Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your weekly movement news roundup. Well, it's the 12th of August. You're listening to Give the People What They Want brought to you from People's Dispatch. That's Zoe and Prashant. You're one stop shop for movement based news. Excellent website. Hope you'll get to see it. I'm Vijay from Globe Trotter. As I said, it's the 12th of August. A few days from now, India and Pakistan will have their 75th anniversaries of independence. Now, you know, for people who don't know this, India and Pakistan have their independence one day apart. Pakistan on the 14th of August, India on the 15th of August. The countries in South Asia are such that they even don't want to share time zones. You might know Nepal is 15 minutes off Indian standard time. Well, but in this case, there's a reason for that. They actually did their flag hoisting on different days. 75 years of independence. A lot to think about in terms of both where India and Pakistan are today. Also a lot to think about about the relations between India and Pakistan, not at a very good place. And I hope always that these kinds of things improve for the sake of people who live there. For the sake of people who live there, as we come to you today, it's a good thing to be able to say that the fires in Cuba at Matanzas fuel tanks have subsided. The fires have been put off. Hundreds of missions conducted by helicopter pilots, by firefighters, by government officials of different kinds, by civilians to really struggle over the course of this week to put down one of the most devastating fires that the island has seen. How did this happen? Important to know, because of the US blockade on Cuba, 60% of fuel comes into the island. Because of the blockade, Cubas had to build tanks and so on to preserve fuel for longer periods of time. It's hard to get shipments into the country and so on.  A lightning strike hit one of the tanks. You put fuel into a tank, lightning hits it. There's little you can do. There was a combustion. Other tanks heated up. At least four tanks were put out of service in this period. It was very difficult to fight this fire. Helicopters with their pouring water on the tanks to cool them down so that they wouldn't combust because of the heat. Foam was fired at the fire to try to minimize it. It's quite heartening that the island, in a way 11 million people came together with the hashtag Fueza Matanzas. May the force be with Matanzas as it were. Over a billion people shared this hashtag in different social media outlets around the world. This became a cause celeb. Immediately, as has now become quite customary, Venezuela and Mexico sent assistance including firefighters. Countries like Jamaica sent medical aid immediately. Interesting reaction from the United States and I want to spend a minute on that. United States Intersection, the Embassy in Havana said that they would do anything possible to assist. In fact, what they promised was to send some technicians. Again, important to bear in mind Cuba with a literacy rate near 100% really doesn't require technicians. What it requires more than anything else is the lifting of the US embargo, the removal of Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list. Well, that has just not happened. And it's an interesting situation for an island like Cuba where you see people struggling to maintain their sense of sovereignty and dignity. These are important words for people in Cuba, but the blockade makes it difficult. And I think it's interesting to have watched this week where the world once again gathered around the Cuban people and said, we'd like to do anything to assistance and support you. But of course there was a very different reaction coming to Havana from Washington DC. No need to belabor the point. I think it's pretty clear to people that on the table over and over again as at the UN General Assembly is the question of the US blockade on Cuba. I don't want to keep going on this story Prashant and Zoe, but it is one of those stories where we could keep going and talking about other countries that are looking at Cuba in a different way. And apparently Columbia has decided to do something interesting regarding its relationship to Cuba. Zoe, what has Columbia been doing? Well, as you know, on Sunday, August 7th, Gustavo Petro and Francis Marquez were sworn in as President and Vice President of Columbia. We've covered this a lot, the historical significance of this, what it means for domestic policies in Columbia. Something that's interesting that was really on the table throughout their campaign was the resumption of the peace talks with the National Liberation Army, the ELN. This has always been a commitment of their campaign and the second day on Monday, August 8th, Gustavo Petro announced that he wanted to restart the peace process with the ELN following through on his word from the campaign. And just this week, just a day ago, the foreign minister took a trip to Cuba, met with Bruno Rodriguez in order to take this forward. He met with the ELN peace delegation and in a press conference yesterday, he said that the Colombian government is taking steps necessary to restart this peace agreement, this peace process and that. And this is the interesting part that relates to the part about Cuba and Matanzas is that one of the reasons why the U.S. has designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism is because of the breakdown of the peace process with the ELN. Following this, Iván Duque issued Interpol orders against the peace delegation, which is of course going against all of the previous agreements, going against the agreements that they had with the sponsor countries, with Norway, with Cuba, with the other sponsor countries of this peace process. And Cuba respecting these agreements refused to extradite the members of the peace delegation. Thus, they were declared state sponsors of terrorism. And the foreign minister of Colombia yesterday said that Cuba should no longer be considered state sponsors of terrorism precisely because they're restarting the peace agreements and they have lifted the Interpol order against the members of the peace delegation. So essentially taking away all justification for the United States to have this. So this is an extremely interesting development. I think we've seen already just in one week of government of Gustavo Peso and Francia Marquez, big changes are coming. This is not only going to have an impact on the people of Colombia, as we've said, but also in the region. So extremely interesting. And just before we get to the next story, I thought it would be important to mention that yesterday there was a national day of mobilization against Jair Bolsonaro calling for free and fair elections, denouncing the attacks on democracy that have been happening in the past couple of weeks. Just a month ago, or no, sorry, not a month. It was just a couple of weeks back.  