Trying to get back to the basics of great products power comes from sharing information. I try to convince people to slow down Hello, hello, welcome back to the last episode of the season of the circle slash podcast My name is William from the appall and here at the Helsinki office and having Isaac rowdy with me in Copenhagen. Hi Isaac Hi, William. Nice to meet you again. Nice to meet meet you. Yeah Many times before I Think I've said that a few times actually. I think there's the first time I called you out on it Hey, we are gonna end the season with a bang We have the huge honor to be hosting two of north zones partners We have Wendy Shao Shaddick and PJ person welcome both of you Hey, everyone. Hi there. Great to be here. Super great to have you as is usually The way it goes in the circle slash podcast.  How long you've been at north zone and etc Ladies first Sure So I'll start from the very beginning. I was originally born in China I moved to the US when I was about seven immigrated with my family to Michigan where I grew up Kind of the good old Midwest US upbringing and then moved to New York About 11 years ago and you know worked in management consulting here for some of the largest industries that were actually Disrupting right now and it was very evident That at the time a lot of them were just unable to cope with what was happening in in kind of Both organizationally, but also coping kind of against the new tech and come the new tech entrance that we're completely just eating their lunch And so I decided to give up on helping the old guard enjoying kind of the new guard and started a company In the co-working and childcare space Here in New York to help kind of enable young and new mothers to keep continuing to work in the in the workforce and kind of You know take an entrepreneurial dive while still caring for their newborns and then at that time I was also getting my MBA at Columbia and I met PJ and I decided to join north zone at around 2015 and I've been here ever since great and Wendy's Really spearheading our web 3.0 Practice and And that is that that also shows how fast this industry is moving I started when this industry was super small back in in the late 90s and And the the entire venture capital industry has gone through tremendous changes and particularly Europe and also in New York I would say over that time period and From being a very marginal Asset class where which very few people really cared about To now being at the center of I would say a secular shift where We're basically entrepreneurs are changing how we how we live and how work and and and everything and seeing that from you know From up close and being part of that transition has been a tremendous experience for me and I've been fortunate to work with some of the greatest entrepreneurs coming out of Europe but also out of New York such as Donnie Lee and co Spotify who I saw sort of on the board of directors for 10 years and Jonas and Philip who built a veto into one of the biggest Online classifieds platforms in the world. They actually Last time I spoke to them. They said that about 5% of the Russian GDP is actually traded on that Platform, which is pretty astounding And now in more recent years we Went in I co-led an investment in the spring health, which is a very exciting Healthcare company. So, you know, I've been a long time in this industry, but I've never seen such exciting times as now Yeah, it's definitely sounds like an exciting journey and something we picked up also Well along our own entrepreneurial journeys, albeit very short so far But still and also from doing this podcast is is the very same thing that the world seems to be full of Opportunities and there's kind of this validation going on for Entrepreneurs and venture capital and it's truly is a very great time to be doing things like this And it's it's a good thing as well because there are some really huge problems to be tackled in the coming decades So I'm happy we have good entrepreneurs and a lot of capital doing that and not only maybe heads of states and EU and stuff like that But we we agreed to talk a little bit about the European ecosystem What's going on but also talk about the coming years web 3.0 crypto Interesting new technologies, but maybe we could start off with we're talking about the first six months Of of this year and in terms of capital invested in Europe. It's been quite a record-breaking Period of time. So in your view, what's happening in in Europe at the moment? Yeah, maybe I should start then although that we are Wendy's US based and I'm Stockholm based we do look at the world Not so much on geography, but more on sectors But you know taking nevertheless the geographical standpoint, I would say that Europe has As many other territories over the past year experiences enormous fast-forwarding of Digital behavior That is not only driven by the fact that people can't Go to the workplace or that they have to log on to Platforms like this, but it's also that it has created a sort of second order of change where Processes business processes decision-making processes and And a lot of Ways that you work are being questioned You know in a way that we haven't really seen before and and most of the time the the big enemy of Startups is it's the status quo that you don't want to change, but there has been so much change fueled by by this Covid pandemic that has really played into the hands of startups and and scale ups. So It's it's been a tremendous amount of capital that's flown into the market But what I think is even more impressive is that when you actually look at the performance of these companies that are getting these kinds of you know substantive Financing rounds their performance is you know breathtaking and they have growth rates that are You know far and beyond What we've ever experienced before so so even no venture venture investor things that 150 to 200% growth In a year is phenomenal. That is more like the rule in many of these Exciting startups in this past year. Yeah, I'm just kind of sorry. Yeah, go ahead No, please when I Know I was just going to say to add on to that in terms of behavior change We obviously see kind of Europe leading a lot of that in terms of e-commerce penetration And it just you know and you know other other types of digital behaviors And it just doesn't make sense that capital availability doesn't follow. And so I think what's also become quite realistic In in the past six months is that that global venture capital Is starting to pay so much more attention to Europe than ever before and you know part of it I like to think it's just a part of human bias being kind of outside of your in-person meeting Mindset you get to reflect a little bit and think about the opportunities globally that you can access now virtually both for VCs And and entrepreneurs And so you see a lot of you know a lot of our US colleagues Again, I'm here based in New York So I see a lot of my colleagues in New York just like incredibly excited about the European opportunities And and as well as kind of on the West Coast I'd like to take a step back and ask about web 3.0 like you said PJ that Entrepreneurs are shaping the word world these days in ways that we haven't seen before I mean the shift can in many ways be seen as paradigmatic even I mean if we talk about web 3.0 then I Mean, I guess it's better if I let you give a short introduction, but at least the way I understand it like it When when me when the meetings or the the moments when people meet Move or moved increasingly to the internet the friction between those meetings And the political frictions whatever kind of frictions you want to apply to those they they are diminished and and the role of protocols And become much more important compared to institutions. This is the text that I read from you Wendy Taking it directly from there, but could you actually just give a shorter introduction? What is this paradigm shift? What is web 3.0 and how how What are the implications of it? So I think you know the the idea of web 3.0 is still fairly abstract and a lot of different things can be attributed to it But I think the very simple way of maybe internalizing the overall idea is The idea that you know, it's for us in tech And in us in venture You know, it's always about coordinating more human activity through technology And and a lot of that has been online And so if we look at traditional ways of doing that it could be through human organizations But I would you know propose that what web 3.0 is starting to do is Doing some of that coordination in kind of a digital marketplace type of format using code And that is what protocols are essentially. It's you know marketplaces without intermediaries That are automatically executed through code and so that you know For example, could be a Bitcoin mining network where people hook up hardware To the internet and run code and they help together Secure a financial system using encryption And and and power and then it could also be kind of you know, Ethereum, which is a a global more kind of executing Computer so to speak right you know again people kind of plug in their machines and can help kind of run financial smart contracts in a in a Decentralized and in democratized way But then if we also look at kind of you know, the idea of web 3.0 and what we've been Investing in kind of in this phase of technology adoption And I don't think we're fully there yet to what I've just described as sort of ideal Idealistic vision of having kind of everything run in a decentralized coordinated way via code I think what we're seeing is starting to you know Companies and protocols are starting to build bits and pieces of functionality that can be added to existing businesses Whether it be through the API or other types of kind of components and then these components together can be adopted by kind of existing sort of Financial services companies now or health tech companies or consumer companies I think DeFi is in a great movement You know example of that and we can talk more about what that is for folks who aren't familiar later But also NFTs is another great example of one of these components Whereas really about managing digital media online in kind of a seamless and decentralized way and that as a component Is very powerful when you apply to something like online football trading cards for example, but you know Companies that you know that that operate like that I guess they could consider themselves a part of the web 3.0 movement and they could could not But I think the definition in itself can be a little bit, you know limiting in that way because that is such an abstract idea And if I just add on to that because I think and we've been discussing that at great lengths Wendy and I said there was a really a big shift between web 1.0 and web 2.0 and and if you think of it all the big companies that are Currently like the real Trillion-dollar companies they were largely built on the premise of web 2.0 when the internet went from a relatively static almost like a You know shopping window Setting to something that's very dynamic and could actually start to organize business processes So so the level of abstraction increased and the functionalities Multiplied going through that in the early parts of 2000 and led the laid the Framework and the groundwork for some phenomenally big and successful companies and most of the startups that we invest in today Have that in a framework at it as it's core I think what's so exciting from both I think societal and an investment standpoint is now that's a web 3.0 represents another leap in that sort of abstraction