When it comes to building an incredible life, I always advise people to focus on two things, work and love. I mean, most of us spend more hours at work than with the people we love the most or with the hobbies we love the most.  Now in this video, I wanna share what your Dharma is and how to actually find it. Now when I was reading Robert Green's book, Mastery, that was one of the key pieces that helped me figure out the work that I really, really felt born to do. The problem is his books are huge and they're really thick. So if you wanna shortcut that, I recommend a service called Blinkist, a really, really cool app that I've used plenty of times. Now in today's age, it's pretty tough to find the time to actually sit down and truly learn. And when it's easier just to flip up an Instagram and go through a bunch of pictures when you're in line, it can seem like you don't have the time to actually read. But there's a really cool service I use called Blinkist and it's the only app that actually takes the best insights from a ton of nonfiction books and condenses them to 15 minutes or less so you can read or listen to them and get the key points to improve your life. Now, even books I've procrastinated on like Think and Grow Rich, I drove to a friend's house the other day and I re-listened to all the essential points in under 15 minutes. Now Blinkist is a special package here for my listeners. If you go to Blinkist.com forward slash Alex, the first 100 people will get a free trial. So check the link below. Now, what is a person's purpose and Dharma in the work sense? Now, the way I think about it is this amazing quote from Thomas Merton. He says that every man has a vocation to be someone but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill his vocation, he can only be one person himself. So Dharma is this term that comes from the Bhagavad Gita and it's the idea of the intersection of a person's work purpose in life mixed with their divine or spiritual or kind of ultimate form of fulfillment that your Dharma should be the through line of your life, the core thread that kind of directs everything else and guides everything else. Now, here's how it was described. Krishna says that there is a certain kind of action that leads to freedom and fulfillment. A certain kind of action that is always aligned with our true nature and this is action motivated by Dharma. It is the action taken in service of our sacred calling, our duty, our vocation and that this is the only kind of action we can take in our work life without creating suffering. So I think of it as the intersection or the highest intersection of your unique gifts and strengths mixed with your purpose in the world. But how do you even know if you found your Dharma or not? And you're probably wondering how to even find it if you haven't already. I mean, it's hard to find work that's really fulfilling. Well, here's how it's described.  Beethoven described it as the holy work that would save him and Nikola Tesla had a direct quote that said, I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love and everything. So if you haven't found it, I recommend that you look for that spark and deep sense of excitement that comes with certain topics. Now, when you find your work or you find something that might be in the proximity of it, do two key things every day. Now, the first is the unification of your life around your Dharma. This is based on Stephen Cope's book, The Great Work of Your Life, where he talks about the people that really ended up becoming icons in their fields who forgot about success, but instead figured out that to become the ultimate fulfilled and ultimately successful person, you have to have the maximum percentage of your time per day dedicated around your holy work and not being distracted by partying, by moving to New York City or LA, by trying to become popular or anything like that, but dedicating yourself as many hours a day as possible to unification. So one of the great stories he tells is the poet Robert Frost. And he said that Frost became aware of the fact that we each may have a gift or a seed, but that does not mean that we use it wisely and that it is up to us to figure out the right conditions for our purpose and our life to flourish. So he said that Frost was intuitively aware of an important principle. In the cultivation of Dharma, there is nothing more important than understanding what conditions are needed and relentlessly creating them. Frost realized that his Dharma required a farm, so he bought one. It required him to give up teaching and so he relinquished it. It required a period of intense work in England and so he went. Our job is to make choices that create the right conditions for Dharma to flourish.  Now, the second thing is really deliberate practice or having that mastery focus. So whether it is a person who's trying to be the world-class pianist, violinist, ballet dancer or athlete, you see them dedicating unnatural amounts of focused dedicated time to acquire skills and to be deliberate about how they are getting better. Now, Steven Cope talks about this in the sense that you need to have even your diet. Is your diet aligned with maximum productivity in your desired field? Is your sleep aligned with that? Is partying aligned with the maximum performance in your chosen craft? Is being a player or loosely dating people all the time and occupying your evening hours with that emotional energy? Is that aligned with the kind of life you wanna build? We've talked about deliberate practice here and living your life deliberately and acquiring deliberate skill sets. But is your every aspect of your life revolved around a focused concept of just the mastery of your craft? So this brings up the question, what if you haven't found your Dharma? I'm here giving a 10 day personal growth challenge and one of them is to find your sacred work but what if you haven't found it or don't even have a clue? Everything kind of feels at you. I would say to look for one thing and that is have a mastery focus at whatever it is you're doing now even if it's not where you wanna be forever. If you are a barista, pour that cup of coffee like your idol is going to drink it.  If you're a writer, write the book that would just blow away yourself but also your friends and your family.  Have a mastery focus to the little things that you do or your current craft because that will help you no matter what. And of course, look for that thing that lights you up and makes your heart beat a little quicker because that's probably either your Dharma or on the path towards your Dharma. I hope that helps you guys. That is our next step in this 10 piece personal development challenge. I think this is a huge topic. Now again, there's that discount from Blinkist down there below. You could check it out the first link underneath and keep your eyes peeled for the next video in the series. But for now, check out this related video here.


Hey everyone, we're back here in Austin. This is actually gonna be our last interview for the day. I wanna introduce you to Hart Montgomery. Hart is the CTO with the Hyperledger Foundation and you may or may not have heard of the Hyperledger Foundation, but it's Hart's job to tell you about it. Hey Hart, welcome. Thank you very much for having me here. It's my pleasure, my pleasure. So Hart, let's start with the Hyperledger Foundation. What's it about? Absolutely, so the Hyperledger Foundation is the Linux Foundation's umbrella organization for blockchain projects and for projects that are very related to blockchain, like blockchain tools or other things that are very closely related to blockchain or ecosystem, like identity, for instance. So yeah, no, so we work with a lot of the Linux Foundation's services. We do the open mainframe project with my friend John Murdoch and that has like 26 or something different projects underneath that umbrella, if you will. So familiar with the concept, let's dig in a little bit though. Give me an idea of what kind of projects are under the Hyperledger. Absolutely, so the main project and sort of the ones that get the most attention are distributed ledgers. So we have Fabric, which is probably our project that most people are familiar with. We have Beisu, which is exciting because it's very, it's an Ethereum mainnet client and it's connected to the Ethereum ecosystem. And we have Sawtooth and Aroha. We also have a bunch of, we have a stack of projects focused on identity. So we have projects called Indie, Aries and Ursa. And their focus is a digital identity ecosystem built on top of blockchain. Let's talk about that a little bit, right? Sure. In many ways, I think, you know, identity and access control is the killer app for cloud security, right? But we haven't really done a good job. I mean, yes, it's for cloud security, but it's the same, it's your poppy's identity stuff, maybe with two-factor authentication added in or something. We haven't, you know, back in the heady days when Ping Identity first came out and we started talking about Federation and all of these things, I thought we would have made more progress around secure digital identities. And, you know, frankly, not just for people, but for every entity that needs it. I don't know, maybe I'm jaded, but I don't see the progress. So there has actually been a lot of progress made recently. Okay. And one of the things that our Hyperledger Identity Community focuses on is something called Selected Disclosure. Okay. And this is really nice. So the idea is, I'll use an example that we bring up all the time with sort of driver's licenses.  Now, from a privacy perspective, this can be suboptimal, right?    