Good afternoon. Thank you all for joining us today New York City emergency management is very proud to join our mayor Eric Adams Along with elected officials and members of the administration who are part of the Puerto Rican Dominican and Caribbean diaspora in New York City to answer to the call after the devastation caused by Hurricane Fiona One of things our mayor makes clear all the time no matter what the emergency is that we're dealing with is one of the first Questions you always get is how are we working together? What are you doing to work with the private sector? What are you doing to work with other agencies? It is a question you know You always need to be prepared for and so yesterday. I'm very proud to report that we've deployed a small team to Puerto Rico They will be assessing the situation They are already working alongside Puerto Rican emergency management bureau and FEMA and a host of other municipalities and other agencies They've also started working alongside the mayor of San Juan and they are currently on their way to more significantly affected areas in the south part of the island Right now the most pressing emergency is restoring electricity and tomorrow our team will be met by a larger contingent an interagency contingent from the city Staff from these agencies will join other emergency responders already on the ground their job will be to assess damages to Infrastructure and essential services caused by heavy rains floods and wind And they will continue to work alongside our local partners and FEMA to make sure support is getting exactly where it is needed And so first I'd like to just start by thanking you mr. Mayor For your leadership and mostly for the team that you've assembled During this administrative during this in murder emergency and other emergencies that we faced Whether you're talking to a deputy mayor or other commissioners There's no egos in the room and the question is always what can we do to help? This is no different and so I'd like to also thank our agency partners for their support and our logistics and support teams and Emergency management for helping organize and prepare this group that is going down tomorrow Our city has very strong ties to the people that have been affected by Fiona and we are proud to answer this call beyond the five boroughs We all know especially here at emergency management how daunting rebuilding can be it requires a strong commitment and Collaboration with other agencies and partners and that's what we're here to do And as we have in the past our team is dedicated to this work And we will be with the people of Puerto Rico of the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean and the days ahead So thank you all very much and sir Thank you so much commissioner and really want to thank my colleagues in government that are here with us Commissioner hbd commissioner carry on director of mocks Lisa Flores Commissioner Difter rain Cortez Vasquez Reverend Cabrera mayor's office of faith-based community partnerships Lewis Molina commissioner of DOC Kizzie Charles Guzman who will be speaking after me director of the mayor's office of climate and environmental justice Anna Ben Mudez commissioner of probation Annabelle Palmer commissioner of commission on human rights Sheriff Anthony Miranda Commissioner of Val Vera Mayuga a Council member my council person Marjorie Velasquez some of our elected officials who are here Council member Raphael Salamanca Council member comment de la Rosa Also the Bronx borough president borough president Vanessa Vanessa Gibson and commissioner Rodrigo Rodriguez and also joined by the council general of Dominican Republic public Council general jazz J quiet Jack was we're all here together. We're here because we realized that five years ago We were here dealing with hurricane Maria brought devastation to Puerto Rico and once again our brothers and sisters are facing darkness because of hurricane Fiona We know we have to get through this together millions in Puerto Rico the Dominican Republic and neighboring countries are without Electricity as flooding and must lies recede and leave a path of destructions in their wake Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic are extremely significant to our city We have the largest Puerto Rican and Dominican population outside the islands themselves Even the neighboring areas we have a substantial Population throughout the Caribbean diaspora and I'm proud to be mayor of these large populations and large Elected leaderships of that not only speak on behalf of their residents here in the city But those who are home in their respective islands We know this is a painful moment so many in our city are unable to communicate directly With their loved ones after immediately after a hurricane like this There are moments where you're unclear of what is taking place on the ground Family members and friends are desperately trying to get some answers and we want to do the best we can here and Nice them to ensure we supply those answers immediately after the hurricane even after the conclusion of the rainfall I appointed Commissioner Isco as our Incident commander he's going to coordinate all of our Agencies and our response from the city. He will communicate with our local elected So they could remain updated on what is happening on the ground the impact of this Hurricane as in all major tragedies when it happens abroad it plays out on our streets This communities and these communities are significant part of the New York City population I want to be clear New York stands with our brothers and sisters from Puerto Puerto Rico Dominican Republic in all affected countries And we're here to help And that help is going to come from listening to them and making sure that we're guided by our elected officials and experts that are here Yesterday as the commissioner announced We deployed a team to join the Puerto Rican emergency management agency FEMA and other emergency responders to assess damages to infrastructure And essential services our team met with the mayor of San Juan And is working with FEMA and Prima to see what is needed and how we could help I will be on the call later Today with the mayor of San Juan so that we could continue to let them know that we're here to fortify the services on the ground They would be fanning out We'll be they will be fanning out across the island into smaller localities in the next coming days And I and I will make sure That we give as much support that's needed and later this week We'll be deploying an additional multi agency team of emergency specialists to help out on the ground We're also monitoring the situation In the neighboring counties and neighboring countries including Dominican Republic To make sure that we are there to give the assistance that's needed New yorkers have made it clear. These are our brothers and sisters These are our families and we're going to do everything possible to be there for them during this devastating time With mother nature may have created We can be there to combat and ensure they get the resources they deserve We're now turning it over to uh, the commissioner of Reseed charles guzman Kizzy charles guzman's to give a few comments in spanish and then we'll turn it over to the council general of dominican republic Kizzy Gracias senor alcalde. Buenas tardes a todos Me llamo kizzy charles guzman isola directora ejecutiva de la oficina del alcalde para el cambio climático de la justicia ambiental Estoy aquí porque quiero ofrecerles unas palabras de aliento y de apoyo a mis compatriotas Que han sido azotados en las islas caribeñas de guadalupe de turques y caicos de puerto rico y la republica dominicana El huracán fiona ha causado no solamente Tragos inundaciones y graves daños materiales Sino también graves daños físicos y psicológicos en su paso por nuestras comunidades Hace cinco años con el huracán maría tanto como hoy comprendemos los retos y las tremendas dificultades causadas por el cambio climático y el efecto que estos desastres ecológicos tienen en nuestra salud En nuestras fuerzas y en el espíritu de nuestras comunidades Debido al cambio climático la frecuencia y la intensidad de estas tormentas impredecibles continuará afectando a nuestros países y a nuestra gente Muchos factores sociales Politicos y económicos nos han traído a la realidad De los efectos resultantes en cada lugar Hoy la ciudad de nueva york brinda no solamente palabras Nuestra postura es que la de salud es un derecho humano que no es negociable Y con sólo eso no nos referimos nada más a la salud física sino también la salud emocional Y la salud de nuestro medio ambiente Hoy les enviamos nuestro mejor recurso Nuestra labor nuestro expertos nuestras manos Ya sea para la remoción de escombros la distribución de suministros estamos aquí para servirles La reconstrucción es abrumadora requiere colaboración completa Nos comprometemos a colaborar en lo que necesiten Y a las familias que han soportado muchas penas durante las crisis posteriores y la de esta semana les digo Fuerza saldremos adelante aunque estemos cansados, aturdidos, rabiosos Tristes este es el momento una vez más de compartir y de apoyarnos los unos a los otros Hay que establecer como prioridad La salud ambiental y la salud comunitaria Esta es la mejor estrategia para prevenir enfermedades Controlar plagas y mantenernos fuertes en los días venideros Estamos unidos mis hermanos Palante Gracias Thank you. We want to now bring on the council general Jack West from the Dominican Republic Council general Muchas gracias Alcalde Eric Adams En nombre del gobierno dominicano Queremos agradecer este gesto de solidaridad Que es el mejor remedio para combatir este golpe de la naturaleza Que una vez más nos ha invadido a través del huracán Fiona Y que ha pasado por la República Dominicana Y ha dejado secuela en la región este del país en varias provincias Donde ha afectado viviendas, vidas Heridos, inundaciones, puentes desplomados Falta de energía en decenas de miles de hogares Y que ha obligado a la concentración del esfuerzo oficial de parte de nuestro gobierno Para tratar de atender la demanda de la población al menor tiempo posible Este tipo de colaboración y de solidaridad se convierten a menudo en el mejor remedio Para un momento de tantas dificultades Muchísimas gracias Honorable Alcalde de Nueva York The council general is grateful for the assistance being offered here today There has been a lot of devastation not only in the Dominican Republic but all neighboring islands And often these lifelines are the remedy that we need to bounce back just a little bit faster All of this tragedy is obviously incredibly, incredibly stressful for our entire populations And every hand helps, every bit of assistance helps Thank you First team that was deployed yesterday, can you give us details about that? Also is there plans to send actual dollar amounts of aid to the islands that have been affected? So the team that deployed yesterday is actually there's two separate groups There's two people that are part of our urban search and rescue team That is administer that we administer but as a FEMA resource They went down as members of FEMA's incident management team That's a separate deployment Then yesterday we sent down three people Two from our agency