What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical over here, so I'm talking about several different topics in this video here again today We'll be talking about jeepers creepers for screen six halloween ends and Megan. Yes, that killer doll AI new Movie that's coming in January finally drop this trailer today Just to kick it off with jeepers creepers for jeepers creepers for is closing in on four million dollars worldwide Which is really crazy to me. I say that's crazy because the whole movie for the most part had almost little to no marketing at all And it was just dumped for three days in September via, you know fad fathmovance It's currently available digitally people like yes still are going out to theaters to watch it The budget was reportedly five million dollars Which if true that is like what one million dollars less or one million dollars less than the alleged budget of three Which is like around six point one or six million as far as like what's alleged was the budget for three So it seems like this one is somehow going to make back its budget better than the third film And this one had again no marketing perhaps Here's the other thing perhaps what the boost might be is the appeal of the lack of victor salva the lack of victor salva Could indeed be a be a boost which could lead to I would guess like, you know the same way they did for Why would they not do five however? There are some other things to keep in mind like for instance What's strange to me is the accounts for the film they aren't even telling folks about these screenings that are still occurring Like they told you about the one time return it had but they're not telling you about these other things like I had a friend Called me up and tell me they could see it yesterday No, no one on the official accounts like none of the official accounts are bringing this up that it's still out there It's almost as if they indeed only care to make a certain amount to profit off a known IP and then call it quits and say Hey, you know forget jeepers creepers. We already know they have this lawsuit. They're dealing with so How this was handled just screams the opposite of what what the claims of a new trilogy are So like if this TV series rumor ends up being being a reality or becoming a reality Then that's probably the best thing for this franchise at this point. However, I believe it would cost more to make a series for TV Depending on all the ins and outs and what is needed plus how many episodes the season would have etc So we'll see what jeepers creepers future ultimately ends up being just to jump into scream six scream six We now have a new character name now clips comprehend over on Twitter again has revealed something that might be allegedly True as it pertains to a character I believe it's true going off of the character breakdown sheet that again was leaked online a few months ago So clips is saying Josh Segarra's characters from scream six is going to be playing David Coleman now this role We know is the role is Simeon Day's audition for if you remember that audition tape video I did a few months back for when this character is labeled Derek as a cold name and going off of that audition tape Much like the audition tape revealed to us earlier this year Clips is saying the character description for David is he's a neighbor of Sam. We saw that in the audition tape He's a neighbor of Sam and Tara barely getting by as an actor model They first meet him when he offers to help carry things in for Sam and Tara's new place But Sam declines the offer He has a blonde actress friend now the blonde actress friend I'm going to say that must be some are weaving because clips kind of nodded to this by saying the friend was weaved in there Samara's role probably won't be that big honestly, and if anything she might have maybe two to five minutes of Screen time at max. I hope for more But the cast is so packed like the movie is so packed with people we want to see we can't get a good meal from every person It's just a sad reality But it's nice that Sam is of course gonna get possibly her own Derek 2.0 Like how Sydney had her actual boyfriend named Derek in scream 2. I don't believe Josh is going to be the killer but But many do because of his shirt matching the shirt worn by other killers like he had on that plaid Like the pattern of other killers. That's what his shirt was So we'll see if he actually ends up being the killer. I doubt he will be that was a nice nugget from clips I will also do a video talking about Samara's role and just saying what I think will go down with her character Since she apparently will be an actress Just to jump into Halloween ends Halloween ends Jamie Lee Curtis has further explained why some people will be angered by ends Now it seems that she's talking more about not the ending and more specifically about things in the film and what's explored So I've been saying she said I've been saying people are going to be angry from the beginning She's this is an interview from digital spy by the way They're going to be angry because we're saying something about all of us in all of us as a society This is about victims. This is about victims shaming. This is about what happens in a town when we have all become monsters People don't like to be told they're monsters You've seen the monsters on Twitter all that social media has done is really reminded us all that we're monsters and that we have that power and That we have that power. It's a movie about Michael and Lori coming in for this final inevitable battle between good and evil But in the midst of it all it's asking is Michael really just evil or are we all a little bit culpable here?  I personally don't see myself being bothered by this I don't know if many of you would see yourself being bothered by that a movie that where it's dealing with the fact that you know humans really are crap and At least not being overly Overly fed that narrative But the way that is depicted and how we see Corey storyline play out We're probably tying to that theme of hey, you know Michael isn't the only monster just because he's going around killing people He's just a much worse monster there There are many monsters out there in general that exists within this species of humanity that Really just help maybe contribute to some of the bigger monsters that we have today Just a nice thing to think about which I do believe is kind of true just to jump into this last bit here regarding Megan Megan has released a first look at the film or at least the first trailer I would say to give us a Glimpse of what we should expect from this new AI killer doll and the marketing already is so much fun If you DM this account that was that is associated with the Twitter The Twitter handle for the for the film she will have a whole conversation with you Of course the responses are auto-generated, but she'll send you a picture of yourself that she has photographed Obviously in reference to the movie poster that shows us the same image, but the trailer itself Very very interesting. We got to see it looked like most of this was stuff that was shown at Cinema con We got to see footage of a boy falling into the road after Megan chases him there after he's seen causing problems with Violet McGraw's character who we know is playing the niece of Alice in Williams some story details shown in the trailer seem to be that her Parents of course have died. They seem to I guess died from a car crash You know soon have some horror cliches there and then there are of course going to be comparisons the child's play 2019 But this trailer was very effective It did enough to set you up to give you that sense of security with Megan before of course flipping the switch and then showing You a nice chunk of some of the madness is going to ensue once Megan starts to become over protective of Violet McGraw's character And how Alice in Williams will have to Combat with Megan who is going to be doing her best to make sure that that character is kept safe from any and all bullies That might come her way. So I know a lot of people were talking about how the doll was dancing. I did love that I thought was a nice touch. Let me know just thought about all of this down the comment section below if having already of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notifications that you never miss a video in the description I'll have links on my social media accounts. I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there of course to let me know if there are any movies news or reviews You'll have me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to Around the World in 8 Minutes, a show from People's Dispatch where we bring you stories of resistance and defiance from across the world as the collective strength of the people fights back against the horrors of capitalism and imperialism and strives for a better world. For our first story, we go to Swaziland with the police detained and allegedly tortured 7 students, including the president of the Swaziland National Union of Students while they were returning from a protest march last week. The students were demanding scholarship for all students admitted to higher education. On August 15th, students from the country's three major universities, the University of East Swatani, the Lim Kok Wing University of Creative Technology, and the East Swatani Christian Medical University came together in joint action for the first time in decades. The demonstration was a part of the campaign launched by the Swaziland National Union of Students or SNUS in May 2017 to force the government to reverse its decision of cutting 60% of the scholarships, making the remaining 40% available only to selected courses. The students are demanding that anyone who gets an admission into an institute of higher learning after having secured the required grades must get a scholarship regardless of which course they choose to study. The protesting students also delivered a petition to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security stating their demand. The act was enough to provoke the police forces in the capital of Amabadi to launch an attack on the students who were on their way back after the delivery of the petition. In Swaziland, over 70% of the population lives below the poverty line of two years dollars a day. Without scholarships, higher education is inaccessible to the great majority of the masses regardless of how well they score in their secondary education. Multiple reports have indicated that young students who are unable to feed themselves sufficiently are being forced to sell themselves as prostitutes. Exploiting these conditions, many local businessmen have made it a part of their business to offer university students as sex workers to rich tourists from neighboring South Africa. The government of King Maswati III refuses to allocate the required funds for their education and bring an end to this abuse of the young generation who seeks to study on the grounds that there is a shortage of funds. Maswati is the last absolute monarch in Africa who reigns above the law. The royal family of the king who controls 60% of the country's economy has 13 palaces, a fleet of luxury cars and motor bikes and two private aircrafts. Condemning