Talk to you before we wake up time again, same thing. Yeah, Hoot, we're on a string here. We also here you have a seminal stowaway on board. I guess we're going to have to confess to it. He wasn't on board when we launched, and he's on board now, so he must be a stowaway. Shuttle commander Hoot Gibson and pilot Charlie Precourt have been involved in final setups of equipment, a boarded lattice, and the transfer of some logistical hardware from the mirror into the shuttle, which will be returned to Earth. Much of that equipment and experimentation was accumulated by the MIR-18 crew during their three and a half month stay aboard the mirror. The Lannis Mirror Space Lab, Houston, spot meter. That's impossible, Dave, go ahead. This view from payload bay cameras looking up the crystal module. Yeah, up there. There's two more spot meters on board. Let me tell you where the stowage is for three spot meters, as we're not sure which one you're holding. One should have been an A6. Okay, stand by Dave, we were just wondering if we had any extras because the Russians have a spot meter that is lacking in batteries. Oh, now I understand. We have not identified extra batteries yet. The last spot meters are fine, it's just that the Russians are wondering if we might have a battery if we could launch it. The Lannis, Houston, Hoot. Let's delete M-Gas, check out, we can work that during MIR-19. Jim McKenna Aviation Week for Dr. Thagard. What is the number one problem or issue that you believe should be addressed before Shannon Lucid arrives at MIR next March as well as with regards to long duration U.S. spaceflight? The question is, psychological aspects probably loom largest. There doesn't really seem to be big problems physiologically, I think we still have to find out what's happening with mineral loss from bone, for instance, and obviously radiation is an ongoing problem if it's long as you're in space. But I think anybody can do three months or four months as I'm doing and six months, in my opinion, and longer is a different matter entirely. I think Shannon won't have any problem, but I think we need to address some things for the folks who plan to be up here six months and longer. This is Paul Hoverston with USA Today. For Norm Thagard, sort of following up on the same question, what about the systems on MIR or the setup or configuration should absolutely not be done with the International Space Station if there is anything? Well, from what I saw, it takes a considerable effort from two folks to keep MIR Station operating. I think you would want to minimize the amount of maintenance ongoing that were required for a new space station. I don't think I'd run conduits both there and electrical through hatches, which make it difficult, if not impossible, to close those hatches rapidly if you needed to. And lastly, I would certainly pay a lot of attention to storage because if there were a problem that we had, it was fine in places to store things. Next, Sorokin for the Voice of America. This is for Vladimir Dijurov. Nikolai Sorokin is a US speaker, Vladimir Dijurov. Why was it more difficult to get used to the MIR? It's your first time there. Probably, because the installation is unusual for the Earth, which exists on the station and on all space ships, it's the most difficult thing to get used to. There's a installation where the circumstances of space, of the cosmos, where things just kind of fly around by them, you know, where you leave something somewhere, it kind of floats there. And if you try and put something in a particular place, it doesn't stay there. And the trick is to learn how to arrange everything and to make sure that it is convenient for operation in space. Todd Halverson of Florida today for Hoot Gibson. Hoot, the mission to date has been remarkably smooth, but like with all the enterprises, there's probably room for improvement. What types of lessons have you learned that can be applied to future shuttle MIR missions or the assembly of the space station? Todd, like you say, it has gone pretty smoothly. There's an aspect of it though that you don't see, and that's how hard we're hustling here on board every day to accomplish all the things that we need to get done. On a long duration flight or a space station flight, you're not gonna be able to keep up the kind of pace that we've been keeping up. And a lot of it has been associated with the rather difficult area of transfers of material from the orbiter to the MIR and from the MIR back to the orbiter, both equipment, future test equipment, completed test samples and all those sorts of things. Now we expected that this was gonna be a pretty big effort and there was gonna be a lot of uncertainty and there was actually gonna be a lot of unknown when we actually got up here and tried to do it, and that in fact is kind of what we've bumped into. And we've been working a little bit extra and a little bit harder to try and accommodate all of those things. But that's the one area, and I think for the future docking flights, the transfer plan, the locations, the storage, all of it needs to be detailed down to a T for us to really be able to do it smoothly and efficiently and I think that's one of the big lessons that we will have seen out of this flight. Let me finish by saying that was not unexpected. We pretty well knew that that was the kind of situation we were facing when we got up here and I think we've adapted to it about as well as you could. Irene Brown with UPI for Dr. Thaggerd. If you had to do it all again, what would you have done differently or brought with you that you didn't have to prepare for four months in space? Bought my wife along, I probably would have done that. I think I would have paid a lot more attention to the food that was stored for us on board. I think that in general, we thought there were areas room for improvement there, but otherwise I felt pretty good with what I already had on board. I don't require a lot. I had two good companions and that made up for a lot of the efficiencies. Earl Lane, Newsday for Norm Thaggerd. When you said that psychologically, a six month mission is a different matter entirely. What did you mean? Did you get on each other's nerves or were you starting to get on each other's nerves? I had nothing to do with crew relationships. Those remain fine throughout. In fact, I can honestly say they were never any serious. It disputes among the crew and probably wouldn't have been even on a six month mission. For the American on board or Russian space station, you're the only English speaker on board in general. The cultural isolation is extreme. There were times when I went 72 hours without speaking to an English speaking person. I didn't get a lot of news up here. All of those things start to weigh heavily after a while. Since I knew from the start I could do anything for three months, it wasn't going to be a problem for me. If I'd been looking at six months, I would have been real worried at about three months that I wasn't gonna make it. Their impressions of the coordination between the ground control centers and the orbiter and mirror, especially with the science crew and Norm seems to have gotten a bit testy at times in the last couple of days over things that you all are being asked to do and there've been concerns that you've been overbooked. Could each of the commanders please talk a little bit about your impressions of that? Do you feel overbooked? Is this just a knit that's being picked or is this a serious problem that will have to be worked out before the next joint mission is flown? Beth, with regard to Norm's sounding testy, let me just say that Norm always sounds like that and I don't believe that Norm has been testy or meant to sound testy during any of this. I have to give the ground tremendous, tremendous grades on the coordination and the way they've put everything together and the way that things have flowed up here. This is not an easy thing to coordinate the activities of Mir 18, Mir 19 and SDS 71. And I think that both mission control centers, the soup and Houston, in my view and from what I've seen have done just a spectacular job of learning this all out and making this flow smoothly. So that's what I think about the whole thing. I would like to hear a Russian translation come up of the question for Anatoly and for Volodya at this point. We really didn't have any concerns. And such a question really surprises me because Norm was prepared for all experiments and he performed them spectacularly without any help from us. And he didn't ask for any help from us and he didn't need our help. So there weren't really any complications. Isn't that true, Norm? I would like to say to answer a somewhat different angle on this question when we're talking about coordinating the two ground control centers and the coordination of crews in orbit. I think this is a very important issue and I think that it must be carefully prepared very much like a sports team. This sports team spend a lot of time training and coordinating an understanding among team members so that the team members can play well on the field. For example, like the Houston rockets. And then you can achieve very great successes in this way. And everything must be carefully prepared for a flight. So that the flight will be a good training ground for future work. This is Seth Borenstein from the Orlando Sentinel for Norm Thaggerd. After spending nearly four months on MIR, you're just about to leave it.  