So this is a paper, and why is it sitting in this session? Well, the reason why it's sitting in this session is that it is concerned about growth poverty and inequality, and it's about sharing prosperity globally and domestically, and we're trying to link a couple of literatures, including the literature on benchmark incomes. But I'd like to just sort of say that this particular work is supported by the Norway Norways Foundation in a project which is implemented between University of Copenhagen and UNU-Wider with Rachel, who is with us here today. I'd like to acknowledge Laurence Rupp from the University of Oxford, Miguel Zarrasua from SOAS, and Borja Lopez-Noval, and they have been working with me on this study. And what we're really trying to do in some ways is to follow up some work where two of the co-editors together with myself are in the room, and I'd like to acknowledge them. Carlos Gardein is here, and Murray Labrand is here, because in many ways, a lot of what has sort of gone into what I'm going to try to present today were some of the questions that I were left with after all of the teaching that the two of them had done in relation to making sure that I at least got the basics right. So I'd like to acknowledge that as well. The first slide that then is going to come, you will have a more elaborate version of that in the introduction to this book. And it's really just the standard story, relative inequality has been falling for decades globally, and we by now are aware that this is driven to a very large extent by what's happening in China and India, because these are big countries that have been coming from below the mean to now being close to and even above the mean. At the same time, in China and India, we've seen increasing inequality, so domestically within countries. And this of course then leads to sort of speculating well, such a phenomenon, this might actually suggest some potentially important trade-offs. And this trade-off is not spelled out in people who speak about the SGGs, but it's actually inherently there between the SGG1 on the one side, no poverty or leaving no one behind, and the SGG10 about reduced inequality on the other hand. There's actually some tension there, some trade-offs there, which we had better try to understand. I'm not going to go into this, but these trade-offs are very much about where in the income distribution should we focus our attention. That's very much sort of what this paper, we're not trying to give any answer. This paper is still work in progress, and I want to stress that it's still work in progress. But we are trying to see whether we can somehow come up with an identification of these trade-offs in a way which can be helpful in policy discussions, so we can have sort of more meaningful debates about it. I mean, should you use resources, even if this means exacerbating global inequality, for example, as one provocative question, we'd like to have a topology where we can pursue these types of discussions. So we are really trying to link two literatures, the one on global inequality and then the literature that's sort of growing now on inequality benchmark incomes. And why is this interesting? But it is because that relative inequality measures, they are almost invariably associated with a specific benchmark income. And that's kind of interesting, right? I mean, because what this means is that once you've chosen your inequality measure, then you're having a benchmark income. And I'm going to show you why that's interesting. And I mean, it exists almost everywhere, and I'm not going to go into the specifics. But I mean, look at this one. If we assume here that the blue line is the benchmark, well, then any increases in income of those in the distribution who are above that benchmark will lead to increasing inequality. Those who are below will lead to decreasing inequality by that specific measure. And I want to stress that because, of course, different inequality measures, they have different properties. Something that, for example, Martin Rabalian has brought out extremely clearly in one of the chapters that I mentioned, or was in that book that I referred to in the beginning. It's actually probably one of the best papers ever written on, how careful we need to be in terms of measurement in relation to poverty and inequality. But keep this one in the back of your mind. Yeah. I mean, basically the point here is that knowledge of benchmark income levels could be used to predict the impact of inequality on subsidies or growth in a particular part of the distribution. Now, Larry did a first exploratory work with 10 countries. And basically what we are doing here is that we are employing a similar approach. And here, what we're really doing is that we are using, we are exploiting, if you wish, the massive work that Carlos has been leading in UNU Widers for a number of years. And I'd really like to play tribute to that work, because this is a massive effort that has been done and which will benefit work on inequality around the globe in the years to come. And part of that is making it more possible and easier for us to basically construct synthetic income distribution for different countries. And that's, to some extent, what we are relying on here. We're sort of using it. And I'd like to play that tribute because it's really very well-deserved. So basically what we do is we locate a percentile of income distribution where the benchmark income lies for all countries. And we also do that for the global income distribution. And for each country, we then consider where the domestic benchmark income lies compared to the global. Is it above? Is it below? Where is it above? Where is it below? And this basically sort of enables us to identify the range of incomes in which income growth or subsidies would lead to different outcomes in terms of the combination of changes in domestic and global inequality. And I sort of won't go through those in detail, but that's sort of part of it. And then we also then introduce and compare to where the country's domestic benchmark income lies in comparison to the national poverty line. And that's where you can kind of start getting a sense of why is it that I think this is potentially fascinating? I mean, as always, you never know. I mean, I started studying economics one September, exactly 50 years ago. And one thing that I have learned, in spite of all of the things I do not know, and I'm still learning