And he essentially gave a long presentation on how the electronic voting system in Brazil was necessarily going to be fraudulent, how the vote in Brazil because of this electronic voting system would not be valid. He has been for the past couple of years calling for a return to the paper ballot, despite in the 90s having defended the electronic system and saying that it would be a good mechanism against fraud. And following this meeting, he has actually broadcast on YouTube and has been subsequently taken down for violating their misinformation policies. There has been a large outcry in society saying that he is consistently making moves to undermine these elections, to undermine the Brazilian people's right to choose in their elections. And so there was a massive mobilization yesterday in over 49 cities across Brazil. There was also a letter launched that was written by jurists from the University of São Paulo, one of the leading universities in the country. This letter was a letter to Brazilians in defense of democracy. It has received probably at this point over a million signatures. Yesterday it was at something like 950,000, prominent personalities, artists, and then some unexpected names, heads of banks, former presidents of the largest bank in Brazil. So it's really interesting to see that all of the people in Brazil are really rallying behind this cause to respect the democratic process, to respect the institutionality of the country, massive mobilizations yesterday, tens of thousands on the streets, really demanding that this electoral process be won free of violence, free of interference, and that Bolsonaro not try to escalate this. So important development will of course be following, leading up to the October 2nd, first round elections, Brazil, Bolsonaro and Lula be the front runners. We don't want to keep covering elections. I understand that, because the movement driven news program comes to you every week and so on. On the other hand, big election in Kenya. Prashant, as soon as the election is over, the conversation turns to rigging, but it looks like the election is over and there seems to be an incumbent president. What happened in Kenya? Right, so it's still a bit uncertain right now, Vijay, the election authorities have till Sunday, I believe, to declare the results or late Sunday night, and the race, as of now at least, according to the latest report seems very tight. Very interesting election, like you said in Kenya, it's one of those apocal elections it seems like, because we have the election taking place after a series of very strange political alliances that were formed. In 2017, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his main opponent, Rayla Oddinga, who have been rivals for a long time, contested against each other, Kenyatta supposedly won, there was a huge dispute, the court set aside the election because the regularities, there was a second round election declared, which is quite unusual by international standards, because it was actually set aside by the court, and the opposition candidate, Oddinga boycotted that, at which point Kenyatta was declared the winner. And from then, just about a year later, what we see is, Kenyatta and Oddinga coming together, these long political rivals coming together and forming an alliance, and leaving out in the cold Kenyatta's Vice President, William Ruto. And together, Kenyatta and Oddinga tried to bring around what is called the Building Bridges Initiative. Now, this was quite an interesting moment because what it sought to do was to try to completely, radically overhaul the constitutional structure of Kenya and basically a large power-sharing exercise between these two figures. Interestingly, again, the court stepped in at this point and said that you cannot go, you cannot, this will not pass. The plans for a referendum to cement this constitutional initiative were not taken forward. And come 2022, we have an election between Oddinga who sort of taken on the legacy of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto who's former Vice President. So the two together contesting against each other, you know, both of them have made their standard announcements.  But overall what we do see is that both candidates as many in the left have pointed out in Kenya, just coming off as two wings of capital, so to speak, and there's very little difference in terms of their policies. This comes at a time when Kenya is facing a series of crises. We know, for instance, that a very, very young nation, if you look at its population the number of people who are under 35 is substantial. But despite that, despite this country being very young, unemployment is a huge issue. The ability to use the resources of these young, this demographic dividend as they call it, has not really been tapped at all by Kenya. There's a huge debt problem. Workers across Kenya, we've covered this in multiple instances, especially in the people's health dispatch, health workers, for instance, being in the forefront of many protests for being denied, say, basic amenities for being denied, pay, etc. So it's amid all this that the elections are taking place in Kenya, which is a very important economy in Africa. But it doesn't really look like there is any sustainable or path put forward by any of the candidates as far as the solutions seem more or less on the face, seem more bandits in terms of providing a small amount of monetary aid, in terms of providing loans and funds for businesses. These are steps, basically, of course, they will bring about some relief might help people. But the fundamental question that boils down time and again to many in front of many of these countries is that is there a possibility of moving on to a different economic model? And that's the question many Kenyans are asking. That is a question because of which there was not really maybe too much enthusiasm for these elections as well. So we still don't have a result as of now from what the reports indicate, very close, very tight, but it remains to be seen if either of these leaders, whoever comes to power is actually going to put forward a radical alternative in any way. Unlikely that there will be a radical alternative. I mean, that's asking too much of parties where you spend a few moments talking to somebody from Kenya about what's the political orientation of Odinga's blog, what's the political orientation essentially Huru Kanyata and others. It's very hard to make a distinction in fact. Yeah, very, very interesting story. We'll keep watching that. There's a piece that people's dispatch recommended on the question of healthcare, which Prashant mentioned people's health dispatch worth subscribing to it very much enjoy reading the stories that come out of it. You're listening to give the people what they want brought to you by people's dispatch Globetrotter come to you every week half an hour, world news everything you'd be interested in some of you came back last week with a few selfies we need more of those we're reporters, we're journalists we cover important stories we have a community of reporters around the world, many of them get harassed repeatedly get arrested get killed, get their newspapers shut down, nobody in the world has experienced this as much as Jose Rubin Zamora whose name first came to my attention decades ago because Jose Rubin Zamora keeps getting attacked in Guatemala and that is happening again, Zoe, tell us a little bit about Jose Rubin and what's going on Well, he's been detained since July 29th he was arrested on money laundering charges and other related charges corruption and it's quite interesting because oftentimes we see this that journalists who precisely investigate corruption of government officials are trying to reveal the truths of the crimes that are being committed using the money of the people, elected officials they're often charged with similar things which seems completely contradictory he is a journalist he founded El Periolico which is an investigative outlet in Guatemala that really looks into a lot of different issues in Guatemala but has been one of the forefront papers that has been investigating the crimes of corruption, we know in Guatemala that several attempts by different institutions to actually investigate this problem in the country have been blocked, the UN commission to investigate