at, two concerns. One is this would put the Council Contingency Fund at $20,000. I don't really have an idea of what Council Contingency Funds have been used for when it was really necessary to scrape the barrel and put a patch on something that was really hurting. Maybe Harold can come up with a couple of incidents. If Jim's on the line, Jim or Teresa, they may have to help me. The one thing that I think we used it for during my tenure was emergency spraying because of West Nile. We may have used it for some flood recovery work. You know, if I could just jump in, the 30,000 is what's from the original appropriation. The ordinance on first reading tonight, the carryover ordinance is bringing over the leftover balance from last year. So your concern about it being down to 20 is actually not the case. It's going to be higher. I don't, I'm looking for it right now. That's what I was trying to find. I think we're adding 50 or 60,000 back in. So I think you're going to have a significant amount in there anyhow. I don't know the answer to the question of what uses we've had though. We'd have to check some records. So I remember it another. So you augmented a contract to El Comet there with your council contingency. I remember that one. Yeah. And Jim's right. I was worried that we were getting too low for it to be effective if we had a serious problem that needed to be solved with that fund. So if it's going back up, I'm much less worried about the balance remaining in the fund. I do have a little bit of worry about the distribution of these vouchers or gift cards or whatever they are. Especially if the chamber of commerce distributes them, are they going to go to wealthy people? Are they going to, could we distribute them through Sandy's rebate program, for example? It seems like that would be a much better way to give families a boost and do something memorable for them. And the other thing that I would at least want to look at is can we all kind of take a survey and see who's doing their social distancing really well and use those restaurants? Because I don't want to put anybody in jeopardy. That's where Christensen. So I can, because I've been on here a long time like you, Brian, I can tell you. We've helped El Cometay out at least three times with contingency funds. We have helped out the sister cities program several times to help send kids just places. We have also used that fund to help the program that we had, and I still hope we have with the Arapaho people. I think we used some during the flood because this is when, you know, this is what you have a contingency fund for. It's an emergency. If this is not an emergency, I don't know what is. So yeah, I don't want to see all this go to people's wealthy buddies because that's not, that'll help the business, but it won't really help equally shared with people who could use, you would like to go out to dinner, but they can't really afford it. But if they had an extra $25, they could afford it. So, but yeah, historically, we have used those contingency funds for things that were kind of special projects that just went off. They come up and they seem like it's a worthy cause. It's our own little worthy cause fund from city council. All right. Anybody else? All right, there's a motion on the table that we set aside $10,000 for the city council contingency fund for city staff. Sorry, that's the dog going in the background. The $10,000 for a county council contingency fund. For city staff to use for restaurant vouchers throughout all of Longmont, not just downtown. Correct, John? Yeah. And then are we going to accept some of my council members who didn't have an amendment to basically say $25? I thought that was the original. Okay, then the motion. $25. Either way, we'll put the $10,000, $25 vouchers to be distributed, first come, first serve to people to use in restaurants. Council member Martin? Yeah, I don't think I would vote for it if it's a first come, first serve distribution. I would much rather do something that adds to the equity quotient like distributing it through the rebate program. Councilman Martin, would you like to make an amendment to the motion? Yes, I propose that in addition to what council member Peck proposed that we have assistant city manager, Seder, come up with a good mechanism for distributing these through her rebate fund, like taking the bottom 250 families or something like that. Sandy's over there nodding. Thank you, Sandy. I didn't want to do something horrible to you, but it sounds like that's feasible. So that's my proposal. Will you accept that council member Peck? Yes, thank you. All right, it's still seconded. Let's go ahead and vote on the motion. Harold, do you need clarification on this? Sorry, Harold. I think Aaron raised his hand. Do you like Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez? Thank you, Mayor Bagley. I just wanted to clarify that my comment about the Chamber of Commerce was for facilitation with actually involving the businesses for the voucher or whatever, as they'll have the largest network for businesses to be involved with, not for the distribution. So just a clarification. Thank you. I think as long as we have the leeway to work with partners that we need to, to facilitate it under the guidelines that you all have talked about, I think we're good. Don't forget the Latino Chamber as well. Right. Okay. I call the question.  All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right, the motion carries unanimously. Good job, council member Peck. Ryan, I mean, Mayor Bagley, would you mind as a point of personal? Just say whatever you want. Go ahead. We're talking about the council contingency fund and I did talk to Harold today.  And we were trying to figure out how, without turning off their utilities, to get them to come to the table to make that good. They haven't been paying for three or four months on their bills and how do we work that? So I put out the suggestion, and I would like you to think about it, this isn't a motion, that we make interest-free loans to some of the residents who have not been able to pay during this pandemic from March through the end of June, that we give an interest-free loan that we pay through the contingency fund, we pay those bills for them and they would have to pay us back. I don't think we should give this away or allow them to continue to not pay their utility bills, but it is just a thought on how we can move forward, help staff, help the residents, let them know that we understand how horrible this is at this point in time, but we do need those utilities paid. We need the taxes on them, we need everything for our city to come back as well. We're a business. So I just want you to think about that and I don't know what the total amount would be and maybe Harold can do some research for us and see how many people we're talking about, what the total amount would be and then next week, maybe we can make a motion or at least put it on the agenda to discuss. Yeah, and if I can jump in a slight adjustment to this too is also some other funding coming in from state and feds that we're trying to understand as well. And so I think part of what we're gonna look at some other options. So that's some other pieces that came into play too. So basically be a bridge loan for interest free bridge loan to the point that Councilwoman Martin was making is that this contingency fund is for emergencies and we are going to be rebuilding for at least a year if not two and longer. So anything that we can help, if we help residents, we help ourselves. We help the city as well. So I just, I'm just putting that out there trying to help staff figure out how we're going to work through this. If we can get enough grants or federal funds or state funds, then we won't have to even think about another revenue source, but that is one that we as Council can help with. So thank you for listening. All right, well, let's go on a final call public invited to be heard. Can we throw up the screen and wait two minutes? Yes, Mayor, one minute. Anybody? Yes, Mayor, we do have one. All right, let's go ahead and leave it open and then let's just start, okay? So let's go ahead, three minutes. State your name and address for the record please. Hello, this is Eramine Nomir, 524 Flickr Avenue 80501. Thank you so much for the opportunity to call in. I was kind of shocked that it worked and I'm excited. But really the reason I am calling is I am representing a group or groups throughout the county that have led a lot of demonstrations, a lot of marches and protests, no riots yet, that's fantastic. And I've heard a lot of conversations so far in terms of committees or groups that may be formed to get, I guess, to come together and start having some critical discussions that we may not have elevated before in the past. I'm wondering what's the best way to work with this community? Had some great conversations with the chief, please have connected with Hadaad over at the school district and still looking to connect with a few other players as well as facilitators and the like. I'm wondering two things, really. How do I get more engaged with what you guys have going on? How do I ensure that the voices that need to be heard? And I'm not talking from people with PhDs, but from us local, everyday people are really the ones that are leading the discussion from youth and where it's a little bit more listening, a little bit less of here's what we think the answer or the solution is. And then lastly, actually, those are the two critical ones. That's that, thank you. All right, thank you. Is there anybody else to thank you? No mayor. All right, that concludes final call public invited to be heard. Let's move on to mayor and council comments. Council member Martin. Thank you, mayor Bagley. I am just wanting to send a thank you to the Longmont Downtown Development Authority. I think everyone knows that we have a number of groups now in a protesting the death of George Floyd and the epidemic of police brutality and inequitable application of the law in this country. They're doing it at sixth and main where Longmont has been holding vigil for years now about inequities of various sorts.  