one from NYPD ESU Their job right now is we're right now very much in the assessment phase And so I think we need to figure out what the needs are before we make any type of commitment As to what type of support we will be providing The primary goal is to be providing technical assistance and guidance And to help make sure that the municipalities are getting the resources they need Through FEMA and other channels Thank you So we have more people who are going down tomorrow It's an interagency team of folks from parks, DOP, DOB, DOT, DDC and others Who can provide technical assistance as we're doing assessments in different municipalities To understand what the needs are I think it's about a dozen people I can give you the exact number though We plan to send actual dollar amounts of assistance to the islands that have been affected by this storm A lot of funding during these races come through FEMA But I think the commissioner is right We need to get on the ground like his team did automatically and right away To identify exactly what we're doing What we're dealing with Where should resources go and what type of resources should go So this is the first step is get it get down and do an assessment We have unfortunately it's unfortunate that this is not the first crisis we had to address This team here at NISOM is well organized on how addressing these crisis and FEMA is well organized And so this phase is to get down on the islands and determine exactly what the needs are I'm sorry Having gone through this five years ago with Maria We have the response is that much quicker and that much more effective Does the same apply? Well one we have a president that identifies Puerto Rico is part of our country That's number one and number two. There's a coordination That we're going to do with not only the my office, but the governor's office and with with FEMA So the coordination is crucial. Thank you. Thank you Thank you all so much I would be remiss if I didn't also let you know we are doing a blood drive downstairs And so welcome folks to donate blood. I believe it's ending soon, but if you're interested you participate. Thank you


Hello everyone welcome back to another session in dentistry and more so let's continue our developmental disturbances of teeth related to shape or form so last session we had covered various anomalies which we are seeing with respect to crown so today's session is about the anomalies with respect to shape or form seen in root so let's see what are the anomalies seen in root regarding shape or form concretions is when there is two fully formed teeth which joins at the root okay by cementum so it's like this when two different teeth joining at the root side by cementum it is known as concretions so it is only in cemental side it is not coming into coronal part only roots are joined but the crowns are different so most commonly it is seen in maxilla and also in posterior part compared to anterior part so compared to mandible it is commonly seen in maxilla and also compared to the anterior side it is seen mostly on posterior region and the common two teeth are involved the second molars second molars roots closely approximate adjacent impacted third molar so the second molar and the adjacent impacted third molar are united at roots and it may occur before or after the teeth have erupted so usually involve only two teeth and we need x-ray for diagnosis and no special treatment required for this condition so usually diagnosed or it found that when we take when we take x-rays for other reasons so we can see there is a joint roots of two adjacent teeth mostly second molar and impacted third molar or the posterior region two teeth so that is concretions the next is enamel pearl which is droplets of in a ectopic enamel which is found on the roots okay it is commonly seen on bifurcated or trifurcated teeth may occur on single-rooted premolar as well so it's seen as a small globule or enamel projection which is seen between the trifurcation or trifurcation or even the single-rooted premolars so maxillary molars are more commonly associated with enamel pearl compared to mandibular molars and it consists only a nodule of enamel attached to dentine and it may have a core of dentine which contains pulp horn and it is also detected while taking radiographs for other reasons and may cause stagnation at ginger margin but if they contain pulp this will be exposed when the pearl is removed so if it is exposed if it contain pulp there will be this will be exposed when this pearl is removed so that is about enamel pearl which is a droplet of ectopic enamel which is seen between the bifurcated or trifurcated teeth now we have dilaceration dilaceration is a bending of root so angulation or sharp bend or curved in root or crown of a formed tooth so why it is happening it is due to the trauma to developing tooth so there will be root to form at an angle to the normal axis so this is dilaceration it forms an at an angle so movement of crown or part of root from remaining developing root which results in a sharp angulation after the tooth complete its development so this particular trauma will results will cause the root to form at an angle compared to the normal axis so this movement of crown or this part of root from the remaining developing root which results in angulation and it is commonly seen in a syndrome known as earlos danlos syndrome earlos danlos syndrome associated with dilaceration now we have flexion flexion is deviation or bend restricted just to the root portion and usually this bend is less than 90 degrees so that is the difference between flexion and dilaceration dilaceration always the bend is greater than 90 degree and flexion the bend will be less than 90 degree this is also due to the trauma to the developing tooth and the last one is ankylosis ankylosis is submerged tooth so what happens is the fusion of teeth to the surrounding bone usually deciduous teeth especially mandibular second molar what happens it joins with the alveolar bone the root joins with the alveolar bone so extraction or exfoliation will be difficult because of its fusion between the bone and this particular root it is commonly seen in mandibular second molars so these are the five developmental disturbances or anomaly with respect to teeth and especially root so we covered the developmental disturbances of size number shape and so let's wind up this anomalies concrescence which is joining of roots by cementum enamel pearl is a globule or ectopic enamel present between the roots that is bifurcated or trifurcated dilaceration and flexion are the bending of root greater than 90 degree and less than 90 degree ankylosis is the fusion of teeth to the surrounding bone so i'll come up with a new topic in industry and more thank you


Talking about H1B with the employer is very uncomfortable. So, new candidates, are you on H1B? Yes, can you still hire me? Trump recently changed the H1B policy to make it even more difficult for people who are on H1B to land a job as a product manager. However, it is not too late to get ready and prepare for those H1B changes. In this video, I'm going to share with you the top five strategies to get ready for those H1B changes and land a job as a product manager. Stay until the end of the video where I share with you the top product manager referral jobs. This is Dr. Nancy Lee, director of product, and help people transition from worker B to a product manager and business leader. To learn the most effective way to become a product manager, you should subscribe to this channel and turn on the bell button so that you'll be notified every time I upload a new video every Monday. Recently, several of my students land a job as a product manager in fan companies while they own H1B. I'm going to share with you our top H1B secret in this video. First of all, you need to join the bigger tech company who can pay you a higher salary. According to this new rule, they made these new changes about the minimum salary. Under the new rule, the required wage level for entry-level workers rise to 45 percentile to their professions of distribution from the current level of 17 percentile. The requirement for the high-scale worker will also rise to 95 percentile from the 67 percentile. You see the huge changes of minimum wages, so let me give you some examples regarding how the percentile impacts your specific salary number. In this specific table, according to the Department of Labor, we put those salaries into several locations in terms of Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. And then we compare those entry-level software developers salary according to the old rules and new rules. It's clearly that the percentage of the growth based on the minimum wages increased around 30 percent. So what does this mean to a product manager? According to the Department of Labor, actually, product manager getting paid really significantly differences based on what type of company you are employed. For example, according to my last video, the product managers getting paid between 80 grand to 300 grand, 200 grand more towards a fan company, 80 grand more towards startups, a smaller type of companies. And however, I discovered that people do not get paid very well for this entry-level position. According to the Department of Labor, if you're getting hired, for example, a company called Acorn does all public information and they pay people on HMB for entry-level product manager at a rate of $66,000 per year. If you work for Google for this entry-level product manager position, according to the Department of Labor, last time Google filed prevailing wage for people getting paid at $96,000. So therefore, in general, you're getting paid a little bit higher working for a fan company at Google. Therefore, I recommend you to work for bigger fan companies so that you're able to get paid at a higher percentage. What if you're not able to get into companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, what should you do? That's something you need to pay close attention to. You need to use the right negotiation strategy to work with employers to come up with a compensation that really makes sense for you. And all the numbers show you earlier are base salary, not the bonus. Are you able to change your bonus, wrap your bonus into a base salary so that your rate could be higher on the paper? That's something you need to negotiate with your employer as well. To learn how to negotiate higher salary, you can check out this video here. Number two, understand the timing of immigration policy and job hunting. First of all, for this immigration policy, it's not in effect right now as we're speaking. It is being challenged in court and they won't make decisions until 60 days later. On top of that, the specific policy only applies for people who are applying for new H1B or who want to do H1B extension. So therefore, if currently you are on H1B, I recommend you to wait until the policy is more clear. However, if you are a new grad who needs H1B or who are laid off recently, you have to get a job right now on H1B, then I recommend you to accelerate the process of getting a job on H1B as fast as possible because the policy is getting tighter and tighter and the election process can go up and down. We don't