Well, and if someone's paying that bar tender to take a picture of every license he looks at. And that's what's happening on the internet in many cases. So the idea with selective disclosure is instead of revealing to you my whole driver's license, I can reveal to you some kind of anchor that proves it's my driver's license. So in practice, I could like give you a picture or something. And then I could give you a zero knowledge proof that I have a driver's license tied to me that says I am over 21. And so you would provably learn nothing about me other than the fact that you're convinced that I'm over 21 because some agency you trust has attested to it. So that's the idea behind selective disclosure. Love it. So how far along is this now? So we have systems that use this and, you know, you can go to our webpage and our GitHub and find them and use them today. We have a number of governments that are building on this platform. So Canadian provinces, there's an organization in Germany, there's an organization in Finland. So, you know, people are really excited about the possibilities of digital identity. So Hart, you know, bigger issue of blockchain. I almost feel, and forgive me for saying this, but I almost feel like cryptocurrency might have been the worst thing that ever happened to blockchain in some ways because people, you know, people have a lot of opinions about crypto and cryptocurrency. It's a scam, it's not a scam. It'll set the world free. It won't set, you know. What they don't understand is that the underlying blockchain technology is not pie in the sky speculative pirates or anything. It's solid. It's solid technology. And whatever Bitcoin is worth or Ethereum or whatever your coin of choice is doesn't really concern blockchain. Absolutely. And there's so much more we could do with it than that. Totally. So I like to think of a blockchain as a distributed database with decentralized trust. This is sort of a very abstract primitive, right? But if you think about it, you know, what is Bitcoin? It's a distributed database with decentralized trust for money. You know, Ethereum is the same thing for programs. And, you know, if you just think in terms of these, you know, very abstract primitives, you know, you can very quickly see, you know, is a blockchain useful for an application or is it not? And unfortunately, we have seen a lot of people build centralized applications or even on top of blockchain or even centralized blockchains, which, you know, sort of defeats the purpose. Right, it flies in the face of what it's supposed to do. It's just less efficient than using a centralized database in many cases. And, you know, the blockchain is just there for the hype.  And, you know, we've seen it from, you know, supply chain to finance to, as I mentioned before, identity, you know, these are all general areas where a group of people or entities want to maintain an information store and they can't agree on who should be the root of trust for all of this, so. Great, I'm going to ask you a hard question. Sure. I need your honest answer. Do you think blockchain's gone mainstream yet or is it still ahead of it? I think it, I'm going to sort of sidestep that and I think I'm going to, it's a hard one. I'm going to say, you know, it depends on what you mean by mainstream. So certainly people know about what blockchain is even if they don't have a deep technical understanding of it. So in that sense it's gone mainstream, but in some senses it really hasn't. Like one of the big applications of, you know, this kind of distributed and decentralized technology are things like central bank digital currencies. And we haven't seen, you know, widespread adoption there.  Obviously, you know, bankers are extremely conservative. So we don't expect anything to go quickly and they want to be, you know, extremely convinced that, you know, the solution works and it's secure and everything's going to go right. So from that perspective, you know, I don't think it's gone mainstream. No, and you know what surprises me with that though? When you look at like technologies that finance or financial vertical has adopted DevOps, some of the things around security, there's so much pressure on them to do more faster, to give their customers what they want at their fingertips instantly, to do it securely above all else. You would think that they would have put the cycles in to trust blockchain for lack of a better word, right? To get behind this. Absolutely. I mean, I think a lot of traditional finance companies are discovering that they're going to have to become more or less tech companies to succeed in the modern world. And you know, this is difficult, right? It's very difficult to sort of change your company from a financial company to a tech company. And I think, you know, this is one of the reasons why we're seeing some of the, you know, delay in financial adoption because a lot of these companies don't have hordes of, you know, tech folks, deeply experienced software engineers who can just, you know, and they can't, you know, sort of, it's hard to spin up a huge dev staff. No doubt, but you know what? I remember meeting with the folks at Citi. It was actually called Citi Bank then. It wasn't even Citi, 2005, 2006. This was around patch management and vulnerabilities. They had a sprawling infrastructure of people. They have what they know they know. It's the new stuff that often takes them, you know, while they get their head wrapped around, but once, so it's very much a me too industry. Once someone else does it, they all want to hop the bandwagon, right? Because they're afraid to get left behind and that they'll have an offering not as good as their competitor. And then secondly, it just, until they kind of internalize it, it's not the technical folk that have to be convinced. It's the managers, it's this as your makers. And that takes time. Absolutely, before I worked for the Linux Foundation, I worked in a company where parts of the company had a lot of, you know, open source knowledge, but others didn't, you know, and... It was that open source snobbery, right? Well, actually it's open source out, yeah. Yeah, and just getting people to, you know, to adopt new technology. Some of my great coworkers and I, you know, it was an uphill battle, but you know, we had to say, hey, this is the future. You know, we need to use blockchain. You know, we need to use open source. I, you know, just like open source is now 98% of organizations, I assume it's going to be too. We got a bang out of here, but I wanted to let our folks know, if they want to get more information about the group, maybe they want to get involved, or maybe they just want to learn a little bit about, more about blockchain. Where can they go? So the best place to get started is our website, hyperledger.org. We have links to our Discord, to our communities, and like everything else in the Linux Foundation, we're a completely open organization. You can show up, you can join meetings, you can join our Discord, you can sign up for our email list. So it's very easy to get started. So it's hyperledger.org. That's correct. Love it, man. Hey, thanks for stopping by. Absolutely. It's a pleasure meeting you. Good luck.


Hey everyone, this is Dan with my first video on rising interest rates. In the last few months, the Federal Reserve Banks have been talking about raising the interest rates in 2022. The market already reacted to that. We see Treasury rates going up quite significantly in the last couple of months. Will the market be crashing because of the interest rate increase? If the market does not crash, where should we invest our money while the rates are going up? I have looked into 22 years of market data and interest rate data and found something very interesting. Let's get into the details. First, I'd like to let you know that I'm not a financial advisor. I share my stock trading strategies and analyses for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you want to invest in the stock market, you should make your own decisions and you should definitely consult with your financial advisors before you do so. Let's continue. This is a chart showing the movement of a 10-year Treasury rate as well as a 20-year Treasury rate and a 5-year Treasury rate. The top line here, the red line, is a 20-year rate and then the middle one, the candlestick chart, is a 10-year rate and the bottom line is a 5-year rate. As you can see, in the last 22 years, the rates have gone down quite significantly. The 5-year rate came down by about 77%, 10-year rate came down by 73% and a 20-year rate came down by 67%. But if you look at the last couple of years, the rates have been recovering. In other words, going up. This is the one-year picture. Certainly, all three rates have been going up and of course, they are the three-month rate and the six-month rate and so on and so forth. I just use these rates to represent the overall interest rate picture. And then if you look at the last 30 days, the 5-year rate went up already by 11.4%. 