Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebreaks.com here doing 2020-2021 Panini, Don Russ, Optic, basketball, hobby, six box, half case break, pick a team number five, starting from a fresh case. So, pick a teams five and six are all from both from the same case. This is some of the highlights there. All cards do ship, I didn't see it on here, I don't think it says it, all cards do ship. So, there you go, just had to double check. Cool, and here's the list of customers and respective teams, Alfonso Mendoza and Hawks and Darren Porter and the Wizards. Last spot Mojo, actually if you see these names with the little rooftops on them, that just means they won those in the team filler, so you get three of those right there too. Here is our final list, thanks everybody for getting in on this. This is the first half of the case that we're going to continue in pick a team six, which is going to go next, so good luck to everybody. So there is the full case for one, two, three on the dice for the box on the left, four, five, six on the dice for the boxes on the right, whichever boxes we don't do will obviously happen for pick a team number six, which is going up next. Good luck guys, it's a four, so there you go, so it's going to be the pick a team, those are going to be the box on the right, the left boxers will be for pick a team six coming up next, so let's just throw a six on the front here, and we'll throw those back here for us, for the break coming up next. Here is our boxes, good luck everybody. This is my first look other than that one pack filler, so this is my first full box break, I'm excited, this is incredible stuff every year. This year is no different, let's just start it off hot. Good luck to everybody that's in on this, and I hope I'll pull you guys all something crazy. Thanks for letting us do this for you. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, so that should be ten right there. Oh I know Mark, Larry Roundtree looks really good.  I was like what are you talking about? I was like you've got Echler, you've got Jackson, you've got Kelly, I was like where's this fifth round draft pick all of a sudden gonna fit in at running back, and dude's an absolute monster. I was just like oh okay well there he is, so I definitely wouldn't pick them up on my bench. I didn't think, I thought it was all talk, I didn't think Jared Cook was gonna work well. Jared Cook looks great Mark, it's so weird. Like I thought Cook was a byproduct of you know both Drew Brees and Jared Goff just being you know very heavy dependent on their tight ends, it was not. He looks great, I was like holy shit, dude looks strong, he looks fast. I'm still a big Donald Parham truth-er you know, I'm a big believer in him. I'm still out of the XFL, but I think I also want him to do well so that we can you know have a super cheap contract on our books from a superstar perspective and put that money somewhere else. The black velocities out of these look incredible by the way. I think they're out of what, 75 or something like that or 49 or whatever it is. It looks way too good for it to be numbered out of what it is. This funny is Mark, I didn't realize that it's not today, this is apparently the first time that Joey Boso will be facing off against Zekel Elliot, who was his teammate, I mean his roommate in college at Ohio State. I was like oh, I was like that's interesting, some reason I didn't realize that, I forgot these packs fall apart like tissue paper, yeah I was like wait, because I was like I know we played them in Texas in Dallas on Thanksgiving, I was like I couldn't forget what year it was, I mean I couldn't remember what year it was, but I remember we torched them, Keenan Allen went off, but I guess it was probably 2016, which was his rookie year but remember he didn't play his rookie year, he sat out the whole year, so I'm guessing that had to have been 2016, something like that, I mean we say that but it's still Zeke, you know what I mean, like Saquon hasn't looked the same, but he's still Saquon Barkley, I wouldn't put, I wouldn't not think about them, you know what I mean, but it's crazy how quickly like Dallas has gone from like so excited about what happened in week one to like holy shit what's happened to our team, you got Lail Collins who's suspended right, Michael Gallup who's out, you got DeMarcus Lawrence out, you got Randy Gregory I think who's, I don't know if he could make it back before the game Sunday, his is only, I think he'll be back for the next week obviously, if everything goes as planned, but I've already lost what four starters from week one, that's not good, going into week two, it's not something you're looking forward to you know, I thought they lost another offensive lineman too, maybe it's just Lail Collins, I'm just thinking of somebody else, one's enough, he was running around cursing at me Mark, he was yelling, he was just like F you Sean, F you, he was so happy, I just saw today though that Josh Jacobs is out for this week, I didn't see what happened, I thought I saw something with like foot or ankle, she don't like to see that, yeah he was just walking around yelling, it was quite funny, oh 100%, I was laughing, I kept saying I was like, as they were driving I was like you know, Raiders are gonna Raider, that's what I said, I kept saying it over and over again, and then he threw the pick and I was like making fun of Joe, yeah it's gonna be interesting season man, it's gonna be a very interesting season, I don't want to get too excited about the chargers, but yeah, how can you not, Herbert is officially I think two, two 300 yard passing games away from the most ever in a player's first two years, and then on top of that, and then the funny thing is he's only started 16 games, so pretty much one season's worth and he's only, he's two games away, two 300 yard passing games away from the most ever in a player's first two years, and then as of that game since that was his 16th game started, which was the old one season, he has him and Patrick Mahomes are the only quarterbacks to ever have passed for over 4500 yards in their first 16 games of their career, I was like that's pretty impressive, and I was watching like, I forget what it was, but Steve Young I think was on ASPN or some station, and he was just raving about Herbert, and I was just like yeah, it's just crazy to think Mark, like Mahomes isn't even close to being like halfway through his career, you know what I mean, so like how do two like potentially generational players end up in the same division, at the same time in their careers, but I mean look at all the quarterbacks that have just blown up in the 2000s between like Drew Brees, obviously Tom Brady, like Eli Manning as much as I hate him, Phillip Rivers, Ben Roffusberger, it's just like, I mean you have Phillip, Ben and Eli all out of the same draft, let alone you know a couple years before Drew Brees, and then a couple years before that like Tom Brady and a couple years before that Peyton Manning. Good luck everybody here is our six boxes, you've got Kawhi Leonard Red out of 99 for the Clippers and Mark Neubauer, and our first auto is Skyler Maze, Rated Rookie Hollow Auto for the Hawks and Alfonso Mendoza, nice Lamello the rookies for the Hornets and Sonny Rana, Cole Anthony Rated Rookie for the Magic, Eric Ainge, and Rudy Gaye Hollow for the Spurs, Icapola, nice Onyeka Kongwu Pink Velocity of 79 for the Hawks, Alfonso Mendoza, and All Stars for the Bucks, Yanisanta De Campo Red to 99, Milwaukee Bucks, PJ McNeely, Obi Toppin Rated Rookie for the Knicks, and Tomoya Comeyaji and Deonta Murray, Hollow for the Spurs, and Icapola, I mean I'm excited to see what's going to happen, I'm very excited to see what's going to happen, I just, I can't get overly excited because every single time you've got my home's right there you know, Wendell Carter Jr Pink to 149 for the Bulls, and Ben Wang, Steph Curry for the Warriors Alfonso Mendoza, Desmond Bain Grizzlies, that is Mark Haraki, and Luca Lights Out Hollow for the Mavericks, and Hu Hua Lin, congrats, Isaac Acoro Cavaliers Rated Rookie, and Steven Blair, and DeMar DeRose and Hollow for the Spurs, Icapola, you've got CJ McCollum Orange out of 199 for the Blazers, Matt Johnston, and Zach Levine Lights Out, for the Bucks you got Chris Middleton, All Stars, Hollow, PJ McNeely, Yanis for the Bucks, Bays, PJ McNeely, Luca Mavericks, and Hu Hua Lin, and Cole Anthony Hollow as well for the Magic, Eric Ainge, Steph Curry again for the Warriors and Alfonso Mendoza, and Kelly Ubre Jr Pink Velocity at 79 for the Warriors Alfonso Mendoza, RJ Hampton, Denver Nuggets apparently in this still, Tomoya Komiyagi, and Steph Stargazing for the Warriors Alfonso Mendoza, Devin Booker Lights Out Hollow for the Sons, Mike Grzinski, Jamerant Elite Dominators Grizzlies Mark Haraki, and Precious Rated Rookie Hollow for the Heat, Joe Parisi, Joe Engels, Blueton 59 for the Jazz and Serenity Love, and remember guys, all cards do ship, Yanis Elite Dominators for the Bucks, PJ McNeely, Yanis All Stars for the Bucks, and PJ McNeely, you got Sadiq Bey for the Pistons, and Matt Daniels and Joe Engels for the Jazz, Serenity Love, second half of box two, Terry Rozier Red for the Hornets, and Sonny Rana to 99, Luca Donchich, Stargazing for the Mavericks and Hujualin, and Joe Harris Raining Threes Hollow for the Nets, Aaron Woodington, you got Isaiah Stewart for the Pistons, Matt Daniels and Lebron Elite Dominators for the Lakers, Matthew Silverstein, Jamal Murray Hollow for the Nuggets, Tomoya and Peyton Pritchard for the Celtics and Akihito Masuda, Rehan Rondo to 199, Orange for the Hawks, Alfonso Mendoza, and second auto gold out of 10, Ricky Rubio, Signature Series Gold for the Timberwolves, Sean Maddock, which was a different Timberwolf, but nice, Anthony Edwards, Rated Rookie for the