know how fast and how far this H1B policy is going to take into the next level. So therefore, speed up as soon as possible. If you also want to learn how I got my green card after 11 years, you should have this video right now. Number three, improve yourself and be better than your competition. This sounds so cliche. I know, I know. However, when you pay close attention into what other people are hiring and how to see from the hiring manager's perspective like myself, I know exactly how decisions were made behind the scenes. If two candidates presented in front of us, one on H1B, they were not on H1B, but the person on H1B is definitely better than the other person. I will still hire people on H1B. So therefore, you need to focus on how can you improve yourself. It shows employers you have unique skills. It can do the job better than other people who doesn't need the sponsorship. But how to show that you're better than others? I recommend all of you sincerely to improve your skills, such as English pronunciation skills. Check out the video here. I recommend top five strategy to improve it. And improve your interview skills and also improve your 30 seconds elevator pitch to package your stories to make them believe that you actually have unique capabilities. I also recommend everyone else to do something actually that people do not do. For example, I believe all of you guys need to focus on developing a product portfolio so that when you walk into an interview, when you put things on your product manager resume, you can show others that you already have related experience. But developing a product portfolio takes time. That's why you need to take extra steps. And I also have a specific cheat sheet show you how can you build a product portfolio using a certain different kind of project. You can download the project list right here. Number four is to understand what specific fields are related to product management. According to this new rule, U.S. bachelor or higher degree in direct related specific fields needs to be a minimum requirement of entry into the specific occupation, which means whatever you study need to be related to product management. However, the very few major called product management major, right? So the other majors are so relevant and from the hiring manager's perspective, I believe they're very similar to product management and they should be considered as related field. There are several majors what I believe is very relevant such as engineering disciplines based on the job descriptions all of us asking for engineering related background. And MBA is also very relevant to product management and UIUX designers, those are related to product design. I believe all those majors are very relevant to product management. If you're in those field, I believe that what you study should be considered as related to product management. If you study any other major out of the three things I mentioned, please comment down below in this video. Let me know what you study and I can take a look see if it's relevant to product management. Number five is try to look for job in your client company if you currently work for third-party consulting company such as Infosys or HCL, they are all like outsourcing company for software development related type of jobs. According to this new rule, if you work for those third-party agency, your HMB can only last for one year instead of three years and plus another three years extension. So if you currently working for those company, I recommend you guys to start looking into working for your client company as a full-time employee so that you take actions before your one year HMB start to run out. If you're still watching this video right now, I need to share with you the top referral product manager jobs. One of them is in California, you'll be a senior product manager working for the top 10 news as company in California. The other one is a fully remote entry-level product manager position. If you're interested in any of those positions, please subscribe to my newsletter. I can send your resume to the hiring manager. Mock interview is also one of the good ways to improve your chance of getting a job. So if you're looking for anyone to practice mock interviews with you, feel free to join my secret society where I have a group of aspiring product manager with me together to do mock interviews and discuss product manager interview questions and answers in this Facebook group and WeChat group. If you like what I've taught you so far, please smash the like button, subscribe to this YouTube videos, and check out more videos on my site. I'm looking forward to talking to you soon. This is Dr. Nancy. Bye.


What's good to be honest with you, we're all back again with another video. So we're going to check out should WWE in the brand split. This is as of recent been a interesting topic since Roman is the undisputed WWE Universal Champion, as you will. He has both the titles, both belts or whatnot. And they are in talks of doing the unification of the tag team championships on Raw and SmackDown. So the question becomes, do they end the brand split? Is it just one brand? Do they unify everything? I don't know if that would be the best idea only because the roster is huge and they do have a lot of talent that needs to be showcased. So I don't know if they should, I guess in the brand split. I think it should be a combination of certain divisions should be held by one title. One title should be the one thing that certain divisions revolve around because they're not big enough. And then I do think in other situations that you can afford to have two championships for, you know, their respective brands. It just depends on the roster size and how they're able to manage that. Also, you have to put into consideration USA Network, Fox Network. They are not going to have let that happen. They have separate contracts with these network companies. They're not going to let that happen. I'm just telling you this now. This is why Ron Rousey is on Fox. This is the main reason why she is on Fox because Fox wanted her to be there. Any other time she probably would have been on the USA Network, but I'm sure Fox wanted that. Same thing, Fox wanted Roman Reigns. This is just one of those things. USA probably wanted Cody Rose. It's just the networks are not even going to let that happen. But we're going to get into this. Didn't want to take too much time on this. Appreciate all love and support. Let's get into it, man. With Roman Reigns being the undisputed WWE Universal Champion and now the Usos challenging RK Bro for their raw attack and championship titles in a unification match, there is a strong possibility that we might be seeing the end of the brand split. You see, there are some reasons why this might seem like a good idea on the surface. WWE did release a ton of wrestlers over the course of the last two years. Without that talent, it has been a little bit harder for the company to find stars for each brand. Smackdown has been actually really struggling to find challengers for Roman Reigns. Right now, I don't see anybody on his level other than Navy Drew McIntyre. Should say Nakamura is his next opponent and I just don't see him as a draw like that. If this was 2018, it would be a different story. However, it's not and Nakamura's value has really dropped. If there wasn't a brand split, he would have many more options. WWE could have booked a Seth Rollins feud again. Cody Rhoads is another name that would have been a top contender. Bobby Lashley could have been a possible rival. AJ Styles could have chased the undisputed title. As you can see, there are many more potential feuds without the brand splits. Another reason why this would- The brand split does help fresher matches. That's why I'm all for them unifying the tag team division. Because I actually was having a conversation with someone in the comments saying, that's a bad idea because now people are going to lose opportunities on getting seen on television. And it was one of those things where I was like, I don't think so. The tag team division on the main roster is not that big. That's why we see so many rematches. How many times have we seen a new day and the Usos go at it over and over and over? We only see like the same four tag teams throughout the division. But if you unify them, it makes fresh matchups. I don't know unifying the men's roster for the main titles. I don't know if that's going to work because obviously, once again, their roster is still a sizable amount. So it makes sense for them to have two shows. But at the same time, I do get what he's saying like unifying everything would give us fresh matchups, fresh opportunities. So I do get what he's saying. But at the same time, I don't think that would be the best route only because a lot of people are not going to get seen on television. Maybe it just depends on how they format it too. If it's just going to be one show or if it's still going to be raw on SmackDown, it's just they can float between both shows. Not sure if they were to do something like that. But be a good idea is for the company as a whole. SmackDown and Raw can feature their biggest stars and many people would show up to the shows because there are double the stars and the ratings would even see a possible increase. It seems like a no brainer to have a brand splits. However, that is the problem. Any of the brand splits seems like a good idea in theory, but in reality, it just doesn't work. In fact, it's a massive problem that WWE should avoid at all costs. To answer the question in the title, WWE should not end the brand splits. It would be very bad for the company. You don't need a. Yeah, I don't I don't think they can when it comes to just the main roster, especially for like the men's and the women's division. I don't think the brands will work. Like I said, the networks won't let it happen, but they can merge divisions. Certain divisions need to be merged. That's all I'm saying. Certain divisions need to be merged. These the shows need to have like their separate titles so that way people can feud like if you're on SmackDown. Obviously, you need to be trying to go for the SmackDown head championship will championship and vice versa if you're on Raw. But once again, this is why the whole unification thing. If you're going to do this is like, are you going to merge? Is the person who's the champ going to be able to go to Raw and SmackDown whenever they want because they have both belts? Not sure. It's it's very tricky, but I do not think they need to end the brand split because it's not going to work. It's going to ruin everything. This is why they originally created the brand split because there wasn't enough people being seen and televised. If you do this, you pretty much put a lot of people back in catering and they'll never be seen from really and then they'll end up getting let go. So think about if this would work or not because it already happened in the past and it really didn't work. In early 2002, WW created the brand split because they had too much talent on the roster and a lot of those guys did not get the proper time to shine. People think WW does not build new stars now. Just imagine if this happens, it would only make that problem even worse. Superstars like Sami Zayn, The Miz and Kevin Owens wouldn't get the same amount of screen time and that's why they would take it away from younger talent like Austin Theory or Gunther. Those guys would have less TV time. That's just one of the major reasons why it wouldn't work. The other big reason why this would fail is because one of the shows would get destroyed. If I had to guess, it would probably be SmackDown. SmackDown was the most unwatchable program from the years of 2012 through 2015. Those were seriously dark times. Top names like John Cena or Sam Punk didn't even show up to the show on those days clearly showing that WWE didn't care about SmackDown. And I fear the same thing will happen again. Raw would have the more interesting storylines and SmackDown would basically be a rerun with some mid-card title acts and whatnot. I'm not trying to see that again. I don't think Fox would be happy with that either. Imagine spending a billion dollars for SmackDown only for Raw to get everything good and you're basically just a filler show. It was a different story when Raw and SmackDown were both on the USA Network and I don't think the fans will be happy about this.  