Well, just carry on what we've been doing and improving on. I thought we had a good day coming out of the game Monday and then traveled up here. I thought in a professional business like manner and hopefully we can continue to work on all the stuff that came up in the game. And that we can keep taking care of the football in which we have to do better and seeing how we block different players and seeing how we cover different players. Making sure that we're practicing to our standards and our tempo. I mean, I think we've been getting a lot of really good work in against ourselves. And I think that that's probably, this is a good time to end that and start this process here the next two weeks. And again, we've talked about the different skill sets of players in this league, different schemes that we'll have to face throughout the season. And now instead of having ourselves the game plan against or understand and maybe having a little bit more time, now we just have two practices and then a game. So this is gonna be some hands on experience I think just learning different guys' route crafts, releases, different players at the line of scrimmage. So that can help us and just say, okay, let's make some corrections or what do we need to adjust on going into tomorrow and then the game? I mean, I think you want to have some exposure, but maybe not a whole lot other than just some personnel or some looks, whether that's different fronts that we may see. We'd like to have the players as prepared as possible. But also understanding that we didn't have a whole lot of time after Chicago, but we tried to give them a little bit. And then what has to happen is they have to go out there and use their roles and communicate. And we've talked about how critical the 11 guys on the field are communicating and making sure that they're on the same page. Well, I'm sure that they did. I mean, we've got a game tape from, it didn't play last week. And again, they're pros, they'll come out here in practice and hopefully compete and challenge and go from there. Well, you're gonna see a lot of them move to ball and having some unscripted periods that allow Tim and Shane and who's calling it on their side to be able to adjust to what they're seeing and going from first to second and second to third. And then just work the end of the game operation today and we'll do that. And then tomorrow work in the red zone. So those are normally what we've done throughout these processes. Well, I think it matters every day whether we're in Minnesota, whether we're in Tennessee, whether we're in Illinois. Every day is part of the process and see what they can improve on and where they make adjustments and how they handle certain situations. All I heard was Kevin O'Connell in my impression. So you got a big fan right there, just maybe a little louder. I'm not sure what you asked me, I apologize. Well, I mean, how he's done so far, I met a lot of success here last year. So the impression, I think just, it's like him and Cliff came in at some point time, I couldn't tell those apart. It was like he came in and replaced Cliff Kingsbury. And conscientious, obviously, smart, smart player. Picked everything up really well and just happy for his success and the teammates that I've had that have gone on to success in coaching or broadcasting or anything off the field that they're doing. And Kevin's another example of that. Well, I can promise you that having not watched practice and having no idea that there's going to be some things that are good.  Every day we go out there and practice, there's those things. And I'll do it the same way I always do it. We'll have a meeting, we'll try to continue to stockpile all the good things, we'll have to fix the bad things and then eliminate the things that get us beaten. We'll look at the effort, we'll ask players to show us their effort and the ones that they thought were up to our standard and the ones that aren't up to our standard. I'm sure that if we think it'll give us the best chance to convert in short yardage situations, then we'll entertain the idea as far as stopping it. I mean, I'm sure we'll have other ideas. These are things that are hard to practice just in training camp, just talking about goal line and short yardage and making sure that we're doing everything to protect the players and stay up. But it's an effective play, it's a creative play. And one that the injuries would tell you that there weren't injuries that were occurring on the play.  Again, we'll see what gives us the best chance to convert. We've handed it off to Derek, we've thrown it and we've quarterback sneaked it. So we've been okay on third and one, would like to always be better. Taking the day off, Gentry? Sure, let's go Gentry. Well, I don't wanna say that I can't remember Gentry, what those reasons were in Tampa, I really can't. But we've tried to, again, be intentional with how we've structured practice and getting some guys out there for half of practice and something that we've done in the past with veteran players and whether they need individual periods and things like that or maybe the most important thing is some team periods. So we kind of structured a practice accordingly so sometimes maybe guys can come out of different places. But everybody has a plan each and every day. I don't know what it was like two years ago. But hopefully we'll have guys that are available and that may change from today and going in tomorrow. We'll see what that looks like after we practice today. Now this is gonna be it, I'm gonna be the guy. Yeah, I was blowing, but I mean, you gotta play in the elements, whatever it is. Played in some win games over the years, so it's definitely not ideal to throw the football. But gotta handle the elements, both teams are dealing with it. And it's whoever can play the game the best to deal with the elements. I feel like you guys did from the beginning to the end of that. We picked it up there at the end. I didn't feel like we came out with the right intensity early on. They're giving us a bunch of different looks that we haven't seen going against our team and didn't really scout. It's like you're not preparing for a game coming out here like you do in the regular season. So a bunch of different looks that we haven't seen before. But it's great work because we're seeing different looks that we see against our own team on a daily basis. And we're gonna play teams that do this type of stuff. So it's good work for us and we'll learn from it. Yeah, there's one over checked on him. He hates seeing that. Yeah, we'll find out more information and see what's really going on. But hopefully it's gonna be all right. I think he seemed obviously upset and understandably so. Just thoughts and prayers are with him right now and hopefully it's not too bad. What did you think of the one-on-one period, Ryan? It seemed like some things were off during that. Yeah, I mean we're dealing a 30 mile an hour win. So it's in one-on-one coverage typically it's gonna be tight coverage. And then you got to put the ball in a tight window. They did a good job covering us and we got to try to be better with the ball. Obviously just dealing with the elements, trying to play the win and put in a good spot. We were able to hit some plays weren't consistent enough.  So overall up and down but good work. It's an opportunity to come out and get better. We're looking at a different defense, different scheme than we see from our team.  