Let's draw our lines. Let's make our plan. What was my plan? Let me pull up my plan very quickly so you see it. Look at the plan. Looking for a potential short 170, 180, 190 with a 205 stout. Where did I short it? 170s into resistance. Remember the resistance line we drew earlier? That's where I shorted. Okay. Stock tanked. Stock bounced. Stock tried to push over VWAP in the morning, failed. So I started aggressively adding to my winner. When I saw this stuff candle happen, it was not before the stuff candle. It was after the stuff candle. When I saw that stuff candle, I added my final size covered on the dip. Right? Remember, support. Support. That was the support line we drew earlier. I want to buy on support and I want a shorter resistance. So I bought that support and as it started bouncing back to resistance, shorted. Covered it again in support. And that's it, baby.


The Extrude tool is one of the fundamental tools for modeling. But what is the Extrude tool? Well, allow me to simply show you. If you select a face and click the Extrude tool in the Quick Tools menu, you'll see this yellow gizmo. This is a normal axis manipulator. But what does that mean? Well, it certainly doesn't look normal, and that's because normals are a type of vector related to faces. Simply put, the normal is the vector that sticks out perpendicular to the surface of a face. If we go ahead and left click drag this manipulator, you'll notice that it duplicates the face and moves it along the normal axis. But it also creates new edges and faces between the original face you had selected and the new duplicate face to maintain a connection. This is Extruding. You can also left click drag anywhere else in the viewport instead to move the extrusion along your viewing plane. You can do this for all types of selections, including multiple faces, vertices and edges. However, if you select multiple faces that point in different directions, you'll notice that your manipulator is pointing at sort of an average value of where all your selected faces are facing. Keep this in mind as we'll come back to it later. It's important to note that if you right click while dragging the manipulator, you can cancel the Extrude, but it will not remove the duplicate faces. This is intentional as it allows you to create new geometry at the same location as the originally selected geometry. This can be very helpful when wanting to scale or rotate your extruded mesh. For example, what if we wanted to create a stack of connected cubes? You could simply extrude, right click cancel and press S to scale your extrusion down. This will then let you extrude again and confirm to create the new smaller box. This was made super easy by the fact that the extrusion cancel brings the extruded geometry down back to the original cube surface. However, if you do this on accident and you want to remove the extrusion, just make sure you press Ctrl Z to undo it properly. For hotkey users, simply press E as an extrude to begin moving the extruded selection along its normal vector. Right click will do the same thing I mentioned before and left click will confirm your extrusion. But the Extrude tool has a few more tricks up its sleeve. If you click and drag the Extrude tool icon in the Quick Tools menu, it will open up a submenu with more extrude options. The first option is our default option, so we'll skip that. But our next option is called Extrude Along Normals. This is what you might prefer to use if you select multiple faces that point in different directions. This will allow you to sort of push the geometry outwards along each individual faces' normals, but still keep the faces connected to each other after extrusion. This is great for adding a layer of thickness to your mesh, for example. The next extrude subtool is the Extrude Individual tool. This is extremely helpful for making certain faces extend out independently from its neighbors. For example, you could use this to create spikes or stylized bumps on a surface. Quick tip, this tool works best when faces are selected, not floating vertices or edges. The final Extrude tool is very powerful and easy to use. It's called the Extrude to Cursor tool and allows you to extrude your selection and extend it to the location of wherever you left click in the viewport. This will still be along your viewing plane, but allows you to work very roughly and quickly when you need to. For hotkey users, if you're in edit mode, you can actually access the Extrude to Cursor tool at any time by simply holding CTRL and right-clicking. Now that we've learned about the Extrude tool, I'm going to go ahead and show you how to make that chair I made earlier. This is what we want to make, and here's how we do it with the Extrude tool. Simply select your cube, go into edit mode, and scale the cube down along the z-axis. We will then use the Loop Cut tool, which will be covered in its own video, to make some additional cuts on our cube. To use the Loop Cut tool, simply select it on the Quick Tools menu and left-click drag to create a tic-tac-toe pattern, like so. This will then allow us to use our Extrude tool. Using face select mode, select the faces you would want to use to form the back of the chair as well as the legs of the chair. You can then go to the Extrude tool and select the subtool, Extrude Along Normals. Then simply left-click drag to bring out both the chair back and the chair legs at the same time. Ta-da! You've officially modeled something in Blender.


transfigurism.org, and we welcome those who are joining us online, and thank you of course for all of you here and here in person, we appreciate your support, and look forward to the conversations that this should provoke and inspire throughout the day. My name is Lincoln Cannon, and I'm currently serving as President of the Mormon Trans Humanist Association by appointment of the Board of Directors, which is elected by the voting members of the association, and I'll be leading this morning's session of the conference. We have an excellent lineup of speakers prepared for you. Our key notes of course will be Mormon philosopher Adam Miller later on this morning, and this afternoon we'll have Natasha Vita Moore who is a transhumanist designer. Also backed by popular demand, and some of you heard them warming up this morning, is the Mormon transhumanist Barbershop Chorus. They sound absolutely awesome, and I look forward to hearing them more. Thanks to Mustache Power Productions. We are streaming live on transfigurism.org, and I appreciate the support that they've been providing to us both at this conference and in conferences in previous years, and we're also creating recordings of this conference that will be available on our YouTube channel afterwards for those who aren't able to participate live. Very importantly, I'd like to thank the leaders of the association for preparing this conference. A lot of very hard work has gone into preparing for it, the marketing, the logistics, people who have prepared presentations, and you know fundraising, all kinds of work, really hard work goes into preparing a conference. None of the leaders of this association is paid for the work that we do, and all of us have families, and all of us actually have things that we like to do sometimes other than work, and the sacrifices and contributions that the leaders of this association and various members of this association have made to prepare this conference are greatly appreciated and make this possible. One request that's coming up, if you would, those of you who are here in the room, maybe if you're sitting on the edges, you might want to scoot in just a little bit. As people come in, they may have a hard time sitting if we are taking up the edge locations, or at least observe as they come in and maybe offer them space. So last year at this conference, I expressed the purpose of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, which stands for the proposition that we should learn to become gods and saviors, not to raise ourselves above others, but rather to raise each other together, as exemplified and invited by Jesus. I often express this in secular terms as the pursuit of a radical flourishing in creation and compassion through technology and religion. With that purpose's context, this year I would like to adjust focus a little bit, and focus instead of focusing on the association as an organization and what we stand for, I'd like to talk about Mormon Transhumanists as persons, and I'd like to explore with you and perhaps start a conversation that will go on throughout the remainder of this day and on into discussions online and so forth about what it is to be a Mormon Transhumanist. Who are we, generally speaking? What do we do and what do we think? And the first place we can look to get an idea of what a Mormon Transhumanist is, is at the membership records of the association. And so Nathan, how do I close that? There we go. When we look at the membership records of the association, we see that the association is experiencing some very strong growth. You can see that over the last couple of years, in particular, the association has grown remarkably well. Currently, or actually as of the end of 2013, we had 379 total members, 30 of which are voting members, and what a voting member is, is somebody who supports the association financially or otherwise through in-kind donations through the work that they do to help us, for example, put on conferences and things along those lines. The growth rates of the association, as I mentioned, in particular the last two years have been very high. In 2013 the growth rate was over 50%. We gained 133 new members, and the year before that was even more remarkable in the number of persons that joined the associations. And meanwhile, our attrition rates are also very low. In 2013, we lost only seven members, and more than half of those seven were lost simply because we could no longer contact them. And the way that we manage membership in the association is if we can't contact a person, we no longer can consider that person a member of the association. So in 2013 only lost seven persons. As far as the location where these members are located goes, we have about two-thirds of our members in the United States and about a quarter of our members in the state of Utah. So the flip side of that, of course, is that we have an international audience, an international membership, and we also have