On top of those two reasons, it will also eliminate the draft. Despite WWE not even doing a good job at booking the draft, it is nice to spice things up. I don't know why they do it a month before Survivor Series, but you get my point. The draft is fun and it makes each year unique. While some people love the idea of the Brin Split ending, it will be a mistake. WWE should not do it. I really hope they aren't leaning towards it either. As for the WWE Universal and now the Tag Team Championships, the company really messed up there and they got themselves trapped in a corner. The only thing that they can do right now is have the undistributed champions have two ongoing feuds on both Raw and SmackDown and I can't think of anything else other than that. It's a big mess and it will be interesting to see how WWE But I don't feel like there's enough women enough tag team like I think a lot of them tag teams are just throwing together not really women tag teams. If that makes any sense, they're not traditional tag teams. They're just sell solo women put together to build a tag team division. It's not much of them either either. Honestly, honestly, I'm not sure if I would keep the women's tag team championships as a thing. Me personally granted, they can float between both shows possibly, but we would just be seeing the same matchups because they're not really traditional tag teams. I would probably get rid of that. And if anything on the women side of the thing, you could possibly and I mean possibly keep the women's Raw and SmackDown championship belts as separate entities because you'll be able to stretch out the roster. They still have a decent amount of women on both brands granted. They would probably need a little bit more for it to make sense, but it makes sense for them to do it that way. And then for the men's, you kind of need to split it up in a sense because there's a lot of people that are going for titles in the men's division. Granted, you can keep the, you know, definitely keep the Intercontinental Championship on one show, the United States Championship on another show. So there's a mid-card tier belt for both shows. But that's why I was interested when they said unification because it's not really going to be a unification there. I'm willing to bet and I'm calling this now. I hope I'm correct on this. I can see at some point this year, Roman Reigns will drop the WWE Championship. Unless they combine the belts, they make one single belt. Roman Reigns will drop the WWE Championship, most likely to Cody Rose sometime later on this year. And he, he'll still, he'll take a loss, his first actual loss, but he'll still be the Universal Champion. He'll still be the longest reigning Universal Champion. So I can see them doing that, but they will have these shows will have their separate belts. I think the only thing they need to merge in my personal opinion is just the tag division because they don't have enough tag teams. On each show. Because if not, you're going to keep getting the same matches over and over and over. So they have to do that unless, unless whoever has the tag belts, whoever has the Universal Undisputed Championship belt or whatever, they got a float between both shows. So that could be a thing. If they want to do that, those belts float between both shows. So I don't know. But comment down below. Let me know how would you guys, I guess you could say. Set this up. Book this. Would you guys be all for the brand split ending? Or would you guys keep the brand split, but have certain titles and divisions float between both shows? Especially if their roster for those divisions is not that deep. How would you do that? How would you book that? Let me know down below. I'm pretty sure you guys are going to come up with some pretty interesting ideas. Can't wait to see it, but I appreciate all of the support. Road to ADK. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all in the next one. Peace.


In the prevention of cardiovascular disease, the consumption of fruits and vegetables is crucial. Yes, preventing the oxidation of cholesterol may be one of the mechanisms by which fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. However, hyperactivity of platelets is also critically important in the development of cardiovascular disease, as I've covered before. In recent years, it has been shown that platelets are not only involved in the clotting process, but also they play an active role in the inflammatory process of atherosclerosis from the beginning, and that means from childhood. By the end of our teens, atherosclerotic lesions are present in most people living in industrialized societies, and so suppressing the overactivity of platelets may be beneficial not only for heart disease, but for cancer and allergies, and other diseases for which inflammation plays a major role. The antioxidant properties of fruits and veggies are well known, however their anti-clotting effects on platelets are less known. Preliminary studies have demonstrated the platelet activation suppressing activity of a variety of fruits and vegetables. So much so, they can mess up platelet function tests, and the effects are so long-lasting, just fasting the mourning of your blood test may not be sufficient. Out of the 16 different fruits tested, tomatoes came out number one. The anti-platelet activation components of tomatoes are water-soluble, so you don't have to eat them with fat. Heat-stable, meaning you can cook tomatoes without losing the benefits, and concentrated in the yellow fluid around the seeds, which is why tomato pumice, beat-out tomato juice, sauce, or ketchup, pumice is basically the seeds and the peel which the industry throws away, and it may be the healthiest part. The more tomato seeds, the better. But this was measuring platelet activation in a Petri dish. Grapefruit came in number two here, and grapefruit juice, at least, did not appear to help when people actually drank it. So would drinking tomato juice actually help? Yes, platelets of people with diabetes are characterized by intensified activation, so 20 diabetics were asked to drink a daily cup of tomato juice for three weeks, or a tomato-flavored placebo beverage. And there was a significant drop in platelet activation in the real juice group. Works in healthy people, too. Within three hours of consumption, two tomatoes are good, but six tomatoes are better, and the effects were more wide-ranging than those of aspirin, and that tomatoes target multiple pathways of platelet activation. About one in four people are so-called aspirin-resistant, meaning aspirin doesn't work to calm down their platelets, whereas only 3% of study subjects were found to be tomato-resistant. This finding indicates an advantage of the tomato extracts broad anti-platelet activity profile over single-target drugs, such as aspirin. And when researchers stuck tubes into people while they were eating tomatoes, they found no changes in blood clotting times, implying that supplementation with tomatoes should not result in prolonged bleeding time. So one might get the best of both worlds, less platelet activation, without the bleeding risk. But if tomatoes don't thin our blood, do they work? Consumption of tomato products has been found to be protectively correlated with a lower incidence of acute coronary events, less development of early atherosclerosis, and lower mortality from heart disease. If you don't like tomatoes, kiwifruit recently beat them out in a test tube study of platelet activation. Strawberries may help too, but we have data showing kiwis may actually work in people too, and two kiwis appeared to work just as well as three kiwis. It appeared to work for green on the inside kiwifruit and for yellow on the inside kiwifruit. In this case, though, only one a day seemed to help, whereas two a day did not, which seems a little strange, and there haven't been any studies to see if kiwifruit eaters actually have fewer strokes and heart attacks. So the best evidence for dietary intervention to decrease platelet activation currently rests with tomatoes.


In the Acts Podcast, Dr. Heizer said that idols were thought of as a house or dwelling place for those particular gods they were fashioned after. In Zechariah 11-17 it says, Woe to the idle shepherd that leaveeth the flock, the sword shall be upon his arm and upon his right eye, his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. What is the verse trying to say in regard to idle shepherd? With my new understanding of what an idle is, it almost sounds like the idle shepherd will be indwelt by one of the divine counsel. Yeah, I'm not sure what translation is behind the translation that the questioner Philip is using, but to say the least it could be better. Maybe it's King James in this case, it's just not helping at all. The word translated idle here is allele, which in both other Semitic languages and elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible means something like defective or worthless or vain, something like that.  The word worthless there is allele. It doesn't mean Job isn't saying that his physicians were idols, blocks of stone and wood, or that they were fallen supernatural entities. No, it's his doctors, they're not helping him. They're worthless, they're useless. So we shouldn't over read this passage as though the speaker has a shepherd over him who's an idol or, again, Zechariah is talking about the people of God and that's Yahweh's turf. That's not territory given allotted to another supernatural being. So that context should sort of tell you that we don't really have an idol, like a figurine here or the entity residing in it in view.  Jeremiah 14-14 would be another example. The Lord said to me, the prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them nor did I command them or speak to them.  So again, it's just this idea of vanity, uselessness, worthlessness. It doesn't have to refer to a figurine or some entity. And I would say consequently, I don't see anything going on in Zechariah 11-17 that has anything to do with the lesser gods or other unfallen members of the Divine Council.