So to be able to switch things up, see a different style of play, see a different defense is good work for us. Lots to learn from it and build on as we move forward. When you guys come together like this. We want to play the way we play no matter where we're at, who we're playing against. Whether it's a national play against our own defense or coming out here. That's one thing we said to the guys, we got to play our style of the ball and practice the way we practice. And I didn't feel like we did that early on. We kind of didn't start off the way we wanted to and didn't turn it out quick enough. We were able to do some good things in that two minute period at the end. But if you don't consistently make plays throughout the game, you're not going to be in a position to go in the game at the end. So opportunity for us to come out tomorrow and build on it. Sorry, how nice in that two minute to get the ball back so quickly? Yeah, defense did a great job obviously, I think it was the first play or second play. Second play both times. So great job by our defense, they've been making it tough for us all camp. So good to see them playing consistent and making plays against somebody else. Grant, I apologize if you've been asked about this. Grant Flores is defense unique in any way they disguise things? Well, I want to say it's unique, unique, but it's definitely a style that you don't see a whole lot. There's a couple teams throughout the league, a couple coordinators who will play this style of ball. It's definitely something you don't see on a weekly basis. And that's what's nice when you're game planning. You have a little more time and space to game plan and get ready for it. But like I said, good looks for us. We'll be able to take a look at this tape, learn from it and come out ready to go tomorrow. Yeah, like I said, I felt like we didn't come out and start the way we wanted to start. And the guys were battling, but it just wasn't consistent enough. Not just the off the line, but just overall. So we've got to be able to come out and be better. I think these are great opportunities. I've been a part of a lot of these over the years and you want to take advantage of these, but not read it too much into them. I think back to 2015, I was with Miami. We went to Carolina, practiced to them two days. It felt like we had really good practices, kind of dominated those practices. And we fired a coach after week four and they went 15-1 into the Super Bowl. So, thank you for what it is. It's an opportunity to come out here, work, see a different scheme, see different players with different skill sets that we're seeing every day. But just keep our head down, keep grinding, learn from what we did. And keep the foot on the gas, keep going. Do what? Yeah. It didn't really matter which way. It's just tough to play this. It's a three club win today at least. So, try to gauge it as best you can, but see elements, you've got to deal with it. I mean, just from the eye test, I thought it was really, really good. We didn't allow any big plays down the field on defense.  So, you don't really know sometimes off the eye test as far as like the defense alignment, but we were stuffing the runs, seeing that we got a couple of sacks, and obviously too many we ended with two picks. So, I thought it was a great day overall for the defense, but you know, we're going to watch the film and find some things to correct. Yeah, it's important because, you know, when we're on the road, obviously, practicing is a different team. The routine is different. We're at a different facility, different locker room, you know, you're sleeping in the hotel. So, I think it's definitely big to come out here and start fast, bring our own energy, and I felt like we was able to do that today. Oh, 100%. Those guys are professionals. They have really good players on their side of the ball as well. So, we expect tomorrow for them to come out, you know, with a little bit more energy and juice, not saying that they were dead or anything like that, but like I said, I mean, that's the challenge for us as a defense to continue to be consistent and try to be dominant every single day we're out here. I'm not sure who got it, but obviously we came downward. I think Weaver has two picks to train. He has more picks than me to train the camp. So, I'm impressed with his ball skills. You know, it was really cool because I think the best thing about it was because I was kind of in a rubber situation right there. And obviously, Rog knew he had his help inside. So, he was able to play the outside route and caught a pick. He's had two interceptions during the two-minute drill, pretty much the exact same play, exact same route that he had against Kyle Phillips in the rain the other day of practice. So, really proud of Rog and the way he's improved this offseason. I mean, I don't know just right on top of the head, but like you said, it's been really, really good, this training camp. And like you said, to be able to go against a different team other than our offense, kind of a team that we kind of, you know, know what they're going to do and things like that. To not really game plan against the Vikings and to still have a really good showing. It's a really good step in the right direction. Yeah, something I've just talked about all training camp.  We have those guys up front. Our linebackers has really made plays. And, you know, obviously on the back end, you know, something that we really take pride in as a defensive being aggressive and competitive. And so, like I said, just putting all three and marrying all three together is going to be big for us obviously going into the season. Yeah, it's very concerning. Obviously we don't, you know, know the severity or nothing's confirmed yet. But obviously I heard about it when we kind of went into special teams and obviously praying for him, hoping that, you know, hoping that everything is going well. But he's a big part of what we do as an offense and as a team.  No, I mean, obviously, you know, Vraves don't speak too much about injuries and I didn't even really ask him about it at all. I kind of just heard whispers from some guys that he had went down. So hopefully we'll go to the locker room and, you know, back to the hotel. Hopefully hear some good news. Yeah, this facility is incredible. Obviously they have a really good practice facility. The weather's been really good. Obviously it's very windy, but I mean, they have a training camp like this. I think it's probably low 80s or something like that. It's got to be great to be out here in the summertime. Yeah, I mean, I think sometimes it depends on where it happens at. Obviously, you know, special teams, those are really, really competitive periods because these are guys that's trying to make the team, trying to make a name for themselves.   So you kind of want that confidence, that swag from those guys up front. Craig says the hardest skill in the league is covered. The hardest skill? I mean, I would think it's probably covering a receiver or something like that, but no, I mean, it's definitely a skill for sure. And I think we have some pretty good guys who are going to be able to do that this year and looking forward to, you know, continuing to precede and see those guys covering those kicks. Do you do it early? Oh, 100%. You know, my rookie year, I think I played the most special team snaps on the whole entire team, 2016. I think I had like 10 special team tackles, not to brag, but, uh, but nah, special teams is very important, and that's what we try to tell some of the younger guys, like, you know, don't matter, you know, when you got drafted, where you came from, you do what you have to do to try to help the team. That's something I've always been willing to do.  So like I said, we've got an interception off a tip. So, uh, I mean, it was pretty good, but I'm pretty sure the kickers don't like it that much. Yeah, he's one of the best, if not the best receiver in the league. So anytime, you know, Christian Fulton and Sean Murphy, uh, Sean Murphy Button and Roger and all those guys who go up against a competitor like him, it gives you confidence because you feel like, hey, if I can cover this guy, if I made a good play with him, I can do it against anybody. So it's important. It's very key to be able to go up against, you know, top notch talent like that. Yeah, 100%. You know, that's the thing about these, uh, competitive training can practice against other teams. Like you bring a little bit more juice.  So it was really good today to get some work and I expect the intensity to ramp up a little bit more tomorrow because usually on that second day, guys are a little bit tired. I mean, somebody may have done something cheap today before. So you want to get them back today. So she'll see some fireworks tomorrow.