I don't know if in Longmont, those fears are likely to be realized, but we do get a lot of people rolling cold as they drive past that vigil. So maybe it's not very far fetched after all. And the LDDA has undertaken to put out a new big concrete flower pot, a giant one that you couldn't drive through or around on the north side of the sixth and main plaza so that where the people are standing would not be as accessible to somebody who is trying to do, you know, vehicular terrorism. And I thought that was very commendable that they would get, take a request like that and just say, sure, we can do that. And I hope they can get it in for this weekend, but I'm afraid it's gonna take until next week to get it in place. So thank you, guys. Councilor Waters. Thanks, Mayor McGregor. I just wanna say that we have a chance to thank Carol on a regular basis in our conversations with him and in these meetings, but there's a whole bunch of other staff members on this call and a couple of thousand others who aren't on this call. And, you know, everybody, it seems to me who comes to work for the city does it for one reason and one reason only and that is to serve in the areas of which they have particular expertise or interest. And I can't imagine a time, I mean, it's never an easy duty. I can't imagine a more difficult or challenging time than right now. And I don't know what kind of input or feedback the staff's getting. I can imagine the kind of feedback that our natural resources folks are getting who are having to make hard decisions that are gonna inflame probably half the community. And they're gonna make those decisions because they care deeply about health and safety. They're making decisions that nobody wants to make. They dedicate their lives to creating facilities that welcome the public. They joy, they take great joy in creating amenities that people flock to because they're so attractive and so much fun. And they have to take a position to say you can't or to put up fences or whatever is contrary to what they've created. And yet it's what they're called to do right now. So I can imagine what a whiplash experience it is. We're reading enough incoming emails on all sides of an issue to know how harsh the feedback can be. But I just wanna say to the staff, thanks. We need you now. We need your best. We need you to rise to the challenge more than ever. And it's probably a time across the country, in every city in this country where the call to duty is more discouraging now probably than it's been. I hope that's not true here. But I just wanna say I admire the fact that you've all risen to the challenge. We need you to keep rising to the challenge. We've got, it's an A team that's out there every day. The more I interact with our city staff the more impressed I am. And I appreciate your work. I know the vast majority of the community does as well.  Thanks. Councilman Martin, are you clapping or did you raise your hand? Okay. Anybody else? All right. Not if I'm grumpy. Dr. Waters wanna apologize again. Didn't mean to get in a shot and match with you. I didn't wanna get in a shot and match with you either. The really, what it comes down to is I don't wanna debate COVID-19 anymore. That's what it was. So I apologize. That's really what I was saying. We can go debate that another time. Yeah, yeah, it's serious. We'll take precautions, but we'll, I just didn't wanna debate it anymore. So yeah, no, just Harold, thanks for everything you do. If nobody else has anything from here and council comments, do you have anything? No, I just, I want to thank the entire team, the thousands that we have. You know, never before have they had the volume of things that they're dealing with, the challenges they're dealing with, dealing, you know, things that we never thought we would be engaged in, for example, the housing authority. And I say this to them as much as I can, but on my Friday conversations. It's every person in the organization that inspires me to come in and do the best that I can, because they're simply amazing. And their hearts are in the right place and they wanna do the best that they can for the community. And the one thing I would say is it's a we, and it's a we as an organization, and it's a we as a community, and only together can we move through this and be patient with our folks. Because to the point that council member water said, we don't wanna close swim beaches, we don't wanna close bridges, we don't wanna do all of these things. But at the end of the day, what we're trying to do is make the best decision that we can for the health, safety, and welfare of this community. And we don't enjoy it, but just be patient with our folks because this challenge is beyond what I would say now, anything that the flood presented it to us. And it's gonna be with us a lot longer. Their hearts are in the right place and they wanna do what's best for the community. And I'm extremely fortunate to work with a team from top to bottom, left to right, as the organization that inspires me daily. And I thank them for doing that. And I thank you all for recognizing that. It's an amazing group here. No more comments. Eugene, I'm sorry, Mr. May. No comments, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. May. All right, if nobody else has anything, do we have a motion to adjourn? I will move that we adjourn. Second. All right, it was seconded by Dr. Waters. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. All right, it's unanimous. All right, see you guys later, bye. Good night.


Okay, let me briefly explain to you what we are doing here. This is a typical setup for hands-free communication testing according to ITUT standards. So what you see here is a typical test car, we selected a tuk-tuk. This is the simulation of the driver, that means it's a dummy hat, he substitutes the driver, he is able to talk and to listen. This is a background noise simulation system, so it simulates the acoustical driving conditions of that tuk-tuk being on the road and last but not least this is the simulation of the wireless connection. So in total this is a setup according to ITUT standards to test voice communication quality in a hands-free scenario. So the tests can be carried out automatically for the driver, the simulation of the driver, he can talk into the microphone of a hands-free system or he can listen what is transmitted from the loudspeaker and the idea is to test and ensure sufficient voice communication quality according to ITUT standards. This goes for P1100 narrowband communication, P1110 with wideband communication but also for e-call which is P1140 which is an upcoming issue now for safety reasons. Another topic which is offered by ITU during this event here is the third speech quality test event for mobile phones in conjunction with car hands-free systems. ITUT hosts a wide list of mobile phones which behave completely transparent in combination or in conjunction with the car-mounted hands-free system and the possibility or the offer of ITU is to test mobile phones here on the go that means on-site and to get phones listed in the white list which is the proof that these mobile phones behave completely transparent and are absolutely okay in conjunction with vehicle-mounted hands-free systems.


coming from Philly to Ocala was a culture shock. That's what I was talking about. Yeah, everybody, you know, everybody was telling me I'm the Fresh Prince of Ocala, because I'm from Philly. We were not going to do that. Yeah, you were. Everybody always said, you know, give me that analogy, man, because I moved from Philly with my aunt and my uncle, not to Bel Air, but to Ocala, Florida, man. So I moved with my two boy cousins, not like Ashley and, what was her name? Oh, yeah, Hilary. Hilary, not Ashley, but it was, I had two of my, they like my brothers, man. Send me and a Michael and then my little cousin Tamar. But she was like, gosh, Lee, I'll just say to Ashley.