the police action against the students, the Communist Party of Swaziland said in a statement that they will continue to work with SNUS and the entire student movement in support of their demands. After leading a decade of peaceful struggle against the monarchy to bring about a democratic Swaziland in the course of which the party has been banned and its mass organizations subjected to harassment and depression, the party has begun preparing for an armed sabotage campaign against those industries and infrastructure that are crucial for the upkeep of the monarchy. The party argued that none of the demands of unions of workers or students can be met under a repressive monarchy. With the demand democracy now, it has urged the students to come on board to participate and contribute meaningfully to this engagement and ensure that the socialism they call for is implemented in their lifetime. Now on to a story of workers, Victorian Qatar. Thousands of migrant workers, most of them hailing from South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal and India, have won significant concessions and assurances from the Qatari government following two days of strikes and protests. Held in the first week of August, the workers were protesting against the delay and non-payment of salaries in human working conditions and threats of wage reduction. A local trade union activists said that the protests had taken place on August 4th and 5th, mainly in and across labour city, where a majority of the migrant workers live as many of the big construction companies are situated in the area. On August 4, workers belonging to the ISKCON construction and contracting company went on protests due to delays of over two months in the payment of their salaries. The following day, between 800 to 1000 ISKCON employees refused to report to work. One of the employees claimed that in response to the protests, the company's management threatened to deport workers who refused to sign their new contracts with reduced wages. The protests resulted in the workers entering into negotiations with Qatari government officials over issues and problems faced by them. Following the successful negotiations, those affected received two months of unpaid salaries from their companies. Qatari authorities also arrested company officials who were guilty of not paying the workers their dues. Many workers also registered their grievances regarding applying for and procuring no objection certificates. The certificate is a necessary requirement to quit a job without the employer's permission. Government officials issued such NOCs to the workers allowing them to change their employer as a result of these protests. The protests reflected the precarious and desperate situation of the workers. Most workers are employed under the kafala system which forbids employees from changing jobs without prior permission of their current employers who have sponsored their work visa. The employers also have power over the workers movements and can decide whether they can leave the country. Trade unions remain illegal in the country with a general ban on strikes. A trade union activist who spoke to the media on condition of anonymity clarified that the protests were not related to the projects for the FIFA World Cup to be hosted by Qatar in 2022, the anticipation of which is generally considered to have affected the government's response to the situation. Ever since Qatar was awarded the rights to host the prestigious football World Cup by FIFA in 2010, the nation's treatment of its migrant workers has received global scrutiny. Qatar has the highest proportion of migrant workers population in the world, with 2.3 million of the 2.6 million inhabitants being expatriates. Most of these workers come from poorer south and southeast nations and work under extremely poor conditions and for meager wages. What brought attention to the condition of the migrant workers in the tiny Gulf state would be the high incidence of deaths among workers under the age of 50, often because of exhaustion and adverse impact of years of strenuous work. According to data revealed in 2014 by various sources as reported by Guardian, over 700 Indian workers and over 400 Nepali workers were estimated to have died in a span of two years since 2012 across the country. A 2013 report by the International Trade Union Confederation had estimated that if situations did not improve, then nearly 4,000 workers can be expected to be dead by the time the World Cup begins in 2022. Finally, we go to Turkey. The Turkish riot police on August 20th used water cannons and tear gas bombs to brutally suppress Kurdish protesters who were demonstrating against the government's decision to remove three Kurdish mayors on August 19th. The mayors represented the curd majority cities of the Arbaqir, Mardin and Van in southeast Turkey and belong to the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party or HDP. In the city of the Arbaqir, police were seen using high pressure water cannons on small groups of protesters who attempted to join and stand together in a bid to protect themselves. They were also seen making victory signs with their hands. Some protesters had gathered near the Arbaqir municipal building which was sealed off by metal barriers. Videos emerged of riot police brutally beating them up. Several journalists who were covering the protests were also physically assaulted with batons and tear gas. The police even used plastic bullets to crack down on the demonstration. Reports indicated the presence of over 500 riot police personnel meant to contain the roughly 200 Kurdish protesters who had gathered there. Armoured vehicles were also seen at the site of the protests serving as a backup for riot police. Several pro-Kurdish HDP lawmakers who were part of the protests ended up with injuries. The HDP leader, Cezayit Emili told reporters, you can see here today a regime of pressure and persecution. We will continue to resist wherever we are because the resistance is a legitimate right. Turkey had removed the mayors after accusing them of various crimes including being part of a terrorist organization and spreading terror propaganda. These accusations have been categorically denied by the HDP. The three mayors were elected to the respective mayoral seats in the elections that were held in March. The Arbaqir mayor, Selkukh Mizraqli, received 63% of the votes. Mardin Mayor Ahmed Turg received 56% and Van Mayor Bidya Ertan received 54% of the total votes. Turkey had on Monday also detained at least 418 people across 29 provinces in the country on suspicion of links with the outlawed Kurdistan, workers' party and other armed Kurdish groups. So this is all we have for this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. For more such stories and videos, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.


Welcome to the Sports Playbook where we discuss solutions to issues that impact sports. I'm your host, Angela Hazlett. Today's guest is Elizabeth Abdonore, who is the founder and principal of Elizabeth Abdonore Law, PLLC in Lansing, Michigan. We are here to discuss Title IX Litigation and Advocacy, representing plaintiffs. Let's get to it. Elizabeth, I'm so glad to have you on the show today. Thank you so much, Angela. I appreciate you inviting me. Absolutely. I'm really excited to get to the heart of your practice. You're an attorney where you litigate and advocate for plaintiffs in Title IX cases. And Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex and applies to schools that receive federal financial assistance from the Department of Education. Athletics are considered an integral part of an institution's education program and are therefore covered by this law. For schools to be compliant with their athletic programs, they must accommodate students' athletic interests and abilities, provide equivalent athletic benefits and opportunities, and substantially proportionate financial assistance. Elizabeth, what else can you tell us about Title IX's application to athletics? Yeah, I mean, I think it is key for any educational institution that receives federal funding to be familiar with Title IX with respect to athletics. Of course, there are applications as well outside of athletics, but what schools want to be paying attention to is whether they are treating female students equitably when compared to male students. There are some pretty complex formulas that are used to figure that out. So, for example, there are a lot of situations where we look at schools and we might see a huge football or basketball program where we know a ton of resources are being poured into there. And there may not be something similar in terms of the spending on women, but there are a lot of other metrics that can be considered in terms of number of women that are involved in sports. Whether the women's and the men's teams have substantially similar facilities and, you know, whether they're providing them with equal perks, you know, so things like the athletic trainers, they might be getting the medical help, that kind of thing. So, it's long story short, it's something that in order to be compliant, you really want to have a compliance expert either full-time on your campus or at least somebody to consult with you because there are a lot of factors to consider. And I imagine every institution is slightly different. So, speaking of institutions, all public and private elementary and secondary schools, school districts, colleges and universities receiving any federal funds must comply with Title IX. This includes approximately 17,600 local school districts, over 5,000 post-secondary institutions, charter schools, for-profit schools and other institutions. Title IX is most known for expanding opportunities for women and girls in sport. Before the passage of this legislation, there were just over 300,000 women and girls combined playing college and high school sports in the United States. At that time, female athletes received 2% of college athletic budgets. Let me emphasize that again, only 2% of the athletic budgets and athletic scholarships for women were virtually non-existent. So, in the 50 years since Title IX's passing, girls' high school sports participation has increased tenfold and participation for women in college athletics has increased more than six times. So, girls and women now have opportunities like never before in athletics at their educational institutions. So, Elizabeth, why is your Title IX work important in today's landscape? Yeah, so unfortunately, equity is still not present necessarily everywhere in, you know, both, you know, colleges and universities and higher education as a whole, and particularly athletics. There have been a number of cases that have been in the public view recently that I think illustrate this. One of them I'm pretty familiar with a case involving the Michigan State University swim team. They recently entered into a settlement agreement with Michigan State. Essentially what had happened was that the entire swim team was eliminated because the university was arguing that this would, you know, do whatever. I think there was something about, like, they didn't have the facilities that they said they needed, but because they eliminated numerous female athletes who were on the swim team, the argument that the athletes made was that this was negatively impacting them and was a gender discrimination issue because it was cutting so many female athletes and, you know, removed the balance or the equity that was there in the MSU athletics program. I don't know the details of the settlement agreement. One thing I do know, though, is that it does not bring back the MSU swim team, sadly. So, but there is still a very, very active and vocal and well-resourced group of former athletes and alums who are still fighting to bring the MSU swim team back. But, you know, as universities and colleges struggle to try to comply with Title IX and to balance their financial budgets and things like that, I think there are still a lot of struggles that require us to continue to look at Title IX. Elizabeth, you are intimately familiar with Michigan State University and settlements surrounding Title IX issues.  