quite a few members of the association outside of Utah. All of the members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association support the Transhumanist Declaration, as well as the Mormon Transhumanist Affirmation. And as of this week, we actually have 413 members of the association. So since the beginning of the year, we've added quite a few. So much then for the membership records of the association. Let's talk about the members in more detail, you know, not just from a membership record perspective, but about what they think can do. And a good way to do that is to dive in to the annual member surveys that we put out every year, where we collect information about the backgrounds and thoughts and positions of the members of the association. And I'm going to be going through a bunch of data up here on the screen and it will go quickly at times to help you in the audience and those of you who are participating online, keep up with the flow of data and perhaps jump around back and forth between different things that show up on the screen. I'd encourage you, if you have a computing device, to open up the survey results right now. You can do that either by scanning this large QR code here up on the screen, or just by typing in that short URL there into your web browser on your device. Either way, you should be able to access the survey data that we'll be looking at here. So while you're opening that up, I'd like to invite two members of the association to join me up here. My friends Brent Alsup, who's standing up right here, and Carl Hale, who is making his way from over here. Brent, here on my left, is a co-founder and former director of the association, as well as the current manager of our annual member survey, the results of which we'll be looking at today. And then Carl is also a co-founder of the association, and he currently serves as a director and the chief financial officer of the association. A very good chief financial officer, I might add. So I've invited these guys to join me because even by Mormon transhumanist standards, these guys happen to be unusual. And you might wonder, well, okay, they're already Mormon transhumanists, how much more unusual could it get than that? Well, as it turns out, Carl, he is a conservative, and Brent is an atheist. And of course, those aren't unusual characteristics on their own, but remember, they're both also Mormon transhumanists. So by deduction, that makes Carl a conservative transhumanist, and that makes Brent an atheist Mormon. That's unusual. So I've invited Carl and Brent to share their thoughts with us as we look at some survey data up on the screen together. And the hope is that this will give us a better sense for some of the diversity among our organization, among the members of the association. And while we're doing this, I suppose that I'll be in the unusual position of standing in for a mainstream view, if such a thing can be said to exist among Mormon transhumanists. So I'd like to start by asking Brent, if you would, Brent, could you tell us a little bit about why you are a member of the Mormon transhumanist association? Okay, yeah, well, the reasons are legion couldn't cover them all, but just I think MTA is just way cool. And I love being a part of it intellectually stimulating just friends to talk with that have similar views. So it's just a lot of fun for me. I prepared my words because I want to make sure I get a whole bunch of stuff in in 30 seconds or less each time. So here we go. Before that, in addition to being members of the MTA, Brent and I are friends. I want that to be clear. So why am I a Mormon transhumanist? First, transhumanist ideas strengthen my faith in and give me a deeper personal relationship with my father in heaven who is God. Second, because I have seen that transhumanist ideas when illuminated by the traditional teachings of the gospel of Christ are a powerful guide and anchor for many sincere seekers of truth. I have seen the efforts of this organization bring people to and back to God and Mormonism. I believe I am a better Mormon and a better child of God because of the Mormon transhumanist association. Thanks guys. So let's go ahead and then hopefully you have it up on your devices. We're going to jump in to the survey results and look at some of that together. In 2013, about a quarter of our members actually participated in the survey, so 96 members total. And they reported that about 80% of them live in the United States. Well, as you probably recall from a previous slide that I showed you, actually, our membership records indicate that a lower percentage of our membership actually is in the United States. So what you can deduce from that is that members of the association in the United States participated in the survey at a higher rate than our members outside of the United States. So keep that in mind as we look at the results. If more of our members outside of the United States had participated, some of these results would be different than what you'll be looking at. How different? It's a hard to say, but they would probably have been a little bit different. Here's some of the demographic data regarding the association members. Our age distribution centers in the late 30s. And if you'll take a look around you, this isn't surprising, but we are almost certainly too white and too male. Now, wonderfully, we do have some non-white and non-male supporters here with us today and hopefully more online. And hopefully we can figure out ways of reaching out beyond these demographics as well. But please, the white males among us, please continue to participate. Most of us are married with children. In fact, I'd say that this is a rather remarkable demographic among transhumanists generally. Mormon transhumanists are far more likely to be married and far more likely to have children. And if you'll notice down there at the bottom of the slide here on the on your right, we're far more likely to have a lot more children than your typical transhumanists. Several members of our association have seven or more transhumanists. And remember, these are just the ones that participated in the survey. Our education and income levels also skew towards the high end. We're a remarkably well educated and high income group on the whole. So before we move on to the ethics, I just want to give both Brent and Carl an opportunity to comment on their thoughts on the demographics of the association. Well, as some of the results will show that we've got some increasing in diversity, particularly in the number of atheists. Of course, most people are, are religious and Mormon and theists, but the percentage wise, you'll see that there's declining slightly and the atheists are suffering increasing. But I think it and so that's great. More diversity is better. We can find that moving that into other more women, more other people increasing diversity. I think it'd be great. So transhumanist ideas are largely appealing to the linear thought processes of the analytical mind. Linear thinking and analysis are characteristics of the young side of our nature, which is generally stronger in men. If we are to develop a sustainable message, we need to learn how to better engage the lateral thought processes of the intuitive mind. Lateral thinking and intuition are characteristics of the inside of our nature. And I'm trying to be very careful here to make clear that I'm not talking about men and women. I'm talking about the in and young sides of our nature. And however, the inside of our nature is generally stronger in women. This is why in my view, our demographics are skewed so strongly to the male side. Thank you guys. All right, let's talk now a little bit about politics and ethics and the perspectives of our members in this area in a general sense, we'll dive in a little bit deeper into some specific areas later on. As it turns out, most of us are social progressives, or at least social moderates, unlike Carl. Carl is very definitely in the minority there. You can see that there's about 10% of our members identifying as social conservatives. However, on the economic side of things, our perspectives are much more mixed. One area where we have a great deal of unanimity in our perspective is on the benefits of embracing technology. So there are certainly opportunities and risks both that come along with embracing technology, but most Mormon transhumanists, like most transhumanists generally think that we're better served by embracing technology and working to mitigate the associated risks than by avoiding it. Another place where we have a great deal of unanimity is in our thoughts around intelligence and the augmentation, the improvement of intelligence. Almost all the members of the association think that it would be a very good thing if we became many more times intelligent than we currently are. Another area where a lot of us agree is on health and the improvement of health and the extension of healthy lifespans. Most of us think that everyone should live in good health for a very long time, maybe hundreds of years or longer. That's not a particularly controversial thing among Mormon transhumanists. Most of us, we tend to base our sense of morality on universal happiness and well-being. And when I say universal, I'm talking about the happiness and well-being of humans, but also non-humans, whether that's non-human animals as we know them today or potentially artificial intelligences or post-human intelligences that may arise in the future. We generally like to consider, take into consideration as we assess what is moral and how to behave morally and live morally. We like to take into consideration this broad universal sense of well-being. And finally, on this section, we're more inclined overall to think of life as a test than as a war, but you can see that there's quite a few who don't really buy into either of those analogies for how life should be thought about. So Brent and Carl, your perspectives on these politics and ethics issues. Pundits like to paint people in antagonistic black and white colors. However, when I talk with my friends across the political spectrum, I see a much more colorful and nuanced picture. I believe sincere seekers of truth, regardless of political or religious position, generally agree with King Benjamin's and ultimately Christ's counsel to care for each other. The differences in philosophy really only come in implementation. This is why in my