I'm curious how because you know over the weekend the Red Sox were these hideous city connect uniforms yellow It had nothing to do with the Red Sox I would assume that at one point the Yankees are gonna have to have a city connect uniform Are you gonna allow it? Is it something that you're gonna check off and say no, this is not good This doesn't represent the Yankees. How does that stand? Yeah, I think their colors who is a Boston marathon color Yeah, the reason they have those colors, but I think we might be one of the two teams that does it right now I'm not having any serious conversations about doing it You know, I think I understand the reason again I think it appeals to a lot of a lot of fans especially younger fans and you know merchants. I know that But we have not had any serious conversations about doing it It doesn't mean I won't someday but I I didn't know how would that would look quite frankly I don't even know what the look would be. Do you like the new rules? I Love the new rules as you know You know, we were I was on a labor policy committee, so we talked to get those new rules I think they brought baseball back to the 50s and 70s, you know, we're more excited and less time in between a ball and play I mean shorter games. I we had the owners meetings last week and we looked at some of the staffs and they're just amazing and Absolutely love them.  I mean the players they almost think it's like it's they almost think it's It's just unique, you know, they come here and they're like proud that they have shaved their beard and and got a haircut I mean, I just you don't hear any complaints at all So it's just not something I thought about It was important to my dad without a doubt and I think it's important to the organization and they know everybody's always on board with it You know, that's that's a good thing It makes me sick and I'm not I'm not even a Yankee fan. Go ahead. I'm a met fan as you know When I go to a Yankee game or I see Judge 99 on the back of a jersey, it just drives me crazy. And then when I see, you know, Ruth 3 and Oh, so then why does it bother you when you see and why do you say and if it does then why sell jerseys with the name on the back? It's just my pet peeve. I'm curious Yeah, I guess you're never gonna see obviously never gonna see names in the back of our jerseys Right, but some fans. I mean some fans like that. I mean, they're not, you know, obviously not a Authentic authentic jerseys and Well, they walk the name on the back. They want to see the name judge, you know, whether it's a younger generation thing or whatever But um, you know, they sell well in both in both forms People like them in both forms, but obviously you'll never see that on the players on the field But but but you don't like don and michael You're not a snob who gets sick when you see people wearing a jersey with the name on the back No, I'd get sick if I saw all our players wearing a name on the card There you go. There you go. It just bothers me because it's the one it's really cool that you don't have names on the back And if somebody walking around with a roof three I mean, I guess I see I need help. No, you do If I own the Yankees, I put a stop to But the red socks at home jerseys, they don't have names on the back, right? No, they don't but they got red They've got dark blue. They don't know what's going on. By the way, they've given up But after the yellow I saw last week


Chapter 20 that, and this is Lee Heinz and I'll read it, the opening language pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021 this meeting will be conducted by remote means members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so via zoom or by telephone. No in person attendance of me of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately address proceedings in real time via technological means. During the public comment period the chair will recognize members of the public when called on please identify yourself saying your full name preferred pronouns and residential address residents are welcome to express the views for up to three minutes at the direct discretion of the chair based on the number of people who wish to speak the speaker can see their time to another speaker, the HR a will not engage in a dialogue or comment on a matter raised during public comment to wish to indicate. Do we have any public. So I don't have to read the rest of it. Okay, that's it. I'm on but I can barely see you because I'm. Well, you could speak rich but your pictures froze. I think the meeting has been called to order. So I just want to inquire if anyone is recording at this time. Please notify me now that the tap is recording this meeting. If you're a none we will move on. There is no public presence at this time so we will need public participation. Open, and I will share my screen with you. Get the minutes to you all have a copy of the minutes they were no. She didn't, she didn't attach them. Do you want me to read the minutes out loud and very quickly they're very short that way you're all aware of what they are so we can move on that or would you rather table them for next meeting. Rich still can't hear rich. Somebody has shut off my video so I can't get back on video. It says you cannot start your video be the host is at okay there we go. Okay there's my beautiful face. We'll be able to minutes until the next meeting. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. One for the calendar year of 2019, the amount of $55 and 42 cents. You will see one for calendar year 2020 2020 in the amount of $74 and 98 cents. And then you will see. So, do you believe you're sharing your screen right now. Sorry. Do you believe you are sharing your screen right now. Yeah. I can't see it. Can you see the screen. Yes. But I can't see you. I see your name but I can't see your face. Okay, let's see. I can't see the shared screen right now. I see Lee I see Kim I see the room. I'll stop sharing and try to share again. No.  Is your video camera covered or anything or. No, I'm. This was also. Yeah, it was in the paper.  We do have very very little today so should be okay to. Richard, are you still there? No. It looks like it's on your end. Yeah. It might just replace them when you log back in. Okay, there. Okay, now he's gone. So we can have a couple of minutes and we'll keep moving forward just so that we don't. It should pop up on my screen. Yeah. We'll just wait a couple of minutes. There he comes. There he is. We see you. Slowly up here. Connect your audio and you'll be back with us. There he is. I think I'm back. You're back. I'm sorry. Barely. Yeah. Can you expand it a little bit? There you go. So we have one for calendar year. 2019. And we have to 5542. One for calendar year 2020. In the amount of 74. One for calendar year. 2021. I think I'm back. You're back. I'm sorry. Barely. Yeah. Can you expand it a little bit? There you go. Okay. And then there was 39. For calendar year. 2021. And then there was 39. For calendar year. 2021. In the amount. $3,014. And this was all for the excise. April 4th through April 15th. Okay. I moved to approve those ababens. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. $5 and seven in the calendar year 2022 for $474.49. I move to approve those abatements. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. April 29. Only calendar year 2022. There are 16 of them in the amount of $1,505.07. I move to approve those abatements. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Again, only for calendar year 2022. There are 11 abatements totaling $748.52. I move to approve those abatements. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. The agenda, the warrant for motor vehicle excite. There was an issue on the technical side of putting it into the billing system. So we are going to skip over that for now. Hopefully that will be brought forward at our next meeting. So next on the list is just the principal assessor update. So what's been happening in the office is I have attended the course of the two weeks of the review, which is the International Assessor's association. Force 201 which is the abrasal of land. That's been the past two Thursdays and Fridays. The past two weeks. And I took the test yesterday and I passed. Also the creation course 200, which is the principles of assessing procedures. really great course for the entry-level positions as well as just the admin position. It's really focusing on the things that that person does. It's a really great course. That's being offered every Thursday for four weeks and then the fifth week is the exam for that. So fingers crossed, but he will do as well. How much time does he work? He is in our office two days a week, so we have 15 hours a week and then he's with the collectors three days a week. The other thing is that we next week I should be starting on the building permits for our new growth. We have slowly begun working the revaluation with Roy Bishop. He was contracted to do that with us. Lauren from the state has been in the office. She's collected our property record cards that she had requested. She checked our maps and there's a couple other things. So she keeps it underway. So the building permits will just be another piece of that with something in every year as well. And then we're adding them into the system. Building permits. So we've already pulled them out of the building permit system and we have already put them into our system. So what we're doing is we're creeping out all of those records and we are going out and doing the inspections of those properties. So all the