The first thing that comes to mind is not too long after the flight is over, the MIR 18 crew goes it separate ways, which means the Logen cannot be back to Russia while I remain in the United States. That makes me sad, of course, because I think we've gotten to be good friends. And this may well be probably is my last space flight, so I have to think about the fact that I won't get to experience this again. And that also, whether we're on MIR station or on space shuttle, I would think about that. This is Phil Chen, Earth news fan, Atoly. You were aboard MIR five years ago when Kristal first arrived. What was your impression going through the docking tunnel, especially since you came from a U.S. shuttle rather than a Soviet shuttle? A question for Atoly, you were at MIR station five years ago when Kristal arrived. What was your impression of the docking tunnel, especially considering the fact that this time you arrived at the American shuttle? I think that the docking module, the docking node, is in a good technical condition, although, of course, the station itself has been in orbit for a long time. And it should always be kept in mind that in space, space is a very aggressive environment. And right now we're testing this engineering technology over a course of many years. My impressions of the dynamics of controlling the complex from the shuttle, and then we alternated with controlling the complex with MIR. All of this depended on the docking module and I think that the structure showed itself to be a excellent piece of equipment. And we always keep in mind that highly qualified specialists were engaged in fabricating it. This is James Ford from WFTV in Orlando for Dr. Thagger to sort of follow up to set Born Science question. What's your concern as you get ready to land and come back into 1G after being in microgravity so long and what are you gonna do once you get back here on Earth? Perhaps the answer to that question explains what was interpreted as being tested with the ground. I did complain this morning that because of a task I was assigned, I missed my exercise period. I'm concerned about physical condition when I get back on the ground. The Russians believe that you need to exercise with two one hour periods a day and that it ought to ramp up in severity toward the end of the flight just before coming home. And I concur, I think that's important too. So we ought to do something and we ought to do what we can to protect those exercise periods just before coming home. Other than that, I'm not sure I've been so testy, but that came out of a real concern about being healthy and being able to walk and do well immediately upon return to Earth. Question from Ekho Moskva. To the Russian commanders. I wanted to know about your colleague, colleague Polyakov, that there was a female crew member who performed traditional female tasks such as washing dishes. I wanted to know your opinions on this. It's difficult to say, but such particular changes, there weren't any such changes.  Everybody's got their responsibilities and everybody tries to do them to fulfill them. I would say that with all these people here that it is more interesting up here. Can Gennady add anything? Well, of course, women are needed and the more the better. First of all, we have this gigantic complex in orbit. This is a new step in the creation of... This is something that Ciel Kovsky at one time had dreamed about. All of these dreams have been practically implemented and are being implemented. And of course, you can't do that without women. Houston, I guess, story, I guess we're ready to proceed. We have come to that point in the mission that I guess all of us have actually been dreading to quite some degree and that's the point where we have to say farewell to the mere 19 crew and I'm glad we called it farewell and not goodbye because we are going to see them very shortly. They're going to be gone much too long. They're going to be gone 60 days but we are all of us, I think, looking forward to when we get them back on Earth. We have started with the mission of mere 18, SDS-71 and mere 19, what is intended to be and what will be a very long program, a very fruitful program. SDS-71 is going to be drawing to a close here in a very few days when we return with the crew of mere 18 back to the Earth. However, none of us feel like the mission is really going to be complete until we get not just our comrades, our compatriots on mere 19 but our very good friends from mere 19 back to Earth. We're hoping to be in Kazakhstan when they come back in the Soyuz but our mission, none of us have felt would be complete until all of our fellow crew members are back again to the Earth. So we're here today to tell them farewell and the mission that we've set out on is a very long mission. Our phase one is a continuation of what we started with mere 18, mere 19, SDS-71. International Space Station will be the next continuation of what we started and what we're preparing to say farewell to just one small part of that long continuing overall program. So we are drawing to a close one mission, the bigger mission, the continuing mission is a mission of many, many years and that is going to continue on long after we have landed and long after mere 19 has landed. Mere 19 is going to be very much in our thoughts and in our hearts. We want to leave them with a few presents to remember us by and so we have a couple of presents to present to Anatoly and to Nick at this time. So they'll be able to think of us. We have a couple of our crew pins so that they can keep us in their thoughts during the next couple of months before they come back and we also have a SDS-71 wristwatch for Anatoly and Nick. Very shortly we're going to be closing the hatch tonight and tomorrow we'll each climb into our own individual rockets. Speaking of rockets, how about them Houston rockets? I don't know if you noticed but during the press conference, during the press conference Anatoly mentioned the Houston rockets and it turns out he's a very big fan of the rockets and so we have another another present that we'd like to present to Anatoly and it's the new emblem of the Houston rockets. We have a Houston rockets t-shirt that has the brand new emblem and Anatoly, it's a Drugy Podorek. It's another present for Anatoly. Novi Emblem, Houston rockets. Are you able to see this new emblem on the TV? Yes sir, we certainly are and boy talk about basketball players in the air. You all are getting more airtime there than anyone ever. Anatoly can really jump. At least they'll tell you, at least they'll. We have a couple of other small presents for them. We have just a little bit of fresh fruit and just a little bit of a real American tradition, I guess. We have a few bags of tortillas that we'd like to leave with them and we have the remainder of our fresh fruit that we'd like to leave with Mirror 19 because I'm not sure. It may be a while before they see fresh fruit again. Nikolai is saying this will be my happiness so I guess we hit home with many of our presents. Hey Hoot, we're looking at some great smiles there. Someday we'll be growing oranges up there. Not too long from now. I guess we're going to leave Rodnik which is Anatoly's call sign. Anatoly's crew call sign. I guess we're going to leave just Rodnik 1 and Rodnik 2 up there. Maybe a word or two from Rodnik 3. In case you didn't know, we were called Rodnik which is a word which means a spring and then a water spring in the woods and Anatoly was Rodnik 1 and Nikolai Rodnik 2 and I was Rodnik 3 and we trained together as the backup crew to do the equipage for over a year and I really enjoyed the experience. A great commander and a great board engineer and I have some emotional thoughts about saying goodbye to them but I know they'll do just an absolutely great job up here until they're landing, this soft landing, the Akipasadka in August and I wish them a lot of luck and success. I don't know how to say this in Russian but we wish you fair winds and following seas and soft landings. We will count the days until you come back and we get to see you again. I hope we'll meet in Moscow in August with our very big crew and I think it was a very good job on the Space Station Mir on the Atlantis and in some day you'll meet your family it will be a good time for you and I think in two months we'll meet our family too and I want to set a control mission in Houston for his very good job and helps us during our flight. Eastern Mir Atlantis I guess we are about to the end of our farewell ceremony I want to acknowledge once again Bob Castle Phil Engelhoff Bob Berry all of our Capcoms all of the folks on the ground that have done the spectacular job of putting together this very challenging mission we've reached another milestone in that mission but as I mentioned earlier it's just one of the small milestones along a much greater journey but at least we have begun that very long journey thank you very much sir it's been an incredibly memorable event for you all for us controllers down here it is a memorable event for us too it is a major part in our lives working with you all is something that we will not forget and as you said Hoot very appropriately yes it is a farewell but it is also a very important beginning you all have started us out on an unbelievably great beginning cooperation in which the humans of planet earth together pursue the heavens thank you very much for being who you are and for the fabulous job that you've done on this flight and the same words back to you story thank you very much for all your help


If you want financial independence, you need a different vehicle than a job.  As I mentioned before, this is part two and we are still talking about the youth and how can the youth break into the property market? We have seen that the unemployment rate has risen extremely back to 75% which is a crisis, another pandemic. But we are here to talk all about that and Ebo, an educated man on this topic who can literally give us the solutions to everything. And he's also opened his doors to those at home. If ever we need help, a mentor, whatever it is you need, all the details are on the screen, you have his name and this is exactly where you can find all these details and make contact because, as we've mentioned in the first half, we cannot do this alone. We need a power team. Ebo, let's pick it up from where we left off. Tell us more. So there's this notion of team that the people have to be working for you or working with you all the time. No, they don't. So you find that in my sphere, I have people that I just rely on for just... Like you call it accountability partners. I just bounce things off them. Hey, I'm going to do ABCD this time, can you check in with me and hold me accountable? Then there are those that you know, okay, I am going to... Let's look at sectional title schemes. When we decided we're moving into the sectional schemes industry, right? You now go, who is the best at it or who has been doing this the longest? So we realize Professor Graham Paddox is actually the author of all of these. Who do we have in our network that can get us to him? Because you always want to go closest to the source. Of course. So that now is the people in our team. So if I need anything and I feel like you bounce it off the best and you come back and you know that you are right. And I think that's also one way to figure out if your team is for you at the end of the day. Because you can have a team that is totally against you, that doesn't want to see you. No, then you don't have a team. Then you don't have a team. But I think that we, especially again youth, we mistake that. We have these circles, friends, whatever it may be. If you can't hold me accountable, if you can't call me out on my actions or if I'm doing something wrong or whatever the case may be, you're not there for me. The UCL just happened, right? And I remember posting that I wish Pep wins. But then at the same time I was torn because I wanted Chelsea to win. Now, here's a person that is supporting both teams at the same time. And yet I'm part of the team of both of them, right? When it comes to teamwork, you have realized that all those people and when Pep lost, what happened? The people called him out. They said, you selected the wrong team to start off with. Thank you for watching. Subscribe. Click the like button. Thank you.


think tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Good afternoon. Welcome to what's on your mind Hawaii. I'm your host, Tim Apachella. Our show is dedicated to what you have on your mind about news topics important to you and to your community. This week, we will discuss the $600 billion trade tariff against China. President Trump recently announced our guest is Damon Reyes, a successful realtor and in the past have operated his own company out of China and Malaysia. Damon shares his concerns about the impact a $600 billion tariff will have on the national economy, home interest rates and potential effects on the local real estate market. Our second interview is with Daniel, who is a volunteer at the homeless encampment at the Y&I small boat harbor. The camp is comprised of 200 to 300 homeless people and hasn't been placed on state lands for close to 10 years. Its leader, Twinkle Borges, or affectionately known as Auntie Twinkle, has been a guiding force to serve as a leader, a friend, a resident and to ensure the rules of the camps are followed. An informal government has been set up of other representatives and they're responsible for their section of the camp. No rules, the rules are simple. No motor vehicles, no loud noises, no stealing, dogs are to be locked up and the gates are locked by 9 p.m. Rules are strictly enforced and they seem to be working. The sign posted in the camp is clear, it states, anyone found in violation will be given one a verbal warning, two a written warning and three out, you have to go. No ambiguity there. Last month the public was invited to tour the camp to see how it operates. It's a model of residents taking care of one another, a place not only where physical healing takes place but also spiritual healing. As spending an afternoon there I was both impressed and convinced that it is a model that could serve as something that works in the state of Hawaii could replicate it in other areas of the island to address our growing homeless issues. Recently there were communications at a Waianae neighborhood board meeting that the camp would be shut down by the Department of Natural Land Resources and its residents would be swept out. Governor Igay decided to intercede on the matter. He sat down with Twinko and an agreement made to look at long range plans on where the camp could be relocated on other state lands was discussed. So for now it remains that the 250s, the 300 residents have a place they call home and a person they trust named Auntie Twinko. And now here are those interviews. This is Tim Apachella with Think Tech Hawaii and our show is What's on Your Mind Hawaii. I'm here today with David Reese and today's topic and what's on our mind is the $60 billion tariff announced recently from Donald Trump, specifically the tariff that's going to be against China. Damon, you've got a background in economics and also you have a master's in international business affairs, is that correct? Master's of Pacific international relations, yes. Okay, so you've worked professionally in Indonesia and Malaysia and things like that. And I did business in China all throughout Asia basically. And now I'm a realtor here in Hawaii. So recently the Dow Jones has fallen about 1,100 points in two days. Today dropped a 1.77% for the last five days where the Dow is down about 5.26%. As you know, companies that could be affected by this tariff would be Boeing. They're one of the Dow Jones. They're one of the 30 in the Dow Jones. And certainly some, you know, farming commodities and products like that. In your mind, what impact would this $60 billion tariff have not only from what we ship out but just on the economy generally? Yeah. Well, there's two parts of this. One part is the inflation factor. As you know, the US imports so many of its goods from China. Everything from apparel, footwear, appliances, everything that's most of everything being sold out of Costco, which is just down in the valley here. So what will happen there is that prices will go up. They'll not just buy a little, but they will go up by quite a bit. And what has kept the damper on our business cycle recently fluctuating, going so high and going so low like boom and bust is the fact that essentially we have exported our inflation in bust and boom times to China. Everything gets so manufactured. They're so inexpensively that it's really kept a lid on inflation and also services to some degree we farm those out to India. So basically inflation is going to go up. And we're not talking about a little bit. It could be go up as much as one and a half, two percent. What happens when inflation goes up in most business cycles is that the Fed starts turning up interest rates. So what we will see happening is the Fed turning up interest rates probably a little bit quicker than they had planned to. And inflation could be as high as let's say it's two percent right now. It could go up to as high as four percent. Let me jump in at that point because the Fed does use both fiscal and monetary policy to regulate interest rates and basically the flow of dollars in the economy. In addition to what products may have a trade war, we may have a tariff war on, also China has a substantial amount of our treasury debt. We have a $21 trillion national debt of which I think it's about 6.7 percent is funded by outside other countries. And the leading country that buys our treasuries, our notes, our bonds is China at $1.2 trillion. So if this really got ugly, if we did get into this tit for tat trade war, there's no saying that China could not start not renewing their treasuries as they mature and find other places to park their cash. And then that would mean that our treasury or the Fed would have to raise rates to attract other investors to buy all those treasuries. So not only is it inflation that can affect interest rates, but also how much debt is being renewed and rolled over by China. Exactly. And so what happens is, so the treasury, we have a mountain of treasury bills that are bought by both the United States and also China. China contributes to a lot of that. If they stop buying or stop renewing the buying of the treasury bills, the treasury bills would start to, the price of those treasury bills would start to go down. Now I know this sounds, it's hard, it's a little hard to grasp, but when treasury bills, the price of treasury bills goes down, it's inversely correlated to the interest rate or the yield. It's really called the yield.  And so things like the 10-year treasury actually compete with 30-year mortgages. And so the reason for that is because average mortgages, even though they're 30 years, people keep them on average for 10 years when they sell their home and such like that. So those two things compete with each other. So when you see yields on the 10-year treasuries going up, mortgage interest rates will also go up. And so right now the median home price in Hawaii is about $800,000, which is three times the national average. And a lot of that is people have to get mortgages. They have to finance for those homes. So we're looking at two things and it's kind of the perfect storm. Like you mentioned, we'll have the yields on 10-year treasuries go up, which will cause 30-year mortgage rates to go up as well. And then on top of that, we also have the trade war with China, which causes inflation. Once inflation comes in, then there's more pressure from the Fed to actually increase those rates as well. So it'll be sort of like a double whammy. Well, let me ask you this because it was just in the paper yesterday, about 20% of all purchases are outside investors that are buying Anahu. That's give or take a percentage here and there. So if the dollar goes weaker, isn't that advantageous for outside investors that come in and buy here in Honolulu? Yes, absolutely if the dollar gets weaker. And the thing about the outside investors that are coming to Hawaiian buying property, they're not so much the medium price homes. They are mostly the luxury homes and luxury condos. A lot of what is getting bought in Kakaako, the new high-rise luxury condominiums, are bought by Japanese, just to give you quick numbers here. In 2016, it was the same for 2017, just about. There was about $1 billion worth of foreign outside of the U.S. investment of real estate and properties here in Hawaii. Of that billion, about 500, I think 575, almost 60% of that was bought by Japanese. A lot of people think it's the Chinese that are buying up, but it's very difficult for them to even get their money out of their country. So on the scale of things, yes, China is the number two purchaser of real estate here in Hawaii for foreigners, but Japanese purchase 15 times what the Chinese do. So if you were to add up the second place through 10th place of foreign buyers of real estate in Hawaii, they wouldn't even add up to what the Japanese do. So to my point, to my point, if trade war happens and the U.S. dollar goes down, the yen is actually inversely going to get stronger. And when that happens, basically for the Japanese, it's luxury real estate on sale for them. So this actually could be a buying bonanza for foreign investors coming into Honolulu and Oahu. So we're going to have a two, it's going to be a tale of two cities here. You'll have the median range homes, which will probably start falling in prices because the interest rates. And then you'll see on the luxury side, Japanese and foreigners with the week U.S. dollar coming in on going on a buying spree. Now this was all positioned originally as to help Middle America, specifically the Midwest and the steel production towns and how that jobs are going to come back to America and put employee Americans back to work. In fact, though, if there is a tariff war and a trade war, a lot of those things that Middle America produces, particularly farming products and soybeans and things of that nature, that actually can come back to haunt them. And because there is a higher tariff on those kind of products. That is absolutely true. And then the other thing where it's going to come back and hit us hard is at Costco, at Walmart, they employ so many people in here in Hawaii as well. There will be layoffs there and it will cause unemployment. I figure that if it turns out to be a full blown trade war that we're probably looking at recession mid 2019 and unemployment rates in general in the U.S. maybe as high as 10 percent. We