Hi everyone, thank you very much for coming for this tutorial on the drawing expression for this new project in Cuba. So, is it aware of the tutorial? The slides are available here, so you can read them out later on. So, this tutorial, we are really starting to mean that we will do the tutorial. We are KSC students here at the Ponte de Favre, and in my KSC Music Information Retrieval, and this is mainly KSC in natural language processing. So, this is mostly the joint work that we have been doing, we are all doing our KSC. It's not a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art in natural language processing in Miami. It's focused on the aspects we have worked on. We think that the most interesting areas know that there can be a intersection between these areas. We have the advice of all our pieces advisors, and we have a joint project here in the Ponte de Favre, that is called Music Meets LLB, where we have this tutorial that is supported by this project, and this is supported by Maria LLB. The objectives of this tutorial are, we'll provide a general introduction to LLB first, then try to address which areas of LLB might be interesting to use in Miami Art, and then address the extraction of semantic information from texts, and how to exploit this semantic information in Music Information Retrieval, and finally, we'll take some latest tendencies in natural language processing that can be also applied in Miami Art. So, why semantic information? So, in a typical Miami Art program, we can use the audio in Italy, the audio of the audio form, and use the audio for the task, the raw audio. Or we can get some low-level features from the audio, described in the audio, and use these features in our task, that can be machine learning, classification, whatever we want to do. So, we take these low-level features, or we can even extract high-level features from the audio. We can extract semantics like the mood, the genre, instruments, or high-level features, and use it in Music Information Retrieval task. So, this is a typical pipeline in Miami Art at the end. So, what happens with text? We can also use text in Miami Art. We can take the raw text and use it to count the words, and use these things in a Miami Art task. We can get surface features from the text, like part of a speech task, or other surface features, and use that for the task. So, there have been many papers in Miami Art using these approaches that use, like, vector speech model, part of speech task, concurrence, but we are not working on these tutorials, so this has to be done. So, what we propose is, okay, we can also get high-level features from text. In the same way that happens with audio, we can get semantics from the text, and then use these high-level semantic representations in a task. So, these semantic representations also come from the semantic web, and there have been some research in Miami Art also using semantic web as a representation in Miami Art. So, this tutorial is focused on these two aspects. One is how to get these high-level features from text, and how to exploit them in Miami Art. So, most of the research in Miami Art also dealing with text are based on lyrics corporate, and a few of them using other kinds of text, like biographies, blog formats, the videos, the libraries, and this tutorial is also focused on this task. We are not working with lyrics, we are working with biographies, we are writing the libraries, information that talks our music. And that's it. The outline of the talk is this. First, we are going to start with an introduction to NLP to define all the concepts in NLP in case you don't have experience with NLP before. Then we are going to focus more on information instruction that is a task in NLP. We have been working more on that, and then how to build music on the page, how to extract some of the information from text in another way, and then the application. We are going to apply that in Miami Art. We provide that in musicology. And then finally, we will talk about more latest tendencies, like lexical semantics and deep learning, and some conclassions at the end. So, let's start with this, that we will give this introduction to NLP.


We are reporting from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where more than 800 people from 17 countries attend the International Harm Reduction Conference. I have no hesitation in saying that for societies in Asia, drug prohibition is a historic wrong which needs to be corrected. We have countless examples in all regions of the world where harm reduction has saved lives, saved money and helped promote the human rights and dignity of people who use drugs. An estimated 100 billion US dollars is spent every year on punitive responses to drug control, yet harm reduction investment amounts to only 160 million dollars a year. This is just 7% of what is required to scale it up fully. The world has failed people who use drugs. Harm reduction international estimates that just 10 cents of every dollar spent on drug enforcement could fund the global HIV and hepatitis C response amongst people who inject drugs twice over every year. A 10% reinvestment of current drug enforcement spending by 2020 or 10 by 2020 is the collective demand of the harm reduction movement. Rick, why did you choose Malaysia? Malaysia this year to organize the International Harm Reduction Conference. In terms of Malaysia, we very much wanted to recognize the great work that's gone on here over the last 10 years to build the harm reduction response here. And we wanted to showcase it as a model of what could be achieved in the region when you had good partnership between government and civil society. The other aspect of course is the opportunity to sort of continue to highlight some of the human rights violations. Despite the good progress on harm reduction here, we still know Malaysia has very punitive drug laws. Harm reduction programs coexist with a policy environment that is very punitive. So you'll have operational harm reduction programs that hand out clean needles, but you'll have police at the same time waiting outside the methadone clinic or the needle exchange program arresting people and using needles as evidence. We have to come as a united to show our oppositions to the death penalty for drug offenses because it's one of the most serious negative consequences of the war on drugs. I'm based in Mexico City. I work in Latin America and producing in transit countries. Sometimes we forget that maybe they don't have high consumption rates, but what they do have is policies that militarize, that criminalize poor people, that criminalize people who produce, who cultivate these substances and these plants. And so it's important to think about how do we really bring them into a harm reduction conversation and how do we reduce that harm of the punitive and repressive drug policies that we have around the world. What's this global day action is about? What we've built, we've built a wall that represents and symbolizes the wall to funding for harm reduction. We just want to gather many, many people with many statesmen asking them, how do they value harm reduction? So as you can see people brought many different things because it saves lives, it makes a difference, it keeps my baby alive. I come from a drug-using background, so I really don't like the classification of being a clean person and a non-clean person or a suffering person and a clean person. And being a person who has recovered, we have stopped using certain drugs and using certain stuff that you like and going through that is kind of like you are nowhere. You are not in the harm reduction community, you are not in the 12 step or the NA community. I think as always what is most important is that the people who are directly concerned by drug use, by other activities that marginalize them has here really the possibility to express, to give their testimonies, to show their fights. It's wonderful to see Asian civil society coming together, being stronger, being more diverse, growing all the time, being more sophisticated in their advocacy as well. They are highlighting the important issues that remain in this region, compulsory drug detention and I think also importantly more attention being paid to the issue of stimulants and harm reduction for stimulant use, which is a big problem in this region. Claudia, why do you think it's important to address gender issues in relation to harm reduction services? Women continue to be excluded from many harm reduction services, even in places where these services are widely available and services continue to be very male dominated and very much a kind of one size fits all approach. Fortunately now with the advent of new and better drugs, hepatitis C is completely curable across genotypes within a short period of time. Drugs are prohibitively expensive. Significantly they don't allow exporter of those drugs to high burden hepatitis C countries like those in Latin America, the MENA region, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. We have a lot of problems in Russia and it's mainly connected with the lack of political will and insufficient funds for harm reduction services. Community itself can't do everything alone. I mean there should be some kind of help, that is technical help and also lobbying of our interests on a high level. The Global Fund keeps repeating that it has a limited budget and it has to allocate it on the low income countries and it can only take into consideration the disease burden and the level of income of a country. What would be your response to this? Well the Global Fund isn't withdrawing from middle income countries but it is withdrawing from many countries in Eastern Europe and Asia which is precisely where the people who inject drugs are and my response to the Global Fund and to all people who care about the fight against AIDS would be if you want to fight AIDS you have to go where the AIDS is and where the risk of AIDS is. You know we interviewed the head of the Global Fund and we asked like why do you move out from this country? He said because they are high income so the government should pay for harm reduction so what do you think about this issue? Income of the country usually not distributed for vulnerable population and in different countries vulnerable groups have the similar incomes, very low incomes. The Global Fund projects will soon end in Thailand. Does it endanger harm reduction services in Thailand? Once the transition is finished on 1st of January 2017 the Global Fund is pulling out of Thailand and to date there is no money in the bank to continue service delivery for people who inject drugs in Thailand. So we interviewed the head of the Global Fund and he said you know we have a very limited budget and we need to allocate it on Africa and poor countries not to higher income countries. What would you respond to that? There is historical evidence that the Thai government will not invest there. So yes perhaps the Global Fund is targeting their resources more efficiently but I think there is another dimension that they need to be conscious about and it's the willingness, it's not only capacity to pay but the willingness to have the policy and environment to enable the funding to lead to effective service delivery. This conference is really our last opportunity to prepare for Angas as a harm reduction movement. I think what really matters around Angas is that we sort of stick to the spirit with which this Angas was articulated and that spirit is a request for evaluation for thinking through what has not worked, of thinking about what needs to change. I think to all of us harm reduction as Alex Vodak said is also reducing the harms from bad drug policies. I hope the spirit of this conference will now inspire the people to go back to countries, to capitals, interact with their delegations and you know push for a successful Angas. UNODC, the agency responsible for leading the world fight against drugs in the UN called for decriminalization of drug possession for personal use as well as drug use. Unfortunately, as is so often the case, this important news has been complicated by the fact that the UN has caved and withdrawn its own report when in fact they were supposed to be releasing it here at the conference. Is there an important issue you would like to highlight at this international harm reduction conference? Well right now it's the election in Canada. We did it! Harper is out and I hope it's going to be helpful for us to have supervised injection site in Montreal to have better service for people who use drugs and for sex workers.


Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs continues on its mandate to ensure that the population is vaccinated for protection against the COVID-19 virus. As of Saturday 18 September 2021, 43,431 first doses and 29,146 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, seven months since the introduction of the vaccine to the population. 16.1% of the population has received the two recommended doses of the vaccine. The highest uptake of vaccines remains amongst the 50 years and older age group, followed by those 24 to 49 years. Tecla Jabatis is the Assistant Principal Nursing Officer and National Immunization Manager. Over the past weeks, the significant rise in reported cases and deaths is clearly a concern to us all. The burden on the health system is evident. It is important that every one of us plays our part in addressing this situation. Each one of us has a personal responsibility in the fight against this pandemic. We have noted unfavorable outcomes in persons of varying age groups and health profiles. Some vaccinated, whilst the significant majority were not. Our condolences to the families and loved ones of these individuals. From February 2021, when vaccines were introduced, until current, statistics show that unvaccinated persons account for 96.6% of hospitalizations. Jabatis says there is a significant number of persons who are partially vaccinated with only one dose of the vaccine. 1,843 persons, 4.2% of the total vaccinated in country, are overdue for the second dose of the vaccine. Partially vaccinated persons account for 2% of hospitalizations. Partially vaccinated persons account for 1.4% of hospitalizations. Unvaccinated persons account for 96.7% of deaths. Partially vaccinated persons account for 2% of deaths, whilst vaccinated persons account for 1.3% of deaths. Major batis reiterated that vaccines save lives as it reduces the risk of hospitalization and death.


Welcome to another episode of the Savvy Entrepreneur. Today we're talking about rent, and yes, it is too damn high. There's a reason for that, and it's all because very rich people, endowments, and other types of vehicles that are designed to hold and grow money are needing a place to park large sums of money that typical investment vehicles just aren't equipped to deal with. So let's explore. According to Investopia, rent seeking is defined as economic wealth obtained through shrewd or politically manipulative use of resources. So the concept is not necessarily a good thing. Rent seeking is essentially a bad thing. So why is it so commonplace that people pay rent? There are essentially three different types of entities that own property. There are the homeowners who own the property and live in it. There are small investors who have a handful of properties that use them to supplement their income. And then there are large institutions like private equity and hedge funds that own large swaths of properties, predominantly condos in high rises and large apartment complexes. The subprime mortgage crisis basically occurred because investors needed a place to park lots of money and have a good return on investment based on mortgages as a safe way to make a steady stream of income. Let's say you're the head of a pension plan, a pension plan with say hundreds of millions of dollars in it. You have to grow that pension plan at a certain rate every year in order for you to meet the liabilities that you have basically paying the beneficiaries. So what you need in order to have a high rate of return is to increase risk. However, if you're managing a pension plan, you don't want that risk because if you lose the money, then that is the future of your beneficiaries and you can't do that. How good of an investment is real estate? Let's take a look. Say you're able to buy a duplex for $400,000 and you are able to rent out each side for $1,500 a month. You generate $36,000 a year. That is a 9% gross return on capital. So over a period of 11 years, you double your money in terms of gross, not accounting for the increase in the value of the building. Commercial real estate, now that's an even better deal. Some rental agreements last 10 years and oftentimes tenants are in charge of any sort of improvements or maintenance and businesses are typically more stable than the income of an individual household. The problem is if you're managing a huge fund that has to meet the obligations of your pensioners, how are you going to make all those individual investments in a fruitful manner? You can't. So that's why the stock market is there. However, the tech bubble made a lot of people wary of putting all of their money into the stock market. The mortgage crisis of the mid-2000s made people not want to buy mortgage-backed securities. And now COVID is making people rethink their investments into commercial real estate. Now just like the residential real estate crisis, there was a large drop in the book value of many properties. This is going to be, in my opinion, much larger for commercial real estate because the price tags of commercial real estate buildings are way more. According to a recent article in The Economist, the commercial real estate part of the business is $32 trillion. Yeah, you heard that right. Trillion. Private equity and publicly traded funds are about a third of that total. And on top of that, these entities have mountains of cash waiting to spring on the best investments that are coming through the door. What I think is going to happen is a certain key commercial real estate locations will increase in value because they have a lower risk of nonoccupancy. The Economist also talked about in places like New York, if 10% of the current renters of commercial real estate were to not rent, the overall price of a square foot in Manhattan would drop by 50%. The value of these properties are calculated by their potential to make cash flow and that cash flow is to rent. So if rent is dropped by 50%, then the price and the valuation of that building has hence dropped by 50%. That's massive. Can you imagine if your house was worth 50% of what you thought it was? Now, this is a big deal for everyone because everyone's 401k and pensions and other types of low risk investment vehicles have large swaths of these type properties. To help us with this discussion, I've invited Marta Lochemin. Marta is running for the local Boulder County Commissioner position. So another thing that's really important to us here in Boulder County is renting. A large portion of the people here in this county rent and rent has been going up pretty steadily since I've been here in 2014. Do you want to talk about some of the initiatives you're planning on doing in order to combat rent inflation? Yeah, let me give a little bit of background, especially for folks who might be listening or watching from other areas, that in Boulder County, from a county perspective, and we have 330,000 residents in Boulder County, 45% of our residents are renters. In the city of Boulder, it's 55%. And so we have, when you talk about renting, and I think that's helped kind of people figure out, you know, how does that feel? And the other piece that is happening nationally and also here in our county is the reality of not just renting, but also spending more than 30% of your income on your rent. And so that's another, you know, kind of topic of the conversation. But just from the piece of rent, one, there's a need, obviously, because we have such a great portion of our community that rents. And we can kind of talk about the different pieces of that. But maybe that background for people is at least helpful. So do you think that promoting home ownership is a good way to combat this, or do you think that keeping prices rent down is the better way? Depends what your outcome, you know, where you're going and what are you looking for. So my background is focused on home ownership.  And also a lot of my nonprofit work with the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals. That's what we focus on is sustainable home ownership. And people ask me a lot, like, what does that mean? That the idea of sustainable means that we, as advocates of housing, advocate for and look for and create different types of the different steps to get to home ownership. So it might be like you're talking about renting. There's a need, just with the data I just shared, but you need. And there's also this need for affordable rentals. And that can look like very different, you know, different ways than affordable rental. It could look like deed restricted housing, which we have some of that here in Boulder County as well. We can talk about a little more specifics too if you want to. Ultimately, I believe what we're missing in Boulder County is entry-level housing.  Typically, it's not the first time you buy a car. It's not typically the car you're hoping you have forever. It's the A to B and the A to B and the A to B to start and home ownership. In my mind, we need to provide some more opportunities for folks to start with something like that, translated into housing, and then move on and, you know, as different things, you know, life changes, right? Yeah, that's such a good point because, you know, someone might not be able to afford the average home in Boulder, but might be able to down the road. And between then and where they are at this point in time, if they were to buy a house for 200-something thousand, then they could be saving their equity and not just throwing it away into someone else's mortgage, right? Yeah, absolutely. And I think that's the piece of your right. I mean, Boulder this week, we're looking at, oh, and I just looked at numbers yesterday from an on the market. You're, I believe, 1.8 million average active on the market. So, unsold property on the market in the city of Boulder. Interestingly enough, Longmont just went over half a million this last week, which is shocking. But what does that say? It's exactly what you're talking about. And then we also have, and then we also have a house here, the low-priced attached dwelling here in Longmont this week is at 225, which is right in that bracket that you were talking about. And so again, the affordable, we have to pay attention because I think affordable, it's not that I think affordable in the term has changed over the last 20 years. Oh, yeah. Think of it. Affordable if you're working for Google is a lot different than if you're, if it's affordable and you're working for, you know, half a taco down the street, right? Right, yeah, absolutely. And I mean, there's the cost kind of the price point. And then there's also what a lot of folks think about when they talk about affordable housing is the subsidies. And that's, you know, something that we're going to have to look at, I believe, in some other creative ways because we need to have, we know we have a housing issue here in Boulder County. We have a housing shortage. It was just participating in the City of Longmont City Council meeting this past Tuesday. I was going to say past week, but it's only Thursday, I think today. I don't know if you kind of catch some of those or caught some of that info, but there's potential businesses who right now are