This study found that vegetarianism is becoming more popular in Saudi Arabia with 37.5% of the population identifying as vegetarian or semi-vegetarian. The main motivations for adopting a vegetarian diet were health issues and ethical and environmental concerns. Engagement in exercise for half an hour to two hours per day was associated with increased vegetarianism while being male, aged 51 to 64 years old, married, educated, employed in the health sector, a housewife, and earning between 5,000 and 10,000 Saudi Riyals per month were associated with decreased vegetarianism. This article was authored by Wadad Asha, Sanaa Al-Jabiri, Takwa Bushnak, and others.


It's all about the kids What's up money geeks? Mr. V here. Welcome to another video guys. So in today's video, I want to talk to you guys About custodial accounts. So if you don't know what those are custodial accounts are Investing accounts that you can actually create for Miners so if you are on the 18 you can have your parents create a custodial account where they have full control over the Account and then they give it to you you can log in and manage it and buy and sell stocks But your parents still have control over the account then when you turn 18 You can work it out with your parents or your guardian so that they can transfer the account to you so that it becomes your account The reason why those accounts are really important is because it's kind of like a teaching opportunity a learning opportunity so you teach your kids how to Start investing how to put money in the stock market how to buy stocks how to sell stocks Some of the things that a lot of us didn't really have the opportunity Because back in the days buying and selling stocks was like magic people didn't even know you call some guy on the phone He placed the order and it just went from there But now with a lot of apps on your phone. You can definitely start investing even at Under 18 so again, like I said today, we're gonna take a look at my top five cost to the app So I have them here on my phone. It's where you see me looking on my phone So the first one that I want to recommend here and again This is not like the best of the best But the the simplicity and ease of use is why I'm recommending this one is Actually stockpile. I did a video a while back about investing your first $100 with stockpile I'm gonna hook that video up here so you can definitely go check it out Stockpile gives you the opportunity to be able to create a custodial account for multiple kids So if you have one two three four five kids or whatever you can create individual accounts for those kids within stockpile So you as the custodial you created your own account and then within you can create multiple accounts of your kids And then give them access so your kids can actually take their birthday money the gifts or whatever And if they sell them another whatever they can take that money actually buy stocks and and just let that money grow So which is a really good way of bringing your kid along and teaching them the importance of investing For rainy days. So stockpile has One thing that I don't really like right now is that you still have to pay 99 cents Commission fee so most brokers are getting away from commission stockpile is still charging that 99 Cent I'm pretty sure that's gonna change in the future One other thing that I don't like about stockpile is that it treats execute at the end of the day So if you place an order at 9 a.m. That order doesn't get executed until end of day where they constantly did everything Executed and then you come back the next day. You see that reflected in your account So again, it's just a small broker, but I mean that's what they have to do to keep their systems running One other thing that they also do is that they keep you by fractional shares on stockpile So I did a video Telling you guys how to buy fractional shares For those of you that don't understand that fractional shares This simply means that if you see a company that you like, but the shares are so expensive Let's say Amazon trading at over $2,000 and you want a piece of Amazon You can buy that fraction as she you can buy $50 worth of Amazon So they allow you to do it on stockpile which is awesome. So I'm gonna hook that video up here for fractional shares So definitely go check it out. So we talked about stockpile Let's jump to number two is TD a merit rate It is the same principle you create an account for yourself and then you create one for your your minor and Then you give them access so they can go in buy stocks and invest it Commission free you can buy Stacks you can buy ETFs you can buy Index funds, I mean everything that you can possibly buy All those are securities you can buy them in TD Ameritrade and the user interface is pretty straightforward They have a website where you can actually just log in Very simple and clean for you to be able to use. So that's number two number three is Ally Bank So Ally Bank It's really unique in the sense that they they also provide these custodial accounts So that they encourage people to actually invest or encourage young Adults or even minors to really start investing. So again, you can buy all the different securities Commission free Website is pretty easy to use. I mean, I I'm assuming that if you're 15 years old I don't know if there's any website that would be so complicated to you. I've seen 15 year old play games that I look at I'm like, whoa, how did you even figure how to do that? So if you can figure how to play all this crazy video games, I'm assuming you can figure out to just click on the website buy a Stock and sell a stock.  So we do have custodial accounts on stockpile just for transparency With our kids are two boys and then we have another custodial account in Vanguard Just for our kids so Vanguard your ETFs and the index funds those are the things that we really wanted to really get our kids because Those are things you could just buy and just let it sit there. Why in stockpile you can buy individual stocks and like say Tesla and just let it write so Number five in this fidelity fidelity is again if you think about the big names out there Fidelity is one of them.  So that's something that you can actually receive back and enjoy TD Ameritrade has Their paper trading platform So if you have access to that as something you can also have your kids go in and learn how to Paper trade and I also did a video on how to paper trade in Weibo I'm gonna hook that up here so you can definitely go check it out The only difference with Weibo is that they don't really have a custodial account as of right now But I'm pretty sure in the future They're gonna come up with something that can allow minors to be able to Invest on their platform. So I'm gonna throw one last one in there So let's look at each rate. So each rate is another platform. So again guys same principle open account Create one for yourself create one for your kids and just put everything in there and let them do what's good for them So there you go guys This is my top five places where you can actually open a custodial account for your kids most importantly When it comes to investing the earlier the better when you have enough time to invest And let that money grow That's where you can actually get good money at the end of a retirement without stressing If you start early start putting in $10 $20 $30 or $40 a month When you are say 18 by the time you turn 65 You would have over a million dollars in your investment account, which is crazy So that is not even Including like your 401ks and all the other investment retirement accounts that you can possibly have so Yeah, make it a habit be consistent not just say him to put $100 then and go sit and wait six seven eight months Be consistent every month and put that money in there just like you pay your bills You don't pass up on your bills because hey, guess what if you don't pay your rent You're gonna be kicked out if you don't pay your insurance, they're gonna cut you off So it's the same thing with you with your investment account Consistency put that money in there every month to give it enough time to grow So if you have any questions, definitely drop them in the comment section If you think about any other platforms that you can open a custodial account that I didn't mention Definitely drop them again in the comment section below like share subscribe YouTube tells me that 90% of you guys are not yet subscribed to my channel So if you're watching hit that subscribe button right here and the notification on belt So that when I post new videos, you'll be the first one to know and as always guys stay safe stay motivated


Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at CPA exam questions that deals with two topics converting from cash to accrual and adjusting entries. Both of these topics converting from cash to accrual and adjusting entries are critical for your success on the CPA exam the day you take the exam. Therefore, if you are not ready, comfortable with these topics, I would suggest don't take the exam yet. So if you are studying for the CPA exam, I strongly suggest you visit my website farhatlectures.com. I don't replace your CPA review course. You might have a course that's fine. I can be a useful addition. I can add explanation, backup explanation, alternative explanation for your for your studies. I can also have additional resources, multiple choice through faults and exercises that's going to help you prepare for the exam. I can add 10 to 15 points to your CPA exam score. Your risk is one month of subscription. Your reward is potentially passing the exam. Are you willing to take that risk? And if not for anything, take a look at my website to find out how well or not well your university doing on the CPA exam. I do have resources for other accounting courses as well. Please connect with me on LinkedIn if you haven't done so and only then you can see the individuals that took the exam using my system. In conjunction with their CPA review course and they did very well. Please like this recording, share it, connect with me on Instagram and Facebook. So let's take a look at the first question. What is Adam accrual basis net accounting? So basically, so let's take a look at the first question. What's Adam company accrual basis net income? Simply put, we have some cash transaction and we have to convert them to accrual net income. So we're going from cash to accrual. Adam company maintains. And by the way, before I proceed, the reason why this, this concept is important converting from cash to accrual, because in the real world, most small and medium sized company, they keep their record based on cash. And part being a CPA working in a firm, your job is to convert the financial statements from cash to accrual. So that's why that topic is important and tested. So Adam maintain its record on a cash basis during 2021. Adam collected 723,000 from customers and paid 20,600 in expenses. Depreciation expense was 3100 would have been recorded on the accrual basis. So this is an accrual figure over the course over the course of the year, account receivable increased by 5,600, prepaid decreased by 2,600 and accrued liabilities decreased by 2,700. I believe this is really a good exercise to illustrate the concept of converting cash to accrual cash to accrual. Well, let's take a look at it. So what's net income? Well, net income is revenue minus expenses. So what we have to do is to first compute our revenue on an accrual basis, compute our expenses on accrual basis, then take revenues minus expenses. How do we starting with revenue? How do we convert revenue? Well, we know that we received from customers starting point 72300. That's fine. Now from an accrual perspective, we know that account receivable, notice here what we are told, account receivable increased. Let me go back here. We are starting with 72300 and we know account receivable increased by 5600. What does it mean? What does it mean when your account receivable goes up by 5600? Okay, your account receivable went up. Account receivable went up. It means you did work. Notice what happened. You did work, but you did not bill for it. I'm sorry. You did work, but you did not get paid. And maybe you did not bill. Okay, but definitely you were not paid for it. Therefore, this work of 5600 is not reflected in the 72300. Therefore, what we have to do, we have to add 5600 to your cash. Okay, so simply put, you did receive cash of 72300. That's fine. That's clearly revenue that you earned. At least we are not told any of it is unearned revenue. In addition to that, you are told account receivable went up. It means we're going to take 72300 plus the work that you are not paid for yet, but although you haven't been paid for it, it's revenue. So your total revenue, it's going to be 77900.  It means some of the cash you received was for previously performed work, but since your account receivable went up, we add. Now we're done with revenue. That's basically revenue. Now we have to compute expenses. We are starting with 20600 of expenses. That's given to us. That's how much we paid. We know that depreciation was 3100. So we have to add the depreciation expense 3100 if we are computing our cash, our accrual expense. So we're done with depreciation expense. Over the course of the year, account receivable increase, we're ready to care of that. That's part of revenue. Prepaid expenses decrease by 2600. So what happened here is your prepaid, your prepaid expenses went down. What does that mean? What does that mean that your prepaid expenses went down? It means you're expensing certain items. What does it mean when your prepaid expenses goes down? Your prepaid expenses goes down when you prepare the following adjusting entry. You debit an expense for just a thousand or specifically, let's do it 2600 and you credit prepaid expenses 2600.  What does that mean? It means your expenses went up. If your prepaid expenses went down, your prepaid expenses went down. It means you are expensing them. What does that mean? It means you are recording an expense that you are not paying in cash now. You are recording an expense. Notice you are increasing an expense, but you are not paying for it cash.  Therefore, this is an expense from an accrual perspective. Therefore, you add 2600 because your prepaid expenses went down. As a result, your accrual expenses went up. The 2600 is added. By the way, when your supplies went down as well, when your supplies went down, it means your supplies expense went up. That will be in addition to the accrual, just FYI. You need to know in case you are giving another current asset. Accrual liabilities decrease. Now, what does that mean? When does your accrual liabilities decrease? Well, when do we decrease liabilities? Well, we decrease liabilities by debiting liabilities, or if you want to call them accrued liabilities. When do we decrease accrued liabilities? Accrued liabilities debit 2700 credit cash. Let me do the entry here. So, what we did is we debited, overall we debited accrued liabilities 2700, and how do you pay your liabilities? You pay them with cash 2700. Now, this is the actual entry that took place, but what happened is when you paid that cash, you considered the cash an expense. This is not an expense.  Therefore, I have to back out, let me put it in a different color. I have to back out because my liabilities went up 2700. I have to back it out out of my cash expenditure because I did credit cash, but I did not record an expense. Notice I debited accrued liabilities. Therefore, it's not an expense. Therefore, I have to take it out. The opposite would have been true if I told, if I'm told my liabilities increased. If my liabilities increase, that means I am recording expenses by crediting liabilities. It becomes, so my expenses going up, but not cash liabilities going up. I would have add more expenses, but now it's the opposite. So, let's go ahead and compute our expenses. So, we're starting with 2600 plus 3100 plus 2600 minus 2700 equal to 23600. This is my accrual expenses.  Now, I doubted that they will give you a multiple choice that's this long on the exam day. They may give you less accounts to worry about, not three because here we adjusted one to four accounts we had to worry about. They might, but I doubted. But you still have to be very comfortable with this accrual to cash basis orbit. Here, what we did is we went from cash, what we did in this exercise, we went from cash to accrual, which is something you have to know. Then when you learn about the cash flow statement, you have to do the opposite. You have to go from accrual to cash. You have to know both. You have to be very comfortable with both. Let's take a look at this exercise. On December 31st, 2020, Adam had a balance in its prepaid account of 60,400. Well, let's draw a prepaid account. And we put in there 60,400. During 2021, 98,000 was paid for insurance. So we increased this account 98,000. At the end of 2020, after adjusting entries were recorded, the balance in the prepaid was 48,000. The balance is 48,000. What was insurance expense? That's pretty straightforward. So we started with 60,400. We added to it 98,000. Then somehow we subtracted from the expense to end up with 48. And what's the number? Well, if my math is right, 110,400. And this is the account. Therefore, what we did is we debited expense, 110,400. We credited prepaid, 110,400. And this is what they're asking us for. Okay. Adam collected premium of 18,000 from customers, 18 million, I'm sorry, 80 million 100 during the year. The adjusted balance and the deferred premium account increased from four to 9.1.  