Timberwolves, Sean Maddock and Luca Donchich for the Mavericks and Hujualin, and Pascal Siakham Hollow for the Raptors that is Roman Akihano, so two boxes down, first half of box three, Robert Woodard Green Rated Rookie to 149 for the Kings and Rob Wager, Desmond Bain Grizzlies, Mark Haraki, and Paul George lights out for the Clippers, Mark Neubauer, Isaac Coro for the Cavaliers, Stephen Blair, Kevin Durant Hollow for the Nets, Aaron Whittington, and Eric Gordon Red to 99 for the Rockets and Justin Sukenick, one-of-one auto Zeke Naji, Denver Nuggets, Tamoya Komiyagi, one-of-one gold vinyl Rated Rookie Auto, Ko Anthony for the Magic and Eric Ainge, and Xavier Tillman Hollow for the Grizzlies, that is Mark Haraki, beautiful card, on-card gold, well there's my first one-of-one, first half case break and already got a one-of-one, Lebron Orange as well for the Lakers, Matthew Silverstein to 199, Yannis Bucks, PJ McGeely, Luca Mavericks, Hujualin, Zion Elite Dominators, Pelican, Sean Maddock, All-Stars, Russell Westbrook, Wizards, Hollow, Darren Porter, Steve Nash in here huh, DeAndre Aitin for the Suns, Mike Krasinski, Hollow, Hannah Lebron Green as well for the Lakers, Matthew Silverstein to 149, 199, and 149 for you, Steph Curry, Elite Dominators, Warriors, Aliphons, Omendoza, this is a hot case, crazy, Obi-Toppin, Nix, Tomaya Komiagi, and Kairi Irving Hollow for the Nets, Aaron Whittington, imagine that being a personal box, Rated Rookie one-of-one, Auto plus two Lebron numbered cards, take that, 149 and a 199, crazy, crazy, crazy, it's a hot box, yet Miles Turner is at orange, yeah at a 199 for the Pacers, and Aaron Whittington, James Weisman the Rookies for the Warriors, Aliphons, Omendoza and Yannis for the Bucks, PJ McNeeley, Luca Mavericks, Hujualin, and Lebron All-Star Hollow, that's Lakers again, Matthew Silverstein, we do have a case hit here too, Patrick Williams is not a Rated Rookie, but Patrick Williams for the Bulls, Ben Wang, and is a Grizzly, please be jamerant, it's triple J, Jaren Jackson Jr, Grizzly is Mark Haraki, there you go Mark, congrats Ben, Rayon Rondo Hollow for the Hawks, Aliphons, Omendoza, and Jalen Smith Redd for the Sons, that's to 99, Phoenix Sons, Mike Grzinski, Tyrese Halliburton Rated Rookie for the Kings, Rob Wager, Zion Pelican's base, Sean Matik, and Lucas Stargazing Hollow for the Mavericks, Hujualin, Lebron base for the Lakers, Matthew Silverstein, and Al Horford Hollow for the Thunder and Sean Matik, ah same thing Mark, same thing, which one are you looking for, football? Yeah, it's a case, it's a full case, it's turned on its side, yeah look at the, not the very top shelf, second shelf down, it's turned sideways, you're talking about Don Russ football hybrid right, brand new one, yeah there's a full case back there, Desmond Bain Hollow for the Grizzlies, there you go Mark, nice one there, Rated Rookie Hollow, and Mo Bamba Green for the Magic to 149, Orlando Magic Eric Ainge, Steph Curry reigning threes for the Warriors Alfonso Mendoza, and DeMontes Sabonis, Hollow for the Pacers, Aaron Woodington, nice Black Velocity, I was just talking about these cards, Jameis Ramsey to 39 for the Kings, Rob Wager, and then All-Stars Blue James Harden for the Brooklyn Nets, Aaron Woodington to 49, and out of 99 Malachi Flynn, Dominator's Auto for the Raptors, and Roman Quijano, a lot of people like him, okay we got two boxes left for you guys, good luck everyone, Buddy Healed Pink Velocity to 79 for the Kings and Rob Wager, Emmanuel Quickly for the Knicks, Tomoya Komiagi, and Jon Morant lights out Grizzlies Mark Haraki, such a great looking card, that sets so cool, reigning threes, Ray Allen for the Celtics, Akihito Masuda, Jon Morant, Hollow, it wasn't the case hit, but nice Hollow for the Jon Morant, and the Grizzlies Mark Haraki again, Serge Ibaka, Orange to 199 for the Clippers, and Mark Neubauer, Precious for the Heat, Joe Parisi, and Nico Mannion, Hollow for the Warriors and Alfonso Mendoza, there's one on the thing right there, that's kind of, I think Jason left it up there, go for it, no worries, yeah it was right where I said right, yes, but it throws you off because it says hobby, hybrid too, yeah no, so I asked Nick, I was like hey do you want me to load another case, so I won't do that obviously, Carl Anthony Towns for the Timberwolves, Sean Maddock, Hollow, and Patrick Williams, Orange rated rookie, that's to 199 for the Bulls and Ben Wang, you got LeBron James, Elite Dominators, Hollow for the Lakers, Matthew Silverstein again, and Isaac Coral, Hollow for the Cavaliers, Steven Blair, you got Tyrell Terry, Green rated rookie to 149 for the Mavericks and Hu Hua Lin, and Tony Cuckooch, Retro Auto to 99 for the Bulls, Ben Wang, LeBron Stargazing again for the Lakers, Matthew Silverstein, and James Weissman rated rookie, Warriors, Alfonso Mendoza, we got one box left, one box left, let's get it, Pascal Siakam, Pink Velocity to 79, Raptors, Roman Quijana, and Kevin Durant, Stargazing, Hollow for the Nets, Aaron Woodington, Luca Hollow, Mavericks, Hu Hua Lin, and Josh Richardson, Orange to 199 for Hu Hua Lin and the Mavericks again, Sidique Bay for the Pistons, and Matt Daniels and Obi Toppin, the rookies, Blue to 49 for the Nicks, little nice color team matching on there, Tamoya Komiagi, PJ Tucker, Hollow for the Rockets, Justin Sukienek, and last half, Spencer Didwini, Orange to 199 for the Nets, Aaron Woodington, Zion for the Pelicans base, Sean Matic, Isaiah Stewart for the Pistons, Matt Daniels, you got Luca All-Stars Hollow, Mavericks again, Hu Hua Lin and LeBron base for the Lakers, Matthew Silverstein, Peyton Prichard, Celtics, Akihito Masuda and Steph Curry, Elite Dominators for the Warriors, Alfonso Mendoza, Landry Shemit Hollow for the Nets, Aaron Woodington, Anthony Edwards, Rated Rookie again for the Timberwolves, Sean Matic, Dremont Green, Red to 99 for the Warriors, Alfonso Mendoza, and Nate Tiny Archibald, Retro Auto to 99 for the Celtics, Akihito Masuda, Aaron Dodge, should be our last auto, see if we can pull anything else for us to finish off the case or the first half case, RJ Hampton, Nuggets again, Tamoya Komiagi, and Udoka as a Buki Hollow for the Jazz and Serenity Love to finish it off, and there you guys, that is the case, or the first six box half case break picker team number five from JaspysCaseBreaks.com, thank you guys to all that part of that, first one to one for me for this product for the year too, so there you go, 2020-2021 Panini Don Russ Optic Basketball Hobby six box half case break picker team number five from JaspysCaseBreaks.com, I'm Sean, JaspysCaseBreaks.com, thanks for hanging out, we'll see you next time.


Science is fluid, with currents running in many different directions. But on Okinawa shores, they converge in exciting ways. For one OIST scientist, it's all part of the flow. Hello, I'm Amy Shen. I study microfluidics at OIST. Amy Shen knows all about fluidity in science. As head of the micro-bio-nanofluidics unit, she investigates how fluids behave on the small scale to reveal their hidden properties. Yeah, microfluidics, it's essentially fluids at small land scales. And we're interested in how liquids move in small land scales, such as on the order of a single hair strand or something even smaller. Fluids that are complex, such as blood and paint, contain a lot of tiny objects in the liquid. So how they flow and how do you manipulate them can be very different when they operate in large scale pipes versus small glass capillaries. Even at OIST, Amy's unit stands out for its range of scientists. A mash-up of all types of discipline, carried out by people from 11 countries. OIST gives me a lot of flexibility in terms of recruiting students. I can recruit students with very different educational background, research experience. At the moment, I have students in chemistry, in biology, in engineering. So everyone kind of work together as a big team and make different contributions. For Amy herself, there's something that helps her reach her own state of flow. I like trans music, so it's kind of electronic, electronic dance music. Especially when I work, if I have to write papers, trans music helps me to focus. It's a soundtrack for science, with the rhythm of the background for a unit full of innovation. I work basically on making microfluidic immunoassay devices, in simple words, diagnostic devices. I can bring in my engineering background, my bio-background and chemistry background, which is very, very useful for my research here. I'm working on some particle image velocimetry, and basically I study very small scale flows of interesting liquids. So here at OIST, we have the unique ability to make really small microchannels, and typically people study these types of flows at very large scales. So by being able to shrink down to a smaller scale, we can study very interesting physics. And it's not all theory. The researchers in this unit have developed a practical proof of concept that could soon be adopted worldwide. This is the world's smallest spectrophotometer that we've made in our lab. This tiny box is a miniaturized biotech apparatus, and gathers data by shining light onto a chip covered in gold nanostructures. What we can use this for is essentially early diagnosis of a disease right at the site of the patient, in contrast to the massive instruments which are currently used in pharmaceutical labs. So it's very easy to operate, and it's very cheap to manufacture. And so we hope it will become very affordable, especially for developing countries and clinics. From the smallest microcurrents to human-scale technology, the flow of science continues to mix, giving fascinating results for Amy and her team. We are very diverse with different research education and culture background. And so it's a very fun group just to learn from each other and to achieve the same goal.


