Hey everyone, we're here to talk today about our journey from Solidity Dev to ZKDev. Talk about how we went from Solidity developers, got introduced to zero-knowledge cryptography and went on to implement battleships. So my name's Ian, and I'm Jack. And yeah, like we said, we're going to walk you through our journey and how we got to where we are today. But first off, I want to start by thanking the Ethereum Foundation. Just over a year ago today, Battleships was just an idea. And to go from presenting at Eat Denver, receiving a grant from the Ethereum Foundation up here, presenting at DevCon today, you know, it's a pretty surreal experience. So none of us expected this, so thank you. So before jumping into our journey in ZK, first let's start off with a question. What is Web3? Shout it out. Yeah, please raise your hands. What is Web3? What is Web3? Decentralize. Decentralize. All right, answers. I think to really get an appreciation for what the definition of Web3 is, though, it'd be helpful to look at what some of the tight ends of the industry have said. So Satoshi, oh wait, that's not Satoshi, I guess. Okay, you know, we'll go with that. Satoshi, and I just want to preface real quick, blockchain predated Web3 by about five years. So this is defined as Satoshi's terms of what Bitcoin was. He basically said Bitcoin is a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash, which would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Next, someone we probably all recognize here as well, Vitalik Buterin. In the context of Ethereum, his definition of Web3 was, what Ethereum intends to provide is a blockchain with a built-in, fully-fledged, Turing-complete programming language that could be used to create contracts that then could be used to encode arbitrary state transition functions. But none of this would be possible if it weren't for the work of Nick Szabo, who coined the term smart contract and came up with the idea in 1994. And his idea of what this ecosystem represented was, the obscurity of a large random number so vast that a lucky guess is unlikely in if desired the lifetime of the universe. And that's the foundation on which cryptographic protocols and intern smart contracts are built. And then finally, appropriately ending at the pointer of the term Web3, Gavin Wood, his definition was, in short, we engineer the system to mathematically enforce our prior assumptions since no government or organization can recently be trusted. So that leaves us with our own definition. Web3 is sovereignty in cyberspace. And following from that, cryptography is authority, the enforcer of the laws in this new inset space. So now that we have a definition, a little bit of the etymology of Web3, let's talk about the actual state of this industry and specifically some of the issues that are plaguing it. Personally, we see the biggest issue as being the almost zealous conviction in tokenization of all assets. And perhaps this might be a little America-centric, but you could just take a look at the housing market as an example of an asset class that maybe you don't want to hyper-financialize. And what we essentially are seeing is that as time has gone on, protocols focus more and more on financial prosperity rather than the actual core tenets of what Web3 is supposed to be as we just went over. And beyond that, I'm sure a lot of you here have heard a lot of talk about privacy and scalability over the past few hours. Again, from an individual perspective and from an enterprise perspective, it's unusable a lot of the time. So, I mean, if you tried to make a swap when Ether was at $4,800, you probably paid $50 for a swap, that's bad, that hurts. And while some of us have gone ahead with Web3, despite privacy concerns, there are a lot of ways that private information can be leaked. And then on the front of enterprises, they've just full-blown written it off for these reasons. A $50 transaction fee is a non-starter. And the fact that certain information is public on a public blockchain, again, is a non-starter. So we saw the rise of private blockchains, and those were also ruled out as while they are private and scalable to the outside, you are still sharing critical business information with the other validators who happen to be competitors in the industry. So what we've seen is essentially, at least until recently, the solutions were just not there. So, really, we think that we can summarize this issue in a single way, that Web3, which has mostly become synonymous with DeFi, DeFi decentralized finance has lost the plot of Web3. Cryptocurrency has become this mechanism for profit generation, whereas that's not really what Bitcoin was supposed to be. Bitcoin, while it has appreciated considerably from being worthless back in 2000, 2009, it appreciated because of its financial agency instability relative to fiat currencies. It was designed to be not censorable or manipulatable. You can print more than $21 million. And the fact that it appreciated in this economic condition is a consequence. It wasn't explicitly engineered to go up. And then we have protocols like Terra Luna, where there wasn't too much innovation on the side of the decentralization or peer-to-peer networks or cryptography. But they did present a novel algorithmic stablecoin, which turned out to be a financial weapon of mass destruction. A lot of capital was destroyed, both for retail investors and institutional investors lost a lot of money. And not only is this bad for the industry just because there are resources that are suddenly taken away. It actually causes a recession in decentralization in this industry, and this is I think something even Vitalik has brought up. As we create these insane volatile liquidity events, governments notice and they decide their mandate is to exert force or exert power over these industries. So as we create more of these opportunities for them to notice, we lose decentralization. So essentially what we want to see to have Web 3 grow to where I think we all see it being in the future is for Web 3 to break out of decentralized finance and become something more than just a monetary tool. And we kind of see that with decentralized science, decentralized social media. Some governance tools are definitely more focused on information rather than the financial aspect. What we really believe is that zero knowledge cryptography is going to cause an explosion in these tools. So specifically you might, if you're a little unfamiliar with zero knowledge, you might think of tornado cash and how zero knowledge can be used as a tool of anonymity or potentially even subversion of central authority or surveillance. However, it's actually important to note that at pretty much its inception, one of the thought experiments for justifying the need for zero knowledge was denuclearization between bitter enemies, the United States and the Soviet Union. They needed to prove to each other that they were actually denuclearizing, but they didn't want to send or they didn't want to allow inspectors from each other's countries into their nuclear bases. So to have disjointed or adversarial parties that are able to coordinate and prove things to each other is incredibly valuable both in the decentralized context where parties are just disinterested and perhaps in more centralized contexts like the relationship that individuals often have with central authorities where incentives are very much misaligned. We can start to build solutions that kind of bridge that gap. So going into the specifics, again, on one end we have tornado cash, coin mixers which are alternate tools of anonymity and on the exact opposite end of the spectrum with very similar code, we have tools of compliance, know your customer, anti-money laundering. And moving on, there's also, and I'm sure a lot of you have seen like the temporary anonymous zone, all the semaphore stuff, there's the ability to create anonymous social media programs that again allow coordination without any sort of central authority. And on a completely unrelated vertical, we can construct IFF signals, which many of you probably don't know what those are, but essentially identification friend or foe signals go on combat aircraft and when they're flying through an airspace, you can basically, with zero knowledge, IFF, you would prove that you're allowed to be flying in that airspace without actually revealing the details of that mission. Then we can start to fortify trustless computing, even bulletproof hosting, and again on the other side of things. We can be fortifying centralized processes, specifically let's take the IRS. There's a little bit of entropy that goes into the audit lottery, so we want to make sure that entropy is sampled correctly. As well, all of the parameters that are used to choose how someone is audited, we want to make sure that those are all correctly chosen and proved. And then finally, something that is not so new, Chainlink has been working on proof of reserves for a while, but facilitates the unbanking of populations. And again, on the other hand, we can have centralized supply chains. So take the distribution, let's say of alcohol, when you go to a bar, you need to prove that you are of age, and the bartender needs to prove that they are only distributing alcohol to people who are of age. And this takes the form of literal cops sending in minors to actually test these places. And that is a reactive solution that uses resources, whereas if we were able to have a system where you can't even get in the door if you can't prove you're 21, we create a lot more. We free up resources for obviously the people who are checking the cops. And then as well, it makes the lives of both really the distributor a lot easier given that compliance is managed in a programmatic way and a provably correct way. So just to summarize it, we have SEMIFOR again, which is something that could be used for anonymous coordination or KYCAML. So what you should really be thinking is that zero knowledge is an incredibly versatile tool and how it is actually molded into whatever product, that's up to you. So specifically, if you are kind of intrigued by SEMIFOR and you think that you have some way to contribute, there's actually a grant round going on right now. It said 14th on an earlier thing, but I'm pretty sure that this link says the 28th. So I would highly encourage you, again, if this is remotely interesting, to look into that grant because there is a huge community of like-minded people. Awesome, yeah, with the background of some of the applications of zero knowledge, let's jump into the actual history and how this came into being. So no doubt, zero knowledge has very much been somewhat of a zeitgeist this past year. Everyone's talking about it, how it could be used for privacy purposes, scalability. But what not many people might know is that actually you can trace its genesis back to 1985, two years after the founding of TCPIP and six years prior to the first website on the World Wide Web. It was first published in an obscure paper by Goldwasser, Macaulay, and Rakoff. And really, with this paper, it first introduced the whole entire concept of zero knowledge cryptography, but it'd be about three decades until we actually saw some additional work on this. In 2013, we saw the first ZK-SNARK implemented through something called Pinocchio. We saw the first example of a ZK-VM through TinyRAM. These weren't blockchain-specific per se, but three more years we would begin to realize the opportunity that zero knowledge cryptography really could provide in terms of scaling and providing privacy to Ethereum. And this happened through the proving mechanism called Grot16, which was really the first practical ZK-SNARK, something that could handle almost any arbitrary computational problem and encrypt it. Two years later, we would see a golden year in zero knowledge cryptography. Barry White had implemented the first roll-up as far as we were able to ascertain. CIRCUM, a language made specifically for writing ZK circuits, were released by an organization called IDEN3. The foundation of the ZK-SNARK, which is a different type of zero knowledge proof apart from SNARKs that stands for Scalable Transparent Argument of Knowledge. And what it really provides that SNARKs don't is it's quantum-resistant, and it also removes the need for a trusted setup, which up until this point has been a major complaint of implementing zero knowledge proofs. It's forward to 2019, and Aztec released a new proving scheme for SNARKs called PLONK. The student totally get rid of the trusted setup, but what it did allow is a universal trusted setup. So instead of needing to perform a lengthy trusted setup for every single SNARK you implement, you