First of all I want to thank the mayor, his honor, and members of the council for allowing me to come and talk to you a little bit about the restoration of our tree shabuigan project and perhaps related to some of the things we are trying to do with the city and throughout the county here. I'll give you a presentation for perhaps 10 or 12 minutes and then I'll open it to questions if any of the members of the council or others have questions we'll try to address them. I am not an arborist but fortunately Tim Bull, your city forester, is here and can deal with the technical questions I would assume. And before I get started I also want to introduce Scott Litke who is the president of the Shabuigan Rotary Club and along with a number of other Rotarians has been instrumental in helping me put this project together and getting it off the ground. Essentially this project that I'm speaking to tonight and the benefits for the city started about two years ago when the Shabuigan Rotary Club and a second Rotary Club in Shabuigan, the so-called Early Birds Rotary Club came together to work with Joe Curlin, your superintendent of parks, with regard to trying to do some planting with the city and I got put in a committee and was introduced to the scope of an environmental problem that I knew existed but I don't think I appreciate it fully and that is the infestation of the amral ash borer which I'm sure this body is generally quite familiar with at this point. I worked with Joe and the public work staff and the park staff over a period of time the two Rotary Clubs raised resources that weren't available of the city to plant a total of about 140 trees and that was in celebration of the city's 40th anniversary of being the tree city USA and the oldest city and in the state that had that remarkable honor bestowed upon it so we were able to raise $14,500 to assist the city in planting 140 trees and parks and on the streets here in the city of Shabuigan but during that period of time Joe Curlin and the city staff really educated me to the scope of the amral ash borer problem and the devastation that was presenting to the city of Shabuigan and obviously well beyond the city itself throughout the county and at one or two points during our meeting I asked Joe whether the city was alone in this effort obviously there's some county involvement and state involvement and I asked whether the private sector was in all it all engaged in this effort to try to deal with this environmental threat and the answer quite frankly is the city was pretty much by itself and along with some county and state help but that the private sector wasn't stepping up to the plate at that point and it seemed to me as a Rotarian that Rotary can play a role here in helping not only the city of Shabuigan but communities throughout the area and trying to bring forward private resources that weren't then being presented I'm old enough probably older than most of you in this room to remember the Dutch Elm disease in the 1950s and 1960s that devastated what had been the city of Elms the city of Shabuigan was known as a city of Elms by of course a destruction of many of the beautiful elm trees that we had but the response to that was not just a city or a county response at that time it was a response involving a private sector as well and it seemed to me that it was time for someone to stand up and to be supportive of what the municipality here in Shabuigan and those municipalities elsewhere in the county were doing so I was able to prevail on the Rotary Club in Shabuigan to allow me to go forward and put together a project that eventually came to be known as restoration of our tree Shabuigan roots you have to have an acronym for what you're doing and we began the process of working with an environmental organization network if you would in eastern part of Wisconsin that is known as the Lakeshore natural resource partnership which is already working with the city on a number of other projects but we came together informed an MOU and partnership with LNRP to try to put together a strategy that we thought might make a difference in helping not only this municipality but others throughout the county so over the period of the late part of 2018 and early 2019 we put an MOU together with LNRP and there were three legs to it and I'm going to principally look at one of those with you one part of our strategy this evening which impacts on the city but there were three aspects of it first of all we wanted to get out and do some public education the city certainly and the county were doing some things but this really isn't your role it seems to me in terms of public education and public outreach so we got together and worked with the Maywood Environmental Center and some other educational institutions in the area to try to begin to educate the public overall as to this environmental threat we've done that in some workshops we've run through Maywood we hope to do some more with the public education system here throughout the county frankly we're being slowed in the effort right now because of the COVID-19 and the inability to get people together but we're trying to do more virtually on that but that was one part of our strategy the second part was we realized that there was an absence of resources to do forest management and forest re-planning now we're well along because of Tim and Joe and the others here in the city with that process in the city of Sheboygan and the larger municipalities in the county are well along as well because there's some resources there and expertise where we're not doing very well is in the townships and so the Department of Natural Resources in the end of 2018 awarded us a modest grant to begin to work actively with the townships throughout the county and we are now well along in that process we're using volunteers we're using technical expertise from LNRP and also from the DNR in order to work with the townships to begin to build a database and to begin to collect data on the resources principally ash resources that are out there and that will be lost to this devastation I didn't mention it earlier but just to give you a scope of what we're up against here probably on the order of over one-third of the street and park trees in Sheboygan are ash and they'll all be lost to this eab infestation before we're done in the next five or ten years you'll lose it all so as you all go home tonight take a look at the tree canopy and realize that about one out of every three of those trees you see is an ash and it's about to be lost that's why something needs to be done about this if we're going to preserve the canopy and overall in the county over 17 million trees are ash trees some townships like the town of Sheboygan for example the percentage of ash is much higher it's as high as 70 percent ash in the town of Sheboygan and if you drive into that area think about what that's going to look like in five or ten years so the second leg in this effort then was to bring some resources into this for actual planning and as I said that process is underway again COVID-19 has made it somewhat complicated to train our volunteers and get them out there I talked to the DNR within the last couple of hours and their understanding of the challenges that COVID is representing to us but they've been very accommodating allowance to go forward they've renewed the and extended that grant this past year and we're now up to a grant of about $50,000 that is being used for urban forestry planning but the real element to the strategy that I wanted to address with you this evening is what we call our community investment fund which is a fund that seeks private capital from industry from business and from large foundations that have the means to do so that go into the Sheboygan County Rotary Foundation a 501c3 organization that then we're going to make available and are making available to municipalities here in Sheboygan on a matching basis in order to accelerate the level of replanting of trees and the removal of