Today is November 5th. This is the Microsoft stand-up and here we go Let's jump right into it. How about Chris there? How are things going? Things are going well. I have finished coding the The batch job that is going to do just wake for five designations. I am testing it now I hope to have my testing done today And then include this in what's running in Test so that we can have Some cycles go through and test Nothing's really blocking me So I guess I do have a question for you Michael which would be You know what if I get this if I get this up today What else were you were you hoping for By the end of the week as far as you know having something in test for us to Yeah, well the objective is to get Ken what he needs, right? Okay. We API calls to be next. Yeah Okay All right, I can do that tomorrow. Okay Awesome, so let's go to Ken. So I worked with Derek this morning on getting the monkey patch working and Well, actually we did that yesterday and that was working but today he had a problem where his hardware stopped working so You know, there's Some different stuff going on there But what I realized is the monkey patch just covers the new software for the hardware When in reality, there's about 10 things that have to change on the kivy image to work Like a conf file that has the a play command in it with the wrong device identifier and things like that so I just finished up a Confluence page Documented the entire process brought in all the things that have to change beyond just the new hardware stuff like which libraries have to be added and whatnot and so I Have a document that's It's uploading the image as we speak so on that page You can follow it and download the image and burn the image and download the zip file and unzip it and then Run the commands in that page and it should get your kivy mark to up and running with everything In the hardware test as well as it integrated in my crop core So the next time you reboot after you apply the patch everything should be in there And so that's what I'm working on I'm actually Finding on taking it through its paces and validating the website very shortly here and then tomorrow Who has new hardware that wants to pass this I can That I can you know send the page and run through it with them. Do you have a working mark to? Michael I do not have one Chris there should have one right, okay All right, and I'll speak with once this is ready and I validated it and have him do it and make sure that it works It's advertised Okay, cool and guess should be getting one in a couple of months, right? I Just ready can we can we can walk through getting one? Yep. Well, the first thing I got to do is I want to make sure and I just send email out to Kevin and Ken in my copy make sure that They were not wasting our time on ones that are configured differently or that we identify the right configuration I do believe the ones I sent to Chris and Gas are now somewhat outdated and that they were configured to use They were the JLC PC PCB build that Kevin hand built and not the the AA the newest assembler and I could be wrong, but I believe one is configured to run through the XMOS and one is configured to run through the GPIO on the pie for a couple of things, right? So There's a slight difference possibly between those two. I think we need to nail that down. Okay Yeah, Kevin's got a spreadsheet that's got a list of all the devices and their part number serial numbers and how they're configured Okay, so that's where we can go to get the definitive answer on a board number and how the three Hardware components are interfaced with correct Yes Okay, good Yeah, well, so if Can we switch the the JLC PC PCB ones to the The same data path as the new ones or is it?  It's just moving a resistor from one spot to another Okay, well, I think for veyer We just swap his out with one of the new advanced ones, but for giz. You might need to Get your siren out iron out Well, there's there's no reason like, you know, ken wrote the software to make them all work, right? So there's no reason why giz can't just use it the way it is Yeah If you remember derrick when we gave it the um the board type on the run hardware test thing Uh, that's or we modified that file in your case for the board type That defines the three interfaces and how they're interfaced with and it's completely flexible We have two different ways of interfacing with each of the three components And that supports all of them So we just need to figure out via the kevin paper What the configuration for that board is and then we should be able to you know get it running Okay, regardless. Well, we just need to know what hardware it is True true, but but my point kind of is, you know, everyone can switch. There's over to one Except for, you know, giz would have to do it himself, but it would be nice to I mean, there's only a few of the old ones out there in a while. So um, eventually just be nice to To stop using those or get him switched over to their to match the rest My build your own mark to a team building exercise sounds better and better closer to get to hawai I think that's definitely gonna happen Yeah, hey, do you are is this currently being recorded? Yes, it is Okay, yeah, I need a a minute with michael Okay, not a guess urgently, but right after this, please sure Uh, so let's move on then to to giz Uh, I just checked and my sj201 is in darwin Um, but they can't deliver to the address that I gave them so figure that out. Um but uh yesterday, I did a first draft of a um a new default contributing guide So we've got contribution guides For a few major projects like microfcore and lingua franca that are very specific to them um, but this will now show up on Every well once it's published it will show up on every repos. It just provides a sort of generic instructions for you know, how to get how to get python projects set up and And our broad approach to to develop and workflows um Any feedback on it is very very welcome uh the um them micro skills um duplicate ci Is in running multiple ci jobs at the same time, uh, is going well. I um uh I'm essentially creating a lockable resource per branch rather than just for micro skills and um restructuring the file system a little bit Um, just so that things don't override each other. Um The only thing that I'm still concerned about potentially there is that I think we use the same identity files for all Jobs and I don't know if that might cause issues um So this is certainly better than what it was So I thought we'd do this and then see if we run into any stuff But I just thought I'd throw that out there particularly for there to um think about uh And um Uh Yeah, that's about it. I think okay Uh, what's uh, what's next on your plate? Uh, I'm just finishing up this um the Jenkins file for that. Um For the micro skills, um, and then I'm I'm gonna go across and Tweet the micro core one because uh, I think we're putting stuff in a Uh, we're putting a little bit data not where it it was intended to go. Um And then I Need to go back and have a look at what's next Because if you're in those Jenkins files if you want to add the Docker image elite stuff It's working in Selene try that. Oh, yeah, because you're in there Yeah, I'll I'll give this a go first and then I'll see if I can drop that in as well. Yeah Okay, great. Well, then we'll talk tomorrow about you know next things then Um, maybe just the first thing that pops into my head is maybe you can Uh tag team with ken on the the build process Uh, but totally just just oh, yeah Yeah, absolutely. If um if I can get my I can extract my sj 201 from FedEx Wherever it is, uh, then that will definitely be my my next point of call Okay If you want you can help with the um The qt build process as well the actual core piece. That's what I was referring to actually. Yeah. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I can I can do that. Yeah, okay I'll get with you in the morning and let you know what we're are matt and what what would consider what would be considered success Um, but yeah, I'm gonna be taking my covid test tomorrow at 10. So I'll Geez, I can't get all I'll talk to you after tonight after this meeting. Let you and I get together Yeah, cool. Sounds good Okay, great. Uh Derek All right. So today, um, yeah, I was working with kin and then after that I was mostly packing things to take So we've got kind of 20 sets of A lot of things that displays the pies the sj 201s I have And then all the other parts and such that go with that um, so that took a while and then Just continue to get any other 3d printed parts. Um ready that I can take along with me as well But yes, we are definitely going to be assembling some in Hawaii and I think the plan will be to For you guys mostly to work on the sj 230s the laser cut ones So I did want to make sure josh had enough plastic. I think he does And he's got a bunch of uh audio chambers printed So we can put those together those go together really quickly And then I will have a couple of the sj 240s that we'll be working on for You know more advanced acoustic testing and stuff And we can continue to build those actually looking into seeing if we can get Some 3d printed ones, um Ship to us while we're there So If if if we decided to do