So, before starting your own law practice, you actually worked at Michigan State University as a Title IX investigator at the time of the Larry Nasser investigation. Larry Nasser was a former team physician at Michigan State University who is now serving a prison sentence for sexually assaulting over 300 gymnasts and other athletes under the guise of providing medical treatment. Michigan State, which was accused of missing chances over many years to stop Nasser, agreed to pay $500 million to more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted by him. So, what can you tell us about Michigan State handling of the Nasser case? Yeah, it was a very, very challenging time for the university. So, you know, the story initially broke through the Indie Star newspaper when one of the survivors came forward and told her story. And what happened was that just sort of caused a number almost like an avalanche of additional folks to come forward because he had been such a prolific predator. There were many, many women and girls and I believe some boys as well who had been abused by him. You know, from my perspective inside the university when it happened, it was very challenging. There was some messaging from the top that indicated that the university, you know, kind of wanted this to go as quietly as possible, which was not ever going to be what happened, right? And then additionally, one thing that the university also saw in addition to the many, many survivors of Larry Nasser that came forward was many, many other survivors who came forward of other abusers at Michigan State. Folks who had been abused recently, but also going back as far as 20 or 30 years and what I saw, because they, you know, they were seeing this news and this information about this abuser that had been at their institution. And they wanted to come forward to prevent any abuse by anybody else or to, you know, try to seek some sort of resolution for the abuse that they had suffered and watching these other folks come forward, gave them the courage and the sort of resolution that they wanted to come forward. So there was this huge cascade of just folks coming forward about not only Larry Nasser, but many abusers at the institution. I'm sure Michigan State wasn't ready for the scale of abuse that had been occurring. And at around the time of the public becoming aware of this case, you were dismissed from employment as a Title IX investigator from Michigan State University. You subsequently received a settlement in the amount of $175,000. What circumstances transpired that caused the series of events? Yeah, so I, you know, initially, there, you know, like I said, I had seen things happening that I thought were not right within the Title IX office and the university as a whole, both in terms of the Larry Nasser response and then just sort of more generally in terms of, you know, how they were doing the response and training on Title IX issues. And I had raised concerns internally, was very, very vocal. I'm a very outspoken person. And, you know, was either getting brushed aside or ignored, tried to go to different folks outside of my office. People seemed like interested in what I had to say, but nothing was really happening. And then I got wind that the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights was going to be on campus. So at that time MSU was under a resolution agreement with them, which caused them to have periodic visits to MSU to just sort of check on things happening. And what I had heard was that like they were going to be on campus. I can't remember if it was like the next few days or the following week.   And the very next day I was called into my boss's office and told that I was being suspended and immediately walked out of the office like in the middle of the day in front of everybody. They would not tell me why they were suspending me. And I actually, I was like, wait, what? I hadn't even at that point made the connection. It didn't make sense to me because the thing is I've been raising, I've been very vocal about this stuff for like several months. So it, you know, I wasn't like, and it took them three weeks of me being at home on suspension for them to even tell me why they were investigating me, which by that point, the explanation was that I was being insubordinate and not following the things that my supervisor had told me which was true because they were ethically not things I could do. And they ended up, they ended up sending me a FedEx letter a couple months later saying that I was fired. So yeah, I hired an attorney who reached out to them. I am actually not allowed to disclose the amount of the settlement. So I'm assuming you found it some other way. Freedom of Information Act information making a formal request. Exactly. Yeah, I know it's out there if people want to find it. So yeah, so I negotiated a resolution with them and then used that money primarily to help start my own law firm, which I now run. And so how do you feel regarding that outcome that you experienced with Michigan State? I imagine it had to, you mentioned surprise and shock and confusion and now how do you feel looking back on that experience? Looking back now, I think it was like the best thing that probably could have happened to me.  And there were many wrong things that continued to happen that I heard about even after I was gone. And it was not an environment that I would have been able to be successful in any way. So, you know, I would have needed to get out one way or another. And, you know, I think obviously it was painful at the time, but I think if I had stayed there longer, I think it could have potentially caused more damage to me just in terms of mental health and my ability to get up and keep moving, you know, afterwards. So I think looking back, I think it was the best thing that could have happened to me, honestly. And there was, there's perhaps a positive outcome in that the settlement money was used to fund your law practice, which now you specialize in Title IX litigation and advocacy. What else can you tell us about this law practice? Yeah, so I love it. My main focus is on trying to help people who are facing some type of discrimination, either at school or at work, sometimes both. So I do a lot of Title IX work. I represent folks in litigation. I also represent folks who are going through Title IX investigations and hearings at their institution. I handle a good amount of employment law related to folks who are being discriminated against or retaliated against for raising concerns at their job, which I learned how to do that from my own experience. So, you know, experience sometimes is the best teacher. So, you know, it's nice though, because I, you know, I can really connect with my clients who are going through that and tell them, look, I've been through it. I know where you are. It does not define you because sometimes it can feel like something like that does. And then I also do a good amount of work related to special education. So I represent parents and families in K-12 schools who have, you know, the students have disabilities and they're not getting the services they need. So that's the big picture. Yeah. So several different facets there. And so, you know, today, this today's episode we're focusing on that the total nine aspects. So talk to me a little bit about cases, Title IX cases that have affected athletics. You know, Larry Nasser was a huge one that you touched on. What other, what other cases have maybe you been involved in or have some knowledge about that you can share with us to give our viewers an understanding of the scope of Title IX issues in sports today. Yeah, absolutely. Well, there was another big one, unfortunately in Michigan, which involved Robert Anderson, who was also a team doctor at the University of Michigan. He was molesting primarily athletes at the University of Michigan back in the 1970s and early 80s. I actually do have one client who was a victim of his. There was an initial first set of complaints that were filed. And there was a settlement negotiated with the University for that group. And then there was a portion that was set aside for additional survivors that came forward. So my client is in that second group. And he's, you know, he, for him, it's a long process. You know, a lot of these survivors from that group are there 50s, 60s and 70s. Many of them, you know, dealing with this for the first time in terms of coming to terms with it. And they're almost all men.  So, yeah, so that's it just, I mean, everything I know about those survivors, their lives were completely turned upside down by the abuse and in all kinds of different ways.  A lot of them involving men. One case that I have that's going on right now that I think is really important is the case that I and a couple of colleagues have filed against Louisiana State University. We have 10 plaintiffs in that case and essentially the plaintiffs either had experienced and many of them reported sexual assault, sexual harassment, relationship violence to the universities, either to folks in the athletic department or to the universities title nine office. And then, you know, for the majority of them, either nothing was done at all, or, you know, there was some sort of an investigation but it either didn't result in a finding or didn't result in any, you know, any, any, any realistic change to their circumstances. And we've got several different survivors in that case who were abused by the same two athletes.  We've got one who was on the path to be a very good professional tennis player. She had played against Venus Williams and she did lose but Venus had very good things to say about her after the match. I mean, she easily could have been a top 50 player she had the skills to do so and she her tennis career was completely derailed and she, you know, she'll never get back to that. So, you know, in that case what I think is interesting is looking at, and I don't think this was intentional but looking at the costs to the female athletes in order for the male athletes to succeed and the fact that that was just sort of accepted as a cost that the institution was willing to pay. I think that raises serious title nine questions.  