So you know that the third and unearned are the same. The balance went from 4.0 to 9.1 million. What is Adam revenue from the insurance premium recognize during the year? Okay. So we collected 18 million. When we collect, when we collect the premium, we debit cash. So this is should be credit because it's a liability went from four to 9.1. So how does it work? When we collect the premium, when we collect the premium, we debit cash, we credit the third revenue. So if we collected 18.1 million, 18.1, 18.1. So here we're going to do 18.1. This is the amount that we collected. Now, what is the revenue? Well, the revenue is the amount that we took out of the deferred and we put it into revenue. So the amount that went out of the deferred and went to revenue is the amount that we are looking for. So simply put, we took 4.1 plus we took 4.1, we started with 4.1. We added 18.1 to it. Okay. That's 22.2. Then we subtract, then we end up with 9.1. It means we took out 13.1 million. I'm sorry, 9.1 million. We took out there for it's 13 million. So let me do it again. So we started with four. We collected 18.1 and we end up with 9.1 minus 9.1. It means we took out of the third revenue and we made that revenue. We earned 13 million. Therefore, the answer is B as in boy. So this is a revenue. So notice here, we are finding out the revenue. Remember, what affects revenue? Usually two accounts, a count receivable, which in the first problem, I showed you how to convert revenue from cash to a cruel. Here, what we're doing is we're figuring out revenue based on the deferral. So be careful how to deal with both. At the end of this recording, I'm going to invite you again to visit my website, farhatlectures.com. Once again, I don't replace your CPA review course. Matter of fact, I have my CPA review material mirror image your course. So it will work hand in hand with your course. Give me a shot. Try me. I can help you pass the exam. I have helped so many other people before. It's worth a subscription. Good luck, study hard and stay safe.


So, you just want a master division. Not a problem. There are two main methods of division. The first is under geometry and divide. Every time you press divide it will add a new level of subdivision to your object. Now something cool about ZBrush is it remembers what you do on the higher levels even when you go back to change things in the lower levels. So if I create skin pores on level 4 and then decide to change the basic shape of her nose back on level 2 even though we're back on 2 the pores are still there on level 4 which is awesome because it makes it super easy to focus on one layer at a time but have the safety of being able to edit the lower levels of subdivision when you want. As a general rule, level 1 is usually the base shape. Level 2 is where you have the main features like the bones and muscles. Level 3 is where the details like the cloth pins and the tendons get sculpted. And level 4 and up is where the finer details like skin pores and surface textures go. You can travel between the different levels by dragging this bar over here. You can delete the layers below the selection right here or you can delete the layers above over here. If you regret deleting the lower layers and you wish you could get them back there is an option to reconstruct the lower layers with this button. Now there's also a dynamic subdivision mode. This is much more useful for hard surface and low poly modeling stuff with Z-Modeler but we'll get more into that later. For now basically all you need to know is with normal subdivision you won't be able to use trim or mirror or edit single polys without freezing the subdivision levels which can be annoying. But with dynamic subdivision you don't need to freeze anything. You can mirror, trim or poly model with no problem at all. Anyway that's the gist. Hope that helps and as always hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


We just heard what a military spouse had to say about her concerns for her husband, her friends, her family, and this people that remain in Afghanistan, specifically Americans. I now want to bring in CEO and founder of Stock Swoosh, Melissa Armo, and radio host and Democratic strategist Robert Petillo. That was pretty gut wrenching to hear that from Samantha Weaver about writing the letters. But this is typical of what they do in case they don't come home. Robert, I know you have said and a number of people have said they wanted this war to end, but people from both parties have been pretty critical of President Biden and this administration when it comes to the exit strategy there. I have to ask you, as someone who comes, whose family has served in the military, how would you feel if your sister remained over there or maybe called back to duty? Well, I don't think anybody will want to be in these situations. I do think that the withdrawal has been a massive failure for something we've had 20 years to plan for, for a war we never should have been in in the first place. And after the deal was made in 2020 between Pompeii and the Taliban, we should have had a strategy in place to exit the country in a more reasonable manner than this. But we did see the civilian government of Afghanistan abdicate, not just abdicate, literally get on a plane and leave the country. We saw the military of Afghanistan, 300,000 strong, which billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment, 20 years of U.S. training, literally lay down their weapons and chain sides in the middle of the war. So I think that this has been a disaster on all hands. We can talk about that, and we will for decades, arguably, whether or not we could have ended this war sooner or not. But the big thing that has everyone scratching their heads is why would you withdraw all those U.S. troops? You know how more U.S. troops in Afghanistan than you had prior to the withdrawal? Before you got all those Americans and refugees and foreign language interpreters out, if your sister was over there, would you not be upset? Absolutely, and frankly, I'm trying to figure out realistically why did they release those 5,000 Taliban prisoners last year before getting the people out of the country? That makes literally zero sense. If you're going to be releasing the head of the Taliban in 2018, you're going to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners, some of the most hardened fighters they have in 2020. Why the hell would you not make the military exit strategy then, get those people out first? And then this is criticism for both administrations. Knowing that you had a deadline in May of 2021, they should have started the, as soon as that deal was signed in February 2020, we should have put in place the apparatus to remove those people, those interpreters, those military personnel before you take the troops out. Because just in case you can't trust the Taliban, who knew you can't trust the Taliban? We should have the apparatus in place where we would take our civilians out first and then you take the military out afterwards. You had our very own president saying he does not trust the Taliban. So if you don't trust them, why didn't you make plans to get those Americans out before you withdrew U.S. troops? Melissa. I don't remember him saying that, to be honest with you. What I heard in the last few days, whenever he said it, what I've also heard from the administration currently is that they're giving them every opportunity to become a member of the community, of the international community. They're giving them every opportunity to, and then meanwhile they're doing nothing and those people are trapped there. Why are they giving them the opportunity to act like they're a legitimate government? They are terrorists. They've been terrorists. Our mission was over once we killed Osama bin Laden. That was a very, very, very, very, very long time ago. And as far as blame, we can go all the way back to Obama. We can go all the way back to the Bush administration. We can go back a long, long time if you want to put the blame game on. But right now, today, we have a situation. We have thousands and thousands of people. They don't even know how many people or they're not telling us how many people. We don't know what the case may be. But either way, we seem to have no