that we can get pretty quick turnaround The 3d hub site actually kind of is a network of 3d printers There's probably even people on the island That you can sub to and and get parts that way All right Sounds good. Um, what's uh, what's next for you? Yeah, tomorrow mostly be um getting the 3d printed continue to get the 3d printed stuff cleaned up and packed up and loosens like making sure I've got everything and such Which means I probably won't you know what I was working with came on Today and yesterday. I don't think I'm gonna have a whole lot of time to create that um You know the idea was to get the patch installed and then I was going to image the thumb drive So that we had kind of a quick and dirty image But that's probably not going to happen But I think that's that's okay. We just get that done or kind of first day at the Summit, okay. Yeah, as long as we've got a process that we know works and I guess chris fairer is gonna Be testing that with ken tomorrow um, right So, yeah, I'd I'd I'd like to make sure that you know We get that process nailed down before we're all there and trying to use it Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, if there's yeah, you guys can get something figured out Um before then that'd be awesome Okay, um Uh, josh you want to Give us a quick update I'm negotiating our update process getting this place ready for you guys caught up with some email and got back and forth with the Attorneys about our offensive case Um, I think that pretty much sums up the last day or so. I'm sure there's some other stuff in there 3d printing I guess And I guess I'm gonna have to bust that printer open again and clean it which I'm not quite sure what's going on with that But um, I just about have all the parts we need There's plenty of plastic here Derek So and it's available. It's available locally if there's a problem Yeah, I think you can just get a home depot. Do you have a home depot on the big end? Yeah, there's the close my closest grocery store is Costco. There's a home depot right next door There's a lows there. There's a safe way we have a target like all of that is closer to my house than to yours. So All right, great, um as for myself, uh, I've been focused on the the pcb stuff I got with kevin this morning. We did a bit of a review found some problems in the layout Well, not problems per se, but things that could be better just in terms of making sure we're we're not outputting too much You know radiation that we don't need to do And um I'm gonna get with him again later today And I've also been looking at sourcing some alternative pcb, uh companies Um trying to nail down that process so that we can get a whole bunch of quotes from all over I know we discussed or I had discussed with josh, you know trying to find places other than china to manufacture they are the uh Definitely the cheapest and sometimes the fastest, but we're I want to look and see You know do a comprehensive look and see if we can find something that's you know, maybe um also cheap uh And may not come with some of the the problems that we could run into um and uh, yeah, and I've been doing some organizing again on the gira tickets and and uh the um Agenda for the summit so Um, that's it for me So I think that's it. Uh josh needs to talk to me about something and uh, what's it? Ken wants to talk to somebody after this meeting So I think we'll just adjourn here unless there are any other topics people want to bring up and No, I will be extending tomorrow's meeting. I know an extra half hour or so so we can talk about The anything we need to help out for the bath is on it. Okay. Well, that's it for today then


Hi, my name is Andrew Sangera, I work for the Marine Conservation Society and I'm the UK's overseas territory conservation officer. MCS has been working in the Turks and Caicos Islands, which is an overseas territory of the UK in the Caribbean. I was essentially the man on the ground working with the fishing communities to develop sustainable turtle fishery management policies. While the biological data collection was an important element of this, I think the key thing was actually embedding in these fishing communities, getting trust from these fishermen and engaging them in policy discussions. The enacted legislation, when it did come out, reflected the fishermen's views and their inputs, and it really helped them to embrace this management plan. When you're talking about successful components of MPA management, it really depends where this MPA is located, is it close to shore, is it in the open ocean? Who are the stakeholders involved? What are the reasonings behind the MPA management? From my particular experience working in the Caribbean UK overseas territories, I think the key elements of MPA management are really getting fishers, community groups, those people that are connected and use the sea for their livelihoods, meaningfully engaged in the management discussions. There can be quite a few conflicts. For example, fishermen may have real issues with MPAs in the fact that historically they've been designated without improper consultation. These can be real stumbling blocks, so I think these issues need to be entangled, and they need to be given a proper seat at the decision making table. I think it needs to start right from the beginning, with all stakeholders involved, and I think if fishers can see that their inputs are reflected in the final plan, I think that's one ingredient of a success when it comes to delivering MPAs that are going to provide confirmation benefit.


Speaking of Vegas, you and I are both going to be at a pretty special event coming up here in Vegas. And I'm sure there's going to be some glass nerds that are going to be criticizing all the casinos as we are there. I don't know. Do you want to talk a little bit about that? It's a very grouchy bunch. Everyone can always do it better than whoever did it before them. Yeah, you and I will both be in Las Vegas for Glass Build America in October, the 18th to the 20th. That's kind of the Super Bowl for our industry, for the glass and fenestration folks. And so that's all both commercial glass and residential doors and windows. That's the biggest one in this side of the planet, Western Hemisphere, once a year. So you're going to see about 400 plus exhibitors from all over and shoot remains to be seen anywhere from six to 9000 door nerds, hardware geeks and everything in between. Window wizards. I don't know. We got to come up with more stuff. Yeah, it's one of the events I look forward to most during the year. I've been both as an exhibitor as a private citizen attendee and now on the show organization side and I love it. Glass Build. So I invite anyone listening or watching that has an interest in glass entrances or glass as a whole, or there's going to be tons and gobs of hardware there too. So I invite you to come on out to Vegas, hit me or hit up Benji or me and I'll hook you up with a promo code for this show. Nice. Yeah, no, I'm really looking forward to it.  You said something about that. I'm just kidding. There's a tailgate barbecue. There's only one of us with a bottle of barbecue sauce in the background of our Zoom call. But me is not coming, I hear. No, too many councils. Dang. We could, yeah, we're a day three, we're having a big tailgate party. So day three of any show usually kind of fizzles a little bit, starts winding down. So instead of giving into that, we kind of double down and we're throwing a big party for attendees and exhibitors just so after two and a half days of business and mingling.  It's not about the business at that point. It's just about kind of building that community component to the industry. I'm really looking forward to that. That's so important as well. I think we should have like a hardware scavenger hunt of things you can find wrong in Vegas and we'll have teams. That would be cool. Yeah, let's make it happen. That would be cool. I'm assembling my squad. If you're listening to this, if you want to be on Team Glass or Team Hardware. DHN will put up a basket of goodies for the winners. Oh, okay. Like steal the flag too. We'll put up a glass nerd and. Oh yeah, we'll send a hat for capture the flag too. Yeah. I was going to get ugly. But Vegas, you heard it here first. Get everything inspected before October.  We're coming for it. Let's hope this door is fixed by then. Yeah. Yeah. And though I'll have a real serious conversation if I see the same thing there next time. No, I think we're going to see some really nice new hardware at the convention center. That's the where the event is hosted, as I understand. Yeah. Yeah. I think we recently completed or in the works of completing it. I think it's almost done, right? The new addition to the new hall should be done. I mean, I don't know if there's still a little punch list stuff going on, but by and large, I think it's done and open. There's, there's a lot of, they did a lot of work on that. It looks beautiful. So I'm excited person. From what I can tell it's, it's, it's just a gorgeous looking building. And I'm excited to explore it and learn from your glass ways. You know, I'm going to absorb as much knowledge as I can while I'm there. We'll just mind meld and trade info.