only have to do one that can then be applied to many. A year after that, StarCnet released their own ZK-VM called StarCX with its native language called Cairo. Finally to us, ZCASH started to work on the Halo 2 proving scheme, which is foundational for Battleships V2, what we want to accomplish sure enough. We'll talk about that a bit later in our presentation. A year after that, MENA came along with the idea of SNAPs, zero knowledge applications or zero knowledge SNAPs, as well as Circum released, or IDEN3 released Circum 2.0, which really with that, that's what made it possible to release Battleships V1 and present at ETH Denver back earlier in 2022. Then fast forward to modern day, a year later, 2022, PLONK-E2, the successor to PLONK, allows proving speeds that are 100 times faster, ZK EVMs are beginning to enter the mix in the experimental stage that include Polygon Hermes, SCRL, which actually implements Halo 2, and then ZK-SYNC as well. And then finally, an interesting application that exists now is ZPRIZE, which is a zero knowledge analog of XPRIZE. What it basically aims to do is provide a list of bounties so that those interested in improving the efficiency, which with zero knowledge algorithms compute, can go and claim these prizes. But yeah, no, now that we've gone through the lengthy history, let's talk about how you can actually apply ZK to the EVM. And to do this, you really have two options. You have the option of applying a domain-specific language or utilizing a ZK virtual machine. And both methods have their own pros and cons, their own trade-offs. And ultimately, what it comes down to is what are you trying to achieve with your application, what's the scope of it. But we'll go through the pros and cons right here. This pointer is tricky. So when it comes to a DSL, scaling requires expertise. But with ZK EVM, the entire purpose of this other network is really to allow scalability of your applications. With DSL, its computation is verified directly on layer one. But with ZK VMs, technically they are a layer two, so all computations take place on a SIP layer two. And then consensus for DSLs comes from the root Ethereum network of your choice. And then again, touching on the point just before, a layer two, or a ZK VM being a layer two, you're relying an entirely separate set of security and validators that you trust will put your eventually reach consensus on layer one. But ultimately it's up to this external network. And then when it comes to DSLs, the software development kits that exist right now do their best to abstract away complexity. But really what ends up happening is you kind of have to put on another thinking cap. For those of us who are used to developing in standard languages, you really, when writing zero knowledge proofs, can't get away without learning some of the cryptographic principles, underlying elliptic curves, finite fields, constructing arithmetic circuits. So there's definitely a lot of overhead and a lot of investment you have to put in before you can actually get to writing your own program. Whereas in a VM, it's specifically abstracting a lot of the ZK overhead away, so you can get in with knowledge as a developer and get ahead and run your apps like that. And then finally, talking about portability between DSLs and VMs. What a DSL basically allows you to do is it's a way of constructing your files for proving and verifying zero knowledge proofs.  It's really up to you where you deploy to. But when it comes to ZK VMs, you face vendor lock and risk. You might have a specific idea of what chain you want your application to end up on, but down the road, if the scope of your project changes, you can end up being locked in and lose some flexibility that way. But the route we ended up going on is DSL route. And for that we chose Syrcom. Syrcom was an obvious choice because it intuitively provides a language that closely mirrors the cryptography you have to learn. So after going through that headache, learning the ins and outs of the underlying cryptography, you can pretty much write out everything you've been working on in the past weeks or months, however long it takes you. But anyways, as much as we love Syrcom, we found it difficult to actually go from beginner ZK developer to releasing battle zips. We actually have crafted our own good book called Awesome Syrcom. And you can reach it there by scanning the QR code or go to battleships.com slash resources. But I just want to preface that it's not quite done yet, but come this Friday it should be complete. Yeah, check it out for sure. Yeah, so again, we are working to get that just about finished. But we have basically taken the topics that we think are important from someone who's absolute newbie to basically be introduced to borderline spoon fed. And there are some that are really well documented via the proving systems. Groth 16 and Plonk and the powers of Tau ceremony that is trusted setup for Groth 16, we don't really need to do a lot for that. We are really just aggregating existing documentation and putting it in an easy to access format. On the other hand, we have multiplexing in Syrcom. This is a little hidden tidbit that took us a while to figure out. If you read the Syrcom documentation, you will be misled into thinking that you can use if statements. You cannot use if statements the way you think. If you try to use an if statement to select a conditional statement in Syrcom, you will get an error called non quadratic constraints, not allowed. Very dreaded. And to circumvent it, essentially you need to do something called signal multiplexing, which is where in zero knowledge, you compute both cases. Or let's say you have n different branches of logic, you compute all n branches. And only once you've computed every single branch in zero knowledge, then can you select which branch you want. And this is an analogy from electrical signal processing. I believe this is how TV channels and cable even works. But the point is, if you aren't familiar with this, I know I wasn't when I was looking through various code bases and looking at multiplexing. And while you see an if statement in the documentation, it can be very confusing. But so that's an example of something we go more in depth on. For the sake of time, I'm going to speed through a little bit of this. But we have some stuff that's, again, more documented, which is the arithmetic friendly implementations of different hashing algorithms, which then underlie the signing algorithms. So SHA-3 and ECDSA out the window. We're now using Poseidon or MMC at the very least and EDDSA, which are far more efficient. We have Merkle trees, which I'm sure a lot of you are aware of. But they are one of the most powerful tools, both for privacy and scalability. We can take a massive, massive data set and compress it into a tiny hash. And not only is this clearly a method for scaling, but we're also taking that data set and obscuring the data within it, while still being able to operate on it. So this gives us both privacy and scalability. So you will definitely be working with Merkle trees. And then there is first and third party dev tooling. The first party dev tooling you literally just have to use. CIRCOM relies on start.js to actually put proofs in the EVM. And then there's also CIRCOM tester, which unless you want to spend two hours running tests every single time, you're going to want to use something that simulates the logic rather than actually running the entire overhead. And then there's also third party tooling, which is maybe not as required, but still is very important for having a good time developing. So there is the Shield CLI, which was just released, I believe, two weeks ago. They've released their first non-beta version. And you can think of Shield as hard hat or maybe truffle for CIRCOM. Essentially, you'll see in the BattleZip's code base, there are a couple of bash files that handle the generation of circuits. And this is something that requires an understanding of what you're doing. Whereas the Shield CLI will just do this for you. So whether you're already experienced with the CIRCOM start.js in Solidity Stack or you are brand new especially, it's going to be very helpful for kick-starting a new repository. And then there's also the CircumSpect static analyzer. And this is another thing in CIRCOM, the debugging and error messages leave a little bit to be desired. So having a tool like CircumSpect to analyze your code, point out areas where perhaps you're misconstraining something or you're just not correctly writing code is very valuable. So again, CircumSpect and Shield CLI, very important. And then finally, implementations. We've done a couple of videos and we've got stuff on there. So I'm not really going to go into it, but the actual specifics of using CIRCOM. So now that we've kind of gone through all of what that is, again, I think there's like one more minute, so I'll be quick. But we built our original version of BattleZip's as purely a privacy preservation tool. And this is mostly what we've been speaking to you about today, CIRCOM. So this essentially allowed us to prove an adversarial interaction between two parties where they could still trust each other without revealing all this information. So it was a great proof of concept for us to demonstrate private information on a public blockchain, but it fell short in a lot of ways. The scalability is pretty trashed, to be honest, and the intermediate state. So you're still hiding the ship positions, but hits and misses all the different turns in a game. All that's public. So moving on, what we're now working on with the assistance of the Ethereum Foundation through the grant is BattleZip's V2. And this is a little more exciting a novel, we think. Essentially, we want to demonstrate using battleships, the generation of state in a state channel, off chain. And then we summarize the entire state channel in a single transaction using zero knowledge. And what this allows us to do is produce these interesting proofs. So you get this almost immutable or indivisible object, a battleship game, a valid battleship game occurred between Alice and Bob, where Alice won and Bob lost. We'll talk about that in a second, but essentially this benefits both privacy in that you have the intermediate state shield and scalability in that you're batching all these transactions. And we intend to demonstrate how that can be used to drive qualitative insights without revealing a ton of personal information using ELO scores. So I think we'll just skip to the next slide, because it's kind of the same thing. Again, BattleZip's and Zip's is a kind of data structure, is basically state channel summary, where we're rolling up all of the state that we generate in a femoral layer two. We collapse it back on the layer one as soon as the state generation is done. And we already talked about the battleship proof, but there are a couple of more real-world examples that are exciting to us, take proof of a valid delivery. There's a bunch of different parts that go into it. Perhaps there's IoT, temperature controls, or perhaps there's an inertial sensor on something that's fragile and can't be moving in transit, chain of custody. Whatever you decide is necessary for your supply chain, you can then package that into a single proof of delivery. And the consequence of that is that the participants in this, say the delivery drivers who have no interest in being doxxed on chain, don't have to be doxxed on chain. You can start to involve them in these economies without them being exposed to all these negative externalities that Web 3 currently exposes us to. And again, just another example, which is a little less novel. Obviously, there's a snapshot, which is somewhat centralized. But essentially, we can take this entire voting process off chain. I assume it probably looks a lot like Macy, too, actually, in premise. But instead of it occurring all of the state accumulating on chain, where in Molek style, it's all even public, we are accumulating the vote off chain and then rolling up a proof that a vote occurred on this proposal, where 65% of stakeholders approved it, or 65% of governors or whatever. So it creates these kind of indivisible proofs that can be used for various things. So, yeah, so if you guys have any, sure, yeah, really quick, any desire to be working on this and you're struggling to get started. We have, I think, in the Battleships resources, we have a link to our Discord. You can go in there and drop literally any question and we'll do our best to answer it. Yes, sir. And then, are there any questions? You maybe have time for like one or two. Okay, if not, another huge round of applause for Jack and Ian. Thank you.


