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Max, I need to talk to you about I mean, I know you heard I dropped from the race about four or five days ago. Yeah, I saw the tweet. It was I actually cried. Basically, what's happened in the last really like last three weeks is the realization that if I if I leave the PD right now, it's just going to turn into a disaster. It's it's going to be OK. I mean, long story. I know. I know we didn't know each other prior, you know, years ago. Right. But things are very different than they used to be.  But there's nobody in command who is around before not a single person.  Slacks is new. Ruth is new. I mean, these these folks, they don't they don't understand what was good about before and what was bad about before. They just heard about the end result about the collapse. Yep.   That's right. It was it was a damn well oiled machine.    And let me tell you one time, Lenny Hawk, they took their gun off the hostage and they were not paying attention and that is grounds for a breach.  Oh my God. Yeah, he did.   Okay. Now you know what happens? It's people are getting away with attempted murder.  And you know what you get for that? You get a warning. You get worse than a warning.  Anyway, long story short is a hang on a few patriots. Howdy. What's up guys? How you doing? We're talking about Little Texas. I really want to sit down and have a chance to work out kind of the idea for Little Texas and open up the sheriff's office because the way we are now, I mean, we have so many damn good officers that ain't getting jobs and, you know, people who I used to work with and a lot of these guys, they damn they're looking for jobs and we're short-handed. We hiring people.  So what would you call your northern police department? So seeing as how everything north of Route 68 is Little Texas, I think it's only appropriate to call it the Little Alamo, that building that has the hospital and the police department shared. So we got. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah. So we got the Little Alamo sheriff's office. That's going to be called the lasso and then the hospital will be called the Little Alamo Medical Plaza, the lamp. I don't know why I thought it was going to be lamma. I think I think I'm a literate guys. The lasso in the lamp, huh? Yeah. Now that's just for north of 16th, right? Yeah, you could open a medical examiner. So what about the Lamo? Lamo. Yeah, what about what about what about the sheriff's office in Pito on the medical center in Pito? I mean, this was all important. I mean, like I said, I had to drop from the race at one point in time.   It's just not my time yet. I might run from there again in the future, but right.  But what I wanted was years ago. This is why you were gone. And I don't know if somebody's told you this already, but there was a Polito Farmers Market that they. Oh, yeah. Okay. So you heard about this.     You know, you can't fill it fill a cup of water up at the top without having water in the middle. That's a good. That's a good analogy actually. Yeah. So what are you proposing? So we have to have housing. We have to have businesses. We have to have stuff built out moving outwards from the city up through Sandy through grape seed and it has to work its way towards Polito as opposed to trying to build out Polito and meet it in the middle because it works against justifying building out the stuff in the middle because people say, well, nobody goes to Polito.  Whereas you could get stuff passed a lot more easily. If you start, you know, probably the casino and then up to Sandy and grape seed and things even being built off the highway.    I think that'd be tight. Yeah. I know. I think that'd be great. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it'd be great. I mean, there's nothing more than I want for Polito to have some life and I think it's already starting. A lot of people have moved up there. They won't take things for it. Yeah, like the I think a good person to talk to about this stuff is Andy. I was talking to her last night and she mentioned some things. We're going to come up with a plan to introduce a series of things up in the north to kind of make it possible to exist up there. Yeah. Look, I know. I know I ain't going to be a party to the council at this point and I didn't want to just truthfully. I didn't want to run for PD liaison. You can't wear every hat. Right. You got it. You don't want to be the liaison and command. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's I mean, I obviously I could do it. You know, I have a lot of experience and whatnot. But at the same time, you know, you got to like I said, early delegate to some of the younger fellows and give them opportunities to showcase their abilities. So we'll have you in on the meetings. Yeah, I would discussing the future of the north. Yeah, I would absolutely love that. Okay. So get your car fixed. Cornwood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I got to get this thing here too. So correct. That's amazing. Yeah. I mean, we'll see what happens. I mean, there's a there's a world where like if Max doesn't win mayor, then this doesn't one yet. We don't know. I think we find out tomorrow. What's up guys? It's S Fand here and I want to tell you guys about StarForge systems. The best PCs in the universe. We have two different lines of computers. Six computers total and they all are priced at different points for different needs. You have the horizon to which is a great enter computer and you even have the Voyager creator elite, which has a 4090 and a 13900 K. That's what I use. It's great for doing everything that you need for streaming and not only do I use it, every other OTK member uses it as well. So we do shipping to all of the United States and to Canada and there's a two year warranty on your computers. Our prices are competitive and it's backed by creators everywhere. So make sure to head on over to StarForgeSystems.com and get a new computer today.  