From Korea to Germany. From Alaska to Puerto Rico. All over the world, the men and women of your army are on the alert to defend our nation, you, the American people, against aggression. This is The Big Picture. Welcome to The Big Picture. I'm Captain Carl Zimmerman, here to tell you about your United States Army. And today The Big Picture shows you how the Signal Corps serves as the eyes and ears of your army. You'll see how the Signal Corps, using highly specialized skills, devices and techniques, provides the intricate communications and other facilities without which modern warfare would be impossible. Signal Corps photographers, overseas and elsewhere have filmed many of the pictures you see on this program. And now, the eyes and ears of your army, the Signal Corps. This is war, modern technological war. A war of speed, concentrated firepower, a fluid kind of war in which surprise is a major weapon. More than ever before in our history, our army must operate as a closely knit team. The action of each unit must be perfectly controlled. It must be timed and coordinated with the actions of all other units. Communications are vital for a rapid exchange of facts and the fast transmission of orders. In the United States Army, it is the Signal Corps that maintains these nerves of communication. The Signal Corps designs and develops equipment, installs it and operates it. Wire and radio are integrated into a single fast-moving system to form the eyes and ears of command. In war, the role of the Signal Corps is vital. In modern war, it may be decisive. Swift new weapons require swift countermeasures, split second warning devices and high speed communications. Signals must outspeed the fastest plane and out distance the rocket. Distances are steadily shrinking. A direct attack from another continent is possible. Our military communications must be ready for such a challenge. This is the prime responsibility of the Signal Corps. Today it maintains a vast network of wire and radio channels that link Washington immediately with the Far East and Europe with the most remote outposts on our far-flung defense perimeter. Modern global warfare requires a worldwide communication system of unprecedented size and complexity. Such a system has been set up by the Signal Corps. This system must provide instant communication with any part of the world and carry the traffic necessary for close coordination of widely dispersed forces. The key to this system is a global network to link Washington directly with each theater of operations. And carry instant warnings of impending enemy air attack to our continental defense centers. In each theater, we establish and maintain a network to link all elements, ground, air and naval units, command, intelligence and supply. The network has multiple circuits to provide alternate routes if any are destroyed by enemy action. Finally, in each theater, we have a combat network adapted to the conditions of modern mobile warfare. Communications in battle must be swift and flexible without giving vital information to the enemy. Let us take, for example, the first stages of an amphibious assault. These are the critical moments when precise timing counts most, when success may depend on a momentary advantage. The first troops on the fire swept beachhead are Signal Corps units working with the Navy to establish vital ship to shore communication. Means must be flexible. The signal must go through. Today we are fighting in the mountains of Korea, where towering ridges separate our mobile frontline units and interrupt radio telephone communication. Messages must get through. The Signal Corps is using planes and even homing pigeons as couriers. They use radio relays to hurdle the mountains. Here, a Signal Corps convoy makes the difficult climb to a mountaintop to install a station that will link a forward division command post with core headquarters. These stations provide a very high frequency radio beam to carry radio telephone messages from point to point. Range is limited to the horizon. Since the beam is directed from station to station, there is maximum security against enemy interception. The equipment is portable and relatively easy to install. The relay mechanism permits messages to pass from telephones to the multiple channel radio beam and back again. It also is adapted to the transmission of teletype, facsimile, and television. It is a major factor in increasing the speed and flexibility of our combat communications. The station is complete after the numerous tests and servicing adjustments are made. Today, as in the past, the Signal Corps keeps pace with the increasing speed and complexity of modern warfare. The Signal Corps has participated in the development of many of the electronic devices now used by our armed forces. It devised the controls for the television bomb. A television camera mounted in the nose of the bomb transmits a picture that shows the location of the target. Now, watch the operator steer the bomb by radio. A direct hit. Partly the work of Signal Corps engineers was the proximity fuse in aerial bombs and rockets. A major innovation in World War II, the proximity fuse greatly increased the lethal effect of our weapons. A delicate electronic device, it automatically explodes a projectile just before it reaches the target. It explodes a projectile just before it reaches the target. Assistance was given in the development of a technique to detonate mines by radio signal. The enemy can't explode the mines unless they know the combination of our frequencies. These combinations are set up through the use of a standard telephone dial. Motion pictures made by the Army Pictorial Service of the Signal Corps have helped to train every man in the Army, whatever his job. Training films are estimated to cut down the training time by at least 30 percent and at the same time coordinates and unifies the Army's training programs. New tactics demand new techniques. An airborne invasion depends on a concentration of forces. The Signal Corps designed means to achieve this end, the Rebecca Eureka system. In advance of the landing, a paratrooper is dispatched to the designated drop zone. He carries a radio that establishes a directional beam. His part of the system is Eureka. Troop carriers follow with Rebecca interrogators to pick up Eureka's beacon. The Eureka beacon then guides them to the spot where the paratroops must drop. Movement of men and equipment to the airhead is precise, not a matter of guesswork. The Signal Corps was a pioneer in the field of radar, including radar for aircraft. This pilot, after dark, is looking for Boston. Signal Corps radar shows him the way. Here is what he sees as the sensitive echoes appear on his scope. The white spots are Boston and the surrounding cities. This gives him his bearing. With this device, bombers of the U.S. Air Force can now find and hit their targets at any time of day or night and in any weather. Signal Corps radar today is the electronic eye that enables our troops in the field to spot hidden enemy mortars and artillery from the arc of their shells in flight to obtain necessary data for accurate counter-battery action. This same electronic eye today gives the signal to other electronic devices that automatically aim an anti-aircraft battery. The Signal Corps is the Army's official weather observer. Among the Signal Corps' weather instruments is an automatic weather station which can secure data even from points behind enemy lines. This delicate instrument is known as Radio Saund. Radio Saund automatically records and broadcasts at regular intervals, changes in temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure, and gives it station identification. Signal Corps units were among the first to exploit the use of aircraft in warfare. From the Signal Corps' aeronautical section of World War I grew our present air force. Today, the Signal Corps again has an air section for photo reconnaissance. Through motion pictures and still photographs, we have seen the American soldier in the tense moment of actual combat. Think about the men who take these pictures. They have to be in the thick of the action. The Signal Corps' combat photographers obtain a visual record of events at the front that is vital to our commanders in making decisions on strategy and tactics. These combat photographers help to fulfill the Signal Corps' mission as the eyes and ears of the Army. To enable the Signal Corps to fulfill this mission most effectively, scientists and engineers are pursuing a wide range of researches. In its own laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and under contract in civilian institutions. Here, science is serving our national defense. Today the main focus of this research is in the field of electronics on the electron tube which is the key to radio, radar, television, telephoto and numerous other devices. A useful electromagnetic spectrum is being extended through microwave radar bands to wavelengths approaching infrared radiation. To develop new electron tubes for narrow beam communication and high definition radar. Signal Corps scientists are exploring the properties of the quartz crystal, the vital component that controls the frequency of most radio transmitters. Today a synthetic substitute is being produced. Quartz crystals are a strategic item which the U.S. normally must import from abroad. A special heat processing method plays an important part in prolonging the life and efficiency of the crystals. Our scientists are studying the chemistry of batteries and developing new types to make portable radios lighter and smaller without loss of range. Battery capacity has been increased as much as five times while weight has been cut in half. New power equipment is being designed from compact 150 watt units to giants producing 15,000 watts for round-the-world radio transmitters. One of the problems of basic research is to discover how these radio waves travel. To probe the secrets of wave propagation, rockets carry Signal Corps apparatus 100 miles into the upper atmosphere. The Signal Corps made man's first contact with the moon. In a test to define the outer limit of radar, its scientists directed radar pulses upward through the ionosphere toward the surface of the moon and recorded the echoes that returned across a void of 200,000 miles of outer space. The Signal Corps is developing mobile television to flash battle scenes to our commanders and serve as the electric eye for our army. Signal Corps technology is integrating radio and wire into a single fast-moving communication system. It is possible now for this man to communicate directly not only with this man and this man, but also with this man so that all of them fight as a team. This solves only one problem. All equipment must be highly mobile to fit the tactics of modern warfare. It must be light and compact. Many new circuits no longer use conventional wiring. Instead, they are printed on strips easily put into mass production. The Signal Corps has sharply reduced size and weight in a whole new series of portable radios for company and platoon. Field switchboards have been streamlined but have greater capacity. Wire is lighter. During World War II, it took two men to lay wire with this cumbersome reel. The same footage now can be contained in a 26-pound package. It can be laid by one man. It can be laid by Jeep, by plane, over miles of rough country in a few minutes. Today's Signal Corps equipment is designed to withstand the roughest use and exposure in all kinds of weather. New specifications have to be met for new tactics of warfare. Size and weight are important in an airborne invasion. New techniques are devised to prevent breakage of fragile equipment. Here, a complete, very high-frequency radio station is deposited safely by parachute in the drop zone. Also airborne are the men of the radio-operating crew who descend by parachute to assemble and put into action the equipment after the drop. Six special containers swathed in heavy canvas padding hold the complete assembly, including two dipole antennas, power unit, frequency testing oscillator, and the radio-receiving and transmitting apparatus. Today's Signal Corps equipment must be ready to function in the heat and humidity of a tropical jungle or at temperatures far below zero in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. To make sure that signal equipment meets these rigid requirements, it is tested in every conceivable way before it leaves Signal Corps laboratories. First, it is subjected to the rigors of an artificially produced Arctic climate. Then to blistering artificial heat. It is subjected to intense vibration and severe shock. It is exposed to drenching rain and enveloped in penetrating fog. In war, both men and equipment must face wide variations in weather. Their observations and forecasts are vital to our Air Force and to our ground forces to correct artillery and anti-aircraft fire. The Signal Corps has developed a whole series of new weather devices for a wide range of tactical situations. Airborne radio sands transmit data on atmospheric conditions up to a height of 140,000 feet, and radar tracks the radio sands to chart wind speed and direction. A special type of radar has been devised to detect nearby storms and long-range detection systems that automatically plot the position and path of a storm thousands of miles away. Special devices measure cloud ceiling and thickness, providing data vital to air safety. Charts based on weather data, gathered by these and other Signal Corps devices, quickly circulate by facsimile transmission through the arteries of the Army's integrated communication system, giving information to our forces that is vital in all tactical situations. Today's Signal Corps communications are the link that enables ground and air forces to cooperate directly in battle. Here, a front-line observer pinned down by the enemy accurately guides a bomber to an enemy bunker. If another world war should come to this nation overnight, the first threat to our country and its cities may be a long-range attack by trans-ocean bombers or missiles. Today, electronic devices can detect and warn of the intruder's approach from a perimeter of ships at sea and from a rim of scattered outposts. Today, planes can travel at sonic speeds and faster. Warning signals and target data must travel at once through our signal systems to automatic plotting devices at fire direction centers for split-second counter-action. Today, our battlefront is both in the field and in the laboratory. In both, the Signal Corps has a major role. You've seen what the Signal Corps is doing to carry out its function as the eyes and ears of your Army. The Corps utilizes the latest advances in technology to make our Army the most modern in the world today. Next week on The Big Picture, we spotlight the quartermaster Corps enough and on time. This is Captain Carl Zimmerman inviting you to be with us then.