10-year rate went up by 5.17% and 20-year rate went up by 4.13%. If anything, this trend will most likely continue into the next 12 months and beyond. You might have heard or read a lot of financial analysts telling you what to do when the interest rates are rising. Some might say the market will crash. Some of them might say the tech stocks will suffer or buy gold and silver because they will give you protection or buy financial stocks because if the interest rates go up, then the banks will be able to make more money from the spreads or stay away from meme stocks and actually that's always good advice anyway or stay away from stocks with poor cash flow and that's always a good advice. In this picture, I am drawing the 10-year Treasury Rate Index, TNX, because basically the rest of the interest rates have been moving with the 10-year rate anyway. So this is a good representation of their overall interest rate picture. And I am comparing TNX with 11 other financial instruments, XLF being the financial ETF, XLV the healthcare ETF, CPER, the copper ETF, SPY, the ETF peg to the S&P 500 movements, USO, the crude oil ETF, SMH, semiconductor ETF, GLD, gold ETF, QQQ, the ETF peg to the NASDAQ 100 movements, SLV, silver ETF and UNG, finally the natural gas ETF. In the last two months, you can see TNX, the 10-year Treasury Rate went up by an impressive 18%. In the meanwhile, XLF went up by 2.3% and then next one up is XLV, the healthcare ETF, XLF of course being the financial ETF and then copper and then S&P 500 as represented by SPY and then the rest are in negative territory. Of course, in the last two months, the market has not exactly been very positive. And then if you look at the last one month, the 10-year Treasury went up by 19%, again it's a significant jump. Then interestingly, USO, the oil ETF went up by 9.8%, natural gas also went up significantly at 6.55%, then financial ETF went up by about 5% and then copper went up by about 1% and the rest have been in negative territory. To get everything organized and have a proper perspective, I pulled the data for the last 22 years starting from January 1st, 2001 all the way to January 3rd, 2022. And I look at the yearly period and look at to an extent the 10-year Treasury Rate has increased from one year to the next. And from all these 22 buckets, I can pick out three years in which the TNX Treasury Rate went up quite significantly. Starting the period from January 2009 to January 2010, TNX went up by 59%. From 2013 to January 2014, the interest rate went up by 62%, that's 10-year Treasury Rate. And then from January 2021 to January 2022, the 10-year rate went up by 78%. And interestingly, if you look at SMH, the semiconductor ETF and the financial ETF, they did not go down during those years. During this first period, the financial ETF went up by 19%, semiconductor ETF 55%, this period. Finance ETF went up by 31%, semiconductor ETF 27%, outward movement. And then this period financed 38%, semiconductor 45%. So already, it's pretty much broken the myth that if the interest rates are going up, then everything will crash. Certainly, that's not the case with the financial sector or the semiconductor sector in these three very representative years when the interest rates have been going up quickly. If you like what you've seen so far, I'd like to suggest that you click the like, subscribe, and notification button. It'll enable you to receive notification when I post my next video. It'll also encourage me to make more videos like this in the future. Thank you very much. Let's continue. Now, I'm zooming into each of those three years to look at the movement of the 10-year Treasury rate compared to 11 different financial instruments, definitely including the financial ETF as well as the semiconductor ETF. As you can see from 2009 to 2010, the best performing sector here, it's a semiconductor sector went up by 54%, QQQ went up by 49%, SLV 40%, and so on and so forth. The worst performing sector was natural gas. Actually, it went down by 57%. And then the second time period from January 2013 to January 2014, 10-year rate went up by 62%. These are the rankings of the different sectors, with healthcare being on the top, then QQQ, finance, semiconductor, SPY representing standard input 500. And then the third period, January 2021 to January 2022, the top performing sector being the oil ETF. And then semiconductor, QQQ, XLF, SPY, and so on. To put things into perspective, I rank the different sectors for these three represented years into this table. So from 2009 to 2010, the top performing sector was a semiconductor sector, and then QQQ, and then SLV, and then GO, and then SPY, healthcare sector, and then the financial sector. And I color coded some of these financial instruments. From the color coding, you can see that the semiconductor industry, SMA, actually performed pretty well during those three years when the interest rates were going up significantly. Next to that, QQQ is not too shabby, and then XLF is pretty good for two of the three periods. This first period of 2009 to 2010, it's not surprising that XLF, the financial sector performed very poorly because that's right after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crash in 2008. You might know that. And that's why it took a lot longer for the financial sector to recover. But after that, in recent years, the financial sector has been performing pretty well, even when the interest rates were going up. We can look at this list again to identify what is true and what is false. First of all, the allegation that the market will crash when the rates are going up. Nah, that's definitely not true. We saw those three years when the interest rates went up quite significantly, and some of those sectors were still performing pretty well. The tech sector will suffer. Not true, especially the semiconductor sector has been able to perform well during those years when the interest rates were going up. By gold and silver, in those charts, the performance of gold and silver were not impressive. Therefore, the statement is false. And by financial stock, that's true. With the exception of 2008 to 2010, the financial sector has been performing pretty well when the interest rates were going up. Stay away from meme stock, even though in this analysis, we didn't really look at the meme stocks specifically, but just from a logical perspective, a lot of these meme stocks, they really don't have very good profit or even cash flow. And that's why we need to stay away from them when the interest rates are going up, because the cost of borrowing money will be a lot higher, and people cannot borrow money to buy stocks easily, and these companies cannot borrow money to continue their operations, and some of them are probably going to go bankrupt. That's why I'll definitely stay away from meme stocks. And so this statement is true. And then similarly, I will stay away from stocks with poor cash flows. If you look at the last two months, how does that compare with our conclusion? XLF definitely is top performer. Remember that we said it's a good idea to buy financial stocks, and healthcare actually has been doing pretty well. Although among the rankings of those three years, I don't see XLV being a top performer, so I would not be too eager to buy healthcare stocks if the interest rates continue to go up. Copper is an anomaly also. With those three years, I don't see copper being a top performer. It's probably just a short-term phenomenon. SPY at this point, it's barely positive. So two months, it's a bit of an adjustment period. And then SMH unfortunately has not been performing well. Short-term, I'm staying away from SMH or semiconductor stocks, but as soon as they start recovering, I will be looking into opportunities to buy more shares of my favorite semiconductor companies, such as AMD or ASML. My focus will be the financial sector and the semiconductor sector. What are my strategies? I will apply the following strategies if the broad market as represented by SPY and QQQ are still generally trending up or bullish. If the market starts to trend downwards, I will activate my crash protection strategies, which I explained in several of my videos, which you can find in my YouTube channel. I will be looking into opportunities to buy XLF, FAS, which is similar to XLF related to financial sector, except it's three times the volatility or bank stocks. And now we'll be investing in SPY QQQ or related ETF, such as Upro or TQQQ, if I continue to see a bullish trend for the broad market. Then I will be looking into buying stocks of companies with strong cash flows and profits, such as the fang stocks. Now looking to buying SMH, the semiconductor EDF, and the stocks of strong semiconductor companies, such as my favorites AMD and ASML, both of these companies have very low debt-to-capital ratios and very strong cash flows. They will be able to compete well in the environment where the interest rates are rising. And I might invest in TMV, which is the ETF paid to the changes of the 20-year treasury rate. And I will stay away from Gold, Silver and Copper based on what I saw in the data for the last 22 years. And I'll definitely stay away from meme stocks and stocks with poor cash flows. I'll be mindful of broad market conditions and I'll update my Twitter subscribers on a daily basis. At this point, I'd like to remind you to subscribe to my Twitter account or follow my Twitter account, which is DanMarketL in addition to subscribing to my YouTube channel. For example, on December 28th, I tweeted that I bought XLF, the financial ETF, in anticipation of interest rates rising. And then a couple of days later, December 30th, I bought FAS, which is XLF triple. I bought FAS also in anticipation of the interest rate increase. Then on January 5th, both FAS and XLF started to drop. At that point, I sold FAS and cashed in 5.5% gain. I also sold XLF at 2.5% gain. And I explained why I did that. Then January 7th today, I tweeted that yesterday I actually bought FAS shares when the price started to recover from the previous day. So at this point, I still own FAS shares, which is consistent with the strategies I was talking about. If you like what you've seen so far, I'd like to suggest that you click the like, subscribe and notification button. As usual, I'll very much welcome your comments, questions and suggestions. Again, I'd like to remind you that I'm not a financial advisor. This is about wraps up my video for now. I will talk with you again in the next few days. In the meanwhile, I'd like to wish you a happy new year and the very best of luck with your financial investments in 2022.