Bring as many Barricades and Barriers as possible for a seat control. So what's happening at City Hall? The lecture results? I thought this is the vote is ending at seven. All right. We've moved the majority of the civilian population to the lower plaza. So we should be good to put us in there. Chief Crane, I believe just related a minute ago. Five minutes. So maybe we have less time than what we thought. I thought I said CST. Why does it like I'm like this isn't even a joke. Why does anybody even use anything other than Texas time? This is like no other time matters. Hello. You got what you need? Get some food on you, Cletus. Not really. Actually, I got a couple of chips. Yeah, I didn't know they were doing a damn announcement right away. Yeah, me too. I was going off guard actually. Just be advised. Crane is starting. So he's starting already. Looks like all right. We'll come right now. If Max wins, that's big. So first up is going to be the healthcare liaison. This is a position that will represent the various fields of EMS workers, doctors, psych workers, et cetera. There were a number of candidates put forth. Miss Aphrodite Theos receiving 12 votes. Mr. Franklin. Happy Lee receiving 14 votes. I will be dropped out ones that received votes in the spirit of time and efficiency. So Donnie McMuffin with nine votes. Party hardy 28 votes. Max Dumont 30 votes. Cletus Cornwood with drew. So these votes do not count here. See 44 votes. Phil Bishon Lee with 47. Wait, how many did I get? So the last three and I withdrew on day two. The third place finisher will not be receiving a seat is Mr. Steeleo Lambrose with 118 votes. Second place finisher and elected as the deputy mayor is Michael Smone with 150 and the newly elected mayor with 391 votes. Max Thurbrow. Congratulations, Max.  So if I understand you'll may need some time to celebrate with your folks. It actually would have been Cornwood and Max, honestly. Thank you, everyone who voted for me. I love you. Hello, Max. I love you too, Mr. I don't know. Where's that? Did somebody hear gunshots? Am I crazy?  All right, we're getting reports of a hunting rifle going off from the crowd. Stand by. Let's send you a crowd for the next. We're gonna bring these over if you just think of something on the spot. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, of course. All right, congratulations. Thank you again. Appreciate it. Hey, you know what I got? 45 votes for doing the fight. Yeah, I think I dropped on day two. Oh, okay.  I probably would have been deputy mayor. I mean, that was gonna be close. I mean, 300 to the next person. He's going away. 128. I mean, if I'd actually made, yeah, I think I think you're right. I'll be honest with you. I'm glad I didn't. Former tenor race is now our mayor. Life is so strange, huh? I think he's a good guy. I mean, he's turned to new leaves. All right, now all the things you actually start to get moving now that we have an actual mayor. Like people actually positions in the city council. The government is still building self up now. Let's go ahead and start picking up these these barriers over here. Just grab whatever you put out. Make sure you keep track of everything. Hey, hey. Oh, shoot the Russian city hall.  Just kidding. Hey, I got corny wood. There's so many cops Yeah, because we're trained to not defend ourselves This is why I Honest to God, I think you're up to your feet. I honest to God think the batons are more dangerous than the guns I got hit by a cop Hunter rifle 799 make sure you don't lose eyesight on that guy cuz if you need there was an attempt to in the assassination on the mayor's life I got I got a hell of a lot of it. Okay, I'm gonna make a rule for right now. How do we we That's me Yeah, I have to run back in here we got we got a situation Thanks, thanks, we appreciate it. I'll be back out in a little bit. Okay. There's one more where we're in the stairs Another one in the stairs. Oh, okay. It might be another one.  Maybe This clip is Is that slur dude slacks is just on a terror dude, I think she's trying to stop the red guy She's trying to hit the red guy that it just Dorals is just sitting here watching the chaos dude. It was oh my goodness. It is so funny dude I want to use this entire scenario as the exact reason as to why we need to be using guns in that situation Instead of a baton. Yeah, but then we're shooting into a crowd and then it's lawsuits, right?   I mean preferably yes, but I mean just in a proper manner. Is that not already legal? No What I Get I'm gonna use this and have like a legitimate presentation as to why we should be using guns instead of Instead of the times. All right, long story short chemo the main accomplice of terrorism Basically sound like it's narrowing towards everything his motive everything behind it gave us consent to go his phone There's evidence to show Bobby Charles was in contact with him He told us that Bobby Charles was this cocaine spirits are behind everything So they both need to go up on terrorism Hey Bobby Charles with accomplice terrorism and then we're hearing our guy with terrorism will do Will transport the both of them with everybody here and they'll go in a max sec a terrorism charge perma as the character It's not like a real perma Here's your stuff back mister Slacks can't talk to you record coming what exactly does the terrorism charge? Constitute so they're held for 72 hours till we get the docket posting that you can request for bail and then He'll have to just be on bail till his trial if we put Bobby Charles in max sec half the people in this police department It could be out of a job I understand that but Individual and plan this conspiracy to kill the mayor this man does not know what Consequences are because every single time I talk to him that is Where's Bobby?  I'm scared. He doesn't have a weapon or anything.