Hello, wow, different background today.  Yes, we do. But before we do that, happy election day to all, we're going to talk about something very healthy and something that we can kind of dive a little bit deeper into. The concept of standing up for yourself. You know, a lot of girls, specifically, yeah, we're going to talk about girls today. And you know, facing challenges where we don't really know how to confront them or to stand up to people when you really feel like you wanted to say something but you didn't know how. Well, we're going to talk about that, but we're going to talk about that through something very physical, very spiritual too. The concept of stand-up paddling and what that does to you and body and mind and soul and how it brings it deeper into life. So I've got two stand-up paddling chicks here, gorgeous, healthy, athletic, confident girls who will share their experiences talking about standing up for yourself. So welcome, welcome. Alright, so we've got two. We've got Ashley and Leah. Why don't you guys both introduce yourselves a little bit and tell us a little bit about yourselves and why you do stand-up paddling and what you do with it. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Yeah. My name is Ashley. I am the owner and instructor of One Balance Yoga and Wellness, and I also teach here on Anahu at Core Power Yoga, Hot Yoga Nimitz, and do some sub-yoga teaching as well. Okay, great. I'm Leah Vernon and I'm the owner of Yoga Chi, Stand-up Paddleboard Yoga here, and I also coach at a place called Kaifit, Oahu, and yeah. So you're both sub-gals, but before we get to that, can we just talk about the voting thing quickly? Are you going to vote today? I mean, this is a huge, huge historical deal, so we just have to lay it out. It's a big deal. I actually already did mine. I early voted on Saturday. Oh, you did. Okay. Yeah. Alright. I didn't want to have to carry it with me until then. Yeah.  No. Oh, yeah. Are you going to say anything about it? Are you going to just hope for the best, or are you just assuming it's going to go the way it goes? Oh, I hope for the best. Yeah. I sincerely do. Yeah. I feel very anxious about this election. Yeah. It's a scary time to be in our country, and I'm not looking forward to finding out the result. I think either way, I'm not going to be too pleased. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm not excited about who could be the next president, which is an unfortunate feeling. Yeah. How does that relate to us standing up for ourselves? What do you think in this particular election? It seems a little bit debilitating to me, because our thing is like standing up for ourselves is the right to vote, and we work so hard as women to have that, and it's just really disheartening to have that power. Yeah. I feel like you cannot do what you would wish. Right. It's like choosing the lesser of two evils, I think, is it right? Yeah. Something people keep saying throughout the election. Well, I think in life, a lot of times we're going to be facing obstacles where we don't really know what to do with it, but we have to choose.  Right. And sometimes you just have to do that. So, on that note, so stand up paddling, it's an increasingly popular sport. It's been, you were talking about that when I went to your class in California, and it's taken on by speed here. Why stand up paddling, first of all? What does it do to you? Why do you guys like it so much? I think for me, especially being somebody that doesn't surf or have that experience of growing up just being in the water, it gives you a chance to really break away from the shore and get that same feeling of escaping everything and just kind of connecting with nature in a way that's, you know, obtainable for people. So, you don't surf? You haven't even surf? No, I haven't. I know, I know. Well, I got pregnant pretty, like, right after I moved here. So, you have like two kids. Yeah, yeah. Three-year-old and a ten-month-old. So, yeah. It's like, I'll just stay right here. Happy on a stable board. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Ashley? About this up yoga? Yeah. Why did you pick that up? Well, for me, it was about expanding upon my current yoga practice on the board and taking it out into the water. So, I had spent several years practicing and teaching yoga within the studio environment. Right. And it's very nice and it's a controlled environment and it's safe and, you know, has a lot of great things to offer, stability as, you know, in regards to the foundation and all of that. But for me, I really wanted to incorporate the parts of myself that are nature-lover and outdoors person and an adventurist. And I wanted to mingle that with, you know, the stability and security of the yoga that I had come to love so much as part of my life. Yeah. I think you mentioned the key word stability because the whole point of SUP yoga is you're on unstable ground doing something that's supposed to be stabilizing. Yeah, not even ground. Right. Take away the ground. Take away the walls. You take away that safety net. Yeah. Why do you think that became a popular movement? Do you think it's something that people are just trending or is there something really in the fact that you're trying to do something so balancing on something so imbalanced? I mean, is that kind of like, who started this? I feel like, I just have to say, I think social media has really created this spark and this interest. People have a yoga practice and they're like, wow, wow, like, I want to be able to do that. I want to experience that. So being able to see, I really think, don't you think Rachel Brayden, for sure, a yoga girl, yeah, she was like the first one anyone ever saw like on a bogey yoga board and that blue board just became a staple for all of us to start our practice. And then it just became super saturated in California, but definitely Aruba, California. And then everything cool starts in California. No, no, no, Hawaii is a very cool place. But do you think it attracts more people who are water lovers who want to kind of add that yoga practice into the water or the other way around? People who are yoga people. I think the ladder is more my experience anyway. I don't know. I think just with the few years that I've been teaching regularly here, I get people that have never even done yoga. And I think really people are just, they see something, they're in Hawaii, they're like, why not? Let's just go for it. Right, right. Like the classy. I'm gonna share a little experience. So Leah took a show, I joined one of her classes last week. And so it's interesting group because one lady was older than me. I thought I was going to be the way oldest there. And she, because she's an empty nester, she decided visiting in Hawaii, she decided to go and do something on her, check off a bucket list of doing stand up yoga. And she's never been on a paddle. Yeah, she doesn't swim. I don't think she was a swimmer. No. Yeah. And then we had someone who was pregnant. Right.  So really, I mean, every class you get is just this crazy blend of people, which goes to show. It really brings in all walks of life. Exactly. So it's not just like the athletic type who want to do something. Right. Do you think that's the yoga practice on the board? How difference, how different is that from yoga in the studio? What are the main differences and challenges? I feel like it's a world apart. Yeah, it really is. It's completely different. Why would you distinguish? Well, all the elements, of course, are there in a studio. It's a controlled environment, typically the heat, the humidity, the lighting, the ambience, the sound, everything in there is controlled. Right. And especially being in Hawaii, it's not like California where I've taught where you're in cold water and you go ten yards from shore and no one's out there. In Hawaii, you've got people swimming, you've got fishermen, you've got other companies, other groups on the water.   If you open the hips up, yeah, you got to keep them square to the board. So that's another thing about SUP is that the board demands your attention and your alignment. Like on a mat, you could be in a huge class and the instructor may not notice that you, they're like, oh, you're in the pose, but they don't see that your alignment's off.  It's kind of funny. From time to time, and somebody fell in. But do you think there's a danger of people not allowing them to fully extend their positions because of that fear of the water and the imbalance of falling in? I feel like that same fear runs risk on a mat if somebody is nervous or rolling back. And it's just a matter of time and practice until they allow themselves to become comfortable in the environment, whatever the environment is. Right. And that's part of the practice is facing that inner dialogue and pushing yourself past those boundaries and those roadblocks that you've set for yourself. Well, that sounds like the natural metaphor to go the step into what we're talking about standing up for yourself is how do you face these roadblocks in life? I mean, yeah. Do you see that? I mean, do you see those kind of different levels of challenging yourself using Santa Paddle as a metaphor? What do you think? Absolutely. Yeah.  Really? Okay.  