corruption in the country had been dismantled, there's just many attempts to make sure that these crimes committed by officials are not brought to justice that people can continue doing this with impunity journalists take on the task and look where this ends up it's actually quite interesting in their newspaper they had a special section that was called the fable of the ogre and the little blueprints who wanted everything and in this section they revealed these different crimes and I think it's interesting because they're using these different methods having a fun way to talk about it but really in trying to relate this to stories, to fables which actually are taking place in the present day of people who are capricious like princes and stories from fairy tales but it's the reality and they're doing this with the money of the people in a country like Guatemala which is one of the countries that has a largest exodus towards the United States because this life there is not sustainable where indigenous and communities are attacked by mining companies and yet still the government is committing these kind of acts and now Jose Zamora has been in prison since July 29th as I said on these charges there's been a large outcry as you said he's been attacked historically he's a very well respected figure in journalism in the country so this of course has shaken the journalist community human rights community there's been many campaigns launched on an international level but the case against him continues so I think during the raid on his offices for example the entire staff of his newspaper was held without food and water in detention for over 16 hours so this is the treatment given to journalists to attempt to uncover the truth about crimes committed in the name of the people and so it's very important you know as journalists that we show our support to our fellow colleagues who are doing this work you know across the world yeah indeed and this of course applies to journalists everywhere including in Afghanistan Prashant you know we've been following the story in Afghanistan now well I must say I have followed this story almost my entire life and not a week goes by where there's something that shouldn't be reported we rely a lot on Afghan journalists many of them face extraordinary threats killings families being killed and so on you're going to tell us a little about this anniversary coming up yeah right Vijay it's a quite a it's actually quite a unique moment in probably this entire century itself on August 15, 2021 where suddenly after an offensive that began in May the Taliban just completely took over Afghanistan in a span of two or three months and this was when the US this was before the US actually said before US troops actually withdrew at a point where people were speculating that you know at Afghanistan might see a long conflict there might be a lot of negotiations the Ashraf Ghani government all of it suddenly vanished and then on August 15, 2021 the Taliban was in control and clearly left a lot of people completely bewildered but the year has been let's be very clear the year has been a very very difficult year for the people of Afghanistan to begin with we do know that the fact that about 7 billion dollars of reserves of the Afghan government was seized by the US were blocked by the US for a long time and finally they came up with this most arbitrary solution where almost 50% of it was to be diverted to those who had filed a suit blaming the Taliban for the 9 level attacks and the other half was to be distributed in the form of aid to organizations now this happened you know the Taliban to power in August 2021 and now not a month has passed by when there's a new report when there's a new study which shows to what extent how dire the economic situation is and despite all this the progress on releasing this money has been extremely slow I believe towards the end of July proposals were exchanged for the potential release of that 3 billion 3.5 billion dollars and we again know that after this drone attack that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri we don't know what's going to happen with that again but basically what happens is that this huge amount of money which can actually be a lifeline for the people of Afghanistan has still remain stuck not to mention the money that was stolen in what is probably you know a kind of example the other examples you can think of are how Venezuela's money for instance was stolen by the British or Iran's money at some point was stolen by the United States now but on the other hand if you look for instance what's happening right now we have about 25 million people of the 40 million or people who are living in poverty in March we heard numbers which said that 97% of the people could live below the poverty line in 2022 unemployment has risen massively the number of households which are facing debt has increased massively there's a WHO report which came out recently which said that basically the country's health system is on the brink of complete collapse and we have diseases like diarrhea which I think there are 19,000 cases in four provinces so in 2021 when diarrhea is causing havoc in a country it really sort of shows you the extent to which that country has been completely abandoned by the international community which all these years we're talking about the west here specifically which all these years was happy to throw in huge amounts of money without any accounting into Afghanistan as long as the government was their client and to make matters worse there have been a host of natural disasters we know earthquakes have taken place flash floods have taken place over the past few months leading to displacement of thousands of people even I think over a thousand people killed as well so in all this you know it's like it's been a just a year of complete disaster not at all helped by the fact that the Taliban which has kind of got the feeling that the west is not really too keen to help us decided that it no longer needs to live up to some of its own promises which means that for instance the situation of women for instance the situation of girls students all of it in a very bad state because the Taliban has continued with this very medieval social policies right now now a key question remains that really the key question remains before its neighbors in the region they have that's possibly the one positive thing that we can see the fact that there's been a fair amount of engagement Russia China the Central Asian Republic Iran all of which have various kinds of differences with the Taliban have attempted to sort of work together to make sure that the situation can be at least as stable as possible given the circumstances and I really think that despite all the tensions that are there right now despite the multiple disagreements it is this kind of an approach that can possibly bring some semblance of forget normalcy but bring even some semblance of relief to the people of this country which really faced too many years too many decades of war for very imperialist purposes. It's a terrible, terrible story and I mean I think we're going to come back to it obviously over 90% of people struggling with hunger and so on unbelievable statistics let's go to another unbelievable story you see the story has an interesting origin on the 1st of August Israeli troops crossed into the city of Jenin in the West Bank of Palestine and picked up Basim al-Sadi now this is an interesting event because you might remember that the Israelis had murdered an Al Jazeera journalist in Jenin Shireen Abu Akhle the Israelis have been conducting