is Gil Lonserich who was actually a nose pierce from when he was an undergraduate. So if my Coleman number is one, I think Gil, you might have a negative Coleman number. But anyway, so Gil has known Pierce since he was an undergraduate and he's going to tell us about normal state and electron pairing in fur magnetic and for electric systems. So Gil. Good morning and it's a real pleasure to be here on this special occasion for Pierce. I have known Pierce since his early days in the University of Cambridge and for a fleeting moment for maybe a year or two, I managed to keep up with him as his tutorial supervisor. At least I think I kept up with him. Then ever since the roles have been reversed, the pupil and the tutors are inverted. This is Pierce, you may recognize it, he hasn't changed very much. When he was inducted to the fellowship of the Trinity College as a research fellow in 1984 and behind him is his college's famous great hall which holds the portraits around the perimeter of former famous fellows of the college including Newton, Maxwell, JJ Thompson and Rutherford. JJ Thompson and Rutherford. And the hall is also known for being the inspiration for the idea of how to visualize the Rutherford model of the atom and the phrase that was invented was fly in the cathedral. And the fly is a nucleus and the cathedral is the atom as a whole. And one night during the formal dinner, the fellows and their guests were treated to a demonstration of this idea when they were startled to see high up in the hall, a beautiful model glider navigating the hall over long periods of time. So it was thought that this was supposed to be a representation of the fly in the cathedral in real life. And at first it was thought by most people that this was that an experimentalist was behind this demonstration, no one came forward. But then it came to light that for peers the construction of glider was a great passion. So we all had our suspicion of who was behind this beautiful demonstration. So today I want to talk about some problems that Piers and I have discussed over the years are just two problems that overlap with our discussions to make this manageable. And they concerns the problem of quantum phase transitions in particular on the border of sure magnetism for our example and on the border of fair electricity. And in particular I'd like to discuss the possible interpretation of recent findings published in these articles or presented in these articles by Montessucena, Stephen Rowley, and their co-workers particularly Matt Cokes, Seb Hines, Haines and Carsten Enderwein and others. So the first problem and also I want to mention that the very, very fruitful discussions that I've had with Premi on these problems and she is the first author in a review concerning quantum criticality in ferroelectric materials. So I want to talk about, as I said, two problems, selected problems. The first is the existence of a ubiquitous peak in the order parameter susceptibility both found both on the border of ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity. So one can think about the problem in this way and in a conjugate applied magnetic field, the order parameter initially appears to grow as a result of thermal agitation. And this is surprising for the site and it's sometimes described under the phrase order by disorder. And here, for example, are a few cases among relatively simple d-metals on the border of ferromagnetism where the stoner enhancement factor which is closely related to the Wilson ratio varies from about 10 to 100. Although the peaks are very weak, they're completely reproducible and been seen many times. And what we see is the peak position shifting down towards zero as you approach the ferromagnetic critical point. But this phenomena has been seen with even greater precision accuracy on the border of ferroelectrics. In particular, there's recent data in strontium titanate which is right at the edge of being a ferroelectric with a tiny negative pressure that goes into a ferroelectric state. So what is plotted now is not the susceptibility but the inverse susceptibility. So the peak is now a minimum. And what we see is that the minimum position as the pressure decreases and one goes enters the border of the ferroelectric state, the minimum shifts down. It appears to disappear at the ferroelectric point on critical point itself. All the evidence is that the ferroelectric transition in this case is second order down to the lowest temperature. Now, curiously, although the peak and the susceptibility in the ferromagnetic has been known for many years, a consistent and agreed upon interpretation has not been found, at least not a quantitative interpretation. These peaks has not yet been found, although there are many proposals that are very interesting. But in this case, I think we can actually say where this phenomenon arises, that is minimum of the inverse susceptibility or peak and the susceptibility itself. And to try to describe this, we begin with a discussion of what these soft modes are, the soft critical modes, which are paramagnons in the border of ferromagnetism for ferromagnetic metals, but in this case correspond to relative displacements of the charged titanium and oxygen atom. And these displacements give rise to the lowest transverse optical mode, the polar transverse optical mode. The gap of the mode can be tuned either with pressure, strain, or isotopic substitution or chemical substitution to essentially map out a phase diagram a bit like this. And strontium titanate finds itself very close to this edge right here at ambient pressure and without doping the stoichiometric state. So if we look at the standard description of a problem like this, we would start by noticing that the dispersion relation for the soft mode becomes linear in Q as the gap goes to zero. So why did the critical point? So the dynamo co-exponent in this case is one so that in a cubic case, the effective dimension for a quantum critical phenomena is the marginal dimensions for this case. And this means that both scaling arguments, and mean field, the self-consistent mean field theory based on the side phi to the four free energy functional or action lead to the same results apart from a logarithm correction. And in particular, the mean field description leads to a prediction that both the Grunheim's ratio and the susceptibility, the dielectric susceptibility or dielectric concept, diverged low temperatures one over the temperature squared. Also predicted is that the ferroelectric QA temperature squared very linearly with a distance, the pressure, the distance from the quantum critical point. And in fact, these findings, these predictions agree with a lot of measurements present. However, this picture only holds right at the quantum critical point. And if we go out in pressure, for example, further out, we lose this quantum critical behavior indicated here in green, and we get into activated behavior where the inverses of the ability is slowly varying monotonically increasing function of temperature, which is predicted both by the self-consistent mean field theory and the famous Barrett model, which has been traditionally used to describe the quantum perilelectric state. However, this picture breaks down as I indicated, instead of this monotonically increasing dependence, we get a drop, a minimum as shown here, and a characteristic and a distinctive feature of this. In fact, this is the most thorough data yet collected on any of these types of problems. And the most distinctive feature is that the minimum, the temperature of the minimum, T min, the square of that temperature is a linear function of the pressure difference from the critical pressure. So it goes to zero at the critical pressure in the same way that the inverse susceptibility, the T equals zero inverse susceptibility. So therefore, these two quantities are proportional to each other. Now, this behavior is precisely what is predicted by the model that Premi discussed on Monday, which involves the coupling of the order parameter field, which in this case is the electric polarization, and the volume strain field. So we have a free line action that involves the contribution from the order parameter from the lattice displacement U, and then the cross term involved with this coupling, what this is called an electrostrictive coupling. And this, all the parameters of model are actually known independently of the experiments I just presented. And within these model parameters, one finds that this theoretical description here does in fact predict that the minimum temperature squared should go linearly with the pressure difference from the critical pressure. And these are basically three slopes corresponding to different values of the transverse optical frequency gap at zero pressure. And the correct slope that explains the data can be obtained with a gap which is within a factor of two of that measured by a neutron scattering experiment. So the way then to describe the quantum per-electric state is that above a certain temperature of order T min, something like the Barrett formula applies. But this breaks down below T min. And there we must think of the quantum per-electric state as this hybridized state, hybridized the hybridization being between the polarization field, the order parameter field, and the volume strain. And that this crossover line can actually be understood quantitatively as I explained in previous slides. So we think that this problem is on its way to being understood for the ferroelectrics. And one then may wonder whether we could now go back and see if a similar effect could play an important role on the border of ferromagnetism as well. But there the problem is much more complicated and other effects are competitive. The second problem I wanted to discuss in this short talk is also connected with a peak. But in this case, with a peak of the superconducting transition temperature is a function of the proximity to the quantum critical point. So we know that in the case of magnetic quantum critical points, there are many theoretical studies that suggest that the superconducting order in temperature due to the rising from the exchange of spin fluctuations which would be per magnum or anti per magnum that this type of transition temperature tends to rise, generally speaking as one approaches the magnetic quantum critical point. And there are now many, many examples of this phenomenon experimentally. Most of them are involved the border of anti-ferromagnetism. But there are a few intriguing examples involving the border of ferromagnetism. And I mentioned two cases here. A quasi two-dimensional ferromagnet counts the Rubinane and a highly anisotropic uniaxial material with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, uranium and germanium too. And there are a number of other examples in the same class now that also exhibit this phenomenon. So that has been a evolving story going back to the beginning of early discussion Piers and I had in the 1980s already. But the corresponding problem on the border of ferroelectricity is still being studied. And there is some evidence that something similar is happening. So for example, this is data from Stephen Rowley in his group which shows that the superconducting transition temperature in a charge carrier doped strontium titrate that the TC tends to rise as we approach the effective ferroelectric critical point where defined in the doped system by the position where