I mean, I feel like this is one of those things that began as something that I saw somebody do in a land far away that I had never even conceived of. And I was like, whoa, this is a thing. Yeah, I said that. Really, folks can do? Yeah. And then it takes a lot of guts and courage and fear working through and all the things to get yourself to a point. I mean, yeah, where you're running your own business, teaching people how to do something that once upon a time you your mind was blown that it was even being done ever. Right. I mean, did you ever even fathom that you'd be teaching or having a business doing this when you were, I don't know, years ago? I laugh, my husband and I say this every day. I was like, my job is to teach yoga on a paddle board in Hawaii. Like, how cool is that? It's pretty unbelievable. Pretty unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah. And you having kids, what do you, how do you think you're gonna, you know, teach them to embrace the water and balance their lives with both water and land and everything? That is just a loaded guess. That's my parenting style. No, I just think I want them to have confidence in themselves and faith in themselves and start at a young age with their breath work and just giving them opportunities to feel confident that they can make a decision. And if they see something, I just want to be able to be there to create like an outline for them to be able to obtain that. Like, okay, if you're interested in this, let's start slow. Let me help you take it step by step. And you think it's ever not too young to start them in the water on the paddle? I think the younger, the better. Like my son, I think as soon as you could wear a life jacket, I put him on a board. So he was probably 13 months old. So my daughter, she's 10 months. I'm like, almost there. We'll be able to do like a little paddle out probably for her first birthday, but again, that comes with me having confidence in myself. And I'm not going to put them in obviously a dangerous situation, but yeah, get them out there young so they don't have that mental block. Right. And confidence is something that is kind of developed as you go grow up. And there are things that kind of give you or take away that confidence growing up. What do you think are some things that setup paneling can help to create or to help develop that confidence? I would say largely getting over making mistakes. Yes. So like it's okay to fall in kind of thing? Yeah, exactly. That expectation you had to be perfect. Yes. That's like really hinders people. Yes. Let that go. And sub-yoga keeps you very honest.  But in the water, your ego takes a much bigger hit when you make mistakes.  There's no hiding it when you make a mistake and what's nice about it and especially in Hawaii when we have such wonderful conditions but it's really a bad thing to end up in the water right in California. It was a little bit different in the Bay. It was not fun. But here it's just kind of like it's really just your ego that you have to get over. You're just wetter. And that's really all it is and if you can learn to get over that and be like oops first prize for me like blue ribbon, first mistake made, I win. Then like it turns every you know every mishap. I don't even want to call it a failure because it's just part of learning and growing and you know you if you can learn that on the subboard then it makes the the challenges off your board in your life a little bit more. So learn again with a little bit. Learn to fall. Absolutely. It's part of the process you have to. I almost wish I allowed myself to fall in class. You didn't. I did. I know it's a good idea to make anyone fall in class.  Because when I did my headstand I I can do it in the studio but because of that fear element I wasn't allowing myself to put my feet all the way up and I knew with that fear I would fall in and the fear of falling prevented me from achieving my ultimate. And like I said in class I was like you have to actually visualize it so especially since you are new to sub-yoga people can't visualize themselves doing it. So immediately their mind isn't committed to the actual to executing that pose. Isn't that crazy how the mind kind of controls everything? Everything. Absolutely. So there's no excuse you know. So let's take a quick break. Think about what you want to do in life and you know you can do it. We're going to come back and we'll talk about standing up for yourself so don't go away. Hey how you doing? Welcome to Abachi Talk. My name is Andrew Lening. I'm your co-host and we have a nice program here every Friday at one o'clock Think Tech Studios where we talk about technology and we have a little bit of fun with it. So join us if you can. Thanks Aloha. Thank you for watching Think Tech. I'm Grace Cheng the new host for Global Connections. You can find me here live every Thursday at 1 p.m. where we'll be talking to people around the islands or visiting the islands who are connected in various aspects of global affairs. So please tune in and Aloha and thanks for watching. Hi I'm Chris Letham with Think Tech Hawaii and I'd like to ask you to come watch my show The Economy in You each Wednesday at 3 p.m. Back on talking about something and how you can stand up for yourselves as a person as a female or as a male just standing up for yourself. I mean a lot of people really take for granted that there is a lot to do with how you feel about yourself in overcoming obstacles. So I've got Ashley and me here. Tremendous yoga subbing people. So how does that relate to you and your personal lives in being challenged with literally being on shaky water or being on ground but feeling you're in a shaky grounds anyway? Is it like your work? Yeah. So what comes to mind first is my last real job if you would and I had worked for a long time to get this job. Sorry I can't take that. What's a real job? What? So sitting in an office is a real job and teaching yoga is not? Right? That is not acceptable. A grown-up job? A grown-up job? A corporate job? A corporate job? A boring job? It was pretty boring. Yeah, my last in a box cookie cutter what I used to define as a real job. I had been living in Costa Rica for a few years straight out of college. I majored in Spanish and I perfected it down there and then I came back to the United States and I worked for a little while with California closets but was really trying to get a job that would allow me to use my skills because I felt like oh I'm super good at this and I worked so hard and I want to be this you know image of a young professional woman and support myself and feel like I am, I don't know, valuable. Right? And so I got this job at the venture capital arm of the second largest bank in Spain and we had our little office not that we had our big huge office in San Francisco and I was there for about six months and I was so elated when I got this position because I really felt like it was the culmination of all my hard work and my dreams were coming true and and then within that six months time I just became to feel so very unseen and unappreciated and undervalued to a degree that was really affecting my self-esteem. Why because it was a man's world there? Well very much so yes I mean banking and finance and all of these things typically yes very much male-centered but in my particular office I was the only woman in this office it was me and five middle-aged men and it got to the point where you know I would come into work some days and one of them would have thrown his jacket over my chair and I'll be like oh is this your jacket and be like yeah just go hang it up and it was just like that's pretty pathetic that today it was it was and it hurt you know because I felt like why did I spend all those years and all this money educating myself to give myself here and to have you tell me to hang up your jacket first thing in the morning and that I just started looking for another job. I was like and I'm done with that because you know I felt I felt like I didn't have room to say he was still higher up than me and he was my boss you know like I felt like everybody there was my boss basically. So anyway and this is the time in my life where I felt like I need to make a massive change. I need to completely change the way that I'm looking at things and doing things in life and get myself out of this situation where I feel so powerless regardless of how much I feel like I have to offer and that's when I decided to become a yoga instructor and I really and largely it's what got me here to Hawaii as well and becoming a yoga instructor has taken me from that environment and placed me in a community of people who see me as a leader and who encourage me to grow and to challenge myself and it's just a completely different environment to be in and it's changed my life to a huge degree like I feel like that move to be like this is this is not okay with me yeah I deserve more than this I'm better than this and to decide to you know turn away from that and turn to my passions and what gets me excited and what you know what I feel like but if you didn't have that situation of that kind of a challenge you may not have found your I don't think I would have honestly because I was prepared to settle there forever I was like I'm good I'm making more money than I ever have you know I'm you think a lot of people settle most people settle I think yes most largely yes and what's the equivalent of settling if you're like in yoga like just kind of half-hazardly doing a pose without with full intention and integrity do you think people kind of deliver that to that I mean I think that do you have I feel like I've been I mean you see a lot of different types of students and how they you know yeah I translate right I feel like that just students you can just see what they're going through in their personal life and their health by how they come into a pose so not even holding them to a standard of where they should go into the pose but just analyzing how they are in that pose and then just trying to coach them and guide them to open up or let go in certain areas I guess yeah but sometimes I think people aren't aware yeah I heard from a psychologist one time that you know if you're not balanced emotionally you do any balancing poses you can't do it yeah it's amazing how it kind of translates right yeah and like we talked about in our class a lot of emotional blockages are stored in the hips so people are super tight hips or if you work a desk job just like like the posture and tightness and stiffness in the back and the breath you can tell a lot about somebody by the breath it's like are they breathing soft shallow do they even know how to find their breath or you know that's like I think the key is finding the breath right so Leo what about your personal life and how you found your way did you have any kind of experiences where you really needed to stand up for yourself yeah yoga kai that's just the perfect example of standing up for myself um I married my husband military spouse so I went from making decisions about my life to committing to his life and found that we were moving here and just was starting my yoga teaching journey I had been a coach for many years and just was kind of switching lanes and I got here