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The open of the 2021 NFL season may be tonight. It is. It's not maybe it is tonight. But that does not mean we are abandoning daily fantasy baseball here on the solo shot. We will still have shows every weekday at 9am on the Fandal YouTube page at 8 o'clock on Mondays. And we're still going to have it up on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed as well. And we're starting things off this NFL season with a four game slate tonight with Lockett 705. Just four games are trying to avoid the overlap with the NFL. Totally get it. It does mean we're going to scramble a bit and use some pictures we might not usually use. But I do still think there are logical process based options we can use for today. So let's dive on in and get you set for this Thursday main slate. Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the Fandal podcast network and Number Fire dot com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for a Number Fire dot com here to break down this four game main slate once again with lock set for 705. All four games start by 720. So it's kind of like an express slate if you're played those on Fandal. There are a lot of fun. There's a lot of action. All the points are scored in a hurry. I love them. So that is tonight. 705 is locked for today with four games there. Unfortunately two of them could be threatened by rain. There is a good chance of rain for the Blue Jays and Yankees in New York. Looks like it'll be light rain which is helpful but could potentially be wet there. Light rain is also possible in Philadelphia for the Phillies and the Rockies. Looks like that should be leaving before first pitch. Well to keep an eye on that one as well. So New York and Philadelphia are the two trouble spots for today for rain. We'll see if things pass out of there before we get to first pitch. Before we take a look at this main slate. A lot of good stuff here on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed in the Fandal podcast network in general. We have a new show called unsportsmanlike conduct. We have two awesome hosts over there with Gavin Breanna. They are doing a great job. They did their first show last week. Second show is this week every Tuesday. Find that by searching for unsportsmanlike conduct wherever you get your podcast. We also have Girls Who Bet with Erin Kate Dolan and Olivia Moody. That is every Wednesday night on the Fandal Believe YouTube page. So make sure you find that. Check out. They had to say I got to hang out with Erin and Liv in Denver. They were a riot. A lot of fun to hang out with and I'm excited to listen to that one later on today. So check those out on wherever you get your podcast and then the Girls Who Bet show up on the Fandal YouTube page. We have our NFL DFS podcast week one coming up later on this morning. 10 a.m. on the Fandal YouTube page up on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed after that. So make sure you go to the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast and then hit subscribe. And if you like what you hear, leave us a rating and review as well. Before breaking down pictures, I want to let you know about the Fandal Sunday Million. The prize pool is a whopping $3.5 million with first place taking home a million dollars. All you have to do is head over to Fandal today and click on the NFL Sunday Million contest. Draft your line of players, sit back and enjoy Sunday NFL football. Go to Fandal.com today to participate in the NFL Sunday Million. Eligibility restrictions apply. Go to Fandal.com or download the Fandal app for more details. Pitching preview for this Thursday main slate. Jose Barrios is the highest-sellered pitcher on a Fandal, checking in at $9,100. Huascari Noah is $8,800. Ranger Suarez is $8,600. Antonio Zendertela facing Philly is $8,400. And John Means, round for the top group, he is $8,100. And looking at this slate, you're not going to find anyone who is like a no-brainer pick. There are no, you know, if we have a larger slate, I probably wouldn't be using any of these guys. But do you think that Huascari Noah deserves to be at the top of the list for today at $8,800? You know, it's facing the Nationals at home.  They rank dead last on this slate in WRC Plus, isolated slugging and fly ball rates. Their 23% strikeout rate is not high, but it's also not low. That means it's a plus spot for Noah. He came off the injured list four starts ago. He hasn't been as good as he was before the injury, but he's still been good. He has not been a bad pitcher. He's not quite as good as he was before. Strikeout right there, 23%. He has a 4.04 skill interactive ERA. He's had decent bat at ball numbers. So he's been good, but there is also room for some upward improvement, I think, based on some of the underlying numbers. Specifically, he got some whiffs against the Marlins and the Rockies, a 13.8% swing and strike rate against the Marlins, 14.3% against the Rockies, and he also had nine strikeouts against the Yankees. That's a really good baseline. And if we get that version of Noah tonight, I'll be very happy. But he could also get back to what he was doing before the injury, which was getting a lot of strikeouts. The 3.42 ERA for Noah in this time. He is good and it comes despite a start at Coors Field. That makes me feel pretty comfortable using Noah tonight at $800. He's my top pitcher of the day. Feel pretty good in saying that. Again, the baseline is good, but there is room for him to be even better than that going forward. So he lost our Noah number one for me. Number two is very much a bet on talent versus the matchup. That's Jose Barrios facing the Yankees. And it is a tough spot. They've got just a 98 WRC plus, so they're technically a below average offense. But we know the guys they've got in Atlanta, they're dangerous and it's not a spot I want to attack. It's just hard to pass up the talent in Barrios. Barrios is the top raw pitcher on this slate. His velocity has been down a bit over his past 10 starts, but he still leads the slate in both skill interactive ERA and strikeout rate. It does seem like he's adjusting a bit with the Jays too, you know, learning the ropes with that team. He had 11 strikeouts two starts ago. He had seven to start after that. So he's got the best ceiling on this slate. Like if you're talking about who could score the most fandal points like raw, raw ceiling, that is Barrios because of the talent. He just has lower odds of reaching at Benny Noah due to the matchup. Still, Barrios has six plus strikeouts eight times in this 10 start span. He has eight plus three times. So I like his outlook a lot. I just wish it weren't against the Yankees. It's still enough for me to put him second. But that's why he's second and not first above Noah, even though I feel better about the talent that Barrios does possess. Number three for me is going to be Ranger Suarez. Not a guy thought would have any strikeout upside until recently. And he still might not have strikeout upside Suarez, but he has at least gotten some strikeouts recently. And on a four game slate, I can take some. Those games came against the Reyes and the Marlins. Both those teams love to strikeouts. So not a shock that he got strikeouts there, but he gets the Rockies tonight. They're not a high strikeout team, but they're also not a big threat. Strikeouts are partially, you know, extrapolation and hope base for Suarez, but we know the bad at ball data will be good. We're extrapolating and hoping for the strikeouts. We don't have to hope for the fly ball rate and stuff like that. We know that's there. In his seven starts Suarez has a 21% fly ball rate allowed. His hard hit rate is 32%. Strikeout rate is 23%, which is not bad for this slate. The concern that I have for Suarez is length. He's got the pitch count. Pitch count's fine. He went 99 and 95 in his two of his past three starts. But he walks too many guys. That drives up his pitch count and gets him out of games earlier, which is an issue because length doesn't matter a lot for DFS. But it is a four game slate. It lacks quality pitchers. I am okay going to Suarez number three, despite those downsides. I do think that he is pretty solidly behind Innova and Barrios. And I would say like, I wouldn't be shocked if I wound up using just those two guys for tonight. It's risky, but I'm kind of okay with that for MLB. If you're not only play what you're okay losing and if they both bomb, whatever. I think that's probably okay for tonight. So to me, it is Innova one, Barrios two, Suarez three, but he might not wind up being in my player pool for today. Stacks are a bit better than pitching for today, which makes sense given that pitchers are bad. Probably in stacks are better. They are. And the first one is a braze. I was on the braze last night. Didn't go all that well, got a couple dingers or got a binger in there. But like, you know, I think that it was an ideal. I still want to go back there once again tonight. They're facing Eric Fetty. Fetty has some decent peripherals recently. But most of that is due to a low walk rate in the nine starts with more sliders. Fetty's walk rate is 5%. That helps him get a 3.94 skill interactive VRA, which is actually the second best number on this slate. But it's a flawed, it's a misleading number. His strikeout rate is low at 22%, which means when you combine that with his walk rate, he's letting up a lot of balls and play.   