Nigeria has added South Africa to its red list of countries for arriving passengers. Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekwazu, says the introduction of the restrictions is due to the spread of the Delta variant in South Africa. South Africans join India, Brazil and Turkey on the list. Non-Nigerian passport holders and non-residents who visited the country on the list within 14 days are barred entry from Nigeria while passport holders and residents must undergo a seven-day quarantine in a government-approved facility at a cost to the passenger.


The whole red concept was first mooted in 2005 in the COP11 in Montreal, focused mostly on the issues of direct deforestation. The second D relating to degradation was added later on for the COP negotiations and then we moved into the world of red plus and red double plus and I'll just quickly outline these latter two in particular. Red plus is the idea of including much more wider co-benefits and red double plus includes land conversion of a much wider spectrum. But crucially red, REDD and REDD plus are essentially dependent on the definition of forests and this is something we can go into I'm sure later this week and I think Ian mentioned this very articulately yesterday but REDD double plus which ICRAF and other organisations are working on are ultimately looking at issues of land conversion which do not depend on the definition of forests but for us, related to great apes, we're primarily focused on red plus. So in terms of opportunities for red in Africa essentially red plus seeks to reverse the drivers of forest conversion by rewards the same concepts of payments for environmental services and these rewards can accrue at the national, subnational community or individual level. In terms of high forest and carbon sequestration there's over 600 million hectares of forest available in the Congo Basin which are subject to potential deforestation and degradation this represents 16% of the world's total and thus Congo Basin harbours an enormous block of forest second only to the Amazon Basin and hence the CBD described potential for red plus and biodiversity synergies as immense. So red plus is a new hope for conservation C4 has done an enormous amount of work and perhaps has put rather too much emphasis on red as a potential for forest conservation but there is strong evidence to suggest that red plus could provide a significant net benefit for conservation but as long as the mechanisms of red are able to compete with the drivers of deforestation and this is fundamentally key. So in theory the co-benefits of red plus so we've referred to them as co-benefits which includes linkages between poverty alleviation an issue we're particularly concerned about in this meeting biodiversity conservation and especially improved forest governance and I'll touch on this a little bit later on but the efficiency of red cross is ultimately going to be defined by the details of the design at both the global level but implementation at the national and project scales so what are the scope for red plus to contribute to great ape conservation so there's strong evidence to suggest that higher biodiversity forest sequester the most carbon Simon Lewis's work in Central Africa to which many of us at C4 contributed has found that old growth forests in Africa are able to sequester much more carbon than we actually thought and these forest systems generate revenues and alternative land uses if they are essentially the economic incentives are competitive and as such red projects could be located in particularly in biodiversity rich areas where keystone species such as great apes occur and just to emphasise this both the UN red programme and the last December's joint declaration on the intent of red in the Congo Basin highlight great apes on their cover so I don't think there's any coincidence there that there are strong linkages between great ape conservation and red plus but ultimately the design of red plus has to be embedded in the past and this is a very nice editorial in the Guardian from 2009 and they highlight that red could provide enormous opportunities for forest conservation but as long as we learn from past mistakes and experiences and particularly looking at payments for environmental services as a concept has been extremely well promoted particularly in Latin America and Southeast Asia but many of the schemes remain somewhat incipient because of the design aspects and of course integrated conservation development projects which often focus on great ape conservation have a long and checkered history which also inform potential red plus design obviously red plus will require collaboration between multiple government agencies and this is often not an easy thing to do as we all know but also meaningful stakeholder participation and engagement at all levels from the regional to the national to the local to the community is absolutely critical and understanding the trade-offs and benefits I mean who's going to benefit and who ultimately negotiates for trade-offs within particular landscapes where great apes occur and one of the things that has come up recently is particularly in Africa is the lack of capacity, the lack of understanding in how to implement pilot