Alright, what's up guys? I want to clear up a misconception that I've been seeing all over the place recently Because I know a lot of you guys watching my channel. You have this misconception too, and I want you just I don't know It's one of those things that's about deceptive marketing. I suppose it's about the application telegram Telegram if you don't know it is a messaging application that can run on your phone It can run on your computer it a lot of people I know use it in place of having text messages and It's the thing about it is I'll go ahead and have the punchline up front and that is telegram bills itself as being a secure messaging application It's really not really any more secure than if you were using AOL chat over HTTPS Okay, which really means any kind of you know chat service out there telegram is no more secure than any of them Here's the problem. Here's the thing with telegram And I'm not gonna knock telegram, but I actually I'm gonna knock telegram So let's be clear telegram Will advertise themselves as being encrypted. Oh, we have an encrypted Messaging service and it's secure and it's private and blah blah blah, and that's what it's billed at billed as it's billed as Oh, well, don't use text messages because they're not secure use us instead. Okay, and yeah text messages I wouldn't trust them either. There's a lot of unless you're using signal or one of those actual end-to-end encryption services In general, they're not trustworthy, but telegram is no better And this is what I mean telegram first off is encrypted in a highly trivial sense That is it is encrypted in the same way that every website with HTTPS is encrypted basically That is your message is encrypted on its way to telegram servers It's also encrypted on the way from telegram servers to its recipient Let's say I send a message message to Billy now if you're an actual privacy Concerned person or just someone who doesn't want constant metadata being mined off you or something like that You sort of expect oh if I'm using a Secure messaging application if I'm using encrypted blah blah blah services I expect no one it's up for me and my recipient to be able to read my message Telegram does not work like that because Although it is encrypted on the way to telegram servers and the way on telegram servers from them to your recipient Telegram can manifestly read your messages They have the keys and they openly have the keys to read any messages on their platform that means Individual messages that means group messages that means your pictures that means your phone number Which you gave to telegram when you signed up that means all of that stuff It is not a secret it is you know They can read it as easily as AOL could read AOL messages, okay, and they don't pretend to hide that now telegram does have a Particular mode like a privacy mode like a private shatter I forget exactly what they're called which is a one-to-one thing that you can have with one other person and that could be an That could be a legitimate into end encryption, but in most cases and for all group chats no telegram Group chat is secure the thing you need to remember about that They're like that not any of that stuff can be read by telegram and there have been other services in the past Mon you discord is a good example because discord It's the same kind of concept as telegram actually basically exactly the same But its privacy is basically no better than Skype that is they have all your data They can look at it whenever they want they can do whatever they want discord in the past has a doxxed people It is given people's information out and not just people who are violating the law people. They don't like people Yeah, I you know who have chats that they don't like stuff like that That is what discord does it's what it can do and telegram it can just as easily do that now I don't know off the top of my head know if telegram has done something like that in the past But don't assess danger that way assess assess danger in terms of potentiality they have the ability to do it and Honestly, if you're using a service that is advertised as being encrypted secure blah blah blah blah You would sort of think that this is what it would it would be general like real into an encryption But it's not they are being deceptive in how they advertise themselves. Okay? So the the other annoying thing about telegram is that a lot of people will say oh telegram is a free software application It's an open source. It is all free software. You can download the tele Teleger the telegram messenger application and it's all free software So you don't have to worry about proprietary spyware blah blah blah not true absolutely not true now. It is a GPL it is it has a GPL license Now if you look out there, you probably know that telegram actually has a bad habit of releasing Releasing source code late for their binaries, which is highly suspicious, but let's just take their word for it And assume that they're being all nice and good and that's the right source code and blah blah blah blah The thing is if you have a free software application on your computer Telegram and your friend has a free software application on their computer also telegram it actually doesn't make a lick of difference because that Telegram is entirely centralized in telegram servers That is your free software application is sending your encrypted quote-unquote message to a server that runs a Proprietary server-side variant of telegram, which is not open source to be clear Which has the ability to decrypt anything it can do anything at once? And so it's just as if you were running that on your computer. That's basically what how it is So just because you and your friend might be running free software Applications that are blah blah blah encryption all of that kind of stuff. There are more variables at play You have to think about how your data is being actually used now. This is one of the reasons I think people should be just generally suspicious one of advertising. I mean telegram It's an it just annoys me particularly because there are a lot of other, you know Let's say like WhatsApp or whatever for that normies use that is a blatant spyware program. They just openly Yeah, it's proprietary. We look at all your stuff whatever but the thing is telegram is not necessarily any different It builds itself as being all privacy and security and encryption and all that kind of stuff and it has a free software Client side application, but that doesn't really change anything It's just as liable for them to look at what you're doing on your computer What messages that you're sending and stuff like that So that's the thing that sort of annoys me about telegram Now I actually have telegram installed on one of my computers I use it some people in my social circle use telegram so I'll have it But if you are under any illusion that your messages are secure, they're just not if you want to send secure messages Talk to someone in real life. That would be the best thing but you signal the SMS the text message application That's good into end encryption and let's see what else, you know send emails with your Encrypted emails with your GPG payer or whatever There are many other options for actually having secure communications. Telegram is just not it got to tell you It's not it and it's a good example of how you can sort of fool people by saying blah blah free software blah blah But it's nothing just don't trust them. Just don't trust people to talk about encrypt In fact, don't even trust yourself. Don't trust me saying this. I might just be making this up. You can't trust me either Sorry coronavirus Anyway, that's it. Yeah, don't trust anyone not not even yourself. See you guys next time


Welcome. My name is Michael Fax and today we're going to be studying the fifth lesson of the cornerstone connection for the first quarter 2024. Now on the set we have our wonderful team Shamala Omwiri Subira and our wonderful team's teachers. On the sign language we have Joyce and on the orchestra we have Subira playing the clarinet. Now I'll be going through the mission story so please let's go through it together. The title is once poor now rich and it talks about a five-year-old girl named Amitur. Now Amitur lived in Nepal and her family was very very poor. The family was so poor that they couldn't even afford to give her breakfast, lunch or supper. They couldn't have money for cabbage, rice or even some little potatoes. Now when the cold came the family was so poor that they didn't have enough money to even buy her some warm clothes, some wool socks, some boots and a warm jacket. So during the night and during this winter period she will freeze and just hope for the summer to come quickly. Now one day the mother left home and left the father and Amitur all by themselves. Amitur was very sad and she never saw her mother again. Father didn't like living without a wife. So a few months later he married again and the new wife came with two children. Amitur was so happy. She was so happy and wanted to please the new mother. However the mother and the father loved the other new children more than Amitur herself. She will be the last person to serve food. She'll be the last person to get the warm clothes during winter and she will always be the ones doing chores. The little ones and the other children did not do anything in the house besides get very treated very nicely. Now when Amitur was eight years old a neighbor told her parents about a seventh day Adventist orphanage that cared for children who had no parents or our parents who could not take care of the children. Father and mother took looked at each other and loved this idea very much and without consulting Amitur they quickly took her to the orphanage and left her there. Now moving into a new place was scary for Amitur and but the good thing is she quickly adopted and started to like the orphanage and the activities that were going on. She liked going for breakfast and lunch and dinner. She liked having warm clothes during the cold season and she loved going to Sabbath, going to church every Sabbath. Now she's never gone to church and she's never heard about this God but six years of past since Amitur moved to the orphanage and today she's very happy. Once she was poor but now she's rich in Christ. I am very thankful to my heavenly father who brought me here she said. If I were not here today I will not have