and I reached out to many studios in kai loa where I was living and just like I just I'll clean your floors I'll teach for free guys have moms that need help with facing I just wanted to be a part of the community and not even I don't want to say my name not even the YNCA would give me a shot to teach and I'm like okay but I just knew that I had something it was like my dharma like this was my this is what I needed to do and my husband was like I you love the water and I showed him pictures on pictures the people doing headstand on paddle boards and he's like this is a thing you should go you should get certified and I came back and there was only a few companies and it was really just individuals teaching and he was like let's let's do this let's build it and so just I went through so much the design process and just trying to create an opportunity for myself so that I could share what I wanted to do but then from day one the minute I got to the beach and lay down a yoga board someone approached me and started like getting just kind of muscle at the beach park and all the water and I had no idea the politics or what I just stepped into I was like I just want to do yoga like I don't understand I'm not trying to feel this competition I don't like the ego I'm trying to dial that down right so from day one every day I get there I'm constantly just standing up for myself and it's just the way it is but it is I mean going back to politics is there are so many challenges around you you want to do your thing but there's all this you know unstable kind of water drifting and you need to drift and you need to find a way to anchor yourself exactly in that environment that you've chosen right so um I was talking I was asking Zuri in our panel whether she's done something and she never has right Zuri which is time to do it and try I guess I'll try it someday someday your excuse is that you don't have enough core now core isn't interesting right because everything comes back to this as women particularly everything is centered here so is it our kind of concept of life where we need to kind of engage all there are energies here and how does that work with something too I mean if you don't have core you can't do anything right but I agree yes but I also feel like as a woman it's like that's kind of where like body shaming goes straight to like your core or where you carry the weight is like the belly and the hips and then but it's like that's where you carry your children it's like you you give them life from here you hold them here so I feel like what we need to do is to not be afraid of how weak it is but work on strengthening it because that is the foundation of our body of our breath like bravo yeah yeah well said actually can you answer that I agree absolutely um I feel like the core gets a lot of attention whether it be positive negative or others right I know but that being said I do feel like it it is the core of a strong practice and strengthening it has limitless benefits so it's not an excuse that you don't have core you can just strengthen it and I mean I liken this to if somebody says you know I don't have enough core for sup yoga I'm not flexible enough to do yoga and I'm like that is like saying you're too dirty to take a bath yeah it doesn't make any sense we're here for you this is why you do the thing yeah this is the point just modify modify build the foundation like you know just build upon that but again as I go back to the fear to even start to address the fear I think that's yeah just self doubt it's that inner dialogue that we talk about so you are putting up those mental blocks yeah for whatever reason usually it's just insecurity you're afraid of things it's the ego you're afraid of what you're gonna look like you're gonna you're again it's that expectation of being perfect yeah you know going back to the lady who's traveling here who said she wanted to put this on her bucket list her husband was there and I asked why he didn't want to do and he says oh I don't like yoga it doesn't do it for me you know you hear that a lot from people who are athletic you know claim to be and they don't want to do it maybe it is like a fear of embarrassing themselves because it's actually something more challenging than they realize but they always say oh yeah it's not it's not challenging enough I don't get it but is it the state of mind is it how people approach the concept of yoga and yeah I think people also it depends on like the relationship you have with yourself but also a lot of people that are more like athletic like what you're saying their dosha type is more pitta more fire so they're not really understanding how to balance their dosha so they're I mean for me it's like that was me too so I'm going to do the opposite of that to keep myself in balance does that make sense yeah absolutely so if you're just so used to feeding the fire feeding the fire you need both yeah you need both otherwise you're gonna get hit that burnout point in your life right well at this point can you know our little short time left can you maybe address our listeners and audience little tips for embracing and tackling challenges in life and you know with your experience with the stuffing go ahead Ashley yeah thank you I would just say don't take yourself so seriously don't take yoga so seriously and to a certain degree don't take life so seriously you know very very rarely are things life and death and you know as big a deal as we tend to make them in our minds both on the boards and in our lives and I do feel like our ego and our self-doubts and that fear of not meeting the image standards that we want to be can hold us back on a lot of different levels and it's it's sad you know and it's not necessary and I feel like the more willing we can become to make mistakes and to be silly or you know whatever it is to get outside of your comfort zone and whatever in whatever way the more happy you know and free we can all be to explore different facets of life and you know maybe we should have a silly yoga day it's just to be really on top of those poses absolutely all the way yeah well I'll just say for me I think the most important thing would be not to live in the past the future and to really focus on building a relationship with yourself because a lot of times what you think you want your life to be like or what you think you should be is really it's just the ego talking so learning how to listen to your body connect with your breath and having that foundation so that you're not as rattled from the constant change of life right right wow there's a lot to take in today so first I want to thank you both for bringing such big thoughts on on on a paddle and more so Leah if you if you want to check out a stand-up paddling yoga Leah has a company and the website is it's yogakaipaddleyoga.com okay and and Ashley you're starting your own thing too with one balance yes yes I teach private yoga lessons here and then I'm also leading a retreat on Big Island in April that I'm really excited about and you can check out all about that at onebalance.com okay great well thank you again and enjoy your water and sear surroundings


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David, and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Bicycle Nocturnal deck from the Collectible Playing Cards. Alright, so what is the Nocturnal deck? This was a deck release that was also a Kickstarter project put out from Collectible Playing Cards. It was successfully funded, and this is the deck. Of course, this deck is devoted to everything nighttime. Nocturnal, of course, means night. And so there's just a nighttime darkness theme to this deck. Across the front of the tuck case, you can see that it says Bicycle since 1885. It does say Nocturnal Playing Cards down at the bottom. One side of the tuck case says Air Cushion Finish, and the other side says the United States Playing Card Company. The bottom has some ad copy about collectible playing cards, and the top is blank with a custom tuck seal. The back design, of course, is the back design of the cards, and that is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. The cards come printed from the United States Playing Card Company, and they are done on a casino grade stock. They do have a modern cut and air cushion emboss, and if you'd like to learn more about stock, cut, or finish, you can click the link below in the description. Now, a lot of people will always ask me how these cards feel, how they handle. Best thing I can do is measure them for you to give you an unbiased fact. If I stick 10 of these into a caliper and measure them, it comes to 2.89. 2.89 is a casino grade stock, and it's on par with the Eco Deck from Dan and Dave, the Rouge Deck also from Dan and Dave, the Bolarama Deck that Legends put out, the Neil Patrick Harris Deck that Bicycle put out, and the Architect Deck from Legends. The back design features floating spheres that kind of pop off the card. You got gray spikes and cracks surrounding the background, and a red wave spiral that goes into the center of a very dark blue abyss. With this deck, you'll get two extra cards. One will be a collectible playing cards ad card, and the second will be a double backer, which is great for magic. Also with this deck, you'll get two original jokers. The Joker card is a silhouette of the Jester against a jet of black background. You'll get one blue and one red. With this deck, you'll get custom pips and quartz. The numbered cards illuminate from the center there. The pips are custom with black borders and colored centers. The quartz cards are of course Bicycle Standard, but they are done in a red silhouette wash or a blue silhouette wash. Alright, so that is my review of the Nocturnal Deck from collectible playing cards. As always, we ask that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. We also ask that you subscribe to this channel just so that you can stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic. If you want to follow me on social media, you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magicorthodoxy twitter.com slash magicorthodoxy instagram.com slash magic-orthodoxy, and if you ever need more content, you can always find it at magicorthodoxy.com. Thanks, bye.