looking, it was a Longmont Economic Development Partners report of like 7,000 potential jobs. We don't have 7,000 open doors. We can't issue in Boulder County of basically, and the data will show about 3.5 jobs to every one housing unit. I mean, that's just going to press homes up even further. I mean, supply and demand, right? Yeah, we did talk about economics, right? Yeah. So on the topic of economics, a couple of ways people can look at this problem. If you think about it as an economic equation, there's supply and demand. So if the population of people who took the lowest income jobs were no longer there or willing to take those jobs, then the price that employers would need to pay those people would have to go up, then giving them a living wage. But that's not a very empathetic way to look at things. You want to discuss the heartless economic approach versus the more empathetic approach and where we can maybe find some more in the middle? There's a few pieces in there, really. We talk about that and I hear people say that a lot, especially with the numbers that we're just talking about, and the reality of where our housing market is. And some of that argument sounds like not everybody lives in San Francisco, not everybody lives in New York City, and not everybody needs to live in Boulder. And we also have community needs, and we've seen this, especially, I mean, COVID, a perfect example, our flood in 2013 was another, the reality that we need to have our educators, we need to have our first responders, we need to have our county employees be able to live in the area, our counties and our cities where we need their supports. And when I say we, I'm talking about, again, that 330,000 population, right? There's folks needed to be resourced. We are still not, which is a separate conversation, but we're as much as we want to think that we're reaching people online, especially right now during COVID, we still have a significant portion of our community who's disconnected still. And so having people on the ground, and some of those jobs, which I don't know if we'll really get into or not with the essential services, etc., some of those jobs are not jobs that can be done digitally. And so the fact that we need to truly come up with solutions to allow people to live and work in their own community is real. That's a great point. So, I mean, teachers aren't paid a ton. Could a teacher even be able to afford a home in Boulder County on a single income? You know, I've heard a presentation where the comment was that a Boulder County resident would have to make $100,000 a year to buy a property here in the county. And I disagree with that. And here's why, I mean, just hearing that data shared out, on the interwebs was so concerning to me because that's the industry that I work in. And there's two things right now. And this is time sensitive because of where interest rates are right now in this country. You don't have great interest rates and great home prices at the same time. Just like you can't sell your home for an amazing price and buy a home for that really low price that you're wanting, right? I mean, you can't do both at the same time. And similarly, but that's one of the pieces right now. And we have home and interest rates or mortgage interest rates at less than 3% in the U.S. right now. That makes me think a little bit more about the preparation standpoint and how do we help people be in a position, right? The opportunity meets you when you're prepared, right? That's another piece of that. How do we help people get their credit, get their savings, understand what the steps are so that they can be in a position to take an advantage, take advantage of, in some ways, the market that we have right now. And I know people are saying, no, it's not a good market because that house price is high. But I've never accessed mortgage financing at less than 3% on a regular mortgage. I mean, I'm not talking about a 10-year arm right now. It's a regular 30-year fixed mortgage. And so that's part of, to me, the messaging that's not being shared. Your question specifically around teachers, teachers in the same brain where we're at, Volta Valley teachers actually make a little bit more, which is one of the pieces of retention that the district here needs to address. But your right in Colorado in general, we do not pay our teachers. Well, we just don't pay them enough to, we don't provide the security. And we're seeing right now with COVID, all the public health issues. A teacher here on a regular, just a single person as a teacher is not going to be able to afford the average house property, house right now in the city of Longmont, as an example. Most teachers that I know, and being a previous teacher, we don't typically work one job. There's a myriad of reasons for that. And so going back to that piece of how do we show that's a state situation, that's another funding conversation that I believe 100% needs to happen. Yeah, I agree. I think it's tragic that our educators, the keystone of our communities, people who, with COVID, as you mentioned, are super important now that everyone realizes how difficult it is to educate their own kids. These people we've got to really take care of, and I agree with you completely. I mean, the only thing I was going to add around the education, because you're right, people don't know what happens, what goes on in the building from a teacher standpoint. But the other reality, and I believe that things have changed and evolved over the last 10 to 15 years when we think about just how society has changed here in the US, the teachers are not just teaching. And I'm sure that parents who have now been taken on that role are feeling that in a different way, because teachers truly are social workers, their support systems, their gateways to resources and all of those different pieces. And they happen in the past teaching too, state exams, and so there's a whole lot more to it that I believe those support systems need to be, are going to have to be addressed here as we move into online schooling here in most parts of Colorado shortly. Sidebar. Yeah, that's a very important thing to add. But again, why they need to be paid more. Exactly, right? Exactly. So another thing we could talk about about home prices and renting and that whole topic is the fact that some people own dozens of rental properties. And sometimes there are entities and corporations. And I was doing a lot of research on this, and this has basically occurred because investors with large sums of money want a steady return on their investment.  The problem is, is that when these investors and institutions have a large amount of homes, they can both control the pricing because they own so much of it, they can unilaterally push prices up. And B is preventing people who are like we were talking about at the bottom end of the market from getting into their first homes, because most rental properties, let's face it, they're not the best homes in the best neighborhoods. So these are literally taking away advantage potential opportunities for these low income people to get into their first home. So what do you think about applying some sort of tax or disincentive to these multi-multi-home owners? I'm not talking about the pure personal ones, one or two income properties for their retirement. I'm talking about people who own dozens. And I think there's a couple pieces that when we talk about disincentivizing somebody from running their business, because in my mind somebody who's a property investor, it's either their full-time job or it's truly a business, right, when you talk about somebody who has, and I think that's important distinction you were making at the end. So we've got a small landlord who let's say they own one to 10 properties. They're most likely self-employed. They probably don't have any health benefits. They probably don't have any 401k account. They don't have vacations, et cetera. So that creates that's another business on top of their other self-employed business, right, or company that they're building, et cetera. That to me is one conversation. And then the other conversation is what you're talking about. But I think that distinction is so important because as we know right now in the conversation about rent and COVID and paying mortgages and things has gotten to, in my opinion, very skewed. So the other group that I believe you're talking about right now and referring to is kind of the corporate investor or these big companies. The keyboards. Well, and every community is different, right? I mean, in some areas around the country, we're talking about folks who own apartment buildings. You know, if you've got five apartment buildings and you've got 60 units in each or et cetera. So we've got hundreds of doors that these folks are maintaining or overseeing, et cetera. So that I think is important just from a distinction of who are we talking about. And I still believe, you know, do we use, do we disincentivize or do we create incentives for property owners to consider this kind of back to that empathetic conversation? Do we incentivize somehow in Boulder County opportunities for property owners to give back to the community and allow our first responders or community members, folks who want to build equity, et cetera, in our community locally, some type of incentive to give them an opportunity to look at a first time home buyer, for example, who wants to offer on their home or this rental home that they're ready to get rid of versus another investor. And I believe that there are some ways that we could do that. And I think that's one of the ways that we can address some of these issues. It's not going to open all the doors that we need. We already talked about some of that data, right? I'm going to open some of the doors immediately. But could it open up another pool? And that to me is where we need to get involved with some of our nonprofits and potentially some of our local housing agencies, housing partners, et cetera, to really look at some of that type of incentivizing because my concern is if we disincentivize, we know how people can react to that when the reality is we just want to make sure that people can live and work here in Boulder County. So you don't think that's a good idea to disincentivize the people who, as you said, have hundreds of doors? To put taxes, I mean, basically to put some type of a tax or fees or something on a corporation who owns property. Over a certain number of doors. It depends on what the outcome is, I suppose. I mean, if the tax is based on, um, if the tax is based on, for example, you've got, I'm trying to think of what would be a great, you know, just a kind of a cutoff number. Let's say you have more than 300 units that you're, I would say way lower. I'd say a dozen. If you got more than a dozen units, then some of those properties should be owned by owner operators and not by, you know, just capital investors from maybe outside of the state or even outside the country. So are you thinking like a, you know, I think it's an interesting concept. If you're disincentivizing, meaning you're going to tax them or feed them based on their property, put them in a