Coming up on this edition of Abledon On Air, highlights from the Vermont State House Vermont Disability Day 2019. All that coming up next on Abledon On Air. Abledon On Air is sponsored in part by Green Mountain Support Services empowering neighbors with disabilities to be at home in the community. Additional support for Abledon On Air is sponsored in part by Washington County Mental Health Services, where hope and support come together. Welcome to this edition of Abledon On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs concerns and achievements of the definitely able. I've always been your host, Lawrence Seiler. Our lead is off today. Thank you to our sponsors. On this exciting edition and informative edition of Abledon On Air, we look at highlights from the Vermont Disability Day at the State House 2019. What you're about to see are speeches from Monica Hutt of Dale, who's been on the show before, as well as Governor Phil Scott and others. And also, you're about to listen to a presentation from Nate Bezio, board member and treasurer of the Northeast Disabled Athletic Association. After sports and recreation is his presentation. Let's take a look at highlights from the State House. Let's take a look at this. I'm here with us this morning, and I want to thank Governor Scott for being here today and invite him up and say a few words. Thank you. I'll give this a try. See how you broke it first. Thank you. It's on the record. Well, good morning, everyone. I just want to take a moment to really welcome you to the State House. How many first time? Lewis, how are you? How many first time to the State House? First time? Anybody else first time? First time? First time? Well, great. Well, welcome. You should make sure that it's not your last time, right? Because it's really important for every voice to be heard. We're very open here. We want to hear from you. And you can go into any committee room and listen to what's going on there, as well as add your voice and see your representatives. And that's what makes Vermont so special. We're unique, we're tolerant, we're compassionate, and we want to help. So, regardless of party, we're here to represent you. So, we have some challenges in Vermont. We acknowledge that. We have a stagnant population. We're not growing as fast as I think we should. We have a lot of open jobs throughout Vermont. We don't have people to fill them. That's where you come in, as well. We want everyone that wants the work, can work, to be independent. We want them to be fulfilled. We want them to have a job. So, we're here to try and make sure that happens, because it helps all of us in the long run, as the economy plus gives you that ability to be independent. And my, just a quick story, and some of you have heard it before, my dad was a World War II vet. My dad grew up in Washington, Vermont, but was severely injured in the Evasion after D-Day Evasion, and was in a tank explosion and lost both his legs. Spent two years in Walter Reed Hospital and came back, but started a new life back in Vermont and met my mom. They met in Lake Elmore, had three boys, and we had somewhat of a normal life. He worked right over next door in the 133 State Street in the Highway Division, and he issued Highway Oversize Load Permits, because, as I said, he was a truck driver by trade. He unfortunately died when I was 11 due to those injuries. My mom was a single mom overnight with three boys, so I reflect on that a lot about what it must have been like for him, long before ADA, and some of the issues that he faced trying to get into different places. But as well, my mom, who all of a sudden was a single parent of three really, you know, we were very active kids, so put a lot of pressure on her. But again, I just wanted to take a moment to thank you again for coming. My administration is here to help. My first day in office, I issued this executive order from my cabinet, my administration, and it was three very simple principles. To grow the economy, make Vermont more affordable, and protect the most vulnerable. And we look at every single issue that we take up, and we try to come out, and we ask ourselves, does it accomplish at least one out of the three, hopefully two out of the three, or three out of the three. And I think that we have a lot of common interests here, and it really is important that you add your voice and be active, because we're here to serve you. So again, thank you for coming in. Nice to see you again, Louis. And we'll see you on the road this summer. Yeah. All right. Again, thank you very much for being here. Kevin doesn't have the honor of being the last speaker today, actually. But I would like, in addition to the work that we do here in the legislature today, the other side of the work that we need to do is within the administration, and we're so lucky to have Commissioner Hutt here with us from the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living. I'd like to invite her up to say a few words. If you'd like.  Oh, see, yeah, my sarcasm. You don't need to say anything. We'd love to hear from you. No, thank you so much. I am so glad that this room filled up the way that it did. I was a little bit panicked when I first sat down, and I'm so delighted that people got here regardless of the weather. You know, no matter how we approach these issues, there will always be differences of opinion. There will always be kind of different ways to look at things. But the reality is that the work that we do in Vermont on behalf of individuals with disabilities and in partnership with individuals with disabilities is so important. And I love this day because I love that everybody stands here and blocks the hallways and makes themselves really visible and present and loud. And that's what we really need to do because ultimately that's how we get people to pay attention. And Vermont is unique because you can walk into any office or any door, into any committee room and make sure that you say what you want to say. And let's not ever lose that opportunity. Let's not ever walk away from that because it's really important. I'm so glad that the governor was here. I'm so glad that he recognizes that individuals with disabilities are part of the natural resource that we have here in Vermont. I'm headed over to the Capitol Plaza to talk with some employers who really honor and embrace the spirit of the ADA and their hiring practices. We need to make that happen more. I'm so glad that Mary was able to talk a little bit in depth about the issues facing Vermonters who are deaf and hard of hearing and deafblind. We have so much work to do, but I love this room and I love this day and I love this energy. So thank you very much, Sarah for letting me speak and I'm so glad we're all here. If not, just let me know if I'm speaking loud enough. I've always been told I am loud about this voice so hopefully that'll be my advantage today. How could you mean? I won't need a microphone. We are passing handouts for the slides so people can look at them. We have a large version for anybody who has any visual disabilities, but hopefully you can follow along and I apologize if the print is small. So on to the presentation. Thank you all for coming. My name is Nathan Mosayo. Some of you might know me from working with the Vermont Center for Independent Living in the Burlington office. But one thing I am also doing in my spare time is I am a board member for the Northeast Disabled Athletic Association. And that is one of the many adaptive sports organizations in Vermont for people with disabilities. And so today what I'd like to do is talk to you a little bit about adaptive sports, how they came to be, how they came to be created and the benefits for them. And so I am going to take you through a slideshow. I'll show you a little bit about adaptive sports or some of the adaptive sports offered. And hopefully if I have any time afterwards we will be able to answer some questions. So there's some pictures of some cool activities people are participating in, full disclosure. I borrowed some of these pictures of local people so you might see people you know and if you are any of the people in the pictures don't sue me. I apologize for taking it without your permission. So adaptive sports and recreation. This right here is actually if you look at a picture this is a MDA sailboat where we have a person with a disability sailing. And as you can see he is able to sail using a slip and buff where he can steer the boat using his breath. So not only am I a board member I am also a participant in disabled athletics. These are three sports that I particularly like to participate in. Tower Soccer is one of the sports I play which is basically soccer where you've adapted your chair, put a guard on the front. I do adaptive sailing and that's me sailing with one of my co-workers and adaptive kayaking. So we do adaptive kayaking program where people with physical disabilities are able to kayak just like everyone else. Do you like kayaking? Yep, yep. And the one thing I should know is that these are not the only sports that I have tried and activities I have tried. I have tried several. Some of them I like. Some of them I didn't like. You know, so you might try some activities that you're not going to like but the good thing is that you tried and not to give up just because you found an activity you may not be too crazy about. So what is adaptive sports and recreation? And I want to put the recreation part in there because when I talk about adaptive sports I'm not just talking about competitive sports where you're wasting people and you're on a team and you're competing. I'm also talking about recreation which is just getting out and doing activities, having fun, relaxing. Just finding something where you're able to do an activity where you're enjoying yourself. So what is adaptive sports and recreation? Well, it's according to a slide here a phenomenon, really, in a movement where people with disabilities whether it be physical, cognitive, intellectual are being able to participate in sports that everybody else who does not have a disability can by adapting the equipment and modifying the rules. And when I really say it's a phenomenon in movement, I mean it in the sense that it's really pretty recent when you think about people with disabilities have been around since the age of God really adaptive sports has really started probably started off since World War II but really didn't really pick it up until after the independent living movement in the 60s and 70s and really not until the American with Disabilities Act. So this right here is another picture of a sled hockey team in the Central Vermont Pioneers and they are able to play sled hockey and people with mobility disabilities participate in that. So again, recovering the sport through adapting and universal design which means being able to design a sport so everybody in all abilities can participate in people with all kinds of abilities are able to participate in sporting events or recreational activities. And you see this example all the kind and what you're finding is that just because people have a disability doesn't mean they can excel if they work really hard in certain sports and recreational activities. This picture in particular as a woman who is a arm amputee and she was actually a participant in the Olympics. Not the Paralympics anything but she participated in the Olympic games. So she was able to show that despite her disability she can participate in physical sports and recreation just like everybody else. In other words, she can do almost anything that the average can do. She can do something like the average can do. Yep. Exactly. So just to give you a little history and I'm going to go to this point by point of adaptive sports but again really if you look at the history the big movement for recreation kind of started after the Civil War where you had about 30,000 