Hi everyone and welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we're coming to you live today from the floor of PTC 2024 I'm Barb Mitchell from JSA and I today I'm going to be exploring the intersection of sustainability and digital infrastructure with Tito from Alea and Fernando from Derns.  So has it been worth it? Tell us about your journey here and 23 hours first of all, thanks for having us 22 hours to get here. It's a long flight But I'm totally worth it. I mean the conference for us is is a great conference It's the first that one that kicks off the year for us super important to be here Being here for multiple years already, but yeah, it has been great so far. Yeah, it gets bigger every year Doesn't it? Yes, it does. We'll talk a little bit about that because I have some role on this now. Oh, yes, right? Okay, yeah, yeah, I grow I mean we are all growing year-over-year. We are growing as a conference. So yeah, very good Yeah And how about you? How's your year similar? Are you have you been to PTC before? Is this your first? Yeah, this is my second time in PTC. Yes last year I took a straight flight. I mean we stopped in the Atlanta to come here then to 25 hours This year is we split the trip. I Made some tour in the continent to visit some clients and then I took a flight from Seattle to here So it was easy to arrive, but the return will be tough But it's totally worth you know, yeah Well, okay Well, let's get right into it then and I know that we have some partnership discussions to have here And so I know that you know, if you wouldn't mind talking about the Alea has recently partnered with Derns and tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, of course So Alea is a data center platform in Brazil. We currently have seven data centers we are developing a couple other ones and We we look into the market with the right partner to To develop those those lands and the ends appeared as one great partner that we feel like we should Be partnering with and this is it we are celebrating these partnerships starting this year To help develop those big data centers that we are building over there in Brazil, right? So super happy with it Looking forward for What comes out of this partner? Fantastic. It's always nice to have partners here and I'd love to hear from your perspective from Derns perspective Yeah, excellent because Derns is a Dutch company and we celebrate the last year night five 50th anniversary of foundation, but we have me operating in Brazil for ten years only the data center markets and The Brazilian market grew a lot. There was five four or five years Okay, and then we we grabbed some important projects there with the main players and Ilya was seeking for a partner for design development and project development and We are kind of aware of what are the new technologies and water is the technical approach that the main players are using so Ilya should be on the top of that and then I'm very happy with this partnership because It means a lot for us also Yeah, it's almost like a way of not reinventing the wheel, right? So they have been doing this for a while. They understand their needs Customers needs their customers are our customers as well. So yeah, happy to To develop this partnership. I feel like it will be fruitful. Yeah now switching gears a little bit I understand that you have recently launched a sustainability bond. Yes regarding women in leadership. Yes What do you mean by that? So Ilya is not bringing only in its logo We have sustainability as a core value of the company So our bonds are attached into PUE W. We metrics as well So whenever we don't reach a certain threshold, we have higher interest rates And it's the same now with women in leadership as well. We have a 40% Benchmark that we need to achieve in order for our interest rates don't don't grow I mean, it's not like we are not doing that because of This aspect of it, but it's it is important to have women's and city in leadership positions And we are trying to bring more and more of that as of now. We only have to we are it's growing We are finding good persons within the organization to bring this upwards a little bit But yeah, that's that's the history about around that that that bond So 150 million US dollars of that that we just raised Give us a little bit of wiggle room here to work in these developments that we are trying to do here with dunes as well And all the enterprise ecosystem that we also have in play in Brazil in those five cities that we operate, right? That's yeah, that's impressive. I obviously approve So that's good And lastly you I believe are starting a new term on the PDC Board of Governors. Yes, I am I think that's what you were alluding to maybe in the beginning. Yes, that's correct I was appointed a board of governors representing South Latin America basically So a little bit of work to to be done There is just a certain amount of members of PTC that come from the Latin American region Of course, it's a long flight. I understand totally understandable People tend to go into more easier conferences to get to ITW mainly, which is somewhat easier for us coming from South America but it's It is an important conference as I mentioned the first one in the year kicking off the relationships making sure that we had all the Relationships in place with our customers coming from capacity Latin late in March and then ICW in May So that makes a very good Way to reach and and keeping contact with our customers. So happy to be appointed Board of Governors representing South America. Hopefully I'll be able to do a lot for my region Yeah, happy happy with the nomination. It's great to have that representation of your region Super great. Yeah, last time they had one from South America. I think it's 1990 something. Oh, wow So it has been a while. They don't have somebody from South America Yeah, and it's as you said the there's a lot of growth happening there and it needs to that is if you look in the data center market as globally Latin America has a somewhat important footprint of data centers and power availability green energy and all those kind of things. So I feel like Latin America could could boom in the next couple of years. Yeah, I'm hearing that Me too bubble up at these conferences, and that's one that I've been hearing a lot. Yes. Yeah, looking forward for you Yeah, and Fernando any any last thoughts you want to share here just about the this growth in Latin America made in Brazil Brazil represents more than 50% of the data center market in Latin America and Today in Brazil we have more But the center Capacity being designed or built then Underoperation so it's a significant growth that you're achieving and the last coming to contribute to this growth And then we are a very nice moment to be in the market. So yes And so timely for us to have the opportunity to chat with you both congratulations on the partnership. Thank you very much Thank you very much. And thank you for now to until so much for joining us today Thank you. Thank you for having us was a pleasure. We'll probably see you again in a couple months. Maybe and yeah, we'll do this do this again Yes, look for sure. Thank you. And thank you to our viewers for tuning in today to JSA TV. Happy networking


Item Number – SCP-163 Object Class – SAFE Special Containment Procedures – SCP-163's enclosure consists of four adjoining rooms, three meters from floor to ceiling, with the following attributes. One 5 meter by 5 meter receiving room with an airlock, and seating appropriate for both SCP-163's and human morphology. One 5 meter by 3 meter storage room, capable of storing SCP-163's isolation suit, tools, and games. One 20 meter by 15 meter workshop, and dining area, which contains all salvage technology, including SCP-163-1. One 5 meter by 5 meter sleep area and rest facility, furnished with seating and bedding, including SCP-163's morphology. Air is filtered into the enclosure, and is automatically monitored at all times by computer and once daily by staff, to check for impurities. Filters are to be changed weekly, or anytime impurities are found in the air. Two separate lighting systems are used in the enclosure. One which produces radiation between 400 newton meters and 700 newton meters, and one that produces radiation between 150 newton meters and 300 newton meters. The primary lighting system is to remain active at all times, to facilitate observation. The secondary lighting system may be turned on or off at SCP-163's discretion. At no point are forbidden elements and chemicals to be introduced into the enclosure above prescribed proportions, listed in manual M-163-1. Personnel, and any items brought with them, will be checked for traces of these chemicals prior to being allowed access to the enclosure. Personnel are to wear isolation suits at all times while in the enclosure, to protect themselves and SCP-163 from cross-contamination. Before being granted clearance to enter the enclosure, personnel are to study manual M-163-2 and submit to an interview with Dr. Cleared personnel are permitted to interact with SCP-163 by assisting with repair of equipment and by playing board games with it. SCP-163 may leave its enclosure at any time. It must first announce its intent to leave the enclosure through an agreed-upon gesture and don its isolation suit. The suit contains the same air filters used to cycle the air in the enclosure. In order to facilitate vision, SCP-163 may carry a UV flashlight, capable of producing radiation wavelengths of no less than 280 Newton meters, in order to keep risk of skin cancer among personnel to a minimum. When roaming the facility, SCP-163 is to be accompanied by a junior researcher, who is to record all actions, gestures, and expressions with a video camera. The escort is to also bar SCP-163 from any areas deemed dangerous to it. Once every three days, personnel are to deliver to the receiving room a 20-liter container with chemical elements and proportions listed in manual M-163-1. SCP-163 will take the container and pour its contents into SCP-163-1. The empty container is then placed in the airlock for retrieval. It may be removed from the enclosure only when in the presence of SCP-163. If SCP-163 interferes with the removal of a piece of equipment, the item is to be placed back in the area from which it was taken. At no point is SCP-163-1 to be disassembled, operated, or removed by personnel under any circumstances. Any attempts to do so will result in severe discipline. SCP-163 is a sapient organism of extraterrestrial origin. When standing, it is 2 meters tall and 1.5 meters wide, the bulk of the body being suspended 50 cm from the ground. The body is roughly cylindrical, with a circular mouth at the bottom, the equivalent of a head at the top, and eight three-jointed legs arranged radially around the equator. SCP-163 also has a series of specialized limbs listed here. Two prehensile feeding apparatus on either side of the mouth, two arms near the top of the body used for delicate manipulation, two larger arms located closer to the legs used for heavy manipulation and lifting and capable of producing a steady force of approximately 500 newtons and a striking force of up to 2,000 newtons. Two appendages of indeterminate function located between the legs and mouth parts, which had been amputated prior to SCP-163's discovery. 