Yeah, exactly. And then diversity is sweeping that under the rug so that the teams might be successful. And in some cases with our plaintiffs, the female athletes then losing their ability to go forward and continue to play either professionally. We had another member of our plaintiff group who was planning to be a tennis coach. She lost her path. She has lost her love of tennis and she now works as a bartender. So, you know, in terms of the cost to women's tennis, we have some serious costs there. And the benefit was, you know, male football players and men's football and I guess maybe the NFL, although I don't think any of them were doing that great there of those that are there. The sweeping this under the rug and at what point do clients engage your services? It sounds like the experiences they don't get the support that they need from the university. And then it sounds like maybe they then they turn to you for services. Is that a typical time in which they engage your services? Yeah, there are a lot of folks come to me at that point when they, you know, it's really a lot of folks who experienced some sort of abuse that's connected with their educational institution. They've been trained and they believe that the institution is going to help them. And so they really do make an effort to go through the process of resolving it internally. And often it's not until that process has been completed and they then feel betrayed by their institution that they start thinking, OK, maybe I need to really get a lawyer to help me here. There are some folks who come to me earlier. So like I said, there are some folks I represent through their Title IX investigations. So that would be before the school or during the time that the school is involved in trying to resolve it. But the majority of folks come to me after that. You know, college students just really aren't thinking, oh, I'm going to need a lawyer. It's just not what they're they're normally expecting that their school will help them because that's what they've been told. Right, absolutely. In 2020, the Trump administration made rule changes to Title IX, making it even more difficult for survivors to lay claims and hold accused persons accountable. What can you tell us about the rule change and how this affects your work in Title IX cases? Yeah, so there were there were a lot of changes that were implemented through that 2020 rulemaking process. One of the primary changes that occurred was that schools, at least higher ed institutions, K-12 are not required to do this. But in higher ed, they are required to at least offer an opportunity for a face to face hearing, which I say face to face. It can happen remotely via Zoom. But an actual opportunity for the parties to directly cross-examine each other through an advisor or representative. Before that, you know, it was sort of a change in the way the Title IX process was viewed. Before that, there had sort of been this understanding that it was a civil rights investigative process. You know, along the lines of an HR investigation where you'd have an individual or a couple of folks who were assigned to do the investigation, gather all the information and make a decision about whether the internal policy had been violated. There was sort of a change to perceiving it as more of a confrontational slash litigation type process that required direct, you know, the opportunity for direct questioning of one another. And what resulted is that it caused a lot of more hesitance, I think, for folks to even engage in the process because many people, when they're reporting somebody else, they just want that person to leave them alone. And they want to be able to move past this as soon as possible. They don't want to get engaged in a months or even years long process that's going to culminate in a face to face questioning by someone representing their abuser. It's just not worth that to them. It's just going to be too much trauma. And so I think what's resulted is that it's caused, I've certainly interacted with potential clients and clients who have told me they chose not to take advantage of the school's internal process because of that. The process can be brutal depending on the skill level and training of the hearing officer. You know, I've seen situations where hearing officers have allowed what I think are really inappropriate lines and methods of questioning. You know, just not getting at whether there's a preponderance of the evidence that a policy was violated, but getting a lot more at things like people's, you know, promiscuity levels and things like that, which really should not be a matter of question. What they were wearing and who they were out with and what they were, if they were engaged in drinking alcohol at the time, decisions like that, that shouldn't really affect the outcome. Right, right. And, you know, there is language about that in the guidance, but I think it's a matter of training and experience. And it's, you know, these schools are, they have a hard time finding qualified folks. You know, I actually also serve as a hearing officer myself for a couple of institutions and it's a ton of work.  The longest I've had a hearing take is I had a hearing take 10 hours once. And then you've, yeah, and then you've got to go through all this material and make a decision and then there's going to be an appeal process. It's a mountain of work and so finding people that are qualified to do it that, like, you know, don't have other options of things they could do that's less painful. It's very hard for schools. Absolutely. That does sound really challenging. What are some other challenges in litigating and advocating for survivors in Title IX cases? I think one thing is managing expectations. So, you know, it's a trauma to go through litigation is trauma. You know, the schools and defendants are going to do things like try to get every text message you've ever said they may want to do a medical or psychological exam of you. They're certainly going to want your medical and psychological records. And that's extremely intrusive. Depositions are very difficult. Then you are being grilled under oath by somebody representing a person or an entity that you feel abused you and they can ask you anything. And so, helping them understand what that process is going to be like and also managing expectations for results.  I can't get anybody fired. I don't have that ability. No court has that ability. So, if you had a horrible experience with an awful Title IX investigator, we might be able to get you some money, but I'm not going to be able to get that person fired and I'm not going to be able to prevent that person from causing harm in the future. You know, if the school chooses to take that route, that's up to them. I've never seen it happen. I think mainly because the schools would see that as an admission of liability, essentially. So, you know, that's really, I think the hardest part is helping people understand what the process is going to be like and be realistic about what the possible outcomes are. But they have potential opportunities to go through the legal process outside of the university's Title IX process as well, right? So, the outcome could potentially be different. Maybe not forcing someone to get fired, but they could be held accountable through that process. Are they more likely to be successful in going through the Title IX process at a university level versus taking it through the legal system? I think it's difficult to succeed in both venues. And then, you know, another option that you would have potentially would be to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. I've seen some good results there, particularly if the case is routed to their mediation process that they have. But again, you know, they're extremely overburdened and understaffed and filing a complaint there can take years before it gets resolved. So, in terms of fastest results, sadly likely the school, even though sometimes those take a year or more, but yeah, it's a tough road no matter what you choose to go. You know, whoever has the accusations made against them, whether it's the individual or the school is going to be fighting very hard not to be found responsible for any violations. Absolutely. Let's talk just briefly about how this affects athletes of different sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender students. I know the Biden administration was talking about kind of expanding the scope and talking about prohibiting discrimination for students that may be based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. So talk to me about Title IX and athletes that may fall under this umbrella. Yeah, so the Biden administration actually issued guidance through the Department of Education. I think it was, it was the summer of 2021. I think it was June.  Students who are trans or students who are, you know, expressing gender identity that might be different from their assigned gender at birth, or students who have sexual orientations of whatever variety. Everybody should be protected from any type of discrimination regardless. There have been some cases decided recently, there was a really interesting one. There was just the decision at the end of 2022, I think. And I think it was in the second Circuit Court of Appeals, but it was related to a high school athlete in Connecticut who was being prohibited from joining a team at their school because they were transgender. And the court, the court affirmed that that's in fact inappropriate and that, you know, that was discrimination under Title IX.  And, you know, so far, I think the courts, at least what I've seen are doing what has been directed of them by the Department of Education, but I do think it's still something that as we see these cases move through the courts may have different results. So one final question, what happens when a school doesn't comply with Title IX? What are the consequences? And I mean, there's a lot of harm here, right? And there's, you talked about the sophisticated analysis to determine if an institution is being compliant with Title IX as far as providing opportunities for men and for women. So what are the consequences to these institutions? And then with that, what do you advocate should change and be done differently? Yeah, I mean, the potential, the main potential consequence you have is you are not giving the same opportunities to everybody on your campus. And so I think if we move beyond thinking about gender, if we just think about, you know, if you were an institution of higher learning, your goal should be, one of your primary goals should be to give your students all possible opportunities to develop and grow in whatever ways they possibly can while they're spending their four years or whatever at your institution. I think institutions have to ask themselves, are you really doing what you're supposed to be doing if not everybody who sets foot on your campus has access to those same opportunities? If I can't, you know, flourish in all of the different areas of potential that I have, or at least if I don't have an opportunity to try, then what benefit am I getting from you as an institution? Why wouldn't another institution have been better for me? Or maybe not even going to college or university at all, you know? As it relates to athletics, if you could just summarize, what do you think is, what are the consequences to an institution and what opportunities we have to improve the process? Yeah. Well, I think athletics are important for a lot of students for a lot of reasons. You know, helping students learn how to be a member of a team, be punctual, work hard, and have goals that they're setting and that they have to work to achieve rather than something that might just come easily. And I think, you know, a very few students end up making a professional career of athletics, right? It's just not the avenue for most folks, but I think a lot of people learn things like how to be successful in a professional environment, you know, how to do things that are going to be expected of you as an adult from athletics. And if those opportunities are not afforded to students, I think they're missing out on a significant component of their education. Well, thank you, Elizabeth, for your time. We appreciate your insight and wealth of experience. And I appreciate all you do for victims who need some representation and advocacy. So thank you for being here. Thank you so much, Angela. So thank you to our viewers for joining us on the sports playbook. In two weeks, our guest is Dr. Victoria Silverwood, who will discuss violence in the sport of hockey. We will see you then. 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, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