and How that looks like in the future it's sort of hard to tell it's If you most of the if you compare most of the 3.0 companies right now with with a web 2.0 companies They they are not you know super competitive if you compare them light for light But they have a different sort of growth trajectory ahead of them and that's what's exciting for us as investors Yeah, I think this is it's I'm very glad that we get to bring this topic up also the podcast is slush slush is also all about looking for the next big things and This is something that it's it's interesting when talking about for instance Bitcoin how the media narrative is is quite narrow at the moment and it's What you see in mainstream media is that it's too volatile to be a currency and and this and that then and you know It's used for illegal activity and death and it's kind of a Nordic lens It's kind of a European lens. It's kind of like a privileged lens also to look at this technology true because if you You know, obviously in in very well-off countries You have a relatively low amount of corruption and relatively high trust in in institutions but in many parts of the world this technology can be a very it can be a leapfrog technology also also in terms of of you know Creating a new economy empowering people and empowering trust as well. So it seems like this is being This is being shrugged off somewhat at least in the mainstream media in in Europe And it's it's very it's very nice to be talking about this and how do you see, you know, the role of for instance Bitcoin here, I don't want to get stuck on Bitcoin But if you look at the premise of Bitcoin and the white original white paper of Bitcoin, it's it's pretty clear At least to me that it's one of the it's a very Unique idea in that sense that it's the enabler of all the layers that have come after that It's the enabler of Ethereum. It's the enabler of NFTs It's the enabler of DeFi That is kind of the original idea that got everything started and everything that's built after that is kind of a micro Micro trade and and Bitcoin is the macro trade. I don't know if you if you catch on to that, but that's kind of How how I see it at least at the moment Yeah, maybe I take a stab at that I think Bitcoin was really important in demonstrating a lot of again the primitives and the potential of This technology across a very important use case I think it's arguable still if it's, you know, truly a financial kind of payment rail I think, you know, most have settled that it isn't but it could be a proof of a storage of value rail or something, you know, a treasury type of use case but And I think, you know that in itself is a huge opportunity I think we're still in the part of the market where a lot of these things are still very They still rhyme from a consumer's perspective And so there's a lot of correlations and how people think about Bitcoin and Ethereum and all of these others And certainly from an investment perspective for a retail investor Maybe they consider Bitcoin the most de-risk from that perspective, but for us, it's actually quite different We look at them very very differently as technologies You know, because the use case is is sort of what we're focused on and the utility value of each of these protocols Based on that use case is what we're studying So a lot of what we're looking at is creating new internet infrastructures And some might disagree with me on this But we don't see a lot of that happening on Bitcoin rails We're seeing most of it happening in other kind of what they call layer one blockchains like Ethereum and others And so we're spending a lot of time understanding, you know, more importantly kind of what the developers are building You know useful business or user apps on And you know, we don't let kind of the infrastructure lead us in terms of investing We let the developers and the consumers lead us when we think about innovation And that just might mean a lot of these protocols that we're looking at are probably going to be a little bit further removed from consumer kind of mainstream mindset because you know, it's still like very much an early stage venture backed project But you know, I You know, I think that's sort of at least how how we think about kind of investing into this space And how we look at sort of some of the currencies versus others It's always been a lot less about the token a lot more about what's being built on top of it Exactly. One one one good example. I think Contrasting to the Bitcoin story, which obviously has much more appeal as a story in itself, but Wendy led the investment in live peer, which is an infrastructure to basically produce video capacity and it's a distributed system and The participants is that network is like a peer-to-peer network, you could say and they're being compensated With with the tokens and and the consequence of this and the way it's set up On on the blockchain is that they can produce video ingestion and basically a video streams out of you know, a Small fraction of the cost of what the incumbents can today And and we think that that's how this will evolve that you will have just as you have in if you look into the the ride-sharing services like you now have, you know, hundreds of thousands of Independent entrepreneurs driving uber cars or lift cars or whatever it is There will be hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs being a part of creating infrastructure for various things like being it for video or for for transaction verifications or Things like that and that I think is a new Class of of companies that are yet to be formed that can be a tremendous opportunity and the and for us as investors We obviously need to look at where will the value be captured there? Is it? With uh, you know with the drivers or is it with the Algorithm or you know, what is it and and that's a very exciting challenge I'm interested in this in this dichotomy between institutions and protocols And the shift do you do you think? I mean, I think william would have made a great point and there's a lot of I agree with there But but this question still kind of stands like what is this new world going to be like that is supervised by protocols and not by institutions I mean, it might not be that sort of clear cut of a dichotomy But but still that is the dynamic and so how do you see how do you see the future being? In contrast with the kind of the old world like what are some of the challenges that these decentralized protocols have to have in mind Maybe some of the goods or even some of the necessary evils that exist in this like Kind of stable Institutional world that we live in these days It's always fun to try to predict what the future will look like It's it's you know, not our job in in venture capital And that's certainly not the the approach we try to take at north some but we do have some great kind of theoretical debates about You know where this line gets drawn in the future I know pj and I have certainly had those in the past and You know, what I think perhaps is most important is is kind of looking at where these activities converge now on kind of these Already protocol primitives and company primitives forming on top of them and where the value is being added And more specifically what I mean by that is, you know When is code better to coordinate people and when when are people better to coordinate people? I think there's always going to be an element of human Humanness that just can never be abstracted away by technology And you know, I think there's also certain activities that can just be faster More efficient done directly kind of via code from computer to computer And I'll give an example of a company we invested in called grow labs It's uh, you know founded by a actually really talented swedish entrepreneur And what he's looking to build is sort of, you know, the human layer the the neal banking layer for the average consumer to build trust In this new financial system But then the part that can be coordinated by code is sort of all the defi components underneath So he's utilizing the various yield kind of seeking protocols and interest-generating protocols stablecoin protocols To build a financial product that looks familiar to a regular human today that deals with neobanks And all of the activity underneath between kind of lending and borrowing and interest rate determination That's being done by protocol and there's a bunch of traders and you know people that are much kind of more focused on that coordinating those marketplaces in court sort of Using those marketplaces facilitated by code But what the company grow is going to build is sort of the human layer of that You know helping kind of the average person understand What is the seven percent yield on a stablecoin? Should I trust it? What are the risks underlying it? How do I get insurance for it? How do I even access this to be a product? Like I think product building is a very human function that probably won't totally be disrupted by code And and so I think that's a good example of where we're starting to see the emergence of organizations adding value versus protocols adding value and I expect if you expect extrapolate that further It'll follow the same kind of principles of you know code being more efficiently coordinating activity versus humans I think yeah, I think you were on to something important there on on regulation and If you think of it, what has happened with bitcoin over the past Three to six months or so, you know, there's one person who holds more Power than I think anyone would have anticipated a year ago. That's Elon Musk. And if this would have been a like a regulated Entity he would have been in jail long ago For you know pumping and dumping anytime, you know Yeah, and and and that's that sort of goes to show that when you start when you build an asset category of this This size and there is a lot of consumers running on to the scene and and be being Lured into you know making really big and risky decisions because there are some famous people around that's That's when the regulator needs to step in actually and and I think that it's hard It's really complicated. I don't think that there are many people in congress for instance in the u.s And either in the european union who actually understands this market. So so I you know we we We anticipate that there will be some, you know Some stantive issues going forward in this especially if you're sort of close to the You know to the money market like Bitcoin is and and the fact that it actually presents a threat to the the fiat system so there is a lot of Vested interest that that goes against that that infrastructure and and that fuels the the storytelling even more Becomes even more interesting to engage there will be hell fire raining down. So it's all bitcoin holders You know prepare for volatile years and and yeah do what you see see fit but I think it's a it's a great point that you raised Wendy about You know, why should we just only algorithms? And it's it's very easy to have this black and white discussion That's going to be either institutions or or then you have all their algorithms doing everything and Usually in these discussions the the conclusion is is that it's going to be a hybrid model where some part of the transaction is done quicker faster cheaper and more reliably by an algorithm But then you still want to at the end of the day have have a face to the company that have faced to the algorithm And then trust someone at least in in many countries not necessarily everywhere, but in many places. That's certainly true Yeah, and that's not just true in crypto, right? We're seeing those trends in in tech more broadly and I think here It's it's very much kind of observing an overall movement of the web around these different tech components And you know, basically providing more tools for entrepreneurs to build better and more robust companies at much less risk Than ever before and I think this all just ties back to kind of what we were talking about with the paradigm shift of tech In general and in cryptos just one kind of very far end of that But we're certainly seeing it in enterprise software With more kind of DIY no code low code tools. We're seeing it in in SMB software You know with a lot of developer adopted bottoms up adopted consumerization Of the enterprise type of software And so this we see kind of as just a part of that broader trend. Yeah, let's talk more about Yeah, let's talk more about more about that.  