All right, so I have brought two things with me today, and they are called Trines, can you say chimes? Chimes, and I've brought two different ones. I brought a small one that makes a high sound and a long one that makes a low sound. Can you make a high sound with your voice? Go make a high sound! Go make a high sound with your voice! Can you make a low sound with your voice? Low sound. All right, I brought something else with me today, and this is called a mallet. Can you say mallet? And we use the mallet to play the chimes. Do we use the mallet to hit the carpet? Do we use the mallet to hit our friends? Do we use the mallet to play the chimes? Yes. Do you want to hear what these chimes sound like? All right, so this is what this low sound sounds like. I'm going to make a sound. Ready? Listen. And this is what the high chimes sound like. Do you want to hear them again? Let's listen. Ready? Let's listen to the low sound. Let's listen to the high sound.  And when you hear this sound, I want you to put your hands down high. All right, ready? So let's listen. Let's listen to see what we're going to do with our hands. Ready? Was that the high sound or the low sound? Was that the low sound? So we put our hands down low. What about this one? And where do we put our hands with the high sound? What about this one? The high sound. So we keep our hands up high. Put our hands down low. Can you make low sounds with your voices? No. All right. Good job, everybody.


Welcome back to Tender Sock, my name's Cam Williams, and with Wimbledon only a week away, we have some big names that are not playing in this year's tournament. Of course, we know that the ball of Russian Russians can't play, but some players are pulled out with injury. Let's start with the WTA list. So starting with the women's list of withdrawals, there's lots of names. Starting with Sabalenka, she's not playing, Azarenka also not playing, Aleksandrova, Kazakina, Kudamatova also not playing, Sastnovich, Pavlia Cenkova, Samsonova is also not playing. All of those players not playing because they're either Russian or Belarusian. We've got Gracheva, Potapova, Kalinskaya again, all because they're Russian, they're not playing. Svetolina, she's not playing because she's having a baby. When Drusov is out with injury, Christian is also out with injury. Fernandez, we all know she's out with that foot injury for a few months. Sharif is also out of this year's event. Sofia Kennan, she's also pulled out of Wimbledon. Konju, and also Osaka, the biggest name in the last week to be pulling out of Wimbledon this year due to an Achilles problem. So that's a massive list of players from the top 100 that won't be playing in Wimbledon this year. Jumping over the men's list, and we've got Mehvedev, he's not playing, Hashinov also not playing, Federer is out, Rublev's not playing, Harris is out after getting surgery on his arm, so he'll be out for the rest of the year. Avashka, Karatsev also out, obviously Sverov is out with that ankle injury. He won't be back for a few months. Nishikori is also out, and Dominic Team is the latest to pull out on the men's side. So some big names and some former Grand Slam champions in team and Osaka both missing Wimbledon this year. So there you have it, they are the big names that are not playing this year at Wimbledon, and it's going to be a weird tournament. It's going to be a very interesting event, especially on the women's side, because we've got a lot of players not playing, a lot of contenders as well. The Russians have been a very strong country over the time in the women's tennis, and obviously in the men's tennis too. I mean Mehvedev is having some good form at the moment, and it's not going to count for anything because he can't actually play the big event that he's leading up to with all these matches. So let me know down in the comments below. What do you reckon? Do you think any of those players would have been a contender? I mean Mehvedev is probably the biggest one. For me, looking at his record over the last couple of weeks, made two finals back-to-back on grass.


Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Good afternoon. Welcome to Global Report on the House of Liliang. We have with us today Mr. Glenn Van Zuffen, who is the former president of the American Association of Singapore.  Absolutely. I prefer it. Yes, thanks Lili. Thank you. All right. Well, welcome to the show. Thank you. It's nice to see you and all the friends in Hawaii. Yeah. That's right. You have a connection with Hawaii. We're going to have to be talking about that later on. Now Glenn, tell us how long have you been in Singapore? This is our 14th year. My wife and I came here actually when we were still dating. And then we ended up getting married here and starting our family here. Did you meet in Hawaii? No, we met in Atlanta. Okay. Is that where you're from? I'm not. I'm from Chicago. All right. So it's a story of skipping around the world. Okay. But let me know where you want me to start. I can start wherever you want me to. I would love to know how you end up in Singapore from Chicago. Sure. Well, it's a long story, but basically I've spent the past almost 25 years in Asia, living in Tokyo and Hong Kong and here a few minor stops along the way. One of those stops was Atlanta. My background is as a journalist and I was working for CNN International at that time, based first in Hong Kong and then based in Atlanta with them. While in Atlanta for a short period, I met my wife and then I had an offer to come here with CNBC, the business network, and we moved here. Okay. So you came here looking for CNBC. Correct. And do you have any children? Yes. We have two children. They are now eight and eleven. Were they born here? They were both born here. They were born here. Could you share with us what it's like raising kids in Singapore? Because it's so different from United States as I can imagine. Yeah. Well, I know a lot of people who live in Hawaii have traveled to Asia and have experienced different countries. Of course, people like to go to Bali and go to Thailand and go to Hong Kong in different spots. And I hope those of the viewers today who have been to Singapore would remember what a clean and safe and efficient place it is. And that travels down not only through a business life but also through family life. So for our kids, it's been fantastic. It's very safe. There are no guns. Very little drug issue here. Certainly nothing like you would find in the U.S. And so, you know, it's a small island. It's only five and a half million people about the size of Manhattan. So it's a very manageable, small, clean, safe and organized place. And that's what we love about it. It's a great place for kids. And do your children go to local schools or international schools? Because they're very different. They're very different. Our kids go to local school. And that was a conscious choice that my wife and I made. Based on the fact that our kids having been born here in Singapore we really felt like it was important for them to have Singaporean friends. You also have some really strong strings to pull here because it's very hard for an international person to get into local schools here. Yeah, it's not very easy. You're right. The time we did it five or six years ago, seven years ago, it was a little bit easier. And we also have permanent resident status. It's kind of like the equivalent of a green card in the U.S. So it makes it a slightly easier process if you have a permanent resident card, which we do. And have they tried out lessons back in the United States? Have they gone on holiday camps? Yeah, they haven't done any camps per se, but we go back once or twice a year. And so they hang out with their cousins. We go to national parks. We do all the things that we can do. Last summer we were in Washington, D.C., seeing all the sites, all the national monuments in the museums, which was great fun. So we try to give them as much exposure to American culture as we can. I'm going to shift back the gear to your work. I got distracted by your children. I've got four years. I'm always asking people about their kids. So you came here with CNBC. How long did you work for them? So when we came here 14 years ago, I worked for them for just about a year. And then, sadly, they took 14 of our jobs and they shifted them back to the CNBC headquarters in New Jersey. And at that time there was an option to go back to New Jersey, but we didn't feel good about doing that since we had just pulled up all our routes from the U.S. and moved here. So we decided to stay here. I know that any time you do something for the first time, it's a little shocking. Did you experience any culture shock when you first got to Singapore? Yeah, I tell you, not too much. Have you ever visited Singapore prior to moving here? I had, yeah. I had both when I lived in Tokyo and in Hong Kong. I had come here. I had friends here. And so I had been back and forth on various trips. Of course, anytime you move to a new place, there's some adjustment. But Singapore, as you know, with your background, is a very easy place to get used to. English is widely spoken and everything is, as I mentioned before, very orderly, very neat and very easy to get around. So it wasn't too bad. But it's a different type of English. We have a lot of different Malays, Tamil and Chinese all jam inside one centre. Is that a challenge for you? Are you getting used to that? I tell you, that's one of the things we love best about Singapore is the multicultural nature of living here. And what we've seen, especially in North America, is a tendency to push away foreigners, to push away different ways of thinking, different religions, and by some groups in the U.S. And here it's exactly the opposite. The government actively promotes and really enforces everyone to get along. And while that has its own set of challenges, you see people that understand, our kids, for example, they celebrate all the major holidays for the religions here. So they will celebrate Ramadan with their friends at school. They will celebrate Diwali with their Indian friends. They will celebrate all the different holidays. And we feel as a model for them going forward as adults someday, that's who we want them to be. And as with all places, I mean there are pros and cons. What are some of the negatives that you can find living here in Singapore? It's always hot. I know. It's always hot and always humid. Well, as some of your viewers may know, living here on the equator in the tropics, it's a steamy, it's a jungle basically. And if they didn't trim back the trees as they do all the time, the place would overgrow in about two months, I think. But you know what, that's okay. It's akin to a lot of places like Florida in the summertime, for example. It's just that it's year-round here. But the one thing we love, really love about it, is from an environmental standpoint, is that every day you have about 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night being on the equator. So the sun rises at seven in the morning and basically sets at seven in the evening every day of the year.  