sustained violence against the city of Jenin over the course of the last year claiming that they're going in to clean up leadership of Islamic jihad that's the claim the moment they took Basim al-Sadi very provocative act by the Israelis moment they did that there was a little bit of a cross-border exchange in Gaza a very small exchange the Israelis then entered and pummeled Gaza for three days sustained vicious attack on urban areas civilian areas killing at least 15 children others have now also died as a consequence of wounds but 15 children I am of course tempted to read out the names of people like Jamil Deen Najm four years old, Ahmad al-Niraab 11 years old these are children who were killed in civilian areas virtually no condemnation from the western countries almost none Israel was allowed three days of sustained battery of Palestine in this case Gaza but remember this is not a Gaza story the story begins in the city of Janine in the west bank where Basim al-Sadi was picked up it's important to remember that people think it's a Gaza story Gaza a small part of Palestine merely 400 square kilometers or 380 square kilometers a small part of it's the size of a small town in many countries the entire area of Gaza they pummeled Gaza with we don't know what kind of munitions speaking in war crime language in Israeli media justifying what was going on now it doesn't end there after three days there is a quote unquote ceasefire you see there is no ceasefire because a ceasefire assumes that there is a conflict between two parties that the two parties then agree to stop firing on each other in fact after marginal rocket fire from Islamic jihad after Basim al-Sadi's arrest marginal the entire bombardment was one sided it was the Israeli highly sophisticated army pummeling Gaza there was no return fire really small again handmade rockets and so on which made zero impact on Israel and on Israeli civilians doesn't end there there is this ceasefire and then what happens next very interesting one would imagine well you know this is done and so on no not at all the Israelis enter on the 8th of August the city of Nablus in the west bank to again go and pick up more people that they claim are leaders of groups like Islamic jihad in the event of that highly aggressive move into the old city of Nablus people who know the old city of Nablus will know that it's a it's a very congested area and when the Israeli forces entered the old city of Nablus we know that at least three Palestinians were killed and over 70 injured by live ammunition these were all civilians so got to understand there's a context here and the context of course is the occupation of Palestine but there's another more ghastly context and as I said earlier we seem to report a lot on elections and I want to put this on the table even though it may be a little you know I'm reaching a little far November there's going to be another election in Israel the government that's sitting there now Mr. Lapid's government is a minority government and they're going to face again Benjamin Netanyahu's liquid party it has become very clear when one looks at the Israeli attacks on Gaza on the West Bank and so on it has become very clear that Israeli domestic politics is in some ways used you know to get a better case in Israeli domestic politics they've been going out there and pummeling the Palestinians it raises you're standing in the polls imagine that that's a war crime want to put that on the table you're listening to give the people what they want coming to you from people's dispatch coming to you from Globetrotter we're really happy to be with you every week you want those selfies with you we want you to tell your friends about this show watch and listen to show on the interwebs really important for us see you next week


Good afternoon everyone, my name is Bob Keener, I'm the co-chair of the Athletic Leadership Council here at NCSSO. I'm proud to be played by varsity and club sports during my time here. It's a real honor and pleasure to unite so many people who have been positively affected by NCSSO. Before we begin, I feel compelled to say that NCSSO is not just a STEM school or an academic powerhouse, it's so much more. NCSSO is a global celebratory showcase of the most talented young individuals in North Carolina, the most talented students, artists, communal servants, and not least of all, athletes. Before coming to NCSSO, I did not know that I'd find an intellectual engagement in both the classroom and the training room. I did not know that Wednesday night home games would be my go-to idea of what community means here. I did not know that I'd find, in a PC and on the practice fields, such a profound sense of respect for the abilities of my peers. Welcome to the NCSSO Athletic Committee. Today we celebrate all that I did not know, and we commence the year-long showcase of our immensely talented athletic community. Thank you, and please welcome Christine Altnery. I'm a state 2A conference champion, and they went to the third round of the state's playoffs, so congratulations ladies. And for all conference, we have Andesie Brown, Emma Wright, and Ellen Hew. I will mention, we have Cameron Mill, Tanisha Paul, and Megan Wu. Mr. McClunny would like to come up and give any personal awards. Not here, alright. In the mid-state 2A conference, and also went to the third round of state playoffs. And for all conference, we have Josh Abrams, Lou Kow, Vincent Shia, and Richard McClunny was the mid-state 2A conference men's tennis coach of the year. And for all conference, we have Jeffrey Filak. The record may not have been what we wanted it to be, but I guarantee you that every team is nervous about next year. Some juniors, we have a lot to look forward to coming into next season. So, again, I appreciate everybody's time. I just came from teaching large, so we'll teach you. And that's it. Thank you. We have just a few players from Alcock. The coach's awards, and one that... Ben Nichols and Hunter Wood. The enthusiasm comes from the leader from his first day involved in the board. This year, we'll offer many RBI's, Haley Porter. There are other kids out, and those of you who don't know that much about what it is. But in a lot of tests, a lot of running. This year, the type of team we had is harder to keep people from running too much than to keep them actually active. We had a lot of people that put in a lot of mileage and did a lot of good things. In the conference meet, we actually had... One of our young men was the conference runner of the year. I want to recognize him before I go through the team awards. That was his award. We've got some here and some that aren't. Some of you know we have tested more and more right now. And still some college visits. The girls most valuable runner was Gaby Monisha, because they were among the best in the state. It takes a lot, as you know, to come here and to do well in a lot of different areas. A lot of these folks were running seven days a week, not just six days a week. And certainly not just five days a week, most of them. And as far as I'm concerned, they did take the greater challenge and symbol of what their path was going to be this year. So congratulations to these folks. It's been a good time working for us and hopefully next year. So it was a challenge and a blessing to coach this year. Once we got everyone coming to practice regularly, it was a great time for me at least. I know for some of them it was a problem last month. But the track team performed really, really well this year. It was fun to have a really competitive team. The girls, as I said, finished really well in the conference