about, there's one thing I do know is that you're sometimes in for surprises, sometimes also for disappointments. But I'm still sort of somewhat fascinated about this combination of growth, inequality, and poverty. I mean, sort of trying to really understand that. And I kind of have a sense that this benchmark thing might actually be helpful. So I mean, would these changes reduce both poverty and domestic inequality? Would they reduce domestic inequality, but not poverty? Would they fail to reduce poverty and increase inequality? I mean, answering those kinds of questions, I mean, I would assume that these are issues that a minister of social development, a minister of finance, and minister of whatever it might be, and including the president and the prime minister, might want to at least relate to. I'm not going to go through these. These are just our results based on the background work. And it basically corresponds to the generalizations that you have in the literature and in the inequality book I mentioned in the beginning. Here, don't think about it that we have done it from 75 every five years up to 2015. I mean, that's really just sort of the background work here. But focus on the last row, the row named 2015. So there is the genie, 80.2. And then as you look at that, 80.2, and then look at the poverty line number. So in 2015, growing subsidizing incomes anywhere below the 80% decide of the global distribution would lower global inequality. So give money to anyone who does not belong to the top 20 in the world would improve inequality measures, this inequality measure, this genie coefficient. But only subsidizing the bottom 10% would reduce poverty as well.  Wow, stop a second. Think about it. And to some extent, this actually speaks a little bit to an inherent question also related to this conference, right? Because this conference is sort of focusing on inequality. But then the question is, hey, we need to make sure we don't forget poverty in the mix. So the global, I mean, and this actually is quite important, the global economy can grow and become more equal while failing to reduce poverty. That's also an implication, because it all depends on where the changes are in our distributions. Here, these shows, all of the sorts for the different regions and so on, I don't have time to go through this. But here is sort of one that shows the subsequent Africa one, and I'm not going to go through the individual countries. But I'm going to make one key point is, look, the global proxy always higher, almost at the top 100. So what this basically means that giving money to anybody in Africa will tend to lower global inequality. There are very few who are sort of above the 100%, if you would push it that way. Then take the domestic one, which is sort of around the 80th, and then look at the spread of the poverty line. But the important point being that the poverty line is invariably below the domestic benchmark, which then leads to this thing that there are these different intervals where you're going to have different implications, either of income transfers or growth in the distribution for that respective part of the income earners. I have now been chasing my two colleagues, so I now have to make sure that I stop by 12. But I mean, I'm not going to try to sort of say, OK, we've done all these many countries and so on. Why we think this might be interesting? I mean, it is an attempt at trying to, as I said, link up these two liturgies. But I mean, one interesting thing is that this work just brings home how unequal the world actually remains. Increasing incomes of the bottom 80% anywhere will reduce the global inequality. I mean, just think about it. Now, what we're trying also to bring out these potentially important trade-offs, as I referred to, and let me now just use India as an example. I mean, the global benchmark income, according to the genie, is the 97th percentile while the domestic benchmark is the 73rd. So what is it that we would like to focus on?  You're forgetting the elephant chart. You're forgetting this fact that at the 80s, they had almost no income growth, and that led to political upheavals and so on and so forth. We're not speaking about that. I realize that policymakers will have to think about that. But if they do that and say, hey, I probably need to think about the people who are somewhere between the 50s and the 75th, because if I don't keep them happy, I'm going to have a revolution. I mean, that might be one concern a prime minister or whatever a president might have. But then you should know that then it's happening on the back of the poorest. I mean, it's this kind of thing that I think is lying here. And now, I should say, I have focused here on relative measures, the genie. But we have gone through all of the different types, including the absolute measures. And I mean, the sort of comforting thing is that while they often disagree about the inequality trends, when it comes to these differences that I have referred to in terms of benchmarks, they're kind of quite similar. Yeah, let me just say here, if you think about the SDGs, OK, SDG1 leaving no one behind, what would that be? Well, that would be making absolutely sure that you focus all of your attention on the ones that are below the poverty line. But then some of the inequality discussions related to the SDG10, they're not formulated quite that way. Their actually success could sometime imply ignoring SDG1, strictly according to that goal. And it's sort of this which I kind of thought was very interesting to try to bring out. And one thing compared, and this would be my final words, compared to the poverty literature. I mean, we're having a lot of discussions and issues related to poverty lines, right?  We don't quite understand them. They're very susceptible to price changes, et cetera, et cetera. And this is something that we struggled with in the poverty literature. Here, to some extent, you can say, this is, I don't know whether I want to say cleaner, but once you have chosen your inequality measure, then you can't disagree down the road on the benchmark income. And that is kind of interesting. And I'm not suggesting that this is the only way to approach this or whatever.  Never think that you have the only way to think about a topic. Think about what you do as one element in a toolbox that hopefully can be helpful to policymakers. Thank you very much. I think I stayed within my time.