soldiers who had amputations and so you had a big wave of people with disabilities coming through and they were looking for certain treatments. They were trying to provide recreational activities that really did not start until much later. So you see during the history of the games there are also a lot of events for people with physical disabilities. The one thing I do want to highlight is in 1948 the in London which is really the birthplace of the Paralympics and basically what happens is you have some World War II veterans saying they wanted to participate in activities and in sporting activities and so I believe the first event for that was initially 12 or 16 people. Today the Paralympics has Winter and Summer Olympics and there's usually about 16 to 1800 participants. So again it's really really grown over the years for people with disabilities. Evidence. There is growing and theoretical evidence that participating in adaptive sports and recreation not only benefit people with disabilities physically in terms of making them stronger and their balance but also benefits people with disabilities emotionally. Participating in activities helps people with disabilities gain self-confidence. Helps their self-determination and a lot of this I've worked with a lot of people with disabilities who have done adaptive sports and I'm feeling like well if I could do a disabled sport, if I can kayak why can't I do other things? I can be able to apply for a job or I might be able to go to school. So there's a lot of evidence when the evidence first came out in the Amethystical Therapy that basically looked at the physical benefits of adaptive sports. One of the really bad is that emotionally adaptive sports really helps people gain confidence to do other things. It makes them feel better about themselves because you are doing things that everybody else can do. You are participating in the same activities that able-bodied and non-disabled people can do. When he came out of the war he had to learn all over again from time. Yeah, yeah. Well, why? So again, why does participating in adaptive sports do that and this is just a list of some things that we have when I do that. It's about inclusion. Again, this goes to whole meaning of the independent living movement. It's about inclusion. Being included in what all people can do. Many times in adaptive sports, people with disabilities can do and participate in activities. They're able-bodied and non-disabled friends can do. I showed you kayaking. You can go kayaking with friends. You can go sailing with friends. You can play sports and have people come watch you play sports. Not you just have to walk. It's about competition. Now for some people it's about competition. Some people like competing. Some people don't but some people are getting out there competing and trying your best. Just jumping down about being physical fitness. It's about being physical. Feeling for yourself. Even though you might not be able to move very much or do certain things through adaptations of adaptive sports and recreations, you can achieve things. You can do things. You can try your best. I'm going to ask for some questions after the presentation so we can just wait. Come on. Thank you. I know just for Blake even though we're driving motorized wheelchairs, the first time I did it I was sweating. I didn't have the concentration of playing it and just keeping your balance. So there's physical and mental benefits to it. I do want to talk about the last one to the second last thing. It's about inspiration. Now, I know inspiration is a word that we don't want very often within people with disabilities. I'm not talking about inspiring other people. You might be inspiring. I'm talking about inspiring yourself. So by participating in X disabled athletics you can inspire yourself and say hey, I can do this. I can do better things. There's more I can do. So it's really about helping you gain confidence and gaining ability to do things. Now these are some quotes and I don't want to read them all but I'll just read a few of them from people who have participated in some disabled sports. I have a couple of favorites. Adaptive sports helped me shape me into the person I am today. As a new wheelchair user, I was given the confidence to know that if I wanted to do it, it could somehow be done. This third quote I'm actually going to do a name drop. It's from a team made of mine, Zach Small. So where am I going? From the local area. Until power soccer came along, I never knew what it was like to compete in development of sports. I love watching sports but I would always be on the sideline of leadership. Now I am part of a team competing with other people who have shared the same experience as I am. I was just named the captain of the team and my friends now come to watch me play. One thing that Zach did that I thought was very cool was when he was interviewing for his first job they asked him to give an example of leadership and part of a team and he talked about being part of power soccer. So he was able to use that to help him in the real world. And then this last quote is my favorite quote. It's a long one but I think it kind of sums up. I fell in love with sled hockey the first time I grabbed two sled sticks and was pushed out onto the ice. And a lot of times people are reluctant and they literally have to be pushed out onto the ice because it can be intimidating to try it. But as long as you want to try it you might like it, you might love it but you might not like it. I fell a lot but I was determined by the challenge. Since I started my physical condition guys significantly improved my sign has vanished I have made lifelong friends with others in similar disabilities I can't express how grateful I am to the people who got me started in this sport.  To be an athlete to be a state of mind to be able to compete and go over there so you don't have to excel on the sport you don't have to be the best to be an athlete there are other people that you can participate also one thing I'll do is participating at Disabled Athletics a lot of people meet people other people with disabilities who have common history common experience and might be able to share advice on what they've been through they're able to share these experiences with their friends who aren't disabled so really the building of community and the growing in confidence it's not about kidding it's about the IEL movement when people are participating at Disabled Athletics we really don't want to be part of a special story what you want to do is you want to compete you want to be about everybody else you want to be doing the same things that non-disabled people are doing and so it's not about kidding as anybody seen the movie Murder Ball anybody called the movie Murder Ball about the one with me there's a quote in that the goal is to be part of the sports page not part of the living section so the goal in terms of leveling the playing field amongst people with disabilities is so that adaptive sports is viewed on the same lines as regular sports so people aren't going to be like oh look at this inspirational person participating in Power Soccer or CanCycle the picture that you're seeing is actually an event my Power Soccer team holds every year at Carrington at UVM it's a Power Soccer competition we play teams from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Boston and I can tell you that when we play it we're not looking to inspire people we're looking to beat the other people we're looking to win so we're not looking to be nice it's about fun and getting out there and doing things so it's not about that it's about equal treatment not special treatment so again, going back to the America with Disabilities Act it was passed so that people with disabilities have equal access to certain activities so really when the Act was first passed in 1991 it really didn't include a lot of modifications for things like gyms and pools and stuff but then when it was revised it didn't include a lot of adaptations so nowadays a lot of sport clubs a lot of places that offer facilities to the general public have to make those available to people with disabilities so what you're saying is more pools with lifts with people with disabilities to go swimming gym equipment available to people with physical disabilities you now have activities like climbing walls where people with physical disabilities or any disabilities can participate they're about adaptive skiing and sport about 10 years ago there might have been 1 maybe 2 mountains offering adaptive downhill skiing nowadays pretty much every downhill mountain has some kind of adaptive skiing program a lot of us have to do with the ADA provide equal access for people with disabilities so if you're thinking about participating in something don't be shy don't think you're asking for something special you're asking for equal treatment you're asking for equal access so now I'm going to show you a bunch of sports and how it's done and a lot of sports are just taking the equipment and modifying it so that people with disabilities can participate again so this is a couple of northeast disabled athletic things this is a kayak that I showed on the pictures you have outriggers on the sides for people with balance issues and then you have the oars on the pivot so that people can use the oars despite their strength the kayak is just a regular kayak it's just something that's been modified some people are transferred into it using a Hoyer lift and the great thing about that is that kayak can be changed to anybody's abilities to be adjusted that corner is a sailboat it's called a Martin 16 it's specifically made for people with physical disabilities to get in this particular picture shows it has a little joystick if you look at the guy with his right hand he's actually controlling it and he has a sipping pump it's a two person thing so you always have a person sailing in the back they've had many blind sailors participate but the person in the back giving directions go left, go right or a starboard port if you want to get technical so it's very easily adaptable so I'm sorry I don't want to run into your ankles so basically where there's a will we can figure things out we can figure out, we can adapt the equipment we can make different sports available to people with disabilities and I am amazed that it seems like every month I hear somebody doing something different adapt this sport where I've heard it before wow that's very original athletes that are born with the sailing conditions or who acquire through accidents and conditions we're too often left on the sidelines we're too often left sitting on the sides watching and wanting to participate but the technology is around and the ability is around for people with disabilities to be participants and through assistive devices prosthetics with amputees this is a road bike that is after skiing and sport offers for biking for people with disabilities assistive devices level the playing field whether you want to be on the ice maybe skating with somebody doing downhill skiing participating in tennis whether playing basketball lacrosse that's what I just learned about or on the water since skiing is a program offered by the NDA where people can go water skiing on the rink or on the trail we have sled hockey and the county or cross country skiing in the pool or on the track so they have care olympics where people can participate in athletics and their swimming programs all throughout Vermont that's huge just one question with if we can wait until after the presentation thank you so on the slopes or on the court one of these pictures is a blinds game that Vermont Adaptivast offers and wheelchair tennis on the range you have biathlon on the path the middle picture is important it's just the person in the wheelchair going on a bike path with their family going back to the recreation park maybe