these governors who already have this system in place get on with some leadership. I think that's a group made for helping every state get to the place where we can make this happen. And if we have to make it happen somehow on state funds or whose funds, I don't know, but if Trump turns off the post office money, we're not gonna have any mail. So he could easily do that because that has been a problem going along and it's very worrisome, he could do that. Now there's one way to save the post office and that's that they were required to cover all the pensions up, the forever's who weren't even born yet that were gonna work for the post office. They had to put all their money into a great big pension bank and that is a big bunch of money that if necessary could be tapped to keep them running for quite a ways. Cause nobody else- I don't think Congress is gonna let them get away with shutting down the post office. I just don't. Maybe that's just me though. That's where we are. I think that's good. And I think we ought to be paying attention to that. As I've said, he's doing nothing but shiny things all over the place now. We can't do anything about it. Oh, we're finding out that everything's been rigged, including the Mueller report, there's been, but Barr was into that two seconds after he was elected, meeting with the attorney for the Barr report. Everything has been eroded. So- All right. Do it. I agree and we'll see how this one's gonna pan out but this is walking over that bridge, a bridge too far and we'll see how either this is challenged legally or by Congress. If he continues up with this, Cynthia are gonna change subjects here because Stephanie just mentioned shiny object, a distraction, and I can't think of a bigger distraction, a bigger shinier object than the admission from Donald Trump that he is using and has been using for almost two weeks, hydrochloroquine. What a bombshell this has been, despite what the studies say that hydrochloroquine is not a preventative nor is it a cure to COVID-19, yet Donald Trump goes to his doctor and says, what do you think? And the doctor says, well, what do you think? Go ahead. Is this a distraction or is this now a strategy to once again politicize getting the economy back to work and using hydrochloroquine as a means and a method to get people back to work so that they don't have fear as they enter the workplace, particularly in the meat packing processing plants or environments like that. Your thoughts on this whole mess? Well, I have since read a lot of things that he is putting out the word, well, maybe not him particularly, but the word is going out to Republicans to say that you're taking the medicine, even if you're not. And the scariest thing is that they're putting out on Facebook and Twitter recipes to make hydroxychloroquine in your own home by steeping different fruit skins. Oh, that's a perfect storm, isn't it? Oh, my God. So I have a personal anecdote on this whole thing too. When he first started pushing hydroxychloroquine with that, what have you got to lose line? My pharmacy sent me a notice saying that I have lupus, so I take it all the time. So I got a message saying that it was on a three month back order. Right, I remember you telling me that. Right, and then after the VA study that said it's not useful, it's even dangerous, don't do it, then I got another letter or message from my pharmacy saying, oh, they have it now. So now that we're in this new stage, I wonder if I'm gonna get another message saying, sorry, the medicine that keeps you alive, you can't get it anymore because these crazy Republicans think it's gonna work on COVID, which we already know it doesn't. A French study said no, a VA study said no, we've had no positive. Well, are we gonna see an adverse reaction from people that blindly followed what Trump does and what Trump says? I remember very early on, the couple that killed themselves by using a chloroquine that was designed for fist tanks and the cleaning of fist tanks. Are we gonna see unfortunate either illnesses or deaths as a result of Donald Trump blindly playing Dr. Trump, not President Trump? And to what degree do we have this kind of problem?  The people that can't get their medicine, the people that need this medicine and can't get it are gonna be at a higher risk to death and illness. Yeah, but the problem is we won't know it because it won't be diagnosed as a cause of death. Exactly, and then the people that are taking it are gonna think, oh, well, I'm fine.  So I think it's gonna definitely Greek habit across the board. Okay, thank you very much Cynthia. Winston, your thoughts on this one real quick. We'll get so many things to discuss. I know we're not gonna have time, but your thoughts on this Winston? You know, it's why take a medicine for a fake disease that doesn't exist? That's, you know, that was my first thought is why are you doing this? And if you believe in the disease and you should be wearing the mask, just because your own government says to wear a mask, it's a good symbol for people. It cuts down spread of the disease. Well, Winston, I'm sorry to take issue with you but you happen to be using a path of logic in these comments of yours. And Cynthia also- Since something that's absent from this administration, I think. That's right, and Cynthia also recommended Republicans. I'm sorry to say, there are no more Republicans, Cynthia. That is a vanished species. The only one that I can see right now who garners respect for me is Mitch Romney. We don't agree on everything, but he is an olden days Republican who says, wait a minute, the emperor doesn't have any clothes. This is wrong. What he is saying is wrong for our people as a whole. Otherwise people have been so duped. When we have our truth and reconciliation after all of this is gone, I don't know when that's gonna be. And the realization comes down that we have been so misled and denigrated as a nation. Okay, Winston, is this a strategy of Donald Trump or was he just fear-based? Cause this all took place about the time when his personal assistant became down with COVID symptoms. So is this fear-based and something he was concerned about? Or is this a strategy that I just can't quite see? It's hard to say. Every Trump family member has investments in the company that makes it, but they probably have investment in every drug ever made.  