Now you mentioned the prohibition of gun ownership as one of the safety measures here. Share with our viewers, what does it feel like living in a country that prohibits guns? You know, we have to remind ourselves every time we go back to the states to be careful, right? Because you just don't know. For example, you see a lot of cases of road rage, somebody's driving, they don't like what you did, like literally people get shot, right? Or, you know, any of the other horrific things we've seen, especially recently in the news with shootings at schools and of individuals, right?   You know, not having to worry about being a victim of gun violence and generally violence in general here is fantastic. And that's the way we want to raise our kids. There's actually two schools in Pennsylvania. One of them is going to equip the children with buckets of, I don't know if you've read about stones, gallons of stones. So if there's a terrorist or shooter, they are expected to be tossing rocks at the terrorists. And the other one is going to be equipping teachers with mini baseball bats. I'm not sure how far that's going to go. Time will tell, but I tell you what, I wouldn't want to be the one staring at somebody with an automatic weapon with a stone in my hand. You know, I would want to be somewhere else. And when you hear news like that, does it feel like it's happening in another world or does it still tuck at your heart's strength? You know, you still... Absolutely. You know, we know a lot of Americans here in Singapore and there's about 25,000 Americans living in Singapore. So it's a big community. And of course, I won't or can't speak for all of them, but our friends and people we talk with, you know, everyone is... Anytime something bad happens in the U.S., it affects all of us, whether it's a school shooting or whether it's whatever. And so we definitely feel it. And we also have the, I think, the advantage of living far enough away that we can sort of see things at a higher level, perhaps. And whereas when you're in a situation, let's say in the U.S., you get kind of bogged down in all the noise of a topic. But here we can kind of turn on and turn off the news and hone in on important elements of whatever the story is. So in some ways, I think we have a better perspective on things that are happening back in the U.S. Unfortunately, we can do very little to impact what's happening in the U.S. Are you still voting? Yes, yes. And most of the friends we have here all vote. All vote, yeah. What about, well, talking about voting, because I live in America, so one thing I get asked a lot is, you know, what happened with the last election? So when the last election results came out, what was the reaction of the Americans here in Singapore? Well, it's funny because I was emceeing the annual or the election watch and election party for the American Chamber of Commerce here. So we have about 400 people in a ballroom at a hotel here. Well, there was quite a mix, actually. You'd be surprised, but certainly a lot of Americans. And when the final tally came in, honestly, you know, people were not necessarily in love with Hillary or in love with Trump, but everyone was visibly surprised that Trump won. And I think... And after the surprise subsided, what was, you know, where were they emotionally? I think people were hoping for the best, you know, hoping that perhaps, you know, he would turn into a different president than he was a campaigner with all the name-calling and all the kind of nasty tweets and things going on. People were hopeful, but... And do you feel like you're facing some of the residual results because being American, you know, you get asked, you know, what happened, why was Trump elected? Do they look at you differently? Do they look at that even as a non-American living in America? It's a great question. One of the things that I think most Americans try to do who live overseas, not in Singapore only, but everywhere, is try to represent our country in a positive way. America... And I think Americans have big hearts. They try to help with charity, with volunteering, with, you know, trying to reach out and bring people together in a way that I think is very uniquely American. And people have certainly, you know, over the decades done that here and been very effective. Representatives for America, even though they're not government officials. So your question is right on target because all of a sudden, I'll give you an example. I was, you know, riding in a taxi a couple of months ago and the taxi drivers here, the taxi uncles, we call them, or aunties if it's a woman, they're, you know, mostly very sharp. They know what's going on and, you know, if you want to know what's happening in a country, ask a taxi driver because they usually have their finger on the pulse of what's happening. But this one particular driver, he had been a businessman for many years. He lost his job so he started driving a taxi. Very smart, very educated. And he just, after saying hello and, you know, where you want to go and all that, he looked in the mirror and said, where are you from? I said, oh, the US. And he goes, what happened to your country? Like just like that.  Just straight up what, you know, what happened, what is happening with your country? What is going on? And while I think, you know, I appreciate that there's a large, you know, Make America Great again contingency in the US, you know, Singaporeans here, when they see that, they really wonder, and some of the issues around it, they really wonder what has happened to US ideals. Now, don't forget, I mean, Americans have been coming to Singapore since probably about the 1840s or 1850s. US warships called on Singapore in the mid 1800s, right? So we have a long, our whaling ships came from the east coast of the US and spent time here on their way, you know, looking for whales around, trade, all that sort of stuff. The first ice in Singapore came from lakes in New Hampshire and Maine, and it was put in the bottom of the clipper ships, the sailing ships, and then packed with sawdust and sailed all the way around South America into Singapore, you know, two, three months later, the ship arrived. And that was the first ice that came to Singapore. So, you know, we have a hugely long and deep connection to Singapore. So when Singaporeans see things happen, you know, they know America, they know Americans, many of them have studied there, have friends there, maybe a partner or a spouse from there, so they really want to know what's going on. You know, why have we gotten to this place? I would say that the external audience just baffled. I mean, I was living in states but I was quite baffled myself as well. It was interesting, just in the news today as we sit here in April watching this, today the president announced that he's going to look again at joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership. TPP, right? And everyone is speechless, right? Because, first of all, this is a trade negotiation that would have put the U.S. in the center of making trade policy with, I think, 11, 12 other nations across the region that would have vastly helped Americans and American businesses. And now, and one of the first things the president did when he got into office was say, we're not doing it, he ripped it up, you know, after 10 years of negotiating it. And now, all of a sudden, he's decided, oh wait, this would actually really help some people in the U.S. Well, I think because now he's in a trade war with China and he needs his allies back. Sure, but I mean, regardless of a trade war, it would have been good for Americans all along, you know, and there were so much misinformation hyperbole, because I followed the TPP very closely that, you know, before the election and stuff, there was a lot of wrong information put out about what it was. It would take away American jobs, etc., which just wasn't true. It would expand American markets greatly. So now yet again, people are shaking their heads saying what's good, what, you know? I don't mind. I don't know, it's not a consistent message we're getting from the U.S. government on many issues.


We are having the big sandy area annual health fair that we hold every year. We just get community partners together to promote health for the Pot County area. They are cost for the physicals, but that's the only thing.