Hi, good morning, and welcome to today's products and focus so you had Fed member Lockhart last night coming out with an absolute gaff apparently basically saying that we're definitely going to have a rate hike in April and then just an hour later he went well actually maybe I was kind of wrong about that.  What we are kind of seeing is a lot of global equity market, well the US market is still managing to push up that little bit higher, very resilient at the moment, other European and Asian markets are just kind of treading water at the moment and what we actually saw was a city bank have come out with a statement basically saying that it is the worst quarter for earnings downgrades ever global earnings downgrades ever in their history that they've come across so that gives you an idea margins for companies are definitely getting squeezed and there isn't going to be any super earning cycle to propel these markets up that little bit higher. So that's going to give you a bit of an idea, there's not a lot of fresh money coming in to the market right now, a lot of the movements that we're seeing higher especially like in Crude Oil and some other global equity markets might be coming out of people actually closing out their short interest positions so as people that were short just going you know what it's time to get out, take some money off the table and that's what's causing these markets to slightly get these gains, maybe not the US market incidentally but when you look at gold and not gold but Crude, sorry, that's where you're maybe getting your bits of growth from and it's not that there's a huge massive turnaround in demand or any difference in storage or how much of a glut that we've got so simply people are closing out those short positions wondering what to do next and that's pretty much the theme that's kicking around right now, the volatility aspects of many markets are really kind of drifting that a little bit lower, there's not as many opportunities as there was if things are just slowly treading up, obviously it's better for traders to have a little bit more volatility and maybe we'll get it if we get some surprises in the macro data side as well. About question marks over the Chinese Yuan, rumours of secret manipulation by the Chinese government because the Yuan has actually been very uncharacteristically stable at the moment which is probably helping to calm things as well. That gives you an idea as to the common fundamentals, let's go ahead and have a look at things from a technical perspective so as ever let's start off with the US-13. So you can see how far we've come since we had the double bottom so extending past the potential target price of that, edging closer to potential resistance at 79, 79, slow stochastic massively overbought, all my oscillator on slightly ticking over and we've still got positive momentum on the MACD. 87% of seems to be market clients are currently short, they're just waiting for this thing to fall over but what might typically happen is it's going to grind on higher and higher and higher and it's not until you really get to 79, 79 that you're coming up close to a strong resistance but obviously one set of really dodgy macro data and this thing could tumble over because it is slightly overextended so I can kind of see why clients are taking a short view at the moment. So let me look at the UK-100, you get a bit of an idea how much this has kind of stalled, the tips of these candles are indicative of selling pressure, the UK-100 is just kind of dying right now, sputtering I should say not dying and it's just crossed, the slow stochastic has just crossed over the 80% level, all my oscillator is not doing anything, we do pretty much have a crossover on the MACD, 35% of seems to market clients are currently short, it's the middle of two ranges potentially provided a little bit of support for that 21 period SMA. Moving on to Japan, 2 to 5, also with a 55% long position, not really doing a huge amount as well, you can just see the outperformance on that US 30 relative to the other markets when you can see just how far these guys are away from their kind of recent highs last year, looks to be 17, 8, 96 is a strategic level, we're probably going to also lay around here for a little while, the other technicals aren't really doing a huge amount, we've almost got crossed over the MACD and the slow stochastic did cross over the 80% level but that was a few sessions ago. Looking at dollar yen, it's kind of slight rebound, I don't think dollar yen really gets that exciting until we break down below 110 and it just depends on what any Fed members really come out with some crazy statements again and then completely backtracked just now or later, so that will give you a little bit of an idea of what to expect, you would have hoped that if we broke out of this triangle formation we'd have gotten more of a breakout but it does appear that it's not going to do a huge amount extra at the moment, 64% of seems to market clients currently long, hoping for a bounce higher. Moving on to Crude Oil West Texas, 66% of seems to market clients currently short, we're getting quite close to $40 again, psychological round number, again it's a decent move but as we discussed earlier on, is it because of any massive changes of the fundamentals? Yeah, there's secret meetings in DOA, we're not really secret meetings, everybody knows about it but there are meetings in DOA between OPEC and non-OPEC members, there is talks of caps of production but caps of production at record all-time levels, that's something to be quite, something to consider, so is most of this a short squeeze, people closing out of short positions or is it actually people thinking that Crude Oil is going to be getting a little bit of a shot in the arm, that remains to be seen, so just be careful out there and then if we move on to gold, gold's just been a really tough one to read, with everything that's kind of coming out in the markets at the moment, you expect gold to really break out in one direction or the other, when we broke out of this symmetrical triangle formation, we did initially have that big spike up but now it's just flopping around, it's not really doing a huge amount but 78% of St. George clients are currently long, they are possibly anticipating a move up to 1307 but it's not materialized as of yet and then if we move on to Eurodollar and GBPUSD to close things off, Eurodollar failed to break through potential resistance, we had a negative day yesterday, negative day on the Friday, it's not doing a huge amount today, 65% of St. George clients are currently short and then finishing up GBPUSD, it's just running out a little bit, running out of Steam but we are at one spot 43.52, which could be a potential support level which could be interesting in the short term, that also coincide quite nicely with the 55 period SMA. We finish up with the market calendar as ever, what is coming today? Well, we do actually have an amount of the market serve PMI data for Germany, the Eurozone and of course we've got CPI for the UK and of course we've got the ZEW business report for Germany, very important and then you've got home sales and petroleum data on Wednesday, Thursday you've got retail sales, durable goods, employment claims and Japanese data and they're on Friday and we're obviously in the holiday in the UK but it's GDP coming out of the US as well. Well, that's it from me guys, very good luck with your trading and join me again tomorrow to find out what will happen next. Thank you very much and goodbye.


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to a new Zor education. I would like to solve a couple of problems, actually four problems related to measurements of the heat and comparison to whatever other knowledge about physics we have between the heat and the energy and how it's measured, etc. Now, these are very simple problems. And this is basically a continuation of this chapter related to measuring heat, which is part of the course called Physics for Teens, presented on Unisor.com. This is the website where it's presented. Now, this is the course, which means if you have found this lecture somewhere separately, like on YouTube for instance, I just want you to know that this is just one of many lectures which are related to each other and they're put into some logical order as a course. So basically you have to really start from the beginning because there is definitely a dependency. And on Unisor not only you have references to these videos, but also the textual material for each lecture, which is basically like a textbook. You also have certain problems, you have exams for those who want to challenge themselves. The site is completely free, there are no advertisements at all, no financial strings attached. And you don't even have to sign in if you don't want to.  