I mean, yeah, I mean, I think that being versatile and being able to play a lot of different spots right if it's on defense or offense is always going to be good for us. I'm pretty sure you guys know why he don't talk about it because they don't like to talk about scheme and all that type of stuff. But I mean, you can clearly see like the Nicos, the guy who could play all over the defensive line. I try to be a guy that can play all over the secondary and try to cover as many people as I can. So yeah, I'm not telling him, but I'm not shy to speak on it. Does he throw in snippets about his playing career when they're appropriate to give it situations? Yeah, man, especially to give examples for some younger guys to let them know. Like Redfield was like high prepared throughout the week. Talking about injuries, all that type of stuff. He definitely throws up a lot of different stuff. To be comparison for God to understand that hey, I did it. I went through it and you know, it's just normal to NFL football. Kevin, you guys, for years now it's kind of been a thing where you know, maybe always get the respect nationally that you may have felt like you deserve. We all are getting that now. Do you have to say something or work to keep that from maybe affecting the mentality of the team, taking the foot off the gas, that kind of thing? No, not really. I think we have a mature football team. And I think all the recognition we begin is deserved. And I think we should take it that it's deserved. And just understanding the reason why we're getting national recognition, because how we're playing it. If we start playing bad, then we're going to get the same type of attention, you know what I'm saying? No, I don't think we got to pretty much tell ourselves, hey, don't listen to it, don't listen to it, because it's going to be out there. But I think the main thing is to understand that we're playing well, we're getting attention, so we keep going and we'll get more attention. What's the challenge mentally going up against a team with only one win in the season? Have you mentally kind of prepared for a team that isn't to the quality of the teams you've faced the last several weeks? Yeah, you can just look around the league.  Like it doesn't really matter what the records is. And I said it before, it doesn't matter, power rankings, all that stuff. You can be beat by any team on NFL Sunday.  What are some of the challenges the Texans bring? Well, first of all, I think Tyrone Taylor, I mean, obviously before his injury he was playing really well for those guys now. He's packed, he can move around, do a lot of different stuff. Brandon Cooks is still a really great receiver in this league. He's a vertical threat, guy who's hurting us in the past as well. But I just think that a team like that also really has nothing to lose. So they're going to give us their best shot. And especially early in the game, we're going to get gassed. We're going to get all type of stuff that we may not have seen on film because like I said, they have nothing to lose. They want to ruin our season and beat us because obviously we're in the same division. So we got to be prepared for everything. Where will you use the word urgency? How much more important is that urgency against a team like this? It's super important because I think teams like this, you want to kind of kill their hopes early in the game. So the urgency has to be there from, but it starts throughout the week. I'm pretty sure it was probably talked about. It got to start throughout the week to have urgency in practice. So in the game time, everything is flowing the right way. Then we're going to put this team away early. How much of the culture that you guys always talk about and that is so evident just watching your play comes from Brable having emphasized it from day one up until now? Yeah, I mean just I think our, even our team, the things that define us as a team, whether it's effort and finish, he talks about all the time, being detailed, trying to get the ball not really doing a lot of dumb stuff to hurt the team as far as penalties and stuff like that. I think that's like the defining our culture of the team and I think as guys come in and you sign new guys in there, they start to understand that really well and they kind of mesh well with the team. So I think it's been great.


A warm welcome to the 23rd lecture on the subject of wavelets and multirate digital signal processing. Let us spend a couple of minutes in recalling the discussion in the previous lecture. We had in the previous lecture, built up the idea of decomposition and reconstruction in the short time Fourier transform and in the continuous wavelet transform. The central theme in decomposition and reconstruction was to project in the sense of projection on a vector, project on the basis vectors, the function to be decomposed and to reconstruct the function from its components. By multiplying each component by a vector in that direction, this simple idea enabled us to interpret decomposition and reconstruction both in the short time Fourier transform as also in the continuous wavelet transform. The short time Fourier transform was indexed by translation and modulation. The continuous wavelet transform was indexed by translation and scale and we saw that there was a little bit of asymmetry between translation and scale. Translation could be dealt with easily. Scale needed an additional weighting factor to deal with it when we reconstruct it, when reconstructing the function from its continuous wavelet transform. So, with that little recapitulation, let me put the discussion in the current lecture in perspective. So, in the current lecture, we are going to talk about admissibility in detail first and later we are going to proceed to the discretization of scale, the scale parameter in a particular way. Now, let us go back to the discussion that led us to admissibility or the idea of being able to accept a function psi t as a wavelet. We had only partly arrived at the answer and in fact, we had worked rather hard to evaluate a triple integral to arrive there. It also seemed to be getting out of hand because the triple integral needed to be dealt with one integral at a time. And although we had almost come to the final step, I think it is worth recapitulating the important steps that took us to the final point where we were. Let me just put down some important steps before we proceed. Some important steps in reconstructing x t from c w t x psi evaluated at tau and s. Now, the most important step was the evaluation of this triple integral here. The innermost integral was the so called component.  So, this was the innermost integral essentially corresponding to the c w t and with this we then had two outer integrals which took care of the translation and the scale parameter. And recall that with the scale parameter, we needed a weighting function the translation parameter did not required. So, we said we needed to reconstruct by doing the following by taking the component as it were multiplying by a so called unit vector and integrating over all components. The only catch being that we cannot just do this we need a weighting function to deal with scale. So, the integral on tau runs from minus to plus infinity, the integral on s runs from 0 to infinity and now let us write it all together once again I am repeating as you notice I am repeating a few steps it is worth doing that because this was a little formidable as a proof. So, it would be helpful to look at the important steps in the proof again anyway. So, the overall integral is as follows so I will write the triple integral here. The innermost integral is on omega from minus to plus infinity the next integral is again from minus to plus infinity and the final integral is from 0 to infinity here. So, this is the triple integral now you have the innermost integral taking you with x cap omega s to the power half psi cap s omega complex conjugated e raised to power j omega tau this takes care of this part. Now to write the rest times 1 by s to the power half psi t minus tau by s f s d tau d s before which there is a d omega there and we said we wanted to reverse or we wanted to change the order in which these needed to be dealt with. So, we would take this the last take this first and take this second this was the approach that we used. Now, without repeating all the discussion let me just put down one more important intermediate step what we saw is that after removing or after taking care of integral d tau first what was left by choosing f of s to be 1 by s squared was the following essentially it was 1 by 2 by integral from minus infinity to plus infinity x cap omega and integral involving s in a funny way 0 to infinity mode psi cap s omega the whole squared d s by s seemingly dependent on omega, but that is where our whole discussion ended in the previous lecture and we wanted to build on it today seemingly dependent on omega, but we want to do away with the dependence on omega here. So, this multiplied by e raised to power j omega t integrated over omega this is where we were and we noticed that it is essentially this which is causing a struggle had this been independent of omega this term here then this would be a constant which could be extracted and what would be left then is just the inverse Fourier transform of x cap omega which is just x t. So, let us summarize that step if we could make the integral from 0 to infinity psi cap s omega mod squared d s by s independent of omega and you see when it becomes independent of omega it is dependent on no other parameter. So, it would just be a constant let us call that constant c dependent on psi you see it of course depends on what psi you use, but beyond the dependence on psi there is a dependence on nothing else once you fix the psi this should then be independent of omega if we can make it. So, and that is what admissibility is all about. So, anyway if this could be done then what is left is essentially 1 by 2 pi times this constant c psi times the integral from minus to plus infinity x cap omega e raised to the power j omega t d omega which is essentially c psi times x t so simple and so beautiful. So, in fact now we also have an interpretation for this constant c psi the constant c psi actually tells us the factor by which x t has been multiplied in this process of reconstruction. So, we have a meaning to that integral too, but now let us look at that integral which we wish to make independent of omega little more carefully. So, consider the integral from 0 to infinity psi cap s omega mod squared d s by s and put as usual s omega equal to a parameter alpha. Now, we must remember that s always runs from 0 to plus infinity and omega is capable of running all the way from minus to plus infinity. So, of course, one thing that we notice is that omega equal to 0 is a problem. So, except for omega equal to 0 suppose we consider omega greater than 0 first in that case alpha equal to s omega would run from 0 to plus infinity when s runs from 0 to plus infinity. And of course, if you take the differential on both sides here as we did we would have d alpha is omega d s and of course, alpha is omega s and since omega is not 0 we have d alpha by alpha is d s by s. Whereupon this quantity integral from 0 to infinity psi cap s omega mod squared d s by s simply becomes integral from 0 to infinity psi cap alpha mod squared d alpha by alpha this is beautiful. Now, this is only based on the function psi it has nothing to do with capital omega. Let us consider the case of capital omega less than 0. Now, there we have an interesting situation. So, when capital omega is less than 0 again of course, we have alpha is s omega when s runs from 0 to plus infinity alpha runs from 0 to minus infinity. And therefore, we would have the integral becoming integral from 0 to minus infinity psi cap alpha mod squared d alpha by alpha. Now, we have a little bit of trouble here it is not easy to do this integral or related to the previous one. So, let us make a substitution again substitute beta is minus alpha whereupon when alpha goes from 0 to plus infinity beta goes from 0 to minus infinity or vice versa. So, when alpha goes from 0 to minus infinity beta goes from 0 to plus infinity that is what we wanted. So, let us make the substitution