As President of the University of Alabama, I am honored that you've joined us today for this historic occasion, the naming of Wade Hall in honor of Dr. Archie Wade. This well-deserved honor serves as a tribute to Dr. Wade's legendary career and I know that this building will be a source of inspiration for many, many students in years to come. As President of the University of Alabama, we certainly value tradition, we value history, but we also value progress and it's a great day when history and progress meet and today is one of those days. On September 17th, with overwhelming support from the entire faculty in the Department of Kineology, the Board of Trustees voted to rename this building in honor of Dr. Archie Wade, a leader who transformed the university and impacted countless lives. Dr. Wade became the first African American faculty member here at the University of Alabama. This took a special person, a person brave enough to take the huge first step. That first step paved the way for the integration of minority faculty members across our system. Dr. Wade, thank you for your contribution. Thank you for being here and thank you for giving all that you've given to folks like me and everybody else standing here. I've been at first in a lot of things. Somebody else is following you and there's nobody else before you. It was a decision that I made to come because I thought it might help to break the barriers that we have in terms of social and legal barriers, but my faith helped me to deal with that. It always had. It was a challenge to come, but I look at challenge as an opportunity, as an opportunity for me to do what I needed to do to further the cause. I want to thank everybody who had anything to do with this event and this day of current. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Take care of yourself and stay safe and thank you.


Russia has lost more than 150,000 troops in Ukraine. Russia has already lost about 150,605 troops in Ukraine. The relevant statement was made by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook. Between February 24, 2022 and March 2, 2023, the Russia's total combat losses include also 3,397 tanks, 6,658 armoured fighting vehicles, 2,398 artillery systems, 480 multi-launch rocket systems, 247 anti-aircraft warfare systems, 300 aircraft, 288 helicopters, 5,264 motor vehicles and fuel tanks, 18 warships or boats, 2,058 unmanned aerial vehicles, 230 special equipment units, and 230 special equipment units. A total of 873 Russian cruise missiles were shot down. Russia analysts say that the loss of life is unlikely to be a deterrent to Putin's war aims. He has no political opposition at home and has framed the war as the kind of struggle the country faced in World War II when more than 8 million Soviet troops died. US officials have said that they believe that Putin can sustain hundreds of thousands of casualties in Ukraine, although higher numbers could cut into his political support. Ukraine's casualty figures are also difficult to ascertain, given Kiev's reluctance to disclose its own wartime losses.


Army researchers are studying the physiological effects of blast pressure on the brain in order to discover technology solutions to protect soldiers. In order to develop, for example, the headgear or the helmet that would really cut down the effect of the blast pressure, we have to understand how much blast pressure really damages the brain and how much blast pressure is experienced at the cellular level or inside the brain. Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, searched for a gel substance that mimics the texture and mass of the human brain. So we tried to mix it into the gel and this is what happened. Created some strange bubbles and aggregates. Researcher Niall Bunce explains the process she and her fellow researcher Rebecca Jimenez went through to find a solution that worked. So it was more a trial and error, this doesn't work, let's move to the next thing. And so we got a nice dispersion of sample into our gels and that's what we've been going with so far. The team infused the gel samples with fluorescent properties to show the scale of damage under pressure. And when we put it into the gel, since our nanoclusters are pressure sensitive, so we apply a pressure and then the fluorescence intensity will either increase or decrease depending on the increase or decrease in pressure. Over the past two years, the laboratory has built a partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Defense. In December 2016, Japanese medical researchers visited Maryland for an update. This is extremely important for us, for the Army Research Laboratory provides the technology that enables the soldier to function in the battlefield, provides the best lethality, best protection. Karna said the Japanese team will test the Army's samples with a laser-induced shockwave and share the results of the experiment. He said they hope to further understand the effects of blast pressure on the brain and help to protect future soldiers. For ARL TV, I'm David McNally.


The Office for Victims of Crime is committed to enhancing the nation's capacity to assist crime victims and to providing leadership in changing attitudes, policies and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime. Points of view expressed in this video do not represent the official position of the United States Department of Justice. In an unprecedented action, John Gillis, the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime, traveled around the United States to meet with crime victims first hand to discuss their experiences with the criminal justice system. A series of roundtable meetings were held in nine states, with 30 states represented and over 300 participants. After careful analysis of the informative and heartfelt opinions expressed, there were certain areas of consistency that emerged. The issues focused on both the problems that exist in the criminal justice system and the needed remedies from the perspective of crime victims. This program series captures and reflects some of the key findings of the roundtable discussions. The series includes a total of five thematic videos on topics ranging from the financial impact of crime on victims, to victim notification and basic case information. The opinions expressed are emblematic of many of the participants and is a way in which the Office for Victims of Crime has given a voice to victims. So the one way that I feel that we need to find out how we help you is by going out and meeting with people outside the Beltway, going out and talking with crime victims, meeting the individuals at the grassroots level who are doing the work and who are doing it for the right reasons, not because they're being paid but because they care about what they're doing. So I want to use this as an opportunity to find out from you how we can best help you at the grassroots level, how we can best do some of the things that will help you get through the tragedies that you've all suffered. The rate of violent victimization of American Indians is twice that of the rest of the nation. American Indian reservations are located in some of the most remote areas of the country. Investigations often must travel hundreds of miles to receive adequate services. The jurisdictional complexities of Indian country often impede the investigation and prosecution of violent crime. Police training is extremely important. Judge training is important. Codes are important so that we have elements of a crime that are clear and concise and can be easily proven. Investigators responding to scenes and interviewing and things like that are extremely necessary. And in Indian country, we have a limitation in our jurisdiction in terms of sentencing. We are limited to maximum penalty for any one crime. I don't care how violent it is. The worst that a judge can give to a criminal defendant for the worst violence they can commit is one year in jail and a $5,000 fine, one or the other or both.  