different property, like property tax potentially. Great idea. Yeah. And yeah, from a corporation standpoint, are there, I believe, yes, there's opportunities that we could change the tax structures that gets pretty complicated. But that's an opportunity of how do we, um, how do we bring in a little bit more revenue? And then where would that tax money go potentially could go into some of these housing assistance exactly. Gap assistance. That's one of the things I really want to see is a gap assistance type of program. Um, because we have these different, you have to fit in such a box to get into these different programs. And there's a group of folks in the middle that, that really just need, need that support to be able to get into those entry level properties that we're talking about. Talking with Jonathan Singer, a representative here in the state of Colorado and an expert in all things domestic here in the state of Colorado. Jonathan, talk to me about rent. Well, thank you. And, uh, I'm enough of an expert to know that I'm not an expert in everything. Um, so, so first of all, I don't know when this is actually going out, but this is really important for people to hear both on the landlord and the rent side of things. Um, is that the state created a rental assistance fund. It's $20 million and those dollars come from the federal government. They need to be spent by the end of the year. They need to be spent by the end of the year. So if you are a landlord that is giving your tenant leeway right now, but you are struggling because you're not sure where you're going to make up the money for your mortgage, please, please reach out to me, reach out to the state of Colorado, reach out to our local officials. Um, this is the time to do something. If you're a renter and you don't know how, how much of your lease you're going to make up, same thing, please reach out. This is the time to do that. Uh, we've got to have a roof over everyone's head in the era of COVID-19. I, before the era of COVID-19, I said housing is healthcare and even more so in a pandemic, housing is not only healthcare, but it actually keeps other people safe too. And so, um, so I'll just start out there by saying that because that is so important. Um, that being said, I think, um, you know, housing is part of the reason that I ran for office. I started out as a caseworker working with families experiencing homelessness and saw how, um, you know, people were not treated well. They were disrespected and treated as really less than human. And, um, housing isn't just healthcare, but it's a right. And, and so that's part of the reason I decided to run for office. And it became real to me really just a couple of years ago as, as a lifelong renter, um, having lived in Longmont for the last 14 years, um, my landlord doubled my rent. And on a lawmaker salary in Colorado, making less than a social worker, um, there was no way I was going to be able to afford that for, for me and my family. And I was lucky enough, um, that my in-laws, um, were trying to buy a house and really needed some, some tenants to help make up their mortgage. And, and so, um, this is where I'm sitting here today actually is from, you know, the place where I now live because I was lucky and, and I always like to bring that up.  Um, and that is the honest to God truth of what it's like to live in Colorado and in Boulder County and even in the city of Longmont, arguably the most affordable city in Boulder County. Absolutely. And that's a great example of what people are having to do with COVID and the economic situation. And again, talk about that program and is there a website that people can visit? So, um, absolutely. I'm happy to share, share the program website. Um, I'll put it right there below, right? I'll, I'll put it, put it in the comments because I could give it to you verbally and it's gonna be, um, so actually, and, and, and as soon as I said that, it totally escaped my mind. So never mind. Um, put it right there, ticker it right there. Perfect. Yes. It's run through the Department of Local Affairs, um, through the Colorado State government. Um, but those grants are out there. That money needs to be spent and we know the need is out there. And, and, you know, I will say it's, it's, it's personal to me.  And for me, was elected to serve in. I mean, I won with two thirds of the vote, um, in 2018. And I wasn't sure if I was gonna be able to represent the people who voted for me. Um, and so for me to not feel like I could be a part of my community, what does that mean for everyone else? And so I think, you know, I don't, I don't, you know, I'm, I'm not deserving and I don't ask for people's sympathy, but I tell people if it can happen to your elected officials, who can it not happen to? Amen. Powerful words, Jonathan. I appreciate it. And thanks for the information. I think that those programs are going to be really helpful to our audience. So thank you for that. Absolutely. And, you know, we have a ton of other programs. We passed a slew of bills in the last couple of years to protect renters. Unfortunately, we didn't see, um, local control of, of rental rent control come into, come into play. But for people leaving the criminal justice system, I helped create a program for people who are experiencing either mental illness or substance use disorder to get access to housing and wrap around case management services. One, because it's the right thing to do, two, because we do have housing for people, it's called jail and it's really expensive and inhumane. So, um, so we, we are really trying to flip the script at the state level to create a humane cost effective system.  So there are tons of opportunities that we have created in the last couple of years, um, to really protect renters in an era where, you know, rent is just far too high and we've created an affordable housing crisis here in, in our state and really across the country. So what do you think about initiatives to make renting, uh, less profitable for landlords by doing so, reducing the housing prices, allowing for people to purchase homes rather than having the price of homes be beyond the reach of people who are making under $100,000 a year? Yeah. I mean, I think it's, it's time to stop paying lip service to saying that, oh, well, everyone can afford a home or, or that, um, everyone can afford to purchase a home, I should say, or that we need to talk about attainable housing or workforce housing. Housing, we need to start off with a frame of mind saying housing is a human right and then start working from there because if you start backing into it by saying, oh, well, we're going to allow, we're going to create a 10% affordable housing ordinance, which is important or we're going to put into place rent control limitations, which is important too, or, or we're going to provide grants for people who are struggling with, with rent on a month to month basis, which is also important. Nothing's going to solve this by itself, but if, if, but if we don't start out with the perspective that everyone who can breathe deserves a roof over their head, we're never going to get to that ultimate goal. So, so I apologize. I probably didn't answer your question very directly there. And if you want to ask it again, I'm happy to answer it directly. So I think you basically covered it. I also wanted to talk about how much more cost effective it is to keep people in a home and a roof over their head than having them be evicted, be homeless, and how much more that costs society. You know, this, this is the interesting thing is that when we talk about housing and healthcare, you know, the state of Colorado provides that in jail. And so when we're willing to spend $30, $40,000 a year or more for that in our criminal justice system, we need to understand, we are saving three times that money by providing supportive housing options with case management and affordable options for people. When you have a chronic illness, whether it's diabetes or chronic mental illness or, or cancer, if you don't have stable housing, what happens is you start utilizing the emergency room. And who picks up the bill for that? In Colorado, that's the taxpayer. These are folks who are typically on Medicaid, who now are spending $1,000 or more every time they enter, take an ambulance ride and, and go to an emergency department when people could be maintained on food. Exactly. And, and decent medication on a regular basis, but for housing insecurity. And so we have a pilot Medicaid program where we're actually using Medicaid dollars for housing and saving Medicaid dollars at the same time. So we're saving lives, saving dollars through housing. Yeah.  Like, I can't even imagine that. You know, it's honestly, it's one of the reasons that I ran for office in the first place. I was brought on in the city County of Denver as their 10 year blueprint to end homelessness. That 10 year blueprint, I think started in about 2005. We're not there yet, right? And, and part of it might, the team I worked on was eliminated because I was told homelessness is not a significant enough barrier to employment. My job was to get other people jobs and careers. Well, you know, this was under the, this was under Mayor Hickenlooper and whether it was him or a middle manager, you know, my job description changed. Thankfully, I wasn't eliminated, but my job description changed. And to put that on someone to say, you know what, homelessness is not a significant, significant enough barrier to employment. You either need to get a job or move, move, move along when you don't have a home address to put on your resume. At that time, cell phones weren't as omnipresent as they are now. When you may not even have a phone number or a way that you can access your email, which has changed a lot now with cell phones, but still these basic human rights people were being treated like, you know what, it's not a right. And so this is something where we do really need to just change the fundamental assumptions of how we treat people. Absolutely. One thing that I've heard some people say is that the homeless population here in Colorado is a migrant population that comes in and out. Is that true? By and large, it's not. I mean, there is a portion of the population that is transient, chooses to be transient, but the vast majority of people experiencing homelessness are working and have children. And so, you know, I want people to think about literally the hundreds of families, the hundreds of children in St. Frayn Valley School District that don't have a stable place to live, are living in doubled up situations, are potentially staying, parents are staying with abusive partners just to keep a roof over their kids' heads. These are the choices that people have to make every day that they shouldn't have to. And you've made some progress to push legislation to prevent this type of thing, haven't you? Absolutely. I mean, this is one of the things that we've worked on is we've worked on things to say, look, if you are the victim of domestic violence, you're a domestic violence survivor, you have the right to get leeway from your landlord to get out of your lease. I mean, this is, this is, sounds