view, members of the MTA are generally socially progressive, but disagree on the implementation or economics. We will begin to make progress in our political and ethical discussions, and I would say that we do make that progress inside of the MTA. Once we learn to evaluate a person's beliefs based on their definitions of our shared nomenclature, rather than on our own definitions, only when we have learned their definitions, will we be able to discover and hopefully correct the real weaknesses in their and our own philosophies. Yeah, for me, morality is all about finding out what everyone wants, unconditional lovingly for everyone. And then once you know what that is, having that as your ultimate goal and getting it all for everyone, whether in this life or the next life, you never give up on any of that for anyone. Thanks, guys. Next up, we're going to look at members' perspectives on God and religion. And among transhumanists in the most general sense, this is a controversial topic. Transhumanists, by and large, are quite secular. Many of them are atheists, many of them are agnostics, or just simply non-religious. And some of them just don't even care too much about the questions, but some of them are very passionately even anti-religious. You get that full spectrum among transhumanists generally. Of course, Mormon transhumanists are rather different in these regards, but there are some carryovers from the broader transhumanist perspective into Mormon transhumanism. So first of all, most of our members are members of the Church, also members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest Mormon denomination, the one that will be holding its worldwide general conference here in Salt Lake City tomorrow and the day after. And also, most of our members are theists, have belief or faith in God in some form or another. However, as you'll notice, that's not most in the sense of like 80 or 90 percent. It's actually around 60 to 70 percent of our members fit those characteristics, and the others fall in a whole bunch of other kinds of categories. So for example, we have members of our association, like Brent, who are a minority, but who are atheists. And Brent is not alone. As you can see, we've about 10 percent of our membership consists of atheists. We also have agnostic members. We have members of the association that are not members of the LDS Church and that are not even Mormon. In fact, there are several in the audience here who are not Mormons, who may be practicing other religious traditions, such as Christianity in a non-Mormon sense, or even say Buddhism or other religious faiths. And then, of course, we even have some members of the association who are not religious at all, but for various reasons support the work that we're doing and see value in it. Over time, we've noticed that the composition of our membership is adjusting slightly. Over the last few years, we've seen the composition of our membership that are agnostic or atheist, or have no opinion on the perspective, on the view of God, has increased while the composition of our theist portion has decreased a little bit. Likewise, we've seen that there's been a slight decrease in the LDS composition of our membership while the composition of our non-LDS membership increases slightly. Now, why is that happening? Some may suggest, oh, it's because the darn atheists are chasing away our good theists, right? Some are tempted to say things like that, but our statistics don't bear that out because the LDS theists are staying with the association, and we're getting more of them. But what we are also doing, I think, and you might be able to interpret this data in different ways, I think that we're showing that we are a place where people who have lost faith in God, or who never had faith in God, can come and have important, meaningful conversations about shared values with people who do have faith in God. And as our reputation for being a place like that improves and becomes more well-known, we attract more atheists and agnostics to our association, and personally I think we are the better for that. So moving on, talking a little bit more about what we actually think about God and religion, most of us think that God created us, but we're not sure necessarily about the specific mechanisms. Up here we have our perspectives on cosmoforming, in particular, displayed, and you can see that we're divided on that. We tend to agree with the idea of a fine-tuned universe, whether that was done intelligently or not would depend probably on whether you happen to be the an atheist or atheist, but overall we do think that the universe seems to be fine-tuned for the emergence of life. On the other hand, most of us don't embrace the idea of intelligent design, that some kind of intelligence is necessary to the evolution of life on earth. Although some do disagree with that, as you can see in the statistics. We're more inclined, if asked to kind of choose between them, we're more inclined to a panentheistic view of the universe, of the world, than toward a pantheistic view. The difference being a pantheist view is God and nature are exactly the same thing, whereas a panentheist view is that, well, nature might be part of God or a manifestation of God in some way. We're more inclined to that in general. We tend to think that even God evolves. In fact, you can see that there's quite a strong amount of agreement in that area. But most of us also think that God currently exists in more than just potential, more than just an evolution toward a possible God, but that God does presently exist. Almost all of us think that we should become God, or gods, or like God. And that if we do, we would almost certainly not be the first. Many of us even think that we cannot become God unless God already exists. But there is resistance to that idea, as you can see from the data. Most of us see importance both in our works, the things that we do to improve the world and to relate with each other and improve those relationships. We see importance both in that and in God's grace as a contributor to improving the world and towards the pursuit of salvation or enlightenment. We also tend to see just as much importance in our grace for each other, one human to another, one family member or friend to another, as we see in the importance of, say, for example, God's grace in our work. Most of us agree that agency and opportunity, opportunity, for example, to thrive and become like God, require a context that includes a risk of suffering and the actuality even of evil. Most of us think that God intervenes in the world, but in a limited way. And then, of course, there are people who disagree on those.  Some think that the limited interaction with God may even be necessary for the preservation of agency and a capacity to flourish in creativity and compassion over the long run, that God could perhaps thwart our ability to progress if we, if interaction was less limited. So let me give an opportunity for both Carl and Brent to comment on these thoughts about God and religion from members of the Association. Yeah, so my view on what we are is Mormons have the concept of an intelligence. And to me, I believe that if you take the right stuff, whether it be the physical stuff and the spiritual stuff, if you must, and if you organize that into the right state or design or whatever you want to refer to that, it will be indistinguishable from you. And that's a fact. That's a necessary fact that is true in all possible worlds in the pre-existence, the future and everything. And so to me, when you talk about intelligence, that's what we are. And that has always existed, could not ever not exist. And so to me, before and between death and resurrection, that's all that exists. But then I also believe in a spirit world that is dependent on the brain. And so we have this knowledge of ourselves. And so as long as we have knowledge of our ancestors, then we have spiritual knowledge of them and memories of them. That's what they are. And so I believe that that exists. But I believe it's dependent on the brain and must be resurrected and restored. So I thought that was coming later, but I can do that now. Okay. So yeah. And my perspective on God is if you look a thousand years in the future and you imagine that we're creating simulations or alternate worlds for the purpose of our children and raising more spirit children, then I imagine calling over your God buddies and saying, hey, watch, they're about to crucify Jesus or hey, come over and watch this. The Lamanites are about to completely wipe out the Nephites. And to me, doing that would be more, it seems to me that that's more evil than anything that humanities already done. And so I think we could do better than that. And that's why I'm an atheist. And while I haven't solved the problem of evil entirely, this is one area where transhumanism has strengthened my faith in God, frankly, through the simulation argument. And it's very difficult for me to argue against the statistics of an existing God. As a Mormon, I grew up learning that as many as God once was and more significantly as God is, man may become. I also learned that God is subject to natural law rather than being supernatural and the only creator he is inside of nature and one of an infinite regression of God's who organize already existing matter. Knowing that these radical religious ideas were given to Mormonism almost 200 years ago makes the likes of Ray Kurzweil seem like a bit of a Johnny come lately. The thrill these radical transhumanist ideas gives this conservative Latter-day Saint is not because they are new, which they are not, but because they are being presented in the terminology of science. I will also admit feeling a little smug knowing that the efforts of some proponents of transhumanism to further dismiss God have instead revealed him. One quick comment on the subject of grace. I do not believe that we have yet effectively answered the criticism that we transhumanists are trying to reach God through our own works. I believe we must provide an answer. However, I am comforted knowing that this flaw of ours is not something that separates us from but is rather shared with traditional mainstream Mormons. Alright, let's talk for a moment about our perspectives on premortal existence and birth. Most of us think we existed before birth, most Mormon transhumanists, although perhaps with an inferior quality of consciousness