He deserves 10 years. He deserves to be banished. The hardest thing for me in my whole life was to find my son dead. No mother should ever have to go through this. No mother. I don't care who she is. She should not have to lose her child. And I went down to the police department at Laguna practically every day and I bugged them and I tested them. And I said, I want to know. They didn't tell me who they had arrested or if they were going to arrest. If they were investigating, nobody told me anything. We don't have a domestic violence code in our Pueblo. When we do have domestic violence, sometimes they're charged with this orderly conduct or assault or battery, which isn't much. And it's frustrating. We are not allowed to put our perpetrators in jail. It costs us $50 a day to have them in jail and it comes out of our money. So our council feels, don't put them in jail. We don't have the funding to punish them, which is frustrating and it's frustrating for our victims. They feel they're not getting any kind of justice then. Therefore, a lot of my victims are turning away. A lot of them are coming back into the office and telling me I don't want to press charges. I want to dismiss it. The process is too long. Nobody's here to help.  If there's some way to do mandatory training for state agencies who deal with Indian Country, who border Indian Country, that's something that we need, the law enforcement officers need. Well, I mean, we have a lot of issues, not just domestic violence, not just violence, but issues in itself that our laws are and our rights, they are being pushed aside. Like I said, we really need to have somebody come to our people, come and find out what's going on and let a majority of us know what rights we actually have. And then finally, they made an arrest. But they couldn't tell me anything. Now I realize that if they tell you anything, they may jeopardize their investigation. Now I know that. But they should at least tell the people, you know, we can't tell you anything because we may jeopardize what we're doing. If we do get a chance to get our cases forward to federal court, it takes a long time to get it there. So it's not unusual for us to have a case for two years before it would reach federal court. You know, in the state system, it doesn't take that long. You know, nobody waits for two years. But in Indian country, that's probably common. We have our traditional ceremonies that help us to heal our spirit and our soul. And when you put that down in writing and you put it down on paper, how do you explain to somebody in D.C. a wiping down ceremony? And how that dollar is spent to help this person? Because part of the wiping down ceremony includes food and getting wood for a sweat, a nipi. And so if we could have a little bit of some open-mindedness and acceptance and maybe some tolerance to our traditional ceremonies.  You'll need to include their certifications and where they were taught and all this kind of stuff. And I said, well, it doesn't happen like that, you know. And but is there, I'm sure that other tribes have asked for money in their grants, you know, to be able to provide something to traditional healers because, you know, we pay therapists and we pay them dearly, you know, for working with our clients.   When sexual assaults happen and we have our SART team set up for our interviews, what will happen is a lot of times if our victim only speaks upic, the interview is conducted in like sort of half upic, half English. And what we experience is that we don't have the interpreter on site right away for these times. And you have a lot of times the state troopers will conduct our interview. And then they won't be able to ask the questions because they don't know what the answers have been. So they will have asked questions, they'll get answers, and then we'll have to show the tape. So probably funding for either interpreters to be on the scene that can do sort of as we're, you know, live interpretation, or to start to train and try to get better establishment for state troopers of upic speaking and other dialects that we would have around Alaska. Justice for Indian people across the country is part of the unfinished business. And how to put the voices and the hearts together of what are the healing opportunities for us to heal in our own way. And I think that's what's the beauty of this conversation that you have. And I think it's time for Indian people to turn to each other, not on each other. It's not people who are, for the most part, non-Indians perpetrating crimes on us. Sometimes it's our own people on our own people. I do thank you for taking the time to spend with us today. I wish you didn't have to do it. I wish we were here under different circumstances because none of us chose to have a tragedy happen in our lives. But now that it has happened, let's see that we can see if we can take advantage of that and try and help others who have to follow so that they don't have to suffer the same pain that we've suffered. So thank you. The following is a summary of the key points made during this program. Changes in tribal codes are necessary to address sentencing options and perpetrator confinement issues. Training is necessary for tribal, federal, and state law enforcement personnel on effective responses to crime victims in Indian country. Dissemination of information about victims' rights in Indian country is needed. Address jurisdictional issues that impact trial delays for cases perpetrated in Indian country and prosecuted in the federal criminal justice system. Improve communication between criminal justice professionals and crime victims in Indian country. Improve sensitivity to traditional cultural practices as they pertain to funding decisions by government agency representatives. Recognize that language barriers impact effective communications with crime victims and provide funding for interpreter services in Indian country. Acknowledge the prevalence of Indian on Indian crime and identify opportunities for healing and direct action through dialogue. The Office for Victims of Crime Administers funding authorized under the Children's Justice and Assistance Act to support efforts to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse in Indian country. Funding has been used to develop children's legal codes to establish infrastructure within tribal communities and increase knowledge and skills of local tribal staffs to develop culturally relevant and appropriate child welfare policies and laws. The Office for Victims of Crime is supporting collaborations between American Indian and Alaska native crime victim organizations and state agency representatives. This collaboration is intended to assist representatives of crime victim organizations in Indian country to understand requirements for the receipt of government funding. The Office for Victims of Crime funded the faith-based counseling for crime victims in Indian country discretionary grant program that encourages collaboration among victim service programs, traditional healers, and other faith-based clergy as well as the use of traditional healing services as a resource for crime victims in Indian country. Cultural sensitivity is increasingly a part of the training and technical assistance offered for advocates and allied professionals. OVC is supporting an American Indian and Alaska native victim assistance academy to address issues that have a special impact in Indian country. Recognizing that geographic isolation presents challenges in making services available to American Indian crime victims, the Office for Victims of Crime funded the forensic telemedicine equipment and training program to help Indian health service clinics and service units develop and transmit photographs of injuries sustained by child victims to other medical facilities. OVC recognizes the potential of the application of this technology to other types of crimes, including domestic violence and sexual assault. The Office for Victims of Crime is funding the Tribal Victim Assistance Program to provide advocacy and court accompaniment to help crime victims in Indian country understand the justice process and keep them informed about the developments that affect their cases. Helping victims to feel more confident that they are being treated fairly will encourage more willing participation in the justice process.