ash trees that of course are a part of the problem here we're well along in that process we've raised resources both from the public sector the US Forest Service a year ago granted us $200,000 for Sheboygan County that is essentially focused on mitigation of emerald ash borne we're the only county in all of Wisconsin right now that has had the benefit of that large grant coming to us so it's a unique thing it's happened because of what Roots is doing and some of that $200,000 those $200,000 resources will be made available to the city of Sheboygan and to municipalities we've already dedicated some of those resources to mitigation in the Esslingon Park that you're familiar with just west of the city Gerber Lake out in the neighborhood of Lakeland University and the Sheboygan Marsh which is almost exclusively ash so the mitigation there will be underway and by mitigation I mean the removal of ash trees and the planting of non-ash replacement trees again COVID-19 has slowed up our ability to bring in some of the contractors that we want to but we're at least in the in the stage where we will dedicate those resources specifically this evening and there's a resolution you'll be voting on later the other aspect of our third level of strategy or third leg here is the private money that we have raised in the Sheboygan area it's still a modest amount but it's enough for us to go forward with five demonstrator projects two of those projects involve the city of Sheboygan and we're hoping that you will allow us to move forward with the adoption of a resolution a little bit later this evening each of the Sheboygan based rotary clubs is offering resources to the city of Sheboygan the roots fund itself which offers additional rotary resources will be available for two sets of projects and then we have the assistance of the Alliant Energy Company that is making a corporate donation of about five thousand dollars to to further support this effort so what we're bringing to the city and with a lot of help from Tim and from Joe Curlin who helped put the plan together are two separate mitigation plans involving a total of six city parks it will accelerate mitigation in Lakeview Park you're familiar with that on the south side of Sheboygan the rotary park right down along the water area itself and area five of the Evergreen Park which of course gets tremendous use on the part of many in the community for recreational purposes public meetings that work will be done with the support of the Sheboygan Rotary Club and the Alliant Energy Company and also with a district grant from the rotary organization and three additional parks then will be supported in a mitigation effort by the Early Bird Rotary Club that'll be Roosevelt Park Cleveland Park and Veterans Park and they're also going to be part of the effort on area five of Evergreen Park so all told we're stepping up to the plate to work with the city of Sheboygan to accelerate mitigation in those six parks I want to tell all of you that you've got a tremendous staff here if you don't already know it you probably do with Joe Curlin and Tim Bull who've been instrumental in putting these projects together they've been highly responsive and I can't say enough for the city staff and the cooperation we've had I won't go into the details the other three projects but just I'll cover them very quickly and say that we've got one project going with the city of Sheboygan Falls to mitigate in the so-called river park area if you're familiar with that and a access point to River Park will be doing that project and the county stewardship fund has come forward to help the Rotary Organization assist in funding the city of Sheboygan Falls in that project we also have approval now to go forward with a project for four parks and mitigation of four parks in Plymouth that again is being done with the assistance of the Plymouth Utilities Organization and again with Rotary District money and with Rotary money we brought to this to this effort for roots so that project will go forward later this summer and finally we're out and working with the village of Elkhart Lake and a modest program out there involving two parks and a number of street areas so all told we have a lot going on with these demonstrator projects I would simply before I open myself to questions I would ask for the council members that are here present tonight and those that are of course virtually with us if we could look for your support first of all for the resolution tonight and secondly as roots goes forward we're going to be continuing to knock on private sector doors corporate Sheboygan corporate Sheboygan county and also large foundations with means so that we can if you would if I may use an old Navy term I'm a naval officer of 23 years retired to use an old Navy term we are really trying to get all hands on deck here for a whole of community effort to combat this problem we believe the council knows it's a problem and I know you've dedicated additional resources to the public work staff and the park staff we would ask you to continue supplementing that support which is going to be necessary in the next several years when the devastation becomes ever more apparent and while you do that roots and the private sector will step up to the plate but anything you can do to help us raise money in the private sector would be would be greatly welcomed as we go forward we hope to have a project that really winds itself up in another two to three years we want to make an impact to use an old military term of mind I'm calling this a surge effort you've heard about the surge in Afghanistan Rockwell this is a surge for Sheboygan county but it's in an environmental war that we're engaged in we want to put resources on this problem quickly we want to do this for future generations I don't have to tell you that it makes a difference in terms of not so much those of us who are present tonight but our children and our grandchildren who will enjoy this tree canopy if we can maintain it the advantages are tremendous aesthetically it's an advantage offers of course the city of Sheboygan benefits in terms of its tax base quite frankly because it's a demonstrated fact that tree canopies help with property values public and private and the other thing I guess I would point out is that it obviously helps with the effort of global warming removes CO2 from the air and obviously pollutants as well so there are many benefits to maintaining a healthy tree canopy economic ecological and otherwise with that Mr Mayor and members of the council thank you for your time and attention and


In this presentation, we will take a look at the Social Security Tax Calculation. We have here the payroll register, which we will use to calculate the Social Security Taxes. We have our two employees and the marital status, the number of allowances, the hourly rate and salary, and then we have the regular pay and the overtime pay, and then the total earnings. So here's the main component we want to focus in on here. We have the total earnings. We're going to calculate the OASDI based on earnings. However, the total earnings, which is just going to be the regular pay plus the OT pay may differ from the OASDI or Social Security wages. Remember to the different names that we can call the OASDI or Social Security. It's a FICA tax, but the two FICA tax are Social Security and Medicare. We're focusing in on Social Security, which can also be called


The Senate on Tuesday received requests from President Mohammad Buhari to approve adjustment to the 2022 fiscal framework. Buhari in a letter explained that an adjustment to the 2022 fiscal framework became imperative in a view of new development in both the global and domestic economies. He wants a chamber to approve an increase in the estimated provision for PMS subsidy for 2022 by $3.557 trillion from $442.72 billion to $4 trillion. According to him, the development were occasioned by Spike and the market price of crude oil which were fallout of the Russian-Ukraine war.


