and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou Boys Varsity Tennis Team for 22 years, and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, and it's about leadership, character, and creating a superior culture of excellence. My special guest today is a world champion big wave surfer and candidate for Honolulu City Council. He is Makua Rothman, and today we are going beyond world championships. Hey Makua, welcome to Beyond the Lines. Hey Rasti Aloha, and thank you guys, everybody over there for having me on the show today. I really appreciate that.  What's one of the best experiences you had while you attended Kahuku? Oh, I've had so many experiences. Kahuku helped build me into the man I am today, champion I am today, a work ethic, a leadership that we had at Kahuku, and the culture of breeding some of the best athletes in the world. I mean, I couldn't ask for a better place to go to school. And Makua, when you're growing up, what kind of sports did you play? I played football until right before junior varsity, with that 13 year old age group. I played water polo, I played baseball, I surf, and yeah, I played four or five sports in high school, so it was pretty busy, but I had to add a chronic asthma. My lungs weren't strong, and one of the ways to keep my lungs strong is to keep them pumping all the time. Cardiovascular work, my parents knew that, and I made sure I was in sports. Now, what is it about surfing that you love so much? I just think that the ocean chose me, you know? And when I watched the movie Moana, it felt kind of like that when I was growing up, you know, the ocean just was like, come here, come here, you know? And this is where you belong. And my name Makua Kai, any father of the sea or guardian of the sea, I mean, I guess I was born to do it. Makua, your dad, Eddie Rothman, what do you admire most about your dad? His strength and his tenacity and his never-ending, never give up spirit. That's controversial as the man may be. You cannot take away the intent that he had for the North Shore to actually fight for it and keep it, you know, local, even though he's not even from Hawaii. A lot of people don't know he wasn't born here, but, you know, he definitely fought for his place a lot more than a lot of people around here. Yeah, gotta admire his passion. And Makua, you have an absolutely beautiful family and you're two kids, they're so adorable. What kind of values are you trying to instill in your two kids? Self, you know, believing in oneself, being independent, not worrying about what others think and the world around you.  Everybody deserves kindness.  And, you know, my dad always told me, you respect those that respect you.  You might be young. You might be whatever it may be. You give respect. Respect is earned, respect is earned because respect is given. You know, and the biggest, the most special thing about respect is to never disrespect. And just because someone's older doesn't mean that they can disrespect you because they're young, because you're younger. And I feel that respect is probably the biggest thing that I'm trying to instill in my children. I love that you brought up respect there. And Makua, in 2015, you won the world championship. You were crowned big wave surfer, world champion. Take me to that day. How was that experience? And I mean, that was, that day changed your life, right? Well, the day that changed my life was November 26, 2002. When I surfed the world's biggest wave at the time, 66 feet, at Jaws when I was 18 years old. And that was the way I've heard around the world. You know, I was crowned big wave world champion in Chile at a world called Punta de Lobos. I won the, what was it? Yeah, Punta de Lobos challenge. And I won that contest and the world title in the same day. And that was pretty special.  Because I'm here. So people call it cocky. I call it confidence, especially when you're in competition. You have to be a little bit cocky because that's where you got to be confident. You got to think that you are the best in the world and nobody on planet Earth is going to beat you today. And I really admire that about Twiggy. And but when I told him when we were sitting in the jacuzzi, I guess what? I get to take your world title because he was the current world champion and I get to beat you in this contest, just imagine. And the fire and the passion that he had, he got out of the jacuzzi when he sat in the other one. He didn't want to sit by me before we competed. So in 2015, when I was crowned big world world champion, that was probably the most special time was to actually have that rivalry right there with Twiggy and that you need that. You need other athletes that think they're better than you. You know, that maybe they are better than you. But at that moment, when that horn goes off, you have to be the better man. And that's healthy competition. I really, really think a lot of sports are losing that nowadays. So Makua, I mean, you're the best in the world. What are some of the reasons why you became a world champion? I think I was just willing to do what no one else was ready to do at the moment. You know, I was willing to sacrifice and give up everything.   And now the first event of the year went off on the same day in Chile. And I had to choose between staying behind and getting my award with my family, my grandparents, my kids, my fiance. Everybody was in California all flew over for it. And of course, I had to leave right in time to leave and they all attended the event. And, you know, it was just something in my heart. You know, Laird Hamilton really pushed me over the edge. He said, are you an award getter? Or are you a surfer? And I was like, we're out of here. Let's jump on that plane bus. And, you know, went over there and won both events. But I think just, you know, the people that were around me, the influences that I had, the role models, you know, the good that I could take from everyone and being open-minded enough to listen, to construct the criticism. I not think I knew it all. Be able to listen more than I spoke. Really was one of the key factors in getting me to where I was as well, Chad. Well, that's good advice from Laird Hamilton there.  I mean, how do you survive those waves?  How do you survive a tennis match like those guys did that went, whatever hours it was, and you know it went. How do you survive life? You need to prepare for it. And if you're not prepared for everyday life, you're gonna get taken out. Just like anything else you wanna achieve in life, you have to prepare, not just your body physically, but more your mind mentally. Because the mind drives the body.  