here also one can see that d beta is minus d alpha and beta is minus alpha whereupon d beta by beta is equal to d alpha by alpha as before. So, we have an interesting situation this is also for omega less than 0 we have 0 to infinity psi cap minus beta mod squared d beta by beta. So, we have an interesting situation you see we want to make the whole expression independent of capital omega. We seem to have different expressions for omega greater than 0 and omega less than 0. And if we want to make this whole expression independent of omega the two expressions must be equal and must both be finite the catch is in making them equal and finite. So, making this integral on S I mean independent of capital omega means two things one integral 0 to infinity psi cap alpha mod squared t alpha by alpha is equal to integral 0 to infinity psi cap minus beta mod squared t beta by beta and both of these are less than infinity. Now you know I do not need to specify that this is positive infinity because it is obvious that we are talking about positive alpha here this is all positive you see you are taking beta over a positive range. And this is a non negative quantity mod psi cap minus beta whole squared or mod psi cap alpha squared. So, they are all non negative quantities. So, this is an integral over a non negative integrand and therefore it must be non negative. So, it is obvious that this non negative quantity needs to be bounded there is no question of it is becoming negative. Now, this is not a serious requirement when psi t is real. If psi t is real then of course, we know that psi cap minus beta is equal to psi cap beta complex conjugated. And therefore, mod psi cap minus beta squared is the same as mod psi cap beta squared. And therefore, if I go back to the previous condition these are not separate conditions these are just the same condition the magnitude is symmetric. However, when psi t is a complex wavelet which is a distinct possibility remember. So, in fact here we are allowing the possibility of complex functions as wavelets we should not disregard or discount that possibility. If psi t is a complex wavelet what we are saying is that we need separately to take care of the positive and the negative part of the spectrum. The other way of saying it is if you are using a complex wavelet and if you insist that the spectrum must be one sided then make sure that your signal has no component on the other side. In that case that particular condition can be removed. So, for example suppose we take a complex wavelet where we are not going to take care of the negative part of the spectrum. So, second condition is not obeyed the one which involves psi cap mod of minus alpha minus beta the whole squared. What we are saying in effect is then you may only deal with such x which have non-zero components and therefore, x must be complex non-zero components on the positive part of the spectrum for omega greater than 0. Conversely if you are only going to satisfy the condition for the negative part of the spectrum meaning for omega less than 0 then make sure that your original signal also does not have any components on the positive part of the spectrum. So, if one is willing to take care of this slightly restricted situation one can use a complex wavelet. In fact there is a good reason to use complex wavelets if you are dealing with complex functions. So, this condition let me put down the condition before you once again this condition that we have just written down here is called the admissibility condition for a wavelet. Admissibility essentially refers to allowing that function to be called a wavelet, allowing that function to bring out a continuous wavelet transfer. In fact admissibility if you ask me is a condition of reconstruction, is a condition required for reconstruction and if we reflect a little on admissibility what we are saying now from a different perspective makes a lot of sense as I will just show in a minute. You see what does admissibility tell you? Let us take the omega equal to or omega greater than 0 condition. You see as I said for real psi this is enough. So, let us focus on real psi for the moment to make matters simple. It says essentially that integral from 0 to infinity psi cap alpha mode squared d alpha by alpha must be finite. So, where can the trouble come here? You see as you notice the trouble can come at the two extremes. Let me for example put before you a condition on psi or psi cap which is troubles a situation in which we shall have trouble. Let us ask the question can psi cap alpha squared look like this? So, let us take from pi to minus pi it is 1 and 0 else. Well it is obvious that it cannot if we try and construct the integral here what would it be? It would be essentially the integral from 0 to pi if you please 1 d alpha by alpha and obviously this integral is divergent. In fact as you can see the integral d alpha by alpha the indefinite integral is essentially of the form log natural of alpha and if we try and make any such substitution this is divergent. So, therefore we see where the trouble comes from. The trouble comes from the region around omega equal to 0. Interestingly one should not have the spectrum giving any significant contribution around the 0 frequency that is what we are saying. So, here the trouble comes as alpha tends to 0. The spectrum should have vanished as alpha tends to 0. Now let us see what would happen if we have alpha tending to plus infinity and we still have a spectrum that remains. What about as I said something like this a spectrum that is like this as omega tends to plus infinity this tends towards a constant. So, psi cap alpha mod squared tends to some constant. Let us say c 0 as alpha tends to plus infinity. Will this do? Well again let us evaluate that part of the integral.  So, this is approximately integral from l to plus infinity c 0 times d alpha by alpha then again we run into trouble. So, this would be essentially log natural of alpha evaluated from l and going towards plus infinity plus infinity which is also divergent once again. This is the cause of divergence. So, again the spectrum should have vanished that is what we have conclude should have vanished as alpha tends to plus infinity. So, all in all what are we asking for? We are asking for the spectrum to vanish as alpha tends to 0. We are asking for the spectrum to vanish as alpha tends to infinity. We want the spectrum to vanish at both the extremes. If it does not if it persists as you go towards 0 or as you go towards infinity you have trouble that part of the integral is going to diverge. Now, let us take a third case which might just be acceptable and see if it is acceptable. So, can we allow the following say capital omega 1 and capital omega 2 0 here infinity there and let us say it is 1 for simplicity in this region. So, capital omega 1 capital omega 2 are both positive numbers and the spectrum mod psi cap omega squared is 1 only between omega 1 and omega 2 and 0 everywhere else. Of course, I am showing only the positive side the same is mirrored on the negative. So, is this allowed? Well, yes indeed as we can see if I were to put down the integral 0 to infinity as it were psi cap alpha mod squared d alpha by alpha it simply boils down to integral from omega 1 to omega 2 1 d alpha by alpha and this is very easy to integrate. This is simply log natural omega 2 minus I am sorry log natural capital omega 2 minus log natural capital omega 1 which is of course finite and acceptable. So, it makes it very clear to us what kind of a function is acceptable. Let us put back the drawing of that function. This is a kind of function that we can accept essentially a band pass function that is what we are saying. A band pass function is what we are willing to accept. In fact, here we have considered the ideal case the extreme case where it is exactly band pass, but even if it is not exactly band pass. Suppose for example, we take the Gaussian function as it were you know we must ask the question we found the so called quote unquote ideal function in the sense of time frequency product the Gaussian. If I take the Gaussian in time it is also Gaussian in frequency that is the beauty of the Gaussian. What I meant was that if I consider the function e raise the power minus t square by 2 and in fact if I also normalize it properly. So, here the variance is 1 I put 1 by square root 2 pi there. Its Fourier transform is also going to be of the form e raise the power minus omega squared and you see a Gaussian creates a Gaussian in the frequency domain. So, the question is is this admissible and the answer is a very simple no. In fact, we can sketch it this is how e raise the power minus omega squared would look and as you can see it does not vanish. In fact, as you go towards 0 it tends towards 1. So, it is very easy to see that if I try and take the modulus squared of this and start integrating with respect to omega even over a small range between say 0 and 1 it is going to diverge. So, the answer is no the Gaussian by itself is not admissible. So, what is the next best thing that we might explore make the Gaussian admissible by pulling the spectrum to 0 as you go towards 0 frequency. Now, how on earth do you pull the spectrum to 0? Well the one way to do it is to take a derivative. So, suppose we were to take the derivative of a Gaussian that is of the form minus 2 omega times e raise the power minus omega squared which of course, you could just essentially take for consideration as omega times e raise the power minus omega squared. We will just consider this. So, how does this derivative first derivative of the Gaussian look? The first derivative of the Gaussian is going to be a product see I am only going to show the positive side of capital omega. So, this was the Gaussian and this is what capital omega would look like when you multiply them. When you multiply them you can see that there is going to be a maximum somewhere and then there is going to be a tapering off again because the Gaussian fall is much stronger than this linear rise. So, their product is ultimately going to be dominated by the Gaussian fall. So, we are going to have a spectrum that looks something like this and we might ask that since this seems to prima facie satisfy both our requirements namely that it vanishes as omega tends to 0 and vanishes as omega tends to infinity, is it admissible? Well not at all difficult to answer. Indeed if I put down the admissibility integral I would have omega squared here e raise the power minus 2 omega squared there d omega by omega. And this is a very easy integral to evaluate. Now, omega t omega is half of t omega squared. What I mean is if you put capital omega squared is lambda then d lambda is twice twice omega d omega. And therefore, you have this integral boiling down to integral 0 to infinity e raise the power minus twice lambda half d lambda and this is a very easy integral to evaluate. In fact, it definitely converges. So, therefore, the derivative of the Gaussian is admissible good news bad news. The derivative of the Gaussian is no longer optimal in the sense of time frequency. So, I in fact now put down a couple of exercises. One, calculate at least approximately numerically or approximately the time bandwidth product I shall abbreviate time bandwidth product by T b p that is the sigma t squared sigma omega squared of the derivative of the Gaussian. So, e raise the power minus omega squared in frequency, but you will see in time also it has a similar. So, in fact, let me put down the time expression. You see when you take the derivative in frequency we took the derivative in frequency. Now, taking the derivative in frequency is equivalent to multiplying in time by t in time. Of course, there are constants involved constant of J and so on, but if one does all that bookkeeping properly one would see that the time and frequency expression is very similar. So, the inverse Fourier transform of omega e raise the power omega squared has the same form and I leave this to you to show as an exercise. So, we have the first exercise here. Take this first derivative of the Gaussian, look at its Fourier transform, make an attempt to evaluate its time frequency product time bandwidth product approximately if required or numerically if required and compare it with the time