Okay, so problems on heat and its measurement. Okay, first problem is extremely easy. You have let's say one liter of water, which is one kilogram in mass. So liter is a volume of water and we are assuming this is a pure water under good condition. It's one kilogram. Okay, so one kilogram of water. We would like to heat it up from 20 degree Celsius to boiling point, 100 Celsius. Question is how much heat do you need for this? Well, by the way, in calories, it's very easy because we know that to heat one kilogram of water to heat by one degree is one calorie. One kilogram is one kilo calorie. You have 80 degrees to heat from 20 to 100, so it's 80 kilo calories. But I would like actually to use the system, which is basically always used in physics, which is C, System Internationality, and the amount of energy and heat is an energy. So its amount of heat will be measured in joules. Now for this, we have to really know something which is called specific heat capacity of the water. Because if we know this specific heat capacity, then we can basically do the proper multiplication. It's just one algebraic operation of multiplication and you will get the answer. So again, specific heat capacity expressed in units of C. So what is it? Let me just repeat it. It's amount of energy needed in joules, needed to heat up unit of mass by one degree of Celsius, or Kelvin doesn't really matter. I mean usually in physics we are using Kelvin's degree, but since one degree of Celsius is equal to one degree of Kelvin, that's the same thing. The unit of measurement is the same. So this is the unit in which we are measuring specific heat capacity of any substance. In case of water, it's 400, 180, I think 4,000, 183, depends. It's just a matter of precision and a matter of purity of the water, etc. Consider everything is approximate in this case. So I will assume that this is exactly the specific heat capacity. So I need 4,184 joules to heat one kilogram of water by one degree of Celsius. Now we have to heat up one kilogram of water, so we have to multiply by one kilogram. And we have to heat it up by the difference between these two, 100 minus 20, which is... So one is one, so this is 80, so it's 80 times 4,000, whatever. And the result is 3, 3, 4, 7, 20 joules, right? Kilogram of Celsius. This is denominator, this is numerator, so we have only joules which remain. So this is amount of heat necessary to heat up the water from 20 to 100, if it's one kilogram of water. That's very simple problem. All we needed basically is this number. And this number is given as part of the condition of this problem. Okay, next. Okay, now assume the following experiment. We have certain amount of, let's say, water, some kind of a liquid. And we know about this water, everything, whatever is needed, which means it's mass, it's temperature, and specific heat capacity. So this is the reservoir of this amount of water, which is kept under this temperature. And we know about water, what's its specific heat capacity. Now, we have certain, let's say, a piece of metal, right? Now, we know about its mass and we know about its temperature. But we have no idea about what its heat capacity. Now, let's assume that we do have a table of heat capacity of each particular metal. And we don't know what kind of a metal we're dealing with. So maybe if we can determine the heat capacity, I'll just check it again, some table, and that's how I can identify my metal. Because obviously different metals have different heat capacities, so whatever matches, that's my metal. So, how can I determine the heat capacity of this? Okay, so let's make this experiment. We have this amount of water under this temperature with this specific heat capacity. Now, I have this piece of metal, I know what its temperature, etc. So what I will do, I will put this piece of metal into the water. Now, let's just assume that metal is not too hot, so water doesn't really boil and evaporate. And it's not too cold, so water doesn't really freeze. So water will just change its temperature. So let's assume that the water is somewhere around room temperature, more or less. And so we know this temperature. And this one may be a little bit hotter, but not by much. So we don't really have any kind of boiling or whatever. So no change of state of matter, right? So what happens? Well, if this is a little more than this, the temperature, this is warmer than this one, Well, eventually, because of all these processes which are happening, we will achieve thermodynamic equilibrium. Thermal equilibrium means that both the water and the metal will come to the same temperature. Water will be heated a little bit, metal will be cooled down a little bit, and the temperature will be the same. And then we measure this temperature. This is T. That's actually sufficient amount of information to determine heat capacity. And here is why. Whatever amount of heat metal gave to the water, water has obtained from the metal. Now, knowing the difference between beginning temperature and the ending temperature of the water and its heat capacity and mass, we can determine how much heat water has consumed. Its multiplication of heat capacity times mass of the water times difference in temperature. Now, it's exactly the same amount of heat which this particular piece of metal gave to the water, right? Now, we have just assumed that the metal is warmer than the water, so final temperature is definitely greater. So, whatever... I can write it in two different ways. I can write it as a sum plus capacity of the metal times mass of the metal times difference between temperature, ending temperature and beginning temperature. And this is supposed to be equal to zero, right? Because whenever I'm giving away heat, it's with one sign, let's say it's plus. And whenever I'm giving, it's another sign, obviously an opposite sign, which is minus. So, because it's just amount of heat going from one to another. One is giving, another is receiving, or vice versa. So, basically, this is the main equation. Or I can write it basically slightly differently, knowing what exactly is positive and what is negative, so I can put this as equal to and change the sign here. This is exactly the same thing, right? So, from the original one, I'll just change the position of one of the members and change the sign, same thing. Now, T is greater than TW, because the final temperature of the water is greater than its beginning temperature. But the final temperature of the metal is less than the original temperature. This is positive and this is positive. So, this is basically enough to determine this, because everything else we know. So, what is this capacity of the metal? Well, it's this times this times this. So, knowing capacity, specific heat capacity of the water, knowing masses of the water and the metal and knowing initial and final temperature of components of this experiment, we can determine what's my specific heat capacity for the piece of metal and that's how, for instance, we can determine what kind of a metal this is. So, this is my second problem. Again, very simple, it's basically solved in one algebraic equation. You have the amount of heat which is given, you have amount of heat which is received, either you combine them together with proper signs or you change the sign and put the equal sign between them, it doesn't really matter, but this is just one little equation from which everything can be obtained. By the way, from the same equation, we can do different things. For instance, we don't know the mass, but we do know what kind of a metal this is and what's the specific heat capacity of the metal. Well, this is the way how we can determine the mass, if you want to, because it can be resolved for the mass of the metal. So anyway, whatever unknown, if there is one unknown, then from this equation we can basically get this value knowing all others. So, we can have the mass unknown, we can have this unknown, we can have the final temperature unknown, for instance, because it can be resolved for T. So, whatever it is, we can always find it out. And by the way, I'll probably do something like exams for this chapter of the course and in the exams I'll probably put some problems like this, resolving this relative to different components. Now, next one. Next one we will consider a burger. Now, I don't know how it's done. However, food companies put specific amount of calories into each product, whatever they're making. I read somewhere that the burger has 300 big calories, which means basically kilo calories in physical terms. Okay, so this is amount of energy in this particular burger. My question is, knowing certain things which I will talk about, I would like to determine if I have eaten a burger, how much energy I have to spend in terms of climbing the stairs, how many floors I have to climb up to basically spend this energy.  Well, let's just calculate it using certain information which I will just provide. So, first of all, let's consider that we're talking about the person whose mass is 75 kilograms, which is kind of an average. Now, we also talk about climbing the flights, and let's say between the floors I have three meters distance from the first to the second three meters, from the second to the third three meters, etc. Whatever number of steps, I mean usually it's like 12 or 14 steps, or whatever, 15 steps. Whatever number of steps, I just assume that this is a difference in height between the floors. So, this is how much I have to really climb. Now, question is, how many floors I have to climb up. I would like to also introduce another important component into this problem. You see, whenever I'm climbing, I'm not only spending the energy of these bargers to climb the steps. I'm also maintaining basically my body, because the body is functioning and not only my legs are working, so the whole body is functioning and for this we need energy, because we are each to maintain the energy needed for our body to exist. Now, only certain amount of this energy is spent towards real climbing. The rest is spent to maintain our existence, to maintain body in a living condition. So, let's assume that only 25% of these calories we are using to climb the steps. The rest is basically maintaining our life. Now, okay, that's enough actually. That's enough information to calculate the number of steps, number of floors which we have to climb. Well, first of all, let's find out in the same system of units in joules basically how much energy is here. So, we know that 1 kcal is equal to 4183 or 84 joules. So, I can find out basically from this how much energy is in my 300. So, 300 kcal is 300 times 4184 which is equal to 1, 2, 5, 5, 200 joules. So, that's amount of energy in one burger, right? Seems to be a big number by the way. Now, I can spend only 25% of this to climb the floors, right? So, I have to multiply this by 0.25 which gives me 313800 joules. So, this is amount of energy I have to spend climbing. Okay, now, let's count how much energy needed to climb, let's say, one floor. Now, I have the mass, but if I have the mass, I have the gravity because I'm going against the gravity, right? So, my force which is directed upwards should be equal to my weight actually which is 75 kg times 9.8 m2 which is acceleration of the free fall. M times A or G actually in this case, M times G, that's my weight. This is the force which earth attracts the body. And now, since I know the force, I have to multiply it by distance to get the work which is needed, right? So, I have to multiply it by 3 m and it's equal to amount of newton meters which is joules and the answer is 2205 joules. So, that's how much energy I need to climb one floor. And this is amount of energy which I have to spend. So, how many floors should I climb if I have this amount of energy and one floor requires this much? Well, you have to divide this by this and the result will be approximately 142 floors. Could you imagine 142 floors? That's higher than any building in the United States. I think the highest building is around 100 floors more or less. So, it's higher than the tower in Chicago, than the World Trade Center in New York. That's a lot and that's for one burger only. So, numbers, by the way, are