All right, so as you know, I have been touting Barry Weiss' sub-stack for a while. I think some of you, because I have urged you, have become subscribers to Barry Weiss' sub-stack. Barry Weiss is a former journalist for the New York Times who was at last year kind of left the New York Times claiming that she founded a non-hospitable working environment. Her colleagues were basically harassing her for kind of the views she have. Now what views does Barry Weiss have? She is kind of a centrist. She's not particularly free market. She's not particularly right, but she's not far left either. She is generally a believer in free speech and open debate in exchange of ideas. She's also, which really hurt her in the New York Times with her colleagues. She's very pro-Israel, which I think was probably more hurt her more with her colleagues than the fact that she was pro-free speech. But anyway, she left the New York Times, which I thought was quite courageous. She resigned and set off by herself and started up a sub-stack, a sub-stack that I've recommended to you many times, a sub-stack that has dealt a lot with issues like critical race theory being taught at our high schools and professors being kicked out of universities or being sanctioned by universities for their views, for things they have said. So a sub-stack that is focused primarily, I think, on issues of speech, of critical race theory on culture and on really uncriticizing kind of the far left and the craziness of the far left. But Weiss has had a lot of other people writing for the sub-stack, and indeed the sub-stack is turning into not just Barry Weiss writing, but almost like a newsletter, almost like a place where people can, where she's creating her own alternative media source, including attracting recently a reporter for the New York Times, who's going to be doing news. So maybe what we're seeing is the beginning of some independent journalism, not just independent commentary, but independent journalism, actually news reporting, seeking out, going out and investigating the news, which will be very exciting if we can. The dispatcher already does that to some extent, if we can get multiple sources on sub-stack that are providing us not just with opinion, but with news, that is going to be super excited. Anyway, this morning in the Barry Weiss sub-stack, there was an article from Pano Kalenos, and I don't know if I'm pronouncing that name right, probably not. Pano Kalenos is the former president of St. John's College in Indianapolis, not Indianapolis, Annapolis in Maryland. St. John College is a great books program, an undergraduate, I think great books program, so one of the last great books programs in the United States. And Pano announced the launch of a project to establish a new university, the University of Austin. A new university, we'll talk about the principles and we'll talk about who the Board of Advisors is, but he wrote an essay for Barry Weiss on what's involved, so that's how I heard about it this morning. I actually knew about this, I've known about this since the summer, a good friend of mine was actually met with Pano in Austin, where the project was described to them and interest was assessed and so on. But I also know, have known for a few months, that Joe Lonsdale, Joe Lonsdale is an entrepreneur, you could say from the Peter Thiel circle of entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel was an investor in Joe Lonsdale's main investment. He's a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, but I'd say his main new company in the last few years was Planetier, which Peter Thiel invested in and that has gone public and has made Joe Lonsdale a very, very, very wealthy man. I met Joe years and years ago in Silicon Valley, he's a fan of Iron Rands, although more of a conservative, more of a Peter Thiel style conservative than he is a free market style objectivist, certainly not philosophically. Peter Thiel is religious and I think so is Joe Lonsdale, although I might be wrong. Anyway, Joe Lonsdale has moved to Austin. Joe, I've known, has been working on a secretive project to found a new private university in Austin. Well, it's no longer a secret. It was announced, I think, yesterday. I discovered it this morning from Barry Weiss, a sub-stack and today, they've been stories about it in the New York Times, Op-Ed in the Washington Post. It's been all over social media primarily as a source of ridicule by the left, but it has been this announcement of this new university has been treated as big news. And I think it's been treated as big news because of kind of the mission statement and it's been treated as big news because of the Board of Advisors, the people involved in the founding of the university, which is a super impressive list, will get to those people in a little while. But first, this is a university that is set up to counter this in terms of the existing status of universities, primarily to counter the anti-speech, the anti-free inquiry, the political correctness that used to be the old term, the wokeness that exists in the university campuses today. This university's mission is the pursuit of truth. The article that today was announced by Pano Canellos, and Pano Canellos is the new president of this university. So he left St. John's and he is now the university, the president of the University of Austin. He says, we can't wait for universities to fix themselves. So we're starting a new one. That's great. That's what markets are for. This is a beautiful development, a positive development. He says, I left my post as president of St. John's College in Annapolis to build a university in Austin dedicated and this is a beautiful mission statement. This is what a mission statement of university should be like, dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth. That is amazing. That is great. Let's hope they stick to that. Let's hope they really are committed to the pursuit of truth and not just the pursuit of a truth that is consistent with their ideas, but the pursuit of truth, whether consistent with their ideas or not. So the idea of this university is not to be online. The attempt here is not to disrupt the educational system by a different means. The purpose here is to build a classical university, a campus. My assumption is there'll be dormitories, there'll be classrooms. The idea is a faculty and students interaction face to face. The plan is to keep expenses low by having very thin administration, not having any extracurricular things like fancy sports, fancy food. A lot of the Ivy League schools are not competing on the quality of the food. They expect tuition to be under $35,000 a year, so they expect to be somewhat reasonable in terms of tuition. This is interesting because there was some question about this. They are not going to try to be outside of the accredited system. They're not going to be a complete outsider to the system of universities. They are going to apply for accreditation. So even though they say they think their accreditation system needs to be reformed, they want to go through their accreditation system. They will have an undergraduate program that they will launch in 2024. They hope to launch, I think, in 2023 or 2022. Their first MA program, a master's program in entrepreneurship, and they plan to have both masters. Ultimately, they hope to have PhD granting and undergraduates, so a traditional full-scope university. It seems like it's clear they're going to have some kind of business school. It's also clear that they're going to have entrepreneurship. It's also clear that they want to have a law school at some point, although that's not high on the agenda, something early. In addition, they expect, but they expect all students, first two years, to be taking kind of classical, what is it, social sciences courses. So kind of a broad social science, liberal arts education, and then students will come and specialize in particular centers, very hands-on, very interactive. They claim innovative curriculum and so on. So exciting. More competition is always good, and it's exciting to see university focused on truth, the discovery of truth, the advocacy for truth, and also university dedicated to not being politically correct, not towing the line of political correctness, not being woke, not kicking people out because you disagree with them, not having diversity standards, supposedly, I assume, not having diversity standards, not being at the university, not being an advocate for social justice and so on. Some of you are asking, well, this person or that person would be a professor. I don't think it's clear. I think it's still very early on. I think there's probably announcement was announced because this was going to leak. There were probably some press stories and they started to rush it because there's a lot in the plan here that is still very early and still unknown. They have done Lex Friedman who is involved in this. You know Lex Friedman. He's interviewed me a couple of times. He's got this massive interview show on YouTube. Anyway, Lex Friedman is one of the board of advisors for this university. Lex also interviewed Nile Ferguson. Nile is also on the board of advisors. Those of you who don't know Nile Ferguson, he's an historian at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and he is also well-known as the husband of Ayan Hirsi Ali or maybe she is known as the wife of Nile Ferguson. But anyway, both of them are like celebrity intellectuals. They are