So with the change is happening now such as crypto or 5g New companies being founded. Is it is it just a continuum of the same trends? Are we kind of just fortifying and developing these, you know Structures that we created in in the internet this kind of platforms or or this Is this a bigger some talk about the fourth industrial revolution with AI and machine learning? But is it just, you know, how do you view it?  Well, well, I think it's um, it's more profound It has more profound impact than in the past because I think We started at the sort of at the surface with, you know, the as I referred to earlier the shop window and then So moved closer and closer to the core and more and more industries are being Being sort of changed to be on recognition and some of them have already gone through that You know, I would say that, you know If you look at the music industry, which I had a front seat that that transition That is continuing to change and and where the powers are being sort of Moving out into the two Endpoints of that continuum where where you have the consumers getting more value for it And also the artists are getting closer to the money and the middleman are sort of Disappearing out of the Of the equation Gradually so and and I think this is moving more and more into more and more industries and and Probably the lowest hanging fruit is the financial industry Which I think someone said that it represents some 10 to 15 percent of the global global gdp And if you if you think of it the only thing that the financial market is designed for is to be oil in the machinery It's it has no Other value than being oil in the machinery and it shouldn't be actually consumed. It should should be Should be actually used to For other purposes, but it's it's eating up 15 percent of the economy And it should probably only eat up like two three percent of the economy. So there's a tremendous Creative destruction that I think we have Head of America and I think they they will be driven by by for instance ai and and 5g and and the technologies and and I think something that Um when you mentioned also that the no code low code Transition that's also happening is if you think of it, there are some 25 million code like developers in the world And and they are serving a market that is exploding in size But if you change the way you access Uh, you know building of products and and instead you have to build each legal piece From the scrap and bottom up, but instead you get a hand in the box of Legos and everyone can be a developer all of a sudden And then you don't have 25 we have 250 million developers that is awesomely exciting Yeah And just to add on to that, you know, I think some have said the word finance shouldn't even exist Like what does it mean? Right? Like empowering you to do stuff with money? Well, what is money? Well, it gives you power to do other stuff Great, but you know to PJ's point we're seeing, you know e-commerce talk about a sector that's been forever changed now You know that we've been completely digitized We're seeing e-commerce companies Become financial companies using these no code or low code or api based tools Whereas before they had, you know merchants had to work directly with the bank and then work with their portal to kind of Talk to their customers now the two can come kind of in one package And so you're starting to see the erosion of this idea of finance from, you know Different service providers around kind of the the business Because people can use these financial tools as components. They can build with finance Legos like plaid like stripe Like, you know one that we're looking to invest in right now That is, you know looking to become the neobank for, you know, s and d e-commerce merchants And and true layer, which is one of our companies Yes And yeah, sorry just just to finish that I don't think it's it's like, uh, you know A lucky coincidence that, you know north zone alone Out of our our portfolio of 63 right now has eight new unicorns since, you know, just the last Few months and under a year, uh, you know, I think that that is, you know One data point from from our kind of very biased perspective, obviously that that, you know Things are really changing across all these sectors Yeah, exactly. It is it is a very Fascinating time for companies and let's hope the momentum keeps on Do you see any other big sectors? as as big as as finance and That truly, you know needs an overhaul Are there some other low-hanging fruits some talk about b2b platform economy being the next big thing, but what else? Well, I I can I can say that there There are a number of of areas that um are um being impacted as like the the first Order of change right now for many Many companies and and businesses is that they're looking at their business processes and how they can be Be improved and Interestingly enough Like if you go to a HR function in a company They have surprisingly similar requirements if you go from one company to another and for some reason up until recently Pretty much all the the platforms they were made upon the idea that You had to sort of create one Uniform idea around your company Whereas now, uh, I think the b2b software Revolution is about that which processes Do we have and how can we optimize them and then you go out and basically shop for um a solution that that can help you really improve that process and now for instance One of our portfolio companies personio is one of those HR platforms that you get on tap You can be productive from day one. You have pretty much the same need as the next door company of about the same size And and it's not only HR. It's pretty much all the core business functions and core work streams in across most industries that Undergo that change right now. And so it's a tremendous tremendous Change in perspective on how you work as a company And the other area that I would like also to highlight is healthcare healthcare has complexity that it's so localized and so Localized because everyone has different rules on financing and also The treatment ideas have up until very recently been, you know in person Converged to To practices or to hospitals and that has driven an enormous amount of of It costs into a very specific way to to deliver healthcare And and obviously the cost for for the healthcare has to go down over time and Now with with the coveted where we can't even go to the hospital at times the door has been swung open For a digital disruption here. So I see enormous changes in the healthcare going forward Yeah Just to touch on that, you know, it's one of the few markets we see for for good reasons You know, many would agree that the person who is who's paying for the service is not the one receiving for it receiving the service and so as such the market can be really inefficient in different ways And create all these pockets of value of misaligned incentives And I think we're just in our way of like reverse engineering that we see a lot of great companies Reverse engineering that complex incentive system by going directly to the consumer and saying here's your healthcare options You know spring health is a great example of that here's kind of what's best for you Let us take care of the payments and sort of all of that administrative part But um, we'll empower you with a better experience and better data to support Improving that experience over time and you know, we think there's a tremendous opportunity there for companies to To kind of grab the consumer's perspective And help them understand their data But there's also a lot of b2b opportunities there to kind of uh, in in you know, in more abstract ways You know connect to the pockets of value and just democratize sort of the data in a way that empowers the consumer you know, and so Um, I'm not sure if that buzzer means we're out of time or No, is that as is your phone? Okay I think one one more area to talk about which I briefly touched on is uh commerce, right? I think the fact that even has e in front of it as as now a staple idea is it means it's it's been permanently changed in ways that we can't We can't sort of uh rewind If you think about how you make a purchase decision today versus maybe how how your parents did, you know 20 years ago the first impulses are different, right? Um, you don't think to grab your keys to the car and go somewhere or you know You don't think to to leave your house, uh, you immediately grab that You know black mirror phone and it starts, you know, clicking on the buttons. You're used to clicking And for many of us it's amazon Unfortunately, or I may be fortunately for some but you know, I think that consumer journey has changed in such Dramatic ways that it creates so many new entrance sort of possibilities for for companies to intersect that journey using different ways to compete In and I think we're seeing a ton of that explosion and kind of e-commerce and aberman tool certainly we see a proliferation of e-commerce brands and and we've invested in a number of really successful ones in europe including naked Different business models bringing creators of commerce content to you know, the the consumer in different ways And also different ways to engage people as stakeholders around commerce because we used to only buy from brands And now we we like live brands we advocate for them. We design for them. We support we create, you know We work for brands and so We're seeing a lot of kind of commerce enablement tools helping brands and companies deal with this new consumer relationship differently in a 360 kind of way rather than just like a linear path to purchase funnel Um and a lot of that money that used to be spent on things like trade Which is just pockets of money, you know poured into retailers pockets We're being we're seeing it, you know spent in other ways to access the consumer even maybe give back to the consumer I think stakeholder ownership of brands is is going to become a thing And then, you know, we're seeing also a lot of improvements on just how to get the goods to the consumer in kind of a faster Better cheaper way our our portfolio company flink does quick, you know quick commerce delivery and and you know their their processes are just You know insane and then a lot of what they do couldn't have been built, you know prior to this behavior change That was partially driven by covet but also because of again of these underlying components of tech that you know were primitives Just, you know, more recently that they could build on top of Lastly maybe to round off then Super exciting trends for the world a great time to to be an entrepreneur and also be a consumer What's Europe's role going to be in all of this? Is it now the era of european companies are we are we finally going to