haven't seen 10 percent in well over three or four years now since the rates came down significantly from that point. Also the impact though, let's say Middle America is shopping at Walmart because that's where the prices are that people are going to afford. Wouldn't a trade war also cause the cost of those items sold at Walmart because many of them are from China actually increased? So you have an inflationary factor from the products themselves at the store that Middle America buys from. Absolutely. And then it will be exacerbated by so many people being laid off and they won't even be able to buy those goods from China at the higher tariff prices. So do you think there's any coincidence of the recent change in personnel as far as who's going to be handling foreign affairs and things of that nature or do you think it was just coincidental? It could be a little bit of both. Our president could be running out of people to actually point to these offices like the national security advisor. John Bolton was just appointed and he is just a super hawk. I'm thinking of Larry Kudlow who's basically a TV personality, certainly not an economist yet he has one of the most important positions in the administration. So one has to wonder is whether this was all part of a strategy or just kind of came together because President Trump is watching TV one day. We, you know, this is a whole new era for us. On a daily basis, we're getting tweet bombs and so it could have just all coalesced together naturally but it is a little bit worrisome seeing ultra hawks that we'll be having the president's ear and we've seen the stock market. They're indicative that the stock market going down is indicative of the same thing that I'm actually saying right now. Well I think we'll leave it at that. I think our neighbors to the North Canada and our neighbors to the south of Mexico are a little relieved that the tariffs on steel and aluminum they were exempt from that and that's where we get the majority of our steel and aluminum from and so from that standpoint I think there was a sigh of relief from a lot of people around the world that they were exempt from that particular tariff on those two products. One point on that.  If there's a trade war between China everybody will get affected. The some of the things that go into the the manufactured goods from China come from Mexico, they come from Europe. Everyone gets disrupted. I think the term was one world economy. So yeah okay well Damon I want to thank you very much for spending the time to join us on what's on your mind Hawaii. I'm Tim Apachele for Think Tech Hawaii and Aloha. Aloha. Welcome back this is what's on your mind Hawaii. I'm Tim Apachele your host and before our next interview about the YNI homeless camp we're going to take a commercial break. Aloha I'm Dave Stevens host of the Cyber Underground. This is where we discuss everything that relates to computers that's just going to scare you out of your mind. So come join us every week here on ThinkTechHawaii.com 1 p.m. on Friday afternoons and then you can go see all our episodes on YouTube. Just look up the Cyber Underground on YouTube. All our shows will show up and please follow us. We're always giving you current relevant information to protect you. Keeping you safe. Aloha. I'm Jay Fidel ThinkTech. ThinkTech loves energy. I'm the host of MENA, Marco and me which is Mina Morita former chair of the PUC, former legislator and energy dynamics a consulting organization in energy. Marco Mangostorf is the CEO of Provision Solar in Hilo. Every two weeks we talk about energy everything about energy. Come around and watch us. We're on at noon on Mondays every two weeks on ThinkTech. Aloha. Our next interview is with Daniel who's a volunteer at the YNI homeless camp. His interview is very insightful and I hope you enjoy it. With Daniel and Daniel there's an open house for the village here out here in YNI and it's been published in the paper for last last week at least and from the judging from how many people have come here looks like it's a success. Tell me why you guys did this. Why why you have an open house and what is the message you're trying to get across? The main message is that this is a place of healing and an important place because there's a lot of people that could use healing and and that this place should be preserved the way it is and the community here that does the healing and is also made up of people being healed is allowed to exist here because the threat is that everyone will be forced to leave and all the building and community structure will be taken away and yeah. Well it seems there's a bigger message here and you know just by my walking around and listening to you is there seems to be a bigger message that this community is a people that have trust in one another and there's relationships formed and built and more than a quote-unquote homeless camp or shelter this is a community a real village. Yes and it is a village and also a shelter and there are people who are in places of desperation they've had one too many hard knocks and and just are not feeling safe they're not feeling like they're in a place of stability or safety and they need a place to stay to be and to heal and yeah and so this place is a perfect place for that because it is like you said a community with people that have built relationships and and with people that can come in and be a part of the community and build relationships and and be part of the healing How do you compare this village compared to what many people out have a negative stereotype of the homeless and how does this village counteract that stereotype? Well I would say that what makes this village a village is a common vision and value and that is that this place needs to be maintained as a place of healing and the person who pioneered that vision is kind of the the leader of this village because everyone got behind the vision that she had and her vision was basically I know we're all hurting all of us are probably here because we need healing but that doesn't mean that we can lash out at each other you know we can't vent on each other I know we're all frustrated scared hungry whatever but we can't take it on each other we got to work together we got to help each other out to heal because we all need healing and so she would go if she heard fights she heard drama she would go in and intervene and be like hey guys we cannot lash out at each other we got to heal we got to work together you need help I'll help you you know I'll cook for you all whatever you know and so she started doing that and just cooking for a lot of kids a lot of people feeding and just taking care and being an example of how to heal you know and to take care of each other right well what impressed me was to hear that those who have been through the journey and trying to heal they are also required to kind of give back and community service at least eight hours I believe yeah but also even after they leave they still come back yeah because um there is mandatory community service and that is obviously within that idea of everyone needs to work together to heal each other so everyone needs to give in put in to help take care of each other whether that's cleaning the the paths or volunteering in the the donation tent the free store um or helping the twinkle in her house cook food for everybody um or help with the trash cleanups everyone is um getting a chance to contribute and that not only is a chance to help with the healing but it's also healing yourself because part of the healing is um realizing how good it feels to help others and I think that a lot of us when we first get our hard knock and and we're like unstable and we feel like oh my god I'm so afraid and I just want to grab grab grab give me give me give me give me um we need to snap out of that because really the way to feel good again is to be like give me some I'll give back give me some I'll give back you know that's the that's the real healing and so well that's the the antithesis of really the stereotypes that people have about the homelessness they just want to take and take and they never give back to anyone or anything so this village is really a model for what's going on here on this island and what would you say to those people that just have such a negative opinion about the homeless and you know for lack of better term just a negative stereotype well I would say I could see where the stereotype comes from because a lot of people who are houseless are in that state of like oh my god I'm so scared I need I need give me give me give me you know I'll feel give me give me give me you know or whatever right but um so they're acting out of fear acting out of fear and and desperation uh but if they're given the chance to be part of a community where they're safe and they can give back I've seen a lot of people their minds have changed even anti twinkle she said that she was in a place of desperation she was self medicating even using ice and it wasn't until she felt like I need this this idea of I need to heal we need to heal each other you know that's when she healed and it changed her life and um and but it's not just her running this village now this village has what anywhere from 200 to 300 people here yeah exactly and so this team captains um she started by herself basically you know helping but then other people anti locate there's a lot of people that caught on and they're like yes I feel it too I'm not I'm gonna medicate less you know I'm gonna start thinking just by myself my healing is gonna come from helping others and so some of them um they got so into it that they just want to do it now even though they're like heal they're good they just love helping so they're gonna stay and help some of us they they heal others enough just to be healed enough so they can go back into the you know as a state of Hawaii learned anything from this lesson from this village and particularly have they been out here for this open house I think I think the state of Hawaii is learning a lot you can tell by um there's a new uh pro uh project um kind of by the the airport where there's this there was sort of encampment under under the bridges and stuff over there and rather than just raiding them and banishing them and forcing them to go somewhere else like they used to they built these like plantation houses and and and I think that's them