the optical gap goes to zero because we cannot measure the dielectric constant at that point. But we can still measure the optical gap. There is also some new data from Benia's group and others that suggests that by using chemical and isotopic substitution that suggests the TC actually drops on this side on the ferroelectric side. So although we don't have a complete mapping at the moment within a single system, there is evidence that as in the case of the magnetic system, the transition temperature tends to be enhanced around the ferroelectric critical point. So now we might, what I want to do in the remaining part of this talk is just consider whether this phenomena can be understood or thought about in terms of the exchange of these soft modes that is the carriers doped in the system interact with the soft modes that we've been talking about the polar transverse optical mode and that the exchange of these soft modes could somehow play the role equivalent to that of paramagnons on the border of magnetism. However, it turns out the problem is in this respect actually more complicated than that suggests. And in some ways it's simple but different from what we may have naively expected. So if we use the dielectric function theory for the effective interaction, then we have to express dielectric function in terms of the effect due to these transverse polar modes. So that deals one resident shown here where the frequency squared in the denominator is the frequency of the soft mode. So when we reach the quantum critical point delta goes to zero. However, minimally we have to also and importantly include a contribution from the doped carriers themselves. So there are two resonances minimally, one due to the transverse optical mode, one due to the conduction electron which should be represented by the linear function but there is a simple analytic expression that represents the linear function exactly in the limit of low omega over q and low q over omega. And it's shown here but it's useful because of a similarity to the resonance produced by the polar mode and the polar frequency squared is replaced by the Fermi velocity q squared. So there is a restoring, is if the Fermi system has a restoring force and of course that restoring force is due to the poly principle. So this simple expression is exactly reproduces the linear function and the two limits I indicated and it's good enough for our purposes. But of course the story does not end there. We now have to work on the pairing interaction or the total interaction by taking the inverse of dielectric function and that can be written in terms of two resonances and a constant term. So this term here is due to the direct repulsion between the electron and these two resonances potentially attractive when the frequency is lower than the omega plus omega minus and the omega plus and omega minus are the longitudinal frequencies as opposed to the transverse frequency that appear here. So this is a rewriting. There's nothing new here that isn't already here. However, what is being exchanged is not equivalent to the problem of what is being exchanged or in fact longitudinal fluctuations. And the effect of delta however is not absent but is subtly inside of these functions omega plus and omega minus which can be written out explicitly but are very complicated. So it's not so easy to see a pairing rising from the exchange of transverse optical modes in this case. It is really actually a pairing due to the exchange of longitudinal optical modes, two of them which are hybridized but which are affected by the gap delta. And so that interaction in a sense identifies the problem uniquely. And so at this point it's a question of how to solve it. You cannot use simple BCS type analyses. Ideally you should use the full Eliashberg theory where you cannot assume that the frequency of the bosons is small compared with the Fermi energy for one thing. You can also try them to simplify the numerics by using the so-called KMK approximation for the Eliashberg equation. But in fact both have been done and it's still unpublished paper by Enderman and Litterwood. I've used the full Eliashberg equation. We use the KMK approximation. But what happens is more or less the same, namely that the model predicts that the transition temperature for the density relevant to the experiment, the superconductive transition temperature tends to rise as we approach the ferroelectric critical point. What is also predicted is that TC should have a peak as a function of carrier density and the peak position is roughly in the right place around 10 to the 20 carriers per cc. Now it was interesting about this is that these are completely independent of free adjustable parameters. Now maybe the first time over since the 50s that a parameter free calculation for this problem had actually been carried through. Although I think that kind of did something very similar in the 1980s, a long time ago, but then partially forgotten. But it's an important point is that although it predicts, the model predicts qualitatively what it's seen and in particular, we see that the collapse of the gap of the transverse optical mode does have consequences and tends to enhance TC on the border of ferroelectricity. But what cannot be done in this type of calculation is to predict the actual value of the transition temperature at the maximum because it turns out that value depends on the cutoff in the high frequency cutoff in the Liashberg theory. So this problem is still being debated. So we can say if we examine what the model is doing, the drop in TC at low density is a simple origin. And of course it's just due to the fact that the single particle density of states for the carriers is dropping off at low density. But the drop off at higher density was considered more puzzling for many years. It is origin is physically very transparent. It is simply that as carriers are added to the system, the ion becomes green. So this high supercontinuity in this region is a consequence of the fact that the interaction is essentially an interaction mediated by ions which are charged. Whereas the normal supercontinuity at much higher density is described in terms of neutral atoms that have only a weak polarization and therefore a weak effective interaction. So this is a very interesting phenomena which was already foreseen many years ago by Larkin and can be called ionic supercontinuity. So in the summary slide, I just want to mention one point, the last point which is the following, that it may be at the, of course the anti-peak of the transition. The density is still small, 10 to the 20 carriers per cc. And to get a transition temperature of water half a Kelvin or higher, one needs an extraordinarily strong effective interaction between the carriers. In fact, as strong as one may invoke for example high-temperature superconductors. But high Tc is not obtained because of the screening effect at a higher density. And so the problem in this area is to see if it is possible to prevent the screening from clicking in too early as a function of density. And this might indeed occur in the case of ferroelectrics and anti-ferroelectric materials. And it's possible the materials like BKBO are of this kind, ionic superconductors, and they have through conducting transition temperatures approaching 40 Kelvin. So now I'll just simply end where I started and went to wish theorists a very happy birthday. Thank you.


Okay, it looks like we have a great group here, everyone. So while we're gonna get started, my name's Ryan Patterson, I'm the vice president of Channel for Peerless Network. Thanks so much for your time. Today I'm here with Jim Brewer, who's our SVP of Emerging Technologies. We really appreciate your time. We've got a lot of great information, very exciting things to share with you today. And we're gonna try to make the most of your time over the next 30 minutes. Certainly we're gonna be throwing a lot of information at you. So if you have any questions, please just list them in the chat or in the Q&A, and we'll try to get those to those at the end of the 30 minutes here. We also, for your time, at the end of the call, we're gonna be sending you a DoorDash or an Uber Eats $25 gift card. So again, we appreciate your time. We're gonna try to make the most of it over the next 30 minutes and share with you a lot of great information. We also, like I said, there's a lot of information we're gonna share with you today. So if you have any questions or would like further training, we've got a great team of channel directors that's gonna be following up with you to provide that for you. We're going to the next slide here. First, we just did introductions. It's just myself and Jim to go over Peerless, our product overview. We'll spend a few minutes on that, but the most of the presentations are gonna be on the Peerless Maximizer, which we're very excited to share with you today. Gonna go review of the product or the program, I should call it, as well as Jim's gonna provide a nice demo to review exactly how to use it and how to maximize the Maximizer. And then we're gonna go through just we've got some great promos here. Q3 is winding down and we've still got some great promos going on right now. So without further ado, I'm gonna go through a little bit about Peerless. I see some new names on the call. So I wanna give just a few minutes on who Peerless is. Okay, so Peerless is a facilities-based company. We own and operate our own nationwide network. We're focused on voice services and one of the few companies out there that actually owns and operates our own nationwide network. We started, I don't know if there's some industry veterans on the call, we started the founders that started focal communications. Actually, you know, when they sold that off to what's now CenturyLink started Peerless back in 2008. And really we focused on being a wholesale provider. So for about the first 10 years or so, we focused on being a behind the scenes carrier, a carrier's carrier for many of the major C-Lex, UCAS companies, video companies out in the market space. And today, you know, we're one of the largest carriers of traffic in the country, over 10 billion minutes a month on our network. Four or five years ago, we decided to diversify a little bit and focus on the enterprise channel and put that 100% through the agent program. So we just have a wholesale program and an agent program. And the agent sector is our fast-growing sector with Peerless. And it's very, we've got an exciting story to tell. Certainly got a lot of differentiators, one being that we own and operate our own network, offer voice services, SIP and UCAS services over our own network. And that's certainly a big differentiator there. The other would be the portal that we bring to the table, which you're going to see here in a few minutes, is a clear differentiator that offers real-time access, real-time ability to order things, and now real-time ability to do proposals, create your own pricing and things like that as well. Not to mention, you know, we're not a huge company out there. We like to say, you know, we're not the biggest and not the smallest, we're a perfect size to deliver a great quality product and give you the, as the agents out there, give you the service and reliability that you're promising your customers out there too. So, white glove approach, we're an industry leader as far as innovation, being a little bit of a smaller company, we can innovate