Do palindromes relate? Because when you start thinking deeply about the thinking tool of a Big Bang, where the action horizon is where the action of the particles plays out, then from the center of the Big Bang we can ask, well, is it like the rotational center of the elser-slone quasi-crystal where the center is the palindrome of Fibonacci chains. Do palindromes play anything physical? Should we talk about that? I do not know, but that is a fundamental thing that is going to involve a lot of mixing with our intuition because when we begin to model a little bit of brute force type exploration where we're not sure where to go, but we model it using guides like the empire window and other guides to control the types of modeling that we can do, and then we'll see patterns, we'll tap into our intuition and try to go from the bottom up. That once, what we're looking for, what is the first object that we're looking for? Not a 20 group, that's trivial. What we're looking for is a pattern of 20 groups, that is a complex pattern that expresses itself on the three-dimensional expanding action horizon and has empire waves around it. The empire wave is the first physically realistic object. You can't separate the empire wave from the fermion, right? They go together. Just saying the empire wave seems to be both spatial and tempo, right? It goes forward and backward. Just want to confirm with you. It goes forward and backwards in time? Yeah. Maybe, yeah, probably. Because if we're thinking of these shells, right, keep growing the shells, so overall it's a whole quasi-crystal, so if I have a patch here, then it should go both ways because that's what I have been bringing up with you by the retro color. You're right, and that's exactly matching up with what Roderick Sutherland in Australia has written with quantum mechanic equations. That's what Jack in Sinziana wrote about. Even Tony this morning wrote me a letter saying Jack Sarfati's back reaction quantum wave function is absolutely true. You have a good intuition about that that comes from the first principle's geometry. And then once you have your first fermion particle, you have your first empire wave. Once you have your first empire wave, now you can interact them in our early simulations to cause an electron-self interaction. An electron-self interaction is based on the saving. It's a quantum of gravity. A trit is a quantum of gravity, it seems, because every trit has a relationship relative to any other trit, which is the twist. And the twist is isomorphic to a quantum of Einstein's curvature. And so you either save a quantum of gravity or you or you lose a quantum of gravity or you have neither interaction. In other words, we need a physically realistic explanation for electron-self interaction. That is, interaction with its own empire wave, interaction with its own electromagnetic field, which becomes interaction with its own quantum wave function or the definition of its own, the definition of its wave function includes the energy landscape created by itself plus the energy landscape of every other fermion and boson. But if you model it and you remove the other fermions and bosons from the energy landscape, you're left with only the electron's own electromagnetic field to define the energetic landscape in one dimension for the electron. So in other words, the foundational quantum wave function of one dimensional space with only an electron, so no energy landscape other than the electron's own field, then that is the stripped down reduced quantum wave function for the electron. And that is defined by the trit, parity, anti-parity and null interaction relationships with the empire, with the electron, with the quasi-particles propagation playing into its own empire field. And then the second thing, of course, is the interaction between the two different empire waves from two fermion quasi-particles. So you can't really study this not too much until you get the empire waves and you can't really get the empire waves until you invent or discover a quasi-particle pattern based on these empires of tetrahedra in the action horizon. So these are the foundational tools and because all of this object, this dynamic system, encodes under folding matrices, the higher dimensional lattices and their associated lee algebras, then there's no reason once we focus on these tools that at the end, we should not expect to get what we want, which is gauge symmetry equations. But I'm ultra reductionist, so I want to try to challenge everybody in our group, like Mike and everybody here, to restrict your thinking to the most limited set of tools and then only bring in additional assumptions if we have to. So here's the formalism. So describing this or having this in nature, we should understand there should be an infinite set, well, a very large set of formalisms which you could use to deal with this. One of the formalisms is to understand the dynamical network as a topological quantum network and the irreducible anions are the Fibonacci anions and of course those would be very natural anyway for this type of Dirichlet integer neural network, topological neural network. So this is one way and this is a diagram that I thought was nice because it's from a web page on anions and braiding but they bring the braiding into a more complicated physical system that is toroidal as we can see because normally when we see the braiding diagrams they're just very simplistic. Yeah, flat but this is a nice way a nice diagram. But another way to formalize and analyze and model this fundamental behavior is as a tensor network and this is a Perimeter Institute workshop on tensor networks and so they drew their tensor network representation like this pattern here and Ray, you're probably not familiar with me in the past using a phrase called jitterbug waves, Fong is familiar. I use jitterbug from Buckminster Fuller. But I advanced that idea into the notion of jitterbug waves just like I take the empire and I advance that into the dynamical phase and imagine these objects called empire waves where the empire waves are complex because of the stepwise spherical rotation combined with the forward helical so the so the empire waves are a very beautiful and complex pattern dynamically. This is a wave created by the oscillator when the oscillation is a jitterbug transform. Okay, yes, yes, but in case that's different than what I'm thinking of it I'll say some extra words which is when you look at a jitterbug, so remember the QSN is full of cubes, it's full of tetrahedra and it's full of the root vector polytopes