sort of getting the idea of like hey maybe people are kind of congregating together because uh that is the solution like people will come together help each other heal maybe we should just help that instead of trying to steer them somewhere else like maybe there's something to this like people coming together and helping each other is the best way because it's really efficient because if you have the people who are healing needing healing healing by helping others to heal it cuts down on so much cost you don't need to pay for our social work as much and you know it's it's sort of like a self-directing so if let me ask you this if if more people on this island were to understand this model do you think there'd be less fear or not have the not my backyard syndrome where I don't want any homeless in my community and it doesn't belong there and uh do you think if they saw this model that that would change their opinions and their values and their attitudes I think it would change a lot because it would be like oh I don't want a hospital on my backyard it's like what why you know you don't want to um a healing place of healing everyone wants to heal well I think people their stereotype is that there's going to be crime and there's going to be you know there's going to be an adverse element to a neighborhood and and so I don't know to what degree do you think you guys can take this model and extend it forward so that other people understand what's going on here I think that um if people come like the people who are taking this tour they'll realize that this isn't a dump it's not a prison it's it's a hospital it's like a garden it's a place of healing and then they'll realize wow I want that in my backyard because wait what if I have too one too many traumas in my life what if um I have sexual harassment at work and my dad dies and my dog dies and you know things get overwhelming well I could just go here and I can heal right here and I can help people heal or or if I'm feeling depressed I can just go and volunteer and this is my um new way of finding comfort in life and helping others and building my community and um so it's uh it'll it's I think people will see it as um a place like this is a it's something you want to have around because it's a it's a source of comfort and for you and others well change takes time and it doesn't happen you know on a on an accelerated line upward it's you know it's up it's down and it takes time what message you think you would have for either the state legislature or the city council particularly those politicians that have fear about the homeless and and what would you say to them on how to basically have more of these kind of villages around the island to help the many many homeless that are that we're faced with well I would say to them um please uh pay attention and take seriously some of the bills that are being written now um there are some legislatures that are I think getting the idea and they're introducing bills already that are sort of uh basically making exceptions for places like this like um and and uh no um allowing for places like this and so I would just say to those senators that have fears that um uh get give this place a chance learn more because it's not a uh um it's a it's a place of healing and it's a place of growth and and it's an important place these kinds of places and and it's it's it's not the problem it's the uh kind of the solution to the problem the problem is whatever it is that makes people so hurt you know um so uh yes yeah well Daniel I want to take thank you for taking the time to share this experience and this model this village on how it could be a model for everywhere on the island so Daniel thank you for your time for coming on what's what's on our mind hawaii I'm tim abachella for think tech hawaii aloha that's our show for this week I want to thank you for taking the time to watch us on what's on your mind hawaii our next show is on April the 10th and until then aloha


Can any employer reject your resignation in the UAE? Remember, remember when we are talking about resignation, remember resignation starts with the type of the contract that you sign with that company. When we look at companies in the UAE, each company has its own rules or what you call that are being stipulated in what you call the contract that you get to sign with that country. Most of the time it's always very important for you to look at the closes of the contract as you're signing that contract. For example, if you are coming from your home country and it's the same contract that you sign from your home country, it should be the same contract that you sign when you arrive in the country with that company. It should be the same contract with the same closes that you agreed upon to come in the country. And when we talk about resignation, we normally look at the resignation that you're supposed to give what you call a notice period. A notice period will always be mandatory or will always be according to what is being agreed in the contract. And remember this contract governs so much that you need to understand the closes that are being written in the contract for you at that time. And when we are talking about resignation in the UAE, remember the employer has no right to reject your resignation provided you've given the notice period as it is agreed or at ease as it is calculated in your contract. Remember, when we talk about the types of contracts in the UAE we shall look at what you call the limited and the unlimited contracts that are being signed at a time. Remember there are new laws that are being put in place in the UAE and whereby people would even have what you call part time or even people were to have full time. And remember all those types of work have different types of contracts. So you must make sure that your contract that you sign or your closes in that contract that knows contrarily go again is what you call does not bleach what you call the agreement that is signed with that employer. But however when we are talking about resignation and rejection of the resignation by the employer the employer cannot reject your resignation provided you've given the real notice period and you've also given what you call the required procedure. You submitted the email, the resignation either in writing or by fax or by the required procedure and it is signed on that your employer has no right to reject your resignation at that time. So when we are talking about this is that remember when your employer tries to reject your resignation then you can definitely have to seek other options you have to go directly to what you call the ministry we say to go to the ministry of immunization then you can seek for more advice or put in your company about your employer. Remember this is against the law for you it's against the law for your employer to reject your resignation so long as the notice period is exactly what is approved and so long as you've given whatever you're supposed to submit in time there's no right to reject your resignation at this time. So most of these updates you need to share and most of these things that you need to know at a time is that you need to be aware of these laws so long as you need to be aware. Why is it part of your responsibility to know these laws such that in any situation or in any case you definitely know what it is and you know where to start from. Thank you so much for coming back to this channel and thank you so much for tuning this channel remember it is makes from the makes creation and see you again in the next video as we try to discuss more of this important information share how to friends such that we definitely get to achieve in any way or the other. See you again in the next video as we try to see more of these updates. Remember don't forget to hit that notification bell because it will be the only way that it will be updated wherever we upload a new video.


Dear students, let me give you an example as to how you would determine the probability of an event in the case of a continuous random vector. Suppose that we have the joint PDF, small f of x1, x2 equal to six x1 square into x2 where x1 goes from zero to one and x2 also goes from zero to one and f of x1, x2 is equal to zero elsewhere. If this is the PDF of the random vector capital x1, capital x2, where both of them are continuous random variables, then suppose that we are interested in computing the probability that capital x1 lies between zero and three by four and capital x2 lies between one by three and two. All right, this is our question. Now let's see how we deal with it. The first thing is that we will deal with this later. First of all, don't you want to check that the function given to us is really a PDF? If you want to do that, then how will you do it? Obviously, you should integrate six x1 square into x2 with respect to x1 and x2 and you should take the entire limit for each one of them as the limits of those integrals. You can check it yourself. Assuming that it is a PDF, now let us try to find this particular probability that we are wanting to find. All right, the required probability will be the integral from one by three to two. I have applied the limits for x2 and the next integral that is inside the first one because what we just said is that dx2 is attached to the end of the expression but generally we do not put the bracket, we just write it like this, double integral. Now what is the limit we have to apply for the second one? The limits of x1. So that is going from zero to three by four. We want to see what is the probability of this happening. All right, now let us continue. This expression has come, so it is obvious that f of x1, x2, which is written in it, we will insert the expression of six x1 square into x2. Note that the joint PDF that was given to you, that was not going from zero to two, i.e. x1 was not going from zero to two, x2 was not going from zero to two. But what we have been told is that we should take out this probability, we are saying that x2 is between one by three and two, how do we deal with this one? We split the first integral. As you can now see on the screen, the required probability is the integral from one by three to one as far as the variable x2 is concerned plus the integral from one to two as far as the variable x2 is concerned. The rest was not the same as before. In fact, you are seeing that the second expression