in some sense. We also have a generally favorable view of cloning as a reproductive technology, but our views on abortion are a bit complicated and even more complicated are our views on the genetic engineering of children. Brent and Carl, I want to comment on any of this. I believe that as we've seen in other synchronicities with Mormonism, transhumanists will eventually propose the radical idea that we existed before hitting planet Earth. I think the reasoning will be sound and based on concepts such as substrate independence or preservation of data. My confidence in this eventuality is strengthened knowing that most of you intelligent individuals agree with me. I also believe that this newfound concept will change the discussions of topics related to birth, including those around cloning and abortion. Yeah, basically as I described before, I believe in the intelligence that Joseph Smith talked about and I described what that was and I also believe in spirits that are knowledge in our brain, but I don't believe in ghosts and to me if ghosts really exist that would be a scary thing. All right, some of our perspectives on death and post-mortal existence. Most of us think we'll continue to exist after death and before any resurrection, but we have mixed views on conscious, on the state of consciousness between death and a potential resurrection, whether the quality of that consciousness might be inferior or superior or about the same as what we currently experience. Nearly all of us think that preserving records or end or DNA of our family and loved ones and friends is a good idea, but our views on cryonics are more mixed, whether we think that cryonics is a good idea or not. Most of us would consider mind uploading if it were the only way to go on existing. We'll be hearing more about that from some of our speakers later on today. We also think that human minds could be simulated on sufficiently powerful computers. That's an area of pretty strong agreement among us. Most of us expect similar or superior consciousness, superior quality of consciousness in any eventual resurrection that may happen when when persons are brought back from the dead. So Carl and Brent, any thoughts on that? So for me, preservation of everything is impossible, as much as impossible. So of course DNA, genealogy, all of the church is also working on, but I also believe that our minds and our brains and our memories are also a lot of that is in our brain and if we preserve that and chronically preserve that, more of us can be preserved.  And I believe that future generations will judge us if we instead of preserving as much of them as they can, which we can now easily do, if instead we throw them in the grave, away in the grave, then we will offend and if the better you're preserved, the sooner and easier it will be to resurrect more of us and recover more of us. So the people that are preserved most completely, chronically preservation of all that will be effectively resurrected in the morning of the first resurrection, while people that are thrown away, rotted, cremated, will have to wait for a much more significant technology potentially a thousand years before they can be resurrected. And if you think what those people will miss, the future generations will judge us if we throw them away when we could have saved more as being more evil as say an old slave owner back in the slave days when a slave owner would torture and murder a slave or something like that, because you're doing more damage and more evil when we could do better. And this is where I wish I had a smile, if I could smile at Brent, so he knows that we are friends. But let me just vehemently disagree. These concepts, the general concepts we just talked about are have clear correlation with Mormon thought. Both the MTA and mainstream Mormons generally believe in an afterlife for ourselves and our dead and our highly and highly valued preservation of data. But it appears that both groups also disagree about what data. I personally do not think resurrecting our dead is going to be dependent on a technology only available to a very limited set of the human race who just happened to have a deep freeze available at point of death. The technology we and or God use will be sophisticated enough to resurrect the entire human race regardless of their degree of decomposition. In fact, the discussion reminds me a bit of a letter Mormon sent to his son Moroni regarding infant baptism. That is the last book in the Book of Mormon for those of you do not know that reference. Thanks guys. Finally, let's briefly talk about some of the perspectives of members on the association itself. The main reason why people join the association and associate is for intellectual stimulation. Other reasons are for spiritual stimulation, friendship, networking to support diverse views among Mormons and transhumanists and for a smaller number to engage in activism. Most are satisfied with the association and most consider the association to be important. And almost all of us as it turns out, it looks like there is like one person who doesn't qualify for this. But almost all of us are ready to invite you to join our association. And if you're not a member of the association and it does resonate with you, even if there's somebody in the association that you disagree with or that disagrees with you, I invite you, we invite you to join the association and participate in the discussion, participate in the conferences and lectures and help us do things better. Even if you, because if you do disagree, maybe you have an idea of how we can improve and we would appreciate that. So, finally just some brief words maybe from Brent and Carl about why you think others should join the association. Where else can someone who walks in conservative, well, let me say this way, in liberal circles and sacrament meeting be considered a conservative. It's extremely exhilarating. It makes me question my own beliefs and makes me formulate them better in my own mind. I sincerely have developed a deeper faith in God through joining this organization and thoroughly enjoyed the conversations and that faith has come about because I have walked with people like Brent and discovered how I also consider myself an atheist in certain respects. It's a wonderful place to discover, for me, faith. Yeah, for me it's all about cooperative works. We can't do anything alone and if there's a problem it needs to be solved to usher in the millennium. As soon as you find enough people that agree with you that you want that then it'll spontaneously just happen so it's cooperative works getting things done. Thanks a lot guys. Alright, we're now going to move on. Next stop is our yeah thank you very much for your help.


I've had a number of reactions again on the review of the Fantastic Uptone Audio Ether-Region Audio File Ethernet switch, especially from people with knowledge of computer networks. They state simply put that if the sound differs the switch must have altered the data. I agree, but in what way? Before I get into the subject at hand, let me first try to explain what I consider to be my function in the audio universe. I'm no researcher nor designer. I'm a tech journalist and reviewer, specialized in audio. Like a motoring journalist, is no mobility researcher or car designer. His technical knowledge is clearly limited compared to these researchers and designers, but he does have a broad overview of all makes and types of cars. When a new technology is developed, the manufacturer invites journalists to a press meeting and have one or more technicians explain why the new technology is such a big improvement. And they almost always exaggerate. When then another brand organizes a press meeting, the journalist asks technicians of that manufacturer what they think of their competitor's new system. A good journalist listens carefully to the arguments in favor and against and then tries to see if he finds resulting behavior during test drives. Since he test drives dozens of cars a year, he is in a very good position to compare, especially if he has done this job for years. And a good motoring journalist is also able to explain new technologies to his audience comprehensively. He should tell his audience that more valves in a cylinder head in general increases horsepower as claimed in the advertisement, but that this often goes at the expense of torque. Unless a well-dimensioned turbo is added. And a good motoring journalist does not only drive cars in top gear sideways, but also reports on normal use, economics and so on. He does simple measurements like acceleration, top speed and fuel consumption, but far more important is the feel of the car and its practicalities like boot space. I consider myself in a more or less equal position as a decent motoring journalist. I do basic measurements just to check if something is wrong, get information from manufacturers or their technicians and if considered interesting report on it. But my added value is in test driving audio equipment, so judging by ear. If you don't agree with this, do what I do with TV programs I don't like. I don't watch them. And if you want to save the world for people like me, start your own YouTube channel. Okay, back to the subject. Can a switch have so much influence on the sound quality? In the end, the only way to establish this is to listen. Train listeners certainly don't need double blind tests if the stereo setup used has sufficient audiophile quality. See my few and double blind tests in a separate video. I was rather accepted when I heard about the sound of switches, so I approached AcuFox to see if I could have a review sample on loan. They were holding back a bit since they had negative experiences with some members of the press. But in the end, they sent me the AcuSwitch special edition. Watch my review and you'll see I was rather surprised by the improvement it brought. In retrospect, I even think I underplayed the outcome because of unbelief. When I reviewed the SOtM switch, I had accepted the influence of switches on the sound a lot more. So much more that I accepted the sound difference between a network cable and a fiber cable between the switch near the Intel NUC Roon server on the third floor and the SOtM switch in my living at ground level. Again, from a network specialist standpoint, fully ludicrous. Total cable length is 15 meters, slightly under 50 feet, even for CAD5 cable no