known God. Now I know who my savior is. She's studying hard and hopes to help other little girls with difficult childhoods one day. I would like to help people like me in the future she said. So I ask you to pray for me. I want God to use my life for his purpose. May his will be done in my life. Thank you for your prayers. Part of this 13th, part of this quarter's 13th Sabbath offering will help establish a school where children like Amitur could study in Nepal. Thank you for planning a generous 13th Sabbath offering. Welcome to our lesson today. The title of this lesson is Confessions of a Foolish Wise Man. Confessions of a Foolish Wise Man. Is it possible to be foolish and wise at the same time? It's something that will explore even as we study this lesson. But before we begin I'd like to introduce the panelists who will be here with me and I'll start from my left-hand side. Please introduce yourself. My name is Umuiri. Okay, thank you. Hello, my name is Shamala. Hello, my name is Subir al-Kundi and I'm happy to be here. Welcome even as we study the lesson. Before we start I'd like to invite Shamala to offer a word of prayer. Let us pray. Our Father in Heaven we come before you this day thanking you for the gift of life and for the gift of this gathering. We are about to discuss this lesson. We pray that you will speak through us, that your Spirit will dwell with us and guide us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Our reading for today will be from the book of 1st John chapter 1 verse 9 and 10 and it reads, anyone who claims to be in the light but hates our brother or a sister is still in darkness. Anyone who loves their brother or sister lives in the light and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. We'll move ahead to our what do you think section from number one meaning it's the most important reason to 10 the least important. Why do you think people find confession and repentance difficult to do? I will begin by asking teacher Niko to define the terms here confession and repentance. Okay so confession is when you know you have done something wrong and you acknowledge that you have done wrong so the realization comes to you that whatever act that you committed is wrong then repentance is turning away from the wrong act. I remember when I was young sometimes my parents find me in trouble then I say I will not do it again but interestingly I end up doing the same thing that is not repentance. Repentance is actually when we confess and say we know what we've done is wrong then we say because I understand that this is wrong I will not do it again so that's how I define the two terms. Oh wow it's similar to an understanding of like confession being I know what's right I know what is good and then repentance is living out the good. Thank you very much I'll begin by sharing my number one reason why people find it hard to confess and repent. I think that is they don't want to stop what they're doing as much as outside voices and influences such as our friends may tell us why would you really choose to do that is it such a big deal the decision to repent or confess lies with us so if we really don't want to do that then we won't.  I agree that most of the time it's because people don't this they don't want to continue in sin and I think that combines with that they don't believe they'll be able to stop committing the sin because you can confess but then you feel like at the back of your mind you know you're going to do it again so you wonder what's even the point of confessing and I would say it's not good to continue in sin but God's grace is enough and for example the Israelites they sinned many times but God still forgives them again and again. I think well that the reason why people find confession and repentance difficult to do is because they feel guilty. I think what sin does it just puts you in this alternate reality and once you continue doing it you feel as though what I'm doing it is it's nature it's what I'm doing it's not bad at all so you sort of switch off this conscience and I think of conscious conscience as spiritual pain that tells us you need to stop doing what you're doing but once you continue doing sin that pain is sort of numbed it goes down so I think that guilt that they feel is that if I truly confess and I repent I'm telling myself that what I'm doing is wrong and it just gives you it doesn't give you a pass to continue doing what you have to do so that's what I think. The thoughts there are actually quite interesting and if we think about it repentance is made easier when we confess for example if you're a thief and you need to go and confess to someone that you're a thief that is really really hard turning away from it is easier done after you have confessed it so that's why confession and repentance normally come together because you can't repent from something which you don't even acknowledge that yeah is wrong in the first place so I'd like to highlight something that is important because there's an area that sometimes we feel that we won't be able to stop doing this thing that we are repenting from. The Bible says in Philippians 4 verse 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me so it is Christ that helps us to be able to repent but confession is something that it's us who have to do. The Bible says it is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance so God is good to us and gives us the power so if we try turning away from sin ourselves you can try it and you'll end up failing but if you do it with God you'll be able to turn away from it completely. Amen. So the next question can you take us through that Shamal? Okay I think teacher Niko has clearly pointed out how confession can bring us closer to God. When we do something wrong to someone and acknowledge it the next step is typically how do I get on their good side again and therefore when we accept our wrongdoing to God we will most likely be urged to take steps towards correcting our wrongdoing and I think confession when done and not and that's our whole life really because we as humanity with a fall in Genesis chapter 3 we went through this period of just falling out of relationship with God and the whole idea of confessing and repentance is really defining what it is to be human because we have to confess daily to the sins that we continually commit but our repentance is working to live Christ like and leading our lives in a way that is sort of imitating the way Christ did. So his example on earth is to truly show us what repentance is in full light so that we can get back to relationship with God. Do you guys think that there is any connection between pride and the unwillingness to confess? I think that there's a connection because when you're proud you're more likely to to see yourself as right or to justify the things that you do so then you went to the need of confessing as opposed to being humble then you'll know that you know you're sinful in nature and you confess here. In teens class we're exposed to a form of prayer it's called acts A that stands for adoration C that stands for confession and T for gratitude or thanksgiving and S for supplication. It's super important first of all to adore God to praise him for the things that you that he's done for you but confession is a very crucial element. With prayer it's important for us to have humility to bow down our head to being utter all of what God has done and what he will do and when it when we confess just like your question it's very difficult for us to do that because we have so much pride in us. What we did is not as bad so why is God punishing us for it and why do we really have to confess so that pride really does come as an obstacle to our confession our repentance and restoring that relationship with God. Yes, Amen. We can move on to the next section. Yeah sure so we've learnt a lot about confession and repentance from the what do you think section and as you continue talking about the confessions of a foolish wise man we want to see how confession actually took place in King Solomon's life. I'd like to invite Subirre to actually take us into this story to actually understand what led the wisest man to be foolish and what did he confess after. Absolutely so God gave Solomon great wisdom and a very great insight as well and a breath of understanding as measureless as the sands on the seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater than all the people in the east and all the land of Egypt so in Ecclesiastes he says I said to myself come now and I will test you with pleasure to find what is good but that also was meaningless. So King Solomon was greater in riches and in wisdom than all the kings of the earth so that the whole world sought audience with Solomon but he also writes that wisdom is better than weapons of war and that one sinner can destroy much good. There's an evil he says I have seen under the sun the sort of error that arises from a ruler that is that fools are put in the highest of positions but also the rich occupy the low positions. He reminds us to remember your Creator in the days of your youth before the days of trouble come and it's a whole poetic paragraph that says before you say I find no pleasure in them before the sun the moon the light grow dark the clouds return after the rain when the keepers of the house tremble when strong men stoop when the grinder sees because they are few and when people rise up at the song of the birds but all their songs grow dim then people go to the eternal home and mourners go about their streets we must still remember him but it comes down to this statement meaningless meaningless says the teacher everything is meaningless now all that has been heard here is the conclusion of the matter we are God and keep his commandments where this is the duty of all mankind. It's a really powerful story here and we're really told that the Bible emphasizes Solomon's great riches and his wisdom but still he does fullest his foolish decisions in his life so my question to you is how is it that the wisest man in the whole world could make such foolish choices in life? I think the answer lies in the question itself wisest man human human weakness and fleshly desires can lead us to act out of character and make us do things that people would not likely expect of us and I think that's that's where Solomon fell okay thank you so much for that in fact the title itself