relatively, I would say reasonable numbers including the 25% and including 300. So, amount of food which we are eating is really very rich in energy because we know how to extract this energy properly. And well, basically, we have to be very careful with eating because it's not easy to spend so much energy. You have to really climb like for one burger, if you have extra one burger you have to really climb 142 floors to get rid of it. That's not easy. So, well, be careful with your food. Next problem is about melting ice. Now, this problem is different from the previous ones because we will also talk about change of the state of the matter from solid ice to liquid water. So, here is the problem. Let's say you have 100 gram, 0.1 kilogram of ice at temperature minus 10 degree Celsius. Minus 10, which means it's frozen, right? It's frozen to a temperature minus 10. Now, my question is how much water, minimum amount of water you need to melt this ice if the water which you take is of room temperature. So, you need certain amount of room temperature to convert this amount of ice. Let's say you take this amount of ice, 100 gram, and put it in reservoir. I mean, if reservoir is large enough and it's of a room temperature, obviously the ice will melt. My question is, what's the minimum amount of water in this reservoir under this temperature to melt completely ice? Because if it's just a small amount of water, well, part of the ice might actually temporarily melt and then the rest will probably freeze this amount of water and it will be still kind of a, it will be still ice, but maybe with slightly less temperature like minus 9, but it will be still ice. So, the only need I have to bring temperature of the ice down to zero. That's the melting point. So, I have to bring it down to zero. And by the way, zero is very specific number. Zero of Celsius is when the water is water and the ice is ice and both can have this zero temperature. And there is a special amount of extra energy which is needed to convert from ice to water. Or if you want to freeze the water, then the water should actually be, the energy should be taken from the water. So, either the water will receive the energy, I mean ice will receive the energy to be converted into water under the same temperature of zero degrees or the water should be taken certain amount of heat if it's already under zero, but it's supposed to be converted into ice. You have to take some amount of water, of energy. Alright, so in this particular case, we are melting ice, which means we have to bring temperature down to zero while ice is still ice with its own specific heat capacity. Now, what's the specific heat capacity of the ice? It's twenty ninety. Jows per kilogram degree, degree of Celsius. And specific water, heat is forty one eighty. I think in this case forty three. Sometimes I put forty one eighty three, sometimes eighty four. It's all approximations, so it depends in the same units. Jows by kilogram and degree of Celsius. So, my water, whatever the amount of water I have, let's say I have M, should be used under this temperature. And it should be used to heat up the ice first by ten degrees from minus ten to zero, and it's still ice. And then to melt it. And again, this is a completely different amount of energy if ice is already under zero temperature degree and converted into water under the same zero degrees Celsius.  And this is a known amount, it's a melting amount of energy and it's measured in Jows per kilogram, right? So, the melting point amount of heat for the melting point is equal to three three three zero zero zero Jows per kilogram. So, that's how much energy you need to melt one kilogram at zero degrees Celsius of ice into zero degrees of Celsius water. Just to change the state from ice to water, you need that much energy. Now, this energy also should be contained in our mass of water. So, what's the total amount of energy which I have to have to convert this ice into the water at zero degrees? Well, first I have to have sea ice times one kilogram of mass times number of degrees which is from zero. I have to subtract minus ten, so it's plus. So, that's my amount of energy. So, it's twenty ninety, basically times ten. So, it's twenty ninety ten, right? That's the amount of heat Jows. That's how much I have to spend. Now, this is only part of the problem. Now, the next part of the problem is I have to spend this amount of energy. Now, my ice is at zero degrees Celsius. But this is still ice. I need to convert it into water. It's still one kilogram of ice. I would like to convert it into one kilogram of water without changing the temperature. Just to convert from one state, from the solid state into the liquid. So, I have to add this amount to this. So, it will be three three three thousand plus twenty ninety. And that would be three five three nine zero zero Jows. That's how much energy I need to first warm up the ice to zero and then to convert it from ice at zero to water at zero degrees. All this energy must be released by the water which is initially at twenty degrees. And it has certain mass which I don't know. I would like to actually find out. So, what's the minimum amount is when my sea water, the specific heat capacity of the water times its mass, times what's the difference in degrees. Water will be brought into zero as well. We are bringing ice to zero and the water to zero which is melting ice. So, that would be zero minus twenty. So, it will be twenty degrees. Obviously, this will be with a minus sign because it's zero minus twenty. So, minus this one plus this one should be equal to zero. So, if I would like to find out really my M. Sea water, I know what it is. It's four, one, eight, three. So, if I'm equating this to this, I will have my mass equals to, okay, I didn't really calculate it, but you can calculate it yourself. I put it into a textual description. That would be the answer. It's four, one, sorry, it would be three, five, three, nine hundred divided by four, one, eight, three times twenty. So, that's what it is. So, that's amount of water needed. Okay? I think I made a little mistake here. Zero point one kilogram. So, it's this. So, it's this and it's different. It's three, three, five. Something like this, right? So, three, five, zero, nine, three, three, five, zero. So, whatever it is. This is the amount of water at twenty degrees, which I need to melt my one hundred grams of ice. Well, that's it. These are my very simple problems. And next, probably I will spend some time and I will prepare the exams for this particular topic and similar problems will be part of the exams. I do encourage you, first of all, to go to this website and read the text for this lecture. And the next after the problems, there will be exam and I do encourage you to take exam.  Thanks very much. So, that's it for today. Thank you.


Good afternoon, separate traders. Welcome on back here this Wednesday, May 25th, shortly after 2.30 PM Eastern time. Welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting. Great to see all of us live inside the separate room. Leda, Patrick, Bill, Felix, who's been doing pretty nice today himself. Bill also doing pretty nice himself. Norman picking up some money early. I feel like all of us are having a pretty good day like live inside our trading room. Great to see all of us back on social media as well, Facebook live or YouTube. When the markets are pushing up like this, we can't complain like, right? It should be a good all-around. But again, like I said yesterday, today's provided just such a great opportunity all-around, up and down either direction. Right now, we're actually coming off the Fed minutes meeting here. I didn't pull up all of the big headlines coming off the minutes meeting. I don't want to talk out of pocket because if I pull up the headlines here. So FOMC minutes meeting obviously ended up concluding just a moment ago at 2 PM Eastern time. Actually from class, we were looking forward to this here at this point. But the headlines coming off it basically saying, although overall economic activity edged down in the first quarter, household spending and business fixed remain strong. So with that, a couple of other headlines. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is causing tremendous human and economic hardship, which obviously I feel like we all know. The committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2% over the longer run. So these headlines ended up generating a big reaction within the market. The bigger talking point is this. Let me ask all of our students this very quickly inside our live trading room. I say quickly because we have class coming up at 3 o'clock. What's our whole philosophy here at Cybertron University? Like I asked in class even, I know Chris was in there, Gene was in there, a bunch was Bill. What's our whole basic philosophy here at Cybertron University? I love how Chris abbreviated it from class. Follow the big money, right? Follow the money, follow the big money, absolutely, right? So with that, how do we follow the market coming off the minutes meeting? We don't know what's going to happen. We have to react to it. So with that, one thing that we did actually recognize right before the minutes meeting, we actually saw this prior. Fortunately, smart money could show their hand if we're able to identify it on level three or level four. So on level four, one thing I ended up noting was that we ended up having a bunch of selling, a big red dot on book map level four. It was on the spy right off of 394.42. There was big selling there. And coming off the minutes meeting, we saw a pop up. It was like, okay, maybe other things are going to look good. But then we ended up having a huge shake down. It broke right under it. And that's where Patrick and I inside the live trading room were saying, hey, this looks like it's going to be in short. Very volatile market as you could see. Ended up pushing back above that price. And I'll draw the line there actually pretty briefly. But nonetheless, hey, if that's not going to act as resistance, then we have to improvise. You hear me say that oftentimes because we don't control the market. So with that, once this ended up beginning to break back over 394.82 right here, once at that point that you look to begin to flip the script at least temporarily, if not across the whole remainder of the day. So with that, I ended up doing that. I was calling out AMC initially as a short. I ended up doing all right on it. I could have done better. But I was expecting more of a drop. So it squeezed back up and I took like a small profit like 6.7 cents on AMC short. And then from there, I flipped it long. I didn't even have the best entry on the long side of things. But in right now, in from 11.36. And with that, we're looking for a big squeeze up on a few of these trades. So BKSY on the screen here to begin. I'm going to confuse that with B Sky. But BKSY ended up making a big pop for us earlier today. Needless to be said, we're going to put this on our list to start. It's just at the highs right now, making a move up towards three. One interesting note on this trade, if anything, folks, we ended up seeing a big iceberg order on the ask right off of I think it was 288. I wrote in the chat board there. That order got pulled. That order did not get filled. That order got pulled. I think he got placed higher. But I don't know if he was trying to drag traders into it up higher and then to smash it down. So, you know, right now it's making a bit of a lower high actually snapping back down a bit. So be careful on this. But definitely for right now, the BKSY will just, you know, put on the list to begin. Alright, let's go right from top to bottom. Otherwise, though, I would expect the markets to like really continue to coast into the afternoon, folks, whether, you know, stumbles here during this meeting. I would expect at least by the time the market closes, just based off what we had happen here for a pretty strong close. So we'll see. But, you know, let's keep it going for right now. Number three, STON, stock BGFC years of GP. This is a buyout, I would assume. I mean, to click on it if so. Yeah, GNCA, I mean, to click on this. GP, I got trapped in that. HMLP, this one also is a buyout.  