I completely agree with you. The brain controls the body, and all of us were so capable of doing so much more than we think we're capable of achieving. And Makua, on January 16, 2021, you were at JAWS on Maui surfing. And the Honlustar advertiser reported that you surfed probably the biggest wave ever ridden in Hawaii. They estimated to be about 100 feet. Tell me about that. Oh, well, I guess it was an estimation and it was a perception from someone that it was 100 feet. Not that time in my life, I wasn't surfing for awards anymore. And I wasn't out there trying to hit the 100 foot wave and be the person that wrote it and win this money and be like, look at me again. It was more, I felt that wave represented so much more than, you know, a trophy and a title from someone. I think it really represented who I've become as a man, who I've become as a father, as a leader, to be able to take a step back and go, it's not all about me and I can bring awareness with the worldwide platform that I got in that wave to all kinds of issues that really inspire others to do the same, to step up and, you know, speak their heart out, even though they might be giving up money, they might be giving up fame, whatever it is. You do what you think you need to do and speak on what you think you need to speak on. That's great advice, Makua. And Makua, what compelled you to run for Honolulu City Council now? I mean, I feel sorry for the people of Honolulu, the way things are going. I mean, if anybody thinks it's, you know, pop in and prosperous and everybody's so great and I guess we'll just keep going the way it is. And I feel sorry for the world that I'm gonna leave my children in almost. And I want it to be there and do like I said, whatever it takes. And I would really be not ready to die, trying to make this world a better place for my children and future generations and not just for future generations, but for the current generations to make our ancestors proud.  We're actually being able to give back and take that step back and knowing that, kind of bring everybody along with me on this journey instead of being like, oh, look at me, I'm the guy. No, it's us together as one and let's do this together. And Makua, you have a lot of supporters, some supporting your campaign for Honolulu City Council. And it's amazing.  And I wanna know if you're elected, what are some specific priorities? What would be some of your priorities that you would wanna achieve at the Honolulu City Council? I think the biggest priority would be reconnecting the disconnect that exists between elected officials and the people. It seems elected officials only really deal with hot level guys, union bosses. They don't ever really get in the trenches with the people. I just walked up, I was passing in Hollywood today across the street from Hollywood Joe's and I seen a fire and someone bending down behind the cement pillar and I turned around and I was like, man, I hope somebody's not starting a fire and I walked back there and I was like, hey, what are you burning over here? And he goes, oh, I'm just cooking. And he had a large size beer can cut with a hole in the top with the bottom still on. He had it placed on the fire.   That's not allowed around here. And you know, this sort of high horse thing and I kind of just was like, oh, that's pretty cool, you know? The ingenuity I've never thought about cutting the cannon half and using it as a pan to make soup, you know? And I think I just, and then I asked him where he was from is the thing. And he said that he was from the Philippines and they said that he's from the Philippines, you're here. And he said, yeah, I'm here, I'm gonna be here. And the real disconnect between what's going on in the offices and actually what's going on in the streets and how to address the issue. I don't think he's going, it's being, it's not being handled in the correct fashion. Us as community leaders should be in the trenches with these people to really understand how to address these issues. Talking about the high costs of living, talking about homelessness and, you know, it's election time, so we'll all talk the same language and we'll all really sprinkle the dust over here and make you look over here while the other hand is doing this, you know? It's, I really think that being there with the people and actually being back in that struggle, you know, I was homeless at one point, but I was young. And right now there's a lot of people hurting out there and coming up with ways for themselves to survive. And I really think we're doing a disservice and I really think the problem, I'm sure we'll get to this later is the thing in your book is like the difference between a leader and a boss, right? You know, they're over a bossing people around and making rules and, you know, when does it become the government's problem? And when are we elected officials the problem? You know, when do we have to, I don't wanna say eliminate, you know, people might think that's an offensive word, but when do we have to go back and restructure the leadership of our, you know, so-called business or entity that's really there to help service the people? I like hearing that, Makua. And you definitely have so much respect from the community and you are the man of the people. I really like that. And I think you can really do have some really big positive impact if you're elected. And Makua, you mentioned my books, you have both of my books and I felt honored to meet you as well. And I wanna know, you mentioned boss versus leader. What are some things that stood out to you in my books?  And I really think that boss is a title someone gave someone for authoritarian purposes. I think we're all leaders, you know, all bosses should be leaders. First and foremost, before a box. And I really think it came down to the authoritarian aspect of things when, you know, different roles get labeled.  How do you see things through your lens? And I just know that leaders not only lead, they listen and they lead together. They lead on the same line as everybody else. It was back in the day when you were the leader, you wrote into battle with the troops.  Like I said, the disconnect. And the king sits back on the hill on his high horse and watches everybody else go to war. And then he's supposed to be the leader. Well, the leaders in there, in the battle. And I really think just like I feel in government, the disconnect between the upper echelons of the CEOs and the management and the actual employees, disgruntled employees, disgruntled customers.  And if they're promoting in a bad light because they don't feel respected, they don't feel wanted, or you know, they're not happy where they are in their job, I don't think you're gonna have very many happy customers as well. So I really think that it all falls on the shoulders of the leadership who really like to pass that blame around all the time, you know, it's my sales guy or it's my, but you know, the other department, whatever it may be, it's, I really just think we gotta rethink the way things are structured. Well, Makua, you definitely created a superior culture of excellence for yourself in what you've achieved in your life so far. And I think there's so many more things that you're gonna achieve in your life in the future as well. But you know, I talk about how words and actions matter and you brought up how important listening is. And Makua, in terms of words and actions, you went to Afghanistan to support the troops. You played music, you perform music for them. You went there with Shane Victorino and BJ Penn. How was that experience for you? Well, that experience was an experience of a lifetime. And you know, people really enjoyed it. And you know, I got a lot of criticism from a lot of people, you know, and this and that or he's back in the US military government. You know, people were super happy about it, but we really, really couldn't worry about what other people think. If it makes you feel good to go and make other people feel good and play music for them and put a smile on their face, I don't care what government they were from. I don't care what color they were or what planet they were from. I went over there with the intention to help build and lift the morality and the spirits of the troops that were there, you know, doing what they do, doing what they signed up to do, regardless of who agrees with it, where they were. You know, I paid, there is Afghani people who paid for, there was Iraqi people. You know, there are a lot of the helpers at the bases that I see where the people of the land. And they're very nice, very generous, very, you know, that aloha spirit. You know, those cultures come from a long, long, long time ago in those parts of the world.  