Psycrunch is one of the addicts projects that is discussed usually every year. Some of our founders of Psycrunch and people have been working with us for many years. Also are on many of the boards of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, which puts on the Neuroinformatics Conference. So we're among good friends and those friends span the entire world. Neuroinformatics is this worldwide community. The beautiful thing about the internet is that it is a world phenomenon. And when you're looking at informatics and research, it's also a worldwide phenomenon. So talking only to Americans for us would be silly. Talking only to English-speaking people would be silly. We want to make sure that we actually encompass the entire world and understand and are able to translate between all of the different parts of the world. So INCF, the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, has chapters in the United States. It has notes. Germany in many other places in Europe, but also it has notes in Japan. There's a note in China now, Korea and other places, and of course, Australia and various other places in the world. This is its great strength. Cycrunch is one of the tools that's often presented. We put a lot of data together. That data comes from all over the world. The people who can use it, it's an open system. So people all over the world can use it. And one of the cool things about informatics is you can take the data producers. If they do a good enough job producing that data, that data becomes open. And if it can be read by data consumers, those consumers can be anywhere else in the world. They don't need a wet lab necessarily to actually do a lot of interesting research. So this is a very good kind of an idea and thought. Okay, maybe you don't have $20,000 to buy all the mice and the antibodies and all of these things just to do some experiments. But you can get a lot of this data. Maybe you can put it together. You can actually contribute without that, all of that money without the wet lab necessarily. Maybe you can contribute in other ways. So a lot of people are starting to pick up data sets and they're starting to find out more interesting things about those data sets. And so as open data becomes more available, there's more of it out there. It becomes more valuable. And it becomes more valuable because other people can also start to contribute to it. And that is really a powerful thing. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate this opportunity to talk to you and your viewers. Thank you so much Dr. Anita for your time today and shedding more light on side crunch as a tool and what it does. And I'll show our viewers a little bit from it. So thank you once again. Thank you.


Next is Dr. Craig Zelzer. Craig is a personal mentor of mine and also founder of PCDN. He's a professor, an angel investor, and all around amazing human. So he'll be showing us how you can use Airbnb platform we're using today for this conference to build community engagement impact. Thank you so much, David, and I know a lot from you as well. So I consider you a mentor, and what I will do is give an overview of a couple of key Airbnb functions, and I will say in full transparency, I'm an angel investor in AirMeet and about 100 other social impact startups. You know, I have a little bit of a bias, and before I get into AirMeet, the one thing I'll say is I use Zoom, I use lots of platforms. I think we're all at peak Zoom. And so one of the things I encourage people to look at as you think about how to best engage a community, don't just stay with the normal tools. It's, you know, we've hit platform overload. I personally, Zoom is great for one-on-one meetings, but when I'm doing group convenings or convening the meetups, I find AirMeet to be amazing. So I'm just gonna show a few screens and walk you through why I think it's amazing. And of course, there's other tools out there, so I don't wanna say this is the only tool. So I'm hitting share screen, and I'm gonna jump between screens. So I'm just waiting to see if it's working. I got it. This is the landing page. AirMeet is actually based in India. One of the things that I like about AirMeet is they have 24 seven live support. So if you're using the platform and you're setting it up or you're in the middle event and you've got a glitch or a question, you can go in directly to the AirMeet support table and chat with a live human being, which is an incredible thing. I don't know any other platform in the world for convening that provides that support. Once you create an AirMeet account, it's nice. You can see here all your events that you both have organized or are attending show up here, which is just a nice, elegant landing. And then one of the best things about AirMeet is they have all different types. You can do Zoom type convenings. You can do major conferences. And this is just an example of a small event we did at PCDN. And you can see this is a very basic schedule, but you can create schedules. You can see all the people who register. You can set up customized branding. And then AirMeet provides amazing analytics. And so once you finish an event, you automatically get emailed all the data or you can look it up here. So you can look at who participated, how long they stayed, their emails and all that stuff. So it's super useful if you look at the summary page. It takes a little bit of time, but it has nice visualizations. And again, I've used Hopin and lots of other platforms that to me don't provide this kind of data. This is an example just of a landing page. And I like how AirMeet both has, if you're in the lounge before you go into the event, I just spoke in an event last night on Zoom and as the speaker, I had a wait to get in.  You can create tables where people can interact and chat with each other or you can do one-on-one speed networking, five to five, five minute, one-on-one networking. The profile functions on AirMeet are fantastic. So you can see, and I encourage everyone in this event, put in your social media channels that you feel comfortable sharing because you can go around as you're in an event and start connecting with people and you can even set up meetings directly within AirMeet with other people you want to connect with. This is a global event we did with AirMeet. So if you have partners or exhibitors, I'm not gonna go into all the details, you can set up amazing booths, you can have employers or tech things.  So it's also nice for archiving if you want to give people access to your event or share it on YouTube or other channels. And then pricing, it does get, depending on what you use, they have a free version.   But I have found it, I'm also on the advisory board of TechChains. I love TechChains for large scale events. That's another one I would highly encourage people to look at. But compared to every other platform I've used, AirMeet, TechChains are the best. And there is one other one just to make a promotion called wonder.me, which is a German startup which I think is the best for just kind of meetups. So I have 30 seconds left. So I'll stop there and I'll put my LinkedIn profile. I was so happy to chat about AirMeet. And again, that's just the ability to engage and allow people to move around on their own and not zoom where everything kind of like scheduled. It feels very rigid.