that we're really talking about is Confessions of a foolish wise man it's a paradox foolish wise man what do you guys think about the title? I think it's contradictory in nature because it's had to be foolish and wise at the same time and it's interesting that Solomon actually is referred to as a foolish wise man and in relation to the question you asked think sometimes we might become foolish even when we are wise because the Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 9 verse 23 let not the wise man glory in his wisdom and let not the mighty man glory in his might and let not the rich man glory in his riches Solomon had everything the riches and the wisdom were all his and as a result he gloried in this not recognizing God as the source so that is the way that we can actually become foolish while wise you have everything but you lose it so the title is actually interesting because of the nature of its contradictory self absolutely and when someone has so much it's very easy for them to become prideful the things that they have but now we're really taught that he confessed these are the confessions of the foolish wise man and what does Solomon's repentance teaches about God I would say that the fact that God was able to forgive Solomon after he had spent probably decades living in sin worshiping the the gods of his wives I think it shows that God is very forgiving he can he can forgive you for watch for you know your sinful nature and it's important to remember that just because he forgives us that I mean we should continue living in sin absolutely that time of reflection is necessary thank you and I also think that God gives us long life even as we consider how long Solomon was given to live God did not say that now because you have done this your kingdom will end he had the chance to live his life and see the results of his sin and thereby he was able to repent I can imagine if God was to kill us for every sin that we did immediately no one would ever even have a chance to repent right so we actually see the grace of God in his dealing with Solomon yeah so I think that's something interesting that you can look at so Shamala I'd like you to take us through some of the interesting things we find about what Solomon says in Ecclesiasties 12 about the life that what happens at the end of life this is in the Monday section okay so here we can match what Solomon says to the elements of aging for example the grandest seas because they are few that refers to teeth rot and fallout yes those looking through the windows grow dim I think that refers to our falling eyesight basically what he was trying to point out is that nothing will stay the same forever and therefore we should appreciate that which is here now before it loses its meaning and we can continue by reading through the key text which comes from Ecclesiasties 12 verse 1 and it says remember your creator in the days of your youth before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say I find no pleasure in them so I would like to ask the panel what do you think remembering your creator in the days of your youth means okay so I think we as teens we are really aware of this youth is determined as a really critical period of harvesting our faith and our belief in God therefore even Proverbs chapter 22 verse 6 I believe I'm talking about train up your the child in the youth and then when they grow up they will not depart from it it has great truth in our lives and remembering God the remembrance of God at a time like this where our values our belief system is truly shaped is very important because then once we grow up we have this solid understanding and trust in God despite the struggles that we go through and I think adulthood is really a teacher of life and I think a teacher Niko can testify about that but really just talking about how it when we're younger it's a beautiful time for us to grow our faith so that when we are older and we're facing these challenges we're more we are certain that God is still with us and where any thoughts I would also say that many people think that they can live for the world as they are and they'll commit themselves to God later in life when they grow up and over here Solomon was trying to teach us against us because when you do that the longer you stay in sin the harder it's going to be for you to get out of it and live preciously and when you're in seniors also missing on opportunities to help other people to do what God would want you to do so we need to we need to use our time in our youth will remember in your creator in the days of your youth is actually so key for us because when we remember our creator it helps us to make the right decisions in fact the Sabbath was given to us to remember creation because in six days you shall labor and do all your work but in the seventh day we rest from all our leave the reason we rest on Sabbath is because we remember what God did in creating us and it's particularly important for us when we are still young because the decisions that we make right now will determine what we do later in life someone shared with me something interesting which I think I should share and it was basically saying that states a good decision is a bad decision if there is a better decision to make a good decision is a bad if there is a better decision to make yes and the term creator really speaks so much because at this time of social media where we're exposed to lifestyles of people really quickly we sometimes lose our own identity and our identity in Christ in God so once we remember our creator and who he is to us it's really easier for us to live and exist in a world that's so quick and I think that term creator can really speak to teens today yeah so we'll move ahead of flashlight section but before we do that where could you read Matthew 6 verse 24 and as you read that you can share with us the flashlight of the lesson today Matthew 6 24 says no one can serve true masters for either he will hate one and love the other or he will be devoted to one and despise the other you cannot serve God and mammon which is riches or else yes so to the flashlight the flashlight is by his own bitter experience Solomon learned the emptiness of a life that's six in earthly things it's highest good it the Lord for sook him not by messages of reproof and severe severe judgment he sought to arouse the king the realization of the sinfulness of his course so lumines repentant to Cynthia but the harm that his example of evil doing had had brought could not be undone though the king confessed his sin and wrote out for the benefit of after generations a record of his fallen repentance he could never hope entirely to destroy the baleful influence of his wrong deeds the question in Tuesday how can you not get caught up in earthly things that many teens get caught up in that's in order to contribute I think we can do that by constantly tapping into what the Lord says reading our Bibles constantly can help guide us even when we feel like we're about to fall I would especially like to share a verse that I find quite encouraging in Galatians 6 from verse 7 to 9 and it says to not be deceived God cannot be mocked a man reaps what he sows whoever sows to please the flesh from the flesh will reap destruction whoever sows to please the spirit from the spirits will reap eternal life let us not become wary in doing good for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up and I think here Paul is very clear it is you do right you get you get good things you do wrong the end is inevitable and therefore we should stick to that path of constantly trying to do the right thing doing that which the Lord expects from us and we will rip a good harvest so very do you have any thoughts there no I think she said it beautifully it's really important for us to keep account of the things that we do good and bad because then it makes confession it makes repentance much easier and yeah I would add that one of the ways of not getting caught up in earthly things is to involve yourself in heavenly things to involve yourself in like the work that God gives us whether you're volunteering at church or you're helping out at the hospital just it's good to keep yourself busy the devil he likes an idle mind and when you're busy keep yourself busy with God's work yeah we shouldn't let ourselves caught up in every other thing the world offers and God's work is actually left languishing believe it's in the book of Colossians chapter 3 verse 2 where the Bible says we should set our affections on things above and not on things on the earth so when we set our affections on things above then it so much more determines what we do in our lives and that comes close to what it means to remember our Creator because if you're thinking about God constantly chances of getting involved in some of the things that I mentioned here that led solo monastery is had to actually come by then still there's someone wanted to add something yeah okay yeah then I'm where you're still like you to read something else from actually maybe severe I can read it Matthew 16 verse 26 then I'm where you can help us to understand what are some of the aspects from solo monastery that we learn about absolutely and this verse is a one of the punchlines my favorite actually so Matthew chapter 16 verse 26 reads what good will it be for someone to gain the whole world yet forfeit their soul or what can anyone give an exchange for their soul wow I really like this verse as well and then I'm where is of course is gonna go after but I would like to say that the soul is so immensely precious a gift from God and in this world it's very easy for people to say selling your soul and I think it's very disrespectful I would say to come from that point of view when the Heavenly Father our Creator has truly given you this ability to live a chance to choose the right thing to do a chance to choose him so I think having the whole world is very meaningless as Solomon goes on to say his lived and done that he has all the riches he has all the wisdom what more could you ask for and still in that point and having everything he realizes that there's it's not much meaning there's not much value and he encourages us just like you said to look on heavenly things to look on things that are of eternal value and I think that's important I would add that when we were created we were in communion with God when Adam