very quickly and roll that out to our customers. Here's a map of actually, you know, Peerless is owned and operated, 100% owned and operated network nationwide. We service over 98% of the US population on net, okay? That's DID availability, that's, you know, delivering our services. We're also interconnected with over 4,500 carriers. Throwing a lot of numbers at you, but quite honestly, what this means is there's a lot of companies out there selling SIP and UCAS services. Very few, a handful, one handful can say that they have their own network that they're running the service over and Peerless is one of those. What that means is honestly, reliability, the buck stops with us as far as service and pricing and, you know, servicing the customers and the network and delivering a high quality solution. So, we're real proud of that. Get into our offerings and then we'll get into the maximizer. The products and services that we're offering are all voice related, you know? Peerless's mantra is that we're not trying to be everything to everyone, right? We just want to be the number one voice provider in the industry, offering UCAS services, SIP services, in and outbound, long distance, numbers, SMS messaging, et cetera, all voice related, all something we've been doing since 2008 that we, when we started and something we do very well and we're very proud of. The platform service is something that we put together for our wholesale customers years ago for them to have the ability to go on to our network and go into our network, make moves as and changes themselves, order new trunks, order new seats, everything like that. And when we launched the agent program a few years back, we launched it with this portal, with the ability for you and your customers to go in and do all the moves as and changes yourself, order new service, et cetera, et cetera. Tons of benefits and a lot of information to share with you. But like I said, we only have 30 minutes today. We'd love to tell you more about the portal and we'd love to schedule some time for you to follow up with that. Talking specifically about SIP trunking, we're very excited. We continue to innovate with our SIP trunking service. We do everything from metered to unlimited analog lines to PRIs, our three-year pricing on the PR on SIP trunks are $4.99. Unlimited trunks are $11 on a three-year term. If you need an analog line, it's $12.49. PRIs all in $114.99. You're gonna see a theme here that everything is very competitively priced and with the portal certainly can deliver it everything real time as well. But that PRI includes the edge mark device that we deliver on site and install and that's included on a three-year term. There's no installation cost. All of our services come with geo-redundant routing. So everything is provisioned out of the primary and then a backup trunk is auto-provisioned as well. Everything also comes with fail-safe routing and load the ability to load balance. In addition to that and something we certainly wanna highlight is our certifications. Peerless offers Microsoft direct routing with Microsoft Teams. We're certified with Asterisk, Avaya, Shortel, Mitel, 3CX, Cisco and on and on and on. Lots of opportunity in the SIP space and the PRI, we've been selling quite a few PRIs lately. Over the top, SIP PRIs to replace all those old TDM services. We also offer UCAS and Cloud PDX services. We try to make it as easy as possible as far as the pricing structure. It's a peerless proprietary platform that we're riding over. We just have three seat options. One is a premium all-in seat for 1549. Then the complete seat, which is everything with the exception of collaboration and the essential, which is just a basic seat with very few features for like a conference phone or a lunchroom phone. Here's actually a breakdown of the packages and services that we offer with each of the seats. As you can see, this pricing is actually our month-to-month pricing. All of our pricing, you could do month-to-month, one year, two year or three year. And the various different packages offer a full collaboration package. 1899 on a one year or on a month-to-month or 1549 on a three year complete extension, which is everything except for a collaboration and then essential extension, which is 1199 on a three year with just the basics there. So now we're gonna start talking about the peerless maximizer. This is, we got after agents were reviewing and meeting and quoting our services and one of the most common requests was to be able to mark up our service with a $115 PRI or $5 trunks. Certainly we got those requests on a frequent basis. And again, going back to our mantra of trying to make it as easy as possible to do business with peerless, we wanted to integrate that into the portal, okay? So worked with Jim and Jim's team to launch the peerless maximizer. It's simply gonna give you the ability to mark up all of our MRCs, okay? So whether it's a month-to-month, one year, two year or three year, the portal, you can go in, create profiles. And I'm not gonna try to steal too much of Jim's thunder because he's gonna go through this here in detail with you guys, but quite simply it's the ability to go in and create pricing profiles with different terms for different customers. And essentially from there, you can earn your standard residual on our standard pricing, okay? And then 100% of what you mark up is passed through to you. So, absolutely great, great opportunity to increase your residual, increase your commissions with the peerless maximizer. So here's a little bit more about the maximizer and what we have. Again, it's really easy to go in and do everything from creating a profile to creating a proposal. And then once you send that proposal to the customer, there's a click to sign button on that proposal and the ability to automatically provision and turn up those services is absolutely seamless and makes a lot of happy customers and agents too because when you can turn up something immediately, you're gonna get paid very quickly as well. One more thing for me and then I'm gonna hand it off to Jim. So here's some actual scenarios that have been priced out in the last two weeks that we've launched when we launched the peerless maximizer. So, 100 SIP channels, okay? Unlimited with teams, direct routing, $11 per channel includes all the usage, okay? The agent in this case wanted to mark up each of those channels by $9. So $20 channels and like I said, there was 100 of them. So the total cost is $2,000, okay? The agent makes their standard residual on the $11 channel and then 1100, I'm sorry, the total comp is $1,175 including their current residual as well as the markup, okay? The residual percentage in this case is 58% residual. So, absolutely outstanding. Another scenario is the peerless SIP PRI, which is a metered product, $115, actually $114.99, but I rounded up $250 is a very common price. So the agent marked it up by $135 there, total comp on a $250 MRC is $163.75, so 65% residual. Not to mention, we have some good promos right now. So the agent would make 5X on the $115 as well.  You can mark up the MRCs on the phones as well. So in this case, they marked it up by $2 a seat or $2 a phone, and it was 40% residual there. So overall, on a $750 deal, we're making 51%. So a lot of opportunity to continue to grow your revenue with peerless and, you know, do it pretty easily. So I'm gonna hand it off to Jim here. It's gonna give you a little bit of a demo on the peerless portal and the maximizer. All right, well, hello, everyone, and thank you, Ryan. I'm going to share my screen here. So I'm logged into the portal as an agent, as you would be. And some of you, this might be your first opportunity of seeing the portal. Ryan talked about a lot of the capabilities for today, we're gonna focus on the maximizer for customizing pricing, and I'll show you kind of how that's applied to a proposal. Obviously, there's a lot more capabilities the portal brings, and we're happy to follow up with Ryan's team on further review of that when you're available. So over here on the left, what we call the maximizer is pricing. Currently advertised on the homepage right here as well, so you can just hit get started or navigate to it on the left under pricing. And here's where you can see all of the different pricing profiles you've previously created. And these profiles can be shared amongst multiple customers. It's bringing up the list right now. There we go. So we've got nine profiles, I'm gonna show you how to add another one, but basically you can establish a pricing profile, set that markup that you wanna use, and then use that same profile across multiple customers. Or if you need to customize a price in order to win an opportunity, you can do that as well by simply adding a new one. So I'm gonna add a new one here. We're just gonna call this the triple A special. If I can type. And here's where you can see, as Ryan was mentioning, the ability to offer month to month terms, 12 month terms, 24, 36, and the ability to markup any of those MRC. So if you're gonna share this amongst multiple customers, you might wanna establish pricing for all the terms. Maybe here I'm gonna establish it for month to month. There's a simple utility app. Just to apply a straight percentage markup to everything. And that really just fills out the form for you. So I did a 20% markup of the peerless price. And the recurrent cost here is our standard price. And that's what you're gonna receive your standard residual on. And whatever you mark it up to is Ryan was saying, you're going to get a hundred percent of that difference. So that's what we're gonna do. So that's what we're gonna do. And what we're gonna mark it up to is Ryan was saying, you're going to get a hundred percent of that difference. So in this case, you know, a premium extension on a month to month is normally 1899. And 20% more is 2279. And of course you can override any of these, and we can make that an even $25 if we wanted to do that. And maybe I'm going to also include a 36 month term in this proposal, I'll mark that up only 15%. And again, you can modify any of these values. And you'll see the ability here to modify any of the MRCs, whether it's a cloud PBX seats or a SIP trunk channel or PRIs. Ryan was talking about, you have all the flexibility there, as well as the CPE catalog. So we do, for our UCAS service, offer leases for all the devices that we have. And you can mark those up. So if we want to mark up all of the leases by 20%, then, you know, this Polycom BVX 150, you would get an extra 40 cents a month on everyone that you sold. So once you go through and fill out your pricing profile, as it's called, you just click the add pricing profile button, and this takes about 10 seconds to complete. And then that pricing is available for proposals. It's available to be used on customers that you invite to the service. And since we have the time here, I'll go ahead and actually show you how to use this in a proposal and bring up the proposal that Ryan mentioned, allowed the customer just to click through and sign up and start using the pricing you've established here. So here is the completed pricing. Everything's loaded. Everything's ready to go. So now if we go to proposals over here on the left, here's where you can manage all of your prospects and all the proposals for your prospects. So these are our current prospects. I'm just going to take the Acme Pet Shop here, and I'm going to add a new proposal