that for you is just going out and being active and just going for a walk or a stroll new bike paths are being important to be out there climbing wall or participating in that on a reservoir river kayaking you have some more extreme sports somebody in a wheelchair doing parkour or whatever it's called high in the mountains or if you want to get really crazy jumping off a bridge that is not a sport I will participate the point is that sports are for everybody and everybody should be able to participate in these sports just a really brief rundown the NDAA is one of the organizations we are a private non-profit athletic organization we offer people with physical disabilities we are entirely volunteer and we offer sporting activities to about 450 people around the state with disabilities what we offer while winter sports what we offer is sled hockey biathlon power soccer wheelchair basketball during the summer we offer adaptive sailing kayaking, canoeing, water skiing in cycling bike and ball and wheelchair tennis to get some contact information we have the slides scanned out if people want to access them that is some slides for the NDAA and some other organizations for modern adaptive skiing sport they are very active they do a lot of outdoor activities skiing, biking, water sports they are more seen in the central and southern Vermont Special Olympics of Vermont is another organization the Central Vermont Pioneers are a sled hockey team that are located in the Montpellier area and still adaptive sports are another one and I am sure there are a lot more organizations that offer activities in Vermont but these are just a few so that's what I have I don't know what we are doing in terms of time what time is it? 11.17 11.17 11.15 11.17 oh ok so we do have some time oh I burned that, so fast yeah yeah well there are programs that active skiing does offer some biking programs for that and there are all kinds of different bikes for camping cycles sitting cycles Northeast disabled athletic associations off average biking a lot of that is rentals but all kinds are clinics so my recommendation with other slides would be to reach out to one of those excuse me, what's the difference between your organization and adaptive sports program? that's a good question what's the difference between the Northeast disabled athletic association and the monadaptive skis work because we do a lot of times get mistaken to be the same organization there are two separate organizations the Northeast disabled athletic association we mainly deal with people with physical disabilities we are volunteer organizations so we don't have a lot of people who specialize in behavioral or cognitive disabilities that's not to say we don't offer athletic activities to people with developmental or cognitive disabilities but there are just certain things that we might not be able to provide we do team sports we do power soccer we do sled hockey we do adaptive sailings we do a lot of competition our rules are that people playing this sport need to be able to understand the rules and concepts of those and we do a lot of one-on-one work with people so maybe somebody wants to learn to sail we take that person out sailing we will help them learn how to sail or they want to learn how to kayak we take that person out sailing adaptive skiing sport we specialize a lot more in outdoor activities and we work a lot more with developmental people with developmental disabilities we are skiing and we do have biking and things like that we also do a lot of group outings with schools and organizations with individuals thank you thank you thank you for joining us on this informative edition of Ableton on Air from the State House's Vermont Disability Day 2019 we would like to thank our sponsors Arlene is off today I'm Lauren Seiler see you next time on the next informative edition of Ableton on Air see you next time Ableton on Air is sponsored in part by Green Mountain Support Services empowering neighbors with disabilities to be at home in the community additional support for Ableton on Air is sponsored in part by Washington County Mental Health Services where hope and support come together


So many of you have asked about my consulting sessions. They are going to be back starting this Friday right now. As you can see I am studying for my finals. This is finals week so I will be studying and in blackout mode all week but on Friday I'll be finished and I'll be starting my consulting sessions again. They'll go for a week, they'll be live consulting sessions with me so you can just go ahead and head on to the description box below for more details or go to my website at adanathepa.com. All right can't wait to talk to you. Hi.  This is Adana. I am back with another PA Q&A video for you guys. I have a couple questions that I'm going to be answering for you all today. If you have any questions that you would like answered on a future video please go ahead right now and leave those in the comment section below and if you haven't already done so go ahead and subscribe. Can PACs work in dentistry? So no PAs cannot work in dentistry. The dentist feel doesn't really have a mid-level, oh how I hate that word you guys, but whatever, a mid-level practitioner like a PA or an NP it's really like the dentist and then the dental hygienist and then the techs. Therefore there's not really like a bridge or anything like that. You don't really see PAs in dentistry. I don't know if that's something that will happen in the future because we don't really get that much training with that. Maybe there might be something in the future kind of like how we're going into ophthalmology but we're usually like doing fundoscopic exams here and there in our HENT. So I'm not really sure if that's even a possibility in the future but maybe the organization of dentists, I don't even know what it's called, but whoever the dentists are under maybe that might be something that they might be looking into in the future if that is the route that you would like to go. Can PAs deliver babies? No so PAs cannot necessarily deliver babies yet however that's like a yes and no question because well answer because it's kind of specific to the practice. I know that there are some practices where PAs do deliver and there are some places where they don't like of course like emergency delivery so in the ER and things of that there are PAs that do that but there was this new thing that came out in our journal the JAPA which is our journal for PAs and it was talking about the PA laborist so that is essentially like you know kind of like what midwives do in a sense and it's something that is new and up and coming so maybe in the future that may be a route or a specialty that PAs can go into where they are laborist and they're allowed to actually deliver babies but generally speaking no PAs don't usually deliver babies. Can PAs specialize in integrative slash alternative medicine? So I know this is something that I kind of was looking into I originally wanted to be an OBGYN but I kind of wanted to do the DO route because I just thought that they were more holistic in their teaching and it was more less of the medical or medicine model where you know we're learning the types of meds and pushing that as opposed to kind of treating the person and not necessarily the disease so I really like that model but I didn't want to be a doctor anymore so that kind of went out the window but for a PA you know we are under the medical model there are schools that have a more integrative slash alternative way of teaching I think they're usually like in California they're a little bit more advanced I guess you could say a little bit more forward thinking you would just have to kind of call around and look and see and go on different forums and ask these questions but specifically like where you're you know actually in that type of mode like a DO no I think how you would get that experience is by actually like shadowing a DO or doing your rotations with a DO and then working with a DO um you know collaboratively then you will actually learn how they do things their craft what they've um learned prior in DO school and then you can apply that to your practice and how you move as a PA moving forward what are some entry-level jobs to gain health care experience for the program so I did a video about this I may leave that in the link or me leave a link for it here somewhere but I did do a video about that but to me like your fastest kind of quickest entry-level jobs for health care experience now you're seeing health care experience but I'm not sure if you mean health care experience or patient care experience because there are two different things when you're dealing with CASPA and applying the schools so for health care experience that is anything that you possibly could ever do in the health care field so you can be an MA a CNA an EMT of course all of those things but then you can also be you know back office doing like credentialing you can do I was a clinical scheduler for a point in time that gave me health care experience you can be an actual like administrative assistant or front desk or PCR those different things so there are areas where you can get health care experience which is just you having experience in the health care field but if you're talking specifically about patient care experience that will that's more of your texts so your surgical tech MAs that get trained in that your phlebotomists your CNAs that get trained and are able to or GNAs that are able to actually like pass pills and do things of that nature those are really your kind of go to entry level really quick kind of get a certification get it out of the way that will help you get access and and actually experience for PA school programs but those are it that's it I'm done you guys I'm hopefully this was very helpful if you do have any other questions go ahead again and leave them in the comment section below thank you guys so much for watching and thank you guys for joining me on this journey I will talk to you guys next time bye


Hello, good morning and welcome to day 94 of the Mindfulness Challenge. We have six days to go. So this is the last Sunday. I will be doing a Mindfulness Challenge day.  It's Father's Day. And that means that we show gratitude and love to all the fathers out there. And I'm a father, and my father, over there, I show gratitude and love to him today. But it's a moment for us to be able to receive that gratitude. You see, a lot of people really struggle receiving compliments, receiving praise, receiving because we have this mindset that we're not worthy that, oh, you shouldn't have, oh, all of these things. And the reality is, is why? Sit back for one day and enjoy everything that's brought to you. Enjoy the compliments, accept them, take them to your heart, fill your soul, your mind, your body with happiness and joy. And allow that gratitude to flow all over your body and have this deep sense of peace and contentment in the fact that somebody else appreciates what you do. And it doesn't have to be questioned. It doesn't have to be thought of or dissected or why has he said that to me? What's this? Am I worthy of this? Is this right? Oh, all of those emotions and all of those thoughts really are all about self-doubt, is you're not worthy and you're not good enough for all of these things. And what you've got to remember is, is that we're all good enough. And we all need to do a bit of that. And it's been a really interesting 94 days. And it'd be good to go back and look over them all and see my different ways that I look, my different vibration, my different energies on different days because we all, we all have different days. But it's about recognizing those days and it's about separating the mental narrative from those days and being able to check in with yourself and focus on your breath to create this beautiful deep sense of peace. And you can do it just by mindfulness. It's a simple practice. And we're gonna do a gratitude meditation and it's a wonderful gateway to a state of calm. So I'm not saying you should use this only for sleep but it's a great meditation to do before you go to sleep. And today, and I've asked people to write down from yesterday and all the things you're grateful for and I wonder how those lists have gone and anything that's gone wrong in your day still pick out the positives from it. Keep doing it, keep journaling it. But today, even if you're not a father, just accept the gratitude and love given to you by family, friends, a dog, the world.  