like it's common sense, but it's not always common sense. And so, we weren't going to be a bystander to, or even, you know, I'll say it, we weren't going to be an accomplice in domestic violence by allowing a system that would allow landlords, oftentimes, who aren't even in the state to take advantage of people. The other big thing that we did is made huge, huge changes for our mobile home park communities and our manufactured housing communities. This is the most affordable entry-level way to get into home ownership, but the scary thing is the vast majority of the time people who live in manufactured housing communities don't own the land under them. So they might own that 20 or $30,000, you know, dwelling that they're living in, but what they don't own is the land under them. And so, once again, there are oftentimes nameless and faceless corporations from around the country that buy up these properties, don't maintain them, and then threaten their residents with egregious lot rent increases that force people to leave. And we know that these manufactured homes don't go with them when they leave. They're hard to move, and oftentimes, when you try to move them, you damage them in a way that makes them uninhabitable. And so, we passed a mobile home park owners, or yeah, or not a mobile home park owners, but mobile home owners Bill of Rights just last year to say, you know what? You are afforded legal representation and legal rights here in Colorado if you find yourself in a situation where someone's not providing you the right kind of water and electricity hookups, or someone's trying to force you out by selling the property without giving you notice. I mean, all of these things are, once again, basic human rights and a fight that we should have won years ago, but it was your lawmakers stepping up in the last two years that has created this, and also a strong enforcement mechanism through our State Department of Local Affairs and the Division of Housing, so we can go out there and not just say, you know what, they are breaking the law, good luck, go find a lawyer, or say, you know what, we're going to investigate with you whether or not they're breaking the law and hold them accountable through fines and fees if they are breaking the law and keep their pocketbook in check. Bravo. Thank you for all your work, Jonathan. You've done a great job for the community and the state. Well, it's been an honor and, you know, titles only mean as much as the work you do with it, and the work continues regardless of where things end up for me. Well, I look forward to seeing what you have for your next Encore Performance, because your first one has done a great job. Well, thanks again for having me. Again, special thanks to Marta and Jonathan for their hard work in supporting this community and for joining our conversation on this program. If you're a tenant and you're having issues making rent or if you're a landlord and your tenants are having issues making their payments, reach out to the organizations that Marta and Jonathan spoke about today. Let's promote home ownership, not just because it is the savvy thing to do financially, but because it is the right thing to do. Until next time, stay savvy.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session, we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that the mean wage of 100 workers in a factory running two shifts of 70 and 30 workers is $40. The mean wage of 70 workers in the modeling shift is $38. Find the mean wage of 30 workers working in the evening shift. We know that when two sets of scores have been combined into a single distribution, then the mean of the combined distributions is the weighted mean of the means of the components. Therefore, mean of the combined distributions x bar is given by n1 x1 bar plus n2 x2 bar whole divided by n1 plus n2, where x bar is the mean of the combined distributions x1 bar and x2 bar are the means of the component distribution n1 n2 is the total frequency of the component distribution. With this key idea, we shall proceed with the solution. Now, the mean wage of 100 workers in a factory is given as $40. The workers work in two shifts such that 70 workers work in the morning shift and 30 workers work in the evening shift. Also, the mean wage of 70 workers is given as $38. We need to find the mean wage of 30 workers working in the evening shift. Let x bar, x1 bar and x2 bar denote the mean wage of 170 and 30 workers respectively. Then, the mean wage of 100 workers that is x bar is given as $40, the mean wage of 70 workers that is x1 bar is given as $38 and we need to find the mean wage of 30 workers also let n1 and n2 denote the number of workers working in the morning evening shifts respectively. Then, n1 is equal to 70 and n2 is equal to 30. Now we shall find combined mean of the wages of the workers using the key idea which states that when two sets of schools have been combined into a single distribution then the mean of the combined distributions is the weighted mean of the means of the components that is mean of the combined distribution denoted by x bar is equal to n1 x1 bar plus n2 x2 bar whole upon n1 plus n2 where x1 bar and x2 bar are the means of the component distribution and n1 plus n2 is the total frequency of the component distribution. Therefore, combined mean of the wages of the workers is given by x bar is equal to n1 x1 bar plus n2 x2 bar whole upon n1 plus n2 which is equal to x bar is 40 is equal to n1 x1 bar that is 70 into 38 plus n2 x2 bar that is 30 into x2 bar whole upon n1 plus n2 that is 70 plus 30 or we can write 40 is equal to 2660 plus 30 x2 bar whole upon 100 which can be written as 4000 is equal to 2660 plus 30 x2 bar which can be written as 4000 minus 2660 is equal to 30 x2 bar on solving further we get the value of x2 bar is equal to 1340 by 30 which is further equal to 44.66 or we can say the value of x2 bar is approximately equal to 44.7 Therefore, the mean weight of 30 workers in the evening shift is 44.7 dollars which is the required answer. This completes our session hope you enjoyed this session.


Hello earth citizens. In this video I will show you a 10 minute routine to do to open your stomach meridian. Your stomach is associated with the feelings of anxiety, stress, overwhelm and overwork. So if you have any of those feelings, chances are there's some tension in your stomach which can hinder your digestion. The stomach meridian runs from the corner of your head, right here, down the front side along your mouth, down to the outside of your leg, down to your second toe.  So these are the two energy channels that govern your stomach. It's very hard to try to take out energy from your stomach directly so we use energy channels like this by opening and twisting those energy channels you open the energy blocks that are in your stomach as well. So let's try these exercises to open any stagnant energy that you might have in your stomach. First exercise we will do is bend your knees, feet flat on the floor. There's an acupressure point that I'd like to help you find. Find your bone that connects your knee first. It's a little raised bone right here, side of your leg. Find that bone from your bone, four finger widths down. So extend your four fingers down and right where the fourth finger sits, this is an acupressure point that connects to your digestion. So here in this point we're going to have our fists like this and tap. So tap that point 30 times. It feels like a little tender sore spot, that point. Ready? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 20. Last 10, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 30. Feel your legs. You might feel some tingling. I feel some tingling going down my legs. That means energy is moving in your meridian channels. Great. Next exercise we will do is called pushing up to heaven. So a lot of the times you know with gravity and bad posture we might be slouched down like this causing our stomach to crunch and be stressed up. So with this exercise we're going against gravity to create space in your stomach so your stomach can breathe. So we're going to alternate one arm at a time. First we will push with your right hand. Rest your left hand on your ankle. Take a deep breath in with me as you face your palm up to the sky and push. Exhale. Let's do five times on each arm. Number two, deep breath in. Exhale. Three, deep breath in. Exhale. Great job. Now switch right hand resting on your ankle. We're going to push with our left arm. Ready? Same thing. Deep breath in. Push up. Exhale. Return. Number two, when you go up make sure you're really stretching to create room. Number two, stretch, stretch, stretch, stretch. Exhale. Exhale. Last one, make it a good one. Breathe in. Stretch up to the sky. Hold your breath. Exhale. Return. Great job. Could you feel the opening? You're doing great. Next one. So sit to the side. Legs out first. So legs pointed out first. Now bend your right leg and rest that right leg on your left leg. Okay? So now from here you're going to take a deep breath in and then stretch forward. It's a little tricky but when you stretch forward like this you're bringing a lot of blood and oxygen to your abdominal area and your vital organs get a lot of circulation through this breath. Okay? So follow after me. Take a deep breath in. Exhale. Stay here. Breathe in.  One more time. Breathe in. Exhale. Return. Let's do two more sets. So breathe in one more time. Exhale. Stay down here. Breathe in through your nose. Last set on the side. Deep breath in. Exhale. Bend forward. Stay here.  Last breath. Breathe in. Exhale. Return. Now switch. Straighten your right leg. Bend your left leg. Rest it on your right leg. Same thing. Same breathing pattern. Breathe in and out. If you're very sensitive to energy you can feel warmth. A lot of warmth and circulation building in your abdomen. Take a deep breath in. Exhale. Bend forward. Stay here. Breathe in through your nose. Exhale. Return to center. Two more sets. Breathe in. Exhale. Out through your mouth.  Last one. Last set. Are you ready? Deep breath in. Exhale. Feel the stretch. Breathe in through your nose. Out through your mouth. Breathe in. Throw your spine back up and return to center. Now keep your leg there and now hold your toes and we're going to rotate that ankle. Rotate that ankle. 10 times on one side. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Now other side. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Now let's switch. Right foot. Rotate. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Switch. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Center. Sit and have lotus posture. Rest your hands on your knees. Take a deep breath in through your whole body. One more time. Deep breath in. Let's exhale out any remaining dust or stagnant energy that's still inside. Deep breath in and let it go with a big sigh. How did you do?   You did a great job. These exercises are taken from the meridian exercise for self-healing by Ilchili. I'll drop a link down in the description below on how you can get a copy today. To experience a full one-hour brain education-based class, please visit a local body of brain yoga studio near you.