His ERA in this time is 5.20. That is with six under and run scoring. So not counting towards his ERA. He's facing the Braves tonight. They're easily the most powerful team on this slate. They lead it in both ISO and fly ball rates by a pretty decent margin. You put that in a good part for hitting and things are probably going to go well. The Braves scored five runs, four of which were earned against Fetty a month ago. And I think they could do well once again for tonight. So the Braves to me are my number one stack. When you look at the Braves number, the Braves batters, look at the guys here, how they do versus righties. The guy I would downgrade the most relative to lefties is Jorge Soler. And don't get me wrong, I still like Soler. But his ISO versus righties go down to 153, which is about half what it is against lefties. So if we're ranking out the players in this Braves stack, I would be more likely to go with Adam Duvall over Soler. I'm not saying don't use Soler. Soler is awesome. He's a powerful guy in a very good lineup that I want to stack. But it does slide him down a bit for me. So deep prioritize Soler a bit, still keeping near the top of your list because he's very good. But I think if you're weighing him relative to Albies, Freeman, Duvall, guys like that, Riley and Swanson as well, it's okay to push him down a bit due to his numbers versus righties. I'm going to put the Orioles second on this list. And I say that while acknowledging that there are some issues here, I just think that they are the second best option. They're facing Carlos Hernandez, and Hernandez has pitched well since joining the rotation for the Royals. In his first start, didn't throw his cutter or his slider much, his two wipeout pitches, and he's leaned more on them recently. So the most relevant example for Hernandez is the past eight outings with those pitches being more of a factor. And in those starts, Hernandez has a 2.80 ERA, and that's likely due to his good, bad at ball numbers. He has allowed a 34% hard hit rates and a 37% fly ball rate in that time. Both those are solid marks. So it's not a fluke that we've seen Hernandez get good results. I'm just not entirely sure it's a lock to continue. The primary counterpoint to Hernandez continuing to be good is his plate discipline data. In those eight outings, he has a 19% strikeout rate. His walk rate is 8%. And his strikeout rate and walk rate are both the second worst numbers on this slate. His skill interactive ERA ranks last by a good margin. He's facing a pretty solid, I would say, Orioles team. They have a 97 WRC plus against Reides with a 171 ISO. They can get the job done even if they're not a great team. And I think that we should take swipes at them here and hope this really fun series from a DFS perspective keeps on going. So back in on the Orioles for tonight. If you're looking to mitigate Hernandez's good bad at ball numbers, I would favor lefties by a bit here. They have a 38% fly ball rate against him since he moved in the rotation. For Reides, it's 36% goes down a bit. And the strikeout rate also goes down three ticks versus lefties, which means we don't have to abandon Reides. Like they're still fine against him, but I would be okay bumping up the lefties. Anthony Santander, Cedric Mullins, they are always good options, even a little bit better tonight. And then DJ Stewart, if he plays the Dong Jockey Stewart, if he plays, going to be a solid option. Someone recommended on the Q&A history, we call him B Stew. And I like that DJ Stewart B Stew, you know, Dong Jockey, whatever you prefer. I think that he works for today. So I think that I am on board with the Orioles broadly, but Stewart Mullins and Santander specifically. For the third stack, I'm going to go with the best offense on this late. Wild ID, I know, and that's the Jays. They are the only team with an above average WRC plus versus the opposing pitchers handedness. They're up at 111, so well clear of average. They're facing Nester Cortes, which is not the world's best matchup, but Cortes is flawed in some senses. There are some issues, some issues, minor ones. He's a good pitcher, but there's some issues here. If we're looking at a small slate, the big one is fly balls. Cortes has been throwing more cutters over his past five starts. In that time, he has allowed a 52% fly ball rate. That is the highest on the slate by about 7 percentage points. And it's led to six home runs allowed across five games. That's an issue that Cortes has had all year.  It hasn't really mattered though, because he didn't let up a lot of hard contact. That number is rising a smidge. His strike area is coming down a bit. So I think Cortes is a good pitcher, but he's facing the Jays as a lefty on a small slate. If we look at, you know, difference making totals for a small slate, you just want dingers. I mean, that's true for every slate, but like, especially on a small slate, I want dingers. And I think the Jays have a high probability of getting dingers for tonight. So this is less about Cortes than it is about the offense we are stacking here. I just think that the offense, good enough against his hand in this to feel good about them, despite the fact that I do respect what Cortes can do. I am good with all that in ranking the Jays third for tonight behind the Braves and the Orioles. Obviously, the Jays' salaries are hard to get to even on this slate where we have our pitchers in the low 9000, high 8000 range. That's what we'll make Randall Gritchick so key at $2,600, no matter where he hits in the order he could at eighth. I won't care. I'm going to use him. It also makes Alejandro Kirk and Danny Jansen options that both those guys have hit for some power in a small sample against lefties. Kirk is $2,600. Jansen is $2,500. I am down to use either guy to make this stack work. So I do think that Gritchick is the priority over them, but I do like Kirk and Jansen to save us some salary for today. We have not talked about two different pitchers in the slates. Let's just close up them on things to watch. The two guys we have not discussed are John Means and Antonio Sanzatella. Between the two, I'm more inclined to stack against Means mostly because he lets up a lot of fly balls. He has increased his curveball usage over his past seven starts, and he's let up a 46% fly ball rate in that time. That is the second highest number on the slate behind Cortez. He does a 23% strikeout rate, which is good relative to other pitchers in the slate. The Royals, not a great overall team, but they have some individual batters who can bang lefties. Specifically Salvador Perez, who always had some runs, Alibar at the Montessy. All these guys are good against lefties. Eduardo Lovarez, you want to save some salary. So I think the Royals are number four stack for tonight. Number five, it's the Phillies facing Sanzatella. He just doesn't let up as many fly balls. A 27% fly ball rate in 10 starts with increased velocity. He also doesn't get strikeouts, though, which is why I am okay stacking the Phillies tonight. I would just rank them fifth in terms of the order because of the lack of fly balls that Sanzatella allows. Let's finish up here today with the Dinger calls for tonight. We're going to go with Freddie Freeman for the boring one. I think I had Freddie Freeman sometime this week as well, but like, you know, let's go back to it. I will say Fetty does have a better ground ball rates versus lefties than righties, but Freddie Freeman is a good baseball player. So we'll go to Freddie Freeman as a home run call for the boring one. As far as the fun one, I'm going to do something we did earlier on this year. There was a game where I wasn't sure who would catch for the twins. So I said twins catcher and we wound up getting a couple homers. I think that Mitch Garver had one and then Williams Ostadio may have had one as well. So for today, we're going to say the Blue Jays catcher because I don't know if it'll be Kirk or Jansen, but I think that whoever it is is going to go deep. I like the power profile. I like the matchup here against the fly ball pitcher like the park for home runs. So home run calls for today are Freddie Freeman and whoever catches for the Toronto Blue Jays tonight. That is all that we have here for today on the solo shot. We do have a Q&A coming up later on today. Just a slightly different time than usual. We have we're going to have a preview of the Bucks and the Cowboys at 4 p.m. I'll be talking single game DFS props, overall betting stuff. That is for Bucks Cowboys 4 p.m. On the Thaddle YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages after that at 4 30. I'll talk MLB DFS. Let it be our schedule for Friday as well. So new schedule for MLB on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday is 4 30 to 5 talking MLB DFS with our Q&A. So make sure you subscribe there. Also make sure you subscribe to the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast, NFL podcast later on today. If you're watching on YouTube right now. Hello. Stick around back at 10 a.m. to talk some NFL DFS. Should be a whole lot of fun. If you've got questions for me, I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. You can also follow the FanDuel Podcast Network at FanDuel Podcast. Big thank you to everyone for tuning in. Good luck to you tonight. Enjoy the games before the NFL game starts. Enjoy the NFL game once that's going. Win some money. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to close out the week. 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Ever wonder what it's like to live like a prince and princess? Who are you kidding? Of course you have. Most modern day royal families still live better than 99.9% of the rest of us. I mean Queen Elizabeth II spends her days at six different properties. Then there's the other members of her family, like the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, perhaps better known as Prince William and Princess Kay Middleton. We were friends for over a year first. We just spent more time with each other and had a good giggle, had lots of fun and realized we shared in the same interest and just had a really good time. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. These two are lucky enough to own two different properties that they split their time between alongside their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. A few years ago they began growing their family out of Kensington Palace where they live in the flat known as apartment 1A. While world events and the ongoing lockdown have this couple spending the majority of the past year and quite possibly the near future at their second home located at Annmer Hall. With the recent headlines that Prince William's brother Harry and his beautiful bride Meghan have been making moves across the pond, today we're going to turn our attention back to Prince William and Princess Kate. Let's not forget who's love life used to be the center of everyone's social media feeds before something newer and shinier came along. It's the trial the world is watching. Photographers and editors charged with invasion of privacy for their part in publishing topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate. How's it going guys and gals? It's Kara back at it again with the brand new house tour. This one taking a look at the two homes of Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton here for you on Famous Entertainment. If you like this video be sure to check out the one we just did on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's new multi-million dollar home in Monocito, California. As usual, don't forget to follow me on Instagram to check it out. Now let's get into this video. We'll kick things off with a look at the family's original starter home located in unit 1A of Kensington Palace. Way back when Kensington Palace was a two-story mansion built in 1605 in the village of, you guessed it, Kensington. The home would later be purchased in 1619 by the first Earl of Nottingham and become known at the time as Nottingham House. After King William and Queen Mary assumed the throne as joint monarchs, in 1689, the home began their residence as the climate there better suited the sickly William. Over the centuries it would house countless members of the royal family including Queen Victoria when she was still only a child. It was while living at this palace that Victoria met Prince Albert and learned of her own takeover of the throne in June of 1837. When she finally left Kensington for Buckingham, Queen Victoria admitted that she would miss the poor old palace that she had spent so much time growing up in. Fast forward 100 years or so later and Prince William and Princess Kate aren't the only ones living here. The Duke and Duchess of Glauchester, the Duchess and Duke of Kent, as well as Prince and Princess Michael of Kent all call this palace's royal apartment home. This isn't even the first time that Prince William has lived here. Back when he was just a child, he stayed here with his brother Harry as well as his mom and dad throughout most of the 80s and 90s. Then when he married Kate, this became their starter home and they moved in during 2017. Now calling this an apartment is misleading because they are not what your average North American might think of when they hear the term apartment. Most of Kensington Palace is composed of red brick terrace houses that, while connected, serve as their own fully functioning homes. Apartment 1A where Kate and William live is a four-story building with 20 rooms including five reception rooms, three main bedrooms, multiple dressing rooms, a night and day nursery as well as its very own staff quarters. Not really the apartment you were thinking of, is it? Due to this being primarily a private residence, detailed looks at the interior of their home are few and far between. But when President Obama visited their pad in 2016, a number of pics were taken that give us a taste of the Prince and Princess's home life. For example, Prince William has a working space with an antique style desk lamp alongside a gorgeous fireplace and mirror combo set into the back of the room. Their drawing room is spacious enough for several guests and sports a sophisticated cream color scheme with gold accents while their living room offers plenty of plush cream soaps with an added splash of color from the floral cushions. Kate even converted one of the rooms into her own personal newsroom for when she worked as a guest editor at Huffington Post and decorated her work space with dark furniture and gorgeous artwork that hangs on the walls. Beyond the private apartments, there are some areas of Kensington open for public viewing and three of the most popular areas are undoubtedly the King's Staircase which leads up to the King's State Apartments as well as the Presence Chamber where former monarchs have received critters, ministers and foreign ambassadors. But most impressive of all has to be what's referred to as the Coupola Room which creates a visual style that personifies the Georgian age.  Next, let's check out Animer Hall Prince William and Princess Kate's summer home that's currently acting more like their permanent one. After William and Kate tied the knot in 2011, Queen Elizabeth gifted the couple this country a state which is not too far away from where the Queen likes to spend most of her own holidays at Sandringham House. The current building was constructed in the 18th century and features two stories along with an attic. Out front, the long exterior of the home comprises 13 bays and was refaced with red bricks in 1815. 13 ground floor windows are set into arches and a semi-circular porch can be seen with two Tuscan columns. Further renovations that went down in 1900 added a brick exterior to the north of the building and a projecting entrance porch along with a tower toward the eastern end. Reports suggest that the home features as many as 10 bedrooms on the inside. Prior to recent world events, the family would use this property during school breaks and for weekends as well as the holidays. Over the past few years, Kate has said that she feels the most at home when living here and the family has had many photo shoots here as well, including the portrait for their 2018 Christmas card. When Kate and William inherited the home, Kate decided to take on the interior decorating challenge herself. Simon, night owner of nearby rug store, told People Magazine, instead of hiring a royal interior designer, she wants to furnish it in her own style because she wants this to be her own family home. A renovation also happened in which the roof was completely retiled and a sunlit garden room was added to one side of the house with a covered patio for extra privacy and protection from the British climate. To increase their privacy even further, more trees were planted all around the property and the driveway was moved so that the public entrance was turned into a private one, accessible only by the Duke and Duchess. As tennis lovers, the duo also upgraded their tennis court as well with all new Astro turf and bordered it with a copper beach hedge. Finally, this sprawling Georgian estate also contains its very own outdoor swimming pool and is surrounded by acres of parkland which makes it perfect for playtime with the kids. Ever since the UK entered lockdown, the Duke and Duchess have chosen to ride out the storm from this lavish property which offers them far more privacy than Kensington does. And you know, William and Kate love their privacy. But if you're lucky enough, you might spot Kate dropping the kids off at nearby Mabel's paint pot or maybe even catch both the prince and princess out for a date night at one of the local pubs. All right guys, that's all I got on our tour of the two different homes of Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. What did you think? Which of the two homes would you rather be living in right now? Do you think it makes sense that the family has chosen to hang out in the countryside during this long pandemic? Be sure to let me know your thoughts in the comments down below. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to follow me over on Instagram. And of course, I'll see you all in the next video. Bye.