and Eve were created and then sin came into the world and you know we were separated from him so now there was a space that was left you know in our hearts and it was it's a God-sized hole and you can put all you want into it you know money or power and it'll never be full because God is infinite so just yeah you can never be fully satisfied with the things of this earth because we weren't meant to be satisfied by them another thing we learned from Solomon's story is that the gaining wealth on this earth it might feel good but then it's only for a very short time compared to eternity even if you live to an old age like Solomon did and you do you still have money up to your death it's nothing compared to how much time you could spend with your father in heaven so it just focus more on the eternal than the things of this world is that anything you can learn from Solomon's story the greatest message I received was pointed out in the flashlight where Ellen says yet the Lord for Suki not by messages of reproof and by severe judgments he sought to arouse the king to realization of the sinfulness of his course God's grace is endless and his messes are new every morning and as much as Solomon had been given everything by God he was led astray by the things of the earth but God did not leave his side God continued to teach him and show him that his path was the only one that was right and it's the same thing that the Lord does to us now as much as we wrong it doesn't mean an end of anything it doesn't break our relationship with the Lord forever he always wants us back yeah so that's what I got the most amen amen so severe could you take us through the punch lines absolutely so these are verses that really speak to the lesson at hand but equally things that we can apply my favorite of course was mentioned before Matthew 16 verse 26 in treasuring our soul but in the same way not desiring things of this world but looking above so I would like to ask what verses do you really speak to you guys what verses are your favorite I would say that my favorite might be Hebrews 1024 and let us consider how we may spell on another toward love and good deeds not giving up meeting together as I'm in the habit of doing but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day approaching this the day approaching of course is talking about Jesus second coming and here we are being encouraged to to spar one another to push one another towards good deeds that's one of the reasons we come to church because when you're standing alone of course it's possible for you to do good but then when you're in a community you're going to it's going to be easier for you to continue on the path towards heaven because when you make a mistake that you might not even notice then someone else can help you and guide you along the path yeah for me the first I like most was some 62 verse 10 where the Bible says do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods and the part that speaks to me most is this last part that says though your riches increase do not set your heart on them I believe this of us that in principle is basically saying as your blessings increase it is not for you to think about how much you have been blessed because the moment you start thinking about this then you lose focus on the one who gave you the blessings so that speaks to my heart because it tells me be thankful to God for the blessing you have because it might go just in one day so appreciate the blessing every day don't act like you now have it all I really like what's Chaniko has said and I think that is why it is important for us especially in our younger days to establish a good relationship with the Lord so that when we establish riches or other greater things material things in the future we are not led astray we are still in the path that the Lord has set for us because we had a strong relationship with him to begin with yeah that's absolutely amazing I think like you said material things and I think I've heard one so someone say before I'm not sure who but materialism is cured by content and willingness to align with the will of God I think that's something a food for thought man so as we close the lesson for today like someone to read probably 16 verse 18 anyone has it probably 16 verse 18 and 19 yeah whoever gets it first can actually read it for us yes probably 16 18 and 19 18 and 19 and it says pride goes before destruction a haughty spirit before a fall better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed then to share plunder with the proud amen the Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 9 verse 18 that wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroys much good it further goes on to say in Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 1 dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking saver so does a little foley him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor what I'm reading are the confessions of Solomon then again he says in Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 5 and 6 there is an evil which I have seen under the sun as an error which proceeds from the ruler foley is set in great dignity and the rich sit in low place the meaning of the word foley is a bad choice or a bad decision or a foolish choice that is made so Solomon was saying that he has seen a great evil under the sun and that is foley is set in great dignity that is the wrong things are esteemed to be the right things and set in a high place such that foolish choices actually look good that's why Solomon is making his confessions as the ruler of Israel he made many wrong decisions such that when people looked at him as the ruler of Israel they were like if the king can do that then even I can do it so lomon was at a high place and he therefore ended up misleading the nation and it's interesting to know that many times they went into an idolatry from the book prophets and kings were told from such examples we should learn that in watchfulness and prayer is the only safety for both young and old one may for many years have enjoyed a genuine Christian experience but he is still exposed to Satan's attacks in the battle with inward sin and outward temptation even the wise and powerful Solomon was vanquished his failure teaches us that whatever a month's intellectual qualities may be and however faithfully he may have served God in the past he can never with safety trust in his own wisdom and integrity so I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me so I didn't like to invite everyone to share the closing thoughts that would so be absolutely all that has been said is amazing but my last remark would be that confession is only brought to God's full attention when seasoned with reflection and realized by repentance is that the Lord does not forsake us even when we go wrong he will continue to bring us back to his light and therefore we should not let our sin burden us we should not let our sin make us feel like we're not worthy of God's forgiveness because he's always there to take us back yes and it's good for us to confess the things that we need to confess because we don't have all the time remaining we don't know when we're going to die in fact if we can confess our sins as early as possible let's do it let's not wait our whole life to actually confess to the whole world like Solomon let's do it when we notice I would say that we should we should be aware of when we are sinning because sometimes you can't see and then you don't you don't even know so try by reading the Bible of course and think about what you've done that day think about the reasons behind why you're doing it in Solomon's case he might have been looking for peace or pleasure which is not entirely wrong but then now the ways in which he did it was the wrong part so just be aware of the reasons behind why you're doing something thank you all for joining us for the lesson today those were the confessions of a foolish wise mind wise man and it's up to us to determine if we are wise or foolish and I'd say that wise men confess their sins foolish men do not like to invite Shamala to say a closing word of prayer for us. Let us pray. Our Father what's in heaven we thank you for our discussion today about the confessions of a foolish wise man we pray that your revelation to us today will lead us to a place of confession that we may acknowledge our sin and work towards correcting it we thank you for your endless grace and your mercy and we praise you and honor you in Jesus name we pray amen thank you for joining us today we'll meet again next time


US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States believes Russia's Defense Minister is in North Korea to secure supplies of weapons to aid Moscow's stalled invasion of Ukraine. Following Sergei Shoygu's arrival on a rare trip to Pyongyang, Blinken said that Russia is scrambling to buy arms from allies across the world. I strongly doubt he's there on holiday. Blinken told reporters in Australia where he is on a visit to discuss economic and security issues with Pacific Island nations. We're seeing Russia desperately looking for support for weapons wherever it can find them to continue to prosecute its aggression against Ukraine, he said. We see that in North Korea. We see that as well with Iran, which has provided many drones to Russia that it's using to destroy civilian infrastructure and with which it killed civilians in Ukraine. While in North Korea, Shoygu met the country's leader Kim Jong-un in what Pyongyang's state media described as a friendly talk, Russia, a historic ally of North Korea, is one of a handful of nations with which Pyongyang maintains amicable relations.


INA molecules play many functional and regulatory roles in cells, and hence, have gained considerable traction in recent times as therapeutic interventions. Within drug discovery, structure-based approaches have successfully identified potent and selective small molecule modulators of pharmacutically relevant protein targets. Here, we embrace the perspective of computational chemists who use these traditional approaches, and we discuss the challenges of extending these methods to target RNA molecules. In particular, we focus on recognition between RNA and small molecule binders, on selectivity, and on the expected properties of RNA ligands. This article was authored by Matteo Bernetti, Riccardo Aguti, Stefano Bozio, and others.


