I'm sure you've all seen the Ancap Ball memes of what would supposedly happen in an Anarcho-Capitalist society where there's some sort of corporate monopoly on air or when Muck Insulin TM costs $15,000 so you die. But what if I told you that those are 1,000% untrue and there is one specific reason why? There would be no intellectual property in Ancapistan and therefore no copyrights, trademarks, patents, or anything else that grants the monopoly of drug production or any other recipe of production. The only true property rights that exist are for physical property, not ideas, and that might sound really weird considering we're famously such big advocates of Bitcoin and intangible good. Is it confusing? I'll hold my hand and we'll walk through this together. A drug company does have rightful private ownership of the capital goods required to make a drug, the ingredients it's purchased to make it, and of course the final product that goes up for sale. They do not have rightful private ownership of how to make the drug because that is simply a recipe, it's just information, it's not a scarce good.  That is information and information is speech. Let's remember what criteria makes property a scarce natural resource mixed with an individual's pure labor. A tree is a scarce natural resource, a rock is a vegetable, even water because while running water in a stream is not owned by anyone, when you mix it by putting it in a bottle that water is then yours. You can't just point at the stream and say I own that because I say so and you can't do that with information either. If your speech was your property then when you talk and the vibration of atoms in the air reaches another person's ear you could say they took your speech without your permission and are a word thief. It's exactly the same if you write some words on your computer, broadcast them across the internet and then claim that you own them. If that were the case you would have to own all of the individual pixels on the screen belonging to the person reading those words that you typed which is obviously a farce. So when a drug company writes a recipe for how to make insulin they will rightfully own the computer hard drive that that information is stored on but they cannot own the information itself as all computer information is boiled down to binary codes, ones and zeros arranged in a specific way and let's remember bitcoin because while it's also technically just ones and zeros its combination is unique for reasons beyond the scope of this video but the hard drive that you use as a wallet for it is your private property but information is simply speech not a scarce good. If someone worked at AstraZeneca on developing insulin but left for GlaxoSmithKline and took that information with them in order for AstraZeneca to claim ownership of the information stored in that person's brain well they would have to claim ownership of the part of that person's brain that holds the memory of that information that's ridiculous right? Well that ridiculousness is literally what we have right now the baffling drug prices in America for example only exist because pharmaceutical patents create an artificial state-enforced monopoly that would not exist within anarcho capitalism. Drug prices would work the exact same way that every price does in a free market being formed out of the competition to provide the highest quality good at the lowest possible price to the most amount of people. So did you support Bernie Sanders because you wanted affordable health care? Well if so I hope this throws a spanner in your logical works and makes you reconsider how to actually achieve that goal it's a problem of artificial monopoly and I'll tell you how you don't fix that by making the entire health care industry an artificial monopoly by giving it to the government wholesale. Now that we've established the bad parts of intellectual property and why it is inherently unjustified we can't be so ignorant to say that it has no benefits at all what about artists? The painting of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre for example is a scarce good that's for sure but when you pull up a picture of it on your phone Leonardo da Vinci's ghost doesn't own your phone screen your eyes or your brain Rolex can't rightfully own the image of a five-pointed crown because it can't prevent you from imagining it in your head and just because you put one on a watch doesn't make that watch a Rolex but it is a potentially scary notion that an artist could spend hours creating a drawing with no guarantee that their work would be protected or just because it wouldn't technically be property that doesn't mean it wouldn't be incredibly scummy for someone to take that artwork without paying or crediting the artist they make money from it by printing it and selling it on shirts which you know happens all the time currently even with a bottomless ocean of intellectual property laws and innumerable amounts of money spent on enforcement just proving that it's really a waste of the time and money of everybody involved the idea that artificial monopoly and its laws are the only way to preserve art is quite frankly just lazy just because you can't immediately think of a way to do it doesn't mean it's impossible sorry to say this but you're not that bloody smart if someone is smart enough to think of a market way of doing this then they're going to be rewarded by the market with money so there is obviously an incentive there for it to happen here's another thing you might be very surprised to hear from an ANCAP one possible way of this is unions an artist union can be created in order to try and curb such activity by calling for boycotts of companies that do such scummy things and create their own avenues for rewarding artists for their work non-profit charities and business can and do exist to support artists host auctions run galleries and so much more you don't need the government to fix every problem in the world all you need is good problem solvers and a system that provides the incentive for them to pursue problems job done so going back to our drug production analogy measures of contract could exist to protect IP to some extent when that employee signed on to AstraZeneca he could have agreed to not give information to competitors if he didn't want to agree to that clause well AstraZeneca wouldn't be obligated to employ him if he did agree to that clause but then broke it he would be in violation of his contract and can be pursued in legal action so if you've thought of any reasons why despite not being a right IP should still be enforced run your hypothesis against this idea of market contract law and see what sort of conclusion you come to basically use a lot of creative thinking what you always have to do when trying to imagine how a stateless society would work is be creative because that given society itself would be a literally infinite process of devising creative solutions to complex problems what you absolutely cannot do is take examples of government manipulations within our current society to be indicative of the outcome of a hypothetical society where a government doesn't even exist or claim that the limits of your imagination are the limits of reality the truth is there might still be some intellectual property in an capistan but it would not be blanket and incredibly harmful which it currently is the fact is that free people acting within free markets will strive to find the best possible outcomes of every given situation and this will also be true in the area of intellectual property the best outcome could be no IP at all or it could be various levels of contractual IP agreements but what it certainly wouldn't be is an over-regulated subsidized price controlled and forcefully monopolized landscape of forever rising prices for medicine along with falling real wages while that's close to our current reality I absolutely guarantee you that these would both be the opposite take it easy


Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TF9 Headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, 4 p.m. Eastern Time as we reach the closing bell on Tuesday and quite a positive day we've had across the board in the markets. Dow Jones up 145 points, trading at 26,656. We have the S&P's closing for a record close, up 25 points on the day, about nine-tenths, 29.33 in that S&P. Previous high is closed, I believe 29.30, somewhere in that ballpark, so be there a few points. Looks like depending on how that closing number works out. NASDAQ up 105 points, 1.3% in the positive, trading at 81.20 in the Russell 2000, leading the way up a solid 25 points or 1.6%, trading at 15.84. We start off the update. Let's take a look at the VIX. We had a little bit of a market pullback in the final hour, so you had that VIX go from a low of 12.08, we reached, right at about three o'clock, 12.30 on that VIX. Jumping over to the markets, where are we? There we are. We'll start it off with that S&P. So you saw most of the acceleration early in the day. We make a high actually just after noon of 29.39, looking at the June Futures contract. We're currently trading 29.38 in the S&Ps. Dow 30, a little bit of a different story. The Dow, the major, the laggard of the major indices as you have the Dow trading 26,653, also had the NASDAQ closing in record territory too. Check out that NASDAQ 100. Quite a run. 77.27 early this morning. We're up more than 100 points from that level, trading at 78.32. Crude oil, $66.30, quite a price for the price of crude. Gold contract had been under 12.70 on a couple occasions early today. Gold trading 12.74.15. And Euro US dollar, Euro weakness for most of the morning. We've got a little bit of a pop from about 10.30, trading 1.12.22. So it is earning season in full swing. And after the bell today, we're going to get Snapchat. We'll see if they can continue the run that Twitter had early today. What they'll be looking for in terms of what analysts expect, still looking for a loss, $0.12 a share, looking for that loss, revenue of $306 million. Global daily active users, a big one because they're losing money. It's all about whether they have people right now, 187 million forecast. And we'll see if they get that number. Snapchat coming out tonight. We'll take a quick peek. Snapchat ahead of that, up 4%, mostly having the heels of how about Twitter up 15%. Stay tuned, folks. Basil Chapman filling in right now for the second hour of the Tom O'Brien show. Have a great Tuesday.