What's up everybody Jason here for jazby's case breaks.com We just sold out 2023 bow and draft super jumbo two box break round teams number eight guys And again, everybody gets a random team an MLB all-card ship seven eight nine are from the same case guys So thank you guys. Let's click dice roll. It's a five and a four nine times one two three four five six seven eight nine nine times five four nine nine Matt down to Matt right there and nine times here one two three four five six seven eight Guardians down the Rockies Alright, so again Matt you have the Guardians as well as a race Kev with the Pirates Matt with the Royals James of the Angels Anthony of the White Sox Joel You have the Orioles Matt with the Diamondbacks Alan Murdoch with the Brewers Matt with the Marlins Reds twins Cardinals ace Chris you have the Nationals Matt with the Yankees Mariners Giants Cubs Tigers Blue Jays Padres Mets Chris of the Astros Red Sox Braves Matt with the Rangers Joel DeFillies and now the Dodgers in Colorado Rockies All right, there's be any trades guys. I'll give you guys a quick minute. If not Closing the trade window. I'm assuming at this later hour. No trading. I'll give it some time Matt If you want I just didn't think no one's gonna want to trade but yeah, Chris if you're watching I don't know if you are Matt saying trade what you want for that spot. I don't know. I'll give it a few minutes though. I'm gonna bring the boxes over All right, no problem, man. I'm not even sure if Chris is honestly watching All right, so we have four boxes remaining guys. We'll have another break for tomorrow or whenever we're live again I know Joe's back tomorrow, but I'm not sure if he's on here or he's on for next life But we have left or right guys one two three for the left side four five six for the right side It's a six one two three four five six All right, let's put these boxes over her All right, here we go guys So I'm gonna kind of skim through the paper Obviously the shipping team knows the names we pull out to sleep with everything if I catch some I'll do it if I don't then I guess if they know We have a noble my mayor Nice match shot of 50 Cubs going to Matt G. That's a big hit right there for a paper and Jack Mahoney For the Rockies it's going to Matt G And a you Lee to 99 green for the Detroit Tigers, which is also going to Matt G Very In Carson Rock of four take gold first bowman for the Royals going to Matt G Second round pick actually 66th overall, so not too terrible there. It's probably a good one brought the Rattenberg my length river frac there and AJ Ewing For the Mets we're going to Matt G last spot mojo. Whoa Tom Brady base. Wow Not a color but just a base Which I'm sure probably pays for the spot.  I thought they only had refractors in coast that's this Jay Gonzalez And Yassir Mercedes to 125 Yeah, well, I figured they dropped man. I mean that hype was just too much man But the fact that is that a base short print is still a $500 card right now.  Have you refractor autograph? probable Andrew pink me for washington That is a fourth round pick to 250 going to chris baller Nice nice All right, there's box one though Let's go with the second box here guys for those red, but it's not Thought it was red. I got slow Ficked out for a second. All right, here we go guys. Good luck. You got Brooks Lee a little speckle And we got a Sabin It's available To 99 and Garrett Forrester for the pirates Going to Kev refractor there to 499 White Langford And we got a Zach Dorn to 99 green grass For the matt's going to Matt G last fall mojo And we got Colton lead better for the rays Races Matt G Next half We got Jacob Wilson For the athletics for matt and then gabin cross purple to 250 for the royals going to Matt G Jayce young to 499 kj or cj kfus Super exciting Whoa super fracture, how about a Brooks Lee? Look at matt for your minnesota twins There you go matt And Brooks Lee actually was the first round pick a few years ago. I think last year's draft Uh for your twins so he's like the future potentially Uh, what do you mean logan little different kind of fuzzy picks? So what does that even mean? It definitely is you I have no idea what you're talking about and max anderson for detroit Really to be honest, maybe we'll switch my camera. I think it's might be your eyes Well, we've got your glasses on you need glasses Yeah, well child is it there's also somebody behind you logan be careful. I've seen someone standing behind you All right, we got paul skeens and then one more autograph here guys. Good luck after this base though Oh And mike bovi believe For the brew crew Class of 2023 that's going to allen murdoch actually So you got a little something For a couple people there not too shabby Not about two boxes though guys. Damn got a super fracter and one we got the tom brady short front and the other I'll top it all these autographs right now, but there's one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 Matt shell paper little brady still goes for five to seven hundred dollars and then the super fracter won one briskley So there you go guys. Thank you guys so much. Like I said, this was my last break of the night So I'm calling it after this. So appreciate you guys Jasper's case breaks.com


My name is John Kerner, an orthopedic spine surgeon here at Orthopedic Specialists of New Jersey, and I work at Hacketech Meridian Health. Orthopedic surgery is very rewarding. Most of the time you see patients that have specific injuries, and you're able to help them in a relatively quick manner. There's a lot of things that can cause neck and back pain and finding out what's causing it is a challenge sometimes. And I enjoy that challenge. I enjoy finding what is causing pain and difficulty and being able to fix that. And it's very rewarding getting people back to their lifestyle without pain and they're usually very happy. Personal care philosophy is treating every patient individually. Every patient is different as far as what their experience is, what they're dealing with in their personal lives, how the injury or pathology is affecting them. And it's really important to me to try to understand that. Not every patient is looking for the same thing. So trying to understand that really helps develop that relationship, not just importing on what you necessarily think is always best for them, but really listening to their ideas too. When you kind of understand where the patient's coming from, you really can make them better a lot faster.


Welcome back to Art of Awakening. My name is Onah and today I'd like to invite you to join me to explore the law of polarity. This is the fourth in a series of videos I'm doing on universal law and in this video we're going to discover what the law of polarity is, how it influences our perception of the world. And also we'll look at the number one key to mastery of this principle and a couple of tools that you can use to help understand how to work with the principle of polarity to stay balanced and to manifest the kind of life that you desire. The principle of polarity is an incredibly powerful spiritual law. In fact it's one of the biggest keys to spiritual mastery especially at this time on the planet. The law of polarity is the principle that we live in a world of duality in which everything can be expressed as pairs of opposites. For example tall and short, hot and cold, light and dark, happy and sad, spirit and matter. So when we have these opposites the opposite poles appear to be completely separate but in reality they're opposites of the same thing. And remember that the first universal law was the law of mentalism that everything is one consciousness. It's oneness and then the principle of polarity explains how that oneness appears. So you can think of it as the two sides of the same coin or you can also see it as two points along the same line. It's a measure of amount. You can also see it as a spectrum with opposites, extreme opposites on either end. So it's these polarities, the split that creation expresses itself. It's what the universe is made of even in the virtual world that we humans have created the same principle applies. Every piece of programming that makes up the virtual world eventually traces back to machine language and that's what the virtual world is made of. It's all made of zeros and ones. Our actual world is basically made up of zeros and ones too, right? Truth versus illusion. And we've all got some truth and some illusion within us. The thing about duality is that it is by its nature polarizing because we often will want to identify with one end or the other of the spectrum. I offered a spiritual laws masterclass last year where we studied the universal laws and several of the participants found themselves triggered by this particular law at first until they worked through it and started to understand it at a deeper level. So right now we're living in an incredibly polarized world. The law of polarity allows us to take a higher view of the world to see past polarities into that underlying oneness. The key to doing that is to find the center, the balance point, where you can see both sides of the spectrum and draw on the strengths of each. And that's why heart coherence is so important because if you look at the human energy system, the chakra system, we have a spectrum from the root to the crown, right? This represents the polarity between individual survival embodied by the root, right? And one misconsciousness which is experienced more up here. Being polarized toward the root means that you're in survival mode, right? In 3D consciousness and being polarized at the crown, it can be difficult to gain traction in this world, right? Or sometimes it can lead to being taken advantage of by those who are polarized in the opposite direction, okay? So when you're in your heart space, it's easier to see the whole picture and to operate from a balanced place, which is this place of compassion, right? From the heart you can understand and see that extremes tend to meet and move into one another. It's like the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake eating itself, or the Yin-Yang symbol, or the principle of homeopathy, that a toxin taken to its highest vibration becomes a healing agent, right? So you have all these spiritual symbols and concepts that really address the law of polarity. Okay, so how do we use this principle? First, we can use it by understanding it, right? The acceptance of the polarity, and then by exercising our free will to choose where along the line we want to be. But to do that, we often have to consciously depolarize ourselves to bring us back to the center, back to the heart, and this requires a process of conscious awareness and often forgiveness and compassion. For example, the master Jesus said to love your enemies, an incredibly potent and novel concept back in the day, and I think it still is, right? To love your enemies, you have to make the effort to understand them, and then to see where both they and you are polarized. Often your quote-unquote enemy has taken on that role in your life because they represent a balance to your own polarity. Once you start seeing this with compassion for both you and the other person, it opens the door to bringing this energy into balance within yourself, and we do this through forgiveness. The act of forgiveness doesn't mean that you condone whatever happened, right? It definitely does not mean to keep putting up with abuse, but what it does mean is to take responsibility for the underlying energy imbalance within yourself, or sometimes within your ancestral line or some aspect of the collective that your soul has chosen to work on behalf of. To recognize that this person showed up in the way they did to bring your attention to that imbalance, right? And then we can neutralize the polarity, right? Not by changing the other person. That's their job, but through forgiving them, through letting go of the blame and the shame and the attachment to imbalance. And so by doing this, you're actually shifting hate into love because hate is just the polarized opposite of love. They're on the same spectrum, just different levels of vibration of the same thing. Hate is just love spinning in a negative way versus a positive way, okay? So bringing it into the heart space, you can spin it around the other way to turn it back into love. This is true alchemy or transmutation, and this is what study of the law of polarity can help us to achieve, right? We can do this on a massive scale when we get into the heart space. We can do it with anything once we understand the law of polarity and learn to leverage that balance point. Right now, as I said, the world is incredibly polarized. There's a lot of stories out there trying to force us into one end or the other of a spectrum or any kind of issue. And so this is a way to really help to bring oneness and balance back if we can start seeing opposites with