Welcome to Digital Asset News to get top stories in cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and break them down into bite-sized pieces. Today, we've got some interesting stuff, and it's a continuation from the stories we followed up on yesterday. So first up, PayPal stock shoots to record high after introducing cryptocurrencies to the platform. When we covered this yesterday, we talked about PayPal adding cryptocurrencies to digital assets, but there's a ripple effect for what is going on with PayPal. On top of that, there's questions that need to be answered, such as, are exchanges going to be effective massively by this? Will merchants actually get paid in cryptocurrencies? And where is PayPal buying their cryptocurrencies and digital assets actually from? Also, on the heels of the presidential debate for tonight, we've got a great article where it talks about Bitcoin proponents, bemoan, or do not like Joe Biden's proposed capital gains hike. And I'm going to explain why there's no need to be afraid of what is happening in the presidential race, what is happening with legislature, what is happening with regulation, as long as you are proactive versus reactive. And before we get into that, I want to make a huge announcement on this channel. I'm very leery about doing any promotions. I must get between 20 and 30 suggestions every week from crazy exchanges out there to some ICO crazy coin from nowhere stand. So to date, I have only had one other promotion on this channel, which is CryptoTrader.tax. And I love them. I encourage everyone to check them out. Their link is in the description below. But today is historic as we welcome in our second sponsored video. And it is from iTrust Capital. I've been talking about iTrust Capital for months and we finally iron out a deal. So I am very proud and happy to have them in as today's sponsor. And this is going to go hand in hand with the article we just talked about with Biden and his tax proposal. So if you're interested in not paying taxes, stick around. But before we do all that great stuff, let's take a look at what's going on the market. And it is a fantastic day. Look, Bitcoin is at 13,000, so it broke open the trend. I'm really happy about that, as I'm sure most people are. We're up 2.3 percent in 24 hour time period, 14 percent for the week. And that is massive. Ethereum up 6 percent to 417. We might be nearing that 450 mark. And that is great news for everybody. 10 percent for the week. Wow. Ted is up .3 percent. Nobody cares. XRP is actually up. 3.7 percent just on the news of PayPal. But the question really came out, which is why did PayPal choose Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin and just totally leapfrog. XRP. Interesting. Let me know what you think in the comments section. That should be a hot topic. Chainlink up 12 percent in one day, 12.1 for the week and at 12,027 cents. And remember, Chainlink, I think it's all time high was around 18, 19. Double check me in the comments section. So we'll see if Chainlink can actually meet or extend past that over this nice little mini bull run. Finance come 2.5, Polkadot 4.4, Litecoin 4.8, which I thought there would be a much bigger pump for Litecoin as they are one of the four that PayPal has agreed to list on their platform. So interesting. Cardano's up. Everybody's up. Let's see who's down. Crypto.com again down 30 percent for the week. I know some people talk about, I don't know why people are spreading the thought about Crypto.com. Well, there's got to be a reason because down 30 percent almost. Tron up 1.4, Tesla's up 3.6. Everything is up. What's down? Well, OK, be the token for OKX. But that's just because of their horrible policies that they have set in place for the founder to be the only one that holds the private key. Yeah, fantastic idea. Beaching up 8.7. Great for all you beaching holders like myself. Theta's up 1.8. I just did a live stream today. I usually do it 11 a.m. to about noon, 11 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. So if you got time, check me out on Theta. A lot of good interaction, a lot of good questions and try to answer the best I can. Uniswap up 4.2 and someone had made a mention like, hey, Uniswap's down majorly. Why don't you talk about your mistakes? If I talked about my mistakes all day long or on this channel, we would never get anything done. There's a ton of mistakes I make. So in Uniswap, I did say it would go up, but I didn't say it would like go up every single day. So remember, we are in Cryptocurrency as an asset, so just be patient. You don't like the price, just stick around for 30 minutes. It'll change maker at 4.9. OMG, everything's up. Anything that's going to go. Wow, hey, Celsius now work up 12 and a half percent. Holy smokes, but they are down 1.8 over the seven day period. So at $1.28, so congratulations to Celsius, one of my faves. And Ave finally breaks through up 8% to $38. I like to see that year in whatever. That's it. So I'm not going to dwell too much on this. Looks like it's a pretty good day. Let's take the W and go on to our first topic. So first up, PayPal stock shoots the record high after introducing crypto to the platform. And of course, everybody's been talking about this. We even talked about this yesterday on the channel. But there are some lingering questions that I think we need to answer. So PayPal holdings plans to allow customers to buy crypto through their accounts and use cryptocurrency for merchant payments. A move that helped power its stock to a record high and was a trading. And I can tell you right now, I will definitely be putting this on my websites to take payments because this is fantastic. However, as far as customers like me and you being able to buy and hold and sell crypto, this is going to be rolled out in the coming weeks in the United States. I actually reached out to PayPal to ask if it was live right now. And the rep said, no, of course, I did the same thing with my USA Bank. When I had this the same issue come up about, hey, are you going to actually integrate with Coinbase? Like, we don't know what you're talking about. Of course, it was been integrated for like a year. But maybe that's just how customer service is. I don't know. But the big news here is that you have to understand why it's big. It's big because not because I'm a big fan of PayPal.  But their stock price went from 210 all time high to 213. Just an announcement of crypto and digital assets. Why is this important? Well, it's important because the different companies that are looking at what is going on, they're looking at Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy. They're looking at Square and Jack Dorsey. They're looking at NYDig or the other one that purges 110 million worth of Bitcoin. It wasn't NYDig. They're actually holding it. And all the rest of the people that are already in there, Fidelgeal Assets and Ameritrade and Paltier Jones, and they're looking at PayPal and they're thinking to themselves, hmm, maybe there is something to this crypto currency assets. Maybe Jamie Dimon doesn't know what he's talking about. Maybe they're reluctant some of the governments to get in and provide regulation isn't something to be feared, but something to look as an asset. Maybe these things are actually something to get into now and be in the beginning as opposed to being in late. Again, nobody wants to be first, but I guarantee no one wants to be last. So this is huge for companies looking from the outside in going, you know what? If this is the big push and this is what is happening to the different stocks, we should look into it. When PayPal had announced they were actually dipping their toes in the water and looking at it, I was like, why wouldn't they do it? I mean, PayPal and Jack Dorsey. I mean, half of their revenue is generated from Bitcoin to the cash app. So if you're looking at it as a payment processor, why wouldn't you look at this and go, you know what? You're telling me that we can essentially double what we do just by offering this crazy cryptocurrency? Well, I guess so. Well, of course, you're going to do it because that's the bottom line. And you have to be holding to your shareholders. So of course, you're going to do it. And that's why PayPal is involved, not because they believe in cryptocurrency assets, no one is foolish enough to believe that. They believe in making money and they know they're going to make a lot of it. So again, if you've got a big company like this, how many, how many big companies are right on their heels? How many mid-sized companies right on their heels going, you know what? We should get into that. I think this is the beginning. I think it could be huge, but there are some lingering questions we need to answer. So moving on, starting early next year, PayPal users will be able to use crypto to pay for goods or services from merchants who accept PayPal. And there's a lot of them. You're looking at around 360 million active users for PayPal, roughly 220 billion in transactions in the last quarter, the last quarter. So I think this could be pretty darn big and we'll just play it by ear. To continue on, consumers will be able to instantly convert their selected cryptocurrency balance to fiat currency. Let me read that again. Consumers, consumers will be able to instantly convert their selected cryptocurrency balance to fiat with certainty of value and no incremental fees. So the question is, can consumers and also can merchants just keep their balance in cryptocurrency for whatever they buy? I would think yes, as far as like a consumer. But for a merchant, if I'm going to get paid in cryptocurrency, I want to keep cryptocurrency. I don't want to convert it over to fiat. Money's on fire. Do you want me just to lose money? So the whole way, that'll be the case. But then the next question is incremental fees. It's very interesting because for every transaction for PayPal, it's usually 2.9, 2.99 percent plus 30 cents for a transaction. So the question then is, is