demolition permits will be put in a pile and we'll be going around to have to see you know what has been taken down. You know there's the new builds, the addition, so on and so forth and we'll be adding those to records. So roughly how many properties do you talk about? I think roughly 150 properties. That should be getting inspection. Generally inspections such as doors and windows don't necessarily require an inspection or actually permit such as doors and windows for assessment purposes. That's not always going to add value or decrease value. So it's more it's the bigger things. Dex, additions, new builds, demolition, pools, sheds, so on and so forth. So we'll be looking at those and figuring out where we are at with our new growth. And then otherwise it's been very quite before the storm so to speak. So you know, exercise abatements, address changes, deeds, all that stuff that we do on our daily basis. So pretty soon we will hit the ground fully fully running. So will the state revisit? The state will be back. We'll be working with more and up right up until our tax rate is spent basically until the end of the year to finish our revaluation. So is that finished before you send out tax bills? Yes. Yeah, we cannot send out tax bills if our revaluation is not concrete for any reason. I don't know like that for news about what's happening. Can you give us an update on the residential exemption? Yep, residential exemption. We are waiting. I have put together a panel wait. We're just waiting to hear from the council when they will be able to hear that. And then we'll just play it by ear from there when and if they decide that this is something they want to put on the ballot and what the procedure will be, what the next steps will be on that. But at the moment, just waiting for the council. So can you share that PowerPoint with us? Is it draft? I sure can. Yeah, I didn't know that. Do you have some idea when that presentation will take place? It was going to be sooner rather than later, but I think this is a pretty, so I'm not sure right now that the looking down the road. Are you working on a new members brochure or something? So when we have new members on the committee, they can sort of get educated by looking through a brochure or a SOP or something. So they don't have to learn on the job. Are you speaking like us or are you speaking on campus? No, when Leah Rich lead next year, I mean a year away, but yeah, I can do that. Something that would be happy to give you input too. That would be great. That's something that we can all work on together, I think. And also, as you guys know, you do have to take the DOR Rural 1 course within the first two years in order to be a certified member of the board of assessors. So that will help as well. But we can certainly work together to put a packet together for a number. Especially what happens during the normal monthly meeting. Right. So they don't have to start asking all the questions when they first come to it. Right. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. So what we'll be showing up. Yeah, yeah, I think that's great. What we can do is in the upcoming summer months when we're very quiet for the board of assessors, maybe we can schedule a meeting specifically to talk about that. Give us a draft cut or something, whatever you want. Yeah, that's a great idea. When you two leave at the same time, that's not supposed to happen. It's supposed to be staggered terms. So that being said, we can discuss our timeframe for our next meeting before we go into executive session. So it looks like it will be June. Okay, so we are looking at if you want to stick to Thursdays, we're looking at the fifth, the 12th, the 19th, we have the 26th on the calendar. That would be the the ninth, the 16th and the and the 23rd, I believe. So, yes, June 2, 9, 16, or 23rd. I have a schedule done the 16th already. Just want to make sure that that works for everybody else. Hey, what time? Are you guys okay with keeping the 930 moving? Yes. That will be a hyper where we could come if you want to. Okay, I'm this is my last Zoom meeting. I am going to be in the building, whatever we do, I'm coming next time. What is what is you were told used to have to stay home? One person at least in our case, because we have three have to be home. Just for protocol, this is just a test to see how this is working and technologically it seems to be pretty good. I'll be happy to stay home next time if you want. That's fine. Thank you. I don't want to Okay, so before we go into public session, I just want to reiterate that the sorry executive session, I just want to reiterate that the next meeting will be Thursday, June 16th at 930 via Zoom. Unless we hear otherwise, then we can do fully in person, but I believe that the moment it will be via Zoom, board members will be hybrid. And so what in executive section is the approval and denial of a personal exemption? Then we can touch on an overvaluation. I didn't get to complete it yet, but I would like to just discuss that very quickly. And then we can vote on that at the next meeting. All right. I moved to go into executive session for those purposes and not to return to public session. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. I am going to stop recording at this moment and again,


Hey, this is Brett and this 2010 Dodge Challenger SRT8 is stock number 13990Z. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used Dodge Challenger and sports car headquarters. This 2010 Dodge Challenger has the 6.1 liter V8 Hemi engine, puts out 425 horsepower. It's paired up with the six speed manual transmission. This car has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin. Inspection process has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this car is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside, start it up, take a look under the hood and give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. B5 blue metallic is the color. I shoot all my videos in 4K and if you like the video you can subscribe to my YouTube channel which is youtube.com slash summit auto click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access, one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and specifically sports car walk-arounds on YouTube. Very nice car, very nice color. This one comes with the 20 inch polished aluminum wheels and painted wheels as well. You get the Brembo brakes on here and the slotted rotors, didn't see any major scuffs or scrapes on this driver's side front wheel and it comes with Goodyear Eagle F1 tires. These are 245, 45 ZR20s and I would say they have probably 60-70% of the tread left on them. Front fender is in excellent condition, didn't see any dents or dings on there. You get the projector lamp headlamps, the factory fog lights, the front bumper and lower valence are both in very nice condition. Didn't see any major scuffs or cracks on there. 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so in that case you would think well if it's community property we should just split this thing down the middle and each of us spouses should get an allocation of an equal amount to our social security benefit thing that's what you would kind of think and so i'd say okay one way you might be able to do that is to assign it not to a taxpayer in the software we're going to say now it's it's joint by the way if i assigned it to the spouse then you'd have the same thing but in reverse so now you've got the same the same 1040 here the 100 000 flowing through everything is going to be the same except that on the schedule c it's now being applied to jane anderson instead of neo anderson and all the all the benefits are going to go to jane's social security number if you then say it's joint which you have to be careful to be able to make sure you can do depending on where you are located then we have the one schedule c here once again but it says up top now it's neo and jane anderson and then everything else is the same it flows through the to the 1040 it's all the same for income tax income tax evane next purposes but when i go to the schedule s e now i have two of them neo and jane so so now that nice and easily allows me to populate one schedule c while still being allowed to have two self-employment tax calculations which the total should still come to the same total but now for their particular benefits so that when they get their benefits it should be allocated to them separately and that could be a big deal when you're trying to kind of maximize your social security benefits that would be coming out at the end i got a different check mark here this is 14 14 130 if i go back on over here and i say it was for a single taxpayer it's 14 129 so it's pretty so obviously again this because it's a flat rate that we're using this one's coming out to be the same that's the total taxes it's just being allocated between the two and and it's a rounding difference that's why it turned red but it's still 14 130 so that looks good that's to be expected so that's one way that you can do that now if you're not able to do that then another thing you might be able to do is have a qualified joint venture or to have a partnership return right so if you and your spouse each materially participate as the only members of a jointly owned and operated business and you file a joint return for tax year you make a joint election to be treated as a qualified joint venture instead of a partnership for the tax year making this election will allow you to avoid the complexity of form 1065 but still give each spouse credit for