Vue is a French company and we are developing many Bluetooth low-energy accessories so we are just offering a full set of smart home products, all those products are using Bluetooth low-energy, you can control everything with one application, working with iOS, Android and Windows Mobile. So all these have a, what kind of a solution for wireless? You can control the... Zigbee or something else? Sorry? Zigbee or something else? No, it's using Bluetooth low-energy. Okay. It's a, what's English? Very unique in the market, everything is using Bluetooth for one specific reason, in that most of the people who are doing a smart home today, you have to buy one gateway first, you have to buy one gateway first and after you buy accessories, here you buy the accessories and if you need the gateway, you will buy the gateway. So this is a Bluetooth gateway? Yes. But it's an option. You don't buy it if you don't need it. So Bluetooth low-energy is a giant standard and it's cheap, it's low-power. It's low-power, the range is similar to that Wi-Fi, 30 to 50 meters, the power consumption is very, very low, it's why you can use a sensor with Wi-Fi you cannot and this is something that, thanks to the price, we generate volume and it says out because the price is very affordable. So one other French company, Arcos, was doing Bluetooth right? Yes.  Yes. But what did you produce? They modified a portable 132 device. Yes. It's the same protocol that Arcos, but here, when you buy the bulb, just as you don't load the apps, you have one app to control everything and it's a direct connection with the device. If you want to use it with the internet, you have to buy the gateway, 49 euros. You just have to switch to internet there and you will control everything from internet. So you say on the poster it says something about the card? Now the card is very new. It's a new thing. So I just have a game which is a try me function. So what does it do? It's just for demonstration for the show. In fact, it's a water control system. When you are on vacation, you can control the scene. You can schedule the watering system just to control the water spray. So how much for one of the lights? The lights start from 19 to 49 euros. Did you sell already? Yes, it's already available everywhere in Europe. All over Europe? Yes. So you are the leader in the Bluetooth arena? I guess we are one of the leading company in the Bluetooth arena, of course. And what's the future of Bluetooth in IoT? Bluetooth of the future is coming very soon. It's what we call Mesh. Mesh is a fantastic solution for Bluetooth because thanks to that, we will extend the range of the Bluetooth products from 30 to 50 meters to 200 meters. So all these lights here, they can all be connected to one base station? Yes. Is that for real? I have already seen 200 bulbs working all together. Is it going to be stable and it's going to work? It's very stable. Are you going to support that? It's very stable and it's very quick. Alright, so you are going to be on that van? Of course.


In today's session, we are going to discuss a problem on equilibrium for connected bodies. Myself, Bipin Patil, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Vulture, Institute of Technology, Swarapur. So dear friends, these are the learning outcomes for today's session. So basically we will focus on these particular two points. One is the concept of your equilibrium and how to identify, how to calculate, how to analyze the forces present in a connected body. So before that, force, what do you mean by static equilibrium? You may know if we consider the system of forces, equilibrium, so for that we need to provide such types of force which keeps the structure, system, it is in rest condition. Means any system of forces that keeps the body at a rest is said to be in equilibrium. That is, the state of the body is not affected by the action of the force systems in equilibrium. Means if I consider the system of forces, so to keep this particular body it is in a rest condition, so you may apply the forces exactly in opposite direction having some magnitude. Then and then we are going to keep this particular body, it is in a rest condition. So this is nothing but your static equilibrium is there. Means this particular equilibrium is applicable on those four systems whose resultant action is zero. Let us we discuss what do we mean by a lamesthrom, lamesthrom statement. When three forces means you consider A, B, C, P, Q, R or X, Y, Z, whatever it may be. Consider here three forces A, B, C. Acting at a point or in a equilibrium means we are considering these particular three forces are in equilibrium, a single point. Then each force, each force means A, B, C. Each proportional to the sign of the angle is proportional to the sign of the angle between the other two forces. Sign of angle X, sign of angle Y, sign of angle C. Means for example you focus on this particular schematic diagram. Consider three forces that is A, B, C. Acting on a particle or in a body making angle X, Y, Z with each other. So in the equation form it is expressed according to the statement of a lamesthrom. So A that is force A and this particular force is proportional to the sign of the angle between remaining two forces. So the force A, sign of angle between remaining two forces that is X, sign X is equal to if I consider force B, so we consider here Y that is sign of Y and force C that is sign of Z is there. So this particular three forces are proportional to each other. You consider here P force, Q force, R force, consider the angle alpha, beta, gamma and same equation you generated. So the same statement we are utilizing for solving the problems. These are the few steps to determine the forces. First step, select such a joint where one known force should be there. You select your problems such joint where one force should be known. Second one you just try to draw the pre-body diagram by considering any one joint. Any one joint you select it where one force should be known and the same joint you consider for further calculation. Next apply the equilibrium equation by considering the directions summation f of X is equal to 0, f of Y is equal to 0 and movement at any one point is equal to 0. Here you consider all right hand side forces positive sign, clockwise rotary effect positive sign, vertical upward force positive sign, exactly vice versa means downward force negative sign, left hand side forces negative sign, anti-clockwise rotary effect negative sign. And then you just try to identify the unknown forces. Let's we discuss one problem why a row picks at two points A and D fixed as shown in the figure, weight 20 kiloton and 30 kiloton are attached to at joint B and C respectively. The weight rest with portion AB means this particular AB and BC inclined at here the inclination with respect to horizontal 30 degree and 50 degree respectively. Then the tension present in a segment AB, BC and CD also find also find the inclination of the segment CD means this particular you just try to identify. So our job is very simple first you consider such joint where one force should be known now here also one force is known here also one force is known, two are unknown but here angle is also known. So let's we consider joint B first pre-body diagram for joint B. One this particular BA second one BC next one the given force that is 20 kiloton it moves in an outward direction. So you consider this particular X and Y coordinate this angle is 50 degree given this one now mentioned with respect to vertical 30 degree so this is 30 so we require this whole so how to identify it. So this angle is 30 degree so total is 180, 180 minus 30 that is remaining one. So apply the Lamis theorem for this particular joint B how to apply BA force and opposite this particular 50 degree angle sign of this particular angle. So BA sign 50 BC sign 180 minus 30 is equal to 20 this whole angle how to calculate it this is 50 so remaining one 40 this is 90 this is 31 so 20, 30 plus sign of 40 plus 90 plus 30 now how to calculate this particular unknown forces equated to the given force now you observe here this BA sign 50 BC sign 180 minus 30 though both are unknown equated to 20 sign this whole particular that your angle. So BA sign 50 is equal to 20 sign 40 plus 90 plus 30 so BA is equal to 44.80 kiloton give the equation number one similarly you equate BC sign 180 minus 30 to 20 sign 40 plus 90 plus 30 similarly you calculate the value of BC so it comes 29.20 kiloton so BA and BC how to calculate it by considering the Lamis theorem. Now let us you identify consider joint C in this particular joint C we apply the static equilibrium equations all horizontal forces now this is the incline CD incline CB incline so mention the component one is this component second one is this one here also one component second one so with respect to x axis you consider here. So for example if I consider CD all horizontal forces so here CD cos 90 degree minus theta this is unknown one minus CB now I am considering with respect to x axis 50 degree is given here 40 degrees present here so CB cos 40 this is negative sign because left hand side forces arrow is there is equal to 0 this is your equation number one similarly applies second static equilibrium equation that is summation v is equal to 0 so all vertical are pulled and one is downward CD sin 90 minus theta plus CB sin 40 minus 30 is equal to 0. So you equate this particular two equations equation 1 and 2 and try to identify the value of CD and theta so after calculation CD comes 25.12 kilotone and theta 63.43 degrees there so according to that by considering the Lamis theorem and static equilibrium equation easily we can identify the unknown forces also the angles so my dear friends you just try to pause the video try to give the answer of this particular questions answer of this particular question is this one to prepare this particular session I refer this particular references thank you.