Before we get into this episode where we talk about weapon X I gotta give a special shout out to the newest team keep it clean channel member Annette Trent Appreciate you now whenever you comment on any video. You'll have that nice pretty beautiful star Right next to your name to let everybody know like hey I'm a team keep it clean channel member if you want to become one too. All you got to do is click the join button I love y'all. Let's get into this first question that came from my guy Jai baby. He said what's up in graven? Hope all is well Ravens picked up Andy Isabella before the Sean Jackson, but we have yet to see him on the field or even hear anything about him It's the weirdest thing It's still the weirdest thing like they done did flip flops and they done played crisscross applesauce with all these different receivers But you hear nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing about Andy Isabella But anyway, he said I think he would be a good contribution in the quick slot situation He has speed that I've seen him in the past. What do you think is going on with Isabella? I don't know. I don't know. I Got no clue And yeah, I agree in that short passing game that the Ravens have been using under Tyler Huntley Yeah, he yeah, and if they use that with Lamar to with Eddie Yeah, that could help with yak because he got speed if they could get him the ball early get the ball in his hands early And even throwing some deep passes to like, but I don't know. I really don't know It's it's the weirdest thing man. Like you ain't here heard of peep But I think somebody showed me something um like maybe a week or two ago Well, he was wearing the number nine in practice. I said, oh, they didn't even get it Jersey number they gave him Justin Tugger just like whoa, hold on that, but so I don't know I really don't know it is so crazy but Cuz it's like the Ravens they They used the Marcus Robinson They use him Devin Duvenay, they be using him a little bit But other than that, they don't use it with the Shawn Jackson now. He's been getting like one two catches in the game So he's been getting used but Yeah, I mean the other receivers have been pro shade. It's been a Tylen Wallace I know he's on I y'all right now.  So I mean why not but I guess the Ravens they Know something that we don't in it. I don't know is it's so weird man Like we ain't heard a peep man, but he also said on another note I truly love the way Huntley shares his passes and opens up the field seems as if the Y receivers have a different feel with him A good feel though And I know we all see how Roman opened that snoop playbook and it really works looks productive for everyone What are your thoughts? Well, yeah, that's that's the Ravens opening up the field a bit They still don't have some of the same issues with the receivers being in the same area sometimes But the the way that it opens up the field, which is a good thing That's why we hope and we've been hoping even before Lamar got hurt that they would have the short quick passing game involved a lot more But it allows the receivers to get their ball in their hands quicker It allows the quarterback to get the ball out of his hands quicker and with the short passing game You take a bunch of short passes short passes short passes that can help set you up for the long pass for the attempt So it'll catch the defense slipping, but it is a way to get different guys involved and it can work It can be successful Because that's like the short passing game is it's sort of an extension of the running game It is but it just it helps just diversify the offense that much more So now if Snoop ends up playing in this game or it ends up being Anthony Brown Now what we hope for and again It's it's a lot to ask cuz again, they are backup quarterbacks But whether it's Snoop whether it's Anthony Brown because I don't think it's gonna be Lamar Jackson that plays in this next game But we can hope that well We do hope that along with the short passing game and hopefully the running game continues shout out to Ronnie Stanley Being back in JK getting strong and strong and Gus as well But along with the short passing game We hope that they can incorporate some deep passes as well and get the deep the deep passing game going because that Would help take the offense to another level. So that would be a beautiful thing to see He said thanks for engraving and like Lamar Jackson in week 15. Hopefully not. I'm out. Go flockers That's my homie The team can be clean welcome to another episode of questions from subs Well, y'all can ask any question you want to and we answer in the video Just like this if you want to learn how to be a part of it check everything down below in the description If you want to become a team keep it clean patron check everything down below in the description If you ever want to send anything to the team keep it clean PO box check everything down below in the description Next question came from a patron my guy surge. He said what's up engraving see this time I'm writing to you after a win and it's always nice When we can have questions after wins But anyway, he said back during the off-season I had a conversation with one of my buddies from LA and they were telling me a story about a current NFL players brother That worked with him. He asked that NFL's player brothers How much longer they thought that player will keep playing football before they retired? They said that player planned on only playing one more season before retiring that person was a Shawn Jackson's brother At that point in time. I didn't think we'd ever sign him I thought we had a solid wire receiver group coming into the season Unfortunately, that's not looking like the case. So my question to you is knowing that it's most likely his last season playing Will you be getting a to Shawn Jackson Jersey? I mean, I haven't I haven't gotten a jersey for myself in a long time Yeah, it's been ages. So I mean probably not I don't know if the Shawn Jackson wanted to send one I will certainly take it but Probably not and it obviously it ain't nothing against him. It's just me. I just haven't gotten a jersey and like literally forever And he said also now that T. Y. Hilton is signing with the Cowboys Do you think our chances of signing Odell Beckham, Jr. Whether for now or for the future have gotten any better much love from the a surge appreciate it man. Um, I Think slightly. Well, yeah, I mean in the bills. They signed Cole Beasley So it's like two teams that he visited with already. They've already signed other receivers And veteran receivers at that guys that can contribute right away So I don't know what Odell Beckham, Jr. The pickings looking slim man So they I heard that the the chiefs they still talking to him Last we heard about the Ravens was last week that they were still in conversations with him And the other team was the Giants. So I mean, we'll see we just waiting I guess I mean, I really don't think much will come out of Odell Beckham, Jr. This year, but we'll see where he ends up expression came from another team keeping clean patron my god Nick brick He said been a minute since I sent in the question. Yeah, since September 28th See, it's been a little minute my friend, but anyway, he said but I'm always watching appreciate that I got one here though. Do you think Ravens fans in the organization set players up for failure? Hear me out every year many Ravens fans and EDC and team try to convince us that some fourth rounder It's going to be a key contributor on the team and we have no need for additional talent. Okay. Yeah Yes, if that's what you're asking then yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I agree 1,050 percent. Yes He said while this proves to be true for some players like Gus He was an undrafted guy Mark Andrews. He was a third round pick Usually that player is hit with high expectations that cannot be achieved for example, Tyler Huntley is a great backup and What he's been able to do is amazing But for some reason fans attempt to elevate his play to knock down Lamar This is unfair to Snoop because now normal fans have to constantly mention that the ways that he's not Lamar That's true There's nothing wrong with an undrafted guy solidifying his spot as a long-term backup getting in and floating the team for a Few weeks by checking one or two reads and then taking off limiting mistakes and getting us out there with ugly wins If we expect more out of him We will inevitably be disappointed because we expect a backup to be a starter because Ravens and their fans want value But sometimes things are cheap for a reason and sometimes you just have to go and get talented guys I'll end it there But other players who were and are unfairly putting up this position are before you get to this list you man You nailed it You nailed it like perfectly because this happens So much it happens so much now as far as the with fans Yeah, that the whole Tyler honey Lamar Jackson you nailed it perfectly But as far as Ravens Ravens do the same thing They will sell you like they'll do these these videos and stuff that are Propelling I mean propping up these fourth fifth round picks like they'll do the the pressers and stuff that are Props them up and whatnot and they will sell you on a look. We got this guy.  