social security earnings on which the retirement benefits are based so to do that you may be able to basically make two schedule sees allocating the proper amounts to each schedule see so for example to make this election you must divide all items of income gain loss deduction and credit attributable to the business between you and your spouse in accordance with your respective interest in the venture so if I was to go back on over and say notice that this one split at 5050 as we can see here now if you were trying to maximize your social security benefits or whatnot it might be more beneficial to have one or the other spouse allocated more of the income depending on their other information with regards to putting money into the social security and you can try to plan out what would be best best for social security but if the agreement was something other than 5050 then then you might you might be able to use the joint venture kind of system to allocate it differently to allocate the income differently or a partnership if you use a partnership you have to file a separate return and then you can use the allocation methods to allocate whatever the allocation agreement was whether it be 5050 6040 or whatever and then or you might be able to file in essence two schedule C's which might look something like this I would have to take this schedule C this is kind of tedious you'd have to say okay I'm going to say let's add another one and let's say the first this one is going to be for the spouse and the first one's going to be for the taxpayer and then I'm going to say this is going to be 120 let's say we'll take we'll take well let's just make it easy and make this a hundred thousand and and just to give an example so the whole hundred thousand and let's say that it's going to be 60 40 so let's say we're going to take that hundred thousand minus 40 thousand which will leave us 60 thousand and then on the second one it would be the same information information and I won't repopulate all the information but I'm going to say this is for the spouse and the bottom line is that this would be the hundred thousand and then I'm going to take minus 60 thousand of it which is going to leave us 40 so that comes up to the hundred thousand again right and then if I go back on over here now I've got a schedule C but now I've got two schedule C's one for one spouse at the 60 thousand the other for the the other spouse at 40 thousand and they're both allocated to the two spouses and that would total up to the the schedule the schedule s e then I have two schedule s e's which I tried to differentiate now to allocate based on whatever our our agreement is in a similar way that we might do in a partnership that might be different than just 50 50 which may not have a big impact or any impact possibly on the federal income taxes but could have an impact on the social security benefits that you would get right that's kind of the whole mess that has been created here that we are find ourselves dealing with so if I go into then page one then you still have the hundred thousand here and on page two we still have the same social security that has been calculated social security medicare the self-employment tax but now we have a different allocation based on based on the the two schedule C's so if you're going to make that election you want to you know do some more research on that and think about what your best option would be so if you're a married couple and you're in a community property state you might be able to do the easy thing one schedule C splitting everything down the middle which means that your allocations to the social security will be split down the middle or if you want to do more complex planning for the amounts you're going to get from social security benefits possibly because and you want to allocate that differently or for whatever reason or you have a partnership agreement that's different than 50 50 or you're not in a community property state you can think about maybe setting up a partnership flow through entity which allows you then to to have a breakout that's other than 50 50 if you so choose but you have to do another tax return and use this k ones that will then flow in here and then you can use the k ones to do the allocation which will then drive the social security the self-employment uh calculations or you might be able to do this method with basically two schedule C's possibly looking into a qualified joint venture situation which is tedious because then you have to basically populate two schedule C's in accordance with whatever allocation you're using and I and I've never actually done that because I'm in a community property state but that's a that's another option that you can basically drill down on and look into and see if that would be easier than say a partnership return in that situation


In this arrow, when everybody's buzzing about big data science, I'd like to also ask you a more humanistic question. What makes language language? And what makes music music? Because language and music not only share a common evolutionary origins and neurobiological processing, but they're also pretty much the only thing we humans do better than all other species. Scientific and humanitarian reasons led me to develop the world's first automated translation services in the early days of the web. Because language are trade routes. Language lets us trade ideas, overcome barriers, share common ground. But it remains one of the hardest challenges in big data science. How do we learn complex relations between languages? Humans learn by seeing this round orange thing while hearing mama say, chou, ti chou. And we correlate the Chinese we hear against a second representation of the environment we see. Over many instances, we gradually learn chou means the round thing, ti means kick. Our robots today aren't good enough to do this. But when I first got to HKUST many years ago, I noticed Hong Kong requires all government proceedings to be kept in both English and Chinese. And this led to the idea that we could approximate the picture by hearing mama speak Chinese while seeing an English representation of that environment. So the key question becomes, what kind of models can learn the relationships between any two natural languages? And attacking that problem gets us closer to identifying the universal DNA of language. Because language is what lets us think complex thoughts. And those thoughts let us create new languages with which to think more complex thoughts in the great cycle of intelligence. Language structures thought. Now, the traditional way linguists and mathematicians have thought of modeling language is, tell me if that sentence is grammatical. But this would not have done your average caveman very much good. What's really needed to survive evolution is to translate, look out a tiger's attacking from behind you into another visual or abstract representation that lets you decide quickly to run. But learning traditional translation models has exponential complexity. In attacking that problem, I was inspired by a longstanding scientific mystery. Why do languages across the world universally limit a verb's semantic roles to a maximum of four? I discovered inversion transaction grammars give rise mathematically to this magic number four in order to keep languages learnable. Because languages evolved to make translation easy to learn. Otherwise, your tribe became dinner. Translatability is what makes language language. And learning translations is the main cognitive capability underlying intelligence. Even within this magic number four limit, all sorts of powerful translations can be efficiently learned. The same principles apply to learning relationships for all sorts of languages. Visual languages, gestural and abstract languages, and especially musical language. Because music and language share common origins. Music is the evolutionary foundation of language. And what makes music music is, again, the complex relationships between the many different languages of music, to which we've begun applying our translation learning models. Because it's not enough to master one of these. You have to learn to translate lyrics to melodies, melodies to chord progressions, to dynamics, to rhythm. Here, we're applying our translation model to learning lyrics. Specifically, challenge and response lyrics in hip hop. The machine starts with zero knowledge, not even pronunciation dictionaries, and learns to translate any given challenge into an improvised creative response. And we said, why stop with English? Let's do this for French. Notice all the complex relations that have to be learned. The response has to be somehow meaningfully related to the challenge. It should rhyme, its rhythm should match to the challenge. Music, like other languages, forms trade routes to stimulate cross-cultural relations, just like the spice, tea, and silk routes did. Music is also one of the easiest ways to learn languages and to build relationships. We are building technologies that learn and technologies that help people learn. Technologies that build relationships and technologies that help people build relationships. The trade routes of language are one of the most important infrastructure investments needed today. And we have a long way to go, because machines today still have a lot of trouble translating even what a two-year-old knows. We invite you to join our conversation and efforts to build the 21st century's new trade routes of language and music on a radically large scale across all our regions. Thank you.