30 cm from the top of the body is a single semi-compound eye, which extends in a ring around it, allowing a full 360 degrees of vision. There is a blind spot at the back of the head to make way for an organ used for elimination of bodily waste. The compound eye is separated into 88 units. The most likely hypothesis is that each unit receives only vertical information, while the brain intuits horizontal information by comparing input from the different units. The eye is sensitive to light wavelengths between 150 newton meters and 300 newton meters, equivalent to UVC, which is harmful to most terrestrial life. SCP-163 contains an endoskeleton, which consists of tissue similar in chemical composition and structure to cellulose. The skeletal structure protrudes from the uppermost joint of each leg, and appears to have been blunted by mechanical means. No pain response is exhibited when samples are taken from these protrusions. The skin is transparent to visible wavelengths of light, but opaque to ultraviolet. Cold samples taken have an oxygen and carbon dioxide transport system based on nickel, rather than the iron or copper used by terrestrial organisms, and is green in color. Analysis of blood and tissue shows that SCP-163's cells use DNA for instruction, with the standard GCAT bases. However, a different method is used to interpret said instructions. Sets of three bases still code for amino acids, but they are not the same ones that are coded for in terrestrial cells. In addition, some terrestrial amino acids are not present in its biology, while others that it uses are not present in Earth's biosphere, allowing for dramatically different protein arrangements. SCP-163's home environment would have contained different proportions of elements, compared to that of Earth. This is evidenced by its sensitivity to certain common elements, and its resistance to other less common ones. A heavy metal poison as to terrestrial life is used in SCP-163's metabolism. Iron and calcium, though not used by SCP-163, causes no harmful effects to it. Exposure to f*** in any chemical form causes damage to tissue, and f*** are as harmful to SCP-163 as they are to us. A full table of safe and unsafe chemicals, along with dietary requirements, is contained in manual M-163-1. Furthermore, the atmosphere would have had different proportions of gases. SCP-163 is able to survive in our atmosphere for some time without mechanical aid, but will begin to show signs of illness after one hour. Air that is filtered to remove certain common terrestrial elements will prevent such an event. An analysis of SCP-163's technology includes searches for her medically sealed chambers, which may contain evidence of its home atmosphere. It is unknown how SCP-163 communicates complex ideas. The only vocalization produced by it is a steady sinusoidal wave of approximately 15 hertz when in certain emotional states. There is no variation to this vocalization, which can last from 15 seconds to 10 minutes. It is recommended that personnel exposed to this sound remain in well-lit conditions to prevent feelings of paranoia. Emotions are primarily displayed by the dome of tissue above the compound eye. Different states correspond to distortion of furrows in the skin by subdermal muscles. In addition, a negative and affirmative gesture have been noted. An affirmative consists of the rapid beating together of SCP-163's delicate manipulators, while a negative is the same gesture performed by heavy manipulators. Specific information on gestures and emotional states is contained in manual M-163-2. SCP-163-1 appears to be a universal life support device. It is able to convert basic chemical elements into sustenance for SCP-163, in addition to originally projecting the phenomenon in which SCP-163 was found. To ensure the continued health of SCP-163, study of SCP-163-1 is forbidden until after the death of SCP-163. The function of other equipment is still not fully understood. The technology is limited to crude transistors, assembled into various specialized analog computers. Many physical processes that these computers model do not correspond to anything known to modern science. It is theorized that SCP-163-1 relies on some of these processes in order to function. SCP-163 was first discovered by miners in the Andes Mountains in 2000. The rock strata in which it was found are approximately 80 years old. Most minerals in the vicinity indicate that its spacecraft had crash-landed. The miners reported coming across an impenetrable mirrored surface, which abruptly disappeared after enough rock was removed from it. The description suggests that this is a larger version of the phenomenon produced by SCP-163-1. Despite being encased in stone for numerous years, the contents of the chamber showed no sign of age or degradation, believed to be an effect of the phenomenon. Approximately 30% of the equipment had been looted before agents could reach the scene. Though some have since been recovered, there are many items still at large. Agents are continuing to scour the black market for any further clues as to the whereabouts of the missing technology. When agents took control of the scene, SCP-163 was still encased in the reflective sphere produced by SCP-163-1. The relative simplicity of SCP-163-1's interface allowed agents to quickly deactivate it. Agents were forced to subdue SCP-163, which was violent at the time. Aside from this initial confrontation, SCP-163 has cooperated with the Foundation to the extent of its ability to understand us. The following are select experiments performed on SCP-163. A full list of experiments and results is contained in manual M-163-2. Experiment log 163-46 Facial recognition Date undisclosed Subject SCP-163 Procedure Dr. W. W. entered the enclosure of SCP-163, carrying 30 11 x 17 cards with images printed on them with UV-absorbing inks. Images were representations of human faces of varying complexity. SCP-163 was shown these images from least complex, a smiley face, to most complex, a photograph of Dr. W. W. W. W. details. SCP-163 was not able to recognize the smiley face, which human infants are able to immediately emulate. It was not until the 18th image that SCP-163 reacted by taking the card and placing it over the front of Dr. W. W. W.'s faceplate. Image 18 had exaggerated facial features, which included a nose, eyes, ears, and an open mouth showing a row of straight teeth. Image 17 was identical, but with a closed mouth. Experiment log 163-47 Facial recognition Date undisclosed Subject SCP-163 Procedure Dr. W. W. W. entered SCP-163's enclosure, carrying 20 11 x 17 cards with images printed on them with UV-absorbing inks. Images were representations of the top of SCP-163's body, ranging in complexity from an isosceles triangle to a photograph of SCP-163. SCP-163 did not recognize the first card as a member of its species. The second card, depicting an isosceles triangle with a horizontal line going through the middle, elicited a response. SCP-163 took all the cards from Dr. W. W. and looked at each in turn. It then sorted the cards into two stacks, one which contained six images, including image one, and one which contained the remainder, including image two. It is hypothesized that the first stack includes images which cannot be recognized as SCP-163's species, while the second stack has images that can. The presence of the photograph in the second stack supports this hypothesis. Experiment log 163-80 Altruism test Date undisclosed Subject SCP-163 Procedure Dr. W. W. entered the enclosure carrying two wooden blocks and a box capable of holding both. The doctor opened the box and moved one block into it, while feigning great effort. After closing the box, Dr. W. W. moved the second block toward it, again feigning effort, and awaited a response from SCP-163. Details SCP-163 opened the box for Dr. W. W. after 10 seconds of him attempting to place the block inside while the lid was closed. The result is consistent with the same experiment performed on human children. Experiment log 163-88 Higher functions Date undisclosed Subject SCP-163 Procedure Dr. W. entered the enclosure with a cart containing an easel, five canvases, assorted brushes, and a selection of pigments which reflect different ultraviolet frequencies between 150 Nm and 300 Nm. The doctor briefly demonstrated the act of painting using three of the pigments before handing the brush to SCP-163. Details SCP-163 immediately began painting with the provided pigments. The image produced was of a landscape containing unrecognizable plants and animals, according to UV Imaging. SCP-163 remained still for seven minutes after completing the painting, before knocking it from the easel and retreating to a corner of the receiving room. Craneal ridges indicated distress. All further attempts at interacting with SCP-163 failed, until Dr. W. attempted to remove the painting supplies from the enclosure. At that point, SCP-163's heavy manipulators were protruded from between its legs and indicated the negative gesture. The following day, SCP-163 was seen painting on a new canvas. Addendum 163-88 As of this date, fresh canvases, paints, and brushes should be provided to SCP-163 whenever its supplies begin to go low. This is the first truly meaningful communication we have been able to understand. At the very least, we may be able to learn more about the ecology of its home world. Dr. W. Addendum 163-93 The odds of SCP-163 having been discovered at all are mind-boggling, given the size of the Earth. A number of factors would have had to come into play, including plate tectonics, development of terrain by humans, and just plain old dumb luck. I am filing a recommendation that all excavations be monitored by agents for more members of SCP-163's species. I find it hard to believe that we just happened to come across the one single spacecraft that crash-landed on Earth millions of years ago, at a time when we are just beginning to develop the capacity to recognize the importance of such a find. There must be others, hidden in stasis, somewhere down there. Dr. W. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-162, Ball of Sharp, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


So my name is Nasser Sway, I'm a motivational speaker, I'm a transformation leader, yes I'm a youth leader actually.  That's amazing. Yes, I inspire young people to live up to their health potential, to do what they love and following their passion and become great in living the life of purpose actually. Living life of purpose, that's interesting. And so when it comes to youth, do you talk directly to them? Are there values where you're going, you discuss certain things with youth? And when you do do that, when let's say you call a motivational speaking meeting, where you say this one's particularly for youth, how is it turned out normally? I'm really interested to know what, if our youth are interested in being empowered. That's a really good question. First of all, when I meet with young people, personally it can be in the university, or we can have conference meetings, or we can have seminars, or we can have activities like hiking or anything like that. But you should first of all create an environment for them to be interested in what you're telling them. So people won't listen to you unless they know that you are bringing something in the play that is interesting. So before you talk to them, first of all you have to give them reasons as to why they should listen to you and why you and what's in it like you have to give it to them. So before I talk to them, first of all I tell them that I'm also young like you, but I also feel like I have a role to play in our lives. That's why I feel like whatever I'll speak will resonate with you. So I think we have to actually agree on this. So that's why it becomes easy for me to interact with them.  