that's what's going to happen when people are transferring back and forth? If it is, look for PayPal to make a massive amount of money, even more so than Coinbase. Anyhow, it states that PayPal argued that this move will significantly increase cryptocurrency's utility. Well, of course, they want to say that because they want everybody to go on. So we'll see. So now it comes out of the questions. And the questions that I have is, does this actually do anything for a cryptocurrency digital asset in our market, in our field? Is it positive or negative? And I think it's a little bit of both. I'm going to tell you why. Because positively, obviously, people are going to be exposed to it. How many people have their PayPal app? And it is when they look at like, oh, I can pay in fiat. What's this? Bitcoin? I heard of Bitcoin used to be a lot of money. And now it's, oh, it's on the way up. Well, what's going on? Maybe I should invest into that theory. I don't really know what that is, but maybe I can look it up. I don't know what Bitcoin cash is. That sounds cool. And then also like, I have no idea what that is. So I mean, when people are exposed to it more and more and more and they see these things happening, then again, they get more interested into it. So I think just for us, I mean, obviously it's a slam dunk. But there's another there's a flip side to that. I think that it also becomes a negative. And I'm going to tell you why. Because when people get into into Bitcoin, they don't really know about it. And they start to invest into it. What happens when we see a slippage? What I'm not slippage, but you know what I mean? When we see like an a reduction in the actual percentage of the value of Bitcoin, it goes from, you know, so let's say 13,000 people buy it and they really get heavy into it because they're so excited about it. They don't really know that, hey, this market is super volatile. And they're like, whoa, I just lost a thousand bucks.  That's what happened in 2017. So I see this part of it as very negative. Plus when they look at it like, well, I know about Bitcoin, but what does Ethereum really do when they look it up and there's, you know, they hem and haul over it? So not a big thing. And then here's another problem I see is that when you have Ethereum and you don't really realize what it's for, you just know it's like, it's kind of like when retail gets in there, look at it like, oh, it's just like a stock. I'm just going to buy it like a stock because it's going to go up in value. But they don't understand the whole ramification. They don't understand like ETH 2.0 is coming. They don't really know about decentralized finance. They don't know anything about smart contracts. And then here's another caveat. Who's going to get the staking rewards? Because if we can't take cryptocurrency off of PayPal, which that's not going to be offered that I know of, then who's going to get the staking rewards? I can tell you who it is. It's going to be PayPal. So when they look at that and like, well, that's kind of a dirty thing if they ever figure it out. And hopefully they can, hopefully they can find a channel like this or the awesome channel over at Crazy for Cryptos or Coin Bureau or Crypto Noobs or Alex Maskioli or Unchained or any ones that I listen to all the time. If they don't find those places, what's going to happen? And I think it's going to be a little bit of a negative as time goes on. However, it is good for the average retail investor who's like, hey, I ain't got, I don't have time. I got 10 kids run around. I got three jobs. I got four side jobs and trying to have a social life. I'll just put some money in and that's it. So that's good, I suppose. But I think for the ones that really want to learn and know there, hopefully there's resources out there, but we will see. And the next one I had to think about is, well, how the exchange is going to be affected? Not that I'm like really crying over the exchanges and, you know, what's going to happen in these billion dollar companies?  Because I mean, everybody's going to go to PayPal. But I thought I'm like, that's, that's stupid, Rob.  Let's just be honest. We're not going to pay those fees because we know that we can shop around and get some good fees. We also know that if it's not your, not your keys, it's not your coins or not your crypto. So we know that PayPal is a non-starter for us. So where are we going to go? We're going to keep going with the same exchanges that we do to you right now. We're also going to go to these things called decentralized exchanges, which I guarantee these new people have no idea what that is, or will they ever are for a while at least. So they're not going to lose us. And then as people start to get into it and then they start to realize what this is all about. Oh, well, Bitcoin is good because of the quantitative easing. It's actually quantitative hardening. Oh, it's censorship resistant. It means no one can take it. Oh, it's divisible. And I can, you know, buy a certain amount of shares. Oh, it's actually better than gold. And I can send it to anybody anywhere in the world in under 30 minutes. So I think once they start to realize it, then it'll be big. Just right now, I think there's going to be a problem. Um, and as far as exchanges go, I think they're all going to actually do very well, because once people realize what it is, then they're going to find the exchanges and off they go. So I think the crappy exchanges that are really not doing so hot right now anyhow, because they have poor liquidity, they're going to go away anyhow. But that's just how free market works. And the last two is, you know, who, who is PayPal purchasing the crypto from? I've reached out and nobody seems to know right now. So once I figure that out, I'll let you know. But I will just say that I believe it's probably like an OTC type of situation, just like MicroStrategy did. And in case you don't know MicroStrategy, of course, they bought $430 million with a Bitcoin just a couple of weeks ago. And the reason or the way they were able to do it without massively pushing the price up is they had a team of people that would actually go out and buy Bitcoin every three to five seconds. And it wasn't like, I need 100 Bitcoin. It's like, I need 0.1 Bitcoin. I need 0.08 Bitcoin. And they did that all day long, all night long for weeks and weeks and didn't move the price at all. I mean, very, very little. But now that they did it, I think the cat's out the bag and these other companies are like, I want to do the same thing too. No, not so fast, Charlie, because guess what? There's only so much Bitcoin to go around and people like me, I'm not selling.  So we're going to hold on and we're going to have that Kung Fu grip. So good luck getting this Bitcoin out of my cold hands. It's not going to happen. And then of course, the last one I talked about will Merch be able to keep their crypto or be converted to fiat. Again, not for sure about that one. But if it's, if it's my choice, I'm keeping it in the crypto because money's on fire. Anyhow, let me know what you think of the comment section. Let's move on. So next up, there's a presidential debate tonight, so I thought I would throw this in. Also, it ties in perfectly for the sponsors of this video. I trust capital and I've been talking about them for months. And the reason why I accepted what they had to offer was because I use the product. I believe in their products. I'll be using it for the next 20 years. That's just just how it is. So when I see this article and I see the complaints in it, I think to myself, why is everybody complaining? Because here's the thing. Just because Biden might have a higher tax plan, does that mean that you're screwed over? No, it means you're screwed over if you're not proactive and you're just reactive. Do you think that Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and all the big money players out there that they're just sitting around going, well, oh, geez, I hope this guy does get elected.  What they're doing is they're talking to all their accounts and their lawyers and everybody else like, how can I avoid all these taxes? Find me the way. Well, guess what? You don't need a bunch of accountants and lawyers. I'm going to show you exactly how to avoid the taxes, which is exactly what I'm going to do. But first, let's get into this article. So what's going on here? First up, the U.S. presidential election is only 14 days away. Man, two weeks. Time moves fast. And a number of Bitcoin proponents have been discussing the capital gains tax implications. Joe Biden plans to invoke if he wins the American presidency. So check this out. Capital gains will go from 21 percent to almost 40 percent for certain income brackets. That's important to remember. Two weeks ago, Donald Trump said, you know what? I'm going to cut long term down to 15 percent. Sure, you can try that. But with all that quantitative easing, everybody did good luck not trying to get some kind of tax revenue. Anyhow, when people discuss the term capital gains tax, they're talking about the levy taken by the state when someone makes gains on the sale of any asset. After the original purchase, long term capital gains apply to levies taken by the state after the asset is retained by the owner for more than 12 months. So that's true and false. So here's the thing. There's a video I did. I've been talking about this for quite some time. It's talking about how to avoid crypto taxes. So if you have a traditional IRA somewhere else or an old employer plan, like a 401k, 403b, military TSP or 457, then you can move them over tax and penalty free to a crypto IRA, at I trust. And just to be clear, you can't move your cryptocurrency that you presently have into the crypto IRA. It has to be something like this or cash. So just so you know, but what I did months ago was I saw a little bit of my profits from Ethereum and I put in a cash and I rolled that into my crypto IRA. And now I'm hoping that I think I should be close to