Well hello my friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we're going to be doing a pen test on the new Aaron Condren life planners which will be live today when you're seeing this if you're an EC insider and then the life planners will launch I believe on the 29th for the general public but I wanted to talk about the paper quality and pens. Pens you might already have in your stash, things that you love to write with and a little bit about the paper quality. If you want to see a little bit more in depth of this planner duo I got the daily duo to review a little early. I will link a card up in the corner for you guys but I am going to bust into one of these and we're gonna do a little pen test for you guys. I have a ton of pens here and just wanted to I already kind of started doing things. So I'm going to use yeah I'm going to use this side of ze paper because on the very back of these daily duos usually there's a bunch of notes pages if you have like a regular life planner not the duo but this one only has the two pages and the one I would do it on won't show any shadowing because it's got like the Aaron Condren information page at the back so this wouldn't be very helpful. So I'm going to show it to you on this page because I don't mind if this page gets a little shadowing. It doesn't bother me at all. So I'm going to use these blue pens which I actually have a little box of blue and a box of black pens. I think I got these little boxes at Michael's you know like at the checkout in Michael's there's kind of like that little area where it's like a couple bucks or a dollar or whatever for certain things. This was only a dollar but I got two of them because I wanted to have a black and blue pen test. I feel like both of them would be redundant because I'm using the same things over and over and then at the end I'm going to share with you guys these pens which I here I'll show you right now but I'll do it at the end. This is the box and I put washi tape in the bottom of it that this pen comes in which will also be available on launch day and it had like all this foam in there and I just ripped out the foam because I wanted a place to store these which these are like little click pens or pens and markers that have like the barrels.  All right so there's that so let's get into the pen test. Okay I'm gonna have to organize this a little bit so it's like markers and actual pens that's kind of like permanent permanent. I have it organized a little bit but let's zoom in and um yeah so for my regular pens that I have clearly a pencil is going to work just fabulously for you but I wanted to show you guys some different pens so I'm gonna start out with my favorite actual pen like a gel pen and this is the paper-made inkjoy gel pen in the 07. I don't know what it is about this color this is like a navy color it's not the blue one of my faves. This is the blue pilot g2 in the 10 so it's like a thicker point um I like a thicker point anything like an 05 or less I just I'm not into I like an 07 or larger that's just my personal preference and pilot g2s were my favorite until I found the paper-made inkjoy gels and I'm like okay I like those ones better this is the jelly roll 06 and also in a navy you can tell these pens have not been used in a while I like legit just keep them in that little clear container for these um my other ones that I use on a daily which I do use a lot of these daily um are other places okay and this is the erin chondron navy I don't know what the point is on this and I don't even know if they still have them but some of you might still have these um in your arsenal and I believe they're a gel pen but let's let's see here yeah that's very very pointy um not my fave but um you know it's good to test them all and then these are the pilot precise rolling ball v5 and they're the extra fine I have a regular blue and then also a navy so let's um let's try these out I don't I think these are newer to my collection I think I had a like gift pack like a pack of a bunch of these so I don't know let's try it yeah not my favorite again not as not as pointy as the erin chondron one but uh you know and I've never I don't think I've ever written with these before yeah too too uh I don't know scratchy too too scratchy for me um and then okay we're gonna go with the erin chondron sapphire pen these are the dual tip markers another occult classic and some of my favorites um I am a fan of the medium tip so we'll go into that in just a moment here's the fine point side and then we'll go to the medium which is my fave I don't know just works well for me I don't know I like it I like it better and then another favorite is the paper mate and this is the paper mate flair I don't know I just love the flair they're just nice they're easy they kind of go with most things unless you need a permanent marker which these most of these work really well on glossy or difficult to write on stickers that have a little bit of a film so these are kind of my more permanent style ones so let's get into this this is the micron 03 it's the pigment micron I can tell you right now I absolutely hate writing with these but I know a lot of people absolutely love them again it's too scratchy for me whoops man down hold on and I know I've gotten comments in these videos before like why do you keep all these if you hate them for this for this this is why I keep them um because everyone has something different that they like and then I want to show you if it shadows or if the shadowing would bother you um and these are all things I've either picked up over the years that I know don't work for me or that have been gifted to me or put in some swag bag and I just keep them because I know someone out there has them and they'd probably be interesting to see how paper holds up not just Aaron Conrad paper but other paper and stuff too so anyway so let's write this one down all right so the pigment micron and then we've got let's do oh there's two of these I don't I don't need to test two of them this is the Le Pen and I actually really like the way that this like the stroke of it like works really well but it's still again the point is too too for me too I don't know how to say it right nice and this is the stabilo do the I don't know how to say it I don't know how to say anything okay and then we've got this one which I absolutely love it's the marks a lot permanent and these are in the ultra fine tip um I did some research online and this one you can only get in like a rainbow pack they don't have these yet and I hope they do at some point so Avery if you're watching which I know they're not you need to make packs with just black and you need to pick make packs with just blue trust me um because I would buy them but right now you can only get them in a rainbow pack so these are the Avery marks a lot oh so good so good y'all and it almost rivals this bad boy which is my favorite fave which is the pilot ultra fine point permanent type marker um I'm just going to put pilot ultra fine because you don't need the rest of it oh my favorite that's my favorite one to write with for sure um this one's actually pretty good as well this is the sharpie permanent marker in the ultra fine point and this is actually navy um I actually had to buy from a seller on amazon like a box of these and my god they're they're so good they're not like this um like the lapin or the Avery like that's a very royal blue where this is like a navy which I very much prefer like you can see the difference and then this is just a regular sharpie marker just a sharpie fine point like the ones you get like big boxes of at the office supply store I'm just gonna write sharpie yeah and see the color between the two much prefer the navy photo okay so that's that let's look at the other side and let me do this let me zoom y'all in a little bit so you can see the shadowing because I know that's a big deal p.s turning 40 on january 9th in case you want to you know send me some love but I know so long ways away but anyways um but yeah you really can't see too much shadowing too bad nothing would really bother me until these ones like the Avery marks a lot and down so like the Avery marks a lot hold on let's go like this like the Avery marks a lot the pirate pirate the pilot ultra fine point the sharpie ultra fine and then our sharpie sharpie um those would really bother me but to be honest I personally write a lot with stickers like I put a sticker down and then I write with it so really I don't have a lot of this but if you are um concerned about shadowing I wouldn't do a permanent marker on this type of paper and this is um I think I said this already but it's an 80 pound mohawk paper and they've been using the same paper in their planners for is this their third or fourth year I think it's their third year um doing this paper and it's not um glassy feeling you know some paper is really glassy feeling it does have a little bit of a grip to it which I think is great for people that want to use stickers or whatever um it just it doesn't fly out of your hands which I think is nice um but I really like the quality that's very it's thick but it's not too thick it's not like cardstock thick but it's it's good but it's like an 80 pound paper anyway so yeah here we go oh let's zoom back out because this is the weird here we go whoa here we are and then why don't we use some of these er because I haven't to be honest I haven't used any of these yet um so let's check them out there's some highlighters which I want to put I want to put all the like ones together because you know neuroses and whatnot all right so with the highlighters I'm just gonna write highlighter right here because that seems like the easiest and then this is like a ballpoint pen just like a regular pen like a little twisty pen from erin kondren and you get this and the box but in the box you get that um foam thing I was talking about that I ripped out because I don't like it so yeah you can tell I have never written with this because it's skipping I should probably get the ball rolling on it quick you know like ah oh yeah kind of have to do that to warm up the pen sometimes um here let's try this one well what the heck maybe it's just my pen I don't know a failure okay and there's like nothing behind it that's so weird okay let me try it down here I just I don't know okay what is going on okay it's working fine on like this paper but not on the erin kondren paper I'm so confused okay now it's not even like what the what the heck why is it working on here but not oh my gosh you guys okay well this is a fail I I don't know I don't know what's going on but whatever let me just show you the highlighter all I wanted to do was just like go like a D's and go oh look at the highlight oh anyways okay these are just the highlighter colors yikes you know sometimes it's probably user error because I am kind of the worst when it comes to certain things um but anyway I didn't use the little doodad over here but that's okay all right so the fine tips there's three fine tips and then the rest are the medium tips so let's do the medium tips these feel exactly the same as the dual tip medium for sure yeah I really I like the medium like I said before I love the medium I'm not a fine tip girl at all I like a medium the highlighters actually felt really nice as well so yeah let's do some more medium yep that one that one's my jam yeah I'm not sure of the colors the colors will be listed on the website um when everything is live for you guys I just don't have the information right in front of me because you know I just don't oh I like this color this kind of I don't know like Sorbet kind of a color okay so that is that and then they all come with this like barrel and there's two barrels in the box that will be um available on launch day so there is that and then we have the fine tips so put again not a fine tip girl that's okay that's okay I mean they write nice it's just you know not my preference and I have three fine tips so I'll get this blue one down tada all right the pentas let's look at the back side of this so you guys can see hold on let's zoom y'all and just a little big here okay okay let's go beyond where it says sharpie these are gonna be you know where every where all the colorful ones are and I don't really see too much in the shadowing to be honest I mean when you lift it up you can see it just slightly but if you have a piece of paper behind it you really don't really don't see it um I see the most shadowing right here which is when I tried to use this thing and I was like going here here here like I couldn't couldn't stop because the pen wouldn't go for me so anyway but that's what it looks all like close up um I really like the highlighters and I like the mediums a lot the fines not my jam but I feel like if you like a fine tip you're gonna like those markers and then with the versatility of the barrel kind of nice to just swap these in and out once in a while all right so that's going to be the pen test for the new planners which are the 2021 through 2022 erin kondren life planners I will have a link down below for you guys if you are interested in any of the life planner products as well as anything from the erin kondren website which includes these bad boys right here the pen that was in this box and all that good stuff including these whoops pens right here um like I said life planner launch for insiders is today the day that you are seeing this and a few days later is for the general public so feel free to check those out if you're interested in a life planner I know I'll be doing a little shopping that day as well even though I already got my planners but you know what there's always other things I want you know what I mean so anyway that's going to be it for me today thank you guys for hanging out and watching this feel free to share this video if you have anybody out there that you know of that is interested in a life planner and wondering about paper quality this video would probably be really helpful to them so feel free to share it with your friends make sure to thumbs up subscribe do all those things those youtubers tell you to do and I'm gonna see you in the next video bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school


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In the educational system, excellence is represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The students who strive for knowledge, and the teachers who educate them. This is one such story. We have some information on a teacher at Montevista High School who's been integrating some revolutionary ideas into her teaching. So what do you think we should do, Chief? You go hunt down some evidence. I'm going to go interview some witnesses and get back to me on that. She's using Tequila Mockingbird to teach you about social justice and racial diversity. Check this video out, I found. And he's willing to stand up against this dog which has Malcolm's usual disease, which is what? Alright, I think we should send out a few more officers to check in on the case. She does not just teach students, she is imparting knowledge. She's bringing the character in the student. She's telling them how to behave when they grow up. Now, for our records, can you describe Miss Gillis' teaching in just three words? Yes. Unconventional, imaginative, thorough. Apparently she's been helping a speech and debate team win numerous procedures awards. They have 28 state championships and six national championships. She likes to give back to the community. Similarly as one of those educators who saw in the union a vehicle for really getting out into the community and engaging parents and engaging community members. So we had a great author here last fall. My name is Steve Kluger. And we had him here on a Saturday, Labor Day weekend, right after school started. And we ended up with hundreds and some people here on a holiday weekend. And we got lots of great feedback from both kids and parents about both the book and the event. Miss Gillis, you do realize you've been charged with excellent teaching and this is a very serious situation. Do I need representation? No, no, no. There's no need for that right now. But why do you strive to be such an excellent teacher? I believe public education is the most profoundly democratic institution in this nation. This is the place where we come together to learn and to learn how to be together. And I don't know that democracy is going to survive without that.