for them. So under the proposals tab, you can see that they already have a proposal that somebody else did. I'm going to add a new proposal. And here you can just give it a name. I'm going to call it the September special. And we're going to choose the pricing. So by default, the peerless standard pricing's available. But you can see here is AAA special, the one I just added. So that pricing loads up. You choose the term. And if you recall, I added pricing for month to month and 36 months. So here I'm going to choose the 36 months. And then we can just start adding things to our proposal. And we can spend a lot more time with you individually on all of this, but I'm going to add maybe that premium extension for. I'm going to add 12 of them. And I'm just going to generate a proposal. So the pretty simple proposal, we're going to have 12 premium extensions. And I'll go ahead and open this up then. So this has downloaded. Here's the proposal. If you're not familiar with our proposals, we allow you to customize a greeting here. It gives a lot of great info on peerless, the peerless products, the portals and all the real time capabilities the customer will have with the portal. And then the heart of your proposal here was the 12 premium. Extensions at the price that you established using the, the maximizer pricing tool. And there's the click to accept button. So as soon as the customer accepts this, they will be onboarded to go through our credit process. And then they'll automatically be on the pricing that you established. So it's really zero touch from the point that you create this initial proposal. So once you create the, create the pricing, create the proposal, the customer is going to be onboarded at that price. And you'll start to quickly maximize those residuals.  And then of course you can go add other customers to that same pricing or come back here and, you know, add, add more pricing for additional opportunities. So with that, I will pass it back to Ryan and he can finish up here. All right. Thank you very much, Jim. And then I'll definitely, it looks like we'll go have a few minutes here at the end to go through some questions. So thank you for your interest. Jim even used the word maximize in there in his presentation. So maximize your commissions with the maximizer. We're very excited about this. Hopefully you share in some of that excitement. Certainly there's opportunity to mark up pricing as we're very competitively priced with our standard pricing, but they're also certainly his ability to get more aggressive in some cases as well. So we have the ability to, you know, for the right opportunities, you just need to work with your channel directors. And we can, we can, you know, do some special pricing in those cases as well. So the next is going to be the, we have a nice promo that's going on right now with the, with the end of Q3. We've got a kick. The summer is almost over. So kick off the summer promotion. It seemed like a good name about three months ago. So end of summer promotion right now, end of Q3. Five X is what we're paying on the sip and the UCAS MRC. That's not the marked up MRC. If you're doing that and you have that question, but it is just this, the standard MRC that we're providing out there does need to be on a three year. And that promo expires at the end of this month. And new customers only for that promo. So on top of the great residual that we have, you can also, you know, get a, get a five X upfront on those three year terms. So we've got an outstanding team of channel director rock stars around the country to help support you and work with you on the deals. Like I said, we want to make it as easy as possible to do business with us. We want to make it as easy as possible. We want to make it as easy as possible to do business with us. And we certainly have the portal in place to help you do your quotes.  And provision very quickly. But if you have any questions on pricing, if you want training on the portal, if you want the channel directors to do that, to help you do the quotes and the markups and the, and the special price. Anything like that. We're here for you to make it as easy as possible to do business with us. So we're here for you to make it as easy as possible to do business with us. So we have a lot of questions. So I want to thank you for joining us. We have a lot of questions from the community. And we'd like to thank you for having us here on the agenda. And I'm going to go to Andrea out west. Doug in the southeast, Jamie in the northeast and James here with me in the Midwest. As well. So we've had a few questions that have that have popped up. Somebody saw the tax info there at the, the end of a gyms presentation. Yes, you have the ability to, to mark up. the exact taxes for each of your customers. So all you have to do is enter the zip code or the address in the zip code where that customer is and the proposal will generate either a detailed summary of the taxes or the actual specific you know just kind of an overall summary or a detailed breakout I should say. So that thank you for that question. Another question was how does the markup work with master agents? That's a good question as well and my advice would be to there's a lot of different agreements out there my advice would be to contact your master agent to ask them that same question. Okay another question was what is the market rate for PRI and SIP Trump? Very good question. So there's the SIP PRI market rate and then there's the old TDM market rate. I would say you know the biggest thing there would be most likely I would think in the three if it's very old you know the three to five hundred dollar range for some of the old TDM PRIs out there. Even the new SIP PRIs 115 dollars is very competitive. I'm saying we see them in the in the 200 to 250 range but you guys are out there out and about in the in this unlimited SIP Trump range we're seeing that in the 12 to 24, 23, 24 dollar range and we're again we're priced at pretty competitive in that case. I've got a can handle I got two more questions here and then I'm going to wrap it up rules of engagement how does this work if multiple people are quoting basically ink wins we provide the same standard pricing to everyone if we have multiple people in a deal but now you'll have the ability to mark up so some people might you know mark these things up a little bit here and there some people might try to reduce it so you know rules of engagement for peerless is ink wins those deals and there's another question about process for lowering the pricing certainly you just need to channel contact your channel director I see a couple more questions coming in I'm going to wrap it up at this point but we'll follow up directly with those that had those questions thank you for your time you know like I said we want to make it as easy as possible to do business with peerless we're I think we're accomplishing that by putting together a very user friendly portal for you as well as a full team of very experienced channel directors to help support you and an outstanding product over our own network so we've thrown a lot of information at you today we're going to we're going to send out your gift cards your door dash or I think it's uber eats gift cards here after the after the call is is concluded and we'll follow up with you each individual to volunteer a more detailed training on the portal and and putting this maximizer into into effect so thank you again really appreciate your time everyone have a great day and a great rest of your week


Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebreaks.com here doing 2019-2020 Panini Contenders Optic Hobby 2 box break. Pick your team number 90. Last two boxes from this inner case. Next inner case, 10 boxes. First two are on the site now as pick your team number 91. So get your spots. On top of that, we're also giving away $300 in break credit. Way to enter the win for the break credit. Buy two or more teams in this break. Get entered to win. No max entries. Two teams, one entry. Four teams, two entries. Six teams, three entries, etc. If you only buy one team, good luck with that team. But it does not get you an entry into the break credit giveaway. And top five names at the end of the break. $60 in break credit each. There you go. So here is the list of customers and respective teams. Heavy on the Robert Runkel. He's going for that break credit and all the hits for these two boxes. From Robert and the Hawks, Last Spot Mojo down to the Wizards, and Robert. Last spot mojo for the heat as well for him. So let's print this out and rip. And the randomizer for the break credit. We'll do that afterwards. And here is our last two boxes. Like I said, number 91. Pick your team 91 is in the store now. That is the inner case from this same master case. So that's the other 10 boxes. Here is our full list. I mean, he's given himself a lot of chance for the break credit. That's for sure. But yeah, I'm expecting something nice out of these last two. Now it's just time to find out. First up, Nicola Jokic, Uniformity Hollow, Denver Nuggets, Jarell Taylor, playing the numbers game. Cracked Ice, Paul George for the Clippers, Robert Runkel, Keras Leverts, Season Ticket for the Nets, Robert Runkel, Marc Gasol Hollow for the Raptors, Robert Runkel, and DeMontes Sabonis, Season Ticket Red for the Pacers, Robert Runkel, and Rookie Ticket Otto, Jalen Noel for the Timberwolves, Robert Runkel. I love his little crown on top of his name. And here comes the big one. First up is Dual Historic Picks, Six Overall Pick, Damian Lillard, Larry Bird, Celtics, Robert Runkel, Blazers, Robert Runkel, No Randomizer Necessary, Nice, Dane Time, and The Hick from French Lick. I think those are awesome cards. Romeo Lankford, Lottery Ticket Red, Celtics, Robert Runkel, Cracked Ice, Bogdan Bogdanovich for the Kings, Robert Runkel, Devin Booker Hollow, Season Ticket for the Sons, Robert Runkel, Ben Simmons, Season Ticket Blue for the 76ers and Robert Runkel. That is 57 out of 99. Anybody ever thought of 76ers? Do you think that they're players' cards that are 76 out of something? Do those go for any premium since they're the 76ers? Makes you think. And up and coming. He's definitely been doing pretty well recently. RJ Barrett in the New York Knicks, Robert Runkel. That is 15 out of 125. He's looked exceptional. There you go. Another nice two boxes there. Definitely a nice one at the end for you, Robert. Let's pop back over here and do the Break Credit Randomizer. So we're going to copy the customer list over, alphabetize it, from Brian back down to Robert. Brian with two spots gets one. Jarrell with two gets one. Matt, thanks for getting in. No Break Credit Randomizer, but Robert, you count them all. 25 spots. So you're going to get 13. Or no, 12. 12 on the randomizer with the two last spot modules as well. There you go. So Brian back down to Robert. 14 spots. Dice roll. Top five names after three and a six. Nine times. Top five. Ninth and final time. Sweeped by Robert. Top five. Nine on the randomizer. Nine on the dice. Robert through Robert. You'll get one Break Credit for you for the $300, Robert. There you go, man. Thank you guys all for getting in on that, especially Robert. That was 2019-2020 Penini Contenders Optic Hobby Two Box Break. Pick your team number 90 from jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Sean, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for hanging out. See you next time.