be able to compete with With, you know, the u.s. and china in in many sectors or are we at the risk of maybe over regulating? and are we at the risk of a of a very You know widespread and Different home market than for instance, China and the u.s. Has so a couple of questions on there, I think the The fabric of the european economy is so strong and and now also I think entrepreneurship has become Also the one of the most Talked about changes if and if you go to any university In the world or in Europe Entrepreneurship is as basically at the top of the agenda and that was certainly not the case when I went to college and you know 35 years ago so so it's it's That's a that's a fundamental shift and I think Europe has really good school traditions and and such so I think that There is a disruption that will be driven by europeans and european companies And what I'm more worried about is also that there are basically three different systems that are emerging right now one is in a Autocratic authoritarian system that is, you know top Top driven and where we're basically, you know, the chinese system where they can optimize for for their power in the world And then there's the u.s. System, which basically is where where the government is Is basically outsourcing policy decisions to companies And and corpus whereas whereas in europe, we I think we have a much more a stronger consumer protection ethos and that I think I like as a as a citizen of europe And and I really hope that that will be competitive in in an area where you have basically two different forces But I'm I'm I'm not sure like quite frankly Yeah, definitely. I agree that we hope that that's going to be the winning case because it sounds like it's the best way for the consumer to go forward as well I don't I don't even think europe being the underdog is is like a relevant place to start from anymore because You know carna is a 31 billion dollar company We also have, you know Deb did a dog and you know, obviously spotify and you know, some of the Biggest companies started by european founders that people would think are american and that's just a bias, right? and You know regardless of kind of where the organization is built I don't think that's you know Also as relevant as it used to be and you see that more in kind of these developer facing Companies that that have been more distributed kind of as a first mover to start with And so, you know, that's I think another if you just look at the data, you know, europe is is more than capable of producing Deca-corns or multi-deca-corns Yeah, I think that's an excellent point and it's good that we're speaking up for the european ecosystem as well and The future looks looks a lot better and there's been There's been some great stories and i'm sure there are more to more to come We could go on all day. I'm I'm sure but we need to to let you get on with your days But it's been it's been a pleasure having you on when it has. Thank you so much for for joining Thank you so much. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Yeah, it's just fun And thank you to everyone who tuned in See you in the fall for some new episodes and until then get vaccinated and stay safe. Bye Bye


update on this asus asus laptop here that is running Windows 7 but not for long I got it working I got it to go online I found some issues with a couple extensions or plugins add-ons whatever you want to call them so I got it to go online now I am updating I was going to go to update it to Windows 8.5 one but I decided well hell let's try Windows 10 and it is updating so it's almost there and so this is the next day freaking storming again get it back over there look at that it is storming again and of course monkey's on her way home got supper cooking and here it is again I'll keep an eye on her for her to come home and she's got an umbrella here I thought she had another one in the truck but I'm not sure so I'll burn her out the umbrella she's almost here so anyway I'll let you know what's going on I'll show you what happens with the computer hopefully it takes everything fine it seems to be doing well it's restarting like it should so yeah so here we go again raining like hell look alright guys I'll be back with you okay so we got choose privacy settings all right so we got so we got this running down into here just a moment welcome to Windows okay cool let's get out of this and we are on Windows 10 we are here this is Windows 10 guys running on this old piece of shit Windows 7 alright so now I got dues I'll have to put a Windows firewall defender on it defender firewall or whatever same thing I'm using online it's free flow because like I said I'm running on that's got it on Wi-Fi and we're clear out here in the garage and my router's in in my bedroom so man I got a clean the screen on this thing look at this okay so oh let's see are we connected to the internet okay so let me get this connected to the internet here and then we'll check it out and see how it's running give me a second okay guys so here we go I've got it running on Windows 10 everything seems to be running good it's a little slow because it's like I said I'm out here in the garage and I am just gonna let's Google adsense Google let's go to YouTube I'm on Wi-Fi so the only thing I found I had it in the bedroom it will not pick up the ethernet for some reason but it does it does do it does okay I can speed it up I've got a lot more you know stuff I can take off here and speed it up but I mean for a Windows 7 that I just upgraded to Windows 10 as you can see what time it is it's 11 30 I've been messing around with this knowing other things and but I did get everything taken care of let's see here let's search and what got my channel here I mean it's a little slow but it's not like super bad you know what's it say 30 or anything hit the wrong button yeah see it is a little slow but just give a hand I don't want to tell I'm doing here oh here we go that's YouTube freezing it up like that but like I said yeah it is a little slow but I can make it faster and I'll show you if I unplug this you know YouTube is kind of slow and just about everything you know I mean I'll run a speed test on it but see I mean that's that's pretty quick there it's just YouTube you know I've been having trouble with it running slow everything else seems to be doing pretty good so awesome so I've got it going guys so now I just got to do my personal touches on it and we should be good to go I just got to turn that back on see there's a couple things I can take off here that mail thing you know Internet Explorer it's kind of it's going to come off I don't have any of that stuff on my computer either a lot of his pictures he's got hundreds of pictures on here so that'll give me you know a little more room so let's check this out here let's check our space on here see how much room we got on here now see this PC okay there we go so I've got a lot of room on here you know as of right now I mean if I started putting videos and stuff it'd fill up pretty quick but I got 496 GB free of 570 GB so that's that's pretty good that's really good so yeah I'm kind of happy with that I've got I've got a keyboard here too it's down in there that I can use on this and I probably just close that up slide it right back in here or something you know slide it right down in there and because you can set these to where if you close the lid nothing happens I'm just got to make sure that will be getting enough air back in there so which I think it it'll be alright so yeah that's pretty cool and so I can use my keyboard and everything so you know what I'm gonna go ahead and try that and we'll hook the keyboard up and let's check it out together real quick okay I couldn't use that keyboard because it has that funky round end on it you know for the old the old style stuff there so I forgot I had this one the only thing I don't like about it is it don't have a volume up and down but you know that's petty this one does have a volume up and down on it but it's okay so let's see let's take something in here okay let's type in let's just do work and it worked okay so all right now I'm gonna mess around with my colors a little bit and I'm gonna close this well let's see if this will close first I got it set to where nothing should happen okay there we go all right and it's full charge I got my protection on there so let me so we are running Windows 10 awesome not too bad I'm kind of happy with that old broken down piece of crap that fell off of a car so that a card reader there's a card it's got a card reader cool okay oh it also has it does have a this deal in it so that's cool all right guys so let me get this put up here I can't wait till I get all this stuff cleaned up here it's gonna be cool so let me get this put up here to where let's see I'm gonna make it I don't know I may just put it but this put this right here I'm not sure but let me get this change some colors and stuff like that and then I'll decide where I'm gonna put this and I'll show you once I get it all done okay I got hooked up I can get to the these cords ain't gonna be like this mind you I can get to the player right here but I can't get to the memory card slot reader but that's okay but let's I got these hooked up which that's just temporary of course probably end up hanging them on each side of that thing but be cool if I could hook it into surround sound but man I really don't feel like running wires you know what I mean hey I'm good with that yes I'm on this so that way there's no copyright strikes or no copyright issues so that seems to be alright awesome so yeah that'll be okay I guess okay guys so I thought I'd give you an update on that I told you I'd do a revisit I didn't think it was this would it would be this soon but it all went pretty good it's pretty good system it's a little old but I mean once you get one of them and if you hook it up like this it's all the same you know if you're running Windows 10 it's Windows 10 it's just how good is that I'm pretty impressed with it the screen is busted but nothing else seemed it didn't really seem to hurt anything else other than cosmetics of it so I mean it fell off the top of the car or the truck he sat it up there that was getting in and it just slid off and fell right on to the concrete ground so yeah so alright guys there you go it's up and running I can use that instead of my phone now so you know like if I got to see something bigger you know or whatever put monkeys videos on let them play while my hair messing around it'll come in handy so anyway guys thanks for watching Shae Bear the myth man legend gone for now it's supposed to rain for the next 10 days so weekends almost here guys one more day alright we'll see you soon have a great weekend bye bye guys and take care


State lawmakers returned to Frankfurt on Tuesday to begin a special session devoted to Kentucky's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Legislators took quick action to approve a number of requests from Governor Andy Bashir, including extending the pandemic state of emergency until January 15th, and preventing price gouging and giving flexibility for out-of-state health care workers to obtain licenses to work in Kentucky. Other issues are expected to take more time to debate, including how to deal with mask mandates and giving school districts additional flexibility in responding to local conditions. Meanwhile, Governor Bashir announced more than 13,000 new cases reported over the Labor Day weekend. He also reported more than 30,000 new cases over the past week, the highest weekly total since the pandemic began.