You see you see the preseason and you like whoa, wait a minute So, yeah, they They smart they they get you and then the fans they bite it in the fans like you talked about the fans They want the value The value players and I mean these are still NFL players today, obviously talented But the fans they start to to take that in and they're like, oh, no Hey, we don't need that top talented guy at that position. No, no, no, we got this guy at the crib already You already got Who's just been putting up all them numbers all them years been killing it and we don't need him We got this and we got it at the fraction of the cost. Look at that But anyway his list he said on some some players that were and are unfairly put in this position or James Pro Shae Oh, yeah Yeah, and cuz bottom line. He's a what a fifth or sixth round pick why receiver? So the expectation should have been low from there But the way that he was propped up by the Ravens and then by Ravens fans It's like when he doesn't go out there and kill it. He's not getting even getting opportunity It's like, oh man, he's such a disappointment But at the same time, it's like whoa, he was a fifth or sixth round pick and why receiver so the expectations They shouldn't have really even been that high. You obviously hope that these guys break out You hope that these guys they they go off regardless of their draft status But the expectation shouldn't have been too high Isaiah likely.  They had me fool too. I was thinking like oh man Let's do like he the way that they were using them in preseason and how involved he wasn't preseason. He was going Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, this dude he gonna have like at least like 600 yards, but six seven touchdown That's what I thought he's gonna do. But yeah Brandon Stevens. Um, I think that was that was more so Ravens probably not because I remember in his rookie year They used him a lot. He was out there with the starting defense and Brandon Stevens been tricky Man, he has some good moments, but then he has some bad moments He struggled from time to time sometimes I make some big plays sometimes he just doesn't so it's been up and down with him This season. I think it's been more downs than ups, but it's it's been tricky with him But the way that the Ravens you could tell like he was one of those players, especially his rookie year that the Ravens Absolutely loved they loved and adored this guy Jalen Armadavis with him, I don't really think they propped him up like that And I don't really think fans did either Chris Moore. Oh, wow. Oh, he took it back Chris Moore Yeah, they kind of sold you on a Chris Moore They tried to say on Chris Moore story on his story with fourth-round receiver And but he just never got it going as receive as a return man. He was straight as a kick returner And he did make some plays at wide receiver, but just not too many Dalyne Hayes. Oh Dalyne Hayes, that's that's a tricky one Dalyne Hayes, we thought that he was gonna be this out of nowhere. What was your fifth round pick? I think it passed rush. I forget what round he got picked in But we thought that it was gonna end up being something and it just they end up in his second year They waved I mean he got put on injuries there his first year in the second year They wave them with an injury settlement and that was it so it's like man It's tough and he said there are many more Now he said this is not to say those players aren't good But banking your whole season on them likely in crochet or the future of your franchise Letting Lamar walk for Huntley is just setting everyone up to fail miserably. Oh, man. So That's again powerful powerful Question and comments right here. But anyway, he said also as a side note The team keeping clean subscriber mentioned Brock Purdy the nine is back up and that he was being unfairly elevated by the media While Huntley was being hated on I love Snoop and maybe I'm biased But I wouldn't do high school with party and he's a much better player and that will show in the next few weeks I'm sorry Ravens fans. I mean you ain't got to apologize for how you feel about a player. I mean you this You ain't say nothing disrespect for anything like that, but so yeah, man Hey, I appreciate that and yes, it's such a small world to you in the high school with Brock Purdy What in it for a quarterback? That's what's up man, but I appreciate it I appreciate you bringing that to all of our attention and just giving us a reminder how Just yeah players can be put in these really really tough positions And then when the players are sort of underwhelming then it's like oh man a lot of people like oh man It's guys terrible this guy's that and that when maybe the expectation shouldn't really been that high in the first place Next question also came from a patron. Amari said man. What do you think about our inside linebackers PQ and row? They are gonna be forced to keep PQ after this year because they play great together What do you think we will do because I don't know about you, but I believe we have the best Inside linebacker duo in the league from interceptions to the way they clean up after each other insane and instinctive Oh, I love it. I love it I'm still not sold that the Ravens will Resign Patrick Queen to I would love if they could keep them together But I just I think the business is gonna get in the way because you got to resign What Roquan Smith and that's gonna be the big big big money deal. I'm with Patrick Queen I mean think he's gonna want to take less just to stay he could and I ain't that be it'd be cool But I mean he gonna want to get his money man And especially the way that he been playing if he can do this again like what I would hope if if they're not gonna Resign Patrick Queen like I said, I would love for them to I would love for them, too But I just I just don't see it But if with Patrick Queen if they're not gonna resign him I would love for air the constant to be like, you know what I I'll just I'll take the third round comp pick I'll take the third round comp pick and what I mean when I say that is if they were to let Patrick Queen let his contract expire So you can keep them for as long as you possibly can Whether you don't pick up the fifth year option I would rather than pick up the fifth year option so you can keep these guys Together as long as possible But if you could pick up the fifth year option, so you're having for that last year and then So that would that means you would have them for two more years together and then after that You could let him walk because you got next year and then you would have the following year And then after that you let him walk for that third round Compensatory pick once he got signed by somebody else So you'll keep that do all together as long as possible, especially again If you that's if you weren't planning on resigning a Patrick Queen But yeah, I just like you talked you talked about instinctive Is it's been nice man, and like we always say Patrick Queen he started playing a lot better before Roquan Smith got here He started playing a much better before oh quite Smith even got here But then Roquan Smith got brought to the Ravens and it took Patrick Queen to a whole another level These guys they feed off of each other they get jealous with each other Because we saw Roquan Smith He caught that pick and he turned in the Roquan read and Patrick Queen was looking like oh, okay All right You just wait and see there buddy, and then he ended up catching that pick and it's the pick that he caught with more beautiful Then Roquan he made him he made it He made sure to make it more beautiful than the pick Roquan Smith caught now He ain't getting oh, yeah, cuz he caught that that diving bag was an exception, but it was nice man So um it's just nice to see them feed off of each other And I'm sure they are they have these internal competitions with each other Oh, he made it play you know what let me make a play now Oh, I made a play watch and make a play now, too And and that's a good thing because it they can help build each other up as we've seen them do already And the last question on this episode came from another patron my god Dominic He said ain't great and just got my thoughts together after the game And can I say it was a tough grinded out game Greg Roman this game was better than last week for sure I think now the defense was different to them the defense, but yeah, he uh There weren't he ain't doing any like goofy plays. There were some times like situationally where I questioned them But they ended up overall getting the job done. So that was good to see no productive game Especially given the situation that quarterback. I said Greg Roman this game was better than last week for sure I think Stanford telling him he's not in the running now more made him. Oh, I think Stanford telling him He's not in the running no more made him think I shouldn't have sabotage us last week Let me get right Other than that the run game look great against a good stealers defense that is top 10 against the run My question is how much of an impact is it to have both? Gus and JK back especially after seeing what we can do with them when healthy at the same time Oh, yeah, it's great man. It's great and JK. He's not even healthy yet He's healthy yet. He's still he's still got a little ways to go But um, it was really nice to see it man because they both made big impacts They were both Situationally really good JK for the long ball Gus for the short grind it out type of stuff and then that that clutch third in 35 or 36 whatever it was to end the game. It was nice to see man So they're gonna need both of them for the long haul They're gonna need to use both of them for the long call. I mean we write down here It's like we only got a couple weeks left It's only a couple weeks left in the regular season than the playoffs I mean, we would assume that the Ravens make the playoffs, especially how they sitting right now They still got to do their job or whatnot, but you'd assume that they're gonna be there But having JK and Gus both healthy for what you hope is a nice long playoff run Is it's something that's necessary and both of them are very very effective running backs And they can feed off of each other and then you still got Drake and you still got Justice Hill too So it's very very nice to have not only options, but quality options that you know can make plays for you What I mean You to keep it clean. You see my boy. He like gotta made it Well, that's my homie ain't that right engraving