Not really as particular about those. The MICS trade, I don't know if my charts are working as much now. I know that when I was subbing in for Fausto for the morning meeting, it wasn't. And yeah, something's going on here. I don't know. Looks like right now, though, the MICS, for what it's worth, my five minute chart is working, whereas this morning, actually that wasn't working the one minute was. You know, this is inching up a little bit here. I'm not so particular about it, even if you're able to trade. Like, I don't know if I'm able to. But yeah, for right now, nothing really to standing out on this one for me. The CAL. Let me zoom in on the chart here briefly. Nice little bounce off of, you know, 2590-26 there. You know, a little slishot, but volume kind of winning back down here. So I'm going to pass on it for right now. Now, we get to the Reddit stocks. Like, you know, I mentioned before AMC. And with that, you know, GameStop here ended up making a huge squeeze earlier today. So, you know, I don't know if this is going to be long-lasting, if this is going to last today into tomorrow into Friday, or if it's just for this afternoon or what. But yeah, GameStop and AMC in particular. I'll put both of those just on the list for right now. AMC. Let's see on this right now, 36. I'm definitely looking for a higher high at this point. You know, my stop is set. But, you know, definitely want to see this make the push up towards 1180 a lot sooner than later. I feel like there's no reason to not think that it can't hit at least 1180, you know, perhaps even 12. But, you know, we'll see what happens here. Just follow this right now, though. It needs to make the push, though. Like I said, pretty soon. I wanted it to going into this meeting hasn't exactly happened yet. So, you know, we'll see. Right. Groupon, GRPN. Nice slow, steady push up for this afternoon. Slow doesn't mean that it's not a big. It's up 21% right now on the day. But, you know, ran up beautifully earlier before and then just started to coast. Only until now is it beginning to break higher. You know, the issue on this stock, if anything, is just that it's kind of on thin volume right now. And if this really begins to get a lot more volatile heading into the close, the spreads are going to open up more. Order book is going to thin out more. So, just be careful in that regard. But, Groupon, I'll put on our list here. I'll assume resistance off of 14. There's no real iceberg order showing there. But, you know, perhaps some refreshing at the level once it gets tested. I'm going to keep it going. A-I-H-S. Pretty spotty stock here right now. Red box. RDBX. This one ended up making a nice push for us once again this morning. And then, even right now, it's just still pretty tradeable, right? Moving on up pretty nicely held around 587-590 area. Then, made a higher or low and pushing back up for right now. So, yeah, I mean, I'll definitely put this back on our list here. It's hard not to. It's one that we've all done really well on here as a team. I'm not just saying myself, but most of our students, if anything, you know, picking up 20, 30 cents a pop at least, you know, on the stock at times, just dating back to the last month, it's done really well. So, you know, it's gained our trust in that regard. We know the stock could make a pretty big move, you know, should the stars align. So, for right now, we'll definitely put this on our list. All right. Quick order break. Let's see what else we got here for right now. The max or stock I see here, MAXR, it's kind of thin volume, $28, $29 stock. It's like not really doing a whole lot right now. Yeah, over stock, which I know is like pretty thinly traded. So, reluctantly clicking on this right now, you know, it's moving up pretty nicely. But again, spreads are going to open up even more than they are right now. Ordered book is, you know, pretty thin, like I assumed. And yeah, for right now, I'll put it on our list here, kind of same line of thinking as Groupon, but not a level one stock here. If you're like more of a new student joining us here, you definitely want something that has a more liquid order book to follow. Just because it's thin doesn't necessarily mean it's going to make a bigger move for you to, or even easier. Oftentimes, it's harder. So, you know, just keep that in mind. This is definitely more of like a level three-ish stock, if anything. Yeah, big BIG, not BBIG, but big LOTS BIG. Ended up making a nice pop earlier today. And, you know, hey, again, you know, it looks tradeable, but order book is just really thin on this one, too. One that I know the order book won't be thin on Party City here. Ended up getting crushed about like two weeks ago here. We saw this down like over 50%, and then only continued to drop off. So, I'm sure at some point in time, the shorts will cover. The party will be back on for this trade. Yeah, right now, it's like making a little move, but nothing too impressive. All right, so let's see what we have on the loser's side for right now. I know that there are a couple of others from the gator's side, perhaps, that we could have clicked on. You know, hey, if there's anything else, make a really big move upward right now, folks. Just type it in the chat board. Let me know in advance.  I know Fausto covered this earlier in the morning meeting, or not Fausto myself. Geez, you know, we covered this earlier in the morning meeting here. You know, we ended up seeing this gap down early on, but, you know, nonetheless, it didn't make as impressive of a move as we expected it to. No short squeeze, no temporary dead cap bounce on this one. Ended up dropping off as soon as the market opened, and then from there, continued to pull back. But, you know, really hasn't gone anywhere since. It's been in this kind of tight range for the meantime. So, you know, right now we'll pass. I don't know, nothing really too much going on for this one. It's tradable, but TWOU is at least showing better direction heading into the late or late morning, early afternoon. Ended up breaking down, and we called this one out a little bit later on. You know, it was kind of like towards 1.30 Eastern, where we ended up seeing this begin to squeeze back up off the lows. So, you know, you look for the lower low at that point. We got it, but, you know, it's kind of squeezing back up right now. Nothing really too special about it here, aside from it being down 16%. If it was, you know, much closer to the lows that it just made, then, you know, I'd anticipate a much better short, you know, just because it bounced here, it doesn't mean I'm expecting a huge dead-cap bounce. That's that. So, right now we'll pass on this TWOU trick here for right now. Folks, I think that just about wraps it up here. I don't really see much else on the loser's side. That's at least easy to borrow or anything that's like trading good volume. So, you know, more on the way up, just coming off the minutes meeting here, like I said, I'm expecting a really good close for us at this point, especially after that big selling level actually held its support here. So, if there's anything that looks good on the way up, type it in the chat board. Just, you know, let me know here. All right, got nothing from the trading room so far. A few of us on YouTube right now, Francia saying, BKSY, yeah, it's already on our list there. That one's looking incredible. We started this meeting off by going over the BKSY for right now. So, you know, it's on the top of our list. It's still, you know, moving on up to three. Bobby asking about the Chewy trade on YouTube. Nice move up here. Yeah, it's up over 6% for right now. And, you know, this could be like a meme stock, a Reddit stock. You know, I feel like anything could be labeled as one of those, you know, don't try and even put up an effort to, you know, figure out if one's meme stock or not.  If they're talking about it on that Wall Street Bets Reddit channel, you know, that channel has, and I haven't checked the numbers lately, yes, I checked. It was like 12 million subscribers or people like following that page. It's like having 12 million people in our live trading room. You know, we're already on top of everything here in this live trading room. So, you know, listen, if something is moving and they're going to talk about it there.  So we kind of tagged them together as like, oh, the meme stocks, you know, chewy, I'm sure is one of them. It's making a pretty nice move right now. So good call from Bobby on YouTube. All right, folks, I think that just about does here. That wraps it up here for us, right? It looks like a little bit of a top being built on the spy for right now, but I just say it's kind of holding strong right now. It hasn't shaken back down just yet. So, you know, the more of this it does heading into 315, 330 Eastern time. You know, we're looking pretty good then for a bigger pop heading into the close. You know, if I'm wrong with that, then let's just try and react to the market, right? Like I said before, so, you know, I was initially looking for a further drop. We had it, but then it slung right back up. So you got to improvise and follow the market, follow the big money at that, folks. All right, for all of us on Facebook Live YouTube, I appreciate you sticking with me each and every day, each and every afternoon. I believe maybe wrong, but I believe that Fausto should be back to call up in the morning. All right, so any questions that you have, feel more than free to send on over through email josh at ctutrading.com. If you wanted to join us inside our live trading room, that is go right down to the link on the yellow banner below just to get yourself started for Chris and Michael and Pete and Bill and Leda and Ron and all of us here live. If you wanted to join us coming up in class, the phase one stock course will finish up today talking all about news, you know, not just where to get the news from, but how to react to the news. So, you know, pretty interesting day coming off the Fed minutes meeting here. So, you know, at least, you know, I look forward to this class coming up at 3 p.m. Eastern time. If you wanted to join, just click the link right in the trading room. All right, folks, I'll talk to you all soon. Take care.