It's hard to keep popsicles in this house with the men that I live with. I think I might have to like start hiding them in my garden freezer. Hey guys, I'm Stacey from Stacey Spaces. I am a DIY home and garden blogger, mom of three, wife to one, and I live in the suburbs of Atlanta, and this is my fridge. Where's your fridge set on you? I think my fridge says that I am organized, a little bit of fun, spicy, and I like to eat. The item of my fridge that I'm most crazy and excited about right now are blackberries.  But I'm also growing a blackberry plant in my garden, so hopefully that will help me out with my grocery costs down the line. Well, if you know a DIYer, it won't surprise you, but if you don't do a lot of DIY projects, it might surprise you. And I keep my paint brushes that are currently being used for a project stored in the refrigerator, either in foil paper or a zip lock bag. That just helps to keep the moisture locked in so that it don't dry out and you don't have to clean them in between uses if you're using the same color. I use these to put some swatches on my cabinets just because we're about to hopefully paint our kitchen cabinets and make it a little bit brighter in here. So if you follow me on Instagram, I might be an upcoming project later on this year. So I have three little boys. They are ages seven, five, and three.  I love it. They all have their own favorite snacks. They don't usually like the same thing. My oldest one likes fruits. He loves to eat apples. My middle son loves tangerines, so I always try to keep a tangerine or two in the refrigerator. And my baby loves bananas, so we always have some bananas on the counter for him. My husband is definitely more of a savory guy, but he does have a sweet tooth, especially for chocolate. He loves these little chocolate bars that you get at IKEA. I don't like plain chocolate, but he does. Yeah, okay. I think my guilty pleasure snack would have to definitely be, if I can get it out, sugar cookies. I'm not a big chocolate fan, but I love a good sugar cookie. I love to make these and allow the kids to decorate them on top or whatever. Although I think this one needs to be tossed. Well, I like to think that I'm a very gracious mother and wife and that I don't have many pet peeves. They will probably disagree, but who cares, they're not here. I hate it when they put something back that only has a little bit left. Case in point, this syrup. There's barely anything in this container. So when they come in here all excited to make some chocolate milk, they're gonna be mad when only one brother can have some or they're sharing one glass of chocolate milk. So I don't have anything currently in my fridge from the garden because it is early spring, but I do have some greens outside. I typically pick those fresh. Right now in the garden, I have some collard greens. That's like one of my favorite things. I have some broccoli growing, cauliflower, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, and peppers. And then I also have some strawberries and blueberries as well. Oh, and some pears, I forgot about that. I have a couple of fruit trees, they're dwarf fruit trees, so they won't get really big. But for the first year, my pear tree is starting to produce fruit. And I'm so excited to get that fruit. I do have some herbs growing in the greenhouse. I haven't pulled them out to plant yet, but I have some Thai basil. That's actually the one that I'm most excited about. I love the way that Thai basil leaves just look. And I love how Thai basil tastes with some fried rice. Because this is my first time really growing Thai basil, what are your favorite ways to use it? Let us know in the comments below. The items that I probably buy the most in my fridge will have to be the almond milk. I do buy these in bulk at Costco, so I get three at a time. Sometimes I buy six at a time because they love to drink milk. They don't even eat just one bowl of cereal. They eat like three bowls of cereal. I'm like, y'all are seven, five, and three. Where are you putting it? The only thing that's expired are these cookies, but they expired like a month ago, so they're not that old. It's not that bad. Although some things are probably like running out. Thankfully, like I said, I shop at Costco, so I probably have like five of these in my pantry ready to go. I don't think there's anything I haven't here that's super embarrassing. I do like to keep ranch dressing containers and blue cheese dressing and Chick-fil-A sauces available.  So I always have a little secret stash in my fridge and my lovely mother-in-law recently gave us an entire container of Chick-fil-A sauce. Our family is covered for Chick-fil-A sauce. I just glanced over and there is one thing in here that I never, never use. I don't even, I think it's in here because it makes me feel like a healthy person, like a good mom or something like that, but that is this Omega-3 fish oil. This probably is expired now that I'm thinking about it if I could find the date. It was a good idea. It made me feel healthy at the time, but we don't use it. So I do have containers for the eggs. I like these because they allow you to stack them on top without fear of like crushing or breaking eggs. We put our cheeses and cheese type things in here and then I have a little container here, obviously to hold my sauces in this syrup because my sauces are important. We've already discussed that. I keep bread and bread type products here. So my crew times from my Caesar salad are also here. Here is where I keep my leftovers. I have to keep those nice and secure over there. So my freezer is usually pretty packed because kids, they always need to eat and I wanna make sure that I have options. One thing that I always have would be a bag of mixed peppers and onions because I don't like cutting onions.  Been doing that since I was a child. My mom thinks it's hilarious.  We always have some like quick, ready to go meals. Pot stickers, I usually, I put these on kids lunch board as well. They love when I make pot stickers. And then on mornings where I don't feel like making breakfast, waffles. I think my fridge does not smell like anything which kind of bothers me. I feel like it should have a smell but I wanted to smell pleasant. And I have like this baking soda in here and I don't even know that this really works. I just do it because my grandma and my mom do it but I don't really know if it really helps to eliminate odor so maybe it does because I don't smell anything good or bad. I prefer that it smells like lavender or something like that. My favorite sauces in here would have to probably be, I love a good marinade. And so we're getting to grilling season so marinades are very important. I need to stock up on more so my husband can have some options. You also have to always have some barbecue sauce on hand. Weak baby raiders are go-to down here for some reason. Now of course this alone does not make up your barbecue sauce. You have to add some other ingredients in it but it's a good base for your sauce. We always have peanut butter. That's not really a sauce but the kids love peanut butter. Of course I cleaned it before you guys showed up to film. I definitely took out every shelf and every drawer and cleaned it before you guys showed up. There's no way I was gonna let you guys see how it looked before. I didn't hide anything, I promise. But I did think about it though. If I were to have found something gross or something like that I probably would have put it somewhere in the garage before you guys showed up. I had a plan. These are my blackberries, my favorite go-to snack right now. I could probably eat this entire thing today but because I am modest and I like to share with my family I can eat at least 10 to 20 of these a day, easy. Anything else? Thank you guys so much for checking out my fridge tour. Be sure to like, comment and subscribe at The Spruce Eats.


iMAS is a research institute of the University of Tasmania. We collect data from around the world, but in particular in temperate Australia and in the Southern Ocean and high latitudes right through to Antarctica. What really distinguishes iMAS data is the amount of it because there are so many scientists and research students working on data collection and its scope right across pretty much every aspect of marine science. We're essentially wanting to establish three portals for data so that they'll be taken up and used by other scientists. All of these data from all three portals actually exist on the same network, the Australian Ocean Data Network. Collecting large-scale oceanographic data is particularly expensive and particularly challenging. So having the data there, having them discoverable and accessible and in a form that makes them interoperable across different data types really means that we're gaining the most from the investment of collecting those data. The first one is the iMAS portal for iMAS itself. There's a lot of data collected here, so it's really important that those data are made available for reuse, that they're managed and curated properly. Reef Life Survey provides a really wonderful way to see about space-time variation on reefs around the world. There are now data available from actually thousands of sites right around the world in tropical and temperate areas. The research questions there are really important ones about how global change and multiple stresses are really impacting reefs worldwide. There's already been some very high-impact work come from that data and the data set was quite extraordinary in showing that some marine-protected areas work very well and others really don't perform at all in terms of what is being asked of them. The third one is an international effort we're calling Temperate Reef Base and it's basically a repository for any data from temperate reefs worldwide. Now the first data to go into this is a data collected on kelp beds. The big question that we're trying to address there is how kelp beds are responding to disturbance in the face of climate change and other kinds of anthropogenic stresses. Again, kelp beds are just so fundamentally important in terms of their production, in terms of biodiversity, the kinds of fisheries they support and yet we're seeing kelp beds change on a global scale. Many of the challenges that modern society face are large and complex ones and therefore by their very nature interdisciplinary. So having large data sets that are available that can be brought together in an interdisciplinary framework can help solve some of these problems in a way that wouldn't otherwise be possible. Open data is important for a number of reasons.  But the other thing is that data are always being used other than for the purpose which they were collected initially. We simply can't imagine how important data will be for particular questions or how they might be used in all sorts of creative ways into the future. In a more immediate sense we have a range of stakeholders across all sorts of industries from fishing to oil and gas, marine transport, industry, aquaculture. So much of our economy depends on marine systems and most of us live near the coastline. So that data is just really critical to us doing the right thing and making the right decisions around marine systems into the future. The motivation for this project was that we recognised three distinctly different but really important data collections and that if we were able to bring them together and brand them in the right way that their use and reuse would be accelerated and that they would really help to engender a culture of data sharing and open data.