Hello everybody! Today we will have a look at the 2017 rating of free antiviruses. When composing this rating, we took into account opinions of professional test laboratories, respected IT titles and our own user experience. Position 5 belongs to 306 to total security. It is quite a popular solution from the Chinese company Quihuo360. It combines an antivirus and a system optimizer, junk file cleaner utility. Beside the Windows version, there are also versions for Mac, iOS and Android systems. The utility has a friendly interface. After you launch it, start the scan and wait until it is complete. The antivirus will give you recommendations on how to eliminate the discovered threats, optimize Windows and clean up the system drive. You can choose what actions you want to confirm. In addition to the antivirus, the program installs a special plugin into your internet browsers to protect the user from malware. The disadvantage of this product is an overwhelming amount of advertising shown during the installation and when using the antivirus. The first line is occupied by Avira-free antivirus. Avira offers its users both an integrated solution for protection against viruses, protection of confidentiality and performance optimization and an opportunity to use each of these utilities separately. The product is available for any platform, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. When you install the antivirus, its it automatically adds browser extensions to ensure safe web surfing. To ensure your anonymity online, you can use Avira Phantom VPN. Integrated protection of your computer is activated automatically after the installation, so you don't have to rummage through the settings. To clean the computer that is already infected with viruses, click the button system scanner. Avira will scan the registry, local and removable drives, check current processes and search for root keys. In addition to real-time protection, you can also use the scheduler to have your system scanned at a certain time. In fact, the objects are sent to quarantine, where you can choose to delete them forever, send to Avira Labs for examination or restore to their previous location. The downside to this product is its low scanning speed, but it doesn't put much pressure on your system so it can work with the computer while the antivirus does its cleaning duties. If you need to run a quick check on a cleanup, you'd better use a different solution. The third place goes to AVG Antivirus. AVG offers a free antivirus for protection of your computer and safe web surfing and emailing. The utility has an option to delete files safely and reliably. This antivirus is available for users who like Windows, Mac and Android. A simple interface in a metro style is worth mentioning. After installation, the program starts and activates automatically without any additional settings to be switched on. To start a scan, click on Antivirus 3, and in the window that opens, click on Scan Computer. To optimize the system, protect your privacy and ensure safe web surfing, there are paid utilities such as PCTuneUp, SecureVPN and WebTuneUp. You can use each of them for free for 30 days. This antivirus ranks third because of its popularity and impressive functionality of its paid version. It is also included into the top list of antiviruses by all respected IT sources. However, the free version has very limited capacity because AVG offers neither computer optimization nor Internet privacy protection in its free version. The second position in our rating is for AVG Antivirus. AVG products are available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, which allows having a single system to protect all your gadgets. The free version features antiviral protection, an opportunity to create a boot disk or an LCD or flash drive to start and clean your computer. First in Wi-Fi are networks for possible vulnerabilities, a password manager, a confidentiality mode for web surfing, system optimization and disk cleanup options, a game mode to prevent the antivirus from interrupting the user. After installation, the antiviral protection is activated automatically, so you don't have to change any settings. When it starts, the program suggests you to run a full one-time scan to find and solve security confidentiality and performance issues. After the scanning, the program will suggest solving all discovered problems with a single button to resolve all. In our opinion, the utility doesn't give enough information to make a sound decision. The problem report is not too informative. This antivirus receives the second place in our rating because of its outstanding availability for any user while offering ample opportunities. In fact, all your participation is two buttons – run smart scan and resolve all. Mailware Bytes is recognized to be the best antivirus. Mailware Bytes is an effective and powerful solution to protect you from harmful software. It features an effective scanning algorithm and a specialized system of protection against ransomware. This antivirus is available for users who like Windows, Mac and Android. Mailware Bytes comes equipped with a list of specialized models – anti-Mailware, protection against ransomware, exploits and harmful websites. After installation, the utility activates automatically the protection of your PC against all kinds of malware. To scan the system, just click on Scan Now. It will check the memory, startup files, system registry, system files and so on. After the scan is complete, the system will show you a report on its results. All malware will be sent to a quarantine where you can recover or delete it forever. The biggest minus of this program is its 14-day trial period after which the functionality will become limited. The utility will switch to manual mode. It will continue to find and delete malware, but only when you decide to start the scan. Automatic protection functions will be disabled. Our rating has not included such products as Windows 10 built-in free antivirus, Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials, because they are still dark horses and need the test of time to show what they are worth. Which antivirus would you rate as the best? What do you do to protect your computer? Let us know your opinion in comments. If you liked this video, click the like button below and subscribe to our channel to see more. Thank you for watching and good luck.


I wanted to try the milk marinated bottom round. The cheapest cut on the cow. So instead of just marinating this whole thing, we're gonna do a side-by-side comparison. I'm gonna cut this in half. We're gonna put this in the fridge, let it wait till tomorrow. We're gonna take this. We're gonna marinate this in milk for 24 hours. We'll see you tomorrow. We're gonna see if that's a tender steak. It's been 24 hours. So we got our regular old bottom round and then we got the milk marinated bottom round. Next step, I'm gonna pat the milk steak dry. We're gonna hit them both with olive oil and then we're going with my favorite, spicy danos. That's the red top. Pat that in. This part's real simple. We're gonna throw it in a pan and just simply pan sear. Just the medium temperature. Give them a little flip. That's not burnt. That's a nerve crust. We're almost there. We'll give it one last little flip. All right, I think we're there. Now we're just gonna let them sit for about 10 minutes. All right, it's the moment of truth. Let's give it a try. We're gonna cut them both right down the middle. All right, now let's cut our little bites. I'm gonna go with the unmarinated first. Super chewy. It's good, especially dang good. Super chewy. Now let's get a bite of this. Super chewy.  The milk, did it help? Yeah, I could notice just a little bit of difference, but hope you all enjoyed the video. I can tell you one thing, the seasoning was the bomb. Yum, yum, get you some.


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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the SoxWishShow.com Morning Market Review of the Spy. It's pre-market. It's 8.36 a.m. Eastern Time. Market isn't even open yet, and it's gapping up today. And I just, I'm just sitting here, and I just decided to look at the market this morning, and I thought, I have to do another video, because I just did a video. Less than, I don't know how many hours ago, less than 24 hours ago, last night I did a video of the market, and I said the market is setting up in poise to break out higher. The stairs step climb up higher all week over the holiday, or it's just going to break out. Break out higher. We're breaking out in the gap right now. You can just see this here in the one-minute chart. I just called this to happen last night, post-market. Market was flat last night. I saw it. I saw the way. We add to yesterday. The way we closed. I saw everything. I read it, and the market was flat. Last night, when I did my market video of the Spy, and it's open now here in the pre-market morning, and I called this to happen, I have an amazing skill to read stuff before it happens. Amazing. It's all because of the fact that I know how to read gaps. I knew the market would gap up this morning. It's like 100% conviction. This breakout bar just happened here at 8.30. Look at this. Look at that. A dollar moved there in five minutes between 8.30 and 8.35 a.m. here in the Spy. Look at that. Market's already retesting this level in here. This prior high back from here on the 5th of December, this morning, and the market is so higher, so the market will hit 2.10 and 2.12, which are the numbers I gave for the targets. Before the end of the calendar year 2014, market could have even hit 2.10 today. Market is gapping up this morning and falling through higher, and it's a beautiful bullish chart. Again, you know, I just can't say enough about how important it is to read gaps. There are many, many, many different ways to read gaps. That is true. The thing is, though, the way that I figured out how to read them is actually accurate. Most people do not know how to read gaps well. So when people attempt to train them, they fail, and even if they have some success, it's limited, because the way that they're ultimately looking at the gap is improperly incorrect. And then people tend to shy away from gaps, because they just don't understand them. And they are complex. That's why it took me three years to figure this stuff out that I know. But now that I know it, I know it. And it's real, and that's how I'm able to predict what things are going to do before they even happen. And I teach a class from teaching people how to do this. It's not like it's impossible for you to learn how to do this. That's some very successful students, actually. And you know, that is exciting. It's exciting to me. It's touching, actually. It makes it all worthwhile that I have touched so many people's lives in such a demonstrative way to teach them how to trade in the U.S. stock market. And I'll continue to do so until 2015. I don't know how long into 2015 I will continue to do the Golden Gap class. But for now, I'm still doing it for the people that want to learn how to train. So it's an opportunity to come to learn from me, because this market is not that easy to call. I mean, I'll be the first to say that every time the market gap down here, even in the last month, or even