superstars in their own right. They are both on the board of advisors. Note that none of the people I mentioned are necessarily faculty. The only faculty with a question mark listed, it's not clear the faculty, but they're called Founding Faculty Fellows. Ayan Hirsi Ali, Peter Bogosian from Portland State University. I think he's a philosopher. Portland State University, if you remember he resigned. I talked about this. I think I reported on it on the Iran book show. He quit. The university left because of the extent to which he was harassed, extent that the university was tilting strongly towards, again, wokeness and political correctness and not accepting ideas that were outside of the mainstream. Ideas that deviated for kind of the far left. I don't know how good of a philosopher Peter Bogosian is, but he's definitely a critic of CRT. He's a critic of postmodernism. So he's definitely a critic of the right things, whether he is an advocate for the right things as a philosopher, hard to tell. Kathleen Stock, also a philosopher from the University of Sessex, not Essex, Sessex, I think Sessex. Also a resigned from the university because of wokeness and her position on gender. I think she has this crazy, radical, insane, completely unacceptable view that I don't know men, men generally have penises and women are women and generally don't have penises. I think that's her crazy position. And anyway, she created a bit of a fewer around transgender issues and around gender. But so she's on the founding faculty fellows. I hope the standard for being a founding faculty or faculty at University of Austin is not having had to resign from your previous position. But so it's not just the negative.  That shouldn't be the criteria. Hopefully these are also good academics. These are good teachers. These are people who have interesting ideas and are successful intellectuals. I hate to see it that it's all the negative. We're anti the left. That would be pretty boring, ineffectual universities. So the Board of Advisors is very impressive. Faculty is yet to be determined how good they are going to be. Obviously, Ayn Hirsi Ali as a founding faculty fellow is really good. Again, I have a lot of disagreements with Ayn Hirsi Ali, particularly about philosophy. But she's a hero and smart and interesting and unbelievably courageous. And for that, I would go take a class with Ayn Hirsi Ali any day of the week. So I think that's great news. The faculty advisors, this is a great list. So there are two people on the list. So this is the thing. How many people are there? Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31. There's 31 people on the board of advisors of this institution. And you will be shocked to hear that of the 31 people on this Board of Advisors, I despise only two. Now that is a massive achievement for them, I think, to put together a list of 31 intellectuals. I don't know everybody. I might despise more of them when I get to know them. But I know almost everybody on this list. I think I know a lot about almost everybody on the list. There's a handful of people I don't know. And there's only two, the only two that I can tell right now, a few that I don't know, but only two that I actually despise. And then there's more than two that I actually like, right, that are actually good guys. So let's go over the list. You can tell me if you know who are the two I despise. And in panel, Canelo seems like a good guy. Don't know that much about him. Seems like a good guy. Now, Ferguson is very good. He's a conservative, more conservative than I'd like, but a conservative, one of the good guys, I think, super, super, let's see if I can speak. Stop for a second. Super smart. Super smart. A super interesting, good historian. Yeah, I read his books, good books, really good. Barry Weiss is on the Board of Advisors. Love Barry Weiss. Again, disagree with on a lot of things, but, you know, she's one of the good guys. Heather, hey, Heather is, is what's his name, Brett Weinstein's wife. Brett Weinstein's wife, not the other Weinstein. Yes, Brett Weinstein's wife. She's an evolutionary biologist.  She's good.  And I'm a supporter of Heather. Joe Lonsdale. Joe Lonsdale is an entrepreneur incredibly successful. As I said, I've met Joe. He's a nice guy, a bit of an Iron Man fan, not too much, but a bit of an Iron Man fan. And obviously the financing, you know, the finances behind this, finances behind this. Actually, Legend 007, just do it.  But anyway, he says, now focus and had good things to say about Eilish Shrug. Yeah, I think both he and I, and he's really a positive about Eilish Shrug. They're not objective, they're not pro, but both really start. So Joe Lonsdale, okay, Arthur Brooks, you guys know my views on Arthur Brooks. I don't despise the guys too nice of a person. But Arthur is a real Catholic, a real altruist, a very, very, very weak and undermining defender capitalism. So I, you know, I'm mixed on Arthur as much as I like him.  I'm just reading up. Oh, Glenn Lowry. I love Glenn Lowry. Glenn Lowry is fantastic. He's an economist at Brown University. And, and he's, he's truly fabulous. So I'm a big fan of Glenn Lowry and really happy to see him involved in something like this. Stephen, thank you. Really, that's, that's very generous, really appreciated. Robert Zimmer, Robert Zimmer is the chancellor and former president of the University of Chicago. Don't know him personally, but he is one of the people responsible for the University of Chicago being one of the only universities, certainly among the top universities in the country, that has stood by the idea of free speech, the idea of faculty inquiry, the idea of, of faculty independence, the idea of not victimizing people over their political views over, over stuff. So generally, University of Chicago came out with a very good statement about free speech that was very positive. And I think Robert Zimmer was part of that. So I'm a, I'm a fan on that. And you'll see that most of the people here are very much on the side of free speech. Stephen Pinker, again, I think you know what I think of Stephen, lots of problems, obviously left of center on many issues, wrong on free will, wrong on some other things, but generally one of the good guys, I think in the culture in which we live and, and a good influence. Nadine Strossen, I don't know if you guys know who Nadine Strossen is, but she's a professor of law at the New York Law School. She's also the former president of ACLU, definitely leftist, but definitely pro-free speech. She's one of the strongest defendant of free speech. She was part of the ACLU and the ACLU actually went out there and defended free speech. So yeah, I mean, she's great and she's a, she's a fighter and to have her on the board of advice is terrific. Again, credentials vis-a-vis free speech, very, very strong. Lex Friedman, I guess you all know Lex. I'm really happy to see him here, kind of taking a beyond, taking his act beyond the podcast and now kind of getting his ideas, you know, having a forum for his ideas as Lex. John Nunes, I don't know anything about John. He is a priest, a Catholic priest. He wears a collar, former president of Concordia College. I don't know how bad he is. He's a priest after all. Dorian Abbott is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago. He's the guy who, because he said some things about affirmative action and about this whole DIE, diversity, whatever, was refused or they disinvited him from giving a speech at MIT and he's become a big spokesman for this idea of, well, maybe affirmative action is not that great and over issues relating to diversity and so on. Okay, here's one of the bad guys. Okay, I said the two guys I despise on here, the two guys that I think are really bad, they shouldn't be here. If this is supposed to be a liberal institution, a push for, for, for liberality, liberal in the sense of freedom, liberal in the sense of free speech. If this is supposed to be anti the illiberalism of the left, what you don't want is people on here who are illiberals of the right. And so how, so Rob Amari is an illiberal of the right. And look, you don't have to believe me on this. He calls himself illiberal. He is a fighter against freedom, what he calls the libertarian streak of the right, free markets, individualism. He hates the idea of individual rights and individual liberty. So it's a little discouraging to see so about Amari here. It suggests that some of the funders, maybe even Joe Lonsdale himself, some of the funders have a conservative nationalist, nationalist conservative leanings. Hopefully he doesn't have a lot of influence. He's big. Saab Amari is very big. He is, he got into a big fight with David French about a year ago, two years ago. I did a whole show on the struggle, maybe it's more than two years ago, between Saab Amari and French. Saab Amari has become one of the leaders of the anti, what I'll call the anti-liberty part of the Republican Party. He is clearly a pro-statist, pro-statist right. And he is one of the leaders of that. Next person, Jonathan Haight. Again, good guy, left of center, very pro-free speech. Again, disagree with them on things like free speech and what the role of morality and what differentiates the left and right and all kinds of things, but basically a smart guy who's interested in ideas and is interested in open discussion and open debate. So most of these people are what I'll call liberal, liberal in the classical liberal sense, not free market, but in the liberal in terms of ideas and the pursuit of truth. Now, another one of the people I despise, this guy, I probably despise more than I despise Saab Amari. This is Leon Kass, who's the dean of faculty at Shalem College. Leon Kass is a bio, he sometimes is called a bioethicist.  