Mmm, so you know what I've been thinking lately?  Oh, let's just dunk And this channel this YouTube channel I'm gonna show you how I train to dunk because I'm basically at square one Yes, I reached a 42.5 inch vertical But I'm back to square one if I want to go to the next level I have to climb back down the mountain and get the fuck back up to a new height So a lot of times we get to a point of the mountain which for me was bad technique Inbalances and weaknesses and now I got to come all the way back down and relearn everything But now with more knowledge more experience and this is what I'm sharing with you So I'm super pumped about that welcome to friggin and we're killing it So this is the motivating fact I've been thinking that I really wanted to share with you guys Which is this in one day just for dunk training. It's hard enough to get a good night's sleep We have stressors we have thoughts that our mind raises at least mine does sometimes noises happen Sometimes people have kids or friends or family that wake them up You don't get the quality sleep just to get a nice quality eight-hour sleep is good That means you had to go to sleep at the right time the night before as well That's just sleep one tiny factor of the day then throughout the day are you on top of your things? Did you plan correctly? Did you use your time wisely? Did you get distracted with social media? Did you go to school? Did you go to work? Did you do well there? Did you get your right food? Did you go to the grocery store? Did you get your nutrition in?  Are you getting enough greens? Are you getting enough carbs get enough protein for fuel and recovery? Did you find time to stretch in the morning so that way your body's getting that momentum going that way? That's all factors just sleep and nutrition then are you working on your business?  You got to be happy as well Are we happy at this time as well all these factors going in are you increasing your knowledge are you learning about your body? Are you thinking about your body? How do I feel am I tight here today? See all these factors that are going in There's even more so then when you go training for me when I'm doing this hamstring. I'm trying to stretch and do my Single leg deadlifts my body wants to compensate my body wants to protect itself So I have to remind myself go through the pain and hold my position my hips want to open But I got to keep them square and center it's really hard to carve those patterns over and over and over again then use my energy to stretch and Just using my body correctly in the actual workout is tough enough But also I had enough energy to do that workout if you don't have enough energy It's gonna be hard to make those clear decisions and it's gonna be hard to push yourself through those workouts So all of this comes down to that sleep or that energy that you had throughout the day Do you have energy to do the workout post workout? Do you have time to go eat what you want to eat? Are you getting the right fuel? Are you doing it on time?   I skipped a ton of things you can do especially for life This is just training and then are you able to shut down unwind and get yourself in bed before you before? It's too late meaning if you let it drift too much. You don't get the deep sleep I talked about it on another podcast Are you able to get back in bed nine ten o'clock to get that full sleep that you need to recover after we just Spent the day maximizing our efficiency and energy Can you unwind yourself all those things are so difficult to nail on the head first? Try with perfect timing and accuracy in one day just for training not to mention if you're creative like myself Trying to be inspired create podcasts create good quality stuff and post it and market yourself all those different things That's what training is like and also the huge factor I just said is trying to line up all those things in one day and then doing it the next day and then the next day and Then again and again and again of course You're not gonna train hard every single day, but you still have to move your body You still have to make progress with your body even if it's knowing when to rest even if it's just a little bit of stretching And sometimes we go for a walk that was too long meaning we we scheduled to something with somebody and we it's over doing it Whatever I don't know what the hell I'm talking about But you know what I mean doing that over and over and over again and being that consistent is so difficult That's the challenge that I love but I've got I want you guys to know that it's not just one exercise Done and now it's in your body You have to constantly stay on this and it only gets more and more intricate when your goals get bigger and more difficult and they get That's why it slims at the top So that's why there's the 1% because it's harder and harder and harder to really get to that level So I'm excited. I'm really pumped my goals are to dunk off the dribble with ease I'm trying to surpass a 43 inch vertical. I'm trying to jump my healthiest I can't I can't know time frame because these type of things you can't put time limits on because you can't rush the process You just have to trust the process and be in it So thank you for joining excited to share this with you. Let me know what you want to see subscriber dunk reviews are coming soon I know you guys love those so I'm trying my best, but thank you so much subscribe if we want and we're blowing up I'm excited so Yeah, man, don't like out here They fixed it all right guys so this right here, I'm using my quad as you see That's why I touch it to show you holding my legs right there to keep my knee at 90 and just trying to straight straight in my leg This is my injured hamstring really hard to get it straight my quad has to work super hard And as you can see it's almost as if my body is fighting itself But this has been a fantastic stretch you could try it and because you're using your quad to stretch your hamstring It's a very safe way to stretch your hamstring and there's a lot of pain for me But I'm really making progress now the other one is a single leg deadlift This one is really hard to do correctly because there's so much pain involved So I'm really just trying to keep my hips aligned my body wants to move away from that pain But I have to recarb these patterns trust that I'm not hurting anything because my physical therapist told me and also After I've done these exercises a few times. I actually feel better the next day So it's been a really tough balance, but learning a lot pushing myself through this and really making that tissue work The way it needs to stimulate recovery have a great day And I ain't never giving us how we do it baby. Thank you for joining. I'll see you soon, baby. Let's go


How's it going everyone? Caleb here with Leighton sports cards. Next time we have another 2021-22 Prism basketball three box break number nine this time. Random team style. Boxes, results, they're also linked in the chat. Here we go good buck. You guys like I said only break the spots is the Prism national treasures, excuse me, the Panini national treasures. Four box full case break. Pick your team style. There were four teams remaining the last time that we had checks coming up in a little bit this evening. Sell it out. Here we go. Last basketball break of the evening. They were on a football. Brooks Kobe White, Duarte base, silver wilts, mindset silver Damien Lillard, starting out with the Sixers, Alan Iverson auto. Nice silver there. That's cool. Nice sit there. 76ers congrats on the AI. Yeah, that does work. I agree. Brent Forbes, Chris Paul. Here you go. That's a little mini boom indeed indeed. Little mini boom. Josh Christopher, Herbert Jones, Amari Studamire Red Wave. Marcus Smart Hyper, fireworks Damien Lillard. Little mini boom for sure. Aaron Wiggins, Toscano Anderson, Silver Joe Harris, Ty Jerome to 299, Lamello widescreen, Kessler Edwards, Josh Giddy base. Got Malik Beasley, Paul Tsar, T Wolves, Blue Cracked Ice, Paul Milsep. Nice one there. Nets to 125. Trey Young Prismatic, Lebron base. Continuing. Jalen Suggs, we got Wendell Carter, Silver, Hyper, Cam Johnson, Kawhi fireworks, Ky Jones, JT Door. That is a hyper Bradley Beal on the Prismatic. An autograph here this time for the Houston Rockets. Kenny the Jetsmith. Here you go Rockets. A announcer legend. Sure. Yeah, you could chalk them up as that. Here you go. Nice. TNT legend. Why not? David Robinson, Joshua Primo, Silver, Nimious, Keita, Silver, Kings, fireworks, Silver, Kevin Durant, Mindset, Kawhi, Book Knight, Uzman Karuba base. We've got Red Wave, Bojan, or yeah, Bojan Bogdanovich, Hyper, Devon Vassal, Prismatic, Luca, Nowora, and Ant-Man. Little bit to go. First box of the three box here. Last Prism basketball break of the night. Moses Moody, Silver, Josh Hart. We've got a purple Trayman to 99. There you go Thunder. Nice. To 99, 75 years. Matumbo, Solid Starts, Sharif Cooper, Bojan, or Bovan, excuse me, that's Red Wave, it's Bovan. Wilt Chamberlain on the Blue Crack, Dice to 125, Warriors, Fireworks, Anthony Davis, Bovan color, Cam Thomas, Silver Kendrick Nunn, Dirk Hyper, Fearless Trey Young, Beartons, Derren Sharp, Carter, Bones Highland, Collins Sexton on the Purple Cracked Ice to 149, Prismatic Julius Randall. All right, box number two. And like I said, everyone, it is just the National Treasures pick your team. Full case break tonight with spots still remaining. The last time we did check you was at four to go. Silver Brandy Clark, Shax Silver on the Fearless, Prismatic Anthony Davis, Delano Bay-Strookie, and a Robinson Earl. That is a Red Wave on the J Crowder, Hyper Austin Reeves, Lakers, Fireworks Tatum, Jalen Green Bay-Strookie. You go Rockets, nice green there. Rockets Bay-Strookie on the Jalen Green, OG, Desmond Bain, Silver Bismac, Orange Rookie to 49, Delano Banton. Raptors, there you go. 39 to 49. Congrats to Ronto. 75 years, Anthony Davis, Luca, David Johnson base. That's nice Raptors. Orange to 49 on the Rookie color. Austin Reeves, Hyper Daniel Gafford, Red Devin Booker, widescreen Yolkich. Go Bear, Ayo Desumu, Jason Preston, Marvin Bagley, Silver, Bill Russell, Dominique Wilkins-Hyper, Sane Goon, and Jalen Johnson on the Rookies. We'll take Rookie Collar Man, let's see more of it. Saving Lee, Isaiah Stewart. It's going to be 75th anniversary parallel, Northland to Noel. Nix, 75, Jalen Brown Prismatic, Tray Murphy base. Sixers a legend for sure. Silver Robin Lopez, Silver Jaffire Works, one of one. Tom Cugliata, Otto Sons, Water W. That is not the one of one anyone was expecting to see tonight. How about that? Black one of one Otto. That's pretty cool, man. There you go, Water. Check that one off your bingo card, everyone. Check that off your bingo card. You actually elicits? That's awesome. Water W for the Sons. Love that. Love that. Everything in Prism is a sticker. Congrats, Sons. There you go. That's something all right. Moses Moody. That's pretty awesome. Greg Brown, of course not. Come on. You actually fell for that, Sam? Yeah, I did. Sarge. Come on, Sam. Come on. Red Wave, Ray Allen. Usman Garuba on the Hyper Rookie. Wow. 75th anniversary edition. Kevin Durant. Boom. That is awesome. Congrats. Really tough hits there. That goes to the Nets. So, so sick. Well, mag that 75th anniversary edition KD. What a box that was. Those are really tough to find. Sharif Cooper, Cam Thomas. Really, really tough to find those. Good stuff. Huge short print. Yeah, it's just like the 75th anniversary short print. Correct. Silver Kemba. Red Alec Berks, $2.99. Hard and Prismatic. They're not like a case hit. They're not like, nothing like that. It's just, yeah, right. Yep. Bobon, Marco, and a Lori Markinin Pulsar. That is a Chris Middleton Blue Cracked Ice. 125 there. Fireworks, Trey. Scotty Barnes base. There he is. Ray Allen, Jonathan Kominga. Hey, we did hit the one-of-one as promised. I want to hear a chat's opinion on this. Chris Middleton stinks. This guy is just trying to take it to me tonight. The last time we were together, his team got zero hits in a full game of baseball. That was like a month ago. Silver Seal Nash, Shayna McDaniels, Hyper, Barclay, Jared Butler. Nine innings, zero hits guys. Unbelievable, right? Christian Javier, just... There we go.  