Hello. My name is Belinda Price. I am a supervisory administrative officer for the US National Archives and Records Administration. Within the Office of Innovation, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm a native Washingtonian. As a native Washingtonian, I remember going to various museums and a lot of the federal buildings on field trips. I remember one instance when we went to the National Archives and Records Administration. I thought it was a very large building, and I said, wow, it will be nice one day to work there. Who would have thought I would actually be here now? One thing I did appreciate about the National Archives and Records Administration is, they are the custodian of major historical documents, and they keep them pretty well. One other thing that attracted me to working for NARA is their ability to grant the public access to those records. One example, rings to mind, is the Office of Innovation Hub, where the public can get an opportunity to scan documents with a digital copy made free of charge. What a privilege and honor to work for an agency that supports open government daily. Thank you.


Welcome back to corporate governance and we are continuing with our journey to understand the role of media on corporate governance, its role and implications with the shareholders and with the stakeholders. Today, the topic is going to be corporate governance and press shareholders, activists and institutional investors. So, again we are looking at the nitty gritties of how the shareholders and the institutional investors would be responding to corporate governance and press and the dissemination of news related to the institution in the press and what are the various consequences and repercussions of that particular news and how it is assimilated by the board of directors and also by the shareholders and the institutional investors. So, this is a very important topic and again there are many examples. We have seen that Robert Monks and Nell Minow found the press useful in the struggle with management circles in the United States. So, basically what we see is that the press also acts as a protection layer for whistle blowers because when the whistle is blown and the press takes up the issue and that is disseminated across the country or across the globe then the implications tend to change and the very powerful management or the very powerful board of directors cannot well or put a blind eye to what is happening in the organization and that is extremely important. And it has been seen that some very good organizations just like we have been talking about the example of Enron and WorldCom and also how it has streamlined various incongruences within the organization. And then we see another aspect that it has also been practiced in emerging economies especially in the case of Korea where we see that the various large conglomerates had to realign and recalibrate themselves and see how they can do business in a better way and also curtail corruption which was taking place within their fold. The beginning of efforts to force change in Korea dates back to 1996 and the formation of the People's Solidarity Participated Democracy, PSDPD. The activists in Korea relied on legal pressures including proxy battles, criminal suits and derivative suits and on the use of the press to shame popularly disobeyed again. What we see is that a multi-tier approach basically took place in Korea especially against bad governance and bad governance practices and it was a multi-pronged approach which also entailed legal battles, proxy battles, criminal suits, derivative suits. So, all of these different types of legal instruments were used against these very powerful K-Bowl because they called as K-Bowls or K-Bowls in Korea and they basically were the financiers for governments and therefore it was very difficult to bring them into check but since 1996 we have seen a steady flow of rules and regulations and laws emerging which have controlled these K-Bowls or these large huge conglomerates which basically were the backbone of the Korean economy. The success of press stands in a sharp contrast with the failure of legal actions. Shareholders' proposals are severely restricted and cannot involve the removal of directors or auditors. What we see is that in all of this activism that has been taking place we see that many a times some legal actions tend to fail but the pressure of the press tends to build up a very moral standing and moral issue which can be assimilated and can be channelized by the different stakeholders of that particular industry or that particular institution and then we also see that the shareholders they also have certain limitations in which they cannot remove the directors or auditors which again becomes a very severe restriction to counter such moral practices or corruption which is taking within the particular organization but the press puts a lot of pressure both direct and indirect and ensures that whatever wrong is taking place at least that is stopped and many a times it has been seen that those involved in such moral practices are removed from the institution and sometimes even the institution has to get winded up. Only successful legal challenge has been the one to ensure investors' rights to speak at meetings so again various legal decisions have led to this right of investors to speak at meetings and therefore channelize the outcome of a particular meeting. The effect of shareholder and public opinion pressure was an increase in the transparency so again we see that a public opinion one and secondly the effect of shareholders being catalyzed and leveraged by the press tends to increase transparency that is extremely important. Institutional investors have many legal mechanisms to encourage change in corporate policies the presence of an active press increases their influence so again ladies and gentlemen what we see is that these institutional investors have many legal mechanisms by which they can impose their opinion or their rights or how they want to see the future of the organization and they have a direct influence on the corporate policies and many times what we see is that with the presence of an active progressive and truthful press then the institutional investors influence also tends to increase it provides a relatively cheap way to impose penalties on companies and it helps coordinating the response of other investors and availing themselves of potential legal protection so again what we see ladies and gentlemen is that the press the news is reinforcing is augmenting is strengthening the capacity of the board of directors and also ensuring that the institutional investors do not lose out on their investment because they carry immense influence on the management and on the employees and therefore a very holistic approach is created through these news channels and these news platforms and these news prints which tend to influence the organization and provides legal protection to all of the stakeholders and all of the institutional investors which can lead towards a better organization thank you so much


Just feel like we got to sit down and have this conversation YouTube team. Keep it clean What's going on? It's engraving here with another video before we get into this video Thank you for 38k. Thank you for 38,000 subscribers and that's crazy And I actually have to check on the team keep it clean podcast channel to see where we yet now to see if We hit a thousand subscribers yet. I don't think so, but I'm gonna check that in a little bit, but anyway Let's just jump straight into it. So We've talked about it extensively on here because just like the JJ watt move It's not a move that I wouldn't necessarily want But it's such a Ravens move if it happened the JJ watt move I feel like when I watch JJ watt this year, he was very tired He just he obviously isn't the same JJ watt that he used to be and with age that stuff happens I'm not the same person. I used to be but I actually feel like right now. I'm like I'm almost in my prime But anyway, um JJ watt he isn't the same person that he he's not the same player that he used to be and then especially when you got Your little brother out here showing out for the past couple years then that that makes it look even worse but anyway, I Feel like with the Ravens that is such a Ravens move and If they were to acquire one JJ watt I Would have mixed feelings about it because right now. I mean At defensive end past Russia outside linebacker is very empty right now Well, not officially because we got away till the new league year starts But we have a lot of pending free agents Derek Wolf Tyus Bowser Pranel McPhee mad judon you they can got quay So, yeah, they're gonna have to do some stuff at outside linebacker edge rusher past Russia defensive end all of that So that'll take care of yourself But another name that it's been buzzing a lot when it comes to the Ravens is AJ green AJ green now, of course Ravens They have so many questions at wide receiver every single year every single season. It's always questions at wide receive What are you gonna do a wide receiver? Who do they need to sign a wide receiver? Who are they gonna draft their wide receiver? What do the Ravens need a wide receiver this year? It's always a question and AJ green Some people feel like The Ravens will answer the question by signing him possibly even being interested in him and There's