red projects and what do we do about that so we've done a fairly extensive review of looking at integrated conservation development projects and how red can be influenced by best practice and lessons learned from such practice and I can circulate this paper if anybody is particularly interested the key actors for red plus in Africa are the usual folks UN red, the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership, CBFP and I've got them in there twice the African Forest Forum, Comifat, Commessa and Carpe and in fact the declaration on red plus and conservation that was signed last year was driven by Comifat but the potential risks and challenges for red plus focusing on carbon alone can be problematic in terms of potential leakage as we all know if you focus on one area that's going to be conserved another area ultimately could suffer through conversion and we've seen some interesting examples of international leakage the moratorium in Indonesia which is prohibiting further expansion of oil palm has led to Malaysian and Indonesian companies looking at alternative sources of land for oil palm cultivation and we've seen large concessions been established in Liberia in particular and more recently Cameroon a disputed risk, I would say it's disputed it's dependent on the definition of forest employed and this has been a whole subject of debate within FAO, aircraft and other colleagues and Ian mentioned yesterday that the situation in Malaysia that the plantations themselves can be classified as forests but here in Indonesia there's been recent gestational change which indicate that oil palm could also be classified as forests so there's a rather problematic situation and another major problem in most of the countries in Africa overlapping tenure claims we have customary tenure overridden by state ownership of land and these often result in conflicts of land use in terms of governance this is a horrible map because I had to condense it from a larger figure but the colours in the map represent the darker colours represent poorer governance the lighter colours indicate in countries with much better governance there are some concerns that funds provided by Red Plus who the finance mechanisms can lead to increased decentralisation given the fact that majority of the forestry sector has become considerably more decentralised will Red Plus result in increased decentralisation increased corruption and ultimately elite capture will the benefits be shared with those who are supposed to be shared with and will it be ultimately business as usual from the environmental perspective benefits from environmental conversion often accrued to elites and national governments rather than local people which has a huge impact on rural livelihoods and hence there's an enormous need for the respect for rights and benefit sharing mechanisms and the CBD are working on a very extensive series of social safeguards to ensure this in theory doesn't happen we published a book with IUCN in 2009 and basically there was a very nice chapter focusing primarily on red and highlighting the issues of potential human rights abuses for Red Plus programmes and ultimately we have to acknowledge that local people have a very important role to play in the design of any red scheme and there's been a whole bunch of pushback if you like from indigenous peoples groups related to red and even the ecologist has highlighted the issues related to indigenous peoples and their potential exclusion from red projects and the ultimate benefits accrued from them and again related to, particularly related to Africa these same issues and a number of groups are bringing up the issues of rights, access and benefit sharing related to red and these are particular concerns because the design of Red Plus in its incipient stages as it is doesn't explicitly include inclusion of indigenous peoples rights and benefit sharing so ultimately a summary of the major constraints one of the problems is particularly in Africa Red Plus is at various stages of development pilot sites have been selected and yet the design and implementation of red as a global concept have yet to be resolved so you have rather loose if you like implementation efforts without the design being effectively in place one interesting thing I read recently was that majority of the red pilot schemes are not being funded by climate change finance and they are actually being funded by the traditional overseas development assistance funding available for most countries and that needs to shift because it ultimately constrains potential sustainability in terms of long term red commitments monitoring, reporting and verification these are extremely complex processes which require very very high capacity in terms of national states and it's something again that C4 are working on with a number of countries to develop a series of framework and guidelines looking at the best means of monitoring Red Plus projects particularly for conditionality making sure that payments are being paid based on performance I mentioned earlier the distribution of incentives where, who are the poor and what role are they going to play in potential Red Plus programs and the regulatory aspects national governments need to put in place the