Okay, good afternoon everyone. I'm delighted to welcome you to this webinar. I'm Brian Sloan, I'm the current chair of the Cambridge Social Legal Group and it's a great pleasure. We have Davida Luka from the Department of Land Economy here to talk to us today. Just before we start, I thought it'd be useful for those of you who aren't on our mailing list to have some details about or to subscribe to that and I'll put it in the chat. I've also given a link to our latest edit collection called Spaces of Care. Davida, I think it was David Howard who put you in the hot seat today so you can blame him for the invitation but I'm sure it's going to be an excellent webinar. Just as a matter of housekeeping, there is going to be significant opportunity to ask questions and David is going to respond to them after he finishes speaking. One way to ask a question is to use the Q&A box and to type your question. If however you would prefer to ask your question live, just indicate that to us and we'll try our best to unmute you but we don't need to worry about that until after the main presentation. So Davida, you're going to talk for about 35 minutes and I'm very much looking forward to hearing what you've got to say. So with that over to you on the topic, I've gone with the wind organized crime and the geography wind farms in Italy. Thank you very much. Thanks, prior. Thanks for the invite to the Cambridge Social Legal Group. Let me start sharing my presentation and welcome everyone again. Thanks for being here for tuning in. Today I'm presenting joint work with Alessio Romari, a PhD student from the University of Barcelona who is probably listening to us and he's also on the job market. So it's nightly to everyone looking for a new person. So let me start directly with jumping directly in the topic. And the topic of course is the transition towards the policies that can foster a transition towards renewable energy sources. And we know of course that renewables play a leading role in the transition towards more carbon neutral sources of energy and it plays a key role in achieving our carbon net or carbon neutral targets such as those set in the Paris Agreement. To the same policies such as public subsidies are becoming increasingly popular or have become popular in these last years, in the last perhaps 20 years if we want. To the point that the renewable energy subsidies today are a key component in budgets around the world. Just for your information here you can see some infographics borrowed from the Financial Times and you see that the subsidies for renewable energy are very spread across the world. Interestingly, among the top countries, according to the Financial Times, there is Germany, the US and Italy is in the third place. These subsidies are still overall smaller than the subsidies given to fossil fuels. So this provides us with food for thought but nevertheless have become an important component in the policy toolkit that governments around the world use. In the case of Italy, the subsidies, the uptake of subsidies was very important. Indeed, if we look at the generation from renewable energy sources in the last, let's say, 30 years, there was a, in a way there was, I'm telling you a story of success. I'm just showing you here, underlining the energy from wind and from solar and you see that since the start of the 2000s, which more or less coincides with the adoption of incentive schemes, there was a massive uptake in capacity. Just as a comparison, I'm also providing two graphs for hydroelectric. On the bottom right of the graph, hydroelectric was already the maximum capacity in the country. So that's why you don't see growing. But overall, what I want to stress here is that the use of subsidies was highly successful in the Italian case as in other cases in other countries. Yet, there is a sort of a growing dark spot in this story and this is what the presentation is going to be about. And I'm linking, of course, as you can understand from the title and from the abstract, to the link, the potential involvement of mafia groups, also of organized crime in the sector, in the renewable energy sector. Here, just to provide you some anecdotal evidence, I'm showing you some headlines from the Washington Post, from the FT, the telegraph, but the list is broader. And all these pieces of news connect to, in particular, some cases which were discovered in southern Italy, in the region of Sicily, an island that you probably know already. The evidence is not only journalistic, there is also reports, for example, by Europe, as well as by the Italian anti-mafia directories. So there is a growing evidence, although still not broadly, it's still anecdotal or case by case evidence of this potential involvement of mafia groups into renewable energy. To give you the last piece of anecdotal evidence here, these headlines was linked to the arrest of wind farm tycoons or a businessman who seemed to have links, very closely, to the current head of the Sicilian mafia, so Cosa Nostra, which you may remember from the Godfather, just to give you an idea. And when he was arrested, the police seized access for 1.3 billion euros. So we are talking about substantial economic involvement in the sector. So our research, the research that I'm conducting with Alessio is exactly trying to aim at understanding if there is a strong and systematic link between the presence of mafia or mafia groups at the municipal level, so at the local level. Municipalities in Italy are the lower tier of government, so if there is mafia presence at the local level, it correlates or causally is causally linked to the involvement in wind farm activities. And if so, this is the second question is in red, because it's a question that you will see, still work in progress, if there is a link, what are the mechanisms behind. Just to, before I move on into the analysis, let me say that you may think, well, okay, this is a case from Italy about what's the external validity, what's the relevance for other contexts. And here I want to stress that the organized crime is not only an Italian problem, especially nowadays. Here just for, as I thought I'm providing two headlines from both from the Guardian and about the organized crime in the UK. Here, of course, the headlines are about the broad definition of organized crime. So it doesn't only involve mafia type organized crime. So it's a any sort of a criminal gangs and groups. But the point I want to make is that criminal organizations are not only an issue that we need to be concerning in countries such as Italy, or some countries in the Balkans, but it's a broad phenomenon on nowadays spread all across Europe and in the UK. Just to give you some, the Crown prosecution service or in the UK estimates, I was reading the estimations and the estimates that the costs for the UK are in excess of 24 billion pounds a year. So we are talking about substantial and substantial issue. More specifically linked to the presentation today is the issue of mafia groups. So mafia organized crime, which is a specific type of organized crime, as criminologists will tell us. And the point here I want to raise is that the mafias today, and I will come back to this later, have become a global phenomenon. So they are not the small phenomenon or the small mobster that you can imagine looking at the Godfather or the kind of movies. So they were slowly linked to specific places using violence, etc. Today they are global phenomena frequently infiltrating into the clean quote unquote economy. And to the same, the UK is indeed to be very careful because the UK indeed is a global center for money laundering. So organized criminal groups frequently earn money illicitly but then they reinvest illicitly or they buy laundry into the legal economy. And just to give you an insight, this is a story from 2009. In 2009, there was an arrest of an Italian mobster and the rates which were conducted between Italy and the UK sees 227 properties, 680 bank accounts, 61 luxury cars, stables, horses, businesses in the world over 200 million pounds. So we are talking about something which is increasingly deeply rooted in the economic and social clothe of societies beyond the places where organized crime and developed in the first place such as places in Southern Italy or elsewhere in the world. In terms of literature, our paper tries to bridge two strands. In a way, both me and Alessio comes from a background in applied economics. So people more from the from the law side of the sciences will forgive us for why the literature is focused on these areas. But just to give you the idea, we are trying to bridge the literature on the economics of organized crime. And here there is a very broad and burgeoning amount of research showing how organized crime and mafia type organized crime is a is a is a inflicts a significant substantial cost to economies around the world and frequently to public policy. So this is a an important focus. And we try to connect this to the to the broader debate in public policy, but one could think about the debate in legislation or in regulation to get closer to a legalistic framework on whether on how to foster the transition towards renewable energies and towards a cleaner economy. So we try to bridge these two strands on which there has been relatively limited work. We just know of three pieces of work. So there are a few exceptions, but it's still it's a relatively untouched area where there is there is more more room for for for more research. Before I go into what we do empirically, let me spend one slide on the telling you a bit the background on how the incentive systems work in Italy, because this is then important to to understand the empirical case. And as I was anticipating, Italy has benefited from a substantial amount of public support was the towards the wind farms to the point that in the in the some years ago, Italy had the highest or perhaps close to the highest levels of support across the EU across European countries. As an example, the legislation changed over time. So I won't go into specific details, but I want to give you the broader picture. And as an example, so in the Italian legislation, the legislator foresaw some feeding tariffs guaranteed for years. So the tariffs were changed over time as I was anticipating, but we're very generous. So we are talking to about sums well above the market price for for energy. And so they were stronger incentives to to to join the sector. Other incentives were, for example, the priority access to the grid, because this is something that is covered working on this project. Sometimes there is an overproduction of electricity and the electricity just wasted. So the electricity that we produce is just wasted in the in the network. And so in this case, the energy produced from from wind farms have a preferential access to to the grid. Interestingly, the incentives were somehow favoring smaller plans or smaller wind farm, wind farms. So for example, if a farm is below 60 megawatts, they doesn't need to comply and to go into a sort of auction system where there is a the participants will try to compete for a limited amount of capacity. The graph that I'm showing you here is it's in Italian. So forgive me for this. It comes from the from the Italian institution that manages these incentives. But what I want you to to convey is the size of the horizontal bars and both for large scale farms. So the ones on the right, so the above 200 kilos or the small, the small ones. Sorry, the opposite, I mixed them. But in both case of the small, very small and large scale farms, the Italy ranks among the highest, highest support across the across the across the even that's a main takeaway of the graph. Of course, is the the project. Well, of course, if you know the geography of Italy, the productivity is over wind farms is concentrated in the south, where the the geography is windier, as you can see from from this map. Unfortunately, this is also the area where traditionally organized crime has been called mafia type organized crime has been strongest. And in fact, the anti mafia directorate of Italy, which might sounds strange for someone, but because of the long historical tradition of mafia groups or the rootedness of mafia groups, Italy has also developed a quite strong institutional capacity in fighting those mafia groups. And so we have an anti mafia directorate. And in one of the numerous reports, they were stressing, in fact, the attention that we need to care to pay to the wind farms and renewable energy sector more broadly, because this is one of the growing area where mafia's are trying to infiltrate. And the reasons are two. The first one is that the mafia groups try to scheme money from the incentives. So they try to exploit the public incentives given to the sector. And the second the second reason why mafia's are interested in the sector is for the money laundering, because establishing a wind farm requires upfront capital. And this is a perfect way for for for groups which have lots of cash and they don't know how to invest it. And that's a perfect opportunity for them to to to use their cash. In terms