in here, I double-triple-checked myself, was rating the market gaps in the spine, the QQQs, just to make sure, rating the bearish gaps, rating the bullish gaps, just to make sure that I was seeing everything correctly. I have a really, really good eye to see things instantaneously before I process and rate them on paper. But I do double-check myself when I'm actually looking at something and I'm seeing it to make sure and staying within the right information of the reading of the price. And I saw the market would do this and I saw it would continue higher. Unfortunately, a lot of people really caved and believed in all the craziness that was out there that the market was making a top and was going to crash, and people exited their long positions in here. And now people don't know how to buy this here because people don't know how to buy gaps, and they think that they're going to wait for the market to pull back into support before they buy it. And if you didn't go long in here, which many people wouldn't because they thought the market was going to crash, they exited their long positions into the drop, so many people didn't go long right back into here, and people won't know how to go long here, and they're going to want to wait for a pullback again, and see, this is how this is all going to play out. Artists are just going to keep going higher and rally. People don't know how to do anything but buy support. And so, or most people, so what they do is then the market goes higher, they get the confirmation, then they wait for it to pull back to support, they miss however much a move, percentage of the move, and then they wait for it to pull back to support, but then they're unsure of themselves uncertain, don't know if it's really done now. They think that the move up might be done, don't buy into the support, wait, wait, wait too long, and this is going to keep happening, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, this is going to go on for months, this is going to go on all the way into 2015 until at some point, and it's going to be mid-2015 towards the end of 2015, summer, fall 2015, and we'll see how strong the year starts out to really determine how far into that area, but I know that it's going to be mid-2015 until people finally stop shorting the market and accept the fact that it's higher, and then that will make the market just kaboom up even more and probably hit that 300 number that I'm seeing is going to happen, it's going to happen, I think it is going to happen, it's really amazing that I can see something like that so far away from this price point here, because a number of 300 to hit in the spot is $92 away from the current price trading here of this market, that's amazing to call a number like that, because it's very far away from the current price here, and people probably won't buy this gap here today, but don't know what to do, because again, they don't know how to do anything like I do, but the fact is that the market's higher, this is a bullish gap up in the market today, whether intraday we trade immediately higher or slosh around or trade in an hour range day, it doesn't matter, the fact is the market's gaping up this morning, retesting the prior area over here at 12.5, can't look at this bar here because it's an anomaly, but the fact is that it very well could hit over that before the end of the year, I'm not saying that it's definitely going to nor does it have to, I think 2.10 is realistic, could happen today, very likely now to get there within the next week, $2 away from that this morning, and just nice, nice fluid activity here in the market to the upside, beautiful, beautiful breakout here this morning in the first five minutes, you can tell and you can see here the strength and the power of the buying and all of this coming in, nice buying here in the pre-market too in this five, almost a million and it's only 8.45 or thereabouts. So again, I saw this last night, it's just amazing how I really just have such a good eye for seeing what something's gonna do. So if you learn how to trade gaps, you can do it all, I'm convinced, day trading, swing trading, core trading, use the same strategy, you rate the gap, use a 26 point rating system, take my class, learn how to rate the gap, determine whether or not it's long or short, then you know what to do, you use that information, I teach in the class how to figure out the targets, I teach a supportive resistance, I know Justin asked me like two weeks ago, Melissa, where are you getting these numbers, how are you giving these targets for the spy and the queues, where are you getting these numbers, where are you getting any of these numbers for any of the things I've been calling lately for some of these things? You know, when the numbers aren't even on the chart, I can just sense the way the price is acting, the best explanation I can give is that I'm honing into how the price is acting, I can tell the strength that's in here, how quickly it's gonna hit some of these other numbers, that's what I'm saying. I can see the price, how it's acting live and you know, right there, I mean, this is what I'm talking about right here, like even to call this last night, the close here, the way we acted last night, I talked about this, it was a 60 cent range yesterday in the market with that kind of volume that was stepping right in there yesterday, you see the lift that came in then today, it was like setting the tone here for this to be transpiring this morning. So it's like, you know, that's how you knew this would happen, so that's how I'm able to see like that some of these numbers are gonna be hit, whether they're close or far away, depending on what's really happening with the money, it's the movement of the money that I'm reading in the price and it's all because of what I know in gaps and the thing is that when I'm trading, now I'm not in this, I'm not in this long, I'm not trading this here pre-market, I don't do the pre-market, but I'm saying like, when I'm seeing the one minute chart here, okay, I'm really, really good at reading the one minute chart because I learned how to read gaps and that information has taught me how to be aggressive in the one minute there, into the open or even reading this stuff here like this lift off, like I can train that first five minutes of the day and it tells me so much of what's gonna happen, I can read that activity very, very well to know what's going to have set up in this and what it should do, I even know what it should do to know if it's gonna follow through or not or if it does something that tells me that it's not gonna work, which again has to do with taking the proper entries, which is on the one minute chart, institutions are active in the morning, that's why day trading gaps, which is what I do, which is very specialized, makes so much sense for really anyone and from any walk of life because you only have to do it for 30 minutes in the morning, 45 minutes an hour at most and you could do other things with your day, it's like a short, short time that you're gap trading and you could profit because the moves stepped in so quickly, so quickly into the open that you can take advantage of them, make the money, book it, chunk it out, stop, be done, go on with your day and do other things, I mean that's just one of the benefits of gap trading along with everything else, but I mean, time wise, time management wise to make the money as a day trader, you don't have to spend a lot of time in the morning doing it, but honestly, that's not the best thing about what I figured out, the best thing about what I figured out is that I figured out how to read institutional positioning and my level of conviction has increased 100% in the last year because I continue to call this market so well when everyone is saying the opposite of what I'm saying, I mean professional people that are trading the market and that are lecturing about the market and that are on television and the internet that have been trading longer than I'm alive have not called the market as well as me and that is, you know, it's because I really have the right knowledge base, I have such an amazing knowledge base of what to focus on here in the market and it's the gaps and it's specifically the way that I'm focusing on them. It's the way that I know how to read them, what I'm looking at to determine what it's doing that I can call this so well, so it has increased my own conviction, my personal conviction to continue, to do what I do moving forward into 2015 to see where it takes me, this is very, very significant and a long range call here, I'm making for the spot and hit this number but it is going to happen and it's all from reading the institutional positioning in stocks in the market and I know how to do that from my 26 point rating system. My 26 point rating system tells you what an institution is doing in the stock or the market before it does it and that's how you know how to take the position because if you know how to take the position in something before the institution sells a stock or buys it, you will make money by getting in the right direction before the move happens and that's how you get the movement, the momentum volatility, which pays you as an individual and it's the only way you can consistently make money, the only way you can consistently make money in the stock market as an individual trader but does not have billions of dollars behind them like these institutions do is by determining what an institution will do. Buying or selling the stock or the market before it happens, you do not make real money by doing it late or after it happens you miss 80% of the move, your entry is terrible, the risk to reward isn't there, the stock's too big and you're too late or you're doing the opposite like many people are doing here, they're getting out of the market when they should be going long, they are selling when they should be buying, they're shorting when they should be not shorting at all and it's just amazing to me how incorrect so many people are at the trade, of course that's why the people that know how to do it like me end up benefiting so well because there's more losers in the market than there's winners and there always always will be because the belief system out there for what is taught to traders that has existed for a long, long time, many, many years will always be out there and be taught widely and it's many of the information that's not correct but it'll always be that way, will actually always be that way so what I'm doing here is very specific, very forward thinking and very unique and very edgy for the people that hear me and see me and something that I say resonates with them, they will come to me and learn how to trade and have the chance to be successful because what I know here in this 26 point rating system just is really terrific. So Mark is higher and we'll see where it does in the next week. Have a great trading day everyone if you're trading, be careful if you are trading or take it easy, take a break and enjoy your holiday and Merry Christmas from Melissa and the Stock Swish LLC. Have a great holiday everyone. Beautiful call here that the Stock Swish made in the market. Any questions or if you're interested in the upcoming Golden God class, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com.