for the A3 lattice, right, the cube octahedron. So you can find these at any scale in the QSN and of course you can also find dodecahedra, icosahedra and icosadodecahedra also in the QSN, right, and so you really have this object that is an interplay between the fundamental cubic symmetry, periodic symmetry lattices, right, and the fundamental... Just think about the cliff from tetrahedron to icosahedron for example or you know from cube to dodecahedron, just think about it from cube to dodecahedron and then from another, go to another cube and then dodecahedron go to another cube, right, you can have five basically the oscillation has not just between one object and another one, usually it's between the quasi-crystal one usually has the same phase but this crystal one it can have five different phases or yeah so different states so you can also leave it you know the full cycle may take you know five or twelve or whatever. So of course the jitterbug rotation is 22.23 something degrees which is which is what we call j for jitterbug and so yeah and we know that two times j plus our 15.5 degree angle is 60 degrees we know we know that the jitterbug generates the 15.5 so we know that we're working with the jitterbug rotation whether we like it or not that's part of our math so what I want to tell you Ray and Fong for review is normally when you see animations of Buckminster Fuller's more more local idea of a jitterbug transform you're just looking at one shape change into another shape by the rotation of edges faces or or poly polygons uh polyhedra right you can you can take the concept to any of the n-dimensional sub spaces yes he made the physical object this is a sculpture from Buckminster you can do it though with edge rotations or you can do it with face rotations you can't do with the whole thing no no you do it with the subspaces so if you have a three-dimensional object you can have three-dimensional subspaces like like in our 20 group uh I mean at the end of the day we're compartmentalizing pieces of a of a larger object into three-dimensional parts yeah but that's not jitterbug though it's a it's a generalized I personally am trying to generalize so Buckminster Fuller thought of some beautiful idea in one expression and then we realized the similar concept in a very different expression than how he realized it and now I want to uh invite you to imagine it in a conserved manner what do I mean by conserved let us imagine that the total spatial curvature of the universe is conserved this I did not invent this idea there are many theorists who write about it if you google conservation of spatial curvature so that when you have a curvature here it must balance out somewhere by curvature over here so that the total curvature is some value flat or some other value so anyway now imagine that I have a network of jitterbug transformations that are all connected and when I have a jitterbug transformation here it requires a jitterbug transformation over here you can even see this idea in the penrose tiling you can can you see my my gray lines back here okay so these are all all of these are representations of curvature right every every edge was contracted from the z five lattice from a value of one by a factor of two times the square root of point one so square root of two over five okay so every one of these is a contraction expression but every volume right these two volumes related by these two areas I'm sorry related by the golden ratio are different contractions of the area of the square faces of of the z five lattice so if this one if you were to force this one to to be not contracted by that value and you make this one contracted by another value it must be conserved and so somewhere else there must be another one right that balances it out so the jitterbug into the jitterbug wave intuition that I have had for a few years is the idea that one way to do a thought experiment to get intuitions on the dynamical behavior of the qsn is is to think about about rotations acting like waves in large groups so that the the total wave which are made of curvature right they're made of root of rotation that's isomorphic to curvature and so the total curvature must be conserved and so when it is it is never frozen it's always dynamic but it's always conserved I think and so and so you should think about them as jitterbug waves because in the isomorphism of twist you're it you're or you could call it rotation in the native dimension instead of rotating into the n plus one dimension you rotate in the native dimension and all of these rotations behave in a group sense as waves and their jitterbug rotations literally right that's that's the value 20 you know 22.23 degrees so anyway so that so the tensor network which is just a very numerical um a numerical object the tensor network must describe the jitterbug wave dynamism


Or stay in where security matters, Governor Nassir El-Rafai says Nigeria's national security and defense architecture is weakened. He also condemns billions spent to subsidize petroleum products in the country. El-Rafai said this at an event on the leadership in Lagos. Destiny Momo tells us more. The event was necessitated by the growing issues bedeviling the country, including security and the weak state of the economy. The convener Itwai Godalo spoke passionately about Nigeria's fragile state, saying speakers were drawn from key sectors of the economy, including the Karnas state governor who focused on the spate of insecurity. What are we dealing with? We are not dealing with Bokohara. We are not dealing with any group driven by some ideology. We are dealing with people that have decided to sell cattle and buy AK-47 and kidnap people for ransom. These are criminals. Order speakers raised some pertinent questions which need to be addressed honestly. This is a reaction. Looking forward to what Danjima said, that if we don't defend ourselves, since 2018 he advised everyone, if you don't defend yourselves, you're all going to be killed one by one. I would have believed Tiba Danjima didn't believe Bohar, who is like me. Governor Erufai gave reassuring answers to sensitive issues raised. We have a security problem. We have insurgency. We have banditry. We have all this. Let's address them and don't give any excuse for iPop or anyone like that. If we are all to react to people that are not of our ethnicity living around us, nobody will live in peace. Governor Erufai added that a younger and energetic president will be recommended for the next election. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa.