Be grateful for everything about you, especially you and you. And that's important.  That's fine if you wanna do it before you go to sleep. Just close your eyes and take a full deep breath in. And as you exhale through your nose, just release your shoulders and take a few moments with attention to breath. Just settling into a neutral position, a posture and allow your belly to soften and shift your shoulders back so ever so slightly and lower the chin so that the back of the neck is natural and long. And with the awareness of the breath and the posture, begin to intentionally generate a deep sense of gratitude for the breath itself. And as you watch, notice the breath moving in and moving out through the nose. Remember how precious this one breath is. And this next one too. And inviting the spaciousness of awe and wonder as you sit with the next three to five cycles of your breath. Invite that feeling of spaciousness around you. And then draw attention to your heart. Feel the heartbeat. Perhaps in a quiet, you can hear. But still aware of your breath but notice in listening to the heart. Inviting in awareness of the miracle of the heartbeat as we sit with this noticing for three to five cycles of your breath. Just be aware of your miracle that is your heart. Still aware of your breath and your heartbeat but bring an awareness to the form of your human body. Hear functioning, breath breathing, heart beating. Notice whatever arises. When we notice the unique fortune of our human birth, we fill ourselves with love and compassion and peace. Here in your beautiful human body, you have everything you need to awaken. You have everything you need to find happiness, contentment and joy within. There is an infinite capacity within you. Infinite capacity for awareness and gratitude. Breath breathing, heart beating, a mind that can notice, understand, feel and discern. A mind whose capacity for awareness, understanding and growth is infinite. A mind whose capacity for notice in its true nature is right here, right now, in your very capable hands. Smile on your breath. Smile on your heartbeat. Invite loving to the whole body and love kindness toward yourself and your mind. Rest here, remembering you have everything you need. Rest in gratitude for it all. And as the mind with its infinite capacity tries to draw you away, keep coming back to the wonder of this one breath in and this one breath out. The magic of the heartbeat, the beauty in being here. Breathing in and breathing out. Allow yourself to feel the gratitude and love from your body, from Mother Nature, from Earth, from Gaia, from loved ones, from animals, from the birds in the trees, just be able to accept this beautiful gratitude that comes before you. Accept it, acknowledge it and let it in because you from this day forward and will always be, has always been and forever will be a special person that accepts, that loves, that reciprocates, loving kindness, gratitude, compliments and love. And when you're ready, just wiggle your fingers and open your eyes and come back into the room. So it's a lovely feeling of peace and contentment. You've checked in with yourself and gives you that lovely feeling of just being calm and that's a feeling really that's great to go to bed with because it's a feeling where, you know, you'll feel completely relaxed and at one with yourself. So enjoy Sunday, accept the gratitude, feel the love of others, sit in the garden, sit in your room, whatever it is, just feel the love of the divine light and spirit and everything that is around us. Have a beautiful, grateful day. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, Julian, I love you. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, Julian. I just love you. And I love you too. And make sure that today you allow others to love you as they wanna love you without putting any barriers or any expectations or any self-doubt or dissected trust in the love that is shown to you. Accept it, be it. And you'll have a much nicer day. Take care. See you tomorrow. That was day 94 of the mindfulness challenge. Bye-bye.


But let's move on. Our third speaker, Austin Jakobsen from Norway. Again, you've read the official biography. I can only add one extra item, which is apparently, not sure this is information that really we need to know, but apparently his commitment to open data in government and beyond originates in a misspent youth playing underwater rugby, which is such a secret sport. I didn't even know it existed. But apparently, all the action takes place out of sight underwater, but it's brutal. And it creates individuals, like I said, who's going to come and talk. I'm going to talk about something called open product data. It is not an established term yet. I hope it will be. I have taken the liberty of using a certain person's expression, the raw data now. That person is Tim Berners-Lee. He spoke about it in 2009, referring to government data. He said that if the raw data about how governments work and it was fully and publicly available, we could do wondrous things with it. And we have. The open data movement as such has flourished. We have data.norge.annu, data.something France, Gov, UK, all over the place, all in the last few years. What is missing is product data from my perspective. What I mean by that is any data that can be used to describe a product or a service. Some information is already publicly available. By that, I mean whether or not a company has been reported doing health offenses. Some of this information is available on the item itself through labeling. It's available on the shelf as a price. And there are laws saying that if there is information on environments like the mobile stations in a mobile network, that should be released. And that has been the case in Norway where a TV organization sued the telecom operator in Norway and got the total map of where all the stations are placed for environmental reasons. The problem is that this information is often not available as open and structured data or simply not available at all. I'm going to say a little bit about why it is important that we have it. It can be summed up in two words. Asymmetrical information. Some really smart people has described this. And Hal, if you were here, could just do a much better job than me to describe what it is. It is basically when you have two parts in a transaction and one part knows more about something than the other one. That affects the price and it affects whether or not the transaction would take place at all. An example of that is if you were to buy a house and the salesperson would say, this is a fantastic house. It just happens to leave out the part about the rot or the wiring in the house. It could be that. But it could also be someone trying to portray this pork chop as being fantastic and all the pigs are being treated nicely. Whereas they truly come from a factory farm under rather unsavory conditions. And this leads to a number of questions which are near impossible for the consumer to get answers to. What are the conditions for the person that made this shirt? That's something that people sometimes would like to know. Were any animals hurt making this shampoo? Will this salad dressing kill me? Are there GMOs in this pizza where the tomatoes come from? Is this company a nice company or not? Or where is the cheapest TV? Online services have made it easier for people to make price comparisons on some things like computers. But if I stand, I'm going to buy a bicycle and 200 meters up the street, the same bicycle is on sale, that information is not available to me in a way that I can use. The way to solve this is to use a distributed information system. We take the raw data about everything as much as possible. You make it publicly available. And separate from that, you apply interpretations. What is good, what is bad? Someone will have an opinion on what is healthy. Someone else would have another opinion. But it's up to me as a user to choose who I trust and what interpretation I want to use on that data. Separate from that, again, you have an interface. It could be a web page, a plugin in a browser, a mobile application, whatever. And my organization, the foreign individual, we made a barcode scanner. Anyone who wants to can see it in action. You scan the barcode of something. You get a product with who made it and a little image. And you can get more details. We have opinions on the product, like trusted third parties, lactose intolerance, or rainforest foundation have an opinion on either the product or a component or the company or any kind of element linked to that factory. And you see that. You see the entire life story. It could be ingredients, anything that an interface want to portray. And just with a limited data set, this is just some data. It could be anything. We can make any kind of service. It's one we've experimented with. If you have the position of all stores and their inventory and some basic product information, you could get a map of which area should I go shopping. Or what's the status of this store? What is it doing for the local community? So in order to get this data, because not all companies want to release, they don't want to tell us how this shirt was made. The important individual organization made a petition where we demand that relevant data. And by that we mean data that can be used for consumers to make better informed choices associated with goods and services, anything, anything you pay money for to be made publicly available. And we even shape that by publicly available, we mean open structured data, API-based access, bulk transfers, very specific. And this petition has been signed by a number of organizations in Norway. Animal rights, environments, health, consumer rights, agriculture. This is not a data issue. This is not a nerdy issue. This is a societal issue. Questions that have been left unanswered for too long. So what I have done is to try to get cooperation from companies, sort of the carrot approach. These are companies which have helped us. But they're cool, for instance, is one of the largest grocery chains in Norway. But they're owned by the members. So it's like an NGO more than a company. The same with Kultura Bank. It's a company, but it has a clause saying that all profits should go for beneficial stuff. Stornbag is a clothing manufacturer. But they release the entire life story of everything they make. Great, great company. So we have some cooperation. And we also launched, or we will launch, a website called OPData, openproductdata.org, which will be like data.gov just for product data. One for each country, where anyone can go in and list, oh, I have this data set about nutrition or whatever. And this is how you access it. So that people like me can come in and use that data for services. What I need is help from politicians to either to go to companies and offer incentives. If you publish this data, it will be nice to you. Fund programs, like mine, or whatever, to make data more structured, standardized, available. Or to use the whip. Sometimes some companies, they're not going to give away this data no matter how much you try to call them and lure them. So you need to either enforce whatever laws are already there or make new ones, plain and simple. That was my message.