frequency product of the Gaussian. There would be a disappointment anyway that was the first exercise. The second exercise is essentially the following take higher derivatives. So, for example, consider the second derivative of the Gaussian and repeat whatever we have done here that is finding out the function itself its derivative then checking for admissibility getting a feel of the time bandwidth product for the second derivative of the Gaussian. Incidentally, the second derivative of the Gaussian is a celebrated function in the context of wavelets and multirate processes. Some people call it the Mexican hat function. So, you know I can give you a feel, if you look at it let us look at the first derivative first. This is what the first derivative looks like. We can get a feel a graphical feel of the second derivative. There would first be a region where that derivative of this derivative is positive this region. There would be a place where it crosses 0 somewhere here there will be a maximum there will be a 0 and then the derivative of this is going to be negative. So, you are going to have a region of positivity and then a large region of negativity and even in that region of negativity you can see very easily that finally that second derivative would also tend towards 0 here. Now, one can also see that this positive segment is large that derivative is large here and the derivative falls off slowly here but does fall towards 0. Anyway, so this looks very much like a hat. So, I leave it to you to construct the derivative of this as an exercise and to verify that it looks like a hat. So, if you take the derivative of this would look like a hat like a Mexican hat if you might want to call it that and in fact it is called the Mexican hat function just for that reason. So, I leave it to you to calculate the admissibility integral for the Mexican hat function whether approximately or numerically or exactly also to calculate its time bandwidth product whether numerically or approximately or exactly. With that little discussion on the admissibility of the Gaussian and the derivatives of the Gaussian let us see a little more about admissibility here. You see what admissibility essentially requires as we can see in general is that we need to have a sharp enough fall off as you go towards omega equal to 0 and a sharp enough fall off as you go towards omega equal to infinity. So, we might summarize all this by saying admissibility is essentially a band pass requirement. We want the function to have a band pass character and this agrees very well with what we have seen so far whether we take the Haar wavelet or whether we take the subsequent the Warsh wavelets or whether we also take the idealized situation that we considered when we brought out the ideal towards which we were moving in the Haar situation or in general. Now, we must remember that here we have still allowed the scale parameter to be continuous. So, admissibility is adequate when you are talking about reconstructing from a continuous wavelet transform, but that is the most difficult thing to do. How on earth do you construct this continuum of scale and translation coordinates? Numerically or practically it is the most silly thing to do. You have one dimensional function x t and you are trying to construct a two dimensional continuous pair of parameters tau n s. So, the natural question to ask is can we discretize. In fact, we have begun with discretizing it. We have discretized the scale parameter in powers of 2 when we looked at the Haar multi resolution analysis or for that matter any of the dyadic multi resolution analysis like for example, the Dobash series of MRAs. So, the first question that we must now ask is what are the conditions when we can discretize the scale parameter and that is the next question that we shall address. And to answer this question, let us go back to the basic idea that we had when we built the continuous wavelet transform and we tried to reconstruct. You see when we built the continuous wavelet transform, we said that essentially in the continuous wavelet transform what we are doing is to take the function and put it through a filter with frequency response of the form psi cap s omega complex conjugate here. Of course, there are constants involved here that is not the important thing. The important thing is that what you get out here indexed by tau. So, suppose you call the output variable here tau then this gives you the C w t evaluated as a function of tau at s at scale parameter s. You see if I were to take an ideal band pass function here, what are we asking for? You see with an ideal band pass function say between omega 1 and omega 2 as we did last time what happens suppose this is psi cap omega just omega without the s in magnitude. How would the magnitude of psi cap s omegas appear? So, psi cap s omega you see for example, to fix our ideas let us take s equal to 2 psi cap 2 omega would essentially go from omega 1 by 2 to omega 2 by 2. So, in general we would go from omega 1 by s to omega 2 by s here all the same omega 1 and omega 2 are positive and therefore, these two will still continue to remain positive albeit may be lesser or more depending on the value of s then omega 1 and omega 2 respectively. But, they will still be in the positive side of the spectrum away from 0. So, essentially what is going to happen with a change of s is to move this band of the band pass filter along the positive part of the spectrum and the natural condition that we should expect for being able to discretize the scale parameter is to ensure that we are covering the whole spectrum and there again we have a natural choice of how we discretize. You see when we scale by a factor of s we are also scaling as we see the center frequency and the band. So, there is a logarithmic change. So, the natural kind of discretization to consider for the scale parameter is a logarithmic discretization. In fact, we been doing this all this while we been considering a discretization in powers of 2, but now we do not need to restrict ourselves to powers of 2. We could in general allow s to take the form a 0 to the power k where k runs over all integers and a 0 is a quantity greater than 1. For example, a 0 could be 2 where we have considered the dyadic case a 0 could be 3, 1.5 anything more than 1. You see the more than 1 is not a problem even if a 0 is taken to be less than 1, but positive. For example, 0.5 when you run k over all the integers any way you are considering an equivalent a 0 which is more than 1. What I am saying is if you insist on taking a 0 equal to half and then run k over all the integers it is the same as taking a 0 equal to 2 and running over all the integers. So, you might as well restrict a 0 to be greater than 1. So, now we shall do that we will restrict a 0 to be greater than 1 and we will consider all the a 0 to the power k with k integer and in the next lecture we shall see when a discretization of S in that form is acceptable for reconstruction. Thank you.


I'm Dr. Jess. Welcome to this session of Cup of Optimism. Today, we are going to talk about how to be in the moment to be well. Have you noticed how sometimes our days seem to fly by and we don't really get a chance to slow down and actually enjoy the moment? But what if we take that moment? What if we can find those few seconds or minutes in our day to enjoy? Where we really take the time to be present and engage our senses. Today, I want to share a short exercise you can do with me to just slow down. Let's dive in. So why learn to be in the moment? Well, when you take the time to stop and focus all of your senses and thoughts on where you are and what you are actually doing, you are also accepting where you are in that moment. And the more moments you find to allow yourself to simply be in, the more of these moments will start to naturally appear, fitting into your daily life over time, becoming an incredible tool to help you cope with the bigger challenges that are out of your control. This is what helps you to center yourself and put things into a fresh perspective, whether that means allowing yourself to feel optimism or deciding to let things pass. Mindfulness is not about finding the solution, tying our relief to solving the problem tends to build anxiety and stress. Creating your moment shouldn't add additional stress. You don't need to look far or go out of your way. There's plenty of opportunities that already naturally occur in your day that you can turn into a mindful moment to be well. I personally love arranging flowers, focusing on the smells and the visuals. It really helps me to stop and slow down and just appreciate where I am. Now we're going to put into practice everything we've been talking about with a simple exercise and one of my personal favorites. All you'll need is an orange. I love this exercise because with something as simple as an orange, you can refresh your whole day. So I want you to grab an orange or really any fragrant fruit. And I want you to start by just holding it. Now roll it around in your hands. Really notice how it feels. The texture is firm or squishy. Bring it up to your nose. What does it smell like? Breathe it in. Deep breaths. Slowly peel your orange, paying attention to how it feels in your fingers. Peel that first slice and take a bite. How have your taste buds reacted?  Notice how it feels on your tongue against your teeth? What's the flavor? The texture? How juicy is it? Continue to savor and notice each bite of the orange. Maybe even close your eyes if you'd like to. Really take your time and enjoy it. This is what a moment looks like. It's that simple. I hope you've enjoyed this exercise. Taking a moment to be well doesn't require anything new. It's about embracing the routine you already have. So think about your day with fresh eyes. Where are your moments hiding? Maybe it's during your daily walk or brewing a fresh pot of tea. It can be done anywhere as long as you stop, step away from the cell phone or any other distractions. Take note of all of your senses and just enjoy the moment. And thank you for taking this moment with me.


I now give the floor to Mr. Raymond McGovern. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, I would associate myself completely with Professor Saxe's comments. I do not have a prepared text. I was asked to do this less than a day ago. No one suggested what I might say. And of course, no one even asked me what I would say. So these are my personal remarks based on my experience for 27 years as an intelligence analyst and as an observer. And I noticed that I'm called a political activist. Well, this is my way of paying back for the education I got as an intelligence analyst in the US intelligence community. Now I would say that on my way here in two airports this morning, I noticed a bunch of children. Little children and school-aged children, and maybe think back to my days as a school-aged child. I was one of those who hid under my desk because of the threat of the Russian atom bomb as though that would protect me. Fast forward, when I became a professional analyst and chief of the Soviet foreign policy branch at CIA, I was able to tell the president and Henry Kissinger that the Russians were really interested in putting a cap on the arms race. Suffice it to say, I was instrumental in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed in May of 1972. I was there. 