If you struggle with having a healthy view of yourself, then this video is for you. While some of us might think that self-love is a narcissistic and self-centered pursuit, that couldn't be further from the truth. Researchers Eric Fields and Gina R. Cooperberg, from the Department of Psychology at Tufts University, explain that positively biased self-views are argued to be a key component of healthy psychological functioning, influencing self-esteem, motivation, and determination. Indeed, a lack of self-positive bias or even a self-negativity bias may contribute to mood and anxiety disorder.  Here are a few tips to help you on your way. Know yourself. Do you ever wonder how some people seem to just be so comfortable with themselves and know themselves inside out?  A lot of us have been there and a fun solution actually exists for those moments.  Divide the page into four parts. Label these quadrants as likes, dislikes, weaknesses, and strengths. Now start filling in the spaces under those quadrants. You don't have to do them in order, just go with the flow. It definitely helps to be alone and allocate time for this exercise, however, long you feel comfortable. Also, save these pages, because there will be many. The purpose of this activity is to essentially get to know all of you. Flaws and all, and to accept and embrace everything. Think of it as dating yourself.  You will, over time and with consistent practice, truly get to know who you are and what you're capable of. An article by a certified applied positive psychology coach Kelly Miller said that some of the benefits of knowing yourself are improved self-control and self-regulation, increased creative achievement, and high self-esteem and pride. So you stand to gain so much from knowing who you are. Negative self-talk. Impassion researcher Dr. Kristin Neff asks, what type of language do you use with yourself when you notice a flaw or a mistake made? Do you insult yourself, or do you take a more kind and understanding tone? If you are highly self-critical, how does that make you feel inside? Paying attention to how you internally talk to yourself is the most important step in learning how to cultivate self-love. Do you find that your inner critic is more ruthless than others? Does that inner voice sound like a recording, repeating hurtful and discouraging things? Constantly feeding you fear?  Do you not allow yourself to do anything until it's perfect or close enough for you and still judge yourself for not being good enough? This behavior is harmful to you, as it affects your sense of self-worth and self-esteem. As humans, we struggle with some form of doubt every now and then. However, as we enter into a new chapter of being loving to ourselves, the negative self-talk has to go. Rituals. Do you start your day on the wrong foot? Or maybe you feel disconnected from yourself? Creating a ritual, be it daily or weekly, can help ease these feelings. Rituals are meaningful practices with a deep sense of purpose. As opposed to a habit, rituals require you to be a bit more mindful and focused. Take time out of your busy day for self-care rituals. Whether it's physical activity, meditating, journaling, or praying, clinical psychologist Dr. Deborah Koshaba says the benefits of creating these personal rituals are, you know, love yourself more when you take better care of your basic needs. People high and self-love nourish themselves daily through healthy activities like good nutrition, exercise, proper sleep, intimacy, and healthy social interactions. Compassionate. By not giving yourself any grace for being flawed or human, you stunt your own growth and withhold love from yourself. Self-compassion is similar to showing compassion to other people. It's a practice of noticing that you are suffering and then offering yourself understanding and kindness. Kristen Neff, PhD, stated in her book, Self-Compassion, the proven power of being kind to yourself, that you may try to change in ways that allow you to be more healthy and happy, but this is done because you care about yourself, not because you're worthless or unacceptable as you are. A suggestion here is to practice embracing whatever emotion you feel instead of repressing it or letting it completely overwhelm you. You acknowledge it as it is and also how you can be later. Say you're feeling sad. You acknowledge that emotion is normal. That's currently how you're feeling and you can settle into it and it can eventually pass. Love Language. Author Gary Chapman's book The Five Love Languages is about the ways that people show and receive love. They are words of affirmation, gifts, active service, physical touch, and quality time. These love languages can also be applied to the self in many different ways, depending on the love language that you resonate with. Licensed clinical counselor Joy Smarter expressed a sentiment on how to use this system for your own personal well-being. Imagine how you treat yourself on a daily basis as if you were another person in a relationship with you. By discovering your self-love language, you can incorporate daily self-love practices that are specially catered to you and make you feel better. If you have receiving gifts as your love language, you can, for example, buy the things you want that bring positivity into your life or investing in your interests or bucket list experiences. The purpose of this is to learn to become comfortable in your own presence. Self Reflection. We can be extremely hard on ourselves, especially if it's in the aftermath of a setback. Sometimes things don't go according to plans. We punish ourselves for mistakes when instead, we could learn from them. Instead of self-blame, you can use these incidents as an opportunity for personal growth. Some examples of self-reflection can take the form of a weekly review, a journaling session, a regular meeting with a trusted friend to reflect on your recent experiences and challenges, or in therapy. Remember there are no failures if you have grown from your mistakes. There are only lessons learned. The journey to true self-compassion and love is a long one, but you shouldn't let that discourage you. Instead, think of all the versions of yourself you'll get to meet and the experiences you'll have as you devote yourself to you. As you can see, just a few changes can nurture more self-love. If you choose just one or two of these self-love actions to work on, you'll begin to accept and love yourself more. If you've gotten this far, we'd like to thank you for taking the time to watch this to the end. We hope that you've enjoyed it and that you feel a bit more confident about implementing more self-loving rituals into your life. And remember, you matter.


I mean don't twist my words. I couldn't physically go and do it, but I enjoy eating. I don't think about it. Are you all putting an effort into thinking about it because you're trying to make a change?   Barrowing shed when they have their babies.  Do you like animal suffering? Do you like suffering animals there? Do you like eating animal cruelty? Imagine teaching your kid how to support animal cruelty like that. It's pretty noble of him. Hey brother, how are you? I think it's all used to working in an abattoir. Did you really? Why not? Talk to me about it. Don't be afraid. He can't comment. He worked in a pig abattoir. It's interesting that you would say that. If you didn't want to make it, why walk up and go, I can't make a comment because I've worked somewhere where you'd be really interested in. Go up and catch them. Why don't you just walk off and not say anything? He's deliberately wanted to tease us. That's what you pay for. Hey brother, how you going mate? Do you know what this is? Yeah, I work at a vegan restaurant. I do? Yeah, I'm a meatie myself, but I'm... What is this? A gas chamber, if I look to it. You know about gas chambers? Your friends at the restaurant told you about it? Yeah, just bits and bobs. So I know it's pretty cool. I'm not looking to like... I know it's bad and I know eating meat's bad and I don't need to hear about it. I just want to see it. You know it's morally bad to do it, to eat meat. Yeah, I know a lot of things that we do are morally bad. Do you think there's anything as morally bad that we do every single day as this? As a normal... The result of eating meat is like... A normal day to day person probably not. I mean there's a lot worse going on in the world. I mean that right there is pretty sick, it's not very nice but at the same time I can't exactly say anything as I eat meat. I would argue there's not anything worse going on in the world in terms of numbers. And good on you. Because of the numbers, like just statistically like there's 80 billion land animals and trillions of marine animals the suffering is unmatchable. We kill more animals in four weeks than the number of humans that have ever existed on earth. How could anything be anywhere near as bad as this? Not in terms of if you equated sort of calculating the suffering. He's taken the semen out of... They put an electro-jaculator in the male to force him to jaculate and then they get the semen and they stick it in the female. So they force them to breed basically.  