Thank you. I appreciate the support. We need it. Hyper, mindset, Trey Young. And how about an auto of Jaylen Green? Boom! What box? Great box. Congrats, Rockets now. Wow. Bernie. Feel the burn. Nice hit, man. We'll mag that. Isaiah Livers. Want to go? No, that's what I'm saying. Those 75ths are so tough. I haven't even seen one hold yet. Ridiculously tough. Ridiculously tough. I don't know all the players that made the check this stuff. I forgot to check. Wise Camp. Cade base. There you go. Silver job. Not bad. Purple cracked ice. D-Rose to 149. Wiseman Prismatic. Yeah, that's great though. Frans base. Sandro base. Pascal Siakam on the pulsar. Gorin Drogic. Blue cracked ice to 125. Crafters. Deerless Anthony Davis. Erin Nessmith. Cleaver. Gotcha. Marco Simnovich. Isaiah Todd. Silver Isaiah Livers. Piston, so you go on the rookie. Malachi Flynn Hyper. Fireworks Yoakage. Yes, it's more rare than the crack. The cracked ice is just a parallel. Not really comparable. Kai Jones, JT Thor. Dremont Green to 299. Fireworks Mitchell. Base. Miles McBride. Silver James Wiseman. Silver Lebron. Auto. Silver Auto. Ricky Rubio for the Cavs. You go. Breaking Bad. No, I've never watched Breaking Bad. Never. No, not at all. Ziggur Roskies. I hear Williams. And how about a red wave? Evan Mobley now. Boom. DW Congrats. We'll mag that. You mag the Katie, right? Yeah. I just making sure. I thought so. Thought I said it. Hypers, SETI. Yeah, but I'm never getting more. I never saw it. I'll tell you something later, but you have sounds good. Herbert Jones, Toscano Anderson, not about you. Okay. Or about anyone, actually. Just something funny. I thought of Cole Anthony on the silver. And a blue Mike Conley to 199. Jazz. Silver 75 years old. Frazier, Nix. Rubio, John Collins and Tillman. Kassler Edwards, Josh Giddy. Evan Fornie on the red wave. Probably try to stay consistent. Tommy, that's a pretty big thing. Caruso here on the orange to 49 bulls. Tough to do, but important. Fearless Shack. In anything in life though. Also important. Yep. Jalen Suggs. Silver Delano. Banton. Nice one there in the silver. And Hyper Kai Jones. Devin Booker, Prismatic. Kisbert. Quintin Grimes. It's a Hyper Ben Simmons, Prismatic. Autograph for the Kings. Rookie base auto. Davion Mitchell. Nice. Good one there. JPJ, Maxi, Carmelo Anthony. Here we go, guys. Quick recap in the round of football this evening. Bones. Chris Duarte. Silver McCollum. Silver Fireworks Lamello. There he is. Prismatic LeBron. Yanis Base. I mean, we've been doing this for 11 or 12 years now, so consistency, like I said, social media. Josh Christopher. Yeah, make connections. Or meaningful connections. Red Wave, Killian Hayes, Hyper, Delano, Gallinari, Fireworks, Jammerance. And that'll do it, guys. Let's do a quick recap. Thanks again so much. I do appreciate it. As always. All right, autographs, guys. Davion Mitchell. Ricky Rubio. Kenny Smith. Ellen Iverson. Jalen Green. And the Tom Gugliata. There he is. One of one. Orange. Delano Banton. Tray Mann. Purple. Evan Mobley, Red Wave. And a 75th anniversary of Kevin Durant. Big one there. Thanks to the end, guys. That was a really fun break. Two very unique cards in there. Hope you did enjoy it. We'll have them all well protected and right out to you.


I'd like to call the order the Morgan County Board of Supervisors Are we certified in compliance with the open meeting law? We are the agenda was posted on the 16th at 2 p.m. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance Next is roll call supervisor emol. Are you chimed in on zoom? I am here Thank you possibly Supervisor Jorgensen or Supervisor John Cullo Supervisors present next is the approval of the November 1st 2022 journal Supervisor Wagner Thank You mr. Chairman move for approval of the journal. Thank you Supervisor Wagner Supervisor Brower Thank You mr. Chair. I will second that motion Thank You Supervisor Brower sir any adjustments seeing none. Please vote Supervisor emol I Support yes next is consideration of appointments by chairperson The Monarch Library System Board new appointment Daniel Lamb of Sheboygan reappointment I'm doing a random link Supervisor Gary thank you. Mr. Chairman. I move to concur with your appointment and reappointment to the Monarch Board Thank You Supervisor Gary Supervisor Brower. Thank You mr. Chair. I will second the motion. Thank You Supervisor Brower Any discussion Supervisor Coulson wonder if I wonder if you've got I'm wondering whether your Things are switched. I'm guessing You please please Try again supervisor spells. I think I got your microphone on okay Anyways, can you hear me? Yeah, you can hear me. I just have a couple questions in regards to this I'm like who made the decision and that was that's one question and then my other question would be like You know with these positions that people apply for it Would it be possible for us to get like the other people that applied and their information? So those two questions the first one is their appointments by the chairperson and I review their Applications and choose one and then they're voted on by the county board. Okay, and as far as the other question I will So you said so like you you made the decision is that what you said correct? Okay, and then they're voted on here Okay, gotcha the second part Could you just repeat the second part of your question? Yeah I was just my question is like when we have like positions like this where like people apply like other people apply Could we get like the other people that applied their information and like resumes and things? Sure, and I can I can tell you that depending on what the appointment is. It's not a one-size-fits-all process Okay, so certainly you can make a request to have additional information about the applicants Depending on which appointment is it would be a difference of how you made that request But there's no reason you couldn't have that information You're interested in that in the future. You could request that at the time that you receive your agenda packet. Okay, sounds good. Thank you Is there any other discussion? I'm really curious about that Quicker, so if you wouldn't mind just try and Request to the request to speak nothing's coming in it worked for Perfect Excellent. All right good I'm glad we got that straight up seeing no further discussion, please vote on the appointments Supervisor Emma, how do you vote a vote in favor next is presentations you have none Public addresses are none letters communications and announcements. There are three resolutions from Marathon County and price regarding The entry-level compensation rate for assistant Right, we've had all those in the past and we have something coming up on that so Let's receive them for information County County administrators report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening It's good to see everybody. Happy December happy holidays and Just to quickly also respond to the question anytime we have advisory Appointments like that. They're generally always handled in the county administrator chair's office. So Our assistant Peggy does a wonderful job putting out the news releases and managing that and sometimes My appointment to be confirmed by the boards ultimately you're the final decision Chairperson's appointment to be confirmed by the board as was done tonight But anytime we have situations like that generally don't receive a lot of applicants You know, we put it in the media and sometimes we call and encourage people But don't ever hesitate if you see something on your agenda and want to see well Were there any other applicants sometimes there may not have been others But if there were just stopped by our office or left snow I'm glad to share that in your pack this evening Rather light agenda tonight. So I'll do my best to speak slowly and try to Make sure we get a whole per diem out of this evening, right? couple of very Important topics and one that the chair and vice chair just took action on as you'll see it under resolutions introduced Requesting the state of Wisconsin review and revise the compensation rates for entry level and experienced assistant district attorneys as you Know very well. We are struggling with recruitment retention throughout our organization Everyone's struggling, but we are really struggling in our district journey's office. So this resolution will be referred to the executive committee However, we just recently received some additional information on this from a group called the justice coalition coalition made up of district attorneys and judges and other people who have an interest and seeing our judicial system work well and in their Information they are they provided a template resolution and further supporting documentation not only to adequately fund District attorney positions so we can retain staff, but also public defenders So just a heads up that when this goes to the executive committee presuming that's where the vice chair sends it If you're interested in following that please join us at the executive committee And don't be surprised if it comes back with some amendments or some additional information to make it broader and also Touch on encouraging the governor's office and our legislators to adequately fund these important positions. So just heads up The other thing I wanted to briefly touch touch on was the use of the American Rescue Plan Act funds as you can see you have resolution number five This is the fifth time the county board is being asked to make decisions on ARPA allocations And this was once again very thoughtfully done I want to compliment Matt strip modder our health and human services director our health and human services committee Of course the executive committee because we are managing these always through the executive committee and then on to the county board for Your final approval and as you know if you've reviewed this we're looking to provide some modest equity adjustments for 2022 so this year already that would be backdated for health and human services staff going forward those positions are funded as part of our budget that you already approved and then you'll see in the sheriff's Department correctional officers and dispatchers and this is not the first time you've taken action to provide ARPA funds or premium pay For our correctional officers and dispatchers But to the sheriff's credit and to our law committee's credit they came forward and said you know We've already taken action at Rocky Knoll to provide three years of funding for CNAs and nurses Why should we not do the same thing for our dispatchers and correctional officers? so what you're seeing this evening is really a consistent approach between two departments that have critically important staff that we obviously need to recruit and be able to retain and I think we all appreciate it certainly your constituents appreciate we have to have correctional officers We have to have dispatchers and we have to have nurses and CNA So that's what's being predominantly focused on this evening and then finally so where we had big picture And we briefly discussed this at the finance committee this week, but keep in mind that a number of your Allocations have already been put to good use. We've made a number of investments at Rocky Knoll whether it's to our cooling tower Chiller replacement our duck cleaning and smoke damper things that we might have otherwise had to do down the road But this was good to make a more sterile environment a healthier environment for our