now. So finished fourth overall in the regional meet. And had a really good running chance to get a pretty good standing at the state meet when we opened this weekend. The boys also finished sixth in the regional meet. And Ethan was the number one scorer at the conference, and he tied for the highest point. Lost in the tiebreaker, which was most of the politics play. It's been fun coaching. I look forward to coaching in the future, but I'm happy to have a really dedicated crew behind me. Dedicated crew sitting out in the crowd and dedicated crew out doing other academic stuff. Committing to practices, meets, regionals to be commuted in, 95 out with the 12 hour meet. And half of the kids were sitting there doing homework in the 95. So that was really just an honor to be there watching when my kids do homework and then get on the track and kick everyone's butt. And moved down to seventh. So it's a pretty... The first one is the things you learn from sports, setting both beings part of a team, confidence, that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time to practice and accepting those challenges. This team is what made us get first place and second place in this conference. We had all conference. We've had people win states. But this is what brings to this school the proud moments. This year, we had an official from Riverside, not Riverside, sorry, Reedsville emailed Mr. Lynch about this team. This team came up, and this Reedsville is a brand new swim team. They practiced one day a week for about an hour. They have slimmers that can't even really finish the event, which we have done on our team. We have someone that wrote the statement, wrote our school record all the way to someone that just could hardly touch the wall. I think one of the things that this person said was about their support and enthusiasm. One of the jobs of the captains plus the team is that they are to shake hands with the officials. And the goal is for me not to tell them, the goal is for them to do it. They're the ones that will shake hands with all of, where all the other teams, they go to the water. And that's what we're all about, a science and math, and that's what I'm really proud of. And for our divers, because our divers are hidden. Last year we were at Duke, so we got to see him, but this year they were hidden again. And we got some lacrosse kids that liked to do somersaults. So he said, this is cool for crossfit exercises. So I'm not too special because his mother and father coached me swimming. And so his mother was pregnant with Ryan, so it took official. So thank you for congratulations. Remember you have a couple more days, so let's behave. And juniors, you've got a while, so behave. Remember to smile, because what you do for NCCSM on the field, on the core and in the pool means so much to us. And keep that in your life. Science and math is an amazing place. So best of luck, great job. Science and math, to my seniors, when I came in with last year, I'm very happy to send them out on a winning note. We finished the conference second place, made it to the conference finals, tournament finals, made it to the second round in the playoffs. So I think I know last year is a great success and I'm very proud. The hard work put in in August, it translated over to the record season and to the playoffs. For our playoff game, just to see the fans, parents come out and cheer on our ladies. It was a very, very good time. I've never seen this in the gym that loud since I've been here. And we really fed off the energy in the playoff game. We brought the people home. And like I said, I'm very, very happy for my ladies. Very happy, very excited about next year because we've got bigger and better things. We've got to finish business. Barley has him. So one thing before, amazing coach. He's my, he's my motivator. He's my strength, strategic trainer coach. He's my, he's just an amazing guy. He'll say some things that will make you think, words we're talking about. I always go back and I definitely thank him for being a good assistant coach. And also his recruiting skills is top notch.  He'll say, yeah, I'll come out and I'll show up. But still, it's the effort that counts. Coach Grace, I thank you so much for all that you do. I know the ladies are great. They appreciate you. To the wards, again, I'm very grateful for the ladies. I thank y'all so much for all the hard work. We had to have our come to Jesus moment after a eight-picture friendship. And we had to hash out all the differences. And after that, I think we was, we hit the ground running. So first award, I'd like to look out for the coach's award, this player, whenever I needed, messages handed out to the ladies, to the team, text message. I always knew I had a number on speed dial. I knew the text and doubt she would give a message to the team. Also during some work, all these workouts, she was there every day, smiling face, ready to work, ready to get better as a basketball player. And I greatly appreciated her. She's been on the team for the last two years. And I thank her so much for all the hard work and dedication. And our coach's award goes to Angelo. I don't think I ever seen her get mad. Me and Coach Grace, we wanted her to get mad so bad. She just never would get mad. She's our gentle giant. She always has the ball in her face, win or loss. She's always laughing in practice, always giggling, joking around. During current times, she always has the ball in her face, seems like nothing ever bothers her. Sometimes it's frustrating. Sometimes it's a good thing that she's a calm, cool, lead player. But I'm grateful for her to be a part of the team. I can't wait to see the Chiefs that she made next year. So I sportsmanship award goes to Shannon. She came for the season, so I felt that she had. She was ready on the basketball board. And once she got to the court, she made her presence felt. And everybody in the county knew where the ball was going. So it wasn't no surprise. She made my job easy. And she's a hard worker. And I hope she continues to work hard, continue to get better and get ready for that player-to-year award next year that you're going to get. So I hope this player award goes to Layla Bonley. When we went to Barley-Hancy, the outcome didn't turn out as we wanted to. And that's when me and Coach Gray realized that this player, she made such a big impact on the different men in the ball. I think she was out for like four games. And luckily we win three during that stretch. But she was a very impactful player on the defensive end. And during the playoffs, the second round we played both kid potential state champions. She held the best player on the top scores in two-way basketball to only 15 points. And she basically had one-on-one all night. And they let me know right there that she's a top-notch defender. And she can only get better. And hopefully she can get her shoot in the ball next year. Because she can't shoot. She don't think she can, but she can. But I'm definitely grateful to have on the defensive end Coach Gray. We stress defensive end a lot. And this player, she really brings that hunger, that fight, that heart. Coach Gray is always saying on the defensive end, so I think he's a player of the year. I think she was the third coach on the team. She probably has a very, very high IQ for basketball. Sometimes things she say like basketball goes over my hand. I have to give her the pump face. But this player, she works hard day in and day out. Every day she's in the gym. Every day she wants to work out. Now she's trying to get Coach Gray to work out, running doing things that our bodies can't do right