Good morning folks Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of Delray Beach, Florida. This year 11 a.m. update and we've got a mixed bag out there. That mix goes like this. You got the Dow S&P and Nasdaq trading the downside 92 and then 12 points respectively.  That's a nearly 8% move there. 30 year Treasury down 18 ticks printed out at $1,915. US dollar index is off 7 pips, trading out at $10372. Let's take a look at what all that means by looking at that 9 panel. Market update chart. We begin with the ES mini up our left hand side. What do we know about it? Well, from a daily standpoint Waves number 7 is where we're at as of last Friday. That high is 51, 49, 25. If we take above it, we haven't, we're at 51, 46, the high so far today, but if we take above 51, 49, that top gets extended. There's also a Roadsmen Dominicator signal, but that needs to bearish reversal Canada confirm atop. You've got the spot politics below its 50 day exponential moving average. That is bullish for the buyers out there, for the S&P 500 I should say. The NQ has made a newer high today. It does not have wave number 7. It just extended wave number 6, that's letter F. We look for those wave 7 tops, a very small portion of the Chapman wave for a potential topping pattern. The NQ also has a Roadsmen Dominicator signal present. That requires a bearish reversal Canada confirm atop. US dollar index trading lower, but still just trading with inside its profiles out here. So the US dollar index is not broken down, but gold has most certainly broken out. We can see that by taking a look at that next chart out there. Price is trading above some trend lines, it's trading above Friday's high. Nice move out there. Gold is in a global rally. We will take a look at that. The move here in gold is real. Odds favor that the low that we saw in January was the low for some time to come. If we take a look at silver out here, silver right now taking on its TD9 count breakdown resistance level. That's at 2360. If you get a close above that, that would be a positive for silver. Lights we accrued ran into trend line resistance. It's still trading above the top of its daily profile. The top of that profile is at 7843. So any move back should find support at that level. Natural gas is attained the one to one A to B equals CD price projection. That's about 95. Price to continue to move higher. I don't have off the top of my head that I think it's there's a TD9 count breakdown resistance level. I just don't recall where it's at off the top of my head. And right now in the 30 year treasury look like there was a breakout going on Friday, but that breakout party may come to an end today. Folks, stay tuned for the trader's edge to open. If you have to start your Monday, please have a magnificent one. Thanks for joining us. We look forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care.


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What's up guys? Did you miss me? I've been posted in like two weeks. Man, I have a good reason I swear. So like two weeks ago, we went out of town. We did this really interesting event with South Coast Music Group, which is the babies label. Really cool, interesting event, put on by my friend Portia Marie. I learned a lot, made a lot of really cool people, but it did stop up my content flow. And then I hit the roll, man. We in the truck on the way back and I'm reading all these comments that y'all are shitting on my audio from the last video that I posted. So I was like, you know what? Let me take some time, step back, figure out what's going on on my end. So that way y'all can like, stay off my neck about it. Like, bro, I had people... I had people hitting me up on my DMs on Instagram just to roast me about it. But we back. So welcome to another episode of Counting Corey, where I pretty much want to give you my two cents, my thoughts, my ideas on some topics that's been happening to music this week. See what you guys think. So hopefully that we can create some type of discussion or at the very least you can get your music news from over here and out of those other places, right? But that being said, let's go ahead and get into these topics for today. Now, I had to report it, but I figured why not go ahead and get the sad news out of the way. I'm pretty sure that by now, you have heard of the untimely death of Pop Smoke or I would rather say the untimely murder of Pop Smoke, right? So a few days ago, I was reported that Pop Smoke had been killed in the LA home that he was ringing out for the week. And this is where things get like really weird to me and just it kind of makes me think that a Kogi situation where information was just moving so fast that we didn't really know what to believe and didn't know if it was something that should be believed and just so many false stories were getting put out that a lot of those stories I see are still actually floating around, but it was initially reported that he had been set up, right? So there were two thoughts behind it. Fans dug up pictures where one of his friends, I think his friend's name is Mike D, had posted a photo that had that address in the background that he didn't have to delete. Fans dug up another photo of Pop Smoke posting the tag from some high-end clothing that he bought that also had the address of the home that he was staying in. And this led people to believe that either A, he had been set up by his friend or B, that someone on the internet saw this address and just looked at it as like an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Now, after a couple of days, after TMZ has reported that it may have been a targeted hit due to them having conversations with people who've seen the surveillance footage. And according to the reports, the surveillance footage shows four men who come to the house around 4.30 in the morning. One of them goes around to sneak in the back while the other three stay in the front. Moments later, the man that sneaks around the back comes through the front door, opens the door, lets the man into the house, and then we know what happened from there. Now, no one else got hurt in this situation, which has further been, you know, fueling the rumors that they believe that he's been set up, but his friend did take to Instagram to pretty much call out the rumors of people who were trying to say that he had something to do with it.   