of data, the data that we use for the for the for the analysis, we exploit a punctual data set on the on the presence of wind farms existing in 2016. So we this is a official data from the from the GSC Atlas. And here you can see a map on the distribution of farms across Italy. And as I was saying, of course, more and most of them are in the south, which is windier, especially in the mountains of the south. If you are curious to see how many municipalities, as I was saying, the analysis will be done at the municipal level. Here you can see two scatter plots on the number of municipalities across Italy that have at least host at least one wind farm on the left and the number of plants per municipalities which are actually having at least a farm. Italy has composed more or less 8000 municipalities and if I don't mistake around 700 municipalities are involved in a wind farm. So have at least a wind farm in in their own territory. Now let's come to the key point of the presentation in a sense that the the data on wind farms is easier. But the key point is how do we measure mafia because it's it's inherently difficult to to measure the the phenomenon you may tell me. Well, this is a beautiful story. But unless you tell me how you are able to measure the mafia, the presence of mafia, which is a very definition is something difficult to find. The whole story is it's just up in the air. And let me start from the old, from the first papers and the developing the literature and they used to use indicators taken from the police or from the other criminal sources and were mostly about the violent events. So we're trying to measure mafia presence by the by measuring, for example, the number of crimes such as homicides or other crimes linked to the to mafia groups. And in a way, this links to the view of mafia as violent organizations that we may know from the movies. And that's why you see here a picture from from the godfather, by the way, when the when the character goes back to Sicily. And yet, organized crime groups are increasingly becoming something different. So they're from groups exclusively focused on a crude violence, they are becoming increasingly infiltrating into into the legal economy, as I was anticipating before. And so the literature has also tried to keep up with this with this change. And so new indicators have been added on the on the toolkit of MPR researchers. For example, scholars have used the number of confiscated properties. That is to say properties confiscated by the Italian state to mafia groups, because as I was saying, we have a relatively strong and developed anti mafia institutional structure to fight the groups. And equally, and other indicators which was used is the is the number of local authorities that is municipalities in Italian case, which were found to be infiltrated mafia groups and dissolve because of this reason. Over all, so we see that the mafias have a change in their in their character from a group set base on the exclusive base on the crude violence to groups more deeply infiltrating into into society. Overall, yet the underlying story with the mafia group size, the ultimate use of a virus either directly or as a threat. And here I'm referring to a paper by one of the criminologists here in Cambridge, Federico Campana and and Paolo Campana, sorry, and in Varese 2018. Overall, what we do in this paper use is a it's a it's a combined it's a combined approach. We so basically take all these indicators used by previously by the literature and combine an index developed by an Italian organization called trans crime. So the index ranges from zero to 10, where zero is a no mafia infiltration at all and 100, sorry, not 10. 100 is the maximum with the maximum infiltration. To give you an idea, this is the picture of an organized crime today in Italy. As I was saying before, the criminal groups which developed historically in the south today are also highly infiltrated in cities and in the north in the and so cities like such as Milan or Turin, the city where I'm from in the northwest, and other places which were the economies formally very clean and then there is no in theory, no criminal groups, but they influence on the economies is strong. And this is again one of the reasons why we need to worry also here in the UK, especially in London. So what do we do empirically? And please bear with me this slide is slightly more technical. So if you don't get if you don't know estimation strategies equation, there is absolutely no problems. It's it's it's important here is to understand the intuition. And since we have in a way, we have two phenomena here we need to understand, we need to understand whether local municipalities are involved in hosting at least a wind farm. So the first step and the second step, if yes, how many wind farms will be present in this local territory. So we use two step analysis. It's a cross section analysis because we only have data for 2019 on the wind farms. And these two strange equations are just telling that we have a two step where we first estimate the likelihood of a municipality to host a wind farm. And the second, the number of plants or megawatts installed. In the first case, we use a probit estimator in the second is your truncated Poisson case you are interested in in in these details. And of course, our variable of interest. So our explainator is is our mafia index. We additionally of course control for covariates as it's a standard in the in this kind of studies or first nature geography, levels of urbanization, in population density, income and employment, et cetera, et cetera. Let me come to the results. Again, don't get scared if you if you are not familiar with these tables. It's it's it's just a way statistical results are presented. The important thing is the takeaway and a positive coefficient. So a positive number with many stars with three aesthetics is what you want to have. So it's what you don't want to have if you are concerned but this is what tells you that the regression results are strongly and robust. And so across our specification, you see in particular those underlining red, they suggest us that there is a strong and robust link between the presence of mafia groups at the local level and the likelihood of hosting at least a wind farm in the municipality. And of course, we cannot provide evidence of the smoking gun, but because it's but we can provide evidence of a link between these two between the local presence of one phenomenon and the local presence of another phenomenon. If we go to the second stage, so we try to estimate the total number of the wind farms per municipality. Again, we see there is strong and robust correlation between the two. This is, of course, the results across the whole of Italy. Yet there is no evidence of a link between the total megawatts installed and mafias and perhaps this is still very preliminary, but an hypothesis because the the regulation that is more stringent for large wind farms. So an hypothesis we need to test in a in a more robust way is that the mafia groups may be interested in entering into into small farms. To give you an idea of what these coefficients are in a graphical way, this is the table. So you see the the the link between the mafia index and the likelihood of hosting wind farms. The results holds become stronger when we restrict the sample where we stick the analysis to the only the south of Italy where the the presence of mafia groups have been historically stronger and when I was saying the wind productive abilities is stronger. For resort time, perhaps I will go very quickly to over the next slides, but if there is any of you who is the interesting about the identification, the causal identification of the work, which is the final part of our analysis. We try to go deeper from the correlation analysis that I presented earlier and what we do is that we use an instrumental variable approach and basically we exploit to say exogenous data or data or variables on the exogenous birth of mafia groups and in in the 19th century to understand where mafia groups are today and hence find a way to reduce the potential endogenous link that we find in the in the first part of the analysis. So I will skip it, but I'm very happy to come back to this in the in the Q&A. We use data on the on the on the surfer mines from the 19th century to instrument as is that technically the presence of mafia today and hence link into the to the the presence of wind farms and what I want to show are the results and indeed again we find a very strong link and here we can start to confidently claim it's a causal link between the presence of mafia in the municipality and the involvement in wind farms and yet we don't find a link in the in the second stage on the number of wind farms hosted in initial municipality so this is again it's a it's a hypothesis and we need to test further but it's perhaps that the criminal groups may offer small distributed farms rather than large scale plants. So to conclude we find we test we try to explore the correlation between the presence of mafia groups across Italy and the number of wind farms and we do find preliminary evidence especially from Sicily and this correlation is also strong in other parts of the south especially in the other region of Acampania the region of Naples was to say even if I haven't presented the result. In terms of next step and this is something I haven't stressed before the analysis is very new so the in a way it's a sort of preview of new and new new new work we are still working on and we have still a lot to do on the on the identifications on the empirical part but especially we are now working on expanding the analysis to solar plants or to try to diversify our focus or to broaden it and especially we are going to start COVID allowing very soon a second part of analysis which will be qualitative on the mechanisms so on the more legalistic mechanisms behind this potential involvement of mafia groups into into the renewable energy sector. With these thank you very much and I look forward for your questions


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But preferably those four. Or something like that. Michael Pittman Jr., Jonathan Taylor Duel for the Colts. Kurt Disser. Cool, sounds good, Ryan. 25 out of 50. You'll probably be up after this once I put everything away. Jaylen Hertz for the Eagles. And Christopher Farquhar. Nick Chubb for the Browns. Steve Wright. And Curtis, or no, Chris Streveller. Rookie Ticket Red for the Cardinals, Michael Schwartz. 14 out of 125. Rookie Ticket CJ Henderson for the Jaguars. And Gary Tashima. And Rookie Ticket Blue, team color matching. Michael Pittman Jr. for the Colts and Kurt Disser. 57 out of 75. Okay, two boxes left. Last two for the best. Chris is from your town, washed him in high school. Steve, I was reading about Darnell Mooney today. And he said that the first pass that Justin fielded through to him while it was still in mid-air, he just had the biggest smile on his face because he could just see that everything was better or something like that. I was like, well, that's cool. Ezekiel Elliott, MVP contenders for the Cowboys and Aaron Salinas. Jeff Okuda for the Lions and Aaron Salinas. I was like, that's got to be it. That's good for him. I like that. Baker Mayfield for the Browns. And Steve Wright. And Matthew Stafford, season ticket blue, team color matching for the Lions and Aaron Salinas. Two out of 99. Kyle Duggar, rookie ticket auto for the Patriots. Christopher Farquhar. Gabriel Davis, rookie ticket auto for the Bills. Roy D. Pietro. So we're definitely saving the last box for best, right? Come on. Do something. Let's close it out. Nebula. Gold vinyl. Nebula or gold vinyl. Or both. Also except for... Yeah, Henry Ruggs, Jerry Judy, round numbers. So that's two different teams. Raiders is Aaron Salinas. Broncos is Joshua Cooke. That one we will have to randomize. That is 31 out of 99. I'll have to randomize that between the two teams at the end of the break. You've got KJ Hamler for the Broncos and Joshua Cooke. Lamar Jackson for the Ravens and Aaron Billingsley. And Terry McClaren for Washington and Scott Corwin. That is 66 out of 99. Grant Delpit, rookie ticket auto again for the Browns and Steve Wright. And final auto of the break. That did not live up. Sticker auto. John Hightower. So we didn't get an on-card auto in the final box and we got shorted an on-card auto in another box. It's kind of... So we ended up with the right amount of autos just two on-card autos short of what it should have been. Don't like that. But let's finish it off with this randomizer. We did get a nice Tua. So let's pop back over here and do this randomizer. This is going to be Raiders Broncos. Dice roll for the randomizer. Two and a six. Eight times. Team on top after eight. Eighth and final time, Broncos. And Joshua Cooke. And there you go guys, that's the break. So that card is going to go to the Broncos. That was 2020 Penini Contenders Optic Football 10 Box Case Break Picker Team Number 20 from jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Sean. Thanks for hanging out. I'll see you next time.