30 years of strategic stability, 30, count them, three decades, when Mr. Bush Jr. decided he would leave the ABM Treaty without any real explanation, and then Mr. Trump left the INF Treaty, which I thought could never be concluded because it involved the destruction, the destruction of a whole class of nucleotipped intermediate range ballistic missiles in Europe and in Siberia. Then we had the Open Skies Treaty from which the U.S. left, and now we are warned that the news start is also in danger. I must say that after the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed, I was feeling euphoric. I need not worry about whether they're building just to be demolished by the next nuclear weapon. And it's very sad for me to watch what's going on now where people can't get together and deal, verhandeln. That's the German word for negotiate, deal. If you look at it, it comes from the word hunt, diehante. You reach out diehante and you get to know and you get to understand what is bothering the other party. Now, I don't want to get ahead of myself here. I do want to talk about Seymour Hersh's article and I have to say up front, full disclosure, that I am a friend of Seymour Hersh and so I will not opine myself. I will cite a very distinguished former U.S. Ambassador and also Assistant Secretary of Defense. And these are the words he said about Seymour Hersh. Hersh attracts whistleblowers because he has a perfect record of protecting their identities and accurately publishing what they reveal after due diligence despite the government denials and slanderous attacks that invariably follow. His reputation is such that people of conscience seek him out. People of conscience. As a U.S. Army officer and as a CIA employee, I took an oath, one oath. It was to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Some of us took that oath seriously and when we see this kind of thing going on, we go to somebody who might be able to protect us and might be able to get the word out. Now, this was two weeks ago. Has the New York Times mentioned Seymour Hersh's article? Has it even reported the denials? No, not yet. This is quite, the Germans would say, Macviewicz, this is very, very remarkable. Now, let me go on here and talk about, well, how do we evaluate those who are smearing Seymour Hersh? Well, as Jeffrey Sachs, those who already said, the CIA spokesperson said, the claim is completely and utterly false, quote, end quote. Oh, now I have to confess, being an alumnus of the CIA that our PR people or public relations people do not have a very good record. No one wants to go back 20 years to Colin Powell's speech before this security council. We all know about that. What I would like to do is simply say, what happened before that speech? Before that speech, some conscientious whistleblower gave the text of a UN debriefing of Hussein Kamel, one of Saddam Hussein's sons-in-law. And who was he? He was supervisor over the radiological, biological, chemical, and nuclear program, such as it was in Baghdad. And he said to his interviewers, UN interviewers, US interviewers, UK interviewers, he said the following, all nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile programs have been destroyed. Now they asked him, the interrogators did, well, how do you know? And Kamel said, well, I was in charge of them. I mean, I don't know how it works in your country, but when I order something destroyed, it gets destroyed. Yeah, how do you know? Did you check? Well, yeah, I checked the couple. Are you trying to get me to say, they were not destroyed? This is 1995. Now, someone leaked that transcript to Newsweek. Newsweek on the 24th, almost exactly 20 years ago, Newsweek published this report saying, Hussein Kamel, the highest ranking Iraqi official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein's inner circle, told the CIA and British intelligence officers and US inspectors in the autumn of 1995 that after the Gulf War, Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Kamel had direct knowledge of what he claimed for 10 years, he ran Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile programs. And in a classic understatement, the author, John Barry in Newsweek says, the defector's tale raises questions about whether the WMD stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist. Well, I guess. What happened? Newsweek published this in a little blurb. First on their site, their website. Then the members of the media went to a fellow named Bill Harlow, who was CIA PR person, CIA spokesperson for the agency. And he said, look, this report is incorrect, it's bogus, it's wrong, and it's untrue. Incorrect, bogus, wrong, and untrue. And what did the members of the press do? They breathed a sigh of relief and said, I'm sure glad you told us that because we were gonna publish on that. It looked pretty documentary. It looked pretty authoritative. It was indeed the transcript of that debriefing. So just to worry about those who are smearing sigh-hersh, they don't have a really good record for credibility. Let me move on here. I'd like to talk a little bit about unprovoked. Now, we have heard more than a hundred times that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked. This goes back to the widening of NATO despite the promise not to. And I had a personal experience with one of Garabashov's chief advisors. His name is Kuvaldin, Viktor Borisovich. And about eight years I saw him in Moscow and I said, Mr. Kuvaldin, why is it that this agreement was not written down? And he said, Mr. McGovern, I'll tell you, the usual reasons, the Germans hadn't bought into it yet and the Warsaw Pact still existed, but really and truly, Mr. McGovern, here's what it was. We trusted you. Now, we all know the history of how NATO more than doubled in size with all countries to the east, more than one inch to the east. I want to not belabor that point. It's simply that, you know, it's more than just NATO enlargement. When the Crimea was annexed by Russia, Mr. Puchin got up a month later and he said, we had to annex Crimea because of the coup in Kiev in February of 2014. And even more important than NATO membership for Ukraine was the prospect that medium range ballistic missiles will be put on the periphery of the United States, which indeed they are capable of doing because there are capsules, holes in Romania and Poland that accommodate Tomahawk missiles, cruise missiles, and will eventually accommodate hypersonic missiles. This is very, very serious. Mr. Puchin made this point in December of last year, not last year, but the year before in talking to his chief military. Now, how do I end this? I would like to do a little human business here. The Verstehen, let me just point out that when I was in Germany last, there was a button that one put on the lapel and it said, Puchin Versteher, okay? Now, those of you who know German know that that means someone who understands Puchin. And I thought to myself, wow, somebody is interested in understanding Mr. Puchin? And my friends said, no, no, no, wait for God's sake, don't wear that button. That's a pejorative. That means you're in Puchin's pocket.  If you can't understand where people stand, you can't understand what bothers them and what bothers Mr. Puchin as well as membership in NATO for Ukraine is the emplacement of these holes already operational in Romania and Poland, right on the periphery of the United States. They are disguised as ABM systems, but they can easily accommodate cruise missiles and as I say, hypersonic missiles. Now, there was a motto in the recent German demonstrations. It said, verhandeln statt schießen. Now, verhandeln is the word for negotiate, to talk, hunt. You reach out the hand to the other person, you try to understand them. Verhandeln statt schießen, schießen is to shoot, okay? Now that makes good sense, but I have to tell you that it's not welcome in Germany, good friend of mine, Heinrich Bücher has been convicted of saying we ought to put ourselves in the shoes of Mr. Puchin and we ought to realize the far right influence in the government of Kiev. He was convicted in a German court. He's appealing, but he's not going to pay the 2000 euro fine. So it's likely he will end up in jail for several months. Now, that's freedom of speech. We enjoy that here in the United States. I really am concerned about what will happen to my friend.  Let's be human here. Let's not dust each other off. Let's extend our hands. Verhandeln schießen. Well, it was very, very bleak in our country during the suppression of blacks and I had the privilege of working with Vincent Harding, a Dr. Harding who was the author of Martin Luther King's speech on Vietnam. He had a song and the song was we got to keep on moving forward. Never turning back. Well, what I would suggest is that we need to. We need to keep on moving forward and I would recommend the second stanza of this to you all. And if you would listen, I would really very appreciate it. We're going to keep on moving forward. We're going to keep on loving our enemies. We're going to keep on loving our enemies. We're going to keep on loving our enemies. Never turning back. Never turning back. In closing, I will just refer to those children that I noticed more than I usually notice children in the airports today. And when I ask you all, because you have the power to do so, given to you after the last major world war, I ask you to do what's necessary so that no one kills the children anymore. Thank you very much.


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jasper's CaseRace.com. We just sold out 2022 Leave Vibrance multi-sport, two box break, random letter, number two. And again guys, two hits per box, four hits total, 19 total spots, everybody gets a random letter from the list below. A randomized list of letters and list of names. And we go by the first name of first letter. So as an example, Dennis Rodman goes to the letter D for Dennis. And there you go, that's good luck. Here's the dice roller, here's the customer names. Danny got a lot of spot mojo, A through the combo spot at the bottom. Roll it. We got ourselves A one out of three, four times. Good luck. One, two, three. And what is it? One out of three, four. Mark, down to Ed. One, two, three, four. E down to R. Mark, you have letter E. Mike, tower with B. Danny with M, H. Logan with F. Nicholas with D. Adam Coverman with G. Michael, you have the combo of the I-O-Q-U-V-X-Y-Z combo, as well as letter P. Steve with letter L. Peter, N with S. Wesley with W. Nicholas with A. Adam Coverman with C. Ed with J. Daniel with K. Steve with T. Adam with N. And Ed with R. So if you guys want to make any trades, quickly have the trade window open. If not, we'll stick to what you got. Letter Evans off for trade. Uh, I don't think so. Brady, I don't think Brady's... Not to say Brady doesn't sign with Leaf anymore, but it's rare. Let's just close the trade window, guys. Stick to what you got. Sorry, Logan. Remember, there's more than what's in the base autographs, but the checklist is right here for you guys. And, I mean, I don't know if you looked up F, but there's like Fernando Tatis. So F wouldn't be a bad one, to be honest. If you go to letter F's here... Not too many F's there, but Fernando Tatis was up there. But yeah, that's the checklist, guys. There might be some letters too that literally only have, that only have like one player, but at the same time, you know, you never know. And I'm just grabbing two random guys. I forgot I was gonna put this away, but I forgot earlier. Just two random boxes from here on out. All right, good luck, guys. First one. And our next one's in the store, too, guys. And we got a Bob Lilly for letter B, going to Mike Tower. And that is not numbered. A Bob Lilly. There you go. Whoa, what is this? Wow. Triple City? Nolan Ryan, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Warren Moon, all Houston. Triple autographs. Tripless City? Tripless City? So that'll be letter N, Adam Cupperman, letter H, Daniel, and Warren Moon W, Wesley. That'll be a randomizer right there. Very nice. Dawkins, Weapon X, letter B. Again, Mike Tower. Midnight Green, baby. Flag goes fly. And last one here. Kamaru Usman, very nice. The Fire Within autograph. Champion right there. One out of six. Letter K, going to Daniel. There you go, buddy. Solid air right there, buddy. Very nice. Kamaru Usman, Bob Lilly, Brian Dawkins, and then a triple autograph right here. That'll be between those guys right there. So let's quickly type in the names and do the randomizer. So this will be, so we're just going to go by the first name, Nolan, Hakeem, or Warren. Whoever wins that, guys. Good luck. Roll it. Three and a one. Four times again. Damn, is that the same dice roll? Oh, it's backwards. Three and a one, four. Good luck, guys. One, two, three, four. Boom. Nolan at the top. Three and a one, four times. Nolan Ryan is the winner. Letter N, Adam Comperman. Very nice, buddy. Congratulations, buddy. Nolan Ryan is the winner. So you go Nolan Ryan, triple autograph with Warren Moon and Hakeem Olajuwon, Brian Dawkins, Bob Lilly, and Kamaru Usman. Very nice break again, guys. I did repost the next one. If you guys want to run it back, 19 left. Jaspy'scasebrakes.com.