Are you recording all this? No, this is investigators all over the world, some in the UK, some in England.  Yeah, yeah, I am in this a little bit. Yeah, I've been in a lot of UK farms. It's something that I'm definitely very interested in. Yeah, because you know, I mean, I always ask people like could you do this type of thing to an animal? Yeah, why not? I just wouldn't want to hear it, see it.  No, well, that's what I mean. Don't twist my words. Just physically go and do it. No, but I enjoy eating it. So it's hard, you know, I'm just one person out of millions of people in the world. You'll never, you know, I hope you can do what you're trying to do and change what you're trying to change, but I enjoy eating meat. So did I. So did I, I used to love it too. But I didn't think that my enjoyment mattered more than what was course for me.   I've never thought of it like that. Because what type of enjoyment... You can be happy without me, let's face it. There's heaps of better things than eating meat in life like family and friends and really good experiences. So really it takes nothing much away from you. But what does it take away from the animal? Loads, yeah. Everything. It causes them extreme suffering. It takes away their entire existence. More a bread into existence to suffer. And this is just, we're talking about enjoying meat which is really like taking away, you'd still be happy mate. Of course you would. You'd be strong, you'd be happy. I'm not saying that. I've been brought up on it. I've been brought up on me. I've always eaten it. I enjoy the flavours. The texture, the taste. I'll get it. I'll get it. And I work in a vegan restaurant and it's the type of restaurant because they really do try and give that substance, that feeling in your mouth when you're eating it. That's what you would if you were having like, you know they do like buffalo chicken wings, or buffalo cauliflower, which would obviously be buffalo chicken wings. And they do. And I just don't get the same flavour. And that is it. That's the simple reason. I enjoy that. So it's a flavour. Yeah. Could you imagine, right, say aliens come here and they land it on earth.  And we said, it's because we like a certain flavour. I know. I know it sounds bad, doesn't it? Do you think it's just a, do you think that those things, like if you put it on a scale. It would probably happen and I'm sure we probably wouldn't be able to stop it. So, yeah. We could do these things like this. Could you imagine if aliens were raising us to slaughter us for a flavour? Yeah. It seemed pretty crazy, man. Like, I would never, I would never do this. Like, I certainly wouldn't live on a farm and raise cattle to kill a man. Like, not that that makes me a better person. I just don't feel, I've got a dog. Like, I just don't feel that I would be able to go into a job and kill animals. You've got a dog. Yeah. So, that's interesting, actually. So, let's just say there were dogs. You know what dogs are like, actually. They've got a personality. They come, all these animals are similar in intelligence to dogs as well. They've all got personalities. It's just they've only ever known suffering. Right? But if you get them in the right scenario, they can be themselves. And they, chickens, ducks, turkeys, cows, pigs, lambs, they all are like dogs in there. They're similar, very similar.  Would you do it? I mean, is it because it's a dog? No. But let's just say the flavour was the same. Was a little bit better even. Was a little bit better than the flavour. Let's just say it's 10% better than any meat you've ever had. And you just thought, ah, ah, ah, ah. I know, but then, when this, that, probably, you would do it. Because when Wagyu came, like when everyone started rearing up about Wagyu, the new steak, and it's the new flavour. Yeah. Everyone moved on to Wagyu. When a new meat, and it tastes better, just because it's called dog, that would be the one reason why people would say no. If it wasn't called dog, I guarantee people would be in there. But do you see there's a disconnect here? Because now we're going, it's just dog meat. But I'm talking about, there's a dog. Yeah, yeah, I understand. They don't want to die. They're screaming, yelping in pain and getting executed, having their skin torn off of them. Yeah. That's the result of buying it. See, people always, they just go, there's the meat, there's the Wagyu, but you forgot about the cow and the head getting cut off. Yeah. I don't think about it. Of course. You're putting effort into thinking about it because you're trying to make a change. Personally, I work six days a week, I feed people vegan food, I put a lot of effort into the food that I serve people. I'm interested in it, I enjoy it, I like learning different ways of coming up with them sort of textures. Yeah. But I just won't ever go as far to say, I don't believe, who knows when I'm 60, I'm only 30. I don't believe that I'll go as far to say that I won't stop eating meat. That's really sad. It is, you know. What do you think it would take? For me to stop, I don't know, probably watching 24 hours of this show. What if they put, what if in an alternate universe, they put you through 40% of what animals have to go through in order to become your sandwich? This is what I'm saying. These scenarios that we can say, what if we could do this, I imagine a lot of people talking. I'm trying to get you to like, empathize or put yourself in the position, oh, that would be pretty bad.  Yeah, gas chamber's horrible, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty nasty, but again, I see this, but I will still go home tonight and I guarantee you my main meal will have some sort of meat substance. Yeah. Yeah. But good on you for not. Yeah. Good on you for not. Is the disconnect, brother, hey? Yeah. Anyways, take care, bro. No worries. That's what disconnect does, but hey, he can easily just plug in and plug out. That's interesting. Never met someone who works at a vegan restaurant, cooks vegan food, feels bad for the animals, but won't stop eating meat. But, you know, they're the famous last words of someone who will go vegan. I will never go vegan. Yeah. Hey, guys. Oh, really? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Hello, how are you? We went vegan about seven, eight years ago. Oh, really? Yeah. In 2013, I went vegan. Okay. Yeah. We watched, I think, was a conspiracy. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. That was like the starting point from there. Wow. Yeah. I thought I recognized you, so. Yeah, yeah. I ran down because I thought, oh my God, they're watching the gas chamber footage. I've got to go tell them about it. Oh, it's horrific. Yeah, and I think people don't realize how intelligent animals are. Like, I work with animals. Oh, really? And from like birds all the way to alpacas, they all have their own personalities. People realize. I know. Then we give them credit for even, you know, the. Exactly. Yeah. So I think, yeah, I think more people need to just understand what's going on and then just make the. They need to connect to the animals, you know? Absolutely. Yeah. Because now they see them as food animals and they don't, it doesn't matter if they get treated a bit cruelly here and there, like that. I don't think they understand that it's like how bad it actually is that there's like an individual in there. Well, we, for us, like where we work, we have a section with like loose roaming animals. We've got our own sheeps now back there. Oh, wow. And like when the guests come and they start interacting with the animals, you just see this moment where they go, I literally had no idea.  You know, sheep can recognize a human's face for up to six years. Oh, wow. Yeah, you work with them. Each sheep knows our different personalities. So they know who you are. Yeah, exactly. So. It's crazy. When you, yeah, make that connection. And we know each one likes a certain thing and then like one likes his heads being scratched and stuff like that. So like, when you know that, when you work with animals, you can never, never even think to eat another animal ever again. I'll share your video with us. Oh, that's good. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Take care, guys. Nice to meet you.