maxing out. So anyhow, onto the whole thing that we talked about as far as capital gains tax. So yes, capital gains tax, there are short term and long term, short term, less than less than 12 months, long term, more than 12 months. Okay. But the thing is that there are state taxes like what they just talked about. And I live in Texas, so I don't pay squat, which would be great, right? If that was the only case in California paying 10 percent, that sucks. So that's a bummer. But what a bigger bummer is, is the federal capital gains tax. So I'll go over the short term, which is the worst one you can get. So it's all dependent on how you file. If you file your taxes, a single head of household, Mary Fongioli, Mary Fongioli separately, and it's all progressive, meaning it's based on how much you actually have it as an income or what you claim your taxes. So for me, let's say I'm head of household, hey, and then I made, I don't know, 14,000 last year, right? So I'm going to pay 12% in short term capital gains because, hey, I don't make that much. So don't tax me so much, right? Now, if I make more, if I'll make between 84,000 and 60, I'm going to get taxed 24%. So remember, it is progressive. So it's not like once I reach 84,201 dollars exactly, bam, everything's 24%. No, it's just on a step scale, 10% and 12 and 22 and 24, depending on what you make. Okay, that's short term, anything less than a year. Long term, a little bit easier. So if you're, let's say you're single and you make, I don't know, 40,000, let's say you make 200,000. You make 200,000 dollars a year. You're between 39,000 and 430,000, you're going to pay 15% of total. Let's say it's a real bummer and you make a boatload of money, you're going to tax on 20%. So you're probably thinking to yourself right now, well, who cares? Because guess what? I'm going to be a millionaire.  But here's the problem. Let's say you make 2 million dollars. Okay, you make 2 million, you're like, great, cash out, bam, done. What's 20% of 2 million? That's like 400,000 dollars. Do you think it's fair? That you have to pay 400,000 dollars on all your hard work that you did to invest? Well, that's what's going to happen unless you're proactive. So in this video about no crypto taxes, I talk about what I did, which is moving your cryptocurrency into an IRA. There's three types I talk about in this one. Or excuse me, traditional SEP and Roth IRA. And it's either you're going to pay taxes now or you're going to pay taxes later. Me personally, I'd rather pay the taxes that I get right now. Let's say that I make 20,000 a year and I get taxed 10%. Okay, I pay 2,000,000 taxes. I roll the rest in the Bitcoin, Ethereum, Chainlink, Cardano, US, everything that I really want to that I can do it on I trust. And then when they go to 10 million dollars, well, guess how much I have to pay in taxes? Zero, bupkis, nada, zero, zilch because I chose a Roth IRA. Now, the difference is, again, just check out this video or take a look in the description of every one of my videos. There's a link that looks just like this. You click on that link, it'll take you to I trust capital. It's got all the information that you want over there as well. If you have any questions, which I did myself, I just scheduled a call and I sat down with those guys for an hour and they answered all my questions, which is great to actually talk to a real life person. If you use the link in the description below, it's going to give you 30 days for free. So check that out. And again, I want to say I'm very happy with I trust capital. I'm glad they're a sponsor and I can't wait to work with them for the next 20 years. So back to the article, let's talk about the minutia. So here's what we got. And this is one of those things that I think about when I read it and I was like, why is this even an issue? If you would have been a little bit more proactive as opposed to reactive. And this is why I talk about make sure that you get things set up. If you fail the plan, you're planning to fail. So this was a quote from an individual on Twitter. They state, hey, Biden wants to raise the capital gains tax significantly. This screws over the majority of seniors who live on fixed income. That's very debatable, because I'm going to tell you right now, when I was working as a nurse in home health care, I saw low income, fixed income senior citizens, because that was our primarily our demographic. And I can tell you, capital gains tax above 400,000 didn't affect these people. But I get what they're saying as far as a fixed income. If you have a fixed income and it does reach back below 400,000. Sure, I understand. But again, it's all comes down to were you proactive or were you reactive of what's going on? Are you a Warren Buffett, Bill Gates type of person? We're like, you know what, I'll figure it out now as opposed to figure out later. Or are you something like, you know what, I'm just going to wait for the government to tax the hell out of me. And then I'll figure it out. Well, good luck. Anyhow, he states, it also impacts anyone taking profits from Bitcoin earning investment for that matter. We just talked about how you can avoid those things. According to Biden's tax plan, the long term capital gains taxes for individuals to make a million per year or above will increase from 21 to 39.6 percent, which we just looked at. It could be up to even more just depends on short term versus long term capital gains tax plus what state you live in. And it states media always try to claim that the income bracket proposal is concrete. The Biden tax plan is not 100 percent set in stone. This is what I'm talking about. Biden could say I want 40 percent, but then they come back and you know what, we're going 50. You know what, we're going to go 60 percent. And then where is everybody? So do I think that's going to happen? No, can it happen? Probably not.  So the thing I'm trying to get through is make sure that you are planning ahead and it's not like you're beholden to the government. You are smarter than that. You can do things. You can make plans and you can get yourself out of your own messes or out of these messes. Excuse me. So finishing up, there was a recent report that notes that Biden has repeatedly said that the increased taxes and capital gains hike will not affect certain income brackets. People under 400,000 to one million. But again, that could all change. So you never know. The report also implies that Biden's tax proposal has not yet been tailored to meet that objective. The fact of the matter is, Americans cannot take any politicians promises seriously and Biden can change the capital gains requirements on a whim. Yeah, who believes in politicians?  Is that like a secret to anybody? Of course, they're all liars. That's how they're politicians are supposed to be. Meanwhile, a team of Goldman Sachs analysts led by Arjun Menon wrote a note to investors saying that Biden's capital gains hike could also spark a massive stock sell-off. Goldman's investors note detailed that the last time the capital gains taxes were increased in 2013, it fueled a massive 100 billion stock sell-off. There's a couple of ways to look at that. If you've been on the channel for any length of time, you know that I do not care about dips. I do not care how deep it goes. I know exactly where it's going. Well, not exactly. I know where the trajectory is. I can't give you precise numbers. Obviously, nobody can. Nobody knows redamus. However, if we saw 100 billion sell-off in our market, I would be super happy because guess what? That means all the people that are weak hands anyhow are selling. And if they're selling, guess what I'm doing? I'm buying. So do you think the same people that know the exact same things that we do aren't going to do the same thing in the traditional stock market? They're like, yeah, go ahead and sell it all. We don't care. Guess what? We're going to buy it up because we know how to be proactive instead of reactive. We know how to get around these taxes. We have people in place and we're just waiting for you suckers to sell. Now, I could be wrong. Let me know what you think in the comments section. And then to the last piece that says here is that just remember that Trump doesn't like Bitcoin. The individual said Biden will probably raise taxes on capital gains. I don't know. And that's true. Donald Trump is not a big fan of cryptocurrencies in 2019. He states I'm not a fan of Bitcoin and crypto, which are not money and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated crypto assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity. Well, it's a good thing that's not paid for by the US dollar. And again, the flip side of that, you could look at Biden, go, why is he going to raise taxes? Again, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter either way. Who's who's put into place for cryptocurrency assets? Make sure that you're prepared and you know what to do. So again, I'm going to link this this video on the very end of this video and you can check that out. Also, don't forget about the link in the description. Thanks to I trust capital and that is it for today. So thanks for sticking with me through the end. Know a lot of information, but a lot of good stuff is happening these days. I just want to give a random shout out to people just for being members. I just want to say thanks to Sean Black, Ignacio Mela, David, Dr. Russ, Brian Pryor, Jesse Kirkland, Sebastian, Marguerite Bonnet, Dad Bean, Modern Samurai, who's always make it fun of my pink salmon shirt. It's a good shirt. I will tell you that. Grant Sharman, Jarkie Bajorgasen, I'm nailed it. And Noel Flippin' Vegas and Taydemont. So thanks so much for being members. Really appreciate it. If you like those videos, there's going to be too much going to pop up. One's going to be the one we just talked about as far as voting crypto taxes. And the other one, I'll let YouTube do their magic. But that's it. Thanks for sticking with me. I appreciate it. See you on the next one.