I want to talk about some developing replacement heifers, though, and a couple issues that I see we may need to consider, both now and the immediate time being when it comes to picking out a replacement heifers, but then also as we near breeding time on these groups of animals. So just three things, you know, the first is making sure we're picking the right heifers, and then we're going to go through defining some of our targets, and then also some breeding soundness exams on heifers, which have been largely overlooked, but become very important when it comes to marketing some of our heifers. So we're going to start with just a blanket question selecting the right heifers. And I see Brian, you were in the audience there in Strater. This is a group of calves that's standing up on the pasture. This is mid-summer, a while ago, but when you look over this group of animals, you know, which heifers have an advantage, okay? So if we've got this group of animals, and it's mainly some straight bread or getting towards straight bread angus calves, how do we go about selecting our heifers out of a group like this? You know, another vision that comes to mind when we get into a group of heifers that looks a little bit different, okay? Are the selection tools the same for these groups of heifers? Are we looking for similar things? And so you can start to go down your laundry list, right? If I've got a heifer that's got a real high birth weight, am I going to keep her? If I've got a heifer that was born extremely late, am I going to keep her? If I have a heifer that, in my eyes, is a dog, am I going to keep her, right? So these things all need to be considered. And these are things that most of us go through every year when we're picking our replacement heifers. So again, the first one, is she physically sound? The second one, is she genetically superior? And genetically superior has a lot of different meanings to different people, okay? Hopefully, if we're retaining our own heifers, we've taken the time to invest it in good quality genetics to give us a superior heifer product. If we have got some straight red cattle, there are several breeds out there that do have genetic tests available to find out, are all heifers created equally, even from the same sire, some have more genetic potential than others. Going down into the birth characteristics, I did mention just straight birth weight. But did we have any other dystocia? Are there physical characteristics about that calf that made birthing difficulty that she would pass on to her offspring? Then a real important one in there is birth date, right? When the calving season was this animal born. And then the final one, which heifers have an advantage, those heifers that are bred to calf early. So I'm going to take those last two items and we're going to kind of expound on some considerations regarding those. So the first one that we're going to talk about is longevity. And this is heifers based on when they actually calved out, okay? And broken into two separate groups. So the blue bar up on top here, these are heifers that calved within the first 21 days of the calving season, okay? Moving down here, the yellow bar on the bottom. These are heifers that calved anytime after that first 21 days. And as we go through basically going from the top of the graph to the bottom of the graph, that means that fewer and fewer heifers are actually still in the herd, okay? So what this tells me is that my average longevity, so the average amount of time that a heifer stays in the herd. If she calved herself within that first 21 days of the calving season, she stayed in the herd about five years, okay, 5.1 years. We moved that to anything that calved any later, right? We kept them in the herd and we tried to rebreat them and everything else. We had an entire year knocked off of their longevity. So what this tells me is that these heifers that are calving early just by selecting those animals, they essentially end up with one extra year in a herd. And again, that you can see on the bottom of the slide. This slide and the next one are courtesy of George Perry down at South Dakota State University. So that's a longevity issue, longevity alone. And of course, it's not that simple. We know that if a heifer calves early compared with something that calves 21 days later, we're probably also going to have an advantage in weaning weight that particular year. What this chart looks at is those heifers, their first calf, this is to be expected by design. So on the far left, this dark blue line, these are heifers that calved from day one to 22 of that calving season and then moving on from day 22 to 42 in the real late cavers. And we see that not only do we have a weight advantage, a weaning weight advantage in this first calf, but that's also present in the second calf and the third calf and the fourth calf, fifth calf, all the way up to the sixth calf that these heifers have, right? So basically, when you have a heifer that calves early, you set her up for a lifetime of heavier weaning weights. And so additional weaning weight advantage, if you add all up from year one out to year six, all these differences, that equivalents out to an additional calf. So we had one calf from just the longevity of that cow being there. We had the equivalent of another calf just because of all the extra accumulated weaning weight. So at the end of the day, how do we capitalize on this two calf advantage? Okay, and this comes back to a question of are we set up to increase the number of heifers retained? Both Tim and John did talk about this in terms of where are we at with our replacement heifers, and it would be interesting to put some economics to some of the scenarios I'm about to present. But if we want to consider this, increasing the number of heifers retained, there's a couple of things that we really need to focus on. The first is, so yet increase the number, what does that mean? What does that target number of replacement heifers need to be? In order to figure that out, we need to know roughly what proportion of our heifers are getting pregnant early. And probably the most important is, what are we going to do with our non-conformers? Do we have a market secured for those animals that don't become pregnant early? So this is just a couple of real simple things. And if we have a target number of replacement heifers, say we want 100 heifers to come back into our herd, right? The next thing I said we need to go through is what proportion of our heifers typically calve early, right within that first 21 days. This particular group, say our past performance was 60%. Then the math is really simple. We divide 100 heifers and add additional 60%. That means we need to retain 167 heifers. We take these 167 heifers, we breed them all. And again, we only keep those heifers that become pregnant to that first, either insemination or the first extra cycle that the bull covers. We go in, say we had a little better reproductive performance, and divide by 68%. We're just shy of 150 heifers that we need in that scenario. Say I only need 25 heifers, a number 60%. That means I need to retain 42 heifers to make this thing work. Now, that's a concept, okay? We definitely have some benefits of keeping more heifers, but there's some mandatory questions that these are kind of like do not pass go, right? So if the answer to these questions is no, this scenario may not be in our best interest. So number one, do we have enough high quality heifers, right? That this is kind of an overarching question. Some people are extremely selective about the heifers that they do keep. And we have extremely high phenotype standards, extremely high genetic standards. And if you need 30 replacement heifers and there are only 30 heifers in your herd that you think are the quality you need. Well, we don't have the heifers. This is also kind of a gut check time for what does it take in your eyes to be replacement quality, okay? And again, the concept of keeping more heifers needs to force that question. Okay, so do we have the feed or pasture resources? This is really straightforward. We're retaining an additional group of cattle that we didn't plan on retaining before. So do we have those feed and pasture resources available for us? Can we accurately identify age of pregnancy? This really comes down to a timing of pregnancy evaluation or just a strategy of making sure we only have those early cattle, early pregnancies kept. A simple strategy is we're going to go ahead and we're only going to have a 21 day breeding season. Or we're going to go ahead and we are only going to artificially inseminate a group of heifers once, okay? That's one extreme that's controlled from the breeding side. The other is we're going to come in and we're going to ultrasound our cattle fairly early. Kind of as soon as we can physically get in there and ultrasound confidently to go in and make sure that we identify those early pregnancies that way. And this one gets really critical. Do we have a solid marketing plan? If we look at when the big rungs of grass calves start to hit our markets, right? There are many, many systems that would essentially be expansive stocker operations where we go in, we have a very short defined breeding season. If we get in and pre-check our heifers early enough, all of those heifers that are open were outside of our window. Those open heifers, they will fit right into that grass market. And those heifers that happen to be bred, but not within the window that we're looking at, those can certainly hit some bred heifer sales later on. And again, that's just kind of, the other option that I do have up here is that if you are set up to retain those heifers through finishing, you would essentially be feeding a real heavy yearling heifer. She's probably 800, 900 pounds by the time you get her pre-check this time of the year. Get her on feed and have her out by New Year's or shortly thereafter. All right, so defining targets, moving on from the concentration on those early bred heifers. We talk about developing replacement heifers, and I've got this on here. It's kind of interesting, maintaining sufficient growth. And the next couple slides are really just focusing on, well, what is sufficient growth? We want our heifers to be pubertal at a fairly young age. We want them to become pregnant early. And we also need to control costs as much as possible. And we've had some previous speakers talk about budgets. Carl Hoppe's gonna talk about some feedstuffs and resources that are available to help control some of our costs. But if we just look at it, a 550 pound heifer on the left side, we've got gain here, so she's six-tenths of a pound. And as we go up to 375, we have a coincident increase in the needs for total digestible nutrients with essentially calories for cows and crude protein. Okay, these are really straightforward concepts. We can track our heifer diets and make sure we hit certain target growth rates. Well, the question comes back as to what should those growth rates