He was the head of George W. Bush's in the 2002 to 2005, I think, bioethics committee, and I've despised him since then. I mentioned him on one of my shows where I described what the bioethics committee came out against life extension technologies and all the problems against gene editing, against a lot of the gene technology and changing the human genome and playing God. He's very much against all of that. So I'm a big opponent of him. Anyway, as Stuart says that Jonathan Haid has written some bad stuff about Iron Man, yeah, I mean, that's not my criteria, right? A lot of these people oppose Iron Man. There's not an objectivist on here, not able to close the objectivist on here, and you wouldn't expect that. But a lot of the people here are anti-Iron Man, Arthur Brooks is, I mean, and, you know, and Stephen Pica is not a friend of Iron Man's. So, you know, you definitely have a mixture here. Leon Kass is a real Christian. I mean, religionist, I'm not sure he might be Jewish, but he's definitely a right-wing religionist. Larry Summers is, again, left-wing, a Keynesian economist, although better than Krugman, significantly better than Krugman, but Keynesian is economist, Neocainsian economist. He is the president, used to be former president of Harvard University. He was chief economic advisor to, was it Bill Clinton? Maybe Bill Clinton. He was kicked out of the University of Harvard because he said something about women not having a propensity for sciences or something that was deemed sexist, and he had to resign for the University of, from Harvard University again, somebody who's fought against the political correctness type of attitude. Vicky Sullivan, I don't know from Tufts University. Wolford McClay, a historian from Hillsdale, so if he's from Hillsdale, he probably leans conservative libertarian and religious, that's typically Hillsdale. Jonathan Rausch, a senior fellow Brookie Institute against, on the left, but pro-free speech, smart, leftist, bad on economics. E. Gordon Gee is president of West Virginia University, probably a pretty free market guy. West Virginia University has a number of pro-free market programs, so he's probably one of those. Kathleen Flanagan is a writer for the Atlantic. I probably read some of his stuff, but I didn't look her up, so I'm not sure. Andrew Sullivan, you all know Andrew Sullivan. I debated him. My debate with Andrew Sullivan from Clemson University is online. Andrew is a conservative, gay, conservative, anti-Trump, interesting guy, but also very bad on economics, very, very, very bad on economics. But no, I don't think there are too many leftists. These are the best of the leftists, and they're the kind of people who you would want to take a class from. I would want to take a class from Rausch, or Larry Summers, or Stephen Pinker, or all of these guys are super smart. They're super interesting. And no, I mean, I'm not as anti-left, anybody left of center that I, as much as some of you guys, I'm much more sympathetic to somebody like Stephen Pinker than I am to most people on the right, on the so-called right. Then of course there's Deirdre McCluskey. Deirdre, I think Deirdre is fantastic. She's a historian, economist, philosopher. Deirdre and I disagree on a number of things, but on the other hand, she's brilliant and she's very, she's the most free market person on this by far. So she's the one that on economic issues, on liberty issues, on role of government issues, I would agree with her more than anybody else, more than anybody else on this list. Tyler Cowan is another one, another free market guy, not as quite free market as Deirdre is or I am, but Tyler is quite free market. And a good guy, an interesting guy, clever guy, smart guy, interesting, right? I obviously disagree with him, but really interesting. Bob Henderson, I don't really know. He's a Cambridge scholar, Cambridge University. David Merme is one of the few conservative playwrights.  Smart, clever. Some of the stuff I like, some of it I don't like. Jeffy Stone, a professor of law at the University of Chicago, don't know him. Stacey Hook, philanthropist and investor. I think I've met Stacey. I think I know Stacey. If I'm, if it's the right person, she lives in Austin, really nice woman and a big Iron Man fan. I think that's who I'm talking about. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's who I think it is. And then finally, Joshua Katz, a classicist from Princeton. I don't know Joshua. So don't know. All right. So there we go. It's a fascinating Board of Advisors. It's the Krem De La Krem. It's good, you know, generally good people. As I said, there were only two people I had really bad things to say about. And, you know, I love the fact that Glenn Lowey's there. And, you know, this is great news. This is good news. I think it's got a nice balance of having some people from the left. I think it would be terrible if this was not, if this didn't, wasn't balanced in that sense. That's the Board of Advisors. I don't have, then nobody else. So you can ask questions about other people, but if I didn't mention them, they're not on the Board of Advisors. It's very exciting. It's going to be very interesting to watch. It's going to be very interesting to see the bureaucratic groups they have to go through. They have to get accredited. They have to get land. They have to build a university. They have to get faculty. It's not necessarily going to be easy to get faculty. They're going to have to build out programs. Again, they're going to have to get accreditation for those programs. None of this is going to be easy. None of it's going to be simple. But, you know, if they go for STEM, if they go for science, I think they'll be able to bring in some good people. But, you know, we'll see the quality of the students. One of the things they don't want is to attract just rabid conservatives. What they want to attract is a wide spectrum of students who are coming to get a great education. They want to make sure that it's not assumed that the university is political. It should be non-partisan. It should not be political. If it turns into political, it'll be terrible. And it's a great effort. This is great news. They're already being ridiculed by a lot of the mainstream media.  Trump University was basically a private university with, but not a substantive university. This is a substantive liberal arts university. It's been compared to Phoenix University. This is not Phoenix University. Phoenix University partially modeled the whole idea of online education, but also again, was large numbers. And you can't say that liberal arts education was a primary or primary focus. Here it clearly is, or at least that's the ambition. This is the ambition here is to create a world-class liberal arts university, more than liberal arts. I think they're going to have STEM as well. So a world-class university, capital U, with everything that they're going to entail. And competition is fantastic. They're already good universities. They are universities that break the mold of the traditional university. There is a Hillsdale University. There is this Northwood university that I spoke at last week. There is St. Johns, which does great books. The president of West Virginia University had to come out and say, I don't agree that the university system is broken because, hey, he's the president of a university. So I like this new university, but I don't agree with everything they say. So they're going to have some challenges. It's going to be interesting. They're in the process of raising $250 million, which I don't think they'll have a problem doing. They don't think they're going to have a problem doing. Some people are comparing that to Prager University, which again is a joke. And let's again hope that they're not just, you know, narrowly focused on Prager University kind of stuff that they really are. And that's why I'm glad to see a Jonathan Haidt and Roush and Steven Pinko on there that is going to give it a much bigger scope and a much wider scope and a much greater variety of courses of areas of expertise and of political emphasis and political ideology. I think that's a good thing, a good thing. So yeah, now Foguson has written on this. You can find it in Bloomberg. Again, you can find a Barry Weisestack, Substack, which you should subscribe to. You can find the original statement. I mean, part of the thing is to create an environment in which professors are not afraid to be sacked, not afraid to be marginalized because of their opinions. And you know, I mean, it would be nice if communists were marginalized and real fascists were marginalized. The problem is that today anybody right of the far left is in a position to be marginalized. All right, so that's University of Austin. Great news. Hopefully you're excited. Hopefully this is good news. We don't always get good news, so this is great. And it really is good to have Lex Friedman on there and to have some other people that I know. I know Iron Hosea Lee and I've met Iron Hosea Lee a couple of times and I know some of the other people involved and this is great. Let me also add this. I'm not going to say too much about this partially because there isn't a lot to say about it but