But I just knew that a lot of the people really, I could see it in their eyes. They had like, you know, some type of aloha spirit there. And they enjoyed us there too. Makua, I wanna ask you about the mindset of a champion. So let's say when you're at a competition before going into the ocean that day, what is your mindset? What are you focusing on just before you get into the ocean?  And then the 1,000 first was the light bulb. You know, the mindset was one of a lot and a lot. Had a lot, a lot of failure, a lot of learning. I wasn't always a good listener and I still can work on my listening big time. You know, and the way that I learned to do that was to not listen and oops, okay, well, maybe I'll listen to that next time, you know? And I really think that overcoming and having the tenacity and grit to withstand that and knowing that there's light at the end of the tunnel because it's up to you like Ray Lewis said, it's between you and you. Nobody can give you effort, you know?  But knowing that each one of those experiences you need to take and learn from. It's like I told the kids at Kahuku the other day, there's no such thing as losing, we don't lose here. We either win or we learn. And that's been my theory and my philosophy on how I run, you know, everything.  I don't care what you do. You're not gonna be good at everything.   But I really think that prepared me for that mindset and palling out in the water and having the mindset of becoming a champion. And then when I became a champion, it was a different mindset, you know? And I think our minds are always evolving and changing over time. I think that's the beauty of the human mind that it never thinks the same twice, almost like a wave.  We have, you know, it's all operates off of brainwaves and they're always changing and they're always performing. You can always get them better, more alpha brainwaves you produced, the better feeling you have and more positive results you get. So Makua, when you're actually in the wave, okay, what are you thinking? What are you focused on? Is it just in slow motion or are you just like letting it happen? What are you thinking and feeling when you're in that wave? I better make this wave or I'm gonna die. No, you know, if anybody knows well enough for this question, it's far of a reactive thing and it's something that you prepared for your whole life. And like I said, it's the attention to detail in the preparation that lets you move fluid through the wave. You know, like Bruce said, we have to not be like water, we have to become no water. And I really think that, you know, getting ourselves into these positions was years and years of training and preparation and it was just a thing that happened. It was a moment in time that we experienced and it was experienced through a lot of hard work, dedication. No, you're so right about that. I mean, it's so long the process to really, you know, that you're preparing for, like you mentioned earlier for that moment.  I mean, it's literally, it's like, wow.  Keep your word.  Because with that word comes everything else. You know, you only as good as your word and a species that communicates and your lack of communication leads you to be known as someone who speaks with empty words. You'll never get the respect that needed to move through life. You'll always be taken advantage of, use it and know it as someone that is not trustworthy. That word is everything, that word is the trust, that word is the respect, that word is the aloha, that we should live with. Yeah, definitely agree, keep your word. And Makua, when you reflect back on your life again now, what's one of the biggest challenges? What was one of the biggest adversities you dealt with that you have to overcome in your life? The biggest challenge that I had to overcome and I still have to overcome today is getting out of my own way. Nobody can mess us up more than we can ourselves. Yeah, that's so true. I love that. Yeah, you gotta get out of your own way sometimes. And Makua, you're someone that achieved greatness and greatness means a variety of things to different people. How would you define greatness? I guess greatness is whatever someone's opinion of you is, right, and greatness. I just think, I think we just need to be good people. We have to be better tomorrow than we were today. And leave a legacy behind and a voice behind that speaks to people for the rest of time. There's only certain people that walk this earth. I get remembered for eternity and hopefully my actions and what I do, previous and into the future, makes one. Amen. Makua, it was such an honor having you on the show today.  And I wanna thank you for joining me on the show today. Thank you. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit RustyKamori.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I hope that Makua and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


Ever since the Congress party was routed in the 1967 elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly, it has had very little say in the state. The party has become an insignificant player to say the least and is left to piggyback on the two Dravidian parties in one election after another over the last five decades. With facts and feuds and infighting becoming an inseparable part of the party organization, a revival is highly unlikely in the near future. The growing number of actions and the reluctance of the central leadership in setting teams right have worsened its plight over the decades. The party leadership seems to be very less worried about its plummeting board share around 15% in 1991 to less than 7% in 2016. The party's performance has been dismal in 2011, 2014 and 2016 with only the 2019 general elections being a phase-saving measure. The Congress has been contesting the assembly pools as part of an alliance led by the Dravidian Mineta Karahan or the All India Dravidian Mineta Karahan since 1971 except 1989. Its dependence on the Dravidian giants have only eroded the party's base in many of its strongholds. Vijay Shankar, the editor of Frontline, speaks in this regard. Congress again, 67 after they lost the elections, one section of Congress was with a stronger section after Congress plated the All India level. The faction led by Kamaraj was very strong. Actually in the Bindical election when MGR formed ADMK, this Congress woe was a major force and later Kamaraj died in 1970 when the emergency was on. So Congress was a strong party. He had a good following even youth. He was a kind of idealistic youth. They were all Kamaraj followers. Later when Janatha Party was formed, when Congress woe also merged into Janatha Party, even then that faction was very strong. It was led by one power, Ramachandra. But what really happened immediately