be? Here we've got another group of cattle that's just out eating corn stalks, okay? Are corn stalks a proper development location for our replacement heifers? Some people may say, yep, sure. Some people may say, well, absolutely not. And the answer, of course, is it depends on what works for your system. In order to really define where we're at, what we need to start answering some key questions. And number one is, do we have some idea of what our mature cowweights are, right? This group of heifers that we either raise ourselves or that we've purchased, what is our mature cow weight? And this is a real weight. This isn't, well, I think they're 1,200 pound cows, right? This is where our average mature cow weights at. We need to know the weaning weight or at least the weight that we start these heifers at. We need to know how old these heifers are when we breed them. So 180 days, six months, right? Wean them at six months, breeding age 420 that's like 14 months. And then those numbers probably aren't far off. And then just how many days between point A? Heifers came into the lot on this day. We're gonna breed them on this day. What do our weights need to be in that interval? Now, there are several questions that people have in terms of what should my percentage of mature weight, right? So I've got this number up here, 1,300 pounds. What percentage of that should I have for breeding? And this is a topic that's received a lot of different people looking from a research standpoint at this and a lot of discussion in several different sectors of the beef community. And it comes down to a standard recommendation that had been around for years and years is to have this target, have that heifer be at about 65% of her mature body weight at the time of breeding. And there are researchers that have looked at reducing this number down to 58% to 60%, even lower than 55% here. And again, that's a topic that does deserve to be talked about. But it's much bigger than 20 minutes here in this presentation with everything else going on. But essentially, once we have a target identified, then we just do the math and say, all right, if it's 65% of mature body weight, she needs to be 845 pounds, we can go out and calculate what should our daily gains be to hit all of these targets, right? And if we're going for some of these light weights, we want 810 of a pound, upper end is probably about a pound and a half, which is what John had in his break even budget for heifers as replacements. The next thing I'm going to talk about, because I'm running out of time already, I love it, is heifer breeding stymus exams. And heifer breeding stymus exams are something that get to be really, really important in a couple scenarios. Number one is if you are buying up groups of replacement heifers as we go through different sales barns or whatever, if we're trying to package together heifers from a bunch of different sources and we don't necessarily know the background on these animals, these breeding stymus exams can be excellent methods of identifying heifers that will potentially breed and conceive, carry a calf for us, as well that when we come into measuring some of the pelvic areas of these animals, a heifer can have extreme difficulty when we go to come calving time. So this is a chart that I use quite often or a figure that I use quite often when I'm talking about estrosynchronization, but this is essentially a reproductive track of an animal. We've got the cervix here, the uterus, uterine horns. We've got some overdux and then two ovaries. So as we come in and we look at these, the two most important structures, the two structures we focus on, on a reproductive track are a follicle and a follicle essentially contains an egg that comes out and ovulates if we're trying to breed this heifer. We have semen that enters into the reproductive track, floats on down here and as the egg and sperm come, meet at a junction right about here, fertilization takes place. Shortly after ovulation of a follicle in place of this follicle, we have the corpus luteum develop. So the only time a heifer has a corpus luteum is after she has had an ovulation. So that means that these heifers are actively cycling. These are the structures, if I were to take ovaries out and actually look at them. The follicle just looks like a blistered corpus luteum. It's Latin for yellow body. And so this is a yellow glandular type organ that does develop on these ovaries. Our reproductive track score is just to go in and physically palpate these heifers and evaluate two different things. Number one is what are the structures on the ovaries? And number two, what is the diameter of the uterus? And we take that at the external junction of our uterine horns. So we come in here and we take a measurement, what is that diameter? Now if we go from reproductive track score of one to five, we can see uterine diameter less than 10 millimeters. What is less than 10 millimeters?  And as we get higher scores, that number moves up. Essentially reproductive track score is a one, is an infantile track, there's no palpable follicles. So we don't have anything there that tells us we've got activity on these ovaries. The other thing that we can find with reproductive track score one, and this is why I said it's important when you're getting groups of bought up heifers that you don't necessarily know the background on, or even in some instances where we know the background, we can still identify some of these heifers. This is a normal reproductive tract, right, we've got uterus, uterine horns, ovaries. This is a reproductive tract of a free martin. So this is an animal that was born twin to a bull. Again, we do not have a normal junction from the cervix into the uterine horns. It kind of looks like a scun out rat, now it's giving us this little tail on it here. This is something that no matter what you do, this animal is not going to get pregnant. Reproductive track score has helped us determine which animals will or will not likely become pregnant. Now we have a general recommendation. So if we're doing these just prior to breeding, so now we are out in, depending on when your breeding season is, after the development phase is complete, we're out into April, maybe May with some of these exams, 45 days prior to breeding, general recommendation is about half of the heifers, a reproductive tract scores four and five. And both of these, you know, see here we've got this word CL, that's corpus luteum. That tells us these heifers are cyclic. And so what, right? We go in and we do all these reproductive tract scores, what does that mean for us? So the first diagram here, this is pregnancy rate. This is from a paper that was published in 2009. And let me tell you, these are the best pregnancy rates to reproductive tract score one heifers that I've ever seen published anywhere. Normally, we get like 5% pregnant, okay? But this is what they found. As we move up, again, these reproductive tract scores four or five, we have very high pregnancy rates to AI. And again, we come out here to final pregnancy rates. At the end of the breeding season, a much larger proportion of these heifers are pregnant with reproductive tract scores four and five compared with these heifers with smaller reproductive tract scores. Moving on from reproductive tract scores and pregnancy, this is actual calving, okay? So this is the time from the start of calving season until the average calf was born and these herds, 53 days, right? These reproductive tract scores one. Let's just say that is a late calving animal. Move up here, these fours or fives, you're averaging from day 15 to 20 of the calving season. And that also shows in calf weaning weights. So as we move into the heavier reproductive tract or the higher reproductive tract scores, we end up with heavier calf weaning weights. Come in here. Now this is the following breeding season, okay? So we got everything through, all the calls were called, everything was out that was going to be removed in terms of non-breeders, things like that. This is a percent of those heifers that were cyclic at the time the next breeding season started, okay? So again, as we move up in reproductive tract scores, higher proportion of those heifers are cycling and this is pregnancy to the next AI the following year after we did these reproductive tract scores and we still see that there is an advantage of these heifers that had a reproductive tract score of four and five. So with that, just kind of summarizing, the concept of keeping more heifers for breeding and selecting those heifers, only those heifers that become pregnant early can certainly impact cow herd longevity. In addition to cow herd longevity, it can impact the overall pounds of calf wean per female in her lifetime. Identifying certain weights, right? We've got our current weight, what is our potential mature weight, what is our target breeding weight? Once we know those things, designing the nutritional strategy is pretty straight forward. Again, there's a lot of considerations that come in in terms of feeds and the actual feeding strategies, but those are going to be covered by other people. And then the final one, reproductive tract scores offer both immediate benefits and some long-term information that can impact, again, lifetime productivity of our females. So with that, I will turn it back over to Carl. Are there any questions for Carl? If I were to have a producer ask me, who can... If I were to have a producer ask me, who can I go to to get one of these scores done? Who would I talk to? The first thing I would do, great question, by the way, the first thing I would do is I would talk to a local veterinarian and see if they are trained in this particular strategy. If not, I do put some veterinarians that are, and also if the veterinarian finds that this is something that can build a practice that would be more than happy to go through a training process with the veterinarians so they can provide this service. And then I guess my second question, would you say as a whole for breeding replacement heifers, would you want to use AI versus a natural service sire? You know, that's a great question. You know, should I use an AI sire? Should I use a natural service sire? And it goes back to, you know, what are your abilities and goals? What are your handling systems, those kind of things? There's something really, really nice about using proven sires in terms of sires that we know are not going to have a wreck from a calving use standpoint, right, that offers certain benefits genetically, but sometimes it's just a whole lot easier to go out there and turn out the bulls. If you are trying to market bred heifers, there are certain advantages of being able to put together packages of AI bred heifers from standpoint too, but really it comes back to what are your goals in, you know, are you going to keep these heifers? Are you going to sell them? And that could really hone in that answer, but certainly a consideration. It's a lot easier to do in heifers than it is cows.