problem at all. When I back up my video editing files of several hundreds of gigabytes from my editing computer to the big Synology NAS at the third floor, the files remain perfectly intact when copied back to the editing computer. So the connection is completely lossless and more than fast enough for audio. Even 384 kHz 24 bit files do only 18.4 Mbps, while modern networks do 1000 Mbps. I once had 8 streams running from the Roon server to 11 endpoints, without any problem. So why should fiber sound somewhat better than CAD6 cable? I think that we can agree that all data sent over a normally functioning network arrives unharmed. Switches are supposed to galvanically isolate each port by what is called a magnetics module. I wonder if the consumer grade switches I use confirm to this. I opened the Linksys SLM2008 and indeed had two four-port modules. I also opened the Sidecom LN120V1 that had four two-port modules. Since these were rather cheap switches, we might conclude that in general and certainly in my case, cheap switches offer galvanic separation. Remains the questions how well these high frequency transformers perform. I seem to recall that the SOtM did not use magnetic modules and you might wonder why. But the Ether region does use them. Perhaps here again, quality of the components play a role. The magnetics modules I found use center tap transformers for use with power over ethernet, abbreviated to PoE. Only a slight mismatch between two halves of the transformer windings might already cause a DC offset. That offset might even be within IEEE specifications for it won't disturb normal network use. I'll come back to this offset later on. All digital techniques work with stepped processes, like a mechanical clock that steps through a minute in 120 half second movements of the escapement. Digital techniques have a crystal oscillator as escapement, which makes sure that going through the steps happens at a regular interval. In this graph those intervals are drawn by vertical dotted lines and a digital signal then looks like this. At least in theory, in practice those intervals are not really as constant as we would like. That becomes visible when on an oscilloscope the traces are superimposed. This animation shows what happens. We see the vertical lines get wider since they vary in timing. Sometimes the vertical movement, both up and down, are earlier or later. This phenomenon is known as jitter. Within limits this is no problem for data transport. Even if it goes wrong and a bit is missed, the error correction is able to repair that bit or even more than one bit. And when the error correction is confronted with too many faults to repair, the receiving side simply asks the sender to resend the package. Up till now we have seen perfect square waves but these never happen for it would require unlimited bandwidth. They will at least have rounded corners but to explain the problem at hand I drew what can happen in a very exaggerated way. I have drawn two horizontal lines that indicate the threshold for the electronics to decide if there is a polarity change. The upper vertical line is for up-going voltage and the lower for down-going voltage. The vertical dotted lines show that the moment in time the voltage change is detected has moved to the right thus later in time. This again is no problem if it is as constant as shown here. The problem gets more serious when we combine the distorted waveform with phase noise. Now the detection of the fault exchange can be at the moment of the dotted vertical red line but just as good at the second red line and the difference in between them again shows the yitta. If we then add a less stable power rail you see that the waveform also vary in amplitude, the vertical axis. Because of the rounded shape of this waveform not only the variations in time domain, the horizontal axis but also the variations in amplitude, the vertical axis change the moment the fault exchange is detected. Still for data transport this would not be a problem if these errors are within the defined limits. Let's make the deviation more visible by copying the distances between the vertical lines to these green dotted lines and move them to about the middle of the jittered signal of the first half cycle. Now look at the other cycles and you see a nice stable clock is gone. And this is a relatively static representation. In real life all parameters can constantly change but normally this would not harm data integrity during transport or storage. So what can go wrong then? Jitter, for that is what we talk about, can only harm at two places in the audio chain, during analog to digital conversion and during digital to analog conversion. The analog to digital conversion is done in a studio and thus beyond our control. But the digital to analog conversion is, so let's see what happens there. The digital player, being a CD player, streamer, network bridge and the like, reads series of voltages that are registered on CD or in an audio file in binary form and renders these voltages to an analog signal. I use here a straight line as analog signal for educational reasons. Normally a straight line is most unlikely in audio. You can see that when the plotted voltages are connected by a line, it results in a perfectly straight line. This is the function of the reconstruction filter that evens out the voltage changes faster than a bandwidth of a half the sampling frequency rate would allow. Watch my video, digital audio posers are not real world, sine waves are, for more information. As soon as the timing is off, like so, the line is no longer straight. This is how jitter causes distortion in the analog signal. Depending on the spectrum of the jitter, at what frequencies the jitter modulates the digital stream, the impact of the sound quality will vary. If the jitter is at general consumer equipment level, harshness is quite common. Also deep lows can fully disappear. The stereo image is usually quite poor while the trenches sound rather disappointing. With streamers at the level of my setup too, harshness is clearly less to a level that it doesn't irritate anymore. Lowes are more defined, voices start sounding more natural with only sibilants being slightly audible. Digital sources at the level of my setup 1 have instruments and voices more separated and projected in a virtual space. Trenchings make, for instance, a picked guitar sound in front of the speakers and a piano sound far more dynamic. When there is no sound, there really is no sound. Described in the audiophile world as black background, this phenomenon is hard to explain other than it can shock people. I link this to time smearing, where the energy of a pulse is smeared over a longer time span. Quote, if the digital transport is so robust you can easily buffer it and all is fine. This is the common I frequently get from the digital inquisition, waving with the Malleus Nyquistum. If that was the case, how then can I hear the difference between digital sources? And I'm not alone. The digital inquisition can't hear a difference or often haven't even bothered. I've seen it all before in the 80s when we did not know about Jitta. Me and my colleagues clearly heard a difference but since it was not yet understood technically we were told we heard things that weren't there. L'histoire se répète. I'll give you possible reasons why buffers don't solve the problem but first a real-life example. I've used a fantastic CORT QDB76 HDSD digital to analog converter for years. It had a large buffer built in that could store up to 3 seconds of 44.1 kHz signal. I have extensively compared the buffer lengths offered by that DAC and didn't hear a difference. I did hear differences when changing the digital source though, regardless of the length of the buffer. How can that happen? This is what designers told me. After the buffer the signal has to be sent to the chip that does a digital analog conversion. During this transport Jitta can be introduced again. I already mentioned a noisy ground plane and varying voltages on the power rail. That is why the Ether region has the second side completely isolated from the primary side including the power supply. I'm also told that buffers can or will generate noise that can vary depending on how hard the buffer has to work. Logic introduced in the modulation distortion was also mentioned although I can't imagine how and where. Common mode noise on ethernet is mentioned too as cause for noisy ground plane. I sincerely hope that the research will find definitive answers although definitive answers don't seem to go together with serious audio very often. One of the reasons being that many researchers rather believe that theories are measurement gear than their ears. Those researchers with ears to trust often work at smaller companies that keep their findings to themselves since applying for a patent is far too costly, if possible at all. Only a very limited number of small companies are open about their products and designs. Optor and Audio being one of them. You don't need to trust my ears but please don't write me long comments without researching the phenomenon yourself. What you need is a proper stereo setup of at least €4,000. The better the setup, the easier it is to hear. If you do want to write a comment, start with a full list of equipment and the conditions you did your listening evaluation with. If you can't understand why a switch influences the sound quality to the degree I have described, I appreciate that. But any discussion is fruitless if you haven't researched it yourself. There is no use in fighting prejudice. I have seen that upturned audio allows for a 30-day return period so there is no excuse for trying and to those that reacted with hands-on reports on the reviews of audiophile network switches, I agreed completely. They are great. And that brings us to the end of this video. There will be a new video, as always at Friday, 5pm Central European Time. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media, sure you will be informed when new videos are out. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up. Many thanks to those viewers that support this channel financially. It keeps me independent and thus trustworthy. If that makes you feel like supporting my work too, the links are in the comments below this video in YouTube. I am Hans Beekhuyzen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. And whatever you do, enjoy the music.