after the emergency, Kamaraj opposed the emergency. He was very regrettably, seems he even shed tears. Karnanthi writes in his biography that Kamaraj was so upset about the emergency. But what really happened to the Congress was Mr Mupanar, GK Mupanar, who was with Kamaraj throughout, he came out and he joined. He said Kamaraj in his last days, which was not true. In his last days he wanted to be with Congress led by Indra Gandhi. So he led a major faction out of this Congress and only one group remained as Janatha Party. Later because they didn't have any prominent leaders. Slowly Janatha Party in Tamil Nadu became very weak. So whatever strength Congress had was what it inherited from what Mupanar took away and Mupanar because of his other skills, in managing the party, in settling party disputes, that kind of thing. He was not a kingmaker. But inside he used to be a very good coordinator like that. Only that on Congress exists. But the biggest Congress problem is they never allowed any, like any other part of India, Congress never allowed any leader to grow in statehood. So I used to say that Congress in Tamil Nadu has an inbuilt opposition. There will be 10 leaders and there are 11 groups. And even recently after this seat sharing exercise, finally seats were finalized in their office. In their office, Satyamurthy Bhavan. Two factions held, it's not a demonstration. One faction went on a fast. One was the hunger strike. The other faction opposed it. They were also on hunger strike. And there were seats. Actually Congress office in Tamil Nadu is known for that. Big fights inside, open fights. So again Congress, the real problem of the Congress, which is the problem in many other areas in Tamil Nadu, there is no one strong leader. There are lots of factions. They never come together. They never see eye to eye. So it's going to be very difficult. And they lost the game long back. They lost the game long back. And DMK and ADMK, what really happened to us, DMK split. Actually what has happened is because of DMK split, Dravidian movement became very strong. Because one faction became the counter-file for DMK. ADMK and DMK, kind of they shared power. So Dravidian dominance continued. Congress was never able to break this at all. Completely unimaginative. And they could not remember. Because again, DMK, ADMK broke away. And MGR was a powerful leader. And that thing was in her to be jailed with us. So there was no space for another front. Congress at least had some 20%, 25% vote at the time of emergency. Now it has come down to maybe less than 10%. So Congress definitely is going to be very difficult. And there is no leadership. And there is no program. Congress overall program. There is no program or alternative program. All over India we face this problem. So Congress can be the only problem is Congress has presents in a lot of villages everywhere from old time. The youngsters are not with Congress most of them. So only problem is organizationally they are present. At the time of election maybe some 3, 4, 5% vote will help in any alliance, in any type contest. That way the relevance remains. And because still it remains an all-day party. So these parties still take Congress help at the time of elections. The Congress party has a lot to prove in Tamil Nadu assembly elections with its diminishing influence reflecting on the number of seats it contests and wins. Rahul Gandhi made multiple visits to the state apparently to increase the bargaining capacity but the party had to contend with 25 seats in the assembly elections. With a waning influence and increasing in fighting the party relies highly on the strength of the alliance parties to win a handy number of seats.


Hi everyone in the last video we covered off on how x-rays are produced when you have an anode which shoots electrons they go across an evacuated tube and hit a target and as the electrons have crossed the tube they've done so through an electric field and they have accelerated and gained kinetic energy when they hit the target they slow down that change in energy is expressed predominantly as heat but in a sufficient amount as x-rays and it is that x-radiation those photons of x-ray white that can be used for different purposes today I'm like to talk about the the graph of general radiation which comes out of an x-ray tube it's got a common name which is breaking radiation because it is the electron slowing down however it's known through the physics term Bromstr along with the general graph that you'll see has an intensity on the y-axis and an energy on the x-axis and the shape is kind of like a skew if bell curve there's some lines shooting up and they're the characteristic radiation peaks so we'll go through that in greater detail but what you should see there is that the graph starts at relatively low level of energy and it will increase in the energy of the photons as you go across to the right and as you go across to the right you'll note that it also increases intensity at certain energy levels and there's a whole range of different energies there until it gets to one particular point which is here this is your f max that's the maximum frequency of x-rays that are going to be produced that's the maximum energy of x-ray that's going to be produced that comes from when an electron crosses the evacuated tube and slams into a tungsten nucleus or some nucleus in the metal target and all of its kinetic energy is then transferred into an x-ray for everything back towards the origin of the graph you've got electrons that have slowed down but not totally stopped and as a result you're getting a range of different energies the characteristic radiation peaks relate to something quite interesting if you've ever done any work with spectrometers you'll see that when you look at a fluorescent tube and you look at white light it doesn't look white it's got specific lines of color which relate to the visible spectrum energy transitions specific to the elements within the tubes every element has set energy levels that electrons orbit at now in the case of using a tungsten target tungsten has in itself set energy levels when you start firing high energy electrons at a tungsten target every now and again one electron will strike another in one of the lower orbits and in doing so it'll leave a hole in its lower orbit now if there's one thing that elements don't like it's a hole created of an electron in a lower orbital when you've got electrons available at higher orbitals so as soon as that occurs an electron from a higher orbital in the metal element will drop and occupy that position in the lower orbital and in doing so that specific drop it produces a specific amount of energy and does this in the form of an x-ray and what you're looking at there are some characteristic drops that occur with the metal target itself so that's where those characteristic peaks come from and those characteristic peaks align with the electron orbitals specific to the target element if you were to change the element that is the target the type of metal and you would change the location of the characteristic radiation peaks the x-ray peaks because the orbitals have changed and therefore the energy levels have changed so the key thing is with any x-ray graph the characteristic radiation peaks will always stay in the same location when it is the same target metal I'm going to go into how the intensity and the maximum frequency changes in the next few videos