is written in it, after the double integral, zero is written. And it should be written, and it will be written. Because as I told you earlier, how we have to express it and how it has been done at this time, it is f of x1, x2 is equal to zero elsewhere. Zero to one, zero to one, both the variables, zero to one, zero to one in the area, so your expression has six x1 square x2. But if there is any other area of the x1, x2 plane, this function is equal to zero there. So after splitting the integral, if our second integral is going from one to two, then f of x1, x2 is equal to zero. All right, now we can try to solve these integrals. If we first look at the first one, one by three to one, zero to three by four, six x1 square x2, and then dx1 dx2. So now it is very important that we keep this in mind that first we solve the inner one, and after that the outer integral will be solved. So inside that is with respect to x1. So if we look at x1, then six x2 that is acting as a constant. Because x1 is not in it, six is a constant and x2 acts as a constant. So the inner integral, six x2 will come out of that. But it will not come out, six will come out of all of it, but x2 will not come out of the first integral, which is going from one by three to one, because that is with respect to x2. So x2 cannot come out of that, but our inner integral came out of that. I am talking about the first integral now. The second integral is written as zero. Now when you solve the inner integral of this zero, what is the integral of zero? Zero ka integral kya hai? It is c, where c is a constant. Am I right? Of course it is correct. Do you not know that the derivative of a constant is equal to zero? Agar constant ka derivative zero hai, so zero ka integral c hai. And after that, when you apply the upper and lower limit, students do not apply the limit on the constant, that is, the zero to three by four written there, so you say that c, you apply the upper limit first, then you write three by four, and then the lower limit is minus zero. So the answer is three by four. This is not correct. C agar hai saath koi x1 attached hi nahi hai, to aap likhenge c minus c and it is equal to zero. So therefore, now we have the first integral as it is, one to two, aur ye jo beech wala tha uspuri tiz ki jaga pe zero, aur uske saath dx2. But please note kya ab yeh saari guftabu, jo mai ne x1 ke liye ki, that will be repeated for x2. To wo bhi zero hi hojayaega, and therefore that entire double integral of zero with those limits is zero. Coming back to the first one, six to bahar aagya tha, aur uske baad aap ka jo pehla integral hai, that is going from one by three to one, aur uske baad aap ne x2 likhawa hai, kyu ke wo uske aage jo integral hai usmise bahar aagya wa tha, aur uske baad you have the integral from zero to three by four of x1 square, and you are integrating with respect to x1. To ab kya hota hai, what is the integral of x1 square? Obviously it will be x1 raised to three divided by three, aur uske baad aap limit-supply kar diye, solve kar liye, and I think I have said enough. Iske baad just keep on solving the way you should solve integrals, and doing this you will ultimately, after carrying out all the steps one by one by one, ultimately you obtain the probability of this particular event as being equal to three by eight. So this is the method by which you may compute the probability of any event for that situation where you have a continuous random vector and you are wanting to do it. Sara jo kuch main aapke saamne rakha that was with reference to two random variables only. Agar aap ke paas doki bhajai teen hota, x1, x2, x3, aur ishi tara ki cheezen hoti, to kya kar na chahiye tha? I am sure you must have got it. Ek aklota variable, continuous variable, ek integral, two continuous variables, double integral, three continuous variables, triple integral. So this is the mechanism. Coming back to this bivariate situation, I would like you to note ke aapne abhi e bhi e jo probability nikali hai, the answer of which has come out to be three by eight. Zahire ke three by eight ko aap decimal me bhi likh sakte hai, percentage form me bhi likh sakte hai, but what is the geometric interpretation? It is the volume under the surface defined by the function f of x1, x2 equal to 6x1 squared into x2. It is under this surface above the rectangular area of the x1, x2 floor defined by x1 going from zero to three by four and x2 going from one by three to one. Note ke me ne one by three to two nahi kaha, yu ke me pehle batah chuki hu ke one se two ke beech me to f of x1, x2 is equal to zero. Abhi e jo abhi kaha isko phir dubara sunn liye je we are having two variables so we are dealing with the just one x-axis and the probability curve being along the y-axis meaning that the ordinates define that curve is what we have a floor and the ordinates are giving us the surface. The total volume under which we will be one but the volume of our event that event that we are interested in is equal to three by eight.


Welcome to digital asset news. Take a top stories in crypto and bring them out of bite-sized pieces. Today, just as the thumbnail suggests, the question has to be asked, are we in a bear market? So we're going to take a look at some data that could point to we are in a bear market. Then we're going to take a look at the flip side and just say, well, it's probably not a big deal and there's some actually good news on the horizon. So we'll take a look at some on-chain data. We're going to define the bear market. We're going to take a look at the good news. Then we're going to talk about what's going on the metaverse as far as Nike and then a little Voyager petition. So before we get into all that, let's take a look at what's exactly going on into the market and not the greatest day. Look, it is Tuesday, December 14th, almost 4 p.m., Guainabbo, Puerto Rico time and this is what we got. We've got a market of a whopping 2.1 for a trillion. We lost around 800 billion from our all-time high over 3 trillion. I don't know, maybe we'll find at some point and Bitcoin price fell below 47. Also fell below the 50k mark, which is what we were trying to hold. We couldn't hold that. Now we might be going a little bit farther down, but hey, it is what it is and that's where we're at right now. Daily sentiment is bearish and that's, of course, as we start seeing dips and dips and pullbacks. Now if we take a look at the coins right now, we see a little bit of a turnaround in the one hour, but not much to get excited about. I mean, 1%, 1.5 for Cardano and 0.59 for Bitcoin and 0.77 in a one hour change isn't going to get me anything excited, especially 24 hours. We're still up a little bit. Wow, Dogecoin up 16% and you know why Doge is up 16% because Elon Musk said he is going to start accepting Dogecoin for payments for Tesla's. So congratulations, Dogecoin holders. You're up to a whopping 18 cents. Hopefully you can get back to that 67 cents of the all-time high. Hopefully we can all get back there. Nothing against you guys. Good for you. And that's what we got as far as the market itself. So not the greatest place. What we're going to do is take a look at what's going on as far as the on-chain data and do that. We'll take a look at on-chain analysis from CryptoQuantz. Me and Key Young Ju did, the CEO of CryptoQuantz did a nice overview video of how to read these charts, but these are the ones that I like to look at. So I'm taking a look here. What I like to see is these five to six ones. I want to take a look at all miners outflow. What I'm trying to look at is are they selling? And if we take a look at the day, back in the day, because we can go way farther back, there was a lot of selling back here. This is probably when the big move, this was I think the big migration from China when they banned it again and they had to sell their bitcoins they get over here to North America. So that made a lot of sense. And there was a little peaks and valleys here. And now over here we don't see too much, but if we go into the hour, there's a little bit of selling going on. And we can see right here the outflow. This is on the hourly looking at 54 and then 324 bitcoin, 7 bitcoin, 161. It just depends on what the price is. And now that it's low, we've got 46, 47. So not a ton, but it's enough to say, hey, they are selling and it's a fact. Also, if we take a look at the bitcoin all exchange reserve, well, here we are. What's interesting to me is that as the price has been going down, when usually the price goes down, you see people will load up and start selling their bitcoin and throwing it on the exchanges so they can sell and get the money and it just stays there. But it looks like not only they're selling, but somebody or some groups or some whales are picking it back up because this number right here at the all exchange reserve for bitcoin, they're still taking it off the exchanges. Where are they putting in it? Probably cold storage. Interesting. Ethereum still going down as the price is going up. It took a dip. All exchange taker buy volume. This is interesting to me because this is where the bears and the bulls fight. And what we can see right here, we take a look at the day chart just real quick that it's pretty noisy. Let's just zoom in. I say when in doubt, zoom out. But sometimes when you want to give yourself a heart attack, you zoom in and just look at some data only for the brave. And then we take a look here that yes, there are some of these entities, people, whales, what do you want to call it? They're buying it up during like right here. It drops massively. And they said, well, we'll buy that because we want some more gains. They probably wrote it up here and then sold it again. That's what traders do. That's what leverage positions do. And then right over here, when it dropped again, you got a lot of people buying up this dip right here. So interesting. And then this is the one that concerns me out of all else. And I've always talked about this, the exchange leverage ratio. And when me and Kee were doing this, this video, he said, once you get to 0.2, it's way over leveraged. And we see that time and time again, it just, and we did this a while back. And now that we're here, we can see that yeah, 0.18, 0.19. And then all of a sudden, it just kind of just exploded.  