now. But we definitely appreciate the hard work. And we saw both from our first game to our last game. And I know she, Scott lived before, she has all the abilities to be one of the best players and best point guards, best players overall in the conference. And I thank you so much for your hard work and dedication to the team. And our most improved players, Anisha and Noche. To my seniors, Christina Debra for the ones that have been with me for two years. Like I said, I'm very grateful I'm getting to go out and watch my teammates go on and do big, great things next year. And again, thank you so much and hope everybody has all the best players there, Grace. Thank you, Marys. MPP. What can I practice in games? She had the team in kills, boxing, sentencing. Our conference coaches voted as second and as player of the year. And thus, she was named as full conference player. She was on the ABCA and our host association and a 217 Old Phenomenal List and earned spots on the NCVBA North Carolina Valley World Association. She was also on the mention to that team on the old state Congratulations, Kate, the spells. To be truly being a world of one member I couldn't manage getting the gym set up and making sure we had advantages and with us every game. Good luck in college and whatever your future holds. I'll miss you. Maya, Faye. As far as how athletically and academically talented everyone is in this room and who are in this room at the moment, it's just an amazing experience. It's very exciting to hear all conference. I mean, there are some schools in this conference that get very little all-conference in any sport. I mean, it's just amazing how many all-conference athletes we have. We've had a great year in competition with the three conference championships this year and top two finish in the Wells Fargo Cup so we're very strong. We've also kind of just treated high in the state GPA, which we should expect that, but we're dominating in wrestling, especially you won five in the last six years of the last wrestling team in the state. We also finished second in soccer and basketball. We also won third place in men's indoor track and women's outdoor track. So let's get a round of applause for that help for his help and support as I'm in charge of student life. Thank you so much for joining us on our athletic staff and coaches. I believe truly that we have the best staff in the state and not the country in high school athletes. We had four coaches of the year, including Michael Newbar, can you come up? You're going one year soon to get to know more of the showcases of student athletes who have excelled in the two sports here at Science and Math. They've been extraordinary in their accomplishments while at Science and Math. They've just made a multiple varsity sports. Our award winners are the N.C.S.S.S.S.S. and the top female male athlete from 2017-18 are Amy Dollsbury and Ben Nichols. The women's basketball team are women's soccer teams. Ben was on conference both years in soccer and wrestling. That's hard to do. He was also a team captain of most sports. Let's get a both in the round of applause. As a STEM school, I think in order to have an excellent STEM school, you need to have an excellent now. So this is probably the part of the presentation. I'm going to ask the parents to please. Where are my seniors that can usually stay? You can participate in N.C.S.S.S.S.S.S.S. and mathematics as a senior. I hope they have them. Coaches, can you please stand if you're not a student? We have a lot of fun and I just have a better appreciation just for trying to figure things out and change everything. So coaches, thank you for everything that you do here in the school. I know that your time in athletics. And then last but not least, I do want to acknowledge our athletics department for putting on this award ceremony but also their efforts throughout the year. There's a lot that goes into running an athletics department here at a residential school, whether it's the management of this space, game operations, financial commitments and obligations, physical therapy appointments, scheduling issues, trying to make up game and friends when we have weather related issues. So the Jordan, Kathleen, Brian, John, Miss F. O'Reanna and last but not least, Mr. Jarvis for this leadership. Thanks for all the small and big things that you do at NCSU. I truly am proud of the work that goes on in this department. I just want to be able to say thank you. Our award ceremony, again I want to say thank you and look forward to the rest of this school year and once again congratulations for all of your success.


Last night, my girlfriend and I were watching a show called Love on the Spectrum, and these are individuals, men and women who are on the autistic spectrum, Aspergers, and then there are some high-functioning autistic people in the show, and they're trying to find love. In many cases for the first time, I mean, there were many individuals, I think there was a man 63 years old who's never gone on a date before, another man who's 33 years old that never gone on a date before. And I was thinking what's unique about this show is, I think it's one of the true reality show that isn't quite a reality show, it's more of a documentary series, in the sense that these aren't scripted individuals. These are people truly speaking from what I believe is their heart. And what I want to share today is the story of a woman who again seems very high functioning in her autism. She had a master's degree and she started her own business and she went on a date with a man who was probably not quite at her level, but pretty close. And immediately on their first date, they hit it off, sparks flew. And at one point, she claimed that she loved him and that she was love struck and he was so giddy and what it seemed like is they were both childlike in this moment, quite childlike in the way they approached it. And then they had a second date. And what was interesting during the second date, he shared that, and by the way, she's very educated, successful in her own right. She started her own internet company or animation company at age 14. And he shared that he was working at Ralph's. And you could just see her face shift. And by the next segment, she basically said she wasn't interested in him anymore. And I thought to myself, well, men and women do this all the time to each other. They come on strong with each other. They get love struck, as she said. And then when it's set in about compatibility or whether or not they genuinely like a person, they end the relationship. Now, when she told him on the phone that she was ending it, he was devastated.  