partially because a lot of it is kind of still being worked on. But, you know, attempts are being made to have some objectivist influence here. Again, I know there are people within the objectivist world who know Jolons there quite well. There are people within the objectivist world who know many of the people involved here quite well, whether it's Lex Friedman or some of the others. There are objectivist donors who are donors to this university and I think there will be even more. Some big donors who are contributing to this. There are some objectivist in the education field who are, you know, who are, have a lot of, done a lot of thinking about education more broadly and in ways in which to revolutionize education. They are having discussions with this university. They're having discussions with people at the university. They are objectivist academics who have been, have had some discussion with this university, names not to be mentioned and then of course there's a massive, massive objectivist presence in Austin, Texas. We have a philosopher in Austin, Texas. Two philosophers in Austin, Texas. We have Greg Selmierius at the University of Texas in Austin. It's going to be now confusing. University of Austin in Texas versus the University of Texas in Austin. But who's there, who is, you know, right there and we know that Greg's, the center that Greg is part of has some overlap with some of the people who are involved in this new university. There are no objectivist on the board of advisors. They're not going to be. But again, there are some points of influence. There are points of interaction. Again, look, the reason to be excited about this is not because this is going to be an objectivist university. It will not. The reason to be excited about this is that we want alternative to the existing universities. The existing universities are the problem in our culture and we want alternatives. We want competition. We want engagement. So again, and there are a lot of objectivists with ideas, with money, with or with money, or with ideas, or with knowledge, or with access who are going to have an opportunity at least to engage with the people at this university and to try to have some influence. I will be at the University of Texas in Austin for my debate with Yoram Chazzoni on December 8th. My guess is Yoram Chazzoni is probably, you know, knows all the people involved in this. And again, you know, again, his is a version of conservatism. I hope doesn't land up dominating this university, although it could. But again, there's a lot of intersections and there's a lot of reason to be hopeful about the potential for maybe some objectivist to, you know, that the philosophy in Texas has been there who works for the Ironman Institute. A number of staff members of the Ironman Institute work in Austin, Texas. So I'm excited. Not because I think this is an objectivist university, not because I think the soul is a problem of the world, but because I'm a believer in competition. I like, you know, I like to see this. Somebody asked Matt, Matt Bateman is not in Austin, although he spends quite a bit of time in Austin. 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Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Snolly. Welcome to a new vlog. I'm doing a week of my life. I'm in Athens, Georgia because I'm actually visiting my work's headquarters here. I work for Landmark Properties and it is headquartered in Athens, which is so funny because my boyfriend Ryan actually went to UGA, so it's just so weird coming back to Athens without him. I've only ever been here to visit him, so it's just like so weird to come alone, but it's definitely a good feeling to be familiar with the place, but this week doesn't look so great with the weather and I'm really sad because I'm supposed to be doing some content for the construction team. There's two properties here that are in construction, so I'm supposed to do that, I think, I think like tomorrow and the next day and it's supposed to rain, so I hope that changes because it said it was gonna downpour this morning and it looks like it hasn't rained yet, so fingers crossed that I'm able to do my work. If you guys didn't know, I'm actually a content creator for the corporate of Landmark Properties, so basically my everyday job I would say is to obviously do the corporate social media and then I also can help out with like properties, marketing materials, so if somebody needs updated photos of their site or just like video ads for Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok now, like there's just so many platforms, so that's kind of like the main portion of it all. I also just help out with like video editing here and there, so if sites just take videos on their phone and they want me to edit it, I can do that too and I probably do a lot of other random little things that I can't think of right now, but that's just kind of like the gist of my job, so I'm here because the last time I was here was in February when I just got hired. I really wasn't able to take that much content because I was training while I was here, so majority of the time I was like at my computer doing like little training, what's it called, like workshops, not workshops, training courses, yeah. But this time I actually made my own itinerary and tried to like get a little bit of each department so I could like kind of have it for the future and right when COVID hit, I'm not even gonna lie, I was like really nervous because I was like okay how do I fill a content calendar and we thought it was gonna be only like a month max, so I was like okay like I'll try to get like photos from sites and just like pull things out of my butt. It was honestly so hard at first, just like getting content and not having me take my own content if that makes sense. Now that I'm back in Athens, hopefully I can get a shitload of content so I can be good for a long time until I have to come back and get more. The hotel I'm staying at is literally a five minute walk to the office but they do have breakfast and it ends at nine so I got ready and I'm gonna go head down there. I have to be at work at nine and I have an hour so I think I'm just gonna do like a little chill morning down there and kind of just like prepare my mind too. I wish the lighting was better but this is my outfit. I have this blazer on from Wave and then I have like this Zara little bodysuit tank top thing and then I have these princess poly pants which are so cute but they're supposed to have a button and it did not come with a button which is so weird so it like kind of like looks like odd right there. I might ask the people downstairs if they have a safety pin and then shoes are probably from Forever 21 like a really long time ago and since it was raining I just decided not to wash my hair and like not do it at all so it's in a ponytail and now I'm gonna go pack my bag and head downstairs. I got a bagel with orange juice and I haven't had orange juice in forever so it tastes so good and this is my walk to the office very short walk and here is inside the office so a little modern twist we love that. Here is my view from my desk or my old boss's desk obviously I don't have a desk and then it started raining so bad we actually had a tornado warning pretty crazy first day back at the office and right here I'm editing an Instagram photo to go live the same day and here's my outfit again if you guys were wondering in better lighting. It's 5.46 and I'm already showered on the way home I got soaked it was raining really bad today actually there was a tornado warning and the rain was like going sideways we actually had to go down to their training room because it was like in the basement and the creative team offices are right by like the glass so we had to take shelter for the tornado but nothing hit us I don't think but it's funny because Ryan like called me he was like are you okay like I just got a UGA text that there was a tornado I was like when do you still get those that's so funny. I just ordered my dinner from uber eats I haven't really eaten much today I am so thankful because this hotel has free breakfast so I definitely took advantage of that and it was nice because I could take like a couple things to the office for like a snack I literally just brought like dry cereal and I definitely need to take advantage of that more tomorrow but yeah I had like a bagel this morning and then I had that cereal so I'm kind of hungry but also not in a way I don't know it's weird like I was pretty busy today I just spent the day kind of getting like lifestyle headshots of like um I wouldn't say random people but people like on different department teams and stuff so like construction and marketing and all that and just doing some videos I did have to rearrange my whole itinerary pretty much because I think tomorrow and the next day I was supposed to go to two construction sites to get footage and like take photos and everything um but tomorrow and the next day is supposed to rain but actually I think on Wednesday it's not supposed to rain anymore which thank god because um I'm trying to get some marks for Cinco de Mayo and that would be nice if we could like sit outside you know so it says it's only supposed to rain like today and tomorrow hoping hoping because honestly I had big plans for my Athens trip I was gonna do like a hot girl walk like down what what are the streets I don't even know what like I don't know the the main road and I was like gonna be active