But I don't know, Cynthia's got some more insight that I do, because it's bizarre. The whole thing is so bizarre. Cynthia's waving, but I gotta go to Stephanie on this. Stephanie, wait, okay. Cynthia, I see you waving, go ahead. One quick thing, I think it's all about money. I think he invested in this medicine and now he's stuck with it. Well, he even addressed that. He said, a lot of people think I own stock in this company. So he proactively addressed that. The answer never came out whether he does or doesn't. I suspect that's too obvious. He's not that ignorant or naive that people couldn't follow up and find out if he does or doesn't. So I'm not buying it, but maybe who knows. Stephanie, let's go to Stephanie on this. Stephanie, your thoughts. Thank you. Following that reasoning, your reasoning, this is nothing but another grandstand, okay? Who knows? I don't think he's taking it. I don't know if he owns it, he might, but and that's not gonna make it. But he is, he's lying and he's only throwing out another bouncing ball to all of the followers in the playground. We're all in this pen with him and he's the bully guy and we don't have any way to counter it. We're all, maybe he's like an eighth grader and we're all second, third graders or something is the analogy.  We'll be at that number by a week and a half. We're at 92,000 right now, 92,000 deaths. I see nothing but an obtuse reaction to 92,000 Americans dying.  They're rushing into bullets because they didn't have enough protection. They didn't have enough PPEs, they didn't have enough protective shields on their face and he thinks it's a beautiful thing. How obtuse, how numb, how lack of humanity can one be to make comments like that? I just don't see it. Even asserting that life is not that valuable, there is a TV, there is a video that's out. It's been shown on the major networks, which shows all of these Republicans saying their stance on abortion and the precious human life, et cetera, et cetera, and then followed up by the clip on this.  Yeah, you're right, there are hypocrites on this issue and if I'm 65 or older, you don't even have to be 65 or older. How do I think the president thinks about my health and safety and well-being? I've got to put a question on that. And by the way, his poll numbers are dropping for that demographic. His numbers are sliding on the demographics of 65, not just the African-American population, but also white America. His numbers are sliding because they're not quite certain if he really cares about them or that much. He just wants the economy opened up. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We only got a couple of minutes. We only got a couple of minutes. I'm going back to Winston. But he doesn't care about the economy either, Tim. It's not any of that, he just cares about him. It doesn't really matter if the economy sinks or it grows as long as he's kept in power by hook or crook. Okay, Winston, a couple of minutes left. Your thoughts about the firing of the Inspector General, Steve Lenick. He's fired four different IGs here in the last four weeks. Seems to be always on a Friday night. This is over the investigation of Mike Pompeo and his possible interference with the arms sales to the Saudis and or now is hosting 24, what they call Madison dinners, inviting friends and corporate friends, potential donors and using the taxpayer's dollar to fund such lavish dinners. Your thoughts about this and the firing of Steve Lenick. Donald Trump did it based on Mike Pompeo's recommendation. Your thoughts. One more level of accountability gone and no one will do anything, the Senate won't do anything. I love the stories coming out. It was about making dinner reservations and picking up the dry cleaning. No, that's not what it was about. We know that one for sure. That was not what the investigation was on. Secretary of State should have dinners. Should have dinners with foreign leaders with. Yeah, I agree. But look, we got NASCAR Dale Earnhardt. We got the CEO from Chick-fil-A. We've got Susan B. Anthony Group. That's an anti-abortion group. We got Laura Ingram at these dinners. How do these people have any connections to diplomacy and the State Department? Well, if you wanted to know the answer, you should ask an Inspector General, but I'm sorry, he's fired replaced by a loyalist described loyalist of Mike Pence. So I don't think we have them before coming. Okay, thank you. It's a seconds to go. Quick prediction on next week. What are we gonna see? More corruption. We're into corruption now. If you didn't understand it about what was the third world corrupt places that we've watched all our lives go down in flames or not or endure a 60 years of some strong man. This is where we are. This is what we're learning is what corruption really is and also disestablishmentarianism. So that is fascinating. And now it's happening to our precious nation. Stephanie, you get the last word on that. We're out of time. I wanna thank Winston. I wanna thank you, Stephanie. Cynthia, I wanna thank you very much for this week's Trump Week. I'm Tim Appichell, your host. We'll see you next week, Wednesday at 11 o'clock. Aloha, everyone.