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Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2016-17 Panini Immaculate Collegiate Basketball, five box random number block break, number one, full case random number block break. It took a couple days but I think we made it. Big thanks to these folks right here, thanks to the numbers right there. This is the Simmons draft class, right? He should have base cards, Joe. I'm pretty sure he has base cards, right? Panini, go to LSU. So yeah, anyway, let's roll the dice, let's roll it, let's randomize it, 11 times for each, come on, 11 times ram.org, it's too much, too many numbers, and 11 the final time. So Jeff down to Diane. These big hit express breaks that are on the site, BJ Jordan, we do it about, we do the, at that scale we do it a few times a year, three or four times a year. All right, 11 times for this, 10 and 11 the final time, zero down to five, remember zero gets any and all redemptions, I'm sure everyone read the item description, any and all redemptions including one of one redemptions. All right, so Jeff with zero you'll get any and all redemptions including one of one redemptions, Jed you'll still get live one of ones, Renee with eight, Regimel with four, Adam with seven, Jeremy with three, the X line with six, Adam with nine, Jeremy with two, and Diane with five, let's sort by column B. Oh, silent is Jeremy 33, I was confused, all right, there you go, any trades, John, yes John you're absolutely correct, you're absolutely right, you can't, if you join a big hit express break with another one of which is coming up soon on jaspyscasebreaks.com if you get like a block of three teams you can't split one team off and trade it you have to trade the entire block of teams. All right, no, no worries, Jeremy, I was like, I had a feeling I, it's like that sounds, the way you write sounds familiar and I was like, it's someone I know, but that's Jeremy 30th, silent for now, he's working, work account, trade window closed, all right, there it is, Immaculate Collegiate Basketball, kind of hard to see right there, but it's all there, good luck, all right, there's the final list right there, and there it is, all right, let's roll, we got Derrick Rose 17 out of 99, that'll go to Adam with number seven, just set these right here, Marquis Chris 15 out of 25, Dual Relic for Diane number five, no randomizing makes this break kind of quick, Denzel Valentine, Yogi Farrell, 48 out of 99, Renee with number eight, some blast from the past here, Perry Ellis, some nice color in there, two out of ten, Jeremy 33 with number two, our first autograph is gonna be Andrew Wiggins, nice, eight out of ten, that's for Renee and number eight, we'll top load all these before they go out, Ja F who I think is Jed Fischlow said, if you pull a one-to-one for me here, I'll strictly only buy products from us, from jaspyscasebreaks.com, if I see you in any other breaking site, not that any of those exist, Banhammer, one-of-one Torium Prince, it's not bad, there you go and his Baler gear right there, I guess I'll top load the one-of-one right away, that you only see me in here from now on, he says, we won't hold it too, it's okay, all right, there you go man, all aboard the Big Hit Express, whoo-hoo, oh your first one of one ever, well you always remember your first, four out of twenty, this smoke and hit, AJ Hammond's going to Regimel in number four and one out of 99 Malik Beasley, three-color jersey and autograph, another one for Jed, just have to open this up like the Hulk, some sort of Hulk, Arthur you remember your first, it was downhill from there, what was your first, Phillip Rivers from a personal I think, five years ago, are you serious, well listen, congrats Jed, got to get your Apats in, you're gonna get some hits someday, today was your day, all right, six out of 25, Trey Lyles, go into the X line, Buddy Heald, nice, seven out of 25 for Adam in the number seven, his Oklahoma gear, 39 out of 99, Triple Relic, Bryce Johnson, JP, Tokoto and Mark Page, I don't remember any of these guys, sorry Adam, Adam Laspod Mojo with that Triple Relic, oh I know Bryce Johnson, he was in the league for a second right, we've got another trio here from Syracuse, three out of 25, Chris McCullough, Michael Benizce, I think the G is silent and Rakeem Christmas, I think is married to Michael Jordan's daughter, no, Jeremy 33 with number three, Jared Yutoff, 18 out of 99, goes to Renee number eight, that's a good moment, the Rivers Arthur, there's Demetrius Jackson, so remember redemptions go to zero and I know it's expired but a lot of times people say they can just scratch it off and redeem it and a lot of times it just goes through, so you can give that a shot, oh Jed, another one of one, Malcolm Brogdon, I know him, three color jersey, his Virginia gear, an on-card autograph, another one of one for your collection when it rains it pours, Jed's freaking out, aww, Panini announced today no more expired redemptions Carter Wagner, is that true? All right, Malcolm Brogdon, Jed, all aboard, the big hit express, two in one break, he just got his first one the other minute ago, Arthur also read that too so confirm, all right, well, 26 out of 99, Denzel Valentine for the X line, yeah I'm a little bummed about that, piece of the hat, make sure that doesn't tip over, nice, two out of two, the button on the hat, Malachi Richardson in his Syracuse gear, it's pretty sweet, it's gonna fit into a 180, we can get in there, maybe a 260, maybe a slider box, it's a little more comfortable in here, we'll have to blue tape this so it doesn't wiggle around, but that's pretty cool, Jeremy 33 with number two, all aboard, the big hit express, all right, we got Larry Bird, 43 out of 99 for Jeremy 33, 95 out of 99, Devin Booker number five, that's for Diane, we got a quartet of UCLA players going to number one, 51 out of 99, Aaron Flolo, Darren Collison, Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook, what a team, what a team, I went to a UC, so UC San Diego, so UCLA is my default D1 team, Gary Payton the second, 61 out of 99, another one for Jed, two-color jersey and autograph, we got Dahunta Murray, 22 out of 25, two-color jersey and autograph, that is for Jeremy 33, and Patrick McCaw, Muenel V, 90 out of 99, that's one for Jeff and the number zero, and we got a 17 out of 25, Bryce Johnson, that's some nice color in there, and his North Carolina gear, Adam with the number seven, two boxes to go, this is full case random number block number one, 2016-17, Immaculate Collegiate oops, they just had a Yaka Pertle in the not top, not top ten, there he is right there, let's figure out what number he is, five out of 99, that is Alfred Payton, Diane with number five, 13 out of 25, Michael Benizhi, when Jeremy 33 in the number three, 59 out of 99, we got a Quad Relic, Arizona guys, Brandon Ashley, Stanley Johnson, Ron DeHalle, Saracen, TJ McConnell, goes to Adam in the number nine, Buddy Heald, 10 out of 19, that's kind of a weird number zero, Jeff with that one, James Webb, two out of 25, that'll go to Jeremy 33 in the number two, there's Buddy Heald 38 out of 99, there you go Renee, Rookie two-color jersey and on-card autograph, Damian Jones 87 out of 99, three-color jersey and autograph, going to Adam in the number seven, and there's Yaka Pertle, there he is 47, another one for Adam, 47 out of 99, two-color jersey and autograph, all right and final box, good luck everybody, yeah not bad at all Adam, all right let's see what we got here, got a redemption looks like down there, maybe you can still try Jeff, see what they can do for you, 24 out of 25, Carmelo Anthony, Regimel in number four, Brandon Ingram, 11 out of 25, nice and his Duke Blue going to Jed number one, yeah it's a bummer about the redemptions, 46 out of 99, Brandon Dawson, Denzel Valentine and Deonta Davis going to six, the X-line with number six, 25 out of 99, Derek Rose going to number five, Diane with number five, Tyler Eulis for Jeff in number zero, we got Kay Felder 72 out of 99, Jeremy 33 with number two, and we've got Skal Labicierre 55 out of 99, that goes to Diane in the number five, the last one is Chris Dunn, three-color jersey and on-card autograph out of 49, 13 out of 49, that goes to Jeremy 33 and the number three, there you have it, thanks for watching everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, I'll see you next time for the next break, bye-bye.