and like do all this stuff but the rain like I can't do anything and I also don't have a car so I can't really go anywhere and get food because I was planning on just like walking to get food because my hotel is like right on the edge of downtown it's not a far walk at all I vlog this past weekend and I don't even recall what I did this past weekend but it was just like my last few days with Ryan until we separated for two weeks I'm being so dramatic definitely sad to leave you know your boyfriend for a while um and I think I said in the last vlog basically he's coming to Georgia for Mother's Day and I'll be on my mom's on Mother's Day but my mom moved like kind of far from like our hometown so I won't be able to see him and that's totally fine because whatever but then he's staying a week after I go home so I won't even see him for two weeks so I'm sad but it's okay um we're actually gonna board my dog because he was like oh well just take her home with me but then I was like no I kind of want her when I get back you know because I'm like I get so lonely and so Sophie like definitely calms me down whenever I start hearing noises actually she's the one that freaks out she will like bark I remember this one time when Ryan was gone she was like barking so much at the freaking fan whenever Ryan's home she doesn't really bark at like random noises but like of course when he's gone she just starts barking at like any little thing she hears and so I had to turn it off the fan one night because I knew it was like the fan that was bothering her but anyways so she's the one that freaks out but also she does keep me company and I can like talk to her like a friend you know am I weird I don't know tonight I ordered Takaria tsunami or something I've always seen it it's like on the main street of like all the bars and stuff I've never been there before it definitely looks like a kind of a chipotle bowl kind of thingy and I got like avocado rolls so that should be good and I feel like I'm gonna be so overeating out because me and Ryan have just been eating like shit this past like two weeks honestly like I tried buying groceries but it was just not in the cards like I don't know I think I just need to be like stable and home for a while and like not you know like looking forward to a trip not even looking forward to it but just like almost like oh I'm like going on a trip so I know I'm gonna eat that the next week so why not eat that this week you know uh it's been really really tough but I did get that bike and um I just got like approval on my sponsorship today and they loved the video which makes me so happy but yeah so I got a bike so I've been doing that recently and I really really want to get into like an actual routine like do it every single day like I did 12 3 30 because like the most fit people I know do cycling classes so I just got my dinner delivered it's pretty much like a steak rice bowl kind of thing it's pretty average but I did get those avocado rolls and those were delicious right now I'm just watching some vlogs while I eat but then I have to edit my own vlog before I get on FaceTime with my friends so I have to eat fast because I'm gonna call my friends at like 7 30 and it's like 6 30 so I have an hour to edit and I want to get the video up by tonight but we'll see maybe tomorrow it's just like a better idea happy Tuesday it is day two of me actually going into the office so here is my outfit of the day it's a dress from Grayson lace and it's so flattering like my waist literally looks snatched I'm also wearing spanks that are like a full body like a little tank top and then it has shorts and it's so like it's amazing it snatches me and it's perfect all like post like the tiktok that I did and it just looks so good but anyways like I said in my last vlog I feel like I never wear black anymore but this dress I just had to keep because it's just so flattering it just turned eight o'clock like I said I have to be at the office at nine so I'm gonna go downstairs and eat some breakfast kind of chill out a little bit I'm trying to think if there's something else I need to do before that will pack my bag and stuff and I washed my hair last night I ended up just curling it because the natural hair just like looked a little too straight it was like in this weird stage today I'm doing a lot of head shots on the brick wall for like the website um and luckily I don't want to jinx myself but I don't think it's raining right now so at least I don't have to walk in the rain but I definitely know what's going to rain later today so probably gonna have to walk back in the rain but that's totally fine like I just don't want to walk there in the rain and like show up looking all disheveled and stuff the first thing I do when I get into the office is obviously check my emails and then make sure I have everything in the content calendar ready to go for either Monday or Thursday posting date now it's time to get content I grabbed my gimbal and my Sony a73 and I headed outside I just wanted to get some footage of the exterior of the office the sign and then I headed into the lobby the lobby is like really really pretty has this like modern twist like I said before and it has this really cool like marble lit kind of background at the front if you kind of saw it there then I went outside to get some footage of the courtyard then I went to grab some lunch I got a Celsius because I was getting all tired and now it's time to take head shots so I printed out my list of who signed up headed downstairs and this brick wall over here is where we did them and that's what they've done in the past so I just had to do that this is my headshot so exciting I got home early and originally I was just going to go to a Starbucks at it but they're not open for like seating so I'm going to go to the place next door apparently there's like a boba tea place and they allow people to sit there and work I'm gonna head over there praying it's not raining I'm just gonna brave the weather because I don't really want to be stuck in my hotel for the rest of night so let's go downtown it's Wednesday and it's Cinco de Mayo and I just got ready for work I'm kind of not running late but I would have liked to be out of the hotel room probably by now because I have to do like some notes for this call before I get started on like content taking so I should probably get to the office a little bit earlier and I do you want to stop by like the hotel breakfast though to get a bagel last night I went to dinner with Kelsey who was my old boss and then Nicole who also works at landmark properties and it was just really nice we're actually going to get dinner again today because we're going to get marks for Cinco de Mayo and I'm probably going to meet Kelsey a little earlier and just like go on a hot girl walk and just you know enjoy the nice weather because I think today should be a little bit nicer out hoping but it did say that there was like a little bit of rain on the on the weather but I think by by like the time I get off work I should be fine okay my bag is packed and now I'm just gonna head down to the breakfast area another day another walk to the office when I started getting content one of my co-workers told me that I had a stain on my butt and it ended up just being makeup she said that there was club soda and that it could get out the stain so she helped me with that so shout out to you Steph then it was time to set up the gimbal again so I changed out my lenses and then all of a sudden the fire alarms started going off but this is really cool okay this is the Matterport camera I'm about to explain it in a little bit but basically it's a 360 camera and it makes virtual tours this is the app on the ipad and it's currently like trying to scan the room to make up the virtual tour I'm in the model unit for the mark Athens I'm just gonna take some video footage in here I just got training on doing like Matterport camera things videos I don't know it's not a video basically Matterport is like this giant camera that takes like 360 views of the whole model so that we can put those like virtual tours on the website so that if you're in another state and you're looking to move into the mark you can see them on the website so I'm getting trained on that because they want me to take them camera to Texas and do like some Texas properties all I live there I tried to get a couple videos of it but you guys were probably like what the heck is that thing I was saying that I felt like I was taking x-rays like at the dentist's office and I was like on the other side because you know how like they go and click something and then they walk out that's how it is because you can't like be in the picture so you have to like step around the corner like hide you know before it scans so very interesting stuff and now I'm going to take some videos and then I'll probably go down to the amenities and do some video footage there as well this is some of the footage I got in the apartment and then I just headed down to the amenities they have this really cool Athens sign greetings from Athens Georgia I thought it was really cute and then I headed to this bridge where I could see a good view of the construction happening then I ate lunch I'm back home I just got off of work I actually had to bring the Matterport camera with me back home because I'm gonna check it and take it back to Texas with me and what else I feel like today was more of a fun day I definitely got to just like