correct and appropriate incentives for Red Plus to make sure they are effective both at the national but also local scales managing risk of government failure I mentioned the government failures in terms of corruption and the corruption indices and are we potentially precipitating a return back to re-centralization of government in Indonesia that's been a major debating point in making sure that the decentralization process that occurred in the 1990s is not being compromised and to re-emphasize this issue of multi-actor participation it's not enough to consult local people but they actually have to receive consent and the issue of free and prior and forth consent for Red Plus programs is critical to making sure that the poorest of the poor who are involved and integrated into these Red Plus projects are fully on board understand why they're on board and ultimately benefit from the financial and potential other benefits that accrue to these particular projects and that's it, so thanks very much


Well there tells a story about the popularity of these clubs, a rapper's still on it and it's been in here for quite some time, but the rapper's coming off because I think this club should be in a lot more of your bags. Yet this morning the shutters aren't even up and it's pretty grim out there this morning, a lot of water, I haven't picked golf balls but we are going to get hitting some golf balls very very shortly and I'm going to look at a club which I've largely ignored, I think the masses largely ignore, but it keeps coming up in the comments, I keep getting asked for this review, the question is, what is it? Right now the first thing you've got to ask yourself before I start hitting golf balls and finally reveal what club is in my hands, you've got to ask yourself, you've got to be a bit more open minded, are you a golfing snob? And potentially you know I mean you know I'll probably put myself in that category and I say that so what would I describe a golfing snob as? Well somebody who perhaps dismisses certain clubs because they might think they're better than who these clubs are aimed at, let's put it that way. So the club in question is I have got a seven hybrid in hand, I did have the loft on this, I think it's 27 degrees in terms of the loft, I'll confirm that down below and I've also got a five hybrid, why is this in my hands? Well I review everything from the perspective of an average golfer and what I've found out in recent weeks, we've done a lot of videos that look at kind of strong lofted irons and then issues with being able to get gaps right in bags, it throws up a couple of issues, the top end of the bag is a difficult one to gap anyway and also reading through the comments, a lot of people struggle, certainly with slower swing speeds in generating distances with the sort of six, five and four irons, so then the questions came in about reviewing seven woods was the question, not seven hybrid, seven woods and I'm going to look at that as well but for this morning I had a little route round yesterday afternoon and I came across this GPX Fly High Mizuno 7, now as I just mentioned it hasn't even had the wrapper off so again that shows there's very little interest in this club but what I want to find out is are we all just being a little bit ignorant to a club that could be a massive boost in our bags, there's two absolute peaches in terms of shots, you may be wondering why you're looking at my back today, well I can't get the camera out that side because it's literally six inches of water so that's why we're facing that way, what I want to talk about is this right, it wasn't supposed to be a review of the club itself, it was supposed to be a review about the potential of a seven hybrid or seven wood and the benefits of it but I've got to just throw in that first of all what a stunning little looking golf club this is from Mizuno, I think it sits absolutely perfect, I love the black and grey separation in terms of the face and the back end of the club, I reckon when you see, so they've got some bold white stripes in terms of the face grooves, it sits behind the ball, you see plenty of loft and I think again that's a real positive for a lot of average golfers, I think it would give you a lot of confidence behind the ball but then you've got other things to consider, the shaft that I've got in these things is effectively exactly the same length as what you play in your seven iron and your five iron so when I get this in hand it's the confidence that it breeds straight away is that I feel like I've got a shorter club in hand but I've got a bigger club head profile and it's the same for me is what my mentality between my ears tells me about the mini driver, I've got a shorter shaft, a smaller head type or a big enough head type to breed confidence and control using drive, well it's the same concept for me using this but seeing all that loft, seeing the ball flight is incredible and I came in here first thing this morning, took the wrapper off, no warm up and again first ball of the day it was just so easy, swing speed would have been down but so easy just to get the ball airborne and out there and I think that's where a lot of people would see a huge benefit in having this in the bag but the other