Hey everybody it's Hari Swaminathan from optiontiger.com it's Thursday September 3rd and we are about to close a bunch of our swing trades for this week. You must have seen a video last week I think or just about a week or 10 days ago we closed about $6,000 in profit and here we are. First one is booking right there and booking has a profit of about $2,300 and it's close to max profit we are closing it. Costco is the real one right here. Costco is going to be a $6,000 trade by itself. You can see it's already up 5125 and today Costco is moving up another $2 and so this is going to be a blockbuster of a trade making about $6,000 right here. CRM we are also closing this might give up a little bit of profit maybe about $500 and then Microsoft is a completely turnaround story. This is a fantastic story right here. NVIDIA also we got about a $1750 profit. We took the trade on Tesla. It's gone down a little bit and we are going to manage that but today basically we are closing booking for almost $2,300. Costco for about let's say $6,000 and then all of them I mean four or five trades are being closed today. So the swing trading signals is going very well. Of course the markets have been bullish after the COVID drop and now you can see today. The first day we are seeing a little bit of weakness in the market so we are closing all our positions. If you'd like to know more about the swing signals program and if you want to join this it's a very profitable program on a monthly basis. We are making anywhere close to about $6,000 to $10,000 a month based on an account size of about $50,000. That's how I trade this account that it's about $50,000. So it's a very good program if you're interested please watch the end of this video. Thank you. If you click on learn more that will take you to the swing trading signals page and here you can get some more details on it and you can also sign up on a monthly plan for 25% off or an annual plan for 50% off the list price. Thank you.


The USB LiPo battery charger. It charges in three stages. It does a preconditioning, it does a fast charge, and then it does a trickle charge. It tells us that we have power with a little red LED here, and then this is indicator that is yellow right now that tells me this is charging. And then when it gets to a full charge and it's just doing the trickle, that LED turns off and we instead get the done or green LED to light up. So if I have battery plugged in, you'll see that immediately powers up the device. Now, if I want to start charging this, I can just plug in and it won't interrupt anything. You can see the power still running over here. There's no hiccups there. And now we are driving this either off of available battery power or over the USB. It's never going to never going to turn that device off. The USB LiPo battery charger.


So here we have an 8k 360 camera live streaming. That's right my name is Jeffrey Martin from LabPano. This is our second camera on the market. It's the smallest 8k 360 camera on the market. We have a cloud live streaming solution so you stream directly from the camera to the cloud where all the stitching and distribution is done. There's four cameras around? Yes, it's four cameras. And it streams to your cloud solution? That's right. It also has a vSlam algorithm for shooting virtual tours that can be automatically placed. Each image is placed correctly within each other image and it's built on open Android system allowing developers to build their own applications. Open Android. You say Android? Yes, it's built on Android and it's an open SDK so people can build their own applications. So what would be the application? That means it's running Android right now? Yes. What application you can put on there? You might want to have a certain way of shooting with certain settings and you might want to upload the photos or videos to your own service. So for example when you talk about vSlam is that something to do with creating a 3D world out of capture? Well the camera knows when you take one picture and then you walk a few meters it knows how far you've gone so then when you have the virtual tour you've got like a link from one image to the other and it knows exactly where to put the link from one image to the other so that they're you know spaced correctly. Like street view? Yes. Is it possible to create a 3D environment out of that? Not in the camera, no. But on your cloud or something on that? Maybe? Not yet. Different. Maybe later. How does the camera know exactly how much has moved? There's like enough sensing going on there? So there's a onboard IMU accelerometer device and using some sophisticated AI algorithms we can figure out how far the camera has moved. Like step counter? Sort of. Is there any way to do it more precise? It would be nice to be exactly precise to know where you put the camera. I think it's like a centimeter level positioning. Oh. So lab panel. Yes. It's got to do with panorama. Yes. But it does video. It does video as well. It does up to eight cameras resolution video. This little one right here. Yes. Is this a different one to be one there? That's our first model. Well, I think we'll know how to get back to turning it off. So, this is our first model. What? That came out last year. So that's just a small version you have right there of the same? It's quite similar but a lot smaller than this one. There's a screen just to see one of the sides, right? Oh, you can turn the whole. So it's live stitching on the camera right there? Yes. But what is a different kind of stitching you can do in the cloud? In the cloud it's stitching 8K video which is a pretty intensive task. You can't do that on the camera? No. So that means when you record 8K you can't see anything? When you're recording 8K video you can have a live preview. But not 8K, so it's going to show a lower version? Well, the screen isn't 8K so it doesn't really matter. It's showing you a live preview on the camera of what you're recording. Can you set it to 8K? Sure. So you do 8K, 7K, 6K all the way down? Yep. 24 frames per second. That's right. That means you have a really good, what do you call those, FPGA or something? How do you make it work? Well, there's a sophisticated chip in here and LabPano's been for many years been a leader in building panoramics stitching algorithms on low-level hardware. So this is their core confidence. What I'd like to see is 8K 360 video conferences. That would be great. So you'd stream from one to the other and you're both in the same room.  But is there like lag and all this stuff happening when you want to stitch 8K? How much lag do you get? It's less than one second. The whole way to the first, to be less than one second. Yes. It's like pretty good. Yes. I thought it would be like 15-20 seconds. No, no, no. So you can pretty much do that, right? Yeah, it's possible. Right. Is it for sale? We're announcing it today. It's shipping in February. Is there any price yet? We're announcing the price at CES. This is CES, no? This is CES on sale. So we have before launch. Yes. We've got to wait a couple days. But I'll link to it right there. It'll be a good price. It'll be a good price. And what other stuff do you share in here? Is it different accessories? This is a GPS device. This is a 5G device. So you can live stream 8K over 5G. This is a waterproof case. It goes inside. And this is a protective case, if you're going to be knocking it around. And do you capture everything from the floor to the top?  Yes. You can see on here, it goes straight down, straight up. Yeah, it's totally spherical. Can you say you've been doing this for a while? Yes. So it's not a new company? No, it's not a new company. So how long have you been doing this stuff? For about 8 years. So not just one, but a bunch of previous companies? The company was originally building panoramic stitching algorithms for other companies who were making their own hardware. Is it also in Shenzhen? Yes. So that's the place where everything is made, right? That's right. Shenzhen is pretty much. Everything is made in Shenzhen. The real Silicon Valley. Alright, cool. And does a lot of competition happening in the 360 camera world? How's the market? Because it seems there was maybe a little bit of a hype 2-3-4 years ago. And what's going to happen in 2020? What do you think? In 2020, I think there might be a couple of surprises at CES, but I don't see any new companies entering the market in 2020. I think the market is sort of stabilizing, and we're seeing some more mature cameras from existing companies.