But with me it's actually, I feel like I can actually listen to you because we are of the same age. The same age. So then they connect with you on that level? Definitely. So the turnout is usually good? Definitely. Alright, now what do you tend to discuss? You know motivational speaking is very wide, it's very broad. Are there particular things you focus on, particular topics where you find this is a niche or here in Kenya this is a particular thing I would rather focus on because it's different over the world, people are into different things. Yeah, is there a niche topic that you have? That's actually a good question. So basically I'm based in shaping the minds of young people to think independently and creatively. Based on the fact that globalization is actually growing, we're now celebrating 30 years of globalization. And it's actually, it's not that old, it's young, but most young people don't even know how to go about it. Because the competition that we use to compete when globalization was formed was the competition of knowledge. Where most people were like they don't even know what globalization, they said they see just improvement of technology, big businesses, employing people and everything. So that was when globalization was formed. But right now in the next 30 years we have to come up with something which will be really unique. Because in the last 30 years globalization has done a lot, but it has actually done worse as well. It has caused unemployment. And if we don't change the way we think, we can't be able to deal with globalization in the next 30 years. So what do I believe? I believe we have to change the way we think. First of all, the competition we had in the last 30 years was based on knowledge. But the competition that we are going to have should be based on values, creativity, imagination and teamwork. Because those are the only things that will differentiate us from machine. The last 30 years human beings were shaped to think and behave like machines. But the next 30 years machines will be like human beings. So if we want human beings to have a stand out and if we want our children to compete and stand out against the machines, they should have some things that the machines can't do. And that is creativity, imagination, values and teamwork. So those are the things that I focus on telling young people so that we can practice that will make us stand and deal with this competitive world. You know, that's really amazing. And I feel like those are things that the youth need to know for sure.  You want to focus on growing their creativity, their imagination, all these areas where we're not necessarily going to be, especially since it's a computer-based world, like you said, computers and even robots coming in and everything. We need our children to know other things and other ways to manage the world around them. As a motivational speaker, I have to say, what's your most difficult topic to discuss? What's that one thing that just makes you feel uncomfortable and awkward on stage? If there's anything. Actually, with me, I'm really transparent because I talk to young people. So I can't just say sometimes I feel uncomfortable. But there are some topics as, you know, provided that I'm a girl and you see, I just don't talk to specific genders. So I talk to mixed genders. Sexual education actually, it's actually a little bit difficult because some questions may come and all that. But still we face them, we talk to them because we know, actually, we have to be really open with them because if we're not going to be open with them, they may meet some difficulties. And I think it's our role to talk to them and to let them know.   Yes, especially if they don't like your point of view. They may actually have different points of view, but you just, okay, you just don't, you don't have to tell them that there's no work. You have to agree with them and give them reason as to why they should actually take what you're telling them. Yeah. Oh, I see. The reason I'd ask you that is just to, I guess, anyone who's interested in trying to be a motivational speaker, you're going to have to be well-rounded, as you heard Nasra say. There are topics which will make you feel a little uncomfortable, but you have to be transparent as she said and as transparent as she is. That's the best way to go around it.  You seem like you have a lot to say and you seem like you can put life into the youth. So I'd like for them to know how they can reach you. That's your camera. Okay. Thank you so much. My socials, that is Facebook, Nasra Swai and Instagram official. Please reach out to my socials, that is Facebook, Nasra Swai and Instagram official, under scroll Nasra, under scroll Swai. And yes, YouTube impacting lives with Nasra. YouTube impacting lives with Nasra. Yes. You guys, there's no question. She won't touch. And I'm sure that she's going to really, really put some life into you. She's all about changing the mindset and creating a better, more positive thoughts within the youth's minds. I think that's important. Here on Y254, Nasra is exactly what we need. Nasra is exactly what we love. So you've heard how to reach and I expect you guys to do so. If you want to reach me, you can do that. Enjoy underscore mochache. Signing out for the show. This has been Tuesday Entrepreneurship. I do wish you a wonderful, wonderful rest of the day. And also I wish you to have positive thoughts. Keep it that way. Positive thoughts.


Neil Stevenson recently talked about the failure of science fiction. Jules Verne excited our imaginations with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. He inspired not just children, but those children then grew up and many of them became scientists and engineers to go and actually go 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and to go around the world in less than 80 days. And so Neil said, today science fiction writers are not pushing the boundaries of our imagination far enough. He said that we science fiction writers need to start pushing out the imagination. And that will then bring in the children and they might then decide we want to follow what this science fiction points out. That is, it may be possible to go to distant planets and I think it can be a catalyst for children to say, one, I'm really jazzed by this problem. I'm really jazzed to go solve this problem. Number two, I can see a pathway to actually solving it now and I see that there's other people like me and the imagination of going from this was impossible to this is climbable, this is doable. All we have to do is look at the four minute mile. Was there something in human evolution that changed in a matter of six months that caused us to say that four minute mile was impossible? Just look at his action as his long legs carry him nearer that world record. To then 50 people in a matter of two years doing the four minute mile? No, human evolution didn't change. The human body didn't change in a matter of six months. It was the imagination barrier.


I'd like to first of all thank the doctors Hapa for inviting me back to do this again. I was thinking earlier that Joe Biden had said that it was the Russians fault for all the inflation in America and now Dr. Hapa has confirmed that it is indeed the Russians fault. So we can say that Hapa and Biden are, you know, right, right together. Yeah. So this will be, I've got this terribly sweet spot in between Sean Gabb and lunch and mine will be, my talk will be a little bit different. It's called Movements Become Rackets and it was inspired by a gentleman that I studied under Murray Rothbart and few people in the room maybe had the pleasure of meeting Murray or working with Murray but he wrote a memo to F.A. Harper and George Reich, a resh, entitled What Is To Be Done and a few of us know George. George, we used to call George to buy coins from George when he worked for Bert Blumert. So it is indeed a small world but my story with Movements Become Rackets begins not with what Murray talked about which we'll get to later but I want to start with the one of our favorite organizations of people in this room I'm sure the Southern Poverty Law Center. Now, Maurice Dees was a super salesman and a master fundraiser and he's the gentleman started Southern Poverty Law Center. He viewed civil rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible northern liberals out of their money. He told a reporter we just run our business like a business. Whatever you're selling cakes or causes it's all the same. So while he was studying at the University of Alabama in late 1950s and oh by the way a few of you will remember a certain year when a certain couple were married at this certain conference and there was a gentleman here by the name of John Denson who actually went to law school with Maurice Dees and he told me he confirmed all of what I'm about to tell you is that during law school Dees sold Holy Reese birthday cakes, published a student telephone directory, dabbled in real estate. He was just a I don't know how much law he learned but he certainly was a very entrepreneurial force at the University of Alabama Law School. So upon graduating in 1960, Dees teamed up with another gentleman named Miller Fuller and he went on to form Habitat for Humanity. But first they opened a direct mail business in Montgomery. They sold doormats, tractor seat cushions. I don't know when the last time you bought a tractor seat cushion but cookbooks. And he said he's quoted to say and Morris and I from the first day of our partnership shared the overriding purpose of making a pile of money. So in 1971, Dees opened the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama and he was already colorful and controversial in that part of the state. He volunteered to raise money for George McGovern and this was his first break. During that presidential campaign with McGovern's blessing, he was given a mail list of 700,000 people and that was to help launch the Southern Poverty Law Center direct mail operations. Having been somewhat in the business, I can tell you having a big mail mailing list is the key to raising a lot of money. But you may you may think Southern Poverty Law Center, now that means these guys are now they're helping poor people out who are having trouble in the legal system, right? Well, that didn't raise much money. So they abandoned the whole property law thing to raise money off fighting the Ku Klux Klan and getting money from liberals up north. So they dropped the Southern the Poverty Center. They stayed in the south, forgot poverty and went into the hate business, essentially. Now the center had accumulated an endowment topping $120 million and they paid leverage salaries to high-ranking staffers and while at the same time spending far less than most non-profit groups on the work that it claimed to do. At the same time, D's, he started earning a reputation for hitting on young female staffers. That is a hint for things to come throughout this presentation hitting on young female staffers. So in fact, the Southern Poverty Law Center College used to tell jokes that about when they would they would go by the center's Maya Len designed memorial to Southern Rights martyrs. They cast a glance at the inscription from Martin Luther King etched in black marble until justice rolls down like waters, except they would say in their deepest voices until justice rolls down like dollars. Now Law Center was had a way of turning idealists into cynics like most liberals their view of the SL or the SPLC before they arrived to been shaped by the often cited listings of U.S. hate groups that Southern Poverty Law used to put out its reputation for winning cases against the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan nations and a stream of direct mail please for money to keep the good work going. The Mailers in particular painted a vivid picture of scrappy band of intrepid lawyers and hate group monitors working under constant threat of death to fight hatred and injustice in the deepest heart of Dixie. But this all took place in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. In this modernist glass and steel building that James Howard Kunstner who you may have read if you read Lerocwell.com he later called it the Darth Vader building which made social justice