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Hi everyone. Happy Thursday. Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with an excellent product here 2020 Panini Immaculate Baseball 8 box pick your team number three just dropped yesterday Very big. Thank you to all of these folks who got into the action right here. There's the team list You can see there's here we go Thursday the 27th 8 box PYT 2. This is PYT 3 That's hit 1,000 Pick your team to we did last night Tonight we're doing three I'll change it in the Inscription as well, but big thanks everybody who got into pick your team three Man, I am just not on top of it right now folks who has last spot mojo. That is crucial And super important it was Mets Braves for your last spot mojo's So Robert gets the double last spot mojo star Next to his name. They were the last teams picked up Sixty percent of the time last spot mojo hits a hundred percent of the time All right We had a white socks Yankees number block randomizer in a separate video. 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Big boys 007 Dodgers one game one seven innings double header another one coming up and There's Jake Fraley Four out of 99. I think you might have heard in the background that Seattle got walked off Wow, San Diego scored seven runs in the bottom of the seven the first of a double header to win it That's crazy Nice one for the M's. That's gonna be for mark the set Two boxes to go All right, Jose Altuve 13 out of 99 Jersey for the Astros Astros 3 Robert Shoei Otani 36 out of 49 piece of his Jersey showtime going to Jeremy Tillman Brewstar greater all two-color passion auto 25 out of 99 Twins edition in this set so that'll go to Matthew Stubblefield. There you go Matt current Dodgers reliever really a lot of speed in that arm a lot of power in that arm Easily touching 100 miles per hour. How Lewis nice debut moments a home run versus Cincinnati last summer 33 out of 99 for the Mariners mark. We've got Jersey on another debut moment TJ Zuke Four strikeouts in his debut 42 Jackie out of 49 and TJ Zuke is a blue J a Buffalo blue J. That's part of the number block team Catch that right there is 42 right there Robert with number two and another button this time for the White Sox five out of eight that looks cool It looks like some purple foil Color scheme almost made me think they was the Rockies at first But Chicago's Zach Collins and the White Sox are a number block team So White Sox five is gonna be Adam Cupperman. There you go Adam Yeah, the button cards are really cool nice with how many are left in that that number block for or the Mini break the filler pack for noir is that close to and seven left in another baseball product folks five-star baseball Also on jazby's case breaks calm All right last box. Good luck. Thank you. We got more picker teams in the story maculate Great product take a look your favorite team might still be there go and get it on jazby's case breaks calm Here's a rocky that's Nolan Aronato three out of 25 It's gonna go to Derek Disner. Oh, that's really close. I'm nice There he is Then we've got Mike trout 16 out of 49. We've got Otani And now we've got Otani's teammate Mike trout. That's really cool Jeremy Tillman with the halos Game horn. We've got Matt name dual relic and autograph Steven Gunsalvis 14 out of 25 now that is his Twins colors But he went to Queens He's a met now that goes to Robert Runkel last spot mojo There's AJ pot. That's a nice autograph tall lefty Going to Chad right 24 out of 31 Two more to go in this break. Good luck everybody. We've got Brock Burke Seven out of 99 six shut out innings in his debut I like the autograph on the on the probably faux leather right here. It still looks cool rangers Matt Sevillefield with the Rangers and the last one is for San Diego It's out of down motor home 23 out of 49 monochrome Jersey and autograph that looks really sharp At the silver ink on the eye black looks really cool. Mark Basette has the Padres. He's happy. He's got a hit for the friars It's kind of hard to tell because of the black background, but that's actually the Chocolate brown of their uniform kind of see a little bit of contrast right there And there you have it boys and girls. What a great break. I'm Joe for jasky's case breaks.com Check out the website for more and I'll break more with you. We'll see it. Bye. Bye


In this video, I'm just going to give you a little bit of an introduction to the website that my students are going to be using when they're working on the gravity part of the planet's lab. And for this, we're using the Exploratorium website. The link to the specific website is shown in Blackboard. So for this section, you've got a input button up here, or an input block. And you're going to type something. Now, as I say in the lab manual, for my students to get full credit, they need to enter a weight that's actually a reasonable college student weight. I'm going to use 12 pounds, which is not a reasonable weight. But that way, you guys will have to put in your own numbers to do this. Now, the nice thing about this is that once I hit Calculate, this does the math for you to convert from your weight on Earth to what you would weigh on different objects. Now, it says the planets, but I'm going to point out right away that the moon is not a planet. And Pluto is considered a dwarf planet now. But the other planets are the ones that we're going to be using. And you're actually going to fill in all of this because looking at the moon and Pluto, comparing it to the other planets, is part of what we're looking at in this lab. So when I put in the 12 pounds for my weight on Earth, it will tell me that on Mercury, I would weigh 4.5 pounds because it's got a little bit less gravity. If I was on Jupiter, I'd be 30.3 pounds because the gravity is heavier on Jupiter. So you'll enter your weight here and then copy these values down into your lab manual. And then use these to draw conclusions and be able to answer the rest of the question in the lab manual. Now, just to show you that it really does change, if I were to put in 14 pounds, it automatically changes all of these numbers. So you need to put in something that's a reasonable college student weight. And again, I don't know what your weight is. But if you tell me 14 pounds or 12 pounds, I know you're just following what I did and not putting in your own. If you put in 2,000 pounds, well, we might joke about weighing a ton, but we really don't. So you'll put a weight in here that's going to work. If you're curious, in addition to our own moon, there are the moons of Jupiter as well as a few of other different types of stars. And this is a joke about better land at night because stars are always bright and it's way too hot to be on any of these objects. And then down here at the bottom again is some extra information talking about weight and mass. In a lot of conversation, I meet a lot of people who think that these are the same thing. It's just one is metric unit and one is English unit. But they are actually different. So mass has to do with how much material is in your body. Weight has to do with the gravitational effect on that mass. And so your mass would stay the same on all those different objects, but your weight would change depending on which object you're on. If you have any questions working through this website, please contact me. But again, the main thing you need to do is put in a reasonable weight in this top box, click Calculate, and then copy down these information into your lab manual.