Well, hey, Dr. Ludkey. I'm glad that you stopped by today to have a discussion about vaccines and our airmen and our wing. And you know, it's pretty remarkable. And what less than a year of vaccine was developed. And I'm sure in your time of medicine, nothing like that has happened, right? No, this is the first time ever in history. Yeah. It's pretty remarkable. And I think it was about a month ago. I got my first shot. And then several weeks ago, I got my second shot. So I'm fully vaccinated now. And you know, I have to be honest, it was not a quick decision to get vaccinated. There was a lot of thought that went into that. And I think, you know, I recognize that within our wing, the decision whether or not to get vaccinated, first of all, is voluntary. And it's also a big decision. But I want to share my story of kind of some things that were going through my mind when I made a decision to get vaccinated. And ultimately, you know, I want to encourage all of our members of the 173rd Fighter Wing to consider getting vaccinated. I think it's good for three reasons. I think it's good because it's going to end the pandemic a lot quicker, which I think we can all agree that the day that we can get back to normal is great. And we all know that the more folks that are vaccinated, the quicker the pandemic is going to end. And more on personal, lovely night. As so many people, I had a family member was in the hospital for several days back in North Dakota. And he's a couple of years older than me and he's very healthy and it was scary. It was not a good situation, he overcame it. And I also know that many family, many airmen in the wing have lost family members. And that's very tragic and to suffer that kind of loss. So the loss, the destruction, our lives, it's very real. And so I felt like anything that I could do to help my family, to help out the community so that more folks can get vaccinated would be good. And then lastly, I thought from our mission perspective, we think about the disruption to our mission and when we had to go into split shifts, we think about the importance of our mission here of turning out 15 pilots serving or supporting combat operations. You know, it really hits home when we had to reduce our flying schedule. We had to reduce our maintenance schedules to confront this pandemic. And the more folks that get vaccinated, the more that we can now get back to normal. It brings a lot of peace of mind to me now. If I'm exposed to somebody who's positive that if I'm fully vaccinated, which I am now, I don't have to quarantine, right? Correct, yep. So I can continue to come to work normally and I know for many folks, including myself, being able to come to work was the huge morale boost, right? So getting back to seeing our peers, our teammates, our women here on base is important in my life and in everybody else. So, you know, I really understand that it's a big decision to get vaccinated at the end. I think it's a great opportunity and it got vaccines available for the wing.  But I do recognize it's a big decision and there's a lot of factors that are weighing on people's minds, right? It's very big. Thoughts on that. I would agree with a lot of what you said so far, but as a physician, my biggest concern at the moment is that the longer this pandemic goes on, the more likelihood that the virus will have further mutations. You know, we already know of hundreds, there's three big ones that we're watching, but there have been a lot of mutations already to the virus and the longer it's allowed to stay in the community, the more likely it could only make things worse than what it is now. So it's a big decision for a lot of people and I'm sure that for some people, it's as big of a decision as if considering having surgery and they recognize that it may not be, although it's a very safe vaccine, no matter what we do, there's always a risk and that they have to make that decision for themselves as to whether or not they think the small risk that there might be is worthwhile to getting a vaccine for them. Right and like you said, it's a big decision and I know for me, when I confront big life decisions, which I think this is, it's important to reach out to family, to friends, to coworkers, because we can all look at the data and the numbers, but there's that comfort in reaching out to somebody who might have already been vaccinated, right? Right. And we have a large number of people who may not have been vaccinated. So we're hundreds so far. So I think sometimes it's good just to ask your teammate, your friend, your family members, always like to get vaccinated and to share their story as well, that can kind of help us to gain an understanding of how other people approach this too, because it definitely isn't easy, especially if you have concerns about risk levels and there's so much information out there, it can become overwhelming, right? Oh, sure. And a lot of the information that's out there right now is not very good information. There's a lot of stories out there regarding the potential for microchips or for the possibility that it might have been developed in association with fetal tissue from aborted babies. There are so many scary stories out there that have no relevance to the truth at all in how these vaccines were developed. Even some of the less troublesome is the story that these mRNA vaccines are completely brand new, that we've never done this before and that's not true either. I mean, this technology has been used in veterinary medicine for quite a while now and we've been working with the technology for at least 10, 15 years. These are the first ones to actually be successful, but they're successful. And now at this point we've administered the vaccines to more than 40 million people across the United States just in the last three, four months and there has not been any pattern at all to actual safety concerns short of what we would expect with any other vaccine. Right, and my understanding and part of my decision matrix was extremely low risk of an adverse reaction. And, but I would say most people know from talking to their friends or family that you might encounter some side effects right from a vaccine, just like it was when it blew. And for myself, I'll be completely honest. I had a sore arm after the first one, after the second one. I kind of felt pretty run down the next day. So did I. And it didn't come on immediately but the next morning I woke up and I felt, oh, I felt pretty run down. I didn't have a fever, but I remember thinking, okay, I'll get through this and the next day I woke up, felt fine. And I still think that the minor discomfort for that day is totally worth it to me knowing that I'm fully vaccinated and I think, like I said, the risk overall was very, very low for a serious reaction. So to me that was something good for behind me but I do acknowledge that many people are going to be looking at all the risk factors and ultimately it's going to be their decision, right? This is a volunteer. That's one of the common questions that we hear is just going to be mandatory. Is there gonna be a day when this is gonna be mandatory? And the answer is no and this is each airman, each teammate at Kingsley Field, I really want them to discern what is right for them. My personal belief is I think it would be great as we can get as many airmen and teammates here at Kingsley Vaccine as possible. Definitely. Bring it into the pandemic as soon as it's best for our mission in my opinion and as best for our families and as evidence, I think one of the things that was fairly significant is there's a large percentage of the pilots that are now vaccinated. Correct, yeah. Very large percentage and that's huge because our business is, here at Kingsley is to train at 15 pilots. So if any one of them are exposed, that could seriously put a damper on our mission capability. And for a group of folks that are the most concerned about their health and being able to continue to fly, they were the first to stand up and volunteer for the vaccinations. And the moment they heard there was even a possibility we would have them on base, they were calling to get scheduled and to get in as soon as possible. So I was very impressed with that group. Yeah, and I just want to also acknowledge that I'm really thankful for people that are willing to share their story. I think that's important. So we have people on the wing that've been vaccinated. So as I'm encouraging everyone to get the facts, make their own decision, but recognize the value in it to reach out, reach out and because, like I said, oftentimes in life when we're encountered with what seems overwhelming amount of information, we go to the people that we know and we trust the best, especially the people that have been through that experience and off of that perspective. And I think the more that we are willing to share our story or decision process of what we got vaccinated, the more of our teammates may consider stepping up and getting vaccinated. Yeah, and I would hope that if anybody does have any significant questions that they just don't feel like they can get enough information about that they're willing to reach out and contact me as well, I'm more than happy to talk to anybody and just simply give them the truth and let them make their own decisions. You know, I also am not too concerned. I would hope that everybody would be vaccinated, but I'm not going to be too concerned about trying to pressure anybody into it because it is a decision for themselves. And hopefully we will never have an adverse event here at the base. And we have not yet with the several hundred that we have vaccinated so far, but there is always that risk and I always keep that in the back of my mind. So it is a gamble, but hopefully the gamble has a lot more reward than there is potential risk out of it. And if the fair men want to receive the vaccine, it's pretty easy, right? It's very easy. All they need to do is reach out and contact the Med Group. You know, we have been sending out now both the telephone contact numbers as well as an email now in the weekly updates that Colonel Orscheron is sending out and all they need to do is contact us and we will get them, at least add them to the waiting list if not get them scheduled. You know, there is a little bit of complication on our end with the Med Group in the fact that we do need 10 people at a time to open up a vial. But you know, we are trying to make it as easy as possible for everybody on base because we know it's a big step for somebody to even raise their hand in the first place. So if they're willing to go that far, we'll try to make it as easy as possible for them. You bet. And you know, I think you've commented already, but you know, I think you had mentioned kind of your decision matrix and getting vaccinated. What were some of the things in your mind that you thought, you know, this is what's leading down that path to get vaccinated? Yeah, for me, you know, I haven't had somebody close in the hospital or dealing with COVID yet, but as a physician, I actually did have an opportunity where I talked to several of the physicians face to face who were in New York City last year, in the heat of it, in the middle, you know, dealing with people passing away on almost a daily basis in the hospitals in New York City. And it really hit them hard. I mean, and that's the thing with COVID is a lot of people talk about, well, you know, the fatality rate isn't as bad as influenza or it's the same as, but there's so much more to this.  You know, some people are suffering from long-term nerve damage just because they had COVID and it was a rather mild illness, but you know, the virus can affect other things than just giving you those flu-like symptoms.  I was perfectly comfortable with it and knowing the significant impact that COVID has had on the community and the world as a whole. You know, I didn't even hesitate with the possibility of getting vaccinated because I knew this is the only way we're gonna get out of this in the next couple of years. Yeah, you know, and I think we've got, probably days ahead, I think we've got a great opportunity here for our team to volunteer to get vaccinated. Again, thanks for the conversation today with you, Doc. I think you've given a lot of great perspective on sharing your story and some of your insights. And I look forward to seeing as many of our teammates step forward if they want to volunteer to get vaccinated for them to do so and in their future. Appreciate your time today. Yes, sir. Thanks.