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Okay, oh there we are wonderful welcome welcome. So this session is about the certified open-stack administrator exam So is everyone here to learn about the COA? Yes, I know it's awesome fabulous. My name is Ann Bertusio. I manage the COA program at the open-stack foundation I know we're a little bit behind schedule So I'll probably hurry through a lot of my slides so I can make sure we get all of your questions answered My big goal of this session is to give you an intro about what the COA is about some updates That you need to know since the program is about a year old. We've made some updates recently They really make sure we answer all your questions about where do I find the COA? What do I need to know anything like that that's in the audience? So you buzz through those ones. How do I prepare these are some of the common questions we get most of the foundation? What's on it? What do I need to know? Am I really the right person to be taking it? So we're gonna answer all of those things So like I said the COA was launched at the Austin Summit last year So this it's it's a year old happy first birthday to the certified open-stack administrator exam We made it because at the time there was not a vendor neutral exam out on the market There are vendors who have their own exam But we kept hearing from community members and employers and hires that we would like a vendor agnostic standard Was what was looking for and that is part of our job as the governance body So we thought gosh we can we can make that happen. We can do that So this exam is also skills-based So there's no multiple-choice questions. You won't be sitting there matching project mascots to projects That's not really the point of it. The point is do you actually know how to use open-stack? We're not gonna grill you on do you know what the compute project is called for example, and you check ABCD It's really more. Can you actually spin it up and get it going and do what you need to do in a day-to-day environment? So why might you take it including even if you have an existing exam from another vendor? Like I said the biggest thing is that it is a vendor neutral and it is skills-based. So the certification transfers between open-stack platforms it transfers between distros and For many employers the skills-based thing is really the big thing. They're looking for they're looking for You know kind of a knowledge standard to know that You can arrive on the job and deliver what they're looking for It was created by the community with a group of developers operators admins from a variety of companies We had pretty good participation across the board So a couple things before we get to what's on the exam So I think that's what most people want to know so some quick announcements Right now the COA is on Liberty and very shortly hopefully by mid-June It will be on Newton for most people that's really not a big deal because the COA tests the core components of open-stack So some of those nuances between versions you're really not seeing most people don't notice but a lot of what is coming in mid-June are some User improvements, so we're gonna see a little bit quicker time in the test We're gonna have some just better UI experience overalls coming in mid-June So I would encourage you if you can wait about four to six weeks. I am I'm really excited to see this release come out I think you're really gonna like it and we also have two options now You can take it on Suza or Ubuntu so when it was when it was released It was just on Ubuntu and now you have two choices So obviously this is quite a bit And is there a second one? No, it's just the one so it's all jammed on there But this is all also available at open-stack.org Slash COA slash requirements, so I'd encourage you to go there rather than stressing about writing down every one of these But like I said, you can look across and get the gist that these are really the core pieces of open-stack like I said, we're not testing on those nuances between Between releases we're really trying to hit the big points from a high level of can you use open-stack? And how I would encourage a lot of people to practice is to go to that open-stack or slash COA slash requirements Just pull it up. It's all right there And if you can check off go through every one of those items and say I know how to do that I can do that you can even spin up dev stack and make sure you know what to do Then you're gonna be just fine We usually recommend that people have about six months of professional experience on open-stack before taking the test But people also feel confident if they've had a training You know there's even some classes this Week here at the summit people feel like if I've had a training I can go through and take the COA just fine as well So like I said how to prepare That's my recommendation to folks if you're not going to do a training or if you want to find out Maybe I need a training zip through those requirements or you can head to the marketplace Including the marketplace here at the summit and anyone who has a COA badge offers a training class That's tailored to taking the COA exam So those are people who are going to help you go through those requirement areas talk about what they mean And they know what's on the exam So they're the folks that can make sure that you're prepared to sit the COA and have success So the COA is a virtual exam, which means you can take it anywhere anytime comfort of your own home You just need a webcam a Microsoft not a Microsoft a microphone and a reliable internet connection You do need chrome or chromium So to register it's just open stack org slash COA and you will see a purchase exam button And at that point you can pick do I want Susie?  You can get a price discount. You just need to show a valid student ID that has an expiration date on it So you need to be a current active student Otherwise for everyone else Open stack org class COA and one of the tricky things I try to remind people So once you purchase your exam you have 12 months to schedule it So you can purchase your exam today. It kind of gives you some accountability So you know you can make a goal sometime between now and next year. I have to take this exam So some people like that feature Holds them accountable for it So questions are there any questions and I also have sitting in the corner here with me is Chris Hodge if I can call you out He was one of the question writers on the exam So some questions he might be able to help us answer to Well, actually Chris, can I still you I think we're we're on YouTube. So if you want to come up here, yeah In general, no, it doesn't matter So most of the exam itself was written in the mindset that the open set client would be used there are a few instances where You can't necessarily accomplish something with one of the clients and we but we try to make sure that We spell that out so that if you have to go and say use the neutron client for something It'll actually say use the neutron client. So But yeah, yeah, if you're if you're comfortable with the open stack client then you You're even on the Liberty exam you're gonna be at a good place and you're gonna be in an even better place when the update happens Yeah, yeah, and those and all those are still available and one of the things about the exam environment, too is It We provide a bunch of the tooling there But if you are an expert user and you want to install your own packages the entire operating system is there and available for you to Work against it. It's it's an open stack ansible instance So all of the services are running inside of containers I there's there's only one question where we actually ask you to interact with the containers and again We give you the direct command and how to To to get to that container you know to do the task that's been requested and But but you but the exam is being served from inside of a boon to With open stack installed on open stack ansible. We also within the within the dashboard on any exam environment There's there's also a horizon instance. And so if you're comfortable doing some things with the horizon client That's made available to you also Yes, so your exam your certification does last three years at which point you will need to reset the exam Good question No, so if you take it actually unfortunately registration for here at the summit is closed But in future summits or future on-site exams you do need to bring your own machine Yeah, so so the exam is skills-based and When when when you are when you are done with the exam that environment it basically it's basically suspended And then it's handed off to a grading system that will go through and actually run open stack commands to check the state of the environment and so and so and so if you're working on a question that says you know start a server with this name and this Much memory in these properties it will then go and it'll query the open stack instance to see okay the server to see that you know the instance exists and has the properties that asked for and and and that's so You know that's that's how the exam is graded and so and that's why that's why you can use multiple clients We're not checking like what commands did you issue? We're checking to see is the final state of the system where we expect it to be Exactly yes, yeah, and and and this is a practical exam and so You know if you were to do something that horribly wedged your environment like you know You just shut down a service and everything broke and you couldn't proceed through the exam anymore That's actually you know a demonstration of the skills that you have broken your environment and So yeah, so it's a it's an actual You know it is a miniature Production system that you're working in And if you and actually if you're if you're curious about some of the some of the tools that we'd use in the exam I'm gonna be giving a really quick lightning session It's just gonna kind of run through like how do you use the command line client? How do you use horizon so you know just little 20 minute talk about that if anyone's interested? Yeah