Hello everybody! Today I will tell you why videos start lagging on a computer and how to fix this problem. We will discuss those watching videos from the hard disk and watching them online in your browser. Dear friends, if you need to recover deleted data, use utilities by Hetman Software. Follow the link in the description to visit our website, download a utility for free and install it. Then start disk analysis. When the process is over, it will show the files available for recovery, and you will be able to bring them back. Our blog features quick guides to solve all kinds of problems faced by Windows users. Our channeling blog offers solutions for any issues from installing the operating system to remote administration and connecting mobile devices. Our specialists will be glad to answer your questions in comments to videos and articles. By the word lagging, I mean delays, freezes and jerks when playing videos, various artifacts on the screen, sound stuttering and delays. It can happen because of the computer's weak hardware or because of its general performance. First of all, computer performance is influenced by the condition and performance of its hardware elements. If you have an old and weak computer with an integrated graphics, weak processor and 1 GB of system memory, it is no use trying to play 4K or 8K videos. It will not work. Such computer needs an upgrade. If you are sure that your computer performs well enough to play videos in good quality and there were no lags before, the first thing you should do is to check the temperature of its graphics card and processor. The overheating reduces computer performance greatly. I have already made a video about checking and reducing the temperature of a graphics card, processor or hard disk. I will give the link in the description. After that, have a look at overall system performance. If Windows is set up incorrectly, performance will get worse. In a previous video, I've already spoken about some basic things to help you speed up your computer and how to set up your Windows for maximal performance. You will find the link in the description. Having checked the previous things, let's go on to possible software problems that influence video playback. There are so many of them, but we will focus on the most widespread aspects. Video codecs absent or obsolete If the computer is missing the video codec used for compressing the video, or the codec is out of date, videos can become lagging. There are codec packages containing free codecs and utilities. Among others, K-Lite codec pack mega is certainly worth your attention. You will find the link to the official website in the description. Just download and install it. Graphics card drivers missing or obsolete Drivers can cause a graphics card to work incorrectly. I mean when drivers are missing or when they don't match a particular device. It can happen after replacing a graphics card or reinstalling Windows. To update graphics card drivers, go to Device Manager – Display Adapters. Right-click on your graphics card and select Update Driver Software. Sometimes Windows cannot find and install the proper driver and insist on choosing drivers for a standard VGA adapter. In this case, go to your graphics card manufacturer's website to download and install the latest drivers. To learn the model of a graphics card, you should start a hardware checking utility such as AIDA. It will give you all the information about your computer's hardware. Videos may be lagging because there are too many processes running in the background mode, which generate 100% usage. It happens when users install several antiviruses, dozens of unnecessary programs which only waste the system memory, a lot of games that download stuff from the Internet, and so on. In this case, clean the computer from unnecessary software by deleting it. Cleaning the registry and start-up is also a good idea. You will learn more in another video. You will find a link in the description. Viruses Unfortunately, some users don't monitor their computer security. As a result, the operating system can be infected by viruses. Sometimes, videos start lagging because the entire computer starts freezing seriously. In this case, you should use some antivirus software. In our channel, you can find a whole series of videos about cleaning the computer from viruses. You can watch them by following the link in the description. I'd like to tell you more about the problems with watching online videos in your browser, for example, on YouTube. Online videos will lag if you have a slow Internet connection. You can check the speed of your connection at speedtest.net. If the speed test shows your connection is slower than the Internet provider promised, and the provider proves there is no problem with access to the Internet, watch our video about testing and boosting your Internet connection speed. You will find the link in the description. If your connection is all right, but videos in your browser are lagging, or you can't play them at all. The problem can be in missing or obsolete version of the Flash Player. To update it, install the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. It is free. You will find the link to the official website in the description. I'd like to say a couple words about possible video lags in Chrome and other browsers based on Chromium. It happens because of a conflict between plugins that play Flash content. The matter is that Chrome has got a built-in Flash Player, and later it may start conflicting with a standalone player, and you can face playback problems. 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Welcome folks. This is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We have five days a week. We have seven hours a day. We go 24 hours a day on the Internet at TFNN.com. Always remember, folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever. You focus on growth so everyone's having a great day, safe day. Making a great year, folks. You're going to love it. And, you know, I did read this card the last day of 2022, and I'm going to read it the last day of 2023, and we're retired for a month or so. Always do your best. Surrender. Let go of the past. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, your life is supposed to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means that you're going to enjoy the dream that is happening right here, right now. Yesterday's gone. Tomorrow's not here. What are you doing right now? Let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries down 124. Nasdaq off 92. S&Ps down 24. Gold contract up $18.10. Traded $18.44 an ounce. Silver up 12 cents. $24.16 an ounce. Light Sweet Crew down $3.31. $76.95 a barrel. Notes and bonds. You get the 10-year note. Traded up 11 ticks. $112.20. The 30-year up $30 ticks at $126.09 and $Kingdoll. $Kingdoll's up $1,021 ticks. Traded $104.542. Euro is at $105. Yen is at $130 and the British pound is at $119 to $1 U.S. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. One note's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at them. What do you have? Well, we have confirmed ABC structures down in all the indices. S&P out here today tried to get to a higher price, couldn't handle it, gave it up on price. It's gone from $386 down to $380, hit $377. Bottom line is the building cause. It's going to go after this B point again. The B point is $377.85. We went to $377.83 today. Bottom line, this one's the lows of October, which is $348. And the X100, that's going to be the lead dog, folks, all the way down. So the NDX100 out here, I got to a high today of $270. You're trading $264. The closing low, we had a closing low. It was so intriguing last week, folks, because when we did have that closing all-time low, it was like no one really picked it up. Bottom line, we had that come in on the 28th, bottom line. You're not only going after the October lows, this is an ABC structure down to $244. So if we take a look at this, we put this up and we go look for this $244. You're going to be kind of right there. What is that? That's June of 2020. So the NDX, I suspect, is going to go to the highs of the lows of March, 2019. And I'll show you why. Bottom line is that what we have is this. Let's go to Apple first. Bottom line, this isn't going to be a big dog, meaning in the Apple spin, folks. The reason being, you can see in five months, we went from 176 down to 124. Now, Apple has held up compared to the rest of the market in 2022. That being said, guess what? We get a new year. We get a new dog that wants to go a lot lower. You're breaking a swing point out here today. You're breaking the swing of 125, 87. You need 85 million shares. You've done 82 already. This is going to be an ABC structure down. Watch it sticking out like a sore thumb. It's 103. We'll find out from there. There's 103. Let me put this up like this way. As you can see, you broke the whole consolidation. Your next leg is right here. Let me put the volume on it so you can see this also. There we go. 103 is the number. Apple running to watch this one, Tesla. Tesla is an ABC that what's going to be so intriguing here, folks, watching the aspect of the amount of wealth that has got chewed up on Tesla. Tesla right now is breaking the B point. You need volume of 221 million. We're going to have it. We have 202 right now. This puts Tesla on a $50 path. $50. Let's go find $50. Look at this, man. This is sick. Put this on a monthly. This is going to give up the whole run. The whole run. Just look at this bar in December. The amount of selling that was done. $2.9 billion. So Tesla had a high of 414. You're at $107. $50. Here we come. If that's what we could do, you are going to see one of the biggest margin calls to come down. This is going to be the typical 1999-2000 high-fly in stocks. CEOs, executives margin them out. They get a margin call. Sia don't want to be a, and the whole thing goes south. Gold. Let's go to the gold contract out there, because there's no doubt we have divergence. The divergence is gold is up, as is the dollar. So we have a gold. We have 203,000 contracts. That's good contract volume. There's no doubt about that. Now, we had heavier contract volume, but that's still good contract volume. 231 was the highest thus far. We'll see whether gold can hold price. It's having a hard time basically staying above this 18, well, it's really 1836. We spiked last week to 1841, and we'll see where it goes. Meaning, but now we go to the dollar, and what you're going to see in the dollar, and what they've been doing with the dollar. This is getting really intriguing, because what we've done with the dollar is that the dollar has that nice spike out here today. It's up with conviction, right? And that being said, what has happened is that we come into the close. Even last week, the bottom line is that they started buying the dollar, man. So we'll see where this shakes up. My take is that we're at 104, 515, and the bottom line is that the price point that we're going to be going to is 107 and 108. And a couple of the tigers are saying that not even Tom believes, and that's not the fact. The bottom line is that there are plenty of people bullish and then munched away on the gold market. So it's just the opposite. It's not a bearish market. I'm bearish gold. That's a whole different ballgame. The buying is out there. What you have is that, my take on this is that you still don't have conviction in the move. Well, that's what makes a market, man. We're going to see where this baby's going to go. You stay right there, folks. We'll come right back. Dow. Dow Industries right now, down 72. Nasdaq's off 73. S&P's off 17.5. We'll come right back.