This video is brought to you by PlayYourCourt. Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and Novak Djokovic has responded to being withdrawn from the Indian Wells Tournament. He's come out on social media and given out a statement so let's go have a read of what Noel had to say about his withdrawal from Indian Wells. This is what Djokovic had to say over on Twitter. While I was automatically listed in the BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open draw, I knew it would be unlikely I'd be able to travel. The CDC has confirmed that regulations won't be changing so I won't be able to play in the US. Good luck to those playing in these great tournaments. So you have it, that's what Novak had to say but before we get to that let me tell you about PlayYourCourt. We've teamed up with them this year and they're a great service. You've probably seen some of their ads here and there around the internet. They're actually a great service for if you are a tennis player and you want to actually learn how to play tennis, you can get coaching from them anywhere in the US so if you're just looking for somebody to have a hit with that's one of the pet peeves I have with tennis is that it's hard to find a hitting partner unless you want to hit against the brick walls so we've teamed up with them. If you use our link down below PlayYourCourt.com slash Tennis Talk you'll get 50% off your membership so go check it out it's a great resource. So Djokovic didn't get CDC approval which is really what we all were kind of expecting over the last couple of days it came down to that it wasn't about Indian Wells or Miami saying yes or no they only have as much power as what the Australian Open did at the start of the year but at the end of the day it comes down to the governments of the countries whether or not they want unvaccinated people allowed into their countries it's a country by country basis some countries in Europe have different rules America have a set of rules we all know about Australia's rules after what happened in January so Djokovic is going to find it very difficult to play week to week because we don't know what countries have what regulations we do know he's playing in Monte Carlo in a couple weeks time and also we know that he's probably going to be able to play the French Open and possibly Wimbledon as well but there's still some tournaments in between that we don't know where he's going to play and who knows end of the year US Open comes up might be different regulations then and maybe he can play at the end of during the US Open and during that US Open series but let me know down in the comments below do you think Djokovic not having played that much already this year and then you know playing almost every four weeks it seems or at least one tournament every couple of weeks is this going to affect his chances of winning slams in 2022


Hi and welcome back. Today I'm going to be talking about four things not to say to someone who is in recovery from anorexia. Now, these will apply quite broadly. These are things I found difficult when people said them to me. I sometimes still find it a little bit difficult and they're things that many, many other people who I've spoken to who have been through the recovery process found difficult when people said it to them. However, the very best way to find out how best to talk to someone that you're concerned about, whether you're their parent, their friend, their teacher, their co-worker, whatever you might be, best way to find out how to talk to them is to talk to them. So do go and have that discussion. Have an open and honest conversation. Get talking about it. And if you're anxious about knowing how to start talking about mental health, then have a look at my other video. I'll highlight it somewhere up here, which helps you start the conversation. Without much further ado, here are four things not to say to someone who is recovering from anorexia. Okay, number one, you're looking really well. Anything that relates to us looking well is likely to be misinterpreted as you're looking really fat. And you won't mean it that way at all. What you might be thinking is, gosh, last time I saw you look really frail, gaunt, pale, yellow, spotty, whatever it might be, you know, there's lots and lots of different ways in which we might look physically unwell when we are malnourished. And we often will look a hell of a lot better as we begin to recover. But that process is a really difficult one for us. And we are often very, very uncomfortable with our bodies for quite some time, as we are gaining weight, and as we reach a healthy weight. So generally, it's best to kind of avoid commenting on appearance at all, unless you've talked to the person about it specifically, and they say they feel okay about it. Instead, you know, ask the question, how are you? Or just kind of talk about something else or, you know, ask how things are going generally with recovery, just have a more open conversation. Or it's great to see you've got a bit more energy, you know, thinking about that kind of thing, rather than specifically putting it down to appearance, because yeah, that can be really tough. Okay, number two, well done, often done really enthusiastically at meal times. So if you know that someone is really struggling with eating or with a particular food type or something like that, and you observe them actually overcoming and conquering that fear at a meal time, then often you can feel really proud of them and you kind of want to fist bump them or high five or whatever. But that can make us really anxious. It can make that moment really difficult. It can make us kind of step back and backpedal and really overanalyze what we're doing. It can bring that eating disorder bully right back to the forefront and going, Yeah, why did you do that? Why did you eat that? You shouldn't have had that you didn't deserve it, or whatever that voice might be saying to us. So instead, despite the jubilation you might be feeling, just let the moment pass. Come back to it later. I noticed at dinner time that you had a bit of potato and I know that's something that you've really struggled with before. It's really cool. Well done. So we're kind of underplaying it a little bit and we're coming back to it later. Allow the moment to happen and pass. Come back to it later. So yeah, it's not that we don't notice that we don't notice it in a big way at the time. Okay, number three.  Don't make assumptions about what we can and can't do and what we will and won't do because that makes it a lot harder for us to make a new and positive choice. So instead, just leave all the options there. So if it's particularly around mealtimes, you know, allow us to choose from all the options available and you might think definitely not going to go for the pasta say, you might just know that that's not going to happen. But you know what, one day, maybe we do. And again, you don't make a big deal of it, you just allow that to happen. But yeah, leave all the options open. Don't make assumptions about what we can and can't do or will or won't do both in terms of food, but also in terms of things like physical activity, joining and with social events, there's all sorts of different stuff. Leave doors open for us. Leave it so that we can step over that difficult threshold if we want to. And that's a really, really helpful thing that you can do no matter what role you're playing in someone's lives. Yeah, don't don't assume we can't allow us to can. That didn't quite make sense. But you know what I mean. Okay, and then finally, number four. This is a bit of an odd one, but this is one I found real really tough. Get well soon or you're going to be fine. Basically, platitudes, those kind of big sticking plaster comments that suggest that this is like a head cold and we're going to be fine soon. Actually, anorexia and other eating disorders, they are complicated illnesses, and this is going to be a journey. And we don't need you to kind of pretend it's going to be fine because that can make us think that you underestimate the kind of size of the journey ahead of us. What is much more helpful is if you can acknowledge, you're going to have to work really hard. But you know what, I'm going to be here with you. I'm going to do whatever I can support or, you know, I recognize