So this far we've started the helix, we've started the sheet and we've started that special very tight turn. There is a fourth part that I want to mention just for completeness. So we have helix, you have sheet, we have turn, but then we also have this elusive coil. So you might think of the coil as a chain just straight stout. Don't do that even if I occasionally draw them that way because if you take all those fine psi torsions and put them in the straight stout 180 degree states that is just one specific microstate. The probability of finding any specific chain completely straight stout is zero to first approximation. So in principle it's going to be more curled up and randomly curled up. There are some pretty neat ways to estimate roughly how large the size of such a curl would be and I'm going to take you through that because it's a simple and very beautiful derivation that leads to a much cooler physical result. In general if I have a collection of amino acids this is going to be complicated. Each amino acid I can draw as a link and then I start from link one and I go to link n. These can't overlap and that's going to lead to a complication but if I initially ignore that and assume that they can overlap if I go to link n the question is what is the average distance between the first and the last residue going to be here? Well that's not too hard right? I can say that if h as a vector that's my entire chain here that's a sum over all my links sum over all the links I if I had m links and each of these has a distance r i vectors. Amino acids they all look the same so it's going to be a very good approximation target that all these links the first approximation have the same length but then I can calculate the average here or at least the square of the average so the average is going to be the square root of the average of the square. So let's say you want to calculate the average of h squared well that's going to be that sum squared right? That's going to be the sum of i to m of r i j r sorry r i sorry not squared we square the entire sum that means I have two such terms then the second term here I'm now going to have each term here I'm going to multiply by each term in the second one. I can write that as two sums so I have one sum where I have all the squares right r 5 multiplied by r 5 r 17 multiplied by r 17 the ones where the indices are identical plus a second term sorry we're going to need to be an average there average there average there plus a second term here that's a double sum over all the i's not equals to j to m and then I'm going to take the average of that and those two are vectors this simplifies in a very beautiful way that's why I want to take you through it in general if I have one vector and then I take another vector and they are completely unrelated what is the average of their scalar products going to be that entire term will disappear because on average they're going to be zero and that means that this entire average is just really the average of the sum over all elements r i squared but again if all of them have the same length then I can just say that corresponds to m the number of residues multiplied by the average of that square so that and if I'm instead interested in the square root of that so that the square root of the average of h 2 again to get the estimate for the length the point is that's going to be proportional to the square root of the number of residues multiplied by the length of each residue so the point here is that I don't really care about the length of each residue the interesting aspect is what happens when I take n or sorry I said m of these so as this chain grows the average end to end distance will only grow as the square root of m and that's a surprisingly accurate estimate you might argue that this is completely horrible you can't assume that chains can't overlap and that's quite true in principle you will also proteins my amino acids are not completely free to rotate here but remember I wasn't really interested in the specific number or was so that instead of having each amino acid here you could argue that if I move from one amines acid to the second amino acid there's going to be a large correlation with them but by the time I moved say four amino acids apart I'm going to have enough freedom that I can consider them independent so I could think of this as rather the individual residues some sort of persistence or correlation length that is actually four amino acid residue that would change the average length of the links are but it would not change the asymptotic dependence of how this grows as a number of the the number of residues still assuming that they can't overlap is an oversimplification uh paul flory who will say very famous polymer physics went much further into this and show that you can derive even theoretically that if you take this volume exclusion effect into account this value should rather be 0.5 square root it should be roughly 0.6 and today with computers we can show that it's roughly 0.588 with critical exponents effect and again 0.588 it's pretty darn close to 0.5 the take-home message of this derivation is that if you just throw a chain into a coil it's going to be much more coiled up randomly it's going to be packed think about that hydrophobic effect and the so-called molten globular do not think of as a chain as stretched out to one side to the other and this is entirely driven by entropy the chain has a lot of freedom in coil and the reason why it likes to be in coil is because it can use that entropic freedom


Hi, I'm Sassy from Team UUK and this is why me and Darren aren't together anymore. But there was a lot of things that had led up to me feeling like enough was enough. Like he weren't really helping me out as a nail as much. I felt like I was doing everything so like for the minute as a nail would wake up it would be me that would get her up, it would be me that would give her breakfast and then Darren would be at work all day. I thought you know what this guy is just taking the mick out of my life, I'm doing everything so I just felt like I was doing it alone so at the time I thought do you know what I might as well do it alone. Things between me and Darren, I mean it's a work in progress and I've really kicked his pride so to be honest it's going to take a lot for Darren to trust and build on that relationship but the aim of the game is basically to be a happy family again because that's all both of us really want but there's a lot of work in between that to get to that point. I know this sounds really simple and basic but I just enjoy chilling with him, watching TV, getting food, new pyjamas, new bedding and just chilling like I just love chilling with him. I just get that vibe from him. Do you know what I actually feel? I feel like my comfort is with Darren. He actually makes me feel comfortable as a person. When Darren is around Zanaia they're just inseparable like they actually are like the best sister friends just like me and Zanaia are the best sister friends. So he is a really really good dad to Zanaia. Darren could have his last £10 in his pocket and he'd gone and back to spend it on Zanaia. He is a good lad like that and he actually is a really really good dad to Zanaia. I couldn't have asked for a better dad for Zanaia.