What's up, everyone? Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Me and my girlfriend, Ashley, just returned from a three-day trip to Kingston. We had a blast. There was a lot to do.  But also, if you guys are interested and you guys want to see a video where I talk about things to see in Kingston, things to do, places to go and eat, let me know down in the comments below. If you guys are interested, that's a video that I very well could make and I think it would be a blast because I had a lot of fun while in Kingston. A lot of different places that I checked out. It's not only for my collections and checking out places for things to pick up, things to add to my collection, but also just experiencing everything, including Kingston Pen. So if you want to see a video like that, let me know down in the comments below. Now, while we were in Kingston, we decided to check out a place called Brothers Quality Meets. This was recommended to us from family and we decided to finally check it out for ourselves. Now, once we entered, it was amazing. It's basically a huge butcher, but they have literally anything that you can imagine, any kind of meats that you want to barbecue in very creative ways. And unfortunately, we didn't bring any of that back with us, but we did pick out some of the jerky and pepperettes. Today, however, we are going to be tasting the jerky that they make in-house there. We have a bunch of different kinds. There's three kinds that they make. It's about $30 for a pound. So it's a lot more than going into a grocery store, but it's way better quality meats than you would if you go and just buy it in a grocery store. So we got regular sweets and hot and teriyaki. Now, these are the three, I guess, most common flavors. I usually like original. That's just more classic for me, but I do like the other flavors as well normally. And we're just going to get right into it. I think we're going to start off with regular. Now, unlike going to the grocery store and buying a bag where you get a lot of smaller pieces, for example, here is one piece. That is huge. That is amazing. So I'm really excited for this. I absolutely love jerky. You guys know this. Unfortunately, my girlfriend is not going to be in today's video. Normally, we enjoy doing taste test videos together, but she's at work. So I just ripped off a small piece off of one of the pieces in the bag. It looks amazing. You can see the fibers of the meats. It smells amazing. Let's give it a try. Wow. Amazing flavor. Amazing quality to the meat as well. Two thumbs up for me. Really salty, which is a good thing for me. Brothers, that is, that is amazing. Out of different companies that I tried for jerky, that is the best original flavor I've ever had. The quality of the jerky is amazing as well. I don't know, I just can't say enough of it. That to me is a 10 out of 10. I like the saltiness. I like the meat flavor. I like that it's real meats. You can tell that it's made there and it's really fresh. So 10 out of 10 for me. Right now, we're going to try teriyaki, which is usually my go-to flavor. I really like original, but if I'm going to choose a flavor outside of original, usually I'll choose teriyaki. Again, it's a huge piece. I'm not going to show you, but that is one piece there. I'm just going to rip off the chunk again. So this has a little red hue to it. Of course, it's not going to focus. There we go.  Has a sweet flavor to the teriyaki. It's amazing. Mmm. The flavor of the meat is not disrupted by any of the flavoring of the teriyaki or any of the other flavorings. You really taste the beef flavor. The teriyaki is a little subtle, a little sweet, but it's a little subtle than what you buy in a grocery store. Usually it's really teriyaki forward. This is very much meat forward with teriyaki hints to it, if you will. So it really reminds me of original, but instead of that really big punch of salt that the original gives, this gives kind of more of a sweet flavor to it. Honestly, I like this one. I don't know if I like it more because I like that saltiness from the original. I'm going to say 9 out of 10. Still really high, but so, so good. Amazing stuff, brothers. And we do have one more to try. That is the sweet and hot jerky. I think this is going to be good. Again, it's I guess not as big of pieces as the other two, but still fairly large pieces. So I like the fact that they make it there. I like the fact that you can really taste the beef flavor. I ripped off a really big chunk. Again, this one has a red hue to it. It just smells sweet.   That's good. Didn't get any heat to it unless it suddenly takes a minute, but this is delicious. I can tell why this is my girlfriend's favorite. It's more flavorful, more flavor forward.  If you still get the saltiness from the beef itself, but you get a lot more flavor than you do in obviously original where there's no flavor in the teriyaki is a little bit more subtle. This is a great flavor. I don't find it too hot. I know they're pepperettes. They're hot pepperettes are hot. They're mild pepperettes have a nice kick to it, but they're hot ones are really hot. Again, I like the honey garlic pepperettes better though, which unfortunately I'm not going to be able to share with you guys in a video. This one's good. I don't know. I'm still, I still like original. Maybe that's just me still going to rank this high. I like that this flavor. I like that you can taste the meats. The second bite had a lot more heat to it. So I don't know how they mix it with the flavors, but I'm going to say it's a 9 out of 10 matches with teriyaki still rated it high, but original. It just holds a special place in my heart. I like that you can taste the beef. I like that none of that flavor is disrupted anyway. I like that there's the saltiness from it. It just tastes like a classic jerky, very high quality. In my opinion, original is the best. That's brother's offers. Now the other ones, I still ranked them 9 out of 10. Don't get me wrong, they're great. I honestly could have ranked everything 10 out of 10, but for me, original is the best. The other two are amazing as well. If you like flavor, if you like a little bit of heat, go with sweet and spicy or sweet and hot. It is amazing. If you like teriyaki, just remember it's a little bit more subtle with brothers, but still amazing out of all the teriyaki jerky that I've had and tried. This is the best teriyaki. Same with the sweet and hot. That's the best, more spicy one that I've tried. Now I've tried habanero. I've tried other ones that are really hot.  You just get the heat, the sweet and, what is it, sweet and hot? I keep mixing it up. Sweet and hot is just an amazing flavor. It's not too hot, not overpowering the jerky, but it all comes together perfectly. So thank you, brothers. You guys are amazing. We definitely will be back whenever we go to Kingston and get more jerky and pepperettes from you guys. The service was amazing, by the way. Everybody was really friendly. They had a lot of staff on hands and whenever we walked in, they were ready to serve us. But we always went to work in somewhere new. We like to browse everything first and then go for what we came in for in the first place. So we checked out a bunch of other stuff. We did get fudge there, which was kind of too sweet for me, but it was still really good. And we just browsed everything. They have a lot of hot sauces, barbecue sauces, any kind of rubs that you want for your barbecue, for barbecuing, any kind of meats. They have it all. They have any kind of meats, any kind of salami, jerky, everything that's ready to just put right on the barbecue with different things. They have kebabs. They have a whole bunch of stuff. I highly recommend going and checking them out. They're in Kingston. Really easy to get to while you're in Kingston and there's other things right near it. I think the Caterock Way, I think pronounced that right, the Caterock Way mall is right next to it. So very easy to get to. Absolutely loved it and we will be going back. Our experience there, I'm going to say it's 10 out of 10. Best experience, best service. Great, great jerky. So hope you guys enjoyed this video. I'm going to leave this here. Please take care and I'll see you guys in another video. Like I mentioned in the beginning of this video, if you guys want to know more about Kingston and you want me to make a video talking about places to eat, places to go, things to see, let me know down in the comments below, but I'm going to leave this video here. Please take care. Peace.