plan right now to get them out. The longer this goes on, it is a very, very dangerous situation because that date of August 31st is looming out there. What's going to happen if we go past that date? I don't understand why they basically made a kill zone right around the airport so that people can't even get there. People are afraid to go there. The administration said we can't protect you to get there. We'll try to get you out of there once you're on the plane, but they don't even know how they're going to get there safely. So, of course, it's like a no one situation for people that are stuck there. Yeah, all valid points have been again. The Pentagon just held a press briefing not that long ago. Heather Mullins gave us a live update. We're still not getting a concise answer as to how many Americans are over there, why that is. I don't know and how you can ensure that they're going to safely get over here when you don't even know how many are there. And you can't even safely get them to the airport is kind of beyond me and some of the viewers that are watching right now. But Robert, you have Donald Trump Jr. now coming out saying that President Biden just wanted credit for ending the war. But again, what about the Americans there? What is going to be his legacy if he's unable to get them out safely? Okay, one Donald Trump, President Donald Trump on June 26th just gave a speech to a rally, taking credit for the deal that is currently in place, taking credit for boxing Joe Biden in saying that he could not get out of this deal. So I don't know what Donald Trump Jr. is talking about. These are the terms of the deal that Mike Pompeo struck with the Taliban last year. Donald Trump on June 26th said that he basically handcuffed Joe Biden into the situation. So I think Donald Trump Jr. might want to take a look at his history books. But quite frankly, I think what we're going to see is that this is going to be a referendum not on Joe Biden, but of the people who got us into this war. Nobody blames Gerald Ford for the fall of Saigon. What about the buck? But hold on, hold on, hold on, Robert. The President of the United States has said the buck stops here. He has been in office now since January 20th. Now, we know probably you want to go into deals. I mean, we could sit there and argue this. But let's be honest, when Trump took office, he got rid of that Iran deal, regardless of the deal that the Obama administration set up. I mean, when does he take responsibility? He himself is saying he takes responsibility. You're saying he doesn't? No, no. What I'm saying is that Joe Biden will be responsible for getting our people out of there. But as far as the entire situation, the entire bumble deal that was put in place last year, getting us into this war, and people make the analogy to the fall of Saigon, Saigon fell in 1975 into Gerald Ford. People don't think of Gerald Ford with the failures of the Vietnam War. They think of LBJ. They think of the principles who executed it. So I think Joe Biden's responsibility will be executing this withdrawal, executing getting our people out of there in a peaceful manner. And if he does that successful, I think he'll be remembered for that. And then I think the historians in the history books will go back and start analyzing the people who got us into this war. Why the hell is it when the Taliban surrendered the U.S. forces in December of 2001, we stayed there for 20 years after that? That is what we're going to have to determine long term. But right now, the goal and the priority has to be getting our people out of there safely and effectively. Well, again, the president went on ABC News speaking with George Stephanopoulos, Melissa, and saying that there was basically conflicting information pointing the blame towards intel when it came to underestimating when the Taliban would take over. But again, he is the commander in chief. Why do you think the intel got it so wrong? And how confident are you that they're actually going to get it right based on what we've seen in the days and weeks following? I don't think the intel was wrong. You have to think about the might and the power of the United States military and the NSA and all of the organizations that are working on our behalf. You can call them spino people. You can call them whatever. They have airstrikes ready to go right now. Why aren't they getting the people out? Do I believe that they didn't have the information? No, I think they had the information. They were not focused on this. They have been focused on nothing since January since fighting to office, but undoing everything that President Trump did, which is raising taxes, lower taxes, which is passing this ridiculous 3.5 trillion dollar stimulus plan that has really literally like less than 20% of it has to do with trying to help some people get more jobs with infrastructure. The bottom line is they haven't been focused on it. The deadline was there and all of a sudden it was like the execution just was not even put into place. They had no plan of action for the execution. That's why you're taking refugees over instead of American citizens first. I mean, it's mind boggling. I have no, I don't see any way that this does not end in some type of military escalation where people are killed. I just don't see any way that this doesn't end with people being killed. And whatever you can blame Trump, Obama, Bush, the people are killed. Biden's going to get the blame for it. And these military people, I've been watching them on.  It's at their fault. I don't know. We are going to have to leave it there. But I'm sure we will not. This will not be the last time we talk about this issue. It's going to be ongoing. We'll continue to monitor the situation. Melissa and Robert, thank you so much. We have other news to get to coming up right after the break.


It's time for yours truly Jimmy Powers with another Grantland rice story Hi there, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed with another chapter from the Grantland rice story the tumult and the shouting and so with a sharp salute To the every young spirit of Grantland rice. I take up the narrative in first person While I've spent much of my life Keeping laurels on the winner. I have a strong feeling for the loser particularly the unbreakables These are the worth of the world the pride of the race These who have taken their blastings blown from the track These who have faltered and fallen wrecked by the pace These who have come to their feet and dared to storm back Yes, as I've said before I'll always feel at home in the valleys I'd rather look up to some peak than be on the peak looking down on those who need help and For these special friends of mine these uncrowned champions I respected them blown and battered attempting to scale those peaks and knocked into the depths They didn't know in fact never knew how to quit these then are some of my uncrowned champions Some were famous and some weren't so well known, but they fit in this category Let's look at these athletes a little closer in many respects Lou Gehrig the iron horse of the great Yankee teams was an uncrowned champ Had he been claimed by any other team Gehrig would have ridden a solid gold pedestal However, the Yankee first baseman. Yes, he's my all-time best in this position Played the majority of his years in the shadow of Babe Ruth when Babe went into decline Lou who had been around for so long. He was taken for granted like the wonderful one-horse shea The Yankees were seeking fresh idol material when they came up with a young Italian a fisherman's boy from San Francisco Joe DiMaggio Gehrig spanned from the greatest years of Ruth into the early spotlight years of DiMaggio playing out his string of 2130 consecutive games. What was Lou's lifetime batting average? Only three hundred and forty, but there will always be something about the panther like grace of a DiMaggio That will thrill me to the marrow and in keeping with that. Here's my pen sketch of Joe No greater effort than a breeze that blows across the field when some fly ball is struck a Drifting phantom where the long smash goes that has no helping teammate known as luck No desperate stab no wild one-handed catch few ringing cheers that churn the summer air a shift a turn a Movement none can match the ball drifts down DiMaggio is there a Swing a slash the ball is on the whipping ash still keeps the foe at bay a blur against the blue and then the ball is gone Ty Cobb has ruled and Ruth has sung his tune Triss speaker was a melody in rhyme DiMaggio. You won't forget him soon. Here is the master artist of our time One day around 1930 I was beside babe in