This is the SugarBeat Report, bringing you the latest information from NDSU throughout the SugarBeat growing season. SugarBeat producers in the valley are finally getting some relief in the form of rain. Darrell Richardson, director of NDON, or the North Dakota Agriculture Weather Network, will discuss the current conditions and give us a short and long-term forecast. Darrell, where are we right now and where are we headed weather-wise? The net positive of this entire season so far is really been the heat. Not everyone had enough moisture in the ground to use this heat, but our growing degree day units are surpassing even in many ways 2021. So most folks planted later than they wanted to this year, no doubt. But we've had so many growing degree day units, those heat units, that we've actually surpassed and are well ahead of the last couple of years. That's where there's been moisture. Some areas have struggled because of it, but we've now gotten rain in the last week, 10 days, as most people know. It really looks like we're going to have some multiple threats through the next couple of three weeks. There's always going to be the spot that gets missed. And unfortunately, like what happened up in the northern valley, some spots did get way too much. But most areas, I think, will have the good moisture supply. I think the heat is still going to be there. So at least in the short term, the next month, I think things continue to look very, very positive. Keyword is for most, not necessarily every spot going forward. You know, with the rain, though, there is always the negative with, you know, say, socasper and such. Does any of the El Niño and La Niña play into what's going on right now? A lot of times people think of El Niños as really good growing seasons. The thing is, there's not as much correlation with El Niños in the summertime as people think. Transitioning from a La Niña to an El Niño, there's not a finger snap in weather. It's a transitional period. It can take usually two or three months. You're not going to see a shift instantaneously. The atmosphere will still think this is going on and still stay on this pattern. But the El Niño is really just getting started. It's really not here yet because of the timing mechanisms. And a lot of times it takes two or three months to transition. Let's think about it. Two or three months is almost a growing season. It's a long period of time, especially when it happens like it did this year. So did El Niño have a factor? I think it is. It's probably the biggest player. It's not the only factor again, but we transitioned in it. And I think from, say, July through Christmas, the next six months, you'll see its influences a little bit more than we did in the last couple of months. And I think we're going to see some subtle changes in the pattern over what we had, say, in the first third of the growing season. Darryl, in general, rain is good. But how can rain be a problem with sugar beet? Well, with all the rain now, a couple of three weeks ago, people, moisture, moisture, we need rain, we need rain. And we did, most folks. And then now we're getting rain. And it rained again. And as I've alluded to already, I think in the next two or three weeks, we might have other opportunities for rain. There is going to be disease, pressure, or cacospora. I did want to point out that we worked with crystal sugar on this. We have a website, endon.info. If you go on to endon.info, there is an agricultural tab. And if you're on a phone because of mobile compliant, you'll see three dashed lines to let you know that there's a menu there.   If you touch sugar beet, you will get growing degree day units from certain planting dates, about every 10 days from late April that will give you a good estimate of your growing degree day units. But if you look on the bottom, there's a rut and maggot tab, but there's also a cacospora tab. And so what crystal sugar asked us to do, could you make that into a mobile compliance site so we could add stations that they didn't have in their app? So on there, you will get two-day cacospora and seasonal cacospora totals. If it's not for a cacospora, sugar beet growing degree days, other units, how much it rained, all that stuff. And there actually is a drought tab, too. They'll show you some monthly totals. It'll give you the National Centers of Environmental Prediction, which is part of the National Weather Service, some of their estimated rainfall in the next seven to 10 days, little things on there, too. So there are some bonus hidden features in there. Thanks, Darryl. Our guest has been Darryl Richardson, director of the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network. This is the Sugar Beet Report, bringing you the latest information from NDSU throughout the sugar beet growing season.


Well, got some good news while you guys are sleeping. I installed the shower now not totally installed But good enough.  This is where the propane goes. I couldn't drill through the bumper I was very unsuccessful so all I need is just a Propane line that goes down all the way to the tank and then And then that's it and then we're good so I packed everything back in here much more organized water surfboard snowboard Matt which will go down here backpack Basically the essentials by the way if anybody wants to rear-end me, please don't I have lots of flammable propane and this thing So I highly recommend you Sing a good distance away from me unless you want a Propane explosion in your face. All right, so great news. I'm leaving I'm heading down to VidCon. I'm driving south. I don't know if I'm taking highway five or highway one slash 101 on the coast It's Friday afternoon. I Have to be an ant have to be in LA by Tuesday so that's Half a day today Saturday Sunday Monday. I got four days. I could take the coast. It is pretty beautiful He's gonna have done it before All right, so got the bus back together again It is not such a disaster as it once was Still my holding tank gonna Replace that with something. Here's my AT&T Mobley Wi-Fi hot spot $20 a month. I'll let you guys know how this works I don't have great service out here with either of my devices on two different networks So it's not a proper Proper thing. However, I do have a signal booster which we are gonna play with too I'm getting totally off-grid ready. Got my yoga bat yoga mat drying on top of my yoga bed Mattress gonna take this back inside. It's not mine Got my laptop hanging up hanging out right there Still didn't fix the ignition switch situation. So that's what it looks like to start the vehicle I'm gonna run this towel back in and then we're hitting the road Hey, remember a familiar sight I was here not too long ago when I was driving south I think I'm gonna call it a night as far as driving getting kind of tired and I'm still a couple hours from the beach and Still trying to plan out my route. I want to see some new stuff and I don't want to repeat my last Drive so I'm gonna do a little bit of Searching tonight for Something unique something cool. Maybe something a little bit different. I'm gonna park over here the same spot. I was before Pretty chill spot pretty pretty quiet and Then tomorrow we will Hit the road again. I was looking maybe for some like a forest or something. So We'll see See here, I think I'm just gonna grab that spot right where that dog is right there There's three dogs All right, here we go. This is a spot for the evening. I could pull in Backwards but Honestly, I can tell you from being here before it's a lot better to have a little privacy um Length-wise then they cover that all up with the shades right there and stuff. So Also, I don't know if I mentioned this before but my freaking fridge is Not on I'm not working. Oh wait. It is on.  It now it's on one and now it turned on so my fault. I didn't know that zero was off So I have probably some funky Sauce and moldy bread in here. Is this stuff moldy yet? Oh god. It sure is We don't moldy it stuff is my fault. Well, you live and you learn tossing everything out of the fridge Except the cold brew Man Actually, this stuff might be good still That's by 10 11 18 Refrigerate after opening that's being tossed This stuff is still good. I Haven't opened it yet. It just Looks all like coagulated and funky though I'm gonna toss that too Well, it says it's good till 2018 Cold brew should be still good here And keep that And then I got some beef jerky in here on the side a couple of plastic bags that freezer needs to be cleaned out Well At least That's one less thing that I think I need to fix because I was under the impression that I was gonna have to do some I don't know home depot exchange return or some electrical work. I'm not electric And so I'm really really that it's not broken. Anyways, this is what I snacked on earlier when I was driving Is it really good by the way? It's a little hard to see Like organic pomegranate dark chocolate Vegan, which I don't really care about but if anybody's vegan out there. These are pretty tasty That's Miller treats. I'll probably just have this for dinner Some chocolate cranberry cherry almond cashew pistachio Stuff, I know I have this Hopped came out That's it, I don't really have any food. Oh wait, I do I do I do I do I do I do I do I do I forgot about this I Gotta change these things here. They're driving me crazy. Ah, it hurts. Oh Man, I can't even open it. All right. I got all these soups, which you can't see right now. Hang on one second All right, where were we I got all these soups Um That's not a soup beans Beans Maybe I'll do beans and rice tonight. Is that all they have? funny black soy beans Yeah It's like I haven't been in the bus like cooking the bus for a while. I'm thinking to myself like What on earth was I thinking? garbanzo beans Let's do black-eyed peas if we had those black-eyed peas rice and Our barb sauce there we go, this is the not so clever as Rice and beans that I'm having tonight. We've got black-eyed peas with some rice and some of that What is that stuff called our bark sauce even though it may or may not be bad Hopefully don't get food poisoning. Anyways, I'm gonna call it a night Did a fair bit of driving today. I think it did Shoot, I don't know. Well with traffic probably four hours So yeah, I need to edit I also created a buffer I Think I like having a buffer it won't be two weeks I think it'll be closer to like a week or five days or something like that That'll give me like time to like go somewhere that doesn't have service and come back and Look like it. There's daily uploads anyways Enough about that. I will see you guys tomorrow