compassion. And even if it's not an opposite that you want to embody, right? Being in the heart space just means that you can operate from a point of balance within yourself and instead of pushing everything on that other end of the spectrum further away, instead of fighting it, you're accepting it and you are releasing responsibility for it to spirit, to the higher spirit, to the oneness, right, so that we can bring more oneness into the situation. Okay, so where the law of polarity can get especially interesting is when you superimpose two or more lines on each other, okay, it opens up a huge range of possibilities. As artists, we can look at the color wheel as a metaphor for this. So we've got these spectrums of opposite colors, red and green, blue and orange, purple and yellow, and these are all spectrums of opposites. And then you have the value spectrum, the light and dark. When you put all these spectrums together, you get this interplay that allows you to create any color under the sun. And at the middle of that neutral, okay, another way to illustrate the same concept spiritually is with the medicine wheel or the wheel of the year. It encompasses within many different polarities or opposites of energy, the rise and fall of the seasons, summer and winter, spring and fall, night and day, youth and age, all these concepts, right, you can use the medicine wheel to help you see the polarities within yourself. And at the center again is this neutral space that is the place of power, the place in the center where you can see and access and choose from all the polarities. So you can see how working with the law of polarity can really help you become a master creator and manifest the things and relationships that you're really desiring to have in your life. And one last key is that if you find yourself dealing with negative emotions, negative things, something that you really feel isn't part of the polarity that you want, you can help to neutralize that simply by recognizing it, you know, maybe it's a negative emotion coming up on you, realize that that is there to call attention to where you might be out of balance. So what you can do is address that energy, accept it, say, hey, I see you there. And thank you for coming up into my life. Thank you for making yourself known.  And I now thank you for reminding me of my power. And I'm going to look for the opposite. And I'm going to decide that I can actually control this. And I can consciously spin this in the other direction. That is a way that you can transmute some of these energies. So if you've enjoyed this video and you'd like to know more about spiritual law, check out my spiritual law playlist and be sure to hit that subscribe button. 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Okay, we're back. We're live. I'm Jay Fidel. We're doing political stuff this afternoon. And we have a candidate for lieutenant governor right here among us. Senator Willis Sparrow from the Hawaii State Senate. Welcome to the show, Will. Thank you, Jay. I'm very happy to be here with you. Yeah, great. So we have lots of questions. So, you know, how is this end of these days?  What was the process involved and how will that play out in 2018? Well, after session, as you know, there were some changes. And then there was a major bill that was this sort of hanging with the rail. So we were recently able to pass a rail bill that will get funding all the way to all the morning shopping center. And it looks like the federal government is okay with our funding plan if I read the news correctly. And recently also confirmed some judges. That's part of our responsibility as a state Senate. And overall, things are settled now in the Senate. Next year is a big year. Half of the Senate is up for reelection. And some of them, some of us are running for other seats. But certainly I think a lot of the issues that we took up this year that didn't pass will probably be taken up next year. For example, Airbnb collecting taxes or not. Possibly debt with dignity. Oh, yeah. Mail in voting. I had some housing measures where we needed to fund some huge amounts into our infrastructure, especially now that the rail transit developments are going to occur. And the state is the largest landowner along the rail system. And hopefully that will help us with housing. And there's a slew of other issues we'll take up. HSTA had an education tax bill that would have raised hundreds of millions of dollars and earmarks strictly for education. So, you know, those and others will certainly come up. I had a measure to ban sunscreen that had oxybenzone and that has received tremendous, tremendous attention not only in Hawaii, but internationally. And so that and many others, I'm sure you will be hearing and some that probably haven't been brought up will be coming up. Yeah, you've been very productive in the legislature. You've been productive on many issues, including the issues you mentioned, but on others too. And I recall, forget where I saw this, but you've, 95 of your measures have been adopted by the Hawaii State Legislature. Yes, I've been fortunate. And that's 18 years in the state legislature, of course, not just, you know, a short period of time. So they all add up over time. And I've been fortunate to get some bills passed and be productive and see some of my bills become law. That's very rewarding and gratifying. Yes. And now I'd like to take that experience and knowledge and contribute, but at the executive level and use what I've learned to look at the state in terms of managing it from a different perspective. Yeah, that's really interesting. I mean, it's not dissimilar from Koleen Hanabusa going back from Congress and, you know, putting her, putting her, staking her political career on the governorship. So do you lose anything in terms of leaving the Senate in order to run for lieutenant governor? Well, I am in midterm right now. In other words, I won re-election in 2016. And so to run in 2018, I will have to step down when I file, which is in June. And then the election is August 11th in the primary and on to November 6th, which happens to be my birthday. Well, maybe that's a really good thing. It might be a good sign and some foreshadowing and we will see. But certainly, you know, after 18 years in the legislature, I feel that this is a good time to move on. I'm 56 now. I'll be 58 next year. And I want to leave a legacy that I'm proud of that I could work with my colleagues to improve Hawaii. You know, I am concerned that our state is becoming a state of haves and have-nots. Yeah. And you can see it in our homeless. You can see it in the price of housing. And we need to do more in government to improve the quality of life of our residents and make certain that our children and others don't have to move away to the mainland to have a decent living. Yeah.   First of all, as the Lieutenant Governor I'll be the partner of the Governor. And whoever wins that race, I don't think I'll have any problem working with that individual. And I hope that we'll be able to collaborate together and look at the issues that we feel are necessary in order to improve the lives of Hawaii's residents, our elderly, our children, the working men and women. But I've been as a senator working on many issues and I would hope to also continue working on those. And that includes, you know, prison reform, you know, heavy on rehabilitation of inmates, law enforcement reform. I'd like to see a statewide Academy and standard for all law enforcement officers, body cameras and vehicle cameras, right? Because right now, each agency and the state and the county, they're all different than their piecemeal. And I think there should be one standard statewide for individuals who have arresting powers, who carry badges, who carry guns. I've been working on aerospace initiatives to build, you know, science, technology, engineering and mathematics jobs. Some of the low hanging fruits on there include building a small satellite launch area on the Big Island. Space tourism is looks like it's going to be coming. We're hoping to get an FAA spaceport license for the Big Island. Hank Rogers is working on that, isn't it? Well, Hank Rogers is working on that, but more more so on the moon base. Ah, that's right. Right. But Jim Christopher Lee, who was one of the key people in D-bed, was working on the spaceport license. That was my legislation. We're looking at building and growing Hawaii as an unmanned aerial systems test site. We're one of seven locations in the nation allowed by the FAA to do research and development on unmanned aerial systems. Drones. Exactly drones. And as you know, those have not only public use such as search and rescue or helping with beach patrols, looking at the forest and land, there's so many ways. But there's also the business applications, fisheries, agriculture, many uses for unmanned aerial systems. I can't even think of them all because there's so many. Nobody evokes in my mind a recollection of seeing you at the Pacific like communications conference you were two ago. And concluding in my mind that you are into technology or into the edge of the envelope in all ways. And that's why I think you've been so productive in creating legislation that meets the future. And I just trying to assimilate this. It just seems to me that as the problem with Lieutenant Governor is that usually he's marginalized or she, if there is a she, I don't know if we had a she, but usually Lieutenant Governor is under the shadow of the governor and never really sees the light of day.  It's not just writing the bill and getting it passed. It's doing the research, engaging with the public, figuring out all the wrinkles and contingencies. This could be very valuable for any governor to have you there. Yes, exactly. Some people have asked me why do you want to run for Lieutenant Governor when you've been so successful as a state senator? And a couple have even called me an activist senator. But I tell them, it's not the position, it's the person. And I expect to be an activist, Lieutenant Governor as well, because I am elected by the people. And the people want our leaders to work together and to solve the problems of our state. And if you know my style and how I do things, I will continue that regardless of what title or office I hold. And I'm looking forward to having that opportunity. Yeah, and I would say in that regard that you're very approachable, accessible. And that in my view, and I wouldn't say this about everybody, I think you're a man of the people I do. Thank you. I think you can talk to you and you will listen to us and you will, we will see things through your eyes and you will see things through our eyes. This is a big connection support. I'd like to think that I'm very accessible and even on social media, I have my LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and I communicate with the public using those social media on many occasions, almost every day. We're gonna take a short break. That's Will Sparrow. He's a senator in the state Senate right now. He's running for Lieutenant Governor. 