the Yankee dugout watching Gary take batting practice He was line driving that ball deep into the right field bleachers Babe I said how does Lou shape up to you babe reflected a moment Grant he said if I had to pitch against that big Dutch sandow I'd wear a suit of armor. You know pitchers don't especially relish throwing against me I bang that ball pretty good, but the majority of times I lift the ball Lou line drives it This boy has an overdrive of everything You know, I think he kind of worships me rumble babe. I'm considered colorful This boy Gary wouldn't know color if he fell in it. He thinks and lives team Grant if I ever become manager of this or any club, I'd have to go for the team guy That's what I think of Gary a Whisper comes from the palms and pines where the lazy south wind blows where the pelican dives for his meal again Wherever the golf tide flows and this is the message I seem to get from years that belong to youth where our Gary and Dickie now what has become of Ruth Where is the crash? We remember still over the outfield wall Where is the smash and cannonade as the bat lashed into the ball? Where is the noise that we used to hear slip me the chilling truth where our Gary and Dickie now What has become of Ruth? Gary brings to mind another uncrowned champ Of course, Columbia Lou is enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame Practically one of its keystones, but this next fellow hasn't made it and I doubt he ever will his name Jake Daubert one of the slickest chips down first baseman ever to wear a glove Over in Brooklyn old-timers can recite facts and figures to prove just how good Daubert was but not too many other fans Remember him as more than just another name Yet a fellow named Casey Stangle played with Daubert better than a green hand at sizing up the wheat from the chaff Casey rubbed his chin and meditated long when I asked him how he rated Jake I've seen some good ones since I broke into the big time about the time Grover Cleveland was shot Said Casey this particular night over a julep at the Sorino Hotel in St. Petersburg But Jake Daubert was perhaps the brainiest niftiest fielding first baseman I ever knew from 1910 through 1918 Daubert was the fielding and clutch hitting Marvel for the Brooks including their first penedier 1916 He clouded over 300 for seven of nine years then played out his span through 1924 With Cincinnati where he died suddenly at the age of 39 He may never get it, but Jake belongs in Cooper's town Golf has its share of champions But I can't think of any golfer who wears the mantle of uncrowned champ with more grace than Sam Snead Sam has picked up enough gold in pressure shooting to start a nanax for Fort Knox where they store the stuff But Snead has yet to win the big one the national open a large measure of luck rides with any putt Over 10 feet on undulating greens. I don't care how true the putting surface happens to be That's why lady luck still owes something to Sam and the biggest pot hunt of all the open At this late stage of his competitive career. I'm not at all sure she ever will it's like this always will be Dame fortune is a cock-eyed winch as someone said before and yet the old dame plays her part in any winning score Take all the credit you deserve heads up in winning pride But don't forget that lady luck was riding at your side The sweetest natural swinger of them all Snead has collected the sourest apples in this particular tournament And then there's a wonderful girl named Helen Jacobs, which brings up the question. Can the gals take it when the going is roughest? usually However undefeated in six years Helen wills had always walloped Helen Jacobs when the chips were down came the 1933 tennis championships at Forest Hills when Queen Helen again faced miss Jacobs in the final Surprisingly miss wills dropped the first set But when she won the second the tennis riders were about to drag out the same old adjectives for the same old story Then suddenly and dramatically miss wills's game fell apart with the score three love against her Helen wills suddenly turned to the umpire announced She could continue no longer and march to the showers on that particular afternoon on the center court turf of the stadium It was champion by default Helen Jacobs in her hour of triumph Achieved only after years of the most grueling uphill going Helen Jacobs earned my little laurel of uncrowned champ The boxing ring has its share of uncrowned champs Middleweight Harry Grebb pound for pound perhaps the greatest ever has been a headliner for more than 10 years Was well along the downgrade when he finally got a shot at the crown Grebb who fought 42 bouts in one year 1919 finally met Johnny Wilson for the middleweight crown in 1923 yes, Grebb wanted in between he fought anything and anybody from heavyweights on down Acknowledged a vicious spoiler even Dempsey wanted no part of Grebb Then there was Jeff Smith another middleweight who never did get a crack at the crown Some 200 of Jeff's fights are in the record book But he fought nearly 600 bouts all over the world accepting any and all fights and decisions Jeff Smith's only shot at champions were when they had become X champs. I Also recall a natural featherweight named Johnny Dundee who fought from 1910 through 1929 19 years Dundee battled Johnny Kilbane to a draw in 1913 but Kilbane never gave Dundee another shot at the title in fact it wasn't until the Frenchman Eugene creaky KO'd Kilbane in 1923 that Dundee was given his chance less than two months later Dundee a 10-year man in a five-year business defeated creaky in 15 rounds Paki McFarland Sam Langford and Mike Gibbons were other headbusters that few top-notchers would fight They made the rounds for years fighting anyone they could get but none of these was given his rightful day in court Until he was all but washed up Keep coming back although the world may romp across your spine Let every game's end find you still upon the battling line for when the one great scorer comes to mark against your name He writes not that you won or lost but how you played the game Now this is Jimmy Powers transcribe saying so long until next time


It is a clear fact that finance is a vital aspect of every individual's life. Although we may say that money is just a thing created to help us trade goods and services but is money really a mere thing? Over time, money has gone beyond being used for trading. Money has become an instrument to measure the value of other things including other people and ourselves. Due to financial situations, there are certain truths about money which we do not like to hear or admit. Nonetheless, our refusal to acknowledge them does not change their existence. In today's video, I'll be sharing with you 9 of those brutal truths that people do not like to hear about money. 1. Saving money will not make you wealthy. The internet is populated with so many hacks on how to keep a buck or two with virtually everything we do. Nonetheless, the bitter truth is that saving money is quite overrated. Yes, you heard right. Don't get me wrong, saving cash is lovely and can be helpful especially during the rainy days but no, the act of saving money won't in of itself make anyone affluent. According to Robert Kiyosaki, being rich is not about how much money you have. Both is a direct byproduct of what you do with the money. Likewise, saving without a plan is not smart because it is not the savings that matters but what you do with the savings. 2. Your money in the bank is getting someone else rich.  Have you ever wondered why at the end of a specific period an amount called interest, usually very small, is added to your account balance? Well, that amount is perceived from the profit generated by your money. Some individuals have made millions of naira. Although financial institutions give loans to small businesses, the majority of the loans are granted to big corporations and investments. So, when these loans are paid back, you get a minute amount from your bank as an interest. We can say that the bank is like an investment but it does more harm to the poor and is kind to the rich. 3. A higher pay check won't make life easier. Robert Kiyosaki once explained that the rat race mentality is the belief that a pay rise can make your life better. A significant percentage of people tend to think that the key to being wealthy is securing a high paying job. On the contrary, higher pay amounts to a higher tax and an increase in other expenses.  