that you've already made loads of progress, but there's loads more to go. Basically, recognizing that this is a journey, and that we're on it together. It's a really, really tough journey. And it's a particularly tough journey if you go it alone. So instead of having someone saying get well soon, or you're going to be fine, much, much better for someone to say, whoa, this looks tricky, but I got you back. I'm here with you, walking hand in hand with you. So yeah, offer your sympathy, offer your empathy, offer your support. But don't say get well soon or you'll be fine because it's going to take a while. I hope that this was a little bit helpful. I hope there are some things in here you can take away. But please, please do remember that the best way to find out how best to talk to a particular person that you care about is to talk to them. Maybe discuss this video with them, pick it apart, decide with them which bits they think are stupid, and which bits they think kind of talk to them. Yeah, do that. And leave me a comment with other things you think I should have included and anything you maybe disagree with on the list too. I hope this was helpful. I hope you'll come back again and watch another time you can subscribe if you would like to see my future videos. And if you liked it, please give it a thumbs up. And if you have anything you want to share, then leave a comment down below. Thank you so much and see you again soon. Bye


Electric cars What's up money geeks Mr. V here welcome to another video guys so into this video We are gonna be talking about neo ticket symbol and IO. This is our a Chinese Electric car manufacturer which we cover here on the channel when when we first talked about it here on the channel This talk was trading at about 12 dollars and since then it squeezed all the way to 28 dollars and some change But before we get started guys if you're new to the channel We talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So if there's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button In the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content So why is neo in the news? Basically the analyst over at JP Morgan actually ranked neo as the winner of the crowded Chinese EV market. We're talking about competition from Lee Otto, Baidu, Zepin Just name it. It's a very crowded market and the fact that they came out on top that is huge Because this company even with the pandemic going on They've actually gone from starting the year trading at about under four dollars and now to turning about over 28 dollars That's huge gain in the pandemic. So Question is what happens if we get a vaccine? What happens if this pandemic is over the Chinese market is huge And they can only if they can only get 10% or 15% of that market This is this is good for them. This analyst have actually raised the price target of Neo from the 2014 dollars that they did last time to now 40 dollars Again, let me remind you the stock is currently trading at 28 dollars and some change So to 40 dollars for transparency. I actually own neo in my portfolio I've been adding as the price goes up added at $9 added at $12 added at 14 added at 21 And I might add some again even now at 28 The goal is that when it gets to a good price where I feel comfortable I'm going to take out my initial investment and only play with house money. That's my strategy Some people just bought and hold for life. I would take my initial investment Let's say if I put in five thousand dollars in the stock and it goes up to ten thousand dollars I'm gonna sell enough to get my five thousand dollars out so I can deploy that in another opportunity And then whatever it's left in there. That's the profit that I made I'm gonna let that ride for as long as unless I have an emergency Which I don't know I might have to go in and sell some of the stock But when I'm playing with house money, I'll let it go. So that's my strategy I don't know what you do. I see people that buy and never touch no matter what I like to take that money and deploy in other things and that way I keep growing my my investment That's that's beside the point. So neo is actually doing you know in the verge of actually getting a break So I don't know about you Do you currently have new in your portfolio? If yes, what price point did you buy it and do you think this is a whole long term if if no What do you see as a challenge? Tesla is currently selling in China as well. And the fact that Tesla is there and doing good and neo is still doing great and they don't even have the exposure that Tesla has Tesla is selling China selling the US neo hasn't been instead of selling abroad right now The base market is China So what happens when neo start expanding to other countries developing countries and selling the cars there I think there is a huge upside to this company even the price I get that this analyst I JP Morgan said at $40 I see neo going beyond that I see neo even get it out the other way to a hundred dollars because Imagine that with the pandemic they have been able to really outperform They've sold they've sell more cars during this period Now what happens if there's nothing going on the economy is booming people are able to work people are able to go To work things are normal. I think there's a huge amount of opportunity here But again, that's what I see. This is the opportunity that I see in the market doesn't mean that 100% right, so you tell me what you think if you have neo you think that all these analysts are correct in naming them Winner of the China EV market or you think maybe they met something up Let me know in the comment section and if you looking to get started with investing Right now we both going to do in a promotion where if we deposit a hundred dollars You get two free stocks not one to links in the description below definitely go check them out That's the platform of choice that I use so definitely check them out.


Welcome folks, we are at a market that couldn't hold price out here folks, you have the Dow industrials closed down $339, Nasdaq off $166, S&P's down $45, that's a downdraft inside the Nasdaq composite of 1.1% inside the S&P, 5 tenths of 1%, and Dow industrials 9 tenths of 1%. Gold, gold contract caught the bid as did silver and platinum, gold's up $30, 1842, silver's up $0.73, $24.23, platinum's up $48, $10.27, bottom line they all had wide price spread, accelerated volume, equities doing ABC structures on the way up. Oil continues to gain higher price, up $1.05, $86.48, oil looks to me like $107 is on the agenda, you had copper up 6.5 pennies at 4.44 a pound, notes and bonds, a 10-year note, up 4 ticks, trading $127.16, the 30-year bond up $13 at $154.03, now let's go take a look at those because what you have inside the note and bond market folks are confirmed ABC structures on the way down. So you're going to bounce out here today and we'll see whether this is going to turn into a complex one. If we take a look at the 10-year first, what you're going to see, you got to a lower low, some small contraction of volume, yesterday we blew out the B point, had 1.5 billion contracts, we did a 2.5, bottom line they both want lower price and you better pay attention to that and the gold, I mean the dollar, the dollar got up to ice out here today and the question is ice, what are ices is this folks okay? So when you take a look at any type of consolidation, all is ices is basically where it breaks down from okay, you know, you can see that this was in a consolidation, the dollar was in a consolidation and when you do the break, normally when you do a break, whether it's up or down, you get the wide price spread, you get the accelerated volume and the dollar we don't have, I mean the volumes, but the bottom line, when you break ice, even if you're going up, normally you come back and test it and that's what we did yesterday and we'll see if that's the test and see if it's going to go right back downtown. The way that the metals were trading out here today is something else, there's no doubt about that, they had some juice behind them in a monster way. Volume wise, what's game out here now, October 4th folks, the October 4th level is game in all the indices, have a great night, have a safe night, come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kicks us off 9am, have a great one folks, have a safe one.