The All India Democratic Women's Association recently held its 13th national conference in the state of Kerala in India. Eidwa is India's largest women's organization with a membership of nearly 10 million women spread across almost all states of the country. The delegates representing this 10 million strong membership met to discuss the path ahead for women's movement in India. All of us have gathered here after very, very difficult times, 2020-2021 have been extremely testing times for the entire nation and for our movement. It is with great pride that we all can rightly say we put all our forces together to overcome the difficulties to keep the organization and movement alive, fighting, struggling and now in 2023, after completing nearly 40,000 unit conferences, more than 700 district conferences, nearly 26 states and union territories conferences and meetings, 850 delegates and observers, representing one crore membership has assembled here to decide about building a stronger women's movement in the country. It is also a very special occasion because we are celebrating 40 years of Eidwa and in these 40 years of struggle and sacrifice and victories and loss and gains and setbacks, this Eidwa, this organization, this flag has remained high and given inspiration to women all over the country. From 11 lakh members in 1981 you have heard from our general secretary that we are now almost one crore women members in India who hold up this Eidwa flag. The founding leaders of Eidwa, which brave struggles as part of India's fight for independence from British colonial rule, their presence in the Indian freedom movement and the struggles led by them, ensured greater equality and rights in the newly written constitution of the country. What is the difference? The difference is that this aggression of capitalism led by the current government in power, the BJP government is combined with a bigger agenda and it is that agenda led by the BJP and the RSS, which is driving politics, culture, economics, social relations in India today. So while these challenges have always existed before us, what we understand through our own experience is it is different because today you have in state power those forces who want to challenge the very existence, not a great existence but as I said a constitution and legal existence of India and women as we know it today. We are fighting not just against the political power of the BJP RSS, we are fighting against the forces of conservatism which are in our blood and which we must get rid of. The power of the women's work that was practically underestimated in the past, the reality of the revolution teaches us more and more the social and economic importance of the women's work. Our Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro said in 1965, women's labour force in the past was underestimated, was practically undervalued, the reality of the revolution teaches us more and more the social and economic importance of incorporating women in work. And this is a great truth, so that a work that grows and develops is essential to the active participation of women, because we not only defend our rights, our culture, our identity, but we fight with all our strength to guarantee all that to the fruit of our power. And this is a great truth that for a work, for a task to last grow and develop, the active participation of women is essential, because we not only defend our rights, our culture, our identity, but we fight with all our might to guarantee all this to the fruit of our womb. And that provides us with extraordinary strength for this fight. Adelante compañeras, hagamos juntas este mundo mejor para todas imprescindibles, luchemos por un mañana mucho mas luminoso, hasta la victoria siempre. Go ahead compañeros, advance, let's make this world a better place for all of us, let's fight for a brighter tomorrow, ever onward to victory, hasta la victoria siempre. Thank you. And this is what in our movement, in the women's movement, with that spirit of internationalism, we know how all our movements are interlinked. And therefore, today on your behalf, let us strongly condemn all those forces today which are forcing wars on humanity, NATO in Europe, and what it has resulted in, the most terrible war in Ukraine. Let us condemn those imperialist hegemonic moves which make the lives of women all over the world so much more difficult. Let us, my dear sisters, on this occasion express our solidarity, as you have done in your resolution, the people of Palestine, the women of Palestine, and what is happening in our neighborhood, what is happening in Afghanistan, where the Taliban government, which so many years had been patronized by U.S. imperialists, what is the state of women in Pakistan, our neighbors, where a young girl, a young woman cannot go to college, because of those fundamentalist forces functioning in the name of a most damaging interpretation of a religion. How can we tolerate the kind of fundamentalism that we are seeing in Iran, where women are being forced into a dress code, and what about the United States of America, where even the right to abortion, the right of a woman to her own body, in the so-called greatest democracy of the world is under challenge. So when we in India fight against all types of fundamentalism, when we fight for the women's right to choice, the right to autonomy, the right to decide who we are, what we are, who we love, we express solidarity because we know that women across the world, even at the time of the terrible COVID, when capitalism, brutal capitalism was looking at profit, not at what we were facing as mothers, as daughters, as women, as working women, no. So we express solidarity with them. Our goal in unity for equality, our goal is to protect the gains secured by our predecessors in the matter of the rights given to us by our constitution, and to move at the same time towards more of substantive equality through social change. In this struggle, unity among women and among all democratic-minded people is the strategy we have to follow. All of you who are listening to this are our companions at arms in this struggle.