residents and our workers there So that work is underway number of recruitment and retention Packages have gone forward as you're well aware. So those dollars have been put to good use I want to thank you to acknowledge supervisor Tom Wagner and and Tom certainly had support from board members as well, but Tom took the lead to be sure that we improve the air quality in the facility and recommended an ultraviolet air filtration system at Rocky Knoll and it would took us a little time to evaluate and look at different options But that is now underway and again Thank you supervisor Wagner and health care centers committee and others that have supported that initiative It's just another enhancement to Rocky Knoll and taking care of frail people. So I'm real pleased. That's underway And then finally, so where are we at big picture? Well to date We received twenty two point four million recall from Arpa today the county board has approved or allocated seventeen point eight million of the twenty two point four Tonight if you support this resolution, that'll be another six six hundred ninety one thousand So that means the balance remaining is three point eight million So we still have three point eight million. We have till twenty twenty four to make allocation decisions twenty twenty six to actually spend the dollars and I wanted to end on a couple of Couple of positive notes as well as a thank you first. I Can't tell you how much I appreciate the support and leadership of the county board and your thoughtful approach with allocating these dollars We have we have to again have correctional officers and emergency responders and dispatchers and nurses and CNAs And I really appreciate the approach you've taken. I Also am so grateful for all of our health care workers and emergency responders All of us are here this evening Comfortable now not wearing masks. You know, we've gotten through I think the worst of the pandemic But if you're at a nursing home Doesn't feel over to them they're still weren't wearing masks and Following best practices to protect those frail residents Particularly if a frail resident is not able to take a vaccine for one reason or another so it's not over for them So if you get a chance to say thank you to a healthcare worker an emergency responder Please do as they continue to the fight to the good fight it and they're tired retired We had 32 members Family members at our house this past weekend hosting for Christmas And isn't that nice when they come and nice when they go? It was wonderful, I mean Kids grandchildren everyone sleeping on air mattresses, you know the drill I think we've all done that at some point but 32 people in our house And I hope that you and all of our healthcare workers Emergency responders are gonna be able to take just a little time over the holidays to spend with loved ones and family and just Take a little break Hopefully get a little rest Be good to yourselves. So again a big shout out and thank you all of our healthcare workers and emergency responders I've been participating on a local government reform Committee local government funding task force if you will with about a dozen or so people the last year town city village county representation and We've been concerned about okay. We were fortunate to receive these federal dollars They truly helped small businesses and others get through COVID They certainly have helped local governments continue to provide essential services that I just touched on But as we all know in this room these ARPA funds You know, they don't go on in perpetuity. The good news is it's not a one-year, right? We have three four essentially five years to utilize these funds, but we have to plan We have to thoughtfully plan on how we're going to address this funding cliff As I like to call it going forward Don't have to have the answers tomorrow or next week or next month But we have to utilize the time we have in the months and the next year or so Plan on how we're going to address this and if it's going to get addressed It's going to require a partnership and collaboration Between counties and all local units of government the governor's office and the legislature It's going to take all of us and I have to say I'm encouraged with what I've been hearing from the governor and his staff I think there's truly an appreciation for what all local units of government have been grappling with and the challenges we face Also been very encouraged with what senator Lemme you has been saying and representative Terry Katzman and appreciate their leadership and their Recognition that we've got a situation where we're going to need everyone to pull together So when you participate at these legislative breakfasts, it makes a difference Not all of you do everyone's busy But if you get a chance to do so Encouraging them to continue to be mindful of that and also we're gonna have to stand with them when changes are made and I will end with this I personally Don't envision Sheboygan County saying we need to raise taxes. I Certainly don't think Sheboygan County is going to be asking property taxpayers to shoulder even more Responsibility for underfunded or unfunded state mandates But when you're looking at a situation right now where the state has upwards of an eight billion dollar positive variance What a wonderful opportunity to have thoughtful discussions about how the state takes its pool of resources and Shares more of that with local units of government. If you think about it, it's not states money And it's all of our money. We're all taxpayers. There's different ways that's collected But if they would share more of what's being collected now Sheboygan County and other local units of government we can address these challenges and maintain Essential programs and services and it was heartening for me to hear during the elections and the commercials Are we all glad that's over? One predominant theme throughout it seemed like everyone involved supported public safety Everyone involved every candidate Every commercial seemed to really emphasize the need for public safety We are in the midst of providing public safety in county government and we will need more State-shared service more state-shared revenue To sustain what we have so please continue to attend those legislative breakfasts, please continue to encourage our legislators I think we're fortunate that they know us and they know our needs and I'm optimistic that we're going to tackle this together Thank You, Mr. Chairman Next is consideration of committee reports executive committee Ornest number four regarding changing supervisory district boundaries to reflect annexation from Donna Wilson in a district 10 Supervisor Gehring thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move for adoption. Thank you, Supervisor Gehring Supervisor Brower Thank You, Mr. Chair. I'll second that motion. Thank you Supervisor Brower under discussion Seeing no discussion, please vote I vote aye Supervisor John Cullo aye Thanks for chiming in Supervisor Cullo We'll grab your clicker here real quick Please everyone if you would re-vote for that one back out to make him present If you stand on your head and do it how do you vote we'll have Cheryl do it How do you vote Supervisor Boseman? Thank you. All right, that's unanimous 25 supervisors Okay, a consideration of committee reports finance committee 21 regarding proving the use of American Rescue Plan Act funds number five recommendation to adopt Supervisor Tastrodi Thank You, Mr. Chairman move for adoption. Thank You Supervisor Tastrodi Supervisor Wagner Thank You, Mr. Chairman. I'll second that motion. Thank you, Supervisor Wagner under discussion Seeing no discussion, please vote Supervisor Imel, how do you vote? I vote aye Supervisor Cullo, how do you vote? Aye Supervisor Boseman, how do you vote? We'll have Cheryl do it. Thank you, 22 to 3 Thank You, Mr. Chair Resolutions introduced resolution number 22 from the law committee regarding requesting the state of Wisconsin review and revise the compensation rates for entry level and experience Resolution number 22 will be referred to the executive committee Resolution number 23 from planning resources agriculture extension committee Thank you, that'll be referred to finance There are no ordinances to be introduced tonight So concluding our business tonight. I'll call for adjournment supervisor Tastrodi Thank You, Mr. Vice Chairman. I'll move to adjourn Supervisor Brower, I will second that motion We are adjourned Please vote please


The Aquabombe State Governor Pastor Umar Enno has given the assurances of his administration's commitment to implement implementation of the ERISA agenda to create measurable impacts in the state and the lives of the people. Speaking during the opening ceremony of the Aquabombe Dialogue and formal lunch of that ERISA agenda at Iken Hotel and Golf Results, the Governor described the agenda as not just a political manifesto, but a detailed and well articulated governance blueprint that would enhance optimal utilization of the state's rich human and material resources to deliver for the state a vibrant, inclusive, diversified and highly industrialized economy, chairman on the occasion, an Aquabombe-born economic planning expert and one-time minister of budget and national planning senator Odoma Odoma, lauded pastor Umar Enno's all-inclusive disposition to governance and scored the event as a fulfillment of the Governor's campaign promise. I come here to see the roadmap, learn from our people, take that roadmap, go with the commissioners for every trade, and then we can see what we are going to do, together we'll fix the timeline, and then together we'll look for funding, and so that every commissioner will know what he or she has to do from this ERISA agenda, and then when we come to implementation, I want to guarantee a quiet moment, the Chairman I want to guarantee you and all our guests that trust me, we will implement. In preparation for chairing the summit, I have come through the ERISA agenda blueprint. I see that the blueprint seeks to achieve eight ambitious and lofty goals, driven by five aspirations, collectively referred to as the ARISE agenda. The agenda that we need is 17 focal sectors to guide the delivery of these sector strategies and plans. It also identifies priority areas among other sectors that will deepen the development of the state. The ARISE agenda therefore sets out in a document the ambitious agenda of our governor, Pastor Moino. Congratulations for the ARISE agenda. A former governor of the state, Abong Victor Ata, who commended the governor for the restoration of the Aquarium dream that was beginning to fade as encapsulated in his blueprint formally handed over some documents to the governor, which he said comprises of how the ideas can be achieved and the methodologies needed for execution is stressed that the governor needs true guidance for effective implementation. Former minister of petroleum resources and chieftain of the all-progressive Congress, who also spoke at the event described the pastor and Moino's gesture in bringing all together, regardless of political divide, as renewing the spirit of one acquirement. Thank you for bringing back the Aquarium dream. Whatever you hear about ARISE, something is expected and what is expected from the world ARISE is execution, which is what the general called implementation. Once you hear that word ARISE, there's a next thing that will follow anywhere from the Udipaibu to Iqwamaham to Militwitur or Palamilutu. Once you hear that word ARISE, the next thing that will follow is execution. So, I believe we are all ready to join in executing that agenda that has spread out for us. And what is expected of us, I can assure you, we most also have the sense of ownership of everything, which is what is happening in Africa. We have the sense of ownership. Thank you very much.