4. Money finishes faster than it comes. Many people prefer to cash as a spirit. This term is attributed to it because often it is difficult to tell how and where it goes. It is easy to make plans on how to spend the money before it comes. You can even start budgeting before the commencement of a job. You may all the more decide to work overtime to increase the amount of money you earn. But without self-discipline, you'll discover that the money you have been working for for the whole month ends up finishing within a few hours. 5. Time is money. All work and no play makes Jack a door boy. As much as you try to justify your actions with that phrase, remember that every time wasted cannot be gotten back again.  However, the rich understand the importance of time and its connection with money. And that is why they get involved in productive fun. They do sport, travel and engage in conversations and some other activities. But never do they waste their time in unnecessary chatting and gossiping. That is the fun many poor people enjoy. They set schedules and discipline themselves to stay focused and not get distracted by technology and the likes. Still, right in the middle of an essential program, phone beeping and notifications get the poor carried away for hours. 6. Money brings happiness. A funny Instagram post once read, money can't buy happiness. But it's much better to cry in a Lamborghini than to cry while working on the street. Contrary to the claim of individuals, money is needed to stay happy. Peace of mind, joy, true love are indeed gifts of nature. But it does not mean that those who have money do not have them. Neither does it mean that the lack of money brings them your way. The rich or poor, anyone who wholeheartedly searches for them, finds them and cash sustains them. Money may not be able to buy happiness but it sure maintains it. 7. The lack of money is as bad as the love of money. Many folks say the love of money is the root of all evil. People justify their state of money with that statement. But what about the lack of money? It is agreeable that a lot of individuals get into the wrong way of life because of the quest of money. Also, oppression and selfishness are rampant in society today because people love money more than their fellow humans. Nonetheless, it is crucial to understand that money is immoral. Its usage depends on its owner. Thus, it's not evil. Money itself is not bad and the lack of money is just as terrible. If not even more terrible than the love of money, just as the love of money makes individuals inhumane, so does the lack of funds. 8. Money grows on trees. Many say money doesn't grow on trees. But maybe, just maybe you've not planted the right seed. Money itself is a seed that if planted in the right soil and adequately maintained has the potential to produce a tree of money. There are three sets of people in life. The ones that do not plant seeds, those who plant but finish the fruits even before they reach maturity, and those who plant seeds and allow them to grow into ripened fruits. For the last set of people, money grows on a tree, not real trees, investment. In other words, the reason why you still think that money does not grow on trees is that you have not made the right investment. 9. Hard work alone will not make you productive. A lad once asked his father, Father, you and my friend's father are in the same line of business. You go out late in the morning and come back late at night. Yet he only steps out on a few occasions. No doubt you work more than him. But why is he rich and yet we struggle to get by three meals a day? His confused father in a bid to cover up his confusion answered, the rich people are fraudulent. I'm sure that man chits his customers, which is why he makes more money than I do. The inquisitive lad was not convinced with his father's reply and so persuaded his friend to ask his father why he is more prosperous. After a few days they met again and the son of the rich man replied with his father's exact words, while the poor believe in physical work, we believe in smart work, which is the combination of both physical and mental work. The poor wants to save money so he hires just any worker. But I want to make more money so I hire the best. He doubles as his company's accountant but I have an experienced account manager. I have a website that puts my business online. The richest men are not the hardest workers. They are the smart thinkers who are willing to take risks. Losing money may mean losing our status, friends and respect and our brains are wired to avoid the pain of loss. Hence, rather than tell ourselves the truth, we create a version of ourselves that matches our desired financial status. Contrarily, if you must gain business success, you must tell yourself the truth.


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This is the last video, thank God, right, for this week's collection of videos. We're going to talk about something called a functional group. Basically, the way that I'm going to introduce a functional group is, as I mentioned in previous videos, there are zillions of different organic molecules out there in the universe. If you look at enough of them, sometimes what you will see on some of them are the same pattern of atoms found on many different kinds of molecules. If you put that particular pattern of atoms, let's say that I have maybe three carbons here and an oxygen and a hydrogen, maybe this is my pattern. I use this last bond to stick this pattern of atoms onto some other molecule. If I stick this pattern of atoms onto a molecule, maybe it gives that molecule a certain feature or a certain behavior. It doesn't matter what other molecule I stick this onto, as long as I stick this specific pattern onto any other molecule, it gives any of those molecules a specific feature. If I have a pattern of atoms that does that, that pattern of atoms is called a functional group because it's a group of atoms that gives a certain function to whatever molecule I stick that group of atoms onto. What I'm going to do in this video is I'm going to describe some functional groups, some patterns of atoms that you're going to have to be able to recognize under different situations and basically name those functional groups. What you're going to see is there are certain functional groups that have names that are identical to the names of certain things that we use in English, in common English. For example, alcohol is a functional group, but I'm sure you've heard of alcohol. You may have heard the word aromatic before, you may have heard the word polyester before. These are all functional groups in chemistry. A functional group is a group or a pattern of atoms that you see in organic molecules over and over again and no matter what kind of molecule you stick that pattern of atoms onto, it gives a certain feature to that molecule. This is a molecule, it's a very simple molecule that has what's called an alkene functional group. That's an E there. This is the simplest molecule with an alkene functional group. If you have a molecule with two carbon atoms double bonded to each other, then your molecule has an alkene functional group. Like I said, this is the simplest one that has an alkene because there isn't much else there except for some hydrogens. We're going to skip this one for the moment. This molecule is the simplest molecule with what's called an alkyne functional group. That's a Y there. If you have a molecule with two carbon atoms triple bonded to each other like we have here, then you say that your molecule has an alkyne functional group. Molecules that have this functional group, they have a tendency to have certain odors or certain smells, so you can think of alkenes as maybe having that function. They give certain things, certain odors. That's not always true, but a lot of times it is true. I have no idea what functions alkynes have that I could tell you that sounds reasonable, so we're going to skip that one. This one over here, if you have, you have to have all of these features. Six carbons wrapped around, so one, two, three, four, five, six. You have to have that, and you have to have alternating double and single bonds. They have to alternate, and if they go double, single, double, single, double, single, if you have both of those things, it's got to be six wrapped around, and you have to have alternating double and single bonds, then you say that your molecule has an aromatic functional group. This is the simplest molecule with an aromatic functional group because there isn't much else there other than what I just described and some hydrogens. If you've ever heard the word aromatic before, that means something that has a certain odor. So around 150 years ago, maybe a little bit less than that, when they were making molecules that had this particular pattern in them, all of the molecules that they made had certain smells. So they thought, well, this pattern must give molecules certain smells, so they called it an aromatic functional group. It turns out that they were wrong. There are many molecules that have this pattern that don't have any smell at all, but the name kind of stuck. So I expect if I show you this kind of molecule, if I show you a molecule with this pattern in it, you should be able to say, oh, it has an aromatic functional group.   