Seemed like no one's sitting down, so you know they're cheering on third downs.  This offense seemed to be clicking early in the game, more in the first half than the second half. What was kind of the difference in those first two frames? I guess they caught on to some things that we were doing and we couldn't execute like we wanted to. But we came out victorious. You know, it's a good defense, good defensive players over there. But first half obviously we knew we could take advantage of some things and we did. And hopefully we can kind of come out and play a complete game next week. What would simply kind of take advantage of in the first half? The open space, a lot of zone. Guys just being there making contested catches. Nick made some tough catches. He was on the ground. You know, Chris as well. You know, tight ends, makes some catch. So you just, you know, taking advantage of the open holes that they gave us. A lot of veterans. You know, us, us just won the, won the score. You know, Derrick getting that extra push, the offensive line, you know, knowing that Derrick's getting the ball and just blocking one second longer. And you know, I think Derrick for doing what he did today. A lot of veteran leaders stood up today and made some plays yourself. I mean, on defense, Derrick on offense. What does that say about this team to see the veteran leaders step up and get away when you guys made it? You know, a lot of guys play a lot of ball on this team. Different teams, but you know, we're all here right now. And we know when that number is called, that's what we want to do. We want to be accountable. The receivers out there blocking, you know, we're not just out there, you know, catching touchdowns. You know, we're out there making big blocks as well. And to us, that's, you know, that's, that leads to touchdowns and helps the team win. So, you know, you got a lot of unselfish veterans on this team. And hopefully we can continue putting together wins. Obviously, you guys got a bit of a hill to climb, but, you know, you take it one game at a time. Obviously, you got to get a home divisional game next week. What's got to be the mindset for you guys when you get into Colts next week? The same mindset that we've had every home game, you know, and that's win. Right now, you know, we've got a good streak at home and hopefully we can continue.  We go as Derrick go. I think that's, you know, something everyone knows about this team. You know, so today obviously he had, you know, a good day to him. You know, he's tough on himself. You know, he feel like, you know, he could do some things better, but that's what you got to respect about him. Two touchdowns and he's still not happy. You know, but that's Derrick. But we go as Derrick go and everybody knows that. Oh yeah, absolutely. There's some, some throws out there that he made that, you know, you don't expect a rookie to make. And there's some throws out there that, you know, I hold him to a high regard that he got to make next game.  That's what it's about, man. We talked about it all week. Saw it all through phases. And, you know, what I took from it is, you know, offense, eliminate bad football because it's a lot of good things in it. Special team go set the tone, you know, because that's where they start at. And then defense affect the football. And I think we did a hell of a job there. That's just a great win, one that we really needed because the energy, social media, all that, everything just been down, man. And just feel good to get a win and being able to do it at home and back at home next week with another division game. It's going to be big that we start stacking wins. And that's what it's going to take, especially if we want to still, you know, have a shot at the division. That's the message. Effect the ball to help the offense out. Sometimes, you know, that's what we need. That spark, you know, and that's what we expect. We expect to get turnovers. We need to do more to try to get more turnovers. So at the end of the day, man, turnovers win games. And we know that. Whoever have the most turnover, you have a better chance of winning. So each game, like I said, that was the main key for the defense this week. Work together to affect the football and do a hell of a job with that. I know it's cool, every go up even more when you're facing a rookie quarterback. Most definitely. You know, especially when you got a guy like that and, you know, he want to get the ball out or look for a best receiver and you take that read away.   But I think when we talk about our front, you know, we have a lot of guys who can rush to pass it. And it's time for us to just to show that.  And we talk about different ways to affect the quarterback. So, you know, we just got to get back to that. We're going to get back to that. We're going to get back to that. Be a more dominant up front. Be on the same page. And like I said, it's today's show that, you know, if we're on the same page, we're working together. We could be good. A great front four. It was a relief, man. I mean, when you talk about the game of football and you talk about what's winning this league, being able to run the ball and stop the run, quarterback pass rating. I think I'm sure all quarterback pass rating are better and then the turnover margin. We have to be able to protect the football and create turnover. And I think that's what we did today. I don't think that we didn't turn over the ball today and they did. So, at the end of the day, we got to keep creating them, turn over to help our offense out. You know, like I said, it's a spark. I mean, it's energy. It's momentum. So, we just got to keep doing that. Today, like guys like Jeff and Nico, defensively, obviously Derek had a pretty solid game offensively. Yeah, what does that say to see these veteran leaders step up and help you guys get what you needed? It's awesome to see.  I mean, they did an amazing job. They got after them several ways.  They were the ones that kept us up. So, credit to them. They deserve this when they was amazing by them. And then Derek, I mean, it's fun to see him get going. And we just got to find ways to get him going.  And like, when we do that, you can see him go. And we got to just do better making sure that we can, you know, get him into those, like those longer strides.  Four and seven, obviously, you guys got still more work to do, but you get a divisional game here next week. I mean, what's going to be the mindset ahead of getting into this game? Mindset is, I mean, we just got to, you know, get into this next week and dive into it. I mean, at the end of the day, we got to get it back to back when and we got to get something rolling. So to get back in this fight and it starts this week. Better in the red zone today, two for two in the red zone. What was the difference there? I mean, I couldn't tell you. I think it's just, we got, we were efficient. We stayed ahead of the chains. And you know, we just got, got in, got in the end zone. I think that's the main goal.  We're getting to longer down in distances. Now they got to just have been in line. It's a lot easier defense for them, especially if you get behind the chains. But if you stay ahead of the chains, we get into those, you know, what was it first, second and short, you know, they got to defend the pass and the runs.  So that gives us an advantage. And so I think we just got to keep doing that. How the better leaders came up and, you know, pushed you guys this win today? That just must be assumed outside because, you know, getting through, getting through a season like this with some of the losses we've taken and then come back and win and stuff like that. And stay composed in the locker room throughout the weeks of practice and stuff. That takes leadership. Leadership hasn't wavered and it's been there for the past couple of weeks. You know, we went at home. That's what we do. So that was already, you know, planned by us, but just go out there and do what we do every week. It's a new opportunity. You can't let the ones that already happen affect it. What's going to be the mindset at the end of this week? Win. That's what it always is. That's what it's about and that's what it's always be about. So finish my career in this game, keep going on. It's all about winning. That's all people care about. Coaches, the fans, the owners, the players. Win. You know, that's our goal every time we go out there is to make them punt, turn over, get to turn over something like that and put our offense in the best position we can to get points.  It's just how the game goes. Other players get paid. And whenever we punch, just opportunity for us to do our job. Stop them from scoring and get the ball to the offense again. You know, I think that's just kind of how we look at it. What is a defensive performance like this do for the defense for you guys as a unit? Just talking all week about affecting the quarterback and really getting back there today. I think it just writes the ship a little bit for us personally, but sometimes in some of these games are a little tougher when we lose and stuff like that. Maybe some good plays were overshadowed so the wins and the performance like that allow the defense to be highlighted in the guys that make plays.