thing is I mean what they've done really well, I know you can pick it up on that but there's a nice sound from it, there's a nice feel from it and there's a nice price to it and again I always dismiss price when it's at the top end but I think when we're looking at this this is something that again these are in general terms and UK pounds around 120 quid with a grass-eyed shaft in it and so it's no different than adding another iron to the bag, effectively Mazuno iron, well Mazuno irons are probably in the large majority, more expensive than that so it's an easy club to add to the bag and I just wonder how many golfers would benefit from having this 7, 6, 5, 4 hybrids in the bag because again you've got a little bit of versatility with this as well in terms of little shots around the green, I think plenty of people would use that as a chipping tool around the green as well so there's plenty of versatility with it, anyway lots of opinion there but what I'm going to do is get some numbers and I'll also hit the 5 hybrid and then we'll have a look what it does in terms of performance. Well like I've said on previous occasions reviews can be over complicated, I don't think there need to be and we're just going to get straight into numbers and wrap this one up because it's a very very positive response this, numbers for the 7 starting with first of all fairly consistent in terms of a relatively slow swing speed it was the first club that I hit this morning but great ball speeds and great average ball speeds one one three that spin number at five seven again coming off of a hybrid a seven hybrid one fifty seven carry lowest being one fifty five highest being one sixty three launch angle again this ball gets airborne very very quickly sixteen degrees a peak height of seventy seven and a descent angle of forty three point two. First thing about the numbers of the seven wood or seven hybrid I think what you've got to do is look at comparing it to the way I would look at this isn't this isn't for everybody and if you're not struggling with your seven iron and your longer irons then of course this is not necessarily relevant to you but like I said for a lot of average golfers this is where maybe not the seven but certainly at the longer clubs they start to have problems. My thing would be I would find it in a lot of instances I don't think you would generate the same ball speeds and the same launch angles in terms of ball flight with your seven iron as what you might do with this seven hybrid and that can be a real benefit for a lot of golfers so if you're struggling in those kind of areas then I think it's a real good club to consider and especially like I said when you're not losing out in terms of the spin number is very good this is coming down from a a good old peak height and I don't think you have any problems in stopping this on the greens I'll throw up the numbers for the five hybrid a little bit more in terms of warmed up and again long the shaft don't forget in the five but club head speed picked up a bit fantastic ball speeds and consistent ball speeds 126 almost miles per hour a great spin number again 4640 spin 183 on average carry 13.5 launch 82 peak height I mean this ball literally was going up and again good descent angle good carry great spin what's a negative I think the probably the negative is is the attitude to from a lot of golfers is the dismissing this kind of club and like I said don't be wrong I put myself in that camp as well I'm not trying to pretend that I wouldn't have I would have looked at these and considered them I wouldn't have but it's a real eye opener it's been great at the feedback and the comments from people who've perhaps using them currently are suggesting that we should have had a look and I think it was a great shout I think it's two great clubs I think this could probably be I don't think it's like club relevance I think we could have looked at these in a number of different the Callaway Taylor made who's ever we could have looked at their versions of these and maybe the similar results but one thing I like about this as well good price points great looking club great conference builder great performance flipping it's like it's honestly and I'm not I'm not exaggerating I've no need to it performed exceptionally well and for a Tuesday miserable morning in the UK I don't even tell that's half a smile on my face anyway thank you for watching thanks for the comments thanks for the feedback thanks for recommending I do this video and any more suggestions I'd gladly take on board because I think that was a great video to look at and some great options for average golfers out there right before I get too cold I'm going to move on to video number two I'll catch you soon


Terrorists have abducted an unspecified number of worshippers in Zugutang of Bukyem Local Government area of Zamfara state. The terrorists invaded the town where residents were observing friday Jamaat prayers and started shooting sporadically before abducting the worshippers. According to sources from the community, one of the residents, Habibu Idris, was shot during their attack and is currently receiving medical treatments. A resident of Zugut said the whole community has been deserted due to the attack.