If it helps you remember alkyne and alkyne, you should remember that we've already talked about alkyne molecules. They have all single bonds between carbons. Alkenes, we know they have to have at least one carbon-carbon double bond, and alkynes, they have to have at least one carbon-carbon triple bond. And if you notice, we go single, double, triple, and that goes alphabetically, A, E, Y. That's probably not a coincidence. I figure somebody named them that way, but there you go. Those three patterns I expect you to be able to recognize. So for example, in an exam, maybe you see something like this. I show you this molecule, and I say, what functional groups does it have? Well, it doesn't have any alkyne functional groups.  There's a couple right there. Does it have any alkyne functional groups? No. There's no carbon-carbon triple bonds in that molecule. Does it have an aromatic functional group? It does. There it is. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions before we go on. Does that molecule have an aromatic functional group? This one right here. You can pause the video and think about that. The answer is no. It does have alternating single and double bonds. The carbons wrap around in a circle, but it does not have six. This one has eight carbons. What about this one? Does this molecule have an aromatic functional group? The answer is no, because it does not have alternating single and double bonds. It does have six carbons wrapped around in a circle, but that means this one is called cyclohexane. This one is not cyclohexane because it has those double bonds. It has a different name. More functional groups that you're going to need to know. If you have a carbon, there is a carbon here. The carbon is single bonded to an oxygen, and the oxygen is bonded to a hydrogen. This O and this H are called an alcohol functional group. Now, if you look at this, how many carbons does this particular molecule with an alcohol functional group have? Well, it has two. And if you remember the alkyne molecule, this is related. It's similar to an alkyne molecule called ethane, because ethane is the alkyne with two carbon atoms. But this ain't ethane. It's ethane with an alcohol. So guess what it's called? It's called, can I spell? Apparently I can't spell. It's called ethanol, and that's why it's called ethanol, because it's kind of like ethane with an alcohol. This is the booze that gets you drunk. This is also another drawing of ethanol, which is just the expanded structure. There's my two carbons. There's my alcohol functional group. What do you think the name of this molecule is? It has an alcohol functional group. It has one carbon. You can pause the video and think about that on pausing. One carbon is related to methane, but this ain't methane. It's methane with an alcohol group. So it is called methanol.  So please don't do that. So you should be able to recognize a molecule with an alcohol functional group. This is, if you have a carbon atom and it is single bonded to a sulfur, and the sulfur is bonded to a hydrogen, this sucker right here is called a thyle functional group. It's kind of like an alcohol. In fact, it's very much like an alcohol, except instead of an oxygen, there's a sulfur in the place of the oxygen. So this is called a thyle functional group. These kinds of molecules with thyle, they usually have pretty nasty smells, like rotten eggs, things like that. So if I showed you this molecule and I said what functional groups does it have, you would say, oh, it has a thyle, because there's a carbon here, single bonded to an S and H, and that's a thyle, and it also has an aromatic functional group. Isn't this exciting? You get to do this, huh? All right, more functional groups, and we're almost at the end. You don't need to know aldehyde. I'm going to skip that one. I'm going to skip ketone as well. This one you should know. There's a carbon here at that corner. If you have a carbon, double bonded to an oxygen, and the same carbon is single bonded to an OH. This whole pattern here is called a carboxylic acid. And for whatever reason, the students never seem to be able to practice it in the mirror or something. This is the pattern that you see. It doesn't matter whatever else is attached there. You can have Kanye West stuck over here, for all I care. If it's this stuck on Kanye West, then it's Kanye with a carboxylic acid. I don't even know if he's cool anymore, so if there's somebody cool now or cooler than that, you can put that person's name in. If you have a carbon, double bonded to an O, single bonded to an O, and then that O is single bonded to another carbon, this particular pattern is called an ester functional group. If you have ever heard the word polyester, like polyester, suit, or something like that, that suit is made of molecules that have this particular pattern over and over again. You should know this one. You should definitely know a mean. If you have a carbon, and it is single bonded to a nitrogen, this nitrogen here is called and is part of an amine functional group. If you have heard of molecules called amino acids, amino acid molecules always have an amine functional group, and they always have a carboxylic acid functional group, and that's why they're called amino acids. Last one that I want you to know, if you have this carbon double bonded to an O and single bonded to a nitrogen, this particular pattern that I'm putting inside of a box is called an amide, an amide functional group. Sometimes people call it amide or amide. There's probably 10 million ways of pronouncing it, but that's the pattern. If you notice, again, this is not really a coincidence, the amide functional group, this one right here, looks like a cross between the carboxylic acid and the amine. In other words, it has this little bit that looks like part of the carboxylic acid, and it has this little bit that looks like part of the amine, and that is not a coincidence. A lot of times amide functional groups are made using a special chemical reaction that kind of combines these two things, but we will not talk about that until the very last lecture. You lucky people. Two more things before we go. First thing is that I showed you this molecule in one of the very first videos, and I said this is not butane, even though its formula is C4H10, and I said this one gets its own special name. Well, we might as well spend a minute figuring out what the name of this molecule is. And same rules apply. We find the longest chain of carbons, that's one, two, three. I got three carbons in a row, that's the most that I have in a row. Three carbons is kind of like propane, so the back end of that molecule's name is going to be propane. This is the side street. This part here is the main road. This part here is the side street. So let me get rid of some of the noise here. There. So there's our main road. This is our side street. How many carbons in this side street? Well, there's one. So it's kind of like methane, so it's going to be called methyl. So the back end of this molecule's name is going to be called methyl propane. And here's our side street. We have to number the carbons on the main road, so I'm going to number them one, two, three. It doesn't really matter which order I number them in, the side street is on number two either way. So that beast there is called two methyl propane. So this thing here, that is called butane, and this thing here is called two methyl propane. They both have the same formula, C4H10, but they have their own special names because they are isomers of each other, so isomers get their own names. The last thing I want to talk about is this molecule here. I've shown you this molecule at the beginning of this lecture. The majority of you would have looked at this and said it was from Mars, right? It just looks like some crazy thing. But now you can look at this and you can see a lot of information. There are carbons all over the place, right? Carbons here. There are hydrogens all over the place. There's a hydrogen there, hydrogen there. You can figure out where the hydrogens are. You can figure out where the carbons are. You can see double