look despotic he said and of course there was security everywhere and in fact one veteran staffer told a writer for the New Yorker who worked there briefly a guy named Bob Mosier, well honey welcome to Bob Poverty Palace she called it I can guarantee you that you will never step foot in a more contradictory place as long as you live. Now Mosier wrote in the New Yorker after he'd worked at SPLC the work could be meaningful and gratifying but it was hard for many of us not to feel like we'd become pawns in what was in many respects a highly profitable scam and as profitable it was it was before well when Donna and Melania came gliding down that escalator in 2015 the money really started rolling in because as you know everybody knows when Donald took office it was you know Hada Palooza in you know United States and it opened up the gusher of donations for the Southern Poverty Law Center they raised $50 million in 2016 they took in $132 million in 2017 and the new money pushed the Center's endowment past $450 million which is more than the total assets of the American Civil Liberties Union and in 2019 they employed an all-time high of 350 staffers now having been in Montgomery, Alabama in the afternoon I can tell you that seems like the whole downtown area it's 350 people but none of this is slackened it's constant drive for more money if you're outraged about the path of president that the path President Trump is taking I urge you to join us to fight against the mainstreaming of hate said one of their direct mail appeals signed by Morris D's in 2018 please join our fight today with the gift of 25 35 or a hundred dollars to help us working together we can push back against these bigots unfortunately at age 82 the we2 movement caught up with Morris D's and he got canned for he continued to hit on female staff members but the work goes on the annual hate group list of which there are some groups that people in this room would know about in fact in 2018 I had included a thousand and twenty organizations in the United States both large and small and this list remains a valuable resources for journalists and it's a master stroke of D's marketing talent each year when the Center publishes the mainstream outlets write about the rising tide of hate in the United States that have been discovered by the Southern Poverty Law Center attorneys and so the money just keeps rolling in well it's not just the left that has this going on we've got it on the right maybe you've heard of Hillsdale College maybe some people in the room have sent money to Hillsdale College they send out this Empress thing and you know everybody got one and the guy that really got that geared up was guy named George Roach the third he's considered one of the great fundraisers in the history of political ideologies he raised millions to build modern facilities provide ample student aid to any of Hillsdale's 1200 students who needed it and if you didn't see Roach on campus everybody knew they understood he was out raising money to beat back the liberal devils lurking outside of Hillsdale's gates it's very charismatic he was considered a conservative celebrity and a hero to the movement fact William Muth Buckley called Hillsdale the most prominent conservative college in the country but one Hillsdale professor said this man is a phony and a fraud and a Roach family member explains he's not the type of person that everybody thinks he is he's kind of like Jekyll and Hyde he also had a reputation for and this is a direct quote a reputation for from for possessing a free range phallus rumor to have visited students and college employees a free range phallus a senior level employee who marveled at Roach's fundraising skilled claims to have fled Hillsdale because he suspected Roach was put into moves on his wife Roach was considered downright ruthless by those who were unfortunate enough to cross him now ultimately George Roach the third he shocked Hillsdale by divorcing his wife of 44 years she had cancer got divorced he remarried in just five months and that's where the story gets really interesting his daughter-in-law Lisa was married to George the fourth who was a professor at Hillsdale so this was all a big family business so to speak she was very disturbed by the presence of a new woman in her father-in-law's life Roach was hospitalized with complications from diabetes and he was and his distraught daughter-in-law Lisa threatened to kill herself in a phone call conversation with him so the older Roach's secretary interrupted a class taught by the younger Roach his son and told him what was going on so the younger Roach George the fourth rushed to his wife Lisa she's obviously upset she didn't care what her husband thought she insisted to go in to see her father-in-law who was in the hospital where in front of him George the third his son George the fourth and his new wife she blurted out that she and her father-in-law had been having an affair for 19 years which the son then asked the father George the fourth asked George the third is she telling the truth or she having some sort of breakdown and the younger Roach said his father didn't say a word I could tell by looking at him that she was telling the truth I saw that look in his eyes he was caught Lisa the upset daughter-in-law as you remember returned to her campus house after the confession armed herself with a 38 caliber handgun she walked out her backyard and through the college's Arbiterne to a stone gazebo and killed herself now Hillsdale's trustees they thought George walked on water I mean in in other words he could do whatever the hell he wanted as long as he didn't embarrass the school but having a 19 year affair with your daughter-in-law and having her commit suicide when became public that was too much for them to take but Roach had hauled in nearly 325 million dollars by the time he had resigned he increased Hillsdale's endowment from four million dollars to 184 million dollars students and their parents were worried the scandal might cause donations to drop that it was crimp Hillsdale's future hasn't really happened Roach resigned after the lever suicide and a remember a member of the Roach family said that the elder Roach is golden parachute was three million dollars of course these days Hillsdale's making news by cozying up to Florida governor Ron DeSantis their Christian school has been described as a citadel of American conservatism Donald Trump has connections there Ted Cruz and Clarence Thomas have given commencement addresses and the school has started a series of leadership seminars that sound like right wing Ted talks Hillsdale is also a champion of what it calls patriotic education and that brings us to what Murray Rothbard was writing about and this memo has been reprinted in a book called strictly confidential published by the Mises Institute and it's probably all still strictly confidential because we can barely give the book away so but so you can probably get it cheap somewhere but there's some fascinating things in there so Murray was writing a memo to Baldy Harper and George Reich and he was talking about fee founder Leonard Reed which I'm sure you've maybe heard of if you've been in the freedom movement for very long he was handsome charismatic but in Rothbard's words Reed was hardly appreciative of scholarship or of the conditions of free inquiry and research Reed stifled the scholarly and creative productivity of anyone on his staff instead the fee founder increasingly pitched fee publications toward housewives rather than scholars which immediately tossed away the importance of the pyramid of influence from intellectual to mass so speaking of housewives mr. Reed who again was remembered as a giant in the libertarian movement is also known for his prurient interest in housewives Brian Dougherty wrote in radicals for capitalism Sean you don't need to take notes Brian Dougherty wrote in rattles for capitalism that reads sexual exploits were allegedly on par with will chamberlands now I realize there's very few here from the states but will was a very famous basketball player they called him wilted still kind of now realize what the still man anyway wilt reportedly bedded 10,000 different women so the idea that Leonard Reed is in the same ballpark as will chamberland is incredible now Murray was a little more delicate he was telling Harper and Reich quote pure libertarian thought was not only discouraged by Reed but bitterly attacked and Dorothy explained that Reed just wanted to offer his own way of understanding the freedom philosophy in more of a preacher rather than teacher sort of way and in this in this regard the approach attracted businessmen who could proselytize to their employees but what Reed did best was raise money while catering to what Rothbard called the high school of liberty now Murray wrote to Harper and Reich it is the thesis of this memorandum that the problem of tactics and strategy for advancement of libertarian individualist costs is of critical crossroads a crossroads in the historical development of the stream of thought transcending even the important problems of establishing a possible libertarian Institute or of deciding how to rechannel educational funds from various blind allies into which they have fallen the fee literature and sticking to general that general general alities and low-grade generalities that that fell between two stools and therefore has lost influence among both intellectuals and among the mass base now Rothbard was in his mid 30s when he wrote this and he's more concerned with such thinking in the Harper Rush memo he wrote the danger is less apparent and more insidious for it is the danger of the hardcore libertarian being swamped by a growing mass of conservative and right-wing thinkers Reed rationalized the processes of one of training libertarians and then sending them off to do better things thus functioning as a high school of liberty he thus ignores the fact that it could have been a lot more wrote Murray Rothbard wrote that fee served only as a gateway to the libertarian movement and not a libertarian center let alone scholars forming a libertarian cadre Rothbard also addressed the influence of the right the transformation led by the theoreticians of the national review has transformed the right from a movement that at least roughly believe first of all in individual liberty and its corollary civil liberties domestically and peace and isolation in or in foreign affairs into movement that on the whole is opposed to individual liberty a movement that in fact glorifies total war and the suppression of civil liberties it also glorifies monarchy imperialism polite racism and a unity of church and state unquote now from fees launched in March 1946 to the early 1980s Leonard Reed generated a million dollars a year from some of America's biggest businessmen now a million dollars a year doesn't sound like much but if you inflation adjusted that means in 46 he raised the equivalent of 13.8 million dollars 1980 had been 3.4 million dollars and you can kind of in your head fill in the blanks in between and it added up to a whole lot of money that Leonard Reed was able to raise creating content for as Murray says for housewives more Rothbard finished the section of the memo entitled the decline of fee with another danger with the history of fee and other right-wing organization tells us the tendency for the fellow who can obtain money to be in control of policy and the corollary tendency to begin to trim the output of the organization to what will attract the money when the latter happens the gathering of money becomes the end not the means and the organization organization begins to take on the dimension of a racket Morris D's George Roche Leonard Reed provided proved that Murray was right movements ultimately become rackets thank you