Hi, Andres, wonderful to be speaking with you today. So, you know, I'm inviting you today to kind of give us some highlights about the Advanced Architectural Design Program, which you've been now directing for a few years and that you've really, you know, both, I think, carried in terms of continuity, in terms of what the program has represented for the school and for the field historically, but also really transformed it and bringing, you know, what I see as, you know, you as a leading architect of our generation experimenting with all sorts of new ideas. You brought those new ways to engage architecture and the world today to the program. And so I wanted to first talk about the program in general and then get more specific about what's really bubbling up and has been exciting about it for you. Well, I'm really happy to be talking about the AD now with you. I think it's a very important moment to be an architect now. There's so many changes that are happening and all of them come through architecture. Architecture is a huge voice in the way our world is being reinvented. We're seeing things that we thought that were permanent to fall down, certain things that we no longer can support in a way. And we have to reinvent and reconstruct. We built our world and architecture is a huge force on this. And this is the AD. The AD is bringing talented people from all around the world that already have a trajectory and they basically come to the AD to learn how to be and to kind of construct themselves as architects that can have a relevant voice in the way the world is being reinvented. And as you said, this is something that it's been historically happening with the AD. It's behind many of the people that are leading the innovation and kind of the new ways of doing architecture now. And it's been historically the place where many cultures were introduced to architecture and to Columbia at large and GESAP. And that kind of capacity of being a place of experimentation, among people coming from many different places and that already have a kind of high engagement with architecture is what makes this program such a cordon of innovation and renovation of what architecture is and relevance for architecture to occupy space. You know, I always think about the precision with which you choose your words, issues of transcolarities, the omnipresence and centrality of design, the fact that we are already completely actively engaged in terms of transforming the built environment. But beyond the visible, right? That we can also design policies and we can design social interaction and we can design this experience. And I think you've really broadened that. And when we see the work of the students in the last few years in terms of representation, I think there's a real quality to that work that is now, again, I always think about and we've talked about that, that the AD is this kind of experiment that people think about at the periphery but actually it's completely infiltrates the school and then from there transforms the field. So I wanted to speak a little bit about these words that you've chosen and then how you see that being represented through the work of the students and then influencing the rest of the school and beyond. Yeah, I think we're working basically in the AD with, as you said, like design is a huge place from which the world can be transformed, understood, criticized, sort of is the place also where action can happen and it's not something that basically we should not give enough importance. Design is central to the way we're discussing the world and it's a great platform from which basically we can change it. But that comes with a very particular understanding of what is design now. Design is in the intersection of many things. It's formal, it's material, it's technological but it's also political, financial, social, ecological. It's also regulating the way we relate to other species. There's so many issues that have to do with the way the world happens now that comes to design. And this notion of design as the intersection of all these realities is what we're bringing to the AD and it's what we explore in the AD. We're working very clearly with an environmental paradigm, a paradigm in which architectural action expands across scales. And that's why a big part of the program is about trans-calarities. How do we operate at different scales simultaneously? How do we take decisions at one scale that have the capacity to affect others? How do we do things that basically change the climate? And that's the other thing. The school has a very clear focus now on climate and that's something that makes this up probably one of the most exciting places in the world from which you can discuss architecture. And climate is the paradigm in which we are basically. This is our culture, this is our politics, this is the way we're in the world. But climate is also something that is extremely complex and that's why it needs certain tools, certain discussions and a huge amount of people that know how to deal with it. Because climate has to do with, of course, the way temperatures are changing, but also methodology. But it also has to do with the accountability of technology. How do we evaluate the way our technology operates at different scales? It has to do also with the cyclability of materials. How we move from a culture of extraction to one that basically understands the flow of materials as something that we architects have to care about. Or for instance, it had to do with a qualitative and inter-species relationships. How we deal with biodiversity in the world that is greatly important in the transformation of climate. And we also deal with geopolitics and borders, issues, and nations, and we see that with the current coronavirus outbreak, how the territories we operate in are also affecting our climates and also affecting the politics we're part of. So this context is what I think makes architecture exciting and important and relevant now. And basically, both the AD and GSAP at large is the place where basically people come here to connect and to gain the capacities to operate there relevantly. And I think what's been very exciting is to see how in the first semester, you've curated a series of conversations with leading practitioners who are completely transforming the fields, who are on the cutting edge. They're not your standard architect. They're kind of re-conceptualizing the practice. And then when AAD intersects with a Mark program, suddenly this focus on climate change, climate at the building scale, then these discussions across 18 studios and visual studies, and it really comes into focus with this kind of relationship between the core in the first semester and then a kind of expansion where the AAD again starts to infiltrate the rest of the school. Yeah, this is crucial. Basically, one of the big excitements about the AAD is that people are coming from all around the world. It's a super diverse program. And that's very important because that means that people bring their own insights. They have their own experiences and they are connected to very different realities. We have people that are coming from all around the US, but also people from different places in Africa, from people coming from Asia, but also people from Europe and Latin America. And they bring all those realities to the AAD. And the first moment is a moment of how do we build up a common discussion? How do we build a language that allows us to operate with accuracy and that also be ambitious with the role that our designs can play in topics that are very complex? So the first moment is an immersion in this way of operating together. That allows us to go much farther. It's a moment of gaining collective capacities. And that is a very exciting, intense moment in the life of all of us. And then the second thing, it's the ecosystem of GESAP. That, I mean, some of the most important, kind of a big number of the most important brains in architecture in the last decades are co-inhabiting the same building in a city like New York with some of the most ambitious and kind of capable young practitioners, thinkers. So that ecosystem is also amazingly important. And the AAD are kind of nurturing their capacity to really insert themselves and mold with that ecosystem in a way that they're very empowered to make the best of it. And then they each of them define their trajectories according to their concerns. And there's a huge variety. We have like 20 studios for people to choose. And I mean, a huge amount of tech courses and there's amazing places where you can explore all kinds of tools. And that's the moment in which people that might be more inclined to work with territorial issues, they find their trajectories and they navigate the diversity of the school, which is a diversity that is very curated. It's not whatever. It's really focused on what is happening to the world. So basically it's the exciting moment in which a group that has already its own conversation, a language that allows them to bring diversity into a common ground. They find a huge infrastructure, a huge ecosystem where they can become very detailed in what is that that they want for their careers to be basically. As you were talking, I kept thinking about the very real quality of the drawings that have been coming out of the AAD. Of course, what we do as architects is we represent the world and we project it and we imagine it. And exactly what you said, it comes through the students drawings, which is it has this kind of scale, territorial scale. But if you zoom in at every zoom in, there is an unbelievable level of detail. Like the students have imagined how a plant is growing on this shelf in this office room or, you know, and I think that it's very tangible, what you're describing. You see it through the work of the students. And for me, when you start having a kind of visual culture that becomes this shared ground, it's not just that the words become lines, they become drawings, they become spaces, they can become shared imaginations. I think that's what has been transforming the culture of the school. And in particular, I wanted to, you know, the transformation is not just about the AAD program itself, but it's about the MR program and that intersection and intersecting with David Benjamin and intersection with Hilary Sample and the core, thinking about the conversations around climate at the building scale that gets focused in the advanced studios and, you know, how we're really zooming in onto these issues from the different perspectives, but the shared language is really kind of building now to new modes of kind of practice, I think. Yeah, I think that the issues we're dealing with, they don't know about practices or about disciplines. We are the ones that have to learn how to cooperate with others and other forms of knowledge inside. We're basically facing also transformation in the way we construct epistemology and ontology. Like we're really changing the way we do things, we think things and we think them together. And I think that is no longer about divisions of, okay, this is industrial design or this is architecture, this is urban design, this is really we're operating, redefining those limits and what are the ways that we can interact. And that's something that is very exciting now at GISA, that there's a huge collaboration between different fields that the airmarks are working with the AEDs together and that there are so many discussions that are basically spaces for cooperation and not for competence, but actually for kind of contributions that build something much bigger than the individual contributions. And I think that that's very important because for instance, the discussion that we're having the AED program together with the advanced studios with the Benjamin that is leading them, it's really important for me. Like we're looking at the climate change but at the building scale, we're looking at the details of how buildings are part of climate change and what is the way that by changing the way we deal with buildings, the way we design the form, the materials, the way they operate in long term periods, what is the way that we can intervene climate crisis and we can make a difference. And that is a discussion that has been immensely productive. We have now people, I mean, I could point to maybe a hundred works that are looking very specific issues of how we do buildings now and that are starting to produce totally new lines of work that in 10 years probably will be the architecture that we're looking at and that is shaping our lives. And I have the feeling that this is hugely important. We're planning now to do studios together with Urban Design because from different methodologies, we're looking at the same realities and it's needed to find a way to work together and to make the best of these dialogues and these co-production. So co-production, I think it's changing competence. In the past, we were thinking of architectures architects and people that could fight with each other. And now I think that we're looking at a new model in which basically we understand that we have to work together and that is actually much more exciting, much more kind of beautiful, but also much more clever. It brings a new intelligence and also much more effective to have a voice in society. One other thing that I want to say is that the school is also in Columbia University at large and I'm very excited to see that this is also something that G-SAP is very good at, is bringing discussions together with other centers, with the center of so many institutes across campus that are also dealing with this, like the ones we're dealing with, but they have their own insights that when we work transdisciplinary, basically we can gain also an agency as architects that we couldn't have with these capacities and we're in New York. And New York is a huge column of brains, practices, platforms, infrastructures. It's very exciting to see how people are reacting and kind of reorganizing the whole life of the city now these days. And I think the AD is expanding there in New York, in Columbia, G-SAP, in all these different levels. It's sort of, we really take seriously being part of things and that means that we're not just touristing in the city or touristing in the country, but we're really building up long-term associations, collaborations, methodologies that allow for that. And for me, this is, I mean, this is really game-changing. This is, I think we're witnessing a change in our discipline. Thank you, bye-bye.