If you have clicked on this video then you would be aware that just a few days back, the Trump administration introduced major changes in visa regulations. A lot of visa categories such as H1, H2, L1, J1 were part of this new regulation. There's also a lot of confusion about these changes, who is impacted, who is not. So in this video, I'm going to take you through the details of this new regulation, what it means for you and also what are the next steps that you can take, keep on watching. Hi guys, my name is Shachi and I'm a travel and a visa coach. Now before we start, let me just tell you that this video is going to be longer and also more detailed and more technical because there's so much to wrap our heads around the new visa regulation. So probably grab yourself a cup of coffee and also keep a pen and paper handy to take some notes. So to get a complete understanding of the current situation, let's start from the beginning when it all began. So in April of this year, that is April 2020, the US President imposed a ban of 60 days on those who are outside the US and who are waiting for their green card. So effectively stopping the immigration process. And at the same time, a committee was also set up to review the US economy and also study the unemployment statistics in the US. Now keep in mind that in the light of the coronavirus pandemic, unemployment rate and people who are seeking unemployment benefits are at an all-time high in the US. So one of the jobs of this committee was to come up with recommendations to create more jobs for American citizens. Now, when this was done, there was already some speculation that it would go on to impact the H1B visas, but nothing was certain then. Now in June 2020, that is 24th of June 2020, to be more precise, the Trump administration issued a new proclamation, which not only extends the earlier 60 day ban, which were imposed on issuing green cards to those who are outside the US till the end of this year. So now that ban has got extended till 31st of December 2020. But in addition to this, there are also restrictions, which have been imposed on the non-immigrant work visas. And this is what we're going to discuss now. So as per the new proclamation, which came out on 24th June 2020, all new H1, H2, L1 and J1 visas have been put on hold till the end of this year, that is till 31st December 2020, which means that if you were waiting for these visas to be issued to you, or if you already have these visas, but were waiting for it to get stamped, then that wait has just gotten longer. And as of today, you will have to wait till the end of this year. Be in mind that H1, H2, L1, J1 are the visas which allows foreigners, mainly skilled workers to be part of the US job market and also allows US companies to hire people from other countries. If you are interested in knowing more details and the exact definition of these visa categories, do check out the description box, because we have included a note on this. So the next quick question is, who is impacted by this ban? So number one, this ban impacts all new visa holders. So let's say that you are a new H1B visa holder. The visa was issued recently to you in March 2020, and you are currently in your home country waiting for the visa to get stamped so that it can become fully legal. Now, sadly, this ban is going to impact you and now you will have to wait till the end of this year. Second, this ban impacts all the visas which have got renewed, but the holder of the visa is currently outside the US and has come to the home country for stamping. So let's say that you have a H1B visa which has been renewed by your company and then you came to India for stamping, but haven't been able to get an appointment with the embassy till now. Sadly, this ban is going to impact you and you will have to wait till the ban is lifted for the stamping to happen. But this ban is also going to impact the dependence of all these visa holders, that is basically their spouse and children who are currently outside the US and again who are waiting for stamping. So let's say that you are a H1B visa holder and you are in the US and your wife came to India to get the stamping done. Now this ban is going to impact her and she will have to wait till the ban is lifted to get her visa stamped. Now, do keep in mind that these are the initial three categories of people that we think are going to be affected by this new regulation. A lot of things are new. A lot of things are still up in the air and we're still tracking and figuring out all these new developments. So make sure that you subscribe and hit the bell icon because any major change, any new development, I'm going to bring it to you right here on this channel. Now let's look at scenarios and the people who are not going to be impacted by this ban. So number one, this ban is not going to impact all the visa holders who are currently within the US. So if you're a holder of any of these visas and you're currently living within the US and working there, then this ban is not going to impact you. So let's say that you have a H-1B visa and this visa is coming up for renewal in August and your employer has already initiated the process of renewal. As long as you do not travel outside the US till the end of this year, you're going to be fine. This ban is not going to affect you. Second, if you hold a valid work visa and even if you're currently outside the US, this ban is not going to impact you. So as long as you have a valid passport with the valid visa and a valid stamp, even if you're stuck outside the US right now due to the pandemic situation, this ban is not going to impact you. As soon as the international flights resume, you can travel back to the US. Third, this ban is not going to impact all those people who are within the US and who are waiting for a change in status of their visa.  It is not going to impact any change in the visa status again as long as you're within the US. So the gist of it is as long as you hold any of these visas and you are within the US, this ban is not going to impact you. Even if your visa is coming up for renewal or even if your visa is due for a change in status, as long as you're within the United States, this ban is not going to impact you. So now that we've understood the entire scenario, let's discuss the next steps and what you can do if you are impacted by this ban. The first thing to keep in mind is that this is not a permanent ban. It is in place only till the end of this year, that is till 31st December 2020 and also it is going to be reviewed every 60 days. This is more of a short-term measure to boost the economy and to create jobs and to bring down the unemployment rate and we really don't know at this point of time if it is going to be a permanent measure. A lot of it is also going to depend upon the outcome of the US elections which are scheduled in November this year. So if you find yourself affected by this ban, I would highly recommend to have a wait and watch policy. Second thing to keep in mind is that currently all the US embassies and consulates are closed in India and in most of the countries in the world. So either way, you would have to wait for the embassies to open for your stamping and your visas to become valid. So do keep this in mind, stay strong and do not lose hope. In the meanwhile, it would also make sense to explore the job market right here in India. There is a lot of support which is pouring in from the startup community and a lot of founders have come forward to express support to people who are without jobs and who are stranded in this situation because of the new developments. They are encouraging all these people to connect to them and to reach out to them. So now would be a good time to explore this option and to make use of this opportunity. Last thing to keep in mind is that there's actually a special provision in the Trump proclamation for exceptional conditions. So if you find yourself in an exceptional condition, if you find yourself stranded away from your family, then you can probably reach out to the consulate and discuss with them. But I would highly recommend talking to an immigration lawyer and sorting out all these details with him or her. If you would like me to cover more details on this particular section of this new proclamation, do let me know in the comment section below. So guys, this is all the information that I wanted to share with you. I would love to hear your views and your comments regarding the new regulation. So I think a discussion sharing each other's experience and sharing what we are going through is really going to help everyone. So please do put on your views in the comment section below. Also, if you're an immigration expert and you're watching this video, I would love to feature you in my channel and we can probably do a video getting into the depth of this particular situation and take questions from everyone. So please do reach out to me. Thank you so much for watching this video. I really hope this has given you a much more clear understanding of the current scenario and what is it that you can do if you are affected by this. Of course, I'm going to be monitoring all new developments very, very closely and bringing them to you right here on this channel. So make sure you do not miss out on any of this. Do subscribe and do hit the bell icon. Signing off for now. I'll see you in the next one. Bye.