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You know, statehood was here in 59. And from 59, 69, 79, 89, you know, it was about this new state and the opportunities for others on the mainland. And what commercial businesses will be here and what investments can be made. And that was part of the new part of being in the United States of America. Then we came to this part where the newness of statehood ended and and we went through the nineties and 2000 in like where, what direction is our state going? Where will we be heading? And how will our local residents in be impacted, especially as every 10 years, more people are coming here, and the cost of living is going up and tourism is becoming and has become our number one industry. And now we're close to 9 million people. And can we maintain that? What's our capacity? Now we're looking at these bread and butter quality of life issues that's going to impact Hawaii in the next 20, 30, 40 years. What's the transportation infrastructure going to look at? Who's going to pay for it? The cost of housing, which is impacting everyone today from the homeless to that first time buyer. And then what type of jobs, as I mentioned, tourism will always be our number one industry, but we have so much competition from around the world. And we need to be able to diversify and create more jobs and utilize technology to our advantage. Because with technology, you literally have the world at your fingertips and how we use technology, especially within our school system will be so important. And all of these issues are really going to determine whether the future is going to be a future where the rich and the wealthy control everything and are calling the shots, or can we maintain an idyllic quality of life? Like the old in days, although the cost of living was going to be a big factor, but how are we going to deal with just the social aspects of a growing population and everything else needed to live on an island state with limited land and thousands of people coming every 10 years? We have to recognize those things. We even really recognize them. And at the end of the day, we lose our best and brightest. They go to the mainland. At the end of the day, you have that dichotomy, that polarization of wealth and culture and attitude in general. And then you have disconnection from government, lack of confidence in government. All these things are on the, and the center of it, I think, is economic, don't you think? Because we have these unliquidated liabilities coming up in tens of billions. How are we going to pay for all that? To me, if we could solve that problem, it would help, would really help. Well, what's most important for any state, any city, any country is to have a strong economy and to have jobs for our residents so that these individuals can not only take care of their families and their needs, but can, you know, contribute with their taxes. And we have visitors who will want to come here because this is continually, continually being one of the most beautiful places to visit. And so, you know, how can we compliment tourism, for example, with a diversity of jobs? One area I like to see more government assistance and help is culture and the arts. We have very, very many talented and skilled individuals here. Artists, you know, painters, sculptors, writers, songwriters, singers, musicians, architects, fashion designers. This is what I use, creativity, the innovation of using one's mind. And we need to help promote these individuals in all of these endeavors. And with branding and marketing and the IT that Hawaii, the knowledge we have, we should be able to assist these people because the world is our customer, a billion people. And if we could promote Hawaii as a culture and arts destination, having the best in all of these, we should be able to bring tourists here, as well as allow individuals to possibly make a second income, part-time work, and for those that can, a full-time income. So, for example, Mary Monarch, that's one of the premier hula competitions and dances in the world. We have Pow Wow, which started in Hong Hong, and then got a base here in Hawaii that brings urban artists here. Recently, my friend Danny Kassler and his gang just celebrated their five-year anniversary of Pacific Ink and Art Expo, which is one of the best tattoo conventions now in Hawaii. And just last year, there was Honolulu Biennial that brought 90,000 attendees through seven art locations. Yeah, we covered that. And yes, and it was a combination of international artists, as well as local artists. And then you look at our fashion and Namba, the gentleman that just recently was in New York Fashion Week. Oh, yeah, sure. Right. Local guy. Exactly. And we have iconic shirts like Tori Richards, Zig Zane, Hilo Hattie. There's so much that we have to offer to the world. Those are our products. We don't have factories, but we have intellectual products. We have cultural products. We have artistic and musical products. Right. And that culture and arts is something that that the state government can assist and help brand. And that's one area I want to do.  And of course, you know, we have Academy of Creative Media, where we are now educating our children and students to become filmmakers. And those filmmakers can tell the story of Hawaii and as well as, you know, come up with fantasies, stories and dramas and mysteries that everyone likes to read and sports.  And we need to promote Hawaii as a sports destination. We are a sports destination now, but we can do so much more. Yeah, I mean, in sailing, in golf, I was just on the big island and they just had the triathlon. That's our product. Exactly. The Honolulu Marathon brings 20,000 people, I believe. And we should do more with like X Games type of sports. And even these sports where you could easily put them in a convention center like maybe badminton or ping pong, you know, the Chinese are big on ping pong. They're about to make a huge investment on the west side. They bought some Koalina hotel lots and some existing land between Kapolei and Koalina.  There's a market for the South America, the Pacific side and the United States and Canada. And we, being right where we are, need to take advantage of our location and become this gathering place, which we are, which is what Oahu is called, the gathering place. Yeah, that's great. Those are great ideas. I really totally agree with that. You know, not the first one who said that, but I certainly agree with the way you put it. So, how do you deal with some of the, you know, the cultural problems that we have? We have, you know, sovereignty issue. We have activists on so many issues, environmental issues, which are sometimes real, sometimes not. And we have, you know, TMT kinds of issues where people are resisting progress in science. How do you deal with that? How should the state government deal with that? It starts with a conversation.  And if we can't sit down and talk and listen to each other, we're going to have problems. Understanding as well that there's going to be a point in time where decisions have to be made. And some of those are difficult, tough decisions. But regardless, I believe everyone has Hawaii's best interest at heart. And sometimes, many times, we're in agreement. And sometimes we disagree. And that's where we have to have conversations through our media, through the newspapers, through shows like this, through social media. We have to have discussions at the university level and at the school level, at the business level, the Chamber of Commerce, and have to understand that we need to be working together. And we need to understand that no one here wants to control everything and push people around. We have to treat each other with respect and dignity and understand that sometimes maybe a compromise is needed. And sometimes also you need strong leadership. You need leadership that says, no, I mean it, I mean it, I mean it, I'm not going to change my mind. I want you to follow me. Exactly. But you can't do that without that conversation. But I completely agree with you that there is a point in time where we need to be assertive in leadership. You have to have good management. And hopefully that decision is the right one. And sometimes you don't know until you implement it. But you know, I feel that I'm the type of individual that can talk with anybody. I like to listen. And I'm very open to issues and concerns that everyone has. And at the end of the day, the public has a good gauge of what's right and what's wrong. And sometimes it's just a matter of listening to the public and then making certain that what we do does not harm or hurt our local residents. Well, it goes to a problem that's happening nationally. And of course you have Trump in his base, which is unfortunate no matter what he does. And then you have the rest of the country who's kind of losing confidence in him. And this has been going on for a long time. Some say it's been going on since Vietnam. The public is not confident of the government. They don't feel that the government represents them or that they are part of the government, you know, which is actually the truth. And I wonder how you feel about that on a state level. There's a certain lack of confidence, if you will, things negative things happen in the press either accurately or maybe inaccurately reports it and people get discouraged and they begin to lose confidence in the government. And after a while I say, oh, I don't want to deal with this issue. I don't want to deal with my relationship with the government. This is really tragic all over the country. Do you see a parallel there? You see this as a, as a, you know, a kind of phenomenon happening in Hawaii. And how would you make the public, you know, adequately confident? How would you make the public feel that they are part of the government, that the government is part of them, that we're all in this together? Yes, well, what's happening at, at the federal level in Washington DC is, is so unique and unusual to use a euphemism. It's certainly a style and we have leadership that we've never seen. And that certainly raises questions and concerns. But that being said, I think it's important that as a leader, you have to be out of front and you have to be honest. And you have to be able to, as I said earlier, have a discussion and listen. And then when you make a decision, you have to be able to explain it properly and make certain that people understand your rationale. You expect that based on your conversations and the expertise around you and the public, and all the other data and information you're making the best decision. But certainly the residents and our constituents need to understand the process. I think that's a big part of it and that they are a part of it and that their input is necessary. And that's where I feel that I can contribute and I'm willing to do as I'm doing now. It's just going to be hopefully with if I have the voters support at a state and greater level as the Lieutenant Governor. I feel that I'm going to be okay between now and my elderly years. But I'm concerned about that child being born today, that high school senior right now, that college student that has 30, 50, maybe even $100,000 worth of debt, that these individuals are going to get a good paying job, that they're going to be able to afford a house and that government is going to make the right decisions that's going to help them. I want to be a part of that discussion and conversation. And that's why I've been in office for 18 years. And when you add my time with Mayor Frank Fossey, I had eight years. So I've had 26 years of government experience. You don't look that old will. Well, when you don't have any gray hair, that hides a lot. Well, I think it's great. And I want to ask you one more question before we're running out of time. And that is, you know, talk about confidence in government. We have this kind of scandalous affair going on with the police in the city. Now, of course, that's not a state issue. But I wonder if you have any comments on how we can achieve confidence in that regard and finally get a new police chief and feel that everything is under control. Well, yeah, that was an area that I was intimately involved in when I was the Public Safety Chairman. And one thing we need to do as a state is have a state law enforcement academy. We don't have one where all of our state law enforcement officers are trained properly and the same so that if they move from division to division or agency to agency, we know they have the skills. That includes our our Department of Transportation officers, our deputy sheriffs, our Harbor police, our DLNR officers, Attorney General has some police officers. And then we need to have good and better oversight of law enforcement, especially at the county level. Now, I feel that it was lacking in the past. And that's why we've had some of these problems at the county level. And I'd like to see more oversight and more public input at their meetings. And then look at areas like body cameras and vehicle cameras and look at maybe some of the bargaining contracts of our law enforcement officers where sometimes they might commit a crime or do some bad behavior misconduct. And then they are terminated. And then they have possibility of coming back if they grievance. But so there's a lot of areas. And that's probably another show that we can talk about. But, you know, this new chief that they're about to hire needs to be a chief that's willing to make reforms. And I believe that there are a couple candidates that can do that. And hopefully the right decision will be made there. But certainly there are areas in law enforcement statewide where we can make some changes and make it better for all of our residents, as well as the officers themselves, of which the majority of our officers are professional law-abiding citizens. So we want to improve their law as well. Your experience is showing. And it counts. I mean, all the years of the legislature and the government in general help you understand these issues and find a better path. And it sounds to me that you would not be the ordinary kind of lieutenant governor. You would be more proactive and you would, you know, take a role with the governor to establish a joint policy on some of these things. But one thing is clear that you and I have to continue the conversation. I hope you don't mind. We have to drill down some of these issues you've touched on. Yes. And I hope you'll come back for that purpose. Certainly we'll do. Thank you very much. Thank you. Senator Willis-Sparrow running for lieutenant governor and joins us today in discussing the issues in the legislature and in the state in general. Thank you so much. Thank you.