I don't believe she was intentionally meant to hurt his feelings. In addition, I don't think she, you know, she got amped up on the love and the limerence and the lust and all that sort of thing, just like he did. He seemed, like I said, she seemed more high functioning. So why is this related to men? Well, because I don't believe men genuinely mean to hurt someone when they come on strong, when they love bomb or they're caught up in the limerence. I think in the initial stages, when you meet someone, you're excited about, your little kid comes out, just like in this case, their little kid comes out. And we oftentimes judge people a little bit differently in the sense that we would say unlike these autistic people, we would expect more mature people to have a better grasp of their emotions. And yet, I genuinely believe that most human beings have weak emotional maturity and weak relationship skills because they're in many cases not as developed in these areas of their lives. As yet, yes, we look at people who are successful and can pay their bills and that most likely should be more emotionally mature and have greater relationship skills. But the reality is this is an area within ourselves that is very rarely ever truly developed, especially in the relationship realm. So just like these people in love on the spectrum that are operating from an almost childlike place, the vast majority of human beings, men and women alike, are operating from this place of childlike in the sense that it hasn't been something developed for them. So do we judge a child who puts a hand over a flame because they didn't know it was going to burn? No, we just we look at them and try to protect them. And in this particular case, why I'm bringing this up is I operate from the assumption that most people have weak emotional maturity, weak relationship skills, and it's incumbent upon the individual to develop that within themselves. And what's interesting and no disrespect for women here, but many of you believe that you're very good at this and yet I witness over and over again how few women actually can communicate their thoughts and feelings in a way that can be seen and heard and understood by a man. Certainly men struggle with that as well. And worse, many of you ladies are afraid to speak your truth to a man for fear that he's going to leave you. And there's no benefit to holding your truth in. When I wrote my book, What the Heck Is Self Love Anyway, there's a copy of it right there. Chapter one is speak your truth, do it with kindness. And later on in the book, I share that if it's sincere and from the heart, you can't say the wrong thing to the right person. So this young woman who is speaking from her heart, now maybe her judgments of what she thinks she wants, you know, she was she didn't want them guy who was working at Ralph. She wanted someone at her own level. Maybe that bled in. We oftentimes, our judgments, our egos can get in the way of a genuinely sincere love. And it was interesting right from the beginning when they hit it off, my girlfriend and I were like, oh, this is so sweet. We hope these two make it. We genuinely hope that these two would make it. And like many of us experiencing relationships today, we're operating from a place of childlike, not from. And we somewhat expect more from people. But at the same time, I'm really here to encourage an understanding that most people struggle in this area of relationships. And I don't believe men in particular are intentional in wanting to hurt someone when they go over the top in the beginning and then they pull away for whatever reason. This is why, ladies, I've always said, I've heard this story. Men are the gas and women are the brakes. And what that means is it's incumbent upon you to keep the pace of the dating process one of actually getting to know one another, getting to know one another from a deeper level. And yet dating today is hyper-focused on chemistry and romance and not actually determining true relationship compatibility. And more importantly, true emotional maturity is this person capable from an emotional level to navigate the challenges in a relationship. And I know many of you would prefer that the men be the leaders of the relationship. And you can just sit back and let him do all the work. No, you are in charge of your relationship, Essany. Do not give that job to a man. And if something does happen where a man pulls away ghosts or disappear, again, I don't believe it's met in any malicious sense. And just like this young woman, it was done because they operate from a lack of awareness of putting themselves in the other person's shoes in the very beginning. And if everybody would start to put yourself in the other person's shoes and be responsible for the other person's feelings from the get-go, maybe we'd be less likely to dive into the deep end without knowing whether or not you have a life vest to be able to swim to shore later on down the road. Did that make sense? All right, I think I've pontificated enough today. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Please post a comment below if this resonated with you, if you have something to share. As always, if you find value in the group, please tell your friends about Midlife Love Mastery. Send them to my website, JonathanAsley.com. Have them click the group coaching button so they can join our fantastic group. And I'm gonna sign off this video as I always do.  I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. My voice is escaping me. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone, a pet, teddy bear or pillow and give it or them a hug of love. There's a teddy bear because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it, we can all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch, bye-bye now, bye-bye.


Next property which is the fifth property, if S be the focus of the parabola, tangent and normal at any point P meet its axis in T and G respectively, so tangent meets at T normal meets at G, then S T is equal to S G is equal to S P. Let us prove it, it is very very simple you just have to make proper diagram and write the equation of tangents and normal and see where they are meeting the axis of the parabola. So tangent and normal they meet at T and G and this is your S and this is your P. So we have already seen S T is A plus A T square and S P is also A plus A T square, that is the focal distance. Now what is S G? So we know the equation of the normal is y equal to minus T x plus A T plus A T cube put y as 0. So T x will become this, so x will become 2 A plus A T square correct and this is already A. So this distance has to be A plus A T square again, which clearly implies S T is equal to S G is equal to S P. That means with S as the center and S T, S G and S P as the radius we can actually draw a circle like this, very bad circle but this is a circle. And this is going to be 90 degrees over here. So S is going to be the midpoint of, S is going to be the midpoint of T and G is the midpoint of T and G. Next is the sixth property guys, so let us note this down also. Sixth property says if S be the focus, if S be the focus, S H be perpendicular to the tangent at P then S H square is O S into S P, S H square is O S into S P. So let us say this is a tangent at a point and this is your S, this is your O. So you have to prove that S H square is O S into S P. So I will give you one minute, please type done on the chat box if you are done with it. If done please type done on your chat box if you are done with it, done. It is pretty simple, P is let us say A T square comma 2 A T and tangent will be T Y equal to X plus A T square. Let us find the coordinates of H. So where it meets H, X will be 0. So put this as 0, so T Y is equal to 0 plus A T square, so Y is equal to A T. So this point will be 0 comma A T and A will be A comma 0, sorry S will be A comma 0.    