Mr. President, you've been the president of COP 21. We have a head of a delegation of an upcoming COP. So a lot of expertise here amassed on this stage. Clearly COP serves a very important function, but there are a lot of people who also say look these are important gatherings but at the end of the day a lot of pledges are being made pledges for actions and then people leave and there's no accountability and there's no transparency afterwards. How can we track the steps and developments better in the aftermath of what is undoubtedly an important event? But where's the longevity here? Well, it's a big question. There are critics about COPS and we can share these critics because they are heavy and so on and so forth. But what else? What else? Do you know another opportunity to get together all the governments, the companies, the NGOs and to compare the different states to take commitments and to check if the commitments are fulfilled or not? We don't have right now a better system and therefore the question is still there. How to be sure that the commitments will be fulfilled? It's a more general question. It doesn't apply only to climate and the problem is that today it's rather a philosophical observation. The main problems of humanity are international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational. And we don't have a system of governments which is able to tackle these new elements. But I think what is necessary, first, during the COP, and it is the importance of the presidency to gain the trust of the 200 states which will be there. There's always a sort of fear by the different member states saying, well, probably the president of the COP has the solution in its pocket. And, okay, no, you have to build trust. And if you build trust, you can do very important things. I remember, for instance, that the famous figure of 1.5 degrees in Paris at the beginning of the conference, nearly all the powerful states were against it. The science was for, but they were against because obviously it was a problem for them. But by the dynamics of the conference, by some particular speeches, by the discussions and at the end, by the arbitration of the presidency, it was decided. And today we know that it is the objective. There is another point which is the continuity of COPs. And from this viewpoint, I'm a bit concerned by the fact that it's not clear what will be COP 29. Okay, because you know it's a strange thing. The president of the COP becomes president of the COP in the second week of the COP. Well, it's a figment of our imagination. In fact, he is president of the COP since once year. Then, from the legal point of view, he will be president of the COP during this COP. But what's next? If we don't have in COP 29 a solid COP, and today we don't know who will be the country. We know that COP 30 will be Brazil. And for different reasons, I think that Brazil will be very active. But if we have an excellent COP in Emirates, but a sort of haul in next year, we shall, I would say, lose or waste probably one year. Therefore, the continuity, the fact that we must always be in advance, move forward. But to ensure continuity, it's absolute necessity. One other point. Let's be careful about long term. It's surprising to say that. I remember a chat with Mr. Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, and he said to me two things. And I think he was right. And I very often think about that. He said, you know, Mr. Fabius, there are two mistakes that you must avoid. A, to be too long term. Because in the long run we are all dead. If you say to people, okay, that is the aim in 2060. Therefore, the question of climate is raised against time. We have to act urgently. And it's necessary to have a long term view, but not too long term. And the second one is, let's be careful about over pessimism. We have enough pessimism right now. If you say to people, today it's difficult. Tomorrow it will be more difficult.  Therefore, to keep, while being honest, a feeling of hope, and to act urgently, it's absolute necessity. Yeah, the race against time, I think. Yes, I will just add something to what Laurent said. Partnerships is so important here. And you know, for those of you who don't know, the cops are, of course, there's a huge negotiations team behind it. And they are sitting for hours until past midnight talking and talking and talking and looking at one word... You have to get people tired. If they are tired, it's okay. You see, you need to get people tired until they give in. The same system at the World Policy Conference, by the way. Yes. Yeah. Tired and good food. Yes, I wanted to come to that. So what we've found that has been really good is to find something that partners are excited about and work together with the partners to make kind of platforms. So Aim for Climates, for example, the agriculture innovation mission for climate that we're spearheading with the US, for example. It's been up and running for two years. We have over 500 partners, $13 billion of committed investments, and they're all about looking at innovations in smart climate-resilient agriculture. And this has been really... It's become a platform made for partners, by partners, and they choose their innovation sprints. They're calling it innovation sprints. The areas they want to work together in, they get money from outside, and they're sprinting innovations. And this, I find, has been a powerful tool of how to accelerate things. And then, of course, hopefully, even after the COP, it just keeps moving. Another thing was the Mangrove Alliance for Climate. This is a platform for getting countries who understand the power of mangroves and restoring mangrove forests. By the way, we don't have any forests in the UAE, but we do have mangrove forests. These are basically our trees, and they are amazing swamps or sinks for carbon. And seeing the power of that plus the power of biodiversity, and they're beautiful to look at as well, we've managed to create MAC. We've got 20 countries on board now. The latest newcomer was Germany, and this is about bringing countries together that want to champion certain things to accelerate quickly, because that's what we need right now. Coming to food, again, food, at the cops that I've been to, the last two, the food wasn't too good. And when you are doing meeting after meeting and the negotiators are negotiating and they don't have good food and they don't have good coffee, the result isn't good. So what I've done is I said, this cop, I want to make it a little bit different when it comes to food. So what I did, Lauren doesn't know this, I invited all the suppliers, the restaurants, let's say, kitchen staff, and we did a workshop called the Climate Conscious Catering Workshop for Cops. And we started this, there were more than 200 chefs, restaurant owners, and we said, we want you to make sure that at COP28 we are serving 1.5 degree aligned food. And with that, we taught them, or let's say the experts taught them, how to make a burger, the burger still can taste good, but now you're taking it with a climate conscious mind. You're looking more at where you can source locally, what kind of flavors you can bring into it, and believe me, the chefs had fun doing this. And then of course taking into account how can we reduce the waste, make it a no-waste cop. So all this, we started in a way a legacy, hopefully, that will continue to all cops, starting from COP28. So we may not have it perfect, but I tell you, I hope you can all look forward to the food because it will be very much low-carbon food, low-carbon snacks, and 1.5 degree aligned menus as well. So one thing is for certain, throughout these long and contentious discussion, no one will be hungry. That's for certain. So lack of food will not be one of the reasons why things might fall apart. Rest is short. Now, being mindful of the time, of course the session is coming to an end. And if we're looking, we talked about credibility, we talked about hope, something that is extremely important. Of course, the aspirations and expectations of COP28 that lie ahead of us. Now, interesting. It already has garnering momentum as we speak. There's real impetus at a pre-COP28 meeting where countries have come together to agree on a fund to help deal with efforts of climate change. So already some positive steps leading up to this big event. Same question to both of you. What in your opinion, what would constitute, what would you consider to be a successful outcome of COP28? Mr. President, we'll start with you. Very practical things. A, operationalize loss and damage fund. B, to really achieve the 100 billion dollars a year. C, a commitment to renewable. D, a commitment to phasing out or phasing down fossil fuel. I would add a final comment. Let us not forget, from my own experience, that the climate problem is always a social problem. We know what are the answers. But if you propose answers to populations who are not in a situation to make them efficient, doesn't make sense. If you say, okay, I raise taxes because I want less classical vehicles, energy and so on. Okay, but if people need them, and if you don't have the money to solve the problem, forget it. Therefore, it is always a social problem, which means it is always a financial problem and all that we have talked about, which is very interesting, without a financial reform, it doesn't make sense. That is clear words. Now, the Paris Climate Agreement 2015, as raised above, of course it would be wonderful if, post COP28, we talk about Emirati climate agreement that people start referring to, but in all seriousness, I know the ambitions are high. What are you aiming to get out of this? What is the goal? What would be success in your opinion?  First of all, to bring trust and hope back into the process. We for the first time have brought in a youth climate champion into the process, and we hope this will continue onwards, and you will see a huge number of young people, not only just being part of a delegation, but these young people will be in the negotiations room because it's about their lives. I hope to get commitments from more than 100 countries on the Emirates declaration on food systems. I hope also this will be a great platform to show the world who we are as Emiratis, what our values are, what our journey has been, and how committed we are to this cause, and that we are a credible partner in this. And, of course, hopefully people will leave COP28 with a smile feeling that they've had a great experience, that they've come out with an outcome to say, you know what, I'm proud to go home to my kids and tell them I've done something for your future. But I think we all need to step up because we don't have time to discuss and discuss and discuss. I think everyone needs to know that everyone has to give in a little bit so that we can get to where we need to be. We all know what we want at the end of the day, so we need to provide the best ecosystem for everyone to come and be able to convene and discuss. But we also hope that with all the list of things that Lauren just mentioned, those are the main outcomes. And for me, it's about hope and positivity. Let's course correct where we are. We owe it to our kids. Hope and positivity. Walk the talk, raise the ambition and step up the efforts. Ladies and gentlemen, I think to say that there's a global anticipation for this upcoming event is certainly no overstatement. We're very much looking forward to COP28 and hopefully the results that it will produce.  I guess we will find out soon enough here in this very country, not too far from here in Dubai. I speak for all when I say this. It has been an extremely insightful discussion and it's wetting the appetite, if you will, for things to come. The UAE Minister of Climate Change Environment, Maryam Al-Marie, and of course the President of the French Constitutional Council, Fabius, thank you so much. This is your applause. Much appreciated.