I can go into my customized reports and possibly I can have someone else do this because it should be a pretty standardized process meaning I can give it to a staff member or something and just say I would like to print these reports change the date range to whatever the relevant date range is save it as a PDF or print it as a bundle so let's look at those options I'm going to go into the summary report actually let's do it this way I'll go back and I'm going to right click and open it in a new tab so is it let me do that right click and I'm going to say open in a new tab it's not giving me that option that's weird the other reports usually do anyways I'll click on it and then we can just change the name up top or the dates and the name should be should be good so then our options are to email it but then you typically have to send one at a time we can print it which would be useful if you're going to be handing it to somebody but sometimes that's not the case oftentimes we're going to have to email it or put it on a cloud drive which means we want to export it to a PDF generally and we'll talk about exporting to excel later which could be a nice option for us to then use excel to create all the reports on one PDF file so I'm going to export to a PDF this is the format that it looks like so most of the time we're good on the on the default formatting notice you have a couple options to the right portrait landscape smart page fits helps it to fit you know on one page meaning we don't want two pages wide typically and then repeat the page header here's the header up top if you have two pages and you don't want the header on there you can remove the repeat page header so that's those are some nice options here but it's still quite limited if you get to a longer reports that are quite wide in nature and you're to force it to fit on one page wide for example then it can change the the size of the font which will be different than the other size of the fonts or the other reports and so in those cases sometimes it's useful to export it to excel where you have further formatting options there and once again here we can email we could save as a PDF we can print it I'm going to go ahead and save it as a PDF so there it is I'm going to pull this to the right and then grab my folder so I've got a folder here that's going to say quickbooks online in in practice you might call it your client folder I'm going to call it a test drive because this is that's what I'm naming the first half of the course where you might put it as clients for example you might have another folder that would be broken out by date which would be quite common maybe by year for example and then have your reports in there each year and then I'm going to go into my reports and I'm just going to drag this one into my reports there it is so notice it gives us the name with no with no spaces so that's usually pretty good it doesn't it didn't put the number one on it so I'm going to try to number my reports in here because when I send them out I would like to give an idea of which reports I think the client should open first okay let's do it again I'm going to pull this back on over I'm going to close this out I'm going to try to go back to to my reports so that gets us back into my my custom reports here and then I'll do the same thing for the for the second one the balance sheet and there it is so I cut balance sheet by quarter I'm going to go ahead and export this to a PDF boom it looks like it's fitting on one page because it's got the smart fit so I'll go ahead and notice there's the title repeating so if you didn't want the title to repeat you can take that one off and that'll not have the title repeating so either way could you know you might like either format but I'm going to go ahead and save it as a PDF it's going to open up down here because I'm in google chrome note that if you're in another browser firefox or explorer or whatever it's going to show up however the forms show up in those browsers possibly with an arrow up top in in firefox for example or something right click and I'm going to edit and put a two in front of this one and then I'll go back on over we'll do it two more times dose vases moss and then we're going to say number three open that up and let's go ahead and export that to a PDF and it fits on one page because we got the smart fit so that looks good movie be to the end let's save it and go pull that out over boom I'm going to right click rename it rename number three oh wait a second so I'm going to don't name that way do it again don't delete it just put a three in front of it that's what I'm trying to do you know what I was trying to do you just made it messed it up on purpose so I'm going to go back on over and say this is number four last one and let's go ahead and download the PDF save it as and we're going to go ahead and pull that one over the final it's the final countdown number number four I don't know why I have that song in my head they got heard that song there's a final countdown song so so there they are so now once you have them here you can add these one by one to an email attachment but four and four connect four attachments isn't too bad but we're going to be adding other reports to this as well such as income statement reports so it would probably be better if you can give it to them possibly in a cloud drive format like a google drive or or microsoft one drive or whatever uh or our dropbox right uh or you can zip it and give it in an attachment in an email which I think would be a little bit nicer which I can do by adding another folder and I'm going to call these reports reports and let's say these are as of 12 dot 31 dot uh two two and then I'll put these reports in it grabbing them dragging them in to the folder and then I can right click on the folder and I can zip it I can say zip it just like I told my my dog when it was barking zip it compress what says compress now compress it so there it is so you might not have the same compression you might have like a folder with a zipper on it or something like that but the point is that you can now attached this file directly to an email so instead of having multiple attachments that they would have to open one by one you've got the one file and I and I think it's kind of nice if you're going to give it in this k in this way in this format to then have the numbers as well meaning now you've got the numbered files so they can open it and you have some indication on how they should you know what order they should open them okay so that's those are the formats we can provide the the files


This morning December 1st 2012 marks the last day that the public will be standing or driving on the old Portman Bridge. We've opened now the widest bridge in the world, the new Portman Bridge, eight lanes going to 10 next year. This is a great day for commuters in the Lower Mainland. This is a milestone day for the thousands of men and women who have worked on this project through its many phases for many years. It's just an incredible day and we're all very proud to have had the opportunity to have been involved in the largest transportation infrastructure project in BC's history. The new bridge will eliminate the worst traffic bottleneck anywhere in the province, reducing commute times by up to 50% and saving drivers up to an hour a day. Just think of what you would do with an extra hour every day. And for the first time in 25 years, the first regularly scheduled transit crossing will go across the Portman Bridge.