And they said, okay, we got over leveraged, they got liquidated, it fell back. They did it again, 0.2. And then it fell down because everybody got liquidated. And now look what's happening. They're going up again. These leverage positions though, can be used for not only longs, but also shorts. So if there's a lot of people shorting and getting leverage, you can try it. But I wouldn't recommend it. And everybody thinks they know where the market's going until they get liquidated. And then lastly, market value to realize value, it's not really important, but it's pretty much falling on track. So that's what we have for that piece. And then also, if you take a look at my favorite, the PyCecl Top, this has been right retroactively three times, and then right concurrently the fourth time, around 20 of April or summer on there, when we had a Bitcoin price around 67,000. But remember, when the 111 day moving average, which is that blinding gold crosses over the 350 day moving average, that's when we have what they call the Bitcoin top. And it happened twice in 2013, once in 2017, and once in 2021. And right now, where we are at, we're still not crossed over. So that's good news, at least to look at, at least we haven't had a blow off top per se. But then we take a look at some other data points, which is that this traditional markets are hurting. And once they hurt, you know, who also hurts us, because the traditional market players, they're not like us, they don't believe in crypto. So for them, I really need you to remember this. Hedge funds, traditional markets, when they come in here and these corporate entities, they're not here to change the world, they're here to change their pocket book. So they're going to dump on you, they're going to sell, and that's okay, because that's the name of the game. We're just investors. And what's not about emotions, it's just a trade. So when we take a look over here, then yeah, same thing.  Amazing. 47, too, that's pretty good. But if we take, if we go scroll down a little bit, and we take a look at the RSI, we're right in the middle. We're not oversold, we're not overbought, kind in the middle, a little bit lower on the oversold, but it's not reached there yet. Then if we take a look at the MACD underneath, we can see that those haven't crossed over as well. So we're still in the red. So expect a little bit more pain on the horizon. So that is our data points. Now we really need to do is to define the bear market because lately I see, I've seen it all, I mean, I haven't seen a lot, not all, but you can see that people will say, you know what? We dropped 5% bear market. You know what Elon Musk came out and said this? Bear market. Sure. Let's just define it. Let's just try to define it and then we can kind of go from there. So let's define what a bear market is. This is what we got. Investopedia kind of lays it out like this. They go, look, this is for traditionals, but a bear market, little market experiences, prolonged price declines. Check a condition in which securities, okay, securities stocks, prices fall 20% or more from recent highs. Check, check, widespread pessimism and negative investor sentiment. Check, check, check. So we've got three checks right here.  I know it says securities, but let's just put in the realm of crypto. And let's talk about price falls and sentiment. Well, there was an article that just came out four hours ago and it just put it out pretty much like this. It's pretty balanced article actually. It says Bitcoin is trading for 149% higher than it was on this day last year. That's great. However, monthly stats show Bitcoin is down 26% and more than 30% from the all-time high. So 67,000 down to 47,000. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. So that checks off that first one. Ethereum is down almost 12% this week and 30-day stats show ETH has lost almost 20% or 17.5%. Okay. So another check. ETH is still up year-to-date as the price per ETH is over 550% higher than this time last year. So if we just zoom out, it's still looking pretty good. But in the short term, it's looking pretty bearish. And then if we also take a look at this, this was the thing that I was always concerned about, which was the ETFs, the futures. And everybody was excited about it. I was like, well, it's good and we'll track it, but I don't want to think it's great. Remember the lessons of history in 2017, December 17, 2017, somewhere around there, CBOE launched their futures. And guess what it did? Caused us to go into a nice little crypto winter. So when this thing came about in October 27 for pro shares, I was like, I don't really know. This is a great thing. And I won't go in the article, but it's just one of those deals like if you're going to manipulate the market, futures is a great place to start and second richest man in Mexico. I forgot the guy's name right now, excuse me. But he said the same thing. He goes, I haven't planned the crypto in the market in the market for decades. And I can tell you the futures is a great place to manipulate everything.  I was over on crypto Mondays, which is here in Puerto Rico. And it's pretty nice. Good people come out and they mingle and talk about crypto and everything else. And there was this guy here, nice guy, John Devine. And he was a broker or no, a trader. And he was talking heavily about options, futures and the optimized hodl and everything else. And it was interesting. It was. But I was by my friend, we'll call him Pete. And Pete was next to me in the back of the room. And as this guy was talking, this guy, what's his name? John. And he was talking about how, you know, futures is great. And we can do these things. And we can, you know, basically, we can move these markets. And my friend Pete next to me was like, yeah, that's right, because you move the markets and you manipulate everything and F this and F that. And it was, and it was like that scene. And like, it was almost like that scene in the big short where the guy stands up. It's like, I got a question, why are you manipulating and messing everything up? And I was like, okay. So we walked out and and that was it. And it did have a nice little ring to it. When we're talking about how the futures market really does manipulate. And then we talked about Jamie Diamond and Chase and how they manipulated the metals market and silver and gold, how they've been doing it for decades, and how they only get slapped in the wrist and it just manipulates everything in the futures market for metals. So why wouldn't it be any different from crypto, which leads me to another point of why can't we get this Bitcoin spot ETF approved? I know people think this is the greatest thing for futures, but I don't believe it. So let me just think about that in the comment section. And let's move on to some good news. So I know that was pretty bleak. Bear with me. So this is going on right now. And when I reported this a couple of weeks ago, this was on December 1st. It talked about CEOs and insiders sell. And they're, they've sold a record $69 billion. When the money gets printed, what do you think it goes to first? It goes to these, these guys, nothing wrong with that. I mean, we're in a free society. Great. Good for them. But once they get their hands on this money and they've, you know, done the things they want to do with it, now they're going to sell off and dump it onto us. And if this was, if this was a crypto project, we would have called this a pump and dump, but whatever. So on this one, just as a reminder, CEOs and corporate insiders have sold a record $69 billion in stock in 2021 as looming tax hikes and lofty share prices encourage many take profits. Sales by insiders are up 30% and 69% to 69 billion, up 79% versus a 10 year average. The selling is likely to increase even more as December is an active month for sales do it attacks planning, which reminded me of this tweet. My friend, Simon, you was a CEO of storm x put out and he said, interesting perspective. I heard from a fund manager friend yesterday, apparently most funds have sold or are in the process of selling assets because 2021 was such a monster year for everyone. They are looking or locking in their profits for the year so they can say our fund did 700% etc. So if you think, if you don't think there's some more pain coming on the horizon, I mean, maybe not, but this is just the information that I see. And lastly, I will just say this, I know it sucks, especially if you're new to this, but I want to remind everybody of when I got in was right around here when everything was going to the moon, I thought it was a genius because I bought Bitcoin around eight and then 12 and then 17. And then I just kind of dumped off like this. And, and I did, I always say this, this is where all my money was made. It was made in the last four years of me just dollar cost averaging in. And then it would, and then as time went on, if I needed something, I would dollar cost average out, and I would dollar cost average in, and then I would dollar cost average out. And then mostly, I've just been a holder. I only sell things when I need, we need something and it's actually on an upswing, I will not sell on a pullback, I just cannot do it. And this is the thing, this is how I've made all my money. And I know right now, it seems pretty awful. And I know we all want it today, we all want it today, like we want those riches today, because we're like, I deserve this, and I've been working, and I've been an investor, I've done my due diligence. But just zoom out, just zoom out, because it's all going to be all right. I know it's not going to happen tomorrow. But you know what, in the long run, I think we'll all be pretty good. And then lastly, I will just say, if you have taken profits out, it might be a good idea. If you're trying to beat inflation, don't just have your cash sitting in your bank account, because it's just going to be inflation away where I talked about that. If you're looking for just someplace safe to put your money, check out Masterworks, it's always down here right here. And they have, they are un-correlated to all markets, crypto, S&P, even the housing market crash of 2008. This is investing in fractionalized art and just links in the description. So let's just something to take a look at. So let me just think about that in the comments section. And let's move on to our next piece, the Metaverse, a little bit of other good news. So this, I thought was pretty cool. Nike acquires virtual sneaker creator