Today we're going to be talking about all aspects of frozen semen and I'm joined now by Kim Gardner who is in charge of the breeding equine breeding at Buffalo Ranch. So all the semen that he gave us is now in this artificial vagina. This water is really really hot, so we're going to go ahead and pull it out quickly. All right, once we get our ejaculate, then we need to look at the characteristics of the ejaculate. We want to look at the volume. We also want to look at how concentrated it is and we want to look at the motility. So in order to do that, we have our machine sitting out here. All right, so we have motility. You can see that. So this machine measures motility for us. So first thing I do is I look at my background and see if it's moving because if it's moving that's going to affect my motility because obviously it's falsely changing the the motility. Nothing is moving in the background, so I'm going to go ahead and start my scan and I'm going to look at a thousand cells or ten pictures. So this is the first one. He's 88 58, which is actually really good. So we'll just move around. Making sure it's in focus. And you can, if you track one, like if you just, if your eyes follow one, you can see them moving in a straight line. You know, it looks, because they have a bit of a frenetic movement, it looks all over the place. But if you track one, you can see it. And let me just show you a little picture here in a second. You can definitely see it. Okay. All right. So we actually have a way on this machine to do a playback and you can actually see the lines. Yep. So you can actually see how they're moving. So if you look here, progressive is anything that's the turquoise. Green is just modal. So anything moving is modal. Then you've got pink, which is slow. Red is static, meaning it's not moving at all. And then anytime you have a yellow, it means it didn't pick it up until a partway through its movement, so it late tracks it. If somebody is wanting, if they've decided they need to freeze some semen with esterlion, what are the first steps? How do they prepare for it? And what do they need to do? Well, it depends on whether they're going to do it for export or if they're just freezing it for domestic. If they're just freezing it for domestic, the stallion comes in, we test-freeze them, and then they tell us how many straws, how many doses they want, and then we'll just go ahead and freeze however many doses they want. And they'll go in the domestic tanks and they'll be there for whenever they need them. If the stallion is going to be exported, the first thing we need to know is what country they're going to and what is your market? Because the testing is going to be different according to each country. The next thing we'll ask, we'll find out from them is


Hitting the hardwood now Beaver men hosting you Mary in their second to last game of the season first half Beaver's up five JV on green finds Ben Best inside he powers up for the bucket BSU up seven. Few possessions later the Marauders cut into that lead to Monta Henry, drills the three to cut the lead to four. BSU would lead by those four points at half but Mary comes back in the second to win it 87 82 and before the BSU men's basketball game tonight against you Mary there was a special moment for one lucky fan nine-year-old John got to fulfill his wish of taking part in the starting lineup the crowd gave him a standing ovation his uncle got emotional considering what John had gone through with cancer and chemo went through a lot he never did not once did he ever complain you know he's just strong boy strong soldier you know happy problem probably that he's he fought all the way he never gave up and I asked John how it felt to walk out in the starting lineup and he summed it up with just one word happy


I think one of the interesting examples to look at is council tax. So council tax, everyone agrees across the spectrum that it's a really, really badly designed tax. So the council tax that you paid today is based on what the value of your property was in 1991, not what it's valued today. And there's a reason why no political party or government has come out to update that. And that's because if you do that, it creates winners and losers overnight and the losers tend to scream more loudly than the winners. And this kind of captures really, I think some of the political difficulties in this whole area. Nonetheless, there are things that you can do. And I think that, you know, having a labor government under Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, you know, bringing in a more radical approach to economic policy, if they're, I think they should be certainly setting out the ambition to take this on because if they're not going to do it, then who will?  That's important point, but I think we ought to be looking at ways of reducing the salience of it. So particularly now with, you know, most taxations digital now of having tax come off your paycheck without having to go through that process. I think it's something that should be looked at to deal with these issues. Because although it seems kind of technical, it does make a different psychologically to the way that people look at these taxes. Another one, inheritance tax. I think it's only 7% of the population actually pay inheritance, oh, ever have to pay inheritance tax because of all the exemptions and it's only over a certain amount of wealth. But nonetheless, it's one of the most one of the most unpopular taxes among the population where you'd think it'd be quite popular because it's only taxing the rich people, but it's just the principle people say, oh, well, you know, I want to be able to pass on wealth to my kids. This is wealth that I've earned, even though if you've, you know, whether, even though it's mainly because you've just bought a house and it's gone up in value, people deem it as kind of like unjust and unfair. And I think that's part of a result of the story around wealth creation and distribution that we've been told after four decades in neoliberalism, which is that people are just entitled to this wealth and they've somehow earned it, even if in reality, of course, they haven't, they've kind of earned these massive wouldn't fall gains from simply owning land and property. Have you thought about how to message the lifetime gift tax? So I mean, you're gonna replace inheritance tax, right?  