Everybody forced here ripping 2022 prism world cup soccer hobby six box half case number 10 Random teams you can find six o'clock. These results lane sports cars calm. They should run everybody. Good luck Yeah, and then I won't enjoy it. I won't enjoy wine crustable as much All right, it's color wheel time come on We ripped I've seen people say they're one every eight cases one every 12 Like Definitely not a case hit or even like every 5k. I mean, could be a really five cases technically we've only wrote to what six or seven here Oh close to full for the night y'all starting off with an auto This Netherlands desk Bergkamp Eric. Yeah, I saw them. I kind of like them Jackie moon. Yeah, it's like tropic thunder vibes. It's one of the best songs ever. Love me sexy by Jackie moon You know Netherlands got a nice rookie for Ecuador Felix Torres red mojo 98 of 99 Silver global reach we nailed them for Netherlands Ricky silver Joachim Malay Mieley Ford Danmark Cypher old cups like we're covered in fun, too Yeah, he was a bit nasty Red for the United States Brendan Aaronson Numbered 1 to 41 to 399 So Travis, yeah, I saw you had some big hits today Hyper El Vetti Switzerland Silver rookie honeyball, Tunisia, Marnelli. You got the Mowgli one.  Why? I'm not even that surprised cabs legends. Yeah pink switch for the granite shotgun I personally would have gone to Donald Mitchell. I Always like the new guy. No, it's all that CD Osmond Osmond 100% get CD Osmond actual all-star Jared Allen Honestly longhorn legend. Oh Really, I don't know that rookie red Saudi Arabia Fahad al Muwala Number 239 to 399. I mean two one-on-ones and one break of Origins is actually insane. I pulled like a one-of-one out of that product Matt pulled two in a case Silver Sadio Mane Senegal, you know what that means. He's just gonna have to work for me on Sunday Does he breaks too good? blue Morocco Yusuf al-Nesri 20 of 299 Actually playing I saw that I was like, oh, I thought they said he was out rookie silver new era Tyrell Malicia for Netherlands Like there's gonna be a lot of updates with that where it's like, oh, you're out. Oh, never mind. He's actually gonna play Women's World Cup I don't know isn't it like in between isn't like the two years in between like the four years in between kind of rookie hyper Martin Hongla for Cameroon kind of like the Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics I'm honestly not sure. I think it is right guys when the World Cup was in 2021, right? Because it's supposed to be in 2020. So I think it was in 2021 Silver Kailor Navas Costa Rica Is it Kailor Navas and his is like mid 40s? Looks like Cracked ice rookie Matias vina Uruguay.  It wasn't even like it was just two one-on-ones Got the zap you got zapped More Star Wars coming in nice nice nice five to go in that first case of Star Wars everybody Get you guys a link right here random pack or auto-style we're giving away a couple extra autos to Thanks, Tim So in the random pack or auto you get either per spot you get either an encased auto or a sealed three-card pack That will have at least one numbered base parallel and it seems like half the time. There's like two numbered parallels about half the time Which oftentimes the Star Wars can go for Better money than a lot of the autos Shua Mani Silver rookie Justin beat Bilo Netherlands. Let's say by low like the grocery store chain Yeah, Elaine's here red mojo Do sound to each for Serbia color match Serbia 7 of 99. What's up Travis? Lane doesn't leave you guys Today actually no Hyper Antony Robinson United States today you are stuck with me. I just realized we're doing our first top show I'm champions in three. I gotta get my combos for that I'll do that tomorrow Silver Jackson Irvine Australia What's up Jonathan? It should be very similar to finest. Yes John what's up, man? You can eat James click though was a GM got fired or something or whatever. I don't what is going on like Got pink moussiala Germany. I don't know what I don't know what's going on with that guy Sounds like a pretty darn good GM sounds like the owner needs to Step a step aside, you know Argentina base auto Juan Mousseau blue rookie Brazil Gabriel Martin elli 113 of 299 Let's go. That is an awesome color match Congrats Brazil big-time Martin elli Man, that's pretty Centering so tough on these you have to look at like the borders Also He's just so good. He is really good. I get he didn't make the team, but that's just cuz they're so loaded I think you didn't make the team. I thought he didn't make the big card there Sliver Canada team badge Won't be at that in a bag for you either way Brazil. Yeah, Almanac is gonna be a lot of fun Who else is hiding? Yeah, we have four top lawyer side over there. So our Kaiser Miro Brazil Brazil box Jeopardy your deal National Landmarks is coming up here Landmarks time it is Kailor Navas Costa Rica There you go Costa Rica Kailor Navas Big waterfall National Landmarks 31 of the set Red Rookie whales Joe Rodan 111 up 399 Silver connections Alex Sandro and Danilo Brazil looks like case two of Almanac is sold out guys Seven total spots for Almanac ultra high-end multi sport Cards and memorabilia tonight. He was the last He took for me know a spot them. Wow. I thought it was the opposite Hyper rookie goodzelo plot to Ecuador That's my bad for me know out in Marnelli and that's that's a statement right there Yeah Do all the case hits for now Silver dullberg for Denmark. Hey guys, personals are getting a little closer to folder. They're about halfway. I'd say For after the group breaks tonight a crack-dice Jude Bellingham England The young the young English forwards are gonna be big for them Bellingham and Sokka That's the key for England. They have a good striker. I mean info Yeah Yeah, photo now honestly might be the best of the three that we did that I just named Red Rookie is Tune co-compa mirrors. Hey, you say that Netherlands. He was actually the first soccer player I ever invested in 333 399 That's I mean, it's good He's still only 21 18 optic I Mean hey still have a stuff or do you sell I sold it was an aqua PSA 10 color match when he was on man city I was gonna say a smart move is Really good right now. He's still 21 He's gonna be good for a long time he's gonna be at like an elite club forever That's like so many people are this guy didn't make the world cup. Oh, this guy. It's like they're 20 years old It doesn't matter if they didn't make this world Yeah, you can't take someone because of how good they can be for a world cup, you know what I mean silver castanet Belgium So it's the same thing with Pepe over talking about earlier. Yeah, don't be in the next world cup Yeah, you got to take the guys in a good form if you want a chance at winning a tournament That is a week and a half away and is a single elimination after the group stages anyway Can a crack dice Brazil Tiago Silva and There's just so much more pressure than a normal like soccer game, huh?  There's some dimples on this It's like under the surface of the car though. I'm still gonna send a box It seems like a bit of factory damage Robert I would not call either of us an expert, but we both genuinely enjoy so definitely not soccer 22 but we enjoy it We know the most at the shop. Yes Yeah, I'll send a box with the all other team spot here Love the maroons guitar 22 maroon Silver Niklas Suley for Germany Red Prism there's a gold behind this. There's a John Luca busio for the United States red people were mad. He got left off, too gold connections Jude Bellingham Bukai Osaka Boom, let's go one of ten Englands What a card Tyhan L. Tyhan huge Congrats We'll get that one magged up for literally just talk Yeah, those two play. Oh my goodness that is gorgeous That's a big card right there one out of ten gold connections. Wow Is off-center left to right, but that's sick Not much more to say about that one. That's so cool That's one of the nicer connections for the whole product right there 233 of 399 busio United States You just want X fractures Got rookie hyper Nuna Mendez Portugal. Yeah, I mean people is a funny game to play especially with your friends That's what I originally how I originally learned it like 1415 FIFA silver Nico of Eddie, Switzerland Just five to go in the first case of Star Wars You guys down to five on Star Wars chrome black first case again You give away two extra autos per case break tonight on Star Wars Pink Brazil Marquinhos. We are hitting some nasty cards tonight leading up to Yep Okay, we're getting some fire so far to redemption Matthew Ryan purple for Australia 59 of 199 Silver Diabe phenomenon France Levin Golski redemption here Goes to the United States signatures Christian Pulisic There you go United States Just a Pulisic. Yeah, what's up on how's it going man? No big deal Silver rookie Sarmiento Ecuador. What's up on? Mr.. Vaughn we were showing off a customer a Local customer brought in some cards. They got from a one-on-one case break. They did it on their own There was a Tatum timeless moments to 25. Yeah, yeah Got a green coming up. Oh, come on. Let's go big name. What's Haro Martinez?  This is true Now we're opening prison World Cup and he's hitting nothing but fire. I Don't have their spots left for anything tonight. I would definitely take a microphone Card dust on it. Wow big time a letharo there silver Brazzavitch in Paris itch Croatia connections Yeah, Elaine's here tonight that does came right off Just typical prison dust nothing crazy guys Yeah, it's a Looks pretty good. Sometimes. I mean Sandrine can be tough. It's prism. It can always be tough Ricky That's nicely centered. Hi for Luca suites for Croatia. Nice suites. I thought he so he's Austrian I didn't expect to need to roll a cup I didn't know he was gonna play for Croatia. So it's pretty cool that he's in this product. He's in the World Cup Such a good youngster Yeah, crazy that golden green and uh, that wasn't the same box wasn't yeah I was like, oh man, that was the same.  Do you imagine that as a person who list ago and if he was sick That's pretty pretty solid pretty solid Even a base people simple to pretty well for autos anyway, there's a lot of autos in this that won't be numbered that are you know It's prison models Someone pulled a Jeff I was watching the breaker pull I did pull the Jeff Hurst earlier. I was like, oh my god We got to pull that that would be sick dude that had the hat trick in the 66 World Cup final England's only World Cup victory silver paltore as Spain. Yeah, that shot against the Knicks It's a good one Cracked ice Frank into young Netherlands Netherlands now though. I mean Netherlands has the easiest group, right the easiest group With I mean guitars in the group and then they also have Blake. Yes Yes, yes, yes Stay for the recap red. It's male a star Senegal Senegal it's like seagull one of five or three to nine Senegal Yeah, stick around for the recap. We're gonna pull a color wheel here At this point I wouldn't be shot a Silver John Stones England Kind of both Ryan They were banned After most the qualifying had taken place Kind of both. Yeah, they weren't very they weren't necessarily going to make it anyway, but they were banned from Participate, come on big orange right here. Come on It's Karim Benzema 20 at 25 big Benz Forest is it's this is insane Big Benzema the Ballon d'Or winner best footballer in the world as the award states one of the best midfielders There you go Simon H with France Mercedes Benzema there he is This was pretty well-centered too. I might not be perfect, but yeah, I mean Prism you got to get up and close up close to see for real for real Benz They're just keep going with the heat here. I guess hyper come on for France This is come on. He's an underrated player for France. His French is always have an amazing midfield. Yes Yes Yes, yes hyper Valverde Uruguay That's probably the player you're looking for for Uruguay him and Kevani Kevani a hundred percent Well Val Verde is probably the future for Uruguay. Yeah Who's his team he plays in Spain, right? I think he's lovely. Go got silver Renato Sanchez Portugal Guys get Portugal any chance in the World Cup? You have to just because they have Ronaldo. They have a good amount of depth to their midfields pretty solid When you have a top five player in the world you have a chance Yeah, we'll see how they use him. I envision him just being like a super soap in other World Cups He has not been that good pink Brazil Antony They don't he's like okay keying on this guy There's moments in other World Cups where you're watching and it's like he just takes over games United States again with a Brian Reynolds rookie auto Still five to go in Star Wars y'all. Let's get that Phil purple creation Mateo Kovacic 40 of 1.99 and a nice silver Brazil