of course been the rumors flying around about Ravens gonna be interested in AJ green blah blah blah if those rumors are true Who knows? But at the same time I was about to say who cares, but I do remember a couple years ago there were a lot of rumors flying around that the Ravens are going to be interested in Mark Ingram and Yeah, but anyway AJ green let's talk about the goods and the bats So with AJ green the goods he is a receipt. I mean he's a Ravens killer. He's a Ravens killer We Ravens fans, we know all about AJ green and everything that he can do and has done to the Ravens And over the past couple years. No, but in past history. Yes So AJ green what would we get if we got AJ green? Well, we would have that that potential extra motivation Because we know that the Bengals they're not gonna franchise tag him again We know we know they're not gonna do that. They got the cat the salary cap for it But they're not gonna even waste the time doing that for what why nobody's gonna trade to acquire AJ green So franchise tagging him will be pointless. You're not getting ready to sign him to a long-term deal So that will be pointless the Bengals have already shown throughout last season that they're ready to move on They're done with AJ green and he Show Especially in And really in both games against the Ravens last year. He showed in those games that he was done with the Bengals too So it's a two-way street. It's a mutual decision.  So The benefits the goods AJ green you get a taller big-body receiver You get a physical wide receiver and this is exactly what the Ravens need and again, I'm still holding out hope That Miles Boykin ends up being that guy for the Ravens But until then this is what the Ravens need Somebody, you know what they can do They can make those contested catches They'll block for you They can run routes They does AJ green have the best speed in the world. No But that's not really what the Ravens need. They they have speed. They just got to use it a lot better But they do have speed. He's a veteran receiver. He knows the ins and outs of football I'm sure the playbook wouldn't be too hard for him to learn But with AJ green He gives you somebody who's been the number one guy before and essentially if he came to the Ravens He would be the number one guy like from jump. He'll be the number one guy Would be a nice compliment to Hollywood And again, he would give you that guy that veteran guy that established guy But the biggest thing with him Like we know all the the records. He's unbroken and in order the amazing plays that he done made He even got some hands too cuz I remember he got into it. What I think what Jalen Rads, but anyway AJ green the biggest thing is the what if One comment that really like oh it just it hurt me when I saw somebody say it It was last year during the season. They said that Jimmy Smith is the defensive version of AJ green So that would mean that AJ green is the offensive version of a Jimmy Smith and That's not a diss to either one of them But it's just the way that the ball has bounced in their careers and it's been unfortunate in how their careers have ended up Because these are two guys who if they would have been healthy throughout their careers These guys would have been some of the best in the league Consistently at their positions Jimmy Smith would have definitely been one of the best corners in the league for years He would have got pro bowls all pros all that stuff But he just couldn't stay healthy AJ green Even though he did have a lot of health problems He did establish himself as one of the best receivers in the league for a period of time But then the health the health that just kept catching up with him and he just kept kept getting hurt So injuries have definitely just messed up both of these guys careers big time so With AJ green that will be the biggest thing that like that's the biggest problem with the AJ green that is the problem health health health Can he stay healthy? Is he fully healthy? I mean You would think so especially after last year in Cincinnati because he got a lot of time off and But he just but another thing that I would be a little worried about Even though he will be going to a completely different team a team that he's very familiar with Where's his love for the game at right now? Does he still want to play football right now? Or would he just be collecting a check on his way out? Now that part doesn't overly concern me Just AJ green. He doesn't seem he doesn't strike me as a type to just collect a check and be like, okay I'm out but because maybe with Cincinnati since he just knew that his time was up with Cincinnati Maybe it was one of them things where he just needs he needs a change of environment He needs to be in a completely different scenario Because again, I remember I think it was the game in Baltimore against the Ravens Joe Burrow through a pass. It was it was too high for AJ green But he just he just stood there. He didn't even go for he ain't jumped for the markets He just caught the pick market speed to start running AJ green was just sitting there. He's just sitting there So, okay, and then in the final game of the season AJ green He I know Burrow wasn't the quarterback since he was already on injured reserve But he just looked dejected. He looked like he was just out of it Looked like he was not having fun at all and it could have been one of those things where it's just like a I didn't put in my two weeks notice So I'm just I'm going through the motions right now. I'm just going through the motions and I'm I'm done I don't want anything to do with this anymore. I'm done That's what it looked like That's really what it looked like So with AJ green if if the Ravens did make that move again It is very Raven like of them to make a move like that. Well more so Ozzy like though because Under Eric Dacosta He hasn't been going for the aging Close to being washed up wide receivers and I know who say there's Bryant, but He did that it he did that in the middle of the season Like in free agency so far Ozzy been going young he's been going young and Like, okay, I mean Eric Dacosta Dacosta not Ozzy not excuse me Eric Dacosta been going young Now we know Ozzy that was one of his things every year We would get that that veteran that only got a couple years maybe left in the league More recently under Ozzy. It had been Crabtree Steve Smith senior They traded for Bolden but Bolden had he had a good amount of time left More more than most of the receivers that they were usually signed. It was TJ Hooch Manzada Derek Mason with that that one ended up working out for for the for the most part Who else Trying to think of who else off the top of my head, but yeah, that's been Ozzy's thing But Eric Dacosta, you know, he signed Seth Roberts. He did sign That receiver. Oh, I forget his net Michael Floyd, but he cut him He cut him. He was like, oh, no you by cut him Okay, EDC all right now But at the same time while he has gone young at the wide receiver position, he's also gone cheap It is not a position that the Ravens whether it's been under Ozzy or whether it's been under Eric Dacosta It has not been a position that the Ravens really invest free agency money into So I really don't expect that to change, but that's why AJ Green again It would be a fit based off of Ravens their history based off of what they done it would just it would be a fit and I just Just like with JJ. Why it wouldn't necessarily be a move that I would be all yeah, let's get it, baby But if it happened I'd be like, oh, okay this Let's go But it will give Lamar a receiver with a big catch radius And I think he needs more those he needs more Receivers that can adjust to that ball Really go up and get it get the jump ball so we can just start he can just start doing more Because I feel like that's been a part of Lamar's game to is the trust factor The trust factor with his receivers because a lot most his receivers are smaller guys So I feel like and it's nothing against shorter guys because I'm I'm a short guy myself But when when your receivers a shorter guy, then you're almost limited on what you can do with them But except I mean you look at Tyreek Hill though look at Patrick Mahon's will throw a jump ball to Tyreek Hill Not necessarily a fifty-fifty. Well, sometimes he does But he'll throw a jump ball to Tyreek Hill Tyreek Hill. I don't know how but he'll go all the way up and get it But he just it's a different breed over there. I don't know what he got going on. But anyway But just having that bigger frame guy, I think we would help out Lamar a lot It would help out a whole lot. So With AJ Green, we'll see if it happens. Um, again, it just it's one of those things where it just makes too much sense based off of what Ravens have done so many times in the past and It just it just seems like because with dad's Brian, I don't think he's coming back. I Really don't I don't think he's coming back.  So Ravens gave they gave him the only chance But we'll see if somebody else ends up giving them a shot So anyway team keep it clean Appreciate y'all. I love y'all and free agency is about a month and a half away The start of free agency is about a month and a half away So we'll see if all these rumors about AJ Green to the Ravens Come to fruition or if they remain just that and stay rumors. I love y'all I appreciate y'all just like AJ Green is going to be with the Cincinnati Bengals very very soon