Done. So guys here we come to the end of this chapter. Now I will solve some problems on it because I do not want to start with ellipse right now. So next class we will be starting with an ellipse but presently we will take some problems. So let us start with this question very basic ones. The ones which are based on the locus definition of a parabola. Find the equation, find the equation of the parabola whose focus is minus 6 comma minus 6 and vertex is minus 2 comma minus 2. So if you make a diagram for this let us say minus 2 comma minus 2 is your vertex minus 6 minus 6 is your focus okay. So we know the line connecting the vertex and the focus is the axis correct. So this will be your axis of the parabola and also we know that directrix will be aligned perpendicular to the axis and it will meet axis at such a point which will be exactly in such a way that V is the midpoint of S and N. So these two distance will be equal. So it is very simple to find the equation of this line. This line equation is y equal to x correct right. So the equation of the directrix would be y equal to minus x plus some lambda correct. Now to get this lambda I need to know this point. Let us say this point is a comma let us say alpha comma beta. So alpha minus 6 by 2 is minus 2 and beta minus 6 by 2 is minus 2 again that means alpha is going to be minus 4 plus 6 which is going to be 2. So beta is also going to be 2. So put alpha beta in place of x and y to get the value of lambda. So 2 is equal to minus 2 plus lambda. So lambda is equal to 4 correct. So we get the equation of the directrix as x plus y equal to 4. Now once the equation of the directrix is known and the position of the focus is known we can easily write the equation of the parabola right. So let us clear this up. So x plus 6 the whole square y plus 6 the whole square under root is equal to distance of any point from this line by root 2 okay. So square both the sides and multiply with 2 you will get this equation okay and if you simplify this you are going to get x square plus y square minus 2xy plus 32x plus 32y plus 144 minus 16 128 equal to 0. This becomes your answer yeah okay. Let us take up next question now from a point A common tangents are drawn to the circle x square plus y square is equal to a square by 2 and the parabola y square is equal to 4x. Find the area of the quadrilateral find the area of the quadrilateral formed by the common tangents the chords of contact of the point A with respect to the circle and the parabola. So read the question very very carefully from a point A common tangents are drawn to the circle and the parabola. Find the area of the quadrilateral formed by the common tangents the chord of contact of the point A with respect to the circle and the parabola. So this is the situation actually so this is your circle also and this is a point A through which you are drawing common tangents to these two okay. So this is a common tangent okay. So now let us say this is the point of contact this is a point of contact here and you are connecting these by straight lines and making a quadrilateral from there. So the quadrilateral is p q r s this is your point A and you have been asked to find out this area any idea anybody okay. So let us discuss this without wasting much time. So first of all let's say I take this point q to be at square comma 280 okay and I write the equation of the tangent drawn at q that will be ty is equal to x plus at square correct. Okay now this tangent is also a tangent to this circle correct. That means the distance of origin from this tangent should be equal to the radius correct. So let me write it in the generalized form. So distance from the origin will be mod at square by under root of 1 plus t square and this should be equal to the radius. Radius is radius is a by root 2 radius is a by root 2. So if you cancel out the factor of a and square both the sides you will get 2 t to the power 4 is equal to 1 plus t square okay. So just square both the sides cancel out a squares you will get this. Now clearly a root here is t is equal to plus minus 1 right. That means I can say p point could be either be a comma 2 a or a comma minus 2 a correct. That means it has to pass through the focus itself right and clearly it is the lattice rectum. So q r has to be the lattice rectum right. Now I want to see what is p and s what is p and s from this diagram. What will be these two points? So when you put now the value of t as 1 let's say I take a t as 1 over here so I get y is equal to x plus a okay. Let's say consider this point to be x 1 comma y 1 correct. So the equation of the tangent to the circle to the circle at x 1 comma y 1 is nothing but x x 1 plus y y 1 equal to a square by 2 okay. And I try to compare this equation with this. So basically I am trying to compare these two equations. So this equation and this equation I am trying to compare okay. So when I do that I get I get x 1 by 1 is equal to y 1 by minus 1 is equal to a square by minus 2 a. That means x 1 is minus a by 2 and y 1 is a by 2. So it's very clear that this point p has now coordinates minus a by 2 comma a by 2. And similarly I can say s will have coordinates of minus a by 2 minus a by 2 because they would be symmetrically located they would be symmetrically located about the x axis.  So p s will be nothing but the distance between p and s which is going to be a okay. Moreover we can say that p s will be parallel to q r both will be parallel to the y axis correct.  Now what is the area of the trapezium? Area of the trapezium will be half of sum of parallel sides. So sum of p q plus r s into the distance between them okay. So please note that this distance will be 3 a by 2. So it becomes half of 4 a plus a into 3 a by 2 which will become which will become 1 fourth of 15 a square. So answer is 15 by 4 a. Any questions with respect to this solution? Rohan, Atmaesh. So we will take one more question before we end this session. If t p and t q are any two tangents or any two tangents to a parabola and the tangent at a third point r and the tangent at a third point r cuts them in p dash and q dash then prove that t p dash by t p plus t q dash by t q is going to be 1. So we have a tangent like this we have a tangent like this and we have a tangent like this let's say so let's say this is t p q p dash q dash this is r okay. So let's let's try to solve this question. So let's say point p is corresponding to a parameter t 1 point q is corresponding to a parameter t 2 and point r is corresponding to a parameter t 3 okay. Now we know that the tangents at the tangents drawn at p and q will meet at a t 1 t 2 comma a t 1 plus t 2 correct. So let's say this point is a t 1 square comma 2 a t 1 and let's say this is t p dash is to t p is let's say lambda is to 1 okay. Let's say it is lambda is to 1 and by the way this point is going to be the meeting point of tangent at p and tangent at r which is going to be a t 1 t 3 comma a t 1 plus t 3. So now t p dash by t p is going to be the distance between these two points divided by the distance between these two points okay which I'm calling as lambda is to 1. So let's find out the ratio of the distance between these two points. So t p dash will be a t 1 t 3 minus a t 1 t 2 whole square minus a t 1 plus t 3 minus t 1 minus t 2 whole square under root okay which is going to be a take t 1 a square t 1 square common t 3 minus t 2 whole square plus a square t 3 minus t 2 whole square under root which is going to be a t 3 minus t 2 under root of t 1 square plus 1. In a similar way if I find t p if I find t p what will I get under root of a t 1 square minus a t 1 t 2 whole square plus 2 a t 1 minus a t 1 plus t 2 whole square. And again if I am not wrong that will give me a t 1 minus t 2 under root of t 1 square plus 1 correct. So this ratio will be so this ratio will be t p dash by t p will be actually t 3 minus t 2 by t 1 minus t 2. Can I say similarly similarly t q dash by t q would be t 1 minus t 3 by t 1 minus t 2 correct.  So quite a hectic problem but if you know the road map you will be able to easily navigate through this problem okay. So guys with this we come to the end of your parabola chapter we are left with ellipse and hyperbola. So next class also we'll keep it online and I'll start with the ellipse okay. Best of luck for your coming exams so over and out from Centrum Academy thank you for coming online.