Yeah.  But I mean, the more powerful story is about family, right? So it's about the idea that it's natural for parents to want to acquire something to pass on to their children and it's sort of, I think why it has such an emotional reaction is because it seems like the state intervening in the relationship between parent and child as much as sort of like the state intervening in property rights. I don't know how you think you're gonna message or how the labor party, if they were to take on this, this policy would message that, would message the importance and the necessity and the morality of a gift tax. Yeah, it's an interesting question. And I mean, I think partly it's gotta be around making it clear that most people won't be affected by this. So even under our proposals, you have 125,000 pounds worth of wealth of gifts that can be transferred within your lifetime that you pay zero tax on. So for most people, 125,000 pounds of wealth is somewhere that they'll probably never get to. So we're really only are talking about tapping into that vast pools of wealth that have been accumulated by a relatively small number of people. So you think over the class war line? Yeah, but I do, but I should caveat that heavily actually because one of the areas why this whole area of landed housing is so difficult for labor in particular, but just generally is that labor's narrative on the economy generally under Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell has been, for the many, not the few, saying actually on income tax or you know, only the top 5% of earners are gonna pay more or all the rest of it. The tricky thing is with this area is that in terms of the status quo, it's not just the top 5% of people who are doing well out of this. It's actually large parts of the population who are homeowners, so at the moment about 63%. And obviously when you live in a society where the majority of people own their home and you live in a democracy, that creates this kind of almost turning of the majority whereby politicians pander to homeowners also turn out to vote more than people who don't own the property at the expense of people who don't own property. And so it is very, very tricky because when we're talking about a system which rewards property ownership so much, you're actually talking about not just the elites here, but actually large parts of the population who you're kind of relying on to win a general election. So that's what makes this particularly tricky versus other areas, I think. And do you think you've in any way resolved that? Resolved that. That was the genius, right, of facture selling off the council housing and the idea of making a property owning democracy, which is that if you increase the number of property owners in a society, you increase the number of people who are invested in a speculative economy and the idea where your income comes from your assets because so many people have assets. So any attempt to rebalance the economy hits so many people that, well, anyone up to basically Corbyn and McDonnell have seen it as something that's completely untouchable beyond sort of like what was it, the mansion tax or the idea of getting, creaming off the very top of asset ownerships but not really challenging the productive model as it were. You want to take on home ownership as a key part of Britain's economic model without pissing off 63% of the population. Yeah. How do you, it's a challenge. Yes, huge challenge. And I mean, I think that's why you're right. I mean, that's just right to buy for me is like a huge inspiration in many senses because what the Tories always got, I think more than Labour even, is that the property relations of the domestic environment have a huge impact not just on housing provision but on fundamentally the kind of ideological outlook of the population and right to buy kind of shattered collective solidarity, socialist sentiment in communities and replace that with sense of individualism, private property, honored wealth, et cetera. And created this intentional system of giving people a stake in this system, which means that they're more likely to vote for the Tories. I do think now that that whole model, which by the way was also backed by Labour and still is to some extent, is now becoming untenable because it's starting to eat itself in the sense that we did see a huge increase in home ownership, dramatic increase in home ownership right up the way through into the late 1990s. But as a result of the policies that were introduced to promote home ownership, which we talk about in the report, hugely incentivizing home ownership versus renting, liberalization of the financial sector, all the rest of it, the result of that was a huge escalation in house prices versus the incomes. And we've reached now the point where house prices have become so detached from incomes that a whole generation is priced out and home ownership has now been falling dramatically since the early 2000s, mortgage home ownership has actually been falling since the late 1990s. And this is a pattern we see in other Anglo-Saxon economies who've followed the similar model places like Canada, Australia. And so we're at the point now where it's gone into reverse. And I think we will reach a tipping point. We've already reached it in London because I think it was just last year for the first time, renters overtook owners, which is a significant turning point, I think in the terms of political economy of this debate. And if you couple the disillusioned renters, people stuck in that with no prospect of home ownership combined with, I think, worried parents, for example, who see that there's something wrong here because the kids have the opportunities they do. I think there is a coalition that can be built across society that is willing to contemplate changes that perhaps 10 years ago, even before that, they wouldn't be willing to contemplate. And I think that's the task, really, is to build that coalition and to sell the arguments to the population in order to win these arguments in a general election.