The digital revolution continues to be extended through exploration of the internet as a medium for innovation relating both to consumer and business requirements and needs and desires. It is particularly reflecting the acceleration of deployment of machine learning technologies with all of the associated problematic issues that arise. But the need for the next new economy, the next technological revolution, is apparent. Only a bit more than three years ago, the United States appeared poised to participate, if not lead. One of the last things President Obama did was this contribution to the science magazine issue on climate change. Well, we all know what happened next. But in the face of Trump's denialism, the radical decline of renewable energy costs accelerated to reach grid competitiveness with fossil fuels. Technological and economic challenges remain. Energy storage at the scale required and smart grid management software are both needed to enable integration of intermittent renewables as primary sources. Economists have long had a first-best policy response to climate change address the negative externality of carbon generation by pricing it. Joe Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist, was co-chair with Lord Nick Stern of the 2017 High-Level Commission Report on Carbon Prices, sponsored by the World Bank. This written paper of his lays out the nuanced and sophisticated reasoning behind that report. The conventional recommendation assumes perfect markets, rational agents, with complete information, including, of course, information about the future. But the real-world context is much more complex, with macro as well as micro-externalities and multiple points of contact between public policy and private decisions. Central to the policy challenge are the inevitable and multidimensional, distributional implications. All decision makers, public and private, are acting under inescapable uncertainty without that fantasy of an infinity of state contingent markets in which to buy insurance. The intergenerational distribution of costs and benefits looms over the entire policy discussion. Behavioral economics provides insight into the risks and loss aversion that can be expected to motivate resistance to policy initiatives. Given that the economic losses and political resistance will rise with the level of a carbon tax, specific regulatory interventions, Stiglitz argues, may very well be justified. Here, a regulation that requires sector J, a particularly damaging sector, to switch to a low carbon process achieves the same reduction in carbon emissions at a lower effective carbon price and with lower distributional consequences across all other sectors. The general lesson, again, is that efficiency is not only the enemy of innovation in the allocation of resources, it can also be the enemy of fairness in the distribution of the returns from the use of those resources. And the simple carbon tax solution is actually very complicated. Economic policy should never be divorced from the political responses it generates. Imposing attacks to affect behavior runs a further risk. It can translate what might properly be a social norm into an exercise in economic calculus. Stiglitz is referring here to a famous lesson in the behavioral economics literature. At a daycare center in Israel, parents were occasionally late to collect their children, imposing a cost on their teachers and those who were responsible for maintaining the school. So it imposed a fine on any parent who was late. What happened? The result was that parental lateness increased hugely since there was now a price to be paid for what previously had been bad behavior, ethically and morally wrong. Finally, a certain potential conflict exists between a gradual increase in the price of carbon to allow for adjustments by those paying the price, versus a sharp increase to induce needed technological innovation. A sharp increase could be followed by a more moderate carbon tax down the road. The first oil crisis offers a challenging analogy. Once the OPEC oligopoly exercised its power to enormously increase prices, the price system generated a massive incentive to invest in reducing dependence on hydrocarbons. But the financial capacity to do so was radically constrained by the very tax, and that's what the price increase was, the very tax that provided the incentive. That is why any carbon tax must have offsetting modes of compensation for economic as well as political reasons, and why non-price policies are bound to be essential, including direct mission-driven state investment for relevant technological innovation. Of course, and unfortunately, in the United States, any attempt to formulate effective policies in response to climate change remain tragically irrelevant for the time being, at least through until January 2021. In fact, both retrospectively and prospectively, the American state has failed its constituents with consequences that can be read in the polarization of politics and the paralysis of policy. Backward looking, the American state failed to buffer its constituents from the economic consequences of the digital revolution. Forward looking, the American state has formally abdicated, at least for now, from the next needed green revolution. And in the current moment, the coronavirus has forced a hesitant and haphazard and highly differentiated response across the federal, fragmented American political landscape, even as once again America's original sin of slavery has regained political salience. In this most problematic moment, climate change as a mission offers an enormous, unique political opportunity to legitimize state investment at systemic scale with enormous benefits spread across the spectrum of incomes and jobs throughout the private sector and without killing anyone. The benefit of a legitimate war without shooting, but rather building. The Obama administration made a gesture in this direction. It created the Advanced Research Project Agency Energy, modeled on DARPA, the Defense Department's Vehicle for Advanced Innovative Investment. But even before 2017, the level of funding ranged between the trivial and the marginal, well under a tenth of what DARPA gets every year. For three years, the Trump administration has been seeking to liquidate RPE, as it has been seeking to suppress and repress any recognition of the reality of climate change. Congress has saved RPE, but only at these trivially low levels. Throughout, as noted in lecture two, venture capital has been missing in action in clean and green tech. And understandably so, since the politically legitimate support of a mission-driven state is also missing in action. Two years ago, somehow, the Trump administration allowed a federal agency to slip through an all-too-realistic forecast of climate outcomes down the road in the year 2100. There is an answer to this question, which is worse, ignorance or indifference. Unfortunately, the answer is, don't know, don't care. The capacity of the American state has been compromised for a long generation by the political spillovers from inequality in the market economy. Michael Spence is a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and he succinctly summarizes the result. Loss of authority breeds loss of confidence. It's already possible to imagine that in retrospect, the most lasting legacy of this, the Trump administration, will have been its contribution to accelerating China's advance to global leadership. Abdication by the U.S. has indeed left space for China, which in turn has raised its targets for renewable energy. China leveraged European subsidies for the installation of solar and wind power to reach leadership and production of solar panels and wind turbines. Another example, in this case somewhat indirect, of the power of procurement or subsidized demand to pull the supply side of the economy down the learning curve to low-cost reliable production. Now China is committed to generating domestic demand while it has been leading the world in R&D for a decade, green, clean R&D. Really China's role is and will be critical to any effective response to climate change. Is an effective division of innovative labor possible between China and the United States? The U.S. still leads in discovery and invention, and China dominates scale-up and production. But does China really mean it? Is China simply greenwashing its image with cheap talk? Well, they better mean it. China generates 29% of the world's carbon dioxide versus 16% for the United States. In the meantime, the ongoing drama of the coronavirus pandemic has offered China the opportunity to demonstrate both the somewhat belated but extraordinary effectiveness of its state capacity domestically as well as its capacity to reach out as an international leader. Even while the Trump administration was ignoring the evident acceleration of climate change, the American electorate was tuning in, and this may be the most positive news available. And that electorate included an increasing number of Republicans. Now the results of the 2020 election will inevitably be over-determined, meaning there will be numerous overlapping explanations for the outcome, whatever it turns out to be. Undoubtedly, one of the unique conditioning factors will have been the coronavirus pandemic, even if by then it will have at least stabilized, if not subsided, and even with a variety of more or less effective vaccines and therapeutics purportedly on their way. But shockingly deep as its impact has been on economic and social life around the world, the coronavirus necessarily represents a limited war. In fact, its lasting impact is likely to be on accelerating the deployment of technologies for online engagement and on cultural shifts in economic and social behavior that may well prove net beneficial in the overall response to climate change. But the longer struggle that Trump has consistently evaded will remain. The Green New Deal has gained traction as a slogan. It's a brand, not a plan. FDR's New Deal, the original New Deal, embodied, quote, bold, persistent experimentation. He did not take office with anything resembling a roadmap. In fact, his only two campaign commitments were, first, repeal prohibition, and second, balance the budget. FDR orchestrated a succession of more or less effective improvisations that reflected how the economic and financial catastrophe that he inherited legitimated state interventions both for recovery and for reform. Like FDR's New Deal, an effective, not an efficient Green New Deal will also require a mission-driven state legitimized this time by the urgency of climate change. And state funding of R&D and procurement can again catalyze productive speculation to fund broader development, deployment, and diffusion of the innovations that are needed once again to change the world. Let me conclude with a short set of takeaways from these lectures. First, the dynamics of the innovation economy encompasses complex and unstable feedbacks between the financial system, political processes, and the market economy, what I call the three-player game. Next, at the frontier, technological innovation necessarily entails investing in ignorance of the long-term economic value and quantifiable financial returns. As well, historically, such investing has depended on politically legitimate state interventions and episodic waves of financial speculation, productive bubbles. Financial venture capital has played a significant role over the past 40 years in funding bridges from invention and discovery to commercial exploitation, but only in a limited set of sectors – information communications technologies and healthcare biotech – where prior state investments had built platforms for entrepreneurs to dance on. The current financial environment is extraordinary. Very low interest rates, responding to successive shocks to an excessively globalized and financialized economy, inflate the current value of speculative future cash flows while failing to drive real growth in the face of the pandemic and in the face of endogenous self-insurance by market participants worried about the ability to depend upon the state for what they would hope would be there. Finally, exploration of the maturing digital economy dominates activity in the innovation economy today. Building the next new green economy waits on broad collaboration among nation states to underwrite the massive investments needed for effective response to climate change. Above all, it depends on effective collaboration between the United States and China. Hard to imagine at this moment, but the incentives for such collaboration can only become more compelling. This next chapter in the political and financial economics of innovation remains to be written. Thank you all for your time and attention. I trust that these lectures have contributed to providing some insight into the complicated, perverse often, but potentially productive process through which our world continues to be transformed by technological innovation and scientific discovery.