So this is the front deck on our house that we built last summer, it's been a vision of mine for many years to have a nice deck on the front of our house that we can sit on, enjoy the yard, can see the garden, can see the road, can see the sunsets and in the morning it's nice and shady. It's a beautiful spot to sit in the morning and have coffee. So I'm really happy with it except for one thing and that is when it gets windy because we have no railings on it, it's quite a low deck so we didn't feel like we needed railings, but the problem is the wind comes along on days and blows my furniture right off the deck. Sometimes it lands on my hydrangea here, sometimes they blow over here into the flower pots. So I was looking into pricing to put just a fence on this side. I thought maybe I'll put one of those railings that has the plexiglass so it doesn't really take away from the view. It'll cut out the wind and keep the chairs from blowing away. But after I checked prices on that, just for doing like one side of my deck here, I mean that was, it's gonna be hundreds and hundreds, like I think over a thousand dollars after it's all said and done. So it just seemed like a really expensive way to put up a wind break. So I got a new idea. It involves rebar and about a hundred and twenty dollar purchase off of Amazon. I'm gonna try putting it together here and show you and hopefully we will have a nice little wind break here that's actually gonna look really good. So I started out by hammering in some rebar here into the ground right up against the edge of my decking here. So my plan is to take this privacy screen that I purchased off Amazon, stretch it out and attach it to the rebar. So I've ordered two of these. They stretch out as far as, you know, however far you want. It just opens up some of the airflow in here. So because I'm trying to make a wind break, I'm going to use two of these. Maybe not stretch them out quite as far. So they come with these little tie straps. Plus I have a whole bunch of my own that I can use if needed. So we'll start off by attaching these to the rebar. So I got this idea from my daughter who lives in an apartment and has a balcony, nice balcony and she bought some of these to just add some privacy and some decor to her space and it looks so good. I thought I should try this here. This hopefully is gonna be a cheaper solution than having to put in an actual railing because we have a lot of wind here. Usually during the summer it's not quite as bad but I'm gonna add, you know, an extra amount of these just to keep it as secure as I can. So when you attach these you want to just wrap it through the fence and around the rebar here. I'm probably gonna put in a lot more than what they supply here. I want to make sure this stays secure all summer and can handle all the winds that come our way here. So you want to make sure when you're lining this up, especially if you're using more than one of these, that you have got it straight and level and before you start putting in a lot of these little tie straps, I just did one here and there just to get my level correct and put my furniture in place just to see if it looks okay and then once you're happy with that then start putting in tons of these little tie straps wherever you can to help keep it secure. So here's what it looks like from the back. As you can see I'm using rebar. This is a free resource that I just had here on the farm so that did not cost me anything. I can always add in some more rebar afterwards just to secure it even more if I feel like it's still a little bit too flimsy. So it's best to do your tying right at a cross piece on your privacy screen. This is the strongest point. Run it around the corner secure it around your railing or rebar here and I'm just going to add as many as I can make it secure. Good thing about this is you can always come back with more tie straps if they break just kind of keep it strong throughout the season. So here is another look at the before picture of what the deck looked like before I put up the new privacy wind break screen. So here's what it looks like all installed now. I think it adds a really nice touch to the deck. All that greenery in the background is very subtle but it really adds to the look and I think as long as we don't end up with any tornadoes or plow winds over the summer season this will give a good wind break, keep the furniture from blowing off the deck. Just so happens we got a windstorm tonight. Unfortunately no rain just wind seems to be holding up good. So I think in the fall it'll be very easy to put this all away just cut off all those tie straps, fold up these two pieces of privacy fence, store them away from the winter, remove the rebar and she's good until the next season. So I hope you enjoyed my little video here on how I spent only $120 to create a nice windbreak and some decor to my deck without having to put in any kind of expensive railing. Don't forget to like, subscribe and leave a comment and we will see you on the next video.


Hi everybody, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with a three-team Rnb random number block randomizer, which sells out pick your team number eight Now we pulled these teams out of pick your team eight. We turned them into a serial number break So that kind of helps spread out the risk a little bit the instructions are right here Remember zero gets any and all redemptions For the for these teams right here including one of one redemptions one obviously still gets live one of one pulls Big thanks to this group here for getting into the action There are the teams there are the numbers right there and let's roll it and randomize names and numbers five and a one six times one two three four five and a one got mark down to Matthew five and a one six times for the numbers one two three four five And once more six than final time after six We've got one down to nine All right mark with one three and five Sean with six and seven David with four Sean with two Matthew with eight Quinn with zero and Matthew with nine Let's sort this by column B by number and Coming up in a separate video will be the break itself stick around be right back No, not be right back. I'll see you for the next video. That's what I want to do


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspeaskasebrakes.com coming at you with 2019-2020 Panini Mosaic Basketball. Cellopack break number 663. No vet comments, ship. We're going to do the break itself first and then at the end we'll re-randomize everybody's names and the top eight will be involved in that Immaculate Basketball first off the line break. Also we've got to do, as it says in the break schedule, we've got to do one more of these packs and then that knocks out that last first off the line box that we have. Big thanks and good luck to these folks for getting into the action. Appreciate it. All teams are in. Let's do the break itself first. Let's roll it. Randomize it. Three and a six. Nine times for each list. So the giveaway will be a different dice roll as well. So nine times for names and teams though. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and a ninth and final time. After nine we've got Sumin down to Scott Marshall. Three and a six. Nine times for the teams. One, two, three and ninth and final time. After nine we've got the Pelicans on top down to the Grizzlies. Nice. So the two big teams on the top and the bottom. All right. So there's the first half of the list right here and there's the second half of the list right here and no trades for these little filler breaks. Let's just get all that on one page. Then let's print and rip. Then we'll re-randomize that list and see who wins those first off the line spots. And that first off the line box is the last one we have for the timing. We've got Kyrie and Vince Carter. Kyrie's gone missing. Not missing but it doesn't feel like playing basketball. I don't know what's going on with him. And there's Ignis Bradzikis, Pink Camo, Rookie. All right. Nothing too earth-shattering there. And really the whole point of this is not the break, not that pack, but it's who's going to win those first off the line spots. Let's flip back to this list. Let's grab everyone from John down to Brenton and everybody in between. Good luck. So once again it's going to be the top eight after seven. Good luck. I've been rolling a lot of sevens tonight, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven in the final time. So once again it's going to be the top eight after seven. There's seven right there. So from nine down to 30, apologies, we'll get them next time. In fact, we have to do one more pack. So if you like trying again, check it out, jaskiescasebreaks.com. Congrats to the top eight, John, Robert, Brenton, Ching, Robert, Brenton, Ching, and Robert. There you go. Thanks for getting in.  I'm Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.