team badge Team badge be a fun set to put together Low number like gold team badges are gonna do so well silver Ronald Arujo or guay Well, and I would hope so Caleb student hollering over there again Yeah, yeah, they did Ryan He hit the biggest card in fab red rookie Ecuador Piero and capy a you go Ecuador 83 at 399 What's up Andrew new era rookie silver a honey ball Tunisia Andrew has a go man. Well, they are they're on the aircraft carrier Yeah, we got zag so it's this and then later on it's T-Wolves Grizzlies So we'll watch the Timberwolves struggle against the Grizzlies Or it'll be a really good game. That's true. I mean the Timberwolves got to put something together here at some point Right for some consistency. I would hope so We need a man to get consistent I'm so he's still averaging 23 a game, but it's like I'll have 35 and then I'll have 14 and then 28 and then we'll have 19 and it's like they're a bit of a mess right now. Yeah, they need a trade He's just not that good of a basketball player as far as like for winning basketball games They need a true point. They need like a rondo Silver rookie that type of point guard Huang Korea Andrew it should be a lot of fun. This is gonna be the only the second time I'm actually like live in person for an almanac. Oh, yeah The first time was the first time I ever made almanac rich had me sit in while it was being ripped to like answer questions Purple rookie Argentina is Lucas Martinez, Quarta 56 out of 199 Where's the color wheel So I'm kind of excited to like be here for all It's it's gonna be a good time Also, we have five mag guards already From this half case. Oh, yeah, we do hyper joucan sail of Portugal This is insane. It's about a box and a half left Yeah So guys, yeah, these sold out really quick today We have a few three boxers tomorrow for prism world cup if you're looking for some prism world cup action Just two to go in the first star wars break Andrea scov also rookie silver Denmark Also, so we have those star wars random packer auto styles coming up Tomorrow there's a double case random box style and the price of the break is five dollars cheaper than the price of a box So if you'd rather do something like that we have that available for tomorrow as well Two to go Yep, and that one that Lincoln shout take it at the first one tonight single case random packer auto style So, uh, the price of a box so and again, there are bonus autos that we're giving out in that break as well Cracked Ice Germany Leon Goretzka So there's a chance to get a bonus auto hugo la refrance card depending on which Draw you land on Yep, giving away two autos y'all Yeah, the miracle on ice was so sick. So Eric Anytime I ask anyone what their favorite card in an almanac I've made is that has been the answer that and the snoop dog That snoop dog The snoop was so cool But there you go. United States blue rookie Ricardo peppy the second I won that miracle card I showed it to force and I was like this is gonna be an almanac and it's gonna be disgusting I find more stuff like that It's hard to find Silver tilamans belgium Is that a red or a maroon? I think it's maroon. I think that's maroon. No, maroon maroon Maddie cash poland maroon that works number 17 out of 22 Battle play silver coman scores club france Take a maroon any day hyper casper schmichael denmark silver rookie martin boyle australia pink prism spain pagerie I think we are sold out now for that first break Oh, star wars Yep sold out on that first star wars break Start working on the next one Germany qualified Have they ever been nice to a world cup? Not in recent memory, no Japan on the international link to kumi me and amino I said for the all over spot Get a red rookie for guitar. I'm oaz Ali 184 out of 399 silver global reach is el kai gundewan germany Yeah, germany qualified. So the biggest team that did would be italy I don't know any other bigger snubs Not snubs. We didn't qualify. That's the biggest one. The other ones are kind of in. There's some big players Like ailing holland in norway mohammed salah with egypt The way solid Yeah, they should they should It's gonna be some disgusting cards, especially if you're a hockey fan There are some nasty hockey cards in this rock again 18 to go in that next star wars break Silver rookie croatia just go for the all Cracked ice rookie brazil gabriel martinelli Nice one there not another on the cracked ice Eric I try and include hockey I mean, there's there's that tiger that was in the preview There's always some other non-team sports stuff in there purple mojo senegal sadio manne Especially because board 37 of 49 forest enjoys hockey So it's nice to be able to put hockey cards in when they like appreciate the cards When I rip personals for myself, it's usually like a pokemon or Maybe like I like a soccer box. I mean it really depends Silver you also came to germany I mean I ripped three boxes of 1996 spx baseball last night Did anything good? Yeah, I hit three griffins That's pretty good. But then I found out autos are one auto per case Blue tunisia alias skiri 75 out of 299. No, I don't really I don't I don't rip a lot. I rip a lot of bowman The alien was bowman I rip everything to be honest that's true I rip tcg. Yeah, I legitimately rip everything hyper korea sung you kim No, hockey cards are not super popular in florida They're not not popular. Yeah, they're not not popular But it's not like if you were to walk into a card shop in like minnesota Or like chicago or boston yeah silver mckinney united states It's funny the toronto card show is like mostly hockey. Yeah the expo is like probably the biggest hockey show in the world It's pretty awesome. I wanted to go but we had the hurricane all flights got canceled when I would have had to fly out Awesome hurricane rookie pink urtila and tuna mexico I mean, there's not a lot of hockey, but there's there's some solid big hockey chases in there If you're a hockey fan and you end up in the case that has a hockey card, you will not be disappointed argentina auto Giovanni Lo Celso red rookie gana is camaline silimana 223 of 399 silver kovacic croatia phenomenon insert Caleb was pulling that heat everyone's pulling heat here tonight y'all are interested in tcg silver vertongan melgium We do have a dual release day over on latent gaming where calib is live He'll be live until probably about 2 a.m. Maybe even later depending on how his q's looking purple uh, joe allen wales Number 140 of 199 silver new era hazes for it our united states hyper enter valencia ecuador No color wheels still Still had a crazy break here guys. Give me one sec. We'll go back through the the big ones big cards Friday that though. Here's a link for Starwars case number four chrome black case four uh, which other channel dancing Layton gaming has always been on twitch Layton gaming official on twitch starwars chrome black case number four 18 to go for one and one All right autos laselso argentina minamino japan Reynolds united states pulistic redemption united states uh, juan muso argentina and berg camp netherlands Parallels here some of the nicer prisms. We had a purple um, joe allen red camel dean silimana Blue elia skeer and i don't believe they're full yet, but they're getting close So if you want something ripped i would order it as soon as possible Yeah, it's probably around halfway fulcrum purple mojo sadio mani red amoezali maroon matty cash Blue rookie rickardo peppy purple rookie lucas martinez corta red rookie pierro hencapiae purple motel kovacic red ismail assar purple matthew ryan silver phenomenon musa diabi red geluca busio maroon ismail assar uh, kupemaniers netherlands red rookie rodon red red mojo duchan taric red rookie fahad al muwala blue yusuf annesri red brendan erenson and a red mojo felix torres All right, we had an orange kareem benzimata 25 france green lataro martinez argentina Number to five This one's crazy gold connections england jude bellingham bukayo saca one out of ten blue rookie brazil gabriel martinelli 113 of 299 and national landmarks costa rica calor navas And that'll do it. Thanks again everybody. We're on to basketball for a bit


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Mr. Schuch, a dear friend of mine and the White House News Procurator's Association, we please welcome Bob Hope. So proud of him and Hollywood is the greatest thing to happen. Hollywood since George Burns made God. He keeps looking better and better. I hope I look that good when I'm his age. A lot of people say he's using the White House as a stepping stone to get back in the pictures, but I don't know.  He ever heard beat it, he said, only from the Democrats. Michael Jackson was wearing military equipment with cheap ones out and there hadn't been that much spark in the White House since Jimmy Carter had his teeth clean. Anyway, it's interesting when you think that Michael Jackson made $20 million on his last record, just $20 million. The different kind of money that different people and different businesses make. You know, here is our president, makes $200,000 a year and Dave Winfield plays Yankee's outfielder, he gets $2 million a year and he doesn't have to jump over Tip O'Neill to get the first base. The answer is yes, but since last time Rich Lipsky was quick enough with the camera to catch it, this year I'm going to make my moves a little bit faster and I'm only going to do it once. Seriously, it's a pleasure to be here. You know, in Washington there are a lot of big dinners like this. Tonight is special. I've been around photographers all my adult life, most of them, and I think that I can say that I've developed an appreciation for your craft. So it's an old pro that I admire the work of each of you and that each of you performs. You demonstrate true professionalism and artistry and time and again I find myself pausing to admire a wonderful picture that one of you has produced. As you record history and the making, you yourself are a part of historic tradition. Ever since Matthew Brady took his stirring pictures of Abe Lincoln in the Civil War, photographs have been imparting immediacy to American news and it isn't true that I carried Brady's camera. News photographs show us what's specific and different. A story might explain what happened during World War II, but it was a photo that gave us that unforgettable image of four Marines struggling to voice the star's instruction on the Eugene. And although news analysts might discuss the presidency, it's your photos that show JFK working in the Oval Office, John John playing under the desk, or me giving a briefing with Nancy waiting in the wings to surprise me with a birthday cake. Pictures like that remind us the presidency isn't an abstraction, but an office held by ordinary men who do their job the best they can. Often news photos remind us that the of the first things, the fundamentals of human experience that makes do what we do. Living in the United States, for example, we might begin to take democracy for granted, and then we see a news photo of people lined up at ballot boxes in El Salvador, simple men and women brave death threats to travel to the town and cast their votes. We see the care in their faces and the life of hard work in their shoulders and hands, and we remember once again why we strive for democracy and peace. My admiration for news photography is going to the root of my political philosophy. In too many countries, photographs of top officials are only released once in a while to show that the leaders are still healthy. But in our country, your right to snap anything you want is protected by the Constitution and each of you represents a vital part of the great and lively American system. Earlier this year, one event set it all took place at an air base in South Carolina shortly after a plane in return from Grenada carrying the medical students who had been trapped in St. George's Medical School. As one student got off the plane, you all know he dropped to his knees and kissed the good earth of the United States. And nearby, there was a news photographer who clicked his camera and caught that moment for all Americans to share. Although there will always be some early, early and tugging between the White House and the press, I know that photo captured the way that all of us feel about this great land. We just came by the moment in the state we didn't dress. Just want to thank you all for allowing us to share even for a few minutes in this particular event. God bless you and keep up the good work. Lipsky from UPI. That way works for NBC. We've got the key, but they will be photographed with him. Both of you, I think did a wonderful job this year. Congratulations. Thank you for I know you have to run. Thank you for joining us. This is Reggie.