The greatest thing that I'm doing now is becoming my ancestors wildest dreams. I am the daughter of a man that was born on a plantation and people think that our enslavement is so far away. And when you look at us generationally, it's not a long time. And to know that I am making a legacy and a living on the same product that my ancestors were not allowed to create enterprise is so valuable to me. It's not lost on me that my grandchildren will now have privilege that my parents didn't have. Yeah, it's like full circle. It's quite beautiful. So my father was born on a sugar cane plantation and I'm making a living and building a well out of that same sugar.


You spent 10k in a short period of time, it was two to three weeks, right? Something like that? Yep. Right? So to go as somebody who doesn't just have this money sitting on the table, you don't have any deal or anything connected to you to say, I'm going to spend 10k on ads from my credit card. It's something we typically don't advise, right? Right. It was worth for me to take that risk in terms of like putting up like the budget for it just because like Lucky's one of those songs where because it's not trendy, it's a timeless piece. Ten years from now people are going to be looking up the coverage to the song. I felt like Lucky was no exception to that and that's where I kind of said the risk would be alright, let's go and that's what happened. So you used a business credit card that you were using or did you have to go like get a loan? There's a few business credit cards so like this is my philosophy of funding. I'd rather have it not need it than need it and not have it because when you're going to go look for funding and the bank can tell that you really need it, it's like man like so I ended up getting a few more credit cards than I needed but one credit card was about 10k that I had. This is like some sauce. I'm not like a credit guru guy but like you can uh you can google this stuff on your on your own time but like they're essentially there's three bureaus right and you can pull from either Equifax, TransUnion or Experian. You can only have a certain limit to how many credit cards you can get per um per bureau but if you know how to stack the cards correctly you can get upwards of like six to eight cards and have those so like I'll give you like a game plan you do what you will with it but my game plan um was like I have a personal reporting line that's about 10 to 15k right so they do something called comparative credit. If I apply for a business credit card they're going to try and see what type of credit inquiry or credit um history that I've built up so I have a regular credit card that's been about 15k so I got one card that was about 15k so in terms of credit stacking because you can pull a couple cards from each bureau I was able to get about six cards before um I fully was able to um utilize what it was that I was going for you know so. That's cool because like at the end of the day I'm just saying you spent 10k in a short period of time it was two to three weeks right something like that yeah right so to go as somebody who doesn't just have this money sitting on the table you don't have any deal or anything connected to you to say I'm going to spend 10k on ads from my credit card it's something we typically don't advise right right but you broke some numbers now and and then you specifically compared it into to getting a deal and what it would look like to re-up do you remember that conversation? Sort of like I remember having it I don't remember exactly what I said at the time. Okay so you were looking at how fast the lucky was moving the amount of money you were getting from Spotify and how much how fast I can recoup and how fast you thought you could recoup and then you compared that well hey I could give away some of this a piece of my music and things like that to a label or distributor or something like that or I could just get this loan and recoup and I think you recouped that 10k in about what three four months like that's a beautiful thing right it is a beautiful thing and the only reason I was able to do it that way is like I spent you know as much as like lucky blew up in 2023 I spent three years trying to figure out how to make content go and how to be able to recruit because like I can kind of see my statements engaged like okay I was able to stream this month this is what ended up looking like two three months later when I got the royalty payout so that was like a risk that I was able to take partially because like a lot of the business credit you can do they'll have an intro or a grace period of like 12 months no interest right or 21 months no interest so like knowing that I can fall back on my day job and write off some of the expenses like for me 10k as much as there was a lot of money to spend at the time it was in the grand scheme of things still dropping the ocean I can say that and that doesn't apply that's not advice to everyone to go get credit cards and rack that rack it up because it's like I only knew that based off like me knowing that I had a four and a half cent cost per click and it's already doing x amount of streams at the time and that I already have like things in place so if I need to gas even more instead of pulling for one credit card I got like five right I got six like so if I really had to bust down and take it even further then I could have but just to just to be able to recoup and then some for me was very rewarding and I'm very grateful for that too okay so one of the most important things that 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out back to the conversation I think you might have had some labels at that time kind of like reaching out possibly or you could have like gone that route or gone some labels or distribution they're reaching out after like he was blowing up or during and after during and after yep why didn't you go take any type of deal to try to figure out how to blow it up versus the route that you did take man I feel like the label conversation honestly would be it might be more in-depth than my explanation of how I got lucky to kind of blow up because I have a lot of like kind of thoughts about that but um I'll say with labels like at that time I didn't before Lucky was blowing up I didn't have any label just whatever reaching out anything like that it was just like all right I kind of came into the early 2023 with like this album like all right I'm just gonna drop and gas this stuff as if Lucky as if I didn't have a label which I didn't but um like for me as I was getting um offers to like have like Lucky be pushed when Lucky was blowing up um I got a little confused your side track because it's like man like I could take some of these deals and I can get into a lot of that stuff more in-depth after talking about how Lucky blew up but um for me it was like all right I have like these credit cards that I got business credit from I'm gonna take those and gas it with like the ads I was running you know I was already putting money into the campaign for the influencer stuff and then just testing testing the ads beforehand so like even though my limit was 10k like the amount of production I had beforehand I'm like factoring it in like the music video the live sessions I was shooting um building like the the cover art everything around Lucky like yeah the budget was 10k but like over the span of three years is probably honestly more appreciate you for watching if you like content like this you'll love seeing our music marketing strategies that we use as an agency to actually blow up 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