RT, FKT, I never heard, as it pushes deeper into the metaverse. So just so you know, Nike said late today, that has acquired RT, KFT, a digital creator of virtual sneakers, collectibles and accessories. What is here, Nike filed seven trademarks, trademark applications, related to its goal to create and sell virtual sneakers and apparel. I cannot stress this enough how big, I believe commerce, play to earn and metaverse will be. It also partnered with the Roblox video game platform to launch Nike land. I played Roblox, it's a great game, played with my grandsons, fun. Digital world for Nike fans to play games, connect and dress their avatars in virtual apparel via a digital showroom. If you're taking a look at a good project that's going from virtual wear, virtual different things that you can actually purchase out, look at Boson protocol, they're doing that. Nike CEO and president John Donahue said this and we'll finish up. Our plan is to invest in the RT FKT brand, serve and grow their innovative and creative communities and extend Nike's digital footprint and capabilities. You have to understand something. There's a reason why Coca-Cola still puts ads everywhere. There's a reason why Apple still has commercials and ads everywhere because they know that they still need to market and when the people, wherever the people's eyeballs are, that's where they're going to put their brand and their products into. So the very beginning was radio, then it was TV, then all of a sudden it was social media and now the next part's going to be metaverse. So if you don't think these things are going to happen, I'm pretty sure they are. Could be wrong, but that's it, which leads me actually to my next point because I'm a big, I'm trying to get more into the the Play to Earn. This I think is going to be big, Japan's Elemental Knights online game to release Play to Earn metaverse version. Why am I bringing this to your attention? Because this game, Elemental Knights, they already have a working game on iOS, on Android, on PlayStation, and on the Nintendo Switch. And they're like, well, that's great. We're going to bring all of our customers and we're going to bring them all the way over to this new online metaverse called, I think it's called Genso Kishi. I think I said that and they're going to do this big whole thing moving over. So they've already got all these people going to come over like this. I did a deep dive actually over on Dan Clips. I'll release that later and you can check that out right now. It's unlisted and then I think it's going to be big because it's built on polygon. So it's not super expensive for their NFTs and their land buys and the things they want to do. And the fact that they're actually partnering up with polygon and polygon studios to bring this to you. So I think this could be a big thing. We'll see how it all works out. Once you think of the comment section, let's finish up lastly quickly with the petition. So look, I get a lot of emails, not a lot. I get some emails where people are like, hey, I can't swap out my VQX or ethos or whatever. I think it's called VQS tokens to the VGX 2.0. And that ship sailed a long time ago. And I've been referring to customer service, but I'm telling you right now, they are not going to swap. You had a long time to do it and you didn't get it done. And that's a bummer. Maybe you didn't hear it. Some people are like, I was in the hospital, I couldn't do it. So there is a place. You can sign a petition. This is not by me. This is by someone else that did this. And I'm going to link that in the description. Go for the petition. So if you're going to ask me about to contact Steve, the CEO and see if he'll swap your tokens, it's not going to happen. But if you sign a petition, let's let your voice be heard and go from there. I am fair and as balanced as I possibly can. So this is the petition and I'll direct everybody to this one to sign it and sign out the Voyager. So if you have any tokens, they'll listen to you. And that's it. So look, I know there's a long one. A lot of things going on, but I try to make this as clear as possible. Yes, it looks like we're a little bit in bearish territory. I don't think we're going to last too long. I think January is right around the corner. February, I expected fireworks. Probably not going to happen unless something else miraculous comes up. But I think December is not going to be a great month. I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong, but that's it. So if you liked today's video, give it a thumbs up. Also consider subscribing. A lot of things to talk about are time sensitive. That's it for today. So thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it. And I'll see you in the next one.


In prehistoric art, finger flutings are lines that fingers leave on a soft surface. Considered a form of cave painting, they occur in caves throughout southern Australia, New Guinea, and southwestern Europe, and were presumably made over a considerable time-span including some are all of the upper Paleolithic. Most are not obvious figures or symbols but, rather, appear to many observers as enigmatic lines. They are also called traces digitose or finger tracings and though these terms are also in part interpretative meanders, macarote, and serpentines. The term finger fluting was coined by Robert Bednarick. Generally they are made in a substance called moon milk. Sometimes they are made through a thin clay film into moon milk underneath or perhaps just into clay. As Henri Breit has published, finger flutings have been recognized since the early days of the 20th century in Europe as Paleolithic. Their recognition as having a similar antiquity outside of Europe lay chiefly in the hands of Sander Dali Xander Gallus and then in Coulodac cave in Australia. Many other sites both in Europe and Australia have been found, some of the more famous being Gargis and Baumeilat Rene caves in France and the cave of Altamira in Spain.


Let's label the 5 prime and 3 prime ends of this nucleotide. Remember how I told you that the carbons, the fifth carbon in my pentose sugar attached to the phosphate and the third carbon is where we could potentially attach another sugar molecule or attach another nucleotide. This image shows you the actual chemical structure of a nucleic acid or a nucleotide. And you can see the actual carbons have been labeled here. So notice that this would be called the 5 prime end and this would be the 3 prime end. And I want you to think about the 5 prime end is the phosphate end and the 3 prime end has the sugar on it. And I want you to think about that because now we're going to put several nucleotides together into a DNA molecule, which is a double helix. And look, we've even got our 5 prime end and our 3 prime ends labeled on this drawing. But it makes complete sense. It's beautiful. Thank you very much, fellas. Here is one nucleotide. Oops. Okay, I'm going to undo that. This is one nucleotide and it is chemically bound to another nucleotide, which is bound to another nucleotide, which is bound to another nucleotide. Okay, you get the idea. In my double helix, it's like a ladder and you have a sugar phosphate backbone. Here's a phosphate, here's a sugar, here's a phosphate, here's a sugar, here's a phosphate, here's a sugar, here's a phosphate, same thing on the other side. And then we've got these ladder rungs, which are the nitrogen bases. And the nitrogen bases connect to each other with hydrogen bonds. That's those are the dotted lines that you can see there. So these guys, the nitrogen bases form the ladder on my, they form the rungs of the ladder. And the sugar phosphate backbone forms the, I don't know, the, I know I had a word for it, the things, the side things of a ladder, those things. What do you notice about the nitrogen bases? I love this. Do you notice that one is big? Like look at these guys, these are big bases. Look, this blue guy is a big base. Here's another big one, who's the blue guy? The guanine and the adenine are big.   Big bases have a short word, and cows are big, and ag makes me think of cows. And I'm not joking you, I have to think that every time I remember who are my purines and who are my pyrimidines?  Here's another little shorty short. A shorty short, a shorty short. Pyrimidines are C and T. They're short, long word. I don't know why that works for me, but it totally does. A purine must bind with a pyrimidine, otherwise the rungs of your ladder are not going to match up. And that's one of the rules. In fact, that was Old Boy Shargaff's research. Let's go back and find it and see. He noticed Shargaff, the playboy, the player, he noticed, look at this, he noticed that the number of A's and T's, adenines and thymines in a critter were roughly equal, while the number of guanines and cytosines were also roughly equal. And these are percentages, so they basically blenderized human DNA, and counted how many adenines and how many thymines and how many guanines and cytosines out of all of it, what percentage were each individual base. And he found this to be true all the way through, which they were thinking, dude, why is that the case? Why is it that the percentage of adenines equals the percentage of thymines and the percentage of guanines equals the percentage of cytosines? We look at it across the board and it's true in all these different critters that they figured it out with. The number of adenines and guanines, like, it's not equal, and we're going to look at, when we get to DNA function, we'll look at why, what is all this, why do we care? And you will know why we care about the, what, the distribution of A's, T's, G's, and C's. But Shargaff was on it back in the 40s when he figured out that these are equal. This was a key part of Watson and Crick determining the structure of the DNA molecule because they have to bind. If you have an adenine, you have to have a thymine in your DNA molecule in order to bind to that. And if you don't have a thymine, you're going to have a hole in your DNA molecule, which means it's not going to be very stable. That ain't going to fly, dog pounds. That ain't going to fly. DNA is not the only, it's not the only nucleic acid that we care about when we look at DNA function overall. So we're going to take a second to compare DNA to RNA and see if we can make sure we understand the structural differences between those two types of nucleic acids.