on the ground, presented by theCUBE. Here's your host, Jeff Frick. Hi, Jeff Frick here. We are on the ground at downtown San Francisco, at the Blockchain Conference San Francisco at the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center. We're really excited to be joined by our next guest, Sergei Lanshukov, can I get a ride? Lanshukov. Excellent, who's here talking about a project, Aira, which is Blockchain meets drones, right? So first welcome. Hello, Jeff. Absolutely, and Sergei's English is just okay, so we just happened to find a Russian interpreter on the street, so welcome, Paul Carponko from Solar Slabs. Thanks for helping us out. Great pleasure to be here, thanks. All right, so Sergei, tell us a little bit about Project Aira, how did it come about and what are the really key components that are important to this project? I started Aira project in the last year. Aira is an environment for creating autonomous digitalized autonomous, and this project, where you can... It's okay. No, you said it before, it's really about the decentralized autonomous organization. In the use case we talked about is what everyone was talking about and Thanksgiving a year ago, which was Amazon's Gunny's drones for delivery. Everyone's up in arms, how are you gonna control all these drones? They're all gonna be crashing into one another, and you're really proposing a solution that really is a good application for a blockchain in this very specific way to have a bunch of drones running in a fleet, not crashing in each other. So we're not really sure about the decision of open airspace quite yet, but that's still a question that remains to be answered about open airspace. So today there's a big problem with the essentialization of the internet of things, and so that's what our objective is, is to create a decentralized system that will allow you to use a lot of drones in one single airspace without a centralized server. So today there's a big problem with the essentialization of the internet of things, and so that's what our objective is, is to create a decentralized system that really takes the internet of things and kind of makes it more consensus-based. So it kind of takes away the key players in the central game, which is air traffic controllers and other different kind of human capital that makes the expenses very high. So this kind of makes it autonomous, takes away a lot of the hefty expenses that a centralized organization would have to run and basically makes it decentralized, makes it autonomous, that takes away a lot of the human air and the human capital needed for that kind of infrastructure. Let me put one last thing before you. We created the first system where a person interacts with a robot directly as equal autonomous agents. It's very important for the consideration of the future of human and robot relationships. This is the first case when a person and robot interacts with the means of the contract. We use those for this with an Ethereum and smart contract technology. So really, what we're trying to start really the first real connection between a human and a robot and it makes them kind of equals on the same playing field and it really sets an open space for contracts to happen between robots and humans. What's interesting is you're talking I'm thinking of the Internet of Things examples for self-driving cars all the time right we always hear if the one Tesla can look down the road at the Tesla up the street and sees that they're breaking hard there's an accident or whatever right the Tesla behind can use that information but that can be an inner Tesla to Tesla conversation if it's a Ford or a GM or a Google self-driving car this word potentially your solution comes in because it's autonomous it's not tied to one solution there's no central control and the other thing that comes up in that use case is latency right I don't have time for the information to go to central control for somebody to say ah crash ahead hit the brakes you know it needs to be much faster in a machine-to-machine way but still leverage a trusted intermediary see this is some of the types of applications for Ira yeah yeah you're right how can you are a war with look at it у нас с вами есть единый внутренний блокчейн организации не биткоин блокчейн не изэриум блокчейн а блокчейн именно этой автономии который есть децентрализованной айр трафик контроль систем и множество дронов вообще возможно чтобы к этот айр трафик контроль систем был на каждом из этих дронов то есть мы избегаем полностью любую любой централизации они достигают консенсуса между друг другом и знают точно где каждый из них находится это стопроцентная в конечном итоге гарантии что никто из них не стал so basically like that the the the blockchain can work with any any type of company of drone and basically what they're able to do is just communicate with each other to let each other know kind we're talking with the Tesla that their exact location and there is not really any any stagnancy in their location they know they're able to work really efficiently and is the intelligence in the system in the drone is it back at some central hub in terms of the communication in this controlled system where's the actual communication that's figuring out where it is figuring out the coordinates figuring out the oh my gosh it might crash you know adjust your setting where's the actual intelligence in the drone we're back someplace else information from it's a not some old ronnie but I want to I need a minute you didn't blockchain in the tree need a centralized autonomous organization so it's within the actual very drone itself so on the very very drone itself isn't the actual blockchain and the blockchain is decentralized autonomous so it's located on the drone itself so currently there's a server at the University of San Diego that is where the system is based on right now and basically what it does it it allows the server does very complex algorithms that what if a new drone enters the airspace all the other drones are able to know know about it instantaneously so it's able basically it's basically able to know automatically how the whole fleet is operating and right now it's on the server but the plans are in the future to actually have the drones themselves actually have it within themselves so as soon as the actual Raspberry Pi the sphere of Raspberry Pi advances the platform itself that that's when we'll be able to use it on the drones itself but right now the Raspberry Pi is not quite advanced yet so I'm just curious which came first the drone problem or your project ira or you know did you come up with project ira and then you're looking for something interesting to apply it to or did you come out of from the drone problem and then and then build project ira for that regulation right so what happened was they they they created project ira as this decentralized autonomous organization and the problem came with in 2014 of the actual regulation of drones and drone airspace and then then came about the the implementation of of this decentralized autonomous organization into the drone airspace fantastic story you know I really appreciate you guys taking a few minutes to stop by Paul thanks for stepping in and helping us out sir you really interesting project you're working on you know a year ago when Bezos announced prime and drone delivery and I thought it was just a ruse to get on the front page of the newspaper on the biggest weekend of the of the Christmas shopping season little did I know that it's true and as Moore's law keeps working on Raspberry Pi and a Mars law keeps working on watch out for the future exciting times ahead for thanks for stopping by appreciate it thank you Jeff absolutely I'm Jeff Rick we're at the blockchain conference in San Francisco in downtown San Francisco thanks for watching


This study investigates the function and mechanism of MIR 17-5P in myocardial remodelling after myocardial infarction, MI, by using a mouse model of MI and lentivirus antigo, MIR 17-5P vector. The results show that inhibition of MIR 17-5P expression can improve myocardial fibrosis, scarring, and cardiomyocid apoptosis decrease LC3-2-LC3 eye ratio and becklin-1 but increase P62 expression. The dual-leuciferase assay suggests that MIR 17-5P target STAT 3 and negatively regulates its expression. Inhibition of STAT 3 expression using S31-201 can deteriorate the improvement of myocardial remodelling, along with the rise of LC3-2-LC3 eye and becklin-1 expression, the reduction of P62 expression and the reversion of MI attenuation. In conclusion, inhibition of MIR 17-5P can inhibit myocardial autophagy through targeting STAT 3 and then inhibit myocardial remodelling, thereby protecting the myocardium after MI. This article was authored by Bo Chen, Ying Zhenyang, Jingbo Wu, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.