bonds. There are many different functional groups that we've already talked about here. You should spend a minute, you pause the video, and try to find them. I'll tell you, there are alcohol functional groups. There's a carboxylic acid functional group. There's an amide functional group. There's an amine. There is an aromatic, at least one aromatic, and some alkenes, I think. So, on pausing the video, here's a couple of alcohols. These bonds that look a little bit weird, we will talk about them later in the course, but they are just covalent bonds. So, these are alcohols. Carboxylic acid. Boom, right there. Amide functional group, where are you? Here it is. Upside down, but there it is. Carbon double bonded to an O, single bonded to a nitrogen, that is an amide. Amine functional group, here's some alkenes. Aromatic, aromatic, aromatic. You might not necessarily be able to pick them out now, but you should be able to pick out those kinds of functional groups once you have those patterns committed to memory. And last but not least, this is the chemical structure for a medicine called Lipitor. Lipitor is used to treat high cholesterol levels, which is associated with cardiovascular problems, but this is Lipitor. This is the IUPAC name for Lipitor. So, if you wanted to give the formal, proper name for this molecule here, it is this big ugliness here. There are not too many people who know the rules well enough for IUPAC naming to give the proper name for Lipitor. There are computers that know the rules much better than any human does, and they usually do this kind of work, but this is just to show you that the names can get really complicated and the rules can get really complicated. But you should be able to look at this thing now and be able to see a lot of stuff. Carbons all over the place, hydrogens that aren't drawn, you should be able to find functional groups like alcohols, things like that. That's the end of this video. Next week there will be more organic chemistry, and I think the week after that, maybe some more organic chemistry and then, I don't know what. But, see you around.


We're here at Wicked 2012 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Mr. Posa Mashengwani, who is General Manager for Consumer Affairs for the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa. Mr. Mashengwani, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you very much for inviting me to the interview of this very, very important conference of the world. I'd like to start off by talking about what was going on last week. You spoke out very passionately in Friday's plenary about the importance of accessibility provisions to be included in the ITRs. Why is this so important in your opinion? It is very much important because SOF gathered here. We are from various countries. People that are here are from the more developed nations and also from the less developed nations. And so the problem of promoting their rise and the interest for persons with disabilities is not such a big problem for the more developed nations, but it is for the less developed nations because as member states of the United Nations, they need to account somehow to the United Nations about what they are doing in the era of disability. So we are here to try and debate and convince the more developed nations to make sure that they support us and they agree with us to include the issue of accessibility to international communication into the ITRs because by so doing, you'll find a situation whereby the governments in the less developed nations put that as their policies and ultimately that will end into legislation that will make sure that the issue of accessibility is promoted in those countries. And we know that when they go to the United Nations to report about what progress they have made, they'll also be asked about accessibility, particularly in terms of international communication, and the snow country that will not like to talk positively about the progress they've made in their countries. So that is why we request and we plead and we are hopeful that the issue of ITR will be placed in the, of the accessibility to be placed in the ITRs when player recedes tomorrow or today. Now, one would imagine that helping people with disabilities access ICTs would be something that most people would support. Why is there so much of a debate around this? Well, there's a lot of debate about this because, you know, persons with disability have been elected for a long time and it's an effect that in other countries, other nations, those people, we will never see them, they are hidden away. So now we are in the new era whereby we must make sure that they are also coming out and participate like all other able persons. So for us, who are able, we have to make sure that we lay a foundation for them so that wherever we're working, particularly here in the telecommunication sector, we must make use of this platform that we have to make sure that we create the conducive environment for them to participate in this international telecommunication. So that is why it is so important for all the nations to participate in that because they have got knowledge, they have got skills, they have got some other things that the able people are not in, but if we interact with them, that is where we will make sure that we as the nation of the world work together, we move together with them and then they are not left behind because they are also human beings. Now, since Friday you have been lobbying very hard to get other countries to support your cause. Are you confident that you will succeed? I am very, very confident that I always pay God every day as long as I am here in Dubai to make sure that our call, our proposal for inclusion of the accessibility in the ITR should be adopted. So I am very confident because most of the developed nations have indicated support for the call that I have made, particularly when we are in our own drug meeting. So that gave me a lot of confidence that we will succeed in this plea for us to include the accessibility in the ITRs. Now, another subject that I know you have been very passionate about is e-waste. E-waste is a growing problem that is not going to go away. What proposals are up before this conference to deal with this? Well, e-waste is another area that is cost for concern, especially for the less developed nations because you know that as we are going to migrate into digital, most of the electronic equipment that are currently being used will be dumped elsewhere. And the destination in most cases is where you find the less developed nations. And that is also a cost for concern because those electronic equipment, some of them have got chemicals that are made to the health of people. And so they will be dumped in those countries.  So that is why we are lobbying that e-waste should also be put into the ITRs because if we do have that we will find a situation whereby there is a control between the less developed nations and also the developed nations in terms of the issue of e-waste. So why is it important to include this in the ITRs as opposed to letting countries deal with this on an individual basis? Something that is a health hazard is a cost for concern and then if you want to have it having a strong cuisine it needs to be in a treaty whereby the nations of the world will sign the treaty and then if they sign the treaty you will find that there is compliance with the treaty and then so that is why we request that it should be in the ITR because if it is not there no one will care about it but if it is in the treaty you have to account about the issue of the United Nations and then so as I said earlier on everybody would like to make sure that when you account to the UN you account positively and you are proud of what you account there so that other people can also follow suit to your account. Thank you very much indeed being with us today. Thank you very much and I wish you well in all your endeavours for this very lovely conference. Likewise. Thanks.


For Catherine, we grow in love as we grow in truth, and if we want to know who God is and know ourselves in God, we have to enter this cell of self-knowledge. So what does she mean by that? Catherine thinks that we're not going to really know ourselves by just thinking about ourselves or just by receiving from the world around us what others think of us. She believes that we have to go interiorly. This is why she emphasizes so much the need for silence and prayer, because she says we have to enter into this space within us, within our souls, where we can hear Christ revealing to us the truth of who he is and the truth of who we are.