Y'all don't know what's going on. Y'all come on here playing investigator and bashing me on the internet. I would never in my life let my brother out. I would never in my life set my brother up. We ate together, broke bread together. This really my mother child. So it was just outside of that. It was cool to see the love that kind of got outpoured for Pop Smoke. I mean, everyone from YG to the baby, to Nicki Minaj, to Meek Mill had something positive to say about Pop Smoke, right? Like he was another young act that a lot of us were looking forward to seeing just what moves he would make next in the music industry. And just I know especially for like my New York followers or even my New York friends, like this hit them home the most, right? Like losing someone from your local scene, someone that inspires you from your scene that you see making moves to such a tragic, tragic way of going out. I can't even, I can't even start to imagine like what that feels like, you know? And just overall together, man, like I personally am sick of just the violence that we keep seeing going on and like rap, and rap man, like not even from the rappers themselves, but from the people who look from the outside to the inside and envy these rappers, right? Like I saw or heard someone this week referencing the Pop Smoke situation say it can be a million people that love you, it only takes one person to hate you to completely ruin your life or ruin everything that goes around you. And that statement has never been sure then I think just the celebrities and the personalities that come from the music industry. Because a lot of these rappers are envied by people who think that it's easy because of how they're looking at it from the outside and don't have a 10th of the work ethic that some of these artists who are on top have to have in order to get to the business that they are. So then you run to these people who see that, they look at that what's going on and then they think to themselves like I want that. Why does he have that and I don't have it? And I just hate the mentality that the culture breeds around that. Like I said, not directly because of the culture but just people who seem to pay attention to the culture who think it's as easy as the internet makes it seem like it is who just feel like they can take things from these people because they don't understand why they don't have these things. I know this is definitely gonna be another case that we're all gonna be watching just as more details get reported on it as we kind of start to find out the answers and see what exactly happened in this situation. I'll make sure to update you guys on it. But like I said, I just wanted to go ahead and get the sad news out of the way. So R.P. Pop Smoke, man, I just, like Lily just last week gave his music a chance. Like the mixtape he had just put out, which was fire, man. Like I decided that like, yo, let me start hating on these new New York rappers. Let me check them out. I gave like him 504, 504 and all those upcoming New York rappers like a listen through man. And like I came out of it with like, Pop Smoke is hard, but like, I don't know where I've been. I don't know where I was sleep, but he was hard, man. So like, I'm sad that I got on the fan train late and I'm just sad about its overall thing, man. So R.P. Pop Smoke, man, you will be missed, man.  And let's all just try to like learn from this situation. Whatever you take from this situation, just make sure that you learn something from this. That's how I try to always come out of these things. So moving on to other news. It looks like Nipsey Hustle's alleged killer is finally set to go to trial or will finally be set to go to trial. So on Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported that Eric Holder, who is the alleged murder of Nipsey Hustle, his murder trial is expected to begin in late March and could be completed sometime in the April. So we're pretty much looking at this point as like, they're saying alleged killer, but there are enough witnesses around who pretty much are like, he did it. Based on the comments from the judge that I'm reading here in this article, it looks like they're going to try to do their best to make this a speedy trial. Because like I said, looking at it from their point, they probably feel like they have enough evidence to be like, yo, it's him, he did it. So the judge or judge, Robert Perry, reportedly said he hoped to get the trial done by April 14th. So they're looking at trying to make it like a two to three week trial if they possibly can, which is a pretty fast trial. So Mr. Holder, this is what the judge says. So Mr. Holder, as you know, this is an important case and a serious case. These cases take time to get ready for trial. You have the right to a speedy trial. Are you okay that we continue this case and you come back on March 18th and we do our best to start your trial within 30 days? Are you okay with that? And then Eric Holder replied, yes. So just another tragic incident that we saw take place in the rap community that hopefully is going to get resolved pretty soon. Out of all of these things, man, like just outside of just getting justice for the murder victims and, you know, convicting the killers who are still alive, I think that out of everything, like we want answers, right? Like we just want to know like why, why did you do it? What drove you to do it? What pushed you in that moment to feel like this was the right thing to do to take somebody away from these communities that people clearly love and people clearly looked up to, right? So yeah, just wanted to report on that. Like I said, hopefully we get some answers around the Nipsey Hustle trial after this. So like I said, it's kicking off around March. We all know what's up around mid-April. So just stay tuned for that. So moving on to more lighthearted news because I don't want you guys to leave this episode like just super sad. So moving on to lighthearted news, Boosie is not happy with Planet Fitness more specifically the Planet Fitness in Jonesboro, which makes me think, why is Boosie in Jonesboro? Does he live in Atlanta? Does he live in Jonesboro? I don't know, whatever. So the rapper took to his Instagram to post a video of him blasting the establishment for not allowing him and his friends into the gym to use it due to comments that he made on Instagram a few days ago about Dwayne Wade and his child. Now, if you don't know what's going on there, go look it up, submit it into videos about it, but basically Boosie made comments letting the world know that he himself was not happy with the decision of Dwayne Wade allowing his child to identify as a girl. So the manager of the Planet Fitness in Riverdale or in Jonesboro is a gay man and he did not take kindly to the comments that Boosie made. Thus he did not let him into the establishment. So the post that Boosie put on his Instagram and it's actually still on his Instagram.  The video pretty much said, oh, what's Boosie saying? Do not go to Planet Fitness. They're racist, they're haters. They just put me out Planet Fitness because of what I said about Dwayne Wade's son. They champion him from Dwayne Wade's son so don't go to Planet Fitness no more.  In the comments, he continues to rant by saying manager who was gay refused to let me in Planet Fitness because of my past actions on social media about gender, et cetera. Do not support Planet Fitness, Highway 138 Jonesboro Road. They're racist, they have roaches and they shower water, don't get hot.  Hashtag Roach Fitness five times. Now, I saw a lot of comments about this just regarding like, oh, Boosie has free speech. Boosie has free speech. They can't ban him out of establishment. And yes, you're right. I do believe that everyone has the right to say what they want to say, no matter how ignorant or crazy it may be. As long as there is a place in openness for communication and dialogue for both sides to kind of talk about it so that hopefully something is resolved or at the very least, you learn something about the other's viewpoint, right? That's how I feel about free speech. That's what I feel about it. Now, on the other hand, Planet Fitness is a business. Businesses do have the right to keep people out that they do not want in the establishment and I can understand what the manager is coming from. If you are on social media just attacking like my lifestyle and things that I believe in, because we saw the comments or for those of us who saw the comments, it's not like Boosie was saying these things and like the nicest, most PC way, right? He was going hard with just the way that he was putting out there. So if I'm a person and you're attacking my lifestyle and you're attacking something I really, really, really believe in, just in the manner that you're doing or attacking a group of people that I identify with and then I see you in my establishment, like, yeah, I'm not about to be cordial with you, but I'm like, no, get out of here, bro. It don't work that way. So I do see both sides. Yes, Boosie does have the right to say what he said and feel how he feels about the matter, just like that manager also has the right to feel the way that they feel about the situation. Free speech comes with consequences. People are, at least I feel like people have the right to respond in a manner in which they feel as long as that manner does not result in them putting their hands on someone physically or murdering someone. So that's how I feel about it. But I just want to say, first off, I don't know why Boosie's going to the Planet Fitness in Jonesboro. Like if he's living in Atlanta, there's a thousand better Planet Fitnesses than the one in Jonesboro. And if he just lives in Jonesboro, like Riverdale or something, but you'll be okay. It's like another Planet Fitness, like 20 minutes north of that, bro. Like it'll be straight. Like I said, Boosie's really mad about this, man. The video's still in his channel, so if you have not seen it, just go check it out. Like go look at that video. Now, other news, just before we even get into the topic, check this out first. What you just heard is actually an artificial intelligence creative version of a Travis Scott song, which was made by a digital agency called Space 150. Now they thought it would be fun to conduct an experiment and try to model Travis Scott's sonics and vocal styles using artificial intelligence to try to recreate this song. So everything that we heard from the lyrics to the music, the lyrics to the song, the lyrics to the song, the lyrics to the song, the lyrics to the song, the lyrics to the song, the lyrics to the melody was created by an artificial intelligence program. It was made by a computer. So the executive director of Space 150, Ned Lampert, told at week, we were sort of fascinated with like, what if we tried to make a song? Like an actual good song by using AI and basically creative directing AI. He said that the agency chose Travis Scott because he is such a unique artist with a unique style that they thought it would be like a challenge to try to recreate Travis Scott. It's pretty much the result of that experiment. So what's interesting about this is that on the one hand, this is really cool. Like I'm personally interested in technology and like the advancements that we're making with it and just some of the just worlds of possibilities that like shit like this opens up.  Because the way I look at this is like, that song is not terrible, right? Like it's not great. It's not amazing by any short, by any stretch of imagination, but it's not the worst thing I've ever heard. So what I'm hearing when I hear that is that we are probably like two to three years out from AI being able to create an actual good song. So what I hear from that is that if I am a person in the music industry who can create melodies, who can create lyrics, who can potentially create a hit song just off of my computer, why am I going to spend money to hire expensive songwriters? Why am I going to spend money to hire expensive producers? Why might I even take the time out of my day to invest my money into an artist to try to pop them off when I could control the whole operation from a computer, from a laptop, right? And that's not so far off. There's an AI label based out of L.A. called SNAFU, SNAFU Records. And like their whole thing is creating AI artists. Like they're trying to be the next generation of label just computer artificially intelligent artists. And like I said, what we are now, I don't think that's going to happen. But it's not crazy to think that in two to three years we will hear an actual decent song from something like this. And then in three to five years, they may even get it down to the point where the AI can emulate all aspects of an artist. Like imagine an AI artist that can do interviews, that can interact on social media, that can make good songs because they have the algorithm in place. That's not too far out.  So on one hand, really, really, really cool experiment. This is dope. But on the other hand, like artists man, not only are y'all competing with mega stars, not only y'all competing with artists around you, artists on the internet, now you have to compete with an actual computer program. And I know we like to think that creativity can't be copied, it can't be duplicated. There are certain magics of an artist that can't be recreated by a computer program. But if they can recreate enough of it, best believe they're gonna try to make it work and run with it. If they can get like 90% of the charm and essence of an artist, they're gonna run with it, bro. Like, trust me. So pay attention to this type of stuff. Cause this type of stuff is the stuff that is going on in the back end music industry that we don't think about cause we're like arguing about like royalty splits and streaming payouts. And it'd be people like, this is trying to take the whole artist's side of it away. Well, I wouldn't even say take it away. They're probably trying to like, you know, all most of these tech companies start out doing something for the good of something. Like they want to enhance creativity or add to creativity.  I can just get this program for a couple of thousand and just crank them out. Yeah, we in there. So as an interest to this goes, let me know what you think about this in the comment section below. Do you think AI artists would be able to compete with real artists pretty soon? Or do you think this is something that won't ever really work out? Like, how do you feel? Timer is about to be out here rapping, bro. That's what it seems like. And lastly, as far as new music that dropped today, NBA young boy dropped the album, still flexing, still repping. Trippy Red dropped a love letter to you for the deluxe edition. Royce the Five-Nine dropped the allegory album. Cowboy dropped his live long the Kings or long live the Kings EP. And Kyle dropped the single Yes, featuring K-Camp and Rich the Kid, which I have to say out of this whole list of everything I heard, that song surprised me the most. Like, I never thought in a hundred years that I would hear a K-Camp and a Rich the Kid and a Kyle song. I wouldn't even have thought they were running in the same circles or know who each other are. But it was actually a pretty good song.  Like, it was the first thing I checked out because I was like, Kyle, Rich the Kid and K-Camp, what? So yeah, check those out. And if you know about anything else that you think I should be up on, drop them in the comment section below or feel free to hit me up on Instagram and Twitter. I'm always looking to the things that you guys are listening to. Put me on game, man.  Share the music love with Kory, man. Kory likes new music too. Other than that, if you liked this video, please like, share and subscribe. Once again, hit me up on Instagram or Twitter at Kory The Savory. I'll put those links in the description below. Other than that, I will see y'all guys next week. Peace.


Well, after months of listening to the public and meetings with the City Council, the Brainerd Public School District now has some clarity regarding the land they are trying to acquire near four schools that are set for expansion. The school district reduced its original plans of acquiring 27 properties between the four schools to only 15. The extra land is mainly needed for parking lots near Lowell, Harrison and Garfield Elementary as well as the Brainerd High School. Last night, both the City Council and the School Board voted on the acquisition of these properties. There was no decision made, but there really wasn't any necessary for the School Board to move forward with their project. In the City of Brainerd right now, it's okay for the school to buy properties and make parking lots. The Council doesn't have to give their approval for that. Although the Brainerd School District does not need the city approval, they were hoping to have the support of the Council. At the school meeting, the Board decided to approve the acquisition of seven properties near Harrison Elementary, most of which are on 16th Street Southeast. The Board also approved the acquisition of two six-street properties near the high school. The projects are able to continue to move forward, so our design of our schools and whatnot continues on, but really for the homeowners tonight, at least we were able to approve some of them. But the others are still on hold, and that's that's the hardship. The School Board will most likely vote on the properties near Lowell and Garfield Elementary at their next school board meeting, which is scheduled for December 19th.


So yesterday we spoke about the complications of gallstones. Now, one of the most common complications that we would see in the QK Surgery Unit at Critiscute Hospital is of course acute colisostitis. That is where the stone usually gets lodged where the gallbladder goes over into the cystic duct. It is unlike biliary colic in that that stone really stays there and inflammation starts sitting in. That stone is stuck there. You start getting a demer of the wall of the gallbladder itself and with that engorgement you get a little bit of venous congestion as well.  So that's acute inflammation. About 50 to 75% of cases will actually have bacterial overgrowth, remember that. And then most of the time we will see negative bacilli although we do see some streptococcus regalis at times in certain circumstances. So that's the definition really. It's that gallstone getting stuck there is the most common cause of it. Of course we call it properly in Humus 2-2, calculus colisostitis. Acute calculus colisostitis because of course you get the ray A-calculus and that's not what we're talking about. And so it's a gallstone colisostitis acute biliary colisostitis. Acute gallstone colisostitis. Now who are the people that you should look out for? So imagine you are confronted with this question and exam. You might be given a clinical scenario or you might just be asked do you talk about acute colisostitis? Depending on what system your medical education is all about. So if you were just to talk freely about acute colisostitis first of all what patients should you look out for? Well there's definitely with us at least a preponderance to the female population. They're usually in the middle ages, slightly younger although we see all age ranges I must say of acute colisostitis from early 20s right until our elderly population. So we really see it in a whole spectrum of ages. Some of the patients are slightly overweight. I'm not going to put this down as a disease of obesity really. We see patients with absolutely normal weight and see patients with slight overweight. So it's not very clear why some people will then develop gallstones and then colisostitis. Remember the vast majority of people with gallstones as we discussed yesterday they get an ultrasound and we pick up these gallstones but those are totally asymptomatic or we pick up many asymptomatic gallstones these days for ultrasounds for other reasons. So why some of them would go on to develop biliary colic and then acute colisostitis we don't know. So from biliary colic obviously you do get the colisostitis and the incidence is about I would say 2% more per year so if you have a slightly younger patient with gallstones the chances of getting acute colisostitis are much higher because still probably a long time to live in an older population with that sort of incidence per year perhaps not. So that's the patient population that we're really looking out for. So what do these patients present with? Well they've got pain in the right upper quadrant. Some in the epigastrium, some towards the back, some towards the shoulder should just watch out. It's not always specific and remember the elderly, the diabetics, immunocompromised patients they might not have a lot of symptoms at all but let's stick to the normal. You're going to have a right upper quadrant pain, epigastric pain and that pain persists for a couple of, not just a couple of hours like the biliary colic and then disappears, it really lasts for hours and then into days even before they really come to us. So they've got this pain, they're nauseous with it or nauseated with it and they feel like vomiting as well. So really feel ill when you take their temperature of course their temperature is elevated. The majority of the time they have a bit of a tachycardia. They're a bit dehydrated because they really don't feel like eating. And the first thing we would do for them is a symptomatic relief and putting up an intravenous line. You've got to check their electrolytes and then tailor your intravenous fluids and you've got to let them take fluids already but an intravenous line and some analgesia. They really need some good proper analgesia. The blood test that we do, we would do a full blood count and you are going to see a raised white cell count and the majority of that's going to be neutrophils and you might see a bit of raised urea on your urea and electrolytes as the patients are slightly dehydrated and then on the liver function tests, you might see nothing. We see a lot of patients with normal liver functions but some of them will have their cellular enzymes raised some of them will have their alkaline phosphatase raised and the bilirubin must be normal. Once the bilirubin goes up, we're talking extroperic biliri obstruction. So that should really be normal. And we confirm the diagnosis now, on the right hand's at least, just with an ultrasound. Now when you examine these patients, you can elicit a Murphy's sign remember they'll be tender and they write up a quadrant so you put your hand underneath their upcage on the right hand side and ask them to slowly breathe in and as you breathe in, your diaphragm's moved down the liver moves down, pushes the gallbladder down and pushes that gallbladder, the tender gallbladder into your hand and that causes pain and they stop. Now on the ultrasound, you get an ultrasonic Murphy's sign because the probe can see where the gallbladder is and press exactly on that, so that's a very good one. So on the ultrasound, we're going to see stones the acoustic shadow of those stones we're going to see thickening of the wall of the gallbladder we might even see some pericolor cystic fluid. So that's how we make our diagnosis. Now in some areas, they also do a Hyda scan that's from Nuclear Medicine. Remember that a normal cystic duct will then show up the cystic duct is not obstructed by the stone but by the acute color cystitis, the whole gallbladder will fill up nicely on the Hyda scan. If not, then you know there's an obstruction and you can also diagnose acute color cystitis. Remember, patients who haven't eaten for a while we might get some false results and the patients who haven't eaten for a while so an intensive care unit that doesn't really work. So how do we treat these patients then? Once confirmed, remember they've got the IV line they've got the analgesia, we add antibiotics for them. Now the main step of therapy is the surgery. We have to go for color cystectomy. The vast majority of them, if all else is fine no recent heart attack or anything else wrong if at all possible we do a color cystectomy and we try to do a color cystectomy as soon as possible. Now within about three days to a week that's a very bad surgical period. Remember the inflammation is at its worst and your complication rate is definitely going to be slightly higher although there are people who are reporting that the incidence of complications are not higher. In our circumstances these patients come in late and our theaters are over booked so it's very difficult to do a color cystectomy a laparoscopic color cystectomy in the acute stage so we usually treat them with antibiotics and until they get better send them home and bring them back for an elective procedure six weeks later. But the ideal would be a patient comes in early and they have their color cystectomy immediately. Now for those patients who are too late we treat them in antibiotics and they don't get better. For them we put in a percutaneous color cystectomy tube. It's sort of a new thing. We don't exactly know what the place of it is how long to keep it in what to do with it afterwards and so we are busy with a research project in my research unit just looking at what happens to these patients with the percutaneous drains. We also put the percutaneous drains in the gallbladder of course for the patients who are so ill and they have other comorbidities and they cannot go to theater. So in a nutshell that is a cute calculus color cystitis.