see more people get to talk to more people which honestly like I love just like meeting new people so it's kind of fun and then tomorrow I'm actually going to two construction sites so that shall be very interesting I was talking to a girl on construction and I was asking like what I should wear and she said like a loose shirt jeans and boots and I was like oh god all my jeans have rips in them and then I don't think I could have packed boots just because my suitcase was like already at 60 pounds when I first weighed it so I was like boots are a no-go and I brought my Air Force ones and then I thought about it like literally like right when I got here I was like that is not a smart idea because well I don't think it'll be too muddy tomorrow but I was thinking like especially when I was like raining I was like oh my god my Air Force ones are actually going to die because they're gonna get so dirty but it's okay because honestly they are really dirty and I need to clean them slash you guys already know if you watch the vlogs I've been on the hunt for a good replacement for my Air Force one so it's time to get new like white sneakers so maybe after this it'll give me the big push if they get dirty I asked her if the Air Force ones are okay like just sneakers and she was like yeah um you just have to be like aware of your surroundings and like try not to step on any nails because then we might have to get you a tetanus shot and I was like oh my god so shall be interesting I'll keep you guys updated hopefully I don't step on any nails but that was today this lighting is like going in and out so sorry but um later today it is Cinco de Mayo happy Cinco de Mayo I am meeting up with Kelsey again I met up with her last night and she was my old boss and we are gonna get some margs and Nicole's coming too and so it's gonna be a fun time it's finally nice weather I can see like a peak of a blue sky and tomorrow it's supposed to be really nice so thank goodness because I thought this whole trip was just gonna be rainy and I was like oh lordy here we go again I feel like the past times I visited Athens obviously with Ryan I always just thought of Athens as a gloomy place because I just feel like it's always gloomy and rainy here maybe I just don't come at the right times but I've definitely like spread them out so it's not like I come at the same time every year you know I'm gonna go change into my comfy clothes probably throw on something like athletic wearish and then probably head to downtown switching over to the iPhone to vlog this is the fit Cinco de Mayo fit Air Force one I got my Urban Outfitters graphic tee on and then these shorts are from Abercombe I have like a little slit at the side I really like them they're like more like a boxy boxy cut good morning it is Thursday it's my last day here in Athens which I'm kind of excited about because then I get to go home to my mom's house and just chill for the weekend I'm checking out of the hotel this morning and today is actually a big day for construction sites so I'm going to two construction sites one is retreat on millage and then the other is the mark phase two so if you guys are in Athens you probably know the names of them or you will know I'm taking a shuttle back to the airport today so I think the bus comes on and picks me up at 515 at home on sweets so I'm just gonna like store my luggage here and then my sister's gonna pick me up from the airport and I think we're gonna get something to eat when I arrive and like I said I'm gonna get picked up at 515 but they said I would get to the island airport at like 720 or something 725 I don't know and I was like oh my god two freaking hours I was thinking they probably added in like all the traffic time but not gonna be too fun sitting in traffic but at least I don't have to drive I could have totally rented a car but I just really hate driving I'd rather just sit in someone's car and not have to be like aware of my surroundings if that makes sense and especially like traffic island and traffic is not fun but I'm gonna go downstairs start my day get my breakfast and head to work I took a bunch more headshots this was the last day that we were offering them because it was my last day in town and then we headed to Pauly's with a couple of co-workers literally my favorite freaking place in Athens their crepe is just so good I don't care how basic it is then I went to the retreat on millage leasing office it's like right on the main road which is awesome and I saw that they were playing my video that is literally my video footage it was so cool to just see it in the office because I only ever really see it on my computer screen and then we headed over to the construction site so this is retreat on millage we got driven around in a golf car and then here is me taking a photo for construction safety week and just like a bunch of other photos just to have for future content this is the clubhouse I'm really excited to just see it all finished when I come back next time then we went over to the mark phase 2 construction site and got some footage there got some really good photos and I was kind of hungry by then so I got a fruitable I've heard so many good things about this place so I had to try it before I left and I got on my groom shuttle headed back to Atlanta look at this beautiful skyline and then I was waiting for my sister for so long the traffic was so bad because I like got there right at prime time obviously Atlanta traffic is horrible here's my sister we went to brick and stone indicator square these great cakes were amazing like oh my god and then I got a burger I kind of wanted a pot pie but they didn't have any left and that is it for this vlog so I hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you guys in my next one don't forget to subscribe


Hello, my name is Dean Bubley from Disruptive Analysis, and I've just moderated the panel on telcos and OTTs at ITU World Telecom 2013 in Bangkok. The session was a very lively debate, representatives from Telefonica, Microsoft, Communicano and Alcatel Lucent. The real mix of people with a policy background, a product background exploring the disputes and potential areas for collaboration between telecoms companies and internet companies, the so-called OTTs. Particularly we've been looking at the future of voice services, voice over IP, messaging and also up to a point content and video as well. The discussion covered a wide range of points around the business models for telecoms operators and how they may interact with the internet companies. We were looking at whether or not the current approach of charging for phone calls and SMSs is sustainable in the face of competition with varying levels of function, price and quality, quite a lot of it for free. And what that means in terms of telecom operators' realistic, survivable prospects in offering services as well as network access. One of the conclusions was that network access prices probably need to reflect a greater deal of their inherent costs rather than relying on cross subsidy from application layer services which may well decrease over time. There was quite a lot of debate about whether service providers can offer internet players any added value services and how they might contribute to costs. One of the things that was suggested was around billing and payments for example for mobile app stores. Other things that came out quite strongly were around the role of operators as providing a channel to market for various internet players or app players perhaps with revenue share agreements. As we already see, for example, with a number of operators bundling in things like Evernote or Spotify, it gets more complicated around voice over IP. But it was interesting that a number of service providers have their own internet OTT applications, for example in Switzerland with one which is majoring on privacy of Swiss networks rather than allowing data to be taken overseas. Overall, I don't think you can necessarily say we came to firm conclusions because it is such a contentious issue. But it certainly set the debate and covered a large amount of ground in terms of both the policy making issues and the realities of what it means to be a software startup as well.


So ship life, a lot of people imagine being on a ship like a cruise line going on a vacation, but here not so much. Definitely a big eye-opener in the way that the Navy has to go through their deployments as opposed to us. And the key to success is this thing that we're standing on right now. The key to success in this fight that's coming at us is this right here. Our commanders here in the Pacific, they recognize that it's not necessarily a question of if, but more so a question of when the Navy Marine Corps team must be ready to respond to some kind of crisis or disaster here in the region. It all comes down to building that team, building that team, you know, we're all going to chatter, walking in the same P-ways, living on the same roof, quote-unquote. Granted, you know, we're all part of the Navy, but we're so different in so many ways. And so all of us to come together and to train as one, that's the big part, just training as one. So Blue Chromite is one of the several exercises that allows us to prepare, sustain that readiness between the Navy and Marine Corps and bring it together, that blue-green team, in order to ensure that our capabilities are well integrated and we're ready to fight tonight together as one team here in Pacific AO.