In Oyo State, the police command says it has arrested 78 members of the park management system over a plot to create widespread carnage and civil disturbance in the state. Adiwalio Shiferso, the Oyo State police spokesperson in a statement issued today, said the suspects were arrested following the dissolution of the PMS Disciplinary Committee, which is headed by Juan Mokaila Lamidi, popularly referred to as auxiliary residents, were thrown into panic today following reports of attacks and motorists by suspected thugs, said to be loyal to Lamidi. He urged residents to go about their activities without fair assuring that security personnel have been deployed to maintain peace and other. In a strategic intelligence-coordinated rate around this location at Diamond Hotel, Alakia Isabel, under Ecuador Local Government Area, 78 suspected thugs who had perfected plans to unleash mayhem at the early hours of today at major parks of the metropolis were arrested in possession of sophisticated weapons. 724 cartridges, ascended chance, 33 mobile phones, and a sum cash of about 3,450,000 Naira. In four grants of the above, the Oyo State Police Command, under my constructive leadership, retraces unwavering commitment towards tackling criminal rascality, polygonism, and blatant disregard for the rule of law. Consequent on the above, the Oyo State Police Command enjoins residents to cooperate with the police with the provisions of the Oyo State Police Command.


Hi friends, and how are you doing today? The question says the capacity of a closed cylindrical vessel of height 1 meter Is 15.4 litre. This is the capacity of it. That is the volume How many square meter of metal sheet would be needed to make it? so we have a cylinder given to us whose height is given to us as 1 meter and Volume is given to us as 15.4 L. We need to find out the area of the sheet the metal sheet That will be required to make this cylinder, right? so here we are given volume of the cylindrical vessel as 15.4 litre needs to be Converted into meter since the height is given to us in meter and we need to find out the area also in meter So it will be 15.4 divided by 1000 to convert it into meter cube that means 154 divided by 10 1000 meter Also, we know that the volume of the cylindrical vessel the formula is pi r square h. So pi r square h is equal to 154 by 10,000 That implies 22 by 7 r square and h is given to us as 1 is equal to 154 divided by 10,000 That implies r square is equal to 154 into 7 the whole divided by 22 into 10,000 Let us simplify it We have r square as 7 into 7 divided by 10,000 can be written as 100 into 100 this implies we need to find out r that is the square root of 7 into 7 divided by 100 into 100 That further means that the radius is equal to 7 by 100 or 0.07 meter also We are given that We require a metal sheet To make this cylindrical vessel that means the area of this sheet is equal to what? It is equal to the total surface area of this cylinder, right? So we can write that area of sheet That is the metal sheet is equal to the total surface area of the cylindrical vessel the formula for total surface area of cylindrical vessel is 2 pi r r plus h. Let us substitute the values R is found out to be 7 by 100. Let's take it so 7 by 100 plus h that is the height of the cylinder is 1 So we have 11 by 25 getting multiplied by 7 Taking 100 as the LCM. So this is further equal to 0.4708 meter square. This is the area of the sheet and Our required answer for this session. So hope you understood the concept. Well, have a very nice day ahead


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in at the range now and today I'm going to revisit my two baby Desert Eagle threes here is the nine millimeter It's a full-size all steel frame construction that I have had for quite a while now, and now liked it so much I picked up the 45 model. This also is all steel construction. It's a semi compact That's what Magnum Research calls it a semi compact with a 3.85 inch barrel This has a 4.3 inch barrel both of these made of composite steel, and I think they're great shooters Let's start with the 9 millimeter. This is a CZ copy. It does take CZ magazines comes with a 15 round mag But the higher 18 round mags will work. I don't know if you could tell but it's a cold and windy day I'm hoping the sound comes through, but I love this gun and if you look at the forehand you'll see that it pretty much models an actual Magnum Research Desert Eagle the way the way it contours in like that has a Polymer grips on the steel frame extended beaver tail. It has a frame mounted Thumb safety decocker. They call that a teardrop. All right, so you hit that down it decocks the gun and You know puts it in safe action, and then you flip it back up three dock sights a full pick rail 49 ounces loaded so it is a Heavy gun and the single action trigger pull is right around four pounds looking at right there With a reset That is fairly short not overly short, but I love this. It's been great for me I'm gonna take a few shots now, and then we'll talk about the 45 maybe desert eagle Yeah, just as I remember it and that's why I'm revisiting it because I Love the gun I Love the weight, you know, there's no recoil at all, but now we've got the baby desert eagle 3 and 45 ACP This has a 3.85 inch barrel three dot sights same contoured slide a Magazine that carries 10 rounds of 45 the MSRP on both of these is 691 and I did a search and it's selling pretty much for that price maybe a little bit higher A little bit lower the single action trigger pull is the same as the nine millimeter right around four pounds It doesn't have a full pick rail there some stippling in the front of the trigger guard polymer grips and the same teardrop safety that I showed you with the nine millimeter baby desert eagle the the baby desert eagle three has a slimmer slide and a thinner grip and that is Really nice. It has nice circles to it. Definitely has some weight 46 ounces loaded. So I it's loaded now with 10 rounds. I'm holding on to 46 ounces So it is a heavy pistol. Let's go ahead and take a few shots with this 45 there's something about these that I Really like and I think it you know, it's a CZ It's patterned after the CZ handguns, but I like it Because I like the all steel guns. That's for sure But it's got a real nice trigger and it's consistent every time I take it out. I Seem to do pretty well with it, you know beaver tail there. You can see that it is a Heavy-duty firearm. So we've got the the nine millimeter holding 15 rounds and The 45 holding 10 rounds both all steel very nice handguns. I'm happy to revisit it Revisit these and check them out once again. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe